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Ajit Pawar to return as Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister
Published: 06th December 2012 08:26 PM | Last Updated: 06th December 2012 11:19 PM | A+A A-
Barely 10 weeks after he quit after his name cropped up in the alleged
irrigation scam in the state, senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)
leader Ajit Pawar will return as Maharashtra's deputy chief minister
Ajit Pawar will be sworn-in 9.30 a.m. Friday by Governor K. Sankaranarayanan, a top Raj Bhavan official told IANS.
The nephew of NCP chief and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar had suddenly quit the cabinet Sep 25 after his name figured in an alleged multi-crore scam.
A top NCP office-bearer said that "the post had been kept vacant for Ajit Pawar" and it was just a matter of time before he re-joined the state cabinet.
"There is no doubt about this, maybe in a day or so, but he will definitely come back to his old post," the office-bearer, requesting anonymity, told IANS.
The move comes just days after Ajit Pawar got a clean chit in the alleged scam and before the winter session of the legislature - expected to be a stormy affair with the irrigation scam expected to figure in a big way - opens in Nagpur next week.
A political storm erupted last week as the state government's much-awaited white paper on the irrigation department was released.
The opposition Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party promptly rechristened it as a "black paper", and Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal released his parallel 'black paper' to counter the official one.
The opposition also threatened to disrupt the proceedings of the legislature in the winter session on the issue.
However, the NCP defended Ajit Pawar and demanded that he should reinstated as deputy chief minister, a post he quit following alleged irregularities worth Rs.20,000 crore in irrigation projects during his 1999-2009 tenure.
Ajit Pawar is expected to defend himself, the NCP and the Congress-NCP alliance against the opposition onslaught on the issue.
Besides, the NCP is also planning to deploy Ajit Pawar, a fire-brand speaker in the ensuring Gujarat assembly elections.
Ajit Pawar's abrupt resignation Sep 25 had created a political storm and was quickly followed by all the remaining 19 NCP ministers in the state cabinet also offering to quit, plunging the ruling Democratic Front government in a crisis.
However, they were pacified by the party chief Sharad Pawar, even as intense lobbying started to project Ajit Pawar as the next chief minister.
Days after his resignation, NCP state president Madhukar Pichad had categorically said that Ajit Pawar was being groomed for higher responsibilities.
"We will show what a chief minister should be like... Ajit Pawar will show them," Pichad said.
Party state spokesperson Nawab Malik endorsed the move saying that the entire party wanted Ajit Pawar to play "a commanding role" (of CM) in the state.
However, for that the party would have to win an adequate number of seats in the next Assembly elections, due 2014 to ensure Ajit Pawar can stake claim to the top post, Malik said.
Out of the cabinet, Ajit Pawar spent the past ten weeks intensively touring the state amid bitter acrimony between the two coalition partners.
During the local bodies elections held in the past couple of months, leaders of both Congress and NCP stooped to new lows, calling each other's party as one of "goons, scamsters, criminals, and gangsters" before Sharad Pawar intervened to stop the mutual attacks.


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Vlox wrote:There is no prove god exists all we have is a book witch is over 4000 years old probaly written by a sadistic ruler to control his people by giving them belive all god is a belive yes there may have been a jesus 2000 years ago maybe he was a christian preist but THERE IS NO PROVE OF GOD BUT IN ACIENT WRITINGS some of you may disagre but ill ask each and every one of you if you have prove of god .
mrvanillaice wrote:Yeah, but I am sure you didn't know the facts of the evolution of the theory god.
The bible was written way before christ came around, Jesus was just a reminder for our sins and a way we could let our sins be forgiven.
The bible was written in two different continents at the same time, using the same theory, (If you question this look up something called carbon dating), theorists and scientists have proven that the two bibles were written in different continents which in fact was impossible for them to even communicate, one because the form of transportation wasn't great enough, and they had no way to understand eachother.
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Microsoft has announced plans to tighten up anti-piracy features in its forthcoming operating systems Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn".
Redmond's upcoming Software Protection Platform is designed to make software piracy harder while making software licensing less of a chore.
The technology, which is also designed to protect customers from software tampering, will debut with Vista and Longhorn but Redmond plans to incorporate the technology with more products over time. The platform will change how Microsoft software activates, is validated online, and behaves when tampering or hacking is detected.
The Software Protection Platform works with validation programs such as Windows Genuine Advantage, Redmond's controversial "phone home" nagware.
Customers using genuine and licensed copies of Windows Vista will have access to Windows Aero and Windows ReadyBoost features, as well as full functionality of Windows Defender security software and extra optional updates from Windows Update. Systems that fail validation will not have access to these features, although they will still have access to critical security updates.
As with Windows XP, Vista systems need to be activated through Microsoft using a genuine product key within 30 days. Failure to validate Vista will result in the system operating in reduced functionality mode until a genuine product key is used to activate and a successful validation occurs.
For the avoidance of doubt, users of non-genuine Windows Vista software will be treated to the appearance of a persistent statement in the lower right hand corner of their desktop space that reads, "This copy of Windows is not genuine". Vista product keys might be blocked for a number of reasons, including if the product key is abused, stolen, pirated or seized as a result of anti-piracy enforcement efforts.
Microsoft cites figures by the Business Software Alliance to support its contention that 35 per cent of all software installed worldwide during 2005 was pirated or unlicensed (a $35bn a year problem, according to disputed BSA figures) in justifying the need for stronger anti-piracy technologies in its software.
Redmond's efforts in combating software piracy focus on three areas: education, engineering and enforcement. The Software Protection Platform focuses on trying to frustrate piracy through improved product engineering. ®


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NEW YORK (AP) - The ice princess touched down on the Tadashi Shoji runway Thursday with a digital dappling of snowflakes behind her.
NEW YORK (AP) � The ice princess touched down on the Tadashi Shoji runway Thursday with a digital dappling of snowflakes behind her.
She was dressed in high-neck washed keyhole gowns decorated in lace, then made a quick change into a white neoprene capelet with navy metallic lace and a flouncy white-and-navy gown underneath.
A red tulle-and-lace gown with black beaded cutouts also seemed special and likely will be a standout during eight days of seasonal previews at New York Fashion Week.
The look was "exiled nobility" all the way, Shoji explained in his notes left for editors, retailers and stylists. He said he was "inspired by the splendor of the Russian Empire and the eventual fall of imperial rule."
Fabrics were heavy and embellishments rich.
The theme took his muse from St. Petersburg, Russia, where she'd wear the long, loose dresses with cascading backs and blousoned waists, to Siberia and nods to more peasant styles, including pouffy sleeves and pleated skirts.
Some of the looks seemed a little costumey, but the opulence worked for the black-tie show-stoppers and an ivory gown with a pearl-encrusted bodice that would be an out-of-the-box � and fabulous � choice for a super-luxe winter wedding.
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WASHINGTON – Eight former mutual fund directors have settled federal claims that they allowed others at the firm to set values for subprime mortgage securities that were held by funds on which investors lost about $1.5 billion.
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the settlement Thursday with the former directors of five Regions Morgan Keegan funds. They aren't paying any penalty under the settlement. The SEC brought an enforcement action against the directors in December, saying they delegated the duty to fund managers, even though directors are required by law to set values when market prices aren't available.
The directors failed to make a diligent effort to learn how the values were determined, the SEC had alleged.
In June 2011, Morgan Keegan agreed to pay $200 million to settle the SEC's civil fraud charges of inflating the mortgage securities' value as the housing market was collapsing in 2007.
"Our settlement sends a clear warning of our commitment to enforce the duty of mutual fund directors and trustees to closely oversee the process of valuing securities held by their funds," George Canellos, a co-director of the SEC's enforcement division, said in a statement.
The directors neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing but agreed to refrain from future violations of the securities laws.
They are: J. Kenneth Alderman, Jack R. Blair, Albert C. Johnson, James Stillman R. McFadden, Allen B. Morgan Jr., W. Randall Pittman, Mary S. Stone and Archie W. Willis III.
Stone was a trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation, which oversees the board that sets accounting standards. She resigned that position after the SEC brought the enforcement action against the directors in December. Stone, who also is a past president of the American Accounting Association, currently is an accounting professor at the University of Alabama.
Regions Financial Corp. last year completed the $930 million sale of Morgan Keegan, its investment management business, to Raymond James Financial Inc.


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I remember the moment as if it were yesterday. We were walking through the main square of Cusco, Peru, towards the majestic Cathedral glistening in the afternoon sun, when Danielle said to me, "It's all perfect Jeannie. You are simply in the gestation period, things are incubating. You are getting ready to have a rebirth." Who is Danielle and to what on earth was she referring? Danielle Hougard was the Anusara Yoga teacher who was leading me on my first ever yoga retreat. But she was not just any yoga teacher. Danielle is one of those special "Earth Mother" types, the type of woman who exudes love and motherly instincts from every cell of her body, the type of woman who is truly in touch with her intuition, the Spirit of Earth and Sky, and the energies of every living creature around her. This is a wise women who just seems to "know" things, and somehow when she says them you just know that you can trust her.
Danielle was responding to my story of how my life had fallen into ruins: I had moved across country to fight for love, only to find myself rejected and abandoned. If that wasn't enough I had arrived at the beginning of the recession and was thrust headfirst into months of unemployment. Running out of money and desperate for work, I was compelled to take a minimum wage job at a retail store. It was depressing enough that I had gone from a successful, high-paying management career in Washington, DC, to making minimum wage, but in the depths of my own heartache, I was now forced to endure hundreds of happy couples strolling about arm in arm as the irritating Christmas carols pumped out incessantly through the loudspeakers of the shopping mall. But worst of all, every day I lived in fear that the man who had broken my heart would stroll in with HIS new girlfriend on his arm. This was my rock bottom. If there is a Hell on Earth, this was definitely it.
Fortunately through a stroke of "luck," I was finally able to find a "real" job. Things were looking up, I could finally leave my minimum wage job and get back to building my career….Or so I thought. Sadly my luck would not last and I was laid off several months later, and found myself yet again in a period of protracted unemployment. So here I was in Peru, six months after having been laid off and I hadn't had a single bite to the hundreds of resumes sent. My life was completely stagnating. I was having no luck on the job front, no luck on the love front, every cell in my body ached and mourned for the loss of my best friend, and I was depressed to the point where I did not want to get out of bed in the morning. The only thing I could feel in my life was a palpable feeling of stagnation. I was completely stuck.
Danielle's response to this story was a friendly smile and a reassuring nod, telling me that everything I had just described was actually "PERFECT," that although on the surface it felt like things were stagnating, that actually behind the scenes there were forces at work, and that I was simply in the gestation period…that I was simply getting ready for a powerful rebirth. Though to my rational (and depressed!) mind this sounded a little bit unusual and way too good to believe, the certainty with which she spoke these words gave me a momentary peace. I prayed that she was right.
By now you may be wondering what I was doing in Peru after the story I just described and given my obvious state of unemployment. Well, call me a risk-taker, but when life gets really dark and gloomy, that's when something deep inside of me says "SCREW IT" and propels me to go do something incredible and adventurous, to try to drag myself reluctantly out of the muck. All of my life I had dreamed of going to Peru. When I was in high school Spanish class, my teacher would show us pictures of Machu Picchu and I just knew that I had to go there one day. So when I found myself in the midst of my "dark night of the soul," and completely stuck, I knew I had to do something to try to unstick myself.
Several days after walking through that square in Cusco, we found ourselves on the very tip-top of Huayna Picchu Mountain, high above the breath-taking, mind-boggling and awe-inspiring creation that was Machu Picchu. This masterpiece defied human logic and comprehension. Its ruins were perfectly intact, each of its thousands of individual stones stacked so flawlessly and at such exquisitely engineered angles that they would remain intact and stable for hundreds of years of enduring the elements. There are honestly not any words I could ever use to adequately express what it felt like to be standing up there at 8,920 ft, literally on top of the world. As I looked around us, I was overcome with goosebumps at the beauty of the jagged, majestic mountains that shot dramatically up into the heavens, hugged and nurtured by the blankets of fog. If there was a God, he/she was certainly here. I felt the great Spirit of the Earth in the wind that whispered into my ears, in the Sun that warmed my back, and in the solid stone beneath my feet, stones that had held the weight and cradled the souls of hundreds of thousands of humans across the centuries. I was awed to my core. Standing up here at this great height, surrounded by the magic and mystery of Mother Earth, I knew I was being supported.
At the end of our 10-day journey, completely moved and humbled by the Grace, beauty and humility of the Peruvian people, we returned home to the States, and I back to the chains of stagnation in Los Angeles. The minute I touched down in Los Angeles, I knew I had to leave. I am a stubborn person. And because I loved Los Angeles and felt a profound spiritual connection with her, I had previously been determined to stay there, despite the fact that the signs seemed to point elsewhere. But now the Universe had given me a breadcrumb to follow. You see, this yoga group, led by this sweet soul Danielle, was actually from San Francisco, and I only found them through an "accidental" twist of fate through a web search. Nobody on the trip could figure out why I was staying in Los Angeles after the horror I had described. They encouraged me to move to San Francisco. Considering that my life was completely stagnant and that I had already lost everything of importance that I could possibly stand to lose, I decided it was time to break free of my prison.
This is when Grace took over. Only five days after moving to San Francisco, for what was intended to be a one-month temporary sublet to test out the waters, a job offer had fallen unexpectedly into my lap. Over the weeks that followed, I frantically looked for a permanent apartment in San Francisco, searched desperately for someone to take over my lease in Los Angeles, packed up my entire one-bedroom apartment in 24 hours and drove the entire load, by myself, the six-hour drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco, and then started my new job the next day. Just like that, my life had shifted dramatically. Danielle's words about an impending "rebirth" were ringing in my ears. But what I didn't know was that this was just barely the beginning. I was only in the earliest contractions and still had over a year of "labor" ahead of me.
17 months later, after months and months of undue stress and anxiety in my corporate job, I was let go. Bowled over by the unexpected blow, I picked myself back up and threw myself immediately back into the job search. But the minute I did so, another breadcrumb was laid down for me. I had written my very first blog post, about my journey of healing through yoga, and it had felt good. But not only did it feel good, it got a good response. Somehow, as if in a daze, I suddenly found myself with my own blog and I began writing. Never having had any interest in being a writer, it was as if a higher force had suddenly taken over and was simply pulling my puppet-strings and moving me along a new and unexpected path. But this path felt right.
Now only eight short months since losing my job, I have over 20,000 beautiful, bilingual fans in 35 countries around the world, my work has been published in several different publications, I am now a regular contributor to Elephant Journal, writing in both English and Spanish, I'm about to be featured in Martha Stewart's Whole Living Magazine, and I have just completed and submitted my very first book proposal, with the hope that I will soon be a published writer. I couldn't have imagined this dramatic turn of events in my life even eight months ago when I lost my job. In fact almost daily I look back and scratch my head with delight and wonder. But there would be no way in my wildest, craziest dreams that I could have imagined this, as we walked through that square in Cusco talking about my impending "rebirth."
A few weeks ago we had a reunion from our Peru trip, now just past the two-year mark since we took our trip, and I was reminding Danielle of this moment from Cusco. Danielle then told me something that I hadn't yet known, something that made this entire experience even more unbelievable and magical to me: the name Cusco means "navel of the Earth." Danielle had been right, I was in the gestation period and I was getting ready for a "rebirth." What I hadn't realized was that I had to go to Cusco, the "navel of the Earth," in order for the "rebirth" to begin…


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Nation's number one celebrant shocked at win
ON THE most romantic day of the year, Hervey Bay's Cheryl Kidd has been named Australia's best wedding celebrant.
Cheryl was shocked, amazed and bemused when she heard the news that she had been named the number one wedding celebrant in the nation.
The announcement was made on Valentine's Day, with Cheryl winning the Designer of Dreams competition, which is held annually by the Australian Bridal Industry Association.
Before Cheryl became a celebrant, she managed resorts and would preside over organising weddings for couples who came to get married at the locations.
She would always wish she was the one carrying out the ceremonies that made couples husband and wife.
Ten years ago, that dream became a reality and since then she has had some interesting experiences, including marrying couples as they ride into the ceremony on the back of a horse, along with Western-themed weddings.
She married one couple in a tree at the botanic gardens and married another couple who were dressed as Batman and Robin.
"It's been good and it gets better all the time," Cheryl said.
"I have so much fun with my couples."
She said one of the nicest parts of being a celebrant was that she stayed friends with the couples.
But the excitement of hearing she had been named number one celebrant was almost too much for her.
"I don't think I can handle it," she said through laughter.
Along with Cheryl's accomplishment, Urangan's Waterfront Restaurant also finished third in the competition, where it was entered in the Restaurant Reception category.
Cheryl said it was wonderful to see two Fraser Coast entrants do so well.


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There's a lot of discussion on these boards about advanced optimization, but not as much about fundamentals. So, as I find the time and inclination, I'll be posting some games of mine. I consider myself to be an advanced player, but definitely not an expert. You won't see anything brilliant in my games, but you will see something that's at least competent. I'm hoping that it will be a good learning experience for the new players.
I made a brand new profile for this run. I will not be doing any selective unlocking or hardcore scumming. I will avoid using the hard-to-reach preparations. The tools and techniques I will be using should be available to any beginner. After, all, that's the whole point of this exercise!
Before we begin, some key intermediate-level concepts:
1) Always fight the highest level monster possible. Avoid equal or lower level fights whenever possible.
2) Always fully expend your resources before leveling up
3) There are 2 9th monsters, 3 8th level monsters, and 4 7th level monsters. Its best to have killed all of the 9s and 8s before or during your 7th level, as well as many of the 7s as possible. This way, you can start fighting the boss from level 7, with all of the remaining monsters being 'popcorn.'
Some words I made up to save typing:
Catfight: A fight where the player kills a higher-level monster. A play off of 'experience catapult.'
Generals: A name I gave to the two 9th level monsters.
Captains: The three 8th level monsters
Lieutenants: The four 7th level monsters
My first run is against the Den of Danger as a Fighter with no preparations. I have not found any gods, and I don't even have shops yet. This is as basic as it gets.
The Fighter is probably the weakest class in the game. Except for Pit Fighter (which only works once), he has no tools that enable catfighting. If I don't fight a useful glyph or a pile of powerups early on, I may have get my first level up off of 1st level monsters. I'm willing to burn the first 1/3 of the map or so before resorting to this.
Here goes!
Nice! Almost immediately, I find a 2nd level monster and the tools to beat him!
Since I'm a Fighter, this ended up being just enough to reach level 2. I start hunting for 3s, and find one almost right away. I also find the boss and one of the generals. Very nice!
After devouring the warlock, I strike out and hunt for another juicy 3, finding one of the captains along the way.
And now for something a bit more advanced. I have the goat on the ropes. Killing it will level me up, but I still have some resources to spare.
So I take a bite out of that meatman first. Always look for ways to unload your spare resources right before leveling up. From there, I kill the goat and the meatman (and in that order!)
At this point, I already know that I'm going to finish the level off by catfighting with the other meatman-4, but I need to regenerate first.
In doing so, I find PISORF, and well as a zombie-5, which will be a perfect target after I finish off the meatman.
There's a lot going on in this picture. I've got the meatman down to where I can finish him off with a GETINDARE strike. But also, notice how I explored the area around the zombie? That was on purpose, and I made sure to do it BEFORE engaging the meatman. Do you know why I did that?
Because I wanted to use my leftover mana to pre-damage the zombie, and PISORF requires careful positioning. From there, I level up off of the meatman, finish off the zombie, and then go hunting again. At this point, I've acquired enough powerups that I might be able to handle a 6th level monster. The cattier the fight, the better!
A very nice bit of exploration. I find the fireball glyph, a goblin-6 that I can just barely take down, as well as the remaining general and one of the captains.
After leveling up off of the goblin, I realize that I have the tools to take down the goat general. Catfighting from four levels below! Hell yes!
From here, I realize that I can't kill the remaining general, but I can pick off those two captains. So that's exactly what I do!
See how the goblin general has taken some damage? That's because I used my spare mana to fireball him before killing the goat captain. USE YOUR LEVEL UPS!
At this point, both generals and two of the captains are dead, and I'm still only level 7. At this point, I will finish exploring the map and use the remaining monsters to refill my resources while fighting the boss. I may decide to pick off the those three lieutenants and then find and kill the last captain first. That will expend my level up, but will allow me to start the boss fight at level 8 and have all of the 'hard' experience already claimed.
I would have followed this to the conclusion but I had a Unity crash (my FIFTH one in a row, I might add). I have several level ups worth of easy experience on the board as well as all of my potions. The boss fight will be easy. This strong endgame was made possible by catfighting and using levelups instead of potions and exploration to recover resources. If I had access to shops or preparations, this would have been even easier.
If you found this helpful and would like to see more, let me know. I'm open to requests, but I'm only willing to do this for 'Hard' level dungeons and below. Viscous dungeons and some of the quests require intense scumming and would be a monster pain in the ass to annotate in this manner.


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Seal and his estranged wife Heidi Klum will reportedly put their differences aside over the holidays and spend Christmas Day together for the sake of their children.
The German supermodel separated from the Kiss From A Rose hitmaker last January after almost seven years of marriage, and she filed for divorce in April.
They have three children together, and the singer also adopted Klum's eldest daughter, Leni, from a previous relationship.
The split recently turned nasty when Seal criticised his former partner for embarking on a romance with the former couple's bodyguard, but they look set to put the animosity behind them this Christmas.
New York Post gossip column Page Six reports the former couple has made peace and will spend the holidays together in Los Angeles to keep the kids happy.
A source tells the publication, "They're trying to be co-parents and show up for their children."
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Low cost MVNO Aldi announced it will retire its ALDImobile $35 plan and replace it with one that comes with half the minutes and less than half the data. The current ALDImobile $35 plan comes with 2500 call minutes and 2.5GB. It will be retired on April 2.
The new $35 plan — known as the XL Value Pack plan — comes with 1250 minutes and 1GB of data. The plan does include 2200 text messages — an increase of 200 over the old plan — and an additional 1GB of data can be purchased for $10, but only after customers have used 70 per cent of their data allowance.
The new Value Pack range consists of four plans that start from $10. An Aldi Australian spokesperson said the changes are in response to new research that suggest some customers could benefit from cheaper plans. "From our ongoing research, we have found that the majority of our customers spend less than $35 based on their current mobile usage," said an Aldi Australia spokesperson in a statement.
Aldi has launched an online tool to help customers identify the plan that best suits their needs. Good Gear Guide is awaiting response from an Aldi spokesperson regarding terms and conditions.
Update, 18 Mar: An Aldi Australia spokesperson has confirmed to Good Gear Guide the people currently using the Active $35 plan will have to migrate to the new Value Pack plans after reaching their 30 day expiry period. Alternatively, they can transfer their remaining credit across to the new plans ahead of expiry.
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Statlers say goodbye to all that
Along the way there have been countless concerts at school gyms and churches and county fairs, flat tires in the middle of Wyoming, and pre-dawn searches for good takeout.
After 38 years on the road, the Statler Brothers have trouble remembering specific days on tour, except the one that really got things going.
"March 9, 1964. Canton, Ohio," says founding member Harold Reid, nodding his head with certainty.
It was a blustery afternoon, and the four boys from Augusta County pulled up in a black 1952 Cadillac limousine. They wore matching suits and sang "This Land Is Your Land." Reid did some of his goofy impressions.
The main act, Johnny Cash, liked their style so much, he made the Statlers– Don and Harold Reid, Phil Balsley, and Lew DeWitt– his regular opening band.
"He said, 'You guys did a good job. You want to finish this tour with me?'" lead vocalist Don Reid remembers. "We said, 'You betcha.'"
Since then, the Statlers have been just about everywhere, touring two out of every three weeks at their peak in the 1970s and 1980s, producing their own cable TV show for several years in the 1990s and recording more than 50 albums.
Now their long ride through America is ending. Now that they've played Salem, they'll retire as one of country's most successful quartets.
"We've been blessed," says Harold Reid, seated in his office adorned with framed gold records. "There's a lot of people out there with more talent than us who have not been able to show what they could do.'"
The Statlers, named after a tissue box Harold Reid found in a hotel room, have spent their career singing schmaltzy ballads about drive-in theaters, lemonade stands, and backyard baseball. "Ah, do you remember these?" they sang.
But the sentimental stuff has never been an act.
The subject of their songs has always been their hometown of Staunton, a city of old brick cottages and narrow streets wedged between the mountains of western Virginia. Founding members Harold Reid, DeWitt, Balsley, and Joe McDorman grew up there in the 1950s.
"We played ball together, we double dated," Harold Reid says.
Later, on the road, they revived their past with memory games, humming back and forth and writing songs on restaurant receipts as their old Cadillac limousine lumbered along the interstate.
"We thought we were the only ones who cared about that stuff," Harold Reid says. "But then the mail would flood in from people who said, 'I've been thinking about that for years.' We would hear from people who never did those things but enjoyed the thought of it."
The Statlers signed with Columbia Records and released "Flowers on the Wall" in the mid-1960s. They later recorded hits such as "You Can't Have Your Kate and Edith, Too," "Carry Me Back" and "The Class of '57."
The simple lyrics and easy style were comfort food for a country struggling with the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement.
Don Reid, Harold's younger brother, replaced McDorman in the early 1960s, and Jimmy Fortune took over for the ailing DeWitt in the 1980s. DeWitt, who suffered from Crohn's disease, died in 1990.
All the while, the group spent much of their time crisscrossing the country in the old Cadillac. Two would sit up front and the other two would stretch out on suitcases stacked in the back.
"We were able to see the world," Don Reid says.
They won numerous awards, including three Grammys, but the constant touring began taking its toll. They got tired of the endless diners, the loading and unloading of equipment, the hotels they'd check into in the middle of the night.
"You'd see the same cities over and over," Don Reid says, "but all you see is the hotel and the back door of the theater."
"I always thought of it like having a husband who drives a truck," says Joyce DeWitt, who married Lew in 1973. "I did some crazy things back then when he was gone. I knitted an afghan once, and it might as well have been a highway because it went on forever."
The Statlers are all married with children now, and the touring has been taking away the things they reminisced about in their songs.
"When you have kids, you miss those little school plays, those church pageants," Don Reid says. "The first 'A' on a report card. The baseball games. You weren't there for any of that."
The Statlers still live in Staunton and spend much of their time in an old brick schoolhouse they renovated 21 years ago. The striped suits stitched with American flags are behind glass, and the quilts, paintings, and other knickknacks from their fans are stored in a special room.
Sitting on a plush leather couch, Harold, 63, and Don, 57, say they haven't had time to think about retirement.
"Is it going to be like jumping off a ledge, like being really heavy and then just nothing?" Harold Reid says. "I don't know what to expect. Right now, I think it's going to feel good not to have any obligations."
The group still plans to record. They've just released "Amen,'" a collection of gospel songs.
Will they miss being on the road?
"Probably," Don Reid says.
Touring hasn't been so bad in recent years. When they arrived in Salem, they' pulled up in a luxury bus with satellite television to entertain a crowd that snapped up all available tickets in just hours.
"I guess you could say that's success," Harold Reid says.


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Despite the fact that my mom does wealth management and my brother is a bond trader, I am one of those people who does not "get" money. I know the economy is in the crapper and I can pay my bills on time and I know a bargain when I see one, but money is really a mystery to me. There was a time in my life where I was so broke I was afraid to leave the house because I'd work up an appetite and have to buy something to eat. There was time when I would eat a slice of eat pizza every day to "save money" on lunch and then, on the weekend, drown my sorrows in 4 or 5 $8 margaritas, wake up depressed and charge $200 Chanel sunglasses to cover my bloodshot eyes and cheer myself up. But reading the The NY Times story called "How To Treat A Money Disorder" made me realize there are all kinds of issues with cash: Overspending, underspending, serial borrowing, financial infidelity, workaholism, financial incest, financial enabling and hoarding. Money is not just money. It's pride, shame, guilt, stress, freedom and oppression.Country music star Wynonna Judd earned tons of money from her career but squandered much of it; she ended up in a kind of money rehab. According to the Times, "The fields of psychology and financial planning have been slow to link money and emotion." Which makes absolutely no sense! Is there anything else that gets people so worked up? Money arguments are one of the leading causes of divorce. And psychologist Jonathan Rich tells the Times: "Right now with the economy, there is so much money stress, more arguing and more tension over money." The Times says an online survey by the American Psychological Association in June found that 75% of the more than 2,500 adults said money was the No. 1 source of stress in their lives. (Also interesting: The three people in need of financial therapy in this article are all women.) It seems to me like one of the biggest problems with money is that it's so uncomfortable to talk about. People don't tell their friends how much they make, how much their parents have, what they spend and what they save. Sarah Kershaw writes in Times: "Money is still a great cultural taboo that is rarely discussed openly in this country." Why are we so afraid to discuss something we literally cannot live without? And are women more likely to have issues with money? How to Treat a 'Money Disorder' [NY Times]
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Money management should be a required course in high school. God knows I'd use it more than I use trigonometry.


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May-22-2009 DCA & HMFA Welcome Paterson to Live Where You Work Homebuyer Program
DCA & HMFA Welcome Paterson to Live Where You Work Homebuyer Program
PATERSON - Paterson Mayor Jose "Joey" Torres today joined Department of Community Affairs (DCA) Commissioner Joseph Doria and New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (HMFA) Executive Director Marge Della Vecchia at The Vistas at the Great Falls, a new residential development at 1 Jasper Street, to announce that Paterson is the newest member of the Live Where You Work Program. The city is the 13th municipality to partner with HMFA on the program.
"Live Where You Work complements Governor Corzine's efforts to reduce traffic congestion, revitalize neighborhoods and, most importantly, assist hardworking residents who want to buy homes," said Commissioner Doria. "The goal of this program is to build stronger, more connected communities. I thank Mayor Torres and Paterson for their commitment to the borough's residents and I encourage more municipalities to join the effort."
The Live Where You Work Program is a workforce housing initiative that provides low-interest, fixed rate mortgage loans to homebuyers purchasing homes in towns where they are employed. Other benefits include down payment and closing cost assistance for the purchase of a home within Smart Growth Areas and flexible underwriting criteria for the loan qualification process. Homes must be located in a municipality that has become a Live Where You Work partner with HMFA. The Live Where You Work initiative strives to revitalize and build sustainable communities that will provide a greener environment, access to alternative transportation and affordable housing opportunities for residents.
"This is a program that makes so much sense in today's economy because living close to work reduces commuting time, which is a way to save money," said HMFA Executive Director Marge Della Vecchia. "Live Where You Work is also about strengthening people's connection with their community. Paterson is a great place for this to happen because it is a city that offers tremendous opportunities for people who work in Paterson to live in Paterson."
As a result of this partnership, people working in Paterson who are interested in buying a home in the city will be able to take advantage of the Live Where You Work program incentives. Live Where You Work is administered by the HMFA, a DCA affiliate. Trenton, Jersey City, Woodbridge, Elizabeth, Atlantic City, Rahway, Morristown, Evesham, Neptune Township, Bayonne, Carteret and New Brunswick are all taking part in the program.
"The calamity of our economic crisis has altered the American dream. Programs such as Live Where You Work are now affording people the opportunity to become homeowners," said Mayor Torres. "Therefore, don't give up on your American dream. I encourage you to purchase a home in the City of Paterson, under the Live Where You Work Program, and make your homeownership dream a reality."
To learn about how to get a Live Where You Work mortgage, please call 1-800-NJHOUSE. For more information about how municipalities can join Live Where You Work, please call 609-278-7478. Or, you can visit the Live Where You Work website at www.livewhereyouwork.nj.gov.


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Sarah here. I am just getting this post in right at the last minute (so mind my grammar) but I thought I'd contribute and support this day because Jess is one of my dearest friends and I couldn't have survived my M.Sc. in Archaeological Computing at Southampton without her! Anyway I will stop being gushy and tell you a bit about what I have been working on up here in ALASKA!
A client of ours last year asked for an "archaeological probability model" to assess the potential for discovering cultural resources within a proposed 2000 foot wide by 116 mile road through the Northern Brooks Range and North Slope of Alaska (way above the Arctic Circle). I will not go into the debates about predictive modeling in this blog but as you may know these models have definite pros and cons. This model was to accompany approximately 65 days of archaeological survey field work in the summer of 2010 (we are just now getting funding to continue this summer). This road is being proposed through a remote area where the Alaska Natives still rely heavily on caribou and seasonal fishing trips (for those of you who are familiar with Lewis Binford's work, god rest his soul, he studied the Nunamiut or Inland Eskimo quite intensively and this project is within their traditional territory). The road is being designed to open up oil and gas fields (sigh).
So I decided to get in contact with a college of mine in Alberta, Canada who is well versed in archaeological predictive/potential modeling. He has been using available high resolution DEMs (digital terrain models) produced by Light Detecting and Ranging (LiDAR) elevation data to perform digital terrain analysis and multi-criteria analysis to construct archaeological potential (suitability) models. So I decided to give it a shot seeing as we had a LiDAR DEM!
To accomplish this task, I utilized terrain analysis (LandSerf©) to highlight two types of landforms with a higher potential for the presence of archaeological sites. These two landforms are level areas near terrain breaks (such as terrace breaks-in-slope), and ridges. I selected these landforms because they are consistent with observations concerning site location made by archaeologists in northern Alaska. I then ranked the archaeological potential of these landforms based on proximity to higher order streams (fish bearing rivers are the highest) using a multi-criteria analysis (IDRISI©).
So now I am working on a field survey plan to test the model this summer. I am not nearly done and there is a chance the helicopter is going to be ready to take us out there next week! Oh boy, I'd better get after it!


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Katharine McPhee's going from aspiring Idol to aspiring icon – namely Marilyn Monroe – with her new role in the musical series "Smash," debuting Monday, Feb. 6, on NBC.
The former "American Idol" contestant tells PopcornBiz she's set her recording to the side to dive headfirst into her role on the Steven Spielberg-produced series. McPhee plays Broadway newbie Karen Cartwright, a waitress from Iowa who suddenly finds herself in contention for the lead in a musical about the legendary sex symbol – if she doesn't lose the part to ringer Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty). McPhee reveals the road that led her back to TV, this time singing and dancing as someone other than herself.
Did the competitive theme of the show kind of take you back to your 'American Idol' days? Can you draw on that a little bit, wanting something so bad and being so close to getting it?
I was really more thinking about myself as an actress and what it is to go into auditions and to not feel like you did your best. Or to feel like you did a great job and then you didn't hear anything, and then you doubt yourself. And 'Idol' was a TV show and it was a competition, but it was kind of like something that I did because I was frustrated with my acting career. And I had no idea that it was going to turn into like, 'Okay, you have a really big record deal now. What are you going to do now?' It was sort of such a whirlwind experience – and wonderful experience – but I mean, maybe had my music career like been an instant rise to millions of album sales I would maybe be doing something different right now. But as an actress I always kind of knew where I wanted to go and where I wanted to be. I didn't know it would be this show, but I always knew that this is was what I wanted to do. But that's something you can't say when you're coming off a reality show: "Well, now I'm going to do television and film." Everybody'd be like, "The hell you are!" My theory is always just kind of do it silently and get people to rally around you and believe in you, and hopefully things will go your way. But it's taken a long time.
Is this series exactly the kind of opportunity that you wanted starting out?
It's more than I could have ever dreamt, because I do love theater. I studied theater in college for three semesters before I dropped out. I love musical theater, but of course I obviously have this love for acting for film and television. It's just more than I could have ever imagined, and the cast is incredible.
What are the different sort of pleasures you get out of singing as opposed to acting? Can you compare the two?
Yeah, it's a really hard comparison. The gift that my career, take it for what it is, has given me over the last five years was still performing live. Sometimes at like country fairs where, I kid you not, there were like 150 people who showed up. And you know, it was hard for your ego. You're like "Nobody cares. Why should I care? I don't want to do this." And the gift that it gave me was "Okay, just suck it up and go out there, even though I don't feel like it." And then you go out there and you realize it doesn't really matter. Yeah, the ultimate goal is to have it be in front of thousands of people, but if you can't have the joy of it in doing it in front of a hundred people or two people, then why are you doing it? And I think that, honestly, as difficult as sometimes it is to feel like "Oh, well, people see me as a failure" or this and that, it really gave me an amazing gift. Because I don't think I could've been in the moment as much as I am now. Like I wasn't in the moment when I came off 'Idol'. I was like, "What? Okay." I met Steven Spielberg when I came off of that show – right when I came off that show he called a meeting. He wanted to take a meeting. And I was probably so obnoxious. I probably talked too much. I remember walking out of there going like, "Did you even let him speak? Did you even let him?" And it worked out for me, because I think he had, obviously, this project in mind and all that stuff. But anyway, it's all worked out. And obviously we're hoping that the show is successful and that people will tune in. And obviously I'll be okay.
What touches you about Marilyn Monroe? What's the thing that really got to you?
I think there's this sweetness. There is just a genuine sweetness to her that I think actually Michelle Williams really did a wonderful job portraying. Was just this- she just really did. She just wanted to be loved. And it gives me chills. Even someone who has everything in the world just wants to be loved.
You had your own blonde phase – and a bit of a Marilyn-esque 'do – after your second album.
Actually when I was auditioning for this part, I was thinking to myself "Oh, I hope they look at those pictures of me when I was blonde. I can look good when I'm blonde, I really can!" Because that is one of the major things when you're auditioning for stuff. You stress about it if you're going in for a blonde role – you're like "These people don't have imagination. They cannot see past what it is that they see." Listen, if it wasn't "Idol," it would be something else. Every actor has something that they have to overcome. Their boobs are too big, they're not tall enough, they're too short.
Do blondes have more fun?
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"Smash" premieres February 6th at 10 PM ET on NBC


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Has it been awhile since you've seen your pet? Although your cat, dog or rabbit could just be enjoying a little nap in a quiet corner of the house, lengthy disappearances may occasionally be a sign of an illness. Familiarizing yourself with some of the more subtle symptoms your pet displays when he or she is sick can help you ensure that your furry friend receives prompt veterinary treatment.
They're Out to Get Me!
Predators like to take the easy way out when they hunt for their next meals. After all, why spend all of your energy tracking and overpowering healthy prey when a sick or injured animal can't fight back? In the wild, ill animals instinctively avoid predators by finding concealed resting places.
Although your sick or injured pet is in no danger in your home, his or her instincts trigger the immediate desire to locate a safe hiding place. Pets are often found under beds, at the back of closets or behind a stack of boxes in the garage when they don't feel well or are injured. Hiding is particularly common in cats, but can occur in any animal.
Hiding doesn't always mean that your pet is sick or hurt, but an illness or injury may be the reason for the behavior if you also notice any of these signs:
Your pet may voluntarily come out of hiding in a day or two if he or she only has a mild illness or injury. If your furry friend is still hiding after two days, we recommend scheduling an appointment with our office. We'll perform a thorough examination that will help us determine your pet's diagnosis and offer treatment options.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — A Dutch national and registered sex offender who has lived in the U.S. illegally for more than 40 years and fraudulently obtained social security benefits has been sentenced.
Seventy-seven-year-old Fredericus Slicher was sentenced to three months in prison in federal court in Baltimore on Friday. After Slicher completes his sentence, he will be transferred to the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement pending deportation. He was also ordered to pay nearly $50,000 in restitution for social security and Medicare benefits he unlawfully received.
Officials say Slicher arrived in the U.S. in 1967 on visas which expired in 1969. Authorities say he obtained forged documents and in 2010, began collecting benefits.
According to federal officials and online records, Slicher was convicted of a 3rd degree sex offense in Maryland in 2004.
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Many of those finding e-book readers under their Christmas tree have been surprised to discover that electronic titles attract value added tax, despite the dead-tree versions being VAT-free.
As the UK VAT rate returns to its pre-recession level of 17.5 per cent, owners of e-book readers are finding out that they have to pay it on electronic versions of books, for another 12 months at least and thereafter at the discretion of Her Majesty's government.
In the UK, most purchases attract 17.5 per cent tax at the time of purchase, but some things are exempt. Items deemed essential are sold free of VAT, and these include food, books and children's clothes. But electronic books aren't 'books' in the eyes of the law and so do attract the tax, until 2011 at least.
The problem with changing the regulations has always been the requirement for a unanimous vote at EU level, something rather more difficult than calculating the square root of -1. But last year it did happen, and member countries will be allowed to charge a reduced VAT rate on "any similar physical medium that predominantly reproduce the same textual information content as printed books", come January 2011.
Not only that, but the EU has made it clear that should any country choose to apply the reduced rate early it won't take action against them: a stance that has already seen Spain applying a lower rate - four per cent, the same as paper versions - to e-books.
There's even a petition you can sign, calling for prompt action to equalise VAT rates regardless of the delivery mechanism.
So what of our own treasury? Will British customers buying eBooks get to pay the lower rate next year? Apparently that hasn't been decided yet, and won't be until the next budget, until which time we'll just have to get used to paying tax for the luxury of electronic delivery. ®


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A time–off award is time off from duty, without loss of pay or charge to leave, granted to a Federal employee as a form of incentive or recognition. This paper addresses time-off awards in the Federal Government. We provide this information for all Federal employees, particularly supervisors, human resources professionals, performance management program managers, and incentive awards administrators.
Paragraph 4502(e) of title 5, United States Code, states the Office of Personnel Management may by regulation permit agencies to grant employees time off from duty, without loss of pay or charge to leave, as an award in recognition of superior accomplishment or other personal effort that contributes to the quality, efficiency, or economy of Government operations.
Paragraph 451.104(a) of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations, permits agencies to grant time-off award without charge to leave or loss of pay; (consistent with chapter 45 of title 5, United States Code, and these regulations) to an employee, as an individual or member of a group and 451.104(f) prohibits time-off awards from being converted to a cash payment.
Agencies have their own internal policies for establishing and administering time–off awards to enhance their overall awards program and to support the achievement of the agency's goals and mission.
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Time–off awards are a unique form of award agencies can grant Federal employees. (The other forms of awards are cash, honorary items, and informal recognition items). Agencies decide when and how to use time–off awards to enhance their overall awards program and support the achievement of the agency's goals and mission. Major features of time-off awards include the following:
Most Federal employees are eligible for inclusion in a time–off award program. Federal agencies may grant time–off awards to any Federal civilian employee, either as an individual or member of a group, who meets the definition of employee in Section 2105 of title 5, United States Code. This definition includes an individual appointed in the civil service by —
In addition, to meet the definition of employee, the individual must perform a Federal function and be subject to the supervision of an individual cited above while performing official duties. The definition of employee also includes employees who are individuals employed at the U.S. Naval Academy in specific jobs (see 5 U.S.C. 2105 for a more detailed description).
Individuals who do not meet the definition of employee as defined by 5 U.S.C. 2105 include the following:
These individuals may not receive awards under the authority of chapter 45 of title 5, U.S. Code, unless otherwise authorized and therefore cannot be included in a time–off award program administered under this authority. However, other authorities may allow agencies to grant paid time off to certain categories of employees excluded from 5 U.S.C. 2105. Agencies should consult their human resources offices or General Counsels to find out if they have another authority to grant paid time off to employees who are excluded from the definition of employee in 5 U.S.C. 2105.
Agencies may grant time-off awards for—
Agencies may use time–off awards as incentives or as recognition. Incentives help focus employees on the organization's goals and promise specific rewards to employees who provide specified results that significantly help to achieve those goals. Incentives identify and communicate goals and reward formulas at the beginning of the performance period. Recognition provides after–the–fact acknowledgement to employees for their accomplishments when there was no previous promise of reward. Recognition signals the types of achievements the organization values. Incentives and recognition may involve individual employees, groups, or entire organizations.
Various employees can receive awards of comparable value. For example, since the "currency" for these awards is time, agencies can award the same number of hours to employees in different grades for the same, or comparable, achievements, thus eliminating any perceived inequity associated with grade differences.
Time–off awards do not have explicit cash value and do not change the employee's income. As a result, time–off awards are not subject to additional tax withholdings. Agencies deduct tax withholdings from the salary paid during the period the time–off award is used, just as agencies deduct tax withholdings when employees use annual or sick leave or other forms of authorized paid absence.
Time–off awards can be one of the award forms most closely linked to the time and place of the accomplishment. Agency policy may permit immediate supervisors to grant them, and in some situations employees might be able to use them immediately.
Some employees may value paid time off more than a cash award. For example new employees traditionally have lower annual leave balances and may prefer additional paid time off.
Because agencies do not have to provide additional cash outlay with time–off awards, they may not realize the real cost of these awards often can exceed the cost of paying for cash awards. Although agencies budget for salary expenses, managers may overlook the financial impact of time-off awards. A 40 hour time–off award represents about 2 percent of the employee's total salary (not including benefits) the agency is paying even though the employee is not working. Managers need to take into consideration these hidden costs, especially in terms of productivity lost. Agencies need to ensure they manage the use of time-off awards and take into consideration—
Unlike new employees who have not accumulated much leave, employees with "use or lose" leave may not appreciate a time–off award since additional paid time off may not be something they need as much. In addition, the agency would be losing additional valuable hours from a veteran employee when they use both their award and their "use or lose" hours.
Agencies should consider the possible public perception of time–off awards. It could appear to the public (and to Congress) that an agency that gives substantial, frequent, or large numbers of time–off awards could be overstaffed since it can complete its mission while these employees are absent. Also, agencies must be careful not to abuse the time–off award authority by granting everyone in an organization a time–off award at the same time whether everyone deserves the recognition or not. For example, giving everyone the day after Thanksgiving off and calling it a time–off award without specifying what is being recognized and how everyone has contributed equally, does not, on its face, appear to be a valid use of the time-off award authority.
Unlike other forms of pay for time not worked (e.g., annual and sick leave), employees are not entitled to a time–off award. If an employee transfers from one agency to another, the gaining agency is not obligated to "honor" the time–-off award. Therefore, any unused time–off awards are not transferable, unless a special arrangement is made with the receiving agency to honor the time–off award granted by the employee's former agency. Also, the losing agency may not convert the time to cash (5 CFR 451.104(f)) and give cash to the employee for the time not taken.
It may be difficult for agencies to monitor and manage the use of time–off awards supervisors grant on the spur of the moment. Once the award has been granted and used, supervisors may forget the need to document it. The Code of Federal Regulations requires agencies to document all cash and time-off awards (5 CFR 451.106(e)) in compliance with instructions in the OPM Operating Manual, The Guide to Processing Personnel Actions.


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When cosplay goes bad
Bad cosplay is like watching a bug eat another bug's face off – it's disgusting, but you can't look away.
In the following slideshow, we take a look at some of the worst examples of cosplaying ever to assault our peepers. Most of these costumes would make a supermodel look bad. [Note: These people are not supermodels.]
To really ram the horror home, we've included a side-by-side comparison to what each character should look like. Needless to say, most of them are pretty 'wide' of the mark.
But don't fret -- as a soothing balm, we've also included a few beautiful cosplayers on the basis of piddling technicalities. We're nice like that.
[See also: [[artnid:336111|In pictures: The sexiest cosplay girls in the galaxy]]]
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Patti Cudd, percussionist, is a dedicated performer of the music of the Twentieth Century. An active performer, Patti has given concerts and master classes throughout the United States and Europe. She has participated in such prestigious festivals as the Bang on a Can Festival; North American New Music Festival; Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference; The Mirror of the New; Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella Series; Emerging Voices Festival; International New Music Festival; Festival Cultural Zacatecas; Copenhagen Composer's Biennale; June in Buffalo; Gaudeamus New Music Interpreters' Competition; Frau Musica Nova, Mexico City's Ciclo de Percusiones Series; SEAMUS National Conference; New Progressions Series; and the Nove Hudby Plus Festival in Brno, Czech Republic.
As a percussion soloist and chamber musician she has had the opportunity to be involved in a number of recordings and can be found under such labels as Hat Hut, Bridge Records, New World, and Mode labels. She has recorded a CD of solo percussion pieces from the new complexity movement. She has commissioned a number of new pieces from the composers of her generation and to date has given nearly one hundred premieres.
In addition to her extensive contemporary background, Dr. Cudd explores other musical avenues such as classical and world music; she also works actively in collaboration with artists from a number of different mediums including dance, theater, video, and interactive percussion with computers.
Patti Cudd, percussion instructor and director of the Percussion Ensemble at CSB/SJU, received her undergraduate degree at UW-River Falls in 1989. She went on to graduate studies at the University of New York at Buffalo where she received the Master of Music Degree in 1992. She was awarded a Fullbright Fellowship from 1992-93 where she studied at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen, Denmark. Patti went on to study at the University of California, San Diego, where she received her D.M.A. in Contemporary Music Studies. In addition to her teaching at CSB/SJU, she performs in the new music group Zeitgeist. Dr. Cudd is a Yamaha Performing Artist. She can be reached by email at [email protected] or phone at 715-425-3183.


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From MyLabWiki
Leopard Board has arrived. Delivery time was 1 week US → DK. See post on the Team FREDNET blog.
I realized that I didn't have a 2.5 mm jack connector that is needed to make a serial cable. I ordered one, but now we have to wait.
Accidentally connected a 9V power supply to the Leopard Board. It didn't take long before board started smoking. After that it didn't look like it was running.
This means that the experiment is suspended at least until I get a new board, which is unlikely. I will now focus on the Gumstix Overo.
- Leopard Board Hardware Guide (local copy)
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Oracle's Java Fix Fizzles
Jan 14, 2013 1:41 PM PT
Oracle released a fix over the weekend for two serious vulnerabilities in Java, but this doesn't seem to have improved matters much.
The vulnerabilities, which affect Web browsers using Java 7 plugins, let attackers remotely exploit target systems without needing a username or password.
The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team has warned that users should disable Java even after applying Oracle's patches unless it's absolutely necessary to run it.
Oracle learned of the exploit on Jan. 10 and pushed out a patch three days later, which "is a very quick turnaround time to release a fix," Gavin O'Gorman, senior threat intelligence analyst at Symantec Security Response, remarked.
"Oracle did what any software company would do under high pressure: the minimum necessary to solve the problem," Sorin Mustaca, data security expert at Avira, told TechNewsWorld.
How the Fix Works -- or Doesn't
In addition to releasing patches for the two vulnerabilities -- CVE-2013-0422 and CVE-2012-3174, Oracle is switching Java security settings to "high" by default. Users now must expressly authorize the execution of applets that are either unsigned or self-signed.
So, if users visit malicious websites -- which are the latest exploit's vector of attack -- they will be notified before an applet is run and will be able to stop it before it begins to execute, Oracle said.
However, US-CERT suggests users disable Java in their Web browsers even if they've applied Oracle's fix, to be sure they're secure.
"Disabling Java browser plug-ins for untrusted sites ensures that criminals cannot take advantage of Java to deliver malware, yet a user need not uninstall Java or completely disable the Java plug-in," O'Gorman told TechNewsWorld.
US-CERT and its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, did not respond to our requests for further details.
Patchworking is for Quilts
While the patch offers an immediate fix for Oracle's Java vulnerability, "developing critical software under pressure has only one consequence -- even more bugs," Mustaca pointed out. "I expect to soon see even more bugs and vulnerabilities related to this quick fix."
A solid fix "should mitigate all possible attack vectors so that, in the long term, they make the [Java] platform secure by design, default and deployment," Mustaca continued.
Oracle should rethink its software development strategy for Java because the language "was acquired, and was developed by many people over many years, meaning the code has become close to impossible to maintain," Mustaca suggested.
Oracle did not respond to our request for further details.
How to Protect Yourself
Users should monitor their systems for increased CPU activity, network traffic or hard drive activity and report any suspicious activity to their system administrators and antivirus companies for analysis, Mustaca said. If they're running important systems such as industrial systems, or systems managing personally identifiable information or life-support systems, "it's advisable to reinstall the system or revert to a previous version in order to achieve maximum certainty."
If you don't really need Java, uninstall it from all the computers in your organization, Mustaca advised. If you do need it, seek out articles on how to uninstall Java.
Occasionally, Java will crash if it has been disabled in the Web browser and then re-enabled, US-CERT stated. Reinstalling Java appears to resolve this problem.
Re-enable Java with caution, O'Gorman said. "As with all security decisions, technology needs to be managed judiciously to ensure a high level of security but at the same time not stifle the user. It's perfectly reasonable for users to re-enable Java in their browser, but we'd suggest only for those sites they trust."


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2019 Honda Grom
Street Motorcycle for sale by Ridenow Powersports Chandler in Chandler, Arizona 85286
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Motorcycle Overview
Getting around can suck the life out of you, or it can be the best part of your day. But one way or another, we all gotta get someplace. Why not make it fun? And the best way to do that, naturally, is on a Honda Grom.
One blast on this pocket-sized two-wheeled amusement ride and you'll be hooked. And once you have that smile permanently attached to your face, you'll start to notice just what a great motorcycle the Grom is. Its 125cc engine—built with typical Honda quality and reliability—means that your riding is just about hassle-free. First-timers will love the light weight and approachable size, but even experienced motorcyclists can't resist the Grom's maneuverability and total fun factor.
And the Grom makes a ton of sense when it comes to dollars and cents as well: You can run it on pocket change, and you can park it just about anywhere too.
So why not hook up with a Honda Grom today? Be the master of your own transpo-destiny, and have an absolute blast doing it.Features may include:
- If It Looks Like Fun, Thats Because It Is.
For 2019, the Grom gets four great new colors, so this hot little bike looks cooler than ever.
- Honda Reliability And Performance.
What makes the Grom so much fun? It all starts with a great motor. The Grom's single-cylinder design is light, narrow, and revs fast. Fuel injection helps performance, electric starting makes it a snap to get going, and plenty of maintenance-reducing features mean more time to ride.
- A Small Bike With Big Features.
Exhibit A: the four-speed transmission. You get all the control and performance of a standard motorcycle gearbox, and the fun of shifting and deciding when to shift. Exhibit B: Hydraulic disc brakes front and rear (plus available ABS) give you excellent stopping power.
- Low And Fun.
With its low 30.0-inch seat height, light weight, low center of gravity and narrow profile, the Grom inspires confidence, and is a blast whether flicking around corners or cruising around town.
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