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Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli settles his dispute with the English champions
Italian dropped an appeal to a Premier League tribunal over his disciplinary record
Balotelli accepted a two-week fine for misdemeanors during last season
There is rarely a dull moment in the career of Mario Balotelli but the controversial striker has at least been prepared to take his medicine in the latest spat with his club Manchester City.
The Italian striker had appealed to an English Premier League tribunal after he was fined for a poor disciplinary record during City's title-winning season in 2011/12.
Balotelli, signed from Inter Milan by City boss Roberto Mancini for $39.1 million in 2010, missed a total of 11 domestic and European games through suspension and was reportedly fined two weeks wages by his club as a result.
The 22-year-old appealed the decision and his lawyers had been preparing to state his case at a Premier League tribunal on Wednesday.
Manchester derby thriller marred by 'English disease'
But a statement released by the club confirmed the Italy international had dropped his appeal after the two parties resolved their differences.
"After amicable talks between the parties, as a sign of respect for Roberto Mancini, the supporters and the club, Mario Balotelli has chosen to accept a two week fine levied upon him by the club and withdraw his disciplinary appeal, which was due to be heard by a Premier League panel," it read.
"Mario remains available for selection for all forthcoming fixtures."
Balotelli has infuriated his manager on several occasions during his two seasons at the club, Mancini stating only recently that the striker needed to train harder to get into the team.
Twice Balotelli hasn't made City's 25-man squad in the Premier League this campaign and he was substituted at halftime in City's recent 3-2 derby defeat to neighbors Manchester United.
Despite his disciplinary record, Balotelli did set up a goal for Argentina striker Sergio Aguero that secured City their first title in 44 years on a dramatic final day of last season.
That came after Mancini said Balotelli may never play for the club again after he was sent off during a defeat at Arsenal that had seemed to spell the end to their title campaign.
Balotelli played a key role in Italy's team as they made the final of Euro 2012, where they were beaten 4-1 by World champions Spain.


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2OLD2CARE, on 25 May 2018 - 11:29 PM, said:
Went back and tried again and it worked - am all updated - THANK YOU
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Guys ...
Update is out ...let's roll
I updated this morning ...its fine
Go to store and click on get updates......
Updated. But images are not smooth and time lags are serious. The game is not as enjoyable as pre-update.
The new map is beautiful
Still no update, share or delete buttons for replays for Mac OSX...
Another problem: Game finished and doesn't return back to home screen. The game froze several times.
Edited by Ronnel_999, 27 May 2018 - 08:37 AM.
Update became available yesterday. We're preparing list of players who had issues. 4 day of premium account will be compensated. ETA is tomorrow.
Once again, we bring apologies for that problem.
Johnny_Chow_JC, on 28 May 2018 - 12:13 PM, said:
New interface with cooldown indicators makes those commands unnecessary.
Uchiha_Itachi_1, on 29 May 2018 - 12:13 PM, said:
Unfortunately yes. Compensation is provided for those who played only microsoft client for 2 weeks before update and didn't launch other platforms clients then or after 4.10 release.
It was good to have a change of voice after all these years and the reloading and spotting indicators were also helpful but i think u guys should return the reloading command since it's hard to check whether someone else's tank is reloading or not in the heat of the battle and u can't also inform others whether ur reloading or not unless they check by themselves. Aside from that it's all good.
Also could u guys add in-game voice chat for platoons and tournaments in the future because sometimes people don't use discord or they have problems running both apps at once like me so that would help.
KhaKeii, on 02 June 2018 - 06:30 PM, said:
I guess you should reinstall the game.
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Choosing the right litter for a cat to do its business in is serious business. Different brands and types can fit your kitty's different needs, and we've got the scoop on how to select your best match.
Clumping vs. Disposable
The first choice to make is whether you want to scoop the stuff out of the litter box every day or throw all the litter away and start fresh. Clumping varieties cost a little bit more, but they last longer. For added convenience, many clumping varieties are also flushable.
Natural vs. Synthetic
If you choose a scoopable litter, the next choice is natural or synthetic. There is some controversy about the health risk of clay litter — your cat licks its feet and grooms its fur, which means he or she could ingest some of the litter — but many people still choose it for convenience.
Natural cat litter choices tend to be more expensive, and some cats may take a while to adjust to them because they are different in shape and texture. Some examples include World's Best Cat Litter (made from corn — a larger "pebble" litter), Feline Pine (made from pine — pellets or a dusty kind of soft shaving) and Yesterday's News (made from recycled paper — pellets that dissolve when used). While these are becoming easier to find, some of these may need to be purchased in specialty pet stores.
Synthetic varieties include Fresh Step Crystals (soft, crystal-like pebbles that absorb odor) or Tidy Cats (virtually dust-free small pebble litter). These are widely used and are available in most supermarkets.
If you choose a natural litter, your cat may need an adjustment period since the materials are so different from what your pet may be used to. It is recommended to switch litters slowly, as you would food. Start first with 1/3 new litter and 2/3 old litter, then move to 50/50, and then progress to 3/4 new and 1/4 old until your cat has fully adjusted and is used to the new variety, especially if you are switching to a pellet litter.
Litter choice is important for both you and your cat. The easiest way to find what works best is to try a few and see how you and your cat like them, factoring dust, your cat's comfort level when stepping into the box, and ease of disposal.
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Sun is shipping xVM Ops Center, a data center automation console compatible with Linux- and Solaris-based x86 and SPARC environments.
Ops Center's features include automatic installation of firmware and bare-metal operating systems; scanning and tracking of servers in a network; and patch-management tools for SUSE, Red Hat and Solaris, according to a company statement.
James Staten, an analyst with Forrester Research, said the last feature is particularly compelling, but not enough to attract a great deal of new business to Sun's platform.
"The patching mechanism they have is very impressive and works with both Linux and Solaris, but given that this is a 1.0 product the appeal will remain mainly with existing Sun customers," he said via e-mail Friday.
"It's a substantially better entry in systems management than their previous attempts, and much more open," he added.
The Ops Center codebase has already been released under the open-source GPLv3 license and is available at www.openxVM.org.
Sun previously said the first commercial version of Ops Center would be available on Jan. 8.
Oren Teich, director of product management and marketing for xVM, said the company needed additional time to make some final tweaks and improvements in areas including firmware provisioning and reporting, following requests from early beta users.
He disagreed with the notion that mainly existing Sun customers will buy the software, saying the company expects that sales will be split between current and new users. While it is a 1.0 release, code from two existing Sun products, N1 System Manager and Sun Connection, are running under the hood of Ops Center's GUI, he said. "In some ways, this is a very mature project."
Yet the first version has a key omission: support for Windows. "Although Windows support is not currently available, we're committed to offering it in the future," Teich said.
Sun is also developing xVM Server, a bare-metal, Xen-based hypervisor with support for Linux, Solaris and Windows guest operating systems.
While Sun's xVM brand stands for "the intersection of virtualization and management," according to Teich, the Ops Center 1.0 release does not feature a broad range of functionality around virtualization. This summer, Sun will release its hypervisor product and "an update to Ops Center that will have a lot of virtualization capabilities on top of it," Teich said.
The company will battle along with leader VMware, Oracle, Microsoft and an array of other vendors for a stake in the virtualization space, which analysts have pegged as remaining wide-open despite the voluminous hype around the topic in recent years.
With Ops Center, Sun will go up against IT management powerhouses such as HP and IBM.
Subscription pricing for Ops Center, with support and network-delivered services, ranges between US$100 and $350 per managed server per year.


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I am back in Florida... and I had a little time to search for this A.MA.ZING image! Just as I was leaving Scandinavia to head back, the leaves started to change their colors. We don't see that here, and that is something I miss... the true change of seasons!
Hope you have a wonderful early fall weekend, where ever you are! Any plans??
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In this brave new indie world of VOD, shifting release windows, RED cameras and social media marketing, the strongest current running through this year's Sundance Film Fest is decidedly old-fashioned: Everybody wants to discover something new.
When the reels start spinning in Park City, acquisitions execs from some 40 companies will be seeing the vast majority of the fest's 119 feature films for the first time, due to an unprecedented scarcity of private buyers' screenings and DVDs this year. The reason for that, most distributors agree, is that none of Sundance 2013's available titles is so obviously commercial that it warranted a pre-fest push.
The exception was Apple-founder biopic "Jobs," which Open Road agreed to distribute in a service deal after producers aggressively shopped it in search of a theatrical release. The Sundance closing-night pic stars Ashton Kutcher, who appears among a broad, if not overly starry, crop of name actors.
So many movies with strong — just not A-list — casts portends a rapid pace of dealmaking, just not many big ones.
"The movies that have cast and look good are usually not that great," said Dustin Smith, VP of acquisitions and business affairs for Roadside Attractions. "It's the ones that come out of nowhere, like 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' and 'Winter's Bone,' that make the biggest impact. It really is a surprise festival where careers are made."
Established names are also well-represented, from Joseph Gordon Levitt (who wrote, directed and stars in competish title "Don John's Addiction"), Rooney Mara ("Ain't Them Bodies Saints"), Jessica Biel ("Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes") and Shailene Woodley ("The Spectacular Now"). Sundance is stuffed with up-and-coming talent this year — there's just no consensus cast-driven commercial pic that has the big distributors licking their chops.
That leaves things wide open for a Sundance breakout, and though some names have been on the wind (Kaya Scoledario, who co-stars with Biel in "Emanuel," keeps coming up on the actors' side, while "Saints" director David Lowery is also frequently mentioned), the consensus among buyers is that there is no consensus. Yet.
"I've heard a lot of excitement about new talent," said festival director John Cooper, in his third year of programming the fest with Trevor Groth. "New is always exciting — the whole idea of possibility seems to be real. It seems to me like people are coming with slates to fill and open minds."
It's not as if Cooper and Groth shaped the fest to be that way. In fact, they don't really set out to shape it at all — the fact that eight of the 16 competition directors are women, for example, is 100% organic to the process, the duo said. They sift through some 12,000 submissions, pick the films they feel best represent the mission, and let the chips fall. No one knew about the 50-50 gender split until the process was complete.
Their picks also include 50 first-time filmmakers, a beefy number of freshman efforts in year when distributors seem to be in talent-scout mode.
"John and Trevor and the team are thoughtful and smart, and servicing no agenda other than the Sundance agenda, which ultimately helps the marketplace," said Kevin Iwashina, managing partner of Preferred Content.
Indicative of this year's discover-something-new craze is a noticeably increased interest in the Next section, where shoestring first-timers are being featured for a fourth year in a row.
"I'm really happy about the interest in the 'Next' category," Groth said. "People are still kind of getting their heads around what it is, what separates it from the rest of the program. It started out as a place to put great low-budget films, but has evolved from that. A lot of it has to do with from kind of films that popped out of that section in the past … they had this sort of fierce, singular attitude."
There were so many films that worked for the category this year, in fact, that Cooper and Groth expanded it from eight titles to 10, including "A Teacher," which is getting some of the strongest pre-fest buzz despite its low profile and tiny budget. The grapevine has been alive with chatter about star Lindsay Burdge, who plays a schoolteacher who has an affair with a student, and first-time feature director Hannah Fidell.
It's just one of several films in the festival this year that turn on sex and sexuality — with pics like "Interior Leather Bar" and docu "Kink" as evidence — another anomaly of Cooper and Groth's process.
"I'm just trying to use this entire experience in order to make the next film," said Fidell. "I like that the theme of this year's Sundance is sexuality and I'm excited to see how female directors are dealing with this topic."
Another topic that everyone at Sundance is dealing with: the maturation of VOD.
"Whereas last year the discussion around VOD was about its economic viability and consumer acceptance, this year Ultra-VOD and day/date theatrical is perceived as a strong alternative for North American distribution," Iwashina said.
As long as there are movie theaters, filmmakers will always have the bigscreen top of mind . But everyone agrees the days of VOD being a dirty word are long over.
"I'm a big believer in going to the theater; I like the experience," said Lake Bell, whose comedy "In a World," her first feature, premieres Sunday. "That said, I'm incredibly open to different ways of putting a film into the world. I'm aware that things are changing at a rapid pace; to be overly traditional is not wise because audiences will never see it."


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It is defined as a service that allows a caller to masquerade as someone else by falsifying the number that appears on the recipient's caller ID display. Telemarketers and scam artists are using it, most likely to get your personal information. How are they getting away with that? And, what can you, the consumer, do to protect yourself?


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Affordable Care Act could shrink workforce by 900,000
There may be less of an incentive for workers to keep or find a job
This article was originally published by watchdog.org.
HARRISBURG, Pa. �?? If you�??re single, earning less than $22,000 annually and are getting health insurance through your employer, the federal Affordable Care Act may make you reconsider showing up for work in 2014.
That�??s one of the conclusions from a study released looking at another of the unseen consequences of the Obamacare.
If low-income workers are able to buy reduced-price health insurance through the new federal exchanges, there may be less of an incentive for those workers to keep or find a job, according to three researchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a national think tank.
�??Our results appear to indicate that the soon-to-be-enacted health-care reform may cause substantial declines in aggregate employment,�?� conclude researchers Craig Garthwaite, Tal Gross andMatthew Notowidigdo.
In the paper, the three academics examine the so-called �??employment lock�?� phenomenon. That�??s what happens when employees continue working at their current job primarily so they can earn and keep health benefits. That �??lock�?� will be loosened by the new health insurance exchanges set to begin operating in 2014.
There are between 850,000 and 1.5 million childless adults in the United States who earn less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line �?? about $22,000 per year �?? and have employer-provided health insurance. They do not qualify for public health benefits because they earn too much and have no dependents, but under the rules �?? which take effect in 2014 �?? those workers will be able to buy insurance on federal or state-based health insurance exchanges.
Because of their low-income status, they can qualify for subsidies to cover part or all of the cost of their health insurance premiums.
The new study suggests that at least some of those workers are only maintaining their jobs to keep their employer-sponsored health plans. Given the option to buy cheaper insurance through the exchanges, many may cut back on their hours or drop their jobs entirely.
�??Applying our labor supply estimates directly to this population, we predict a decline in employment of between 530,000 and 940,000 in response to this group of individuals being made newly eligible for free or heavily subsidized health insurance,�?� the authors wrote. �??This would represent a decline in the aggregate employment rate of between 0.3 and 0.6 percentage points from this single component of the ACA.�?�
Unemployment was at 7.6 percent in June.
John Davidson, a health care policy analyst at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, said there is no doubt some people will drop out of the labor force once health insurance coverage is decoupled from employment. But it may not be all bad news, he added.
�??Freedom from �??employment lock�?? could also have the effect of encouraging people to take economic risks, such as starting a small business or some other entrepreneurial venture,�?� Davidson said. �??If they can get health insurance elsewhere, they are likely to engage in economic activity in some other way rather than drop out of the workforce entirely.�?�
The federal Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday declined to comment on the study.
But employers �??already concerned about the costs associated with the Affordable Care Act �?? say this could be another bad blow.
In manufacturing heavy Wisconsin, the economic recovery from the worst recession in decades is well under way. With already tight labor markets and employers struggling to find qualified workers, Badger State business advocates say the last thing the manufacturing sector needs is a shallower labor pool.
Jeff Zriny, president and CEO of the Wausau Region Chamber of Commerce, says employers would be forced to drive up wages even higher, a scenario that could ultimately be costly for Wisconsin�??s economic recovery.
�??There would be an hourly wage creep that would spread through the organization, which probably could not be absorbed by the company,�?� Zriny said. �??That�??s what happens when you interfere with the free market.�?�
Paul Gessing, president of the Rio Grande Foundation, a free market think tank based in Albuquerque, N.M., says he�??s not particularly surprised by the study.
�??For decades, the political left in this country has been fighting to expand Americans�?? dependency on government,�?� he said. �??it is no surprise that the massive expansion of government�??s role in the health care sector �?? an expansion that has been coveted by the left since the Truman Administration �?? would result in fewer workers and increased dependency on government.�?�
The authors of the study also suggest �??far larger increases in Medicaid enrollment than are currently expected,�?� due to a ripple-effect of some workers leaving their jobs. Depending on what state an individual lives in, a reduction in annual income from $22,000 to $11,000 could make them eligible for Medicaid.
Boehm is a national reporter for Watchdog.org and can be reached at email@example.com.


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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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- Characterization of 2D Human Ankle Stiffness during Postural Balance and Walking for Robot-aided Ankle Rehabilitation
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Structural features of canonical wall-bounded turbulent flows are described using several techniques, including proper orthogonal decomposition (POD). The canonical wall-bounded turbulent flows of channels, pipes, and flat-plate boundary layers include physics important to a wide variety of practical fluid flows with a minimum of geometric complications. Yet, significant questions remain for their turbulent motions' form, organization to compose very long motions, and relationship to vortical structures. POD extracts highly energetic structures from flow fields and is one tool to further understand the turbulence physics. A variety of direct numerical simulations provide velocity fields suitable for detailed analysis. Since POD modes …
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A second EUR 60 million facility, the Western Balkans Sustainable Energy Credit Line, will provide loans to companies and households through the banking sector, up to a maximum EUR 2 million. Both funds provide tailor-made financing and assistance from technical consultants to help develop projects. The financing includes incentive payments rewarding reductions in greenhouse gases.
Grant support for the credit lines are being provided by the European Commission, the Western Balkans Multi-Donor Fund and the EBRD's Shareholders Special Fund. The first EUR 10 million loan in Serbia has been signed with Banca Intesa Belgrade, backed by EUR 13.5 million of EU grant funding to be used to kick-start investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.
Technical assistance to help end-borrowers prepare eligible projects will be funded by a EUR 2.5 million grant from the EBRD Western Balkans Multi-Donor Fund, part of the EUR 110 million total. Hopes are that the new EU/EBRD Western Balkans Sustainable Energy Credit Line will repeat the success of similar arrangements in Bulgaria and Romania. Per capita energy consumption in the Western Balkans is up to 2.5 times higher than the average across European countries in the OECD.


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After being bombarded with images of domestic destruction from Superstorm Sandy, it's comforting to experience this week's cover by Daniel Pollera, where soothing shades of amber engulf the dunes. The setting is not only calming but also evokes a late fall day, the ending of one season and the beginning of another.
While new beginnings and the nostalgic past (seen in this cover's historical home) have often been themes of Pollera's, he has always focused on formal qualities concerning light and composition. These particular techniques have served him well, guiding him through the long journey he has traveled to reach his goal of becoming an artist.
Q: What are some things that you believe in, some values that have gotten you where you are today, especially having to do with your children?
A: I believe my children should work for what they have and not be given everything. But if things get tough, I would step in. I am always there for them.
Q: How about work values? You are so committed to your art. Do you ever relax?
A: At the end of the day, I turn on the TV, which is in my studio. But my paintings are there, too, and I get distracted. I start looking at my art.
Q: You just like working. Like on your boat.
A: I like working on my boat, refurbishing it, but if it becomes a chore, I walk away.
Q: The same with painting?
A: Same with painting; I just walk away. But I come back to finish it.
Q: Have you ever given up and not gotten back to a piece?
A: Never.
Q: How come?
A: I don't paint myself into a corner. I have good planning before I start a painting. I know where the composition is going. When I first started painting, I would block the entire image in and figure how one color would effect the other.
Q: You really do have a great sense of color.
A: I remember when I took an art class, my teacher said, "You understand color." I didn't understand what he meant then.
Q: I think he meant you work with intuition, which is a real gift. But despite understanding and good planning, problems may come up in the process.
A: Composition can take on its own personality and deviate from my plan. So I make adjustments in that case. Problems are workable. I try and keep it under control. But it's like walking a tightrope.
The important thing is that the end result is pleasing to the viewer.
Q: So what other values are important to you besides planning and control?
A: Determination. If people try and tell you not to be an artist it challenges you to try it anyway. You follow your gut, your dream.
Q: How about the determination you showed with the recent storm?
A: We were two weeks without services. But I was determined to stay in our house. It's not going to float away, I kept thinking.
Q: What life lessons have your learned from the storm?
A: I've seen history change. My neighborhood was really affected: The Red Cross was giving out meals; neighbors came out to help; the National Guard was there. But I also realized another change in history. Some Victorian houses that I painted a long time ago were destroyed by the storm. I can't paint them again.
Pollera's original art can be seen at Southampton's Chrysalis Gallery, 2 Main Street, 631-287-1883. His work can also be seen on his website: www.danielpollera.com


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Prison-based gerrymandering dilutes your vote
"There are many ways to hijack political power. One of them is to draw state or city legislative districts around large prisons — and pretend that the inmates are legitimate constituents."—Brent Staples
Called prison-based gerrymandering, the practice finds its clearest example in Anamosa, Iowa where a large prison constituents almost an entire city council district. Council districts are supposed to contain the same number of people, but basing districts on non-voting non-resident prison populations gives a handful of residents the same political power as thousands of residents elsewhere in the city.
The Census Bureau counts people in prison as if they were residents of the communities where they are incarcerated, even though they remain legal residents of the places they lived prior to incarceration. As Census data is used to apportion political power at all levels of government, crediting thousands of disproportionately urban and minority men to other communities has staggering implications for modern American democracy.
In New York State, for example, one out of every three people who moved to upstate New York in the 1990s actually "moved" into a newly constructed prison. The State bars people in prison from voting, but their presence in the Census boosts the population of the upstate districts whose legislators favor prison expansion. Without this phantom population, 7 upstate New York State Senate districts would not meet minimum population requirements and would have to be redrawn.
Hard to believe that this type of horsepuckey is occurring in America TODAY. What an insult to the American people. I had no idea this was going on or how large of an affect it has. Simply another example where politicians prove that they will do anything to remain at the reigns of power, and yet another example of why some political reform is necessary in America today. Separating special interests' money from politicians is a great place to start, I hope everyone supports Freedom's Vision, we're still working hard on getting it organized – volunteers are needed.


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I pre-ordered Dream House by Marzia Bisognin, and I finally got around to reading it after it sat on my desk for a while.
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Another victim of moral panic inspired "thought crime" laws..
What in the frack goes wrong in somebody's upbringing that they could ever even look at this sort of material. Soulless. I can't even imagine. Just reading the descriptions and my hand shot up and covered my mouth and my eyes bugged out.
Clearly a sick individual, but anyone housed in this manner, at this age, would seem to be a suicide risk, and isn't treatment a better answer than this ?
inmates on the four-cell "segregation" unit which housed Coley-- ... spend almost all their time, including mealtime, in the cells, which contain a bed, sink, and toilet.
I think nine months in an 8' by 5' cell would be enough to cause anybody to commit suicide. That, combined with the prospect of doing 19 more years and 3 months of it.
And I have to wonder with all the dirt cheap technology out here now, why are the cells not monitored by video cameras linked into the main control room? Having been in the main control room myself on occasions too numerous to recall, I don't think I would have trouble adding the observation of a few more video monitors to my list of duties.
The guy in the control room still has to stay awake to watch video monitors.
Having just woke up from my afternoon nap, that sounds like a job I definately wouldn't have. Are you sure the control room employees have to stay awake the entire 40 hours they work each week? That would kill me for sure. I couldn't do it. Back when I had gubment job it was all I could do to give them a good 20 hours a week of work. Come to think of it, it's all that was really expected from all of us. The sheriffs had it much better than any of us had it though. You could never find any of them between 10:00 a.m. and noon, and never after 1:00 p.m. One particular sheriff couldn't fool us though.... whenever we needed him all we had to do was ride around to his rental properties one by one until we finally found him.
This is indeed a vulgar, vile and despicable crime. All images of violence against children are grotesque, no matter how deviant. Law enforcement arrests online traders at a staggering rate. When are we going to stop pointing the finger and realize that we have a huge population of people surrounding us that need serious mental help? Incarceration will not stop this crime.
I'm sorry,but anyone that gets their gratification by watching the pain and torture of a small child gets no sympathy from me.These people that have a thing for children are never cured.It is a sickness for the rest of their wretched lives.I wish people would stop acting like this guy is the victim.He was a nasty pervert and we're better off without him.Good riddance.
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These guys who get caught chatting online with a detective posing as a minor are not a huge national problem like the police want you to think they are. How many 14 year old girls really meet a 50 year old? They don't. It is just a fantasy, plain and simple. These guys NEVER reoffend after getting caught. They literally have a ZERO percent recidivism rate. We should be spending more on our kids education than on tens of thousands of police officers to play around on the internet pretending to be a minor.
I personally know some of these detectives and their cases are drying up so they just get creative and use very attractive older teens over 15 to lure more men so that they can keep fresh cases coming. This is not about protecting any children, this is simply political. These agencies just jumped on the bandwagon after that popular tv show we all know about. They have already ruined thousands of mens lives over this fictitious crime. These guys don't need to be labeled molesters, these guys never even victimized a real victim. It is all overhyped and overblown. We should be focusing on the real molesters we catch and kidnappers, rapists and murderers. Not even former murderers or former terrorists have to register on any sort of registry. That is just ridiculous.
Good, glad he is dead. He finally did the right thing. Saves the taxpayers money.
Too Common, a lot of what you say in your last paragraph is true.
And they are also doing it to keep the federal grants rolling in.
Well, now, "this crime is too common" has found another anonymous internet comment alleging that these perpetrators never reoffend. Case closed!
Apparently this person didn't read the hook a few weeks ago?
These criminals have a nearly %100 recidivism rate. Whether or not you believe incarceration is the answer, removal from society DEFINITELY is. There is no treatment for their pedophilia and, frankly, society does not owe them "treatment".
Frankly, some people deserve to die. There, I said it. I don't give a rat's patuty about this @-hole and I don't care what he did before he got off on watching children suffer in this unspeakable way
But I am disturbed by the hook's headline. It certainly seems to be an attempt to provoke sympathy for this alleged child sex-abuse perpetrator. It definitely wouldn't be the first time that the hook published a story that appeared to have sympathy for alleged child sex abuse perpetrators. In fact, I believe it's the exact same reporter.
What's up with that?
I kinda like the fact that The Hook was the first local source to uncover this story. I see both TV stations and the Daily Progress have picked up on it thanks to Courteney's hard work. Why was this suicide covered up for a week?
@meanwhile, you're full of it, if there is a 100% recidivism rate, why is it you can go on a sex offender registry and see hundreds of little red dots of people who have lived for years without being arrested again?
Also how does this registry "protect the children" when most child molestation cases are perpetrated by immediate family members? Most people on these registries are NOT child molesters but men who sought out adult prostitutes, wizzed behind a bush, slept with their 16yo girlfriend when they were 18 or 19 etc.
Also if you have ever downloaded a jihad video like Daniel Parl getting his head sawed off, well guess what, yoh're a sick SOB too.
Wow! I had no idea that there were people out there that had an opinion on this subject that was other than what "meanwhile" expressed! I really thought everyone had jumped on the bandwagon to lynch anyone that ended up on the sex offender list!! This will definitely be a thread I will continue to watch!
@ This Crime is too Common -
Unfortunately "this crime" that you speak of is not applicable in this situation. You're talking about detectives baiting men over the internet with promises of teens. This guy was knowingly in possession of, and was knowingly involved in the trading of, very hardcore nasty child pornography of the worst kind. Apples and oranges. Try to keep up.
Anybody who would possess or promote the swapping of this kind of material is in a way, almost as guilty as the guys who make it because they're encouraging it. They're acting as the demand, thus encouraging more supply. Granted, the pedos would continue to make this stuff regardless, but still, anybody who downloads and swaps this stuff around is playing their part too.
Mike, where did I say that all people on the sex offender registry list have %100 recidivism rate?
You're employing a logical fallacy. I didn't say what you're saying I said.
For ANYONE who is in denial that a young child comes in routine contact with a 50 yrs old is so out of touch!!! Yes I mean you "This Crime is to Common" and your stupid remark! Anyone who even remotely sticks up for this man for his pervesion against children is probably hiding something! Who gives a rats @$$ if there were cameras in the cell area or not, people like this are MORE than welcome to hang themselves if they want. There is NO CURE for this type of individual. Once you are striken with the desire, uncontrollable or otherwise to watch someone sexually molest another human being, much less a child then I'll happily agree to let them knot the rope!!!
I think this topic is worthy of discussion in a humane and solution oriented manner. Children are being harmed and the efforts to protect them are not working. To think that we can round up and kill/imprison the violators against children (with contact or no contact) is ignorant.
Maybe talking with a sex offender to hear what they have to say would enlighten the readers. Would the Hook be willing to interview an incarcerated offender who has no charges of touching, but instead viewing/trading online?
A topic like this really brings out the low brow reactionary bigots among the readership. Truly critical thinking doesn't come naturally to people and it is seldom taught in today's educational system.
Among the popular sophistries is the moral equivalency argument that says the casual online dabbler is as guilty as the producers. This of course is the same thinking that fuels the handing out of draconian sentences to casual users in the "drug war". In their case, during the rule of the smirking chimp, we even had ads equating recreational drug use with support for terrorism.
re:"Among the popular sophistries is the moral equivalency argument that says the casual online dabbler is as guilty as the producers."
This guy is (sorry, "WAS") not a casual online dabbler, clearly.
Among your sophistries is morally equating child rape with recreational drug use.
I hope he suffered before he died
"This of course is the same thinking that fuels the handing out of draconian sentences to casual users in the "drug war"."
To compare sexual deviant behavior and anti-establishment behavior minimizes the crime against humanity. Draconian justice should be bestowed on the "casual pedeophile" as well as the people that produce it.
There are organizations all around the world trying to bring this type of behavior to the mainstream as normal and they use naive adults to help their cause. Free thinkers who look down upon us small folk are the worst for entertaining their deviant thoughts.
Low brow mentality? Probably. Should child rape mean certain death? Definitely.
@ Angel Eyes
While I myself don't care for the hysterical mob mentality one tends to find online and have spoken out against it, at the same time I find your glib defense of somebody who dabbles in hardcore child pornography to be.....curious.
"This of course is the same thinking that fuels the handing out of draconian sentences to casual users in the "drug war". In their case, during the rule of the smirking chimp, we even had ads equating recreational drug use with support for terrorism."
I'm in agreement with you about draconian drug sentences being handed down to casual users, however, pointing out the authorities' over-the-top level of response to one type of crime does not somehow justify an argument about the response given to another, completely unrelated and very different level of crime.
The fact that you can't seem to differentiate between "drug crimes" and "raping helpless children on video crimes" and think that one is a good example to compare the other one to means you're not the superior, sophisticated intellect you try to posture yourself as.
People who engage in the trade of child pornography are not merely engaging in a "thought crime" as you like to try to portray things. They're helping to create demand for the product. If you've paid attention to some of the cases going on out there, there are pedos who get into chats with cops who are posing as other pedos, and they will offer up streaming vids of themselves molesting kids, live. In one case I read about the cop had to actually watch as this live time video of a child being raped came up on his computer. But it goes to show, people who merely "watch" are in many cases creating a demand, sometimes a live-time demand, for a crime that is one of *the* worst ones possible. The viewer may never have ever laid a hand on the victimized child........but they sat there and watched somebody else did, created a demand for the product, and in a number of cases encouraged live-time rapings to happen, egging things on.
If this were a murder case, that person would be considered an accomplice or an accessory.
Not sure why you don't seem to grasp that. Unless of course, you've got something to defend? And Willis Coley's situation hits a little too close to home for you?
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So much for innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. You read something in the paper and now you see a convict not an inmate, someone who is no longer around to defend himself. How do you folks know he wasn't framed and murdered? Happens to soldiers quite often. Maybe this guy knew something and planned to go public with it. You wouldn't read a report from Courteney Stuart about that if it was the case, I guarantee you. You'd read the official story.
I am glad this guy is dead. He crossed the line. However I think too common and angel eyes make some good points.
There is a huge difference between someone watching porn and someone watching real rape of a minor. There is also a difference between a 18 year old who has consensual sex with as 16 year old and gets labeled as a sex offender and a 40 year old who stalks a 15 year old online and tries to hook up. We need to fix that, even if it is by labeling the types of sex offense clearly on the registry.
They gave that UVA kid jail for viewing kiddie porn in the privacy of his own home, where he found it for free, showed it to no one, and never contacted another human being about it. That to me is the government going too far. It is thought police. Yes he shoud have been given probation and had his internet histaory avialable to police for 10 years but to send him to jail was too much.
Should we arrest anyone who watches children getting slaughtered in afghanastan by the taliban?
I am all for capitol punishment for pedophiles but wew need to have an adult conversation about it.
I have heard about wives who download this crap on their husbands laptop and then call the cops to get custody.
A very slippery slope.
@ John Guiliano and bill marshall
Actually you both make very good points, about how people can be framed for stuff. And it's true that a lot of women know no limit in how low they will stoop when going after an ex in divorce court. It's off topic, but this has been discussed in the comments section of another Hook story awhile back, and how for instance a lot of women will accuse their exes of molesting their kids to gain the upperhand in divorce proceedings. So yes, one always has to keep that in mind, and you're right in that it's not fair to just assume he was guilty. There is always the chance that he wasn't. None of us were the arresting officers, we weren't there that day when they showed up at his apartment, nobody here can verify that he admitted to any of what the arresting officers claim that he admitted to, so we'll never really know. We're all just having to take the authorities' word for it, unfortunately.
We use to call them servants of the public way back when.
bill marshall: stiff penalties for this crime represent the will of the people. You may disagree, but society has deemed this crime to be deserving of such a harsh sentence.
The fact is that some people WILL be deterred from pursuing child porn because of the harsh sentence.
Imagine if probation was offered for child porn offenses. Police would not investigate the crime. They aren't going to bother to investigate if the perpetrators aren't removed from society. It would be a waste of their resources. Thee idly curious would not fear to pursue child porn. The stigma would be diminished. The fear of being caught would be diminished. The fear of punishment, if you were caught, would be diminished.
This would lead to a greater ubiquity for this filth and, ultimately, a greater demand for its production. In other words, reducing the penalty for child porn will lead DIRECTLY to more children being raped.
I think if you thought it through and were honest, you'd see this. This is PRECISELY why the punishment is so severe. The people that lobbied for and passed the legislation that required stiff penalties for this crime new exactly what they were doing.
You can claim it's a "thought crime", but you cannot deny that it is a crime that requires that a child gets raped. Snuffing out this crime (or at least attempting to) is a priority for society, hence the harsh penalties.
It's a little disingenuous to use the fact that there are so many pedophiles as an argument against punishment for this crime. It is in no way a victimless crime. These chumps deserve what they get.
As if it isn't hard enough on the family already having their son, brother, grandson, etc. die, you guys are only punishing the family more by your hurtful comments. Please keep them to yourselves.
thank you worm!
I hpe he suffered before he died
gsoe- for moment there I thought you were an air traffic controller.............
Truly, the more important point of this article would be is why were the correction's officers derelict of their duties? Per their policy they are to make rounds every 15 minutes - not 30 minutes. Now, this particular guy and his crimes, I feel the same as many here - perhaps this was justice BUT his family now has a wrongful death claim against not just the Jail, the officers involved, the County of Albemarle and the City of Charlottesville.
The reason the HOOK reported this first is because they are not in the "back pocket" of Matthews who is ultimately the one responsible for the fact that his officers did not follow policy. And this isn't the first instance under Matthew's reign. There have been several because this man should not be in the position.
This is the "man" who when inmates took his officers hostage told others, "Don't let them see me!" As he hid behind his officers? What a leader! This is the "leader" who told the Charlottesville/Albemarle SWAT that they couldn't go in to rescue two of his officers with guns? What do you think SWAT is? John Isom was a much better leader. They hired Matthews because he took the job at a rate under the offering salary - now it will cost them more - already has.
The bigger issue is we have this dip in charge of the Charlottesville/Albemarle County Regional Jail. It will not be long before something even bigger happens if they don't get rid of him over this incident. (This will cost us all and has been - in taxes that will pay for these suits.)
These were electronic images transmitted over the internet, downloadable or simply viewable by anyone with a computer along with a plethora of other ugly stuff. making it into a capital crime by rationalizing that it strikes at the core of our "civilization" is simply 21st. century equivalency of Torquemada's campaign against heresy. There was a time when possession of "homo-erotica" such as pictures of men buggering each other was viewed the same way and punished with stiff jail sentences, and a time when practicing homosexuality was dealt with harshly, and these things were rationalized the same way...maybe some of you think they still should be.
Looking at dirty pictures doesn't equate to doing the things depicted, but now under law, the punishments being the same, they are viewed as the same. What sort of penalties should we have for having snuff films on the hard drive?
And just in case...I am not gay, OK? And furthermore I am personally grossed out by porn of all types and have no personal dog in the fight. This is all about justice and proportionality.


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Stay at the premier floor and enjoy additional amenities and access to the Premier Lounge. Amidst the private space guests savour coffee, tea, snack and a variety of exclusive privileges on 7th floor. Open from 07:00 until 22:00 daily.
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Complimentary Airport Transfer to/from Suvarnabhumi Airport is available to all of our guests, the service operates between 05.00 AM – 02.30 AM every 30 minutes and subject to seats availability.
Guests will be met between 05.00 AM-02.30 AM, by the hotel Representative who wears Pink Jacket holding the hotel sign "BEST WESTERN PREMIER Amaranth Suvarnabhumi Airport" at Gate No. 5 on the 2nd Floor of the Arrival Hall nearby the Information Counter.
The shuttle runs on a loop, guests will have to wait for the shuttle van as it completes its circuit. If after 02.30-05.00 AM. the service is on every one hour, therefore 24 hrs. advanced reservation is required together with full flight details. There is no Airport Representative during 02.30-05.00 AM.
The pick up will be at Gate No.5 on the 2nd Floor.
|The Hotel is located 10 kms from Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport and provides free shuttle transportation to and from the Airport.


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Realizations and Responses Part 1
by chorpiano-esandresky
Returning to NY in 2009 after 4 years abroad, I faced a pretty bleak landscape professionally. All my gigs had been taken over by others, which I had helped to facilitate in some instances and which I fully expected in the rest. What I had not expected was the radically altered landscape of the field.
When I left, the new music scene in New York City was on the rise, with more and more opportunities and more and more composers and performers creating those opportunities. That is still happening and that is amazing! We have a wonderfully vibrant and supportive scene of new music, for which I am really grateful. What is not so amazing though is that the audiences for many performances are made up only of a few friends, fellow composers and performers. For many, performance and composition fees have actually gone down. There are more venues, but fewer dollars. People seem to be willing to play and compose for next to nothing just for the opportunity to be heard, if only by their colleagues. I can relate to those desires intimately, but I cannot live if I succumb to them. No one can.
So what happened? And where is our audience?
First, I ask you to accept the idea that there IS an audience outside our group. It seems to me that what happened was we simply forgot about them. How this happened is not easily explained, and I don't profess to understand it entirely, but I do have some theories. First, I think that in part we can look to the over-saturation of information in general, so getting the word out is at once easier and more complicated than ever before. Before the internet, one had to pay design and printing costs to send out concert notices. You had to write and type press materials and put them in the mail. Now we depend on Facebook, email and the like for those things. Anyone with an internet connection can now act as a promoter of their own work. Again, this is easier, but the shear volume of invitations that most of us receive is so enormous that it's hard for anyone we don't know to get our attention. Where I used to receive 10 to 15 postcard concert announcements in the mail a month, now I get 20 – 30 event invitations from around the world a week. The thinking is, I imagine, "I have more than 2500 'friends' on Facebook, so I can just use that as a way to engage my audience." And we perhaps think that we can always count on our peers, family and friends to show up. We hope that somehow we will get gigs in places that will draw an audience for us. The problem with that is that first, you have to get their attention and get booked, and then there is the additional problem that most venues no longer have a point of view. They are trying to make as much money as they can to stay in business.
The whole system seems broken to me. So how do we fix it? How do we find our audience?
For myself, I compose and perform music because I think it matters to the world that I do so. I also can't imagine any other life for myself. Most, if not all, of us are in this category I imagine. For me, it doesn't matter so much for my friends and colleagues to hear my music, although I am very pleased when they come, and I love working with as many different artists as I can. When I say that, it's because my friends and colleagues already have a rich artistic life. I am creating music for those who are not really able to create it themselves, or those that feel a deep desire to connect to people like me. Artists – musicians and composers, dancers, visual artists, actors, etc – provide an emotional outlet, a balm on the soul, a respite from daily life, a means to understand. This work is essential to our health as a society. And the live experience is important on so many levels. First it is a gathering place where we humans come together and share an experience in real time. We connect to each other in important ways and build our communities in these ways. Further to that, we become an active part of any live performance as the energy in the space is exchanged, the sound waves bounce off our bodies and we all become a part of creating that sound experience. If one less person or one more person was present the sound would be different! In response to these realizations, my mission has recently become taking my music and live performance out into the world to places where I normally would not play – people's homes.
I played my first house concert last month in Detroit, MI. Some of you reading here may have seen my posts on Facebook about that experience. If I had photos from that day, I'd post them here. It was a magical experience for me and for them. My hosts, the Wujeks were incredibly generous to invite me to perform in their home sight unseen, after only a phone call and checking out my website. They invited about 30 of their friends, I invited some people that I know out there too, and I'd guess that about 25 to 30 people came. Ed introduced me briefly and then I talked about my music in general, and explained a little about each piece before I played it. Ed wasn't interested in hearing music that wasn't mine, and he specifically asked for the wildest stuff I could play! – He studies boogie-woogie style piano and has a small grand in his beautiful living room. – The energy in the room was so warm, upbeat and inviting that I didn't feel the usual nerves that I sometimes do. Not that I wasn't nervous, because I was. The experience was already changing me.
What I learned was that it is incredibly important for me, and I believe for all of us as artists, to give our gift of music to everyone however we can and then allow them the opportunity to give something back to us. By allowing the Wujeks to invite their friends, for whom they gave the gift of my concert by acting as Presenter, all these people then showed their gratitude by giving money to me, in the time-honored tradition. The Wujeks got to feel the warmth and glow of providing a great experience to their friends and I got to feel the warmth and glow of giving a concert that was highly appreciated in every way. After I was finished playing, an impromptu Q&A started up and then many people wanted to ask me further questions on various related topics as we shared the food and drink the Wujek's offered.
My sense was that these people were not going to come to a concert hall, at least not yet. They almost universally claimed ignorance of music, which I think they overstated, but they were clearly fascinated by what I was doing. Some said they had never heard a live piano performance before! Hopefully they will be interested in the idea and go out to a concert hall, but it may be that this is they way they want to experience music. Perhaps this is the way that is most meaningful for them right now?
There is an audience out there, happily. However, they don't know how to get to us, so we have to go out and find them. Currently, they won't go to the concert hall, so we have to go to them. And after such a success, I started working out how to replicate the experience in other places almost immediately by talking with people who seem like likely candidates. Ultimately, I envision a network of house-concert venues around the world with each home-owner becoming a kind of curator. At least in the beginning, I am happy to facilitate this process by paving the way with my own concerts, hopefully sharing information with others who are already doing this, and together creating a network of venues with built-in audiences of curious people hungry for a visceral, new-music experience.
If anyone reading this is interested in hosting a concert or knows someone who might be interested in hosting a concert, please let me know! By the same token, if anyone is interested in playing a house concert, let me know and I'll start a database.
It is vitally important for the arts to engage people outside their purview. I believe that until we do that, we will, as a group, continue to lose ground economically because we are not participating in the world at large directly enough. This is kind of a new realization for me, and so I'm still figuring out how to address this most fully for myself, but the first step I took was a massive success!
Stay tuned to read about the other avenues I am actively working.


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Roosevelt Island Youth Program Tee-Ball Players Learn Fundamentals Of Baseball On Chilly Saturday Opening Day - RIYP Soccer And Flag Football Registration Open
The Roosevelt Island Youth Program (RIYP) Tee-Ball season began last Saturday for kids 5-7 years of age. RIYP Sports Director/Deputy Director Andrey Chichagov shares these photos by Harumi and reports
The Roosevelt Island Youth Program Tee-Ball started this past Saturday. This year we have 100 registrations and the program will run until June. Its coached by the famous Coach Tommy who will teach children the fundamentals of baseball.Despite the chilly weather,
Saturday also marked the start of the High School Spring soccer league which has also eclipsed the mark of 100 registrations. As of now Registration for High School Soccer https://tinyurl.com/zh44ta5 is still open as well as flag football for ages 8-12 year olds https://tinyurl.com/zvhg78e
Coach Tommy instructed the RIYP Tee-Ball players on the fundamentals of hitting,
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- Dead mice to be laced with acetaminophen
- Drug can kill snakes in 72 hours
- Brown tree snake has wiped out Guam's bird populations
- Up to 2 million snakes may be on island
If you're a brown tree snake, those dead rodents that will soon be falling from the sky over Guam's Andersen Air Force Base could be your last meal.
That's because the U.S. Department of Agriculture is planning to pack each one with acetaminophen, the generic equivalent of Tylenol, which can kill a snake in 72 hours.
The drug-laced mice will be taped to pieces of cardboard, which in turn will be attached to streamers that will be dropped from helicopters over more than 100 acres of the Air Force base on the Pacific island.
The bombing campaign is expected to begin this spring, Dan Vice, the USDA assistant operations director on Guam, told the local Pacific News Center. It replicates a smaller-scale test drop tried on Naval Base Guam in 2010, he said.
The goal, he said, is eradicating the brown tree snake from the island.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says brown tree snakes have wiped out most of Guam's native populations of forest birds since being accidentally introduced to the island after World War II, probably after they stowed away on a ship or plane from their native range in Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The snakes, which can grow up to 8 feet long, also eat small mammals and lizards.
The snake is mildly venomous, the FWS says, but it does not pose a danger to most adults, and its bite will not penetrate clothing.
Besides its effect on bird populations, the snakes also take an economic toll on Guam by causing numerous power outages each year when they cross from tree into electrical lines, the FWS says.
There could be as many as 2 million of the snakes on Guam, where they have no natural predators. About 2,000 mice will be dropped in the newest test, the Pacific Daily News reports. The $1 million program is being funded by the Department of Defense, according to the report.
"No one's ever attempted anything on this scale," Vice said of this spring's planned air drop. "You know to date the largest plot that anyone's been able to get rid of snakes is only a couple of acres. We're talking 110 acres so this is completely novel."
The dead mice will target snakes in a fenced-in area of the base, he said, so officials will be able to determine the effectiveness in that area versus an adjacent area that the snakes could move in and out of.
"We have a site where there's a population of snakes that nobody can get into. It's a controlled population," Vice told the Pacific News Center. "This is being done in a very rigorous, scientific manner. This isn't just something that we've just kind of come up with by the seat of our pants."
And if the test works, more snakes could be confronting death from above.
"We want to make sure we are doing it right. If the information shows that it's effective in controlling the population, we will institute a plan to use it across areas in Guam," Vice told the Pacific Daily News.


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So exciting this is!!!!
I can hardly keep up... now there are two new issues (adore HOME & Lovely Wedding Magazine) to read from the team at adore HOME. The above edition is just the perfect pop of brightness and cheerfulness I was looking for! Colorful Christmas is what they advertise, and that's exactly what you will get, yeah!!
A brand new interview with Anna Spiro, of Black & Spiro and the Absolutely Beautiful Things Blog, inspires a colorful and handmade Christmas enjoyed with friends and family.
These happy images from the store, makes me wish for a pop-up shop in South Florida :)
Anna is a master of color and mixing patterns, and this lamp with its fabric shade is a perfect example!! I imagine this in an office, how can you not want to be at your desk?
So, I am aware that the focus is on the pompoms... but I think the mirror is super cool too. The pale wood and all the carved details, not to mention the height.
Come pull up a chair to this BRIGHT table... I could make up a whole story about the menu I would serve, the people I would like to entertain here and the dress code... any suggestions?
Jingle Bells are a must at Christmas, and why not white...?
OK, so these above images are from the adore HOME blog, but there are others in the magazine for you to explore.
AND, while you are at it, check out the Style Trail of Brisbane's Eastern Suburbs on page 70, everyone loves a good shopping trip, right? Only this virtual one will not empty your bank account :)
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Now that UWGB has the LGBTQ Resource Center as a place for LGBTQ students to connect on campus, it is only natural that alums have a way to connect too, at least through Facebook. We are proud to announce the creation of the UWGB LGBTQ Alumni Network. Much like geographical Alumni Networks, the UWGB LGBTQ Alumni Network is a way to connect, keep in touch, and network with other alums in the LGBTQ community. The Facebook group is a closed group in which you need to request to join, but this allows only the members of the group to see the wall and postings. If you want to be a part of the LGBTQ Alumni Network simply find us on Facebook and ask to join!
Additionally we would like to get together as the LGBTQ Alumni Network at least once a year, if not more! While at Pride Alive, a group of UWGB alumni talked with the individuals at the LGBTQ Resource Center booth, and indicated a desire to have a place for UWGB LGBTQ alumni to meet and socialize. Hopefully the creation of the LGBTQ Alumni Network will provide for these opportunities. Join the UWGB LGBTX Network here.


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Internet Explorer 8
Windows 7, 64 bit
GXT 3.0.2 Shapshot (9/19/2012)
If I throw a GWT Label (or HTML) widget into the field label, alignment doesn't work correctly. It is a little bit higher than the label.
Does GXT have a different approach for putting read-only values into the value fields for a Form? In any case, I would hope that GXT's FormLabel would play nicely with the native GWT components.
Screenshot is from IE8 with developer mode use to select surrounding Div to show the alignment issue. Based on font/label width/etc. it can be more apparent in other situations.
Quick change to FormsExample.java replacing email TextField with a Label.
Code:Label emailLabel = new Label("[email protected]"); TextField email = new TextField(); email.setAllowBlank(false); p.add(new FieldLabel(emailLabel, "Email"), new VerticalLayoutData(1, -1));


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It's not surprising that this is going to be the most scalped year of the event. Last year was the first ever sell-out. Suddenly there is a notion of scarcity where before for the last 25 years, there hasn't been. That opens the door to speculators. People looking to buy low and sell high.drutter wrote:Only 80 right now, yeah, but many have already sold. And there are MANY websites like it, some with a lot more than 80. And thousands on eBay, Craiglist, and other auction/classified sites. And offline as well.5280MeV wrote:The STUBHUB user agreement refers to this type of item as a "SPECULATIVE TICKET ". (section 2.1a(III)
The good thing is that out of what is likely now over 20,000 tickets distributed, there are only 80 on Stubhub. That is under 0.5%.
As many as 5-10% of all 2012 Burning Man tickets could be scalped, and I bet you that every single one of them will end up in the hands of some eager Burner before the end of August. Some will have paid as much as $1000 or more for each ticket.
It's too early to be sure, but it's shaping up to be the best year for tickets scalpers in the history of the event.
That being said, Scalpers are at this point a boogey man. The reason you likely didn't get a ticket was because of your friends and neighbors overbuying tickets. This on the surface is sad and awful... but UNDER the surface... your friend and neighbor has likely prevented that ticket from making its way into a scalpers pocket.
I WILL CAVEAT: As long as your friends and neighbors use the STEP program, the ticket will find its way to you, before it is ever printed. If your friend and neighbor sells on CL at face value... it will likely be resold to another on of your friends and neighbors for much more.


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LADIES' NIGHT: As Pitti W's guest designer, Maison Kitsuné showcased its women's wear line, which is five seasons old. Telegraphing its hip-young-things lifestyle, the French brand staged a live concert in lieu of a fashion show, tapping various artists from its music label — including Say Lou Lou and Yelle — to model looks from the collection while performing. Documentary maker Loïc Prigent filmed the action.
Crafted from mainly cashmere and Italian cottons, the cute, preppy lineup had a Rockabilly influence. Hits included a button-up A-line skirt in a buttercup shade and high-waist pleated frocks worn over striped men's-inspired shirts. The show's co-presenter, Yoon, sported a cool double-breasted jacket in a geometric print with matching shorts.


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Long Beach moves to avoid swimmer-surfer battle
Long Beach has revised its proposed summer beach schedule after protests from swimmers who said the city was allowing surfers to take over too much of the beach.
The city's 3.5 miles of beach, beloved by locals and visitors, is one of Long Island's biggest tourist attractions, and every year the city crafts a plan to divide its use between swimmers and surfers.
A proposal released earlier this month, which city officials said was intended to be simpler than the 2012 plan, was widely criticized by residents who use the beach for swimming. The most controversial part divided the west central portion of the beach into five blocks and allowed surfers to use two of the blocks, which would rotate throughout the summer.
A new plan, released late yesterday by city manager Jack Schnirman, reduces surfing blocks in that area to one -- the same number as last year. The block dedicated to surfing would rotate among the five between May 25 and Sept. 3.
Schnirman said the city will post the new proposal on its website and take feedback from the public before making it official. The new plan won't be approved until "we feel that everyone is satisfied," he said.
Added city councilwoman Fran Adelson: "It goes to show you how important the beach is to this community."
Up to 15,000 people attend the beach on an average summer weekend day, and about 300 of them are surfers, said Paul Gillespie, the city's chief of lifeguards.
The city created the original proposal in coordination with local surfers, and considering feedback gleaned from a public hearing last year, Schnirman said.
But several residents who spoke at a May 7 city council meeting said the plan would overcrowd the beach with surfers.
"This is where we belong, on that beach," resident Virginia Kilduff said at the May 7 meeting. "I don't think 200 surfers have the right to take that away from taxpaying residents."
The five-block area where the surfing beach would rotate is located between Grand and Magnolia boulevards. The area would be "bathing only" between July 4 and 7. Other swimming-only and surfing-only beaches are designated elsewhere in the city.
Billy Kupferman, one of the surfers who helped the city craft the first proposal, said the controversy over the plan pitted swimmers against surfers, which was unfortunate. Swimmers, he said, were "upset about the space and rightfully so." In particular, the swimmers who lived on those five blocks thought the former proposal "placed an unfair burden" on them, he said.
"It's certainly not something that should drive neighbor against neighbor," he said.


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Valley of the Moon Winery encompasses both the rich history and the innovative spirit of California wine. Situated in the Sonoma Valley on land first planted to grapes in 1863, Valley of the Moon Winery is housed in a beautifully restored stone and redwood winery built in 1887. Blessed with rich volcanic soils and a distinctive "banana belt" microclimate, the estate vineyard has been a revered source of grapes for well over a century. A block of "old vine" Zinfandel planted in the 1940s is complemented by more recent plantings of Barbera, Sangiovese and Petite Sirah, all farmed sustainably with natural soil amendments and natural pest controls.
Yet Valley of the Moon Winery is a thoroughly modern - even cutting-edge - producer. The state-of-the-art production facility features a full complement of temperature-controlled stainless steel fermenters, and small French and American oak barrels; ideal for Valley of the Moon's artisan winemaking. In addition to making superb Sonoma County Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel and Pinot Noir, Valley of the Moon Winery is a leader among California wineries in the production of several exciting up-and-coming wines: Syrah, Sangiovese, Pinot Blanc, Rosato di Sangiovese and Cuvée de la Luna, a proprietary Bordeaux-inspired blend. Sometimes hard to find, Valley of the Moon wines are definitely worth the search.
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