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Continuing my warmup posts on Established Win Shares Levels, since I have kept you all waiting for the team previews, here's how the method, with the updated 2010 age adjustments, values the top 10 players (actually twelve, as I'm listing the guys who are essentially tied at 26 EWSL) in the game in terms of established performance level adjusted by age. EWSL is explained here. Chart below the fold.
Note that two of these guys, Upton and Longoria, are rated based on two rather than three years' worth of playing time. Upton in particular is given a heavy dose of high expectations based on historic growth rates for players his age, but of course some of that is due to the fact that guys his age are often transitioning from half-season rookie seasons to full-time jobs.
As usual, bear in mind as well that the age adjustments are blanket; the system treats Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder as typical of their ages, regardless of body type, etc. That said, if this isn't actually a list of the game's 12 most valuable players to have entering the 2010 season, it's probably not that far off.
If you're wondering, Felix Hernandez and Zack Greinke are the only pitchers rated at 20 EWSL or greater, while the top-rated reliever is Joakim Soria.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ? Residents of Sumner County, Kansas, received a dire warning last year as a tornado barreled through toward Wichita: Get underground or into a shelter ? or else.
"Mass devastation is highly likely, making the area unrecognizable to survivors," the National Weather Service cautioned last April.
In an effort to get people to safety quickly, the National Weather Service said Friday that it will expand its retooled severe weather warning system in Kansas, Missouri and 12 more Midwestern states.
Starting Monday, it will provide media outlets and emergency services with more detail about the strength of a brewing tornado or thunderstorm, what it may hit and when. The system will also detail possible hazards and impacts of any potential tornado based on radar data, and more information on less severe but still "considerable" storms.
Mike Hudson, an NWS meteorologist in Kansas City, Mo., said alerts with words such as "catastrophic" and "destruction" will likely be rare ? once a year in Kansas and twice a decade in northern states like Minnesota. The words will be reserved for "those types of tornadoes that ultimately take lives, so we want to ring the bell a little bit louder," he said.
"When we use them, you ought to pay attention," he said.
The weather service started its expanded warning pilot in Kansas and Missouri last year after researchers found that Joplin, Mo., residents didn't get a strong enough warning about the May 2011 tornado. It killed 161 people, injured hundreds more and destroyed thousands of homes and buildings.
"Nothing in that warning really stood out that said 'this is a lot higher risk' than a typical warning might be," Hudson said.
Just a handful of alerts were issued in the two-state region last year, Hudson said, but follow-up surveys found the heightened warnings improved response time, so the weather service decided to expand the pilot to the rest of the Midwest.
With that expansion, they will start including more information about when a tornado is expected to arrive.
In Minnesota, tornadoes are less frequent and generally less severe, so the updated system may be used more often for one or more severe thunderstorms. But Tony Zaleski, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's office in Chanhassen, Minn., cautioned that residents should take cover in a basement, bathroom or closet during any tornado.
"Even though we are coming up with this system for the larger tornadoes, the public should still be aware that they should take extra steps when any tornado warning is actually issued," Zaleski said.
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Three cheers for Reid M. Marburger of Adams Township, who told authorities of the plight of a wounded deer, asking that the appropriate actions take place to put the deer "out of her misery," along a snow-covered road near the border of Adams and Forward townships.
Apparently the authorities alerted by Marburger's mother's call to 911 did not respond, possibly because of weather conditions demanding their services elsewhere.
Three cheers for Adams Township police Chief Bill Westerman, who took appropriate action when called three hours after authorities initially were alerted by way of the 911 call.
A person doesn't have to be an animal lover to understand the plight of the deer, presumably injured by its impact with a vehicle.
Leaving any animal in a severely injured state to die is inhumane, and while the young man who discovered the dying deer did his part to ease the deer's plight, those who could have initially completed the job and ended the animal's suffering fell short.


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In the realm of Christmas decorations, Kenny and Loretta Getty are the king and queen in their neighborhood, and this year their kingdom is a comical one.
In the realm of Christmas decorations, Kenny and Loretta Getty are the king and queen in their neighborhood, and this year their kingdom is a comical one.
At their home on Fieldsboro Road near Townsend, the Gettys often receive friendly waves from strangers marveling at the display of Christmas lights and decorations in their yard. Each year, the Gettys pick a theme to inspire the scenes, and this year's choice is Sunday comics.
The Gettys shed some light into their annual production that draws waves of visitors.
Q How long have you been doing this?
KENNY Six years, since 2006
Q What motivated you to get creative with your display of Christmas lights?
KENNY When I was little, I always looked up to the lights. So in 2006, I started putting a bunch of lights up. But it's nowhere near what we're doing now.
LORETTA I actually had no idea that he was like Clark Griswold.
KENNY I always had it in me! I didn't go crazy until we bought our own house in 2006. Before that we were renters and didn't really decorate.
Q How long does it take to decorate the place?
KENNY It takes about three months, off-and-on. Loretta's drawings take a long time; she has to draw out the characters and I have to cut it out.
LORETTA I have to draw it out, paint it and then it's cut out and lacquered.
Q Do you know how many lights you have on display this year?
KENNY About 52,000.
Q And how many lights have you amassed over the years?
KENNY About 1 million.
Q So how much does your electricity bill increase in December?
LORETTA It just about doubles.
KENNY Last December it was around $250. Normally we're around $150 a month, so it's not that much.
LORETTA We have a small house.
Q How did this year's theme come about?
LORETTA We always wanted to do "Peanuts" from the Charlie Brown Christmas, and my mom actually said, "What if you take it a step further and do Sunday comics?" I said what do you mean? And she said, "You know, like Ziggy, Calvin & Hobbs."
Q What themes have you done in the past?
KENNY The first year we began doing themes was in 2008 and we did Candy Land, like the kid's board game.
LORETTA In 2009, our theme was the Grinch and other Dr. Seuss characters. In 2010 we did Rudolph from the clay animation film.
KENNY And in 2011 we did Candy Land again. But we added more to it.
Q You usually launch the lightshow on Thanksgiving night?
KENNY It's a big family tradition here.
LORETTA There's like 60 people out on our front lawn waiting for the lights to go on.
KENNY There's a timer in the basement and we have to wait for it to kick on. So the last couple of years it was off by 10 minutes because of a power failure a couple of days before. It was set for 6:30 p.m.
Q What sort of timer do you have?
KENNY There's an industrial timer in the basement.
Q Loretta, is it true that Christmas lights played a role in Kenny's marriage proposal to you?
LORETTA It was the first year we moved into our house and he was like, "I've always wanted a big family dinner." And I'm like, "The size of our house cannot hold many people." But we decided we'll try to make it work. So we had 25 people in this little, tiny 1,000-square-foot ranch house.
KENNY It was ridiculous.
LORETTA It was that year that he wanted to make it a tradition of lighting up the house; and he said, "Come on everybody, let's go outside." The house was lit up and another light showed up on the roof our house and it said: "Loretta will you marry me?" And it worked. How could you say no to that?!


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I wanted to be a simple God-fearing Jew, but I had no models to follow.
I wanted to be a simple God-fearing Jew, but I had no models to follow.
An Open Letter to Orthodox ChristiansHello,I've been posting on these forums for a little over a month now, and I've enjoyed conversing with its members. I'd like to make my formal introduction.--- PART I: BACKGROUND ---I was born to a Jewish mother and a gentile father (who was raised Presbyterian but stopped practicing once he reached adulthood). This, according to all Jewish authorities, makes me a Jew. Before two years ago, this did not matter to me; I lived a secular life with Christmas trees and Menorahs sitting in the same living room. By adolesence I was privy to bouts of depression, and I did not believe in God. After graduating college, I tried to make it in the big city with art, but I was soon swept by a sea of melancholy. I no longer felt there was any purpose in life, and though I did not contemplate suicide, I felt both lethargic towards my own actions and embittered towards everyone else's. What was right? What wasn't? Why is nothing working out for me? Then, I went on a free trip to Israel as part of the Birthright program. For 10 days, I breathed in the sights and sounds of the holy land. Although I did not think it holy back then). We were chaperoned by two young rabbis from an Orthodox Jewish outreach organization.1 They tried clumsily to capture our hearts with ideas about God and the Jewish people, but no one bit -- no one, except for me.In the Jerusalem hotel, the rabbi lent me a book to read that talked about how it's possible to live life without every knowing God, and why one should strive to know him and serve him. Suddenly, I wasn't an agnostic anymore; no, I realized that God could be explained differently than how I saw him portrayed in secular media. He was this indefinable power, master of all reality yet infinitely beyond it, controlling the world through a perfect system that I once called mere nature. He was not, as I had been led to believe, a grey-bearded man in the clouds with a suffering son who was also somehow the same person.As the plane touched down in the states, I was changed. I began to seriously consider a god (who seemed to answer all the questions I had before), and I wanted to pursue things further. Just as I was about to claim membership at a reform synagogue, a friend stopped me and pointed me to Orthodoxy. His father was Jewish and his mother was a gentile, which meant he had to convert to earn the recognition of Orthodox authorities. Before beginning Orthodox conversion, he went through Reform and Conservative phases, until deciding that if he was going to be Jewish, he better do it all the way. And I agreed with that sentiment, so I followed him to a community for a weekend Shabbat getaway.I was blown away by the experience. Here was a whole neighborhood turning off the electronics to eat meals together, spend time with one another, pray, and read about the awesomeness of God. I longed for that sense of community, that sense of trust that everyone seemed to have for one another. I knew I had to experience another Shabbat next Friday, but I was unable to go downtown; that's when a Jewish co-worker of mine told me about Chabad Lubavitch, another Orthodox outreach group that was in town.I showed up twenty minutes before candle-lighting, the (not just symbolic) beginning of Shabbat. As I approached the Chabad house, I saw two young men in full beards, black coats, and fedoras. They spoke fluent English and introduced themselves. I was welcomed inside and had a wonderful time, sharing with them my stories. I felt a tinge of guilt when I left for the night in my car (a forbidden act on the Sabbath), but I came back in the morning to attend the service and learn with the rabbis.I kept returning on Friday nights, and it wasn't long before I was sleeping over and spending the whole day at the house with the other religious Jews. I caught on quickly to the externals, and began dressing the part. I covered my head, I didn't shave, I grew out my sidelocks. In retrospect, these should be have been goals secondary to the main goal: a better understanding of God and Judaism. But I didn't want depth, I wanted a quick but total transformation. I was sick of my old, secular, relativist lifestyle. I craved order, ritual, rules, structure, discipline. I figured that the "fake it til you make it approach" would work the best; immerse yourself in the culture and it will become natural. While I did eventually develop beliefs in God and got a formal Torah education, my foundation was rocky from the start -- I wanted the routine, not the religion.After some harrowing experiences in a religious school and the heart of the Chabad movement's Messianic members,2 I began losing my faith, although it did not happen over night. I distanced myself from the more radical Chabad and tried to live a more modern, sensible, albeit still very Orthodox life. But the curtain had been pulled; I began to see ugliness everywhere around me -- Jews hating gentiles, Jews hating other Jews, judgmental eyes, cruel teasing, slandering, self-righteousness, intellectual haughtiness. I wanted to be a simple God-fearing Jew, but I had no models to follow.This caused my depression to act up, so much that I had to begin treatment. After a few months of medication and therapy, what I kept denying would happen happened: I became a non-believer again. It struck me one night, as I lay in bed, ill from the fever and exhausted, that I was using religion as a coping mechanism for my own inability to deal with the complexity and seeming absurdity of the world. I was diagnosed with severe OCD, so I determined that all my craving for ritual and order was a result of my disease and not my religious longing. And I was not worshipping God, but some fake God who I had created in my head, who judged me harshly and forced me to destroy myself for the sake of become a holy person.I was pretty perturbed by the sudden shift, and I was angry for a good long while. I've been doing a lot better recently, but there's one thing I can't deny: my longing for belief.Try as I might to accept an absurd, incomprehensible world with no answers and death at the end of everything, I cannot keep these ideas grounded. The relativism, the insistence of proofs that will never exist -- it all torments me to know end. Not because I can't accept a world like this, but because I know that there's another possibility: that God does exist, that he did create the world, that he does enter the world, and that maybe, just maybe, two thousand years ago, he became a man and died for me.--- PART II: BELIEF? ---I am at a crossroads: believe in a secular, uncaring universe where death is final, or believe in a God who created the universe and who will judge me after I die. I have just recently been able to accept that no definitive proof exists for either scenario, but I still cannot choose which path to go.But here's the thing: I don't want to live in an uncaring universe. I want to believe in God who has set absolute guidelines by which to live, especially one who changed for humanity and will accept me for the flawed person I am, and not expect me to follow 613 commandments (and countless rabbinical laws and customs) in order to be "saved." I can relate to the universal message of Christianity, that we are all saved in Christ, Jews and gentiles alike. And there seems to be much more room for reconcilation with philosophy and science.3But I also fear that wrathful beast that I once knew, who expects me to deny basic biological desires, who detests homosexuality and fornication, who is always watching and judging. Who always expects more of me and who will make me feel guilty to no end for taking it easy on myself. I don't want to go back to that, and I feel as if that fear is one of the main barriers from recovering my belief.I'm conflicted. And so I've taken it upon myself to clear things up a bit by starting from the top, something I should have done before. I'm reading books that introduce me again, to the idea of God, this time a Christian one, and books that attempt to reconcile my moral, intellectual, and scientific objections to the Bible. I'm attending Orthodox Christian services and talking to congregants and priests (but also keeping somewhat of a distance, not wanting to be indoctrinated at an unstable state and end up not believing again later). There's a wealth of resources out there, and it's all pretty overwhelming, so I guess what I'm saying is: I need you, Orthodox Christians, and your guidance.Now, I don't know what will come from all of this. I may decide that I can safely remain a non-believer. I may become a Christian, but not an Orthodox Christian. I may become a Muslim, or maybe even some pantheistic or nontheistic faith. I'm trying not to align myself to any one path out of the gate, and weigh the options as equally as I can, although, admittedly, since I'm posting an on Orthodox Christian forum and reading books that argue God's existence, I suppose I'm drawn to what appeals to me the most: a loving creator with an afterlife and absolute truths, and one different than the one I knew when I was Jewish.--- PART III: QUESTIONS? ---I would appreciate any guidance you can provide; please do not hesitate to speak what you believe is true, as I have. If you have any questions that can aid this dialogue, ask away.---With love,A Love Supreme1 Back then, I did not know there were different "levels" of Judaism--the three main ones, in order from most liberal to most fundamental, being Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox).2 Who believe that their deceased rabbi is the one and only Messiah, and will raise from the dead to bring the Jewish people back to Israel. They would chant out, "Long live our master, our teacher, our rabbi, King Messiah, forever and ever!" during services. As a strict monotheist, this frightened me to no end and I prayed that God would forgive me for associating with such blasphemy. Of course, they have their own justifications, for which I care not anymore.3 It was pounded into my head that I should stay away from philosophy and secular works because they'll only "confuse" me. Torah was the only thing you should spend time on
tweety234, do you have a similar background?
I started out with an atheistic background & got involved with judaism, eventually converting and believing quite strongly in the faith. I would probably have been considered "conservadox" though I did dabble in the chabad movement. However, like you, I became disillusioned by the intense xenophobia and haughtiness among jews; the issue of palestine also began to bother me greatly (to be honest I never gave it much thought when I first converted). It was a photograph a palestinian baby decapitated by an Israeli mortar that made my heart start to die toward judaism.
Without writing a novel-- I had a number of experiences while jewish that would be considered quite profound revelatory experiences toward christianity and namely Orthodoxy. One time when I was very ill, I "hallucinated" (or saw?) the Theotokos and Christ before me as living beings with great connection to my life and all of existence. I began attending divine liturgy and eventually did convert with a very kind and welcoming priest.
However despite the deep experiences I had-- it's hard to describe-- it almost feels like a religious fuse in me has been burnt out. I also am and was in a somewhat fragile state psychologically and, stepping back from it all, I begin to wonder if this obsession with religion and faith is even healthy for me on any level.These days I swing back and forth like a pendulum. At times I can feel god's hand beneath me and other times I have semi-atheistic thoughts. At times i feel a strong connection to the Church and at other times I feel alienated and lost.
lovesupreme, the amount of self-awareness that you have is a great strength. If I had that I would be much better off. Many Orthodox writers have stressed the importance of knowing one's self. My one word of caution is that any great strength can become a weakness as well. Be aware of yourself without over-analyzing yourself into a state of spiritual paralysis.
Lovesupreme,Are you able to fast from all atheist material(books, talk shows, forums.....etc) for a few years? If so then your atheism will naturally leave you. But if you still have a desire to dabble in it then it may never leave you.Pray for me and I'll pray for you!
Quote from: jnorm888 on January 01, 2013, 03:03:49 PMLovesupreme,Are you able to fast from all atheist material(books, talk shows, forums.....etc) for a few years? If so then your atheism will naturally leave you. But if you still have a desire to dabble in it then it may never leave you.Pray for me and I'll pray for you!No, to accomplish such a feat would be solely by the grace of God. Even if I abstained from things that were overtly atheist (e.g. Richard Dawkins) the other worldly material in which I indulge would inculcate in me doubts and skepticism. I lived for a time consuming only religious things, and it turned out to be a prideful, obsessive disaster. I will not, perhaps out of stubbornness, become a zealot who closes himself out from the world and all its strange ideas. Perhaps that marks me as forever condemned. Lord have mercy.
Just curious: does reading Dawkins make you more compassionate? Or does it sharpen your intellect?
Quote from: Jetavan on January 01, 2013, 04:02:26 PMJust curious: does reading Dawkins make you more compassionate? Or does it sharpen your intellect?The exact opposite of both.
Quote from: Cyrillic on January 01, 2013, 04:04:07 PMQuote from: Jetavan on January 01, 2013, 04:02:26 PMJust curious: does reading Dawkins make you more compassionate? Or does it sharpen your intellect?The exact opposite of both.I used Dawkins as an example. I actually don't read his works anymore, nor do I think his arguments are all that persuasive. He should stick to studying genetics. I would say that his scientific writing could sharpen one's intellect, but it hardly makes one more compassionate. He has a materialist worldview, something to which I neither subscribe nor disregard entirely.I suppose I seek an out of religious life because I still am doubtful of its fruits or worth (that is, I still am doubtful if it is real in the absolute sense or in the more "reasonable" relative-mythical sense). I seek ways to confirm my biases (formed from previous experiences) so that I can exit the path of virtue without reservation or guilt. I am fairly certain that there will be no earth-shaking argument that makes me a 100% confident non-believer again, but I will search for the weak droppings of self-absorbed sophists like Dawkins if only so that I don't feel like I'm just a cog in humanity's wish-fulfillment machine. I don't like the feeling of being entrapped in a lie, forced to give up my life for something imaginary, so I search for ways to confirm that bias. However, once I remove from me the yoke of religion, I find the world empty and devoid of meaning, and so, back on it goes, until I feel oppressed once more and "liberate" myself again. Ad nauseum.... Yep.
The bottom line is this: I do not have the resolve to commit to the path that God (or perhaps my own imaginary God) has set before me. If that were the case, I would truly care about what I let into my senses and my mind. I would not become a monastic overnight, but I would turn away from media that is blatantly secular, sensual, and overall meaningless. I wouldn't listen only to Byzantine chants or read only religious texts, but I would probably trade death metal in for Lutheran classical, and The Atheist Manifesto (which is a really stupid book) for The Brothers Karamazov. I would probably not spend my free time playing video games and watching old re-runs of the Simpsons, but instead try to paths to fellowship with other human beings.
The bottom line is this: I do not have the resolve to commit to the path that God (or perhaps my own imaginary God) has set before me. If that were the case, I would truly care about what I let into my senses and my mind. I would not become a monastic overnight,
but I would turn away from media that is blatantly secular, sensual, and overall meaningless. I wouldn't listen only to Byzantine chants or read only religious texts, but I would probably trade death metal in for Lutheran classical, and The Atheist Manifesto (which is a really stupid book) for The Brothers Karamazov. I would probably not spend my free time playing video games and watching old re-runs of the Simpsons, but instead try to paths to fellowship with other human beings.
Right now, and I do mean right now, because the strength of my convictions has proven to be permeable, I do not have enough faith in Holy Orthodoxy to move my life in that direction fully. I continue to read, explore, pray, attend services, but I have successfully compartmentalized that part of my life, to the point that its tenants haunt me while still having no real effect on my actual being.
I do not wish to pursue this world, as it has let me down every time. But I cannot accept fully that there is a meaning to it all, and a lifestyle to which that meaning reaches its conclusion.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say.
Quote from: SolEX01 on January 01, 2013, 05:59:54 PMI'm not sure what you're trying to say. Neither do I.
After a few more months of searching, I've made my decision. God willing, I will be baptized and received into the church on Holy Saturday, May 4th.Please keep me in your prayers. Thank you all.
Please pray for me as the Lord prepares me for baptism. I will be doing my "life confession" tomorrow afternoon...
the best way of conveying God's love to people is through your own presence and deeds.
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Diablo 27 *** (7D) Climb the bouldery face 5 meters right of afterthought. Intense start with a interesting finish. FA: Evan Margetts, July 2011
RAPTOPHILIA 31 **** (7D,A) It's not rape if you yell surprise! Start with your hands on the lowest holds and feet on the lowest boulders, no cheating. Fight your way to the chains using pure determination as your guide. Enjoy the intricate footwork and desperate stabbing for holds. Ensure that you clip the first draw from the ground to avoid injury. Consensus makes it 31. FA: Brian Weaver, April 2011
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Iron Lotus 21 ** (8D) Climb the thin face just right of rocky, staying on the face(Going left makes it easier). FA: Darryl Margetts and Evan Margetts 2010
Spicy Habanero Salsa 24 *** (5D) Start on the right of Banging Bridget Jones. Start on the flat hand holds right of the thin vertical seam/crack. Traverse left into seam and climb up (hard) moving left into crack. Head rightwards into undercling under roof, through roof and finish up the final crack to the chains of BBJ. Possibly easier if you are tall. FA: Robert Powell and Edna Calvo, December 2011.
Coach 26 *** (12?D) Dedicated to Heiko Tillwick - Rest in Peace, Coach. Between Frazzle and Doug in the Yellow House. Not sure about the grade - opinion on this is welcome. FA: Marc 'Flex' Efune 2011. Bolted by Tim Dunnett and Dirk Smith.


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Stories about how all those basketball games and brackets are sapping workers' productivity are as inevitable this time of year as Duke or Kentucky being in the NCAA tournament bracket.
"March Madness costs $1.2 billion for every unproductive hour," the Columbus Dispatch reported. "March Madness Ready to Distract Workers Nationwide," wrote Fox Business. "Say Farewell to Productivity: March Madness App released," declared PC Mag.
The headlines follow an annual report from the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, which calculates the tournament's potential cost to U.S. employers. It looks at Bureau of Labor Statistics data, numbers from Turner Sports and surveys about when and how much people watch the tournament.
This year's report finds that "companies stand to lose at least $1.2 billion for every unproductive work hour during the first week of the tournament."
Although it calls those "scary numbers," the release advises managers "not to clamp down on March Madness," or risk doing damage to employee morale.
This yearly ritual is a little overblown. The Challenger report admits that "statistics on how many American workers are participating in office pools and watching games online when they should be working are a little harder to come by" than data on the teams playing in the tournament itself.
Challenger concedes that while more than 100 million workers could be distracted by the tourney, that's only "if that survey pool was representative of the U.S. working population." That's a big "if."
Moreover, academic research has found that, yes, work is affected by viewing games and filling out brackets, but not in a serious way.
Charles Clotfelter, a professor at Duke University, wrote in 2012 that "the tournament has a profound and widespread impact on patterns of work" (he studied how often faculty and students view academic journal libraries at 75 university libraries during the tournament) but wouldn't go so far as to say it had a big impact on productivity.
"Besides the possible boost in morale associated with this annual ritual," Clotfelter wrote on Harvard Business Review's Web site, "common sense suggests that those who follow successful teams will come to anticipate success and simply learn to budget their time, making sure to leave enough time to watch their team play."
Corporate managers have figured this out. A survey of 300 senior leaders by OfficeTeam, a staffing service for administrative professionals, found that just 11 percent of managers think the NCAA tournament has a negative impact on productivity, with 27 percent saying it has a positive one and 62 percent saying it has no impact.
Also, 33 percent of managers said that March Madness has a positive impact on morale. That is why some companies go so far as to embrace the tournament, with friendly competitions designed to boost sales, benefits that give days off during the tournament or flexibility to watch while working.
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The Memphis Botanic Garden plans on building an entertainment center for its popular Live at the Garden Summer Concert Series.
According to a permit filed with the Shelby County Office of Construction Code Enforcement, the Botanic Garden plans on building a $2.2 million entertainment center for Live at the Garden.
The Live at the Garden series started in 2001 with a performance by the late Isaac Hayes, and quickly developed into one of the city's most unique live music experiences.
Looking for the latest news on the ambitious Main Street to Main Street Multimodal Connector Project?
You can get an update on the project Wednesday, Sept. 18, at 4 p.m. in the fifth floor conference room at City Hall, 125 N. Main St.
The Main Street to Main Street Project coordinating committee will give an update on bid recommendations, bid status and bid schedule.
The $37 million project includes major infrastructure improvements to Main Street Downtown and a pedestrian and bicycle boardwalk across the Harahan Bridge.
Shelby County Trustee David Lenoir's campaign website and Facebook page went up Thursday, Sept. 12, signaling his intent to seek a second four-year term in the 2014 county elections, starting with the May 6 Republican primaries.
Lenoir will formally kick off his campaign with a Sept. 26 fundraiser.
Lenoir was part of a slate of Republican contenders that took every countywide office on the 2010 county general election ballot.
The University of Memphis broke ground Wednesday on a new residence hall at the corner of Patterson Street and Norriswood Avenue.
The new building, which will face Central Avenue, will replace Richardson Towers and is expected to be completed for the fall 2015 semester. The university will continue to operate Richardson Towers until the new building is complete, then will remove it to create additional green space.
The $53 million, 780-bed building will feature double- and single-occupancy rooms on wings with shared private bathrooms. The facility also will have 24 apartments, each with six single-occupant bedrooms. It will also include classrooms, study and project space, and room for student programs.
Memphis-area companies Mobilizer and View Medical are presenting next month at the LifeSciTN Conference and Venture Forum in Nashville.
The event brings together industry experts, investors and innovators and is designed to create an atmosphere in which entrepreneurs can create partnerships and raise capital.
Top presenters will be offered start-up business services from LifeSciTN Venture Forum supporters.
Obsidian Public Relations is playing host to seven small businesses for its first Memphis Idea Fest next month.
The firm is hosting the event at its office, 493 S. Main St., on Oct. 29. During Idea Fest's one-hour lightning rounds, Obsidian's entire Memphis staff will meet with each chosen organization's management team for a brainstorming session to address a public relations issue currently facing each business.
Businesses must have fewer than 50 employees to qualify for participation. Other application requirements and event information can be found at www.obsidianpr.com, and applications for the free event are due by Oct. 10.
Lipscomb & Pitts Insurance has been tapped to be part of a group of independent insurance agencies around the U.S. participating in the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America's Best Practices study group.
More than 1,100 agencies out of the more than 35,000 in the U.S. were nominated this year. But only 216 independent agencies qualified for inclusion in the 2013 Best Practices study.
The IIABA started the study in 1993. It documents practices of the "best" agencies and urges others to adopt similar practices.
Memphis-based Southeastern Asset Management Inc., the investment firm that along with activist investor Carl Icahn opposed the proposed buyout of Dell Inc., disclosed that it has taken a nearly 12 percent stake in News Corp.
According to the Tuesday Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Southeastern now owns 23.8 million News Corp. Class B shares for an 11.9 percent stake in the company, making it the largest institutional shareholder of the company, according to FactSet.
Earlier this week, Southeastern and Icahn dropped their opposition to Dell's plan to sell itself to its company founder Michael Dell in a $24.8 billion deal.
The investment firm and Icahn had vehemently opposed the deal, saying that it significantly undervalued the company, but dropped their bid after realizing that they wouldn't be able to defeat a vote on the offer set for Thursday.
New York-based News Corp. owns both The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, along with Dow Jones Newswires and a book publishing arm. Last week, it announced a deal to sell off 33 smaller publications, including eight dailies. The publisher split off its movie studio and cable television business, now called 21st Century Fox, in June.
The Bogie's Delicatessen at 2098 Lasalle Place in Overton Square has been closed by the state for failure to pay taxes.
The state Department of Revenue posted a notice at the business Tuesday, Sept. 10, saying it was closed for failure to pay taxes.
The 1,450-square-foot restaurant, which features a spacious patio, has been a Midtown staple for years. The building was built in 1920 and is assessed at $49,440.
Memphis-area home sales posted gains in August when compared to August 2012 but were flat from July, according to the Memphis Area Association of Realtors.
MAAR reports 1,702 sales were recorded in the area in August, up 11.7 percent from 1,525 in August 2012. In July, 1,714 sales were recorded in the area.
MAAR records home sales in Shelby, Fayette, Tipton, Hardeman, Hardin, McNairy and Lauderdale counties in Tennessee; DeSoto County in Mississippi; and Crittenden County in Arkansas.
The average sales price in August was $144,063, up 11.3 percent from $129,380 last August. Total sales volume for August was $245.2 million, up 24.3 percent from $197.3 million last year.
Through August, 11,179 homes have been sold, up 11 percent from 10,072 sales over the same period last year. The year-to-date average sales price was $142,363, up 10.3 percent from $129,083 last year. Sales volume through August weighed in at $1.59 billion, up 22.3 percent from $1.3 billion last year.
Memphis-based accounting firm Reynolds Bone & Griesbeck PLC has announced a four-year commitment to the Crews Center for Entrepreneurship at The University of Memphis.
The accounting firm has pledged a $40,000 donation – $10,000 per year over four years – to the center, which will be based out of the former's Mason's Lodge building that was built in the 1950s and is currently undergoing renovations. Those renovations will transform the space into a top-class venture development lab, complete with flexible office space, lab areas for prototype development, advanced technological systems and a conference room for meetings with potential investors and mentors.
RBG managing partner John Griesbeck said he approached the firm's partner group about making a funding commitment to support the lab and that he believes the project will enhance entrepreneurial activities of the university and the local business community.
Wunderlich Securities Inc. has downgraded shares of Memphis-based First Horizon National Corp. from buy to hold and lowered the company's price target from $13 to $11.
The move follows a visit with First Horizon management last week, according to Wunderlich bank analyst Kevin Reynolds. In a note to clients, Reynolds wrote that in the wake of that meeting, "our outlook on FHN shares is incrementally more cautious given a persistently difficult environment with near-term headwinds impacting both FHN's spread-based banking business as well as its fixed income sales operation."
He did note as the economic environment strengthens and interest rates normalize at higher levels, First Horizon's commercially oriented focus could produce "meaningfully higher growth and profitability." First Horizon is the parent company of First Tennessee Bank.
First Horizon National Corp. has again earned a spot on the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption's list of best adoption-friendly workplaces.
Rankings for the best adoption-friendly workplaces were based on benefits available to employees who adopt, such as financial reimbursement and paid leave.
John Daniel, First Horizon's head of human resources, said the company works hard to provide the tools and benefits to help employees achieve a balance of being at their best to serve customers when they have the resources to juggle work and family life.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has opened a new endodontics clinic in the Winfield C. Dunn Building at 875 Union Ave.
School officials said the clinic is a major step forward for the Advanced Specialty Education program in endodontics at the College of Dentistry. The program received initial accreditation in 2011. Prior to that, UT dental graduates had to travel out of state to complete specialty endodontic training.
Endodontics is a specialty focusing on the study and treatment of the dental pulp, usually referred to as root canal treatment.
The new clinic includes a digital operatory with custom endodontic carts, digital radiography and endodontic practice management software.
Patients who want to save their teeth will be offered better alternatives to tooth extraction. The clinic also will attract new patients who cannot afford private practice fees.
One of the oldest law firms in the Memphis area has opened a new office in Lawrenceburg, Tenn.
The new Martin, Tate, Morrow & Marston PC office there will serve the firm's growing commercial and transportation client base in the Middle Tennessee and Nashville areas. That new office also represents the first time the firm, which was founded in Memphis in 1904, has expanded into Middle Tennessee.
U.S. women have recovered all the jobs they lost to the Great Recession. The same can't be said for men, who remain 2.1 million jobs short.
The biggest factor is that men dominate construction and manufacturing – industries that have not recovered millions of jobs lost during the downturn. By contrast, women have made up a disproportionate share of workers in those that have been hiring – retail, education, health care, restaurants and hotels.
"It's a segregated labor market, and men and women do work in different industries, and even in different areas within industries," says Heidi Hartmann, an economist and president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research.
The gap was evident in the August unemployment rates: 6.8 percent for women, 7.7 percent for men.
In August, 68 million women said they were employed, passing the more than the 67.97 million who had jobs when the recession began in December 2007.
The Peabody hotel's Rooftop Parties are back for a four-party encore fall season.
The all-new fall season began Sept. 12 and ends Oct. 31 with a Halloween bash.
Craig Smith, The Peabody's regional director of sales and marketing, said the addition of parties in September and October was in direct response to demand from guests who wanted parties when the weather cools off.
The fall parties, on Sept. 26, Oct. 17 and Oct. 31, will take place on The Peabody hotel's roof from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Gov. Bill Haslam has renewed an expired executive order to cover any loss of salary by state employees called to active duty by the National Guard or the Armed Forces Reserves.
The measure requires government agencies and departments to extend military leave to state employees. It also requires those agencies to provide offsetting pay when the active-duty wages of their employees are less than their normal salary.
Haslam's order extends a policy first put in place by then-Gov. Don Sundquist in response to state workers being called into active duty after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The policy was continued by former Gov. Phil Bredesen, and Haslam had renewed the annual order twice before.
Haslam's order is retroactive to Aug. 26, when the last version expired.
U.S. wholesalers increased in their stockpiles only slightly in July after three monthly declines, while their sales barely rose. The tepid gains add to worries about slower economic growth in the July-September quarter.
The Commerce Department said Wednesday that wholesale stockpiles rose just 0.1 percent in July from June. That followed a 0.3 percent decline in June.
Sales rose just 0.1 percent in July, the smallest gain since December. Still, that's the fourth straight month that sales have risen.
Some economists had thought that wholesalers would ramp up their stockpiles in July after cutting them from April through July. The smaller increase could weigh on economic growth in the third quarter. More restocking boosts factory production, driving overall growth.
Business forecasters maintained their rosy view of the U.S. economy in 2014, predicting 3 percent growth by the second quarter of next year, low inflation and improving employment.
The top economists surveyed by the National Association of Business Economics between Aug. 8 and Aug. 20 also said there's an 80 percent likelihood that the pickup in growth will prompt the Federal Reserve to trim its monthly $85 billion purchases of mortgage bonds and Treasury bills next year.
The NABE's 43 respondents said in a report released Monday that there's a 45 percent chance the Fed will begin its so-called "tapering" as early as this year.
But economists trimmed their expectations for the second half of 2013 since the last survey, in May.
The economists predicted that real gross domestic product would grow at a 2.3 percent annualized rate in the third quarter through September, down from 2.5 percent seen earlier; and 2.6 percent in the fourth quarter, down from 2.8 percent seen earlier. They were less optimistic about consumer spending, industrial production and private investment in nonresidential structures, equipment and software.
The economists' slightly more pessimistic views were likely affected by the government initially reporting in July that second-quarter GDP grew 1.7 percent.
On Aug. 29, the Commerce Department revised the figure sharply higher for the April-June quarter, to 2.5 percent.
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Happy birthday to Junior and The Man
And here's the crazy part: The Man and The Kid share the same birthplace of Donora, Pa., 25 miles south of Pittsburgh on the Monongahela River. Those must be some magical waters, having produced not only Musial and Junior, but also Ken Griffey Sr., another wonderful player in the generation bridging Musial and Junior.
Donora, a coal-mining, steel-producing borough, contained 13,180 citizens in 1941, when Musial began his big league career at 20. The town's population had fallen to 5,653 in the 2000 census, reflecting hard times. But Donora and nearby communities are hopeful that the natural gas industry will lift and renew the region.
Lift and renew are what the birthday duo, Musial and Griffey, have done to their sport over the courses of their brilliant careers.
Though separated by a half-century in age, Stan the Man and The Kid are essentially the same personality -- light-hearted and fun-loving in nature. Both men played the game from the heart, with passion, all the while keeping a smile on their face and an upbeat bounce in their step.
If you were a Musial fan in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, you had to be a Griffey fan in the '80s, '90s and 2000s.
The swing from the left side of the plate by both men was positively lyrical. Musial had that unusual crouch, uncoiling to drill line drives all over the field, while Griffey's gorgeous uppercut launched missiles to distant places.
Musial retired in 1963 as the National League's all-time hit leader. He was eventually run down by Henry Aaron and Pete Rose and now ranks fourth in history with his 3,630 hits across 22 seasons.
Griffey's majestic swing produced 630 home runs, sixth in history.
Musial is sixth all time in RBIs and ninth in runs scored. Griffey stands 15th and 33rd, respectively.
Nobody ever was more consistent than The Man. A three-time NL Most Valuable Player Award winner, he placed in the top 10 in the balloting 14 times. He was the NL leader in OPS seven times, the runs created king nine times.
The modern metrics compute Musial's career WAR (wins above replacement player) at 123.4 -- higher than Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig and Mickey Mantle.
Across Musial's career span, the only superior player in his league was Willie Mays, whose all-around game went to a level previously unvisited in the national pastime.
While Musial attacked the game, Griffey Jr. was as graceful and gifted as anyone who ever played the game. Much like Aaron, Junior's easy manner and gliding style masked a burning desire to beat you with all five of his tools.
There are those who will argue on statistical merit for Barry Bonds, but Griffey was the Player of the Decade while with the Mariners in the 1990s. He won 10 consecutive Rawlings Gold Gloves in center -- Bonds stayed in left -- while hitting 40 or more homers six times and driving in at least 100 runs seven times. He won the 1997 American League MVP Award with 56 homers and 147 RBIs.
Retiring in 2010 as a Mariner after nine seasons with the Reds and one with the White Sox, Griffey had 1,836 RBIs to go with the 630 homers, scoring 1,662 runs. His career OPS was .907. His WAR of 79.2 surpassed those of Joe DiMaggio, Rose and Johnny Bench.
The Kid, son of one of the Big Red Machine's stars in Cincinnati, could have put up even more amazing career numbers if he'd charged into fewer walls while pursuing home runs and extra-base hits.
Like Musial, Griffey played 22 seasons. But injuries reduced five of those seasons to 83 or fewer games -- including his age 32-34 seasons with the Reds.
Conserving himself physically, as Bonds did in left, Griffey could have been the one to eclipse Aaron's home run record. Junior's power was electric from the beginning.
At age 30, Griffey had 438 home runs, Bonds 292. Bonds, who came to Pittsburgh from Arizona State, got a later start, but through 12 seasons, he had 64 fewer homers than Griffey.
Musial was third "M" of the Greatest Generation, joining Mays and Mantle.
In St. Louis, there was No. 6, and there was everyone else. Mark McGwire smashed homer records and Albert Pujols put up historic numbers for the Redbirds, but both men would tell you in a heartbeat that there's only one Man in the Cardinal Nation -- and that is Musial.
The game has had no kinder, gentler ambassador than the harmonica-playing, story-telling gentleman from Donora who did nothing but enrich his sport and society.
Happy birthday, Stan. You too, Junior. Donora should be proud.
Lyle Spencer is a reporter for MLB.com.


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The Durango Discovery Museum, which is housed in a 120-year-old power plant, intends to make its landmark smokestack the centerpiece of a science park powered by clean energy.
A capital campaign called Back the Stack that started the day after Christmas has a minimum goal of $133,000 to develop a series of demonstration projects showcasing leading-edge applications of age-old power sources: sun, wind and water.
Wed like to have five to 10 interactive projects for visitors of all ages, said Haz Said, who handles marketing and communications for the museum.
Well have energy of all kinds in keeping with the theme of the museum energy past, present and future.
Production of marketable amounts of electricity isnt the goal. But together, museum directors hope, the sources will generate enough power to make the museum and science park a net-zero energy site.
The museum already is into alternative, clean energy. It has solar panels tied to the grid and three geothermal wells that help heat the museum in the winter and cool it in the summer.
The former power plants grey, weather-scarred smokestack will be the center of attention in the next round of projects.
One proposal involves the application of thermal convection which, put simply, demonstrates that heat rises. One or a pair of turbines will be installed inside the stack, and the exterior surface of the 100-foot tunnel will be painted a dark color.
As sun rays pound the smokestack, its somber color enhances the absorption of solar rays. Heat builds inside the stack and the updraft of hot air will turn the turbines.
Flexible leaf-shaped photovoltaic solar panels, called Solar Ivy after the company that manufactures them and which are evocative of the ivy-covered walls of academia, will be affixed to the exterior of the smokestack.
The Solar Ivy panels do double duty when the sun shines and the wind blows because each has attached a piezoelectric (electromechanical) generator that produces power through the motion of the movable leaves.
An old standby, water, also could contribute to power production. Because the museum is situated on the banks of the Animas River at Camino del Rio and east 14th Street, a 30-foot waterwheel just downstream of the U.S. Geological Survey gauging station would be installed.
This project requires approval from government agencies.
The power plant started operating in 1893 as Durango Light & Power Co. It was acquired by the Western Colorado Power Co., which owned six other generating stations, including one at Tacoma on the Animas River near Rockwood, and in Ouray and Montrose.
A dispatcher in Silverton controlled the operations of the generating plants.
The Durango plant closed in the early 1970s and the site sat abandoned. In 1999, the Colorado Historical Society gave the city of Durango a $310,000 grant to rehabilitate the structure, which eventually resulted in the city awarding the Durango Childrens Museum a free 25-year lease contingent on it raising $5 million.
The museum opened in February 2011.
It features interactive exhibits, some long-term, others that rotate every few months; programs for all ages that focus on science themes, particularly energy; and events, including a weekly trivia night.
The Solar Roller is a mobile science laboratory that covers the Four Corners, serving populations that cant visit Durango.
Middle school and high school students interested in science train to become museum docents.
The Back the Stack financing campaign has started well, Said said.
We know that several big contributions are coming, he said. Weve received a donation from New Zealand as the result of the social networking of our supporters.


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Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen "Fried Chicken and Biscuits" Chris and Bridget visit Princes in Nashville to try their famous Nashville Hot Chicken. They return to the kitchen determined to replicate the top-secret recipe. Then, Jack challenges Chris to a tasting of whole kosher dill pickles. D
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The Mind of a Chef "Soy" Savor an entire episode devoted to soy. David Chang visits tofu and miso factories in Japan, Chef Christina Tosi makes burnt miso apple pie, Laurent Gras takes on tofu, Chang makes his classic corn miso and the Torrisi boys compare making tofu to making mozzarella. D
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Simple & Satisfying Vegetable Mains" Man on the Street John "Doc" Willoughby ventures to New York City to learn about vegetarian cooking from Amanda Cohen at Dirt Candy. Back in the test kitchen, test cook Becky Hays shows host Christopher Kimball how to make a great Mushroom and Leek Galette with Gorgonzola at home. Next, equipment expert Adam Ried reviews his favorite vegetable cleavers in the Equipment Corner. D
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Scrapbook Soup Jenn Mason is featured in the first segment showing how to create a recycled pocket journal. Then, Kathy Kromer demonstrates a wall art project created with a special technique using packing tape to make a photo transfer. Then, Julie McGuffee shares ideas for personalizing coffee mugs, cell phones, electronic tablets, key chains, and other items. D
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Paint This With Jerry Yarnell "Back Country Boulders, Part 2" Jerry continues 'Back Country Boulders' showing students how to develop shelves for the waterfall amongst the boulders with a large chisel edge brush. Jerry shows how to spontaneously find masses of boulders using form highlighting technique. D
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Ask This Old House "Caring for Orchids as Houseplants/Purchasing a Kitchen Wall Cabinet" Landscape contractor Roger Cook visits a tropical botanic garden to learn how to care for orchids as houseplants. Then, Roger, along with host Kevin O'Connor, plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey and general contractor Tom Silva, asks, "What is it?" Afterward, Tom helps a homeowner purchase and install a kitchen wall cabinet. D
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Rough Cut - Woodworking with Tommy Mac "Serving Cart" On this Rough Cut episode, Tommy makes a practical Serving Cart, essential for any kitchen, out of scrap tiger maple. The project is a basic cart form, however, for the top serving area, Tommy goes on a Road Trip to look for the right solid surface. In Canton, Massachusetts, Tommy explores different kinds of man-made and solid surfaces with the help of fabricator Paul D'Attanasio. D
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MotorWeek "2013 Drivers' Choice Awards" 2013 MotorWeek Drivers' Choice Awards. Goss' Garage: Certified Used Cars. D
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America's Heartland Saddle up for a California cattle roundup. Haul in the "heads" at an Arizona lettuce farm. Take our quiz to learn more about "crop rotation". D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Rome: Back-Street Riches" Rick explores back lanes and unheralded corners of the city. He ventures into the crusty Trastevere district, visiting the Jewish Ghetto, and enjoying art treasures in a string of rarely visited churches as he uncovers charms of hidden Rome.G
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Fear and isolation left 32-year-old Catrina McKinney feeling trapped in an abusive relationship with her then-husband.
The mother of four said her children motivated her to leave.
Fear and isolation left 32-year-old Catrina McKinney feeling trapped in an abusive relationship with her then-husband.
The mother of four said her children motivated her to leave.
"That was probably the only thing, because if it wasn't for them and the things that they had seen, I probably wouldn't have gone," McKinney said.
During their relationship, McKinney said her ex-husband would allow her children to do something one day and become angry with them for doing it the next.
Before she left, McKinney said her stomach was tied in knots. She was nervous and hesitated about leaving, but said her children motivated her to go through with it.
When she left, she went straight to Mainstay's shelter in Hendersonville.
This year, Mainstay has provided shelter for 106 children, which is 18 percent higher than in 2012. The nonprofit serves nearly as many children each year as it does women.
McKinney married in October 2012. She said the relationship started out rocky, but she was hopeful for change.
"Our relationship wasn't very good from probably the beginning, but I figured you know, hey, if we get married maybe he'll change — no, it got worse," McKinney said. "It got way worse. I ended up with a broken nose, two black eyes, a busted lip — it was pretty bad and then everything in our house was destroyed; he broke everything."
During McKinney's relationship with her ex-husband, she did not own her own car or cellphone. He would drop her off and pick her up from work. The family was living in Canton, where McKinney had no friends or family.
"It is very scary, and not knowing anybody up there and what to do or who to talk to and everything it is scary," McKinney said. "At that point, I didn't have anybody to watch my kids and I didn't know anybody in Canton and he wanted us to move out there because we knew nobody."
Following an altercation the couple had in April, he was arrested. Since McKinney had already paid her rent for the following month and summer was approaching, she stayed at their home in Canton until early July.
"I tried to stick it out as long as possible because I didn't want to quit working and the kids had just started school there, so I didn't want to have to change their school," McKinney said. "So I wanted to stay until they finished."
After arriving at Mainstay, she and her children lived in shelter for around 30 days.
"You could tell that they were still scared, even though they still tried to be strong," McKinney said of her children, who range in age from 12 to 6.
At night, all four children would try to convince McKinney that they could snuggle up for the night in her twin–sized bed, but she said she'd have to persuade them to go to sleep in their own beds.
By the end of July, the family was able to move into their own apartment through Mainstay's self-sufficiency program.
"Where we're at, there's a little playground out there, so the kids will take their bikes and their skateboards and play on the playground," McKinney said.
McKinney said she no longer feels like she has to look over her shoulder or be concerned about who is around anymore.
Following the altercation in April, McKinney got word from the Department of Social Services that the father of her three oldest children, who she says was also abusive, had died in 2012. Until she learned of his death, McKinney said she felt as if she constantly had to look over her shoulder for fear he would find her.
"That was like my pattern, to pick the most unstable person out there," McKinney said of her relationships.
Now she said she is taking time away from any type of romantic relationship. She is taking time to get to know herself and build a strong support system for herself and her family.
McKinney says she is proud of "getting myself fixed and realizing that, you know, it wasn't me. Not everybody is nice, and people do treat you that way sometimes and that I don't have to deal with it; I don't have to sacrifice anything to be me."
In her friendships, McKinney said she now looks for people who are stable and aren't bouncing around in their relationships and show respect to other people.
In the past six months, McKinney said she can see a dramatic change in her children. She says they have come out of their shells.
"You can tell that they're happy. The biggest (change) is probably Tanner, 6. I mean that kid he just loves to go outside and play and climb, and he's always picking on the other kids," McKinney said. "I mean he's the youngest, but he will stand up to them and he will pick on them."
She said her oldest, Sydney, 12, has begun to score higher in all of her school work.
"I guess because now she can concentrate," McKinney said. "She really tries now."
The proud mother said she's happy to be able to offer stability and consistency for her children.
"It is so much more calming and relaxing, and with all of the resources that Mainstay offers, I feel like I can be the better mom because before everybody was always uptight and you know they couldn't do things at certain times," McKinney said.
McKinney is now working at the Dandelion Eatery and training new members of Mainstay who work there.
"Honestly, if I had known that Mainstay was going to help out as much as they have, I would have left a long time ago," McKinney said. "I wouldn't have waited."
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SPRINGFIELD — Lawmakers are relaxing registration requirements for voters this November.
Legislation passed by the General Assembly last month would allow election-day registration and require expanded early voting throughout the state, with a special focus on college campuses. The amendment was attached to a minimum wage ballot referendum bill.
Along with requiring higher education facilities to conduct early voting drives in "high traffic areas" of campus, the bill also requires colleges and universities to send emails to their students with detailed voter registration process information in general election years. The emails will includes links where students can register online.
State Sen. Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, sponsored the amendment from the Senate, and lauded the legislation.
"Anything that makes it easier for people to vote is a good thing," Harmon said. "This is a meaningful step forward in the evolution of dramatic progress in voter access."
But some legislators expressed concern over the potential for voter fraud as a result of the practices put in place through this amendment.
"Now, the question is what's the outcome?" asked Sen. Dave Syverson. "And obviously from our standpoint the concern is the integrity of the ballot and what this creates for everybody. When you make it easier for fraud or abuse to take place, that takes away from the integrity of the ballot, which ought to be our biggest priority and concern."
Hans van Spakovsky, manager of election law reform and senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said efforts like this don't generally increase voter turnout, although that is their intended goal. He also said there's a reason one party seems to consistently push these measures when they have the opportunity.
"Loosening voter registration rules is generally an attempt by Democrats to attract demographics of people they think will vote for them. In this case, it's young people and college students. History also shows us that when voter fraud does occur, Democrats are usually the ones to benefit."
Spakovsky has written hundreds of articles and conducted dozens of studies on voter fraud, including a lengthy dissertation on Chicago's voter fraud problems in the governor's race of 1982.
"This is an invitation to fraud," Spakovsky said. "Illinois is already a no-ID state, and it amazes me that with the state's proven history of voting fraud its now going to be even easier to go from polling place to polling place and vote multiple times."
Illinois' history of voter fraud is indeed long and not left wanting for examples. It's estimated that the aforementioned 1982 governor's race saw over 100,000 fraudulent votes – 10 percent of the entire city's vote count - in Chicago alone through multiple voting and box stuffers casting ballots for deceased former residents. The Chicago disaster resulted in one of the Department of Justice's largest voter fraud prosecutions in history.
The 1960 presidential election saw disputed vote counts between Chicago and downstate, and as recently as 2002 several dozen elderly Chicago residents found their requested absentee ballots had already been filled out for them. The latter story resulted in felony convictions of two Cook Country elections officials.
Brian Gladstein, director of programs and strategy at Common Cause Illinois, praised the effort to widen the window for potential voters.
"The cornerstone of our Democracy is to provide the greatest opportunity to vote," he said. "It creates an environment where more people are civically engaged and care who wins elections."
Gladstein cited low voter turnout in Illinois over the past few election cycles as ample reason to expand the registration process.
"Same-day registration and early voting helps new voters who are just entering the process," Gladstein said. "It also help those voters who don't remember where they are registered or may want to register and vote in a different precinct or county than were they were registered before."
Syverson agreed the move was an effort to get more voters to the polls, but questioned the motives of the amendment being confined to only the 2014 general election.
"(What) they're trying to do is make it easy as possible for them to get out their voters even if it means compromising the integrity of the ballot," he said. "And they know ... this creates some problems. That's why they only wanted it for the one year. If they thought this was really legitimate and good they would have passed that and made it a permanent change in election law."
While voting in Illinois doesn't require an ID, registering to vote does. Illinois residents who register on Election Day would be required to provide a driver's license or Social Security number in order to successfully register and then proceed to vote.
On the question of fraud, Gladstein says the solution isn't restricting voter access, but modernizing the system.
"We'd love to see electronic polling booths in every precinct in the state," he said. "Double voting is a challenge, but if all voting was electronic, the database could track who is registered and if they voted already and would prohibit multiple votes from the same registration number."
State Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie, D-Chicago, sponsored the amendment on the House side.
"This is a way to encourage our young people to vote," Currie said in the executive committee hearing that passed the bill to the House floor. "The more people who engage in Democracy, especially beginning at a young age, the healthier our state will be."
Currie said the chances of fraud are miniscule, and while not every case can be avoided, the instances of real fraud are too small to sway any election.


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Biz Kid$ "Your First Big Purchase" You'll want to understand the important steps to take before your first big purchase, whether you're buying the latest computer, a new smart phone, or a car. You will learn about budgeting, researching, negotiating, and more. Find out how a teen photographer upgraded his camera and a 15-year-old aviator purchased an old airplane!. D
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Biz Kid$ "What's Up with the Stock Market?" Learn the language of the stock market and how these terms apply to your life. Meet an 11-year-old who created an application for the iPhone that helps teach other kids about the stock market. D
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Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The "Fundamental Forces" All physical phenomena of nature are explained by four forces: two nuclear forces, gravity, and electricity. D
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Power of Place: Geography for the 21st Century "The Booming Maritime Edge" This program explores globalization and the effects of modernization on Chinese society. What factors contributed to Taiwan's emergence as a high-tech powerhouse?G
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Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "La Carta (The Letter)" This episode outlines the lesson format and story plot that will be followed in the series with the narrator explaining the three types of Spanish that will be spoken in the series.G
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Clifford The Big Red Dog "Doggie Detectives/Camping It Up" Doggie Detectives - Clifford's Big Idea: Work Together Equipment is disappearing from the local playground and it's up to K.C., inspired by the Detective Mike books he likes so much, to figure out what happened. He enlists the help of Clifford and the gang to form the " Doggy Detectives" to solve the mystery and the whole gang soon discovers the joy of discovery available in reading a good book! Camping It Up - Clifford's Big Idea: Work Together Because she thinks camping is going to be boring, Jetta tries to bring all the comforts of home into the woods. D
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Arthur "Prunella Sees The Light/Return of the Snowball" Prunella Sees the Light - To make everything perfect for her sleepover with Marina, Prunella happily styles her room to resemble a "Henry Skreever" book. But then she panics - since Marina is blind, will decorations she can't even see offend her. or worse, make her trip? Or will Prunella discover that her worries about protecting Marina - and their friendship - are more about Prunella's own perceptions rather than Marina's actual capabilities? Return of the Snowball - For six months, two weeks and four days, D.W. D
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Martha Speaks "Here's Martha!/Dog Fight" Here's Martha! - Martha hosts a TV show where she helps people understand their animals better by explaining what they're saying. Dog Fight - Martha and Skits don't want to share their newest, coolest dog toy.G
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Curious George "Auctioneer George/Sock Monkey Opera" Auctioneer George - George has one dollar to buy anything he wants at the Annual Corn Roast and Attic Auction, and he sets his sights on a pair of red elephant mittens. When the Man with the Yellow Hat leaves George alone, he bids.and bids. D
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Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "The Surprising Bean/Hear Here" The Surprising Bean - Nick keeps trying to surprise Sally, but he just can't do it! The Cat takes them to find a real surprise in the Skippylarito Fields! Once there, Cat shows them a special bean - that suddenly moves! With a shrunken Thingamajigger, they go inside the bean and meet the moth larvae that lives there. They learn that it's really the moth that causes the bean to move. What a neat surprise indeed! Hear Here - The kids hear chirping but can't find where it's coming from. D
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Dinosaur Train: Submarine Adventure When Buddy and his family want to follow some friends on an undersea fishing trip, the conductor unveils a new invention - the Dinosaur Train Submarine! On its maiden voyage, Otto Ophthalmosaurus guides the sub deep into the ocean using his big eyes that can see in the dark. Then, the family meets Shoshana Shonisaurus, an enormous marine reptile that's something between a dolphin and a whale, and Maisie Mosasaurus, a huge fast swimming lizard with flippers. Finally, the family watches small eggs hatch on the beach. D
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Sesame Street "Humpty Dumpty's Big Break" Telly is very worried about Humpty Dumpty falling off the wall, but Humpty explains that he is there to watch a football game. Just as the game is about to start, one of All the King's Horses comes limping in and says he can't play. It's Humpty's dream to play football, so he offers to replace him, but Telly is very worried that Humpty will break. D
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Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood "Good Morning Daniel/Goodnight Daniel" Good Morning Daniel - It's a typical morning in the Tiger household, and Daniel has to get up for school but his playing and imagining distract him from his routine. Daniel learns that his morning routine helps him be ready in time for Trolley to take him to school. Goodnight Daniel - Tonight, Daniel is pretending to be Super Daniel! But after dinner, he has to follow his nighttime routine even though he would rather play. D
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Sid The Science Kid "No School Singalong Special!" Sid wonders what he could possibly do on his day off from school. But when all his friends come over for a play date, they quickly put their science minds together and decide to put on a show in the backyard! They each take turns rocking out as they sing their favorite science songs for a very appreciative audience of Mom, Dad, and Zeke!. D
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WordWorld "Castles in the Sea/Get Your Coat" Castles in the Sea: While playing in the sand on the beach, Duck and Shark discover the perfect home for Shark: a sand castle! But why, oh why, does it disappear every night while Shark is sleeping? When the WordFriends try to hunt down the castle thief, they learn about tides and waves.from a singing Crab. Get Your Coat: Duck thinks Frog doesn't want to play in the rain because Duck accidentally broke Frog's boat. D
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Caillou "Caillou The Scientist" Magnet Madness - Caillou is playing with the fridge magnets and learns lots of things about them. About what they stick to and what they don't stick to - like Gilbert! He even imagines himself as a human magnet superhero. In the end Caillou is able to apply what he's learned and uses a magnet to help Daddy retrieve a metal peg from behind the workbench. D
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Barney & Friends "The Emperor's Contest/The Whole Truth" The Emperor's Contest - Everyone is excited about a fishing contest that is being held in the park; everyone except Ryan, who doesn't want to follow the contest rules. When Ryan is tempted not to follow the rules, Barney tells a story called "The Emperor's Contest" about a boy who had a similar problem. When it's over, Ryan decides that honesty is the best policy! The Whole Truth - A talented young artist is painting a portrait of Barney, but when she has to step away, BJ is mistaken for the artist of the portrait. D
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Thomas & Friends "Happy Engines" Henry's Happy Coal - Henry is given a special of taking a very important visitor around Sodor. When Henry visits the Steam Works he is teased by 'Arry and Bert for needing to use special coal. Henry wants be like the rest of the Steamies and use normal coal instead of his special coal. D
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Curious George "Auctioneer George/Sock Monkey Opera" Auctioneer George - George has one dollar to buy anything he wants at the Annual Corn Roast and Attic Auction, and he sets his sights on a pair of red elephant mittens. When the Man with the Yellow Hat leaves George alone, he bids.and bids. D
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Martha Speaks "Here's Martha!/Dog Fight" Here's Martha! - Martha hosts a TV show where she helps people understand their animals better by explaining what they're saying. Dog Fight - Martha and Skits don't want to share their newest, coolest dog toy.G
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The Electric Company "The Junior Assistant" Francine wants to be on the next season of the "The Junior Assistant, " a reality show run by The Ronald, one of the most rich and famous people in the world. She must collaborate with Hector and The Electric Company to make six hundred cookies by five o'clock in order to prove she's worthy of being on the show. D
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WordGirl "The Wrong Side of the Law: Part 1/The Wrong Side Of the Law: Part 2" The Birthday Girl steals a priceless collection of Pretty Princess figurines from the jewelry store. In an unexpected turn of events Eileen (aka the Birthday Girl) charms the Police Commissioner and convinces him that WordGirl is the culprit. The Wrong Side Of the Law: Part 2 - WordGirl is stuck in jail, accused of stealing the priceless collection of Pretty Princess figurines while the villains of the city are running amok.G
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Wild Kratts "Snow Runners" On their way to return some Hispid hares to Asia, the Wild Kratts accidentally lose them in a wintery North American forest. Martin and Chris must use the amazing winter adaptations and strategies of the Snowshoe hare and lynx to locate the hares before it's too late. D
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Cyberchase "A Clean Sweep" Hacker makes Buzz's dream come true and gives him his very own donut shop in Radopolis. But it's just part of Hacker's latest scheme. Working out of the donut shop, Hacker makes confetti out of magnetite, and uses it to put all the Radsters to sleep, so he can take over the cybersite. D
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Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman "The Fetch Finale" It all comes down to this! In the Season Five FETCH! Finale, Ruff has learned that PURRS, the organization that runs Go Get It!, is an EVIL CAT ORGANIZATION! PURRS plans to brainwash the entire country with a device that makes everyone think they're cats! PURRS is also responsible for the disappearance of Ruff's parents.After learning that PURRS headquarters is hidden somewhere inside a water park, Ruff sends the FETCHers to find a way inside. Now all Ruff needs to do is stop the brainwashing device, find his parents, and crown a FETCH! Grand Champion!! All in a day's work for Ruff Ruffman!. D
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PBS NewsHour A report on how the community of Aurora, Colorado (the site of the Columbine High School shootings) is reacting to the national debate stirred by Newtown and the recommendations for reducing violence proposed by the Biden task force. D
7:00 pm
Antiques Roadshow "Myrtle Beach, Hour One" Host Mark L. Walberg and appraiser Eric Silver visit Brookgreen Gardens to discuss early 20th-century female sculptors. Appraiser Debra Force discovers a Joseph Henry Sharp oil painting valued at $400,000, leaving the guest feeling as sunny as Myrtle Beach itself. Part 1 of 3G
8:00 pm
Market Warriors "Antiquing In Greenwich, Ny" The pickers head up the Hudson River to the Washington County Antique Fair with more than 200 vendors and thousands of shoppers. The pickers' target assignment is to bring back a military object. Some key finds include a Victorian birdcage, a World War II water bag and a German pull toy.G
9:00 pm
Globe Trekker "Globe Trekker Food Hour: Brazil" Merrilees starts her journey in the Afro-influenced coastal city of Salvador.G
10:00 pm
Independent Lens "The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights" A celebrated - and controversial - civil rights era leader, and head of the National Urban League, Whitney Young takes the fight for civil rights directly to the powerful white elite, gaining allies in business and government. His tasks include calming the fears of white allies, relieving the doubts of fellow civil rights leaders and responding to attacks from the militant Black Power movement.G
11:00 pm
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