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Climate change will likely add to the final snowfall totals from the monster winter storm lashing the Northeast by 5 to 10 percent, according to a leading expert on climate change at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Kevin Trenberth, a distinguished senior scientist in the Climate Analysis Section at NCAR, said Friday that snowfall totals from the storm are being influenced by both warmer air temperatures, leading to the atmosphere retaining more moisture, and a 1-degree increase in ocean temperatures since 1970.
"That will give you about 5 to 10 percent more snow than if you would have had the same snow back in 1980," Trenberth said.
"This relates to the idea that out here, there's the saying, 'It's too cold to snow.' You freeze-dry the snow. The biggest snowfalls occur when the temperatures are just below freezing -- not when it's really cold."
That is why, Trenberth said, the Rocky Mountain region tends to see its highest snowfalls in March and April, when temperatures are higher.
In fact, he said, even the timing of this storm can also likely be somewhat attributed to climate change. A storm of this nature, historically, would be more likely to savage the Northeast coastal states in March, when it's typically somewhat warmer, than in mid-February.
Snow started falling Friday from New York City north to Portland, Maine, with the system expected to intensify overnight. Final accumulations are projected at 2 to 3 feet in Boston and elsewhere throughout the region.
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"Sen. Inhofe went out and built a snowman and was derisively making remarks about Al Gore and global warming," Trenberth said. "In actual fact, it's very likely that storm had a global warming component."
News accounts reflect that Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., and his family built an igloo. They outfitted it with cardboard signs reading "Al Gore's new home" and "Honk if you (heart) global warming."
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"The projections (for continued ocean warming) are about two- or three-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit per decade," Trenberth said. "So in the next two or three decades, we could easily get another degree out of this, by 30 years from now.
"It changes the seasons."
Trenberth was a lead author of the 1995, 2001 and 2007 Scientific Assessment of Climate Change reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which went to the IPCC.
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Mary Lou Szczechowiak dies at 81
Mary Lou Szczechowiak, of Porter, IN passed away on Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at
her home. She was 81.
She was born on Nov. 26, 1926 in Gary, the daughter of John and Minnie
(Teutsch) Ciceu, both of whom preceded her in death.
Mary Lou is survived by sons, Bruce (Cathy) Foreman of Indianapolis, Richard
(Phyllis) Foreman of Schererville, Robert (Brenda) Foreman of Indianapolis,
and John (Karen) Foreman of Valparaiso; daughters, Diana M. (Michael) Jones
of Porter, Terrie (Tom) Fiacable of Chesterton, Mary Lou Marks of Valparaiso,
and Donna Bunch of Hobart; daughter in law, Ann Foreman of Indianapolis; 25
grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and three great-great grandchildren.
She was also preceded in death by sisters, Elizabeth Pejza and Alina
Mary Lou retired from the Gary School System where she worked as a cashier.
She was very active in many senior citizen groups especially at Christmas
time with her generosity and caring for others. Mary Lou was proud of raising
eight children and was a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
Funeral services, Pastor Dwayne Schmidt officiating, will be at 7 p.m.
Thursday, June 5, at Edmonds & Evans Funeral Home, Portage Chapel, 6941
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The Private World of Private Label Food Brands
Will the category's 'quality copy-cat' reputation hold up after the recession?
Private label food brands are a $90 billion business accounting for 17.4 percent of retail food sales in the U.S., according to Nielsen Co. Over the past six years, while most food categories have been struggling, private labels have grown at a rate of 6 percent per year.
Most private label products continue to be sold under retailer brands but are produced by firms further up the supply chain. But these brands certainly are no longer confined to grocery stores. Walmart and Target have hugely increased their food sales, and much of their fare is under their store brands. "Drug store" chain Walgreen's renamed and expanded its offerings under the Nice! brand. Dollar and club stores offer new opportunities for growth.
Much of the optimism is based on the U.S. catching up with Europe's love of private label brands. Over there, private label accounts for 24.2 percent of retail food sales -- almost 7 percentage points better market penetration than in the U.S. If private label brand penetration reached that level in the U.S., sales would increase by 39 percent to $125 billion.
Many private label companies and contract manufacturers – as well as branded products manufacturers with significant private label business -- are betting on precisely that.
As distinguished from a brand bearing the name of a manufacturer or producer, private label products are brands owned or sponsored by a retailer or supplier and made by a contract manufacturer. Since manufacturers' brands have large advertising expenditures built into their cost, a retailer with a private label program should be able to buy the same products, presumably at a lower cost, and sell them at a lower price and/or at a better profit margin.
With more control over pricing, retailers are able to advantageously display their own brands for maximum impact. A grocery store can quickly reduce the price of its own private label brand in order to meet or beat a competing store's price. Or it can create a special point-of-purchase display and/or give its brand dominant shelf space and create customer loyalty reward programs in order to boost sales. It is the retailer who designs the manufacturing, packaging and marketing of the products to build on the relationship between the products and the store's customer base.
Source: Corvus Blue LLC Report
Retail chains of all sizes develop and market store brands in various ways. They may create a whole line of products around a particular feature -- such as Safeway's O Organics and Eating Right offerings, Kroger's Private Selection or Albertsons Wild Harvest organic lines. Dominick's/Safeway has Lucerne, Target has Archer Farms, Loblaw has President's Choice – a trailblazer some decades ago -- and Trader Joe's carries a variety of authentic ethnic products that appeal to millennials and more adventurous consumers.
In other cases, a majority of the store brand items in a chain may carry the same name -- such as Costco's Kirkland, Whole Foods' 365 Everyday Value products, and Walmart's Great Value and Marketside. Indeed, Walmart has devised standards to determine what is healthy and a new label, bright green with the slogan Great for You, now appears on its healthier options.
Many consumers believe they are actually buying a national brand rather than a private label, according to Mintel Group. While part of this perception is certainly due to clever packaging and well-crafted brand-building strategies, some of the credit clearly goes to the name, such as Archer Farms or President's Choice.
Some store brands have been able to position themselves as premium brands by mimicking the shape, packaging and labeling of national brands … or by bettering their packaging … or by getting premium display treatment from retailers.
Source: www.Innovadatabase.com
Where's the innovation?
New product innovation is primarily left to brand leaders, who have the technological know-how and resources to sustain both R&D and the introduction of new products into the marketplace.
The general consensus is that private labels can play many roles in the market, but not that of innovator, largely because retailers do not invest in marketing as their brand counterparts do. They take little risk in introducing new products, do not appear to promote innovative product concepts from their suppliers, and partially or fully cover the risk and the information asymmetry of new product introduction by brands using (slotting) fees.
"We want to be a 'fast follower,' " executives at TreeHouse Foods, a $2 billion private label manufacturer, told us when we named the company our Processor of the Year in 2010. Whenever a national brand unveils a product innovation, TreeHouse wants to be able to copy it quickly for its retailer customers.
Private label share in convenience products such as fresh ready-to-eat meals is usually well above 90 percent, according to the Private Label Manufacturers Association (www.plma.com) -- a consequence of freshness requirements and the comparative advantage over processors in the complexity of logistics.
Manufacturers of store brand products include: large national brand manufacturers utilizing their expertise and excess plant capacity to supply store brands; small manufacturers that specialize in particular products or processes and concentrate on producing store brands almost exclusively (these companies are often owned by corporations that produce national brands); major retailers and wholesalers that own their own manufacturing facilities and provide store brand products for themselves; and regional brand manufacturers that produce private label products for specific markets.
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Today is the feast day of St Peter Claver. Few U.S. Catholics have heard of Peter Claver. But elsewhere in the American hemisphere, he is well-known. So who was Peter Claver?
Pedro Claver Corbero (1580-1654) was born in Verdu, Catalonia. At age 13, he suffered a double tragedy when his mother and brother died within days of each other. At age 22, Pedro left home to join the Jesuits. After advanced Jesuit education in Barcelona, Tarragon, and Majorca, Claver followed the call of God to minister to slaves in South America. This ministry came about thusly: in 1605, Pedro met a man called Alfonso Rodriguez in Majorca. Alfonso became Pedro's mentor. sometime later, Alfonso had a vision of an empty throne in Heaven. An unseen voice told Alfonso that the throne was for Pedro who would face great danger in the West Indies. Thereupon, Alfonso asked Pedro to go to the Islands and serve the slaves. In 1610, he traveled to Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, at the time, the leading slave port in the world.
Claver cared for the poor and the sick slaves, some of who were afflicted with leprosy. He would meet the incoming slave ships and provide blankets and fresh fruits to the arriving slaves. He created a corps of interpreters and catechists to teach the slaves the Bible. in 1616, he was ordained by the Bishop of Cartagena.
It is said that Claver baptized over 300,000 slaves in his 44-year career. That is more than any single person in recorded history.
In about 1650, Claver was stricken with a degenerative disease, possibly what later would be labelled Parkinsons Disease. He became bedridden, and a slave was assigned to assist him. historical evidence suggests that the man who was so kind to the slaves was physically abused by his slave caretaker.
Pedro Claver died on September 9, 1654. He was beatified in 1850 and canonized in 1888 by Pope Leo XII, who, in 1896 declared him patron saint of missions to African slaves. Today, he is recognized as patron of slaves, Colombia, African Americans, and race relations.
The Knights of Peter Claver is a Catholic men's group founded in 1909 at Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Mobile, Alabama. The organization was founded to give "colored men" a Catholic fraternal organization. (Yes, sadly, there was a time that those "other Knights" allowed no "colored men" among them. Fortunately those days are gone.) Like the Knights of Columbus, the Knights of Peter Claver are engaged in charitable works. From their start in Alabama a century ago, they now have over 1000 subordinate units around the country.
The Knights of Peter Claver strive to carry out their charitable works with the same selflessness as St Peter Claver himself. The Knights are an important social force for good works in African-American Catholic communities around the country.
Anyone researching African-American Catholic genealogy should check parish records for photographs and artifacts of the local unit of Knights of Peter Claver.
Knights of Peter Claver website: http://www.kofpc.org/
Member's badge, St. Elizabeth's Branch, Knights of Peter Claver, St Louis, Missouri. The badge pictured here belonged to Joseph Perry Micheau (1888-1975). When found in 2008, it was in an envelope in which it may have been obtained originally by Joseph Micheau. Original badge in the possession of Edna Micheau Penny, Carmichael, California.


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Good morning.
Friday's rally past 14,000 on the Dow for the first time in more than five years provided still more fodder for those crowing about a "great rotation" out of bonds into stocks.
Fidelity, doing its part to support the popular stance, just ran an advert in the Financial Times over the weekend that stated "our experts think that equity valuations now look attractive."
To wit, PFP Wealth Management chided that "you may want to frame that one" in a Monday morning note entitled: "This is going to end badly."
Tim Price, the U.K. firm's director of investment, said the notion of such a rotation is nonsense, for one, because "there is virtually no professional investor out there who can swing effortlessly between these two asset classes."
Read more about the "torpedo into that current thesis" of an imminent flow out of bonds and into stocks. Hey, it's "food for thought, but it doesn't taste particularly nice."
There's some data out there provided by Schaeffer's Investment Research that backs his assertion. It shows that when the Dow crosses 1,000-point intervals, the blue-chip index tends to really struggle. We're seeing just a bit of selling in the wee hours.
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The buzz: Somewhere Bill Ackman is smiling. Herbalife /quotes/zigman/361145 /quotes/nls/hlf HLF shares are getting slammed premarket, down more than 10% on a report from The New York Post saying that the company is the subject of a pending probe.
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The chart of the day: More bullish metrics. When global markets break through their 20-month moving average in unison, good things are about to happen (well, keep happening) for stocks, according to chartist Greg Schnell on StockCharts.com. "Because when the entire world got above the 20-month MA in 2003 it confirmed the global push higher and lasted four years," he wrote. Here's a look at the 18 indexes he tracks and how they're lining up for more gains.
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The first incarnation of what we know of as pop-up books was developed in the 14thcentury to supplement an astrological tome. But the ones we grew up were developed between the '60s to the '90s, and they were mostly functional kids' stuff: images of sprung lions, dragons and houses aimed at increasing childhood literacy by seducing tykes with a three-dimensional novelty.
Today, the field is justifiably recognized as another area of book art. The paper designers who toil in the field have their own glossary, with terms like armature, base page, fulcrum and glue knock-out, and subgenres of movable books include volvelles, tunnel books and pull-downs. To understand the evolution of the pop-up book over the past half-century, look no further than "Pop! The Arthur J. Williams Pop-up Collection," running at FAU's Wimberly Library in Boca through Aug. 12. The exhibition represents just a portion of the 425 pop-up books Williams recently donated to FAU's Jaffe Center for the Book Arts.
"One thing that we keep hearing from students is how elaborate and intricate and exciting these pop-up books are," says Jonas McCaffery, an FAU student who helped curate the exhibit. "We couldn't show them, but we even got a few pop-up books of sex."
There are, of course, children's books on display, with creative, three-dimensional re-imaginings of "Moby-Dick," Noah's Ark, "Alice in Wonderland" and other classic tales. Matthew Reinhart's "Jungle Book" is a tour de force, with a five-story tower inhabited by primates, creating with simple paper an object that rivals, in its own way, a Frank Gehry blueprint or an edible masterpiece from a French pastry chef. To stick with the food theme, the pop-up form doesn't get much more inventive than James Diaz' "Popigami," a Chinese restaurant menu with a 3-D take-out box spilling forth noodles and fortune-cookie slips. It's brilliantly kitschy: an indispensable artwork created from the most dispensable dining materials.
And like many works on display here, it has an inspired sense of humor. Check out "Flanimals," in which pop-up images support an entire deep-sea universe developed by comedian Ricky Gervais, and don't miss "Menopop," Andrew Baron's menopause guidebook, with its pop-up fallopian tubes surrounded by witty signage and humorous quiz questions.
But my favorite pieces are the ones that define themselves firstly as art – where the object drives the words, and not the other way around. As their names suggest, David A. Carter's "600 Black Spots," "Blue 2" and "One Red Dot" firmly inhabit the realm of contemporary, geometric abstract art; the paper creations that spring from the blank pages resemble any number of sculptures that could display at MoMA.
With all its splinter genres and disparate artistic pursuits, the world of pop-up books is a vast tent that can accommodate both the blocky, austere minimalism of Rein Jasma's "Stairs" – a textless compendium of 3-D staircase designs – and the blockbuster shine of Robert Sabuda's "Wonderful World of Oz," which even includes decoder glasses, long before 3-D caught on in movie theaters.
Pop-up books are not just children's stuff anymore.
"Pop! The Arthur J. Williams Pop-up Collection" is at FAU's Wimberly Library, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, through Aug. 12. Admission is free. Call 561/297-0226 or visit library.fau.edu.


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Rockies rack up five homers in rout of Reds
CINCINNATI -- The Rockies might want to place it on their promotion calendar: Home Run Party in Cincinnati.
Corey Dickerson had his first career two-homer game, also doubling twice, and the Rockies went deep five times in an 11-2 victory over the Reds on Saturday night at Great American Ball Park in front of 37,984.View Full Game Coverage
CINCINNATI -- The Rockies might want to place it on their promotion calendar: Home Run Party in Cincinnati.
Corey Dickerson had his first career two-homer game, also doubling twice, and the Rockies went deep five times in an 11-2 victory over the Reds on Saturday night at Great American Ball Park in front of 37,984.View Full Game Coverage
Each of the past three years, the Rockies have hit five or more homers in a game at Great American. The first time, on May 27, 2012, they actually lost, 7-5, on a day when their starter, Jamie Moyer, was torched as well. Last year, the Rockies hit six in a 12-4 victory on April 5. The club record for homers is seven, at Montreal on April 5, 1997.
"It probably was one of my best career games so far, but it probably just shows the versatility of our team and the close-knitness of coming back from losing two in a row," Dickerson said.
On Saturday night, Charlie Blackmon hit his eighth homer this season, which also was his third career first-inning leadoff homer and second this year. Dickerson followed with his first homer of the night. Justin Morneau also hit his eighth homer, and Troy Tulowtizki added his team-high 11th. With his second blast of the game, Dickerson improved his season total to four. Dickerson finished with 12 total bases while going 4-for-5, and Blackmon went 3-for-5 with the homer, a double and a single.
"We've done a nice job of that this year, where we try to tack on runs if we get an early lead," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. "We talk about it a lot in the dugout. That was one of the areas we struggled a little bit last year. We got out to some early leads and we lost the leads, and, ultimately, we lost the game."
The Rockies (23-16) have split the first two games of three with the Reds, are 2-2 on their current road stretch and improved to 10-11 on the road. The Rockies have more playoff trips (three) than winning seasons on the road (2009, 41-40), and they believe being at or around the break-even point can help them contend if they dominate at home.
Blackmon and Dickerson consecutively victimized starter Alfredo Simon (4-2) to open Saturday night's game.
One of the storylines during Spring Training was a competition between Blackmon and Dickerson for the job at center field, with the second choice possibly ending up at Triple-A Colorado Springs. But the Rockies kept both and, although Dickerson briefly went to the Minors for at-bats early this season, nights like the one Saturday -- when Dickerson started in center and Blackmon in right -- demonstrate why.
"'Dickie's got a pretty good track record swinging the bat," Weiss said. "He can hit, and it's nice to have opportunities to get him in the lineup. He's done a nice job on the defensive side, too." The only other time the Rockies opened a game with two homers was at Coors Field on May 4, 1996. The two who did it, Eric Young and Ellis Burks, were with the club Saturday, Young as first-base coach and Burks in town as a special instructor.
"We both have confidence and know we can help this team," Dickerson said. "We'll both have opportunities. We're trying to help this team in whatever way it may be. We're just trying to keep it going."
Dickerson's homer was on an 0-2 count, and Dickerson's first-inning shot was with the count full. The Rockies have hit 19 of their Major League-leading 56 homers after the count reached two strikes. Hitting coach Blake Doyle has simplified the approach into two words: controlled aggression.
Even with all the homers this season, it marked the first time the Rockies had gone back to back this season. They would do it again later.
The Reds had ideas of forging a homer contest when Joey Votto, who won Friday night's game with a ninth-inning leadoff homer, opened the second with his sixth homer of the year. But Rockies starter Jordan Lyles (5-0) gave the Reds little else. Lyles went six innings, held the Reds to two runs on four hits and struck out a season-high eight against four walks.
"This game from the get-go came down to our offense and the home runs," Lyles said. "I was effectively wild, I guess you would say -- a lot of walks and a lot of thee-ball counts and falling behind guys. But it worked out.
"I'd prefer not striking out that many, as weird as it sounds. I would prefer getting ground balls early in counts."
Simon, who entered with a 1.99 ERA, was not nearly as fortunate. He lasted just three innings and gave up eight hits, including three of the homers, and five runs.
"He made some mistakes up in the zone," Reds manager Bryan Price said. "It was early on with the first two batters hitting the homers on elevation pitches that were supposed to be down in the zone. It was kind of a precursor to the type of outing it was going to be. It was just a real struggle for him to get the ball down."
Dickerson doubled to lead off the third, moved on Tulowitzki's first bunt hit since 2009 and scored when Carlos Gonzalez grounded into a double play. But Nolan Arenado, who saw his hit streak end at 28 games on Friday night, doubled to increase his streak of reaching base to 30 games, and Morneau homered to right.
Blackmon and Dickerson came up with RBI doubles in the fourth. Then Dickerson added his two-run, 437-foot shot to right in the sixth, and Tulowitzki followed immediately with his homer. Both came off Reds reliever J.J. Hoover.
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb.


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Sept. 30, 2004
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - MIT evened its record at 4-4 with a 1-0 victory over UMass-Dartmouth on Thursday afternoon. The Engineers dominated on the offensive end, but struggled to get the ball in the cage. Their defense suffered a blow when Cheryl Texin received a yellow card for pushing with 3:51 remaining in the first half. As a result, Tech played down a player during the first 10 minutes of the second stanza.
The Corsairs (0-7) came out strong in the second half, receiving seven penalty corners. However, outstanding play by goalie Alexa Herman coupled with defensive saves from Megan Brown and Amanda Smith maintained the scoreless tie. MIT ended the deadlock with 15:26 left in the game when Amanda Hunter scored her first goal of the season on a penalty corner. Noelle Kanaga took the corner, directing her pass to Deanna Lentz who sent the ball to Hunter.
In the cage, Alexa Herman posted her first solo shutout in her career and finished with nine saves.
The next game for MIT will be Saturday, Oct. 2 when it hosts Clark University in NEWMAC play.


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ACC M5: 01.16.13 EditionPosted by mpatton on January 16th, 2013
- BC Interruption: Duke isn't the only team dealing with an injured critical player. Because of Boston College's struggles last year, it's easy to overlook this team's hardship. Dennis Clifford was the Eagles' best player in Spain this summer. He hasn't been 100% all year though. First it was his ankle. Now it's his knee, and Steve Donahue doesn't sound optimistic about the seven-footer. Clifford gives Boston College one of the more interesting frontcourts in the league when he's healthy and allows Ryan Anderson to play the four. Here's to hoping the Eagle's big man can get totally healthy before next season.
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Georgia Tech has gotten over its roster turmoil, but the bench has been inconsistent of late. Assistant coaches Chad Dollar, Josh Postorino, and Billy Schmidt were all suspended for a game. Brian Gregory refused to comment on the matter, and the athletic department spokesman was just as vague. Smart money is on small NCAA infractions, though Postorino was arrested in early December for DUI and had to sit out five games.
- Greenville News: In Clemson's win against Virginia, Milton Jennings showed glimpses of what made him a McDonalds' All-American in high school. He put up 21 points on 13 shots with 11 rebounds to boot. Combined with Devin Booker, who has looked good all year, and the Tigers looked to be achieving their potential. Against Wake Forest Tuesday night, the Tigers still won (and by a significant margin), but Jennings disappeared again. He only took five shots. Even though the Tigers got by with KJ McDaniels stepping up, Clemson needs Booker and Jennings on their A-games this year.
- Charlotte Observer: Mike Krzyzewski did everything but use the phrase "freshman wall" when describing Rasheed Sulaimon's recent struggles. The freshman's plight has been lost in the wake of Ryan Kelly's injury, but Duke needs Sulaimon back to early season form on both ends of the court. The silver lining is that Sulaimon has stayed aggressive, and it feels like if he can just have a good game offensively, everything else will turn around. It's too early for Sulaimon to be hitting the conditioning wall freshmen often get late in the season.
- Washington Post: Speaking of disciplinary issues, Mark Turgeon has also been dealing with "immaturity issues" amongst his players. Against Miami it was Shaquille Cleare who sat, but Turgeon made the issue sound more widespread. It's still not clear where this Maryland team will wind up. The Terrapins dominated low and mid-majors during nonconference play–especially on the boards; and they have plenty of depth. If they can solve their leadership issues, they will be able to make a run for the Big Dance. But right now, Turgeon is on the outside looking in.
EXTRA: "Graduation gap persists between athletes and students in ACC" is a pretty strong headline. And the North Carolina study came to an even stronger conclusion: "the ACC ranks last among the NCAA's 30 Division I men's basketball conferences, boasting the largest gap in graduation rates between players and the general full-time student body." Unfortunately, the article glosses over several very important points including how transfers and professional departures treated as well as how many years do athletes get to graduate. Still it is an interesting study.


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Bad weather in January evidently didn't hamper job growth very much. Or did it?
Industries normally disrupted by icy and snow conditions – construction and manufacturing – actually show strong employment gains.
And the number of full-time workers who said bad weather prevented them from getting to their jobs was well below the norm in January. Some 262,000 workers could not make it to work because of the weather, down 21% from the historical average in the month.
What to make of it all? Hard to say. Economists believe it will take another month or two to sort things out, though they don't pin as much blame on Mother Nature for the soft January jobs report as they did for the puny 75,000 increase in December. Read about 113,000 gain in employment in January.
A big reason it's hard to figure out the effects of weather is the peculiar nature of how the government calculates job growth.
The Labor Department sends out questionnaires to work places and households to ask them about their employment status during the week that includes the 12th day of the month. If the weather is terrible that week, there's a good chance the employment report will be weaker than usual.
If the weather is fine, well, no one's going to talk about the weather.
In December, the worst bout of weather took place during the survey week. The best week of weather in January, by contrast, occurred in the week that included Jan. 12.
"This January's weather was mostly terrible, but the employment report survey week was actually unusually warm," economist Ted Wieseman of Morgan Stanley wrote in a report.
The difference might account for the sharp swing in employment over the past two months in construction and manufacturing, industries that are often suffer winter disruptions. Construction companies cut 22,000 jobs in December, for example, and then added 48,000 positions in January, according to the government's seasonally adjusted estimate.
That's the biggest two-month swing in three years and the sort of thing that mainly occurs during the winter.
Yet the relatively decent weather during the January survey week also strongly suggests there's more at work in the slowdown in hiring than just icy temperatures and mounds of snow. Read: Reaction to jobs report.
Until we get more employment data, one of the best ways to gauge the direction of the labor market is to focus on the average increase in private-sector employment over the past three months. Listen to economist Joel Naroff explain why jobs will pop in February.
From November to January, the U.S. added an average of 168,000 private-sector jobs. That's down 14% from a 2013 average of 197,000, suggesting the pace of hiring has indeed cooled off but not in a big way. At least not yet. " Read: Job market bad, or OK? Depends on which survey you use.
– Jeffry Bartash
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Kilo space mecha comes with Rebel Pilot for upcoming Sketchbot Custom Show V2.
Facts about Kilo
Material Used:
- Cardboard
- Disposable spoons
- Found objects
- Gashapon acrylic spheres
- Wire
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The name Phu in short is a self-created lingo. Entirely imaginative and not based upon adherence to actuality.
3D art is his pursuit, especially in vinyl customizing. Phu's Phuturistic concept is a manifestation through his artistic form of thought and personalized treatment in which he exercises the habit of recycling.
And it's with this Phuturistic niche, Phu's customed vinyls have been commissioned and showcased in various international exhibitions and shows worldwide.
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Photographer: Nicolas Teichrob
Nicolas resides on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, although he spends much of his time chasing waves, powder and trails around the world. As an artist, Nic draws his inspiration from the natural world and the beautiful moments in time that are everywhere. His images have been published in many international bike, ski and surf magazines displaying his ability to create unique imagery in various environments. Nicolas is also a geoscientist and co-founder of Dendrite Studios, a multi award-winning film-production company focusing on outdoor adventure.


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Zak Clark needed a new banner ad design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 96 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
Looking for a company logo/branding for my Removalist/Movers truck.As well as for use on business cards.My truck is a 5m/18ft moving billboard so need something that stands out and easy to read.
Logo and graphic for the side of my truck. Dimensions 18ft x 8ft (5.6m x 2.5m).I am a small business based in the eastern suburbs of sydney looking to grow and generate more leads with a well designed graphic with a professional look.Graphic to include clarkremovals.com in a prominent way.Also to include our company tag line/motto "Good service and a great attitude guaranteed" (always open to other ideas as well) We are a business that transports households from one home to another eg. furniture and boxes.We also have commercial customers requiring office moves.Graphic to be put on truck as vinyl adhesive.
- Item 1... Include our company tag line/motto "Good service and a great attitude guaranteed" (always open to other ideas as well ).Easy to read,Impact,Professional,Clean. Logo could be a graphic or open to a character.I like green and white colour scheme. But open to ideas.Will have to include 2 phone numbers on side of truck 9797 7290 & 0409 80 88 66. Cheers.
- Item 1... dont like cluttered designs.


text: If you click on the different denominations on the right, you will see the map plotted with the distribution of graveyards for the denomination chosen. All the dots are linked to additional information about that graveyard. You can also view the map for the different counties by clicking on the counties above or the counties in the image on the right. Below each map is a list of all the graveyards plotted on that map (except on the maps plotted for 'all denominations').


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Fudgy Brownies Recipe:
8 Tablespoons cocoa powder
1 cup (2 sticks) margarine
2 cups granulated sugar
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup nuts (optional)
pinch of salt
Grease a 9″x13″ baking pan. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Melt margarine. Stir in cocoa. Mix sugar and eggs in mixing bowl. Stir in margarine and cocoa. Add vanilla, flour, nuts and salt. Bake 25 to 30 minutes, or until cooked through.
1 pound powdered sugar
1/4 cup margarine
3 Tablespoons cocoa powder
1/4 cup hot water
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix all ingredients together, spread over hot brownies and serve.
Our cookbook makes a wonderful gift (and it's priced right at less than $18!) . . . you can check it out HERE.


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It had to be done.
Now that the Kansas state finally seems to be receptive about teaching alternative "theories" about the origin of men, it is our duty to do not limit these alternative theories to Intelligent Design, as there are other equally valid theories that can be taught.
I, for one, welcome our new Flying Spaguetti Monster overlord.


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Abraço a todos!
Graduated in Computer Science at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ/Brazil), Sun Certified Java Associate, Java Senior Developer, Certified ScrumMaster, accredited consultant for implementing MPS.BR software engineering processes, member of COPPE/UFRJ consulting team.
Experienced developer, analyst, architect and manager on several Object Oriented projects based on UML and Java technologies besides projects in other technologies.
Software Engineer at Petrobras S.A., also works as consultant for implementing software engineering process improvements as for UML and Java-oriented development technologies besides training teams on developing with latest Java SE and Java EE technologies supported by popular frameworks and tools.


text: Over the last few decades, small, independent breweries in the U.S. have been quietly growing. And though large breweries outpace smaller ones in annual production, craft beers are using their local roots, small scale, and unique offerings to attract devout followers and loyal customers. We take a closer look at the rising tide of craft beer in the U.S.


text: mur wrote: > > Richard Whittle wrote: > > > > Does anyone know of a bulk industrial fluid process that depends for its success on the fluid being maintained at high pressure for a limited > time whgile some > > > > Might be chemical, biochemical...? Any ideas? > > > > Richard Whittle 106271.2656 > > I think in the food industry they use the fact that above the critical > point there is no surface tension. In this way they can extract some > ingredients, but I do not know details. > Chris Extraction of caffeine from coffee with supercritical carbon dioxide. Achim


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By now you may have noticed if you send chats or group messages on Facebook, you are greeted with a checkmark at the bottom of the post when your recipient has seen your message. This can both be a good and bad thing; on one hand, you can call someone out on not responding if you know they've seen the message while on the other, if someone you don't really want to speak to sends you a chat and you don't want to reply, they will know you saw it and ignored them. So how do you avoid the latter type of confrontation? Why, with the Facebook Undetected extension, of course!
Developed by Crossrider, the extension works across most major web browsers: Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer. You can install the extension in just matters of minutes to cloak your message receipts. Instead of the usual checkmarks readers get, it will remain blank like things formerly were on Facebook.
Of course, another way around this is to turn off Chat and just communicate via private messages so you can choose to open ones sent by close friends. However, if you like the messenger-style chats with your friends, this might be a simple way to hide from those you lack time to respond. Still, can we recommend you just delete the friends you never want to hear from again to avoid the awkward messaging? That's probably the best way to give someone the hint that you don't really feel like chatting with them — ever.
You can download Facebook Undetected here.
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Sales and Use Tax Exemption for Renewable Energy Equipment
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Savings Category:
Solar Water Heat
Solar Space Heat
Solar Thermal Electric
Solar Photovoltaics
Geothermal Heat Pumps
Wind (Small)
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Program Info
Sector Name:
Comptroller of Maryland
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100% exemption
In April 2008, the Maryland enacted legislation exempting geothermal and solar energy equipment from the state sales and use tax. Geothermal equipment is defined as "equipment that uses ground loop technology to heat and cool a structure". Solar energy equipment is defined as "equipment that uses solar energy to heat or cool a structure, generate electricity to be used in a structure, or provide hot water for use in a structure". Solar energy equipment does not include "equipment that is part of a non-solar energy system or that uses any type of recreational facility or equipment as a storage medium". These distinctions appear to indicate that solar pool heating equipment, and possibly passive solar materials, are not eligible for the exemption.
Two pieces of legislation expanding the sales tax exemption were enacted in May 2009. H.B. 1171 added residential wind energy equipment as eligible for this incentive. Residential wind energy equipment is equipment installed on a residential property that uses wind energy to generate electricity for use in a residential structure on that property. S.B. 621 revised the definition of solar energy equipment to include systems that supply electricity to the grid (e.g., through a net metering agreement). The amendments contained in both laws took effect July 1, 2009.


text: > with 8 nodes (8xCPUs, Intel 6600 Quadcore 8MB, 8GB RAM )and > a Dell-Server as the master node (2xCPU Xeon Quad Core 1.6GHz, 4TB Hard, 18GB > RAM). > > Which linux distribution would be ideal for our case? the distribution has nothing to do with your hardware. just choose a distro that you are comfortable with - there cannot possibly be any general answer, since all extremes of personal/professional preference are represented. personally, I choose RH-ish distros (centos, fedora) mainly because they are fairly conventional in structure as visible to the admin. for instance, no gratuitous reinvention of sysvinit, widely used package format, etc. IMO, your master node is over-powered both cpu and memory-wise. if you have a single master node in a cluster, it performs three main duties: - fileserver. this requires practically no cpu or memory, just disks and net. if you have a cachable read-heavy workload, then more memory on a fileserver may not be wasted. - cluster management, such as syslogs, scheduler, etc. very low cpu or memory load here. - logins. this might be the place people run the compiler, etc. but unless they're doing heavy visualization, only a small fraction of a cpu per user is necessary, and not much memory. rather than spending a lot of money on a highly configured master node, I'd probably split admin/fileservice to a box "uncontaminated" by users. regards, mark hahn.


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Bill C-11, a.k.a the Copyright Modernization Act, is now being reviewed in committee.
This committee will review the proposed amendments, clause by clause, and will make adjustments in response to requests by interested parties.
Unfortunately numerous groups have requested major amendments that could complicate matters for consumers and Canadian internet users.
Members of the music industry are not only asking for a levy on mp3 players and serious restrictions to the fair dealing/user generated content clauses. But they are also asking for SOPA and PIPA like measures that include the blocking of foreign web sites and the removal of online content without court oversight.
Other industry groups have also called for the identification of internet users, again without legal oversight, and the introduction of RIAA style prosecutions to Canada with amendments that are so vague as to possibly result in the prosecution of social networking sites like Facebook and search engines like Google.
The Supreme Court of Canada has had previous rulings on fair dealing, the prosecution of internet providers in regards to copyright and the proposed levies on mp3 players. But it appears some members of the music industry don't care about these rulings.
They also don't care about the many concerns voiced by the public and associations representing students and librarians, as made apparent by their rhetoric.
They've even gone as far as to attempt to pressure the Canadian Bar Association to retract their official opposition to the questionable provisions in the Copyright Modernization Act.
In essence they're willing to allow the public to be subjected to vague and possibly unconstitutional regulations, that will be questioned in law for years, when exemptions for fair dealing and private copying would in no way hinder their industry.
Under the premise of the protection of their industry, they will subject consumers to more copy protection schemes like that of the Sony Rootkit, that have failed and endangered their interests in the past.
There are currently two petitions that may be of interest to those who oppose these amendments :
Please sign these petitions as soon as possible and contact your local MP in regards to your concerns.
Thank You.


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New York Court Declares Albany County's Cyberbullying Law Unconstitutional
from the good-intentions,-horrible-laws dept
New York's highest court has just struck down a cyberbullying law that went (as many do) past the point necessary and started walking all over First Amendment-protected speech. The wording of the law (particular to Albany County) defined cyberbullying in the following loose language.
1. "any act of communicating … by mechanical or electronic means,"
2. "including posting statements on the internet or through a computer or email network,"
- "disseminating embarrassing or sexually explicit photographs;"
- "disseminating private, personal, false or sexual information,"
- "or sending hate mail,"
3. "with no legitimate private, personal, or public purpose,"Eugene Volokh points out, this wording is problematic, to say the least.
4. "with the intent to harass, annoy, threaten, abuse, taunt, intimidate, torment, humiliate, or otherwise inflict significant emotional harm on another person." As
This wasn't limited to offensive speech to a person, but included offensive speech about people; and it wasn't limited to speech that falls within a First Amendment exception (such as threats, or knowing defamatory falsehoods)[...] Note, for instance, that the ordinance criminalizes "disseminating … personal … information" — even if it's not "false" or "sexual" — about any person, if it's done "with the intent to … annoy …, abuse, [or] taunt" and "with no legitimate private, personal, or public purpose," whatever that might mean.The state's highest court found that this language was too broad and too harmful to protected speech to be allowed to continue.
Based on the text of the statute at issue, it is evident that Albany County "create[d] a criminal prohibition of alarming breadth" (United States v Stevens, 559 US at 474). The language of the local law embraces a wide array of applications that prohibit types of protected speech far beyond the cyberbullying of children. As written, the Albany County law in its broadest sense criminalizes "any act of communicating . . . by mechanical or electronic means . . . with no legitimate . . . personal . . . purpose, with the intent to harass [or] annoy. . . another person." On its face, the law covers communications aimed at adults, and fictitious or corporate entities, even though the county legislature justified passage of the provision based on the detrimental effects that cyberbullying has on school-aged children.The county (and the two dissenting judges) argued that the law could be "fixed" by tightening the language and restricting it solely to communications targeting children. All well and good, but the court wasn't inclined to believe this would fix the law, and further pointed out that separation of powers prohibit judges from rewriting laws on the fly in order to make them Constitutional again.
The county law also lists particular examples of covered communications, such as "posting statements on the internet or through a computer or email network, disseminating embarrassing or sexually explicit photographs; disseminating private, personal, false or sexual information, or sending hate mail." But such methods of expression are not limited to instances of cyberbullying -- the law includes every conceivable form of electronic communication, such as telephone conversations, a ham radio transmission or even a telegram. In addition, the provision pertains to electronic communications that are meant to "harass, annoy . . . taunt . . . [or] humiliate" any person or entity, not just those that are intended to "threaten, abuse . . . intimidate, torment . . . or otherwise inflict significant emotional harm on" a child.
In considering the facial implications, it appears that the provision would criminalize a broad spectrum of speech outside the popular understanding of cyberbullying, including, for example: an email disclosing private information about a corporation or a telephone conversation meant to annoy an adult.
We conclude that it is not a permissible use of judicial authority for us to employ the severance doctrine to the extent suggested by the County or the dissent. It is possible to sever the portion of the cyberbullying law that applies to adults and other entities because this would require a simple deletion of the phrase "or person" from the definition of the offense. But doing so would not cure all of the law's constitutional ills.The court followed this up by suggesting Albany legislators return to the drawing board and try crafting a better law with an eye on its Constitutional ramifications.
As we have recently made clear, the First Amendment protects annoying and embarrassing speech (see e.g. People v Golb, __ NY3d __, 2014 NY Slip Op 03426 [May 13, 2014]; People v Dietze, 75 NY2d at 52-53), even if a child may be exposed to it (see Brown v Entertainment Merchants Assn., 131 S Ct at 2736), so those references would also need to be excised from the definitional section. And, the First Amendment forbids the government from deciding whether protected speech qualifies as "legitimate," as Albany County has attempted to do.
It is undisputed that the Albany County statute was motivated by the laudable public purpose of shielding children from cyberbullying. The text of the cyberbullying law, however, does not adequately reflect an intent to restrict its reach to the three discrete types of electronic bullying of a sexual nature designed to cause emotional harm to children. Hence, to accept the County's proposed interpretation, we would need to significantly modify the applications of the county law, resulting in the amended scope bearing little resemblance to the actual language of the law. Such a judicial rewrite encroaches on the authority of the legislative body that crafted the provision and enters the realm of vagueness because any person who reads it would lack fair notice of what is legal and what constitutes a crime.The problem with many cyberbullying bills is exactly what was pointed out by the state court: the haste to do something "laudable" as a reaction to a problem tends to result in bad laws, badly written. Legislators are more concerned with moving forward quickly and eliminating possible loopholes than with addressing free speech concerns and end up roughly shoving aside Constitutional rights in their hurry to "fix" the problem.
Even if the First Amendment allows a cyberbullying statute of the limited nature proposed by Albany County, the local law here was not drafted in that manner.
This is only one of several problematic cyberbullying laws. Several are already in place (the state of New York has its own) and others are on their way. Very few of these will be able to survive the strict scrutiny of the court, but it generally takes a prosecutor's attempt to wield the newly-crafted, terrible-all-over law before it reaches the attention of those able to declare them unconstitutional. This usually means someone has spent a lot of time and money fighting charges resulting from a law that should never have been passed in the first place.
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MOTHER'S CHILDREN: A 14-year-old raises honeybees in downtown Baltimore and shares her urban beekeeping knowledge of caring for these environmentally essential creatures.
MOTHER knows that many youths undertake interesting, original projects and start their own small businesses. To support these endeavors, we buy and publish well-written articles from children and teenagers concerning their efforts. However, we recommend that all young authors query (that is, send us a letter telling about the story they'd like to do) before writing a full article. Send your queries to MOTHER's Children, MOTHER EARTH NEWS, Hendersonville, NC.
Urban Beekeeping
I've shared half my life with honeybees. For seven years, my family has kept bees on the back porch of our second-floor city apartment. Even though we live in the city and may have as many as half a million bees busily flying in and out of our 12 hives, the peaceful insects seldom bother us or our neighbors.
Bee Beginnings
The love of beekeeping is contagious: You get it from other beekeepers. In our case, it was my grandfather who first caught "bee fever" and then spread it to the rest of our family. Grandpa learned the skill in order to increase the production of his country orchard and garden. (Bees pollinate many fruit and vegetable crops. Indeed, the pollination services of honeybees are so valuable that many farmers rent bee colonies to fertilize their crops.)
Then Grandpa took my dad to a short course on bees, and Dad got so fascinated by the little critters that he finally talked the family into letting him get some. After that, we went to a meeting of the local beekeepers' association and all got hooked. (If you're interested in finding out about beekeeper meetings in your area, try calling your local agricultural extension service or state university.)
Many people don't want to deal with honeybees because they're afraid of getting stung. Honeybees are really quite gentle. They sting to protect their home or to retaliate when someone swats at them, but, usually, if you don't bother them, they won't bother you. When a bee starts flying around you, just stand still, and nothing will happen.
Honeybees get their bad reputation because people often confuse them with yellow jackets, members of the wasp family. Yellow jackets are nasty! They can sting repeatedly, so they feel free to attack any innocent bystander. Honeybees can sting only once, so they restrain their tempers. In fact, yellow jackets eat honeybees! What did I tell you? Nasty!
I like to play with bees, letting them eat a drop of honey on my finger or just crawl around on my hand. I wasn't scared of bees at all until I got stung for the first time—and really, that was my fault. I was trying to turn one bee over onto her feet when I accidentally squeezed another one and she stung me. I didn't play with bees for a while after that, but soon got over my reluctance.
If you're a new beekeeper and not too sure of yourself, you can take some precautions until you build your confidence. Gloves will protect your hands, or you can wear a bee suit—a full set of sturdy coveralls that's practically bee-proof! As you get more comfortable around the gentle insects, you may shed this armor, but you'll probably still want to wear a beekeeping hat and veil to protect your face. (I almost always wear my veil—I find it very disconcerting when a bee flies up and sits on my nose!) And you'll probably always use a smoker. Puffing the bees with that portable firebox helps keep them calm.
My Urban Beekeeping Chores
My dad does most of the bee handling and heavy work with the hives. I nail and paint new hives and help him catch swarms and inspect colonies to make sure they are well and happy. Then when the bees have finished ripening and capping the year's honey, I help extract that liquid gold from the combs and bottle it for sale.
All these chores are really fun, but the job I enjoy the most is promoting beekeeping by teaching people about bees at the different honey festivals held in our area—especially at the Maryland State Fair. I've even taught my schoolmates a bit about beekeeping and the gentleness of honeybees.
Bee Swarms
To me, catching swarms is the most exciting part of beekeeping. A swarm forms when a colony becomes too large to stay in its present home. About half of the bees then leave the hive with the old queen, while the other half stay and raise a new queen. The migrating bees often hang in a big cluster from a tree limb or house eave until they find a new place to move into. Swarming bees are even gentler than regular bees, because they have no hive to defend and because they fill their stomachs so full with honey before they leave home that they can't bend far enough to sting. They're so nice you can actually pick them up in your hands. [Editor's Note: An old swarm, one that's been homeless and exposed to the weather/or a couple of days, may be a bit testy.]
One time, we got a call to come catch a swarm that had flown inside a truck at a construction site. My dad and I went over there and got the bees, while several macho-looking construction workers stared in awe.
They couldn't believe that a girl would be so brave!
Urban Beekeeping
Beekeeping in the city is lots of fun, but it does have its problems, too. At first, our biggest problem was where to put the bees. The houses in my neighborhood are only about 25 feet apart, so we had to be careful to keep the bees' flight path away from other people. We ended up putting the hives on the second-floor back porch, facing away from our neighbors on either side. The arrangement's worked well for seven years—we have about a dozen colonies there now.
Neighbors can be a problem for city beekeepers. Once our next-door neighbors threw a summer-evening party. Our bees were attracted to the lights, so, naturally, they went over to join the party! No one got stung, but the bees were a bit irritating. Before the neighbors had another party, they went out and bought an electronic bug zap-per. Now whenever they hear a big "ZAP!" one of them yells, "Another honeybee bites the dust!" and everyone laughs. It's gruesome for the poor bees, but it keeps our neighbors happy.
Many times a better way to please neighbors is to keep them supplied with honey. (It's also a lot easier on the bees!)
Despite the difficulties, the city is a great place to keep bees. There are lots of trees and flowers they can work and relatively few insecticides. In fact, we get more honey from our city bees than we do from the few hives we keep in the country.
Honeybees are gentle, useful, fascinating creatures. They do so much for us. We should be grateful to them instead of afraid of them.


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Pacers take control of playoff race with 84-83 win
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Pacers and Heat were in no mood to talk about the playoffs Wednesday night.
It was about the only thing they agreed on.
Indiana charged back from a seven-point fourth-quarter deficit, handing the two-time defending champs an 84-83 loss that could force them to return to Indianapolis for a possible seventh game in the playoffs.
"We're going to be one or two (seed), no matter what happened this game," James said after a 38-point night. "So you know, it means nothing."
The Pacers (52-20), who clinched a second straight Central Division title, now have a clear path to home-court advantage in the Eastern Conference.
With 10 games to go, the NBA's best home team has four at Bankers Life Fieldhouse and only five against teams with a winning record.
Miami (48-22) plays five winning teams in its last 12 and seven at home – including Round 4 with the Pacers on April 11. But the Heat are 7-8 in March, were unable to protect two leads in the fourth quarter and finished the game with Dwayne Wade icing his right hamstring.
Indiana, meanwhile, is still trying to get back in rhythm.
"This is a game that will hopefully get us back on track. It's one game," said Paul George, who had 23 points to help the Pacers end a two-game losing streak. "We have to go back there and play one more, we have to look at it like that. But this is one step closer to playing good basketball to end this year."
Physical basketball, too.
It was the rare grudge match that actually lived up to its billing.
Before the game, the teams chided one another with dueling comments. Afterward, nobody was ready to make up. And in between, the action got downright nasty.
James needed a cotton swab in his nose to keep playing in the fourth quarter after getting whacked in the face.
Pacers center Roy Hibbert scored 21 points and finished the game despite taking an elbow to the face that left him so groggy he didn't even remember getting hit.
James and George both wound up taking spills into basket supports, and Lance Stephenson was ejected midway through the fourth quarter after picking up his second technical foul for celebrating a basket. The angry Stephenson waved his hand at the ref and after leaving the court, threw a towel and kicked a door. Coach Frank Vogel was not amused with his guard, saying he had a stern talk with the budding star before he went home.
Nobody had it rougher than James, who missed a late 3-pointer that could have given Miami the lead and was treated like anything but royalty. Chris Bosh also missed a potential winning 3 as the buzzer sounded. Despite the loss, the Heat clinched first in the Southeast Division when Washington lost to Phoenix.
"It is what it is, they ref the game, we play it," James said.
The four-time MVP also had eight rebounds, five assists, was 9 of 15 from the field and 14 of 15 from the free throw line.
The problem: James also had six turnovers, Wade had six more turnovers and Miami managed only one basket over the final 3:23. James and Bosh both missed late jumpers that would have given Miami the lead, the last an airball by Bosh from just right of the top of the key as time expired.
"Unfortunately, that was what I diagrammed," coach Erik Spoelstra said. "It probably wasn't the best call. It might have been a little too gunslinger on my part. I just wanted an open shot."
They were so hard to come by Wednesday night that James was even called for a flagrant foul when he drove to the basket and sent the 7-foot-2, 290-pound Hibbert crashing to the ground. When Hibbert got up, he stumbled. Eventually he had to leave the court to change his blood-spattered jersey, but he refused to sit against the Heat.
George spurred the first fourth-quarter run with two monster dunks – one over the hand of a trailing James – to get the Pacers back in the game.
Later, it was Evan Turner, the trade deadline acquisition, who delivered two of Indiana's biggest baskets of the night. The first came after James' final turnover, on a breakaway layup. The second came courtesy of Mario Chalmers' turnover out of bounds. When the middle of the court opened up, Turner bolted through a clear path for an 81-80 lead with 90 seconds to go.
"I know how to get my space, I've been doing that forever, you know what I mean?" Turner said. "Some of my moves I've been doing since I was a little kid, so I can walk a pretty fine line when it comes to that."
After Hibbert made 1 of 2 free throws, Turner scored on the layups, West hit the knockout 3 and all Miami got was a 3 from Bosh with 2.9 seconds left.
"They're a tough team, psychologically against most teams they have the edge," West said. "They've got the best player in the game. Their pedigree, their entire organization, you understand what you're going to get."


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Telehouse, the global data centre provider will be exhibiting at Cloud Expo Europe 2013 on 29th and 30th January alongside parent company KDDI, the Japanese telecommunications and Systems Integration giant to showcase their portfolio of IAAS cloud services, Telecloud.
Now into its third year, Cloud Expo Europe is Europe's premier event for the cloud industry. Boasting world-class speakers year after year, attendees can expect to liaise with top industry CTOs, analysts and senior researchers at the biggest gathering of thought leaders and practitioners in Europe.
Marking a year since the launch of Telecloud, their pan-European Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering, Telehouse and parent company KDDI will be sharing their successes and experiences of the service which has seen it integrated into a Pan-European solution. In this time Telehouse and KDDI have secured numerous clients including a major M2M firm, a significant banking organisation and several of the world's largest gaming companies.
Over the past twenty years, Telehouse have positioned themselves as the trusted infrastructure partner, based on their ability to offer consistently reliable and connected services with a focus on delivering dependable disaster recovery and back up sites. As part of their commitment to facilitating the growth of businesses worldwide, Telehouse offers a truly flexible cloud based solution designed for both the SMB and Large organisation, enabled through a collaborative approach. Combining the resources of KDDI and Telehouse, the IAAS cloud utilises expertise in all four key areas of cloud integration, including; the data centre and underlying hardware infrastructure, design and management of a customised virtual environment, ensuring a highly secure network and connectivity for cloud access and delivering an on-going support service to grow your cloud platform.
Benoît Mercier, ICT Solutions director at Telehouse commented: "Although virtualization adoption is increasing, key concerns surrounding security and reliability have not lessened. We at Telehouse recognise this viewpoint and, as an industry leader are focused on providing a truly dependable service by utilising our extensive experience in physical and virtual infrastructure management, setting the standard for current and future developments in cloud computing. Cloud Expo Europe offers a fantastic opportunity for us to listen to our customers about the opportunities they face and share our experiences of how we can help achieve them, in 2013 and beyond."
Telehouse and KDDI will be exhibiting at stand 651 on the 29th and 30th of January. Anyone interested in a briefing with Telehouse can contact the press office to arrange a time.


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A winner was selected from 55 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
We need a professional, clean looking logo that will be used on on the web, business cards, stationary and brochures.
The company handles special requests from clients that normal hotel concierge can not accommodate.
The logo should convey confidence in the company's ability to serve clients requests.
- Use between 2-3 colors
- we would like to see side by side designs that both omit and include ".com"
- will need the final design in medium and High Res JPG, and vector format, illustrator, photoshop
- design shound not be too "busy"
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Northwest Photography: The Same but Different
Some shows demand a second viewing. Sometimes because they're great, sometimes because they're a totally different experience on a second viewing, and sometimes because they're a slightly different exhibit on a second viewing. And then, of course, some shows are simply demanding. All of the above are true in Place Gallery's survey of Northwest contemporary photography, Off the Plain. Curated by Portland photographer TJ Norris, it's a[…..]


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