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Fund Co-Founder Sentenced in Insider Case
Chiasson's Prison Term of 6½ Years Is Among the Harshest Handed Down in Government's Four-Year-Long Crackdown
Anthony Chiasson's resume includes stints as an altar boy and a hedge-fund manager. Now it will have a new entry: inmate.
A federal judge sentenced Mr. Chiasson Monday to 6½ years behind bars, one of the harshest terms handed down since prosecutors began a crackdown on insider trading on Wall Street nearly four years ago.
The sentencing represents a dramatic fall for Mr. Chiasson, who rose from a research analyst at Salomon Brothers in 1995, secured a coveted position at hedge-fund firm SAC Capital Advisors LP and co-founded his own fund, Level Global Investors, which at one point had $4 billion in assets under management.
Mr. Chiasson was convicted last year of using inside information from a member of what prosecutors called a "criminal club" of hedge-fund analysts who shared secrets about technology companies, including Dell Inc., that prosecutors said led to about $68 million in illegal profits for his fund.
U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan said he struggled to understand why the 40-year-old defendant engaged in the crime considering he was already "fabulously wealthy." Mr. Chiasson's tax returns at the time of the crimes showed he was making between $10 million and $23 million a year, the judge said.
"It's hard to image why someone would risk all that to engage in a crime such as this," said the judge, who also ordered Mr. Chiasson to pay a fine of $5 million.
Prosecutors alleged that improper trading by Mr. Chiasson's firm was some of the largest discovered in their efforts to root out insider trading, a crime they say is particularly hard to uncover. A lengthy sentence was necessary to discourage others, they added.
Since August, 2009, federal prosecutors in Manhattan and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have brought charges against 81 people and secured guilty pleas or convictions from 73 of them.
Mr. Chiasson's lawyers asked for leniency, arguing that the alleged profits from the trades didn't reflect how much he actually realized and improperly skewed the sentencing guidelines in his case. They also pointed to Mr. Chiasson's service as a trustee at his alma maters.
"Let actual conduct be the measure of the man and not how much money," said Greg Morvillo, Mr. Chiasson's lawyer.
The sentence could have been much worse. He faced up to 10 years in prison under federal sentencing guidelines. The judge also allowed Mr. Chiasson to remain free for slightly longer than normal at the request of his lawyers so that he can help his wife sell their Manhattan apartment and get their 9-year-old son settled in a new school. The couple also has a 13-month old child.
Mr. Chiasson's family plans to relocate from Manhattan to a community hopefully within easy travel distance of where he ultimately serves his sentence, his lawyers said.
Mr. Chiasson will have 90 days to get his affairs in order before reporting to prison, the judge said, unless the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals grants him bail pending his expected appeal.
Todd Newman, a former portfolio manager at hedge fund Diamondback Capital Management LLC, who was convicted along with Mr. Chiasson of conspiracy and multiple counts of securities fraud in December, was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison earlier this month. Prosecutors alleged that Messrs. Chiasson and Newman traded on inside information they received from a corrupt group of analysts who regularly shared such information.
Level Global agreed in April to pay more than $21.5 million to resolve civil allegations by the Securities and Exchange Commission related to the trades. The fund, which is in the process of winding down, neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing in reaching the settlement.
Mr. Chiasson rose from humble beginnings in Portland, Maine. He was the youngest of four children. His parents divorced when he was 7, and his mother found work as an assistant librarian at Cheverus High School. After leaving Merrill Lynch & Co., Mr. Chiasson moved to Steven A. Cohen's SAC Capital in 1999, where he worked as a research analyst.
Mr. Chiasson's conviction last year has been particularly hard on his friends and family, who still view Mr. Chiasson as a man of integrity, according to letters submitted to the court on his behalf.
"I confess I do not understand most of the details of the crime Anthony has been convicted of. However, what I do understand is that I think this trial was ultimately about cheating," his mother, Lucille Chiasson, wrote. "As I reflect back on Anthony's life, the thing that remains most unbelievable to me about this nightmare that has consumed our family is that cheating is so out of character with the way Anthony has lived his life."
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This morning the Reds finally made their debut on some hot new platform called, coughs Twitter. Yep head to @manutd and you can get all the latest updates from the Manc club.
The first uplifting tweet is this
New era, same spirit. The season starts here. Let's do this. #mufc
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) July 10, 2013
Then came two more promising iconic imagery and amazing content.
An hour after its launch the club had almost 100,000 followers. Expect that to be closer to three million by the end of the day.
So that's Twitter sorted them, how about YouTube?

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Clemson Public Service and Agriculture and the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences have a long record of leadership in water resources and watershed issues in South Carolina. We provide teaching, research and Extension in such water-based environmental and ecological sciences as watershed management, surface hydrology, groundwater dynamics, soil and water conservation, stormwater control, water quality protection, and numerous applied issues related to agricultural practices.
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The SCWRC serves as a research facilitator through our two annual USGS grants competition and by operating as a catalyst for research and educational projects and programs across South Carolina. The Water Center also serves as a conduit for information necessary in the resource management decision-making arena as well as the water policy arena of the state.
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If you have already checked to make sure your realm is up, yes I did this noob thing once. The first thing to do is to contact Blizzard. If you have already tried to retrieve your password and that route did not work (which most likely won't because the hacker will burn the retrieve password try so they can have time to do what they do) get to Blizzard support and report your account as hacked.
Once you have your password back and your account has been reactivated, open up an in game ticket to get the items and money that you have lost back.
Beside that, it is a waiting game and a pain that nobody wants to go through. What you need to do actually is to prepare so it does not happen ever again.
It begins with a strong password. If you know what that is, you are a minority, if you don't read this guide I wrote. The stronger your password is, the better chance you have to keep it intact… however, something that most people forget is to have a different password for different accounts. I am not talking about just WoW accounts, I am talking about e-mail, bank, forums, etc.
Once someone has one of your passwords, the first thing they are going to try after they have cleaned your bank out is to see if they can get into other accounts. Some of these people work on networks of hackers and a password can be a powerful thing for them specially as you sleep after an all night raid.
The second step towards having a hack free life is to have software and hardware protecting you. You need an antivirus at the very minimum, but a firewall, spyware and process watcher don't hurt either.
I like Spybot, AdAware, AVG and a hardware firewall. I have several computers and devices that need internet connection so I had to buy a router anyway. If you buy one, make sure that it comes with a firewall it is worth the extra money in my opinion. Also your best tool is knowledge, learn about what a keylogger is and what it can do.
So once you have determined that your account has been hacked, get to the bottom of how they got into it. See if there are keyloggers or other Trojans in your computer and eliminate them before you get back into the game full swing. See if you can backtrack where the problem started, Did I download a new program lately? What new websites did I visit? Did I follow a link that seemed to take me nowhere?
Do not buy gold online, as tempting as it might be. Do not follow spam messages in game either. Find trusted places to get information from like Alterac Volley which has excellent, easy to follow money making guides. Visit big sites for information (Tankspot, Elitist Jerks, WoWInsider, MMO Champion) and search their forums rather than searching the internet as a whole where a hacker can be just one click away.
Always be aware of URLs. The internet addresses can be masked to show no extensions of what you are actually going to execute or have redirects, but you need to make sure you are not about to download an executable program. If you receive an e-mail from someone you know, but it is in any way out of character, do not click on anything or launch videos or programs from it. Even if it is the funniest thing in the world, have your friend tell you what is about or tell you where it is on youtube.
Protect yourself and your guild, because as the people that have experienced this issue, the hackers will take as much as they can before they are detected. It is a sad reality of the internet that there are people out there trying to get something for nothing.


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Just about everyone in official Washington is in agreement that big across-the-board spending cuts at the Pentagon and throughout domestic federal programs on March 1 are a bad idea.
So far, however, the warring tribes in the nation's capital seem more interested in finger-pointing than problem-solving.
Top House Republicans have embarked on a PR campaign reminding the public that the idea for the across-the-board cuts originated in Obama's White House.
Senate Democrats are preparing a bill to substitute about $120 billion in alternative deficit cuts over 10 years and prevent the automatic cuts -- in Washington parlance, a sequester -- through the end of calendar 2013. Its biggest component is a $47 billion tax increase on the rich; that is sure to prompt a GOP filibuster, probably successful, that will give Democrats political cover -- and ammo.
"We again find ourselves in sad and familiar territory," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. "Democrats sit on their hands until the last minute. Then they offer some gimmicky bill designed to fail."
Then there's President Barack Obama. He appeared before reporters at the White House last week to urge lawmakers to come up with a short-term plan to avoid the sequester. But Obama offered nothing specific, even though there are plenty of options at the ready after several recent rounds of failed Washington budget negotiations.
House Republicans do not have a plan to shut off the cuts and instead point to a spending cut bill that passed twice last year, most recently by a slender 215-209 vote in December. The GOP now controls eight fewer seats in the House and there's hardening sentiment among some tea party Republicans to allow the automatic cuts to take effect. It's not clear whether GOP leaders like Speaker John Boehner of Ohio could muster enough support to stop them.
The Senate bill would replace the automatic spending cuts with a tax increase patterned after the so-called Buffett Rule, which would require people with million-dollar incomes to pay a minimum 30 percent income tax. The rule is named after billionaire Warren Buffett, who championed it on the grounds that it wasn't fair for his secretary to pay a higher effective tax rate than him. That's because taxes on most earned or wage income are generally higher than taxes on investments.
The Buffett rule was a wedge issue in last year's campaign and was rejected by Senate Republicans in April. It's sure to prompt Republicans to scuttle the upcoming Democratic bill in a filibuster vote expected to be held just days before the cuts take effect March 1.
All sides now think Washington is inevitably drifting into the sequester trap. Everyone's sticking to their positions. It's as if the only way out of the crisis is to stumble into it -- and hope the resulting political heat drives the battling sides to compromise.
Republicans say the moment calls for presidential leadership.
"The president warned of grave economic consequences if the sequester were to go into effect, but he didn't announce any specific plans for how he would address it," Boehner told reporters last week. "He didn't bother to actually outline how he would replace the sequester that he suggested and insisted upon."
Senior White House aide Jason Furman said last week that any short-term plan should include "a balanced combination of spending and revenue measures." He would not elaborate. Nor have Obama and Boehner talked recently, other than pleasantries at the inauguration. Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., haven't been in touch either, even as the cuts loom ever closer.
The idea for the sequester came from the White House during negotiations in the summer of 2011 to increase the government's borrowing cap. Then, the White House pushed it as a way to avoid a second vote to increase debt limit that would have occurred in the middle of Obama's reelection campaign.
Whatever their reservations, top Republicans voted for the idea.
The sequester was intended to be so harsh that its prospect would drive a deficit-cutting "supercommittee" created by those talks toward an agreement. It did not.
The cuts were originally due to hit Jan. 1 but lawmakers gave themselves a two-month reprieve in last month's deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff.
Many Republicans see the prospect of the sequester as their best chance to force Obama to agree to cuts in government benefit programs like Medicare, and some tea party Republicans are willing to absorb the sequester cuts if he won't go along. GOP leaders across the board say they won't agree to tax increases demanded by Democrats as part of any solution.
Obama carries the power of his office and the fact that he's more popular with the public than Capitol Hill Republicans into the battle. So Republicans already have been working overtime to remind voters that the sequester idea came from Obama's administration. Still, blaming the president for something some GOP members are embracing promises to be a tightrope exercise for Republican leaders.
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The T-SQL user-defined function (UDF) named dbo.occurrences performs a simple arithmetic calculation to determine how many times a substring appears in a source string. Although this UDF is written for Microsoft SQL Server 2005, SP1, you can make it work on Microsoft SQL Server 2000 by changing the data type of two parameters.
Querying data is one thing; getting that data into a text file programmatically is another. SQL Server ships with two excellent command-line utilities—bcp and osql—that you can use to query a database and save the results to a file. However, if you aren't familiar with these two utilities, you might find their many command-line options daunting.
I wrote a stored procedure, sp_Query2File, that can help you quickly get your data into the file of your choice, without having to remember lots of command-line options. This stored procedure consolidates the basic functions of osql and bcp. Switching between the osql and bcp utilities' output is simply a matter of changing an input parameter's value.
The sp_Query2File stored procedure has three mandatory input parameters (@Query, @FileName, and @Method) and two optional input parameters (@ Headers and @ShowResults). The @Query parameter specifies the SQL query to be executed (e.g., 'SELECT * FROM master.dbo.sysobjects'). The @FileName parameter specifies the pathname of the output file (e.g., 'D:\myfiles\result.txt').
The @Method parameter specifies the utility you want to invoke to run the query and create the file. The two choices are 'OSQL' (which is the default) and 'BCP'. If you want a nicely formatted, column-based result set with headers, specify 'OSQL'. If you want a space-saving tabdelimited file without headers, specify 'BCP'. Note that to use the bcp utility, the SQL query must be fully qualified (i.e., master.dbo.sysobjects).
The @Headers parameter applies only if you specify 'OSQL' as the @Method parameter. You use the @Headers parameter to indicate how many data lines to print before reprinting the column headings. If you don't specify a value, the default value of 999999 is used. Passing in a number less than 1 tells osql.exe to not print any column headings.
You include the @ShowResults parameter if you want to display the contents of the output file after the query results are written to it. This option is useful when you're using sp_Query2File on a remote server and would like to view the contents of the output file without having to actually open a connection and browse to the file.
Figure 1 includes sample calls to sp_Query2File. The figure also includes the equivalent osql and bcp commands. As Figure 1 shows, sp_Query2File can greatly reduce code complexity because you no longer have to worry about formulating different commands for each type of output. In addition, sp_Query2File can balance the need for readable yet analyzable result sets. For example, one of my clients uses it to create scheduled jobs that run report queries. She saves the results in both a column-based format for easy readability and in tab-delimited format for further analysis through Microsoft Excel.
The sp_Query2File stored procedure works on SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000. (Although sqlcmd is the replacement for osql and isql in SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2005 ships with both osql and sqlcmd. Osql doesn't support some SQL Server 2005's enhancements, such as CLR user-defined data types, but it works fine for this usage.) You can download sp_Query2File.
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UP to 300 jobs will be slashed at Southampton City Council in the authority's worst ever financial crisis.
Labour council leaders have this afternoon confirmed the depth of the massive cuts they plan to make to plug a budget deficit. The jobs cull is the largest ever.
The council's youth service, its "Our House" residential children's home and its archaeology unit will be shut down.
The brunt of the job losses will hit children's services where 126 jobs are at risk.
The council's 2013/14 spending plans will also see swingeing cuts to the adult care budget and the future of weekly bin collections is hanging in the balance, depending on a Government grant.
Labour, who pledged to keep redundancies to a minimum, last month postponed releasing their budget plans to get a clearer picture of the council's finances and more time to prepare the cuts and hikes in charges.
Finance boss Councillor Simon Letts warned then that the council had already cut out the fat and flesh down to the bone and was facing the prospect of "removing limbs".
He said: "No one gets into local politics to cut services and drfating this budget has been a painful process.
"We have had to separate the 'good to haves' from the 'absolutely necessary' and we do feel that we have managed to protect services to the most vulnerable people in the city while making savings that will undoubtedly affect what the council can offer to the rest of us."
A mass meeting of union members has been called for Thursday to decide what action to take in response to the job losses. Industrial action has not been ruled out.
Labour and the unions have blamed the dire state of the council's finances on the decision of the previous Conservative administration and Government funding cuts.
But Conservatives insist they would have found alternative ways to fund the deficit, through outsourcing, sharing services with other council and not restoring pay cuts they brought in to protect jobs.
Labour has already announced that 200 temporary workers at the council will lose their jobs in the coming years to free up potential roles for permanent staff facing redundancy.
Unison branch Secretary, Mike Tucker said: "While work starts on the new Arts Complex, which is being mainly funded by the council, across the city youth centres will be closing.
"Hundreds of council workers, youth workers, library workers, child care professionals, park keepers, archaeologists, and social workers, all face the sack.
"Their futures are being put at risk by the economic policy of the Conservatives."
Tory group leader Royston Smith said: "It's nonsense. We left a £6.9m underspend and did not raid reserves. It's a weak and dishonest argument."
Unite branch secretary Mark Wood added: "As the Government sits on its hands when hundreds of Southampton Ford jobs are shipped to Turkey and as it continues on its failed economic strategy creating zero growth, the future looks very bleak indeed for our city."
"Unite and Unison will work tirelessly to protect as many jobs and services as possible and campaign for a fair deal for Southampton."


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LATHROP - Electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc. confirmed Tuesday that it has leased a 430,000-square-foot building, the former Daimler Chrysler parts distribution center off Interstate 5 in Lathrop, as it expands its operations.
LATHROP - Electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc. confirmed Tuesday that it has leased a 430,000-square-foot building, the former Daimler Chrysler parts distribution center off Interstate 5 in Lathrop, as it expands its operations.
While Tesla said nothing of the type of operation it planned in Lathrop or the number of jobs it expected to create, area city and economic development officials said it would involve Tesla parts production and estimated initial employment at 125.
Lathrop Mayor Sonny Dhaliwal said the announcement shows that Lathrop can provide "a great low-cost alternative for expanding Bay Area companies."
"I am honored and overjoyed that Tesla has chosen Lathrop for its expanding high-tech manufacturing operations," he said in a statement.
Shanna Hendriks, communications manager for the Palo Alto-based carmaker, confirmed the Lathrop building lease and issued a statement Tuesday, saying: "Tesla is continuing to invest and create jobs in California as part of our ongoing infrastructure expansion. In the last two months, we have signed leases for more than 625,000 square feet of Californian real estate, independent of sales and service centers."
Michael Ammann, chief executive of the San Joaquin Partnership, said the move by Tesla, which assembles its cars at the former NUMMI assembly plant in Fremont, is a bit of history repeating itself.
After General Motors and Toyota formed the NUMMI joint venture, its need for parts and services drew in dozens of other companies to supply the assembly plant.
"Where did the supplier industry come? They came to San Joaquin," Ammann said. "The region was home to more than 11 first-tier auto part suppliers of the former NUMMI plant."
While the 2010 NUMMI shutdown led to closure of most of those supply companies, Tesla's expanding production is again affecting the Central Valley.
"They decided their next growth opportunity is Lathrop or San Joaquin," Ammann said.
He estimated there may be about 125 jobs created at the Lathrop plant, at 18260 Harlan Road, when it begins producing parts for Tesla's electric sedans. Based on the size of the facility, Ammann guessed it could employ as many as 500 people at full operation.
Ammann pointed to the Tesla announcement, as well as Amazon.com's decision to open a new distribution center last year in Tracy, as part of a larger trend.
"We're seeing the sophisticated, technology-based companies, whether it's manufacturing or warehousing and distribution, locate their facilities in our county," he said.
"That's all a good sign of what we have to offer the Bay Area and Silicon Valley in terms of their growth opportunities."
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According to a source the 76ers are close to inking former Portland Trail Blazers executive Tom Penn as their new general manager. Penn would replace president Rod Thorn, who is set to move to an advisory role with the team.
Thorn is in the last of his three-year contract that was agreed to with then-owner Ed Snider. The contract also was for Thorn to serve another five years as a team advisor. It is believed that Thorn will move immediately to his new role when Penn becomes the general manager.
Penn, who was released as vice president of basketball operations by Portland in 2010, is said to be a CBA guru and a master capologist. He would be coming into a good situation with the Sixers on that front, as the team's moves this offseason have left them with many short-term contracts.
For seven seasons Penn worked for the Memphis Grizzlies, part of the time as the team's assistant general manager and he also did work at ESPN, analyzing how the CBA and how the salary cap affected teams in their desire to make moves.
The source said that Penn was in Philadelphia and that a deal could be very close.


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Small businesses are getting a lot of the reality TV spotlight — for good reason: A starring role on a reality TV show can dramatically boost a small company's sales. The shows get big national exposure, turning a tiny restaurant or hair salon into a household name.
Below is a sampling of reality TV shows that feature small businesses and the average number of people that are watching. The numbers are from Nielsen, which provides information and insight into what consumers watch and buy, and are an average of the show's most recent or current season.
Viewers: 8.3 million
"Duck Dynasty" revolves around the Robertson family as they hunt, camp and make duck calls for Duck Commander, the West Monroe, La.-based business that the family's bearded patriarch Phil Robertson founded in 1972. The shows season 3 finale was the most watched program in A&E's history.
Viewers: 4.9 million
Cameras follow people as they bring in everything from gold coins to classic cars to pawn or sell at Las Vegas' Gold & Silver Pawn Shop on this History reality show. Viewers watch as owner Rick Harrison, his father, son and an employee tell customers how much their stuff is worth.
Viewers: 3.8 million
Mike Wolfe and business partner Frank Fritz drive around the country looking for antiques and collectibles to buy and then resell at their store Antique Archeology. The show has aired on History since 2010.
Viewers: 2.7 million
Danny Koker restores and sells classic cars in his Las Vegas-based garage, Count's Kustoms. "Counting Cars" is a spinoff of History's "Pawn Stars," where Koker made several appearances before getting his own show on the network.
Viewers: 2.4 million
TruTV's answer to "Pawn Stars" focuses on American Jewelry and Loan, a family-owned pawn shop in Detroit. "Hardcore Pawn" has been on the air since 2010.
Viewers: 1.6 million
Debuting earlier this year, this VH1 reality takes viewers inside the lives of tattoo artists from Black Ink Tattoo Studio in New York's Harlem neighborhood.
Viewers: 1.6 million
"Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Lisa Vanderpump lets cameras into Sur, her West Hollywood, Calif. restaurant, to document the salacious lives of the restaurant's employees. Bravo renewed the show for a second season.
Viewers: 783,000
The show, which airs on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, follows Robbie Montgomery as she and her son run two restaurants in St. Louis and work to open a third. A fourth season of "Welcome To Sweetie Pie's" is currently being filmed.
Viewers: 355,000
Style's "Jerseylicious" gives viewers a peek into the lives and drama of employees that work at The Gatsby Salon, in Green Brook, N.J.,


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A winner was selected from 16 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
We do web hosting and development (design, programming), we need our home page very easy, clean, interactive and creative look. first impression is the last impression.
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A supervisor at the Marion County Jail has resigned, and faces a charge from another county stemming from an investigation, according to Sheriff's Office officials.
A supervisor at the Marion County Jail resigned Friday after the Orange County State Attorney's Office said she would receive a summons to appear in court for a second-degree misdemeanor charge of filing harassing phone calls.
Lt. Rhonda Steplight-Jones, 43, met with jail officials Friday morning and issued a single-sentence statement: "Please accept this as my letter of resignation effective today."
A Marion County Sheriff's Office internal affairs report notes that on Oct. 10, Steplight-Jones told Capt. Clint Bowen, the jail's assistant bureau chief, that she had been contacted by an Orange County Sheriff's Office investigator because a telephone number traced to her account had come up in an allegations of harassing phone calls made to a woman in their area.
Steplight-Jones reportedly admitted making the calls and told the investigator she had stopped calling the woman. The investigator told her she would be filing a report.
The next day, the Orange County investigator informed the Marion County Sheriff's Office that her investigation had been completed and the case was being forwarded to their State Attorney's Office for a review on whether or not a charge would be made.
On Oct. 12, Steplight-Jones was suspended with pay pending the outcome of the review.
On Dec. 26, Marion County Jail investigator Meyer Carter was informed by the Orange County State Attorney's Office that Steplight-Jones would receive a summons to appear in court for arraignment.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office report states that on May 25, a woman told a deputy someone called her number 31 times, threatening and cursing her, and said it had been an ongoing problem since March.
While she was talking with the deputy, the woman twice received a call from the anonymous number. The voice was female.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office investigator assigned to the case was able to get the first name of the caller, identified as Rhonda.
The investigator's report states that Steplight-Jones made 118 calls from her home, personal cellphone and department-issued cellphone from Jan. 25 through July 18.
A review of Steplight-Jones' department-issued phone by Carter showed 26 calls, 12 of which were made while she was working. None of the calls made went beyond a minute in length.
On Nov. 1, Steplight-Jones reportedly told Bowen she called the woman from the three numbers, but denied making any threats. She said she did not realize she was violating the department's code of conduct.
Steplight-Jones' personnel files shows that she was hired by the Sheriff's Office in January 1994 and left in April 1997. She returned on Oct. 26, 1998. Her annual salary at the time of her resignation was $50,756.55. She has received good reviews and accommodations.
Steplight-Jones was arrested for domestic battery in August 2003 by the Ocala Police Department. The state decided not to file charges, but she was suspended without pay for 40 hours.
Steplight-Jones could not be reached Friday for comment.
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At mile 25.7, after already mentally penning my celebratory email, I hit a wall of dazed, shuffling athletes. I regret not finishing the Boston Marathon yesterday, but the bombings didn't define my first marathon and they won't mar this tradition.
Programs like mine can help high school dropouts earn the equivalent of a high school diploma by passing the GED exam. As a GED teacher, I find success means helping these students clear hurdles outside of class, and giving them a safe, nonjudgmental place to learn in class.
This morning, I laced up my office set of tennis shoes and walked to the Washington Monument to witness the final flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery headed for its museum resting place. The crowd pointed excitedly as if they were looking at Superman. And in a way, they were.
We sometimes complain that fickle Internet fads drive our news coverage. But Caine's Arcade made the virtual front pages for all the right reasons. The phenomenon provides another example of how the Web 2.0 world informs media coverage – and better yet – inspires action.
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Dr. Laura Hill has been a Clinical Faculty Member at The Ohio State University Department of Psychiatry since 1998. She provides supervision to graduate students, MD's in residency, and educational training for the Department of Psychiatry on eating disorders and other psychotherapeutic clinical issues. Currently, Dr. Hill is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Clinical Officer of The Center for Eating Disorders and Psychotherapy in Worthington, OH. This free-standing nonprofit specialized outpatient clinic provides eating disorders education, treatment, and research in Worthington, Ohio, 15 minutes from The Ohio State University campus. Dr. Hill has provided treatment for persons with eating disorders since 1979, and conducted eating disorders research since 1984. She has published and lectured internationally since the 1980's.


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Johan Cruyff believes that Barcelona are sitting in pole position to regain the Primera Division table after having to settle for second place behind Real Madrid last term.
The Catalan club have made an impressive start to the 2012-13 campaign and currently sit top of the table with 31 points from 11 games, holding an eight-point lead over the reigning champions.
"Barcelona are on the right track. Normally the biggest rival is Madrid, who are eight points behind, so there's a comfortable gap," Cruyff said to reporters.
"Barca have everything in their favour to win the league title, in the sense that La Liga is Barcelona's to lose."
The Dutchman then went on to praise Lionel Messi after the Argentine broke Pele's record of 75 goals in one calendar year.
"Messi is sensational," Cruyff continued. "Pele's record stood for many years. He has a lot of quality, scores goals and wins the people's affection.
"He is the best ever in his position and he proves it, but I don´t think we should talk about it all that much."
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Zionist "Rabbis" Falsify Torah
The Jewish religion teaches that Jews are in exile by Divine Decree and may emerge from exile solely via Divine redemption. All human efforts to alter a metaphysical reality are doomed to end in failure and bloodshed. History has clearly borne out this teaching.
Zionism, by advocating a political and military end to the Jewish exile, denies the very essence of our Diaspora existence. The religious Zionists have taken the Torah, a book of Divine law which teaches justice, peace and piety, and transformed it into a vehicle for their political goals, a source for their claims to a piece of land. These claims took their latest form this week, when, to our sorrow, the Zionist falsification was brought to the worlds eyes by the media.
In conjunction with President Bush's visit to the State of Israel, several rabbis of the extremist Zionist settler community penned a letter to the President, asking him to stop "putting pressure on the Israeli leadership" to make land concessions to the Palestinian Authority.
The letter read in part:
"In the name of the people of Israel, the Land of Israel, the Torah of Israel and the G-d of Israel, we demand that his honor the president cease the pressure on the State to hand lands to the Arabs Honorable President, you must not be remembered in history as Nebuchadnezzar and Titus who destroyed Jerusalem. You must surely remember that American does not benefit from causing damage, Heaven forbid, to the Jewish people and its land. If you help the wholeness of our holy land, we promise you and your country endless blessings."
Signed: Rabbis Dov Lior, David Druckman, Yaakov Yosef, Shmuel Eliyahu and Shalom Dov Wolpe.
Jews Against Zionism condemns this latest act of chutzpah and ingratitude. The writers of this letter call themselves rabbis and speak in the name of the Jewish religion, but the world must not allow itself to be fooled. They are radical politicians and militants advancing their own agenda, for which they are distorting the Holy Torah and jeopardizing Jews everywhere.
"It is a pity that these men wear yarmulkes and black hats, for it not Judaism that drives them but a foreign ideology," said Rabbi Hersh Lowenthal. "They claim to represent the Torah of Israel and the G-d of Israel, but actually their ideology is to flaunt G-d's decree of exile and take over the Holy Land at a time when the Torah forbids us to have it."
For these extremists, the age-old Jewish tradition of speaking respectfully to gentile leaders is gone, to be replaced by a new standard of belligerent claims and dark threats. According to them, America has been punished in the past and may be punished again for not complying with the wishes of a small group of ultra-Zionist fanatics.
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G7011, Reviewed October 1993
Two types of lice may be found on cattle in Missouri
Chewing lice feed on hair, scabs and excretions from the animal's skin and irritate the skin with their sharp claws and mandibles. Chewing lice infestations weaken the animal, interrupt normal feeding activities and make the animal more susceptible to diseases.
The cattle biting louse is the only species of chewing louse occurring on cattle in Missouri. It is yellowish-white with a reddish head. It can be found all over the animal's body and when full grown will be about 1/12 inch long. It is a pest of both young and mature cattle.
Sucking lice feed by piercing the animal's skin with their sharp mouth parts and withdrawing blood. The loss of blood can stunt growth and reduce weight gain. The irritation caused by lice also hinders the animal's feeding activities, which can reduce the growth rate. Sucking lice may be found on the head, neck, withers, around the base of the tail, brisket, and along the inner surfaces of the legs. Continued severe infestations weaken the animal to the point that stress from disease or extreme cold weather may cause death.
Three species of sucking lice can be found on cattle in Missouri. The longnosed cattle louse is generally a pest of young cattle and is about 1/10 inch long. The shortnosed cattle louse is about 1/16 inch long and is more often a pest of older cattle. The little blue louse is about 1/16 inch long. It is generally a pest of older animals and is more common around the animal's head.
The eggs (nits) are glued to the hair and hatch in one to two weeks. The nymphs that hatch from these eggs become full grown and start to lay eggs in about two weeks.
Both chewing and bloodsucking lice are most abundant during the winter. Infestations usually are small during the summer and early fall, but increase rapidly in the winter and spring. Some animals may be continuously infested with lice throughout the year. You may notice that certain animals are particularly prone to lice infestations. Schedule these "carrier" animals for disposal.
Just because cattle are scratching or rubbing against solid objects during the winter and early spring doesn't mean they are lice-infested. Examine them before applying control measures. Part the animal's hair where lice are most likely to be found and look for lice or for eggs attached to the hair.
Cattle lice may be controlled with insecticides applied by sprayers, backrubbers, dust bags, "pour-on" or injection methods. Insecticide sprays will not affect the eggs; therefore, a second spray in 14 to no more than 18 days will be necessary to kill the nymphs that hatch following the first spray.
Sprays (an asterisk preceding any insecticide means that all or some uses of the product have been restricted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Applicators must be certified before they may purchase restricted products.)
No preslaughter interval is required with dioxathion (Delnav) or permethrin, but do not treat more often than once every two weeks. No pre-slaughter interval is required with coumaphos (Co-Ral) or malathion.
The species of lice present and the area of body infested will determine the amount of coverage needed. For complete body coverage, apply one to two gallons of spray per animal depending upon size of animal and density of haircoat. Use smaller amounts of spray on calves 3 to 6 months old and do not treat calves less than 3 months old.
Use a sprayer that will produce at least 200 pounds of pressure so as to wet the skin, not just the hair. The first spray should be applied around Nov. 1. Make a second application 14 to 18 days after the first application.
No preslaughter interval is required with permethrin.
If a backrubber, as used for horn fly control, is used all year long, the cattle should not become louse-infested enough to need spraying. If necessary, relocate the backrubber where cattle loaf during the winter. Apply 1 to 2 quarts of solution to cable-type backrubber or fill the reservoir of the oiler type to capacity every 10 days to two weeks or as needed.
The initial charging of cable-type backrubbers will require approximately 1 gallon of solution. Do not apply entire amount at one time. Allow backrubber to soak up material by making split applications until the backrubber is soaked. Do not locate backrubbers where drippage or spillage will contaminate water supplies. Do not let cattle use a backrubber that is dripping with the insecticide mixture.
Use tightly woven or multiple-layer burlap bags containing:
No preslaughter interval is required with these self-treatment applications.
Lice should not build up on cattle using dust bags containing one of these insecticides if the bags are located where cattle will use them regularly. Place the bags near salt and mineral blocks, in alleyways, feed lots and loafing sheds. Keep the bags as dry as possible. A simple tin roof is effective and easily constructed.
Starting at the shoulders, pour the required amount of insecticide along the backline for a distance of 18 to 24 inches.
NoteThis product can be used any month of the year because it does not control cattle grub. Read the label carefully because of restrictions on exotic breeds of cattle.
NoteThis product can be used any month of the year because it does not control cattle grubs. Use on calves and lactating and non-lactating dairy cattle.
On native Missouri cattle, do not apply famphur (Warbex) or fenthion (Lysoff, Tiguvon) as pour-ons during October, November and December unless applications were made earlier for grub control. Follow label restrictions for use on cattle imported from other states. Do not treat with famphur (Warbex) or fenthion (Lysoff, Tiguvon) within 35 days of slaughter. Do not apply famphur (Warbex) to Brahman bulls.
Do not apply in conjunction with oral drenches of other internal medications, such as phenothiazine, or with natural or synthetic pyrethroids or their synergists, or with other organic phosphates.
Brahman and Brahman-crossbred cattle are sensitive to most organic phosphate insecticides. Read and heed label restrictions when using organic phosphate insecticides on Brahman cattle.
Do not contaminate feed, water, or feed and water utensils. Do not locate backrubbers where excess insecticide or spillage will contaminate water supplies. Observe required time interval between applications of any insecticide and slaughter of treated animal. Read and follow all restrictions and precautions printed on the container label.
Use a 16-gauge, 1/2-inch to 3/4-inch needle and veterinary syringe. Inject subcutaneously under the loose skin in front of or behind the shoulder. Use sterile equipment and sanitize the injection site by applying a suitable disinfectant. Use clean, properly disinfected needles to reduce the potential for infection. No special handling or protective clothing are required.
Do not use ivermectin within 35 days of slaughter and do not use during October, November and December. Cattle treated with ivermectin in August or September may be re-treated with ivermectin during the winter for internal parasites, mange mites or lice without danger of grub-related reactions.
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So, I know I've been quiet lately... ever since my return from Texas last weekend I've been in a very meditative, quiet mood. I always forget how hard it is for me to visit home and leave, especially when I do it so quickly, taking only a few days or so. Lately it's gotten so hard for me to do that I'm actually thinking of not going home for the holidays... that sounds so weird, doesn't it? I find it so hard to explain, maybe some of you who live far from "home" know what I mean... there's so many stresses on you when you travel home, never enough time, sadness when you leave... and lately I find it pretty overwhelming.
Of course, that's not to say I wasn't happy to be home and see family and loved ones - I'm always overjoyed. It was all just tinged with a tiny bit of melancholy this time. .. When I return home it is the simplest, smallest things that sometimes affect me, like the familiar shape of trees I can't see in New York:
But one of my favorite afternoons was a late breakfast with my sister, followed by a trip to the Hobby Lobby, where we purchased crafty supplies and sat down together for a few hours to paint.
The happy result of this endeavor was:
Thanks to everyone who has been commenting and emailing - I apologize for my slowness and quietness... I know I'll be back to full-time craftiness soon... :)


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FRIDAY HOMILY: Only What's Done for Christ
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By Fr. Randy Sly
6/21/2013 (5 years ago)
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In his teaching during the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus is helping us to see that our treasure - that which we value most - should be of heavenly proportion. We must see our greatest wealth in our relationship with God and the gospel of Jesus Christ.
By Fr. Randy Sly
Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
6/21/2013 (5 years ago)
Published in Year of Faith
Keywords: eternal, heaven, values, possessions, materialism, love
WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - During my early days of ministry, we lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan. At that time a new group of restaurants began to spring up around the state. "Chicken Coop" restaurants began gaining popularity as a competitor to Kentucky Fried Chicken.
The Chicken Coop chain was owned by a very committed Christian business leader who was not afraid to let people know about his faith in Christ. There was a phrase printed on every bag of chicken that went out the door. It read, "Only one life twill soon be past, only what's done for Christ will last."
In today's gospel, Jesus lays the groundwork for this catchy saying that had been penned by C.T. Studd.
Jesus said to his disciples:
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth,
where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal.
But store up treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal.
For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.
There is one big question that must be asked when confronted with our Lord's teaching. What is our treasure?
The answer is found by looking at the compass of our heart. In what direction is our heart pointing? Where is our heart fixed?
Perhaps it's your career, your house, your car, your possessions, your family or your reputation. What is that we love the most?
In his teaching during the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus is helping us to see that our treasure - that which we value most - should be of heavenly proportion. We must see our greatest wealth in our relationship with God and the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Moth, Decay and Thieves
"Only what's done for Christ will last." "Lastability" is an interesting concept. Often when we put our trust in the things on this earth, we forget has temporary materials possessions and even human relationships really are. Moth, decay and theft represent those influences that can take them away.
It is so easy to get caught up in materialism, careerism and other ism's that plague our modern culture. When we measure success on the basis of accumulated value, prominence, fame and other transitory values we can cup up short.
I can't remember the first time I heard a homily at a funeral that made the following point. In fact, I have also said, "I don't know of anyone who, laying on their death bed, says, 'I wish I had made more money,' 'I wish I had spent more time on the job,' or I wish I been able to have a nicer house.'"
It is normally at that time when the eternal is honestly seen in its true light. How sad we have to wait until then.
One common theme that I have found among the saints is a preoccupation with our future in heaven. Martyrs looked forward to it, the infirm offered their pain and suffering for it and the heroes of the faith gave everything up to obtain it.
Just the other day we celebrated the memorial of St. Romuald, a great saint from Italy who had established a large number of monasteries and hermitages. As a young man, he enjoyed his family's wealth and prestige. He lived what we would call today "the high life."
Later, after watching his father kill another man in a duel, he entered monastic life and made a difference in the lives of countless others. In the stark reality of seeing someone's life taken before his eyes, all of the things that he valued meant nothing.
Treasures in Heaven
Our Lord, instead, calls us to put our focus on those things which cannot be destroyed by things of the world, in particular the gospel of Jesus Christ, whose message can bring us to the hope of eternal life.
I remember as a young man how much I enjoyed being a disk jockey. I was popular with the teens, since my show was on during the early evening. I did record hops (OK, that dates me, I know) and other public events where it was fun to get so much attention. In my early 20's I was living "the good life," until the military draft (my career moth, as it were) ended the dream.
Classified IA and available to be called, I joined the Navy and was assigned to a destroyer off the coast of Vietnam. When I landed in Da Nang to catch a ride to my ship, I remember seeing wounded soldiers, most of whom were my age, and the airport terminal. The dream at that point was not just ended; it had turned into a nightmare.
At that moment I recognized that I was mortal and could die over there. My values shifted as the "moth" had devoured my career, my dreams of a big time radio career began to decay and my "good life" had been stolen.
It was at this time in my life, however, that, through an encounter with others, my faith in Christ was re-ignited and my life changed forever.
In his devotional series, In Conversation with God, Fr. Francis Fernandez writes, "However much we manage to accumulate in life, there is little point to it. Nothing on earth is worth putting our heart into in an absolute way. Our heart is made for God, and for the noble things of this earth in him."
When we talk about treasures in heaven, it is more than just our personal relationship. It also involves inserting our heavenly values into relationships and treasures here on earth.
Hernandez goes on, "...we need to keep our heart fixed on God, on the mission we have received from him, and on other persons and things for God's sake."
As Fr. Fernandez points out, "it is not wrong to value the things of this world, but we must do so with respect to heavenly value. Our relationships with friends and family must be centered on the eternal, where, fixed on Christ and his saving work, our lives will be united in heaven as on earth."
As our Lord has called us to a more heavenly view, the choice is really up to us. We can continue to build monuments to ourselves here on earth and focus on things that will not last. Or we can choose to make Christ and His Church the center of our lives.
As Dr. Suess wrote in his little book, "Oh, The Places You'll Go!"
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You're on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go.
Father Randy Sly is the Associate Editor of Catholic Online and a priest with the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter (http://usordinariate.org) established by the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, through the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus. He is currently the chaplain of the St. John Fisher Ordinariate Community, a priest in residence at Our Lady of Hope Catholic Church and Director of Pro-Life Activities for the Ordinariate. He is a popular speaker for parishes, apostolates and organizations.
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China Center Chart of the Week: 'Buying' 7.5 percent growth – what would it take?
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This chart shows monthly new total social financing (TSF) issuance in China, along with outstanding TSF, including projections of potential TSF growth scenarios that may occur throughout the rest of this year. The projections are meant to simulate what credit growth would have to be for the government to hit a 7.5 percent GDP growth target (based on different assumptions about the credit-intensity of growth in 2014). Slowing credit growth is incompatible with a 7.5 percent growth target, unless efficiency is significantly improved. The rate of growth in 2014 will have major implications for the prospects of economic reform.


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The Coming Aparkalypse
We have referenced Linkin Park once before, in another strip, which resulted in the kind of hurt one typically associates with the butt. "LP" is like a test strip for age; I can put it in my mouth, take it out, compare it to the color chart, and it will say "YOU ARE TOO OLD." I was starting to think I had reclaimed some measure of my former vigor, in accordance with theory that age can fluctuate as it pertains to cultural product, but then I saw a sign someone had stapled to a telephone pole and the urge to tear it down was overwhelming. "Nope," I said. "Still old."
There is always a point in a song from The L to the P where I want to hurt one of the people making those sounds. I wouldn't be able to pull that off, obviously. Look at them in the video; they are clearly wererats. It typically has something to do with this awful mephit they have what does their singin'. I don't know what elemental plane he hails from, or what ritual is required to summon him - which of his dark appetites must be appealed to. Vis a vis Age, there is always the suspicion that a young man might be a wastrel, and one's wastrel-guage is ever ready to make firm these doubts. We learned that there was a Linkin Park related "opportunity" to be had as regards Medal Of Honor: Warfighter, and locked the strip on its coordinates.
As you are aware, because I am constantly telling you, I try not to use the fearsome weaponry of this fully armed and operational battle station unless I really, really want to. Then, I use it. I did so in order to secure X-Com: Enemy Unknown for some reason, even though I am already playing three games simultaneously and not progressing terribly far in any of them. I'm obsessed with it, though. Until my last move, I had a fossilized disc of X-Gum somewhere that I was saving for a special occasion. X-Com: Terror from the Deep very nearly destroyed my budding union with the woman who would eventually agree to marry me. Well, I agreed to marry her. It's complicated. Anyway, X-COM.
The version I was able to finagle has a locked Tech Tree, which seemed to me Unlike the Real Game, i.e. One Whose Content Would Mirror Your Own Experience, so I stopped playing it. In fact, I didn't get much farther than you'll be able to get in the demo that was just released - a demo which you should download immediately. There would be no new X-Com for PC stalwarts if they couldn't ablate these costs with a multiplatform release; that's what we call "mathematics." And certainly, what I've played would be marvelous couch-wise. But no, no, no. I could never.
(CW)TB out.


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If you decide to administer one or more of these tests and the results of the tests seem suspicious you should consult with your personal care physician or a neurologist for a more thorough memory examination and diagnosis.
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The latest weapon in the war against Alzheimer's disease is not a fancy new brain scanner or a computer device. Instead, it's a it a 15 question written exam that could have a dramatic impact on a major problem -- the early detection of Alzheimer's disease.
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#2 Alzheimer's Clock Draw TestDrawing a clock by hand is one of several useful screening tools that can help to detect mild cognitive impairment, dementia, or Alzheimer's. This test can help you, or your doctor, differentiate between normal aging and possible dementia.
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The TYM is a series of 10 tasks including ability to copy a sentence, semantic knowledge, calculation, verbal fluency and recall ability. The ability to do the test is also scored. Each task carries a score with a maximum score of 50 points available. The test is designed to use minimal operator time and to be suitable for non-specialist use.
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The Minnesota Twins reached agreements with several of their selections from the 2012 MLB Draft Monday, June 11. Second-round pick P J.T. Chargois, fifth-round pick P Tyler Duffey, C Jorge Fernandez, and eight-round pick P Christian Powell have all agreed to terms. The club also signed third-round pick OF Adam Brett Walker II for $490,400.
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Mark Wahlberg for "The Gambler" remake?
Mark Wahlberg is eyeing up a remake of 'The Gambler'.
The 42-year-old actor and director Rupert Wyatt are in early talks to make a new version of the 1974 drama about a man whose life spirals out of control due to his gambling addiction.
Todd Phillips and Leonardo DiCaprio were originally attached to the project, but are no longer involved according to Variety.com,
The original movie starred James Caan as a literature professor with a gambling problem who can't quit his casino habit, even after running into trouble with a group of local gangsters.
The remake is being negotiated with Paramount, who have a strong relationship with Wahlberg as he recently starred in the studio's 'Pain and Gain' and is currently filming 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' for them.
Meanwhile, Wyatt hasn't been attached to a project since 2011's 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' after opting out of directing the sequel.
Wahlberg is currently enjoying a much-needed rest after an intense period of filming back-to-back action movies.
He recently said: ''After doing four movies in a row, I needed a break. I did 'Broken City', 'Pain & Gain', '2 Guns' and 'Lone Survivor', which is a war movie where I play a Navy Seal trapped in Afghanistan.
''That was the kicker. I had to tough it up, but after that I was ready to do nothing.''


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LITTLE ROCK � The sponsor of legislation to ban abortions at 12 weeks said Tuesday he would add more exemptions to address concerns raised about the measure.
LITTLE ROCK � The sponsor of legislation to ban abortions at 12 weeks said Tuesday he would add more exemptions to address concerns raised about the measure.
Sen. Jason Rapert, R-Conway, said Senate Bill 134, titled The Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Act, will be amended to include exemptions for medical emergencies and for fetal disorders that likely would be fatal for the child. The bill already includes exemptions to save the life of the mother or for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.
The new exemptions �specifically would deal with many different fetal anomalies or fetal disorders, but specifically some of the most horrible that families have had to deal with, like anencephaly,� in which a child is born without parts of the brain and skull, Rapert said.
He also said the bill also will be amended to remove criminal penalties for doctors.
In its current form, the bill would make doctors who violate the measure subject to a Class D felony charge, punishable upon conviction by up six years in prison. Rapert said the bill will be amended to make the only penalty a revocation of the doctor�s license.
�There were people that were for the bill but were a little uncomfortable with the felony language,� he said. �I agreed with them that revocation of a license is a career-ender for physicians.�
Rapert has amended the bill before. As originally written, the measure would have required any woman seeking an abortion to undergo a test for a fetal heartbeat and would have prohibited the abortion if a heartbeat is detected.
The bill passed in that form in the Senate. It stalled in the House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee amid objections that it would require women to undergo an invasive trans-vaginal ultrasound and effectively would ban abortions at about six weeks, when a fetal heartbeat can first be detected.
Rapert agreed to an amendment stating that the bill would not ban abortions before 12 weeks and that the heartbeat test would be conducted via external abdominal ultrasound. The bill then passed out of the committee.
Rapert said Tuesday he had enough support in the House to get the bill passed without any further changes, but he learned that the bill needed to go back to the committee to correct drafting errors, so he decided to take the opportunity to offer a new amendment to address other concerns about the bill.
�We feel like that we definitely now have a bill that has even broader support than it did a few weeks ago when it came out of the Senate,� he said.
Rapert said he expects the bill to be amended in the House Public Health Committee this week and to be on the House floor for a vote on Monday.
The proposed amendments do not address concerns raised by some, including the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood, that the bill is unconstitutional because it would ban abortions before viability, or the point at which a fetus is able to survive outside the womb. Doctors generally consider a fetus to be viable at 23 or 24 weeks.
Gov. Mike Beebe has said the bill appears to be unconstitutional but has not said whether he would veto it.
Another bill moving through the Legislature, HB 1037 by Rep. Andy Mayberry, R-Hensley, would ban abortions at 20 weeks � the point at which the bill contends a fetus can feel pain � except to save the mother from death or severe physical impairment. It contains no exceptions for rape or incest.
Mayberry�s bill has passed in the House but has not yet cleared the Senate Public Health Committee.


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digitadog needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 53 designs submitted by 29 freelance designers.
We need a variety of tag design "themes". These tags will be worn on by cats and dogs on their collars. We would like you to submit at least 4 - 6 different "themes" of tags. If your designs are chosen we will hire you to develop more variety on the themes. How creative can you be in an 1 1/4" (3 cm) circular space? Click here to view the tag design templates in jpg, illustrator, and photoshop formats...
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This is a startup company working to launch a new idea. Eventually we want to implement a design contest model to acquire new designs, but for now we need the first round of designs to offer on the website. If you think about the pet market, there are a wide variety of people and style BUT our research indicates our demographic will be 60% - 70% female and between the ages of 25 and 55, both cat and dog owners. This demographic will be likely to use a social networking platform such as facebook. Use your creativity to create some themes.
- See the tag templates here in JPG, Illustrator and Photoshop formats
- At least 4 different themes
- Ideas for dogs: contemporary, retro, tough, fu-fu, urban, etc
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee Tech senior Frank Davis
established a career record for most 3-pointers made, but his
team-best 25 points and seven assists couldn't lift his team
over Eastern Kentucky Saturday night. The Colonels had too many
weapons, including four players in double figures, on the way to a
78-73 Ohio Valley Conference victory.
EKU improved to 11-6 overall and 4-2 within the conference while the Golden Eagles slipped to 7-9 overall and 1-4 in OVC action.
Eastern Kentucky never trailed in the contest. The Golden Eagles were able to fight their way back into a tie in the final two minutes, but the Colonels outscored Tech 9-4 in the final three minutes for the victory.
Justin Stommes topped EKU with 22 points, going 5-for-7 from long range. Guard Willie Cruz was 8-for-8 from the field, the benefactor of some timely Colonel passes that freed him for eight layups, and finished with 19 points and four assists. Josh Taylor scored 15 and Papa Oppong added 14 points and four steals.
Davis, who now has 213 career 3-pointers, finished 5-for-9 from long distance for 25 points. The only other Golden Eagle in double figures was sophomore Kevin Murphy with 13. Point guard Elijah Muhammad had eight points and seven assists while freshman Jud Dillard added eight points and nine rebounds.
Tech shot 54.7 percent from the field, the seventh consecutive game over the 50 percent mark. The Golden Eagles were 10-for-20 from long range, and owned a 28-22 edge in rebounds.
EKU shot even better, hitting 58.3 percent from the field including 12-for-26 from beyond the arc.
The Colonels jumped out to a 7-0 lead and led all the way to halftime behind 11 points each from Taylor and Stommes, who each drained three 3-pointers. EKU shot 7-for-17 from beyond the arc in the first half for 41.2 percent
The Golden Eagles scratched their way back into the contest midway in the second half with an 8-0 run. Down 50-40, it began with a 3-pointer from Murphy. Frank Davis rebounded his missed shot and hit a floater, then canned a 3-pointer to make it 50-48.
Oppong drained a 3-pointer and EKU eventually rebuilt the lead to eight at 63-55 with 7:02 to play. Once again, the Golden Eagles rallied, putting together a 14-6 run which included two 3-pointers each from Davis and Murphy. A layup by Bassey Inameti with 3:12 to play made it 69-69.
Cruz and Taylor hit free throws for a four-point lead and Davis cut it to one with another 3-pointer, making it 73-72 with 2:12 left.
EKU worked the ball to Stommes for a short jumper, and Taylor blocked a shot by Dillard at the other end. A missed 3-pointer by the Golden Eagles led to a layup at the other end by Cruz and a 77-72 lead with 27 seconds left.
Each team added one free throw for the final margin.
Coach Sutton's squad will make an appearance on national television in its next contest, playing Thursday night at UT Martin in a game that will be aired on ESPNU.
After a Saturday night game at Murray State, the Golden Eagles roll back into Eblen Center for a pair of OVC doubleheaders. First o the agenda is a game against Austin Peay on Thursday, Jan. 21, followed by Tennessee State on Saturday, Jan. 23.
Davis sets career record but Tech falls to EKU by five in shootout
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee Tech senior Frank Davis
established a career record for most 3-pointers made, but his
team-best 25 points and seven assists couldn't lift his team
over Eastern Kentucky Saturday night. The Colonels had too many
weapons, including four players in double figures, on the way to a
78-73 Ohio Valley Conference victory.


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Saturday 6/8/2011
Well today I slept well close to C-base village (one inhabitant, devoured to star gazing (after some THC tasting)). I got up around 9:00 and did my exercises and started to unpack the things from the FHB shopping. I helped in the meanwhile to move Heaven to the new location, visited Alex, did some mushroom picking (koazaci) and finished check out of the equipment. After that Nick came so I did check all the emails, send some emails concerning the FHB project and wikies, checked the wine trajectory from Morava to Praha to Berlin, did some contacting. The cherry on the cake was "cast iron shopping in broadwaypanhandlers.com" at 40000 msc connection response (however generally between 700-4000 msc), getting actully a gear for one hackers on the plains who is bringing half of his "grandmother's wedding gear". We run with Nick for a shopping which resulted in 2x 25l brewing vessels (with spigot and top openers) and Nick left for more shopping to Berlin. I went to clean a bit the FHB tent, had dinner with angels, relaxing period with Alex and her friend and visited Igor and his friends at C-base. The end of the evening was dedicated to this diary which I'm going to do on every day basis. I've actually also got my mobile working and connected.
So as you can see it was actually quite busy day but the rithm was rather slower because of the surrounding.
From Finowfurt,
Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck


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