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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Lionel Messi and Neymar are among the 10 players nominated for the award given to the World Cup's best player.
Seven of the candidates announced by FIFA on Friday play for finalists Argentina and Germany. Messi is nominated along with Argentina teammates Angel Di Maria and Javier Mascherano. Germany provides four candidates: Mats Hummels, Toni Kroos, Philipp Lahm and Thomas Mueller.
Neymar is the only candidate from Brazil among the players selected by FIFA's technical study group of coaching analysts.
Arjen Robben of the Netherlands and James Rodriquez of Colombia, the tournament's top scorer with six goals, complete the list.
The winner is selected by the FIFA technical group and announced after the final.
Both goalkeepers in the final are on a three-man shortlist to be named best of the tournament.
Manuel Neuer of Germany and Sergio Romero of Argentina are joined by Costa Rica's Keylor Navas.
The candidates for best young player are Memphis Depay of the Netherlands, and France pair Paul Pogba and Raphael Varane. Nominees for that award must have been born since Jan. 1, 1993.


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Nov. 10, 2012 10:07 PM
POMONA, Calif., Nov. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
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After 17 years, Mopar Dodge Avenger driver Allen Johnson and his J&J Racing team can finally claim a long sought after and much-desired label: NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series Pro Stock champions. By qualifying No. 2 for the Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals in Pomona, Calif., Johnson clinched the 2012 NHRA Pro Stock title, and will have one last chance to top off a dream year by working towards victory in the elimination rounds of the NHRA Finals on Sunday.
"Mopar salutes the new NHRA Pro Stock World Champion and we offer our heartfelt congratulations to AJ, Roy and the whole team on their efforts and well-earned honor," said Pietro Gorlier, President and CEO of Mopar, Chrysler Group LLC's service, parts and customer-care brand. "Allen's tenacity and competitive spirit is a true testimony to the Mopar DNA. It has been a tremendous season for the J&J team earning six Wallys and 51 round wins in the Dodge Avenger, and we look forward to watching them finish out this championship season by contending for one last win on Sunday."
Johnson was No. 2 after the first two qualifying sessions with a best pass of 6.537-seconds at 211.56 mph. On his historic day, the Greeneville, Tenn., posted runs of 6.534/211.79 and 6.518/211.99, locking into the field in the second spot and securing his first Pro Stock crown.
"For our whole Mopar team and especially my dad, this is a dream come true after 17 long years, a lot of work, a lot of money and a lot of sweat, and to finally realize it is indescribable," said Johnson, who brought home the first Pro Stock title for a Mopar driver since 1994, giving the brand a crown during the celebration of its 75th anniversary. "When we were able to go out there and consistently finish in the top two or three cars, I knew we had a legitimate shot at a championship. The Mopar Dodge Avenger was the fastest and most consistent car out there and racking up all those little points mid-season made all the difference, and we learned how to win."
"It's been quite the journey," added Johnson. "The first year we started, out of 22 races I qualified only one time, and the second year we qualified just five times. We started this as a family and built it from there, and to finally reach the pinnacle has taken a long time, but it has been well worth it."
The championship is the realization of a lifelong dream for Johnson, who began racing in the sportsman Super Stock classes with his father and current engine builder, Roy Johnson, in the late Seventies. Allen and his father decided to make the leap into the Pro Stock ranks in 1996, beginning a battle for the title filled with many high and lows, a hard-fought, 17-year quest for a Pro Stock championship that ended on Saturday by qualifying for the season finale in Pomona.
"I couldn't help getting a little emotional, because 44 years ago I started all this, and it's been 17 years getting here with my son, with a lot of fussing and arguing, but we made it," said Roy Johnson. "I had my lights go out in 2007 (Roy suffered a near-fatal heart attack at the NHRA Phoenix event that year), and they shocked me back to life. I'm glad they didn't leave my lights out, so we could enjoy this moment together."
"This is just an awesome feeling and everyone has worked super hard for this, and everyone can see that," said Mark Ingersoll, longtime crew chief for Johnson & Johnson Racing. "I lost my dad this year, and would have liked to have shared this with him, like Allen and Roy are able to do, but to do this with my racing family is very special."
"Roy and Allen have put together such a great program here, surrounding themselves with good people who have an unquestionable work ethic, and we made some big gains in the past two years," said Jim Yates, J&J Racing team engineer, who came onboard last season to provide valuable assistance to Ingersoll and the J&J Racing team. "I think next year is just going to be even better."
Johnson notched his J&J Racing squad in the NHRA record book as champions thanks to a career season. Heading into elimination rounds at the NHRA Finals on Sunday, Johnson has earned six wins in 2012, tripling his career best for victories in a season, advanced to a career-best 10 final rounds, claimed 10 No. 1 Qualifier awards, a class-best, and posted a career-best 51-16 round win record thus far. The Team Mopar veteran will attempt to claim his 16th career win and first ever at Pomona on Sunday.
Elimination rounds for the NHRA Finals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona will begin tomorrow at 11 a.m. PT, with Johnson set to lineup against Greg Stanfield in the opening round. Mopar-powered Dodge Charger R/T NHRA Funny Car drivers Jack Beckman and Ron Capps (who claimed the Funny Car pole on Saturday) are also favorites for the 2012 NHRA Funny Car championship, as the duo are 1-2, respectively, entering tomorrow, giving the Mopar brand the chance for a two-championship haul this weekend.About Mopar Motorsports
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The late Bill Leggett, of Sports Illustrated, sat at a table near the front window. He looked up as I sat down.
"You're in the right place," he said.
The sign in front of the building not a furlong from the Belmont Park stable gate now reads: Elmont Eglise Du Nazareen De La Saintete.
Nothing of particular note will happen there on Saturday. No one with a horse in the Belmont Stakes will stop for a drink before or after the third leg of the Triple Crown is run and the fence will not be painted in the colors of the winning owner. There will be no pepperoni, cheese and crackers set out after the races, a scant repast offered only on Belmont Stakes day. This was a place for drinking, for the gathering of kindred spirits and others whose lives revolved around the racetrack across the street.
History was made at Belmont Park and, later, embellished at Esposito's.
Arthur and Gilda Esposito founded the business deep in the Great Depression. Gilda, who would come to be called "Mom" by generations of racetrackers, fed those in need of food, lent money to those down on their luck, was known to keep a large cash reserve for these purposes and bailed many a racetracker out of jail so that the accused could be back at the barn in the morning.
Mom, revered in the racing community, was almost always repaid. Those who crossed her or failed to meet their obligations became pariahs here and were blacklisted at racetracks throughout the country. Few took that risk and many whose names are now familiar on racing largest stages would at one time or another while paying their dues find themselves beneath the nurturing wing of Mom Esposito.
The business eventually was passed on to the Brothers Esposito, John and Junior, who were literally raised in the tavern where they worked throughout their lives. They were cut unmistakably from the same cloth, five-by-five men of great appetite, bald, gregarious, opinionated and willing to share.
John considered himself to be an expert on all things great and small and put forth often far-fetched theories from his pulpit, the bar, often igniting spirited if equally far-fetched debate. Junior, while keeping up a continual banter of small talk, was the engine that kept the place going and the place was where the pulse of racing in New York beat and could be monitored. The exchange of information, some accurate, was continual and took many forms.
Awakened one summer afternoon from an impromptu nap by a discussion that revolved around a suddenly hot trainer, a groom who worked for the subject in question raised his head and said: "New vet," then resumed his siesta.
Both the Brothers Esposito would travel great distances to save money, the frugality taught by an parents who lived through the Depression. Junior drove to Eastern Long Island to buy cigarettes from the Shinnecocks long before cigarettes were taxed beyond middle-class affordability. He hunted down bargains, cheap whiskey to refill mislabeled bottles and John was always willing to launch a road trip in devoted pursuit of what he considered restaurant bargains, frequently involving the phrase, "all you can eat."
Esposito's was a place without pretense that would occasionally be visited by those who had spent the afternoon in the Directors' Room at the track and wished to watch the replays of the day's races, usually after one of their horses had won. Edie LiButti, owner of Devil His Due, on one such visit asked one of the bartenders, for a wine list unaware that the available vintage was generally not potable. "We've got red and we've got white," the bartender answered, "and if we mix them, we've got rose."
The tavern could be the scene of the occasional high drama with great implication.
On a grim Sunday, July 7, 1975, the bar filled slowly reporters who kept vigil while the great filly Ruffian, mortally injured in a match race with Foolish Pleasure that afternoon, was down the street at a veterinary clinic her fragile life hanging in the balance, a team of surgeons attempting to save her life. They drank. They waited for updates and eventually what they knew would be the worst possible news.
On the afternoon of June 11, 1977, with the nation awaiting the undefeated Seattle Slew's Belmont Stakes and a Triple Crown that was widely considered no contest, trainer Billy Turner, Frank Tours, a former NYRA official who was at the time in the employ of Hialeah Park, and several friends repaired to the relative quiet of Esposito's, a place in which it was easy to lose track of time.
Across the Plainfield Avenue, a second call to bring the horses in that Belmont to the paddock prompted Turner's assistant and exercise rider, Mike Kennedy, to locate his missing employer. Esposito's was the first place he looked. Turner's reaction to Kennedy's alarm: "You don't think they're going to start the race without us, do you?"
Seattle Slew arrived at the paddock 10 minutes late, and then proceeded to make history. Turner was fined $200 by the stewards. Tours, who would be accused of orchestrating the stunt, was thoroughly amused and the story has become part of Triple Crown lore.
What became a traditional painting of the fence in the colors of the Belmont Stakes winner was begun after Seattle Slew's Triple Crown. Turner had been a fixture at Esposito's for years before that, beginning in the days when he was called Turnpike Turner and traveled the Eastern seaboard on the steeplechase circuit. If the trainer of a jumper needed a rider on short notice, a call Turner on one of two phone-booth lines at Esposito's, would have him on the road.
Woody Stephens, also a late-morning fixture at Esposito's trained five straight Belmont winners, the first in 1982. On the morning after each win, Stephens, en route to his barn, would stop in front of Esposito's and honk his horn, a reminder to the proprietor that the fence had not been repainted. John claimed an unwritten rule allowed him a week.
Esposito's is long gone as are its erstwhile proprietors and many of its habitués. Turner has not taken a drink of alcohol in years but remains a font of remembrance, lamenting the absence of the truly Runyonesque from the current racing scene. To those of sufficient longevity, the building now known as Elmont Eglise Du Nazareen De La Saintete remains a relic of a time long gone, a rich time when the racetrack was not a job or a hobby, it was a lifestyle, a closed society populated by those who shared a love for horses, the appreciation of a well conceived and executed scheme, reveled in the game and the life. -- PM


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Back in March, we wrote about Idaho's new "ag-gag" law that made it illegal to expose animal cruelty on factory farms and slaughterhouses in that state. The post quoted a couple of stories by Will Potter on his "Green is the New Red" Web site. @AbbyMartin tweets that Potter now wants to expose factory farm horrors without breaking those ag-gag laws by using a Kickstarter project to fund aerial photography carried out by drones:
The latest trend is that the agriculture industry is even trying to ban photographs of farms taken from the air. It is unlikely that aerial photography can document animal abuse, but these industries are clearly concerned. So what are factory farms trying to hide? Will a drone allow us to see the scope of pollution caused by these industrial operations? I'm going to find out...
As Potter notes, it's not clear what evidence of animal abuse a drone will be able to gather, but it's both an interesting attempt to circumvent ag-gag laws that seem to have no rationale other than covering up abuses, and another example of drones being used in innovative -- and peaceful -- ways.
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On The Street…..Meatpacking District , New York
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Does anyone know who this scarf is by, it is the second person i've seen in it…love the print
I have the same gigantic bag!
About "ethnic" scarfs: they add a level of depth to those who wear them: tricking cultural perceptions…
Bags have the same function in terms of status.
This bag is still so low profile in the public eye that makes it attractive for me.
Her scarf is too much.
love the loudness of the scarf vs the quietness of everything else and androgyny is always welcome
i'm 99% sure that the scarf is from virginia johnson, who illustrated the kate spade books. her website is virginiajohnson.com, lots of great, simple prints.
the camel print scarf is adorable! I love how she combined such a light scarf with dark clothing – it works!
Where can I find that bag?
Because I really like it.
i love how natural the style is to her…..not trying hard, not forced. however, i am not convinced on the white socks.
oh, I loooooooove this.
anna corinna
You can find the bag @ shopbop.com
it is an Anna Corinna handbag $(396)
The bag is really big.
Love the scarf. Hate the white socks. The socks detract from the overall look.
Yup. The scarf is definitely Virginia Johnson (www.virginiajohnson.com), and it comes in a ton of lovely patterns and colors.
it's funny, the first thing i noticed were the socks, not the carf… Although i don't like white socks in this case they makes a nice black and white look, with the ballerinas.
i love it.
Warning: broad sweeping comments about to be made, which may provoke urges to respond vehemently, whether pro, or con. White socks with black shoes and black pants…it's very "un-American" in taste. Looks goofy. Well, at least it did to me, til a Swiss man explained that to Europeans it expresses "cleanliness". Anyone else ever had a "white socks" conversation across cultural boundaries?
I think this girl has a perfect perception of her general features and prefers to be incisive than pleasant to look at.. white socks could have been a pain in the neck but matching those two little white spots with that giant scarf in the general plainliness of the outfit and of the haircut just makes her REALLY interesting and mid-european style. she is someone who understood perfectly the meaning of the suggestion -hide your fault for what you can, show what remains as qualities- or something like it. understatement with a rock flavour!
way cool scarf
I think the scarf and white socks are adorable on her..


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Many people in the South East are still facing a daily struggle with debt despite the UK's gradual economic recovery and a fall in the number of people seeking advice, a leading debt charity has warned.
Figures released this week by StepChange Debt Charity show that 10,268 people in the South East area called its helpline for advice in the first half of 2015 with average debts of £13,939.
This left them with a budget deficit every month, meaning they were £12 short of being able to afford even their essential bills.
The figures coincide with StepChange Debt Charity's new report, Navigating the New Normal, which shows that more than one in five Britons are currently showing at least one sign of financial difficulty and 2.6m of them are in severe problem debt.
Of those 2.6m, 73 per cent suffered at least one 'income shock' in the last year, such as job loss or a reduction in hours.
The charity says that people on low and middle incomes are particularly at risk after an income shock, with a combination of little to no savings and an unresponsive welfare system leaving them unable to meet their basic costs.
Shocks to their income often see them turn to credit to cope, which makes them 20 times more likely to fall into problem debt.
The report comes after the latest Bank of England figures showed the highest annual increase in borrowing on credit cards and personal loans for nine years, sparking fears of a return towards the high levels of unmanageable credit seen in the lead-up to the financial crisis.
Mike O'Connor, chief executive of StepChange Debt Charity, said: "Everyone faces ups and downs in life, but more than 11m people in Britain are now experiencing some financial difficulty and a quarter of those are in severe problem debt.
"The South East is no exception and although the economy is beginning to recover, millions of households remain vulnerable to shocks to their income over the next year and many could find they have no alternative but to turn to credit to cope, which can quickly make the problem much worse.
"Debt can have a devastating effect on people's lives, including sleepless nights, anxiety and mental and physical health problems with knock-on effects for their families. We would urge anyone who is experiencing debt problems to call us for free, impartial debt advice and take that first step as early as they possibly can."
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Well, as the saying goes, "It's all over but the shouting." Having slogged through a primary process that felt even longer than it was, it looks like Republicans finally have a nominee to go mano-a-mano with Barack Obama come November. Around ten o'clock last night, CNN called the Maryland, D.C., and Wisconsin primaries for Romney. The Maryland, D.C., and Wisconsin wins mean Romney is now more than halfway towards winning enough delegates to clinch the Republican nomination.
Whether they've chosen him, settled for him, or just got stuck with him, it looks like Mitt Romney will be the GOP's standard bearer from here on, and into the general election.
As I wrote early on, one of the benefits (to the rest of us, anyway) of the GOP's marathon primary race was the opportunity to hear the candidates attack one another. Not just because of nasty things they said about each other, but because they got so much right! Romney's fellow Republicans said a lot about him. They got a lot right, too.
King of Bain
No attack on Romney was vicious or effective than Newt Gingrich's attack on Mitt Romney's career as a vulture capitalist, at the help of Bain Capital. Gingrich's 27-minute documentary, "When Mitt Romney Came To Town," bore such close resemblance to progressive and/or Democratic messaging that the Obama campaign could consider at least some of its TV spots done, if only Gingrich's movie could be considered an in-kind contribution.
But, really, there was nothing kind about it. Not if you were Mitt Romney. Gingrich went a long way towards painting Romney as the GOP's own Gordon Gekko (though in truth Romney's merely one of a set), and even did a fair job of introducing Americans to Wall Street's brand of Gekko capitalism — buy a company with borrowed money, pledged against assets or earnings; increase profits; sell the company.
As one of Romney's fellow former Bain employees told the LA Times, job creation was never the point. "The primary goal of private equity is to create wealth for your investors." Bain delivered in that regard. The Wall Street Journal reported that 22% — nearly one fourth — of the companies Bain invested in ("targeted," in private-equity-speak) either filed for bankruptcy, reorganized, or closed their doors entirely. Four of its top ten "targets" even went bankrupt.
For workers at companies like Dade International, American Pad and Paper, GS Industries, the result was lost jobs, lost benefits, long-term unemployment. For Bain shareholders, it meant $2.5 billion in returns on just $1.1 billion invested. For Mitt Romney, it meant amassing a personal fortune — between $190 and $250 million, according to his campaign — during his days running Bain Capital.
In one video, Gingrich not only spelled out the connection between profits on Wall Street and job losses on Main Street, but shifted the focus on the national discourse in a way not seen since Occupy Wall Street. It took a Republican to make Wall Street's perverse notion of "creative destruction" — creating wealth for the one percent, while destroying jobs for the 99% — front-page news. And if that wasn't enough, at the New Hampshire Republican debate, Newt called Romney out following "a Wall Street model" where "you basically take out all the money, leaving nothing for workers."
It's an attack so straightforward — so easy to make, because it's so true — that even Texas governor Rick Perry managed it, when he called Romney "part of Wall Street," and explained why it applies even if Romney never had an office address on Wall Street. "I don't think you have to actually have an address on Wall Street to be a part of Wall Street," Perry told a Huffington Post reporter. "I don't think anybody gets confused that Bain Capital is part of that whole Wall Street structure. I don't think that's lost on anybody."
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Rick Perry scored another direct hit on Romney when he said during an Iowa event, "With all due respect to my friends who are standing on the stage with me asking you for your support, they're either Washington insiders, they're in Congress today, or either part of or have been part of Wall Street."
Actually, the "Washington Insider" criticism was directed at the all the GOP hopefuls still standing at the time. But, with Romney's Tuesday night wins, the remaining Washington insiders still in the race — Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum — will soon be joining Perry on the list of also-rans. That could mean a sharper focus on Romney Washington Insider status, for at least a couple of reasons.
Romney has filled his campaign with lobbyists and surrounded himself with Washington Insiders. According to a New York Times article, Romney's campaign "includes some of the most prominent Republican lobbyists in Washington," among his closest advisers. They're some of his biggest donors, too. At least 294 lobbyists gave over $400,000 to Romney's campaign through the end of 2011. As Rick Santorum's campaign pointed out, an ABC news from the 2002 Massachusetts governors race shows Mitt Romney bragging about his Washington connections. "I am big believer in getting money where the money is," Romney says. "The money is in Washington." So it's no surprise that Romney's got a lot of Washington Insiders in his campaign, and on his donor list.
Mitt Romney like to cast himself as the candidate running against Washington's entrenched insiders and their interests. In reality, Romney has brought Washington's entrenched insiders into the center of his campaign, and their campaign contributions ensure he'll give special attention to their interests. It's a full-circle moment for Romney, because he's been working for a long time at becoming one of them. Romney likes referring to President Obama as a life-long politician. But, as Steve Benen pointed out, since 1994 Romney has built a career out of running for office.
He's still at it, of course. And he's closer than he's ever been to landing a job in Washington, D.C.
Flip-Flopping: A Method to the Madness
Finally, there's the lowest hanging fruit that Romney's Republican opponents picked, and then threw at him: the flip-flops. It's easy to rattle a number of them off, because Romney's flipped at least once on just about every issue: contraception, health care reform, political action committees, Fannie Mae, climate change, immigration, green energy, abortion, etc.
But as Paul Waldman pointed out, Romney flip-flops like no other GOP candidate has in this race.
Mitt Romney flip-flops carefully, after a period of calculation in which he determines the most appropriate strategic positioning required to achieve his short- and long-term goals. Newt Gingrich flip-flops impulsively, taking positions that sound good at a particular moment without any apparent regard for the past or the future.
…Whenever Romney is asked to explain a flip-flop, he always has an answer, and it's the same one he'll give if he gets asked about it tomorrow or next month. It may not be entirely convincing, but you can tell he thought about it, worked through it with his advisors, and is offering the best explanation they could come up with. The explanations are crafted so that they account for whatever he has said in the past and what he intends to say in the future.
Romney's flip-flops have always been a tactic employed strategically, in the service of his short-term goal of winning the Republican nomination, and his long-term goal of winning the presidency. So far, it's been working. Not perfectly, but well enough. As of Tuesday night, Romney's pretty much achieved his short-term goal.
Now, it's about the presidency.
It's Over. It Begins.
So, it's over. Mitt Romney will almost certainly be the Republican nominee. There are other primaries to come, sure. But the last remaining candidates who might have had a shot at beating Romney are all but done. Newt is running on fumes, with minimal staff. Santorum claims he will stay in until at least April 24th, when Pennsylvania holds its GOP primary. But beyond that, it's over.
Mitt Romney knows it's over. Celebrating the three victories that put him past the halfway point in the race for delegates, Romney indicated that maybe it's time Republicans shift their focus to President Obama, instead of targeting one another.
President Obama knows it's over, too. The Obama campaign has already released TV spots attacking Romney's ties to Big Oil. The President is sharpening his criticism of the Ryan Budget, passed by the Republican majority in the House, and blasting Romney's support of it.
As I wrote at the beginning of this series, between now and November we'll probably see President Obama use many of the arguments Romney's former GOP opponents inadvertently prepared for him.
I can almost hear president Obama quoting Gingrich on Romney's "Wall Street model," and comparing his record on job creation to Romney's. Then he'll probably look right into the camera and say something like this: "Americans reject that model. I don't believe Americans are looking for a president to do for our economy what Bain did — under Mr. Romney's leadership — to the companies in its portfolio, or the workers who lost their jobs, health insurance, retirement accounts, livelihoods, and perhaps even a little of their faith in the American Dream."
I can definitely picture millions of Americans nodding in agreement with that simple truth.
And so it ends, to begin again.


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ACS and Alpha Rae Denied Reasonable Accommodation and Fired Employee With Known Physical Limitations, Federal Agency Charges
INDIANAPOLIS – Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS), the company under contract with the State of Indiana to operate many of Indiana's public benefits programs, and the staffing firm that supports the company unlawfully discriminated against an employee and fired her because of her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed Monday.
According to the EEOC's suit (Civil Action No. 1:11-cv-00015-PPS-RBC), filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, the employee had physical disabilities that were known to the company and its staffing agency. Yet each refused to take reasonable measures to accommodate those disabilities, the EEOC said.
Employers violate the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) when they fail to provide reasonable accommodations for employees' disabilities unless the employer would suffer an undue hardship as a result. The EEOC filed suit against ACS and Alpha Rae Personnel, Inc. after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement.
Alpha Rae is based in Fort Wayne, Ind. ACS is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
"These employers could easily have prevented this situation by making reasonable accommodations," said Laurie A. Young, EEOC regional attorney for the Indianapolis District Office.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov. The EEOC's Indianapolis Office is located at 101 W. Ohio Street, Suite 1900. The toll-free telephone number is (800) 669-4000.


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The keyboard is excellent and can from my experience be used immediately without any issues. I actually like it better than my external keyboard. The only problem here was the tiny "'" key. But that's only important for English text and I'm sure in the version they sell in English speaking countries the keyboard doesn't have that flaw.
So they only thing that might be seen as negative is the lower display resolution compared to some other new netbooks that have an 11.6" display. But their display is usually glossy and thus disqualified for really using it anywhere outside and also of course costs battery time.
But for Linux it looks much worse. While the Poulsbo chipset was already roughly supported in Ubuntu 8.04, which was released over a year ago, the support for Poulsbo is still at least flaky. It needs binary blobs to work anywhere near well as far as I have read.
And unfortunately it's not yet working on the MSI Wind U110 or U115 netbooks. You can normally get the chipset to work pretty well - with the appropriate resolution and at least some 2D acceleration, but no hardware video acceleration (aka VDPAU or VA-API).
But on the MSI's the support isn't working yet. You get the message that the there was a null pointer dereference when trying to load the psb kernel modules that is "necessary for the driver to work" as the Xorg driver tells you. Though I've read it might actually work on a certain SuSe distribution.
That unfortunately means that the netbook can not currently be used for Linux. A small display combined with a bad resolution will definitely lead to headaches. Linux users will either have to use Windows until sometime - hopefully - Intel fixes it's drivers (and maybe even includes a working VA-API support!).
What else I've checked worked fine: Sound, USB, Brightness Adjustments. I haven't tested standby enough yet, but I think there were still problems. But that may very well also be related to the graphics chipset. And as far as I've read the standby to ram works fine at least with certain BIOS versions.
The MSI U110 comes with one RAM slot, which held 1 GB ram in this case and is extensible to 2 GB. There is of course an internal card reader included. A microphone and a headset jack and a USB port, a VGA and a 100 Mbit LAN port are on the right side, two more USB ports, the energy plug, a kensington lock connection and a fan on the left side.
Summary: For now only for Linux experts who are either willing to debug and fix the kernel module or figure out how to get SuSe running on it or people who are willing to use Windows until the problems are fixed (supposedly that might happen by the end of this year). But it's a great netbook with lots of battery time, a nice display and a great keyboard. Perfect for writing blog entries or a large word document.
What works&What doesn't
- Grafics (works pretty well now!)
- Sounds works (needs a fix in Ubuntu 9.10)
- SD-Card Adapter works (it's generally not very fast, though)
- Standby (works in Ubuntu 9.10)
- CPU low power mode (works for me, reportedly doesn't work in certain configurations)
- Grafics low power mode (?)
- Sound low power mode (creates problems and had to be deactivated in 9.10)
- Webcam works with uvcvideo after pressing the short cut (Fn-F6).
- Ethernet works in 9.10 after plugging in the cable (ASIX AX88772 USB 2.0 Ethernet).
- Wifi works out of the box in 9.10. Needs additional drivers in 9.04.
I've run powertop on a full battery(half a year old) to test how low I can get the power usage in X with it.
PowerTOP version 1.11 (C) 2007 Intel Corporation
Cn Avg residency P-states (frequencies)C0 (cpu running) ( 1.8%) 1.60 Ghz 0.4%C0 0.0ms ( 0.0%) 1333 Mhz 0.2%C1 mwait 0.0ms ( 0.0%) 1067 Mhz 0.6%C2 mwait 0.2ms ( 0.0%) 800 Mhz 98.7%C4 mwait 0.3ms ( 0.0%)C6 mwait 9.6ms (98.1%)
Wakeups-from-idle per second : 103.4 interval: 15.0sPower usage (ACPI estimate): 5.6W (10.3 hours)
Top causes for wakeups:53.7% (126.9)
: acpi26.4% ( 62.3) : psb@pci:0000:00:02.011.2% ( 26.4) : hrtimer_start_range_ns (tick_sched_timer)2.3% ( 5.5) : Rescheduling interrupts1.8% ( 4.3) : extra timer interrupt1.3% ( 3.1) : hrtimer_start (tick_sched_timer)
I think the psb driver is not highly optimized for low power consumption yet, but the biggest problem is the pretty high number of "acpi" interrupts. We can see that with neither ethernet nor wifi active, the netbook can reach over 10 hours of run time. And this is with a battery that already lost 10% capacity. We should be able to get this down a lot more by finding the cause for the acpi interrupts and with some optimizations, mostly in psb.


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Getting a celebrity or editor to wear or talk about one of your products is invaluable. Designers and beauty product developers should never leave their homes without one of their products in tow because you never know where you might bump into a recognizable face or important influencer (and who knows, you might even get a photo op with your product out of it). Here's a look at some of the newest celebrity and editor hot spot restaurants where you just might run into an A-lister.
East Village sandwich shop, JoeDough which just opened its doors one month ago, has already started to attract celebrities including fashion icon Sarah Jessica Parker and Brit Russell Brand (just don't mention Katy Perry). Expect riffs on traditional New York deli sandwiches, including The Conflicted Jew with liver, bacon, and onions on challah.
Located in the New York Historical Society, the much buzzed about Caffè Storico is Stephen Starr's (of Morimoto and Buddakan) latest project. Part of the $65 million three-year renovation of the NYHS, this 74-seat space is sure to be a big draw.
When Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter took over The Monkey Bar a few years ago, it became an instant go-to for the likes of Anna Wintour. When it started to grow a bit stale, Carter enlisted downtown restaurateur Ken Friedman as a managing partner and now, newly revived, expect to see plenty of buzz-worthy names coming out of the Midtown eatery.
At Catch you're guaranteed to see one boldface name, Top Chef winner Hung Huynh, who heads the kitchen at this new seafood restaurant from the team behind Tenjune and Abe&Arthur, but given that on a recent eve I spotted Molly Sims, Kenny G, and Russell Simmons, odds are there will be plenty of other notables.
While getting into its penthouse club, PH-D, is no easy feat, try your hand at making a reservation or just meandering around Marble Lane, the lobby restaurant at the hot spot Dream Downtown Hotel where the likes of Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Karlie Kloss, and Jessica Simpson are consistently spotted.
Who says the Upper East Side is dead? From Andy Cohen and Ryan Seacrest to Lauren Bush Lauren and Brooke Shields, The Crown has been attracting influencers since its inception.
With its standing-room-only bar, Sons of Essex is the perfect spot to slip one of your creations into the hands of the likes of Ashley Greene and Padma Lakshmi.
If you're looking for a laid-back environment, head to The Fat Radish or Left Bank – two downtown spots where Adrian Grenier and Chase Crawford have already been spotted.
On nearly every "best of 2011" list, don't be surprised to see the likes of Derek Jeter chowing down to your right at The Dutch (pictured).
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N'Djamena, Chad, June 2012 - The largest UNOSAT capacity development project so far has formally begun operations in Chad in June after months of preparations involving the Swiss Development Cooperation and local partners in the country. The project, named "ResEAU: water resources mapping of Chad", is part of a visionary initiative by the Swiss government for which UNOSAT was selected as the expert team for implementing activities on the ground, along with other centres of excellence from Switzerland.
During the inaugural phase the first meeting of the Steering Committee was held in N'Djamena, at the Office of the Swiss Cooperation (BuCo).Experts from Chad and the Swiss Cooperation joined the special task group created at UNOSAT to work on this multi-year project. The Minister of hydraulic urban and rural, Mr. Mahamat Ali Abdallah Nassour, welcomed the UNITAR/UNOSAT mission in a meeting on June 23 during which he reiterated the importance of the tools and skills that will be developed for the benefit of the Chadian people and all the institutional actors involved in the water sector.
UNOSAT decided to deploy one expert permanently to Chad to ensure continued technical support, while the team in Geneva has been enlarged by recruiting special additional expertise. The Steering Committee met at the end of the kick-off mission carried out by the UNITAR/UNOSAT team. The mission was intended to validate project requirements with departments and donors, and to establish the conditions for the beginning of activities in the country.
Francesco Pisano of UNOSAT says: "this is an important phase for our capacity development track which we envisioned years ago as a way to bring to member states our competencies and help on territorial planning using geospatial information and integrated training". Other projects are being planned with a number of donors and beneficiaries in countries in Africa, Central America and South-East Asia.
The ResEAU project results from a 2010 agreement between the Ministry of the hydraulic urban and rural (MHUR) and the Swiss Agency for development and Cooperation (SDC) intended to strengthen national capacity in the area of water resources management to meet the objectives of the master plan of water and sanitation (SDEA) and the national poverty reduction strategy (SNRP).
Co-Chaired by the Secretary General of the Ministry of the hydraulic urban and rural (MHUR) and the Resident Director of the Office of Swiss cooperation in Chad, the first Steering Committee signaled the operational kick-off of the activities of the ResEAU project. The importance of the activity is underlined by the variety of participants from Chad: the ministries of the hydraulic urban and rural, higher education, the Plan and the international cooperation, mining and geology, agriculture and Irrigation, and the development of the territory. The Delegation of the European Union was also present.
Photos by UNOSAT. Above from left to right : Mr Lamine Younos Kosso - Secrétaire Général du MHUR, Yves Haeberlin – Chef de projet UNOSAT, Marie-Louise Vogt – Assistante Technique UNOSAT based in N'Djaména, Mr Mahamat Ali Abdallah Nassour, Ministre de l'Hydraulique, Olivier Senegas – Senior Specialist at UNOSAT, Mr Markus Schäfer – Director a.i. of the Chad Office of the Swiss Cooperation (BuCo), Mr Noé Réouebmel, Coordinateur National MHUR.
Below: The Steering Committee of the RésEAU project at the Office of the Swiss cooperation in N'Djamena.


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The AFL-CIO has sent out an email blast in support of the campaign to overturn the excise tax on health benefits. The letter is addressed to constituents of Rep. Jerrold Nadler, praising him for his work in opposition to the tax and suggesting they encourage him to "stay strong" on the issue.
The letter reads in part:
"Can you believe the Senate is considering taxing our benefits to pay for health care reform?
We need health care reform desperately, but taxing workers' health benefits is wrong. Fortunately, 185 members of the House are opposed to taxing worker benefits, including your representative, Rep. Jerrold Nadler.
We need to make sure Rep. Nadler stays strong and continues to side with working families."
The email includes links that enable readers to "thank (their) representative" for his stance on this issue.
I suspect there will be more such campaign efforts in the near future, as labor (and perhaps other constituencies affected by this tax) mobilize to build resistance to it.


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In 2012, almost ten percent of all major league players were born in the Dominican Republic. This is despite the population of the United States of America being more than thirty-one times greater than that of the D.R.
How does the Dominican Republic produce so many baseball players, one might ask.
Well, baseball academies run by major league teams and player agents are one of the driving forces increasing the number of professional baseball players from the D.R.


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30 in 15: Hayes aims to emulate Bickell's successby Dan Rosen / Chicago Blackhawks
|Jimmy Hayes hopes his hard work during the offseason will help him follow in the skate blades of Bryan Bickell.
NHL.com continues its preview of the 2013-14 season, which will include in-depth looks at all 30 teams throughout September.
Jimmy Hayes saw Bryan Bickell become an overnight sensation during the Chicago Blackhawks' run to the Stanley Cup last spring. It gave him an idea of what his future in the NHL could be like as a threatening presence up front, one with skill to match his brawn and speed to match his power.
"[Bickell] has evolved into a power forward," Hayes told NHL.com. "He's a big guy who has a ton of skill. I know the way he played throughout the playoffs, finishing his checks and just being hard to play against it made him effective and successful, it triggered me to try to develop that game for myself."
Hayes will be given the chance early this season to show he's done it. He gave himself the tools to earn that chance during the summer by training hard on his lower body and working on his skating to become leaner, more powerful and ultimately faster and more dangerous.
Instead of being a lumbering 6-foot-6, 225-pound right wing, Hayes is now a tantalizing 6-foot-6, 220-pound right wing. He's just as blue collar as ever and he'll certainly throw his weight around on the ice, but now he's able to keep up in the Blackhawks high-octane, up-tempo, intense offense in the same way that Bickell showed he could last season.
Hayes, who has had two short stints with the Blackhawks over the past two seasons, playing in a total of 41 games and scoring 13 points, will likely get his chance on the third line with Andrew Shaw and Brandon Saad.
"I think the package is there and we'll look to put it together," coach Joel Quenneville said.
The Blackhawks were saying the same thing about Bickell in 2010, when he was a black ace during Chicago's Stanley Cup run. He had to get leaner, faster and more powerful in his legs to skate and keep up in Chicago's aggressive system.
Bickell worked at it, got his chance to be a full-time NHL player in 2010-11 and finally put it all together late last season to earn a starring role on the top line alongside Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews. He's part of the core in Chicago now.
Hayes hopes he's following a similar path. He could be Bickell 2.0.
"He's got all the tools," Kane, one of Hayes' closest friends on the team, said. "He's skilled and I think the biggest difference with him now is he's really kind of come into his own and is figuring out that he can be a good player and that he deserves to be in the NHL. I'm sure it's an exciting time for him."
Hayes said the biggest difference he feels is in his balance. It's a result of the lower-body workouts and skating regimen he went through over the summer. Now he's staying upright as he battles for the puck along the boards and tries to gain position in front of the net.
"My balance, working with the skating coach here and the power in my legs has brought my whole skating in general together so I can be more efficient," Hayes said.
He knew he had to be if he wanted to hang with the Blackhawks.
"I know I've shown moments where I can fly down the wing and play hard, but I have to make sure I'm consistent and I can do that every night," Hayes said. "I think my fitness in general and lighter weight helped me become a more powerful skater. Now I'm trying to use my speed to my advantage."
He's using it so he can take advantage of his opportunity.
Follow Dan Rosen on Twitter at: @drosennhl
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City Hall, 600 Fourth Avenue Third Floor, Seattle, WA98104
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Item No. 33284. (Postcard)[Pike Place and Pike Street], 1912. (Record Series 1628-02)
Historical Postcards
A small collection of postcards provides a flavor of Seattle's charm during the early years of the 20th Century. The bulk of these cards were collected as part of the Don Sherwood Parks History Collection. This exhibit showcases 19 images from the collection.


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Tree-dwelling animals were the first to fly, new research suggests
18 October 2011 | Source: Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
A six-legged, 25 g robot has been fitted with flapping wings in order to gain an insight into the evolution of early birds and insects.
Published today, 18 October, in IOP Publishing's journal Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, the study showed that although flapping wings significantly increased the speed of running robots, the origin of wings may lie in animals that dwelled in trees rather than on the ground.
The flapping wings increased the speed of the running robot by 90%, going from 0.68 m/s to 1.29 m/s, and also enabled it to climb steeper gradients, increasing from a 5.6° ascent to a 16.9° ascent, which would be important in the development of a hybrid running and flying robot that could have several civilian and military applications.
The researchers, from the University of California, Berkley and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, proposed that testing the wings on robots could provide an insight into how they evolved in early birds.
Fossils of animals closely related to dinosaurs, dating back further than when birds actually emerged, show that feathers were present on all four limbs, suggesting that the original function of wings was to help animals glide when dropping from a height, much like a paper aeroplane.
An alternative theory is that the first wings may have appeared in land-based animals, functioning as a mechanism to increase running speeds and then leading to take-offs and flying thereafter. The aim of this research was to gauge how much of an advantage flapping wings give a running animal.
"By using our robot we can directly determine the performance effects of flapping wings on a running platform as well as gaining a much greater mechanical insight into how the wings are actually working on the robot. We are thus able to look at the performance of the wings directly rather than attempting to build theoretical aerodynamic models based on fossil morphologies that may be overly sensitive to various assumptions", said Kevin Peterson, lead author of the study.
The researchers concluded that flapping wings do provide an advantage to running robots but not to the level that is needed to allow it to take off.
"We believe that this result lends indirect support to the theory that avian flight evolved from tree-dwelling animals, and not from land animals that required ground-based running take offs", continued Peterson.
The potential to use such a winged robot in a multitude of applications, from reconnaissance, exploration of hazardous areas and search and rescue, was also highlighted.
Peterson said: "On the current robot, the wings allow for a stable descent, meaning it can jump from high areas and stably land on its legs at the bottom. The wings also increase running stability as well as the range of inclines the robot can traverse, further increasing the likelihood of a successful mission."


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"After I had tried the food, I wanted to ask the waiter why he hated me. Of course I didn't, but why else would they serve such crap? The salmon sous vide was like a TV dinner, except Lean Cuisines are far better. The vegetarian option was equally disgusting: a block of tofu covered in gelatinous goo and steamed vegetables. Why? WHY? I will admit the mac and cheese app was pretty good." -- Wasim Q., Cambridge, MA
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Presentation College Building Dorm, Wellness Center
ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) - Crews have started construction on Presentation College's new student residence hall and wellness center as part of a $10.5 million campus upgrade.
The Aberdeen American News reports that the new East Suites residence hall will be able to house 150 students
Officials say the first wing will be completed by the beginning of the fall semester and the second will be completed soon after. An extra parking lot will be added to accommodate students who will live in the new residence hall.
The athletic training and wellness center will be added to the Strode Center. It's expected to be completed by the beginning of the fall semester.
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You see the following error code and message when you try to download your Xbox Live profile on your Xbox 360 console:
Sorry, Xbox Live profiles can't be downloaded right now. Please try again later.
Status Code: 800704DC
This may mean that there's a problem with the Xbox Live service, or with your Microsoft account.
Solution 1: Check the Xbox Live service status
If you see any alerts here, wait until the service is up and running and try again:
Solution 2: Verify your Microsoft account security information
If you've just created your account on Xbox.com but have not added security information, you'll need to do so before you download your profile. This helps ensure that if you ever forget your password or lose access to your account, you can recover it. As extra security, Xbox 360 requires that you add two alternate contact methods.
Here's how to add security information online:
Solution 3: Review your Microsoft account to determine your current status
If you've changed your payment option recently, make sure it was correctly updated in your billing account. If your payment option has expired, you'll have to change to a new credit card or add another payment option.
To change or update your payment option, see Add, update, or remove credit cards and other ways to pay, and then follow the instructions.
Solution 4: Troubleshoot your Xbox Live connection
This issue can occur if there's a problem with your Internet connection. Try troubleshooting your connection by using the Xbox 360 Connection Error Solution.
Solution 5: Verify the billing information in your Microsoft account
Make sure the billing information is correct in your Microsoft account:
If you don't know your Microsoft account email address or password, use the Lost Account Solution or the Lost Password Solution.
Note If there's an error, select Edit profile, and then follow the instructions to update the information.
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Try changing your Microsoft account password to resolve this issue:
Solution 7: Clear any stored information from your Xbox 360 console
There may be an issue with your Xbox profile stored on your Xbox 360 console. Delete your profile and redownload it:
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Take in a show at Souris Valley Theatre or visit nearby Estevan Art Gallery and Museum. If you are a sports fan, play a round of golf on Estevan Woodlawn Golf Club, less than one kilometer from our hotel. Get an adrenaline rush with auto racing at Estevan Motor Speedway, just six kilometers away.
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Monday, May 16, 2011
Liar's Kiss hits stores this week!
Just a quick post to bump this info back to the top of the page, given it's timeliness: Liar's Kiss hits stores this Wednesday! Obviously if you're any kind of regular reader here, I've talked this thing to death, but for those who want a little preview, the first few pages are here, and you can browse through a selection of my favorite panels if you scroll through the blog archives.
And anyone in the New York area should consider themselves invited to the Release Party on Thursday, May 19th, at Desert Island in Williamsburg, Brookyn, 7-9 PM. Free beer! [Not free] books and hand-pulled silkscreens! Hope to see you there!
Posted by Eric Skillman at 10:14 PM
Labels: liar's kiss, selling stuff
3 comments:
- DanHale said...
Nice, just added to my "to buy" list. Good luck with the launch.
- May 19, 2011 at 5:42 PM
- Matt said...
The book was fantastic, great job by both you and Jhomar.
- May 24, 2011 at 10:08 PM
- TonyRo said...
A great book that I'm putting as my staff pick at our local library. I look forward to another!
Also, thanks for all the awesome Criterion covers.
- July 27, 2011 at 3:28 PM
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