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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- IBM (IBM) revealed on Tuesday a new Watson supercomputer-created, cloud-delivered personal shopper the company says will revolutionize the currently, often tedious online and mobile shopping experience.
IBM's Institute for Business Value recently found after a study of more than 30,000 global consumers that 40% of shoppers are using mobile, social and location technologies for information gathering, and yet are unlikely to use these channels to purchase products. What's hindering shoppers from making purchase decisions from these devices is, to start, the time-consuming process of online and mobile shopping in their current state. Consumers have to enter keywords into websites and hope for the best. Or, worse, they have to comb through a site for details buried under a sea of categories and subpages. In fact, according to PowerReviews, 50% of consumers spend 75% or more of their total shopping time conducting online research.
The studies indicate that what customers are looking for from today's online and mobile experience is the thoughtful help of a knowledgeable and relatable sales representative who's instantly ready to advise on important purchase decisions.
Enter Watson.
Drawing from the $100 million that IBM has earmarked to fuel new cognitive apps, IBM is collaborating with digital commerce company Fluid to create the Fluid Expert Shopper made with IBM Watson. The XPS app will give consumers one-on-one interaction with Watson on desktops, tablets and smartphones for the first time and the power to ask the app highly specific questions on key purchase decisions, as they would a sales associate in a store.
For instance, if you're a North Face customer, you could ask Watson for advice on what outdoor gear would be best-suited for a five-day, June hiking adventure in Phoenix. Fluid XPS then uses Watson's understanding of natural language to identify clues from the question, suggesting particular needs around weather, terrain and trail conditions. The app then combs through massive amounts of data, including product details, expert reviews, blogs and travel maps to find the right products for the customer's trip.
The North Face is currently one of the various consumer brands the XPS app is being customized for.
Stephen Gold, vice president at IBM Watson Ecosystem, tells TheStreet that as the Watson-made personal shopper becomes smarter and smarter with each human interaction, its ability to interact with customers in an intellectually-challenging way will only grow stronger and stronger.
Here's TheStreet's interview with Gold...


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FSS Interview: Anthony Anaya
Hey Anthony, Where are you from?
I'm from Santa Maria, CA. I grew up skating here when I was about 9 and I'm still living and skating here.
How long you been skating for One Way Board Shop? How did that come about?
I've been skating for One Way for about 5 years now! I used to skate for a different shop, but I was skating with everyone at One Way and was always going there and Dan (owner) would help me out so it all just fell into place. I work at One Way now, so I'm skating the park almost everyday before going out to film, it's awesome!
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I hear you teach skateboard lessons. That's so rad.
Yeah, when we got the new park at One Way, Dan hired me to help out with skate lessons, so I've been doing it for a while now. We have them three days out of the week at the park, and it's usually kids from around age 6-12 that have never skated before or that can roll around pretty good.
Damn Am. 8th place last year to 3rd in Damn Am this year. Gotta feel pretty good right?
It was awesome, I was super stoked to place that well because everyone was killing it! And last year I broke my ankle a couple weeks after that contest. It felt really good to do better than the year before, after having to recover for six months.
Some of the TWS dudes refer to you as Anthony Annihilating when you where skating Damn Am. Anyone ever call you that before?
Haha yeah, it was pretty funny. They've been calling me that or the Anayal8r, but I originally got it from Dave Duncan when I was a little kid skating bowl contests. It's kinda stuck with me since then!
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Recently you made the trip to AZ for PHX Am. How did that trip go?
The trip to PHXAM this year was sick! Me and ten other guys from One Way went down in the van and had a rad time. I blew it in the contest but we still got some filming done and got to see Death perform, so everyone was hyped.
No Big Whoop, the homie video you were in... Who was all involved with that? Did you travel much to film your part?
No Big Whoop was filmed & edited by my friend Roman Davis, and it featured pretty much everyone that rides for One Way. Including all the local rippers from the central coast for the friends section. We didn't travel much for the video, almost all of the clips are in Santa Maria or within an hour north and south of here with a few clips from LA.
What's one of your most memorable moments from filming for Big Whoop?
Hmmm, all of our trips to LA to visit our homie Bob are always the best, but I'd have to say that the most memorable moment was the intro clip to Cody LaBoy's part where he face slides for like ten feet into a scorpion in the dirt! He lands a rad trick right before, so the whole clip was amazing & hilarious at the same time! I will definitely never forget that! Haha
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Noticed you're into shooting polaroids. That's awesome. What kind of cameras do you shoot with? Any plans with the photos?
I use my Polaroid 210 & 335, it's a land camera and they're really fun to shoot with! I normally just use black and white film to shoot skating & color for everything else. I'm pretty bummed though because the film for these cameras are being discontinued, so the prices just went up a lot more. I don't have any plans for my photos yet, but one thing that my friends & I always do is leave the negative at the spot so people can see what happened!
Any favorite photographers that are an inspiration to your photos?
I really like the photos that French Fred takes, cause they're usually from a different perspective and it looks really rad. But mainly just seeing the photos that my friends Derek & Jeremy take, since they got me into shooting with Polaroids.
You shoot skating much?
I shoot skating all the time with my Polaroid, but most of the time I'm either filming everyone with my camera or trying to get a clip as well!
Who do you look up to in skateboarding?
The first video I owned and watched over & over was Skate More, so I was inspired by Keith Hufnagel and Jason Dill, I can literally watch those parts everyday and they'd still get my hyped to skate! But I look up to like Danny Way or anyone that just pushes themselves to their limits for skateboarding, it's ridiculous what's already been done in skateboarding and what is still to come, it blows my mind!
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What's one of your earliest memories about Foundation Skateboards?
One of my earliest memories of Foundation was probably seeing Cataclysmic Abyss when it came out! I didn't really watch skate videos before that, except for like Skate More since I owned it, so seeing the stuff they were doing blew my mind! After that, I started watching all the skate videos I could find!
What's next for you skating and photography-wise?
Just keep skating & filming for whatever comes next & just trying to get better & have fun doing it! And I just want to try and get better shooting with my film cameras & take as many photos as possible!
Who's hooking you up at the moment?
I'm getting hooked up by Foundation, Dekline, Pig, Matix, Independent, & One Way Board Shop!
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Summer in NearCody Subido hit the beach in 90 degree weather the other day and went sidewalk surfing.
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Most airlines are flat, give or take 3-4%. The truckers are terrible.
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New Music Monday – Hunter Hayes vs Lee Brice [VIDEOS]
It's time for another New Music Monday segment. This week's offering comes from Hunter Hayes and Lee Brice. Hunter is a mere 20 years old, but has already accomplished more than many. Hunter has quite the bio, appearing on stage with Johnny and June, touring with Taylor Swift and Hank Jr. He's even been in a movie with Robert Duvall. Lee Brice on the other hand has fought and clawed his way to the charts starting in 2007. Lee found his first success at the top of the charts with his hit "Love Like Crazy." His new song, takes another unconventional look at love with, "A Woman Like You." Give them a listen and then vote for your favorite at the bottom.


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Avionics manufacturer Sandel Avionics (Booth No. 1417) announced here at Heli-Expo introduction of the MOD2, the new version of its SG102 AHRS, a solid-state, three-axis instrument.
The new unit includes a three-times faster initialization time (now one minute) over the MOD1 and adds selectable low-and high-speed Arinc 429 output, allowing additional interface options with radar systems, satellite communicator antennas and other avionics.
Gerry Block, Sandel's president and CEO, said the company sought input from dealers and customers while developing the MOD2 "to ensure we were making the most relevant updates." The SG102 is especially useful for law-enforcement, firefighting and EMS aircraft, according to the company, and the MOD2 is upgradable to future iterations via software updates, which will be provided at no cost. The MOD2 began shipping this month, and price of the units is $4,500 to $5,500, based on configuration.


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Sun City – Two-time Masters champion Bernhard Langer has made an impassioned defence of long putters, saying they are part of the "progression of the game".
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club (R&A) and the United States Golf Association (USGA), the sport's two leading rulemakers, on Wednesday announced a proposal for a ban on long putters being anchored to the body.
Langer, who suffered from career-threatening putting "yips" in the late 1980s and reverted to a belly putter in 1997, said he was opposed to the decision which could ban the practice of long putters being anchored to the player's chest, stomach or chin by 2016.
"I am disappointed and I do not understand why they are banning it now after 35 years," Langer said at Sun City on Thursday, where he was leading the Champions Challenge, the seniors' portion of the Nedbank Golf Challenge.
"If there is anything illegal about it, why did they not stop it right away? If you are talking about the history of the game and that long putters are not part of the history of the game, what about big metal drivers, two-piece balls or hybrids? Let's face it, it is a progression of the game."
Bill Haas, the American who shared the Nedbank Golf Challenge lead after the first round, has used a belly-putter in the past and he believed the rule disallowing anchoring was fair.
"I had a lot of success with a belly putter last year, but then I became worse with it for a while," Haas said.
"I don't think it makes putting much easier, but it may be the wrong way to play the game. You should be putting with your hands and the putter should not be anchored.
"There's a way to putt, but if people want to use a long putter, they should use them. I'm happy with my short putter now. It makes it more fun."
Langer pointed out that, although three of the last five Major champions had used long putters, the game's rulemakers had done nothing to halt the influence of technology in other areas, particularly drivers.
"They have never banned drivers. That is what they should be doing," he said.
"Are these big metal drivers part of the history of the game, balls going for hundreds of yards?"
Sweden's Carl Pettersson uses a broomstick putter and is also in the Sun City field, but he declined to attend a press conference when it became clear he was going to be asked about the proposed new ruling.
Haas said despite the threatened outlawing of the practice, he did not see it as cheating and, apart from Pettersson, he mentioned a duo of recent Major winners in Keegan Bradley and Webb Simpson who used the long putter.
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Protocol Composition Frameworks, A Header Driven Model
Protocol composition frameworks provide off-the-shelf composable protocols to simplify the development of custom protocol stacks. All recent protocol frameworks use a general-purpose event-driven model to manage the interactions between protocols. In complex compositions, where protocols offer their service to more than one other protocol, the one-to-many interaction scheme of the event-driven model introduces composition problems by mixing up the targets to which data (list of headers) should be delivered. To solve these problems, we propose to shift the driving force behind interactions from the events to the headers they carry. We show that the resulting domain-specific header-driven model solves the composition problems, provides statically typed header handling and enhances protocol readability.
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Rome, the day after
Having darted out of the Stadio Olimpico as soon as the final whistle went, in order to beat the traffic and drive home in time for a meeting on Thursday morning, the last people I expected to see were a handful of silent, depressed, taxi-catching Manchester United fans.
Driving out of the area as fast as we could, with the glaring light of the Olimpico disappearing in the rear-view mirror, my mind was already turning from the disappointment of having witnessed one of Manchester United's worst big-game performances of recent times to what it would mean for the immediate future of the side.
The scenery was quickly changing back to regular Roman fare: winding roads along one of the many hills the city grew on, people sitting outside cafes and restaurants in what, temperature-wise, already felt like mid-July. No Barcelona colours, no Manchester United colours, just your average Rome on a humid evening.
So it was with great surprise that two hours later, alighting from the car for a quick coffee in a motorway cafe, I found some Manchester United fans there, driving north as well. They had a smaller, slower car, and they were already finishing their meals, so they must have been there for a while. And given that my colleague had parked the car as close to the Olimpico as possible, and that we had basically run to it as fast as we could, there was only one possible way those United fans could have beaten us to that place: they had left early.
Actually, they had a plane to catch in Bologna early on Thursday and once their side's inability to break down Barcelona became all too evident and the Spaniards - a word you were careful not to utter too loud near some of Barca's Catalan fans - doubled their lead, they had taken the heavy hint and left. Silent and thoughtful as they were inside the cafe, the scene brought a sharp contrast to what I and many others had experienced only a few hours earlier in central Rome.
Dozens of well-informed Man United fans had taken the 910 bus - you have to know it takes you close to the Olimpico, because the destination is only marked as Piazza Mancini with no direct reference to the football stadium - and had turned a mid-afternoon, traffic light infested trip into an impromptu version of a Eurovision song contest. Old Trafford-on-wheels it was, and the thought of this happening throughout Rome had helped create a good pre-match atmosphere, although the Barcelona fans that I encountered were not as vocal and did not stand out as much as most of the Man United fans. Perhaps this was because the few of them not carrying their team's colours were hardly recognisable among the tourists and the locals going about their business.
It is always surprising, especially after reading reports about how an entire city seems to have been taken over by visiting fans, how most of the residents actually look like they have little idea of what's going on. Or how you can hardly see any supporters once you leave the most crowded areas, which in Rome were all around the main squares, despite fears of trouble which had prompted the deployment of hundreds of police and Carabinieri all around town.
One popular chatroom conspiracy had Barcelona's extreme right-wing group meeting up with like-minded Roma fans to spark random acts of violence on visiting Manchester United fans. This rumour turned out to be one of many false whispers, and the only noteworthy incidents were recorded in the early hours of Wednesday when an American tourist was stabbed in the leg in nearby Ostia by locals who had mistaken him for an Englishmen; while a Manchester United fan was briefly hospitalized after allegedly being attacked by Barcelona supporters.
But the worst fear, that Roma hooligans would deploy their infamous method of quick, buttock-slashing knifings ("puncicate", in a local dialect word which somehow does not sound as bad as it should be and more recalls someone puncturing himself with a needle than an actual stabbing) in an area around the Stadio Olimpico, never materialised.
Given Rome's already chaotic traffic, many companies had given their employees the afternoon off so they would not be caught up in the mayhem, but this hardly registered once you looked around in the crowded spaces near the Stadio and the river Tevere, where some English fans were seen daring the cold and murky waters of Rome's beloved stream and jumping in with relish.
Interestingly enough, and perhaps predictably, the ban on the sale of alcohol, which went into effect on Tuesday evening, did not seem to deter hundreds of fans from both sides from arriving at the ground holding cans or bottles of beer and wine. There are always vendors willing to defy the ban and many of the fans had simply stocked up earlier. For instance, I had arrived by train and in my carriage car a group of four Manchester United fans had literally filled every available inch of their tray tables with those small bottles of wine that are typically sold on those journeys.
Alcohol did not seem to induce any sort of trouble outside the ground, though, and perhaps the night's biggest crime scene was at the press conference room beneath the Olimpico. According to a note that had been circulated in the premises, 15 sets of headphones and translation devices had been missing since the previous day's media session. The note advised journalists to check whether they had "packed one away in your bag by mistake". The type of delicate, beat-about-the-bush wording that I once found in a hotel near Siena which warned guests that those who might "mistakenly" lift one of the flat screen TV sets off the table and place it in their car boot would find a few hundred Euros charged to their room account.
And now, with the 2009 Champions League season over after Carles Puyol lifted a different kind of metallic object into the air, the question of whether Cristiano Ronaldo really "goes to Madrid", as the handful of Barcelona supporters inside that 910 bus started chanting at one point in response to some soft taunting by Manchester United fans, returns after all rumours had been left hanging in the run-up to the final.
Funny, though, how that old saying, "be careful what you wish for", sprang to mind when I heard that chant.
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An insurgent commander from the Haqqani network and three other militants were killed in a firefight with NATO and Afghan forces in eastern Afghanistan, the alliance said Wednesday.
Two NATO troops were killed Wednesday, one in eastern Afghanistan in an insurgent attack and the other in a roadside bombing in the south, the alliance announced. It did not provide the nationalities or exact locations.
Ansari Khan, a Haqqani leader accused of conducting attacks on coalition forces, died in a clash in Khost province's Spera district in an overnight operation Tuesday, a NATO statement said.
As the security force moved in on a compound, two insurgents threw a grenade and opened fire. Retaliatory fire killed four militants, including Khan, it said.
The Haqqani network is a Pakistan-based faction of the Taliban with close ties to al-Qaida.
The group was started by Jalaluddin Haqqani, a commander supported by Pakistan and the United States during the 1980s war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
Haqqani has since turned against the United States, and American military officials have said his organization, now effectively led by his son, Sirajuddin, presents one of the greatest threats to foreign forces in Afghanistan.
Wednesday's NATO deaths brought to 30 the number of troops killed in October. At least 2,017 NATO service members have died since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001, according to an Associated Press count.
It has been the deadliest year for international troops in the nine-year Afghan conflict, and the escalating toll has shaken the commitment of many NATO countries, with rising calls to start drawing down troops quickly.
In southern Afghanistan, Ahmed Khan, chief of Dihrawud district in Uruzgan province, was fatally shot by insurgents Tuesday at a market, according to Mohammad Naeem, the district police chief.
Coalition forces captured a senior Taliban leader operating in southern Kandahar city on Tuesday, NATO said. The unidentified person distributed bomb components to Taliban fighters and facilitated attacks on Afghan and coalition forces, according to a statement released Wednesday.
The embattled south is the scene of Operation Dragon Strike, launched last month by NATO and Afghan forces in areas around Kandahar province to flush out entrenched Taliban fighters and destroy their strongholds.
In the north - where violence has surged in recent weeks - Taliban commander Shirin Agha and another militant were killed in a coalition airstrike in Kunduz province on Monday, NATO said.
Afghan and coalition forces have targeted Taliban leaders throughout northern Afghanistan over the past month, with 18 commanders killed or captured, the alliance said.
"Afghan and coalition forces have significantly reduced the insurgents' capability to effectively execute terrorist operations (and) will continue targeting those who stand in the way of peace and stability," said U.S. Army Col. Rafael Torres.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi has accused NATO of engaging in a propaganda campaign to demoralize the insurgents by inventing Taliban leaders and alleging they were killed or captured.
"Most of the commanders' names NATO are using don't even exist," Ahmadi said recently. "This is just a game from the American side, nothing else."
In the west, a joint force operation in Herat province killed "several" militants in a raid targeting an unidentified Taliban leader allegedly responsible for a recent ambush that killed two Spanish soldiers, NATO said. The force came under small-arms fire in Obe district and troops responded, killing the insurgents.


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The Timing and Duration of Women's Life Course Events: A Study of Mothers with at Least Two Children
This study examines the incidence and duration of women's life course events, specifically childbearing, by generational age structure within the family, birth cohort, educational status, and place of birth. Data from the 1995 General Social Survey (GSS) of Canada is used to estimate the incidence and socio-demographic correlates of age-structured families - age-condensed, normative, and age-gapped according to the mother's age at the birth of her first child. The results indicate that less than 10% of women with at least two children (N = 1,800) experience entrance into motherhood as a late life course event (e.g., at 30 years of age or older) as opposed to an early or "on-time" transition. Further, the mean birth interval is longer and family size is larger for age-condensed mothers versus normative and age-gapped mothers. Cohort differences regarding the incidence and duration of family life course events are also notable: older cohorts of women (1915-1930 and 1931-1946) have longer birth intervals and larger families than do women in younger cohorts (1946-1960 and 1961-1976). For level of educational attainment, women with less education marry at younger ages and have their first child at younger ages than their more educated counterparts. Finally, Canadian-born women marry and have their first child at younger ages compared to foreign-born women. Findings are discussed in the context of the literature on "age deadlines" and women's family life course events.
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Superintendent of what? Pinellas' top schools job draws mistaken applicants
Robert A. Enger looks great on paper.
As a Florida superintendent, he's overseen multimillion-dollar budgets, built schools and managed hundreds of employees.
Makes sense that he'd apply for Pinellas County school superintendent, right?
"No! No!" he said Tuesday, shocked to hear that he had applied for the county's top public education job. "It was construction superintendent!"
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"The horse that we're fundamentally backing is the one that says the future of entertainment content is online digital distribution," he stated. "I would argue that we backed the right horse.
"If we're sitting here in 12 or 18 months time, we'll be saying 'why were people even thinking about a disc format when it's really about digital distribution?' Our strategy's been developed for the last six or seven years, and ever since we launched the platform online content has been our big, big, big bet.
"This transition is much less significant than the transition from VHS to DVD. The fact that Sony are desperately trying to deliver an online offering means they probably understand that there's another front they have to develop for."
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The problem with opening up an album with all guns blazing is that the rest of the record has to live up to that first song. Franz Nicolay runs into this problem on Major General, his debut as a solo artist. Nicolay is probably most famous as the mustachioed, beret-wearing pianist for the Hold Steady, providing fist pumps and backing vocals to frontman Craig Finn's conversational lyrics. Nicolay also runs with a handful of other New York City-based music collectives, most of them obscure (World/Inferno Friendship Society, Anti-Social Music, Guignol) and decidedly retro. His mustache and accordion skills put him in high demand among these outfits, apparently, but Major General draws as much from the punk energy of the Hold Steady as it does from the early 20th century cabaret style of these other acts.
Case in point, the aforementioned album opener "Jeff Penalty". Nicolay recruits New York City punkers Demander to be his backing band on the song, and they give off a crackling energy. Nicolay's lyrics are especially sharp here, as he relates the true story of seeing the Dead Kennedys play without Jello Biafra, and how the crowd was won over by the performance in spite of themselves: "It was the greatest karaoke show, I had ever seen / Who could blame him? / Certainly not me / They hit 'Holiday in Cambodia' / And 500 people screamed". The song ends with Hold Steady-style "Whoa-oh-ohs" from the whole band, and the stage is set for something pretty special. But Nicolay knows he can't match that energy again right away, so the bouncy, slightly jazzy, banjo-backed "Hey Dad!" comes next, followed by "World/Inferno vs. The End of the Evening", a slow 6/8 weeper about working class love and loss.
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While "World/Inferno" is quite effective, it also provides the first clue of problems to come down the road. Nicolay's baritone voice closely resembles that of a classic lounge singer, so as soon as the lyrics aren't up to snuff, the mid-tempo and slower material starts to get soggy. The very next song, "Dead Sailors", is supposed to be gritty and emotional, but the minor-key, piano-driven cabaret-like arrangement does the lyrics no favors. Next up, "Do We Not Live in Dreams?" is full-on cheese, all acoustic guitar lite jazz (there's even a clarinet solo!) with Franz in total lounge mode.
Major General regains its equilibrium a bit with the rocker "Confessions of an Ineffective Casanova". It's catchy, and the lyrics again find some of the bite that the early songs on the album showed. Unfortunately, the rest of the disc continues to bounce back and forth between quality rockers and limp ballads. "Quiet Where I Lie" and "Nightratsong" work, while "Note on a Subway Wall" and "X-Games" come off very corny and are hard to take seriously. There are a pair of exceptions to this rule, though. Not even the bright rock arrangement of "This World is an Open Door" can save the vapid homilies in the lyrics: "This world could be an open door / This light could strip you of your sins / This love could be a beacon / This song could live inside your skin". On the other hand, the quiet banjo-based acoustic arrangement of "Cease-Fire, or, Mrs. Norman Maine" works perfectly for the story about two down-and-out punk fans who can't quite make it work as a relationship.
In the end, the album has more good than bad, and is worth a listen for curious Hold Steady fans. Nicolay has clearly picked up some lyric-writing tricks from Craig Finn, because the lyrics here are great when he hits his mark. And when the musical arrangement matches up with those lyrics ("Confessions", "Cease Fire"), the songs border on great. Not to mention "Jeff Penalty", which may end up as one of the best songs of the year—it alone almost makes the entire album worth a listen. But the rest of Major General, even at its best, never quite matches the excellence of that opening song.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Walter Dalton sought Monday to wear the mantle of the candidate with fresh ideas to fix North Carolina's economy, but Republican rival Pat McCrory's campaign argued Dalton is trying to hide from his party's old tax-and-spend policies.
Unveiling his economic and job-creation platform at a downtown Raleigh pub, the lieutenant governor said his proposals were more detailed than McCrory's and based on research and best practices.
"It is not political platitudes. It's not poll-tested talk. This is a real plan to put people back to work in this state," Dalton told reporters. "It will help our companies. It's going to leverage North Carolina's strengths, and I think it will strengthen our weaknesses."
The two-dozen or so ideas in Dalton's plan include tax breaks for small businesses, a $2,000 tax credit for employers hiring a long-term jobless worker, and funds to encourage manufacturing, biotechnology and multi-state infrastructure projects. Employers also could reduce worker hours and wages temporarily to get through tough spots while employees get partial unemployment benefits.
Dalton's campaign said the price tag on the plan to the state would be about $80 million, with $50 million earmarked for a state endowment that with private investment dollars would encourage the development of commercial products at the state's research institutions. The endowment is modeled on a Kentucky initiative. Dalton pointed to a business developed out of the N.C. State University textile school that creates high-performance woven products as the kind of startup that could benefit from the endowment.
Dalton said he has many other ideas, including the creation of economic development teams to recruit companies to industries that have performed well in the state, such as agribusiness. The state also should focus more on helping rural areas succeed and develop the military maintenance industry, he said.
McCrory, the former Charlotte mayor, released his own seven-point proposal in July that focused upon making government treat business more like customers, fighting redundant or onerous regulations, and reducing individual and corporate income tax rates that are among the highest in the Southeast. He also wants to modernize North Carolina's tax code, abolish the state's portion of the estate tax and eliminate corporate incentives packages that contained upfront cash payments.
Dalton contends McCrory has failed to give specific details in his proposal. McCrory hasn't said how much his recovery plan would cost the state or how much he would cut income tax rates. Dalton said he would seek to exempt a portion of taxable income — up to $15,000 or $25,000 depending on the business size — from the state's 6.9 percent corporate tax income rate if elected.
The major-party candidates don't agree on why the state has a 9.6 percent unemployment rate three years after the Great Recession officially ended.
McCrory has said Democratic elected officials like Dalton and outgoing Gov. Beverly Perdue have choked North Carolina's economy by raising sales and income tax rates during the past decade and increasing government spending.
"Dalton cannot be trusted to fix North Carolina's broken economy because Dalton himself is a part of the problem," McCrory press secretary Ricky Diaz said in a statement.
Dalton blames federal trade policies early in the last decade and a massive retraction in access to business credit for the extended sour economy. The GOP-led General Assembly didn't help with spending cuts that led to the loss of thousands of public school and state government jobs, he said.
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Tax reform plans promoted by Democrats over the years have expanded the number of transactions subject to the sales tax while reducing the overall sales tax rate. McCrory and Dalton both have said the state should examine current targeted tax breaks and determine whether they should be eliminated.


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Washington, DC—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the following statement today regarding the revised energy bill on which the Senate will vote tomorrow. The substitute bill addresses Republicans' concerns by reluctantly eliminating the Renewable Electricity Standard and modifying the energy tax provisions:
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|September 18, 2012, 07:59 AM
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Silly/harmful or not, some pretty reputable outfits carry it, undoubtedly because it sells -
The comments in the article by Marty Hayes are a bit far reaching to say the least. What difference does it make what kind of targets or ammo you shoot? If I practice shooting into ballistic gelatin with the latest and greatest hollowpoints (and post a video of it) does it prove that I am planning to go after human targets? What about if I shoot at human form outline targets at the range and save my best targets showing nice groups of headshots? If these actions will be used to show a jury that I have homicidal tendencies, then I suggest we all arm ourselves with ball ammo and weapons in existence at the time of and in conformance with the Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907, or better yet just disarm completely. Then we have nothing to worry about, right?
I can see and argue both sides of this argument, but just playing devil's advocate here, I think Marty needs to realize that shooting can be about fun as well as about defensible self defense. If shooting a few zombie targets with zombie ammo is a way to get the kids hooked on shooting, then why not?
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"What difference does it make what kind of targets or ammo you shoot?"
You're joking, right?
It can make a HUGE difference because perception is all to often more impactful than things like the truth.
More and more ranges are no longer allowing "human" shaped targets.
We've all seen the Osama Bin Laden targets. Most people chuckle about that.
But how much good would it do if a group like Stormfront came out with their own line of targets showing prominent African Americans?
Think it would matter then?
Think people who aren't gun people would stop long enough to make a distinction between "racist *******s" and "general gunowners," or would they simply rush to judge?
In many communities, no they wouldn't make that distinction.
While zombie targets and ammunition may not really detract from the general perception of gunowners, they certainly don't build on it, either.
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|September 18, 2012, 08:51 AM
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Personally I'm waiting for the wooden "Vampire Killing" bullets to come out! Be great to shoot with Kate Beckinsale and Milla Jovovich at the range!
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Mike, I do think there are lines we shouldn't cross (not that I am prepared to state exactly what those are), but I'm not ready either to yield everything to the winds of political correctness, as has been demonstrated to fail in the UK, where if anywhere the need to keep and know how to use a firearm should be very prominent in the minds of its citizens given the events of only 70 years ago.
The aversion to human form targets at certain ranges is a bad/sad trend on many dimensions, not the least of which is the opportunity to shoot something the same size/shape as a potential attacker. Personally, I find the graphic targets of a murderous knife-wielding attacker with his arm around the throat of a scantily clad woman to be repulsive, and would never use one, but I do enjoy shooting my own human outline targets. Fortunately my range not only permits these kinds of targets but makes a lot of money selling the plastic versions to customers.
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The new z max isnt that effective for "zombie killing anyways" if it did indeed happen i would choose a fmj or a efmj. penetration is key and is somethins dead i dont believe it will matter if it expands or not.
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This isn't political correctness.
Make no mistake about that.
This is taking a simple look at the situation and saying "why in the name of all that is holy are we shooting ourselves in the foot yet AGAIN?"
It's painfully evident to me that gunowners are, collectively the worst enemy we could ever hope to have, and this is just another, albeit somewhat less obtrusive, example of it.
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|September 18, 2012, 09:35 AM
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MIKE... are picking on me ??? ( note fat guy & low ride holster )
I'm kidding I might resemble the figure more than I like, but since I'm a single action revolver guy ( almost as crazy as "that" other crazy single action revolver guy ) I don't fit the mall ninja image...
BTW... I don't shoot people shaped targets, or even Zombie targets... I'm a cheap sob... I shoot circles on regular old note paper most of the time ( I can imagine the human shape if I feel the need )
fact is I do worry about public perception, & while I have had my share of the semi auto stuff, & used to be into the "black rifles" I now more resemble the "mall cowboy" than the "mall ninja"
... I'm hoping I'm percieved as less of a threat than the mall ninja looking dude... if that's the case, I'm getting across the image I'm after...
... as a huge reloader, I don't have a problem buying the green tipped bullets ( if they are cheaper ) I just put them in the same plastic ammo boxes I'd put the red tipped ammo...
... on a more serious note... I don't play paint ball, or air soft... & I don't like young people playing video games that could condition them to shooting humans, & then transition them to shooting people with ( ever more realistic looking ) air soft, & paint balls... IMO, we are only developing a generation prone to do Colorado Theater "type" incidents... I'd have no trouble ( as it is ) transitioning from my circles on paper to bad guys in a real life situation if needed... I don't like that a whole generation of young people ( both emotional stable, & total wackos ) are being conditioned to shoot people on their next "bad day"
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Thanks in part to Mike, this forum has been fairly free from some of the worst.
It is obvious that people have adopted "zombie" as a euphemism for bad person because we don't promote the idea of killing people, even though we need to recognize that defense of ourselves against the actions of another may force us to that.
But we don't need to emphasize it. One small thing we can do is to stop calling all firearms "weapons". I realize this is due to some folks wanting to play soldier (some of whom could not get through the first day of basic training), but most of our firearms are not "weapons." Even if a firearm carried for self defense might be a "weapon", most sporting arms are neither intended nor used for that purpose. An antique, like a Civil War rifle-musket, may have once been a "weapon", but that term is hardly suitable today.
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What did I say... we are collectively our own worst enemies at times.
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I am a younger guy so let me interject a bit here.
My friends and I from time to time have joked about "getting ready for the zombie apocalypse". Do we really think that the dead will rise and only a bullet to the head will stop them? No; the ZA is just my generations WWIII as I view it as silly as I know that sounds.
Joking about "ZA" day, talking about what we would do, where we would go etc is just a way to lightheartedly talk about the very real; very scary to some topic of being ready should SHTF.
In general amongst younger people it is a much more socially acceptable topic to talk about things in generic "ZA Day" terms. I mean seriously...I could carry on a conversation with any college friend, pro or anti gun about what they would do if a mob of zombies was tearing through their neighborhood, how you would get food etc.
The much more realistic topic of what you would do if the economy collapsed and suddenly you had a mob of 20+ people breaking into every home on your block, looting the homes then killing the occupants. In general the conversation would stop right there even though that is the far more likly of the two situations because too few younger people are mentally equiped to wrestle with such difficult subjects.
While I agree all it would take is some off his meds nutjob; equipped with a "zombie killer" 1911 and a "zombie killer" AR-15 shooting "Zombie killing" ammo going out and shooting up a bunch of "zombies" to screw us over big-time I think some of you are missing the point.
Any "evil deed" done with a gun will be blamed on the entire community of firearms owners regardless of the gun, type of ammo and suspect. It wouldn't matter if Al Capone himself was resurrected through modern science and illegally purchased a gun to re-commit the St. Valentines day massacre; the story would be about "easy access" to weapons, "gun" crime and how "common sense gun control' could have stopped it.
We are and forever will be until we somehow get more allies in the media guilty until proven innocent; in this case the "good guys wear black"
I do not see the need to pay double or triple the cost for a zombie target but I do enjoy shooting at human shaped targets; my first ever target was a "gang banger" drawn on a piece of 3/16 plywood by my dad.
I also do not see the need to buy zombie themed guns but some people like Neon Green and I won't hold it against them.
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The "zombie" euphenism does seem to be code-speak among some quarters, much as the term "goblin" was used a decade or so ago. Code-speak for whom? Take a guess.
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First of all I will say I love movies... All kinds action, horror, mystery, sci fi,
So I have watched and enjoyed several zombie movies. I understand the marketing and such. Is it in poor taste? Yeah, kinda.
But none of this is anywhere near as bad as the "Sons of Guns" and "American Guns". These morons do 10x the damage to responsable gun ownership than all the zombie crap in the world. The only people that have even heard of Zombie ammo are gun owners. Yet anyone with basic cable tv thinks gun owers are all backwoods hicks or worse (looking at you "Doomsday Preppers")
This kind of portrayal of gun ownership sickens me. I'm a pretty calm person normaly but that Kris guy from "sons of guns" raises my blood pressure. I would give a $1000 to kick him in the teeth.
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If the dead ever did rise up, would that change the anti's minds about guns, or would they blame guns for the zombie apocalypse?
Even my very anti gun younger sister said she would head straight to my place if the zombies were to rise up, and she is all for U.K. style strict gun laws. I think there was a mix up at the hospital.
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It's great that we all have... and are entitled to our own thoughts and perceptions/opinions of things happening around us.
One thing to remember , if the dreaded day ever comes when we find ourselves in front of a jury, those jurors (who, are incidently going to determine our fate) may not see things like we do....
....too, I do most all my shooting here at the house. There are family and guests that come here. A few guests don't shoot and are 'sitting on the fence' so to speak on gun ownership. What perception do I give them if they come here and I've got nothing but human silhouette and zombie targets all over the place?
Think I have much of a chance of convincing them that shooting is about fun and not just about SD?
Also, every couple that comes here has kids. I've got grand kids.
Again, do I want to introduce these kids into shooting with the perception of shooting human formed targets or do I want to teach them the art of shooting as a fun sport with targets such as balloons, targets that make noise etc.
Perception's a funny thing.
Having rode motorcycles for the last 35yrs. Having a few tatts. Used to have longer hair(it's falling out now ). I and the group of us that used to ride together have been politely asked to leave certain establishments cause the way we were dressed/looked. No trouble, no fuss...just peoples perception.
Funny thing was, a couple of the guys riding with us that looked the worse were undercover LEO's another was a CEO with GM.
Again, Perception.
Lastly, anyone who thinks perception hasn't/doesn't way heavily in a courtroom has never been around many courtrooms. Perception is the reason a good attorney takes his client that may be the worse, guilty piece of human flesh alive and on trial day, grooms them to look like they just stepped out of a monastery.
As gun owners, we need to think and be very careful what perception we emit.
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And for the people on the fence. Well if you can speak intelligently then it shouldn't be much of a problem. A long time ago the mother of a girl I was dateing asked why I would need "that" gun. And I calmly expained to her that I belive in overwhelming force when faced with a life or death confrontation. I will take any advantage I could get and use it to its full potential. Maybe I was less of a idiot that day because my awnser seemed to satisfy her.
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Just don't want to be creative for them(the anti's) and give them any undo ammo to do that with. They will create enough of that on their own.
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I appreciate your comments about teaching people the art of shooting for SD but there sure is a lot more to shooting then SD. In my situation, while SD is a by-product of shooting, I'd rather introduce someone to the sport of shooting as a fun thing rather then put the emphasis on SD. Especially when dealing with kids.
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While I have never bought any "Zombie Ammo" or participated in any "Zombie Shoots" which we have had at one of our ranges, I am not against them. I feel the ammo is overpriced and the shoots although probably fun not realistic and not taking seriously something very serious. However maybe I need to lighten up a bit and the guys who seem to enjoy them if they handle firearms safely and responsibly I am all for it.
As far as the "Anti Guns Folks" having a problem with it, I would hope they could separate having fun and fantasy from reality but maybe not.
Silhouette targets are a different story, while I enjoy shooting bullseye and shooting small groups, I also enjoy and think necessary combat shooting dead center mass as quickly as possible and for this I think a silhouette is more realistic as we do not walk around with bullseyes on us. It is funny how the "Anti Gun People" do not mind others doing their killing for them, the military and police, yet want to keep the public disarmed except for criminals.
Perhaps if the concealed carry public had more stringent requirements on gun safety, responsibility and marksmanship that was standardized that might mitigate some of the "Antis" fears.
I think everyone who conceals and carries a firearm should have to shoot the hostage silhouette target. I always advise that I would never ever make that shot unless I knew for sure the bad guy was going to kill the hostage. When I put all my rounds in the bad guys head on the hostage silhouette target and the shooters I am with ask why I would not make that shot, I reply I am under no stress and the target is not moving.
When the shooters with me take their turns shooting at the hostage silhouette target and put most or some of their rounds in the hostage they know exactly what I mean.
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I think it has a lot to do with the genrational thinking. I am of the 35 YO age group so I am in the middle in a sort of way. I grew up watching movies. Some of those were zombie movies. Also with the video games like Resident Evil shoot 'em up zombie games became quite popular. They still sell well also.
For some it is a means to get their flabby buttocks off of the sofa, and to the range. For some it is just pure for spits and giggles. Though there are always those who go way too far overboard.
I have shot my share of zombie targets that were provided for free from the range. Though I am cheap so I realy like to take advantage of freebies.
No matter how many times you do it and nothing happens it only takes something going wrong one time to kill you.
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I wouldn't let a box of Zombie ammo in the house. The loose cartridges I might.
Bad idea, bad image. Kid stuff that encourages magical thinking. To blur the lines between fantasy and reality is a mistake that could promote irresponsible use of the product to soft headed individuals.
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Everyone knows Zombiemax is the only effective ammo against a real zombie.
But in all seriousness I wouldn't buy that crap at a discount. It's just manufactured to appeal to the young morons (which I admit I could almost fit into that category) that just want to look cool with a gun.
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A nurse accused of raping a dying, paralysed cancer patient in the National Hospital in Bloemfontein in October 2011 appeared in the Free State High Court on Tuesday.
The patient, Magda Lombard, aged 51 at the time of the crime, died in the Bloemfontein Medi Clinic a month afterwards, Beeld reported on Wednesday.
According to the deceased woman's sworn statement, read out in court by investigating officer Arlene Snyman, the accused, Michael Moema, 33, came into her room with another nurse, Janette Kgoame, and sexually assaulted her.
Kgoame allegedly helped Moema position Lombard to allow him to penetrate her, and later placed a hand over her mouth, to prevent her from making a noise.
"The woman told me to be quiet," Lombard said in her statement, which was given to police captain Francois Laux two days after the attack.
At the time of the assault, she had been paralysed from the waist down for over a year.
She told Laux that although she could not physically feel the sexual assault, she could see what was happening, and identified Moema from a number of photographs shown to her.
At the time, Kgoame refused to make a statement, and said she would testify for Moema.
The trial continues. - Sapa


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I'm going to try to solder on a ramp for the front sight on my shotgun barrel. My plan, is to carefully find top center of the barrel, mark the area with the ramp then remove the blueing. Then use talc to keep the solder from going where it isn't needed. I'm also going to use a heat stop paste to keep the heat off the barrel lug that is soldered on at the factory. Is there anything I'm missing or a better way to do this? markmcj


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A court here has sentenced four bank officials and three other people to three years' jail for defrauding a bank to the tune of Rs.1.14 crore, and said their act has eroded common man's confidence in the banking institution.
"The conduct in which the convicts herein had indulged not only lowers the image of public servants, as well as the system, but also erodes the confidence which a common man has in the banking institution, as such," the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge Kanwaljeet Arora said in an order delivered last week.
The court added that this erosion of faith of the common man, who is the source of public money, being an investor – which is then utilised by the bank for its business – makes the banking structure brittle, which then starts crumbling.
The court said that public money should not be misused or misappropriated for any undue financial advantage.
Judge Arora awarded jail term to three senior retired bank officers H.Surendra Shetty, K. Vasanth Kumar Shetty and H. Balakrishna Shetty with serving bank officers A. Maillappa Rai, then working as a manager, foreign exchange department.
The court also sentenced Rakesh Kumar Bhatia, the principal borrower, Jiya Lal Arora, the guarantor, and Vijendra Kumar, the empanelled valuer with complainant bank.
The court slapped a fine of Rs.10 lakh on Bhatia, Rs.2 Lakh on Jiya Lal Arora and Rs.1 lakh on the four bank officers each. Vijender Kumar was asked to pay a fine of Rs.50,000.
They all were facing trial for a criminal conspiracy during 1994-1998, for defrauding Vijaya Bank at Barakhamba Road here.
They availed various credit facilities on the basis of fake collateral security in the name of a man who did not even exist and caused a wrongful loss to the bank and gain to Rakesh Kumar Bhatia.
The court said that public servants, entrusted with the domain over public money, are expected to deal with it with utmost propriety and transparency in order to keep the economic equilibrium of the society in place.
The court noted that the offence of cheating, impersonation, creation of false report and use of false and forged documents as genuine, were committed in furtherance of the larger conspiracy.


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Lubbock Mayor Glen Robertson Discusses Water Plan And City Bank Auditorium [AUDIO]
On Friday's edition of Lubbock's First News, Lubbock Mayor Glen Robertson talked with Tom Collins and Laura Mac about the latest coming out of city council.
One of the big stories coming out of last night's city council meeting was the approval of a strategic water plan. The plan, put forth by the Lubbock Water Advisory Committee, will provide a plan for Lubbock's water supplies for the next 100 years. Robertson said that he and the rest of the council was very impressed with the very detailed and flexible plan the water commission put together, and had nothing but praise for the commission.
It's one thing…that all seven members of the council praise a whole staff and a commission. And last night, everybody to a person praised the water commission and the water department. I made the statement, and I believe this to be true, and I don't say it to upset other departments, but we truly need to hold that water department and the Lubbock Advisory Water Commission up as a model for every other city department and every other city board."
Robertson also talked about what happened with the City Bank Auditorium. He said that, although the funds to renovate the auditorium were approved by voters back in 2004, it was a gross underestimate of how much money was actually needed to make the necessary repairs to the building, and the council at the time felt they could not go back and ask the voters for more money. Robertson said now the price tag for the renovation continues to rise, and unfortunately, the city council continues to "kick the can down the road."
Robertson also brought up the latest on the library as well as other issues brought up at last night's city council meeting.


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The St. George bank teller had a simple question for Christopher Harris: Why did he consistently withdraw $9,000 at a time, over and over and over?
Harris had an equally simple answer. He told the clerk he didn't want to go over the $10,000 mark, which would attract government attention scrutiny he apparently wanted to avoid for good reason.
Harris, a longtime Army reservist who served in Iraq with a Special Forces unit before becoming an independent contractor, allegedly conspired with others to defraud the government of at least $15 million through rigged contracts. Those contracts eventually totaled nearly $53 million for work during the transfer of security operations in Afghanistan, according to documents filed as part of a civil forfeiture complaint initiated by the government in Utah's federal court.


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A public interest litigation (PIL), up for hearing next week in the high court here, has alleged that nearly Rs 1.8 lakh crore of investments by small investors is locked in suspended companies and the market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), has not initiated any steps to protect these investments.
Filed by Atul Agarwal, a Delhi-based commercial pilot, it urges the court "to take action in the matter to protect the interest of over 10 million public shareholders/investors of these 1,405 suspended companies, whose enormous investment of more than Rs 1,79,560 crore in these suspended companies is at stake".
Sebi, the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the Union ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) are respondents, in addition to the Union government. The respondents have asked for time until May 30, when the hearing resumes, to respond. The petition also seeks revocation of BSE's recently announced relisting guidelines.
Suspended companies constitute 16.6 per cent of the total list of the BSE, the petition says. Ajay Veer Singh, partner, BS Jain &Co, who is advising Agarwal, said, "This is a conservative estimate, based on data available for 949 companies. The entire amount could be much higher."
According to publicly available data, these 949 companies have a public shareholding of 8,978 crore shares. The petitioner assumes that each of these shares were bought by investors for at least Rs 20, (the IPO price may be anything between Rs 10 per share and Rs 500 per share or more) arriving at the sum of Rs 1.8 lakh crore.
The petition alleges the exchange has not done anything to protect the interests of the investors.
It has accused BSE and the promoters of these companies of colluding to get listed, "then collecting money from innocent investors by making tall promises and, thereafter, getting suspended for non-compliance of the listing agreement and finally getting delisted and disappearing with public funds".
The petition notes the MCA and Sebi maintain a portfolio, called the Investor Education and Protection Fund. The petitioner filed a petition under the Right to Information Act and found as much as Rs 1,055 crore was unused in this fund. It accuses BSE of "rampant and continuous misuse of powers" and of a "nonchalant attitude" from Sebi.
When a question about such practices was raised in a recent conference, Sebi chairman U K Sinha had said, promoters and companies doing such "asset stripping" would be dealt with in an appropriate manner. BSE officials declined comment, when asked.
Singh said the entire compulsory delisting process was skewed in favour of errant promoters. "If a promoter wants to shut the company and not pay the shareholder, all he has to do is stop paying the listing fees. The exchange will suspend the company. This is exactly what they want," he charged. The flawed system, instead of penalising the company or promoter, lets them off easily while the investor is left carrying the can, he adds.
"Instead of compelling these errant listed companies to make adequate disclosure, the exchange is providing an easy way out for these errant listed companies by suspending the trading of stock/shares... after the promoters of errant companies siphon off all public money with them and vanish altogether, no steps or actions are ever initiated to trace these companies," the petition says.


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If common journalistic opinions within the great digital expanse of the internet are anything to go by, then such games as Dear Esther should not only be shunned, though also burnt at the stake in some satanic and overtly opinionated ritual. On the mere basis that interactive storytelling and digital environments shouldn't be categorized within the same prefix as more gameplay orientated games. Though it's precisely these forms of digital interactions that personally fascinate myself. These alternative realities brought forth from mere pixels and algorithmic patterns. Sensational realities which have the capabilities to both reflect and contrast the reality of which we're currently situated within. Realities that allow oneself to compare the similarities between digitalized mathematical formulae and the more natural molecule vessels we're formed from.
Imagine staring out across a whitewashed and digitalized environment. Nothing to be witnessed or perceived. Nothing, beyond a little touch interface set before yourself, prompting you to smear your fingers across its glowing surface. Though in smearing your fingers across its pure and unaffected surface, you open yourself up to the alternate reality of Little World. A great societal matrix just waiting to be nurtured. Further prompts from the screen and you'll not only have yourself a personalized little character, though also one that reflects some of the essential definitions of what defines you as a constructive personality. Definitions such as your favourite musician/game/political party and colour. Bring forth another prompt and you'll suddenly find yourself justifying yourself as either introverted/extroverted and passionate/calm
In doing so, and in allowing oneself to interact and communicate with the core of the system. One enables the console to implement your little personalized persona within the aforementioned whitewashed environment. An environment that's not nearly as bleak and desolate as earlier. As it now contains a set individual, one that may occasionally tap it's impatient little feet or whistle and insignificant little tune. Though it's precisely this little persona that'll generate the societal adventure set before itself, and see it through to its indefinite finale. However, this little persona is admittedly still a little lonely, so allow ourselves to implement another audience member
And so, rather conveniently, another audience member does indeed step forward. And thus spends a few minutes designing their own little persona and digitalized vessel. A character with their own personal interest and personality traits. And with a faint pop this little persona appears alongside our other previously designed creature. And now our once lifeless and digitalized environment contains a party of two. Who before long may begin to interact and communicate with one another
And now we arrive at the core of this little social experiment. The climax of this entire thought process if you will. As, in simulating these interactions between multiple characters one can essentially establish a set of occurrences that may potentially occur due to their social discourses. Occurrences that are admittedly rather simplistic in nature, and are brought forth through a variety of algorithmic percentages and the like. In essence, should the amount of similarities between two digitalized characters exceed fifty percent then the likelihood of them becoming acquaintances will also likewise increase. Whereas should the percentages not favour them, then the likelihood of these two going their separate ways will also increase. These percentages for that matter will also waiver depending on your personal justification as an intro/extrovert and how passionate one might consider oneself
Multiply these two personalized characters by another thirty-fifty people and you may well witness the creation of a few patterns. As societal colonies of friendships begin to form and interact with one another through mock-discussions and conversations. And whereupon the more relatable of personas might be found within the center of such communities, engaging with those who surround them. Whilst those with the fewest of connections may find themselves on the aimless outskirts of the great digital expanse. In essence, what would be established is a simplistic visualization of current societal repercussions and connections brought forth from differing personality types


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Cloquet student from Liberia runs for many reasons
Louie St. George
Forum News Service
Richmond Seju spent the bulk of his adolescence on the run, but he wasn't training to be a track star.
He was trying to stay alive.
Up until 2008, Seju lived in Liberia, the African nation ravaged by civil war. Amid a conflict that made rampant use of child soldiers, Seju and his family rarely lingered.
"I don't actually remember a lot about the war, but my parents used to tell me stories," Seju, the speedy Cloquet senior, said Wednesday. "My mom would tell me how it wasn't safe and she used to move from place to place to keep us safe. You never knew when guys were going to come in and take your family.
"We used to live every day not knowing what was going to happen the next day, not knowing if we were going to have food to eat the next day."
In 2008, Seju's family uprooted to Minnesota. They lived in the suburbs of Minneapolis before heading north in 2012 so his mother could attend Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in Cloquet. Seju admittedly didn't think much of the Northland at first sight, but he wanted to play a sport, so he met with Cloquet boys track coach Tim Prosen.
The soft-spoken youngster's talent, however raw, was indisputable.
"We brought him out to practice and I think he was wearing work boots," Prosen recalled. "We did some workouts right away and he just blew by everyone, and everyone was like, 'Who is this guy?' "
Two years later, Seju hasn't come close to realizing his full potential. That's because he's still relatively new to the sport and his technique remains a work in progress. Right now, it's best described as unorthodox.
"Rich has a very unique technique," said Jeff Leno, who primarily works with Cloquet's sprinters. "Anybody who knows sprinting would watch Rich and the response would be, 'Man, we need to work on that; his technique is off a little bit.' He actually has a very smooth technique.
"When Rich runs by himself, you can't even hear him, the actual footsteps. He's so light."
The result is an athlete aiming to qualify for the state meet in four different events: 100- and 200-meter dashes, 1,600 relay and the long jump. At the initial Lake Superior Conference meet, Seju was first in the 100 (11.1 seconds) and 200 (23.4) while finishing third in the long jump (18 feet, 8 inches). He helped the Lumberjacks fend off Duluth Denfeld in the 1,600 relay with a time of 3 minutes, 39 seconds.
And Seju fully expects to get faster as the spring progresses. The big holdup, he says, are slow starts from the blocks. The consummate perfectionist is working tirelessly to shore that up, staying late after practice almost daily.
"He's very focused," Prosen said. "He's had to work for everything he's ever received."
No longer running for his life, it's nonetheless therapeutic for Seju.
"When I get out there on the track, I let everything go," he said. "I'm just by myself."
Editor's note: Look for a more comprehensive story on Richmond Seju in the Pine Journal soon. There's a lot more to this young man than athletics.


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An autotroph, also called a producer, is an organism that produces complex organic compounds (such as carbohydrates, fats, and proteins) from simple inorganic molecules using energy from light (by photosynthesis) or inorganic chemical reactions (chemosynthesis). They are the producers in a food chain, such as plants on land or algae in water. They are able to make their own food and can fix carbon. Therefore, they do not utilize organic compounds as an energy source or a carbon source. Autotrophs can reduce carbon dioxide (add hydrogen to it) to make organic compounds. The reduction of carbon dioxide, a low-energy compound, creates a store of chemical energy. Most autotrophs use water as the reducing agent, but some can use other hydrogen compounds such as hydrogen sulfide. An autotroph converts physical energy from sun light (in case of green plants) into chemical energy in the form of reduced carbon.
Autotroph can be phototrophs or lithotrophs (chemoautotrophs). Phototrophs use light as an energy source, while lithotrophs oxidize inorganic compounds, such as hydrogen sulfide, elemental sulfur, ammonium and ferrous iron. Phototrophs and lithotrophs use a portion of the ATP produced during photosynthesis or the oxidation of inorganic compounds to reduce NADP+ to NADPH in order to form organic compounds.
Autotrophs are fundamental to the food chains of all ecosystems in the world. They take energy from the environment in the form of sunlight or inorganic chemicals and use it to create energy-rich molecules such as carbohydrates. This mechanism is called primary production. Other organisms, called heterotrophs, take in autotrophs as food to carry out functions necessary for their life. Thus, heterotrophs — all animals, almost all fungi, as well as most bacteria and protozoa— depend on autotrophs for the energy and raw materials they need. Heterotrophs obtain energy by breaking down organic molecules (carbohydrates, fats, and proteins) obtained in food. Carnivorous organisms ultimately rely on autotrophs because the nutrients obtained from their heterotroph prey come from autotrophs they consumed.
Some organisms rely on organic compounds as a source of carbon, but are able to use light or inorganic compounds as a source of energy. Such organisms are not defined as autotrophic, but rather as heterotrophic. An organism that obtains carbon from organic compounds but obtains energy from light is called a photoheterotroph, while an organism that obtains carbon from organic compounds but obtains energy from the oxidation of inorganic compounds is termed achemoheterotrophor chemolithoheterotroph.
Evidence suggests that some fungi may also obtain energy from radiation. Such radiotrophic fungi were found growing inside a reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
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Answers:It is very logical to assume so, because heterotrophic organisms are all "consumers" in the food chain. All animals are heterotrophic, as are some fungi and bacteria. Heterotrophs, unlike autotrophs, require nutrition from other heterotrophs (or autotrophs) to exist. Therefore, your deduction is entirely plausible and totally logical. PS, The Heterotrophic theory also has support from studies of the capabilities of RNA.
Answers:The five-kingdom classification of organisms Nomenclature: Naming of organisms Binomial: Biological name of an organism Genus species Taxon: Set of organisms within a category / Taxonomy / Study of biological classification Different levels of taxons: SPECIES, GENUS, FAMILY, ORDER, CLASS, PHYLUM, KINGDOM Most number of species on right Most similar organisms on left Unicellular: Single cell; Colonial: Groups of cells; Multicellular: Many cells Autotrophs produce energy from inorganic sources Phototrophs from photosynthesis/sunlight Chemotrophs from simple inorganic (oxidative) processes Heterotrophs digest and absorb organic molecules Prokaryotae (prokaryotes) Cell structure: Prokaryotes, unicellular Prokaryotes lack cytoplasmic organelles found in eukaryotes Cell wall: murein Nutrition: autotrophic (photosynthesis, chemosynthesis), aerobic heterotrophs Divide by binary fission, not by mitosis 10 m in size (bacterial cell, filaments of blue-green bacteria) Mutualistic nitrogen-fixing bacteria live in nodules on the root of legumes / symbiotic Protoctista (protoctists) Cell structure: eukaryotes, unicellular and multicellular Cell wall: (sometimes) polysaccharide Nutrition: autotrophic, heterotrophic Placed in this category by exclusion / cannot be placed in any other kingdom Slime moulds / fungi characteristics Protozoa / heterotrophic and ingest food Algae / photosynthesis 10 m (amoeba) - 1m (Laminaria / large brown alga) Fungi Cell structure: eukaryotes, multicellular and unicellular (yeast) Cell wall: chitin Nutrition: heterotrophic / saprotrophic decomposers or parasitic Genus Penicillium Body of a fungus is composed of thin filaments called hyphae / form a mycelium Secret enzymes / external digestion / absorbs resulting nutrients Erect hyphae that grow upwards from the mycelium carry their reproductive spores Chains of spores on the erect hyphae / coloured mould visible on stored food Break down organic matter Plantae (plants) Cell structure: only multicellular, eukaryotic; large vacuoles Cell wall: cellulose Nutrition: autotrophic (photosynthetic) Growth is restricted to meristems (layers/patches of dividing cells) Non-motile; adapted to land / strong tissues, leave gas exchange system, waterproofed Eg mosses, ferns, conifers, angiosperms (flowering plants) Plant kingdom has two different types of adults in their life cycle Gametophytes, hidden in plant / sexual reproduction forms multicellular zygotes Sporophytes, what we call plant / asexual reproduction to form spores that germinate into gametophytes Gametophyte (n) gamete (n) fertilisation zygote (2n) mitosis sporophyte (2n) meiosis spore (n) mitosis gametophyte (n) Animalia (humans, animals) Cell structure: eukaryotic, multicellular, no cell wall Develop form a blastocyst / embryo Have nervous and hormonal control systems No cell wall! Nutrition: heterotrophic, involving a digestive system Are motile and grow throughout tissues (no mersitems)
Answers:1. a) Gastrulation. 2. c) The movement of animals onto land 3. c) Motility and active predation and escape. 4. e) A solid body without a cavity surrounding internal organs. 5. b) The ability of cells isolated from the early embryo to develop into viable individuals.
Answers:1.) Heterotrophs Heterotrophs consume only organic materials, compared to autotrophs, who synthesize and consume inorganic materials. 2. Active transport Active transport requires ATP and is the movement from a lower concentration to a greater concentration. This maintains a higher concentration. 3. Evolutionary relationships By using the process of elimination: Habitat is not a factor when grouping animals. Some animals live in different conditions than others, yet they are still each considered to be a member of the Kingdom Animalia. Food preferences has no significance at all, and same with social behavior. Therefore, the answer is evolutionary relationships, which is where the animal came from in terms of evolution and genetics.