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LONDON (Reuters) - Swiss bank UBS UBSN.VX is expected to pay about $1 billion to settle charges of rigging the Libor interest rate benchmark, according to a person familiar with the situation, making it the second major bank to be officially ensnared by the global scandal.
The announcement could come as early as Monday, this person said.
Such a penalty, more than double the $450 million fine levied on British bank Barclays (BARC.L) in June for related conduct, indicates the scope of the misconduct by UBS could dwarf that exposed by Barclays' settlement.
Barclays in June admitted it improperly took trading positions into account when reporting interest rates used to calculate the Libor benchmark, touching off a firestorm that forced its chairman and chief executive to quit.
The settlement also prompted a political and public backlash against standards in banking across Europe and the United States.
The Libor benchmarks are used for trillions of dollars worth of loans around the world. Tiny shifts in the rate, compiled from daily polls of bankers, could benefit dealers in complex products.
While details in the Barclays settlement showed traders brazenly gaming the system, the expected size of the UBS settlement indicates that Barclays may prove to be far from the worst offender and that other settlements may also be larger than Barclays'. Overall, more than a dozen banks have been caught in the international inquiry.
UBS declined to comment. The agencies expected to be involved in the settlement, including Britain's Financial Services Authority and the U.S. Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission all declined to comment.
UBS has said it set aside 6.5 billion swiss francs ($7.04 billion) in reserves, but has not broken out how those funds are earmarked.
The steep fine that UBS has agreed to pay is a surprise because the bank, since 2011, has cooperated with law-enforcement agencies in their probes, according to regulatory filings and court documents.
The bank disclosed it received conditional immunity from the Justice Department's antitrust division and other international competition authorities, which suggests the bank's $1 billion payout could have been higher without that leniency.
Some clues to UBS's alleged central role in the Libor conspiracy were included in documents filed earlier this year by the Canadian Competition Bureau, which investigates anti-competitive activity.
The documents describe how a "cooperating party" tried to artificially move yen Libor. UBS is the cooperating bank, people familiar with the situation have said.
Those documents allege that a trader at the bank — called "Trader A" - contacted traders at four other banks. On one occasion, "Trader A" instructed a trader at another bank on what Libor submission to make.
It is unclear if UBS will resolve the Canadian probe as part of the imminent settlement.
Authorities are also investigating the actions of individuals. This week British police and anti-fraud officers made the first arrests in connection to the Libor probe, detaining a former trader and two other men, sources said.
One of those arrested was former UBS and Citigroup (C.N) trader Thomas Hayes, according to a source familiar with the situation. The two others worked at interdealer broker RP Martin, according to a separate source.
The fine will mark another blow to UBS, which has had a tough 18 months after suffering a $2.3-billion loss in a rogue trading scandal, management upheaval and thousands of job cuts.
"I'm not sure how much more reputational damage can be done to UBS," said Chris Wheeler, analyst at Mediobanca in London. "They are rebuilding that slowly, but it won't help the wealth management business when you see this as a headline."
Banks are keen to put such fines behind them as they attempt to rebuild credibility among politicians, the general public and investors following the financial crisis which forced taxpayers to bail out the banking system.
But the fresh spate of probes and settlements are putting banks' malpractice back to the forefront.
HSBC (HSBA.L) on Tuesday reached a $1.92 billion settlement with U.S. authorities over money laundering, the highest ever fine on a bank, a day after another London-based bank, Standard Chartered (STAN.L), agreed to pay $327 million for violating U.S. sanctions against Iran, Sudan and other states, adding to an earlier $340 million it paid in a related case.
Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE), Germany's flagship lender, was raided on Wednesday by about 500 German tax inspectors and police, who arrested five staff in a probe linked to a tax scam involving the trading of carbon permits.
Britain's Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L) is also expected to reach a settlement on Libor manipulation shortly.
Investigators are assessing whether banks used responses to the daily survey of the rates they would offer to other banks to try to nudge Libor, perhaps by only a few hundredths of a percentage point. Such a move could still benefit their own trades in bonds or more complex deals linked to that rate.
Banks found guilty also face civil lawsuits from those they traded with. Some borrowers complain they paid more interest than they should have, although others may have paid less.
Reuters' parent company Thomson Reuters Corp collects information from banks and uses it to calculate Libor rates according to specifications drawn up by the British Bankers Association (BBA).
Additional reporting by Steve Slater in London, Martin de Sa'Pinto in Zurich and Aruna Viswanatha in Washington and Carrick Mollenkamp in New York; Editing by Alexander Smith, Alastair Macdonald and Andrew Hay


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Good morning my lovelies. Happy to see you here. I have not been visiting any of you -- hopefully I'll get around soon when I'm feeling better. I certainly have not forgotten you!
I've had some wonderful Happy Mail and a great reunion which I must share with you. The Happy Mail has been sitting here for awhile. My regrets for not acknowledging it sooner! As they say - better late than never.
Had a lovely card and letter from Carolyn, whom I've known through swaps and blogging since 2004. We have talked on the phone, written letters, emailed, however have never had the pleasure of meeting in person. Thank you Carolyn for the lovely card -- your beautiful style as usual - always admired.
Sometime ago, I received an awesome package from Valerie. Still drooling over the contents. Thank you so very much, dear Valerie.
One of Valerie's original cards.
Some seven years ago when I started my blog, Patty and I connected. Over the years a lovely friendship developed. Last night, Patty, her husband Stu, and the lovely Bailey came over for the evening. We spent some happy hours talking, eating, catching up and enjoying the time together as old friends do. I was delighted to get my 'doggy fix' with Bailey here.
Bailey, Patty and myself.
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That's all the news of the moment. Thanks so much for dropping by. I'll be over to see you soon.
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TOPEKA - A bill before the Kansas House would require proposed transmission lines to undergo more regulatory scrutiny before they are approved.
Under the bill, the Kansas Electric Transmission Authority would review all proposed transmission line projects before they are considered by the Kansas Corporation Commission.
Supporters said the bill would give landowners more input into projects that often are placed on farmland. Others suggested the state's process for approving such projects is already sufficient.
Rep. Sharon Schwartz, a Republican from Washington, said the bill was partly a response to the KCC's approval of a proposed project by Clear Line Energy, which wants to build a 700-mile transmission line to carry wind energy to the east, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported.
About 370 miles of the lines would be in Kansas, where the project has met some resistance, particularly in the northeast corner of the state. The Clean Line project still needs approval from Missouri, Indiana and Illinois.
"The ground they were going across is prime farmland ground and the people that it's affected didn't know about it until basically Clean Line had been granted their Certificate of Convenience," Schwartz said during a hearing on the bill last week before the House Energy and Environment Committee. "Obviously, I think if they had been granted some input, it might have made a difference."
The line is projected to spur $7 billion in wind energy projects and Gov. Sam Brownback supported it when the KCC approved the Kansas portion in 2011.
Michael White, manager of Topeka-based utility company ITC Great Plains, said his company is neutral on the bill but is concerned that it doesn't clearly define what types of transmission lines would be affected. He also noted that the KCC and utilities already provide open houses and town hall meetings on proposed transmission projects.
Rep. Annie Kuether, D-Topeka, said she doesn't know of any transmission projects in Kansas in which "every inch of the way hasn't been before KETA" and Clean Line officials have discussed the project with KETA "over and over and over again."
"While it sounds great to add another layer to the process, I think Kansas is actually in good shape with how we do transmission with landowners," Kuether said. "They're under a microscope."
The committee planned to continue the hearing this week.


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Brief In Viacom/YouTube Trial Tries To Rewrite The DMCA
from the draining-the-safe-harbors deptAs the Viacom/YouTube trial moves on, it should come as no surprise that a bunch of entertainment industry folks filed briefs in support of Viacom. They're going to protect their own, even if it means breaking a fundamental key that makes the internet useful (something that will come back to haunt them). Most of the filings echo the twisted claims of Viacom, such as the ones we recently picked apart, based on the totally unsubstantiated claim that Google somehow has a better idea of what's infringing than the copyright holder. A finding that agrees with that would be a massive rewrite of fundamental liability principles.
However, there's one filing that people keep sending in over and over again. I was going to avoid commenting on it, but it really is so ridiculous and so factually challenged, that it needs some sort of a response. It comes from the Washington Legal Foundation, a group that claims it's a champion of free market principles, limited government and individual rights... but then has regularly supported government granted monopolies in the form of copyright that go against the free market and individual rights. Sometimes, you get the feeling that any DC-based "think tank" organization actually stands for exactly the opposite of what they put on their marketing material.
WLF's filing focuses on the DMCA safe harbor questions in the case:
The DMCA was crafted to accommodate the concerns of copyright holders as well as the interests of Internet service providers. Specifically, Congress sought both to protect the intellectual property rights and to limit the liability of innocent service providers. As the DMCA makes clear, Congress believed these twin goals could best be accomplished by encouraging cooperation.Technically... true, but extremely misleading. It's true that it was designed to "accommodate" the concerns and interests of both parties, but that sentence suggests that both sides came together to work out a happy deal for both. That's not the case. The DMCA was written very much for the copyright holders (hell, it was basically written by the industry). It was because of that, the ISPs then freaked out, when they realized that legislation written entirely by the industry would almost certainly put a ridiculous liability burden on ISPs. So they started making noise and complaining. Because of that, the DMCA's safe harbors were put in. That was the only way to get the ISPs to go along with the deal. This wasn't a case of the copyright holders and ISPs working together to come up with a solution. It was the copyright holders pushing for as much as they could get, and then giving the ISPs a safe harbor so that the bill would pass.
... the DMCA was neither adopted nor intended to encourage service providers to exploit the existence of the safe harbors by designing businesses based on an ability to avoid liability.Frankly, that statement is obnoxious. Perhaps people in Hollywood (and self-contradictory DC think tanks) think that folks in Silicon Valley are purposely looking for legal loopholes to build businesses based on avoiding liability, but that's flat out ridiculous. Companies are building services because they find them useful and compelling. They're not "exploiting" safe harbors. They're recognizing the core reason why safe harbors are there in the first place: because liability should be place on the party who actually infringes. That should be common sense, but because it's clearly not, it needs to be spelled out in the law.
Relying on highly-specific decisions, YouTube and its amici seek to place essentially the entire burden on the copyright holder. This approach cannot be reconciled with Congress's clearly stated intent to "preserve strong incentives for.... cooperat[ion]," ... nor with the structure of the statute Congress enacted. In essence, YouTube asks this court to convert a calibrated series of shared obligations into a single "takedown" notice requirement placed solely on copyright owners.Wow. Wow. This is just downright misleading. No one has ever said that the entire burden is placed on the copyright holder. It's blatantly wrong to suggest that. The point that Google and others have made is simply that making a determination of whether or not something is infringing is not something that can be made without knowing certain facts that the copyright holder knows (i.e., whether or not the holder has authorized the works). Thus, the most effectively know whether or not a work is infringing -- the requirement in the DMCA for content to be taken down -- is through a takedown notice. Once again, like Viacom and its supporters, the WLF seems to think that Google has a magic ability to understand Viacom's intentions and authorizations, when even Viacom's own partners have admitted that Viacom changed its authorization rules every few days and it involved a book the length of Crime and Punishment, which was not shared with Google.
Not only is such a limiting interpretation belied by the DMCA, it is undermined by the fact (as illustrated here) that a takedown notice often provides little or no protection to copyright owners.Again, I'm left shaking my head in disbelief. Did they really claim that? The ability to pull content down without any judicial review whatsoever (which seems to go against basic First Amendment principles) provides "little or no protection"? Apparently, the folks at WLF haven't been paying attention to how widely the DMCA is used.
Under its interpretation of the DMCA, YouTube would be free to set up a business that knowingly infringes (and encourages and induces infringement of) copyrighted works on a massive scale by copying, publicly performing, displaying and disseminating those works. Under the construction of the DMCA it urges on this Court, YouTube could actively encourage massive infringement and still claim DMCA protection simply by after-the-fact (limited response to takedown notices.Here, WLF is just making stuff up. Each of those points is wrong. If it has direct knowledge of infringement, then it violates the DMCA. If it induces and encourages infringement, it violates the Grokster standard for inducement. WLF knows this. YouTube knows this. No one denies this. I don't know why WLF is claiming otherwise, other than that it can't make its argument in a factual manner. The problem is that WLF is pretending that having general knowledge that some stuff infringes means that it can induce. No one is arguing that.
Simply put, Congress never intended such a patently one-sided result.Well, first of all, that patently one-sided result is a figment of the imagination of the author. YouTube is not even close to arguing that it should be free to induce infringement. In fact, under the Grokster decision, everyone knows that inducement is infringement. Why WLF would pretend otherwise is beyond me.
But even worse, it's somewhat guffaw-inducing for anyone to suggest that any interpretation of the DMCA is one-sided in favor of service providers. The entire law was written in the interests of copyright holders, and it's massively one-sided towards them. The one balancing factor is the safe harbors. What WLF is trying to do here is to focus solely on those safe harbors -- the part designed to "balance" the DMCA, and pretend that's all there is to the DMCA, and that this interpretation designed merely to make sure that liability is properly placed on those doing the infringing is somehow one-sided. This is highly disingenuous.
There are plenty of interesting legal arguments on both sides of this case, but this particular filing is an attempt to rewrite history and the law in a manner that makes little sense and would wipe out a key principle in applying liability to those who are actually responsible. Instead, it tries to pretend that service providers have the magic ability to just know what's infringing and what's not. The inevitable results of increasing service provider liability in such a manner would be an incredible chilling effect on all sorts of user-generated platforms and service providers -- a result Congress most certainly did not intend.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A weekend of nonstop rain throughout western Ohio finally came to an end Monday after swamping roads, basements and fields.
Waterlogged residents began cleaning up in some areas while others still were waiting for floodwaters to recede.
Only a handful of people were forced to leave their homes while authorities on west-central Ohio and the northwest corner reported rescuing motorists who were stranded after trying to drive through flooded roadways. No major injuries were reported.
Many areas got 3 to 5 inches of rain during the weekend, adding to snow on the ground that melted quickly in 50- to 60-degree weather.
"There are quite a few rivers that are flooding, and a lot of lingering flooding in low-lying areas," said Andrew Snyder, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wilmington.
Forecasters don't expect much more precipitation as temperatures plummet, but there could be light snow in some areas over the next couple days.
Elected leaders in northwest Ohio along the flood-prone Blanchard River met with U.S. Sen. Rob Portman on Monday, pushing for a solution to what is becoming a routine problem in the Hancock and Putnam counties, about 50 miles south of Toledo.
Flooding in Findlay shutdown dozens of streets and cut its downtown in half on Sunday. Water from the river slowly began receding Monday and pushing toward the village of Ottawa, where many streets were closed too.
Portman, a Republican from the Cincinnati area, said he plans to push federal officials to speed up work on a flood control plan for the Blanchard River. "This about people's lives," he said.
Flooding also left roads closed in nearby Seneca County where a sinkhole closed busy a St. Rte. 4.
Police in Miami County in west-central Ohio rescued several stranded motorists whose cars stalled or were swept off the road by floodwaters.
The Great Miami River flooded north of Dayton in Sidney to west of Cincinnati in Miamitown, as temperatures fell Monday after spring-like weekend weather.
Scioto River flooding was also reported Monday in south-central Ohio, with highway stretches and farm fields covered in parts of Delaware County.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A weekend of nonstop rain throughout western Ohio finally came to an end Monday after swamping roads, basements and fields.


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'The Fault in Our Stars' Is the No. 1 Movie of the Weekendby Thomas Chau | PopCrush
It was a No. 1 bestseller as a book and now, 'The Fault in Our Stars' can say it's a No. 1 movie.
Despite fierce competition from big budget blockbusters such as 'The Edge of Tomorrow,' 'Maleficent' and 'X-Men: Days of Future Past,' the movie based on the bestselling John Green novel is expected to be named the top U.S. grossing movie for the weekend of June 6 – June 8 when final box office tallies are released tomorrow.
Deadline reports that 'The Fault in Our Stars' is estimated to have taken in almost $48 million dollars this weekend, a strong showing considering the movie was made at a modest budget. It edged out the other big release, the sci-fi action film 'The Edge of Tomorrow' starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, which is estimated to have only taken in around $29 million for its first weekend.
According to Rotten Tomatoes, 'The Fault in Our Stars' was well received by critics with 82% of the movie's film reviews giving the picture a positive rating. The film scored even higher with audiences, with 93% of almost 41,000 surveyed viewers giving the movie a high score.


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Rolling Thunder
With post-Vietnam War movies there is a "Vietnam Vet taking down his enemies" genre that would include the pulp biggies Taxi Driver, Billy Jack and First Blood, as well as pure vigilante exploitation films like Eye of the Tiger, Vigilante Force, The Exterminator, The Annihilators and Gordon's War (not to be confused with the 'Nam vets that appear as crazies in Targets, Black Sunday, Skyjacked and Earthquake or the zombie vets of Cannibal Apocalypse). Somewhere between pulp and vetploitation lays the very intense and violent Rolling Thunder. This was director Joe Flynn's followup to his interesting crime thriller The Outfit. Paul Schrader (most famous for writing Taxi Driver and Raging Bull) wrote the screenplay though he claims it was reworked away from his original intention by credited co-writer Heywood Gould (Fort Apache the Bronx and Cocktail). Either way Rolling Thunder definitely carries Schrader's signature theme of the lonely loner on a self-destructive path against society while seeking his own kind of redemption.
The film opens with Denny Brooks' ballad "San Antone," which was used similarly in The Ninth Configuration (he also sang the theme to the Chuck Norris choppy-socky Breaker! Breaker!). After spending years as POWs, Major Charles Rane (William Devane) and Sergeant Johnny Vohden (a very young and very intense Tommy Lee Jones) finally return home to Texas. Of course, we know from our film studies, going as far back as William Wyler's WWII drama The Best Years of Our Lives, that returning vets have a tough time readjusting. And Rane is no different. His pretty wife Janet (Lisa Blake Richards of TV's Dark Shadows) tries to help him ease back into civilian life, but he senses she has moved on (it's obvious she has been involved with a local cop), and his son doesn't even remember him. Rane suffers from PTSD and is emotionally distant, even turning down the advances of a young military groupie, Linda (Linda Haynes). The town tries to make him feel welcomed with a parade, a new car and over two grand in silver dollars (one for every day he was in captivity).Continue Reading


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As the stock market has hit new highs, so too has customer satisfaction with banks and insurers.
The American Customer Satisfaction Index reported Tuesday that the index was up 0.3% to 76.7 on a 0–100 scale.
The ACSI Finance and Insurance Report 2013 was based on interviews with 5,296 customers, chosen at random and contacted via telephone and email between July 10 and Sept. 4.
Participants were asked to evaluate their recent experiences with financial services — including banks, credit unions, health insurance, property and casualty insurance and life insurance — provided by the largest companies in terms of market share, plus an aggregate category consisting of "all other" — and thus smaller — providers.
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Overall customer satisfaction with retail banking returned to its prerecession level, growing by 1.3% over the past year to an ACSI benchmark of 78.
"Even though banks have raised fees again, the 15th straight year of such increases, no negative repercussions have been detected regarding customer satisfaction," Claes Fornell, ACSI's founder and chairman, said in a statement.
"In part, this is because a fair number of consumers are changing their behavior to avoid the fees by exclusively using their own bank's ATMs and maintaining sufficiently large account balances."
All of the big banks improved, but smaller ones far outdistanced their larger competitors, up 5% to 83, as did credit unions, up 4% to 85.
Among the four largest banks, JPMorgan Chase held on to its lead with a 3% gain to 76, while Citigroup jumped 6% to 74, and Wells Fargo inched up 1% to 72.
Bank of America registered its largest improvement in a decade, up 5% to 69, but remained in last place. It was the only bank that had yet to restore its prerecession level of customer satisfaction.
Banks and credit unions received good marks for their customer service at branches and for online banking. But customers gave a failing grade to the competitiveness of bank interest rates, while credit union customers complained about the lack of convenient ATMs and branches.
Customer satisfaction with health insurance was up 1.4% to an ACSI benchmark of 73. High premiums, out-of-pocket expenses and complicated policies contributed to relatively low satisfaction compared with other financial services.
"The health insurance industry is in a state of flux as many parts of the Affordable Care Act come into effect, including insurance exchanges, which allow consumers to comparison shop for health care coverage," ACSI director David VanAmburg said in the statement.
"The customer satisfaction gains this year may be driven in part by expected price competition as health insurance companies anticipate the effects of the new online marketplace."
In addition to possible increased price competition, health insurers have an opportunity to distinguish themselves by competing on customer satisfaction, the report said. At present, there is little differentiation, with most companies clustered around the industry average.
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association led with an ACSI score of 74, while WellPoint matched the industry average of 73. The aggregate of smaller insurers such as Cigna and Humana remained just below average at 72. UnitedHealth was stable at 70, while Aetna held the bottom spot at 69.
Customers showed disdain for most aspects of the health insurance experience. Although most policies provide reasonably good access to hospitals and primary and specialty care doctors, customers thought coverage of services, particularly prescription drugs, could be better. They found billings fairly difficult to understand. And they gave low marks to both insurance websites and call centers.
In the latest index, customer satisfaction improved for both life and property and casualty insurance. Life insurance was up for the second consecutive year, to 83. Despite annual rate increases, customer satisfaction with property and casualty insurance also rose, to 81.
Customers were more satisfied with auto insurance than homeowners insurance, although customers with multiple policies from the same insurer expressed the highest level of satisfaction.
Increased customer satisfaction with property and casualty was the result of large gains for smaller insurance carriers, a group that includes AAA and Nationwide, up 8% to 83.
Among the largest property and casualty insurers, only Geico improved, up 3% to 81, taking the top spot from State Farm, down 2% to 79, and Progressive, down 4% to 78. Allstate fell by 3% to 77, and Farmers dropped by 4% to 76.
Smaller life insurance companies, such as John Hancock and Lincoln Financial, also tended to have higher customer satisfaction than big providers, leading with an 83 aggregate score.
Among the large companies, New York Life remained on top, unchanged at 80 for a third year in a row. Northwestern Mutual and Prudential tied at 78, and MetLife was at 77.
Policy holders of property and life insurance gave firms high marks for their customer service and the variety of coverage options, but were frustrated by the unavailability of meaningful policy discounts and rewards.
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Sledding/Snow Wheeling Run at the Ahtanum State Forest
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On Sunday January 29th, 2012 we had a redo of our annual sledding run at the Ahtanum State Forest for the Eastern Washington Adventures members since the one is December did not work out.
Around 10 AM we met up at the Highland Quick Stop in Cowiche and convoyed to the parking area at the end of the pavement on Cowiche Mill Road to air down. We headed up the gravel part of Cowiche Mill Road, turn on C-1000 and went up on Cowiche Ridge. The snow was just perfect for snow wheeling.
We had a few hill climbs Victor's Bronco could not make. The group helped Victor get through the tougher sections. I broke trail until the drifts got deep. I made a mess out of the snow on one climb around a bend since I only have a rear locker the caused the rig to crab walk. I hit one tree and broke off my passenger side taillight again. Once everyone was through that part, BlindPilot took the lead pulling Victors Bronco. BlindPilot pulled Victor's Bronco a a long way breaking trail up hill. I have to say, BlindPilot's rig with the Bronco in tow still out did mine. I think BlindPilot's rig runs on Pixie Dust.
The ones that wanted to sled did in the areas we had to do recovery. The main two times was the first climb Victor's rig had trouble and then another rig had problems on top of the Hogback.
Near dark after getting everyone off of the Strobach Mountain 4x4 Trail, we headed out with BlindPilot leading the way. We dropped down Nasty Creek and aired up at the corrals.
This was a very fun day snow wheeling and sledding thanks to who came.
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A spokeswoman for Apple Inc. said Friday's award by a federal jury in San Jose of $1.05 billion from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for patent infringement sends "a loud and clear message that stealing isn't right."
Spokeswoman Katie Cotton said, "We make these products to delight our customers, not for our competitors to flagrantly copy."
"The mountain of evidence presented during the trail showed that Samsung's copying went far deeper than even we knew. The lawsuits between Apple and Samsung were about much more than patents or money. They were about values. At Apple, we value originality and innovation and pour our lives into making the best products on earth. We make these products to delight our customers, not for our competitors to flagrantly copy. We applaud the court for finding Samsung's behavior willful and for sending a loud and clear message that stealing isn't right," Cotton said in a statement.
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Samsung issued a statement saying, "This is not the final word in this case," and said it will challenge the verdict in post-trial motions and then in an appeal if necessary.
"Today's verdict should not be viewed as a win for Apple, but as a loss for the American consumer. It will lead to fewer choices, less innovation, and potentially higher prices. It is unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners, or technology that is being improved every day by Samsung and other companies. Consumers have the right to choices, and they know what they are buying when they purchase Samsung products. This is not the final word in this case or in battles being waged in courts and tribunals around the world, some of which have already rejected many of Apple's claims. Samsung will continue to innovate and offer choices for the consumer," the company's statement read.
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The nine-member civil jury in the court of U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh found that Samsung's smartphones and tablets infringed on six of seven patents for which Cupertino-based Apple had claimed violations.
The jury also rejected Samsung's counterclaims that Apple's iPhones and iPads violated five of the South Korea-based Samsung's own patents.
The verdict came after three weeks of trial and three days of jury deliberations. In a 20-page verdict that answered dozens of questions posed to them, the jurors found that many but not all of the individual Samsung devices challenged by Apple violated the six patents.
It assessed the financial damages at $1.05 billion.
For its part, Apple said it will ask Koh to issue a preliminary injunction restricting the sales of some of the devices found to infringe its patents.
Koh initially set a Sept. 20 date for a hearing on Samsung's and Apple's motions, but in an order later this evening said she may postpone that hearing.
She ordered Apple to file by Aug. 27 a one-page chart identifying the Samsung products for which it is seeking a preliminary injunction. Koh said she will schedule the hearing after reviewing the scope of Apple's preliminary injunction request.
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How Romney Really Feels About Republicans
Editor's note: LZ Granderson, who writes a weekly column for CNN.com, was named journalist of the year by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and is a 2011 Online Journalism Award finalist for commentary. He is a senior writer and columnist for ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com. Follow him on Twitter: @locs_n_laughs
(CNN) — By now, we all know about the not-so-secret video of Mitt Romney calling 47% of the country a bunch of losers, or how some Republicans are trying to spin this embarrassment as somehow being part of their message. So, what should we make of it?
Remember the Washington Post story from a few months ago that we dismissed as not terribly significant about Romney's bullying days in high school?
We thought his casual "If I offended … " apology was just a tone-deaf gaffe. The country's attitude toward bullying is different now than it was when Romney was in school, and we just figured he didn't get it. But who cares, right? That was so many years ago — the stuff of adolescence.
So we overlooked the fact that he deliberately held a door closed while a sight-impaired teacher walked into it. We overlooked the fact that he helped pin down a new kid in school and cut his hair. In defense of his teenage years, Romney said he's a different person today and we said OK.
But who was the guy who said, "I'm not concerned about the very poor"?
Who said, "I'm running for office, for Pete's sake — I can't have illegals"?
"Middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less."
"$10,000 bet"?
And now this:
"There are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47% who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. … These are people who pay no income tax."
At some point, poor and middle-class Republicans need to connect all of these tiny, seemingly unrelated dots to see the bigger picture: These are not gaffes by Mitt Romney.
This is Mitt Romney.
Republicans, especially in the South, who are not rich, better take a good, long hard look at the man and what he said in the video. It may seem like Romney is trashing Democrats at the $50,000-a-plate dinner, but really he's talking about Republicans.
Eight of the 10 states with the highest percentage of filers who didn't pay federal income taxes are red states that voted for John McCain in 2008: Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, South Carolina, Arkansas, and Idaho. Only New Mexico and Florida voted for Obama. Conversely, of the 10 states with the lowest percentage of filers who didn't pay federal income taxes, seven voted for Obama. Only Alaska, Wyoming and North Dakota voted for McCain.
So if you were at that May 17 dinner at Marc Leder's home in Boca Raton when Romney said all of these people who don't pay income taxes voted for Obama — he lied, or didn't know his facts.
But of course, this should not come as a surprise. All politicians flip flop and stretch the truth — from your local city council to the White House. And Obama certainly has done his share of massaging the truth. Because of this, elections, especially like the one in November, are not about which candidate is telling the truth, but rather whose version of the truth can you live with.
Romney stood in a room full of millionaires and gave an off-the-cuff remark that called 47% of the country is looking for a handout. He said he could never convince that 47% to be responsible for their own lives and that his job is not to worry about those people. That's his version of the truth.
The question is, does your version agree with his version?
I can remember working two jobs to pay for college and not being required to file income taxes because I did not make enough money. I don't think working two jobs made me lazy and I am grateful that the government was there to provide student loans to help me out. Loans I have since paid back. I might be crazy, but I don't think I'm the only person whose version of the truth looks like that.
Keep in mind a large portion of the 47% that Romney was talking about are middle- and low-income Republicans who voted for McCain. They are not Obama-loving Democrats. That's not spin, that's fact.
And Romney's characterizations of people less fortunate than himself are not gaffes. They are glimpses into the mentality of a man who pulled a prank on a blind teacher as a kid in high school and said he wasn't concerned about the very poor as an adult.
Isn't it clear by now that these Romney hiccups are not just random occurrences that can happen on a campaign trail? What the video released by Mother Jones proves once and for all is that Romney is whom his words make him out to be.
Poor and middle-class Republicans can still vote for Romney. But they should at least know the truth about how he really feels about them.
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Mitt Romeny is an idiot, he's blowing his own campaign!
Not that I'm complaining. That's why I think Obama will WIN! 🙂


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A measure under consideration in Holiston would allow energy businesses to set up shop in the town's industrial parks with fewer procedural hurdles. Town Manager Paul LeBeau said the measure is, in part, an effort to meet goals set by the Green Communities Act, signed into law in 2008.
An article on the warrant for the May 10 Town Meeting is just the first step toward expanding alternative energy efforts in town, said Planning Board Chairman Geoffrey Zeamer.
Town Manager Paul LeBeau said the measure is, in part, an effort to meet goals set by the Green Communities Act, signed into law in 2008.
If it passes, the measure would allow energy businesses to set up shop in the town's industrial parks with fewer procedural hurdles.
The measure would be beneficial on many levels, LeBeau said. It would create jobs, encourage green business and expand the tax base.
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Additionally, the measure is a step toward opening the town to grants or assistance for energy initiatives in town, offered under the Green Communities Act, said LeBeau.
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The Enoksson family of Varnamo said they woke up Sunday morning to discover the elephants, which escaped from a nearby circus, wandering around their yard, The Local.se reported Monday.
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Perlman has authored two networking textbooks and earned a Ph.D. from MIT in computer science. She holds approximately 100 patents in encryption, decryption and routing. Perlman has been recognized with numerous industry awards including an honorary doctorate from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, the Usenix Association lifetime achievement award, Silicon Valley Inventor of the year in 2004 and the Women of Vision Award for Innovation in 2005.
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Just in case you are wondering what a column about Special Weapons and Tactics (S.W.A.T.) has to do with the fitness industry, let me explain. In this article, I'm referring to S.W.O.T. as in Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.
A S.W.O.T. is a business practice that is used as a self-evaluation tool for organizations, departments, senior- and middle-level managers as well as for non-management employees. To perform a S.W.O.T., a club evaluates its strengths and weaknesses, identifies areas in which its strengths aren't being fully used and looks at threats that can damage or adversely affect its business growth potential. If you are one of the fitness organizations and progressive managers who already evaluate your organizations, various departments and personnel, please do not read any further. However, if this is new to you, you need to continue reading so you can have a better business year in 2006.
As a club general manager in 2005, at what point did you sit down with your operating groups to determine not only how they were doing but also how they could do a better job to reach and/or exceed their goals? As a personal training manager, when did you sit with each of your trainers to determine not only how they could be more productive, but also how you could help them develop an action plan that could increase their productivity? As a group exercise manager, when did you evaluate whether or not your studio occupancy rate was cost effective? If it wasn't cost effective, how did you develop an action plan that would increase your studio occupancy rate? These points are just the tip of the S.W.O.T iceberg.
When used progressively, a S.W.O.T. analysis can get the leadership team rapidly aligned, engaged and involved with the organization at all levels and build a shared, balanced consensus of an organization's and department's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. A S.W.O.T. can also build a consensus about an individual manager's performance profile vis-à-vis the manager's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and keep managers focused the daily business issues and the intermediate and long-term goals of the organization.
As a consultant, I have used this classic business tool in the fitness industry for the past five years. A proactive S.W.O.T. has helped various clubs nationally and internationally develop action plans to reach their financial and operational goals and assist fitness departments to develop action plans that helped them reach their financial objectives. This tool also helped a club owner hire a general manager instead of the owner performing the general manager function. After doing a S.W.O.T., another fitness director realized that she should voluntarily give up her position before she was asked to leave because her passion was in training and not in management, and an operations manager opted to become a full-time personal trainer and Pilates instructor because her background was more suited to service than to operations. A S.W.O.T. also helped an assistant manager decide to become a full-time personal trainer because he had more passion as a trainer than as a manager. Another personal trainer decided that he didn't have what it took to be a successful fitness professional, and he left the fitness industry.
The suggested frequency of a S.W.O.T. depends on the type of operation you manage. If you manage a profit center with an annual budget objective, you should be doing a S.W.O.T. every month. The monthly analysis will protect your quarterly, semi-annual and annual financial objectives. Not doing a S.W.O.T. at all suboptimizes your ability to meet and/or exceed your goals.
If you are a personal training manager, each of your personal trainers should do a S.W.O.T. The frequency of the trainers' S.W.O.T. is dictated by the increase in their success. The more successful they are, the less frequent the S.W.O.T. The less successful they are, the more frequent the S.W.O.T. until they either correct their problem areas or are terminated. Your ability to meet your monthly goals should be delegated to each trainer as a monthly performance expectation. If they all hit their expectations, you will hit your goals; if they don't, you won't hit your monthly goals.
Whenever the fitness industry meets and engages the Harvard Business School, the fitness industry always wins by incorporating new techniques into our best business practices.
What is a S.W.O.T.?
S.W.O.T. stands for the following:
Strengths: Think about what you do well. What makes you stand out from your competitors? What "value-added" do you professionally bring to the member's table? Does your club or department really create a "unique" experience for your members? Are you consistently hitting your budgetary objectives? If you are, that is strength. If you are not, that is a weakness.
Weaknesses: List the areas that are a struggle for you or your organization/department. Can you successfully engage your members or clients to the point where they can support your operational goals and financial objectives? Can you comfortably engage/communicate with all types of members? Can you address the diversified service needs of the members? If you can't, that's a weakness.
Opportunities: Try to identify areas where your strengths are not being fully used. Does your staff or department have access to programming skills that you have not been able to successfully display/advertise/market?
Threats: Look at things both inside and outside the club and/or your department that can damage and/or adversely affect your business growth potential. Are there new fitness/training trends that you don't have access to? Is the status of the economy affecting your business? Have you developed strategies that can minimize the impact of the "weak" economy?


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With apologies to Taj Gibson, who replaced Bruce Lee just four days ago, this posterized Kevin Durant dunk over Brendan Haywood (click here to see the full view) should now be required to hang above every American mantlepiece in felt-tip form.
The Thunder evened up the series last night, 106-100 in Dallas, and cut Dirk Nowitzki's scoring in half — from 48 points in Game 1 to a more humane 29 last night. That's progress, but what's more impressive is that down the stretch, the team that is relentlessly criticized for relying two heavily on Durant and Russell Westbrook instead relied on its reserves. James Harden, who came off the bench to score 23 points, had 10 in the fourth quarter on 4-for-5 shooting, and Eric Maynor, Nick Collison and Daequan Cook added 13, eight, and six points, respectively. If Oklahoma City gets consistent support off the bench — and if they defer to Durant for the wall hangings — then this series will stay interesting.
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Admittedly, Batkid did have a little help from the Make-a-Wish Foundation, the local police, the local news, and literally thousands of San Francisco natives. But I only think that adds to his legend, not detracts from it — there's no way Batman could inspire all the citizens of Gotham City to come help him out. If only because at least 25% of the population are violent criminals.
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Final preparations are under way for the launch of India's first mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-1. The spacecraft is due to take off early tomorrow morning, 22 October 2008, on India's own Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR) in Sriharikota, India.
The launch can be followed live on the official website of ISRO, the Indian Space Research Organization. The webcast will start at 02:30 am and continue until 03:30 am Central European Summer Time (CEST).
Chandrayaan-1 will map the Moon at high resolution and different wavelengths to help understand the origin and evolution of our only natural satellite. The mission will make a detailed study of the Moon's mineralogy, and will generate a digital 3D atlas of the Moon's surface. The mission will also look for water ice around the poles.
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Here is my second regiment of Montrose Irish this time advancing and loading. The figures are once again the fantastic Bicorne ECW range. The flag is from Flags of War where the generous Ian sent me free enlarged ones to replace the smaller ones I had. The old ones were very nice, but the new ones are even better both in quality and size. Thanks again Ian if your reading!!
The principle behind this regiment is the same as the other one I did in that I took quite a few liberties in my impression of the hard fighting Irish Brigade and thus is not an attempt on a direct reflection of what they looked like, but I still hope it comes off looking if not exact then somewhat believable.
I'm looking to shift into the Scottish portion of the army soon with Renegade and Redoubt figures making up the lion share of those regiments, but I probably will come back and do a third Irish regiment at some point. I'm not sure if I want to paint tartans on my Scots as that's horribly time consuming!
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Vladimir N. Bratchenko-Rose Flamingo Rose Wine
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Interview with Vladimir N. Bratchenko : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Vladimir N. Bratchenko : The main inspiration behind this design is a beauty of the bird Rose Flamingo. So the main idea in this design to integrate FLAMINGO's beauty with elegance of the rose wine. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Vladimir N. Bratchenko : Our main focus has been made unique bright design. We didn't want to make ordinary wine label design. We wanted to get something really special. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Vladimir N. Bratchenko : We going to sell this design. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Vladimir N. Bratchenko : We spent about three weeks to finish design of this concept. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Vladimir N. Bratchenko : We definitely were inspired by the image of Rose Flamingo. It was a spontaneous project. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Vladimir N. Bratchenko : This design was made for sell. So, at this moment we are looking for customer. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Vladimir N. Bratchenko : We have been worked with amazing illustrator Patrick Seymour. I was really nice collaboration. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Vladimir N. Bratchenko : Target customer is a producer of the wines. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Vladimir N. Bratchenko : We got two parts of this design that make it unique: illustration with stylish drawing of Flamingo and a bottle. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Vladimir N. Bratchenko : The name of this design is comes from the Bird Rose Flamingo. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Vladimir N. Bratchenko : We have been used Illustrator, Cinema 4D, Rhinoceros and Photoshop. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Vladimir N. Bratchenko : I think that most unique aspect of our design is an illustration of Patrick. It looks very unusual. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Vladimir N. Bratchenko : Yes, we got a team work. Patrick Seymour made an illustrations, Egvenii worked with 3D model and I made 3D visualization, rendering and post production. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Vladimir N. Bratchenko : We used 3D programs. It was really convenient to finish our concept. Cause final result looks like a photo. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Vladimir N. Bratchenko : As I sad before in was spontaneous project. But before started this project I made some research about Rose Wine, especially wines named Flamingo. After that we started work on illustrations and bottle designs. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Vladimir N. Bratchenko : Well, we really looked for balanced rose color and bottle design. It was very important that all parts of design should be in a harmony. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Vladimir N. Bratchenko : I've got an invitation from A'Design Award Team. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Vladimir N. Bratchenko : We worked with professional illustrator Patrick Seymour. So I got really nice experience while worked on this project. .
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Are your top performers getting promoted based on the ongoing results they are achieving? Do you have a promotion model in place that encourages your employees to work hard to earn more status and money? Promoting your best performers is beneficial in many ways, including creating a culture of excellence in your business.
Promoting your employees from within your company can be a win-win situation for small businesses. Not only does it save time and money, but also creates an environment where overall morale is increased as well. Many small businesses promote their employees for the right reasons, such as their contribution to the business, increased sales or the achievement of specific objectives. Some provide promotions for all the wrong reasons.
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I'll be a guest on TWiT's TNT tonight
For those following my pseudo media "career" you'll be jumping for joy to know that I'll be appearing on the TWiT network's "Tech News Today" (TNT) show for their Monday episode. The recording will be streamed live here in Australia early tomorrow morning, Tuesday, Sept 18th at 3am AEST.
Feel free to watch the show, if you're awake, here: http://live.twit.tv
Or download the episode tomorrow here: http://twit.tv/show/tech-news-today
Also you can read about TWiT and my recent visit to their studio in Petaluma, California over on MacTalk at the moment here: http://www.mactalk.com.au/content/visiting-twit-studios-2575/


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Cheryl Ladd: Chuck's Mother of a Twist Will Wow Fans - Plus, Her Take on TV's Grounded Angels
NBC's Chuck (Fridays, 8/7c) marked the midway point of its farewell season by dropping a "baby" bombshell relating to Sarah's past. The action picks up this week with Sarah, dreading whatever it is that Shaw set in motion, high-tailing it to Hungary to confront her original CIA handler (played by White Collar's Tim DeKay), whom she fears is out to harm, among others, her mother Emma (Charlie's Angels' Cheryl Ladd). READ PREVIEW!


text: Take a step back into a different time and era with the San Marcos bedroom medley. Pine solids and Cherry veneers paint shades of browns and reds mingled together ceremoniously. The drawers are French Dovetailed in the front and English Dovetailed in the back with ball bearing drawer glides, and stained and sealed boxes. The top drawers are felt lined for jewelry or estate pieces. The bottom drawers within the Chest and Dresser are Cedar paneled. The case goods have framed drawerswith shaping around the circular hardware pulls. Large crown and base moldings wrap the pieces in pure luxury. The statement piece being the bed with iron, scroll work entwined on the head and footboards. The camel-shaped works of art frame the intricate designs.


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Atletico Madrid legend Paulo Futre has spoken of his friendship with Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho, and commended the former Chelsea boss for his sportsmanship after the match between the two Spanish capital clubs.
Los Blancos triumphed 2-0 in the Madrid derby, and the Portuguese jumped to defend counterpart Diego Simeone, who was the subject of harsh words from fans.
Futre believes Mourinho's actions were noble and spoke of his pride of being friends with the former Inter coach.
"Everyone knows I was desperate to see Atleti beat Real on Saturday, but it wasn't to be," Futre is quoted as saying by Marca.
"A few days after the game, no longer seething about the defeat and joking apart, I feel even more proud to be Mourinho's friend.
"Particularly after the gesture he made for our brilliant [Diego] 'Cholo' Simeone. Only great champions like Mourinho could do that, silencing the public in defence of a colleague from a rival team.
"No one in Spanish football has ever made such a gesture or had the courage to call for thousands of people to stop because they are showing a lack of respect to the manager of the opposing team."


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HAVERFORD, Pa. – Saturday afternoon's 10-6 men's lacrosse win by No. 12 Haverford College over visiting Centennial Conference rival Swarthmore College allows the Fords to head into the postseason league tournament next weekend with momentum gained from, and within, the victory.
Haverford (11-3, 6-2 CC) raced out to a 5-1 lead over the Garnet (4-11, 2-6) through the first 15 minutes of action, but the tables turned drastically in the second quarter.
Swarthmore limited the Fords to just a single shot—with 1:10 left in the quarter—while it rebounded offensively with three goals to pull within one, 5-4, as the teams headed into the halftime intermission.
The quarter could have been worse if Haverford goalkeeper Joe Banno hadn't come up with four saves, and his defensive mates hadn't kept the Garnet's other seven shots from being clean attempts directed toward Banno.
Momentum still hung around Swarthmore's neck in the third as they tied the game at 5-5 on Brendan Conway's goal halfway through the period. Max Hjelm turned the tide of the game for Haverford, though, with a pair of goals in span of 127 seconds, which allowed the offense to escape from a turnover affliction they'd been suffering from since taking that 5-1 lead early in the contest.
The Fords suffered through 17 turnovers on 18 consecutive possessions between the fifth goal and Hjelms' score at 2:53 of the third. In that span Haverford got off only four shots leaving Banno and the defense to hold down the fort.
Once awakened, the Fords' attack began to gel again as it outscored Swarthmore 5-1 over the final 18 minutes of the game.
Hjelm and Myles Monaghan finished with a team-high three goals apiece in the win while four other Fords scored one goal each.
In the defensive third, Banno finished with 17 saves to earn the victory in goal for Haverford. Defenders Dillon Hamill and Scott Kelley combined to register eight of the team's 10 caused turnovers and the Fords held Swarthmore's extra-man opportunities to an 0-for-5 day.
Swarthmore's Jonathan Cohen took the loss after allowing all 10 Haverford goals and making just one save.
The men's lacrosse win over Swarthmore increases Haverford's lead, 10.5-3.5, in the Hood Trophy competition between the two schools. The Fords clinched the 2010-11 trophy with baseball's sweep of the Garnet in early April.
The Centennial tournament lies ahead for the Fords who will enter the playoffs with the No. 3 seed and will take on No. 2 Gettysburg College Friday afternoon in Carlisle, Pa., at host and regular season champion Dickinson College.


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All aboard the Perryville Railroad Museum in the MARC train station. The museum is open on Sundays from noon to 4 p.m. and there's no admission charge. They have a working HO scale model layout of the Perryville railroad wye, numerous railroad artifacts on display, railroad history literature available and a photo gallery of the Pennsylvania, B&O and other railroads and other historical pictures. Come on down a see them.
Now that summer is almost over Harmony Lodge 53 AF & AM will start with monthly all you can eat Breakfasts. The first will be on Saturday Sept. 14 from 7 to 10 a.m. at the Lodge on Tome Highway in Port Deposit.
On Saturday, Aug. 17, there's a basket bingo to benefit the Whiteford Volunteer Fire Company, at the fire house at 1407 Pylesville Road, Whiteford. Tickets cost $15 with a $5 charge for extras; doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets available by calling Janet Holbrook at 410-452-8345, Dolores Wright at 410-457-4962 or Tesha Wright at 410-459-4127.
Harmony Lodge 53 AF & AM held its annual summer picnic at the lodge on Tome Highway Aug 11 with more than 50 people in attendance. They enjoyed hot dogs, hamburgers and an assortment of covered dishes.
A crab feast, proudly sponsored by the American Legion Susquehanna Post 135, 300 Cherry Street, Perryville, is planned Aug. 18, from 1 to 5 p.m. The menu includes crabs, crab soup, corn on the cob, hot dogs, salads, watermelon, dessert, draft beer and soda. Cost $35 for adults in advance or $40 at the door. Children 6-16 are $17 and those younger than 6 admitted free. Only 200 tickets are available. For tickets, contact the Post at 410-642-2771 or 443-350-1452 or send check with number of tickets requested to: American Legion Post 135, PO Box 98 Perryville, MD 21903
Happy belated birthday to Donna Armijo, who celebrated on Aug. 11.
Birthday wishes are extended to Cheryl Spruill, who will celebrate on Aug. 22.
Colleen Chamberlain sends happy belated birthday wishes to Luther Vaught, Perryville, Aug.11 and Joe Marshall, Port Deposit, Aug. 14.
A special happy birthday from Colleen Chamberlain to her grandson, Jared Grove, of Perryville, who celebrates on Aug. 18.
Lastly, Colleen Chamberlain also sends birthday wishes on Aug. 19 to Elaine Patterson and Debbie Miller, both of Perryville.
Birthday wishes are sent to Linda Southall-Barton from her family, daughter Natalie and son Jeffrey as well as her parents Herb and Mary Lou Southall, brother and sisters and their families, Roger and Bev Southall, Ruth, Karl and Hannah Ventela, Roger and Sarah Southall, Janet Southall, Casey Wilson, and Shirley, Don, Donny, Stephanie and Hannah Morse.
Get well wishes and thinking of you wishes go to Debbie Raynovich, Cheryl Simms, Gladys Watsic, David Holley, Mildred Martin, Raymond Trott, Cliff Voris, Eleanor Kight, Frankie Garland, Doris Hess, Meryl McLaughlin, Ralph Speakman, Betty McFadden, Betty and Jim Fayer, Bo Sinclair, Georgia Gransky, Helen Wood Bagley, Frances Riale, Marianne and Tom Pryer, June Peddicord, Gertrude Fassell, Dona and Andy Larkins, Bonnie Wagner, Ray Trott, Ethel Dill, Pastor Henry Schaefer, Terry Thurman, Leslie Dissek, Stephen Pyle, Vicki Snyder, Bobby Steward, Nancy Quinn, Adam Zeller, Sandy Brooks, Janet and Pastor Neale Wirtanen, Gisela Knapp, Kit Harris, Sharon Todd, Margaret Gosweiler, Wayne Erickson, Pauline Gosweiler, Ed Illick, Rosemary Ronning, June Gangel, Joe Pacifico, Dennis Bolen, Herb Southall, Mary Lou Southall, Bonnie Donoho and Peggy Scholl.
Havre de Grace Chapter 27, Order of the Eastern Star will have a flapjack fundraiser breakfast on Aug 24 from 8 to 10 a.m. Applebee's, 991 Beards Hill Road, Aberdeen. Cost $7 per adult and $3 per child. Call Diane Smith for tickets at 410-939-2754.
The 50th anniversary of the Havre de Grace Art Show will be today (Friday Aug. 16) from 5 to 9 p.m. featuring the Rumba Club a Latin jazz group. Wine and beer will be available for sale. Saturday Aug. 17 and Sunday Aug. 18 the event will be open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., all in Tydngs Park. This event is sponsored by the Soroptimist International of Havre de Grace. For more information call 410-939-9342 or email email@example.com. Check out the web at hdgartshow.org.
Thank you to all those who submit articles for the column. Keep those birthdays, anniversaries, special parties and celebrations, family functions, vacations and anything you want to see in print coming to me at email@example.com. And don't forget to mark the subject line "ARTICLE FOR THE RECORD." If I don't see the note and I don't recognize you're email address, I won't open the message.
Remember this – We live in the land of the free – because of the brave! Thank a soldier today!


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|Fraggle Rock
|Air Date
|June 3, 1983
|Written by
|Sugith Varughese
|George Bloomfield
Fed up with Wembley's wembling, Gobo makes the terrifying journey to face the dreaded Beast of Blue Rock alone. But Gobo forgets his pickax, so Wembley has to go after him.
Meanwhile, Doc tends to Sprocket when he falls sick and plans to take him to the veterinarian.
Fraggle Facts
- Blue Rock is a magical place. It's visible only two days after the Doozer Equinox, and then disappears for a year.
- Marjory the Trash Heap shows her magical abilities here, appearing to Wembley and Gobo at Blue Rock and teleporting them home again.
- The Beast of Blue Rock is not a physical creature but fear. As Marjory says: while the beast will return, with the help of friends it can be defeated -- as it was by Wembley and Gobo at Blue Rock.
- Marjory also explains that she was the one who made up the rumor of the Beast of Blue Rock, expressing surprise that the old rumors kept Fraggles away for centuries.
- Large Marvin, the fattest Fraggle in the world, debuts in this episode.
Supporting cast
Video releases
- Fraggle Rock: Complete First Season (HIT!, 2005)
- Fraggle Rock: Complete Series Collection (HIT!, 2008)
International episode titles
- Denmark: "Bæstet på Blåbjerg"
- Finland: "Sinikallion peto"
- France: "La Bête de Roc Bleu" (The Beast of Blue Rock)
- Germany: "Das Ungeheuer von Blaufels" (The Mystery of the Blue Rock)
- Japan: "ブルーロックの"
- The Netherlands: "Het enge beest" (The Scary Beast)
- Norway: "Beistet i Blåsteinen"
- Poland: "Bestia z błękitnej skały" (The Beast of Blue Rocks)
- Spain: "La bestia de Bluerock"
- Sweden: "Bæstet på Blåbjerg"
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Neil Saravanamuttoo necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 6 diseños de 1 diseñadores freelance.
Digital Hom.es
Digital Hom.es (http://www.digitalhom.es) provides a set of instructional DVDs that teach you how to use Apple products and third party peripherals to build a digital home. For this project, I need artwork for a set of 3 DVDs and 1 DVD case.
As part of the design price, I would like the winning designer to prepare two simple follow-up products:
1- two simple web buttons (1" x 2", 1.5" x 5") in a similar style, which can link to the DVD promotional page.
2- one image that includes all three discs and the DVD Cover (see the attached file samplecollection.png to get a sense of what I am looking for).
At Digital Hom.es, we design and create affordable and elegant Apple-powered digital home solutions. Home automation has been a niche market for the rich, but new products from Apple now allow anyone to use digital tools to simplify their lives at home. We shows people how to build digital homes at a fraction of the price of proprietary systems.
Ordinary people who want to use digital tools to simplify their lives at home.
NOTE (and sorry for having to put this under "target audience"):
DVD art guidelines:
1. please see attached file dvdtemplate.jpg for more information.
2. Do not use dark colors for the background color or your discs. For example, printing light text on a dark or black background is not recommended. They do not print as well as lighter colors or white backgrounds.
3. We print to what's called "hub printable" discs. They have a 2CM internal non printable area.
4. Your graphic needs to be square (have a 1x1 aspect ratio)
5. It's ok (and recommended) to have the graphics reach very close to the center of the disc.
6. Our system scales down the image, so the outer edge of your graphic WILL be printed on the outer edge of the disc.
7. Leave a little room on the outer edge of your graphic for a non printed area. This area would be less than 2MM. Just don't print important text or graphics right up to the edge. Have a little bit of a buffer.
8. Your image should be high resolution. Basically, make sure you print the image on your laser printer, and if it prints larger than a CD/DVD, and looks good, it will also look good on our system.
DVD Cover art guidelines:
1- see attached file dvdcasetemplate.jpg
This project is wide open in terms of creativity and design. My one design idea is to possibly include lifestyle pictures of people on the DVDs. This should be pictures of one or two people – focused in on smiling faces, enjoying life at home (but without any computer gear in the photos). The sort of photo I have in mind appear on the digitalhom.es website or in the attached couple photo. For the design competition, please use free comps from istockphoto. If I like a certain photo that you have selected as a comp, I will buy it and make it available for you to input into the design.
The 3 DVDs should be clearly part of the same series, but each distinct. Please do not use the Apple or other third party logos. Please use the attached Digital Hom.es logo.
Feel free to only design the first DVD. If your design is among the 2 or 3 designs with the potential to win the contest, I can then ask you then to produce DVD 2 and 3.
DVD text:
The Complete Guide to Building an Apple Powered Digital Home
Disc 1: Understanding the Full Potential of Your Digital Home
Include digitalhom.es logo (attached)
DVD Cover art text:
Complete Guide to Building Your Own Digital Home
Disc 1: Understanding the Full Potential of Your Digital Home
Disc 2: Step-by-Step Guide to Audio and Video Solutions
Disc 3: Step-by-Step Guide to Home Controls
Include digitalhom.es logo and a DVD log