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Monthly ArchiveOctober 2011
Commentary & technology 20 Oct 2011 06:17 pm
A welcome extinction
Here is this week's column:
Self-checkout lanes may soon be going the way of the dodo, according to recent reports.
It can't happen soon enough. Short of employees who drop-kick customers in the pants when they ask questions, I can't imagine a more surefire way to alienate buyers.
Here's a scenario that has played out numerous times: I'm ringing up items in a self-checkout lane while two or more employees stand nearby, blithely ignoring that I can't get the scanner to recognize a box of Wild Grape Pop Tarts and nattering on about how long they're working that day (usually six whole hours), how stupid/ineffective/smelly their immediate superior is (very/very/very) or how one of their kids shoved graham crackers up his nose (a feat achievable only after much soaking in apple juice. The crackers, not the kid).
Meanwhile, a computer voice announces that I should "hang on" because "help is on the way." But it's not — at least not until the climaxes of the stories above, which are as long as "War and Peace" and "Crime and Punishment" combined. This, despite the waving of my arms and pointing to my watch (actually my cell phone), international symbols for "Hurry up, you dopes, don't you know that 'Dancing with the Stars' starts in eight-and-a-half minutes?"
Eventually, one of the slack-jawed zombies makes her way to my side, where she solves my dilemma (and believe me, she makes it clear that it's my problem from her glassy stare and barely stifled yawn) by pulling a swipe card from deep within some rolls of skin and waving it in front of the scanner, usually without explaining why the Pop Tarts were able to resist being UPC'd in the first place.
That's when I realize that what I need isn't an employee, but one of those magic swipe cards. I'm surprised grocery stores don't start hanging one in every aisle, right next to a bottle of bleach and some paper towels that you can use when the clueless so-and-so who checked out before you leaves blood on the conveyor belt from a leaking package of pork. Why should employees do anything?
But when I told my wife how happy I will be to never again ring up my own purchases, she reminded me about Snotty Lady, and now I'm not so sure.
Snotty Lady, whom I had the displeasure to meet a few weeks ago, wasn't really snotty, at least not in the "I hope you eat worms, you puny mortal" sense. No, she was literally snotty, blowing her nose on a balled-up tissue that she left on the top of her register, mopping up nasal discharge the consistency of Italian dressing by running her palm vertically down her nostrils, and then touching the valued-customer card that I held in my trembling hand.
She was the modern equivalent of Typhoid Mary, and she had her hands on every item we purchased. Yuck. At least at the self-checkout lane, I know where my hands have been.
The grocery store isn't the only place where technology alienates me. I work for two progressive employers who have installed motion-sensor lighting, presumably on the assumption that we proles are not smart enough to turn out the lights when leaving a room. (What's that say about the management that hired us?)
Because most of my work is sedentary — paginating newspaper pages doesn't involve a lot of motion, and neither does grading papers, unless I'm pounding my head against a desk and muttering "Why? Why? Why?," something I've done in both endeavors — these motion-detecting lights often turn off while I'm at my desk. At one job, the solution is to wave my arms in the air, causing the Sensor in the Skylight to recognize that a living, breathing human — albeit a seldom-moving one — is in the house (yo! yo!), and the lights come back on.
At the other job, however, I have to stand up and make several steps toward the center of the room before the lights flicker on. That, or send a document to the printer, the shaking of which is enough to fool the sensor into turning on the lights.
Since I'm invisible to the help at grocery stores and invisible to motion-detecting sensors at work, I've developed an inferiority complex, which I blame on technology. To this end, I'm considering a lawsuit against Bill Gates and the estate of the late Steve Jobs.
But the way society is "advancing," I'd likely be forced to serve as my own attorney in front of a robotic judge and wave my arms periodically to keep the lights on in the courtroom, so why bother? Human interaction, it seems, is following the dodo into extinction.
Commentary & technology 13 Oct 2011 08:37 pm
I'll get back to you — in 72 hours
Here is today's column, as seen in The Alliance Review:
I received an email a few weeks ago from a sender who urged me to follow the "international academic standards for email response time," which is apparently 72 hours.
I had a good laugh at this because it sounds ridiculously formal. I picture a coterie of bearded old men in a posh private library or study, leather patches on the elbows of their tweed jackets, puffing pipes and shaking their heads disconsolately as one of them says, "Egad, old Smith from the Audubon Society fired off a request for information on the mating habits of the Hoary Redpoll last week and I simply must respond posthaste or risk violating the international academic standards for email response time."
"Jolly good show, that," responds one of the other professorial types, signaling Jeeves for another martini and sinking back into his copy of Proust.
I googled "academic standards for email response time" and found not a single reference, which really doesn't prove anything other than the term is more obscure than the Hoary Redpoll. The closest I came is a website called email@example.com. In answer to the question, "What is the rule for how fast you should be responding to emails?," the site unhelpfully offers, "As soon as you can."
Here in the real world, far removed from the ivory towers of academia, we proles who are the dubious benefactors of dozens of email "requests" that trickle down from our human and machine overlords often see responding to email as one more item on our to-do lists, somewhere between "toil unceasingly for the man" and "pick up milk on the way home." The only pecking order among digital correspondences is determining which ones we have to answer immediately and which ones can be saved for another day. In other words, which must I answer to keep the boss off my @$$?
Some sort of email defense mechanism is necessary. On average, I receive around 10 messages an hour from four separate accounts during a typical work day. Some of this is ridiculous pap that can be safely ignored, a few are ridiculous pap that nevertheless require a response, and one out of every, oh, three dozen, is genuinely important. And my email tallies are small compared to some people, who wish they were juggling only 10 requests an hour.
Personally, I try to answer most email promptly, if only because I seldom open messages more than once. My own interpretation of "international academic standards for email response time" is about six hours, with many responses clocking in at less than an hour. If you haven't heard from me before the sun sets on your original query, one of two things has occurred: I've either not seen your message or I'm ignoring you.
A few months ago, I had what I thought was a brainstorm and set two of my larger work-based accounts to forward email to my home account, which is tied to my cellphone, which chimes or vibrates whenever a message is received. This way, wherever I was, my email was just a pants pocket away, and I could stay in touch.
Now, when I'm out to dinner on a Saturday night or at the movies or just lounging on the couch, my pocket is literally buzzing with messages. My students submit essays digitally, and many wait until my traditional 11:59 p.m. deadline (midnight is just too scary) to share. Since I receive individual email notifications for each essay, my phone beeps and buzzes incessantly, making it sound like there's an out-of-control party in my pants.
At my age, it's often the most exciting thing that happens there.
Come to think of it, if getting email was always this exciting, there would be no need for silly rules like the 72-hour "international academic standards for email response time."
Commentary & Media & Movies 12 Oct 2011 06:50 am
31 Days of Halloween encore
I remain unabashedly in love with all things Halloween, including horror films. Four years ago, when I had much more time in my life, I reviewed a fright film each day leading up to Oct. 31. This year, that won't happen, but here's an encore link to those 31 reviews. I still agree with most of my choices, by the way.
Turner Classic Movies has a full slate of Halloween offerings on Mondays this month, by the way, including a new Stephen King documentary that I haven't seen yet. Click here for a link to their schedule.
Books 10 Oct 2011 09:38 pm
'Animal Farm' admission
I'm embarrassed to say that I've stared for weeks at the Animal Farm cover above and saw only the blood smear behind the title. Then I realized it was in the shape of a pig.
Commentary & technology 09 Oct 2011 08:30 pm
Gamers crack the code
Here is last week's column from The Alliance Review:
It's all fun and games until somebody deciphers the molecular structure of an enzyme.
Players of the online game Foldit did exactly that last month, breaking the code of a retroviral protease (yeah, I didn't know what it was either) from an AIDS-like virus found in rhesus monkeys. The protease has flummoxed scientists for years, yet the gamers, working collaboratively, figured it out in 10 days.
Once molecular structures of such enzymes have been decoded, researchers could develop drugs to stop their spread. Hence, the world is one step closer to an AIDS vaccine thanks to video gamers.
Nobody has suggested firing the scientists who spent a decade working unsuccessfully to crack the code, which would be the obvious move when untrained amateurs accomplish more in less time, so we must look in other directions for lessons from this triumph.
First, it vindicates gamers who have lived for years in their parents' basements, sacrificing personal hygiene and social lives in the name of higher scores on "Call of Duty" or "Mortal Kombat." Now when their mothers try to shame them off the couch and into jobs — even if it's only picking up pizza boxes littering the floor around them — they can justifiably say, "Aw, Ma, I'm cracking the crystal structure of a retroviral protease here. Leave me alone!"
I know a guy who routinely assured his parents that his addiction to video games would help later in life when he was behind the cockpit of a fighter jet. This was back in the days of the Atari 2600, with a controller that consisted of a joystick and one red button. The last time I checked, the average fighter jet cockpit was slightly more complicated. My acquaintance never got close to one, thank goodness, although he did eventually graduate to the Nintendo game system. Secondly — and more seriously — the Foldit success is an example of how intrinsic motivation is more effective than more common carrot-and-stick methods. Researchers and writers such as Edward Deci and Daniel Pink have cataloged many instances of people working on a project because they want to easily outperforming people working on a project because they have to.
Deci first demonstrated this decades ago in experiments with volunteers and puzzles. As long as volunteers were solving puzzles because they wanted to, they worked longer at the task, even during free time when they weren't required to do so. On the other hand, volunteers who were paid to work on the same puzzles did so only during proscribed times and were far less likely to work on them during free time. Getting paid to do something fun equals "work," which is no longer fun, and one's internal motivation goes right out the window.
Pink has collected similar studies, noting surprising differences in the ways money motivates us. The bottom line: For tasks that involve little thought, higher pay and bonuses tied to productivity are good motivators. For tasks that involve even rudimentary creativity and thought, however, increased pay and bonuses decrease internal motivation and cause employees to produce less. (Politicians and taxpayers who favor merit-pay systems for teachers, take note.)
If researchers who turned to video game players for help with the monkey-virus puzzle had offered money, they might not have their solution.
Finally, the video gamers' success is a perfect illustration of the "hive mind" at work. If two heads are better than one, how exponentially more powerful are thousands of heads? Crowdsourcing, or harnessing large groups to do tasks usually reserved for highly trained individuals, is gaining traction as a way to solve problems, replacing the image of the dedicated researcher toiling in solitude late into the night.
While I'm impressed with the video gamers' accomplishments in science, I won't be completely sold until they unravel a few more of life's great mysteries. Call me when they find the lost Roanoke colony, the Mary Celeste, the identity of Jack the Ripper, or Jimmy Hoffa's remains.
Only then will I trade my full-time job for a spot on the basement couch.


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Land Use Change and Ecosystem Valuation in North Georgia
This study seeks to forecast land use change in a North Georgia ecosystem, and estimate the economic value of the ecosystem using benefit transfer techniques. We forecast land use change based on a structural time series model and a simple growth rate model. The study suggests a lower bound willingness to pay value of about USD 16,000 per year to ensure compliance with fishing and drinking water quality standards with regard to fecal coliform bacteria and dissolved oxygen. Conservation efforts are likely to cost less than the cost of defensive behavior or ecosystem restoration.
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- Torras, Mariano, 2000. "The total economic value of Amazonian deforestation, 1978-1993," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 33(2), pages 283-297, May.
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By Kristopher Rivera
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Make Plans: UTEP Student Art Exhibition Opening Reception, 4-9 p.m. Thursday, April 10, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts
The commute from Juárez, Mexico to El Paso always started three hours before Alejandra Urquide's first class at The University of Texas at El Paso.
Urquide, an art major, is seeing the fruit of her hard work after five years of prolonged wait times at the Santa Fe Bridge and four years practicing her craft at the University. She and other students have been selected to have their artwork displayed at the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts for the 2014 Juried Student Art Exhibition. One hundred entries were chosen from a field of 300 from undergraduate students at the University.
"I feel that definitely all this time on the bridge or all the time I spent at the University is the best decision I ever made," Urquide said. "I really look forward to growing as a professional."
Urquide created a packaging design that rebranded the traditional design of Price's Creameries milk cartons and glass containers. Her modern design created a more contemporary look for the Price's milk product.
The art exhibit features works of art and design created by undergraduate students. The opening reception is scheduled for 4 p.m. Thursday, April 9 as part of UTEP's Open House. The show includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, metals, graphic design and videos. CC Bursell, graphic design juror, and Abril Castro, the fine arts juror, selected the featured artwork of the exhibit.
Near the main entrance of the Rubin Center hangs a contemporary-realist painting of a Chicana-punk-rock-looking woman with the "sign of the horns" hand gesture. It's an image focused on gender issues, said Yennifer Mendez, senior anthropology major and featured artist in the exhibit.
"I feel like females and males are starting to equal out to some point, I feel her personality represented that very well," Mendez said about the woman in the painting. "She takes up her own space in the way that she dresses, the way she moves around; her attitude is very empowering."
The artistic traits were passed on from her father, according to hearsay from her family.
"All I knew about him was that he likes to do artwork," Mendez said. "That was something that I felt I must have in connection with him and that's why I always wanted to do (art)."
Two years ago, Mendez, 23, was able to see her father, who is a carpenter, for the first time in 17 years because of her parents divorce and the barrier of living across the U.S.-Mexico border.
"Living at the border, it wasn't exactly so easy, especially for myself having been an illegal immigrant," Mendez said. "For half of my life I had been trying to hide in a way. I couldn't work for the longest time, I couldn't do much. You want to do something great, but at the same time you've got to say on the low."
Her studies in anthropology mix into her paintings to convey a social impact.
In November 2010, she became a legal resident after marrying Lionel Palma, senior anthropology major.
Mendez and Palma collaborated to create a piece that is also featured in the exhibit. They each painted 7-foot-by-5-foot portraits that are displayed across from one another at the Rubin Center.
Palma has a second portrait featured in the exhibit. His 4-foot-by-7-foot painting titled Victor represents a friend he admires and someone who "pushes through" continuous struggles.
"I always like to talk to my subjects to get kind a feeling of who they are and what they're about because my purpose right now is to portray people either how I perceive them or how they are perceived in general," he said.
His portraits feature life-like details and facial impressions. His practice came during boot camp in the United States Marines Corps in 2007. He wasn't able to finish training and had to leave after suffering a shoulder injury.
"In there I learned that people really appreciated art," Palma said. "All the soldiers found out that I knew how to draw so they would ask me for portraits."
After returning to UTEP, Palma pursued his artistic ambitions. This is the second time his work has been featured in the juried student art exhibit.
"It's really nerve-wracking; it's always up to someone else and they come with their biases," he said. "It's a good thing because you can figure out what you're about and where you fit in this world."
The 2014 Juried Student Art Exhibition will be showcased at the Rubin Center until May 15.


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Charleston has a rich and storied history through Colonial, Revolutionary, Antebellum and Civil War America. Today many of Charleston's buildings reflect the nation's great social and architectural history of period buildings which are concentrated in what is referred to as the Historic District.
The Historic District is comprised mainly of residential dwellings in addition to commercial, ecclesiastical and government buildings. The wide variety of architectural styles, close proximity, and unique use of scale and proportion create a discernible appearance associated to what many consider old Charleston. Georgian, Regency, Federal, Adamesque, Classical Revival, Greek Revival, Italianate, Gothic Revival and Queen Anne are a number of of the many architectural styles prominent within the Historic District.
A majority of buildings located within this district utilize an array of various brick, stucco and clapboard construction. Most 18th and 19th century residences embody the iconic Charleston style "single house" – an elongated one room wide abode with tiered piazzas designed to catch a cool summer sea breeze.
Many outbuildings such as stables, carriage houses and kitchen buildings pepper the district which, over the years, have been extensively altered to accommodate modern use of the space.
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Tobin Bell's Jigsaw and Peter Outerbridge's William Easton are the two characters featured in the newly-released pictures from the sixth installment of the horror series.
As the October release date of "Saw VI" is fast approaching, two more photos from Lionsgate's forthcoming horror thriller have arrived. Found on the official Saw Facebook group page, the brand new pictures take a close-up shot at two of the film's major characters. One sees Tobin Bell's Jigsaw, the other exposes the movie's main character, Peter Outerbridge's William Easton.
Days earlier, the first TV spot for this sixth movie from the "Saw" series was brought out. The 30-second snippet teased more of the deadly traps terror ignited by Jigsaw as well as provided a look at some never-before-seen footage.
Continuing the story of Jigsaw's lethal games for a second chance in life, "Saw VI" uncovers that Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.
The movie sees the replacement of director David Hackl with "The Strangers" editor Kevin Greutert in the directing position. While facing a change in the helmer, it holds on to screenwriter duo Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton for the film's script. Shawnee Smith, Costas Mandylor and Mark Rolston are among the cast members returning to the series. This movie is scheduled to open wide in the U.S. on October 23.


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Charlotte (CNSNews.com) – Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) told CNSNews.com he agrees with the Declaration of Independence that rights come from God, sharing his view just one day after the Democratic National Convention (DNC), in a contentious voice vote, re-inserted a reference to God in the party platform that was initially absent.
CNSNews.com asked Van Hollen on Thursday, "Do you agree with the Declaration [of Independence] that all rights are God-given?"
Van Hollen said, "Yes I do. I think it's right there in our founding documents."
"Our rights are derived from God and nature," he said. "So, I don't think there's any disagreement on that question and I'm glad that the platform made that absolutely clear if it hadn't been already."
Van Hollen had just finished speaking at a health care policy forum near the site of the Democratic National Convention. CNSNews.com asked the congressman, "Also, is health care a God-given right?"
"I think everyone in our kind of society should have access to affordable health care," he said, without definitively calling it a God-given right. "I think it's the decent and moral thing to do."
The Democratic Party platform made news this week for not having a single reference to God, as it had in past years. The platform adopted last week by the Republican National Convention included 12 references to God.
Late Wednesday afternoon, in a hotly contested voice vote, convention delegates voted to amend the platform to include the sentence, "We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values, and interests of working people, and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential."
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(CBS/WISH) INDIANAPOLIS - The family of Indiana University student Lauren Spierer, who has been missing since last June, released a statement Tuesday in honor of her 21st birthday.
The missing woman's birthday has spurred supporters to continue pushing for information on her whereabouts.
The Herald Times reports Spierer's parents, Robert and Charlene, and her older sister, Rebecca, posted on the website Tuesday morning:
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Remembering today, 21 years ago, as one of the happiest days in our lives. Happy Birthday, Lauren.
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Spierer was last seen about 4:30 a.m. on June 3, 2011 at a downtown intersection after a night of partying with friends. A friend she was with that night told police Spierer walked home alone after being at a sports bar and a few downtown apartments.
There have been no clues as to what happened to her. Police and volunteer search efforts - including a search of 4100 tons of trash in a landfill - dug up no new information over the summer.
CBS affiliate WISH reports that the primary Twitter account used to spread information about Spierer's disappearance and recover efforts posted about her birthday Tuesday morning and accused those who haven't come forward.
Friends and supporters tried getting Spierer's name and birthday trending on Twitter.
"She's 21 today & should be celebrating w/her friends @IndianaUniv. Even though u weren't directly involved, u've known & remained silent," one Tweet said.
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A MAN who admitted driving a car without insurance for a second time has been banned from the roads by a judge after he appeared at Worcester Magistrates Court.
Steven Martin, aged 20, of Tintern Avenue, off Astwood Road, Worcester was stopped by police after driving a Peugeot 406 Worcester on May 20.
Kerry Lovegrove, prosecuting, said the car showed up on the police computer as not being covered by insurance.
Martin had already had his driving licence revoked for a previous case of driving with no insurance which attracts six points.
Because he was not out of his two year probationary period his licence had already been taken off him.
He said: "I'm sorry for doing it. It's not going to happen again."
With six more penalty points placed on his licence by district judge Nigel Cadbury, Martin was banned from driving for six months as a totter (12 points of more on his licence).
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Here are some of today's top headlines from around the area, including four shootings in four hours in Cleveland, the Attorney General's Office shuts down a Warren Tae Kwan Do charity and a Canton veteran embarks on six-month hike to "walk off the war."
WARRIOR HIKE: Cecil E. Thayer III, a Canton veteran and Kent State University student, is participating in "Walk Off the War," in which he embarks on a six month hike of the Appalachian Trail with 13 other veterans, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. The 27-year-old Marine and Ohio Army National Guard veteran served two tours in Iraq and received a Purple Heart for injuries sustained in Iraq. The hike is through a group called Warrior Hike, and this year will have groups hiking the Continental Divide Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail out west. The hike is a way for veterans to decompress and deal with issues surrounding their time in service. Click here to read more at ohio.com.
AKRON BEACON JOURNAL: The Ohio Supreme Court decided not to hold Akron Beacon Journal reporter Phil Trexler in contempt for refusing to testify in an Akron Bar Association disciplinary hearing against attorney Larry D. Shenise, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. Trexler wrote a story in which Shenise said he was never notified of his client's hearing in Summit County Comon Pleas Judge Paul Gallagher's court, and as a result Gallagher signed an arrest warrant for the 80-year-old client after he missed the hearing. Gallagher filed a disciplinary complaint against Shenise, who claimed later that that Trexler's story misquoted him. Trexler refused to testify in the hearing, but responded to the subpoena by saying that he stood by the accuracy of the story. Click here to read more at ohio.com.
TAE KWAN DO CHARITY: Dynamite TKD Kids Foundation, a Warren organization founded in 2009 to provide scholarships for students to attend Tae Kwan Do classes, has reached an agreement to pay $5,000 to the Attorney General's Office and cease charitable solicitations in Ohio following an investigation by the Attorney General's Charity Law Section, according to the Youngstown Vindicator. The organization, founded in 2009 by Abbie M. Taylor, provided scholarships for students to attend her husband's Tae Kwan Do school, and an investigation began in August 2012 when a complaint was filed alleging that the Taylor's were using the organization's debit card to pay for vacations, groceries and other personal expenses. The investigation also revealed that very few scholarships — all of which sent students to attend Taylor's husband's Tae Kwan Do School — were actually awarded and Taylor had failed to keep appropriate financial records. Click here to read more at vindy.com.
IDENTITY FRAUD: Two of three New York City residents who were arrested last September by Macedonia police have been sentenced to 10 days in jail with suspended prison sentences on charges of identity fraud, forgery and misuse of credit cards, according to the Nordonia Hills News-Leader. Samsara Delacruz, 22, and Johnathan Caceres, 27, both pleaded guilty to felony counts of forgery and misuse of credit cards on Feb. 6. Delacruz also pleaded guilty to a felony count of identity fraud and both were sentenced to 10 days in jail with three- and two-year suspended prison sentences, respectively. The third defendant, 29-year-old Anthony Peralta, pleaded guilty on March 6 and is scheduled to be sentenced on April 3. The three were arrested on Sept. 7 at a Best Buy in Macedonia after an employee became suspicious of Delacruz, who opened a $4,000 credit line. According to the report, the three used fake identification to purchase electronics from Pittsburgh, Columbus, Cuyahoga Falls, Akron, Cleveland and Chicago to sell in New York. Click here to read more at the-news-leader.com.
CLEVELAND SHOOTINGS: Cleveland police say four people were shot during a four-hour span between 10 p.m. Monday and 2 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Northeast Ohio Media Group. The first shooting occurred near East 154th Street and Kinsman Avenue in which one man was shot in the foot and was driven to St. Vincent Charity Medical Center. Police found a gun but no suspects. Around 11 p.m., police responded to a 29-year-old man shot in the shoulder at the 6500 block of Fleet Avenue. That victim was rushed to MetroHealth Medical Center in serious condition, and police say the suspect fled the area in a silver or gray Chrysler sedan. A third gunshot victim who was admitted to MetroHealth said he was shot in the chest around 11:30 p.m. near East 131st Street and Harvard Avenue, but was unable to provide a description of the suspect. The fourth shooting occurred at around 1:30 a.m. at the Castle on Ridge bar at 3837 Ridge Road where last month a 20-year-old man was shot and killed. The victim was also taken to MetroHealth with a gunshot wound to the chest, and police found a handgun at the bar. No arrests have been made. Click here to read more at cleveland.com.


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Much of the focus of the alleged value-investing world has turned its eyes toward Omaha, Neb., this week as capitalist Super Bowl that is the Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) annual meeting kicks off -- and the faithful have come to genuflect and buy stuff. Endless amounts of ink has been and will be devoted to what Warren says and does at the meeting. However, I personally do not think the man has been a real value investor for decades now. He is more of a private-equity guy in disguise, and his activities and advice don't apply as much to the individual investor today as they once did.
I will have more to say on this later in the week, but for now I want to focus on the man who taught Warren the basics of investing. Buffett used the Ben Graham cheap-stock approach to build the first part of the fortune that is Berkshire today, and those techniques can still be used by most of us now. Buying stocks that trade for less than asset value, and with a margin of safety, still constitutes a successful investing approach. The strategy gives individuals an edge they can use to profit even in today's snake pit of a stock market....541 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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If someone has £100,000 of undistrbuted profits in a Limited company and wants to close it through choice to start a new venture, what is the best way of extracting the funds. I have been looking into ER but I believe from 1/3/12 anything over £25,000 means it will be treated as income not capital and thus not ER. Does this mean the entire distribution or that exceeding £25k? Also is self winding up on Companies House eleigible in this case or must a liquidator be appointed? I was told the latter but have found things online saying that that is not mandatory and doing it yourself would not make this ineligible for ER. I have googled ad infinitum on thi sbut as usual just get loads of long winded contradictory twaddle. In anyone can explain the basics in plain English, I will be forever grateful..
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As the value exceeds £25k, the informal winding up route means that the distribution will be income, not capital. If a liquidator is appointed then the distribution will be capital and ER can apply.
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It appears as if we have another epic finals series on our hands. The New Zealand Breakers and the Perth Wildcats, the two dominant teams of the last couple of NBL seasons, are matched up once again in the Finals and the Breakers used an overtime win tonight to steal the series' momentum.
Playing at home at the Vector Arena in Auckland, the Breakers used their 9,125 strong crowd to push them over the top in the extra frame, winning 104-98.
CJ Bruton was brilliant for the Breakers with the game on the line, he scored twice in the final minute and a half, one a three and the other a tough shot inside, and then drew a charge on the defensive end to keep the game out of reach from the visiting Cats.
The Wildcats came back from a 15 point deficit at the half after leading by 12 early on to go ahead by six during the fourth quarter. New Zealand tied the game and had a chance to win it when Cedric Jackson launched a floater before the buzzer that didn't drop.
The Breakers threw up a ridiculous 33 attempts from three point land but managed to shoot 42 percent from there and were led by 25 points from Jackson. Former Wildcat Bruton had 20 and Daryl Corletto also managed 16.
League scoring leader Kevin Lisch dropped 27 for the cats but shot just 9-23 while big men Matthew Knight and Shawn Redhage combined for 33 points and 10 rebounds.
New Zealand's NBA prospect Thomas Abercrombie was close to but did not play, obviously not 100 percent right after injuring his ankle in the semis last week.
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DENVER - Colorado's governor signed bills Wednesday that place new restrictions on firearms, signaling a change for Democrats who have shied away from gun control in a state with a pioneer tradition of gun ownership and self-reliance.
The legislation thrust Colorado into the national spotlight as a potential test of how far the country might be willing to go with new gun restrictions after the mass killings at an Aurora movie theater and a Connecticut elementary school.
Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper signed bills that require background checks for private and online gun sales and ban ammunition magazines that hold more than 15 rounds.
The debate in the Democratic-controlled Legislature was intense, and Republicans warned that voters would make Democrats pay. The bills failed to garner a single Republican vote.
The bills' approval came exactly eight months after dozens of people were shot in Aurora, and a day after the executive director of the state Corrections Department, Tom Clements, was shot and killed at his home. (Related story below.)
Hickenlooper signed the legislation right after speaking with reporters about Clements' slaying.
Hickenlooper said large-capacity magazines "have the potential to turn killers into killing machines." He also said he realized some gun owners may be inconvenienced but that "the potential for damage seems to outweigh, significantly, the inconvenience."
The bills signal a historic change for Democrats in a state where owning a gun is as common as owning a car in some rural areas.
"He just slapped rural Colorado right in the face," said Republican state Sen. Greg Brophy, who represents an eastern plains district. "They are overwhelmingly upset about this."
Both bills take effect July 1. People who currently own larger-capacity magazines will be able to keep them.
At the signing ceremony, Hickenlooper was surrounded by lawmakers who sponsored the bills and relatives of mass shootings. Hickenlooper also signed legislation requiring buyers to pay fees for background checks.
Guests included Jane Dougherty, whose sister was killed in the attack at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.; Sandy Phillips, whose daughter was killed in Aurora; and Tom Mauser, whose son was killed in the 1999 Columbine shooting in Colorado.


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Evangelical author sees 'Mormonizing of America'
Published 4:50 pm, Thursday, August 23, 2012
Stephen Mansfield, an evangelical author who has written about the faith of politicians, turns his attention to Mormons in his book, "The Mormonizing of America." He talked with Religion News Service about how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - including GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney - has progressed from persecution to prominence.
Q: You've written "The Faith of George W. Bush" and "The Faith of Barack Obama." Why did you write "The Mormonizing of America" instead of "The Faith of Mitt Romney"?
A: I thought that the story of Bush at the time was bigger than the story of evangelicals and the religious right at that time; I thought the story of Obama personally was bigger than the story of the religious left that he was sort of the champion of. I think that the story of the Mormon moment or this Mormon ascent is a bigger story than Mitt Romney. There's something broader going on, and he's not so much the champion of the movement, maybe just at the vanguard of it.
Q: You write of the "Mormon Machine," traits that help LDS church members have influence. What makes that machine run?
A: The success of Mormonism is it has a very mystical, spiritual vision that has a very earthly practical benefit. That's why I call it the Mormon machine. I certainly don't mean anything political. If you are a Mormon, you understand that you are in this world to pass obstacles to "show yourself worthy," before the Heavenly Father, but it comes down to not smoking, not drinking, not ingesting caffeine, having a large family or a number of children.
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Q: You cite numerous of Smith's "convenient revelations." Which stands out the most?
A: The one that was most troubling to me is the one that he receives from Heavenly Father supposedly when his wife is not happy about polygamy. The idea that this man would in a sense literally beat his wife into submission with a revelation from God and threatens to destroy her if she doesn't comply is one of the things that makes me see him as false.


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Actor Matthew Lewis, who grew up on the big screen as clumsy Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter movies, is starring in a new series of a TV comedy-drama set in Afghanistan.
The 24-year-old, from Horsforth, is currently in South Africa filming Bluestone 42, a story about a fictional bomb-disposal detachment in Afghanistan.
He plays ammunition technician Corporal Gordon House in the show, which first aired last year. "I watched it and remember thinking I'd love to be part of a show like that. It aims to make people laugh but it's not trivialised," said Matthew, who made his first appearance in the Christmas special.
He plays 'cheeky chappy' Gordon, nicknamed Tower Block, brought in to replace Corporal Millsy as number two to Captain Medhurst.
"He's the best of the best and came top in all his classes, but when he arrived in Afghanistan, he was very green and thought he knew a lot more than he actually did," said Matthew. "Gordon's a lad and loves getting stuck in with the banter, especially giving Medhurst stick for being a posh public schoolboy, but he did a lot of growing up in that half-hour special."
He credits the cast and crew for making him feel welcome. "It's quite daunting joining a show, but everyone was fantastic taking me under their wing. I felt part of the team early on," he said.
Despite spending most of his life in the spotlight, Matthew remains a Yorkshireman at heart. "All my friends are up there – they are the ones who keep me grounded. When you're making movies like Potter, you can lose yourself in the glamour of making a big Hollywood film. To come away from that and be normal and go to the pub and watch football, that's what I really enjoy," he said.
"Anthony, my older brother (who has appeared in TV dramas like A Touch Of Frost and Emmerdale), started when he was eight and I was two, so my mother chaperoned him and I got taken along. I kind of grew up on television and film sets."
Aged five, he landed his first role in Kay Mellor's TV movie Some Kind Of Life alongside Jane Horrocks. Appearances in Dalziel And Pascoe, Where The Heart Is and Heartbeat followed before he was cast in the first Harry Potter movie, released in 2001. Post-Potter, his first part was another Kay Mellor project, lottery drama The Syndicate, partly filmed in Bradford.
There is a third Lewis sibling, Chris, the eldest, who is also in the industry – behind the camera. "He's always been much more technically minded, so he became a cameraman, and now he's an editor and works on The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent," said Matthew.
The actor is about to return to the small screen after making his West End debut in Our Boys in 2012.
"You only work three or four hours in the evening but your day's taken up focused on that, and it can become quite a chore in the later runs to get through stuff," he said.
"On Bluestone 42, you're doing different stuff every day. We're blowing stuff up, playing around with rifles and it's beautiful sunshine – so if I ever complain about a job like this, then someone kill me immediately!"
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I just harvested my shallots, and now have them spread out on a screen in the shed to cure. Like my garlic, shallots are planted in the fall to overwinter, and grow through early spring into July. So expensive in the store, they're easy to grow and store, and make a great flavor addition to fall and winter dishes.
I started with a few supermarket shallots, purchased in late summer years ago. They're planted in the fall, one per square foot. By the following summer each shallot multiplies into a clump of 6-7 nice-sized bulbs. Each October, I re-plant around a dozen bulbs from this year's harvest, say two clumps worth, and then still have at least 60-70 to eat throughout the winter.
Curing and storing them is super-easy too. I'll leave this year's harvest out in the shed for a week or two - until the leaves and roots have dried, the necks have shrunken closed, and the brown skin toughened up. Rubbing away the dried dirt, leaves, and roots, I pile the shallots in a couple of net bags (actually, they're a couple of drawstring net stockings used to sell oranges at Christmas time - now reused for my shallot harvest year after year), and hang them from a hook in the ceiling of my kitchen pantry. They'll hold well until the following March or April before they start shriveling up a bit - still tasty though.


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Item I: One of the lasting touches, a daily legacy, of the Jim Livengood years, was the creation of National Championship Drive between Arizona Stadium and McKale Center.
Livengood put on permanent display a banner for each of the school's NCAA championships. You can't miss 'em, even if the sun's in your eyes.
On his daily commute to McKale Center, Fred Harvey must sometimes picture the day a banner flies for the UA track and field/cross country program. Can he get much closer?
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One of Mitt Romney's few consistencies has been his claim that he holds no responsibility for the bankruptcies, layoffs, and outsourcing that took place under his firm, Bain Capital, after February 1999. He has said, over and over again, that he severed ties with Bain in February 1999.
But it's not true.
The Boston Globe reported yesterday that Romney continued as the firm's president and CEO, remained on the payroll, and signed government documents representing himself as the head of Bain—and they have the SEC filings to prove it.
There's more. In 2002, Romney testified that he was still attending board meeting for Bain companies. Here's what he said—under oath: "There were a number of social trips and business trips that brought me back to Massachusetts, board meetings, Thanksgiving, and so forth. I remained on the board of the Staples Corporation and Marriott International, the LifeLike Corporation. I returned for most of those meetings. Others I attended by telephone if I could not return."
That means as the top guy at Bain Capital, Romney is indeed responsible for costing 1,500 middle-class workers at Ampad their livelihoods in 2001—and 750 workers their jobs at GS Industries in 2001. When Stream International chose, in 2000, not to open call centers in the United States in favor of opening one in India, Romney bore responsibility—just as he bears responsibility for the jobs Modus Media cut in California to expand jobs in countries like China and the nearly 430 jobs SMTC sent from Denver to Mexico.
Refuting it would mean that Romney deliberately misled the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission—and that is not a sign of leadership either.


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Press release 21 December 2016
On 1 January 2017, the newly established ERGO Mobility Solutions GmbH will start its operations. The company aims to develop strategic international cooperations with the automotive industry and car trade. Philipp Grosse Kleimann, Thorsten Liebert, Michael Müller and Jürgen Thiele will form the Executive Management. They will report to Karsten Crede who will at the same time join the Board of Management at ERGO Digital Ventures AG, the digital business unit of ERGO Insurance Group at Düsseldorf. "We were able to form an excellent team of experienced industry experts in automotive financial services for the Executive Management of ERGO Mobility Solutions", says Mark Klein, Chief Executive Officer at ERGO Digital Ventures AG.
Philipp Grosse Kleimann (46) will assume responsibility for the Automotive Division within ERGO Mobility Solutions. He has been a Senior Partner at the management consultancy Roland Berger since 2010 where he headed the Global Practice Group "Sales, Marketing and Aftersales" and was the responsible Co-Lead for "New Mobility". Before joining Roland Berger, he was in charge of Business Development on the Board of Management at Aston Martin and for twelve years held various management positions at Daimler AG.
Thorsten Liebert (42) will be in charge of the Sales and Business Development Division within the new company. In his last function, he was Chief Sales Officer for the Asia / Pacific region at Allianz Worldwide Partners. Before that, he was responsible for the region Greater China as CEO at Allianz Global Automotive.
Michael Müller (38) will take over responsibility for Strategy, Finance and Processes / IT. Following career stations as business consultant and at Allianz Deutschland AG, he most recently headed the Corporate Development Division at Allianz Global Automotive.
Jürgen Thiele (46) has been with Roland Berger since 2011. He is the responsible Partner for Non-life Insurance Germany and Global Europe, following a career station at the management consultancy A.T. Kearney. At ERGO Mobility Solutions, he will be in charge of Technical Area, Product and Claims.
Automotive financial services continue to gain in importance. Customers expect attractive conditions, efficient services and innovative products in leasing / financing, insurance and mobility services. For automobile manufacturers and insurers, these areas are important means for customer retention and additional profit sources. With ERGO Mobility Solutions GmbH, ERGO will develop this attractive new field of business.
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The New SKODA Octavia Scout
Rugged off-road look incorporated with ŠKODA's new design language
Advanced 4x4 technology based on fifth-generation Haldex-5 clutch
Fuel consumption reduced by an average of 20 percent
UK prices start from £25,315. On sale from July
MILTON KEYES, UK -- July 14, 2014: Fully prepared and always ready for an adventure – the latest model to join the Octavia range is a true Scout in every sense. Building on the strengths of its acclaimed predecessors, the second-generation Octavia Scout is a unique all-rounder that combines off-road ability with exemplary on-road refinement and the brand's famous practicality.
Priced from £25,315, the new Octavia Scout features an advanced, fifth-generation Haldex clutch transmission, along with sector-best levels of interior space and a host of safety and comfort systems. Yet despite a significant increase in size and specification, the new Octavia is 20 percent cleaner and more fuel-efficient than the previous model, delivering significant running-cost savings for owners.
Two engines and transmissions are available from launch: a 2.0 TDI 150PS with a six-speed manual gearbox and a 2.0 TDI 184PS featuring a six-speed DSG as standard. The former returns 55.4mpg on the combined cycle and has CO2 emissions of 129g/km, while the range-topping model returns 55.4mpg and has CO2 emissions of 134g/km.
In addition to its off-road ability, the new Octavia Scout offers all the acclaimed safety and comfort features of the standard model. All models are available with up to nine airbags and Crew Protection Assistant for vehicle safety in crash situations and Driver fatigue sensor.
A number of electronic comfort systems are available as options. These include: Intelligent Light Assistant and Park Assist. The Scout can also be supplied with a new rear-view parking camera.
Based on the Octavia Estate, the Scout has been an integral part of the Octavia range since its introduction in 2007. Between 2007 and the end of 2013, ŠKODA delivered around 53,600 Octavia Scouts to customers worldwide. This represents almost eight percent of all Octavia Estates delivered during this period.


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Paul Richard James
de Selected Work 1988-2010
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This book includes the artwork of the Welsh born Canadian Artist Paul Richard James.
The artwork of Paul Richard James is both traditional and radical, in style and content. His interest lies in the bridge between the digital and the organic.
James's "Lilly" series investigates the relationship between the pixel and the brush stroke through large scale oil paintings which mimic digital imagery. His "Seduction" series focuses upon the female gaze in fashion periodicals; combining female models and a painterly surface. This retrospective includes selected paintings, sculpture, installation work, street art, and mixed media pieces produced between 1988-2010.
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In a column published Friday, Megan Garber, a staff writer at "The Atlantic" proffers some sage advice to members of the media: Stop pinning labels on people whose names end up in the headlines because of dastardly deeds. The title of piece — "The Boston Bombers Were Muslim: So?" — is meant as an admonition. And so are the opening paragraphs, which catalog all the things "we think we" know about the brothers Tsarnaev (Tamerlan was a "gifted athlete" and "very religious," Dzhokar is "very quiet" and career-oriented).
Although some of the descriptors she cites are well-documented (for example, "Dzhokar received a scholarship from the City of Cambridge"), she dismisses all in the third paragraph as "provisional facts," adding:
They are the products of the chaos of breaking news, and may well also be the products of people who stretch the truth — or break it — in order to play a role in the mayhem. They are very much subject to change. But they are also reminders of something it's so easy to forget right now, especially for the many, many members of the media — professional and otherwise — who currently find themselves under pressure of live air or deadline: Tamerlan and Dzhokar Tsarnaev are not simply 'the Marathon bombers,' or 'murderers,' or 'Chechens,' or 'immigrants,' or 'Muslims.' They might turn out to be all of those things. They might not. The one thing we know for sure is that they are not only those things. They had friends and families and lives. They had YouTube accounts and Twitter feeds. They went to class. They went to work. They came home, and they left it again.
Well, shucks, don't we all feel like a bunch of jerks now?
Putting aside the smarmy and misplaced sympathy, there is actually a kernel of truth to Garber's cracker barrel psychologizing. So far no definitive link has been established between the Tsarnaevs' religious beliefs and their deadly actions last Monday. But similar claims may be made for every other news story centering on extreme violence. Yet, that reality has not deterred writers who share Garber's leftist persuasion from applying labels with alacrity, so long as the "villain" is a white male (or even when he is not: George Zimmerman anyone?).
To take a recent example, right after the Newtown shootings, liberal commentators resorted not only to labels but stereotypes. David Sirota, who recently enshrined himself in the pantheon of leftist bigotry by expressing his fervent hope that the Marathon bombers would turn out to be white males, appeared on MSNBC last December to offer support for the systematic profiling of white males.
The publication Garber writes for has been guilty of wholesale labeling, as evidenced by an article that appeared at the publication's blog, The Atlantic Wire, in the wake of the Tuscon shootings.
One could argue in Garber's defense that her column is intended as a "warning to both benches." But she tramples on that rationale by ignoring her own advice, writing:
The problem is that there is no real place for the Boston bombings and their aftermath, just as there was no real place for Aurora or Columbine or Newtown. Their events were, in a very literal sense, outliers: They are (in the U.S., at least) out of the ordinary. They were the products of highly unusual sets of circumstances — of complexity, rather than contradictions. [Emphasis added]
She has decided in advance of any known motive for the bombings that they were the product of lone wolves. This assumption stands in blunt contradiction to her own admissions elsewhere that the Tsarnaevs' Islamic faith may have "motivated them in their actions on Monday."


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Japan's Toei launches Laterna animation affiliate
Toei Animation, Asia's largest animation house, has launched a wholly-owned subsidiary to produce animation for families and young adults, over a range of media platforms. Called Laterna, the new subsidiary is capitalised at $420,000 (Y50m) and is headed by Tsutomu Tomari, Toei Animation president.
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But it had not been in Tess's power - nor is it in anybody's power - to feel the whole truth of golden opinions while it is possible to profit by them. She - and how many more - might have ironically said to God with Saint Augustine, "Thou hast counselled a better course than thou hast permitted."
I don't think any aspect of modern science has been more exploited by spiritual hucksters and new age con-men than quantum mechanics.
That has nothing to do with quantum physics.
Sounds like a quote from some new age garbage like "The Secret"
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The Flare – Unique Nokia Theme
There are so many different kinds of Nokia themes that are in the market but only a few of them ever reach the mainstream crowd like you all are here in Chaos Inc. After quite a while I have finally finished working on my latest Nokia Symbian OS 9 premium symbian theme called The Flare. This mobile theme is compatible with a variation of handsets like N96, N97, N95 8gb, the 5th edition 5800 Xpress Music, N92, N95, N80, N82, E71, E50, E66, 6120 etc and many more.
This premium yet free Nokia theme is based on a simple concept: all that is innovative in the world of Series 60 Symbian OS. Designed and developed for the new generation of mobile devices of N-Series and E-Series this theme focuses on usability in the real life. This mobile theme is a SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) based which I hope you will admire as one of the better ones in the market. It is quite lightweight considering that the icons are completely customized to be user friendly.
Text visibility on different phones with different screen resolutions of Nokia have always been a roadblock for any Nokia UI Developer and this was no different. Took me a while to test the readability on various phones every time I chose a color or changed it as the same properties of a text appeared against completely different color variations on different phones.
Symbian Signed by my personal key pairs there should not be any trouble viewing this as a multi dimensional theme both signed and unsigned compatibility. When packed it ended up being less than 611 KB only which will certainly not hamper your daily phone operation or performance in any way.
Anyway, enough information about how I ended up developing "The Flare", so why not just take a look for yourself what I have been talking about:
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From rocker chic to revamped retro, students seeking to refresh or reboot their fall wardrobes can sample from a smorgasbord of stylish choices. Have a look at this year's back-to-school fashion trends in our interactive graphic.
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Newsweek rankings are out
Another list. Another head-scratcher. Three Tampa Bay high schools are in the Top 100 on the latest best-high-schools-in-the-country list from Newsweek, with Lakewood's Center for Advanced Technologies (a D school) at No. 22, Hillsborough High (a C school) at No. 34 and Plant High (an A school) at No. 70.
Meanwhile, St. Petersburg High, which came in at No. 69 last year, tumbled to No. 302, and King High in Tampa dropped like a rock from No. 39 to No. 207.
Confused? Take it with a grain of salt: The Newsweek system has its fair share of critics. Washington Post education writer Jay Mathews, who came up with the system, offers this defense.
- Ron Matus, state education reporter


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A Danone SA unit said on Thursday it was considering legal action against New Zealand's Fonterra after the maker of Karicare milk formula had to recall products due to incorrect tests that led to global food safety scare.
Initial tests prompted Fonterra to warn early this month that whey protein used in the products contained a bacteria which may cause botulism. Subsequent testing by New Zealand's Ministry of Primary Industries showed a different strain of the bacteria which posed no safety threat.
The contamination scare prompted product recalls in nine countries, including those by the Danone unit, Nutricia.
"We are considering our legal position," Corine Tap, general manager of Nutricia ANZ, told reporters when asked whether the company would take legal action against Fonterra and the New Zealand laboratory which performed the incorrect tests.
"There are more countries involved in this situation and we are considering our position at the moment," she said, adding that she did not have any figures on the damages Nutricia suffered as a result of the recall.
Nutricia ordered a recall of 67,000 tins of infant formula in New Zealand. Nutricia said its own tests completed over the last week also showed a negative result for clostridium botulinum, the bacteria in question.
Fonterra said on Wednesday it "did the right thing" in announcing the possible risk at the start of the month, while acknowledging that its reputation had taken a knock as a result of the initial disclosure.


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I will cook a romantic dinner and prepare a tasty breakfast in bed.
if you would like a relaxing massage after a long challenging day I will be there.
A little bit about me. I moved to California from Cincinnati in 1997, to be with the love of my life, however in 2007 we divorced.
I decided to stay in California, I moved from Los Gatos to Palo Alto
I'm easy going, a very nice sense of humor. Extremely sensual.
In 2012 I spent 3 weeks in Europe, France, Italy and Switzerland.It was a wonderful experience, except it would have been incredible with the women of my dreams.
I have two grown children one who lives in San Diego and the other in Cincinnati, Four to five mornings a week I go to the club, treadmill, bike and weights. After I go for coffee with a friend and then head to work.
I play tennis 2-3 days a week at Courtside in Los Gatos.
I enjoy sporting events, but I'm not obsessed.
I've owned boats, water skied both lakes and rivers.
Traveling snd weekend getaways. But I'm more of a 5 Star hotel person these days.
I enjoy spending time with friends at dinner,wine bars, listening to jazz or dancing.
Have worked hard to keep my dear friends that live in Cincinnati. There are many things I feel I can do exceptionally well, however I'm a very humble person. Just ask me... :)
Journey, Led Zeppelin- 60's-70's-80's. Some of the new music/
Love Evvia's, Los Altos Grill, Forbes Mill and many places in SF.
My business and employees
Great wine
Good coffee
Fast cars
The beach and mountains
....and a great lover that I can share everything
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Wednesday, 4 December 2013
A Bag of Money
Dear Professor Poliakoff,
It has come to my attention that your cartoon likeness appeared in our most recent MinuteEarth video about the chemistry of the oceans, and thus we would like to offer, as means of compensation, a cartoon appearance fee (attached).
Both the original likeness as well as the fee were produced by Ever Salazar.
Thanks for your time (and for appearing in our video).
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