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Jeannette Kopak bio:: Internet and New Media Technology Trends
Jeannette Kopak holds the position of Director of Business Development and Operations at the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver. In that capacity she managed the renovation of a 40-year-old tractor factory, transforming it into a digital media graduate facility, and the home of the Masters of Digital Media program. Jeannette is responsible for ensuring the Centre continues to adapt to the needs of the students and the digital community. Jeannette is a digital media veteran with 16 years of experience at the Canadian Broadcast Corporation, in roles that ranged from designing and implementing the CBC Vancouver TV newsroom editorial system to facilitating the re-use of broadcast content for the early websites such as the Atlanta Olympics and the 1997 Federal Election. The highlight of her CBC career was leading a multi-million dollar, multi-year project to catalogue, restore, digitize and preserve the CBC radio and television archives across Canada.
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Nick Finck is a user experience professional who has dabbled in the web for over a decade. He specializes in information architecture, interaction design, usability and user research.
Nick has created web experiences for Fortune 50 and 500 companies including Adobe, Boeing, Blue Cross / Blue Shield, Cisco, CitiGroup, FDIC, Harpo, HP, IBM, Microsoft, PBS, Peets Coffee, University of Denver, and others. He lives and plays in Seattle, Washington, where hes the founder of Blue Flavor, a web design company that focuses on creating web experiences. Nick has authored many web design-related articles for various publications. Hes the founder of the long-time and very popular Digital Web Magazine publication. Check out the magazines archives to see the caliber of authors and articles it presented to web designers from all over the world. He is a judge for an organization that presents one of the most prestigious web awards in the industry. He has built a reputation as a community volunteer, promoting growth within the web industry both locally and abroad. You can find Nick giving lectures for leading organizations, events and universities.
Sandra Hirsh bio:: Social Media Trends
Sandra Hirsh is Senior User Experience Manager working on MSN.com at Microsoft's Silicon Valley Campus in California. She currently leads a global team of user experience researchers to inform and impact all aspects of MSN.coms user experience worldwide. Until recently, she lead a user experience team focused on MSN's social and community experiences -- specifically how to enrich user experiences with portal content through social and community activities, such as sharing content with people on Facebook, discussing content (articles, photos, videos), rating content, etc. In her tenure at Microsoft, she has worked to improve the user experience of a diverse set of consumer products on the TV (MSNTV), Mobile devices (Windows Live Mobile), and the PC (Hotmail, Windows Live Mobile, Windows Live Toolbar). She holds several UX patents based on the user experience work she has done at Microsoft. Before working at Microsoft, she directed HP Labs' Information Research Program, conducting "research about research" through investigations of how R&D researchers use information and integrate it into their work. She has also been a professor on the faculty at the University of Arizona's School of Information Resources & Library Science, and has taught courses at the University of Washington and San Jose State University. She has performed research on diverse populations, ranging from elementary school children, to scientists and engineers, to her current focus on internet consumers. Hirsh holds a Ph.D. from UCLA and a M.I.L.S. from the University of Michigan.
Brian Fling bio:: Mobile Technology Trends
Brian Fling is an authority in the field of mobile user experience and designing for multiple contexts. He has worked with hundreds of businesses from early stage start-ups to Fortune 50 companies to leverage a variety of mediums, like mobile devices, to design for the needs and context of real people.
Author of O'Reilly Media's _Mobile Design and Development: Practical concepts and techniques for creating mobile sites and web apps_ (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596155445/), Brian goes in depth into the design principles involved in creating compelling mobile experiences for this new era of multiple devices and context. As well as explore the rapidly growing area of how to easily design and build a mobile site and web app, how to deal with devices practically and how to translate an experience to a variety of mobile devices. Brian is a frequent author and speaker on the issues on mobile design, the mobile web and mobile user experience, teaching people how to leverage mobile all over the world. Brian is also the founder and president of pinch/zoom (pinchzoom.com), a design and development agency specializing on mobile experiences helping clients like Best Buy, Lonely Planet and others dive into the world of mobile.
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Went to HARD ROCK CAFE the place was jumping worth a visit just to see the memorabilia alone and check out the ceiling
So good that you are having a great time! I've never been in that Hard Rock. May have to check it out sometime!
This reminds me of the time we went to the HRC near to Universal MANY years ago with some friends.
For some strange reason [probably because of the background noise...or my English accent ] the girl at the podium kept on asking me for my name. After repeating it several times with no luck, I then said to her "Change it to Eric Clapton" !
Sure enough, when a table was ready, Eric`s name came out over the tannoy and we took our seats by a table with more than a few sideways glances from our fellow diners.
She could understand you to say Eric Clapton but not T.... V.....! Sheesh! But that is a good one. Friends of my parents named their son Gregory Peck.


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I'm not among those who prefer to hit the stores on the day after Thanksgiving to go Christmas shopping. I would rather watch all the madness on TV!
That madness starts before the sun comes up. Retailers will be doing whatever they can, especially this year, to get you into their stores. There are many people who enjoy the excitement of all of the people and the chance to save a few bucks. I'm not one of them.
My tradition is to avoid the stores on Black Friday. I have never gone Christmas shopping the day after Thanksgiving and this year will be no different. Sure, I would love to save some money...but I would much rather avoid the hysteria and stress.
Here's hoping if you decide to brave the crowds Friday you find what you're looking for, save some money, and don't end up on TV for the wrong reasons!


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Following its launch back in September, the LG Optimus Hub is now available to pre-order here in the UK.
Over at TheOrder.co.uk, you can order the Optimus One-successor for a reasonable £209.49 SIM free, including £6.50 for the handset's delivery. However, it's still unclear when the smartphone will start shipping, but we've been in touch with the retailer for further information.
If you're still not convinced it's the handset for you, maybe the phone's specs will manage to persuade you. The Optimus Hub arrives running Google's up-to-date Android 2.3.5 software, paired with an 800MHz single-core processor and 512MB of RAM. You'll also find a decent 3.5-inch (320 x 240) capacitive touchscreen dressed in LG's usual Optimus UI – which equips the phone with Facebook and Twitter integration, multiple customizable homescreens and a built-in Gmail app.
Other specs include; a 5 megapixel rear-facing camera with VGA video, Bluetooth 3.0, DLNA and HSDPA and WiFi connectivity.
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The Jackson State baseball team returns to action Feb. 22-24 for a weekend series with the Central Arkansas Bears in Conway, Arkansas.
The Tigers go into the weekend series with a 2-2 record. Jackson State opened the season by hosting its JSU Tournament at Braddy field. The Tigers won its first game of the season by defeating Texas Southern 4-0. JSU fell 14-5 to Texas Southern in the second game. JSU then fell 4-3 to Eastern Illinois before bouncing back to beat Eastern Illinois 8-2.
Central Arkansas comes into the weekend series with a 3-1 record. The Bears swept Murray state in a three-game series before falling 10-2 to Vanderbelt.
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After spending over a year fighting for his life in a Haifa hospital, Hamoudi (Don) Salum finally succumbed to the critical wounds he sustained during Hizbullah rocket attack. Salum is the 156th Israeli fatality of the war
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As the Hizbullah rockets started falling in
Wadi Nisnas the evening of August 6th 2006 during the Second Lebanon War,
Hamoudi (Don) Salum was first hit by a spray of shrapnel across his entire body. A lifeguard by vocation, he ignored his wounds and ran into the nearby burning house to save his mother and sister.
Salum was evacuated to the Rambam Hospital in Haifa, and doctors spent the next year fighting for his life. Several months ago his situation seemed to improve and he even partially regained consciousness. The medical staff even permitted family members to wheel him to the opposite side of the hospital so he could see the Mediterranean Sea he so loved.
Evacuating wounded from Wadi Nisnas (Archive photo: AP)
"He was a charming person who only knew how to help and give to others," said his sister Munira, who spent the past year at her brother's side.
The sister described the pain of dealing with her injured brother's condition, losing the family home and her mother's health deteriorating, and said, "During this whole year, not one government body bothered to come and help. Everyone knew the situation, but no one did a thing. Haifa municipality was the only body to help us during this dark year."
Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav also expressed deep sorrow at Salum's death.
"His image is actually a symbol of the whole war. For a whole year he was hanging between life and death. His injury was particularity difficult. I remember when I would go visit him, I would see a burnt man in bed," the mayor said.
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I'm excited to report that Jennifer & Armand's wedding is featured in the current issue of Wedding Planner Magazine! The editors of WPM were looking for some of the top design trends we are seeing in wedding design and our predictions for how those trends will continue in 2012. I submitted Jennifer and Armand's wedding with it's bold color scheme of peacock blue and blends of tangerine and magenta, as a perfect example of the unexpected but beautiful color combinations that I'm seeing with my clients.
Wedding Planner Magazine is published by the Association of Bridal Consultants that I am an active member of and designated a professional Wedding Consultant.
Jennifer and Armand's wedding has received so much love! You can view their feature in Munaluchi and also on Southern Wedding blog here and here.
Photography of Jennifer and Armand's wedding by Kristyn Hogan
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This is a case of fraud and breach of contract
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Individual chicken, pumpkin and sage pies.
Early autumn is one of the best times of the year to get busy in the kitchen. With warm afternoons there's still the opportunity to fire up the barbecue, while cooler evenings encourage heartier, stove-top or oven-baked fare.
It's the perfect time to get re-acquainted with versatile pumpkin and crisp early-season apple varieties, while also enjoying the last of summer's tomato and basil offerings.
Here's a good early-autumn tip for those with a herb garden: Preserve basil, coriander or dill to use in the cooler months.
Here's how: Tear the leaves into small pieces, place them in an ice-cube tray and just cover with water. Once frozen, the blocks should stored in zip-sealed plastic bags to lessen the likelihood of them taking on "freezer odour". When you want add some basil flavour to a winter dish, take out a few blocks and add to the dish a minute or two before it's ready. Leave enough time for the ice to melt and the flavour to be infused through the dish. (By David Sutherland, who interviewed spice guru Ian "Herbie" Hemphill for Epicure in 2010).


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TURIN, Italy (AP) - Francesco Molinari shot a 5-under 67 Friday to share the lead after the second round of the Italian Open.
A Turin native, Molinari has been the center of attention at the tournament. He won the event in 2006.
``This is a special, special week for me,'' Molinari said. ``I was emotional yesterday on the 10th tee at 8 a.m. with only 50 people watching, so now with all these people on my course, it's a great feeling.''
Molinari's Ryder Cup teammate Nicolas Colsaerts lost his overnight lead when he bogeyed the 16th and 18th. He's one stroke back.
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Clear and Transparent Tone with Balance
The TV Jones T-Armond has American-made cylinder magnets. The adjustable cylinder magnets enable each string to be dialed in for perfect string-to-string balance. The T-Armond comes with 2-conductor "switchable" wiring if out of phase tone is desired.
Bridge: Wider pole spacing, which places a magnet directly under each string, results in optimum string separation and output. This pickup is wound with thinner magnet wire to enhance it's thicker tone.
DC Resistance: 12.0K | Inductance: 4.56H
Neck: The neck pickup has a clear, transparent and balanced tone with less string pull.
DC Resistance: 8.2K | Inductance: 3.38H
TONE / Characteristic:
Full and bold in the bridge position. Clear, transparent tone in the neck position.
- Surf Music
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Mounting Options Available (The tone you want, in nearly any guitar!)
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The Journal of Chemical Physics publishes concise and definitive reports of significant research in methods and applications of chemical physics. The Journal also publishes brief Communications of significant new findings, Perspectives on the latest advances in the field, and Special Topic issues. The Journal focuses on innovative research in experimental and theoretical areas of chemical physics, including spectroscopy, dynamics, kinetics, statistical mechanics, and quantum mechanics. In addition, topical areas such as polymers, soft matter, materials, surfaces/interfaces, and systems of biological relevance are of increasing importance.
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Ross is a longtime friend of McCrumb, and she is the real-life model for the character Nora Bonesteel. Ross will explore the characters, folklore and impact of the novels. McCrumb's novels include If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O, The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, She Walks These Hills, The Rosewood Casket, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, The Songcatcher and Ghost Riders.
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Dog bites in California are a strict liability tort. This means that unless someone is trespassing on your property, you are liable for any injury caused by your dog no matter what. Even if your'e dog doesn't have a history of biting or vicious behavior, or if you handle a leash properly, you can still be held liable. The statutes which discusses this in length are:Calif. Civil Code § 3342.
1. In the apprehension or holding of a suspect where the employee has a reasonable suspicion of the suspect's involvement in criminal activity.2. In the investigation of a crime or possible crime.3. In the execution of a warrant.4. In the defense of a peace officer or another person.
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I don't thinkl you understood my question. I will tell you briefly. in sacramento if a person is walking there dog on the sidewalk in front of your house and the dogs accidently get through the front door come running up to your dog but the owner is scared out of there mind and you keep yelling at them to let go of the leash and stop kicking and pushing the dog away because you know your dog won't bite he just ran out to sniff the person that's walking there dog but in the inturn that person was scared straight and you yourself are disabled but trying to tell the person to let go of the leash but they can't let go because instead of walking there dog with the leash in there hand they have the leash wrapped around the body so if anything did occurred which obviously something they wouldn't be able to let go of the leash because the dog would end up dragging them down the street. now had that person held the leash and this were to happen then there wouldn't be any personal injury because there dog would of took off and the other dog would of followed. she in this case that person with the leash kind of I would say provoked the dog in nipping them not a bit persay or puncture wound but just a nipp. now they find out you don't have insurance and the property is on a trust what is the worst that could take place. and being that i'm a disabled person with a fixed income what is the legality that would happened. isn't there a leash law of some sort pertaining to this. or what rights do I have being that i'm disabled. this person didn't have any sitched just a clean wash and bandage. but in the inturn of all this I ended up losing 2 very good dogs that animal control took when they should of taken only one that nipped the person and then this put a great strain on me because they were both euthanizerd isn't there anything I can do regarding this. because I told them they were wrong in taking both when only one was at fault but other witnesses stated otherwise and now the findings of the medical report show that the witnesses statement where wrong what can I do
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One of the most ignored features of the modern RDBMSs today is the stored procedures. In fact most of the web applications go to extreme lengths to increase performance but avoid the stored procedures. They are also one of the favorites in theory, but hated in practice. Are they so unnecessary? Are they so useless? Many say so.
Stored procedures give pre-compiled code which can execute requests in batches. This itself can help boost the performance. Of course the improvement will be dependent on the context, but other advantages like more granular access control and more mechanisms for security only promote them. A layer of stored procedures can also act as a single interface for multiple applications or clients.
Then why are they treated as ghosts? I wonder if there are other factors that drive the choice, factors which are more dependent on the programmers than on the merit of stored procedures itself. I have talked to programmers, database people (programmers, administrators), managers, testers about stored procedures and there have been extreme responses regarding stored procedures. Maybe this extremity is a problem itself. But let us dive deeper.
As Greg Jorgensen says, programmers hate RDBMSs and they hate SQL. Most of the programmers are comfortable to imperative programming, and the declarative SQL syntax only creates more friction. While I have met programmers who like the challenge of SQL, I have also found that they are not particularly fond of it. So what do they do? They google for SQL code and more often than not find a ready-made piece of code to solve their problems. This is just too easy.
As Martin Fowler says, we are moving away from using the database to share data across applications, and that nullifies one of the benefits of the stored procedures. But it is more than just liking, the programmability of the database might be against best practices of software programming. Programmers do not want the database to do anything more than manage the data. Database is not part of programming, so using stored procedures does not help much.
I think the problem is that the stored procedures are not yet programmable enough to guarantee inclusion of the entire business logic. And placing only a part of it in there can cause nightmares in maintenance. That leaves the benefit of granular access and security, but does that tilt the cost-benefit balance against the stored procedures?
This affects other decisions like composition of the development or the maintenance team, which tend to be stronger on non-DB programming side. But I believe that stored procedures can be useful in some cases, like in cases when it is possible to clearly separate the data rules and the business rules. In stead of not considering them at all, thoughtfully accepting or rejecting them is a better approach.
I have been part of desktop and network applications that used them. I haven't seen them in any of the Web applications yet, for various reasons mentioned above. But I find it difficult to accept that stored procedures are useless. Do you use stored procedures?


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I still get excited with each and every Whoopie Pie. They make my heart melt with happiness. These are gingerbread whoopie pies with cinnamon cream cheese frosting. They're easy, they're quick, they're delicious, they're Christmas. And they're also gone at my house because we have no self-control over a whoopie pie. None.
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1 box gingerbread cake mix
1/2 cup veggie oil
2 eggs
1/4 cup water
Cream cheese frosting
1 tablespoon cinnamon
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Combine cake mix, oil, eggs, and water in bowl.
Drop by 2 tablespoons onto lined cookie sheet (leave about an inch between each cookie)
Bake 9 to 10 minutes
Cool on pan 5 minutes, move to wire rack and cool 15 more minutes
Stir cinnamon into your store bought cream cheese frosting.
Take one cookie and place a tablespoon or so of frosting in the center. Press another cookie on top (this will spread the icing out to the edge). Repeat.
Santa has already requested we leave these out on Christmas Eve night. I'm going to set out a few extra for Mrs. Claus too.


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BAYLOR PARK - Water drips off the branches of Englemann spruce and falls silent on the forest floor. It drips off the old man's beard lichen that envelops the trees in Baylor Park on a gray day in early September. At 135 to 200 years old , these trees are the grand old dames of the White River National Forest.And they are dying. Although their needles haven't turned the characteristic red-brown of the beetle-killed trees at lower elevations, on closer look many are dead or dying.On Aug. 18, 1999, a large windstorm blew down spruce, fir and aspen trees in a 3,000 acre area of Baylor Park southwest of the Sunlight ski area. Spruce bark beetles quickly invaded the downed spruce trees, and soon infested surrounding living trees. Today it has spread five miles beyond the original blowdown area, said Jan Burke, a forester with the White River National Forest.Burke, muffled in a rain jacket, points out the infested trees. "It breaks my heart," she said. And there's not much she can do about it.But this infestation is nothing compared to the beetle killed trees in Summit and eastern Eagle counties, and communities on the Front Range that back up to the national forest where mountain pine beetle has attacked lodgepole pines and left thousands of acres of dead trees. "Likely we will lose the majority of the lodgepole across that landscape," Burke said of the infestation in Summit and Eagle counties. The White River National Forest is now in the path of the storm. Besides the beetle outbreak in Baylor Park, there is also "a rolling infestation on the Grand Mesa that is moving this way," Burke said.With beetle infestations reaching epidemic proportions, people, not just foresters, are sitting up and taking notice. Colorado legislators have introduced several bills this year that address the problem. U.S. Senators Wayne Allard and Ken Salazar and Representatives Bob Beauprez, John Salazar and Mark Udall met earlier this summer to combine their bills that they hope will stem the attack and avert large-scale fires in beetle-killed trees, especially in residential areas. "The fire hazard created by bark beetles will impact our communities soon, and for years to come," said Sen. Ken Salazar.
Two types of bark beetles are responsible for most of the damage sweeping national forests in the state. Both bore beneath the bark and eventually kill the tree. During their life cycle they lay eggs, increasing populations exponentially. These new adults move on to infest other trees.Mountain pine beetles attack lodgepole pines, which die about one year after being infested. When the trees die their needles turn a reddish brown. Spruce beetles also bore beneath the bark and inoculate the trees with blue stain fungus which ultimately kills the tree. They also attack big mature trees. Infested spruce tree needles do not turn brown but fall off when they're still green.
Bark beetles are part of the forest ecosystem, Burke said. They attack living trees in cycles over periods of years. There are also environmental factors that pave the way for these infestations. The primary factor, said Burke, is the age of a forest. In the White River, which covers about 2 million acres between Rifle and Silverthorne, Meeker and Aspen, 95 percent of the spruce are mature trees 90 years old or older. They're the perfect target for spruce beetles which attack older, larger trees.Drought also creates good conditions for bark beetles. The drought of the last several years has stressed the spruce in the forest."Beetles respond to stressed trees. When there's less water available there's less pitch in the trees which is their defense material," she said.Global warming could also be a factor. We're now experiencing longer growing seasons in the West with warmer winters, earlier springs and later falls, and that means a greater survival rate for beetles.Such large-scale infestations are natural and happen over long periods of time. Mountain pine beetle infestations occur every 15 years or so; Spruce beetle every 200-250 years.
The White River National Forest has no specific policy at present for stemming the tide of beetle infestation. Burke said she's planning to map infested areas and assess what areas need to be treated. The areas of biggest risk are the areas with the biggest trees. "We need to evaluate where the key resource values are and prioritize what are most important" such as campgrounds and ski areas. "We can't treat everything."At this stage of the game, even in the White River where the beetle infestation is relatively light compared to forests east of here, there is no way to stop the spread."We're not going to stop the infestation," she said.What it can do is cut down the standing dead timber and thin uninfested areas to encourage younger trees to grow and diversify the forest.Sloan Shoemaker of the Carbondale-based Wilderness Workshop agrees there's no stopping the beetles. In fact, he and many other conservationists strongly oppose any sort of treatment."There is no ecological reason for (the Forest Service) to do anything," he said. "Beetle outbreaks have occurred throughout the millennia. The forest depends on them for renewal."However, Shoemaker said high value trees threatened with a beetle attack should be saved."But don't say (as the Forest Service does) that there is a forest crisis," he added.Burke believes the forest missed a chance to stem the tide after the Baylor Park blowdown occurred. The Forest Service proposed a timber salvage sale to remove the downed trees. But Shoemaker said the Forest Service went too far with its proposal."The Forest Service saw an opportunity to sell a bunch of timber, and frankly, they got greedy," he said. The Wilderness Workshop filed an objection to the plan that was denied, and then filed a lawsuit that was settled out of court. In that settlement the Forest Service agreed to harvest only dead or dying trees, Shoemaker said.Burke said treatment of beetle-killed trees is not all about logging."My motivation is not to get two by fours out the door but keeping (the forest) green," she said. Her approach is to make way for the new forest that will eventually replace the beetle-killed trees."I'm not thinking about how much forest we can save but how to jump start a new forest," she said.What is certain is the natural process of beetles killing vast tracts of trees will mean great change in our landscape."Our grandchildren will not see the forest like this again," Burke said.Contact Donna Gray: 945-8515, ext. email@example.com


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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The body that regulates Florida attorneys has forwarded a complaint to the state Supreme Court against a South Florida lawyer whose firm handled tens of thousands of foreclosure cases.
The Florida Bar on Wednesday filed the complaint against David Stern, whose firm operated out of Broward County.
The complaint says Stern failed to properly supervise his staff and that led to allegations of misconduct.
According to the complaint, the misconduct included missed hearings, improperly filed court documents and hundreds of attorneys handling thousands of foreclosure cases.
The complaint says documents submitted in court by his firm often were incomplete, contained inaccuracies and were improperly notarized.
Stern's attorney, Jeffrey Tew, says his client did nothing wrong and that the Bar will be unable to prove the allegations.
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Port of Hamburg grows with transatlantic trade
February 21, 2012
The number of containers passing through Hamburg rose 14 percent in 2011, helping Germany's largest port jump to number two in Europe. Germany's economic growth carried the EU in 2011, increasing the country's attractiveness as an investment destination.
As reported in LM, there's been a new concentration of ocean cargo vessel deployments contributing to this trend.
The New World Alliance (TNWA), comprising APL Co. Pte Ltd (APL), Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) and Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) recently announced the launch of a new Trans-Atlantic service connecting Europe and the UK with the US East Coast and Panama.
According to spokesmen attending the current Retail Industry leaders Association's (RILA) annual meeting in Dallas this week, logistics investments in Germany are on the rise in 2012, in part to meet growing retail demand.
"During the crisis of 2009, ports across Europe were eerily quiet. And just two years later German exports reached an all-time record. Such a quick turnaround would not have been possible without a world-class infrastructure and the strongest domestic market in Europe. These are the key reasons companies choose Germany for their European logistics operations," said David Chasdi, logistics expert at Germany Trade & Invest in Berlin.
Already this year, companies have invested in new logistics facilities in Germany: Penske Logistics recently inaugurated a new office in Dusseldorf to deliver logistics services to companies in the automotive, healthcare, manufacturing, and chemical sectors. The company was supported by Germany Trade & Invest. Also in 2012, Amazon will open two new facilities and Swiss logistics giant Kuehne + Nagel broke ground on its massive facility in Duisburg, the world's largest inland port.
Over 9 million containers (132.2 million tons) passed through Hamburg in 2011, a gain of over a million containers in one year. But Hamburg was not the only port to grow. Freight passing through the Baltic Sea port of Kiel increased 8.5 percent to 6 million tons in 2011, setting a new record for the hub serving Scandinavia, Russia and the Baltic states. The North Sea port of Bremerhaven also claimed the top European spot for automobile handling. And the new deep sea port in Wilhelmshaven - JadeWeserPort –is attracting customers with deep discounts through 2018.
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Which Glee Stars Are Engaged?
Is it a requirement that you have to be engaged to be on Glee these days? We haven't heard of such a stipulation, but it almost feels that way, as this year has seen a seemingly countless number of the show's stars showing off engagement rings. So who all is currently engaged?
A list of everyone on the show who's engaged is almost as long as Santa's list, but we'll give it a shot.


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This past Thursday, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. proposed 12 major reforms for state and local pension systems that would end system-wide abuses and reduce taxpayer costs by billions of dollars over the long term.
"It's time to fix our pension systems so that they are fair and sustainable over a long time horizon," said Governor Brown. "My plan raises the retirement age and bans abusive practices like 'spiking' and 'air time' while mandating that public employees pay an equal share of pension costs."
The Governor's 12-point plan addresses key issues affecting pensions in state and local governments. He initially outlined a pension reform plan during budget negotiations in March 2011.
When fully implemented, these reforms will cut roughly in half the cost to taxpayers for providing pension benefits for state employees. It will cut the risk to taxpayers for pension debt by more than half. Similar savings are expected across all systems.
According to the Governor's press release, the 12-point plan addresses key issues affecting pensions in state and local governments. The plan includes the following reforms:
Even as Gov. Jerry Brown announced his plan, its prospects of passing intact appeared dim.
His own allies, California's powerful labor interests, objected to major parts of the plan. In addition, leaders of the Democratic-controlled Legislature – neither of whom attended Brown's announcement – reacted with concern.
Brown said he thinks the Legislature will "rise to the occasion," but even he wasn't sure of the outcome. Nevertheless, Brown promised pension changes in his campaign, and the proposal could blunt Republican criticism of his labor ties as he prepares next year to ask voters to raise taxes.


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Posted by Rob on August 31, 2004 at 10:49:21:
Hi Its Rob and Tonya here.
Driving to Ukraine.
I used the michelin website route finder to give me the way to
Uzgorod. Which was where I needed to make for as my travelling
companion {Karl}(hello Karl i know you'll see this!) lives there with his wife and I was taking some
stuff for him - as my wife Tonya and the two boys had flown out a
month earlier to be with the family. The route finder gave us a route
that took in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Czech Republic (via
Prague) and Slovakia. About 1300 miles.
My car is a Citroen Xantia (deseil) and I had the local mechanic
check it out for normal and obvious faults. obviously you need all
your documents, inc registration document (IMPORTANT)plus
international driving permit, I also took a green card, not that you
need it in Europe but just because it was more 'official paper' plus
the fire estinguisher, tow rope, spare bulbs, triangle, first aid kit
(not that I was asked to show them}
WE took the ferry at dover with empty tank looking to fill up in
France. The first petrol station is about 40kms from the ferry port
this was our first worry. We got off the ferry at 10:30 and clicked
the milometer to 0000. This worked really well with the mileposts
listed on the Michelin route, we were usually within a mile or so of
where they said we should be. We drove till about 3:30 until
somewhere in Germany we pulled over and slept. Next morning off at
about 6:30, good roads, good signage, no problems a bit tricky going
around Prague as there are a lot of road works going on. But the
michelin route guide worked well we also had a road atlas. Don't
foget you need to by Road Tax at the czech border (but no cops asked
to look) you also need to buy road tax at the Slovakian border. This
was the first time we were asked for documents. They wanted
passports, card documents and green card. But were polite and
friendly. They checked the chassis number against the registration
document. We drove onwards into slovakia good roads but not as fast
we stopped at about 10:30pm. Next day onward to Ukraine from about
6:00am getting to the border at Uzgorod at about midday.
At the Ukraine border. They wanted my car passport. I gave them my
registration document which seem to confuse them. But in the end they
accepted it. Again checked chassis number and wrote it in my passport
by the visa. Customs gave our (Karl's) boxes a cusory look.]
WE stayed in Uzgorod a couple of days with Karl and my wife met me
there having taken the overnight train from Vinnitsa our first
The two main problems with driving in Ukraine are 1. The roads and 2.
The cops. The best thing about driving in Ukraine is desiel at 20p a
litre - petrol 30p!
The road from Uzgorod to Ternopil was horrendous real 4x4 stuff but
there are a lot of roadworks going on so they should get better and
they are designated M roads. From Ternopil to Vinnista the roads are
There is a contant watch for cops. When you see oncoming traffic with
their lights on or flashing their lights this means cops ahead. Slow
down. Slow down in all built up areas. Top speeds on all main roads
is about 50 mph. about 20-30 kph in villages/towns. In towns and
villages expect cobbled roads. WATCH OUT FOR HUGE POTHoles . Expect
cops at big junctions, big roundabaouts, watch out for signs that say
ÄÀi the cops have little houses by the road, some p-laces you have to
stop or slow down. Saying that enroute to Vinnitsa only got stopped
once, cop looked at our passports, flrted with my wife and waved us
It took a day from Uzgorod to Vinnitsa. Because of the bad roads.
When driving in Ukraine drive defensively. Watch out for very bad
driving and fast speeds.
Driving around Vinnitsa was fine, we parked the car every night in a
secure parking (lots around) for 2gre a night. No problems.
DRiving From Vinnitsa to Sevastopol Crimea.
We started at 5:30 pm and was in Sevastopol swimming in the Black Sea
at about 11:00 am It is about 800kms. I was following my brother in
WE stayed in typical Ukrainian holiday lets which is a room with
beds, a kitchen and shower wc etc for 20 gre per person per night.
The main thing about driving in UKraine is the lack of road signs. It
is very difficult to know where the roads are. You HAVE to stop and
ask. Even my brother in law who has driven to Crimea many times
stopped and asked. You can be on the main road with some signs and
then in a town or city and the signage stops and you have to ask.
My brother in law took the 'short cut' as they are building a
motoerway and the main roads are bad. But these roads were worse.
Through the back of beyond through villages on very bad dirt roads.
Got stopped once by cops who wanted to test my emmissions but I
played dumb and was waved on my way with no fine.
In Crimea drove into the mountains above Yalta roads good.
After 10 Days drove back to Vinnitsa, just us bil stayed in Crimea
for more holiday. We took the main route home not the short cut.
Again had to ask many times where the route was we did have Ukrainian
roadmaps as well) Got stopped for 'speeding' and fined/taxed 60gre
Usual problems with road.
Vinnitsa back to UK
This time we drove back via Poland. Again using the Michelin route
guide. Which worked very well. Vinnitsa to Polish Border via Lviv.
BIG PROBLEM at Ukrainian border. Again wanted passports and car
passport - registration document. But this time they wanted my wife's
husbands death certificate to allow the children out of the country.
We did not have it it was at home in UK we thought that the visa's
and marriage cert was enough. They kept us for over an hour, my wife
crying, lots of coming and going and explanations until they relented
and let us through.
UKRAINIAN BORDER: At Uzgorod we just drove to front of queue and were
seen straight away
At the Ukrainian/Polish border there was a huge queue of traffic
waiting to get through. I started to drive down it and was stopped by
loads of guys who wanted 50 euro to get me to the front I ignored
them and just drove to the front and bullied my way into the line. We
waited about 1 and a half hours to get to the control.
cursory customs check. But we lost about 3 hours driving time. You
need to allow for long waits
In Poland - Good signs. We Started in Vinnitsa at 5:30 am and drove
until about 11:30pm I didn't want to do this but I was the only
driver. Good roads. No problems no cops. Desil about 30p lots of
We saw lots of motels/hotels in the day but of course once you start
looking at about 9:00pm we didnt see any. About 500 miles that day.
Good hotel room 150 zloty for 4 with breakfast
Next day start about 9 ish to the German Border. Polish control
stopped us for about 15 mins while they checked passports etc. Again
cursory customs check.
German roads ok loads of roadworks drove till about 9:00 another
motel 120 euro for two rooms no breakfast
On German autobahns there are huge distances between petrol service
stations watch your fuel guage.
Next day good travelling to Calais via Holland, Belgium. No problems
at UK passport control. Back to Hatherleigh in Devon a total of
around 1,800 miles. About 5,000 for whole holiday.
Main comment driving there and back was like driving through the most
boring bits of wiltshire, just road and fields. Ukraine was more
Thank god for bank machines we drove all the way from Ukraine to
France before I found a bank to change dollars to euros!
Would I do it again. I think so its cheaper and more interesting than
the plane but is hugely time dependant. Yaroslav has become an expert
on the susauges of Europe!
If anyone wants to chat or ask more details mail me and I'll give you
my telephone number.
I enjoyed myself and at the end of the day the hassles were minimal
I also have the number of a cheap European Recovery which covers you
all the way through Poland but not Ukraine. Also there is no car
insurance requirement in Ukraine. So drive carefully. Watch out for
cows and duck and other livestock on the highway as you will have to
pay if you kill em.
Any questions please ask
Best wishes
Rob and Tonya
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At present she is finishing work on "David's Diary," an application for iPad and iPhone. It is an animated collaboration with the writer David Sedaris.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
A Successful Night in Nassau...
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I got Tom's drunk anti-Islanders text this morning. Anyway, I love how everyone turns a blind eye to the fact that an Islanders player is injured every game. It's getting kind of old. I mean, this is a lost season, but come on. Might be time for a new Islanders medical staff.ReplyDelete
Oh, and congratulations on the W.
One last thing - the back cover of today's Newsday? "Knicks Rip Accuser; Curry Considering Defamation Suit". Good call. At least the game got the top right hand corner of the back page, and the front page features an ad for upcoming Islanders games.ReplyDelete
You know soccer comes before the NHL on the top of ESPN.com now?ReplyDelete
Anyway, like the letter writing idea except for one thing...it won't work. The truth is no one cares, besides you guys, about hockey. American Idol will get better ratings than the Stanley cup finals. Sad, but true.
The truth is Hockey lacks big stars. Ego and drama bring more marketability to a sport than an actually well played game does. Look at the Cowboys. They are out of the playoffs, have criminals and cry babies on their team but they still find themselves in the spotlight.
It's for the same reason that Sean Avery was the most noteworthy (in terms of national media attention) thing to happen in the NHL all season.
Sad but true.
I just happened to see this picture now - how the hell did you get seats down in the 100s? I know you guys didn't actually pay $100 a ticket to sit down there.ReplyDelete
Grady's parents got them for him for a Christmas present... he owed me money and i bought him beer.ReplyDelete


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Fine Print - March 2011
Lets have some fun and put a financial twist on the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, in which you seek to trace the connections between Point A and Point B in the fewest number of steps. In the original game, you count the links between the actor and any other randomly selected person. In our version, well trace the steps between North Carolinas cotton farmers and Otto von Bismarck, who in the 19th century not only created the modern German state but also somehow managed to get a city in North Dakota named after him. Ready? OK, lets go.
The states cotton industry, of course, is nothing like it used to be. In many ways, thats a good thing, considering that in the antebellum period it depended on slave labor and in the postbellum era on sharecroppers of whom there were more every year, growing more cotton, selling it for less and becoming collectively poorer all along. Today, the states cotton farmers are growing less and selling it for more, a circumstance only loosely explained by supply and demand. Ill trace that fact to Germanys Iron Chancellor in just a couple of steps here, but first I have to brag: I can claim just three degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon. He once starred in a movie with Elizabeth Perkins (theres one), who appears in the TV show Weeds, in which Matthew Modine once guest-starred (theres two). And Modine starred in a movie based upon one of my books. It was filmed in Wilmington; he and I had lunch together one day which gives me a Bacon score of three. But if youre not impressed, youre in good company. This fact has never so much as gotten me a free drink in a bar.
Back to cotton: A little over a month ago, farmers from across Eastern North Carolina gathered in Kinston for their annual meeting to catch up on the state of the global cotton market. They learned some encouraging news from a fellow named John Flanagan, a North Carolina-based cotton trader and market analyst. He believes the price of cotton, which climbed above $1 per pound last year, could go as high as $1.75 this year. He cited a number of reasons for this, upon which he elaborated when I caught up to him later.
One is that our cotton-growing homeboys are the beneficiaries of other peoples weather problems. Flooding in Pakistan last year destroyed millions of bales of cotton, while Australia another major cotton producer had its own catastrophic weather event earlier this year. Not to be cold-blooded, but whats bad for them is good for us, obviously. A second reason is found in what Flanagan calls the food or fiber choice that developing countries typically face: Do they use their agricultural land to grow food or cotton? China and India are the worlds two largest cotton producers, but theyre also the two largest developing nations. Even though global demand for cotton is surging, theyre not turning over any more land to fiber production. Theyve got way too many mouths to feed. Again, thats good for us in North Carolina. Weve got a barbecue joint or a McDonalds on every corner and feel no such pressure. When the price of cotton goes up, our farmers can simply stop growing corn or soybeans or whatever and cash in with cotton. Flanagan expects the number of acres devoted to cotton in the state this year will be 50% higher than in 2009.
But its a big world with lots of land, and he understands that markets, like nature, abhor a vacuum. Central and South America could become bigger cotton-production players, but Flanagan says the greatest untapped potential is in Africa. And this is where we return to Otto von Bismarck.
In most ways, Bismarck was very much a man of his times which is to say, a ruthless, scheming Prussian who saw Europe as one large chessboard to be manipulated to his will. But in one regard he was uniquely modern and wise. Bismarck understood that Germany needed to be socially stable before it could be transformed from a loose collection of states into an industrial world power. It needed a working class that shared in the prosperity, not one that was restive and oppressed. Accordingly, Bismarck pushed laws that limited child labor, established maximum work hours and provided health and old-age insurance. The benefit to all that was a big leap into industrialization and prosperity. Of course, within the next half-century Germany also managed to start two world wars, so lets call it a mixed bag of consequences. But the point is undeniable: Prosperity springs from stability, not strife.
Africas problem is that it has no Bismarck. Many, if not most, of its countries are social and political messes. Whos going to invest in cotton production there? Flanagan asks. Its a rhetorical question, of course, albeit one with an obvious answer (which Flanagan himself supplies): Somebody will, eventually, because capitalism seeks out such inefficiencies, then destroys them, he says. But until that day arrives, and as long as the developing world has to choose between food and fiber, North Carolinas cotton growers will likely enjoy a nice run of prosperity. In terms of money, cotton will never replace tobacco what could? but its proof that theres always a dividend to stability. And Im not just whistlin Dixie here.


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MDTTC Open House
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1989: Fall International Tournaments.
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West Hartford's Elmwood Senior Center is home court to some of the best senior table tennis players in the state. The group proved that at the Connecticut Masters' Games in April when its men and women took home a total of 28 gold, silver, and bronze medals.
Table tennis duo making waves
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Vicksburg residents Bill Seabergh and Charlie Lutz bounced their way into the senior Olympics in Birmingham, Alabama next year.
Go for golden! Brooklyn boomers compete in boro's first Senior Games
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Dozens of borough seniors faced off in a table-tennis tournaments at St. John's Recreation Center in Crown Heights on May 13, as part of the inaugural Brooklyn Senior Games — a five-day sporting carnival celebrating Kings County residents aged 50 and over who are staying fit and healthy into their golden years.
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Our World: A Winning Team
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Ah, the long, strange tale of Ralfe Band...
Essentially an alter ego for Oly Ralfe, the group first began making music mid-way through the turbulent decade known as the Noughties. Since then, two studio albums and a 22-track film score have followed, with Ralfe Band even earning a guest slot on 'The Mighty Boosh'.
Much like the mythical ship The Flying Dutchman, Ralfe Band only seem to veer into view every few years or so. Earlier this summer, fans were alerted to fresh material when the group released new album 'Son Be Wise' through High Line Records.
A curious, bewitching document, it found Oly Ralfe indulging in yet more whimsically English, deeply pastoral songwriting. The sound of a young songwriter careering through genres, colliding with styles, 'Son Be Wise' was another typically idiosyncratic document from the ever-inspirational artist.
Field Music are well known supporters, and recently agreed to craft a rare remix for Ralfe Band. Seizing hold of 'Oh My Father' the Brewis Brothers slide in that itchy sense of funk which Field Music fans know so well.
It's an under-stated remix, one which seems to make 'Oh My Father' more direct yet retains its allusive, illusionary nature.
Listen to it now.
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