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Desperate L.A. Offers $1 Million Bounty for Accused Cop Killer
Peter Z. Scheer
A week after former police officer Christopher Dorner is alleged to have begun killing those people he reportedly views as his enemies, authorities in Southern California — and even actor Charlie Sheen — are doing everything they can to bring the elusive man out of the shadows.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced a $1 million reward for information leading to Dorner's capture. Sheen, who was mentioned in a manifesto attributed to Dorner, released a video inviting the accused gunman to call and "figure out together how to end this thing."
Dorner believes he was wrongfully dismissed from the police force, and LAPD Chief Charlie Beck has ordered a review of the case. The chief has also promised to meet with the accused killer if he surrenders.
Dorner was last thought to be in the Big Bear mountain resort area about two hours east of downtown Los Angeles, but authorities have been unable to pick up his trail.
In two separate incidents, officers protecting people believed to be on a kill list shot at and injured innocent people they presumably mistook for the gunman.
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Did you know that there are awards to celebrate the best in plain language and clear documents? There is! Each year, the Center for Plain Language hosts the ClearMark awards – a time to toast the best plain language communication written for consumers by government, private companies and non-profits.
We are happy to report that Kleimann Communication Group and its partner, Graves Fowler Creative, have won the 2014 Grand ClearMark Award along with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The Grand ClearMark Award is the top distinction of the Center for Plain Language awards. The Center for Plain Language established this annual award program to honor the best use of plain language in print and online communications by government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private industry.
The winning entry by Kleimann/Graves Fowler is an integrated mortgage loan disclosure form created to replace current mortgage documents. The goal of this document is to help consumers compare offers from different lenders, understand loan terms and closing costs, and make informed decisions when purchasing a home. The team used qualitative and quantitative testing as well as an iterative design process to develop a form that would meet the needs of both English- and Spanish-speaking communities.
Richard Horn, former CFPB Senior Counsel and Special Advisor (now Partner at Dentons US LLP), recently commented on the outcome:
"The increased clarity of these disclosures will foster a more competitive marketplace for lenders and other settlement service providers. And perhaps more importantly, the disclosures will let consumers make better financial decisions for them and their families, avoiding costs and risks they cannot afford. The team's hard work will arguably prevent the recurrence of one of the primary causes of the financial crisis that has cost this country so much."

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Portion of Highway 2 closed after semi struck bridge
BEMIDJI -- The westbound lanes of U.S. Highway 2 near the 5th Street Northwest exit are now open, but the 15th Street bridge, struck by a semi Saturday afternoon, will remain closed indefinitely for repairs.
Beltrami County emergency management director Beryl Wernberg in a press release said the truck was hauling "heavy construction equipment," The truck struck the bridge just before 1 p.m. Saturday. No injuries were reported and the truck was not hauling any hazardous materials, Wernberg added.
The westbound lanes of Highway 2 were closed for several hours Saturday as crews cleaned up debris left on the roadway as a result of the accident. Motorists are urged to use caution and pay attention to detour signs in the area.


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St. Charles Parish is keeping up its reputation as a perfect rural shooting location for New Orleans area media production companies.
Last week, passersby on Highway 90 in Boutte may have seen a suspect-looking police car with generic stickers on it chasing after two truck fulls of men fleeing the parking lot of Outdoor Express.
The scene was part of an unnamed History Channel series rumored to focus on animal control specialists in Louisiana that is set to debut in January.
Outdoor Express is well known throughout the region for its focus on fishing and hunting accessories. The store has become a top spot for archers since it has one of the better bow and arrow collections in the metro region.
Jessica Waldrop, who has owned Outdoor Express for the past 10 years with her husband Kenny, said this was the first time her store had been used as a filming location.
"This is the first time we actually had them shooting. It was pretty cool. It was nice having the lights and seeing the behind the scenes of how much it takes just to do one scene," she said.
The production company, based out of Kenner, picked the location because they were within close driving distance. So when the crew spent 13 hours filming for two days at Outdoor Express, using all Louisiana-based actors, they were able to get home earlier than if they had chosen a more rural location in the state.
"They said they'd like to stay and do shoots within an hour around, that way it is not a whole lot of travel expenses for them," Waldrop said.
Waldrop said the producers scouted out the shop and then called telling them they wanted to shoot there and use it as a store owned by one of the show's main characters.
"They are using the name of the shop in the show," she said. "They couldn't promise how much they would have about Outdoor Express, but that would be the name of (the store in the show). That way we didn't have to take down the signs."
In fact, Waldrop and her family will likely be in he background of some of the shots.
Because the show is linked to one of the characters, Waldrop said subsequent shoots may occur at the location, but it is still too early to tell if that will happen.
"They wrote out six episodes for the first year. We are supposed to be in the first two episodes and then if they pick it up for the second year we'll of course have more episodes. They said they may even be back this year, it just depends," she said.
Waldrop also said to keep an eye out for more activity because the show's producers are looking to film scenes for the TV series at other locations across the parish.
"They also scoped out some other places they had asked me about in Bayou Gauche and Des Allemands," she said.
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Some features of Santerra Green Composting Toilet Systems.
Slab-Level Installation
Santerra Green offers two slab-level installation options.
- X Series models are waterless and all-in-one. They install right on the bathroom floor.
- FlushSmart V Series models can flush up, down or sideways avoiding any issues with at or below grade installations.
Plug & Play Ready-to-Install
Santerra Green Systems come Plug & Play ready-to-install out of the box. And, to make it easier the toilet (waterless, low water or vacuum flush) is included in the system price. Installation is easy and is usually completed in a few hours.
Push-Button Flush
Want a luxurious and modern feature in your bathroom? Santerra Green offers a push-button flushing option with some models. anterra Green V SERIES 700 models feature an electronic push-button flush. Compare this to others that only offer a foot-pedal flushing option.
Longest Warranty in the Industry
Santerra Green systems feature the longest warranty in the industry. When you buy a Sancor-made composting toilet system you are not buying it for a couple seasons. It is a 15-20 year commitment.
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The system body (or outer shell) features a full Lifetime Warranty. So, there is no conern about freezing conditions causing damage to the body. It is built to last. If anything does happen, it is replaced. Compare this to other with a 5-year warranty on the outer shell.
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So long...I've been waiting SOOOOOOOOOO long to reveal this one! My lord, the suspense has been killing me! Thankfully, the day is finally here. The official announcement of Nintendo Force us upon us!
Nintendo Power put up 25 great years in the industry, battling against all sorts of shifting methods of content delivery. Sadly, the time came when Nintendo decided to not push forward with the iconic magazine anymore. That left every Nintendo Power fan, old and young, with a big hole in their heart. That's where the Nintendo Force crew is hoping to step in and patch things up.
Nintendo Force is a spiritual successor to Nintendo Power. The magazine is aiming to provide the same type of content/vibe that Nintendo Power brought us for so many years. The difference is, Nintendo Force is staffed by Nintendo fans that currently work for some of the most well-known Nintendo websites out there. Check out this all-star crew below.
Recognize a few faces in there? We're absolutely honored to be a part of this massive undertaking. To even be considered for a spot in Nintendo Force was completely unbelievable to me. I know I'll be doing my best to make Nintendo Force the most loving tribute to Nintendo Power it can be. The same goes for the amazing crew that was pieced together, which I'm floored to work with. Nintendo Force was born from something truly sad, but with a crew like this, hopefully we can put back some smiles on faces.
I really look forward to bringing you the first issue of Nintendo Force, as does everyone else on the team. We've been working hard for months to pull this off. Let's hope we've managed to put something together that'll be worthy of a second issue!
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Maria Clara Paulino is the director of the
B.A. in Individualized Studies in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies.
Her academic background includes Portugal (Universities of Coimbra and Porto)
and England (University of Cambridge), and she holds graduate degrees in
English Literature and Art History.
Her Ph.D. in Art History focuses on the art and architecture of Portugal seen
through the eyes of foreigners, both European and North American, between the
mid-eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries.
Dr. Paulino's research interests lie in the
intersection between literary and visual forms of expression and the spaces of
encounter between cultures. She publishes her research regularly in
international journals and books, and is the author of Uma Torre Delicada: Lisboa e Arredores
em Notas de Viajantes (A Delicate Tower: Lisbon and Surrounding
Areas in Travelers' Notes), a book published in 2013.
Dr. Paulino maintains a strong connection with
Portugal, where she was born. She is a member of an interdisciplinary research
group at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon) and currently co-supervises a
Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Porto (Oporto). She is a member of the
Board of Directors of FIMS (Fundação Instituto Marques da Silva), a Portuguese
architectural foundation.
Dr. Paulino has published short stories and a
collection of personal essays. She is fluent in five languages and an
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By CALVIN PYNN
Pulaski County Public School teacher Dr. Sandra Cauthen has been selected as Summer Scholar for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
Cauthen, who teaches seventh grade history at Dublin Middle School, was selected from a national applicant pool to attend one of 17 NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops. The National Endowment for the Humanities is a federal agency that supports summer study opportunities each year so that teachers can work with experts in humanities disciplines.
She will participate in a workshop titled "America's Industrial Revolution." The one-week program will be held at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Mich.
In addition to Cauthen's workshop on "America's Industrial Revolution," the teachers selected will also have the option to study topics such as Abraham Lincoln, the American Revolution on the Northern frontier, and the American Skyscraper. Other topics offered to the teachers include America's "Atomic West," the California gold rush, Duke Ellington, Emily Dickinson, the Missouri-Kansas border wars, slavery in the colonial Chesapeake, and women's rights, religion, and abolition on the Rochester Reform Trail.
Cauthen is one of 40 teachers selected to participate in the program, in which each will receive a $1,200 stipend to help cover their travel, study, and living expenses.
Approximately 1,360 teachers will participate in these studies, and will teach more than 170,000 American students the following year.
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About the show
A new three-part crime documentary series for RTÉ One, Heist goes behind the headlines of some of the most notorious large-scale crimes ever committed in Ireland.
Programme one features the Real IRA's attempted robbery of a Securicor vehicle in Co Wicklow, while programme two looks at the infamous Brinks Allied Heist.
The last programme in the series focuses on Russborough House, the Irish estate of the late Sir Alfred Beit, from which priceless works have been sensationally robbed on four separate occasions since 1974.


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By clicking Submit, you accept the Adobe Terms of Use.
Experience with Adobe LiveCycle will be helpful, as will a basic understanding of HTML and JavaScript.
Note: If you are installing LiveCycle ES2 for this article, select a turnkey install. See http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/installturnkey.pdf for more details.
Note: This file contains JavaScript libraries, HTML samples, and a LiveCycle Archive.
The release of Adobe LiveCycle Workspace ES2 Mobile brought about Adobe's first application for the Apple iPhone. It allows users to participate in approval workflows from their mobile devices. This article explores how to extend the mobile capabilities of LiveCycle ES2 by creating an HTML-based mobile application that can initiate a business process. Initiating a process involves capturing data from the user, in this case via a form, then relaying that data to a back-end LiveCycle process. To complete the picture this article will also cover creating a process with an approval step that leverages the Adobe LiveCycle Workspace ES2 Mobile client for iPhone.
The sample application demonstrates how to initiate a LiveCycle process from an iPhone using HTML and JavaScript. The provided web code leverages IUI, a JavaScript library by Joe Hewitt that delivers a native iPhone look-and-feel to your application.
Building the user experience will involve the creation of a forms list as well as the individual forms themselves. Once deployed to the server, users can access the application via the Safari browser on their iPhone.
The first screen presents the user with a login screen (see Figure 1). Actually, the user's credentials are only captured at this point, and then used for authentication when data is submitted to the server. Alternatively, if you wish to target users outside your organization you may choose to allow anonymous access to your applications and services.
The second screen displays a list of available forms (see Figure 2). Upon selection of a form the application will transition to the form page allowing for data capture and submission to the back-end service. Data is passed to the server in XML format. That data will then be pushed into a LiveCycle process and enter into a user step. Next, a new approval task will be queued up for a second user participating in the workflow via the LiveCycle Workspace ES2 Mobile application. When the approver opens their iPhone application they will be presented with the new task with options to approve or reject the request. A side-car PDF view of the request is also available if the user wishes to view additional details of the request. Once the request is approved (or rejected) the task will disappear from their list and the process will continue on the server. For the sake of simplicity, the sample process provided for this article ends there, but feel free to let your imagination run wild.
Mobile forms are not all that dissimilar from any other HTML form, however, there are a few exceptions. Those differences account for a targeted visual experience as well as conventions for facilitating data collection for server processing. When a form is submitted from a mobile device, the provided JavaScript library walks the document object model (DOM) and collects all form elements encased in a DIV tag with a class name of
node. Each node represents an element within the resulting XML data model structure that is sent to the LiveCycle process.
Note: If you wish to nest XML nodes, simply nest your DIV tags within your HTML code.
First and foremost, your form must also have a unique
title (visible at runtime),
class (
panel and
iuiForm), and
action, and its
selected attribute must be set to
true (required by the IUI framework to be visible). For example:
<form id="servicerequestmodel"
title="Service Request"
class="panel iuiForm"
onsubmit="return false;"
root node is required to encompass all other elements you wish to have processed by the parser. In other words, all DIV tags designated with a
class attribute of
node must be encased by a top level DIV tag with an
id of

The node parser supports hierarchical structures as well. The following example demonstrates such a nested relationship:

Within each
node DIV the parser will look for elements with either a
nodeName or
nodeValue class. The
nodeValue elements will usually refer to the input element. The name of the XML node created will be taken from the
id of this element, and the value from its
value attribute. If no
nodeValue exists then it is assumed that this node has other children and the parser will continue recursively through the DOM.

First name
<input id="firstName" class="nodeValue" type="text" value=""
onchange="checkEntry(event)" />
Your form must also have a submit button as shown below:
<a id="submit"
When the form is rendered in the Safari browser on the iPhone (see Figure 3), the underlying node structure is invisible.
The IUI library provides the iPhone specific look and sliding animations. Due to the way IUI works, all pages after the main landing page (index.html) are built as includes. When viewing the other HTML files you will notice they have no header or body, just HTML text.
After a user completes a form and clicks Submit (JavaScript
onchange events check for valid input), two functions will fire: the post action (which fires the action event of the form) and the
onclick event handler, which will invoke the parser causing the XML data model to be built and relayed to the LiveCycle process.
After the
onclick event is fired all inputs belonging to the form are checked for invalid characters. If there are any, the XML is not created or sent; and the user is told that there is a problem with the form's contents. If there are no invalid characters in any input fields, then the JavaScript code will browse through the DOM of the HTML page looking for all
nodenames, and
nodeValues of the form being submitted (see Figure 4). From these values an XML string will be formed and sent to the appropriate server endpoint. Credentials set on the index.html page will be sent with the request, and if they are valid, the server will return a message stating the request was accepted and processed. If the credentials are incorrect the page will alert the user to a possible problem with the credentials.
The next phase involves creating the server-side LiveCycle process. This process will accept the form submission from the mobile client and route a user task to a second user for approval. The first step is to create an Adobe Data Model that will represent the data you want to capture. Data coming from the mobile clients must conform to the schema of your data model.
Once the data exists within a running process as a process variable it will be used to populate a PDF document that will serve as a detail view within the LiveCycle mobile application.
To create an Adobe Data Model (Figure 5):
requestId property.
comments (see Figure 5).
For more details on defining entities and the relationships between them, see the Adobe Application Modeling Technology Reference.
The next step is to create a PDF file to be delivered to the mobile client providing a detailed view. For this task you'll be using Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES2.
For more information on creating the form design in LiveCycle Designer see Creating Forms in the documentation.
The next step involves creating the actual process, which will leverage both the data model and the service request form.
Including meaningful text on the Task Instructions tab will help provide context to mobile users participating in workflows. Your text can include expressions that include data references from your process variable. The process variable in this case, named
mobileXML, is the data received from the mobile form.
{$/process_data/mobileXML/servicerequestmodel/ServiceRequest/lastName$} has
submitted a service request concerning a
Now you can deploy your application to the server:
For more information on designing human-centric processes see Application Development Using LiveCycle Workbench ES2.
How you choose to secure your process is entirely up to you. For internal business processes you might choose to secure your service and authenticate users against a corporate LDAP directory. For mobile forms deployed for customer use, you may choose to allow anonymous access.
To configure security:
For the sample application 'you'll require clients to supply credentials when invoking a service.
For detailed information on modifying security settings for a service, refer to LiveCycle ES2 Administration Help.
After submitting the service request form (Figure 3), a new LiveCycle user task will be assigned for that request. Launch LiveCycle Workspace ES2 Mobile on your iPhone and you should now see a new task in your list corresponding to the service request form submitted from your mobile device (see Figure 13).
You can open the task (see Figure 14), view details via the PDF icon (see Figure 15), and then approve or reject the request.
When you approve the request you'll see a confirmation notice (see Figure 16).
While HTML is certainly more approachable than native development on mobile devices, it has significant drawbacks. For example, HTML offers little or no access to device capabilities such as built-in cameras, accelerometers, and so on. Looking beyond the iPhone, developing cross-device applications will cause the age-old browser compatibility issue to once again rear its ugly head. Looking forward, our enterprise product group is eagerly awaiting Adobe Flash and Adobe AIR for mobile devices. For more information and updates on the mobile space, see Adobe's mobile and digital home.
For more information on the iPhone client, see Adobe LiveCycle Workspace ES2 Mobile client for iPhone.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License


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Parish History
Hoo St Wwerburgh is an Ancient Parish a village and civil parish on the Hoo peninsula in the Medway district of Kent.Hoo Peninsula Wikipedia Hoo St Werburgh Wikipedia
The church is 12th century and occupies the site of an earlier 8th century church chronicled as part of a Mercian monastery in the time of King Aethelbald of Mercia. The church of St Werburgh Church Street Hoo St Werburgh has been designated a grade I listed building by English Heritage. British listed building
The graveyard contains the grave of Thomas Aveling the first British manufacturer of Aveling and Porter steam rollers.
See Hoo St Werburgh North West Kent Family History Society which includes other places of worship and Hoo St Werburgh
Civil Registration
This parish was part of Hoo sub district and registrations from July 1837 to the present day are held at
Medway district
The Register Office
Telephone 01634 338902
Fax 01634 338913
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Church records
International Genealogical Index Christenings 1587-1599; 1642-1874 Batches (C131461, C131462) Marriages 1588-1599; 1640-1837 Batches (M131461, M131462)
Hoo, St. Werburgh Christenings Marriages Burials 1587-1987 reference (P190) digital images may be searched online at Medway Archives City Ark project http://cityark.medway.gov.uk
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop's Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records.
Census records
Census return for Hoo St Werburgh 1841-1891
FamilySearch Records includes collections of census indexes which can be searched online for free. In addition FamilySearch Centres offer free access to images of the England and Wales Census through FHC Portal: Computers here have access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
[1] to locate local Family History Centres in UK
[2] to locate outside UK.
Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.
Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Find My Past (fee payable)
The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.
Find my Past census search 1841-1901
for details of public houses in the 1881 census
Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.
The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved.
Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search.
Find my Past 1911 census search
Poor Law Unions
Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Kent Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Web sites
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Coldplay at AAC 06.22
Coldplay, Robyn tonight at AAC
Coldplay and the Gang
We like Coldplay enough, but their openers might be the real gem of the shows. The alt-pop/rock of Wolf Gang recalls the exuberance of MIKA with the tenacity of The Shins. Better yet, Robyn brings her Euro pop brilliance back to town in a big way. She kicked Dallas' butt all on her own last year at the South Side Music Hall. Now she gets to do it big time. Oh, and of course Coldplay headlines.
DEETS: American Airlines Center, 2500 Victory Ave. 7 p.m. Through Saturday. $26.50–$107. Ticketmaster.com.
Concert Notice (kinda): Robyn to perform DJ set at Rio Room after opening for Katy Perry
Funny how Katy Perry is Thursday night's headliner at Verizon, but I seem to be seeing Robyn all over the Interwebs lately. The remix video of "Never Will Be Mine" has been released which I'm kinda obsessing over right now. The original holds up, but I needed an upbeat for this hot afternoon.


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Dear Friends,
Recently, a longtime friend of the Detroit Artists Market characterized it this way: DAM is not as much about a specific location or a particular person as it is about a great concept. This concept—to provide area artists with a place to show and sell their work, and to engage audiences who support that art —inspired us through another successful year.
You have been a crucial part of that concept. Whether you attended shows, purchased artwork, enrolled or renewed as a member, or sponsored an event, we appreciate your participation during this past year – thank you!
We ask you now to make a difference in support of our mission – this great concept – with your charitable contribution to the DAM Annual Fund.
DAM's Annual Fund contributions work directly to produce our full schedule of compelling exhibitions. DAM exhibitions and events provide hundreds Detroit area artists the opportunity to show and sell their work, giving emerging and established artists the visibility and audiences they deserve. As a nonprofit gallery, DAM puts a much higher percentage of revenue in artists' pockets and acts as a powerful driver of Detroit's creative economy.
Your Annual Fund contribution also provides Metro-Detroit residents, students and visitors a venue where they can experience and learn about contemporary art in a welcoming and relaxed setting. The Detroit Artists Market provides all of this free to the community. Your Annual Fund contribution makes this possible.
We want to keep the momentum going and be sure you are part of celebrating our 80th anniversary in 2012. Please take this moment to reaffirm your commitment to DAM and to supporting local art. We have a few suggestions to make giving even easier and more effective:
Thank you again for your generous support of the Detroit Artists Market. We wish you the best of the holiday season!
With warm regards,
Nancy L. Sizer, Director


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Really? Lacrosse Player Wears Blackface
The Duke website put up a picture of a female lacrosse player wearing blackface this week, before quickly yanking it offline. The University's official website briefly put a picture from a Halloween party online, showing a student athlete apparently dressed as "Buckwheat" from the Little Rascals, in full blackface makeup.
While the image is now gone, it seems that the image was taken at the lacrosse coach's home, which certainly shows some bad judgement (or worse) on the part of everyone involved. This is the latest in a checkered history for Duke lacrosse, scandals, and race relations – the program is still synonymous with the sexual assault scandal that rocked college sports in 2006.
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The FReakSHell aims to be a sh-compatible shell and command language interpreter that has some advanced features that can not be found in other shells. It aims towards POSIX compliance by trying to implement the IEEE POSIX Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2). Advanced features include advanced job control (i.e. job exchange between different processes, dynamic repiping) and built-in auto-completion.
F*EX (Frams' Fast File EXchange) is a Web based service for sending very big files from one person to another. The sender uploads the file to the F*EX server and the recipient automatically gets a notification email with a download URL. Files are automatically deleted after download or an expiration date. The recipient and sender only need an email program and a Web browser. Sending to multiple recipients needs storage on the server only once. In contrast with other file transfer services, it has no file size limits at all and comes with shell tools for scripting up/downloading.
TimeTrex is a complete Web-based payroll and time management suite that offers employee scheduling, time and attendance (timeclock, timesheet/timecard), job costing, invoicing, and payroll in a single package. Employees can use Web browsers or timeclocks to track their time and attendance, check their own timesheet for missed punches, and respond to flagged timesheet errors. Payroll administrators can quickly generate paystubs and process payroll based off timesheet information or export timesheet data to other applications.
Giapeto is the Horde module for generating a dynamic Web site that is updatable by any number of users from a Web browser. It supports multiple levels of user permissions, the selection of templates that propagate to subpages, and linking to other Horde applications to seamlessly embed their content (such as the Jonah news/weather/stocks application, or user-created forms from Ulaform).
A level editor for Prince of Persia 1 and 2.
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Low-Fat Ranch Dressing Recipe
"No one will believe this creamy, fresh tasting dressing is low in fat," conveys field editor Connie Simon of Reed City, Michigan. "It has wonderful traditional ranch flavor."
- 4 teaspoons olive oil
- 2 teaspoons cider vinegar
- Artificial sweetener equivalent to 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon dried marjoram
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Artist Nathan Coley specialises in often very large cardboard models of religious buildings, painted with stripes or gold panels.
Judges said Coley's There Will Be No Miracles Here referenced the ongoing conflict between religious and state authorities.
Mike Nelson was previously shortlisted in 2001 and his work is described by the judges as both "claustrophobic" and "engaging".
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Zarina Bhimji's family fled Idi Amin's Uganda in 1974. She has taken photographs of the country over an eight year period.
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Doctors and other healthcare workers in Ontario are in an impossible position thanks to the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia. Due to the policy of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO), Ontario physicians are now forced to refer for "medical assistance in dying" (MAID). No other country in the world forces physicians to act against their moral convictions or personal beliefs. Why won't Ontario protect health care workers?


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It has been a difficult rebirth.
In fact, Shannon Kyles almost christened her relocation and rebuild of an 1830s Regency cottage "Shannon's Folly." But, on the second last evening of 2011, as I watched ice pellets hit 180-year-old 4' x 8' sash windows in the grand, high-ceilinged living room heated by a roaring Rumford fireplace and a forced-air geothermal system, "folly" was not a word that came to mind.
"Shannon's Paradise," perhaps, or "Shannon's Stubbornness."
As I wrote in April 2010, the home was known as "The Grove" when it sat in Ancaster, Ontario. While it had been well-loved by its then-owner, Helen Vanner, it was ready to crumble when Ms. Kyles, an architecture professor at Hamilton's Mohawk College, was called in to assess its health. Despite walls that were soaked through and flaking floor joists, Ms. Kyles ended up striking a deal with Ms. Vanner to take away everything else—including 45-foot long beams, original floorboards and those gorgeous windows—if she could do it within a few weeks.
Little did she know that would be the easy part of her journey.
As we sat sipping spicy red wine, she told me about the rest of it. After looking for property in Niagara wine country and Georgian Bay (where she found herself "crying because of what they've done to that shore" with monster homes sporting three-car garages) and finding them too expensive, she turned to Prince Edward County.
"The Regency style demands a picturesque environment…you need to have croquet," she explains with a chuckle. "I had to get at least two acres." After viewing 40 properties, she found a 15-acre lot that included 11 acres of conservation land/turtle sanctuary and a long piece of Consecon lakefront.
With architectural drawings in hand (Ms. Kyles teaches AutoCAD), excavation started in August 2010. "It was pretty exciting at first, and then things started to go wrong and I started getting upset," she deadpans.
Leaving a site supervisor in charge while she went back to teach, her first indication that things weren't going well was when she returned to find footings for the four Rumford fireplaces completely miscalculated. Next time, it was the new monitor roof (the old cottage didn't have a monitor roof, but they are common to the era) that had been built by carpentry students: it had six bays rather than five "and nobody noticed!"
By December, while tending to her ailing father, award-winning architect Lloyd Kyles, she faced another roofing crisis. Although she had hired a "grown-up" to re-build the roof, she got more child's play instead: "He just totally ignored the drawings and totally ignored me; and the site manager, I don't know what he was doing." Structurally unsafe and visually out of proportion, Ms. Kyles brought in a "new pile of guys" to finish the roof. None of their work passed inspection. "It's astonishing what goes on if you're not here and watching them," she says with a sigh. "How many people do I have to fire?"
After discovering the restored lamb's tongue brackets on her coffered soffits spaced "higgledy-piggledy" and too low (meaning she'd have to carve a chunk out of the elliptical fanlight over the front door), she shut the project down in January 2011 to reassess.
Although the correct roof was finally on by March, there were issues with a shoplifting plumber and the guy hired to install the salvaged wide-plank floor: he forgot to use shims (resulting in a "bouncy" floor) and "there were way too many cuts by the doors.
"In Regency and Georgian you would never have cuts by the doors, they were really meticulous craftsmen," she explains. Not only that, there was a border around the hearth—something never done in that era—and the different coloured fir and pine planks had been mixed together.
The next flooring contractor, who billed his company as a heritage restoration firm, managed to make things worse. Not only did he fail to correct those problems, the 16-foot long, 10-inch wide planks had been milled down by three to five inches and shortened considerably. "I cried for three days," she remembers. "It's like taking an antique desk in to have it refinished and having them chop it all up and make it into an Ikea computer station."
Despite the lawsuits that inevitably followed, there were bright spots. The staff and students at Mohawk were "just amazing" with advice and the construction of additional coffered soffits, lamb's tongue brackets and the main staircase, she says. Drew Skuce of Paradigm Shift Custom Renovation based in Paris, Ontario, expertly handled window restoration, and Bree Blaker of Carrying Place, Ontario, did the top-notch masonry, including the spot-on double Georgian chimneys. Late-comer to the project, "Wayne the Wonderful" Robertson, also of Carrying Place, did too many tasks to list.
"It's all cosmetic at this point," says Ms. Kyles of the five-bedroom, six-bath cottage, which she no longer refers to as The Grove. And while it might seem appropriate to christen it "The Phoenix," Ms. Kyles has decided upon the mythical creature that protects precious objects instead: "The Gryphon."
Not so mythical, I'd say.
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Printed maxi-length shirt dress with a sweeping silhouette and shell buttons. Effortless, relaxed fit with three-quarter sleeves, featuring roll-tab detailing. Mini underskirt lining.
Free People
Loved the look of this dress, but after trying 3 different sizes (4-6-8), I had to return them all because they all fit exactly the same! Ridiculous waste of time. I really wish FB would offer some consistency in sizing.
Best dress EVER!
Ahhh! I can't think of enough good things to say about this dress! I have never left a review online in my LIFE! But I have to say, this is the among the most beautiful dresses I own. The material is so soft, and not so sheer - in fact I would comforatably wear it without a bra (I bought the white one). It hangs off the body so beautifully and looks so bohemian and floaty. Worth every penny and more, you can wear it so many ways, open or closed or half way it does everything you want it to do and looks gorgeous! Great with a waist belt also. This dress makes me feel like a real beauty. If you're reading this do yourself a favour and purchase this dress! I took the size 2, which is by no means tight in the waist so if you want to wear it a bit more fitted then size down. I think the idea is that it is slightly looser though. This is my first piece from Free People and I am SO impressed. Completely stunning - and the boyfriend adores it too!
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This dress is so jaw dropping! It flows beautifully when you walk and it looks just like the photos. The only con I can think of is the sleeves and bodice are a bit tight. I am 5'3'' and I purchased the 2. I didn't go up a size because the dress would have been dragging so much. If you are looking to add a boho element to your wardrobe you need to get this dress!
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I am so in love with this! The style is the prefect mix of bohemian and refined, and the dress fits like a dream. I am 5'5", 32-34-33, and the 0 fits just right, although girls with a fuller chest (I am 32A and the dress is a little snug) might want to go up one size so that the buttons don't pull. Either way, this dress is completely worth the price :)
Height: 5'7" (171 cm) -- Measurements: 32-22-32 (81-55-81). Purchased "cherry combo" in size 0. This dress is absolutely stunning. Vibrant colors and a fun high slit in the front. Perfect for all seasons depending on how you layer.
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This is great dress for a tall woman and I get a lot of compliments - I am 5:11", 155 lb with 34DD . It was hard to get the dress right fit as its a bit small at the top and if you have bust that on the larger side you might want to buy a small top that you can wear underneath and have the buttons unbuttoned. This dress was so awesome I had a photo shoot and my photographer loved it.


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"SHARPES Honour" - Film, 1993-- rg/25. März 2005
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Sharpes Honour
Die Scharfschützen - Der Preis der Ehre
Richard Sharpe, Major - Sean Bean
"...Suffice here to say that riflemen were trained to operate in pairs or small groups, using initiative and self reliance, and as skirmishers. This differed greatly from regular close order drill of the red-coated soldier of the line regiments."
Fundort: Internet http://home.vicnet.net.au/~rifles95/history.htm
Sharpe's Honour was the first Sharpe-Film, I have seen. That must have been 1998 or 1999. When casually looking through the TV-Programme in the newspaper I had seen a known name: Sean Bean! Marvellous, I thought, and how great it would be, to see for once this impressive actor as the "good guy". The description of the film sounded insofar hopeful. So I programmed the videorecorder and watched the tape on my next free evening.
And I was enraptured. Since forever I have had a faible for English films. This was an English film.
And since along time I read what I could find about the changing and upheaval times of the Napoleonic Era. The film played in this epoch.
And then, there was this naughty and rebellious element: The moment, the film begins, when we start to aquaint ourselves with the Major Sharpe, who sits there so miserably in the drizzling rain, and we think: Ah yes, that's the hero, we are teached better: His Sergeant sits at a table, when Sharpe is going by, and now we await - what? Devot greating? Regular salute? Standing at attention? Something deferential. And we see - nothing of that sort.
On Sharpes question: "Drunk again Harper.." Harper answers: "Oh, me too Sir". That was strong. A sergeant who treated his superior like the likes of him!
And shortly before Harper leaves the table with his men from the 95th Rifles, who should be pour devils but still act so self-confident, now and also later, when, because of dramatical entanglements, Sharpe seems to be dead, it becomes clear: Here is not one great man, but they all are, they all together are the heroes of this play!
It's worth it, to linger here for a moment again. 14 Sharpe-Films and 6 years later you are so used to their behaviour, that you do not perceive anymore the extraordinary in it.
When I started with the Sharpe-Sites, I had to think hard, before I realised again, what was so special when seeing it the first time.
Because "Sharpe" is a war-film, yes! His heroes are heroes of war, who more then once are glorified, yes! There are the battles, the impossible victories, the excessively brave deeds - yeah, yeah, yeah!!
And as a German you have to gulp heavily more then once. Our own still young past as a war-nation do not allow it to deal so carelessly with this theme. The experiences with the terrible consequences are still too near and forceful.
Surely, that's the reason, why the "Sharpe" series wasn't very successful in Germany. (It was otherwise with "Troy" from director Wolfgang Petersen, who gave a sort of German view on war) And one half of my German soul ist proud of this. The other regrets it, because Sharpe is at the same time something completely different and also much more.
The films:
Die Scharfschützen - Das Banner des
Blutes -- Sharpes Rifles
Sharpes Revenge
Sharpes Justice
Sharpes Waterloo
"...Sharpe hesitated. By giving his parole he promised to make no effort to escape. He would keep his sword, he would be free to ride with the lancers without guard, and he would be treated with the respect due to his rank. If he did not give it, then he would be able to make an attempt to escape, but he knew that he would be well guarded. He would be disarmed, he would be locked up at night, and if there was nowhere to lock him he could even be tied to his guard."
Fundort: Buch SHARPES HONOUR by Bernhard Cornwell, HarperCollins Publishers, London, paperback edition 1994
That's shown very effectively in "Sharpe's Honour", when, because of the letter from a Spanish Marquesa, Sharpe is accused of rape, and his former merits as a war-hero are suddenly of no worth anymore.
Sharpe has to face an accusation he can't put up anything against it. Suddenly, his humble origins play a role again, because, what can someone who comes from the gutter put up against a person from the highest Spanish nobility? And then, to top it, the husband of the Marquesa is murdered after an illegal duel with the Major and Sharpes seems to be the guilty one.
General Wellington, actually Sharpes mentor, sets up a military court, that sentences him to death. And also his, not devoted, but loyal Riflemen, are put in their place immediately.
And the watcher is suddenly breathless. Death is always near, so near in war. So near, that we have to go now with Sharpe his last walk to the gallows, step by step, and we cannot do a thing, nothing, absolutely nothing! "Oh no" you want to shout!...
...and thankfully, the writers don't abandon us...
...because... we still have our other heroes! (Or what did you think? <g>)
In the night, Harper is snatched away from the side of his very pregnant girlfriend Ramona and sent on a highly secret secret mission...
...and WAH! Oh my God, he encounters - Whom? Who is that? The Majors ghost? A Double?
Well who ever and whatever, the best is, to watch now the film, because then, you understand everything suddenly better. In every case, the Marquesa appears in the form of a beautiful blonde Demi-English, Ducos, the icecold French agent is shown to be the wire-drawer, who wants Sharpes downfall, because he has dishonoured him when breaking his glasses some time ago, Ramona, with the help of three Riflemen-midwives is having her Baby and the Sharpe-Double (or ghost?) is caught by the French.
After the military rituals of the time, Sharpe could give now his parole or word of honour, that he will not try to flee, and then the French would tread him like a sort of guest. But suddenly, the conscience of the Major forms an insurmountable obstacle. His word of honour? This man, who has only won honour and reputation through the war, cannot give that! For him, there is only one true answer: He will try to escape as soon as possible!
The price he has to pay for honour? He is brought into the fortress, where is enemy Duco is waiting. Ducos revenges himself bloodily but he didn't count on Sharpes Chosen men.
Harper and the Riflemen free him in the last minute and thanks to Sharpe the English conquer the Fortress at the end.
|You can get the Films
They ran on German TV, and now, at long last, they will come out also in Germany on DVD, since 8. November 2007!
Background-Picture und picture 2: Screencapture from "Sharpes Honour" from www.full-of-beans.net. Many more pictures.
picture 1: official PR-photo, one of the "Pack-Shots", that were done regularly during the Filming.
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It didn't take long for Netflix to start informing investors through Facebook. Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission ruled that companies can keep investors abreast of news through Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites — a decision largely motivated by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. Thursday, Hastings took to Facebook to announce that over the past three months, Netflix users have watched 4 billion hours of programming.
In July, Hastings posted to his personal Facebook page (but not through any official channels) that Netflix's monthly viewership had reached 1 billion hours. This brought about an investigation by the SEC, which ruled earlier this month that it's OK for companies to inform shareholders of company updates through social media.
Thursday, Hastings promoted Netflix original series "Hemlock Grove," showing off just how much streaming video its users have seen in the past three months.
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- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the S&P 500 and the Software industry. The net income increased by 33.3% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, rising from $5.99 million to $7.99 million.
- MONOTYPE IMAGING HOLDINGS has improved earnings per share by 31.3% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years. We feel that this trend should continue. During the past fiscal year, MONOTYPE IMAGING HOLDINGS increased its bottom line by earning $0.61 versus $0.50 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($1.04 versus $0.61).
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Snow has fallen onto Tiananmen Square in China's capital Beijing - the earliest snowfall in 10 years. And it's down to science...
There has been a drought in the north of the country, so the Weather Modification Office stepped in...
They sprayed clouds with a special chemical called silver iodide. It's called cloud seeding, and is meant to make rain, but the snow was an unexpected result.
Cold air ran into the sprayed clouds, setting off snow, which blanketed the city.
Lots of people weren't dressed for the wintry weather.
Cloud seeding isn't China's only way of getting water. They're building a massive network of tunnels to funnel water to dry areas - but that won't be ready for another five years.
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The Open Citation Project is developing automated reference linking services for open eprint archives. The project has produced Citation.pm to extract metadata from references within the scholarly papers deposited in the archives, for example
[2] W.S. Wilburn and J.D. Bowman, Phys. Rev. C57 (1998) 3425.Currently, Citation.pm attempts to parse the following metadata from references to other journal papers (it is not good at parsing metadata from references to books, conference proceedings, theses, etc.) :
Citation.pm performs better when metadata are separated by a comma (i.e. a comma between authors and article/journal titile; and a comma between the article title and the journal title). If there is no comma to separate author name(s) from the journal title, for example, it is difficult for the Citation.pm to parse correctly the (last) author's name and the journal title:
[1] V. E. Zakharov and A. B. Shabat. J. Funct. Anal. Appl. 8, 226 (1974) Authors: V.E.Zakharov First Author: V.E.Zakharov Journal: J.FUNCT.ANAL.APPL. Volume: 8 Start Page: 226 Year: 1974 [2] Michoel T., Momont B., and Verbeure A. Reports on Mathematical Physics, 41(3):361-395, 1998. Authors: T.Michoel:B.Momont:A.Verbeure First Author: T.Michoel Journal: A.REPORTS ON MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS Volume: 41 Issue: 3 Start Page: 361 Year: 1998
In the OpCit project we are using the extracted metadata to build a citation database for eprints. By matching extracted data with existing entries in the database we can determine if an eprint ID(s) is known for the identified reference and return a link(s) to it in the original document. The database can be structured so that not only can references be linked directly to the referenced papers, but we can link to other papers that have subsequently cited a given paper or referenced paper, known as 'forward linking' because such links take the user forward in time. We are also using the citation database as the basis for a prototype citation-ranked search engine for eprint archives.
As you can see, Citation.pm serves just one part of this process. We will make other components available whenever we can, and plan to provide advice and guidance about building citation databases for reference linking applications.
Of course, it would be useful for other applications if more metadata pointing to other types of publications (proceedings, books, ...) could be extracted, although it is unlikely we would be able to provide links to such works, which would ususally require some fee to access them. This might be future work. For now we are concentrating on parsing citations to journal articles.
The code has been tested on some of the references found in papers deposited in the Los Alamos arXiv.org physics archives. It seems to work well for most references to journal papers. Take a look at more example results of metadata extraction produced using Citation.pm.


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Rambus CEO Hughes to retire
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SAN FRANCISCOTechnology licensor Rambus Inc. has begun searching for a new CEO to replace Harold Hughes, who plans to retire, the company said Monday (Feb. 27).
Hughes, who took over as Rambus CEO in 2005 and has been on the company's board of directors since 2003, will remain CEO until a successor is named, Rambus (Sunnyvale, Calif.) said. He will be nominated for election to another term as a director at the company's annual stockholders meeting in April, the company said.
"Rambus is on a strong path as a result of our diversification strategy and recent license agreements with key semiconductor companies," Hughes said in a statement. "Given this, I have decided it is time to start the process of identifying my successor and help the company move into the next phase."
J. Thomas Bentley, Rambus's chairman, said Hughes would continue to be involved in helping management execute on the strategy he championed as CEO. "With Harolds vision and foresight through a series of key acquisitions in new technology areas and continued development in the core technology, we feel the stage is set for finding a successor to lead Rambus forward."


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Just wanted to give folks an update on my status. I know I've promised some screenshots and other posts that I haven't had time for due to an unexpected international business trip. I should be back on track now. So what did I see after my little trip? A new test version of Mer.
I followed the instructions at
for the SmartQ 5, which works exactly the same as the SmartQ 7 during the install except you need to name the image SmartQ7 instead of SmartQ5. The image, by the way, is located at
So what have I encountered so far? Let me summarize my findings.
1. Mer is really much much faster than the default ubuntu OS that ships with the device. No delay in launching applications or using the OS.
2. I can run all of the programs I use on the Q7 on Mer. I was able to sucessfully install and run FBreader, Mirage Image Viewer, Comix comic book viewer, and Tear comes loaded default with Mer right now. Performance on ALL of these applications is better than on the default OS.
3. I've already discovered some bugs and today will be turning in my bug report. There are some glitches running certain applications and certain features of the OS are not finished yet - but hey - its only version 0.15 and it is fantastic so far. For example, I had to make customizations to get the SD card to mount automatically during boot and also assign functionality to the keys on the face of the device. These things will be fixed in a future image for the SmartQ 7 (and I had something to do with those fixes!
4. I noticed many great improvements in 0.15 over the previous version I tested (0.14).
5. I'm still learning what audio and video capabilities are ready for Mer - but I think those are still in development. Once they are ready, I'll be able to run a very nice application called Canola, which Nokia users will definately recognize as a nice multimedia player. For now, I'm using my iPod Touch for music.
So you might have gathered that I'm sticking with the Mer OS for the time being from the information above. I'll be actively helping with the testing of this OS on the SmartQ 7 because there just aren't that many folks with it and they need people to test Mer. Interestingly enough, the OS works well enough to surf the web and read ebooks. My advice is to wait until a later release for average users to install it on their device. If you don't mind technical difficulties, and want to help test Mer, please join us!
I also have to thank the Mer community for being so helpful. Their IRC channel is full of volunteers that are polite and helpful. It really is a good project full of nice people.
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April 28 (Reuters) - Bombardier Inc announced a much anticipated order from Delta Air Lines for 75 of its CSeries narrow-body passenger jets on Thursday.
The embattled Canadian plane and train maker also reported a first-quarter loss of 7 cents per share. That compares with a profit of 5 cents per share in the year-ago period.
The Quebec-based company's loss was 3 cents per share excluding items.
Bombardier said Delta's firm order for 75 CS100 aircraft with options for an additional 50 aircraft is worth about $5.6 billion based on the list price. (Reporting by Euan Rocha and Sweta Singh; Editing by Savio D'Souza)


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Winter Triathlon at Saint-Donat
Endurance athlete Jean-Thomas Boily, the Canadian Paralympic cross-country skier who won several Cross-Country World Cup medals, will take part in Saint-Donat's winter triathlon. The event, put on by Endurance Aventure this February 16, is the first edition of its kind in the area, drawing local athletes from Quebec and as far as France.
Boily will use an adapted mountain bike for the running section and a special luge for the ski and skating sections of the race.
"It is with great pleasure that I accept this challenge proposed by the Endurance Aventure team. Since my last official competition dates back to the Turin Winter Olympics, this will represent an excellent opportunity to test my physical condition and enjoy a magnificent course,"says Jean-Thomas Boily.
Two types of races will be taking part simultaneously on the Saint-Donat courses: a winter
triathlon (running, cross-country skiing, ice skating) and 5 km and 10 km running event.
The courses border Lake Archambault in the Parc des Pionniers and explore municipal cross country ski trails. The ice skating section will lead participants over the Parc des Pionniers' ice path.
For some time Saint-Donat has been regarded as a true winter wonderland for winter sports enthusiasts. With its cross country ski trails, ice paths, and Lake Archambault, Saint-Donat has all the elements required to create an impressive triathlon course.
The winter triathlon will be presented as part of the Saint-Donat Winter Festival. Prizes and awards totalling $5000 will be awaiting the intrepid racers signed up for the event.
There will also be a youth challenge that will be part of the festival taking place on Friday, February 15th. 400 students from kindergarten to secondary school will take part in an outdoor multisport challenge on the winter triathlon site.
To learn more about the event visit the event website: www.triathlondhiver.com
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According to a rather preemptively defensive report from Pajiba, Quentin Tarantino is apparently in talks to helm a new version of 1930s pulp hero The Shadow for 20th Century Fox. There's a reason for that defensiveness: The Shadow has changed hands several times as of late, beginning as a project earmarked for serial committer Sam Raimi before he passed it over to director David Slade (Twilight: Eclipse), and it's since been put on the back burner and sent out for a rewrite—so its status is tentative at best, hence any justified skepticism. However, Pajiba insists its source is correct in saying that Tarantino is currently engaged in a "two-way discussion" with the studio about coming on as both co-writer and director.
In the meantime there's been no confirmation from Tarantino, of course, and the only official project on his radar is the third Kill Bill film, which he's said he'll deliver sometime around 2014. As always, you should probably take this rumor with a grain of blog salt, and maybe even expect it to be scrapped entirely should the similar The Green Hornet fail at the box office, but in the meantime feel free to use the comments to discuss why 1994's Alec Baldwin-starring The Shadow is awful—or is it awfully underrated? Who knoooooooows? and all that.
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Wonder, Think and Know: Vanilla Ice Edition
by Mike Coffey
As the late great Mike Royko once said, some things you wonder, some things you think, and some things you just know. And after a couple days in South Beach, I wonder if I'm going to get "Beachfront Avenue!" out of my head any time soon.
If this game showed us anything, it's the importance of good line play. Notre Dame rode excellent performances by its defensive line to the championship game, but couldn't get the 13th one. Recruiting and coaching can solve that problem.
I don't know who does the logistics planning for Sun Life Stadium, but the port-o-potty subcommittee should be canned. Scattering single units all over the stadium is not a winning combination. They needed at least twice the number of johns they had.
I also believe the port-o-potty subcommittee helped out with the traffic control plan. Getting into the stadium eight hours before kickoff should not have been such an adventure, and nor should it have been necessary for us to sit in our car without moving for 30 minutes trying to get out.
It's always been my philosophy that fans you meet at bowl games, whether friendly or adversary, tend to be from the upper strata of the fanbase. This game did nothing to convince me I'm incorrect. I could count the number of dickbag Tide fans on one hand, and had a number of friendly exchanges. That said, the group who accosted my sister and her friend for the crime of walking through the parking lot during halftime can eat a big bag of dicks.
I come away from South Beach with the same feeling I got visiting Hollywood … I'm glad I can say I did it, but if I'm never there again, it won't break me up all that much. Then again, I'm way too high on the age scale and low on the attractiveness index to succeed in that environment anyway.
Not much else to say. A great season and trip marred by an awful couple of hours. Bright lights, big city. Let's be more ready for it next time.


text: Ohio ranks No. 5 in the nation for collisions at railroad crossings and No. 6 each for fatalities and injuries, according to Federal Railroad Administration preliminary statistics for 2003.During 2003, there were 112 crashes resulting in 44 injuries and 11 fatalities in Ohio, according to Shel Senek, state coordinator for Ohio Operation Lifesaver, a national non-profit public education organization.Ohio Operation Lifesaver celebrated National Operation Lifesaver Day on May 12 to bring greater awareness about the dangers associated with highway-rail intersections and along the railways.On that day in partnership with the Wheeling & Lake Railway Corporation and the Orrville Railroad Heritage Society, a special enforcement passenger train traveled round-trip from Canton, Akron and Medina.This special enforcement train had police, deputies and troopers on board to monitor driving behavior at crossings along the route. Passengers had an engineers view through a camera on the locomotive with live feed to television monitors in the coaches.Law enforcement observed crossings along the route and issued citations for violations and to pedestrians trespassing on the railroad right-of-way. Violating motorists are subject up to a $250 fine and 30 days in jail.During 2003 in Ohio, 50 percent of the fatalities at highway-rail intersections occurred at locations where the active warning devices (lights, gates and lights) were in operated at the time of the crash.These statistics indicate drivers are ignoring the flashing lights and gates.Thus far in 2004, seven persons have been killed in six crashes. Half of these crashed occurred at locations where the active warning devices were in operation.Dont become one of these statistics. The crossbuck means yield you must yield the right-of-way to the train. Always expect a train. Never race a train to the crossing (Even if its a tie, you lose!). Never drive around lowered gates. It is against the law. Do not get trapped on the tracks. Get out of the car and move away from the tracks. Any time is train time. Trains do not follow set schedules. Trains cannot stop quickly. A freight train traveling at 55 miles-per-hour will take over one mile to stop. Do not walk, run, cycle or operate all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) on railroad tracks or rights-of-way or through tunnels. Cross tracks only at designated pedestrian or roadway crossings. Observe and obey all warning signs and signals. Railroad property and rights-of-way are private property. Stay off! Stay Away! Stay Alive! Do not hunt, fish or bungee jump from railroad trestles. Do not attempt to hop aboard railroad equipment at any time. A slip of the foot can cost you a limb, or your life.Operation Lifesaver is a national, non-profit public education program dedicated to ending collisions, deaths and injuries at highway-rail grade crossings and along railroad rights-of-way.For more information, contact Shel Senek at (614) 771-3071 or e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Obamanomics 101: The Volt experience
The Chevy Volt, federally subsidized with a $7,500 tax credit for buyers, and its manufacturer General Motors, beneficiary of a taxpayer-funded $50 billion bailout, constitute the ideal case study in Obamanomics pitfalls.
The GM bailout "violated normal bankruptcy processes" by protecting United Auto Workers interests at bondholders' expense and bent tax law to cut what GM owed by tens of billions of dollars, reminds National Review. It points out that today, as Democrats claim GM's "thriving," its shares are worth half what they were in January 2011.
August Volt sales set a record, but only because of discounted lease offers, and still leave 2012's sales pace far short of GM's 40,000-Volt target, Reuters reports.
Reuters estimates GM's losing $49,000 per $40,000 Volt sold. GM disputes the number. But Townhall.com columnist John Ransom quips, "It would be cheaper for the company to quietly ask potential Volt buyers if they would take a $40,000 check just to go away."
Trying to obscure failure under "greening" cover, the administration has been buying up Volts. Its General Services Administration bought 100. Its Pentagon is buying 1,500.
Perverting the rule of law to benefit political supporters? Touting a losing proposition as a success? Distorting markets? Subsidizing "green" products few want to buy — and spending still more public money as buyer of last resort? Check, check, check and check — earning Obamanomics the "F" grade it so richly deserves.


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Owing to the construction of the boxes, it is imperative that box groups should be made up of either 6 or 12 couples only. Box applications, with typewritten lists of occupants, arranged in alphabetical order, should be mailed to 30 Claverly Hall before February 15. BOX CHAIRMAN, 1923 Dance Committee.
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Dialogue with President Kim on Social Accountability
Date: Thursday, May 15th, 2014
Time: 11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. ET (15:45 – 17:30 GMT or convert time)
Location: World Bank JB1-080 & Online
This event has concluded. View the replay below.
President Jim Yong Kim and the Global Partners of the Global Partnership for Social Accountability, meet to discuss how civil society can help strengthen public institutions for accountability and put citizens at the center of development.
Stella Dawson, Chief Correspondent on Governance and Anti-Corruption at Thomson Reuters will interview Dr. Kim. Join the conversation online or in person.
RSVP by Wednesday May 14 with name and affiliation to firstname.lastname@example.com for visitor pass.
About the GPSA Global Partners Forum:
More than 160 Global Partners from civil society, private sector, governments and the donor community gather at the GPSA Global Partners Forum (May 14-15). The Forum serves to recognize, connect, and share knowledge with many relevant actors in the field of Social Accountability.


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WHEN it comes to season-defining moments, they don't come much bigger than Worcester Wolves' 48-hour date with destiny this weekend.
On Friday night, Paul James' side's British Basketball League title credentials are on the line as they take on fellow contenders Sheffield Sharks at the University Arena looking to close the gap on leaders Newcastle Eagles.
Then, on Sunday, it's the small matter of the Trophy final against Glasgow Rocks at the Commonwealth Arena in Glasgow - Wolves' first major final in the BBL.
In short, this could be the best weekend the club has enjoyed in its 14-year history. By Sunday evening, they could have some silverware in the bag and be well in the hunt for a maiden Championship.
Likewise, all the promise they have shown over the past few months could have counted for little should they find themselves playing catch-up in the title race and return empty-handed from Glasgow.
Whatever happens, it is sure to be dramatic and exciting couple of days.
It is occasions such as this when top-level sport comes into its own. It's why we watch it and, more importantly, why the players work so hard for months on end. To be challenging for major honours at the business stage of the season.
Sunday's final is also a chance for Wolves to show what they are capable of when the heat is on in front of a national audience.
As well as the 6,000 fans that will be packed into the venue, others will be watching via online streaming, while Eurosport will also be showing highlights next Wednesday.
With the Warriors seemingly heading for relegation in rugby union's top-flight, it would also be good to see Worcester in the sporting headlines for the right reasons.
Wolves have done the city proud in that respect so far and here's hoping they can add another illustrious chapter this weekend.


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Washington running back Chris Polk may not be out for long, but here's a guess that Huskies fans are just a bit nervous after coach Steve Sarkisian announced that the All-Pac-10 running back had his knee scoped to repair a meniscus injury on Thursday morning.
Sarkisian said Polk would be out a couple of weeks and could miss the season opener against Eastern Washington on Sept. 3.
With Polk out, sophomore backup Jesse Callier joins the first-team offense. He rushed for 433 yards last year, including 107 on just 10 carries versus UCLA. Johri Fogerson is the next in line. And while Polk is on the sideline, it makes it less likely true freshman Bishop Stankey will redshirt. The Huskies already lost the promising Deontae Cooper for the season to a knee injury.
The Huskies should be able to handle Eastern Washington without Polk, though it's worth noting the Eagles are the defending FCS national champions and preseason No. 1 team. They play host to Hawaii on Sept. 10 and visit Nebraska on Sept. 17.
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Polk, a 5-foot-11, 214-pound junior, rushed for 1,415 yards and nine touchdowns in 2010. That included 284 yards and two touchdowns in an Apple Cup victory over Washington State and 177 yards in the Huskies' Holiday Bowl win over Nebraska.
Sarkisian told reporters Polk "tweaked" his knee Wednesday night. From the Seattle Times:
"We went in this morning just to clean up a little bit of a meniscus thing in there,'' Sarkisian said. "It's not serious but I just didn't want it to linger and I thought the doctors handled it really well, and let's just do it now so we are not dealing with this thing come October, November. It potentially could be a couple of weeks but I think he already feels good about it.''


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Pay to PlayEdit
Beware! Don't worry, this guide does not revolve around money; in fact, the following section will be the only part of the guide that talks about money. The rest of the guide will be in the context of doing well in Events without spending a single penny.
Here's where you should spend your moneyEdit
- Fighters: If your Fighters are too weak, buy stronger ones, especially '''special builds with good deals.
- Nux/Bitters: If your Fighters can handle the bosses and dungeons, buy more resources so you can do more bosses and dungeons, especially the bonus deals.
Beware! Even if you pay to play, you should still consider the following sections, because participating in Events efficiently is the difference between doing well and paying loads of money and doing well and paying some money efficiently.
Player vs Player (PvP)Edit
Understanding PvPEdit
In PvP, there are two Ranking Systems: The Leaderboard and the Echelons/Bracket Battles. The Leaderboard Ranking involves the sum total of your points gained within all the Echelons. Each Echelon has its own prizes, whereas the leaderboard gives out a different prize based on how well you did in the whole event. Higher Echelons award higher prizes (ie, Echelon I typically award 1-2 epics for the first two ranks within the Echelon).
The Echelon Mechanic works as follows:
- You gain a certain amount of points to enter the Bracket Battles.
- Note: The time you gather the initial amount of points determines when you are a placed in an Echelon. In other words, a longer wait to enter the Bracket battles will start you off in an Bracket Battle with those who took longer to gain the initial amount of points. However, other people may be doing the same thing and entering Bracket battles later on in the day, so this does not necessarily guarantee a better position in the Bracket Battles.
- Each day, you compete with a certain number of players to gain points.
- At the conclusion of each day, you will be promoted, standing still, or demoted according to your point ranking within the Echelon. You will be able to claim the prizes that are awarded for your rank within the Echelon.
- Repeat 6 Times.
So, essentially, you are aiming to be promoted to a high level Echelon to achieve higher level rewards.
Tips & TricksEdit
- Use your Battle Points every hour and a half. As many times as you can.
- Do not heavily spend Nux Bits in one Echelon, to beat one person, etc. The PvP is like a marathon race; not a sprint; moderate. You will need enough Nux Bits to last you 7 Days.
- Select Fights that will require one Battle Point/Nux Bit as opposed to an Edged Fight. If you're encountering insurmountable Fights:
- Lose several Fights in a row; difficulty will decrease dramatically.
- Do spend Nux Bits when you get a Frenzy.
- Frenzy Farm in your spare time; when you encounter defenders, take no action unless they are accompanied by a Frenzy, then proceed to encounter more when the defenders expire. Do this with an empty Battle Point gauge.
- In the event you encounter a tough group of foes, you can still keep your streak! Let the 10m run out without losing and you will be reset to your most recent 3-streak.
- This even works in battle! If you are losing a battle, do not swipe your last line (which would die) and wait out the 10 minutes. This will act as if you never completed the fight and reset you to your most recent 3-streak.
- The most key "strategy" in PVP events is being able to recognize which fighters you are going up against. This comes with time and experience. For example, after some time, you may learn to not face preempt rogues.
Understanding DungeonsEdit
A Dungeon Event has two things you should note: Leaderboard Rankings and Dungeon Levels. As opposed to PvP, Leaderboard Rankings provide daily rewards at the expense of getting crowns. Ranking in a dungeon involves having appropriate EDGE'd fighters and expending bitters and GLU to push through the dungeon. Dungeons typically have four levels of difficulty (1* being the easiest, 4* the hardest) and only one dungeon is open each day of the event, until the last day, when all dungeons are open.
Tips & TricksEdit
- Choose the appropriate dungeon level. If you are completely new, do 1* and 2*. If you can complete 3*, try to do so until the last mission as there are usually fighter rewards (such as an epic) on the last 3* level. If you can complete only the first couple of missions in the 4* dungeon, try doing 3* first and only then doing the 4* (so that you will still get all the mission rewards). And finally, if you can get halfway through the 4* dungeon or further, consider simply doing the 4* dungeon and attempting to rank for prizes.
- Don't forget to spend your energy at least once every 5 hours, when it completely recharges. But keep in mind that you don't want to waste energy due to a level up, so try to spend it sooner.
- Dungeons allow the use of 10 aja leaves, or occasionally 30 aja leaves during the last half of the dungeon. Plan accordingly. Dungeon events also typically have special moba/dotcoin sales, such as 2 bitters for 100 mobacoins or 10 aja leaves and 10 GLU for 100 mobacoins (a typical favorite for people to get).
- Ranking in dungeons requires spending bitters and completing the highest mission you can with the lowest expense of GLU.
- There are certain fighters (named "hero fighters") who get extra EDGE during the whole event. These will usually allow you to go pretty far in a dungeon when using their epic form, and can be bought for moba/dotcoins in builds. However, they have pretty weak stats when non-EDGE'd, so that's something to keep in mind.
Mob RaidEdit
Understanding Mob RaidEdit
In Mob Raid, there are two Ranking Systems: The Leaderboard and the Mob. The Leaderboard Ranking should be discounted for all strategy, because the total sum of points at the conclusion of the event will remain the same regardless of when the Battle Points/Nux Bits are spent.
Therefore, the Mob Mechanic -- which provides the main reward of the Event -- is most important to you.
The Mob Mechanic proceeds as follows:
- You enter a Mob.
- Each day, you compete -- Mob vs Mob -- to gain points.
- At the conclusion of each day, you will be rewarded on the basis of point superiority relative to the other Mob and within your own Mob.
- Repeat.
So, essentially, you are aiming to be a point leader in a winning Mob.
Since points increase relative to the amount of Nux Bits spent, Mob Raid Strategy revolves around one thing: Spending Battle Points/Nux Bits.
Battle Point/Nux Bit StrategyEdit
- Use your Battle Points every hour and a half. As many times as you can.
- Generally, do not spend all your Nux Bits to save a drastically losing Mob unless you have no wish or need to conserve resources for future Mobs.
- When selecting a Boss to spend Battle Points/Nux Bits on, consider the following:
- Is the Boss something I can significantly damage?
- Does the Boss have Low HP that I can gain Clincher Points from?
- Is there enough time on the Boss for the people online to actually finish it?
Mob StrategyEdit
- Mobilization
- Mob Placement depends on time and dungeon level. Lower dungeon levels and later times means generally weaker Mobs to join and oppose. Keep in mind that you may meet other strong players using this strategy. If you want to use this, exit your current dungeon level and select a level where you find bosses appropriate to your fighting capability, and mobilize at an appropriate time.
- Mob Action
- The Mob usually has a Discussion Area, and you may be able to establish some form of teamwork and time schedule to optimize point gain. Of course, getting your Mob to participate may or may not occur.
- Select Bosses according to Nux Bit Strategy to maximize point gain for your Mob.
- Take a look at the Mob Rewards and determine how many Nux Bits you feel are worth spending for higher positions in the Mob.
- Final Considerations
- On an appropriate day -- typically the final day -- review your Leaderboard Ranking and determine whether you want to spend Nux Bits to increase it for greater rewards.