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How cool is it that the 2011 Tampa Bay Rays home Opener is going to be on April Fool's Day….and it's a Friday! What a way to begin the 2011 season, with a banner raising and a few pranks, jokes and maybe even a Garfoose sighting. Even if all, or none of that happens on that first day of April, the Rays Republic will again have some nifty giveaways and promotions to fill our Fridays and Sundays.Now these are not the only days that giveaways will be dished out to the Rays faithful, but on Wednesday, June 29th and Thursday, August 4th, you know that the masses will be all carrying those famous Rays chertiest as the Rays bring back another great "Park & Recreation Day" environment within Tropicana Field. Too bad Zach Grienke went to Milwaukee. We all know how much he simply loves those banging monstrosities while pitching.
Starting with the traditional schedule magnet given out on that first night, really quickly the Rays promotions machine kicks into high gear, even during that first weekend. On the next day, Sat, April 2, the first 15,000 Rays Fans will receive an Evan Longoria Gold Glove replica presented by DEX Imaging. But the fun doesn't stop there, on Sunday the Rays will distribute special American League East Banners provided by Rays sponsor Sweetbay Supermarkets.
But back again for another go-round is the popular T-shirt's given out on Friday night games. In all a total of 12 different designed Rays inspired T-shirts will be given out to the first 10,000 lucky fans thanks to the good people at Captain Morgan's , who presides over the Friday Fest festivities with glee. The only exception in the T-shirt promotion this season is that on May 13 and August 5, the first 10,000 women will receive the giveaway T-shirts.
Hopefully the Rays have inspired Rays starter James Shields to again design a special T-shirt with Rays fans in mind. The 2010 black T-shirt featuring a downward facing griffin was one of the most sought after T-shirts in the Tampa Bay area schools. Could the Rays have gone to the Shields well twice and come back with another gem? You will have to wait and see.
Kid's again play a significant part in the Rays promotional items as 12 items will be geared towards the younger Rays fans, with the last promotion on Sunday, September 25th being decided by a vote by the Rays kids. But in between The first week in April and the last weekend in September, there will be a very interesting assortment of promotional items just for those 14 and under. Kids will be able to get a Rays fire hat ( 9/11/11), or possibly a David Price Superhero Action Figure (8/21) or maybe they are more into linens, like a Raymond pillowcase (May15).
Also on tap for the kids will be a Joe Maddon Bank giveaway (5/1), A David Price Arm Sleeve (4/17) and the always popular Raymond's Back-To-School Set (8/7). But it doesn't stop there. Kids can also be the envy of their friends on Sunday July 3, when the Rays give out an exclusive DJ Kitty Puppet. But you didn't think we would stop there did you? Riding on the heels of the best baseball promotion in 2010, the Rays have stepped up their game and will present kids with an Evan Longoria Cereal Bowl and Spoon set on September 4th.
But the hits just keep coming. Back again will be a grand assortment of bobble heads starting with a wobbly-headed doll of new Ray Manny Ramirez on May 29th followed three weeks later by a B J Upton bobble head (6./19). And it wouldn't be the Rays if they did not also provide a little more, like a Johnny Damon Bobble head on July 17.
Again, the Rays have stepped into the box and cracked the ball over the centerfield wall possibly again having some of the best promotions in baseball. Over the years we come to expect the unexpected from the Rays promotions department. Again they pulled a big white rabbit out of the hat and provided some great incentive for the Rays Republic.
From the T-shirts and bobble heads all the way to their unique variety of trinkets and toys for the younger crowd, the Rays Promotions team have delivered…just like you knew they would. Still patiently waiting for a vuvuzela promotion.
What? something has to freeze over before that is approved….okay I can wait.


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The owner of a West Baltimore restaurant has been charged with operating an illegal after-hours club, police said, after a triple shooting this month in which a man was killed outside the establishment.
Timothy Fraser, 58, owner of Ras-a-ter International, was charged Tuesday with two counts of operating his restaurant as an illegal bar, three counts of failing to have a licensed security firm on premises and three counts of violating capacity limits of 150.
Baltimore housing authorities say the charges, based on city zoning codes, are a first step toward halting predawn operations at the restaurant. The misdemeanor charges each carry a penalty of up to a year in jail.
There have been two shootings in the past 14 months outside Ras-a-ter, at 2103 W. North Ave. in the Easterwood neighborhood, in which one person was killed and six wounded. Fraser disputes the charges and contends that he had permission to run the establishment as he did.
"There is no violation that I broke," Fraser said.
Police are investigating how the recent shooting relates to the club.
City Councilman Nick Mosby, who has lobbied to have the club shut down, said, "When you see an establishment or a place, specifically a community business, inside a neighborhood, it should be a cornerstone or an anchor inside a community. When you see an establishment that has problem after problem, you need to take action to make sure there's no more casualties."
Ras-a-ter, which also went by Rasta's Night Club and Restaurant, is open Thursday through Sunday nights. The club, with cover charges of $15 and $20, spins reggae, hip-hop and oldies, according to a flier on the door. Other fliers said the restaurant was open until 6 a.m. and describe it as an alcohol-free establishment.
A sign taped to a door said, "No Hoodies! No Baggy Pants! No T-shirts!"
Shots were fired about 5:30 a.m. Jan. 13, killing Sean Rhodes, 25, of Franklin Square and wounding two others. Police have no suspects in the case, which remains under investigation.
In November 2011, four people, including two club employees, were shot outside the establishment at 5:30 a.m. Police arrested Kevin Shaw, also known as Karon Shaw, but prosecutors dropped the case.
During the past 90 days, Baltimore police were called to the club seven times. Most of the calls proved unfounded except for an aggravated assault at 2:46 a.m. Oct. 14 in which someone was reported cut, said police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
The restaurant may continue operating with live entertainment and dancing until 2 a.m., said Katy Byrne, an attorney with the Baltimore housing department.
"We have to carefully articulate [whether] businesses are associated with violence and do they have repeated incidents where people are getting hurt or killed?" Guglielmi said. "I think anyone can say a triple shooting is not something people want in their neighborhood."
According to the housing department, the club's owner never received permission to operate beyond 2 a.m.
In 2010, the Board of Municipal Zoning Appeals permitted live entertainment and dancing at the restaurant. Fraser said he was also allowed to operate into the early morning.
"They approved my floor plan to have live entertainment from 6 p.m. until 6 a.m.," he said.
According to the city, Fraser's request to operate beyond 2 a.m. was not received until Dec. 22, 2011 — a month after the quadruple shooting outside the club.
On the same day, unrelated to his request, Maryland court records show that Fraser was charged with three criminal counts, including the unlicensed sale and possession of alcohol and operating an unregistered bottle club. None of those charges was prosecuted.
A public hearing on Fraser's after-hours request was held Jan. 24, 2012, at which he was told that an after-hours club was not allowed in the club's zoning district.
Fraser requested a postponement and never rescheduled a hearing. He had until Tuesday, according to the city's statue of limitations. When he failed to reschedule, housing authorities dismissed the request Tuesday.
"There are other actions we can take, and we will," said Michael Braverman, deputy commissioner for permits and code enforcement.
A call to Fraser's lawyer was not returned Tuesday.
Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton contributed to this article.
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Introducing this year's underground astronauts
Each year, ESA sends up to six astronauts down into the caves of Sardinia, Italy, for two weeks on a simulated space mission.
New and experienced astronauts from different space agencies are invited on underground ventures to improve their exploration skills and learn from each other in a multicultural team.
This year will see an underground reunion for ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin. They spent three months together on the International Space Station last year during Luca's mission.
Joining them will be experienced NASA astronaut Mike Fossum*, a Station commander and veteran of seven spacewalks.
"Exploration can go in many different directions," says Luca. "The infinite horizon and absolute black of space has an indisputable allure, but the darkness of a cave, snaking underground into places where light never visited, reminds me how much we still don't know about our planet."
The 'rookies' this year are Russian Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and American Scott Tingle, currently training all over the world to prepare for their missions in space.
The CAVES course – Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills – is designed to improve leadership, teamwork, decision-making and problem-solving skills.
Going underground
Apart from the exploration and science that is part of every CAVES expedition, the course designers from ESA's European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, are focusing this time on making mission operations as close to the real thing as possible.
Procedures will now be exactly like those used on the International Space station, with the same format, terminology and standards. This reduces the training each astronaut needs and improves their effectiveness on mission.
Daily planning conferences, as on the orbital outpost, will give the 'cavenauts' their scientific duties for the day and discuss operations.
"Cavenauts will need to rely on a mobile underground communication system, and on daily mission logs sent back to the 'ground' team," notes Loredana Bessone, CAVES project manager.
"Last year's team pushed their exploration further than ever before. This year, the team will need to set up an advanced exploration camp, out of reach of their base campsite and its communication system."
The explorers will also test computer tablets for collecting and synchronising experiment data.
To discover more about CAVES, check the website and listen to what astronauts say about it in the video below.
Find out more about the 2014 cavenauts.
Follow the expedition via Twitter https://twitter.com/ESA_CAVES hashtag #CAVES2014 and on the CAVES blog.
*Editors note: Mike Fossum is no longer able to participate in the 2014 CAVES expedition. He has nominated Matthias Maurer, from ESA Eurocom, to replace him.


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Emily Badger is a former staff writer at CityLab. Her work has previously appeared in Pacific Standard, GOOD, The Christian Science Monitor, and The New York Times. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
The world is a surprisingly cloudy place when you step back and view it from space, sharing the vantage point of satellites. But while pictures like the one below have a beauty in their own right, they're particularly problematic for map-makers more interested in the obscured details of the earth's surface than its atmosphere:
That picture is a composite of images taken just last week by a pair of NASA satellites that each circle the globe twice a day. Data from such sources are used to create the satellite base layer for many maps, and so, as you can imagine, clouds easily get in the way. Whole regions of the world around the earth's midriff – in the "intertropical convergence zone" where northern and southern hemisphere weather patterns meet and mix – may be visible for only a few clear weeks in a year.
"These mountains along the equator are a huge challenge," says Charlie Loyd, an imagery specialist at MapBox. He rattles off an entire atlas of inaccessible sites: parts of the Andes Mountains in South America, Mount Cameroon in West Africa, the mountains of New Guinea and Borneo, all of which are perpetually shrouded in clouds. "Anything we can do to get rid of them," Loyd says, "gives us maps that are more useful to people and more pleasing to look at."
Until now, though, methods for doing that – erasing the atmosphere – have been imperfect. Sometimes satellite maps will awkwardly stitch together side-by-side images taken months apart in different seasons (Google Earth is full of such seams). Loyd and MapBox, though, appear to have finally come up with an imperceptible method of removing clouds.
Instead of stitching together views of the world like a patchwork quilt, Loyd and colleagues have mined two years' worth of images from those NASA satellites mentioned above for the single clearest pixels. Those satellites capture any given location on the earth twice a day, creating around 730 images of a single place over the course of a year (or more than 1,400 in a two-year time period). Consider, for instance, those hundreds of images from a single lake somewhere.
"We take all of the pixels that represent that lake over a long time span," Loyd explains, "and we look at the roughly one-tenth of those pixels that are the clearest, and we average all of those together – all of their colors – and we smooth out over the very clearest days."
Here is the resulting image from a part of South America spanning Ecuador, Peru and Brazil:
The city of Guayaquil, with more than 2 million people, sits on the estuary of the Guayas River in the northwest of the image. It's development is visible in the absence of greenery. Immediately to the right of it lies the main ridgeline of the northern Andes, with the highest mountains on the eastern side of the range still peaked in snow.
Now here is what this same part of the world looked like from a satellite view taken earlier this week:
That latter image more or less shows a typical day in the Andes.
To create this clearer picture of the world, MapBox had to process 339,000 individual images from NASA, a terabyte of data captured between Jan. 1, 2011 and Dec. 31 of 2012, downloaded over the course of several days.
"After three days," says MapBox data analyst Chris Herwig, "we had the world for two years."
Later this month, MapBox plans to incorporate the new imagery into the relaunch of its MapBox Satellite base layer, upon which other people will be able to build maps of all kinds. The resulting view of the world will play with time, rendering every spot on the planet as if on a cloudless day. The effect will look something like perpetual summer, in both hemispheres simultaneously.
"It was really amazing to see the first [images] come out," Loyd says, "to put them on a map and see just how intense and vivid they were."
Here are a few more early previews of the project, all courtesy of MapBox (the top image shows Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic).
Stressful commutes, unexpected routines, and emergent wildlife appear in your homemade maps of life during the coronavirus pandemic.
Even before coronavirus, many workers hated the open-plan office. Now that shared work spaces are a public health risk, employers are rethinking office design.
Fear of crowds in small spaces in the pandemic is spurring new norms and technological changes for the people-moving machines that make skyscrapers possible.
Millennials are already in debt and without savings. After the next downturn, they'll be in even bigger trouble.
What do we know so far about the types of places that are more susceptible to the spread of Covid-19? In the U.S., density is just the beginning of the story.


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Developer Jay Odom was sentenced to six months in federal prison Tuesday for campaign contribution fraud.
PENSACOLA � Developer Jay Odom was sentenced to six months in federal prison Tuesday for campaign contribution fraud.
�This offense goes to the very heart of our democratic system� and �violates something we all cherish,� U.S. District Judge Lacey Collier said in passing sentence.
Odom, who lives in Destin, pleaded guilty in February to one felony count of causing a presidential campaign committee to make a false statement to the Federal Election Commission. He faced a maximum sentence of five years.
Federal agents arrested Odom in January on charges he persuaded family members, employees and business associates to make maximum contributions of $2,300 to Republican Mike Huckabee�s 2008 presidential campaign and then reimbursed them.
Agents said he illegally funneled $23,000 to the Huckabee campaign and repaid 10 associates who each gave a maximum donation.
�I pled guilty because I am guilty,� Odom told the court before he was sentenced. �I�m deeply sorry for what I have done and the pain it has caused my friends, family and employees. I hope one day to regain the trust of my friends, family and community that I once had.�
Collier noted with some frustration that several people who had written letters to him on Odom�s behalf said they found �nothing wrong� with what he had done and stated �everybody does it.�
�I hope and pray that is not the case,� Collier said.
As Odom family members wept quietly, Collier said that just as important as the punishment was the need to provide an adequate deterrent to others contemplating campaign finance fraud.
Odom, 56, who has developed properties such as Uptown Station in Fort Walton Beach and Hammock Bay in Freeport, was also ordered to pay a $46,000 fine.
He was given 14 days to appeal the sentence and was ordered to report June 10 to be taken into custody.


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After 24 hours atop St. Peter's Basilica's 426-foot dome in Vatican, Italian man gives up protest
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- An Italian man gave up his protest atop the St. Peter's Basilica on Wednesday evening, after more than 24 hours perched on the 130-meter-high (426-foot) dome to demonstrate against government reforms.
Two firefighters helped pull Marcello De Finizio inside the basilica a full day after he had eluded Vatican security to scale the dome and unfurl a banner reading: "Help! Enough Monti!" -- referring to President Mario Monti, the architect of Italy's economic reforms.
De Finizio was taken directly to the Rome police station, but told The Associated Press by cellphone that it was a ''formality" and he did not expect to face any charges.
It was the second time in three months that De Finizio had scaled the dome. His previous protest at St. Peter's in July lasted only four hours, he said, and nothing came of it.
He also spent three nights on a 70-meter-tall (230-foot) metal structure in Trieste earlier this year, and said a judge cleared him of charges of causing an alarm.
De Finizio said he did not suffer any particular discomfort during the latest protest, which he ended after Tourism Minister Piero Gnudi agreed to meet with a delegation of beach concession owners to discuss new rules governing the sector.
At issue are government reforms that will force an open bidding process for existing establishments and limit the length of the licenses.
The government passed the measures in accord with EU norms to try to make the sector more competitive by preventing licenses from being passed from generation to generation. But the concession owners say they make considerable investments in the properties, including mortgages, that they stand to lose -- and that they are unable to get loans for new investments while the changes are pending.
''The entire sector is on standby. This is a trauma for the sector, this is a trauma for Italy," De Finizio said.
The concessions cover more than 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) of Italy's coast -- or more than half of it -- renting out lounge chairs, umbrellas and changing rooms and offering a coffee bar or restaurant.
De Finizio lost his beachside restaurant in the northern city of Trieste in a 2008 fire and said he has been unable to get a loan to rebuild because of the changing norms.


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Over a hundred racers thundered down the drag strip at the Super Chevy Show this weekend in their Chevy powered cars for bragging rights and cash prizes. On the first day of racing in the final round Scott Alexs from Delray Beach, Fla. came out on top in his '72 Chevy Nova at 12.236 at 109.82 mph. Gary Coy from Lake Worth, Fla. finished in second place for the day in his '77 Corvette at 10.799 running at 125.04 mph. JP Hickmon from Bradenton, Fla. in his '08 Mullis came in first in the first day of "Box" racing running at a 7.624 at 170 mph, with Skip Pellett from Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. in second running a 7.962 at 160.65 mph.
In the final day of racing in the DriveDuracell.com bracket, Bruce Liberman from West Palm Beach, Fla. finished in first in his Spitzer running a 7.678 at 175 mph. Claude DeBonis from Fort Lauderdale finished in second place in his '08 Worthy running a 7.430 at 176 mph.
To close out the final races at the Super Chevy Show in the second bracket, Rob Reynolds from Melbourne, Fla. in his '78 Chevy Malibu finished in first running a 10.241 at 122 mph. Casey Miles from Boca Raton, Fla. finished in second place in his '01 Corvette running a 13.455 at 105 mph.
Wayne Farguhar from Monson, MA took first place in the Camaro 5th Gen. Challenge racing his '13 Camaro running at 15.669 at 75 mph. Paige Munneke from Stuart, Fla. finished in second place in his '10 Camaro running a 14.878 at 91 mph.
Super Chevy Show Car Show Winners:
Out of the Super Chevy Magazine's Top 10 Editor's Choice Show Car winners, the number one pick was Gerald Copeland who displayed his '62 Corvette. In second place was Stathe Karahalios in his '60 Chevy Impala.
For the full list of PBIR's Super Chevy Show race results and car show winners, please go to the RACEPBIR.com website under the tab "TRACKS" and "RESULTS."


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|Mammoth Cave is the longest recorded cave system in the world with more than 390 miles explored and mapped. Mammoth Cave National Park was established on July 1,1941 to preserve the cave system and the scenic river valleys of south central Kentucky.
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Ancestry.com. New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
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Hundreds gather to support art gallery
THE Albury arts and cultural communities stepped up support for the art gallery redevelopment with a strong turnout at a packed information session last night.
More than 250 people attended the forum arranged by Albury Council less than a week ago which started with arts group members entering the Albury Entertainment Centre waving placards and playing drums.
The forum is the start of another round of community consultation aimed at determining the level of support for doubling the ratepayers' contribution to $7 million.
David Thurley was the only councillor not present, but he was an apology along with member for Albury Greg Aplin.
The council's acting general manager Michael Keys and community and cultural director James Jenkins provided background before taking more than 20 questions from the floor during the forum which lasted nearly two hours.
Former councillors Rob Angus and Philomena Sawyer also attended along with ex-mayor Arthur Frauenfelder.
The majority of attendees were members of the arts and cultural communities with many wearing recently produced green badges supporting the upgrade.
Also backing the arts were Murray Conservatorium director Stephen O'Connell and HotHouse Theatre artistic director Jon Halpin.
"It will bring to the region far more than the outlay," Mr Halpin said.
"Something like this will be a jewel in the crown for the cultural identity of this region."
Former art gallery director Audray Banfield urged the council to "just do it".
"The place is rich with cultural activity and the art gallery could enhance that 500-fold," she said.
"We could have people flocking here just like they have in Bendigo.
"Art is not for the elite, art is for everyone."
The biggest cheer was reserved for artist Mary-Jane Griggs, who urged the community to "have the confidence to go forward".
But not all supported the council bankrolling the project with another $3.5 million including Bill Forge.
"The arts community is fully represented
here tonight (but) the working class families of Albury, Thurgoona and Lavington are at home," he said.
"Without a debt of $53 million you could fund this project."
Pensioner Dot Williams said the timing wasn't right.
"We have to realise times are bad and we can't afford this," she said.


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My ride to East Nashville added up to more than a sunburn. I'm the worst when it comes to taking photos—especially when one has to pause to take them under the broiling noonday sun—but I did manage to capture a few images from my ride with Whitney and Raleigh a couple of weeks back.
First of all, her Raleigh and Le Peug are now serious buds. Don't they look great together?
Like all the best bike rides, the point was the journey. It was Mother's Day, so we avoided the more traditional brunch spots and had salads and a drink at Beyond the Edge, followed by a delicious ice cream cone at Pied Piper Creamery.
By that point the Nashville Bicycle Lounge was open, and we swung by to check it out and chat with owner Dan, who was in the midst of building up this sweet ride. In his words, "If Lizzie Borden rode a bike, this [custom Surly] would be it."
The Bicycle Lounge is a really cool spot—it's one of the only places in Nashville with a selection of transportation bicycles like Surly and Linus. Dan said he has trouble keeping the Linus bikes in particular in stock.
As soon as Whitney and I walked in, Dan greeted us. His first words were compliments on our vintage rides. Saying nice things about my bike is on the top 10 list of ways to my heart (other items on the list: cooking dinner, an affinity for Lionel Shriver novels, laughing at my jokes, foreign accents) so things were on the right track to begin with.
After ordering a couple of parts and purchasing some new brake pads for the Raleigh, we were heading back in the full heat of the day. Since going back home from East Nashville contained a few more uphill runs than the way there, we paused in a parking lot. Being dehydrated and sweaty did not make contemplating the soul who discarded a chicken bone, a grape jelly packet and the butt of a Swisher Sweet in the parking lot any more appetizing (let's hope he or she did not eat them all at once).
Anyone else visited a new bike shop lately, or gone somewhere else a bit off the beaten path? I have to say that this ride whetted my appetite for some longer rides. Nothing like the sense of excitement that comes from conquering another part of town by bike.


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The editors of Sudden Denouement Literary Collective know that our strength is our writers. We hope that you enjoy getting to know them through our new Writer Interview Series.
What name do you write under?
Kindra M. Austin. Previously, I wrote under Pammy Pamtastico! I think of Pammy often. She was a real Class F lady. I feel her sometimes, trying to peel back the skin on my fingertips.
In what part of the world do you live?
I live in the village of Chesaning, a fading tourist town in mid-Michigan, situated on the Shiawassee River. Chesaning was formally known as Showboat City, and fuck tons of people from all over would visit during the weeklong Showboat Festival held in July. Or August. I can't remember. After 76 years, the Showboat Festival met its demise in 2013, and the Shiawassee River Queen was retired. Probably made into firewood. It's a bummer. Showboat was pretty cool. I saw Weird Al perform at the park, and he was excellent.
I despise winter, but Michigan is stunning in the summer and fall, especially the Upper Peninsula. I recommend visiting the Mackinac Bridge; Tahquamenon Falls State Park; Painted Rocks in Alger County; and Canyon Falls on the Sturgeon River. The Up-North landscape truly does sing to the soul—it's a place you can sit utterly alone, and feel full. What a stunning sensation, inhaling the breath of nature so rich. But, my absolute favorite Michigan destination is Lake Huron, specifically Tawas City, located on the east coast of the Lower Peninsula. Because sentimental reasons.
Tell us about yourself.
My favorite color is green, all hues, excluding neon. Is neon considered a hue?
Soy sauce makes me so ill that just the sight of it causes nausea. When I go to a Chinese restaurant, I have to cover the Kikkoman bottle with a napkin. Funny, as a toddler, my mother always caught me drinking soy sauce like it was soda. I also ate butter.
I love animals. I feed stray cats, and build them box houses. I can't bring any animals inside because my cat would fuck their shit right up. Melvin is not charitable. I wonder where I went wrong with him.
My top five favorite music artists will always be The Beatles; Pink Floyd; Led Zeppelin; Bob Dylan; and Fleetwood Mac.
If a Dawson's Creek marathon is on television, goddamn it, I'm going to stop whatever it is I'm doing, and waste my whole day watching this horseshit.
I'm often misjudged as an extrovert. Don't get me wrong, I know how to have a good fucking time. I'm a loud talker who laughs often, but what I love most is discussing philosophies, and life experiences. I really dig people who are into ploughing deep, and I'm happy to stay awake until stupid 'o clock in the morning with the right person. Unfortunately, I'm a cold lover. I require ridiculous stretches of seclusion following any type of social affair—unless I spat you from my womb, don't bother phoning me before a minimum of 120 hours have expired.
Where do you publish your writing?
When did you begin your blog and what motivated you start it?
I began Poems & Paragraphs in April, 2016, after a seven year hiatus from blogging. I'd made some people dangerously angry, so I stepped out for a nap. When I woke up, I said, "Fuck this. I'm done hiding." I started a new blog under my own name that very day.
What inspires/motivates you to keep blogging on your site?
My emotions. I have to write them out. I have to know that I am not alone. And I have to let others know that they are not alone. Human connection, it's a beautiful thing.
I don't often sit at my computer and write about rainbows. No, I'd rather tap out the shit that follows rainbows. Not that I'm perpetually miserable. I'm actually naturally cheerful. I just feel that my calling is to write about trauma, and to expose the darkness that exists alongside my happiness.
When did you join the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective?
My debut Sudden Denouement piece, The Archer and the Scorpion, was published on July 24, 2017.
How did you find your way to Sudden Denouement?
I was a follower of SD early on, and I entered the March Madness contest in 2017; I submitted a piece called, A Moment of Dying, and made the top ten. I was freaking celebrating. For realz, what a boost to my self-esteem on the heels of returning from a long hiatus! When I was formally invited to join Sudden Denouement, I accepted, knowing this was a place that would help me grow as a writer, and human being. The writers who make up the collective are a bunch of elite bananas.
What does "Divergent Literature" mean to you?
Divergent Literature is Punk Rock truth—unfettered and brazen. Divergent Literature screams "Individual." Fuck the mainstream rules.
Sudden Denouement Founder Jasper Kerkau frequently talks about Sudden Denouement writers using the 'secret language'. What is it?
I don't know that the 'secret language' can be defined. For me, it's like trying to delimit a feeling. Maybe that's the answer—the 'secret language' is as simple and as complicated as a feeling. You know it when you know it, you know? Does that even make sense? Or did I just take a politician's way out of answering this question?
Ugh. Sometimes I'm the worst.
Tell us about your literary influences?
- Sylvia Plath. She's the realest, most gorgeous of confessional poets. Plath wrote her absolute truths, ugly as they were, and her employment of language is a marvel. The Bell Jar is my favorite literary novel. "To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream."
- John Steinbeck. His modest and straightforward style cannot be copied. To me, Steinbeck is a king of unpretention, among the sincerest of voices in literary history.
- Charles Bukowski. Duh.
- Edgar Allan Poe. My favorite short story of his is William Wilson. The attack is subtle, which makes the conclusion fucking brilliant. William Wilson is a character I relate to—my Pammy Pamtastico!
- Ray Bradbury. Hello! Anyone who says they don't like Bradbury can take a long walk off a short pier.
- The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger. I've read Salinger's other works, but that man-child, Holden Caulfield, is one my very favorite literary characters. "It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to."
Has any of your work been published in print? How did that happen?
In April, 2017, I self-published my debut novel, Magpie in August. My book of poems and prose, Constant Muses, followed in December. Both are available at Amazon.
I began writing Magpie as a form of therapy—a fictionalized diary inspired by my relationship with my mother. I spent nearly two years shaping the narrative, and editing. Upon completion, I began sending queries to agents. Though I did gain some interest, nothing panned out with the big guys, so I decided to self-publish. I admit my patience is lacking; however, I don't regret my decision. Magpie was published on my own terms, with cover art designed by the artist of my choice, Allane Sinclair.
My mother died unexpectedly in October, 2017, so I decided to dedicate my untitled poetry and prose project to her, and add content regarding the initial impact of her death. I came up with the title Constant Muses, and again, I trusted Allane to design the cover. Allane is a brilliant artist, who turned a tarnished photograph of my mother into a stunning tribute. I released Constant Muses on December 5, 2017.
What are your writing goals?
I'm presently working on another book of poems and prose—a year of my life minus my mother. I'm also finishing up a novella, which will be available by mid-summer, if all goes according to my plan.
Also, I want to be a rap lyric composer. But not like, gangsta. Like Eminem; he's a brilliant poet.
Which pieces of your own writing are your favorites?
- Being the Way You Are: a brief memoir for my daughter, written April 16, 2016;
- Affliction, published on Sudden Denouement on October 25, 2017;
- Siren, published on Blood Into Ink on August 1, 2017;
- The Color of Beach Sand, published on Sudden Denouement on January 17, 2018;
What else would like to share about your writing, Sudden Denouement, or yourself?
What I'd like to add here is a bit of advice and encouragement to the blooming writer.
- Don't sell yourself to trends that are uncomfortable, and buck propriety whenever it suits you.
- But be bold. Do challenge yourself to try new styles if you find yourself dissatisfied. You'll find your strongest voice.
- Please, don't be driven by accolades alone. You'll only lose touch with yourself. Don't be a phony.
- Respect the craft, and have patience with yourself.
- Find a writing community and build genuine relationships.
- Remember that writing is an art form, and poetry is often subject to individual interpretation.
- Read a lot. A good writer is a person who reads.
I'm sending you all good vibes. 🙂


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Tracking and Taming the Elusive Spirit Beasts!
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Many players want to stand out with something unique that other players will notice and admire. Most players go for noncombat companions or mounts, but for Hunters, it's fun to find and use a pet that many players may not know about or don't want to put the time or effort into taming.
Probably one of the most unique, most sought after, and most admired pets are the Spirit Beasts!
Spirit Beasts are an exotic animal that only Beast Mastery Hunters with the proper talent are able to tame. That talent is appropriately called "Beast Mastery."
Spirit Beasts have some unique abilities that make them ideal for not only soloing, but in groups as well. "Spirit Mend" is a healing spell the Spirit Beast can cast on a selected target. Many times, the Spirit Beast will auto cast it on himself or the Hunter when health is getting low, but the player can activate the spell themselves by targeting the one they want healed and clicking the ability. This is wonderful for soloing when a Hunter might not have food or bandages available, or if you're in the middle of combat and your health is getting low, it's great for a quick boost up.
The other ability is called "Roar of Courage" (also available from the Cat family) which increases the Strength and Agility of all party and raid members. This increases the attack power of all physical damage dealers (i.e. Rogues, Warriors, Paladins, Hunters, Druids). Sorry, casters! There are other Hunter pets out there that will increase your spell damage done to a target, but the Spirit Beast isn't one of them! For those wanting a beast to increase spell damage done to a target, take a look at wind serpents or dragonhawks.
Before you set out on finding the Spirit Beast of your choice, there is a very helpful addon you can pick up that will make it easy to spot nearby Spirit Beasts (and other rare mobs). Instead of sitting at your computer all day spamming a target macro, this addon will allow you to read a book, watch a movie, or alt tab and do something else on the computer, and it will alert you when the Spirit Beast has spawned. That addon is called "NPCScan" and is available from Curse.com and other World of Warcraft addon sites. Once installed and before logging in, be sure to delete your cache (located in the World of Warcraft file on your computer). This addon works by alerting you when the rare spawn is cached, so be sure to delete your cache every time before you log into the game. This is important even if you haven't seen a rare spawn in awhile because they'll always be cached when you're in a capitol city and another Hunter is using one as a pet! I also recommend turning off all of your game sounds so you can be sure to hear the alert when it goes off. Sometimes I like to leave the background music playing, which does not detract from the sound of the alert.
If you want to increase your chances for a successful tame, try offering a reward in General chat if someone else finds it. Once you've located the Spirit Beast, drop a Freezing Trap at your feet. Many of the Spirit Beasts will leap to you once you've pulled them (most notably Loque'Nahak and Karoma), and if you've stepped away from your trap, they'll jump right over it, rendering it useless.
There are six Spirit Beasts as of patch 4.0. They are:
- Loque'Nahak, leopard
- Gondria, tiger
- Skoll, worg
- Arcturis, bear
- Karoma, wolf
- Ghostcrawler, crab
It is important to note that just because you are a Hunter and may have been looking for hours, you do not have any more right to the rare spawns than any other player! If they get there before you, they are allowed to kill it or tame it if they so choose. If you get there first, be sure to shoot an arrow at the Spirit Beast before you begin taming him so you have the tap. This will discourage players from killing him during your tame. However, there will still be players, especially on a PVP server, who will kill the Spirit Beast during your tame just because they want to ruin your day. There is no recourse for their actions, so take a five-hour break and then come back and search again.
Loque'Nahak is probably the most unique-looking mob in the game. He's a beautiful leopard with glowing blue markings on his pelt. His eyes, nose, mouth, and fangs have the same blue glow. A frosty fog emanates from his mouth, and he has a very unique, cool-sounding roar that you'll hear while he's attacking a target.
Loque'Nahak is level 76 and located in Sholazar Basin. He has several spawn locations, so it's best to fly around and hope you locate him before someone else does. If you have Herbalism or Mining, you can make quite a profit while waiting for Loque'Nahak to show up. He is on a 6-12 hour spawn timer and is the only Spirit Beast that shares a spawn timer with another mob, King Krush, a green devilsaur. So if you see King Krush roaming around, you should probably take a break and go do something else for at least five hours, then come back and continue your hunt!
If you kill Loque'Nahak, he will drop a neck piece with a random enchantment called "Loque'Nahak's Severed Fang." If you have Skinning, you can pick up an additional blue item (a cloak) called "Loque'Nahak's Pelt." As with the other Northrend Spirit Beasts, Loque'Nahak will also drop an Abandoned Adventurer's Satchel, which contains gold, cloth, and possibly a crystallized element.
Gondria is a reskinned version of the Winterspring saber model. He's a transparent pinkish-purple color with wisps of smoke emanating upwards from his body the same way Shadowform on Priests does. Gondria doesn't have any unique roars, so he sounds like every other saber cat in the game.
Gondria is level 77 and located in Zul'Drak. Like Loque'Nahak, he has several spawn locations, so it's best to fly around to check each one and hope you run into him before someone else does. He is on a 6-12 hour spawn timer.
If you decide to kill Gondria, he'll drop a ring with a random enchantment called "Gondria's Spectral Claw." Like other Northrend rare mobs, he also drops an Abandoned Adventurer's Satchel.
Skoll is a reskinned Northrend worg model. He is dark blue with a lightning effect flashing around his body. If you turn up your speakers and listen, you can hear a crackling sound as the lightning jumps around.
Skoll is level 80 and located in Storm Peaks. He has three spawn locations, but they are somewhat spread out and you have to go around mountains to reach each one, so he's not as easy to camp as you might think. He is on a 6-12 hour spawn timer.
If you decide to kill Skoll, he drops a dagger with a random enchantment called "Skoll's Fang." He also drops an Abandoned Adventurer's Satchel.
Arcturis is modeled after the Druid bear form, but in ghost form! Unlike other bears, Arcturis is a Ferocity pet (just like the other Spirit Beasts). He's probably the easiest Spirit Beast to track and tame because he only has one spawn location: just north of Amberpine Lodge. With NPCScan, you can easily AFK camp him. He is on a 6-12 hour spawn timer.
If you decide to kill Arcturis, he drops a leather chest piece with a random enchantment called "Pristine Glowbear Pelt" and an Abandoned Adventurer's Satchel.
A few years ago, creative Hunters found a way to tame the Ancient Grimtotem Spirit Guide that was summoned by the Grimtotem Spirit-Shifters in Dustwallow Marsh. This involved using a meta gem, haste potions, Heroism/Bloodlust, and mind control by a Priest (in order to time the release of the wolves). Because of their ingenuity, Blizzard said they would allow Hunters to continue taming the Grimtotem wolves (which were classified as "wolves" upon taming, not spirit beasts). Later, they hotfixed it so they could no longer be tamed because the appearance of the wolf did not fit with the overall feel of the Hunter class. Those that had already tamed a Grimtotem wolf got to keep it, but the rest of the Hunters who had hoped to get one were unable to do so.
Now there is Karoma, who shares the model of the Ancient Grimtotem Spirit Guides and the ghost wolves from the old Shadowfang Keep dungeon! This has many Hunters thrilled, but some disappointed when they find out Karoma is a Spirit Beast and not a wolf (such as the Grimtotem wolves were upon taming). Karoma and the Grimtotem wolves do not share the same abilities, and Survival and Marksmanship Hunters can use a Grimtotem wolf whereas only Beastmasters can use Karoma.
Tracking and taming Karoma is fairly straight-forward. He has a few spawn locations in Twilight Highlands, so it'd be best to fly around and look for him.
If you decide to kill Karoma, he drops a grey item called "Crystalline Tear of Loyalty" that sells to a vendor for 25 gold. The tooltip on the item says "The desire to serve as a loyal companion coalesced into a single priceless crystal."
Karoma is unaffected by phasing in the zone.
Ghostcrawler has the new crab model and shares the same ghost-like appearance as Gondria and Arcturis. He's probably the most unique Spirit Beast as far as tracking and taming goes and likely the most difficult.
Ghostcrawler has a very long path he follows along the edge of the Abandoned Reef in Vashj'ir. He's the only creature dead or alive in that part of the zone. Other players are rarely seen in this area because no quests take them there. The only ones you might see are those trying to complete their exploration of the zone and the occasional Hunter looking for Ghostcrawler.
The biggest thing to be aware of is Ghostcrawler's ability to go invisible, which he does frequently! In fact, he's invisible for much longer than he's visible, making him particularly hard to track! But one thing is for sure: when that yellow dot appears on your minimap, you know for certain it's him. He's difficult to kill because he'll often disappear in the middle of combat. He's out for just a little longer than it would take to cast Tame Beast. When he goes invisible, even in the middle of combat, he continues along his path on the edge of the Abandoned Reef. If you're trying to kill him (or tame him), you'll be removed from combat when he disappears, and you'll have to travel further down the reef along his path to find him again. Being removed from combat is something you're going to be very grateful about, because…
He'll use his Nerfbat on you!
That's right! Ghostcrawler has an ability called "Nerfbat" that hits everyone in the nearby area for a certain percentage of the player's health for each tick. Ghostcrawler is immune to all forms of crowd control and stuns, and his Nerfbat will continue to deal damage quickly while you're in combat with him. You'll be low health by the time your tame is done. If Ghostcrawler disappears in the middle of your tame, heal up completely, then travel along his route to find him again. Don't panic if you can't locate him right away! Just keep flying around along his route and he will show up again.
It's important to note that NPCScan is very unreliable when trying to track Ghostcrawler. It'll cache him, but it likely won't alert you. For this reason, you will have to be present at your computer for the duration of your time trying to find him.
Ghostcrawler is unaffected by phasing in the zone. The image below shows his spawn location, but his path leads all along the edge of the Abandoned Reef, so check the whole thing!
Ghostcrawler is not able to be killed by players, so you don't have to worry about someone killing him before you can tame him (although another Hunter can still tame him before you).
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- 1. Gilbert Chamber of Commerce Endorses Victor Petersen for Town Council
There is no doubt that Gilbert Council member Victor Petersen is an advocate of free enterprise. He knows that businesses unfettered by government regulations have the same opportunity to grow and thrive. It's good that the Gilbert Chamber of Commerce recognizes and supports Victor Petersen.
"I am deeply grateful for the endorsement of the Gilbert Chamber of Commerce," said Victor Petersen. "The Chamber has been a long-standing voice for Gilbert businesses of all sizes. Businesses who associate with the Chamber not only build great relationships, but quickly find important ways to grow their business."
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- 2. U.S. Congressman Matt Salmon Endorses Victor Petersen for Gilbert Town Council
I am very glad that constitutional conservative Victor Petersen has received Matt Salmon's endorsement for Gilbert Town Council. Rep. Salmon stated:
"We really need guys like Victor," said Salmon, "who fight Federal overreach at the local level so we can be successful in that same effort in Congress. I hope you will join me in supporting him."
I agree with Rep. Salmon. Victor has consistently fought against Federal overreach, with every statement he makes and every vote he casts.
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Victor Petersen was elected to the Council in Gilbert Town Council in 2011. As a general manager in a locally run construction company, he oversees project budgets, system efficiencies, contracts, and information technology.
He is the Co-Director of For Our City in Gilbert. This group organizes two annual community-wide service projects in Gilbert.
Victor graduated from Gilbert High School and later from ASU with a bachelor of science degree in psychology. Victor is married to Joyce, and they have three boys and one daughter.
Matt Salmon was elected to the United States Congress on November 6, 2012 to represent the people of Arizona's 5th Congressional District. Matt was appointed by his peers to serve on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. He also serves on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Matt has spent the last 34 years happily married to his best friend, Nancy. They are the proud parents of four children and the proud grandparents of six grandchildren.Click here to read more
- 3. Gilbert Town Council Candidate Forum: Thursday, June 12, 7:00 pm
The public is invited to attend tonight's Gilbert Town Council Candidate Forum, hosted by the Arizona Legislative District 12 (LD12) Republicans. Seven candidates are running for four seats. Three incumbents are running, including Eddie Cook, Victor Petersen, and Jordan Ray. New faces include Jason Cvancara, Brigette Peterson, Tim Rinesmith, and T J Tillman.
The meeting will be held tonight, June 12, at 7:00 pm, at the Gilbert Community Education Center, 6839 E. Guadalupe Road (Power and Guadalupe), Mesa, AZ.Click here to read more
- 4. Let's Rally for Victor Petersen for Gilbert Town Council
The great news is that Gilbert Town Council Member Victor Petersen has turned in his petition signatures! Now, it's time to help him raise money for his campaign for reelection. Gilbert Watch supported Victor four years ago, and we are very proud that we never regretted it for a second! He is a rock solid, constitutional conservative. His voting record mirrors his campaign promises.
To donate to Victor's campaign, go HERE. Here is a letter from Victor.
Dear friends,
I am honored by and grateful for all the help I received in collecting signatures for my race. I am happy to announce that I have more than enough signatures to put my name on the ballot and that is thanks to all of you for your help!
With signatures complete, I am entering the fundraising stage of the campaign and I can't emphasize enough the importance of small donations. Even $5 is a wonderful donation as that reflects a grassroots campaign which characterizes my efforts in government. While protecting individual rights protects special interests some of the time, generally special interests do not appreciate the fact that they can't control my votes. They know that I am loyal only to the principles of freedom which benefit everyone equally. This means the everyday citizen like you will have to contribute in order to have a successful campaign.
As a fiscal conservative, I will make the most of every hard-earned dollar that you contribute and I will not rest in my never-ending quest for lower taxes so you can keep more of those hard-earned dollars.
Thank you for your support!
Victor PetersenClick here to read more
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Cell: 602-332-7432
- 5. Gilbert One of few Valley Cities on Solid Financial Ground
Did you read this latest article? You can thank a fiscally responsible Gilbert Town Council for keeping Gilbert one of the most attractive and financially sound places to live in Arizona. Thanks to strong Gilbert families, it is also one of the saintliest and safest towns in America!
Two Town Council members are up for re-election: Victor Petersen and Eddie Cook. Please support both of these fine gentlemen.Click here to read more
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Please join Barbara Yates and Victor Petersen to gather signatures and hear some great music at the Concert in the Park this Thursday, April 3, starting at 6 pm. Meet just East of the Amphitheater across the bridge. Petitions will be all ready to go. Come by even if you can only help for a short time. Please do your part to keep great people in office.
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We are just a few weeks away from Apr 12, and we are grateful for the support we have received so far. However, there are still many opportunities to serve our neighbors in need. Please click HERE to volunteer for one of the many opportunities to help our neighbors. Once you are on the site, click on "Volunteer Registration." You will see many places and ways to volunteer. Do you want to help young children learn to read? How about helping with some landscaping for the Starbright Foundation? Several local elementary schools need some fresh paint! How about helping some churches that provide a safe place for the homeless?
Neighbors helping neighbors is a long tradition in Gilbert.
Thanks to the Gilbert Community!Click here to read more
- 9. Please Help Victor Petersen and Eddie Cook Gather Petition Signatures: Sat., Dec. 7.
Victor Petersen and Eddie Cook are in need of volunteers for Saturday, December 7, at the Gilbert Day's Parade to help them gather signatures to have their names added to the Primary Election Ballot for August 2014. They are seeking re-election to the Gilbert Town Council, and must collect 1000 signatures. Please help them for just one hour, from 8:00 - 9:00 am to help collect signatures.
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Did you know that Victor Petersen is not only a Gilbert Town Council Member, but he is also the Director of For Our City - Gilbert? He has worked tirelessly to connect local volunteers to local charities serving local needs. The key word is "volunteer." Victor does not believe that taxpayers should fund charities. Gilbert Watch agrees with him.
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Welcome back, Pam!
I don't blame you for the extended "vacation", I ended up taking one myself. *sigh* Well, I was moving and got sick and had a scanner burn out but I'm also lazy. *chuckle*
Anyway, I'm glad I decided to check and see that our Purple Ducks are back! Yay! *big hug to you and Innis* Be sure to tell Damonk so he can alert the world you're back. ^-^


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President Barack Obama requested Friday that Congress authorize $60.4 billion in emergency spending to help the states hit by the supers-storm Sandy in late October.
A House Democratic aide told NBC News that they "even though it's reasonable, we don't expect Republicans to just hand it over. We're going to have to fight for it."
Some congressional Republicans have said that the money spent on Sandy ought to be offset with spending cuts in other parts of the federal budget; most Democrats do not seek offsets.
In a joint statement, Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y. and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., co-chairs of the bipartisan congressional task force on recovering from Tropical Sandy, praised Obama's request. "While more may be needed in the long term, this robust package is a major first step that we will work to pass as quickly as possible in Congress to help devastated communities, families and businesses."
Sen. Charles Schumer, D- N.Y. said Thursday that Congress ought to approve the emergency spending for recovery from the storm in a separate bill, not as part of the year-end "fiscal cliff" package which Obama and congressional leaders are negotiating.
"Disaster aid has never been part of any kind of deficit reduction plan.... It's a one-time allocation and you don't need it after that. We prefer to keep it separate and I think that's the White House plan," Schumer told reporters in a briefing with Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, D- Ill.
At a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing Thursday, Sen. Robert Menendez, D- N.J. made the case that New Jersey had supported other states when they were recovering from natural disasters and now New Jersey deserves commensurate help from them.
"When we had Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast in Mississippi and Alabama and Louisiana, I was there," Menendez told HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, who is leading the administration's Sandy recovery initiative. "When we had tornadoes in Joplin, Missouri, I was there. When we had flooding along the Mississippi, I was there….. Because I believe this is the United States of America. So I fully expect that now that now for the first time we have the type of devastation that others have suffered and should understand that we're going to have the type of response that others have received."
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Abstract: Not so many years ago, the fashion industry was called a 'sunset industry', and was deemed to have no future in the most developed countries. But recently, the New York Times has suggested that 'the sun never sets on the runway' (Wilson, 2008). Under this heading the article described the diffusion of fashion week organizations, with accompanying fashion shows, that are no longer limited to a handful of fashion capitals, but are spreading to small-country capitals and medium-sized cities all around the world. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7943
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Abstract: Using a fixed effect variance decomposition model, we estimate SUR models to analyze FDI spillovers from contagion and spillovers from competition on local firms in China. While the former type of spillover mainly depends on the degree of foreign presence in the local industry, the latter kind is related to how foreign and local firms interact. The main conclusion is that FDI has been beneficial for the Chinese economy, but that spillovers are not evenly distributed across firms and industries. Spillovers from contagion tend to exhibit an inverse U-shaped pattern with respect to the degree of foreign presence at the industry level, whereas spillovers from competition are more linear with respect to the level of technological sophistication of foreign firms. Industries with high absorptive capacity and/or high efficiency are the ones best equipped to take advantage of spillovers from foreign-owned firms. Moreover, there are signs of substantial competition between foreign-owned firms. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8033
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Abstract: Using firm-level data, this paper investigates whether Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and hence Multinational Enterprise (MNE) presence, explains India's improved export performance during post-reforms. The recent literature stresses that firm heterogeneity gives some firms an edge over others to self select into export market. Apart from ownership, this paper takes into account firm heterogeneity and various other firm-specific factors while understanding firm-level export performance. Hausman-Taylor estimation results show that foreign ownership does not have significantly different impact on export performance over domestic firms across sectors in Indian manufacturing. Rather firms acquire internationally competitiveness from imported raw materials, foreign technical know-how and local R&D. Further, firm heterogeneity measured in terms of sunk costs significantly impacts on firm-level export intensity. The study further reveals that there are ownership specific factors that determine firm-level exports. The results have significant implications for policy in order to attain international competitiveness of firms in India. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9292
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Abstract: The recent phenomenon of rising outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) flows has raised serious policy concerns about its effects on the domestic investment and capital formation in the countries of origin of such FDI flows. Does OFDI stimulate domestic investment or does it crowd it out? The concern arises because OFDI activities could shift not only some of the production activities from home to foreign destinations but also could possibly threaten the availability of scarce financial resources at home by allocating resources abroad. All this have the potential to reduce domestic investment, thus lowering the long run sustainable economic growth and employment of the home economies. The central goal of this paper is to empirically explore the evidence of the macroeconomic relationship between OFDI and levels of domestic capital formation in India. Our study reveals that OFDI has long run strong positive causality with domestic investment and thus figures out to be a significant factor affecting domestic investment in India. It becomes imperative therefore that the nation make special effort to promote its OFDI through the designing of appropriate OFDI policies that would help stimulate its domestic investment now and in the future so as to sustain economic growth and development in the long run. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9294
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Abstract: It is nowadays generally accepted that inward foreign direct investment (FDI) is crucial as a source of technological spillovers. One of the objectives of this paper is to review the evidence on the quantity and quality of human capital employed by domestic and foreign firms. We examine whether spillovers accrue from MNE activity, and provide a preliminary understanding of why MNE spillovers remain somewhat ambiguous, particularly in developing countries, paying particular attention to human capital development. Our analysis is supported by data from the Innovation Survey in Argentina. On the whole, MNE subsidiaries hired more professionals than domestic firms of the same size, possessed a more skilled labour force overall, and spent more on training than similar domestic firms. Subsidiaries in Argentina effectively have a higher labour productivity and pay higher wages. Yet, in terms of knowledge creation and utilisation, there was little to differentiate affiliates from domestic firms. While there is little evidence of widespread FDI spillovers, where spillovers did occur, it was where domestic firms demonstrated high investment in absorptive capacities. Our analysis also suggests that much of MNE activity - particularly after liberalisation - has been of the kind that by definition has limited opportunities for linkages and spillovers. These are activities in which MNEs may simply be able to generate economic rent from their superior knowledge of markets, and their ability to efficiently utilise their multinational network of affiliates. These assets are not generally easily spilled over to domestic firms. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6593
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Some Lessons from United States Constitutional HistorySweeney, Richard J. (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: A constitution is more likely to be accepted if it federalizes those issues that are widely seen as needing complete harmonization. A constitution is more likely to endure if the federal government does not have powers that are not vital to it but which may alienate some member states to the point that the federal government loses legitimacy. It appears vital to have trade policy at the European Union level; for euro countries, monetary policy is already federalized. It is not clear that common foreign and defense policies are needed; insisting on common foreign and defense policies may lead to conflicts within and across member states that severely weaken the Union, conceivably contributing to eventual collapse. Insisting on harmonization of commercial codes does not have the destructive potential of attempting completely to harmonize defense and foreign policies; it may, however, lead to needless conflict that helps drain the reservoir of goodwill that the European Union will need for dealing with other conflicts amongst member states. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6787
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Uldam, Julie (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In the wake of increasing disillusion with the potential of alternative online media for providing social movements with a virtual space for self-representation and visibility (Atton, 2002; Downing, 2001; Rodriguez, 2001) activists have been adopting online social media into their media practices. With their popular appeal and multimodal affordances social media such as YouTube and Facebook have reinvigorated hopes for the potential of the internet for providing social movements such as the Global Justice Movement, which is often misrepresented as a homogeneous and in a negative light in the mass media (Gamson and Wolfsfeld, 1993; Juris, 2008), with new possibilities for promoting self-representations to wider publics – beyond the echo chambers of alternative media (Cammaerts, 2007; Sunstein, 2001). In the mediation of institutional politics the increasing use of popular online spaces has brought about the term 'YouTube‐ification of Politics' (Turnsek and Jankowski, 2008). However, two challenges remain: the first relates to fragmentation – the internet's properties as a 'pull-medium' is argued to merely connect likeminded users (Cammaerts, 2007: 138). The second relates to 'lazy politics' – the internet's ephemeral properties are argued to facilitate brief participation in single-issue campaigns that fails to foster political engagement (Fenton, 2008a: 52). This thesis focuses on the latter. It addresses the possibilities of popular online spaces for fostering collective solidarity and political engagement in social movement organisations. It explores how these possibilities are played out in the online arena of popular sites employed by the two London-based social movement organisations: the World Development Movement (WDM) and War on Want. Drawing on the cases of WDM and War on Want, the thesis addresses three dimensions of these practices, exploring (1) rationales for using popular online spaces to promote the SMO agenda; (2) the social movement organisations' online campaigns; and (3) members' identifications with the campaigns through discourse analysis and interviews with SMO directors, campaign, outreach and web officers as well as SMO members. It is by analysing how SMOs use different online spaces as locations for strategic framing and the formation of political identities that we can begin to study how the internet may contribute to an agonistic public sphere where also voices of dissent are heard. The thesis is based on Mouffe's understanding of politics and the political as grounded in discourse but also based on a view of political engagement as conflictual, affective and sometimes irrational (Cammaerts, 2007; Fenton, 2009; Mouffe, 2005). Even though this does not mean that SMOs do not apply rational considerations in planning their strategic agendas for public visibility and legitimacy, it does mean that the study of these considerations need to take into account this dual character of political discourse as both rational and affective (Hajer and Versteeg, 2005). Therefore, we need to consider instrumental and affective issues to understand the relationship between strategic protest and the underlying dynamics of intragroup commitment (Griggs and Howarth, 2002; Snow et al., 1986) – the interconnections between strategy and identity, external resonance and internal commitment. In this way, the democratic potentialities of the internet can be seen as not only related to the ways in which SMOs communicate their agenda but also to potentialities for forging political identities and commitment (Fenton, 2008a). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8211
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Moeran, Brian (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This working paper examines the field of Japanese publishing through a single event – the Tokyo International Book Fair – and analyses the part played by the three main players in the publishing industry: publishing houses, wholesale distributors, and bookstores and other retail outlets. It argues that the mutual relationships between the three are supported by two structural factors, the consignment sales and resale price maintenance (RPM) systems, before comparing the latter with the Net Book Agreement (NBA) that operated in the UK publishing industry for almost the whole of the 20th century. In conclusion, taking into account the rise of Internet retailing and the growth of Japanese chain retail stores, it tries to looks at what effect the abolition of RPM might have on the field of Japanese publishing. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8051
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a cross-cultural comparison of ELLEMoeran, Brian (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6990
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advertising social organisation in JapanMoeran, Brian (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7037
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Design af levende billeder i film og tv-serierWille, Jakob Ion (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Ph.d.-afhandlingen Film som Design undersøger, beskriver og kortlægger design og designerens arbejde i filmens og det levende billedes verden for på den baggrund at bidrage med indsigter i og foreslå analytisk håndtering af det, der bredt forstås ved det levende billedes design. Generelt behandler filmens teorier det levnende billedes stil og design som en reaktion på filmens eller tvseriens dominerende narrativ. Omvendt opfatter designtænkningen generelt filmens eller tv-seriens design som repræsentation af designartefakter. Mens disse forståelser i og for sig er rimelige, udtrykker de også en begrænset indsigt i filmisk design. Det primære mål for afhandlingen er derfor at udvide forståelsen og betydningen af design i den filmiske produktion og det filmiske værk. Dette sker gennem empiriske studier af film- og tv-produktioner og ved at overføre begreber og metodeforståelse fra designverdenen til filmens verden. Der tages på den måde hovedsageligt udgangspunkt i eksisterende filmvidenskabelig og designfaglig teori, der søges appliceret på filmens design for på den bagrund 1) at formidle og udvikle ny viden om området og foreslå anvendelsesorienteret metode til analytisk arbejde med dette samt 2) at revurdere og evt. revidere opfattelsen af designets betydning for skabelsen af det filmiske værk. På den måde tydeliggøres på den ene side designeren og designets betydning for skabelsen og oplevelsen af det visuelle værk, mens denne forståelse på den anden side søges instrumentaliseret i både praktisk anvendelsesorienteret og analytisk metode. For at differentiere sig fra mere kontekstorienterede diskurser arbejdes der i afhandlingen hovedsagligt med en formalistisk forståelse af det levende billede, inspireret af en poetik, hvor det levende billedes design primært opfattes som et resultat af kunstneriske eller designmæssige valg. Implicit i denne forestilling findes samtidig idéen om designeren som væsentlig medskaber (eller demiurg) af filmen eller tv-seriens fiktive univers. Disse og andre forestillinger fremstillet i afhandlingen sandsynliggøres gennem et empirisk materiale, der blandt andet indeholder studier af designarbejdet i så forskellige film som Lars von Triers Melancholia (2011) og Steven Spielbergs Minority Report (2001). Dertil bygger afhandlingen blandt andet på eksempler fra danske og internationale tv-serier samt på erfaringer fra et eksperimenterende samarbejde mellem manuskript- og producerelever fra Den Danske Filmskole, studerende fra Det Danske Kunstakademis Skole for Design og Danmarks Radio, TV-DRAMA. Endelig trækker afhandlingen på en bred vifte af eksempler på filmisk design fra det vestlige korpus af klassiske film fra George Méliès Le voyage à travers l'impossible (1904) til Stanley Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9106
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AddendumGarcía-Martínez, Mercedes; Carl, Michael; Mesa-Lao, Bartolomé; Alabau, Vicent; Ortíz-Martínez, Daniel; Koehn, Philipp (Edinburgh, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This document is an extension of D5.4 as suggested in the second review report. It contains de- tails about the implementation of the nal prototype of the casmacat workbench and outlines the improvements of the workbench with respect of the previous deliverable 5.4. The objective of WP5 is to integrate the translation system and user interface and to develop the casmacat workbench. This deliverable shows the functional components of the workbench and describes their interaction possibilities in the last casmacat prototype. It also describes the most recent additions to the workbench. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9057
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García-Martínez, Mercedes; Cheung Petersen, Dan; Tsoukala, Chara; Alabau, Vicent; Ortíz-Martínez, Daniel; Koehn, Philipp; Carl, Michael (Edinburgh, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This document contains details about the implementation of the 3rd prototype of the casmacat workbench as well as the CRITT Translation Process Research Database (TPR-DB). It outlines the improvements of the workbench respect of the previous Deliverable 5.3. This deliverable will be updated in month 36 of the project with further improvements. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9056
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Carl, Michael; García-Martínez, Mercedes; Hill, Robin; Keller, Frank; Mesa-Lao, Bartolomé; Schaeffer, Moritz (Edinburgh, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: D1.3 marks the final CASMACAT report on user interface studies, cognitive and user modelling covering the completion of tasks T1.5 (Cognitive Modelling) and T1.6 (User Modelling) as part of Work Package 1. Within tasks T1.1 to T1.4, a series of experiments have established a solid understanding of human behaviour in computer-aided translation, focusing on the use of visualization options, different translation modalities, individual differences in translation production, translator types and translation/postediting styles. Additionally, the bulk of this experimental data has been released as a publicly available database under a creative common license and further details on this can be found in D1.4. In parallel to these more holistic studies, a second set of experiments aimed to examine some of these factors in a constrained laboratory setting. These focused on the underlying psycholinguistic processing and cognitive modelling of translators' activity to capture reading difficulty, verification and perplexity during translation and post-editing. This deliverable combines these earlier empirical findings with experiments conducted in Year 3 of the project and grounds translation within a broader theoretical framework associated with human sentence processing and communication. As well as broadening our general understanding of bilingual cognitive processing, there were two major objectives behind the experimental investigations in Year 3. The first was to evaluate the utility of providing translators with Source-Target word alignment information through spatially-direct visual cues. The second was to determine what, if any, differences arise from expertise by comparing the results between a group of bilinguals and a group of professionally trained translators on the same translation-related tasks. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9059
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The Implications for Whole Farm Risk ManagementFriis Pedersen, Michael (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis analyzes the institutional framework around risk management in Danish agriculture, with the two main sectors, the hog and the dairy sector in mind, and it suggests a new more active role for the cooperatives in these sectors, with regard to the reallocation of price risk among members. The thesis consists of a general introduction, three linked but independent and self-contained papers and a conclusion. The first paper introduces a measure of credit capacity using Data Envelopment Analysis. This is a novel application of a well-known methodology from production economics on financial issues. The paper was motivated by the fact that most literature on risk management explains the rationale for risk management activities such as hedging, with increased ability to obtain finance via debt. However, no hedging had been performed on the output side for Danish pig or dairy farms, while access to debt capital seemed abundant. It seemed that farmers may have been thinking "Why hedge, if you can borrow?" The perception of the abundant availability of liquidity in the form of credit reserves may have been an explanation for the absence of other risk management activities in the sectors and why a measure and empirical analysis of the development in credit capacity was needed. However, existing measures of access to credit had focused on the dichotomous question of whether firms are financially constrained or not, while the relative unconstrainedness of firms (farms) would have explained the absence of risk management. An analysis of some 92,000 farm accounts from 1996 to 2009 found that access to credit roughly doubled during the period. This may have been an important explaining factor for the (absent) development of risk management institutions. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8817
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Behavioral Aspects and the Impact of Personal CharacteristicsStæhr, Simone (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis is broadly concentrated on decision making under uncertainty. It seeks to investigate how agents in financial markets make decisions at the individual level and how these decisions can sometimes be affected by personal traits and cognitive biases rather than being perfectly rational. The primary focus is on financial analysts in the task of conducting earnings forecasts while a secondary focus is on investors' abilities to interpret and make use of these forecasts. Simply put, financial analysts can be seen as information intermediators receiving inputs to their analyses from firm management and providing outputs to the investors. Amongst various outputs from the analysts are forecasts of earnings. According to decision theories mostly from the literature in psychology all humans are affected by cognitive constraints to some degree. These constraints may lead to unintentional biases in the decision making and the magnitude of these constraints does sometimes vary with personal traits. Therefore, to the extent that financial analysts are subjects to behavioral biases their outputs to the investors are likely to be biased by their interpretation of information. Because investors need accuracy in the financial forecasts on which they base investment decisions they may end up losing money as a consequence of biased forecasts. Thus, relying primarily on decision theories such as social comparison theory and theories on confirmation bias this thesis investigates how and why pronounced biases in financial analysts' forecasts documented at the market level by prior literature occur at the individual level and which personal traits interact in this process. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9492
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explaining incremental changeMoschella, Manuela; Tsingou, Eleni (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8806
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Implications for Early Option Exercise and Realized VolatilityJensen, Mads Vestergaard (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: A call option on a stock is a common and widely used derivative. On an average trading day in 2015, more than 800,000 such options traded on the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the largest options exchange in the United States. Each option grants its owner the right to buy 100 of a specific stock at a pre-specified price, no later than a pre-specified date. For example, an option can grant the right to buy 100 General Electric shares for USD 31 each no later than October 21, 2016. An interesting issue is determining when an option is optimally exercised. Merton (1973) shows that in a world without frictions, a call option should never be exercised early, but only at expiration or just before the underlying stock pays a dividend. Chapter one of this thesis shows that suffciently severe frictions can make early exercise optimal. Short-sale costs especially represent an important driver of early exercise. Chapter two shows that when option owners exercise early, it predicts stock returns, consistent with option owners acting on private information. Chapter three does not include options but shows that demand shifts in the shorting market for stocks predict the volatility of the affected stocks, which is consistent with increases in differences of opinions among market participants. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9386
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Olai Hansen, Bodil; Keiding, Hans (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We consider a simple model of international trade under uncertainty, where production takes time and is subject to uncertainty. The riskiness of production depends on the choices of the producers, not observable to the general public, and these choices are influenced by the availability and cost of credit. If investment is financed by a bond market, then a situation may arise where otherwise identical countries end up with different levels of interest and different choices of technique, which again implies differences in achieved level of welfare. Under suitable conditions on the parameters of the model, the market may not be able to supply credits to one of the countries. The introduction of financial intermediaries with the ability to control the debtors may change this situation in a direction which is welfare improving (in a suitable sense) by increasing expected output in the country with high interest rates, while opening up for new problems of asymmetric information with respect to the monitoring activity of the banks. Keywords: Capital outflow, financial intermediaries, moral hazard JEL classification: F36, D92, E44 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7498
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See how Toyota vehicles compare against the competition. Start by choosing your Toyota vehicle and a competitor to learn more on how they stack up.
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Fordham University Press publishes new books
May 22, 2015
31 new titles have been published on Fordham Scholarship Online (FSO), adding to History, Literature, Philsophy, and Religion. These books cover a diverse range of subjects, from the stories behind painted portraits to Dante and Islam, and from postcolonial war fiction to Jacques Derrida's final seminar - and much more!
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By Rebecca Welling of IUCN's Water Programme attending World Water Week in Stockholm.
When you think about water diplomacy, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Law? Transboundary conflict? States and Ministers agreeing on pertinent issues?
For me, from a water management perspective, it was about legal frameworks, international law and States coming together to 'shake hands' on common issues, with the goal of signing 'agreements' to frame how countries should manage their water resources.
And it still is – but now I realise there's more to it.
Working on the IUCN Water Programme's Building River Dialogue and Governance (BRIDGE) project I've learned that it's not just about these elements. Crucially, in addition to national-level dialogue, it's also about a variety of actors, right down to the community level, coming together to build a common vision under a variety of agreements – and not just treaties at the highest levels. For agreements to work on the ground they need to have the agreement of water users themselves. Working across such a spectrum of agreements builds a practical, operational roadmap for change and improvement in water governance capacities that is closely linked to sustainable development in a basin.
This is something that all of us in the team have learned working on the BRIDGE project.
Since our Global Learning Workshop in Lima in March, we have pulled this learning together in the form of a case study series and water governance briefings. Stories from project locations in the 3S rivers (as the Sesan, Sekong and Sre Pok rivers are collectively known) in the Mekong, to the Lake Titicaca basin between Peru and Bolivia explain how BRIDGE implements water diplomacy on the ground.
And what better place is there to share these new knowledge products than at World Water Week? It's a great platform to launch and share learning as it gathers water sector professionals from around the globe.
We presented our BRIDGE project during our lunchtime session on Monday afternoon, providing a space for people to come and learn and ask questions. After an introduction from Johan Gély, from Swiss Development Cooperation and the donor of BRIDGE, we showed the new video created by the Mesoamerica team – 'Ríos que Unen Fronteras"/"Rivers Uniting Borders' which illustrates work in the Coatán, Sixaola and Goascorán Basins. We also heard from Ganesh Pangare who brought an Asian perspective to the event explaining that with the 3S Basin being the most intensive dam building area in the world, no place was more important to implement water diplomacy approaches.
Our star of the event was Miztella Dávila, a leader in her community on water governance and coordinator of the Champions Network under BRIDGE in the Mesoamerica region. The Champions Network brings together people from communities in the region who are passionate and energetic about making changes to water management practices through improved water governance. Listening to her tell the story of the successes in the Sixaola Basin (shared between Costa Rica and Panama) – work with local governments and the signing of the Declaration of San Marcos – Mitzella brought to life the stories and learning captured in the case studies and briefings.


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MAHWAH, N.J. -- A Mahwah native who avoided capture for two weeks after being charged with dumping a woman's body late last month in Central Jersey was caught at a New Brunswick motel, authorities said Thursday.
Nicole Barbour, 26, was staying at the Red Carpet Inn on Route 1 when, according to Somerset County Prosecutor Michael H. Robertson, FBI agents and detectives from his Major Crimes Unit and Branchburg police took her into custody around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.
A judge ordered Barbour held in the Somerset County Jail pending a detention hearing Thursday afternoon on charges of disturbing human remains.
Authorities said Barbour and a Pennsylvania man, 32-year-old David DeSantos, moved the body of a dead Hopatcong woman into brush on a highway median on Route 22 in Branchburg on March 29.
The body of Ashley M. Castro, 29, was found 6 days later.
After identifying the victim, investigators zeroed in on DeSantos and Barbour -- who acquaintances told Daily Voice attended Mahwah High School and records show has a minor North Jersey criminal history.
These include arrests in Mahwah on drug charges in May 2015 and for shoplifting in Elmwood Park two months earlier.
Authorities arrested DeSantos, of Henryville, PA on April 7 on a fugitive warrant out of Pennsylvania and charged him with second-degree disturbing human remains.
They couldn't find the 5-foot-4, 105-pound Barbour, who recently was living in Ringwood, however.
The search continued until Wednesday morning's arrest at the Route 1 motel in New Brunswick -- a little over 25 miles southeast of where the body was found.
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Is my 4K/8K BRAVIA TV compatible with HDCP 2.2?
Whether or not your TV is compatible with HDCP 2.2 depends on the model.
NOTE: Please refer to the following Q&A to check if the HDMI terminal on Android TV™ corresponds to HDR.
Is my BRAVIA TV compatible with HDR?
For Android TVs released in 2019:
Every terminal on all 4K/8K BRAVIA TVs supports HDCP 2.2 or 2.3 protocol.
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Every terminal on all 4K BRAVIA TVs supports HDCP 2.2 protocol.
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Every terminal on X72xF Series and XF70xx_X70xxF_X73xF Series supports HDCP 2.2 protocol.
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Every terminal on X67E_X69E series and XE70_X70E_X72E series supports HDCP 2.2 protocol.
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The HDMI 1 and HDMI 2 terminals of all 4K BRAVIA TVs support HDCP 2.2 protocol.
- 2013 models:
The HDMI 4 terminal of the KDL-X8500A/X850A series supports HDCP 2.2 protocol.
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For details, refer to the 4K Ultra HD media player manual.
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I have just upgraded via the update manager from 11.04 to 11.10 and have a problem in that after rebooting I have no visible screen, just an extremely thin line along the top of my monitor. As I am running on AMD64 with an Nvidia card I tried the solution outlined here as regards renaming my xorg.conf file via a 11.04 live CD, but this has not worked.
According to GRUB my new updated kernel is 3.0.0-11 (Development Branch) and I must say that I was unpleasantly surprised that a distribution upgrade via the update manager on release day would upgrade me to a development release. Can anyone offer any advice as to how I can solve this problem?
EDIT - update on problem
After perusing many forum entries, entry #27 for 64-bit here actually worked. After "sudo reboot now" I got into the GUI and everything seemed OK. Then went to update manager and found I had 700MB plus of updates to still install. Started installing them, and while update manager was running in the background I attempted to open Firefox. The screen immediately went to a multi-coloured "sandstorm" and everything froze - neither the mouse or keyboard had any effect. All I could do was reboot by pressing the reset button, and since that the system only boots into tty1. What now?


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It's been a long time since I've been active on mycorgi. I need to change my password and forget how to do it. I'm hoping you can help me. Thanks so much. Wendy
Good to see you two are not only still on MyCorgi, but also still foster parents. This site was is so helpful; I still love it! I have the 2013 wall calendar, and also got a weekly planner for Gregg. People come by my desk just to see the new months Corgi. Will there be a 2014?