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PRETORIA, South Africa - A neighbor of Oscar Pistorius testified at his murder trial on Monday that she heard gunshots as well as screams from both a man and a woman on the night that the double-amputee runner fatally shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Anette Stipp's testimony matched some of the evidence given by other witnesses earlier in the trial who said they also heard a woman screaming around the time that Pistorius killed Steenkamp before dawn on Feb. 14, 2013.
The defense has countered that the neighbors were actually hearing Pistorius screaming in a high-pitched voice after he shot Steenkamp, a 29-year-old model. Pistorius has said he shot his girlfriend by mistake through a locked toilet door, thinking that she was an intruder in his home.
Chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel opened Monday's court session by noting evidence will include analysis of cellular telephones, including two that were removed from the bathroom where the shooting happened.
Investigators had been chasing information on Pistorius' locked iPhone for months and met Apple officials in the United States just before the trial started on March 3. Pistorius has said he forgot the password to his phone.
Stipp, the neighbor, said under questioning from Nel that she heard gunshots while lying awake around 3 a.m. on the night of the shooting, and then heard the "terrified, terrified" screams of a woman. Her bedroom is situated across a grassy area about 70 meters (230 feet) from Pistorius' home, and the windows of the athlete's bathroom are visible from her window.
"The screaming at that stage just continued," said Stipp, who recalled looking out from a balcony at two houses with lights on in the gated estate where her family and Pistorius lived.
She said she told her husband Johan, who previously testified, that the screaming sounded as though a "family murder" had taken place.
"There was definitely a female screaming for quite a period," Anette Stipp said. "You could definitely hear two different voices."
She said she then heard a second set of shots, and the screaming stopped.
The defense has said that Pistorius fired into the door and then battered the door with a cricket bat to get to Steenkamp after realizing she was inside the toilet cubicle. It insists that some neighbors who testified mistook the sound of the cricket bat striking the door for gunshots.
Pistorius' camp also maintains that Pistorius fired with quick bursts that gave Steenkamp no time to scream, and so Pistorius did not realize he was shooting at Steenkamp. A South African police ballistics expert, however, has testified that the first of three bullets that struck Steenkamp hit her in the right hip, giving her time to scream before she was hit in the arm and head.
Defense lawyer Kenneth Oldwadge pressed neighbor Anette Stipp on her recollections, questioning whether she was inside her house or on a balcony while hearing what she said were shots and screams, and whether she was alert because she had said she was slightly ill at the time. He said she was wrong to say the light was in Pistorius' bathroom around the time of the shooting.
Stipp also testified about an incident this year in which she again heard screams in the estate at night. The testimony appeared to refer to what Pistorius' defense lawyers have referred to as noise tests that they conducted to determine how sound carries and to prove their contention that the runner screams in a high voice when extremely anxious.
The sounds included a male voice screaming in both high and low pitches, Stipp said. The screaming this year, she said, had "very little emotion," in contrast to the screaming she heard on the night of Steenkamp's death.
Nel, the prosecutor, has said he will wrap up his case against Pistorius this week after calling four or five more witnesses to support his contention that the Olympian intentionally killed Steenkamp after an argument. The defense will then present its case.
Judicial officials say the trial will continue until May 16, with a recess in April.


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|Dr. Joan Merrill
When new treatments are tested in clinical trials, the FDA and the drug companies know about these issues, but the challenge is to come up with a simple protocol that can be tested on all kinds of different patients around the world and can answer two simple questions. Is the treatment reasonably safe and does it work better if you do give it than if you don't give it? If these two conditions are met, the regulatory agencies can consider approving it for use in the clinic.
Think about this question, though: Does a treatment work better if you do give it than if you didn't give it? To answer this question you just need more people to get better in a group who get the drug than in a group that receives placebo (or dummy treatment). So to answer this question it doesn't matter if up to half the people participating in a clinical trial were never going to benefit from this treatment in the first place. In fact less than half of the people around the world who took Benlysta in the large international Phase III trials actually met the criteria for improvement. Still it did well enough to be approved, now, in a growing number of countries worldwide.
Here are the important questions that have not been answered by that simple question: Which patients are more likely to benefit from Benlysta? How can the dose be optimized for an individual patient? How can we tell, in patients for whom it is not working whether it will never work for them (in which case it should be stopped) or whether it might be of significant benefit if the amount of dose, timing of the dose, or combinations with other medications could be optimally adjusted? The answers to all of these things needs to be worked out and the fact that the FDA has approved Benlysta at only one dose to be given only at rigid monthly intervals is not helping matters.
But even if doctors in clinic were given more flexibility to practice the art of medicine in treating patients with new expensive biologics, it would be difficult to address these important questions about how best to treat individual patients using information from the clinical trials. Remember that a wide range of patients from all over the world, with disparate individual differences in their immune system were treated with Benlysta while still taking various additional lupus treatments, all of which are already at work changing the immune system of each of these patients in different ways. This superimposes a whole lot of treatment influences onto what we already know are different background immune disorders in the patients. In trying to figure out who is more likely to get benefit from Benlysta or how best to treat those individuals it will be difficult to sort all of this out.
How will we sort all of this out? I want to tell you about our recent study that a large team of doctors and scientists have recently completed as a collaboration between the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. The name of the study is BOLD which stands for Biomarkers of Lupus Disease. Biomarkers are detailed bits of biological information that can be picked up from a simple blood test which can be used to sort out very complex questions about individual differences that perturb the balance of the immune system. Some biomarkers that are active in some patients might suggest a disorder that Benlysta could fix. Others might suggest that different types of treatments would be better. Importantly, it has been hard to figure out in any previous studies what the impact of all the various lupus treatments are on these biomarkers which might really confuse a doctor if they were trying to pick out a treatment to either add on or switch a patient to. The BOLD study was designed to begin looking at this very question. Patients who agreed to be in the study were considered qualified to participate if they had active disease, but at the start of the study they could be on various background treatments. A blood sample was taken. After that, unlike most clinical trials, the strong background immune suppressants were stopped. Everyone received a short course of steroids. More blood was sampled when the participants were better. The steroid was allowed to wear off. The patients were followed closely with serial blood donations and they were instructed to return to clinic within three days if their symptoms came back. When a "flare" visit occurred, blood was drawn once more and then the patient was immediately treated.
Before this, almost everything known about biomarkers in lupus has been based on random samples of blood from biologically diverse patients on a cacophony of background medications. Now there is a freezer full of samples donated by patients where we can address biologic diversity by comparing the same patient with active disease on azathioprine (or the other immune suppressants) to themselves when they flare up without that treatment on board. This is how we can learn what the real impact of these agents on lupus is and how some of them, when they are allowed to be used during trials, could be interfering with certain drugs we are trying to study. In the past two years some preliminary data from the BOLD study has already been presented at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) meetings. Now that the study is completed, the full reports will be out in the next year.
It is well known that lupus patients can be sorted into two major groups, those with inflammation that seems strongly influenced by interferon alpha and those with a much lower interferon influence. The preliminary abstracts that have already been released from the BOLD study are suggesting that many other factors that distinguish one patient from another, including the impact of immune suppressants, might be better understood by appreciating that they have different impacts on the interferon low and high groups. A better understanding of how to sort lupus into biologically meaningful subsets, and the biologic influence of background treatments on each of these groups may help to better design and interpret clinical trials as well as to inform better and more precise medical care for individual people in the future...not just for 50% of the people.

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Gjuha: Chang Naga
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Chang is a Naga of Nagaland, India. It is one of the recognized scheduled tribes. The tribe was also known as Mazung in British India. The Chang language is spoken by the Chang tribe of the Tuengsang area in Nagaland with a population of 62,400 (2001 census). The Chang Nagas belong to the Indo- Mongolian people group and linguistically belongs to the Indo- Tibeto – Burman group. First portion was published in 1947, and the complete New Testament was published in 1982 through the Bible Society of India. Later the complete Bible in Chang Naga was published in the year 2002 through the Bible Society of India.
This translation is ©2002 Bible Society of India.
If you are interested in obtaining a printed copy, please contact the Bible Society of India at www.bsind.org
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Bible Society of India in 2002


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A passion for and enjoyment of cemeteries ... it's a grave concern!
Taphophilia involves epitaphs, gravestone rubbing, photography, art, and history of (famous) deaths. This also includes in my case the love of walking cemeteries and finding lost relatives.
Have you walked a cemetery lately? Do you have an interest in taphophilia?
our websites includes:
pictures of Grave Fences
a list of Headstone Styles & Shapes
some wondeerful examples of Epitaphs
a table of Symbols on Tombstones
an extensive Death Glossary
and other items.
Have you seen all of those we have illustrated here?
We'd love to have your contributions to add to our own collection. We know we can only get around to a small fraction of the many and varied sights and stories of cemeteries.
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Who wants a free Galaxy Nexus? You do? We thought so, and we've one to give away - CDMA or GSM, it's winner's choice this time.
Before we get into the giveaway details, though, we want to give some love to the guys at BitHack, without whom this giveaway wouldn't be possible. BitHack is the dev team behind the game Apparatus, a title that you've probably heard quite a few times 'round here at Android Police.
- Ben Warren with this 1-line review: "The only game I've played where I can quite happily spend 3 hours trying to come up with the most ludicrously complex way to move a ball an inch and a half to the left."
Congratulations - you will be contacted for your information in the near future!
Everyone else - keep participating and stay tuned to Android Police so that you don't miss our upcoming giveaway announcements. You can follow AP on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and RSS.
Update: Here's Ben with his Nexus:
Apparatus is a game of skill where it's your job to "build a complex machine to perform a simple task." Connect components together to a achieve one goal: get the ball in the bucket. Sounds easy, right? Not so much - this one is the epitome of easy to learn, difficult to master. Roll that beautiful gameplay footage!
That's just a small sample of what you get from Apparatus, too - it's just been updated for Christmas.
Want to show BitHack some thanks for offering up a free Galaxy Nexus? Hit the link below and buy your copy of Apparatus!
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The Galaxy Nexus is a phone that needs no introduction - it's probably the hottest phone on the market right now. If you win, you can choose between either the Verizon (LTE) or international (GSM) version. Hooray for choices!
Let's all just look at it for a few minutes. It's just so pretty.
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text: Yesterday I thought I was seeing things (kind of like Hiram thinking he saw me at the WWWWW event ;) :D ) . . . but when I called my wife over she saw it too -- a robin pecking away on my front lawn where I had plowed the snow away. I guess Spring is right around the corner . . . which makes my wife happy, but it means my sledding days are numbered (thank goodness for geocaching!!!)


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With Dino Giacomazzi
"Dairies are nothing but factories that torture animals and pollute the environment for profit!"
Have you heard this before? Have you read statements like this on websites? How does it make you feel when you read or hear misinformation about your business? Do you get angry and feel like there is nothing that you can really do about it?
It's easy to ignore this type of blatantly false information and expect that someone else is going to deal with it. But here in California, we have learned the hard way that inaction is no longer an option. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the Humane Society of the United States and many other anti-agriculture groups are influencing people who are walking into grocery stores and ballot boxes in your town.
So what does this have to do with you? Everything! The best defense against misinformation is the truth. And the best opportunity we have to show consumers and voters the truth about dairy farming is through social media.
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Social media is a collective term used for the different ways that people can interact on the Internet. Sometimes, it's a website. Sometimes, it's a mobile app or a program on a computer. There are plenty of these tools, and they're valuable for sharing a message—your message, the truth about what you do on your farm.
Facebook is the most popular form of social media. It offers opportunities to share your words through status updates and comments, but you can post video, links and photos from a profile as well. You can also use Pages, which are similar to profiles but are meant to represent non-
humans: businesses, organizations, ideas, brands, etc. All of this can easily be managed straight from a smartphone.
There are other social media options aside from Facebook. Twitter allows you to post short messages of up to 140 characters. It's a great tool for reaching people you don't already know, which is one of the biggest hurdles that farmers and dairy people face. Twitter is also a great venue for discussion, using keywords called hashtags. Hashtags make it easy to find tweets relating to a particular topic, which is incredibly useful.
Instagram is another way to tell agri-culture's story. It's a picture-sharing platform, and it's incredibly easy to use on a smartphone. As with Twitter, people you don't always interact with are able to see your photos. Sharing pictures of day-to-day happenings on your operation could help introduce them to a more honest and accurate view of agriculture.
It's highly unlikely that we'll ever be able to address every type of misinformation that's out there, but social media allows us to speak to a broader audience with a better use of our time. Social media is still a relatively new concept, and it may seem intimidating. But when you come right down to it, farmers starting Twitter accounts today may help us avoid overregulation and public misunderstanding down the road.
I can't stop and chat with every concerned consumer in the grocery store, but my social media presence may make all the difference to someone who's never spoken to a dairyman before.
NPPC: 'Junk Science' Used to Scare Consumers to Organic Pork
6 Easy Ways To Harness Social Media


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Los Angeles city and county governments are full of officials who profess to be candid but who are, in fact, evasive or even deceptive. City Councilwoman Jan Perry is not one of them. She is refreshingly open, even blunt. She's affable, but she takes her politics seriously.
Areas that some candidates scramble to avoid don't faze her. In an interview last week, for instance, she coolly sized up the racial and gender politics of the mayor's race, in which she's one of the leading candidates. Perry's campaign so far has been overshadowed by those of City Councilman Eric Garcetti and City Controller Wendy Greuel, each of whom can lay claim to having represented the whole city (although Garcetti serves Hollywood as a councilman, he served for years as council president, giving him broader reach and profile than most council members enjoy). But Perry sees a path to victory, and she is typically forthcoming in describing it.
Her base, Perry explained, begins with African Americans. From there, she imagines polling well with Latinos; she speaks Spanish well enough to campaign in that language, and there are no prominent Latino candidates in the race (although Garcetti's paternal grandparents were immigrants from Mexico). Perry expects to attract substantial support from women and hopes her sometimes combative relationship with the city's ruling establishment will win her support in the San Fernando Valley, the locus of city government skeptics.
Finally, though it's not widely known, Perry also is Jewish, having converted to the faith in the 1980s. As voters learn more about her, Perry hopes for some Jewish support as well.
Moreover, the potential turns in the race ahead may favor her. Many eyes are on County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, who hasn't announced whether he will run. If he does, he'd hurt Perry. He'd draw away business support and certainly Jewish backing. But, as one Perry supporter pointed out to me, for every vote Yaroslavsky would take from Perry, he'd take two from Garcetti and Greuel. In a four-way race, it's possible to imagine any two of those candidates making the runoff.
Reflecting on her challenge, Perry noted that the politics are complicated. "I don't take any of that for granted," she said of her coalition. "I happen to be African American. I happen to be Jewish. But I have to take my case directly to voters."
The essence of that case, Perry says, is that Los Angeles is still hurting economically, and she has a proven record of encouraging economic development; L.A. Live is the centerpiece of that effort, as is the growth of downtown generally. Moreover, Perry notes that even as she has brought in development, she has been sensitive to environmental issues — she's most proud of two wetlands she helped create in her district, which includes parts of downtown and South Los Angeles. And she has maintained independence in a city often in the sway of interest groups such as labor and its Sacramento allies.
Perry can be fierce in defense of her positions, as she demonstrated this year when she engaged in a sharp battle with Council President Herb Wesson over the redrawing of the lines of her district. She lost, but she stood out from the go-along, get-along norm that stifles much genuine debate at City Hall.
She's also sparred with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, which she shrugs off. "To me, fighting is an acceptable form of communication," she explained. With Wesson, it's different. She regards him as duplicitous, and she's happy to say so publicly.
All of this suggests that Perry has the moxie to be mayor. The question will be whether her record of achievement is strong enough to impress voters. It's not that Perry hasn't done anything; she has. But the wetlands she's so proud of are hardly a comprehensive environmental agenda, and the success of L.A. Live, while undeniable, owes far more to the work of AEG than it does to any stewardship by Perry. Beyond that, she can point to community achievements — securing a farmers market, helping encourage sit-down restaurants over fast-food places, adding units to help provide for the homeless — but there's not much that suggests a grand vision for the city or its future.
And yet, there's something refreshing and genuine about Perry that could play well with voters. Near the end of our conversation, she relayed a story about a man she met through the Coalition for Responsible Community Development, which Perry helped to found in South Los Angeles. He was in tough times, out of work, struggling to make ends meet. Recently, she ran into him again, working at the Marriott Hotel adjacent to L.A. Live. He recognized her and thanked her for helping him get work. He's married now, looking forward to having a family.
As Perry told the story, her voice cracked. She waved it off, a little embarrassed, and explained: "For me, it's personal."
Jim Newton's column appears Mondays. His latest book is "Eisenhower: The White House Years." Reach him at email@example.com or follow him on Twitter: @newton_jim.


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Let's have a brainstorm about ways ThinkAtheist could be improved!
Big or small, any thoughts are welcome! TA is a great site/community and I'd love to help it strive to maximize its potential. Who knows, maybe one of our ideas will get implemented by a Mod.
Anyway I'll start off with this:
The comments section in Discussions should operate more like Reddit comments, in which comments form a tree-structure, and entire branches of that tree can be minimized with a simple "[-]" button. This would make it so you can see a wider variety of responses more quickly, and follow the comment-threads that interest you. As it is, there is a tree-structure, but branches cannot be minimized, so people often reply to a reply to a comment, rather than replying directly to the appropriate comment.
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I'm using the default colour scheme, Kris, and I can barely read the names on my list - I have to try to pick the right person by their mini-picture. Is that a changeable setting?
I cannot even see names next to the pictures--and they are microscopic. Otherwise, it would help.
I am looking into fixing the PM find a friend option.
I'll look ino that " ) bug
"I'd rather ditch the tree format entirely and ask people to quote what, specifically, they are replying to."
Yes, and the quote should be a hyperlink to that original comment, so the thread of discussion can be "backtraced" easily.
Also it would be nice if when Comment A garners a reply in Comment B (such that Comment B contains a quote from Comment A), then Comment A would contain a hyperlinked note that can zip you straight to its replies.
In other words, comments should be chain-linked both forwards and backwards with hyperlinks. I have a 4chan extension that does exactly this, and once you have it you can't live without it.
International News page affecting atheists/humanist/free-thinkers.
Successful/in-successful political actions. Up and coming actions /legal judgements.
A listing of local/national/international debates and scedules.
Entertainment listings for atheist/humanist theamed movies and plays.
Cutting edge science affecting ideas and theories about the world and history.
Cult and theist rallies.
Atheists in the News.
That's a great idea! I can look into making that happen.
Responding in blogs is clumsy by comparison with the forums. The forums give you a way of responding to each post. In the blogs you have to do it with something like "@BlunderBus." I even question the need for blogs.
Blogs will be getting a overhaul in the near future :]
Here is what is planned.
Forum Improvements coming soon
Add the ability to move discussions between the main forum and group forums; between one group forum to another group forum; and possibly between one group forum to the main forum are being planned.
I'll look into what we can do about minus signs.
New Commenting Options
Provide the ability to allow non-members to join in the conversation by using third-party commenting services (e.g., Facebook comments). Still testing this out as we obviously don't won't trolls of doom raiding TA.
Blog Update
The blog functionality on Think Atheist is ready for a re-do. We have a lot of work planned to make the blog more powerful and much more visually appealing. I'll have more details for you guys in the near future.
Well, I hate to be this guy but there was a post the other day that kind of -I guess -shocked me. It was through some sort of ladies forum where apparently it was ok to "talk about anything". I'm much harder to offend than what it was about however that is not why I'm a TA member. Maybe if these things can be categorized a little better that would be great.
The discussion topic just sat in the right hand side of my screen. It was a little hard to focus. If we could close out certain "Big discussion" topics then that would be great too.
personally I don't like all the anti-theism dirtying up my atheism forum. I suppose there aren't any forum rules against anti-theism, but it might be appropriate for those posts could have their own separate forum.
Of course this is a personal preference, and I wouldn't expect a change to be made unless the majority of TA agreed (and they probably don't, considering the number of anti-theists posts i've seen).


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Fun at Colliding Universes
Here are some links to recent posts to Colliding Universes, my blog about differing views of our universe:
No boundaries proposal? Or no possibility proposal?
Here Stephen Hawking explains why we are doomed if we don't vamoose Earth. Speaking for myself, I would probably be doomed if I did. I'm doomed anyway, but I belong to a culture where people hope to die peacefully in their sleep.
Aliens should be better than termites
Favourite quote on extraterrestrials: "If for some reasons the aliens are actually interested in us, I think they are probably already here, and given a certain level of technology, if would probably be easy to hide from us, even on a daily basis."Yes, I should think so. Termites do it all the time. So do the rats at a nearby dumpster. (That's why the rule of thumb is, for every rat you happen to spot, there are a dozen.)
Now, what I'd be interested to know is, the ETs never phone, they never write. Why do we assume they exist?
Most of the reasons I have heard are based on attitudes, values, and beliefs, not science.
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With an amended interlocal agreement with the Board of County Commissioners in front of them for approval Port St. Joe city commissioners took issue with county action they believed tipped the scales of fairness.
With an amended interlocal agreement with the Board of County Commissioners in front of them for approval Port St. Joe city commissioners took issue with county action they believed tipped the scales of fairness.
Port St. Joe commissioners lobbied for more than a year and waited sometime impatiently for two months while attorneys worked to broker an amended interlocal agreement over annexation of WindMark Beach.
But with a county proposal awaiting approval, commissioners tabled consideration of the agreement over the proposed increase in tipping fees the county will charge at the landfill.
Given that city residents pay county taxes, Mayor Mel Magidson said, it was fundamentally unfair for the county to assess fees that will add tens of thousands of dollars in costs to the city for services county residents receive for free.
�I am reluctant to bring it up, but how are we going to address tipping fees?� Magidson said during a Tuesday meeting that followed a budget workshop during which the tipping fee increase was discussed.
�We need to address that. There is something about that that doesn�t seem right to me.�
As city attorney Tom Gibson said, a resident living in the first phase of WindMark, in the county, would not pay for yard debris removal.
Across the street, in the second phase annexed into the city, that same service will cost the city $60 a ton, up from $40.
�My approach is there might be some legal issues associated with that,� Gibson said.
Commissioner Phil McCroan said the interlocal agreement speaks to a similar issue. The agreement prohibits the city from charging county residents any more for water and sewer than it charges city residents.
�Our residents are paying twice (for the landfill),� McCroan said. �That is our leverage.�
Gibson said the water and sewer rate equalizer was long in the interlocal agreement and that as part of the agreement the city had assumed water systems that were revenue generators for the county.
The amended interlocal agreement, including eliminating the fire tax the city has paid into the county general fund, also adds new obligations for the city.
The city would take over firefighting duties in Oak Grove, establish emergency water rescue capabilities along the city coastal areas and, most significantly, would require the city to deed over the land on which the Tourist Development Council Welcome Center sits.
�They want a valuable piece of property we own,� Magidson said. �There has to be a quid pro quo.�
The amended interlocal agreement also includes a provision that the city and county will continue to cooperate in the construction of a recreational complex, though the agreement eliminates any monetary figures to that cooperation.
More to come.
City locks in $15 million debt
The big number for the little city was set in green as commissioners approved a new $15.3 million note on the city�s long-term debt.
The note will continue to be held by Regions Bank which provided the city a path to avoid a costly 2015 balloon payment on the debt.
Regions agreed to a 25-year note with a 15-year balloon payment. The rate is 3.39 percent and increases the city�s annual payment on the debt � accrued largely through capital and infrastructure projects the past six or seven years � from $858,000 to $910,380.
�We think that is the safest route,� said city manager Jim Anderson.
A key was keeping the annual payment under $1 million and also providing the city enough flexibility to lock-in a long-term plan on water and sewer rates that have been spiking for three years, will increase again in October and are linked to the debt.
�We feel they are meeting us at a good position,� said Michael McKenzie of the city�s finance committee. �It�s a good rate locked in for 15 years. The security of those extra years was important.�
Though commissioners had hoped that once the long-term debt was settled they could ease off rates, the new loan agreement reduces potential attorney�s fees and provides a path to address rates in two to three years.
�We could level out the rates in the next couple of years,� McCroan said.
Water line replacement
The city will shave some future debt after commissioners approved having a work crew from Public Works to perform the second phase of water distribution line replacement.
During the past year Public Works director John Grantland has hired several former employees from contractors GAC and IC Contractors and the crew performed line replacement along Marvin Avenue as a pilot project.
The results, commissioners agreed, consistently met or exceeded the performance of IC during the initial phase of line replacement and by rejecting outside bids and taking the work in-house the city will save an estimated half million dollars.
�They�ve proven it can be done,� Magidson said.
The city will go out for bid on the materials and will provide a small bump in pay for the construction crew during the work.
The work could begin in the next two months.
�This means less debt down the road,� Anderson said.
Grantland and his team will also resume uni-directional flushing of the distribution system in the next week or so.


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The SERISREE project is formulated by SERIFED by following the example of the KUDUMBASREE project run by the state government. The major objectives of the project are to eradicate poverty through promotion of gainful employment and additional income generating opportunities through sericulture, to ensure economic empowerment of rural women and small & marginal farmers, to ensure sustainable development of sericulture industry, to exploit available natural resources to the best advantage of sericulture sector, to promote lease farming in the State as there is not sufficient cultivable land under the ownership of people below poverty line, to provide necessary technological support for the stabilisation of the activity, to popularise small scale sericulture farming ie, homestead sericulture farming system, to effectively utilise wasteland of Institution/Estates/Government etc.
The project includes five major components viz. Assistance for Establishment of Mulberry Kissan Nurseries, Assistance to Individual Sericulturists, Establishment of Chawki Rearing-cum- Input Service Centres, Setting up of Disinfection Squad and Establishment of Silk Reeling Infrastructure. These five components are expected to complement each other and serve as a strong back bone to the scheme implementation by way of creating a congenial circumstance for wholesome development of the sericulture industry in the rural sector involving BPL families. The total project cost is 14.32 crores. The basic unit is designated as a Field Operating Unit (FOU), consisting of four BPL beneficiaries together managing one acre mulberry cultivation and silkworm rearing. Since the BPL beneficiaries can't be expected to possess own land, the cultivation will be taken up in leased land. A financial assistance to the tune of nearly Rs. 1lakh is proposed under various heads for each FOU. Later Self Help Groups are constituted by such five FOUS, forming a group of 20 members. It is expected that the SERISREE project will be a turning point in Kerala's sericulture.
Under the project it is expected to bring in 1000 acres of fresh mulberry plantations and a matching cocoon production. The entire activity is proposed to create employment opportunities to the tune of 59 lakhs man days in three years.
Kerala State Sericulture Co-operative Federation (Serifed) was established as a nodal agency for implementing sericulture activities in the State. Sericulture in Kerala is based on small-holdings, low investment and family labor oriented; moderate income generating and a subsidy oriented one. The major strategies of Serifed during 2008-09 are promotion of new mulberry varieties suitable for Kerala conditions, cluster approach of sericulture development of potential areas, active involvement of local self Government institutions, development of 100% Bivoltine sericulture, implementation of women empowerment scheme etc.


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Hard work, a good education, and an interest in civic duty are attributes that made the Taft family outstanding leaders over the years. The contributions made by these individuals continue to enrich our lives today. Their leadership skills were carefully cultivated through the example set by their parents and by the activities in which they chose to participate.
Activity 1: Leadership Characteristics
Next, have students write their governor, congress person, or senator and ask the same questions they developed for the local leader. Ask students to compare the responses and discuss the types of character traits and leadership skills they found in common among local and national leaders, and the Tafts.
Activity 2: Practicing Leadership Skills
Have students work in small groups to develop a list of activities they could undertake that would benefit their neighborhood (i.e., volunteer for a community action agency, help clean up an area, become a mentor to younger children, plant trees and shrubbery, etc.). Have them assess whether such experiences would be helpful for developing leadership skills. If possible, have the class undertake some of these projects.


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Criticism of Hagel out of proportion
In saying his goodbyes at the White House this week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta joked that he was going home to his California walnut farm after 50 years in public life to deal with "a different set of nuts."
It was classic Panetta: never able to resist a good line. But also an apt introduction to the heartbreaking, loopy debate over his would-be successor: Vietnam veteran and former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel.
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Heartbreaking in the sense that old Hagel colleagues in the Senate can seem so blinded by their sense of injury that they would throw him to the wolves to get back at President Barack Obama. Loopy because Washington's politics — and its press — appear to have lost all sense of context from which to judge the man before them.
Hagel has been loudly taken to task for speaking of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee as a "Jewish lobby." But former Connecticut Rep. Sam Gejdenson — Jewish, born in post-war Germany in a displaced persons camp and the child of Holocaust survivors — could be far blunter about AIPAC as the top Democrat on the House International Relations Committee a decade ago.
And wasn't it just weeks ago that the Senate was tripping over itself to praise the grace and courage of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, who died before Christmas? Does anyone seriously think Inouye, a decorated veteran of World War II and strong Israel supporter, would not be supporting Hagel, the first enlisted-man veteran given a shot to lead the Defense Department?
This reporter brings his own past to this debate as an infantry medic in 1969 in Vietnam. In more than 30 years covering Congress, it's been impossible to totally separate that experience from dealing with those few members who were also in combat: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) or the late Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), for example. Hagel falls into the same mix: never a social friend but someone who extended himself to provide context for stories.
In this same context, no one is more important to the Hagel debate now than McCain, Obama's old adversary and often bitter critic.
In life, the Republican would castigate Inouye as a vaguely corrupt baron of appropriations. In death, he warmly praised the Democrat. Now, McCain faces a similar choice regarding Hagel, who was once like a younger brother when the Nebraskan first came to the Senate in the mid-90s.
With offices across the hall in the Senate's old Russell building, the two Republicans could seem inseparable: McCain, a Navy flier in Vietnam and decorated POW from an old military family, and Hagel, born to less privilege and the Army infantryman from the same war.
That relationship wore thin with time — as relationships can. Differences over campaign finance reform may have been part of it. The divide over Iraq policy added its own punctuation point but can be overstated.


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Irvin D. Schroeder, 90, of Hillsboro died Tuesday at Parkside Home in Hillsboro. He was born July 23, 1922, to Peter D. and Katherine (Kim) Schroeder in rural Buhler.
He is survived by a son, Bruce D. Schroeder of rural Hillsboro; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Mildred Schroeder, in 2009 and daughter Beverly A. Schroeder in 2006.
A celebration of life service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at First Mennonite Church in Hillsboro. Burial will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Buhler Cemetery. Visitation with family will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Jost Funeral Home in Hillsboro.
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As announced in Notice to Members (NTM) 07-11 (February 2007), recent amendments to NASD Rule 2520 (Margin Requirements) permit members to margin certain products according to a prescribed portfolio margin methodology on a pilot basis. Related amendments to Rule 2860 (Options) require that a disclosure statement and written acknowledgement for use with the proposed portfolio margin program be furnished to customers using a portfolio margin account.1 This Notice sets forth the language required for the written disclosure statement and acknowledgment pursuant to Rule 2860(c).
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text: It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the advice column in which everyone's problems are solved with an "herbal" remedy. (Remember, kids: Don't do drugs!) In this episode, the wind beneath my wings, Rich, helps me dole out advice on stuff like eating food out of vaginas, testicle-shaving, and prom dates. (And this time, someone sent us dick pics!!!) Got a burning question? Send it to email@example.com with "Pot Psychology" in the subject line. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.)


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TV's Ty Pennington, host of "Extreme Home Makeover," is building a $680,000 home in The Hammock in Flagler County.
Residents of The Hammock will soon get a famous neighbor.
Ty Pennington, host of TV's "Extreme Home Makeover," which went off the air in 2011, is building a $680,000 home on Hernandez Avenue overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway.
Pennington said through a spokesman, Patrick Delanty, design director for Ty Pennington Productions, that he plans to make the area his new home.
"Over the years I've built hundreds of homes for other people and decided that finally, now is the time to build one for my family," Pennington said. "This will be a great stay-cation."
Why Flagler County?
He said he has spent a lot of time in the Palm Coast/Daytona Beach area since his childhood.
"I love the east coast of Florida," he said, "and have so many good friends who live up and down that side of the state."
The weather and beaches are also a draw because he is "big into surfing, swimming, paddle boarding, boating, fishing and anything else you can think of to do at the beach."
His house will be 3,800 square feet and "a combination of open plan modern with some craftsman motifs."
House plans on file with the Flagler County Building Department show a two-story home with six bedrooms and five bathrooms. The house also will include a guest suite, pool and cabana, and a two-story atrium with a second-story walking deck.
"This is going to be a NextGen home, which is a home of the future, including green products, energy efficient technology and the latest innovations in building products and technology," Pennington said.
Going green, according to Flagler Beach architect Joseph Pozzuoli, can mean a number of things, most often being an energy-efficient home. That efficiency can include spray-on foam insulation with a high insulating value, or double-pane windows that keep the home airtight.
In some cases, Pozzuoli said, green homes can include a metal roof with built-in photovoltaic cells that generate solar energy.
Sustainable materials, Pozzuoli said, are maintenance-free building materials.
"You're sustaining your existence with minimal effort," he said, such as landscaping with xeriscaping plants that require little, if any, irrigation."
Innovations can include smart home technology — for example, controlling lighting, door locks, heating, etc., with a smart phone, Pozzuoli said.
Pennington began planning the home a year ago for a site that was discovered by a friend.
"It is on the Intracoastal Waterway, close to the beach, a large lot with beautiful trees and vegetation," he said.
The home, off State Road A1A near Hammock Gardens Nursery & Landscape, is being built by Palm West Builders in Palm Coast. According to Fred Lewers of Palm West, a house that already existed on Pennington's two lots was demolished to make room for the new home.
Pennington said he originally planned to keep the old house, which had been abandoned, but he said, "it was in such bad shape that there was no saving it and it had to be torn down."
Pennington is currently hosting an Internet show on NextGen Home TV called "First to the Future Project."
He also designs furniture for Signature Home Furnishings by Ty Pennington, flooring for the Ty Pennington Collection at Lumber Liquidators and home furnishings for Ty Pennington Style at Sears.
He is also involved in Pencils of Promise, which raises funds to build schools in Third World countries, and Give Kids the World, which helps bring terminally ill children to Florida and Disney World.
He purchased The Hammock property in June 2012 for $525,000 and expects the home construction to be completed this year.


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Louis J. Horvitz Named 52nd GRAMMY Awards Director
Award-winning television director Louis J. Horvitz has been tapped to direct the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards, it was announced today by The Recording Academy. Horvitz joins executive producers Ken Ehrlich and John Cossette to helm the production of Music's Biggest Night, which will be held live from Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010, and air on CBS at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The annual GRAMMY Awards telecast is produced by John Cossette Productions and AEG Ehrlich Ventures, LLC.
"Lou Horvitz is one of the most accomplished and prolific directors in live television event broadcasting who continually facilitates seamless and elegant work," said Recording Academy President/CEO Neil Portnow. "We are proud to have Lou on board, and look forward to working with him as he joins Ken and John to continue to make the GRAMMY Awards the most relevant and successful music event of the year."
"Lou is a remarkable live television event director whose résumé only begins to tell the story," said Ehrlich. "He has a love of music that comes through every time he steps into the director's chair, and he was the only choice to continue in the tradition of his predecessor Walter Miller, who will continue to be involved with the GRAMMY Awards in an advisory producing capacity. Both John Cossette and I have worked with Lou often over the years, and are thrilled to have him join us on Music's Biggest Night."
In addition to directing the 2009 MusiCares Person of the Year tribute concert honoring Neil Diamond during GRAMMY Week 2009, Horvitz has directed the annual Academy Awards telecast a record 12 times, which has resulted in 10 Emmy nominations and five wins; the Primetime Emmy Awards 14 times; "The Kennedy Center Honors" for 16 years, which has resulted in an Emmy win; and the "American Film Institute Life Achievement Award" tributes a total of 18 times. In 2009 Horvitz had the historic opportunity to direct the "Kids Inaugural: We Are The Future" concert special for President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. He recently completed his 13th year as executive producer/director of "An Evening Of Stars," the annual television special benefiting the United Negro College Fund, and has received two prestigious NAACP Image Awards for his work. Horvitz has also won a Directors Guild of America Award and has received multiple nominations as well.
In a career that has spanned more than four decades, Horvitz has also directed numerous other high-profile programs including the American Music Awards, Fashion Rocks, the MTV Video Music Awards, VH1's "The Concert For New York City" benefiting survivors of Sept. 11, the Super Bowl XXXVI Halftime Show featuring U2, Paul Simon's Concert In The Park, the Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels Tour, Live Aid, and the landmark musical variety series "Solid Gold." A native of Los Angeles, Horvitz earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles.


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Reeves (of Aer) – M.I.A. (Soulja Boy Remix)
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Carter, aka Reeves, of Aer has released a solo track, a remix of Soulja Boy. Aer remixing Soulja Boy? Interesting. Very interesting.
Carter's smooth flow works perfectly over this extremely smooth Soulja production, and any new Aer is a positive thing to me. Really looking forward to their new project, and I think we can expect a solid slew of singles to tide us over until the project drops. Carter's got a great voice and a really strong ability to switch up his flow, and this song is a great testament to that.
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It seems that the approach for Mt Conness can be a bit confusing so here are some photos with the route we took on our way to climb the Harding Route on the Southwest Face. This is the more direct of the two approaches from Saddlebag Lake and supposedly is about 4.5 miles long with 2,500 feet of elevation gain. It took us around 3.5 hours a moderate pace with a few rests. It took another 30 minutes to descend from the summit plateau to the base of the route. On our way back it took less than two hours from the true summit to the car.
This approach starts at the Sawmill Campground (near Saddlebag Lake) and I believe is the shortest distance to the top of Conness. From the parking lot hike out the good trail/road through the campground passing sites for a while. At some point the trail will narrow a little but stays quite good all the way to the Carnegie Institute.
Looking up hill where we left the trail.
About 15 to 20 minutes past the Carnegie Wooden Shed we left the trail and started the cross country travel. There were a bunch of cairns on the right side of the trail marking the general area you leave the trail. The basic idea is to head up hill taking the easiest path towards the peak seen in the photo above and below. A bit of hiking will lead to a clearing and you should be able to see something similar to the first photo below.
Looking up at the ledges from the first flat spot.
Looking back at the approach before going up the ledges.
Once you reach the large flattish clearing you will be need to go up and over a set of ledges on the left side. There should be a faint trail and possibly the occasional cairn. This set of ledges will lead you to another large flat area that should have a small lake (size depends on season). From here there seemed to be two options to gain the steep slope that leads to the summit plateau. On the way in we stayed north (the right side looking uphill) of the second and bigger lake and followed the red path in the photo below. This had us going along the ridge which was fine. On the way back we went on the other side of the big lake seen in blue below. Both paths met up in the meadow near the smaller lake and went over the 3rd class ledges in a photo seen above.
Looking down at the approach from the steep switchbacks
Our approach followed the ridge seen below to some steep switchbacks which ended at an obvious notch. While the switchback section was a bit steep there was a trail most of the way and you could tell this section had seen a bunch of traffic. It is pretty hard to get lost if you aim for the notch in the photo below.
The very pretty ridge line with a steep drop on the right.
Below is another view of the ridge approach from the steep switchbacks. After gaining the notch at the top of the steep switchbacks you will be at a large plateau below the summit. This was the first time we could see the summit of Mount Conness from the approach. We had only previously seen the lower section of the North Ridge. Cross the sandy plateau and you should see a large cemented cairn and a few wind breaks with more cement and some USGS circular markers. This is where we left our packs and racked up for the climb.
Almost to the notch after a bunch of sandy switchbacks.
From this point continue down to either the second or third gully (I don't remember which). As noted in the Supertopo don't go down too early since the first gullies cliff out. Also you should be able to see the SW face in full view from the top of the gully. There is a trail, that should not be followed, that keeps going down past the correct gully so if you go more than 5-10 mins from the edge of the sandy plateau you have gone too far. A few 3rd class sections lead to scree surfing and talus walking towards the Southwest face. The photo below was taken from the approach.
The First few pitches, as we climbed them, on the Harding route of Mt Conness.
As described in the Supertopo the route starts just right of a section of black rock which is often wet.
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You can use a breathing step by simply taking time to take two beep breaths, each one moving your breathing center down into your stomach a little further. If, however, you would really like to increase the effectiveness of the breathing step then you should practice combining the breathing step with a relaxation process. To do this you simply take time at home to sit comfortably and take six or seven breaths that gradually move down deeper into your body. This relaxes your upper body and causes your breathing to become more regular and centered. This longer exercise will cause the mind to form a conditioned response that gives you a way of attaining the deeper relaxation you have practiced by using the first two breath as a trigger for the full process. Now you are really ready to place the breathing step into your pre-shot routine.
I suggest that you place the breathing step near the end of your pre-shot routine. After the breathing step the only things to be done are for you to: 1. Hold the specific target in your mind. 2. Be aware of the ball. 3. Let the swing happen. By placing the breathing step near the end of the routine you have set a point at which your planning and other thinking will stop and your mind and body can take over for putting the ball where you want it. The mind does not need to be thinking or planning at the time of the swing or putt. Any thoughts, other than target and ball location, are more likely to be disruptive than helpful.
Some people think that the phrase "Let the swing happen" is a strange request. They think that if they do it they will be standing there a long time. Trust yourself. Your mind knows what to do, and if you have the experience and the physical preparation for the shot, then the best thing you can do is to let your body have the freedom to execute the movement you have trained it to do. After you include the breathing step in your pre-shot routine you no longer interfere with the process and you will find that your golf game will improve.
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Windows 8 is not the only Microsoft product that is moving from a mouse-centric view of the world to one that embraces touch- and pen-driven actions as well — Microsoft's other cashcow, Office, has also received an interface touch-up.
We were given the opportunity to put Office 2013 through its paces during Microsoft's TechEd conference last week.
The hardware used was a Samsung Series 7 tablet that had Windows 8 Pro installed and packed an Intel Core i5 processor with 4GB of RAM.
But the most interesting aspect was the choice of input devices: a bluetooth keyboard and stylus were supplied.
This meant that any scrolling action needed to occur via the use of fingers, as it is not possible to move any viewpoint with the stylus. I would prefer that there was a way to scroll with a stylus by hitting one of the buttons, or adding a new one on the side, that enabled a scroll mode. Something like IE's scroll mode when the middle mouse button is depressed would be nice.
After a couple of hours with the device, and being questioned as to why I would want such a mode (presumably this has never occurred to the design teams at Microsoft or Samsung), I still believe that this is a major oversight at the worst, and a sheer annoyance at the very least.
Having to switch from pen-driven input to finger-driven input may only take a second of your time, but each second of movement adds up very quickly.
Maybe I do not grok finger- and pen-driven navigation yet, but it strikes me as strange that I can have the full range of input operations with a mouse or sole use of finger, but not sole use of a stylus.
Enough ranting; let's move on to the program at hand: Office 2013.
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Some would say that it is a long way from software engineering to journalism, others would correctly argue that it is a mere 10 metres according to the floor plan.During his first five years with CBS Interactive, Chris started his journalistic adventure in 2006 as the Editor of Builder AU after originally joining the company as a programmer.Leaving CBS Interactive in 2010 to follow his deep desire to study the snowdrifts and culinary delights of Canada, Chris based himself in Vancouver and paid for his new snowboarding and poutine cravings as a programmer for a lifestyle gaming startup.Chris returns to CBS in 2011 as the Editor of TechRepublic Australia determined to meld together his programming and journalistic tendencies once and for all.In his free time, Chris is often seen yelling at different operating systems for their own unique failures, avoiding the dreaded tech support calls from relatives, and conducting extensive studies of internets -- he claims he once read an entire one.


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Mark Davies clinched Bolton's first away win in the Championship with a fine solo effort as they beat Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 at Hillsborough.
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Davies beat three would-be tacklers on a mazy run to the edge of the penalty area and arrowed an unstoppable shot into the top corner midway through the second half to regain the lead for the visitors.
Wednesday midfielder Ross Barkley had converted a penalty three minutes earlier to cancel out Spanish defender Marcos Alonso's first goal for Bolton, but the south Yorkshire side crashed to a fourth straight league defeat.
Owen Coyle's Wanderers lost 2-1 at Birmingham in midweek and were under pressure to bounce back from a third loss in their opening six league matches following relegation.
Owls manager Dave Jones made six changes to the team beaten by Huddersfield in midweek, with defenders Kieran Lee, Anthony Gardner and Daniel Jones, midfielder Rhys McCabe, plus strikers Lozano Rodri and Nejc Pecnik all returning to the starting line-up.
Midfielder Keith Andrews, in for Lee Chung-yong, was Bolton's only change.
Not until the 15th minute did Wednesday muster their first shot, but it was worth the wait, McCabe slamming a 30-yard free-kick against Adam Bogdan's post.
Owls winger Michail Antonio forced Bogdan into a smart save soon after, while Chris Eagles was first to threaten for the visitors, with a 25-yard shot that flew wide.
Bolton striker David Ngog then set up Eagles on the edge of the penalty area, but the former Manchester United midfielder skewed his effort off target.
Eagles went closer with a lob over the crossbar from the right side of the area in the 33rd minute as Bolton took charge and it was no surprise when Alonso cashed in on some sloppy defending.
Another Eagles shot was deflected to safety and when he swung over the subsequent corner Alonso was left free to head into the bottom corner.
Wednesday rallied at the end of the first half as Lee's shot was blocked by Andrews and Rodri's 20-yard drive was saved by Bogdan.
Bolton continued to look the better side after the restart, but were unable to carve out any clear-cut openings before Wednesday equalised against the run of play.
Gardner bounded forward for a corner and was brought down by Andrews in the penalty area, leaving Barkley, on loan from Everton, to tuck his spot kick into the bottom corner.
But parity was short-lived. Kevin Davies slipped the ball to namesake Mark and the midfielder embarked on a thrilling run, leaving three defenders in his wake before rifling an unstoppable shot into the top corner.
Barkley dragged a shot wide when well placed and Antonio was wayward with his header from Pecnik's corner off as the hosts strove for a second equaliser.
But Bolton substitute Benik Afobe forced Owls goalkeeper Chris Kirkland into a fine save with an angled drive in the 73rd minute, and Wednesday's best effort in the closing stages fell to Pecnik, who crashed a 20-yard volley over the bar.


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In its first nine months, the ObamaCare "tanning bed tax" raised only $54.4 million, barely one-third of the roughly $150 million predicted when the controversial — and costly — health care law was being debated in Congress.
The "Tanning Tax" is just one of the many new taxes created in ObamaCare. Its failure to meet expectations further erodes the credibility of a law that, according to polls, is opposed by a solid majority of Americans.
While some of the revenue shortfall may have been due to first-year bungling by the Internal Revenue Service bureaucracy, the more likely explanation for the overly optimistic projection is that congressional budget "experts" failed to take into account the basic laws of economics. Taxation fundamentally alters behavior because people respond to incentives. A quarter of salons surveyed have reported a drop in business since the tax began to be collected on July 1, 2010. One possible reason for the relatively meager revenue derived from the tax is that some tanning salons already on the brink of going out of business were pushed over the edge by this tax.
Of course, customers might also be switching to tanning methods that don't fall under the new tax, such as spray-on tans and tanning lotions. This might please those who advocated the tax in order to lower the use of dangerous tanning beds, but Americans concerned about the debt and deficit have to be worried. ObamaCare will already cost $2.6 trillion over its first ten years of full operation. Overly optimistic revenue projections across the board will only further increase the deficit and drive America deeper into debt. Repealing ObamaCare and its hundreds of disastrous and problematic provisions and programs and replacing it with market-based solutions is the only realistic way -- indeed it's only a first, necessary step -- to turn the tide of federal spending and address the rising costs of health care.
The farther one digs into the 2,801 page ObamaCare bill, the more problems one finds. If the Democratic congressional leaders who supported this massive law couldn't properly estimate the effects of a simple, 10% excise tax on indoor tanning services, why should we believe their claims that ObamaCare "won't cost taxpayers a dime" and repealing it will "increase the deficit"?
This is yet another reason why we need to make 2012 the last year of ObamaCare.
I think that the 10% tax/penalty on tanning booths will turn out to be just a test balloon for further taxes on any and every activity, product, or food which has ever been linked to an injury or disease and consequently required medical attention. Since they've been able to tax cigarettes and tobacco products because of the health care related costs, it's hard to believe that with these two tax/penalties setting precedence, that they haven't already set in motion a one or two cent tax on double bacon cheeseburgers and any food over a set percentage of fat and/or sugar. Then why not a 50 cent tax on ski lift tickets? With the additional cost of x-rays, orthopedic surgeries, and physical therapy which come from skiing and snow boarding it would only be "fair". Or maybe a 2 dollar tax on ladders, or chain saws? Or a buck on bicycles and skateboards? Or maybe 2 dollars on each round of gun ammunition? Or better yet, an annual tax on registered guns, especially assault rifles. How about 100$ per year to own an assault rifle? Then it's not a 2'nd amendment issue, it's a HHS risk assessment penalty issue, and now it's under the purview of the IRS. They could raise billions of dollars, target any industry or product they wanted, and control the behavior of every American. All they have to do is to put one or two cents to start, and after the dust settled, they could begin to edge the fee up to whatever they wanted, especially if they called it a "penalty", instead of a tax like Pelossi was arguing for, because now, any czar could establish the amount without the need for congressional approval. Anyone thinking that Obamacare was about Obama actually caring about the cost of healthcare is delusional. The health care issue was a total ruse to effectively inject a "virus" into every aspect of our lives and ultimately controlling nearly every aspect of our behavior. This thing is a monstrosity.
Two things happened. First, there is that pesky law of economics that says taxing an activity tends to reduce it. Second, Nanny-States popped up to protect people from themselves so they won't get cancer in their later years. Just to show Republicans are just as "Nanny" as the rest of them, Utah passed a law forbidding use of tanning beds by people under the age of eighteen (18). Sorry about those tax revenues, Barry.
Honestly...the smarty smarts didnt think about the fact that if people have to pay more for something they would just simply stop buying it?? Geesh! duh!
54.4 million is still a high amount of money collected for a tan. Just saying.
I work for a major health insurance company and I was told via a health survey that I have a high risk of skin-cancer just for spending time outdoors. Big brother is very well.


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Indoor Track Picks Up Division III National Rankings for First Time in Program History
- Men Ranked 16th, Women Ranked 20th in Division III -
NEW ORLEANS, La. – The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced on Thursday morning the indoor track & field season's first national team rankings for NCAA Division III. The Rams were ranked 16th in the Men's Poll and 20th in the Women's Poll, for the first time in program history.
Farmingdale State is off to a great start this season as they have three Triple Jumpers (2 men, 1 woman) qualified for the NCAA Championships after the first four meets. The men's team also has nine individuals and one relay qualified for the ECAC Championships, while the women have three individuals and one relay qualified for ECAC's.
The men of UW Oshkosh, the co-defending indoor champions from a
year ago, have the started the 2010 season on top of the rankings.
On the women's side, Illinois Wesleyan (152.18) leads the
rankings over UW Oshkosh (138.02).
PDFs: Top 25 | Full by Team
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This week's release represents marks accumulated by teams in the 2010 indoor season through last weekend. This week's release also represents the first time Division III national team rankings have been compiled using mathematical formulae that indexes a team's potential of placing well at the NCAA Indoor Championships and is similar in nature to the method that has been employed by Division I for the past two years.
The next release of updated rankings for NCAA's Division III will continue on Wednesday, January 27, with updates occurring the following seven Wednesdays leading to the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships, March 12-13.


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Google TV just stepped into the limelight. The news arrived during Google's I/O conference in San Francisco today. This much-anticipated service marks yet another step by Google out of PCs and into the rest of people's lives.
Its plan is simple: Deliver the online video, features, and websites that we enjoy on our desktop screens and deliver it all to our TV screens. But history shows that connecting those two ecosystems – or at least convincing shoppers that they need such a union – is a lot harder than it sounds.
AOLTV fell flat. Microsoft Windows media players couldn't simplify the experience enough to win over many converts. Apple TV felt too tethered to your computer's iTunes account. Tivo Premier, the Kodak Theater HD Player, and Yahoo's living room integration do basically the same thing as Google TV, but never gained much traction.
Should we think that Google TV's fate will be any different?
A lot of signs point to "yes."
First, let's talk hardware. Google has teamed up with Sony to bake Google TV into television sets and Blu-ray players. Also, Logitech and Dish Network will each roll out set-top boxes. This sounds much like past efforts. But then Best Buy promised to heavily market Google TV (in its many forms) in stores nationwide. Good start.
Second, Google seems willing to play well with others. The company's announcement gave visual or explicit nods to Microsoft, Netflix, Adobe Flash, the NBA, Pandora, Amazon, and Hulu.
That last name is huge for two reasons. Streaming Hulu on your TV is the next best thing to a DVR – possibly better since you can watch old programs that you didn't think to record. But perhaps more important is that Hulu has previously shut down services that delivered its videos on a TV. The Sony PS3 once allowed you to watch Hulu shows; then the Web company killed the feature. If Hulu is part of Google TV, as today's keynote suggested, it shows that Google is ready to cut interesting deals and pull in reluctant companies. That bodes well for the service as a whole.
This corporate magnetism brings us to the third hopeful sign: People love Google. There's no metric to define this, but Americans want Google to amaze them and trust that it can. Millions of people have embraced Google Search, Google Maps, Google Voice, YouTube, Blogger, Google Doodles, Google News, Google text-message searches, Android phones. What's next? Maybe Google TV.
We'll find out this fall, when the first devices go on sale.
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I have a few cutting boards, and I have to say that like some of them better than others. And frankly, my knives like some of them better than others. A cutting board needs to be a little bit soft so it doesn't dull the knife, but not so soft that it gets gouged every time your knife touches it.
The Hi-Soft cutting board from Korin ($69.90 for the 15.75"x11.5"x0.78" board) is made from polyvinyl acetate, which is about the same hardness as wood—just about right for your knives. In using the board, I thought it might have been just a tad softer than my favorite old wooden board, but I could be wrong. Maybe it's just that, unlike wood, there's no grain in the material.
The benefit to this type of board over wood is that it can be soaked in water and washed with whatever soap you like or cleaned with bleach. Since it's not porous, it won't absorb the soap and it won't warp, crack, or split. However, this board can't be washed in the dishwasher or exposed to very hot water—too much heat could soften it or make it warp. So, hand-washing it is. Not a big problem for me since this wouldn't fit in my dishwasher anyway.
I have to say this board is a nice size—big enough to be useful, but small enough to be easy to store (and you can order larger sizes as well). The color isn't quite as pretty as a wooden board, but it's not shockingly ugly either. One of the things like I most is what the board doesn't have: there aren't any feet, so the board can be used on both sides, and there are no handles or grooves, so he whole surface of the board is flat and usable.
This cutting board isn't so outstanding that I'd suggest you throw out the ones you own, but if you're looking for a new board this one is a good choice.
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On Monday, AMD announced it is adding ARM-based Opterons to its server portfolio, the first non-x86 Opterons in the company's history. The new processors, due out in 2014, will use 64-bit ARM SoCs on top of its SeaMicro Freedom Fabric technology, and will be aimed at the datacenter and cloud space.
At the Monday morning press briefing, CEO Rory Reed examined the backdrop for this bold move. "There's no doubt that the cloud changes everything," he said. "The cloud truly is the killer app that's unlocking the future; it's driving the fastest level of growth across the industry. Over the last decade, we've seen an annual increase of about 33 percent in CAPEX spending in the datacenter on the large mega-datacenter cloud services, and that's only going to continue to evolve and expand."
The modern computing landscape is changing. The growing interest in energy-efficient microservers marks an important shift. For the past two decades, x86 has been the only (commodity) option for mainstream server computing, but the emergence of microservers gives ARM a unique opportunity to gain a foothold in the market.
Dell and HP both have a microserver play, and last month we saw Penguin Computing jump on the bandwagon. Intel is attempting to address the market with tweaked variants of its Atom and Xeon processors, but AMD will the first chipmaker to offer both 64-bit ARM and x86 server processors.
It's the 64-bit aspect that will enable the ARM architecture to compete with x86 in the datacenter realm; 32-bit chips have a limited address reach (4 GB), which is problematic for server-sized datasets. Although 64-bit implementations of ARM aren't expected until 2014, chipmakers are beginning to lay out their roadmaps today. Besides AMD, Calxeda and NVIDIA have also announced intentions to take 64-bit ARM silicon into the datacenter.
Until now making a datacenter more efficient meant increasing CPU horsepower or upping the core count. With the rise of cloud, mobile and Web computing, there are more bytes streaming into the datacenter. However, a lot of these Web era workloads are highly-parallelizable. ARM CPUs, which grew up inside mobile devices, are particularly efficient at these types of slice-and-dice workloads and have a power profile that is about one-third their x86 cousins.
Dr. Lisa Su, AMD senior vice president and general manager, talked about the product plans in more detail at the company's ARM press event. "The biggest change in the datacenter is there is no one size fits all," she emphasized.
AMD is positioning itself to offer a broad menu of choices to meet different kinds of datacenter workloads, and has apparently come to the conclusion that some of them are better served by ARM rather than x86. In particular, the company thinks ARM-based servers will be a good fit for clouds and mega-datacenters, but it's still targeting its more powerful x86-based Opterons for the heavier lifting, like rendering, machine learning and HPC applications.
Even though AMD initially plans to direct its ARM portfolio to the generic cloud and Web service space, customers may get a bit more creative. For example, ARM could be the way to go for some embarrassingly parallel HPC applications like genomic analysis, which doesn't need scads of floating point horsepower nor single-threaded performance. AMD would probably rather sell higher-end x86 Opterons to such users, but the market will do what it wants. And given the up-front and power costs of large clusters, HPC users can be particularly opportunistic.
Aside from adopting the ARM architecture, AMD will also incorporate its SeaMicro Freedom Fabric into the chips. This is the company's secret sauce that they claim will set it apart from competing ARM SoCs. The fabric optimizes system performance by offering a high-bandwidth, low-latency system interconnect that keeps all the CPUs well fed with data.
While the ARM-based server design has a lot of promise, including higher compute per dollar and compute per watt, changing architectures can't be done overnight. From the software perspective, the biggest difference between x86 and ARM parts is the instruction set. At the very least, applications and operating systems must be recompiled to support the new platform. Meanwhile software that is closer to the metal, like compilers, will have to be tweaked or, in some cases, developed from scratch.
So while it may seem premature to announce a product in 2012 that won't be ready until 2014, it will take at least that long to bring the software up to speed. On AMD's end, they'll be busy completing the chip design and lining up OEM partners. Indeed, ecosystem development has been the main thrust of all the early microserver announcements.
The day after AMD dropped the big news, ARM unveiled its 64-bit Cortex-A50 processor series based upon the ARMv8 architecture, which it introduced a year ago. The implementations include the Cortex-A53, ARM's most energy-efficient yet, and the Cortex-A57, the more performant version. According to the company, 64-bit execution will enable "new opportunities in networking, server and high-performance computing." In addition to AMD, Broadcom, Calxeda, HiSilicon, Samsung and STMicroelectronics are partnering with ARM to license the new processor series.
AMD is obviously betting on its new ARM-SeaMicro roadmap to help regain market share from its nemesis on the server front. AMD pioneered 64-bit x86 computing in 2003, and for a while, claimed a sizeable chunk of the business. After Intel followed suit with its 64-bit x86 offerings, AMD saw its market share steadily erode. Now that the chipmaker has, once again, decided to offer something completely different from Intel, we'll see if history repeats itself.
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