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The Taliban will attend a meeting in France to talk about Afghanistan's future but will not discuss peace and reconciliation, the militant group's spokesman said Monday.
The meeting, organized by a French think tank on the outskirts of Paris, is not expected to produce results, but it will produce a rare face-to-face gathering of Afghanistan's major players. Only one such meeting, far less inclusive, has been held this year with Taliban participation. It was organized by a Japanese university in Kyoto six months ago.
Zabiullah Mujahid said two of the Taliban's representatives will attend next week's meeting to outline their policies. Representatives from Afghanistan's High Peace Council, political parties opposed to the Taliban, and the militant Islamist group Hezb-e-Islami also are expected to attend.
French Foreign Ministry deputy spokesman Vincent Floreani said the intra-Afghan conference would take place this month under the auspices of the Foundation for Strategic Research. It will be closed to the media and will involve "all components of Afghan society," he said. He declined to specify the date or indicate the location, citing security concerns.
Peace talks with the Taliban remained stalled, but there are signs of increasing efforts to get them back on track. U.S.-backed talks broke down last March in a dispute over the release of five Taliban detainees held in U.S. custody in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants the peace talks to be led by his government and the peace council, a body he set up to negotiate with the insurgency.
It was unclear who would represent the Afghan government, but an official who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak to reporters said that Education Minister Farooq Wardak may attend along with one other official.
Pakistan is also a key player in the peace process, and its release of a number of Taliban prisoners earlier in the month was seen as a key step in its participation. The cooperation of Pakistan, which has long-standing ties to the Taliban, is seen as pivotal in restarting the talks. The United States and its allies are trying to get movement ahead of the Afghan presidential election in 2014, the year that most foreign combat troops are set to leave the country.
"Two people are going from the Taliban side. We are not giving the names now," Mujahid said. "We are not going to talk about the peace process. We will express our ideas and policy. We are not going to discuss peace. This gathering is not about peace."
Ghairat Baheer, who will attend and represent his father-in-law Hekmatyar, said Hezb-e-Islami was supporting the initiative by the French because it focused on a discussion among Afghans.
"It is a good forum for exchanging views and expressing oneself and understanding each other's point of view," Baheer said. "The intra-Afghan dialogue is the only solution. The Taliban have shown a willingness to participate."
Muhammad Mohaqeq, a member of the peace council and top leader of Afghan Shiites and the Hazara minority ethnic faction, said the peace process would be a topic for discussion at the meeting.
"There will be people from the government side, from Hezb-e-Islami and the Taliban," he said. "We are going to talk about the peace process and all sides will be there. We will also talk about the elections and the situation in Afghanistan."
Mohaqeq, a member of the National Front, which represents members of the former Northern Alliance that fought the Taliban before the U.S. invasion 11 years ago, said he and another two people from the group will attend. One of the two is Ahmad Zia Masood, the brother of the late Northern Alliance chief Ahmad Shah Masood, considered a national hero by anti-Taliban forces.
Associated Press writers Jamey Keaten in Paris and Kathy Gannon in Islamabad contributed.


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Clashes at the Pro-Morsy sit-in in Rabaa resulted in at least 65 deaths (according to health ministry) and 100s injured from attacks by police using the usual excessive tear gas, live bullets, and birdshots, same as the police always used against revolutionaries in all massacres across the 2.5 years of the revolution. This time it came after a mandate "the people of Egypt" gave to Sisi measured by the mass demonstrations on 26 July, of which thankfully i refused to take part. It also came after Safwat Hegazy, one of the leaders at Rabaa sit-in decided to escalate the sit-in by taking it as far as the entrance of the 6 Oct Bridge on Nasr St building a rock wall to block the road pushing forward all the foot soldiers of the MB for the battle sacrificing as he was no where to be seen at the frontline of the battle field.
Even though MB have been in bed with SCAF and police especially in the year of Morsy, i will never justify police killing other citizens while at the same time i will never forgive Morsy who had one year to show any sign that he is willing to change MOI, bring retribution to the martyrs, fulfill any demands of the revolution, or even keep any promise he himself made. If anything, the tear gas and bullets that killed MB supporters was probably shipped/delivered under Morsy to be used against us. On the contrary, Morsy replaced Mubarak's men with his own or at least attempted and did as much he could, and gave an award to Tantawi (head of SCAF) whom ironically the MB now are denouncing. The MB have accused revolutionaries of being spies of the west, thugs, "bendetta", you name it defending the very same SCAF they are now want to rage war upon, not to mention the extensive deals they struck with the US administration to stay in power and force the neo-liberal economic agenda through IMF loan shoving it down people's throats.
If you ask me i want nothing but prosecution to all bastards; leaders of the MB and anyone who committed a crime against another citizen, SCAF (the current one and the old one, they are all the same to me) for all massacres they committed in the name of the "national interest" , old regime Mubarak & his men and the police who massacred people since 28 Jan 2011. But even with all this, i wont praise the seeds of fascism and justify the state killing protesters, even if they are labeled terrorists and are in fact armed.
if they are terrorists and armed, then arrest them, prosecute them, but i won't give up my rights, and embrace fascism, or my humanity in the name of "national security." It is clear that the mandate is only to justify more crimes of the regime while letting the real perpetrator be the victims while over 14 officers have been restored to state security. It is not a mandate to "crack down on terrorists", it is a mandate to crack down on the revolution as a whole. Those who are cheering were never part of the revolution to begin with, those who are apathetic have nothing to offer and are turning a blind eye for the "greater good", and those who are rejecting both have no choice, but to do so out of principle. Using violence against MB will only make them have more right to use it against anyone and especially the state, which in return will lead to more repression, so even the rights we gained in the past two years will be given up slowly (by default) in the name of the "greater good." The state will have more "right" to arrest, torture, and even kill in the name of "national security" by "popular support".
I don't have a magical solution to end this dichotomy nor do i have the base power to intervene and change the discourse. All I have is my political stance and my principles that come in whole, against SCAF, MB, and Mubarak's regime, against all perpetrators who killed and all those who hijacked the revolution!

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If you speak to Svana Far-Shield in Haelga's Bunkhouse, she'll detail her hatred of Haelga and ask for your help in confronting her about her promiscuity.
Haelga gives each of her lovers a Mark of Dibella. Find three of them - on Indaryn, Hofgrir, and Bolli, then confront Haelga with them.
Hofgrir owns the Riften Horse Stables and can be found there. If you directly ask Hofgrir about the Mark of Dibella, he'll deny it. You can attempt to persuade or intimidate him into giving it to you, or pickpocket him for it (he has lots of other goodies too!).
You can check The Bee and Barb for Bolli. Bolli can also be found at the market stalls, and the Riften Fishery. He too will of course deny knowing anything about the Mark. You can try and persude or intimidate him to get the Mark, or pickpocket him.
Check the Black-Briar Meadery for Indaryn. It's the same story as the other two. Ask him about it then persuade or intimidate, or pickpocket him.
Once you have all the Marks, return to Haelga and confront her with them. She will give you a Scroll of Guardian Circle to "keep quiet" about them.
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Today, THQ has released the first images of the upcoming game. As the fourth console edition of the series, MX vs. ATV Alive is kicking off a new business model that THQ VP of Core Games Danny Bilson says may make its way to other franchises in the company's catalog.
Without tipping his hat, Bilson told attendees at THQ's Gamer's Day event in New York that there is one other franchise that may adopt Alive's business model--if the racing game proves to be a commercial success.
Set at a budget price--at least for console games--of $39.99, MX vs. ATV Alive will give players the opportunity to customize the game with a la carte downloadable content. The idea, according to THQ, is to "build the game you want." Whether it will work, is another story entirely. Although the phrase budget price also leads some to assume it's budget developed, Bilson says that MX vs. ATV Alive is being developed with the care and quality of a full-priced title.
I didn't get to play the game during THQ's event, as it was only shown to attendees in a brief, live stage demo, but from what I saw there are some immediate concerns. I think the budget price coupled with what MX vs. ATV Alive devs promise will be "free and premium DLC every week," is a solid approach. Atari tried a similar model with the Xbox 360 version of Test Drive Unlimited in 2006, and I was a fan of the game. My concern is with the license itself.
Bilson says the game is being developed with a more casual mindset; however, he promises veterans of the series will love the game too. But is MX vs. ATV racing really the game that THQ wants to test this business model on? It already seems extremely niche to me, so, if the game doesn't sell well is it a question of a failed business model or lack of interest in the subject matter?
Maybe I'm wrong. According to THQ, the MX vs. ATV series has shipped 10 million units since its inception. Presumably that means shipped to stores and not to a landfill next to E.T. cartridges in New Mexico.
As for the game itself, from what I saw it shows potential. Graphically the game looked a little rough; however, it's unclear how early the build we saw was. MX vs. ATV Alive features a terrain deformation system, which changes the landscape of the course as bikes plow through it. Coupled with what THQ calls "an advanced version of the franchise's celebrated physics engine," MX vs. ATV Alive could surprise racing fans.
The game also employs more of a physical approach than previously featured in the series. You can jockey for position while racing through the dirt tracks, and while the game's trailer features multiple racers violently knocking into each other, the game itself is much tamer. This isn't Road Rash, but your on screen racer wants to win and doesn't mind throwing a few elbows to get it done.
During the demo we were shown one track, after a developer quickly scrolled through a list of track names we were not supposed to see. Nothing sticks out, but the list looked dense. When the track was loaded we were given the basic rundown. The long and short of it is that the game combines the shifting track and the more physical gameplay to develop a more competitive experience. Users can customize their racer and ride any way they want, using the included content, free DLC or premium offerings and then face-off online or against computer opponents.
For marketing, THQ is sparing no expense--at least that's what we assume fans of AMA Supercross will think. Two-time AMA Supercross Champion James Stewart (no, not legendary actor Jimmy Stewart) will grace the cover and star in "a variety of in-game videos." (The first of video with the champ racer can be viewed above.)
The only impression that I can pin on my brief rendezvous with MX vs. ATV Alive was, "Okay, maybe." THQ talked a lot about how the controls are both fit for casuals but great for hardcore gamers. Without actually playing it, I have no idea whether or not that's the case. Can something be two completely different things at the same time?
There's potential here. If it gets cleaned up and executes its ideas successfully, then MX vs. ATV Alive could be a solid stepping stone to a welcome business model in this expensive generation of games. Whether an MX vs. ATV title can capture as much attention as they seem to think it can is unclear, but everyone at the presentation at least seemed genuinely excited about the game they're building. We're just waiting to see if the engine will start without incident.
MX vs. ATV Alive is scheduled to hit the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in May 2011.
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The 32-year-old officer was planning her wedding and had become the adopted parent of her partner's five-year-old daughter, when her life was violently taken, the service heard.
Again, police and public turned out in force to pay their respects at Manchester Cathedral to the officer who died in a gun and grenade attack in Hattersley, Tameside, on September 18, along with colleague Pc Nicola Hughes, 23, who was laid to rest on Wednesday.
Sergeant Stephen Miskell told mourners: "Fiona was wonderful. She was wonderful at keeping colleagues' spirits high with her bubbly nature. She was wonderful about caring for others. Fiona represented the best that humanity has to offer the world, but that makes her loss even greater.
"Fiona was a woman of many contrasts. She was a calm and a gentle little bookworm, and yet a strong, brave rock of a woman. It gives me faith when I see how her death has touched communities everywhere."
Earlier, the main thoroughfare in Manchester city centre was lined with several thousand officers from across the UK and members of the public to see the passing cortege.
It was the second consecutive day the heart of Manchester had come to a standstill for the funeral of a police officer who died serving the city.
As the funeral cortege arrived at the cathedral spontaneous applause rang out and a lone Scottish bagpiper, Detective Sergeant Jim Gray, a fellow officer with Greater Manchester Police (GMP), played Flowers of the Forest, a traditional funeral lament.
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The Dell Aero, which was announced back at the Spring CTIA 2010 show, is the company's first smartphone for the U.S. market. To be honest, with each passing month we were beginning to have our doubts that the Aero would even see the light of day, and now that it has, we're wondering what were Dell and AT&T thinking when they released the phone in its current state? Running on an outdated operating system, the Aero simply can't compete with today's smartphones. Its feature set is limited; it's slow; and Dell's custom user interface makes the phone unintuitive and frustrating to use. The $100 price tag (with contract) might be alluring, but if you can afford shelling out $30 more, you're going to get much more from the HTC Aria or if you want to stick to the $100 range, the Palm Pre Plus and iPhone 3GS are better alternatives.
At 4.8 inches tall by 2.3 inches wide by 0.5 inch thick and 3.7 ounces, the Dell Aero is one of the sleekest and lightest Android devices we've seen to date. The handset is comfortable to hold and though its construction is mostly plastic, it feels quite solid.
Overall, the phone is quite eye-catching with its black-and-charcoal-gray coloring and chrome accents. The front of the phone features a 3.5-inch, 640x360-pixel capacitive touch screen and is void of any buttons, which gives it a very clean look. However, in the end, it also makes the phone unattractive. Let us explain.
Unlike other Android phones, you don't get the full set of navigation controls--home, menu, back, and search--below the display, and the ones that you do get are now on the sides of the phone. For example, on the left side below the power button, there is a key that acts as the back button and doubles as the home shortcut when you do a long press. The right side features another single button that performs the function of the menu key and also activates voice commands with a long press.
This setup takes some getting used to and even after a few days, we're still not completely comfortable with it. It's unintuitive and we miss the convenience of easy, one-touch access to the controls. More than anything, we missed having a dedicated search button. The Aero offers universal search, and it'd be nice if we could search from anywhere on the phone rather than having to return to the screen with the dedicated search bar.
The display itself is on the smaller side but still functional and relatively sharp. We didn't have any problems reading text or viewing pictures and video, and the phone offers a built-in accelerometer and pinch-to-zoom support, though it's not quite as fast or as smooth as some competing models.
Other design features on the Aero include a volume rocker and a dedicated camera button on right side, and a Mini-USB port on the left. There's no headphone jack, so you'll need to use an audio adapter--which fortunately comes in the box--if you want to plug in your own earbuds. On back, you'll find the camera and flash, and the microSD expansion slot is located behind the battery door.
AT&T ships the Dell Aero with the aforementioned 3.5mm audio adapter, an AC adapter, a USB cable, a 2GB microSD card, a wired stereo headset, and reference material.
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The user interface on the Aero is Dell's own, and the company took the customization to the extreme. It all looks simple enough at first. The main home screen offers your most basic information, such as time, date, and weather, and also features a large notification box at the bottom. You can then swipe to the right to access additional panels, and at the top of each screen there is a stagnant toolbar that provides shortcuts to the phone app, browser, messaging, and e-mail. In all, you can have up to 10 panels, but you're pretty limited in what you can add to these panels.
If you press the menu key on the right side, you'll get the option to add applications, shortcuts, native tools, and remote widgets. However, the only native tool is the search bar and the only widgets available are those from third-party applications. You don't get any of the standard Android widgets like the one for the clock or calendar.
Finally, Dell's onscreen keyboard is pretty awful. It's somewhat usable in landscape mode, but in portrait mode, you have to peck at these incredibly small keys, which isn't good news if you don't have child-size hands. Even with predictive text, our messages were still filled with errors. One other quirk is when you go to enter a password, the keyboard automatically switches to an alphanumeric keypad, which is great if your password only contains numbers, but annoying if you have a mix of both.
We know that custom UIs are a hot topic of debate: some people are absolutely against it, yet others are fine with it. Though offering a stock Android UI makes for easier updates, we don't mind custom skins when they're helpful or enhance the functionality of the phone, but this just isn't the case here.


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Ford announced its new Active Park Assist system before the Detroit Auto Show, but here, in one of McCormick Place's many labyrinthine parking garages, is the first time we've tested it.
To be perfectly fair, we've never successfully used an automatic parallel parking system. On a lark once, we tried out the Lexus GS system and never actually got it to parallel park. We got frustrated somewhere in the middle of the process and gave up, parallel parking in manual mode, which means with our hands and eyes.
We strolled down to the McCormick South parking garage, hopped into the awaiting MKS, and after a very brief bout of instruction from Ford chassis engineer Ali Jammoul we were off to the races. To engage the system you press the park button in the center console; as you drive past a line of parked cars the system uses a long range ultrasonic sensor to measure empty spaces and decide if the car will fit. When it has found a suitable space the driver information center dings to let you know it has one. It then directs you to pull forward until it's happy with the car's position, then directs you to stop and shift into reverse. At this point it's an entirely hands-off affair - press the gas and the car turns the steering wheel itself, providing seamless, parking-professional-level steering. The backup sensors pick up the proximity of the car behind and you brake to a stop, shift into drive and the car tucks you into the spot.
Admittedly, the space here is enormous, estimated at vehicle length plus 60%, but Jammoul assured us the car would easily navigate a space only 20% longer than the car. However, the whole process is so simple and effective as to be almost creepy. This is something which will cause a driver's parallel parking skills to atrophy. Even though it's a gadget we don't particularly want in a car, it's still very impressive.


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There are some storylines that jeer constantly at one of the most enduring characteristics of a caring community — the belief that we can help people change their lives.
In Worcester, one of those storylines has been the city's fight against prostitution.
Recently, we were told the City Council asked City Manager Mike O'Brien to file legislation that would allow the seizure of vehicles involved in prostitution. This, of course, is not a novel idea.
In 1992, the Main South Alliance for Public Safety asked the City Council to enact an ordinance that would impound the vehicles of individuals arrested for soliciting sex, and to seize the vehicles if those individuals were convicted. The City Council enacted such an ordinance in 1994, but the law department subsequently ruled that the measure required legislative approval.
The city said it would seek such an approval in 1996, the year Bill Breault, chairman of the Main South Alliance for Public Safety, declared that there were about 15 hookers working in the Main South area, down from the 40 working the area six years previously.
It bears keeping those numbers in mind, because here is a list of some of the proposed or attempted solutions to fighting prostitution in the city since the early '90's:
•In 1993, residents of Main South took to the streets with walkie-talkies to detect and report prostitution activities and other street crimes. That same year, the city talked about taking out restraining orders to prohibit prostitutes from working the area, publicizing the names of johns and setting up a surveillance camera in the neighborhood.
•In 1994, then-mayor Raymond Mariano pushed to have the photographs and addresses of those arrested and convicted of prostitution published in their hometown newspaper. Mr. Mariano also asked the City Council to consider getting area cable channels to broadcast the names of convicted johns over their community access channels.
•In 2004, the city adopted and kicked off Developing Alternatives for Women Now, the primary goal of which was to get prostitutes off drugs, off the streets and into productive lives.
•In 2005, the Police Department unveiled its Operation Rolling Thunder, a motorcycle patrol that was supposed to tamp down prostitution.
•In 2006, the city began mailing Dear John letters to anyone arrested for soliciting a prostitute, as well as to the owner of the car used in the crime.
•In 2007, a John school program, which aims to help men change their attitude about paid sex, was launched.
So what has been the impact of all this focus on prostitution in Main South?
Well, in 2006, we reported that from January 1 to December 16 of the previous year, the police arrested 190 people offering to engage in sex for a fee.
We learned last week that since 2007, the police have made nearly 1,000 prostitution-related arrests, which is about 200 such arrests per year.
Police Chief Gary Gemme also now pegs the number of known prostitutes in Main South at about 50, but believes there are only about a dozen working the streets daily.
So despite everything that has been done in the past 20 years, the level of prostitution has remained relatively the same in the city.
Now city leaders are talking about getting the Division of Public Health involved.
"Arrest alone is not the solution…," Chief Gemme noted in a report to the City Council.
"Long term solutions need to focus on addressing drug dependency and changing behavior."
Perhaps what is important here is not so much this futile fight so far against prostitution, but that our faith in our ability to help people change their lives endures.


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The alliance, which comprises Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova, is seen by some as an attempt to counterbalance Russian influence in the Commonwealth of Independent States, the loose alliance of nations that replaced most of the Soviet Union.
According to RIA Novosti, Yushchenko, speaking at the end of a GUAM summit in Kiev, said: "It is hard to overvalue cooperation between our countries in the field of security given the current conditions, with the threats of terrorism, aggressive separatism, and organized crime. Under these conditions, GUAM must focus on cooperation with the EU and NATO."
During the summit, GUAM leaders adopted a charter changing the group's status and renaming it the GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development.
Yushchenko said earlier that the new charter set the objectives of cooperation, such as promoting democratic values, ensuring stable development, enhancing international and regional security and stepping up European integration.
He said the Council would be GUAM's main body, which would make decisions "democratically on a consensus basis."
The organization's secretariat will be based in Kiev, and Yushchenko said GUAM was open to new members and partners.
The leaders also signed new regulations and a declaration on conflict resolution at the summit.


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17 Lobster Rolls We Love in the Northeast
We've had lobster rolls on the brain lately as you've probably noticed. It was finally time to develop a Lobster (Honor) Roll of our favorites in Maine, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York. Sure, there are some fine specimens elsewhere, but New England is arguably the motherland of lobster rolls, and we threw in a few NYC picks that can hold their own in the mix.
We called up some of the lobster-loving SE'rs to help create this list. Our criteria for tracking down the best lobster rolls? To quote Kenji from last week's Food Lab:
A lobster roll consists of chunks of tender, sweet, cooked lobster meat barely napped in a thin coating of mayonnaise, all stuffed into a top-split, white-bread hot dog bun lightly toasted in butter. A warm, butter-coated lobster salad is an acceptable variation on the classic, and in some cases, either version may contain a few additional textural or flavor elements applied very sparingly--celery, onions, chives--but like any good pizza is built on a crust, a lobster roll that misses these basics has no chance of earning its claws.
This round-up includes both the Maine-style rolls with a light swipe of mayo (no globster rolls, please) and the Connecticut-style approach with warm, buttered lobster meat. As for the roll varieties, we've seen them on potato bread, brioche-like concoctions, and even slider buns, which can be tasty but makes the purists in us cringe a bit. We stuck (mostly) to the toasted top-split bun here; no funny business.
While we tried to include as many of the detour-worthy spots as we could, there are still plenty of fantastic seaside shacks and other worthy establishments that aren't on this list. Please chime in with other favorites we missed.
And even if you don't live near Lobster Roll Territory, it's pretty mesmerizing looking at all 17 of these photos. (Warning: NSFShellfish-allergic)
Red's Eats in Wiscasset, ME »
Fishermen's Net in Gray, ME »
Fisherman's Catch in Wells, ME »
Day's Crabmeat and Lobster in Yarmouth, ME »
Offshore Ale in Oak Bluffs, MA »
Belle Isle Seafood in Boston, MA »
Neptune Oyster Bar in Boston, MA »
Korner Store in Oakland, ME »
Chatham Pier Fish Market in Chatham, MA »
Abbott's Lobster Shack in Noank, CT »
Lobster Landing in Clinton, CT »
Jim's Dock in Jerusalem, RI »
Matunuck Oyster Bar in East Matunuck, RI »
Champlin's Seafood in Narragansett, RI »
Red Hook Lobster Pound in NYC »
Luke's Lobster in NYC »
Pearl Oyster Bar in NYC »
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Their flyer was titled: "Free Market-Info Community Services Event" and they drew a packed house at the South Valleys Public Library in Reno.
The awesome ladies and one fine man were four of my my Realtors at Dreams Realty: Elise Westerlund, Mary Mihaila, Angeles Wanco, and Claire & Shawn Kirby. The five of them took community outreach to heart, and developed a wonderful 90-minute evening seminar for the local community.
They had made arrangements with local Attorneys, a Certified Public Accountant, and a Mortgage Lender, (where Spanish speaking translators were available), and scheduled the event not as a real estate sales or promotional event, but as a true community services informational event with a Q/A session with the professionals.
The Attorneys covered loan modifications, state mediation, the pros and cons of short sales & foreclosures, deed in lieu, and information on one of Nevada's laws that went into effect last October and hugely impacted REO in the state.
The CPA (and a crowd favorite) spoke about tax consequences, 2012 capital gains tax and the IRS, and Exemption Law through 2012. The Mortgage Lender discussed Hamp 2.0, HARP, how quickly can you buy after short sales and foreclosures, and their overall credit implications.
Finally, my team of exceptional Realtors presented information on the process of short sales, foreclosures, and loan modifications.
My SHOUT OUT to my Realtors is to ACKNOWLEDGE AND APPLAUD THEIR TENACITY AND CREATIVITY IN PUTTING TOGETHER AN ATTRACTIVE FLYER THEY CIRCULATED THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY, AND WORKING WITH THE LOCAL LIBRARY TO SCHEDULE AND PUT ON THE EVENT.
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Cytokinins are prokariotic and eukariotic hormones essential for cell division and meiosis in living organisms. Cytokinins are chemical molecules attributed to Gottlieb Haberlandt in 1913 while working on phloem structures of plants. Later in 1941 the research of Johannes van Overbeek discovered the presence of a hormonal compound in milky endosperm of coconut tree oil promoting cell meiosis. In 1955 the work of Carlos Miller from the University of Wisconsin provided further evidences of zeatin, the first cytokinin compound to be synthetized on an artificial medium.
Along with auxins, cytokinins are important hormones found in a host of prokariotic organisms to trigger cytokinesis, the process of cell division and transformation from stem cell to biosynthetise new cell tissue. Cytokinins are thus fundamental metabolic promoters for plant regeneration and may be implicated in germination, growth, and maturation process. Cytokinins may in addition be regrouped in two distinct groups: Adenine-type cytokinins and phenylurea-type cytokinins.
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Auxin transcription factors
- A plant hormone promoting cell tissue division and cytokinesis. (KEYWORD: Cytokinins, chromatin, etc...)
- Auxins may help to induce sex differenciation (phenotype) in diploids plants (ie C4) from environment factors and genotype (2n = diploid)
- Auxins may promote/regulate Ethylene synthesis in new apical growth tips
- Role in ATP(ase) dependent signal transduction -> activate mRNA polymerase transcription of new cell tissue -- doesn't affect chromatin
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July 09, 2012 | By Johanna Long
First and Foremost, I want to thank everyone for reading my blogs and for your continued support of me and the entire ML Motorsports team! It means so much to all of us!
It's the day after the Subway Jalapeno 250 powered by Coca-Cola at Daytona International Speedway and I'm on the road headed back to my hometown, Pensacola, FL for a week since I have a little downtime before our next race. For those of you who watched the race at Daytona, you probably already know that it was one crazy and exciting race. The ML Motorsports Wish for Our Heroes team did an awesome job preparing our No. 70 Chevy because it was a rocket all week long, and I couldn't be more proud of the guys for all of their hard work.
We are now 11 races into our 21-race schedule. As you all know, this year has been a huge learning curve for me as I take to new tracks, cars and a new team. I feel like I've had some really strong races this year, but as a perfectionist on the track, I can always be better. The last several races have been our team's best performances thus far starting at Michigan, Kentucky and then Daytona.
I had my second-best NASCAR Nationwide Series finish of 16th at Michigan International Speedway. Our No. 70 ML Motorsports Chevrolet was sporty from the time it hit the track and we ran competitively in the top-15 all day before the very end of the race. Kentucky was a different story. If you know anything about me and my racing background; you probably have picked up on the fact that I'm really good at qualifying. I don't know why, but I've always been able to pull off a good lap time whether the car is handling well or not. It's just been a strong point of mine. However, Kentucky was not the case.
I drove into turn one extremely too hard during qualifying, especially for the mid-day heat. I got into one and then slid up the track sideways coming off of turn two. I must say, experiences like that are definitely humbling because that has NEVER, I repeat NEVER happened to me before. Luckily, our team was locked in, so we started the 200-lap event from the rear of the 43-car field. Even though it was a rough start, our team overcame adversity and we had one of our best races. We ended up finishing inside the top-20 in the 19th position. It was a race to be proud of for sure.
Last but not least, Daytona…this race was extremely intense! From the drop of the green flag there was a lot of 3-wide and 4-wide action going on. All I could do is try to race smart while holding my breath as my spotter worked his tail off all night in order to keep us out of the wrecks. Our car was strong throughout the race as we got up as far as 6th on the charts. The green-white-checkered finish hurt us the most as teams started to team up on the restart. We got left out to dry on the last stretch, but was able to salvage a strong 12th finish. All in all, it was a great run for us and I couldn't be prouder of our team.
Now that I've looked back, it's time to look forward. I'm so anxious for the next two races on our schedule including Indianapolis Motor Speedway. If you're in the pits at Indy, you should come to the ML Motorsports pit stall before the start of the race. My dad said he will probably be in tears. That shows you how special and sentimental racing at this track really is. I'm so excited! I hope you all enjoyed this blog and I can't wait to share more of my experiences leading up to the most anticipated race of the year, the Indy 250!!! I'm smiling ear-to-ear just thinking about it! =)


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White House message machine spins faster than ever
Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers
last updated: May 15, 2010 05:28:31 PM
WASHINGTON — In the days after an oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, the White House faced not only a looming environmental catastrophe, but also a potential public relations disaster.
Aides feared that a story line would take hold that President Barack Obama had responded too slowly to the spreading oil slick, which could damage him politically much as the slow federal response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 discredited former President George W. Bush.
So as the federal government began reacting to the spreading oil, the White House message machine swung into action, too.
Within hours, it was cranking out a sustained barrage across the broad spectrum of modern media — statements, reports, e-mails, tweets, photos and videos — all punctuated by a high-profile presidential visit to the Gulf followed by an incendiary speech at the White House and a video recap with exclusive behind-the-scenes views of Obama in "West Wing Week," the White House's new online program at www.whitehouse.gov.
Whether it's Obama sitting with one reporter or a statement sent via Twitter, nothing happens by accident. The White House message machinery is a crucial element of the ever-expanding presidency, and like his recent predecessors, Obama uses it to shape public opinion, drive the mainstream media's agenda and minimize political blowback.
The White House bureaucracy devoted to managing public imagery has been growing since President Richard Nixon created the first office devoted to broad communications strategy in 1969. Obama's version uses a blend of old and new techniques and technology in an effort to cut through a polarized partisan landscape and a dizzying array of modern mass media that abbreviate attention spans and fracture public attention.
Obama's White House message machine employs 69 people who are directly involved in some part of the communications effort, at a cost to taxpayers of at least $4.3 million a year. That's an increase from 47 in Bill Clinton's White House and 52 in George W. Bush's.
Those totals don't include communications staffs at the National Security Council or in Vice President Joseph Biden's offices, or support staff who are paid out of different accounts.
They also don't include hundreds of political appointees scattered across cabinet departments and agencies who were hired with approval from the Obama White House and who work with the White House to present a coordinated message, as they did under previous presidents.
In all, about 350 people worked on the president's message in the Bush administration — the most recent tally available — according to Martha Joynt Kumar, an expert on the White House communications machinery and a professor at Towson State University in Maryland. There's no reason to think fewer work on Obama's.
"It's an enormous operation," said Bradley Patterson, a veteran of the Eisenhower White House who's chronicled the growth of White House operations.
The president himself relies heavily on the traditional paths to America's hearts and minds, from a televised Rose Garden statement Friday voicing anger over the oil spill to his frequent gifts of exclusive interviews to favored TV and newspaper journalists from elite news organizations.
At the same time, he's limited his exposure to questions in other formats — especially traditional press conferences — as his White House relentlessly uses the new media to supplement its selective manipulation of the old.
The reason for all this media manipulation is simple: Like his recent predecessors, Obama's found that he no longer can dominate the public debate with what Theodore Roosevelt called "the bully pulpit" alone. Rather, he's confronted by an ever-growing array of competing voices in a 24/7 barrage of constant media.
To break through, he's assembled a vast team to promote his agenda, whether it's selling a policy such as his health care overhaul, providing information about government programs such as the H1N1 vaccine, or simply making the president look good — or less bad than others might.
"Because we are in such a hyper-partisan, polarized media environment, a lot of what we do is correcting misinformation. That's part of implementing his agenda," said Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director.
As it became clear that oil was gushing from the Gulf floor, top White House aides scrambled to ensure that Obama didn't look bad in a developing story that they thought was flat wrong.
"All of a sudden one morning, the White House press corps woke up and thought we hadn't been doing anything for eight days because they weren't paying any attention to it," said Pfeiffer. "So we almost had to bludgeon the press into understanding what had been going on all along. So we were very aggressive about that."
So on April 29, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs rolled out Obama and a gusher of cabinet officers to tell the media about all the things the federal government was doing. Created by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939, the office of press secretary is the visible information frontline for every president.
That day, Gibbs sent his first oil leak message via Twitter, announcing that Obama had received a 20-minute briefing on the spill.
Others would follow.
"Our comprehensive look inside the aggressive response," boasted one from Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton on May 5, with a link to an 11,500-word report from the White House detailing an "around the clock" response from the government. It included 73 mentions of the president.
"A busy day here, but the president has not taken his eyes off the BP spill," said another White House tweet on May 10, with White House photos of Obama meeting with top aides in the Situation Room.
Twitter is just one of the new media tools that White House officials use to deliver their message. It allows them to reach voters directly without filtering or commentary from the mainstream media. Gibbs alone reaches 60,000 people on Twitter; the White House Twitter messages reach 1.8 million.
An hour after his first oil leak tweet, Gibbs used Twitter again to send a picture of Obama getting briefed, driving the image of a personally engaged president. The shot was taken by official White House Photographer Pete Souza, whose office sends out a steady stream of flattering, behind-the-scenes shots of the president to the public, distributed via Flickr and posted on whitehouse.gov.
Souza and his colleagues, who include former McClatchy-Tribune photographer Chuck Kennedy, are respected former journalists, but their work can be controversial when the White House uses it to replace independent journalism.
When the White House released a Souza photo this year of Obama apparently editing a speech text, for example, one online article gushed that the edit marks revealed Obama's intellect and talent. Yet there was no independent journalist present to verify that the photo hadn't been altered or staged.
The White House shut out photojournalists, and instead sent out Souza's photos when Obama signed an executive order on abortion this year and again when he restaged his inaugural swearing-in with Chief Justice John Roberts last year.
"Pete Souza is a fantastic photographer, but he works for the White House," said Ed Henry, a CNN reporter and the secretary of the White House Correspondents Association. "A photographer on the White House payroll is going to release one photo out of the hundreds he takes. It's going to be the one that casts the president in the best possible light."
There's no evidence that these White House photos left anything out, but photos the White House selects are chosen to project its message, and sometimes that can shield a larger truth.
After President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981, for example, the White House released a photo of a hospitalized Reagan, wearing a bathrobe and standing with his wife Nancy. It did not, however, show the IV tubes running from Reagan to a stand at his side. The White House cropped them out to project the image it wanted — one that misled the public about the president's strength.
From the time the Obama White House decided to launch its coordinated push on the oil spill, it bombarded the media with e-mail reports on the federal response, emphasizing words such as "aggressive" and "immediate."
"Administration-wide response," said one e-mail on May 1, introducing a phrase that would be used repeatedly.
"President Obama visited the Gulf Coast to inspect response operations firsthand, underscoring the administration's all-hands-on-deck response," said another on May 2.
The White House also produces its own video. Obama's trip to the Gulf Coast on May 2 was covered not only by the news media, but also by a White House video team.
By May 4, whitehouse.gov had posted a video recap of the visit. By May 6, it had showcased a new version on its West Wing Week webcast, "Your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue."
The program, which runs about six minutes each week, is a flashy recap of the president's week with behind-the-scenes footage that shows Obama in a favorable light — leading a meeting, announcing good news, laughing with world leaders.
The May 6 program was a day-by-day look at an Obama deeply involved in the oil spill response, even as he headed out to dinner. As it said:
Friday: He announces economic growth. "But first, he took time to update the American people about efforts to contain the oil spill."
Saturday: "Even as preparations were being made for the president's visit to the Gulf coast, he made time to go to the White House Correspondents' Dinner."
Sunday: Videos of Obama visiting the Gulf. "The federal government has launched and coordinated an all-hands-on-deck, relentless response to this crisis from day one," he said.
Monday: Video of Obama and Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen working the phones from the Oval Office.
Like other White House videos, such as one of a White House staff interview of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, the West Wing Week program offers a one-sided view that's stylized to appeal to consumers of modern media.
"It's packaged like a hybrid between a week in review program and a documentary version of the old entertainment series, West Wing," said Gerald Jordan, an associate professor of journalism at the University of Arkansas. "Ultimately, there will be an audience that is so accustomed to fragmented media . . . that they might meet at some point."
The highest-profile White House messenger is the president himself, and as the oil spill grew, so did Obama's public role, from the May 2 visit to the Gulf to a May 14 appearance in the Rose Garden.
Obama plays his role as public messenger much as his most recent predecessors did. In his first 15 months, he gave 620 speeches, very similar to the 15-month totals for George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, according to Kumar.
For all the outreach via Twitter and other new media, Obama himself prefers the old media, which still aggregate the largest audiences. He uses the old mainstream media very differently, however.
He takes fewer questions from a variety of reporters in open sessions and gives many more one-on-one interviews, particularly to The New York Times, which the White House uses to deliver its message to the nation's political, cultural and economic elite, starting with network and cable television news producers.
In 15 months, Obama took questions in formal news conferences or short sessions 83 times. Bush did it 205 times; Clinton 367 times.
Obama gave far more interviews, however — 184 in his first 15 months compared to 56 for Bush and 61 for Clinton. Of his interviews, 108 went to TV, 52 to newspapers and magazines, 11 to radio, 11 to mixed media, and only 2 to online organizations.
"The reason he does interviews is he likes to explain things like a professor, with all the buts and wherefores. He doesn't like short q-and-a's," said Kumar.
"The ideal interview is a cross-platform," she said, meaning talking to someone who can deliver Obama's message both on TV or online to "get into the bloodstream fast," and then reinforce his message with an article in a prestigious newspaper or magazine.
Thus, she noted, Obama's given multiple interviews to John Harwood of CNBC-TV and The New York Times, the favored White House outlet that got 20 percent of all Obama's on the record print interviews in 2009. An official White House photo displayed on a West Wing wall shows Harwood about to exchange high fives with Obama during one of their interviews.
Others help drive the message, too, notably Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and senior adviser David Axelrod, a former political reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Both grant frequent interviews — or rushed phone calls — to favored reporters, although they often speak as unnamed "senior White House officials" or "people knowledgeable about the president's thinking."
In addition to daily meetings at the White House, the senior staff meets at 7:30 am, the press staff at 9:15 am, the communications staff at 9:30 am and then the senior staff again at around 6 pm, and Axelrod hosts a weekly meeting at his home that includes working on communications strategy over Thai or other takeout food.
Among those who attend are staffers from the Democratic National Committee, which does polling and research to help the White House target its message.
"We'll sort of explore how we say things, and how people are interpreting what's happening in the world," Pfeiffer said.
Finally, Pfeiffer or his aides also hold a daily teleconference with top communications people in the executive branch agencies and departments to coordinate the message. "We keep in pretty close contact," Pfeiffer said.
Does it all work?
The oil spill is a developing story; it could grow worse for Obama if it grows worse in the Gulf, but Pfeiffer said the White House is satisfied so far.
"We were successful at getting a pretty high percentage of the coverage accurately depicting the steps the administration had taken . . . . It was not clear that was going to happen (several) days ago."
A non-partisan poll found a more mixed initial verdict, with Obama emerging from the first few weeks with some public disapproval, but not as much as Bush got after Katrina.
The Associated Press-GfK poll found that 42 percent of Americans approved of Obama's handling of the oil spill, 33 percent disapproved and 21 percent were neutral. By comparison, 35 percent approved of Bush's handling of Katrina in an AP-Ipsos poll weeks after the hurricane, 42 percent disapproved and 25 percent had no opinion.


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An amateur friend and I have been investigating the problem. We discovered that the power transformer seemed okay. Also the various diode bridges seemed to test out as they should. On the HV line there are two 47uF electrolytics in series, each with a .01 cap plus a 470k resistor in parallel. A few fuses later we checked the state of the electrolytics ... and the first is a bit of a dead-short on the ohmmeter. At the same time there are spark discharges and another fuse blows!!
I've ordered some new electros off the 'net and they will be fitted when they arrive. getting new electro was not an issue (450VW) but they are pcb type ... not the chassis-mount originals. We will probably just remove the old electros ... and mount the assembly on a 7-way tag strip screwed to the radio chassis. I am conscious of the need to maintain air-flow and NOT blocking up holes.
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Lebanon's budget deficit in the first eight months of 2012 surged to LL2.245 trillion ($1.49 billion), or 18.48 percent of spending, compared to LL1.471 trillion, or 13.51 percent, in the same period of last year, the Finance Ministry said Friday.
The primary surplus, excluding the cost of debt servicing, also fell by 9.77 percent to LL1.187 trillion in the same reporting period.
Government revenues through August reached LL9.904 trillion, an increase of 5.12 percent compared to the same period of last year.
The ministry noted that revenues collected from value added tax in the first eight months surged by 5.29 percent to reach LL2.299 trillion while proceeds from Customs rose by 4.43 percent to reach LL1.489 trillion.
The revenues figures show that the government was able to reap some benefit from the surge in the volume of imports up to August of this year.
Telecoms revenues,which represent a third source of income for the government, fell slightly by 1.68 percent to LL1.424 trillion.
Telecoms revenues are expected to reach $1.5 billion at the end of 2012, including both the land line and cellular networks.
But the rise in government spending was the main reason behind the surge in the budget deficit in first eight months of this year.
According to the Finance Ministry, the government expenditures rose by 11.53 percent to reach LL12.149 trillion compared to LL10.893 trillion last year.
Current spending, such as the salaries of civil servants and army and security personnel, rose to LL8.717 trillion up to August compared to LL7.153 trillion in the same period of last year, registering an increase of LL1.564 trillion.
Government allocations to the cash strapped Electricite du Liban surged considerably by 61.88 percent to reach LL2.171 trillion compared to LL1.341 trillion the first eight months of 2011.
Finance Minister Mohammad Safadi earlier estimated EDL's deficit at the end of 2012 to reach $2 billion if no action is taken to reduce the losses.
Safadi and all economists have been trying in vain to reduce the losses of the electricity sector but to no avail.
Experts say that the cost of fuel oil represents nearly 80 percent of the total losses at EDL.
Apart from current spending, the cost of debt servicing through August was LL3.423 trillion, compared to LL3.740 trillion last year.
The ministry recently succeeded in issuing $1.525 billion of bonds with low yields and this has allowed the treasury reduce finance costs.
Bankers said that the government can save up to $500 million if the yield on Eurobonds fell by 1 percent.
However, economists warned the government that if it insisted on endorsing the salary scale the budget deficit would rise by $1.2 billion a year.
It is still not clear whether the Cabinet will be able to bow to the pressures of school teachers and labor unions to increase the salaries of the public sector before the parliamentary elections in June.


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PORTSMOUTH — A man who allegedly robbed a convenience store in Portsmouth last year, then mugged a woman on the street four days later, striking her in the head with a BB gun until it broke apart, has been indicted on criminal charges.
Police say 28-year-old David Wilson was wearing a bandanna, a hooded sweatshirt and black makeup around his eyes when he allegedly stole the woman's purse in February.
The incident took place in the early evening, near the rear entrance of Cafe Mediteranneo in Portsmouth.
Wilson is currently incarcerated at the Rockingham County House of Corrections. He was indicted earlier this month on two class A felony counts in connection with the Portsmouth robberies.
He is also facing a third felony charge alleging he was in possession of a stolen chainsaw when he was taken into custody last year.
The convenience store hold-up took place on Jan. 29 at the Tedeschi's Food Mart located at 642 Islington St. in Portsmouth. A cashier called 911 at approximately 5:15 p.m. that day to report the store had just been robbed at gunpoint.
The woman described the suspect as a white man wearing a black hat and a red bandanna across his face. He was said to be about 6 feet tall, with an athletic build.
The cashier handed him about $50 in cash from the register, and the man fled on foot, heading toward Malt House Exchange.
Surveillance camera footage showed the man brandishing a weapon, which the cashier described as a "glock-style" handgun. Investigators now believe the device was a black BB gun.
Police located a black cap and bandanna about 200 yards away from the store, outside the Sullivan Tire on Albany Street, according to an affidavit provided by Portsmouth Police Detective Rebecca Hester. The hat bore the words "Tap Out," written in white lettering, and the bandanna had the letters "AMB" in black and white, with a "crossed hatchet design," according to the affidavit.
Police say the symbol appears to be connected with the Axe Murder Boyz, a Colorado music group similar to the rap-metal duo Insane Clown Posse.
"I am aware that followers of this style of music ... refer to themselves as 'Juggalos' and that the hatchet is a common logo," Hester wrote in the affidavit.
Wilson also has a "Hatchet-Man" tattoo on his chest, according to Hester's affidavit, which states the symbol is indicative of an affiliation with so-called "Juggalos."
On Feb. 1, at about 8:20 p.m., police were contacted by a woman who said she was grabbed as she approached the rear door of Cafe Mediteranneo in the Worth Parking Lot in Portsmouth.
The woman reported the perpetrator was a white man who was brandishing a black handgun.
The man demanded her money, then grabbed her purse. Police say a struggle ensued, and the woman released her bag after she was hit in the head multiple times with the gun.
The victim described the perpetrator as a white man who was about 6 feet tall. She told police he was wearing black makeup "all around his eyes," according to Hester's affidavit.
"I am aware that it is common practice for Juggalo's [sic] to paint their faces to resemble evil clowns," it reads. "Based on the proximity of the crimes, in both time and location, and the similarities in the suspect description, it seemed probable that the same person was responsible."
So-called "Juggalos" are traditionally fans of Insane Clown Posse, according to the FBI's 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment. The report classifies Juggalos as a "loosely-organized hybrid gang," which is active in four states: Arizona, California, Pennsylvania, and Utah.
Police have also identified "criminal Juggalo subsets" in at least 21 other states, including New Hampshire and Massachusetts, according to the report. Some of those groups are comprised of transient or homeless people, the report states.
"Most crimes committed by Juggalos are sporadic, disorganized, individualistic, and often involve simple assault, personal drug use and possession, petty theft, and vandalism," the report states. "However, open source reporting suggests that a small number of Juggalos are forming more organized subsets and engaging in more ganglike criminal activity, such as felony assaults, thefts, robberies, and drug sales."
Lawyers for Insane Clown Posse have disputed the claim that fans engage in criminal behavior. The band filed a lawsuit in Michigan last year seeking documents that would explain the FBI's rationale for including Juggalos in the gang report.
The band and its record label also launched a website, juggalosfightback.com, to combat the notion that Juggalos are a criminal organization.
Wilson was apprehended in March by Portsmouth Police Officer Garrett Drew, who was acting on a request from police in Eliot, Maine. Wilson was being sought in connection with recent thefts in the area, along with Christy Wanager, a woman identified in police affidavits as Wilson's wife.
Drew arrested Wilson and Wanager near Market Square, and their Pontiac Sunfire was seized. Wanager told Drew she and Wilson had been living out of the car, which was packed with clothing.
In the trunk, Drew allegedly discovered a Husqvarna chain saw and assorted tools, which appeared to match the description of items recently reported as stolen from a vehicle parked at the C&J Trailways terminal in Portsmouth.
Both Wilson and Wanager have previously served time in state prison after being convicted of breaking into cars and stealing items at the same location, according to Drew's affidavit.
Inside the car, police also allegedly recovered jeans and boots similar to those worn by the robber who held up the convenience store, according to the affidavit. Wilson's DNA has also been discovered on the bandanna found at the scene, police say.
A BB gun found in Wilson's possession is also of the same make and model as the one that broke apart during the parking lot robbery, police say.
Wilson is scheduled to be arraigned in Rockingham Superior Court on Thursday at 1 p.m.


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"American Idol" producer Nigel Lythgoe reportedly floated the unlikely duo Jerry Lewis and Charlie Sheen this week as possible replacement judges for the show, which faces a potential panelist exodus. We suspect he was joking (the folks at TMZ, which posted his comments, seem to think he was kidding, though Sheen is said to like the idea).
Still, Lythgoe's apparent stab at humor highlights the growing pressure to stand out in the increasingly competitive and crowded TV talent show field. Summer has become the genre's silly (off-) season – a contest fought with tidbits, manufactured and otherwise, designed to build anticipation for programs that would be better served by cultivating and promoting the talent.
So we get Britney Spears, the new big-name judge on Fox's "The X Factor," inciting a gossip tizzy by walking off the set when a man in drag sang her hit "(You Drive Me) Crazy" for his audition. "The Voice," meanwhile, named crooner Michael Buble to advise hopefuls on judge Blake Shelton's team. We likely can expect additional carefully timed announcements of more celebrity helpers for the other three would-be star-makers leading up to the NBC show's September return.
Even amid a ratings drop, Fox's "Idol," expected to begin its 12th season in January, is still TV's most-watched singing talent show – and still the most effective (and most shameless) when it comes to feeding the voracious hype machine. Fergie, Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus, will.i.am, Nicki Minaj and Katy Perry all saw their names chewed over in recent days. So did former contestant Adam Lambert, who finished No. 2 in Season 8 (at least he still has name recognition – quick: who was the last winner?).
All the chatter marks a case of what Yogi Berra (among the few notables not yet to emerge as a possible replacement panelist) famously called, "Deja vu all over again." This all started with Paula Abdul's much-dissected departure from "Idol" in the summer of 2009, a season after Kara DioGuardi became the show's fourth judge. Ellen DeGeneres came and went, along with DioGuardi. Simon Cowell left after Season 9 to start the U.S. version of "The X Factor" – hiring Abdul and then essentially replacing her with Spears after one lackluster season.
"Idol," now judged by show mainstay Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler, faltered this year, with the ratings for the finale down nearly 30 percent. Contracts for the three judges are reportedly up, though Lopez has made the most noise about leaving.
Which likely spurred Lythgoe's not-so-funny apparent joke.
We're more amused that the strongest comedian in the TV talent show world – Howard Stern – has defied predictions by keeping his tart tongue more or less in check and generally steering clear of controversy since joining "America's Got Talent" in May. He's reinvigorated the show by infusing his ample wit with more charm than venom. Sure, it's the dead of summer, but the NBC show has been television's No. 1 non-sports broadcast for the last six weeks – no mean feat, in more ways than one.
Talent shows ultimately will rise and fall on the level of talent, not on tiresome, off-stage judge-driven dramas – even if the nutty prospect of Jerry Lewis and Charlie Sheen sitting next to Randy Jackson next season on "Idol" may be too good to pass up.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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Financial advisors believe they can grow their practices through sustainable and impact investments, and are prepared to commit assets to take advantage of the opportunity.
The Calvert Foundation, which makes loans below market rates to community organizations, reported earlier this month that most respondents in its Gateways to Impact study were willing to recommend sustainable investments to about a third of their clients and would allocate between 10% and 20% of those portfolios to the products.
This means that on average, U.S. advisors are willing to place 2.5% of their total assets under management in sustainable investments for a market potential of $650 billion, Calvert said in a statement.
"People want to align their money with their values, and there is growing recognition on behalf of financial advisors that they need sustainable and impact investment products to offer their clients," Lisa Hall (left), the foundation's president and CEO and a project manager for the research, said in the statement.
"This report shows that the firms that succeed in this market will be first to give their advisors the tools and education they need to effectively advise their clients on sustainable investment opportunities."
Deutsche Bank, the Rockefeller Foundation and Envestnet were among the sponsors of the study.
Thirty-eight percent of financial advisors surveyed expressed strong interest and 72% expressed some interest in recommending sustainable investments to their clients, Calvert said.
The advisors who expressed strongest interest in advising their clients on sustainable investment strategies tended to be female, have advanced certifications and affiliations with national RIA firms, have average client assets under management between $1 million and $10 million and have less than 10 years of tenure as advisors.
The study identified factors that could enable advisors to increase their sustainable investment advisory. The leading ones advisors cited as a need:
- Evidence of financial performance—54%
- Client demand—44%
- Longer track records—39%.
Calvert said financial services firms could help their advisors serve clients more effectively by providing them with guidance on how to build their expertise in sustainable investing and the available products at their firm.
Researchers tested advisor interest using descriptions of eight sustainable investment products. The highest levels of interest were in more traditional products that are already familiar to advisors—a U.S. large-cap equity fund with environmental, social and governance considerations factored into company analysis (61%); a U.S. corporate bond fund with ESG focus (53%); and a global equity fund with sustainability focus (51%).
The research also found that 23% of advisors believed that "impact investments"—or direct investments in community development, microfinance and other social enterprises that usually take the form of private debt or equity—are appropriate for many or all of their clients.


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Amateur Radio Special Interest Group
If you are a ham radio operator or a fedora packager/maintainer that is interested in getting some radio related packages in the the Fedora package collection add your name to the members section or send an email to email@example.com with the subject "SIG: Fedora Hams"
Goal: To improve the Fedora collection by adding packages for amateur radio (Ham Radio) operators and SWLs.
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Important Links
As packages build and get ready for Review they can be installed from the repo below.
- Most important: Work with upstream application developers to get more software updated for modern Linux distributions
- Package and test applications
- Submit packages for review
- After packages are accepted in to Fedora create a Fedora Hams SIG Spin
- 2007/11/13: Start of the SIG page.
- 2007/12/xx: Work on Packages and gauge community interest.
- 2008/01/06: Start mailing list.
- 2008/02/22: Formally announce the SIG.
- Mailing List
- #Fedora-Hams on the freenode IRC network


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Happy days are here again
For seconds, here's another bubblegum card featuring Potsie and the show's Everyman, Richie Cunningham:
I'm so excited to see my family! Driving up tonight and coming back on the 4th (that's always fun). Have a great weekend and a fantastic 4th of July! See ya soon.
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ahhhhh...see now at my houseReplyDelete
we pretended to be
pinky and leather tuscadero.
those were the days
Ah, sit on it! or should I say "Up your nose with a rubber hose."ReplyDelete
Enjoy your trip.
Aeeeeeeeh ( Trying to sound like the Fonz)ReplyDelete
Have a great weekend!
If you pass near Kenosha/Milwaukee/Chigago, stop by and say hi....ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 10, 2006 9:25 AM
Funny thing is I was at a used bookstore this weekend and came across a Happy Days paperback and it had almost that exact picture of Fonzie on it.ReplyDelete
"Fonzie Drops In" was the title.
oh man, I had such a thing for the fonz. now I have thing for you.ReplyDelete
(it was so great to see you walk through that door at 3 am) xo
i think we should get shed of all the politicions in D.C. and just put Fonzie in control of everything. im sure everybody would get a fair shake then. Aeeeeeeh.ReplyDelete


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After $many billions spent on looking for genetic causes of common diseases like obesity we now have the answer in the latest NEJM that was obvious without spending all that money. The most common SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) associated with obesity tends to influence people to eat high-fat, energy dense food, commonly known as junk food. We already knew that obesity was not caused by "slow metabolism". So, no junk food, no junk food addiction, no obesity. Junk food addiction is like any addiction. If an alcoholic has a bottle in the house s/he will drink it. So don't buy junk food and you won't eat it.
To quote from the Discussion in the paper:
"This study indicates that there is no defect in the "output" side of energy balance, which constitutes energy expenditure…Our study tested satiety by directly measuring food intake from a test meal after ingestion of one of three preloads, and the results show a robust effect of genotype on energy intake but not on the weight of food ingested. This increase in energy intake was independent of body weight. Thus, the children carrying the A allele ingested more energy-dense foods than did the children who were not carrying the A allele, indicating a preference for energy-dense foods….In conclusion, variation within the FTO locus appears to confer a risk of obesity through increased energy intake, suggesting that moderate and controlled restriction of energy intake may prevent FTO genotype–associated obesity."


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
In the late 19th century the classical liberal, free market orthodoxy was beginning to be challenged by socialists like George Bernard Shaw, who put together a collection of essays in 1889 advocating greater intervention by the state in the economy. Unlike the Marxists, who desired revolutionary change, the "Fabian socialists" advocated incremental change through the parliamentary system. This volume provoked a reply by supporters of private property and laissez-faire economics led by Thomas Mackay.
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My Italians
"My Italians" is our classic and most booked tasting.
You will be introduced to some basic rules about wine tasting after which you are ready to start evaluating every wine. You will get to taste 6 Italian wines, all from different regions and with different characteristics, getting an overview of Italian wines.
You will be guided through tasting each wine, defining the aromas, see parallels and/or differences to wines you might already know. You will not only learn more about the specific wine on hand but also the region and the type of wine it stands for, thus learning to appreciate wines in a knowledgeable fashion and decide which wines you like and why.
You will see: When you know where a wine comes from and who has made it how, you will enjoy each glass even more! You will also learn how to choose wines in the future that cater to your taste and needs.
This tasting takes place at our wine studio, it is not a tour. This tasting is in English.
The cost of this tasting is €50 p.p., a minimum attendance of 2 is required for the event to take place.
Below are the next 5 scheduled dates for this tasting, you can find more dates in the calendar on the right ==>
Available also customized for private parties from 1 to 20 persons. Please contact us for availability and all further information, sharing as much about your interests as possible.