Witness: Paterno said Penn St. erred on Sandusky

Former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary enters the Dauphin County Courthouse, Monday, July 29, 2013, in Harrisburg, Pa. Graham Spanier, Gary Schultz and Timothy Curley are to go before a judge Monday to determine whether the three must face trial on charges they covered up an allegation that Jerry Sandusky was sexually preying on boys. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary enters the Dauphin County Courthouse, Monday, July 29, 2013, in Harrisburg, Pa. Graham Spanier, Gary Schultz and Timothy Curley are to go before a judge Monday to determine whether the three must face trial on charges they covered up an allegation that Jerry Sandusky was sexually preying on boys. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Former Penn State president Graham Spanier enters the Dauphin County Courthouse, Monday, July 29, 2013, in Harrisburg, Pa. Spanier, Gary Schultz and Timothy Curley are to go before a judge Monday to determine whether the three must face trial on charges they covered up an allegation that Jerry Sandusky was sexually preying on boys. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Former Penn State director of athletics Tim Curley enters the Dauphin County Courthouse, Monday, July 29, 2013, in Harrisburg, Pa. Curley, Graham Spanier and Gary Schultz are to go before a judge Monday to determine whether the three must face trial on charges they covered up an allegation that Jerry Sandusky was sexually preying on boys. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Former Penn State senior vice president Gary Schultz arrives at the Dauphin County Courthouse, Monday, July 29, 2013, in Harrisburg, Pa. Schultz, Graham Spanier and Timothy Curley are to go before a judge Monday to determine whether the three must face trial on charges they covered up an allegation that Jerry Sandusky was sexually preying on boys. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary enters the Dauphin County Courthouse, Monday, July 29, 2013, in Harrisburg, Pa. Graham Spanier, Gary Schultz and Timothy Curley are to go before a judge Monday to determine whether the three must face trial on charges they covered up an allegation that Jerry Sandusky was sexually preying on boys. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bower)

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ? Longtime Penn State head coach Joe Paterno said that the university mishandled its response to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, a former assistant coach testified Monday.

Mike McQueary was called as a witness in a hearing for three former Penn State officials accused in a cover-up of the scandal. He told the judge that the late Hall of Fame coach had told him over the years that "Old Main screwed up" ? referring to university administrators ? in response to the allegation against Sandusky.

Former Penn State president Graham Spanier, retired university vice president Gary Schultz and ex-athletic director Tim Curley are accused of failing to tell police about a sexual abuse allegation involving Sandusky and then trying to cover it up. They have proclaimed their innocence. At the hearing, they sat at separate tables with their lawyers.

McQueary testified about a specific exchange at football practice in the hours before Paterno's firing in November 2011, just days after Sandusky had been arrested.

He recalled the head coach as saying that the school would come down hard on McQueary and try to make him a scapegoat. Paterno advised McQueary not to trust the administration or then-university counsel Cynthia Baldwin, the former assistant coach testified.

A Penn State spokesman said Monday the university would not comment on the legal proceedings. The Associated Press left a message for a Paterno family spokesman.

The hearing, which could last several days, began Monday after being delayed for months because of a legal dispute about the role played in the case by Baldwin, who had accompanied the administrators to their grand jury appearances.

The judge must determine whether there's enough evidence against the ex-officials to send the case to trial. The three are charged with perjury, obstruction, endangering the welfare of children, failure to properly report suspected abuse and conspiracy. Those charges include allegations of hiding evidence from investigators and lying to a grand jury.

McQueary has testified that he saw Sandusky and a boy engaged in a sex act in the locker room shower 2001 and within days reported it to Paterno, Curley and Schultz.

Curley and Schultz "definitely knew it was a sexual act, a molestation act between Jerry Sandusky and a boy in the showers," McQueary testified.

Curley and Schultz have said McQueary never reported that the encounter was sexual in nature, while Spanier has said Curley and Schultz never told him about any sort of sex abuse of a boy. They said they had believed that Sandusky and the boy were engaged in nothing more than horseplay.

Sandusky is serving a 30- to 60-year prison sentence after being convicted last year of sexually abusing 10 boys. He maintains his innocence.

Curley and Schultz were charged in November 2011, when Sandusky was arrested, and accused of perjury and failure to report.

Spanier was forced out as president at that time, and he was charged a year later when more counts were added against Curley and Schultz. He remains a faculty member on administrative leave.

Paterno died in January 2012. His family has vehemently denied accusations that he covered up allegations against Sandusky, the once highly-regarded defensive coordinator.

Associated Press

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Obama Urges 'Honesty' in Renewed Israel-PA Talks

U.S. President Barack?Obama welcomed the imminent start of renewed peace talks between Israel and?the Palestinians?on Monday, but urged both sides to approach them with honesty, AFP reported Monday evening.

"The most difficult work of these negotiations is ahead, and I am hopeful?that both the Israelis and Palestinians will approach these talks in good
faith," he said.?

Obama thanked his own top diplomat, Secretary of State John Kerry, for?organizing the talks, which were to begin later?Monday?in Washington with an
initial exchange between top negotiators.?

"I am pleased that Prime Minister [Binyamin] Netanyahu and [Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud]?Abbas have?accepted Secretary Kerry's invitation to formally resume direct final status?negotiations and have sent senior negotiating teams to Washington for the?first round of meetings," Obama said.

"This is a promising step forward, though hard work and hard choices remain?ahead.?The United States stands ready to support them throughout these
negotiations, with the goal of achieving two states, living side by side in?peace and security."

Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk has been chosen to shepherd the talks between the two sides.

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Kwikset Kevo lets you open your front door with a gentle caress

Kwikset, longtime makers of locks and keys, have announced that their new Kevo deadbolt lock will be available for pre-order starting today. The Kevo looks like a standard deadbolt style lock that you might find installed in most doors. But it uses Bluetooth Low Energy? 4.0 technology to turn your smartphone into an electronic key [...]

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Virtual conferencing eliminates one in five business trips | Telecoms ...

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Breast Cancer: The Silent Killer | Niaje!

So Angelina Jolie recently announced that she chopped off her breasts (process known as mastectomy) a move that does look desperate to prevent her from getting breast cancer. Angelina carries the BRCA1 gene and according to sources she was made to believe that that genetic code is some sort of a blue print to disease expression(medics still argue that this is not true)

Angelina isn?t alone in this as many women worry day in day out about this killer disease called cancer, and with the ?cancer industry? scaring women, and men to half death, apparently women have come up with a slogan for that this days ?my breasts might murder me!!?. It?s also important to note that breast cancer affects both men and women therefore men are also encouraged to go for screening.

Yes, men get breast cancer too. Research shows that they too have breast tissues, a few ducts and other tissues. Breast cancer is however not too common in men as it is in women. In fact it is estimated that only 1 in 100 breast cancers affect men and only about 10men in a million will develop breast cancer and mostly it affects men in their 60s and 70s
Causes of breast cancer include, prior history of breast disease, family history, age, race, reproductive and menstrual history, radiation exposure and dietary factors.

Many women suffer in silence and eventually die from such illnesses as breast and cervical cancer mainly due to lack of proper education and accessibility to medical services as it is costly to treat especially in its advance stage. As a result, October was declared the official breast cancer awareness month in 1985 by the American Cancer Society and AstraZeneca.

But In a move to create more awareness on the same and promote women health in Kenya, Aga khan University Hospital, Nairobi Women?s? Hospital among other private hospitals have occasionally been offering free breast screening and mammograms throughout the year for everyone in the various outlets, this has gone a long way in helping many women and men to get their breast checked.
Watching what you eat as well as that occasional trip to the doctor?s office for check up can go a long way in saving one from this silent killer. Let?s take charge of our breasts. Whether you are a man or woman.

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UCLA researchers double efficiency of novel solar cell

Public release date: 29-Jul-2013
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Device could coat windows, smartphone screens with energy-harvesting material

Nearly doubling the efficiency of a breakthrough photovoltaic cell they created last year, UCLA researchers have developed a two-layer, see-through solar film that could be placed on windows, sunroofs, smartphone displays and other surfaces to harvest energy from the sun.

The new device is composed of two thin polymer solar cells that collect sunlight and convert it to power. It's more efficient than previous devices, the researchers say, because its two cells absorb more light than single-layer solar devices, because it uses light from a wider portion of the solar spectrum, and because it incorporates a layer of novel materials between the two cells to reduce energy loss.

While a tandem-structure transparent organic photovoltaic (TOPV) device developed at UCLA in 2012 converts about 4 percent of the energy it receives from the sun into electric power (its "conversion rate"), the new tandem device which uses a combination of transparent and semi-transparent cells achieves a conversion rate of 7.3 percent.

Researchers led by Yang Yang, the Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr., Professor of Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, said the new cells could serve as a power-generating layer on windows and smartphone displays without compromising users' ability to see through the surface. The cells can be produced so that they appear light gray, green or brown, and so can blend with the color and design features of buildings and surfaces.

The research was published online July 26 by Energy & Environmental Science, a Royal Society of Chemistry journal, and it will appear later in a published edition of the journal.

"Using two solar cells with the new interfacial materials in between produces close to two times the energy we originally observed," said Yang, who is also director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA. "We anticipate this device will offer new directions for solar cells, including the creation of solar windows on homes and office buildings."

The tandem polymer solar cells are made of a photoactive plastic. A single-cell device absorbs only about 40 percent of the infrared light that passes through. The tandem device which includes a cell composed of a new infrared-sensitive polymer developed by UCLA researchers absorbs up to 80 percent of infrared light plus a small amount of visible light.

Chun-Chao Chen, a graduate student in the UCLA materials science and engineering department who is the paper's primary author, said using transparent and semi-transparent cells together increases the device's efficiency, and that the materials were processed at low temperatures, making them relatively easy to manufacture.

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Other authors of the study were Gang Li, a staff researcher in the materials science and engineering department at UCLA; Jing Gao, a materials science and engineering graduate student; and Letian Dou and Wei-Hsuan Chang, graduate students in the UCLA materials science and engineering department and the California NanoSystems Institute.

The research was funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Office of Naval Research and EFL Tech.

The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, established in 1945, offers 28 academic and professional degree programs and has an enrollment of more than 5,000 students. The school's distinguished faculty are leading research to address many of the critical challenges of the 21st century, including renewable energy, clean water, health care, wireless sensing and networking, and cybersecurity. Ranked among the top 10 engineering schools at public universities nationwide, the school is home to eight multimillion-dollar interdisciplinary research centers in wireless sensor systems, wireless health, nanoelectronics, nanomedicine, renewable energy, customized computing, the smart grid, and the Internet, all funded by federal and private agencies and individual donors.

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Device could coat windows, smartphone screens with energy-harvesting material

Nearly doubling the efficiency of a breakthrough photovoltaic cell they created last year, UCLA researchers have developed a two-layer, see-through solar film that could be placed on windows, sunroofs, smartphone displays and other surfaces to harvest energy from the sun.

The new device is composed of two thin polymer solar cells that collect sunlight and convert it to power. It's more efficient than previous devices, the researchers say, because its two cells absorb more light than single-layer solar devices, because it uses light from a wider portion of the solar spectrum, and because it incorporates a layer of novel materials between the two cells to reduce energy loss.

While a tandem-structure transparent organic photovoltaic (TOPV) device developed at UCLA in 2012 converts about 4 percent of the energy it receives from the sun into electric power (its "conversion rate"), the new tandem device which uses a combination of transparent and semi-transparent cells achieves a conversion rate of 7.3 percent.

Researchers led by Yang Yang, the Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr., Professor of Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, said the new cells could serve as a power-generating layer on windows and smartphone displays without compromising users' ability to see through the surface. The cells can be produced so that they appear light gray, green or brown, and so can blend with the color and design features of buildings and surfaces.

The research was published online July 26 by Energy & Environmental Science, a Royal Society of Chemistry journal, and it will appear later in a published edition of the journal.

"Using two solar cells with the new interfacial materials in between produces close to two times the energy we originally observed," said Yang, who is also director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA. "We anticipate this device will offer new directions for solar cells, including the creation of solar windows on homes and office buildings."

The tandem polymer solar cells are made of a photoactive plastic. A single-cell device absorbs only about 40 percent of the infrared light that passes through. The tandem device which includes a cell composed of a new infrared-sensitive polymer developed by UCLA researchers absorbs up to 80 percent of infrared light plus a small amount of visible light.

Chun-Chao Chen, a graduate student in the UCLA materials science and engineering department who is the paper's primary author, said using transparent and semi-transparent cells together increases the device's efficiency, and that the materials were processed at low temperatures, making them relatively easy to manufacture.

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Other authors of the study were Gang Li, a staff researcher in the materials science and engineering department at UCLA; Jing Gao, a materials science and engineering graduate student; and Letian Dou and Wei-Hsuan Chang, graduate students in the UCLA materials science and engineering department and the California NanoSystems Institute.

The research was funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Office of Naval Research and EFL Tech.

The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, established in 1945, offers 28 academic and professional degree programs and has an enrollment of more than 5,000 students. The school's distinguished faculty are leading research to address many of the critical challenges of the 21st century, including renewable energy, clean water, health care, wireless sensing and networking, and cybersecurity. Ranked among the top 10 engineering schools at public universities nationwide, the school is home to eight multimillion-dollar interdisciplinary research centers in wireless sensor systems, wireless health, nanoelectronics, nanomedicine, renewable energy, customized computing, the smart grid, and the Internet, all funded by federal and private agencies and individual donors.

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Russian Spacecraft Delivers Spacesuit Repair Kit to International Space Station

An unmanned Russian spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station Saturday (July 27) bearing food, supplies and a repair kit for a malfunctioning spacesuit on the orbiting outpost.

The robotic Progress 52 spacecraft docked at the space station's Earth-facing Pirs port at 10:26 p.m. EDT (0226 July 28 GMT), after launching from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome less than six hours earlier. The vehicle lifted off on a Russian Soyuz rocket at 4:45 p.m. EST (2045 GMT).

The cargo ship is loaded with nearly 3 tons (2.7 tonnes) of food, fuel, hardware and science experiment equipment for the six-person crew of the station's Expedition 36 mission. Among its cargo is a set of tools intended to help the astronauts investigate and patch up the spacesuit that malfunctioned during a July 16 spacewalk outside the orbiting laboratory.

That spacewalk was terminated early after just 92 minutes when water began to leak into the helmet of spacewalker Luca Parmitano, an Italian astronaut with the European Space Agency. Parmitano and his fellow spacewalker Chris Cassidy of NASA aborted the excursion, which was intended to perform maintenance work to prepare the space station for the arrival of a new Russian module later this year. [See photos from the aborted spacewalk]

"The investigation is ongoing, troubleshooting is ongoing to try to isolate the exact cause of the water intrusion into Luca Parmitano's helmet," NASA spokesman Rob Navias said during launch coverage on NASA TV today.

Progress 52's express trip will bring it to the space in station in just six hours, docking after only four orbits of the planet ? a shorter journey that's been adopted recently to save vehicles time on a trip that used to take multiple days.

The docking comes just two days after another Progress resupply vehicle filled with trash and an astronaut treadmill was cast off from the space station to be burned up over the Pacific Ocean as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere. (Progress ships are disposable spacecraft.)

The next space station resupply delivery craft ? the H-II Transfer Vehicle-4 from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ? is scheduled to lift off on Aug. 3 from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center. It will ferry 3.6 tons (3.2 tonnes) of dry cargo, water, experiments and spare parts to the orbiting laboratory, according to NASA.

The space station is about the size of a five bedroom house with the wingspan of a football field. The $100 billion facility, built by five space agencies representing 15 countries, has been staffed continuously with rotating crews of astronauts since 2000.

The astronauts currently there include NASA's Karen Nyberg and Chris Cassidy; the European Space Agency's Luca Parmitano; and Russian's Fyodor Yurchikhin, Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin.

This story was updated at 10: 26 p.m. EDT.

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Downton Abbey: The Aftermath

This seems like a promising RP. :)

I have looked at this series, Downton Abbey, before so I know fairly well the premise of the story behind. I would love to be an American guess, a famed popular actress, who is invited to the Crawley dinner party. If that is alright with you?

I hope others will gain interest into this and finally join.

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Reopening RP's?

I was just wondering, I closed two of my roleplays because the people who I was roleplaying with would no longer post and I tried contacting them, but nothing.

I would really like to start them up again but when I enter the title, it tells me I already have this roleplay even though I've closed them.

Is it possible to reopen these roleplays under the same title and with the same characters?

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Analyst: Apple?s iTunes Radio Has This Advantage Over Pandora

Although Pandora (NYSE:P) is currently the biggest online radio service provider, it may soon face some stiff competition from Apple?s (NASDAQ:AAPL) new iTunes Radio service. Radio listening in cars is one major area where Pandora may be especially vulnerable to Apple.

By combining the Siri Eyes Free functionality with its new iTunes Radio Service, Apple is creating a serious threat to Pandora?s market dominance notes BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield via Bloomberg. This automotive advantage could give Apple a significant edge over Pandora since more than half of all radio listening takes place in cars.

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?Apple is leveraging its expertise in marrying hardware and software design to strengthen their ecosystem as they try to take a more active role in the ?connected car,?? writes Greenfield. Based on this market advantage, the analyst recommends selling Pandora shares.

As part of its overall strategy to integrate its services into automobiles, Apple also introduced the ?iOS in the Car? functionality at this year?s Worldwide Developers Conference. Acura, Chevrolet, Ferrari, Honda (NYSE:HMC), Hyundai, Infiniti, Jaguar, Kia, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Opel, and Volvo have all announced iOS in the Car support for their vehicles.

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How your phone fees subsidize golf resorts

By Quentin Fottrell

A U.S. government program aimed at subsidizing phone lines in remote areas is instead lavishing billions of dollars on wealthy enclaves at the expense of consumers, according to a new study. Fees tacked onto Americans? phone bills are going to phone connections that cost thousands of dollars for a single landline.

The Federal Communications Commission?s ?Connect America Fund,? created in 1997, aims to provide landline services for remote rural areas. But the 10 most expensive annual subsides per phone line ranged from nearly $6,000 in Texas (for 769 lines) to $23,500 in Washington state (for 16 separate lines), according to the report by George Mason University Professor Thomas Hazlett ? former chief economist at the FCC ? and Scott J. Wallsten, vice president for research and senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.

Although this fund was intended for rural areas and makes up part of the ?Universal Service Fund? fee tacked onto fixed-line phone bills, it supports phone service by giving subsidies to telecom companies in areas like the Hawaiian island of Maui, the Breckenridge, Colo., resort area, and gated golf communities outside Scottsdale, Ariz., Hazlett says. ?The subsidies have been wasted, padding the costs of rural phone companies and delivering only pennies on the dollar,? he says. The fund has a cap of $4.5 billion a year and, as of October 2011, includes broadband.

Consumer advocates agree that accessing rural areas is a complex, if expensive, problem. ?The fund has never been means tested and the Telecom Act of 1996 strongly affirms that principle,? says Mark Cooper, director of research at the Consumer Federation of America. ?Congress did not give the FCC the discretion to pick and choose which high-cost area should get subsidies.? By statute, Wigfield says, subsidizing U.S. landlines is meant to ensure that rural phone rates are reasonably comparable to those in urban areas. ?It?s never been based on income,? he says.

To be fair, the FCC has taken steps ?to end waste, fraud and abuse? Wigfield says, ?while adopting measures to connect millions of currently unserved Americans to broadband.? These reforms, which took effect in January 2012, include capping subsidies at a maximum of $250 a line per month, he says, and they free up resources to expand broadband connectivity to all of rural America. That still works out to $3,000 a year for one phone line. ?It?s a failed government initiative that taxes urban phone users,? Hazlett says.

Apple could soon dial up China

Apple is yet to tap the world's biggest pool of potential iPhone buyers: China Mobile's customers. But that could soon change. Heard on the Street's Rolfe Winkler joins MoneyBeat.

There is a possible alternative to the highest subsidies in hard-to-reach areas: Satellite phones. They would cost a maximum of $600 per line annually for the most remote areas, Hazlett says, or no more than $173 million per year based on current retail prices. ?We are not ignoring the least expensive options,? Wigfield says. There is a catch, however. While the reforms do include a fund that would use satellite and wireless for areas too expensive for fixed lines, he says, a lot of broadband available by satellite is slower than FCC standards.

This isn't the first time the FCC?s Universal Service Fund has come under fire for accusations of waste. A separate government ?Lifeline? program targeting low-income Americans ? and designed to ensure they weren?t cut off from jobs, families and emergency services ? gave mobile phones to consumers who hadn?t actually proved they were eligible to receive them, according to a Wall Street Journal report in January 2013. That program cost $2.2 billion in 2012. Lifeline, originally started in 1984, was part of a separate set of reforms in January 2012 to prevent abuse, Wigfield says.

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Monteith's unforgettable 'Glee' performances

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Lesley Goldberg The Hollywood Reporter

July 14, 2013 at 8:48 AM ET

"Glee" would not be what it is today were it not for Cory Monteith.

The actor brought a boyish charm to the lovable jock Finn Hudson, the all-American guy who would help make the revived McKinley High School New Directions champions. Monteith, who died Saturday at the age of 31, was the frontman for many of the show's best songs as his character would grow to anchor the underdog club. In his four seasons on the Fox musical, Monteith would cover artists including Journey, Michael Jackson, Queen and scores more, performing songs to support his gay half-brother, his girlfriend and the club itself.

Here are The Hollywood Reporter's picks for Monteith's best "Glee"songs.

PHOTOS: Cory Monteith's career in pictures

1. "Don't Stop Believin'" (Journey, season three):
This was the song that started a worldwide phenomenon and made Monteith and the rest of the cast overnight sensations. Monteith was the backbone of the original New Directions and it was his football star Finn Hudson who helped launch the club to what it became -- champions.

2. "Can't Fight This Feeling" (REO Speedwagon, season three)
Romance blossomed early for Finn and Rachel (Lea Michele). The jock battled peer pressure from his classmates for joining the club and having the eyes for the diva-in-training. When Matthew Morrison's Mr. Schue heard Finn singing this song after a game, he personally recruited him to anchor the glee club's revival.

3. "Hello, I Love You" (The Doors, season three)
When Sue (Jane Lynch) tries to come between Finn and Rachel, he reconfirms his feelings for his new love -- not his recent ex, Quinn (Dianna Agron) with this cover. The Doors frontman Jim Morrison died at the age of 28.

4. "Faithfully" (Journey, season three)
New Directions turned to Finn and Rachel's blossoming romance when it counted most in "Glee's" first season finale, "Journey to Regionals."

5. "Losing My Religion" (R.E.M., season three)
During the "Grilled Cheesus" episode Finn questions religion after his step-father-to-be Burt has a heart attack and the club rallies around his now step-brother, Kurt (Chris Colfer). It ranks as one of the show's most controversial hours to date.

6. "Just the Way You Are" (Bruno Mars, season three)
In the "Furt" episode, Finn takes some slack for not defending Kurt when he's bullied by a member of the football team on which the athlete serves as quarterback. He uses this song to apologize to his newest family member as he and Kurt learn Finn's mother is marrying the father of his openly gay New Directions team member.

7. "Man in the Mirror" (Michael Jackson, season three)
Monteith and new directions members Puck (Mark Salling), Blaine (Darren Criss), Mike (Harry Shum Jr.) and Sam (Chord Overstreet) -- clad in a stunning black and white tuxedos -- form what would become the male core of the club after Finn makes peace with his jealousy toward new star Blaine.

8. "We Are the Champions" (Queen, season three)
After New Directionsperforms -- and wins -- at Nationals, leader Finn leads the club in a cover of this classic Queen song to thank Mr. Schue for his efforts.

9. "Glory Days" (Bruce Springsteen, season three)
In the season three finale, Finn rallies everyone to help his best friend, Puck, pass a key test so he could graduate. Clad in his cap and gown, Finn sat behind his drums to play -- and sing -- as McKinley High's principal read off the names of his glee club friends.

PHOTOS: 'Glee' season four in pictures

10. "Don't Speak" (Duncan Sheik, season four)
In one of the Fox musical's most heart-wrenching episodes, Finn and Blaine travel to New York to visit their respective partners. What they find, however, is that the distance between Ohio and New York, along with the woes of a long-distance relationship when they're each heading in different directions, doesn't work. The two core couples break up and share one of the show's most gut-wrenching songs to diehard fans all over the world.

11. "The Scientist" (Coldplay, season four)
Returning to Ohio, Finn is joined with his McKinley High friends including Santana (Naya Rivera), Kurt, Blaine, Brittany (Heather Morris) and Jayma Mays (Emma) as each struggles to accept heartbreak during "The Break Up."

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12. "Don't Dream It's Over" (Crowded House, season four)
With Mr. Schue in Washington, Finn steps in to take over leading New Directions. After the club loses its choir room after new star Marley (Melissa Benoist) lands the club a disqualification at Sectionals. Finn commiserates with the few members of the club still determined to make a comeback including Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz), Blaine, Sam and Brittany.

13. "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" (Beastie Boys, season four)
After spending the bulk of season four searching for his identity -- the Army, bumming around New York and filling in for Mr. Schue with New Directions -- Finn heads to community college to study to become a teacher. He takes a detour when Puck moves in with him (briefly) in the dorms and takes the college party track. Puck quickly reverses course and vows to help Finn put his head down and study. It signaled the start of a bright future for the character -- and would be the last song he'd have lead on with the Fox series.

Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/cory-monteiths-unforgettable-glee-performances-6C10629858

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Agencies, families report struggles finding affordable housing after 2011 tornado

JOPLIN, Mo. ? Looking back on May 22, 2011, Pat Jones thinks the EF-5 tornado that hit Joplin did more than just destroy the home they were renting, their vehicles, their possessions and her place of employment.

?We didn?t just lose the house we were living in,? said Jones. ?We lost our future.?

When the tornado hit the house where they were living in the 2300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, Pat and her husband, Steve, sought shelter in the bathtub. When they emerged, it was to a neighborhood in tatters. In addition to the home where they?d been living, the owner-financed house four blocks away that they had hoped to buy also had been destroyed.

The couple said that they were turned down for Federal Emergency Management Agency housing because they had moved in with Pat?s brother. They didn?t have any luck with Habitat for Humanity, either.

Friends have donated a plot of land for the family, which includes Pat?s niece, who lives with them, but Pat said they are still living paycheck to paycheck and can?t afford a house.

Job changes and medical issues have only worsened their problems.

?It?s been two years of fighting,? Pat said. ?It?s a struggle. I just get tired of hearing ?no.?

?I don?t want much, and I don?t expect much. But there are other people out there like me. They just want to be settled. Two years later, and we?re still not settled.?

Twenty-six months after the Joplin tornado destroyed nearly 7,500 houses and apartments, the Jones? story isn?t an unusual one.

The reality is that while many organizations rushed to help those affected by the tornado in its immediate aftermath, not everyone qualified for or received assistance, whether public or private.

?There were a lot of organizations doing a lot of good after the tornado, but people still heard ?No? (when seeking help),? said Thomas Corley, client services manager for Rebuild Joplin. ?It was confusing for some people.?

Also true is that not everyone can meet the requirements that some of the nonprofits have established.

When applying for assistance through Habitat for Humanity, Pat said that they were turned down because Habitat didn?t take into consideration that her job was only temporary and figured her salary for an entire year. When combined with her husband?s salary at the machine products company where he works, it put them over the income limit.

Income requirements for assistance through Joplin Area Habitat for Humanity for a family the Joneses? size would mean making less than $36,450 annually, according to family services manager Brittany Woodward.

There is some wiggle room on those figures, she said. The program also takes into consideration factors such as credit history and ability to make monthly payments.

?We hate to (deny people), but it?s what we have to do sometimes,? Woodward said. ?There are only a set number of homes we can build and properties that are available. It?s hard to turn people away.?

To date, Habitat for Humanity has built 71 homes in Joplin since the tornado, with several others under construction.

While some areas of Joplin have come back since the tornado, and the hundreds of temporary homes set up near the Joplin airport by FEMA are now gone, there is still an unknown number of paycheck-to-paycheck families who haven?t gotten back on their feet because they can?t afford a home and rental housing is hard to come by.

Corley, with Rebuild Joplin, said that his organization still receives two to five applications for assistance each week.

?Our goal as an organization is to help people return to where they were before the tornado,? said Corley. ?But with that said, when it comes to helping individuals who were renting (homes) at the time, as a community Joplin has struggled. The population (affected) was heavy on the renters side.?

Assistance for renters

According to a housing market report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development?s Office of Policy Development and Research, ?the losses were virtually equal between owner and renter occupied units, which resulted in a severe tightening of the (Joplin) housing market as displaced households obtained alternate housing.?

Many of the rental units destroyed were older, single-family houses, the report states, and two years after the storm, there are still not enough rental properties to meet demand.

?Within the city of Joplin, where the damage was most extensive, the rental vacancy rate is virtually zero with all multi-family complexes maintaining waiting lists,? the report says.

Because of the large number of renters affected by the storm, Rebuild Joplin created the Opportunity Housing Program, which is geared toward turning those residents into homeowners. Those who qualify for the program are able to access up to $50,000 in mortgage assistance at a zero percent interest rate.

?It allows us to help renters who want to be homeowners to try and get into an affordable house,? said Corley, who also manages the Opportunity Housing Program.

There are restrictions for that program, however. It involves looking at finances, outstanding debts and a credit review.

?Banks have been a bit more understanding with moderate income individuals who are going to be a first-time homeowner,? said Corley. ?But some people might not be ready to be a homeowner today. It?s hard to see someone who has lost their possessions, property and vehicle who are taking the steps to prepare themselves but still have a tough road ahead.?

Case management

Maura Taylor, executive director of Catholic Charities of Southern Missouri, agreed that there are families in need, but she said there are also still opportunities.

?We still have families in poverty that are paying rent higher than their income can provide, families still living with other family members, and families living outside of Joplin that can?t find affordable rent,? Taylor said. ?We?re moving forward, but there are still needs.?

Based in Springfield, the organization created a permanent presence in Joplin after the tornado. In the past two years, they have rebuilt 12 homes in Joplin and repaired more than 150, Taylor said.

Catholic Charities also provides disaster case management out of its Joplin office through a FEMA grant that will expire on Aug. 9. The organization had used a grant provided by the Community Foundation of Southwest Missouri to rebuild homes, but those funds have been exhausted, she said.

?We still have volunteers from all over the country that are working to finish projects under that grant,? she said. ?But we?re still trying to pursue other ways of funding for building supplies and materials.?

Taylor recommends that families who are in the Joneses? situation visit with a case manager to explore what resources are available to them.

The case management system is designed to provide more help than just pairing people with organizations that might help build a home or make repairs, she said.

?So many of these families are living paycheck to paycheck and need these wrap-around social services to help them build capacity, help with budgeting, improving their job skills,? she said. ?The services provided by case management are built to help individuals find the resources they need to help put them on a path to becoming more self-sufficient and self-reliant.?

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Source: http://www.joplinglobe.com/topstories/x1538942011/Agencies-families-report-struggles-finding-affordable-housing-after-2011-tornado

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JK Rowling revealed as writer of crime novel

LONDON (AP) ? An ex-military man tries his hand at writing, publishes a debut detective novel, and wins critical acclaim. But here's the twist in the tale: The true identity of the author is none other than "Harry Potter" creator J.K. Rowling.

It's impressive literary wizardry by Rowling, who said she relished the freedom of writing "The Cuckoo's Calling" under her pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

"I hoped to keep this secret a little longer because being Robert Galbraith has been such a liberating experience," she said in a statement released by her publicist on Sunday.

"It has been wonderful to publish without hype or expectation, and pure pleasure to get feedback from publishers and readers under a different name."

"The Cuckoo's Calling," a story about a war veteran turned private investigator who is called in to probe the mysterious death of a model, was published to rave reviews in April by Sphere, part of publisher Little, Brown & Co.

The Sunday Times claimed it was investigating "how a first-time author with a background in the army and the civilian security industry could write such an assured debut novel" when it connected the dots. The paper said clues included the fact that Rowling and Galbraith shared the same agent and editor, and that Little, Brown published Rowling's novel for adults, "The Casual Vacancy." It also said the book's style and subject matter resembled Rowling's work.

Rowling's publicist confirmed the paper's detective work was correct, and the news helped the novel climb straight to the top of Amazon's best-selling list Sunday.

In her statement, Rowling thanked her editor David Shelley, the publishing staff who worked on the book without knowing her identity, and the reviewers who praised it without knowing about her authorship.

She added that "Galbraith" planned to keep writing the series, and her publisher said that the second book is expected to be published next summer. Now that her identity is revealed, Little, Brown said "The Cuckoo's Calling" will be reprinted with a revised author biography.

On its website, the publisher marketed the book as a classic crime novel in the tradition of P.D. James and Ruth Rendell. It said the novel, whose central character is named Cormoran Strike, was the first of a series of crime novels to come.

The publisher described Galbraith as an ex-military man, married with two sons, who wrote the novel based on experiences from his military life. Revealingly, it also stated that Galbraith was a pseudonym.

The publisher lists many favorable reviews to the book, including critics who called it "a scintillating debut novel" and who praised Galbraith for his "superb flair as a mystery writer."

Rowling recently turned to writing for grown-ups after becoming the world's most successful living writer with the "Harry Potter" books, which sold more than 450 million copies worldwide.

Reviews for her highly-anticipated novel "The Casual Vacancy," published last year, were mixed. Some praised the book, a bleak tale about class warfare and the darker sides to a community in small-town England, for tackling difficult subjects, but others thought it lacked the magic touch that made Rowling's books of wizardry so popular.

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Sylvia Hui can be reached at http://twitter.com/sylviahui

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/jk-rowling-revealed-writer-crime-novel-110756185.html

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The case for Foles

More accurate? Check.
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Better at making quick decisions under duress? Check.
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Tons of upside? Check.
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The initial reaction when the Eagles re-signed Michael Vick back in February was that the new contract meant Vick would go into the 2013 season as the starting quarterback.
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But right from the start, Chip Kelly promised this would be an open competition between Vick and Nick Foles. Contracts wouldn?t matter. Experience wouldn?t matter. Background wouldn?t matter. The number of Pro Bowls on your?r?sum? wouldn?t matter.
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No, what they do on the practice field and in the preseason games is all that would matter.
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Simple. Best guy wins.
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And the best guy -- for this team, for this system, for this offense -- is Nick Foles.
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This isn?t a knock on Vick. Not at all. I?ve been a Vick guy since he got here four years ago. For that team and that coach and that offense, he was the best option once it was clear that Donovan McNabb was done and Kevin Kolb couldn?t stay healthy. For most of 2010, Vick played MVP football. It was great drama, great theater, great action.
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And who knows how different things might have been had Vick not tried to squeeze that pass to Riley Cooper in the end zone on first-and-10 with 44 seconds left in the wild-card game. Tramon Williams picked him off, the Packers won the game and the Super Bowl, and the Eagles haven?t sniffed the postseason since.
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But that?s all ancient history. Vick is 33, 10-15 in 25 starts since that baffling and devastating Vikings loss late in 2010 and nine years removed from his last playoff win.
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If he?s going to win the Eagles? QB job this summer, Vick is not only going to have to prove he can still play at a high level -- and he hasn?t exactly trended upward the last couple years -- he?s also going to have to prove he can produce in a system that demands quick decisions, requires accurate mid-range throws and places a premium on ball security.
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And that?s just not his game. Never has been.
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Foles, playing as a rookie without DeSean Jackson, without LeSean McCoy much of the time and behind a makeshift O-line featuring King Dunlap, Jake Scott, Dennis Kelly and Dallas Reynolds, still had a higher completion percentage last year than Vick has had in eight of his nine full NFL seasons.

He?s just more accurate. This isn?t an opinion. He was 61 percent last year with everything working against him, and Vick is 56 percent career.

Foles? completion percentage last year was sixth best in NFL history by a rookie. Vick ranks 87th in accuracy among 111 quarterbacks over the past 25 years who?ve thrown 1,000 or more passes.
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And quick decisions come naturally for Foles. The big reason he was able to deal with the ferocious pass rush he faced was his ability to drop back, read the defense and distribute the ball quickly.
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Vick is at his best when he stands in the pocket till the last possible second -- and sometimes beyond -- and spins the ball 60 yards down the field on a line to a streaking wideout. And while the bomb has its place in a Kelly offense, it?s not the most important component. In Andy Reid?s offense, you looked deep first. In Kelly?s, you don?t.
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Foles is nowhere nearly as gifted as Vick throwing deep, but in this offense, it doesn?t matter. Playing behind a truly awful offensive line, he still threw for 243 yards per game in about half a season, the fifth-highest figure ever for a rookie. So he can chuck it.
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Then there?s the turnovers. The quarterback simply can?t afford to turn the ball over in Kelly?s offense. That?s true in any offense, but even more so in this one.
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When you?re running a play every 15 seconds, a turnover could mean the defense has to come back on the field less than a minute after it left. Not in scoreboard time, in real time. This defense has enough issues as it is. It doesn?t need to get worn out, finally get off the field, only to be forced back out there just a few seconds later.
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INTs? Foles? interception percentage last year (1.9 per 100 attempts) was second-best in NFL history by a rookie throwing 250 or more passes (behind only RG3, also last year). He did commit eight fumbles, which is a lot considering how little he played, but behind a legit offensive line, that figure will drop.
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Vick historically has been pretty good taking care of the ball, but his 1.82 turnovers per start over the past three years is third-highest in the league during that span, behind only Ryan Fitzpatrick (1.84) and Chad Henne (1.83).
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Vick?s biggest advantage is his speed, his elusiveness, but he?s taken a beating over the past few seasons and doesn?t look nearly as fast as he used to be. His 5.4-yard rushing average last year, still good, was lowest of his career. After rushing for 33 touchdowns through 2011, he ran for just one last year, a one-yard dive. So even his greatest attribute, his biggest strength, isn?t quite what it used to be.

If this is a fair fight, if this is truly open competition, Foles will be the Eagles? starting quarterback on opening day.
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And the fact that Foles is still here when it would have been easy to trade him and the fact that he really did split the OTA and minicamp reps with Vick tells you it really will be a fair fight.
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The wild card in all this is USC rookie Matt Barkley, who could ultimately be the perfect quarterback in this offense. And maybe that day isn?t too far off. But it?s an awful lot to ask a rookie fourth-round pick to step right in and start and play at a high level.
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Don?t forget, only three quarterbacks in franchise history have survived 16 games as a starter: Ron Jaworski (five times), Donovan McNabb (four times) and Randall Cunningham (three times). That?s it.
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The NFL went to a 16-game schedule in 1978, which means it?s happened 12 times in 35 years and only four times in the last 22 years.
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So the odds are Foles and Vick will both play. But the opening-day starter? Foles is the clear choice. In the next six weeks, Foles will show coaches, teammates and fans that any way you look at it, any way you measure it, he?s the best fit.

Source: http://www.csnphilly.com/football-philadelphia-eagles/why-foles-will-be-eagles-starting-quarterback

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Joining 8z was coming home for broker - Inside Real Estate News

Highlights:

• 8z Broker profiled as an ongoing feature of InsideRealEstateNews.com.
• Bob Maiocco loves the outdoors.
• He is the ?go-to guy? for the Evergreen area.
• His contact information can be found at the end of this blog.

Bob Maiocco

Bob Maiocco has packed a lot into his Colorado real estate career that began when he was in college in the early 1990s.

Maiocco, 43, has sold mountain real estate.

He has sold new homes all along the Denver area.

He has sold resale homes from Highlands Ranch to Broomfield, Evergreen to Aurora, and everything in between.

He was an early embracer of technology and even did a stint at a commercial real estate broker.

But when he discovered 8z real estate in 2009, he finally felt like he had come home.

Indeed, it was as if 8z and its sister company, the real estate search engine COhomefinder.com, had been created with Maiocco in mind.

?That is what I told Lane, when I first met him,? laughed Maiocco, who lives and ?farms? the Evergreen/Conifer area as an 8z broker.

Lane Hornung founded 8z with the idea of melding the best in technology with brokers who are experts in a specific area.

That was music to Maiocco?s ears.

Before joining 8z, as a leader of a top Keller Williams team, he used technology to find prospects.

?I followed decent leads whether they were in Highlands Ranch or Westminster or Aurora,? Maiocco said.

Two things happened.

First, although he was selling a lot of homes, he didn?t feel like he was getting to know any given neighborhood.

?If I was asked a question, I was good at finding the answer, but I didn?t necessarily have any in-depth knowledge of any one area.?

The second thing is that he really found himself getting excited when he had the opportunity to sell a home in the Evergreen area.

?So I moved up here in 2007,? he said.

He savours the mountain living, but at the same time he can be in downtown Denver in 35 minutes.

?I?m sitting on my deck right now, looking at Pikes Peak,? he said. ?You have fresh air, open space. It?s quiet and you have beautiful scenery. It?s a great life.?

Even the recent Bluebell and Lime Gulch fires, and fear that more are just a spark away, haven?t scared away prospective buyers, he said.

?One of my recent buyers was very close to the Lime Gulch fire,? he said. ?I think people recognize that fires do occur and are part of the natural process. They know they can be mitigated to some extent by clearing the forests and can be mitigated by people themselves by clearing brush and removing trees that are too close to homes. And they know our fire department does an excellent job of responding.?

He said the ?sweet spot? for homes is $300,000 to $400,000 in Conifer and $450,000 to $650,000 in Evergreen.

?In North Evergreen, a home in tip-top shape can easily sell in the million-dollar range,? he said. ?One home recently sold for $950,000 in two days.?

As in the Denver area, homes in the Evergreen/Conifer area are going fast.

However, he thinks bidding wars that drive up the price well beyond the list price are a bit more rare in Evergreen than in Denver.

?I?ve seen that happen a couple of times, but I don?t think it is happening as much here as it has been happening in Denver,? he said.

In addition to the lifestyle factors drawing buyers to the Evergreen area, it has something else going for it.

?You?re an hour closer to skiing,? Maiocco said.

Skiing is what brought him to Colorado in 1988.

?I was raised in Milford, NH and I chose Western State College in Gunnison because it was close to skiing,? he said.

For someone who grew up with the icy conditions on ski mountains in the East, Colorado was Nirvana.

?There is a small group of us Eastern skiers who have found our way here and we kind of snicker at Colorado skiers ? they don?t know how good they have it,? Maiocco said.

In 1992, between his junior and senior year, he started selling real estate in Crested Butte.

?I had this idea in the back of my head I would like to be a real estate tycoon, so I thought I?d start out as an office manager in a real estate office,? he joked.

He continued selling real estate in Crested Butte after college.

?I think there were 1,500 people living in Crested Butte at the time and 135 of them were real estate brokers,? he said.

?It was tough.?

He didn?t realize it at the time, but he also got his first inkling of the importance of technology.

?We were all trying to figure out how to get in front of our buyers,? Maiocco recalled.

?Crested Butte was such a destination resort,? he said. ?We didn?t get the Front Range skiers (and home buyers) as much as having people come in from Dallas and Atlanta.?

So how did the get in front of prospective buyers from outside of Colorado?

?Basically, we did not figure it out until the Internet came along,? he said. ?The Internet was really the answer.?

Until then, he and other brokers needed to ?sit by our phones in our offices,? hoping it would ring. That was no fun in Crested Butte, where he would rather be hitting the slopes, hiking mountain trails, or kayaking.

Indeed, he did spend a lot of time on those outdoor pursuits before moving to Denver in 1996.

He thought he would have fewer distractions to his career in the Denver area. The Denver area also had a personal lure.

?I figured I would have a better chance of finding a wife in Denver,? which he did.

Today he is the proud parent of two boys, now 12 and 14, who ?are just crazy skiers.?

When he moved to Denver, he took a job as an on-site sales consultant for US Home.

?I was working all over the metro area,? he said. ?I started in Westminster and worked in Broomfield and Highlands Ranch and Arvada. They built a lot of good subdivisions and it was very fulfilling building relationships with people and helping them through one of the most challenging things of their lives ? buying a home.?

Although he was successful, often ranking in the top 10 for US Home sales people across the nation, after a few years ?I got a wild hair and decided I would buy a RE/MAX franchise in Crested Butte.?

It never occurred to him that he wouldn?t get the franchise, but RE/MAX sold it to someone else and instead of being an owner, he became an agent in someone else?s RE/MAX office instead.

?It was doomed to failure from the start,? he said. ?I wanted to be the franchise owner, but I wasn?t. The owner and I never saw eye to eye.?

He returned to the Denver area and became a tenant rep for Grubb & Ellis, a commercial real estate firm, specializing in office leases in Boulder and along the U.S. 36 corridor.

?It was a huge change for me,? he said. ?Commercial real estate is much more analytical than residential real estate. You?re crunching the numbers, knocking on doors and making a lot of cold calls. It was not nearly as exciting to me as meeting a couple and helping them buy a home in the mountains or helping someone experience the American Dream of becoming a home owner.?

Also, the leader of the Grubb team left to join a private company.

?The team kind of evaporated after that,? he said.

Fortuitously, he ran into Joel McDonald at the Cheesecake Factory in the Tabor Center, where Grubb & Ellis had its office at that time.

?Joel and I used to play Ultimate Frisbee together in the ?90s and he said he said he had been looking for me for years,? Maiocco said, although he added he was sure that it was more that it was in the back of McDonald?s mind that he would be a good person to have on the team of real estate companies he had founded.

?Joel had started this company called Automated Home Finder, which was a great lead generation machine and Benchmark Realty,? Maiocco said.

So he became a broker associated at Benchmark Realty and started a boutique real estate firm, Maiocco Team Inc.

?That is when I got my first taste of substantial volume,? in real estate sales.

?I don?t remember the numbers, but I was probably doing $7 million or $8 million in sales.?

In 2006, he became a broker associate at Keller Williams DTC?s office.

?The Automated Home Finder system was working so well, I wanted to build a team and I thought the Keller Williams system of education would be very helpful,? he said.

After moving to the Evergreen area, he discovered COhomefinder.

He had been building a customer base, writing blogs and using search engine optimization techniques.

?I would type in some keywords about the Conifer housing market, for example, and a lot of times five or six of the top 10 searches would lead to me,? he said.

Increasingly, COhomefinder would pop up at No. 1 or No. 2 and he was intrigued.

?I looked up who was behind it and called Lane,? he said.

?He was getting ready to leave RE/MAX Alliance in Boulder and start 8z Real Estate and so I became a broker/owner of 8z in Evergreen.?

It?s been rewarding on a number of levels.

?To me, 8z is just a remarkable opportunity,? Maiocco said. ?It combines the best of what I love. It has this great technology and lead generator system, while the hand-picked brokers at 8z really become their neighborhood experts.?

He said even if you become a neighborhood guru at another company, much of your knowledge may never be acknowledged by consumers.

?You might have all of this knowledge and information, but no one is asking you about what you know,? he said.

?At 8z, there is this expectation that you are the go-to guy for neighborhood information. All of the brokers at 8z are so excited and passionate about their neighborhoods. We love talking about our neighborhoods and finding just the right home for our buyers.?

Sometimes technology is good for the broker, but is irrelevant to buyers and sellers.

?I think 8z and COhomefinder represent that rare occasion when it is good for the broker and good for the consumer. It was such a no-brainer for me to join 8z. It has been absolutely fantastic.?

?InsideRealEstateNews.com profiles 8z brokers on a regular basis. 8z is a sponsor of InsideRealEstateNews along with Universal Lending and Land Title Guarantee Co.?

To learn more about Bob Maiocco and the Evergreen real estate market:

Have a real estate tip or a story idea? Contact John Rebchook at JRCHOOK@gmail.com.?

Source: http://insiderealestatenews.com/2013/07/joining-8z-was-coming-home-for-broker/

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Microsoft sets new hardware certification requirements for Windows 8.1

Just a month or so before Windows 8.1 gets sent to OEMs and the Redmond giant has helpfully provided new hardware certification requirements for them to meet. Announced at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference, these prerequisites include Bluetooth support in all devices with WiFi, front-facing 720p webcams in all systems with integrated displays and higher fidelity specifications for audio equipment. This comes on top of Windows 8.1's native support for Miracast wireless displays, internet sharing, NFC capabilities, WiFi Direct print and biometric authentication, which all points to some pretty interesting hardware coming our way. These new certification must-haves are set for 2014 and 2015 devices though, so we likely won't see them for a while yet. Until then, familiarize yourself with our in-depth Windows 8.1 hands-on so you'll be all set when they arrive.

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Benefits of the Sino-Russian Oil Deal Flow Both Ways

Russia gets a huge amount of cash and China gains a long-term supply, meaning the two countries' recent agreement was a win-win

Russian President Vladimir Putin did not exaggerate when he announced on June 20 that China and Russia were close to an unprecedented contract involving millions of tons of oil and worth over US$ 60 billion.

China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), the country's largest oil producer, revealed more detailed figures of its deal with Russian counterpart Rosneft four days later; the Russian side would supply China with 40 million tons of oil a year for the next 25 years.

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Where's the chemistry lobby? On why we need a National Center for Chemical Education

Part of the mission of the NCCE would be to point out chemistry's astonishingly diverse connections to almost every other field and aspect of our lives (Image: Chadron State College)

Veteran chemistry blogger Derek Lowe?s takedown of the nonsensical Buzzfeed article about eight ?food chemicals? that you should stay away from was an excellent rejoinder to what was essentially a pile of sensationalized opinions disseminated by someone who does not bother reading up on basic science, but it also gave me a sinking feeling that is encapsulated by the following basic existential question.

How long can we chemists do this?

Over the last few years bloggers like SeeArrOh, Derek, Chembark and others have regularly pointed out instances of the growing epidemic of antiscientific, fact-free chemophobia that abounds on the Internet. In fact most of it is not even chemophobia, it?s just plain ignorance of basic science. But as far as the sheer amount of chemistry-related nonsense floating around goes, all this worthy debunking is no more than a drop in the ocean. Those who don?t understand science and chemistry are going to keep foisting the same falsehoods on us ad nauseum. The problem is that even if chemistry bloggers decided to debunk no more than 10% of the nonsense that goes around, they will be at it all day and night. The pile of anti-chemistry garbage that dots the landscape of the internet and print media is like a Hydra. You debunk one head and ten grow in its place.

Plus the fundamental challenge in countering half-baked science is well-known: it takes only a few minutes to throw around unsubstantiated claims and link to random secondary and tertiary sources, but it takes dedicated time and effort to trawl through the primary sources, analyze the data and come up with a reasoned refutation. For instance it took me almost an hour to go through all the sources alluded to in a post about ?toxic couches? and to write a post countering the claims. In fighting anti-chemistry forces chemists face a challenge similar to that faced by evolutionists fighting creationists. It takes only a minute for a creationist to make a statement like ?There are no transitional fossil forms? but it takes time for an evolutionist to then go into the details and counter with the list of known transitional forms. Whether it?s creationism or chemophobia, time is inherently biased against the responders.?There is essentially no realistic possibility that a group of dedicated chemistry bloggers who are doing this in their free time are ever going to get around to refuting more than a fraction of all this fear-mongering, fact-free antiscientific piffle.

About the only remedy that I can see to counter this chemophobia and spread of ignorance is a dedicated chemistry lobby. The United States, after all, is the land of lobbies. So why not have a chemistry lobby? The task of the chemistry lobby would be simple; to have a dedicated group of chemists and people who actually care about the benefits of chemistry make a concerted effort to combat misinformation and ignorance, using every print, online and social outlet available, directing their efforts so that they reach every imaginable kind of citizen, from the man on the street to Congressmen on the Hill.?The lobby would include contributions from chemistry researchers, teachers, students, policy makers and regulators. They could join hands with the American Chemical Society and any other organization that wants to further the cause of chemistry; in my personal opinion, while the ACS has done some admirable work in improving the public image of chemical science, its efforts have been sorely lacking in proportion to the work that actually needs to be done.

Anyone who actually understands chemistry at a basic level would be welcome to contribute.?The chemistry lobby could have their own TV channel, radio program and newsletter. Perhaps they could start a series that does for chemistry what ?Cosmos? did for astronomy, replete with a charismatic and credible Sagan-like figure (Roald Hoffmann could fit the bill quite well). They could run campaigns to educate people about the facts and benefits of chemistry while admitting upfront to the misuse that chemistry has been put to over the years; they should also underscore the fact that misuse of chemistry has been no different from misuse of any other technology developed by flawed human beings. Their task would not be to whitewash the evils of the chemical, agricultural and pharmaceutical industries but point out the good that the industry has done in people?s lives on a deep level. Chemistry largely underpins modern civilization, and it would be the task of the chemistry lobby to educate people about this fundamental fact.

The chemistry lobby would not solicit financial contributions from industry. Members of the lobby are probably going to be painted as industry shills by their opponents anyway, so it would not help being funded by massive contributions from industry. Instead the organization I am envisioning would be a non-profit group akin to the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), funded mainly by member contributions and grants. The National Center for Chemical Education (NCCE ? as sound a name for the lobby as any other) would do to counter chemophobia what the NCSE has done to combat creationism. The official mission of the NCSE is to keep evolution in the class and creationism out of it. The official mission of the NCCE would be to keep chemistry in the public arena and chemophobia out of it. Just like the NCSE is not the official spokesperson of any university, atheist organization or political or social group, the NCCE would not be the official spokesperson of any body. It might support or reject the views of specific organizations, but official affiliation would be eschewed. At the same time it could fund the activities of specific bloggers, professors or citizens whose efforts to educate the general populace about chemistry are especially noteworthy. The NCCE could also fund studies and surveys designed to simply find out more about what people think about chemistry and its various incarnations in our lives.

The NCSE has done an immense amount of good over the decades to combat the forces of darkness that threaten to invade the school curriculum. At the same time they have taken no official position against religion and have in fact emphasized their respect for people?s personal religious beliefs. The NCCE would similarly debunk basic ignorance of chemistry and fear-mongering without insulting the real concerns that environmentalists, parents and concerned citizens have. It is only by taking a stand against objective falsehoods while still respecting the emotional reactions that the public has about the growth of technology that we can make a dent in fostering dialogue between disparate factions and bridging the gulf of differences. I look forward to the day when a rational, enthusiastic and expansive chemistry lobby starts to achieve this goal.

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