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Eagle Eye (UK - BD)
Chris Gould takes a look at the Blu-ray release of this recent Shia LaBeouf flick
Not long after the death of his brother, Ethan, Stanford University drop-out Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) has his life turned upside-down when he returns home to find a cache of weapons and explosives in his apartment. He then receives a call from an anonymous female who informs him that the FBI will be arriving to apprehend him in thirty seconds, and unless he follows her orders he'll be branded a terrorist and imprisoned (or worse). Unfortunately Jerry fails to heed the warning and is taken into custody where he is interrogated by Special Agent Thomas Morgan (Billy Bob Thornton). When Morgan leaves the room to consult with Air Force liaison Zoe Perez (Rosario Dawson) Jerry receives another call from the mysterious woman, who arranges for a crane to smash into the building in order to facilitate his escape.
Not wanting to spend the rest of his life in jail, Jerry makes a run for it and is met by single mother Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan), who is also being coerced by the threat of her son's train being derailed. With the assistance of the unidentified caller—who has the ability to remotely control networked devices such as traffic lights and mobile phones—Jerry and Rachel evade the police and meet up with other 'agents' who provide them with further instructions. The pair eventually make their way from Chicago to Washington D.C., where they are finally introduced to the puppet master behind the operation and the full extent of the nefarious plot comes to light.
If all of that sounds a little ambiguous, I've been deliberately vague about a number of plot elements for fear of spoiling the film's major 'twist' for those yet to see the picture. I know it's been out for a while now, but the 'twist' is fairly central to any enjoyment one might derive from the feature, so I don't want to spoil it for the uninitiated.
Presented at its original theatrical ratio of 2.40:1 (1080/24p AVC), Eagle Eye looks fantastic on Blu-ray. It's not the most visually exciting film—featuring as it does a fairly subdued palette comprised mainly of metallic blues and oranges—but colour rendition is good (if not entirely realistic) and appears to be faithful to the theatrical experience. Image detail is also pleasing, with only a few shots looking a little soft, but this can most likely be attributed to the shooting style than to any problems with the transfer.
Contrast runs a little hot, causing some of the whites to flare, but this looks to be intentional, while blacks are generally solid, if not quite as inky as they could be. Shadow detail is also acceptable, if not reference quality, which sometimes leads to crushing. From my normal seating position I couldn't detect any digital artefacts and film artefacts were limited to the tiniest of white specks, which appeared very infrequently. All things considered, this is a fine effort that falls just short of the very best the format has to offer.
As is usual for their high-definition releases, Paramount offers up a Dolby TrueHD 5.1 soundtrack for Eagle Eye. To say this is a lively mix is perhaps the understatement of the year, as the track utilises all five speakers for almost the entirety of its almost two-hour runtime. Effects are deftly balanced to create a truly enveloping experience where no one element overrides the others, save for perhaps the occasional minor dialogue blip. At times you really do feel like you're in the midst of the action, running for your life with Jerry and Rachel, especially during the frenetic car chase sequence that really pushes the TrueHD track to its limits.
If I had to make one criticism, it would be that the bass wasn't quite meaty enough for me. Don't get me wrong, it's tight and lends weight to the action sequences when needed, but I felt that the pyrotechnics deserved more 'oomph'. It is only a minor criticism though, and it doesn't really detract from what is actually a very accomplished track.
Although modestly budgeted, the film's comparatively high gross has ensured a fair selection of bonus material for this home release. However, upon further examination it doesn't quite live up to expectations, but Paramount once again presents all of the supplements in high-definition (much to their credit). Here's a breakdown of what you can expect to find on the disc.
Deleted Scenes (04:39 HD): There are four deleted scenes in total, available both individually and as a 'Play All' function. The scenes are mainly short beats and there's really nothing here that would have dramatically altered the completed picture, except for maybe the alternate ending (which is basically an advert for 'Rock Band').
Asymmetrical Warfare: The Making of Eagle Eye (25:32 HD): Things continue with a relatively short making of that makes uses of cast and crew interviews and behind the scenes footage to explore the genesis of the picture and the filmmaking process in general. We learn a little about the casting choices, shooting styles, stunts, effects and production design, but not in the sort of exhaustive detail required from the best making of featurettes.
Eagle Eye on Location: Washington D.C. (05:58 HD): Unsurprisingly, this short featurette touches on the practicalities of shooting on location in Washington. The filmmakers mention that they tried to use as many real locations as possible, rather than resorting to sets. Unfortunately there's not a huge amount of information to be gleaned from what is essentially a fluff piece.
Is My Cell Phone Spying on Me? (09:14 HD): This is a short but interesting featurette that examines the surveillance society in which we now find ourselves living. Although certain elements of the plot have been exaggerated out of necessity, the reality of the situation isn't a million miles away from the events depicted in the film. I don't know about you, but I think that's pretty scary.
Shall We Play a Game? (09:22 HD): This is a conversation between director D.J. Caruso and WarGames director John Badham in which the guys sit opposite each another and talk about the similarities between their two films. The conversation flows freely and touches on numerous aspects of the productions, along with background information on their pre-existing working relationship.
Gag Reel (07:00 HD): Seven minutes of people fluffing their lines and generally goofing around. These things are usually pretty hit-and-miss, but there's some especially good Billy Bob Thornton ad libbing on display here.
Road Trip (03:05 HD): This is yet another short featurette that examines the varied shooting schedule, touching on the various locations, sets, stunts and so forth. To be perfectly honest the footage could have been combined with that of the 'On Location' featurette to create something a little more meaty.
Photo Gallery: Pretty self-explanatory this one. If you like staring at still images this will be right up your street, but I'm not really a fan of such things unless I have a real interest in the subject matter.
Theatrical Trailer (02:28 HD): One again, this is about as self-explanatory as things get. I'm not one to watch trailers when I own the entire feature, but I appreciate its inclusion.
Okay, so it's not a patch on the similarly-themed WarGames and the identity of the 'mysterious' woman is obvious, but Eagle Eye is still relatively inoffensive entertainment. I don't really get all the animosity aimed towards Shia LaBeouf either (I've often seen him referred to as Shia LaDouche), as he's generally pretty likable in his roles. I have a bit of a soft spot for Michelle Monaghan, so it's always nice to see her pop up in a film, but other than that not much really stood out for me. Eagle Eye is the filmic equivalent of painting your entire house magnolia—safe and functional, but lacking in imagination and flair.
If you've read any of my previous Paramount Blu-ray reviews it will come as no surprise to read that I am yet again singing their praises. This is another solid release with good audio-visual characteristics and a functional selection of extras presented in HD (other studios take note). I don't know that it's quite enough to overcome the mediocrity of the feature, but if you're an Eagle Eye fan you'll at least have a respectable package to take home.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
Review by Chris Gould
Pixarfan517 Member Join Date: August 2006 Location: United States Posts: 1,478
Good movie. Don't need to see it again.
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It should've been a sequel to Enemy of the State.
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It's funny because you don't have to use very much imagination to pretend Enemy of the State is a sequel to The Conversation...
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Oh, really? Well, i've never see The Conversation so I did not quite catch that. Maybe you could tell me more about it.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 16th March 2009
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French, Dolby Digital 5.1 German, Dolby Digital 5.1 Italian, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, English, English SDH, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
Extras: Deleted Scenes, 'Asymmetrical Warfare', 'Eagle Eye on Location', 'Is My Cell Phone Spying on Me', 'Shall We Play a Game?', Gag Reel, Photo Gallery, Trailer
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: D.J. Caruso
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Billy Bob Thorton, Michael Chiklis, Anthony Mackie
Genre: Thriller
Length: 118 minutes
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NEW YORK — The Orlando Magic's top priority against the New York Knicks tonight will be straightforward in its aim and complex in its execution: Slow down Carmelo Anthony.
The Magic haven't been able to do it yet this season. They haven't done it in recent seasons.
Anthony has torched them in the teams' two prior games this season, averaging 32.5 points per game on 49.0 percent shooting.
On Jan. 5, in New York's 114-106 win over Orlando, Anthony dominated in the fourth quarter, scoring 16 points. Nik Vucevic, the Magic's center, occasionally guarded Anthony one-on-one when the Magic switched on Knicks pick-and-rolls.
"It's tough," Vucevic said after the Magic completed their shootaround this morning at Madison Square Garden.
"It's not only me but the other defenders and I. You can't really defend him because he has so many offensive skills and so many ways to score, so it's really hard to defend him. I was just trying to stay in front of him and try to make him make a tough shot and use my length, but I wasn't very successful with that. He had it going."
The Magic, who have lost 17 of their last 19 games, likely will play tonight without wing Arron Afflalo.
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Magic rookie Maurice Harkless had some success defending against Anthony in the teams' first matchup this season, a 99-89 Knicks win on Nov. 13 at Amway Center.
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Louie Bellson Dies: 1924 - 2009
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Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni (6 July 1924 – 14 February 2009), better known by the stage name Louie Bellson (his own preferred spelling, although he is often seen in sources as Louis Bellson), was an Italian-American jazz drummer. He was a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator, and is credited with pioneering the use of two bass drums.
Bellson was an internationally-acclaimed artist who performed in most of the major capitals around the world. Bellson and his first wife, the late actress and singer Pearl Bailey (married 1952-1990), had the second highest number of appearances at the White House (only Bob Hope had more). He was a vice president at Remo, the drum company.
He performed and/or recorded scores of albums (approximately 200) as a leader, co-leader or sideman with such renowned musicians and leaders such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Woody Herman, Norman Granz' J.A.T.P. (Jazz at the Philharmonic), Benny Carter, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum, Dizzy Gillespie, Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, Hank Jones, Zoot Sims, Sonny Stitt, Milt Jackson, Clark Terry, Louie Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Shelly Manne, Billy Cobham, James Brown, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Bennett, Pearl Bailey, Mel Tormé, Joe Williams, Wayne Newton and film composer John Williams.
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On this edition of "Ask the CHCO", host Lauren Larson interviews Catherine Emerson, the Chief Human Capital Officer of the Department of Homeland Security about the scope of human capital at the agency.
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Catherine V. Emerson was appointed as the Department of Homeland Security's Chief Human Capital Officer (CHCO) in August 2011, the first career member of the Senior Executive Service to serve in this role. Ms. Emerson is responsible for the Department's human capital program, which includes recruiting, diversity and inclusion, learning and development, workforce planning, policies, and technology in support of the DHS mission.
During her tenure as CHCO, DHS has markedly improved veterans employment, reduced time to hire, deployed a comprehensive leader development framework, contributed to an initiative to create a highly capable cyber security workforce, enhanced the Department's strategy to address employee engagement, established the first DHS headquarters' anti-harassment unit, and strengthened decision-making around HR Information Technology strategies, which includes significant progress toward consolidating nine learning management systems into one DHS-wide Enterprise Talent Management System.
Before joining DHS, Ms. Emerson was the Assistant Administrator for Human Resource Management at the Federal Aviation Administration. Ms. Emerson advised and assisted the Administrator in directing, coordinating, communicating and leading an effective human resources program that supported a workforce responsible for ensuring the safety and efficiency of the national airspace system.
While employed at the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), she served as the Director of Policy and Performance Management/Chief Human Capital Officer and the Acting Executive Director for the FLRA. From July 2008 to October 2008, she served as the FLRA's administrative head in absence of a presidentially appointed Chairman. Ms. Emerson is the only federal career employee at the FLRA to have performed this function.
Prior to joining the FLRA, Ms. Emerson served as an Assistant Director in the Office of Human Resources, Justice Management Division, U.S. Department of Justice, where in October 2007, she received the Attorney General's John Marshall Award, the Department's highest award presented to attorneys for contributions and excellence in legal performance. While at the Justice Department, Ms. Emerson also received several Justice Management Division Special Commendation Awards.
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Helen Berniece Wilson, of Rolla, passed away Saturday, December 8, 2012 at the age of 78.
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In addition to her parents, Clyde Sneed and Lucy Sneed McCollum, Helen was also preceded in death by four brothers, Roy Ellis, Vernon Sneed, Harvey Sneed and Wayne Blair; and four sisters, Mildred Ellis, Ethel Bullock, Verta Sneed and Velda Clark.
Helen will be sadly missed by her surviving family which includes: her husband, Woodford Wilson of Rolla; four children, Brenda Mittendorf, J.D. Wilson and fiancé Donarae Morrison, Monty Wilson and wife Amy, and Anita Young and husband Johnnie; all of Rolla; three sisters, Irene Heilig of Carthage, MO, Vena Sneed of Ceres, CA and Lois Dill and husband Bill of Grain Valley, MO; nine grandchildren, John Mittendorf, Barbara Southard, Whitney Young, Taylor Young, Stephanie Wilson, Elizabeth Young, Emily Sullivan, Erica Sullivan and Luke Sullivan; three great grandchildren, Zachary Mittendorf, Jasmine and Jamaya Bowman; and special friends, Charles and Kay Rawls.
A funeral service for Helen B. Wilson will be conducted at 11 a.m. on Friday, December 14, 2012 at the Null and Son Funeral Home. Rev. Bob Johnston and Rev. Bruce Clark will officiate. Interment will follow in the Missouri Veteran's Cemetery in Waynesville. A visitation for family and friends will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, December 13 at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the American Cancer Society.
Online condolences may be offered at www.nullandsonfuneralhome.com.
All arrangements are under the direction of the Null and Son Funeral Home of Rolla.


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bada wrote:TMC wrote:migya wrote:Toronto might lose Bosh for nothing.
Not for nothing. It'd be for a sh*tload of cap room, something much more appealing than a couple of scorers with no other skills that can't make their team win.
that is precisely right TMC. The days of making trades for a player because you dont think you can resign him are over. Letting a guy leave and getting that cap space is a much preferred route for teams then getting players back locked into long term deals for big money. A guy like Maggette is a NEGATIVE in a trade, not a positive.
Toronto, if they lose Bosh for nothing, would be real, real awful, likely worst team in the league material. They really need talent, better in the form of good young players. Crawford and Maggette are not winners, we've covered that for months, but they do what they are good at well, which is score and Crawford's contract is not that bad, with only two years left if he doesn't opt out. Maggette's is bad, but it could be worse, as 10 million a year for what he "produces" as a player is not that bad, there are worse. Belinelli or the lottery pick and BW are what is very appealing, especially for the Raps who need quite a few good pieces. Either of the two young players could end up being nothing, but they could well end up being very good players and both have shown very good ability in limited opportunities.
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Re: Bodhisattva Path: Historical Aspects In Theravāda
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 3:55 pm
The post you reference contains no assumption about whose practice is more compassionate.tiltbillings wrote:From the Theravada standpoint, taking the suttas as the touchstone, this analysis is seriously flawed. It seems to assume, though it is unclearly stated in the above, that a bodhisattva practice is more compassionate, more concerned with others welfare than other. There is no justification for such a claim, and the use of the term hinayana, the discarded/abject vehicle, even as suggested above, really only adds confusion, not clarity, to the issue. Basically, from a Theravadin standpoint there is no need to utilize sectarian polemical terms in talking about one's practice.
I disagree with the position that the term "Hinayana" never has its legitimate place in any context. I agree that in a Theravada context the term isn't useful unless one is discussing it as an example of terminology used in other traditions. But when we are speaking of other traditions or other faiths, in a Theravada context, it's important to be appreciative and respectful. One way to be respectful is to understand the terms used in other traditions in the context in which they were intended, and to describe them accordingly. To do otherwise introduces confusion, not clarity, to the issue.


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There is a court of record known as the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. The court is established under article I of the Constitution. The court is located for administrative purposes only in the Department of Defense.
(Added Pub. L. 101–189, div. A, title XIII, § 1301(c), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1570; amended Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title IX, § 924(a)(2), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2831.)
1994—Pub. L. 103–337 substituted "Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces" for "Court of Military Appeals".
Change of Name
Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title IX, § 924(a)(1), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2831, provided that:
"The United States Court of Military Appeals shall hereafter be known and designated as the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces."
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46 Years Ago: Led Zeppelin's First Album Sets the Hard Rock Paradigm
This may seem obvious, but Led Zeppelin's eponymous debut is an album full of firsts, beyond the 'I' frequently tacked onto its title nowadays.
Released in the U.K. on Jan. 12, 1969, 'Led Zeppelin' may not match the historical stature of 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' (nothing in rock does), but it remains the prototypical hard-rock album. It also could well be named the first album of the '70s, aesthetically speaking -- and it's certainly one of the first watershed albums released after the Beatles' Technicolor masterpiece changed, well, everything.
And to think that, less than six months earlier, guitarist and Led-leader Jimmy Page was still figuring out what to do about the fast-disintegrating Yardbirds, and his career, in general. His old band's demise, though it had in fact been coming for quite some time, was finally made official in August of '68. That left Page with nothing but the legal rights to the Yardbirds name and the responsibility of recruiting new musicians capable of fulfilling a slew of pending Scandinavian tour dates.
The sequence of events that followed in quick succession still defies belief.
Follow along with us now: In September, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham duly took Scandinavia by storm billed as the "New Yardbirds," simultaneously trying out new material and testing their mutual on-stage chemistry along the way. In October, the still-as-yet-unnamed group was busy recording these new songs at London's Olympic Studios for the bargain-basement budget of £1,782. In November, and with the help of strong-willed manager Peter Grant, the newly rechristened Led Zeppelin signed a contract with Atlantic Records guaranteeing unprecedented control over their career direction. By early January, 'Led Zeppelin' was released across Europe.
Needless to say, much of the record's unique appeal -- then and now -- emanates from the unbelievably brisk and volatile conditions under which it was created. Therein lies the source of the raw, spontaneous energy that crackles out of its nine combustible tracks, and which determined that 'Led Zeppelin' would become the measuring stick by which all future hard rock albums would be compared. What's more, thanks to the unparalleled creative freedom that Jimmy Page demanded from Atlantic prior to signing on the dotted line along with his band mates, those same nine songs already revealed a band willing to adapt music of every stripe to achieve their high-decibel goals.
There's brutish, thunderous hard rock ('Good Times, Bad Times'), sensitive neo-folk rock ('Babe I'm Gonna Leave You'), lustful Delta blues ('You Shook Me'), nightmare-inducing art rock ('Dazed and Confused'), a vengeful wish softened by hymnal gentility ('Your Time is Gonna Come'), some percussive Irish instrumental folk ('Black Mountain Side'), euphorically heavy, post-garage proto-metal ('Communication Breakdown'), and more blues of both the condensed ('I Can't Quit You Baby') and epic variety as they cobbled spare parts from rock's earliest roots to birth a powerful, modern amalgam ('How Many More Times').
Clearly, if all this comprised the opening salvo of the hard-rock era, is it any wonder so much diversity would eventually fall under that all-too-limited heading? Or that such a small number of future bands came anywhere near to challenging Led Zeppelin's amazing versatility and facility for mixing and hopping hop and between genres, as they please?
'Led Zeppelin' quickly breached the Top 10 in both the U.K. and U.S., where it was unveiled two months later. It also opened the door for countless bands, from Black Sabbath to Deep Purple, who then threw commercial caution to the wind and turned their amplifiers up to 11. Rock would never be the same. But somebody had to get their first -- and that was Led Zeppelin, with this enduring classic of a first album.
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Alumni Library Services
The Mildred F. Sawyer Library is happy to welcome alumni back to campus and to the use of our collection.
We allow alumni to check out any books from our circulating collection or use any reference books, paper, or microform periodicals here in the library. If you are interested in having check-out privileges here at Sawyer Library, you should first obtain an alumni photo ID card. To receive your ID card, visit the security desks at either the Sawyer Building or Sargent Hall. You will need to provide your ID number in order to obtain your card. If you have forgotten your ID number, please email firstname.lastname@example.com with your name, degree, and graduation year.
Once your ID is made, you can use the ID's magnetic strip as a "key" to the Sawyer Library main entrance on Tremont Place (at the back of the Stahl Building at 73 Tremont Street). Make your first stop a visit to the Circulation/Reserves Desk, just to your left as you enter the library. Ask the staff to add or edit your record in our library system. This will allow you to check out books. You cannot check out non-circulating items like reference books and periodicals, nor can you check out reserve books for current classes, check out our student-use laptops, schedule/book a six-seat group study room, or access online journals.
You must be properly entered in the library's administrative system to check out books, as your student ID will have expired.
Please note that the library reserves the right to terminate services to any user—alumni or other—who abuses their library privileges (for example: does not return or damages library materials.)
Mildred F. Sawyer Library Contact Information:Circulation Desk: 617-573-8535
Reference Desk: 617-573-8532
Reference Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Alumni Access to Databases
Our database vendors restrict the access to their products very specifically to current faculty and students here at Suffolk. These legally binding lease agreements cannot be broken, so we regret to say that we cannot offer our electronic resources to our alumni. Public Libraries contract for electronic services specifically for their citizenry, so we would encourage you to explore your options at your local library.
InterLibrary Loan
Unfortunately, we are also unable to offer ILL services to alumni. If you need to find a library in your area that holds a particular book or periodical, you can identify these through WorldCat.


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You know the feeling. You've been faithfully following a 300 page discussion on the message boards, and you really, really, really don't want to have to wade through every page in that thread to get to the the most recent post. So what do you do?
Well, there are a few ways to keep track of a topic and cut straight to the chase.
If you have posted to the discussion, before hitting submit make sure you check the box that says "Notify me when a reply is posted." As long as your email address is up to date in your profile here on the boards, you'll receive an email whenever anyone posts to that same thread. That email will include a link that will take you straight to the new post.
An easier way is to click on the "View Posts Since Last Visit" link at the top right corner of the main page ( http://www.faithwriters.com/Boards/phpB ... d=newposts ) When that page opens, find the discussion you are following. Next to the title there will be a little black arrow pointing to an orange symbol (like a little sheet of paper). Click on that orange symbol, and it will take you to the latest post in that discussion. (Very nifty!)
Another way is to just open the thread you are following and scroll down to the bottom of the page. At the bottom you'll see the option to Display the posts in order of Oldest or Newest. The default setting is oldest, but if you change it to newest, you'll see the most recent post at the top of the page for that discussion.
The second option is probably the easiest of all, but any of these three ways will help make navigating lengthy threads a whole lot easier.


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The West Virginia Eastern Panhandle Beekeepers Association meets the second Thursday of each month. Meetings are held at the Hospice of the Eastern Panhandle. The address is 330 Hospice Ln, Kearneysville, WV 25430. From W.Va. Route 9, take the Short Road exit. If heading east, turn left off of the exit. If traveling west, turn right off of the exit. Follow to the stop light at Sheetz. Turn right. Take the next left across from the Food Lion onto Hospice Lane. Follow the road back to the office and inpatient facility. The office will be on your left, and the inpatient facility will be on your right.


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A provision in the Affordable Care Act will offer substantial tax credits to small-business owners who offer subsidized coverage to their employees. But as with all other things related to the ACA, business owners are taking a wait-and-see approach.
And consultants are encouraging them to stay put until the largest questions surrounding the ACA are resolved.
Take Adam Woods. He thinks he'd qualify for a 50 percent tax credit if he provides insurance to his five Camden Printworks employees — meaning if he spends $1,200 a month on employee health coverage, he'll get a $7,200 tax credit for the year.
But he's not jumping into the online insurance marketplace yet.
"I know other people in business," said Woods, who doesn't currently offer insurance to his workers. "Hopefully, one of them will pull the trigger on it before me, and I'll ask how it went."
That's a typical case. Consultants say the small-business exchange, called SHOP, will start slowly as executives get a sense of how the exchanges will work.
Part of the problem is that small employers are far less likely to offer health insurance than large employers. According to a report by the Kaiser Family Foundation, in 2011, 46.7 percent of New Jersey firms with fewer than 50 employees offered health insurance, compared with 96.5 percent of firms with 50 or more.
The reason, those employers say, is the high costs, a nut the ACA is attempting to crack. Insurers will offer four levels of coverage, both on and off the marketplace, and premiums will vary by the age of the workers in the employer group.
The jury's still out on whether it will work.
"The advice I'm giving my clients is: 'Let's see what the rates look like and how it's going to work on SHOP,' " said Brad Greenbaum, a partner in Altigro Financial Group, of Fairfield.
The SHOP tax credits give employers of fewer than 50 an incentive to offer coverage, but it may be a better deal for lower-wage employees to buy their own government-subsidized policies on the marketplace. Those subsidies phase out at four times the poverty level — about $46,000 a year for an individual.
Larry Altman, vice president of health care reform at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, also thinks the individual exchange will carry more weight than SHOP.
The tax credits for the smallest employers are an incentive, but those credits, "are very restrictive as to which employers can access them," Altman said.
For instance, in a high-wage state like New Jersey, many employers aren't eligible for SHOP incentives, since their average wages exceed $50,000.
Greenbaum said most of his clients have fewer than 50 employees, and are renewing their plans under the state's small-group market.
For the past two decades, that small-group market is where insurers have sold state-regulated coverage to employer groups with two to 50 employees.
If SHOP turns out to be a better deal than the existing small-group market, employers can drop their current health plan and switch to SHOP.
That may be what John O'Connor does.
O'Conner, who owns Shade Tree Garage, in Morristown, said he plans to continue offering coverage to his seven employees. He expects he'd qualify for a tax credit via SHOP, but is waiting to see how things shake out.
If he can keep the coverage he's providing and get a credit, "I'm going to do that in a heartbeat," O'Connor said.
Health insurance, he said, is critical to his workers. "It's a tool that I use to keep and retain good staff," he said. "The last guy I lost left to get a better benefits package."
That worker, O'Connor said, "took a pay cut and went on the night shift" for his new employer in order to get that richer benefits package.


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LOS ANGELES—Just as he had so many times before, Mark Benjamin rode his small jet from a town in the Idaho wilderness he loved to the Southern California airport he knew so well.
The flight went well until, landing into the sunset, it veered off the runway and into a storage hangar.
On Tuesday, forensic specialists worked to identify the remains of four people pulled from the charred wreckage of Benjamin's Cessna 525A. Meanwhile, federal safety investigators curtailed their work due to the partial government shutdown.
The Los Angeles County coroner's office took the remains from the aircraft at Santa Monica Municipal Airport and tried to match dental X-rays with X-rays of people believed to be aboard, Lt. Fred Corral said. That process could be completed Wednesday.
Among the likely deceased were Benjamin, CEO of Morley Builders, and his son, Luke Benjamin, a senior project manager with the company. According to the company's website, past projects include Southern California landmarks such as the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the Getty Villa art museum and parts of the Hollywood Bowl.
"We are heartbroken at the loss of Mark Benjamin and his son Lucas in a tragic accident," Charles Muttillo, the firm's vice president said in a written statement.
It was not immediately clear who the other two dead people were. Also recovered were the remains of two cats and a dog.
Several people who knew Mark Benjamin told The Associated Press he would typically pilot the plane between Santa Monica and Hailey, Idaho, though they did not know whether Benjamin was at the controls Sunday.
Mark Benjamin lived in Malibu but would frequently spend weekends in the outdoors that he loved around the Sun Valley area of Idaho, said longtime friend John French of Ketchum, Idaho.
French, also a pilot, said that Benjamin started flying the Cessna about six years ago.
"He flew a lot," French said. "He was not a casual pilot."
Benjamin was an avid nature photographer who would rise early to make pictures while others slept, French said. He also loved the stars, and built a home in Ketchum with a retractable roof so that a large telescope could take in the night sky. His other son, Matt, works at the University of Colorado planetarium.
An active philanthropist, Benjamin had a particular interest in nature conservation and youth programs. Executives with the Idaho Conservation League and the Boys & Girls Club of Malibu praised a man they said practiced generosity for its own sake—not the recognition some seek. After listening intently, he often would conclude a group discussion with a trenchant suggestion or observation, friends said.
During Sunday's flight, there was "no communication with the pilot indicting there's a problem with the aircraft at any time," Van McKenny, lead investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, said Monday.
The investigation was affected by the federal government shutdown that began late Monday on the West Coast.
Investigators gathered all evidence that could not be preserved from the active accident scene and then left Tuesday morning. The plane was taken off site for potential future investigation, acting airport manager Stelios Makrides said. Soon after, the airport reopened to plane traffic Tuesday afternoon.
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The Bayside Sentinel
The north half of the downtown block bounded by Forest Ave., Cumberland, and Casco is a "telco hotel" owned by Fairpoint - a complex of large buildings filled with telecommunications equipment and servers. I don't think that the microwave tower on top has an official name, but it's a local landmark and deserves to be called something. The Bayside Brainmelter? The Dishrack? Please leave suggestions in the comments.
Inspired by Burrito Justice's animated GIF of the Sutro Tower.


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March 30. 2013 7:55PM
Dave D'Onofrio's Sox Beat: There are low expectations for the 2013 version of Red Sox
By DAVE D'ONOFRIO
Special to The Sunday News
It was only a year ago when - even after the previous September's collapse, after revelations of rampant dysfunction, after Terry Francona's firing, after Bobby Valentine's hiring, and after making no major changes to the product on the field - the Red Sox were still considered a contender. Maybe even a favorite.
It was only a year ago when Baseball Prospectus, a stats-based site that looks at the game through the lens of Sabermetrics, published its predictions for the 2012 season, and 18 of the 27 participants projected the Sox to make the playoffs. Five had them winning the American League East, in fact, while nobody had them finishing any worse than third in the division.
A year later, though, BP's soothsayers see things quite a bit differently. Of the 42 prognosticators, only four see Boston reaching the postseason. Only one thinks the Sox will win the East. As many people think Boston will finish fourth as think they'll finish first, second or third - 18 each - and six more think the Sox are headed for the division's basement. Again.
Those aren't pessimists or outliers, either. Peek around at various predictions, and it's obvious that after going 76-113 in their last seven months of baseball, expectations for the season that starts in the Bronx on Monday are as low for the local nine as they've been in at least a decade. For the first time since 2002, or maybe longer, the Sox aren't looked at as a legitimate championship contender.
And their fans should embrace it.
They shouldn't embrace it because it would become an us-against-the-world, nobody-thought-we-could-do-it story. They shouldn't embrace it because any level of success after a 69-93 campaign would inevitably feel something like a tale of rags to riches.
Rather, they should embrace it because for the first time in a long time the pressure is off. After hanging on every outcome, every inning, every pitch for the better part of a decade, and obsessing over every stumble, Red Sox fans finally have an opportunity to enjoy baseball for what it is again - understandingly riding the ebbs and the flows, living with the failures while loving the successes, and appreciating the process as much as the payout.
This isn't to suggest Red Sox Nation should be any less passionate, or that winning should be any less of a priority. Instead, it's simply to suggest that without the burden of pennant-or-bust expectations fans can once again find daily pleasures in following the team through spring and summer without the angst and worry that come with knowing they'll ultimately be unsatisfied if it doesn't all end under a champagne shower come fall.
The consensus is that this one won't for Boston - but most believe they should at least be competitive. And as long as that's true they should actually, in spite of their shortcomings, be more likeable than some of the other recent iterations.
Though certainly more talented, Red Sox teams of the past couple seasons have provoked questions about the players' commitment, and how much they cared, but Meriden-bred general manager Ben Cherington made a point this offseason of acquiring players who have built their careers on passion and character.
He targeted guys, like Jonny Gomes, David Ross, Ryan Dempster and Mike Napoli, who not only have the attitude and approach it takes to be successful in a baseball-crazed city like Boston - but who actually want to be here.
They should help reset the culture of a clubhouse that was sour by the end of 2011, then a circus for much of 2012, though that process will be first and foremost spearheaded by John Farrell. Tactically speaking he left Toronto with questions about his ability to manage a game, but he commands respect as an authority figure, is willing to be aggressive in both his strategy and his thinking, and in replacing Valentine he represents a beacon of hope for any fan who wants the Red Sox to be more than merely a nightly docudrama.
The emphasis of his first spring training has been putting the focus on the field - on baseball - and given the way this team has struggled with fundamentals and seen good players swallowed by the scene in recent years, that approach has a chance to render some refreshing results.
If it does, the stories and the storylines will be about what happens between the lines, instead of what's unfolding behind the scenes - and with the Sox those might be the compelling subplots of all. There's Jon Lester looking to return to form. There's Clay Buchholz's quest to build on last year's strong second half, and leap into the elite. There's Jacoby Ellsbury trying to prove his MVP-caliber 2011 campaign was more rule than exception. There's Dustin Pedroia's never-ending mission to prove people wrong.
There's Will Middlebrooks trying to take the next step. There's Joel Hanrahan trying to show he can close in the AL East. There's Andrew Bailey trying to show he can close somewhere. There's John Lackey looking for redemption. There's Napoli and Stephen Drew each playing for his next deal. There's Shane Victorino and David Ortiz each trying to earn his current one. There's Jackie Bradley Jr. attempting to forge a bridge for a new generation of Sox now just a year or two away.
Chances are all of that isn't going to happen. If it does, Boston might actually prove those naysaying prognosticators; and even if it doesn't, it should still stick around a while in a mediocre division.
Just don't go in expecting the Sox to win it.
The summer will be much more fun that way.
Dave D'Onofrio covers the Red Sox for the New Hampshire Union Leader and Sunday News. His e-mail address is


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|Written by
|Denny Zeitlin
|Easy Reader Music
A series of animated counting films were used on Sesame Street produced during the first season. From two to ten, for each film, the songs are individually registered as "Jazz #x," where x is the featured number.
The segments, featuring race cars and spies, were shown regularly from 1969 to 1991, with vocals provided by Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane. The first segment, "Jazz #2", debuted in the first test pilot, and was first broadcast in the first episode of the series. Jazz #3 appeared in the second test show.
Composer Denny Zeitlin remembers:
"John Magnuson of Imagination, Inc. hired me to compose and perform that soundtrack, which is called "1 to 10". I'm playing piano and clavinet on it, with Bobby Natanson on drums, and Mel Graves, bass. Some time after we recorded it, Grace Slick over-dubbed her parts.[1]"
Jazz #8 was often followed by an Ernie and Bert sketch, where they play the "Sandbox" game. It begins with Ernie watching (and singing along to) the end of the segment on his TV.
The film for #2 was included on Old School: Volume 1, as part of episodes 1 and 536, and in Old School: Volume 2, as part of the test pilot. The film for #10 was included in the Sesame Street Unpaved special.
During the early years of Sesame Street, these cartoons were also shown dubbed in Spanish. On the Shalom Sesame videos, Hebrew dubbed versions of #4, #6 and #8 appear, respectively, on Show 3: Kibbutz, Show 5: Jerusalem, and Show 6: Chanukah. The Sesame Street Unpaved book features stills of the race cars on the first page of each chapter. #4 and #7 can both be viewed at Sesamestreet.org. The spies from these segments appear on the cover of The Sesame Street Book of Numbers.
Episode numbers denote first appearance according to the CTW Archives.
- 2 (First: Episode 0001)
- cyclist, 2 elevator doors, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, 2 shaking hands, 2 fish, 2 people shoot at each other (paper rolls that say "2" come out of their guns)
- 3 (First: Episode 0002)
- racecar driver, 3-headed creature (with 3 teeth), 3 balls, 3 holes, 3 mice, 3 lights on a traffic light, 3-pronged pitchfork held by the Devil
- 4 (First: Episode 0006)
- hockey player, 4 airplanes, 4 diamonds on a playing card, 4 fish, 4-legged table, 4-legged chair, 4 elephants
- 5 (First: Episode 0007)
- football player, 5 fingers, 5 animals, 5 butterflies, 5 cents on a gumball machine, 5 gumballs, 5 guys riding on an alligator
- 6 (First: Episode 0011)
- train, 6 dots on a die, 6-legged insect, 6 pairs of legs on a dragon that is revealed to be 6 men in a dragon costume
- 7 (First: Episode 0012)
- runner, wizard with 7 rabbits, boxing turtle, 7 of clubs on a playing card, 7 flying clubs
- 8 (First: Episode 0016)
- 8 ball, octopus, 8 marching dogs, 8-petaled flower, which is eaten by an 8-legged creature, which is eaten by an 8-legged spider, which is swallowed by a snake
- 9 (First: Episode 0137)
- a guy jumping into a bucket, 9-paned window, 9 hats worn by 9 kids, 9 apples, 9 hearts, dancing goat
- 10 (First: Episode 0193)
- guy holding a flag with "10" on it, 10 cars in a race, 10 dogs, 10 feathers on a peacock, 10 spies on the racetrack, #10 driver wins the race
- ↑ Denny Zeitlin, personal communication with Heather F. (User:Raposofan), May 29, 2007. See talk page for full e-mail.


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Online car-buying firm agrees to more transparent pricing
OFT found webuyanycar.com staff got bonuses for undervaluing cars
An online car-buying company has agreed to change the way it operates after consumer regulator the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) said that was not transparent with customers about its pricing.
A year-long OFT study revealed that nearly 96 per cent of people who sold their cars to webuyanycar.com received less for their vehicle than the original online valuation.
The OFT found that We Buy Any Car Ltd's pricing practices may breach aspects of two regulations, the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 and the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999.
The firm give the impression that their online valuation of a vehicle is the price a customer can expect to receive, whereas the car's final valuation is subject to amendment following a visual inspection, the OFT said.
The OFT found that staff conducting the inspections were able to secure larger performance-related bonuses for re-appraising the value of cars to lower prices, which the OFT said had the potential to encourage unfair conduct.
The investigation found that We Buy Any Car's online valuation was not valid only for the seven day period as stated, and that the final price customers could expect from the sale of their car was subject to road tax refund being deducted, which the OFT said the firm had failed to make clear during the initial online valuation stage.
We Buy Any Car had also "failed to assess customer complaints in a fair, reasonable, consistent and professional manner," said the OFT report.
We Buy Any Car Ltd signed undertakings to address OFT's concerns. It has promised to make it clear to the customer that the final price for a vehicle will be decided following an onsite inspection.
We Buy Any Car will also inform customers at least 24 hours in advance of an appointment that their vehicle's valuation has been reduced for market reasons, and will address its bonus procedures to ensure employees do not stand to gain by artificially undervaluing cars, according to the undertakings.
Copyright © 2011, OUT-LAW.com
OUT-LAW.COM is part of international law firm Pinsent Masons.


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GCBC is an umbrella organization made up of the top business leaders in the three coastal counties along with member organizations initially including the Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson County Chambers, and Partners of Stennis. There individual groups continue their county/local programs of work benefiting their membership and communities.
Brown, Mitchell & Alexander, Inc.
Allen Beverages, Inc.
Superintendent, Jackson County School District
Roy Anderson Corporation
Mississippi Gulf Coast Convention & Visitors Bureau
Harrison County School District
Northern Gulf Institute, MS State University
Mississippi Power
Bailey Bailey Lumber & Home Center
Coast Coca-Cola Bottling Company
University of Southern Mississippi
Merrill-Lynch/Bank of America
Southern MS Planning & Development District
Charles Benvenutti, CPA
FEB Distributing Company, Inc.
MS Secretary of State's Office
Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes, PLLC
Gerald Blessey Law Firm
City of Pascagoula
Crown Leisure Marine
Merit Health Biloxi
Diamond Capital Insurance & Financial Services, LLC
EPA-Gulf of Mexico Program
William Carey University – Tradition Campus
City of Moss Point
Trustmark National Bank
The Focus Group
Byrd & Wiser Law Firm
Columbus Communities, LLC dba Tradition
Hollywood Casino
Scranton's Restaurant & Catering
Chevron Products Company
Coast Transit Authority
Naomi's Catering
Triton Systems
Hancock Co. Board of Supervisors
Charter Bank
C Spire Wireless
Ingalls Shipbuilding
Jackson County Board of Supervisors
Cumbest Realty, Inc.
Merchants & Marine Bank
Mississippi State Port Authority at Gulfport
Hancock County School District
Specialty Contractors & Associates, Inc.
MS Gulf Coast YMCA
Blossman Gas
MS Combat Readiness Training Center – ANG
Gulfport School District
Keesler Air Force Base – 81st Training Wing
Hancock County Port & Harbor Commission
WXXV-TV Fox 25
Estabrook Ford
Memorial Hospital Foundation
City of Bay St. Louis
CenterPoint Energy
Horne LLP
Office of U. S. Senator Thad Cochran
Jackson Co. Economic Development Foundation
Lamar Advertising
Naval Meteorology & Oceanographic Command
Design Studio of Frank Genzer, Architect
NASA / John C. Stennis Space Center
City of Biloxi
Beau Rivage Resort & Casino
City of Gautier
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
The Guice Agency
Rushing & Guice, PLLC
Hancock Bank
Covington Civil & Environmental LLC
Long Beach School District
Naval Construction Battalion Center
Eley Guild Hardy Architects
Hardy & Associates Architect, PLLC
Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC
Golden Nugget Casino Hotel-Biloxi
The Ad Group
Nicholson & Company, PLLC
Heidelberg, Steinberger, Colmer & Burrow, P.A.
Harrison County Development Commission
City of Gulfport
Office of U. S. Senator Roger Wicker
Mississippi Enterprise for Technology, Inc.
Mississippi Hotel & Lodging Association
Ingalls Shipbuilding
Jakubik Enterprises
Dale Partners Architects P.A.
Corso, Inc.
Pass Christian Public School District
Regions Bank
AGJ Systems & Networks, Inc.
Harrah's Gulf Coast
Clearwater Solutions, LLC
John McDonald Realty
Dukes Dukes Keating and Faneca, PA
Mercedes-Benz & Volkswagen of South Mississippi
City of Gulfport
Catholic Diocese of Biloxi
Bay-Waveland School District
Jones Walker Law Firm
Corporate Management, Inc.
Gulf Coast Renaissance Corporation
Pascagoula River Audubon Center
Hancock Bank
Regional Steward
Luckey & Mullins, PLLC
Southeast Commercial Real Estate
Machado|Patano Engineering
Island View Casino & Resort
Rex Distributing Company, Inc.
Rex Distributing Company, Inc.
Memorial Hospital at Gulfport
William Carey University – Tradition Campus
Don Mason Consulting
Port of Pascagoula
Aerojet Rocketdyne – Stennis Space Center
City of Pass Christian
Mississippi Coast Coliseum & Convention Center
American Red Cross, South Mississippi Chapter
Boyd Gaming-IP Casino Resort & Spa
Biloxi School District
1108th AVCRAD (Div. of MS Army Nat'l Guard)
Gulfport Premium Outlets
MS Dept. of Marine Resources
Ocean Springs Chamber of Commerce
University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast
USM – Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
Habitat for Humanity Mississippi Gulf Coast, Inc.
City of Ocean Springs
Office of U. S. Congressman Steven Palazzo
Gulf Coast Women's Center for Nonviolence
Mississippi Center for Justice
The Nature Conservancy
The Sun Herald
Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce
Pinion Properties, LLC
Digital Engineering & Imaging, Inc.
Bruno Event Team / MS Gulf Resort Classic
Coast Electric Power Association
Bradford O'Keefe Funeral Homes, Inc.
Wells Fargo Bank N.A.
Butch Oustalet Ford Lincoln
Mississippi Main Street Association
The Payne Group
NASA / John C. Stennis Space Center
Page, Mannino, Peresich & McDermott, LLC
Horne LLP
Eco-Restore LLC. / Wetlands Solutions
Potter Superintendent, Ocean Springs School District
City of D'Iberville
BP America
1108th AVCRAD (Div. of MS Army Nat'l Guard)
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Biloxi
Richer Advisors
Harrison County Board of Supervisors
Pascagoula School District
Goodwill Industries of South MS, Inc.
Cardinal Group, LLC
Brown & Brown
City of Diamondhead
Regional Steward
Partners for Stennis
Boyd Gaming – IP Casino Resort & Spa
Ingalls Shipbuilding
The Citizens Bank
Wise Carter Child & Caraway, P.A.
City of Long Beach
Harrison County District Attorney
Coldwell Banker-United Realtors
City of Waveland
Stewart Sneed Hewes
International Fisheries Development Services
MS Dept. of Marine Resources
St. Pe' & Associates, LLC
Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain
Balch & Bingham LLP
Eagle Enterprises, LLP
Salvation Army
Chevron Products Company
M2 Media Corp
The Peoples Bank
Jackson County Chamber of Commerce
Gulfport Main Street Association
Regional Steward
Treasure Bay Casino
Moss Point School District
Gulf States Engineering
Hancock Bank
Waggoner Engineering
United Way of South Mississippi
Garden Park Medical Center
Warr Properties
Warr Properties
Warren Paving, Inc.
Regional Steward
Regional Steward
Community Development Corporation dba Café Climb
Copeland, Cook, Taylor & Bush, P.A.
Innovation Center
Gulf Coast Community Foundation
Gulf Regional Planning Commission
Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport
Community Bank
Hilton Garden Inn – Pascagoula
Hancock County Chamber of Commerce
Mississippi Power Company
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Yates Construction


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The summit will bring together national security experts to educate and train those who work to keep America safe, both at home and abroad. Participating members include members of the military, law enforcement, emergency-response agencies and the intelligence community, according to organizers.
The summit is a private event that will run through Nov. 2.
As a result, Paradise Point will be closed to the general public through mid-afternoon on Nov. 2. The two public parking lots east and west of the property will also be closed to the public during the event.
Summit delegates will observe live-action demonstrations conducted jointly with Strategic Operations, a military training company that has provided pre-deployment training to more than 600,000 military personnel in the last decade. Strategic Operations is affiliated with Stu Segall Productions, one of the largest independent TV/movie studios in the country.
These demonstrations will include ground-level pyrotechnic effects and simulated munitions fire to replicate real-world scenarios where responders and operators can observe training techniques safely in a controlled environment. All events are acoustically designed to be fully contained within Paradise Point, organizers said. Should any sound leave the property, it will be within the noise levels allowed under the city's municipal code.
Organizers also stressed the training poses no danger or hazard to the public. Demonstrations are scheduled for
Oct. 30, Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 at about 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. and will last less than an hour in duration.
The Oct. 30 scenario features a downed-pilot rescue, and will include a team of former Navy SEALs parachuting onto Paradise Point (weather permitting). Persons in the vicinity of Paradise Point and surrounding areas may witness the skydiving activity at around 4:30 p.m.
"San Diego has a proud history of leadership in providing some of the finest military and law enforcement training in the world," said Brad Barker, president of the HALO Corporation, which is organizing the summit. "With the summit, we hope to play our part in providing vital resources that mitigate the risk and impact of terrorist and criminal threats, natural disasters and manmade events. Servicemembers, law enforcement officers and emergency responders at all levels will have the opportunity to collaborate with their counterparts and receive valuable training that will keep our communities and citizens safer, whether locally, nationally or abroad."
The HALO Counter-Terrorism Summit draws the best and brightest minds from national security, including keynote speakers like former CIA and NSA director Gen. Michael Hayden; Mexico's Secretary of the Interior Alejandro Poiré Romero; and Deputy Chief Michael Downing, the commanding officer of the LAPD's Counterterrorism and Special Operations Bureau.
The keynote speaker for the summit will be Cindy Hensley McCain, a humanitarian, businesswoman and wife of U.S. Sen. John McCain. McCain will call for greater awareness of one of the largest criminal industries in the world — human trafficking — and share her personal insight and experiences with the issue and speak about measures designed to help eradicate human trafficking worldwide.
For more information, visit www.thehalosummit.com.


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About 53 percent of all San Joaquin County homes sold in the third quarter were foreclosure sales, but that is a 17 percent decrease from the third quarter of 2011, Irvine-based RealtyTrac reported Wednesday.
About 53 percent of all San Joaquin County homes sold in the third quarter were foreclosure sales, but that is a 17 percent decrease from the third quarter of 2011, Irvine-based RealtyTrac reported Wednesday.
Statewide foreclosure-related sales decreased 12 percent on a year-over-year basis, but those sales still accounted for 36 percent of all residential sales, the second-highest percentage of any state.
Foreclosure-related sales accounted for 54 percent of all residential sales in Modesto, the highest percentage of any of the nation's 100 largest metropolitan statistical areas in terms of population.
Six other California metro areas, including Stockton, were in the top 10 in terms of percentage of foreclosure-related sales: Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, 47 percent; Sacramento, 40 percent; Bakersfield, 39 percent; Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, 36 percent; and Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, 34 percent.
The average sales price for a foreclosure sale in the third quarter was $178,909 in San Joaquin County, roughly the same as in the second-quarter price but about 8.5 percent higher than in the third quarter of 2011.
Nationwide, RealtyTrac said foreclosure-related sales accounted for 19 percent of all U.S. residential sales during the third quarter - down from 20 percent in the previous quarterbut the same level as in the third quarter of 2011.
Counter to the trend in recent years, sales of properties in some stage of foreclosure (pre-foreclosure sales) outnumbered sales of foreclosed, bank-owned properties in the third quarter. A total of 98,125 pre-foreclosure sales occurred during the quarter, compared with 94,934 bank-owned sales.
"The shift toward earlier disposition of distressed properties continued in the third quarter as both lenders and at-risk homeowners are realizing that short sales are often a better alternative than foreclosure," said Daren Blomquist, vice president of RealtyTrac.
"However, the scheduled expiration of the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act at the end of this year could stifle this trend toward short sales," Blomquist added. "If that law expires as scheduled, home-owners who agree to a short sale could see their income tax jump significantly, because the portion of the unpaid loan balance not covered by the short-sale proceeds will be considered taxable income in many cases.
"The prospect of being taxed on potentially tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income may motivate more distressed homeowners to forgo a short sale and allow the home to be foreclosed," Blomquist said.
And the possibility of lawmakers and the White House letting the nation go over the so-called "fiscal cliff" in January has added another stress factor to already distressed homeowners.
"If the mortgage interest deduction is eliminated due to the fiscal cliff quagmire, it would give many underwater and otherwise distressed homeowners one less reason to hang on to their homes," Blomquist said.


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SXSW Threatens YXYY With Trademark Infringement
from the can't-we-all-get-along? dept
So, it's a bit distressing to find out that SXSW decided to get trademark bullyish and send YXYY a cease and desist. While it was a somewhat more friendly cease and desist (not sent by a lawyer, but still implying legal action) claiming that the name violates SXSW's trademarks and could "cause confusion or dilution of the SXSW marks." I don't see how it would cause confusion, given that YXYY was always pretty clear that it was not associated with SXSW directly. And the "dilution" claim seems pretty weak as well (admittedly: I've long argued that dilution claims shouldn't be included in trademark law, but they do exist).
Either way, the YxYY have agreed to modify their name slightly, keeping the YxYY, but now claiming that the "x" refers to "and" rather than "by." So it's now "Yes And Yes Yes." As they point out, this is also a bit of a play on the standard improv rule of "yes and..." which fits with the more improvisational nature of the event. It's unclear from the announcement if the SXSW folks find this an acceptable change, but I certainly hope they do. SXSW is a mammoth event and it's kind of silly to think that its brand would be in any way harmed by another event -- clearly inspired by SXSW -- that happened to use YxYY to mark its own event.


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