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Fire crews from more than a half dozen departments are at the scene of a blaze that damaged a home on Christmas Lane in Winfield Township.
One of the homeowners, Paul Brosenitsch, was sleeping when the fire broke out about noon but he managed to get out.
A family member took him to ACMH Hospital in Armstrong County for treatment of possible smoke inhalation.
Brosenitsch was home alone, having worked a midnight shift earlier in the day.
The rest of the family, Brosenitsch's wife, Jacy, and their seven children, five of whom are adopted, was attending church.
The family's dog perished in the fire. A pet cat was missing.
The fire apparently started in the basement. A cause was not immediately known but it appeared to be accidental.
The home was insured.

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Taming the piranha -- catching fish and busting myths in the Amazon
Our small canoe pulled away from the tiny dock and made its way up the murky tributary of the Rio Negro, a couple of boat hours north of Manaus, Brazil.
In these waters, I was about to tangle with one of the legendary monsters of the not-so-deep: the finned mayhem known as the piranha.
I could only hope that my fate with this demon seed would not go the route of so many Hollywood films: 1. luckless soul winds up in river 2. drop of blood turns piranha psycho 3. fish rip flesh like Edward Scissorhands trimming a hedge 4. victim disappears beneath boiling red froth 5. human skeleton floats to surface.
It's an image that has made the piranha one of the most feared predators in the global imagination, right up there with sharks and zombies.
I'd heard tales in the Amazon of fishermen who have hooked peacock bass, known for their fight, only to have them picked clean to the head by frenzied piranha by the time the angler reeled them in.
Fortunately, I was going into battle with a crack team.
Expedition leader Mike, a former member of the Guyanese army, had jousted with the enemy for years. He barked orders like the former army captain he'd been.
The team members, tourists like me recruited from an eccentric jungle lodge on stilts, made up in toughness for their lack of experience. There was the Russian couple and their 12-year-old son, a stout lad and absolutely fearless.
There was Junko, a twenty-something, 98-pound Japanese tourist and her husband. "Steel" is the word that came to mind when I saw her.
Dennis and Mark had run a ballet studio in Miami.
It was going to be a bad day to be a piranha.
Getting to know your adversary
We journeyed upriver on a murky tributary of the Rio Negro. The current on the jungle river was calm.
A brown-collared hawk sailed from the canopy on one side of the mocha-colored waterway to the clump of forest on the other.
Suddenly, the fish were flying, too.
"Piranha!" bellowed the captain.
A few fish cracked the surface for a devious peek at the world above, leaving a ripple like the splash of a pebble, but others leapt like dolphins.
The mood of the troops grew sober. None of us had figured on an aerial attack.
The driver turned off the engine. The river grew quiet. Mike warned us not to crowd one side of the canoe, or we could tip over. The order did nothing to slow our pulse rates.
To underscore his point, he explained what makes piranha choppers so brutally effective: interlocking teeth, serrated for maximum slicing and dicing.
The triangular top teeth clamp down squarely into gaps of the lower teeth, a design suggesting that tofu is not the piranha's first choice for a meal.
Powerful jaws complete the arsenal, snapping quickly and continuously, allowing piranhas to carve flesh off the bone like a buzzsaw.
Piranha haunt the major river basins of South America -- from the Amazon and Orinoco in the north to the Paraguay in the middle of the continent -- and do most of their damage in swarms.
Not all the several dozen species are dangerous like the black piranha, the largest of the breed, or the red piranha, the sociopath we were after.
Like sharks, they can smell blood miles away.
Face to ugly face
Mike handed each of us a pole with a hooked line, to which we attached the bait: a cube of raw meat. We tossed our lines overboard and waited nervously.
The Russian kid struck first, jerking one of the carnivores out of the water.
In his excitement, he touched off a small panic as he swung the still-snapping fish inches past my face on course for Junko, who, along with others, fled to the other side of the boat, causing a near-capsizing on the port side.
"Get back to the other side -- no, not everyone!" Mike screamed.
The group responded by scrambling starboard, tipping the boat again.
Mike grabbed the dangling piranha from the Russian kid's line. With its red-orange belly and puny size -- red piranhas top out at three pounds -- the fish looked less like a serial killer than an overgrown goldfish.
Except for the teeth.
The captain took a thick stalk of reed and touched it to the piranha's lips. In a nanosecond, its jaws snapped and razor teeth sheared straight through it.
After a few false alarms, my line bent. I yanked upward, wrenching a wriggling piranha out of the water.
I swung it to the boat for a closer look. The gap-toothed bite was an orthodontist's nightmare, and only its mother could see anything lovable past that protruding lower lip.
With a face like that, I could see why this fish was so angry at the world.
Mike tossed the hand-sized fish back in the water, as he did all of the piranha, ensuring an ornery bite tomorrow for a new crop of myth-fed travelers.
Piranha P.R.: Myth or reality?
Some say the human-ripping piranha legend started with early 20th-century U.S. president Teddy Roosevelt -- and a set-up by the Brazilians.
To guarantee a good show for the adventure-loving Roosevelt, local fishermen blocked off a portion of the Amazon with nets and dumped hordes of starving piranha in it when the U.S. president explored the region on a hunting trip, according to Frank Magallanes, editor of "Oregon Piranha and Exotic Fish Exhibit."
Then they sliced up a cow and tossed it in the river, setting off a feeding frenzy, producing the now-fabled instant-skeleton effect.
Media traveling with Roosevelt spread the tale around the world; Hollywood would later emblazon various versions of the scene for posterity.
Piranhas have a nasty bite, and every year Brazilians swimming in rivers get nipped. But contrary to lore, they don't strip live humans to the bone.
As we headed back after a hard day of busting piranha, I was possessed by a powerful urge to get the blood from the meat off my hands.
Cleansing water was inches away in the river. But the myth was still looming. I paused. Paused again. Then I dunked them in the water, washing out an Amazon of B-movies.
The author's piranha fishing expedition was arranged through the Manaus, Brazil's magnificent Ariau Amazon Towers hotel, a jungle canopy retreat on stilts that bills itself as "the largest treetop hotel in the world"; +1 305 944 0795; www.ariautowers.com
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Total annuity sales fell 6% in the first quarter of 2013, troubled by lackluster variable and fixed annuity sales, insurance research consultant LIMRA reported May 22 in its latest listing of the top 20 companies for U.S. individual annuities sales.
LIMRA's first-quarter 2013 U.S. individual annuities sales survey, which represents data from 94% of the market, reported total sales of $51.7 billion for the quarter. The top 20 companies' share came to 79% of the overall market.
Variable annuity sales were down 4% in Q1 to $35.5 billion, the sixth consecutive quarter of declines on a year-over-year basis, according to LIMRA. This was 1% higher than in the fourth quarter of 2012. VA guaranteed living benefit election rates were steady at 84% in the first quarter.
"VA sales continue to struggle despite sustained equity market gains," said Joseph Montminy, assistant vice president and director of LIMRA annuity research, in a statement. "In addition, all significant fixed annuity product types declined in the first quarter of 2013. In many ways, the current market is more challenging to many annuity manufacturers than the recent financial crisis."
Total fixed annuity sales slipped to $16.2 billion in the first quarter, falling 11% compared with the prior year, for an eighth consecutive quarter of declines.
For LIMRA's list of the top 20 companies for U.S. individual annuities sales, ranked from last to first according to total sales, read the pages that follow.
Read Top 20 Companies for Annuity Sales in 2012 at AdvisorOne.
LIMRA's Top 20 listing of first-quarter 2013 U.S. individual annuities sales
20. Great American
Total sales: $609 million
Variable sales: Not listed
Fixed sales: Not listed
19. Massachusetts Mutual Life
Total sales: $626 million
Variable sales: Not listed
Fixed sales: $431 million
18. Fidelity Investments Life
Total sales: $629 million
Variable sales: $629 million
Fixed sales: Not listed
17. Protective Life
Total sales: $695 million
Variable sales: $580 million
Fixed sales: Not listed
16. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
Total sales: $816 million
Variable sales: $753 million
Fixed sales: Not listed
15. American Equity Investment Life
Total sales: $930 million
Variable sales: Not listed
Fixed sales: $930 million
14. Security Benefit Life
Total sales: $1.170 billion
Variable sales: Not listed
Fixed sales: $1.106 billion
13. RiverSource Life Insurance
Total sales: $1.287 billion
Variable sales: $1.236 billion
Fixed sales: Not listed
12. Nationwide Financial
Total sales: $1.397 billion
Variable sales: $1.32 billion
Fixed sales: $266 million
11. Transamerica
Total sales: $1.636 billion
Variable sales: $1.597 billion
Fixed sales: Not listed
10. Pacific Life
Total sales: $1.668 billion
Variable sales: $1.291 billion
Fixed sales: Not listed
9. New York Life
Total sales: $1.837 billion
Variable sales: $718 million
Fixed sales: $1.120 billion
8. Allianz Life of North America
Total sales: $1.905 billion
Variable sales: $742 million
Fixed sales: $1.163 billion
7. AXA Equitable
Total sales: $2.191 billion
Variable sales: $2.191 billion
Fixed sales: Not listed
Total sales: $3.156 billion
Variable sales: $3.156 billion
Fixed sales: Not listed
5. AIG Companies
Total sales: $3.223 billion
Variable sales: $2.316 billion
Fixed sales: $906 million
4. Lincoln Financial Group
Total sales: $3.731 billion
Variable sales: $3.159 billion
Fixed sales: $572 million
3. MetLife
Total sales: $3.925 billion
Variable sales: $3.517 billion
Fixed sales: $408 million
2. Prudential Annuities
Total sales: $4.277 billion
Variable sales: $4.197 billion
Fixed sales: Not listed
1. Jackson National Life
Total sales: $5.309 billion
Variable sales: $4.565 billion
Fixed sales: $744 million
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The "voice" of the poet has a double-meaning. On the one hand it is speaker of the poem – the poems' persona – which knows no boundaries: it can be a woman, a man, a shirt, a stone, a tree branch: anything. The other meaning is of course more literal: the spoken voice of the poet. And we are fortunate enough to work in or work with an archive of recorded poetry: the poet's voice captured, here at the Woodberry Poetry Room.
We are gathered here today to hear Sylvia Plath. Born and raised just miles from here, Plath's first published poem appeared in the Boston Herald when she was 8. She lived in Jamaica Plain,
The first eight poems that we will listen to Plath wrote between 1957 and 1959. Most of these appeared in her first poetry collection, The Colossus, published in October 1960 by Heinemann in
These are hard poems and I say hard intentionally. They are full of rocks, stones, s's, t's, and k's. Even the titles betray their stoniness: "Childs Park Stones", "Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor", "Green Rock, Winthrop Bay", and "The Stones" to name a few. This reliance on rocks isn't surprising for Sylvia Plath was a poet who looked to nature and to landscapes (physical and mental), and particularly to the end of land: the sea, for her inspiration. The stones she writes about entrap her and I believe these recordings illustrate that, poetically speaking, she was sealed inside a bell jar not made of glass, but of stone.
But as it goes with poets, once a collection is published that's it: it's over. The poet must move on: and that is exactly what Plath did. One of Plath's greatest supporters, A. Alvarez, said this about the poems in The Colossus, "It is this sense of threat, as though she were continually menaced by something she could see only out of the corners of her eyes, that gives her work its distinction." ("The Poet and the Poetess." The Observer. 18 December 1960: 12) Plath's progression is evident in "Parliament Hill Fields", "Candles", and "Leaving Early". Her voice is different, the poems more direct.
For the poems Plath would write in October 1962, that threat, that nagging menace came directly into view and she confronted it head-on. If she was entrapped, she managed to break-through. In an interview with Peter Orr of the British Council in 1962, she discussed the differences between those poems published in The Colossus and those that she recently composed. She said, "May I say this, that the ones I've read are very recent and I have found myself having to read them aloud to myself, saying them to myself. Now this is something I didn't do. For example, my first book, The Colossus, I can't read any of the poems aloud now. I didn't write them to be read aloud. They, in fact, quite privately, bore me."
In listening to these later poems, collected and published in 1965 as Ariel, poems such as "Daddy", "Lady Lazarus", "Nick and the Candlestick", "Ariel", Fever 103°", "Cut", etc. it is quite apparent that they have sprung from a completely different form of composition. They are easy and flowing, the language like "an engine" and "obscene", to quote from "Daddy".
The voice of Sylvia Plath is powerful: both in regards to the speakers of the poems and her actual voice. Her voice booms now even though these recordings are forty-five to fifty years old; in these recordings, she is immortal. Listening to Plath read her own work helps us as readers; Plath's voice acts as a guide to her poetry, assisting us in understanding how to read and interpret them. For example, Plath laughs while reading "Daddy", a clue not to be overlooked.
In her review of The Bell Jar and Crossing the Water, Elizabeth Hardwick said the following about Plath's voice,
"Long after I had been reading her work I came across the recording of some of her poems she made in
Plath achieved fame posthumously, which presents us with a challenge. Some have said that Plath's Ariel poems represent a long suicide note. But, this is a crude sentiment and a disservice as Plath survived her Ariel poetry. And that, is the challenge: to understand and acknowledge the life in the poetry and to see the poetry as the "triumphant fulfillment", to quote Robert Lowell, and not the death. ("Foreword." Ariel.
It is her poetry and her voice that we are here to celebrate today. At sixteen, Plath wrote a poem entitled "You ask me why I spend my life writing". This poem ends, "I write only because / There is a voice within me / That will not be still." (Letters Home: Correspondence, 1950-1963.
Poems listened to:
Nocturne [Hardcastle Crags], (recorded June 13, 1958)
Childs Park Stones, (recorded June 13, 1958)
Mussel Hunter at
Green Rock,
Full Fathom Five, (recorded February 22, 1959)
Point Shirley, (recorded February 22, 1959)
The Disquieting Muses, (recorded 5 June 1961)
Parliament Hill Fields, (recorded 5 June 1961)
The Stones, (recorded 5 June 1961)
Candles, (recorded October/November 1960)
Leaving Early, (recorded October/November 1960)
The Rabbit Catcher (recorded October 30, 1962)
Poppies in October (recorded October 30, 1962)
Daddy (recorded October 30, 1962)
Nick and the Candlestick (recorded October 30, 1962)
Lady Lazarus (recorded October 30, 1962)
Fever 103° (recorded October 30, 1962)
Ariel (recorded October 30, 1962)


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Hello there XDA GNex community! I'll admit this is a pretty spontaneous post; I've been building ROMs from the Android Open Source (Project) for awhile now, but I've never "published" any of them. I myself used to own a Verizon Galaxy Nexus, so I've always built from AOSP to make sure I'm as up to date as possible. Well, that's a little background so let's get going with the overview of the ROM itself:
This ROM is Android KitKat 4.4.4, build KTU84P. The ROM is built directly from source, that is, the Android source code published by Google available for download to all of us developers. The reason I say the ROM is "OTA-like" is because I make VERY few modifications to it, aside from the things that it takes to get the ROM working. I'll go into detail about those things below, but basically I just want the ROM to make your phone feel stable and shiny and new as if it has just received a new OTA update. That being said, it's clear that the landscape of Nexus devices is changing as new ones are released. Therefore, the other primary goal of this ROM is to keep our Galaxy Nexus as close to the modern Nexus design as possible. This means that I will also add in features that will still be stock, but will also make our phones as close to a current Nexus as possible.
As for how I handle the forum side of things, I'm always open to comments, questions, suggestions, requests, etc. I know that most of those things will often be in the form of criticism, but it's okay, I think I can handle it That being said, I do also have a life and am a college student, so I may not get to come on here ALL the time. I will check back as frequently as possible, and I'm hoping that you guys will help each other out as much as possible! Keep it friendly! So now for the details...
- Stock Android 4.4.4, build KTU84P
- Source (AOSP) built kernel (boot.img)
- Easily rootable (see information below)
- G-Apps (GMail, Play Store, etc.) included in build along with Nexus apps
- Stock browser replaced with Google Chrome
- Shiny restart options - access them by holding down the power button and then long pressing on "Power Off"
- All the crazy Google proprietary app stuff has been taken care off
- Updated frequently
- Everything works!
I'm sure by now you all know that when someone says that, it usually ends up not being true. This ROM is not an exception to that rule, but I can say that I've tested most of the things that would be expected to work in stock Android, such as...
- WiFi Tethering (no subscription check)
- Bluetooth streaming
- Google account sign-in and auto-restore of apps and settings
- Google Wallet
- Location Services (pretty fast GPS lock in my area also)
- Photosphere
- Android beam
- Photo editing with the new filters
- Exchange support
- Like I said, the normal stuff (data, voice, hardware acceleration, etc.)
- More things that aren't important enough to mention here - check out the changelog for a more comprehensive list
It's impossible for me to test for and notice EVERY single possible bug in the operating system, so as of right now I can't say that there are any, although I'm sure you will find some. If you do, report them here!
Other IMPORTANT Information
But wait, nothing in this post said anything about root!!!11!!1!1!!! That's right, my ROM does NOT have root built in! (I don't use any root apps, and it's important to the whole "OTA-like" theme). That being said, the ROM is easily rootable; I made sure of this because I know that many, many of you will use root for many useful purposes. If you want to root the ROM, it's as easy as installing Chainfire's new superuser control app/su with this ZIP file. More detailed information can be found in the "Installation Instructions" section. **NOTE** If you are rooted and upgrading to a new build, you should not have to reflash the rooting flashable ZIP because the ROM will keep root for you.
Now that the ROM has gotten to this stage, the update policy needs a bit of editing Based on the stats I have access to from the website host and data that I collect myself, it seems like Shiny ROM is currently (as of May 27, 2014) stable for at least 80% of the users who have downloaded it. Based on this, and because the ROM is stock, Nexus-like, it doesn't really make sense to update the ROM as frequently as before. The ROM will still be updated as soon as possible after new versions of Android are released. In between Android versions, I will work on making things 100% stable, although that goal isn't always attainable with older devices and aging hardware support. If we decide to explore other paths for the ROM, you will see many more updates If/when the time comes for me to stop updating Shiny ROM, I will let everyone know in a clear way.
This ROM will (most likely) work with any maguro radios (so long as you have the appropriate ones for your device/area; however, I of course recommend using the most recent radios doe your device. You can find flashable ZIPs of all radio versions in the download post.
Once again, I'm assuming that this ROM will work with all tuna bootloaders; BUT for optimal experience and performance, use the newest Google-approved bootloader, PRIMEMD04. My ZIP installation package for that bootloader can be downloaded here.
ClockworkMod Recovery
I personally recommend using ClockworkMod Recovery as it has always worked well for me with no quirks. Android 4.2 messed up a few aspects of recoveries because of its multi-user system. ClockworkMod Recovery has been updated to correct some of these issues, and I recommend updating to the most recent version, 184.108.40.206. You can flash either the touch recovery or non-touch recovery image through fastboot OR you can download my flashable recovery update ZIP (touch/non-touch) and flash it in recovery. Check out the installation instructions for more details on this.
Some Other Not-so-important Information
Naming Conventions
All of my ROM ZIP files are automatically generated by my build computer. All builds begin with the prefix ShinyROM_maguro_aosp. That prefix is always followed by the date in mmddyy format (e.g. 112212), a hyphen ("-"), and the time in 24-hour, hhmmss format (e.g. 153945). Finally, all builds end with the "signed" suffix - it just helps me know which packages have finished building and which have not. Hopefully this helps everyone to know which update is newest; I stay away from version numbers because I let Google do all of the version control.
In keeping with the spirit of open-source, all relevant Shiny ROM code can be viewed on Github. I'm not extremely experienced with Github, so bear with me as I learn! Thank you!
File Hosting
I've switched over from using Dev-host to a privately hosted site, graciously and generously given to me by user Goofball. Dev-host is still an amazing service, but it's much more convenient for me to use a privately hosted site, plus I get my own suburl and FTP access! HUGE thanks to Goofball! The private hosting will definitely help me deliver a better experience to you guys as far as downloading goes. You can view all of my uploaded, public files here: http://shinyrom.goofball.org/
Also, if anyone ever wants to mirror for me, please feel free so long as you keep the file name and the file itself intact. As for everyone who downloads from a posted mirror: BE CAREFUL! Always use a virus scanner and be careful with what you are putting on your device!
Installation Instructions (VERY IMPORTANT - Note: You can flash all of these ZIPs in CWM or TWRP*)
*Android 4.4 KitKat builds must be installed using the latest version of your preferred recovery!
1. Download the latest version of the ROM from the download post. (Also download any other files you will need to install, such as Chainfire's SuperSU Root ZIP, radio installation ZIPs, the bootloader installation ZIP, etc.)
2. Put the file(s) you downloaded in step 1 on your phone's internal storage (sdcard).
3. Turn off your phone.
4. Boot into the bootloader of the phone by holding down both volume buttons and the power button simultaneously until you feel a vibration and see a large arrow that says "Start".
5. Use the volume keys to change the arrow until it says "Recovery," then press the power button to boot into recovery.
6. Because of differences in recovery types, I will make the following steps rather generic.
7. Wipe cache.
8. Wipe dalvik cache.
9. If you want to be 100% sure there are no problems, wipe data. If you are coming from another ROM or Android version, wipe data. If you do not wipe data and something goes wrong, repeat this process but wipe data - this step is not necessary if you are simply upgrading.
10. If you are updating your radios, flash the radio ZIP
11. If you are updating your bootloader, flash PRIMEMD04-signed.zip
12. Flash the ROM (ShinyROM_maguro_aosp...signed.zip)
13. If you are rooting, flash Chainfire's SuperSU ZIP file - this step is not necessary if you were rooted on the previous build and are simply upgrading.
14. Reboot your phone, and enjoy!
**Note: If you are simply upgrading to a new version of the ROM and want to keep root, follow the exact instructions above, and do not format /system. It really is not necessary to format /system at any time (unless specifically noted), as the ROM installer has this function built in.
1. Download the latest version of the mod(s) you wish to install from the download post.
2. Put the file(s) you downloaded in step 1 on your phone's internal storage (sdcard).
3. Turn off your phone.
4. Boot into the bootloader of the phone by holding down both volume buttons and the power button simultaneously until you feel a vibration and see a large arrow that says "Start".
5. Use the volume keys to change the arrow until it says "Recovery," then press the power button to boot into recovery.
6. Because of differences in recovery types, I will make the following steps rather generic.
7. Wipe cache.
8. Wipe dalvik cache.
9. Install the mod(s) you downloaded in step 1.
10. Fix permissions (not really necessary)
11. Reboot and enjoy!
**Note: You can remove all mods you've installed by dirty flashing the latest version of the ROM.
ClockworkMod Recovery (Fastboot method - must have an unlocked bootloader and fastboot in your path)
1. Download either the CWM touch recovery image or non-touch recovery image to your computer and rename it to "recovery.img".
2. Power off your phone.
3. Boot into the bootloader of the phone by holding down both volume buttons and the power button simultaneously until you feel a vibration and see a large arrow that says "Start".
4. Plug your phone into your computer using the standard USB cable.
5. Open the command prompt/terminal and navigate to the folder where your "recovery.img" is saved.
6. Type "fastboot devices" to make sure your phone is recognized; a serial number should show up on the screen.
7. Type "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" and wait for the process to complete (should be quick).
8. You're done! Use the volume keys to select "Recovery" and boot into your new recovery!
ClockworkMod Recovery (Flashable ZIP method - easier)
If you are updating your recovery before flashing a ROM, these steps should ALL be completed PRIOR to flashing the ROM.
1. Download either the touch recovery flashable ZIP or the non-touch recovery flashable ZIP.
2. Place the ZIP file downloaded in step 1 on your internal storage/sdcard.
3. Turn off your phone.
4. Boot into the bootloader of the phone by holding down both volume buttons and the power button simultaneously until you feel a vibration and see a large arrow that says "Start".
5. Use the volume keys to change the arrow until it says "Recovery," then press the power button to boot into recovery.
6. Choose "Install update from sdcard"
7. Select "Choose file from sdcard"
8. Find the flashable recovery ZIP file you downloaded and install it
9. Back up to the root menu of recovery
10. Select "advanced"
11. Select "reboot recovery"
12. The phone should boot up into your new recovery!
As with most ROMs, I only did a small part to get everything together. Also, a note that should be made here is that when I am using someone else's file, I ALWAYS host files on the Shiny ROM server to ensure that I don't put any unnecessary stress on their servers. Any file, however, still belongs to and is accredited to its original creator as listed below:
Willyjay - For providing us with lots of amazing and innovative mods for the ROM!
Inmanster - Another great modder who we are fortunate to have here in the thread. He works in collaboration with Willyjay and his mods for many things, but also does some of his own unique mods!
Chainfire - For their SuperSU app and su binary, as well as the convenient ZIP update package, which was previously used and recommended. Check out their website, http://www.chainfire.eu/
Groupers - My new buddy who helped me out with a GPS issue that popped up in 4.2.
Google - Without their amazing staff and willingness to share the source code of their operating system, I wouldn't have been able to build this ROM! Of course, all of the Google apps are theirs, along with the Play Store and system apps. They really are the true owners of all of this.
Samsung - We all may have some mixed feelings about them, but in the end they gave us the amazing, hackable phone that is the Galaxy Nexus.
XDA - By providing such a great Android community, ROMs like this one are able to easily connect with users and get their work out there
Dev-Host - The file-sharing service with virtually no limits on sharing - kudos to them and their hard work. devhost.xda-developers.com
Koush and the ClockworkMod/ROM Manager Team - They make the best recovery that's been around for longest, and their constant updates allow us to keep making ROMs! Also, Koush's recently released open source Superuser control app is the best available and the one linked to in the thread. Thanks Koush! clockworkmod.com
Kevdliu - Huge thanks to this dev and their amazing quick settings mod!
The CyanogenMod Team - For a working implementation of DSPManager on Android which can be ported to any AOSP-based ROM! Without them and Bigwavedave25, the DSP manager mod would not be available! Be sure to thank them and to check out the CyanogenMod website! Also, for their feature-filled version of the stock Messaging app which is available as a mod for my ROM!
bouchigo - a user who has helped to make the CM10 Messaging app available as a mod for my ROM in conjunction with Willyjay for bringing it to my attention.
Schoat333 - A user who helped out Willyjay with the bubble styled MMS mods. The credit for the screenshots to go along with the mods goes to him!
Yarly - The most experienced admin I've ever had the pleasure of talking with, who taught me some new debugging tricks and answered some of my questions.
Razorloves - Another admin who helped me out with a few problems and answered a lot of my questions!
Tiny4579 - A kernel dev who also took the time to talk with me and answer a few of my questions.
Thanks to everyone for their hard work and sharing that work with others!
Come on guys, it's a Galaxy Nexus, to what extent could it really get messed up? Nonetheless, in case someone flashes this then puts their phone in the microwave or something and tries to blame it on me, I am not directly responsible for anything that occurs, either negative or positive, from flashing this ROM to your phone. Despite that, I am posting in the spirit of the Android community, a community that I have embraced and belonged to for several years, and I would never try to hurt any of your innocent, beautiful phones. Also, none of the original source for Android belongs to me, nor do any of Google's apps. All preinstalled applications are property of Google, Inc. and I make no claim of ownership to them.
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Don't think this link has been posted before:http://www.leaf-photography.com/files/Leaf_vs_Phase_2006.pdfwarning - 29meg. Quite the comparison - wonder what a Phase One managed test would show...Edited: June 17, 2006 Ooops, apparently old news...[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=68363\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
I was at a local dealer in Palo Alto that does a lot of West Coast digital back sales. They used to sell Leaf but now based on their t ests and their photo customer comparisons, no longer carry Leaf products. All of their customers have gone with the Phase back. In fact, they showed me a pamphlet with a set of comparison images of Phase/Leaf and the Phase images looked better. I am not sure how they did their tests. I would like to know if the photographer who did the tests for Leaf was compensated for his work. I still went the Leaf route, but I am just saying there are multiple opinions on this topic and some are probably related to how the test s are conducted. Mark[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=68404\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
I had a salesman at a dealer tell me they dropped Phase One because of poor customer and dealer suppport. Another person at that dealer told me a year later that Phase One had dropped them! Now I have to think back to how many people I told the lie to based on the first salespersons comment. It may be that the first salesperson was misled by the management to avoid embarrasement. Who knows. I try not to spread the rumors as a result.-Eric[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=68641\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
There is so much to like about the Leaf, but one thing that bothers me is whatPhase One has the forum where you can read about their failures and Leafdoesnt. Therefore, the quality/failure reports about Phase One vs. Leaf couldnot be objectively justified. I believe that absence of Leaf Forum should alwaysbe addressed among photographers, since all of us are in the same'digital'pool.With regards to the dealer/distributors stories, one too many. RegardsCaracalla[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=68678\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
I believe that absence of Leaf Forum should alwaysbe addressed among photographers, since all of us are in the same'digital'pool.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=68678\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
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I agreed with Caracalla, we all know what Phase One user say about it on their forum. Do you really knows about the Leaf? other then what the happy one say about it. How about the unhappy one's? Maybe there are none. [a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=68689\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
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Att: Yair The Idea of Leaf forum with only customers allowed will lead to potentially more buyers or
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I asked this question a few weeks ago here on the forum. Yair from Leaf said they will bring it back soon. When is soon? Leaf as an Israeli compnay works on jewish standard time. (you might have to be jewish to understand that )Let me guess Samys Camera??[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=68693\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
What is a Leaf "User"??I have been using Leaf products for two years. But I wasn't an owner until a few weeks ago. The digital techs, photo assistants, and photographers I know who use Leaf backs, for the most part, rent the equipment. Are they all considered users? The people many photographers rely on to make things run smoothly on set are photo assistants and digital techs, at least in the advertising world. Limiting their access to the forums would be detrimental to the photographers who hire them and who buy the equipment.-Eric[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=70611\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]


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Union members hold up "I want to work" placards as they join a protest of several thousand people demanding jobs outside City Hall in Los Angeles on August 13, 2010. Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images
Even the criminals have fallen on hard times in America's poorest city as the long-term unemployed struggle to keep a grasp on normality
The Observer | Aug 17, 2010
by Paul Harris
Richard Gaines is one of the best-known faces on Camden's Haddon Avenue. It is a rough-and-tumble street, lined with cheap businesses and boarded-up houses, and is prey to drug gangs. Gaines, 50, runs a barbershop, a hair salon and a fitness business. He works hard and is committed to his community. But Haddon Avenue is not an easy place to make a living in the best of times. And these are far from the best of times.
Just how badly the great recession has struck this fragile New Jersey city, which is currently the poorest in America, was recently spelled out to Gaines. In happier times – whatever that might mean for a city as destitute as Camden – local businesses on Haddon Avenue could at least rely on a bit of trade from those who made their money on the street.
Young men bought flashy clothes and got sharp haircuts and always paid in cash. But no longer. The economy is now so bad in Camden that even the criminals are struggling and going short. "Even the guys who got money from illegal means really don't want to spend it," Gaines said.
Such a development, though, is just a snapshot of the deep problems still hitting the wider American economy. Growth rates are stuttering and a recovery is struggling to take hold. It may even now be showing signs of going backwards again, as countries such as Germany start to power forward. Joblessness has taken hold in America, with the numbers of long-term unemployed reaching levels not seen since the Depression of the 1930s. The figures are frightening and illustrate a society that remains in deep trouble.
The headline jobless figure of 9.5% is bad enough but does not begin to convey the problem as it fails to measure those who have stopped looking for work. Over the past three months alone more than a million Americans have fallen into that category: effectively giving up hope of finding a job and dropping out of the official statistics. Such cases now number some 5.9 million and their ranks are likely to grow as millions more find their jobless status becoming a permanent state of hopelessness. Surveys show that with each passing week on the dole their chances of finding a job get slimmer.
Though corporations, especially in the banking sector, are posting healthy profits, they are not hiring new workers. At the same time, government cuts are sweeping through city and state governments alike, threatening tens of thousands of jobs and slicing away at services once thought vital. Schools, street lighting, libraries, refuse collection, the police, fire services and public transport networks are all being scaled back.
America appears to be a society splitting down the centre, shattering the middle class that long formed the cultural bedrock of the country and dividing it into a country of haves and have-nots. "A once unthinkable level of economic distress is in the process of becoming the new normal," warned Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman in a recent New York Times column. Or, as Steven Green, an economics lecturer at Baylor University, put it to the Observer: "We are really in a tough spot right now."
There is a new name for those falling down the black hole of joblessness that has opened up in America's economy. They are the 99ers.
It is a moniker that no one wants. It refers to the 99 weeks of benefits that the jobless can qualify for in America. Government cash helps those laid off keep a tenuous grip on a normal life. It keeps a roof over their heads, pays a phone bill, puts food on a table and petrol in a car. But once the 99 weeks are up the payments stop – as is happening now for millions of people – and they are 99ers.
For many, that moment, which America's politicians have refused to extend, represents the moment of destitution; a sort of modern American version of the old Victorian trip to the workhouse. There are now more than a million 99ers and the number gets bigger each week.
But who are they? Despite Republican attempts to paint them as feckless or job-shy, they are usually anything but. The 99ers are people like Anne Strauss, 58, who spent 35 years working as a PR professional on Long Island. Despite spending every day hunting for work, she has not had a job since June 2008. She and her husband are now living on credit cards watching debts mount as they stare into the abyss. "Looking for a job is the hardest I have ever worked," she said with a smile that conveyed no humour or happiness, only the deep stress that is common to many 99ers.
Strauss, along with about 50 other 99ers, protested on Wall Street last week, demanding an extension of the benefits that could keep them out of poverty. As bankers and financiers strode into the flag-draped Stock Exchange they chanted: "Shame! Shame!" and told their stories. It was a litany of middle-class lives shattered by the recession. There was Connie Kaplan, a corporate librarian who was desperate to resume her career. "We are not bums, we are hardworking," she said. Or Lori Ghavami, a New Jersey financial analyst in her 30s, who had once worked on Wall Street itself and now was staring at landlords' bills she was scared she could not pay. Or New Yorker Steven Bilarbi, 62, who had worked for the same employer for 37 years, until 2007. He has not worked since, despite refusing to spend daytime hours at home and engaging in a permanent job hunt. He is now living off savings and depleting his pension.
"I go to job fairs. I don't feel like staying home. What would I do? Watch game shows and soap operas?" he fumed.
Meeting 99ers is to tap into a deep well of anger at lives that have been knocked off course, shattering the enduring vision of the American dream that many had felt they had achieved. Just take Donna Faiella, a 53-year-old New Yorker who lives alone in Queens. She spent 28 years working in film post-production and video-editing. She was successful and had a career. Now she is desperate for a job, any job. But she cannot find one. "I will do anything. I will sweep floors. You think I look forward to collecting unemployment? It is fucking degrading," she said, almost quivering with anger.
Faiella is in dire trouble. Joblessness has eaten away at her sense of identity. "I feel like we are worthless. We are lost in the world. I don't know what to call myself. I don't have a title any more. What do we do? What do we do?" she implored. Faiella has one week of benefits to go. Then her 99 weeks will be up. She will have a title again. But not one she expected. She will be a 99er. "I am petrified. Do I become homeless?" she said, adding that she has begun making inquiries at local shelters.
If the 99ers are coming to symbolise a human segment of society that America is slowly abandoning to its fate, then Camden is the geographic expression of that marginalisation. Large stretches of the once bustling river port city seem to epitomise urban blight. Vacant lots and burned-out abandoned houses line many of its streets.
Its 79,000 residents have the lowest median household annual income of any city in the US at just $24,000 (£15,000). In terms of crime rates it was the nation's second-most dangerous city last year. Some estimates reckon that about a third of Camden's houses are empty. A third of its people are in poverty and a fifth are unemployed.
It is a deeply grim picture and it is getting worse. Camden's city government is facing the prospect of massive cuts as its cash-strapped resources have run out and it has built up huge debts. Services have already been cut and only a last-minute rescue last week saved Camden's three public libraries from being closed.
In a city that has had it tough for decades these are hammer blows to its residents. One woman who has watched in dismay as the recession unfolded outside her door is Dorothy Allen, 81, who has lived near Haddon Avenue for almost four decades. Known by almost everyone as "Mom", she calls herself "the mother of the block". She has never known anything like the area's current troubles. "I have been here since 1971 and it's the worst it's ever been," she said. Yet to listen to America's politicians many would think recovery is just a matter of time. Yes, they say, the recession has been hard, but America will pull through and everything will be as it once was. Last week New Jersey senator Robert Menendez visited Camden, stopping at a local health clinic. He spoke of the achievements of the Democrats in staving off economic disaster.
Job creation was coming, he told his audience of health executives: "It is not going fast enough to get people back to work but it's a dramatic turnaround." It does not feel that way for millions of Americans all across the country. Camden is far from unique in slashing its services. In Colorado Springs more than a third of street lights have been switched off to cut the municipal electricity bill. The city has also sold off its police helicopters.
In Hawaii schoolchildren were told to stay at home for 17 Fridays to save costs. In a suburb of Atlanta local bus routes were closed, at a stroke wiping out public transport for thousands of people who relied on it to get to precious jobs.
Whether it's the poor of Camden or Colorado Springs or Atlanta, or among the growing throngs of the 99ers, millions of Americans are discovering that working hard, doing the right thing and obeying the rules are no longer enough.
Back at the 99er rally on Wall Street, Anne Strauss felt that way. During her working life she had refused to claim benefits to which she was entitled as she thought she was doing just fine. Now, as a newly minted 99er, she was looking for help from the country that she had always believed in. But the help was not forthcoming. It is hard to see how the version of the American dream that Menendez described could now ever apply to her. For Strauss, living on credit, desperate to work, but with no job in sight, that dream looks a thing of the past, not the future. "This is not the country I grew up in," Strauss said.
Case study: 'This is my last $260 and barring a miracle I'll be sleeping in my car'
Alexandra Jarrin, 49, worked for a small technology company near New York City, earned $56,000 a year, had petrol in her car and a roof over her head. She was enrolled in a graduate business school. Then, two years ago, she lost her job .
She received her last unemployment payment in March, putting her among the first wave of "99ers" who have come to the end of their 99 weeks of entitlement to benefits. When interviewed by the New York Times, she was living in a motel in Brattleboro, Vermont, having paid $260 she managed to scrape together from friends and from selling her living-room furniture – enough for a week-long stay.
She said she wept as she left her old life. 'I thought, you know, what if I turned the wheel in my car and wrecked my car?' Her vehicle is now on the verge of being repossessed. Jarrin has contacted her local shelter, but was told there was a waiting list. "Barring a miracle, I'm going to be [sleeping] in my car," she said.


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With her latest album, Can't Be Tamed, hitting stores this week and a kick-off concert on Monday, Miley Cyrus sat down with MTV to talk about just how very rad Rock Band is now that it includes her music.
"I sat in front of the TV 90 percent of the tour, just playing 'Rock Band'," Cyrus told MTV News. "It's pretty cool that now I can warm up playing my own songs on Rock Band and then go do it in real life. So it's pretty rad. It's a better warm-up."
You heard it here second, Rock Band is "pretty rad." I wonder what she thinks about Dance Central? Super Rad?
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A night is a long time in Nigerian football. This morning, the word is that Keshi has taken back the resignation he announced on Metro FM on Monday evening, after an emergency meeting with Nigeria's Sports Minister Bolaji Abdullahi. In the meeting he received "certain assurances", presumably financial ones.
It appears that Keshi has called the bluff of the Nigerian Football Federation, in spectacular style. He alleged on Monday that the federation had already "sacked" him before his side's shock victory over Cote d'Ivoire – a sacking that would presumably take effect as soon as the Super Eagles were knocked out.
That didn't happen, of course. And then it seems the Nigerian Football Federation forgot or declined to approach him after Sunday's triumph.
Keshi was insulted first by their distrust (officials had allegedly booked return tickets for the day after the Cote d'Ivoire quarterfinal) and then by their complacency in victory. Good coaches have big egos, and big egos need stroking. Diplomacy and manners have never been the strong suit of Nigerian football bosses.
With hindsight, Keshi's comments prior to the semifinal triumph in Durban were a not-so-subtle advertisement of his availability to other employers.
"If God grants me the tournament, the next day I could join another country," he said. "I'm a professional. It's the same with [José] Mourinho, if he gets a call from a rich team, he goes. I'm here for now, but we'll see if there's anyone out there who wants me."
The first black coach
And you can understand why Keshi opted to play hardball yesterday. On Sunday night, he resoundingly substantiated his argument about the thwarted potential of black football coaches in Africa. With a little help from Sunday Mba, he turned his tough talk into hard silverware – by becoming the first black coach to lift the Africa Nations Cup title since Cote d'Ivoire's Yeo Martial in 1992. He and his players have also rehabilitated the battered pride of a mighty footballing nation.
But Keshi owes Nigeria more glory. And he owes the continent more of the precious patience he loves to preach about.
If the Super Eagles are to build on their triumph in Johannesburg, Keshi will need to stay in his job until the Fifa Confederations Cup in Brazil this winter, and until next winter in the same neck of the woods, where the greatest stage of all beckons.
Could this Nigerian generation breach Africa's stubborn quarterfinal ceiling on the World Cup stage? Yes. They'd need a bit of luck, but who doesn't, barring the mightiest sides? If Uruguay, Turkey, South Korea and Bulgaria had the players to reach the semifinals, then the Super Eagles do.
Man for man, they may not be as talented or celebrated as the Ivorians, but talent is just one element of a successful formula. Continuity, belief and unity count hugely; and one of Keshi's significant achievements at this tournament was to bond his troops into a warm machine, free of cabals and cliques.
The absence of calm, harmonious preparation has counted against too many African World Cup campaigns in the past.
Job-hopping in African football
Much of the blame for that history of chaos lies with association bosses, who are notorious for axing both local stop-gap coaches and wandering European "carpenters" with indiscriminate zeal. The Nigerian Football Federation has ploughed through an astonishing 19 coaches in the 19 years since the Super Eagles' last Afcon victory. A similar churn rate has stymied Bafana's progress.
But myopic administrators are not the only villains of the piece. Some quality coaches have also been complicit in the dugout carnage. Some leap before they are pushed, taking undue offence at bureaucratic slights. Keshi's brinkmanship yesterday was a bit different, considering that he was in a position of unrivalled strength: his sensitivity was tactically sound.
Other coaches engineer their own sackings by crossing swords with megalomaniac association bosses, having negotiated contract clauses that provide for their severance cheques to be paid upfront.
Job-hopping can be lucrative in African football. It is a perversely forgiving market, in which a coach's reputation is barely hurt by a string of dismissals.
In Keshi's case, he also clearly enjoyed the grandeur of resigning in a blaze of glory. Sometimes it can be a strategically perfect moment to leave – á la José Mourinho's exit from Inter Milan after winning the Champions League.
But Keshi's stock can rise even higher with this team. He should persevere and survive, and tolerate the sins of the suits. His Super Eagles movie has only just begun, and the plot is only beginning to thicken.


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Guidelines For Facilitating The Process of Gathering Feedback From Students
"Feedback is not praise or blame. It's what you did or did not do, whether you realized it or not." -Huba and Fried
- Help students make the distinction between criticism and feedback.
Feedback describes what took place and what did not in terms of the goals.
Feedback is value neutral.
- Allow students to provide feedback anonymously, at least initially.
- Focus questions, and encourage students to focus responses on behaviors and processes, not personalities.
- Focus on using the data for improvement, not to convince students they are right or wrong.
- Learn to practice listening skills by
- viewing the situation through the students' eyes.
- avoiding acting defensively.
- avoiding rationalizing undesirable behaviors/processes that students may identify.
- looking for recurring themes.
- avoiding brushing off feedback through sarcasm.
- avoiding putting yourself down.
- avoiding assuming students are always right.
- Respond to students' feedback with proposed changes to the course.
- Reinforce mutual feedback by thanking students for their input.
Huba, M.E, and J.E. Freed. Learner-Centered Assessment on College Campuses: Shifting the Focus from Teaching to Learning. Needham Heights: Allyn and Bacon, 2000. Print.
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Bugaboo, here I am. Full of Christmas cheer and apologies for being a bad blogger. Over a month has passed since my last post about broccoli soup. And it will be quite a bit more time before I post any more food-related bits. Alas! However, I have a good reason for both of those things.
Why haven't I posted in over a month? Well, because the thought of food, much less the smell of anything cooking, made me very sick. I couldn't even look at my RSS feed without feeling a little green. I finally went to the doctor at the beginning of November and – surprise! I am happy to announce that we are expecting our first child in mid-June 2012! I am now to the point where I can at least stand to smell a working kitchen again, and carefully eat small meals – both of which meant Thanksgiving wasn't a bust, a major concern – but I won't be doing much cooking for a while. And that is because…
After living in Kentucky for a little over a year, we have had issues finding full-time employment and benefits. The economy here just isn't what we expected when we moved up, and it's not improving. No benefits = no insurance, and that isn't something we can accept now that we have a baby on the way. So on the 15th of December, we will be putting all our kept belongings into a Uhaul trailer and various vehicles for the not-so-terribly-long drive back to Athens, Georgia. We can get the husband back behind the wheel of a police cruiser, where he belongs, and… well, we'll figure something out to do with me.
In any case, the next two weeks will be full to the brim with obstetrics appointments, packing what we want and tossing or donating what we don't, cleaning house, split shifts at work and preparing the dogs for a long-haul trip, I won't have much time to myself before the move. After the fact, I don't expect to be able to do much until after the holidays, what with settling in and the general holiday madness. So, barring the odd picture or comment, don't expect to see much of me until after the first of the year. Have a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, until we meet again!


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Linksys' WRT160N: antennae inside
The WRT310N and WRT160N both sport slick wedge-like designs unspoiled with external antennae – the 160N has two, the 310N three. The 160N has four 10/100Mb/s Ethernet ports, the 310N offers the same number of Gigabit connectors.
Consumer friendliness isn't just about looks: the two routers both incorporate Wi-Fi Protected Setup, the new, standard push-button security set-up system. They support both WPA and WPA 2 wireless security specifications.
Both support 802.11n – draft 2.0 - in the 2.4GHz Wi-Fi band, but Linksys also rolled out a couple of dual-band products that will also operate in the 5GHz zone. Not routers, mind – Linksys is still offering its aerial-festooned WRT600N for that – but a USB adaptor and an ExpressCard 34 adaptor for notebooks and desktops.
Linksys' WEC600N: 5GHz 802.11n in convenient ExpressCard form
The USB product, the WUSB600N, and the ExpressCard, the WEC600N, will be available in the US soon, Linksys said, each priced at $80 (£42). Americans can buy the WRT310N and WRT160N straight away, paying around $130 and $100, respectively.
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$1.5 Billion In Taxpayer Funds Go Directly To Movie Studios Each Year... And Very Few Jobs Created
from the and-they're-complaining-about-what? deptIf you've been following MPAA boss Chris Dodd ever since the death of SOPA, you'll be aware of his stump speech. He seems to give it every chance he can: "the movie industry is all about jobs, jobs and more jobs." Of course, he lies about the number. He usually trots out his favorite 2.1 million figure, ignoring the fact that the Congressional Research Service showed it's really 374,000 people employed in the movie business.
What isn't mentioned so much (though, it depends on the audience) is the fact that various tax subsidies that different states pay to movie studios means that $1.5 billion in taxpayer money goes straight to Hollywood studios. Perhaps that would be justifiable if it created jobs. But the evidence there is actually lacking. That link involves the NY Times looking closely at Michigan, which not too long ago put in place massive subsidies for Hollywood to make movies in their state. The cost? Suffering Michigan citizens foot the bill. However, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm thought it was worth it because a local movie director wanted more work at home (and because, when she was younger, she had hoped to be a movie star). Lots of studios are looking to make movies in Michigan now, because the cash back from the state is way too lucrative to pass up.
Within two months, 24 movies had signed up to film in Michigan — up from two the entire year before. The productions estimated that they would spend $195 million filming there, and in return they would be refunded about $70 million in cash.But does it create jobs? Not really. The story is horrifying. It involves Hollywood hotshots continually demanding more and more subsidies from the state and insisting that jobs would be plentiful as soon as they could get things up and running, but balking any time anyone asked them to put the job promises in a contract:
Before long, residents were rushing out on their lunch breaks to catch a glimpse of celebrities like Drew Barrymore, who was filming her movie "Whip It" in Ann Arbor, and Clint Eastwood, who was shooting "Gran Torino" in the Detroit area. Even Michael Moore, who was filming a movie about corporate welfare called "Capitalism: A Love Story," sought and received incentives.
Ms. Granholm declared the city in a financial crisis in February 2009 and appointed an emergency manager, Fred Leeb. The city's budget was $54 million a year, but it was overspending by an estimated $7 million to $12 million. Pontiac was also still weighted down by old incentives it had given to businesses like G.M.But wanting to bring the big lights of Hollywood to Michigan, eventually the state agreed to it. Who paid for the subsidies? Former state workers basically were forced to bet their pensions on Hollywood:
The movie studio was an added challenge, since it was seeking financial incentives from the city — not to mention from other branches of the government. It won redevelopment tax credits from the federal government and separate aid from the state that included incentives for technology companies that hire residents.
Job creation became a point of contention with beleaguered Pontiac, which was being asked to waive virtually all property taxes for the studio. The investors claimed that thousands of people would be employed, but Mr. Leeb said that when he asked for job numbers to be written into the contract, the investors refused. "We started seeing some backpedaling," said Mr. Leeb, who added that the negotiations featured "knock-down, drag-out fights."
Over the objections of some local officials, the state agreed to use the state workers' pension funds to guarantee the bonds. If the investors failed to pay, the retirees would be on the hook.And the promised jobs? Keep looking. Sure, some crews from LA flew in, but for locals? Almost none.
The studio had created only 200 positions by the summer of 2011, according to correspondence between the company and local officials. And when temporary construction workers were excluded from the tally, Pontiac's records show, the studio reported only two employees in 2010 and 12 the next year.Earlier, in the article, they note that this particular project was pushed through with the promise of 3,600 jobs. You don't do that by hiring two people one year and a dozen the next.
How about tax revenue from the local operations? Yeah, big Hollywood studios have ways of avoiding paying that sorta thing, even as they're collecting millions in local subsidies:
The city later had problems collecting some of the taxes because Disney operated through a separate business entity that was difficult to track down, he said.And... soon after that, the studios moved on to other sexier states that suddenly offering up bigger incentives than Michigan. And who did it cost? Oh yeah: remember those state workers' pensions? Yup. Them.
"This is a glamorous industry if you want to talk about Hollywood, but it's not very glamorous for the municipality that wants to collect something," Mr. Schimmel said. Pontiac, he said, was outgunned.
Disney declined to comment.
When the bill for the studio's bond interest came due in February this year, it paid only a portion, $210,000. The state pension fund had to pick up the remaining $420,000....All around, it's a horror story that's being repeated in other states and countries around the globe. Hollywood studios go around pitching "jobs!" and demanding special taxpayer-funded incentives, offering giving them millions to film in a certain location. The filmmakers take the subsidies, bring in crews from LA, hire a couple people here or there... and then move on, leaving a mess in their wake. And this is the industry that is demanding even more protection from the federal government via copyright law? When is enough enough?
In August, the studio defaulted on the entire $630,000 payment on the bond, despite a decision by Mr. Snyder to temporarily allocate some film incentives.
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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) ? In the days right after floodwaters rushed through the Rocky Mountain foothills, the helicopter crews that lifted stranded people to safety were greeted like heroes. Nearly a week later, they are often being waved away by stubborn mountain residents who refuse to abandon their homes.
Caleb Liesveld hiked several miles into tiny Pinewood Springs, midway between Longmont and Estes Park, to try to convince his parents to leave. His mother relented, but his father refused. The elder Liesveld was determined to use heavy equipment from the family's granite quarry to resurrect an old stagecoach road that would let residents get vehicles in and out.
"He wants to be productive, and I don't think he'd really know what to do with himself off the mountain," Caleb Liesveld said Tuesday.
In nearby Lyons, a number of residents were working together to clean rotting food out of abandoned restaurant refrigerators.
"We are a community. We all want to stay here and help," Molly Morton, who also declined rescuers' advice to leave or face months of isolation, said Tuesday in a phone interview.
Morton, 44, lives with her boyfriend on a hill overlooking Lyons. They have well water and a septic field, and Monday night she got her power back, allowing her to restart her cleaning business.
Several residents of Lyons moved up the hill to camp on her property in tents, bringing suitcases and coolers filled with as much food as they could salvage from refrigerators and freezers. One of the men had been given house keys by many people who did evacuate, and he had been going around to empty refrigerators and freezers to throw away food before it spoils. He's also been on the lookout for anyone who might try to take advantage of all those empty houses.
By Tuesday, military helicopters had flown nearly 2,400 people and more than 850 pets to safety in what officials said was likely the largest such airlift since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005.
The pace of rescues was beginning to taper off. Crews were shifting from emergency airlifts to more systematic searches of flooded areas. Green tags and flags, bold enough to be seen from the air, were being used to mark properties that had already been checked.
The reluctance to leave was evident during an aerial tour for media Tuesday arranged by the National Guard. As a Blackhawk chopper churned over Jamestown, where slabs of highway were stacked in murky water, two Guardsmen leaned out the open sides and waved to people below. Most waved back and went on shoveling rocks from their driveways or gazing at the debris piled in their yards.
Russell Wade, a Federal Emergency Management Administration safety officer, said when the helicopter he was on landed Monday in Left Hand Canyon "we had two groups of people with pets in tow, in kennels, who were actually running for the helicopter itself."
But after those 18 people were flown to safety, Wade said, the mission changed.
That's when the crew went back in with maps, going house-to-house to warn residents it was their last chance to leave or face an extended period with no certainty of further assistance from FEMA, the Guard or the scores of other agencies that have been dropping supplies and ferrying people to safety.
Only one person asked to leave, Wade said, and that man did so because he was out of medication. He said the crews took the names of the people who stayed, then left them to their own devices.
Caleb Liesveld said his father, Dan, has only enough fuel to run his equipment for a day or two "so it's hit or miss" on whether the road can be made passable. He also said he was a bit worried about the prospect of his father, who is 62, staying on alone.
"He's not in very good health. I would have preferred he come off the mountain. That being said, at least there is someone over there I can trust," said Caleb, who lives in Loveland but runs the family business in Lyons.
Indeed, trust and a culture of self-sufficiency seemed to drive the decisions by many to stay.
"These people are hardy," Niko King, a firefighter from Sacramento who serves as a FEMA spokesman and helped out on Katrina, said Tuesday.
Still, he was surprised by the number of people who declined to leave. He said he thinks some people simply do not understand the magnitude of the flooding.
Many people who were without electricity last week missed heavy television coverage with pictures of the crippling damage. Larimer County sheriff's spokesman John Schulz said helicopter crews were showing reluctant residents aerial photographs in an effort to persuade them to leave.
"We're trying to show them these pictures to convince them this is a serious matter," he said. "When it's a nice day and the road around their house may be fine, they don't understand that maybe 2 miles down the road there is no road left."
Caleb Liesveld's mother said that was the case with her.
"I just didn't realize the devastation," Reggie Liesveld said Tuesday, a day after boarding the last helicopter out with her 8-month-old Akita. "Then I saw some news."
She added: "I wish Dan had come with me."


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If $\lambda,\mu$ are two dominant weights for a Lie group $G$, then there is a canonical (up to scale, perhaps) surjection $V_\lambda \otimes V_\mu \to V_{\lambda+\mu}$ of finite-dimensional representations, which I have occasionally heard called the "Cartan projection".
To each irreducible (or standard) Harish-Chandra module for $({\mathfrak g},K)$, one can associate a $K$-orbit on $G/B$. For finite-dimensional representations, this orbit is the open $K$-orbit.
I want to know what analogues exist of the Cartan projection out of $V\otimes W$ if $V,W$ are two Harish-Chandra modules with the same associated $K$-orbit (other than the open orbit case above).
The answer may be something like "every H-C quotient of $V\otimes W$ has the wrong Gel$'$fand-Kirillov dimension for it to again have that associated $K$-orbit," in which case I'd appreciate references that make that most clear. (I will be sad, but not overly surprised, if that is the case.)
EDIT: For consistency of notation, let's take $G,K$ to be the complexifications of $G_0,K_0$, where $K_0$ is a maximal compact in $G_0$.


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Category: 300 News Posted by: admin LOS ANGELES, March 11 � Even a film business that expects big numbers is likely to be double-checking the box-office receipts for Warner Brothers' "300" on Monday and asking, "What just happened?"
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Article Date: March 12, 2007 | Publication: New York Times | Author: MICHAEL CIEPLY
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/movies/12boxo.html
The sword-and-sandals epic posted an estimated $70 million in ticket sales Friday through Sunday as it surged past hostile critics and industry expectations to become the fourth surprise hit in a winter season that began with a limp.
"We had projected it coming in around the mid-30s," said Dan Fellman, Warner's president of theatrical distribution, referring to the $30 million mark. "It's staggering."
The movie defied the odds in that it had no star bigger than the Scottish actor Gerard Butler ("The Phantom of the Opera"), Mr. Fellman said, it was made by the relatively untested director Zack Snyder ("Dawn of the Dead") and it carried the added handicap of an R rating.
The opening of "300" was the third largest for an R-rated film, behind "The Matrix Reloaded," which posted about $91.8 million in ticket sales on its first weekend in 2003, and "The Passion of the Christ," which opened to about $84 million a year later.
When the final tallies are in on Monday, Mr. Fellman said, Hollywood's overall box office for the year will have moved comfortably ahead of last year's pace after running slightly better than even through last week, mostly thanks to a series of recent films that, by conventional wisdom, were not supposed to be hits.
Disney's "Wild Hogs," a comedy that put stars as long in the tooth as John Travolta and Tim Allen on motorcycles, opened to nearly $40 million in ticket sales a week ago and picked up $28 million more this weekend, for a total of more than $77 million. Two weeks before that, "Ghost Rider," with Nicolas Cage, surprised its distributors at Sony Pictures Entertainment with a $45 million weekend, and then went on to take in total domestic receipts of about $104 million through Sunday.
Much the same happened with "Norbit," a critically derided comedy in which Eddie Murphy played fat and female. That film took in $34 million on its first weekend in early February for DreamWorks and Paramount, on its way to about $88 million as of Sunday.
"Lines beget lines," as viewers of one hit are exposed to trailers for the next, Chuck Viane, president of domestic distribution for Disney's Buena Vista unit, said.
During a telephone news conference on Tuesday, Dan Glickman, chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, cautiously predicted that eagerly awaited sequels coming later this year � "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," "Spider-Man 3," "Shrek the Third," "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" � would push the 2007 United States box-office total beyond last year's $9.49 billion, which in turn was up 5.5 percent from 2005.
But surprises like "300" can be even more lucrative than sequels. Part of the reason is lower budgets; Mr. Fellman placed the production cost of "300" at about $64 million, compared with $150 million or more for other blockbusters. Newly minted successes also tend to haul in proportionally more money from DVD sales and other aftermarkets (pay-television and airplane sales, for example) than do follow-up films.
Critics were divided on the merits of Mr. Snyder's adaptation of Frank Miller and Lynn Varley's graphic novel about the Spartans' stand against the Persians at Thermopylae, which A. O. Scott's review in The New York Times described as "about as violent as 'Apocalypto' and twice as stupid." (An admiring Richard Roeper, of The Chicago Sun-Times, called it "gorgeous to behold.") Still, ticket buyers were lining up for showings that sold out on various electronic services.
Momentum had been building among fans since the film was introduced at last year's Comic-Con International comic book and popular arts convention. It received a boost about a month ago when a trailer � highlighting the movie's stylized, computer-assisted visual approach � caught fire on MySpace. Mr. Snyder and his collaborators also helped broaden the film's appeal among women by expanding a subplot, about the Spartan queen Gorgo.
"300" has been Hollywood's best March opening, not adjusted for inflation, passing the $68 million mark posted by "Ice Age: The Meltdown," when it opened on March 31 last year and its weekend sales spilled into April. As such, it vindicated Mr. Snyder, who fought to adapt the graphic novel despite initial resistance at Warner, which had a tougher time in 2004 with the ancient epics "Troy" and "Alexander."
"That's the magic of our industry," Mr. Fellman said. "Every once in a while these special moments happen."
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