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Abergavenny, due to its location and easy access to the Brecon Beacons National Park and the nearby Black Mountains, is often referred to as the 'Gateway to Wales'. The town is also close to Offa's Dyke and various walks such as the Usk Valley Walk.
The origins of the Monmouthshire town of Abergavenny (in Welsh meaning 'Mouth of the River Gavenny') can be dated back to the location of Gobannium, a Roman fort on the site in around the 2nd century AD to guard the road that linked the fortress of Burrium in the south with the Brecons and mid-Wales. It also served to subdue the Silures, the indigenous Iron Age tribe. Remains of the walls of this fort were discovered during excavations in the 1960s when foundations for a new post office and telephone exchange building where being built. The fort's name, Burrium is understood to be derived from a Brythonic word Gobannia meaning "river of the blacksmiths", and relates to the town's pre-Roman importance in iron smelting.
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Abergavenny was also a walled town during the medieval period, which complimented the medieval castle built there soon after the Norman conquest. It grew as a town in early Norman times under the protection of the Lords of Abergavenny with the Benedictine priory, now the Priory Church of St Mary, founded in the late 11th century. This Church contains some unique alabaster effigies, church monuments and unique medieval wood carving, such as the Tree of Jesse.
Due to its geographical location, Abergavenny was often involved in border warfare during the 12th and 13th centuries. In 1175, its castle was reputed to be the scene of a massacre of local Welsh chieftains by the ruthless William de Braose, who following a period of conflict invited the local leaders to a Christmas banquet saying he wanted to resolve the differences but rather his plan was to eliminate them. By accepting this assumed hospitality and proffered their swords as tokens of peaceful intent the soldiers of William de Braose subsequently killed them in cold blood.
In 1404, Owain Glyndwr attacked Abergavenny with his raiders gaining access to the walled town with the aid of a local woman who sympathised with the rebellion. This woman then let a small party in via the Market Street gate at midnight who then opened a gate and allow a much larger party who set fire to the town and plundered its churches and homes leaving Abergavenny Castle intact. Market Street has been referred to as Traitors' Lane thereafter. In 1404 Abergavenny was declared its own nation by Ieuan ab Owain Glyndwr (The illegitimate son of Owain Glyndwr), however, the arrangement lasted only two weeks.
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It was in 1639 that Abergavenny received a charter of incorporation, which was extended with privileges in 1657. It is interesting to note that the charter, however, never to have been enrolled or to have come into effect due to the refusal of the chief officers of the corporation to take the oath of allegiance to William III in 1688. This resulted in the town subsequently declining in prosperity.
A study of records shows that between 1794 to 1894, Abergavenny's Improvement Commissioners, who were all freeholders of property in the area, took control of the affairs of the town. This resulted in many improvements that made the town as we know it today. The old market hall built in 1602 was rebuilt, streets were paved for the first time and a police force was provided. The commissioners also constructed an entirely new water supply system from a reservoir already in use in Pen-y-pound. The pipes were made from Elm originally before being replaced with iron pipes in 1813!
The construction of a gas works in 1823 and the present cattle market in 1863 were notable dates in the history of the town along with a new water reservoir in 1860 and an efficient sewage disposal system shortly after. The present town and market halls were built in 1870.
In 1894 the commissioners handed over their functions to the newly ceated Abergavenny Urban District Council. The local government reorganisation of 1974 meant that most of the functions of the old borough council were taken over by Monmouth District Council.
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Castro's HR in 11th leads Astros over Tigers 4-3
Altuve had four hits, an RBI and two steals, including one of home, in Houston's 4-3 win in 11 innings over Detroit that snapped the Tigers' seven-game winning streak.
Castro launched a pitch from Blaine Hardy (0-1) into the seats in right field with one out in the 11th to give Houston the victory.
The Tigers tied it when Eugenio Suarez scored on an error in the eighth inning. Jake Buchanan (1-1) pitched a perfect 11th for his first major league win.
Altuve had his MLB-leading 33rd multi-hit game of the season. He leads baseball with 111 hits and the AL with 32 stolen bases.
''I'm somewhat speechless,'' Houston manager Bo Porter said when asked about Altuve's night. ''It's impressive to have the kind of impact he's having on the baseball game each and every time he takes the field.''
Altuve scored a run in the first and tied it up with a RBI double in the fifth. He stole home later that inning to give Houston a 3-2 lead.
''He can do it all,'' Castro said. ''Stole home, laid down an infield single. He's fun to watch and he's one of those guys in your lineup (where) anytime he's at the plate you know he's got a great chance of getting on and getting in scoring position on his own. It's huge to have at the top of the lineup.''
Altuve left before reporters were allowed in the clubhouse after the game and wasn't available for comment.
First baseman Jon Singleton let a foul ball hit by Suarez drop for an error with no outs in the eighth inning. Suarez then drew a walk and reached second on a groundout by Torii Hunter for the second out.
Jonathan Villar's error on a ball hit by Miguel Cabrera allowed him to reach and Suarez to score to tie it at 3-3.
Nick Castellanos had a solo homer to give the Tigers the lead in the fourth inning and Ian Kinsler had three hits for his sixth straight multi-hit game, a career-high. He's second to Altuve with 32 multi-hit games this season.
It was the first trip to Houston as a manager for Detroit's Brad Ausmus, whose 10 seasons catching for the Astros included the franchise's only World Series appearance in 2005.
J.D. Martinez, who spent three seasons with the Astros before they released him in March, had two hits to snap his 14-game hitting streak a day after going 0 for 4.
L.J. Hoes singled to start Houston's fifth and took second on a throwing error by Justin Verlander on a pickoff attempt. Hoes reached third on a sacrifice bunt by Villar. Then Altuve went to work. His 24th double of the season scored Hoes to tie it 2-2.
George Springer singled and Altuve moved to third before Verlander tried to pickoff Springer at first with two outs.
Altuve broke on the throw and stole home, sliding under the attempted tag by Alex Avila to put the Astros on top 3-2.
Martinez singled to start the second inning and advanced to second on a passed ball. He scored on a single by Avila with two outs to tie it at 1-1. But Avila was thrown out trying to stretch the hit into a double to end the inning.
Altuve led off the game with a single and stole second base. He advanced to third on a wild pitch with one out and scored on the same play on a throwing error by Avila to put Houston up 1-0.
Astros starter Brad Peacock allowed seven hits and two runs - one earned - in 6 2-3 innings after missing his last start while recovering from food poisoning.
Verlander allowed six hits with three runs and eight strikeouts in six innings to remain winless since May 30.
He lamented allowing Altuve to steal two bases while he was on the mound.
''Being able to take that base in the (first) led to a run,'' he said. ''Being able to take the extra base on the pickoff to first was another run. He's one of those guys you have to keep off the base paths, and that is not easily done.''
NOTES: Houston left-hander Dallas Keuchel has been scratched from Saturday's start because of inflammation in his throwing wrist. Brett Oberholtzer will start in his place against Max Scherzer. ... The Astros signed fourth-round draft pick RHP Daniel Mengden on Friday. ... Houston center fielder Dexter Fowler was scratched before the game because of tightness in his back. Alex Presley was moved from left field to center to take his place and Hoes was inserted in the lineup in left field.


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The Dodgers PR staff and ticketing department were nice enough to give me six tickets to check out the Dodgers/Angels game last night at the new Loge Party Box.
I haven't been to a game since last month. I think by this time last year I had already gone to more than fifteen games. It's a long story but all is good. Just have been busy.
I decided to take my wife, my parents, mother in law and brother in law. My dad wasn't feeling well so decided to not go at the last minute.
Off we went to Dodger Stadium. I was excited to check out these new seats. Plus it was in Loge Level, one of my favorite areas of Dodger Stadium.
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• Private seating area that includes televisions and drink rails
• Features in-seat food and beverage service. Levy Restaurants staff comes by to take your order
• Prices for these boxes range from $40 to $135 per ticket and hold from six (6) to ten (10) people
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Great view. Comfortable seats. I enjoyed it.
If only I knew I could have charged my phone...
The great True Blue L.A. blog were sitting close by...
I wonder why my brother shot this picture.
My son watching game with grandma.
Dodgers win! Complete game shutout by Hyun-Jin Ryu. Good times.
For more info on these seats, go to www.dodgers.com/loge
Your friends/family will have a great time. We did!
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Loge Party Boxes @ Dodger Stadium
3 comments:
- Michael Miller said...
They seem awesome, but those stools look a bit uncomfortable.
- May 29, 2013 at 11:26 AM
- ivansky said...
Yea I thought I saw u walk past me yesterday in the loge area by the loaded dodger dog stand.
- May 29, 2013 at 12:04 PM
- opoohwan said...
The last picture is by far the best (o:
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Oldspeak: "Behold! The fruits of Prison Industrial Complex Overcriminalization! Specific targeting of communities of color for "Law Enforcement", like suspicion-less stop and frisks, bogus arrests and baseless summonses to meet "performance goals". All while the police union denies it's even happening. At a time when crime in NYC is at record lows, police are still being pressured to make more arrests and issue more summonses, mostly to people who've done nothing wrong. Not meeting "activity goals" = bad cop. This opens them up to various forms of retaliation and punishment. Why? The Prison Industrial Complex needs fuel to keep stay in business, grow larger and larger with profits. That fuel must be extracted at all costs. Poor people of color are its fuel. It is why more black men are in prison now, than were slaves in 1865. It's why black and brown people are overrepresented in the U.S. prison system. It's why brown people are being stopped, seized, detained and deported at historic rates. It is why America accounts for 5% of world population, but close to 25% of the worlds prison population and imprisons more people than any nation on earth. Law enforcement and mass incarceration is big business in America. And rank and file officers sadly are stuck in the middle. Being encouraged by superiors to make bogus stops, arrests and summons at the end of their shifts to collect overtime, thus engaging in fraud to meet "activity goals" and make more money. Being forced to act unlawfully and untruthfully to keep 'the numbers game' going. You can bet that this practice is not particular to New York. This revelation should provide powerful grounds for stopping NYPD's racist and illegal Stop and Frisk policy."
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Audio obtained by The Nation confirms an instance of New York City's police union cooperating with the NYPD in setting arrest quotas for the department's officers. According to some officers and critics of quotas, the practice has played a direct role in increasing the number of stop-and-frisk encounters since Mayor Michael Bloomberg came to office. Patrolmen who spoke to The Nation explained that the pressure from superiors to meet quota goals has caused some officers to seek out or even manufacture arrests to avoid department retaliation.
The audio could be included as evidence in the landmark federal class action lawsuit Floyd, et al. v. City of New York, et al., which opened yesterday in US District Court for New York's Southern District and which was brought forward by the Center for Constitutional Rights.
The audio, recorded in 2009 by officer Adhyl Polanco, is part of a series of recordings originally released to the media that year, and a selection first aired on WABC-TV in 2010. But WABC-TV used only a small portion of the recordings, and did not air the union representative's explosive admission.
"I spoke to the CO [commanding officer] for about an hour-and-a-half," the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association delegate says in the audio recording, captured at a Bronx precinct roll call meeting. "twenty-and-one. Twenty-and-one is what the union is backing up…. They spoke to the [Union] trustees. And that's what they want, they want 20-and-1."
"Twenty-and-one means twenty summonses and one arrest a month," says a veteran NYPD officer who listened to the recording, and who spoke to The Nation on the condition of anonymity. Summonses can range from parking violations, to moving violations, to criminal court summonses for infractions such as open container or public urination.
"It's a quota, and they [the Union] agreed to it," says the officer. "It's crazy."
"Many officers feel pressure to meet their numbers to get the rewards that their commanding officer is giving out," says John Eterno, a former police captain and co-author of The Crime Numbers Game: Management by Manipulation. But if an officer's union delegate is also pushing the numbers, "this puts inordinate pressure on officers, getting it from the top down and getting it from the union."
The plaintiffs in the Floyd case allege that the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy results in unconstitutional stops based on racial-profiling. The department's emphasis on bringing in arrest and summons numbers has caused officers to carry out suspicion-less stops in communities of color.
As Polanco explained in court today, his superiors would often push him to carry out this specific number of summons and arrest stops per month: "20-and-1, they were very clear, it's non-negotiable, you're gonna do it, or you're gonna become a Pizza Hut delivery man."
"There's always been some pressure to get arrests and summonses," says Eterno. "But now it's become the overwhelming management style of the department. It has become a numbers game. They have lost the ability to see that communities are dissatisfied with this type of policing, especially minority communities. They are the ones being overly burdened for doing the same sorts of things that kids in middle-class neighborhoods are doing—only they're getting records because officers have to make these arrests."
When asked for comment, Al O'Leary, a spokesperson for the Patrolman's Benevolent Association, said: "The PBA has been consistently and firmly opposed to quotas for police activities including arrests, summonses and stop-and-frisks. These are all effective tools for maintaining order when they are left to the discretion of individual police officers but become problematic when officers are forced to meet quotas. This union has sought and obtained changes to state law making quotas for all police activities illegal. We have sued and forced an individual commanding officer to stop the use of illegal quotas and will continue to be vigilant and vocal in our opposition to police activity quotas."
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Physical evidence has periodically surfaced of the existence of numerical arrest targets for NYPD officers, though arrest and summons quotas for police have been illegal in New York State since 2010. Precinct commanders defend their right to set productivity goals for their staff—but what the department defines as productivity goals can have the force of quotas when officers are subject to retaliation for not meeting them.
Cops who have spoken to The Nation say that retaliation can take many forms, including denied overtime; change of squads and days off that can disrupt family obligations like taking children to school or daycare; transfers to boroughs far from home in order to increase their commute and the amount they'll have to pay in tolls; and low evaluation scores.
Officers even reported being forced to carry out unwarranted stops to fulfill the summons and arrest numbers. In a second recording obtained by The Nation, a captain addressing a roll call in the same Bronx precinct illustrated how such retaliation plays out.
"When the chief came in…[he] said: 'you know what, you really can't reduce crime much more, the guys are doing a great job,'" the captain can be heard saying in the rough audio. "[He] said that we can…get some of our people who aren't chipping in to go to some locations [where we are] having problems, and give them [the area's residents] the business…"
The recording continues: "That's all we're asking you to do, that's all, that's all. And if we do that, everyone chips in, it's fine. It's really nonnegotiable. 'Cause if you don't do it now, I'm gonna have you work with the boss to make sure it happens."
"If you don't meet the quota, they will find [activity] for you," another veteran officer explained to The Nation. "The sergeant will put you in his car and drive you around until whatever he sees he will stop and tell you to make an arrest or write a summons, even if you didn't observe what he said it was."
Sometimes these are legitimate stops, but other times, they're bogus: "The sergeant told me to write two minorities for blocking pedestrian traffic," the anonymous officer said, "but they were not blocking pedestrian traffic."
The pressure for numbers, say cops, is unrelenting, and it's leading to high anxiety and low morale. And that the union, an organization that is supposed to have officers' interests at heart, is involved in the setting of quotas is mystifying, says one cop.
It's all the more problematic given the union's very vocal and public stance against quotas, such as in their ad campaign, "Don't Blame The Cop," which tries to engender sympathy for the officers who are pressured to write tickets and arrest motorists. "Blame NYPD management," it says.
This development also signals to officers that there is one fewer place they can go to register their concern about departmental policy and practice. "I feel foolish for having gone to my [union] delegate with my complaints," says one officer who has been unsettled by the continued pressure to meet quotas.
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Adhyl Polanco, the officer who recorded the audio and first brought it to the attention of the press, has since had charges brought against him by the department for writing false reports—the same false reports he pointed out to the department's Internal Affairs office as evidence of the quota system. Polanco maintains these and other charges against him and other officers who have spoken out are evidence that the department is retaliating against him and others for blowing the whistle.
The NYPD has just surpassed 5 million stop-and-frisks during the Bloomberg era. Most stops have been of people of color, and the overwhelming majority were found innocent of any wrongdoing, according to the department's own statistics. And though the number of stops may have gone down recently—as pressure on the department and increased awareness of the policy has officers and supervisors thinking twice about how they employ the practice—the existence of quotas ensures that New Yorkers will continue to be harassed unnecessarily by the NYPD.
"The way I think about it," says a patrolman, "is, say a fireman is told by a supervisor, we need you to put out fifteen fires this month. And if you don't put out fifteen fires you're gonna get penalized for it. So if he doesn't find fifteen fires to put out, is that his fault? It's not. But the fireman might even go out there and start setting fires, causing fires, just so he's not penalized or looks bad…. And that's kind of what the police officers are doing."
What are the plaintiffs in the Floyd v. City of New York case fighting against? Watch the exclusive video of a stop-and-frisk encounter gone wrong.
Editor's note: This piece has been edited since publication to reflect the response of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association. Voices in the above video have been altered to protect the identities of the officers interviewed.


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Recently, we discovered two additional letters written by my grandfather, Miles E. Baldwin, during his service in the Ambulance Corp in France, 1917-1919. I am adding these to the previous post series on this subject.
The first letter was written during the period when Miles was recovering from illness, and enduring a long convalescence. He was exposed to mustard gas and also suffered hearing loss from artillery blasts; the mustard gas caused some serious respiratory problems. He was unhappy being away from his company and the men he had trained with, and was trying to be reassigned to his unit.
April 12/18
Commanding Officer
104th Ambulance Co.
Sir: – I greatly desire to return to your command and since it is only through your insistence that my return is possible, I appeal to you again.
It has been my misfortune to be separated from the company by sickness; now that I am well I desire to be back with my comrades, with the company that I esteem above all others.
Application to the Div. Surgeon and Headquarters of the 41st Div, also applications sent to the 161st Field Hospital have returned some men to their original companies.
I am now in good health and feel great confidence in my ability to carry out everything in line of duty. Please give me a chance to play the game like a man, and not remain here like an unfit, entirely out of it all.
I have done everything possible to effect my return, but it's only through your effort that it can be brought about.
Will you please notify me if you desire my return to your command so that I may act in conjunction with your wishes.
Pvt. 1/cl Miles E. Baldwin, Jr.
161st Field Hospital
The letter has a typed heading along one side: HQ1 26th DIV. AEF. 705. (Dis. from Hosp.) May 9, 1918.
The last letter was written about a year later, to Aunt Jennie, and contains some more details of his stay. He never was returned to his unit, and endured a variety of random assignments in the year before his departure back to the states.
March 1, 1919
Dear Aunt Jennie, I am in Brest, on the sailing list and expect soon to be on the way back to the States.
I feel pretty fair considering the manner in which I spent my time convalescing. During that time I did everything from administering an anesthetic to digging drainage ditches.
Do not send any more mail to France for I will probably be on my way home before it arrives here, besides I haven't received any mail since January 12, anyway.
The rain here is continuous and after you take a breath of the air here, you need a bellows to blow the fog off your chest.
I suppose most of the boys in my old unit are home or in the States by the time you receive this letter. I expect that it will be rather rough crossing at this time of the year. I send love and best wishes to you all and I hope the days will be few before I am back in little Rhody again where the sun shines once in a while and New England boiled dinners are obtainable.
Love to yourself, Ted.
Pvt. 1/cl Miles E Baldwin Jr
Casual Company #979
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Combined with the earlier letters and pictures these letters give me a better idea of his two-year experience.
I close this series with the last memento I have:


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In summary, the SDRMPX and SDPMPX bypass caps (47pF) make the biggest difference to PCM sound on all these carts, but its worth doing all of the mods imo.
This has fixed sound problems in many games across all the carts below. The 161 in 1 in general suffers less from the PCM issues, but it IS affected. Pulstar is now fixed on my 161 in 1, as well as Puzzle Bobble, and a few other games which had random sound issues.
138 in 1, and 120 in 1
This also fixes Pulstar on the 161 in 1 for me as well =D The 161 in 1 needs traces scratching (like the 138 in 1 does). The 120 in 1 seems to have 2 pads for the caps already.
161 in 1 (150 in 1 also?)
Here's the link to the thread that lead me to the fixes. http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showth...ards-PCM-sound I've posted this seperate thread due to the title hopefully being more useful. People might never look into the original thread. Hope someone finds this useful!


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Secret spy court says NSA CAN keep collecting every American's phone records
A secretive U.S. spy court has ruled again that the National Security Agency can keep collecting every American's telephone records every day, in the midst of conflicting decisions in two other federal courts about whether the surveillance program is constitutional.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Friday renewed the NSA phone collection program, said Shawn Turner, a spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Such periodic requests are somewhat formulaic but required since the program started in 2006.
The latest approval was the first since two conflicting court decisions about whether the program is lawful and since a presidential advisory panel recommended that the NSA no longer be allowed to collect and store the phone records and search them without obtaining separate court approval for each search.
Legal ruling: The National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Maryland - A secretive U.S. spy court has ruled again that the National Security Agency can keep collecting every American's telephone records every day
In a statement, Turner said that 15 judges on the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on 36 occasions over the past seven years have approved the NSA's collection of U.S. phone records as lawful.
Also on Friday, government lawyers turned to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to block one federal judge's decision that threatens the NSA phone records program.
This undated photo provided by the National Security Agency (NSA) shows its headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland. The NSA has been secretly collecting the phone call records of millions of Americans
The opposing lawyer who spearheaded the effort that led to the ruling said he hopes to take the issue directly to the Supreme Court.
The Justice Department filed a one-page notice of appeal asking the appeals court to overturn U.S. District Judge Richard Leon's ruling last month that the program was likely unconstitutional.
The government's move had been expected.
Larry Klayman, who filed the class-action suit against President Barack Obama and top administration national security officials, said he intends to petition the federal appeals court next week to send the case directly to the Supreme Court. Klayman said the move was justified because the NSA case was a matter of great public importance.
'There are exigent circumstances here,' Klayman said. 'We can't allow this situation to continue. The NSA's continuing to spy on everybody.'
Turner said U.S. intelligence agencies would be willing to modify the phone records surveillance program to provide additional privacy and civil liberties protections as long as it was still operationally beneficial.
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He said the Obama administration was carefully evaluating the advisory panel's recent recommendations.
Judges sitting on the secretive spy court have repeatedly approved the program for 90-day periods.
They also have repeatedly upheld the constitutionality of the program - a judicial bulwark that held strong until Leon's surprise decision last month.
Leon said the NSA's program was 'almost Orwellian,' a reference to writer George Orwell's futuristic novel '1984,' and that there was little evidence the operation had prevented terrorist attacks.
He ruled against the government but agreed to postpone shutting down the program until the government could appeal.
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The American Civil Liberties Union, which lost that case, said this week it will appeal to a federal appeals court in New York.
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Hello. My name is Beru, and I have done something of which I am not proud. (Hi, Beru).
I think that there must have been some wierd alignment of the planets last night or something, because I wasn't the only one behaving a bit oddly. Seriously. Ok, to my tale…
I run an Alt/Friends & Family 25 man ToC every week on Tuesday. It's all members of our guild (we had a few from a small 10 man guild that we were quite friendly with, but their guild has dissolved a bit and a good number of their members have joined our F/F ranks), and we set pretty strict loot rules before our very first raid a month or so ago. There isn't really any drama, and it's mostly everyone having a lot of fun for a couple of hours on an off night. The runs tend to go fairly smoothly, with a stumble here and there on Faction Champs and Anub, but we usually finish early enough that we have time to trek over to Ony and knock her out too.
I have been taking my paladin to these runs since their inception. The biggest upgrade for her at this point is a healing weapon, as I have been unable to upgrade the Naxx 10 mace I had been using since…well, Naxx 10. This has not been for a lack of trying though. I lost the roll on the 10 man ToC mace to a guy who plays once or twice a week (but, hey, it's ok, I told myself, I will have more opportunity to see the item than him since I have the opportunity to do this 10 man every week, and he may not…of course we are assuming that the damn thing will ever drop again). And I've run the 5 man ToC heroic until my eyes have bled to no avail (I have earned over 100 champion seals on Dannie solely from this running instance). So this weapon issue is a bit of a sore spot for me.
I bought Dannie all of the 232 badge gear from emblems of triumph, not really worrying much about the 245 trophies, and generally I leave these 25 man runs not having received a loot most of the nights that we run them, and I'm fine with that. This is largely because I desperately need a weapon upgrade, and so I kindly pass the paladin loots to the other paladin that runs these raids with us 95% of the time. In all the time that we've been running this group, I have taken a total of two loots. A shield (that upgraded my Emblem of Heroism shield) and a cloak (that upgraded my Emblem of Valor cloak).
I had no problems passing on the other items, because well, I just had different gear priorities, and because I had been running the 10 man ToC regularly so the 25 man items were minor upgrades for me compared to other people. This is generally my loot M.O. (and should be most people's best practice, honestly). I tend to look to see what other people might be upgrading if an item is a marginal upgrade for me before opting to put in my roll for the item.
So, let's fast forward to last night. As per usual, we get to Anub and I've again not taken any loots in the zone for the evening. And wonder of all wonders, the healing mace drops! Of our group, both druids have already taken multiple items, our priest took a trophy earlier in the evening, we have no caster shaman, and the other paladin took an off spec breast plate earlier, but was using the ToC10 mace. So, I hold my breath and roll…a fucking 11.
The priest that already won an item rolls, but states he's already taken something that evening. We are calling "last call" for rolls on the item, and I start to breathe a sigh of relief thinking to myself "that other paladin is going to refrain from rolling, because he's already got such a good item, and it's a much larger upgrade for me". But alas, at the last minute he rolls, easily topping my 11.
I am devisated. A river of emotions wash through me as a grudingly award the mace to him. I'm angry, frustrated, disapointed. I run these every week for people, and ask for very little back in return. And this, in all honesty, made me feel like not doing it anymore. Had it been reversed and he had the horrible item, and I had the item in which this was a minor upgrade, I damn well would have passed it. Not to mention that over the course of all our runs, I've had TWO loots to his many.
Now, I'm really not one to complain about loot or cause trouble over loot. It is just not how I function. I generally accept my losses, privately expressing my disappointment, if I have any, to Brade and I move on. But dammit, this just felt unjust to me. Granted, some of it is my own fault. We use a free roll system, because I do not want to do the work of tracking loot for our alt runs. We ask people to be considerate, and generally speaking most folks are. But because we don't track overall loots, just loots per run, I basically dug my own hole. Made even deeper by the fact that the more times I passed loot to him, the less likely it was he was going to take loot in a future run.
Now here is the part that I'm not proud of, no, fully ashamed. I actually sent this player a tell about it. I have never, in my 5 years of playing WoW, ever done this before. "You know, I have only ever taken one loot from here ever (I had forgotten about the cloak), and I am still using a Naxx 10 mace". He opened the trade window and put the mace in, I declined. "You won the roll, I am just a bit surprised that you rolled since you'd just gotten the 10 man mace last week =/". He opens trade again and puts the mace in. "Are you sure", I said "because you did win the roll". "Take it, Naxx 10 is pretty ghetto. I just roll and ask questions later". And so, I shamefully hit the trade button.
As we headed off to Ony, my pride was overcome by shame and guilt was flooding over me. I had just been that person that I hate. But, I still felt I was entitled to that damn mace taking all the factors into consideration. And I hated myself for feeling that way. I asked him again if he was sure, because I was feeling highly ashamed at having even said anything, to which he responded that it was fine.
But the truth is, it wasn't fine. I wasn't fine. If I didn't do something, I would never be able to equip the mace and use it.
After the raid concluded, I sat at the mailbox with it open and 5k gold in the send window for quite sometime. I thought "well, if I 'buy' the roll from him, I'll feel less guilty about it". But in the end, I knew that he would just send it back, and I would not feel absolved for what I had done. I finally logged off and went to dinner.
As I was driving to the restraunt, I racked my brain for something that would make up for my behaviour. Even if he didn't see it as an issue, I did, and it would eat me up until I fixed it. So, I was thinking what I could do. I knew I wanted to do something for an alt, because his main doesn't have much need. His paladin is quite well equiped, and doing the alt runs, so I'd be hard pressed to make up for it there. And then it hit me. I knew what I could do.
He has a warrior that he's been leveling that is almost level 80…and has nothing. Perfect! When I got home from dinner I hopped onto the good ole bank alt and AH'd the mats that I would need to make him a couple of BoE epic tanking items. I got Brade's blacksmith to craft them for me, and I was good to go.
I sent him a tell, as he was in an instance asking if he would be finished soon. He told me probably not, and that they were probably heading to another instance after. So, I explained to him that I was really very ashamed at having said anything about the mace, I had acted in a highly uncharacteristic way for me, and I was not proud of it. I told him that I felt I needed to make it up to him, and had crafted him a few pieces for his warrior…who would need some "un-ghettofying" shortly.
I linked him the two items I had made (226 belt and 245 bracers), and he went "Holy Shit". He told me it really wasn't necessary, to which I explained that while I understood he felt that way, it would help me sleep better. He said "well, I won't turn them down…and if it will help you sleep better and all…". So, I told him that I'd toss the items in the mail to him, and we'd call it even. And he was very happy.
While I still feel horribly ashamed and I will probably never look at that mace on my paladin without feeling a twinge of guilt (along with a permanent reminder to keep my damn mouth shut), I do feel that my return offering, if you will, was well received, much loved, and was able to provide me some peace.
So, what do you think? Should I have said something, or just shut my mouth? What would you have done? Have you ever done something that you immediately regretted?


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I can tell you, character development is one of the hardest, but most important parts of your story. Good, realistic, and relatable characters can sell your story in an instant (JK Rowling, anybody?), and bad characters can kill it. There are a few thingsa you should remember when designing your character and when they speak.
Part 1: Character Development
First is actually developing the character. The first thing to do is create their past. Try and find a way to make their past shape who they are. However, that doesn't mean that a given past event results in a given trait. Different people respond differently to circumstances.
A good example that I haven't talked about in my novel, The Elements, would be Cerulea and Crystal. Their father died when they were 10. They responded differently: Crystal began looking at the positive side of things and being optimistic, because she couldn't stand being saddened by his death. Cerulea did everything in her power to avoid loving a person ever again. Just find a way to reasonably link the trait to any events.
Next would be making them round. For those of you who don't know what that means, it basically means that the character isn't just one, plain character with a few simple traits. Even a timid person opens up sometimes, which has proven difficult for me in The Elements. Cerulea was made as a closed in person, but when she opened up to the others, I had nothing. Every character needs two similar personalities. One could say the second is a back-up: When they aren't the first for whatever reason, the second comes out. When Cerulea opens up, for example, her second personality, the kind, conflict avoiding side comes out.
Part 2: Dialouge
Finally, dialouge. First is coming up with quantity. Let's say I'm having a scene with Liat, Cerulea, and Tenion. Cerulea doesn't talk much, even when she opens up, which we must consider. Tenion is a serious chatter box, so he'll talk a lot. Liat is rather in the middle.
When you determine who the next speaker will be, consider four things:
1) What will be said or asked. Just think about what information they are sharing or question they are asking. This will lay the groundwork for the dialouge
2) The circumstances. Naturally, one would speak differently in their house then when they're spying on an enemy.
3) Their personality and quirks. Consider things like an accent or if they are repetitive when they speak.
4) Make it realistic and work out contradictions. A person that is loud, but hiding from an enemy will naturally remain quiet. Consider the realism of the dialouge. One thing I do is say the line myself in the mood I intend it to be said, whether that be worried, excited, or sad. If it isn't realistic, you'll know it.
Do that, and your novels and short stories will improve by leaps and bounds. Now, go develop that second side to your characters before they die because they're so board with the lousy* personalities you gave them.
*This is not aimed at any person in particular.


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Super Bowl turns 40 this year.
The one-day showcase for gridiron supremacy in the state got its start back in 1972 when a pair of Central Mass. teams from Divisions 1 and 2 met their Western Mass. counterparts for the first high school bowl games.
That year, Fitchburg captured Division 1 honors with a 22-6 victory over Greenfield, while the Division 2 game saw East Longmeadow get a late field goal to top Shrewsbury, 10-7.
In a shameless show of self-promotion, 10 years ago I wrote a book commemorating the first 30 years of Super Bowls titled "Super Saturdays: The Complete History of the Massachusetts High School Super Bowl 1972-2002."
There are still many more copies of that book available, which would certainly make great Christmas presents for the sports fan. There is even a possibility of updating the book to cover the past 10 years if someone wanted to help fund a second publication. (Are you out there, Bob Kraft?).
For those who have played in the game, coached the annual classic, or filled the stands to watch some of the great Central Mass. bowl games of the past, you may remember some of these tidbits from high school Super Bowls past:
When Greenfield coach Bill Budness took his team to the very first Super Bowl in 1972 against Fitchburg, he was probably the only person in the state who could call himself a Super Bowl veteran.
Budness was a linebacker with the Oakland Raiders team that lost to Green Bay in Super Bowl II, 33-14.
A former football standout at Boston University, Budness played for the Raiders from 1964-70 before starting his high school coaching career.
Unfortunately, his Green Wave team did not fare any better than his Raiders in their Super Bowl debut, bowing to Fitchburg, 22-6.
Swampscott's Don Page scored the first touchdown in Super Bowl history with his 42-yard run in the first quarter in his team's 28-21 win over Catholic Memorial on Dec. 2, 1972.
The first two games were being played simultaneously at 10 a.m., in Eastern Mass. by Swampscott and Catholic Memorial, and in Western Mass. by East Longmeadow and Shrewsbury. In the Western Mass bowl game, a scoreless tie was broken in the second quarter when Gary Kane scored on a 5-yard run for East Longmeadow.
Since Page's score came in the first quarter, he is credited with the first Super Bowl score.
East Longmeadow's Bob Willard kicked a 30-yard field goal with eight seconds left to beat Shrewsbury, 10-7. The field goal was set up when Willard intercepted Bob Campbell's pass at the Shrewsbury 36 and returned it to the 24 with 42 seconds left.
The Division 1 Central-Western Mass. game between Leominster and Chicopee remained scoreless into the fourth quarter, and then Leominster found itself trailing, 7-0, with only 10 seconds remaining.
On the final play of regulation, Blue Devils running back Steve Ringer bulled over from the 1-yard line and kicked the extra point to force overtime. The first extra period was scoreless, but in the second overtime, Chicopee's Ken Miner attempted a winning field goal. Leominster linebacker John Angelini blocked the attempt, which was picked up Dave Malatos at the 14-yard line, and he returned it 86 yards for the winning touchdown.
Apparently, the Chicopee team did not realize a blocked field goal could be advanced by the defensive team, as nary a hand was laid on Malatos, who was ushered into the end zone by a wall of Blue Devils blockers. In addition, several Leominster players may have been unaware of it as many extra players were on the field thinking its offense would be coming onto the field.
After a long delay and confusion, Leominster was awarded the touchdown and an improbable Super Bowl win.
Northbridge trailed, 20-0, going into the fourth quarter of its 1974 Central-Western Mass. game with Ware when the Rams awakened to score 21 unanswered points to stun the Indians. Trailing by six, Northbridge took over with 3:29 to play and went 91 yards on nine plays to win the game. Quarterback Len Lortie passed to Ken Baker with 1:44 left and Ed Ebbeling kicked the extra point for the comeback victory.
In 1977, Archie Cataldi's Clinton football team lost to Minnechaug, 41-27. That began the longest span between bowl games for a high school coach; Cataldi's Clinton squad would not return to a bowl until 1994.
However, once the Gaels returned, there would be no stopping them. Cataldi's team won the bowl in 1994, '95 and then ran the table four straight years from 1999-2002.
In 1980, Ernie Richards took the Millis team to an Eastern Mass. Division 4 Super Bowl victory over Wareham, 19-9. He later became one of only two coaches to win bowl games in various sections of the state. Richards resurfaced at Uxbridge, where he won Central Mass. bowl games in 1991 and '92.
The only other coach to transcend the state districts is William Wise, who won back-to-back bowls with Lynn Classical (1976, 79), before bring his success to Springfield Cathedral in 1988, '89 and '91.
Here is one that would have stumped everybody before the book came out: "Who was the first person to score a touchdown in a Super Bowl game and later go on to become the winning head coach of a Super Bowl team?"
The answer is Terry Walles.
Walles, while playing for Doherty in 1980, scored on a 5-yard touchdown run in a 14-12 victory over Marlboro. Walles rushed for 115 yards in the game.
Twenty years later, he led his Shrewsbury team to a 22-21 victory over Longmeadow in the Division 1A Central-Western Mass. bowl game in 2000.
Not since the Marx Brothers rewrote the book of football comedy in "Horse Feathers" did any set of brothers have such a day on the football field.
The Morris brothers of Ayer, clearly part of one of the most talented families to ever play in a Super Bowl, saw three brothers score in a 50-0 victory over Monty Tech in 1980.
Jamie, Larry and Mike Morris combined for 397 yards on 21 carries and each scored for the Panthers. Their older and more famous brother Joe, who starred for the New York Giants in the early 1980s, never played in a Super Bowl game.
Northbridge High school has always rated a cut above when it comes to passing the football, and in 1981, the Rams rated another first: The first brother-to-brother touchdown combination in Super Bowl history. Northbridge's Paul Davidson threw a 15-yard, first-quarter touchdown pass to Peter Davidson for their team's only touchdown in a 28-7 loss to Lunenburg in 1981 in the Division 2 Central Mass. game.
In 1984, brothers Walter Dubzinski (Lunenburg) and John Dubzinski (Fitchburg) coached on the same field, but not against each other. Walter's Lunenburg team was defeated by Oakmont, while John's Fitchburg team was beaten by Westboro at Kelleher Field in Marlboro.
Exactly 13 years later, in 1997, while coaching different teams, both brothers were victorious on the same day. This time, Walter's Gardner team beat Wahconah at Springfield College, while John's Leominster squad defeated Holyoke at WPI.
If you wanted to see a high-scoring game with potent offensives battling it out, you probably didn't want to be there for this one in 1987. Nasser Shabo's second-quarter, 29-yard field goal was the only score as South defeated Shepherd Hill, 3-0, in the Division 2 Central Mass. game. It is the lowest scoring football game in Super Bowl history.
During the 1988 season, Leominster upset No. 1 nationally ranked Brockton, 27-21. The Boxers had the rating conferred upon them by USA Today. However, the Blue Devils must have peaked at that time because they were unable to pull off a Super Bowl victory that year, losing to rival St. John's, 8-7, in the Division 1 Central Mass game.
An early December snow interfered with Super Bowl games for the first time in 1991. A healthy covering on the Omni-turf at WPI prevented the Central Mass. games from being played there on a Saturday. The date was switched to a Sunday for the first time.
In addition, the venue was changed to play the Division 1 and 2 games at Memorial Field in Webster, the home field of Bartlett High. Despite being on their home field, the Indians bowed to Hudson, 35-14. In the Division 3 game, Uxbridge enjoyed home cooking by defeating Bay Path, 21-0, at its Anthony Donatelli Field.
One of the most incredible endings to a Super Bowl game occurred in the 1994 Division 1 Central Mass. game between North Middlesex and Fitchburg with the fabled "Norman Special." The game was tied, 14-14, with 24 seconds on the clock and North Middlesex facing fourth-and-17 at midfield, with punter Scot Ruggles back in a punting situation.
The snap went back, not to the punter, but to Luke Babbitt, who was the middle back of the tight punt formation. Babbitt turned and, unseen to the Fitchburg defenders, placed the ball into the hands of Jesse Aubin, who was standing in a crouched position with both hands reaching back between his legs. As Babbitt carried out a successful fake with the defense pursuing him, Aubin waited some 3 seconds with the ball between his legs before he found a wide-open lane ahead of him.
Suddenly, Aubin sprinted down the sideline virtually untouched for 50 yards and the shocking, winning touchdown. Fitchburg argued that a small hand towel, which Aubin wore in the front of him for the entire game, was used to impede the sight of the ball, but the touchdown stood.
The legend of the "Norman Special" grew out of a razzle-dazzle play brought to the North Middlesex practice by two volunteer coaches of the Mormon faith, who assisted North Middlesex that season. The two elders noted the play worked each time they had used it with their high school team back home in Utah. However, one North Middlesex player unwittingly once referred to the elders as "Normans" instead of "Mormons," thus the Norman Special was born, and a fantastic finish saw North Middlesex pull out the 21-14 victory.
You had to wonder if Bay Path had once been called the Vikings or the Bills when it came to Super Bowls. The Minutemen of coach Al Dhembe had certainly learned the meaning of frustration when they lost six Super Bowl games (1989, '90, '91, '92, '93 and '99) in a row. However, in 2000, all of the persistence paid off when Bay Path defeated Putnam Voke, 28-14, in the Division 3A Central-Western Mass. Super Bowl game.
Then, winning suddenly became contagious as the Minutemen repeated in 2001 with a 20-14 overtime victory, again over Putnam Voke.
Mike Richard can be contacted by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Just last week, I read the news that Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson were already living-in together. Yet today, news have broke out that Rob moved-out without looking back. This is after Kristen was caught two-timing with her Snow White and the Huntsmen director Rupert Sanders, who is married with two kids.
Yesterday, Kristen apologized profusely for her indiscretion saying that she loves Rob so much and she respects him. I say, if you love and respect a person, you will ignore all temptations no matter what.
Therefore, I am Team Rob in this issue. You deserve a better girl, man!


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People frequently ask me of examples of city-wide efforts to build social capital. The are several examples in Better Together of Tupelo, MS and what Portland did with city boundaries. Beyond this, Seattle had an interesting program called the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods' Neighborhood Matching Fund (that provided mini-grants for neighborhood improvement efforts where residents provided matching sweat equity), Minneapolis' Neighborhood Revitalization Program (where city power was devolved to local neighborhoods to set priorities), and the interesting Front Porch Alliance under Indianapolis Mayor Steve Goldsmith (which has not been as vigorously advocated in subsequent administrations).
I'm aware of several more contemporary examples: NYC Service (and the Cities of Service effort to replicate this), Philadelphia's Connector Program, and Social Capital, Inc.
NYC Service
Inspired by President Obama's call for a new era of service, Mayor Bloomberg in his January 2009 State of the City address announced that New York City would lead the way in responding.
After consulting with volunteer groups that worked in the arts, with students, and with seniors to learn what was most needed, they launched NYC Service with Diahann Billings-Burford as their inaugural Chief Service Officer. NYC Service would enable NYC to do more with less (since economic times were tight) and help harness volunteers in "impact service".
NYC Service, in its several years, has achieved impressive results. They have used citizens to vaccinate over half a million individuals against H1N1; engaged over 400,000 students in school-based volunteering; trained over 10,000 people in CPR who then trained additional New Yorkers; and coated two million square feet of rooftop under their "Cool Roofs" program with reflective white material to lower building's cooling costs in the summer and help alleviate global warming.
They also launched the Civic Corps, a full-time group of AmeriCorps stipended volunteers who work in the Mayor's Office or with city non-profits to help those non-profits mobilize volunteers. The Civic Corps in FY11 recruited almost three quarters of a million volunteers, raised $1 million in cash and $6 million in non-cash donations, such as professional services, clothing, food and books.
Over 2,500 volunteer opportunities have been posted to NYC Service (their volunteer clearinghouse website) and they have garnered over 600,000 unique website visitors looking for volunteer opportunities. Between their website and the Civic Corps, NYC Service has mobilized over a million NYC volunteers.
Although NYC Service does not directly track this, one of the most important outcomes (above and beyond how many success mentors they train or how many square feet of roofs they paint white), is the social capital and civic engagement that NYC Service instills. Studies have shown that for many governmental objectives (say keeping streets safe or increasing academic performance), a civic engagement strategy (through neighbors knowing each others' first names or parents being more involved in their kids' learning) is more efficacious than a top-down government-funded approach.
NYC Service is undoubtedly increasing citizens' sense of efficacy (that they can and are making a difference on issues like the environment or school readiness or dealing with truancy). This increased efficacy is likely to cause more New Yorkers to intervene elsewhere (e.g., when someone has fallen on a street or is having a heart attack, or when a neighbor needs assistance).
Implicitly, much of what government does is remediating for gaps in civil society. For example, social service and safety nets step in where family and neighbors don't. Police are necessary where social sanction and control is insufficient to police social norms. Paid Fire Departments are needed when all-volunteer fire departments can't fulfill their duties.
The social capital created by NYC Service is likely to have a significant impact, way above and beyond the value of volunteer hours (which are important and sizeable in-and-of themselves). Greater local participation down the road is likely to lead to: a) better crafted and more responsive local policies; b) better performing and less corrupt government since the civic engagement and transparency will hold government officials accountable; c) greater net ability to change citizen behavior relative to an approach that relies on mandates (which are harder to get enacted and less popular); and d) potentially less of a need for government down the road, if engaged citizens do their jobs effectively.
Replication of NYC Service: NYC Service is already being replicated. Mayor Bloomberg held a competition (funded by Rockefeller) and a selection panel chose 10 cities from the cities that applied in June 2010. These winners received $200,000 each to cover some of costs of a Chief Service Officer (which they had to hire) and received wraparound technical assistance (with work-planning, and project management). Rockefeller and Bloomberg Philanthropies announced a second grant round with 10 winners and awarded them in June 2010.
Bloomberg Philanthropies created a "learning community" around these 20 cities [see Cities of Service] with the goal of cross-fertilizing learning, experience sharing, and developing best practices. The CSOs came together face-to-face 2-3 times during the first year, engage in bi-weekly group conference calls, and receive individual technical assistance.
Bloomberg Philanthropies created a "Cities of Service Playbook" that specifies a process they recommend for Cities of Service in coming up with a service plan. CSOs in the first round were hired by May 2010 and these 10 were first convened in June 2010 and provided technical assistance. The first group developed service plans in Sept. 2010. The second group developed service plans by March 2011. [The first group consisted of Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Nashville, Newark, Omaha, Philadelphia, Sacramento, Savannah and Seattle. The second group consisted of Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Baton Rouge, Chula Vista, Houston, Little Rock, Orlando, Pittsburgh, and Richmond.]
New cities have also agreed to develop high-impact service plans that were not grantees in these two competitive rounds. Some of the original cities now have the CSO position supported by their budget or have indicated they will include the CSO in their budget.
We'll look forward to hearing more about NYC Service and their replication efforts.
Philadelphia's Connector Program:
Started by Liz Dow in 2005 as the Connector Project and based on Bowling Alone and Malcolm Gladwell's work on connectors and the Tipping Point, they are now in their third iteration, and have renamed themselves Creative Connectors. They identify leaders who use arts, culture and design to build community and create economic vitality. Liz was struck by the observation in Malcolm Gladwell's "Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg" that "poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation."
From their three years they have identified 10 traits in connectors (what they call "the Connector Competency Model") and convened these connectors to connect them with each other.
Liz wrote up her experience in 6 Degrees of Connection and a fuller description of the ten competencies which cutely spell out "CONNECTORS":
- C: Community Catalyst
- O: Other-oriented
- N: Network Hub
- N: Navigating Mazes
- E: Empowering Passion
- C: Constantly Curious
- T: Trustworthy
- O: Optimistic
- R: Results Achiever
- S: Self-Starter.
The list of creative connectors was generated by an online survey circulated by partner organizations and through an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer. While these connectors are important in Philadelphia, 3 out of 4 of the leaders identified had moved to Philadelphia from somewhere else, and they generally work in the non-profit sector. Creative Connectors also looks for leaders who:
- "are hubs of trust, seen as trustworthy and credible.
- use art and design to mobilize people around an issue.
- foster one-to-one linkages among people they know.
- engage with diverse groups.
- consider the common good as well as personal agendas.
- convey a vision that generates excitement.
- think strategically, act decisively.
- have founded an organization or program."
Each Connector was profiled and NPR will do a video on each one weekly over the next year.
Philadelphia's Creative Connectors is being replicated by some other groups including Leadership Louisville and the Portland Connector Project. [And I've learned that a Boston connector network already exists, no relation to the effort in Philadelphia, see comment below about Boston World Partnerships.]
Last week, Leadership Philadelphia convened all of the Connectors since 2005 to thank them for their contribution to the community, to connect them with the newest connectors, to have them brainstorm on an issue raised in Knight's Soul of the Community report, and to send them out into the community to make a Pay It Forward contribution. The latter was a gift of $50 cash with the instruction that they give it to someone in Philadelphia who needs it, and to report back to Leadership, stirring up some grassroots goodwill during the holidays.
Leadership Philadelphia has also initiated a This I Believe project, partnering with the local NPR station to have leaders and then other citizens write and then read their belief statements on air.
Read a news report on their most recent meeting of all their Connectors. The group that launched Creative Connectors, Leadership Philadelphia has a website here. The Connector Project website available here.
Social Capital, Inc.
Inspired by reading Bowling Alone, David Crowley, whom I regard as an unofficial mayor of social capital, decided to launch Social Capital, Inc.
David was moving to Woburn, MA (his home town) at the same time as he was inspired to see what he could do at a local level to rebuild social capital. He launched SCI and focused on trying to increase social capital in Woburn.
As David puts it: "The process of reconnecting to his home community after some 12 years of living elsewhere provided tangible examples of barriers to building social capital in today's society, but also suggested that there were many community assets that could be harnessed through collaborative, community-wide social capital building initiative. The basic idea of developing a local model that could be replicated in order to address the decline of social capital and civic engagement was born."
SCI Woburn was launched in summer 2002. In 2004, SCI expanded to Dorchester and in 2006-07, SCI began work in Lynn. They have now expanded to Fall River and Milford.
SCI sees their mission as developing new "social capitalists" and believes it can train young people in the "unique set of skills and attitudes that enables them to collaborate effectively, make connections, bridge differences, and nurture social networks to make a difference. David is an ardent evangelist for social capital. They are in the process of developing tools for would-be social capitalists and we will let you know when those become available.
In 2010-2011, here are some of SCI's accomplishments.
- SCI AmeriCorps members recruited over 2,500 community volunteers and a almost 70,000 residents of Dorchester, Boston, Fall River, Milford, Lynn and Woburn have benefitted from their service. The AmeriCorps members & volunteers served almost 50,000 hours with a market value of $1.25 million (based on Independent Sector's rates for volunteer service)
- 240 youth and other emerging leaders developed Social Capitalist skills with SCI this year.
- Over 4,015 food & clothing items have been generated by SCI AmeriCorps members and volunteers for people in need during these difficult economic times.
- Over 12,500 individuals use an SCI community portal every month to connect with local civic happenings.


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How society helps children grow up needs fundamental innovation at least as urgently as in how it produces computers. That is why Ashoka is so important. It finds, helps launch, and then links and leverages the most powerful social innovations and innovators.
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Jose Manuel is providing families from the most vulnerable neighborhoods in Chile access to quality, more environmentally friendly, staple groceries at a low cost and just steps from their homes. By...
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Nuestras oficinas de todo el mundo co-crean y co-lideran los diferentes programas de Ashoka. Esto permite que nuestra comunidad global de Agentes de Cambio capture e integre el conocimiento y los diferentes talentos de los innovadores en una amplia gama de contextos culturales y regionales. Conoce la lista completa de las sedes de Ashoka
Carol BellamyFormer Executive Director, UNICEF
Bill Drayton emphasized to us [that] empathy is increasingly becoming our primary resource for dealing with the exponential rate of change the world is going through.Arianna HuffingtonFounder, The Huffington Post
We recognize a new era is about to start. In this new era, empathy and changemaking skills, which Ashoka exemplifies, would equip our young people to lead the country.Kan SuzukiJapan State Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology
No matter a person's abilities, if he or she helps others – to that degree he or she will be powerful, happy, and long-lived. That's why Ashoka's leadership in building a world where everyone is a changemaker, i.e., a giver, makes it so special and powerful.Timothy P. ShriverChairman, the Special Olympics
Forbes knows that the story is change. No one sees that more clearly than Ashoka. It has an extraordinary ability both to envision the big, new patterns and to engineer their emergence.Forbes


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- Hydropower Sensitivity Moderate to High
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A compensator can be built-into a heating system to absorb pipe linear expansion as an alternative to an expansion loop.
Pipe linear expansion in a heating system is caused by the difference between the operating temperature and ambient temperature and by variations in media temperature. A compensator can be built-into the system to compensate for this linear expansion, as an alternative to an expansion loop. The compensator can be a hinged or axial type. Pipe fixtures and lateral pipe guides have to be built-in if a compensator is used to deal with the expansion.A hinged compensator allows a pipe corner to move, so that the pipe expansion can be absorbed by the compensator. An axial compensator works by allowing two pipes to move against each other, thus absorbing the expansion. A flexible bellow prevents the system from leaking.
District heating systems often use an alternative to compensators. Instead, pipes are stressed/distorted in such a way that any expansion is minimised. To deal with expansion, stressed steel pipes and even extra-strength steel pipes are used as an alternative or in a combined solution.


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The Army Institute of Law (AIL) was established in July 1999 by the Indian Army under the aegis of the Army Welfare Education Society (AWES) at its interim location at Patiala. In July 2003, the Institute shifted to Sector 68, Mohali. On December 1, 2003, the Mohali Campus was inaugurated by H.E. Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, the then President of India. The Institute is affiliated to the Punjabi University, Patiala and approved by the Bar Council of India. With 'Aspire & Achieve' as its motto, the Institute has grown as a Centre of Excellence in the field of legal education. The Institute is accredited grade 'B' by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). AIL has a magnificent residential campus in an impressive architectural structure in the vicinity of Chandigarh and Punjab & Haryana High Court. It conducts a five year BA.LLB and one year LL.M course.
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Phase Zero X LMB is a project where we've created a cruelty-free, luxury formula based brand at factory prices. As we are the manufacturers, we are going to sell straight to the consumer, without all the middlemen and huge markups! A lipgloss that retails at £12 for example, you'll get for £3.50 with us
The collection I have features three lipglosses, four matte lipsticks and two lip toppers and all of the lip products are packaged in plastic tubes, which all look the same and are best identified from the little stick on the bottom of the tube. The plastic tubes contain 8ml of product, come with a standard doe foot applicator and there is a slight Vanilla scent to them.
The three lipglosses I have are the shades
- Dark Burgundy which is a beautiful rich aubergine shade
- Baby Pink which is a really pretty nude pink
- Postbox Red which as the shade name gives away is a stunning bright red.
So far from my using them, Dark Burgundy is the hardest one to work with and is a bit streaky, but it works fine over a lipstick. Postbox Red is not really my shade at all but it is really pigmented and Baby Pink is more of a nude and not so much of the pink and again it can be worn alone or over lipstick.
The liquid lipsticks are matte shades and all four of them dry without flaking, feathering or even running. The four shades that I have are:
- Classic Red which is, again as the shade states a very classic shade of red
- Pink Suede which is one of my favourite shades and it is a pink nude
- Chai Latte is best described as being a brown nude
- Gingerbread is a deep brown/red which is said to warm your complexion.
They dry down quite quickly and are really comfortable to wear and last for hours once applied.
The final two products within the collection are two lip toppers and they are both just stunning and my favourite products from the Phase Zero Lip Collection.
- Holographic Girl is everything you think it will be and is definitely one for the Unicorn lovers with its pink/blue hues
- Prosecco Kiss is my absolute favourite product from this collection and it is just stunning with its shimmery rose gold shade
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Final BCS Title Game Is One for the Ages
Epic FSU-Auburn tilt draws 25.6 million viewers
College football's oft-derided Bowl Championship Series went out on a high note Monday night, as the thrilling Florida State-Auburn showdown proved to be one of the most-watched programs in cable history.
According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, ESPN's coverage of the 16th and final BCS title game delivered an average 25.6 million viewers and a 14.4 household rating. When the simulcasts on ESPN2 and ESPNews are factored in, FSU's 34-31 win drew 26.1 million viewers and a 14.8 rating.
Any way you slice it, the FSU-Auburn telecast now stands as the third-biggest draw on any cable network.
As expected, the ACC-SEC battle put up the biggest local numbers in Southern markets. Birmingham, Ala., posted the biggest household rating, scaring up a 55.8, while Jacksonville, Fla., took second place with a 31.1. Other top DMAs include: Knoxville, Tenn. (26.6); Atlanta (25.8); Orlando, Fla. (24.9); Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla. (24.2) and Memphis, Tenn. (24.1).
While the final BCS National Championship Game was an instant classic—after Auburn took a 31-27 lead on a 37-yard touchdown run with 79 seconds left on the clock, the Seminoles countered with a relentless drive that culminated in a 2-yard TD pass in the game's closing seconds—the ratings didn't quite stand up to last season's blowout. Alabama's 42-14 drubbing of Notre Dame served up 26.4 million viewers.
Cable's all-time biggest audience arrived courtesy of the Jan. 10, 2011 title tilt, when Auburn edged Oregon 22-19 on a last-second field goal. That night, a record 27.3 million viewers tuned in to ESPN.
All told, ESPN's presentation of the five BCS Bowl games (Fiesta, Rose, Sugar, Orange and BCS National Championship) averaged 16.5 million viewers and a 9.4 rating, up 9 percent from 15.1 million and 7 percent versus last year's 8.8.
Next year marks the inauguration of the playoff system, under which four teams will compete in a pair of semifinals for the right to advance to the College Football Championship Game. The first title game guaranteed to be neither ambiguous nor controversial (knock wood) will be played at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
ESPN in November 2012 signed a 12-year, $7.3 billion deal to secure the rights to carry the two playoff games and the championship showdown.
While it was believed that a title sponsorship of the new national championship game could fetch as much as $35 million per season, the governing body that oversees the event has elected not to tap that potential revenue stream. Thus, as was the case with the first 75 Rose Bowl games, the CFCG will not come freighted with a sponsor's name.


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Microsoft is the one software vendor that's most likely to audit companies on their software licensing compliance, according to an industry-sponsored survey.
The report, "2012 Key Trends in Software Pricing and Licensing Survey," available here, was conducted on behalf of Flexera Software by analyst and consulting firm IDC. Flexera produces "application usage management" software, including software licensing management solutions. The survey included 334 respondents, with more than half (54 percent) working at enterprises with $1 billion or more in revenues. About half (45 percent) of respondents were located in the United States, with the rest in Europe and Australia.
The larger commercial software vendors were more likely than other software companies conduct compliance audits, according to the survey. However, Microsoft led the pack in the study with the most frequent audits. Over the last year, respondents said they had been most frequently audited by Microsoft (51 percent), Oracle (27 percent), IBM (24 percent), SAP (22 percent) and Adobe (19 percent).
The study found that 64 percent of enterprises were audited, or had a license review, over the past 18 months to 24 months. More than a third (36 percent) underwent at least two audits in that time period. Companies audited more than three times in that period represented 10 percent of the survey results.
The companies most targeted for software compliance audits, according to the survey, were large enterprises, or entities with more than $1 billion in revenue. These companies reported that they were "dissatisfied" with their method of tracking software licensing at more than twice the rate of other companies in the survey. Just 35 percent of respondents indicated that they were "satisfied" or "very satisfied" with their tracking method.
A key reason for the respondent's dissatisfaction was a failure to track "overused" applications, meaning that software use was out of compliance with the contract. There were 38 percent of enterprises that said that "11% or more of their application spend is associated with applications that are overused," according to the study.
Plenty of money is on the line with these software licensing compliance audits. Company "true ups," in which companies pay for the software used by employees over a licensing period, were more than $100,000 over the last year for over half of the respondents. More than a third (36 percent) of respondents had a true up of $300,000 or more. About a fourth (24 percent) indicated a true up of $1 million or more.
The report recommended that organizations stay proactive about tracking their software assets. Stumbling blocks that companies typically face include complex licensing agreements, complex IT environments, decentralized operations and a lack of automation.
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I picked up the 1961 edition of "Just One More!" by the Los Angeles Press Photographers Assn. and I've been enjoying it more than I expected. It's a time capsule of press photography as it was 50 years ago, so there are the posed shots, humorous animal pictures and gory traffic wrecks, all examples of things that we don't see in newspapers anymore. Some of it is kitsch, but there are powerful images as well. These photogs did great work.
Best of all, there are photos of some of the lensmen (and they were all men) who earned their living capturing Los Angeles with flashbulbs and film. Here they are:
Loran Smith of the Mirror; Wayne Kelly of The Times; Jack Leppert, an independent newsreel photographer; Nelson Tiffany of the Mirror; Bud Gray of the Examiner; Harold "Hal" Filan of the Associated Press; Ray Graham of The Times; Russ Lapp of the Examiner; Ferdie Olmo of the Examiner; George O'Day of the Herald-Express; Lee Weber, a freelancer; and Bill Harvey from Rothschild News Photos.
"Carriage Trade," by Ferdie Olmo
"Ferdie Olmo's "Carriage Trade" is the kind of picture that used to appear regularly in Life magazine and some newspapers. The late Delmar Watson was another photographer who excelled in this kind of picture.
Untitled, by William Harvey
William Harvey's untitled photos of a model (at least half of one) in fishnet stockings is another curio. I'm not sure whether this series was for pinup art or some sort of catalogue. But I find the concept a bit strange.
"Zealous Ump," by Art Rogers
Of course, the real bread and butter work for photogs was – and is – sports. Here's a shot by The Times' Art Rogers of an unidentified umpire making a call in what appears to be Orlando Cepeda (No. 30) of the Giants taking a throw at first base.
"Bobo Olson – Sugar Ray," by Carlos Schiebeck
An unidentified referee gives the count to Carl "Bobo" Olson (notice the "Mother" tattoo) in this undated photo by Carlos Schiebeck of United Press International. Olson and Sugar Ray Robinson fought several times, but I can't locate anything around 1960. You can almost hear the ref counting over Olson, who has crumpled to the canvas.
"Wife Killer," by Maurice Mitchell
"Wife Killer," by Maurice Mitchell of the Examiner is the kind of photo newspapers rarely get anymore. Photographers and the police had a much closer relationship before the Watts Riots, which made some for some powerful images, especially when there was less competition from TV news.
"Coffeehouse Homicide," by Robert O. Ritchie
"Coffeehouse Homicide" by The Times' Robert O. Ritchie is another example of the crime photo that newspapers rarely get anymore. The handcuffed suspect looks at the camera while a police technician photographs the crime scene and a police officer watches, resting his foot on a chair.
"Broken Leg," by Larry Miller
"Broken Leg" by Larry Miller of the Examiner won a prize from the Los Angeles Press Club and it's a terrific spot news photo. The injured firefighter isn't identified, but barely visible in the upper right corner is the name Mazzari written on the brim of a firefighter's helmet. A Times story from 1969 shows there was a firefighter named Earl Mazzari. Maybe someone will recognize these men.
"JFK" by Leigh Wiener
"JFK" by Leigh Wiener (d. 1993), who operated his own studio, won an award from the Art Directors of Los Angeles. Most photos of John F. Kennedy show the exuberant crowds from the 1960 presidential campaign. Here's a quiet, contemplative moment that makes wonderful use of a single light source and lots of black.
"Pan in the Can," by Jack Wyman
I haven't a clue what is going on in "Pan in the Can" by Jack Wyman of the Examiner except that this jail inmate was a free spirit. But as before, newspapers don't get pictures like this anymore. Notice his jail outfit: A work shirt, jeans with no belt and sandals with no socks.
Other volumes in the "Just One More!" series are listed in World Cat.


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MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) – The University of Wisconsin-Stout has received a $1 million donation to help boost its undergraduate program in property management.
The Menomonie-based school announced the gift Wednesday from Dean Weidner. He founded Weidner Apartment Homes, a property-management firm in Kirkland, Wash.
Weidner said he first became aware of UW-Stout's program when his company recruited some graduates. He said the students had outstanding qualifications, and he wanted to help develop the program further.
School officials say the money will be used to buy equipment and technology for the new Weidner Center. It will also be used to fund seven scholarships each year worth a total of $10,000.
The program includes classes in finance, accounting and rental law.


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Looking for frightening fare to watch on Halloween night? We thought about writing a list of the most terrifying movies ever made, but you certainly don't need the august cultural mandarins at TIME to tell you that the likes of The Exorcist and The Silence of the Lambs and John Carpenter's Halloween (pictured) are three of the scariest movies of all time. But if you're looking for a scary movie (or two, or 10) that you may not have seen before, look no further.
Several of these are from overseas, from countries that have older, deeper traditions of folk storytelling and monster legends than we Americans do. So it figures that they might know what they're doing in the horror film department. And one is silent, so they probably didn't show it on Saturday afternoon TV too often. Here, then, are 10 of the scariest movies you haven't seen.
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