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The theme country for the 2018 Taipei International Book Exhibition was Israel. What was unique was that the public in Taiwan was able to experience Israel with all five senses. Mr.Asher Yarden, Israel's representative in Taiwan said it was an interactive exhibition and the public could see the portrayal of a book with the height of 9 by 9 meters followed by hearing the band performing Israeli music while sipping Israeli wine and non-alcoholic malt as well as enjoying Israeli delicious food.
2018-01-14 01:00:00
The Malaysian representative in Taiwan (Head of Mission in Taiwan), Datuk Adeline Leong said that 2017 was a good year and her office had achieved many goals because of Taiwan's New Southbound Policy. She said the Policy has helped improve the relationship between countries in the south of Taiwan and Taiwan itself. Taiwan's New Southbound Policy has not only helped achieve targets in trade, investment and education but the scope has expanded to the fields of agriculture, biotechnology, medicine, ICT and smart city.
Datuk Adeline Leong said Taiwan is Malaysia's sixth largest trading partner and the total trade amounted to USD$15 billion. Taiwanese tourist arrivals to Malaysia have increased by 21.6% with around 300 thousand Taiwanese visitors and the number of Malaysia's tourists to Taiwan has increased by 9.9% with around 450,000 Malaysians visiting Taiwan.
2018-01-07 01:00:00
On today's show, I will revisit some of my favorite interviews from the past 12 months in 2017. We first start with an interview with Victoria Hsu, the president of the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights (TAPCPR) who shares with us her views on same sex marriage in Taiwan.
Other interviews include:
1. Russia representative
2. UK representative
3. India representative
4. South Africa representative
5. Brazilian representative
6. Cedric Alviani, Taipei Bureau Director of Reporters Without Borders
7. Germany representativeMore
2017-12-31 01:00:00
The COP 23 meeting in Bonn,Germany concluded in November and the Ambassador of Kiribati, Ambassador Teekoa Iuta said she has talked to Kiribati delegation and they looked at the conference positively. Most countries take the issue seriously judging from the fact that Fiji, being a small country affected by climate change, was given the chair and that was a sign forward adding that big countries show support for a small country like Fiji to take leadership in the conference.
The Ambassador of Kiribati, Ambassador Teekoa Iuta added that the most important task for Kiribati is to ensure water and food security. Even without the issue of climate change, Kiribati has faced the problem of fresh water supply. But climate change makes the situation worse as it has eroded Kiribati's land and caused salt water to penetrate into fresh water resources. Diseases such as diarrhea, cold and other health issues are prevalent and the government of Kiribati has continuously tackled this issue in order to improve the health of the people.More
2017-12-24 01:00:00
Educational exchange has been an important part of the cooperation between Taiwan and Kiribati. Currently, there are more than 50 students from Kiribati studying in Taiwan, an increase from around 30 students in 2014.Kiribati students undertake various programs ranging from undergraduate, master's and doctorate studies.
This year, among 8 students that graduated from 6 universities, one of them, Mr.Roman Korimara obtained Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, the first Kiribati student to obtain a Ph.D from Taiwan and one of the few Ph.D holders in Kiribati. Another outstanding student is Mr.Baraniko Eromanga who became the first Kiribati student to complete medical studies from Taiwan. The ambassador of Kiribati, Ambassador Teekoa Iuta said most medical students in Kiribati graduated from Fiji, New Zealand and Cuba.Taiwan's I-shou Medical University provides post-undergraduate programs to foreign students now and it attracts more medical students from Kiribati.More
2017-12-17 01:00:00
Kiribati is an island republic in the Central Pacific and the embassy of Kiribati was opened in Taipei in May 2013. Taiwan and Kiribati established diplomatic ties in 2003. The Ambassador of Kiribati Ambassador Teekoa Iuta said there are many ongoing cooperative projects between Taiwan and Kiribati. Some of the projects include humanitarian assistance, the construction of the airport runway, human resources development, short-term vocational training, clean energy, medical cooperation and education.
On the part of medical cooperation, Taiwan's Mackay Memorial Hospital has been sending medical teams to Kiribati. The second mission Taiwan Mobile Medical Mission from Mackay Memorial Hospital completed the mission in September 2017 and it was the 23rd Taiwan Medical Mission to visit Kiribati. Taiwan has dispatched medical team to Kiribati since the establishment of the diplomatic ties. Every year, two teams are sent to Kiribati. The medical specialists provided outpatient clinics and rheumatic heart disease screening. According to Mackay Memorial Hospital, The team served 747 outpatients and 23 of them were considered as referral for overseas treatment. More and more patients from Kiribati have received treatment in Taiwan. Apart from outpatient clinics, the specialists also provide on-job training for medical staff and interns in Kiribati.More
2017-12-03 01:00:00
Swedish Chamber of Commerce Taipei was founded in 2010 in Taipei and the CEO of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce Taipei, Louise Bystrom said the aim is to promote commercial and industrial relations between Taiwan and Sweden. The chamber of commerce organizes various activities including Sweden Day and this year it will take place on December 9 at the Huashan Creative Park in Taipei. This allows the public in Taiwan to understand more about Sweden and to have face to face contact with Swedish companies in Taiwan Swedish companies have strong presence in Taiwan.
2017-11-26 01:00:00
Dr.Chao Chih-ping, a banana expert and the director of Taiwan Banana Research Institute said it takes 3.5 to 5 years to develop a new variety of bananas and variety improvement is one of the biggest achievements Taiwan Banana Research Institute has made. Dr.Chao Chih-ping is the Director of Taiwan Banana Research Institute. Dr.Chao obtained his PhD in plant pathology at Lousiana State University, USA and master's degree at Illinois University studying plant pathology and In late September at Asia Agri-Tech Expo and Forum, Taiwan Banana Research Institute made worldwide debut of TaiJiao No.7 or Banana No.7 and the unique trait is that it is the first variety the institute has registered in foreign countries and the property right can be protected.More
2017-11-19 01:00:00
Dr,Chao Chi-ping, the director of Taiwan Banana Research Institute, has been devoted to the research of bananas for many decades. Dr.Chao Chih-ping has helped many foreign governments in the area of banana disease fighting, management and production. He has helped fight black sigatoka, a leaf spot disease in bananas in Saint Lucia and he said the production of bananas in Saint Lucia today has increased by 40% of the total volume in 2010 when the banana industry was devastated by black sigatoka. Dr.Chao has also been invited by the Australian government to help them fight TR4 Panama disease along with an expert from South Africa
In this week's edition, Dr.Chao Chih-ping shares with us his views on international cooperation and how he has helped fight banana diseases in other countries. Dr.Chao Chih-ping is the Director of Taiwan Banana Research Institute. Dr.Chao obtained his PhD in plant pathology at Lousiana State University, USA and master's degree at Illinois University studying plant pathology.More
2017-11-12 01:00:00
Taiwan Banana Research Institute was founded in 1970 to promote the quality of banana production, improve the quality of banana and reduce the cost of production of bananas in Taiwan.
Banana is the most important fruit for export in Taiwan, grown under the subtropical weather, Taiwan's banana has a flavor superior to those produced in tropical countries and a large quantity of Taiwan's bananas has been exported to Japan in the last few decades. The banana industry in Taiwan has been affected due to the competition of bananas from the Philippines. How can Taiwan's bananas beat the competition? What are some contributing factors that affect the banana production in Taiwan? Let's hear from Dr.Chao Chih-ping, a banana expert and the Director of Taiwan Banana Research Institute. Dr.Chao obtained his PhD in plant pathology at Lousiana State University, USA and master's degree at Illinois University studying plant pathology.More
2017-11-05 01:00:00
Toastmasters International is an NGO headquartered in the US with the purpose to help its members improve communication, public speaking and leadership skills. Taiwan's first Toastmaster Club was established in 1958 and the governing body is D67 of Toastmasters International located in Taipei. Trini Ding, the District Director of Taiwan D67 said Toastmasters D67 is a two-day conference that welcomes over 700 Toastmasters and guests to watch the finals where members will compete at the speech contest. Mayumi Hu, a member of the organizing committee said the registration starts now and they are making big efforts to make the big contest a huge success in Taiwan.More
2017-10-29 01:00:00
Mr.Martin Eberts, Director General, German Institute Taipei said bilateral investment between Taiwan and Germany has intensified over the years and Germany basically has a full scope of bilateral trade with Taiwan adding that Taiwan is a preferred destination for high tech businesses due to the reliability and security of the location.
Germany is a key player in organic food in the world with high quality food without GMOs (Genetically Modified Organism) and Mr.Martin Eberts said the government of Germany senses the same situation in Taiwan and hopes to increase cooperation in the area of organic agriculture. Taiwan's organic agriculture began rather late in the 1980s but the market for organic food has grown by leaps and bounds due to rising concerns of food security, increasing awareness of health concerns and benefits.
2017-10-22 01:00:00
Mr.Martin Eberts, the Director General of the German Institute Taipei, said the election in Germany ended peacefully and he was not surprised at the results.
The German representative in Taiwan said the political situation in Germany has changed and it is a normal process in a democracy so there is no need for any worries that a new party, AfD, the right-wing party will join the parliament. The government will continue to address the economic and security issues and fulfills its obligation to implement the climate change policy. Terrorism is EU's citizens fastest growing concern and Germany will work with other countries in the world to combat terrorism.
Collaboration with Taiwan will increase with the focus on the energy sector that was introduced a couple years ago, Mr.Martin Eberts added. The focus of the cooperation will be on renewable energy and energy transition both on the regulations and laws as well as the technical side especially in the field of off-shore wind energy adding that Germany could share with Taiwan the experience of energy transition.


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¿FIBA rules for Spain and NBA rules for team USA? I can't undestand it.
exactly, I think the generalized opinion in spain, is that both usa and spain played great, and we recognize usa won a well deserved medal, but we also feel that the refeeres spoiled the game
you are used to nba rules only, so you didnt see it so clearly, but they called a very strange mixture of nba and fiba rules, for you to understand, its as if in the middle of an important playoff game refeeres suddenly started using FIBA rules, you wouldnt like it either

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Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez Cozy Up Despite Reports of a "Stressful" Relationship
They've got their love to keep them warm.
Snuggling in the Salt Lake City airport following a recent ski vacation, on-again couple Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber looked very much in love this holiday season.
Sitting on her man's lap, SelGo was not afraid to publicly show her love for her boyfriend.
The latest outing by the twosome is further confirmation that after a brief split back in November, the Hollywood "it" couple is still very much together.
However, according to one insider on the Bieb's team, the pop star's relationship with the former Disney starlet is far from a fairytale.
"She's been giving him a really hard time," the source told the New York Daily News,"…she's been partying without him and it drives him crazy."
When the couple announced their initial split back in November, sources said Gomez was the one to end things after getting fed up with Bieber's wandering eye.
Unenthusiastic with Bieber's after he publicly flirted with multiple Victoria's Secret models, according to the New York Post, Gomez was "far from happy with how he has treated her."
But it was not long after coming clean about the split that Gomez took Bieber back "with much heartache" after her man pleaded to give him another chance.
Back in November, Bieber had nothing but nice words to say about Gomez in a candid interview with Oprah Winfrey.
"I am all about genuine people, and I feel like she's just one of the most genuine people," Bieber said about Gomez in the interview. "She just has a good heart. And I can talk to her about anything."
"I never make her separate from me because I don't ever want her to feel like I'm ashamed of her," said Bieber about being swamped with paparazzi while on dates with SelGo.
"If we get away, we're getting away together, at least."
Oh, young love.
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Hi everyone....when I tested the dryer the front panel was off....will this create a situation where the flame shuts down ??
not sure on this model of dryer, but most ignitors also use it as flame retification, it may glow but doesnt send necessary microamps back to say we have true burner ignition, sounds like this may be problem.


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Re: Amateurs
Why do you say that?
(Not that I'm disagreeing mind...;) )
Message Boards - Boba Fett Fan Club → Bounty Hunters → Amateurs
Why do you say that?
(Not that I'm disagreeing mind...;) )
Dengar could have too, but then he decided to settle down. And I think he got killed by Mara Jade...
To my understanding that was a poser. I had asked that here as well.
As far as hunters , they all had their potential, but fell pray to poor conceptual execution by writers. Of course the hunters who got the most face time would be considered the best.
Bossk blinded by rage, IG-88 undone by his megolamania when his last copy was destroyed after transferring himself to the doomed Death Star (the other two destroyed by Fett in personal combat), Dengar (unsure...killed by Mara Jade?, never heard that), Zuckuss and 4LOM (driven by more personal, less grandiose pursuits...didn't they join the Rebellion?), and the list gets longer.
The Fett has been around longer than any of them, and is highly motivated and clever. Case in point The Bounty Hunter trilogy.
All in all, no comparison...
Ok... maybe i'm biased, but Fett could beat all of those guys. Your examples are a little messed up. IG-88 was second best I think, Bossk was strong and skilled, but his anger and hunger got in the way. Dengar is really good, but still couldn't touch Fett. 4-LOM and Zuckuss were not cowardly, but for some reason in "The Mandalorian Armor" Zuckuss was very cowardly. But, I say "Tales of the Bounty Hunters" has the true story because it was published in 1996, and "Armor" was in 1998. And where did all this anti Jango sentiment come from?
Mace Windu...............:P
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General teaching books
Brown, Kate - Classroom Starters and Plenaries: Creative Ideas for Use Across the Curriculum
Cohen, Louis - A Guide to Teaching Practice
Crowley, Sue - Getting the Buggers to Behave
Ginnis, Paul - Teacher's Toolkit: Raise Classroom Achievement with Strategies for Every Learner
Keeling and Gilbert - Rocket Up Your Class!: 101 High Impact Activities to Start, Break and End Lessons (Independent Thinking Series)
Lemov, Doug - Teach like a Champion
Wallace and Kirkman - Pimp Your Lesson!: Prepare, Innovate, Motivate and Perfect (Continuum Practical Teaching Guides)
History books
(for the topics)
History teaching
(how to teach history specifically)
Bourdilon, Hilary - Teaching History: A Reader
Davies, Lynch and Davies - Enlivening Secondary History: 40 Practical Classroom Activities
Farmer & Knight - Active History in Key Stages 3 and 4
Fischer, Peter - Thinking Through History
Murphy, Julia - 100+ Ideas for Teaching History (Continuum One Hundreds)
Smith, Neil - History Teacher's Handbook
Walsh, Ben - Exciting ICT in History
Helpful Websites
I'll update the list as we get more books, putting the more popular books further up the list. Please feel free to suggest title amendments, or further titles, or whatever (we might get to the stage where we break up the General teaching books into motivation, discipline and so on).
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CNN Report, Oct. 25, 2009: The world's largest pyramid; by volume?
Also: The Mayan "creation story" was thought to have been influenced by Spanish Catholics but the Mayan's own "story" discovered here proves that there version existed at least 1,000 years earlier.
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Wednesday, 03 April 2013 08:43 PM
Connecticut lawmakers were expected to approve sweeping new restrictions on weapons and large-capacity magazines on Wednesday, a response to the Newtown school shooting that will give the state some of the country's tightest gun control laws.
The December massacre of 26 people inside Sandy Hook Elementary School, which reignited a national debate on gun control, set the stage for changes in the state that may have been impossible elsewhere: The governor, who personally informed parents that their children had been killed that day, championed the cause, and legislative leaders, keenly aware of the attention on the state, struck a bipartisan agreement they want to serve as a national model.
"The tragedy in Newtown demands a powerful response, demands a response that transcends politics," said Senate President Donald E. Williams Jr., a Democrat. "It is the strongest and most comprehensive bill in the country."
The bill passed the Senate in a bipartisan 26-10 vote following a respectful and at times somber six-hour debate Wednesday evening. The House of Representatives then debated the bill and was expected to vote later in the night. Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has said he would sign it into law.
The legislation adds more than 100 firearms to the state's assault weapons ban and creates what officials have called the nation's first dangerous weapon offender registry as well as eligibility rules for buying ammunition. Some parts of the bill would take effect immediately after Malloy's signature, including background checks for all firearms sales.
Connecticut will join states including California, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts in having the country's strongest gun control laws, said Brian Malte, director of mobilization for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence in Washington.
"This would put Connecticut right at the top or near the top of the states with the strongest gun laws," Malte said.
Colorado and New York also passed new gun control requirements in the wake of the Newtown shooting, in which a 20-year-old gunman used a military-style semi-automatic rifle to kill 20 first-graders and six educators.
Compared with Connecticut's legislation, which, for example, bans the sale or purchase of ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds, New York restricted magazines to seven bullets and gave owners of higher-capacity magazines a year to sell them elsewhere. Colorado banned ammunition magazines that hold more than 15 rounds.
"There are pieces that are stronger in other states, but, in totality, this will be the strongest gun legislation passed in the United States," Betty Gallo, a lobbyist for Connecticut Against Gun Violence, said of the Connecticut bill.
Many senators spoke of balancing the rights of gun owners with addressing the horror of the Sandy Hook shooting. Lawmakers said they received thousands of emails and phone calls urging them to vote for or against the bill, with veteran Sen. Joan Hartley, a Democrat, saying she's never seen a more polarizing issue at the state Capitol.
But Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, whose district includes Newtown, said he felt he was representing the interests of the Sandy Hook victims as he cast his vote.
"I stand here as their voice, as their elected representative," he said, reciting the names of the 26 victims at the school.
Gun rights advocates who greatly outnumbered gun control supporters in demonstrations held earlier in the day at the Capitol railed against the proposals as misguided and unconstitutional, occasionally chanting "No! No! No!" and "Read the bill!"
"We want them to write laws that are sensible," said Ron Pariseau, of Pomfret, who was angry he'll be made a felon if he doesn't register his weapons that will no longer be sold in Connecticut. "What they're proposing will not stop anything."
By the time the Senate voted, many of the gun rights advocates had gone home, leaving behind proponents of the bill who applauded when the tally was read.
In the legislature, where Democrats control both houses, leaders waited to unveil gun legislation until they struck a bipartisan deal that they say shows how the parties can work together elsewhere. They touted the package as a comprehensive response to Newtown that also addresses mental health and school security measures, including the creation of a new council to establish school safety standards and the expansion of circumstances when someone's mental history disqualifies him or her from obtaining a gun permit or other gun credentials.
But momentum on federal legislation has stalled in Congress, and President Barack Obama has planned a trip to Connecticut on Monday to step up pressure to pass a bill.
A silent majority in favor of stronger gun control has emerged following the Newtown massacre, Gallo said.
Among the gun control advocates were Dan and Lauren Garrett, of Hamden, wearing green shirts in honor of the Sandy Hook victims. The Garretts traveled to Hartford with their 10-month-old son, Robert, to watch the bill's passage. They said they hope lawmakers will build on the proposal.
"It's just the beginning of this bill. In six months from now, it's going to get stronger and stronger," Dan Garrett said. "I think they're watching us all over the country."
But gun rights advocates and some lawmakers questioned whether the legislation would have done anything to stop Adam Lanza, the gunman who blasted his way into Sandy Hook Elementary. State police say he fired 154 shots with a Bushmaster .223-caliber rifle inside the school, then killed himself with a handgun. He had shot to death his mother, Nancy, before going to the school, and search warrants of the Lanzas' home showed it was packed with weapons and ammunition.
In a state where gun manufacturing dates back to the Revolutionary War, law-abiding gun owners are paying the price for the actions of a deranged young man, said a Republican state senator, Tony Guglielmo.
"The problem is I can't connect the dots between Adam Lanza and the good guys. So I think we need to do something, but I guess we should be doing something that does good, not something that just feels good," he said.
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Travel Guide of Portland, Oregon for: Hotel deLuxeDowntown Portland, Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon Summary
- Beautiful nature abounds: lakes, rivers, waterfalls, and the famed Mt. Hood
- Great food, and many restaurants focusing on sustainable, organic, and local ingredients
- Cultural depth, with multi-ethnicity neighborhoods and various cultural events
- Laid-back attitude
- Gardens, like the Portland Japanese Garden nestled in over five acres of Washington Park
- Clean city streets as the result of multiple environmentally friendly initiatives
- Shopping, including the largest shopping mall in the state in Washington Park as well as vintage and boutique stores throughout other districts
- Active music scene, from huge, well-known acts to underground groups
- Very bike- and pedestrian-friendly downtown area
- Mild, cool but dry summers; no temperature extremes
- Best of the best when it comes to beer and wine
- Array of outdoor activities like hiking, biking, and even skiing and snowboarding at Mt. Hood
- Just over an hour's driving time from the beautiful Oregon coast
- Gray and gloomy during winter months
- Traffic
- Relatively common marijuana use (a pro for some!)
What It's Like
Arguably one of the U.S.'s most environmentally friendly cities, Portland offers visitors an extensive public transit system and sustainable options in nearly every part of the city, from restaurants, to hotels, to public parks. Along with this eco-centered push comes an "urban growth boundary," making Portland extremely compact and navigable.
It's no accident that Portland's most popular attractions are nature-oriented, from the zen Portland Japanese Garden to numerous hiking paths (such as Oneonto Gorge, just 15 minutes east of the city in Mt. Hood National Forest).
But for less outdoorsy types, Portland also offers more typically urban highlights, including some of the nation's best breweries, restaurants, and museums. Widmer Brewing Company on Mississippi Avenue offers daily tours (with free goodies, like samples and a pint glass souvenir!).
Where To Stay
Hotels are sprinkled throughout the entire Portland downtown and surrounding areas, but most are concentrated in the districts immediately west of the Willamette River. If you're coming to Portland for an event or festival, you'll likely want to stay around the Pioneer Courthouse Square -- the largest outdoor venue in the city, where hundreds of festivals are held every year. Business travelers may want to stay within the Lloyd District -- Portland's commercial district, home to the Oregon Convention Center.
Luckily, Portland offers visitors a clean and effective public transit system, so if you opt for a less expensive hotel on the outskirts, you will be able to easily access downtown areas.


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BRUNSWICK, Ga.—Dressed in orange jailhouse garb rather than the suit he wore at trial, Guy Heinze Jr. bowed his head as a judge sentenced him to life in prison with no chance of parole. A quirk of legal maneuvering had spared Heinze from a possible death sentence for the 2009 beating deaths of his father and seven others.
Relatives of the victims said they never wanted to see Heinze executed.
"That's the easy way out," said Diane Isenhower, whose ex-husband and four children were among the eight people beaten to death four years ago inside a cramped mobile home they shared with Heinze.
"From day one, we told them, 'No death penalty,'" said Hazel Sumner, who identified herself as a cousin to Isenhower's family.
Heinze, 26, was sentenced Thursday afternoon in Glynn County Superior Court less than a week after a jury convicted him of malice murder in the Aug. 29, 2009, slayings. Prosecutors dropped the death penalty as an option last week as part of a last-minute deal with defense attorneys that allowed them to avoid a hung jury.
Under Georgia law, Heinze faced an automatic life sentence once the death penalty was off the table. The only thing Judge Stephen Scarlett had to decide was whether the defendant would ever be eligible for parole.
Heinze's attorneys, who insisted he is innocent, presented no witnesses and said little to try to persuade Scarlett before he imposed his sentence. Newell Hamilton Jr., Heinze's lead defense attorney, declined to comment after Thursday's hearing.
"There are people who believe in Guy and believe he's innocent," said Heather Teston, who said she has been a friend of Heinze since high school. "Maybe they should have moved the trial somewhere else …. I think ultimately he was railroaded by the justice system."
In a frantic 911 call made the morning the bodies were discovered, Heinze cried out: "My whole family is dead!"
Heinze's trial nearly ended with a hung jury last week on the third day of deliberations. But prosecutors last Friday dropped the death penalty in a deal with Heinze's lawyers to allow the trial judge to dismiss one juror and replace him with an alternate. A guilty verdict was returned four hours later. Afterward, prosecutors said only that there had been "a situation" with the dismissed juror that contributed to the deadlock.
Jurors were unaware that prosecutors had ruled out a possible death sentence until after they returned with a guilty verdict.
Prosecutors said Heinze had been smoking crack cocaine when he killed his father and the other victims, all members of an extended family. They said he killed the first victim in a dispute over a bottle of prescription painkillers he wanted to steal, then killed the others to avoid getting caught.
Each of the victims died from multiple crushing blows to the head from what police believe was a shotgun barrel, jurors heard. Autopsies showed they suffered a combined total of more than 220 wounds. The murder weapon was never found.
Although the attack happened in the night and most of the victims were found in bed, defense attorneys argued a single assailant couldn't possibly have inflicted such carnage. They insisted that Heinze would not kill loved ones over a bottle of weak prescription pills and that police ignored evidence and alternate suspects in a rush to accuse him.
Heinze had told police he found the victims' bodies after returning from a late night away from home.
The dead included Heinze's father, Guy Heinze Sr., 45. Rusty Toler Sr., 44, was slain along with his four children: Chrissy Toler, 22; Russell D. Toler Jr., 20; Michael Toler, 19; and Michelle Toler, 15. Also killed was the elder Toler's sister, Brenda Gail Falagan, 49, and Joseph L. West, the 30-year-old boyfriend of Chrissy Toler. Her 3-year-old son, Byron Jimerson Jr., ended up the sole survivor but suffered severe head injuries.


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2011-10-12 / Obituaries
Dr. Robert Bergmann, Massapequa Ophthalmologist
Award-winning surgical Ophthalmologist Dr. Robert Bruce Bergmann, who worked out of his Hicksville Road home in Massapequa for many years, died Sept. 21, 2011 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Bethpage after a lengthy illness. He was 85 and had been in practice for 50 years, up until his death. He was also affiliated with New Island, Syosset and Brunswick hospitals.
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Fiserv, a provider of financial services technology solutions, has introduced Predictive Scores, a new predictive modeling solution for customer behavior.
Predictive Scores, which is available through Fiserv's Intelligent Workplace suite, leverages insights from multiple, complex data sets to provide timely, actionable information.
Using patented and patent-pending models, Predictive Scores allows financial services firms to harness multichannel transaction data to reveal crucial propensities or probabilities that impact business growth. This multichannel data includes information from account processing, debit and credit card processing, online and mobile banking, and electronic bill pay systems.
Predictive Scores can be used to support many business objectives, including the following:
"The unique combination of data science and big data is what sets our solution apart," said Danny Baker, vice president of financial and risk management solutions at Fiserv, in a statement. "It provides financial institutions with extremely valuable insights that can lower their direct marketing production costs by almost 50 percent for some clients. The knowledge gained from Predictive Scores provides more accurate, detailed support for building and managing customer-centric growth strategies, particularly for acquiring new customers and expanding existing relationships.
"Predictive Scores can be aimed at many different customer segments and offerings," Baker added. "Adding the intelligence gained from Predictive Scores to existing customer data and then enabling financial institutions to use this data to increase customer adoption of our leading online, mobile, card, person-to-person payment and electronic bill pay offerings for the financial institution really encapsulate the holistic Fiserv approach that we know our clients are asking for."
Predictive Scores is available as an in-house solution or via software-as-a-service accessed via Intelligent Workplace from Fiserv. A single sign-on portal, Intelligent Workplace also supports the Prologue Financial Accounting Services suite, Credit Risk Modeler, Trend Modeler, and Prepayment Modeler. The portal makes it easier for end-users to manage and switch between these multiple applications, while seamlessly integrating their organization's risk, budgeting, and reporting data and processes.
The Changing Face of the Financial Services Industry
In an information age, data becomes the new source of value.


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July 19. 2014 7:08PM
Newington-based gun company layoffs said to reflect sales
By MIKE LAWRENCE
Union Leader Correspondent
Ernie Shipman, owner of Renaissance Firearms in Rochester's Gonic neighborhood, displays pistols Thursday in the back room of his store on Main Street. Despite indications that the gun market is slowing across the state, Shipman said his sales are up overall compared to last year. The rack behind Shipman, to his right, contains many pistols made by gun manufacturer Sig Sauer, which announced layoffs at its Newington facility last week, citing declining sales. "They make a fantastic product," Shipman said of Sig Sauer, calling the decline just a short-term dip. (MIKE LAWRENCE/Union Leader Correspondent)
- Layoffs announced last week at the Newington facility of firearms manufacturer Sig Sauer highlight a cooling of the nationwide gun market that's having significant effects in New Hampshire and could cause skilled local workers to look for employment in other industries, a state workforce official said.
Sig Sauer announced Tuesday that it had "instituted a series of workforce adjustments" amid declining sales after "record highs experienced over the past couple of years."
Sig Sauer spokesman Allen Forkner declined last week to cite a specific number of workers that could be affected, but comments by the state official and an education administrator involved in workforce training indicate that more than 180 employees could be out of work as a result of recent cuts by the company.
Michael Power, community outreach administrator for the Office of Workforce Opportunity at the New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development, said Thursday that Sig Sauer previously laid off 57 workers in May.
"We're the state's job training agency, and we handle large layoffs like this," Power said, referring to the latest round of cuts.
Power said the state's "rapid response team" was meeting with Sig Sauer employees Thursday to offer help with services such as filing for unemployment and job retraining programs. He said the team is called in when the number of affected employees tops 25.
"It's not a little thing if (Sig Sauer) called us," Power said.
Lin Tamulonis, associate vice president of corporate and community education at Great Bay Community College, indicated Thursday that the new layoffs could greatly exceed 25. Tamulonis spoke shortly after walking out of the Sig Sauer facility, which is on the Newington side of Pease International Tradeport.
Tamulonis manages workforce training programs at Great Bay, which also is on the Tradeport and has a close relationship with Sig Sauer.
"The number I heard was 125 this time," she said, cautioning that she hadn't received confirmation of that number.
Statewide impacts
The Sig Sauer layoffs follow a July 2 filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection by Newport precision machining company Latva Machine Inc. Latva owes more than $3.1 million in total debt to more than 100 creditors across New Hampshire and the country, according to the filing made in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manchester.
Latva, founded in 1979, says on its website that it's "a long-term supplier to the military of small arms components" and of components for the commercial firearm industry.
Power said the gun market is slowing across the country, following huge spikes in sales amid fears of gun control legislation in recent years.
"Nationwide and even in the region, there have been some cutbacks," Power said. "We're seeing it across the country, so you'd expect to see it in New Hampshire, too, and we are."
Power said Green Mountain Rifle Barrel Co. in Conway, for example, also made staff reductions this year.
Green Mountain Rifle Barrel owner Rick Sanborn said he had more than 200 employees in June 2013 but now has about 100 after "a couple of different layoffs." The barrel manufacturer was founded in 1976.
Sanborn said he had expected sales to decrease after surges in recent years.
"You come off a big boom in sales ... (and) it was bound to happen," Sanborn said Wednesday. "You can get this kind of wild swing in any industry."
At Renaissance Firearms in Rochester, owner Ernie Shipman said sales at his retail store skyrocketed around the 2008 presidential election amid concerns about gun control legislation.
"That was a crazy week," he said.
Worries over legislative restrictions returned and pushed up sales from January to March 2013, Shipman said, after the tragic December 2012 shootings that killed 20 students and six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
"It created kind of a false demand," Shipman said.
Sanborn said "the boom wasn't all just panic-buying," though, citing factors such as a spike in soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who bought civilian models of firearms they had used on their tours.
"I know a significant amount of those guys purchased those firearms because they look exactly like what they used over in the sandbox," Sanborn said, saying those sales were now slowing.
Background checks
After a spike in 2013, background checks for gun purchases in New Hampshire this year appear to be falling back to a rate comparable to that seen in 2012, according to data related to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS. While background checks don't correlate directly with purchases and can vary with each state's laws, NICS data can indicate interest in firearm purchases.
According to NICS records available at www.fbi.gov, there were 62,852 background checks in New Hampshire from January through June this year. That compares with 15,525 checks in Vermont, 37,712 checks in Maine and 98,404 checks in Massachusetts.
The nation's leader was Kentucky, with more than 1.5 million background checks from January through June this year. California had the second-largest number, with 706,803. Texas had 698,677, according to the data.
The FBI data says 86,502 background checks were conducted in New Hampshire through the first six months of 2013, when a total of 147,726 checks were conducted for the year.
In 2012, 57,474 background checks were conducted in New Hampshire through the first six months, and 128,178 were conducted over the year.
The data says 90,984 checks were conducted in New Hampshire in 2011, and 79,940 were conducted in 2010.
Shipman noted that after 11 years in the business, he was used to ups and downs in gun sales, which he expected to rise again in the fall, calling summer a traditionally slow season for firearms.
Shipman said his year-to-year sales remained up.
"We're still busy," Shipman said. "We're real happy with our sales overall."
Sig Sauer workers
A display case in the back of Shipman's store was filled Thursday with Sig Sauer pistols. He said the company makes "a fantastic product," producing handguns used by Navy SEALs, law enforcement agencies and pilots.
Sig Sauer announced online Saturday that its P226, chambered in .357SIG, has been selected as the new duty pistol of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol. The Highway Patrol has more than 1,600 sworn troopers, covering more than 78,000 miles of roadway. Sig Sauer says it will deliver 1,800 P226 handguns to the agency, according to the post.
Power said workers laid off at Sig Sauer in Newington could have new options for employment, citing New Hampshire's growing aerospace and advanced composite industries.
"A lot of these workers are skilled, particularly in (computer numerical control) machines and advanced manufacturing," Power said. "We have a good need for these people."
Power said Safran, a French multinational company that builds aircraft and rocket engines and aerospace components, plans to "make the next generation of airplane engines" at the new, 275,000-square-foot plant in Rochester that Safran USA shares with Albany Engineered Composites.
"They're going to need 400 to 500 people over the next couple years to start making those engines," Power said.
He noted that Great Bay plans to expand its Advanced Technology and Academic Center, a manufacturing training campus in Rochester, to help meet that demand.
"We're going to try to get these Sig Sauer people placed as soon as possible," he said.


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Ducks power play comes alive in Game 5 win against Stars
The Anaheim Ducks claimed the Pacific Division crown in spite of their power play.
On Friday, they protected home-ice advantage because of it.
Nick Bonino, Rickard Rakell, Mathieu Perreault and Corey Perry each cashed in on man-advantage opportunities to lift the Ducks to a 6-2 rout of the Dallas Stars at the Honda Center and give the Quack Pack a 3-2 lead in this best-of-seven Western Conference quarterfinal series.
The Stars will try to extend the series in Sunday's Game 6 at the American Airlines Center, although they might think twice about trying to agitate Anaheim's star players after getting punished by the Ducks' power play Friday.
"When you're scoring on your power play, they're not going to do as many things, and that's what we need to take over to the next one," said Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf. "As long as our power play is getting chances and stuff, we have to build momentum off that, whether we score or not. Tonight, we did."
Getzlaf, who missed Wednesday's loss in Dallas due to an upper-body injury and was questionable for Friday's contest, was in the lineup for Game 5 and made his mark with an even-strength goal and a pair of power play assists.
Right-winger Jakob Silfverberg also scored for the Ducks, while captain Jamie Benn and centre Shawn Horcoff provided the offence for the Stars.
The Ducks' power play posted just a 16.0% efficiency rate during the regular season — 22nd in league and third-worst among playoff squads — and was 2-for-17 (11.8%) in the first four games of this series.
Their stats will look pretty good after Friday's four-for-six performance, with the Ducks setting a franchise record for most power play goals in a post-season outing.
Getzlaf had a lot to do with it.
The crowd roared when the 28-year-old centre stepped onto the ice for the pre-game warmup and went wild when he was announced as a member of Anaheim's starting lineup.
In kind, Getzlaf gave them plenty to cheer about, collecting an assist on goals by Bonino and Perreault and finding the back of the net with a one-timer of his own in the third period.
Along the way, he became Anaheim's all-time leader for playoff points with 66, although he was also guilty of a stickhandling gaffe on Benn's shorthanded goal.
"Every time you get your captain back, it's going to make you feel better," said Ducks head coach Bruce Boudreau. "It's like your big brother is back. Guys felt a little more secure, and he came out and played a really great game, as well as the other guys."
The return of Getzlaf reunited Anaheim's dynamic duo, but his partner-in-production, Perry, was hurtin' after a spearing cheap shot by Stars winger Ryan Garbutt in the first period of Friday's contest.
Perry had just jumped over the boards for a line change when Garbutt, who was headed to his own bench, dropped him with a spear to the, um, private parts.
Perry writhed in pain on the ice and missed a couple of shifts after briefly retreating to the locker room, while Garbutt was assessed a five-minute major for spearing and tossed from the game.
Boston Bruins brute Milan Lucic was slapped with a $5,000 fine earlier this week for his kilt-lifter on Detroit Red Wings blueliner Danny DeKeyser, so Garbutt could have sent an e-transfer to the NHL before Friday's final buzzer to cross one thing off his to-do list for the weekend.
"It wasn't an accident and, you know, it was pretty dirty, but we know that's how he plays," Boudreau said.
Stars head coach Lindy Ruff was also critical of Garbutt for the low blow, but reminded reporters — without naming names — that Perry speared his star player in the groin in Game 2.
"It's something that, obviously, we don't want to see," Ruff said. "I didn't think it was as bad as it was made out to be. I don't think it was as bad as the spearing on Jamie Benn, in my eyes. It's still definitely a penalty and it's something that I don't want to see as a coach."
The Ducks will try to finish off the series Sunday in Dallas, while the wildcard Stars are focusing on the positives as they prepare for a must-win game at home.
They fired 28 shots through two periods of Game 5 and trailed by one at the second intermission, but the Ducks turned a close game into a lopsided result with three goals in a span of 5:42 early in the third period.
"We did a lot of good things in the game," Ruff said. "They had a little bit of puck luck on their side that we didn't have. We hit posts, crossbar. We had our chances on the power play and we missed too many good opportunities, and that's the difference in the game."
Stars starter Kari Lehtonen stopped just 16 of 21 shots in Game 5 before backup Tim Thomas entered the game.
At the other end, Ducks netminder Frederik Andersen finished with 34 saves.
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Ordinary Time: January 14th
Wednesday of the First Week of Ordinary Time
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Old Calendar: St. Hilary, bishop and doctor; St. Felix of Nola, priest and martyr
According to the 1962 Missal of Bl. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of St. Felix who lived in the third century. He was a priest and suffered greatly in the Decian persecution. The tomb of St. Felix at Nola, a small town in the south of Italy, was a much frequented place of pilgrimage in Christian antiquity, and in the Middle Ages veneration of him spread throughout the west. Along with St. Hilary his feast is celebrated today on the Tridentine Calendar. According to the Ordinary Rite St. Hilary's feast is now celebrated on January 13.Indulgence for Sixth World Encounter of Families in Mexico January 14-18
St. Felix
In one of the early persecutions the priest Felix was first tortured on the rack, then thrown into a dungeon. While lying chained on broken glass, an angel appeared, loosed his bonds, and led him out to freedom. Later, when the persecution had subsided, he converted many to the Christian faith by his preaching and holy example. However, when he resumed his denunciation of pagan gods and false worship, he was again singled out for arrest and torture; this time he escaped by hiding in a secret recess between two adjacent walls. No sooner had he disappeared into the nook than a thick veil of cobwebs formed over the entrance so that no one suspected he was there. Three months later he died in peace (260), and is therefore a martyr only in the wider sense of the word.
- Let us be convinced that if we strive and struggle in God's behalf, we may also rely on His special protection. God shields you from your enemies, even, if need be, by a spider's web. Spend some time recalling occasions when you were protected in an unusual way from harm.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Beyonce calls the making of her upcoming HBO documentary "Life is But a Dream" a therapeutic process.
She tells the March issue of Vogue, "this movie healed me in so many ways" and thinking about it makes her "want to cry."
The film addresses topics that the notoriously private singer normally doesn't address in public. It chronicles her 2011 decision to no longer have her father Matthew Knowles as her manager, her miscarriage and even the rumors that she was faking her pregnancy with daughter Blue Ivy by really using a surrogate.
"That was very odd," says the singer.
"Life is But a Dream" airs Feb. 16 on HBO.


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K.I.S.S. Horse Center in Galt continues to expand its activities and assistance for both equines and equestrians. Anita Dayton, the owner and resident trainer, is always looking for ways to help rescue more horses and promote good horsemanship.
K.I.S.S. Horse Center in Galt continues to expand its activities and assistance for both equines and equestrians. Anita Dayton, the owner and resident trainer, is always looking for ways to help rescue more horses and promote good horsemanship.
My last column on this facility in March 2012 highlighted a plan to develop the nonprofit Hope for Horses, and also discussed the draft horse quadrille team that had been formed.
Hope for Horses has been established and is now recognized as a nonprofit corporation in California. The tax exemption status is still in process. This is exciting news. This represents a huge effort by Dayton, as well as Sacramento-based lawyer Katie Goodin of Scalia Goodin LLP, and others. The board is in the process of applying for grants, raising funds and promoting this wonderful organization.
In 2012 more than 50 horses were saved, most of which were placed in loving homes. Other equines are in various phases of rehabilitation, and a small number are too disabled to be rideable and will live out the remainder of their lives in pasture. When new horses arrive, they need to learn that humans are their friends. Some of them have never had a halter on, have no idea what a treat is, or what it means to be touched with kindness. Once they are halter broken, the groundwork can begin. In time these majestic creatures accept being saddled, and eventually can be ridden for the walk, trot and canter. To date, more than 500 horses have been saved from bad situations or from slaughter.
Many equestrians benefit from activities at the K.I.S.S. Horse Center. This year Dayton has started offering monthly horsemanship clinics. These are designed to help improve the skill levels for riders from novice to advanced. Shawna Scizak of Brentwood Yoga Center is now giving yoga sessions that are specifically designed for equestrians to help them stretch and advance in their riding ability. Richard Winters (wintersranch.com), a nationally and internationally recognized natural horsemanship trainer, will be teaching two clinics at K.I.S.S. Horse Center this year. The Basic Horsemanship clinic has already taken place but the Advancing Horsemanship Clinic will take place on May 25 and 26. A few spaces are still available; please contact Dayton if you are interested. And a draft horse quadrille team is working on presentations for local horse shows, The Western States Horse Expo (June 7 to 9 at Cal Expo), and the State Fair.
The first open house of 2013 at K.I.S.S. Horse Center will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 3. Please come out and support the rescue work Hope for Horses participates in. There will be a demonstration by the Draft Horse Quadrille at 11 a.m., as well as a Yoga for Equestrians presentation at 1:30 p.m. Attendees can also visit with horses that need homes. Please be a part of saving the lives of these precious equines.
Julie Damron is a veterinarian at Sierra Veterinary Clinic in Stockton. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Japanese yen has been trading down vs. the U.S. dollar (FOREX:USDJPY) for the last three weeks from 100.55 to 96.50, but now direction seems to be changing if we respect the importance of Elliott wave pattern and channeling technique.
On the 4h chart below we can see that the pair made only three waves of decline, refereed as a corrective movement as Elliott put it. Notice that wave C was very similar in distance compared to wave A, which is one of the most important guidelines when we are looking for end of wave C. In fact, recent reversal higher from 96.52 has already extended through the upper channel resistance line, which is another important sign for a trend-change, from bearish now to bullish mode. However it would be nice to wait on a daily close price before turning point is confirmed. So if pair will close above 98.00 level or around that figure, then we will be looking back toward the 100 mark or even higher in the next few days, while 96.52 support holds.
USD/JPY 4h
On a daily chart we can see that price is sideways, but if we respect the range-bound market then looking toward the upper side of the range from current levels makes sense at this stage.
USD/JPY Daily
Educational Part:
What is a three wave A-B-C move in Elliott Wave theory?
A 3-wave structure labeled A-B-C is called a zig-zag that generally moves counter to the larger trend. It is one of the most common corrective wave patterns.
- Structure is 5-3-5
- wave A must be a motive wave
- wave B can only be a corrective pattern
- wave B must be shorter than wave A by price distance
- wave C must be a motive wave.


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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A Monday deadline approached with no sign of progress in resolving a months-long dispute over exactly how much Ukraine owes Russia for past natural gas deliveries and what price the nation should pay for future supplies.
The two sides, along with European Union energy chief Guenther Oettinger, held talks Saturday in Kiev, but no results were announced and officials would not comment Sunday.
Ukraine has balked at the price of $385 per thousand cubic meters demanded by Russia's Gazprom. Kiev wants to return to a previously discounted price of $268.50.
Gazprom has said it needs $1.95 billion from Ukraine's Naftogaz for gas deliveries or it will start demanding payment in advance on Monday. The dispute is part of wider tensions after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in March.


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So I just got a call from my mother in law. She watches our baby while we are at work, which is a HUGE BLESSING!! Dont get me wrong, I know that this is a huge help but I have been having a hard time with her and the whole feeding.... She called me this morning and said that the baby had fallen asleep in her arms for about 20 minutes and woke up a little fussy so she decided to try and feed her some cereal. She said she took a couple bites and then gagged. She called me to let me know I had forgotten a few things to leave her (nothing of actual need of course) and to let me know about this. I told her that I didnt think she could be hungry since she nursed at 7 this morning. She tried to feed her at 8:30!
This has been somewhat of an issue... I just feel that everytime the baby is fussy, she thinks she needs to feed her. Also, she will wake the baby up from sleep to feed her. So she is not feeding her on demand. I just dont know how to handle this without hurting her feelings. I know she is wanting to do what is best for our baby but I just dont want overfeeding to be an issue. Our baby is eating 5 oz bottles ands sometimes that doesnt satisfy her....
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'Zero Dark Thirty' follows dark, tangled threads to death of bin Laden
There are two misconceptions about "Zero Dark Thirty": that it portrays information gathered during torture as integral in the search for and killing of Osama bin Laden, and that it lionizes President Barack Obama's role in the process.
The latter caused the film's release to be delayed until after the November election. In fact, Obama only appears in a news clip saying he opposes torture.
But torture, of course, occurred. And in a long and hard-to-watch scene of waterboarding that opens the film, dirty water from a battered cooler in the corner of a filthy cell is poured onto a rag being held over the mouth of a prisoner in order to suffocate him.
So when other prisoners cooperate later in the film, we assume they were similarly interrogated.
But rather than claiming that information obtained by using torture directly led to bin Laden's death - or defending the practice - the film portrays these events as threads in a dark and sprawling tapestry whose collective result was the death of the al-Qaida leader who was the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Nominated for five Oscars, including best picture, "Zero Dark Thirty" examines the urge for revenge and justice that drove public policy and personal attitudes during this period. Its journey down a rabbit hole of post-Sept. 11 anxieties is illuminated by laser-sighted rifles and night-vision goggles.
The film by screenwriter Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow - whose previous collaboration, "The Hurt Locker," won the Oscar for best picture - is not about the issue of torture or even about the war on terror, but about the search for one man.
And by not pointing fingers or assigning blame, it allows us to do so ourselves, triggering a cascade of feelings ranging from horror at the morally repellent techniques used to a sense of mission accomplished.
The film also is about the education of a real-life CIA agent, played by Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain, whose obsession with the al-Qaida network resembles that of the fictional agent in "Homeland."
She is made in the image of a wounded nation seeking closure for whom the attacks were personal.
While the rest of us slept, her systematic, procedural, boots-on-the-ground approach found her searching needle-in-haystack fashion for clues, connections and the conclusive proof that finally lead Special Forces helicopters to bin Laden's compound.
The raid, which takes up the final 40 minutes or so of screen time, is told from the tip-of-the-spear perspective of characters who are, perhaps intentionally, too vaguely defined to register. And while the raid adds dramatic finality to the chaotic and noose-tightening series of events that precede it, it also resembles a single victory in a war whose ending has yet to be written.
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Zero Dark Thirty *** 1/2
- Cast: Jessica Chastain, Kyle Chandler, Jason Clarke, Reda Kateb, Jennifer Ehle, Harold Perrineau, James Gandolfini, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt
- Behind the scenes: Produced by Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal and Megan Ellison. Written by Mark Boal. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow.
- Rated: R; violence, language, intense scenes
- Approximate running time: 157 minutes
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Thermaltake SMART 750W SP-750P Overview
Thermaltake SMART 750W SP-750P Introduction:
Power supply technology has grown to target multiple needs – features can include high efficiency, high output, high quality, low noise, low temperatures, durable, convenience (modular), affordability (which often means some of those previously mentioned features were sacrificed), and anything else that has been left out. Over the years the average power consumption has not fluctuated very much; each generation of computer technology is faster, but energy consumption is swayed by increases in efficiency. What this means is that energy output is not a priority on research and development for power supply manufacturers. The main development lately has been in increasing efficiency recognized generally through the 80 PLUS certification program where manufacturers volunteer their products and are tested, and then given an efficiency rating ranging from 80 PLUS to 80 PLUS Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Titanium. This naming convention makes it easy for consumers to find out approximately how efficient they could expect a given unit to be in their system. Power supplies at different price points combine various features together; the cheaper units will have less whereas more expensive will obviously have more features.
Up for review is the Thermaltake SMART 750W SP-750P power supply unit. This unit is high mid-range and should show minimal sacrifices, one of which is a lack of modular or even sleeved cabling. Instead Thermaltake opted for black ribbon cables comprised of several wires connected together. This keeps the unit looking elegant without the inherent costs of sleeved and modular cabling. The SP-750M is another model that is offered with modular wiring at a higher cost. The unit is a high efficiency model rated 80 PLUS Bronze; this means consumers on 115VAC can expect 82% efficiency (81% for 230VAC) at 20% and 100% loads, and 85% efficiency at 50% load for either 115VAC or 230VAC. Efficiency is important for multiple reasons: the more efficient a unit is at converting the power from AC to DC means it will waste less electricity and also generate less heat, both of which are good things!
The rated output of the power supply unit is not affected by efficiency; what that means is an 80 PLUS 750W unit provides the same amount of DC power potential to the system components as an 80 PLUS Bronze 750W unit, it just takes more AC power to do the conversion. When buying a power supply unit it is a good idea to try to buy big in terms of power output, remember that the highest efficiency was around half-loaded plus buying a much larger supply leaves room for future upgrades.
Thermaltake SMART 750W SP-750P Closer Look:
The Thermaltake SMART 750W power supply is packed in a nice, smooth box. The color scheme – both on the box and power supply itself – is mainly black, gray, and bronze colorings. The top of the box lists the 80 PLUS Bronze rating, five-year warranty, and ErP Lot 6 (European regulation designed to lower standby power consumption, especially when combined with ErP motherboards). The center explains what the SMART Series moniker is for: "SMART Series power supplies were tested with live PC systems during design phase to deliver maximum compatibility with current components." Flipping the box over shows a fairly comprehensive list of features and specifications. The left side has pictures of the Japanese Main capacitor, OCP/OVP/UVP/OPP/SCP protection, 140mm fan, and the black ribbon cables that are misidentified as modular. The right side lists the voltages and amperage supplied as well as how many connectors to expect (one 24-pin Main, one 4+4-pin ATX/EPS, four Molex Peripheral, eight SATA, four 6+2-pin PCIE, and one FDD). The bottom shows the efficiency at given load capacities, fan speed and noise versus load capacity, and some of the different regulatory certifications that this unit has.
One side of the box has the main features listed in several of the most popular languages in the world. Details include the ATX V2.3 and EPS 12V standard support, 750W of continuous output at 40 °C, 80 PLUS Bronze certification, and it also calls the cables modular again although this power supply is not modular. The other sides of the box have the Thermaltake logo or an isometric view of the power supply unit with SMART 750W printed nearby.
Opening the box reveals the manuals sitting atop the power supply unit, which itself is protected by a bubble-wrapping formed into a pouch. The cables are held together in a clump using a twist tie, and a silica gel desiccant packet is also held under the tie. Included with the power supply is a power cable, pack of four black screws, and two manuals.
Continue on to the next page to get a look at the power supply unit itself!


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I thought i was going to be really sad when Bunny had a baby but the Matchmaker just came and Bunny had a baby with a Tarakotchi. Probably not the best match up for my new baby but i dont care, hes sooooo cute!
Im going to try and take extra special care of him, gotta think of a name - im thinking of Sonny
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March 15. 2014 6:22PM
Snowmobiler dies; 4th fatality of season
By MICHAEL COUSINEAU And DAN TUOHY
New Hampshire Union Leader
Manchester firefighter James Kelly of Hooksett was injured in a snowmobile crash last month in Auburn. (Courtesy Auburn Fire Department)
Speed and alcohol may have been factors in a deadly snowmobile crash in Barnstead early Saturday, the fourth snowmobiler to die in a crash this winter in New Hampshire.
Aaron E. Brown, 37, of Dover died of injuries suffered in the crash about 1:15 a.m., according to Fish and Game.
Brown, who was wearing a helmet, was riding on a private trail around a small pond. When he reached an earthen dam several hundred yards long, Brown reportedly accelerated in a rapid manner along a trail on the top of the dam and didn't negotiate a turn at the end of the dam, according to Fish and Game.
"He and his machine traveled a distance into the woods off the trail and collided with multiple trees," Fish and Game Lt. James Juneau said Saturday.
Juneau said he hasn't seen a spike in crashes this winter.
"Our numbers are largely consistent with the prior year with the total number of accidents and the number of fatals," Juneau said.
He said the other fatal accidents happened:
. Jan. 28, in Pittsburg, during the day on a sanctioned trail. A Hudson woman died.
. Feb. 1, in Success, on Success Pond, at night. A Berlin woman was killed.
. Feb. 8, in Washington, during the day. A Dover man died.
Overall, there have been 45 reported snowmobile accidents this winter, resulting in 42 injuries.
Among the 43 accidents with reports that included weather conditions, 26 happened during clear conditions, 12 occurred with an overcast sky, three while snow was falling and two when it was raining or sleeting, Juneau said.
He said he didn't have specific accident numbers from last winter but said they were similar to this season.
The accident victims vary in age and include people visiting from outside the state.
The Washington fatality claimed the life of a 62-year-old Dover man while an 11-year-old girl was seriously injured in a South Acworth crash in January and had to be flown by helicopter to the hospital.
In February, a 19-year-old Manchester man was treated for injuries after his snowmobile crashed into some trees on a trail off Lakeshore Road in Manchester. That same month, a Manchester firefighter underwent surgery when his snowmobile crashed into a tree in Auburn.
The month before, a Florida man suffered significant injuries in a crash in Pittsburg.
This month, state officials, in the wake of a "skimming" accident in Weirs Beach, warned snowmobile and ATV riders who like to ride their machines over pockets of open water on state lakes that they are breaking the law, and that they are risking their lives.
People have drowned while skimming in past years, especially in February and March, when the skimming tends to grow in popularity.
"We've had to pull bodies out of the water of people who thought they were just having some fun," said Sgt. Brad Morse, a Fish and Game conservation officer said.
The activity tends to grow in February and March, when warm spells of even one day will open up holes in the ice, he said. Some snowmobilers enjoy getting up speed and crossing the open water, hoping to get to ice on the other side.
Juneau had a quick tip: "We can't stress enough that helmets save lives."


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Marlton-based Wolf Commercial Real Estate announced Thursday it will be the exclusive sales agent for a large Cherry Hill property currently owned by Bethel Baptist Church.
According to the announcement, Bethel Baptist Church named WCRE exclusive sales agent for the $4.25 million Shining Light Early Learning Center, an 18-acre property on Springdale Road in Cherry Hill. The sales team of Leor Hemo, executive vice president, and Scott Seligman, director of business development, will be overseeing the project.
The 21,325-square-foot school building has a full gym, stage, and kitchen on 18 acres. Proceeds from this sale will help fund the construction of a new state-of-the-art daycare facility for Shining Lights Early Learning Center and an 8,000 square-foot expansion to the church on its primary property across Springdale Road, WCRE said in a statement.


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Back on December 27, 2007 I posted my resolutions for 2008 and like most of my fellow genea-bloggers I wanted to see "how I did" in terms of sticking with those resolutions.
Scan more photos
Resolution: I resolve to not only scan more from The Box, but to participate in Scanfest at least twice this year. I also want to assist my father-in-law with scanning photos from his recently deceased sister's house and labeling the photos properly.
Result: I believe I attended most of the Scanfests except for one which conflicted with Greek Orthodox Easter and one which saw me back home to visit Mom. I can't wait for Scanfest to start up again at the end of January! While I know I should wait for Scanfest and I can always scan on my own, there is something special about the group that makes a mundane task much more fun.
Resarch my Irish roots
Resolution: I resolve to finally take time to seriously pursue the MacEntee, McGinnes/McGinnis, Farren, O'Keefe and Sullivan lines in my family tree.
Result: I made great strides in researching my MacEntee/McEntee roots including a series of posts entitled "Two Roads: Do McEntee and MacEntee Converge or Fork?" which attempted to prove that my last name derived from an ancestor adding the "a" to McEntee. And imagine how pleased I was to find my 3rd great-grandfather, Edward McEntee (b. 1795) buried in the New Paltz Rural Cemetery back in July 2007!
Resolve my roadblocks
Resolution: I resolve to not be detered by my research roadblocks, especially for the Henneberg, Finehout, Pressner, DeGroodt and Christiana lines.
Result: I did not make much headway with my Henneberg, Pressner or Christiana ancestors but I did finally get to talk to some DeGroodt cousins from New York and Oregon on the phone during the summer. And the big news was finally figuring out all the variations of the last name Finehout! Who knew that I should also be looking for Vynhout, Vynout, Fyndout, Fynhout and more?
Participate in more carnivals
Resolution: I resolve to give back to those that have given to me and the rest of the genea-blogging community. Participate in carnivals, as much as possible, and contribute.
Result: I participated in 19 editions of the Carnival of Genealogy and even hosted Number 51 - Independent Spirit. Smile for the Camera made its debut in May 2008 and I've been able to participate in all eight editions so far!
Besides carnivals we had tons of memes too! Who can forget the Genea-Blogger Games and the efforts of Miriam at AnceStories and Kathryn at California Genealogical Society and Blog?
Write more vs. post more
Resolution: I resolve to take time to not just post, but to spend more time on crafting family history episodes into better narratives. These are the stories I want to pass down to the rest of my family. Not just describe, but describe with feeling, describe with emotion, and describe with passion.
Result: This is still an area in which I feel deficient and I have basically the same resolution ready for 2009. I was able to write a poem in tribute to Mom as well as a story entitled The Summer Jar about my summers growing up in New York.
Better citations and notes
Resolution: I resolve to get back to my college research days when the Chicago Manual of Style was my best friend. But oh citations have changed in 25 years! Take time to cite right the first time.
Result: I was proud of myself when I purchased
a copy of Elizabeth S. Mills' Evidence Explained. I also participated in the debate as to whether or not to footnote my posts with source citations, and I've posted about bibliography generating web applications such as EasyBib and BibMe over at my technology blog thomas 2.0 - The Blog.
Inspire others
Resolution: I resolve to undertake more projects like the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories, but perhaps not as extensive as the ACCM. Develop projects that help inspire newcomers to pursue their own family history and projects that make these people feel welcome.
Result: I feel blessed that I was able to participate in so many genea-blogger related projects such as the creation of the Genea-Bloggers group on Facebook, the creation of Facebook Bootcamp for Genea-Bloggers as a way of easing genea-bloggers into the world of social media, and creating a new cemetery-related blog called The Graveyard Rabbit of New York Rural Cemeteries (kudos to Terry Thornton for this concept!).
I also created my own website (thomas 2.0) and a technology related blog which reports on new web-based applications that can help everyone not just genea-bloggers!
These projects were lots of work but lots of fun!
Overall I think I did pretty well while still trying to pursue my own genealogy research, handle posting to 11 different blogs that I run (with Destination: Austin Family having 418 posts in 2008 alone!), make several trips home to New York to see Mom, deal with losing my job and basically handle all the things that are common to the lives of each and every one of us.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
2008 - A Look Back To Those Pesky Resolutions
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Well, you have inspired me at least! Thank you for it. I greatly enjoyed your writing as well as your posting (I hope I can read more of your writing next year). And where would we all be without your help with Facebook!
Here's to 2009!
- December 31, 2008 at 1:15 PM
- Apple said...
You had a very productive year! I hope 2009 is just as sucessful for you.
- December 31, 2008 at 1:45 PM
- Kathryn Doyle said...
You are a machine. And it helps that you never sleep! Thanks for everything you do for the genea-blogging community. As my daughter would say, "You rock!"
- January 5, 2009 at 12:03 AM
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If you have any concerns about Spike Lee's remake of "Oldboy" being less then stellar, then Sharlto Copley is here to tenderly lull you into comfort. In a recent interview, the "District 9" actor praised the film for keeping true to the original and being very "gritty" and "dark". I don't know about you, but I trust anyone with an alien arm so I think we're going to be ok.
It's been over a year since we've heard anything about the small screen adaptation of "Powers," a comic book about a duo of cops who investigate criminals with super powers, but it looks like FX is still very much interested in making the show happen. A pilot for the show has already been filmed and shot down, but Charles Eglee has been brought in to do rewrites. Being that I'm a giant Egleehead, you know that I'm excited.
Producer Jason Blum found a big stinker with "The River," but bless his tender little heart for giving it another go with a new found footage series for MTV titled "The Experiment." The plot of the show has yet to be revealed, but I'm hoping for some sort of "Road Rules" tie in. Maybe they get Puck back on TV somehow. I don't know, I'm just spit balling here. Eric Nies maybe?
I don't toss around the term "ape shit" without some serious consideration, but I'm going to come right out and say it. People go "ape shit" for "Breaking Bad". So people are probably dry humping their meth dealers over the news that Dean Norris has joined the cast of Ridley Scott's "The Counselor." no word on what his role will be (I'm guessing actor), but the film is about a lawyer who tries his hand at the drug game with not so sexy results.
Your prayers have been answered my friends. A sequel to Tobe Hooper's 2004 remake of "The Toolbox Murders" is finally being made. The film titled "TBK - The Toolbox Murders 2" picks up right where the last film left off and I'm guessing involves a toolbox. Or maybe it takes places at this bar I went to one time called The Toolbox. But now I've said too much.
Movies about video games are usually pretty bad. So are remakes. But a remake of a video game movie? No way this can fail! Ladies and gentlemen I am proud to tell you that "Doom" is being remade. What could make this news better you might ask? What if I were to tell you that it's going to be in 3D? I'm sorry for just making you crap your pants with excitement but I'm sure you'll agree that it was worth it.
Michael Madsen and Rachel Hunter have been cast in Roger Corman's next film titled "Piranhaconda". The movie is obviously about a half piranha half anaconda that runs amok all over the place. According to everything I've read the movie will premier on Syfy sometimes in early 2012 but that can't be right, this has to be getting a wide release.
Brazilian actor Jose Padilha has been cast as the villian in Neill Blomkamp's next film titled "Elysium". The movie is Bloomkamp's first release since his much loved "District 9" and if I'm a betting man will feature a lot more waxing. Cause ya know, this Jose guy is Brazilian... They wax a lot? They can't all be zingers folks!
Director Neil Blomkamp is gearing up for his "District 9" follow up by getting Jodie Foster to climb aboard "Elysium". Little is known about the film's plot other than it takes place on a distant planet in the far future. Ms. Foster will be joining Matt Damon and Sharlto Copely, so at least it looks promising.
Anthony Hopkins is preparing to try and creep us out once again with his upcoming supernatural church thriller, "The Rite". The marketing machine is starting to spin up, so be sure to check out the new TV spots and posters at the link.
Franz Kafka's literary classic "Metamorphosis" is finally being brought to the big screen by a whole bunch of people you've never heard of!
A couple new clips from the upcoming alien invasion film that sounds suspiciously like "District 9" have been released today.
It's a light load this week, being it's Christmas and all, but at least we have a great Scifi film and a stinker from The Asylum to tide us over until the new year.
We all sat down and got drawn in by the adventures of Wickus and his South African alien debacle. Now he'll be invading your home entertainment center on December 22nd! Coming in 1 Disc and 2 Disc Special Editions as well as on Blu-ray, there's an option for everybody!
The special editions for each set include:
This week we all fawn over Neil Blomkamp's "District 9", and Eric gets his harshest piece of fan mail in a while.
In the seven weeks since "Transformers 2" opened the average budget for a weekend-winning film has been $156 million. That's an average, mind you, and it's weighed down somewhat by "Bruno," which opened at #1 after costing only a measly $42 million.
After all the build-up with those "For Humans Only" posters everywhere and a tiny teaser trailer, we finally get a real glimpse at the upcoming "District 9" with this new featurette below.


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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (Thursday, February 16, 2012) – The Colorado Rapids announced on Thursday that the club has acquired on loan midfielder Martín Rivero, a 22-year-old playmaker most recently with Rosario Central in his native Argentina. Rivero will be added to the roster as an international player pending receipt of his P-1 work visa, International Transfer Certificate, and a physical, and is expected to join the club before the team's trip to Hawaii. Per league and team policy, details of the contract were not disclosed.
"Martín is a young, dynamic player with a great deal of potential," said Colorado Rapids Head Coach Oscar Pareja. "His creativity and technical ability will give us more options in attack, and we're excited to welcome him to the club."
A native of Roldan, Santa Fe, Argentina, Rivero made his Argentinian first division debut with Rosario Central in 2008 at the age of 18, having come up through the youth ranks at the club. Rivero played sparingly with the club until the 2010-11 season, when he made 30 appearances (16 starts) and scored four goals with the club in the Argentine second division. He established himself as a starter throughout the first half of the 2011-12 season before joining the Rapids.


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The National Football League is studying whether to auction the media rights for a new slate of regular-season games, a process that has ignited fierce bidding wars in the past for a deal to broadcast the hugely popular sport.
Discussions are internal and at an early stage, and there is no assurance a decision will be made to do so, said Steve Bornstein, president and CEO of NFL Network and NFL executive vice president of media.
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Even if the league decides to offer a package of Thursday night games, Bornstein stressed, the NFL intends to reserve some live games for its own NFL Network. The cable channel, which is carried in more than 72 million homes, currently broadcasts 13 regular-season games every Thursday.
"There is no way that this channel won't have live games," Bornstein said. "It's great content, and gives us an amazing platform to expand into other areas."
Live games have helped build NFL Network, which premiered in 2003 with 11.5 million subscribers. It began showing eight live games per season in 2006, and expanded its offerings to 13 games a season in 2012.
The channel's schedule also provides all-year programming, including coverage of the league's annual draft of college players and the nightly "NFL Total Access" news and interview program.
NFL Network charges operators an average monthly fee of $1.13 per subscriber, according to media analysis firm SNL Kagan, an increase from the 40-cent monthly fee when it first began airing games in 2006. This year, it is also projected it will sell an estimated $236.7 million in ads.
The channel is expected to generate nearly $1.2 billion in overall revenue in 2013, according to SNL Kagan. Major advertisers on the network include Yum Brands' KFC and Pizza Hut, Sears and Volkswagen.
Interested bidders for a new package of games could include the TBS or TNT channels, both operated by Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting System unit, or sports channels such as Fox Sports 1, said sports consultant Marc Ganis, president of SportsCorp. Ganis also figures online video providers such as Google's YouTube site may bid.
"NFL rights are unique in that people seek out the games on whatever channel they're on, and don't have to be spoon-fed promotions as they are with other entertainment or sports programs," said Ganis, who helps negotiate TV sports deals. "The NFL can help make a channel much more successful."
Bornstein acknowledged that the league has heard from potential bidders for a possible new package of games, but would not name them.
The NFL executive, who plans to leave his job this spring, would not say how many games would be included in a possible package, but said the league is unlikely to allow two games to be played on a single Thursday night.
Ganis speculated that the league could divvy up the NFL Network's current slate of games, or add late-season games on Friday and Saturday nights.
Bornstein also would not discuss ongoing talks between the league and satellite operator DirecTV, whose contract, worth $1 billion annually, to show football games from the "NFL Sunday Ticket" product expires after next year's season.
The current DirecTV offer allows subscribers to watch football games outside of their local markets.
In the past few months, DirecTV executives have sounded upbeat about their chances to renew the contract.
(Reporting by Ronald Grover and Liana B. Baker; Edited by Edwin Chan and Maureen Bavdek)


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LONDON (AP) — Anglicans in Wales have approved the consecration of female bishops — a move that adds more pressure on the Anglican Communion's more conservative branches to open the church's upper ranks to women.
The issue of whether to accept female bishops has long divided the Anglican Communion, a Christian denomination that claims more than 80 million adherents worldwide.
The Church in Wales said in a statement Thursday that its governing body approved the motion by a vote of more than 100 to 24 after a "passionate debate" at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David in the town of Lampeter.
The U.S. branch of the communion, the Episcopal Church, was the first to have a woman bishop in 1989.


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- Located on Bald Head Island about 2 miles off the coast of North Carolina, The Marsh Harbour Inn is a quiet retreat just steps from sandy beaches.
- There are no automobiles on the island—golf carts are the primary mode of transportation. You can use one for free, courtesy of the inn, throughout the duration of your stay.
- You can rent bicycles to explore the surrounding beaches, marshland, and maritime forest.
- Each morning, the innkeepers prepare a complimentary continental breakfast.
- Guest rooms are airy and modern, with a subtle nautical theme.
- For an additional fee, B & B guests have access to Bald Head Island Country Club, with its Olympic-size swimming pool, tennis courts, fitness facilities, and 18-hole golf course.


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Spader's sentence: It mustn't be undoneEdITORIAL
April 24. 2013 2:17AM
Steven Spader, the remorseless ring leader of the 2009 murder of Mont Vernon's Kimberly Cates, was a month shy of his 18th birthday when he murdered a defenseless mother in her sleep and tried to kill her daughter. But for that month, he would rot in prison for the rest of his life. The U.S. Supreme Court, though, ruled last year that minors cannot be given mandatory life sentences without parole. So Spader's sentence is up for review.
The review hearing took place on Monday. Spader did not come to court to contest his sentence, but he released a statement of apology. David Cates, Kimberly's widower, rightly dismissed it as an insult. Attorneys for the state dismissed it as well and recounted for the judge why Spader has to remain behind bars.
The reason is simple: He is a psychopath. He is one who is incapable of empathy, who told a state psychiatrist, "I never felt remorse. I think it is weak - not so much weak, as unnecessary."
New Hampshire can be thankful that it has public prosecutors in the Attorney General's office who are not swayed by the manipulations of murdering psychopaths. We trust that Judge Gillian L. Abramson, who is to rule on Spader's sentence by Friday, is equally steadfast.


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The first Baja International Film Festival, which kicks off Wednesday in Los Cabos, Mexico, has a heady goal: to become the Cannes Film Festival of Latin America.
If scope is included in the criteria for that honor, the festival is off to a good start; it will showcase 80 films from 18 countries before concluding Saturday. The festival opens with the Latin America premiere of "Ice Man," which is slated to premiere in May in the United States.
The festival's directors, who also founded the Vail, Colo., Film Festival, think they have a chance to meet the challenge of becoming the Latin American equivalent of France's Cannes Film Festival because of Baja's proximity to Hollywood celebrities and filmmakers and because the locale is already a well-known vacation destination.
"Mexico is not only a wonderful location for an event, but also a place where cutting-edge films are being produced," said Sean Cross, who is directing the festival with his brother Scott.


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I'm looking at Silicon Mechanics for potentially buying a few rack mount servers. I'm wondering if anybody has good (or bad) experience dealing with them.
On paper, it looks like they have prices that are much cheaper than Dell (of course). Also, they have a nice thing where they can have two servers in a 1U (16 cores in a 1U... that's alot). I just want to see if anybody here has some real experience with them.


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NEWBURGH, NY – The Rev. William J. Byron, S.J., spoke of ethical
principles in the workplace, politics and life in two lectures to
some 500 students, faculty and community members on Tuesday (Feb.
9) at Mount Saint Mary College.
The lectures were the first programs of the Mount's new Catholic
and Dominican Institute.
Byron called the principle of human dignity "the bedrock
principle of both personal and social ethics."
"In the new corporate culture, human dignity is taking a
beating," he said. "Workers at all levels are being treated as if
they were disposable parts."
He said that layoffs "must be done with dignity and a modicum of
security – severance pay, extended healthcare insurance, retraining
or relocation assistance."
He talked about the principle of participation saying "Every
human person in any workplace has a right to have some say in the
decisions that affect his or her livelihood."
"This means preparation for separation, should that have to
happen; it also means enhancing the "value added" potential and the
productivity of employees who will remain."
Byron also discussed the principle of keeping commitments.
"Commitments are the cement of social relationships. If commitments
are kept in the workplace, morale and a sense of security will be
He said that the "Pursuit of the common good is a basic
principle of ethical behavior…."
"In this new corporate culture of diminished loyalty and
heightened insecurity, it is important to note that economic
interests and the common good are both served by widespread job
security. No one was ever made more productive by being made less
Byron is the University Professor of Business and Society at St.
Joseph's University in Philadelphia and a former president of the
Catholic University of America and the University of Scranton. The
Pittsburgh native has written 13 books on business, education and
spiritual issues.
Rooted in the Catholic intellectual tradition, the Catholic and
Dominican Institute promotes MSMC's Dominican heritage and charism
of learning and service; provides a forum for discussion of
contemporary ethical issues; and enhances Catholic and Jewish
To learn more about the Institute, call Judith Manza, secretary
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Jessica Alba and Mickey Rourke Officially Return For 'Sin City 2′
Good news for those of you who have been waiting years and years for that 'Sin City' sequel to finally start production -- it will and two of the big name stars from the Robert Rodriguez film will be coming back for the sequel.
Jessica Alba and Mickey Rourke will return for the now officially titled 'Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame To Kill For.' The sequel is going to start shooting this summer with Rodriguez returning to direct based on a script by 'The Departed' writer William Monahan. Rodiguez will start shooting once he wraps work on 'Machete Kills' which is currently filming.
According to the Dimension Films, the movie will start shooting this summer and big names are expected to be announced soon which means more of the original cast is likely to return. The sequel has a release date of October 4th, 2013, which puts it up against the yet-to-be announced Disney project by Henry Selick (probably 'The Graveyard Book').
Whether or not Bruce Willis, Clive Owen, Benecio Del Toro or Elijah Wood return remains to be seen. As long as Alba wears super tight inappropriate tops, it doesn't really matter who else comes back.