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Current Law Students / Do You Think The Congressional Page Program Should Be Terminated?« on: October 07, 2006, 03:51:37 AM »
I was barely aware that the Congressional page program still existed, but if it wasn't already clear that it should have been ended long ago, it certainly should be now. No, I don't think that most Congressmen or Senators would even think about doing what Foley has done, although the bipartisan page scandal in 1984 involving Democrat Gerry Studds and Republican Daniel Crane suggests it isn't unique, either. And that one also disproves some of what you'll see on the FREEP boards that abusing teenagers is somehow exclusively the province of gays, since Crane was involved with a FEMALE page, to the best of my recollection.


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CAMBRIDGE, UK and OSAKA, JAPAN — Sept. 10, 2002 – ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions, and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. of Japan, (NYSE: MC), today announced that Matsushita has licensed the ARM946E-S™ and the ARM926EJ-S™ microprocessor cores.
Using these ARM microprocessor cores, Matsushita will offer advanced system-on-chip (SoC) products for use in future wireless devices such as mobile phones including W-CDMA devices.
This licence expands Matsushita's use of ARM cores and will enable them to reinforce their presence in the embedded market. ARM cores previously licensed by Matsushita include the ARM7TDMI® core and the ARM920T™ core. The ARM926EJ-S core combines industry-leading performance and very low power requirements with support for ARM Jazelle™ technology for Java acceleration. The ARM946E-S core is a complete high-performance embedded processor solution, offering considerable savings in chip complexity and area, chip system design, power consumption and time-to-market.
"Matsushita has experienced much success with the ARM7TDMI and the ARM920T cores, which we applied to our SoC for mobile telecommunications products including cdmaOne™ and W-CDMA," said Katsuhiko Ueda, Processor Development Center director for Matsushita Electric Industrial. "With this core reinforcement, we will promptly offer best SoC solutions for a wide range of our customer's needs."
"Matsushita has a tremendous track record in the wireless sector and a reputation for innovation. Together we will continue to improve the performance and capabilities of next generation wireless devices," said Takio Ishikawa, president, ARM KK. "ARM's cores are well proven in the wireless market and continue to drive the market's move towards very high performance products integrating the functionality of handheld computers with mobile communications devices."
Matsushita will offer SoC devices based on the ARM926EJ-S core in Q2 2003 and based on the ARM946E-S core in Q3 2003.
About ARM
ARM is the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions. The company licenses its high-performance, low-cost, power-efficient RISC processors, peripherals, and system-chip designs to leading international electronics companies. ARM also provides comprehensive support required in developing a complete system. ARM's microprocessor cores are rapidly becoming a volume RISC standard in such markets as portable communications, hand-held computing, multimedia digital consumer and embedded solutions. More information on ARM is available at www.arm.com
About Matsushita Electric Industrial
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., best known for its Panasonic, National, Technics, and Quasar brand names, is a worldwide leader in the development and manufacture of electronics products for a wide range of consumer, business, and industrial needs. Based in Osaka, Japan, the company recorded consolidated sales of US$51.70 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2002. In addition to the Tokyo and other Japanese stock exchanges (6752), Matsushita is also listed on the Amsterdam, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, New York, Pacific (NYSE/PCX: MC), and Paris stock exchanges.
ARM and ARM7TDMI are registered trademarks of ARM Limited. ARM9, ARM920T, ARM926EJ-S, ARM946E-S and Jazelle are trademarks of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings plc (LSE:ARM and Nasdaq:ARMHY); its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM INC.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM, Taiwan; ARM France SAS; and ARM China.

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1. Re: Session Management on BlazeDSonuratamer Jun 15, 2009 1:17 AM (in response to onuratamer)
Can Any body answer my problem please .....
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2. Re: Session Management on BlazeDSAlex Glosband Jun 15, 2009 4:35 AM (in response to onuratamer)
Hi. J2EE sessions are created on the server. When the server gets a request from the client it checks the request for a session identifier. The session identifier or session ID is usually sent as a cookie header or as a parameter on the request URL. If the request doesn't have a session identifier the server creates a new session and then sends the session ID for the new session with the response. It's the responsibility of the client/browser when it gets the response to retrieve the session identifier and then send it with all requests that are made to the server in the future. This is how the session is maintained between the client and the server.
Sessions are not usually persisted by the browser meaning that when the browser is closed, the session identifier is not stored. The next time you launch the browser and make a request back to the server where you had a session, no session ID will be sent with the request so the server will create a new session for you. Browsers all behave a little differently so it would be good for you to understand how your browser manages sessions. With Firefox, for example, I believe that multiple browser windows share the same session and it's not until the last browser window is closed that the session is lost. Tabs within the same browser window also share the same session. Internet Explorer behaves differently depending on how the browser was launched. Browser windows that were launched from the same process (using CTRL-N from within IE for example) share the same session but when browser windows are launched from different processes (launching IE from the Windows start menu for example) each window will have its own session.
When the browser gets closed on the client the session identifier is lost but the server doesn't know that a client with that session indefier is not coming back so it keeps the session on the server for awhile. The session timeout is configurable on the server and will differ depending on the type of application. With an application where security is important the session timeout might be just a couple of minutes which will force users to login to the application again if they have been inactive for a short amount of time. For applications where security is less of a concern, the session timeout could be 30 minutes or more. This allows clients to leave the application idle for awhile and then come back and continue to use the application without logging in again.
Everything you've described seems consistent with how J2EE sessions work. The inconsistencies with how the session is maintained on the client (whether browser window is closed, tab is closed etc.) has to do with how browser vendors have implemented this functionality and is out of our control. Some browsers (I know Firefox does, IE 8 may as well) have an option to restore the last active session when the browser is launched so that might be your best bet if you don't want the session to go away when the browser is closed. You also would need to consider the session timeout on the server however. Even if the browser stored the session ID and resent it to the server the next time it was launched (how I imagine that functionality would work) the server would still need to have that session around (not have expired it) or the session data on the server would have been lost. The reason you don't get a FlexSession expired message when the browser is closed is that session hasn't expired on the server. When the session expires on the server you will see that message.
Hope that helps.
3. Re: Session Management on BlazeDSonuratamer Jun 15, 2009 12:31 PM (in response to Alex Glosband)
First of all Thank you very much for your long and valuable response to my question.However my doubts about session are still there.
Yes I know there are some options in browser settings for clearing cookies when closing but In my example just Flex Session is expired the others are still there. In that point I have some suspicions about set some properties after creating Flex Session like setTimeOut().. However none of them helped me as expected because they define the time that session will be expired after session CLOSED.
Now I am turning my face to implement session management in JS and Java with out using Flex Session. My hint is a site www.grooveshark.com They are just creaing PHPSESSION and implement the session by this way.
Is there any body who can say Flex Session is as strong as the other scripts session (PHP). Is there any body who implement session management on BlazeDS successfully and completly ?
4. Re: Session Management on BlazeDSmilan.jagatiya Apr 7, 2010 10:05 PM (in response to onuratamer)
Is there any way to have only one flex client per flex session?
5. Re: Session Management on BlazeDSnaz2003 Aug 4, 2010 10:17 AM (in response to milan.jagatiya)
Not sure will this help you or not
Did you tried playing with remote-config.xml. In this xml file you can maintain your application session by adjusting the scope tag.
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The CFP for SODA 2007 is out (thanks, Jeff). The humungous size of the geometry contingent is balanced by the humungous size of the commitee. This commitee has 27 folks, an increase of 4 over SODA 2006 and 2005. Submission counts have been going up by a little under 10% each year, and I guess Hal Gabow is also trying to reduce the load on each committee member: 500 * 3/27 = 55.56. Good luck, folks !!
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Mike Fagg has grown up in El Dorado, attended schools here and now is raising his family here.
Mike Fagg has grown up in El Dorado, attended schools here and now is raising his family here.
"I truly care about my hometown," he said.
That is why he decided to run for mayor in the spring election.
"This is all about my hometown and making sure we stay accountable for what we are doing," Fagg said.
When Mayor Tom McKibban decided not to run for re-election, Fagg decided he would run for the office.
"I just feel like the issues, like the water issue, are big deals coming up," Fagg said.
Regarding selling water, Fagg said he thought El Dorado should have been selling more water a long time ago, but he wants to make sure it is done correctly for El Dorado.
He suggests bringing in someone who deals with water issues from out of state to give a second opinion on the situation.
"This decision needs to be right the first time because you won't get a second chance," he said. "The lake debt keeps growing. We started at $24,748,567. On July 1, 2013 we will owe $48,329,613.33."
Fagg believes when considering selling water, El Dorado's needs should be first, then they should go to the county to see what needs can be met, then to Wichita.
Another issue important to Fagg is housing.
He would like to do something similar to what Hutchinson has done, which was a house stock survey of the community.
"That would be a place I see starting on housing," he said. "El Dorado housing needs some help."
Fagg also is a supporter of the one-cent sales tax.
"I remember the day when the then city manager asked me how the city could fund street repair," he said. "At that time we only had approximately $80,000 in the street fund."
The one-cent sales tax had been voted down twice at the time.
"Going door to door and visiting with the community I was amazed how many people in town didn't trust the city," Fagg said. "It is important the city spends this money wisely because they are held accountable every five years with a new election of the sales tax."
He pointed out the actual 2011 Real Estate tax receipts were $2,200,218, while local sales tax was $2,280,322.
"With these figures you can see what the property taxes would do if it didn't pass," he said.
He does want to keep that money focused on streets.
Looking at streets, he believes West Towanda should have been addressed a long time ago, along with discussions with the county about assistance on the project.
The budget is another reason Fagg decided to run, with some questions he would like answered including how much Prairie Trails was purchased for and what was the tax valuation on the property, as well as if the sitting commissioners who received campaign donations from the people benefiting from the sale abstained from voting.
He said the city's expenditures have increased 38 percent from 2008 to 2013.
He also wants to know more about the American Legion deal and believes big nonessential expenditures should be voted on by the community.
Fagg has experience on the City Commission, serving as a commissioner from 2003 to 2007.
"I liked being a commissioner," he said.
Three of his four years on the Commission the mill levy was the same or lower and he said the year it was raised he voted against the budget. He thinks it is important to reduce taxes because everyone is having a hard time right now.
He also learned a lot while on the Commission, having attended several League of Kansas Municipalities Leadership Academy courses including ethics, nuisance abatement, leadership summit, governing body institute, municipal finance, advanced municipal finance and guiding the municipal organization.
"One of my accomplishments was understanding the city and how it works, and the costs that go with it and being more effective," Fagg said.
While he was on the commission he also was a supporter of the Sixth and Main project, which is now underway. He said they also put dividers in on West Central.
Fagg also has served as president of the Chamber of Commerce, president of El Dorado United Way, president of the Lions Club, chair of Mid-Kansas Community Action Program, chair of the Bluestem chapter of the American Red Cross, member of the first class of Leadership Butler, started the Walnut River Festival, director of Partners In Education, director of Four Winds Girl Scout Council, EHS parent advisory committee member, EHS Myrrl Houck scholarship committee member, member of the Community Advisory Committee at HollyFrontier, member of St. John's Catholic Church, member of Sons of the American Legion, member of Knights of Columbus, member of Red Devil Chefs and coached little league baseball, basketball, softball and soccer.
He also has been chair of the City Planning Commission, chair of the city Sales Tax Advisory Committee, original member of the Mayor's Downtown Task Force and director of community action for retail revitalization.
Fagg graduated from EHS in 1972 and attended Butler Community College, Wichita State University, as well as several lending and banking related schools and the graduate school of banking at the University of Wisconsin. Fagg and his wife Debbie are lifetime El Dorado residents. They have raised three daughters and have two grandsons and one granddaughter. Fagg has a 40-year career in local banking. He currently works at the Andover state Bank as a senior vice president.


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GCSO: Girlfriend charged with stabbing boyfriend during fight
Victim stabbed in leg
GCSO: Girlfriend charged with stabbing boyfriend during fight
Victim stabbed in leg
A Greenville County woman is under arrest, charged with a criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature.
Lt. Tim Ridgeway with the Greenville County Sheriff's office tells News 4 they were called to a home on Somerset Street around 9:00 p.m. When they arrived, they found a man with a knife wound in his leg.
Tammy Michelle Allen, 39, was taken into custody at the home. She was booked into the Greenville County Detention Center shortly after 1 a.m. Tuesday.
A witness who lives at the home told investigators that he heard Allen and the victim arguing in a back room, and when he went to check on them he found the victim bleeding. The victim was taken to Greenville Memorial Hospital in critical condition.


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Reduce Gum Disease With These Critical Nutrients
By Joy Stephenson-Laws, JD
If your dentist or dental hygienist has told you that you have gum disease, or that you're at risk for developing it, you're not alone. Various studies estimate that more than 90 percent of the U.S. population suffers from chronic, ordinary gingivitis.
Gingivitis is inflammation of the gums and is an early indicator of gum disease. It may be characterized by tender, red and swollen gums.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) reports that half of Americans, age 30 or over, have some form of advanced gum disease, which translates to almost 65 million Americans. And the problem increases as we get older, with more than 70 percent of adults 65 years and older suffering from some form of disease that affects the area around the teeth -- periodontal disease.
So how does gum disease develop?
Just like your intestines, your mouth is home to different types of bacteria. When all the types of bacteria are in balance, your gums are protected from disease-causing bacteria. However, disturbing the bacteria balance provides an opening for disease-causing bacteria and other microorganisms to invade the gums. This increase in disease-causing bacteria generally causes your body's immune system, and the white blood cells that get rid of them, to produce substances that not only destroy the bacteria but also damage your gum tissue. (A good technical description about the bacteria population in your mouth can be found in the British Dental Journal).
Activities like smoking, taking certain medications (like antibiotics), poor oral hygiene and poor diet may disturb the balance of bacteria in our mouths and enhance the activity of these disease-causing bacteria that may lead to gum disease.
In addition to causing tooth loss, bad breath and other oral health risks, having unhealthy gums has been linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, stroke and heart attack, diabetes, Alzheimer's, rheumatoid arthritis, and certain cancers.
Pregnant women with gum disease may also be at an increased risk for delivering preterm and/or having a low birth weight baby.
So if you're being diligent with your oral care by not smoking and avoiding sugars, brushing and flossing regularly and your dentist still tells you your gums are not as healthy as they should be, the culprit may be medications you may be taking. For example, certain medications used to treat depression, hypertension, allergies, colds and flus, epilepsy, pain and Parkinson's disease may cause your mouth to become dry and cause gum disease. Saliva, which helps protect you from dry mouth, reportedly controls bacteria overgrowth that may cause oral disease.
What Can You Do?
Some things you can do to increase your mouth's production of saliva and better protect your gums include:
You should also make sure that your gums are getting the nutrients they need, and in the right amounts, to stay healthy. Many studies have shown that a balanced diet plays an essential role in maintaining periodontal health. If your diet is rich in fresh fruits and vegetables, you're probably getting most of the nutrients your gums need.
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Vitamins B12 and B2 (riboflavin). You may also develop mouth sores when you do not consume enough of the vitamins B12 and B2. For food sources of B12, click here and for riboflavin, click here.
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It is extremely important to talk to a competent healthcare provider and your dentist if you have concerns that your medications may be putting you at risk for gum disease, or that they may be reducing the effectiveness of your oral hygiene routine. Your provider or dentist may recommend changes to your health care program, a change in diet or medications or other steps you can take to protect your gums, teeth and your health.
You also may want to consider getting a nutrient test to make sure your body is getting and absorbing the nutrients it needs to keep your gums in their healthiest state. And the fact that you are eating healthily doesn't necessarily mean that your body is getting the necessary nutrients to stay healthy. For more on staying healthy even when you eat the right foods, listen to this podcast.
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Cut It Up: 15 Flatbreads & Pizzas to Start the Party
Crisp, chewy flatbread is a welcome start to any party, and tastes great with whatever toppings you have on hand. Pizza works just as well, cut into bite-sized pieces and served warm from the oven. Whatever you call it, these 15 recipes and techniques for making crackly-crusted dough, with or without toppings, are easy crowd-pleasers.
For the quickest party prep, use store-bought pizza dough or puff pastry, or freeze your own rounds of homemade pizza dough for future use. From there, the possibilities are endless: cheese, vegetables, caramelized onions or leeks, meats and even beans make tasty toppings. Just remember to avoid loading on too much — no one likes a soggy, heavy appetizer.
If you're feeling minimalistic, even an unadorned round of freshly-made pita bread or a wedge of gluten-free chickpea pancake starts the party off right.
• Sweet Potato, Ricotta & Arugula Flatbread
• Eggplant & Spicy Hummus Flatbread
• Flatbreads with Goat Cheese, Caramelized Onions & Basil
• Leek, Ricotta & Lemon Flatbread
• Three Cheese Tomato Tart
• Socca (Chickpea Pancake)
• Scallion Pancake
• Easy Homemade Pita Bread
• How to Bake Flatbread on the Stovetop
• Cooking By Instinct Pizza Formula (with Morels and Ramps)
• Sausage Pizza Topped with Crispy Kale
• Spinach, White Bean & Taleggio Pizza
• Stovetop/Broiler Pizza with Asparagus, Shiitake & Fresh Mozzarella
• No-Knead Fennel & Anchovy Pizza
• Grilled Potato, Gorgonzola & Prosciutto Pizza
Do you have any party-pleasing flatbread or pizza recipes?
Related: Want Awesome Pizza? Turn Up The Oven
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Selectively blocking inflammatory signals may protect mice from MS
May 10, 2006
Selectively blocking inflammatory signals may protect mice from MS
May 10, 2006
A new way to preserve the cells that surround and protect nerves could lead to new treatments for demyelinating diseases such a multiple sclerosis, a research team reports in the May 10, 2006, issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
The approach grew out of a novel explanation, quickly gaining followers, for the mechanism of nerve damage caused by multiple sclerosis. Instead of concentrating on the alterations that result in autoimmune assaults on the nervous system, researchers led by Brian Popko of the University of Chicago have focused on a set of factors that prevent recovery from the inflammatory attacks.
A series of papers from Popko's lab has demonstrated that interferon-gamma -- a chemical signal used to activate the immune system -- plays a critical role in damaging the cells that produce myelin, the protective coating that lines healthy nerves. Interferon not only leaves these cells, called oligodendrocytes, incapable of repairing the damage but can also kill them directly.
"Interferon-gamma is not normally found in the nervous system," said Popko, the Jack Miller Professor of Neurological Diseases at the University of Chicago, "but it can gain entry after an inflammatory flare-up. We previously showed how it harmed oligodendrocytes. Here we confirm its direct harmful effects on those cells and demonstrate one way of protecting them."
The researchers produced a series of transgenic mice. In one set they introduced genes that produced interferon-gamma within the central nervous system. In another set they also introduced a gene (known as suppressor of cytokine signaling 1, or SOCS1) that blocked the response of myelin-producing cells to interferon-gamma.
Although transgenic mice with low levels of interferon-gamma showed no symptoms of nervous system damage, 18 out of 20 mice exposed to higher interferon levels developed difficulty walking, including mild to moderate tremors, within two weeks of birth. Only four out of 20 mice with both high interferon levels and the SOCS1 gene had symptoms.
On autopsy, mice with high interferon levels in the nervous system had severe loss of oligodendrocytes, ranging from 20 to 40 percent. Those with the protective SOCS1 gene lost only eight to 15 percent.
High interferon levels were also associated with loss of myelin sheaths around nerve connections and unprotected axons in the brain. Again, SOCS1 was able to reduce the damage.
"Together," the researchers wrote, "these data demonstrate that oligodendroglial expression of SOCS1 protects mice from the clinical and morphological consequences of IFN-gamma expression in the central nervous system during development."
"We found this tremendously encouraging," said Popko. "SOCS1 prevented or reduced the harmful effects of interferon gamma on myelin-producing cells. This study solidifies our suspicions about interferon's specific role in demyelinating disease and suggests ways to block it."
Although there is currently no reliable way to deliver SOCS1 directly to the nerves of a patient with multiple sclerosis, this protective approach could be combined with stem cell therapy to repair nerve damage. Several research groups are already studying the use of stem cells to repair damaged myelin sheaths, but in the long term those stem cells would be vulnerable to ongoing immune-mediated damage.
But if stem cells could be engineered to resist harmful signals such as interferon-gamma, they might be protected from the "harsh environment" present in immune mediated demyelinated lesions, said Popko.
The National Institutes of Health and the Myelin Repair Foundation supported the research. Additional authors include Roumen Balabanov and Ji Yeon Lee of the University of Chicago, Krystal Strand of the University of North Carolina, and April Kemper of Wake Forest University.


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CHARLESTON — All Piggly Wiggly Carolina Co. stores across South Carolina and coastal Georgia will take part in a fundraising effort starting Wednesday and ending Sept. 13. to benefit The 911 Club.
The 911 Club is a Charleston-based nonprofit support group for the survivors of police officers, firefighters and EMS personnel killed in the line of duty throughout the company's service area.
The new nonprofit is the creation of former law enforcement officer Don Campagna. After returning from service aboard the USS Intrepid during Vietnam, Campagna became a police officer and worked in Richland County. A subsequent assignment was teaching at the police academy and one of the requests of the staff was to attend funerals of those lost in the line of duty as an expression of sympathy.
"We were losing 20 officers a year," he said. "I've seen the effects of this first hand and it always bother me that we never had anything for the families. I wanted to have something that went beyond expressions of sympathy. Nationwide we lose one first responder every day. It's a loss to the country, it's a loss to the community and it's a loss to the family."
The effort comes as part of The Pig's annual fundraising campaign tied to its Piggly Wiggly Charity Golf Classic, a tournament held simultaneously at four Charleston-area golf courses to raise money for local charitable organizations. This year's tournament will take place Sept. 30, and leading up to the event, The Pig has offered the opportunity for customers to make a donation of $1 or more at checkout during the months of August and September.
For the week of Sept. 7-13, all donations made at checkout will directly benefit The 911 Club and families of first responders the organization serves.
"As we remember and honor those first responders lost on 9/11, it is natural for Piggly Wiggly to support local families who suffer the loss of loved ones who make our homes and communities safer every day," said David Schools, president and CEO, Piggly Wiggly Carolina Company Inc.
"Piggly Wiggly has always given back to our community, and its strong support for first responders can serve as an example to all of us," said Don Campagna, founder of The 911 Club. "When a tragedy occurs, we provide the survivors with immediate financial assistance and grief counseling. We're not just there for the funeral. We stay involved as long as they need our help."
When there is a fatality, someone from the department and someone from the 911 club will go to see the family.
"They live payday-to-payday like the rest of us. One of the concerns the family always has is what will happen to us now," he said. "We want to be able to hand the widow or widower a check for $10,000 and get them through."
The plan is to provide families with a professional team pro bono that includes an attorney, a grief counselor and a financial adviser — people they can turn to who will make sure they know how to adapt to the new reality without the first responder, such as living on less income, getting their lives back together with the grief counselor. We want to be able to provide them with a safety net after the fact."
The 911 Club follows along the lines of what used to be called the 100 Clubs, Campagna said. When a police officer was killed in Detroit in 1952, 100 businessmen got together and put up $100 a piece to give to the family.
"It changes your world. This is a way that the community can show their support and appreciation for what first responders do and what their families do, because the families give up a lot," Campagna said.
"Not everybody can afford $100, but if you can then join as a member. If you can afford $50, join as an associate member. First responders are $25 and survivors are free. The reason first responders have to pay is they cannot accept gratuities so we've made it as minimal as possible," he said. "We think we are capable of building a template that can go nation wide. It really is something that I care deeply about."
In-store donations benefiting The 911 Club will be accepted in area Piggly Wiggly Stores Sept. 7-13. Individuals can learn more about The 911 Club, make donations and become a member of the organization by visiting www.911clubusa.org which should be up and running by Sept. 6.
"I can't say enough about the Piggly Wiggly support," Campagna said. "It's the kind of support nonprofits dream about and we're going to do all we can to live up to that."
A chain of grocery stores founded in 1947 in Charleston, S.C, Piggly Wiggly Carolina Company has grown to be the largest employee–owned retail company in the state. The company has more than 100 stores and over 4,000 employee owners throughout South Carolina and coastal Georgia.


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Michael Buble is a Canadian crooner jazz singer and actor. While achieving modest chart success in the US, his 2003 self-titled album has reached the top ten in Canada, the UK and Australia. A 2004 live album and video "Come Fly With Me" is in the Billboard music video charts as at May 1, 2004 and has reached the top 40 album charts in Australia. Artists thought to be cut from the same excellent cloth as Michael Buble include James Taylor, Josh Groban, and Bryan Adams.
Michael Buble was born in Burnaby, British Columbia in 1975. He grew up listening to his grandfather's collection of jazz records. On his website Buble highlights the importance of his grandfather in encouraging his musical tastes. "My grandfather was really my best friend growing up. He was the one who opened me up to a whole world of music that seemed to have been passed over by my generation. Although I like rock & roll and modern music, the first time my granddad played me the Mills Brothers, something magical happened. The lyrics were so romantic, so real... the way a song should be for me. It was like seeing my future flash before me. I wanted to be a singer and I knew that this was the music that I wanted to sing."
Buble's grandfather encouraged him to learn the standards that he loved and to enter a talent contest in Vancouver which he won before a later disqualification for being underage. Not discouraged, Buble won first prize in a Canadian Youth Talent Search at the age of 17.
For the next few years, Michael Buble pursued a musical career without great success. He appeared as Elvis in a Red Rock Diner road show and sung as a star of a musical revue called Forever Swing. He also appeared in an episode of Death Game in 1996. He recorded a couple of independent albums one as a present to his grandfather. Buble received two Genie awards in 2000 for songs he wrote for the film Here's To Life starring Eric McCormack.


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May 9, 2011
In early June 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy's Geothermal Technologies Program (GTP) intends to issue a Funding Opportunity Announcement to expand its partnership with the geothermal community on geothermal systems research and development throughout the United States in order to support GTP's goal of lowering the cost of geothermal energy to $0.06 per kilowatt hour.
The Notice of Intent is designed to provide an opportunity for potential applicants to begin developing partnerships and begin the process of gathering data to prepare their application.
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Cannes might be quietening down but Screenbase is still buzzing with the many new projects that have found its way into it.
Monsters director Gareth Edwards has drafted in Rupert Preston and Monsters lead actor Scoot McNairy to executive produce the sequel to the successful indie sci-fi. However, Edwards won't be directing Monsters 2; instead Brent Bonacorso and Jesse Atlas will share this duty. Rory Aitken and Ben Pugh are producing for Vertigo Films and Protagonist Pictures has acquired worldwide sales rights. The story will continue from the original, focusing on a teacher who attempts to find and rescue his brother who has been long lost in the infected zone. The budget will be similarly low at under $5m. A tentative release date has been set for late 2012.
A screenwriter who gets caught up in his friend's dog-kidnapping plot is at the centre of Seven Psychopaths. Produced by UK's Blueprint Pictures and US' Annapurna Pictures, the black comedy has attached to star Mickey Rourke, Collin Farrel, Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken. Martin McDonagh will direct from his own screenplay. Film4 provided financial backing, and HanWay Films is handling international sales. Thus far the film has been sold to Australia (Hopscotch Productions), Canada (Alliance Films), France (Wild Side), Russia (Carmen Films) and the UK (Momentum Pictures).
Matthew Butler is gearing up for his Scotland shoot of The Curse Of The Buxom Strumpet at the end of this year. The comedy horror follows inhabitants of a small seaside town, who are struck down with a deadly illness. Butler co-wrote the script with Tori Heart, based on the former's short film E'gad Zombies. The pair also jointly produces for Fizz and Ginger. Margaret Matheson acts as executive producer. The $3m project will star Mark Williams, Judi Dench, Gillian Anderson and Ian McKellen.
Summer (August) will see the start of Laura Schroeder's Schatzritter, with Clemens Schick, Alexandra Neldel and Luc Feit headlining the cast. Written by Martin Dolejs and Stefan Schaller the fantasy film follows a gang of child treasure hunters who fight to save a castle from the dark Duc de Berry. The $4m German-Luxembourg co-production is jointly produced by NEOS Film, Bavaria Film Partners, Lucil Film and Screenvest.


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Each January, Bruce Clay uses his years of search engine marketing and business experience to look into the future and predict upcoming trends for the next 12 months. As 2010 dawns, each day brings some discovery, and every week SEO becomes a new industry. Certainly SEO just one year ago is not the same as today, and looking forward, the only thing that is certain is that the future remains uncertain, as is traditional with everything search. There will be substantial changes to the search engine optimization world in 2010, and it is time once again for Bruce to dust off the crystal ball and expound on the yearly trends he expects to see.
At the top of the SEO Hierarchy of Needs you'll find one of the most challenging tasks of Web site optimization: acquiring relevant, high quality inbound links. It's a difficult and demanding practice, requiring a well-planned strategy for the best odds of success.
One tactic, the creation of link bait and viral content, thrives on creativity and network connections. Another technique, manual link requests, demand research and an adherence to social graces. There are many other approaches to link building, though they all require time, patience and often a high commitment of resources. However, the benefit received from even a handful of high quality inbound links may make it all worthwhile. So what counts as a high quality link and what techniques can be used to obtain them?
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On January 12 Google published a post to their official blog titled A new approach to China. The post sparked national public awareness of the complicated issue of government-controlled Internet censorship in the world's most populous nation.
Google and China Face Off
The search engine announced that Google.cn had been the target of an attack resulting in the theft of intellectual property from Google. Google has long had a tenuous existence in China, having begrudgingly agreed to state-run censorship in order to operate in the country. The attack and theft seemed to target e-mails from human rights activists and is rumored to have originated from government sources.
For its part, China defended its Internet censorship: "Properly guiding Internet opinion is a major measure for protecting Internet information security."
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responded to the allegations with a brief statement, citing the seriousness of the complaint and the Internet's critical role in modern society. She added that she will be following up with an address next week on the "centrality of internet freedom in the 21st Century" and will continue to update as more facts become clear. Analysts are viewing the announcement as White House support for Google's fight with China.
Computer technology company Apple has acquired Quattro Wireless in a move that analysts trace back to Apple's competition in the mobile market with Internet services company Google. Apple also recently acquired Lala, a streaming music service.
Google launched the first self-branded smartphone which runs on Google's Android mobile operating system. The device is called Nexus One and is currently available for use on the T-Mobile network, with Verizon and Vodafone coming soon.
Media and technology analyst John Battelle believes that by selling the phone and its service through its own Web store, Google is attempting to change the model of mobile connectivity by breaking the "current stranglehold of how phones are distributed, marketed, and sold here in the U.S."
Internet services company Yahoo! has partnered with Electus, a joint venture of IAC and former NBC president Ben Silverman, to produce original "TV" programming for the Web.
In December, digital marketing intelligence company comScore released its report on search engine market share in November 2009. Yahoo!'s market share fell half a percent to 17.5 percent, the lowest the engine has ever posted. Microsoft's engine Bing gained nearly half a point to reach 10.3 percent, marking the first time Microsoft received more than 10 percent of the market since September 2007. Ask.com and AOL dropped slightly in market share, while Google made a small gain.
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Domain industry annual conference DOMAINfest will be held in Santa Monica, California January 26-28. Bruce Clay will be on the panel Domain Names: How Prime Internet Real Estate Builds SEO and SEM Success.
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The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) is presenting an advanced SEO expert panel that will include Bruce Clay in Atlanta, Georgia on February 11.
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On Tuesday, January 12, a deadly 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. The disaster has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in the developing nation and rescue efforts by humanitarian organizations are underway.
Receiving an attaboy for their efforts is the generous community of Internet users, illustrated by the Twitter update, "Amazing! Americans raise $8m+ for @RedCross by texting HAITI to 90999 [...]" from the official White House account US customers of Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T can donate $10 to the Red Cross via the text promotion without incurring any messaging fees. At the time of publication, the Red Cross Twitter account indicated that more than $10 million had been donated to relief efforts via text.
The search engines are lending a helping hand as well. Google has also created a crisis response page to help users make donations, and the company has pledged to donate $1 million to relief organizations working in Haiti. Yahoo! is directing users to the Network for Good donation site, Bing has a growing list of charitable organizations, and Ask.com results feature answers to the question "How can I help Haiti?"
Host of the Tonight Show, Conan O'Brien, used the power of the Internet to rally support. Following news that the network might be moving the show to a new time slot, O'Brien wrote a letter to the "People of Earth" that managed to win over the affections of Internet users through honesty, humor and a measure of resolution.
Semi-finalists have been announced for the annual SEMMYs — awards that honor the best search engine marketing posts of the year. Once a panel of judges selects the finalists, the awards will be opened for public voting. Congratulations to the SEMMY semi-finalists.
After inking multiyear deals with Google and Bing, microblogging site Twitter reportedly made a small profit in 2009.
The FTC has announced it will be reviewing Google's acquisition of mobile ad network AdMob. Google recently announced that AdWords campaigns targeting mobile devices will include a Click-to-Call business phone number alongside the ad.
Beverage giants Pepsi Co., Coca-Cola Co. and Unilever have announced a shift away from traditional media marketing in favor of social media marketing.
Movie service Netflix has partnered with Nintendo Wii to stream rented films over the Internet connected gaming device, joining the ranks of PS3 and Xbox 360, for which the Netflix movie service is already available.
Rumors have been circulating that Internet services and media company Aol. is poised to acquire Mashable, a social media news blog.
In the UK, a proposed bill would give immunity from copyright claims to search engines including Google, essentially giving Google the ability to copy anything while prohibiting publishers from blocking search engine crawlers.
A Harvard professor and Google critic has identified a method of click fraud involving paid ads, affiliate traffic brokering and spyware, with search services provider InfoSpace being called out as a particularly guilty party.
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Enhancing Kinetic Chain Function to Treat Iliotibial Band Syndrome
By Kevin Jardine, DC, Med. Ac., CSCS, ART
Iliotibial band syndrome can be an ongoing source of pain and frustration for both practitioners and patients. Working with numerous professional and Olympic runners and cyclists, this is something I have seen frequently.The multitude of variables that can lead to an increase in stress and eventual injury of structures related to the iliotibial band further complicate the situation. Numerous structures influence the tension on the iliotibial track; if left unchecked, problems can lead to traction irritation of the distal attachment on the knee or frictional irritation over the lateral knee tubercle, causing pain.
One of the main contributing factors leading to iliotibial band syndrome is when there is too much adduction during gait due to overuse of adductors and weak hip abductors. This also increases the valgus stress on the knee during midstance, leading to torsional strain on the intra-articular components of the knee. The valgus strain on the knee during midstance increases the origin to insertion distance of the iliotibial track, which increases the insertional tension and friction created over the lateral tubercle.
Treatments for such conditions include articular adjustments, as well as localized soft-tissue work; not on the iliotibial track itself, but rather on the gluteus medius, vastus lateralis, biceps femoris and quadratus femoris, to name a few. Corrective strengthening exercises targeting motor control of the core with an emphasis on hip and ankle stability work quite well when dealing with chronic iliotibial band syndrome and similar cases.
Figure 1 and Figure 2 illustrate two examples of how to strengthen the hip abductors. The first exercise involves lying on the floor and performing a clam opening-like motion of the hip. This movement is performed with the spine maintained in a neutral position so hip motion can occur independent of the spine.
The progression for this motion is a lateral walk movement with a band attached around the ankles. The patient is instructed to step laterally while maintaining a neutral spine. I often tell patients to think about holding a glass of water on their head and not letting the glass tip over while stepping. I typically have them perform these movements, as well as others, for one set apiece every day of the week.
An often-missed, yet incredibly effective addition to the treatment plan for ITB syndrome and related conditions is taping. In fact, elastic therapeutic taping can make the difference in how quickly you are able to resolve such conditions due to the fact that your patients end up wearing their treatment in between your therapeutic sessions. By stimulating the touch receptors on the surface of the skin, the mechanical stimulation of the tape is converted into an electrical signal, which is then carried through the nervous system through a process called mechanotransduction.
There are a few different ways in which elastic therapeutic tape can help improve your clinical outcomes, dependent on how you apply the tape. I'm not talking about which direction you apply the tape; I'm talking about understanding the properties of the tape and determining what your clinical objectives are. Even with the advent of pre-cut and ready-to-apply applications, the clinical reasoning behind getting the best results is what matters.
For iliotibial band syndrome, the clinical goal is to identify the root cause of the condition so where you tape will have the greatest impact. Iliotibial band syndrome is a classic condition in that where your patients feel their discomfort is not necessarily where you need to be providing treatment. The abnormal mechanical stress and strain placed on the iliotibial band and knee due to the increased valgus strain must be corrected to effectively treat this condition.
Elastic therapeutic taping may be utilized in such a way as to provide the necessary afferent stimulation needed to encourage proper muscle activation, along with the prevention of potentially harmful ranges of motion. Both improper muscle activation (the hip abductors) and harmful movements (valgus stress at the knee) contribute to iliotibial band syndrome.
To illustrate treatment of this condition with taping, we need to examine the difference in applying a neurosensory technique versus a structural technique. Neurostructural technique is used when you principally wish to reduce the patient's level of discomfort while attempting to normalize motor activation in the muscles involved. Structural techniques are used when the main clinical goal is to reduce potentially harmful ranges of motion from occurring. A great example of a structural technique is applying elastic therapeutic tape across the back of the shoulders to improve posture and prevent forward rounding.
For taping the hip, I would first attempt to correct the imbalance by applying tape over the glut med or glut max directly while it is in a lengthened position, without any stretch being placed on the tape. You can determine the level of deficit, as well as how to gauge your impact of treatment, by employing dynamic movement evaluation strategies such as the squat test. You will clearly be able to see the leg deviating into valgus and can therefore use this to visualize the impact of taping.
If the initial taping strategy does not correct the imbalance and a valgus deviation is still present, I recommend two courses of action. One is to apply tape structurally to prevent internal rotation of the femur; the other is to initiate a targeted motor control exercise program. With either strategy I always, without exception, engage my patients in motor control rehabilitation. For the structural taping strategy, the body part is placed in a shortened position and you stretch the tape before applying it to the skin, so the tape becomes an external barrier that develops tension. This prevents the end ranges of motion you are trying to avoid. Figure 4 demonstrates how to tape the lateral leg from the hip with the tape being stretched before it is applied on shortened tissue.
Try including these strategies as a part of your treatment plan for patients with iliotibial band syndrome, and let me know how it goes. I am always interested in hearing about your results.
Dr. Kevin Jardine graduated from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in 2002 after completing undergraduate studies at the University of New Brunswick. An expert in the field of elastic therapeutic taping, Dr. Jardine focuses primarily on sports therapy and performance, treating and consulting with numerous athletes and teams. He is also president and CEO of Collaborans (www.collaborans.com), which provides interactive digital education for health care and fitness professionals, and can be contacted with questions and comments via e-mail:


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Both girls involved in the infamous "shovel girl" video have been charged with disorderly conduct ... TMZ has learned.
The Miami County Sheriff's office in Ohio tells TMZ a charge of disorderly conduct was filed in Juvenile Court against both girls just for fighting.
Interestingly ... the girl who threw the shovel did not draw any additional charge.
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It's not even June and already the National Father's Day Council has named its 72nd "Father of the Year."
For his "profound generosity, leadership and tireless dedication to both his public office and many philanthropic organizations," the council will honor former President Bill Clinton, they announced in a statement today.
Clinton is certainly a tremendously accomplished man who has used his post-presidency to affect much positive change in the world. But father of the year?
While it is unclear how much hands-on fathering the globe-trotting Clinton did this past year—Chelsea is, after all, 32, married and gainfully employed—council chairman Dan Orwig commended the former president for his philanthropy through the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative.
Nor is Clinton the first president to receive the council's highest honor, which goes to "contemporary lifestyle leaders of our culture." Previous fathers of the year include Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy, as well as Humphrey Bogart, Yogi Berra, Al Gore, Dan Quayle and Wolf Blitzer.
The Father's Day/Mother's Day Council is dedicated, according to its website, to "promot[ing] the celebration, observation, and preservation of the holidays Mother's Day and Father's Day by focusing on the value of good sound parenting"—particularly by "highlighting and contributing to charities and contemporary issues that affect Mothers, Fathers, and Families."
What do you think of the council's decision? Personally we'd like to see a few more relateable fathers get the nod. Like the dad who hacked Zelda for his daughter, or the guy who sent his son's train into space.
Who would you pick for father of the year?


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The era of unique cars has passed, ushering in the recent flood of machines almost indistinguishable from one another without a paint scheme. The last bastion of varied cars limited only by the imagination is the American Le Mans Series, which was bought out by NASCAR and will merge with Grand-Am in 2014.
This weekend is the prolongedly-titled Glenora Wine Cellars U.S. Vintage Grand Prix presented by Welliver (a title that's four characters shy of half a Tweet) at Watkins Glen International. This is not only the final full-on spectator event at The Glen, but also one of the most cherished among gearheads.
Fans can go practically anywhere around the facility, get close to the cars, talk to the owners and watch from every imaginable vantage point on the ground or in the grandstands. At its peak, before the economic bubble burst in 2008, the U.S. Vintage Grand Prix boasted car counts approaching 500 with machines ranging from the exotic – like pre-war Alfa Romeos – to more contemporary sports cars – like the Audi R8. What ever kind of race cars you're into, they're at The Glen this weekend.
People love it, but for how long?
The era of unique cars has passed, ushering in the recent flood of machines almost indistinguishable from one another without a paint scheme. The last bastion of varied cars limited only by the imagination is the American Le Mans Series, which was bought out by NASCAR and will merge with Grand-Am in 2014. What happens five years down the road is anybody's guess.
NASCAR, IndyCar, Grand-Am and even Formula One have all adopted very strict "templates" for the cars to fit in an effort to lessen the impact of giants amounts of money and keep the competition close. While the racing overall has been breathtaking in the last 15 years, as compared to the previous 50, the cars have done little to capture the imagination.
Strip the livery off a 2009 Sprint Cup Series car and I defy you to identify what make it is. Remove the decals off a 2010 Chip Ganassi Racing Indy car and it is the exact same machine used by Dale Coyne Racing. The Daytona Prototypes are slightly more recognizable from chassis to chassis, but from afar still appear too similar. For retired 2011 F1 cars, only the geekiest of fans can tell a McLaren from a Ferarri, sans paint.
These are the cars which will populate historic/vintage racing in the coming years.
If there's one category that will have good representation from the modern era, it will be the GTs. Right now, the production-based cars are the most interesting because they're distinctive. The BMWs look vastly different from the Porsches, the Mazdas are easily differentiated from the Ferarris and don't even get me started on the Corvettes and Vipers. The future interest in vintage racing, a playground for the most far-slung, purpose-built race cars ever created, may well rest on the shoulders of the kinds of cars that look just like street machines.
That, Alanis Morissette, is irony.
The collection of these cars in one place is why race fans enjoy vintage racing – it has nothing to do with "personalities" or close racing. The majority of the drivers are wealthy AARP card carrying white men who, by and large, don't push the limits too far for fear of destroying their priceless relics.
This weekend, it's all about the cars – all those wonderfully varied race cars. In this era of professional auto racing, where spec is the norm, The Glen gives a brief reprieve from sameness. I just hope it stays that way.
Just sayin': Ron Howard's upcoming feature film "Rush" chronicles the inner-team rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1970s. The budget for this flick was $30 million. In 1994, Howard made "Apollo 13" for $52 million. "Rush" may as well be an indie art project for the accomplished director. ... Ever felt bewildering rage? I did Monday when my recording of "Breaking Bad" cut off the last 15 minutes of the show. ... Oh yeah, football starts this weekend.
Chris Gill, who covers auto racing for The Leader, can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow him on Twitter @TheLeaderGill.


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NEW YORK - In a world where a harried investor can sell a stock in a fraction of a second over a computer, is there any need for an institution that still relies on humans scurrying about shouting buy and sell orders?
The threat that technology poses to human labor looms large in a vote Tuesday on whether the New York Stock Exchange should sell shares to the public. The outcome is all but a foregone conclusion. Exchange members are expected to approve the deal.
Even so, the vote symbolizes vast change in the world's investing markets. As part of the plan to convert from a nonprofit, member-owned institution to a for-profit corporation owned by the public, the NYSE plans to acquire one of its all-electronic rivals, Archipelago Inc.
Ten years ago, Archipelago did not exist. But since it began operating in 1997, Archipelago and other electronic exchanges, including the better-known Nasdaq, have gobbled up chunks of what once was a near monopoly for the New York exchange. Now, the NYSE fears losing dominance. Its electronic rivals, once inconsequential upstarts, have become big competitors.
"The New York Stock Exchange is yesterday's newspaper, essentially, in terms of its trading technology," said Junius Peake, a finance professor at the University of Northern Colorado.
Dave Humphreville, president of the Specialist Association - which represents stock-exchange members known as specialists, who are charged with maintaining orderly trading in specific stocks - disagreed.
"People come to New York for a reason," he said. "We are by far the most technologically advanced exchange on the planet today," he said. Technology is not driving the Archipelago deal, he said. The NYSE wants Archipelago because it gives the exchange new products to trade, he said, and offers a simpler route to becoming a public company.
The race to offer the fastest, cheapest trading system has set off a bull market in investments in financial exchanges. Going public is one way to raise capital for expensive technology investments.
Shares in Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. closed Friday at $42.28, up 314.5 percent so far this year. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, once a clubby, member-owned institution, went public three years ago. Its shares closed Friday at $369.80, up 62 percent this year. Archipelago shares, closing Friday at $58.86, have climbed 181 percent in the same period.
This summer, Citigroup Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. and several other prominent investment companies bought stakes in the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, in part to get a piece of an electronic system that could compete with the NYSE and Nasdaq.
Current owners of the New York Stock Exchange are known as seat holders, a term that stems from its early years, when members sat in seats during a roll call of stocks. Seats are bought and sold privately. When the exchange goes public, seat holders will receive $300,000 in cash plus 80,177 shares of common stock in the combined NYSE/Archipelago, which will operate as a new company, NYSE Group Inc.
The runup in Archipelago shares has pushed the price of a NYSE seat from $975,000 earlier this year to a record $4 million last week.
People once bought NYSE seats as symbols of prestige to complement their degrees from Harvard or Yale, whether or not they planned to trade there. But those days faded long ago as the bull market and technology sped up the pace of the trading floor.
NYSE executives say the floor and its human traders offer a way to centralize information that ultimately leads to more profits for investors.
But some experts ask whether the floor is a relic in an era of computers. They question whether the NYSE has been slow to change because traders do not want to give up the collegiality of close quarters on the floor.
"Many people wondered why the New York Stock Exchange hasn't moved faster on this," said Richard Sylla, an economics professor at New York University. "It's the culture. They like to see each other every day."
But technology threatens to destroy a culture where trades depend on humans. Paul Schultz, a finance professor at the University of Notre Dame, whose research led to reorganization of the Nasdaq market, estimated that a NYSE trade could take as long as 10 seconds to execute, compared with a fraction of a second on an electronic exchange.
In a rapidly shifting market, those seconds mean big money to traders, he added.
No one is sure what increased electronic trading, along with coming regulatory changes, will mean for the NYSE's human traders.
When the London Stock Exchange modernized in 1986, the trading floor disappeared within a week, replaced entirely by computers, Peake said. The revolutionary change became known as the Big Bang.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, on the other hand, has expanded computer trading, but still maintains an active trading floor.
Jim Rutledge, who owns a NYSE seat, said the exchange had been adding electronic-trading capability for several decades. In the past, he said, he and others worried that more electronic trading would hurt business. Instead, it helped, because it improved trading volume.
"My business went up," Rutledge said.
Humphreville said his members were concerned about increased electronic trading, but he believed specialists would continue to play a strong role: They provide benefits, such as better prices for investors, that are unavailable from a computer.
"Specialists have a unique role in bringing buyers and sellers together efficiently and adding liquidity to the market," he said.
No one knows how the change will affect individual investors, either.
Meyer "Sandy" Frucher, chairman of the Philadelphia exchange, said he believed the outcome of all the changes would be positive.
"Competition has been very good for investors because it has both narrowed spreads on the trading side and it has certainly lowered costs," Frucher said. A spread is the difference between the price an investor is willing to pay for a stock and the price at which someone else will sell. Smaller spreads mean investors get to keep more of the profit from a trade.
But Muriel Siebert, the first woman to own an exchange seat in New York and the head of the discount brokerage firm that bears her name, fears that the new NYSE will try to shift costs from larger investors to smaller ones. Already, rumors are circulating that the NYSE plans to raise fees.
NYSE spokesman Rich Adamonis said no decisions had been made yet about fees.
"There's a lot of questions that are not answered in my mind," Siebert said. "If they're going to try to rip off the small investor... I'm going to get very angry about it."
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An article at The Motley Fool lays out good financial news from Red Hat: "In its first quarter of fiscal 2009, Red Hat produced $0.08 of GAAP earnings per share on revenue of $156.6 million. That's a 32% sales increase over last year, while profits held steady. But the numbers don't tell the whole story here. The open-source software veteran released major updates to four of its key products and re-signed every expired contract with its 25 largest subscribers -- for 50% more than the worth of the old deals. It's always cool to see the big boys upgrading their pacts, don't you think? Red Hat continues to invest in its global sales and support infrastructure, funding the growth from organic cash flows.
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One of the activities of the Hikari Institute (the parent of the Hawaii Karate Museum), is the Karate-No! Program. The purpose of the Karate-No! Program is to encourage Karate students to make healthy decisions in life and to avoid drug and alcohol abuse.
What is the connection between Karate and drug and alcohol abuse? Karate is part of a healthy lifestyle.
I can remember times, however, and have heard many instances when going out drinking was almost assumed to be part of Karate training. After a rigorous night of training, sometimes teachers and students would go out to drink. Sometimes this could last into the early hours of the morning.
For younger students, it might be hard to avoid going out. There might be pressure from the seniors and from peers. With families and work, this could present some problems, not to mention being unhealthy.
I wonder how many high level Karate instructors have suffered poor health because of drinking? In addition, I wonder how many of these instructors have suffered family and work problems as a result of excessive drinking?
Have you ever seen a person when he was completely drunk? It is not a pretty picture. It does not matter whether the drunkard is a 1st kyu or a 10th dan. It does not matter that the person has no recollection of what they did or said. People will remember how he acted while drunk.
As Karate students, we must be in control of our actions. We must also be responsible for what we do and say. Drunkenness is no excuse. We cannot go back and undo things that we might have done while drunk.
I am not saying that a person should not drink alcohol at all. But there is a big difference between one or two drinks in a social setting and drinking until one is intoxicated.
And even one or two drinks can impair one's ability to drive. How many innocent people have been killed or injured by drunken drivers?
I also wonder how many fights have taken place because of drinking? If a Karate expert is drunk, he can still inflict great harm, even kill someone.
A Karate student cannot afford to be impaired, either because of alcohol or drugs.
Personally, I do not drink, smoke, or take drugs. I have neither the time nor the money for these things. Between my family, work, Karate training, and Karate research, there are already too few hours in the day.
I have to admit that I sipped a beer and puffed a cigarette when I was a youth. I did not like either. I have never tried any drugs. I am not saying that I am a saint. I simply have many better things to do with my life.
I remember a Karate student. He was really strong for five minutes. Then he would begin to huff and puff because he smoked. How could his Karate improve if he kept smoking?
I sometimes say that some people take better care of their cars than they do themselves.
Avoid alcohol, drugs, and smoking. Try to become as healthy and in as good condition as you can. Remember that you are responsible for your actions and that you are a representative of your Sensei, dojo, and the art of Karate. Karate is (should be) part of a healthy lifestyle.
See: Drugs -- Medications and Prescription Drugs.
Charles C. Goodin
Karate-No! Program
One of the activities of the Hikari Institute (the parent of the Hawaii Karate Museum), is the Karate-No! Program. The purpose of the Karate-No! Program is to encourage Karate students to make healthy decisions in life and to avoid drug and alcohol abuse.
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Molly Ziegler-Moore couldn't believe that a school of higher learning and receiving federal aid could so blatantly violate a 40-year-old law intended to prevent sex discrimination on college campuses.
Ziegler-Moore, 41, knew she did the right thing, though, when she filed a complaint against Adrian College in 2007 citing the school for failing to comply with Title IX of the Education Amendment in 1972. The law basically banned sex discrimination in athletics and education. The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) ruled in her favor in September 2011, when it ruled that the college did not provide equivalent benefits and services in its athletic facilities to women in 2006-07.
"Fifteen years ago when I began working for them, I never imagined this would happen," she told about 10 members of the Monroe chapter of the American Association of University Women Tuesday night. "But I had to justify that I'm not a bad person or troublemaker."
She served as softball coach at the college for 10 years, from 1997-2007, and also worked as the women's athletic director.
Her final year was tumultuous.
"2007 marked a low point," she said. "There were some very ugly things and it was a very difficult time for me emotionally. God has a plan for everything and we're all placed where we're supposed to be. It was a rocky path, (but he) kept me on my feet."
Title IX uses 10 criteria for evaluating whether a school is providing equal treatment in men's and women's sports. They range from scheduling to travel and housing and dining facilities to per diem allowance for coaches and opportunity to receive coaching and academic tutoring. Her complaint cited concerns in all 10 areas.
Ziegler-Moore, a 1994 Adrian graduate, alleged three main violations in her 12-point complaint. The biggest objection was the lack of equal locker rooms, and practice and competitive facilities. Two other complaints involved assignment and compensation for coaches and tutors and the lack of equal equipment and supplies.
She told how she began asking questions of administrators when a new football-soccer-lacrosse stadium was built in 2006-07 in hopes of boosting enrollment. She recalled looking over blueprints for the stadium and noticed no women's locker room.
"Oh, it's in there," one administrator told her.
It wasn't. When the stadium opened, she found flat-screen televisions and fine furniture in the men's locker rooms, but no women's locker room. The women had to dress in the Merillat Center, the existing multi-sports education complex adjacent to the stadium.
Almost the same thing happened when a new ice hockey arena was built a year later and the women's locker room was smaller and had lesser accommodations than the men. Behind closed doors for fear of reprisal, the female coaches gathered with her and came up with a list of concerns. Nothing was done with the list until another incident occurred that Ziegler-Moore said was the "straw that broke the camel's back."
College administrators announced plans to build a new $2 million baseball complex. The next day, she emailed the president asking if the complex had similar facilities for women and was told it would.
Later, after compiling a "wish list" of improvements to replace the portable johns that female softball students were using, she learned that they would not be the same. The new softball complex would cost only $200,000. So she asked a vice president, "is that Title IX compliant?"
"Probably not," he replied.
She met a speaker at a symposium on Title IX who suggested she file a complaint against the college. The speaker told her that most schools had issues with the law, but she had never heard of such non-compliance as that described at Adrian.
In May, Ziegler-Moore filed her complaint with the OCR and requested that her name be kept confidential under the Whistleblowers Act because of her employment as a coach and a part-time teacher of exercise science.
"That was a very lonely period for me," she recalled. "A whole aura of distrust surfaced. I saw a lot of people and some very good friends get fired (including her future brother-in-law). Nobody could be vocal in support of me. (They) kept their distance and did so with the provision that I not talk to them in the office."
She eventually resigned, taking a new job as director of philanthropy at Mercy Memorial Hospital. The OCR's probe got under way in 2008 when a team of attorneys conducted interviews and garnered extensive information and details on athletic training and facilities. One investigator told her he had "never seen anything like this." The OCR ruled Adrian did not comply in eight of the 10 categories under the law and ordered the college to correct the violations if it wanted to continue receiving federal money.
Gloria Rafko, president of the Monroe chapter, recalled when she was in high school, they didn't have sports for girls and they couldn't even play on the gym floor. Marney Cooley, secretary, said the law was passed to make conditions more acceptable for women.
"We're a long ways from equity," Cooley said.
Accompanying Ziegler-Moore for the talk was her younger sister, Mandy Himes. Today, Ziegler-Moore lives in Monroe with her husband and three children.
She said several attorneys told her she could have won a lawsuit against the college had she remained in coaching and been fired. She said the athletic director and president are still in office and many administrators won't talk to her today. Because the college didn't build the facilities correctly, it has to spend more money to rectify the problems. She has mixed feelings about the school, but feels vindicated by the outcome.
"It's not about me," she said. "I love the school and went back to a couple of homecomings. Instead of being a victim, I (pursued) it because I had hoped they'd make changes to make it right. I hope it does some good."
Former Adrian College softball coach discusses Title IX complaint
Molly Ziegler-Moore couldn't believe that a school of higher learning and receiving federal aid could so blatantly violate a 40-year-old law intended to prevent sex discrimination on college campuses.


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