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D.A. Davidson said Tuesday it wrapped up its purchase of Crowell, Weedon & Co., a Los Angeles based IBD. The combined entity has about 460 employee financial advisors and about $43.5 billion in client assets.
According to D.A. Davidson, based in Great Falls, Mont., the deal "expands the footprint of D.A. Davidson's Individual Investor Group into California" and makes it one of the largest full-service broker-dealers not owned by a larger financial-services organization in the West. This is the largest deal that D.A. Davidson has completed in its 78-year history and represents further consolidation in the independent broker-dealer field.
"We are excited to have the great team of professionals at Crowell Weedon as our new partners," said Bill Johnstone (left), chairman and CEO of Davidson Companies, the parent company to D.A. Davidson, in a press release. "We see many synergies between our companies that include, first and foremost, a mutual belief that our clients' needs come first."
Crowell Weedon, which has been in business for 81 years, will continue to operate as a separate broker-dealer the two companies have fully integrated their operations over the next six months. After that, Crowell Weedon and its 145 advisors will become part of D.A. Davidson's Individual Investor Group.
"We couldn't be happier with the welcome from D.A. Davidson that already has begun," said Andrew Crowell, president and CEO of Crowell Weedon, in a statement. "We are confident that this merger is a win-win situation."
The Individual Investor Group is D.A. Davidson's largest business unit and offers equity and fixed income capital markets services and products. Through D.A. Davidson's sister companies, clients have access to asset management and trust services.
Last year, Davidson Companies bought Costa Mesa, Calif.-based McGladrey Capital Markets, a boutique investment. It has offices in Pasadena, Calif., and earlier this year established a growing presence in San Francisco. In addition to its headquarters in Great Falls, D.A. Davidson has regional centers in Denver; Portland, Ore.; and Seattle.


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The connection between Giants receiver Victor Cruz and the family of six-year-old Jack Pinto intensified on Tuesday.
According to NorthJersey.com, Cruz visited Jack's family home, meeting with Jack's family and other young children from the town. Several hours after Cruz arrived, kids left with signed jerseys and footballs.
Cruz contacted Jack Pinto's family on Saturday night after learning that he was a big fan of the third-year receiver. Cruz honored the boy by writing "Jack Pinto, My Hero" on Cruz's cleats.
Said Cruz after the visit on Twitter: "Much love to the entire Pinto family. Great people with huge hearts. I'm sorry again for your loss. Looking at life through a different lens."
Jack Pinto was laid to rest Monday, wearing a Victor Cruz jersey.

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Sakuryaku is the tentative name for a set of emacs extensions to gambit.el. One day it will be more slime then slime, but for now, it is just an idea, with a little bit of elisp.
It is split apart into a few sections:
- sakuryaku-repl.el - REPL helper functions (coming soon, an ECB status bar)
- sakuryaku-docco.el - Grab documentation from info files (coming soon, a hook into eldoc)
- sakuryaku-gambit-ext.el - extensions to gambit.el
I'll post it to the wiki, until I find a better home for it (git repos somewhere, possibly github)


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Former "Beverly Hills, 90210" star Brian Austin Green is headed to Wisteria Lane.
The newlywed — he married sweetheart Megan Fox in Hawaii last month — has signed on for the upcoming season of ABC's Sunday night drama, "Desperate Housewives," Access Hollywood has confirmed.
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According to rep for the show, Brian will play a hot contractor in his 30s, who catches the eyes of some of the neighbors on Wisteria Lane.
Brian, who previously starred in "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" on FOX, will have a multi-episode arc on "DH."
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Vanessa Williams, most recently of "Ugly Betty," is also a part of the 2010-2011 cast.
Additionally, as previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Tuc Watlkins, who plays Bob Hunter, one half of the Lane's gay couple, has finally been made a series regular for the upcoming season.
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This never makes sense for atheists, but I will try. God is transcendent, independent from our world/universe, all science, and is beyond true human perception without His use of miracles, angels, and many more methods.Science can not prove God, that is why the whole thing is called FAITH. Go ahead call me a close-minded fool.
Now you can't decide which God you want proof of. Go argue with a Muslim. If the concept of God scares you, lets use a Star Wars analogy. Maybe you'll understand.darkness vs lightgood vs evillove vs hategiving vs takingLast Thurs the POTUS called for his followers to vote for revenge. On Tues he won the election. Look around Luke.............the Dark side grows stronger by the day.Homosexual sex and the killing of babies just won an election.
For 20 years, our POTUS fell to his knees and worshipped at the altar of a man that said, "GOD DAMN AMERICA".................and he won a second term.Son, if you cannot see evil when you are surrounded by it, nothing I say will convince you that God exists. Good luck.
Is this supposed to be a logical argument?
It is to me. Sorry if you can't see it.
Please, please tell me you're trolling.
You are aware that I can copy your arguments word for word, and substitute "god" for "flying spaghetti monster", without lowering its legitimacy or logical (in)coherence, right?
I found you a site where you can type until your fingers are blue............and somebody might even pay attention.


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Bardot Top - Stingray
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Hello Bardot.
Because class never goes out of style, we decided to add a classic seamless bandeau to our collection. For all those who love lounging on the beach with no tan lines, or simply love clean, simple garments.
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My husband, Bill, and I became friends because our former spouses were brother and sister. We used to spend a lot of time together -- going skiing, celebrating holidays, that sort of thing. We were all very close. But then first his wife died (in 1998) and then my husband died (in 2003) -- both of cancer. Bill and I supported each other. We gave each other shoulders to lean on. Eventually we fell in love.
After we got married, it took us four years to find a nice home that we could afford (our spouses' medical bills had practically wiped out our savings). But once we found that home, we knew we wanted to adopt a dog, from either a local shelter or a rescue.
Bill served in Vietnam and has posttraumatic stress disorder. He had a much-beloved golden retriever years ago and remembered the positive effects that having a dog had on his PTSD. One of the markers of PTSD is a tendency toward increased irritability, and we thought there was no better remedy than the wagging tail and empathetic gaze of a good dog. Many veterans with PTSD now have trained service dogs to help them with psychological issues.
Healthy Dog Play
We adopted Max from our county animal shelter when he was just 12 weeks old. He's a lab mix of some kind and he was adorable, but he had a lot of health problems, including allergies, a chronic urinary tract infection, and demodectic mange.Without knowing how he spent the first 3 months of his life, it was hard for our vet to figure out why he got ill so often. But once he turned a year old, he got better. He is now a very active, very playful 2-year-old.
I think the best way to keep a pet healthy is to set aside time each day to play. One blessing of Max's forced inactivity as a puppy is that we played a lot of brain-challenging games so he didn't have to run around a lot when he wasn't feeling well. I hid lunch meats around the house and told him to "go find it." Or I hid myself and he had to come find me. Eventually we taught him to swim in our pool. I think that aided his mental growth -- it also kept him occupied (he wanted a lot of attention). Today he still loves games, and I find that playing with him makes a big difference in his behavior. He's happier and it opens the lines of communication among us.
Every night when we're getting ready for bed, Max curls up on the hall floor, near the front of the house, until Bill finishes what he's doing. Then, as Bill turns out the lights and heads for the bedroom, Max scampers ahead of him, picks up his "good-night bone" and hops up on the bed, where he snuggles up next to Bill and chews his bone while Bill reads a book. It's truly a joy having him as part of our family.


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Suffering from competition from rechargeable… but not dead
The primary battery industry is significant, but "marked by relatively flat growth" according to TC 35. It made up 23,6% of the global battery market in 2009, although its share is forecast to drop to 17,4% by 2015. This does not reflect actual decline, but a growth of 14,9% in a market that is expected to expand by more than 64% over the period, according to business research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan.
Primary batteries were instrumental in the expansion of portable electronic devices after transistors were invented. They allowed the development of portable radios and other devices later. They continue to meet significant needs and are still irreplaceable in devices that require a small current for a long time, like wristwatches, remote controls, electric keys, smoke detectors, fire alarms and medical implants, such as pacemakers for heart patients. They are also important when charging is impractical or impossible, for instance in military combat missions or rescue operations.
Primary advantages
Most primary batteries are of the dry cell type. They generally have a lower self-discharge rate and higher energy density than their rechargeable counterparts: a lithium battery made for film cameras and military equipment holds more than three times the energy of lithium-ion. Even household alkaline batteries provide 50% more energy than lithium-ion. Most primary batteries are inexpensive, readily available and are also generally environmentally-friendly. They are useful in equipment that is only needed in emergencies and must then work immediately even if it has been stored for an extended period. The need for primary batteries will not disappear so work by IEC TC 35 to improve the devices' performance remains very important.
TC work supports industry
TC 35 was established in 1950. Its remit is "to prepare international standards for primary cells and batteries, particularly those relating to specifications, dimensions, performance and guidance on safety matters."
Within this scope, TC 35 published the five-part IEC 60086 series that covers physical and electrical specifications, performance tests and dimensions of primary batteries, as well as watch batteries, the safety of lithium batteries and the safety of batteries with an aqueous electrolyte.
These standards are essential for the battery sector and for manufacturers of battery-operated products and equipment. In order to fit such products, the dimensions of batteries, as well as their electrical specifications, have to be standardized. Standards also ensure that the batteries operate safely and reliably.
It should be noted that standards concerning the dimensions of many primary batteries apply to secondary batteries as well. For instance, the IEC R6 or R03 size batteries, which are also known as AA, AAA, penlight or micro, are available in the form of secondary batteries too.
The other main work of TC 35 concerns IEC 62281: Safety of primary and secondary lithium cells and batteries during transport, developed with SC (Subcommittee) 21A: Secondary cells and batteries containing alkaline or other non-acid electrolytes, within JMT (Joint Maintenance Team) 18.
New technologies and market trends open prospects
TC 35 notes that "the device market continues to require improved performance from portable power sources in increasingly smaller physical envelopes". It adds: "the increasing and dominant application shares of the R6 and R03 batteries are continuing evidence of this trend". The TC also notes that "market trends for primary batteries often follow trends in devices".
With the dramatic expansion of mobile entertainment, home and industrial equipment observed in recent decades, the secondary battery market is absorbing the lion's share of growth in the battery market, as most of these devices and appliances use rechargeable batteries.
New chemistries that include, for instance, the use of a small radioactive source, such as tritium in betavoltaic cells, open new prospects for primary batteries, in particular for nano applications that may require continuous nanowatt/microwatt power for 20 years or more.
Challenges and opportunities for the TC
Observing the technology and market trends, TC 35 aims to address the following challenges:
- The alignment of standards with transport regulations both of new and spent battery types
- The alignment of standards with sustainability initiatives worldwide
- The use of a proper methodology to develop information concerning the respective life cycles of primary and secondary batteries.
It also sees opportunities for primary batteries for essential safety applications, long shelf-life applications and low/high temperature applications.
A busy agenda for the foreseeable future
Although trends indicate relatively flat growth for primary batteries in coming years, the sector is likely to remain important for the foreseeable future. TC 35 showed its intention of playing a significant role in an overall dynamic global battery market when it not only listed the challenges it intended to address, but also stated its plans to "review significant global developments related to portable batteries, both primary and secondary chemistries (…) and to pay close attention to environmental/sustainability developments."


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Inside Donald Trump's Empire: Why He Won't Run for President
by Wayne Barrett Info
Wayne Barrett is a Newsweek contributor and a fellow at the Nation Institute.
With lawsuits pending, Trump's business empire could not withstand the close scrutiny of a presidential campaign, and even his kids might have been muddied. Wayne Barrett, who first exposed Trump's ties to organized crime in his 1992 book, looked into the Donald's most recent business dealings and discovered:
• One associate who was an "unindicted co-conspirator" in a massive 2000 stock swindle—and escaped prison only by helping to convict 19 others, including six members of New York crime families
• Two associates who served prison time on cocaine charges
• Another partner prosecuted for trafficking underage girls after a dramatic helicopter raid on a yacht off the Turkish coast
• A pending lawsuit against Trump Soho that alleges daughter Ivanka, among others, made fraudulent misrepresentations
"I had no idea I would get hammered in the way I've been hammered," Donald Trump declared in New Hampshire on May 11, five days before he dropped out of a presidential race he never formally entered.
Trump knew when he went to New Hampshire that he was about to be hammered again, this time on the front page of The New York Times, which, two days later, reported that hundreds of buyers at condo projects that bear his name were suing him. Trump then went on CNBC—in what turned out to be his last presidential TV interview—and blasted the author of the Times piece, Michael Barbaro, as well as NBC's investigative chief, Michael Isikoff, and even one of the show's hosts, Simon Hobbs. Two weeks earlier, Trump had been roasted by the president at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and now, anyone with a question to ask looked at him as if he had barbecue fork in hand.
As late as this May 13 CNBC appearance, Trump was talking about two possible deadlines for his decision to run—May 22 and before June. Instead, he quit abruptly on May 16, reneging on his promise to attend the Tea Party's South Carolina event on May 19. He has hinted that NBC forced his hand with its deadline for a $120 million, two-year, Celebrity Apprentice renewal offer. But, as inevitable as it may always have been that he would pull the plug on his presidential show, Trump appeared to depart in a hurried attempt to stanch the flow of bad press, no matter how hard he now wants to disguise it. His refusal to rule out a return to the campaign trail when he called in to Fox TV last Monday was surely just more bravado tease.
Trump quit at least in part because he finally realized what a harsh light this ego explosion was shining on every corner of his business empire, potentially exposing not only him and his many partners, but also his children Donald Jr. and Ivanka to intense scrutiny. An ongoing media investigation of Trump's financial deals—beset by charges of fraudulent misrepresentation—would also have made it harder for NBC to continue touting him as a model American businessman.
Among these purportedly "reckless" claims "to induce sales" were Ivanka Trump's assertions to Reuters and to the London Times in June 2008 that 60 percent of the units were sold.
Donald Trump arrives to speak at Pease International Trade Port on April 27, 2011 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (Photo: Matthew Cavanaugh / Getty Images)
In the days before Trump dropped out, he could certainly not have been too happy to hear from me again. We met in the late '70s for hours of taped interviews, and The Village Voice stories I wrote then resulted in a federal grand jury probe of his early deals, though, in the end, no indictment. When I published the first biography of the Donald in 1992, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, which oversees casino licensing in Atlantic City, put Trump under oath and issued a 34-page report, confirming some of the ties to organized crime I described in the book and stating that they could not verify others. I was later visited repeatedly by gaming officials from Missouri when Trump applied for a riverboat casino license there; he wound up withdrawing the application.
While I was reporting that book in 1990, I was muscled out of Trump Castle and handcuffed overnight to a wall at the Atlantic City jail. I haven't done much reporting about him since the book, but when his numbers shot to the top in recent presidential polls, I took another look and asked his office for an interview. His response was a letter threatening a libel suit.
Trump did sue Tim O'Brien, who was a research assistant on my Trump book, when Tim wrote a sequel in 2005. Now the national editor of the Huffington Post, O'Brien finally prevailed after years of litigation. I obtained—and not from O'Brien—a copy of the two-day deposition Trump gave in that lawsuit. The December 2007 transcript is a road map of the dark paths Trump's business career has taken in recent years.
In addition to being a television personality, Trump makes a lot of his money these days licensing his name for various hotel and condo projects, not to mention mattress and vodka brands. His most frequent partner in the condo/hotel deals—some of which have become actual projects and some of which haven't—has been a small development firm called the Bayrock Group, which was headquartered in Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in 2005 when the partnership began. Trump and Bayrock joined forces on Trump Soho in New York and Trump International Hotel and Tower in Fort Lauderdale, announced and then canceled another Florida project called Trump Las Olas, and together pushed unsuccessful ventures in Colorado and Arizona. Two days before Trump's 2007 deposition in the O'Brien case, however, The New York Times broke a story about a top Bayrock executive, Felix Sater (aka Satter). Sater had gone to prison for plunging the stem of a wine glass into a commodity broker's face in a bar fight. He'd also narrowly averted jail a second time, when he was named an "unindicted co-conspirator" in a massive federal fraud case in 2000. Sater cooperated in this probe of a $40 million stock swindle, which resulted in 19 guilty pleas and the conviction of six mobsters—including the nephew of Carmine "the Snake" Persico and the brother-in-law of Sammy "the Bull" Gravano. The wise guys were part of a "pump and dump" stock scam at the Wall Street firm, White Rock Partners, that Sater ran with Sal Lauria.
Sater, the son of a reputed Russian mob boss, whose mini–storage locker contained two unlicensed pistols and a shotgun, actually worked out of a penthouse office in Trump's new building at 40 Wall Street. Lauria, who pled guilty to a racketeering charge in the pump-and-dump case, later claimed in a memoir he published that he'd been on talking terms with Trump.
"What kind of interaction did you have with Mr. Sater," Trump was asked in the O'Brien deposition back in 2007.
"Not that much," he replied. "I dealt mostly with Tevfik."
Trump was referring to Tevfik Arif, the founder and chairman of Bayrock, who'd told the Real Estate News shortly before Trump's deposition that Donald "has been very helpful to us from the beginning and he's been very helpful in opening some doors." In his deposition, Trump praised Arif's "international connections," and detailed half a dozen "phenomenal" prospective tower deals with Arif, including ones in Moscow, Yalta, Warsaw, Istanbul, and Kiev. He boasted that Arif was prepared to give Trump a 20 to 25 percent interest in his overseas projects, plus management fees and a possible percentage of gross, without Trump investing a nickel—just for the use of his name. "It was almost like mass production of a car," Trump testified. His suit claimed that Arif canceled these lucrative projects because of O'Brien's book, and he urged O'Brien's lawyers to question Arif, confident that his friend would verify these damages.
By the next year, however, Arif began to look as much like a liability as Sater. (Trump testified that Arif had assured him Sater was not a partner, though court records indicate that he had a 50 percent "executive membership interest" in the Bayrock affiliates doing the Trump developments). In a 2009 civil complaint Jody Kriss, who served for five years as the finance director at Bayrock, alleged that the firm was a "racketeer-influenced and corrupt organization" that Arif and Sater "operated through a pattern of criminal activity." In addition to charging them with embezzlement and various forms of fraud, Kriss alleged they had engaged in "extortion by means of threats of torture and death." The complaint also claims that Bayrock steered a $1.5 million placement fee in 2007 to Sater's convicted partner Lauria for a financing deal involving Bayrock's projects with Trump in Soho, Fort Lauderdale, and Phoenix.
In a separate lawsuit against a former tech executive, Bayrock lawyers contend that the techie downloaded thousands of documents in the company's system and gave some to Kriss, including emails "related to a sealed criminal matter" that federal prosecutors in Brooklyn are pursuing. The judge who sealed many papers in the ongoing Kriss civil suit, making reference to a criminal probe related to Bayrock, also sealed the ongoing criminal case of Sal Lauria, who has a cooperation agreement with the government. These orders make it impossible to determine what the criminal matter, or even some of the civil court issues (including Bayrock's defense), might be.
Arif is such a fabulist, according to the Kriss complaint, that he even "pretends to be Turkish to avoid connection to his questionable past in Russia." He spends a lot of time in Istanbul and, last October, was arrested aboard the largest for-charter luxury yacht in the world and charged with "encouraging" and "facilitating" prostitution. Turkish military police conducted a helicopter raid on the Savarona, a 16-suite, steam-powered, white vessel once used by Turkey's founder, Mustafa Ataturk, and rented out for $40,000 a day. Nine Russian and Ukrainian women were detained and then deported; two were reportedly only 16 years old and had come to Turkey at Arif's behest. Media reports indicated that naked men, some of whom were top government officials as well as Russian, Israeli, Kazakhstan, and Turkish executives, were busted in suites strewn with used and unused condoms.
Arif insisted that he was just "entertaining friends" and that the girls brought on board were there for "dancing and singing." Gondoz Akerniz, who worked for Arif and rented the yacht, told the same reporters that if Arif "comes here to meet friends and talk about investments, and I order models for them. I don't know if they're underage or not." When the incident, which allegedly involved a prominent Israeli billionaire and a senior Kazakhstan official, blew up in the international media, the case was quickly concluded. At an April hearing, a judge dismissed the charges against Arif, though four lesser-known businessmen directly implicated in bringing the girls aboard were convicted. A final report on the reasons for the dismissal has yet to be issued, though the fact that the women refused to testify, denied they were prostitutes, and immediately left Turkey did weaken the prosecution.
At the time of the boat bust, reporters called Trump's office and were told that he hadn't spoken to Arif "in years," even though Arif remains a partner in Trump Soho, a $450-million hotel/condo project where Trump actually has both an ownership and management role, unlike his licensing deals. Five days after Arif's arrest, Trump launched what has turned out to be his presidential tease.
Another partner in Trump Soho is the Russian émigré developer Tamir Sapir, who lives in a $5 million Trump Tower condo. Though his net worth was first pegged at $2 billion by Forbes in 2006, Sapir's company claimed to have "only $4,000 in cash and cash equivalents" in 2009. And Sapir's lawyers recently claimed in a court case that Sapir's "deteriorating mental condition" has prevented him from writing anything but his signature "for 10 years," meaning he was out of it when he consummated the Soho deal with Donald in 2005. A year earlier, Fred Contini, Sapir's onetime executive vice president and top aide, pled guilty to participating in a racketeering conspiracy with the Gambino crime family for 13 years—both prior to and after his hiring by Sapir in 1996.
Sapir, whom Trump calls a "great friend," introduced Donald to Bayrock and is best known for his $500,000 payment to lobbyist and former U.S. Senator Al D'Amato for a single call to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to help him retain a lucrative lease with the agency. He was also fined $150,000 for decorating his yacht with 29 animal carcasses in violation of endangered species laws, including a stuffed lion and python-covered bar stools.
Trump Soho finally opened a year ago. Nineteen unit buyers are now suing, accusing Bayrock, Sapir, Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Jr., among others, of "an ongoing pattern of fraudulent misrepresentations and deceptive sales practices." Among these purportedly "reckless" claims "to induce sales" were Ivanka Trump's assertions to Reuters and to the London Times in June 2008 that 60 percent of the 391-unit Tower were sold, at a time when documents later submitted to the New York attorney general indicated that only 14.5 percent had been sold. (The Soho's response papers quibble with these numbers, suggesting they may have sold a handful more units than they reported to the New York attorney general.) The project was announced during the grand finale of the 2006 Apprentice, and Ivanka did a cleavage-baring ad for it, tagged "Possess Your Own Soho."
Trump is now trying to put some distance between himself and the Soho project, which is discounting units by 25 percent and is at best a third sold. But the suit says he is listed in official documents as "actively involved" in the condo offering. In addition, he manages the hotel, which happens to be the entire building. That's because an unprecedented city zoning agreement limits condo owners to living in the 46-story tower 120 days a year, allowing Trump, acting as a fee-collecting agent for the unit owners, to rent them out as hotel suites the rest of the time. He, Ivanka and Donald Jr. also own an 18 percent interest in the project. Ivanka and Donald Jr. did not respond to requests for comment.
What may prove particularly damaging to Trump Soho is the contention in the lawsuit that the project was marketed as an investment because of the hotel arrangement, with sales agents touting prospective nightly charges of up to $1,000 and annual returns of 153 percent. That may make securities fraud part of this case—as vigorously as the Trump Soho lawyers deny it—and courts typically take securities fraud more seriously than consumer deception.
The Soho's lawyers have petitioned to dismiss the case, but if it survives that motion, it could have been in the headlines while candidate Donald was in Iowa, as might the ongoing criminal case involving Bayrock and Lauria. Either of these, or the probe of Trump's for-profit university just launched by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, would have put a crimp in the campaign.
A similar case has been filed by buyers at Trump International in Fort Lauderdale, the other Bayrock/Sapir project. Rejecting parts of a dismissal motion in December 2010, Judge Adalberto Jordan's 24-page ruling noted that "sales literature ballyhooed the building as a profitable investment allowing a favorable income share." The 298-unit project, which was a focus of the recent New York Times story, has been such a disaster that it was halted shortly before it was completed and is empty and locked now. Trump, who had limited his exposure in this Bayrock/Sapir deal to licensing his name and possibly managing the hotel, abruptly pulled out in 2009, when they stopped paying him a monthly promotional fee for the use of his name. But the Jordan decision cites Trump's smiling announcement about the project—"It's with great pleasure that I present my latest development"—as evidence of why buyers thought they were buying Trump when they made their deposits.
Jordan dismissed many claims against Trump precisely because he was merely renting his name, but he did find that "these allegations seem to suffice to define" Trump and his company as persons who "advertise for sale or lease" and thus, under the terms of federal law, might be potentially liable for the apparent default. Trump and his partners insist that both this and the suit against Trump Soho are cases of buyers' remorse in a sagging real-estate market from folks too busy to read the fine print of a contract, which tells purchasers to disregard other marketing promises.
The Trump family has also gone into business with two convicted cocaine traffickers, one in Turkey and another in Philadelphia. Engin Yesil, whose development company was said to "own the Turkey rights" for a $500 million project called Trump Towers Istanbul, was sentenced to a six-year prison term on cocaine charges in the U.S. 20 years ago. He says now that he "delegated" his Trump "royalties" to Dogan Holdings, a giant Turkish developer and media company that was just fined an extraordinary $2.5 billion for dodging corporate taxes in Turkey for years. When asked in the O'Brien deposition about the Istanbul project, Donald deferred to his son, who he said was handling the deal. In 2009, Ivanka did a huge press event in Istanbul, announcing that 45 percent of the units were already committed.
Trump Tower Philadelphia also involves a former cocaine dealer, Raoul Goldberg, aka Goldberger. Sentenced to 46 months in prison in 2000 on the coke conviction, he was technically on probation when he brought the site for the 45-story tower to Trump in 2005. And even though it's only a license and management deal for Trump, Ivanka and Donald Jr. were so involved that they worked on spa and restaurant deals for the complex. Goldberg, who has suddenly "disappeared" from the project just as Felix Sater did, told Philadelphia Magazine in 2006 that he talked to Ivanka or Donald Jr. "every day."
At a climactic moment in his 2007 deposition, Trump was asked to "put aside Bayrock." Other than "this situation," his interrogator wondered, "have you ever before associated with individuals you knew were associated with organized crime?"
"Not that I know of," he testified.
In fact, Trump's recent history with this catalog of criminals and cads is but an update on my earlier book, which listed dozens of mob relationships from concrete to casinos.
In one instance in the 1980s, Trump paid $8 million to buy out two mob-tied business associates when he feared his gaming license wouldn't be approved. He wrote a letter to a federal judge on behalf of a mob-connected cocaine dealer whose helicopter company serviced his casinos and whose girlfriend had two Trump Tower apartments. He structured the purchase of a plot of land from a top leader of the murderous Scarfo crime family in Atlantic City so that his name would not appear in the transaction. He put a winsome but ostensibly penniless woman closely associated with the Gambino-connected head of the concrete drivers union in a triplex with Trump Tower's only swimming pool right beneath his own apartment.
Trump threatened to sue over the book but never did. The gaming officials who questioned Trump under oath about 14 of the many charges in my book didn't contradict any of these facts; they just viewed them more benignly.
Trump also claimed during this questioning by gaming authorities that he didn't know that his lawyer, mentor, and close friend, Roy Cohn, represented Genovese godfather Fat Tony Salerno—though their two names appeared in the same paragraph about former clients in Cohn's 1986 Times obituary. Trump's answer was an effort to disassociate himself from Cohn because my book alleged that Cohn had brokered a Trump meeting with Salerno—which Trump denied—and he was aware that Barron Hilton had been denied a casino license for a lesser relationship with a lesser mob lawyer.
These kinds of associations once caused Trump worry about retaining his gaming licenses (he is still the largest shareholder in a public company that owns three of Atlantic City's struggling casinos, but license renewal is no longer required). Perhaps he finally realized that in a presidential campaign, which requires filing detailed financial disclosures, the vetting of all sorts would be much tougher. Then a gang of questionable associations like this would've converted a candidacy into a scandal, damaging his star status, business prospects, and even his family.
Valerie Bogard, Bryan Finlayson, Nichole Sobecki, Barry Shifrin, and Katie Thompson contributed reporting to this article.
Wayne Barrett is a Newsweek contributor and a fellow at The Nation Institute.


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Farrior is still a beast... an unsung hero!
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LMAO... A 22 yard punt... Damn them Vikings are good
We need to start moving the ball and putting points on the board.. The D isn't going to hold Farve all day!
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1/2 of ton of blockers in front of FWP and he still cant get any yards
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Ben better go to the no-huddle. I dont know why they havent already.
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The call on the Holmes TD on Miller was a complete load of horse ****...One of the worst calls Ive seen in awhile...This ref crew of Mike Winter has been known for making **** penalty calls at bad times...
Steelers are tanking it. WTF.
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Call us naive, but we thought that maybe after the vitriolic response to "Jack & Jill," coupled with the commercial failure, that Adam Sandler might've taken a good long look at the man in the mirror and rethought his career path.
Instead, tragically, Sandler has folks at work on a sequel to "Grown Ups," reported Variety. The original starred Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider as a group of school chums who reunite on the lake where they used to go to camp as kids. And coming along for the fun were their spouses, played by the likes of Maya Rudolph, Maria Bello and Salma Hayek.
As awful as "Grown Ups" was, as reviled as it may have been, it took in $162 million, so under normal circumstances, we'd understand (if not approve of) the inclination to go back for seconds. But after the failure of "Jack & Jil," which scored a 4% on Rotten Tomatoes and earned a lowly $64 million on a budget of $79 million.
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Uganda-DRC Border Tensions
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Uganda's foreign minister has disclosed that his country is discussing re-drawing the borders with the Democratic Republic of Congo to address recent disputes that have caused military skirmishes between the two countries following significant oil finds between their common borders.
The oil discoveries are in the Lake Albert region which lies on the border between Uganda and DRC.
The minister, responding to a question from a SKY Channel 194 interviewer said the demarcation would be based on "formulation of unity or scientific methods," which in the latter case would examine the percentage of oil on each side of the boarder to determined allocations.
"A current political basis was created during the agreement between United Kingdom and Belgium, respecting Boundaries of 1915 territory marking. Uganda and Congo, had a meeting in your country in Arusha Tanzania over the same issue," he said; the interviewer, SKY's Ayoub Mzee is from Tanzania. Uganda was a U.K. colony and DRC a Belgian colony.
"President Museveni and Kabila agreed to respect the principle of inviolability of borders as inherited from the colonial powers," said Kutesa, referring to Uganda's Yoweri Museveni and DRC's Joseph Kabila. He added that, "They also agreed to the joint re-marking, where necessary, of the international boundary between the two countries as defined in the Agreement between the United Kingdom and
Belgium Respecting Boundaries as recognized under the Charter of the African Union."
Kutesa spoke at Chatham House, the United Kingdom's foreign policy organization; the topic was "Africa's Global Relevance And Uganda's Growing Role."
There is concern that the border clashes might re-ignite regional conflict. In a court case charging Uganda with massive human rights violations and looting of natural resources, including timber, gold, diamonds and coltan when Uganda occupied the Congo's Ituri region from 1998 to 2003, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2005 ruled in DRC's favor. Congo wants $10 billion in compensation from Uganda. Separately, the International Criminal Court (ICC) is now investigating alleged war crimes by Uganda-sponsored militias over the same period.
The recent border clashes between the two countries led to the death of a British oil exploration employee working on the Uganda side and deaths of Uganda and DRC troops.
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Since this is another peripheral line, I will not get to write much on this family. But this photo I thought deserved to be shared with others.
Maria Magdalena Wanner, the mother of this family in the photo, is the sister to my Johann Georg (John George) Wanner Jr.
William Addison Wagstaff was born 7 November 1860 in Kirstead, Pinxton, Derbyshire, England. He passed away 31 May 1931 in Ogden, Weber, Utah.
Maria Magdalena Wanner was born 12 Sepember 1873 in Grünkraut, Tübingen, Württemberg to Johann Georg Wanner and Anna Maria Schmid. Her whole family joined the LDS church in 1891 and immigrated to the US in 1892 settling in Logan, Cache, Utah. She passed away 23 October 1952 in Ogden.
William and Maria were married 17 June 1896 in the Logan LDS Temple. To this marriage were born 11 children. All of which were born in Glendale, Franklin (then Oneida County), Idaho.
George William Wagstaff born 26 January 1897, died 4 February 1897.
James Addison Wagstaff born 24 June 1898, died 14 March 1913.
Annie Eliza Wagstaff born 27 December 1899, died 20 December 1940. I do not think she married.
Wilford John Wagstaff born 28 August 1901, died 23 June 1903.
Parley Leroy Wagstaff born 9 April 1903, died 18 Jan 1996. Married Eliza Dorothea Blanch 14 March 1929.
Willard Lesley Wagstaff born 3 March 1905, died 21 January 1973. Married Mary Isabell Gibson 19 October 1927.
Jesse Olsen Wagstaff born 9 January 1907, died 27 October 1991. Married Berta Edna Gibby 28 October 1936.
Herbert Spencer Wagstaff born 11 November 1908, died 19 March 1962. I do not believe he married.
Edna Leona Wagstaff born 10 July 1910, died 11 January 1997 in Kaysville, Davis, Utah. Married Horace Raymond Owen 10 March 1933.
Elsie Magdalena Wagstaff born 7 August 1912, died 4 December 1990. Married William C Coleman 17 January 1974. I do not know if she had a marriage before that.
Albert Wanner Wagstaff born 8 July1915, died 19 August 1970. Married Marvel Irene Higley 2 October 1948.
The entire family moved to West Weber, Weber, Utah after the last child and before 1920 and remained there the rest of their lives. Most of these children died in or near the Ogden area. One or two returned to the Preston, Franklin, Idaho area, probably due to relationships from before the move.
The individuals in the photograph above are as follows from left to right, front row consists of the three children in front. The photo above was taken about 1914 after James had died, but before Albert was born. Aren't they a cute little family?
If you have more information to add to this family, I would be happy to correct or add to it.


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DayZ isn't really a conventionally beautiful game, but it does have an austere quality that I find appealing. That quality is on full display in the latest shots from Duncan Harris at Dead End Thrills, who has been running the game in offline mode to capture the cleanest images.
Call me crazy, but I'd love for Harris to go online and "embed" with a group of bandits or survivors as a sort of digital war photographer, capturing their harrowing deeds while (too much to hope?) being left alone by combatants on either side. New games journalism, indeed.


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In the current market, during the first few years that you own your vehicle and as a result of depreciation, your loan/lease balance can be higher than the actual value of your vehicle. As your vehicle's value declines, your loan/lease balance may decline more slowly, resulting in a financial gap. If your vehicle were stolen or totaled in an accident, you would be liable to pay the difference between your insurance settlement and your outstanding loan/lease balance.
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In the early 21st century, it's become clear that air pollution can significantly reduce the amount of sunlight reaching Earth. Evidence of the previously unknown phenomenon of Global Dimming, one that scientists believe could dramatically alter global temperatures.
Climate scientists have discovered a phenomenon that threatens to disrupt our world. It may already have contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands through drought and famine. Unchecked, it will strike again.
The good news is that there is a cure. The bad news is that the cure may be worse than the disease.
If scientists are right, then we may be about to unleash a climate catastrophe on our planet the like of which it hasn't experienced in its 4 billion years. These stark choices and about the dawning realization that all our predictions about the world's climate may be wrong.


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Latest Cancer News
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MONDAY, May 13 (HealthDay News) -- Cancer patients who participate in the creative arts -- such as music therapy, dance, art therapy and writing -- may be helping to reduce the anxiety, depression and pain that can be associated with their diagnosis, according to a new report.
Taking part in these creative arts "is an opportunity for these patients to complement the healing process above and beyond the physical," said Timothy Puetz, presidential management fellow at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's Office of the Director.
With his colleagues, Puetz reviewed 27 published studies that included more than 1,500 patients. The review was published online May 13 in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
The researchers looked at the effects of the creative arts on common problems linked with cancer, including anxiety, depression, pain, fatigue and quality of life, and found that the arts did indeed have an effect on all issues except fatigue.
"These were moderate effects," Puetz said, but they were substantial enough for patients to notice them.
Research on the effects of creative arts on cancer-related health problems has gotten much less attention than other therapies such as vitamin and other supplements and mind-body therapies, Puetz said.
There is not enough research, Puetz said, to recommend one form of art over another.
In the studies, patients ranged in age from 48 to 56, on average. They had been diagnosed with cancers of the breast, blood, lung and prostate, among other organs. They had gotten a variety of treatments, such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, hormone therapy or combinations thereof.
The studies compared patients who engaged in the arts with patients who received no treatment, those on waiting lists, those who received usual care or those who received a placebo. During follow-up, the effects of the arts diminished, the researchers found.
One possible take-home point of the study seems to be that the arts are "going to help you in the short term but not the long term," said Matthew Loscalzo, administrative director of the Sheri & Les Biller Patient and Family Resource Center at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, in Duarte, Calif.
Loscalzo reviewed the study findings and speculated as to why the arts may help, at least during the short term.
It might be that the relationships that form during the creative arts participation help the patients focus on something else, he said. Or the music, art or writing themselves could be a simple distraction that moves the mind away from anxiety, depression and pain. "I think it is both," Loscalzo said.
One limitation of the study, Loscalzo said, is that the groups participating in the arts were compared to a waiting list, usual care or no treatment. It could have been valuable, he said, to compare the arts to other interventions, such as reading a book or meditating.
Still, Loscalzo said, it's a step forward that a journal as prestigious as JAMA published the findings.
Cancer patients seeking to find creative arts classes can ask their doctor or the resource center at their cancer center. They are still not commonplace, Loscalzo said. "[At City of Hope], we screen and ask patients what would be helpful," he said. They offer yoga, cooking classes, music, art and other opportunities.
If a patient's doctor or cancer center does not know of any such opportunities, Puetz suggested seeking out an art, music or dance class in the community. Senior centers and community colleges might offer the classes. Even if the classes are not specifically designed for patients with cancer, "there are no negative consequences," Puetz said.
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Two dead after blizzard wallops Massachusetts; residents evacuated in shore communities
A recordbreaking blizzard dumped more than 30 inches of snow on some areas of Massachusetts, cutting power to hundreds of thousands, and battering coastal communities with big waves and howling wind. Two people died in Boston from carbon monoxide because they were sitting in running cars with tailpipes blocked by piles of snow.
Boston public safety officials said that a 14-year-old boy died this morning when he went inside a small sedan on Nazing Street in Roxbury to keep warm and take a break from shoveling. A man was found dead just a few hours later on Woolson Street in Mattapan in a running car. Two young children were also injured by carbon monoxide poisoning in a car in East Boston, but officials said they were expected to survive.
Officials urged people to clear snow away before starting their cars, warning that the deadly gas can collect inside if it can't escape through the tailpipe.
Governor Deval Patrick lifted a ban on travel that he had put in place at 4 p.m. Friday.
In a news conference at the state emergency bunker in Framingham, he asked people to be patient with the pace of storm recovery efforts. "We have a lot of snow to dispose of and to remove. And it will take some time to do that. That is a prerequisite to … getting power restored,'' he said.
National Guard troops headed to coastal communities to assist in evacuations due to giant waves and storm surges that sent the ocean sweeping onto shoreside roads and homes.
The storm howled its way into the record books. The National Weather Service said 24.9 inches of snow fell at Logan International Airport, the fifth highest snowfall ever recorded.
For some, there was a bright side: An unfamiliar landscape of pristine snow with drifts sculpted by the wind. Some people cross-country skied and snowboarded on the iconic Boston Common. And in Worcester, state officials said, a National Guard EMT and a local EMT delivered a baby at 3 a.m. today, in the teeth of the storm.
NStar reported about 232,000 outages, while National Grid reported about 122,000, the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency said this evening. update. That was down from more than 400,000 outages reported earlier in the day. State officials said crews were now out on the road, working to restore power.
Numerous towns in the state reported more than 20 inches of snow. Spencer held the record as of mid-morning, reporting 30.5 inches. The highest wind gust, 77 miles per hour, was recorded at Hyannis at 11:45 p.m.
Patrick lifted the travel ban in two phases, first for communities west of Interstate 91 and on the island of Nantucket. The ban, which has not been used by a governor since the legendary Blizzard of '78, expired statewide at 4 p.m., 24 hours after it went into effect.
"The overnight travel ban worked extremely well for us,'' Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency director Kurt Schwartz said at an earlier news conference. "We're very happy this morning that we're not dealing with clogged arteries, clogged secondary roads, and we can focus where we need to focus.''
Those hoping to use public transportation were out of luck. The MBTA was not able to restore service today. Transportation Secretary Richard A. Davey said at the news conference with the governor and other officials at the MEMA bunker that the MBTA would try to resume some service Sunday but was really aiming for Monday morning rush hour.
In Boston, two condo buildings in the West End lost power Friday night due to an electrical fire. Because of the storm, officials decided to leave people in place. They remained without power this morning, said Boston Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald. One person was also displaced in a fire early this morning on Burton Avenue in Roxbury.
Power went out in all of the city of Quincy due to a major line, or lines, down, police said. Several streets were also evacuated, including Post Island Road, Babcock Street and Narragansett Road.
About 25 people spent Friday night in an emergency shelter at Quincy High School, some of whom evacuated their homes due to flooding concerns. Main roads were passable in the city this morning, but side streets were piled too high in snow for traffic.
"The snow is falling too fast to keep up,'' said Chris Walker, spokesman for Mayor Thomas Koch.
As the morning high tide swelled an angry ocean already roiled by high winds of the Blizzard of 2013, members of the National Guard rushed to coastal communities to evacuate shoreline residents.
"What were streets a little while ago could look like canals in a lot of these towns up and down the coast,'' said MEMA spokesman Peter Judge. There were evacuations and flooding both north and south of Boston.
Major General L. Scott Rice, head of the Massachusetts National Guard, said a total of 5,000 National Guard members would be assisting in storm recovery efforts by the end of the day.
Schwartz said the National Guard had sent personnel to Hull, and more were en route to Marshfield, Scituate, and Weymouth. Some troops were also still up in the Plum Island area. A request for help had also just come in from Salisbury, Schwartz said at the morning briefing.
In a statement issued shortly before noon today, Mayor Menino said that just nine people were without power in the state's largest city, and that no roads were closed because of downed trees or storm damage.
Menino said plow crews would be halting to take a rest, but the administration expects to launch a major snowplowing push Sunday to ensure that life can return to normal when the workweek begins on Monday.
The storm's impact was felt at the Pilgrim Station nuclear plant in Plymouth, which announced early this morning that it had shut down due to a loss of outside power.
Plant officials said in a statement that the plant "shut down automatically as designed … and standby diesel generators started to power safety systems. The plant is in a safe, secure condition and will remain on backup power supply until off-site power is restored.''
Plant spokeswoman Carol Wightman said in an e-mail statement later this morning that the plant remained off-line and there were "no safety concerns for workers or the public'' as NStar worked to restore power.
Amtrak canceled all trains between New York and Boston Saturday, as crews continued to clear snow and downed trees from the tracks and made repairs. Service between Springfield and New Haven also shut down; Downeaster service between Brunswick, Maine, and Boston has not been determined. Decisions about Sunday service will be made later in the day.
Logan International Airport will not have a runway open until at least 11 p.m. tonight, airport officials said. Authorities pulled crews off the airfield for five hours overnight due to whiteout conditions, causing the snow to pile up.
"It's very tough going and there's still challenging conditions,'' said Matthew Brelis, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Port Authority, which runs Logan.
Greyhound, Peter Pan, BoltBus, and Megabus have all canceled Saturday service in and out of Boston; changes to Sunday service have not been announced.


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Michigan's frigid winter and an El Nino weather pattern means cooler than average temperatures will likely continue into summer, delaying severe storms typically associated with spring. But the extensive Great Lakes ice cover could also mean higher lake levels.
"What I can tell you is that, basically, the weather pattern they're forecasting for the summer, the fact that we had a harsh winter — one of the harshest winters of all time ... we probably have a better chance of having a cooler summer," said Rich Pollman, Warning Coordination Meteorologist for the National Weather Service.
Daria Kluver, an assistant professor in Central Michigan University's Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, said that while 2013 was globally considered the fourth-warmest year on record since people began collecting data in 1880, the central United States landed in a small pocket of the planet that registered cooler-than-average temperatures for the calendar year.
The cooler-than-average temperatures led to an almost-record high of ice cover on the Great Lakes, Kluver said.
"On average, the maximum amount that we get is about half-covered with ice," she said. "The highest was in 1979 — we got up to almost 95 percent."
This past winter resulted in a 92 percent cover, the second-highest recorded amount since 1880, the NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory said.
Historically, winters with a larger amount of ice cover on the lakes have produced cooler summer temperatures.
The average Michigan temperature for the months of June, July and August is 70 degrees Farenheit, Kluver said. When 1979 hit its record ice coverage, the average summer temperature dipped down to 67 degrees.
Other high ice coverage years include 1994 and 1997, when ice coverage percentages hit 90.7 percent and 74.6 percent, respectively. The average summer temperature for 1994 was 67 degrees and the average summer temperature for 1977 was 66.9 degrees, Kluver said.
"Having the colder lake temperatures and the ice staying on the lakes typically gives us cooler temperatures in the summer," she said. "In the top three ice cover years, we were three degrees cooler for the summer."
However, a high ice cover does have its benefits, Kluver explained.
"Having that nice layer of ice over the lakes protected the water so it didn't evaporate as much," she said. "For some tourist places where lower levels have been a problem, higher lake levels (will help)."
Lake Superior's water level is predicted to be about a meter (3.3 feet) higher than usual, Kluver said. However, water temperatures are on track to remain cooler than usual for the summer.
"We're almost a degree-and-a-half colder where the lake is open," Kluver said.
The National Weather Service in White Lake Township expects this summer to be cooler than normal for a few reasons.
Pollman said the development of an El Nino this summer would also contribute to the cooler summer temperatures.
El Nino is a cyclical weather pattern that develops off the Pacific Coast of South America and causes fluctuating temperatures in varying regions of the world. The weather stations issued an El Nino watch in March and expect it to hit in early summer, he said.
So far this spring, March temperatures were 8.5 degrees cooler than average for Detroit. Typically, the average high for March is 46 degrees, and the average low is 29. April temperatures, however, and the amount of precipitation last month were pretty close to normal. The average high for April is 59 degrees and the average low is 39 degrees.
In May, there is a better than average chance of cooler temperatures and a slightly better than average chance of above normal precipitation. The average high in May for the Detroit area is 70 and the average low is 49 degrees.
The cooler temperatures this spring has also delayed severe storms or tornadoes generally associated with spring in Michigan. But the state may still see its share as the jet stream that pushed colder air south across Michigan retreats back to the north by June.


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This is perhaps a more typical spring update from the lake, as compared to the last update. Last weekend we saw a few more hints of spring appearing here and there, although the grape hyacinths still weren't blooming.
A few tiny buds were appearing on some of the aspen trees in the backyard.
Other aspen trees were adorned by catkins - possibly of the male variety, as seen in a closeup on Kim's blog - and by a scrub jay hopping from branch to branch.
Buds on our lilac bushes were just coming out.
The only flowers in our yard were on manzanita bushes.
When we drove past Honey Lake last Monday, snow geese were still hanging out in the same place, a little farther from the road in a patch of water, and not quite so picturesque or scenic looking. This flock of geese has been present in this particular area from at least April 3rd to April 6th this year. I don't know what their usual time frame for hanging around is, but I will be looking carefully henceforth!
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Update from the Lake: Buds and Birds and Flowers and Trees!
Posted by Silver Fox at 7:41 AM
2 comments:
- Mathias said...
You are always posting so many great fotos here SilverFox! Fotography is actually one of your hobbies, isn't it? ;)
- Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 2:16:00 PM PDT
- Silver Fox said...
Hmm... what makes you think that? ;)
- Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 2:40:00 PM PDT
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Births, Australia, 2008 (3301.0) was released on 11 November 2008. There were 296,600 births registered in 2008, surpassing the previous record years of 2007 (285,200 births) and 1971 (276,400).
Registration of births is compulsory in Australia under relevant state/territory legislation. Further, amendments to the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999 which took effect from 1 July 2007 require the registration of, or application for registration of the birth of a child as a condition of applying for the Baby Bonus. A comparison of average intervals between the occurrence and registration of births over the past four years show no indication that improvements in the timeliness of registration of births have occurred since 1 July 2007. However, changes in the timeliness of registration of births occurring after 1 July 2007 may be being masked by other factors such as changes in procedures for processing birth registrations by state and territory registries.
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Podium Finishes for Pakistan
Pakistan stand atop the podium in Australia, Italy and Mexico. In Melbourne, Pakistan beat Great Britain in the semi-final, but settle for silver against India in the final. In Rome, Pakistan make it to the gold medal game against India and avenge their loss four years prior by winning 1-0. In Mexico City, Pakistan win their second men's hockey gold by defeating Australia 2-1 in the final. Hockey Men - Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympics, Rome 1960 Summer Olympics, Mexico City 1968 Summer Olympics


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Recently, my players traded for a batch of putatively magical items. They were given physical descriptions of the items and were left wondering what they did. While it is certainly possible to investigate an item in detail by spending a season on it, does there a sufficiently difficult Intellego Vim effect that can indicate the presence or absence of magic within an item (charged and invested both) and potential arts?
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Onslow County has accepted a grant to pay for the sterilization of 450 dogs in the next year.
Onslow County has accepted a grant to pay for the sterilization of 450 dogs in the next year.
This grant will enable the county to target pet overpopulation and pet homelessness by offering the first free or low cost spay/neuter program for Onslow County residents, said Alan Davis, director of Onslow County Animal Services.
The county has accepted the two-year $94,500 grant to provide spay and neuter services with the first installment for $47,250 to spay/neuter 450 dogs over a 12-month period. Onslow County Animal Services anticipates the program will begin in December. The second installment is set to begin in November 2013.
The grant is from PetSmart Charities, an independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1994 that creates and supports programs that save the lives of homeless pets, raise awareness of companion animal welfare issues and promote healthy relationships between people and pets.
Households within the 28540 zip code will be eligible for funding with address verification. Animal Services is applying for other grants to provide for sterilization services for additional zip codes. Most animal hospitals in the county will be able to accept vouchers and perform the operations once the grant is finalized. An announcement will be made with information about how to sign up.
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Dozens of funeral directors who served or volunteered to help the families of 20 elementary school students and six educators killed in Newtown, Conn., have held an emotional service during which they recalled the shooting and the work they did that December.
About 80 funeral directors at the 11 Connecticut that served the Newtown families and others who volunteered their services shed tears, hugged each other and recalled with emotion the shooting when they gathered in Southbury on Saturday for a service of remembrance and reflection.
The Connecticut Funeral Directors Association organized the event to recognize the work done by the funeral directors.
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A salad combination you may never expect, but are sure to love, is sweet and tangy Watermelon and Tomato Salad. I first had this salad last year at the restaurant Coquette while shopping on Magazine Street.
I have some ripe creoles ready to be picked and am going to give this recipe a try.
4 cups seeded watermelon chunks or balls
3 cups creoles cut into inch size chunks
1/2 chopped red onion
1/3 cup lime juice
3 tbs honey
1 tbs olive oil
a splash of Louisiana hot sauce ( I like Crystal the best)
1/4 cup toasted walnuts
1/2 cup feta cheese
Combine melon, red onion and tomatoes in a large bowl
In a smaller bowl, whisk together the honey, lime juice, olive oil and hot sauce. Toss with tomato mixture. Before serving, sprinkle with feta and walnuts.


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|For the mission of the same name, see Pier 69 (mission)
Pier 69 is a famous pier located in the Esplanade North district of San Fierro, San Andreas. Many people come here every day to see the great view of San Fierro Bay, or just to walk around and wind down.
The location is clearly modeled and named after the San Francisco tourist attraction Pier 39, and, in classic Rockstar Games style, the name is also related to the 69 sexual position. Interesting enough, the pier on the map resembles a hand.
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Deaths in this location
- T-Bone Mendez: Shot to death by Carl Johnson and Cesar Vialpando.
- Ryder (determinant): Possibly killed near the pier by Carl Johnson (if sniping him from the pier while he is in the water).
- Pier 69 could be a reference to the real life Pier 69 in Seattle, Washington.
- In GTA IV, there is a Pier 69 sign on the Golden Pier.
- The Well Stacked Pizza Co. - West of the pier.
- Micro SMG - At the end of the alleyway in the west of the pier.
- Camera - Behind the pizzeria entrance.
- Two snapshots - The first one is located on the pier's sign. The second is between the rocks at the east side of the pier, take position in the parking lot to photograph it.


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nurulknight necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 37 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
Surge Solutions Ltd
We are a web development company that have been around for over 2 years. We specialise in our client relationships and we are very good at what we do, which is technical, but we fail on the design side. We have our own content management system and want to tell our clients, we can do whatever they want and also we are good in the world of design
Our audience are other businesses that range from hotel chains, private business clubs, Marble suppliers, companies that sell vintage rolex watches, phorographic studios etc. We are not niche, but our clients are other businesses that are not technical and rely on us to be technical and only care about design or functions. They range from the standard business owners of small shops to large chains. So new professionals to older generation of established businesses.
The site needs to be modern and clean to ensure potential clients can see what we do and can offer what they want.
The site design needs to have the ability of a growing navigation, and present the options quickly and easily.
We have a lot of services that we want to highlight easily.
My idea that on each page, the service can be highlighted in a different manner as there are a lot of features to give a 'wow' factor.
Our competition, http://www.propcom.co.uk/
has a good homepage to display images in an interesting manner. We want to be able to do this on all our pages. different things each time round, but never to lose focus on the message we want to present.
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we have several clients now and we want to show them off. We need an interesting way to display our portfolio that people can see in categories or titles with descriptiosn our clients, and then see a presentation of the site. Can be large so they can see the site clearly. This is the key element.
we have testimonials that we also want to show off.
I dont want to overwhelm the pages, but it needs to have impact and a clean message. I want to avoid the classic Web company cliches of a lot of gadgets on the homepage so people do not know what they should be looking at and fancy icons.
our current site is http://www.surgesolutions.co.uk