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HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Japanese stocks soared Wednesday to end at their highest level in more than four years as the yen skidded amid hopes the country's central bank may adopt aggressive easing measures following Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa's planned early departure.
Most other regional markets ended with modest gains in the wake of upbeat economic data from the U.S. and Europe a day earlier.
Japan's Nikkei Stock Average NIK, -0.28% jumped 3.8%, the most since March last year, to finish the day at 11,463.75, a level it hasn't seen since September 2008.
The U.S. dollar USDJPY, +0.28% briefly topped 94 yen and the euro climbed as high as ¥127.69 — a high neither currency has seen since 2010. The yen's fall against them came after Gov. Shirakawa late Tuesday said he would step down from his post on March 19, a few weeks ahead of the expiration of his term, to coincide with the departure of two deputy governors. Read more about yen's drop versus the dollar and the euro.
Analysts said the news likely means an accelerated and potentially more wide-ranging policy-easing plan will emerge from the Japanese central bank.
"The main take-away is that the timeline has shifted, and new policy steps are likely as early as the April 4 Bank of Japan meeting," said BNP Paribas strategist Vassili Serebriakov.
"Candidates for the new governor will be presented in mid-February, and our Japanese economists point out that they all support additional easing by to a varying degree," Serebriakov said.
Economists at Capital Economics said they now expect the dollar to rise to ¥95 by mid-year "as investors' appetite for risk continues to grow." Read: Japan stocks high … and set to go higher.
Japanese banks and exporters rallied following Gov. Shirakawa's announcement.
Mizuho Financial Group Inc. 8411, -1.09% MFG, -0.68% climbed 5.2% and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. 8309, -0.17% SUTNY, +0.62% soared 6.7%.
"If the country gets inflation, then the banks are going to be in a good position to take advantage of that," said Andrew Sullivan, director of sales trading at Kim Eng Securities, adding that the situation would likely benefit bank margins.
Toyota Motor Corp. 7203, +0.00% TM, +0.67% rallied 6.1% after the auto giant reported a 23% increase in quarterly profit and raised its full-year forecast. Read: Toyota raises fiscal year outlook after Q3 results.
Other auto makers also advanced, with Subaru maker Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. 7270, +0.02% FUJHF, -1.32% jumping by 5.1%, Isuzu Motors Ltd. 7202, -1.05% ISUZY, -0.10% up 5.2%, and Honda Motor Co. 7267, -0.58% HMC, +0.54% higher by 3.3%.
Modest gains for rest of Asia
The performance outside Japan was more modest, with Australia's S&P/ASX 200 XJO, -0.94% gaining 0.8%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index HSI, +0.15% climbing 0.5%, Taiwan's Taiex rising 0.3% and China's Shanghai Composite Index 000001, -3.60% adding 0.1%.
Banks also led gains in Hong Kong, where Europe-exposed banking heavyweight HSBC Holdings PLC 5, -0.35% US:HBC rose 1.1%, generally, while Bank of Communications Co. BCMXY, -11.56% 3328, +0.19% added 0.5%.
Gaming stocks tumbled, however, following reports China is planning to crack down on some Macau gambling-junket operators allegedly linked to organized crime.
Hang Seng Index constituent Sands China Ltd. 1928, +0.41% sank 5.2%, Wynn Macau Ltd. 1128, +1.33% WYNMF, +1.68% skidded 6.8% and Melco International Development Ltd. 200, +1.13% MDEVF, +10.10% lost 5.5%.
In Australia, sectors that investors tend to turn to for higher yields were in the lead, with Sonic Healthcare Ltd. SHL, +3.15% US:SKHCY up 1.4%, while supermarket giant Woolworths Ltd. WOW, -0.06% WOLWF, -0.25% climbed 2.7%.
South Korea's Kospi 180721, +0.22% declined among the major markets in Asia, falling 0.1% amid fears the yen weakness would boost the competitiveness of rival Japanese exporters.
Kia Motors Corp. 000270, -0.58% KIMTF, +0.00% fell 2.1%, while affiliate Hyundai Motor Co. 005380, -0.79% HYMTF, -6.67% ended 2% lower.


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Starting from scratch
Mehdi Yazdanpanah describes how he turned his PhD research into a successful small business, despite starting off with just $500 in his bank account.
Some people decide to do a PhD because they think it will help them get a job. I thought so too, and in a way, I was right. My PhD did indeed lead me to my current job but, more importantly, it gave me the opportunity to become an entrepreneur and create jobs for other people.
I am originally from Iran and I earned my undergraduate degree in applied physics at Tehran's Sharif University of Technology, followed by a Master's degree from Shahid Beheshti University in the same city. Then I decided to come to the US to get my PhD, and I chose the University of Louisville (UofL) in Kentucky thanks to Robert W Cohn, who offered me a research assistantship and became my thesis adviser in the electrical engineering department.
At the start of my PhD, I often asked myself whether I wanted to become a professor or a researcher in a large established company such as IBM or Intel. I was particularly unsure whether switching between physics and electrical engineering would help or hurt my chances of finding a job in academia. I still do not know how my career would have worked out if I had not decided to found my own firm, NaugaNeedles.
An accidental discovery
My research project at UofL involved working on direct patterning of liquid metals, such as gallium, using atomic force microscopy (AFM). One day in 2004 I found by accident that gallium interacts with metal films, such as gold and silver, at room temperature in a way that produces interesting self-assembled nanostructures. For example, when a molten gallium droplet was placed on a silver film, I observed very long needle-like structures form immediately inside the gallium droplet in ambient conditions.
After talking to my adviser, we decided it might be possible to grow these nanoneedles selectively at the end of AFM probes. Our idea was to coat AFM probes with silver film, move them deep into a small gallium droplet, and then pull away from the droplet to grow freestanding nanoneedles. I prepared 15 probes coated with silver film and tried to grow needles on them. After investigating the finished samples using a scanning-electron microscope, I found that only one of them had worked. Still, the fact that I had reproduced the effect was promising, so when I showed the result to Cohn, he gave me two thumbs up.
At the same time, I began thinking about the commercial potential of the technology, especially for fabrication of specialized AFM probes. Currently, most AFM probes have a conical silicon tip, but although these probes are cheap (just $10–20 each), they do not last very long – after a few scans they become dull and useless. Another problem with commercial silicon probes is that they are made from pure intrinsic silicon and therefore do not conduct unless coated by the user. In addition, their conical tips cannot image deep micro- and nano-structures. A conical AFM probe with a conductive nanoneedle grown at its tip would, in contrast, be electrically conductive, capable of imaging deep trenches and longer-lasting than conventional probes. Finally, the simple geometry of these probes would make them useful for quantitative force microscopy measurements.
Considering all these advantages, I thought that my devices could make a successful business. But a few hours later, reality began to set in. How could I manufacture such a product? I was living in a foreign country on a student visa. I had $500 in my bank account. I knew that starting a business costs a lot of money, and I did not have much knowledge or experience of the business world. All of these things kept me from taking immediate action on my idea. Nonetheless, between 2004 and 2006, I continued working on the technology and its applications, and they ended up forming the main part of my PhD dissertation.
When I graduated in July 2006, my wife was still a PhD student at UofL, so I started working as a postdoc there in order to stay in the area until she finished her degree. I looked for opportunities outside academia, too, but I soon realized that my chances of finding a job in the Louisville region as a PhD graduate in nanotechnology were close to zero. On the positive side, the lack of job opportunities at someone else's company encouraged me to start my own. I told myself, I got a PhD not to get a job, but to create jobs, and I signed up for a day-long business boot camp at UofL to help me get started.
Learning the ropes
At the boot camp, I learned about several funding opportunities, including one programme called Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) that gives US government grants to small firms, and another matching fund initiative sponsored by the state of Kentucky. I also realized that there are angel investors who invest money in start-ups and various sources of venture-capital funding.
All of this made me realize that having $500 in savings was not going to be a problem, as long as I had a promising technology. That is when I took my first step towards establishing a company: I paid a $45 fee to register NaugaNeedles LLC with Kentucky's secretary of state. So far, so good, I thought; I had a company now, and it only cost me 45 bucks! My next step was to ask my PhD adviser if he would be interested in joining NaugaNeedles as the first member of its board of advisers. He accepted, and so did a few others, including the president of Zyvex Labs, an established nanotechnology firm based in Texas.
Now I had a company and a board of advisers. What next? The immediate answer, I realized, was nothing – I couldn't do anything if I had no cash. So my next step was to apply for a $25,000 grant from the state of Kentucky via a concept pool fund aimed at early-stage start-up firms. I obtained this funding in November 2007, and it allowed me to make a website for NaugaNeedles, prepare evaluation samples for potential customers using facilities at UofL, and develop a business plan. This small fund was instrumental to NaugaNeedles' success, because it helped me find a few customers who were ready to pay for my company's product.
During this early phase, I began collaborating with a physicist, Ron Reifenberger, and a mechanical engineer, Arvind Raman, at Purdue University in the neighbouring state of Indiana. As a result of this collaboration, in 2009 NaugaNeedles received funding via the US National Institutes of Health. This NIH grant allowed us to demonstrate that nanoneedles could be used as nanocantilevers for mass sensing, as well as measuring interaction forces at the piconewton (10–12 N) level.
Things really started to take off after my business plan won a prestigious $120,000 cash award from the Louisville-based Vogt Invention and Innovation Fund. I used this funding to get an additional loan of $120,000, and the combination of the two allowed me to rent manufacturing space, and build or buy the equipment that I needed to establish NaugaNeedles' current facility. By June 2009 the facility was ready and in-house production began.
At about the same time, I applied for an entrepreneurship fellowship with a philanthropic organization, the Kauffman Foundation. I was selected along with 12 other top scientific researchers for a year-long programme that aimed to teach us how to take promising research forward to commercialization. Each of us had a business mentor and attended intensive workshops where we had the opportunity to network and learn from each other and from entrepreneurship experts. This fellowship allowed me to leave my job at UofL and become the first full-time employee of NaugaNeedles in October 2009.
Reaching maturity
One key question that start-up founders have to address is when to bring in new people and employees. For NaugaNeedles, this point came in mid-2008 – almost a year after the company was officially established, but also a year before we got our own manufacturing facility. By this time, I had realized that a lot of investors, both private and governmental, view the team as one of the most important aspects of a company; if you are a one-man show, no-one is going to take you seriously. After talking with several colleagues from UofL and old friends from other institutions, I expanded the company to include two additional employees: my partners and co-founders, Amir Birjandi and David Mudd, who are NaugaNeedles' chief financial officer and director of operations, respectively.
Today, in addition to the three co-founders and the members of the advisory board, NaugaNeedles has six full-time and four part-time employees. We have launched several categories of products including high-aspect-ratio NeedleProbes (used for both conductive AFM scanning and imaging deep trenches) and exposed-end NeedleProbes, which are specialized for conductive AFM scanning under liquid media. Since its founding, the company has raised more than $2.5m in funds from various sources, and our production facility is capable of making more than 100 Needle-Probes per day – the equivalent of about $3m worth of products per year.
The lesson I take from this is that entrepreneurship is not as scary as it sounds. My main advice is that if you believe there is a business opportunity in your research, go after it! It is not as hard as you might think to start a business, even if all you have is $500 and one great idea.
Mehdi Yazdanpanah is the co-founder and chief executive officer of NaugaNeedles, e-mail email@example.com
This article appeared in the November 2012 issue of Physics World.

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Northampton Saints have announced that assistant coach Paul Grayson has left the club.
Grayson has been at Franklin's Gardens in both a player and coach capacity for 19 years and will leave the club by 'mutual consent'. While turning out for the Saints Grayson, who was part of England's 2003 World Cup-winning squad, had become the club's all-time leading points scorer with 2,784 from 259 matches. He then progressed into the head coach role and led them to the 2007 Heineken Cup semi-final but the Saints were relegated to the second-tier of English rugby the same year.
Jim Mallinder assumed the helm at the Saints and Grayson worked alongside him and Dorian West to lead the side to the 2009 Amlin Challenge Cup and the 2010 Anglo-Welsh Cup. But Grayson will now leave Franklin's Gardens to take on new challenges.
"I have put heart and soul into the club over many years, as have my wife and children," Grayson said. "I enjoyed myself as a player here, and over the past few years it has been satisfying to have played a part in helping the Saints get back to the top of the club game. I am proud to have been a part of the history of one of the great clubs.
"I'd like to thank the Barwell family for everything they have done for me and my family over the years, as well as the Saints fans for all their support. After 19 years at Franklin's Gardens I need to prioritise my wife and children and make some sacrifices for them. As such I am happy to step away from my role with the club in good health and on the right path, and look forward to exploring the many opportunities that are out there in the world of rugby.
"I look forward to watching the Saints progress and wish Jim, Dorian, the players and staff every success."
Director of rugby Mallinder thanked Grayson for his dedication to the club. "Grase has been a big part of the Saints for many years and has played an important role in our development," he said. "The records he set as a player will take something special to break, and as a coach he has helped bring on some very talented individuals.
"We will use this as an opportunity to freshen things up and move things forward. On behalf of the players and coaches I wish Grase and his family all the best for the future."
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CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - Suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell has another pre-trial Wednesday afternoon.
The suspected "Cleveland Strangler" will be in Judge Dick Ambrose's courtroom around 1 p.m.
In June, Judge Ambrose ruled against a motion to move Sowell's trial unless they could not seat a jury. He also banned all cameras and recording devices from all hearings until a jury is seated. After the jury has been seated, a pool camera will be allowed in the courtroom.
Sowell is accused of murdering eleven women and hiding their bodies all over his Imperial Avenue property. Cleveland detectives found five bodies inside the home and six bodies in the backyard.
19 Action News obtained exclusive photos from inside of Sowell's home during the investigation. Click here to view the GRAPHIC photos from inside the home.
Cleveland Police discovered the smell of death in the house in late October while investigating a rape report. The bodies continued to be found throughout the first week of November.
Click here for continuing coverage on the Cleveland Strangler case.
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So, if you pop over to Amazon, click to buy, it will wing its way to you in pretty short order. FYI Amazon.com has the book in stock, whereas the UK site is still a little bit behind and showing the book as out of stock. There are 60 blocks and 12 projects in the book, each of the six chapters uses a particular shape as a theme and there are 10 blocks per chapter, and 2 projects - one of which is a large quilt, and the other is a smaller project.
And it is packed full of fabulous projects from blocks to medium sized projects to plenty of beautiful quilts, suitable for all skill levels.


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A grand tour of the new Sea Ray L-650. ...more
A grand tour of the new Sea Ray L-650. ...more
In this video, Bavaria's US director Blane Aarup takes us through the all-new Sport Hardtop 44, which offers European styling and functionality with German engineering in an express cruiser designed for watersports and outdoor entertaining. ...more
Just introduced to the US market at the 2013 Ft. Lauderdale Boat Show! The 2014 Virtess 420 Fly from Bavaria Motorboats' Luxury Line is powerful, free-spirited, and designed to captivate the savviest of yacht enthusiast. With innovative features including comfortable reclining areas, a panoramic sunroof, bright and open interior and fine furnishings to enjoy throughout, this yacht represents the ultimate in comfort and luxury. ...more
In this video Universal Yacht Sales president Joel Lipton takes us on a guided tour of the all-new Mainship 32. The boat is available with either single- or twin-diesel power, and features an innovative fold-out transom platform for easy boarding from the dock or from the dinghy. ...more
Here Outer Reef's president and CEO Jeff Druek takes us on a personal tour of the company's newest model--the 860 Cockpit Motoryacht. This vessel has been designed to make long-range offshore passages while providing 8 guests luxurious accommodations, along with a sport cockpit that can be used for fishing, diving, and other water sports. ...more
Unlike anything else you've seen in the U.S. to date, the all-new Van Dutch 55 brings real European styling to the ultra-large sportboat market. With twin Volvo 900 diesels, the 55 can hit a reported top speed of 40 knots, so she can get you and your friends to where you're going fast, and in luxurious style. ...more
Don't let those traditional lines fool you! The 31--the newest and largest model in the Ranger Tugs fleet--has some real get-up-and-go capability. Top speed during our test was 19.2 knots, and at 1500 RPM the 31 can travel 550 nautical miles doing 6.8 knots. Watch the video to see her unique stowaway cockpit seating systems. ...more
Innovation abounds on this sport-utility cruiser. With a single 370-hp Volvo D6 diesel for power, we recorded a top-end speed of 20.8 knots, and a best-cruise range of 250 nautical miles. The 30 is designed to be beachable, and with sleeping accommodations for six she's a true destination cruiser. ...more
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Nick Minaj perfume is no exception. Pink Friday is fiery and musky, laced with exotic fruits to sweeten the kick. Nicki Minaj Onika is graced with the scents of water lilies and citrus fruits. Both captured in a Nicki Minaj mirrored bottle… why not?!


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
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Quote from: colinjones on January 22, 2009, 03:53:35 amYes, you will need to do a reload. I note that you didn't take my advice. Can't help you any further ... the setting is already in the web admin.does clicking Deinterlace on the web admin update the pluto/xine.conf?
Hi again,found it, so far it improves the VDR replay a lot I think it only has an impact on stuff that is interlaced. Xine must be intelligent enough to decide when it is good to deinterlace and when not.Did only try to play some HD video trailers and they did not seem to get deinterlaced (probably because they are not interlaced ). And as far as one can say using vmstat it did not look like ther ewas any CPU impact. @colinThanks a lot GreetingsViking


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-64?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Chris Douglas updated MAPREDUCE-64: ----------------------------------- Attachment: M64-10.patch * Merge with trunk. * Removed refs to {{io.sort.record.percent}}. * Updated documentation. > Map-side sort is hampered by io.sort.record.percent > --------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MAPREDUCE-64 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-64 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Arun C Murthy > Assignee: Chris Douglas > Attachments: M64-0.patch, M64-0i.png, M64-1.patch, M64-10.patch, M64-1i.png, M64-2.patch, M64-2i.png, M64-3.patch, M64-4.patch, M64-5.patch, M64-6.patch, M64-7.patch, M64-8.patch, M64-9.patch > > > Currently io.sort.record.percent is a fairly obscure, per-job configurable, expert-level parameter which controls how much accounting space is available for records in the map-side sort buffer (io.sort.mb). Typically values for io.sort.mb (100) and io.sort.record.percent (0.05) imply that we can store ~350,000 records in the buffer before necessitating a sort/combine/spill. > However for many applications which deal with small records e.g. the world-famous wordcount and it's family this implies we can only use 5-10% of io.sort.mb i.e. (5-10M) before we spill inspite of having _much_ more memory available in the sort-buffer. The word-count for e.g. results in ~12 spills (given hdfs block size of 64M). The presence of a combiner exacerbates the problem by piling serialization/deserialization of records too... > Sure, jobs can configure io.sort.record.percent, but it's tedious and obscure; we really can do better by getting the framework to automagically pick it by using all available memory (upto io.sort.mb) for either the data or accounting. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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NEW YORK -- Chris Davis of the Baltimore Orioles leads the major leagues with 37 home runs. He is on pace to hit 62, which would set a new single-season record.
According to him, anyway.
"In my opinion, 61 is the record," Davis said Monday, "and I think most fans agree with me on that."
Roger Maris hit 61 home runs in 1961. The Maris record since has been eclipsed six times -- by Barry Bonds once, Mark McGwire twice and Sammy Sosa three times.
Bonds set the record of 73 in 2001. Bonds, McGwire and Sosa all have been linked to steroids; none has come close to election to the Hall of Fame.
Maris' record stood until 1998, when McGwire and Sosa staged a spirited race that ended with McGwire at 70 home runs and Sosa at 66.
"The chase in '98, at the time, was one of the most exciting things in all of sports," Davis said. "It was obviously disheartening to find out down the road what came out about all of that."
Davis said he understands why some fans might question whether he, too, could be using performance-enhancing drugs. He insists he is not.
"I think there is no reason not to believe in me," Davis said.
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Topic: Feedback: New Look for 2009
As some of you may have noticed, there's a slightly new look about on the site, especially on the home page. For those who have been here for years, it might look a little retro (circa 2002-2005) plus something new, I hope. For those who are newer, it should look more Fett-like than moments ago.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The Santa Clara University men's and women's tennis teams will host a clinic on Monday, Feb 12 at the Degheri Tennis Center. The USTA NorCal Junior Tennis Explosion clinic will run from 4:30-6:00 p.m. in conjunction with the SAP Open, an ATP tour event which is being held at HP Pavilion in San Jose from Feb. 12-18. Children that participate in the clinic will receive a free ticket to the SAP Open's evening matches on Monday.
Members of both the men's and women's tennis teams will be on hand to give instruction to the youth players along with the head coaches of both programs, George Husack (men) and Ben Cabell (women). Also, select players from the SAP Open will make an appearance at the event.
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U.S. power company Exelon Corp said today it ended an alert at the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in New Jersey after high water from Hurricane Sandy returned to normal levels. Oyster Creek, the nation's oldest operating reactor, declared the rare "alert" Monday night after water levels at the plant rose more than 6.5 feet above normal, potentially affecting the " water intake structure" that pumps cooling water through the plant.
U.S. power company Exelon Corp said today it ended an alert at the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in New Jersey after high water from Hurricane Sandy returned to normal levels.
Oyster Creek, the nation�s oldest operating reactor, declared the rare �alert� Monday night after water levels at the plant rose more than 6.5 feet above normal, potentially affecting the � water intake structure� that pumps cooling water through the plant.
The pumps were not essential to keep the reactor cool since the plant has been shut for planned refueling since Oct. 22.
Exelon, however, was concerned that if the water rose more than 7 feet it could submerge the service water pump motor used to cool the water in the spent fuel pool, potentially forcing the company to use emergency water supplies from the in-house fire suppression system to keep the used uranium fuel rods in the pool from overheating, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said Monday night.
Exelon said there was no danger to public health or safety. The plant has numerous means of keeping the water in the spent fuel pool cool, including the use of a portable pump moved to the water intake structure and the fire suppression system.
Exelon said in a statement today the winds and heavy rains generated tides 6.8 feet above mean sea level at the 43-year-old plant�s water intake. But they were never high enough to top the intake canal banks or affect operation of the plant�s equipment.
After water levels returned to normal and offsite power was restored, Exelon said the plant exited the alert early this morning.
The Oyster Creek alert was only the third time this year that the second-lowest of the NRC�s four emergency action levels was triggered.
The incident at the relatively small 636-megawatt Oyster Creek plant, which is about 60 miles east of Philadelphia on the New Jersey Coast, came as Sandy made landfall as the largest Atlantic storm ever, bringing up to 90 mile per hour winds and 13-foot storm surges in the biggest test of the industry�s emergency preparedness since the Fukushima disaster in Japan a year and a half ago.
Despite the alert -- which is a serious but not catastrophic event that signals a �potential substantial degradation in the level of safety� -- the U.S. nuclear industry is broadly seen as having passed the test. About a dozen alerts have been issued in the past four years, according to NRC press releases.
The NRC said this morning it was beginning to return to normal inspection coverage for the nuclear power plants in the U.S. Northeast.
In addition to the event at Oyster Creek, three reactors were shut during the storm. They were Entergy Corp�s Indian Point 3 in New York, Public Service Enterprise Group Inc�s Salem 1 in New Jersey and Constellation Energy Nuclear Group�s Nine Mile Point 1 in New York. The NRC said all safety systems responded as designed at the plants that shut.
The NRC also said three other plants reduced power due to the storm. They were Dominion Resources Inc�s Millstone 3 in Connecticut, Entergy�s Vermont Yankee in Vermont and Exelon�s Limerick in Pennsylvania. By early today, the reactors had begun to return to full service.


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DEADLINE FOR OUR EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHER SCHOLARSHIP HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL Friday, March 16! For Full Details click HERE.
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"I have been to PSPF three times. I come for the fraternity as much as the workshops and portfolio reviews – and I leave each year so invigorated! THANK YOU" – John D.
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"As always, I find the experience to be one of the most satisfying industry events I attend all year. You manage to pull in some really remarkable people, and offer a wonderful platform to exchange ideas, network, and really appreciate photography." - Peter
"I just want to say how wonderful my experience was: The reviews, the symposiums, the slide presentations, the mingling and the all-around good feeling of the PSPF 2011! It felt like photography camp for grown-ups! I think you just used overall common sense to capture the essence of what a good photo gathering should be and just did it! Bravo on an excellent festival." - Susan
"…it really was a life-altering week for me. " - Cynthia
"This was my second year attending Palm Springs Photo Festival, and I am certain it will not be my last because I probably learn more in this week about photography and myself than in the course of the year." – Tom
The 2012 Palm Springs Photo Festival Portfolio Review, which takes place twice a year (once in Palm Springs and once in New York City) is the nation's largest review program for both Commercial & Fine Art photographers. Check out our list of reviewers! We promise you won't find a more comprehensive faculty in any other program.
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Samy's Camera, in their exclusive pop-up-store in our festival, will have Special Show Pricing on Xrite, Tenba, Induro, Profoto, Sandisk, Manfrotto, Sekonic, Pocket Wizard, etc., etc., and many more. In addition, NO-TAX on Canon gear!
⇒ HERE is how to navigate this site: At the top of the page, you'll see "Our Programs." – If you hover your curser over those words, you'll see a pull-down list appear showing you the main aspects of our festival program. By moving your curser over "workshop" for example, a list of each workshop we offer will appear. By moving your curser over the workshop or sub-page you desire, and clicking, you'll be taken to that page. If you hover your curser over "Information," you'll see a list of pages appear that contain travel and hotel information, sponsor and faculty information and much more.
Essentially, for one small fee of $80 per day ($30 on Friday, April 6), you have access to a great deal of our program including some free seminars, our sponsorship headquarters area, the Mid-Day Lectures, our daily Symposium, our networking events and Evening Presentations. More information is available just below this paragraph. For an additional fee, you may add a workshop, certain seminars and portfolio reviews of your work to your schedule at the festival. Take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with our program by navigating through these pages first:
Don't miss your opportunity to CONNECT!
Included in your Daily Registration Fee of $80 (required Monday, April 2 – Thursday, April 5, $30 for Friday, April 6):
Access to the Open Portfolio Review and Opening Reception, Sunday, April 1
Admittance to all Sponsored Seminars during the week of the festival
Our important daily Symposium
The Evening Presentations at the Palm Springs Art Museum
Our two Networking Event Parties
Unlimited access to our Sponsor Headquarters at the Hyatt
We offer an open-bar and wine tastings at our parties as well as at our Opening Reception.
Following are prices for our Optional Events:
Daily Registration April 2 – April 5 $80 per day Friday, April 6 $30
Workshops (1 day) $300 – $375 Workshops (2 day) $600 – $750 (inclusive of all model fees and transportation fees if applicable).
Workshops (4-day) $925 – $1250 (inclusive of all model fees and transportation fees if applicable). Paid Seminars $95 Portfolio Reviews $250 for 5 reviews. 10% discount for 10 or more reviews. Open Portfolio Review $47.50 with Portfolio Reviews, $95 without to participate. Free to visit for registered attendees. Festival Dinner $45 (Tuesday evening, April 3, 7:00 -8:30pm) Price includes Beer & Wine
Open Portfolio Review / Opening Reception
Admission to the Open Portfolio Review is open to Faculty, Attendees, Sponsors & the General Public
Admission to the Opening Reception is limited to Festival Registrants Only
Read our Director's OVERVIEW of Connect 2012.
If you need assistance in paying for your registration and would like to arrange to pay in two installments instead of one, please contact us at 1-800 928-8314.
Daily Registration fee does not include Workshops, certain Seminars or Portfolio Reviews.
Additional Blocks of 5 Portfolio Reviews may be purchased separately.
Attendees are encouraged to arrive on Sunday, April 1st in order to enjoy our Open Portfolio Review and Opening Reception. There is no daily registration fee for Sunday, April 1.
The Palm Springs Photo Festival has organized a limited block of special hotel suites at only $129 per night at our Attendee Headquarters hotel, the HYATT REGENCY SUITES PALM SPRINGS.
For Further Information, Please Call 1.800.760-322-9000 or for complete information or click Hyatt PSPF Reservation.
Also for those interested, check our PSPF Facebook page to arrange to share hotel rooms in Palm Springs!
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Mediaite reports that Fox News says it has figured out the identity of the "mole" hired by Gawker to leak secrets from inside the cable news network.
Here's the statement from the Fox News spokesman, via Mediaite:
"We found the person and we're exploring legal options at this time."
The news comes less than 24 hours after Gawker posted the mole's first two pieces, including a behind-the-scenes video of Mitt Romney chatting with Sean Hannity about his equestrian pursuits. We can only hope that Gawker had the foresight to store up some more material from the double-agent before Fox brought down the iron fist.
Fox News still hasn't responded to Business Insider's calls and emails requesting comment.
UPDATE, 1:58 p.m.:
Gawker's "Fox Mole" is apparently unconcerned that he/she has been found out.
Here's the mole's response, posted on Gawker:
So Fox's PR team has been telling people that they have "found" me and are presently "exploring legal options." If Fox has smoked me out, it's news to me. I'm still here. Back to work.


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Montara Mountain Climber's Log
rgreene - Oct 9, 2003 1:08 amRoute Climbed: Montara State Beach Date Climbed: 10 August 2003
Nice walk; fairly empty, just me and mountain bikers. Great cell phone reception at the top with all the radio attennas. 2 hours up and 1 hour down.
winzeler - Jul 8, 2003 11:56 amRoute Climbed: Montara State Beach Trailhead Date Climbed: June 22, 2003
This a beautiful training hike. If you don't go early, consider going late in the afternoon to avoid crowds. Once you crest the first few hills and the trails wraps around the hill the sun is not as warm and the wind chill picks up.
We left around 3:30pm on a Sunday afternoon and did not see ANY other hikers on the trails to the top. Only two groups of mountain bikers.
Diggler - Mar 21, 2003 5:33 pmRoute Climbed: Old San Pedro Rd -> Montara Mtn Trail Date Climbed: 11.11.2000
Been up this peak other times besides that listed (that's the only one I wrote down). Beautiful place, though- excellent views of the ocean, Halfmoon Bay, Pacifica, and almost no people! When done, one gets to walk down to the beach 2 min away, right on the other side of the highway!
gordonye - Feb 19, 2002 12:05 pmRoute Climbed: San Pedro Valley; McNee Ranch; Devil's Slide Date Climbed: many
I got no view at all on the summit for the first two times. Fog, mist and wind is normal occurrance here (bring a jacket), which contributes to the lush vegetation and (I think) the lack of crowds. I prefer the San Pedro valley route, which has more narrow hiking trails (as opposed to fire road) and views of the deep canyon northwest of the summit. The mountain is never crowded considering it is less than 10 miles from San Francisco. It has more ocean view than city views since it is set back behind other lesser ridges (San Bruno Mtn, Sweeney Ridge) on the bay side. The famous Devil's slide (landslide prone) area of Highway 1 basically passes under the shoulder of Montara Mountain.


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US to give some rendition info at Gitmo trial
UK courts may let Brit spies keep schtum
High Court beaks have allowed a further week for arguments in the case of Binyam Mohamed, the one-time UK resident facing a US military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay.
The postponement comes following an announcement by America that Mohamed's military defence team will now be furnished with some information regarding his detainment by US intelligence from 2002 to 2004, which was until now entirely shrouded in secrecy.
Details of the detention are critical to the case, as Mohamed has confessed in writing to plotting terrorist attacks on US soil. He argues that he only did this after being tortured in an overseas prison - possibly in Morocco - and that it was the threat of a return to such treatment which made him sign.
If Mohamed's Guantánamo defenders could show that such torture and threats had taken place, most of the case against him would collapse. However, according to the UK Foreign Office, discussions with the Guantánamo authorities originally indicated that the US government didn't intend to reveal anything whatsoever about Mohamed's imprisonment to his military defence lawyers.
This led the High Court judges in London to rule last month that British spooks would have to reveal what they knew about the case to British lawyers acting for Mohamed. The Foreign Office had admitted to the court that it had "limited material" in its files about Mohamed's two-year disappearance, some of which "could be considered to be exculpatory or might otherwise be relevant".
However, all this material had been given to the British spies by their US colleagues, and was considered to be top secret. The British spooks were intensely reluctant to hand over information supplied by America, as it might mean the US never speaking to them again. If you took away all the US information, British spooks - and so the British government - wouldn't ever get to see much secret intelligence.
It now appears that the US has agreed to reveal at the Guantánamo tribunal some details of what happened to Mohamed between his being seized by Pakistani authorities in 2002 and passing into US military custody in 2004. The UK Foreign Office will now argue that the US military trial will be acceptably fair, and that therefore Blighty's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, aka MI6) shouldn't have to disgorge any of its files to Mohamed's crusading London lawyers - so imperilling Blighty's flow of hot US intel.
The crusading lawyers in question had originally hoped to be allowed a comprehensive trawl through the UK's secret files for "any evidence of extraordinary rendition carried out by the United States generally... [and] any United States violations of its international legal obligations and the treatment of prisoners of war on terror". That was never on the cards, but the lawyers will still argue that the information to be furnished at Guantánamo - from which, apparently, all names of US officials will be redacted - is insufficient for a fair trial. They have already said that the omission of names will make it impossible for the defence to call essential witnesses.
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December 17, 2013 : Couple Giving to OUL Theatre to Support Arts in Lancaster
- Cheri Russo Communications and Marketing Manager
Lancaster – Arts and culture are very important to Dean and Cathie DeRolph. The couple believes that music, theatre and art are what makes Lancaster a special place to live. So, supporting the fundraising effort for the Ohio University Lancaster Theatre was something that they both knew was right for them.
Lancaster – Arts and culture are very important to Dean and Cathie DeRolph. The couple believes that music, theatre and art are what makes Lancaster a special place to live. So, supporting the fundraising effort for the Ohio University Lancaster Theatre was something that they both knew was right for them.
"You're just not a well-rounded community if you don't have the arts," said Cathie DeRolph. "Earth, without the word 'art' is just 'Eh."
"We both enjoy the arts and theatre. We love music," said Dean DeRolph. "We think the more there is in Lancaster, the better. The arts are just Lancaster. It's an important part of town."
Ohio University Lancaster is raising funds to update the Wagner Theatre.
"The stage, sound and lighting systems were designed in the 1960s and do not meet today's standards," said Lancaster Campus Dean Dr. Jim Smith. "The goal is to improve the facilities so that more visiting artists, performers and nationally-known speakers can come to OUL."
"I'm part of the Lancaster Arts and Civic Club and we use the theatre every spring," said Cathie DeRolph. "The sound system really needs to be updated."
"People in the back of the room can hear better sometimes than people six rows from the stage. There are also lighting issues." said Dean DeRolph. "We believe in giving back. We have a successful business here in town. We raised our children here and believe in giving back to this community."
The OUL Theatre program puts on four productions in the Wagner Theatre each year. A partnership between the Lancaster Festival and OUL is now bringing up-and-coming musical talent to the stage twice a year. Many community groups use the stage for yearly performances as well.
"By giving to a specific part of campus, like the theatre, the DeRolphs have channeled their passion into a cause that will benefit OUL students as well as the entire community," said Smith. "We are very appreciative of their gift and what it means to move the campus and community forward in supporting the arts."
The DeRolph's gift supports The Promise Lives Campaign. The Campaign is a $450 million fundraising initiative at Ohio University to support scholarships, faculty, the student experience, facilities, and community outreach. So far the Campaign has raised more than $438 million in support of these priorities. The Campaign ends in June, 2015.
On the Lancaster Campus, funds are being raised to support scholarships, arts and culture, facilities and future endeavors through planned giving.
Ohio University's Lancaster Campus and Pickerington Center are a critical gateway to education and opportunity for students and the community. Fourteen associate's degree programs and nine bachelor's degree majors are offered, along with four master's degree programs at the Pickerington Center. The Lancaster Campus has experienced tremendous progress since its founding in 1956 and continues to provide a high quality university education within a small-college setting at an affordable price. Ohio University regional campuses create the opportunity for students to imagine unlimited possibilities because Ohio University inspires students to transform themselves and their community.
To learn more about The Promise Lives Campaign or to make a donation to the Lancaster Campus and Pickerington Center, contact Mandi Custer at firstname.lastname@example.com or 740-654-6711 ext. 234.
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Conservation Quest, sponsored by Reliant, An NRG Company and HMNS Sugar Land's newest exhibition, is bringing you a day of learning and fun this Saturday afternoon.
Meet TORO, the official mascot of the Houston Texans, hobnob with the lovely Houston Texans cheerleaders and learn about making smart energy choices with Conservation Quest. Sponsored by Reliant, this interactive special exhibition teaches kids all about energy — where it comes from, how we use it and why it's so important to use it wisely.
We'll be bringing out our mobile Smart House, while indoors the Reliant Kids Zone will feature an interactive, educational computer game, a photo booth, a balloon artist and more.
Tickets include a BBQ lunch, ice cream sundae bar, an open wine and beer bar for the grown folk — plus face-painting for the kiddos!
What: Conservation Quest + Reliant Museum Day Event
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GREAT LAKES, Ill. — Navy Seaman David A. Corley, a 1997 graduate of Saint Mary Of Assumption High School, Elizabeth, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill.
During the eight-week program, Corley completed a variety of training which included classroom study and practical instruction on naval customs, first aid, firefighting, water safety and survival, and shipboard and aircraft safety. An emphasis was also placed on physical fitness.
The capstone event of boot camp is "Battle Stations". This exercise gives recruits the skills and confidence they need to succeed in the fleet. "Battle Stations" is designed to galvanize the basic warrior attributes of sacrifice, dedication, teamwork and endurance in each recruit through the practical application of basic Navy skills and the core values of Honor, Courage and Commitment. Its distinctly "Navy" flavor was designed to take into account what it means to be a Sailor.
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Monarchs Snap Three-Game Skid With 82-62 Win Over UMES
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Dec. 14, 2002
NORFOLK, VA - Freshman center Alex Loughton (Perth, Australia) notched his first career double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds as the Old Dominion men's basketball team (2-4) recorded a 82-62 victory over the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore (0-6) Saturday night at the Ted Constant Convocation Center.
Junior John Waller (Richmond, VA), who scored five of ODU's first six points, hit the game's first basket at 18:16 to give the Monarchs a lead they would never relinquish. They would build a 13-point lead by the end of the first half and head into the locker room up 34-21.
In the second half the Hawks came out utilizing the full court press and went on a 8-0 run to cut the lead to five, 34-29, with 18:32 remaining. However, the Monarchs would adjust and go up by 17, 52-35, after a Kiah Thomas (Norfolk, VA) three pointer at 11:08. They would remain in control of the game and lead by as much as 22 in the second half.
Rasheed Wright (Greensboro, NC) led Old Dominion in scoring for the fifth time with 16 points. Tee Trotter had a game-high 21 points for the visitors.
In all ODU had five players score in double figures as senior Ricardo Marsh (Mebane, NC) dropped in 13 points to go with his seven boards, while Thomas added 10. Freshman guard Isaiah Hunter (Charlotte, NC) had a career-high 14 points with six rebounds and three assists. John Morris (Camp Hill, PA) contributed a career-high six assists in 22 minutes.
Old Dominion returns to action on Friday as ODU alum Oliver Purnell brings his Dayton Flyers to the Ted Constant Convocation Center for a match-up at 7:00 p.m.


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My 3x great grandfather John Livingstone was born in 1771, according to the information on his gravestone. He married Jane Burgess in Stockport in 1797, and on the marriage entry he is listed as a "Navigator", which I understand is usually known as a "Navvie", and would imply that he probably worked on the construction of the local (Peak Forest) canal, constructed about that time.
I can find no record of his birth in local parish records, although I have traced his wife. I have looked at "Scotland's People" website, checking all variations of the surname Livingstone who were born two years either side of 1771 in Scotland, but found nothing conclusive. Is there any way of tracing a worker who moved from Scotland to England to find work at that period? I should really appreciate any suggestions on this.
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Grilled chicken wings — a healthy alternative?
This crazy warm weather we've been having had me craving chicken wings, and grilling them makes them sorta healthy — if there is such a thing.
This is my favorite way of preparing wings. I parboiled the wings while I fired up the grill and assembled my spices. My key ingredient is Old Bay Seasoning. It's not too salty and adds a nice punch to the wings. I also use garlic powder, chili powder, cayenne pepper and red pepper flakes. I had some Cajun seasoning that's a bit salty for my taste so I used only a pinch/shake.


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Al Muhairi nabs first round of Arabian Triple Crown
The Listed Arabian Triple Crown Round I was the feature at Abu Dhabi on Sunday evening and Tadhg O`Shea was in the saddle on Musabah Al Muhairi's Tenor Des Vialettes who made virtually every yard of the running. It was only his second career start and he was able to reverse form with both Aqmaar and Frynchman who finished in front of him on that occasion.
O`Shea was delighted: "He learned an awful lot from that first run and has come on a lot from it. Hopefully he can improve again."
It was a double for the trainer who had earlier won the prep race for HH The President`s Cup, over 2200m, which produced a thrilling finish with Wayne Smith and Vite Royale landing the spoils in a photo. Jumped out in front by Smith, Vite Royale, was never headed and had to battle to hold his advantage all the way to the line.
Smith said: "We tried different tactics with him today and he has enjoyed it out in front."
Smith was then denied a quick double when his mount Ghazal Al-Dhaid was headed close home by Harry Bentley on Magroom in the 1600m maiden. Trained by Bakhit Al Ketbi, the winner was having only his second career start and Bentley said: "That was a big improvement from his first run and he stuck his head out gamely where it mattered."
Gill Duffield trains Af Alghabra who won her sixth race in succession when prevailing in a dramatic finish to the 1600m handicap. With three in a line 50m out, the gutsy mare struck her head out bravely under Willie Supple to win for the second time this season.
She won on her seasonal return at Meydan and is also a winner at Jebel Ali and Supple was full of praise: "She really is a brave mare and just did not want to be beaten. All credit to her because she has really had to dig deep and she is a credit to all involved."
The opening 1600m conditions was won by the Jaber Bittar-trained RS Khaan under Chris Taylor who always had his mount close to the pace and kicked him clear in the final 200m. Taylor said: "He has done that nicely in what was a decent little contest."
Racing concluded with the only Thoroughbred race on the card, a 1400m handicap, which was won by the Satish Seemar-trained Montmorency who made every yard of the running under Richard Mullen after a fast start from a good draw. A winner at Meydan and Sharjah on his previous two outings, he was winning at Abu Dhabi for a second time and should be seen at the upcoming 2011 Dubai International Racing Carnival.
Mullen said: "That was a good effort as we went pretty fast. He stays well though and, like so many of our horses, is in great form at the moment. Long may it continue."


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Sainz basically told the Association for Women in Sports Media to go fuck off, she doesn't want their help. She also had harsh words for the journos and columnists covering the story. Please don't hate us, Ines.
One of the more curious aspects of this whole sordid business is the fact that the AWSM, and not Sainz, filed the original complaint with the NFL. Writing in El Universal, Sainz says they should have talked to her first. Or, at all.
I wonder why such an association is respected as the AWSM, within its right to inform about any violations of work conditions for its members, acted so impulsively.
If they were in fact appalled and truly cared about my integrity as a woman and a journalist, then why never call me?
In a followup interview, Sainz said "They only want some kind of attention." For their part, the AWSM claims they reached out to Sainz on numerous occasions, but never got a response. Which is odd, because every 24-hour news channel and morning show managed to get in touch with her.
Sainz also had things to say to me! Well, not me personally, but every journalist who kept the story going.
A group of journalists and communicators in their quest to create a scandal have set progress on equality of rights between the sexes in their country back at least 50 years, by questioning whether I was somehow to blame for what supposedly happened considering the fact that my image could be attractive to players.
I don't know what she's talking about.
To be fair, Mrs. Sainz did nothing but contribute to keeping the story alive, by going on seemingly every TV station in the days following. While others may have taken this story and run with it, she certainly didn't seem hesitant to hand the ball off.
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In the frenzied days following 9/11, the FBI and a newly formed Homeland Security launched a counter-terrorism effort that dropped scores of informants into neighborhoods throughout America.
It was a reasonable idea, seeing as how law enforcement missed the whole commercial pilot training for the Saudi terrorists in Florida, but as it turned out, there really wasn't much to report on.
With the programs in place, the informants on the ground, and the money being spent, the concern about justifying it all became a growing concern. Cases needed to be made, and as that need grew sharper, the list of Americans scooped up on terrorism charges has grown as unlikely, as it is long.
Communities, and former informants, are only now fighting back and voicing their concerns.
"The way the FBI conducts their operations, It is all about entrapment … I know the game, I know the dynamics of it," former FBI informant Craig Monteilh recently told the Guardian. "It's such a joke, a real joke. There is no real hunt. It's fixed."
With an FBI provided alias, Montheilh infiltrated an Orange County mosque and secretly recorded its members, providing what one federal transcript describes as "very, very valuable information" that proved "essential" to a federal prosecution.
Maybe, or maybe not.
Montheilh first made headlines in 2010, two years after his time as informant, when he sued the FBI for failing to erase a grand theft conviction he picked up on one of his undercover stints, and for nearly getting him killed by not giving him a new identity.
Monteilh told Paul Harris at the Guardian that the FBI even OK'd sex with Muslim women from the mosque, if it led to better intel. "They said, if it would enhance the intelligence, go ahead and have sex. So I did," Monteilh says.
Just as Monteilh slipped inside the Orange County mosque, FBI informant Shahed Hussain worked his way into a Newburgh, NY mosque, leading to what is now known as the Newburgh Four case. The Newburgh Four allegedly planned a fake terror attack on Jewish targets in the Bronx, reported Paul Harris in November.
There's only one problem according to Fordham Law professor Karen Greenberg.
"The target, the motive, the ideology and the plot were all led by the FBI," Greenberg, who specializes in studying the new FBI tactics, told Harris.
The professor goes on to explain that there are two different uses of the word entrapment:
"There is the common usage, where a citizen might see FBI operations as deliberate traps manipulating unwary people who otherwise were unlikely to become terrorists. Then there is the legal definition of entrapment, where the prosecution merely has to show a subject was predisposed to carry out the actions they later are accused of."
This bit of legalese has a personal meaning to the people of Cleveland, GA ( pop. 1,900) who feel they witnessed a deliberate trap by the FBI when the agency built its case against the " Grumpy Old Terrorists."
Also called the "geriatric jihadists," the four ne'er-do-wells arrested in that sting had a long list of debilitating physical ailments and a combined age of 273 years old. Among them was a retired Navy veteran who liked to get together with his buddies at a local Waffle House, and talk trash about the government.
In this case, FBI informant Joe Sims infiltrated their Cleveland, GA based "militia group."
"It's pretty scary, that this person can insinuate himself and then get you to say the one thing that puts you in prison for the rest of your life," Sam Crump's daughter, Karon Bond told Tom Junod of Esquire Magazine last fall.
What the people of Cleveland, and American Muslim communities as a whole have noticed, is that the FBI and Homeland Security slip these informants into the lives of ordinary citizens, and provide the motivation, the money, and the means to do harm.
Often, informants will bribe impoverished targets with material goods they could never otherwise afford, if only they'll say OK to a terror plot. When they do, the government is quick to file charges and trot out another "terrorist," plucked from our midst.
Alicia McWilliams, aunt of one of the alleged terrorists of Newburgh Four, told AOL News that the FBI offered to pay for her other nephew's liver transplant if his brother agreed to take part in the terrorist plot.
"You can't go bearing gifts into impoverished communities," McWilliams says. "They're using criminals to create criminals."
She could be talking about Craig Monteilh on the other side of the country who slipped into the Orange County mosque. He was recruited after talking to off duty cops at a gym about convicts he'd met while doing time at Chino prison in California.
It paid off for the ex-con, at the peak of the investigation he was pulling in about eleven-grand a month.


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"'I had no wish,' said Lacroix at the time, 'to surround myself with that cold and cerebral design that had been advocated for ages.' This was 1987, when Lacroix was the talk of the town. Having just left Jean Patou, he planned to produce out of nowhere something that had not been seen for a long time: a new haute-couture house. In April he got in touch with the two 'Barbarians'; in July they held their first fashion show. 'It was meteoric,' says Mattia Bonetti placidly. They had to invent a place in three months starting from scratch: a suite of three salons, separated by arches and extending for 350 square meters, between a courtyard and a garden. Lacroix adopted his usual manner: graphically, 'graphomaniacally' you might say, issuing ideas, cuttings, torn-out pages and suggestions, which all contributed to a gigantic collage that summed up his idea of the place. As none of the three designers particularly cared for the established codes, the first line of action was established. 'We wanted,' Elizabeth Garouste recalls, 'to give an idea of luxury, without using traditionally luxurious materials', to get away from the banal codes of good taste. Luxury, she says, would be expressed in the flamboyance of color, in the richness of pattern and – Mattia Bonetti adds – in the 'luxury of the handmade', the skilful joinery of the furniture serving as shorthand for the perfectionism of haute couture."
"Hence the sophisticated poverty of the materials (Arte Povera was then in fashion): a simple block of wood (but studded with bronze); pieces of branch (but richly lacquered); long drops of natural linen (but hemmed with velvet arabesques); surfaces of terracotta (but enhanced with gold leaf); sofas in simple shapes (but 5m long)... The references intertwine or clash in a sustained assault on the economic orthodoxy of the design of previous decades. It was a return to what 18th-century theoreticians called architecture parlante, one that is expressive of its purpose: not so much in narrative dimension but as portrayal of personal mythology. 'Here,' said Lacroix, 'you will find everything I love: overtones of Jean Michel Frank, the Cocteau spirit, the influence of projects by [Emilio] Terry and a whole host of references to the theatrical aspect of things, but... devoid of any obsession with the past.'"
"In the opinion of Garouste and Bonetti, these salons marked the beginning of their rise to international prominence. They were, and are, one of the essential elements of Christian Lacroix's 'brand image'. They express a particular moment when it finally became possible, and urgent to move away from the cold functionalism of Modernist orthodoxy. It was a return therefore to the imagination, the dream, the taste for ornament, to the short circuit between past and present. Thirty years have passed. 'That it is dated is a fact,' comments Bonetti, 'that has to be accepted. That you can even immediately date it is great. I have gone onto something else, but I don't repudiate any of what we did. It's not an 'evolution' to move from the Neo-Baroque towards the minimal; I am, at least, dual: I can want something clean and pure one day, and something 'baroque' the next. In matters of style... you don't go from something 'less good' towards something 'good'. The worst errors are committed in the name of progress."


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The Chestnut Hill Community Association (CHCA) will hold an AVI and Real Estate Tax Discussion Panel from 7-9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov.14, at Norwood-Fontbonne Academy.
Designed as an open forum for questions and answers, the community association will bring together City Council representatives, tax reformers and policy developers to help residents learn more about this topic.
"As a civic organization, we are trying to make sure we are doing all we can do to educate community members and, equally important, to offer a forum for residents to discuss this issue with their representatives," said Brien Tilley, CHCA president and panel moderator.
Councilwoman Cindy Bass, Councilman-At-Large Bill Green, Councilman-At-Large David Oh, City Controller Alan Butkovitz, Brett Mandel, chair of the Philadelphia Tax Reform Commission's Real Estate Working Group, and Ellen Mattleman Kaplan, vice president and policy director for the Committee of Seventy, have all committed to attending the panel as a service to the Chestnut Hill community.
"This event is not designed to serve as a political platform," Tilley said. "We want to give our representatives a chance to answer our very real questions about this issue since these tax increases could potentially be very significant to many Chestnut Hill homeowners."
AVI stands for Actual Value Initiative, the proposed city tax system that would be based on a comprehensive reassessment of property values citywide so that property taxes are assessed at 100 percent of the property's market rate.
This controversial property tax overhaul was supposed to be voted upon at the June 2012 City Council meeting but the vote was delayed for one year when City Council members did not want to vote without having new assessments completed, claiming they couldn't set a new millage (tax) rate without them.
The millage (tax) rate is the factor (millage rate multiplied by assessed value) used to determine the taxes owed on a property. This rate has not yet been set, but estimates have ranged from 1 percent up to 1.8 percent. This rate will be set when City Council votes on it next summer.
It is anticipated that the rate will be based on the total value of all property in Philadelphia (from the current property reassessment) and the final budget adopted by City Council. If the proposed 1.8 percent rate were to be approved, Tilley explained, many Chestnut Hill property owners will see very significant impact, especially those that have been undervalued for years.
Tilley hopes that community members use the forum as an opportunity to become educated about the tax proposal.
"If we wait until spring, it will be too late," he said. "The assessments are happening in January and February, and the vote is in June. We have to use this time to learn all we can about what would be very significant for not only property owners but the overall character of the Chestnut Hill community."
The forum will take place in the Commons Building at Norwood-Fontbonne Academy. This large gathering space is situated on the Academy's Fontbonne campus at Sunset and Norwood avenues. NFA has hosted other community meetings there in the past.
"It (hosting) is an opportunity to be an active part of the Chestnut Hill Community, and our facility can provide a forum for quality conversation to happen," said NFA Head of School Sister Mary Helen Beirne.
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