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SEMI Webinar: Intellectual Property Challenges to Innovation
April 26, 2012
2:00 pm Eastern; 11:00 am Pacific
Did you know that April 26 is "World IP Day"? SEMI and many other organizations that actively promote intellectual property (IP) protection are marking the day by highlighting the importance of IP to innovation and technological progress.
SEMI members companies routinely invest over ten percent of revenues into R&D. It is critical that they see the return on this investment in order to keep reap the rewards of their achievements and continue moving ahead in a competitive marketplace. Unfortunately, IP violations continue to pose serious challenges to the industry.
Did you know that:
- Over 60 percent of SEMI members report that IP violations have reached a serious level and that violations have had an adverse impact on their company.
- Patent infringement and counterfeiting are the top IP violations.
- IP violations cost the semiconductor equipment and materials industry significant sums each year in lost sales – money that could otherwise be invested in R&D and other value added activities.
Because of the importance of IP protection to continued innovation within our industry, SEMI is organizing a webcast for World IP Day.
Join us for a discussion with:
Maggie Hershey, Senior Director of Public Policy at SEMI, who will present the findings from the recent SEMI membership survey on IP challenges.
Harvey Frye, Vice Chairman of Tokyo Electron America, who will talk about industry goals and next steps.
Judith Soentjen, Associate Legal Officer, Building Respect for IP Division, World Intellectual Property Organization who will talk about international developments on the road to improving IP protection around the world.
To register, please visit: https://ams.semi.org/ebusiness/meetings/meeting.aspx?id=2423


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John D. Snyder, 85 - June 23, 2011
John "Jack" D. Snyder, 85, of Brady passed away Thursday, June 23, 2011, at Premier Estates after a courageous battle with cancer.
Memorial services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, July 1, at Carpenter Memorial Chapel with the Revs. Robert Litzenburger and Shawn Kitzing officiating. Inurnment will take place at Gaslin Cemetery. Cremation was chosen.
A memorial book signing will be available from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday at Carpenter Memorial Chapel.
Snyder was born April 25, 1926, at Maxwell to Jeremiah and Anna (Harris) Snyder.
He graduated from Maxwell High School in 1944, and lived in the Maxwell/Brady area all of his life.
Snyder was united in marriage to Shirley Janeski on Aug. 20, 1955, at Brady. She later preceded him in death on Oct. 30, 1995.
He has been retired from Tenneco Auto in Cozad for over 20 years. He also helped his brother-in-law and other local farmers with farming when needed.
Snyder enjoyed his big garden in the past years, according to family members, and helped others by rototilling their gardens in the spring.
He was a retired member of the Brady Volunteer Fire Department and had served on the Brady City Council. He was also a 50-plus year member of the Brady United Methodist Church.
Snyder enjoyed his coffee get-together's with the guys and all of his friends around Brady, said family members.
He was preceded in death by: his parents, Jeremiah and Anna; his wife, Shirley; a brother, Bill; sister-in-law, Ruth Snyder; daughter-in-law, Kae Snyder; two brothers-in-law—Harlan Liljestrand and Darrell Janeski; nephew, Scott Kitzing.
Survivors include: his children—Jim of North Platte, JerriAnne and Jeff (Beth), all of Brady; four grandchildren—Jackie of Ames, IA, Josh, U.S. Army, currently serving in Iraq, Matt of Lincoln, and Austin of Arnold; two step-grand children—Buffy (Pat) Schroeder of Lincoln and Tish (Kenneth) Krings of Olathe, KS; a great-granddaughter, Langy Krings of Olathe; numerous nieces, nephews and brothers and sisters-in-law; special friends, Clara and Grace Evert.
Memorials are suggested to the Brady Volunteer Fire and Rescue or donor's choice.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.carpentermemorial.com.
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I'm actually leaning toward a vintage Garrard or Dual for my second system but I've not come to any kind of a final resolution yet.
The BICs caught me eye because I rather like some of the speakers the company made in the past. I didn't even know that BIC had made turntables at one point.
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Wholesome music and outdoor activities will go hand in hand Saturday during Life in the Son, a Christian music festival planned near Micanopy.
The inaugural festival begins at 9 a.m. at YMCA Camp McConnell, a 200-acre camp facility near Micanopy.
Wholesome music and outdoor activities will go hand in hand Saturday during Life in the Son, a Christian music festival planned near Micanopy.
The inaugural festival begins at 9 a.m. at YMCA Camp McConnell, a 200-acre camp facility near Micanopy.
The contemporary Christian rock band NewSong headlines the festival's main-stage lineup from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Founded in 1981, the band is known for such hits as "The Christmas Shoes," which topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in 2001.
The main stage also will feature Dove Award-winner Aaron Shust, Grammy nominee Royal Taylor, and the husband-and-wife duo Love & the Outcome.
A second stage hosted by The Pulse 106.9 will feature such local and area groups as the FM Williams Band, October Glory, Undeserved and The Backseat Disciples from noon to 5:15 p.m.
Along with the music, the festival will feature a variety of activities such as swimming, basketball, horseshoes and Frisbee golf included in admission. Ziplining, horseback riding and archery will be offered for additional fees.
"It'll be something really special in the community, something that's not really happened before," said Richard Dreher, the event's organizer and promoter.
Dreher, who is also president of the nonprofit Project Gainesville, has organized several events in the past, including the Gainesville Community Fest in 2012 and the Paynes Prairie 5K, but this is his first music festival. Though he and Robert McClellan, who will handle backstage production, had been kicking around the idea for several years, it didn't come to fruition until early 2013, when the pair met with Camp McConnell director John Lyon.
"Richard came out to visit, and we talked a lot about the event and the positive impact it would make on the community," Lyon said.
While much of the event's proceeds will go to the camp's scholarship for disadvantaged summer campers, both Lyon and Dreher agreed the visibility the event will bring to the camp was equally important.
"I was quite amazed talking to people in the community, some who lived here their whole lives, that didn't even realize the camp was here," Lyon said. "It's a great place for retreats and church services, and we just want people to know we're here for them if they're looking for a nice place to hold those types of events.
In keeping with the event's family theme, alcohol and drugs are prohibited, and a modest dress code will be enforced.
"We're just trying to keep things conservative for the families, but we're not trying to be too militant about the dress code," Dreher said.
Although the festival is definitely Christian-based, Dreher said anyone is welcome to attend for the activities, regardless of faith.
"It's not meant to be an exclusionary festival," he said. "I'm really in support of positive, family-friendly events, and I think we need more of them in our communities."


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DORAL, Fla. – A man suing after a major medical mistake left him disfigured gave testimony Thursday that revealed the intimate details of his misery.
Late Thursday afternoon, Enrique Milla testified at the Miami-Dade County Courthouse from his new home in Lima, Peru via Skype. He said he wanted a penile implant to improve his sex life in 2007. "About a year before I realized I had problems," Milla said through a translator. "I had problems having intimate relations with my wife. As time went by, that problem got worse."
He has to sit down to urinate. He'll never have any intimate relationships with anyone, and he's lost his manhood.
- Enrique Milla's attorney, Spencer Aronfeld
Milla's attorney argues that an anesthesiologist overlooked his client's pre-existing medical conditions, which resulted in Milla having no more external male genitalia. According to the lawyer, Milla should have never been allowed to undergo elective penile implant surgery to treat erectile dysfunction back in August 2007.
The anesthesiologist involved in the surgery, Dr. Laurentia Boeru, should have never allowed the surgery, the attorney said, because Milla had an extreme case of diabetes and high blood pressure, and his blood sugar levels were way too high on the day of his surgery. He had not seen a doctor in 15 years until that point. "Did he take your blood pressure?" asked the attorney of Milla.
"No," Milla responded.
"Did he take your blood sugar?"
Milla's attorney, Spencer Aronfeld, has argued that his client should have never been allowed to have a penile implant due to his uncontrolled diabetes. "The one and only person who cleared him for this surgery, on that day, was Dr. Boeru," said Aronfeld, "and our entire case is, that at that particular time, he should have said, 'Wait a second, let's treat the medical conditions first.'"
Boeru swore under oath that his obligations and risks only relate to the anesthesia, not the actual implant of the penis and potential risks. "I addressed a small period of time of contact with the patient, which is the preoperative period of time," Boeru said on the stand. "My role is stopped when the epidural catheter, that's what you do in Obstetrics, is out or the patient is out of recovery."
Milla's problems began after a Gangrene infection spread through his penis about nine days after the surgery. Aronfeld detailed the traumatic experience his client went through. "Turned into a flesh-eating bacteria that ate his penis centimeter by centimeter," he said, " and as a result of this, he has to spend the rest of his life without a functioning penis. He has to sit down to urinate. He'll never have any intimate relationships with anyone, and he's lost his manhood."
Boeru's attorney will have a chance to question Milla in the coming days. Then jurors will have to decided of Boeru acted as his physician and at any point committed any medical malpractice.
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Underage Model's $28 Million Suit Against Photog Likely to Hinge on Model Release
Posted by Conor Risch on Wednesday August 24, 2011 | Fashion
Posted by Conor Risch on Wednesday August 24, 2011 | Fashion
Photographer Jason Lee Parry has earned international attention this week as a defendant in a high-profile, $28 million lawsuit. A 16-year old model Parry photographed in sexy poses when she was just 15 is suing him for licensing the images without a model release. The case has triggered a debate about ideas of decency in the fashion industry. For photographers, however, the case serves as yet another reminder about the importance of obtaining proper model releases.
An image Parry made in March 2010 of a 15-year-old model sitting on a motorcycle with her legs splayed and her crotch in the center of the frame found its way onto t-shirts that were briefly sold by Urban Outfitters and other retailers. The model, Hailey Clauson, who is enjoying it-girl status with campaigns for Topshop and Zara among others, and her parents have filed suit in a New York district court claiming the photographer did not receive permission to license the images of their daughter. In fact, the suit claims that Parry failed to obtain a written model release of any kind.
Clauson and her parents also claim that the image—and others produced on the shoot—defames the model.
The clothing company, Blood is the New Black, which manufactured the shirts, Urban Outfitters, and another retailer, Brandy & Melville N.Y. Inc., are also named in the $28 million suit. The retailers have pulled the shirts from their stores.
The suit claims that Parry styled and posed the photographs of Clauson "in a blatantly salacious manner." In addition to the image of Clauson on a motorcycle with her legs spread, the suit also points out that images of Clauson possessing beer, and riding on a motorcycle without a helmet, depicted her in violation of state and federal laws. The suit also alleges that Parry's photos of Clauson in a leather jacket without a shirt, revealing "portions of her breasts," are "inappropriate."
According to the suit, Clauson's parents were shown the images prior to their publication in Qvest magazine editorial. At that time, they claim, they complained about the image of Clauson on the motorcycle and, through Clauson's agency at the time, Ford Models, instructed him not to publish the image.
The complaint, filed by plaintiff's attorneys Ed Greenberg and Tamara Lannin, claims that Parry regularly creates images depicting minors in sexually suggestive poses. Parry's "unconventional" work features "nudity, semi-nudity, sexually suggestive situations involving (only) women and what appear to be underage girls, many with bloody noses if incurred as a result of repeated drug use and/or physical violence."
The complaint goes on to argue that Parry's work is "out of the mainstream and unsuitable for publication" in most magazines and other media outlets.
Parry has claimed in a press release and in interviews that he was unaware that Blood is the New Black was using the image on shirts. Parry also claimed, "The photo in question was featured in the model's portfolio on Ford's site," and that Clauson also featured the photographs on her own Web site.
Blood is the New Black, however, claims Parry knew the image would be put on a t-shirt, and that they were unaware that Parry did not have a proper model release.
The plaintiffs are attempting to establish that Parry exhibits a pattern of behavior of exploiting minors sexually in his images, and much of the press the case has received revolves around issues of decency in the fashion industry. It is more likely, however, that the case will hinge on whether or not Parry's image was properly released for use on a t-shirt. If it wasn't, as the lawsuit claims, Parry will need to show evidence that he didn't know the image was being used on t-shirts by Blood is the New Black.
Correction: A version of this article published yesterday incorrectly stated that the filed complaint "acknowledged that Clauson's parents were present at the shoot." It does not. The complaint does, however, state that the shoot took place "with the full knowledge and approval of [Clauson's parents] and [her] then professional model management company." Parry has stated that the model's father was at the shoot, however he admitted during an interview on Good Morning America that the model's father was not present when the photograph of Clauson on the motorcycle was made.
Posted by David Walker on Wednesday December 6, 2017 | Copyright/Legal, Fashion
Days after a model filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against photographer Bruce Weber, a second model has stepped forward with sex harassment accusations against the photographer, according to a USA Today report. Model Jason Boyce filed a lawsuit against Weber last week, claiming he was sexually harassed by the photographer at a 2014 photo shoot.... More ›
Posted by Conor Risch on Tuesday November 21, 2017 | Fashion, Fine Art, Media
If you happen to be traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday, fighting your way through a stiff current of people like a spawning salmon returning instinctively to your home waters, you may find yourself sitting for long periods of time, wondering: "How did I get here? What should I read?" For help with that second question,... More ›
Posted by David Walker on Thursday June 23, 2016 | Fashion, Photojournalism
The candid conversation between Christopher Morris and MaryAnne Golon at the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Viriginia, highlighted the varied paths Morris's career has taken, from documenting conflict and politics to shooting fashion, and the struggles photographers face in a changing industry. Morris, a founding member of the VII photo agency and contract... More ›


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Back in business
Weare Center Store is back in business after fire
WEARE — Though gutted by fire last summer, the Weare Center Store is back in business and better than ever, according to owner Ali Rustam.
On July 23, 2012, a three-alarm blaze tore through an addition to the Center Store, destroying that part of the building and causing the roof to collapse.
Smoke and water damage to the main building and the apartment on the second floor also wreaked havoc.
Luckily, Ali Rustam said, the store he has owned with his brother Mohammad Nowaz for two-and-a-half years was insured.
The process to rebuild the store, located across the street from the Weare Middle School has taken the better part of the last year, but early this month the Weare Center Store reopened.
"It was hard to see the store destroyed," said Rustam. "But it is better than before. People are very happy we are open. The neighborhood is very happy."
Crisp white walls and new fixtures greet customers from town stopping in for milk, bread or a snack, and Rustam said that people who used to shop at the store before the fire will find familiar brands.
"Everything is pretty much the same," he said. "We have what people like."
But a new staircase leading from the parking lot to the store, saving people from having to walk around the building to the front entrance, has received a lot of praise from returning locals.
The apartment on the second floor of the building has also been completely restored, said Rustam.
The cause of the fire was never determined, according to the state Fire Marshal's office, however it did not appear that the fire was suspicious in nature.


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Trail Tools List - TechPosted in How To on May 1, 2009
Nothing replaces a quality set of tools. Nothing replaces the right spare part you happen to need at that moment, either. That's why being prepared for the worst possible situation is your best means of trail survival. But what tools and parts do you carry? While this will vary from vehicle-to-vehicle and also depend on individual needs, we decided to offer a list of the items we carry for short and long trail runs. Use this list of tools and equipment as a guide for building your own stash of necessary goods for your rig.
We published a similar list a few years back and readers have requested that a return of the article appear as an update. This is simply a list of all of the necessary tools, parts, and accessories you could carry with you. By all means, you may not need all of these items for every trip, but if you participate in extended adventures away from civilization and out of mobile-phone range then it might be a good idea to carry everything you can. Remember that each item you include adds more weight to your vehicle. If you 'wheel with the same group of guys every time try to spread out the spares and tools that will be needed so each vehicle carries a portion of the gear.
Remember that the trail is not a place to carry out parts installations or tackle routine maintenance. Stuff like this should be completed before you even leave home. The better running condition your 4x4 is in before you hit the trail the better your chances are of making it home in a running vehicle.
The Every Trip Stuff
This stuff goes everywhere with my 4x4. I used to keep most of it in a plastic box but the bottom kept wearing out and the box would crack. Now I store most of it in MasterCraft tool duffle bags, which are much stronger than the plastic crate and are also easier to stow. Although I have 'wheeled with just the "Every Trip Stuff" on board I prefer having my whole tool kit along for the ride. This stuff may save my ass in an emergency but it's no replacement for being properly prepared.
Survival gear (see list for items included)
First-aid kit
Duct tape
Electrical tape
Zip-ties (variety of sizes)
Baling wire
Ratchet strap
JB-80 or other H2O-penetrating lubricant
Brake cleaner
RTV silicone or gasket maker
Multi-tool pocket knife
Tow strap
Fire extinguisher
Flashlight or headlamp
Drinking water
Ground tarp
Matches or lighter
Warm jacket
Folding shovel
Small socket set
4-in-1 screwdriver
4-in-1 Torx screwdriver
Channel Lock pliers
Vise-Grip pliers
Large and small adjustable wrenches
Tire repair kit with valve core tool and spare valve cores
Air pressure gauge
Air hose and chuck (for OBA system)
Jumper cables
Mechanix Gloves
Clif Bars
Lug wrench
Hi-Lift Jack
Shop rags or paper towels
Tool Box
This includes everything you'll need to fix most anything on your vehicle to get home.
Wrenches (standard & metric depending on your vehicles need)
Socket set (-, -, & -inch drive, standard & metric depending on your vehicles need. Don't forget deep and spark plug sockets)
Adjustable wrenches
Pliers (needle-nose, Vise-Grips, Channel Locks, wire-cutters and crimpers, and snap-ring)
Allen wrenches
Multi-meter and/or test light
Screwdrivers (Phillips & flathead-small, medium, and large)
Hammers (medium mallet, 5 lb. sledge, and small and large ball-peens)
Pry bar/breaker bar
Telescoping magnet
Chisel and punch
Sand paper
Wire brush
C-clamps (variety of sizes)
Special Tools & Extras
King pin socket (as needed by vehicle)
Locking hub/spindle nut socket
Pickle fork
U-joint tool
Flex-joint tool
1/2-inch air impact gun
Flaring tool
Soldering gun
Welding rod
Welding goggles or shield
Extra set of jumper cables
Torque wrench
Die grinder w/sanding disc and cut-off wheels (for use with OBA systems)
Bench vise for bumper
On board welder
OBA system, 12V air compressor, or CO2 tank
Ratchet straps
Garbage bags
Zip-Lock bags
Vehicle repair manual
Grease gun
Latex gloves
Spare batteries for flash light and tools (as needed)
Hand cleaner
Garden hose repair kit (works in a pinch on radiator hoses)
Miscellaneous pieces scrap metal
Having the right hardware with you on the trail can be a life saver. Copper State Bolt & Nut Co. offers its very well stocked Portable Fastener Kit, which includes more than 100 pre-sorted fasteners organized into 5 plastic drawers. The Copper State Fastener Kit includes an assortment of popular grade -5 to grade -8 coarse thread, hex head cap screws measuring -inch to -inch diameters, and from to 3 inches in length. The kit also includes coarse thread, grade-8 hex nuts, all metal crimped-lock nuts, hardened flat washers, high-alloy lock washers, fender washers, sheet metal and machine screws, hex head self-drilling screws, one bottle of medium strength Loctite, three sizes of hose clamps, a variety of electrical terminals, rivet nuts, and much more.Each slot of fasteners is labeled, making it easy to reorder from Copper State Bolt & Nut Co. as supply diminishes. Apair of heavy duty carrying handles on the durable,steel organizer makes it easy to take the Portable Fastener Kit with you wherever you go.
Spare Parts
Drive belts
Radiator and heater hoses
Hose clamps
Fuel line
U-joints (front axle & driveshaft)
U-joint U-bolts/straps/bolts
Leaf spring U-bolt and nuts
Leaf spring center pin
Axle shafts or Birfields (as needed for vehicle, front/rear)
Locking hub assembly or drive flange
Assorted nuts, bolts, washers, and fasteners
Cotter pins
Electrical wire and connectors
Brake lines and unions
Tie rod and drag link
Tie rod/drag link ball joints (or Heims for custom steering setups)
Suspension joints (Heim joints, flex-joints, etc.)
Lug nuts
Lug studs
Spare tire
Spare Lubes and Fluids
Motor oil
Gear oil
Brake fluid
Power-steering fluid
RTV silicone or gasket maker
Multi-purpose grease
Radiator coolant
Radiator stop-leak
Carburetor cleaner
Brake cleaner
Gasoline (depending on distance to be traveled)
JB-80 or WD-40
Winch (an extra remote control is a plus)
Winch cable weight
D-ring shackles
Snatch block
Hi-Lift Jack or equivalent
Snatch straps (multiple lengths)
Tree saver
Come-along (ratcheting cable hand winch)
Chain (10-ft. or more)
Leather gloves
I used to carry most of my tools and spares in a plastic crate but the crates kept cracking and spreading the gear throughout the rig. I'd carried a Craftsman tool bag for many years and never had issue so decided to try something similar for the rest of the gear. MasterCraft offers a variety of tool bags, rolls, and totes that keep your tools and gear safely and neatly organized in the vehicle. The large and small tool bags include footman loops and buckle straps so the gear bags can be stowed away and secured in place. I also found that the plastic drawers from the Copper State fastener kit fit neatly inside the large MasterCraft tool bag, which made transporting them much easier. Also shown is the MasterCraft Walker duffle, which is a great bag for carrying warm clothing and rain gear as well as other personal items you want to keep out of the elements. The bag is made from weather-proof and tear resistant material and is padded for durability.
Navigation & Communication
CB radio
Ham radio
Cell phone
Satellite phone
Survival Gear
Emergency radio
12-hour green light sticks
Emergency strobe
1 gallon of water or more
Sleeping bag or bivouac & sleeping pad
Tent or emergency shelter
First-Aid kit (worth mentioning twice)
Warm clothing & rain gear
Toilet paper
Bug spray
Energy bars and electrolyte drink mix
The Extras
This is the stuff you might appreciate during extended adventures or in the event that the 4x4 breaks and you're stuck for a while.
Satellite radio receiver
Folding chairs
Umbrella or sun shade
Gasoline generator
Portable toilet
Sun Shower
Ice chest/cooler
Another great item offered by Mac's Custom Tie-Downs is its VersaTie Track kits. The VersaTie tracks are available in various lengths and can be installed along any flat surface to create strong tie-down anchor points. Each VersaTie kit includes 2 lengths of track, quick-release single stud tie-down rings, and stainless steel installation hardware. For creating suitable anchor points in areas of the cab with limited space you can use Mac's VersaTie Anchor Plate kits, which use an anchor plate and a backing plate along with the quick-release single stud tie-down rings.
The Jack Tool Kit from Mac's Custom Tie-Downs is designed for use with Hi-Lift-style jacks. The Jack Tool bolts to the Hi-Lift to increase the lifting surface area and can also be secured to some style bumpers for increased safety. The kit also includes a ratcheting keeper strap to secure the axle to the frame. As the vehicle is jacked up the keeper strap holds the axle in place so the suspension won't extend and leave the tire and wheel on the ground. The Jack Tool kit is a great aid when changing tires or completing repairs.
Another great item offered by Mac's Custom Tie-Downs is its VersaTie Track kits. The VersaTie tracks are available in various lengths and can be installed along any flat surface to create strong tie-down anchor points. Each VersaTie kit includes 2 lengths of track, quick-release single stud tie-down rings, and stainless steel installation hardware. For creating suitable anchor points in areas of the cab with limited space you can use Mac's VersaTie Anchor Plate kits, which use an anchor plate and a backing plate along with the quick-release single stud tie-down rings.
While you could use a hammer and a couple of sockets to change out an axle shaft U-joint there's actually an easier way. This U-joint tool is available at Harbor Freight and sells for about $30. It includes a C-clamp-style press with a variety of fittings to accommodate different sized U-joints and can also be used for ball joints. It's a very simple tool that can be carried in your rig for emergencies or even used in the garage for maintenance and repairs.
You should always carry spare fluids in your 4x4. I carry the usual oil, ATF, anti-freeze, power steering and brake fluid, but also keep one or two cans of Justice Bros. white lithium grease and JB-80 on board. While bringing extra fluids for your vehicle are important to its survival don't forget that bringing extra water is important to your own survival. For a day trip I bring at least 2 gallon of drinking water as well as a bit extra in case the radiator needs some. Often I'll carry multiple jugs but for long trips I fill a 5 gallon can.
Off Road Trail Tools Broken Axle Tool is designed to allow a vehicle with a broken C-clip axle shaft to "limp" off the trail. Axle assemblies that use C-clip axle shafts include Dana 35, Ford 7.5- and 8.8-inch, Chrysler 8 1/4, and Chevy 10- and 12-bolt axles. Should a C-clip axle break the rest of the unsecured axle and brake assembly, along with the wheel and tire, will simply slide out of the axle tube. When strapped to a vehicle frame the Broken Axle Tool will effectively hold the tire, wheel, and axle shaft in place on the vehicle so it can be driven off the trail. I have seen a large log or piece of wood combined with chain or ratchet straps achieve the same effect, but the Broken Axle Tool is much more efficient. Other options include calling a flat bed tow truck but the cost of the tool is much less.
Another must-have trail tool is a reliable air supply. We have used onboard air compressors and portable units, as well as air tanks such as that available from Power Tank. Power Tank offers a wide variety of tank sizes and regulator selection and can also supply air hoses and chucks. Power Tanks use CO2 as its air supply, which can be used to air up tires, power air tools, and even to operate ARB Air Lockers. Whether it be a Power Tank or a 12-volt air compressor from the local auto-parts store, some form of air supply on your vehicle is one tool you don't want to leave home without.


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Antoine Winfield isn't going to let an injury keep him from helping the Minnesota Vikings against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday.
The 35-year-old cornerback broke his hand in Sunday's 23-6 win over the Houston Texans, but played through the pain. Vikings coach Leslie Frazier told The Star Tribune on Monday that Winfield expects to play with a soft cast against the Packers in a game that will help decide Minnesota's playoff fate.
Winfield played in only five games last season, but has been a revelation for the Vikings (9-6) during their surprising run in 2012.
He's an outstanding tackler and solid cover corner, giving the Vikings more options upfront because of the security he provides in the secondary. The Vikings' defense -- which shows more complex looks to an offense than it's given credit for -- has flown under the radar.
So has Winfield, but the Vikings wouldn't be here without him.
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Don't you find it annoying that whenever a program crashes in WinXP it would always prompt you to ask each time whether you would like to send an error report to Microsoft.
Well,here's a way to disable that error reporting feature:
1. Click on Start, then go to---->My Computer----.Right click,then choose Properties from the Menu Box.
2. Then click on the Advanced Tab, then from the Advanced Tab---> go all the way down, and click on the Error reporting button; just right beside the Environment variables button.
3. This will take you to the Error Reporting Window, now just pick the option, Disable error reporting, but leave "But notify me when critical errors occur" checked.
4. Click OK, then click OK again to activate.
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Action star Jackie Chan says Hong Kong should limit protest rights
HONG KONG (AP) -- Jackie Chan suggests in a recent interview that protests should be restricted in the freewheeling Chinese city of Hong Kong.
The action star lamented that Hong Kong has become a city of protests, where people "scold China, scold the leaders, scold anything, protest against anything."
"There should be regulations on what can and cannot be protested," Chan told the Southern People Weekly, which published his comments Wednesday. He didn't say what kinds of protests he thought should be restricted.
The star of movies such as "Rush Hour" and "Rumble in the Bronx" triggered a backlash three years ago with similar comments on the need to restrict freedom in his hometown.
A former British colony, Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997 and is now a semiautonomous region. Residents are fiercely proud of the Western-style civil liberties they enjoy that are not seen on the mainland, including the freedom to demonstrate.
The city has been the scene lately of a rising number of protests by people upset with their Beijing-backed leader, Leung Chun-ying, a lack of full democracy and worries about Beijing's growing influence on the city.
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in July to protest after Leung took office.
In 2009, Chan sparked outrage among lawmakers in Hong Kong when said he said, "I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not." He also said he was "beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled."
A representative for Chan did not respond to request for comment.
Southern People Weekly is part of a media group controlled by southern Guangdong province's Communist Party and known for its lively reporting.
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Sharing the ball makes things much more fun for a number of people and that's the emphasis Tuesday night in the Dodge City Red Demons had in their 57-42 Western Athletic Conference victory over the Garden City Buffaloes.
The Red Demons made 14-of-17 from the field in the second half with 13 of those baskets assisted by a fellow player as Dodge City inched closer to a possible fourth league title with three games left to play.
"You don't (shoot) like that by just chucking at the basket," said DCHS boys basketball head coach Dennis Hamilton. "We did a good job of passing the ball and when you do that, you should a high percentage."
The Red Demons shot 23-of-33 as a team (69.7 percent) and recorded 20 assists in the game. Five DCHS players had at least three assists in the contest and nine scored in the game. Matt Goedeken was 7-of-8 and scored 17 points to lead Dodge City (10-7, 4-1), while Jace Larson and Austin Weiser added 10 points in the victory.
"Matt did a good job of making impressive post moves and played with his 'chin at the basket,'" Hamilton said. "Jace played well despite being sick and Austin is just getting more passion with his game and more comfortable with it. Shaphan struggled with his game, but he came up with some big rebounds in the second half."
Hunter Delgado and Austin Terpstra scored 10 points apiece to lead Garden City (12-6, 3-3).
The first quarter saw the Red Demons make six of nine shots and score nine points off of Garden City turnovers to build a 14-6 lead after the initial quarter. Dodge City increased the lead to12 midway through the second quarter, but the Buffaloes scored eight of the final 10 points to cut the deficit to 21-15 at intermission.
Dodge City dominated the third quarter, making nine of their 10 shots on the way to 20 points in the stanza to regain the double-digit margin at 41-30. The final score was the largest lead of the game for the Red Demons.
The Red Demons' next game is another WAC contest at Great Bend, the only league team to record a victory over Dodge City this season. A win there would just about assure the Red Demons their fourth league title in a row, but Hamilton cautioned his team after the game that work is still needed to be done.
"We're in the drivers' seat, but we don't have the keys, yet," Hamilton said. "We're where we want to be and this is the team we stubbed our toe against. Hopefully, our kids will be passionate and ready to play."
Tip-off is scheduled for 7:45 p.m.
GARDEN CITY (42) – Hunter Delgado 10, Tristan Nanninga 7, Bo Banner 4, Denton Keller 2, Austin Terpstra 10, Emilio Parr 2, Caleb Tramp 7. Totals 16 7-11 42.
DODGE CITY (57) – Rashaan Taylor 5, Zach Norton 2, Shaphan Gross 5, Austin Weiser 10, Blaik Middleton 1, Jordan Doan 5, Kelan Newton 2, Jace Larson 10, Matt Goedeken 17. Totals 23 8-11 57.
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Dodge City1472016 – 57
Three-point baskets – Garden City 3 (Delgado 2, Nanninga 1), Dodge City 3 (Taylor 1, Gross 1, Doan 1). Records – Garden City 12-6 (3-3), Dodge City 10-7 (4-1).


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Susan Jackson and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi combine their backgrounds to present the most authoritative work on the phenomenon of flow in sports, bringing together the expertise of the world's leading authority on flow with the leading researcher on the subject.
Susan Jackson, PhD, won two awards for her ground-breaking doctoral dissertation, titled Elite Athletes in Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Sport Experience. Jackson has continued to conduct research and publish articles on flow in sports, and is known internationally for her work on the subject.
She brings to her work the perspectives of athlete, coach, teacher, sport psychology consultant, and university lecturer. Jackson lives in Brisbane, Australia, and lectures in the School of Human Movement Studies at Queensland University of Technology.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, PhD, developed the concept of flow in the mid-1970s and has pioneered research on the subject in work, social, and educational settings ever since. His early research on flow explored play and happiness and involved a number of prominent athletes. He has published 10 books, among them the ground-breaking Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, as well as Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention and Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life.
Csikszentmihalyi is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997) and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1998). He is the C.S. and D.J. Davidson Professor of Management at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California.
For many years, I've admired Dr. Csikszentmihalyi's pioneering work and tried to apply his concepts on the football field. Some people have labeled my approach as 'intense,' but the more accurate term might be 'in flow.' Being totally absorbed in the task at hand is essential to becoming a sports champion. Flow in Sports tells you how to get into that positive, winning mindset. Jimmy JohnsonHead Coach and General Manager, Miami DolphinsHead Coach, Super Bowl Champion Dallas Cowboys (1992 and 1993)Head Coach, NCAA National Champion University of Miami (1987)
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The Royal Bengal Tigress enters the village searching for her cub. She picks up the scent of her cub's blood and reaches the photographer's hut. When she fails to get her cub back, her instinct leads her to avenge the kidnapping. She unleashes her wrath upon Uday, kills him, and disappears with his body.
Enters Pundit; captain of an elite commando team, who comes to the Sundarbans to claim his brother Uday's body. Silent replies from the villagers leads Pundit to a confrontation with the park warden. She callously declares the case closed and refuses to send a party to recover Uday's body as the expanse and dangers of the forest ecology are too complex. Angry and emotional, Pundit decides to deal with the matter himself. He calls upon his own crack commando team and with the help of a local guide Madhu they engage a known tracker, Jhumpa, and set off on a do-or-die mission to capture and kill the white tigress.
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Fighting the logic of fire
A writer reassesses her love for the West.
When the call came to evacuate, I was six hours away from a home that had taken me years to find.
I was at a Labor Day writers' workshop on the Western Slope of Colorado. The news came in a text: A colleague ran up to me, his face pressed close to his phone to see the words against the glare of the sun. Did I know that the road to my house had been blocked? Something about a fire?
And there it was, the stomach plummeting. Surely this couldn't be happening, I thought. Not less than three months after we'd bought what was supposed to be our dream home -- the one we'd never leave -- our house in the foothills above Boulder.
I'd spent 15 years trying to get back to the West. Born and bred an Easterner, I'd bounced around Maryland, New Jersey and Massachusetts through my college years. Then graduate school took me out to California, where among the redwoods of Santa Cruz I began to learn what I had been missing. I bought desert property on the east side of the Sierra Nevada, outside of Carson City, and dreamed of putting down roots.
But my first husband, a native Californian, seemed to monopolize the role of Westerner, fencing the swallows of Capistrano and the wildflowers of Death Valley into his private past. I felt he saw it as his birthright, and his alone; I could never quite share my love of the West with him. And so, one divorce and one remarriage later, I rattled around the country -- Wisconsin, Texas, back to Maryland. Finally, my emotional statute of limitations on moving back West expired, and I came home at last.
The house above Boulder was mine the minute I walked into it, with its translucent light, its ponderosa meadow, its grass-scented winds. Here, I thought, I could make amends for the years of exile. But here, of course, was just a few miles from Fourmile Canyon, where an errant spark from a fire pit that Monday morning ignited the costliest blaze in Colorado history.
Hurtling eastward on I-70, I called my husband and we ran through our ill-formed evacuation plans. He got out with the dog, the important papers, and the family photos just as sheriff's deputies stretched yellow DO NOT CROSS tape across Lee Hill Drive between our house marker and the mailbox. I drove a panicked six hours back to the Front Range, wondering what awaited me.
As I descended out of the mountains into the sprawling valley that holds Denver, smoke spread ominously across the twilight sky from my left. The flames came into view as I turned north. Orange blazes licked up and along the range of foothills I had just begun to call home. I had never seen such an inferno.
As a geologist, I knew our home faced danger. It was a dumb place to build, of course -- in a tinderbrush canyon that burned every few decades, if not more often. And climate change was making such fires more likely every day. We'd taken the easy and obvious steps like mowing a perimeter around the house, but we hadn't yet done any extensive mitigation work. Our home was on a rolling, relatively open landscape, and the previous owner had taken out a number of trees a few years earlier.
Suddenly I felt an unfamiliar empathy with all those people quoted in news stories whose beach houses wash away in hurricanes, or whose cliff-top homes finally give way to erosion. I had always felt a sort of cold superiority toward them, for who could be so stupid as to flout the logic of geology? Now I just felt stupid myself -- because I knew that, if our house burned down, I would want to rebuild it in exactly the same place. I had spent so much of my lifetime trying to get here, and I refused to give up my little piece of the West.
Yet as we huddled at my cousin's house, glued to every television news update on the fire, my Western dream was quickly turning into a sobering Western reality. None of the East Coast natural disasters I had experienced ever caused me to question the very basis of my life. But here, I found myself rejected by the very land I had waited so long to embrace.
A week later, when the fire subsided and my husband and I finally returned, the house looked as beautiful as ever on the outside. The cedar paneling gleamed dully in the fading light, and nuthatches had resumed their incessant tapping on the sides. Inside, ash had drifted onto a few windowsills, but otherwise there was little sign of the conflagration that had raged just over the ridgeline. Little visible sign, that is.
For our house survived the blaze, but my unambiguous love of the West has not. We live now in an uneasy and separate peace.


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FULTON, Mo. – The Panthers went 1-1 in Saturday afternoon's double-dip, splitting a 5-4, 7-5 decision with foe Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. at the Bluejay's Saucier Field.
Saturday's result moves the Panthers to 3-11 (1-1 SLIAC) in 2012, and served as the conference opener for the Black & Orange. GC will wrap up the three-game set with Westminster on Monday, March 26 when they return home to Robert E. Smith Field for the series rubber match at 3:00 pm.
In the weekend twinbill, GC took the opener 5-4 with a clutch late-inning push that saw the addition of four runs in the final three innings to clinch the win. Junior Kenny Trager delivered a two-out RBI single in the top of the seventh that pushed the visiting squad past the WC club, and fellow junior Scotty Voyles closed the deal on the mound in the bottom of the frame to seal the 5-4 victory and earn the save.
Junior Derek Reckmann started the affair on the mound for the Panthers and dealt five-innings before lefty sophomore Cody Hinterscher (1-2) stepped in for relief. Hinterscher hurled one inning but registered two strikeouts and no earned to claim the win.
At the dish juniors Trager and Cole Lawson helped lead the squad's efforts. Trager posted a 1-for-2 showing with an RBI, while Lawson went 1-for-3 with a solo homerun.
Game two of the split took an unfortunate turn for the Panthers, as they were outlasted 7-5 by the host in a full nine-inning duel. Late-inning issues doomed the Black & Orange and the Bluejays of WC added three runs in the eighth to equalize Saturday's double header 1-1.
Brothers David and Jared Massengill led the GC efforts offensively in the loss. Freshman shortstop J. Massengill posted an impressive performance batting 2-for-4 with a homerun and two RBI, while older brother D. Massengill went 1-for-4 with three RBI and a run scored. Each contributed on the base paths as well, adding a stolen base apiece.
D. Massengill started for the Panthers and tossed a five-hit, five-inning effort with five strikeouts before he was relieved in the sixth by freshman Jake McMullen. McMullen went two innings, allowing only one hit with strikeout in his relief role before handing off to sophomore lefty Tyler Mitchell who surrendered two earned runs after facing two batters. Mitchell (0-4) was charged the loss in the nine-inning bout.
GC will wrap up the three-game set with Westminster on Monday, March 26 when they return home to Robert E. Smith Field for the series rubber match at 3:00 pm.


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Valparaiso's Jake Diebler (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) and Samuel Haanpää (Kerava, Finland/Cornerstone [Texas] Christian) have both been named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Honors Court.
The Honors Court is set up to recognize those collegiate basketball student-athletes who also excel in the academic realm. To qualify for the Honors Court, players must be at least a junior academically and own a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.20.
Diebler, who will be a senior this season, carries a 3.57 GPA as a marketing major. He was a member of the Horizon League Academic Honor Roll last year and was named the league's U.S. Army Scholar-Athlete of the Week on Dec. 11. On the court, Diebler started all 36 games at guard for the Crusaders and finished second in the league with a 2.71 assist-to-turnover ratio.
Haanpää, who is entering his junior campaign, owns a 3.63 GPA as an international business major. The Horizon League U.S. Army Scholar-Athlete of the Month for December, as well as Scholar-Athlete of the Week on Dec. 18, Haanpää was a member of the league's men's basketball All-Academic Team and also was named to the league's Academic Honor Roll last year. On the court, Haanpää is Valpo's all-time leader in 3-point percentage and connected on 43.0% (58-of-135) of his attempts from behind the arc last year while averaging 10.0 points per game.
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NH roots: The untold story of Adam Lanza's momBy ALAINE GRIFFIN and JOSH KOVNER
The Hartford Courant
February 18. 2013 9:38PM
Shortly after her move from New Hampshire to Newtown, Conn., in 1998, Nancy Lanza had good news about her troubled son.
"Adam is doing well here, and seems to be enjoying the new school," Lanza wrote to a friend back in Kingston, N.H., in a Feb. 9, 1999, email.
But Adam, 6, then diagnosed with a condition that made it difficult for him to manage and respond to sights, touch and smell, eventually struggled in the first grade at his new school - Sandy Hook Elementary.
His mother would respond, touching off a 10-year educational shuffle with moves in and out of schools and programs that addressed his sensory integration disorder and another diagnosis that would come by middle school: Asperger's syndrome.
Adam would attend public school, take lessons at home, try private school for a couple of months, return to public school and attend Newtown High School, although he left after his sophomore year. He went to college at 16 and earned A's and B's - but it didn't last. He was out in a year. He then went to a community college, and dropped out in the first semester.
A series of significant life changes followed for Adam as the number of people with whom he had contact began to shrink.
His parents divorced. He abruptly cut off contact with his father, Peter, in 2010, and grew estranged from his older brother. He spent more time alone at home. His mother, who loved to travel, told friends she was grooming him to be independent someday. There were even plans to leave New England - their lifelong home - so Adam could study history and possibly earn a college degree.
Portrait of a mother
But mother and son never left. Adam, now 20, had a plan of his own. He returned to Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012.
There he would join the lexicon of suicidal mass killers, leaving many to ponder the question of what led a 20-year-old to commit the second-deadliest school shooting in American history. A final police report has yet to be released.
In the weeks after the Newtown massacre, The Hartford Courant, in partnership with the PBS investigative news program "Frontline," contacted family members and friends on both Nancy Lanza's and Peter Lanza's side. Some who were interviewed agreed to be named while others shared information and recollections on the condition that they not be named.
Reporters also reviewed messages and emails spanning the 10 years in which Nancy Lanza wrote to close friends. In the notes, she chronicled portions of her own life, from her mysterious potentially fatal illness, to comments about her marriage, to progress reports on a young Adam.
What emerges in this exploration of a still unfolding story is a portrait of a mother, apparently devoted but perhaps misguided, struggling to find her son a place in society, and a boy, exceptionally smart in some areas, profoundly deficient in others, who never found a place in the world.
Although he had played musical instruments, studied foreign languages and had a part-time job at a computer shop, Adam remained isolated and distant.
Dec. 14, 2012
On Dec. 14, Adam Lanza, 20, wearing a utility vest with pockets stuffed with ammunition and carrying three of his mother's firearms, blasted his way into Sandy Hook Elementary.
In a six-minute rampage, armed with a Glock, a SIG Sauer and a Bushmaster rifle, he killed six women, 20 first-graders and, eventually, himself.
Before he drove to the school, he killed his mother, shooting her in the head at close range four times as she lay in bed at their home.
A stunned state and confounded nation mourned. Memorial after memorial recalled the lives of precious little ones taken too soon, and the courageous acts of their educators on that horrific school day.
There was sympathy from around the world for grieving loved ones, including an emotional visit to Newtown from President Barack Obama just days after the massacre.
There, as the nation listened, the President remembered the slain educators and children during a service at Newtown High School, saying each of the names of those who were murdered.
But there was one name the President never mentioned - Nancy Lanza.
Throughout the town, there were memorials: 26 candles, 26 angels, 26 handprints like leaves on a tree.
But the question of his first victim that day was far more complicated.
In some quarters, Nancy Lanza, 52 at the time of her death, is viewed as a villain, a gun-obsessed mother who allowed her disturbed son access to firearms and let him fester in the basement playing violent video games while she traveled and enjoyed night life.
But close friends said that picture is unfair and that, in their eyes, Nancy was trying to do right by Adam.
"Her life revolved around caring for Adam. She loved to hang out with her friends at the bar and she loved to travel and she took time out for herself but her children and her family came first," said a friend from Newtown, John Bergquist.
Life in Sandy Hook
Nancy Lanza would settle in quickly at her new home in Newtown's Sandy Hook section.
Her elder son, Ryan, 10 at the time, found niches early in Newtown. He joined the basketball, karate and debate teams. And there was good news about her younger son, Adam, who had been diagnosed with the sensory disorder before she left New Hampshire. Adam had a birthday party, with 26 "new friends."
By May of that year, Adam was even performing in plays.
"Adam has taken it very seriously, even practicing facial expressions in the mirror!" Lanza wrote in an email to Kingston friend Marvin LaFontaine, who met Lanza through Cub Scouts.
In spite of those activities, Adam Lanza had difficulty relating to others, even as a young child.
In kindergarten in Kingston, he had been "coded," or identified, as needing an "individual education plan" and extra attention, both in the classroom and at home, LaFontaine said.
"There was a shyness and a learning thing and they were trying to unravel it," he said of Adam, whom Nancy Lanza would bring along to Ryan's Cub Scout meetings.
"Adam was a quiet kid. He never said a word," LaFontaine said. "There was a weirdness about him and Nancy warned me once at one of the Scout meetings ... 'Don't touch Adam.' She said he just can't stand that. ... He'd become teary-eyed and I think he would run to his mother."
Connected to school
At Sandy Hook Elementary in 1999, Lanza expressed concerns about Adam's interaction in class, said Wendy Wipprecht of Newtown, a writer and editor who met Nancy that year.
Wipprecht's autistic son, Miles, and Adam were in the first grade together at Sandy Hook Elementary. The two mothers would share stories about their sons, Wipprecht said, and Miles was one of more than 20 classmates who attended Adam's sixth birthday party at a duckpin bowling center in Danbury.
"I guess she was worried that he had ... some kind of neurobiological condition," Wipprecht recalled.She said Lanza told her she was considering taking Adam out of Sandy Hook and enrolling him in a local parochial school.
But Adam never actually left the Newtown school district. He remained enrolled, entering a special program in which he did prepared lessons at home, according to a family member of Nancy Lanza who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Lanza would take Adam back to Sandy Hooky after hours to do the work he could not do at home. In this manner, Adam stayed connected to Sandy Hook, and was one of the students who signed a school T-shirt in 2003 as a fifth-grader.
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For over 50 years Ancap has done one thing: produce high quality porcelain. This singularity of focus results in a product unrivaled in finish and quality. Ancap's porcelain cups are created with only the highest quality raw ingredients available and fired at temperatures far above the industry standard, resulting in a dense, white porcelain that is both elegant and durable. Their cups aren't just for show; Ancap takes barista input into account for their designs, resulting in a cup that was selected as the official cup of the World Latte Art Championships three years in a row. All of Ancap's porcelain is 100% made in Italy, just outside of Verona, in their vast 215,000 square-foot warehouse.


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In anticipation of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, which hits theaters next November (that's nine months away, but who's counting?), Lionsgate has unveiled a series of Capitol Portraits featuring Katniss, Peeta, and all of your other Panem favorites dressed in their "Victory Tour" finery.
You'll notice many familiar faces from the first movie—Jennifer Lawrence looks more ravishing than ever in ruffles—plus a few exciting additions, like Finnick Odair (Snow White and the Huntsman 's dashing Sam Claflin) and Johanna Mason (the gorgeous Jena Malone).
Click through to see all eleven of the official portraits!


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Western Growers has renamed its Marketing Services department as Trade Practices & Commodity Services, as part of an effort to better communicate the department's mission to members.
The Trade Practices & Commodity Services department will continue to offer members dispute resolution assistance utilizing government agencies, including the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA), California Department of Food and Agriculture's Market Enforcement Branch and the Dispute Resolution Corp. Thanks to the department's extensive industry knowledge and staff expertise, Western Growers recovers more than $3 million per year for members.
"When the department was initiated, our members needs were very different," said Executive Vice President Matt McInerney. "Now, our members are trading in a more complex domestic and international marketplace. The evolution of Western Growers' services has anticipated and met members' needs for a centralized resource to assist in the areas of education for marketing practices and problem solving for commodities. This is a core service to assist members in enhancing their competitiveness and profitability."
The Trade Practices & Commodity Services department provides many services, including resolving disputed contracts and compiling a confidential semi-monthly report of delinquent accounts. The staff also represents members in packaging requirements and standardization regulations, reviews contracts, prepares product guaranty statements and provides assistance in PACA trust actions and bankruptcies.
The staff also compiles the weekly Produce Price Index to educate consumers of the price paid to farmers for their products in comparison to supermarket prices.
Mark McBride, sales office manager at Coastline in Salinas, said the services provided by the department have been invaluable. McBride's staff calls for a consultation about once a week.
"They have a good pulse on the industry — positive and negative — as far as who the bad actors are and who's paying their bills and not paying their bills. They've kept us out of a lot of situations. They bring a lot of expertise to the table."
Trade Practices & Commodity Services Director Tom Oliveri and Director of International Trade and Transportation Ken Gilliland bring more than 50 years of combined experience.
For more information about the Trade Practices & Commodity Services department or to request assistance, call (949) 863-1000.


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$2 million federal grant targets New Hampshire health exchangeBy DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 10. 2014 8:04PM
CONCORD — The state Insurance Department got permission from lawmakers to accept a $2 million federal grant to help the department evaluate health insurance policies sold on the New Hampshire exchange at healthcare.gov, but not without a fight.
The 6-4 vote of the joint House and Senate Fiscal Committee on Monday came after a polite but pointed exchange between Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny and Sen. Andy Sanborn, R-Bedford.
Sevigny told the representatives and senators that two more health insurance companies are expected to participate next year in the online exchange, which this year has only Anthem policies.
The Insurance Department will have to evaluate new policies offered by Harvard Pilgrim and Minute Man Health to determine if they are in compliance with state and federal regulations, Sivigny said. Some of the managed care companies now running the state's Medicaid program could jump in as well.
"I can't do it with the staff I have in place right now," he said.
The department had a $900,000 federal grant last year to evaluated the Anthem offerings now posted on the New Hampshire exchange, created in partnership with the federal government.
Sanborn said the Insurance Department should be able to accommodate health plan review within its existing $11 million budget. "This is what you do — plan compliance and approval. It's what your agency does for a living." he said. "Will you help me understand where $2 million is going to go."
Sevigny replied that routine reauthorization of existing policies, or new policies in areas like property, auto or life insurance cannot be compared to health insurance policies that have to be judged against the complicated requirements of the Affordable Care Act.
"Your logic is a bit flawed," he said. " Health filings can add up to 6,000 pages or more, per policy, Sivigny said, as he described the role the consulting company would play in helping the department evaluate new insurance plans. "They are at the highest end in terms of complexity," he said.
As Sanborn continued to press his point, Sevigny clearly became frustrated. "You either trust that we're telling you how it is, and how it works ... and if you don't trust that what we're telling you is accurate, I don't now how much more I can tell you."
Sevigny said a contract with the Public Consulting Group, headquartered in Boston with offices in Portsmouth, has already been drawn up and is ready for a vote by the Executive Council on Wednesday.
Payment is linked to performance of certain tasks. "If they don't do the work, they don't get paid," he said.
Republican Sen. Jeanie Forrester of Meredith and Senate President Chuck Morse of Salem said they voted against accepting the federal grant because of their previous votes against forming a partnership with the federal government to launch the exchange in the first place.


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I'm leading a discussion group about the spiritual essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Its the second time I'm doing this and it is enjoyable and enriching. We use "Emerson as a Spiritual Guide" by Barry Andrews, published by Skinner House Books, Unitarian Universalist Association publishing house. I highly recommend the book to anyone who wants to learn more about Emerson's spiritual writings.
In reading Emerson's essay, The Over-Soul, I found this time that I have much more clarity. One passage struck me as particularly important: "For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite."
This is related to an idea that Joesph Campbell expressed — "Eternity has nothing to do with time."
Why am I suddenly writing about this? First of all I need to get back blogging!! Secondly these assertions are helpful to me as I seek to be in the present and mindful of it. I thought they might be helpful to you.


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ST. LOUIS (AP) - A Cincinnati restaurant owner is suing former Cardinals outfielder Jim Edmonds over the name of the Precinct, a restaurant he co-owns in downtown St. Louis.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (bit.ly/1mzlb6H ) reports that Jeff Ruby filed a federal lawsuit against Edmonds' business late last year. The suit alleges that Edmonds' steakhouse infringes on the Ohio restaurant group's trademark.
The St. Louis Precinct features police and sports memorabilia and is located next to the new city police headquarters building. The Precinct in Cincinnati opened in 1981 and occupies a former police patrol building.
Edmonds played for the Cardinals from 2000 to 2007. He later played for the Cincinnati Reds before retiring from baseball in 2011.
Information from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, http://www.stltoday.com
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W630B | LED | Full HD
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The all-rounder with Sony picture quality
Crisply-detailed Full HD pictures are matched by true, clear sound that enhances music and dialogue. Make your TV the home hub of online entertainment. Enjoy a seamless browsing experience and find the perfect content for all your everyday needs through the sleek new user interface.
Cleans and refines images to create superior picture quality.
Enjoy a silk-smooth on-screen look in fast-moving action sequences with Motionflow XR.
Improve everything you watch
X-Reality PRO
Experience stunning picture quality – from Blu-ray Discs™ and regular TV broadcasts to web videos and smartphone clips. Sony's unique processing engine analyses, cleans, and refines images for beautiful results, with dramatically reduced picture noise for the truest quality of Full HD.
Intelligent noise reduction
X-Reality PRO removes noise without sacrificing detail.
Reality Creation database
Each pixel is analysed then enhanced thanks to a sophisticated database.
Accurate Colour Management
X-Reality PRO reproduces accurate colour while maintaining the brightness, hue, and saturation of whatever you're watching.
Stunning detail from whatever you're watching
It's better in Blu-ray
Blockbuster movies to vintage films – they'll all look their best in Blu-ray format.
Play for real
Every gaming environment becomes more immersive and more intense with richly rendered scenes in Full HD.
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Get the most out of streaming content and videos from popular online channels, with enhanced clarity and reduced picture noise.
Great memories, amazing photos
Share your pictures on the big screen with family and friends; the enhanced size brings out detail you never knew was there.
Made to listen
Make your listening as lifelike as your viewing. ClearAudio+ fine-tunes TV sound for an immersive, emotionally enriching experience that seems to surround you. Hear music, dialogue, and surround effects with greater clarity and separation, whatever you're watching.
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Direct multi-channel sound processing creates clear 360° surround sound for an immersive experience.
Fine tunes TV speakers' frequency response for smoother, more balanced mids, highs, and lows.
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Dialogue and speech are clearer and easier to understand, even when background sound is loud.
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Bass Reflex Speaker
Hear more from a compact speaker box with intense, focused sound. The Bass Reflex speaker produces clear, rich sounds from crisp highs to extended lows. The isolated box design ensures highly efficient sound reproduction, so that every detail is heard clearly.
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Control your world of content with BRAVIA's quick and intuitive interface. Flick through TV channels, recommended videos, photos on your network, or even content like YouTube™ and other online channels. Find your favorite content instantly with quick TV start-up and speedy app launch.
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Turn on your TV in an instant—often under two seconds. Then access Internet content in another second. Every action, every application is quicker than ever, so you can enjoy and explore your content whenever you want.
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Share the moment with the world.
Experience the fun together: enhance your TV enjoyment by following tweets from around the world. Just choose your keyword, and see comments relating to the show you're watching flow across the screen. TV has never been so social.
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More than a stadium surround experience
Experience a stadium atmosphere in your own living room. Live Football Mode automatically adjusts the sound settings so the roar of the crowd is delivered loud and clear. You can also browse football videos from YouTube™ with the utmost ease.
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Enjoy photos from your Android or iOS devices* on the big screen. Grab your favourites off the TV as friends share special memories — using up to 10 devices.
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Sony measures and analyses sound in real football stadiums, creating authentic match-day sound.
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Enjoy a choice of enhanced football content from the website, YouTube, and more.
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Mirror your mobile on the big, beautiful BRAVIA screen. Share photos, videos, or any applications wirelessly, or connect with MHL wired mirroring to charge your smartphone while you share. You can even send photos to display on BRAVIA at your TV's native resolution.
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Plug your smartphone in to charge while you share photos and videos on the big screen.
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Optional Wireless Subwoofer accessory
Add extra impact to movies with an optional Wireless Subwoofer accessory. No cables or special setup are needed - the Wireless Subwoofer is automatically tuned for the best settings with new BRAVIA models. The compact, stylishly crafted cabinet fits discreetly in any room.
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Bring all your favourite online content to the big screen. From movies to catch-up TV, tomusic, to the latest YouTube™ videos, it's all here.
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Remote Control RM-ED061 (Europe) / RM-ED059 (UK & Ireland) / RM-YD101 (SOLA), Batteries (R03), AC Power Cord, Screws, Table Top Stand (separate,assembly required), Operating Instructions, Quick Setup Guide / Supplement CUE (GA)
Designed with the environment in mind
Sony is committed not only to offering products, services and content that deliver exciting experiences, but also to working towards our goal of a zero environmental footprint throughout our business activities.Read more
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