American Eagle Energy Corporation (OTCQX: AMZG;) provide an operational update on its Spyglass Project in Divide County, North Dakota. The Company has been active on both the operated and non-operated fronts during the first part of 2013.
The Company completed three wells during January, including two infill Three Forks wells and its second Middle Bakken well within the project. The first well in this group, the Violet 3-3, was completed with a lateral length of 10,124 feet in the Three Forks zone and a 31-stage stimulation treatment. The well was put on pump and has averaged 466 barrels of oil per day (BOPD) over the first five days of production, which is consistent with the original wells in the area. The other two wells, the Muzzy 15-33S and Christianson Bros 15-33N, were drilled from a common surface location with lateral lengths of 9,787 feet and 5,420 feet, respectively. Both wells have been stimulated, cleaned out and are expected to begin pumping operations later this week. American Eagle owns an average working interest of approximately 41% in each of these three wells.
American Eagle has drilled and cased four additional wells that began stimulation operations this week. These wells are all targeting the Three Forks zone, with two of the wells being infill locations and two of the wells developing step-out spacing units, including the first well in the Company's West Spyglass Prospect area. All four of these wells are expected to commence production by the end of March. The Company owns an average working interest of approximately 29% in each of these four wells.
American Eagle has participated in 20 non-operated wells, with an average working interest of approximately 5% in each, during the last two months. These wells, operated by Samson Resources, SM Energy Company and Mountainview Energy Ltd., are in various stages of drilling, completion and production. The wells are a combination of Middle Bakken and Three Forks wells, many of which are included in aggressive infill programs that are being developed from multi-well pads, which are designed to increase the drilling and completion efficiency of the programs. All of these wells are projected to be placed on production by the end of March. The Company estimates that these wells could increase its oil production rate by approximately 400 BOPD.
"The high activity level that occurred within the Spyglass Property area during the second half of last year is continuing into early 2013," commented Brad Colby , American Eagle's President, "Despite some weather related obstacles, we expect to exceed our internal production goals for the first quarter of the year. The Three Forks wells continue to exhibit good, consistent rates, and the various Middle Bakken wells are yielding improved results as the operators continue to tailor their completion techniques for the zone."
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Taking panoramic photography to new heights is photographer Jeffrey Martin.
He has spent the last 4 months putting together 48,000 images into a single panorama, allowing you to see things that are up to about 15 miles away, all-around from where the photograph was taken.?
Almost 460-gigapixels large, this picture is about four times larger than the previous world record image of Shanghai, China, which was about 114-gigapixels.?
This panorama was shot at the top of the BT Tower in London, made possible with the help of four cameras, multiple lenses and a couple of robots that helped to move the cameras around.?
The stitching of the panoramic photograph was done on two workstations with 192GB and 256GB of RAM, using Kolor Autopano Giga stitching software.?
Jeffrey mentioned that there's a pig somewhere out there, within a 15-mile radius: Try to find it by?following this link to the gigantic photograph itself.?
Forensic officials inspect the bombing site in Dilsukhnagar
INDIA hunted on Friday (February 22) for perpetrators of twin bomb attacks that killed 14 people and wounded dozens more near a cinema and a bus stand in a busy neighbourhood in the city of Hyderabad.
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Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh said those responsible for the ?dastardly act? would be punished, as federal investigators and bomb disposal units arrived at the cordoned-off blast site in southern India.
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While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, the CNN-IBN news channel reported a militant from the Indian Mujahideen group had told Delhi police during interrogation last October about a plan to attack the same area.
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The attacks raised questions over whether Australia?s cricket team would go ahead with a scheduled international match against India in Hyderabad starting on March 2, although the tourists said the Test was still on for now.
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Police meanwhile struggled to keep order with large crowds massing at the busy junction where the attacks were carried out on Thursday (February 21) evening.
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The bombings, the first to hit India since 2011, hit a mainly Hindu district in Hyderabad, a hub of India?s computing industry which hosts local offices of Google and Microsoft among others and which has a large Muslim population.
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Witnesses said one of the crude devices went off around 15 yards (metres) from the entrance to the Venkatadri Cinema in the popular retail district of Dilsukh Nagar, and the second exploded next to a nearby bus stop.
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The first explosion went off just as movie-goers were making their way out of the cinema at the end of a show. Some had stopped at food stalls when the deafening blast hit.
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Many of those killed and injured were daily wage labourers stopping to pick up food at the local fruit market before heading home.
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?The total dead are 14, total injured is 119. Out of this six are critical,? Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde told reporters on Friday.
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N Rao, a senior police official in Hyderabad, confirmed the toll of 14 and put the number of wounded at 80.
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Doctors late on Thursday struggled to treat a stream of wounded victims as bloodied patients lay on stretchers at city hospitals and anguished relatives clamoured for news of their loved ones.
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The attacks came at a time when India was on alert after the recent hanging of a separatist unleashed protests in the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir.
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Shinde said that while authorities had received intelligence of a possible threat of attack, ?it was not specific?.
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Questioned about the Indian Mujahideen's possible involvement, Shinde said it was too early to say.
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?The investigation has just started ... we will find out everything,? he said.
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Commenting on the upcoming Test match in Hyderabad, Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said he was taking advice from authorities.
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?As far as I?m concerned we are playing the second Test in Hyderabad next week. That?s where we are at,? said Sutherland, who is with the team in Chennai for the opening Test starting later Friday.
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Newspaper headlines summed up the anger and frustration in India over the latest round of violence to strike the country.
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?India?s enemies strike Hyderabad,? said the Hindustan Times, while tabloid Mail Today said: ?Serial Terror Returns to Hyderabad.?
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In May 2007, at least 11 people were killed in a blast at a mosque in Hyderabad and five more died when police fired at Muslim protesters.
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Months later in August, at least 40 people were killed in Hyderabad when two blasts hit an auditorium and an outdoor restaurant.
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Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai, the top civil servant in India?s external affairs ministry, did not rule out foreign involvement. ?I am not sure there is any evidence it could be homegrown terrorism,? he said in Washington Thursday.
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New US Secretary of State John Kerry said in a tweet that he had expressed his sympathies for the ?brave people? of Hyderabad when he met Mathai in Washington.
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon ?strongly condemn(ed) the indiscriminate attacks? while Hugo Swire, a minister in Britain?s foreign office who is currently in India, said the attacks were ?a shocking reminder of the terrorist threat this country faces?.
@Karen Margrave, I haven't got a chance to really dig into it yet, but I've skimmed a few chapters. My initial review is that it's a lot like the Unofficial Guide - chock full of great information but at a high level. I wish the guide was out about 6 months earlier! I had to piece together all that information from a variety of sources so a "Master Guidebook" so to speak would have been an amazing resource for me. If anyone wants to understand the basics of REI, I'll be pointing them to BP's guide.
There are three things I really like about the guide BP put out:
1 - It's easy to read and well structured. I read SEOmoz's intro to SEO and it is structured the same way. I think it's a great way to present info. on the web.
2 - It's updated. I don't think there is a resource available that is comprised of information that is this timely.
3 - The links to more in-depth resources - blog posts and the forums. I really believe this is the best part of the entire guide - being able to dig into a specific subject that interests you or you need to learn more about, all within the BP universe. Hopefully someone will take a periodic look at the guide and update/add/remove links so it's always up-to-date. I'll be going through the guide and bookmarking all the articles and posts that I need/want to get more information on.
Overall, it's great job and I think Josh and team did exactly what they set out to do - create a definitive guide to all beginning real estate investors.
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HP just released its Q1 2013 earnings report and for once, the company beat analyst expectations: revenue was once again down 6% to $28.4 billion, but still higher than most analysts expected. The company reported an income of $1.2 billion and EPS of $0.82. Last quarter, HP still reported earnings of $30 billion and a net loss of $6.9 billion after its $8.8 billion write-down due to alleged accounting fraud at Autonomy prior to HP acquiring the company. The stock market is reacting very positively to this news. HP’s stock is currently trading at $18.35 in after-hours trading, up $7.3%. The general consensus among analysts was that HP’s total revenue would decline by about 7.5% compared to the year-ago quarter and that revenue would be around $27.79 billion, with a net income of around $1.39 billion and earnings per share would be around $0.71, a decline of 24% compared to last year’s EPS of $0.92. HP clearly beat these expectations. After last year’s $17 billion write-off after the acquisitions of Electronic Data Systems and Autonomy, as well as five previous quarters of declining revenues, many shareholders were hoping that CEO Meg Whitman would be able to stop the company from sinking even further. HP’s ailing PC business shows no sign of recovering so far. After a 14% decline in Q4 2012, the company reported n 8% decline in revenue from personal computers for this quarter. With its Servers, Storage and Networking revenue also dropping by 9% in Q4 2012 and 4% this quarter, the only area where HP really made some progress last time around was in software, where revenue grew 14%, but revenue from this business declined by 2% last quarter. “We beat our non-GAAP diluted EPS outlook for the quarter by $0.11 per share, driven by improved execution, improvement in our channel and go-to-market efforts and the impact of the restructuring program we announced in May 2012,” said Meg Whitman, HP president and chief executive officer. “While there’s still a lot of work to do to generate the kind of growth we want to see, our turnaround is starting to gain traction as a result of the actions we took in 2012 to lay the foundation for HP’s future.” HP, of course, faces a lot of headwind given that sales of its core products, including PCs, printers and servers, are on a downward trend that the whole industry
Stopping and repealing this should be our TOP Priority. A Free Internet should not be taken for granted!
by Stephen Lendman
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It shouldn?t surprise. The 2011 Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) never really went away. It ducked and covered for another day.
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It?s more about destroying personal freedom than online security. It gives government and corporate supporters unlimited power to access personal/privileged information online.
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Civil liberty protections are ignored. Security experts, academics, and other professionals expressed outrage. They called CISPA and John McCain?s SECURE IT Act measures that ?allow entities who participate in relaying or receiving Internet traffic to freely monitor and redistribute those network communications? unjustifiably.
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They encourage transferring private communications to government agencies. Accountability and transparency are lacking. Vague language describes network security attacks, threat indicators, and countermeasures.
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Innocuous online activities can be called cybersecurity threats. Eroded privacy laws will be gutted. Web sites visited, personal emails, and other online contact may be freely accessed.
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Obama?s State of the Union address stressed no-holds-barred cyberwar. Earlier he declared waging it globally.
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In May 2009, he prioritized cybersecurity. He called cyber-threats ?one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation.?
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?America?s economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on cybersecurity,? he claimed.
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He ordered a top-to-bottom assessment. A Cyberspace Policy Review followed. He supports draconian cybersecurity bills. Passage threatens constitutional freedoms.
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His February 12 Executive Order (EO) called for ?Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity.?
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Threats continue to grow, it said. National security challenges must be met.
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?It is the policy of the United States to enhance the security and resilience of the Nation?s critical infrastructure and to maintain a cyber environment that encourages efficiency, innovation, and economic prosperity while promoting safety, security, business confidentiality, privacy, and civil liberties.?
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?We can achieve these goals through a partnership with the owners and operators of critical infrastructure to improve cybersecurity information sharing and collaboratively develop and implement risk-based standards.?
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Following Obama?s EO, lawmakers revisited CISPA. On February 14, Rep. Mike Rogers (R. MI) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D. MD) reintroduced it.
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Last April, it passed the House 248 ? 168. Civil libertarian outrage gave senators second thoughts. The bill died in committee. It?s now back from the dead.
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On February 13, the ACLU responded. It said CISPA ?fails to protect privacy.?
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Reintroducing it lets ?companies share sensitive and personal American internet data with the government, including the National Security Agency and other military agencies.?
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?CISPA does not require companies to make reasonable efforts to protect their customers? privacy and then allows the government to use that data for undefined ?national-security? purposes and without any minimization procedures, which have been in effect in other security statutes for decades.?
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On February 13, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) headlined ?CISPA, the Privacy-Invading Cybersecurity Spying Bill, is Back in Congress.?
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It?s the same ?contentious bill civil liberties advocates fought last year.? It poorly defines cybersecurity exemptions to privacy law.?
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It offers ?broad immunities to companies (wishing) to share data with government agencies (including the private communications of users) in the name of cybersecurity.?
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It lets companies share data with federal agencies. They include military intelligence ones like NSA.
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EFF categorically opposes CISPA. It?s deeply flawed. According to the Project on Freedom, Security & Technology at the Center for Democracy & Technology:
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?Under a broad cybersecurity umbrella, it permits companies to share user communications directly with the super secret National Security Agency and permits the NSA to use that information for non-cybersecurity reasons.?
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?This risks turning the cybersecurity program into a back door intelligence surveillance program run by a military entity with little transparency or public accountability.?
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?Members should seriously consider whether CISPA ? which inflamed grassroots activists last year and was under a veto threat for these and other flaws ? is the right place to start.?
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Last October, Obama signed a secret directive. It addressed cyberattack defense. It set guidelines for confronting cyberspace threats. It lets military personnel act more aggressively.
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Called Presidential Policy Directive 20, it?s ?the most extensive White House effort to date to wrestle with what constitutes an ?offensive? and a ?defensive? action in the rapidly evolving world of cyberwar and cyberterrorism, where an attack can be launched in milliseconds by unknown assailants utilizing a circuitous route.?
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?For the first time, (it) explicitly makes a distinction between network defense and cyber operations to guide officials charged with making often rapid decisions when confronted with threats.?
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The order updates Bush?s 2004 presidential directive. It vets operations outside government owned systems.
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Fiber operations previously considered offensive (because they go outside defended networks) are now called defensive. They include ?severing the link between an overseas server and a targeted domestic computer.?
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Pentagon officials are expected to finalize new cyberwar rules of engagement. They set guidelines for military commanders. They?ll be able to act outside government networks.
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They?ll be able to compromise personal privacy. Preventing cyberattacks will be claimed as pretext.
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Last fall, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned of a ?cyber Pearl Harbor.? It could ?cause physical destruction and loss of life,? he said. It could ?paralyze and shock the nation and create a new profound sense of vulnerability.?
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US officials never lack for hyperbole. Fear-mongering is longstanding policy. Lies substitute for truth and full disclosure.
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CISPA 2.0 reflects old wine in new bottles. Troublesome issues remain. EFF addressed them.
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New legislation lets business use cybersecurity systems. Doing so permits accessing alleged cybersecurity threat information (CTI).
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Personal communications are included. Perceived threats to networks or systems are pretexts.
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Imposed limitations are weak. They only involve acting for vaguely defined cybersecurity purposes.
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At the same time, broad immunity from legal liability for monitoring, acquiring, or sharing CTI is extended. It?s given as long as entities act ?in good faith.?
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EFF expressed grave concerns. Provisions this broad will ?override existing privacy laws.? They include the Wiretap Act and Stored Communications Act.
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The new law also provides immunity ?for decisions made based on? CTI. Doing so makes bad legislation worse. ?A rogue or misguided company could easily make bad ?decisions.? ? They?ll do lots more harm than good.
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CISPA ?raises major transparency and accountability issues.? Information given Washington will be exempt from FOIA requests and state laws requiring disclosure.
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Users probably won?t know if their private data ends up compromised. They?ll have little recourse either way.
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If companies send information about users claimed unrelated to cyberthreats, government agencies getting it won?t notify them. Companies alone may or not do it. Who monitors them to make sure?
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?CISPA is a dangerous bill,? said EFF. So is CISPA 2.0. It ?equates cybersecurity with greater surveillance and information sharing.?
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It?s little changed from its original form. It lets government and companies bypass existing laws, access what they wish, filter content, and potentially shut down online access for cybersecurity or national security reasons.
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It assures unrestricted Big Brother spying. Government and business will take full advantage.
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Many cybersecurity problems arise from software vulnerabilities. Human failings compound them. CISPA leaves these and other important issues unaddressed.
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Obama?s EO encourages government agencies to share cybersecurity information with companies. It leaves plenty of room for abusive practices. Business will take full advantage. So will government agencies.
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Enacting CISPA 2.0 ensures abuse. Freedoms taken for granted will disappear. Any site, blog, or personal content can be called a cyber threat.
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Online users will lose out. So will everyone. Police state harshness will be hardened. America?s already hugely repressive. It?s a hair?s breath from full-blown tyranny.
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Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.?
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His new book is titled ?Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity.?
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http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanII.html
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Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.
Taking a break from the Miami mess, now is a good a time as any to remind everyone that the NCAA is still battling the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania over Penn State?s $60 million fine.
As you may recall from last month, Pennsylvania lawmakers pushed to keep PSU?s fine, which came as part of the NCAA?s sanctions against the program following the Jerry Sandusky scandal, spent within state borders.
On Wednesday, the NCAA filed suit directed at Gov. Tom Corbett (pictured)?and all PA lawmakers backing the bill. The suit claims keeping the proceeds in-state ?would violate the U.S. Constitution? [and] disrupt interstate commerce.?
John Infante of the Bylaw Blog?has a good recap of why the NCAA is pursuing this route.
This suit is separate from the NCAA?s battle with Corbett to overturn all the sanctions that were levied against Penn State last year. The NCAA filed that motion earlier this month.
Russian fireball largest ever detected by CTBTO's infrasound sensorsPublic release date: 19-Feb-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Annika Thunborg annika.thunborg@ctbto.org 43-126-030-6375 Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear?Test?Ban Treaty Organization
Infrasonic waves from the meteor that broke up over Russia's Ural mountains last week were the largest ever recorded by the CTBTO's International Monitoring System. Infrasound is low frequency sound with a range of less than 10 Hz. The blast was detected by 17 infrasound stations in the CTBTO's network, which tracks atomic blasts across the planet. The furthest station to record the sub-audible sound was 15,000km away in Antarctica.
The origin of the low frequency sound waves from the blast was estimated at 03:22 GMT on 15 February 2013. People cannot hear the low frequency waves that were emitted but they were recorded by the CTBTO's network of sensors as they travelled across continents.
"We saw straight away that the event would be huge, in the same order as the Sulawesi event from 2009. The observations are some of the largest that CTBTO's infrasound stations have detected," CTBTO acoustic scientist, Pierrick Mialle said.
Until last week, the bolide explosion above Sulawesi, Indonesia, in October 2009 was the largest infrasound event registered by 15 stations in the CTBTO's network.
Infrasound has been used as part of the CTBTO's tools to detect atomic blasts since April 2001 when the first station came online in Germany. Data from the stations is sent in near real time to Vienna, Austria, for analysis at the CTBTO's headquarters. Both the raw and analysed data are provided to all Member States.
"We know it's not a fixed explosion because we can see the change in direction as the meteorite moves towards the earth. It's not a single explosion, it's burning, traveling faster than the speed of sound. That's how we distinguish it from mining blasts or volcanic eruptions.
"Scientists all around the world will be using the CTBTO's data in the next months and year to come, to better understand this phenomena and to learn more about the altitude, energy released and how the meteor broke up," Mialle said.
The infrasound station at Qaanaaq, Greenland was among those that recorded the meteor explosion in Russia. There are currently 45 infrasound stations in the CTBTO's network that measure micropressure changes in the atmosphere generated by infrasonic waves. Like meteor blasts, atomic explosions produce their own distinctive, low frequency sound waves that can travel across continents.
Infrasound is one of four technologies (including seismic, hydroacoustic and radionuclide) the CTBTO uses to monitor the globe for violations of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty that bans all nuclear explosions.
Seismic signals from the meteor were also detected at several Kazakh stations close to the explosion and impact area. In the accompanying video file, you can listen to the audio files of the infrasound recording after it has been filtered and the signal accelerated.
Days before the meteor on 12 February 2013, the CTBTO's seismic network detected an unusual seismic event in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), which measured 4.9 in magnitude. Later that morning, the DPRK announced that it had conducted a nuclear test. The event was registered by 94 seismic stations and two infrasound stations in the CTBTO's network. The data processing and analysis are designed to weed out natural events and focus on those events that might be explosions, including nuclear explosions.
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Russian fireball largest ever detected by CTBTO's infrasound sensorsPublic release date: 19-Feb-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Annika Thunborg annika.thunborg@ctbto.org 43-126-030-6375 Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear?Test?Ban Treaty Organization
Infrasonic waves from the meteor that broke up over Russia's Ural mountains last week were the largest ever recorded by the CTBTO's International Monitoring System. Infrasound is low frequency sound with a range of less than 10 Hz. The blast was detected by 17 infrasound stations in the CTBTO's network, which tracks atomic blasts across the planet. The furthest station to record the sub-audible sound was 15,000km away in Antarctica.
The origin of the low frequency sound waves from the blast was estimated at 03:22 GMT on 15 February 2013. People cannot hear the low frequency waves that were emitted but they were recorded by the CTBTO's network of sensors as they travelled across continents.
"We saw straight away that the event would be huge, in the same order as the Sulawesi event from 2009. The observations are some of the largest that CTBTO's infrasound stations have detected," CTBTO acoustic scientist, Pierrick Mialle said.
Until last week, the bolide explosion above Sulawesi, Indonesia, in October 2009 was the largest infrasound event registered by 15 stations in the CTBTO's network.
Infrasound has been used as part of the CTBTO's tools to detect atomic blasts since April 2001 when the first station came online in Germany. Data from the stations is sent in near real time to Vienna, Austria, for analysis at the CTBTO's headquarters. Both the raw and analysed data are provided to all Member States.
"We know it's not a fixed explosion because we can see the change in direction as the meteorite moves towards the earth. It's not a single explosion, it's burning, traveling faster than the speed of sound. That's how we distinguish it from mining blasts or volcanic eruptions.
"Scientists all around the world will be using the CTBTO's data in the next months and year to come, to better understand this phenomena and to learn more about the altitude, energy released and how the meteor broke up," Mialle said.
The infrasound station at Qaanaaq, Greenland was among those that recorded the meteor explosion in Russia. There are currently 45 infrasound stations in the CTBTO's network that measure micropressure changes in the atmosphere generated by infrasonic waves. Like meteor blasts, atomic explosions produce their own distinctive, low frequency sound waves that can travel across continents.
Infrasound is one of four technologies (including seismic, hydroacoustic and radionuclide) the CTBTO uses to monitor the globe for violations of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty that bans all nuclear explosions.
Seismic signals from the meteor were also detected at several Kazakh stations close to the explosion and impact area. In the accompanying video file, you can listen to the audio files of the infrasound recording after it has been filtered and the signal accelerated.
Days before the meteor on 12 February 2013, the CTBTO's seismic network detected an unusual seismic event in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), which measured 4.9 in magnitude. Later that morning, the DPRK announced that it had conducted a nuclear test. The event was registered by 94 seismic stations and two infrasound stations in the CTBTO's network. The data processing and analysis are designed to weed out natural events and focus on those events that might be explosions, including nuclear explosions.
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For further information on the CTBT, please see www.ctbto.org your resource on ending nuclear testing, or contact:
Annika Thunborg
Spokesperson and Chief
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T 43-1-26030-6375
E annika.thunborg@ctbto.org
M 43-699-1459-6375
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Increases in a city's ozone levels may slightly boost people's risk of cardiac arrest, a condition in which the heart stops beating, a new study suggests.
The study analyzed information from more than 11,600 people living in Houston, Texas, who'd had suffered a cardiac arrest in their home or some other place outside of a hospital between 2004 and 2011. The researchers also collected information about levels of ozone ? the main component of smog ? from 44 monitoring stations in the city.
An increase in ozone levels of 20 parts per billion (ppb) over a three-hour period was associated with about a 3 to 4 percent increase in a person's risk of cardiac arrest, the researchers said. During the summer months, it would not be uncommon for the ozone levels in Houston to increase from about 60 to 80 ppb over a three-hour period, said study researcher Katherine Ensor, a statistician at Rice University in Houston.
Each year about 1,400 people in Houston have a cardiac arrest outside the hospital, and about 1,260 deaths occur, Ensor said. If the new findings are true, they suggest that about 45 of these deaths are related to increases in ozone levels, Ensor said.
However, the study only found an association, and cannot prove that increases in ozone levels cause cardiac arrest, Ensor said. Among participants in the study, the risk of cardiac arrest was greatest for men, African-Americans and the elderly.
A cardiac arrest is not the same as a heart attack, which occurs when a blockage in the arteries keep blood from reaching the heart.
Although previous studies have found a link between high air-pollution levels and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and death, the new study is one of the first to specifically link high ozone levels to an increased risk of cardiac arrest, Ensor said.
Ozone is not specifically emitted from cars or factories. Rather, it forms when other pollutants from these sources come together and react, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Because sunlight triggers the reaction, levels of ozone are higher during the day. Breathing ozone can trigger chest pain, coughing and throat irritation, the EPA says. Currently, the EPA says that cities should not exceed a peak ozone level of 75 ppb.
The city of Houston is using information from the study to identify areas where people are particularly at risk for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, and to increase CPR training among people living in those locales, the researchers said. Proper use of CPR before emergency personnel arrive increases a person's chances of surviving a cardiac arrest.
The study was published online Feb. 13 in the journal Circulation. It was presented this past week at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston.
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Exposure to air pollution is associated with increased deaths after heart attacksPublic release date: 19-Feb-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Emma Mason (media enquiries only) wordmason@mac.com European Society of Cardiology
Air pollution contributes to an increased number of deaths among patients who have been admitted to hospital with heart attacks, according to a study published online today (Wednesday) in the European Heart Journal [1].
The largest study yet to investigate the links between fine air-borne particulate matter (PM) and patient survival after hospital admission for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) found death rates increased with increased exposure to PM2.5 tiny particles that measure 2.5 micrometers (?m) in diameter or less, approximately 30 times smaller than a human hair [2]. The amount of PM in the air is measured as micrograms per cubic meter of air (?g/m3). The main sources of PM2.5 in the UK are emissions from road traffic and industry, including power generation.
Dr Cathryn Tonne, lecturer in environmental epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (London, UK) said: "We found that for every 10g/m3 increase in PM2.5 there was a 20% increase in the death rate. For example, over one year of follow-up after patients had been admitted to hospital with ACS, there would be 20% more deaths among patients exposed to PM2.5 levels of 20 g/m3, compared to patients exposed to PM2.5 levels of 10g/m3."
Dr Tonne and her colleague Paul Wilkinson, professor of environmental epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, estimate that death rates would be reduced by 12% among ACS patients if they were exposed to naturally occurring PM2.5 rather than the higher levels they were actually exposed to [3]. This translates to 4,783 deaths occurring earlier than they should do, due to exposure to PM2.5 from man-made sources.
The researchers linked records of 154,204 patients who survived hospital admission for ACS in England and Wales between 2004-2007 with modelled average air pollution concentrations for 2004-2010. The patients were followed up until the end of the study in April 2010 or their death, whichever occurred earlier. During the average follow-up time of 3.7 years, there were 39,863 deaths. The researchers adjusted their results to take account of the patients' sex, age, medical history, treatments and drugs, whether or not they smoked, socioeconomic factors such as income, education and employment, and where they lived.
The air pollution modelling of average exposures for different regions of the country showed the highest average exposures to PM2.5 and other air pollutants in London (an average of 14.1 g/m3), while the North East of England had the lowest exposure (an average of 8.4 g/m3). However, people's individual exposure to PM2.5 varied widely within each region.
Evidence has been growing that exposure to air pollution is associated with the development of heart disease, but, so far, few studies have investigated its effect on survival after heart attacks (myocardial infarction) and the findings have been inconsistent. In addition, it is known that patients from poorer backgrounds often live in more deprived areas with higher levels of air pollution and that they tend to do less well after a diagnosis of heart problems than patients of a higher socioeconomic status. "This raises the possibility that exposure to air pollution may explain, in part, the differences in prognosis among heart attack patients from different backgrounds," said Dr Tonne.
"Our findings confirm an association between PM2.5 and increased rates of death in survivors of ACS. Our findings also show that PM2.5 exposure contributes only a small amount to differences in survival after ACS among people living in areas with different socioeconomic conditions after accounting for factors such as smoking and diabetes.
"The implication is that while reducing levels of PM2.5 will lead to increased life-expectancy and is an important public health priority, it isn't likely to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in prognosis very much. There are likely to be many other factors that are more important than PM2.5 exposure in explaining socioeconomic inequalities in prognosis, and this requires further investigation."
The study's strength was its size and amount of detailed data available about the patients. A limitation was that the researchers lacked specific causes of death and so were unable to discover how many were heart-related, although they suspect the majority were. Exposure to air pollution was based on where the patients lived and did not take account of amounts of time spent travelling or away from home.
In an accompanying editorial [4], Professor Pier Mannucci, Scientific Director of the IRCCS Ca' Granda Maggiore Policlinico Hospital Foundation in Milan (Italy), writes: "The most important message is that reduction in the amount of pollutants in metropolitan areas does indeed decrease cardiovascular mortality within a time interval as short as a few years"
He adds that the "huge toll of deathsworldwide owing to air pollution could be substantially reduced by approximately one million annually from the current estimate of 1.34 million if the WHO [World Health Organization] recommendations pertaining to the limits of PM2.5 concentrations were implemented. The responsibility for controlling air pollution rests on national governments of the planet."
In the meantime, individual clinicians should "make patients aware of the existence of this risk, and encourage them to be cognizant of the media alerts on air quality in their living areas". Finally, he calls on the European Society of Cardiology to develop scientific statements on air pollution and cardiovascular disease in order to make governments, clinicians and the public more aware of the problem.
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Notes:
[1] "Long-term exposure to air pollution is associated with survival following acute coronary syndrome", by Cathryn Tonne and Paul Wilkinson. European Heart Journal. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehs480
[2] A micrometer is one-millionth of a meter.
[3] If all human generated PM2.5 in the UK were removed, the natural level would be 4 ?g/m3 from natural sources such as dust and sea salt.
[4] "Airborne pollution and cardiovascular disease: burden and causes of an epidemic", by P.M. Mannucci. European Heart Journal. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/eht045
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Contact: Emma Mason (media enquiries only) wordmason@mac.com European Society of Cardiology
Air pollution contributes to an increased number of deaths among patients who have been admitted to hospital with heart attacks, according to a study published online today (Wednesday) in the European Heart Journal [1].
The largest study yet to investigate the links between fine air-borne particulate matter (PM) and patient survival after hospital admission for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) found death rates increased with increased exposure to PM2.5 tiny particles that measure 2.5 micrometers (?m) in diameter or less, approximately 30 times smaller than a human hair [2]. The amount of PM in the air is measured as micrograms per cubic meter of air (?g/m3). The main sources of PM2.5 in the UK are emissions from road traffic and industry, including power generation.
Dr Cathryn Tonne, lecturer in environmental epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (London, UK) said: "We found that for every 10g/m3 increase in PM2.5 there was a 20% increase in the death rate. For example, over one year of follow-up after patients had been admitted to hospital with ACS, there would be 20% more deaths among patients exposed to PM2.5 levels of 20 g/m3, compared to patients exposed to PM2.5 levels of 10g/m3."
Dr Tonne and her colleague Paul Wilkinson, professor of environmental epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, estimate that death rates would be reduced by 12% among ACS patients if they were exposed to naturally occurring PM2.5 rather than the higher levels they were actually exposed to [3]. This translates to 4,783 deaths occurring earlier than they should do, due to exposure to PM2.5 from man-made sources.
The researchers linked records of 154,204 patients who survived hospital admission for ACS in England and Wales between 2004-2007 with modelled average air pollution concentrations for 2004-2010. The patients were followed up until the end of the study in April 2010 or their death, whichever occurred earlier. During the average follow-up time of 3.7 years, there were 39,863 deaths. The researchers adjusted their results to take account of the patients' sex, age, medical history, treatments and drugs, whether or not they smoked, socioeconomic factors such as income, education and employment, and where they lived.
The air pollution modelling of average exposures for different regions of the country showed the highest average exposures to PM2.5 and other air pollutants in London (an average of 14.1 g/m3), while the North East of England had the lowest exposure (an average of 8.4 g/m3). However, people's individual exposure to PM2.5 varied widely within each region.
Evidence has been growing that exposure to air pollution is associated with the development of heart disease, but, so far, few studies have investigated its effect on survival after heart attacks (myocardial infarction) and the findings have been inconsistent. In addition, it is known that patients from poorer backgrounds often live in more deprived areas with higher levels of air pollution and that they tend to do less well after a diagnosis of heart problems than patients of a higher socioeconomic status. "This raises the possibility that exposure to air pollution may explain, in part, the differences in prognosis among heart attack patients from different backgrounds," said Dr Tonne.
"Our findings confirm an association between PM2.5 and increased rates of death in survivors of ACS. Our findings also show that PM2.5 exposure contributes only a small amount to differences in survival after ACS among people living in areas with different socioeconomic conditions after accounting for factors such as smoking and diabetes.
"The implication is that while reducing levels of PM2.5 will lead to increased life-expectancy and is an important public health priority, it isn't likely to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in prognosis very much. There are likely to be many other factors that are more important than PM2.5 exposure in explaining socioeconomic inequalities in prognosis, and this requires further investigation."
The study's strength was its size and amount of detailed data available about the patients. A limitation was that the researchers lacked specific causes of death and so were unable to discover how many were heart-related, although they suspect the majority were. Exposure to air pollution was based on where the patients lived and did not take account of amounts of time spent travelling or away from home.
In an accompanying editorial [4], Professor Pier Mannucci, Scientific Director of the IRCCS Ca' Granda Maggiore Policlinico Hospital Foundation in Milan (Italy), writes: "The most important message is that reduction in the amount of pollutants in metropolitan areas does indeed decrease cardiovascular mortality within a time interval as short as a few years"
He adds that the "huge toll of deathsworldwide owing to air pollution could be substantially reduced by approximately one million annually from the current estimate of 1.34 million if the WHO [World Health Organization] recommendations pertaining to the limits of PM2.5 concentrations were implemented. The responsibility for controlling air pollution rests on national governments of the planet."
In the meantime, individual clinicians should "make patients aware of the existence of this risk, and encourage them to be cognizant of the media alerts on air quality in their living areas". Finally, he calls on the European Society of Cardiology to develop scientific statements on air pollution and cardiovascular disease in order to make governments, clinicians and the public more aware of the problem.
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Notes:
[1] "Long-term exposure to air pollution is associated with survival following acute coronary syndrome", by Cathryn Tonne and Paul Wilkinson. European Heart Journal. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehs480
[2] A micrometer is one-millionth of a meter.
[3] If all human generated PM2.5 in the UK were removed, the natural level would be 4 ?g/m3 from natural sources such as dust and sea salt.
[4] "Airborne pollution and cardiovascular disease: burden and causes of an epidemic", by P.M. Mannucci. European Heart Journal. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/eht045
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INDIAN software services group Tata Consultancy Service is to open a new facility in Liverpool this summer, creating up to 300 jobs.The investment was announced by the company as Prime Minister David Cameron during a major trade mission to India.The Mumbai-based group's new facility will deliver services to the Home Office, following a multi-million, multi-year contract which it won in November 2012 to manage the technology needs and support services of the new Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)It is not known how many of the jo......for the full story register now for free or login below...
The net profit results for Turners Car Auctions New Zealand have been released and the figures are looking impressive.
(PRWEB) February 18, 2013
Turners Auctions released data showing that their 2012 net profit after tax was the large sum of $4.2 million. This is a 14% increase from the previous year. The revenue for 2012 came to be an impressive $78 million which is an increase of 4% from the previous year.
The reason for the increase of revenue in 2012 came from the Car business and can be partly attributed to Turners Auctions? CashNow product. CashNow provides customers with immediate cash for their used cars. Turners? CashNow auto selling option is a simple way for car owners to sell their vehicle and get immediate cash. Customers simply contact a Turners Auctions? representative to schedule a time to take in their car for a quick analysis. Once a Turners? consultant has reviewed the vehicle they will make an offer. If the seller likes and accepts the proposed price they will leave with a cheque in pocket.
Growth in the Damaged Vehicles Division with a steady performance within the Commercial and Trucks Division couple the rise in popular of CashNow. In 2012 Turners? implemented a strategy to buy more cars domestically. With the introduction of the new emissions regulations that started at the start of January 2012, the Japan import market faced challenges.
Complimenting their CashNow product, Turners also has a BuyNow service which offers customers a simple solution to buying a car with no auction and no haggling. The BuyNow vehicles labelled with their given price which includes a current WOF, registration and on-the-road costs. Turners CashNow and BuyNow services have been very popular amongst customers in 2012 with predicted continual increase in 2013.
The company is also excited about the growth of the Turners Finance ledger by 10% in 2012, which is predicted to lead to further growth in 2013?s interest revenue. Turners? Finance & Insurance offers coverage in competitive finance for new vehicle owners. They offer vehicle finance, finance for boats, motorbikes, trucks and even renovations, personal loans for those much needed holidays and debt consolidation.
At the end of 2012 the Directors declared a fully imputed dividend of eight cents per share, a two cent raise from 2011 due to the strong cash position of the business and balance sheet. The year?s total dividend comes to 15 cents. The Directors have decided to not announce a special dividend for this year due to consideration in a number of growth opportunities which would need investment.
For the original version on PRWeb visit: http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb2013/2/prweb10436105.htm
At the rescheduled Notre Dame Club of Staten Island/Knights of Columbus, Manresa Council No. 2147 event on Jan. 7 are, kneeling from the left, students Danielle Lopez and Joshua Lopez. Standing, holding the flag, are students Derek Halligan and Miguel Lopez. Standing behind the flag are Monsignor James Dorney, Principal Margaret Annunziata and Tara Alleyne-Lopez. Standing, back row, are Joe Delaney, the Rev. Michael Cichon, Ann Broderick and Mike McHugh. ? STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. ? On Saturday morning, Nov. 3, just five days after Hurricane Sandy devastated these shores, Joe Delaney of the University of Notre Dame Club of Staten Island and Mike McHugh of the Knights of Columbus, Manresa Council No. 2147, surveyed the destruction of Manresa Council Hall, located on Cedar Grove Avenue in New Dorp Beach.
As they viewed the devastation of homes and property in the area all around Manresa Council Hall, they thought that their Notre Dame-Pittsburgh fundraiser for St. Peter-St. Paul School, originally scheduled that very Saturday at 3 p.m. and now canceled, would never be rescheduled.
For the past 11 years, the Notre Dame Club and Manresa Council have combined efforts to raise funds to support Catholic education at St. Peter-St. Paul School in New Brighton. In fact, since 2002, the two groups had raised a total of $45,000 for the school.
Joe goes on to explain that the Notre Dame-Pittsburgh football game on Nov. 3 ? won by The Fighting Irish 29-26 in miraculous, come-from-behind triple overtime fashion, a win that continued Notre Dame?s unbeaten season ? allowed both men to dream big and save the fundraiser.
If the Irish finished the 2012 season undefeated, they thought, that might allow them to re-schedule the fundraiser and build the event around a Notre Dame BCS Championship Bowl game on Jan. 7.
?The beneficiaries of a re-scheduled gamewatch/fundraiser would still be St. Peter-St. Paul, but would now include the recently established Manresa Council Re-Building Fund,? Joe added.
Unbeaten Notre Dame did end up playing Alabama for the BCS title on Jan. 7. Almost 200 people showed up at The Hillside Swim Club, Bulls Head, to watch the game and support the fundraiser.
Through a series of raffles and prize drawings, a final combined total of $10,000 was raised to help St. Peter-St. Paul School and The Manresa Building Fund. Proceeds were split evenly between the two.
Joe points out that several Staten Island businesses supported the fundraiser by donating food and services. Special thanks to Jimmy Maxx Pizza?s Jimmy McBratney; Joe Gustivino from Pier 76 Restaurant for a large donation of food, and Ed Thatcher for donating hot dogs, rolls, a sheet cake and milk.
Although Notre Dame lost the game to Alabama, 42-14, Joe states:
?The real winners of the evening?s game were the students of St. Peter-St. Paul School and the K of C Manresa Council, who will re-build their Council Hall.?
Assisting Mike and Joe with the planning and organization of the fundraiser was Notre Dame Club members Bob Griswold, Ann Mulchay, Christine Thomson and Mike Waters.
Assisting from Manresa Council was Judith McHugh, Bob and Nancy Bauer, Andrew Diaz and Jim Neese.
In closing, Joe notes: ?Hurricane Sandy did, indeed, devastate Staten Island. However, Sandy could not defeat the spirit of the Staten Islanders, like the members of the Notre Dame Club of Staten Island and the Manresa Council No. 2174.
?Neither of these two groups would allow a tragedy like Sandy to prevent them from helping the children of St. Peter-St. Paul and restoring a community landmark in New Dorp Beach.?
CELEBRATIONS
The happiest of birthdays today to Anne Lombardi; Allison Warheit; Stu Germain; Johnny Balletto; Carmela (Millie) Lupo, who turns 89, so say her daughters Marilyn Wickert and Patty LaGrotta, and Lisa Ann Paoluccio.
Happy 45th wedding anniversary to Pat and Bob Dalrymple and to Gerri and Marty Collins, friends who were married on the same day in different churches.
Tomorrow is birthday time for Narcy F. Santos, Phyllis Mehl, Hilton Flores, Maria Pacifico, Kelsey Bougadis, Erik Andersen, Amy Andriulli-Guarcello, Kathryn Carse and Jenna Camren Hershkowitz, who?ll celebrate her 8th birthday with a party with her gal pals followed by a party with family members.
On Friday, out of the blue, the Colts announced that they have parted ways with veteran defensive end/linebacker Dwight Freeney.? Technically, they haven?t.? Not yet.
More specifically, the Colts have decided that Freeney won?t be re-signed, which means that he?ll become a free agent on March 12.
Owner Jim Irsay gushed about Freeney in a release confirming the move, saying that ?[f]ew people have meant as much to the success of the Indianapolis Colts as Dwight Freeney,? that ?[h]e has been a dominant player,? and that he ?was an artist, a joy to watch, and the dedication he put toward his craft was a rare quality.?
Irsay also said that Freeney will be inducted into the team?s Ring of Honor.
But if the Colts and Irsay truly want to honor Freeney, they?ll do the honorable thing and cut him.? This would allow Freeney to have a three-week head start on free agency, searching for a team without having to box out the other various free agents who will all be chasing the same cap dollars.
If the Colts are, as they have declared, moving on, there?s no reason to squat on Freeney?s rights any longer.? So if they mean all those nice things they?re saying about Freeney, they?ll do something that will cost them nothing ? while also giving real meaning to the phrase ?part ways.?
UPDATE 9:37 p.m. ET:? A reader raised a valid point.? By cutting Freeney, the Colts would not be eligible for compensatory picks based on his departure via free agency.? However, the compensation drops significantly for players on the wrong side of 30, and with the Colts having so much cap space chances are they?ll sign more players than they lose in 2013, which means they?ll get no compensatory picks at all in 2014.? And if they didn?t cut Freeney in order to improve their standing in the compensatory draft pick formula, they should say so.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? South Korea said it suspects a nuclear test caused an earthquake Tuesday in North Korea just north of a site where the country conducted two previous atomic tests. North Korea has yet to confirm whether the tremor resulted from a widely anticipated third nuclear test, though an analyst in Seoul said a nuclear detonation was a "high possibility."
The South Korean Defense Ministry, which raised its military alert level after the quake, said it was trying to determine whether it was a test. Nuclear blasts can create tremors but they are distinct from those caused by natural earthquakes.
A U.N. nuclear test monitoring organization detected what it called an "unusual seismic event" in North Korea.
Kim Min-seok, a South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman, also told reporters that North Korea informed China and the United States of its plans to conduct a nuclear test. It was not clear when Pyongyang told Beijing and Washington.
The U.S. Geological Survey as well as earthquake monitoring stations in South Korea detected an earthquake just north of a site where North Korea conducted its second nuclear test in 2009, according to the government-funded Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources.
"There is a high possibility that North Korea has conducted a nuclear test," said Chi Heoncheol, an earthquake specialist at the institute. Chi said a magnitude 3.9 magnitude earthquake and a magnitude 4.5 earthquake were detected in the North's 2006 and 2009 nuclear tests.
HP just released its Q1 2013 earnings report and for once, the company beat analyst expectations: revenue was once again down 6% to $28.4 billion, but still higher than most analysts expected. The company reported an income of $1.2 billion and EPS of $0.82. Last quarter, HP still reported earnings of $30 billion and a net loss of $6.9 billion after its $8.8 billion write-down due to alleged accounting fraud at Autonomy prior to HP acquiring the company. The stock market is reacting very positively to this news. HP’s stock is currently trading at $18.35 in after-hours trading, up $7.3%. The general consensus among analysts was that HP’s total revenue would decline by about 7.5% compared to the year-ago quarter and that revenue would be around $27.79 billion, with a net income of around $1.39 billion and earnings per share would be around $0.71, a decline of 24% compared to last year’s EPS of $0.92. HP clearly beat these expectations. After last year’s $17 billion write-off after the acquisitions of Electronic Data Systems and Autonomy, as well as five previous quarters of declining revenues, many shareholders were hoping that CEO Meg Whitman would be able to stop the company from sinking even further. HP’s ailing PC business shows no sign of recovering so far. After a 14% decline in Q4 2012, the company reported n 8% decline in revenue from personal computers for this quarter. With its Servers, Storage and Networking revenue also dropping by 9% in Q4 2012 and 4% this quarter, the only area where HP really made some progress last time around was in software, where revenue grew 14%, but revenue from this business declined by 2% last quarter. “We beat our non-GAAP diluted EPS outlook for the quarter by $0.11 per share, driven by improved execution, improvement in our channel and go-to-market efforts and the impact of the restructuring program we announced in May 2012,” said Meg Whitman, HP president and chief executive officer. “While there’s still a lot of work to do to generate the kind of growth we want to see, our turnaround is starting to gain traction as a result of the actions we took in 2012 to lay the foundation for HP’s future.” HP, of course, faces a lot of headwind given that sales of its core products, including PCs, printers and servers, are on a downward trend that the whole industry
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