"Genius" inventor Stanford Ovshinsky dies

Thu Oct 18, 2012 3:19pm EDT

(Reuters) - Stanford R. Ovshinsky, the Michigan-based inventor whose development of the nickel-metal hydride battery helped the Toyota Prius become the world's first successful hybrid car, died on Wednesday evening, aged 89.

Ovshinsky, a self-taught scientist, also developed -- and often patented -- a wide variety of breakthrough products and processes, from thin-film solar cells to hydrogen fuel cells.

It was his work on the rechargeable NiMH battery, however, that had the broadest reach and greatest impact on consumers. Until being replaced by more advanced lithium-ion batteries, Ovshinsky's patented NiMH battery chemistry was used in millions of devices such as laptop computers, digital cameras and mobile phones.

The cause of death was prostate cancer, according to his son, Harvey Ovshinsky.

Born in 1922 in Akron, Ohio, Stan Ovshinsky moved to Detroit at age 30 to become director of research at automotive and defense supplier Hupp Corp. In 1960, he co-founded Energy Conversion Devices with his second wife, Iris, a PhD chemist.

In 2007, Ovshinsky was forced out of ECD. With his third wife, Rosa, he then established Ovshinsky Innovation and Ovshinsky Solar to continue his research in energy and information technologies.

Ovshinsky was often hailed in the scientific community and by the media. In 1987, he was profiled as "Japan's American Genius" in the PBS television series Nova. In 1999, Time magazine named him a "Hero for the Planet." Britain's Economist magazine in 2006 dubbed Ovshinsky "the Edison of our age."

Ovshinsky held hundreds of patents in the United States and overseas and was awarded honorary doctoral degrees by at least seven schools, including the University of Michigan.

(Reporting by Paul Lienert in Detroit; Editing by Dan Grebler)

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Woman Saves Exotic Pets from Their Owners | The Arkansas Traveler

On May 14, 1996, the Boone County Sheriff?s Office received several complaints about strange noises and odors emanating from a trailer. The police could smell the scene before they could see it. When they arrived, low, deep growls of lions and higher-pitched, faster snarls of leopards and cougars greeted them. The police didn?t know what animals were making this racket. They were smart enough to keep a safe distance from the trailer and its contents.

Upon investigation, the police discovered a horrifying example of animal cruelty. The evidence suggested animals were neglected for possibly three weeks, according to reports from neighbors and officials.

The police called Tanya Smith, president and a founder of Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge, to bail them out of this potentially deadly situation. The refuge provides a permanent home to abandoned, abused and neglected exotic animals with an emphasis on large cats.

The refuge houses a variety of dogs, donkeys, ducks, more than 100 big cats, seven black bears and one monkey named Goober. Most of the animals are from private owners, people who purchase a pet and then discover the responsibilities and costs are too great. Smith estimates that 90 percent of the animals come from private owners and would have been euthanized if not for the refuge.
This refuge prevents the senseless killing of dangerous predatory animals. Ostentatious purchases of exotic pets by eccentric owners have created a need for places like Turpentine Creek. Each rescue has its own story, just as each cat has its own personality. Some animals are rescued from breeding companies, such as Zeus, the vocal Siberian tiger.? Others animals belonged to private owners, like Thor the lion, who is trained for TV and public appearances.

The refuge covers approximately 500 acres; fewer than 90 of these have been developed for natural habitats. Smith is required to have permits from United States Department of Agriculture and Arkansas Game and Fish Commission to conduct her nonprofit business. Turpentine Creek is a nonbreeding facility, which means animals are not bought or sold, according to the refuge website.

Some of the cats are kept in a maze of cages on the walking tour. The thin steel bars are welded in cross patterns and reinforced with thicker frames. The heights are rarely constant, and most of the cages are connected. Any cats with behavioral problems live in solitary confinement, but socially successful cats like Zeus can share cells and travel through multiple cages.

Zeus is one of the refuge?s largest cats. His white color is a result of inbreeding, and his growl reverberates deep within the rib cage of anyone close. The large cat was laid out on the warm concrete stretching in the sun. He is the nearly the same size as the refuge?s grizzly bear, but his cat nap resembled a kittens or normal pet cat. This behavior dwarfed his stature only for the duration of the nap.

?You would be amazed if you knew how much they have in common with normal house cats,? said Ivy Cooper, full-time staff and volunteer coordinator for Turpentine Creek.

When Cooper approached the cage, she chuffed, or made a sound big cats use to communicate in a friendly or peaceful manner. Zeus slowly rose from his resting position and begin to pace while growling at Cooper. His deep voice sounded like the engine of a small plane.

Zeus was rescued from a private breeding facility in Missouri. Cooper was one of the crew that rescued Zeus.

?Seventy-two percent of our population is in natural habitats that are up to a third of an acre in size,? Cooper said. ?The rest are the units you see in the walking tour, our goal is to have all of them in natural habitats. The next to get a large habitat is our only grizzly bear, Bam Bam.?

The refuge offers stimulation, food and a clean place to stay. Some of the rescues may have one of these things but often lacks another, Cooper said. Private owners often lack the time, training or space to house an exotic animal.

Turpentine Creek employs more than 20 interns in biology and zoology, who monitor feed and clean the animals daily.

Help was on the way

?It takes a good team,? Smith said. ?Every day you have 200 eyes looking at you, and all wondering, ?How am I going to get food?? It has been hard, and I didn?t start seeing the light at the end of the tunnel until we got the interns.?

The interns come from all over the world to help and study the animals at the refuge. Some of the students from the UA have developed heating pads to help the animals adjust to the changes in climate. Others have helped to develop crash courses for exotic animal veterinary classes.

Some interns have helped shape legislation to help exotic animals. A former intern of Turpentine Creek helped create the Arkansas code that prohibits personal possession of an exotic animal unless they obtain the proper permit.

?There is nothing like working with tigers and big cats,? said John Chavez, intern. ?We do the husbandry, the food prep, feeding, tours and keeper talks ? you name it, and we do it. The only bad part about it is the anticipation, waiting to see the animals in their larger natural habitats.?

All of the more than 300 interns who have worked the refuge love animals and live on the land while working there. This love drives them to help creatures that would brutally maim or kill them if it ever got the chance. It drives them to go to horrible scenes to help rescue these animals.

The events in Boone County serve as an example of one of these horrible scenes. Eleven large cats were imprisoned and abandoned by their owner, Katherine Gordon Twist. The sounds and smells of the animals? cramped enclosure kept the police at bay until Smith and her team arrived.

Twist had eight large cats in a 20-foot horse trailer. Two others were in small cages, and one, whose name was Spitty Smitty the cougar, was in a 3-foot-tall cargo drum.

This story is repeated often on the tour of the compound. It is an example to Smith and her employees; it is one of their reasons they do what they do.

One cat of the 11 is still with the refuge today. Some died of complications from the conditions in which they were found. Others died of old age on the refuge, in a permanent home that provided a clean and warm place to sleep as well as food.

?I believe that the animals that we save deserve to live free of pain and suffering,? Smith said. ?It is this that keeps me eager to learn and to educate others about our mission.?

Source: http://www.uatrav.com/2012/10/17/woman-saves-exotic-pets-from-their-owners/

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England's Greg Owen takes early lead at Sea Island

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (AP) ? Greg Owen of England had the kind of round that makes him glad he stuck with his career on the PGA Tour.

In calm conditions that matched the idyllic nature of Sea Island, Owen played bogey-free Thursday morning for a 6-under 64 that gave him a one-shot lead over Sea Island residents Davis Love III and Zach Johnson among the early starters in the McGladrey Classic.

Owen, who has never won in his six full seasons on the PGA Tour, is coming off his worst season ever in America. He was relegated to the Nationwide Tour and didn't even crack the top 50 on the money list, earning $121,259. He played 23 events and started to wonder if it was worth being away from his two daughters so much. But he went back to Q-school, earned his card and already had surpassed $1 million this season.

All that's missing is a win, and this was a reasonably good start.

"After last year on the Nationwide Tour, I was very disheartened with the game, wasn't enjoying it," Owen said. "Being away from the kids and not really doing much, I couldn't see the point. I'd rather be at home seeing the kids grow up because I'm not going to make any money. Played really well at Q-school, got through there and just thought, 'I've got another chance.' So hopefully, I'm going to take it and stick with it."

A trio of Sea Island aficionados was at 65. Love has lived here since he was 14 and now is the tournament host of the McGladrey Classic, though he still walked through the parking lot carrying his PGA Tour badge. "It gets me in places," he said, and that included the broadcast booth. Johnson also lives at Sea Island.

And David Toms?

He's still Louisiana through and through, but he likes Sea Island so much he brings his wife and two children to this resort twice a year. Toms had never been to Sea Island until the inaugural McGladrey Classic in 2010, and he wouldn't miss it. This is the first tournament since The Barclays two months ago, and he would have gone the rest of the year without playing if not for this event being on the schedule. He even took up membership at nearby Federica Golf Club earlier this year.

"I just fell in love with the place," Toms said. "I think it's beautiful. We have a lot of live oaks in south Louisiana with Spanish moss, but we don't have it meet the ocean because we've got a lot of marshes. This reminds me of all the best parts of Louisiana."

Also at 65 was former U.S. Amateur champion Danny Lee, a reminder that this week isn't peaceful for everyone.

The McGladrey Classic is the penultimate PGA Tour event on the schedule that counts toward the money list, and time is running out on players who are desperately trying to finish among the top 125. It's especially important this year, because the 2013 schedule will end in September before a reconfigured season begins for 2013-14.

Lee checked in at No. 167, so he was pleased with his start.

He already was 5 under through seven holes with an eagle at the par-5 seventh, though he didn't make up much ground from there. Even so, the 65 follows a strong week in California when he tied for 16th.

"It feels like I got fire on my (behind) right now," Lee said. "Just want to maintain this because I want to play on the PGA Tour for a long, long time. Top 150 you still get into a few events, so that's what I'm actually looking at right now. But after this round, it might turn around."

John Daly recovered from three straight bogeys early in his round for an even-par 70 in what likely will be his last PGA Tour event of the year. He is at No. 141 on the money list and probably needs about $200,000 to have a chance at getting a full PGA Tour card for the first time since 2006. Otherwise, Daly is headed to China, Singapore and Hong Kong as he tries to make the final field for the Race to Dubai in Europe.

Jim Furyk had a 67 and felt a little rusty in his first appearance since the Ryder Cup. For Furyk and Johnson, there is still a bit of a hangover from their shocking loss to Europe, which rallied from a four-point deficit on the final day at Medinah. This is the third time Love has played since the Ryder Cup, and even during his brief appearance in the broadcast booth, he was looking back on how the matches could have ended differently.

Johnson lost only one match that week ? when Ian Poulter closed with five straight birdies in fourballs ? and he hasn't stopped thinking about it three weeks later.

"I haven't gotten over it," he said. "I don't think about specific shots. I think about a team that came together so well ? we're closer now than before we started ? and that team, we're all just a little disappointed we didn't come through. And I think about another team that really executed and made putts. I've started seeing pieces of it, and wow, that was really good. Poulter hasn't played great of late, and then he goes nuts."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/englands-greg-owen-takes-early-lead-sea-island-184336046--spt.html

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Nike, RadioShack, and others consider business and marketing ...

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Nike and Oakley stuck with Lance Armstrong through his battle with cancer in 1996, when much of the sporting world considered him damaged goods. But for companies like Nike and Trek Bicycles, the mountain evidence the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency amassed against the former world champion was too much, and according to one sports marketing expert, Armstrong?s fall from grace will be the sharpest decline in modern sports history.

On Wednesday, Nike terminated its contract and its 16-year relationship with Armstrong. The move comes as an abrupt about-face from Nike?s stance just six days prior, when the athletic apparel manufacturer issued a statement saying that, ?Nike plans to support Lance and the Lance Armstrong Foundation.? In dropping the former world champion, Nike led RadioShack, Giro, Trek, Honey Stinger and Anheuser-Busch in what is already a growing exodus of corporate partners away from the Armstrong name.

And a name, according to Evan Morgenstein, president and CEO of PMG Sports, is ?the only thing [an athlete] can market in this world.?

Now, Morgenstein said, Nike ?absolutely didn?t believe the story that they had heard previously. Then again, it could have been business factors also.?

Morgenstein, whose sports management group focuses on the brand management of Olympic athletes, told VeloNews on Wednesday that, ?What you?re going to see is the greatest collapse by an American icon, sports or otherwise, in history.?

Brand managers at Nike, who produced the Livestrong apparel and whose logo had adorned Armstrong?s one-off cycling shoes, would have had ?an absolute nightmare? dealing with the collapse of the Armstrong brand, Morgenstein said: ?Just take it from a business perspective first, how much inventory are they going to have to liquidate now, or how much of it?s coming back to their warehouses from their retailers??

These retailers, Morgenstein said, ?with tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars of merchandise, saying ?we?re sending it back,? because [the merchandise is] not moving,? must, like Nike, face the business consequences of the fact that ?the public doesn?t believe [Armstrong] anymore.?

In addition to the business concerns, Morgenstein said, Nike ? like Armstrong throughout his Tour-winning years, when he assured the sporting public that his victories were achieved drug-free ? ?probably had, at some level, reassured over and over again their retail partners that there?s smoke but no fire. And so now, these retailers? they have to deal with the public rebuke of someone, for all intents and purposes, that?s no different than (Olympic medalist and drug cheat) Marion Jones.?

Armstrong, however, ?is so much bigger of a global icon, with so much more to risk,? he added. ?All these companies (that) have spent money associated with him, probably add up to be about a billion dollars.?

Companies like Nike and Trek Bicycles continued to back Armstrong, despite serious personal red flags, according to Morgenstein, pointing to ?the fact that [Armstrong] had multiple wives, they?ve overlooked a lot of things that maybe some other people would have been held to? This is a company that stuck with Kobe Bryant after what happened in Colorado (Bryant was accused of rape in 2003), Michael Vick going to jail (for illegally organizing and gambling on dog fighting), Tiger Woods in a global scandal (Woods admitted to being a serial cheater on his wife), and they stuck with those three. Lance Armstrong, they dumped.?

David Carter, a sports business professor at the University of Southern California and executive director of USC?s Sports Business Institute said Nike could no longer afford to stand by Armstrong as it had other disgraced icons.

?I think because his indiscretion cut to the very heart of competition in sport, if he lacks that kind of integrity there?s no way a company like Nike can tolerate that,? Carter said. ?The other guys? problems were off the field of play.?

As both an athlete and as a marketable brand, Morgenstein said, ?How you remember Lance Armstrong was like Paul Bunion. And now, how you think of Lance Armstrong, is like Al Capone.?

Carter noted that a surprising number of disgraced athletes manage to rehabilitate themselves in the eyes of fans and sponsors. Armstrong might be different, not only because he was already retired from top-flight cycling when he was banned, but also because he has never admitted any wrongdoing.

?The only way they come back is when they take personal responsibility and accountability for what they?ve done,? Carter said. ?He has not taken responsibility.?

With the fallout from USADA?s case against Armstrong mounting day-by-day, the extent of the business and marketing consequences is sure to grow.

Rebecca Bryan and Agence France Presse contributed to this report.

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Citigroup's new CEO has a lot to tackle - The Term Sheet: Fortune's ...

FORTUNE -- Citigroup's new CEO Michael Corbat was an ivy league football star, who turned heads in the Harvard cafeteria.

"He was extremely well rounded," says Andrew Doctoroff, a fellow Harvard student, who wrote about the then All-Ivy offensive lineman in The Harvard Crimson in 1982. "He kept his athletic prowess in perspective."

Even back then, the 6'3'', 230-pound Corbat had his sights on tackling investment banking. He's now landed in one of the biggest jobs on Wall Street, and perhaps the toughest.

On Tuesday, Citigroup (C) said Corbat, 52, would take over from Vikram Pandit as the firm's new CEO. Pandit brought Citi back from its near death experience, when it had to be bailed out twice by the government. It has since paid Uncle Sam back. But the bank has struggled to grow. Recently, Citi missed out on a boom in the mortgage market. What's more, Citi is still stuck with billions of dollars of assets that the bank says it no longer wants to own, but can't seem to figure out how to get rid off. The troubled assets have continued to drag down Citi's earnings.

"We have the right footprint and the right resources," Corbat told analysts on conference call on Tuesday afternoon. "It's up to us to make sure we use these properly."

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Unlike Pandit, who was brought into the bank in a controversial acquisition shortly before being picked as CEO, Corbat is a lifer of the Citi organization. "He's had a broader range of roles leading up to the job than Pandit," says a former Citi executive who worked with Corbat. "He's a capable guy and a good salesman."

Corbat's first job was working for Salomon Brothers in Atlanta. But by 1987, he had been transferred to Solly's legendary New York office, which later became the subject of Michael Lewis' famous Wall Street book Liar's Poker. A debt specialist, Corbat rose to be the head of high-yield bonds and emerging markets at Solly, before the firm was merged in a series of acquisitions with Citibank to form Citigroup.

Sandy Weill, the former CEO of Citigroup, said that he knows Corbat well and thought Citi's board had made a good choice. "He has been a great manager for Citi in all of the important positions he has held," said Weill. "He is respected by the people within the company and he will be a good leader for the team in the future."

MORE: Housing: The final nail in Pandit's coffin?

Since the Citigroup merger, Corbat has headed up a number of businesses at the firm, including corporate bank and its wealth management division, and has spent time in London and Hong Kong. Shortly after the financial crisis, Pandit named Corbat the head of Citi Holdings, the group of businesses, including subprime lending and the Salomon Smith Barney brokerage division, that bank was looking to get rid of. As head of that division, Corbat helped the firm dispose of $500 billion of unwanted assets in a little over three years. At the beginning of this year, he took over the firm's Europe, Middle East and Africa opperations.

"Pandit put Corbat in charge of the bad bank and the sense is that he did a good job with it," says an executive recruiter who has worked with Citi.

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Corbat is a Connecticut native. He is listed as the owner of a 4-bedroom, 1-and-a-half-bath, 3,500 square foot Manhattan apartment on Central Park West. The apartment has a fireplace and exposed wood beams in the living room. But Corbat doesn't appear to live there. According to the real estate website Streeteasy, the apartment was rented out in March for $33,000 a month. Corbat also owns a house in 6,300 square foot house in Wilson, Wyoming. That house was estimated to be worth $3.7 million in 2010, according to real estate website Trulia.

Pay seems to be part of the reason for Pandit's department. Earlier this year, shareholders voted to reject a $15 million pay package for the Citi's former CEO. Corbat said he will take $1.5 million as a base salary, plus a bonus to be determined later.

Source: http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/10/16/michael-corbat-citigroup-ceo/

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Age of first sexual experience predicts romantic outcomes in adulthood

It?s a common lament among parents: Kids are growing up too fast these days. Parents worry about their kids getting involved in all kinds of risky behavior, but they worry especially about their kids? forays into sexual relationships. And research suggests that there may be cause for concern, as timing of sexual development can have significant immediate consequences for adolescents? physical and mental health.

But what about long-term outcomes? How might early sexual initiation affect romantic relationships in adulthood?

Psychological scientist Paige Harden of the University of Texas at Austin wanted to investigate whether the timing of sexual initiation in adolescence might predict romantic outcomes ? such as whether people get married or live with their partners, how many romantic partners they?ve had, and whether they?re satisfied with their relationship ? later in adulthood.

To answer this question, Harden used data from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health to look at 1659 same-sex sibling pairs who were followed from adolescence (around 16) to young adulthood (around 29). Each sibling was classified as having an Early (younger than 15), On-Time (age 15-19), or Late (older than 19) first experience with sexual intercourse. Her findings are reported in a new research article published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

As expected, later timing of first sexual experience was associated with higher educational attainment and higher household income in adulthood when compared with the Early and On-Time groups. Individuals who had a later first sexual experience were also less likely to be married and they had fewer romantic partners in adulthood.

Among the participants who were married or living with a partner, later sexual initiation was associated with significantly lower levels of relationship dissatisfaction in adulthood. The association held up even after taking genetic and environmental factors into account and could not be explained by differences in adult educational attainment, income, or religiousness, or by adolescent differences in dating involvement, body mass index, or attractiveness.

These results suggest that the timing of first experience with sexual intercourse predicts the quality and stability of romantic relationships in young adulthood. Although research has often focused on the consequences of early sexual activity, the Early and On-Time participants in this study were largely indistinguishable. The data suggest that early initiation is not a ?risk? factor so much as late initiation is a ?protective? factor in shaping romantic outcomes.

According to Harden, there are several possible mechanisms that might explain this relationship.

It?s possible, for example, that people who have their first sexual encounter later also have certain characteristics (e.g., secure attachment style) that have downstream effects on both sexual delay and on relationship quality. They could be pickier in choosing romantic and sexual partners, resulting in a reluctance to enter into intimate relationships unless they are very satisfying.

It?s also possible, however, that people who have their first sexual encounter later have different experiences, avoiding early encounters with relational aggression or victimization that would otherwise have detrimental effects on later romantic outcomes.

Finally, Harden explains that it?s possible that ?individuals who first navigate intimate relationships in young adulthood, after they have accrued cognitive and emotional maturity, may learn more effective relationship skills than individuals who first learn scripts for intimate relationships while they are still teenagers.?

Future research can help to tease apart which of these mechanisms may actually be at work in driving the association between timing of first sexual intercourse and later romantic outcomes.

In previous studies, Harden and her colleagues have found that earlier sexual intercourse isn?t always associated with negative outcomes. For example, using the same sample from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, she found that teenagers who experienced their first sexual intercourse earlier, particularly those who had sex in a romantic dating relationship, had lower levels of delinquent behavior problems. She explains, ?We are just beginning to understand how adolescents? sexual experiences influence their future development and relationships.?

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Huawei?s Ascend W1 Windows Phone 8 smartphone revealed in leaked photos

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New Griffin Communications broadcast facility built on Grass Valley ...

Independent station owner Griffin Communications is putting the finishing touches on a new, all HD broadcast facility in Tulsa, OK ? as the home of News On 6, KOTV, the local CBS affiliate and The Tulsa CW, KQCW, the local CW affiliate.

The broadcaster is equipping the facility with several high-definition (HD) cameras, a new HD video production switcher?and several of the latest generation of HD media servers?from Grass Valley.

Griffin Communications has been a long-time user of Grass Valley broadcast technology at its existing facility, where it began broadcasting in 1949.

The Grass Valley multiformat production equipment will help News On 6 streamline its production operations by enabling the file-based recording of incoming feeds, clip management, and playout of a variety of network-supplied and locally produced programming.

The new broadcast facility, built from the ground, is set to be fully operational in January 2013. Construction began in October 2011. It will originate News On 6 and Tulsa CW, as well as two digital subchannels (?News on 6 Now?, and ?ThisTV?). Master control and the new Grass Valley servers will begin operations in the new building December 2012.

?News On 6 will now have much more space for its staff and equipment and will be able to do so much more with the Grass Valley technologies being installed,? said News On 6 chief engineer Gerald Weaver.

News On 6 will use its new Grass Valley Kayenne switcher to produce 39.5 hours of local news as well as other programming each week, Weaver said. The broadcaster has used Grass Valley production switchers for many years, starting with a Grass Valley 300 and most recently moving on to a Kalypso switcher. For the new facility, the station has added a new Grass Valley Kayenne Video Production Center switcher. The switcher will handle the signals from four Grass Valley LDK 4000 Elite HD cameras, currently in use in the station?s existing news studio.

News On 6 also has added two K2 Summit 3G server frames and several terabytes of storage capacity to its existing complement of Grass Valley K2 Summit servers, which have been in use for several years. The new K2 Summit 3G servers will be used in tandem with a Harris automation system to handle incoming and outgoing programming and news feeds as digital files.

Source: http://broadcastengineering.com/hdtv/new-griffin-communications-broadcast-facility-built-grass-valley-hd-production-playout-solution

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NY brothers wait years to claim $5M lottery prize

(AP) ? Two brothers from central New York have claimed a $5 million lottery prize for a scratch-off ticket they bought at their parents' Syracuse store six years ago, state officials said.

Andy Ashkar, 34, of Camillus, and Nayel Ashkar, 36, of Cicero, came forward March 1, just 11 days before the top prize in the "$500,000,000 Extravaganza" scratch-off game would have expired, New York Lottery said.

Andy Ashkar said he bought the ticket at his parents' convenience store in Syracuse in 2006 and decided to share the winnings with his brother, officials said.

The agency said the younger brother said he waited so long to claim his prize because he was concerned the windfall could "negatively influence" his life if he didn't plan properly before being publicly introduced as the winner. Andy Ashkar also told lottery officials that he also didn't want the windfall to influence his engagement and subsequent marriage.

Calls to phone numbers listed for the Ashkar brothers went unanswered Wednesday morning.

Nayel Ashkar's wife, Sara, told The Post-Standard of Syracuse on Tuesday that news of the winnings was spreading fast, with family and friends calling to express their surprise and excitement.

"It's crazy," she said. "Hard to believe. It's still sinking in."

The brothers' mother, Wasa Ashkar, said her husband, Neyef, sold the winning ticket to Andy at the couple's Green Ale Market, but she couldn't remember exactly when. She said she and her husband were Palestinians from Jerusalem who immigrated to the United States nearly 40 years ago and have owned the store for 12 years.

"I'm happy. Of course I'm happy," she told The Associated Press over the phone before ending the conversation because she was busy with customers Wednesday morning.

Lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman said the brothers claimed their prize at the agency's Schenectady headquarters on March 1. Unlike winning tickets for games such as Lotto and Mega Million that expire in a year, tickets for scratch-off games expire a year after a game is retired. The Extravaganza game was retired on March 12, 2011, Hapeman said.

As is routine whenever a winner is related to the owner of the store that sold the ticket, the agency conducted an investigation. The inquiry determined Ashkar's scratch-off ticket was bought legitimately, Hapeman said.

The Ashkar brothers, both employed as managers at separate central New York auto dealerships, will be introduced at a news conference at a later date, the lottery spokeswoman said.

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273rd Military Police Company returns from 10 months in Afghanistan

By Staff Sgt. Michelle Gonzalez
715th Public Affairs Detachment

WASHINGTON - Approximately 70 returning members of the D.C. National Guard's 273rd Military Police Company received a warm welcome from friends, family and fellow Guardsmen at the D.C. National Guard Armory Oct. 14 after a 10-month deployment to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.

?These are the heroes of the D.C. National Guard and they went out and served our country and served us proud,? said Col. Aaron Dean, commander of the 74th Troop Command, in an interview, Oct. 8, at Fort Bliss, Texas, while waiting for his troops to arrive.

?Now we?re here to welcome them back and to let them know how good of a job they?ve done for us representing the D.C. Guard and representing the National Guard of the United States.? said Dean.

Each wave of returning soldiers received a warm welcome from the family support group, members of the 273rd Rear Detachment and other members of the D.C. National Guard, even the group arriving after 1 a.m. Several members of the 273rd who arrived on earlier flights stayed late into the night to welcome back their teammates.

While deployed, the soldiers of the 273rd provided military police assets, managed mail operations and a dining facility, conducted logistics and personnel convoys and provided physical security details to American personnel.

?In my mind, they did the United States proud by providing security for the base in Afghanistan and providing security for the forces that serve our country,? said Dean. ?I can?t thank these guys enough for the job that they do.?

Soldiers were released for 24 hours to be with friends and family. They will report back to the unit to finish administrative processing and classes on reintegration and available resources.

?I?m going to the movies,? said Spc. Melissa Ervin, a military police member of 1st Platoon, before seeing her family for the first time in months.

?I?m very excited to be back,? said Pfc. Jamal Winfield, a cook assigned to 2nd Platoon. ?It means the world to be back in the states. I want to spend as much time with my family that I can.?


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