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Once the death investigators have arrived at the scene, confirmed the death and performed initial processing, they must evaluate the scene. They should follow these steps:
Principle: The photographic documentation of the scene creates a permanent historical record of the scene. Photographs provide detailed corroborating evidence that constructs a system of redundancy should questions arise concerning the report, witness statements or position of evidence at the scene.
Authorization: Medical Examiner/Coroner Official Office Policy Manual; State or Federal Statutory Authority.
Policy: The investigator shall obtain detailed photographic documentation of the scene that provides both instant and permanent high-quality images. It is important to document in writing a description of each photo so that is can be used for future reference.
Procedure: Upon arrival at the scene, and prior to moving the body or evidence, the investigator should:
Note: If evidence has been moved prior to photography, it should be noted in the report, but the body or other evidence should not be reintroduced into the scene in order to take photographs.
Summary: Photography allows for the best permanent documentation of the death scene. It is essential that accurate scene photographs are available for other investigators, agencies and authorities to recreate the scene. Photographs are a permanent record of the terminal event and retain evidentiary value and authenticity. It is essential that the investigator obtain accurate photographs before releasing the scene.
Principle: Written documentation of the scene provides a permanent record that may be used to correlate with and enhance photographic documentation, refresh recollections and record observations.
Policy: Investigators shall provide written scene documentation.
Procedure: After photographic documentation of the scene and prior to removal of the body or other evidence, the investigator should:
Note: If scene conditions have changed or evidence has been moved prior to written documentation, it should be noted in the report.
Summary: Written scene documentation is essential to correlate with photographic evidence and to re-create the scene for police, forensic(s), and judicial and civil agencies with a legitimate interest.
Principle: The location where the decedent is found may not be the actual location where the injury/illness that contributed to the death occurred. It is imperative that the investigator attempt to determine the locations of any and all injury(ies)/illness(es) that may have contributed to the death. Physical evidence at any and all locations may be pertinent in establishing the cause, manner and circumstances of death.
Policy: The investigator shall obtain detailed information regarding any and all probable locations associated with the individual's death.
Procedure: The investigator should:
Summary: Due to post-injury survival, advances in emergency medical services, multiple modes of transportation, the availability of specialized care, or criminal activity, a body may be moved from the actual location of illness/injury to a remote site. It is imperative that the investigator attempt to determine any and all locations where the decedent has previously been and the mode of transport from these sites.
Principle: The decedent's valuables/property must be safeguarded to ensure proper processing and eventual return to next of kin. Evidence on or near the body must be safeguarded to ensure its availability for further evaluation.
Policy: The investigator shall ensure that all property and evidence is collected, inventoried, safeguarded and released as required by law.
Procedure: After personal property and evidence have been identified at the scene, the investigator (with a witness) should:
Summary: Personal property and evidence are important items at a death investigation. Evidence must be safeguarded to ensure its availability if needed for future evaluation and litigation. Personal property must be safeguarded to ensure its eventual distribution to appropriate agencies or individuals and to reduce the likelihood that the investigator will be accused of stealing property.
Principle: The documented comments of witnesses at the scene allow the investigator to obtain primary source data regarding discovery of the body, witness corroboration and terminal history. The documented interview provides essential information for the investigative process.
Policy: The investigator's report shall include the source of information, including specific statements and information provided by the witness.
Procedure: Upon arriving at the scene, the investigator should:
Summary: The final report must document the witness's identity and must include a summary of the witness's statements, corroboration with other witnesses and the circumstances of discovery of the death. This documentation must exist as a permanent record to establish a chain of events.
Next section: Establishing Decedent Profile Information.
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Essentially a combination of egg whites and sugar whipped to frothy peaks, meringue is a simple but key player in a variety of baking and pastry recipes.
Use it as a topping, gracing lemon or key lime pies, or maybe spread it over a cake as a classic seven-minute frosting. It can be used as a leavener, added to cake batters (angel food, chiffon and other sponge cakes) to lighten the crumb, give lift to souffles, or used to lighten custard and cream fillings. Bake it as a dessert element (a vacherin or hard meringue container) or use it as the base for macaron cookies. The options are almost endless.
To make the most of your meringue, follow a few basic tips:
- Use room temperature egg whites. Room temperature egg whites will give greater volume than cold whites just out of the refrigerator.
- Whip the whites using a clean bowl and beater. Dirt and oils will prevent the whites from properly foaming as they are beaten.
- Sometimes acids (lemon juice, cream of tartar) are added to the whites. Acids help the whites to foam and make them stable.
- Beat the whites over low speed to strengthen the structure of the bubbles as they form, then slowly "rain" in the sugar with the mixer going, a tablespoon or so at a time. If incorporating cooked sugar, with the mixer running, slowly pour the sugar off to the side away from the beater to keep it from hitting the beater and splashing on the sides of the bowl. (Sugar hitting the sides of the bowl can cool and harden quickly; if this happens, don't try to incorporate it into the meringue -- it won't incorporate, and will only make the meringue lumpy.)
- Keep beating (you can slowly increase the speed of the mixer), just until the whites come to the correct volume, whether soft (peaks fall over when beater is lifted), medium (peaks droop slightly) or stiff (shown at top -- peaks stay firm) peaks.
- Be careful not to overbeat the eggs. Check the eggs periodically as they thicken; if the eggs overbeat (they will look crumbly), their delicate structure will break down. The meringue should look smooth, shiny and moist; overbeaten meringues cannot be fixed.
If you have any kitchen tips or questions you'd like me to explore, leave a comment below or shoot me an email at email@example.com.

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Auburn charity shifts operations online
AUBURN — For more than 30 years, the Auburn Dollars for Scholars Program has been operated and organized through pen and paper.
Last year, Scholarship America, the Minnesota-based charity which was founded as Dollars for Scholars in 1958, mandated that all current charities and nonprofit affiliates under its umbrella move operations online.
Since that time, Auburn Dollars for Scholars President Mary Hrubiec and two other volunteers have dedicated countless hours to the transition.
Now, she said, all student resources and scholarship options, fundraising events, and volunteer opportunities are available online. Those wishing to donate to the cause may also do so through the new website at http://auburn.dollarsforscholars.org.
Hrubiec has been with Auburn Dollars for Scholars since 2004. Her chapter, which began with one scholarship in 1982, currently facilitates 10 annual awards, ranging from $500 to $1,000 each. Of those scholarships, most are targeted at students in specific fields of study.
"A lot of the scholarships have a preference in a certain field, for instance one scholarship is for a woman in a nursing program," said Hrubiec. "If no one that applies fulfills that first preference then, as an example with the nursing student, (the scholarship) would then go to someone (pursuing a degree) in healthcare."
In 2009, when Hrubiec's husband died, she established a memorial scholarship in his name. Nine of the current scholarships, in fact, are memorial funds, she said. The lone exception is the Tech's for Tomorrow Scholarship, which is awarded to a student attending, or planning to attend, vocational school. The last recipient, Connor Marks, is currently enrolled at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.
All 10 scholarships, the majority of which are sponsored by individuals or businesses, are available to any undergraduate Auburn student.
"Basically we wanted to remember the Auburn students, since we don't have a high school," said Hrubiec. "We didn't want them to be forgotten after they left Auburn."
In the last 30-plus years, Auburn Dollars for Scholars has distributed $78,000 to 175 local students. Those scholarships not fully funded through donors are financed through fundraising events such as yard sales and car washes, said Hrubiec, who noted her organization is always seeking additional volunteers.
The deadline for current scholarship opportunities is May 15.


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Plum Creek Timber Company (NYSE:PCL), the largest non-government landowner in the U.S., is a major timber producer in the U.S. The company's motto is "maximize the value of every acre", and it achieves this through logging, as well as through the acquisition and resale of property that is not useful for timber production. Plum Creek sells its timber to the lumber, plywood, and strandboard industries, as well as to the pulp/paper industry. It also has its own manufacturing business, making products like plywood and fiberboards. Plum Creek also stands to gain from the advent of cellulosic ethanol, a technology that, if commercially viable, would turn Plum Creek's timber into a fuel source for cars.
As a timber dealer and landowner, Plum Creek uses sustainable forest management practices and a price differentiating scheme called "log merchandising" in order to offset some cyclical volatility and create competitive prices. Plum Creek also resells land that is not useful for timber-harvesting purposes in order to reap as much profit as possible from all its holdings. Because timber is usually pretty similar regardless of who harvested it, much of the competition in the timber industry comes in the form of pricing battles between competing companies. This can decrease profits as companies cut prices to boost sales volume and revenue. Like any other commodity, timber prices tend to fluctuate cyclically in response to general market conditions, which can lead to cyclical revenues for Plum Creek.
Plum Creek Timber Company earns its revenues primarily through the sale of timber and manufactured timber products, though (as the largest landholder in the U.S.) it does gain sizable profit through the sale of land. Over the past three years, Plum Creek has seen increasing revenues and increasing harvest sizes; however, it has also seen decreasing profits, indicating shrinking profit margins. This trend is most likely attributed to the commodity nature of timber, the declining success of the publishing industry, and an oversupply of paper on the world market - all of which would lead to lower prices and, thus, lower profit margins.
|Annual income data, in millions[1]
|Net Sales
|Net Income
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|Timber Harvest Volume (millions of tons)
Plum Creek harvests timber for resale to lumber mills, pulp/paper mills, and cellulosic ethanol refineries. The company also manufactures products like logs, lumber, plywood, etc., in its own factories. Though manufacturing brings in sizable revenue, it is one of the least profitable parts of Plum Creek's business; timber resale is far more profitable. Because timber is a commodity resource, Plum Creek uses forest management and log merchandising to maximize profitability.
Plum Creek practices sustainable forest harvesting in line with the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. Sustainable forestry involves either harvesting only what will grow back before the next harvest, or replanting trees after they have been harvested. Plum Creek plants about 85 million seedlings a year, allowing the company to maintain a renewable stock of product without expanding land holdings at high cost.
When trees grow in volume, they grow in value -- larger trees can be put to more valuable uses such as lumber for construction. Plum Creek is able to maximize its revenue by cutting trees into various-sized pieces and selling them to different customers, a process known as "log merchandising". For example, the larger portions of a tree are cut off and sent to sawmills or plywood mills, smaller portions go to lumberyards, and the smallest chunks go to pulp and paper mills. If cellulosic ethanol becomes a commercially viable technology, Plum Creek will be able to sell its waste products, like sawdust, to cellulosic ethanol refineries, monetizing what was once discarded.
Plum Creek, aside from being a timber producer, is a real estate investment trust (REIT). This means that its securities are invested directly in real estate, even though they sell like stocks. REITs pay very little income tax and are required by law to redistribute 90% of their profits to shareholders every year. As investments, REITs can be considered as mutual funds for real estate; they provide a way for the public to invest in real estate without actually purchasing land. Plum Creek has REIT status because of its very large land holdings, which it sells and leases to real estate developers and other companies that can use the land more efficiently. Plum Creek's real estate practices are highly profitable.
Plum Creek takes advantage of its large land holdings in three ways. First, it cuts its costs by capitalizing on economies of scale for timber production. Second, because Plum Creek holds land all over the U.S., natural disasters in one region pose less of a threat to the overall success of the company. Additionally, certain wood end products require different types of trees. Plum Creek's diverse land holdings enables it to sell timber to a variety of secondary industries, providing some protection from fluctuations in demand for any one end product.
Plum Creek classifies its lands in three ways: timberlands, higher and better use (HBU) lands, and non-strategic use lands.
Timber is a commodity good, which means that trends usually impact the industry as a whole, not affecting just one company. As a result, changes in the timber market and fluctuating demand for wood products are the largest forces that can impact Plum Creek's profitability. The way in which Plum Creek deals with production is very important to its success among its competitors.
Trees increase in value over time because of the high-cost nature of products that use larger-volume timber (like homes). This creates the potential for a timber investment to offset the negative effects of inflation. The unique nature of trees as investments gives timber companies some insulation against the usual commodity price cycles. Companies can harvest more timber during high-demand sectors of the timber market cycle, providing higher revenues. By the same logic, timber companies can cut back on harvesting during periods of low demand, decreasing supply so as to keep per-tree profits higher. Since trees become more valuable over time, this also allows a company's timber stock to grow in both size and value. Plum Creek's sustainable forestry practices take advantage of the unique valuing of timber. This selective harvesting makes Plum Creek both environmentally friendly and also highly competitive.
A massive insect infestation in Canada could negatively impact Plum Creek, however. Over the past decade, the mountain pine beetle has wreaked havoc on timberlands in British Columbia, the country's largest timber-producing region. Though the problem has yet to be contained, the total amount of timberland destroyed by the mountain pine beetle is estimated at around 17 million acres. The Canadians have developed a plan to salvage as much usable timber as possible from the affected areas, which could lead to a supply glut in the global timber market. If even a small fraction of the 17 million acres of timber is salvageable, hundreds of thousands of acres worth of timber could be streaming across the U.S. border, which would likely force Plum Creek and other timber companies to lower prices significantly.
Smaller logs harvested by Plum Creek often go to paper mills. A large amount of paper demand stems from the publishing industry - books, magazines, newspapers, etc. With the rising popularity of digital media, the publishing industry is facing increasing competition. Many newspapers are considering going digital because of declining subscriptions and considerable loss of advertisements to internet sources.
Chinese paper production is putting further pressure on Plum Creek's profits. Asia's paper production has rapidly increased, much of its output has been consumed by Chinese customers. This has led to a rapid decrease in China's demand for imported paper, causing non-Chinese companies to overproduce paper, creating a global supply glut and driving prices downward. While this might appear to be disadvantageous for PCL, it might be a blessing in disguise as the astronomical growth in the Chinese paper industry in the past decade has dangerously depleted the productive timberland of both China and many of its neighbors such as Indonesia or Myanmar.[2]
Though only 3% of Plum Creek's land is classified for development after logging, this 3% has been extremely profitable over the past five years, allowing Plum Creek to invest in more profitable timberlands. More than the sale of timberlands for development, the condition of the real estate market also affects PCL's business since construction is the greatest end market for timber. By extension, Interest Rates are determinate for the company since they determine how easily consumers and businesses can borrow money to finance real estate and new home purchases. Higher interest rates make it more expensive to borrow money, thereby leading to fewer new home purchases and, as a result, fewer land deals and building timber sales. Falling interest rates, on the other hand, could have greatly positive effects on Plum Creek by stimulating demand for both timber and land.
Ethanol is being touted as the new alternative to oil and gas. Traditionally, ethanol has been produced from corn through a rather inefficient refining process. Cellulosic ethanol, however, is a new form of ethanol that can be produced from a variety of plant products, including wood. The entry of cellulosic ethanol onto the renewable energy market creates the possibility of a new revenue source for Plum Creek. In the past, wood chips and sawdust from timber production were considered to be waste materials and discarded. If cellulosic ethanol were to popularize, Plum Creek would be able to sell its wood waste to ethanol refineries and monetize what was previously waste. The demand for cellulosic ethanol is being driven by a number of trends, including rising oil and gas prices and public concern over environmental degradation.
Timber companies are often hard to compare because of the different ways in which they operate. Plum Creek harvests and sells raw timber, sells and leases land, and manufactures some wood products. Other timber companies operate differently, participating in different stages of the process of turning a tree into paper. Weyerhaeuser Company (WY), for example, participates in nearly every aspect of timber production, harvesting trees, making paper and containerboard, producing lumber and wood pulp, recycling paper, and dabbling in real estate. International Paper Company (IP) focuses mainly on the production of end products like paper, lumber, and packaging materials, but it also harvests some timber (around 20% of the amount it needs every year) and engages in real estate transactions.
Plum Creek's competitors' relatively diverse sources of revenue could be advantageous, allowing them to capitalize on economies of scale and earn revenues from both timber and timber products. If Plum Creek's operating income breakdown is any indication, however, timber product manufacturing is far less profitable than timber resale, which could mean put Plum Creek at a relative advantage.
As the largest landholder in the U.S., Plum Creek's large resources allow it to produce timber at lower costs, putting it ahead of competitors in terms of profitability. As one of the only timber REITs (Rayonier Inc. REIT (RYN) is another), the company also pays fewer taxes, which can mean significant cost savings. Because of these savings, it can keep its prices low while still making a profit, making its products more attractive to timber customers. All in all, Plum Creek's resources make it highly competitive, even in a commodity industry.


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Police: Manchester man arrested after child, 11, found driving car
MANCHESTER — A city man is facing charges after police said he allowed his girlfriend's 11-year-old child drive his SUV Friday.
The driver's brother, 3, was in the back seat, police said.
Enrique Moreno, 37, was charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of possession of a controlled drug after police said he had a small amount of marjuana, cocaine and heroin.
According to a release, an officer witnessed several motor-vehicle infractions near Putnam Street about 6:20 p.m. Friday. When he pulled over the 2002 Acura MDX, police said, Moreno got out of the passenger seat and tried to talk to the officer before he could get to the driver's window. When the officer determined the driver was 11, he took the keys and notified the children's mother. The 3-year-old was restrained in a child seat, police said.
Moreno, who is not related to the children, was scheduled to appear in Manchester circuit court Monday.


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A highly popular, long-established Connecticut pizza chain is expanding to Port Chester around Memorial Day.
Colonial Grill, which sells "original hot oil bar pizza," has been around since 1935, but is opening its first New York eatery next month.
The much-anticipated waterfront Port Chester locale will be the latest locale for after the restaurants have been big hits in its current communities of Fairfield, Stamford, Milford and Norwalk, sponsoring road races and featuring a "Wall of Heroes" with photographs remembering first responders and United State Armed Forces veterans.
After its opening, Colony Grill was a post-prohibition tavern and opened in an Irish immigrant neighborhood in Stanford serving pizza with their signature "hot oil" topping and started the "bar pie."
The bar pies have very thin crust and are smaller in diameter -- with less cheese and sauce -- so that patrons could easily hold a slice of the pizza while sipping on beverages. Over the decades, the hot oil bar pie became so popular that Colony Grill took every other item off the menu and got rid of the grill but decided to keep the name as a link to their heritage.
At the new Port Chester location, you can expect the same menu (gluten-free is available) which consists of their bar pizza and toppings, salad pizza (signature Colony Crust baked with a touch of olive oil and sea salt, topped with hearty mixed greens, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers & carrots -- tossed with balsamic vinaigrette) and the breakfast pie -- a made-to-order pie with bacon or sausage, egg and cheese -- which is only served on the weekends.
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The Instant Game Collection offered to PlayStation Plus Members is a very compelling offer. So compelling that Even Microsoft had to adjust Xbox Live in order to offer some free games to its subscribers. PS Plus members in the US get $462 in free games if they subscribe this months. One would say doing more than that is impossible, and he'd be wrong.
Lol is this for real??PS+ beats live no matter what country.
Notice how i said "NO MATTER WHAT COUNTRY"?PS+is still better than live.
Only, the comparison isn't just between PS+ and Live, but also between the different PS+ regions. May want to read before commenting.
It helps :D
edit: Yeah I noticed, but what you didn't notice is that the comparison with Xbox Live is the smallest element of the deal, the most relevant element is that what PS Plus users get in the US and Europe is a fraction of what Japan gets. Now think what would happen if Sony brought the US and European PS Plus up to par with Japan.
holy crap i can't believe the amount of games they have of the PS+ Japanese side wow. i wonder if both NA/EU will reach that that status.
PS+ is the best value for $$$ of any game service imo.
At last someone that gets it :D Thank you :D
yea after reading the entire thing it's fairly obvious that not only is PS+ the better service overall value wise, but the Japanese version of PS+ is waaaaaaaaaaaaay better than NA/EU no comparison there.
The Japanese plus stuff is a little misleading, since Japan only recently added all those older games. Prior to the IGC, Japan was getting terrible offers / freebies and the IGC only picked up recently. Finally, I believe the push was to finally establish Plus in Japan, so they gave a bunch of older games (that work on portable systems, which do well there) and had hopes it would work out.
If this had been 3 months ago, then none of those PS1 games would have been listed.
PS+ in Japan was weak for a LONG time. You just got free PS1 Classics and stuff for ages.
It's only in the last year that it has improved, and now, it kicks ass.
I prefer what we're getting here in the U.S. over what Japan gets. They have mostly small, old cheap games and just have a lot of them. Getting titles like BF3, Uncharted 3, Saints Row 3, etc seem completely out of the question for them. These big name retail titles make PS+ well worth the money for me. I don't think I'd appreciate it nearly as much if the free games on offer were only of the quality that the Japanese store get.
Quality > Quantity
Any day of the week.
A lot of those are historical games that everyone should have a chance to play at least once. Besides, classic games exist in the US and Europe PSN as well, so they could simply add them to the offer like they did for Japan.
PS+ now represent great value, but it is highly misleading to use MSRP on old games. For instance, I can get XCOM for $20 new these days.
In addition, that value is only in savings if you would have bought all those games anyhow.
That said, the benefit is you might find games you wouldn't buy, but ended up enjoying and maybe buy a sequel.
The games listed there arent worth this much this much at retail.
All the values used are the official prices on the respective marketplaces.
Bf 3 is worth 20 at gamestop, sr 3 is worth 30. The prices arent 100% the same as retail. Not everyone wants ps plus because you dont get to keep everything. I rather finish and buy 1 game at a time otherwise im getting a huge backlog like i do now and never finish anything
Considering last I checked Bad Company 2 still costs $25, and Battlefield was $35, I'm gonna disagree with that
(Unless you meant used, because until recently the online pass pretty much forced us to buy the new version)
Considering Xbl is only giving away free games until the end of the year... I'd say plus is better. Europe has always got the better gmes first though.
And so far its crap games compared to plus..
Imo this is how you battle used game sales..
I tried to determine how this can be profitable for all involved i.e. Sony and the respective developers of said games.. But I realized that it's probably very profitable. First of all they don't offer BRAND new games so devs already made money but I'm sure they get royalties from Sony for every download, it increases exposure, larger audience for dlc and future games, and Sony gets a constant influx of money.. They've received $150 from me alone since this program began that they wouldn't necessarily have otherwise. Now that the service is established and very popular having to have Plus in order to play online with the PS4 won't be as hard of a pill to swallow for people because of the Instant Game Collection helping to boost perceived value.. All I have to say is Sony hit a MAJOR homerun with PS+
just wait for FAKE ninja to come on here and say XBOX LIVE IS better lol. PS4 FTW:)
Im in north america and pleased to say I get way better value with ps+ over live.. ive only had plus for 2 months and I simply cant keep up with all the games and since I have a vita and they give games for that too its just to hard and I need more hdd space. I cant believe ive been paying for live for yrs but never again.
If plus keeps going the way it is then its plus for life..
PS+ EU > NA >>>>>>> Xbox Live
Overall PlayStation plus no matter which region provides a ton of value in comparison to Xbox live.
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ps plus eu rocks. im loving it my 320gb hhd is not
Singapore region sucks :( lol
US + Europe all the way!!!
Everyone focuses on the free games, but as a subscriber to both services I find that XBL brings out more good prices than PS Plus. So, while you get "Free" games more often on PSN Plus, the general cost of games comes out cheaper on Live.
Also, on PSN Plus the games are only free to use as long as you subscribe, whereas on Live Gold they are giving you the games to own even if you are no longer a gold subscriber.
For me though, the cost of games is only one part of the subscription... Things that are also important to me are:
- Chat and cross game chat
- Being able to buy the games from my PC for my console as well (I almost never buy using the annoying console interfaces)
- The achievement/trophy systems
- Cloud saves
- Online Multiplayer
etc. etc.
I don't subscribe to either service for the free games. There are much more important reasons to subscribe to both services.
I didn't know that the free content with PS+ was only playable as long as you were a member. I could have used that in a debate last week. Thanks for the info. I'll remember that one.
That point is invalid in any debate, because even though we cant play the free games when we arent subscribed, you cant even play online when you are not subscribed. And that is way worse then notplaying thefree games you downloaded. Also all the free games on xbl dont even compare to the ones on psn+, lkke really AC2 and halo 3? You would be hard pressed to find someone who owns an xbox to not have either have owned or played either of those games.while on psn+ we are getting battlefield 3 a game which didnt come out 4 years or so ago and many other games. So yea the losing free games thing is an invalid argument.
@trenso1 but the PS4 does require PS+ to play online. Truth be told both Xbox Live and PS+ offer sorry old free games. Nothing on either list impress me. I've either played them already or they just suck. But it is stupid that you need to continue paying for PS+ for you to enjoy your free games. Is that really free or are you just renting the games? If I collected free games for months and then got deployed somewhere without internet I wouldn't be able to play my "free games". That's too close to "always online" for me.
@Funatic1 i was talking about current gen not next gen since that is what the article is comparing, current gen services.
Funatic stop trolling!
PS Plus is a subscription based service.
Like your phone bill, your Internet bill, Netflix,cable tv etcetc.
as a member of Netflix I pay £6 a month so that's £72 a year whilst I pay £40 for PS plus... I know exactly which 1 is better value!
And before anyone says but netflix isnt a gaming service so how can you compare... it is a subscription based service
-ps+ has online storage
-u don't need ps+(on the ps3) to play online
-don't need it for acheivements
-you can buy games from your computer for your playstation systems
-ps+ offers damn great deals(mortal kombat and arkaham asylum for only $10.00 this week get it quick)
-you can chat without ps+
so seems like all ms has going for it is cross game chat
Who said I was comparing the services?
Istarted with a comparison of some things then went on to say that I subscribe for a lot more of the other services.
I was simply stating things I used and making the point that there is a lot more to these services than getting free games.
360 and PS3's time is almost up. I was referring to the next gen. Once I buy a X1 I'm getting rid if my 360. I'm the type of dude that doesn't look back when the newest game or console comes out.
If you have PS+ those games are even cheaper
Shadow of the Colossus for $5 but Mortal Kombat and Arkham Asylum were both $5 as well for Plus users. I already played Arkham Asylum on the 360 so I passed on it but still, great value.
I wish they'd a PS Classics sale. I'd love to get HD versions of San Andreas, Persona 3 and Liberty City on my big screen
For comparisons sake, which is the entire point of this post/story, what you're getting on Live is a lot less than what PS+ offers. Most of the Xbox Live Gold features are free on PS3 and even when compared the PS+ it cost more at its base $50 a year compared to $60 a year.
You may see the value in paying for Gold but you're not really given much of an option considering how barren a Silver account is.
Also, you were comparing game prices and Sony has great sales too. There are some PS titles that are being sold for $2-$3 for PS+ members currently. Saying Xbox Live Gold get better deals is not necessarily true.
all good reasons for sure and will all be present on ps4 along with sonys gaikai cloud making everything fast and nearly instant,no waiting. playstation plus had cloud saves before live did and then ms followed,like theyre following sonys lead with the ps4.
Every argument has two sides and ultimately I like the Plus free side more. Sure you need to pay to keep your collection ($50 a year isn't much and as you continue with plus, the overall cost is outweighed by what you have and can expect), but Plus basically offers people a chance to play something unique with no risk involved.
Like a while back Vanquish released and no one cared. Over time it dropped in price and ultimately went OoP. This resulted in a lot of people missing out on it, unless they bought the $20 dollar digital or found a used copy at GS for $13 dollars. However, since it was free with Plus, many people were given a chance (at no real cost) to try the game out and see why fans loved it.
On the other hand, you have Xbox sales, which are a mixed bag (like all sales and Plus offerings). One of the best deals I saw was El Shaddai for 400 MSP ($5) a while back. Now El Shaddai is an interesting looking game, but I wouldn't consider it exactly awesome. Even at $5 dollars I would question picking it up, which means I might miss out on something great. For this reason alone, I like that Plus basically gives you the game and you're free to try it or wait till the next one. I mean, once you start picking things based off cost, you're going to soon exceed the price of simply joining Plus, but no assurance that you'll enjoy those games anymore than what Sony would give you.
games i bought from the sale.
borderlands 2
crysis 3
forza horizon
gears of war judgement
the witcher 2
hitman absolution
a total of $95,at regular price it would have been $250 i saved $155.
i don't care about old free games to me xbox live is the better service.
You get to keep your games when Xbox Live Gold runs out too.
you keep the discounted games you buy only the free ones require the ps+ subscription
Why didn't you compare the discounts for the games on sale for PSPlus?
And define "old," as there are some fairly new free games on Plus, such as Sleeping Dogs and Battlefield.
Just subscribed to PS+ a few months ago. Just curious. Does Sony have to get permission and pay the developers to put their games up for free? I would think they developers would lose sales, so would they?
I'm pretty sure that Devs get royalties off of downloads paid or not...
if i made a Japanese account on psn could my UK based account play the games i get off there?
Yep. As long as they're on the same system. Except for with a Vita, where you'll need different memory cards.
thankyou for the info.
also, is the japanese store actually written in japanese? because i would struggle if it is lol.
I believe it is. Haven't used it myself, honestly.
Best way to navigate would probably be to Google Translate what you want to say into Japanese, then match the kanji/katakana.
If it's something with an online pass, that might not go through. Then again, I'm assuming you just put it through for the correct region, and it'll still count for the region you want to use.
Japan users get like 100 games whattheefak
If only the games in Japanese PS+ are in English. I would be sure to subscribe right away. I usually use my Japanese PSN account for trying new game demos on PS3. :/
You're forgetting the value of games is based on RRP, when most of the time you can pick it up pre-owned for next to nothing.
Trying to get a fight started between Plus regions here or something?
I've said it before and I'll say it again, plus pisses all over xbl.. There's no comparison..
PS+ Europe is the best. It's just a shame that most of the time, I already have the PS+ games that are offered. Sleeping Dogs, Battlefield 3, Uncharted 3 are amazing games, no doubt, it's just a shame when you already have those games though.


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A hyperbolic start and finish to these random thoughts for a Tuesday:
A hyperbolic start and finish to these random thoughts for a Tuesday:
� The A's have been amazing this season. No big names, just a bunch of young guys who play hard and have a penchant for drama. On Saturday, Oakland earned its 14th walk-off victory of the season. And after Monday's win over Texas, they're going to the playoffs for the first time since 2006. Amazing.
� Edison graduate Trumaine Johnson made his first career interception Sunday for the Rams against the Seahawks. Midway through the second quarter, Johnson came up and drilled Seattle receiver Doug Baldwin just as the ball arrived from quarterback Russell Wilson. Johnson's hit jarred the ball loose and he cradled the ball against his chest in the same motion before he fell to the ground - a terrific play by the rookie cornerback out of the University of Montana in St. Louis' 19-13 win.
� The Raiders have been outscored 55-7 in the third quarter through four games. They were blown out 21-0 in the third quarter of Sunday's 37-6 loss to Peyton Manning and the Broncos in Denver. Halftime adjustments either are lost on the coaches or falling on deaf ears among the players.
� Kings guard Tyreke Evans recently aided some residents in his hometown of Chester, Pa., with free eye exams. Chester is struggling economically, so the exams were a big help to many people. Evans had his eyes examined in Sacramento and said he has 15/20 vision. He joked that if he doesn't pass to an open teammate this season, he can't honestly say he didn't see him.
� The Wall Street Journal conducted a study and concluded White Sox broadcaster Ken Harrelson is the biggest "homer" announcer in baseball. All 30 clubs were evaluated for one game. Citations were awarded when the announcers used pronouns such as "we" and "us" to describe their team, used obscure pet names for players, moped after miscues and celebrated excessively after big moments. Harrelson amassed 104 citations. The Athletics' broadcast team of Glen Kuiper and Ray Fosse received six citations, which tied them with the Royals and Rangers for 16th place. The Giants' duo of Duane Kuiper and Mike Krukow drew just one citation.
� Jets owner Woody Johnson said he would prefer a Mitt Romney victory in the presidential election over a winning season from his team. Based on the polls and New York's struggles, including Sunday's 34-0 loss to the 49ers, the year might not end to Johnson's liking.
� The 2012 Ryder Cup was the Meltdown at Medinah for the Americans and the Miracle of Medinah for the Europeans, who came back from a 10-6 deficit on the final day to retain the Cup. England's Ian Poulter went 4-0 at Medinah and is 12-3 in his Ryder Cup career. That's amazing, too.
Contact sports editor Bob Highfill at (209) 546-8282 or email@example.com.


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The gates at the San Joaquin County Fair are open less than a hour, but the turkey legs are already piping hot inside a barbecue the size of a small car.
The gates at the San Joaquin County Fair are open less than a hour, but the turkey legs are already piping hot inside a barbecue the size of a small car.
The 1.8-pound limbs shimmer with a perfectly brown texture inside a barbecue boasting the "finest in smoke meats," according to a sign.
Also on the racks waiting for hungry patrons: tri-tip, chicken and pork ribs.
Ask Lucky Henner what people want at the fair, and his answer is simple.
Henner, owner of fair food vendor Lucky 7 Foods out of Sacramento, said his patrons know what's good.
And it usually involves a lot of grease.
"Anything but healthy food," he said.
The fare for this month's county fair is a mix of salty, sweet and savory. At one end, a funnel cake stand. Right across, a taco booth. Hand-dipped corn dogs, caramel-covered apples and cotton candy are only some of the other offerings.
At the Sierra Corn Roaster booth, Josh Allen loads ears of corn still in the husk into a rotating oven set at 425 degrees. A 26-minute pass cooks the corn. It takes two rotations for a baked potato to be ready.
"It's on one of those lists where, you come to a fair, you got to have the corn dog, the funnel cake and the corn on the cob," he said.
More meal than snack, the $4.50 ear is also a bargain.
If hot is out of the question with the summer temperatures hanging around, Kim Sanders at Taste of Paradise has an answer in Hawaiian shaved ice, served as they do on the islands.
"The true Hawaiian way to eat shaved ice is with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the bottom of the shaved ice, and we put the ice on top of that, and then the flavors you pick and then sweetened cream on the top," she said.
The flavors to choose from include pi�a colada, nonalcoholic margarita, blueberry and Tiger's Blood - a mix of strawberry, watermelon and coconut.
Food, she said, is probably one of the biggest reasons to come to a fair.
"It's things you don't normally get," she said.
For sure, patrons won't leave hungry. That's especially true at the barbecue stand, where Henner's employees also serve up freshly made potato chips covered in cheese and jalape�os or bacon.
"You get plenty to eat," Henner said.


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This Week In Island History
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago
From the Newport Journal, Nov. 21, 1913
Mr. P.H. Horgan is plastering and finishing the fourth floor of the Hotel Thorndike, being unable to finish this before the season opened last summer.
Sergeant Dorman, who has been quarantined for diphtheria for several weeks, has recovered and the house has been fumigated.
The proceeds of the first annual ball of the fire department, to be held shortly, will be used to place fire alarm boxes in various parts of the island.
75 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, Nov. 21, 1938
The "no school" signal of 13 on the fire alarm will be used this year at 7:45 a.m. as a signal for the high school of no boat running for high-school pupils. The grade school "no school" signal will be 13 at 8:15 a.m. When there is to be but one session of the grades, school will be in session until 12 o'clock.
50 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, Nov. 21, 1963
Combining the part-time Jamestown positions of town treasurer and tax collector into one full-time position and an improvement in the method of keeping financial records is recommended in an auditor's report recently submitted.
From the Newport Daily News, Nov. 23, 1963
An expression of sympathy was sent yesterday to Mrs. Kennedy and her family by Jamestown Town Council President Harold E. Shippee on behalf of the council members and town citizens.
25 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, Nov. 22, 1988
Next month town officials expect to solicit bids on two major renovations to the town water system. The water system improvements were approved by voters at a special financial town meeting Aug. 10. They include installation of a new compact water treatment system at the town's North Road plant. Voters approved spending up to $650,000 for that project. Also approved by voters was construction of a $165,000 chemical feed building at the town's backup reservoir, South Pond.
15 years ago
From the Jamestown Press, Nov. 19, 1998
At a school open house Tuesday, parents grappled with tensioncausing issues that they face while their children are adjusting to the new "standards" philosophy of learning at the Jamestown School.
The Town Council Monday adopted a resolution that asks the Army Corps of Engineers to "reassess" its recommendation to dispose of sediment dredged from the Port of Providence to a site off Hog Island in Narragansett Bay.
10 years ago
From the Jamestown Press, Nov. 20, 2003
Sen. Lincoln Chafee's office announced Monday that he has secured $5 million to be put toward the demolition of the old Jamestown Bridge.
Sitting as the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners, the Town Council received a report Monday that it may have to add as much as $3 million to the $12 to $15 million estimate for much needed repairs to the municipal water system.


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When Carly Simon drives around Martha's Vineyard, she tunes her car radio to WMVY: "It feels like you have a friend right by your side," she says.
When Carly Simon drives around Martha's Vineyard, she tunes her car radio to WMVY.
The singer, a longtime year-round island resident, often listens to the station in her kitchen and bathroom.
When she enters stores around the island, she hears it playing.
"It feels like you have a friend right by your side," Simon said.
That friend is changing, though.
The station's license, transmitter and frequency — but not its programming or Tisbury studio — were purchased Tuesday by Boston public radio station WBUR. That gives WBUR the frequency strength to make further listening inroads on the Cape and Islands, WBUR officials said.
The sale price was not disclosed by station owner Aritaur Communications and WBUR. Pending Federal Communications Commission approval, the deal is expected to be complete early next year, at which time WMVY will go off the air and BUR will take over the frequency.
WMVY, a Vineyard staple since the early 1980s, hopes to continue — at least on the Internet and possibly on another frequency on the radio — as a commercial-free entity funded by donations.
Simon certainly hopes so. She frequently appeared in WMVY's studio, performing songs.
"It's something that would change the whole feel of the island without the station," she said.
WMVY has aired on 92.7 FM since 1981, with its local focus and range of music starting in 1983, said Barbara Dacey, director of worldwide programming.
Artists in the studio have crossed generations and genres, she said, including Lou Reed, John Mayer and Judy Collins. "The real key is the mix of the new and old," she said.
Aritaur, based in Newport, R.I., bought the station in 1998, and it added its online radio station that year. In 2007, to help combat royalty fees and rising costs, it started the nonprofit Friends of mvyradio. Donations to the Friends only could go to support its online streaming operations and programming, said Joe Gallagher, Aritaur president.
The Vineyard-based radio station remained dependent on advertising, he said.
The divide between the nonprofit online fundraising and the commercial radio station may have left some potential donors confused, WMVY program director PJ Finn said.
"That was a disconnect for some people. Being two things has presented some problems, so we are going to take the leap and be one thing," he said.
WMVY announced the sale Tuesday morning and immediately began talking about the need to raise $600,000 in the next two months to continue as WMVY online and possibly on another frequency.
"It sounds like a pretty tall and heavy lift, and we know it is," Dacey said, adding that finding large-scale donors will be critical.
That money will pay for its operating costs for a year, Gallagher said. If the station is able to raise that money — or close to it — in the next two months, Aritaur will donate assets not included in the sale to WBUR, such as the Tisbury studio and its programming, to the nonprofit Friends.
"We are trying to find a new FM signal that we can broadcast from," Dacey said. "We hope that can happen, but we have nothing in place."
If the money isn't raised, the station will cease to exist.
A drop in advertising has made keeping the radio station a financial difficulty, Gallagher said.
"Donations (for the online streaming) have gone up each year, but they still haven't gone up to offset the loss in ad dollars the station has felt since the recession since 2008," he said.
Aritaur explored selling the station to other buyers who intended to keep 92.7 FM in its current format, but no deal could be reached. Selling to WBUR ended up making sense, he said, calling the Boston NPR station a "responsible broadcaster in the market."
WBUR general manager Charles Kravetz said the public radio station has been trying to have a larger presence on the Cape for more than two decades. It bid on the Cape stations PIXY 103 and Frank FM earlier this year but lost out to radio personality John Garabedian, Kravetz said.
WBUR's programming is aired on stations out of Sandwich High School and Cape Cod Regional Technical High School in Harwich, along with 1240 AM West Yarmouth.
The purchase of the 3,000-watt station should make WBUR programming much easier to hear, Kravetz said, than those trying to tune in to its Boston station at 90.9 FM. This expands the station's potential reach to listeners on Martha's Vineyard, all of the Lower Cape, most of Nantucket and across the state's southern coast.
The station estimated it will reach 60,000 new listeners. The news and information station reaches nearly 500,000 listeners overall per week.
WBUR produces national programs such as "On Point" and "Only a Game," along with hourly local newscasts. It carries NPR shows such as "All Things Considered" and "Wait, Wait "� Don't Tell Me."
The Boston programming will be aired on 92.7 FM. While more staff won't be added because of the purchase, it will lead to more reporting on Cape issues, he said.
WGBH, a Boston public radio station and competitor to WBUR, has its own Cape and Islands presence with the Woods Hole-based WCAI, which broadcasts on FM stations 90.1, 91.1 and 94.3.
Jeanne Hopkins, a WGBH Boston spokeswoman, said WCAI and its Boston based 89.7 programming have deep inroads on the Cape.
"We like to think public media is a good for thing for people; the more the better," she said about WBUR's purchase.
The Cape Cod Times has a working relationship with WCAI, where editors and reporters discuss daily headlines each morning, in addition to several editors being frequent guests on "The Point," a daily public affairs program. There is no financial connection between the newspaper and the station.


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Kiwanis of Stoughton DGC
Stoughton, Wisconsin 1 course · 9 holes Driving directions
Course reviews
Most votes | Newest first | Oldest first
+0 votes Bee Yang › April 22, 2013
Great nine hole course that is open year round. The tee pads are rubber mats. Most holes have one tee pad but one hole does have two tee pads. Lots of tight wooded shots that are more technical. Lots of birdies to be had, but still challenging if you miss your lines.
+0 votes mike fagan › July 3, 2013
Little swampy but nice layout. Needs another 9 holes
+0 votes John Murphy › March 29, 2014
It's a technical course with lots of trees and tunnel shots. The park could use some upkeep and you have to watch out for snakes and ground bees in the spring but overall it's a challenging course for winter/early spring rounds before the other courses open.
+0 votes Nicholas Bauer › September 29, 2015
Rather wooded but challenging none-the-less. Seems to be a strong autumn course.
+0 votes Aaron Stone › May 6, 2012
Nice course, just need 9 more holes. Can be challenging, feels like 15 some times! Dog legs in out of the woods though-out & some elbows. No definable elevation changes. Near a lake so bring insect spray in the wet season! Park, than you must walk a ways to the left 2 get to hole #1.


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Some Mac owners have a dirty little secret that might exclude them from the Apple cool club if they let it slip — they primarily use Windows on their Mac computers. Some users purchase MacBook Pros for their strong battery life on a relatively high-end hardware spec and for their slender, lightweight ultra-portable unibody design.
Added perks of Mac ownership include being able to legally install the iPhone app development environment and develop and test OS X applications. However, OS X, by itself, leaves users with many glaring deficiencies, chiefly an inability to play most modern PC games.
Boot Camp, first introduced in 2006, fixes that by allowing Windows to be installed on Macs and users to dual boot into their OS of choice. Ever since Windows has been many Mac owners' dirty little secret.
Now Apple has announced that Windows 7, Microsoft's popular new operating system, will be officially supported for the first time with Apple Boot Camp 3.1. The update supports 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate.
The 32-bit version weighs in at 380.73MB, while the 64-bit version takes up 274.58MB. The only catch is that you (officially) have to a copy of Windows Vista or Windows XP to install Windows 7 (we did a clean install on the previous version of Boot Camp, though, so this may just be legal rhetoric).
The Boot Camp upgrade fixes the problem of the red LED adjacent to the audio port always being on, trackpad issues, and incompatibility with Apple's Magic Mouse and wireless keyboard. Apple Update should offer users already running Windows 7 in Boot Camp, the latest version. For those afraid of using Windows 7 in Boot Camp, take it from us — its a pretty painless experience, and we've only run into few issues, so far (the problems we did experience were almost solely audio related).
There are also new drivers to help support Windows 7. For owners of MacBook Pros or MacBooks you also want to grab the Graphics Firmware Update 1.0. iMac owners should instead install the iMac Late 2009 Windows 7 Drivers.
Mac owners who do use OS X, even occasionally, should also grab Apple's first security update of 2010, which offers protection against some potentially serious security threats. The update, Security Update 2010-001, is available for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (21.90MB), Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Server (248.11MB), and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Client (159.58MB). It can also be snagged via Apple Update and features fixes for potentially dangerous vulnerabilities in CoreAudio, the Flash Player plug-in, OpenSSL, Image RAW, and Image IO.
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Hey guys & Gals,
I've been lurking for better than a year. Last year I intended to start, getting a ENO doublenest and a JRB 11x10 tarp. But I got my girls up in the snow and put up a four season tent instead.
Later in the spring I got a cheap hammock with bug net (which my youngest daughter flipped while at Yellowstone, ripping out the bug net!).
I camped this year in about 2' of snow in a four person tent, still scared to hang in the freezing cold.
Last week I went and bought another couple of ENO doubles and got my friend to get one. We all slept out (4 hammocks, 5 people) over Memorial day weekend here in Washington State. I ended up selling one of the ENOs to another friend.
I've been reading a lot and watching Shug, HammockProf and Kayt's videos.
I had some questions that I haven't seen an answer to:
Aysmmetrical hang - Does my ENOs do this, or does it have something to do with how the hammock material is gathered in the end, or something to do with the ridgeline or with the differential cut when the hammock is assembled? I saw that the HH and the WBBB both mention it. I was looking at the HH Deep Jungle Asym double layer XL with zipper and the WBBBs. Anyone used both? What's the difference?
I saw that a lot of people are going to woopie slings for weight savings. Is that as fast to set up as straps and beaners?
Should I get snake skins for my JRB tarp - will it save me a lot of time and effort folding my silon tarp?
I have 4 kids. I was thinking of taking my 13 yoa girl hanging, but can I put the tarp over both of us and stay dry? I was looking at Clark's double, but I'd rather not spend the money. Anyone have advice on how to hang two hammocks side by side under one 10x11 tarp?
Will I notice a difference in the hang of a ENO Double and a WBBB?
Thanks for the info!!!


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A partnership of public and private groups and community members to collect consistent, reliable, local data in order to help communities assess the health of our neighborhoods and cities. The PPRC has developed a website that tracks these indicators.
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Measuring Government Performance: Researcher Says More Tools Will Encourage Governments to Get Started
Read Ken Smith's recent interview by the Association for Government Accountants.
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Painting by Gwen Meharg: The Exchange
This step of making an ancient covenant could be very disturbing to our modern sensibilities; yet this particular step highlights the solemn nature of what a covenant truly is...and in grasping the depth and seriousness of covenant, we can embrace anew the incredible, indescribable gift that has been given to us through Jesus coming to earth in "the form of man" (Philippians 2:7).
Now, on to the graphic details...
The covenant is "cut" by taking an animal and splitting it right down the middle. Each half is laid to the side and the covenant partners stand between the two bloody halves of flesh, with their backs to one another. Then they walk right through the bloody halves, making a figure eight, and come back to stop, facing each other.
Their walk through the sacrificed animal is saying two things:
First, that they are dying to themselves, giving up the rights to their own life and beginning a new walk with the covenant partner unto death. (Each half of the dead animal represents the covenant partners).
Second, as the covenant partners walk, they point to each half of the animal, in effect saying "God do so to me and more if I ever try to break this covenant."
As we think about this step of covenant, fear and anxiety might overcome us as the overwhelming truth strikes to the center of our being; the truth that we each are a covenant breaker! We are under the penalty of death for having broken the covenant! This gives an even deeper understanding to my heart of why Romans 6:23 declares "the wages of sin is death"! BUT, the verse goes on to remind us that the covenant is restored through Jesus. In fact, Jesus is both covenant partners...He is God, making the Berith journey, and He is man, making the Berith journey. Being man, and a sinless man - was always His plan in restoring our covenant standing before God! Are you grasping this? It is so powerful! So full of incredible truth! And when we really comprehend this reality, we never need to be ashamed of our failures in our Christian walk again...He knew we would fail, but He had a plan to cover this terrible paradox of being a spirit being that still can cave in to the flesh nature! A foreshadowing of Christ fulfilling both sides of this covenant is found in Genesis 15, where God makes a covenant with Abram and his descendents, and takes two separate forms to walk through the sacrificed animals.
As a sinless man, Jesus walked the covenant journey in our place and as a covenant partner with God, He paid the penalty of death of our covenant breaking in His own body. Now, when we receive Him as Lord and Savior, we are entering into covenant with both parties of a covenant already cut...we are joining with Christ in proclaiming that we are entering into a death and are journeying into a new life. He and we are declaring that we each are dying to living for our self-interests alone and passing through death to a new relationship of union with the other each other!
May this truth deeply penetrate your hearts and spirit this Passover and First Fruits season!


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Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Group LLC reported U.S. sales gains for August as analysts projected the best month for industrywide deliveries in six years.
Sales of cars light trucks rose 12% for Ford and Chrysler, according to company statements. The results compared with 10 analysts' average estimates for gains of 10% by Ford and 13% by Chrysler in a survey by Bloomberg News.
Ford, Chrysler and General Motors Co. have closed unneeded factories and rolled out better cars that are drawing demand from both retail and fleet buyers, lifting the average prices paid for new vehicles to record highs. That means today's industry is much healthier than six years ago, the last time automakers were selling as many cars and trucks as last month.
"In 2007, we were achieving that sales level by giving cars away because the auto companies had too many factories," John Casesa, senior managing director at Guggenheim Partners LLC, said today on Bloomberg Radio. "Today, there's real demand for that product. It's a fundamentally different industry."
U.S. car and light truck sales may have climbed 14% in August to 1.47 million, the average estimate of 10 analysts in the survey by Bloomberg News. Automakers last sold that many vehicles in one month in August 2007, according to researcher Autodata Corp.
The annualized industry sales rate, adjusted for seasonal trends, probably accelerated to 15.8 million, the average of 17 estimates, from 14.5 million a year earlier.
Chrysler today forecast a 16.1 million industry sales pace for August in its statement. The projection includes medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, which typically account for at least 200,000 deliveries per year.
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Chrysler said sales of the Ram pickup surged 31% to 33,009 and Jeep Grand Cherokee jumped 40% to 17,976. The company controlled by Turin, Italy-based Fiat SpA reported gains for all five of its brands and extended a more than three-year streak of total U.S. sales increases.
Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne is introducing new vehicles including the Jeep Cherokee sport-utility vehicle and Ram pickups to wean Chrysler from its past dependence on discounted deliveries to rental-car companies.
"We're seeing Chrysler shift its sales, relying less on fleet sales," Michelle Krebs, an analyst at auto researcher Edmunds.com, said before the carmaker released results. "It's a positive in terms of profitability of the business and consumer satisfaction in terms of resale value of their vehicles."
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Whoopi Goldberg dropped in from the ceiling and exited through the floor; Brian d'Arcy James belted out a song Jason Robert Brown wrote for the event and Tracie Bennett brought back Judy Garland to the Guthrie Theater stage.
The performances were the highlights (along with Greta Oglesby's turn from "Caroline or Change") of the Guthrie's "Fête 50," the centerpiece of a weekend celebration of the theater's 50th anniversary. Fundraising dinners and the show brought out the famous, the well-to-do and the passionate supporters of the Guthrie, which opened in 1963. Everyone was invited to a free open house at the theater on Sunday.
Vincent Kartheiser, once a kid actor from Apple Valley who is now among the stars of TV's "Mad Men," was on hand early in the evening, posing for a photo with his fiancée, actor Alexis Bledel. Kartheiser is in town rehearsing for "Pride and Prejudice," which opens July 12. Was he working Saturday or just out for the evening?
"A little of each," he said.
Walter Mondale and his wife, Joan, recalled opening night of "Hamlet" in 1963. Joanne Von Blon, whose husband, Philip, was crucial to the theater's founding, remembered that night too.
"I fell in love with George Grizzard [who played Hamlet]." she said. "He asked me to dance and his jitterbugging was beyond my ability."
Oskar Eustis, artistic director of the Public Theater, flew in from New York for the event.
"This theater is where I fell in love with theater," said the Minnesota native. "It's very emotional for me that this is still the flagship for every theater in the country."
Guthrie Director Joe Dowling credited the Twin Cities for the theater's 50 years.
"It's a testament to this community," Dowling said before heading up to dinner. "It doesn't happen in every city."
Mayor R.T. Rybak, who was splitting his time between events Saturday, echoed Dowling's thoughts, but he gave credit to the Guthrie.
"There are a lot of reasons we're a great arts city, but the Guthrie was the big bang that created so much theater, which spawned visual art, grass roots theater, performance art," Rybak said. "The Guthrie gave us the confidence to strut our artistic stuff."
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During the program, T.R. Knight, who was 5 when he first played Tiny Tim in the 1978 "Christmas Carol," introduced a video interview he did with actor Zoe Caldwell, who was in the theater's original company.
"I feel like I should be a spectator," Knight said before the show. "But it pleases me so much to be able to talk about one of my heroes."
The Sunday open house featured performances, workshops, classes, face painting, music, tours, films, food and programs. At 11 a.m., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Rybak and Dowling welcomed visitors.
The Guthrie has evolved both physically and psychically over these 50 years. From Tyrone Guthrie's original notion of a seasonal company on one stage, the institution now operates year-round, with nearly 750 performances that reach an estimated audience of 420,000. Budgetwise, it is Minnesota's second-largest performing arts company. In 1982, it received the Tony Award for regional theaters.
Marilyn Carlson Nelson, a former board member whose daughter, Wendy, is the current chair, said she feels the Guthrie "is always changing, but it is always the same."
"Theater helps us to see ourselves from someone else's eyes," Nelson said.
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Applications covering more than 1,200 Ohio schools have been submitted for state grants to pay for emergency radios and entrance security features for such buildings.
COLUMBUS Applications covering more than 1,200 Ohio schools have been submitted for state grants to pay for emergency radios and entrance security features for such buildings.
An allotment of $12 million is available to help schools buy security measures such as special radios that educators can use to silently call for help with the push of a button, The Columbus Dispatch reported. Ohio officials worked with a manufacturer and law enforcement representatives to develop the specialized radio system after the school shooting massacre in Newtown, Conn., last December.
A program run by the Ohio School Facilities Commission allows districts to receive $2,000 to purchase such an alert system or $5,000 to equip a school entrance with cameras, intercoms and secured doors. The cost for schools is a $20 monthly fee for each radio.
Statewide, applications have been submitted to cover 1,226 schools. The commission will ask lawmakers for more money if the $12 million allotment is exhausted, commission spokesman Rick Savors said.
Ohio's largest district, Columbus City Schools, has secure entrances for its buildings but is "strongly considering" applying for grant money to get the radios, spokesman Jeff Warner told the newspaper.
The school radios manufactured by Motorola were developed by the Multi-Agency Radio Communications System (MARCS), a high-tech statewide system that allows first-responders to easily talk to any agency with MARCS radios.
Darryl Anderson, MARCS program director, said the radio enables instantaneous calls for help.
The radio has a microphone that permits voice communication, but the button feature allows a school employee to send an electronic alert and then hide or help others without speaking and giving away their presence to an intruder, Anderson said.
"If you hit that button, we're going to send all available resources," Anderson said.
The radio also avoids problems with downed phone lines or busy cellphone towers, said Anderson, a part-time police officer and former state trooper.
Circleville is building three schools with secure entrances, but Superintendent Kirk McMahon has applied for funds for the radios.
"If an intruder comes in and an employee looks at the door and sees an armed person, all she has to do is punch a button," he said. "You can punch a button and hide."
The gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., killed 20 students and six educators at the school, before killing himself.


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The nation's Highway Trust Fund is almost dried up, federal payments to states for transportation projects starting this summer will have to be delayed, and lawmakers face just three options to deal with the projected shortfalls, a top congressional auditor testified on Tuesday.
Lawmakers could decide to cut promised spending to deal with projected highway shortfalls, meaning that no new obligations from the fund's highway account or its account for transit projects would be made in fiscal 2015. They could also raise revenues for the highway fund, such as hiking taxes on motor fuels or imposing new tolls on highway users.
Or lawmakers could continue to transfer "supplemental amounts" from the federal budget's general fund, which would have to be paid for by reducing spending on other programs or increasing taxes, to avoid adding to deficits and increasing federal borrowing.
Perhaps some combination of these three approaches also could be undertaken, said Joseph Kile, the assistant director for microeconomics studies at the Congressional Budget Office, in his testimony submitted to the Senate Finance Committee. But he left no doubt that the situation is dire.
Most spending for transportation and infrastructure projects comes from state and local governments, with about one-quarter coming from the federal government, primarily through the Highway Trust Fund. In all, governments at various levels spent a total of about $156 billion to build, operate, and maintain highways in 2013, and spent another $60 billion on mass-transit systems.
But with its current revenue sources, Kile warned, the federal Highway Trust Fund cannot support spending at the current rate. He said the fund will not be able to meet all of its obligations through the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.
How has this happened? For decades, the trust fund's balances were stable or growing. But Kile said, more recently, annual spending for highways and transit has exceeded the revenues earned from taxes collected on gasoline, diesel fuel, and other transportation-related products and activities. In fact, since 2008, he said, lawmakers have transferred $54 billion from the U.S. Treasury's general fund to the Highway Trust Fund so it could meet its obligations in a timely manner.
Kile said CBO estimates that, by the end of fiscal 2014, the balance in the trust fund's highway account will fall to about $2 billion and the balance in its transit account will be only $1 billion.
Planned spending for highways and transit will be $45 billion and $8 billion, respectively. By comparison, revenues collected for those purposes are projected to be $33 billion and $5 billion, respectively. As a result, the Transportation Department has indicated it likely will need to delay payments to states at some point during the summer of 2014 in order to keep the fund's balance above zero, as required by law.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden of Oregon said at the same hearing that one study shows that as many as 6,000 projects could grind to a halt, putting thousands of construction workers out of their jobs and causing traffic "migraines" across the country.
He said it's going to take $100 billion just to keep the trust fund solvent for six more years. He said the ideas offered by lawmakers over the last few months, such as new tolls on existing roads or charging motorists based on the number of miles they drive, "raise questions about privacy and feasibility that will need to be answered."
Temporary fixes are not the answer, Wyden said.
"Relying on short-term policies, emergency patches, and temporary extensions makes forward-looking strategies impossible," he said, "and when it comes to infrastructure, planning ahead is absolutely essential."
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To May 31st 2018 an overall total of between 17,498 and 25,986 civilian non-combatant fatalities had been locally alleged from 2,609 separate reported Coalition incidents, in both Iraq and Syria. Of these, Airwars presently estimates that a minimum of 6,321 to 9,712 civilians are likely to have died in Coalition actions. However, some caution is needed given the significant challenges of casualty verification at present.May 31st 2018 17,498 and 25,986 6,321 to 9,712
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The Malta Football Association (MFA) is investing in youth as it targets a brighter future, with a new academy set up for the island's most promising young footballers.
Coach Sergio Soldano is the man entrusted with heading up the academy project, which is focused on developing Maltese talents aged between 12 and 17. Forty boys are currently registered with the academy based at the MFA Technical Centre in Ta' Qali.
A former player in his native Argentina, Soldano's CV includes coaching posts in his homeland, China, Iran, Australia, Colombia and Italy. He has experience at youth level after being involved with the grassroots schools of Serie A clubs Parma FC and FC Internazionale Milano, for whom he still works as a scout.
"Inter have asked me to keep an eye on promising young Maltese footballers coming through and I have already spotted two or three who look interesting," Soldano told UEFA.com.
On the subject of his MFA assignment, he is optimistic. "I am very happy and excited with this new project given to me by the Maltese FA. I am convinced that the local association is moving in the right direction by investing in the youth sector.
"The most important objective is that they must work hard and be as organised as possible. There are youngsters with great talent here in Malta but we need to get these aspiring future footballers to train in the right way. This is the way forward for Maltese football."
Soldano, who was handed a permanent contract in February after initially being employed on a part-time basis in November 2011, is meeting regularly with MFA technical director Robert Gatt and coaches at the Technical Centre in order to raise the potential and quality of Malta's national teams in the future.
MFA CEO Bjorn Vassallo said: "We are embarking on a three-year project. The current crop go to Ta' Qali to do their homework, eat together and have lessons in key subjects like nutrition and sports physiology. The main goal is to educate these youngsters in all aspects of the game."
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When your child needs any kind of operation performed by Nemours surgeons, you can rest assured that you're getting top-notch surgical care from some of the best pediatric surgical specialists in the field. In fact, we're a national leader in surgical results and overall quality of surgical care.
One of the major ways we're able to keep tabs on how we're doing is by tracking the number of surgical wound complications for both inpatient and outpatient procedures (operations done on children staying in the hospital, as well as those who are able to go right home after surgery).
Of course, when your child needs a surgical procedure you probably don't think twice about infections of surgical wounds. Why would you? You're likely just focusing on the operation itself and hoping it helps fix whatever's going on in your child's body.
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Nationally, there are two infections for every 100 procedures. Our record at Nemours is far better. In 2009, we had less than one infection for every 100 procedures. In other words, the national average is 100 percent higher than ours.
We're also pleased to report that by the end of 2009 our "post-operative wound infection rate" (that's the number of infections after surgery) was 22 percent lower than it was in 2008. So we're always improving on our already-low rates.
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It's been shown that one of the most important ways to avoid surgical wound infections is giving patients preventive antibiotics (called "prophylactic antibiotics") to keep infections from setting in. We do this in selected cases where these antibiotics have proven to make a difference in infections. Our surgeons, surgical nurse practitioners, nurses, and anesthesiologists all work together to make sure that those kids get the antibiotics they need when they need them.
When the antibiotics are given is key to how well they work. According to national guidelines, antibiotics should be administered within 1 hour of when these select surgeries begin. If the surgery is longer than 3 hours, the antibiotics will also typically need to be given again during the operation. How or whether they're given after the procedure also matters. When necessary, we usually give antibiotics within 24 hours after the surgery ends.
At Nemours, we're also exceeding the national goal (of at least 90%) when it comes to giving antibiotics at the right time. For 2009, we administered IV antibiotics within the recommended first 60 minutes before surgery in 97% of our operations. And through the end of June 2010, we were at 98% — that's well beyond the national goals given to all hospitals.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A camp ranger whose truck was taken by Christopher Dorner filed a lawsuit Monday for the $1 million reward offered for information leading to the capture of the rogue ex-cop believed to have committed suicide after killing four others during a rampage and manhunt.
Rick Heltebrake filed a breach-of-contract suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court claiming his call to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department after Dorner ordered him and his dog out of the truck and fled on Feb. 12 directly led to Dorner's hideout in a mountain cabin where he engaged deputies in a final shootout.
Heltebrake "notified law enforcement of Dorner's exact location and whereabouts, provided a description of the vehicle he was fleeing in, and was a substantial factor in the apprehension and capture of Dorner at the cabin location," the lawsuit said.
The suit names as defendants the cities of Los Angeles, Irvine, Riverside and other entities who established the reward.
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A couple who called police after Dorner tied them up and fled in their car and others have filed claims.