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October 5th, " Climate Change and Agriculture"
Cynthia Rosenzweig
Climate change exacerbates concerns about agricultural production and food security worldwide. At global and regional scales, food security is prominent among the human activities and ecosystem services under threat from dangerous anthropogenic interference in the earth's climate. At the national scale, countries are concerned about potential damages that may arise in coming decades from climate change impacts, as these are likely to affect domestic and international policies, trading patterns, resource use, regional planning, and welfare. Agriculture plays two fundamental roles in human-driven climate change. On the one hand, it is the one key human sector that will be affected by climate change over the coming decades, thus requiring adaptation measures. On the other, agriculture is also a major source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. As climate changes as well as socio-economic pressures shape future demands for food, fiber and energy, synergies must be identified between adaptation and mitigation strategies, to allow development of robust options that meet both the climate and societal challenges of the coming decades. Ultimately, farmers and others in the agricultural sector will be faced with the dual task of contributing to global reductions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, while having to cope with an already-changing climate.
October 12th, " Seeing Climate, Seeing Change: Communicating Climate Science in a Changing Media Landscape"
Heidi Cullen
October 19th, "The Challenge of Introducing New Vaccines: The UK Experience '"
David Salisbury
Co-sponsored with the Center for Health and Well-Being
October 26th, "Interactions between Climate and Regional Air Quality in the US:
How Changing Climate May Affect Smog and How Cleaning up Smog May Affect Climate"
Loretta Mickley,
Fall Break - No seminar Monday, November 2nd
November 9th, "The Challenge of Producing More Food and Fewer Greenhouse Gas Emissions"
Tim Searchinger
November 23rd, - " Dynamics and Control of Acute Infectious Diseases in Space and Time"
Bryan Grenfell
November 30th, " Consumer Genetics and Clinical Attitudes: Who Decides Whether You Can Look At Your Own DNA?"
Lee Silver
December 7th, "Alternative Approaches to Carbon Capture and Storage at Existing Coal Power Plant Sites"
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Don't forget to watch this week's episode of of Who Do You Think You Are? on TLC this week! Actor Kelsey Grammer takes a trip into the past to explore his beloved grandmother's family, and along the way, uncovers the story of a woman haunted by demons and a family that risked everything:
The Kelsey Grammer episode airs on Wednesday 20 August 2014 at 9:00 pm EDT/PDT on TLC. Check your local television listings for the exact time in your location.
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Tech Out Your Pet Photo Contest Got a pet? Got a gadget? Take a photo of your pet with the gadget and enter it in the Honeywell Tech Out Your Pet Photo Contest. Tweet or Instagram it to @HoneywellPlugIn using the hashtag #TechOutYourPet. The deadline is September 7th.
When Google Docs Isn't Enough: One Retailer's Story Wireless retailer LetsTalk needed a way to collaborate and consolidate the many moving parts of its business. Here's why Podio's tools did the trick.
20 Great Ideas To Steal In 2012 Are you playing it too safe, IT leaders? Take these InformationWeek 500 projects along to rev up your next brainstorming session.
Engaging The Enemy On Social Media: 5 SMB Tips Online controversy can drive big traffic to small and midsize businesses, but is it a good idea to provoke competitors and other foes on social sites?
Google+ Grows Up For Business Google+ has new features that will allow employees to collaborate more, while making IT folks comfortable with privacy restrictions and control mechanisms.
Shoutlet Helps Retailers Track Foursquare Activity Social media management tool also manages promotions tied to a location.
Reddit Struggles While Hosting President Obama The President of the United States answered questions on the website, which slowed under the heavy load.
How Spigit Fosters Innovation: A Hands-On Tour In both its enterprise software and its new freemium product, Icon, Spigit offers tools for brainstorming and selecting the best ideas. Learn more in this Valley View video.
Wajam Dodges iPhone Restrictions, Adds Social Search, Maps Bypassing the App Store, social search utility demonstrates the value of making iPhone apps talk to each other and to social networks.
3 Ways To Turn Enterprise 2.0 Laggards Into Fans Try these experiments to learn why early adopters differ from the people who want collaboration tech thoroughly documented and explained.
Google+ Gets Down To Business Google rolls out several new Google+ features, eyes launch of a distinct Google+ enterprise service by 2014.
Top 5 Password Managers 2012 is the year of the password breach. Did you know there are tools to manage multiple, strong passwords so you don't have to? Here are BYTE's Top 5 P@$$w0rd Managers.
Inside IBM's $1.3 Billion Kenexa Buy IBM social business group's move mirrors acquisitions by SAP, Oracle, and Salesforce.com to add online recruiting and talent management to product suites.
Big Data Scientists: The New Mad Men? Successful marketing now depends on "who has the better math," not the better creative, says analytics firm.
5 Tips: Overcome Corporate Collaboration Challenges Social turns top-down communication channels upside down, as employees demand honesty and input on corporate decisions.
Seeking Top 10 Social Business Leaders InformationWeek's The BrainYard seeks your help to identify CIOs and business leaders who are making the best use of social business strategies.
Big Data Sites Filter Election Noise For Facts Whether loyal to the red or blue, voters can use two new semantic search sites to get straight answers on candidates' positions on the issues.
Facebook Takes Mobile App Native For Speed Facebook remains under pressure to prove that its social network will thrive as much on mobile devices as it has on desktop computers
How Smart Businesses Reorganize For Social Companies are stuck at departmental levels when it comes to taking full advantage of social media. Here's how to implement a company-wide social business initiative that delivers strategic results.
Tent Promises Open, Distributed Social Networking Can Tent protocol succeed where other challengers of Facebook and Twitter have fallen short?
LinkedIn Profile Changes: What You Should Know LinkedIn is rolling out an updated version of its profile pages, including larger photos and heavier emphasis on the Summary section. Here's how to stay current on the professional social network.
Kred Tells The Story Of Social Media Influence Kred Story adds visual storytelling to the social media influence tracking service from PeopleBrowsr.
Enterprise Social Networks: Must-Have Features Guide Confused by the bevy of vendors promising enterprise social nirvana? Tour the core capabilities that you need when implementing social-focused tools in the workplace.
Splunk Makes 'Real' Performance Fashionable Again The startup that helps companies manage their data is holding its own in the stock market. Is this a sign that more startups should consider starting real businesses, instead of trying to strike it rich in social media?
5 Cloud Collaboration Tools Leaders Emerge From IBM to Yammer, these 5 vendors do the best job of balancing a vision for cloud collaboration with enterprise-class capabilities, Forrester Research says.
Twitter Tweaks Developers With Tough Rules Those writing software that interacts with Twitter see the changes as disastrous.
RIM To Sprinkle Android Mojo Into BlackBerry 10 New version of RIM's contact management application in BlackBerry 10 will take a page from Google's Android platform.
Client-Side Hacks: Fake Sites Keep Companies Vulnerable BYTE talked to security expert Raphael Mudge about how hackers "social engineer" their way into companies. Using a fake LinkedIn site, he showed us how all it takes is one computer to compromise the security of an entire organization.
HootSuite, Get Satisfaction Tighten Integration Upgraded app for the HootSuite dashboard can be used to turn social posts into topics for the Get Satisfaction customer communities, or answer questions from social media contacts with content from Get Satisfaction.
NewsGator's New CEO Plots Social Software Growth 'I wouldn't join a company in crisis,' says new president and CEO Daniel Kraft, whose courtship was in the works even before Microsoft bought Yammer, according to J.B. Holston, now chairman. Yet the shakeup is recognition of a changing market.
Beyond YouTube: Turning Video Viewers Into Customers Two SMBs dissatisfied with a lack of tangible return from their online video audiences went looking for an alternative to YouTube. Here's what they found.
How To Build A Social Collaboration Team You need a visionary to get things started, supported by other players who know how to get things done.
Acquia Acquires Anti-Spam Partner Mollom Technology will be incorporated into a forthcoming comment moderation platform for Drupal and other content management systems.
Yammer Updates, Partners With HootSuite Though now part of Microsoft, Yammer is determined to maintain its pace of innovation. Meanwhile, HootSuite users now can interact with Yammer as a panel on the HootSuite social media management dashboard.
Salesforce.com Chatter Communities Offer Customer, Partner Networks Chatter will address the public social networking market where Lithium and Jive compete.
Geographic Search Engine Finds Location-Specific Tweets, Media Geofeedia finds geo-tagged messages, photos, and videos for journalism, surveillance, and location-based market intelligence.
What's Your Unadoption Strategy For Enterprise 2.0? Stop fretting about adoption and start thinking about what needs to stop. What will you get rid of to make way for social collaboration?
How Consumerization is Lowering Security Standards Security and convenience are a direct tradeoff. The market need to make products convenient makes them insecure. Just ask Wired journalist Mat Honan, whose identity was stolen through his Amazon and Apple accounts.
KnowledgeTree's Unique Online Editor Rewinds To Show Changes Editor geared for working through many drafts, where the document can be wound back to view each contributor's changes as color-coded passages, distinguishes KnowledgeTree from Microsoft Office and other cloud software for doc management.
In Social Media, The Customer Really Comes First Social media make the customer more powerful than ever. Here's how to listen and react.
Top 5 Social Struggles For SMBs Social use does not equal social strategy. Here are the top reasons SMBs have no real idea what they're doing on social sites.
Amazon Enters Social Gaming Market While social gaming pioneers Facebook and Zynga struggle to regain their footing, Amazon charges ahead.
Google Ends Apps for Teams, Google Video For Business Google announced that Google Apps for Teams, Google Listen, and Google Video for Business are the next products destined for the cyber-dustbin.
NewsGator Prepares To Leapfrog SharePoint Social Streams Microsoft is buying Yammer and upgrading social features in SharePoint 2013, but NewsGator continues to find room to make itself useful.
Hearst Adopts Sprinklr For Editorial, Marketing Use Sprinklr wins deal with publishing giant to manage social media across more than 25 brands, including Elle, Cosmopolitan and House Beautiful.
Teambox Touts Dropbox, Box, Google Integration Task-oriented social business collaboration suite wraps itself around cloud file-sharing apps, adds note and chat capabilities.
How Topsy Tames Twitter's Big Data Fire Hose Twitter's Political Index is just a taste of things to come as sophisticated data analysis becomes standard business practice.
Why Big Data Will Deliver ROI For Social Business The public-by-default nature of social media is a boon to business--or will be, as we learn to cope with the volume of conversation.
Facebook Fakes: Many Users Don't Exist Facebook reports that as many as 83 million of its users are phony--but the numbers tell only part of the story.
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This Saturday, The Hub, a TV network for kids and their families, will present brand new episodes of "Transformers Prime," "Dan Vs." and "R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: The Series."
Airing tomorrow at 6:30 PM ET/3:30 PM PT, this week's "Transformers Prime" features Miko and Bulkhead as they head to Greece on a field trip to recover an Energon Harvester, unfortunately class is also in session for Starscream and Lugnut.
Airing Saturday at 8:00 PM ET/5:00 PM PT, this week's "Dan Vs." features Dan taking on America's favorite pastime when the World Series preempts his favorite show.
Also airing Saturday at 8:30 PM ET/5:30 PM PT, this week's "R.L. Stine The Haunting Hour: The Series" features Madison Pettis ("The Game Plan"), as she and two friends come across an abandoned house and mysterious mask that reveal a creepy tale of darkness and destiny.
Ed note: You can also catch GI Joe and the classic 1966 Batman show on the Hub. It's the greatest geekfest ever!


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André Leon Talley Joins "ANTM," We Predict The Apocalypse
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the world is coming to an end. Bitch all you want about greenhouse gases and a sloppy economy, but we have a far more telling sign to share: Vogue editor-at-large André Leon Talley has signed on for three seasons of "America's Next Top Model," taking Miss J's spot on the judging panel. (He'll be returning to the runway to make young girls from Iowa feel terrible about their inability to walk well in seven-inch heels.) If a high-up Vogue staffer getting in bed with a reality TV show in its 13th season is not a sign of an imminent and fiery end, then we really don't know what is. Oh, wait, we do: Anna Wintour actually claims she's OK with Talley's decision to pimp himself — and, by extension, the Vogue brand– out to TV's most played-out reality show. Clearly unable to believe Talley when he said that Madame Wintour was cool with his "ANTM" judging spot, The Cut blog reached out to Wintour herself for comment and came away with this lighthearted gem from Wintour's rep: "André is always onto new things on television, and I think his latest adventure sounds like a lot of fun and I look forward to watching him on the program." We keep trying to wrap our heads around this but are failing miserably. Is Vogue the new Seventeen?! [The Cut]


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Sources say the White House chief of staff is tired of the administraiton's "idealism." He is expected to resign within 6 to 8 months.
It is well known in Washington that arguments have developed between pragmatic Mr Emanuel, a veteran in Congress where he was known for driving through compromises, and the idealistic inner circle who followed Mr Obama to the White House.
His abrasive style has rubbed some people the wrong way, while there has been frustration among Mr Obama's closest advisers that he failed to deliver a smooth ride for the president's legislative programme that his background promised.
"It might not be his fault, but the perception is there," said the consultant, who asked not to be named. "Every vote has been tough, from health care to energy to financial reform.
"Democrats have not stood behind the president in the way Republicans did for George W Bush, and that was meant to be Rahm's job."
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If Democrats get a spanking at the polls today, it's not because American voters are trending conservative or are frustrated with the direction liberal Democrats are leading the country, but because the electorate's disdain for the former Bush administration has abated.
That according to liberal PBS "To the Contrary" host and U.S. News contributing editor Bonnie Erbe.
From her November 2 blog post (emphasis mine):
Tomorrow, two states, including my own, will elect governors. President Obama has campaigned for both Democratic candidates, and the question is whether his efforts will pay off for them. At least in Virginia, there's not much hope for Creigh Deeds.
I would like to add, however, that one reason President Obama slid into office was due to his incredibly lucky timing: Anyone but Bush was going to win the '08 presidential elections.
If President Bush had not mangled his job for eight years, and if the country had not finally awoken to that fact, President Obama would not have been able to win office. As a result, any coattail effect President Obama produces is dependent on anti-Bush sentiment. American voters have very short memories. President Bush has been out of office for almost one year (and if you recall, President-elect Obama started acting like the president even before he took the oath of office, again due to anti-Bush sentiment).
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Penn Outdoor Record Book (updated)
PHILADELPHIA - After an impressive regular season, the University of Pennsylvania women's track and field team will be well represented at the ECAC Outdoor Championships. Nearly 30 Quakers qualified for the postseason meet and 22 will head to Weaver Stadium, May 11-13, in Princeton, N.J.
Events start on Friday with the heptathlon in the afternoon and the distance events shortly before sunset. Senior Corinne Rich will compete in the discus at 5:30 p.m. Saturday begins with juniors Jillian Hart and Davielle Brown in the pole vault at 11 a.m., and continues through the 4x400-meter relay at 2:20 p.m. The final day of competition starts at 10 a.m. for the Quakers with senior Kristen Judge in the high jump. The meet will conclude with the finals of the 4x400-meter relay at 3 p.m.
Last year at this meet, five individuals and one relay scored for Penn at Weaver Stadium. Then-sophomore Morgan Wheeler earned Penn's first point of the meet when she finished eighth in the javelin. Leslie Kovach was fourth in the 3,000 meters, Paige Madison was eighth in the 400-meter hurdles and the 4x800 relay team of Chelsea Delaney, Adriane McCray, Veronica Salcido and Laura Steel combined to finish seventh. In the 800 meters, where only four Quakers had ever broken 2:08 in the event, Victoria Strickland did so on two occassions and finished eighth. Of the 54 teams that scored, the Quakers were 25th with 13 points.
The Red and Blue are coming off an impressive weekend at the Outdoor Heptagonal Championships. Sophomore Gabrielle Piper earned first-team All-Ivy for the second time in her career, while senior Leah Brown earned second-team honors in two events and Madison garnered All-Ivy in the 400-meter hurdles. Piper won the Heptagonal championship in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.09, Brown was the runner-up in the 100 meters and 200 meters, and Madison finished second in the 400 hurdles.
A full recap of the 2012 Outdoor ECAC Championships will be available at PennAthletics.com shortly after the completion of the meet.
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A five-track offering from the 4Corners crew who bring in the dub and jungle flavours into D&B on their Gorilla Tacticz EP on Dirty Dubster. The title track features the talents of Tribuman and is a decidedly Serial Killaz style venture, with whomping bass, tapping breaks and a cheery melody. The story continues in "Step Up Father" with its dutty bass tones and chirpy horns; then there's the reggae-drenched sounds of "More Than Ever" (feat. Jahdan Blakkamoore), followed up by the skanking "Rolling Paper" riddim and Ricky Tuff's conclusive remix of "Now More Than Ever" ups the fun factor even more.
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Lacquered Mirror - Horchow
Speaking of mirrors... I love this... I dig the cameo style frame (it comes in black too)
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CITY STORIES: STOOPS TO NUTS Set for Cornelia Street Cafe, 5/13
Author and storyteller Tom Pryor's next show CITY STORIES: STOOPS TO NUTS is scheduled for Tuesday, May 13the at 6:00 p.m. at the Cornelia Street Café in Manhattan.
Pryor has had articles published in The New York Times, been featured on public radio's "This American Life" and PBS's "Baseball: A New York Love Story."
This month's performers include: Alfonso Colasuonno, Robin Lynn Eisgrau, John Lewis and Marie Sabatino.
The $8.00 admission includes a free drink. The Cornelia Street Café is located at 29 Cornelia Street, New York, NY. SUBWAY: A, B, C, D, E, F, and M to West 4th St. or #1 to Christopher St.-Sheridan Square.
For information on Pryor's storytelling and photography projects, including "River To River: New York Scenes From a Bicycle," go to: http://yorkvillestoopstonuts.blogspot.com/.


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Residents will have ambulance coverage
Uniontown and North Union residents will have an ambulance to serve them on Sunday, when Uniontown Firemen's Ambulance Corp. is scheduled to close its doors, according to a city official.
"They'll (residents) call 911, and there will be an ambulance dispatched. We will have ambulance service," Uniontown Councilman Phil Michael said.
Representatives of Firemen's Ambulance, which operates independently from the municipalities and serves all of the city and part of the township, informed elected leaders this week that the group would be shutting its doors at 7 a.m. Sunday.
"They told us it was financial issues," said Michael, city director of accounts and finance.
Ron Dorula, the ambulance service EMS director, declined comment.
Michael, the city's mayor and chief clerk were interviewing representatives of ambulance services Friday to find a replacement. They talked to officials from Rostraver, Markleysburg, Fayette EMS and Greene County ambulance groups, Michael said.
Tom McAlree, executive director of Emergency Medical Services Institute in Pittsburgh, which works in cooperation with 911 dispatch centers, did not return telephone calls seeking comment.
Fayette EMS posted a statement about serving the township on its website.
"Fayette EMS is proud to announce that we start covering all of the citizens of North Union Township effective Sunday at 7 a.m.," it stated. "This is by order of the North Union board of supervisors. We thank them for their confidence and will work hard to service the citizens of the township."
Firemen's Ambulance employed 13 people and operated two ambulances 24 hours a day, seven days a week, using space at the fire station on Beeson Street, Michael said.
Government officials were attempting to have some of Firemen's employees hired by other ambulance groups, Michael said.
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It's Marmot Day, but don't count on predictions
Everybody knows that today is Groundhog Day, and by the time you read this we'll know whether a group of Pennsylvania men dressed like they are playing a live-action version of Monopoly has decided that a large rodent has "seen" its shadow or not, and report on what this means to the persistence of seasonal weather patterns. Wow, it kind of sounds stupid when you say it that way. Anyway, lest Punxsutawney Phil be the only member of the family sciuridae to be honored today, Alaska has declared Feb. 2 as marmot day. What's a marmot? Well, it's a ground squirrel . . . that mostly looks like a groundhog. The marmot will not be given any prognostication duties. It's just sort of a celebration.
Ohio reindeer gets a brand new leg
The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch reports that Kathy Simmons, an orthotist in Granville, has outfitted a reindeer with a prosthetic leg. Simmons admits that when the unidentified owner called her, she thought it was a gag. "I never even knew reindeer were domesticated," she said. But when the woman actually brought in a three-legged reindeer, Simmons helped create a prosthetic for it. "He's a high-tech critter," said prosthetist Joe Nye. It was too early to tell whether the reindeer would be ready to fly by Christmas.
Traffic court
Man cited for congestion in traffic
Michael Mancini of Prestwick, Scotland, was feeling a little stuffy while stuck in traffic recently. So, with traffic at a standstill, he says he applied the parking brake, accessed a tissue and went about the destuffing. Before he could dispose of the tissue, he says, he was waved over by four officers and given a ticket for not maintaining proper control of his vehicle. "I thought it was some kind of Beadle's About moment," he told the Daily Mail. Roughly translated, that means he thought he was on Candid Camera. Or Punk'd, for those of you under 40. Anyway, Mancini says he is going to fight the $96 ticket.
Police reports
Attempted robber calls the police
Police in San Diego aren't giving us names of any of the people involved, but follow along with what happened, as reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune: Alleged Creep, 43, calls police to report that he has been assaulted. Police arrive, and determine that, yes, in fact, Creep had been punched but that he did not give the whole story when he called it in. Further investigation revealed that Creep was attempting to rob Victim, 83, when Hero, age unavailable, saw this happening and popped him to break it up. Creep was arrested on suspicion of elder abuse and robbery.
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AARP warns legislators about hitting seniors with higher utility costs
Most people over age 50 in Florida are concerned about their rising utility bills, with four in 10 already "struggling" to make payments, according to a January poll conducted by AARP Florida.
The survey sends a cautionary warning to lawmakers, said Jeff Johnson, the organization's interim director, as they consider bills to de-regulate telephones this session and others to raise utility fees to pay for economic development.
The organization said they would oppose any effort to implement a recommendation by Gov. Rick Scott's transition team to raise utility rates for current customers to offer lower utility costs to businesses willing to move to Florida. "Doing it on the backs of people who are already strugging to make ends meet...seems wrong,'' he said.
The poll of "Dreams and Challenges" for Floridians over 50, finds that many are delaying retirement in the midst of this recession and financial issues are a top concern. Among the concerns is the cost of electricity, the difficulty paying out-of-pocket medical expenses and rising fixed costs -- such as utility bills.


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Govt orders SFIO probe into Satyam scandal
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Last Updated: January 13, 2009 15:58 IST
The government on Tuesday ordered investigation into the Satyam [Get Quote] scandal by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office, an entity that probes cases of economic offences of grave nature.
"The SFIO will submit its report in three months," corporate affairs minister Prem Chand Gupta told reporters.
The government ordered the probe by the SFIO after receiving a report from the Registrar of Companies, Hyderabad, which inspected the books of accounts of Satyam Computer Services and eight other companies belonging to the kin of the former chairman of the IT major, B Ramalinga Raju.
"The government has ordered the probe (by the SFIO) based on the RoC report, Gupta said.
"The SFIO will be looking into the entire gamut of irregularities and other related anomalies... the (irregularities) in books of accounts and other acts of commission and omission."
The investigating agency, he said, "(has) also been asked to go into all aspects (and role of) directors, promoters, Satyam company, auditors and all."
On the role of the regulator and regulation, the minister said, "This is an issue which is also being looked into by the government. We will have detailed discussions on this."
As regards appointing more directors on the board of Satyam, Gupta said corporate affairs secretary Anurag Goel was in constant touch with the board and "a decision (to appoint more directors) will be taken without delay...as and when required. We are working on that."
Asked about the possibility of a merger of Satyam Computer with another IT company, Gupta said, "You are asking me something which is not a concern of today."
On the specific issue of delay in action against auditing firm Price Waterhouse, the Minister said, "There is a procedure for everything, ICAI has its own procedure ... You cannot jump the queue. Don't assume anything unless facts are out."
The government, he added, was seized of problems on Satyam and no one found guilty will be spared.
Earlier, the MCA had ordered an inspection by the RoC, Hyderabad, of Satyam's books and those of eight group companies, following disclosures by the IT major's founder B Ramalinga Raju that the company was presenting doctored accounts.
The ministry sent an eight-member team from Delhi comprising officials from the SFIO to assist the RoC.
The SFIO inquiry has been ordered after the RoC gave a preliminary report. The Minister, however, did not disclose the contents of the RoC report.
Gupta said on Sunday that the RoC had 'seized voluminous documents from various premises of the company in close coordination with the officers of Sebi'.
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DIVISION One leaders Greenfield were lucky to escape with a draw in their encounter with relegation battlers West View in the Blackburn and Darwen Snooker League.
The home team got off to a flier with a great 75 break from Chris Lawson in the opener but it wasn't long before they found themselves 3-2 down thanks to a brilliant performance from Jim Amos to beat Craig Steele followed by good wins for Paul Upton and Michael Jackson.
Gaz Hampson had other ideas and dug deep to take the last pairs with Alan Heaton and then put his side 4-3 up with a comfortable win over Dan Marsden.
The final frame was a close one and it looked as though Dave Houghton, making his return after a long absence through injury, would snatch the win over John Avery to seal victory.
Unfortunately he went in off the brown and Avery made no mistake.
Park A beat Mill Hill 6-2, the highlight another superb break of 81 from Mark Jennings.
The result puts Park within nine points of Greenfield at the top but leaves Mill Hill rooted at the bottom.
Hoddlesden managed to hold on to second place with a 5-3 win over Blackburn Golf A.
Fox and Hounds, fresh from a superb win in the Ten Reds at weekend took on the inconsistent Park B.
It was nip and tuck all the way, neither side gaining more than a single frame advantage and the draw was probably a fair result.
The evenings final match saw Punch race into a 5-0 lead over visitors Stanhill before the Ossy men could trouble the marker.
It was left to veterans Ian Pickles and Alan Weaver to give the score some respectability by taking the last two frames.
Division 2 is turning into a thrilling race and it was Longshaw making the headlines again – the A team storming to a 7-1 victory at the Orchard to put themselves within two points of their B team at the top.
Longshaw B were relieved to take a 5-3 win over Feniscowles. After racing into a 3-0 lead the visitors' Andy Rourke seemed on the verge of victory against Frank Jex when he inexplicably missed the easiest of reds to gift the frame to Frank.
Frame seven was another thriller, Rob Walsh leaving Dylan Ince needing two snookers on the pink. The youngster kept a cool head and forced an in off from Walsh followed by the snooker he needed to pinch the frame 61-57.
Third placed VIP A won the derby match against their B team 5-3 to keep themselves within touching distance but the result effectively ends the hopes of the B team.
The B team had taken a 2-0 lead before Jake Fuller and Ibby Khan pinched the first doubles. Frame of the night was Murad Iqbal taking on his father, Mr P himself.
The youngster showed no mercy knocking in a nice 41 to seal victory. Jake Fuller took the next for the A team, a run of 40 being enough to put his side 4-3 up. Unfortunately the B team couldn't field a final player so it was frame conceded.
Up at the Borough visitors Rishton Golf Club took the opener through skipper Eric Whittle and then took three of the next four to put themselves within a frame of victory. Victory came when Liam Masterman finally found his form to take care of Borough captain Jamie Costello. Following on from her win over former singles champ Ami Dippolito last week Gail Costello faced off against the highly regarded Tony Howarth – and won again!
After their early season struggles Blackburn Golf B continued their good form with a 5-3 win over Hole I'th Wall.
The home team quickly raced to a 5-1 lead before Hole took the last two frames courtesy of Simon Thornley and Matt Taylor.


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USF Sarah Palin study dissected (and misunderstood) by Bill O'Reilly
(UPDATE: The researchers themselves have written a story for a Web site which dissects how the media covered their study, noting which media outlets seemed to accurately report what they were doing and who didn't. Luckily, she names me as one of the folks who got it, though I did put a headline on my original blog story of a type which she said was misleading.)
I couldn't find a decent clip on this until today, but my pal Fox News Channel anchor Bill O'Reilly tried dissecting the University of South Florida study I wrote about last week, which found that people in their sample who focused on GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's looks rated her less competent than people who focused on her as a person.
By asking those in the study how they planned to vote, researchers also found that those who focused on her looks were less likely to vote for her -- even among Republicans and Independents.
Unfortunately, O'Reilly stumbled into the same confusion as some folks who wrote comments on my blog and the newspaper story published Saturday -- talking more about what they want the study to say than what the study actually addresses.
O'Reilly seems to have trouble understanding the study's methodology, and turns to comments from a radio talk show host who sounds as if she didn't even read the study. The anchor kept talking about how he wanted to read essays written by those surveyed to see what they thought of Palin's beauty.
But the point of the study was to take one group and have them evaluate Palin's appearance, take another group and have them evaluate Palin as a person and then ask each group what they thought of Palin's competence. The group thinking about her appearance gave her lower marks for competence, and the results cut across party lines -- with even those who identified themselves as Republicans and Independents evaluating her as less competent, if they saw her through the prism of her appearance.
The possible lesson here, is that the most successful female candidates may be those who downplay their looks and discourage media images that play off their physical attractiveness. Think Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi rather than Katherine Harris and Sarah Palin
(a friend wondered is the results would be the same if respondents focused on a woman generally thought to be less attractive, like Janet Reno.)
O'Reilly ends the segment by saying he doesn't "get" the study -- perhaps because he didn't take much time before the broadcast to understand it.


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Actress Hollis McLachlan returning to Valley to produce film
Hollywood actress Hollis (Zemany) McLachlan will return to her hometown next week to film her first movie as executive director.
McLachlan, 26, will begin production of her family comedy movie "Pie Head: A Kinda' True Story." They will begin shooting scenes Monday in California, Pa., with additional filming at Washington & Jefferson College and at the Nemacolin Castle in Brownsville.
The film is being produced by Joey Travolta's Inclusion Films, which provides opportunities in the film industry for those with disabilities and special needs.
In addition to McLachlan, the film will co-star actress/comedian Geri Jewell of TVs "Deadwood" and "The Facts of Life." Jewell has cerebral palsy.
McLachlan, who is co-producing the film with her mother, Louann Petrucci, said she is excited to work where she grew up.
Her father, Spandy Zemany, and grandparents Lou and Prue Petrucci, live in California. Her mother moved from Canonsburg to Hollywood to be close to her.
Hollis McLachlan lived in California until age 9, when she moved to Canonsburg.
She is a 2002 Canon-McMillan High School graduate. She majored in theater and English at Washington & Jefferson College, graduating magna cum laude in 2006.
After graduation, she set out for Los Angeles with no money but big dreams — similar to the setting for "Pie Head."
She said the movie is based on a "small sliver of her life" after she moved out West. McLachlan said she initially planned on making the film a comedy, but soon realized that many of the obstacles she encountered struck a chord with others in her same shoes.
"Anyone who is facing the same issues about what they are going to do with their lives and how to achieve their goals can relate to this film," she said.
A member of the Screen Actors Guild, McLachlan is executive director, co-producer, co-writer and star of the film.
While they are not operating on a large budget, McLachlan says she is hoping the film will open more doors for her in Hollywood.
"It's exhausting work that is seven days a week, 18 hours a day," she said. "But it's also very exciting and rewarding. It's a labor of love."
She said parts of the film will be shot in the California home of her grandparents, Lou and Prue Petrucci.
McLachlan said their home has "amazing prop stuff" and that they have been good sports about turning their home into a film set.
"They are amazing people who would do anything for me," she said. "My grand-mother even has a small line."
McLachlan lives in Glenndale, Calif., near Los Angeles, with her husband Liam McLachlan, a former member of The Ten Tenors, an Australian male singing group.
While she is in the Mon Valley, she will be cruising around in a motor home she bought for filming.
She has appeared in numerous films, and has just finished filming "Hollywood N.O.S." Some of her other work includes roles in "Legally Blonde 3," and "Karma," which was filmed in India.
McLachlan says she has traveled around the world, but believes southwestern Pennsylvania is among the most beautiful places.
"This area has an amazing cinematic look, especially in the summer and fall. This place is very unique," she said. "When you live here, it's easy to not look at it that way, but it really is a great place."


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By the time Bruni crossed the line to defeat Hansen in the final match both teams had already been forced into the repechage after Lindberg had secured top spot with a victory over the already qualified Radich.
Bruni remains confident though and believes a few tough matches in the repecharge could play to his advantage: 'The repecharge round is hard but if you get through you're in a stronger position as you have five extra races behind you. We struggled with the strong winds this morning but feel we've sorted the problem. Hopefully we sail well and go through even stronger.'
Lindberg is the only non-Tour Card Holder to automatically qualify for the knock out stages at the Gold Cup and feels confident to be around the big names: 'It's great to beat the card holders but we've got experience racing them and we're on good form this year with a 4th at the Congressional Cup. The one loss today won't play on our minds - it gives you more motivation and stops you becoming complacent.'
As in Group 3, the final Group 2 standings would only be decided in the final flight. Canfield, yesterday's form skipper in the group was aiming to join Lindberg as the only other non-Tour Card Holder to automatically qualify for the quarter-finals. A loss against Lance Fraser (BER) FreeLance-Digicel and a win against Sam Pearson (GBR) Team Wight Match meant he still required a further victory in his last race against Reuben Corbett (NZL) AON Racing to make sure of it.
He didn't manage it, which leaves Canfield (ISV) Team ISV to fight it out in the repechage: 'They weren't easy matches today and while we were able to grind our way back against Corbett it wasn't enough. We've sailed all the teams in the repechage so we'll just go out there tomorrow and see what we can do.'
[Sorry, this content could not be displayed]Meanwhile, the four teams of Mirsky, Gilmour, Berntsson and Robertson were locked with one team sure to go home.
Mirsky (AUS) The Wave Muscat dug deep today, winning all three of his matches to pull himself into top spot, his last win coming against Peter Gilmour (AUS) Yanmar Racing who needed that point to make it into the repechage.
Reflecting on his day, Gilmour, the three-time Gold Cup winner said: 'It was an important day today and we had to do a lot of winning. In the first race we sailed against Berntsson and were about 10 boat lengths in front but we received a penalty out of the blue. We found out it was because the boundary mark had shifted. It was cruel justice and it's thrown us out.
'I don't think it's the end of our World Championship hopes, this was really a bonus event for us so we will likely count the Denmark points instead. This wasn't in our game plan but someone has to go. You'll see us bigger and better at the next event.'
The winner between Phil Robertson (NZL) WAKA Racing and Johnie Berntsson (SWE) Berntsson Sailing Team would decide the final automatic qualifying spot and it went to the young Kiwi. He now has the chance to collect some valuable points in Bermuda to keep alive his chances of qualifying for the Monsoon Cup.
The repechage and quarter-finals get underway at 0900 local time (-4hrs GMT) on Friday 7 October.
Results after Qualifying Session Three:
Group One:
Q - Staffan Lindberg (FIN) Alandia Sailing Team 6-1
Q - Jesper Radich (DEN) Adrian Lee & Partners 6-1
R - Francesco Bruni (ITA) Bruni Racing 5-2
R - Bjorn Hansen (SWE) Mekononmen Sailing Team 4-3
Keith Swinton (AUS) Black Swan Racing 3-4
Blythe Walker (BER) Team RenRe 3-4
Jakub Pawluk (POL) Henri Lloyd Racing 1-6
Jordan Reece (AUS) True Blue Racing 0-7
Group Two:
Q - Torvar Mirsky (AUS) The Wave Muscat 5-2
Q - Phil Robertson (NZL) WAKA Racing 4-3
R - Taylor Canfield (ISV) Team ISV 4-3
R - Johnie Berntsson (SWE) Berntsson Sailing Team 4-3
Reuben Corbett NZL) AON Racing Team 3-4
Peter Gilmour (AUS) YANMAR Racing 3-4
Lance Fraser (BER) Freelance-Digicel 3-4
Sam Pearson (GBR) Team Wight Match 2-5
Group Three:
Q - Ian Williams (GBR) Team GAC Pindar sponsored by Argo group 6-1
Q - Mathieu Richard (FRA) French Match Racing Team 5-2
R - Damien Iehl (FRA) French Match Racing Team 5-2
R - Eric Monnin (SUI) Oklays Corum Sailing Team 4.5-2
Simone Ferrarese (ITA) Ferrarese Racing Team 4-3
Laurie Jury (NZL) ZOKE Kiwi Match 2-5
Terry McLaughlin (CAN) Team Commonwealth 1-6
Peter Miller (BER) Miller Match Racing 0-7
Overall Championship Standings – after six stages:
1 Ian Williams (GBR) Team GAC Pindar – 90pts
2 Francesco Bruni (ITA) Bruni Racing – 89pts
3 Torvar Mirsky (AUS) The Wave Muscat – 84pts
4 Peter Gilmour (AUS) YANMAR Racing – 74pts
5 Bjorn Hansen (SWE) Mekonomen Sailing Team – 73pts
6 Damien Iehl (FRA) French Match Racing Team – 67pts
7 Mathieu Richard (FRA) French Match Racing Team – 63pts
8 Jesper Radich (DEN) Adrian Lee & Partners – 61pts
9 Johnie Berntsson (SWE) Berntsson Sailing Team – 48pts
10 Phil Robertson (NZL) WAKA Racing – 43pts
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This document elaborates how to use CRX (Content Repository eXtreme) and its integration with FrameMaker 10 using FDK (FrameMaker Development Kit).
CRX is a state-of-the-art composite content applications platform, natively managing content in the Java Content Repository (JCR 2.0) content model. CRX is highly scalable and can easily be deployed in the cloud. This document shows how to use CRX standalone and how to create Java project and integrate CRX with FrameMaker 10 using FDK 10.
CRXDE (CRX Development Environment) is a web-based light application for working with CRX. Various operations like Checkout, Checkin, file/folder creation or deletion etc. are few operations available. Following demo shows how to create a folder, a file and how to edit this file in CRXDE Lite itself.
Configure RMI to connect to CRX using follwing steps:
The RMI port for registering the repository in the RMI Registry.
If equals 0, the default port is used. Omit this parameter to
disable RMI server entirely.
Content Repository for Java Technology API Version 2.0 specification - also known as JCR 2.0. This programming interface - defined by the ECM industry - provides developers with a stable and well-defined, yet extensible content and query model. Following demo shows how to create a CRX session and display all nodes of repository as a Java Project:


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The panel included the Cabinet Office Minister Ed Miliband, the shadow home secretary David Davis, veteran politician Baroness Williams, the leader of the UK Independence Party Nigel Farage and comedian and broadcaster Marcus Brigstocke.
Ed is the younger brother of Foreign Secretary David Miliband and the son of the celebrated Marxist historian Ralph Miliband.
Prior to his election in 2005 he worked as a special adviser to Gordon Brown in the Treasury, and is seen as one of the Prime Minister's closest political allies.
This week he said that "undoubtedly we have had a difficult six months with some of the events that have happened. But I think that, in the end, people judge prime ministers and governments on the big substantive issues, on whether they make the right long-term decisions for the country."
Career: David Davis is the shadow home secretary.
A member of parliament since 1987, he has contested the Conservative Party leadership on two occasions, losing in 2001 to Iain Duncan Smith, who then appointed him chairman of the party.
In the next leadership race he did not run and was rewarded for his support for the winner, Michael Howard, with the post of shadow home secretary.
He famously lost out to David Cameron in the most recent leadership contest, having entered the race as the frontrunner.
This week he attacked the government claims on 24-hour drinking laws, saying that: "The damning evidence against the government's drinking policy is overwhelming and comes from all sides: from the police, local authorities, statistics on hospital admission and the Home Office itself."
Career: Shirley Williams is a veteran politician who was leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords until November 2004.
Originally a Labour MP, she was one of the "Gang of Four" rebels who left the party to found the Social Democratic Party in 1981, which later merged with the Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democrats.
She is also Emeritus professor of electoral politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
Career: Nigel Farage is the leader of the UK Independence Party.
Having joined the Conservative Party as a schoolboy, he left in 1992 in protest over John Major's signing of the Maastricht Treaty and went on to found UKIP in 1993.
In 1999, and again in 2004, he was elected to the European Parliament and currently leads UKIP's 10 MEPs, as well as being co-leader of the multi-national Eurosceptic group Independence and Democracy.
He has been a leading opponent of the Lisbon Treaty, which is being debated in parliament this week.
He claims: "The European Parliament has joined national governments in their gigantic deceit that pretends that this treaty isn't constitutional. They are too chicken to have a referendum, particularly in Britain, where they know they would lose."
Career: Marcus Brigstocke is a comedian, writer and broadcaster.
Since winning BBC New Comedian of 1996, he has become a well-known voice on British radio and television, with regular appearances on Have I Got News for You and Radio 4 programmes such as Just a Minute, Newsquiz and The Now Show.
He has written for various publications, including The Guardian and The Independent. He also presents the Late Edition on BBC 4.
He is an active member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and a committed campaigner on green issues.
Last autumn he travelled to the Arctic to make a film about the effects of climate change, and he recently reported on the £100,000 "eco-makeover" of his London home in a feature for The Independent.
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COLUMBUS -- Election law changes, "limitations on assault weapons" and college credits for veterans are among the legislative priorities of Ohio's Senate Democrats.
The minority caucus unveiled its list of focus areas during a press conference at the Statehouse Tuesday. At the top of the list: job creation.
"In the upcoming weeks, we will introduce job legislation that incorporates bipartisan ideas to accelerate Ohio's economic growth," said Senate Minority Leader Eric Kearney, from Cincinnati.
Sen. Joe Schiavoni, a Democrat from Boardman, added, "On a very broad scope, we're looking to improve our neighborhoods, clean up our neighborhoods, improve the quality of our schools and help provide jobs for folks to work in the state of Ohio."
Priority areas announced by Senate Democrats Tuesday included:
Election Law Changes: Sen. Nina Turner, a Democrat from Cleveland who is considering a run for secretary of state next year, said she will offer legislation to make it easier for eligible Ohioans to vote.
Potential changes include setting a minimum number of hours for early voting on weekdays and weekends and improving the state's methods of determining voters' eligibility.
"What the voters of the state deserve... (is) to have the opportunity to vote for whomever they want to vote, and their political affiliation should not matter and folks should not be suppressed in one area and encouraged in another," Turner said. "This is about fairness and this is about access."
Guns: Senate Democrats are considering gun control measures, though Kearney did not offer details about what the final legislation would include. Lawmakers will seek input from National Rifle Association and other firearms advocates, he said.
Veterans Issues: Sen. Lou Gentile, a Democrat from Steubenville, said he will offer legislation to help Ohio military men and women gain college credit for training they obtained while in the service. He said Democrats also are considering ways to provide greater employment opportunities for veterans.
Families: Sen. Charleta Tavares, from Columbus, said she will push for the creation of a family stability commission. That panel could consider law changes to reduce out-of-wedlock births, implement counseling and waiting period requirements for couples considering marriage and make it more difficult for couples with children to divorce.
"The marriage contract should at least be as difficult to break as a contract for lawn care services," Tavares said.
The minority caucus likely will face challenges on some of its proposals, given Republican super-majorities in the Senate and the Ohio House and GOP members firmly entrenched against certain gun control measures and other issues supported by Democrats.
But caucus members said Tuesday they hoped to gain Republican support, citing successes last session.
"I worked with the Senate president on the very late redistricting legislation that we considered in the Senate," said Sen. Tom Sawyer, a Democrat from Akron. "... He was good to his word in terms of the work that we did together on that. There has been no more divisive legislation over the course of the last 10 or 20 years."
Kearney said minority members were able to pass more than a dozen bills last session, including landmark pension reform that he co-sponsored.
"We have the ability to work with the Senate president," Kearney said. "We're ready to work..."
Schiavoni added, "It's always best to work with people when you can and only fight with people when you have to."
Marc Kovac is the Dix Capital Bureau chief. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter at OhioCapitalBlog.
Democratic state Sen. and potential Secretary of State challenger Nina Turner talks about election law changes her caucus will offer during the new session.
Ohio Senate Minority Leader Eric Kearney discusses potential firearms legislation that Democrats plan to introduce this session.
Democratic state Sen. Lou Gentile, from Steubenville, talks about the need for changes to state law to enable veterans to obtain college credit for skills gained during service.
Democrats in the Ohio Senate unveil their priority issues for the new session. Speakers include Sens. Kearney, Schiavoni, Brown, Tavares, Turner, Sawyer and Gentile.
Democrats in the Ohio Senate unveil their priority issues for the new session. Speakers include Sens. Kearney, Schiavoni, Brown, Tavares, Turner, Sawyer and Gentile.
Democrats in the Ohio Senate unveil their priority issues for the new session. Speakers include Sens. Kearney, Schiavoni, Brown, Tavares, Turner, Sawyer and Gentile.
Democratic state Sen. Charleta Tavares talks about legislation aimed at strengthening families.
Senate Democrats talk about legislation they plan to introduce to increase employment opportunities in the state.


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During a media appearance in India, Kurt Angle stated the following about looking for talent…
"We want to promote wrestling in India. I think we are going to become successful and the most effective way to promote in India is to see who the next talent from India is."
As noted earlier, Kurt Angle turns 46 years old today. Angle was born on December 9, 1968. Happy Birthday Kurt!
Well it really does seem like angle is a true team player with tna
He is, TNA has treated him incredibly well and gave him a home after he left WWE.
kurt 46 wow i would of never guess, i thought he was in his early 40s
He's starting to look like that dude on "The Shield.".
"Hawaiian Lion" John Williams
Look him up on obsessedwithwrestling.
I can't think of anyone better to scout out new talent, he's one of the best wrestlers in the history of the industry.
um…he's 45
Lol for real?
I know a great wrestler he can scout. Hes extremely athletic, great in-ring and connects with the crowd better than anyone else in TNA. He will be available early next year. Goes by the ring name AJ Styles


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American officials announced that nine of the bodies discovered during the operation to rescue Pfc. Jessica Lynch in Nasiriya were those of U.S. soldiers killed in fighting near the southern Iraqi city. Continue reading
U.S. Marines forced their way across the Euphrates River on Tuesday after a fierce street battle in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya that opened up a new line of advance northward toward Baghdad, according to reports from Reuters and CNN. Continue reading
U.S. Marines continued to fight a pitched battle at several bridges over the Euphrates River at the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya, a region central to opening a route north to Baghdad. Continue reading
In fighting characterized by the U.S. military as the "sharpest engagement" of the war in Iraq thus far, U.S. Marines clashed with a group of Iraqi forces. Continue reading
As the ground invasion of Iraq continues, the U.S. said Saturday that coalition forces had captured the town of Nasiriya and a critical bridge over the Euphrates River after their initial advance was apparently stopped by a pocket of resistance. Continue reading


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CHANNELVIEW, Texas - A Houston Police officer pulled over two people who were suspected of breaking into a vehicle and stealing a bag of cash.
The driver drove away, leading police on a chase through Harris County.
The pursuit eventually ended in a cul-de-sac on the 14900 block Crondell Circle.
Both the driver and passenger took off running.
Harris County K-9 units helped in the search and police eventually caught a suspect in a nearby field. However, a second person is still on the loose.
He will face charges of burglary of a motor vehicle and evading arrest.
The second person is described as a black man who is 6 feet tall, weighs about 180 pounds and was lat seen wearing a black T-shirt and shorts.
Anyone with information is asked to call HPD.
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ByErik Holm
Deals of the Day is your one-stop-shop for the morning's biggest news from the finance beat, including M&A, IPOs, banks, hedge funds and private equity. Here's what's happening today:
Hot Topic: Pharma Deals
Start of a wave. The deal activity jolting the health-products industry today might just be the start of an even bigger free-for-all. [WSJ]
What's different this time. Unlike an earlier wave of pharma mergers, in which drug companies morphed into unwieldy giants, the new generation of deals is focused on transactions that create businesses capable of competing as leaders in their fields, rather than simply staking a presence. [WSJ]
Poison pill. Allergan has adopted a poison-pill defense in the wake of an unfriendly advance from larger rival Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, which has teamed with activist investor William Ackman to make a $46 billion bid for the company. [WSJ]
Heavy volume. Investors made outsize bets on Allergan Inc. stock in the 10 days during which activist hedge-fund manager William Ackman was privately accumulating a stake in the Botox maker, and the SEC is looking at the trades. [WSJ]
Eye-raising over options trading. Options trading in Allergan Inc. spiked on Monday hours before the news report that activist investor William Ackman and another pharmaceutical company were gearing up to buy the Botox maker. [WSJ]
How the Allergan stake was assembled. Ackman's move is a tutorial in how to buy sneakily to minimize price impact, how to buy as much as possible while still complying with reporting requirements, and how to avoid triggering antitrust provisions. [Bloomberg]
Deal professor. Ackman's approach is a new twist in the struggle between companies and shareholder activists, and could ignite a furious battle not just for Allergan but over the laws governing takeovers and activism. [NYT]
Who are the Outsiders? Ackman gave a shout-out to "The Outsiders" in his lengthy press conference yesterday. All the activists are reading it these days. [WSJ]
Heard on the Street. Valeant brought a gun to a knife fight. That puts Allergan on the defensive, but it needn't surrender straight away. [WSJ]
And the activists wept… for there were no more worlds to conquer. [WSJ]
Mergers & Acquisitions
Deal is "inevitable." Peter Munk, the founder and chairman of Barrick Gold Corp., said it is "difficult to find a reason" for his company not to merge with Newmont Mining Corp. [WSJ]
Comcast and Charter. Comcast may divest about 4 million subscribers after its merger with Time Warner Cable and is reportedly working to reach an accord to sell a portion of those customers to Charter Communications. [Reuters]
Hess sheds Thai assets. Thailand's PTT Exploration & Production PCL, the country's flagship petroleum explorer, will buy the Thai assets of Hess Corp. for around $1 billion, in the latest of a string of sales by U.S. energy companies as they switch focus to unconventional oil and gas projects in North America. [WSJ]
Eyeing Yoigo. Vodafone could be interested in buying Spain's fourth-largest mobile operator, Yoigo, once it is clear how tough the European regulator will be on tie-ups in the sector, the British firm's chief executive said. [Reuters]
"Undervalued." Australia's Australand Property Group said on Wednesday it had rejected a A$1.95 billion ($1.83 billion) proposal from bigger rival Stockland Group to increase its stake. [Reuters]
More IPOs in China. Three Chinese securities companies published their initial public offering plans ahead of listings on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, kicking off a fresh round of capital raising for the nation's brokerages. [WSJ]
WH Group sets date. Chinese pork producer WH Group, which has delayed its Hong Kong initial public offering and reduced its size by more than half, will seek to list on May 8. The firm seeks to raise $1.34 billion to $1.88 billion, well below the $3.8 billion to $5.3 billion originally planned. [WSJ]
Genworth plan moves ahead. Genworth Financial Inc. plans to raise as much as $700 million by selling a minority stake in its Australian mortgage guarantor, in what may be the biggest share sale in the country for more than three years. [Bloomberg]
Saga makes plans. British insurance company Saga is reportedly planning to announce its intention to float next week in a London stock market debut that could value the company at 3 billion pounds ($5.1 billion). [Reuters]
Is no one shorting Berkshire? Warren Buffett put out a very public cattle call for someone who was short on his Berkshire Hathaway, offering a free platform to discuss their position at Berkshire's annual meeting. No one stepped forward. [WSJ]
Tech bubble? David Einhorn just joined the growing list of market watchers warning about a market bubble. "There is a clear consensus that we are witnessing our second tech bubble in 15 years," said Mr. Einhorn of Greenlight Capital in his investor letter. [WSJ]
Don't forget Herbalife. Bill Ackman reportedly has a former Herbalife executive on his payroll. [ABC News]
Ardian sets record. The former private-equity unit of French insurer AXA said it has raised $9 billion to buy stakes in existing buyout funds, the largest such pool ever assembled, highlighting the growing demand for second-hand private-equity investments. [WSJ]
Another way out. When looking for an exit, private equity firms are inching away from IPOs. [WSJ]
In the Courts
Testing the limits of insider trading cases. When prosecutors want to pursue charges against the recipients of confidential information, the issue is often how far down the chain they can go before they can no longer prove a violation. [NYT]
Appeals court raises doubts. Preet Bharara's perfect record, 80 insider trading convictions without a single defeat, is in jeopardy. [NYT]
Cause for celebration? The battle over General Mills' legal terms is just one phase of a larger conflict that big corporations appear to be winning. [New Yorker]


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I picked up this yummy color in a gift bag at an event. OPI's Charged Up Cherry is definitely an eye-catcher. The color is a mix of neon pink with a hint of coral. Love this color! It's fun and it's perfect for summer. Plus it's OPI, so you know it's a long lasting nail lacquer. Would you wear Charged Up Cherry?
Disclosure: This item was gifted. The above is my true and honest opinion.


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NEW YORK (Jun. 15)
A graphic description of Jewish life and the spirit in England was given by Phineas Horowitz, vice-president of the British Zionist Federation and chairman of the Angle-Palestine Club, in a broadcast for British War Relief over Station WEVD last night.
The Jews in London's East End, he said, were at no time panicky, despite the heavy air raids, and their confidence in British victory has remained unshaken. The common enemy has knit all elements in England closely together and one cannot envision a division arising in the future, he said.


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The islands that make up the Maldives lie like lilies on the vast pond of the Indian ocean. Most rise only the height of a tennis net above sea-level. We have been hearing for years that global warming makes their disappearance imminent; every lavish resort island is an Atlantis waiting to happen. This extreme vulnerability made it seem possible that much of the Maldives might have been not simply damaged but wiped out over Christmas. In this light the tsunami was a speeded-up premonition of the inevitable.
Yet its impact on the islands was less than feared. Still, with more than 100 people killed or missing and many of the so-called local islands - those, that is, where Maldivians live - badly hit, I assumed we would not be going on our January holiday as planned. The resort islands got off more lightly: 19 out of 87 had to be closed, some for only a short period, so it seemed we could go after all. But Johnny Rotten was constantly jeering in my ear about 'Holidays in other people's misery'. Then we heard not only that we could but that we should go: the Maldivians wanted tourists back.
Most other people, it seemed, had decided to stay away. The few passengers on our jumbo-jet could have been crammed into the back of a Ford Transit. That presumably, was why, instead of zooming straight to Male, as scheduled, our flight was re-routed to Sri Lanka.
There was no sign of catastrophe as we taxied through Colombo airport. I'd expected a logjam of equipment and supply-laden palettes but there was just the usual tropical languor and the noise of construction (the airport was being expanded). In the business lounge to which we had wangled access, staff giggled and flirted with each other - it's a Buddhist country, they have an enlightened attitude to this kind of thing. We spent five weary hours in there. Did the fact that so many people had lost their lives, homes and loved ones make this unexpected wait less irksome? Of course it did. Of course it didn't.
The situation had changed by the time we left. The bus took us out to the Male-bound plane past an American supply plane the size of a battleship. There were Jeeps, bulldozers and soldiers sitting around swigging from bottles of water: a glimpse of a future in which the role of the US is reduced to clearing up disasters not of its own making.
At Male the immigration officials were bored, eager for business. In a market-driven context they would have had to compete with each other for our scant custom, offering longer stays, speedier processing. We were through in a flash. A boat was waiting for us in the humid night. The rapidity of the transition made it seem as if Male were more aircraft carrier than island. An Islamic crescent moon hung over the glinting sea. The boat was one of those Dr No speedboats that make the ocean feel as hard and modern as sheet metal. We bounced past other islands, but few, surely, could have been as beautiful as Huvafen Fushi.
Our first sight was of the palms, wrapped in spirals of golden lights. The bungalows, 40 of them, are all over the water, reached by a boardwalk shaped like a Q with an elongated tail. From the outside, ours looked like a nice little place. Inside, wow, it was huge. The style, to my untutored eye, was minimalist hi-tech tropical modernist. It was like something in one of those coffee table books full of photos of places you assume you'll never stay.
The idea of such a photograph might even have been a force in its conception. As you float in bed in the morning, propped on dream-stuffed pillows, the austere front square of the four-poster forms the first of several frames. Within this is another: the open window-doors with a view of the open ocean. It is not just that you can enjoy a view of the ocean without leaving your room; you don't even have to leave your bed.
The sharp line of the horizon is underlined by the sharp edge of a private plunge pool. Everything is hard-edged, symmetrical, softened by early-morning light. The architecture frames the view, turns it into experience, and vice versa. It's like inhabiting a photograph.
A photograph of something that seemed precariously disposed to being swept away. On Boxing Day morning Huvafen Fushi got a call from a neighbouring resort saying a big wave was on the way. Guests were asked to gather in the bar (even dealing with a potential emergency assumes the form of hospitality).
The tsunami, when it arrived a few minutes later, was not a wave so much as a freak high tide. It swamped the beach, took an aggressive peep at five bungalows, sunned itself briefly on the decks, decided it was a bit too pricey here and passed on, looking for less expensive lodgings to trash. Then, in no time at all, it was gone.
Had it been predictable and non-catastrophic elsewhere, the version of the tsunami offered here would have enjoyed a status comparable to a solar eclipse, the kind of thing people would travel considerable distances to experience. Damage was negligible.
Before we came, friends in Thailand had told us to avoid eating fish - contaminated, they claimed, by feeding on the bodies of the drowned. Was this true or the aquatic equivalent of an urban legend? Would corpses be washing up on the pristine sands? Was the idea of the beach paradise, as some commentators had claimed, forever tainted, fallen? All we saw were a few bits of polystyrene floating in the sea, and maybe this was just workaday litter.
In another way, though, the damage had been done. The tsunami was followed by a flood of cancellations. By the time we got there Huvafen Fushi was at a fraction of capacity. A few people had been worried about aftershocks but most who cancelled did so on ethical grounds. Such scruples are wildly misplaced. The Maldives depends overwhelmingly on tourism. Not coming here actually adds up to a form of punitive economic sanction.
Huvafen Fushi basks in a natural tropical setting but the environment is a technologically advanced one. Constantly and subtly changing fibre optic lights in the pool give the impression you're floating through space, swimming in starlight. And in the treatment rooms you feel like you're swimming alongside shoals of fish, because, in a sense, you are: it's the world's first underwater spa. The lights in the rooms can be adjusted in endless permutations of mood. But the best thing of all is the Bose stereo in each bungalow. Had you the foresight you might have brought your iPod and the relevant leads so you could play all your favourite music through this immense sound system. There are even external speakers so you can drift in the plunge pool and trance out to the Necks (Aquatic works predictably well).
There's also a library (called 'the lair') but it's crazy to read here when you could be just looking. You can read at home. You can read, for example, about the way that most types of landscape - mountains, deserts, the seaside - came to be seen as alluring at particular historical periods. What had appeared bleak and featureless became beautiful, sublime.
It is difficult to imagine such a cultural rehabilitation being necessary here. From the moment we slithered out of the sea and evolved eyes this turquoise and blue, these pale sands and infinite skies, were more than simply pleasing; they offered a pre-emptive answer to a yearning that would not articulate itself for thousands of years. Relatively speaking the period from then to the invention of - and adverts for - sunglasses passed in the blink of that eye.
Yes, time passed quickly, even though, as far as we could make out, it had practically stopped for us. The great excitement each day was walking back on the boardwalk and spotting a baby reef shark cruising the shallows. The boards were scorching; every 10 yards there were little pails of water with which you could cool your stinging soles. It became our habit, if we saw one of these harmless little sharks, to fling water on it, causing it to flinch away in terror.
Compared with where we went next - by speedboat and by glamorously workaday seaplane - Huvafen Fushi felt like a sprawling metropolis. There are only six bungalows on Dhoni Mighili, and never more than 12 guests. To make sure you don't get bored each pair of guests has a 65ft boat - or dhoni - with a four-man crew at their disposal. You can sleep in your bungalow (cottagey compared with Huvafen Fushi) or out on the ocean. We used the boat modestly, for snorkelling trips. As far as I can gather the only thing resembling maturity that I have acquired is the knowledge that I have no desire to dive but love to snorkel.
We went to a mad reef, full of psychedelic coral and thousands of cool fish going about their fishy business. Wildlife programmes always insist on there being a practical reason for every quirk of nature - the long tongue that enables the male to reach treats hidden deep in the plumage of the female - but this is surely over-deterministic.
Nature loves to show off. So if you have the good fortune to make your living as a tropical fish, why not swan around in a blazing yellow swimsuit with UV stripes and a purple tail? If there is a purpose in this it is to delight one's companions.
The reef was an extravagant fancy dress party to which everyone had been invited. Talk about multiculturalism - they were all there! Fat and thin (so thin they were just long silver needles), big and small. And then - though this might sound a bit rich, a bit human, coming from the only real gatecrasher in town - a less than welcome guest appeared: a 6ft reef shark. Its eyes, as it cruised calmly into view, were cold as a shark's. Then, suddenly, it twisted and sped by, heart-stoppingly fast. A few moments later it reappeared, flashing an inverse grin before zipping past. I took the point. Our idle tormenting of the baby reef shark had been repaid with this retaliatory display of trans-species goading. Like everything else, karma has had to move with the times: basically it comes around more quickly and, as a result, has lost some of its gravitas.
Our dhoni proved useful for stop ping off at uninhabited islands. There are loads, all implausibly idyllic - from a distance. Once you are on them the view is blighted by the detritus of modern life: plastic bottles, trainers, whiskey and gin bottles, bits of wood. Presumably this stuff had not been dropped by faux castaways like ourselves, it had just washed up.
Some of it, perhaps, was here because of the tsunami, but a version of the butterfly effect might also be at work: the impact of a yob littering in London makes itself felt even here. Or maybe what is packaged as consumption is really a cry for help. The romantic idea of putting a message in a bottle has been industrialised, mass produced; as a result the plea contained in each - please dispose of sensibly - is ignored, discarded.
We preferred hitting the bottle back on our own luxuriously solitary, eco-conscious island. The bar was low-slung so that even after a single drink you found yourself leaning on it as if on the brink of alcoholic collapse. After that we had a polite version of the vulgar cocktail: dinner on the beach. The food was fish, and the fish was shark - see what happens if you mess with me? Only joking; it was actually reef fish, as fresh as the nightlife was star-studded.
Yes, it was all going off up there in space. Never a dull moment. The few clouds were dark patches where the stars had been erased: black holes, presumably. For dessert we lay back in the sand and had a huge helping of firmament. We didn't know the first thing about what we were seeing (a lot of the constellations are just myths), we just lay there, tanning ourselves like vampires under the stars.
Other than that - excepting the tides, obviously, and the way that night followed day and so forth - nothing much happened. A boat passing from one side of the horizon to the other was an event. Waking from a nap was an event. The blister on my toe (caused by ill-fitting flippers) was certainly an event. The hours when nothing happened were eventful. Life went on. The turquoise was an event. The sea plane, banking, landing, fetching us back to Male, was the beginning of the end of an event.
Geoff Dyer travelled with Expressions Indian Ocean (020 7433 2636; expressionsholidays.co.uk).
A four-night stay at Huvafen Fushi followed by three nights at Dhoni Mighili in the Maldives starts from £2,499. This includes return economy flights with Emirates from the UK to Male via Dubai and transfers by speedboat .
Accommodation includes bed and breakfast in a beach bungalow at Huvafen Fushi and full board with drinks in a luxury dhoni at Dhoni Mighili.
· Geoff Dyer is a novelist and travel writer. His recent book, 'Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It', (Abacus) won the WH Smith travel-writing prize.


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I confess that am growing somewhat tired of every article and every presentation beginning with "in this challenging economic environment." I hear it at Chamber of Commerce events, business presentations, read it in articles on marketing during a recession, and in general am feeling somewhat overwhelmed by the dire message. It is reality, and I recognize this is an unprecedented economic situation we currently face, but it would be great to start a discussion on a positive note for a change.
So – with that in mind – I want to recommend that during this "challenging economic climate" you consider hosting some networking and informational programs for your clients, centers of influence and business prospects. While it has traditionally been difficult to consistently draw a good crowd for seminars and roundtables, at this juncture – in this recession, business owners seem especially hungry for relevant information and timely advice that will help them make immediate adjustments to weather the storm. Just one good idea becomes a golden nugget for a closely-held, mid-size business. Topics discussed at your events should be selected to provide sugestions that can help a business owner gain a competitive edge.
When you are deciding how to spend your marketing/practice development resources (dollars and time invested), I have found that having the opportunity to be in front of an audience, adding value and demonstrating real expertise, is about the most effective tool in the proverbial marketer's tool box. Unlike an ad, which can appear self serving, or even an article, which often has no call-to-action, time spent together in a meaningful way has a significant impact.
If you do not have a series of client-focused seminars on your calendar this year, you might want to consider adding a few targeted programs. Perhaps partnering with another business group, bank or law firm (to help spread out the responsibilities) will make this even more attractive for you and for your audience!


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That's right, three exclamation points (I splurged just for you folks)!
So my main man, mate, and best-bud from Japan (Carl if you haven't figured it out) will send me links from time to time of some pretty funny shit. Sometimes it's game related, sometimes topical, and sometimes just something weird and bizarre that only a Brit would understand.
So, I figure that since I'm still working on my thoughts of Skyward Sword, I'd put some of his findings up here for everyone to enjoy. That, and Carl's already done most of the work for me!
Let's start with some pics!
No comment. Pic says it all.
Now that's one amazing furry Dr. Who cosplay (>n<)
Listen to Mark Sherry's Coldplay Paradise Remix and Pikachu syncs up perfectly!
I wonder if the Doctor likes Chili dogs?
Adventure Time! and Totoro mash-up. Such a brilliant show. I wish I had cable
Fuckin awesome
Alright, how about some videos?! Yeah!
Awww, this is so touching. Even if the nerd-factor is pushing through uncomfortable and into "I can't believe that's my child" range.
This is now the new meme in my house!
Evan: Hey Naoko! Guess what?!
Naoko: What?
Evan: HHHHOOOOOOYYYYYYYEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
Dr. Who meets Metal
This guy is pretty effin awesome. Go listen to more of his stuff. Here, I'll get you started:
TMNT meets Metal
This song would make Skyrim interesting to me again
Zelda meets Metal
Well, that's all that Carl sent. I'm getting bored. Time to get on some Nuclear Dawn before bed. Wonder how well I can do with a beer buzz
Smell ya later!


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A man, accused of robbing Kay Jewelers in Riverdale Village Shopping Center, Coon Rapids, Dec. 30, 2012, has pleaded guilty in Anoka County District Court to a felony first-degree aggravated robbery charge.
Matthew Thomas Kennedy, 23, Fridley, entered the guilty plea Sept. 30, his scheduled trial date, and will be sentenced Nov. 14. He remains in jail in lieu of $50,000 bail.
According to the complaint, a man entered the Kay Jewelers store shortly before 4:30 p.m. Dec. 30, 2012 raising the suspicion of the two employees because he had been at the store the day before looking at a diamond ring worth $15,599.
This time, he asked one of the employees to try the ring on for him, which she did on the left hand while attempting to cover her fingertips with her right hand, but he yanked the ring off her finger and ran out the door.
The employee immediately felt pain in her finger and when she went to the hospital, it was confirmed that it had been broken, according to the complaint.
Surveillance video clips and still photos were obtained of the suspect, not only from Kay Jewelers, but also from an Anoka jewelry store the previous day, Dec. 29, 2012. After photos appeared both on newspaper websites and local television news, several tips were received that identified Kennedy as the robber.
Using several prior county jail booking photos – Kennedy had been arrested multiple times for theft related crimes, according to Cmdr. Paul Sommer, Anoka County Sheriff's Office – officers determined that the surveillance images appeared to be Kennedy.
In photo line-ups, the two Kay Jewelers employees independently positively identified Kennedy as the man who entered the store and stole the ring off the employee's finger.
Kennedy was arrested by Coon Rapids Police Jan. 8 after a tip was received that he was at a residence near Classic Bowl, according to Det. Chad Duckson, Coon Rapids Police investigator on the case.
He was taken into custody and jailed after the vehicle in which he was traveling was stopped by police on Coon Rapids Boulevard, Duckson said.
The diamond ring has not been found, according to Duckson.
Peter Bodley is at email@example.com


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