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As someone that blogs extensively about the post-secondary student experience, and specifically about the Canadian scene quite often, I have tried to stay away from the contentious issue that is going on right now. I'm talking about the Quebec student strike.
For those of you that are not familiar with the situation, many Quebec students have taken fairly extreme activist stances in regards to a proposed tuition increase over the next few years. Here are a few facts about the situation (all taken from various Globe and Mail articles on the topic):
• Quebec has by far the cheapest tuition this side of Scandinavia (currently the average sits about $2500 per annum)
• The original deal seen a phased in 5 year increase, of $325 per year. Premier Charest as now amended this to a more gradual phase in over 7 years.
• Even after the full phase in, Quebec students would still have the cheapest university tuition in Canada at TODAY's rates (not 2017's rates).
• Over 200 hundred students have been arrested in protests since this tuition raise was announced.
• An extra $1.5 million worth of police efforts has been needed so far.
• Quebec announced a $3.8 billion deficit.
• In inflation-adjusted terms, today's Quebec students pay less for a degree than they did in 1968.
• Quebec post-secondary graduation rates are amongst the lowest in Canada.
Quebec Student Strike – Excellent Ambassadors
I think the Quebec student strike is one of those issues that it is tough to feel neutral about (or even write neutrally about for that matter), so I'm not even going to try. I think what is going on in le belle province is atrocious. It is a black eye on students, a black eye on the province (although one that has had so many, I guess they're used to it by now), and actually a black eye for Canada on an international stage as well. I mean, is there really any better example of entitlement that has run amok? The blatant disrespect to a Premier that is trying to make concessions and balance his responsibilities is disgraceful, and the violence directed at police officers is blatantly criminal and should be treated as such.
Education Is Free, a Degree/Diploma Isn't
I'm currently a graduate student, and I was an undergrad not long ago. I am also a teacher. In any of these capacities, one might think I sympathize with the plight of students – and I do, but the reaction to this gradual increase in tuition has been too extreme to even label ridiculous. People like to argue that education is a right, and that school should be free. My response (which has been hardened as I watch the news on the Quebec student strike and see students attacking police officers who are just doing their jobs) is that education is a right – you should have the right to read whatever you want, discuss whatever you want, and get into study groups with whoever you want to interact with. No one should prevent you from becoming educated on a topic. That being said, a post-secondary certification is not merely becoming educated, is being recognized as having attained a certain standard. This is not a process that is free. It is currently subsidized to extremely high rates all across Canada and specifically in Quebec and I believe some of the burden of funding our post-secondary training should fall to those of us that are going to directly benefit from it (sure, you can argue that society indirectly benefits from more people being educated – that's what the 70% subsidization rate is for).
Twisted Sense of Entitlement
It makes me sick to see those students declare war on the rest of society who is paying their bills for them. Do these propaganda leaders ever compare their situation to the post-secondary model just to the south of them for a little context? In the USA, it is not uncommon for tuition to run between 10K and 50K PER YEAR. In other words, you could get a whole undergrad degree at a top flight university like Laval for the price of one year at a community college or something similar. I'm not advocating for this sort of model, but I am saying that there are societies very similar to ours that don't subsidize people nearly as much as our government does. My brother and sister-in-law took their education in the USA and came out of it with over 100K of student debt (and this was after receiving a substantial amount of scholarships). They rarely complained about it, as they knew the deal going in, and my BIL has worked really hard his first couple of years out of school (geologist) and I'm fairly certain he has the majority of the loans paid back already.
Make a Decision and Live With It
There are two approaches to post-secondary paths that I have discussed extensively on this blog. The first approach (that I would recommend) is to actually look at the job market and plan your post-secondary schooling around this reality. If you have a decent paying job coming out of school, we have some great student loan perks the debt should be fairly easy to pay off relative to what a lot of people have to go through. If you choose to take a liberal arts degree, then be aware of the economic realities around you. It is no one's fault but your own if you do not make an educated decision.
The final piece to this rant is the idea that the extreme student groups that are part of the Quebec student strike honestly believe that society at large should fit the entire bill for their education. Not only this, but they truly feel that even as their province faces a structural deficit, they should be the priority. As debt numbers pile up, they hope to solve the problem by hitting police officers in the face. I don't understand where they are coming from, I don't know what other sides to the story there are (logical ones only of course). If feel sorry for all the other Quebec students that have gotten tarred with this proverbial brush. Please guys, we know you're mad that the Canadiens aren't looking so hot right now, and little old Winnipeg got a new hockey team before Quebec city, but please, put down your weapons and pick up a book. There are other authors out there besides Marx and Lenin, and the public taxpayer is paying to help you find you them.


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Quote Hugh Robjohns:...In extreme cases, I find the easier solution is either split the mic to feed two
channels of preamp with radically different gain settings, ...Hugh
Quote Hugh
Robjohns:(Using simple cable splitters,) "the mic will see roughly half
the preamp input impedance which might cause tonal changes with some mics."
Quote Hugh Robjohns:...
If you go down the cable split route one of the male XLRs has to be
ungrounded (have an isolated pin 1), and phantom power can then only be provided via the
other male XLR.
Quote Hugh Robjohns:A transformer mic splitter is the
other alternative solution.
Quote Scouser:Can anyone give me
some tips for compressing a very dynamic vocal ? So far I have steered away from recording
certain types of song, simply because i'm not sure how best to record a vocal that goes
from a whisper to a shout ?
Quote Matt Houghton:Hi Joe,I reckon there are two sides to this...(1) When recording, try to keep
the vocalist in a similar place and distance in relation to the mic. That way, when you
perform any processing you won't be drawing more or less or different room sounds into the
mix. That can otherwise stick out like a sore thumb and it's a b****r to work with when
mixing. Nothing wrong with compressing on the way in if you want, but be careful not to
screw it up. There's no need to do it then if you're using 24-bit recording.(2) When mixing, if you're dealing with problems like this, try multing out the
different sections so that you can apply different processing to, say, a gentle verse and
a belting chorus. If using 'automatic' compression, then a couple of gentler passes can
work better than one - depending what it is you're trying to do. Remember, though, that
you can manage dynamic range with detailed editing and automation - you're not, um,
limited to using compressors and limiters. Eg in Cubase, I'll often go in and edit the
part, adjusting the envelope level for each clip, or will automate the gain control at
the top of the mixer channel before insert processing. You then have the channel fader
that you can also automate after any processing. Done well, such automation can be more
effective than simple compression if you're trying to tackle specific problems. Of course,
you can also automate compressor thresholds etc if you prefer to work that way.Hope this helps.Matt
Quote alexis:Tools like Wave
Rider and Vocal Rider - in Cubase, would they be adjusting the levels before or after
processing? If after, is there any way to have them automate the input trim instead?
Quote Jeff Ling:A well educated
vocalist will know how to "work the mic" properly. I find that if I coach the vocalist a
bit and have them move closer on the quiet and move back and turn a little off axis on the
louder passages I need less compression. I usually point out that if the music gets buried
by the vocal in the headphones, they are too close and if the music buries their vocal,
they should move closer. They get better with practice.Also, if I have already
recorded vocals that are very dynamic, I may move the loud sections and quiet sections to
different tracks and simply use separate compressors for each.Cheers
Quote alexis: The owner of
Wave Rider has said on another forum that a Windows version is coming out soon.
Quote:A well educated vocalist
will know how to "work the mic" properly. I find that if I coach the vocalist a bit and
have them move closer on the quiet and move back and turn a little off axis on the louder
passages I need less compression.
Quote Scouser:
Quote:A well educated vocalist
will know how to "work the mic" properly. I find that if I coach the vocalist a bit and
have them move closer on the quiet and move back and turn a little off axis on the louder
passages I need less compression. Although technique is vital, ive never had much luck with this approach, to me it
always sounds like somebody standing close and then backing off. Maybe this works well
when the dynamics are not so extreme.
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The Department of Education (ED) wants to ensure that students in graduate programs are earning credit for graduate-level work and that federal financial aid is going to support work toward a graduate degree. In its charge to carry out the ED rules, our accreditor, the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association, has called on institutions to create policies that will "distinguish the various levels of learning that the institution offers, such as graduate and undergraduate, and may distinguish among departments or disciplines."
Graduate programs will continue to abide by the policies set out in the Graduate Handbook of the DePaul University Catalog. In addition, to ensure that graduate programs are appropriately distinct from undergraduate programs in the same or a related discipline, all graduate degree programs will include the following:1. A core of courses that is offered solely at the graduate level, supported by a written rationale for the content of the core.2. Course syllabi, including learning outcomes and assignments appropriate for graduate-level coursework. Any graduate courses that are cross-listed with undergraduate courses must have separate syllabi for each side of the cross-list, with distinct learning outcomes and assignments for each group. Undergraduate courses must be at the 300-level or above to be cross-listed with a graduate course.
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This week's map (to be released on my blog tomorrow) is a side-view of the mega-dungeon I ran when I first started running 3e when it was released.
Powell's Folly is a dwarven citadel and a deep series of catacombs on the face of a crater wall. Within the crater is "The Desert of the Gods" and the lookout watch on the main tower of Powell's Folly is the only civilized place from which you can see the plateau of temples and tombs in that desert.


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Tigers Press Releases
Get the Experience of a Lifetime with Tigers Fantasy Batting Practice
DETROIT- Have you ever dreamt of stepping onto a big league field and taking batting practice like Tigers players? If so, now is the time to live your dream or give someone the gift of their lifetime.
Bring Your Dog to the Ballpark June 21 as Tigers Host 'Bark At The Park'
DETROIT - The Detroit Tigers will host the inaugural 'Bark at the Park' Night, presented by AvoDerm Natural Pet Foods, Nylabone and PetSmart on Tuesday, June 21 as the Tigers face the Seattle Mariners at 7:10 p.m.
Tigers Foundation to Present Gift to Detroit Pal's Kids at the Corner Capacity
DETROIT- The Detroit Tigers Foundation, an affiliate of Ilitch Charities, and official charity of the Detroit Tigers, will present a gift of $300,000 to Detroit PAL during an on-field, pregame ceremony to support PAL's Kids at the Corner capacity campaign prior to the game on Monday, May 23 vs. the Philadelphia Phillies at 7:10 p.m.
Tigers Continue Homestand with Six Games vs. Rays and Phillies at Comerica Park
DETROIT - The Tigers continue their nine-game homestand with a three-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays Friday, May 20 through Sunday, May 22 and close out the homestand with three games against the Philadelphia Phillies Monday, May 23 through Wednesday, May 25.
Join us May 20 as the Tigers Celebrate the 46th Annual Polish American Night
DETROIT - The Detroit Tigers will host the 46th annual Polish American Night on Friday, May 20 as the Tigers face the Tampa Bay Rays at 7:10 p.m.
Tigers-Yankees Game Rescheduled for June 2 at 7:40 p.m.
DETROIT - The Tigers-Yankees game on April 10 that was postponed has been rescheduled for Thursday, June 2 at 7:40 p.m. at Comerica Park. The game will be televised by FOX Sports Detroit.
Tigers to Celebrate 'Play Ball Weekend' in Support of League-Wide Initiative
DETROIT- The Detroit Tigers will celebrate the inaugural 'PLAY BALL WEEKEND,' a league-wide effort by MLB and all 30 Clubs to engage young baseball fans and celebrate the continued support of youth participation in baseball and softball.
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DETROIT -- The following statement is attributable to the Detroit Tigers organization.
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I just found a really interesting program that allows me to use a USB drive as a windows login key. It is called Rohos Logon Key. IF I remobve my USB drive/key from the PC then I can have the PC lock or hibernate or any other option, I have been looking for such a solution for many years but never knew one existed until this and it works much better then I imagined.
I do have a couple minor issues though (im using Windows 7 pro). When I remove and then re-insert my USB key, windows prompts me with this dialog here...
Generally when I get this I just click on "Continue without scanning" however I am looking for a solution to just make it not even show this at all, is it possible to disable it from showing?
I also get this dialog as well when I insert USB drives/key...
Would it be possible to not show this as well or have it pick an option by default or anything really?


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White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
1 cup, 2 Tablespoons Flour
1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 stick butter, softened
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
9 ounce white chocolate chips
1 cup macadamia nuts, coarsely chopped
Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees. Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt.
In a large bowl, mix at medium speed cream butter with sugars for 2-3 minutes until fluffy
Beat in egss and vanilla.
Reduce speed and beat in flour mixture just until combined.
Stir in chocolate and nuts.
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SDSU seeks breakthrough vs. Boise State
The Broncos have their own injury issues. Leading rusher Doug Martin (leg) and D.J. Harper Harper (ankle) might be slowed if they play. At cornerback, they're down to a true freshman and a sophomore after suffering injuries to their top three players.
But they still have senior quarterback Kellen Moore, whose record as starting quarterback is 46-3. He leads an offense that ranks seventh nationally in scoring with 42.9 points per game. In the few games that Moore has lost, Long has found only one common weakness.
"When I look at all the films and look the records, the people that beat them outscore them, " Long said.
He wasn't trying to be cute. Last week, Texas Christian beat the Broncos, 36-35, showing that the best defense against Boise State might just be a good offense.
The 6-foot Moore runs a remarkably efficient system that presents multiple looks, including the occasional trick play. He has 130 career touchdown passes and only 24 career interceptions. He also has completed 74.1 percent of his passes this year, most of them going to redshirt freshman Matt Miller, who caught nine last week against TCU.
To counter it, SDSU likely will need a big night from its passing game, which has suffered this season from several dropped balls by inexperienced receivers.
Senior quarterback Ryan Lindley last week became SDSU's all-time career leader in passing yardage (11,494). Now with just two more home games left in his college career, he's still looking to give the program a big push for the future.
"All of us that are on our way out, we wanted to turn it around and we've started it," said Lindley, whose team had its first winning season last year since 1998. "We still have a ways to go and steps to take but we've definitely been moving in the right direction."
A win Saturday would show it – and stoke the fires of even the most fickle fans. SDSU is a 19-point underdog for Saturday's 5 p.m. game and is 0-18 against Top 10 teams since 1979.
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An igniter cord is a burning down cord, which serves to release a pyrotechnic sentence in a certain time. It is called pyrotechnic ignition, contrary to the electrical ignition. The different igniting and are called after 1.SprengV
The correct term for the igniter cord is actually By one understands a releasing of a burn-up, by igniting however releasing a detonation. With an igniter cord therefore no explosives can be ignited, be contained probably however pyrotechnic sentences or blasting caps the one Initialladung.
Igniter cords are used very frequently for ignition fire work freely for sale. Here the igniter cords are firmly connected with the pyrotechnic set of the fire work. Also propellant charges of model rockets can be ignited by igniter cords. However the igniter cords are here connected not rigidly with the propellant charge. They are by the nozzle of the propellant charge into the same and are fixed with the help of a match. Alternatively these propellant charges can be ignited also by employment of an electrical fuze.
The Visco is most frequently the igniter cord used with class ii-fireworks (Silvesterartikel). It consists of black powder or a black powder-similar mixture, which was applied on a thin thread. Around this thread one turns fine linen thread, which protects against damage. In order to make it water-rejecting, the Visco is usually coated still with one on Nitrocellulose which is based lacquer. Straight one for and rockets is it very well suitably, there it favorable, water-rejecting and very constant in the burning duration is. This lies between 1,5 and 1 sec/cm. The moreover one it obtains extremely good ignition achievements by the open, transmit-spraying burn-up and causes less dud. Numerous trade names and give themselves minimum in the burning duration, but differentiate nevertheless much with respect to thickness and color:
With Stoppinen one first between more covered (also Quickmatch) must differentiate and uncovered Stoppine (also Blackmatch).
Uncovered Stoppine consists of a thread or a narrow Stoffstreifen on the black powders was laid on. Contrary to Visco Blackmatch burns substantially more violently and more uncontrolled. Beyond that Blackmatch is extremely transmit sensitive, which makes it unsuitable as However to ensure it with large fire works gladly inserted into a slot cut before into the timer around a safe One provides it however with an extremely loose paper coat receives one
Covered Stoppine. The developing sparks are advanced by the shroud by the incineration gases with up to 10 m/sec. Due to the enormous speed covered Stoppine is the first choice with fireworks, if it applies to make a connection between the propellant of a ball or a cylinder bomb to the tubing delta. If the Stoppine is provided still with a plastic coating, she becomes very water and transmit resistant.
With Chinese Fuse acts it over into very fine tissue paper pivoted black powder. It is the probably oldest, most favorable, in addition, most unreliable specified of the here. Under the high differences in density and consistency the burning duration varies substantially, so that safe using is almost impossible. An enormous spark sensitivity still contributes to it. However the Chinese igniter cord is suitable due to the low price well for the employment in bang body chains.
The is the probably most important aid of a ammunition technician. It consists of a black powder soul with inserted Kupferdraht in thin plastic covering. The Kupferdraht permits it to the Pyrotechniker to rotate among themselves and provide thus for a safe flaming transmission. It is not water resistant. There are two sorts of the which differ by color and burning duration:
A slowly burning rope in former times to ignite by front loader rifles and cannons one used.
The Lunte is used, where an outward urgent flame is unwanted. Each fabric glue-soaked by them from a black powder soul with 1-3 layers essentially exists which is encased. In this execution (Japanese Fuse) it is blocked nearly in each ball or cylinder bomb as timer. With one burning duration of on the average 1 cm/second one can determine ideally ignition according to leaving the mortar.
The Lunte still with a plastic covering covered speaks one of . With a blasting cap it does not offer a possibility of explosives electrically to ignite. By the coat it is water resistant 100% and burns quite constantly with 120 sec/m without thereby outward sparks and flames to spray. The main use lies, apart from the military use, in the avalanche blowing up from helicopters, where it is usually ignited with a break igniter.
A special form of the Lunte is one for historical front loader weapons used ignition method in form of a slowly glowing igniter cord for black powder cannon they for the first time 1378 was mentioned and served also as time fuse for powder tons ("hell machine"). It consisted of hemp cords, which with an aqueous solution from Kalisalpeter and poisonous lead sugar (lead acetate) were soaked and dried thereafter. So could e.g.: Burn times by 1 cm per minute to be reached. Wind could not blow the Lunten out.
For ignition the glowing end was pushed into the of the cannon filled with black powders. For safe handling the Lunte was fastened to a Luntenstock. It was usual to let both ends of the Lunte glow (reserve if the Lunte expires). One used this technology also for the first hand-held weapons, the Arkebusen. Here the contactors the glow with the departure mechanism pressed filled pan into the powders and solved so the shot.
The idiom "Lunte smell" comes from the smell evenly these burning Lunten, which showed the enemies an ambush.
By the BAM certified as for example electrical and igniter cords may be delivered since at the beginning of of 2004 without proof of a explosive-legal permission at persons over 18 years. From this regulation each form of the covered Stoppine and all without BAM permission are excluded.
Due to the further unclear situation (connecting or bundles of fireworks articles was still only permitted to permit owners after explosive regulation) the BAM Berlin published a statement, which does not permit a connecting of class to I and II fireworks articles with certified electrical and pyrotechnic expressly also for permit owners starting from 18 years on 1 February 2006 however.
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While Americans can recount the weekend's epic battle on the gridiron - and which companies had the best TV commercials - we here at Investopedia can give you the rundown of the biggest tech news in the last week. Many of the same themes that drove the sector forward in 2012 still prevail today. Earnings continue to roll in, and new product launches shift. Likewise, mobile patent litigation and buyout activities have taken the sector by storm. Many of these themes were the biggest headlines of last week.
Top Investment Trends For 2013: We go over a few investment trends for you to think about for 2013.
Blackberry Fights Hard
This past Wednesday, bewildered handheld device marketer BlackBerry (Nasdaq:BBRY) - formerly known as Research In Motion - unveiled what is expected to be its "live or die" moment. RIM showcased its new BlackBerry 10 operating system, along with its all-touchscreen Z10 and classic QWERTY keyboard Q10 devices to a packed house. The software is set to be the central piece to RIM's turnaround.
The company has suffered as its bread and butter clientele - the corporate world - has shifted toward other devices. Features on its new phones, such as being able to access email from any app with a swipe and BB Balance, which lets users keep their corporate and personal information completely separate, are attempts to gain this critical group back.
So far, the market hasn't liked what it has seen, and RIMM shares fell hard on the announcement. However, it will take a quarter or two of real sales numbers to see if BlackBerry 10 will be the firm's saving grace.
SEE: BlackBerry Needed "Wow" - Delivered "Pretty Good"
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While Research In Motion suffers, Google's (Nasdaq:GOOG) Android OS continues to mop the floor with its competition. Its latest feather in its cap? Winning the tablet crown. According to consultant IDC, the fourth quarter showed that the overall tablet market grew rapidly, but more importantly, Android grabbed a bigger chunk of that growth. Apple's (Nasdaq:AAPL) market share of its branded tablets - such as the iPad and iPad mini - dropped below 50% for the first time at just 43.6%.
Apple is still the biggest single vendor of tablet computers. However, the fact that Google will let anyone use Android has allowed the OS's combined market share to finally surpass the Cupertino, Calif. firm. Device makers such as Barnes & Noble (NYSE:BKS), Amazon (Nasdaq:AMZN) and Asus have flocked to the OS, and the range of Android tablets available is far larger than Apple's.
It'll be interesting to see just how far Apple's tablet market share slips, as Android continues to gain acceptance.
Mr. Softy Gets Sued
They aren't calling it the patent wars for nothing. Fresh off its search patent victory against Google and AOL (NYSE:AOL), small-cap Vringo (AMEX:VRNG) has placed Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) in its sights.
The company alleges that Mr. Softy uses search technology based on patents it owns. Microsoft uses the technology to generate advertisements and associated links for its Bing search engine. The lawsuit filed Jan. 31 claimed that Microsoft willfully infringed its patents and that one of the trademarks in question was referenced by the U.S. Patent and Trade Office in 2003, when the agency rejected a similar Microsoft patent application.
Back in November, Vringo was awarded $30 million in damages from Google and AOL for violating the same patents as in the Microsoft case.
SEE: What You Need To Know About Mobile Patent Wars
Facebook Grows Mobile
Long-suffering shareholders in social media darling Facebook (Nasdaq:FB) may finally be getting some good news - the company has begun turning some revenue on its mobile offerings. Back in August, the company created a new iPhone app and began showing ads to mobile users. This included "Sponsored Stories" and other ways to "like" company pages.
Those efforts seem to have borne fruit. Facebook's fourth-quarter mobile ad sales accounted for 23% of the company's advertising revenue. The $306 million was a jump of 14% last quarter. More importantly, mobile "daily active users" exceeded the site's desktop active users for the first time ever. That stat is considered a key metric for the firm.
Mobile remains the key moneymaker for many firms, and with revenue in the sector finally rising, Facebook shareholders could finally be seeing some green in their future.
SEE: Uncertainty Over Facebook's Emerging Model Will Keep Things Interesting
The Bottom Line
For tech investors, the previous week saw more of the same themes that were playing out all of last year. Patent war litigation continues to heat up, while new mobile and tablet devices will drive innovation. Overall, these factors will continue to be the driving force for the industry going forward.
At the time of writing, Aaron Levitt did not own any shares in any company mentioned in this article.


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One of Senate President Mike Haridopolos' big financial backers, Appliance Direct, has filed for bankrupty in an effort to reorganize its finances and stabilize its eight retail stores in Central Florida.
Haridopolos one-man consulting firm, MJH Consulting, has counted as one of its two clients a company named Market Share Systems, a subsidiary of Appliance Direct. It paid him $181,000 since 2007 and provided him with a $5,000 monthly retainer, according to documents filed last year with the Florida Commission on Ethics.
The ethics panel found that Haridopolos failed to fully disclose his financial interests for five years from 2004 through 2008. In an unusual move, the full Senate admonished its leader — a candidate for U.S. Senate — earlier this session for the disclosure failures.
The ethics investigation was sparked by a Vero Beach resident's complaint. It confirmed Haridopolos had left out such key information as a $400,000 investment home in Mount Dora and the names of two clients, Market Share Systems and Syntax Consulting of New York which paid him more than $52,000 from 2004 through 2006.
A longtime Market Share Systems lobbyist is Frank Tsamoutales, a Haridopolos friend and political ally also rooted in Brevard County. Appliance Direct is run by Sam Pak, a Korean immigrant known his over-the-top television ads.
Pak's TV shtick features him banging on the dishwashers and washing machines his company sells, insisting that if a customer bought elsewhere, "You paid too much!"
In its bankruptcy papers last week in Orlando, the company blamed the lousy economy and stalled housing market for leading to a drop-off in home appliance sales.


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Contrary to reports, it is Priyanka Chopra, a trusted and luscious lieutenant of Farhan Akhtar's production company (she is the resident heroine of their Don series), and not Anushka Sharma who has been roped in to play a pivotal role in Zoya Akhtar's next directorial venture.
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Uttarakhand will have two assembly buildings, one paving temporary capital Dehraduns way to permanent status, the other apparently a consolation for Gairsain which has long been discussed as a choice for permanent capital.
Selecting Dehradun as the site of one of the buildings is being viewed as an indication that the capital is not being shifted out. The other building will be in Bhararisain, 10 km from Gairsain, the government announced in a statement Thursday.
What went in Bhararisains favour is availability of water, the scope for developing a township near the site and the availability of government land. Pindar and Atta Gaad, two natural water resources, are 10 km from Bhararisain. Apart from the assembly building, residential buildings for secretariat officials, MLAs, officers, security personnel and a guesthouse of 40 rooms will be built.
In 1992, Kahsi Singh Aeri, then president of the Uttarakhand Kranti Dal, had declared that Gairsain, 272 km from Dehradun, would be the capital of the state for which he was heading a movement. In the 12 years since statehood, however, it has been Dehradun where successive government have invested. The chief ministers residence, Raj Bhavan and MLA residences have all been developed in what is still a temporary capital. Every government has, however, been wary about declaring Dehradun the permanent capital, because Gairsains demand strikes an emotional chord with residents of the hill regions.
The government has announced that at least one session of the assembly will be held at Bhararisain, close to Gairsain, said a senior bureaucrat posted in the chief ministers office. That would address the sentiments of residents of the mountains. Besides, the government can win over voters in the plains by ensuring Dehraduns status as permanent capital.
Steps were being taken over the last few months to achieve the two conflicting objectives. The cabinet held its last meeting in Gairsain on November 3 and cleared a proposal for the building in Gairsain. With Bhararisain selected, the foundation stone will be laid on January 14.
Assembly speaker Govind Singh Kunjawal has set up a search committee for the selection of a site for Dehraduns building, said the government statement, issued by the public relations department. The committee will submit its report in seven days.
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The Cape Henlopen varsity football cheerleaders attended a private camp sponsored by the National Cheerleaders Association July 23-25. During the camp, the team worked on cheers, chants, dances, jumps and many stunts. Girls were flying high as they learned new stunts this year in the core stunt class, basket toss class and pyramid workshop.
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MEMBERS of Trow-bridge Wessex Mead Rotary Club took to the streets on Saturday, to remind people that their Bavarian night returns next month.
The club has been hosting the German bierkeller evening for 10 years and it has previously been a ticket sell-out success.
It will raising money for Wiltshire charity Alzheimer's Support when it takes place on October 13, at St Margaret's Hall in Bradford on Avon.
Two Rotary members dressed as Bavarian waitresses to hand out flyers in Fore Street, Trowbridge.
The club's Sarah Hiscocks said: "It's a fun evening. We arrange the hall like a bierkeller, with four long tables going down the whole length and teams of Hamburgers and Berliners.
"The band gets some games going and it really brings out a good atmosphere."
Oompah band Karl's Bavarian Brass supplies the entertainment and bratwurst, beer and wine is served.
Tickets are £12.50. Call 01225 760526.
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Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson Won't Back Down, Will Be on the Show Come 2014
Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson has finally spoken out in public after his controversial interview in the January 2014 issue of GQ Magazine. If you'll remember, the reality star and father of four interpreted a Bible passage from the New Testament to underscore his belief that homosexuality is a sin, along with being a drunkard and prostitute among other things. Phil's quote in full reads:
"Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men [...] Don't be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers — they won't inherit the kingdom of God. Don't deceive yourself. It's not right."
He then went even further and said, "It seems like, to me, a vagina — as a man — would be more desirable than a man's anus. That's just me. I'm just thinking: There's more there! She's got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I'm saying? But hey, sin: It's not logical, my man. It's just not logical."
RELATED: 5 Things to Know About Duck Dynasty Star Phil Robertson
These anti-gay remarks got the 67-year-old Duck Dynasty star indefinitely suspended from his A&E reality TV series, though his family remains by his side. And they aren't the only ones who support him. The Daily Mail reports Phil spoke at a bible study group in his home town of West Monroe, Louisiana, on Sunday, December 22, 2013, where he proclaimed that he is a "lover of humanity, not a hater." He affirmed his religious convictions by closing out the session with a defiant message, "I will not give or back off from my path because you conquered death, Father, so we are not worried about all the repercussions." There were a slew of other hot button topics covered in the bible study group, which included his own sexual immorality.
Phil defends the attacks on his person due to his religious convictions with the statement: "We are a bunch of rednecks from Louisiana, but I am not uneducated, I have a degree from Louisiana Tech. But this week I have been called an ignoramus."
Entertainment Weekly reports Phil will be back on the show come January 15, 2014, though it remains to be seen how this will impact his huge base of both fans and detractors.
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The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 5 Spoilers: What Happens in "Internment"?
UPDATE: Here's a full recap of Episode 5!
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First, let's be nerds about the definition of "Internment." That's the title of The Walking Dead Season 4, Episode 5, which airs Sunday, November 10.
Here are three definitions:
1. The act of interning or confining, especially in wartime.
2. The state of being interned; confinement.
3. The act of interning or state of being interned, especially of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects.
"Wartime" is mentioned a couple of times. Just wanted to throw that out there first, since the synopsis for this episode is "Assorted enemies pressure Rick and the group; the survivors and the prison may reach a breaking point."
Assorted enemies? Is the illness one enemy and ... maybe it's Team Prison vs. Rick when they hear about Carol?
Will Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) tell the truth about what happened? It would almost be better if he held a trial of some kind, with Carol (Melissa McBride) explaining herself to the group and the group as a whole (a democracy!) deciding what to do. But The Ricktatorship re-emerged on Episode 4 and made that call solo. We're guessing Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) will not be happy. He wouldn't be happy to know what Carol did (killing Karen and David on the off-chance it would stop the illness) but he may find Rick's call even worse.
Maybe another enemy is Sam's new group, if that cheerful new guy is still alive and happens upon a new group. If he tells others about this prison eight miles north — with kids and a bad flu — someone may hear "opportunity" and strike.
Speaking of someone ... since we're talking about confinement, wartime, and a breaking point, our thoughts have to turn to our old one-eyed pal, The Governor (David Morrissey). It would make sense for him to make an appearance in this episode, with or without perhaps having a spy or two on the inside. (Bob Stookey? Poor Bob with his alcohol. Dr. S.? Both? Neither? Lizzie? Should we just blame everything on Lizzie from now on?)
This is just speculation at this point, but we're still guessing Episode 6 and Episode 7 are the standalone Governor flashback episodes. Maybe we don't see The Gov before the standalone eps, but it wouldn't be shocking if he showed up as a preview, then had the flashbacks, then returned to the prison for what we're guessing is a big Episode 8 (mid-season finale) attack. (See the update below for more on that thought.)
We've also read rumors out there about Hershel Greene (Scott Wilson) perhaps dying in this episode, or maybe on the mid-season finale, Episode 8. Wouldn't it be so Hershel to have the supply run head to the veterinary college for medicine, and have that medicine arrive in time to save maybe Glenn (Steven Yeun) and Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) (and Lizzie), but not him? The illness supposedly has its own timeline, but you have to imagine it would work faster on an older gent like Hershel. Or maybe he dies a different way? Maybe that rumor is wrong, but there was talk about a death dinner over the summer and … well … let's just hope it's wrong.
Are you curious about "Internment"? It sounds so ominous, but it's the last of our "I" set, which started with "Infected" in Episode 2, then "Isolation" in Episode 3, and "Indifference" in the November 3 Episode 4. Episode 6 is called "Live Bait." Stay tuned for more updates on Episode 5 as they emerge!
The Walking Dead airs Sunday nights at 9 p.m. ET on AMC.
SpoilerTV got to see Episode 5 in advance and they shared some intriguing teases, specifically: "Someone is coming back to the prison! I'm not saying who, but it's the last shot of the episode and you don't wanna miss it." It could be Carol. It could be Morgan Jones. It could be that Sam guy. But it may also be The Governor. Is that what you're thinking?
They also wrote, "After the first 20 minutes, which were a little slow, I could not keep my eyes off my screen. What is happening in the prison is crazy and it's awesome ! It's exactly what you can expect from The Walking Dead, everything is calm and nice and then suddenly, all hell broke loose!"
Also, expect many deaths. "Remember Glenn and Sasha were sick last time we saw. Well now, they are definitely sicker…. They are both in jeopardy. I'm really hoping they will survive this, but I'm having doubts. - Lots of deaths ! Yeah, it's the Walking Dead folks, so people are dying and coming back as walker and after they finally died… or not. So, expect many, many deaths (including humans and walkers) in Internment."
On that note, "Once again, during a walker attack, one character will act very stupidly, putting its life in real danger... Oh, and another one is just too dumb and slow, it is turned in less than 5 seconds. Stupid people make great walkers." They also said Hershel will be a main character in this episode, but who knows how much longer he can live. That at least suggests he lives through the week.
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system. The MPO consists of twelve voting members representing the local governments within the County, two
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Dancing With the Stars 2013's Jack Osbourne: It's "Insane" to Keep Bill Engvall and Me
Have we lost our minds? Jack Osbourne thinks so.
He's only joking (we think), but after Brant Daugherty's elimination on Dancing With the Stars Season 17, Week 8, he talked to On the Red Carpet about the trend this season for higher-scoring dancers to be eliminated before celebs who seem to struggle more to keep up. OTRC said it shows America is going back to the original idea of supporting people who are still learning to dance.
Jack laughed and added, "It also says that America is completely insane if they're keeping Jack Osbourne and Bill Engvall still in the race."
His pro partner Cheryl Burke piped in: "Why?"
Jack: "'Cause we're like [does funky dance move] 'We can't dance but we're still dancing!'"
Cheryl: "Excuse me, you're what the show's all about."
Jack: "I know. It's true."
Cheryl: "If I were a viewer at home, I'd vote for Bill. Not you. But I'd vote for Bill."
Jack: "I would vote for Bill, probably. I don't think I would vote for me. I hate me. We won't go there, though."
Cheryl laughed, concluding, "That is way too deep."
Jack's self-loathing aside, everyone in the cast seems to really support low-scoring Bill Engvall and Emma Slater, and judge Carrie Ann Inaba even called Bill the mayor of Dancing With the Stars. It would be a surprise, to be honest, if Jack won Season 17, but at this point it wouldn't even be too shocking if Bill ended up with his own Mirror Ball trophy.
What do you think? Do you agree with Cheryl that Jack and Bill are what the show is all about, or do you think viewers are crazy to keep the less talented dancers around? Sound off below.
Dancing With the Stars airs Mondays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
Source: On the Red Carpet


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Ultima? Wing Commander? System Shock?!?
Oh EA, you sure do know how to tease a guy, don't you? Today EA announced that it has teamed with The Darkness and The Chronicles of Riddick developer Starbreeze Studios to "reinvent" a classic EA franchise. Internally code-named Project RedLime, this game is in development for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
"EA Partners is thrilled to hand over the keys to one of EA's most acclaimed franchises to Starbreeze Studios," said David DeMartini, vice president and general manager of EA Partners. "Starbreeze's pedigree is undisputed and we could not be happier to welcome them to the EA Partners family. The team is creating an incredibly innovative take on a classic property and EA Partners is poised to deliver a blockbuster launch on the global stage."
"EA Partners gives independent developers like Starbreeze access to EA's unrivaled global publishing infrastructure, letting us focus our energy on what we do best – making incredible games," said Johan Kristiansson, CEO of Starbreeze Studios. "We're already deep in development on Project RedLime and the team at EA is giving us the time we need to perfect our vision. We're excited to bring a new perspective and gameplay innovation to this beloved fiction."
And aside from that, absolutely nothing is known about the game right now. Even a thorough read of Starbreeze's job page is fruitless, as each job listing is worded just vaguely enough to not give away any clues. With so little to go on, wild speculation is already running (as opposed to walking) rampant on the 'net...so we'll add our own fuel to the fire. The mention of "beloved fiction" leads us to believe that EA franchises like Road Rash and Mutant League Football are out, since they hardly had any fiction involved. Even Archon and M.U.L.E. would seem to be long-shots, leaving us with three huge candidates: System Shock, Ultima and Wing Commander. While this could just be our unnatural love for Origin talking, the latter two probably have the strongest fiction in EA's back catalog, although both are in genres generally vastly different from Starbreeze's previous works. On the other hand, the recent success of BioShock makes System Shock seem like a pretty good candidate, and it would be closer to the action found in Starbreeze's previous titles as well.
Regardless, we'll let you know when they finally let the cat out of the bag. In the meantime, if you have a theory of your own, feel free to leave it in the comments section below.
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Summary:A contemporary adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Othello." John Othello is an up-and-coming black officer with the London Metropolitan Police. Ben Jago, who seems destined for the top job of police commissioner, loses it to Othello after he dramatically quells a race riot sparked by the death of a black man in police custody. Jago plots Othello's downfall by playing on his insecurities about his wife, Dessie.


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A hotly contested local race for a Leon County Commission seat pits an incumbent against a political newcomer.
Ed Depuy is gathered with supporters Tuesday night (11/4/08) at Po Boys restaurant while waiting for election results.
Depuy is defending his at-large seat on the Leon County Commission against Akin Akinyemi - who is running for the county commission for the first time.
Akinyemi and his supporters are watching the election returns just down the street at Sharky's Restaurant.
"When you have a record to run on, that's good and bad. There's people that like some of the things you do and there's obviously people who don't like some of the things you do," says Depuy.
"I am different from the outcome. The outcome is the outcome. Plus or negative, it's not going to define me, it's not going to affect me. Do I want to win - obviously," says Akinyemi.
As expected, this race is an extremely close one.
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Skins are thin, easy-to-remove, vinyl decals for customizing your laptop . Skins are made from a patented material that eliminates air bubbles and wrinkles for easy application.
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Thank you so much - Lisa, Rebecca, Biff, Deepti, Laura, Joy and TaLins - for commenting! I'm so glad you like them. :)
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Most conversational understanding (CU) systems today employ a cascade approach, where the best hypothesis from automatic speech recognizer (ASR) is fed into spoken language understanding (SLU) module, whose best hypothesis is then fed into other systems such as interpreter or dialog manager. In such approaches, errors from one statistical module irreversibly propagates into another module causing a serious degradation in the overall performance of the conversational understanding system. Thus it is desirable to jointly optimize all the statistical modules together. As a first step towards this, in this paper, we propose a joint decoding framework in which we predict the optimal word as well as slot (semantic tag) sequence jointly given the input acoustic stream. On Microsoft's CU system, we show 1.3{\%} absolute reduction in word error rate (WER) and 1.2{\%} absolute improvement in F measure for slot prediction when compared to a very strong cascade baseline comprising of the state-of-the-art recognizer followed by a slot sequence tagger.}, author = {Anoop Deoras and Ruhi Sarikaya and Gokhan Tur and Dilek Hakkani-Tur}, month = {September}, publisher = {Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech)}, title = {Joint Decoding for Speech Recognition and Semantic Tagging}, url = {http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=183552}, year = {2012}, }


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PPM Preview Day Draws a Wide Mix of Students and Working Professionals
Moving across the country and leaving a good job as a staff scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) isn't a cause for anxiety as far as Billy Chen is concerned. He's focused on the fall when he'll enter KGI's Postdoctoral Professional Masters (PPM) program, which was created to help PhD scientists and engineers acquire the business and management skills needed to commercialize technologies developed in laboratories and pursue senior management positions within the life sciences industry. In fact, he attended PPM Preview Day held on KGI's campus June 8 in order to "really narrow down a direction [for his studies] and hit the ground running."
"KGI's strong ties with industry and reputation for providing many networking opportunities definitely helped me get over any anxieties I felt about career possibilities," said Chen, who is interested in the entrepreneurial and start-up aspects of the drug discovery and drug development process. "The Team Masters Project was also a strong draw for me. I'm really excited about working with my fellow classmates and corporate sponsors on such an in-depth project."
Chen and his future classmates as well as several prospective PPM students started the day off with a welcome and introduction from President Sheldon Schuster, who emphasized the truly unique aspects of what the PPM program offers its students and gave the group some brief background on KGI. "They're interested in our organization because of you," he said while discussing the board of trustees. "They want to see young people succeed in the life sciences industry."
In fact, the featured speaker for the day was board member Judy Heyboer, former senior vice president of human resources at Genentech, whose talk "What Do Employers Want? Career Guidance for Scientists Looking to Work in Industry" was designed to help young people find their ideal path in the life sciences industry. "If you love what you do," she said, "work/life balance is not an issue."
Also on hand was board member Dr. Rod Markin, associate vice chancellor for business development and chief technology officer at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Prompted by President Schuster, Markin gave an impromptu talk about some of his work including at Prairie Ventures, where he sits on the board, and at LAB-InterLink, a technology transfer company of the University of Nebraska Medical Center that he founded and which provides products for hospital-based laboratory automation systems. "Many people on the business side don't understand the science and vice versa," he said. "So I've spent a large part of my career acting as a translator - getting the science and the business people to communicate."
Preview Day participants also toured the campus and got an overview of the curriculum from Dr. Steve Casper, director of the PPM program, who emphasized professional development opportunities and how the program was designed to fill in the gap between the more traditional academic experience of a scientist and the MBA-style experience needed to get a job. "Research jobs account for only about 8% of jobs in the industry, so that means that 92% of you will end up doing something else," he told the group, adding that PhDs account for 42% of senior management in the life sciences industry.
The day ended with a student and alumni panel discussion and a closing/networking reception. For Billy Chen, the day confirmed his decision to pursue a PPM degree at KGI and, subsequently, a career in the life sciences industry. "What President Schuster said about making a difference and knowing that at the end of the day you've done something to help people really resonated with me," he said.
Another PPM Preview Day is scheduled for November.