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Alex Osbourne, more ordinarily known as simply "Star-Burns" is a mature student at Greendale Community College known for his star-shaped sideburns he shaved to look like stars. Though he appreciates the recognition he receives because of them, he despises the nickname that comes along with it. He maintains on being called his real name "Alex" but contradictorily declines to shave his distinctive sideburns. Over the years, he has continually tried to forge another identity beyond his facial topiary. This entailed wearing a top hat in his subsequent year at school and later adding his pet iguana in his third year to his ensemble. A somewhat shady character, he is shown to be a thief, a drug user and also a drug dealer. He was already wedded to a woman called Magda and has a son, presumably from that union, who appears to be a respectable business person. His first appearance was in the Season One episode "Spanish 101". Actor/comedy writer describe him and consulting producer of the show Dino Stamatopoulos.
Star-Burns seems to have a tense relationship among the study group. He and Jeff Winger, indistinct, appear to have some sort of rivalry, both describing the other as a "douchebag", likely owed to his ogling of Annie Edison. In Anthropology class, Star-Burns remembers about the incident in which the study group went on a rafting trip, and how pleasant it was to have a class, not regarding them. The study group ousts him from his job as a chicken fry-cook during "Contemporary American Poultry." In spite of all that, he and Pierce seem to be friends, trading drugs in "Intro to Statistics" and teaming up together during "Modern Warfare". During this time we see a variety of different mobile phones which get destroyed cause of the shenanigans being done so a company like www.cellphonerepairsolutions.com/ would be appreciated.
The adventures of the Gambino also known as the childish tycoon names Troy Barnes has become something of interest to me over the many seasons of Community. Troy (along with Pierce, Shirley and Annie), is invited by Abed to join Jeff and Britta in a Spanish study group. When it's learned that Jeff lied regarding being a Spanish instructor, the rest of the study group throws him out. When Troy including the others later discover Jeff discouraged on the steps of the building, they all took pity him and welcomed him back. Troy and Abed soon become fast friends, and a full-blown bromance develops. He also converts more useful thing associated with college life and abandons his varsity jacket along with his jock reasoning. He also employed the year oblivious to Annie's obvious school girl crush on him until he was made cognizant of it by Jeff and Britta. When he supports Britta out at her dancing recital, it deposits the seeds for future expansions between them. A meeting with Jerry, the custodian, makes Troy informed of the exceptional repairer skills he possesses. At the conclusion of the semester, his father kicks him out of the house to create room for his incredibly younger girlfriend. Troy attempts to move in with Abed in his dorm room but is told by his friend that living collectively at this point would put too much of a strain on their friendship. He instead allows a previous offer he got from Pierce and moves into his estate with him with the help of Dynamitemover.com. Troy and the study group are surprisingly reassembled with Jeff for another year at Greendale Community College.
Jeffrey Tobias "Jeff" Winger is a grad of Greendale Community College, who was once a practicing attorney-at-law. He was raised in Denver, Colorado to his Father William Winger and mother Doreen Winger née Fitzgerald. His father separated his mother when he was very tender and later had another boy named Willy Jr., who is Jeff's half-brother. As an adult, Jeff matured into a very successful defense attorney practicing in DUI/DWAI/DUID cases, traffic offenses, and juvenile offenses for over six years. He operated for a law firm called Hamish, Hamish & Hamlin that was established by Ted. At work, he was frequently partnered with another lawyer identified as Mark, and the two were known as "Tango & Cash" respectively. A drunk driving case Jeff worked included a Psychology Professor named Ian Duncan with whom he ultimately became good friends with.
It's part way into the first week of courses for Greendale Community College's 2009 fall term. The Dean, Craig Pelton, is seeking to give an inspirational speech while greeting the new freshmen but ends up failing poorly. In the distance, Jeff Winger sees the train wreck while trying to overlook another student called Abed Nadir. Abed is in the middle of discussing Jeff his life story when he cuts him off. Jeff asks him for a report on a female classmate he saw in the Spanish class they both take. Abed notifies him that her name is Britta and quickly begins to rattle off various facts about her. Surprised, Jeff Thanks, Abed before going off to meet an old friend of his, Educator Ian Duncan. Jeff Winger is disbarred and ceased from his law firm when it is realized that he lied about owning a bachelor's degree from Columbia University. This leaves him with no option but to register at Greendale Community College to receive a legitimate degree. Jeff immediately becomes attracted to his activist classmate, Britta Perry, and plans to run a study group to spend time with her. Nevertheless, his intentions go awry when she invites Abed Nadir, a pop culture-loving nerd, who commands other classmates along Shirley Bennett, a Christian single mother, naïve over-achiever Annie Edison, ex-high school football star Troy Barnes, and retired millionaire Pierce Hawthorne. Despite their dissimilarities, the group soon become close friends. While taking select groups together term after semester, the group members are often lined into helping the college's flashy Dean, Craig Pelton, in his projects to make the school appear more reputable, as well as the must to deal with the antics of their unhinged teacher Ben Chang.


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After half a century of advocating essentially the same CPR routine, the American Heart Association is rolling out new guidelines Monday that fully endorse chest compressions as the go-to method.
Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation has a limited or even nonexistent role in the latest recommendations, which were crafted by a panel that includes a San Diego physician. These experts streamlined their message to the public: Whether you're a seasoned emergency responder or an untrained bystander, immediately start and sustain chest compressions on victims of cardiac arrest.
The updated guidelines are "going to make things simpler, and it's going to take away the yuck factor," said Dr. James Dunford, a panel member and the medical director for San Diego city. Studies also have shown that chest compressions alone can significantly raise survival rates.
Events will be held nationwide to promote the refocused approach and encourage more people to learn CPR. Other countries typically follow the United States' CPR standards, so the American Heart Association and allied groups expect their marketing efforts to eventually resonate across the world.
On Dec. 5, the association will offer free CPR training to the masses aboard the U.S.S. Midway Museum in downtown San Diego in a bid to break the national record for the largest such class. Dunford hopes for a turnout of more than 6,000 participants.
The current record is 4,600 people trained, set last year by a school district in Virginia. In March, a university in Guadalajara, Mexico, claimed the world record with more than 6,500.
Also this December, San Diego will host the international Emergency Cardiac Care Update conference. The new CPR guidelines will be a primary topic of the gathering, Dunford said.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation can double or triple a person's chances of survival, yet less than one-third of the people who suffer sudden cardiac arrest outside of a hospital receive CPR, according to the heart association. Ninety-two percent of Americans who experience this problem die before reaching an emergency room.
A combination of chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth breathing is still considered ideal, and that strategy is recommended for trained professionals. But instead of starting with mouth-to-mouth, the longtime tradition, experts now call for the compressions first.
Everyone should press down about two inches deep, around the middle of the chest, at a rate of at least 100 compressions per minute — about the same rhythm as the beat of the Bee Gees song "Stayin' Alive."
Heart disease remains the nation's leading cause of death. About 830,000 Americans — more than one in three — die from the disease each year; that's roughly one death every 38 seconds. Sudden cardiac arrest accounts for half of those cases.
In the past few years, the American Heart Association has been moving toward a complete endorsement of compression-only CPR for the untrained public. Research increasingly shows that chest compressions are the crucial first step to reviving victims of sudden cardiac arrest.
Ohio State University emergency physician Michael Sayre, who co-wrote the new guidelines, cited a Seattle study that had one group of 911 dispatchers advising callers to perform traditional CPR and another group directing callers to do only chest compressions. The report, published in July in the New England Journal of Medicine, revealed an 8.7 percent survival rate for people who received chest compressions only and 7 percent for those who received standard CPR.
In addition, an Austrian-U.S. study published Oct. 13 in The Lancet highlighted similar results, as did a five-year study of Arizona patients published a week earlier in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"We have newer scientific evidence that chest compressions are the most important part of CPR," said Sayre, who also cowrote the 2000 and 2005 CPR guidelines. In the past, he said, "we just didn't have as much evidence as we have now. The American Heart Association guidelines are used by millions of people and countries around the world. We needed to be really thoughtful and be right with what we are telling people to do."
Ultimately, CPR experts like Dunford stress that acting fast is key. The survival rate for a person suffering sudden cardiac arrest drops by 10 percent each minute, he said.
"CPR is this critical bridge that (you) can provide to somebody ... until another person with more advanced skills can be rendered," Dunford said.Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune

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NEW YORK With the participation of more than 1,000 retailers packing their stores with games, prizes, celebrity appearances, and social media contests, Fashion's Night Out is not only a massive shopping initiative, but a platform for creative experiential marketing concepts. Conceived and organized by Vogue, the Council of Fashion Designers of America, and NYC & Company in 2009, the consumer-focused effort was born out of the recession and designed to boost flagging sales. So rather than offer discounts, stores devise alternate ways to get the crowds to shop. And it's more than just free food and drink: Since its inception, Fashion's Night Out has seen knitting circles and a petting zoo of live goats at Barneys, Gant models showering in the windows of its Fifth Avenue store, outdoor fashion shows from Teen Vogue, and a tailgate-style installation by Tommy Hilfiger in the pedestrian plaza outside Macy's. This year will be no different, and the promotions are already shaping up to be the most innovative yet.
For event professionals looking to shop for smart new marketing ideas, here's a guide to some of the highlights on tap Thursday, September 8:
1. Bloomingdale's
Building on last year's initiative, which promoted HBO show Boardwalk Empire with a 1920s-themed window display, the Midtown department store has teamed up with NBC to showcase fall entertainment and fashion. The partnership will bring to life four of the network's new TV series—The Playboy Club, Prime Suspect, Up All Night, and Whitney—with actors in elaborate sets created in the store windows. Moreover, through an augmented reality-enabled mobile app, the cross-promotion will allow consumers to snap a photo of themselves with stars from the shows and enter to win a walk-on role in The Playboy Club, a $5,000 shopping spree, and a trip to Los Angeles for a set visit. (1000 Third Ave.)
2. Barbie
In the past few years, Mattel has been busy promoting its key brand Barbie, celebrating the doll's 50th anniversary in 2009 with a life-size Malibu Dream House and marking Ken's 50th year on the market in 2010 with an exhibit at Christie's. The toy maker has also become an active participant in Fashion's Night Out and plans to make a big splash this year with a social scavenger hunt. Its iconic doll and accompanying fashions are the focus of the promotion, which will flaunt new collections from Alice & Olivia, Alexis Bittar, Tracy Reese, and Rogan inside a double-decker bus. The bus will stop at various locations, where consumers can search for doll-size replicas of the designs and scan QR codes to enter sweepstakes to win new outfits. (Multiple locations, including 37th St. & Fifth Ave., Houston & Bowery, Bleecker St. at Seventh Ave., Spring St. & Broadway, and 34th St. between Broadway & Seventh Ave.)
3. Target
The opening of its Harlem store last year hasn't stopped the Minneapolis-based retailer from flaunting a marketing concept it has almost perfected. On September 8, Target will open a pop-up shop to sell its Missoni for Target collection, taking over the same Bryant Park-adjacent space it used last March for a Liberty of London pop-up store. Target is expected to redesign the 5,000-square-foot site with allusions to the Italian fashion brand's signature zigzag pattern and draw a big crowd. (1095 Ave. of the Americas)
4. Net-a-porter
Interestingly enough, Fashion's Night Out offerings are not just limited to companies that sell clothing and those with a brick-and-mortar presence. This year, a number of spas, food shops, online retailers, and even J&R Computer World—yes, the downtown electronics store—are getting in on the action. Among the efforts from Web-based shops, the one from Net-a-porter is perhaps the most interesting, looking to bridge the divide between online and in-person shopping. Net-a-porter will decorate the windows of a SoHo space with vinyl graphics of designer merchandise and shoppers who download the "Window Shop" app will be able to buy the pieces online. (155 Mercer St.)
5. Hugo Boss
Another leveraging mobile technology is Hugo Boss, which is using an app and Facebook as an incentive to get more consumers to its stores. Using the Facebook Places application "Go" from Brand Networks, the first 100 shoppers who check in to all three Hugo Boss downtown locations will be given V.I.P. access to an after-party that will include a surprise guest performance. (401 West 14th St.; 555 Broadway; 132 Greene St.)
6. Bergdorf Goodman
In terms of activities and designer appearances, Bergdorf Goodman has one of the most packed schedules on tap. For the second year in a row, the department store will hold the "BG Best in Show," a competition for designers and their dogs. Bergdorf's will also play host to live window performances, a roundtable discussion on facial hair moderated by GQ's Glenn O'Brien, and a contest known as the "BG Wheel of Fashion." (745 Fifth Ave.)
7. Macy's
Heavily involved since the first outing, Macy's is once again making the most of its connections to fashion, music, and culinary personalities. In addition to live performances by Kelly Rowland and Joss Stone, a Sandra Lee cookbook signing, and having model Coco Rocha on hand to guide shoppers through the new Karl Lagerfeld for Impulse collection, Macy's Herald Square flagship will also bring its Culinary Council chef Marc Forgione and Travel Channel host Andrew Zimmern to share recipes and entertaining tips in a promotion dubbed the "Ultimate Dinner Party." (151 West 34th St.)
8. The Fragrance Foundation
Not all Fashion's Night Out activities are about apparel, and the Fragrance Foundation's participation is an unusual one. The nonprofit organization responsible for the annual FiFi Awards will place colorful flower carts in strategic locations around the city—including Macy's in Herald Square—to promote perfume. (57th St. & Fifth Ave.; 61st St. & Madison Ave.; Macy's Herald Square, 151 West 34th St.; 48th St. & Fifth Ave.)


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Yours reminded me of my friend Bubba who decided to steal a cart one late wednesday night at like 3am. Somebody gave him the key to the cart but not the key to the chains, thinking he would say "screw it" when he found out it was chained. No no no, not Bubba. As it turned out, he could get the cart to drive forward, backward, but only turn one direction. Good enough, right? So, after many strategic turns, he ends up across 31 at St. Mary's at 3 in the morning within minutes after he figures the cart out. He picked up a few random drunks on the way apparently too. Now you have to remember, Bubba is thinking that there is absolutely nothing wrong with what he is doing the entire time. Well, he arrives at a St. Mary's dorm and calls up to his friends to come down and "go for a ride! C'Mon it'll be great!" After much pleading, he finally gets it into his head that the girls aren't coming down so he heads off in the cart again. About halfway down St. Mary's Dr., he gets pulled over by a security guard. Again, he thinks he has done nothing wrong. The cop questions him a little and Bubba says, "OK, sorry, I'll just take it back to where I got it." That didn't fly over too well and he ends up in the back of the security car. He blew something like a .25. Gets in a lot of trouble with Student Affairs but never got kicked off campus. Lucky son of a bitch.
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NARA's Applied Resesarch Lab contributes to Tri-State Educational Summit held on April 28 at Rocket Center, WV
On April 28th the United States Navy and its support contractor, IBM, hosted an Educational Summit featuring educators from colleges and universities in WV, MD, and PA at the Navy's Allegany Ballistics Laboratory (ABL) at Rocket Center, WV. Read about the Summit that included a visit to NARA's Applied Research Laboratory at ABL, where college students (hired by IBM) collaborate with NARA on advanced IT research projects. Continue reading
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1. John ANDERSON signed a will on 20 Sep 1725 in Anne Arundel Co., MD. He died about 1727. He had an estate probated on 31 Mar 1727 in Anne Arundel Co., MD. He was born in Anne Arundel Co MD (?).
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Yeshiva Student Charged With Assault on Racial Grounds
Raziel Azulay from Tiberias accused of attacking and severely injuring Arab man for meeting with Jewish women.
A Yeshiva student was charged with assault on Sunday, for attacking an Arab man in the city of Tiberias in July.
Raziel Azulay, a 19-year-old yeshiva student from Tiberias, committed the assault based on the victim's racial background and broke his victim's skull during the incident, according to the indictment.
The details of the incident were discussed during the hearing, which took place on Sunday in Nazareth District Court. The attack occurred at a gas station in Tiberias on July 21. The plaintiff, his brother and a gas station attendant met with two Jewish female friends.
Azulay arrived in the station and was infuriated by the meeting between the Arab men and the Jewish woman. He shouted at the plaintiff and said that "Arabs should be burned so they won't reach Tiberias."
Later, Azulay returned holding a blunt object and started attacking the plaintiff, hitting his head with the object. As he was lying on the ground, Azulay kicked his head and face and then ran away.
The plaintiff was taken in critical condition to Poriya hospital in Tiberias, and then to Rambam hospital in Haifa after his situation deteriorated. He suffered severe injuries to his head and face, including a fractured skull.
Justice Benjamin Arbel decided to extend Azulay's remand. In his decision, Arbel wrote that "the alleged crimes are extremely severe… The motive in the case was racism, which should be uprooted completely."
Azulay's defense attorney said his client denied the allegation and had not been present at the crime scene at the time of the incident.
This is the second case of assault on racial grounds that occurred in Tiberias. In 2009 a 20-year-old man from the Arab village of Majd al-Krum was attacked while walking on the Tiberias promenade. Investigation showed that the attackers assaulted the man because of his ethnicity.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainer Chad Brown pinpointed Wednesday's $100,000 P.G. Johnson Stakes for Watsdachances almost from the moment the Irish-bred got off the plane and arrived at his barn earlier this summer, then had her fit and ready to deliver a game neck decision over Broken Spell in the first turf stakes for 2-year-olds of the meet at Saratoga.
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Watsdachances was purchased privately by owners Michael Kisber and Bradley Thoroughbreds shortly after posting an impressive six-length maiden win in her native Ireland on April 29. A daughter of Diamond Green, Watsdachances benefitted from an early speed duel that compromised the chances of the 6-5 favorite Top Tier Lass, rallying down the center of the course to overtake the tiring leaders before outgaming Broken Spell to the wire. Tara from the Cape finished another 1 1/4 lengths farther back in third with Top Tier Lass fading to finish sixth.
Watsdachances was ridden to victory by Javier Castellano, who celebrated the birth of his third child the previous day.
Watsdachances completed the distance in 1:42.90 and paid $9.50.
"Peter Bradley, the same guy who bought Desert Blanc for us, put together the sale," said Brown. "As soon as she got off the plane, I had her about three days, I said 'Let's go for the P.G. Johnson. He gave her to me in plenty of time and luckily she broke her maiden early enough we weren't forced into a situation of running her off the plane. I had just enough time to get her acclimated over here and she fit into her program really well. It worked out beautiful."
Brown said he was proud of the way his filly was able to win her stakes bow despite a wide trip.
"I was looking for cover with a horse like this but she never really found it," said Brown. "Javier was trying but never could get in but she overcame it. I think she'll move forward off this race. I really do."
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A Calne man is campaigning to make sure men with prostate cancer receive the best possible care, regardless of where they live.
Jim Laing, who has had prostate cancer himself, attended this year's Conservative Party conference in Birmingham along with Prostate Cancer UK.
He asked a number of politicians to back the charity's quality checklist, which outlines what support men should expect to receive from the health service throughout their treatment.
Mr Laing, who last year joined the charity in lobbying at the Labour Party conference, said: "For men with prostate cancer, good quality care and support throughout their journey with the disease is crucial, particularly as many treatments can often result in life-changing side effects."
The quality checklist aims to helps men know what information, care and support they should expect, based on the experiences of other men who have had the disease.
It was produced because surveys show that, despite recent improvements in treatments, there is a wide regional variation in the experience of care that men with prostate cancer receive.
Dr Sarah Cant, director of policy and campaigns at Prostate Cancer UK, said: "It is unacceptable that the quality of support experienced by men with prostate cancer varies across the country. In order to address this we hope that our quality checklist is widely adopted.
Men with prostate cancer deserve the best, and we're absolutely determined that's exactly what they are going to get."
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in men in the UK. Every year in the UK over 40,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer and 250,000 UK men are currently living with the disease.
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Trustworthiness as a Moral Determinant of Economic Activity: Lessons from the Classics
This paper reviews the way that social norms and ethical values in general, and trustworthiness in particular, is perceived to affect the behavior of economic agents in view of the work of Adam Smith, Nassau William Senior and John Stuart Mill. Classical Political economists held that economic actions are context-dependent and thus constantly under the influence of social norms and values. It is further suggested here that Classical Economists had established that trustworthiness acts as a general ethical precondition for the efficient behaviour of the markets and an important asset of the national social capital.
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- Eric M. Uslaner, 2008. "The foundations of trust: macro and micro," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 32(2), pages 289-294, March.
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FBI, Facebook Fight 'Butterfly Botnet' Responsible for $850M in Losses
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(WASHINGTON) — The FBI says a "Butterfly Botnet" cyber attack targeted 11 million computer users around the world and was responsible for over $850 million in losses. The malware program gained access to many individual computers through Facebook, and was able to steal computer users' credit card and bank account numbers and other valuable information. The attacks occurred between 2010 and October 2012.
Botnet is shorthand for a robot network, made up of compromised computers that can be used by cyber criminals to distribute spam or malware or to steal information from private users and networks.
The FBI credited Facebook's security team with helping to identify the "root cause, the perpetrators, and those affected by the malware." ABC News asked Facebook how many users were affected, and spokesman Frederic Wolens responded in an email, "We are not disclosing exact figures at this time, but it was a much smaller subset of users than the 11 million stat quoted (by the FBI)."
The FBI says the investigation identified international cyber crime rings that allegedly used variants of a piece of malware called Yahos to invade personal computers worldwide. Variations of the Yahos malware are known to attack through instant messaging platforms, often prompting users with fake messages from someone on their "friends" list. A click then sends the user to an external site that installs the malware, and the computer becomes part of the botnet.
Cyber security expert Mark Rasch tells ABC News that social networks are prime targets of cyber criminals. "If your goal is to distribute malware widely with the illusion of trust, Facebook and Twitter would be ideal vectors," Rasch said.
Facebook spokesman Wolens said the social network was able to block many of the attempted malware attacks.
"Any Facebook user that we detected as infected was put through our malware checkpoint and our anti-spam systems were able to block any content we identified as originating from this malware," Wolens wrote. "We were able to build detection and remediation tools very quickly, however, the vast majority of the infections occurred 'out of band' (I.E. not on Facebook) so we did not have full visibility into the attack.
And Wolens said Facebook users who were the victims of an attack got help. "Whenever we were able to detect an infected account we check pointed the user and helped them remediate their affected devices, but we only had limited insight into new infections."
The FBI and international law enforcement picked up some of the botnet suspects overnight, but no criminal charges have been publicly filed. The FBI says the investigation is far-flung and complex. The FBI's Cyber Division, International Operations Division, and no fewer than 23 U.S. field offices are involved in the case. In addition, the FBI has received assistance from law enforcement agencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Britain, New Zealand and Peru. An FBI spokesman told ABC News some details are being kept under wraps because the investigation is continuing.
"The most important thing about this attack is that there was international cooperation and they apparently found the people behind it," cyber security expert Mark Rasch said. "Fighting cyber criminals may at times be a losing battle, but it's a battle we have to keep fighting."
Meanwhile, Facebook has launched a partnership with a number of anti-virus companies to help provide users with protection from malware. The link is: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/expanding-the-facebook-av-marketplace/10151060808670766
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Contains all that part of the county, bounded south by Manheim; northerly and easterly, by the bounds of the county; and westerly, by the west bounds of Manheim, continued north to the southerly bounds of a tract called Jersyfield, and then northerly, to the bounds of the county; along a straight line run to the southerly extremity of the division line, between the tracts called Nobleborough and Arthurborough.
A part of Jerseyfield patent, and portions of the first, second and fourth allotments of the Royal grant are in this town.
This town was peopled before the revolution, with several families of tories or persons friendly to the crown, though they may not have committed any overt act of treason against the colonies. Living on the Royal grant, they were, no doubt, the tenants of, or went there under the protection of the Johnson family. They were allowed to remain unmolested by the Indians and tories, during the whole war; but when the commissioners of forfeitures, in 1784, claimed the grant, as the property of the state, they may not have esteemed the protection of their royalist landlords as of much value, or their titles, if they held any, as securing to them "an indefeasable estate of inheritance." One of these people, named Johnson, lived on lot number 154, in the first allotment, Royal grant, on the road between the old Salisbury meeting house and the Four Corners. Daniel Lobdell, another of them, lived in the westerly part of the town, about one mile southerly of the old Salisbury meeting house.
These parties were conveniently located, to suit the purposes and accomplish the objects, of those who planted them on the direct route from the Mohawk valley, to the head waters of the Black river. Here the disaffected could congregate in safety, and mature their plans of mischief; and from these points, runners could be dispatched to hover round the out-settlements, collect information, watch the movement of troops in the valley, and even spy out what was going on at the block-houses and stockades, and outside of the principal forts; and here, too, straggling parties of the enemy received aid and comfort, and were seasonably notified of what ever was important for them to know, and within the power of these people to give.
Old Mr. Lobdell had four or five sons, who at an early period of the war went to Canada with a party of Indians, and remained there until after peace was proclaimed. Joe, one of them, was waiter to a British officer, and used to boast after his return, of his sumptuous living while in Canada. He was pensioned by the United States, for revolutionary services. In what way he contrived to convert his menial labor for a British officer, into military service for the colonies, and to make satisfactory proof to the commissioner of pensions, may be best explained by a resort to the records at Washington.
A few New England families may have located in this town, before 1788. Between that time, and 1794, the immigration was pretty rapid. The Salisbury meeting house, since converted into a wagon factory, or an appurtenant to one, was erected during the latter year. Mr. Jabez Ayers put up the first frame building erected in this town. The following names are familiar as being among the early settlers: Avery, Cook, Hackley, Hallett, Todd, Hopson, Burrell and Waterman. The Rev. Caleb Alexander, who visitd this town in 1801, as a missionary, says it then contained a population of 1694.
Salisbury Center, is a small village, situate on Spruce creek. Here are several sawmills and other mills and machinery propelled by water, with a large tannery. Salisbury Corners, two or three miles west of the Center, holds a respectable place among the business localities of the town; and Devereaux, at the northeast corner of the grant, has many years been known as a point from which considerable quantities of sawed lumber have been sent to the canal and rail road at Little Falls, for the eastern market. The western section of this town is well adapted to grazing, and the dairy business has been successfully carried on there, for many years. The northern portion is well supplied with hemlock, whence the tanners in that section draw large quantities of bark. The state road passes through the southwest corner of the town.


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Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 180717, 6 pages
Global Output Control for a Class of Inherently Higher-Order Nonlinear Time-Delay Systems Based on Homogeneous Domination Approach
1Key Laboratory of Measurement and Control of Complex Systems of Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096, China
2The School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096, China
Received 13 September 2013; Accepted 1 November 2013
Academic Editor: Guoliang Wei
Copyright © 2013 Lin Chai. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This paper addresses the problem of global output feedback stabilization for a class of inherently higher-order uncertain nonlinear systems subject to time-delay. By using the homogeneous domination approach, we construct a homogeneous output feedback controller with an adjustable scaling gain. With the aid of a homogeneous Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional, the scaling gain is adjusted to dominate the time-delay nonlinearities bounded by homogeneous growth conditions and render the closed-loop system globally asymptotically stable. In addition, we also show that the proposed approach is applicable for time-delay systems under nontriangular growth conditions.


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The folks over at Wake County libraries were kind enough to invite me to speak as part of their Ask a Columnist series this month.
I'll be talking a bit about my background as a long-time journalist and website editor and answering questions about writing during the hour-long sessions. The programs are slated for 7 p.m., June 25, at West Regional Library in Cary, and 7 p.m., June 26, at East Regional Library in Knightdale.
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Zac Efron breaks his jaw, has it wired shut after fall at home
Just as Zac Efron hits the comeback trail with Parkland, tragedy strikes: The actor has had his jaw wired shut after breaking it in a fall over the weekend. That's one way to avoid questions about being in rehab.
Efron apparently slipped on a puddle of water near the entrance of his L.A. home on Sunday, E! reports. He broke his jaw and suffered some cut somewhere unspecified, E! reports. The cut required several stitches.
Efron is expected to recover, which is good news, because he's got to promote That Awkward Moment, which is coming out in January. E! says those promo plans are on hold, because it's not like he can flash that million-dollar smile with a wired mandible.


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Looking for budget cuts? A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report last month concluded about $149 million a year (or $1.5 billion over 10 years) could be saved by cutting duplicate services in U.S. overseas broadcasting operations.
U.S. international broadcasters — such as the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe; Radio Free Asia — are overseen by Broadcasting Board of Governors, which gets about $752 million a year in federal funds.
But "nearly two-thirds of the BBG language services" — meaning the folks who produce the news and other stories for various languages and regions — "overlap with another BBG service by providing programs to the same countries in the same languages," the GAO found.
In addition, there are many places where people can tune in to British and German and other allied broadcasts, the report said.
The savings would amount to about 20 percent of the entire BBG budget, the GAO estimated. And that doesn't even include cutting out things like Radio and TV Marti, which broadcast to Cuba but are blocked (especially TV Marti) by the Cuban government so scarcely anyone ever gets them. They cost around $30 million a year.
The BBG says there is indeed overlap and it's working on that, but it's "simplistic" to say the savings would amount to $149 million a year and that the "overlap" doesn't account for important differences in programming.
But the GAO and the agency agree that much of the overlap is, as the BBG notes in its response, "mandated by statute," meaning Congress.
No one seriously thinks anyone is going to shut down or even cut un-watched TV Marti. And moves to shut down any single one of the others are always greeted, one Senate staffer told us, by howls of "not in my galactic back yard."
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Just because it's a little chilly outside does not mean you have to stay in!
Oregon is a year-round destination and you can plan a fantastic trip to Portland any time of the year. In fact, here are just a few of the events that will get you out and about this winter season:
1. ChocolateFest – January 24-26, 2014
Chocolate lovers and chocolatiers come together at the Oregon Convention Center. ChocolateFest promises you the opportunity to sample, taste, savor, and delight in some of the finest chocolate from the Northwest and beyond.
2. Fertile Ground Festival – January 23 – February 2, 2014
Presented by Portland Area Theatre Alliance, this10-day arts festival aspires to increase the appreciation for Portland's lush creative culture. The event showcases play premieres, art installations and events, all created by local artists. Follow their events on Facebook
3. Chinese New Year at Lan Su Chinese Garden – January 31-February 14, 2014
Celebrate the Year of the Horse at this family friendly event spanning over a 2 week period. Highlights include a lantern-viewing ceremony, lion dances, children's activities, martial arts and cultural and historical demonstrations.
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4. The 2014 U.S. Bank Portland Jazz Festival Presented by Alaska Airlines – February 20 March 2, 2014
A multi-venue series of jazz events presented each February within Portland, Oregon. Nationally and regionally supported as a cultural tourism initiative in celebration of Black History Month, Portland Jazz Festival is dedicated to preserving America's indigenous art form by presenting internationally recognized jazz masters alongside local jazz musicians. A series of jazz education and outreach programs that extend into Portland's schools and neighborhoods is at the heart of the annual event. Follow them in Twitter and Facebook
5. 2014 Oregon Seafood and Wine Festival – January 31-February 1, 2014
This winter event is a celebration of all things Oregon, but most specifically our wonderful Oregon seafood and wines. The 2 day festival features Fresh Oregon Seafood, Wines from 50 Oregon Wineries and Live Music. Follow them in Facebook
6. The 37th Portland International Film Festival –February 6-22, 2014
The biggest film event in Oregon, premiering more than 100 international shorts and feature films to Portland audiences each February. Audiences can experience a variety of parties, visiting artists, and plenty of festival adventure taking in this feast of cinematic fare. Follow them in Facebook and Twitter
7. Timbers MLS Soccer Opening Day Saturday, March 8, 2014
Portland's professional soccer team, The Timbers, 2014 season starts in March and goes until October. The Timbers compete in the MLS league and call JELD-WEN Field their home turf. Experience home games at the stadium (or watch a game on TV in one of the many bars that show Timbers games) and you'll get to meet the fiercely loyal Timbers Army, and find out what RCTID means from the people who live it.
There is always something to do in this area, check these helpful resources to you plan your trip!
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I can't sleep because my sleep schedule is all messed up from this weekend's Formula 1 activities. I was up until about 7:15 this morning thanks to the race starting at 4am AND having an hour rain delay after just 9 laps. Blah.
As a Georgia resident, I figured I had to get this tea at some point. I've had plenty of peach iced tea, because let's face it, peach flavored black tea is fantastic.
In the bag it smells very funky…it smells a bit like a bad alcoholic drink. Around 3 minutes into the steep, the yogurt chips start leaving weird bits on the top of the tea. I really don't understand the yogurt chips for this aesthetically displeasing reason.
Steeped, it smells like peach and I still get that alcohol smell. I am trying to recall if I ever had a bad night with some kind of peach drink and that's the reason I keep getting that smell, but nothing is popping up. Or it's the stevia, this is the first time I've ever had something with it so I don't really know what it would smell like.
It tastes absolutely awful at first, like something burnt, and then right when I want to regret taking a sip, there's a nice sweet peach taste. I think I'm going to let it sit and cool off and try it at least lukewarm before I throw it in a glass with ice instead.
So far, you are not much of a southern belle, Southern Belle.


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The softball team christened its new Campus West home by winning three of its last six games last weekend, facing Chapman, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and Arizona Christian.
The Leopards faced a tough doubleheader loss Friday against Chapman for its first game at the new field.
"It was an awesome win and felt that we rebounded phenomenally," head coach Julie Smith said. "The loss to Chapman was very emotional, being on our field for the first time and wanting to win."
La Verne lost to the Panthers, 9-8 in game one and 10-0 in five innings in game two.
"Dropping two games to Chapman was hard because we should have beat them," sophomore first baseman Katherine Kibbe said. "I felt that since it was our first game on our new field that we were too anxious."
The Leopards had a chance to rebound from their losses to Chapman.
La Verne earned a split against the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Athenas winning the first game 2-1 before losing the second by a score of 11-4 Saturday at Campus West.
The Athenas scored early in the top of the first inning, as CMS sophomore infielder Tara Robinson sliced a hit down the left field line.
La Verne junior left fielder Katie Cunningham was unable to get the ball and Robinson scored, making the score 1-0.
The Leopards answered back in the bottom of the first.
Senior first baseman Raven Freret hit a solid double to left field. Kibbe followed with a single to center, allowing Freret to score and tying the game at 1-1.
"We played strong and I'm proud of the work we did on the field today," Kibbe said.
La Verne sophomore right outfielder Mackenzie Dutton then followed with an RBI single, putting the Leopards in the lead, 2-1.
"The biggest challenge of today would have to be facing the Athenas pitcher," junior outfielder BreeAnna De La Rosa said. "She is one of the most dominant pitchers in our conference and that was pretty hard."
CMS junior pitcher Hayley Schultz has 62 strikeouts on the season and an earned run average of 1.12.
But La Verne freshman pitcher Hayley Jaquess held onto the 2-1 lead on the way to a complete game victory.
She gave up just one run and two hits.
"We could have scored more runs and hit a little better," Kibbe said. "We were a little tight and just have to adjust that."
"When our players are on base, we just need to work on moving them till they reach home," Smith said. "Continue to work hard and timely hitting."
In the second game of the doubleheader, the Athenas managed to get a quick lead with four runs in the first inning.
ULV freshman third baseman Amanda Chavez led the Leopards at the plate, going 3-for-4 with an RBI and a run in the losing effort.
Freret and sophomore shortstop Danielle Vela each had two hits.
The Athenas had a solid performance, adding six more runs in three innings.
The Leopards also beat Arizona Christian in another doubleheader Monday, 2-1 and 8-0.
Kibbe pitched a one-run complete game and Freret had a double in the fifth inning, giving La Verne the win in game one.
Sophomore pitcher Lyndsay Godwin pitched for the Leopards in game two.
Freret led the Leopards with two hits.
The Leopards are now 8-12 in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and are 14-18 overall.
"Campus West is such an amazing field to play on," De La Rosa said. "I'm really excited and happy to finally be playing on it."
The Leopards play a doubleheader against Whittier starting at 2 p.m. Friday at Campus West.
"I couldn't be happier to finally be playing on this beautiful field," Smith said. "It has been almost seven years in the waiting and it has definitely been worth the wait."
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Raleigh, N.C. — Dr. Robin Cummings, who has headed North Carolina's Medicaid program for the past year, was named Thursday as the next chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
Cummings will leave the state Department of Health and Human Services, where he also served as deputy secretary for health services, on July 5.
"Dr. Cummings' extensive health care experience and long-standing relationships within the medical community enabled him to identify opportunities to deliver Medicaid services more effectively and efficiently and improve the Medicaid budget, which is in the best shape it has been in for five years," DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos said in a statement. "He successfully led the first restructuring of the division in 35 years, which is a critical step to ensuring its long-term stability and preparing for Medicaid reform."
Dave Richard, deputy secretary of behavioral health and developmental disability services, will succeed Cummings as Medicaid director.
DHHS officials said Richard has been involved with the oversight of the Local Management Entities and Managed Care Organizations (LME-MCO) system, which is responsible for more than $2 billion of Medicaid funding in a managed care delivery system. Before joining DHHS, he headed The Arc of North Carolina, where he worked in policy development related to Medicaid at the state and national level, officials said.
Dr. Randall Williams, a Raleigh ob/gyn, will succeed Cummings as deputy secretary for health services, overseeing the Division of Public Health and the Office of Rural Health and Community Care. For the last 11 years, Williams has served as a volunteer in U.S. State Department- and World Health Organization-sponsored endeavors, teaching physicians and helping with clinical governance overseas. Serving mostly in conflict zones, his work has taken him to Iraq on 11 deployments, as well as to Afghanistan, Libya and Haiti.
A native of Robeson County and a member of the Lumbee tribe, Cummings previously served on the Board of Trustees at UNC-Pembroke.
"It's the highest position I can go home to," he said in a statement. "Serving under the leadership of Secretary Wos as the state's Medicaid Director has been an honor and one of the most valuable experiences of my career. This has given me a better understanding of our citizens' needs and has prepared me to be an effective leader in my next role as the chancellor of UNC-Pembroke."


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Connor Cook knew to be ready, that's the life of a No.2 quarterback. But Tuesday afternoon when the Spartans took the field for their 10th practice, all eyes were on him. That's the life of a No.1 quarterback.
Michigan State head coach Mark Dantonio informed media on Tuesday that starting quarterback Andrew Maxwell sprained his knee in last weekend's scrimmage. While Dantonio said that the injury was not severe and would not require surgery, it was unclear whether it would keep Maxwell from returning quickly or playing the spring game on April 28.
The good news according to Dantonio, was the opportunity for Connor Cook - the redshirt freshman from Ohio - to get a healthy dose of snaps and experience as the No.1 quarterback until Maxwell's return.
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Tired of these "Hunger Games" images yet? Too bad. Here are three more from the movie, including your first look at Stanley Tucci as flamboyant talk show host Caesar Flickerman. Gotta say, I didn't even know that was Stanley Tucci until I saw the caption for the pic. Wow. That's some nice make-up work there.
"The Hunger Games", for those of you who have been living in a cave, is set in a dystopian future where a boy and girl from various "districts" are selected to fight to the death on live television. Like mom always says; it's all fun and games until someone gets rolled over by a flaming boulder.
Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland, Lenny Kravitz, Wes Bentley, Toby Jones, Amandla Stenberg, Alexander Ludwig, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jacqueline Emerson, Paula Malcomson, Dayo Okeniyi, Jack Quaid, Leven Rambin, Willow Shields and directed by Gary Ross.
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Updates would guide land use near Beaumont
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CITY OF GROSSE POINTE — This city's new master plan outlines a health care district that critics feel was contrived to grease the skids for enlargement of Beaumont Hospital, Grosse Pointe.
"It eases the way for expansion," said Joan Louwers, a homeowner across the street from the hospital at the corner of Cadieux and Maumee. "It's going to increase traffic more than double."
She's lived there 40 years.
The hospital, now owned by Beaumont, was founded in 1945 as Bon Secours.
Louwers took up residence before the facility grew, merged, invested and, Louwers would characterize, sprawled into the era of full-care community hospitals.
"When I moved there, there was a front lawn at the hospital," she said. "It was beautiful."
The lawn is smaller now.
Yet, the full-service hospital is more beautiful than ever to City of Grosse Pointe Councilman Chris Walsh.
A family member benefited in recent years from its big-city medical proficiency. He and the rest of the clan was comforted by the staff's small-town customer service.
"There are benefits to having a community hospital," Walsh said. "Instant admittance. They knew us. We could walk over to the hospital and be amongst our family. It is something I'll never forget."
Either way, the new master plan doesn't spell expansion, according to everyone on the council, including recent convert, Councilman Christopher Boettcher.
"We need to establish this district," he said, "so we can lay down rules when somebody comes before us with a plan — and hear what each resident would like to see across the street."
The hospital district overlays the entire block containing Beaumont, including plots containing houses, many of which the hospital has bought.
Establishing the district makes it easier for city officials to regulate the area and enforce zoning restrictions, according to council members.
Adopting a new master plan is the "first important step in to clearly identify zoning requirements," Boettcher said.
Master plans are supposed to be general outlines to the future.
"To me, it is, at most, a suggestion," said Councilwoman Jean Weipert.
Hospital expansion is "not anything close to being a done deal," she said.
State law requires cities to review, not change or update, master plans every five years.
The City's revision is its first since 2004, according to Peter Dame, city manager.
"We've engaged, through much of the year, a public process to consider input into what changes we might make to our master plan," Dame said.
The process concluded Monday, Nov. 12, with the council's unanimous adoption of a revised plan.
"It's an overall guiding framework for land use," said Dame.
Other updates concern commercial districts on Fisher, the length of Mack and in the three-block downtown Village.
The goal on Mack is to broaden land uses and standardize regulations.
Updates recognize Fisher as a unique business district.
In the Village, a transition zone to neighboring residential neighborhoods is established. The zone, off of St. Clair south of Kercheval, is being eyed for construction of senior housing or a hotel.
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#BENGHAZI: "Sloppiness" and Susan Rice – Again.
I'm beginning to think this President is at worst, a pathological liar or at best, Bipolar. A month ago, he was barking like a junkyard dog in defense of Susan Rice, after admitting he sent her out to lie to the nation. Now we get this from Obama on Benghazi (via MSNBC):
GREGORY: In the politics, in the back and forth in this, do you feel like you let your friend Susan Rice hang out there to dry a little bit?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: No. First of all, I think I was very clear throughout that Susan has been an outstanding U.N. ambassador for the United States. She appeared on a number of television shows reporting what she and we understood to be the best information at the time. This was a politically motivated attack on her. I mean of all the people in my national security team she probably had the least to do with anything that happened in Benghazi. Why she was targeted individually for the kind of attacks that she was subjected to is– is– was puzzling to me. And I was very clear in the days after those attacks that they weren't acceptable. So, you know, the good thing is– is that I think she will continue to serve at the U.N. and do an outstanding job. And I think that most Americans recognize that these were largely politically motivated attacked– attacks as opposed to being justified.
Politically motivated? Mr. President, you admitted YOU sent her out there. We all now know that both of you knew at the time you set her out to the talk show circuit that what she was telling the nation was a lie. The criticism of Rice was not about politics, it was about LYING. It still is about lying.
The Blamer-in-Chief just prior to these remarks on Rice said this about our Embassy security, emphasis added is mine:
Some individuals have been held accountable inside of the State Department and what I've said is that we are going to fix this to make sure that this does not happen again, because these are folks that I send into the field. We understand that there are dangers involved but, you know, when you read the report and it confirms what we had already seen, you know, based on some of our internal reviews; there was just some sloppiness, not intentional, in terms of how we secure embassies in areas where you essentially don't have governments that have a lot of capacity to protect those embassies. So we're doing a thorough-going review. Not only will we implement all the recommendations that were made, but we'll try to do more than that. You know, with respect to who carried it out, that's an ongoing investigation. The FBI has sent individuals to Libya repeatedly. We have some very good leads, but this is not something that, you know, I'm going to be at liberty to talk about right now.
Again, Mr. President — you're trying to install an unsupported narrative here. This embassy was vulnerable for at least the 6 months prior to the attack on September 11th; it had been attacks twice prior. The security of this consulate was already at a dangerously low level. There were warnings three days before the attack, which were ignored. Even the Ambassador himself asked multiple times for more security. Instead of granting those requests, his security was actually cut back. (Related: State Department withdrew 16-member special forces team from Benghazi one month before 9/11/12 terrorist attack)
This is not about sloppiness. Sloppiness implies security was implemented, but did it in a manner leaving things in a state disarray. Mr. President, you didn't implement anything, you removed it and in doing so, thereby leaving your Ambassador Stevens and his staff wide open to attacks. Attacks this administration was warned about from several sources. What transpired wasn't sloppiness, it was criminal.
By the way, Nakoula was unavailable for comment.
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#BENGHAZI: Psych! No Real Resignations.
As I stated last week via the NY Times article, it looked to me like these folks were being paid off by being put on administrative leave. Emphasis added:
Oh hey, look…Some resignations! With the Accountability report also came four resignations. Four is a nice round number to take the blame for what was ultimately the role, responsibility and fault of the President and Hillary Clinton. Perhaps the number if more symbolic – four resignations for four murdered Americans. NY Times:
Eric J. Boswell, the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, resigned. Charlene R. Lamb, the deputy assistant secretary responsible for embassy security, and another official in the diplomatic security office whom officials would not identify were relieved of their duties. So was Raymond Maxwell, a deputy assistant secretary who had responsibility for North Africa. The four officials, a State Department spokeswoman said, "have been placed on administrative leave pending further action."
I want to know who the other official they would not name is. The article says they resigned or were relieved of duty, yet they are placed on administrative leave as well? Does that mean they're being paid for their trouble of playing the part of scapegoats?
The NY Post confirms my suspicion:
The four officials supposedly out of jobs because of their blunders in the run-up to the deadly Benghazi terror attack remain on the State Department payroll — and will all be back to work soon, The Post has learned.
The highest-ranking official caught up in the scandal, Assistant Secretary of State Eric Boswell, has not "resigned" from government service, as officials said last week. He is just switching desks. And the other three are simply on administrative leave and are expected back.
The four were made out to be sacrificial lambs in the wake of a scathing report issued last week that found that the US compound in Benghazi, Libya, was left vulnerable to attack because of "grossly inadequate" security.
Someone in the three-ring circus of Congressional Committees better fire up the Subpoena machine and get Hillary before she can plead the 5th. By the way, where are all the survivors of Benghazi? Continue reading
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Norbert Michelisz grabbed Zengo Motorsport's first victory of the year, while Yvan Muller calmly drove to title number four.
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There was plenty to celebrate all round after the first race of the day at the FIA WTCC Race of Japan in Suzuka on Sunday, the first of three weekends in Asia for the championship in 2013.
A first win of the season for Norbet Michelisz and Zengo Motorsport, a victory for Honda on home soil - and to top it all, a record breaking fourth world title for Yvan Muller.
Having started from pole Michelisz made sure he made a quick getaway from the rolling start, the popular Hungarian quickly driving away from eventual runner-up and top independent, Alex MacDowall to build up a near five-second advantage by the time the chequered flag was shown.
This was his and Zengo Motorsports first victory of the season and despite that being enough reason to rejoice, it was inevitably somewhat overshadowed by the long-expected crowning of Yvan Muller who had finally managed to secure his fourth WTCC title by crossing the line in third place.
The Frenchman had by no means been taking it easy during the race but instead had been piled on the pressure onto MacDowall throughout. He only finally backed off a touch when the sole remaining obstacle between him and the title, Honda's Gabriele Tarquini, pulled into the pits with a puncture. As it had in previous visits here, the Suzuka East circuit was proving to be a quite the car breaker again this weekend.
RML team mate Tom Chilton followed the two Chevys home but was unable do do anything about getting onto the podium due to the lack of passing opportunities available on the tight and short track. However solid points for fourth will help his cause for a top three placing in the overall standings, which is the former Tripple 8 BTCC drivers target for the year.
James Nash had the loneliest drive of race 1 in fifth, keeping well out of any trouble to come home second in the Yokohama trophy category and overhauling Michel Nykjaer in the process. With Nykjaer recently departed from the series, the title is now looking increasingly safe in Nash's hands.
James Thompson jumped up the order to sixth at the line after Pepe Oriola and Tiago Monteiro clashed at turn 6 on lap 18 which put Monteiro out of the race and saw Oriola handed a drive-thru penalty. That was good news for Thompson and for LADA, with more points exactly what the Russian manufacturer had ordered after a troubling drought in previous rounds.
Thompson ran to the finish holding off a six-car train that included former champion Rob Huff who took seventh, Tom Coronel in eighth, Marc Basseng in ninth and Fernando Monje in the final points position in tenth, followed by Mehdi Bennani in eleventh. Just behind was the Honda Japan wildcard of Takuya Izawa, who took top Eurosport Asia Trophy spoils in race 1.
All 29 cars that started the race were classified as finishers, although Tarquini, Oriola and SEAT's Tom Boardman all ended up classified five laps off the lead, and two laps even further back were Monteiro and BMW's Stefano D'Aste.
The race saw a new WTCC lap record set for the Suzuka circuit, with Alain Menu's record from last year toppled by this year's winner Michelisz who posted a time of 52.627 to make a nice addition to his winner's trophy for the race and pole position from Saturday. So far it had been a perfect weekend for both him and for the Hungarian-financed Zengo Motorsport team; the question now was what race 2 would hold in store.
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Been crazily busy for the past few weeks but just had to put this up before I forget to celebrate the event.
WZ is now capable of using the mouse to guide the (extra large) cursor, and use it to double click on the video he wants to watch. Then.. once he gets bored, he'll close the video by clicking on the X, click on the start menu, fire up paint and start scribbling with the various tools.
He has absolutely no idea of what actually does what though, so he's been dragging and messing up stuff up over the desktop.
But.. yup.. he's definitely growing up and learning stuff. Once I have time I'll write about the things that are fed to WZ by the family. :P
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Nonbanks in the payments system: innovation, competition, and risk - a conference summary
From the early days of automated card sorting to the more recent times of the Internet and check imaging, payments and payments processing have continually embraced new technology. At the same time, the industry has been shaped by its share of entry and exit, through startups, mergers, and the reorganization of businesses seeking the proper scope of horizontal and vertical integration. ; These changes have enabled nonbank organizations to play a larger role in the payments system. Nonbanks have followed a number of pathways to more prominence: purchasing bank payment processing subsidiaries, carving out niches in the payments market through innovation, and taking advantage of economies of scale made possible by shifting to electronic forms of payment. ; Nonbanks have introduced some of the most far-reaching innovations to the payments system in recent years, leading to greater efficiencies in payments processing. At the same time, nonbanks have changed the dynamics of competition in payments, leading to a significant change in the system's risk profile. ; Sullivan and Wang summarize the proceedings of a conference on nonbanks in the payments system held by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on May 2-4, 2007. The conference addressed many of the key questions raised by the growing presence of nonbanks in payments, including: Have recent payment innovations been more likely to come from nonbanks? Have nonbanks improved or harmed competition in payments? Have nonbanks increased risk or helped to develop tools to manage it? How should public policy respond as increasingly more activity in payments lies outside of the banking system?
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text: I am totally addicted. Went in to Petsmart the other night to get another frog and some kitten toys and what do I come out with instead? Another tank, some plants, some gravel, and two new Bettas. I had to stop by Walmart to get yet another tank yesterday, but now they are all settled in and doing fabulous. The new boy even blew me a bubble nest today, of which he is quite proud of. So I now have Sin, Maria, Luna, and Gabranth! (Yes, I have a Final Fantasy theme going.) I've had Sin for a few months now, after my boy Draco died of dropsy. The first picture was taken shortly after I got him - the rest were taken today. I can't believe how well his color has turned out. He used to be very shy, too, but now he'll come up to the glass when he sees me walk by and doesn't shy away at hands anymore (I was sticking my entire arm into his tank rearranging things yesterday and he thought it was great fun lol). Sorry these pictures are bad - my camera hates Sin. My sister bought Maria when I bought Draco, so we've had her since January, I think. She has almost doubled in size since we got her and her coloring has really come in as well. She's a gorgeous girl now and she loves to play in the filter current and rest in her plant: This is my new boy, Gabranth. I don't know much about him yet, but he seems very calm and self assured. He flares easily, too, which is a big change from Sin. He's already attacked his reflection twice today. And he is BIG. If you've ever seen Doctor Who, then you will know what I mean when I say he looks like an Ood in this picture ROFL: And this is the other new fish that my sister picked out, the lovely girl Yuna. My camera hates her as well and she wasn't a very willing focus, so these were the only good pictures I got of her, but she is stunning: I <3 Bettas. :0)


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Did I mention that I hate Internet Explorer? Well, I do. I think that the web would be a much better place without Internet Explorer. Any Internet Explorer.
Today I've ran across another strange IE bug. When uploading a JPEG file, instead of the usual image/jpeg MIME as defined in RFC 1341, if the file is a progressive jpeg, then Internet Explorer sends a non standard MIME of image/pjpeg, which sucks, isn't documented and breaks validation logic.
And since my code looked something like:
# check mime type
mime, type = image.content_type.split( '/' )
if not ( mime == 'image' and type in ['jpeg', 'gif', 'png'] ):
return False
…in it, well…you can imagine! So, if you *ever* check the MIME type of a file, remember that IE sometimes sends a image/pjpeg MIME.
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Are school lunches making the grade?
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School lunches are about to get a lesson in nutrition.
First Lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced new nutrition standards for the meals, including less sodium and more whole grains.
For some schools, this could prove to be a challenge.
Other districts, like Benzie, Onekama and Frankfort-Elberta, are way ahead of the curve.
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'Out of the Furnace' TV Spot: You Don't Want to Mess With Woody Harrelson
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Woody Harrelson's last feature role was as a time-traveling turkey in the animated family flick Free Birds, but don't let that trick you into thinking he's lost his edge. The new TV spot for Scott Cooper's Out of the Furnace has arrived, and he's full-on terrifying in it.
The gritty drama stars Christian Bale as Russell, a steel mill worker whose Iraq vet brother Rodney (Casey Affleck) falls into the criminal underworld and eventually disappears. When the police fail to find Rodney, Russell sets out to discover the truth for himself. Check out the new video after the jump.


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By Dan Schell, Business Solutions magazine.
A sale including 1,400 bar code scanners was pivotal to the future success of this start-up reseller/software developer.
If you're a VAR that sells any type of solution that includes bar code scanners, you're probably never surprised by the multitudes of inventory control and trackand- trace applications — no matter how unusual they are. But unless you're focused on the healthcare vertical and, in particular, the medical devices used in surgical procedures, developing a solution to track "parts" like replacement knees and hips may seem … well, odd.
WebOps is a reseller and software developer that is dedicated to that specific healthcare niche. The company offers a Web-based solution that, among other things, helps hospitals and medical device manufacturers and distributors track and control field inventory. For example, one client was a manufacturer of orthopaedic replacement parts (e.g. hips, knees, elbows) that wanted to eliminate the problems associated with the manual data entry being conducted by its staff of nationwide sales representatives.
Manual Data Entry: Never A Good Idea
As you can imagine, any medical device designed to be implanted in a person's body is considered a high-value asset for a hospital, often costing many thousands of dollars. Hospitals need to keep a certain number of these products — which are often provided on a consignment basis from the manufacturer — in stock. In the case of WebOps' client, that's where the sales rep gets involved.
It's the sales rep's job not only to sell the products to hospitals and physicians, but also to order and receive these items into a hospital's area for storing such devices. Collecting data for a joint replacement or conducting a cycle count of inventory requires a blend of data inputs: a keypad for data such as patient name and date and a scanner for reading part numbers embedded into bar codes. "Prior to using our solution, the reps were attaching stickers that included the equipment's information onto a page and faxing those pages to the manufacturer's HQ where the info was manually typed into a computer database," explains Howard Weathersby, VP of business development for WebOps. "In doing so, they occasionally were making errors, which the client had to avoid, considering the importance of such data [e.g. used to track devices implanted into patients]."
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WebOps Logistics is a mobile, Web-based solution that helps companies automate and mobilize field sales and inventory management. Device manufacturers and distributors can leverage iPads, smartphones, laptops, and PCs to schedule and manage surgical cases, implants, and instruments in real time from any location.
The device manufacturer wanted a way to use a bar code scanner to enter the inventory data directly into the software it used at its home office. After contacting a few bar code scanner companies, WebOps ultimately chose the Cipherlab 1660 scanner for this client's needs. "One of the key reasons we chose Cipherlab was it developed firmware for its scanner that enabled users to switch from scanning bar codes to using the virtual keypad on an iPhone or iPad with a push of the power button on the 1660 [the scanner uses Bluetooth to connect to the iPhone or iPad]," Weathersby explains. "Some of the other solutions we reviewed required you to turn off the scanner entirely before the virtual keypad would come up on the smartphone." He says other selling points of the Cipherlab 1660 scanner included:
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It took nearly two years to deploy approximately 1,400 Cipherlab scanners and implement the WebOps Logistics application. With the latter, the device manufacturer can also keep track of each healthcare facility's stock as well as predict when to resupply based on historical trends. And thanks to the accuracy of the scanners, there are no more data entry errors.
According to Weathersby, this project was very important for WebOps, which was only a start-up when it landed the job. He said that since the success of this installation, the company has deployed at least 15 other similar solutions for other healthcare clients, some of which include the Cipherlab 1661 and 1664 scanners.


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