Triplets All In Jail: Shivers Brothers Could End Up In Same Michigan Correctional Facility

Holiday family reunions are a tradition in many American households, but for a set of Michigan triplets, this year's brotherly get-together may be taking place in a rather bleak setting: behind bars.

According to the Smoking Gun, 21-year-old triplets Deshawn, Juronn and Devon Shivers have all landed themselves in prison on felony charges, and all three may soon end up in the Saginaw Correctional Facility.

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Deshawn and Juronn?were recently convicted of unarmed robbery by a jury in Saginaw County, Mich., after an incident in Buena Vista Township, Mich.

They could soon find themselves at the same correctional facility as the third triplet, Devon, who was convicted in 2011 of multiple weapons charges and home invasion. The earliest release date for Devon, according to Saginaw Police, is 2042.

As for Deshawn and Juronn, who will be sentenced next month, each faces a maximum of 15 years in prison, the Smoking Gun notes.

Saginaw Police Sgt. Terry Carpenter told ABC News that the Shivers triplets were active members of the "Sunny Side" gang. Other family members, including an older brother of the triplets who was reportedly in prison until August this year, are also involved in the gang.

?The Saginaw P.D. is elated by the recent convictions of Deshawn and Juronn Shivers and hope that they receive a stern sentence by the sentencing circuit court judge,? the police said in a statement.

This is not the first time a band of siblings has made headlines for running afoul of the law. In November, Vicki and Sarah Satterfield -- two thirds of a former Playboy triplets trio -- were arrested for their involvement in an Ohio strip club brawl.

In 2006, the Guardian reported that twin brothers Jonathan and Robert Maskell were put behind bars after they robbed and then killed their 74-year-old grandmother.

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The 12 (Board)Games Of Christmas: Day One | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

By Robert Florence on December 12th, 2012 at 1:00 pm.

Ignoring the convention of Christmas?s 12 days, Rab Florence is bringing his twelve board game suggestions to you in time for them to appear in appropriate stockings. Here?s the first day:

Yes, on the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me an X-WING in a PEAR TREE. Okay, not a PEAR TREE but a BOX. A small box containing an X-WING and a couple of TIE Fighters. And some dice. And some templates. And some cards. And a lot of fucking awesome. (Sorry for the bad language, Santa!)

I?ve written about The X-Wing Miniatures Game before on RPS, and you can go take a look at it here, but this little update is to let you know that it?s STILL great, it STILL holds up and it?s probably only going to get better through 2013 as it gets expanded.

WHAT IS IT?

It?s a Star Wars space battle skirmish game where one player plays the Rebel Alliance and the other player The Empire. You move little plastic ships around on a table, planning your moves in secrecy, and rolling dice to blow the hell out of your opponent. It?s a THRILL.

WHO TO BUY IT FOR

A geek in your family who loves games and loves Star Wars.

Anyone who loves Star Wars but doesn?t realise they love games.

A parent with kids of 8 and up who love games. A love of Star Wars is not necessary. This game will create that love.

WHERE TO BUY IT

Any games shop ? there?s been a Christmas restock of this game. I saw it this very day, in fact. Here?s a handy site that lets you find a local game shop.

You can also find it online, of course. But try to support your independents.

WHAT TO BUY

The Core Set is plenty. It offers a lot of fun. If you?re SURE the person you?re buying for will love it, or you have a bit more money to spend, maybe pick up an extra X-Wing or an extra TIE for the card variance. Or buy an extra Core Set for a bigger battle, Or, you could pick up a Y-Wing and a TIE Interceptor so that you have some heavy ships moving around. Or all of the above if you are mad/rich/Santa.

FIRST DAY DOWN!

And it?s the X-Wing Miniatures Game. What will be next? And who will it be good for? Stay tuned to RPS!

Source: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/12/12/the-12-boardgames-of-christmas-day-one/

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Sports Memorabilia Auction Business Continues to Grow

If you wanted to, you could receive a catalog in your mailbox about once every ten days.? Between splashy major auctions and weekly internet-based events, sports memorabilia auction companies crank out a lot of copy.? Once a small part of the hobby, bid to own has become the primary method of transacting business for many.

Those who predicted the demise of the small auction company when eBay rocketed to the forefront about 15 years ago turned out to be wrong.?

However, it's an ultra competitive game that keeps company reps constantly on the prowl for new consignments and new ways of making a splash.? Sports Collectors Daily chatted with Ryan Friedman, the owner of Auction Report, a website that chronicles the goings on of some of those companies.

With the year winding down, was 2012 a successful one or are your companies still having a tough time with the economy?

RF:? I think that 2012 was an exceptional year for the auction houses.? This year might have marked one for the records books with some of the most significant memorabilia and card collections in a long time hitting ?the market through auction houses such as:? The Dreier Collection (Legendary Auctions), Angelo Dundee, Oscar Robertson, Ozzie Smith, Dmitri Young Collections (SCP Auctions), Don Larsen and Bobby Knight Collection (Steiner Sports), The Find and Historic Rarities Auction (Memory Lane), The Black Swamp Find (Heritage Auctions), and so much more.

2012 also offered a huge assortment truly one of a kind high end memorabilia and cards auction off including:? Earliest known Ruth Jersey (SCP Auctions), a few T206 Wagner Cards (Goodwin & Co and Memory Lane Inc), Walter Davis Olympic Gold Medal (Grey Flannel Auctions), 1952 Topps Complete Graded Set (Mile High Card Co), and so much more from others.? It was a great year for the auction companies.

Was it harder to get consignments or harder to make money on those consignments?

RF:? This is a tough question to answer because all these auction companies are privately held and we don?t get to see their profit and loss statements, like we see with publicly traded companies, but, from talking with so many different auction houses throughout the year, consignments are always the hardest part of the auction business.? It?s not easy to get cards and memorabilia on a consistent basis.? What the public see?s with each auction is a great selection of items, but what most people don?t realize is that some of these collections and items have taken the auction companies months and years to get.? ?They spend huge amounts of money to promote, travel and research to get consignments.?? Plus, competition between the auction houses and the options consignors have between all of the different auction houses makes it even harder for each auction house to get quality consignments.

As far as how much money they make, it?s a guessing game.? But, common sense is that the auction houses are growing, many are hiring more employees, and they keep turning out more auctions, so I would say it?s safe to say they are making money.

What are companies spending most of their time doing?? What?s most important to those who you deal with right now?

RF:? Number 1, 2,3 and 4 is getting consignments.? If I were put a percentage on it, I would say that 50-80% of their time is dealing with consignments and or buying of items and somewhere in the frame of 20-50% spent on production/PR/advertisement/day of the auction/post auction support and implementation.

You can?t have an auction without consignments, so I would say THE priority and will always be priority, is getting consignments, but, ?at the same time, I am seeing a larger increase of time spent on PR/Branding/Advertisement.? Being able to reach potential new clients and keep informed the current clientele are extremely important to all of the auction companies.? In fact, I would say that PR/Branding is becoming even more important to landing the larger collections because these consignors like to know that there collection is going to be properly published ?and promoted to as many people as possible.

One thing we?ve seen become commonplace over the last several years is the increasingly high quality catalogs that auction houses are producing for their major events.? They must cost a fortune to produce and ship.? Clearly, they?re important but how so, and how do they decide how much money they can spend on each catalog beforAuction catalogs sports memorabiliae it becomes too expensive?

RF:? Everything is a numbers game.? Many of the companies that have been producing these large high quality print catalogs have been in business for a long time and their expertise in producing auctions and being able to analyze the numbers of what they believe there potential sales will be, allows them to factor in how much they can spend to produce the catalogs.?? The catalogs however are important not just in the presentation of what they are auctioning off, but also as a PR and marketing tool for the current auction future consignments, and getting new bidders.? The value of walking into a collector?s house who might have a million dollar collection and showing them the high quality auction catalog, you have produced becomes invaluable.?? These catalogs provide value to pieces (in the way they are presented) and differentiate the auction houses.

However, today, not all auction houses need to produce a catalog.? In fact, we are seeing more and more auctions that are completely web based (no print catalog produced).? We see these for a few reasons; first,?? the cost of producing a catalog isn?t justified by what is being auctioned. Secondly, some auction houses know that their clients just don?t need a printed catalog to lug around, they know that 98% of bids are coming in through the web sites where all of the items are pictured (with more images than the print catalogs) and full descriptions.? With today?s technology and hardware that is available (Tablets, Notebooks, Cell Phones) accessing the auction and being able to have all the information you need to bid, makes the need for a catalog less important.

sports memorabilia at Hunt Auctions boothHow do auction companies build their mailing list and is it the most important part of their business?

RF:? There are numerous ways that the auction companies build their mailing lists, most commonly through various advertisement (on-line and print), conventions, and PR/Social Media.?? I think it?s an important part of their business, and has to be managed well.? They also have to engage their existing clients all the time as well, bringing top notch customer service to existing clients (thus keeping them on your mailing list) is equally as important as bringing in new clients.

There was at least one new entry into the auction game this year and another that changed hands.? Is there still room in what?s become a very crowded field?

RF:? Obviously for Auction Report, the more auction houses the better. But, in my opinion I believe that there is plenty of room for more.?? The auction business and or the auction format of buying and selling is the most popular way to do business, period.? This being said, it is only natural to see more ?auction companies? pop up.? Or, you see companies that have been in business for years who have been simply buying and selling items directly to their clients who are switching over and now offering items in an auction format.? ?A lot of the auction houses have a niche of what they deal in and there are plenty of areas of collectible and material to support more auction companies.

There is also the eBay cross over companies, and what I mean by this is that these are companies that have primarily sold through eBay style auctions who now find it better to do their own auctions with their own auction software in house.? ?Also, there are companies that do eBay only auctions, but, are now marketing and promoting their auctions outside of the eBay community, so they may seem new, but they are just reaching a new collector base outside of the eBay world.

Lastly, I do believe that you might see some of the larger auction houses merge with or buy some of the smaller auction houses in the next year or two.?? Just like you see with massive companies like AHuggins and Scott Auctions boothpple, Google, Microsoft, GE, it becomes easier to grow the business, acquire top talent and expanding your clientele base by buying up smaller companies.? We may see some of this in the near future or in a down market turn.

What?s the one thing buyers wish auction companies would change about the way they conduct business?

RF:? I wouldn?t say buyers want specific things changed, but rather, they want to see the auction houses always making improvements where they can.? Having better quality/more images of the auction items, accurate and detailed descriptions of the items, quality customer service are all areas where I believe each of the auction houses are always striving to do the best they can. There is always room for improvement.?? If there are specific changes buyer?s want, I strongly suggest they e-mail us ([email?protected]) as we will be happy to pass along suggestions to any specific auction house or they can contact the auction house direct with any suggestions.? The auction houses are always open to hearing from their clients.

Is there optimism about 2013?

RF:? Yes!? I think we are going to see a continuation of great consignments, memorabilia and card collections being offered in 2013.? The clientele base for sports memorabilia and cards is growing more and more main stream and even becoming more of an investment tool as well which attract a new type of collector.? I truly believe that both buying and selling via auction in 2013 may be another record setting year.

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Fed to spend $45B to sustain bond purchases

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Federal Reserve will spend $45 billion a month to sustain an aggressive drive to keep long-term interest rates low. And it says it plans to keep a key short-term rate near zero until unemployment drops below 6.5 percent.

The policies are intended to help an economy that the Fed says is growing only modestly with 7.7 percent unemployment in November.

Stocks and bond yields rose after the Fed's statement was released Wednesday after its final policy meeting of the year. The Dow Jones industrial average was little changed just before the Fed news crossed at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time and jumped 69 points shortly after.

The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 1.69 percent from 1.65 percent as investors sold ultrasafe investments and moved money into stocks.

"The Fed is aggressively trying to add to the economy's strength," said Jim O'Sullivan, chief economist at High Frequency Economics.

The Fed said it will direct the money into long-term Treasurys to replace an expiring bond-purchase program. The new purchases will expand its investment portfolio, which has reached nearly $3 trillion.

The central bank will continue buying $40 billion a month in mortgage bonds. All told, its monthly bond purchases will remain $85 billion. They are intended to reduce already record-low long-term rates to encourage borrowing and accelerate growth.

The Fed said it will continue the bond purchases until the job market improves substantially. It said it can pursue the aggressive stimulus programs because inflation remains below its target.

The Fed also kept its target for its benchmark short-term interest rate at a record low near zero, where it has been for the last four years. The Fed said Wednesday that it would link any future rate change to lower unemployment, as long as inflation is expected to stay below 2.5 percent.

Before Wednesday, the Fed had said it planned would keep the rate low until at least mid-2015.

The statement was approved on an 11-1 vote. Jeffrey Lacker, president of Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, objected for the eighth time this year.

The meeting was held against the backdrop of the looming "fiscal cliff," the sharp tax increases and spending cuts that will hit the economy in January if Congress and President Barack Obama are unable to reach an agreement this month to avert them.

Bernanke has said that the Fed's efforts will not be able to rescue the economy if the budget negotiations fail and the country does go over the fiscal cliff.

Fears of the cliff have led some U.S. companies to delay expanding, investing and hiring. Manufacturing has slumped. Consumers have cut back on spending. Unemployment remains elevated. If higher taxes and government spending cuts were to last for much of 2013, most experts say the economy would sink into another recession.

The latest bond-buying program would replace an expiring program called Operation Twist. With Twist, the Fed sold $45 billion a month in short-term Treasurys and used the proceeds to buy the same amount in longer-term Treasurys.

Twist didn't expand the Fed's investment portfolio, it just reshuffled the holdings. But the Fed has run out of short-term securities to sell. So to maintain its pace of long-term Treasury purchases and to keep long-term rates low, it must spend more and increase its portfolio.

The Fed's portfolio totals nearly $2.9 trillion ? more than three times its size before the 2008 financial crisis.

The Fed has launched three rounds of bond purchases since the financial crisis hit. In announcing a third program in September, the Fed said it would keep buying mortgage bonds until the job market improved substantially.

Skeptics note that rates on mortgages and many other loans are already at or near all-time lows. So any further declines in rates engineered by the Fed might offer little economic benefit.

Inside and outside the Fed, a debate has raged over whether the Fed's actions have helped support the economy over the past four years, whether they will ignite inflation later and whether they should be extended.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fed-spend-45b-sustain-bond-purchases-173108414--finance.html

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U.N. nuclear agency "ready" to go to Iran's Parchin site

VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. nuclear inspectors would be ready to go to Iran's disputed Parchin military complex if the Islamic state were to allow it during talks in Tehran later this week, a senior official said on Wednesday.

The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) believes Iran has conducted explosives tests with nuclear applications at Parchin, a sprawling facility southeast of Tehran, and has repeatedly asked for access.

Western diplomats say Iran has carried out extensive work at Parchin over the past year to cleanse it of any evidence of illicit activities, but IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said last week a visit would still be "useful".

Iran rejects accusations of a covert bid to develop the means and technologies needed to build nuclear arms and says Parchin is a conventional military site.

Thursday's talks in Tehran could indicate whether Iran is more willing to address international concerns over its atomic activities after U.S. President Barack Obama's re-election.

The stakes are high: Israel - widely believed to be the Middle East's only nuclear-armed power - has threatened military action if diplomacy fails to prevent its arch-enemy acquiring nuclear weapons. Iran says it would hit back hard if attacked.

IAEA Deputy Director General Herman Nackaerts, head of the team travelling to Iran, said the aim was to reach an agreement on outstanding issues "related to possible military dimensions" of Iran's nuclear program.

"We also hope that Iran will allow us to go to the site of Parchin," Nackaerts told journalists at Vienna airport before departing for Tehran.

"If Iran would grant us access, we would welcome that chance and we are ready to go," he said.

Western diplomats say they are not optimistic about a breakthrough in this week's discussions, since a series of meetings since January have failed to make any progress.

But they do not rule out that Iran, under tightening Western sanctions hurting its oil-dependent economy, will offer some concessions in an attempt to ease international pressure.

The IAEA wants Iran to allow its inspectors to visit sites, interview officials and study documents as part of an inquiry - largely stymied by Iranian stonewalling for four years - into suspected past, and possibly current, nuclear weapons research.

Iran says its nuclear program is entirely peaceful and rejects international demands to curb nuclear activity that could have both civilian and military purposes.

It says it must reach a framework agreement on the inquiry with the IAEA before providing the requested access.

(Editing by Kevin Liffey)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iaea-says-hopes-access-irans-parchin-115741563.html

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Concussions affect children's brains even after symptoms subside

Dec. 11, 2012 ? Brain changes in children who have sustained a mild traumatic brain injury, or concussion, persist for months following injury -- even after the symptoms of the injury are gone, according to a study published in the December 12 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The findings highlight the potential benefit of using advanced imaging techniques to monitor recovery in children following concussions.

Despite growing concerns over the risk of concussions in youth, the majority of research examining their effects on the brain has involved adults. These studies suggest that, among other things, concussions alter the brain's white matter -- the long fibers that carry information from one area of the brain to another. Some recent data suggest the developing brains of children may be more vulnerable to the effects of mild traumatic brain injury.

In the current study, Andrew Mayer, PhD, and colleagues at the Mind Research Network and the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, specifically studied older children (ages 10-17) with mild traumatic brain injury. They found that structural changes in the children's white matter seen about two weeks after the injury remained evident more than three months later despite the disappearance of symptoms related to the injury.

"These findings may have important implications about when it is truly safe for a child to resume physical activities that may produce a second concussion, potentially further injuring an already vulnerable brain," Mayer said.

The researchers conducted cognitive testing and used an advanced imaging technique known as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to examine the brains of 15 children who had recently (within 21 days of injury) experienced a concussion and 15 unaffected children. In the brain, DTI specifically images white matter. During a follow-up visit approximately four months post-injury, scientists repeated cognitive testing and imaging.

Initial testing revealed that children with the mild brain injury had subtle cognitive deficits and changes in white matter compared with healthy counterparts. While the children did not report symptoms of the injury during the follow-up visit months later, DTI revealed that the structural changes to the brain remained.

"The magnitude of the white matter changes in children with mild traumatic brain injury was larger than what has been previously been reported for adult patients with mild traumatic brain injury," Mayer said. "This suggests that developmental differences in the brain or the muscular-skeletal system may render pediatric patients more susceptible to injury," he added.

Based on the imaging data collected during the study, the researchers were able to accurately distinguish the brains of patients who had mild traumatic brain injury from those who were healthy 90 percent of the time. Such findings suggest DTI, which does not require the use of ionizing radiation, could one day be used to diagnose the injury and to better characterize the recovery process in the brain.

Christopher Giza, MD, an expert on developmental brain injury from the Mattel Children's Hospital and the Brain Injury Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in the study, noted that while the number of patients in the study was small, the findings mark "an important step forward in our understanding of the effects of mild traumatic brain injury on the developing brain."

"Further work is needed to determine whether the changes in white matter present at four months represent a prolonged recovery process or permanent change in the brain," Giza added. "Determining the duration of the structural changes, and whether these changes have clinical implications, remain critical areas for future studies," he said.

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PFT: Idiots? Jets claim Edwards off waivers

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Most of former Commissioner Paul Tagliabue?s 22-page ruling focuses on the question of whether and to what extent players should be subject to suspension for pay-for-performance/bounty programs that are administered by coaches.

But free-agent defensive end Anthony Hargrove?s seven-game suspension ultimately was fueled by allegations that Hargrove lied to investigators in March 2010, when the NFL first started to sniff around the Saints regarding the possibility that a bounty existed on former Vikings quarterback Brett Favre during the 2010 NFC title game.

So how did Hargrove beat the rap?

For starters, Tagliabue compared the suspension of Hargrove for obstruction of justice, to the $50,000 fine imposed two years ago on Favre himself for lying to the league in connection with the investigation regarding whether he sent inappropriate cell-phone photos to a former Jets employee.

?Although not entirely comparable to the present matter, this illustrates the NFL?s practice of fining, not suspending players, for serious violations of this type,? Tagliabue explains in his official ruling.? ?There is no evidence of a record of past suspensions based purely on obstructing a League investigation.? In my forty years of association with the NFL, I am aware of many instances of denials in disciplinary proceedings that proved to be false, but I cannot recall any suspension for such fabrication.?

That?s a very polite way of saying that, in Tagliabue?s opinion, Commissioner Roger Goodell went way too far in suspending Hargrove.

Tagliabue also points to the fact that coaches told Hargrove to lie, and that ?it is clear that Hargrove was under tremendous pressure to follow the chain of command in order to keep his job.?? It makes sense, even though Goodell had disregarded the reality that Hargrove was simply saying what he had to say in order to remain employed by the Saints.

Finally, Tagliabue relied on the ambiguity regarding the specific questions Hargrove was asked by invesitgators.? Denying the existence of a pay-for-performance program is different from denying the existence of a bounty on Brett Favre.? ?If Hargrove denied only the existence of the alleged bounty on Favre,? Tagliabue writes, ?[Hargrove] is no more guilty of conduct detrimental than the numerous Saints? defensive team members from the 2009-2010 season who have provided sworn statements or testimony to the same effect and who have not been suspended or otherwise disciplined.?

All things considered, it was the right decision.? And it makes the league office look wrong for so zealously pursuing a guy who was doing what he need to do and who may not have even been lying at all ? especially since, as Tagliabue noted, no action like this had ever been taken in 40 years of NFL history.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/11/braylon-edwards-is-a-new-york-jet/related/

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Celebrates Ribbon Cutting For New $1.5M School | Osprey Observer

By Tamas Mondovics

Students, teachers and some 80 special guests have gathered in a brand new ?cafetorium? for plaques and presentations, as well as a ribbon cutting last month on what school officials called a gleaming new 12,000 sq. ft. charter school in Ruskin.

The celebration at Redlands Christian Migrant Association (RCMA) Leadership Academy located off U.S. 301, on the campus of Beth-El Mission, at 18234 U.S. Highway 301 South in Wimauma, marked the end of a fundraising campaign that began in 2008, a construction project that began in March and final touches on a cafeteria and auditorium that opened just one week prior.

School officials proudly emphasized that collectively the festivities? honored guests generated more than $1.5 million in donations for the project.

According to RCMA Director of Communications and Marketing Bill Coats, opening this fall Leadership Academy, currently cares for 52 students in grades six and seven, but at capacity, will serve 132 students in grades 6-8.

?It is a sibling to the 12-year-old RCMA Wimauma Academy, an elementary school next door,? Coats said. It was created to provide high-quality education customized to the bi-cultural lives of south Hillsborough County?s low-income families are extensions of RCMA?s larger role of early childhood education for Florida?s rural poor that runs 18 child care centers in the Tampa Bay area and 71 statewide.

RCMA Leadership Academy now boasts eight classrooms, a 900 sq. ft. area for administrative offices, the cafeteria and auditorium.

Honorees included Gary Wishnatzki, an RCMA board member and owner of Plant City-based Wish Farms, which along with an annual tennis tournament, accounted for more than $330,000 in donations to the Leadership Academy building campaign.

In Wishnatzki?s honor, the school named the cafeteria bearing his family name as well as planted a live oak on the grounds and mounted a painting of strawberry pickers in the office.

Also on the roster of honored guests was Tampa businessman John Kirtley, founder of Step Up For Students and leader of Florida?s movement for parental choice in schools.

Kirtley personally donated $100,000, while Step Up for Students matched that amount.

?A live oak was also planted in front of the school in honor of Kirtley and his family,? Coats said.

Also honored were two local groups that contributed more than $50,000 apiece: the Interfaith Council of Sun City Center and the Community Foundation of Greater Sun City Center.

?Building this school was like giving birth,? said Mainster. ?Once it was done, we could forget all the pain.?

For more information about RCMA Wimauma Academy, please visit www.rcma.org.

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Source: http://www.ospreyobserver.com/2012/12/celebrates-ribbon-cutting-for-new-1-5m-school/

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Yahoo launches Mail redesign, with eye on speed and simplicity

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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer used her company's official blog to announced a Mail redesign. According to the exec, the company's shiny new inbox was revamped with speed in mind, letting users access their messages "faster than ever before." Mayer also promised fewer distractions for consumers, with messages at the center of the new design, as well as a "consistent look and feel across devices," including platforms like Windows 8, iOS, Android and the web. All of Mayer's comments can be found in the source link below.

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Breakthrough in augmented reality contact lens

ScienceDaily (Dec. 5, 2012) ? The Centre of Microsystems Technology (CMST), imec's associated laboratory at Ghent University (Belgium), has developed an innovative spherical curved LCD display, which can be embedded in contact lenses. The first step toward fully pixilated contact lens displays, this achievement has potential wide-spread applications in medical and cosmetic domains.

Unlike LED-based contact lens displays, which are limited to a few small pixels, imec's innovative LCD-based technology permits the use of the entire display surface. By adapting the patterning process of the conductive layer, this technology enables applications with a broad range of pixel number and sizes, such as a one pixel, fully covered contact lens acting as adaptable sunglasses, or a highly pixilated contact lens display.

The first prototype presented December 5 contains a patterned dollar sign, depicting the many cartoons that feature people or figures with dollars in their eyes. It can only display rudimentary patterns, similar to an electronic pocket calculator. In the future, the researchers envision fully autonomous electronic contact lenses embedded with this display. These next-generation solutions could be used for medical purposes, for example to control the light transmission toward the retina in case of a damaged iris, or for cosmetic purposes such as an iris with a tunable color. In the future, the display could also function as a head-up display, superimposing an image onto the user's normal view. However, there are still hurdles to overcome for broader consumer and civilian implementation.

"Normally, flexible displays using liquid crystal cells are not designed to be formed into a new shape, especially not a spherical one. Thus, the main challenge was to create a very thin, spherically curved substrate with active layers that could withstand the extreme molding processes," said Jelle De Smet, the main researcher on the project. "Moreover, since we had to use very thin polymer films, their influence on the smoothness of the display had to be studied in detail. By using new kinds of conductive polymers and integrating them into a smooth spherical cell, we were able to fabricate a new LCD-based contact lens display."

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