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Našice Local History Museum was founded in 1974, and is quartered in the Pejačević Palace, a valuable achievement of Revivalist architecture created in the 19th century. The palace is surrounded by extensive grounds. As well as ad hoc exhibitions, in the museum it is also possible to look round the permanent display that presents the heritage of the Našice region, particular interest attaching to memorial rooms dedicated to celebrated local people – to Dora Pejačević, to Isidor Kršnjavi and Hinko Juhn. A library is accessible to museum visitors, with a fine local interest collection. During the year, concerts are held in the museum, and the Hinko Juhn Art Ceramic Colony also operates within the museum.
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Leave the jumpsuits to the boys and put a sexy spin on a classic superhero costume. Our Spidergirl Women's Glam Costume features a short, off the shoulder mini dress with red bodice and shiny blue skirt. The red bodice features a black spiderweb pattern and large spider design. Also included is a black character eye mask, which makes your transformation quick, easy, and glamorous. This is the perfect outfit for a masquerade ball or comic book convention. If your date is a big Spiderman fan, he will love seeing you in this hot little number. Make his spidey senses tingle and go to the party together in your supher hero suits for the perfect couple's costume idea, and be sure to take lots of photos.
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Synopsis: Fred arrives at Velvet's doorstep, suitcases in tow. He tells her that he has finally left his wife to be with her, which is news to Velvet since she has not seen him in years and is now with Fred's recently married son. As Fred's hopes crash to earth during a conversation brimming with passion, remorse, humor and anger, the twisted heart of a fascinating relationship is revealed.
Sometimes the most exciting thing in a movie isn't the CGI spectacle, big setpieces or A-list stars looking glamorous—sometimes, it's simply the dialogue delivered by two engaged, invigorated actors that can provide all the fireworks you need. And that's the case for Neil LaBute's latest "Some Velve...Read More »
"Everyone's been in that place where it's like, 'I can't live with this person. I can't live without them.' It's just crazy love," writer/director Neil LaBute told us about his latest "Some Velvet Morning," earlier this year. But it's far more than just "crazy love" that's cooking in this one.Read More »
After premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year, the U.S. rights to "Some Velvet Morning" have been acquired by distribution label Tribeca Film. Directed by Neil LaBute and starring Stanley Tucci and Alice Eve, the film follows a man who arrives at the doorstep of his mistress after ...Read More »
The usual conversation about Neil LaBute, at least around here, is how the man who broke out with provocative fare like "In The Company Of Men" and "Your Friends & Neighbors" has turned into the unrecognizable guy behind stuff like "Lakeview Terrance," "The Wicker Man" and "Death At A Funeral." But ...Read More »
Two Tribeca Film Festival first-looks for you this afternoon. First up is one of two Neil LaBute films landing within the span of two months: "Some Velvet Morning," which is debuting at Tribeca in mid-April. It stars Alice Eve ("Star Trek Into Darkness") and Stanley Tucci, and it's a relationship d...Read More »
When filmmakers find themselves in a rough place, they tend to dial back their productions, usually by necessity, but also as a refresher course in refueling the creative spirit. Playwright Neil LaBute has had a rough go of it in his last few big-screen adventures: "Lakeview Terrace" was a half-bake...Read More »


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Via a team press release:
The New York Yankees announced today that they will donate a total of $25,000 to support the Gulf Coast region relief efforts associated with Hurricane Isaac. The amount will go to the American Red Cross, which is already working in the affected areas.
"On behalf of the entire New York Yankees organization, we are eager to extend our support to the people of the Gulf Coast region who were affected by Hurricane Isaac," said New York Yankees General Partner and Vice Chairperson, Jennifer Steinbrenner Swindal. "The American Red Cross is again answering the call in the face of this disaster, and we are proud to assist in their tireless efforts."


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Republicans debate message, battle bad messengers
ATLANTA National Republican leaders made waves recently with a dim view of the party's future if it fails to expand its core support beyond white males and social conservatives. But weeks after GOP Chairman Reince Priebus unveiled the "Growth and Opportunity Project" report, many party players maintain that the problem often is more about flawed messengers saying the wrong things at the wrong times than the policy positions at issue.
The distinction between policy flaws and communication problems is at the crux of the GOP's soul-searching as the Republican National Committee convenes this week in Los Angeles for the first time since the report's release. And it's a discussion that won't end anytime soon as conservatives, moderates and pragmatists struggle for control of the GOP megaphone. The dynamic has been highlighted in the weeks since the chairman's call for outreach, with succession of conservative party figures voicing positions that may alienate the very voters national party leaders want to capture.
Alaska Rep. Don Young was forced to apologize after referring to Hispanic migrant workers as "wetbacks." Media titan Donald Trump, who flirted with a presidential run in 2012, warned against compromising with President Barack Obama on a citizenship path for anyone already in the country illegally, saying they'll just become Democratic voters.
Using social media, Republican National Committee member Dave Agema of Michigan redistributed controversial writings that were harshly critical of gay Americans. Agema dug in after many Michigan Republicans called for his resignation.
Days later, the head of the Georgia state party, Sue Everhart, said that if same-sex marriage were "natural," then gay couples "would have the equipment to have a sexual relationship." She predicted that if the Supreme Court allows federal employee benefits for gay couples, then individuals who are "straight as an arrow" will enter same-sex unions just for financial perks.
Comments like those have some Republicans reeling.
"It's extremely, extremely frustrating," said Gregory Steele, a University of North Carolina senior who leads his state's college Republican organization. "We want the party to have a serious policy discussion about all of these issues going forward, but it's hard to get to that point with all of these mistakes."
Former U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, who retired in January as one of the GOP's last elected New England moderates, deplored the "intolerance" that she says has driven a "slow and steady erosion of a strong political base."
"It's very exclusionary," Snowe said. "For anyone who isn't already a Republican, how are they going to be drawn in right now?"
At Log Cabin Republicans, a national group of gay GOP loyalists, Gregory Angelo said the flaps reinforce the image of an inflexible organization. But he also noted Ohio Sen. Rob Portman's recent embrace of same-sex marriage, and described the party right now as going through "growing pains."
"We are no longer walking in lock-step on these (social) issues," he said.
White House losing streaks - like the one Republicans are in nationally - aren't new. Democrats lost four out of five presidential elections - all by wide margins - from 1972 to 1988, before then-Arkansas Bill Clinton styled himself as a "New Democrat" to win the presidency in 1992 and 1996.
But current trends are foreboding for Republicans. They've lost the popular vote in five out of the last six presidential elections. In the last two, Obama has won overwhelming majorities of non-white voters and younger voters, while the anchors of Republican support - older white voters - have become an increasingly smaller share of the electorate. Neither Clinton nor Jimmy Carter ever drew popular vote majorities. Obama has twice cleared 51 percent.


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Is radix sort capable of sorting float data for example 0.5, 0.9, 1.02, etc.?
Yes, it is possible. It requires an additional pass to correctly handle negative values. The articles by Pierre Terdiman and Michael Herf discuss in detail how to implement it. In short, you convert the float to unsigned integer, sort them, and then convert them back to float (this is required, otherwise the negatives values would be incorrectly sorted after the positive ones).
Their method has the advantage that you do not introduce any error into your data (provided that your processor stores the float in accordance to the IEEE 754 standard).
Not out-of-the-box, but you have some options. You can discretize the data, e.g., by multiplying by 100 and rounding (so that you would have, for your example above, 5, 9, and 102). You could also bucketize the data (grouping numbers by ranges, as in 0 < x <= 1, 1 < x <= 2), and then sort within each bucket.


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Jac Fitz-enz, Metrics Maverick
In 1978, Jac Fitz-enz published an article in Personnel Journal (the predecessor to Workforce Management) titled "The Measurement Imperative." In it, he proposed a radical, anti-establishment idea: that human resources activities and their impact on the bottom line could be measured. The reaction? Apathy. Disagreement. Disbelief.
During a recent speech in Phoenix, the tireless 71-year-old corporate agitator zeroed in on what he has learned from all the fuss. "The secret to success, I've found, is to outlive the bastards who oppose you."
A quarter of a century ago, conventional wisdom held that human resources couldn't and shouldn't be measured, Fitz-enz says. "They told me HR was about truth and goodness and making life better for people." What they told him, in effect, was to go away, and let the under-the-radar practice of human resources remain as it was. Fitz-enz did not fade away. Instead, he became a renegade pioneer who consistently championed the economic value of human resources despite the fact that initially, no one seemed to care. Over the last 25 years, he has nudged, prodded, poked, argued and written more words about the business effects of human resources than just about anyone else on the planet. Along the way, he has amassed an impressive résumé.
Fitz-enz was the first to argue that human resources decisions affect real dollars and, consequently, have a real impact on the bottom line. He was the first to develop a set of useful and systematic measurements for practitioners to utilize in their companies. He established the Saratoga Institute, the first organization to gather and distribute solid benchmark data about compensation, staffing, hiring and retention. Today, the institute is world renowned for its work in providing executives with comprehensive human resources measurement and analysis tools. Fitz-enz is also the author of seven books and more than 160 articles and book chapters about measurement.
"I kept asking myself:
His steadfast crusade has inspired the work of countless other human resources visionaries, including John Sullivan, head of the Human Resource Program at San Francisco State University. "Jac has been a pioneer," he says. "I've been developing HR metrics for 20 years, and I learned the basics from Jac."
Thanks largely to Fitz-enz, a majority of companies are now at least talking about the importance of measurement. "Jac started this conversation," says John Boudreau, research director for the Center for Effective Organizations at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. "He established very clearly the reality that you could measure a soft thing called HR. We couldn't have gotten here without him."
Today, the unknown author who so annoyed readers back in 1978 is the undisputed father of human capital metrics, and his fans are legion. In February, Fitz-enz delivered a keynote talk to 200 at the Human Capital Metrics Summit in Phoenix. After his speech, several members of the audience stood in line like groupies waiting for Dr. Jac, as he likes to be called, to personally autograph his books.
Although there's little doubt that Fitz-enz will go down in history as a business visionary, his career began rather inauspiciously. Born and raised in Aurora, Illinois, he graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor's degree in political science. He then spent three years working as a naval intelligence officer in Hawaii. Upon discharge, he moved to California and worked in a variety of line jobs, including sales positions for several companies.
In 1969, after returning to college and acquiring a master's degree in organizational communication from San Francisco State, Fitz-enz accepted his first human resources position, a job in the training department of Wells Fargo Bank. At the time, he says, the personnel department was populated by bankers who had failed at banking. Because the company didn't know what else to do with these employees, they were shoved into the department that was regarded as a repository for second-class employees. "Personnel was housed in an annex to the main corporate office," he says. "We were put there, I was told, so that we couldn't hurt anybody. I'd come out of sales positions where I was considered hot stuff. To be thrown into the annex with failed people...that was tough to take."
Feeling angry, unappreciated and defensive, Fitz-enz began to gather data about the bank's personnel department so he could demonstrate to line managers that the function did indeed have value. This was the first tentative step on a path that would eventually become a lifelong journey to prove the value of human resources. Fitz-enz started his research in the bank's staffing department. He reviewed the time to fill job requisitions, the cost to hire new employees and the number of requisitions filled by given staff members. "It was all very basic: cost, time and quantity," he says. "We were simply trying to justify ourselves."
The bank's reaction to his reports was, in a word, underwhelming. Line managers, who believed it was impossible to measure a soft, feel-good function like human resources, reacted to his data with disbelief and derision. "It was a long fight," he says, but after a few years the bank's "brighter people," as he calls them, began to see the wisdom of his work. In 1974, Fitz-enz left Wells Fargo and took a position with Imperial Bank in Southern California, where he'd moved to complete a doctorate in organizational communication at the University of Southern California. The bank had been founded by two former construction professionals who innately understood the importance of quantifying business activities. "They weren't afraid to innovate," Fitz-enz says. It was here that the young rebel began to shift from a defensive posture concerned with justifying the existence of human resources to an offensive position designed to prove the value of human resources.
"The HR manager before me had destroyed the department's credibility, and it was my job to rebuild it."
Upon receiving his doctorate, Fitz-enz moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area and accepted a position with a computer company in the Silicon Valley. Only he didn't call the department human resources. "The HR manager before me had destroyed the department's credibility, and it was my job to rebuild it," Fitz-enz says. "I changed the name to industrial relations to take away the stigma." The move reflected his characteristic reluctance to accept the status quo. This is, after all, a man who dropped the k from his first name because he'd never liked writing the letter, and added a hyphen to his last name because he got tired of people mispronouncing it.
While at the computer company, Fitz-enz grew more confident than ever that he could address bottom-line business problems through human resources activities. He started by implementing a supervisory training program. Survey results from before the training and six months afterward revealed significant improvements in product quality. "The improvements were so significant, I started looking around and wondering, 'What else can I do?'" He then attacked hiring concerns and retention issues, and was soon being invited to the Monday morning executive meeting held by the CFO. Like other department heads, Fitz-enz, the company's first human resources professional to attend these meetings, always had data to share about his department's progress.
Despite his reputation as a numbers guy, Fitz-enz insists that he didn't start out intending to focus on metrics. "My goal was to find a way that HR activities could help improve decision-making in companies," he says. "I was never that into numbers. I actually flunked math twice in high school." And yet he intuitively knew that the only way he and others in the field could make a difference in their companies was by understanding metrics and being able to talk quantitatively with other executives. Since no other human resources executive was talking this way, Fitz-enz decided to start the conversation with his 1978 article in Personnel Journal.
Looking back, it's perhaps no surprise that the article was met with such contempt. In the 1970s, America was still very much a manufacturing-based economy, and most companies were involved in producing a product. Because of this, organizations were especially concerned about tangible assets such as plants, equipment and inventory. The idea that human resources and the department that manages them could affect the bottom line had not gotten much attention. "Jac was talking about the value of people years before anyone could hear the message," says Nick Burkholder, president of Staffing.org in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.
"My goal was to find a way that HR activities could help improve decision-making in companies. I was never that into numbers. I actually flunked math twice in high school."
Fitz-enz didn't care. What he was concerned about was improving the ability of managers to make decisions. To make better decisions, they needed data, and Fitz-enz wanted to bring it to them. In 1980, the former math failure left the corporate world to start his own consulting company, the Saratoga Institute. He hung out a shingle and the response was, once again, underwhelming. Although he was spending all his time speaking and writing about metrics, his message did not find a ready audience, and for the first six years of the institute's existence, Fitz-enz lived off credit cards. "Fortunately," he says, "the interest was then tax-deductible." In those early days, he admits, he was often frustrated by the inability of people in human resources to understand his message. "I got tired of talking to people who were unwilling to open their minds to new ideas," he says. "I think I pushed too hard in the beginning. I got caustic. I kept asking myself, 'When are people going to get this?'" Faced with a lack of money and a lot of resistance, he found other things to keep him going. "Stubbornness, for one thing," he says. "But I was also in my 50s by that point. I had to make the company work because if I didn't, I would probably never be hired for another human resources job."
Fitz-enz is a man who is highly articulate when speaking about subjects such as metrics. Measurement is his mantra. But when asked about his personal life, he is not forthcoming. In short, he raised four children, has five grandchildren, has been married and then divorced, and remarried two years ago.
Although it was rough going in the early years, eventually the business landscape began to change and opposition to his message receded. The quality movement, the shift to a service economy, and the introduction of technology that made data gathering and analysis easier all helped executives accept the fact that human resources practices could be measured, should be measured and do have a demonstrable effect on the bottom line. Fitz-enz gleefully cites surveys revealing that 92 percent of CFOs now believe that human capital affects customer service, 82 percent believe it affects profitability and 72 percent believe it affects innovation. The idea that employees can have such a measurable business impact was unheard of when Fitz-enz began.
"Jac was the first person to get
In the last 10 years, the practice of measuring workforce activities has become widely accepted, and some companies rely so heavily on metrics that they might not even be around if it weren't for Fitz-enz's early work. Outsource providers like Exult, for example, rely on data to prove to their customers that outsourced human resources services have value. "Jac was the first person to get people focused on metrics," says Bruce Ferguson, Exult's vice president of talent acquisition. "Without him, we would clearly not be as far along today."
Betty Silver, director of SAS's corporate university in Cary, North Carolina, agrees. Her company develops business-intelligence software. She says Fitz-enz's work has been instrumental in helping SAS determine what human resources analytics are necessary for companies to make good business decisions. "Jac partnered with us on the development of our human capital software," she says. "This is a man who understands that HR is not a cost center but a revenue-generating facility."
In 1998, at perhaps the height of his popularity, Fitz-enz sold the Saratoga Institute to Spherion, but stayed on in a management capacity. In 2003, the company was sold to PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Fitz-enz officially retired from the institute. "It's a testament to Jac's work that Saratoga has been acquired by an accounting firm," says Yves Lermusiaux, president of iLogos Research, a division of RecruitSoft based in San Francisco. "This shows you that people are now taking HR measurement seriously and looking at the financial consequences."
Fitz-enz' reason for selling are simple. "I had to get my equity out," he says. "I was 65 years old." Freed from the day-to-day management of a consulting firm, he is still speaking, writing and consulting. But he is also looking forward to his retirement in about three years. His goal then? To golf. "I'm a seven handicap now. My goal is to reduce that to a four by the time I retire."
Three years from now, when Fitz-enz has little more to worry about than which club to select for a 95-yard shot from the rough, he'll be secure in the knowledge that he has made a difference in the business world. Nick Burkholder likens him to John Harrison, the self-taught English clockmaker who in the 1700s invented the device that measures longitude, which made seafaring navigation much safer. "The implications of Jac's work are just as great," Burkholder says. "In fact, I would have left human resources if it weren't for Jac's work. He was a rock. He made me see what I could do with the function."
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Thief Makes Off With A Flock Of Seagulls' Tour Van
By Mack Rawden 3 years ago
80s band A Flock of Seagulls was in Southern California over the weekend to play a series of gigs. The musicians were initially expecting to play the two shows and fly back to England today, but unfortunately, the weekend didnt wind up going as planned. Someone stole the bands van and made off with thousands of dollars worth of equipment.
According to The Los Angeles Times, band members played the Bellflower in Downey, California on Saturday without incident. Afterwards, they stopped in at a local Comfort Inn to get some rest before heading for Woodland Hills for another show in the morning. Around 2 AM, however, an unidentified group of individuals pulled into the parking lot. One exited the vehicle, approached the tour van, shimmied around a bit, got inside and simply drove the vehicle off. You can take a look at the security footage of the incident below
In addition to the van itself, the unidentified thieves made off with all of the performers clothes from the current tour, their instruments and perhaps most importantly, hard drives containing music both the band and the lead singer have been working on. At this point, its unclear whether any of those songs were backed up on another device that wasnt in the car, but for the sake of both the musicians and the fans, I certainly hope they were. All in all, a rough estimate of the missing items has been put at $70,000, but obviously, much of the stolen property is irreplaceable.
For a short time during the 1980s, A Flock of Seagulls was one of the most famous bands in the world. The groups hit I Ran was everywhere, but they never were able to capitalize on that success too much. As some band members have left over the years, theyve been replaced and the project has thundered forward with different people, which certainly isnt a strange story for most bands.
Hopefully, the guys will be able to recover their lost equipment within a short time and get back to entertaining the masses with the instruments and amps theyre most accustomed to using. Regardless, spend the next five minutes of your day listening to this...


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Survivorman 10 Days is the latest installment in the OLN reality series Survivorman. The season premiere of Survivorman 10 Days is June 30, 2012 on the OLN Network. The new season sees the return of survival expert Les Stroud only this time there are a few changes. In past seasons we have seen Stroud tough it out for as many of 7 days but this time he is extending it to 10 days (hence the name of the show). In the new season Les finds himself strnded in the Norwegian mountains. As usual he is by himself with no food or water and very little gear.
New episodes of Survivorman 10 Days air Saturday nights on OLN in Canada. And you can watch full episodes of Survivorman 10 Days online for free (after they have aired on TV). See below for complete details on where you can stream episodes of Survivorman 10 Days online.
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When I first had an intitial consultation with him, and explain my husband's drug use, he was all on my side, saying " we're goning to drug test him through hair follicle test". Well that was approximately 2 months ago and he has not ordered that yet. We were supposed to have our temporary hearing this past Monday, but my husband offered 150.00 a week child support and supervised visitation on a temporary basis until the final hearing.. I agreed to this. But when I went to sign the order, his attorney had thrown in another clause stating that my husband could come by the daycare and see our son whenever he wanted. Well, I refused to sign the paper because I feel it is not the daycare's responsibility to supervise the visitation. Furthermore, there is not enougth staff there to do that. Well, when I told my lawyer that I did not agree, He stated "So the daycare does not allow this or YOU do not allow this...?" He has put of ordering the Hair follicle test to establish my husband's drug use. He talks to me like crap to be quite honest with you. All the evidence that has been presented, I had to go gather it all up myself. And now my husband has moved a girl and all her things into our house. We recently started our own business in June and my attorney informs me that I am not entitled to none of that. My husband is power of attorney over his dad's VA check, who is in a nursing home, yet spends the entire check (3100.00) on himself and his new girlfriend. I have our child, who is 2 1/2 years old. My attorney acts as though he is representing my husband instead of me. Is there anyway that I can fire him and be refunded the money that has not been used, considerring that he has not done much to represent me thus far. He is very rude to me, and is constantly trying to go with everying my husband is proposing. I feel like I am being taken advantage of and have noone on my side. I paid this man 1500.00 retainer fee, when I can't even pay my health insurance premiums. I am disgusted with him and need some advice on a reputable attorney (preferrably a female) in my area. PLEASE Help me!
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May 28, 2016
With the November election fast approaching there's another push to get young people involved in the voting process. Local and national musicians are hosting a voter registration drive with a series of free concerts.
"Register, Rock, Vote" is being held at the Temple Club through Sunday morning. Organizer Joel Kuiper says the event features 34 bands with five groups on hand to register voters and representatives from all political parties answering questions. There's even a voting booth on display for those who've never used one before.
Paula Simon, President of Lansing's chapter of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, says it's an opportunity for young people to practice. While the focus is on voter registration, organizers are also stressing the importance of actually getting out to the polls on election day.
The free event at the Temple Club, which started Friday at 6 p.m., runs through 2 a.m. Sunday.
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Thanks I have factory reset my phone and it conects to the car looks at the cals in, calls out and phone book. I can feel my phone vibrate when it connects so I press the phone button on radio to make sure it has connected and it has but then it disconnects itself so when I press the phone button on the radio again it says phone unobtainable.As for the usb port I have looked all around center cosole and hand brake but have not found it. Thanks
Hi Chris thanks for that. It is a Sony Stereo with the phone buttons I have looked in the glove box but can't see it will it be under a cover or something or should I take it to the dealers. Thanks again Lee
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Church walks away from Episcopal Diocese of S.D.
Episcopal Church facts
• The Episcopal Church is the U.S. branch of the global Anglican Communion, but more conservative members have chafed at what they see as the rise of moral relativism. Some have split off to form Anglican churches, but the Episcopal Church doesn't recognize them as valid.
• About 350 congregations have voted to break away from the Episcopal Church since the 2003 consecration of the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, though there's much more to the dispute than a rift over homosexuality.
• In San Diego County, three major disputes played out in Oceanside, Fallbrook and Ocean Beach. Large groups of people from those congregations sought realignment with Anglican leadership but refused to leave their paid-off buildings. Six other congregations had significant numbers of people leave but no property disputes.
• After court battles, all three of the congregations have agreed to return the buildings to the diocese.
The Rev. Canon Lawrence Bausch expects to surrender the keys to his Ocean Beach church to the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego on Thursday, closing a chapter in an international conflict intensified by the election of an openly gay bishop.
The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson's consecration seven years ago in New Hampshire underscored a cleft in the worldwide Anglican Communion. About 350 congregations have since voted to leave the Episcopal Church, the U.S. branch of the communion, and align themselves with more conservative Anglican leaders overseas.
The rift has tested personal and professional relationships, spurred protracted court disputes over church property and prompted efforts to create a rival North American province.
"What you are seeing is a division between churches committed to the historical Christian witness and churches committed to the categories of contemporary cultural relevance," said John Wright, professor of theology and Christian scriptures at Point Loma Nazarene University.
The fissure has played out painstakingly in San Diego County as one congregation after another has decided to break away and commit itself to bishops in Africa and Latin America.
The Episcopal Diocese of San Diego has about 18,000 members, and officials estimate that roughly 1,600 people in the area have left to join Anglican groups.
Nine churches have severed ties with the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego since 2003, and six went on to start parishes in nearby neighborhoods. The remaining three — St. John's in Fallbrook, St. Anne's in Oceanside and Holy Trinity in Ocean Beach — agreed to forfeit their buildings to the diocese after losing court battles.
Holy Trinity, which has worshipped on the current premises for six decades, is the last local congregation to complete the handover. It will move a block away and sublet from another church.
"The courts have demonstrated themselves so prejudicial that it wouldn't have been worth spending our last financial resources (on appeals), given the likelihood that we would end up with nothing," said Bausch, the rector of Holy Trinity since 1979.
The breaking point
Holy Trinity officially became a parish for the Episcopal Church in 1956. At the time, Episcopal congregations in this county belonged to the Diocese of Los Angeles. That changed in 1973 with formation of the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego.
Over the decades, Bausch became increasingly agitated as national church leaders moved in what he deemed an increasingly liberal direction. At the Episcopal general convention in 2006, he remembered the dissension peaking after a candidate was elected bishop despite being divorced twice and married three times.
"That's when I knew, although it had been building for many years, that this was it," Bausch said. "And perhaps the best witness I could make to my friends in the Episcopal Church would be to leave — to call attention to the fact that something was grievously wrong."


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Pretty Little Liars
Pretty Little Liars Season 4, Episode 15 Title Revealed: "Love [SPOILER], Baby"
Don't fret, Pretty Little Liars fans. We still have plenty of episodes left before the Season 4 summer finale, but it doesn't hurt to think ahead in the land of Rosewood.
Show director Norman Buckley posted a photo on his Tumblr earlier, revealing the title for the episode following the winter premiere (Season 4, Episode 15).
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According to his photo, the episode will be called, "Love ShAck, Baby." What does it all mean?! Your guess is as good as ours, but we can break down some helpful hints. For starters, the winter premiere episode is called "Who's in the Box?" so maybe this said box will be found near — or brought to — the mysterious shack.
We also know from the Season 2 days that the Hastings have a secret love shack in the middle of the woods. Let's all reminisce about the time Hanna and Caleb snuck off there, built a fire, and hooked up on the couch. Oh, those were the days!
Anyway, pulling out of Halebville for just a minute, could the episode title be referring to the Hastings's shed in the woods? Time — and intense detective skills — will tell, so stay tuned! In the meantime, what are some of your theories? Weigh in below.
Catch the next episode of Pretty Little Liars on Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC Family.


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If I want to get it's concrete parameter when I deployed it,like throughput of read/write, hit ratio, queries per second, slow_query, time of per query, etc. before using NEO4j database, how can I do? My leader want to know why I choose it rather other another database.
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Dec. 15, 2011
STANFORD, Calif.- Back on the court for the first time in 13 days following its traditional break for final exams, Stanford (8-1, 0-0 Pac-12) hosts San Diego (5-5, 0-0 WCC) on Saturday, Dec. 17, at 5 p.m. The Cardinal has not played a game since Dec. 4, erasing a 12-point second-half deficit en route to a 76-72 victory over NC State.
Despite the long layoff, the program has managed to sustain the excitement and buzz generated from an impressive 8-1 start.
Consider the following:
Stanford entered this week receiving 39 votes in the latest edition of the Associated Press poll, good for 30th in the country overall. The Cardinal is gaining steam as well in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches poll, garnering five votes. That's despite not having played in almost two weeks.
Of course it's still early, but not only does ESPN.com's Joe Lunardi have Stanford projected as an NCAA Tournament team in his Dec. 15 edition of Bracketology, he has the Cardinal tabbed as a No. 6 seed in the East Region (Boston) squaring off against No. 11 Wichita State in a first-round game played in Albuquerque, N.M.
The national pub has been great, but Stanford has also been featured among local coverage. Leading scorer Aaron Bright's hot start was recently documented in a front-page feature in the San Francisco Chronicle while the latest college hoops column in the San Jose Mercury News explains why Stanford is a legitimate Pac-12 contender. That's in addition to website profiles highlighting one of Stanford's most improved players, the best beard in college basketball, inside access on the team bus and one of four senior class presidents.
With Stanford's next game just two days away, it's time to get head coach Johnny Dawkins' take on where the Cardinal stands. Dawkins recently sat down with The Cardinal Channel's Matt Morrison.


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Computer Program Able To Teach Itself Common Sense
The fears of those who suffer from Frankenstein complex are beginning to be met with a new computer program aimed at teaching itself common sense.
The Frankenstein complex is a phobia that one day robots, or mechanical men, will take over and control the world. This phobia has been unfounded because, so far, robots are only able to know and learn what it has been taught, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are creating a computer program that can understand things on its own.
The Never Ending Image Learner (NEIL) is a computer program that runs 24 hours a day, searching through the Web and analyzing images to teach itself about common sense. Researchers say data being generated will further enhance the ability of computers to understand the visual world.
NEIL is able to identify and label objects, as well as recognize attributes like colors, lighting and materials. The program also makes associations between these things to obtain common sense information that people seem to know without ever saying, such as that cars are often found on roads and buildings tend to be vertical. The team pointed out that based on text references, the color associated with sheep could be black, but NEIL is able to scour the Internet for images and understand that sheep are typically white.
"Images are the best way to learn visual properties," Abhinav Gupta, assistant research professor in Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, said in a press release. "Images also include a lot of common sense information about the world. People learn this by themselves and, with NEIL, we hope that computers will do so as well."
NEIL has been running since late July and has already analyzed three million images, identifying 1,500 types of objects in half a million images and 1,200 types of scenes in hundreds of thousands of images. The team says that NEIL has been able to connect the dots to learn 2,500 associations from thousands of instances.
Other projects, such as ImageNet and Visipedia, have tried to compile this structured data with human assistance. However, the scale of the Internet is vast, so the only way to help create the world's largest visual structured knowledge base is to teach computers to do it by themselves.
While NEIL may be a stepping stone to a future with robots in control of the human race, NEIL still needs its human interaction from time to time to sort a few things out, particularly with pop culture. Abhinav Shrivastava, a Ph.D. student in robotics, says NEIL can make erroneous assumptions that compound mistakes, such as NEIL thinking that "pink" is just the name of a singer rather than a color.
"People don't always know how or what to teach computers," he said in a press release. "But humans are good at telling computers when they are wrong."
While researchers have directed NEIL as to what categories of objects and scenes to search and analyze, the diabolical computer program has surprised even the researchers. NEIL was able to determine by itself that apple is both a fruit and a computer company, and F-18 was a fighter jet, as well as a catamarans class.
As searches broaden, NEIL is able to create subcategories of objects and is also able to notice associations, such as the fact that zebras tend to be found in savannahs. The program, funded by the Office of Naval Research and Google, runs on two clusters of computers that include 200 processing cores.
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AMES, Iowa — It was a packed house that offered several standing ovations Tuesday night at the Ames High School cafeteria, where an official count of 849 Story County Democrats rallied for President Barack Obama in the 2012 Iowa Caucuses.
With Obama speaking in a live feed, live music by a rock band called The Gist and campaign rhetoric from congressional candidate Christie Vilsack, Democrats put forth a show of force.
Speaking from the White House, Obama told applauding party members, "No one is a better messenger than you. You can tell your stories about how (our) policies have changed your lives, and you can do it better than any politician, including me."
Vilsack asked for "an army of volunteers," and Democrats responded as a shower of sign-up sheets landed in baskets handed around the room, just before the crowd separated into groups for precinct-level meetings.
Not everyone was enthusiastic in their support, however. Teri Veysey, representing the Occupy Iowa movement, said Obama should return Wall Street campaign donations and told Democrats to "move the president farther to the left."
In an Ames High School classroom, Democrats talked about how holding a single county caucus may have put a dent in attendance from outlying areas.
"When we met at the high school auditorium four years ago, the place was filled," Story City Democrat LeRoy Kester told a group of just a dozen people.
But there were enough willing people to fill out a roster of platform, precinct and convention planning committees, according to Judy Opstvedt, who chaired the meeting.
The caucuses drew residents like Bob Gitchell, who moved to Ames 38 years ago, and Pat Spangler, who moved here from Pocahontas seven months ago.
"It's exciting to be part of something this big," Spangler said. "In Pocahontas, our caucus filled only one room at the courthouse."
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Vietnam Veteran taken by Charlie
The poor man spent his 20th or 21st year in a smelly Centurion tank in the Republic of Vietnam with Charlie firing RPGs at him trying to ruin his day.
Thirty plus years later Charlie gets him only this time Charlie is a 5.5 meter saltwater croc
MONSTER … the crocodile, pictured being tagged three years ago, believed to be responsible for the Cooktown attack. Pic: Professor Gordon Grigg, The University of Queensland.
A VIETNAM veteran who had gone to retrieve crab pots after breaking camp in north Queensland vanished yesterday, the first suspected victim of a fatal crocodile attack since 2005.
Arthur Booker, 62, from Logan south of Brisbane, has not been seen since he went to check a crabpot at the Endeavour River Escape campsite near Cooktown, north of Cairns, about 8.30am (AEST) yesterday.
Rangers at the campsite believe a 5.5-metre crocodile named Charlie dragged Mr Booker into the river.
For those metric disadvantaged readers 5.5 metres is about 18 feet
Father's Day
There are a host of positives being a father of five and yesterday seemed to highlight them all. Books on Cosgrove and Tobruk (Fitzimmons) and the highlight, a family conspiarcy where all contributed to a new Engel 60 litre car fridge for my bush trips!!
I would normally say their presence was gift enough and a phone call from daughter in Perth had everyone answer the roll call but let's face presence is good but a car fridge – thats really good
I'm ecstatic. All afternoon I was playing with it boring everyone with a temperature readout as in 'it is now 2.9 degrees" or 'look son, it's bigger than yours' (20 litres bigger, that is!) and playing with the freebies that came with the fridge. Engel are doing a promotion so freebies included umbrellas, picnic set, stubby holders, a small heating/cooling almost fridge thingie for the front seat and a mob of lockandlock food containers. Mostly made in China but it still looks good.
I had been sick with a body purging gastro for three days courtesy of grandson Lachlan, much loved but hereafter known as Typhoid Mary, and was just starting to come good. The day was the medicine I needed.
Thanks guys, I'm over the moon.
See how easy it is to please an old soldier.
Land mines and little kids
I spent Wednesday down south at the Currumbin RSL at a fund raising luncheon organized by Mine Victim and Clearance Trust (MIVAC). Normie Rowe played MC and sang a couple of numbers and all had a good time for a good cause. MIVAC do wonders in Asia delousing mine fields and UXBs left over from various conflicts in the region. Graham Edwards, the retired ALP MP from WA came over for the lunch and as we were in the same company in Vietnam I attended along with a couple of other Support Company 7RAR mates.
7RAR's second tour of Vietnam is remembered as much for it's mine casualties as for it's honourable service with the two fighting and recce platoons of Support Company suffering a disproportional number of these casualties. Graham Edwards is one of them and well known but there were several others less known publicly but remembered and honoured within the battalion.
Having has such an intimate relationship with mines it is not much of an extension to want to help others similarly inflicted, particularly when they are mostly civilians – woman and children – in countries where the Department of Veterans Affairs has no charter to help. The kids go looking for scrap metal to supplement the families income and often find the metal contains explosives. They are blown up and killed or de-limbed. No one helps..no government department gives them artificial limbs..they just crawl around.
Have a look at the web site, you may be moved to help.
I was.
Pornography or Art?
The art world are releasing a flood of words that seek to justify Bill Hensen taking and displaying photos of nude girls. Others are shouting 'Pornography' and even Rudd doesn't like the pics (or he sees some votes in taking a public stand against them)
……Prime Minister Kevin Rudd described the works as "revolting" and devoid of artistic merit, the art community has come out strongly on the side of Henson, rejecting the accusation that his works are pornographic.
Put simply, it is morally wrong and illegal to take photos of naked children and display them. Calling it art doesn't change the law or nullify the moral status and anyone suggesting that it does is simply giving us an insight as to why there is a disconnect between artists and the rest of us.
The fact that Hensen might be charged and that commentators have suggested it would be difficult to gain a conviction likewise doesn't change the status of the act; it simply reflects on a legal system that places legal point and counterpoint above justice.
More poor taste in a poor taste week
ACTRESS Cate Blanchett and other prominent Australians who attended Kevin Rudd's 2020 Summit have backed controversial photographer Bill Henson, saying charging him would damage Australia's cultural reputation.
Well they would, wouldn't they? It's their style.
The letter, whose signatories also include writer Peter Goldsworthy, playwright Michael Gow, journalist and broadcaster Marieke Hardy, film maker Ana Kokkinos and economist Saul Eslake, said Henson was being subject to trial by media.
The Art world stand just doesn't make sense to me. If I, or even Cate Blanchet had nude photos of children on our respective computers we could be charged with an offence if the pics were discovered. It's not about art, censorship, trial by media or us terrible conservatives getting our way and I don't care if Bill gets charged or not but I do care that we apply the same standards of law right across society.
It is simply about the law.
Fitzgibbon spinning
HERE'S a hot tip. (from Greg Sheridan) There is not the slightest chance Australia will buy any F-22 Raptor aircraft, and there is almost no chance that we will ditch the F/A-18 Super Hornets that the previous government was going to buy.
If the Raptor is not built for export why would anyone think the US would sell it to us. Well, actually people don't but Fitzgibbon would have us believe it's on the table so that he can look like he is managing the portfolio and in doing so pointing out how Howard's government didn't.
The US have already refused to sell it to the Japs and to Howard so in what fairy story does a Republican lead administration change it's policy for a newly elected Labour government.
None that I've read lately.
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FIVE Australian-based journalists, known as the Balibo Five, were deliberately killed to prevent them from exposing Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor, a NSW coroner has found.
"The Balibo Five died at Balibo, in Timor Leste on 16 October 1975, from wounds sustained when (they) were shot and or stabbed deliberately, and not in the heat of battle, by members of the Indonesian special forces, including (Commander) Christoforus Da Silva and Captain Yunus Yosfiah on the orders of Captain Yosfiah to prevent (them) from revealing that Indonesian special forces had participated in the attack on Balibo," Ms Pinch said.
We always knew this but couldn't say it as it might have embarrassed Gough Whitlam
Mr Whitlam insisted at the inquest he had not known of the shooting until October 21, 1975, and could not recall a number of sensitive radio intercepts suggesting the men had been executed on official Indonesian orders.
Not knowing about the shooting until 21 Oct is reasonable but not recalling radio intercepts flies in the face of procedures. He would have been told about something as dramatic as journalists being murdered.
The inquest also heard a navy linguist, Robin Dix, who translated an intercepted Indonesian military radio communication on the day of the invasion that was subsequently sent to the office of the prime minister and other government officials.
"Five Australian journalists have been killed and all their corpses have been incinerated or burnt to a crisp," the message read, Mr Dix told the inquest.
"I will never forget it. I remember it word for word."
Rob Dix is a classmate of mine from the RAAF School of Languages where we both studied Bahasa Indonesia in the 60s. I'm glad he got his 15 minutes of fame although linguistic work, particularly at DSD, is generally kept hush-hush.
Wouldn't normally want the Indons to know we know, would we?
The Silent Anzac
11:00 am Sunday I departed Chudley Stud and rushed back to Brisbane to attend a family reunion. Whilst there I met Terry Roach, my wife's cousin, for the first time. I had heard of Terry as he had been a Submariner when I was an Infantryman and to the best of my knowledge, of our generation, we were the only two service officers in the extended family.
Terry now runs a property at Kempsey called Tullamore. The name Tullamore rates frequently in the family as it was the Irish family seat before migration. There is a Tullamore Consultancy and at every reunion one can easily see a bottle of Tullamore Dew somewhere on the table and one framed bottle on the wall commemorating the life of Jim O'Rourke, the quintessential Irish Copper whose last beat as a sergeant was the Gabba.
Where was I?…..Ah yes, the Silent ANZAC.
AE2 at Sea
HMAS AE2 was the first Allied submarine to penetrate the Dardanelles in 1915 as part of the Gallipoli Campaign, on the very morning the ANZAC soldiers landed at Anzac Cove. After five hectic days "running amok", she finally fell to Turkish gunfire and was scuttled. Her crew was captured and spent the rest of the war as Turkish POWs. AE2 lay, unseen, until in 1998 she was discovered, intact, in 73m of water in the Sea of Marmara.
The Submarine Institute of Australia (SIA) aims to ensure the protection, preservation and promotion of AE2, to contribute to an informed debate on her future and ensure that AE2's contribution to the Gallipoli campaign is duly recognised by telling the story of her brave crew. Following Government support, implementation of the Project AE2 strategy has been assigned to the AE2 Commemorative Foundation Ltd, a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee.
The sub was ably commanded by Lt Comd Henry Stoker, DSO (don't confuse his name with the Stoker mustering) and the story of his exploits in Dardenelles are well worth the read
Terry, aka Commodore Terence Roach AM, JP,RAN (Rtd) has found himself Director of the AE2 Commemorative Foundation Ltd and is heading up the project. Conversations with both the Coalition and ALP parties have attracted interest and some funding and the Turks are more than happy with the concept. The submarine has been located and a preliminary dive has been conducted revealing the sub is in good shape and, because all the crew were rescued, its not a war grave.
This fact allows for flexibility in planning and the outcome may well be that the sub is raised and displayed on the Gallipoli Peninsular.
Only time and a lot of work will tell but it is a story that needs to be told.
If there was a sub AE2 then there must have been at least an AE1 and sure enough there was. The AE1 was lost with all hands east of Rabaul in September 1914
From the Naval Association of Australia website;
When the First World War broke out in August 1914, both submarines (AE1 & 2) were still in refit. They were quickly prepared for sea (most of us know how that went, as well) and then proceeded north, where they eventually joined up with the rest of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (ANMEF
On 14 September, AE1, accompanied by HMAS Parramatta, left Blanche Bay, New Britain, to patrol off Cape Gazelle. She was last seen by Parramatta at 3.30 pm that day, when she turned to return to harbour. When she failed to arrive at the anchorage before sunset, a search was launched. The search lasted for two days however no trace was found of the AE1, or her company, ever since. It has been presumed that AE1 struck an uncharted reef and sank, however even that remains a best guess.
My sub experience is minimal but I do recall a night in Bangkok during the Vietnam stoush (no, I wasn't on R&R, I was working) when I bumped into submariners from, I think the Onslow, an Oberon class sub. This unfortunate/dangerous state of affairs led to an invite to the PO's mess on board for drinks. All the drinks were 26oz (750ml) cans RAN style and in telling the story I often state that when another can was opened someone had to leave the PO's Mess, it was that small. Siphoning off excess body fluids required gymnastics far outside my large frame ability. Bending backwards to the shape of the hull was too much for me and I ended up hanging off rails up-top while I polluted the Gulf of Siam.
Cuts and bruises were obvious the next day as moving along gangways required lifting legs and ducking heads at the same time in a coordinated manner to get through all the watertight doors (yes, I know, doors are most probably called something different but I can't remember right now).My ability to handle this simple hand-eye coordination activity diminished with the opening of every one of those 26 oz cans.
Submarines are definitely not my bag thus I hold submariners in very high regard. I wish the AE2 project best speed and point out there will be a documentary screened on ABC next ANZAC Day telling the story of the sub and the project.
I'll remind you.
The story of the recent trip to the Dardanelles by the recovery team is here and the Submarine Institute of Australia Submarine AE2 Project is here


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Outrage over racist comments purportedly made by Donald Sterling, embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner, hit a crescendo Monday, with corporations pulling their sponsorship deals with the franchise and coach Doc Rivers saying he believes "a very strong message" is coming from the NBA in response to the scandal.
That message will come Tuesday, when commissioner Adam Silver holds a news conference in New York where he could reveal sanctions the league will impose on Sterling.
A suspension of indefinite length and hefty fine — Silver can issue one of up to $1 million without approval of owners — are possible options. It remains unclear how far Silver's powers can reach at this point, even though the NBA constitution gives the commissioner's office a lot of latitude to protect the game's best interest.
Many players want Sterling ousted, with Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant tweeting he "should not continue owning the clippers."
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Rivers said, "It needs to be handled in the right way. I don't even know what the right way is. I have a hunch. But I don't know."
The Clippers had Monday off, with Rivers saying he wanted his team to try and regroup mentally after a whirlwind weekend where Sterling's alleged comments were revealed, first by TMZ and then in another recording posted on Deadspin. The NBA has not said if it was able to authenticate the tapes, but Sterling's wife, Rochelle, told KABC-TV in Los Angeles it was her husband on the recordings.
On the recorded phone conversation, the man said to be Sterling urges a woman to not bring black people to games. V. Stiviano, identified by TMZ as the woman on the tape, is of black and Mexican descent.
Rivers, who has declined a chance to speak with his boss, said he believes Sterling is on the tape.
"I can't tell you how upset I am," Rivers said.
On Tuesday, the Clippers host Golden State in Game 5 of a best-of-seven Western Conference first-round series that is tied 2-2.
Warriors coach Mark Jackson suggested L.A. fans boycott the game.
"I believe if it was me, I wouldn't come to the game," Jackson said. "I believe the fans, the loudest statement that they can make as fans is to not show up to the game."
CarMax and Virgin America announced they are ending their sponsorships of the Clippers, and Kia Motors America plans to suspend its advertising and sponsorship activities with the franchise. Insurer State Farm said it "will be taking a pause in our relationship with the organization."
The NAACP said it has decided not to honor Sterling with a previously announced lifetime achievement award from its Los Angeles chapter. The NAACP said it also plans to return an undisclosed amount of donations the Clippers' owner has made to the organization.
Paul Allen, owner of the Portland Trail Blazers and NFL Seattle Seahawks, said in a statement, "The kind of statements attributed to Clippers owner Donald Sterling, if true, are abhorrent, and not acceptable for the owner of an NBA franchise or anyone in professional sports. We at the Trail Blazers reject any and all such sentiments, and believe NBA leadership should take swift and impactful action in this case."


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Mint Hill Police have been busy at Rocky River High School. The school, which opened this year, has had one of the highest arrest rates in CMS in 2010-2011. On Tuesday, a school resource officer at Rocky River received an anonymous tip that a student had several weapons and marijuana in a vehicle that was parked on the campus of the school. The SRO notified school administrators and had the suspect brought to his office. Once there, the student was advised of the information that was received and escorted to his vehicle by the SRO and school administrators. A search of the vehicle was conducted and the SRO located approximately 17.5 grams of marijuana, a pellet gun (which resembled a .45 caliber handgun), and a 12" Bowie Knife. The student, James M. Denton, was taken into custody and charged with two counts bringing a weapon onto school grounds and one count of Possession of Marijuana, both are misdemeanors.
Pellet gun, pot and a knife found in car of Rocky River student
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Build a higher fence around this place to keep the imates in and out of our community. Better yet, ship them back to Garringer where they belong.
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A WHITE KID that went to BUTLER last year not Independence. Butler had their problems after all it was just covered up. Nice to know that Butler wasn't as great as Butler and Mint Hill parents wanted the public to think.


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As if decades of advertisements telling you this were not enough, a new study has rolled out stating that so far the graphic warning labels that have been printed on cigarettes in some countries are actually working in terms of sending the message about the negative health effects of smoking. What was once questioned as nothing more than a shock tactic seems to actually be having an impact. More and more smokers are ditching their packs with many citing the graphic images as the reason why. The question, however, is just why this is what it took to make it happen?
Perhaps it is simply because graphics stick in the mind more than text. It is one thing to read over and over again how cigarettes are bad for you, but to look at a picture that shows you exactly what could happen to you would probably make a much stronger impression. While the graphic warning labels seem to be helping, there are many smokers who are still not pleased with the warnings being on the packs. Many smokers are offended by the images and know full well the risk that they face by smoking. It does make one wonder that with all of the anti-smoking advertisements that we see throughout the world is it even necessary for the images to be there. After all it is not hard to imagine the urge to smoke overcoming the urge to not be grossed out by images that could be easily covered.
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One night could hardly do Marlon Brando justice, so Turner Classic Movies splits this sterling biography into 90-minute halves -- each to be televised in concert with classics like "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "On the Waterfront" -- painting an engrossing, painstakingly thorough portrait of the actor's tumultuous life.
One night could hardly do Marlon Brando justice, so Turner Classic Movies splits this sterling biography into 90-minute halves — each to be televised in concert with classics like "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "On the Waterfront" — painting an engrossing, painstakingly thorough portrait of the actor's tumultuous life. More than four dozen interviews augment the clips, with a who's-who of Brando co-stars such as Al Pacino, Robert Duvall and Johnny Depp discussing the actor in an unguarded, deeply personal fashion that's exceedingly rare in celebrity chat. The result is a general paean to acting, with Brando as a defining practitioner of that craft.Producer Leslie Greif makes relatively short work of Brando's early years — introducing him as the rebellious son of a drunken mother and authoritarian father who shipped him off to a military academy — before diving into his early stage and film work. These interviews are simply extraordinary, from Kevin McCarthy — who understudied him in "Truckline Cafe" — to Eli Wallach, who notes that by rejecting parts when producers came knocking, "That made them all go nuts to get him." For most viewers, however, the real meat will come in seeing performers such as Depp, Pacino and John Travolta discuss the transcendent influence Brando had upon them when they first saw him onscreen. There is also considerable wrestling with precisely what "method acting" means, and while the definition varies, few would quarrel with the jarring ferocity Brando brought to "Waterfront," "Streetcar" and "The Wild One" during the 1950s. Much is made of the young Brando's womanizing and physical allure — how he could quietly seduce a woman with her date standing there — as well as his growing discontent with acting, or at least reconciling its importance as a worthy vocation. This ambivalence can be seen even in an early clip of Brando chatting with Edward R. Murrow, just one of the many little gems (including screen tests) peppered throughout. The second half chronicles "The Godfather" as well as other later (and not necessarily memorable) roles, as directors struggled to manage Brando the way Elia Kazan did during his breakthrough roles of the 1950s. Then there is Brando's political activism, highlighted by his defiant gesture of declining the Oscar in 1973 to register a statement regarding the plight of Native Americans. Sacheen Littlefeather, who famously appeared on his behalf, says John Wayne nearly had to be physically restrained backstage from rushing out to remove her. Considerable time is granted to friends and colleagues reminiscing about Brando's personal qualities as well as his professional legacy, conveying everything from his sense of whimsy (James Caan recalls mooning him, much to Brando's delight, en route to "The Godfather" set) to the grief he experienced surrounding his children. The one truly notable omission in the voices represented is the absence of Francis Ford Coppola, who directed Brando in "The Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now," though filmmakers such as Bernardo Bertolucci ("Last Tango in Paris") and Arthur Penn ("The Missouri Breaks") provide considerable insight into Brando's work and eccentricities. Nor does the project make any mention of Brando's complicated life-long friendship with actor Wally Cox — given their onscreen personas, a truly unlikely odd couple. "He is the marker. There's 'before Brando' and 'after Brando,' " observes Martin Scorsese, functioning as film historian, during the documentary. And if the real Brando was larger than life for both good and ill, Turner has delivered a production that in every way measures up to the man. Docu unspooled in its entirety April 26 at the Tribeca Film Festival, will be broadcast on TCM May 1-2 and will bow overseas in the Cannes Classics sidebar of the French fest next month.
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AFTER a long, excruciating gestation, myki finally became Melbourne's only ticket to ride last Saturday. But there are few signs the city is ready to accept it. If anything, our collective resentment at having been lumped with such an ill-formed ticketing system seems to be growing stronger.
This past week I've seen a woman lecture a tourist pair on a tram in detail about the many ways in which myki sucks; a train passenger give a Metro ticket inspector lip about why he shouldn't have to pay because his taxes were already contributing to the system's colossal $1.5 billion price tag (he did this after showing his valid card); and a fleeting attempt to launch a mass civil disobedience campaign on Facebook. (''What if we all refused to use it? What could they do?'')
So it was strangely refreshing, at a time when Melburnians are egging each other on towards mob rage about how much they hate myki, to hear a visitor put forward a modest view that, just maybe, the system is not quite as bad as all that.
In a letter to The Age, Yvonne Parker of Portarlington wrote: ''On the first morning of a four-day stay in Melbourne, an interstate friend and I walked into a 7-Eleven store near Melbourne Central, wearing our ignorance about myki on our sleeves. Within minutes we were on an Elizabeth Street tram, using my friend's new myki and my previously unused one. Obviously we country and interstate people can get our heads around things more quickly than you Melburnians, judging by all your readers' complaints.''
Allow me to put forward a modest view of my own: Melbourne, it's time to kiss and make up with myki.
Or, to steal a line from a well-worn pop classic, if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with. It's true we don't have London's super duper Oyster card or Hong Kong's incredible Octopus. Instead we are stuck with myki, and we need to try to make it work for us.
This is not to say that it's a perfect system, or even a good one. Myki is heavily flawed in its current state, to put it politely.
Myki's list of flaws is legion and has been well covered: bus passengers being overcharged; the four-year card expiry date; the failure of the new myki gates at busy stations to clear passengers any quicker than the old Metcard barriers; the way vending machines spit out two receipts when you ask for one, and one when you ask for none.
But all these problems can be fixed with time. As evidence, the Transport Ticketing Authority recently resolved another myki irritant - the need to post a blocked myki card in the mail to have it unblocked - and made it possible to do this online.
The beauty of smartcard ticketing systems is that they can be improved over time.
Oyster was full of bugs when it was introduced to London, and Londoners hated it. Ten years later, most of its bugs have been killed and Oyster is rated one of the world's best smartcards. Who's to say we can't do that here?
At any rate, myki's biggest failing is no design flaw, but a political decision to strip passengers of the option to use short-term tickets.
This decision promises to inconvenience more travellers more often than any other myki flaw (except for some charities and a few lucky pensioners riding Mornington Peninsula buses), and those it will hit hardest are visitors to Melbourne and people who can't afford to keep a card topped up. It also makes it impossible to buy a ticket on a tram for the first time in Melbourne's history.
The Baillieu government has never properly justified its decision here, other than a sketchy explanation that it would ''reduce the risk of further unnecessary cost increases''.
The decision was akin to an act of sabotage by a government more concerned about its bottom line than making the system work for the many who must rely on it.
Myki may be Labor's bastard child, but the Baillieu government adopted it and its failure to explain why it dumped short-term tickets means it will rightly wear any voter discontent about the issue.
But even this decision is not irrevocable. One interested observer noted this week there was a golden opportunity for a political party to take a promise at the next election to bring short-term tickets back.
Then Melbourne might truly have a myki system it could live with.
Adam Carey is transport reporter.


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Imagine a couch. It's available in just about any department store, is always in stock, and has a long shelf life. If the couch is not sold today, it can be sold tomorrow. Management of this sort of product is mostly a matter of the product offering—just ensure the brand promise is strong and the product is available.
Pharmaceutical products today are more like airline seats than couches. The parallels may not be precise. But when one considers the challenges of the pharmaceutical market—the urgency and timing of the patient need, especially for progressively debilitating diseases, the increasing importance of information as part of the service bundle, the increasing competitiveness in therapeutic areas and the accompanying reduction in exclusivity times, and the separation of decision and acquisition points (doctor's office versus pharmacy)—the general similarity becomes clear.Two areas seem particularly relevant:
(1) The pharmaceutical market is increasingly global and complex. Industry-wide we see growth in licensing, mergers/acquisitions, and co-promotion across national boundaries. While these deals make sense as ways of generating operational cost savings and achieving growth expectations, they have created new complexities in synchronizing product launches, managing global brands, and deploying and incentivizing global resources.
(2) The industry's "clock speed" is accelerating. Today, a new drug can replace an existing drug in just a few months, and a market leader can be toppled almost overnight. Time to peak sales has decreased: Eli Lilly's Prozac (fluoxetine), launched in 1988, reached peak sales about 10 years later. Aventis' Allegra (fexofenadine) peaked less than four years after its 1996 launch. It took Pfizer's Viagra (sildenafil), also launched in 1996, about two years to become a blockbuster, and Pfizer's Celebrex (celecoxib) less than one.
This article will look at how pharma can speed up the execution of pre-launch and launch activities and how companies can better manage the kinds of parallel processes typical of today's global market. These are crucial points for pharma—the choice today is get on board or get left at the gate.


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Tight Squeeze in Hamburg: World's Largest Container Ship Visits Germany
In a highly symbolic visit, the world's largest container ship docked on Wednesday in Hamburg, Germany's premier port city. Fully loaded, the Marco Polo would be unable to enter Hamburg's harbor and the vessel's arrival has highlighted disputed plans to prepare the city for the next generation of mega-ships.
The 115-kilometer (71-mile) stretch of the Elbe River between the North Sea and Europe's second largest port in Hamburg is one of the most important waterways in Germany. It has ensured the prosperity of the Hanseatic trading city for hundreds of years and secured an important role for Hamburg in a globalized world.
At 396 meters (1,300 feet) long and 54 meters wide, the Marco Polo is larger than a US Navy aircraft carrier and is capable of carrying 16,000 standard container units, or TEUs. During this trip, however, the ship only planned to carry 4,000 containers -- otherwise the Marco Polo would have been unable to navigate the waters of the Elbe, which are too shallow for the latest generation of super container ships.
Officials at the port took advantage of the ship's arrival to do a bit of PR on behalf of controversial plans to dredge and deepen the Elbe River to make it navigable for future mega container ships. Before the ship arrived, a spokeswoman for Hafen Hamburg Marketing, an agency affiliated with the port, noted that a ship of this size could only enter the port of Hamburg at full capacity if the river were dredged. Even today, a good number of the larger ships that make their way to Hamburg can only navigate the Elbe River during high tide. Without tidal assistance, ships with a maximum draught of 12.8 meters can enter the port, but today's largest ships now have a maximum depth of 15.5 meters. Once dredging is complete, the port would like to enable ships with a depth of up to 13.5 meters to be able to enter, regardless of tides.
Court Blocks Dredging
The port is not alone in its complaint about the depth and girth of the Elbe, which hasn't been dredged since 1999. Logistics giant China Shipping recently warned that Hamburg could lose its competitiveness as a port if the city doesn't move ahead with plans to dredge the river. Already, the company warned, shipping firms with larger vessels were instead choosing to dock in other European ports, like Rotterdam in the neighboring Netherlands, which is capable of accommodating the new generation of massive vessels.
For the time being, the Marco Polo, which is operated by the French shipping firm CMA CGM, will continue to dock in Hamburg on a regular basis during trips between Europe and Asia. One thing is certain though: It won't carry the title of world's largest container ship for too much longer. A South Korean dock is currently building the first ship with a capacity of 18,000 standard containers for Danish shipping giant Maersk, which is expected to go into service next year. Shipping companies are already envisioning even larger container ships, with capacity for 20,000 or more TEUs.
Nor is it likely that the debate over dredging the Elbe River will let up anytime soon. A court decision on the case isn't expected before 2013.
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