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the writing of a former national park ranger
Schonchin Butte: You Never Really Leave a Place You Love
It had been years since I'd visited Schonchin Butte, and I hadn't seen the lookout in summer since leaving Lava Beds National Monument a decade earlier. This trip would be different. Special. Instead of seeing the lookout blinded by its shutters in the nippy spring or fall air, I'd see it in all its glory, its square glass eyes gazing into the distance with a warm breeze whooshing past.
I also hadn't been back to Lava Beds since Gary, my mentor and the chief of interpretation, passed away. Printed on his funeral prayer book was the quote, "You never really leave a place you love. You take a part of it with you and leave a part of yourself behind." I felt that somehow a part of Gary lingered at Lava Beds, and by visiting the monument, in some small way, I was visiting Gary.
I chained my bike to the trailhead sign and noticed the US flag's absence above the lookout. Yesterday, thunderstorms skirted the monument, and I hoped that Ranger George, whom I saw at the visitor center, would tell someone I was visiting the lookout if lightning seemed imminent. Reveries ethereally drifted through my mind of park rangers frantically searching for me to staff the lookout while ominous clouds shot toward the stratosphere.
Wishful thinking, I scolded myself. You can't go backwards and relive your glory days, no matter how much you want to. This is a farewell visit, a time to come to terms with change. It's a time to reconnect to the Modoc Spirits, to try to feel some of Gary's presence, to say goodbye to Schonchin, Lava Beds, and the Park Service.
On the steep climb up the equivalent of 50 flights of stairs, I rested and struggled to catch my breath in every speck of shade the mountain mahoganies and junipers provided. Flowers sprung forth from the volcanic soil with amazing abundance; the sulfur flower blazed a yellow true to its namesake, and my favorite flower, belle penstemon, added a light purple tint to the windswept, bunch-grass-covered clearings along the cinder cone's north slope.
After signing the trail register at Schonchin's summit, I bounded up the steps to the lookout's catwalk. A moment later, the door opened, and out stepped a woman. She said hello, and I returned her greeting. Her NPS grey polyester uniform shirt had tight creases and looked new. I glanced at her name tag which read COURTNEY. My eyes crossed to her golden badge, and a wave of melancholy washed over me after realizing that due to budget cuts I'd be spending a second summer out of uniform.
We chatted and I explained that I was up to take some photos. She invited me in for a tour, and as I stepped through the door, I saw a photo above the desk and commented that I was glad my photo was still there.
"You used to work here?" Courtney asked.
"Yeah. Back in the '90s."
"Really? What's your name?"
"Frank Clark. I wrote my name on the back of the photo," I said pointing to the framed eight-by- ten.
Courtney pulled down the frame, flipped it over, and found my name with a date. She flipped it again and studied the image. In the photo, at the lookout's edge I stood, a black silhouette looking through binoculars into the distance, with the red, white, and blue of the American flag waving patriotically overhead, and tall clouds with puffy white tops and flat, dark-blue bottoms loomed menacingly in the background.
"Ken, my fire management officer, took that just before the storm of the decade. I called in dozens of smokes in just a few days. In fact, that was my first day alone in the tower." How quickly eleven years had passed; it seemed like yesterday that Ken snapped the photo. My eyes lost focus as my thoughts drifted back a decade.
* * * * * * * *
Ken put his camera away, waved goodbye, and disappeared behind a juniper.
I was alone.
I scanned for smokes, pausing occasionally to monitor the quickly building clouds. Ken expected a massive storm; I couldn't imagine storms disturbing Schonchin's serene environment. The last three days, while being trained by Jenny, I'd come to consider Schonchin a silent and bright refuge from fire fighting. That image was about to be irrevocably smashed.
Within an hour of Ken's departure, southeast of the monument, cumulus clouds developed anvil tops and virga. I grew increasingly nervous and paced around the catwalk looking skyward.
Without warning, dozens of camera-like flashes seared my eyes, and only seconds later, thunder violently shook Schonchin; I worried the blast might rattle the windows loose. My eyes grew wide and my knees trembled as I stumbled inside to mark the lightning strikes' locations on the fire finder map. I rotated the fire finder to shoot the strikes' azimuth and prepared to radio the information to Modoc National Forest dispatch.
* * * * * * * *
Courtney replaced the photo, her movement jarring me back to the present. My eyes fixed on the Osborne Fire Finder; I approached the stand, looked at the stenciled numbers on the map, and overwhelmingly felt like I had just installed it yesterday. I touched the map and traced the stenciling; my fingers slid gently along the cold metal azimuth indicator. Tactile. I had to touch everything to make sure it was real.
On the fire finder's pedestal hung a clipboard with fire reports. I bent down, looked closer, and my mind wondered back as I remembered how jittery my hands were the first time I filled out a report.
* * * * * * * *
I mustered all my courage, steadied my voice, and reported the lightning strikes to Modoc via radio. Moments later, multiple platinum slivers crisscrossed the sky, and bolts assailed the desert soil. After detecting a grey plume dancing toward the sky, I rushed to the spotting scope. Flames burst from a lone juniper and quickly spread to dry sage. I hurried to the fire finder, aligned its crosshair through the base of the fire, and looked at the azimuth indicator. My shaking hands fumbled for the fire reports hanging from the pedestal, and I hurriedly scribbled information: azimuth, size, distance, legal location, fuel type. Seconds later, I radioed Modoc and successfully reported my first smoke.
* * * * * * * *
A high-pitched tone on the radio woke me from my daydreams of the past. As Courtney recorded the forecast, I watched the clouds toward Mt. Shasta build and darken. Returning to the catwalk, I packed my backpack as if leaving, but Courtney asked me weather questions and for advice on the rapidly developing clouds.
I spent a half hour eating lunch and going over weather and scanning techniques with Courtney, and as I put my Nalgene bottle away, a single slender bolt of lightning split the sky in the distance.
"Did you see that?" Courtney shook her head. "You've gotta get an azimuth on it!"
We rushed inside, I helped Courtney shoot the strike, and a microburst blasted the lookout's south side with rain and small hail. Another strike flashed only yards from the lookout, and I tried to get a visual on the strike area but had to shut the window as nickel-sized raindrops pelted the ledge.
"I didn't get much training and am so glad you're here to help!" Courtney said, her voice trembling. "I couldn't imagine being up here all alone right now." My lips smiled at Courtney's words as I thought about the end of my first day alone on Schonchin.
* * * * * * * *
It was midnight, and after hours alone, Ken instructed me to shut down the lookout and head down the hill. I survived lightening strikes near the tower, reported a dozen smokes, guided the engine crew to the largest fire, and done so calmly and effectively. Fire fighting was tough, and maybe not for me, but I'd found a place where my skills shown. I felt like I'd found my home atop Schonchin Butte. Over the next few days, the fire crew, who had generally regarded my frail frame and fire fighting ability with incredulity, greeted me warmly and appreciatively. Ken told me I had found them something to do and earned their respect. I had weathered the storm.
* * * * * * * *
"You can weather any storm, Courtney. You'll do just fine this summer."
At her request, I helped Courtney with procedures for the next hour as we hunkered down during the storm.
After an hour, the sun abruptly split clouds, and the rain alleviated its staccato pounding of the metal roof. Only a fine and translucently illuminated mist fell around our mountain, bathing it in sparkles. I stepped outside and smelled the pure and cathartic scent of rain, a clean and rejuvenating smell that set my soul at ease. A billion fine water droplets glistened on their descent to the thirsty desert soil, and the tops of the black-bottomed clouds glowed luminously as sun beams flowed around their every bulge and curve. A full rainbow materialized only a few miles distant; it reached north from the Schonchin Butte parking lot to Symbol Bridge in the south. My eyes welled up, and I felt a presence in the hush and quiet of the air.
"Courtney, you have to see this," I whispered in awe.
Joining me, she gasped.
"I've experienced many beautiful days on Schonchin, but I've never seen anything like this," I said mesmerized. I leaned against the rail as a tear slid surreptitiously down my cheek. "It's so close and a full one. And it ends at Symbol Bridge, a sacred site for the Modocs where they painted pictographs."
"That must be a metaphor. It must mean something."
"Gary." I whispered. "The Spirits."
"What's that?"
"Yes. It must mean something." But I wouldn't fully understand until later that night.
* * * * * * * *
On a final circle, I paused alone on the steps to whisper a goodbye to Schonchin and then walked Courtney down the trail. Finding my bike tire flat, I got a ride back to the campground.
After that first day back, after the storm, after the rainbow, after hugging Courtney goodbye, after everything, in the late evening I sat amongst the junipers and sage in the utter silence, basking in the moonlight and crying so hard, and not understanding exactly why, but feeling that everything was okay finally, and all the negative feelings I'd developed about life had lifted–purged by tears–and the Spirits and Gary had returned to show me such amazing beauty and love. I cried for Gary. I cried for all the wonderful people I met over the last decade but would never see again. I cried for all the tremendous beauty in the world. I cried because finally, after a decade of wandering, I had returned home.


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Award-winning filmmaker/author and Portland State University film professor Dustin Morrow, popular Seattle indie rocker Kate Tucker, and acclaimed Vancouver theatre artist Noah Drew have collaborated on a new feature-length film musical, titled "Everything Went Down," shot entirely in the Pacific Northwest.
The film will have its Portland premiere as part of the Northwest Tracking series at the Northwest Film Center. The movie screens at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 2 at the Portland Museum of Art's Whitsell Auditorium.
"Everything Went Down" follows a young college professor (played by Drew) who has become a shell of a person following the death two years earlier of his wife. Crippled by a numbing grief, he's shut himself off from the world emotionally. At the same time, a young singer- songwriter (Tucker) has begun to lose faith in the struggle to make a name for herself as a musician. Bogged down by the pressures of turning her art into commerce, she has lost sight of why she wanted to make music in the first place.
Unfolding over the space of a few weeks, the film chronicles the budding friendship between the professor and the singer, as the energy and beauty of her music begins to bring him back to life, and the value of her music to this man reawakens her to the merits of making music.
"Everything Went Down" is a realist musical in the style of the beloved Irish film "Once." Subverting the traditional structure of musicals, in which characters artificially break into song and performance, the music in "Everything Went Down" is integrated concretely into the world of the film, complementing the narrative, and providing the film with the generosity and compassion at its center.
The film was inspired by the director's work with music therapy and music education programs. Prof. Morrow is a staunch advocate for music therapy organizations - a portion of any profits generated by the release of "Everything Went Down" will be donated to music therapy programs for children.
Questions about the film, and requests for interviews, can be directed to Prof. Morrow at firstname.lastname@example.com or (503)725-4609. You can learn more about the film at its website, www.everythingwentdown.com.

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Feelgood Factor
The arrow is back in optimistic territory, last achieved in January 2012. Turbine manufacturers' earnings are improving strongly, and wind is increasingly competitive with its big rival, nuclear. Latin America is adding wind, albeit more slowly than last year. However, firmer optimism is only warranted if the lethargic US gets back into the game.
The Windicator index of installed capacity reveals continued resilience in the key markets of China, India, the UK, Germany and Brazil, as well as burgeoning growth in up-and-coming countries across the South American cone and Africa.
Meanwhile, an analysis of second-quarter wind-project activity shows that there is confidence among developers. Windpower Intelligence (WPI), Windpower Monthly's market research unit, observed a 28% year-on-year rise in project announcements and large rises in permitting and construction starts.
The data provides insight into the workings of particular markets. China and Europe steamed ahead in the second quarter. Project activity in the Asia-Pacific region, dominated as ever by China but with Indian contribution too, was solid across the spectrum, from announcement to permitting and finally construction.
In Europe, overall activity was also robust, but with a greater emphasis on late-stage development, while permitting and turbine purchase agreements stalled.
Activity in Latin America was patchy: there were increases — albeit from low levels — in permitting starts, turbine purchase agreements and construction completions, but most other aspects of development suffered in the second quarter compared with the same period a year ago. This is reflected in the easing in Latin American installations from 30% growth in new megawatts, year to date, in October 2012 to 19% this month.
North America
Construction cranes are gathering dust in the US. Previous powerhouse Texas has added no new capacity since the start of the year, and even once-wind-friendly California has put only 83MW online. Overall, installations have grown just 6% in the year to date, compared to 11% at this time last year.
The marginal rise that has occurred is thanks to a small handful of states: Oregon, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Washington and Michigan. In fact, Michigan added the most of any state - 140MW - increasing its cumulative installed capacity by 17% from January, to 988MW at the time of going to press.
The North American market warrants a closer look. In the April-June period, North American project activity grew only across the early stages of development, compared to the same period in 2012. There was a slight rise in project announcements, site acquisitions and permitting starts. But even these were very few in number.
Meanwhile, there were fewer permitting completions, construction starts and so on through to the final stages of commission and project expansion. The US essentially flat-lined, with only tentative signs of life.
Mixed signals
Since June, WPI has continued to receive mixed signals from global markets. In August, announcements and site acquisitions appeared weaker than in the same month last year, but increased numbers of power purchase agreements and construction starts buoyed overall growth in on-year activity to 15%. The US was responsible for almost none of this activity.


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I'm a Christian and yes I let my seven year old grandson celebrate Halloween...
Does that make my un-Christian or an evil person?
No, it makes me human.
Since Cameron was old enough to understand we've celebrated many secular holidays: Easter(with all the goodies) and Halloween.
We don't go all out.
Cameron doesn't dress up in scary costumes(not allowed). We limit where he goes and what candy he can eat.
Mainly, we attend church Fall festivals...it's our Halloween tradition.
Cameron doesn't mind(he enjoys the candy)
Since Halloween falls on a school night this year, our trick-or-treat plans are still up in the air, but Cameron will still get his candy....
We'll come home and watch 'It's The Great Pumpkin, Charley Brown and the new Disney Spooky Buddies dvd.
So let your little ghosts, goblins and ghouls enjoy being a kid
As a Christian parent do you allow your child to trick-or-treat?


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"Nuclear Grade" and "Stage"
I had a simple mastectomy for ductal carcinoma in situ, comedo type, nuclear grade III. I would like information regarding "nuclear grade" and "stage". What is the relationship between these terms? What is nuclear grade, and how is it determined?
Carolyn Vachani, RN, MSN, AOCN, OncoLink's Nurse Educator responds:
Stage and grade are two unrelated terms used in determining the extent of the disease and how aggressive the cells are. Stage is based on the tumor size and whether or not the lymph nodes or other parts of the body (i.e. liver, lungs) are involved by tumor. For invasive cancers stage can range from I to IV. For example, Stage I breast tumors must be under 3cm in size and have no involved lymph nodes, whereas stage IV disease has spread to other organs or the bones. The stage helps doctors determine the best treatment for the cancer. However, because ductal carcinomia in situ (DCIS) is not invasive cancer, it is consider stage 0.
The tumor grade is determined by the tumor cells' appearance under the microscope (how closely a tumor resembles normal tissue of its same type). If the tumor cells look like normal breast tissue cells the tumor is termed Low Grade . High grade cells look markedly different from normal breast tissue cells. The same rules apply to the appearance of the cells' nucleus. High Grade tumors tend to behave more aggressively and therefore have a poorer prognosis.


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A free 8-bit platformer game that's quite funny (untill you get stuck on one level....). Very hard, so, I haven't got really far; like to see how the rest of you can do; post screen shots of your progress!
Link to DL: http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/downloads.php
Get the Slo-mo version... the game then becomes possible for humans.


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Christian Bracelets
When you wear a Christian Bracelet, you aren't just wearing any piece of jewelry. You are wearing something that can provide you with the ability to start a conversation about the hope that you have in Jesus. Religious Bracelets and Jesus Bracelets have never been as fashionable as the bracelets Kerusso offers.


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The value of new construction starts fell 1% in April, seasonally adjusted, according to McGraw-Hill Construction, New York. For the first four months of 2009 combined, starts declined 39%, compared to the same time period in 2008. Additionally, in April non-building construction fell 19%, following a 28% increase in March, and was down 20% year-to-date. Non-residential building experienced a 9% jump in April, but fell 42% year-to-date. Residential construction in April grew 8%, largely as a result of a 13% gain in single-family housing, but was down 50% year-to-date.
Highlights of the McGraw-Hill report for April include month-to-month findings:
- 49% increase for health care
- 19% increase for public buildings
- 10% decrease for stores
- 20% decrease for warehouses
- 22% decrease for offices
- 8% increase for hotels
- 11% decrease for multi-family housing
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Luke Bryan scores 9 American Country Awards
Miranda Lambert took home three awards, including Female Singer of the Year.
LAS VEGAS — On the red carpet before the American Country Awards in Las Vegas on Monday night, Trace Adkins swore he wouldn't tote his tiny, Tony Award-winning co-host Kristin Chenoweth onto the stage in a Baby Bjorn like last year. He brought her out in a hot-pink baby sling instead.
The co-hosts kept the mood playful in Sin City — handing the sling over to Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott, who just announced she is expecting her first child — while Luke Bryan took nine awards, the most of the evening.
Other big winners at the live show from Mandalay Bay Events Center included Miranda Lambert with three awards including Female Single of the Year for Over You. She thanked husband Blake Shelton for co-writing the song, and she said she's Tivo-ing him on The Voice and hoped he was also Tivo-ing her as they were featured in competing television time slots Monday night.
"Honey, we won an award and I'm really excited," she shouted out to him via television. "Fans, thank you so much."
Carrie Underwood set a record by receiving her 11th ACA during the show's three-year history. This year, Underwood took home the award for female artist of the year.
"It's fan-voted, so it really means a lot," she said of the American Country Awards, the only country music awards show that allows fans to vote for their favorite artists in various categories. "I already know I have awesome fans, but when they do something like this for me, it's really awesome."
Underwood also alluded to the hockey lockout as holiday time is coming up with family and husband Mike Fisher.
"We can actually plan something now," she said.
Crowd-pleasing live performances included Little Big Town's confetti-swirled performance of Tornado and Adkins on stage with Lynyrd Skynyrd for the band's hit What's Your Name. It had many of the stars on their feet, including Jason Aldean, who had just accepted his award for top touring act, and Keith Urban, who flashed the rock hand signal to the stage.
This is the third year for the American Country Awards. The nominees for each award category were determined by four media measurement companies: BigChampagne (record sales and media consumption); Great American Country (video airplay); Mediabase (radio airplay); Pollstar (touring data); and Nashville Songwriters Association International.
2012 American Country Awards winners
Artist of the Year
Luke Bryan
Artist of the Year: Male
Luke Bryan
Artist of the Year: Female
Carrie Underwood
Artist of the Year: Group
Lady Antebellum
Artist of the Year: Breakthrough Artist
Jake Owen
Artist of the Year: New Artist
Lauren Alaina
Album of the Year
Luke Bryan, tailgates & tanlines
Single of the Year
Luke Bryan, I Don't Want This Night To End
Single of the Year: Male
Luke Bryan, I Don't Want This Night To End
Single of the Year: Female
Miranda Lambert, Over You
Single of the Year: Group
Lady Antebellum, We Owned The Night
Single of the Year: New Artist
Hunter Hayes, Wanted
Single of the Year: Breakthrough Artist
Brantley Gilbert, You Don't Know Her Like I Do
Single of the Year: Vocal Collaboration
Brad Paisley (Duet with Carrie Underwood), Remind Me
Touring Artist of the Year
Jason Aldean
Music Video of the Year
Luke Bryan, I Don't Want This Night To End
Music Video of the Year: Male
Luke Bryan, I Don't Want This Night to End
Music Video of the Year: Female
Miranda Lambert, Over You
Music Video of the Year: Group or Collaboration
Little Big Town, Pontoon
Music Video of the Year: New Artist
Hunter Hayes, Wanted
Song of the Year
Eric Church, Springsteen (Eric Church, Jeff Hyde and Ryan Tyndell)
Awards determined by Mediabase, were announced during Monday's telecast:
Most Played Radio Track
Luke Bryan, I Don't Want This Night to End
Most Played Radio Track: Male
Luke Bryan, I Don't Want This Night to End
Most Played Radio Track: Female
Miranda Lambert, Over You
Most Played Radio Track: Group
Zac Brown Band, Keep Me In Mind
Most Played Radio Track: New Artist
Kip Moore, Somethin' 'Bout A Truck


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Donald MacKeen is passionate about getting his fellow retirees to overcome their fear of water and learn how to swim. At 85, he may seem an unlikely candidate to encourage others to take a dip in their local pool, until you find out that he speaks from personal knowledge, having had a traumatic experience with water early on in life.
When he was 10 years old, MacKeen nearly drowned. While he was at a Boy Scout camp in Massachusetts, someone told him to jump into the lake, and he did. Unable to swim, he thrashed around and inhaled a lot of water.
MacKeen suffered from aftershock for a long time. "Whenever water got in my eyes, I'd panic," he remembers.So it wasn't until he turned 60 that he learned to swim.
In the meantime, he pursued a career in medical science. He worked with lasers early in their development, when no one knew how to spell their name. He developed an interest in vision and ophthalmology and founded the first international dry eye institute. For many years, he also worked as director of research for a drug company in Washington, D.C., and traveled the world as its representative.
At some point, MacKeen quit smoking cigarettes and grew quite stout — in part, he claims, because of his wife's delicious cheesecake. He tried running to slim down, but it was too hard on his knees.
Fortunately, the country club he belonged to had a large swimming pool, and MacKeen decided it was finally time to overcome his childhood trauma. What got in the way — besides a tendency to panic in the water — were his feelings of embarrassment.
"I wanted to learn to swim, but I didn't want to display my ineptitude and be taught in front of others," he says.
— Donald MacKeen
His wife bought him a how-to book, and goggles helped alleviate the fear of water.
"I liked to swim with my face in the water. It's a simple thing when you finally figure out to breathe when you stroke and turn your head," he recalls. "Once I learned that, I was off and running."
Over the past 25 years, MacKeen has become a true believer in the benefits of aquatic working out. Among these is increased circulation, not only of the blood but also the lymphatic system.
"If you don't move, it just sits there," he says. "When the muscles flex, you can get rid of all those static toxins."
He adds, "When you get in the water, you don't weigh as much and the activity increases the lubrication in your joints. I just feel great afterward."
Not only did swimming get rid of his extra 40 pounds; it also corrected a problem with type 2 diabetes. He no longer takes medication for it now and still enjoys desserts on occasion. When he had to have a coronary bypass, he breezed through the operation and recovery. The surgeon told him that he was in excellent shape for his age.
"And at 77, I was no spring chicken!" MacKeen points out.
Ten years ago, when he moved to the Venice Golf and Country Club, he noticed a lot of overweight retirees in need of exercise. One day he saw a man who was trying to get into the community pool, but was clearly afraid of the water.
"Until today you've done nothing. There was always a good reason to put it off. We all recognize the excuses: It would be embarrassing to take swimming instruction where everyone else, including the instructor, is young and trim; individual instruction would be too expensive; water in the eyes causes panic…; there is a medical or physical condition that might cause difficulty; or, last but not least, the times or places where the lessions are held are never convenient."
— from "Swimming for the Mature Person, by Donald MacKeen
Remembering his own embarrassment, MacKeen engaged the newcomer in conversation by saying, "You know, I just learned how to swim. I stuck my neck out like a turtle, but I'm wondering about my strokes. Would you watch me?"
His ploy worked — "It's better than saying, 'Look, I figured it out, and so can you,' " MacKeen explains — and he has helped others with the same crafty approach.
"There are a lot of people out there who are afraid of the water and embarrassed they don't know how to swim," he says.
MacKeen decided to write a book, "Swimming for the Mature Person." The pamphlet-sized essay spells out the steps based on his personal experience of learning to swim, and is available on amazon.com. He is currently revising his work, and asks readers to email comments and suggestions to firstname.lastname@example.com.
To help beginning swimmers overcome a tendency to panic, he starts them out with goggles and a snorkel. Once they lie in the water and realize they can still breathe, he says, they gradually lose their anxiety about sinking or drowning. From there it requires only minimal effort for them to add forward motion and propel their bodies across the pool.
Now MacKeen swims laps every other day, often with his wife, clocking five to six miles a week. Once he gets in the water, he hates to get out."If I did it every day, I'd get rather tired," he says.
He does recommend that people have themselves checked out by a physician before embarking on an activity that comes naturally to sea creatures. But he knows from experience that taking the plunge will improve their lives.
"People retire down here and, because of medical advances, they no longer die when they're 60," he says. "They have 20, 30, 40 years to look forward to. They have this gift given to them. And if they realize they have to do repair and maintenance on themselves, they will find that they can accept this gift and live life to the utmost!"


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Hello everyone!
It's really starting to getting cold these days, huh... Halloween is coming up, so I'm looking forward to some pumpkin-based food and sweets. I could really go for some fried oyster!
Anyway, regarding the new characters in SSF4, we've already announced the trio of Dee Jay, Hawk and Juri, but there'll be more! Ono said something like "we want to include 8 characters", in interviews, after all. B-but, can we pull that off?
Speaking of adding characters, the team of designers are currently hard at work drawing new Character Select illustrations! So today, hot off the presses, is Dee Jay's Character Select portrait!
The Character Select illustrations aren't drawn by hand completely from scratch, they're in fact retouched screenshots of the actual game models.
The first step is to find poses that would fit the Character Select screen, and take lots and lots of shots!
Candidate shots like these ones are then handed in to the chief designer. The chief designer then goes through the pictures until he has a revelation, like "This one! This is it!", and then he goes to work on painting over the chosen picture.
This is the picture that was chosen with a little divine help. And in the end, it evolved into these two pictures! Wait, two?
Oh, they're different! They look almost the same, but they really are different!!
So... what's going on? For some reason, there are now two illustrations of Dee Jay. (Actually, the reason is that the final picture hasn't been decided on yet.) Which one do you guys prefer??
So using this process, Character Select illustrations are created for all the characters. And while I'm at it, I thought I'd show the illustrations for T. Hawk and Juri. Here they are!
Cool, huh?
T. Hawk looking like he's trying to keep a lid on that kind and powerful determination of his...
Juri's coldhearted eyes and sly smile...
And right now, as I'm writing this, the team is working diligently on the rest of the portraits!! For those guys and girls you don't know about yet, too... He he he. They will be announced successively, so stay tuned!!
OK everyone, maybe you'll get to see something next week too?!


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Sometimes the freshest face on the big screen is 80 and counting. Certainly that's true of "Elsa & Fred's" brightest star, Shirley MacLaine.
One of the grandes dames of cinema, she's been seen more around the edges than center stage in recent years. Not so with director Michael Radford, 68, running the show.
As a flirty octogenarian and the better half of "Elsa & Fred," the Oscar-winning actress (in 1984 for "Terms of Endearment") is very much in the spotlight.
And as she has in the past — whether infusing her lady of the night with sensuality in "Irma la Douce" or her nun with true grit in "Two Mules for Sister...


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cladden wrote:Doesn't Wright just have the weirdest looking J? It's out of his hands before he jumps almost. He certainly can get it off though. Hope this can get him some tick in games we're actually in.
I think it should. He shot a solid FG%, and netted 10 points in 17 minutes or whatever. He's coming along offensively to match his rebounding ability.


text: Jeremy has also shared with the world his very enlightened view on Islam:"This is by far no religion of peace, but an evil force created by Satan himself to destroy God's people. These people have been raised around destruction, hate and death. It has been engraved in their minds the beliefs of the Koran, so there can be no talking or compromising with them. The only way to defeat them is through war. We must stand strong in our convictions and not back out of Iraq until the Islamic extremists are no more and democracy can reign instead of terror."And (drumroll, please) my favorite quote from Jeremy's site:"Be a conservationist of American freedom and democracy be voting to re-elect President George Bush."Obviously, our friend has never heard of the PATRIOT Act.


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I've been meaning to do this post for a while but I haven't achieved my final goal so I kept saying to myself that I should wait or be further along in my journey before I posted something like this. But then I had a run like Saturday and this happened:
That run was faster than my runs all week {and longer}, but that wasn't the coolest part. The best part was that I liked it. I had fun running 5 miles, transformation #1. Yesterday when I was driving to where I was going to run I told my mom that I might have to run on a treadmill because it looked like rain, which sounded so painful to me. A year a go, I did most of my training runs for the October half marathon on a treadmill and loved it. Like my Lululemon tank top says - I am a runner because I run, transformation #2
I am like a lot of people, I am a scale addict. My whole life the scale has defined me. The amount of weight I carry has been something that I allow to limit the way I live. I am not done, and I would be lying if I said I didn't weigh myself once a week (better than once a day). I would also be lying if I said I don't care what the scale says. I do care, a lot. But I also work very hard during the week to make sure that the number is what I want it to be, if its not, sometimes I have a meltdown. That meltdown, however, no longer includes binging on food that will make me sick.
Speaking of foods that make me sick---
--I bake things, and these cupcakes were delish, but I indulged in more than one and I wanted to puke. Because I have taken out most of the refined sugar from my diet, one cupcake too many makes me feel gross. Three years ago when I really tried to start losing weight with little to no success, I never would have thought that two cupcakes would make me sick, transformation #3.
There are a few of my transformations so far, more to come, get excited. For now here's this selfie of me being excited!


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Pancreatic cancers: genetics of sporadic and familial pancreatic cancer. In collaboration with the Vogelstein/Kinzler lab, in 2008 we reported exome sequencing for 24 pancreatic cancers, where we confirmed identified genes in another 92 cancers. In Jones 2009, we identified that the partner and localizer of BRCA2 (PALB2) was a familial pancreatic cancer predisposition gene. Using gene mutations in primary cancers and their metastases, we clocked the progression of pancreatic cancer to demonstrate that metastasis is a late event, occurring after 17 years of growth in the primary site. Finally, in Norris et al, we reported a new method of mutagenesis in pancreatic cancer.
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Shi C, Fukushima N, Abe T, Bian Y, Hua L, Wendelburg BJ, Yeo CJ, Hruban RH, Goggins MG, and Eshleman JR. "Sensitive and quantitative detection of KRAS2 gene mutations in pancreatic duct juice differentiates patients with pancreatic cancer from chronic pancreatitis, potential for early detection." Cancer Biol Ther, 3/2008; 7:260-7.
Shi C, Eshleman SH, Jones D, Fukushima N, Hua L, Parker AR, Yeo CJ, Hruban RH, Goggins MG, and Eshleman JR. LigAmp for Sensitive Detection of Single Nucleotide Differences. Nature Methods, 1: 141-147, November, 2004.
Shi C, Parker AR, Hua L, Morrell CN, Lee SC, Bandaru W, Wu TC and Eshleman JR. Anti-gene padlocks kill bacterial cells based on their genotype. Submitted.
Jones S, Zhang X, Parsons DW, Lin JC, Leary RJ, Angenendt P, Mankoo P, Carter H, Kamiyama H, Jimeno A, Hong SM, Fu B, Lin MT, Calhoun ES, Kamiyama M, Walter K, Nikolskaya T, Nikolsky Y, Hartigan J, Smith DR, Hidalgo M, Leach SD, Klein AP, Jaffee EM, Goggins M, Maitra A, Iacobuzio-Donahue C, Eshleman JR, Kern SE, Hruban RH, Karchin R, Papadopoulos N, Parmigiani G, Vogelstein B, Velculescu VE, and Kinzler KW. "Core signaling pathways in human pancreatic cancers revealed by global genomic analyses." Science. 9/2008; 321:1801-6.
Shi C, Hong SM, Lim P, Kamiyama H, Khan M, Anders RA, Goggins M, Hruban RH, and Eshleman JR. "KRAS2 mutations in human pancreatic acinar-ductal metaplastic lesions are limited to those with PanIN: Implications for the human pancreatic cancer cell of origin." Mol Cancer Res, 2/2009; 7:230-6 [NIHMS #89589].
Jones S, Hruban RH, Kamiyama M, Borges M, Zhang X, Parsons DW, Cheng-Ho Lin J, Palmisano E, Brune K, Jaffee EM, Iacobuzio-Donahue CA, Maitra A, Parmigini G, Kern SE, Velculescu VE, Kinzler KW, Vogelstein B, Eshleman JR, Goggins M, and Klein AP. "Exomic sequencing identifies PALB2 as a pancreatic cancer susceptibility gene." Science. 4/2009; 324:217.
Shi C, Chandrasekharan A, Thuluvath PJ, Karikari C, Argani P, Goggins M, Maitra A, and Eshleman JR. "Ultrasensitive detection of KRAS2 mutations in bile and serum from patients with biliary tract carcinoma using LigAmp technology." J Molec Diagnostics. 2009 Nov;11(6):583-9.
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According to the EEOC's complaint, from around January 2007 through around January 2009, Shazad Buksh, an estimator and assistant project manager for Rugo Stone, was subjected to derogatory comments from his supervisors, project manager and the company's owner on the basis of his national origin (Pakistan), religion (Islam), and color (brown). The comments occurred almost daily and included things like being called a "Paki-princess;" and being told he was the same color as human feces. On one occasion, Buksh's supervisor exited a bathroom at Rugo Stone, placed a cup containing feces on Buksh's desk, and told Buksh that his skin looked like the feces that were in the cup. The lawsuit also alleges that Buksh was told that his religion (Islam), was "f---ing backwards," "f---ing crazy," and was asked why Muslims are such "monkeys." On one occasion, Buksh was shown a video of a man being hanged in Iran and at the same time was told that the activity depicted on the video was "cool" and that Buksh's "country and religion does it this way." The complaint alleges that Buksh complained about the conduct and comments, but the harassment continued.
Harassment based on national origin, religion, and/or skin color violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Rugo Stone, LLC, Civil Action No. 1:11-cv-915) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The agency seeks compensatory and punitive damages for Buksh, as well as injunctive relief.
"Employers need to remember that federal law prohibits workplace harassment," said Lynette A. Barnes, regional attorney for EEOC's Charlotte District, whose jurisdiction includes Virginia. "The treatment Mr. Buksh allegedly endured is disturbing. The EEOC is here to protect workers from employment discrimination, including harassment."
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100 GB to 30,000 GB: Size, Speed, and Benchmarks
The TPC gained its early fame publishing online transaction processing (OLTP) benchmarks, such as TPC-A and TPC-B. TPC benchmarks are defined to model actual business scenarios instead of being a suite of tests that isolate communications, disk I/Os, backup, and other factors that affect database application performance. TPC defines the specific benchmark functions but organizations are free to choose the mix of hardware and software to use in their implementation of a benchmark. It certifies auditors and requires a full disclosure report describing the hardware and software used for a benchmark.
When TPC-C was approved in 1992, it was a replacement for the older DebitCredit benchmarks. TPC-C is an OLTP benchmark that uses a more complex database and transaction types than its predecessors. It models an order processing application for a parts supplier with multiple sales districts and warehouses. The application processes incoming orders and maintains a stocking level of 100,000 items at the warehouses, while using a database with ACID properties (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability).
TPC-C results show dramatic growth over the past decade in the number of transactions processed per second and a dramatic reduction in the price per transaction.
TPC-E is a more recent OLTP benchmark that's built around the model of a brokerage firm. Since 2010, vendors have submitted results for ten TPC-E benchmarks. The TPC provides a software tool named EGen to assist in TPC-E benchmarking. It provides project and make files and the capability of generating the data required for the benchmark.
A high volume of short-lived queries and a large number of concurrent users typically characterize large-scale OLTP applications. But decision support is a different kind of beast, often involving very large databases, sometimes fed by Big Data.
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In recent years the TPC has recognized that an important class of database users runs analytics and business intelligence applications. Those users want optimal performance for decision support. Unlike an OLTP workload, decision support involves longer running queries, often against data warehouses, for a smaller number of users.
TPC responded to this community by developing benchmarks that model decision-support scenarios instead of processing transactions. The TPC-H benchmark runs a collection of ad hoc queries while concurrently performing updates to the data. TPC provides a tool, DBGEN, for generating the databases for TPC-H benchmarks. The published results for TPC-H are broken down by database size (100 GB, 300GB, 1000GB, 3000 GB, 10,000 GB, and 30,000 GB).
Recently, I received a briefing from two TPC representatives about an upcoming conference and a new decision support benchmark. Interest in benchmarking is a prime reason for a TPC conference. The TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPC-TC) is an annual event. Raghunath Nambiar (Cisco) and Meikel Poess (Oracle) are the General Chairs of the 2012 conference that runs 27-31 August in Istanbul, Turkey. TPC-TC 2012 features a keynote by Dr. Michael Carey (UC Irvine), a well-known database researcher.
The new TPC-DS benchmark is a major improvement over TPC-H, which has been the industry's flagship decision support benchmark for a decade. Meikel Poess provided drill-down into details about TPC-DS. Because he worked on both TPC-H and TPC-DS, Meikel was able to highlight useful comparisons between the two.
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The Knicks are now 2-0 which is in a word, shocking. They have looked good on offense and ferocious on defense. If they keep playing with this intensity they may have a shot to play some basketball in late May or even June – not to get way ahead of ourselves. They could easily blow the next two but if you are a Knicks fan and you are not excited then check yourself for a pulse. Here are some thoughts from how the Knicks treated the 76ers like a small child today:
- There was a guy playing for the Knicks wearing #7 who was diving for lose balls, blocking shots, playing stellar defense and even dove into the stands for a lose ball. I have no idea who this player was but I hope he can give Melo some tips on how to play.
- I am going to go out on a limb and say that whenever either the Knicks hit 19 treys like Friday or JR Smith actually plays well the Knicks are going to win. And, JR with 20 points, 9 rebounds and 2 steals – did that really happen???
- The Knicks are winning by an average of 18 points a game. The Knicks are winning by an average of 18 points a game. I had to write that twice because it sounds so absurd but is true.
- How is it that the Knicks won by so much in back to back games yet I was on the edge of my seat and kept waiting for the Knicks to blow it in each game?
- Hey Philly, you better hope Bynum comes back soon or this is going to be a long season for all of your fans. I may regret saying that tomorrow night but right now I am sticking my tongue out at your mediocre squad.
- How well did the Knicks play today? They have the defensive player of the year on their team and only felt the need to play him for 20 minutes.
- How old is Jason Kidd again? I believe that is what Philly kept asking all game because Kidd looked damn good.
- Hey Ronnie Brewer, learn to finish better and you are going to be a dynamite contributor for this team.
- Prigi was looking better today and even shot the ball 4 times (2 pts) after looking petrified to shoot for almost 7 quarters.
- Rasheed Wallace with the hook!!! Apparently Rasheed was the one taking lessons from Hakeem Olajuwon in the off-season.
- Btw, is anyone now possibly upset that Mike Woodson is our coach??? I don't think anyone is calling for Phil Jackson right now.


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On the downhill slope of a dirt road, west of a small one-room cabin, there flows a creek whose memory winds through the minds of those who have grown to love that place. Strung between a tree with the names of many a relative carved in its bark and an ancient pine, a bridge hangs above the water and the rocks below.
My great-grandfather had a farm there once, and left the ground for his family to love as he once had. He loved that place and made it his home, and his love echoed through the lives of his children. His daughter married a man of meager means. That man became my grandfather, and the place shaped the young couple as much as their work shaped the place.
My grandfather headed to the woods after his shift at the factory and on the weekends, hauling whatever scrap lumber and used nails he could scrounge so that he could work on the cabin that stands there now. When my grandmother became ill, the place became his sanctuary and the work his restoration. For the 10 years she lay in a coma, the place was in many ways a home for my grandfather and my mother.
As he is now older and unable to do much, the upkeep of that place has fallen to me. I rebuilt that bridge last summer. My grandfather's bridge had begun to sag and creak with each crossing. The water is not deep there, and there's no real need for a bridge. Nevertheless, the place that had given me much beckoned, calling me to make an offering of thanks for the beauty and the love it has inexplicably sewn to my memory. There by that bridge, I first kissed a girl with our feet dangling in the water. There I went camping with friends when we should have been at school, dunked my cousins in the swimming hole, caught wary trout in the cool of a spring ...1


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Over the past few decades, some medical researchers have pointed the finger at meat consumption as a major factor in the development of heart disease and diabetes. However, a meta-analysis conducted by the Harvard School of Medical Health has concluded that it may be the salt and chemical preservatives used in processed meats that lead to health problems, not the meats themselves.
In a meta-analysis, researchers look through many pre-existing studies that are related to a particular question or problem. In this case, the Harvard researchers wanted to determine if meat by itself-pork, beef, or lamb-was a factor in the onset of cardiovascular problems and type 2 diabetes. Alternatively, could the way meat is processed be a factor?
After examining 1,600 studies, the researchers found that the consumption of unprocessed meats-meats that have not been cured, salted, or marinated, but are simply butchered and sold quickly for immediate consumption-did not lead to increased risk of heart attack or diabetes. However, the daily consumption of even small amounts of processed meats (1.8 oz/50 grams) such as bacon, salami, franks, sausages, and deli meats, was associated with a 42 percent higher risk of heart disease and a 19 percent increased chance of developing type 2.
The researchers did not look at studies that covered high blood pressure or cancer, two other medical outcomes that some research has associated with meat consumption. The effect of eating poultry, which does not contain the same amount of fat as beef, lamb, and pork, was also excluded from the study.
The researchers noted that although processed and unprocessed meats contain similar amounts of saturated fat and cholesterol, processed meats have four times more sodium and 50 percent more nitrate preservatives than unprocessed meats.
Because the study was weighted to compare people who ate similar amounts of meat per week, whether processed or not, the researchers recommended that for best results, people restrict their consumption of processed meats to one serving a week.


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The Detroit Lions returned from their latest road trip with a bit more legitimacy.
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ALLEN PARK, Mich. — The Detroit Lions returned from their latest road trip with a bit more legitimacy.
Not only did they win at Washington for the first time in franchise history, but they also set up an early showdown with unbeaten Chicago next weekend in the Motor City. Not that coach Jim Schwartz is all that concerned about standings or marquee matchups at this time of year.
"The urgency is there for everybody to improve and to get the next win," Schwartz said Monday. "I'm certainly not downplaying the importance of any game, but we treat them all with respect and we want to win every single one."
Still, the Lions (2-1) are one of only five teams in the NFC with a winning record, which is a step in the right direction for a team that lost eight games in a row to end last season. Detroit's 27-20 win Sunday came without running back Reggie Bush, whose knee problems kept him sidelined. Joique Bell filled in impressively, rushing for 63 yards and catching four passes for 69.
And the receivers did their part against a beleaguered Washington defence that managed a sack on the first play from scrimmage but otherwise had a hard time stopping quarterback Matthew Stafford and the Lions.
"They blitzed an awful lot. They crowded the middle of the field. I thought Matt played an outstanding game," Schwartz said. "We were 8.8 yards per pass play. That's very, very high."
Schwartz credited the offensive line for giving Stafford time to find Calvin Johnson (seven catches for 115 yards) and Nate Burleson (six for 116). Stafford had an interception returned for a touchdown early in the first quarter, but by halftime, the Lions had taken a lead they would never relinquish.
They snapped their run of futility at Washington with the help of a replay decision that was deliciously ironic for Detroit fans. The Lions stayed ahead when Aldrick Robinson's 57-yard touchdown catch in the fourth quarter was negated because he didn't maintain complete control of the ball after falling to the ground in the end zone.
That's a ruling that's probably most famous for costing Johnson an important touchdown in a game a few years ago. This time it benefited Detroit.
Not all the news was good, of course. Bush could return soon, but Schwartz was non-committal, and defensive end Jason Jones was lost for the season with a left knee injury in the second quarter.
"I can't say enough," defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh said. "It's going to be a tough loss."
Jones signed with the Lions as a free agent in March, and Detroit was counting on him after the team parted ways with Cliff Avril and Kyle Vanden Bosch in the off-season. Now the pressure will be on players like Willie Young and Devin Taylor to fill in.
Meanwhile, rookie Ziggy Ansah continues to show promise at defensive end. He had two sacks at Washington.
"I find ourselves very similar in the way we came into the game of football," Suh said. "He started later than me, but not too much later than me. … He takes that coaching, soaks it up and runs with it."
Although Schwartz was hesitant to place too much importance on this game against Chicago, it will certainly be interesting to see how the Lions measure up. The Bears swept Detroit in 2012, but both games were decided by single digits.
Chicago forced five turnovers in a 40-23 win at Pittsburgh on Sunday night, so the Lions can expect a much different challenge than the one they faced Sunday.
And even Schwartz is willing to concede that, yes, divisional games matter a little more than others.
"I talk about NFC games because when you do get to the end of the year, that's one of the tiebreakers," Schwartz said. "NFC North games mean an awful lot because No. 1, it's a chance for you to win the game, but No. 2, it's a chance to put a loss on one of your opponents without having somebody else have to help you do it. They're certainly important. I'm not up here to tell you it's not."


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In Memory of Joelle Brupbacher - May 2011
We are shocked and very sad to hear that Arc`teryx athlete Joelle Brupbacher passed away on the 22nd of May 2011 on the Makalu (Nepal) above camp three. Our deepest sympathies are with her family and friends. Our thoughts are with you. We knew Joelle as incredible strong Alpinist who was a friendly, joyful and helpful spirit. We will miss her.
Growing up in the town of Berne, Switzerland, surrounded by the magesitc peaks of the Swiss Alps, Joelle started sport climbing at an early age and often frequented many of her favourite local climbing spots during the years. Soon after, Joelle discovered the challenges of big mountain climbing, and since then, it has been her new-found direction within the sport.
Talking with Joelle, it is clear to see her emotional love affair with the sport. Her eyes light up as she recounts stories of adventures in distant countries, and emotional journeys to unforgettable places.
For Joelle, there are no better places to climb than in Pakistan and Nepal, where the climbing opportunities are abundent and diverse, and the people are warm-hearted and welcoming.
Her undeniable passion for climbing has her traveling all over the world in the pursuit of the next big challenge. With several 8000 metre (24000 foot) peaks under her belt, Joelle can safely claim to be one of the elite few, extreme-mountaineers of her time.
Whenever possible, Joelle endeavours to shape her own destiny, following her passion for climbing to the top of the world's highest summits, where she is able to find a centred, personal, life-balance between her dreams and goals.


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Deutsche Bank provides update on its 2012 preliminary results
Deutsche Bank (XETRA: DBKGn.DE / NYSE: DB) today announced that new developments related to specific existing legal matters have occurred after the disclosure of the Bank's preliminary, unaudited 2012 results on 31 January 2013. Deutsche Bank is obliged, under IFRS, to assess the impact this new information has on its financial position and results for 2012. IFRS requires that any developments that materially affect the Bank's legal provisions must be considered and if necessary reflected if they become known before the financial statements are finalized.
The new developments require provisions concerning US mortgage-related litigation in some of the Bank's legacy businesses that are assigned to the Non-Core Operations Unit, as well as unrelated regulatory investigations.
Based on these developments and the IFRS requirements, the Bank has increased its provisions for litigation by EUR 0.6 billion to EUR 2.4 billion. This reduces the previously announced income before income taxes by EUR 0.6 billion to EUR 0.8 billion and net income by EUR 0.4 billion to EUR 0.3 billion.
As some of the provisions relate to claims that had previously been disclosed as contingent liabilities, the Bank's contingent liabilities for significant legal and regulatory matters decline by approximately EUR 0.5 billion to EUR 1.5 billion.
As a result of the above mentioned changes, Deutsche Bank´s Basel 2.5 Common Equity Tier 1 capital ratio as of 31 December 2012 declines to 11.4% from 11.6%. The Bank´s Basel 3 pro-forma Common Equity Tier 1 capital ratio (fully loaded) declines to 7.8% from 8.0%. Nevertheless, the Bank reaffirms its target for the Basel 3 pro-forma Common Equity Tier 1 capital ratio (fully loaded) of 8.5% at 31 March 2013.
The proposal of the Management Board and the Supervisory Board for a cash dividend of EUR 0.75 per share remains unchanged.
The complete press release, including table, is available here.
For further details, including the impact of these changes on the fourth quarter 2012 results, please refer to the updated Financial Data Supplement, which is available under https://db.com/ir/financial-supplements.
All figures reported herein and in the Financial Data Supplement are preliminary and unaudited. Deutsche Bank's 2012 Financial Report and Annual Report on Form 20-F, including the audited financial statements, are scheduled to be filed and published on 15 April 2013.
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Supremacist suspected of killing 3 in Kansas founded Klan group in NC
The man suspected in three killings at Jewish institutions near Kansas City sprang from Johnston County, once fertile soil for racist activism.
While living with his family on a Johnston farm, few people anywhere in the nation were more active in promoting racial hatred and anti-Semitism than F. Glenn Miller Jr. He left the state after a lawsuit, a series of arrests and a short prison stint in the late 1980s.
On Monday, a nephew who lives in Johnston County said Miller's most recent visit to North Carolina was perhaps a decade ago, for a relative's funeral, though he still kept up with family members here by phone.
David Barker of Four Oaks, whose mother, Jacqueline Miller Cavanaugh, is Miller's sister, said he last talked with his uncle two weeks ago. Miller had called to check on his sister, who had broken her leg and was in a nursing home.
"I talk to him quite often, and I just don't know where this came from," Barker said. "His wife told the media he had been at a casino and had won some money. I don't know if he lost his money, or someone said something to him or he had got drunk."
Miller, a former U.S. Army Special Forces sergeant, was forced out of the military in 1979 for activities related to racism, according to a dossier on him compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center. He lept to national prominence among hate groups in 1980 when he founded an organization called the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He later changed the name of the group to the Confederate Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and then to White Patriot Party as it turned into more of a paramilitary group.
For a time some Klan-watch organizations regarded it as the most active white supremacy group in the country, though they said it likely had just 150 to 300 members rather than the 1,500 Miller claimed.
In addition to his role as a white supremacist leader, Miller was known for perpetually running for office, at least in part so he could use the public platform to preach his message of hate. In North Carolina, his campaigns, with white supremacy platforms, included bids for the Democratic nomination for governor in 1984 and the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 1986.
Miller was present at one of the most notorious incidents in modern North Carolina history, the 1979 "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro in which five members of the Communist Workers Party died in a shootout with Klan supporters. But he wasn't charged in that case, and the Klansmen and Nazis who were charged won acquittal.
Miller's legal downfall began in 1984, when the Southern Poverty Law Center sued his group. Millerwas forced to sign a consent order to stop harassing African-Americans and quit running a paramilitary operation.
In response to the lawsuit, he said the group would switch its focus from "black racist crime" to exposing Jewish communists. He continued to operate and staged high-profile rallies in Raleigh and in Shelby and Forest City, west of Charlotte.
In one Raleigh event in 1985, he led about 300 uniformed Klansmen, carrying Confederate battle flags, on a march to the state Capitol. In another, he drew a crowd of about 300 to the legislature for a protest against school integration. Police said about half were counter-demonstrators.
"Our goal is an all-white independent Southern republic just like our forefathers had," he told the Charlotte Observer in 1986.
Miller was convicted that year in U.S. District Court in Raleigh of violating the consent order. Prosecutors said his group had been stockpiling weapons and was a threat to the government. He was sentenced to six months in prison and three years of probation but appealed the conviction.
While out on bond, he got permission from federal authorities to move to Virginia with his family, but then went underground and fled to Springfield, Mo. He then sent a declaration of "total war" against the government, African-Americans and Jews to his mailing list of 5,000 white supremacists. The declaration offered a point system to his followers: one point for killing an African-American, 10 for killing a Jew, 20 for an abortion provider and more for a "race traitor."
The declaration decreed that he be buried in his White Patriot Party uniform with his arm raised in a white power salute. Within days, though, federal agents captured him and three other men in a mobile home filled with guns, hand grenades, ski masks, police scanners, 1,500 copies of the war declaration and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
The diehard racist quickly turned informant on other supremacists, and federal prosecutors recommended him for the federal witness protection program and offered him a reduced sentence. In a sentencing memo filed with the federal court, a civil rights attorney with the U.S. Justice Department said Miller had cooperated with investigations of crimes committed in at least three federal jurisdictions and had helped state investigators with a case in which three men were murdered at an adult book store in Shelby.
Klan-watch groups said white supremacists across the country who had regarded Miller as a hero began referring to him as a race traitor – worth 50 points to kill, according on his own scale.
When he got out of prison in 1990, Miller became a truck driver and moved to Iowa, then Missouri, where he also ran for office several times but never got more than a handful of write-in votes, according to the Kansas City Star. He sought the 7th District U.S. House seat from Missouri in 2006 and filed as a write-in candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010. That year, he bought or tried to buy advertising time on several Missouri radio stations for ads that bitterly denounced Jews, the federal government and African-Americans.
Miller had mostly stayed away from North Carolina since leaving prison, in part because he was so hated for giving evidence against the other white supremacists, family members said.
Barker, Miller's nephew, said his father had served in the military with Miller and always told Barker not to be swayed by Miller's thinking.
His uncle, Barker said, had always behaved well toward his family. He declined, though, to say whether he thought Miller was capable of the crimes he's accused of or whether Miller had ever threatened violence.
Asked whether Miller had shared views on race and religion with him, Barker was silent a minute before simply saying yes and declining to elaborate.
"I could be putting my life on the line answering these questions," Barker said. "He still knows a lot of people in North Carolina."
News researcher Teresa Leonard contributed to this report.


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Genre: Rock
Will P, guitarist, songwriter and part time singer of the now dearly departed NYC band "The Few" (no, not that "Few", the other one), packed up some of his songs and ran away to Sweden for a month long endeavor with former bandmates, studio musicians, maniacal producer/engineers and a serious language barrier.
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