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|Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
|Salary: Competitve Salary + Benefits
|Sector: Accounting & Finance
|Type: Permanent
|Start Date: ASAP
|Contact: Sarah Cairns
Tax Manager - Corporate | Competitive salary plus benefits including life assurance, paid overtime or time off in lieu, interest free season ticket loan, pension, annual salary reviews, profit sharing, bonus, car allowance, | Audit / Chartered Accountancy | Peterborough
SRGEurope have been appointed to recruit a Corporate Tax Manager to join a Top 20 chartered accountancy firm with offices in Peterborough. The manager will assist in a variety of work as the corporate client portfolio is varied and includes OMB's, SME's and groups (including international groups).
The Tax Manager Responsibilities
- Dealing with the compliance aspects of the tax work, including review of tax returns and computations.
- Running a portfolio of clients, providing tax advice to clients and involvement with tax planning and projects.
- The successful candidate would also be required to run a portfolio of P11D clients and be involved in associated advice.
- The individual will be expected to take on some responsibility for junior staff and assist with their training and development.
The Tax Managers Requirements
- Candidates will preferably be CTA and ACA/ACCA qualified
- A minimum of two years post qualification corporation tax experience.
- Degree educated
- Be committed to a career in tax and will have relevant strong experience in a general practice role in a medium to large sized firm and currently operating in the capacity as a manager
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Successful applicant will require confidence in dealing with partners and clients, excellent organisation and interpersonal skills, and the ability to provide accurate work in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- Committed and flexible with the ability to meet deadlines. A natural team player is essential, with a positive and enthusiastic attitude.
The Company
Our client is a well established Top 20 chartered accountancy firm, with offices across the UK. They provide their exceptional training and long term career development opportunities. This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading company.
To Apply
Please click on the 'apply' button and upload your CV or alternatively contact Sarah Cairns, Recruitment Consultant on 0207 183 6462.
Skills: Manager, Tax, Corporate, ACA, ACCA, ICAS, CTA


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Teams from Texas–all former members of the Southwest Conference, yup–went 5-1 in the pre-New Year's college football bowls. Only TCU, playing last and latest in Saturday's Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl, marred the state's perfect record.
The best and biggest game is yet to come, when Texas A&M plays Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl on Friday. But for now, here's how we ranked the other bowls.
Beat Fresno State, 43-10, in the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl.
The Mustangs were 12.5-point underdogs in Vegas, and likely four-touchdown losers according to such soothsayers as SB Nation's Bill Connelly and Sports Illustrated's Stewart Mandel (though Mandel's callback to the 2009 Hawaii Bowl proved prescient). Not only did the 6-6 Mustangs deliver the bowl season's most dominant performance against 9-3 Fresno State, but the fans who saw it spent their Christmas on Oahu. Win-win.
2. Baylor
Beat UCLA, 49-26, in the Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl.
This year, Art Briles transitioned from Heisman-winning quarterback RG3 (who is now with the Redskins) to senior Nick Florence with only a slight drop-off (from 10-3 to 8-5), earning himself a contract extension at the beginning of December that should also help scare off other, richer schools from poaching him.
"Got to show some love for the Baylor Bears, who drilled UCLA and have now gone 11-1 in November-December the past two years," wrote Kirk Bohls of the Austin American-Statesman. "Art Briles is the man, and Lache Seastrunk is a stud whether he wins the 2013 Heisman or not."
3. Texas
Beat Oregon State, 31-27, in the Valero Alamo Bowl.
It started ugly, both off and on the field, but in the end, the era of Major Applewhite, offensive coordinator, began well, while defensive coordinator Manny Diaz's group finished a tough year on a high. The most exciting game of the the Top 3, it sits below the others because the University of Texas should never, ever, ever lose in front of what's essentially a home crowd at the Alamo Bowl (whereas Baylor had to win a virtual road game in San Diego).
4. Texas Tech
Beat Minnesota, 34-31, in the Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas.
Not ranked higher because Minnesota isn't, but this was as entertaining a bowl as any of them, Texas teams or otherwise. The Red Raiders (whose mascot would go on to win the Capitol One Mascot Challenge) kept trying to give the game away (13 penalties, two fourth-quarter interceptions), then scored 10 points in the final 70 seconds thanks to an 82-yard drive, a D.J. Johnson interception, and a Ryan Bustin field goal as time expired. All in all, a pretty good recruiting video for new head coach Kliff Kingsbury, who seemed to get almost as much screen time as Seth Doege.
5. Rice
Beat Air Force, 33-14, in the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl.
You might not usually grade Rice football on a curve, but having started the season 1-5 (and then 2-6), the Owls get a "B" just for being bowl-eligible at 6-6, and an "A-" for this convincing win over our nation's future flyboys. Good thing future scientists and engineers are probably just as crucial to the nation's military might.
Lost to Michigan State, 17-16, in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl.
Can't rank 'em any higher with a loss, but their bowl participation allowed the youngest team in the Big 12 to have another month of practice before heading into what will surely be a better 2013 season–one that should also see the return of quarterback Casey Pachall, or so Gil LeBreton of the Star-Telegram reported.
Honorable Mention:
6-7 Georgia Tech beat 7-5 USC in the Sun Bowl, 21-7–a victory for El Paso, as Southern Cal, the pre-season #1 and therefore one of the most disappointing teams in college football history, acted like they didn't want to be there (snarky tweets, a late arrival to bowl events), then played like it.


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Fourth Amendment Purists Are Living In A Dream World
Spy work holds deep allure for many people. My own career as a secret agent began as an outgrowth of training beagle hunting dogs. See, I needed new antennas for the little radio transmitters in the animal's collars—which combined with a directional antenna and multi-channel receiver helped me bring the little rascals home alive at day's end.
You wouldn't believe some of the scrapes those dogs could get into. One time, we found three beagles inside a beaver dam fighting a cornered raccoon. Had we not intervened, he'd probably have drowned them.
So anyway, I called customer service at Wildlife Materials, Inc. to order the antennas. Ever the subversive, I made a joke about buckling a tracking collar to the bumper of my wife's car.
Long, painful silence.
"Um, air, we're not supposed to talk about that."
Oh well.
Of course these days, that technology's way out of date for marital espionage. You can't make a beagle carry a cellphone, but most wives cling to theirs 24/7. With the right software and a wi-fi connection, you can track her whereabouts in real time from your friendly neighborhood tavern, and even message her at the No-Tell Motel to say you're stuck at the office.
Unless she's also tracking you, in which case all bets are off.
Of course, my own wife's phone is lost half the time. I sometimes wish the National Security Agency weren't too busy monitoring guys calling 1-900-HotVirgins over in Yemen to help her find it.
But let's get halfway serious about this NSA business. First, where has everybody been since 2006, when USA Today first revealed the existence of large scale NSA telephone data mining? That was objectionable in two big ways: the Bush White House acted unilaterally, without the court supervision required by law, and it was also indulging in warrantless wiretaps.
Congress fixed that in 2008, permitting statistical analysis of telephone traffic, but requiring both ongoing FISA Court oversight and search warrants for actual eavesdropping. After his customary tap-dancing, Sen. Barack Obama supported the bill. Hearing no announcement that the Obama White House had canceled the program, a person would have to be awfully naïve to imagine NSA had gone out of business.
The court order produced with a great flourish by Glenn Greenwald and The Guardian mainly confirmed that the system appears to be working as designed. So why the hyperventilating? The way some people are carrying on, you'd think the KGB or East German Stasi had set up shop in the White House—which definitely isn't how people would act if they really feared tyranny.
Greenwald himself rather specializes in hyperventilation. It's a rare terrorist attack that isn't immediately followed by a Greenwald essay pointing out that Norwegian civilians or off-duty British soldiers are no less legitimate targets than Pakistani children — true enough in an abstract moral sense, but of vanishing political usefulness.
However, when a reporter begins a profile by praising his own work as "one of the most significant leaks in US political history," a skeptic is apt to wince. Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't have taken Edward Snowden (or any single source) at face value. There are plenty of clues even in The Guardian hagiography that not everything may be exactly as it seems. Running to China seeking freedom?
Then there's this: Any NSA analyst "at any time can target anyone, any selector, anywhere," Snowden said. "I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone from you or your accountant to a federal judge to even the president if I had a personal email."
Now me, I don't think NSA computer tech can wiretap a Federal judge any more than I think a bank teller can transfer the judge's bank account to her boyfriend without getting caught. Sure enough, Robert Dietz, a former CIA and NSA lawyer, told the Los Angeles Times the claim was "complete and utter" falsehood.
"First of all, it's illegal," he said. "There is enormous oversight. They have keystroke auditing. There are, from time to time, cases in which some analyst is [angry] at his ex-wife and looks at the wrong thing and he is caught and fired."
Which is basically where we came in. Fourth Amendment purists are living in a dream world. Neither cellphones nor lunatics using airliners as weapons existed in Ben Franklin's day. If you want privacy as defined in the 18th century, it's easy: no phones, no Internet (and certainly no Facebook or Twitter) no credit cards or bank accounts, no EZ-Pass, no nothing.
But if you want government to have any chance to defeat mass-casualty terror attacks, surrendering raw phone data isn't much of a concession. Besides, there are far more efficient ways of targeting enemies of the state than trying to make something of who they've talked to on the phone.


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(CNN) - It didn't take long for the calls to come in for Anthony Weiner to withdraw from the New York City mayoral contest following his shocking admission Tuesday that he sent lusty messages more than a year after resigning from Congress for the same dubious habits.
But Weiner said Wednesday that his fate will ultimately be up to the voters.
"That's for the citizens to decide," he told reporters outside of his apartment.
"And you know I'm fine," he added. "I've got an amazing wife, and a child upstairs. I have a comfortable life. This is not about me, this is about the fact that the middle class has people struggling to make it in this city."
The editorial board of the New York Times urged Weiner to take his personal struggles "out of the race for mayor of New York City." The New York Post belittled him as "Carlos the Jerkel," a reference to Weiner's use of the online alias "Carlos Danger." And pundits wondered how someone who had shown such poor judgment was even in the race.
BORGER: Why Anthony Weiner's problem is ours, too
In an extraordinary news conference, Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, pleaded Tuesday for voters to forgive the embattled candidate, as his wife says she has forgiven him. Weiner also reminded the public that he warned at the beginning of his campaign in May that more photos and texts could emerge.
But the Times editorial board didn't buy it.
"That's ridiculous and speaks to a familiar but repellent pattern of misleading and evasion," the board wrote. "It's up to Mr. Weiner if he wants to keep running, to count on voters to forgive and forget and hand him the keys to City Hall. But he has already disqualified himself."
PHOTOS: Weiner addresses lewd exhanges
His press conference remarks came hours after screenshots of sexually explicit conversations and photographs appeared on a gossip website that alleged the communications were between Weiner and a young woman last summer, just as Weiner and his wife were beginning to reemerge from their private lives for public interviews.
"Some of these things happened before my resignation, some happened after," Weiner said at the hastily organized press conference in New York.
Another prominent newspaper, the New York Daily News, also released a scathing editorial, listing lie after lie by the former congressman.
"He is not fit to lead America's premier city," stated the editorial, titled "Why Weiner must go". "Lacking the dignity and discipline that New York deserves in a mayor, Weiner must recognize that his demons have no place in City Hall."
READ MORE: Huma Abedin, a Hillary Clinton adviser, emerges from privacy to spotlight
Rupert Murdoch, who owns the New York Post, tweeted "Weiner almost tragic if not so funny. What a sicko. Should help city by just fading away."
Weiner argued Wednesday that his decision to run for mayor was "the right thing to do for the city," and voters have bigger issues on their minds than his personal mistakes.
"Look I know there are people who may well never consider voting for me because what's in my past. And even for those people I want them to hear about my ideas," he said. "At the end of the day citizens are more interested in the challenges they face in their lives than anything that I have done embarrassing in my past."
And as Weiner predicted, some of his opponents for the mayoral nomination also urged the contender to drop out.
"Enough is enough. I'm calling on Anthony to withdraw from this race – for the good of the city that I know he loves as much as all of us," tweeted Public Advocate Bill de Blasio. He also started an online petition urging others to call on Weiner to end his campaign.
Two other candidates, John Catsimatidis and Sal Albanese, tweeted similar pushes for Weiner to step aside.
Weiner's closest rival, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, wrote in a statement that Weiner's candidacy had turned the mayoral race into a "circus."
"Being the Mayor of New York is serious business and it demands a serious leader. Instead we have seen a pattern of reckless behavior, consistently poor judgment, and difficulty with the truth," she wrote.
But Weiner has implied he plans to do anything but leave the contest in the weeks leading up to the Democratic primary election on September 10.
"You know there have been people since the moment I got in the race that didn't want me to run," he said Wednesday. "But a lot of people have been crying out for someone to talk about issues important to the middle class."
TIMELINE: Congress, lewd photos and NYC's mayoral race: An Anthony Weiner
In a lengthy email to supporters later Wednesday, he declared: "New Yorkers don't quit, and I'll never quit on you."
Weiner resigned his House seat in 2011 after first lying about, then admitting to sending lewd photographs and images to multiple women. In the email to supporters, he said he "answered every question about these mistakes" before and after announcing his run for mayor this year, but expressed regret that he did not specify "when these exchanges happened."
Unlike his public resignation two years ago, Abedin spoke up for her husband Tuesday at the press conference, saying she has moved past her husband's addiction and urged others to do the same.
"What I want to say is I love him, I have forgiven him, I believe in him, and as I have said from the beginning, we are moving forward," said Abedin, a longtime senior adviser to Hillary Clinton, adding that Weiner had made some "horrible mistakes, both before he resigned from Congress, and after."
John Avlon, senior political columnist for The Daily Beast and CNN contributor, argued Abedin is simply following the model set by Hillary Clinton.
"Part of the Clinton playbook is success heals all wounds. Let's just win and all this tawdry mess will be in the rearview mirror," he said on CNN's "New Day."
READ MORE: 'Women for Anthony' hope to boost Weiner mayoral bid
Weiner argued he had changed.
"This behavior is behind me. I've apologized to Huma and am grateful that she has worked through these issues with me and for her forgiveness," he said Tuesday.
But his words were not convincing for the New York chapter of the National Organization for Woman, which quickly called on Weiner to withdraw from the race following his press conference.
"As if we didn't already have enough evidence of Anthony Weiner's utter lack of judgment, impulse control and honesty, these latest revelations show the degree to which his candidacy distracts us from the important business of choosing the next leader of New York City," Sonia Ossorio, the president of the group, wrote in a statement.
The chat messages purporting to be from Weiner were published on the website TheDirty.com. The post cited a "solid" source alleging Weiner engaged in lewd online conversations with her, and reproduced lengthy chats that were sexual in nature. A blurred photo of what alleges to be Weiner's crotch also appeared on the site.
"I just want people to really know he's lying when he acts like he has changed," the unnamed woman, 22, told TheDirty.
REACTION: New Yorkers react to Weiner sexting scandal with jokes, calls to drop out
In his email to supporters Wednesday, Weiner said the exchange was "a terrible mistake that I unfortunately returned to during a rough time in our marriage."
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, another disgraced politician trying to make a comeback, said Weiner's new controversy is between him and his wife.
"Look I'm running my own campaign and I have been since the day I got into this and so I have no comment about other than I'm gonna be talking to the voters about what I have done, what my plans are and will be going forward with my premise," he said Wednesday morning at a campaign stop, according to CNN affiliate NY1.
A source close to Spitzer told CNN the candidate is not overly concerned with the Weiner controversy.
"We think that voters have already separated Spitzer and Weiner in their minds," the source said, pointing to numbers in a recent Quinnipiac poll, adding the latest controversy provides an opportunity for Spitzer to continue to make his "individual" case.
Spitzer resigned as New York governor in 2008 after admitting to paying prostitutes for sex.
READ MORE: Has the road to political redemption gotten shorter?
The verdict is still out on whether Weiner will survive the latest firestorm. Polls taken over the past several weeks have shown Weiner either slightly ahead of his closest rival for the Democratic mayoral nomination, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, or trailing her in second place.
"He's been campaigning asking for a second chance. Now today he's asking for a third chance," Avlon said Wednesday morning. "That's fundamentally different in what the voters are being asked."
Ana Navarro, a Republican strategist and CNN commentator, said Weiner's latest admission will put him even farther under water with women voters.
"I don't claim to be a thermometer for the women vote, but I can tell you it'd be hard for me to vote for a guy who's now made his wife endure this kind of public humiliation," she said.
The calls for Weiner to step down were familiar refrains from Weiner's first scandal in 2011, when a tsunami of criticism engulfed Weiner, with few of his fellow Democrats coming to his side. After a few weeks resisting such calls, he ultimately resigned while confessing to the indiscretions.
In the run-up to his mayoral bid, which he launched in May, he said more photos could emerge.
"If reporters want to go and try to find more, I can't say they're not going to be able to find another picture, find another person who may want to come out on their own," he told RNN Television. "But I'm not going to contribute to that. The basics of the story are not going to change. It's behind me. It was a huge mistake."
PHOTOS: Top 10 political comebacks
Spitzer, Weiner and why New York is talking about sex
We don't care about your past, present, future - as long as you aren't in ours..........
If he lies to his wife....he'll lie to the world. This is the biggest kind of creep. He sees himself in grandeur and cannot imagine anything less. He will lie because he does not believe telling a lie is wrong. He has a smooth way of making you believe and buy into the lies....and he has lived this way all of his life. Probably the baby of the family and perhaps the only son. Creep of the worst kind.....and people will forgive him and vote for him....his wife is a tool to get him where he wants to be...nothing more and he will lie about anything as long as it is for his benefit. Creep
I think we've seen enough weiner for now.
Oh come on, the long line of women accusing Bill Clinton of all kids of infidelities was largely ignored (pre-Lewinsky).
If you can elect an immoral hamster like Bill Clinton to two terms, why not the Wiener? We, the electorate, are so easily fooled and manipulated into voting for snakes and idiots that we deserve it. Yeah, run to the polls and vote the ticket people because you are such sheep.
You all deserve to be governed by The Wiener. Wiener for President!!!!!
If elected, Carlos Danger vows he will be the greatest Mayor NYC has ever had. He "knows" voters don't care that he is a creepy pervert. He needs to be booted out of the Democratic Party! Huma needs to "dump that chump."
If NY elects this guy, they will deserve what they get.
ACK! Like some one already registered the Carlos Danger dot com domain name. Good luck to that some one. I am a day late and a dollar short again. Anthony, the poor man... He is always posting pictures of his microscopic weiner.
I really dont care about a poltician's private life for as long he/she is not committing a crime (r a p e, inc e s t, etc). A person's se x u .al appetite does not diminish his/her ability as a public official
Wife, like the candidate has little to no self respect.
The candidate and his wife are cut from exactly the same cloth as the Clinton. They are pitiful scheming liars.
What exactly did he do that was so "terribly" wrong?
From what I've heard, it could take 'Carlos Danger' a long time to withdraw
What a creepy little creep weiner is, hope nyc is smart enough to see thru him.
Weiner has deep psychological problems. I am not a New Yorker, but I disagree that the election is not about "him." We elect officials to govern in a manner we approve of. Governance should come from a firm commitment to do the right thing for your constituants, use good judgement and be a steward of government trust. This man has a definite integrety issue, he has embarassed his spouse, publically humiliated her with his bizarre and unacceptable behavior. He is secretive, more interested in lurid sexual persuits than his family, his reputation or his carreer.
This is a man that puts himself before his family and his professional responsibility. This is very much about him! He is only interested in self interest and not anyone else. With all the corruption with politicians he most definitely should not hold an office of trust in either the public or private sector.


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I downloaded Growl few days ago. Everything seemed to be working properly but then I closed my MBP. Adium notifications stopped working so did Safari notifications. I tried to reinstal it. Growl notifications for Safari started working again but Adium notifications did not. I played with setting a lil bit and I get it working. For a while... After closing my MBP notifications for Safari stopped working. I read few articles here and I find out that GrowlSafari wasnt on. So I get it working. I did some studies for my universtity test, closed my laptop few times and problems are back again. Currently only Safari and Mail notifications are working properly. Mail notifications are the only notifications that are working without any problems.
Growl 1.2
Adium 1.3.8
Safari 4.0.3
Mac OS X 10.6.1
I just restarted my laptop. GrowlSafari is not running. And notifications for Adium are not running too. I am new to mac but I am sure that everything is set well.
I found Growl must have App for Mac. So keep up the great work and help me solve this problems
EDIT 2: Somehow I managed to get it working. When I placed GrowlSafari into login apps (or whatever it is called) Safari and Adium notifications were working properly. I am not sure if GS is the case or I accidentally switched some button somewhere. Anyway.. Its working now.. so may close this topic.. thanks...
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|Kaleidoscope Rainbow
The Whispering Dewdrops ( A to Z Challenge $ NaPoWriMo)
|Kaleidoscope Rainbow
You had me whirling in colors. I love color, rainbows, circular images. Lovely, Uma.ReplyDelete
felt lovely while sailing through the rainbow colors, Uma. u have a true mind of an artist.ReplyDelete
Such a lovely idea that these rainbow colours are an "intelligent toy"!ReplyDelete
I enjoyed this poem, Poetic Soul. Clever.ReplyDelete
It was lovely to get caught and wrapped within your colourful words!
Best wishes, Eileen
its so lovely. thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
colorful and filled with joy :) a beautiful piece!
Very mesmerizing. Great entry.ReplyDelete
wonderful writing!
I love the idea of sailing on a rainbow ship!ReplyDelete
Making the sky a female entity was a clever device. Everything flowed rightly from that assumption. I like this.
Colorful, creative, concise. Great read as always.ReplyDelete
I loved the images your words painted; I wanted more~
Off to find my rainbow toy~
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Focus Moment
Focus Moments are short video segments highlighting Gwinnett County Public Schools news and events, reflecting GCPS' ongoing commitment to academic excellence. Watch informative feature stories and learn why GCPS continues to be the school system of choice.
GCPS Student Media Festival Selected Episode
Students get to express themselves through media production, and GCPS staff gets to provide feedback and learn about new technologies.
Produced June 2020
- Saturday Interventions
- Student Media Festival 2018
- School Nutrition Program - Nutrition Month
- Suwanee ES Little Free Library
- Gwinnett HEAT 10th Anniversary
- Coleman Middle School Engineers
- French Foreign Exchange at Mountain View HS
- Media Specialist of the Year 2018
- Summerour Black History Month Celebration
- Shutter Sense
- Mock Pharmacy at Shiloh HS
- Academic Parent Teacher Teams
- Latin American Cultural Museum Walk
- Digital Learning Days
- Graves Elementary Welcomes the Lion King
- Community Based Mentoring Program for Girls
- Media Clerk and School Library Advocate of the Year 2017
- State Counselors of the Year
- Work Based Learning
- Beaver Ridge KaBOOM!
- Teacher of the Year 2018
- Special Education Mentoring Program
- Maxwell HS Fire Tower
- Marching Band Exhibition 2017
- Snellville MS Leadership Academy
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Homicide suspect OKs return to Illinois
JANESVILLE, Wis. — Terence P. Doddy waved extradition Wednesday and will be returned to Illinois to face charges in the death of Todd Hansmeier.
Doddy, wearing jailhouse orange, ankle restraints and handcuffs, was poised and polite during his appearance in Judge John B. Murphy's courtroom. His hair was groomed and the bruises beneath his eyes had faded.
At one point he clarified the pronunciation of his name after Murphy referred to him as "Doty."
"Would you mind sir, my last name is actually Doddy," he said.
Doddy chose to represent himself. Murphy advised that an attorney might be able to help clarify any issues or questions he had about extradition.
"I'm willing to waive my right to an attorney at this time, sir," Doddy said. "From what I understand, this is a pretty simple matter. The state of Illinois wants me back in the state of Illinois."
Doddy, 36, was arrested July 4 when a crash west of the Town of Beloit ended a police chase. Police say he was driving a car that belonged to Tonya Bargman, 44, who was found dead July 1 at Willow Creek Rest Stop along Interstate 90 near Paw Paw, where Hansmeier's car was found abandoned.
Surveillance video showed that Bargman was attacked as she left a restroom. The assailant stole her car, Illinois State Police said.
Hansmeier, 37, was found beaten and stabbed June 30, his body partially burned, at a Rockford call center where Doddy was a manager.
Doddy has been charged in Winnebago County Circuit Court with three counts of first-degree murder. He said he had not seen the documents and was given time to read them.
"I do have one question sir," Doddy said. "I'm confused by the three counts of first-degree murder."
Perry Foltz, assistant district attorney for Rock County, told Doddy that the three counts are related to the death of Hansmeier.
Doddy also pleaded not guilty to charges in Wisconsin of driving while intoxicated. The judge said the offense was related to alcohol; Foltz said during Doddy's initial hearing this month that it was cocaine. Foltz was not available after the hearing for clarification.
With Wednesday's extradition waiver, Doddy is clear to return to Rockford for an initial appearance on murder charges.
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Have you ever wanted to sit on the edge of a Soviet memorial? Well in Tallinn you can do that! It's a good idea to go in the evening, so you can see the sunset whilst exploring the massive site.
The concrete memorial can be seen from the Tallinn harbour if you look along the coast to Pirita or from the ferry from Helsinki when approaching Tallinn – it's obvious that the Soviet's were obsessed with size. The area is called Maarjamäe and it can easily be accessed by bus.
There is a road between the monument and the Baltic Sea. On the other side of the road, right by the water, you can see two huge concrete slabs which seem to be an extension of the war memorial.
There used to be an eternal flame in front of the two palms – now it's just a faded memory.
Information about this memorial complex is very scarce on the internet. The fact that the area commemorates those who fought for the victory of Soviet power in Estonia may have something to do with it. It's like a slap on the face for Estonians.
I had to have a go at sitting on the edge myself.
The obelisk is quite a sight, even from afar. Unfortunately it's all in ruins – I would encourage Estonians to keep their Soviet remnants in better shape. I do realize these places are not the happiest reminders of history, but history they are and history interests tourists.
We weren't the only ones interested in catching the sunset but surprisingly there was only a handful of us around. You would imagine that such a grand place would be full of people on a beautiful summer evening.
As you walk along this avenue and through this gate, you will come to a cemetery.
There used to be a German cemetery in the area which the Soviets bulldozed out of the way in the 60s and 70s for these concrete structures. The graves are not marked individually, as around 2300 dead are buried there.
These stones are for Soviet troops who fought the Germans in the WWII.
The restoration of the German cemetery started in the late 1990's but it was built as early as 1941.
Finally, we strolled down and admired the beautiful mansions on the hill.
Gates and security – I wonder who lives here.
Have you ever seen the Maarjamäe War Memorial? What do you think about it?


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Speck's CandyShell line includes some of our favorite cases to date, so we were glad to see the company quickly release versions of CandyShell ($35), CandyShell Flip ($35) and CandyShell Grip ($35) for the iPhone 5. (Our reviews for the prior versions can be seen, in order, here, here, and here.) All three rubber-and-plastic cases maintain the same general designs as their predecessors, but have been updated to fit the new body and port layout. There have been some minor design tweaks, but fans of the older cases will feel totally comfortable with these new editions. And Speck has thankfully gone back to a smaller camera opening across the line.
As they're part of the same family, these cases all share the same basic design with CandyShell as the base model. At first glance, CandyShell is almost identical to the iPhone 4/4S version down to the rubber lines at the corners. It combines an inner layer of soft, shock-absorbent rubber with an outer casing of glossy hard plastic. The shell feels slightly thinner than before, but there's still enough to protect the iPhone from most minor accidents. Speck uses the rubber to provide coverage for the buttons along the edges of the device, and uses tapered cutouts for the side switch, camera, headphone port, and Lightning port while the speaker and microphone are exposed through a series of dots along the bottom edge. The case feels really nice in the hand and is particularly complementary to the thinness of the iPhone 5.
Flip is identical to the standard CandyShell save for two differences: first, the standard CandyShell is just a hair thinner—barely enough to be noticed. Second, the bottom inch and a half or so flips open along a rubber-lined hinge, exposing that portion of the phone, which may end up being handy whenever docking accessories become available for the iPhone 5, as it certainly was with the 4 and 4S. As compared with the prior CandyShell Flip, the iPhone 5 version's hinge rubber now extends from the back to the sides of the case. Previously, the sides were simply plastic.
CandyShell Grip saw the biggest change of the bunch, but it still isn't significantly different. It simply takes the same CandyShell body and adds four patches of raised rubber lines. Last time, they were single panels with indentations, and now there are 20 individual lines. They don't add any bulk, but do make the case slightly less likely to slip out of your hand or off a surface.
All of the CandyShell models come in an impressive number of colors; they're cosmetically attractive, though as we've noted in the past, all three quickly begin to show scratches in the plastic and scuffs in the rubber, small issues we've noted in the past. Of the three models, CandyShell Flip remains our favorite. Although iPhone 5 docking isn't currently a concern, it may be once manufacturers have a chance to develop their accessories, and Flip will be best positioned for broad compatibility. This case is also still the easiest to remove the iPhone from, if needed. It's still not the perfect case, but it's pretty darn close, and the two-tone color schemes look quite nice. It's easy to highly recommend it with an A- rating. CandyShell and CandyShell Grip fall just a hair short of that mark, but they're great cases in their own right. Because docking isn't a concern right now, and it's possible that Lightning accessories will work just fine with these designs—just as Lightning cables do today—we wouldn't penalize or think twice about them for any potential issues there. Flip is the safest pick, but the regular CandyShell and CandyShell Grip both earn the same A- rating for their equally nice designs. Speck deserves kudos for another impressive lineup.
Updated February 24, 2013: Speck has unveiled a new version of CandyShell called CandyShell Inked ($40). Identical to the standard model in build, it offers wrap-around graphics, all under a durable, scratch-resistant coating. Five different patterns are being advertised for launch.
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Vikings interested in Vick?
Two teams with unsettled quarterback situations -- the San Francisco 49ers and the Minnesota Vikings -- might be interested in acquiring suspended Atlanta Falcons star Michael Vick.
Two teams with unsettled quarterback situations -- the San Francisco 49ers and the Minnesota Vikings -- might be interested in acquiring suspended Atlanta Falcons star Michael Vick.
Vick is in federal prison on felony charges related to dogfighting and is scheduled to be released in July. The Falcons have said they will try to trade him, though they could cut him and make him a free agent.
San Francisco coach Mike Singletary said Vick deserves the chance to play in the league, and believes he will be successful if he returns. He wouldn't say if the 49ers would pursue him.
"He's still under contract, you can't really talk to him or have any contact with him," Singletary said. "Right now, we're just going to look at the quarterbacks we have and go from there."
There might be questions about Vick's sharpness and conditioning because he hasn't played since 2006, but he's a proven winner who led the Falcons to an NFC championship game and has been to three Pro Bowls. The dynamic athlete has the NFL single-season record for yards rushing by a quarterback with 1,039 in 2006, and is third all-time. He also has passed for 11,505 yards in six seasons, with 71 touchdowns and 52 interceptions.
Singletary said the team would likely enter training camp with Shaun Hill as the No. 1 quarterback. Hill passed for 2,046 yards and had an 87.5 passer rating last season, but that wasn't enough to impress 49ers general manager Scot McCloughan, who said the team clearly needs to upgrade the position.
"I'm not going to get into names," he said. "The important thing now is which ones fit that (system). It has to be a chemistry where he fits in with everybody. There's value out there, and it's a position we need to address, whether it's the draft or free agency."
Minnesota coach Brad Childress said the Vikings are looking for someone to challenge Tarvaris Jackson, and are willing to make moves to ensure that it happens.
"We need to put somebody in place that will push him and compete with him," Childress said. "I think competition is the nature of the game."
Childress wouldn't confirm or deny interest in Vick.
"I really don't get into hypotheticals because I think there's too much water that's got to happen. I'd cross that bridge when I come to it."
Veteran Gus Frerotte, who started for much of last season before getting injured, isn't sure if he'll return. The Vikings say they would welcome Frerotte back, though he has made it clear he wants to start.
Jackson began last season as Minnesota's starter, but was benched for Frerotte after the Vikings began the season 0-2. Frerotte went 8-3 as a starter, but he suffered a hand injury, and the Vikings turned to Jackson again. Jackson led the Vikings to the playoffs and finished the season with a 95.4 passer rating, the best of his three-year career. He has 20 touchdown passes and 18 interceptions in his career.
"I think that Tarvaris has to continue to improve, and I believe he will," Childress said. "I think he gave some glimpses, coming back in cold off the bench and doing some of the things he did. Obviously, he's got to eliminate some of those turnovers."
The New York Jets also will have a new quarterback after Brett Favre's retirement, but they appear to be happier than the 49ers and Vikings with what they have. New coach Rex Ryan said the team feels comfortable with Kellen Clemens, Brett Ratliff and Eric Ainge competing for the job.
"I think if you ask the organization, it's probably split on who they think can do it." Ryan said. "It's definitely an open competition."
Ryan said he'd lean toward choosing among his three quarterbacks. He said he's not interested in selling the future for a quick fix.
"Right now, I'd rather have our draft picks," Ryan said. "I'd rather not talk about any potential free agent out there, with the tampering rules and everything else the way they are."


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CCM proudly presents The Threepenny Opera, running tonight, March 1, through Sunday, March 10, in UC's Patricia Corbett Theater. Tickets are on sale now. This production contains mature subject matter.
Learn more The Threepenny Opera here.
"[Stage Director Robin] Guarino fearlessly goes back to the musical satire's socio-political roots in 1920s Berlin," Jackie Demaline writes in her review for the Cincinnati Enquirer. "Everything about The Threepenny Opera carries out Guarino's vision, as the cast prowl scenic designer John Arnone's industrial set of catwalks, with the small orchestra (in costume) perched at the top. Musical director Roger Grodsky as always asks much and gets all from singers and musicians."


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Mayor Vaughn D. Spencer said his staff knew they were in for a fight if they were going to beat out other Pennsylvania cities for two City Revitalization and Improvement Zone designations.
Today, Spencer said an application for the designation had been submitted and it was time to take the gloves off.
"It was a Herculean task from the start," Spencer told a gathering in the former Citizens Bank building near the corner of Fifth and Penn streets.
Guidelines for the grants were issued Oct. 31, leaving only weeks to select an authority to oversee the CRIZ program; chose the 129 acres comprising 260 parcels; draw up a redevelopment strategy for the zone; and draft an application. The designation will allow the authority to take state and local taxes generated by properties in the zone and reinvest them in properties in the zone.
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"I haven't used my home phone in months. Do I need it?"
It comes down to what we in the industry call FUD, which stands for fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Whether you keep your landline is about what level of security you're comfortable with.
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I feel quite secure with my cell phone in my pocket.
A landline has one critical component that a cell phone does not: It connects directly to 911. When you make an emergency call, the operator knows your exact address, right down to the apartment number. Even if you get disconnected quickly, they still know where you are.
Can't I just call 911 from my cell phone?
Yes, but 911 doesn't exist perfectly for cell phones yet. Right now, emergency operators don't know your precise location — they can only estimate where you are within 50 to 325 yards. That's it. They know which towers are transmitting your call, and then they pinpoint the area between them. The FCC has mandated that cell phone carriers improve their emergency service by 2012, but we don't know yet what those changes will entail.
So if I call 911 from my cell phone and tell the operator where I am, wouldn't that solve the problem?
Yes. But kids and some older adults, or someone with a health emergency, can't always do that. They would benefit most from a landline connection.
That's definitely not me. I'm in my 30s and healthy.
There are other emergencies. A few months ago, a tornado came through our subdivision here in Texas and damaged about 50 homes. We had no power for six hours, but I was able to call out with my corded landline phone. My cell phone ran out of power right away. Of all the nights to have not charged my phone, that was one of them.
Well, during a major power outage, my landline didn't work.
That's probably because of the type of phone you were using. To work during a power outage, you need to have a basic phone, one that plugs directly into a jack. It can't be a cordless phone with a battery, or a unit that plugs into an outlet for the answering machine. Enough electricity flows over the telephone lines to power the most basic phones.
My security system is connected to the landline. If I get rid of it, will I have to change my plan?
Unfortunately, you will. Most systems are still linked to landlines, though some companies have started working with cellular and cable-modem-based systems. You will have to upgrade your service, which often means an additional fee.
Which brings me to the cost. I can probably save $350 a year by canceling my home phone. That's a lot of money right now.
I agree. It's significant. It's also why you hear a lot about bundling. If you get a bundled package — including cable TV, Internet access, and a landline from one provider — you can save a bit of money. But our research shows that money is just one reason people are going cellular-only. There's a technological transition going on around the world from landline phones to wireless. It's a generational change, too.
That must be why I feel a bit behind the times on this.
The groups going wireless are most often adults in their 20s through their 40s. They're settled into their careers, maybe single, and fairly mobile. For them a cell phone is convenient, and it's all they want or need. Even the smaller handset, which used to bother a lot of people, is something they've become used to.
My cell phone does so much more than my landline. It has voice mail built in. I use it to text, e-mail, and go online, while my landline just sits there.
Actually, adding features to the landline phone isn't something we see people wanting. They like their cell phones for certain activities, and they want their landlines for one thing: reliability.
Another thing I like about my cell phone is that I have never received a call from a telemarketer.
True, and that is a plus for many people. Wireless phones are absent from the telemarketing databases. There is something to be said for that.
If I cancel my landline, no one is going to take the jack away. So I can always turn it back on, right?
It's certainly an option. I like to say that the landline phone is not a sexy tool. But it can be your best friend at unique moments in life.
BILL KULA, DIRECTOR OF MEDIA RELATIONS, VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS; verizon.com.


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Virgin Blue has launched a brand new national television campaign designed to encourage travellers to consider how, since launching in 2000, the airline has lead a travel and airfare revolution in Australia which was inspired by imagination, innovation and one 'great idea'.
Virgin Blue Chief Executive, Brett Godfrey, said, "In our new campaign we thought it would be fun to compare life before and after our entry into the market all those years ago.
"While it seemed impossible at the time, our inspiration and determination changed the face of aviation in Australia forever. It would have been a very different world today had we not made that idea fly all those years ago."
For the television campaign Virgin Blue has recruited the funky sound of internationally renowned Aussie band Cat Empire, whose lyrics "I love the things that seem impossible" from the song 'Panama' were chosen to accompany an emotive storyboard of how affordable airfares have made it possible for more Australian's to fly.
While initially launching as a low fare airline almost nine years ago, with continued inspiration and innovation, the pure essence of the Virgin brand, Virgin Blue has completely re-invented itself into the 'new world' airline it is today. Retaining its famous customer service and value for money Virgin Blue now offers a host of additional products and services to better meet the changing needs of the market, especially business travellers.
Brett Godfrey added, "The bottom line is the Virgin Blue of today is very different to the Virgin Blue of nine years ago and we encourage travellers who have not flown with us before or for a number of years to take another look at what we offer. Our products and services are second to none, modern, fresh and innovative and most importantly affordable."
The new television campaign (TVC) featuring real Virgin Blue team members will air on Channel Seven and showcase a range of Virgin Blue's offerings, including Premium Economy and live2air.
The campaign will complement the airline's 'Why great ideas fly' print and outdoor advertising campaign that has been in the market for several weeks.


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The Real Trojan Horse
Season 14 Episode 3 | 54m 40s | Video has closed captioning.
It was the ultimate sneak attack, bringing a city that would withstood nine years of battle to its knees. But was it simply a work of fiction? Or did the Greeks really trick the Trojans into defeat with a giant wooden horse that concealed enough soldiers to reduce the powerful city to rubble?
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These large format, high quality, color resistant, archival digital prints are from her 2014 Calendar "Home."
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Mark your calendars for the second annual TechCrunch launch conference, co-produced between TechCrunch and Jason Calacanis: TechCrunch50 at the San Francisco Design Center on September 8-10, 2008.
Like last year at TechCrunch40 (except there will be ten more startup launches), fifty new startups and products will launch over three days. All finalists will be chosen solely on merit; they are not charged to attend or present at the event. The top startup to launch at TechCrunch50, as chosen by the judges and organizers, will receive a $50,000 cash prize (last year's winner was Mint).
The 40 startups that launched at last year's event have now raised at over $143 million in venture capital (not all has been disclosed publicly). That's mostly because they were all excellent startups. But the press and blogger coverage from the event certainly didn't hurt, either.
We will also be bringing back expert panelists to speak at the event and judge startup demos. Last year's experts are here. Many of these people will be returning, along with a number of new judges as well. Announcements of attending experts will be made over the next few months.
New Venue, New Format
TechCrunch50 is a three day conference to accommodate the ten additional startup launches, as well as more panels and workshops. We're changing locations this year. The event will be held at the San Francisco Design Center, a huge and beautiful venue that can accommodate over 1,000 attendees with ease.
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Plame-Gate: The Story the Times Would Now Rather Forget
Valerie who? The paper of record seems to need a reminder.
Judging by its sparse coverage, the Times is apparently trying to pretend the Valerie Plame "outing," which for three years was a matter of national import on its editorial page, news pages, and among its stable of liberal columnists, is no longer even newsworthy now that the inconvenient truth (Armitage?) is out.
Plame's CIA identity was leaked to Robert Novak, not by a vengeful White House out to get her husband (anti-war liar Joe Wilson), but by Colin Powell's Secretary of State Richard Armitage, not heretofore known as Bush's biggest defender regarding U.S. intervention in Iraq.
As a reminder, here are some of the accusations against the Bush administration that appeared in the Times thathave now been proven false. We cite them here, since the Times certainly won't.
Reporter Scott Shane, July 24, 2005: "The White House response to Mr. Wilson's accusations, as it unfolded over the next eight days, would be aggressive and comprehensive. At home and from the African road trip, in on-the-record briefings and in background tips to reporters, the president's aides sought to rebut Mr. Wilson's statements and undercut his credibility....But in the enthusiasm of the campaign to discredit Mr. Wilson, someone would expose the real job of the diplomat's wife, Valerie, a C.I.A. officer who had worked under cover for two decades, hiding her position from even close friends and relatives. Whether thoughtless or deliberate, the shattering of Valerie Wilson's cover would prompt the C.I.A. to seek a criminal investigation into the leak. And the investigation would be turned over to a special counsel with a reputation for relentlessly pursuing his quarry."
A Dec. 31, 2003 editorial: "Mr. Fitzgerald is charged with finding out who violated federal law by giving the name of the undercover intelligence operative to Mr. Novak for publication in his column...."
Columnist Paul Krugman, July 7, 2006: "And President Bush is especially unworthy of our trust, because on every front - from his refusal to protect chemical plants to his officials' exposure of Valerie Plame, from his toleration of war profiteering to his decision to place the C.I.A. in the hands of an incompetent crony - he has consistently played politics with national security."
Krugman, October 31, 2005: "The fact remains that officials close to both Mr. Cheney and Mr. Bush leaked the identity of an undercover operative for political reasons. Whether or not that act was illegal, it was clearly unpatriotic."
Krugman, Jan. 16, 2004: "...the Bush people really are Nixonian. The bogus security investigation over Ron Suskind's 'The Price of Loyalty,' like the outing of Valerie Plame, shows the lengths they're willing to go to in intimidating their critics."
By contrast, the Washington Post bluntly states in an editorial today that "one of the most sensational charges leveled against the Bush White House - that it orchestrated the leak of Ms. Plame's identity to ruin her career and thus punish Mr. Wilson - is untrue."
Citing history, Tom Maguire speculates the Times may feel obliged to respond to the Washington Post's dismissal of Plame-gate. That should be a fun read.


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Is this Alice or Alias? Something to ponder while navigating the deluxe rabbit-hole theme-park ride of ABC's Once Upon a Time in Wonderland spinoff (Thursday, 8/7c), in which a feisty and literally kick-ass Alice (Sophie Lowe) battles her way out of insane-asylum confinement with Sydney Bristow-level brio. She even has a Will Tippen-like sidekick in the sheepishly raffish Knave of Hearts (Michael Socha of the British Being Human), who stands by as Alice goes all action heroine.
Is this Alice or Alias? Something to ponder while navigating the deluxe rabbit-hole theme-park ride of ABC's Once Upon a Time in Wonderland spinoff (Thursday, 8/7c), in which a feisty and literally kick-ass Alice (Sophie Lowe) battles her way out of insane-asylum confinement with Sydney Bristow-level brio. She even has a Will Tippen-like sidekick in the sheepishly raffish Knave of Hearts (Michael Socha of the British Being Human), who stands by as Alice goes all action heroine.
While the mothership busies itself in Neverland this season, Wonderland mashes up Lewis Carroll's legendary creations — most marvelously, John Lithgow voicing a fussy CGI White Rabbit and Keith David growling as an unexpectedly menacing Cheshire Cat — with Aladdin-style touchstones including a hunky genie love interest (Peter Gadiot) and an evil wizard Jafar (Lost's Naveen Andrews) with his own flying carpet. A brave new world? Not in this under-inspired TV season, although there are occasional trippy marvels as the pilot episode hopscotches between Alice's colorful adventures on the Other Side and her interrogation by Victorian-era head-shrinkers who'd just as soon lobotomize away her fantastical memories.
The production design is gorgeous, including a knockout chess motif for the palace of the evil Red Queen (glamorous cipher Emma Rigby). The visuals help distract from the hokey sampler-ready dialogue: "When you really love someone, you don't need proof. You can feel it." Some may question why the Once Upon a Time kingpins didn't save some of this juicy material for the original series, which may need it down the line — could have used it last season, to be honest — but I'd be happy to follow this White Rabbit just about anywhere. On a less busy night.
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A HYMN TO HIM: Voices may crack and tears will certainly be shed as Fox's Glee (9/8c) honors the memory of Cory Monteith, and his endearing character of Finn Hudson, in a musical tribute episode intended as an emotional catharsis for fans as well as the tight-knit cast and crew. (The song list includes "Seasons of Love" from Rent, and Lea Michele's cover of Adele's "Make You Feel My Love.") The memorial also serves as a reunion for current and past cast members. Even if you've graduated from the show's fan base, you'll probably want to return to pay respect.
MEDICAL MILESTONE: Or you could watch the cast of ABC's Grey's Anatomy celebrate the show's 200th episode (9/8c), built around a hospital benefit gala organized by Jackson that "turns out to be a hot mess," as series creator Shonda Rhimes told TV Guide Magazine. Also potentially messy: the decision to leave interns Shane (Gaius Charles) and Stephanie (Jerrika Hinton) in charge of the ER.
No word if any of the Grey's cast will go down memory lane, but flashbacks are very much a part of this week's Scandal(10/9c, ABC), as Olivia reflects on her relationship with her shady father (Joe Morton), while the fallout from the White House mess continues to embroil the White House and Pope & Associates. Fun times.
DRAMA LOGJAM: Scandal may be the watercooler rage in Thursday's 10/9c hour, but the competition is no slouch. CBS's Elementary presents a terrific and unusually topical episode that was screened last weekend at New York's PaleyCenter "Made in NY" festival (preceding an entertaining panel moderated by TV Guide Magazine's Bruce Fretts). Holmes and Watson's privacies are invaded by cyber-hackers when they participate in the hunt for a notorious and possibly murderous whistle-blower (think a cross between Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, played by Christian Campbell). This couldn't come at a worse time for Joan (Lucy Liu), who's just dipped her toe in the online-dating waters, to Holmes' merciless mocking. (Tony winner Steve Kazee of Once plays her first potential date.) The episode's final moments provide several intriguing teases for fans of the Holmes canon.
And let's not forget NBC underdog and emotional powerhouse Parenthood, in which many of the families within the family are dealing with personal and professional challenges, including new parents Crosby and Jasmine and newly forged political couple Kristina and Adam. We love the Bravermans and don't want to see them get lost on Thursdays.
THE THURSDAY GUIDE: The Good Wife's Christine Baranski returns to CBS's The Big Bang Theory (8/7c) as Leonard's mom, but the main conflict is between Sheldon and Amy after she ruins Raiders of the Lost Ark for him. (What next, Star Trek?) Sounds funny, but it's going to be hard to top last week's uproarious scavenger hunt. ... Kristen Bell returns to NBC's Parks and Recreation (8/7c) as Leslie's delightfully self-absorbed Eagleton nemesis when Pawnee comes to the aid of its reviled neighbor, pairing one town's Parks employees with their doppelgangers. As if there are two Ron Swansons in the world. ... Life after Happy Endings: While Adam Pally settles in on The Mindy Project, Eliza Coupe makes her first appearance on CBS'sThe Millers (8:31/7:31c) as Nathan's ex-wife, called back into this frantic family's fold to discuss the delicate matter of cemetery plots. ... The issue on CBS's Two and a Half Men (9:31/8:31c) is whether an injured Berta (Conchata Ferrell) should retire. She'd better not. She's one of the few reasons I would ever tune in to this show anymore. ... In acknowledgement of World Mental Health Day, The Office's Rainn Wilson and his SoulPancake partners get serious as producers of MTV's documentary Life Continued: Defeating Depression (7/6c), which profiles two young people who hit bottom while struggling with homophobia and anorexia but came through it and are now sharing their stories. ... Lifetime's Million Dollar Shoppers (10:30/9:30c) follows three personal shoppers who work for wealthy and demanding clients, all of whom are probably wondering how this didn't end up on Bravo.


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Are lobsters the new symbol of climate change?
The answer, increasingly, is yes. Lobster populations are exploding in the Gulf of Maine, but are plummeting in the waters of southern New England. In 2012, the Gulf of Maine set a record catch of 126 million pounds, double the average of a decade before and six times the average of the 1980s.
Meanwhile, annual lobster landings in Buzzards Bay were just 72,000 pounds last year, down from 400,000 pounds in the late 1990s and from just under a million pounds in the 1980s, according to Massachusetts state lobster biologist Bob Glenn.
The population loss is likely due to warmer waters and disease that may be associated with such water. "We just watched a geological event occur in about a decade," Glenn said. Scientists speculate that the population boom in Maine is also due to record warm waters, which fueled massive early productions, as well as the overfishing of ground fish that eat lobsters.
The lobster catch in Maine had a record value of $340 million. But the bounty backfired for many individual lobstermen, who were stuck with the lowest per-pound prices in nearly 20 years.
Further adding to the uncertainty is new research published last month in the journal Science that found that American lobster as a species has shifted 43 miles northward in the last decade. These unprecedented shifts concerned researchers at a Gulf of Maine research conference this week in Portsmouth, N.H.
"Many years ago, Casco Bay used to be a hotspot for lobster. Now it's more like Stonington and other ports Downeast," said Suzanne Arnold, marine scientist at the Island Institute. "The Maine lobster is one of the best-managed fisheries and is still in abundance, but the epicenter of that abundance is changing, and many fishermen are now solely reliant on lobster. This northward shift and its speed has me scared for communities where lobster is their lifeblood."
As for southern New England, Glenn said conditions were as if "someone flipped a switch." It used to be that lobsters enjoyed their preferred bottom water temperatures of 54 to 66 degrees for 11 months out of the year. But for much of the last decade and a half, bottom temperatures have been 68 degrees or above for nearly three months a year, which may result in lobsters hatching eggs farther out at sea where the young have much less protection.
In Maine, despite the current abundance of lobsters, scientists fear other switches are in danger of being flipped.
The cutting of coastal rockweed for fertilizer, animal feed, and nutritional supplements has doubled in the last six years, to 15 million pounds, depleting an important habitat for young lobsters.
The state is currently debating regulations to assure a "sustainable" harvest of rockweed, but Cornell University biologist Robin Hadlock Seeley said it is difficult to define "sustainable," since research is beginning to show that lobsters feed at night in rockweed.
In addition, juvenile lobsters may face new threats from new predators coming north with warmer waters, such as black sea bass.
Other research is showing a significant decline in eggs in lobster females in the Bay of Fundy. Heather Koopman of the Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station said she does not yet know what that means for a creature that can produce tens of thousands of eggs, but she is worried that in "a species that needs just the right mix of cold and warm water for spawning, hatching, growth, and molting, it is hard to see what piece of the puzzle is most important."
Until the puzzle is pieced together, the lobster is in danger. For now the waters of Maine are Eden. But Buzzards Bay is nearly an underwater desert.
Derrick Z. Jackson can be reached at email@example.com.


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Anucha Boonyawatana – Onthakan AKA The Blue Hour (2015)
Tam, a timid loner, is bullied regularly by his fellow pupils at school. He is met with similar rejection and suspicion within the narrow confines of his parents' dingy home, where his father beats him. One day Tam arranges online to meet Phum at a derelict swimming pool. They are both looking for sex, but their encounter leaves them with a feeling of comfort and security. A close bond develops between the two boys and, before long, they are roaming the rubbish heaps and dark corners of the city together, day and night. Phum opens a door for Tam, revealing a fantastical parallel universe full of spirits and dangerous encounters. Although he feels safe and loved for the first time in his life, Tam can no longer differentiate between dream and reality and finds himself increasingly drawn into a spiral of paranoia and violence. In his feature debut Boonyawatana leads his protagonist into an ambiguous microcosm full of chasms, at the same time cleverly toying with the conventions of different genres.


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The Spanish manufacturer will deliver 27 G90-2.0MW turbines to the Pililla wind project on the island of Luzón, to the north of the country.
As part of the deal, Gamesa will provide operations and maintenance to the project for five years and construct a substation with other related infrastructure.
The Pililla wind project is expected to be ready for operation in 2015.
Gamesa made its first movement into the Philippines market in October last year when it agreed to supply 54MW of turbine capacity to a project being developed by Japanese firm Kanematsu on the island of Guimaras, central Philippines.


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From the age of twelve to the age of seventeen, Davina Wan was in a gang. Excuse My Gangsta Ways reflects on a life in which a young girl could attend 35 funerals before the age of eighteen.
Directed and produced by Corinne Manabat, Gangsta Ways shares the powerful story of Davina Wan, a former gang member who charted a different course for her life after losing one of her closest friends. The description is here:
For most of us, wedding cakes and caps and gowns mark our life's milestones. For D. Wan, it is switchblades and dog tags. Excuse My Gangsta Ways, a documentary by Corinne E. Manabat, explores the life of Wan, a Chinese American from New York's Lower East Side, and her transition from a life of gang violence to a "normal" life. Visually poetic and uncompromising in its portrayal of gang culture, Excuse My Gangsta Ways uses interviews with Wan and her family to reach beyond stereotypes of urban gang members and America's "model minority." We will take a look at the person she was and the person she has become, where fate and inspiration endure.
When I saw the short film at this year's DC APA Film Festival, I was blown away at the level of honesty and pain captured in a scant fifteen minutes.
Wan's grandmother and godfather both share tales of Wan's rebellion, beginning after her parent's separation when she was young. Keenly describing the painful home situation she grew up in, it almost makes sense why she abandoned her former life and fell into an all-girl gang. However, through it all, she still dreamed of a different type of future. When one of her best friends dies, the tightly knit gang unraveled and Wan found herself wanting out. The film also explores her life now, and discusses the cost and result of that journey.
Manabat, in an interview about the film, talks about the ways in which Wan's story challenged the predominant (and often stereotypical) narrative about the lives of Asian American women:
In the Q & A session after the film, Manabat mentioned that while her film was geared toward an Asian American/Urban audience in mind, the film was really for everyone - that the theme of transformation was most prominent. I agree - though gang life is a far cry from the relatively safe and stable world I grew up in, I felt myself relating to Wan's tale of being lost and adrift in a hostile world. This articulation of the inner lives of young girls is rare, but explains why some of us flee from our homes early, often into the arms of older men, trying to "raise ourselves the best way [we] knew how" as Davina's godfather put it.
Both Wan and Manabat do community outreach, and workshops targeted around the film - through their work, they are hoping to reach some of the other lost girls in the world, and show them there is a way for them to find something like home.
Excuse My Gangsta Ways [Third World Newsreel]
Official Site [DC APA Film Festival 2009]
My Space Page [Excuse My Gangsta Ways]
Next Screening [San Diego Asian Film Festival]


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Christian Gustav Adolph Mayer
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Leipzig, Germany
Gries bei Bozen, Austria (now Bolzano, Italy)
BiographyChristian Mayer's father, also called Christian Adolph Mayer (1802-1875), was a merchant, banker and financial advisor from Leipzig with a prosperous business so that the family were well off. In fact the Mayer family had lived in Leipzig for several generations having emigrated from St Gallen in the seventeenth century. Christian Adolph Mayer was a family name given to the eldest son of each generation, so Adolph Mayer's paternal grandfather was also named Christian Adolph Mayer (1775-1843) and was also a banker in Leipzig. Christian Mayer's mother was Agnes Frege (1809-45), the daughter of Christian Gottlob Frege (1780-1821), a banker and financial advisor, and Johanna Henriette Rode. Mayer studied at the Thomas Gymnasium in Leipzig, completing his studies in the autumn of 1857. He then began his university education but, breaking with family tradition of becoming a banker, he chose to study mathematics and natural sciences (particularly chemistry and mineralogy) rather than commercial studies. As was the custom of German students at this time, he studied at a number of different universities during his education. He spent his first two semesters at the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg, then he studied under Moritz Abraham Stern (1807-1894) at Göttingen for a year beginning in autumn 1858. In fact Stern had just been appointed as a full professor at Göttingen, succeeding Gauss. After the year, Mayer returned to the University of Heidelberg where he was fascinated by the lectures of Otto Hesse, and, after spending one semester at Leipzig, he completed his doctorate at Heidelberg with the degree being awarded on 14 December 1861.
Following the award of his doctorate, Mayer went to Königsberg in 1862 where he worked under Friedrich Julius Richelot (1808-1875), a student of Jacobi, and Franz Neumann who was a student of Richelot. Königsberg was a leading research centre at this time, still benefitting from Jacobi's influence, with Richelot being an outstanding scholar who was known to deliver difficult and sometimes obscure lectures. It was Richelot who advised Mayer to undertake research on the calculus of variation, and he followed this advice working on this topic for the rest of his life. Another student at Königsberg, also working on his habilitation thesis, was Heinrich Weber; he and Mayer became close friends. Another student at Königsberg at this time, but at an earlier stage in his career since he was studying for his doctorate with Franz Neumann, was Albert Wangerin. Mayer remained at Königsberg until 1865, then he returned to his home town of Leipzig and submitted his habilitation thesis Beiträge zur Theorie der Maxima und Minima einfacher Integrale Ⓣ to that university and gained the right to teach at universities in December 1866. He began teaching at Leipzig University in 1867 giving two courses in that year, Analytic Mechanics and the Calculus of variations, as well as teaching a Mathematical Exercises class. In the following years he taught Differential and Integral Calculus, Theory of Definite Integrals, Some chapters from mechanics and the calculus of variations, Higher Algebra, Differential Equation of Mechanics and the Calculus of Variations, Analytic Geometry, and many more courses of a similar type. In fact his teaching was considered to be of the very highest quality [5]:-
Those who heard his lectures will remember them as eloquent, with ever word and every thought in its place; there was no word that could be safely lost. ... In the Mathematical Exercises, to which he devoted much time and energy, Mayer took great care that the tasks he set were actually solved using established or derived principles and not with ad hoc tricks which achieved the goal in a roundabout way.He taught at Leipzig for the rest of his life, as a privatdozent from 1867 to 1871, becoming an extraordinary professor of mathematics in 1871. He married Margerete Weigel in the following year. Margerete was the daughter of Oswald Weigel a publisher in Leipzig, and Pauline Therese Hildegard Felix. Adolph and Margerete Mayer had four children, the eldest boy being named Christian Adolph Mayer (1874-1946) in the family tradition and he also followed the family tradition by becoming a banker. Mayer was promoted to an honorary ordinary professorship in 1881 and a full ordinary professorship in 1890. He was co-director of the Mathematics Seminar at Leipzig from 1882. We should note that, while he was still a privatdozent, the Franco-Prussian war took place in 1870. Mayer volunteered to serve his country and was a nurse for the duration of the conflict.
Wussing writes in [1] that:-
As a professor, Mayer enjoyed great respect from his colleagues and students. His activities as a researcher ... earned him membership in numerous learned societies ...Mayer worked on differential equations, the calculus of variations and mechanics. The papers he wrote during his years as a privatdozent were: Über die Kriterien des Maximums und Minimums einfacher Integrale Ⓣ (1868), Der Satz der Variationsrechnung, welcher dem mechanischen Prinzips der kleinsten Wirkung entspricht Ⓣ (1870), Über die Jacobi-Hamiltonache Integrationsmethode der partiellen Differentialgleichungen erster Ordnung Ⓣ (1871), Über die Integration simultaner partieller Differentialgleichungen der ersten Ordnung mit derselben unbekannten Funktion Ⓣ (1871), and Unbeschränkt integrable Systeme von linearen totalen Differentialgleichungen und die simultane Integration linearer partieller Differentialgleichungen Ⓣ (1871). He emphasised the principle of least action in all his work which followed the path of Lagrange and Jacobi. His work on the integration of partial differential equation and a search to determine maxima and minima using variational methods brought him close to the investigations which Lie was carrying out around the same time. He is also considered a forerunner of the modern control theory.
Engel received his doctorate from Leipzig in 1883 after studying under Mayer and writing a thesis on contact transformations. Engel became a valuable assistant to Lie for several years but towards the end of the 1880s the relationship between Engel and Lie broke down. In 1892 the lifelong friendship between Lie and Klein broke down and the following year Lie publicly attacked Klein. Mayer was connected with the whole episode through his friendship with Klein, both being editors of Mathematische Annalen, and perhaps most significantly since his work was closely related to that of Lie. The book [2] contains a collection of 186 letters exchanged between Klein and Mayer over the years from 1871 to 1907. The letters provide insights into the scientific and personal relations among Klein, Mayer and Lie over the period. Wussing writes in [1] that:-
... through the subsequent works of Mayer, Lie's achievements became famous relatively quickly.Much of the material in the letters between Mayer and Klein discuss their editorial work on the journal Mathematische Annalen.
Mayer received many honours for his contributions. He was elected to the Berlin Academy of Sciences and to the Leopoldina Carolina German Academy. He was also elected a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and the Turin Academy of Sciences. VonderMühll gives the following tribute to Mayer in [6]:-
He worked hard for his students encouraging them to undertake further research and also encouraged them to study abroad. He was a most faithful friend to his colleagues, he worked tirelessly to promote Leipzig University and for him no trouble or personal sacrifice was too great.Mayer had a home in Leipzig where he entertained friends, colleagues and guests during the academic session. Each summer he would go to Abtnaundorf, about 4.5 km from the city centre, where he had a comfortable cottage in the Old Park on an estate which had for generations belonged to his mother's side of the family. The walk from his summer cottage to the university took him around an hour but he always chose to make the journey on foot. For many years he was a very fit man, being a keen gymnast and swimmer in his younger days. As he grew older, his health was not so robust and he complained of hoarseness which he tried to cure by resting beside the lake. In the winter semester of session 1907-08 he had to cancel his lecture course on the Calculus of Variations because of a stabbing pain in his chest, especially at night. It was probably pneumonia which was pulling him down and slowly exhausting his strength. He made a final effort to overcome his health problems, travelling with his wife and daughter to Bozen, then in Austria. There, in the mountain air, his health began to improve and he wrote some letters to his colleagues which were full of confidence that he would soon be fully fit again. Suddenly his health deteriorated rapidly and he died peacefully in Bozen. The tribute paid to him at his funeral, attended by academic colleagues, senior faculty of the university, family and many friends, spoke of him as a noble and pure person who never sought fame or glory.
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- H Wussing, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). See THIS LINK.
- H Beckert and H Schumann, Horst (eds.), 100 Jahre Mathematisches Seminar der Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig (Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin, 1981).
- R Tobies and D E Rowe (eds.), Korrespondenz Felix Klein-Adolph Mayer, Auswahl aus den Jahren 1871-1907, Teubner Archive on Mathematics 14 (Leipzig, 1990).
- O Hölder, Christian Gustav Adolph Mayer, Berichte über die Verhandlungen der sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig 60 (1908), 353-373.
- H Liebmann, Adolf Mayer, Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung 17 (1908), 355-362.
- K VonderMühll, Zum Andenken an Adolph Mayer (1839-1908), Mathematische Annalen (4) 65 (1908), 433-444.
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Honours awarded to Christian Adolph Mayer
Written by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
Last Update November 2010
Last Update November 2010