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Trebco Specialty Products, Inc. mandates all of our infant/baby products are completely safety tested, at independent testing facilities and meet or exceed all applicable safety standards as set forth by the regulatory bodies in the United States. This includes physical/mechanical standards, as well as recent legislation regarding chemicals and minerals such as BPA, lead and Phthalates.
All parties involved in the manufacture of Trebco Specialty Products Inc. products is required to follow these guidelines and all tests are conducted by registered independent testing facilities.
As a manufacturer of baby products and in our diligent efforts to promote "safety first", we have found educational and informative resources for parents and caregivers to reference for critical safety information which will assist in
establishing safe environments for babies. Among them are the JPMA, a national trade organization of juvenile products, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. For questions or for more information, please speak with your physician.
1.How do I clean the WubbaNub™?
Plush: Machine washable. Place in lingerie or mesh laundry bag. Wash on gentle cycle. Remove from washer and allow to air dry.
Pacifier Nipple: Wash nipple before initial use. Place nipple portion in warm water using a mild liquid soap. To sterilize, place nipple portion of WubbaNub into boiled water for 2 - 4 minutes.
Sterilizer: A moist heat sterilizer unit can also be used with the WubbaNub product for sterilization.
2.Are WubbaNubs™ dishwasher safe?
For sanitary reasons, we do not recommend placing the WubbaNub™ in the dishwasher.
3.Are the beans in the limbs of the plush baby safe?
Yes! The beans are sewn in separate safety sacks within the plush. The WubbaNub™ conforms to the ASTM F963-96a safety code requirements and is baby safe.
4.My baby has a latex allergy. Is this pacifier made of latex?
No. This pacifier is made of silicone. Also, it is medical grade and given out by many hospitals nationwide in their nurseries.
Or, how a PACIFIER and a PLUSH TOY helped a family live happily ever after!
It's 1998 and the Schneider family is packing up for a long-awaited vacation - three-month-old Baby and all. They smile and laugh and play all day and have a wonderful time - the kind of vacation every young family dreams of. But the dream turns into a nightmare later that evening when Baby Schneider fusses and cries and wakes all night long.
Mommy and Daddy Schneider discover a way to get Baby to go to sleep: with a hospital pacifier planted firmly in his mouth. But when Baby drifts off, the pacifier drops out and the fussing starts all over again. To their dismay, Mommy and Daddy realize the only way the pacifier will stay put is if one of them holds it - all night long. No sleep for Mommy or Daddy!
The hours crawl by and become days. And still Baby fusses. It's two days into their "dream" vacation and Mommy and Daddy - and Baby, too - are tired, cranky, and at their wit's end. It's 3:00 a.m. "How are we ever going to get that pacifier to stay put so we can all get some sleep?" whispers Daddy.
Baby enjoying his WubbaNub™ suddenly, a smile crosses Mommy's lips. Handing Baby to Daddy, she reaches for Baby's pacifier...one of his plush toys...and a sewing kit...and sews the pacifier and the toy together. Baby takes the pacifier in his mouth and grasps the toy. Lo and behold, Baby drifts off and the pacifier stays put. 3:05 a.m.: all the Schneiders are sleeping soundly and they all lived happily ever after!
But a good night's sleep is just the beginning of the WubbaNub™ story. When they return home, well-rested and happy, their friends - who are sleep-deprived with fussy babies of their own - cry out for WubbaNubs™. Mommy and Daddy sense they're onto something here.
Since the year 1999 the WubbaNub™ has been produced in great numbers and in lots of colors and many friendly animal shapes. And it's on the market all across the country in finer baby and childrens' specialty stores, specialty toy stores, and internet web sites. And now, you can learn all about WubbaNubs™ right here at the world's only WubbaNub™ web site.
Happy and well-rested babies everywhere think the WubbaNub™ story is a wonderful tale. So do mommies and daddies who can finally get a good night's sleep. We think you will, too, once you try your very own WubbaNub™ with your very own fussy baby
We have three WubbaNubs and I can't imagine life without them!! They truly are the best products. I recommend to all moms. Thanks for making my life easier,
My baby absolutely LOVES her WubbaNub!! It's easy to hold on to and fun to play with. It has comforted her many a times and brings a smile to her face and ours!!! THANK YOU!! It's brilliant and so creative and really is a must have!!
—Natasha and Jim
We were recently given a WubbaNub, well not recently about 2 months ago. We have a baby in the NICU in Mesa, Arizona and she loves her WubbaNub. This email is really to say, thank you and we love our WubbaNub
—The Squire Family
Thank you so much for the care package you sent to our son, Brayton, in the hospital. We appreciate your kindness. I do not know what we would do without the WubbaNub; it has brought him so much comfort in all the hard days he has faced.
—The Martin's
I am a parent of a preemie who has loved his Red Dog WubbaNub. Thank you for everything!
—Abby S.
All we can say is Thank you! What a life-saver your product has been. Trip carries his "wub" with him everywhere he goes. We keep the duck inhis crib and the dog in the car, and never leave home without it! Thank you again!
-Lisa and Bob
As you might imagine, the 100 days our son spent in the NICU struggling for life were quite a trial.Your WubbaNub helped immensely in that regard.The body of the WubbaNub made it possible for him to hold on and comfort himself. Thank you for a quality product that has helped our son grow strong and to learn that he has control over his world.
—Geoff and Brooke
I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for the awesome WubbaNubs! We have three of these incredible critters living in our house. Duck is our traveling WubbaNub and quite the life saver when we took a cross country trip to see my parents recently. His little wings are perfect hand holds and keep him from being spit across the car! Thank you for such a great product!
A lovely woman - who I regretfully forgot to catch the name of, overnighted me a WubbaNub for my son when we were out of town on vacation in an area where I couldn't replace his lost one. She called me back after I left a frantic message to try and find a local retailer and sent me a new one first thing! On a Saturday delivery no less. I want people to know about her kindness and my son's love for your products - we now own two WubbaNubs (the dog and the frog).
—Laurette S.
I don't know how we would have made it through the first few months without our WubbaNub or "Wubby" as it is known in our home!
—The Pershings
We LOVE your product!! My daughter had to stay in the hospital for a while and her "Red Dog" kept her company. we have 3 at our house and every night she has to sleep with all of them. Thanks again
—Sarah and Chelsea
I wanted to send this as it is my daughters most prized possession. We cannot go anywhere with out it!!! Because of the Wabbanub she now has the most amazing hand eye coordination. She has been able to put it in her own mouth since she was 7 weeks old. She loves her kitty!!! The only downside to this is that everywhere we go, other babies and children are trying to take it right out of her mouth cause it looks like so much fun. Thank goodness for the WubbaNub. What a wonderful idea!!!
We love our WubbaNub Penguin so far! It really gives my son something to 'cuddle' with as he satisfies his need for the paci. WubbaNub is fabulous when he's on his side in the playard — I don't have to worry about it falling out every 30 seconds! Also, I was so pleased when my baby received his first set of shots last week and his penguin was tucked into the car seat straps comforting him all the way home! Thanks =]
Our little guy, Eli, loves his Green Frog WubbaNub! I had never heard of them and we received this as a gift. From now on I plan to give these as gifts for friends having babies. Thanks for such a great product!! Attached are two photos of Eli, we would love if he could be on you baby brag wall. Thank you!
My daughter loves her WubbaNubs! She has both the dog and the duck. Ironically, she doesn't use them in the traditional way. Madeline turns them backwards, wraps the tag around her finger and then sucks her thumb. She originally sucked the pacifier, but as soon as she had the coordination to suck her thumb she started using the Wubbanub in her own way! She loves her WubbaNubs (which she calls Red FuFu and Yellow FuFu) and can't live without them!
I live on Canada's East Coast and recieved a your doggie WubbaNub as a gift for my baby Grace. My aunt who lives in Edmonton, Alberta says her daughter who also has an infant swears by the WubbaNub. She claims that "WubbaNub is a must have for every happy baby" so they sent me one. My baby absolutely LOVES her WubbaNub!! It's easy to hold on to and fun to play with. It has comforted her many a times and brings a smile to her face and ours!!! THANK YOU!! It's brilliant and so creative and really is a must have!!
—Natasha and Jim
My nephew was born at 26 1/2 weeks at 1 lb., 6 oz. and is now thriving at over 7 pounds! All he wants for Christmas are WubbaNubs!
—Max's Proud Auntie
All we can say is Thank you! What a life-saver your product has been. Trip carries his "wub" with him everywhere he goes. We keep the duck inhis crib and the dog in the car, and never leave home without it! Thank you again!
—Lisa and Bob
Our little girl was colicky and we were pulling out our hair trying to find a pacifier that would work. The Soothie was the only one she would take so we bought a few along with her WubbaNub we named "Charlie". She loves Charlie and we don't go anywhere without him. We've lost many Soothies but Charlie is easy to find, and more importantly, easy for her to hold.I just wanted to let you know just how much I love your product.
—A VERY Happy New Mom, Donna!
My daughter loves her WubbaNub. It has truely been a life saver.... Not to mention sleep saver.
—Holly Morris
Just wanted to let you know I have tried every pacifier on the market and this is the only one my son, Christian would take. The frog has helped develop wonderful hand coordination. I will be buying more for futuremoms-to-be!!!!
—Jennifer G.
Aloha WubbaNub! I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your product. I have a 6-month old Down Syndrome baby girl (Tiana Grace) who was admitted to the NICU immediately following her birth due to a congenital heart condition diagnosed in utero. Thank you so much for thinking of such a simple idea and putting it out there for all to use. I have since purchased the frog & horse as well.
—Debbie P.
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- 1. Gilbert School Board Struggles to Allow Parents a Voice in Choosing Reading Materials
On March 26, 2013, Gilbert School Board Clerk Mrs. Julie Smith, requested a discussion and approval of Item 6.02 relating to a Community Curriculum Committee. Eventually, the motion was revised to approve formation of a Community Textbook and Supplemental Materials Committee. Mrs. Smith's major concern was that, in light of materials used in Springboard and Common Core, parental and teacher input be allowed prior to adoption of certain reading materials. See the video below, where the discussion begins at 1:13:00. The essence of opinions begins at 1:34:00. Board Members Lily Tram and Jill Humphreys are in agreement that selection of textbooks and supplemental reading materials should be left in the hands of "the professionals." "There are many different values in Gilbert," stated Mrs. Humpherys. "One person's trash is another person's treasure." Mrs. Tram wanted to know, "Who is going to run this committee"? Board President Staci Burk suggested that Mrs. Smith would facilitate it. The Board approved the Committee 3-2.Click here to read more
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Poor spending choices: Catholic values and the U.S. budget
Getting our nation's budget priorities in order will require a show of solidarity.
Thanks to Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, somewhat arcane Catholic concepts like subsidiarity and solidarity are enjoying rare media celebrity as TV news anchors and Catholic-challenged journalists try to make sense out of all this Catholic social teaching stuff. The debate Ryan inspired raises some interesting questions about those encyclical bookends of subsidiarity and solidarity, particularly the latter. How far are people of good will intended to extend themselves in bringing the challenge of solidarity to its fullest cultural and practical expression?
In the debate over the 2013 budget, the U.S. bishops and their partners in an interreligious campaign to promote an aspect of Catholic teaching, the preferential option for the poor, are relying on solidarity to shore up a "circle of protection" around the U.S. social safety net and foreign assistance programs. As austerity hawks close in, most of the tall talk of shared sacrifice revolves around the roughly 12 percent of the annual budget currently earmarked for relieving want and need in the United States and around the world.
In recent years the American public has been persuaded to accept the notion of the "undeserving poor," that is, a supposed army of public aid recipients too lazy or too cunning to go out and find work. It is this crowd that Ryan imagines in his budget grandstanding, blaming an overabundance of public assistance programs for the ascendancy of a discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class.
Ryan argues that government aid is in fact a disservice to such folk, since it perpetuates their indolence, and it is on this cultural peg that he hangs his understanding of subsidiarity. But this perspective, part of an Americanization of Catholic culture, owes more to John Calvin or Ayn Rand than to Ryan's Catholic upbringing.
It also promotes a mythology that has little resemblance to the reality of the nation's family assistance programs. In the real world, public aid is hard to qualify for and far from generous. Most aid programs, such as food stamps and housing assistance, are designed around the needs of children, not adults. There is nothing comparable to the European dole; it is hard for single, able-bodied adults in the United States to receive assistance.
It's true that subsidiarity properly looks askance at an overdetermining role of government. But the church also maintains a positive notion of subsidiarity that compels higher level—i.e., government—intervention when it is necessary. You don't advise a community that is overwhelmed by famine or unemployment that it needs to see to its own bootstraps; you extend assistance from the authority most capable of providing it.
And that is where the other big "S," solidarity, comes into play. Individual taxpayers can hardly be expected to happily assume responsibility for another family's want if they do not feel a connection to them. This connection is precisely what a vibrant sense of solidarity provides.
Solidarity asks that we do not reduce our brothers and sisters to political props, that we do not belittle them because of their need and the burdens they carry. It asks that we understand that the golden rule is not rhetorical pap for children, but a reminder that time and fortune have a way of humbling all of us. The need you detest in another may be the one you endure yourself someday.
Solidarity is demanding, certainly. It asks us to look beyond our families and our communities and the petty, artificial boundaries of nation, ethnicity, and religion to see our responsibility in the need next door and on the next continent. It unravels a thread of compassion and hope that connects us all in the mystical body of Christ, a thread that each of us may end up hanging from ourselves one day.
Solidarity is a good Catholic word to add to the cultural discussion here in the United States as we negotiate budget priorities that will help define the justness of our society and an American statement of the common good.
This article appeared in the July 2012 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 77, No. 7, page 39).
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Satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp and wireless network provider nTelos Holdings Corp said they would jointly develop a broadband service within nTelos's coverage territory serving parts of Virginia, Maryland and a few other states.
Dish has been trying to diversify beyond its core pay-TV business that has matured and faces tough competition from cable, telecom and Internet video providers.
The new service will give nTelos and Dish customers, especially those in underserved rural communities, access to high-speed Internet, the companies said in a statement.
"We are pleased to team with nTelos on this exciting opportunity to leverage their mobile capabilities along with our technical service infrastructure to develop broadband services," Charlie Ergen, chairman and co-founder of Dish said.
Dish is mired in two takeover battles, for Sprint Nextel Corp and Clearwire Corp, as it looks to expand its businesses.
Sprint offered to buy Clearwire in December for $2.2 billion but Dish announced a counterbid of $2.3 billion in January. Dish followed up in April by making a $25.5 billion cash and stock bid for Sprint.
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The last check accepted was from the Bank of Greenland and drawn on a Bank of America International account. Bank of America charged $120.00 to collect the funds. The original check amount was $742.80. The $120.00 had to be charged back to the department that deposited the check and it was up to them to try to collect those funds.
All Canadian checks must be placed on a separate deposit slip that is listed as 'CANADIAN' and be accompanied by a copy of the check with the deposit accounting numbers listed.
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Apply for Retirement Benefits
Social Security offers an online retirement application that you can complete in as little as 15 minutes. It's so easy. Better yet, you can apply from the comfort of your home or office at a time most convenient for you. There's no need to drive to a local Social Security office or wait for an appointment with a Social Security representative.
In most cases, once your application is submitted electronically, you're done. Social Security will process your application and contact you by telephone or by mail if any further information is needed.
Return to a Saved Application | Check Application Status
If you prefer to complete your application in a language other than English, the online application will give you the option to schedule an appointment to apply for benefits in your preferred language. The online application is currently only available in English.
Questions about our Social Security Retirement Benefits Application
Who can apply for retirement benefits online?
You can apply online for retirement benefits or benefits as a spouse if you:
- are at least 61 years and 8 months old;
- are not currently receiving benefits on your own Social Security record;
- have not already applied for retirement benefits; and
- want your benefits to start no more than 4 months in the future. (We cannot process your application if you apply for benefits more than 4 months in advance.)
What about Medicare?
If you already have Medicare, you can still use this application to apply for retirement benefits.
If you don't have Medicare but are within 3 months of age 65, you can use this application to apply for:
- both retirement and Medicare; or
- just Medicare, if you aren't ready to receive retirement benefits yet.
For more information, go to Medicare.
What do I need to know before I apply?
Before you apply for retirement benefits, there are certain Social Security "basics" you should know about:
- Your "full retirement age" -
Depending on your date of birth, that may be between age 66 and 67. This could affect the amount of your benefits and when you want the benefits to start.
- When you can start benefits -
You may start receiving benefits as early as age 62 or as late as age 70.
- Benefits are reduced for age -
Your monthly benefits will be reduced if you start them any time before "full retirement age."
- Working while you receive benefits -
If you elect to receive benefits before you reach full retirement age, you should understand how continuing to work can affect your benefits.
- Delayed retirement credits -
Delayed retirement credits may be added to your benefits if they start after your full retirement age.
- Life expectancy -
Many of us will live much longer than the "average" retiree, and most women live longer than men. More than one in three 65 year olds today will live to age 90, and more than one in seven will live to age 95. Social Security benefits, which last as long as you live, provide valuable protection against outliving savings and other sources of retirement income. Again, you'll want to choose a retirement age based on your circumstances so you'll have enough income when you need it.
Please read Other Things to Consider for information about other things you should think about when you make your decision about when to begin your benefits. Some of the things you should think about before you decide include:
- how long you think you will receive benefits,
- your health and
- whether anyone else in your family can get benefits on your record.
You can find out what documents and information you need to apply by reading our "Checklist for Online Medicare, Retirement, and Spouses Applications."
How do I use the online application?
- Select the "Apply for Retirement Benefits" button (above).
You'll be asked to create or sign in to your my Social Security account and then go through a series of screens that will ask you questions about yourself, your family, and your work.
- Fill out the online application.
You can complete your application in a single session or start the application now and finish it sometime later. If you:
- get stuck on a question, you can skip it and go back later. When you get to the end of the application, we'll let you know if there are any questions you still need to answer.
- can't complete your online application because you need to look something up, or for any other reason, you can "Return to a Saved Application" later without losing the information you entered.
You may not be able to use periods, commas, and other special characters when you answer some of the questions. If you use a character that a field cannot accept and you try to go to another page, you will get a message that tells you there is a problem and what caused it.
Example: You cannot use a period as part of an address. If you type "27 N. Main St." instead of "27 N Main St" in an address field, you will get a message when you try to go to the next page.
After you completely fill out the application, we will ask you to confirm the truthfulness of the answers to the best of your knowledge, under penalty of perjury, and your response will be recorded. You can be held liable for intentionally providing false or misleading information.
- "Sign" the application electronically by clicking on the "Submit Now" button. It will appear on the screen after you have finished filling out the application.
The only person who can "sign" the application is the person who is applying for benefits. A legal representative or person helping cannot sign the application. Helping Someone Apply Online.
Why apply for retirement online?
Using our online application has a number of benefits:
- You can avoid trips to your Social Security office. That saves you time and money.
- You can answer questions on your schedule. You don't have to complete the application the same day that you started it. You can start and stop the application without losing any of the information you entered.
- You will have a chance to correct mistakes. You can go back and make changes until you finish the application. You'll also be given a chance to review your answers and go back and make corrections before you submit the application.
- If you have trouble answering a question, you can find additional information in our [More Info] links.
- You don't need to mail your application. When you're finished, just click "Submit Now" to send your application to Social Security.
- You'll get a receipt for your online application. You can print the receipt and keep for your records.
- You can check the status of your online application. Your receipt includes a confirmation number you can use to check the status of your application.
However, if you choose to apply for benefits more than two months in the future, you will not be able to check the status of your application until one month before you start receiving benefits.
How long can I stay on each page?
For security reasons, there are time limits for viewing each page. You will receive a warning after 25 minutes without doing anything, and you will be able to extend your time on the page. After the third warning, you must move to another page or your time will run out and your work on that page will be lost.
What happens after I apply?
Once we receive your application, we'll review it. After the review, we will contact you if we need more information or if we need to see your documents.
We'll also let you know if...
- you may be able to receive benefits on another person's record, such as your spouse.
- other family members may be able to receive benefits on your work record.
When we have all of the necessary information and documents, we'll process your application and send you a letter about our decision in the mail.
Other ways to apply for retirement benefits
You can also apply:
- By phone - Call 1-800-772-1213. (TTY 1-800-325-0778) from 7 AM to 7 PM Monday through Friday.
- In person - Visit your local Social Security office. (Call first to make an appointment.)
If you do not live in the U.S. or one of its territories you can also contact the Federal Benefits Unit that provides service to your country of residence.


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Phillips 66 NASCAR Busch Grand National Car - Lock & Load
Strapping In For A 200-Mph Run
Before you can race, you have to strap in. For most racers, this is a ritual they don't even think about, but it's probably the most important thing a driver does at the track. The safety restraints and protective gear are the final defense systems against the many dangers a driver may face-asphalt, walls, other cars, and fire.
Circle Track wondered what goes through the mind of a driver moments before he starts his engine. To find out, we turned to Todd Bodine to get his thoughts as he prepared to take his #66 Phillips 66 NASCAR Busch Grand National car out for a time trial...
I know it sounds sort of strange, but when I walk to the pit lane to go out for qualifying, I am not really thinking much about the lap. What I mean is I try to stay loose, so I am joking and laughing with the guys.
As my turn gets close, I put on a flack jacket. After I broke my ribs in an accident, I started wearing it. I borrowed it from my brother Geoff, and now I wear it all the time, because it adds extra rib protection. I am the only one I know who uses this. The one I wear is a quarter-back jacket, but new ones are being developed for race drivers. It helps me stay comfortable.
I usually climb into the car when there are four cars ahead of me. First thing I do is get buckled up. When I am securely fastened, the steering wheel is put in place, and then I put in my radio earplugs.
After I strap on my helmet, we check the radio. I also check out all the systems and make sure the gas pedal is free and isn't sticking.
Up to this point, everything I am doing is a habit or a rhythm. It's something that is second nature, and I don't really have to think about it. These steps are locked in my head.
Finally, the window net is locked in place, and I begin to think about the lap I am going to make. I begin to visualize. Everyone has heard that athletes visualize their performance before actually doing it. The same is true for drivers. I close my eyes and paint a mental picture of what I am about to do, beginning with the exit off the pit lane onto the track and ending with the checkered flag flying. I see the entire thing in my mind.
When it's my turn, I fire up and start rolling. I concentrate on making the lap from corner to corner. When the green flag is out, I think about where I need to be, and I put the car there.Todd Bodine


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HONG KONG — Asian shares were mixed Thursday as investors digested the latest Fed minutes while geopolitical concerns overshadowed sentiment after President Donald Trump struck a defiant tone on the Middle East conflict.
KEEPING SCORE: Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index dipped 0.2 percent to 21,646.15 while the Kospi in South Korea edged up 0.1 percent to 2,446.05. Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 0.3 percent to 30,796.81 but the Shanghai Composite in mainland China slipped 0.6 percent to 3,188.97. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.4 percent to 5,808.20. Indexes in Taiwan, Singapore and Indonesia also lost ground.
FED MINUTES: At its most recent meeting in March, Federal Reserve policymakers said they felt the U.S. central bank might have to raise interest rates faster than expected to keep up with quickening economic growth and rising inflation that's coming close their 2 percent target, according to the latest minutes. Some officials also thought they might have to focus on slowing the economy to keep inflation under control.
TRUMP TALK: In a tweet, Trump suggested that he wanted to retaliate against Russia after the recent suspected chemical attack. Separately, Saudi Arabia said it intercepted missiles fired by rebels in Yemen as well as drones that targeted an oil facility. The prospect of escalating conflict in the Middle East has sparked fears about tighter oil supplies, driving crude prices to their highest since December 2014.
MARKET INSIGHT: "With the war drums quietly beating in the White House, markets tend to ignore the 'run of the mill' type issues like FOMC minutes," said Stephen Innes, head of Asian trading at OANDA.
WALL STREET: The S&P 500 index fell 0.6 percent to 2,642.19 after Tuesday's 1.7 percent surge. The Dow Jones industrial average slid 0.9 percent to 24,189.45. The Nasdaq composite lost 0.4 percent to 7,069.03.
ENERGY: Oil futures climbed to a fresh three-year high. Benchmark U.S. crude rose 29 cents to $67.11 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract climbed 2 percent to settle at $66.82 a barrel on Wednesday. Brent crude, used to price international oils, gained 24 cents to $72.30 a barrel in London.
CURRENCIES: The dollar rose to 106.85 yen from 106.79 yen in late trading Wednesday. The euro was flat at $1.2369.


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$ cat struct.pm package struct; use strict; use warnings; sub import { shift; my ( $name, $fields ) = @_; my $caller = caller; my %subs; foreach ( 0 .. $#$fields ) { my $idx = $_; $subs{$fields->[$idx]} = sub :lvalue { shift->[$idx] }; } my $pkg = "struct::impl::$name"; no strict 'refs'; *{$pkg."::$_"} = $subs{$_} for keys %subs; *{$caller."::$name"} = sub { bless [ @_ ], $pkg }; } 1; $ perl use struct Point => [qw( x y )]; my $p = Point(10,20); printf "Point is at (%d,%d)\n", $p->x, $p->y; $p->x = 30; printf "Point is now at (%d,%d)\n", $p->x, $p->y; $p->z = 40; __END__ Point is at (10,20) Point is now at (30,20) Can't locate object method "z" via package "struct::impl::Point" at - line 6.
It's specifically and intentionally not an object class. You cannot subclass it. You cannot provide methods. You cannot apply roles or mixins or metaclasses or traits or antlers or whatever else is in fashion this week.
On the other hand, it is tiny, single-file, creates cheap lightweight array-backed structures, uses nothing outside of core. And I defy anyone to even measure its startup overhead with a repeatable benchmark.
It's intended simply to be a slightly nicer way to store internal data structures, where otherwise you might be tempted to abuse a hash, complete with the risk of typoing key names.
Would anyone use this, if it were available?


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SAN FRANCISCO – A theater in a bustling multiplex seemed like the last place to find a secret laboratory.
For seven months, Room 10, a theater on the top floor of the AMC Van Ness 14, was closed off to the public. Inside, engineers from Dolby Laboratories were testing a new surround sound technology called Atmos, rushing to get the sophisticated system done in time for the premiere of the Pixar movie Brave.
"They basically had trusswork everywhere so they could try hanging speakers in every possible location," said Will Files, a sound designer at Skywalker Sound who worked on the Atmos test mix for Brave. Speakers were everywhere – hung in arrays on the ceiling, lining the walls.
A few blocks away, at Dolby's headquarters, researchers furiously wrote lines of C++ for the Atmos rendering engine, compiling and uploading it to be tested in real time in the secret theater.
The goal: To accurately simulate the sound of a helicopter roaring overhead, or birds chirping in the lush canopy of an Amazon rainforest. A killer stalking his prey, with his footsteps on the ceiling. Or – for Brave, an uplifting medieval fantasy tale set in the Scottish highlands – to simulate arrows whizzing by, horses galloping away and bears stomping through the forest.
"Sound is 50 percent of the movie-going experience," as George Lucas once said. With the massive resurgence of interest in 3-D movies over the past several years, sound needed to become more 3-D, too. But 3-D visual effects – often tacked on digitally in post-production instead of being well thought out from the very beginning – started seeming gimmicky and predictable.
"The thing about 3-D visuals is that it's not how we actually see in 3-D; it's sort of a rough approximation," Files said. "I think the difference with Atmos is it's much closer to how we hear in 3-D. You don't need special glasses; you don't need headphones. It's not as much of a jump. It's not as faux."
To entice audiences to drop $15 to see a movie at a major multiplex instead of on a laptop, theaters need to provide a premium experience drastically different from what a consumer can experience at home. Building a richer, more-enveloping surround sound experience with upward of 64 speakers – and placing arrays of speakers directly above viewers' heads, where they generally never have been before – seemed like the way forward.
How Atmos Works —————
The concept of 3-D movies and surround sound are both old ideas, dating back to the first half of the 20th century. Walt Disney's 1940 classic Fantasia was designed to have surround sound.
Many companies have worked in the field of surround sound in the 70-odd years since, but few have approached the ubiquity and market share of Dolby. By the early 1990s, Dolby's 5.1 – six channels of sound (five speakers, plus the ".1" for a subwoofer) – became the movie industry standard. The technology became so ubiquitous that it infiltrated the consumer level, too; you could buy a Dolby Digital-equipped receiver and speakers at your local Best Buy, and build a serviceable home theater in your living room, and "5.1 sound" soon became a household word.
The sequel to 5.1 was 7.1, introduced in theaters in 2010 with the Pixar movie Toy Story 3. But 7.1 – eight channels, including the subwoofer – was an incremental improvement, not a paradigm shift. With two additional speakers in the surround, movies sounded better, more lifelike. But a movie mixed for 7.1 could only play that way in a 7.1-equipped movie theater.
Atmos was designed to change that, providing a platform that would work with a variety of theater sound systems.
"We needed a format that was independent of the number of channels," said Nicolas Tsingos, a computer scientist and senior platform manager at Dolby, in an interview with Wired. "The difference is, instead of carrying everything in terms of a fixed number of channels, we're basically carrying individual sound effects."
These individual sounds – like the debris hurling out of an explosion, or a voice booming ominously from the sky – are mapped to "objects," which can be controlled dynamically and manipulated around the theater. There are two sides to the system – the rendering tool in the theater, and the tool that's provided to the sound mixer, to create the objects and tag them with metadata.
"The rendering tool basically selects the most appropriate set of speakers, and plays the sound from those speakers," Tsingos said. "So as the sound moves throughout the theater, the rendering tool basically blends between different speakers, so you can hear the sound gliding along the walls, for instance."
The Atmos system does the math to figure out how to make it work best in every theater it plays in. "That's the big conceptual difference with this system – we're getting away from the idea of putting a sound into one specific speaker, and getting more into the idea of putting it into a specific point in space," Files said.
Atmos took 5 years to build, in part because it wasn't just about building the object-based system, but getting it to sound good in a theater. "There are a lot of algorithms that exist only to make the soundtrack sound good," said Tsingos. "If you have small speakers you can actually redirect the bass to subwoofers.... There's a lot more than the surround aspect, the spatial aspect. There are also a lot of core sound-quality algorithms in there."
In a sense, the system resembles the way audio works in a videogame, said Tsingos. "Videogames have been using sound objects like this for a long time, because you have to render all the sound effects basically dynamically. Because the player, the character in the game, can move anywhere."
A drastically more immersive surround sound experience is gaining industry traction – especially in China, which is expected to double its number of movie theaters by 2015. China's Dalian Wanda group announced a deal last month to take over the U.S. AMC Entertainment Group for $2.6 billion.
"China is building – I think the statistic is around two to three auditoriums a day being built out there," said Stuart Bowling, a senior technical marketing manager at Dolby, in an interview with Wired. "It's got the biggest growth of any geographical region in the world.... You have companies like China Film Group, who has an amazing facility out in Beijing. It's huge. Warner Bros. has what people consider to be one of the largest lots in the world, and China Film Group is even bigger.... They're very interested in the technology, and they're looking toward the end of the year to have an internal feature film release use Atmos."
Four major films over the next year are expected to feature Atmos, according to Bowling. If speculation on numerous websites is true, Peter Jackson's The Hobbit will use the Atmos system.
Brave With Atmos ——————
While researching this story, I watched Brave twice – once in a regular theater and once at the AMC Van Ness, one of 14 theaters in the United States currently set up to run Atmos. With Atmos, Brave was a substantially better movie. The mix was a hybrid – about 75 percent was in Dolby 7.1, a mix helmed by Skywalker Sound's Gary Rydstrom, with about 25 percent subtly separated out into Atmos by Files.
The difference was palpable.
(Spoiler alert: Minor plot points follow.)
The dramatic tension in Brave between feisty female heroine Merida and her prim mother, Queen Elinor, felt more convincing. Elinor's transformation into a bear mid-movie was more sudden and horrifying. And Merida and Elinor's reconciliation by the end of the film came as less of a predictable happy ending; it felt more genuine and heartwarming.
When there was emotional distance between Merida and her mother, Files put their voices into objects, pointing the voices to separate speakers. Merida and her mother weren't just separated visually on-screen; they were separated sonically, too.
"In the system, we separate them slightly so Mom comes from the speaker in the left side of the screen," Files said. "Merida comes from the right side of the screen ... putting some distance between them, physically and emotionally."
Meanwhile, the Queen and her adoring, bumbling husband, King Fergus, were always in the same speaker, subtly underlining the closeness between them.
In a key scene in the movie, set at the dinner table in the castle, Elinor informs Merida that she has to get married. Merida is having none of it. Under the huge wooden table, three little triplets – who are mainly in the movie for comic relief – frantically munch dessert.
"One of my favorite parts of the mix is when you go under the table in that scene – down under the table with the triplets, and they're eating cookies," Files said. "We took Dad's voice and put it on the ceiling.... It helps tell the story of what it feels like to be these little boys under the table, and have this big, giant dad up above them, booming down."
When Queen Elinor morphs into a giant bear, Atmos made her seem more gigantic and terrifying. Files sent the bear's voice to an overhead speaker, so that the creature seemed to literally tower above the audience. Merida's voice, meanwhile, was pointed to a speaker far below the bear's voice, making her appear dramatically smaller.
Then, in the dramatic finale, when Merida and her mother reconcile, their voices are joined in the same speaker.
It was a bit of sonic sleight of hand, but it worked wonders to imbue Brave with unexpected emotional depth. Pixar's visual fireworks dominated the screen, but the sound had subtly become the star of the show.
"What we want the audience to do is to not think about the sound," said Skywalker Sound's Files. "We want it to be subtle. That's when sound operates most effectively on the audience."


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TUESDAY, July 2, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- Safety experts have long warned that all-terrain vehicles, or ATVs, pose serious threats to kids, who may not have the strength or judgment to safely operate the bouncy, heavy machines.
Now a new study is putting some fresh numbers to those concerns.
The study estimates that over the past decade, more than 360,000 U.S. kids were treated in hospital emergency rooms for injuries related to riding ATVs.
ATV injuries to children aged 15 and younger peaked in 2004, at an estimated high of 67 per 100,000 kids. But injury rates have been dropping since then, falling by more than one-third between 2004 and 2010.
Those findings mirror a March report from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission that found a decline in ATV injuries among riders of all ages between 2010 and 2011. In 2011, the report notes that 57 children younger than age 16 were killed in ATV crashes.
"The good news is that the injuries seem to be declining, but I think we really can't take comfort in that," said Dr. Gary Smith, a pediatrician who directs the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
"This remains a major problem nationally," said Smith, who was not involved in the study.
Researchers agree. They don't think the drop can be chalked up to greater improvement in safety or awareness of the dangers of ATVs to younger riders.
Instead, they think the decrease is probably due to the recession, which slowed ATV sales and tightened spending on gas. Motor vehicle crashes show similar declines during economic downturns simply because people don't drive as much.
"That's our best guess," said study author Ruth Shults, a senior epidemiologist with the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"It looks as though, for the year 2012, fatal traffic crashes increased over 2011. So we may be seeing, at least, an increase in traffic injuries and it may portend an increase in ATV injuries. We'll just have to monitor the data and see," Shults said.
For the study, published online July 1 and in the August print issue of Pediatrics, Shults and her team combed through the emergency department records of 66 hospitals around the United States. They counted injuries to kids aged 15 or younger who were hurt while riding ATVs. They left out any cases where kids were injured while others were riding (for example, if they were being pulled behind the vehicle in a sled).
Boys were about twice as likely to be injured on ATVs as girls. Teens and preteens aged 11 to 15 had the highest rates of injuries of any age group. They made up about two-thirds of all ATV injuries to children 15 and younger.
Broken bones, scrapes and cuts made up more than half of the injuries reported in the study. Nearly 30 percent of all injuries to children up to age 5 were to the face, head or neck.
Most children with ATV injuries, 86 percent, were treated and released from the emergency room. But 13 percent were hurt so badly they had to be hospitalized. That means kids are twice as likely to be hospitalized if they're injured riding an ATV than if they're hurt in a car crash.
Shults says if parents do choose to let their kids ride on ATVs, some rules may help make them safer.
First, because most ATVs are built to hold only one rider, kids should never be passengers.
She said kids should also be warned not to ride an ATV on a paved surface.
"Riding on paved roads actually increases the chance that the thing will roll over. The tires on ATVs are very low pressure so that they can give on uneven terrain, because they're supposed to be ridden off-road, so when you put them on the road, that makes them tippy," she said.
And last, if kids are going to ride on an ATV, parents should go along to supervise. "Supervision is really the key," Shults said.
But some experts feel those measures don't go far enough.
"I've treated just devastating injuries to children who have died on ATVs. I've unfortunately had to face the parents and tell them that their child has a devastating traumatic brain injury and we're not sure what kind of future your child is going to have. I've had to tell them that their child is dead," said Smith, who is an emergency medicine specialist. "I feel very strongly that children should not be on them, period."
The American Academy of Pediatrics agrees. They recommend that parents keep kids off ATVs until at least age 16.
More information
For more about the dangers of ATVs to kids, head to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.


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What an amazing month April has been! It was definitely an incredible month here on the blog with our new design team creating and sharing. Each post from the team not only brought you inspiration but also instructions and supplies so that you could re-create their projects along with them. We added several new features to the blog this month also, including the ability to print blog posts with a simple click of a button. Not only has the blog here been packed with great Sizzix inspiration but so has the blogs of each designer. Today I am sharing some projects from their blogs with you that are full of inspiration!
Amy Friend, our quilting expert shared a great post on her blog this month talking about the benefits or our clear dies for die-cutting fabric. You can find it on her blog here: http://duringquiettime.blogspot.com/2012/04/benefits-of-sizzix-clear-dies.html.
Anna-Karen Evaldsson crated a fun pop-up greeting card with a fun vintage travel theme. She shares the instructions for how she created the card as well as the technique she used for creating the stained canvas on her card here: http://layersofink.blogspot.com/2012/04/pop-up-card.html.
Gretchen Schmidt is a pop-up card master! She is always a great source of inspiration for pop-up cards. This card is no exception! It looks complicated, but her tutorial demonstrates just how easy it is! Check it out on her blog here: http://gscrapbooks.blogspot.com/2012/04/sending-you-warm-wishes-card-tutorial.html.
Hilary Kanwischer created this cute Easter themed caddy using the Eileen Hull Scoreboards Caddy die. She shares a tutorial for how she created it on her blog: http://hilaryscraps.typepad.com/hilary_kanwischer/2012/04/sweet-little-vintage-easter-caddy.html.
Jan Hobbins combined Movers and Shapers Mini Butterflies with the new Tim Holtz In The Bag die to create this gorgeous butterfly themed bag and tag set. Jan shares the details here: http://janhobbins.blogspot.com/2012/04/my-new-favorite-die.html.
Jeanne Streiff is a master card maker! Her blog is packed every week with great cards and wonderful tutorials. She combined a Flip-it Die with Framelits to create this card. She shares all of the details here: http://inkypaws.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2012/04/13/you-rock-3/.
Melony Bradley is an expert at breathing new life into old, discarded, or unconventional things. You have to check out her tutorial to discover what she used to create this fun spring themed favor cup. You can find it on her blog here: http://mel-designs.typepad.com/my-blog/2012/04/colorful-peat-pot-favors-for-spring.html.
Richele Christensen created this gorgeous frame to showcase a photo of her granddaughter. She created dimensional flowers to embellish the photo and frame using the Tattered Pinecone die. Find all of the details on her blog here: http://californiaartgirl.blogspot.com/2012/04/you-are-loved.html.
Ronda Palazzari is a true mixed media artist! She created this happy little canvas that features lots of fun elements and textures with the help of embossing folders. Take a closer look on her blog: http://rondapalazzari.typepad.com/helpmeronda/2012/04/heartstrings-mini-canvas.html.
Shelly Hickox fell in love with pop up dies this month. Not only did she share an amazing pop up tutorial here on the blog, but she also had one on her blog that is not to be missed! Check out Shelly's card here: http://shellyhickox.blogspot.com/2012/04/12-tags-of-2012-april.html.
Tamara Tripodi is our resident eclips expert! She makes the most amazing creations using her eclips. This fun baby gift package is no exception. Check out her great eclips tips on her post here: http://happylifecraftywife.com/?p=1325.
Tammy Roberts does sweet and vintage shabby like no one else! This tag is no exception! She combined several different die-cut elements into shabby perfection. Take a closer look on her blog here: http://paperiesweetness.blogspot.com/2012/04/saturday-stepxstep-at-f.html.
I (Tammy Tutterow) shared this mini book on my blog this month. I used several brand new Tim Holtz dies to create it. I shared details about the book on my blog here: http://tammytutterow.typepad.com/tammy_tutterow/2012/04/let-your-heart-sing.html.
Tiffany Johnson created this fun card as part of our Operation Write Home blog hop this month. This card makes me smile every time I look at it! Tiffany shared details about the card and also about why participating in Operation Write Home was special to her. You can read all of the details on her blog here: http://iheartartblog.com/2012/04/14/operation-write-home-make-em-laugh/.
I hope you have enjoyed all of the inspiration that our team has brought you in April here on the Sizzix blog and on each of their blogs. It is truly a pleasure for each one of us to be sharing ideas and techniques with you for all of the wonderful Sizzix products. We appreciate your visits and comments and can't wait to show you what we have planned for May!


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Easily charge your tablets, laptops, phones, and other items with this item's built-in outlets. Since the outlets are built into the desk, you can keep your electronics close by and also ensure a cleaner office space, eliminating the need for long cords stretching across your floor.
Create a cleaner and organized workspace by stowing away your keyboard in this pull-out keyboard drawer. Pull the keyboard out and place it on your desk when in use and put it back in the drawer when you're finished. Or if you prefer to type at a slightly lower level, keep your keyboard permanently in that drawer and simply pull it out to type. This feature is also great for storing a laptop.
Hide away your bulky printer with a pull-out printer drawer, allowing for a cleaner workspace. Leave the printer pushed in or easily pull it out when you need to reach back to add paper or apply settings to the printer.
Ugly, grey file cabinets are a thing of the past! This stylish piece has a ready-to-use file drawer, with a hanging file rack so you can easily organize your files.
A softer take on home office furniture, this credenza offers modern function with cottage charm. The two tone finish, turned feet, and framed drawer fronts all allude to classic cottage style. Features like built-in AC and USB outlets and a printer pullout tray make it easy to connect your office essentials and get down to work.
The Ravenwood Credenza with Pullout Printer Tray by Aspenhome at Find Your Furniture in the area. Product availability may vary. Contact us for the most current availability on this product.
Welcome rich, warm finishes and beautiful, classic home pieces with the Cottonwood and Ravenwood collections. These "sister" collections feature both bedroom and home office pieces, bringing subtle sophistication into your home. These collections are crafted from wirebrushed oak veneer and are available in either a Ravenwood black or Cottonwood white linen finish. The oak veneer tops combined with either rich finish creates a beautiful two-tone look that will dress up the appearance of any room, and block legs and block stacked feet add a dynamic look. Antique tea-stained hardware provides an ornate accent to each piece, and smooth panels give the entire collection a polished look. Enjoy English dovetail construction with full extension drawers and stainless steel ball bearing drawer glides for durability and ease. You'll love built-in outlets, featured in both bedroom and office pieces. Built-in three-way touch nightlights and the bed headboard's lamp assist touch lighting makes turning lights on and off simple. The sleigh bed comes in three sizes (Queen, King, California King) and has an optional storage footboard, complete with two cedar-lined drawers for easy and stylish storage. Cedar-lined bottom drawers and felt-lined top drawers can be found throughout the entire collection to ensure that your treasured items are safely kept and within close reach. You're sure to find your ideal home office desk in these collections; with a variety of styles and combinations, Cottonwood and Ravenwood make work more stylish, personal, and enjoyable. Enjoy full extension drawers on the file cabinets and desk drawers, and touch lighting for when you're looking for some extra brightness. Desktop height can fit three different sizes of monitors, and you'll love the ergonomically curved desks, as they provide a comfortable space for you to work. Whether you're in the bedroom or office, you will feel right at home with the rich Ravenwood and Cottonwood "sister" collections.
The Ravenwood collection is a great option if you are looking for Cottage furniture in the area.
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On September 8, I hosted a panel I'd been plotting since founding the Content Strategy Seattle group last October: Ask the Content Strategist.
My idea: Get a group of professional content strategists together and let people ask them questions. It worked great, and here's the video to prove it.
The participants: Ariel van Spronsen of POP, Vanessa Casavant of AdoptUsKids, Patty Campbell of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Tiffani Jones Brown of Second and Park and Things That Are Brown. (Scott Pierce provided invaluable behind the scenes techie magic. I moderated.)
Questions included:
- What are the differences between a content strategist and a writer or journalist?
- How do you differentiate between a content sitemap and a IA sitemap? More broadly: Now that we've covered the differences between a content strategist and a writer, what are the differences between a content strategist and an information architect?
- What's the most effective way to explain the importance of content strategy to a team who doesn't understand why site architecture would come before design?
- Is workflow analysis always a part of content strategy, or is there a way around it?
- What's the ideal interaction or workflow between content strategy and search engine optimization (SEO)?
- Knowing that content is king, a call to action is imperative, and the company or website will fail without a good content strategy, when do you throw in the towel?
Many thanks to all four panelists, and to the Watercooler for the venue.
And don't miss next month's meetup: Margot Bloomstein talks about Waking Up in Seattle: You're the one that they want.


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Sony PSP
I recently got a used PSP to try some homebrew applications.
Homebrew by exploit
To enable homebrew you have to downgrade from the official firmware using some kind of an exploit. There are different kinds of exploits depending on what firmware version you are going from.
This method is using the Grand Theft Auto Libery City Stories exploit to execute the 2.60 to 1.50 downgrader. From that point it's possible to upgrade to a new custom made hacked firmware, in this case the latest M33 3.52 firmware.
- Download Downdater Auto Final for 2.50/2.60.
- Put DOWNDATER FINAL AUTO EBOOT in the /PSP/GAME/ folder on the Memory Stick
- Download DOWNDATER.rar (sear for it). It contains the already extracted 1.50 firmware files needed. Normally done using Downhelper on a 1.50 machine, but since that's hard to find another PSP with 1.50 get that rar archive.
- Download eLoader 0.9.9.5 or newer zip or installer.
- Install the eLoader files into /PSP/GAME/. This includes the GTA exploit.
- Insert the GTA UMD and run the game
- Wait for the eLoader menu system to load and execut the Downdater Final Auto from the list.
- The screen will be black but the Memory Stick light will flash. This means the flashing proceedure is running. Leave it alone for a few minutes untill it asks you to reboot.
- At the first startup a message about corrupted config will be displayed, press O.
- The PSP is now running 1.50 and able to execute all homebrew applications located in the Memory Stick directly.
Custom Firmware
- Download the M33 3.52 firmware pack
- Put kxploitpatcher and kxploitpatcher& into the /PSP/GAME/ folder
- Go to the Memory Stick PSP menu and run the KXploit Patcher to not require the spesial %-folder to launch an application
- Download the official 1.50 and 3.52 PSP firmware and rename them to 150.PBP and 352.PBP respectively, put them in the M33CREATOR folder
- Copy the M33CREATOR folder to the /PSP/GAME directory
- From the Memory Stick menu, launch the 3.52 M33 CREATOR application. It will exit back into the menu after it's finished writing the new files.
- Again from the Memory Stick menu, launch 3.52 M33UPDATE this time.
- The PSP will now be flashed to M33 3.52.
Homebrew by Pandora
Pandora is now the universal downgrade method for almost every PSP. It enables a service mode that will allow writing to the flash, and thus allow for homebrew to be enabled. This works for all fat PSPs and slim PSP with version 3.60. It requires a spare PSP Battery and a Memory Stick Pro Duo 512 MB or larger card.
The Battery and Memory Stick can only be prepared on a fat PSP, and not yet on a Slim.
Setup Pandora
- Download the Pandora Battery v1 package and Update 1.50. For slim support down load M33 Slim Custom Firmware and Update 3.40 and 3.50.
- Connect the Memory Stick and format it using the mspformat tool. Open a command prompt, cmd and execute "mspformat.exe g", where g is the drive letter. Eject the Memory Stick and reboot the PSP.
- On the Memory Stick, create a new folder PSP and a subfolder named GAME.
- From the Pandora package, extract "pandora_battery", "pandora_battery%", "pbfirm_install" and "pbfirm_install%" into the GAME folder.
- For Slim support, copy "pandora_slim" and "pandora_slim%" to the same folder.
- Extract the 1.50 update and rename it to UPDATE.PBP. Move it to the root of the Memory Stick.
- For Slim, extract the 3.40 and 3.50 update and rename them to 340.PBP and 350.PBP respectively. Move them to the "pandora_slim" folder.
Configure Memory Stick
- Now in XMB on the PSP, run the "Pandora's Battery Firm. Installer" application to create the necessary Memory Stick files to interface with the patched Battery.
- Connect to USB and backup the "kb" folder. This folder is used to downgrade a fat PSP and will be updated next to make it support the Slim. Move it back to support the fat PSP again.
- To configure the Memory Stick, copy "msipl.bin" from the root into the "msinst" folder in the Pandora Battery folder.
- In a command prompt execute "msinst.exe g msipl.bin" and click Yes. This will install the IPL (Initial Program Load) code to the Memory Stick.
- Now to make the Memory Stick setup Slim compatible, execute the ""Pandora Ext. for Slim 3.60 M33 Installer" application.
- This will update the "kb" folder. Make a new backup of it named "kb-slim" if you want to switch between fat and slim downgrading.
Configure Battery
- To configure the Battery, execut the "Pandora Ext. for Slim 3.60 M33 Installer" application.
- Create a backup of the Battery EEPROM by pressing the triangle-button. Use the other function mentioned to restore the Battery later on.
- Press X to update the EEPROM. The battery is now Pandora ready.
- Now, insert the Memory Stick and Battery into the stock PSP and power it on.
- A short menu will appear with a few options. Press X to begin the downgrading to a new M33 firmware.
- On the Slim, the screen will be black because of missing screen driver, but the options will still work. Press X to downgrade the Slim to M33 3.60.
- Remove the Pandora Memory Stick and Battery, and insert a normal Memory Stick and Battery.
- A installation log will be saved on the Pandora Memory Stick for reference.
On M33 3.71 and later it's now possible again to skip the battery level test by holding the left-trigger and triangle while the updater is loading.
Universal Pandora
There is now a Universal Unbricker package that creates the Pandora + Memory Stick and copies all the required files.
Latest Firmware
To update to the latest homebrew enabled homebrew, look at sites like psp-vault.com and psp.qj.net. Currently the most popular firmware is released from the M33 team.
Follow the update instructions for update. A major update might require a Sony PSP Update file while other incremental updates just require a previous hacked firmware version.
The PSP is capable to use as a navigation unit via GPS and there's even a Sony PSP GPS adapter.
Sony PSP-290
This adapter is the official GPS adapter for the PSP and is only sold in Japan. But thanks to eBay it's pretty easy to get hold of one. With the latest PRX files it works fine in Norway.
MapThis is a homebrew application used as to interface the GPS data to maps.
Since MapThis doesn't come with any maps, you have to download the maps using a special GMDL (Google Map Download) application.
Put the final map folder in the MapThis/Maps/ folder.
PRX Files
MapThis requires two prx modules, usbacc.prx and usbgps.prx. These are property of Sony and can not be distributed with MapThis. But these files are standard with all firmware since 2.71. To access the files you need to run one of the oe/m33 firmware editions.
On M33 firmwares hold the R button while powering on the PSP, and you will enter the recovery menu. Connect the USB cable to the computer and select 'Advanced' and 'Mount flash0'. The flash will be mounted and you can find the files in ms0:/nodule/.
Put the prx files in the same directory as the MapThis PBP file.
- Install M33 On Slim
- QJ PSP Download Archive
- Sony PSP Updates
- PSP Downgrading, Firmware Exploits & Launchers
- Firmware compatibility chart
- List of Guides, Downloads and Information
- How to put 3.71-m33-3 on ANY PSP (Fat or Slim)
- GUIDE: Universal Unbricker V3 Using FAT 1.50 or FAT/SLIM custom firmware PSP
- GUIDE: Universal Unbricker V3 Using Official Firmware FAT/SLIM PSP


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DailyDirt: Wacky Inventions and Inventors...
from the urls-we-dig-up deptInventions aim to improve anything and everything. So there are a lot of pretty trivial inventions out there, but every so often there are some really cool things, too. Here are just a few quick links about inventions and inventors.
- This device has to be seen to be believed -- and even after watching it, there's some doubt that it isn't some kind of video editing trick. Don't cry over spilled ketchup... [url]
- Stephen Wolfram wonders if machines can discover axioms or invent interesting mathematical conjectures. Sounds like someone wants to replace an infinite array of monkeys with a server farm. [url]
- One of the first voice recordings for sale to the public was a 12-second clip of a woman singing 'Twinkle, Twinkle, little star' for a toy doll. Thomas Edison would probably be impressed that the 123-year-old recording could be played using modern optical scanning techniques that don't physically touch the metal cylinder that the soundprint is etched into. [url]
- IBM has named a group of employees 'Master Inventors' -- and one of them admits he usually helps invent pretty obscure things. It seems a bit presumptuous to call someone (other than Necessity?) a 'master' of invention. [url]
- To discover more interesting tech-related content, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]
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PORTLAND – The Real Salt Lake Reserves (5-3-4, 19 points, West #1) earned a solid road point on Sunday night, drawing the Portland Timbers Reserves (4-4-3, 15 points, West #4) 1-1 at JELD-WEN Field despite going down a man in the 65th minute.
Real Salt Lake got on the board first, taking the lead in the 53rd minute through FW Devon Sandoval. The Claret-and-Cobalt launched a long throw into the box from the left side, with Sandoval collecting at the near post. The rookie striker quickly turned and hit a shot on frame, squeaking his 12-yard right-footer past Portland GK Jake Gleeson and inside the near post.
The Claret-and-Cobalt went down a man in the 65th minute, when FW Olmes Garcia was shown a straight red card for a tackle on Portland DF Nico De Vera.
Despite playing with 10-men, RSL more than held its own in the final 25 minutes, controlling a decent amount of possession and consistently threatening Portland's goal.
Of course, Garcia's ejection opened up space for the Timbers, which took advantage and equalized in the 87th. FW Anthony Macchione collected a DF Jacob Kempf pass in the top right corner of the area, turning toward goal and firing a 15-yard shot that found the inside of the near post.
Real Salt Lake will return to action on Friday, when it will take on Seattle Sounders FC at 8:00 p.m. MT at CenturyLink Field. Friday's match will be nationally televised on the NBC Sports Network. The Claret-and-Cobalt Reserves will take on Seattle Sounders FC Reserves on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. MT at Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila, Wash.
Goals by Period 1 2 F
Real Salt Lake Reserves 0 1 1
Portland Timbers Reserves 0 1 1
Scoring Summary:
RSL – Devon Sandoval – 53'
POR – Anthony Macchione (Jacob Kempf) – 87'
Misconduct Summary:
POR – David Horst (Yellow; Foul) – 43'
RSL – Olmes Garcia (Straight Red; Foul) – 65'
RSL – Carlos Salcedo (Yellow; Dissent) – 72'
RSL – Lovel Palmer (Yellow; Tactical Foul) – 84'
POR – Foster Langsdorf (Yellow; Foul) – 89'
Match Stats:
Shots: RSL 14-9 POR
Saves: RSL 2-6 POR
Corners: RSL 5-4 POR
Fouls: RSL 14-10 POR
Offside: RSL 3-1 POR
Real Salt Lake Reserves (4-1-2-1-2): Lalo Fernandez; Lovel Palmer, Aaron Maund, Carlos Salcedo, Justen Glad*; Yordany Alvarez; Cole Grossman, Khari Stephenson (C); Sebastian Velasquez; Devon Sandoval (Benji Lopez, 86'), Olmes Garcia
Substitutes not used: Brad Stuver** (GK), Jose Hernandez*, Fito Ovalle*, Corey Nemech*
Portland Timbers Reserves (4-3-3): Jake Gleeson; Nico De Vera*, David Horst (Jacob Kempf*, 46'), Rauwshan McKenzie, Futty Danso; Ben Zemanski (C), Brad Ring, Steven Evans (Foster Langsdorf*); Jesse Garcia*, Anthony Macchione*, Sebastian Rincon (Alex Segovia*, 86')
Substitutes not used: David Meves (GK)
Referee: Andrew Brooks
Assistant Referees: Desmond Miller, Andrew Deuker
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Just go ahead and do it!
We know what you really should do this summer: dream high, climb low, go for a fast sled ride … The following "bucket list" is meant as inspiration only. Nobody's forcing you to do a thing!
Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson are to blame. Ever since the famous Hollywood stars portrayed two chronically ill old men in Rob Reiner's heartwarming tearjerker of a melodrama The Bucket List , the world has been bandying the expression about. A bucket list is a list detailing what a person wants to see, say or do before… well, before what, exactly? If you look closely at the origin of the expression "kick the bucket" (the same one as in the list), you find that it refers to the bucket that's kicked out from beneath the poor soul hanging by his or her neck above it and who is, due to this predicament, already short of breath and unable to look forward to being able to see, say or do anything before the lights go out. Nevertheless, we will stick to the term for want of a better one.
As I was saying, Nicholson and Freeman set off on their sentimental journey: They go parachuting, visit the Taj Mahal, drive a Shelby Mustang … until Death stops them in their tracks.
Lists, by the way, are hardly a cinematic phenomenon, they are something you cannot seem to get away from in regular life. In the olden days, the Germans felt it was enough for a man to build a house, father a son and plant a tree. (For women, it was raising children, tending the stove, attending church and baking cheesecake). Those days are over. According to the endless (but gender-neutral) sources of information mushrooming all over the place, we are expected to achieve heroics that include visiting 111 places around the world, sampling 111 different kinds of craft beer, climbing every eight-thousand-meter peak, learning ten foreign languages, eating at every three-star restaurant or staging every single one of Shakespeare's history plays. The lists are long or short and the items on them range from prohibitively expensive to practically impossible, depending on your geographic, meteorological or culinary preferences. The boundaries are never fixed between megalomania and the urge to explore, between banality and emotion. And anyway, who wants to be chased across continents, commanded to do this or go there on the whim of some know-it-all?
If you're clear about what you want, it's best to make your own list. We modern humans, feeling more helpless and lost in this world than ever, long for a framework in which to live our lives. We don't want to wander without a goal. So, since our time on earth is not necessarily imminently over but certainly limited – to a week, a holiday, a year, a relationship, a lifetime – we need a plan. But it's important to remember that this plan should reflect our own personal wishes and not just be a check list or a silly attempt to break every known record. Because if you're the kind of person who makes lists only to be able to cross things off or if you just want to show off about where you've been and what you've done, then you will be in for all kinds of disappointments and you'll be eaten up by fear – fear of not managing everything on your list despite your most zealous attempts or fear of achieving your goals and then falling into a pit of listlessness and uselessness afterwards. Been there, done that, felt nothing? Ah, how much happier I would have been, you sigh, if I had just allowed myself to drift. And here's another cruel question for you (if you're the unhappy soul I've just been describing): Is it enough to have "been there" or must the experience be gained with as much effort as possible – against all odds – in order for you to feel that you have achieved something real?
But don't let me stop you from writing a list, looking forward with anticipation to what's on it, doing it – and enjoying yourself! Whether it's swimming in every infinity pool in Southeast Asia, watching every second-league soccer match in Romania, sampling all the street food in Nigeria or visiting all 20 Molière festivals in Provence, France , it's entirely up to you. But remember, don't be hard on yourself. Make sure you have fun doing whatever it is. And just in case you need a couple of extra ideas, perhaps something crazy or downright silly for your list, we might have something for you here. Just don't kick the bucket as you check off your list!
Pander to a panda
Roll, eat, fall: That's pretty much what China's national animal, the giant panda, does all day. If you'd like to get closer to these phlegmatic balls of fur than the usual zoo visitor, you can feed and care for these lazy lovelies as a volunteer keeper.
Freezing-cold fun
A refreshing dip is all part of summer, but if the waters you pick happen to surround an island in the Antarctic, your dip will be a real adventure. Steam issues from the ground in many places on Deception Island, an active volcano, but the water temperature is never more than roughly 1°C. This doesn't bother the penguins waddling cheerfully across the black beach toward the water, so don't let it put you off, either. Follow them down and risk a toe before you freeze to the spot.
Ride a basket
Go for a summer sleigh ride! For over a century, wicker basket sleds have been a mode of public transportation on Madeira. The carreiros do monte, the men who steer them, wear white shirts and flat straw hats known as "circular saws." First they push off, then they hop onto the wooden runners and steer the basket sled and its passengers all the way from Monte to Livramento in a wonderful, two-kilometer downhill whoosh.
Dream in a park
No pristine wilderness this, but a rollicking good time. From early August, Cornbury Park in Oxfordshire, England, becomes a glittering dreamscape. Naked frogs bathe in hot tubs, hotheads cool off in the nearby river, chill in yoga classes or power up at the Champagne tasting. The Wilderness Festival even features big-name acts such as Justice and Nile Rodgers in supporting roles.
Take a tasty degree
Pizza, pasta, gelato: Italy has given humankind an array of culinary treasures. Luckily for us, the country is happy to share its knowledge and recipes with the rest of the world. In Anzola dell'Emilia near Bologna, the Gelato University teaches the high art of ice-cream making. At its week-long foundation course, students learn all about what goes into ice cream and how to prepare and refine it. Satisfy the maestros and you get to take home your very own ice-cream diploma.
Ride the train like royalty
Back in the day, the maharajas would have loved this: The Palace on Wheels is an amazing luxury train with a spa, bars and restaurants on board. Starting out in New Delhi, it takes passengers to the sights of Rajasthan: You visit the Taj Mahal and the Pink Palace of Jaipur, come within close range of the tigers of Ranthambore National Park and experience the "White City" of Udaipur. Between stops, you slumber like royalty in the comfort of a double bed.
Party with the king
The people of Bhutan travel for days to get to Laya – at 4000 meters one of the most elevated settlements in the country – and there's no real road. In 2016, the king created the Royal Highlander Festival so that even people in this remote area would have something to celebrate. On two days in October, the focus is on nomadic culture, and visitors to the green high plateau compete at archery, attend the contest for the finest yak and take part in horseback races.
Yoga with goats
When its "mountain" shakes with laughter, the Nigerian dwarf goat jumps down. Its pasture is full of yoga mats and people on all fours, stretching and contorting themselves in all kinds of positions. In between are the goats, black and white spotted ones, blond ones, and ones with brown floppy ears. The goat yoga courses in the U.S. state of Oregon are lots of fun for everyone. In fact, they seem so therapeutic for two-legged participants that other places are following suit …
Seventh heaven
Their bed dangles from a rope high above the Allgäu region. No sooner is it attached than the climbers follow on up and insert themselves snugly into their bivouac between the mountain and the sky. This rope course through the woods in Pfronten, Bavaria, is not something for nature skeptics or anyone with a fear of heights. But if you take the challenge, you'll be rewarded with the most amazing sunrise and sunset. Plus, it's great to crawl into bed after such a strenuous climb!
Deep within iceland
The Thrihnukagigur volcano in Iceland has been dormant for 4000 years, so you needn't be afraid to venture inside and explore. Visitors descend by open elevator into a crater so deep that the Statue of Liberty would easily fit inside. Down below, there's a large cave more than 3000 square meters in area with shimmering, colored walls. To this day, nobody knows why the crater isn't filled with cold magma like other volcanoes are.


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Here's your daily link to Dave McKenna's brilliant "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," which we'll be posting until Dan Snyder's dumbass libel suit runs out of ways to die in this space.
Sad news, diehards. Happy news, everyone else. Starting tomorrow, we're rolling "We Are All Dave McKenna" into "wake up deadspin" so you no longer have to endure the full puissance of our Snyder updates. The vast majority of you hate this post. You've made your antipathy clear. At least one of you even sought me out in person to express disdain. Writing this post has been a joyless, thankless task. But goddammit, it's a necessary task! Which is why we'll continue to publish a link to McKenna's story (and often the Dan Snyder devil photo and an info tidbit with it) every morning. Because re-publishing the story and the photo is the whole goddamn fucking point. So look for it there, especially if you appreciate stupid fucking shit like freedom of the press and solidarity in the face of corporate barbarism.
To celebrate the end of the standalone McKenna era, we're bringing you a special treat: a paper written by Notre Dame econ and English double major Tim Bossidy for his First Amendment class. It's all about the Snyder lawsuit and why it's a pile of camel manure. Bossidy does a nice job assessing the merits of the suit. He also gets into a more arcane issue in First Amendment law: the SLAPP suit, which is meritless litigation intended to shut up critics. Here's an excerpt from Bossidy's paper about SLAPP:
It may seem at first glance that the modern legal system provides an incredibly robust protection for the press. This glance only seems to be affirmed by the fact that dismissal rates for libel cases were around 80% in federal courts from 1980 through 1996 (Logan 511-12). Unfortunately, as Logan writes, "These motions cost money, and it may be that such expenditures, or even the threat of incurring them, make media outlets of modest means reluctant to publish some accurate stories" (526). This is why it makes sense for Dan Snyder to file a suit he clearly has no chance of winning. This is the danger of strategic lawsuits against public participation. A SLAPP is defined by the California Anti-SLAPP Project as, "a civil complaint or counterclaim (against either an individual or an organization) . . . often brought by corporations, real estate developers, or government officials and entities against individuals who oppose them on public issues. . . While most SLAPPs are legally meritless, they effectively achieve their principal purpose: to chill public debate on specific issues. Defending a SLAPP requires substantial money, time, and legal resources and thus diverts the defendant's attention away from the public issue." ...
Fortunately for Washington City Paper, Snyder recently re-filed his suit against the publisher, the paper, and Dave McKenna (the investment fund is no longer listed as it was in the original suit) in Washington Superior Court. The District of Colombia enacted an anti-SLAPP law last year.
And here's Bossidy's full paper. It's worth a read:
Please stop Dan Snyder from SLAPPing the little guy and donate to the City Paper's legal defense fund.


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The earliest tablets on offer from US carriers were sold without subsidies and with high-cost plans. Sprint seems set to correct that mistake—somewhat. In an announcement yesterday, Sprint said that it would offer Samsung's Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 with LTE for just $49.99 to new and eligible subscribers, along with a two-year contract. The addition of the tablet will cost just $5 per month on top of a subscriber's monthly plan fees, and the device will be supported by Sprint's One Up annual upgrade program. The Tab 3 will be available in white on October 11, with a "Midnight Black" option to follow in time for the holidays.
For those who need a refresher, the slate runs Samsung's flavor of Android 4.2 on Qualcomm silicon (a 1.6GHz Snapdragon 400) and pushes a 7-inch 1024×600 display. Not exactly top-shelf stuff. The Wi-Fi version is available for $199 from most major e-tailers, and AT&T earlier this year announced its plan to offer its own LTE variant.
Performance on the Tab 3 may not be groundbreaking, but if you've been looking to add some mobility to your tablet computing, it may be a solution for you.


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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 30, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- Kynamro (mipomersen sodium) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat a rare inherited condition in which the body can't remove low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol from the blood.
LDL is the so-called "bad" cholesterol that can clog the arteries and cause heart attack and stroke. Many people with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH) have a heart attack and die before age 30, the FDA said in a news release.
HoFH affects approximately one of every 1 million people in the United States. Kynamro is a once-weekly injection designed to lower creation of blood lipid particles that ultimately form LDL, the agency said.
The drug was clinically evaluated among 51 people with HoFH. Among Kynamro users, LDL levels fell an average of about 25 percent during the first 26 weeks, the FDA said. The drug will carry a "black box" label warning of possible liver abnormalities that could lead to progressive liver disease.
More common side effects noted during clinical testing included injection-site reactions, flu-like symptoms, nausea, headache and elevated liver enzymes.
Kynamro is produced by Genzyme Corp., of Cambridge, Mass.
More information
To learn more about high cholesterol, visit the U.S. National Library of Medicine.


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Dr. Stephen Dyson, who will join the Wabash political science department this fall, has done extensive study on British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Dyson, who is finishing up a one-year appointment at St. Olaf's, is a native Brit. Department chair Professor Melissa Butler asked him for his insight on Blair's recent re-election.
The results of the general election in Britain, while returning Tony Blair's Labour Party for a third consecutive term, mark a huge change in the political landscape. Since his election as Labour leader in 1994 Blair has dominated the scene, winning unprecedented majorities in national elections in 1997 and 2001.
With his sharply reduced House of Commons majority of 67, Blair is no longer a hegemonic figure. While 67 is a reasonable majority in historical terms, and a third success is without precedent for Labour, Blair emerges as a damaged figure serving out the last months of his political career. Politics is all about momentum and authority.
With the healthy state of the economy and the large investments in public services made by the government, Labour should have been looking at a majority of 150 plus, all other things being equal. In this context, 67 represents an unhappy number, and a sign that Blair's leadership is stalled. In terms of authority, Labour members of Parliament, who in the last two elections felt they had been elected because of Blair, now feel that they were elected in spite of their leader, and this radically reduces Blair's freedom of maneuver.
The majority of the public, and many members of the Labour party, opposed the war in Iraq and Blair's support of President Bush. The recent release of documents showing Blair had received but not released legal advice that the war might not have been legal, and that he had made a commitment to Bush much earlier than had been publicly acknowledged, re-ignited the Iraq issue and certainly cost Blair seats in the election.
Indeed, the Prime Minister was fortunate in facing an impoverished Conservative Party opposition still in a post-Thatcher funk, reflected in the fact that while voters disserted Labour in droves, they did not swing directly to the Conservatives but rather voted for the minority Liberal Democrats or for a variety of independents. One of the most poignant of these was Reg Keys, who stood against the Prime Minister in the Sedgefield constituency and whose son was killed in Iraq. Keys won 10 percent of the vote, and, sharing a stage with the Prime Minister, made an emotional concession speech denouncing the war and what he termed the shifting justifications for it offered by Blair.
Keys pointedly referred to the precise number of British service people killed in Iraq, a figure which Blair had seemed unsure of in an earlier campaign appearance. The Prime Minister struggled to retain a neutral expression during the speech, and one can only guess as to his thoughts at that moment.
Blair will now test the water in the House of Commons, and seek to judge how much of his authority remains. He will try to avoid an unseemly early exit, and the appearance of being pushed out, but the consensus is that it is merely a matter of time until Blair resigns and hands over the Premiership to his long time rival, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown.
In many ways, the decline of Tony Blair is a sad denouement for a politician of immense talent and radical inclinations, who at one point had seemed destined for a place in the very top rank of British political figures.


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Judge cites complexity of the law
GREENVILLE � There weren�t any new answers in the case of former state Rep. Stephen LaRoque on Thursday.
Following a hearing that lasted nearly an hour behind closed doors, the federal prosecutor, LaRoque�s attorneys and U.S. District Judge Malcolm Howard returned to the courtroom at 10:50 a.m.
At that time, Howard announced to the court members and assembled reporters he was continuing the case until November because of the complexity of law concerning judicial misconduct.
The hearing Thursday had been scheduled because of a motion by LaRoque attorney Joe Cheshire petitioning the court to set aside the guilty verdicts in 10 counts against LaRoque ahead of a possible new trial, because one juror broke the rules Howard set down for the jury before deliberations in LaRoque�s fraud trial.
Juror No. 3 in the trial, Jones County�s Jerry Miller, said in a hearing and to The Free Press that the night before the final day of deliberations, he conducted research on the IRS website regarding the laws regulating S-corporations � a relevant factor in the trial. Howard had told jurors not to conduct any outside research.
Afterward, Miller said the research led to him switching his vote from not guilty on all counts to guilty on all counts. He said in a deposition that the IRS data led him to believe LaRoque was guilty on Counts 11 and 12, on tax fraud, which led him to believe LaRoque was guilty on all counts.
Depositions revealed he shared this information with the jury, and while Howard earlier set aside the verdicts on Counts 11 and 12, Cheshire believes Miller�s change of mind on the other counts and his sharing that with other jurors infringed on LaRoque�s right to an impartial jury.
Howard said Thursday he�d studied the law on judicial misconduct for the preceding two weeks, and believed both he, Assistant U.S. Attorney Dennis Duffy and LaRoque attorneys Cheshire and Elliot Abrams needed more time to adequately consider the governing statutes and case law and return to court better able to render an appropriate decision.
The new hearing was set for Nov. 14 at 10 a.m. at the U.S. Courthouse in Greenville.
Wes Wolfe can be reached at 252-559-1075 and email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @WolfeReports.


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Mersen implemented CCH Tagetik's software solution for IFRS Statutory Consolidation, Budget Consolidation, Quarterly Forecasts, KPI Management Reporting
With CCH Tagetik, consolidation and management reporting are now at the core of our group's financial management, thanks to the software's greater flexibility and the improved response-time it allows our teams.
Thierry de Taeye - VP, Group Accounting and Controlling
The challenge
MERSEN realised that consolidated reporting was far from prominent among management's operational concerns. The existing software no longer met the needs of the Group's managers or financial officers: there were frequent changes in the scope of consolidation and analyses of previous performance and forecasts were needed.
These different issues or analyses were therefore handled through parallel reporting, which entailed replicated data entry and multiple reconciliations after the fact. In the end, the overall quality of financial disclosures and the cycle time required to produce them were deemed inadequate.
CCH Tagetik simplified the financial management by introducing a more streamlined, accessible process
No more double data entries, automated consolidated cash flow statements, fully automated analysis of consolidation...
Greater flexibility in the face of fast-changing businesses, markets, scopes of consolidation requiring ever more information
Improved overall quality of financial disclosures and the cycle time
IFRS statutory consolidation is produced monthly with a few additions for regulatory publications
CCH Tagetik's Excel interface requires no special skills on the part of users
The solution
Following a Call for Tenders issued in 2011, Mersen selected CCH Tagetik among the 3 finalists. CCH Tagetik's consolidation and management reporting solution has indeed fulfilled the Group's functional needs, with the added advantages of extremely simple architecture and easy, centralised internal management. CCH Tagetik's Excel interface requires no special skills on the part of users. The CCH Tagetik Analytics cube was also chosen to unify data whether it is in the CCH Tagetik database or not. The solution's powerful analytics, combined with financial intelligence, are thus put to work serving users directly through in a single interface.
The project, which started up in February 2012, was fully operational by November of the same year. "Eight months for a project of this size was a real challenge! This was not a simple copy-and-paste operation: we took advantage of the project to supplement and improve the configuration", Thierry de Taeye explained.
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