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- Release Date: Dec 13, 2011
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If I click the birthday cake at another sims house and go back to the babys house and tell it to have its birthday will it turn into a toddler or will it be a waste?
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KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- If you think you've spotted a bear in the last few weeks, researchers say you're probably right.
Experts at the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) say more bears are wandering toward developed areas this fall in search of food.
They say that's because one of their natural food sources is scarce this season.
"This year, the oak mass conditions are at an all-time low," Chris Ryan, Supervisor of Game Management Services said. "So there will be some drastic movements by bears."
Just this week, DNR researchers say a large black bear was hit and killed by a passing car near the entrance to I-77 and I-79 in Charleston.
They say severe weather patterns last year caused the bears' current food shortage, causing them to move closer.
"We had a lot of rain and heavy wind [during] the derecho," Ryan said.
He says keeping your food and trash out of reach is the best way to protect yourself and the animals.
"Don't feed your pet at dark. Put your birdseed away...you don't need to be feeding the birds right now," Ryan said. "Put your trash out only on trash day."
DNR researchers say they get about 800-1,000 complaints of bear sightings every year.
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By JON REITER
It wasn't their prettiest or most dominant effort, but the Jeffersonville football team notched a 37-27 win over Evansville North last night to advance to next week's sectional final over Castle, a 49-14 winner over Bedford North Lawrence.
"I said earlier, you worry about stats, you end up a loser," Jeffersonville (8-3) coach Lonnie Oldham said. "Our stats weren't what they'd be if it were dry out there tonight, but we still got it done, and we're playing next week."
The all-day rain that fell Friday turned Blair Field into a swamp, and the Red Devils took advantage behind the running of tailback Austin Hines and fullback/tight end Dionte Allen.
Evansville North took an early second-half lead, 30-27, as bruising Huskie fullback Duvante Lane scampered for a 28-yard touchdown run to cap their first drive of the second half.
Allen, who finished with 90 yards on nine carries, scored twice in the second half with touchdown runs of 24 and 2 yards, with the latter coming with just over six minutes remaining in the contest.
That touchdown came after the 6-foot-4, 250-pound Allen rumbled across the middle and dragged several North defenders with him for a 46-yard gain on first down that took Jeffersonville to point-blank scoring range.
Fridley, one of the state's leading passers, only converted 13 of 28 passes for 164 yards a touchdown and an interception in the muck, but that helped give his squad enough offense to win.
"Austin and Dionte ran the ball pretty well for us tonight, and that last run by Dionte was pretty big," Oldham said. "I still think we could have thrown the ball a little better tonight, but it was good we were able to do that well on the ground."
A 26-yard field goal from Fahuwu Momoh gave the Red Devils an early 3-0 lead, but a 54-yard end around by Evansville North wideout Chase Whitler helped give the Huskies a 7-3 advantage with just over three minutes remaining in the first quarter.
Following the Whitler score, a lengthy Jeffersonville drive closed out the first quarter with the hosts at the Evansville North 6-yard line. On the first play of the second quarter, Hines punched it into the end zone and after the extra point the Red Devils led 10-7.
The Huskies (5-5), who were playing their first game of the season on a natural field, had difficulty on ensuing possessions holding onto the football. During their next drive, the pigskin squirted away from quarterback Max Mooney during a center exchange like it was covered with grease and Jeffersonville defensive back Damin Smith covered it up near midfield.
Following a couple of Dionte Allen runs, Fridley hit Jacquari Chandler for a 44-yard touchdown pass that helped give Jeffersonville a 17-7 lead. On the very next play from scrimmage, another bad snap to Mooney was recovered by linebacker Amil Haleem at the 30-yard-line.
An 18-yard touchdown run from Hines and Momoh extra point gave Jeffersonville a 24-7 lead with 10 minutes left in the first half, and the Red Devils looked poised to blow the game open after scoring three touchdowns in less than two minutes.
But the Huskies had other ideas.
"You know, it was 24-7 and I took a deep breath too," Oldham said. "We probably shouldn't have done that. They were a good team and that [Lane] took it to us."
Mooney completed his first and only pass of the first half, a 61-yard touchdown strike to Whitler across the middle, on the second play of Evansville's next drive and the margin was narrowed to 24-14 Jeffersonville. A Hines fumble gave the Huskies the ball right back at the 25, and a 12-yard run from Blake Howell and Zac Turi extra point brought the visitors to within 3 at 24-21, with eight minutes left in the half.
So both squads, after a fairly quiet first quarter in the rain, exploded for five combined touchdowns in the first 3:29 of the second quarter.
After that offensive explosion and the early second-half Evansville North touchdown, the Red Devils were able to play unspectacular but relatively mistake-free football — something they'll have to duplicate next week against the No. 3 5A Knights.
"It's going to be another test for us," Oldham said. "They've had things their way, they're undefeated and we're going to have to go up there and play good football in order for us to win."
Jeffersonville 3 21 6 7—37
Evansville North 7 14 6 0—27
First Quarter
J - Fahumu 26 FG, 3:59, 3-0 J.
EN - Whitler 54 run (Turi kick); 3:19, 7-3 J.
Second Quarter
J - Hines 6 run (Fahumu kick); 11:55, 10-7 J.
J - Chandler 44 pass from Fridley (Fahumu kick); 10:34, 17-7 J.
J - Hines 18 run (Fahumu kick); 10:01, 24-7 J.
EN - Whitler 61 pass from Mooney (Turi kick); 9:09, 24-14 J.
EN - Howell 12 run (Turi kick); 8:31, 24-21 J.
Third Quarter
EN - Lane 28 run (kick failed); 9:58, 27-24 J.
J - Allen 24 run (kick failed); 7:55, 30-27 J.
Fourth Quarter
J - Allen 2 run (Fahumu kick); 6:26, 37-27 J.
Jeffersonville 39-301 (Hines 26-198, Allen 9-90, Fridley 4-13 ).
Evansville North 34-294 (Howell 16-99, Lane 13-106, Whitmer 3-57, Mooney 2-35),
Jeffersonville (13-28-164-1): Fridley 13-28-164-1. Evansville North 3-11-80-2) Mooney 3-11-80-2.
Jeffersonville: Chandler 5-104, Embry 2-23, Hines 3-4, Adkins 1-13, Allen 2-12. Evansville North: Whitmer 1-61, Stearns 1-8, Watters 1-11.


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One day when I was out getting a coffee, I overheard a man talking on his cellphone.
"We need to be stricter with our hiring practices next year," he said. "We want to keep them past a year."
I wanted to turn around and tell him, "Maybe you don't need to be stricter with your hiring practices. You can bring them in but you're not keeping them. It could be your corporate culture."
Authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman said in their book, First Break All the Rules: What The Worlds' Greatest Managers Do Differently, that people don't leave jobs, they leave managers. If employees don't get along with their managers, don't like them or don't respect them, they will leave a company despite a high salary or great benefits. A bad manager is a big factor in employee performance. A good manager, no matter the salary, will inspire loyalty.
Managers who don't create the right opportunities for their employees, don't communicate with them, and don't appreciate them often find themselves dealing with a high turnover rate. Good managers are people you keep in touch with even after you leave a position. Bad managers are people you keep track of so you can avoid them in future.
Constant Reorganization
Companies that seemed to reorganize every six to nine months don't have a good retention rate. Their upper management gets shifted into different positions, managers are changed and even business units are renamed. Almost every time a reorganization happens, people get laid off. This creates an environment of uncertainty and people don't feel like they can lay down roots.
Negative Competition
Competition is good, gladiator wars aren't. Pitting people and departments against each other does not encourage people to stay. Some people thrive in all stressful environments, most don't. Why do you think there are so many articles about how to manage stress? People will leave a job if stress makes them ill.
Lack of Support
Do you communicate with your employees? Have you sat down and created a plan for their growth within the company? Has that plan been implemented after sign-off? If a manager doesn't take the time to know his employee and foster growth, people will feel unappreciated. Do you know what unappreciated people do? They walk.
Mary Kay Ash, the founder of Mary Kay cosmetics, once said about appreciation, "Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it to yourself." That company appreciates its sales force with gifts, recognition and glamorous events. Managers don't have to go that route, but acknowledging their employees' work will make a huge difference to retention rates, as discussed in this Workopolis article.
As Mary Kay Ash also said, "People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps."
Good article until the end. Mary Kay Cosmetics likes to claim it "rewards" its sales people with gifts, but they're rewards for basically going into debt to meet unrealistic expectation. The "glamorous events" cost an arm and a leg to go to, unless you manage to meet your unrealistic goals. Visit the website pinktruth.com to understand how Mary Kay is nothing more than a Multi-Level Marketing mess. (I am affiliated not affiliated or even a member of that website, nor have I ever sold MK cosmetics.)
Good article. I do recall more 'illicit' managers, especially the ones who 'rose through the ranks' who consistently abuse their productive hardworking and loyal subordinates for no other purposes than to drill in their own 'superiority'; worse yet, these abusive managers don't know a thing about good management. Rather than treating people with proper professional respect, these managers alienate the good productive workforce by ripping the efforts by these good productive workers and giving them to the non-productive and stubbornly lazy and politics loving deadwood. This is a well known toxic culture where managers build their own empires through office politics patronization. The worst offending IT director is still wrecking havoc at the Research In Motion, and other Canadian companies where non-productive workers are hired to occupy highly paid IT positions all protecting the status quo while ripping off the employers and shareholders. This ultimately is what is causing the demise of many companies – managers / directors who build and fortify their inept and non-productive status quo at the expenses of the companies and shareholders.
When I left my position at a law firm in Denver last September, it was not a risk given the economic climate, but a necessity. The administrator was inept in every way. Your article touched on a few of the factors. I might add, she was only concerned with her position, treated those who actually worked with disdain, and never considered advances in technology to expedite, streamline and facilitate performance. I was not appreciated and my workload increased tenfold as a result of the absence of performance and abilities of others. I felt so discouraged, I wrote several long and detailed grievances to the Department of Labor adn Employment. This was to supply myself with a sense of catharsis. I see my departure as an opportunity for growth and education which I did not experience with this law firm.
When I left my position at a law firm in Denver last September, it was not a risk given the economic climate, but a necessity. The administrator was inept in every way. Your article touched on a few of the factors. I might add, she was only concerned with her position, treated those who actually worked with disdain, and never considered advances in technology to expedite, streamline and facilitate performance. I was not appreciated and my workload increased tenfold as a result of the absence of performance and abilities of others. I felt so discouraged, I wrote several long and detailed grievances to the Department of Labor and Employment. This was to supply myself with a sense of catharsis. I see my departure as an opportunity for growth and education which I did not experience with this law firm.
Dear all managers and managements,
Please pay attention in the motivation issue for your employees. See the comment:
People don't leave jobs, they leave managers
This article is dead-on correct. The person you report to at work affect a good part of your waking hours, so why would you tolerate such negativity. For me, I left a respected employer after 9 months due to a terrible director. She was a tyrant, made people cry at their desks, and no matter how well a project went, she considered it a failure and micromanaged everything. No economy is so bad where anyone should have to dread going to work! So I took a position at a less prestigious employer and life is wonderful.
Life is too short to put up with BS
Very true.
It is so important for the people in management to also have a strong understanding of their employees' projects and what their work entails–not just what needs to be done, but how it will be accomplished. Especially when the kind of work is relatively specialized, like web programming.
I have seen programmers struggling under massive workloads because their supervisors had underestimated how much time each assignment would actually take. Then, when the deadlines involved were not met, the fault was simply pinned on the programmer. It was unsurprising that the employees later quit those positions–except to the people in charge, who failed to recognize that the fault had been theirs.
Great article…common sense. But, unfortunately, most inexperienced managers act this way and don't even realize they are driving quality employees away. Guess they just rationalize the "another employee walks" with something that makes absolutely no sense when they are solely responsible…you'd think someone above them would be looking at how much money they're wasting training new employees instead of working at keeping the good ones….what a concept
I believe you hit it right on the money with the statement "people don't leave jobs, they leave managers." After months of searching for a job I finally found one at a restaurant last week. It had full-time hours and I was to be paid more than I had ever previously. However, I am very shy person so when my co-workers came up to talk to me I mostly listened and smiled but found that I had nothing to say in return. On my second day, one of the managers did not understand that I was shy and gathered all of my co-workers and brought them to the back of the restaurant where she proceeded to loudly ask who had hired me and make all sorts of demeaning comments meant for me to hear. I went home and cried out of embarrassment and shame. Needless to say I have never went back.


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The Harrisonburg Planning Commission met to discuss an ordinance amendment. The change would allow a home business to grow fruits and vegetables.
JMU students Sam Frere and Dan Warren want to grow fruits and vegetables in their yard on Collicello Street. They plan to then sell them to local restaurants.
This is part of the growing national trend of urban farming, but under the current city ordinance, you can have a home business as long as its inside a building, but this venture is outside.
The city planning commission took up the issue at Wednesday night's meeting.
Several people in favor of making an exception to the rule made their voices heard.
Only one person spoke opposed to it.
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ELLISVILLE, Miss. (AP) — State, local and GE Aviation officials were on hand Tuesday to celebrate the opening of the company's Ellisville aviation composites factory. The plant is expected to add 250 jobs by 2017.
The Hattiesburg American reports (http://hatne.ws/11V05FZ ) the 340,00-square-foot facility, located in the Howard Technology Park, will produce composite parts for two new jet engine programs — the LEAP jet engine and GE's new Passport jet engine. The site also will produce the transcowl, a component of the thrust reverser in jet engines.
The new location — formally known as GE Aviation's Ellisville Composites facility — will add up to 40 jobs in 2013.
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No human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggest evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky, turned Hill House into a place of despair, more frightening because the face of Hill House seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of glee in the eyebrow of a cornice…. It had an unbelievably faulty design which left it chillingly wrong in all its dimensions, so that the walls seemed always in one direction a fraction longer than the eye could endure, and in another direction a fraction less than the barest possible tolerable length…. Of course the result of all these tiny aberrations of measurement adds up to a fairly large distortion in the house as a whole…. [it is] a masterpiece of architectural misdirection…. [inducing] a slight loss of balance in the people who live [there]. [8]Just who might be responsible for all this misdirection is less clear. A character named Hugh Crain — who built Hill House for his family, hoping, we are told, that it "might become a showplace, like the Winchester House in California" — was its designer. "He was a strange man," says Dr. Montague, unnecessarily, since strangeness is a precondition for wanting to install one's family in a place like the Winchester Mystery House. "Crain must have detested other people and their sensible squared-away houses, because he made his house to suit his mind…. Every angle is slightly wrong." [9] So Crain's mind was off: hateful, distorted mind designs hateful, distorted house. But this is pure conjecture on Montague's part. Like Roderick Usher, born into an ancient and doomed house, Hugh Crain, though building his house anew, might well have been equally doomed, destined to erect a bad house whatever his intentions. Jackson implies as much. The reasons go unspecified — something in the ground, the materials, the atmosphere or time of year? — but the house, it seems, all but built itself and determined its own evil nature, independent of human intent or action. (How many architects and contractors, saddled with charges of malpractice, might wish recourse to such a defense?) More than once, Eleanor senses the builders' resignation to the building's incipient will.
This house, which seemed somehow to have formed itself, flying together into its own powerful pattern under the hands of its builders, fitting itself into its own construction of lines and angles, reared its great head back against the sky without concession to humanity. It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope…. The builders of the house had given up any attempt at style — probably after realizing what the house was going to be, whether they chose it or not…. [10]The Haunting of Hill House was twice brought to the screen as The Haunting — successfully in 1963, less so in 1999. The heavy-handed, special effects-driven version of 1999, directed by Jan de Bont and produced by Steven Spielberg, strays far from the novel. Noisy and cluttered with CGI ghosts, it leaves little to the imagination. The 1963 version, directed by Robert Wise (better known for his Oscar-winning work on The Sound of Music and West Side Story) is faithful to the book, subdued and suggestive, atmospheric and genuinely chilling. I mention it here because, unlike the book, it gives us a concrete visual image of Hill House. The film begins with the house, shot through distorting wide-angle lenses on infrared film. The building is a Neo-Gothic agglomeration of square and round towers, arched openings, stone walls and gable ends, chimneys and finials thrusting and clawing at the mottled, low-hanging sky. It looms and sprawls. Its doors and windows are black voids but its stones glow with a cold surface light. The building leans in on itself, as if drawn by the vacuum of its empty center. Driving up to Hill House, Eleanor slams her breaks and stares when it first comes into view. "The house was vile. She shivered and thought, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once." She stays, of course, as one does.
The house-to-be lay in a pool of radiance, as if spot-lit. I drew in my breath at it. It was magnificent. I do not as a rule care for contemporary architecture, finding it somehow sharp and intrusive and demanding, in spite of the obvious virtues of air and light and ease of maintenance, of functional living space. This house was different. It commanded you, somehow, yet soothed you. It grew out of the penciled earth like an elemental spirit that had lain, locked and yearning for the light, through the endless depths of time, waiting to be released. It soared into the trees and along the deep-breasted slope of the ridge as though it had uncoiled, not as though it would be built, layer by layer and stone by stone…. I thought of something that had started with a seed, put down deep roots, grown in the sun and rains of many years into the upper air. In the sketches, at least, the woods pressed untouched around it like companions. The creek enfolded its mass and seemed to nourish its roots. It looked — inevitable. [15]There's a lot of this sort of talk — how organic the house is, how alive it seems. "You wouldn't maintain a house like that; you'd feed and water it." Everyone is delighted by this at first, but it doesn't last. The place is like a big dog, smiley and tail-wagging, but then it bites the neighbor kid. It's got a mean streak, this house. "There's something in [it] I didn't put here," Kim finally admits. "I can feel it, I can hear it talking to me, but I can't understand what it's saying." Animals and people who wander onto the property come to bad ends — insanity, suicide, murder. "It's almost as though there were some kind of … malign intelligence behind it," Colquitt says. (Note: the ellipses and the dramatic pause they indicate belong to Siddons.) And later, "we think it obtains its sustenance by preying on the weaknesses and inherent flaws in the characters of the people who live there." "If it was an old house," a neighbor asks, "I'd almost think it was haunted, but who ever hears of a haunted contemporary less than a year old?" [16]


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The American Red Cross will consolidate its two Lehigh Valley shelters (on City Line Road and at Ag Hall) on Friday at 8 a.m. into one shelter at the Dieruff High School gymnasium, 815 N. Irving St. in Allentown.
The shelter is open to residents and their pets in need of a safe place to stay due to prolonged power outages or damage to their homes from storm Sandy.
The consolidation allows the Red Cross to turn the two original shelters back to their owners and also allows the agency to pool its resources at one location.
Current residents at both shelters were briefed this afternoon about the move.
Transportation to Dieruff will be provided by LANTA to current shelter residents, if needed. Lehigh Valley CART (County Animal Response Team) will ensure that pets are transported safely to the new location to be near their owners.
Cots, blankets, meals and emotional care will be provided by the Red Cross. Limited hot water will be accessible for showering.
There is also a hurricane shelter for pets in Salisbury Township.
For the Red Cross shelter, residents should bring personal toiletry items and towels. Entrance to the shelter is through the gymnasium entrance in the back of the school. Parking is available at the school.
The shelter is open to non-overnight residents as well to charge electronic devices, get warm and receive a hot meal.
"We are indebted to everyone at UGI and Agricultural Hall for opening their doors to the Red Cross to shelter residents during this dangerous storm," said John R. Hughes, regional CEO for the Red Cross. "The staff at both facilities was very accommodating to residents and volunteers. This shelter was made possible by a strong partnership with Lehigh and Northampton counties emergency management services, Salvation Army, CERT, the volunteer medical corps, county health bureaus, area churches and many other agencies, businesses and individuals."
In addition to the shelter at Dieruff High School, a mega-shelter was established earlier this week at East Stroudsburg University's Kohler Field House, 200 Prospect St. in East Stroudsburg. The shelter is managed by FEMA and supported by the Red Cross.
Anyone going to a Red Cross shelter should bring essential items for each member of the family:
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- Foods that meet unusual dietary requirements
- Identification to show residence is in affected area, and important personal documents
- Extra clothing, pillows, blankets, hygiene supplies and other comfort items
- Supplies needed for children and infants, such as diapers, formula and toys
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OMAHA, Neb. — It didn't take long Monday for Trent Thornton to identify the most important game he has ever pitched.
That came last week, in the third and final game of North Carolina's Super Regional against South Carolina. The most important start Thornton has ever made, though?
That was a more difficult question. Thornton, a freshman right-hander, went back to his days at Ardrey Kell High in Charlotte.
"Our rival school, Providence, was one of the best teams in the state," Thornton said. "And I pitched against (them) every year."
The stakes will be a bit higher Tuesday. Thornton hasn't started a game since March 27, against Winthrop. He will start for the Tar Heels against Louisiana State in an elimination game at the College World Series.
Thornton watched the Tigers' 2-1 loss against UCLA on Sunday night. He knew then there was a chance he'd start against whichever team wound up in the loser's bracket alongside North Carolina.
Of all things, Thornton wanted to pitch against the Tigers, the No. 4 national seed, with the Tar Heels' season on the brink of extinction.
"I wanted to play LSU," Thornton said. "… We'll be ready to come at them."
Thornton has experienced every pitching role possible for the Tar Heels. He has started, been a short reliever and a long reliever. He has closed games. He has come in amid tense moments, with runners on base, and been asked to escape trouble.
Now comes the most pressure-filled game of his life. With a victory against LSU, UNC's season lives on. A loss, and it's over. When the Tar Heels began the season 39-2, when they spent the first couple of months ranked No. 1 in the country, it seemed like an afterthought that they'd reach the College World Series.
What didn't appear likely back then was the possibility that UNC would be relying on a freshman in its first do-or-die game in Omaha. Not that Thornton has pitched like a freshman.
"At this point, we don't think about 'freshman,' we don't think about any of that," North Carolina coach Mike Fox said. "Sometimes you come out here and roles change … it's about who has the best stuff and who's been pitching well for us and who can get us off to a good start."
Thornton has been the team's most effective pitcher during the postseason. In six appearances since the end of the regular season, he has allowed two earned runs in 212/3 innings. He was the winning pitcher in both victories against South Carolina in the Super Regional.
In the ACC tournament, he threw 62/3 hitless innings during UNC's eventual 18-inning victory against N.C. State.
Scott Forbes, the Tar Heels' pitching coach, sent Thornton a text message Sunday night. In it, Forbes told him there was a chance he'd start Tuesday. After LSU lost against UCLA, Forbes finalized his decision and informed Thornton Monday morning.
"I thought watching the two teams, there was no doubt we needed to throw a right-handed pitcher if we faced LSU," Forbes said. "I thought if we faced UCLA, they have six or seven lefties, we would consider starting Hobbs (Johnson)."
Johnson and Benton Moss, the team's weekend starters behind Kent Emanuel, have struggled of late, though. Emanuel, Johnson and Moss threw their shortest starts of the season last weekend against South Carolina, and Emanuel didn't make it out of the third inning Sunday during the 8-1 loss against N.C. State.
The Tar Heels' recent pitching woes have made it more critical to receive a strong start from Thornton, who excelled in his five starts this season before he became a full-time reliever.
Thornton, who earned first-team All-ACC honors, entered the College World Series with a 1.28 ERA in 28 appearances. Opponents are batting .194 against him.
Thornton spoke without a sense of fear about the task ahead. He said he would love to be a full-time starter and made it clear LSU is the team he wanted to pitch against.
"That's the thing about Trent, and I think that's why he's been so good, is he's not going to back down," Forbes said. "He's not your typical freshman. He's going to attack them."
Omaha is a long way from Charlotte, and starting against LSU with his team's season hanging in the balance is a long way from pitching against Providence High. Yet this is the kind of moment Thornton hoped he would find himself in.
Surrounded by cameras, Thornton spoke quietly and confidently about what lies ahead.
"You dream about pitching in games like these, in the College World Series," he said.
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By Bob Hertzel
Times West Virginian
It is easy to pin the problems West Virginia University has struggled with through a 2-2 start on the most visible of the Mountaineers: the quarterback, be his name Paul Millard or Ford Childress, which is why coach Dana Holgorsen has tried to deflect that and put the blame on himself.
The truth is the QB play has been mediocrity as it is defined in today's game, but Holgorsen has been right that much of the fault lies with him for West Virginia has failed dismally in the most basic and crucial parts of the game, areas that fall directly under the job description of coach.
First of all, to understand this, one must throw out the two victories over lesser opponents William & Mary and Georgia State and concentrate upon the two top FBS foes on the schedule to date – Oklahoma and Maryland.
What has let WVU down?
True, the quarterback and receiver play, but let us look at three vital areas:
Turnovers: WVU has 10 turnovers in those two games. Against Maryland, the Mountaineers fumbled four times and recovered none and against Oklahoma they fumbled three times and recovered none.
They threw two interceptions against Maryland, one run back for a TD, the other giving Maryland the ball at the WVU 6.
Oklahoma had one interception.
Third down: In those two games, the Mountaineers were 5-of-25 on third down, 20 percent and certainly not good enough to create any rhythm in the offense.
Penalties: In the two games against major college opponents, WVU committed 15 penalties for a combined 125 yards. That nearly offsets the entire 175 total yards WVU compiled in the Maryland game.
Certainly the third-down situation is amplified by penalties, which make it far more difficult to convert third downs.
Looking at these statistics, you understand that if Holgorsen can't get this straightened out by Saturday's noon home game against Oklahoma State, at No. 11 the best team they may face all season, things could deteriorate rapidly.
Probably the turnovers are the most glaring of the deficiencies, but even with seven fumbles in those two games Holgorsen is not overly concerned in that area.
"It's not like there's one guy that we're giving the ball to a bunch and he's got a fumbling problem,'' Holgorsen said. "It can be fixed pretty easy, and I think it will be.''
Say Holgorsen is correct and the fumbles from running backs and wide receivers can be fixed and that since two of the quarterback fumbles belong to Paul Millard, no longer playing, you also can say that has already been fixed.
But there already have been two fumbles not in this category, being muffed punts, and we all know who coaches the special teams, Joe DeForest, who last year ran the worst defense in WVU history.
It appears even Holgorsen is getting tired of that act.
"Well, we could field a punt,'' Holgorsen said, when asked how to fix the turnover problem. "That would be a start, because that's been an issue.''
An issue? Both muffed punts were lost, and just changing return men doesn't seem to help as already WVU has used Jordan Thompson, Mario Alford and now Ronald Carswell, whose muff started the onslaught last Saturday.
Holgorsen is in no mind to make another change there.
"You can't just keep playing musical chairs,'' Holgorsen said. "You've got to believe in some kids. And I do believe in them. I'm going to believe in them a little bit more, and we're going to go out and we're going to practice and we're going to get better.
"Their guy dropped two," he continued, speaking of Maryland. "The wind was swirling. It was wet. (Carswell) made a poor decision. He's inexperienced. He's going to get better at it. I like his confidence, and I think he's got the mental makeup to where he's going to get better at it.''
There is yet another side to the turnover problem that is being overlooked, and that is WVU's total inability to do anything when it has a takeaway. To date this season, the Mountaineers have capture eight turnovers – this against all completion – and turned it into just seven points.
Somehow, the blame for this has been internally turned on the defense taking the ball away rather than the offense, that can't do anything with it.
"We're having a hard time scoring period,'' Holgorsen admitted. "So it's not like when we get a turnover all of a sudden we've got a killer instinct and can go out and execute the offense.
"But we're not setting them up. We're giving it to them in the wrong spots at the wrong time. Defensively, if we want to go from being good to great we've got to start making some critical plays in some critical situations and helping our offense set up scores. Or score (on defense) if that's what we need to do.''
Like you can pick where you are going to take the ball away?
Really, that's what they are saying.
"We have a plan on how we defend certain field positions," defensive coordinator Keith Patterson said. "Just like (WVU linebacker) Jared Barber. He had a shot at a key interception. He has to make that play. I mean, he makes a good play, but it could have been a great play with us having the ball on the 20-yard line going in.
"There are opportunities all the time. I'm challenging them to get more aggressive, more ball conscious when we have them backed up."
Fine, maybe the offense then can start working on knowing the snap count.
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By Phil WilliamsChief Investigative Reporter
Metro Nashville police say their specialized DUI units are finding fewer drunk drivers to arrest.
But if you think they're celebrating that drivers are finally getting the message, think again.
In fact, a NewsChannel 5 investigation discovered supervisors are now warning some officers that if they don't find more people to arrest, they could be in trouble themselves.
Police insist that's not a quota, but NewsChannel 5 Investigates found an innocent man who isn't convinced.
Our cameras were there as 18-year-old Martin Bills went to court to get his good name back.
It's a name that was taken when a Metro police officer arrested him back in April on DUI charges. His employer suspended him, and the U.S. Navy told him his plans to enlist would have to wait.
"It put my life on hold for about three weeks now," Bills said. "I can't go to work. I can't make money."
Bills was stopped on Briley Parkway by an officer assigned to a DUI task force that makes repeated traffic stops, hoping to catch drivers who've been drinking.
"He automatically right off the bat asked me had I been drinking, had I been smoking," the young man recalled. "I said no. He continued to ask me and ask me." What followed was the kind of field sobriety tests we've all seen on TV -- tests that the officer claimed Bills flunked.
"He said my eye was twitching and my leg was shaking -- that's why he took me in. I mean, I can't help that I'm nervous that I'm getting pulled over," Bills said.
The officer booked him on suspicion of being under the influence of marijuana.
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But before being taken to the Metro Jail, Bills agreed to submit to a blood test.
The tests all came back negative.
View results of blood test taken by Martin Bills
"It showed on my tests that I have not been using drugs at all," he noted. "I'm getting arrested for being sober and driving. That's it." While we'll never know what the officer was really thinking, critics inside the police department point to a pressure on officers to generate numbers -- numbers that police brass can use to brag to the public about all the drunk drivers they've taken off the roads. A short time before he resigned, former Metro Police Chief Ronal Serpas declared in a news conference, "I'm going to admit for the first time on television there is a quota. The quota is we want to get every drunk driver." Serpas always insisted there were no arrest quotas.
But NewsChannel 5 Investigates obtained several recent memos in which a DUI lieutenant warned officers that they could face disciplinary action if they did not start arresting more people.
"Self-motivated officers ... should more often than not be able to arrest 2 DUI offenders each 8.5 hour shift," one memo read.
That's "not a quota," the memo claimed, "but simply a benchmark."
But then it added, "If improvement does not take place, additional corrective action will occur."
Read the memos from Lt. Kenneth Walburn
NewsChannel 5 Investigates had asked Serpas, "You don't see that as a quota?"
"No," the chief answered. "What the lieutenant is saying is that we have an expectation that the only thing you do all day is find DUI offenders and obviously there is some expectation that we should be able to see so many of these on average."
Veteran Nashville lawyer Gary Blackburn disagreed.
"Oh, it's plainly a quota," he said. Blackburn said that setting an expectation of the number of arrests per shift clearly puts pressure on officers every single night.
"If you're trying to average two per night and you are in the last hour of your shift and you have none or you have one, then what is your thought process going to be? Because if you don't make the second one that night, do you have to make three the next?"
Add to that, a financial incentive.
On March 31st, patrol officers who get overtime to chase DUIs were told that the lieutenant "will begin looking at individual officer performance.... Those officers who consistently perform at high standards will be given preference" for the overtime.
Read memo about preferences for DUI overtime
Three days later, one of those officers arrested Martin Bills.
Blackburn said such measures make it more likely that officers will arrest people whom they would otherwise let go.
"It's wrong to pressure hard-working, stressed-out officers to make decisions based not on whether they genuinely perceive the motorist as being intoxicated, but on whether they have to meet another quota for that night," he added.
"The result will be inevitably that some innocent persons are going to be affected by this."
One officer who received a warning was Wallace Taylor, who's been repeatedly honored as one of the city's top DUI officers.
But police said that they just don't buy that there are fewer drunk drivers. They said other officers are able to meet the "job performance standard," so every officer should.
Experts added that defense lawyers can use such mandates to attack the credibility of DUI officers in court by suggesting they're just trying to save their own jobs.
Martin Bills' father, Everett, said, "It makes me take another look at the way they do business." When Bills and his father showed up in court, even though blood tests showed he was clean, the prosecutor told him he'd have to wait at least four months for the charges to be dropped -- unless he pleaded guilty to something else.
He pleaded guilty to speeding -- even though the officer never even charged him with that offense.
"It's gotten out of hand now," Martin Bills said. "So it's just time to end it all now and move on with my life."
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I am an industry analyst covering the semiconductor market
Many of us rely on Yelp for advice on restaurants, dry cleaners, retailers, handymen, gardeners, and so on under the assumption that it is a democratic site that supports all comments, good and bad, without bias.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
I found yesterday that Yelp filters results according to certain arcane rules that are not even disclosed to the reviewers who donate their time and efforts to the website's benefit. When a business patron writes a review it may or may not remain on the Yelp site according to these rules. There's no real way of knowing what will stick and what won't.
I found this out when I posted a glowing review of South County Process Service. This company, which was recommended to me by a close attorney friend had but one Yelp review at the time, and it was scathing. As opposed to that reviewer's experience, my dealing with them was laudatory, warranting a very positive review.
When I notified County Process Service that I had posted a good review (my first on Yelp), they replied: "We'll see if yelp filters the review. All of our good reviews get filtered. I'm not sure why yelp thinks our good reviews are fraudulent."
When I checked a week later, Lo and Behold! My review had been removed. Did Yelp tell me about it? Not one word!
My wife, a Realtor, had a similar experience: "They seem be wary of first-time reviewers. If your first review is negative then they let you post other reviews, but if your first review is positive then they remove it. The same goes if all your reviews are positive."
She went on: "I called Yelp after a business associate posted a positive review about me which was later removed. They hinted that if I advertised on Yelp this may not have occurred."
Yelp's illusion doesn't match reality.
I contacted Yelp's press office asking what they had to say about this (and disclosing that this story was headed for a Forbes blog) but after 24 hours received no reply.
I do not know how Yelp filters the reviews. But I use Yelp extensively to decide on where to buy goods and services. When I go with their highest rating provider, I have always been pleased. I have used Yelp to select a cataract surgeon, an electrician, an interior designer, a marble floor cleaner and polisher, not to mention the dozens of restaurants that I have gone to.
I completely understand your position and I believe that almost everyone in consumerland would relate and agree with you.
HOWEVER, this is not the problem that is literally destroying small business owners across the country. (like myself)
Although this is hard to explain in a few paragraphs, I'll try to explain my situation as quickly and clearly as possible.
I own a small service business and very long story short, I screwed up in the first year and I received a large amount of 1 star reviews. First of all yelpers are quick to toss out the 1 star without knowing or caring about the devastating consequences that the may cause the business owner…that's a whole other topic so I will move on.
I did not even know about yelp and when I did hear about it as a "review site" I thought that only yelpers see it. Not the case at all. If you hear about my business in an ad or word of mouth, if you are like most people you Google them right. Well this is where my problem begins and how Yelp has been killing me by misrepresenting my business to the public.
I had a 2 star rating and again I'm the first to admit that I messed up in the beginning. When I cleaned up my act so to speak and began to get 5 star ratings by the truckload, and went back to fix my mistakes with the unhappy clients, you'd think that my rating would reflect as much. You'd be wrong.
I now have a total at this very moment of 49reviews, 27 of those are 5 stars the rest are 4 or lower and 21 of the 49 are in the filter 15 of which are 5 star reviews! I've been fighting clawing my way to a better rating and everytime I get a happy client that posts a great review 2 out of 3 times the great review goes into there mysterious filter. And don't come back with the reasons why because even my Yelp rep that is trying to get me to buy advertising from them says she had no idea how it chooses what stays and what goes and for everyone that has their ideas of how it works i have an example to prove them wrong.
I've worked VERY hard to fix my mistakes that caused me to get the back reviews in the beginning. If you take the total reviews (49) that I now have and use them to create my rating it would be 4.5 stars but, Yelp does not count the filtered reviews so my rating is only 3 stars. Let me tell you that the three star rating I have was not easy to get with that damn filter in my way. Here is the bottom line. When you Google my business, you will see at the or near the top of the page a Yelp rating of the current rating and until a week ago it was at 2 and then 2.5 stars (even though without the filter it was never less than 3.5 once I got my act together as I said. If you as mentioned just choose the highest ranking businesses then you will not even click on my link to see the wonderful reviews over the last 8 months that are being dragged down from the bad ones from 12-18 months ago! MY PHONE DOES NOT RING BECAUSE WHEN GOOGLE SEARCHERS SEE THE LOW AND INACCURATE RATING THEY MOVE ON!!
I can't tell you what this means in lost revenue because it's too depressing.
The bottom line like I said is that my phone simply does not ring…once I got to three stars some calls/sales started to trickle in and I've been teetering between 3.5 and 3.0 this last week because I'm on the cusp and every time a good review comes in (we don't get bad one anymore) it pushes us up to 3.5 for a day or so until Yelp takes it down.
I'm so discusted with that company and so are most business owners.
please read the article on the following link so you can see how widespread this problem is and that I am but just one of thousands of small business owners with the same story.
Yelp results are heavily biased to a small group that are very active reviewers. For restaurants and bars that's fine for more serious and expensive services like physicians and health care professionals i would not trust it. Why? Because a very small group is heavily influencing the results. If you are not a regular reviewer on yelp and you have a great experience with a doctor, photographer, massage therapist, etc. the odds are very good that your review will be filtered which means it has no impact on the star rating of the business. I am curious as to what the ratio of filtered and unfiltered reviews is. My guess is that there are as many filtered as unfiltered, perhaps more. I have read about many businesses who have many positive reviews and 95 to 100% of them are filtered while the one negative review is visible. Yelp's system is highly flawed and I do not trust it.
Very true. I have 30 reviews as of this moment and another 23 that are in the filter. (15 of those are 5 stars four 4 stars and the rest are 1 and 2 stars)
By filtering out so many reviews the business is grossly misrepresented to the public.
Yelp has one hundred million unique visitors a month and only 30 million people have posted reviews to date, and many of those are one timers.
The rest are the small group of Yelpers you mentioned.
Read through this comment and you will see how Yelp can manipulate reviews.
A business does not have a choice to have a Yelp page. Either Yelp adds you or a consumer may add you and Yelp will refuse to remove your page even if you request. The search engine power of Yelp outranks any single small business and their listing appears first in search engine results. When a consumer searches for a business by name, the Yelp result comes up first. A business may think this is good, but on a Yelp page where the business does not advertise appear ads for their competitors. For example if a business is the most popular pizza restaurant, their results comes up first because people search for it by name, but on that business's page are ads for pizza places that may have otherwise been on page 20 of Google search results because they pay Yelp for ads. Yelp uses the popularity and good reputation of businesses that do not need their help and generates revenues from competing businesses. Yelp does not compensate a business with profit sharing from the ads it runs on their Yelp pages and benefits from business names it lists without the owner's permission. Copyright violation and use of a company name for profit without the permission of the owner will probably be the basis of a lawsuit which will bring Yelp down.
Be aware of the Yelp Alliance with ALEC, the reactionary right-wing group allied with the Koch brothers and the Tea Party, which writes most of the voter-suppression legislation being rammed through in many States. ALEC is responsible for voter ID legislation which excluded 5 million people from voting, "Stand your Ground" laws that were the foundation for the defense in the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case and other laws to use public money to privatize schools. Read section 3 for how Yelp dealt with the negative publicity.
If you read this, you will see that Yelp can manipulate the outcome of user reviews. Using the ALEC case as an example, check out the following: Go to the review of Yelp page at
3,000 negative reviews were placed on yelp this week and many were filtered in spite of the fact that they were from legitimate users and they did not conflict with Yelp policies. Scroll to the bottom of the page and look at the number of filtered reviews (5,136) as of 8/25/13 it was 3,296 earlier in the week. Click on the word filtered, enter the capcha code and see the results (tell me the results are an accident).
Next, go the Alec Yelp page here.
On 8/23 there were 769 negative reviews and 100% of them were filtered, on 8/25 the top of the page shows 386 negative reviews, 100% filtered. In addition, you can not view any of the negative reviews. So all reviews were filtered and in 3 days nearly 400 reviews were deleted.
One way of restricting freedom of speech is to restrict access. Try this exercise and see if you don't agree. Go to any Yelp.com page and put these entries in the search field.
Alec (name)
Washington, DC 20036
and view the results. The search results exclude the Alec Yelp page for Alec in Washington, DC. So if you wanted to place a negative review on the Alec Yelp page, the Yelp search option does not allow you to even find it. If Yelp can filter reviews of it's own page and the pages of it's alliances as well as change the search results for finding a business, then the question of review management objectivity comes into question.
Nailed it. 1% of people write reviews, because on yelp, there's only 2 reasons why you would:
1) you hated the place and want to vent
2) You're a yelp elite, you want to go to parties, so you write a shit load of reviews.
Yet 92% of us read reviews. Users and Businesses both get screwed – no one truly knows what the majority of consumers think.
I had a fitness business, and not only did they filter my reviews, but they put my competitors ads on my page, and said if I paid, minimum, $300 per month, for a whole year, that they'd take them down and definitely hinted strongly that my rating would get better.
Yelp, helping small businesses….and pigs fly.
Google Search for Yelp class action lawsuits. There are either one or two currently in the works getting ready to be filed is my understanding.
I appreciate your sentiment. Go to www.NASBOinfo.org to see how those guys are leveraging Congress to change the law that Yelp is hiding behind.
Totally agree with you. You should check out www.NASBOinfo.org. These guys are fighting to change the 10 year old law that the courts allow Yelp to hide behind.
Totally agree with you Grant. You should check out www.NASBOinfo.org. These guys are fighting to change the 10 year old law that the courts allow Yelp to hide behind.
I doubt you are real…. Where is your picture?


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Petitioner: CitiMortgage, Inc.
Defendant: Michael P. O'Dell, State of Minnesota
Cause Of Action: Petition for Removal
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Defendant: DaimlerChrysler Corporation, Chrysler Group LLC , Chrysler Canada Inc. and others
Plaintiff: James Moris
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Motor Vehicle Product Liability
Type: Real Property > Tort Product Liability
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Plaintiff: Bruce L Jordan
Defendant: Federal Home Loan Corporation, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., U.S. Bank Home Mortgage and others
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Plaintiff: Stephanie L. Allen-Haukoos , Brian D. Haukoos
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The town of Foxborough is one step closer to enforcing a parking ban in residential areas during Gillette Stadium events as part of a parking bylaw that passed Town Meeting in May.
The town received the necessary approval from Attorney General Martha Coakley's Office last week to move forward with its parking bylaw during Gillette Stadium events that exceed crowds of 15,000.
In an Aug. 8 letter addressed to Foxborough Town Clerk Robert Cutler Jr. from Assistant Attorney General Margaret Hurley, the town was informed the AG's Office approved the "amendments to the Foxborough bylaws adopted under Article 24" on the warrant, which was approved, 73-50, at May's Annual Town Meeting.
The bylaw aims to regulate parking for a fee in residential areas during any event in which the number of tickets available for sale exceeds 15,000 unless otherwise authorized by a license issued by the Board of Selectmen pursuant to the "Licensing Procedure and Regulations for Commercial Parking," according to Hurley's letter.
While the AG's Office approved the amendments to the bylaw, she suggested the town consult with Town Counsel Richard Gelerman to "ensure it is in compliance" with the general law related to who approves the licenses for commercial parking because "it is not clear from Article 24 or the current version of the 'Licensing Procedure and Regulations for Commercial Parking,' whether the town's fire chief is required to approve the licenses for commercial parking, as the statute requires."
Hurley also noted the AG's Office considered whether the amendments adopted under Article 24 should have been adopted as amendments to Foxborough's zoning by-law instead of as amendments to the town's general by-laws, but determined the town already regulates "temporary parking lots" through its zoning bylaws and this is the first time, according to Hurley, "the town has supplemented its existing regulatory scheme with a general bylaw, which regulates parking for a fee."
"It does not appear to be an inappropriate exercise of the town's general police power to require all persons in town to abide by the Licensing Procedure and Regulations for Commercial Parking if they wish to provide parking for a fee," Hurley wrote, calling the bylaw a "classic exercise of the town's general police power."
Any violation of this parking bylaw, as stated in town warrant article 24, may result in a $100 fine.
"Each vehicle parked in violation of this parking bylaw shall constitute a separate offense," Article 24 states. "Each day any vehicle is parked in violation of this parking bylaw shall constitute a separate offense."
Hurley said during the AG's review of the bylaw that some Foxborough residents reached out to Coakley's office requesting the amendments to the town's Police Regulations of the general bylaws be rejected on various policy grounds but the AG's review yielded no violations of general law and therefore was approved.
"We appreciate the input but the Attorney General's review of bylaws is limited to the bylaw's consistency with substantive and procedural law, rather than a consideration of the policy arguments for or against the enactment," Hurley wrote. "Because the bylaw is consistent with the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth, we are constrained to approve it."
As for when the bylaw takes effect, Hurley notes the town must first fulfill the necessary requirements.
"Neither general nor zoning bylaws take effect unless the town has first satisfied the posting/publishing requirements of that statute," Hurley wrote. "Once this statutory duty is fulfilled, general bylaws and amendments take effect on the date that these posting and publishing requirements are satisfied unless a later effective date is prescribed in the bylaw."
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