Up Close With The Next Big Home Commodity: LED Lighting

Sal Cangeloso is the editor of Geek.com and wrote a new book on an odd topic. It's called LED Lighting: A Primer to Lighting the Future and it focuses on the upcoming explosion in LED manufacturing, offering a basic understanding of the technology and an interesting look at the history of LED lights. You can buy LED Lighting: A Primer to Lighting the Future here and the first three commenters below gets a copy of the book. Here is an excerpt from the first chapter of the book discussing the growth of lighting from old-timey incandescents to modern LED technology. The incandescent bulb is a good place to start with any talk about lighting. This design has had tremendous longevity (over 130 years) and it makes for a cheap, versatile bulb. Unfortunately, this design is also power-hungry, inefficient, short-lived?(with some exceptions), and fragile. They produce a minimum amount of lumens-per-watt, though they?ve made appreciable gains over the years, and are highly sensitive to power conditions. For example, a 5% reduction in voltage could double the life of a bulb while only decreasing light output?by 20%.

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Supervisor Leadership Program - Sales Management Training ...

Job Duties & Responsibilities This career track is well suited for finance, accounting, economics, marketing, risk management, management, and general business majors. To be eligible for the Supervisor Leadership Program you must have a minimum overall GPA of 3.20 in your undergraduate studies. A college degree is required for this program.

GEICO offers you the chance to launch your career in our selective Supervisor Leadership Program. In this program, you'll gain a comprehensive understanding of one of our major insurance operations: Sales, Customer Service, Claims or Auto Damage. (Selection into a particular track is determined by your interests and the business needs of the location.)

Length of the program varies by track; the Sales and Service tracks are approximately 15 - 18 months, while the Claims and Auto Damage tracks are approximately 2 - 2.5 years due to additional classes and rotations needed to become fully trained. Each track provides you with an excellent opportunity to learn about the dynamic insurance industry and accelerate to a supervisor position.

GEICO believes that in order for you to be an effective team supervisor within our call center environment, you must first understand the intricacies of our insurance business and the job function you'll one day manage. Therefore, after completing our extensive classroom training and passing any necessary insurance exams, you'll have the good fortune to experience the sales, customer service, claims or auto damage adjuster position firsthand.

During this time, you'll receive mentoring from a senior-level manager and work on projects that are critical to the department's success. As you progress through your training, you will serve as a mentor, and assist in the training and coaching of new associates. Toward the latter part of your program, you will attend on-site supervisory preparation classes.

Our ultimate goal is to have you ready to supervise and motivate a team of your own!

We are committed to giving you the tools, knowledge and support that you'll need to advance your career at GEICO. Associates who started in our Supervisor Leadership Program have been promoted to supervisor, trainer and even business unit managers.

Candidate Qualifications GEICO seeks bright, motivated graduates to join our fast-track Supervisor Leadership Program - Sales track. In this entry level management training program, you'll spend 12 to 18 months learning about our sales operations from the ground up. Careers at GEICO offer industry-leading training, professional licensing, career advancement, and a competitive Total Rewards benefits package!

Our Supervisor Leadership Program (SLP) provides an excellent opportunity to experience our dynamic industry and accelerate to a Sales Supervisor position. In order to one day lead a Sales team, you will first:

* Attend on-site training, pass necessary insurance exams, and get your professional license
* Drive our company growth by selling our exceptional products and gain hands-on experience
* Receive mentoring from management
* Work to meet goals, achieve top results, and demonstrate your leadership potential
* Work on projects that are critical to the Sales department's success
* Coach associates, and assist in their training and development
* Attend supervisory preparation classes toward the end of your program

Our goal is to prepare you to effectively supervise a Sales team! SLP participants advance through the program based upon performance. Associates who started in this program have been promoted to supervisors, trainers and managers.

Candidate Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree in business, or a degree and at least four completed core business courses (Accounting I & II, Finance, Statistics, Marketing, Business Law, Macro/Micro Economics or Information Systems)
* At least a 3.2 cumulative undergraduate GPA
* Demonstrated leadership experience on campus, within the community and/or at work
* Very good computer, analytical and problem-solving skills
* Effective written and verbal communication
* Strong time management and multi-tasking abilities
* High level of dependability
* Willingness to start at the entry level and learn our business from the ground-up
* Desire and ability to one day lead a team
* U.S. work authorization required. Sponsorship is not available for this program.

Important Position Details The GEICO Supervisor Leadership Program requires a Bachelor's degree in a business-related field. Candidates with a non-business degree who have taken at least four core business courses (finance, accounting I and II, macro / micro economics, marketing, business law, statistics and/or information systems) will also be considered.

This entry level program requires applicants to have at least a 3.2 cumulative GPA in your undergraduate studies, as well as demonstrated leadership experience on campus, within the community and/or at work. Applicants who do not meet these minimum requirements are encouraged to consider other career opportunities at GEICO.

How To Apply Please click Apply Now to complete our online application. You will need an active e-mail address, phone number, and we request at least 5 years of employment history. Once you begin your application you can save it if you need to complete it at a later time. About GEICO Driving your career. Insuring your future.

For more than 75 years, GEICO has stood out from the rest of the insurance industry! We are one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing auto insurers thanks to our low rates, outstanding service and clever marketing. We're an industry leader employing thousands of dedicated and hard-working associates. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, we offer associates training and career advancement in a financially stable and rewarding workplace.

Our associates' quality of life is important to us. Full-time GEICO associates are offered a comprehensive Total Rewards Program*, including:

* 401(k) and profit-sharing plans
* Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
* Paid vacation, holidays and leave programs
* Tuition reimbursement
* Flexible spending accounts
* Volunteer opportunities

GEICO is an equal opportunity employer. Background and credit checks, drug testing, and health assessments are required as part of our pre-employment process.

Requisition #: 2778

Source: http://jobs.insurancesalesweb.com/c/job.cfm?site_id=1636&jb=11066756

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Looking For a Literate Role Playing Partner(s) :)

For the time being I have no set idea for a role play, but my mind's rather...Crazy. xP I can come up with an idea fast and run with it. Though, I love hearing ideas from others, so please feel free to shoot me a PM about something. Like stated above I'm up..down for anything! :D I like playing either gender, male or female. Recently I've been portraying males more often than females. That I do not mind, it's fun portraying them. HOWEVER, I would appreciate it if my partner(s) were able to portray BOTH genders. I, usually, like to double-up on genders in role plays. Speaking of which, I have a small list of things I require my partner(s) to be able to do. Nothing too serious, I promise. :) ::

ONE- Like in the title, I prefer, require, my role playing partner(s) to be LITERATE, as in: Proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, and so forth. I understand the mistakes, I make a lot myself, but just try, okay? Along with that, I require a three paragraph post(per character) as a minimum. I write that much for my characters, usually, if not more unless I'm having a little writers' block.
TWO- Be able to play both genders fairly well. Unless homosexual, I do not want to see a supposedly heterosexual man running around giggling. C'mon people! >_
THREE- Be able to post AT LEAST twice a week, maybe more than once a day. Please, please, please do not ditch me after one or two posts. If you gotta be gone for awhile, tell me. I understand life comes first. I have a family and friends, too. :P Plus, we all get sick: LIFE HAPPENS! That being said, I'll alert you when I must be gone as well. ^.^
FOUR- Give me ideas and have an input on ideas and characters! :D I want things strongly character-based, and I want things interesting!!! Tell me if something is not going how you like it, we can work something out. I want a creative amigo!!!!

All I can think of at the moment.

Fandoms I don't mind role playing :p ::
(Pairings I don't really care about I tend to like a Canon x Original, though. Surprise me.)
Supernatural
Disney-Type Themes
Vampire Diaries
House of Night
Harry Potter
Twilight(if you can convince me xD)
Thrist
Shiver
Not real into anime, though I've watched Pandora Hearts, Ouran High School Host Club, and Inuyasha :T

Basic Role-Play Pairings, Needing a Plot-Line and Such::
Vampire Hunter x Hunter
Mermaid(man) x Human
Werewolf x Vampire
Invisible Friend x Creator (?)
Prince(ss) x Servant

There are many, many other options! Doesn't all have to be fantasy. Any ideas????

That's pretty much all I've got so far.

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Maingear announces Nomad 17 gaming laptop, comes with custom paint job

Maingear certainly loves to turn out solidly specificated hardware, and today is no exception. Its latest offering? The Nomad 17. As the name suggests this is a 17-inch notebook for gamers on the go. (Nomad, get it?) The new addition will support third-gen Intel Core i7 chips (up to 3.8GHz) and a maximum 32GB of RAM, with a choice of hard drive configurations. It's not all about the under-the-hood grunt, though, with Maingear offering a choice of six colors for what it's calling "hand-painted premium automotive paint jobs." As for the other spec options? You can expect NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675M or 680M graphics, a 1,920 x 1080 display, combo Blue-ray optical drive, b / g / n wireless along with USB 2 / 3, DVI-I, HDMI and Fire Wire ports. So, this definitely sounds like a ride you can make your own. Assuming you're good with the $1,599 starting sticker price that is.

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Teachers Write an Open Textbook In a Weekend Hackathon

I can appreciate this. Having just completed a physics masters, I am well acquainted with trying to find textbooks on various things, often referring to the Big Names In Physics Textbooks - that is Landau/Lifshitz, Griffiths, Hecht, Goldstein, Sakurai and the list goes on. The problem is that very few books are written to the levels that students need them.

Introductory undergraduate texts are often superficial enough for a first pass, but quickly become doorstops (e.g. Young and Freedman). Personally I still found them useful for occasional things, but by and large we forgot about them. When you graduate things become more tricky and you resort to reading peer publications and textbooks that fit your niche. This is tricky, but hey, it's research and you live with it. The problem is in between, those three or four years of undergrad where you need excellent concise explanations of, in reality, very complicated phenomena. Most of the time that simply doesn't exist.

After four years of my degree I hit problems. I understood what was taught in the lectures, but I had problems applying the information to other things. Why? Because I found myself asking whether something was possible or not. This was especially apparent in General Relativity with tensor calculus, I was hesitant to work through equations because I wasn't sure whether I could do operation X or if such and such was valid. It's that horrible feeling of knowing enough about a topic to understand that what you're about to do is wrong, but not enough to know the solution.

Let's take quantum mechanics as an example. The textbooks almost uniformly start in the same way, a quick overview of the observed phenomena, some stuff on wave-particle duality and a headfirst dive into the Schr?dinger Equation followed by uses thereof. By the time you get to higher level QM and things like bra-ket notation is introduced, people get confused. They get even more confused when analogies to vectors start being bandied around and when operators come into the fray it gets worse. Why? Because they started the wrong way. Going in the other direction, the big well known books in QM are strictly graduate and often the people recommending them really have no idea what they're talking about. There simply aren't that many geniuses in most colleges/universities. Realistically 95% of students need simple, hand-holdy books with a lot of solid grounding.

There is only one textbook I've found at an undergraduate level that remedies this for QM, and that's Shankar. Whereas most books begin with historical waffle, Shankar immediately dives in with mathematics. Quantum mechanics barely gets mentioned until the third chapter. Why is this? Because it lets you get your head around the idea of a vector "not being a stick with an arrow" as he puts it. Once you understand that a vector is simply a mathematical object that obeys a set of rules and that position vectors happen to obey them also, things get easier. The second chapter is still no quantum and in fact deals with Hamiltonian mechanics, I know of no other book that does this in quite this way. As a result, by the time you get to introducing quantum effects, it is easy to explain the Schr?dinger equation in terms of abstract maths and solving problems becomes more straight forward. In fact, you realise that you learned about operator notation, eigenvector/value/functions before you even learned about the wavefunction and it's simply a matter of applying your knowledge.

The rest of the book is fairly self explanatory, all the usual topics are covered in a decent amount of detail although there is no field theory. But that's not the point. The point is that the reader is given a rigorous mathematical explanation of the physics before the physics is taught. As a result, the physics becomes almost trivial and you can understand why things connect the way they do.

Extend this to the rest of textbooks and you have your problem. Authors need to step into the students' shoes a

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NFL refs approve deal, ready for Sunday games

IRVING, Texas (AP) ? NFL officials ended their labor dispute with the league by approving a new eight-year contract with a 112-5 vote Saturday, then hustled off to the airport to get to work.

Next stop, stadiums around the country.

And, the officials hope, anonymity.

"The last Super Bowl that I worked, when we got in the locker room, I said, 'You know, the best thing about this game, nobody will remember who refereed this game,'" said Scott Green, president of the referees' association. "That's how we like to work."

The vote ended a labor spat that created three weeks of increasingly chaotic games run by replacement officials who drew criticism of everyone from the average fan to President Barack Obama.

"It was pretty much 'Come on in and vote,'" Green said. "We're going to talk football now. We're going to stop talking about CBAs and lockouts and now we're going to talk about rules and video and getting ourselves ready to work football games."

They may get ovations similar to the one bestowed on the crew that worked Thursday's Cleveland-Baltimore game with the tentative deal in place.

The referees met for about an hour and a half Friday night to go over the contract, then gathered for another 30 minutes Saturday morning before approving the contract.

"We are obviously pleased to hear it," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said in an email to The Associated Press on Saturday.

Because they were aware of the financial parameters, most of the discussion by the referees involved non-economic issues such as year-round work and developmental squads, said Tim Millis, the association's executive director.

The deal came together quickly this week after an increasing chorus of complaints became impossible to ignore when a disputed touchdown call on the final play gave the Seattle Seahawks a victory over the Green Bay Packers on national television Monday night.

Many thought the ruling of a Seattle touchdown instead of a Green Bay interception was botched, and the labor dispute drew public comments from Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

By late Wednesday, the sides had a contract calling for refs' salaries to increase from an average of $149,000 a year in 2011 to $173,000 in 2013, rising to $205,000 by 2019. The current defined benefit pension plan will remain in place for current officials through the 2016 season or until the official earns 20 years' service.

The defined benefit plan will then be frozen. Retirement benefits will be provided for new hires, and for all officials beginning in 2017, through a defined contribution.

Beginning with the 2013 season, the NFL will have the option to hire a number of officials to work year-round. The NFL also can retain additional officials for training and development and assign those officials to work games. The number of additional officials will be determined by the league.

The officials that worked Thursday's Ravens-Browns game were cheered from the moment they walked onto the field. The difference between the regular crew and replacements was clear. The officials kept the game in control, curtailing the chippy play and choppy pace that had marred the first three weeks of the regular season.

"I think the thing we're most proud of is the lesson that we all learned," Green said. "If you're going to be in a professional league, you've got top-notch coaches, you need professional officials as well."

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Online: http://bigstory.ap.org/NFL-Pro32 and http://twitter.com/AP_NFL

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nfl-refs-approve-deal-ready-sunday-games-152115516--nfl.html

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Obama Blocks Chinese Wind Farm Over National Security ...

By Alex Johnston
Epoch Times Staff Created: September 28, 2012 Last Updated: September 28, 2012

Giant wind turbines in California in May, 2008. The White House recently blocked a Chinese-owned company?s attempts to acquire four wind farms in northern Oregon, citing security concerns. (David McNew/Getty Images)

A Chinese-owned company?s attempts to acquire four wind farms in northern Oregon will be blocked by the White House, citing security concerns, it was announced Friday.

President Barack Obama?s administration said the Ralls Corporation, a privately owned company, acquired the wind farms near a U.S. Navy facility months ago, which represents a potential security problem. It was the first time in more than two decades that the White House prevented such a foreign transaction.

?There is credible evidence that leads me to believe that Ralls Corporation ? might take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United States,? Obama said in a statement, adding that the farms are located near military-restricted airspace.?

Ralls Corp., owned by the China-based Sany Group, must sell off its holdings within 90 days along with the associated intellectual property, and contracts, the White House said. The company also must remove structures?including concrete foundations?and other equipment from the farms within 14 days.

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The White House said the farms were within three to five miles of the Oregon naval training base, which carries out training for air-to-air combat, electronic warfare, drone testing, and bombing, according to the Financial Times.

Obama and his Republican presidential opponent, Mitt Romney, have attacked one another in recent weeks over how communist China should best be dealt with.

?Right before the elections why would he not go with the committee?s recommendations and allow a Chinese deal to proceed?? Farhad Jalinous, a partner with Kaye Scholer LLP and who works on similar cases, told the Wall Street Journal. ?It wouldn?t make sense.?

The move comes just under two weeks after Obama filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization against China?s illegal subsidization of auto exports. The complaint alleges that China invested at least $1 billion in recent years that provide auto and parts manufactures an unfair advantage over their American counterparts, which are in direct competition with them.?

The last time the president blocked such a deal over national security concerns was in 1990 when President George H. W. Bush halted a Chinese aerospace technology company from buying a U.S. manufacturing company.

Read the original Chinese article.

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Rome at the End of the Line: Theater Review

The Bottom Line

Lively and haunting production from Mexico of an accomplished (if derivative) text, performed in Spanish with English supertitles.

Venue

24^th Street Theatre (Through Oct. 7)

Cast

Norma Ang?lica, Julieta Ortiz

Director

Alberto Lomnitz

Writer

Daniel Serrano

At its most elemental level, theater can deploy the simplest of means to convey universal themes across cultures and languages. This show stirs strong spiritual identification with a culture far removed from Los Angeles and yet intensely present in the life of our city. Though quite specific to its rural Mexican location, it is nevertheless readily accessible while still managing a complex response to an essential philosophical crisis of everyone?s existence.

Two 13-year old girls, Evangelina (Norma Ang?lica) and Emilia (Julieta Ortiz), bored and stranded in their isolated rural village, hang out by the railroad tracks and scheme to hop a train to their imagined promised land, the city of Rome. The arc follows them at six points in their lives, ending in their eighties, an echo of Shakespeare?s Seven Ages of Man, always dreaming of a different life, one with options beyond the bleak ones of subservient marriage, omnipresent violence and grinding poverty. In each chapter, the roar of the passing train amplifies both their hopes and their horrors.

Their existential stasis and spiritual solitude conjures Samuel Beckett, yet tethered to a social consciousness rooted in specific eras of Mexican history, although no topical references are provided to highlight this timeline for the audience, underlining that this awareness is not available to the characters, either. So too the drollery of optimism in the face of unyielding meaninglessness provides a leavening humor that propels each scene.

The two actresses age across the action through gesture, costume and movement, displaying sustained charm and protean technique, appropriately founded more upon the commedia than Beckett?s music hall. There is perhaps a tendency to underline mannerisms with outsized vocal and physical expressions, appropriate in the sense that this suggests the na?ve culture of the women who, especially when younger, conceive of emotions in broader terms.

The English supertitles effectively convey the full range of meaning in the text, although even Spanish speakers may be grateful for them, given the rough-hewn accents of the characters.?

Daniel Serrano?s two-hander is part of his trilogy Impossible Cities (Ciudades Imposibles). With this show, the 24^th Street Theatre continues its estimable presentations of contemporary Spanish-language co-productions with international companies in service both to the theatre community and its local population.

Venue: 24^th Street Theatre (Through Oct. 7)
Cast: Norma Ang?lica, Julieta Ortiz
Director: Alberto Lomnitz
Writer: Daniel Serrano
Lighting Design: Lomnitz, Ismael Carrasco
Movement Design: Isabel Romero
Costume Design: Adriana Olivera
Sound Design: Alejandro Lopez Velarde, Javier de la Peza
Presented by Viaje Redondo Productions in association with Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana and Consejo Nacional Para La Cultura y Las Artes.

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Tim Cook apologizes for Maps mess

Well, it's hardly a secret that customers are unhappy with Apple's new mapping solution in iOS 6. And, while the company has admitted that, perhaps, it's not quite up to snuff yet, it has played down Maps' flaws and urged customers to be patient. Today, in an open letter to the Apple faithful, Tim Cook struck a far more candid and conciliatory tone, apologizing for failing to deliver a "world-class" product. Cook went so far as to suggest that unhappy customers could check out offerings from competitors like Bing, MapQuest, Google and Nokia -- at least until Cupertino sorts this mess out. You'll find the complete text of the letter after the break.

Update: As CNET reports, Apple has now also gone one step further and added a new list of featured mapping alternatives to the App Store, including apps from TeleNav, Garmin, Magellan and others.

You can read our editorial on Apple apologies since the launch of the iPhone here.

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Green Blog: Fracking Suspense Cuts Into Second-Home Sales

As I report in the real estate section of The Times, many would-be buyers are deferring purchases of second homes in upstate New York out of concern that hydraulic fracturing might be allowed nearby. For now, no one knows whether Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo?s administration will allow this controversial natural gas drilling process to go forward.

So far, officials in the Cuomo administration have indicated that the drilling might initially be limited to five New York counties above the Pennsylvania state line where the formation known as the Marcellus Shale is thought to be the most productive. But gas industry officials have cautioned that the extent of the gas deposits will be unknown until they start to drill. The Marcellus Shale spans more than two dozen New York counties, from Chautauqua and Erie in the west to Green and Albany in the east.

While many New Yorkers worry that the drilling could result in groundwater contamination or mar the beauty of the landscape, some are actually hoping that drilling will come to their areas along with jobs and royalties paid for leased land.

The uncertainty is affecting both sales and relationships in the real estate market. Many buyers who are concerned about the environmental risks of the drilling complain that some real estate agents skirt the issue.

Annie M. Van Assche, 62, a computer trainer who lives in Astoria, Queens and has been hunting for a property in the Catskills?where she could raise alpacas and grow organic produce, said she resented that lack of candor. ?I?d ask, ?What?s the situation with fracking up here?? ? she said, an agent might typically reply, ?I haven?t been following it.?

Ms. Van Assche is now considering expanding her search to Maine and Vermont.

John Pratt, an opponent of fracking who lives in central Sullivan County and is treasurer of the county board of realtors, said he was candid with clients and that he would make sure they were aware of the issue before closing a deal. ?I tell my clients that I am against fracking and a proponent of alternative energy solutions,? he said.

But Mr. Pratt said he generally sold in areas that are unlikely to see drilling. ?I focus on selling in areas not currently being leased to gas companies, and I also sell in the area of the Neversink Reservoir, where I think we can safely say fracking will not be taking place anytime soon,? he said.

State officials have said they will not allow fracking in the watershed that supplies drinking water to New York City and Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties downstate.

Yet Mr. Pratt conceded that nothing is set in stone until the state issues its decision. ?I think I?m in denial,? he said. ?It seems like fracking is an issue on the western side of the county, but eventually the industry can come to where I am.?

Source: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/fracking-suspense-cuts-into-second-home-sales/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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10 Things to Know for Friday

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday:

1. CLINTON, NETANYAHU DISAGREE ON IRAN STRATEGY

The U.S. secretary of state hopes diplomacy can avoid the military action the Israeli leader urges.

2. FOR ONCE, IT'S HAIL TO THE REFS

Yes, the real refs are back. The stadium erupted in a roar and official harmony was restored to the NFL as the Ravens beat the Browns 23-16

3. CANDIDATES BEWARE: THE DEBATES CAN DEFINE YOU

Obama and Romney face off Wednesday, aware of what tripped up Nixon, Gore and the first President Bush.

4. PRODUCER OF ANTI-ISLAMIC VIDEO ARRESTED ON PROBATION VIOLATION

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula was barred from using computers or the Internet for five years without approval.

5. WHY POLICE ARE SKEPTICAL ABOUT THE LATEST HOFFA SEARCH

The Detroit probe follows decades of unfounded reports that the Teamster boss's body was entombed under Giants Stadium, discarded in a Florida swamp or buried at several Motor City locations.

6. CONNECTICUT MAN KILLS MASKED BOY THEN DISCOVERS IT'S HIS SON

Police say what appeared to be an attempted late-night burglary turned tragic when a father shot his son.

7. THE DESPAIR OVER 'SONS OF ANARCHY' ACTOR'S FINAL ACTS

The show's creator says Johnny Lewis, found dead in Los Angeles, "had lost his way" when he took the life of the landlady "thrown into his destructive path."

8. POLICE IN MINNESOTA SAY SHOOTER AMONG DEAD

A man opened fire inside a Minneapolis sign company killing four people before taking his own life.

9. MICHAEL SAVAGE LEAVES RADIO SHOW AFTER LEGAL WIN

The conservative host's attorney says discussions with new networks are already under way.

10. THAI MILITARY MEN DANCE IN "GANGNAM STYLE" IN YOUTUBE VIDEO

Among the latest to mimic the globally popular dance video are Navy officers in Thailand.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/10-things-know-friday-103047600.html

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Relief ruling fires up McIlroy at Ryder Cup

MEDINAH, Ill. (AP) ? The Americans finally have some momentum at the Ryder Cup.

And it's coming from some most unlikely sources.

Phil Mickelson and Ryder Cup rookie Keegan Bradley have won three straight holes to go 3-up on Luke Donald and Sergio Garcia with four holes to play. Neither of the Europeans ever lost in foursomes, and are 4-0 when paired in alternate-shot matches.

The U.S. also leads in the foursome of Jason Dufner and Zach Johnson vs. Lee Westwood and Francesco Molinari. The momentum in that match turned on the ninth hole, when Dufner's 15-foot birdie putt stopped a half-turn short of the hole. After about a half-second hesitation, the ball dropped in and the low-key Dufner pumped his fist.

The Americans are making up some ground against Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell, who seemed to be well on their way to Europe's first point after six birdies on their first 10 holes.

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Frugal Fun for the weekend September 28th-30th (Jacksonville)

by Gretchen on September 28, 2012

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1. Thursday September 27th- Sunday September 30th. Jacksonville Home and Patio Show. Prime Osborn Convention Center. Thurs: 11am-9pm. Fri: 11am-9pm. Sat: 10am-9pm. Sund. 10am-6pm. Tickets are $10 for 13 and up, $5 for 6-12, and under 5 are free?at the door. You can go to JacksonvilleHomeShows.com and get advance tickets to save $3.
2. Friday September 28th, 7pm. Atlantic Beach Jordan Park. Twilight movie: the Lorax. Activities and refreshments start at 7pm, and the movie begins at twilight. Be sure to bring chairs, blankets and snacks. FREE.
3. Saturday September 29th. all day. Free Admission to National Parks day. For us that means Fort Caroline, Fort Matanzas, and Castillo De San Marcos in St. Augustine.
4. Saturday September 29th at 9:30am. Strut your Mutt.??A dog walk and festival featuring a leisurely walk with your dog, followed by a doggie themed festival featuring massages and ?paw-dicures? for your pets, dog yoga, contests, giveaways, kids activities and more. Registration starts at 8am, Strut starts at 9:30am and festival ends at 12noon.
5. Saturday September 29th, 9am- 3pm. FLFASD Craft Faire and Bazaar. Westside, child guidance center.
6. family oriented fun filled day at the FLFASD Craft Faire & Bazaar featuring arts and crafts, food, fun for the kids, and prizes galore! FREE.
7. Saturday September 29th 9-10am. Children?s Garden Workshop: Making seed balls.?Beaches, Jarboe park. All events include a ?What?s Growing in the Garden?? Tour, Watering the Garden, Books and/or Music, and a Garden-Themed activity, craft or food preparation. Free.
8. Saturday September 29th 10-2pm. Children?s Art Workshops.Fernandina, Island?art Association. Free guided art activities for school age children are provided by local artists.? Materials furnished. Free.
9. Sunday September 30, 12-1:30pm. Weight of the Nation: documentary screening. Sun Ray cinema in five points. The Health Planning Council of Northeast Florida, Healthy Jacksonville Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition, and the YMCA of Florida?s First Coast will be hosting a community screening of ?Weight of the Nation: Children in Crisis.?
10. Sunday September 30th from 4-6pm. Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio. Beaches, St. Pauls by the sea Episcopal church.? Beaches Fine Arts Series presents the famed Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio in a free concert, recorded by American Public Media for national broadcast on Performance Today. The trio are ?among the superstars of the chamber music world. Free

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Video: Campaigns putting their ground games to the test in key swing states

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Arkansas court upholds medical marijuana proposal

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) ? The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a proposed ballot measure that, if successful, would make the state the first in the South to legalize medical marijuana.

Justices rejected a challenge by a coalition of conservative groups who had asked the court to block the proposed initiated act from the November ballot or order the state to not count any votes cast on the issue.

The measure would allow patients with qualifying conditions to buy marijuana from nonprofit dispensaries with a doctor's recommendation. The proposal acknowledges that marijuana is still illegal under federal law, but the Coalition to Preserve Arkansas Values argued that it doesn't adequately explain that approved users could still face federal prosecution.

"We hold that it is an adequate and fair representation without misleading tendencies or partisan coloring," the court wrote. "Therefore, the act is proper for inclusion on the ballot at the general election on Nov. 6, 2012, and the petition is therefore denied."

Arkansas will be the first Southern state to put the medical marijuana question to voters. Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have legalized it in some fashion. Massachusetts voters are also expected to vote on the issue this fall, while the North Dakota Supreme Court ruled a medical marijuana initiative can't appear on that state's ballot.

Jerry Cox, the head of the Arkansas Family Council and a member of the coalition, declined to comment immediately on the ruling and said opponents planned a news conference later Thursday morning. The conservative coalition argued that Arkansas' 384-word ballot question doesn't accurately describe other consequences of passing the 8,700-word law, including a provision that would allow minors to use medical marijuana with parental consent.

Justices disagreed and said the proposed law is fairly summarized in the question that will appear on the ballot.

"Here, after reviewing the ballot title of 384 words, we conclude that the title informs the voters in an intelligible, honest and impartial manner of the substantive matter of the act," the ruling said.

The group behind the measure, Arkansans for Compassionate Care, told the court it believes the measure is sufficiently fair to go before voters. David Couch, an attorney for the group, said he was pleased with the ruling and said it allowed them to shift gears to building support for the measure's passage.

"Now that we've passed muster with the Supreme Court we'll begin our campaign to show the people of the state of Arkansas that this is truly a compassionate measure," Couch said.

Under the proposal, qualifying health conditions would include cancer, glaucoma, HIV, AIDS and Alzheimer's disease. The proposal also would allow qualifying patients or a designated caregiver to grow marijuana if the patient lives more than 5 miles from a dispensary.

The conservative coalition's members include leaders of the Arkansas Faith and Ethics Council, the Family Council Action Committee and the Families First Foundation.

Past efforts to put medical marijuana on the ballot in Arkansas have faltered, though voters in two cities in the state have approved referendums that encourage police to regard arrests for small amounts of marijuana as a low priority.

Supporters of the current proposal mounted an organized and well-funded campaign that surprised many political observers. Arkansans for Compassionate Care, the group advocating for the measure, won ballot access after submitting far more than the required 62,500 signatures.

Medical marijuana has never come before voters in the South partly because of the difficulty of getting such initiatives on the ballot. And conservative legislators throughout the region have not backed the efforts. The Washington-based Marijuana Policy Project has provided most of the funding for the campaign in Arkansas, contributing $251,000 to the effort.

Officials with the group said they stepped in after polling showed strong support for the measure in Arkansas. Group leaders also cite a "symbolic" value in passing a medical marijuana law in the South.

Gov. Mike Beebe, who is opposed to the proposal, told reporters on Thursday he doesn't believe the state's voters would legalize medical marijuana. Beebe said he's asked for an estimate of how much it will cost the state to regulate the dispensaries if the measure passes.

"If I understand what I think I understand about it, if it passes, it's going to require a whole of administration from the health department," Beebe said. "I don't know where we're going to get it from."

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/arkansas-court-upholds-medical-marijuana-proposal-140512998--politics.html

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Soil samples to be taken in Hoffa body claim

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2012, file photo, people photograph a driveway in Roseville, Mich. that a tipster said could be the final resting place of missing Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa. Authorities plan to take soil samples from under the driveway. Hoffa?s mysterious disappearance, assumed death and myriad searches for his body have been the stuff of urban legends for more than three decades. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2012, file photo, people photograph a driveway in Roseville, Mich. that a tipster said could be the final resting place of missing Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa. Authorities plan to take soil samples from under the driveway. Hoffa?s mysterious disappearance, assumed death and myriad searches for his body have been the stuff of urban legends for more than three decades. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

ROSEVILLE, Mich. (AP) ? State investigators will take soil samples from outside a home in suburban Detroit as police continue looking into a man's claim that a body he says he saw buried in a backyard 35 years ago might have been that of missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa.

The samples are set to be removed Friday morning from beneath the driveway of a home in Roseville and eventually tested for human decomposition.

Hoffa was last seen July 30, 1975, outside a restaurant in Oakland County, more than 30 miles to the west.

The results could put the rest the latest turn in the search for Hoffa's remains.

Previous tips led police to excavate soil in 2006 at a horse farm more than 100 miles north of Detroit, rip up floorboards at a Detroit home in 2004, and search beneath a backyard pool north of the city in 2003.

There were even rumors that Hoffa's remains were ground up and tossed into a Florida swamp, entombed beneath Giants Stadium in New Jersey or obliterated in a mob-owned fat-rendering plant.

One local theory was that the body was beneath the foundation of a downtown Detroit hockey stadium, said 57-year-old Cindi Frank, who snapped photos Thursday of the Roseville driveway.

The daughter of a unionized driver and salesman for a Detroit bakery, Frank remembers conversations about Hoffa while he was alive and rumors about his fate.

"It was a family thing. Every time we'd go somewhere we'd say, 'Hey, I wonder if Jimmy Hoffa is buried there?'" Frank said. "It's just been one of those unsolved mysteries that's gone on for 30-something years. If he show up in Roseville ..."

Results of the soil samples taken Friday are not expected before next week.

News of the search has brought attention to the mostly working- and middle-class suburb from the curious and naysayers. Slowly moving vehicles have clogged the residential street as camera-wielding neighbors snapped photos for keepsakes.

"I believe it's him. My sister said it is, and she's a psychic," said Mike Smith after ambling up to the home Thursday and shying a bit from the yellow police tape stretched across the driveway.

Feisty and iron-willed in contract talks, Hoffa was an acquaintance of mobsters and adversary to federal officials. He spent time in prison for jury tampering.

The day he disappeared, Hoffa was supposed to meet with a New Jersey Teamsters boss and a Detroit mafia captain. He was declared legally dead in 1982.

At the request of police, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality used ground-penetrating radar last week on the Roseville driveway. An anomaly, or shift, in the soil was detected.

Police Chief James Berlin told The Associated Press on Thursday that his office is "not claiming it's Jimmy Hoffa" beneath the slab but that they are "investigating a body that may be at the location."

Roseville was one of several inner-ring communities that grew quickly as unionized auto factory workers left the city in search of nicer homes and bigger yards.

"Maybe the most inconspicuous spot might be the place to stash a body or something," said 52-year-old Andrew Kacir, who lives across from the taped off driveway.

Recently retired Detroit FBI chief Andrew Arena is among the doubters.

"You've got to check it out, but this doesn't sound right," he told the AP. "The working theories that have developed over the years, this really doesn't fit any of those. If this was the mob and they killed somebody, I just don't see them burying the body basically at the intersection of a residential neighborhood with this guy standing there."

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Mattress rivals Tempur-Pedic, Sealy bed down

By Roland Jones, NBC News

Two major mattress makers are getting into bed with one another.

Tempur-Pedic International said Thursday it will acquire rival Sealy in a deal valued at approximately $1.3 billion. As part of the agreement, Tempur-Pedic will assume or repay all of Sealy's outstanding convertible and non-convertible debt worth about $750 million.?

The deal is expected to close during the first half of 2013. Shares of?Tempur-Pedic soared on the news.

By acquiring Sealy, Tempur-Pedic -- the manufacturer and distributor of mattresses and pillows made from memory foam technology developed by NASA -- is attempting to regain market share from fast-moving rivals in the burgeoning market for foam mattresses, popular with aging baby boomers.?

Tempur-Pedic?s market value fell by half to about $1.5 billion after it slashed full-year forecasts in June, blaming intensifying competition from privately owned mattress manufacturers such as Simmons Bedding and Serta.

Bradley Thomas, an analyst at KeyBanc Capital Markets, told clients in a research note that after many years of dominating the foam niche of the bedding category, the deal with Sealy will allow Tempur-Pedic ?to ?become a part of the normal mattress world.?

?The world has changed for Tempur-Pedic, Thomas said.

In acquiring Sealy, the long-time industry leader, Tempur-Pedic will gain expertise and strong brands in the market for traditional inner-spring coil beds with brand names such as Sealy Posturepedic and Stearns & Foster.

The combined company will have a presence in more than 80 countries and the deal will give Tempur-Pedic more than $40 million in cost synergies over three years, the company predicted.?

Tempur-Pedic said it has received consent for the deal from Sealy?s board of directors, and also from a majority of Sealy shareholders. No additional shareholder approvals are required to complete the transaction, Sealy said.

Following the deal?s close, Tempur-Pedic and Sealy will continue to operate as independent companies and Larry Rogers will remain CEO of Sealy and report to Tempur-Pedic's CEO Mark Sarvary.?

Reuters contributed to this report.

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The Many Successful Endeavors of Dr. Nir Hus | Herbalife weight ...

When you dream, you look forward to achieving something that is currently beyond your reach. You seek for ways in order for this dream to come true in subtle or drastic forms possible. A man who dreams of succeeding in the healthcare industry does not get there at once. It takes years of toiling, training and studying just to become somebody like Nir Hus. He did not get into the peak of his career in just a snap of a finger. He believed that being an authority in trauma and critical care entails a lot of sacrifices, meaningful achievements and concern for the good of the majority.

For Dr. NirHus, having a diploma in biology and marine science is not enough to become a foundation of everything that he is now. He furthered his learning in the fields of biochemistry, medicine, and bioinformatics. This is the reason why he does not only take pride of his University of Miami diploma but also of other post graduate milestones. As a physician, he finds it a critical responsibility to research in different areas of studies to strengthen his interventions for health care problems. He has entered a fellowship with the Ryder Trauma Center which he completed in no time.

Moreover, Nir Hus also took the chance of spending his time with various patients in their respective critical conditions. He managed to work in the Surgical Intensive Unit, Neurological Intensive Unit and Cardiac Intensive Units. He knows that being mentally equipped with health care procedures is not enough in becoming a critical care authority. He reaches out to his patients, try to know more of what they need and provide them this for as possibly as he can.

Dr. Nir Hus stands firm on solid academic foundation having earned not only a college pre-med degree but also a diploma in medicine particularly in molecular biology and in the field of biochemistry. His fields of endeavors have triggered him to conduct researches and of this meaningful research is the identification of bacterial proteases for cervical cancer patients. He also ventured in the studies on trauma surgery, thoracic surgery and vascular surgery.

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Warning signs seen before actor's violent end

FILE - This Sept. 14, 2011 file photo shows actor Johnny Lewis posing for a portrait during the 36th Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Canada. Authorities say Lewis fell to his death after killing an elderly Los Angeles woman. Lewis appeared in the FX television show "Sons of Anarchy," for two seasons. The woman killed is identified as 81-year-old Catherine Davis. (AP Photo/Carlo Allegri, file)

FILE - This Sept. 14, 2011 file photo shows actor Johnny Lewis posing for a portrait during the 36th Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Canada. Authorities say Lewis fell to his death after killing an elderly Los Angeles woman. Lewis appeared in the FX television show "Sons of Anarchy," for two seasons. The woman killed is identified as 81-year-old Catherine Davis. (AP Photo/Carlo Allegri, file)

FILE - This Sept. 14, 2011 file photo shows actor Johnny Lewis posing for a portrait during the 36th Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Canada. Authorities say Lewis fell to his death after killing an elderly Los Angeles woman. Lewis appeared in the FX television show "Sons of Anarchy," for two seasons. The woman killed is identified as 81-year-old Catherine Davis. (AP Photo/Carlo Allegri, file)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Probation officials openly worried about actor Johnny Lewis' mental health and his danger to others in recent months, and this week their worst fears came true.

The man who died a violent death on "Sons of Anarchy" three years ago apparently beat and strangled his landlady and attacked neighbors before falling or leaping to his own death in neighborhood near Hollywood on Wednesday afternoon.

They were the final violent acts of a man who in the previous 10 months had been repeatedly arrested, sent to counseling and had left jail only five days before his demise.

Court records and his attorney detailed attempts to help Lewis but not in time to help 81-year-old Catherine Davis, who neighbors reported screaming inside a home near the outskirts of Los Angeles' Griffith Park. The home had been ransacked, glass was shattered and a dead cat was also found inside, and Lewis' body was found in the driveway.

Lewis' cause of death is pending toxicology results, Coroner's investigative division Lt. Fred Corral said Thursday evening. Davis died from blunt head trauma and manual strangulation, he said.

The deaths came four months after a probation officer expressed grave concerns about Lewis' mental health, writing that he was "very concerned for the well-being of not only the community but that of the defendant."

Court records detail Lewis' descent from January 2012, when he attacked two men and hit them in the head with a bottle, through August, when he acted as his own attorney and pleaded no contest to felony assault.

By that point he had been arrested three times for incidents ranging from trying to break into an occupied home in Santa Monica, Calif., to resisting arrest. He had been sent to treatment programs that specialized in drug and alcohol addiction as well as mental illness.

A May 17 probation report states that "the defendant suffers from some form of chemical dependency, mental health issue and a lack of permanent housing. Given this, (Lewis) will continue to be a threat to any community he may reside."

Another probation officer had written two months earlier, "Obviously defendant's behavior is out of control and needs counseling afforded by a professional."

Lewis remained on supervised probation at the time of his death.

Lewis' attorney Jonathan Mandel said the actor had serious mental issues that seemed to surface fairly recently. He said Lewis' parents and others had tried desperately to help him.

"Johnny Lewis had a lot of problems, a lot of mental problems," Mandel said by phone Thursday. "I recommended treatment for him but he declined it."

He continued, saying: "I give a lot of credit to his parents. They were really strong in trying to help him out. They really went to bat for him, but I guess they just couldn't do enough."

Lewis' career spanned more than a decade, mainly in small roles. He played Ricky in the 2007 movie "AVPR: Aliens vs Predator ? Requiem" and was Dennis "Chili" Childress for two seasons on TV's "The O.C." He also appeared in episodes of such popular television shows as "Boston Public," ''Judging Amy," ''Malcolm in the Middle" and "Drake & Josh."

He was on "Sons of Anarchy" in 2008 and 2009 before his character was killed off.

Kurt Sutter, the show's creator and executive producer, tweeted news of Lewis' death Thursday:

"It was a tragic end for an extremely talented guy, who unfortunately had lost his way," Sutter wrote. "I wish I could say that I was shocked by the events last night, but I was not. I am deeply sorry that an innocent life had to be thrown into his destructive path."

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Associated Press writers John Rogers and Shaya Tayefe Mohajer in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

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Inspectors publish report on how colleges improve | FE Week

Unrealistic self-assessments with little or no critical insight, plus unexpected job cuts, show up time and again among poorly performing colleges, according to a new Ofsted report.

How Colleges Improve also warned colleges about the dangers of paying too much attention to building projects and mergers.

The report, which was released last week, also highlighted inconsistent tracking of learner progress, financial instability and defensive, inward-looking colleges being slow to accept change or to act when data showed decline.

Weaker colleges, the report added, often had a high proportion of temporary staff who were not properly managed.

In outstanding and improving colleges, staff were more willing to accept change and could easily describe what their college stood for?

And, mirroring the ?Deptford not Delhi? fears of chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw that featured in FE Week a fortnight ago, there were also question marks over colleges? ?quest for new and fresh business, especially, abroad?to the detriment of current learners?.

But the report, commissioned by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) and Ofsted, also listed where colleges had got it right.

Successful colleges, it said, had strong governance and management as well as a clear vision and direction. And good and outstanding colleges were not afraid of the self-assessment process ? even if it was self-critical.

Ofsted?s national director for learning and skills, Matthew Coffey, said: ?Successful colleges always had strong leadership and management and the importance of this cannot be underestimated.

?All the elements of this report are inextricably linked to the actions and behaviours of leaders and managers and the example they set.

?In outstanding and improving colleges, staff were more willing to accept change and could easily describe what their college stood for. As a result, leadership teams were better placed to act decisively to tackle underperformance and secure improvement.?

Rob Wye, LSIS chief executive, said: ?This report confirms that the importance of outstanding leadership and management, underpinned by informed governance, cannot be underestimated.

?It is also clear that robust and honest self-review and reflection is a vital ingredient of any provider?s improvement journey. The evidence in this report confirms what many will have thought for a long time ? that the best colleges are those where the teaching, learning and assessment delivers excellent results that match the needs of learners, employers and the local community.?

The report was welcomed by the Association of School and College Leaders. Its colleges spokesperson, Stephan Jungnitz, said: ?I?m pleased the report recognises the pivotal role of college leaders in driving forward institutional success, as well as the complex and demanding range of areas they have to deal with, from buildings and finance to teaching and learning.

?As we well know, each college is unique and the road to success will be different for each ? there is no magic formula. Having said that, the insights in the report will be useful to college leaders.

?For many, it will reinforce what they instinctively already know about improving their institutions.?

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Source: http://feweek.co.uk/2012/09/28/inspectors-publish-report-on-how-colleges-improve/

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