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I have been working on the perfect summer project. My friend and client just finished her outdoor oasis. I was lucky enough to help her with the furnishings and details (while taking an occasional dip in the pool). I wish you could have seen the before. It was an overgrown yard that has been transformed into a little slice of heaven.
It's the perfect spot for Summer visits or chilly nights by the fire.
Yes, that is a mounted TV -- great for watching the Olympics this weekend (hint) or the Super Bowl in January by the fire.
When we started this project, she said she wanted something traditional and classic. We added pops of color with pillows and plants and bright touches. One of my favorite local stops, Crabby Chic, supplied many of the sea inspired accessories and the place settings.
This dining table expands to seat 8 because they love to entertain.
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It really is the perfect summer spot for swimming...
Wading or relaxing on the pool's sunken sun decks.
I love an outdoor shower.
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Nima Bavardi-Newmoon Lighting
At Design Interviews
Interview with Nima Bavardi : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Nima Bavardi : The particular shape of the lamp refers to surface of the moon with its cheesy like holes .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Nima Bavardi : My main focus was to join performance and aesthetic beauty together and make emotional connection between the concept and the user. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Nima Bavardi : Actually i did not think about that but of course i will wait for founders for any offers for producing it. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Nima Bavardi : I do not remember exactly but i researched a lot about user experiences to design a true concept and i think it took 2 month till completing the concept. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Nima Bavardi : I pursuit an inspiration and wanted to join function and aesthetics together and also make connection between the concept and the user. .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?. Nima Bavardi : Not produced yet and as i told i am waiting orders from founders for producing it. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Nima Bavardi : Once i was walking at night and i saw some couple were looking at the sky and the moon and they say lovely words to each other while waking so i decided to bring that amazing scene to atmosphere of home at nights and users sense it. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Nima Bavardi : No, I do myself. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Nima Bavardi : all people from kids to old especially lovers! .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Nima Bavardi : function and aesthetic beauty are joined together and also it makes emotional connection between the concept and the users. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Nima Bavardi : Bringing the moonlight to atmosphere of home is new vision so i decided to name it "NewMoon" .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Nima Bavardi : I decided to bring the moonlight and lovely scenes to atmosphere of home at nights so i made emotional connection between the concept and the user by designing it and also function and aesthetic beauty are joined together. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Nima Bavardi : The glassy pendant dining table lighting is made by blown method and the luminosity parts are the latest LEDs. .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?. Nima Bavardi : As i said before i researched about user experiences and ... . .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Nima Bavardi : making emotional connection between the concept and the user and also joining function and aesthetic beuty together. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Nima Bavardi : Actually i was sure that my design will win because there are many researches behind it and it is different from other lighting concepts and products. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Nima Bavardi : I learned a good design should should easily connect, speak, be a friend, love and live with the user. That is why the user love the design. Emotional connection between a product an the user is my main perspective of explaining a good design. Joining all aspects of aesthetic, ergonomic, form, function, usabality, accessibility, ... complete the meaning of a good design. That is all I do in my designs. .
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a Lorax for a day? Join our TreeTeam for this unique one-on-one volunteer experience, where you will learn all about how to properly care for the urban forest. You will work in partnership with our expert staff to care for our forestry projects all throughout Baltimore City and County.
Its hot out and our trees are thirsty! Come help us water our newly planted trees all around Baltimore city and county! We will go to several sites where we have young trees and make sure they get the water they need to make it through the summer. please bring a water bottle and dress for warm weather!
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Kuala Lumpur is the capital of Malaysia and this city will certainly surprise you with its amazing mix of old and new. A holiday in this bustling, cosmopolitan and striking city will amaze and inspire you, that's for sure.
Kuala Lumpur, which is the most populous city in Malaysia, is the home to plenty of sights and attractions.On arrival, make sure to visit the Petronas Towers. They are twin skyscrapers in the heart of Kuala Lumpur and they are an iconic symbol of the advances that Malaysia has made in the 21st Century.
A trip to the Batu Caves is a must for any visitor to Kuala Lumpur. Here you will discover a limestone hill, with a large number of caves and cave temples. They are located in the Gombak district of Kuala Lumpur.
Merdeka Square is a very poignant place to visit in Kuala Lumpur and it is very close to the hearts of all Malaysian's. It was here at midnight on the 31st August 1957, in front of the Samed Building that the Union Flag was lowered and the Malaysian flag was hoisted up in its place.
You will find a fantastic selection of museums, including the National Museum, the Islamic Arts Museum, the Maybank Numismatic Museum (which holds the largest coin and money collection in Malaysia) and the Royal Malaysian Police Museum. This museum chronicles the history of the Royal Malaysian Police force. They're all amazing museums so make sure to visit at least one during your holiday in Kuala Lumpur.
The Kuala Lumpur Bird Park is a very popular tourist attraction. Each year, around 200,000 visitors pass through its doors.
Holiday makers to Kuala Lumpur will be happy to know that Malaysia's capital city is world-renowned for its shopping centres, where you will find 66 shopping malls. This is certainly a shopper's paradise.
When you are in Kuala Lumpur you certainly have to check out the local markets, which take place on a daily basis. Who knows what you might find at these markets.
First-time visitors to Kuala Lumpur may want to experience Kuala Lumpur life by enjoying a trip on the Kuala Lumpur Monorail, which glides through the city and gives passengers panoramic views of the Malaysian capital below.
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It was one word, shouted down the west sideline at Robertson Stadium by Dynamo goalkeepers coach Tim Hanley last Saturday, but it meant so much to so many different people.
The professional debut of 18-year-old Francisco Navas Cobo in a Dynamo jersey Saturday did not make the official game highlights on MLSsoccer.com and warranted merely a note in most game stories. But it was the latest in a series of milestones achieved by Dynamo Academy players, and its significance was not lost on the young man himself.
"Obviously I got excited and really happy," Navas Cobo said. "My first professional game, and it was awesome. I started thinking about my mom and all the work I've been doing to get here."
>>Click here for information on Dynamo Elite Camps, the tryouts for the Dynamo Academy, to follow in Francisco's footsteps.
Navas Cobo quickly rushed from warming up behind the north goal to the Dynamo bench, where he shed his warmup top and got hasty instructions from Dynamo coaches Dominic Kinnear and John Spencer. In the stands, Dynamo Academy players – several of whom were honored as Adidas High School Best XI selections earlier in the day – watched a former peer prepare to take his game to the next level and surely thought about their own dreams.
After all, Navas Cobo was sitting on the same bench seven months ago, watching as the Dynamo Academy U-18 team played its first game in the USSF Development Academy league with a 2-0 win at Robertson Stadium following the first team's match against Real Salt Lake. Ineligible to play that night while paperwork was sorted out, Navas Cobo was left to wonder when he would get to take the field in a Dynamo jersey, and it finally came to pass.
With the substitution card handed in, all Navas Cobo needed was a stoppage in play to make his professional debut. As he jumped up and down and tried to stay loose on the sideline, neither team seemed likely to put the ball out of play, and one began to wonder if he would miss his first chance at professional action. Finally Chivas USA earned a corner kick, but the Dynamo did not want to risk a substitution on an opponents' set piece, so Navas Cobo was left to wait some more.
Also waiting was Sinecio Cobo, Francisco's grandfather, who had been in Houston on a visit from Colombia since the preseason. Sinecio played a large part in raising Francisco, touching the boy's life so much that 'Cobo' was spelled out across the shoulders of the 18-year-old. Almost poetically, Sinecio had arrived shortly before Navas Cobo's introductory press conference in March, and now he was set to depart on Sunday, the day after his grandson's professional debut. Here in Houston, boy and grandfather waited the verdict.
>>Click here to read about Francisco Navas Cobo's decision to wear 'Cobo' on the back of his jersey.
Then a header flashed high, resulting in a goal kick, and the moment was upon him. After slapping hands with Geoff Cameron, Francisco Navas Cobo took to the field in competition for the first time as a professional. It was a moment he could not afford to savor, busy with the business of playing professional soccer, but a man watching from the pressbox could.
Wearnig a headset and microphone on the Dynamo television broadcast, Director of Youth Development James Clarkson had to rein in his reaction somewhat, but there was no stopping the pride as he watched one of his players – the first in Dynamo Academy history to make his debut – take the field for the first team.
"The previous time he was on the bench for a game at Robertson was last September," Clarkson said. "It's an amazing story, really. I remember talking to him on the field that night about someday doing it for the first team, but I didn't expect it to be this quick."
Quick is probably a good way to some up Navas Cobo's outing, as he was unable to get a touch to the ball in roughly 90 seconds of game action. But that hardly mattered. A resounding 3-0 victory, a professional debut, and a hug for his grandfather were probably enough for one day.
"It's not going to be my last one," Navas Cobo said. "I want to have the chance to get the ball and, hopefully, score."
There remains plenty to come for Navas Cobo, who made his debut for the United States U-20 national team earlier this year and could still make the trip to Chicago with the Dynamo depending on injuries and eligibility for various other first-team players. First, however, there was the small matter of deciding to whom a keepsake from his debut would go.
"I want to give it to my mom, or maybe to James," Navas Cobo said. "I don't know yet!"
This first jersey should probably go to his mother in Colombia, who was unable to be in Houston for his debut, but all who have been touched by Navas Cobo's rise to the first team can appreciate how much it means.


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Red Sox - 002 302 010 - 8 11 0 Orioles - 100 201 021 - 7 13 0Third-string catcher Ryan Lavarnway, pressed into starting his first major league game behind the plate, with Jason Varitek and Jarrod Saltalamacchia both hurt, hit two home runs -- the first two dongs of his major league career -- and drove in four runs. He also made a big play early on, gunning down Adam Jones trying to steal third in the second inning.
Jacoby Ellsbury and Marco Scutaro also went deep as Boston kept pace with the Rays, who beat the Yankees 5-3.
Boston and Tampa Bay are both 90-71, tied for the American League wild card. The fourth and final AL playoff team may be determined tomorrow night, or the matter may need to be settled in a one-game playoff game (4 PM) at Tropicana Field on Thursday.
Ellsbury's 32nd home run gave the Sox a 2-1 lead in the third. After singles by David Ortiz and Adrian Gonzalez in the fourth, Lavarnway drilled Britton's full-count fastball to left-center, and Boston led 5-1.
Baltimore got two back right away on a two-run shot by Matt Wieters, but after Carl Crawford's one-out triple in the sixth, Scutaro hit a ball that just cleared the wall in left, to increase the Sox's lead to 7-3.
Bedard (3.1-5-3-3-6, 84) was pulled in the fourth, and Alfredo Aceves (3.2-3-1-0-1, 36) held the line until the eighth inning. Unfortunately, that was when the trouble began.
Bard took the hill in the bottom of the eighth with an 8-4 lead. He allowed a leadoff single to Wieters, then got two outs before giving up an RBI single to Chris Davis (8-5) and a run-scoring triple to Nolan Reimold (8-6).
J.J. Hardy opened the bottom of the ninth with a single off Jonathan Papelbon. Markakis (the potential tying run) battled Bot through an 11-pitch at-bat, but grounded out to first, moving Hardy to second. Vlad Guerrero singled Hardy to third. Lavarnway made a play on Wieters's dribbler in front of the plate - it seemed to happen in slow motion - throwing him out at first, but Hardy scored (8-7) and pinch-runner Matt Angle took second. Papelbon had another battle on his hands with Jones, getting ahead 0-2, but having Jones work the count full, fouling off four pitches along the way. On the 10th pitch of the at-bat, Jones grounded out to Jed Lowrie at third to end the game.
One game remaining in the regular season. One game to decide who continues on to the post-season. ... Maybe. ... We may end up needing G163 on Thursday.
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Gonzalez, 1B
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It's embarrassing, man.
What's embarrassing?
You guys are better than this.
Well, I mean, you know, it happens. It's baseball. ... But let me tell you, don't let us win today ...
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@weeemus - Hello @weeemus, could you please consider making a version of Cloud Strife with the Buster Sword sheathed on his back? I love @Grimmy's version of Cloud Strife field model.
Nice I love the simplicity (fits with the original game better) .
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Thanks for the heads up. I'll use that next time.I just finished my buster sword. Time to import!
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ARLINGTON, VA — (WWJ) Honda's Odyssey has become the first minivan to ace a tough new crash test from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Because of that, the Odyssey is the first minivan to get the new TOP SAFETY PICK + designation from the Institute.
"Safety is high on the list for parents when it comes to shopping for a family vehicle," says Institute President Adrian Lund. "Consumers look for models with the highest safety ratings. Honda is ahead of many of its competitors in building state-of-the-art crashworthiness into its vehicles."
Honda asked the Insurance Institute to put the new 2014 Odyssey through its new, more challenging, small overlap crash test. That test simulates a vehicle hitting an object like a phone pole or tree. In the test, 25 percent of a vehicle's front end on the driver side strikes a 5-foot-tall rigid barrier at 40 mph. A 50th percentile male Hybrid III dummy is belted in the driver seat.
"What we did with the Odyssey, during a mid-cycle refresh, we were able to update the structure of the vehicle to demonstrate and to add more structure to the front of the vehicle," said Art St. Cyr, Honda's Vice President of Product Planning.
That included a redesign and a strengthening that went beyond what's normally done in what's usually a fairly simple update.
"In the Odyssey test, the driver's space was maintained reasonably well. Injury measures on the dummy indicated a low risk of injury in a crash of this severity," read a statement from the Institute. "Because the structure helped keep the steering column stable, the front airbag stayed in front of the driver dummy during the crash to provide good protection. The side curtain airbag deployed and had sufficient forward coverage to protect the head from contact with the side structure and outside objects."
Earlier this month, Honda's Civic received the top score among small cars to go through this new test. The Accord also received a top rating when it went through the test earlier.
While the Odyssey is the first minivan to have its small overlap front test scores released publicly, the Institute has been putting many vehicles through the test, in an effort to encourage carmakers to take safety up another notch.
"Automobile accidents remain a leading cause of injury and death in the U.S., but ongoing improvements in occupant safety will chip away at those statistics until, ideally, they reach a number we can all celebrate," said Karl Brauer an analyst with Kelly Blue Book.
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Ancient Lake Florissant was formed when two or more stratovolcanoes sent ash and lahar flowing across the mountain valley that is now home to the Florissant Fossil Bed National Monument.
The lake, lahar flows and ash falls created an outstanding environment for preserving evidence of the animals, insects and plants found in this valley. The National Monument provides an unparalleled look into this vanished landscape and the Eocene plant and animal inhabitants that were preserved.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is located in Colorado, USA, west of Colorado Springs. The fossils from this area consist mostly of plants and insects, and a few vertebrates, from lake deposits of the Florissant Formation. This formation is dated at 34.07 million years old, and it represents the latest Eocene Epoch of earth history.
Located 35 miles west of Colorado Springs, Florissant Fossil Beds N.M. is a 6,000 acre wonderland of meadows, forests, and wildflowers. At 8,400 feet of elevation, the Monument lies within the montane life zone. Ponderosa Pine, Aspen, Fir, and Spruce are the dominant trees. Wapiti (Elk), mule deer, coyotes, foxes, bears, mountain lions, are some of the large mammals that inhabit the area. Birds of prey scan the meadows for ground squirrels and mice.
Beneath the ground is one of the richest and most diverse fossil deposits in the world. Up to 1700 different species have been described. A majority of those fossils are fragile, detailed compression and impression fossils of insects and plants. The largest fossils are massive, petrified Sequoia trees. These are some of the largest diameter petrified trees in the world.


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Key anniversaries at the British Open
HOYLAKE, England (AP) — A look at some of the anniversaries at the British Open this year:
150 years ago (1864): Imagine if golf had a rivalry like this today: Willie Park Sr. and Old Tom Morris finished 1-2 in the first four British Opens, with each winning two. Morris went 1 up with his two-shot victory at Prestwick, this time over Andrew Strath. Most notable about this Open was the prize. Along with the championship belt, the winner received a cash prize — six pounds.
125 years ago (1889): In the sixth and final Open held at Musselburgh, Willie Park Jr. and Andrew Kirkaldy tied at 155 over four rounds of nine holes. In the 36-hole playoff, Park shot 158 to win by five shots. The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers left the nine-hole course at Musselburgh and went south to Muirfield. This championship was held on Nov. 8 in a gloom so severe that the last group was guided along by street lights. The Open moved to September the following year.
100 years ago (1914): This was the end of an era, and a memorable one. Harry Vardon closed with a 78 at Prestwick to overtake J.H. Taylor and win by three strokes. It was his sixth Open title, which remains a record to this day. It also was the last Open for five years because of World War I. When the war was over, the Great Triumvirate of Vardon, Taylor and James Braid had all turned 50 and never won another claret jug. Francis Ouimet, the American amateur who won the U.S. Open at Brookline the previous year, came over to Prestwick and finished 26 shots behind.
75 years ago (1939): Dick Burton holds a British Open record that one can only hope will never be broken. The claret jug was in his possession for seven years. This was the last Open held before World War II, and thus the Open did not resume until 1946. It was played at St. Andrews, and Burton fell back with a 77 in the third round. He closed with a 71 to overtake Johnny Fallon, who stumbled to a closing 79. Burton finished at 290 and won by two shots over Johnny Bulla.
50 years ago (1964): "Champagne" Tony Lema became a rising American star when he won The Open in his first attempt at St. Andrews by five shots over Jack Nicklaus. Lema has won at Pebble Beach earlier in the year, and his Open victory was his fourth title in a six-week span. He wasn't sure he wanted to go, but Arnold Palmer loaned him his putter and his caddie (Tip Anderson), and Lema took it from there. How good Lema could have win sadly won't be known. He perished in a plane crash two years later.
25 years ago (1989): Mark Calcavecchia, runner-up at the Masters a year earlier, captured his only major at Royal Troon in the first four-hole play at The Open. Calcavecchia closed with a 68 to make up a three-shot deficit to Wayne Grady. But the disappointment, as usual, belonged to Greg Norman. The Shark made up seven shots with a 64, and then reeled off two straight birdies in the playoff. Calcavecchia caught him with a par on the 17th. On the closing hole, Norman crushed a driver that ran some 40 yards on the firm turf and into a bunker. He went into another bunker, hit his third out-of-bounds and never finished the hole. Calcavecchia finished with a birdie. His first daughter was born a short time later. He named her Brittany.
20 years ago (1994): Nick Price closed with a 66 at Turnberry for a one-shot victory over Jesper Parnevik to win his second major championship, this one sending him on his way to be No. 1 in the world the following month. But there was much more to this victory. Parnevik had a three-shot lead going to the 18th hole, but he didn't look at the scoreboard and thought he needed birdie to win. He played aggressively and made bogey for a 67. Behind him, Price birdied the 16th and then rolled in a 50-foot eagle putt on the 17th. A closing par gave him the claret jug.
10 years ago (2004): Todd Hamilton won his only major at Royal Troon, and while some might look at it as a surprise victory, he earned it as much as any major champion. Hamilton went head-to-head with Ernie Els over the final 40 holes, including four in a playoff. Els missed a 12-foot birdie putt for the win on the 72nd hole. In the playoff, Hamilton made four pars, the last one with a bump-and-run using a hybrid from 40 yards to 2 feet. Els missed a 15-foot birdie putt that would have extended the playoff. It was part of a demoralizing year for Els in the majors. He lost to Phil Mickelson in the Masters. He played in the final group at the U.S. Open and shot 80. The next month in the PGA Championship, he three-putted from long range on the 18th to miss a playoff by one shot.


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What can you expect when you join Making Strides? From the day you sign up to the day of the walk, you'll be fueling the fight against breast cancer by fundraising. On walk day, you'll celebrate survivors - and all your hard work.
1. Sign up
When you register for your local walk you can choose to lead a team, join an existing team, or walk solo - the choice is yours.
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Whether you're on a team, leading a team, or even walking solo, get friends and family to join you - more people means more power to fight breast cancer.
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A big part of the Making Strides experience is raising money to fuel the fight against breast cancer. Setting a goal is a great way to keep yourself motivated and your fundraising on track.
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Plan a fundraiser like a bake sale, car wash, jewelry sale, or casual day. Post on social media. Set up a Facebook fundraiser. There are lots of ways to raise money for Making Strides. We'll even give you tips and tools to make it easier.
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How is Making Strides different from other breast cancer walks? Simple: we're fundraising for more than just research. We're raising money to help breast cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers through every step of their experience - whether that means giving a patient a ride to chemo, helping a survivor look good so they feel better, or being available to answer a caregiver's question at 2am. As they say, it takes a village. We hope you'll be part of ours.
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Daily grind: Mall work continues
"We are done!" declares the website for the Mall renovation project, but as the Hook recently reported, it's not quite done, done. Today, those eardrum-splitting brick saws could be heard again as workers fixed this misaligned pedestrian banding at the Second Street vehicle crossing.
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Korean technology conglomerate LG Electronics is launching a bid to provide developers with a route to programming for the MeeGo operating system on smartphones. The company's moves follow in the wake of Nokia turning its back on open source MeeGo in favor of Microsoft earlier this year.
"It (LG) is opening opportunities for the others to come in. Discussions are taking place. You'll see things coming out this year, pretty soon," said Valtteri Halla, a member of the MeeGo technical steering group at a developer conference last Friday.
Halla, who himself has worked for years on Nokia's Linux software, said he had swapped to Intel following Nokia's departure from the platform. Suggesting that Nokia's dominant role in the project has held back other phone makers from adopting the technology, analysts argue that real developer opportunities with MeeGo may lie elsewhere.
"Nokia's change of strategy helps MeeGo's prospects, but greater traction is likely to come from tablets, netbooks, and embedded devices rather than smartphones," said analyst Geoff Blaber from CCS Insight.
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With all of the vitriol spewed forth by the far right in this year's GOP campaign, this story does not come as a surprise. Daniela came to the US from Columbia at age 4 along with her family. She has a 6.7GPA in the international baccalaureate program and dreams of being a heart surgeon after completing studies at an Ivy League school. Damn...another illegal deadbeat sucking at the tit of public welfare! Kudos to School Superintendent Alberto Carvalho who voiced his opposition to the judges rejection of her application for a green card and issuance of the deportation order..."over his dead body!" And, kudos to the overwhelming outpouring of support from her classmates. As for the judge and the whole "get tough on immigration" policy...you are just another brick in the wall.
STORY: Daniela Pelaez, Valedictorian At North Miami Senior High School, Faces Deportation Order (PHOTOS)


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Most people are aware that our memory abilities decline with aging, but a recent paper in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence reported that chronic cigarette smoking seems to strikingly accelerate shrinkage of a key memory structure in the brain, the hippocampus (Figure (MRI image), red circles).
Over the age range studied (20-70 years old), hippocampus volume declined by ~12% in nonsmokers and by ~30% in smokers, meaning that chronic smoking more than doubled the rate of hippocampal volume loss occurring as a consequence of normal aging.
The study authors noted that the severity of hippocampal volume loss among older smokers in their study was on par with the severity of volume loss found in people with mild cognitive impairment, which could in part explain the increased risk among chronic smokers for developing dementias such as Alzheimer's Disease.
Many smokers resolve to quit smoking as a New Year's resolution. If you smoke, the findings from this study provide yet another reason to seriously consider trying to quit smoking during this holiday season.
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Mark Sullivan, the director of the Secret Service, plans to step down and announce his retirement Friday after 30 years with the agency, administration sources say.
Sullivan has served as director since 2006 during the Bush administration. The agency found itself in the middle of a controversy after a prostitution scandal during President Obama's trip to Colombia in April 2012.
Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson accused Sullivan of misleading Congress during a testimony in May of last year about the scandal, something other senators called "unfair."


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The scale model of the solar system is real. I admit I took a photo at Uranus.
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Environmental architecture is heavily emphasized in Horizon Hills. A commitment to meet the needs for a healthy community. Large areas in the township is dedicated to botanical nature such as park, lush green fields, tree lined boulevards and verdant green reserves nurture an active lifestyle for you and your family. Read more at www.gamudaland.com.my
Asia is the biggest continent on Earth, a darling little gem floating around in space.Hm, what is Asia? Who's in on it?China and India are safe bets for Asian nations. Korea, Japan, Thailand, you're fine.Europe? No. Europe would sort of be on the "Asian continent" if not for those pesky Ural mountains dividing things up in the middle, and then also the whole lineage of kings and wealth and nations and the EU and all that "give me my respect" stuff.Russia would probably be happiest as its own continent, so for now we'll leave it in "Eurasia" and just hope the natural gas supplies keep flowing.Pakistan and Afghanistan are dang close to Asia, but politically they show up in "Middle East" news stories an awful lot. Verdict: Eurasia.I guess we'll actually have to consider everything from Turkey on eastward to be "Eurasian", although the moniker seems overlappitory of the territory.The Asian economy is now officially raging like a wild furnace of lava that consumes everything in its path. Japan has had the largest individual economy in Asia for decades, but it is forecast that both India and China will outstrip Japan within twenty years.China is the largest holder of United States debt and is positioned to become the world's next superpower, provided that Godzilla doesn't return and decide to stomp everybody back into the Shang Dynasty.Text by Steve Smith.


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UH Manoa senior earns scholarship from national organization that supports transfer studentsUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
UH Manoa New Student Orientation Program
Reimi Patterson, UH Manoa senior majoring in history and religion, received the top scholarship award of $1,500 for the 2005-2006 academic year from Tau Sigma National Honor Society for Transfer Students. She was selected for the award for her outstanding contributions as the first president of UHM's Tau Sigma chapter.
Tau Sigma's goal is to formally recognize successful transitions that transfer students have made and to encourage them to assist and support future transfer students through direct service and programming.
Patterson — who transferred to UHM from Honolulu Community College — was singled out for her assistance in creating an organizational structure that established the Manoa chapter. She also was involved in UHM's orientation programs for transfer students as a presenter and group facilitator in 2004 and currently works as a customer service associate for New Student Programs.
Last summer, Patterson and two other students finished compiling, illustrating, and editing a "Transfer Student Resource Guide," the first of its kind at UHM. The guide offers a list of off-campus services that new-to-Hawaiʻi students are likely to need in their first weeks and months at the new campus. The Associated Students of the University of Hawaiʻi (ASUH) funded the printing of the booklet, and it is now distributed to all incoming transfer students at school orientation sessions.
Patterson was also part of a team that developed the curriculum for a transfer student peer mentor training program. Three students have completed the training and will be serving as peer mentors for transfer students at UHM's First Year Advising Center later this semester as students are planning courses for the fall 2006 semester. The mentoring project and the resource guide were both created in response to needs transfer students expressed in surveys collected at orientation programs from summer 2004 onward.
The senior has maintained the high academic standards required to become a member of Tau Sigma — a 3.5 grade point ratio or better with a full course load at the end of the first semester at the new campus.
Tau Sigma advisers are Christine Kirk-Kuwaye, coordinator of New Student Orientation, and Megumi Taniguchi, coordinator of the First Year Advising Center.


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Bill Thompson admits that he is an underdog.
"Am I an underdog?When you have to face somebody who is going to spend $120 to $150 million, you are automatically the underdog," he said. "But after eight years of Mike Bloomberg being in City Hall, the people of NewYork realize that he's not there for him. If he's there for four more years, will that help or hurt us, and more New Yorkers are saying 'not in my best interest.'"
And recent poll numbers show that Thompson is making gains on Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and what was once seen as a long-shot campaign is starting to look much more competitive. During a sit down with the editorial staff of this paper, Thompson touched on a number of issues, most notably the mayor's handling of the school system. The current city comptroller says that he would empower teachers to teach and focus less on standardized testing.
"'I'm not allowed to teach anymore,'" Thompson said he has heard from teachers. "'It's nine o'clock, I have to start reading, and at ten o'clock, I have to stop.' This belief that all teachers can be fit into a box and all children are the same is a mistake."
In addition to criticisms of the mayor for his support of overturning term limits, Thompson also touched on his tenure as chair of the Board of Education, large-scale development in the city, and his time as city comptroller. Here is a bit of Thompson in his own words:
On criticisms about his tenure as chair of the Board of Education:
I would start first by saying "who cares what happened ten years ago?" You didn't have mayoral control back in the 1980s and 1990s. I wasn't chancellor of the public school system, I was chair of the board. We had a decentralized school system that was totally dysfunctional, and I helped to change that. Legislation that got passed at the end of 1996 that created a re-centralized school system. Mayoral control couldn't have happened if that didn't occur. I'm proud of the record I had back there, and I came into a dysfunctional system and made change, but I don't think the people of New York City want to talk about 1999, they want to talk about 2009.
On creating jobs:
And I think what you have to do is create a greater focus on smaller businesses all across the city of New York. The biggest growth area in the city are those that are self-employed, they are probably about 20 percent of the workforce. You are doing nothing for one-fifth of your workforce.
On development in the city:
I'm not against large-scale development, but I will cite two of the biggest announcements over the last ten years :Hudson Yards on the west side of Manhattan and Atlantic yards in Downtown Brooklyn. How many units of housing are there? How many jobs? What has happened since the ribbon cuttings and the big announcements? You haven't seen anything that has occurred there. I'm not against large-scale development, but I'm for smart growth in conjunction with communities and not by going around them. This mega-project that you give all to one developer isn't working. There are other models that work better...like Battery Park City.
On Atlantic Yards; It's starting to look like a basketball stadium and one building.
On his time as comptroller:
The thing that I'm proudest of is that I talked about creating a different comptroller's office and redefining it, and I think I've done that. Listen to the candidates for comptroller, and all of them will talk about doing the job like I've done it. It's a job now that everybody realizes is not just about the bottom line.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is facing an unprecedented third term running the city of New York, and with it an unprecedented amount of criticism for what many across the city see as a power grab by overturning the will of the voters and signing legislation passed by the City Council allowing his run for four more years.
But the mayor is nothing if not confident. And when asked about his decision to run for the office again, he simply stated that he was the best man for the job.
"Look, if the public doesn't want me, they don't want me," he told this paper last week. "I just think there are some things that we could continue to do, and it would really require somebody that wasn't beholden to special interests."
When he first took office, the mayor pushed Albany hard to disband the Board of Education and give control of city schools to the Mayor's Office. He got his wish, and the mayor touted a rise in test scores and the city's ability to attract bright and ambitious teachers to the New York City school system as one area of his administration that will be looked on as part of his legacy, whether he is elected to a third term or not.
"If I had told you that our city kids would be testing very near the state average, you would have told me 'impossible,'" Bloomberg said.
During our 45-minute interview, the mayor also touched on topics such as the slowdown in development across the city, the massive Coney Island and Willets Point projects, and cleaning the Gowanus Canal, as well as getting labor unions and developers together to agree to work for lower wages so that construction projects can start moving forward. Here are a few direct quotes from the mayor himself:
On when he decided to run for a third term:
I was coming up the steps of the 86th Street station of the Lexington IRT, and there's this woman at the top of the stairs holding a little baby, and she said "Great job, mayor," to which my standard response is, "thank you, my mother thinks so." And we giggled , and I said "the baby is how old," and she said "six months or whatever," and I said "the good news is that the schools are getting much better for when your child is ready for the public school system." And she looked at me very earnestly and said "I know as long as you're mayor, the school's will get better."
On parental involvement in the schools:
What you don't want is to have parents come in and start running the schools. We want our teachers and our principals to decide how to run the schools. There are parents that say that [there is not enough involvement]; they tend to be activists who want to bring back the old school boards where only three percent of the population really ever had any say. The question is, what do you mean by parental involvement? For the first time parents have choices between charter schools and public schools and special schools and themed schools. Every school has a parent coordinator. I don't agree that parents should be deciding in the classroom, that's why we pay trained professionals.
On whether the city's large-scale development projects are overly ambitious:
No, the zoning for Willets Point was started for the 1964 World's Fair and we just got it done. So for the next 10 or 15 years, I don't know how fast the economy is going to come back, but when you want to build, the zoning will have been done. That's the tough part.
On stalled development projects:
I want make sure that they are safe when you walk by, so we have a program to make sure that somebody visits every day or every month. We want to make sure that the material is not going to blow away or kids aren't going to break down the fences and get in. It's also true that there is still a lot of construction going on.
On Superfund status for the Gowanus Canal:
If you have Superfund take it over, you won't live long enough to see it clean. You just won't. That's just not they way [the federal government] works. The federal government is not good at running things, they are good at taking tax money and redistributing it, but with the exception of the military,you can't go and ask them to run something.


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Make hidden tabs actually able to work with Gecko (for background tab loading and bookmark groups). Requires an update of the Mozilla tree.
You can now create bookmark groups.
remove attempt to subclass window
Teaching the personal toolbar how to wrap to multiple lines.
Fix a lot of warnings and some bad method calls. Also change use of keyWindow to mainWindow so commands still work when the find panel is the key window.
Hooking up new folder.
Adding a page proxy icon to the location bar.
New bookmark icon. WOrking on the personal toolbar.
Don't overlap the dock when adjusting for the sidebar.
implemented text zoom.
MOre stuff.
So many changes I can't even go into it. :)
Open link in new window/tab now works from the context menu.
make "find again" work, as well as across multiple windows. uses a new "Find" protocol and puts all the logic in the find controller.
Context menus come up! Yay!
Fix a slew of activation issues.
Chimera now shrinks and moves the window to accommodate the sidebar drawer.
Sorta right. Needs work.
Make find window global to app, remove its cancel button, hookup find functionality.
This represents my final planned checkin for version 0.2.0 of this project. BrowserWindowController was modified to allow for a dynamic 'Sidebar' toolbar icon, and the requisite graphics have also been added. Credits were modified to include a few individual contributors. A TruncatedTabView object is being created, but is not ready for 0.2.0. I am adding it to CVS anyway to alleviate the potential for error, but it is not linked. The sidebar tab icons have been updated, along with the Stop and Reload toolbar icons.
Making sure the Bookmarks tab gets selected at startup. We should probably create an autosave method which fires when tabs switch, probably based on the tab's identifier.
A couple ui tweaks, but the main thing is the icons in the sidebar tabs. Also, a bit of Project cleanup.
Conditional to turn off window cascading if there is only one window.
Adding some groundwork for the NSTabViewItem subclass that will draw icons in its tab labels. Added a line to the BrowserWindowController that creates a dummy instance of this subclass. It will be removed when things work better. Added the tab icons themselves. Adding some of the updated toobar icons. The BrowserWindowController has a new outlet to the sidebar tabview, and the project was touched, of course.
Make tabs not leak when closed.
Full implementation of window autosaving (including correct ignoring of windows opened as popups by web pages.
Make tab link loading work, although background loading is whacked.
Make background window loading work.
Getting command clicking working.
Add the tri-license to all files.
Adding the click listener that will handle modifier clicks on links.
Last checkin for the night. This makes tabs fully usable. What's left: Menu item validation code. This will cover all menu items, but most importantly, it will switch the key shortcut for Close Window between cmd+w and shift+cmd+w and Close Tab between blank and cmd+w.
Intermediary checkin: Groundwork for the icon colorization server object, most of a new specialized version of my extended tab view class, changes to the browser window's controller, and nib, and of course, to the project itself.
Adding new build.
A bunch of new stuff. window.open now works, and security is getting closer.
Add support for security.
Fixed alerts. Made stop work. Fixed paste.
Fix sidebar crash some more. :)
Mouse moves work now.
Make sure Gecko windows get mouse moves.
Stop the sidebar crash.
Textfields get focused now.
Lots of tweaks and cleanup.
Tabs now update everything properly except for progress/status on a switch.
Tabbed browsing lives.
Tabbed browsing lives.
Stubbing out New Tab
Tab browser is coming online!
Plugged the leak.
The status bar is hooked up now. Also adding debugging printfs.
Bookmarks in the menu bar work!
Deleting of bookmarks works. You must update your mozilla tree again. mozilla/extensions/xmlextras and then make in that dir.
Adding bookmarks works.
Bookmarks work! Update your Mozilla tree though or chimera won't build.
Make the sidebar unload its web page when the drawer is closed.
Checking in a prototype sidebar.
Fix leaks.
Find dialog UI is wired up. not implemented yet, but wired up.
Print preview works.
Oops. Cut/copy/paste much easier than I thought.
Impl cut copy paste etc. Some focus issues plague this feature still.
Printing works! You'll need to update your mozilla tree to get a bug fix though. mozilla/content/base/nsDocumentViewer.cpp to be more specific.
Adding UI logic for print toolbar item.
Fix a bunch of memory leaks. Webshells actually die now! The NSBrowserView still leaks though.
Plug browser controller leak.
Saving actually works. Just need to wire up the progress meter and elapsed time stuff.
A huge amount of code for File/Save As...
Stubbing out save page and toggle offline modes.
Chimera: Tons of updates. Have fun merging this.
Open file now works!
The open location command is now hooked up in the menu! New windows properly focus their url bar now.
Chimera: Header comments modified for consistency
Initial commit of Chimera, a Gecko-based browser with a native Cocoa front end.


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South African paceman Dale Steyn fired up by jibe
Dale Steyn is looking to use ex-coach Mickey Arthur's remarks as motivation to do well when the first Test starts on Friday. Arthur had said that Steyn was not good against left-handers.
South African pace spearhead Dale Steyn is aiming to use his ex-coach's jibes to motivate him ahead of this week's opening Test, the Proteas' current mentor Gary Kirsten said on Tuesday.
Kirsten said the world's number one Test bowler was fired up after he was reminded of Australian coach Mickey Arthur's assessment of Steyn's apparent weakness bowling against left-handers.
"It's no secret that Dale (Steyn) hasn't bowled well to left-handers," Arthur, a South African who coached his homeland from 2005-2010 had told reporters ahead of the Gabba Test this Friday.
"Let me just rephrase that. He's bowled a lot better to right-handers than to left-handers," he added.
Asked if Arthur's comment would motivate Steyn, Kirsten said: "Put it this way, we will use it as good motivation."
Steyn, who has snared 287 Test wickets at 23.5, leads an attack that Proteas fast bowling great Allan Donald has rated South Africa's "best ever".
But Kirsten, perhaps mindful of providing incentive to an Australian side hoping to snatch the world number one Test ranking from South Africa in the coming three-Test series, was not so sure.
"I am mindful of saying it is the best ever - there's been a lot of Test cricket around in the last 100 years," he said.
"They are an experienced bowling attack, there is good variety within the attack and most importantly they back themselves in certain situations."
While the focus has been on Steyn, Morne Morkel and Vernon Philander -- the same pace attack that routed Australia for 47 in Cape Town a year ago -- Kirsten raised the prospects of spinner Imran Tahir playing in the Brisbane Test.
"A lot will depend on the wicket and what it is come Friday but looking at it now it looks like a pretty good wicket," he said.
"A spinner always plays a role in a Test match in my experience. Any coach will tell you that they would like a spinner in the team."
For the Australians, Rob Quiney has come into the side for his Test debut for the injured Shane Watson.


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Noticias corporativas
2011 financial year:
Group sales up 7.1 percent to EUR 13.787 bn
Gases Division sales up 8.1 percent
Group operating profit* grows at a faster rate than sales, by 9.7 percent to EUR 3.210 bn
13.6 percent rise in proposed dividend to EUR 2.50 per share
Group outlook for 2012: Increase in sales and operating profit expected
Medium-term targets for 2014 confirmed: Group operating profit* of at least EUR 4 bn and ROCE of at least 14 percent
Munich, 9 March 2012 – The technology company The Linde Group once again saw profitable growth in the 2011 financial year, achieving its best ever figures for Group sales and Group operating profit*. "We have become even more efficient overall and were able to achieve the targets we had set in full," said Professor Dr Wolfgang Reitzle, Chief Executive Officer of Linde AG. "This is testament to our Group's excellent position. Our gases and engineering business has a global presence across all industry sectors and is outstandingly well-placed in the growth markets."
Linde is also confident about the future. "We are well-prepared for a challenging environment, and in the 2012 financial year we expect to continue to achieve growth in Group sales and an improvement in Group operating profit when compared with 2011," commented CEO Reitzle. "We also confirm our medium-term targets. In the 2014 financial year, we will be aiming to generate Group operating profit* of at least EUR 4 bn. In that same year, we want our core performance indicator, ROCE (return on capital employed), to be at least 14 percent." The Group believes that global megatrends, energy and the environment, health and healthcare, and the emerging economies will provide good opportunities so that it will be able to continue to achieve sustainable, profitable growth. "We intend to seize those opportunities with both hands," explained Reitzle.
In the 2011 financial year, Group sales rose 7.1 percent to EUR 13.787 bn (2010: EUR 12.868 bn). After adjusting for exchange rate effects, the increase was 7.6 percent. Linde has made good progress with the implementation of HPO (High Performance Organisation), its holistic concept designed to achieve sustainable process optimisation and productivity gains, and Group operating profit* grew at a faster rate than sales, by 9.7 percent to EUR 3.210 bn (2010: EUR 2.925 bn). The Group operating margin in the 2011 financial year increased by 60 basis points to 23.3 percent (2010: 22.7 percent).
Linde was again able to achieve significant increases in other Group performance indicators. Earnings before taxes on income (EBT) rose 15.7 percent to EUR 1.619 bn (2010: EUR 1.399 bn). Earnings after tax of EUR 1.244 bn were 16.9 percent above the figure for 2010 of EUR 1.064 bn. The amount attributable to Linde AG shareholders was EUR 1.174 bn (2010: EUR 1.005 bn), giving earnings per share of EUR 6.88 (2010: EUR 5.94). On an adjusted basis, i.e. after adjusting for the effects of the purchase price allocation on the acquisition of BOC, earnings per share stood at EUR 7.71 (2010: EUR 6.89). ROCE (return on capital employed) rose to 13.0 percent (2010: 12.5 percent). At the same time, the Group succeeded in reducing its net financial debt by EUR 403 m to EUR 5.094 bn (2010: EUR 5.497 bn).
The Executive Board and Supervisory Board of Linde AG will propose a resolution at the Annual General Meeting to be held on 4 May 2012 that a dividend of EUR 2.50 per share be paid. This is an increase of 13.6 percent compared with the prior-year dividend of EUR 2.20.
Gases Division
The improvement in the general economic climate in the course of the 2011 financial year resulted in a rise in demand in the global gases business. Against this background, Linde achieved an 8.1 percent increase in sales in the Gases Division to EUR 11.061 bn when compared with the figure for 2010 of EUR 10.228 bn. On a comparable basis, i.e. after adjusting for exchange rate effects, changes in the price of natural gas and changes to Group structure, sales grew 7.4 percent. Linde achieved a significant improvement in profitability in the Gases Division, where operating profit rose by 9.9 percent in 2011 to EUR 3.041 bn (2010: EUR 2.766 bn). The operating margin increased by 50 basis points to 27.5 percent (2010: 27.0 percent). This improvement in profitability was partly as a result of the positive impact of the efficiency improvement and process optimisation measures included in HPO.
Within the individual segments of the Gases Division, the greatest momentum was to be seen in the emerging economies of Asia, especially in China and India, as well as in South America. However, in the more mature economies, such as the United States and Western Europe, economic output grew at a comparatively modest rate.
In the EMEA segment (Europe, the Middle East and Africa), Linde achieved sales growth of 6.4 percent to EUR 5.672 bn (2010: EUR 5.330 bn). On a comparable basis, the growth in sales was 5.7 percent. Operating profit increased at a faster rate than sales, by 8.0 percent to EUR 1.634 bn (2010: EUR 1.513 bn). The operating margin rose to 28.8 percent, 40 basis points above the prior-year figure of 28.4 percent. This positive trend was also the result of the rigorous implementation of various HPO initiatives to increase productivity and standardise processes.
In the Asia/Pacific segment, Linde achieved significant growth in sales and operating profit. The Group also benefited from its leading positions in these markets. In the 2011 financial year, sales in the Asia/Pacific segment rose 14.3 percent to EUR 3.076 bn (2010: EUR 2.692 bn). On a comparable basis, the increase in sales was 9.2 percent. Strict implementation of Linde's HPO programme pushed operating profit up 15.6 percent to EUR 872 m (2010: EUR 754 m). This gave an operating margin of 28.3 percent (2010: 28.0 percent). When comparing Linde's good performance here with that of the prior year, two factors need to be taken into account. One is the pass-through of increases in the price of natural gas and the other the preliminary investment required to establish infrastructure and employ new staff in the rapidly expanding Chinese market.
In the Americas segment, sales in the 2011 financial year rose 4.6 percent to EUR 2.384 bn (2010: EUR 2.279 bn). On a comparable basis, sales were up 9.1 percent. In this region as well, operating profit increased at a faster rate than sales, by 7.2 percent to EUR 535 m (2010: EUR 499 m). As a result, the operating margin was 22.4 percent (2010: 21.9 percent). This improvement in the margin is a consequence of positive earnings trends in North America. Here too there is evidence of the successful implementation of the measures designed to achieve sustainable process optimisation and productivity gains.
The performance of the individual product areas reflects the overall positive trend in the Gases Division in the 2011 financial year. In the on-site business, where gases are supplied on site to major customers, Linde again achieved strong growth. On a comparable basis, sales in this product area rose 8.5 percent to EUR 2.695 bn (2010: EUR 2.484 bn). This increase was mainly due to the start-up of new plants. Moreover, Linde succeeded in winning a number of new on-site contracts, primarily in the emerging economies of Asia and especially in China. General economic growth also enabled Linde to achieve significant growth in its liquefied gases and cylinder gas business. In the cylinder gas business, the Group achieved a 6.8 percent increase in sales on a comparable basis to EUR 4.494 bn (2010: EUR 4.208 bn). In the liquefied gases business, Linde achieved sales of EUR 2.683 bn. On a comparable basis, this was 8.5 percent higher than the prior-year figure of EUR 2.472 bn. In the Healthcare product area, which supplies medical gases and provides related maintenance and advisory services, Linde continued to see steady growth, achieving an increase in sales on a comparable basis of 5.0 percent to EUR 1.189 bn (2010: EUR 1.132 bn).
Gases Division – Outlook
Linde remains committed to its original target for the gases business of growing at a faster pace than the market and continuing to increase productivity. In its on-site business, Linde has a healthy project pipeline, which will continue to make a substantial contribution to sales and earnings trends in the 2012 financial year. Linde expects its liquefied gases and cylinder gas business to perform in line with macroeconomic trends.
In the Healthcare product area, Linde is anticipating continuing steady growth. Additional momentum will be generated here by the acquisition of Air Products' Continental European homecare business, subject to the approval of the relevant antitrust authority and the usual closing conditions.
Against this background, Linde continues to expect that sales generated by the Gases Division in the 2012 financial year will exceed sales achieved in 2011 and that there will be an improvement in operating profit in 2012.
Engineering Division
In the international large-scale engineering business, a late-cycle sector, the market climate continued to improve in the course of 2011. Linde saw a revival in investment activity, especially for small and medium-sized projects, in its four main lines of business (olefin plants, natural gas plants, air separation plants, hydrogen and synthesis gas plants).
The Engineering Division achieved sales in the 2011 financial year of EUR 2.531 bn, a 2.8 percent increase on the prior-year figure of EUR 2.461 bn. The successful execution of a number of individual projects meant that operating profit grew at a faster rate than sales, by 12.2 percent to EUR 304 m (2010: EUR 271 m). The operating margin rose to 12.0 percent (2010: 11.0 percent), again significantly exceeding the target figure of 8 percent.
Order intake was EUR 2.235 bn at the end of the year, 3.5 percent above the figure for 2010 of EUR 2.159 bn. Contributing to this positive trend was the higher number of orders from the Group's Gases Division, a fact which confirms Linde's integrated business model.
The Group has retained its high order backlog. At 31 December 2011, this stood at EUR 3.600 bn (2010: EUR 3.965 bn).
Engineering Division – Outlook
The high order backlog creates a good basis for a solid business performance in the Engineering Division over the next two years. Linde expects to generate the same level of sales in its plant construction business in the 2012 financial year as in 2011. It anticipates that it will achieve an operating margin in 2012 of at least 10 percent. In the medium term, the target for the operating margin remains at 8 percent.
Linde is well-positioned in the international market for olefin plants, natural gas plants, air separation plants and hydrogen and synthesis gas plants, and will derive lasting benefit in particular from investment in two structural growth areas: energy and the environment.
Note: The 2011 Annual Report of The Linde Group is available on the Internet at www.linde.com.
To coincide with the publication of the financial statements, a teleconference for analysts will take place today at 2pm (German time) in English with Professor Dr Wolfgang Reitzle, CEO of Linde AG, and Georg Denoke, CFO of Linde AG. Journalists will have the opportunity to listen to the conference live by dialling +49.69.589.99-0509. Please tell the operator your name and the name of your company.
About The Linde Group
The Linde Group is a world-leading gases and engineering company with around 50,500 employees in more than 100 countries worldwide. In the 2011 financial year, it achieved sales of EUR 13.787 bn. The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards long-term profitable growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services. Linde acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment – in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The Group is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.
For more information, see The Linde Group online at http://www.linde.com
Further information:
Matthias Dachwald
Investor Relations
Lisa Tilmann
*Operating profit: EBITDA including share of net income from associates and joint ventures.


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The Ocean City Police Department is still seeking help to locate a missing 16-year-old girl.
Natalie Woollerton was last seen Wednesday morning. She is autistic and may have driven away from the 1500 block of Central Avenue in Ocean City in her mother's 2009 light blue Lexus IS250 with temporary New Jersey license plate P101925.
She has no driving experience and it is believed that she does not have a cell phone or money.
If you have any information, please contact the Ocean City Police Department at (609) 399-9111.


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Mat Dickie, independent game developer known for his work in the wrestling niche, has taken his retro-style mobile and tablet game, Wrestling Revolution, to the console. Created using Adobe Game Developer Tools and downloaded more than one million times across Android and iOS, Wrestling Revolution offers players the biggest wrestling universe with more than 350 characters – and dozens of them in the ring at one time. Now available on the new OUYA console, Wresting Revolution can now be enjoyed by fans on their TV, the genre's natural home.
OUYA provides an open development experience so that, like Dickie, any creator can publish a game for a console to be played on TVs.
"I was excited about bringing the gamepad-controlled, multi-player experience to consoles. Wrestling games have a proud history on consoles from the NES and SNES to the N64 and PlayStation. But those doors can be hard to open for an independent developer like me," he says. "Consoles are the genre's natural home, so on OUYA I'm reaching new audiences that don't typically play PC or mobile games. What I like most about it is that I have a stable platform for the first time in my career, and I know that players will have the same experience as me."
In taking Wrestling Revolution to the OUYA platform, Dickie made sure that it wasn't just a mobile port to the console. The game fully supports controllers of all kinds—right down to analogue sticks for precise movement. The multi-player modes are also exclusive to consoles. There's an option to play in either "Versus" or "Co-Op" mode, which will involve up to four human players.
"Wrestling Revolution is just one of the first Adobe AIR games on OUYA," he says. "Some perceptive AIR developers had everything in place ahead of OUYA's launch which helped me get going quickly."
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"The OUYA audience is obviously a lot smaller than on established systems, where over a million people are playing my mobile apps. However, the conversion rate is higher. The OUYA audience likes to invest in games and support their evolution," says Dickie. "That ensures that my first game won't be my last."


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Charles Hill faces life in prison if convicted of murdering James Brotherton.
Charles Hill walked into courtroom 4A, tie loose around his neck, restraints tight around his ankles.
On one side of the gallery, almost every seat was taken by a family member of James Brotherton, a Sarasota County Area Transit bus driver who was fatally shot in 2011.
Hill, 33, is charged with first-degree murder in the case. Though prosecutors have chosen not to pursue the death penalty, a conviction would require a mandatory sentence of life in prison.
The trial started Monday morning after 12 jurors and two alternates, chosen last week, filed into the courtroom.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys gave their opening statements — a summary of the evidence they will present during the trial, expected to last through this week.
Assistant State Attorney Art Jackman addressed jurors first, walking them through events on Nov. 21, 2011 leading to Brotherton's death and into the next day, when a patrol deputy found his body outside Gulf Gate Library.
"The night was quite dark and the roads were wet," Jackman said. "There was the body of a white man laying facedown on the pavement in a pool of blood with a single gunshot wound to his back. He was not moving nor did he appear to be breathing."
Prosecutors will rely on witness statements, surveillance footage and a disassembled gun found in a trash can in Hill's yard.
Crime scene technicians, detectives and a medical examiner will testify about the logistics of the investigation and Brotherton's death.
An acquaintance, who was reportedly with Hill before and after — but not during — Brotherton's death is a key witness.
After Brotherton's death, Hill allegedly told the witness: "He started mouthing off to me. I told him to get into the trunk and he ran and I shot him," Jackman said.
In video footage presented by the state, Brotherton and a man identified as Hill are seen at a bank ATM. Different video footage, despite its poor quality, captured the fatal shooting from surveillance cameras at a doctor's office near the library.
"What you'll see are some figures or shadows," Jackman said. "Then you're going to see a sudden flash — that's the muzzle flash at the time the victim, James Brotherton, is murdered by the defendant. This is the actual shooting."
Carolyn Schlemmer, the public defender representing Hill, said the defense will not dispute that Brotherton was killed.
"I will submit to you that a crime was committed that evening by someone, but Mr. Hill did not commit these crimes," Schlemmer said in her opening statement.
To support that, the defense plans to address inconsistencies — the color of Brotherton's vehicle, the clothes worn by Hill, whether there was an admission of guilt to an acquaintance — in witness statements.
"Those little things I'm going to ask you to pay attention to that will not make any sense," Schlemmer said.
The defense will also emphasize the lack of Hill's DNA or fingerprints at the scene, in Brotherton's vehicle or on the alleged murder weapon.
Hill is expected to take the stand.
"I ask you to listen and keep an open mind," Schlemmer said. "State has the burden; we have none."
Jurors will render a verdict for the charges of first-degree murder, armed kidnapping and robbery with a firearm.