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Information junkie. That's what they will write in my obituary. "She knew many facts of marginal value and use".
So, as someone who is a tad obsessed with the real estate market, you would think that I would also love the Zestimate; Zillow's famed tool for estimating home market values using their own proprietary formula. Yes and No.
While I truly appreciate the spirit and intent of the Zestimate to innovate and differentiate Zillow from other traditional real estate web sites, I cannot get past the numbers themselves.
A house for sale in the area listed for $715,000 has a Zestimate of $598,000 featured right below the asking price. "The range" of possible values for this home is $496k-$711k; a $215,000 difference or +/- 17-18%. Seriously?
The Zestimate is based on publically available comparable sales of similar homes in the same geographic area and 'user submitted data'. The differences do tighten up as more homes are sold within the criteria but there are still real weaknesses with the results.
Drilling down to the methodology of the algorithm, (have some Advil handy when you do this) you will find that 'the range' has a 70% confidence rate. That is exactly as it sounds. "The range" is correct 70% of the time. 30% of the time - not so much. The median margin of error for the range in Fairfield County is apparently around +/-8%.
You could drive a large SUV through those statistics. By comparison, the political polls we now see daily have a 3%+/- margin of error with 95% confidence.
The Zestimate is a purely mathematical, external measure. Most significantly, it does not account for renovations or property characteristics. It cannot it fully appreciate the appeal of the designer kitchen, which flows into the sunny family room and it has no way of accounting for wetlands or crazy slopes. Zillow is very honest about all this and even allows sellers to update facts about their home.
Whether you agree with the final number or not, the Zestimate is out there and Zillow reports "In July, 168 million homes were viewed on Zillow via a mobile device – that's 63 homes per second". That's only mobile views and only in July!
In the end, I do think the Zestimate empowers buyer and sellers to look beyond an individual house and take a larger, more analytical view of the market.
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Yemeni security officials say a gunman has assassinated the Yemeni chief of security at the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa.
The officials say Qassem Aqlani, who was in his fifties, was shot dead while on his way to work early on Thursday. They say a gunman on a motorcycle opened fire at him and fled the scene.
Aqlani had been working for the U.S. Embassy in the Yemeni capital for nearly 20 years.
The Yemeni officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
The attack comes as Yemen's U.S.-backed government is waging an offensive against al-Qaida's branch in the country, taking back territory and cities in the south that the terror group seized last year.
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Fire gutted a house Tuesday afternoon in the town of Oneonta, leaving one resident homeless.
Officials said no one was seriously injured in the blaze at 10 Murdock Ave., just west of the Oneonta city line and a block from Chestnut Street.
One firefighter was taken for emergency treatment after debris got into one of his eyes, but Oneonta Fire Chief Patrick Pidgeon said the injury did not appear to be serious.
The only resident of the house was not inside when the fire started, the chief said. The man declined to talk to a reporter at the scene, and the chief could not provide his name.
Pidgeon said that the first call about the fire came in at 2:26 p.m., and that units arrived within four minutes.
By that time, flames were coming from the first floor at the front of the house, and the fire was moving toward the second floor, he said. It took about an hour to control the fire, he said.
Oneonta City and Otsego County fire investigators were still at the scene Tuesday night, trying to determine the cause of the fire.
"I just left there myself, and they were still actively involved in the investigation," Pidgeon said just before 6 p.m. "So it could be a few hours, it could be a few minutes, depending on what they find."
The property was the site of another fire in January 2009 that destroyed an unattached garage.
"We've had incidents there before," Pidgeon acknowledged.
In 2009, the resident, identified as Matthew P. Hill, 38, told authorities he was trying to thaw a snow blower with a heater and had left the garage to answer the phone. He returned to find the garage on fire, he said.
Firefighters demolished the garage for safety reasons. The house was not damaged in that blaze.
On Tuesday, the fire department put out a general call for "all our manpower," Pidgeon said.
Among the departments responding to the scene or to cover the Oneonta fire station were Otego, West Oneonta, Laurens, Sidney, Franklin and Worcester, the latter three part of a Fast Team response, a cooperative strategy among those departments and Oneonta to handle major fires.


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NFL great 'Deacon' Jones has passed away. Discuss that and more in today's edition of the Newswire.
One Texans fan takes a look back at all of Gary Kubiak's coaching decisions during the 2011 Houston Texans season.
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Tony Truilizio, who coached the Riverside football program to great success in the Buffalo Public Schools for the last decade, has been named the new coach at North Tonawanda.
Trulizio told The Buffalo News that he accepted the job offer from NT athletic director Cindy Bullis on Tuesday night.
"I'm grateful for everything that happened at Riverside, and I'm so excited about working in a new community and working with the kids at NT," said Truilizio, who said he will remain a physical education teacher at Riverside, where he will also continue to coach swimming and lacrosse. "It's a professional decision to move upward. My ultimate goal is to coach at the collegiate level. To move in the direction of NT is just a blessing."
Riverside won the Buffalo Public Schools' Harvard Cup championship four times under Trulizio, including its final season in 2009. When the Buffalo schools joined Section VI for the 2010 season, the Frontiers won the AA North title.
"It's bittersweet," said Truilizio. "If it weren't for those kids [at Riverside], the Buffalo Public Schools and Riverside, I wouldn't have this opportunity. The success came from the hard work of the kids and we had a great staff that allowed me to be a successful coach. You can't do it alone."
Rick Tomm coached NT last season but did not reapply for the position. Tomm followed Eric Jantzi, who coached at NT for 11 years -- including the 2009 Class AA state championship -- before stepping down.
"Everybody knows abotu the T-NT game and I'm looking forward to that," said Truilizio. "I'm looking forward to being a competior and obviously our goal is the same as everybody else's: to win a state championship. The division is nice, but winning states is what it's about."
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Truilizio raved about the NT program. I've often said that NT football games are one of the best game-day high school sports experiences in Western New York.
Their new football coach has been a fan of the program for a long while, and it wasn't forged in football.
Truilizio was impressed with NT dating back to his time as a swim coach for Grand Island.
"hen I'd walk in as a coach from Grand Island, you'd see the stands full, parents, fans, just the general community," he said of the swim meets. "People would treat you with the utmost respect, even if you were an opponent. This was my first experience with NT, must have been 15 years ago.
"After I got the job at Riverside, coach Jantzi opened up a four-way scrimmage and we at Riverside got into it for three or four years. When we'd walk in as kids from Buffalo, they had respect for the team, for the kids, for me as coach -- the community was there, the booster club was there. It was just the most wonderful feeling walking into NT.
"I'd go to scout at NT and go to sit in the stands, and you'd just see left to right a full stadium of students, parents, alumni -- I was in shock. I'd walk in there wearing my Riverside colors, and instead of being jerks the fans were the most wonderful fans. 'Hey coach do you need anything?' They'd move over. I've been around long enough -- you don't get that everywhere."
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In response to a member of the Otsego Area Landowners' Association's commentary in the Weekend edition of The Daily Star, the public (or in Dick Downey's words, scaremongers), would like him and the association to explain to the citizens of New York state why windmills and other renewables are so bad, when horizontal hydrofracking requires the following:
1. Injection wells and holding tanks to store indefinitely millions of gallons of toxic flowback waste from the mining process.
2. Miles of volatile natural gas pipelines and acres of smog belching compressor stations.
3. Millions of gallons of clean water that will never, ever be drinkable again!
4. Compulsory integration into natural gas wells and eminent domain equals forced participation into the fossil fuel industry's greed and your land rights, homeowners' insurance and health are taken away so the mined gas can be shipped overseas.
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The spirit world is not a place. Instead it is a state of mind—an awareness achieved through training, natural talent, and practice. Reaching the spirit world varies by tradition, with some experiencing its power by whipping themselves up into a frenzy or transforming into a bestial form. Of all those who can commune with the primal spirits, the shaman finds harnessing its power the easiest because he or she needs no tricks to access the spirits. Spirits remain with them or near them, lending advice, fighting on their behalf, and answering their call whenever and wherever the shaman travels.
And then, gathered all around, the spirits assembled, their forms running from beautiful to hideous, with some as multicolored motes drifting like dandelion seeds carried on the wind, and others made from mud and twigs, green eyes shining. From such a congress, Corben knew he would learn the villagers' fate and, if they still lived, where he would find them.
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There are the old tales of how storks deliver newborn babies by dropping them down chimneys.
David and Dionna Sanders of Rockwall, however, brought home two girls via the air conditioner repair man.
The Sanders formally adopted Nehria, 13, and Jeri, 12, Friday during the local observance of National Adoption Day at the Hunt County Courthouse.
A total of 14 families had adoptions approved during the ceremony. In each case, the prospective parents were asked a few, brief questions before 196th District Court Judge Steve Tittle proclaimed, "The court gladly grants the adoption." After each drop of the gavel, the courtroom broke out into applause.


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Editor's note: The following is from press releases issued by the Plainfield Police Department and Will County Sheriff's Department:
Thanksgiving can be a dangerous time for motorists, especially unbelted ones — during the day or at night.
The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and the Plainfield police are reminding everyone who will be out on the roadways this holiday season to drive carefully and defensively, do not drive impaired and, most importantly, buckle up.
To lose a loved one is a terrible thing to experience, especially during the holidays. But to lose one's life, when it might have been saved by taking two seconds to buckle a seat belt, is truly senseless, Plainfield Traffic Sgt. Eric Munson said in a press release. When you are in your vehicle, no matter the distance, please remember to buckle up, every trip, every time. Far too often, this good advice is not heeded. In Illinois, during the 2011 Thanksgiving holiday, there were eight fatalities and more than 800 injuries.
Statistics show that those least likely to buckle up are teens, young male adults, nighttime passengers, motorists driving on rural roads and individuals traveling in pickup trucks — especially during late-night hours.
Late-night hours are when the highest percentage of motorists die in alcohol-involved crashes and the lowest percentage of vehicle occupants wear seat belts. In this day of cell phones, texting and other driving distractions, young people are even more at risk, Munson said.
That is why law enforcement will be out in full force during a Thanksgiving mobilization from Nov. 12-25. This stepped-up enforcement throughout Illinois will remind drivers that wearing a seat belt costs you nothing, but not wearing it could cost you a ticket, or worse — your life.
The same applies when you have been drinking and choose to drive. Police remind drivers and passengers, front and back seat, to Click It or Ticket, day and night — and remember, Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over.
The Plainfield Police Department wishes everyone a safe and happy Thanksgiving. Remember to buckle up, every trip, every time and designate a sober driver.
The Will County Sheriff's office will also be conducting stepped-up Click It or Ticket/Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over enforcements.
"Fastening a seat belt takes only a second or two, and costs you nothing. Not wearing a seat belt, especially during this Thanksgiving period, will definitely cost you a ticket at the very least, or even worse, your life," said Sgt. Steve Byland.
For more information on the Illinois Click It or Ticket campaign, visit www.buckleupillinois.org.


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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas; the annual Holiday Festival returns to Arcadia on Saturday.
Have breakfast and get your picture taken with Santa before enjoying the one snow day Arcadia will likely have this year.
The Holiday Snow Festival features two snow play areas, dual sled runs, crafts, trolley train rides and entertainment — all free to Arcadia residents.
"The City of Arcadia is happy to host a fun filled day including snow play areas, sled runs, entertainment, and even a visit from Santa Claus for breakfast and photos," Assistant Director of Recreation Ryan Wright said.
Breafast with Santa is $8 per person, and you may choose between the 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. seating or the 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. seating. Space is limited, however, and reservations must be made in advance.
Call (626) 574-5113 for more information.
For those who don't want breakfast, the Surfer Taco and Downtown Dogs food trucks will be available for purchase from 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
The event begins at 8:30 a.m. at the Community Center at 365 Campus Drive.
Park at the Centennial Way entrance of the Santa Anita Race Track and hop aboard the free shuttle to the Community Center. Shuttle service begins at 7:45 a.m.


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Prior to being acquired by PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (www.pnc.com), National City Corporation was the eighth largest financial holding company in the country, with core businesses of commercial and retail banking, mortgage financing and servicing, consumer finance, and asset management. As a part of PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. one of the nation's largest diversified financial services organizations – which provides retail and business banking; specialized services for corporations and government entities; wealth management; asset management; and global fund services – PNC will become the fifth largest U.S. bank by deposits. The acquisition of National City is expected to place PNC fourth among U.S. banks based upon number of branches, and will give PNC the No. 1 deposit share position in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Kentucky and the No. 2 position in Indiana and Maryland.
Due to increasing business demands, rising costs, and an aging database infrastructure, National City had made the strategic decision to reegineer its datacenter infrastructure.
National City decided that reegineering its datacenter by migrating from costly proprietary RISC machines running Sun Solaris and other UNIX distributions to commodity x86 blade machines running Red Hat Enterprise Linux would enable future growth. Two things drove this decision: a directive from senior management to cut costs, and the need to scale capacity quickly to accommodate the rapid growth of the business.
"Our processing needs were going up, and we needed to find a way to meet those needs at the lowest possible cost," said Thomas McGinnis, a platform engineer at what was then National City, in Cleveland. "Clearly, this pointed to the deployment of Linux on commodity hardware as opposed to building an entirely new datacenter."
Reegineering National City's datacenter infrastructure was vital in enabling the continued growth of the bank's business. The existing datacenter contained costly systems running UNIX, with no opportunity to scale for growth. The datacenter's new infrastructure runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a combination of physical and virtual HP ProLiant DL580 servers in a production environment.
In evaluating Linux vendors, it became quickly apparent to National City that the choice was between Novell SUSE or Red Hat Enterprise Linux. National City asked its internal developers and administrators for feedback and their response was quick and decisive: Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
"Their reasons centered upon the richer functionality and performance that Red Hat Enterprise Linux provided, as well as their familiarity with that particular Linux distribution," said McGinnis. "For our users, Linux was synonymous with Red Hat, and we were also impressed that we would get superior performance, reliability, and stability at an attractive pricepoint."
The Intel Xeon Processor-based HP ProLiant servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux support the bank's most business-critical applications, from Oracle financial software, to JBoss Enterprise Middleware-based applications, online transaction processing (OLTP) systems and customer-facing loan application systems. All are replicated with immediate storage back-up.
National City's datacenter has deployed 150 HP ProLiant servers running 400 virtualized instances of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. "We did this primarily for cost reasons," said McGinnis. "We were purchasing increasingly powerful hardware, and needed a way to condense things down. We're at a point where we can get as many as 1,100 guests running on a single rack of blade servers natively running Red Hat Enterprise Linux."
One of the crown jewels of National City's IT infrastructure was a new high-density facility featuring water-chilled racks, each of which could hold 54 blade servers. "It really improved our ability to provision hardware quickly, as we could pre-deploy the hardware and pre-stage it," said McGinnis.
A homegrown application allows users to request resources, and the application designs and deploys the servers they need automatically. "Users put requests in and we can satisfy the requests within the day," said McGinnis.
"In addition to its ability to scale, Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers rock solid reliability and has been extremely stable. Our decision to standardize on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux infrastructure was key to enabling rapid business growth while maintaining customer service levels," said McGinnis.
The price-performance of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform has proven exceptional. In 2007, PNC evaluated the best platform to run Oracle Financials Software.
"We tested UNIX running on a variety of machines including a RISC server that cost a quarter of a million dollars and is one of the most powerful boxes you can buy, and compared it to a Intel Xeon processor-based HP Proliant DL580 running Red Hat Enterprise Linux," said McGinnis, "The Intel Xeon processor-based HP and Red Hat Enterprise Linux combination blew everything away. Given those performance results, we started migrating our Oracle applications over to Red Hat Enterprise Linux immediately."
"Red Hat is acknowledged by everyone in our organization – from senior management on down — as key to supporting the growth of our business," said McGinnis. "It has allowed us to scale at a cost we could not have achieved with any other vendor."
As Red Hat's reputation within National City grew, the bank's business divisions began asking for their applications to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Today it is the the standard operating system. "The internal performance related adoption made things a lot easier for us, as it allowed us to phase out even more of our UNIX machines in favor of Red Hat," he said. The bank continues to perform benchmarks to validate that its strategy is on course.
"We were able to improve the price-performance of our financial applications on the Red Hat and Intel processor-based HP ProLiant servers to achieve two cents per transaction, which will translate to millions in savings," said McGinnis, "and was far lower than what we were able to achieve with the UNIX based systems."
The large – and growing – community of application vendors that certify their software on Red Hat Enterprise Linux accelerated adoption throughout the bank. "A lot of vendors were initially cautious, but we gradually saw more and more application certifications as more businesses moved to Red Hat Enterprise Linux from proprietary operating systems," said McGinnis. "This is now one of the major attractions of Red Hat."
Red Hat Enterprise Linux also paved the way for other, indirect, cost savings. For example, its ease of use made it possible for the bank's IT employees to be more productive.
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a lot more user-friendly than Solaris, which has a very high learning curve," said McGinnis. "This allows our team to do more. That, coupled with the fact that Red Hat's business model provides more for less, gave us the opportunity to achieve even more significant cost savings."
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Monday 19 December 2011
Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp says he does not want striker Roman Pavlyuchenko to leave White Hart Lane in the January transfer window.
The 30-year-old Russian came off the bench to score the winner in Spurs' 1-0 victory over Sunderland in the Barclays Premier League on Sunday, his first League goal of the campaign.
Pavlyuchenko has slipped down the pecking order at Spurs this season, with Emmanuel Adebayor, Jermain Defoe and Rafael van der Vaart occupying attacking positions ahead of him.
And with Euro 2012 next summer, Pavlyuchenko is believed to be keen to find a club where he can play regular first-team football in the second half of the season.
"People say Pav is going and we're looking for a striker, but it is difficult to find anyone better"
- Harry Redknapp
But Redknapp said: "I understand that Pav wants to play and needs to play, but if he keeps scoring he will be playing.
"I'd like to keep him. People say Pav is going and we're looking for a striker, but it is difficult to find anyone better.
"We are very fortunate, we have four very good strikers at the club and I would like to keep them all."
Pavlyuchenko has not started a single League match for Tottenham this season, despite scoring 14 goals in all competitions last season, 10 the season before and 14 in his first campaign in 2008-09 after a £13.8m move from Spartak Moscow.
He has been linked with a move back to his homeland as he tries to make sure of a place in Russia coach Dick Advocaat's 23-man squad for the European Championship in Poland and Ukraine.
Redknapp says Pavlyuchenko paid the price for a poor start to the season, but says he has all the attributes of a top-class centre-forward.
"He's top drawer but he's just been unlucky," added Redknapp. "He didn't start the season great. He hasn't really shown the form that he's capable of so he's slipped down the pecking order a bit.
"It's difficult. Some people are going to be upset they're not in the team, but if he's not playing he's always on the bench so it's not as if he's isolated. He's very much part of the first team.
"Pav's a fantastic player. He's got real talent, great ability. Technically he's fantastic - he's got a good left foot, a good right foot and is a great finisher. When he's at it he's top drawer."
Pavlyuchenko will be hoping to earn his first League start of the campaign when Tottenham entertain Chelsea at White Hart Lane on Thursday.


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Two weeks after the disappearance of a 19-year-old Middle Georgia State College student, authorities charged a Hawkinsville teenager with his murder.
Jmaal Malik Keyes, of Austell, just west of Atlanta, was last seen about 10:50 a.m. April 25. He reportedly left campus to go to a local convenience store.
Now authorities believe the 17-year-old who may have given him a ride also killed him.
Late Thursday, police charged Robert Kane Rolison, 17, with Keyes murder.
MGSC Campus Police Chief Shawn Douglas said Friday that Keyes, a freshman who was reported missing by his mother April 29, may have gotten a ride to a convenience store from Rolison.
That was the story we were told, it just hasnt been confirmed with eyewitnesses, Douglas said.
Douglas declined to say whether Rolison, who is dual-enrolled at Hawkinsville High School and MGSC, or another witness told them that Rolison took Keyes to the convenience store.
(Keyes) was with (Rolison) that day, but we cant confirm that (Keyes) went to a convenience store, Douglas said Friday.
Authorities have been quiet about the case against Rolison, who is being held at the Bleckley County Law Enforcement Center, and details have been scant.
Douglas said he cannot release any more information on why police believe Rolison murdered Keyes because the investigation is ongoing.
Douglas would not elaborate on how the two students knew each other. The only relationship we can confirm at this time is they ... attended school together and they did do some socializing in some of the common area, Douglas said.
Asked whether Rolison admitted to the murder, Douglas said, I cant disclose that at this time.
Douglas said the convenience store owners could not confirm if theyd seen Keyes on April 25 or the day before.
Douglas said more information might be released Saturday.
We have sufficient evidence at this time as to whether the crime was committed, he said.
Searching for Keyes body
The search for Keyes body has focused on Bleckley and Pulaski counties.
Todd Lowery, special agent in charge at the Eastman office of the GBI, which is leading the investigation, said officials received information that indicated we needed to be looking in those two counties.
He called the efforts to find Keyes body a broad search.
Lowery said the state Department of Natural Resources has been assisting in the search from the ground, which included the use of boats on the Ocmulgee River. The Georgia State Patrol assisted with searches from the air, Lowery added.
While the search has been unsuccessful so far, Lowery said efforts would continue until we feel like theres nothing else to search.
The search on the Ocmulgee was called off Friday afternoon. Authorities were searching areas of Bleckley and Pulaski counties Friday evening, GBI Inspector Sherry Lang said, according to the Associated Press.
Portrait of suspect begins to emerge
Students from Hawkinsville High described Rolison as an outgoing, smart student who loved to skateboard and draw.
He likes to have a good time, said Jessica Neal, 17. Hell make you laugh.
Neal said she was in the 4-H club with Rolison, who was in Advanced Placement classes when he attended the high school full time.
Principal Rosemary Wright said Rolison was enrolled at MGSC full time this school year as a part of the Georgia Academy of Aviation, Mathematics, Engineering and Science program.
GAMES is designed so that scholastic students can earn both a high school diploma, from their home high school, and an associate degree from Middle Georgia State College simultaneously, according to the college website.
Wright declined to comment further.
Rolison also was a 2011-2012 member of the Georgia School Superintendents Student Advisory Council that met to discuss education policy
Neal and friends Jennifer Johnson, 18, and Courtney Taylor, 16, said they were surprised by news Rolison had been charged with murder.
I dont believe it, Johnson said. I dont think he would do that.
Rolison lists his age as 19 on the social networking site called MeetMe.com.
The site states it is home to more than 90 million people who meet, play games and have fun.
In his thumbnail photograph, Rolison appears to be bare chested and is wearing what looks like some sort of necklace.
The last post associated with his name shows a smiley face icon, with eyes closed and the word relaxed next to it.
On Facebook, Rolison states hes single, interested in women and his religious views are agnostic, which is defined as a person who claims neither faith, nor disbelief in God, one who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God, or of anything beyond material phenomena.
In photos taken in March and posted on his Facebook page, Rolison apparently attended a medieval festival in west Georgia called the Ides of March VII.
The pictures show him and others wearing costumes and holding shields and various types of homemade weapons used in battle games.
Absolutely devastated
Friday is the last day students have to move off campus after the spring semester. Few students remained after finals wrapped up Tuesday. Keyes belongings remain in his room, MGSC polices Douglas said.
The colleges graduation ceremonies also were Friday.
We start today on a solemn note, interim MGSC President John Black said to a packed Macon Coliseum at graduation.
In a news release late Thursday, Black said the college is absolutely devastated by this news. There just are no words to describe how deeply hurt we are and how terrible we feel for Jmaals family.
Black said he wanted to express heartfelt condolences to everyone in his family, and everyone who knew Jmaal.
Destiny World Church, whose members organized a search for Keyes in Cochran earlier this week, issued a statement saying members were saddened to learn of the news about Keyes.
Destiny World Church has been active in the search for Jmaal for the last several days and we are disheartened by the news that another student has been arrested on murder charges, according to the statement.
Wilbur Purvis, a pastor from Keyes church in Austell, said the teen had been very active at Destiny World Church. At a news conference Friday, Purvis said Keyes older brother graduated from college this week with a criminal justice degree and the teen wanted to follow in his footsteps. Keyes mother is relying on her faith for guidance after losing her son, Purvis said. She was very adamant when she spoke to her children about not being bitter, not being angry, accepting this as something that has occurred and believing that her faith in God will get her through, he said.
Telegraph writers Liz Fabian, Joe Kovac Jr. and Jenna Mink and information from the Associated Press contributed to this report.


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"The Common Core basically nationalizes mediocrity."—Mike Farris
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Michael Farris is the chancellor of Patrick Henry College and chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association. He was the founding president of each organization.
Farris is a constitutional appellate litigator who has served as lead counsel in the United States Supreme Court, eight federal circuit courts, and the appellate courts of 13 states.
He has been a leader on Capitol Hill for over 30 years and is widely known for his leadership on homeschooling, religious freedom, and the preservation of American sovereignty.
At Patrick Henry College, Farris teaches constitutional law, public international law, and coaches PHC's Moot Court team which has won six national championships.
A prolific author, Farris has been recognized with a number of awards including the Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship by the Heritage Foundation and as one of the "Top 100 Faces in Education for the 20th Century" by Education Week magazine.
Mike and Vickie Farris have 10 children and 14 grandchildren.
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A homeschool graduate from Pennsylvania, Will began working for HSLDA in January, 2004 as a legal assistant to Staff Attorney Scott Woodruff. After graduating from Oak Brook College of Law with his J.D., he moved on to direct HSLDA's Federal Relations department and to serve as HSLDA's federal lobbyist. As HSLDA's representative on Capitol Hill, Will uses his passion for homeschooling to advocate for all homeschoolers before Congress and the federal departments. He has testified before Congress and met with senior officials from federal agencies and the executive branch. From October 2007 through December 2012, Will served as the director of Generation Joshua, a division of HSLDA, where he worked with young people who are passionate about making a difference in politics. He oversaw a doubling of Generation Joshua's membership, an increase in local clubs, and an expansion of Generation Joshua's reach and effectiveness. In July 2011, he also took on lobbying for ParentalRights.org as the organization's director of federal relations, where he advocates before Congress for the Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He is a member of the California bar. Will and his wife Rachel, who is also a homeschool graduate as well as an accomplished portrait artist, and their son Dominic reside in northern Virginia.


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There aren't many position players who are able to post high WAR totals without hitting a lot of home runs, but this special group is the exception to the rule.
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Take a walk around the SaberSphere, today's ranges from hardcore analysis of WAR, strikeouts, and James Shields, to stories from opening days past.
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A look at how the Cleveland Indians are stacking up as a team in WAR at this late stage of the 2012 season. It isn't pretty.
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A base front-wheel-drive model with the 190-hp, 2.4-liter four-cylinder stickers at $25,275, including the $825 destination charge.
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Summary:The series depicts events in the lives of teenagers Patty and Cathy Lane, identical twins (in a peculiar biological freak, first cousins, not siblings) living in a suburban neighborhood (in Brooklyn Heights, according to the story, though it looks a lot more like Cleveland Heights) in the mid-60s.
Patty, the American, possesses an unquenchable thirst for life and a penchant for finding trouble; Cathy possesses a love for the arts and the finer things and treasures her European upbringing as she struggles to adjust to the American way of life while living with her uncle and his family.
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Solar Orientation is a key to sound site planning activity. Grasses are sun lovers. Lawn grasses get the most attention but there are amazing varieties to consider.
The step to Solar analyzing a site is straight forward and reliable. June 21 and December 21 are unique and different from all other days. Hemisphere Dependent each gets to claim the opposite apex. Note the position of the Sun on a site at Noon either day, and you know the end game for that point on our Planet.
Ferns take special notice.
All things considered if the sunlight is brightening a swatch on June 21st in the Southern Hemisphere it will have light every day of the year. Same day, Northern Hemisphere this may be the only one.
Pteridophyte is my favorite Linnaean label pretty sure, e.e. Cummings did too. Found on every Continent, they are able to thrive in a range of sun need from the number of minuets to full dose of entire year.
Siting roads and buildings with the sun in mind from conception through
old age is a base frequently ignored. Ignorance in this case is largely due to inventions from dynamite to solar panels. Nobel did more to change the world physically than any other human so far. Einstein could out do him but hopefully Nobel will hold the prize forever. Mountain Top mining is a Nobel legacy that is one of the latest to gain desperate donor begging onslaught. Dynamite gave humans the chance to improve transportation by making it similar to what the plow did to farming. As we progressed it became easier to be distant from the minute by minute changes to our Solar Days. As we lost touch we started to rely on "policies and percentages." Doing this in reverse on a given site is fun. Ferns will appreciate your attention. Some like lots of shade and cool environment.
Well-designed roads do too. If you need to go up a mountain to go from East to West take the Northern side seriously first. Though frozen for a longer period of time it will hold up far better than one on the South side. Weather noble concrete or pathetic asphalt a safer longer lasting result will be assured. Instead of every snowstorm turning into repeated ice events or extreme high surface temperatures the shade road will be temperate. Rapid build it wherever attitude and modern machines threw up roads that deteriorate alarmingly fast and provide infrastructure cult that is highly profitable politically. Roads to Nowhere get hyped as stupid spending. Look a little deeper and you will see "by design" in a different light.
Whether shaded by a structure or natural geology or vegetation cover, shade tolerant Fern Gardens can be the least maintenance of all. Because of their widespread tolerance with over 20,000 identified cousins it is understandable that they have provided beauty to the Earth for hundreds
of millions of years. Existing conditions on each parcel will include many opportunities for Ferns. Imagine a large, wide evergreen tree. The area to the South in the Northern Hemisphere has no other trees and to the East a small hedge, to the West no upright plant material. This sets up a potential for 4 gardens based on the amount of available direct sunlight. To the North of the tree Full Shade is the status, that does not mean that no sunlight touches the ground 365.25 days a year but minimal amount is the norm. Plants including Ferns placed there need to be Shade Tolerant. Partial Sun and Partial Shade would describe the areas to the East and West. There is a distinction.
Areas with Eastern exposure will be the first to receive sunlight as it rises. This has 2 distinct ancillary factors. Orchards should be planted on East facing slopes in New England. This will allow the plants to benefit from soil warming from early morning to after sunset. First the sun will shine on the ground, as the temperature goes up during the day the warmth will continue until after sunset. Conversely the West slope will not receive direct input until afternoon, and then it ends abruptly at sunset. That factor produces far more dew moisture. Grasses and wheat benefit from that effect, for fruit trees, not a good thing. Dew provides the moisture that encourages the growth of mold and other fruit damaging organisms. Wheat has such a tight skin the water slides to the ground and feeds the near surface roots.
Should you not have a ridge and room for an Orchard or row crops use the same understanding of solar input for Ferns. We are fascinated by Ferns for their leaves, not their flowers, since they have none. Full sun loving Ferns have the largest leaves, true shade tolerant varieties the smallest. Fiddlehead ferns are a fun species that taste great and are an expensive commodity when available. They represent in many ways a tasty glimpse into our planet's past.
Ferns dominated the period known as the Carboniferous Age. With a near fixed amount of water on Earth, their success led to droughts and subsequently fires and physical chaos all over the world. Capturing the abundant Carbon Dioxide they themselves emitted can be staggeringly astonishing as in viewing hundreds of feet of coal under Appalachian mountaintops.
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When, in his 20s, Jack Hawke, from Pennsylvania and fairly new to North Carolina, was running a 1964 congressional campaign for a Rocky Mount businessman named Jim Gardner, he didnt get it. He was blissfully unaware (at least, it seemed so) that North Carolina was a one-party state and that the Republicans could have held a state convention in a corner booth at a Rocky Mount restaurant.
And so this young Don Quixote carried on, helping the articulate, successful Gardner (most prominently linked to Hardees) again in 1966 against U.S. Rep Harold Cooley, a man with more than three decades in Congress and chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. Some of Cooleys people thought the idea of challenging the congressman was a joke.
Hawke didnt get the joke, and treated it like a real campaign, and in 1966, Gardner won a seat in Congress.
A few years later, Hawke a brash young fellow brimming with self-confidence and blessed with a great smile, ran for Congress himself. That turned out to be a little too brash.
The guy had guts. Hed go anywhere and meet anybody, undeterred that in the late 1960s, many North Carolinians were not thrilled with a fast-talking Northerner. Some thought him an opportunist, a guy whod probably move on if he couldnt win an office in North Carolina.
But Jack Hawke didnt move on. In time, he became the chairman of the state Republican Party, and perhaps more than any individual, helped to build it into a winner.
And by the time of his death at 72 earlier this week, Jack Hawke was certifiable as a true North Carolinian, and for that matter, when it came to Republican politics, an institution. Its hard to believe, remembering him as that dark-haired young whippersnapper, that its been nearly 50 years since he broke into Tar Heel politics.
Hawke was no fan of the press in general and particularly of The News & Observer, but whatever he may have said about an organization, you had the feeling his grudges werent personal. He returned calls. Hed have lunch. He was good company and could take a ribbing. Even when his candidates (there were many, including current Gov. Pat McCrory) took a hit in revelations in news stories or opinion pieces on editorial pages, Jack would meet you on the street and shake your hand and talk to you.
He could also be tough. When Republicans in 1994 swept into control of the U.S. House under Newt Gingrich, Hawke looked as if he might explode with glee on Election Night. He was not, shall we say, restrained in victory, and took joyful shots at Democrats. When it came to campaigning, Hawke was criticized by some for playing it too rough. He looked at it as a competition not meant for the faint of ego.
Of course, given the way Democratic powers in the General Assembly had treated Republicans for years, some of them had it coming. There were in those days times when a perfectly harmless bill would be introduced in the legislature, would appear to have support and then suddenly would die once a Democrat put the word out on the sponsor: Yknow, hes all right, and nothing wrong with the bill...but hes a Republican.
In the years he helped manage campaigns for everyone from Gardner to Jim Martin and McCrory, Hawke probably spend more time with good ol boys than the Dukes of Hazzard. But he never adopted a drawl. He was smart enough to know people would spot a phony.
When Pat McCrory took the governorship last year, Hawke sat with him at a couple of early press conferences, beaming in that same way he did in 1994. Victory made him happy, but so did just the pursuit of it.
At the time of his death, he could pretty much say hed seen his Republican Party triumph in a way many who were around in the 1960s, who suffered through defeat after defeat, would never have dared dream. But Jack Hawke did.
He deserved to bask in that dream a little longer. And though the Democrats who battled him didnt enjoy the wars, theyll miss having him in the game.
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A simple way to make yourself a go-to pro for heating upgrades
Two new courses at the Propane Training Academy will help make you an expert on high-efficiency propane building systems.
By Jeffrey Lee
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It happens every year at about this time. As autumn slowly gives way to winter and chilly temperatures settle in, we begin to feel the pain of our rising heating bills. Homeowners start to think about replacement options for their aging and inefficient heating systems, and new-home buyers remember to ask about energy costs in their home search.
One factor can set you apart in those customers' eyes: the knowledge to help them sort through the options and confidently select the best heating system for their homes. "A Comparative Analysis of Residential Heating Systems," one of two new residential courses at the Propane Training Academy, is designed to provide you with the knowledge to answer your customers' heating questions with clarity and precision.
The course analyzes brand-new research, conducted by Newport Partners, that used building energy modeling to compare 15 different heating systems using propane, electricity, or heating oil in new and existing homes in 20 locations across the United States. The course presents a number of highlights and conclusions from the research to help you fully understand the key considerations when choosing a heating system.
Naturally, economics and energy costs are forefront for both homeowners and building pros. The study found that a high-efficiency propane furnace paired with a standard central air-conditioning system yields both upfront savings and competitive energy costs.
In new installations, high-efficiency propane furnaces were the most affordable to purchase and install of all the systems. In fact, because high-efficiency units can vent through plastic pipes, the furnaces had lower total upfront costs than even less expensive, standard-efficiency propane furnaces, which require metal venting. The lower first costs and lower energy costs associated with high-efficiency propane furnaces is good news for builders and homeowners eager to achieve rapid energy bill savings.
Energy costs aren't the only factor, of course. Comfort, environmental performance, and installation needs all play important roles in the heating system decision. Take the full course at the Propane Training Academy to learn which factors you should consider to make the best decision for your project.
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If you're more interested in learning about all the ways propane can contribute to a high-performance home, check out "Designing and Building High Performance Homes with Propane."
This course provides detailed data on the technology attributes, cost-effectiveness, efficiency, performance, and environmental footprint of 12 residential propane applications, including high-efficiency propane furnaces, propane furnaceground source heat pump hybrid systems, and propane backup power. The practical, data-driven approach can help you find new opportunities to lower energy bills for your homeowners in remodeling and new construction projects.
"Building to higher standards of performance will often qualify builders and their homeowners for tax credits and other incentives."
Propane building systems can also help construction pros differentiate their projects by qualifying for above-code and sustainable building recognition programs. The course takes a detailed look at the Home Energy Rating System, LEED for Homes, Energy Star Homes, and the National Green Building Standard and highlights how energy-efficient propane systems can help builders improve their performance in those programs.
Building to these higher standards of performance will often qualify builders and their homeowners for tax credits and other incentives. The course discusses some specific incentive programs and shows how they can help offset higher costs for more-efficient propane systems.
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Decision due on communal bins in Brighton and Hove
1:50pm Monday 4th February 2013 in News
The communal bin revolution is rolling out across Brighton and Hove.
Tens of thousands of householders across the city centre currently have to put their waste in large black containers in the street.
As a way to make streets where properties have no front gardens tidier Brighton and Hove City Council wants to introduce the communal |bin scheme in the Triangle area between Lewes and Upper Lewes roads.
However, opinion is split with some residents worried it will lead to a loss of parking spaces.
A further plan to roll out the scheme in Hanover has been temporarily put on hold until a further public meeting has been held.
Pete West, chairman of the council's environment and sustainability committee, said: "We understand that changing the way refuse is collected is a big issue for residents and we are pleased that so many people have taken part in the consultation and given us their views.
"Our officers are committed to finding workable collection schemes for both areas."
It comes after a public consultation of hundreds of affected homes last year.
Responses in favour
In The Triangle area 51% of residents who responded were in favour of the scheme while 44% wanted to keep the existing collection service.
Consultation leaflets were sent out to 1,154 households in 18 roads and 225 responses were received.
Park Crescent and Park Crescent Terrace will be excluded as these properties have front gardens and bosses fear the bins may obstruct emergency vehicles.
In Hanover 48% supported communal bins while 46% were against, largely due to the loss of parking spaces.
Consultation documents were sent out to 1,367 households and 605 responses to the consultation were received
A revised proposal is being drawn up in time for the meeting. A date and venue has not yet been released.
Broken bags
Martin Cooper, of Aberdeen Road, Brighton, said: "It is the student-occupied properties that tend to leave out plastic bags or useless binvelopes for the seagulls and foxes to tear to pieces, strewing rubbish all over the place.
"Rather than us residents – who have bought our bins and are happy to lean out of the door and use them – having to drag binbags through the rain to an overflowing communal bin, which is taking up vital parking spaces, why not force the landlords and property agents, who make vast fortunes out of these students, to buy a bin for each household?"
A decision on both will be taken at the council's environment and sustainability committee meeting on Wednesday, February 6 in Hove Town Hall at 4pm.
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Sussex jim says...
This will involve one council department paying another. It all makes work for the working (?) man to do.
Sorry- "working person"
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Resident in Hanover says...
I didn't receive formal consultation documentation but I did sign a petition. The petitions were received but not included in the vote, despite me very clearly signing a petition that stated I did not want communal bins in Hanover and outside my house.
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