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A reader sent me a tip that a case between Safeguard Support Services and Legal Helpers Debt Resolution in Florida was still ongoing but in talks to settle. I've written about the case before. See Legal Helpers Debt Resolution Accused of Orchestrating Conspiracy by Safeguard. The reader said: The other and most recent has both sides mutually filing with the ... Read More »
Silverleaf Debt Solutions Hit With indiana Default Judgment
On February 10, 2012 Silverleaf Debt Solutions of Dallas, Texas was hit with a default judgment by the State of Indiana. Apparently Silverleaf Debt Solutions received this default judgment because they failed to respond to the Indiana inquiries. According to the default judgment against Silverleaf Debt Solutions, LLC entered, the company, Silverleaf, failed to "appear, plead, or otherwise respond" to ... Read More »
Indiana Going After or Looking at a Number of Debt Relief Companies
According to the Office of the Attorney General of Indiana, they are going after a number of debt relief companies and have filed recent suits. The Attorney General's Office filed lawsuits against: Consumer Credit Group of Florida and Proactive Planning Solutions of Arizona for violating Indiana's Do Not Call Law and Auto-Dialer Act known as the robo-call law. Both companies ... Read More »
Debt Solutions Research Group Makes Me Mad as Hell, Even After Sleeping On It
Yesterday a consumer posted a complaint about Debt Solutions Research Group – Royal Pacific Financial. You can see it here. I've seen enough complaints and shenanigans that not much stuff makes me downright boiling mad, but the way this consumer was treated sure did. And if you are in the debt relief industry, it should make you mad as hell ... Read More »
Consumer Delinquent Debt Falls in Q4 2011 But Slows. See Detailed Charts.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has just released their latest study on household debt and credit. Aggregate consumer debt fell $126 billion to $11.53 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2011. This represents a 1.1 percent decrease from the $11.66 trillion reported in the prior quarter's findings. The report also revealed further declines in real estate debt and ... Read More »
Golden Financial Services Misplaces BBB A+ Rating
Yesterday I wrote Golden Financial Services Says the Darndest Things About Being a Law Firm. The article came to the attention of the BBB who apparently decided they were going to take some sort of action. According to the new BBB page for them, "! BBB Business Review on Golden Financial Services Debt Settlement Corp. is being updated by BBB ... Read More »
Golden Financial Services Says the Darndest Things About Being a Law Firm
A debt industry professional tipster (send in your tips here) sent me the following email from a Paul Paquin who is promoting an attorney based debt settlement company. The email says: Why Are You Still Doing the Face-to-Face Debt Settlement Model? There's NO "Face to Face" Necessary! | You'll Close 50% More Business! Our Multijurisdictional Law Firm Does All the ... Read More »
Debt Collection Industry Sees Compliance and Customer Service as Key in 2012
I need to vent for a moment. Have I not been saying now for some time now that in the debt relief industry both compliance to rules and regulations, along with exceptional customer service is the key to moving forward? In fact in my latest article on this subject I was talking about how critical these issues are for the ... Read More »
Christian Sounding Debt Advice Groups Sued by Consumer – Good Shepherd Debt Relief and Trinity Financial Mission
A recent suit against Good Shepherd Debt Relief, Trinity Financial Mission, and Allen Morrow was brought to my attention by a reader. I've written about both Good Shepherd Debt Relief and Trinity Financial Mission in the past. The suit by Dallas Yoder in Ohio claims Good Shepherd Debt Relief, Trinity Financial Mission, and Allen Morrow were offering debt settlement and ... Read More »
CareOne Debt Relief Services and CredAbility Could Have Saved Money on Logo Development
I'm aware of a recent big effort by CareOne Debt Relief Services to change their logo and branding. Personally I thought the old one was just fine but whatever. I didn't realize until just now how much their new logo looks like the logo for the credit counseling group CredAbility. I wonder how many focus groups you need to develop ... Read More »
American Fair Credit Council Names Persolvo Officer to Board
Persolvo Data Systems, a leading provider of web-based settlement software and analytics tools designed to locate, identify and settle accounts enrolled in debt settlement programs, announced today that The American Fair Credit Council (AFCC), the leading association of consumer credit has named Teresa Dodson, Chief Operating Officer of Persolvo, to its executive board. Ms. Dodson brings to the Council her ... Read More »
Credit Card Delinquencies Fall by End of 2011
The national credit card delinquency rate (the ratio of borrowers 90 or more days past due) reached 0.78% in the fourth quarter of 2011, a drop of almost 5% from the same period one year ago and continuing well below historical norms. Not great news for debt relief providers. Average credit card debt per borrower increased $239 from the same ... Read More »
Consumer Law Group Sued by Florida Attorney General as a Debt Settlement Loopholer
A tipster (send in your tips here) just sent me a copy of a recent case filed by the Attorney General of Florida against Consumer Law Group, Michael Metzner, David Ran Barnea, Ran Barnea, and Daniel Post. This seems to be an excellent case of the advanced fee debt settlement legal model, unraveling. It was not all that long ago ... Read More »
ExcelDebt Relief Makes Big Claims in Press Release
ExcelDebt Relief put out the following press release yesterday that I thought you'd find interesting. What caught my eye immediately was the claim: ExcelDebt Relief works to "consolidate your credit cards into one low monthly payment and be debt free in twelve to eighteen months without high interest rates," explains Grace Collins, spokesperson for ExcelDebt Relief. Does anyone else think ... Read More »
How Do I Respond to a Complaint Made About My Company on GetOutOfDebt.org? – Thomas
Your site says someone tried to contact me about a response to a complaint about my company… I dont have anything from anyone, I respond to all complaints, have nothing to hide and have always rectified every situation. Can you send me what ever it is I need to respond to the complaint, I dont know who is making it. ... Read More »


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The Red Balloon/ Le Ballon Rouge
I recently had the pleasure of showing a group of students (kindergarten-6th grade) the classic short film The Red Balloon. Filmed in 1956, it is the only short film ever to win an Oscar for best original screenplay. French director Albert Lamorisse's delightful film tells the story of a young boy who becomes friends with a large red balloon and the two become inseparable. (Incidentally, the young actor who played the boy is Lamorisse's son.) The two explore the streets of Paris together that paints a dazzling picture on screen.
I had my concerns about whether to show the film to the younger students, my thought was they would have a hard time sticking with it and understanding the story. Much to my surprise, the older students had the problem with the movie. It was as if they were unable to see the film from the perspective of a child. They spent so much time trying to figure out what the deal was with the balloon. Was it possessed? Was the boy dreaming? What was the point of the movie? However, the younger students were very taken by the film. They sat mesmerized at the beautiful landscape, the cute boy and, of course, the red balloon. They completely accepted the fact that the boy and the balloon were best friends and were filled with rage when the gang of bullies tried to come between them.
It is a short film, with a running time of 34 minutes. In this short window of time a beautiful story is told that is more than a joy to watch. My advice is to take it for what it is, don't question it too much and try to watch it with childlike eyes.


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In the Garden: Pansies or petunias? Expert gardeners help choose the winners from seed catalogs.
Where have all the flowers gone? Seriously, where did they go?
They're not in the garden, it would seem. The number of households growing flowers has dropped for three years straight, according to research from the National Gardening Association.
It would be nice to think that we've torn up all our flower beds to raise black oxheart tomatoes and red warty thing squash. (OK, maybe not so nice.) Apparently, at the same time flower purchases fell, food-garden spending climbed 20 percent. During a recession, we have discovered a surprising interest in feeding ourselves.
And yet, even during hard times, the pompon bloom of a bachelor's button is still as cute as a lapdog's up-do. The brain celosia, with its magenta convolutions, looks as if it should be floating in a lab jar full of formaldehyde. And a sunflower still faces the sun.
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Which is another way of saying that, according to the data, there are 11.2 million households that have continued to buy flower seed. These folks know that seed catalogs are the place to find a palette of petal colors never seen on a paint chip. It's where you'll find flowers for every spot in the yard and every week of the summer. And at $3 or so for 100 seeds, all this beauty is literally cheaper than dirt.
The only problem with the variety of flower seed is that there's so much, it's hard to know what to choose. So we asked three experienced gardeners — from the New York, Los Angeles and Birmingham, Ala. — to recommend a few favorites for each region from the multitude of all creation. Flowers to look at and flowers to smell and (why not?) flowers to eat.
One of our stalwarts even nominated a night bloom that can tempt the rarely seen sphinx moth. And what could be more exciting than lepidopterological epicureanism? We are confident that as soon as the public learns about this flower, seed sales will be headed back up.
The Garden: Strazzera, 51, will start 250 different types of seeds this year as a gardener at Wave Hill, a pair of mansions and a public garden on the Hudson River in New York City. (Notable occupants have included Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain and Arturo Toscanini.) Wave Hill's 28-acre grounds encompass a conservatory, a flower garden, an herb garden, a wild garden, a water garden and "something called a monocot garden," Strazzera said. If you have to ask. …
New Growth: "I'm going to try a different viola this year called Freckles," Strazzera said. (Its formal name: Viola sororia Freckles.) You could say the delicate, half-inch flowers look like purple dandruff on a clean white collar, or like a floral Rorschach test. Or, fine, like freckles.
Can't Go Wrong: A fugitive from the annual herb garden, borage (Borago officinalis) can go in the dirt as early as mid-February in New York. This flower tops the adorable-o-meter (not a real scientific instrument): the leaves and stems are furry, and the flowers look like tiny blue sea stars that have bowed at the waist. "Dip them in egg white and then superfine sugar," Strazzera said, to make candied flowers.
Rare Beauty: The common name of this less common plant is "throatwort" (Trachelium caeruleum). OK, so it sounds like a social disease. But if you start the seeds in February, Strazzera said, this perennial herb from the Mediterranean will create beautiful lavender umbels all summer long.
Petal Pusher:
• Purple bell vine (Rhodochiton atrosanguineum): Start this Mexican perennial vine indoors in February, move the pot next to a trellis in April or May, and then stand back. It "keeps going and going," Strazzera said, forming "beautiful, two-toned tubular bells" in mauve and purple.
• Nicotiana Babybella: Strazzera likes to seed these dangling, maroon flowers next to ornamental vegetables like beets with their blood-red leaves. Sort of like a mix-and-match sweater set. Also called flowering tobacco, nicotiana "can be tall and really lanky," she said. This one is more compact — an endomorph, maybe.
• Pansy Padparadja: Strazzera already has these cool-season blooms going in the greenhouse. By the Fourth of July, they'll be overheating. Before then, though, these traffic-cone-orange flowers smell "sweet like violets," she said. "Just delicious!"
Deadheads: "I've had bad luck with the silver lupine," Strazzera said. This shrubby perennial (Lupinus albifrons) is a native to the gravelly slopes of coastal California and Oregon. "They've germinated," she said of the seedlings. "But they're just too wet in New York City. They rot when you put them in the ground."
Growing Tips: "My key thing," Strazzera said, is transplanting "at the exact soil level where it was in the pot. If the roots are exposed, it's going to do really poorly. Too deep and you bury the crown, which hurts it also."
Seed Bank: Wave Hill stocks up on seeds at Chiltern Seeds (http://www.chilternseeds.co.uk/); Prairie Moon Nursery (prairiemoon.com); Seedhunt (seedhunt.com); Summer Hill Seeds (summerhillseeds.com); the Territorial Seed Co. (territorialseed.com); and Thompson & Morgan (tmseeds.com).
The Garden: Arnold, 41, grows out and stores the seeds of more than 1,000 different native California plants and wildflowers for the Theodore Payne Foundation, a nonprofit retail and educational nursery in Los Angeles. (The group also tends the fantastically useful California Native Plant Wiki, theodorepayne.org/mediawiki.)
New Growth: The region's Chumash Indians used to eat the green shoots and ground-up seeds of fringed redmaids (Calandrinia ciliata), Arnold said. Alternately, you could plant them in a pot with sandy soil, lest the low-slung, 1-inch-diameter magenta flowers get lost in a crowded bed.
Can't Go Wrong: The California poppy (Eschscholzia californica), Arnold said, "can be sown any time of year," in its home range. And supplemental water will keep it flowering through a baking Los Angeles summer. Spread enough seeds, she added, and you could end up with the classic wildflower panorama, "a California hillside, painted in gold."
Rare Beauty: What is most lovely about a wind poppy (Stylomecon heterophylla)? Is it the blaze-orange flower with the papery petals? Or the 2-foot-tall stems, which "kind of sway in the wind"? Even after the "flower is spent," Arnold said, the show isn't over. "They form a pyxis," she explained, a jewel box that's a "little like a castle turret."
Petal Pusher:
• California Indian pink (Silene californica): Arnold has found one subspecies of this annual growing in the Verdugo Mountains outside Burbank, Calif., — practically her backyard. The cardinal-colored flowers look a bit like an asterisk in a gothic font.
• Lindley's blazingstar (Mentzelia lindleyi): Blooming profusely in open fields with well-drained soil or along the road, this showy annual wins the gold star in Arnold's book. The 3-inch flower heads have an orangey beard of filaments at the center. "It literally looks like a gold star!" she said.
• Farewell to spring (Clarkia amoena): A delicate fingerbowl, painted in Barbie pink, this wildflower could be a great character actor. One day it might appear in the chaparral of a John Ford western; the next year, it could do summer stock in a New England cottage garden. According to Arnold, the cut flower might also win raves in Samuel Beckett's "Play" — that is, trapped in an urn.
Deadheads: "A big stumper for growers of native California plants is the woolly bluecurls (Trichostema lanatum)," Arnold said. "We put a label right on the packet saying'very hard to germinate."' When the seed does sprout, it is typically in the wake of a wildfire. And yet the deep purple flowers, with their flamboyant stamens, have the whimsy of a Gaudi cathedral spire. Good luck!
Growing Tips: A hose-blast can be a monsoon for a tiny wildflower seed before it sets roots; a rainstorm feels more like a tsunami. Arnold gently waters her newly sown seeds with a hose's shower attachment or a watering can. "Avoid letting the water pool up or create divots," she said.
Seed Bank: The Theodore Payne Foundation sells seeds and native plants at its headquarters in the San Fernando Valley of Losa Angeles, and seeds at its online store (store.theodorepayne.org). Arnold also shops for rare and unusual California seeds, plants and grasses at Annie's Annuals and Perennials (anniesannuals.com) and S&S Seeds (ssseeds.com).
The Garden: For almost three decades, Thigpen, 50, designed and maintained the display gardens for Southern Living magazine. Currently, he gardens in the borders and containers outside his store, Charlie Thigpen's Garden Gallery (charliethigpensgardengallery.com), in a converted Dr Pepper plant in downtown Birmingham, Ala.
New Growth: After sinking a few years into vegetable gardening, Thigpen has his eye on a nasturtium cultivar called Empress of India. He appreciates the nasturtium's crimson flowers in early spring or early fall. Better yet, he added, "It tastes like a radish!"
Can't Go Wrong: The classic orange sulfur cosmos (Cosmos sulphureus) develops lacy foliage on a 4-foot-tall stem. But amid heat and drought, these are no blushing roses. Deadhead the first round of blooms, and they'll keep coming. "They actually use them down here for highway plantings," Thigpen said, acres and acres of them. "That will tell you how tough they are."
Rare Beauty: Thigpen appreciates the "pretty, pealike blooms" and "light fragrance" of the Chinese red noodle bean. But he grows this edible plant for the oddball fruit that follows: a "kind of burgundy-red" worm-like pod that grows as long as a woman's arm.
Petal Pusher:
• Moonflower (Ipomoea alba): This 15-foot-long vine, with its CD-size white blossom, "should be the bucket-list flower," Thigpen said. "At night, it opens so rapidly you can almost watch it" happen. The moonflower vine he grew last summer, over an arbor outside the store, attracted "a moth you don't see often called a sphinx moth. It looks just like a hummingbird."
• Blood sage (Salvia coccinea): "I love plants that reseed in the garden in cracks!" Thigpen said. Like couture from a catalog, the flower clusters of this knee-high Southern native come in different colors: white, shrimp and red.
• Spider flower (Cleome hassleriana): The head of this "great, old-fashioned flower" is like a botanical riddle. Here are the white, pink or purple petals, boinging at the end of XXL pedicels. Here are the stamens, drooping like crawdad antennas. Essay question: Does the spider flower look more like Wes Craven's Pinhead or a 4-foot-tall cellphone tower? Discuss.
Deadheads: "When my son was a baby," Thigpen recalled, "we used to stroll him around the neighborhood. One time I grabbed a handful of seeds from the four-o'clocks (Mirabilis jalapa). They were the yellow selection — so fragrant — growing next to someone's mailbox. I shouldn't have done that. I've been cursed. I actually planted them in my yard, and they just went crazy." In fact, the flowers followed him years later to a new house, hitchhiking in a planter.
Growing Tips: "My whole thing is maintenance," Thigpen said: staking, deadheading, grooming. "I used to always tell my employees, if there's brown on a plant, it will never turn green again."
Seed Bank: Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds (rareseeds.com); Burpee (burpee.com); the Ferry-Morse Seed Co. (ferry-morse.com); Renee's Garden Seeds (reneesgarden.com); Thompson & Morgan (tmseeds.com).


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Presidential Search and Screen Committee
Minutes of January 3, 2013, Meeting
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Roll Call of Committee Members
Present: Stan Askren, Susan Baker, Jordan Bancroft-Smithe, Justin Bierman, Diane Bridgewater, Ken Brown, Nicole Carroll, Cliff Chancey, Susan Etscheidt, Jack Evans, Jeff Funderburk, Julee Jacobson, David Mason, Farzod Moussavi, Katie Mulholland, Mark Oman, Scott Peters, Dan Power, Mark Rowe-Barth, Beverly Smith, Jennifer Waldron, Anne Woodrick, and Diana Gonzalez
Absent: Bob Donley
Others Present
Laurie Wilder, Porsha Williams, Aimee Clayton, and Carol Geiger
Press identification was requested at this time. Emily Christensen from the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier was present.
Call to order for January 3, 2013
Co-chair Oman called the meeting to order at 10:05 a.m.
Minutes of December 11, 2012, committee meeting
Chancey moved to adopt the minutes as written, seconded by Mason. Motion was unanimously approved.
Discussion of candidates (closed session)
Co-chair Oman stated that the UNI Presidential Search Committee has necessity to meet in closed session pursuant to Iowa Code section 21.5.1.i. A 2/3 majority of the Committee must vote to enter into closed session. At the conclusion of the closed session, the Committee will reconvene in open session. Askren moved to enter into closed session, seconded by Chancey. Motion was unanimously approved.
Next steps
The search committee will meet at the Marriott Hotel in Minneapolis January 11 and 12. An orientation session will begin at 7:30 a.m. on Friday over a continental breakfast. Committee work should conclude by 5:30 p.m. on Saturday. Thursday and Friday night hotel accommodations have been arranged.
UNI vans will be reserved for transportation to Minneapolis for those who wish to use them.
Interview questions
The format for individual interviews was discussed. Approximately 15-17 interview questions can be asked during a 90 minute question/answer session. Candidates will then be afforded time to ask questions of the committee. A 15 minute break will be provided between interviews. Input on/changes to interview questions should
Moved by Mason, seconded by Chancey, to adjourn the meeting. Motion was unanimously approved.
Co-chair Oman adjourned the meeting at 12:40 p.m.


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February 13, 2014
Ohio County Circuit Judge David Sims allowed a conditional plea agreement Wednesday in a malicious assault case that may not be resolved for two years....
If an angry person was coming at you, at an intersection..what would you do? I don't know the details of this case, or what happened prior to the incident, but why can't a person defend himself when being physically threatened? If Auten would have just sat there, would he have been beaten or killed? Who knows. I'm not sure there is any justice in him being sentenced.
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Meridian Community College Tuesday kicked off its fundraiser for the Tuition Guarantee Program.
The program allows high school graduates in Lauderdale County to attend MCC tuition for four semesters.
The MCC Foundation and its supporters are picking up the tab.
The kickoff, with "The Beatles" was designed to fire up the board as it goes about raising the money.
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China's crackdown on corruption in the pharmaceutical sector has frightened foreign executives so much that some fear they could be jailed and have asked their lawyers if they should leave the country for six months. Others are thinking of going for good.
While the crackdown has been building for a year, Chinese police shocked the foreign business community a month ago when they filed corruption charges against Mark Reilly, former China head of British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline Plc. The Briton, who has been barred from leaving China, could face decades in prison.
Even before then, executives were getting worried about a wave of visits from police and regulators to their offices as well as articles in Chinese media alleging corrupt practices against many global drugmakers.
The charges against Reilly had prompted some senior executives to look at all contingencies, several legal and industry sources said.
Many of our clients are asking about personal liabilities and insurance, with executives asking if they are put in jail what will happen to their families and how the company will provide protection for them, said John Huang, Shanghai-based co-founder and managing partner at law firm MWE China.
Police said a year-long investigation found GSK made billions of yuan from schemes to bribe doctors and hospitals. Two senior Chinese executives were also charged.
Britain's biggest drugmaker has said the accusations were deeply concerning and that it had zero tolerance for bribery. Reilly has not been reachable for comment while his lawyer has declined to talk to the media. Reilly's whereabouts are unknown.
Global drugmakers contacted by Reuters declined to comment about the crackdown and how it was affecting executive morale in the world's third-largest pharmaceutical market.
But Huang and two pharmaceutical executives said some managers were reconsidering the legal risks involved in holding any position where they were responsible for some of the thousands of marketing and sales staff that global firms employ across China.
Investigators have focused on those staff and how they deal with poorly paid doctors and administrators in public hospitals, the biggest buyers of medicine in China.
The crackdown, which shows no sign of abating, coincides with a wider campaign by President Xi Jinping against corporate and official graft.
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This little board demonstrates the capabilities of the MMA2260 +/- 1.5g X-Axis Micromachined Accelerometer. As you tip it back and forth, LEDs light up to show the magnitude and direction of the G force.
The MMA2260 is the fat SOIC 16 in the upper left, isolated so it could be cut off of the board and used as a breakout, keeping only a pin header and the recommended decoupling and output RC filter.
The microcontroller is a PIC16F628, which is entirely unsuited to this application, having no ADC. I failed to notice that, being quick to note "AN0" on PORTA and slow to note that it was for a comparator, not an ADC. However, there is a builtin programmable voltage reference which was sufficiently accurate for lighting up 8 LEDs. I'm trying to get away from PICs, as AVRs have spoiled me with their GCC support, many registers and sane memory organization. Even on this project, which is only about 30 lines of C, most of the work was fighting SDCC bugs (failure to banksel, in this case). I've discovered a perverse pleasure in soldering down ICs to counteract my packrat nature. It did force me to put an ICSP header on, however.
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Re: Percent gain on Omega II
Posted by D-M on 5 May 1998, at 12:08 p.m., in response to Percent gain on Omega II, posted by Johnson on 2 May 1998, at 2:24 p.m.
I am not exactly sure. Since I play Adv. Omega II w/ Ace side count I am also curious. Here's what I am assuming however...
Hi-lo says that for each true count +1 (count per deck) the player adds .5% to his advantage. Since Omega II is a level two count and adjusts to count per deck also, I would assume somewhere between .25% and .5% per +1 in true count.
Therefore if the player disadvantage with basic strategy off the top is -.50% then I think a true 2 would make the game neutral, and a true 6 would give a 1% advantage. This is just my guess however, I have never read an exact amount.
Along the same lines, some people find this statistic interesting, but I have decided that I don't really care, because I always bet 5 times the true count (correcting for aces of course) up to a true 12, where I bet my max bet. So to me, this number won't change anything about my game.
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Sebi probes MCX,FTIL for possible listing agreement violations
May 07 2014 , New Delhi
to various discrepancies including those pertaining to related party transactions.
Financial Technologies (India) Ltd (FTIL), the flagship firm of Jignesh Shah group, is the erstwhile promoter of MCX. Both are listed companies.
Following the Rs 5,600-crore payment crisis at National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL), part of Shah group, FTIL as well as other group entities, including MCX have come under the regulatory spotlight.
Sources said that Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has started a probe to look into whether MCX and FTIL violated listing agreement norms.
The investigation comes in the wake of PwC's special audit report pointing various discrepancies at MCX, including with regard to related party transactions, sources said.
Among others, the PwC audit revealed that commodity exchange MCX entered into agreements with related trading parties and paid about Rs 709 crore to FTIL and group firms without following proper documentation process.
Commodity market regulator FMC had appointed PwC in December last year to audit books of MCX, against the backdrop of NSEL payment crisis.
In the report, which was released partially by MCX late last month, PwC alleged other inconsistencies and gaps in the way MCX processed the related party transactions and expressed doubts whether these agreements were conducted "on an arm-length basis".
FTIL had set up MCX in 2003 but it no more controls the exchange even as the company has 26 per cent stake in it.
Among others, the report had said that commercial terms and conditions agreed by MCX with related parties were not substantiated by any underlying market benchmarking or competitive bidding process.
"Additionally, there was limited or no supporting documentation available to evidence the existence, adequacy and robustness of price discovery mechanism which may have been adopted by MCX. Therefore, it is not possible to conclude whether various related party agreements and transactions were indeed conducted on an arms-length basis," the report had said.
Rejecting the report, FTIL had said it would take legal action against the bourse and PwC for painting a wrong picture in the report.
Late last month, MCX released parts of the PwC report on BSE with disclaimers that "contents are yet to be independently verified by the company" and "the contents should not be construed to be allegations on the parties named".


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Mashable rides the recent wave highlighted in the New York Times (The Joy of Quiet) regarding the importance of unplugging for peace of mind and to get work done. Instead of forcing online users to separate from their device of choice, Mashable shares several apps that help us keep social networking, texting, and other constant communication at bay for short bursts of time so we can concentrate on getting work done or simply relax.
6 Apps That Block Online Distractions So You Can Get Work Done
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Current behaviour on Linux :
$ ./sonar.sh start Starting sonar... Started sonar. $ ./sonar.sh start Starting sonar... sonar is already running.
i.e. only one running instance.
And current behaviour on Windows :
> StartSonar.bat Launching a JVM... > StartSonar.bat Launching a JVM...
i.e. several running instances - for example it's possible to start one instance using service and another one from console.
Thus we have an inconsistency in behaviour under different OSs. And moreover in case of Windows this behaviour is misleading and error-prone.
So IMO would be better to disallow multiple instances on Windows. In order to do this following options should be added to wrapper.conf ( http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.com/doc/english/prop-single-invocation.html ) :
With this option enabled, attempt to start second instance will lead to a following message :
wrapper | ERROR: Another instance of the Sonar application is already running.
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SONAR-3964 Default value of 'wrapper.single_invocation' in 'wrapper.conf' should be 'false'
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Done in 356ce27.
Dinesh, I've manually tested this on Windows XP and Windows 7, however would be nice if you can verify this too.
Evgeny, it seems that, when Sonar is already running as a service, and that I am trying to launch StartSonar.bat, I just get:
wrapper | --> Wrapper Started as Console
wrapper | Launching a JVM...
jvm 1 | Wrapper (Version 3.2.3) http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org
jvm 1 | Copyright 1999-2006 Tanuki Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
jvm 1 |
And nothing else is happening.
Vice-versa, I can also start the service is the foreground Sonar is already running.
However, I am indeed unable to start the service twice at the same time, or the foreground Sonar twice at the same time.
Well, this doesn't happen on Windows XP, so I suppose that this relates to changes of security in Windows 7 and to the fact that StartSonar.bat uses current user, whereas Service uses special user. I inclined to close this ticket as is, because I don't see way to improve it more.


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If you have just one $5 Amazon gift card for searching the internet with Swagbucks, that will make this only $2.45 for four boxes of Annie's Cereal! Sweet! That's well within my price for cereal, especially if it's Annie's Cereal! It qualifies for free shipping if you spend over $25. Check out the Organic Rishi Green Tea or Thomas the Train DVD deals I just posted if you are looking for something else to add to your cart.


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Jump on the BOND Wagon Martini
The highly anticipated James Bond movie, Skyfall, opens this Friday, November 9.
Rumor has it, Bond will be sipping a beer in the upcoming flick. Since he is switching up his usual drink order this time around, it's
a perfect opportunity for 007 to finally do right by his regular
cocktail of choice and make the shift from shaking to stirring his martini. (According to experts, shaking the cocktail bruises the spirit whereas stirring allows … Read more
Spin, Spin Sugar
Starting November 16, W Los Angeles – Westwood will transform its world-renowned WET pool deck into CHILL, a stunning winter escape that brings a taste of winter to Southern California. In addition to the beautiful décor and outdoor ice-skating rink, mixologist Natalie Fernie will create a variety of magnificent mélanges that will be offered at the ICE BAR.
After you take a spin around the rink, relax with this fusion of vodka, white crème de … Read more
Pinnacle Pumpkin Pie Vodka Review
Fall has arrived! While I generally a bit depressed by the arrival of the cold weather and the end of summer, the one thing that I look forward to is pumpkin season. Like Richard Cristy of the Howard Stern Show, I love all things pumpkin. According to the New Yorker, "pumpkin is the new black". Needless to say, we were very excited when a bottle of Pinnacle Pumpkin Pie vodka arrived at our doorstep just in time for Halloween and Thanksgiving. My only request is that they ratchet up its pumpkintude.
If you've been Italy, you've most likely had an after dinner drink, the Sgroppino. The lemon and alcohol help to cut through anything you may have ingested through out the evening and help settle your tummy. The formula varies from area to area, but it is basically lemon sorbet, vodka and prosecco. In Venice they use prosecco, in Friuli it is vodka and sorbet. In Liguria, I've had a variation made with limoncello. Sometimes blended, … Read more
Fruit Cocktail
This drink is a wonderful blend of pure premium vodka and amazing fruity taste. It is very easy to make. I hope you enjoy it!… Read more
Awesome Flavored Vodkas
Just when you thought all the different brands had searched high and low for every fruit possible to flavor or infuse with vodka, the mad scientists behind these vodka companies have moved onto a newest trend: "shock vodka". I like to call it shock vodka because it's really about making you wonder: what can't they capture in a bottle?
Brass Monkey
We were going to do a Cinco de Mayo Drink, but felt this would be more appropriate today. There are a number of drinks named the Brass Monkey. We think the Beastie Boys would have been drinking this recipe, equal parts mart liquor and orange juice. Not for the faint of heart.
We like the variation below too.
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Googles online services form that rare business model where the users of the service are not the ones providing the company its revenuesthat role is filled by the advertisers. This puts Google in an unusual position. Where conventional business modelsfor products as well as servicesteach that the customer is the undisputed king, Googles model shows that the advertisers are at least as important. Google thus has to design its online services in such a way that the users are happy, and advertisers see value in placing their advertisements on them. Often, these two objectives pull in opposite directions. Overall, Google has balanced these objectives well, but recent moves by the company show that the scales could be tipping. Interestingly, and maybe a little worryingly, theyre tipping away from the users. Last year, it came to light that Google reads your emailsostensibly to improve its services like synchronising your calendar automatically, etc, but also so that advertisers can place targeted ads on your page. The latest move, announced on Thursday, will allow anybody to email you, even if they do not have your email address, thanks to Google Plus. This again seems engineered to help advertisers get your attention better.
To be fair, not all of Googles recent moves have been made keeping advertisers in mind. The (highly unpopular) decision that makes it impossible for users to comment on YouTube, post photos or even share driving directions without signing into Google Plus seems like a way to increase that social networks small user base. But what is clear is that users preferences and comforts are increasingly being marginalised, step by step. The ubiquity of Googles online services might make it tempting for the company to take its users for granted. That could be a mistake.


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Matching Babysitters With Moms
In 20 U.S. cities, finding one of the most important tools in a parent's arsenal – a good babysitter – just got a little easier. Entrepreneur Mary Sullivan Cooper has been playing matchmaker for several years with her service, MommyMixers, which arranges for moms to meet prospective babysitters. "Welcome to the MommyMixer," the Austin American-Statesman proclaimed, "which brings sanity-strapped moms together with cash-strapped college students and aims to make matches that benefit both. Moms register well in advance for the events, which almost always sell out." The paper quoted a mom who hired several babysitters through Mixers as saying, "It's a mutually beneficial relationship – we get smart, responsible and energetic nannies and they get a fun job in a safe environment that helps them with expenses while they are in school." (September 2007)


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Magnolia Middle School is just one of many schools participating in Red Ribbon Week activities.
Students gathered Wednesday to listen to speakers such as counselor, Hayley Shirley, and Maj. Ward Calhoun of the Lauderdale County Sheriff's Department.
The topic was the importance of a drug-free and healthy lifestyle.
"We want to help them be able to stand up to the crowd and say no to drugs, alcohol, and tobacco," said Shirley. "We are also focusing on this month, as part of our character education program, responsibility. So we are promoting making healthy choices and responsible choices where you are actually contributing to your community."
Katy Iverson, 12, cut off 13 inches of her hair and donated it to ''Locks of Love''.
The group helps young people who have lost their hair because of different afflictions, such as cancer.
You may call 681-4048 for more information about Locks of Love.
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Laundry was the worst job in the week for a housewife. This wooden washing machine, found in a Deerfield home, was supposed to help make that hard job easier. There were a huge number of patents for labor saving machines for the home earned in the 19th century. Clearly there was a need for such things and inventors thought that they could make a fortune if they did well. Most of them did not. What they seemed to be doing was trying to make machines copy the motions of the hand, and in this case, that of the washboard. This often ended up in rougher action on the clothes, which caused them to wear out more quickly. Other problems included the rust from the metal parts, which stained the clothes.
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Attorneys representing Death Row inmates have filed a challenge to a law aimed at speeding up executions, saying the "Timely Justice Act" unconstitutionally usurps the Supreme Court's powers and violates convicts' constitutional rights to due process and equal protection.
The lawsuit is led by two lawyers – Capital Collateral Regional Counsel South Neal Dupree and Capital Collateral Regional Counsel Middle Bill Jennings – who head the state agencies that represent Death Row inmates in post-conviction proceedings. Dozens of other lawyers and more than 150 inmates awaiting execution joined the lawsuit against Attorney General Pam Bondi and the state of Florida filed with the Supreme Court Wednesday afternoon.
The lawyers filed the lawsuit less than two weeks after Gov. Rick Scott signed the measure into law.
The new law, which goes into effect on July 1, requires the Florida Supreme Court to certify to the governor when a Death Row inmate's appeals have been exhausted. Under the new law, the governor will have 30 days to sign a death warrant once the capital clemency process is complete.
The lawyers have asked the Court to issue an emergency injunction blocking the law from going into effect.
"The Act creates a rushed process for issuance of a flood of death warrants that will inundate the courts and abruptly cut off this Court's exercise of judicial review in capital cases. If not addressed prior to its operation in practice, the process will have the unconstitutional and irreversible result of individuals being executed under a legislatively-determined judicial procedure in which violations of their constitutional rights go unresolved. Further, Florida history shows that diminished process can have tragic and irreversible consequences," the lawyers wrote in the 89-page filing.
The court filing includes a lengthy examination of both the Court's and the legislature's efforts over the past 30 years to come up with a more expedited but fair death penalty process "to balance the concerns of fairness and justice with the need for finality" in death penalty cases.
That process "cannot and should not be displaced by a lawmaking process based on political, rather than constitutional and equitable, concerns," wrote Dupree and Jennings, joined by Martin McClain, who has represented numerous Death Row inmates, included some who have been exonerated.
Since signing the bill, Scott's office has launched a public relations campaign disputing reports that the new law speeds up executions and insisting instead that the law "makes technical amendments to current law and provides clarity and transparency to legal proceedings."
According to Scott's office, 13 Death Row inmates would fit the criteria under the new law to have a death warrant signed.
But in the court filings, lawyers for the condemned argued that the Legislature's new scheme to limit post-conviction appeals lacks an understanding of the complexities of the process and imposes restrictions on federal appeals.
The Legislature "has made profoundly critical decisions determining what judicial vehicles are available to capital defendants prior to the State taking the ultimate punitive act of terminating their lives, yet it seems the Legislature does not have an understanding of those vehicles and their names. Unless, that is, we must presume that the Legislature intended to cut off U.S. Supreme Court review of Florida death cases, which would present concerns of federalism, constitutionality, and fairness beyond those addressed herein," the lawyers wrote.
The lawsuit also accuses the law of violating the separation of powers between the branches of government because it gives the governor the authority to oversee whether the Clerk of the Supreme Court complies with the 30-day requirement to notify the governor once appeals have been completed and because it takes away some of the court's rulemaking authority by imposing time limits on the production of public records in post-conviction cases.
And the new law also fails to take into account that some appeals, including whether an inmate is insane cannot be made until after a warrant is issued, the Death Row lawyers argued.
The law would also give unequal treatment to convicts whose cases were processed before the new act went into effect, the lawyers wrote.


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by Julie Besonen, 02/26/2014
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If you're taking the subway to the Armory Show, the closest stop is at 50th Street and Eighth Avenue (on the C, E). Right there is Thalia, a spacious, comfortable bar, lounge and restaurant saturated in red. Oysters lovers who come after 7pm will be especially pleased to find mollusks selling for $1 each until closing (11:30 or midnight, depending on the night). Happy hour (from 3 to 5:30pm every day save Saturday) is another bargain-priced time to come: drinks and bar snacks, like grilled chicken skewers, spring rolls and crispy calamari, are discounted. The fusion menu is an assortment of inventive sushi rolls, pizza, pasta and burgers, which means there's something for everyone, plus there are plenty of seating arrangements to accommodate large groups.


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J. Elmer Nelson of Allentown made his will September 1st, 1897. John S. Hulse and Sarah E. Hulse were
the witnesses. Mr. Nelson died last December, leaving a widow and two small children. He made his
widow, Sarah W. Nelson, and his friend and neighbor, Elmer E. Hutchinson, his executors. They were
directed to sell his woodland on Stone hill, and his horses, carriages, tools, etc., as soon as
convenient and to pay all his bills. He left to his wife all his household goods and furniture and
two houses and lots in the village of Nelsonville. To his son, Leon A. Nelson, he left his watch and
chain, his writing desk, and his gun, guncase and fixtures, his mother to take care of these things
until the boy is old enough to use them. All the rest of the estate is to be converted into income
paying securities, and the income arising therefrom is to be paid to his wife for the maintenance of
herself and her children. When his son Leon A. Nelson, arrives at the age of 21 years, he is to
get $5,000. His daughter Mary Elizabeth Nelson, is also to get $5,000 the day she is 21 years
old. When these bequests have been paid, his estate is to be immediately settled, and everything
that remains after the payment of these bequests is to go to his widow.
Source: Red Bank Register, Wednesday, Feb 7, 1900
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there were only 100.12 million Americans who had full-time jobs for the whole year.
that's more than interesting, it's scary. does there exist somewhere a report [many reports?] with this number for other years?
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Rochester Man Pleads Guilty to Producing Child Pornography – WKBW
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ROCHESTER, N.Y.– U.S. Attorney William Hochul announced today that 43-year-old Anthony Davis of Rochester, pleaded guilty to production of child pornography.
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I started taking glucosamine as a supplement for my sore hip. The sore hip comes from running and walking the golf course mostly , not riding. My blood pressure has always been normal and my at rest heart rate is about 50 because of all of the riding that I do. However this year when I went in for my annual physical my blood presure was elevated to 145 over 82.
I heard that glucosamine has been known to increase blood pressure in some people. I stopped taking glucosamine and will check again in about a month. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm 52 and have never had any health concerns due in large part to the bike. At least I truly believe that.


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It's the middle of the afternoon on a school day and high school football players wearing their jerseys and carrying DVDs start to trickle into an Ahwatukee hotel lobby.
Tempe Corona del Sol defensive tackle Todd Peat, Gilbert Perry defensive lineman Mo Latu, Avondale La Joya running back D.J. Hubbard are part of the first wave to arrive.
Many more, including the prize of the state's 2011 recruiting class, Chandler Hamilton offensive lineman Christian Westerman, come through later.
Tom Lemming, the recruiting road warrior, has each one fill out a questionnaire. He interviews them separately. He takes their pictures. He collects their game tape.
And he's off to Las Vegas to meet another batch of prospects hoping to land in his magazine to which college coaches subscribe.
Then it's on to New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, then home for one day.
Lemming, who hits all 50 states and interviews more than 2,000 prospects before he is done, is considered the godfather of recruiting football services.
In his early 20s, in 1978, the Tom Lemming Prep Football Report began, a six-page newsletter that 31 years later has evolved into a 300-page magazine.
"In recruiting, everybody knew just the local area," he said. "No one covered the country. That's why I decided to be the first national guy."
Now there are services and position camps and combines and college elite camps and junior days. College coaches will put aside tickets for top prospects during the season.
Of course, it takes money to get there, and not everybody has the coin. And not every body believes they must go through a series of spring and summer auditions to get a scholarship.
"I used to be big into it, but I don't look into it too much anymore," said Peat, whose father Todd Sr., rose to playing in the NFL without having camps and myriad recruiting services when he was in high school. "I feel like I can compete with anybody in the country.
"I was getting scholarship offers before they came out with class rankings (this spring). It's your job to go out and perform. Rankings don't mean anything."
In 1978, Lemming was being paid $5 a game story stringing high school football games for a south Chicago newspaper.
"People would come up to me and say, 'Who is Michigan going to get? Who is Notre Dame going to get?' " Lemming said.
The Lemming Report was born.
In 1978, he started the first national football recruiting service. Max Emfinger came in the early 1980s, followed shortly thereafter by Allen Wallace and SuperPrep magazine.
Since the late 1990s, with the Internet, there are hundreds of people involved in recruiting services. In the late '70s, because there were no DVDs, no cellphones, no Internet, and only 16-millimeter film for Lemming to do his recruiting reports, he had to drive to see players at their high schools.
"Back then, I'd cover maybe 200 guys a year," he said. "Then, the coaches would never allow you out of the school with a 16-millimeter film. So you had to go sit down with his projector, with him and the player watching. That's why I only hit about 200 schools a year. You have to be selective."
In his attempt to get his recruiting report off the ground, he said he got stonewalled by the old-guard college coaches. "They all looked at me like I was from Mars," Lemming said. "They were skeptical. (Notre Dame's Dan) Devine would never talk to me. (Michigan's Bo) Schembechler would never talk to me. The reason they were against it was because they were getting all of the good players. They were stockpiling. "
When USA Today emerged in the early 1980s, it asked Lemming to pick the All-American team. ESPN asked him to be its recruiting analyst in the '80s and '90s. Now there is ESPNU.
"College football became so big because fans had something to root for with recruiting," he said. "College football recruiting goes the whole year. It's added a second season for the fans who can't get enough of college football."
It is cool to see an Arizona kid listed among the best in the nation, but Chandler Hamilton coach Steve Belles said he doesn't put a lot of stock into rankings.
"To me, it doesn't mean that much," he said. "Coaches know who can play and who can't play."
Still, Lemming thrives on what he does.
He landed a small part in the movie Blind Side, which traces the life of rags-to-riches lineman Michael Ohr.
He rattles off discoveries like it was yesterday:
Eric Dickerson, John Elway, Reggie White, Emmit Smith.
The best high school player he ever saw?
Randy Moss.
Best quarterback he ever saw in high school?
Jeff George.
The one he missed?
Brett Favre.
During his Phoenix visit last month, Lemming was impressed by the 6-foot-5, 295-pound Westerman, who has committed to Texas .
"He's a great kid, because he's got his feet on the ground; he's calm," said Lemming, who ended up ranking him as the 22nd best overall prospect in the class of '11.
Lemming writes his reports while watching tape of the players.
"It's collective opinion, guys I've learned to trust over the years, college coaches, high school coaches, reporters," he said. "I get a collective opinion on a guy."
Chris Westerman uses business analogies on how Lemming and others like him have helped his son.
"Christian was the right product, had the right attributes . . . but the media and scouting services were the key ingredient to the valuable exposure," he said. "Like any great product or service, marketing and branding are big keys to huge exposure and ultimate sales."
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I was seven when this series was coming out, and to call it revelatory would be an understatement.+Continue Reading
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Grant Morrison and Jae Lee team up for a story pitting the Fantastic Four against their eternal nemesis Doctor Doom, who has now found a way to use reality itself as a weapon.
Considering how well-known Grant Morrison is, and how every one of his stories is endlessly discussed and referenced on the internet, it was shocking to find out about this little story from 2002 that no one ever talks about.
Then I read it, and found out why.
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Remember when, while watching the Pittsburgh Steelers take on the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XLV, you saw that awesome commercial for this Summer's big blockbuster, Captain America: First Avenger? Some of you probably saw that and said, "Damn I can't wait to see that!" I know I did, but I also thought back to a little gem of crappiness known by basically the same name that was supposed to be released in 1990, but didn't see the light of day until 1992, when it was released directly to video.+Continue Reading
As 2010 comes to a close we take a look back at some of our favorites from the year; there will be many more categories to come, each author getting one pick. And after reading our favorites from the last year we want to hear yours!
It's a significant moment in a comic book's history when it reaches #666 (though; not that a lot have). Not only because it represents a milestone in the publication's history but also because of the preconceived link between "666" and the biblical "Number of the Beast" which has given the number it's own special haunting, similar to Friday the 13th. So…slap together an unholy issue number along with Grant Morrison's twisted mind and what you do you get?+Continue Reading
Fairly recently, DC ran a four issue limited series about Terra. Technically, this is Terra III, but that's actually part of the series- straightening out the rather convoluted history of this name. The series is by Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmotti (writers), and Amanda Conner (pencils). Conner has gone on to provide the art for the currently running Power Girl series, and I rather like her nice clean lines and very clear art.+Continue Reading
Well…summer is over. I'm stuck behind school buses on my way to work, my surfboard is back in storage, I'm looking for plane tickets for the Christmas vacation, and all that hype during and after Battle for the Cowl about Batman and it's new titles (all grouped into a big event; Batman Reborn) is old news and we know who the new Batman, Robin, Red Robin, and Batgirl are. The dust is starting to settle and following our Batman Summer Survival Guide I think it's time to take a look back and see just how well the 2009 Summer of Batman turned out.+Continue Reading
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Well, all of the Batman Reborn titles have come out and the events from Battle for the Cowl are officially behind us, while the once uncertain future is now the present. I think now is a good time to take a look back at the event so big it literally stopped the presses. As I flip through the three issues to help me write this, along with all the Batman Reborn titles, two things stick out the most:


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It will be interesting to see how many votes Ryan Ferns receives in the primary election Tuesday. A substantial number of people don't seem to want to take "no" for an answer from him.
Ferns resigned his post in the West Virginia House of Delegates after being arrested on a DUI charge last month. He did the right thing, pleading guilty and apologizing to his constituents. He then resigned and said he won't be a candidate for re-election.
It was already too late to change ballots, however, so Ferns will be listed as a candidate for the Democrat nomination for House of Delegates. Some people will vote for him because they've been vacationing on another planet and aren't aware of events during the past couple of weeks. Some will hit the election machine button for him out of habit.
But others may vote for Ferns as a show of support, perhaps in the hope his mind can be changed.
Registered Republicans can't vote in the Democrat primary - but independents can, if they request Democrat ballots. Quite a few independents are conservatives who have much in common with Republicans.
Ferns has a lot of support among conservatives because he has tried to work with Republicans in the House, instead of adopting what sometimes is his party's knee-jerk reaction against anything or anyone connected to the GOP. In recognition of that, two prominent Republicans - Ohio County GOP Chairwoman Elgine McArdle and Marshall County Commission candidate Bob Miller - sent us letters to the editor in support of Ferns.
That is virtually unheard of, and it caused ripples among some Republican leaders. One wondered aloud whether McArdle had forgotten the chief responsibility of a party official, to get people from her party elected and support them once in office.
Indeed, particularly in West Virginia, the GOP faithful have to concentrate hard on that mission. Democrats still account for more than 52 percent of registered voters, compared to nearly 29 percent for Republicans (the rest are independents or Mountain Party). The gap is narrower in Ohio County, at about 47 percent Democrat to 30 percent Republican.
But even though conservatives seem to be gaining strength in our state - both voter registrations and election returns indicate that - it's probably going to be awhile before the GOP has any hope of controlling the Legislature. That means that if conservative agendas are going to be pursued successfully, some Democrats will have to support them.
That, I think, is part of McArdle's reasoning. She and other thoughtful Republicans believe people like Ferns should be rewarded for at least considering a bipartisan approach to government. They're right.
Ferns is quite popular. In the 2010 election, he was a strong second in a four-person field seeking two House seats from Ohio County. It's understandable some people don't want to lose him.
What about Ferns? I don't know him well and won't pretend to know what he's thinking. But from all accounts, he believed resigning and withdrawing from the general election race was the right thing to do - for himself and his family as well as his constituents. If that's the case, his wishes should be respected.
Perhaps the best answer I've ever heard (in context, at least) to the question, "Name some rights guaranteed to Americans," was voiced the other day in a college history class.
I happened to be present in the class, taught by Professor Lynn Caseman at West Virginia Northern Community College in New Martinsville. He began the session by asking several current-events type questions about government.
Caseman put one quick-witted young man on the spot with the rights question. The student thought quickly and creatively and answered, "The right to remain silent."
Well, yes - especially if you don't want to answer any more questions from the professor.
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New news: Bras have been around since medieval times
The Associated Press reports that four bras dated 600 years old had been found inside an old Austrian castle.
New news because it is commonly thought that women did not wear bras until the late 1800s and then not everyday until Hollywood (Howard Hughes, then a movie producer) thrust, in particular the underwire bra, on starlets such as Jane Russell.
The Archeological Institute of the University of Innsbruck released this image of the ancient bra, which doesn't look a whole lot different than bras do today. This one is made out of linen fabric and accessorized with lace, making us think that the Dark Ages were not necessarily dull.
The research team also found something that looks like panties, but said only men wore underwear in medieval times because they were considered a symbol of dominance and power. Really?
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MFA to keep Producer's offices open
By a vote of 195 yes to 19 no, the Producer's Grain Company patrons (those who did $1,000 or more business during the past year) voted to approve the MFA Inc. proposal to take over the financial insolvent agricultural cooperative.
The vote took place at the conclusion of the 91st annual Producer's Grain annual meeting as an affiliate of MFA. Producers was founded in 1920 as a stock owned company and in 1963 was converted to a member owned cooperative.
Board President Jerry Brackenridge said that 143 yes votes were necessary to meet the 2/3 majority requirement to approve the two contracts the board and MFA signed earlier to let MFA take over the land and the other assets. The closing on the deal will be on Feb. 15, 2013.
MFA has agreed to take over the $7.6 million in liabilities of Producer's Grain and its $6.7 million in assets.
In discussions before the vote, MFA officials told the patrons that MFA will keep the four facilities of Producer's Grain open with no down time – El Dorado Springs, Walker Nevada and Bronaugh. MFA will let the 42 current Producer's employees apply for positions with the new cooperative which will be named Producers MFA Agri Services.
MFA officials said that their plan is to invest up to $400,000 per year to upgrade the facilities of Producer's Grain.
As the votes were being counted by volunteers Dennis Daugherty – president of Community Bank, Kevin McCullough – owner of Evans Drug and Carole Wilkerson – Cedar County Recorder – the patrons voted to retain Jerry Brackenridge and Wade Rapp on the board. The current Producer's Grain board will become an advisory board to MFA Inc. as it has in its 135 locations in Missouri, Southeast Kansas, North Central Arkansas and part of Iowa.
After the results of the vote were announced, Bill Streeter, CEO of MFA Inc., told the group that he appreciated their vote of confidence. He then announced some of ways that MFA Inc. is active in the communities it serves. He said the company gives one $2,000 scholarship to a high school student in the community. The company gives $25 to $50 per ton prices breaks to FFA and 4-H students feeding calves for competition. MFA will attend the Youth Fair and buy animals.
Brackenridge said after the meeting that he appreciated the huge turnout of patrons. He said that some years the board had to go find people to have the required 15 patrons for a quorum in order to conduct the annual meeting.
He said that Producer's made money or broke even in five of the last 19 years. In the 1980's, he said, the company lost $1.2 million when struggling farmers took bankruptcy. At that time total sales were $8 million per year.
Before the vote, two patrons spoke about how the community and the farmers in it need a place to sell their grain and buy products. They urged patrons to think about the alternative of losing another business if they voted no on the take-over.
Both speakers drew applause giving an early indication of the mindset of the assembly. One member of the audience asked about the financial condition of MFA Inc. The chief financial officer went to the microphone and told the group about the hundred million MFA has in reserves and the nearly $200,000 in earning each year. (Editor's note: These are generalizations of what the CFO said. At three hours past deadline on a Tuesday night, I don't have time right now to go back and listen to my tape of the meeting, but I will later and report back to you. Bottom line – the numbers were impressive and reassured the Producer's patrons.)
After the vote, Brackenridge urged those present to patronize MFA to keep it strong in this community.


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While I'm dwelling on it, I want to make clear that, when I die, I want the absolutely least expensive funeral you can possibly arrange. I don't want some funeral director telling you that you ought to have "the best" for your mother. If you want to spend money to show how much you love me — for goodness sake, do it while I'm still alive — you know how much I love flowers! But far more than how much you spend on me or anyone else, I hope you know that it's the personal, thoughtful, sometimes-little-things that count the most. "Considering others" is the major life-lesson I'm sure we all have to learn. Material things don't matter as much as generous caring.
So, contemplating my funeral — because, yes, it will come sooner or later no matter how often I sometimes think I might want to live forever — I got a little silly tonight, given all the possibilities. I certainly had a good laugh . . . and I hope you will, too. Imagine me, a plain, ordinary, not-very-good-looking, wrinkled, not-in-great-shape- and-therefore-baggy-in-places mom — a mom who got into more mischief than most, with many embarrassments for all of you, I'm sorry to say. (As my favorite pin puts it, I'm an outrageous older woman. Thank you for enduring through the early years when I was an outrageous younger woman, too.)
I enjoy a good laugh . . . and sometimes I feel entitled to get angry when the world doesn't seem fair. Can you really see me being comfortable, perfectly-posed in a casket full of satin and crepe? I hear that some of them even have adjustable head-rests! I sit here wondering what it would be like . . . 100 years from now . . . 1,000 years from now . . . to have my body captured inside a metal casket — inside the other box-for-the-box called an outer burial container — all of it six feet under, dark as can be. I'm sitting here with my eyes closed, just imagining. Then I peek one eye open, and . . . you know what? I'm still six feet under! I'm howling with laugher now at this even-more-outrageous image . . . what would my pesky spirit do in a situation like that?
I'll tell you what I really want — it's very easy: Ashes to ashes and dust to dust. I want a plain pine box. No, not plywood with all the glue and formaldehyde. I want a plain wooden box, one that will return naturally to the soil, as I'd like to do. Plant me under an apple tree, or — better yet — a flower garden. (I always did better with the flowers and frivolous things than I did with the vegetable garden and practical matters.) That's where my spirit would be most happy. It feels strangely warm to "see" myself becoming one with the earth, to picture my elements feeding new life. That's the way I want to go — that's the way I want to come back again — as nourishment for a beckoning flower.
For me, it would be a terrible "sentence" to be stuck with a stopped-in-time expression of religious contemplation forever — that's just not me. I want to laugh, I want to be sometimes naughty and irreverent . . . and, yes, I want to move on when I die — I think there's a much bigger picture out there, bigger than any of us will ever know until we get there. When I'm ready, cremation may be the answer, but I want to be free to go . . . in a plain pine box, one that's not too perfect . . . just like me.© Lisa Carlson, 1994.


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FREEPORT — FHN and Rush University School of Nursing are proud to announce the area's first-ever class of master's degree candidates in their new, joint Clinical Nurse Leader program. Six FHN nurses have been accepted into and received FHN scholarships for the program, the first of its kind in the region.
"Rush University has a tradition of nursing excellence dating back to 1885," said FHN Vice President of Patient Services and Chief Nursing Officer Nancy Cutler. "It is an honor to work with one of the nation's foremost schools of nursing in a program that we believe will have an enormous impact on patient care."
The half-dozen women in the inaugural FHN/Rush class, all BSN-level nurses at FHN, will work toward their master's degree through the online Rush program and develop the CNL role at FHN. The Rush CNL program is open to the public.
"The CNL role puts highly skilled clinicians in charge of a specific patient population to keep them healthy and out of the hospital and emergency department," Cutler said. "The CNL has a direct benefit on patient outcomes and quality of care, and we're excited to bring this role to FHN."
The CNL program is a two-year, part-time online program tailored to allow nurses to work while they complete their study. Rush University in Chicago offers only masters-level nursing courses; the FHN-Rush CNL candidates will continue to work and live in the region while they study. They are:
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• Jennifer Schierer
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Rush University College of Nursing Associate Professor and Director of Academic Advancement Lisa Rosenberg, RN, MSN, PhD, welcomed the students to the Rush program. "We are so pleased to partner with FHN for this program, and are confident that this class will be the first of many successful cohorts."
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CSEA members are known for being active in the community. In many ways, that's what being a CSEA member is all about. Whether we're working for local charities or volunteering in youth sports programs, we serve our communities with the same pride that we serve our students and schools.
CSEA members earn a living while serving the public, diligently working to support the education of California's kids. But for thousands of members, public service doesn't end there. Many also volunteer for community service. From civic groups to city and county commissions to faith-based charitable groups, CSEA members are active in the community.
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