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I would say that the decision of Notre Dame to move it's non-football sports ends this latest round of Reallignmentpalooza.
In my opinion, FSU to the Big 12 is dead, barring a major turn of events. Even if FSU could wiggle out of some of the new $50 exit fee, they would want help from a prospective conference. The Big 12 might conceivably be able to help FSU, but there's no way with that new exit fee you are going to see two to four ACC moving to the Big 12. And I just don't think FSU is going to go alone. I just don't see how you pull your school completely out of the media and watercooler discussion for the vast majority of your non-Florida alumni. College football's heart and soul is in the Southeast, and despite the rise of the internet, you still need FSU to be covered and discussed in the newspapers, local news and talk radio between Atlanta and DC. You need guys like Tony Barnhardt and Chuck Oliver and so on talking about you.
I only have one problem with this deal...the obvious one everyone has - the $50M buyout fee. It seems pretty obvious to me that when the Big 12 (read Deloss Dodds) decided to slow-play Clemson, Clemson quickly shifted gears away from investigating a move with FSU, to making sure they didn't get left behind by FSU. You really can't blame them.
The Big 12 potentially had an opportunity to add FSU, Miami, Clemson, GT to the conference, and couldn't agree to make a true effort. In some order or another, those four ACC schools would have walked into the Big 12 on day one and been no worse than the third, fourth, fifth and sixth most decorated college football programs in the conference. Somehow a combination of hubris due to a bizarre allignment of success for traditionally poor programs, being blinded by a new $20m TV contract, a quixotic quest for ND, or ulterior motives by TX and/or OU, caused the Big 12 not to be able to get their crap together. The utter failure of the Big 12 to make a strong move in the face of such an opportunity, to me, really undermines claims that they are a stable, unified conference with shared goals. Or just questions the competency of their leadership.
I guess while the buyout bothers me a lot, maybe not as much as some people. First, while it seems exhorbitant, these things have never held anyone in place against their will. To me, the SEC is the only potentially move for FSU at this point, and it's out of our hands. If FSU decides they are moving, the lawyers will go to work, and we will get out. If the SEC calls, this will not hold us in the ACC.
So if the Big 12 is out of the running, partially by the new ACC buyout, and largely by their own inability or reluctance to make a bold move, and the SEC is out of our hands, what are the ramifications of this deal?
First, the biggest one...more money. Initial reports indicate the ACC TV deal, worth $17M a year per team now, could go to $18-19M on the basis of this addition. It will be very interesting to see how this plays out. Initial reports also said that Syracuse and Pitt would be worth $1-2M, and the ACC ended up with $4M per year. I will be VERY interested to see if the ACC manages to find a way to push the number past the $20M a team threshold that the Big 12 just signed on for.
Second, bowl access. A lot has been made about the possibility of ACC schools losing out to a Notre Dame team when it comes to a bowl slot. This just seems like a non-issue to me. The ACC bowl lineup, with the exception of the Chik-Fil-A Bowl, is hot crap. Who the hell cares if ND bumps NC State out of the Almond Bowl or whatever? The eighty NC State fans that were going to buy tickets? ACC teams don't buy bowl tickets and don't travel to bowls, so I'm not all that worked up over it. The important thing is that EVERY bowl wants a shot at Notre Dame, so the ACC Bowl lineup should improve. Do you think the ACC would have lost the Gator Bowl if the Gator was booking ND once every three or four years? The lure of ND should earn the ACC some better bowl tie ins, even if they have to give the slot up occasionally. The ACC would be much better off with the Gator bowl two out of three years than none out of none years.
Scheduling...there's no question, a nine game schedule + ND + SEC opponent is quite a hurdle. When your ACC schedule can include Duke, Wake, BC, Syracuse, Pitt, MD, etc I'm not particularly worked up over the degree of difficulty, but more about the management of number of home games. I don't know how that is going to work out, but it may work itself out before FSU even hits the rotation.
ACC's place in the landscape. This is pretty interesting. People are saying this locks the ACC as part of the Big Five conferences. I think that's a joke...I think right now there are a Big Three Conferences, and then there are the Big 12 and ACC. By the time Champions Bowl money and third tier rights come in, the Big 12 might be making a few million more than the ACC, but both are looking way up at the other three conferences. I do think this move cuffs the Big 12 though, so any talk of a Big Four with the ACC on the outside looking in is over. For all intents and purposes the Big 12 and the ACC are on the same level, with the advantage to whoever is having the better year on the field.
But at this point, it now becomes a long game...ten years at least. While the ACC TV contract runs to the 2026 season, the negotiations will be ramping up a few years early. Clearly, the first priority will be to bring ND into the fold as a full member. I personally think this will happen, but there's no way to know. I simply don't think ND/ACC is anything like ND/Big East. I think ties between the B1G and ND will be disentangled over coming years, by pretty much mutual agreement. With the ACC allowing ND to play all up and down the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, ND will be able to play most of a national schedule before they schedule an OOC game. I think independence is quickly taking on nothing more than a concept, with few practical realities.
It's pretty simple, if ND comes all in during the next ten years, the ACC is in a tremendous position. If they don't, they will likely never be in the same tier as the B1G, PAC and SEC.
But what about between now and then? Does the ACC have a plan to reverse it's fortunes between now and then?
There are some slightly positive indications. First, I think the ACC finally realizes it has a problem. I don't think even 18 months ago they would have acknowledged that. I don't think given the opportunity to do it again, you see the ACC leave money on the table to make a old-timey Raycom deal and get away with it like they did. They would never have made the partial with ND before.
On the same token, I think FSU finally sees the landscape clearly. Again, some of us saw these financial disparity issues coming years ago, and I'm not sure many people associated with FSU did. It's time for FSU's leadership to get seriously engaged here and influence the future of the ACC. They will never have any greater pull than they do right now...hell, the whole conference just locked themselves in $50M shackles for fear of FSU leaving. We need an athletic director with a big swinging mmm..stick, that isn't afraid to use it. Spetman is not a wartime consigliere, and Barron needs one. I think he knows that now too.
Are there some slight hints that the football schools might be getting their due? No need to get excited yet, but possibly.
Swofford recently opened the door to an 8-game conference schedule again, if the athletic directors wanted to put it back on the table. This is HUGE for FSU and Clemson. If the ACC makes this happen, it will both be an acknowledgement toward protecting the football members, and a lure to ND, who would never play more than eight conference games.
But here's another interesting question...why the penalty of "Three times the ACC office operating budget?" The ACC operating budget is one equal cut of the TV revenue. So 1/13th for now, and 1/15th in the future. So wouldn't it make a lot more sense to just say that a team forfeits a fee equal to three times it's TV payout? It would seem to make a lot more sense, and put the fee in a term more fans would understand, because fans have gotten pretty saavy about knowing their TV shares. So why not just say three times the TV shares?
It could be simply to make the exit penalty fit for Notre Dame, who won't be getting that size cut, since they only get a share of basketball money. But could it be in the future, not everyone's share will be the same? I've always been of the opinion that it's much to the ACC's best interest to know that FSU, Clemson, Vt, etc can go out and compete with the SEC, even if schools like Wake, Duke, BC, etc take a couple million less. Such a thought was unthinkable until recently, but ND has broken the "all in, share equally" seal. Clearly, the ACC is going to be open to things it has never allowed on the table before.
It could distribute TV funds by a formula based on TV appearances or performance, but that's not the only option. The ACC now has more football+basketball games as part of it's contract than any other conference, and like no other conference, they aren't being split between networks. ESPN has all of it. Could the ACC go into renegotiations with ESPN with the goal of coming up with a mechanism for schools to "buy back" third tier content? ESPN is selling off some of it's ACC property anyway...it can't show it all. Can the ACC option some of that back to the schools, for the few schools with the ability to monetize it?
Finally, the ACC simply has to improve the product on the field, both in perception and reality. The pieces are in place. They have the recruiting, the local talent, and the NFL output second to none but the SEC. Their is simply no excuse to be seen as the perennial distant fifth on the field. This can and must change.
The ACC must have a summitt meeting with ADs and football coaches and determine how to make this happen. They should use incentives, such as a version of kill what you eat bowl payments, as well as penalties for schools failing to deploy an acceptable amount of resources on football.
Each school should lay out goals, other than wins and losses, and be held accountable. Things like attendence, booster membership, facilities improvements, etc, and schools that fail to meet them should face consequences.
They need to put the biggest brains in the conference on the scheduling problem, to work out scheduling that absolutely maxes out the ACC's potential for high-profile matchups and gaudy records. It is not what scheduling method ends up with the most bowl teams...we are looking for the formula that is most likely to result in the highest year-end rankings. The mid-majors figured out how to game the basketball RPI years ago, it's time for the ACC to do the same for football scheduling.
Oh, and I'd also make it a goal for the ACC to be known as having the finest, most accountable officiating in football. Whatever it takes,spare not expense or feelings. I want it to be part of the conference reputation. I want coaches to think twice about leaving/turning down ACC jobs for having to leave ACC officials behind.
If the ACC accomplishes two things:
1. full addition of ND football
2. competetive parity with at least the B1G, PAC and Big 12
the ACC is going to be in an incredibly valuable position in the 2020s. It will be the only conference with a substantial if not dominant presence in three regions (Midwest with ND, Southeast and Northeast). It will have an unrivaled population footprint. With 16 teams It will have more inventory than any other conference (and not other conference will have particularly good choices to get to 16). But ACC football has GOT to stop being a punchline.
If it accomplishes neither of those things the ACC, and FSU in it, will eventually be locked into second tier status in perpetuity. The stakes are incredibly high.


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Happy Thanksgiving! CBI will be closed for the holiday weekend this Thursday and Friday, so after today, chat reference won't be available either here or on the main CBI home page until Monday, November 26.
As a post-Thanksgiving activity, U of M readers, think about attending a talk by CBI's very own Tom Misa on December 11, entitled "Moore's Law: Dynamics of a technical revolution." Professor Andrew Odlyzko will also be speaking. See http://www.cdtl.umn.edu/index.php?pageid=59 for more details.
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Although Meshell Ndegeocello scored a few hits early in her career, the bassist, singer, and songwriter later opted to concentrate on more challenging material by exploring the politics of race and sex, among other topics. From her 1993 Maverick label debut through her releases of the 2010s for Naïve, she built a discography of recordings that defied classification through progressive mixtures of jazz, R&B, hip-hop, and rock. Initially held in regard primarily for her bass playing and bold lyrics, her songwriting, which often examined dark interpersonal issues, was just as exceptional.
Michelle Lynn Johnson, born on August 29, 1968, spent the first few years of her life in Germany. Her father was both a military man and a jazz saxophonist. She relocated with her family to Virginia in the early '70s. As a youngster, Johnson developed an interest in music; during her teenage years, she began to play regularly in the clubs of Washington, D.C., but eventually settled down in New York City after a stint of studying music at Howard University. By this point, she was going by Me'Shell NdegéOcello -- her adopted last name Swahili for "free like a bird." After auditioning for several bands, including Living Colour, NdegéOcello struck out on her own and often performed solo with just a bass, drum machine, and keyboard. In the early '90s, she was one of the first artists signed to Madonna's Warner-affiliated Maverick label.
NdegéOcello's debut album, 1993's Plantation Lullabies, was produced with David Gamson, as well as with André Betts and Bob Power, and involved input from a wide range of musicians, including DJ Premier, Joshua Redman, Bill Summers, Wah-Wah Watson, and David Fiuczynski. An impressive first album, it spawned the hit "If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)" and received three Grammy nominations. A duet with John Mellencamp on a cover of Van Morrison's "Wild Night," released a year later, brought her more mainstream attention; it peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100.
Almost three years passed between the release of NdegéOcello's first and second albums, but during the wait, she collaborated with Chaka Khan on the track "Never Miss the Water," and she appeared on movie soundtracks (White Man's Burden, Money Talks) and on such multi-artist releases as Ain't Nuthin' But a She Thing and Lilith Fair, Vol. 3. Peace Beyond Passion finally saw release in 1996, peaked higher on the Billboard 200 (at number 63), and was also nominated for a Best R&B Album Grammy. Its cover of Bill Withers' "Who Is He (And What Is He to You?)" topped Billboard's club chart. Produced by Gamson, it featured a longer list of noted associates, including several heard on the debut, as well as Billy Preston, Bennie Maupin, David Torn, Wendy Melvoin, and Paul Riser.
Another three-year break between albums occurred, during which time she collaborated with rapper Queen Pen on the track "Girlfriend." Bitter, for which she was billed as Meshell Ndegéocello, was released in 1999. She took another three-year break and emerged with Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape -- as Meshell Ndegeocello -- in 2002. Comfort Woman followed in 2003 and Dance of the Infidel, a sprawling album made with numerous collaborators from the jazz world, surfaced in 2005. Two years later, her fantastic Decca debut, The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams, which included guest appearances from Pat Metheny and Oumou Sangare, was released.
Her first pop-related recording in half a decade, 2009's Devil's Halo featured Ndegeocello in a quartet setting. The album also included guest spots from Lisa Germano and Oren Bloedow. Ndegeocello toured the album in opera houses and concert halls across the United States and Europe. In 2011, she partnered with Grammy-winning producer Joe Henry for the album Weather; it was issued on the Naïve label. In 2012, Ndegeocello released Pour une Âme Souveraine: A Dedication to Nina Simone, a collection of tunes intimately associated with the legendary vocalist and pianist. Comet, Come to Me, another deep set of introspective songs, followed in 2014. ~ Greg Prato & Andy Kellman, Rovi
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Two Republicans want to be the Lubbock County District Attorney, but only one can win the party's nomination. With the primary election only 20 days away, the race between incumbent Matt Powell and opponent Tommy Turner is getting intense. NewsChannel 11's Kealey McIntire talked to both candidates and has brings us an in-depth look at their campaign.
Many times during these campaigns you may see a political ad and wonder is there any truth to that accusation. Both Tommy Turner and Matt Powell have ads currently running on television and we asked them what's true and what's not.
District Attorney candidate and current Lubbock defense attorney Tommy Turner said the race isn't getting heated, but he did say it's like a football game gaining momentum.
"Both sides start out with a game plan and it's three downs and punt, three downs and punt. Okay, that's not working so you tweak your offense a little bit," said Turner.
Turner is tweaking his offense with a new TV ad that hit airwaves Wednesday. It claims Lubbock ranks near the top for abused and neglected children. Turner attributes that to increased methamphetamine usage and manufacturing, something he says the DA should focus on.
"One thing I will do when I'm District Attorney is put together a task force of prosecutors and use some visiting judges and target meth manufacturers," said Turner.
His new ad also says Lubbock has the fourth highest crime rate in the state. Turner said that's because the current DA's office tries cases only 50 percent of the time. He wants to see that number increase. "And I think that's achievable," stated Turner.
Incumbent Matt Powell's ad states he's never lost a felony jury trial, including 34 murder cases. He's spent his entire professional career as a prosecutor, unlike his opponent.
Powell said it's not about numbers. "If you start worrying about the number of convictions you have and the number of cases you're moving and disposing of, things like that, then justice can get sacrificed a lot," he said.
Powell said records indicate his office has actually tried more cases than even larger counties. Records also show various crime rates in Lubbock have decreased.
One of Powell's campaign points is experience, he said 27 out of 31 lawyers in his office have more prosecution experience than his opponent.
"I truly feel the calling to do the job," said Powell. "It's about the guy who can go into the courtroom on day one and look a murderer in the face and say you're gone. And that's me. Period."
Turner said if elected he wants to turn cases faster. Powell said if he continues as DA he's going to keep focusing on hiring attorneys who genuinely want to be prosecutors for the span of their career.
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Greenville County deputies said they arrested five people in September after they found two chop shops in Greenville.
Deputies said that about 11 p.m. Sept. 25, they were called to 2490 New Easley Highway after someone reported a burglary in progress. They said that arriving deputies found three people, identified as 53-year-old Donna Collins, 44-year-old Melissa Hammond and 29-year-old Matthew Smith, inside. They said that deputies at the scene began running license plates on vehicles in the parking lot of the business and found that several of the vehicles had been reported stolen. They also said that a semi truck found inside the business was in the process of being disassembled.
Investigators said they learned that 57-year-old Ricky Gosnell was the head of the chop shop. They said Gosnell was eventually located and found to be in possession of tires from the semi truck.
Deputies said an investigation into the chop shop on New Easley Highway led them to another chop shop at 4719 White Horse Rd. They said 34-year-old Juan Cano was identified as the owner of the business. They said it appeared that Cano was buying parts from Gosnell and then shipping the parts out of the country.
Hammond, Collins, Smith and Gosnell were charged with four counts of receiving stolen goods and a single count of unlawfully owning, operating, conducting, transporting or selling vehicles to a chop shop.
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It's one of those moments you never forget. I was sitting in a high-school classroom, trying to shove a potato in the disk drive of an Apple II+, when my friend Sam came running in with a wild look in his eye.
"Come quick! Someone invented the Internet!"
And after that, everything was different. There were cat videos and Flash games, YouTube comments and memes. A torrent of knowledge at our fingertips. A torrent of torrents at our fingertips.
But what was it like before the Internet? What did we do for fun? More specifically, what did we do when we wanted to laugh at the expense of baseball players? There weren't any GIFs. There weren't any embeddable videos from MLB.com that worked well more than half the time. The local news didn't have time to cover anything but the scores and highlights.
My memory was jogged at a garage sale. Blooper videos. You might remember them from late nights on ESPN, or you might remember when they were piled in a bin with other VHS tapes at a Walgreens, but they were ubiquitous. There was "Amazing Sports Bloopers," "Sports Bloopers Encyclopedia," "Time Out for Hilarious Sports Bloopers," "Super Duper Baseball Bloopers" … you get the idea. Sometimes there would be four of the shows on one special collection.
This is how we used to live.
The one that I got my hands on was "Baseball's 101 Funniest Moments." It's from 1993, and I couldn't wait to get home and mine it for GIFs. Because that's all it was, right? Proto-GIFs that you had to manually stop and rewind whenever you wanted to see them again?
Not really. After spending several hours just figuring out how to watch and record the thing on my computer, I found only three or four GIFs that would have been worthy of even a tweet today. Here is a brief rundown of what was included in the 30-minute running time, but before you start, you'll need to get this ready:
The rundown:
- Managers arguing with umpires
- Players getting hit in the face with shaving-cream pies
- An anecdote that Bob Costas tells Jay Johnstone about Earl Weaver*
- Minor-league layers dropping baseballs
- Minor-league players dropping more baseballs
- A minute-long feature on Turk Wendell's crazy superstitions
- A hidden-camera prank on Frank Thomas, set up by Steve Lyons and Jay Johnstone
- A little kid singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" off-key
- A minor-league player getting hit in the beans with a foul ball
- Mike Veeck's wacky promotions for the Ft. Myers Miracles (such as getting your hair cut in the stands of a game)
- Players proposing and/or getting married on the field
- A montage of the San Diego Chicken and Max Patkin doing San Diego Chicken and Max Patkin things to a soundtrack of synthesized jazz
- Minor-league players falling into the dugout
- Players in the minor leagues playing all nine positions
- A University of Nebraska player who broke a car window with a home run
- Hitters charging the mound after getting hit with a pitch
It was a tall task, condensing the 101 funniest moments in baseball history to 30 minutes, but I'm not sure if they really picked out the actual funniest. I'm not sure if there was a committee responsible for the voting, or if there was some sort of year-long public vote … but I'm going to have to quibble with the word "funniest".
The Frank Thomas prank set up like this: Frank Thomas …
… is out to dinner with Steve Lyons …
… and Jay Johnstone …
… who was a mainstay on this sort of video. The gag was simple: Set Thomas up to have a bad dinner.
Frank Thomas: Great. My soup is cold.
Steve Lyons: /titters
Steve Lyons: Really?
Not a made-up sequence, I promise! Then they bring out Diet Coke that's too syrupy, moldy bread, and super-tough chicken. Frank Thomas doesn't like any of it one bit! Then they reveal the hidden cameras. Frank Thomas seems like a very patient person.
But instead of continuing to make fun of a 30-minute blooper video that its producers probably don't even remember, allow me to make a serious point. Right after this video was released in 1993, the Internet was invented. It was a glorious day. And what happened was that we didn't have to rely on a handful of curators to relay baseball's 101 funniest moments. You've probably read umpteen references to the "democratization of the Internet", but here's an example your baseball-addled brain can relate to: The funniest moments in baseball are a lot funnier now. They're often just video clips or silent GIFs, and the funniest ones are shared virally. It's a meritocracy now. The best of the best get shared, and they get shared instantly, sans sound effects.
There's a downside, too. There's so much to process. These 101 bloopers were collected and curated over a longish period of time, with the producers likely enlisting help from TV stations and minor-league teams. Then it was presented as a collection for your edification (and purchasing consideration). Maybe you would quibble with the results, but there wasn't that much competition for your attention. Now, with the exceptions of a very few legendary clips, the bloopers of today have a 10-minute shelf-life. There's so, so many of them. So many GIFs. So many videos. You can get them all on your phone.
Yeah, something like that, which was legitimately from one of Mike Veeck's wacky promotions! (Mobile-phone-at-the-park day!) But a little smaller.
It's unquestionably better now, of course. The video was pretty much unwatchable. Just thought I'd point out the constant stream of bloopers provided by the Internet these days is easy to take for granted. Do you realize that some of the people reading this have never seen the GIF of Eric Chavez hitting his pitcher in the head with a return throw? That truly would be considered for a list of the 101 funniest baseball moments, but because it has to swim upstream against the rest of the Internet, it's going to be easy to miss. There's just too much to keep track of.
Now, onto the three GIFs that were salvageable:
Actual punchline from the narrator: "Hey, buddy. Better work on those control problems."
Mood of background music: Zany
Actual punchline from the narrator: "As you can see, this little guy has a pretty good swing."
(Also, that was Brett Butler taking it in the beans.)
The day before the Internet came out, this blooper video was released. It stands in well as a representative of the entire genre. And as terrible as it was, it made me nostalgic. I grew up on these things.
Luckily, your kids won't have to.
* Earl Weaver is ranting in the dugout, throwing bats and helmets around, and swearing a lot. The super-religious Pat Kelly stops Weaver and says, "Skip, I think you should walk with the Lord." After the bench gets really quiet, Weaver turns to him and says, "Yeah? Well, I think you should walk with the bases loaded."


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CD and Credit Card Specials at Citizens Bank in Several States
Citizens Bank is offering a promotion that includes a short-term CD special and a special credit card cash-back deal. It's called the "Get the Value of Five." The promotion is scheduled to end on 9/28/2012. Here's the link to the Citizens Bank promo page. Citizen's Bank branches which are branded as Charter One have this same promo. Here's the link to the Charter One promo page. Hat tip to DA reader Kaight who posted on this deal in this forum thread. More details about this promo is available in this FW thread.
Both the CD special and the credit card promo require that a new customer first open a personal checking account with a minimum opening balance of $500.
CD Special
The following are the details of the CD special as listed at the promo page:
- 5.00% APY 5-month CD
- Minimum deposit: $1,000
- Maximum deposit: $5,000
- Only one CD can be opened per household
- CD must be opened in a branch
According to the offer's small print, the new checking account must be kept active. Below are all of the details about what is considered an active checking account:
An active checking account is defined as having 5 qualifying payment transactions that post and clear your account per statement period. Qualifying payments from your account include ATM withdrawals and payments made in our branches, payments made using our Online Banking service, Debit Card purchases, checks paid and automatic electronic payments to a third party. Transfers to your checking, savings, and money market accounts are excluded. Online Banking transfers to Business loans or credit lines do not qualify.
If you deposit $5,000, you'll earn about $104. If you kept that $5,000 in a savings account earning 1%, you'll earn about $83 more in this special CD. Both the low maximum and the short maturity reduces the benefits of the 5% APY. Nevertheless, it's nice to see a 5% APY, but you should see this more as a checking account bonus rather than a competitive CD.
Credit Card Promotion
You may be able to earn more money from the credit card promotion than the CD special. The credit card offer allows you to earn 10% cash back on gas, grocery and drug store purchases with a new CashBack Platinum MasterCard for the first 90 days. You'll earn 1% on all other purchases. If you just open the credit card without the checking account, the cash back is 5% for these categories. After the 90-day promotion period, you will earn 1% cash back on all purchases.
Here's an important part of the small print about when the 90-day promo period begins:
Your 90-day promotional offer will start on the date your account is approved, allowing up to an additional 20 days for you to receive and activate your card. Once you have applied for an account you will be notified of the status within 30 days.
HELOC Offer
The last part of this promotion is 0.51% discount on a Citizens Bank Home equity line of credit (HELOC). Refer to the promo page for those details.
Monthly Fees
The checking account has potential monthly fees. This Citizens checking page shows the fees and how to have the fees waived for all of the checking accounts. The Green Checking appears to be the best one. The monthly fee is $9.99 unless you maintain a $1,500 average daily balance or have 5 qualifying payment transactions per month. This monthly fee used to be only $4.99 last year.
According to the small print, the offer is "available in select markets only." Citizens Bank branches are located in Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Citizens Bank Overview
Citizens Bank is part of the $130 billion bank holding company, Citizens Financial Group, which is headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island. Its two bank subsidiaries are RBS Citizens, N.A. and Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania. These banks operate a 12-state branch network under the Citizens Bank brand in the Northeast and the Charter One brand in Illinois, Michigan and Ohio.
RBS Citizens, N.A. has an overall health score at DepositAccounts.com of 5 stars (out of 5) with a Texas Ratio of 6.58% (excellent) based on June 2012 data. Please refer to our financial overview of Citizens Bank for more details.
Other Bank Bonuses
We have a bank promotions page with a table of all of the active bank and credit union promotions. You can filter the table based on the type of promotion and based on your state. I have more details about how to use this page in this blog post.
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By Debra Cassens Weiss
Last summer, Philadelphia lawyer Justin Bieber started getting 50 to 60 Facebook friend requests each week, but few of his new acquaintances were the potential personal injury clients he was hoping to attract with a new marketing campaign.
The messages said "I love you" or "I love it when you sing" or "You're not Justin Bieber," the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
Bieber, a lawyer with Clearfield, Kofsky & Penneys, was in the planning stages of a marketing campaign when he became so popular, the story says. His marketing experts suggested he use his middle name, Matte, instead of his first name, but Bieber rejected the idea. "I don't go by Matte Bieber, so that would be even stranger," he told the newspaper. "So, we went with Justin Matte Bieber."
Now Bieber advertises in the Philadelphia Daily News, producing several phone calls each week and a few new clients.
Patti Williams, a marketing professor at the Wharton School, says the confusion with the pop singer may be a good thing. "Many people do not know the name of a lawyer, so to have a name like his come to mind so quickly could potentially be very helpful," she told the Inquirer.
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Watch for Sale: Tudor Rose Logo Hand Wind ca. 1970, Rolex Crown in good condition, ca. 85% overall, Tudor Caliber 1156
Why I think this
watch is interesting:
Please read the comments about the condition of the watch below. As always I try to describe the watches as they are, not hiding anything.
And I am as always very open and straight: this is a Handwind with Screw-Down crown. The power reserve (measured is about 48 hours), that means you will have to open and wind the watch every second day. To me that is a pleasure, I love to wind watches. I just want to make sure you understood that before ordering the watch and not be disappointed afterwards. The threads on the crown tube and crown of that Tudor are like new and Tudor guarantees that you can use that watch for a very long time and that whether the thread nor the crown will quickly wear out. And if it does one day, it is really very simple to replace that threaded stem tube.
Details about this Watch
Price: Is firm, my margins are very
small, no additional discounts sorry. See the
TUDOR overview table for the price
Dimensions (mm):
Case diameter (excl.crown): 34
Height: 11.5 only because it is Hand wind
Lug to Lug: 41
Lug width: 19
Beautiful Black "Jean Simone" leather strap with Alligator pattern
A quick shot of the front of the watch after reluming the hour and minute hand
A night shot to show the luminous paint of the hour and minute hands
The Movement is clean and in perfect working condition. Measured Power reserve is 43 hours (dial up), the only "cosmetic" error is the "chewed" setting lever screw. That is quite normal for watches of this age, since that screw needs to be loosened 2 turns to remove the stem. The case clamp on the left also shows some signs of corrosion. But if you wish, I can replace that case clamp wiht an identical new ETA case clamp. I just did not want to modify the watches before having talked to you. Besides those two little "cosmetic" errors, the movement looks as great as this picture shows it. It is really a beauty!
That is past now, the hands have been relumed ... but even with the luminous paint cracked on the minute hand and with the darker lume on the minute hand, the watch looks great on the wrist. I can not really tell why, but I really love those vintage Tudors. Once you have seen their movements in person, you might start to understand
I will throw in a Sandoz Box, so this watch has a decent home again. Of course without the Sandoz guarantee.


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By Molly McDonough
Another late night, followed by an early morning made getting right back in the tour vehicle a little rough.But we were caffeinated and wide awake by the time we rolled into Arlington, Va., the home of the Institute for Justice, which touts itself as the nation's only libertarian public interest law firm.
We met with our Rebel of the Day: Chip Mellor, the IJ's president and general counsel. He talked about how the firm uses humor and a large dose of irreverence to draw attention to issues they care about. That's not to say this legal team is all comedy and no action -- they take their cases very seriously. But, they don't take themselves too seriously. And that makes the office a great place to work day in and day out.
It's also worth noting that we increased our entourage numbers during the IJ visit. Virginia State Bar President John D. Huddleston (@VA4GoodLawyers), with camerawoman in tow, met up with us to talk new media in the legal profession. And so did Patrick Dowd, a reporter from Legal Bisnow.
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While our Denver Nuggets have certainly had their fair share of ups and downs this season, there's still one thing they haven't accomplished: beaten an elite team, at home or on the road. By my counting, the NBA has only seven such "elite" teams this season (in no particular order): the Miami Heat, Indiana Pacers, San Antonio Spurs, Portland Trail Blazers, Los Angeles Clippers, Golden State Warriors and Thursday night's opponent, the Oklahoma City Thunder.
So if the Nuggets can best the Thunder on Thursday night, they'd be putting one heck of a cap on a four-game winning streak.


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Old Dominion's F. Ludwig Diehn Residency Series will feature several world premieres by 20th-century Serbian composers at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 16, in Chandler Recital Hall of the Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center.
The recital is free and open to the public; however, seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
The concert brings together the university's contemporary music ensemble, Creo, under the direction of Andrey Kasparov, and the Center for New Music, University of Iowa School of Music, under the direction of David Gompper, to perform works by Tatjana Milosevic, Milan Mihajlovic, Vladan Radovanovic, Srdjan Hofman, Isidora Zebelian and Vera Stanojevic.
According to Kasparov, "Serbia has been politically isolated for many years. As a result the music of contemporary Serbian composers is not well-known but has much to contribute to contemporary music."
Milosevic will be composer in-residence in the music department. She studied advanced composition and orchestration at the Belgrade Conservatory and has composed music for diverse media, including chamber, solo instruments, electro-acoustic, vocal and symphonic, as well as music for theater.
Milosevic's works have been performed throughout Yugoslavia and in numerous concerts in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine and Spain. Her composition "The Lights of Betelgeuse," or "The Secret of a Red Giant for Piano, Harpsichord and Four Violoncellos," was performed in 1998 at ISCM's prestigious new music forum, World Music Days, in Seoul, South Korea.
The April 16 program is made possible by a grant from the F. Ludwig Diehn Music Fund of the Norfolk Foundation.
For more information call 683-3020.
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Before signing reliever Francisco Cordero to a one-year deal earlier today, the Toronto Blue Jays and the Texas Rangers had been discussing a deal involving right-handed reliever Koji Uehara. The discussions between the clubs never advanced, obviously, and that was because Uehara rejected a trade to Toronto, according to Richard Durrett of ESPN Dallas.
"Rangers reliever Koji Uehara refused a trade to the Toronto Blue Jays, according to a source. Uehara has a limited no-trade clause that includes six teams and Toronto is one of those.


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SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/14/12 -- ForgeRock Inc., the pioneer of open source Identity and Access Management (IAM), today announced availability of the first and only unified, 100% Open Source Stack to secure applications and services across enterprise, cloud, social and mobile environments. With over 250K downloads in less than 24 months, the ForgeRock Open Identity Stack is rapidly building a rich community of global companies working to deploy identity management infrastructure more easily and economically.
Identity Management is typically overly complex, with high barriers to adoption. The number of users, devices, and identities to manage continues to grow exponentially as enterprise security expands to include cloud, social, and mobile environments -- areas that legacy identity management solutions were not designed to protect.
The Open Identity Stack provides architects, developers, and users with an "all-in-one" platform to deploy identity management through simple, lightweight, modular, and highly scalable identity services. The developer-friendly open source platform abstracts away complexity, exposes simple identity services, ensures compliance and supports developers in easily extending identity and access management solutions beyond the security perimeter to the cloud.
Customers Appreciate Fair Share Pricing
ForgeRock levels the playing field with fair-share subscription offerings to support any Open Identity Stack deployment. Fortune 500 healthcare services and information technology company, McKesson Corporation (NYSE: MCK), is one of the hundreds of commercial customers that have purchased subscriptions with ForgeRock for unlimited support, indemnification, real-time updates, technical expertise, and ongoing R&D investment in the Open Identity Stack.
"ForgeRock's Open Identity Stack provides the next generation of identity management technology at a rational price," said Michael Wilson, VP and CISO at McKesson Corporation, a global health industry leader. "Our developers appreciate the inherent flexibility and scalability of this platform, which allows us to grow and build out over time."
Roger Holmes, Head of Software Engineering at BSkyB (LSE: SKY), a leading pay-TV and home communications provider in the UK & Ireland, chose ForgeRock "because of the straightforward implementation and the integrated platform. We needed a solution suited to our specific needs, but with the capacity to handle identity and access management across all our environments at Internet scale."
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"Open source democratizes identity management," said Lasse Andresen, ForgeRock founder and CEO. "It allows us to build the only integrated, all-in-one identity stack on the market, designed to work together by our developers and community, from the ground up. The beauty of open source is that you can use the parts you like -- our platform works seamlessly, even paired with legacy technologies."
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Winter shelter opens early to meet demandThe Associated Press | November 03,2013BRATTLEBORO A winter shelter for the homeless in Brattleboro will open today, a month earlier than usual because of increased demand that some say was brought about by federal budget cuts.
Lucie Fortier who runs the daytime shelter at the Brattleboro Area Drop In Center, said when she arrives at 8 a.m. each day there is usually a crowd of up to 10 people waiting to get in.
A lot of them are sleeping along the river bank, some are camping under the bridges, she said. Our people need to have a safe place to sleep.
The Drop In Center also sponsors the overnight winter shelter in the Baptist Church on Main Street. Its funded by donations and a state grant, Vermont Public Radio reports, and its run by volunteers, social service agencies and the local interfaith clergy group.
People are calling to ask when the shelter will open and if there is any place else they can stay until it opens, Fortier said. The demand is just there, she said.
But there arent many options because programs have been squeezed by federal budget cuts and federal housing subsidies are frozen, she said.
In Brattleboro an anti-camping ordinance and a crackdown on railroad property has made it even harder to live outside.
While the numbers of homeless people were fairly level statewide over the past year, in Brattleboro the number has gone up 12 percent, said Angus Chaney, who heads the Vermont Council on Homelessness.
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Well here we are again: Miami vs New England
A lot has happened since that first game started the season. It seems Miami decided to use the Chargers pattern of starting slow and coming back strong this year. Unfortunately, that only works in the AFC West, as Tony Sparano found out. Also, Miami found Moore help at QB once Chad Henne went down.
The Patriots defense is 32nd in pretty much every statistical measure known to man. Sometimes someone will get a wild hair and grab a pick, or sack a QB, but we can pretty much count on whatever QB you field looking like the second coming of Dan Marino. Please don't make draft choices at that position based on what you see from this game. Objects in that mirror are NOT what they appear to be. Luckily we have Tom Brady, and he covers a multitude of
inept defense sins.
New England is trying to hold the 1st seed in the playoffs, and Miami is trying to end the season on a high note by screwing that up and putting the hurt on Tommy. We typically split the series, so here we are.
Just remember that we have some common ground here. For instance, we're all Giants fans this weekend; at least for one game.
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Jen Driscoll is probably still wondering how Preston High School got a sixth seed in the CHSAA playoffs after her St. Joseph Hill Academy quintet knocked off the host Bronx squad for a second time on Monday night.
"We got a good team effort; the girls knew their backs were to the wall and it was survive and advance," the Hill coach said after the No. 11 Hilltoppers ousted Preston, 54-38.
Hill, earlier in the season, topped visiting Preston, 70-65.
The last team to get a bid, (8-18) Hill travels to Somers, N.Y. on Wednesday to face Kennedy Catholic in Wednesday's quarter-finals. The time is to be determined.
The Hilltoppers, behind Allie Dunn's dozen points led 24-19 at halftime before the Throggs Neck five pecked away and got to within 27-26 midway through the third quarter.
Dunn, the 5-11 junior, then popped in one of her three treys and the Hilltoppers caught fire.
"We got some stops and pushed the ball and got easy layups," added Driscoll of Hill's 30-19 second-half production.
"At the end, we took care of the ball and did a good job of using the clock."
Dunn's 11 rebounds also led the Hilltoppers on the glass. Patricia Conroy and Kerry Egan each collected six, Nicole Imbesi grabbed five and Alyssa Barry and Mackenzie DeRosa had four apiece.


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Blake Shelton Releases "Neon Light"
Blake Shelton is one of country music's most lovable acts, well-known for his sense of humor, especially on Twitter. But in his new single, "Neon Light," he is revealing his mean side. The tune is a revenge song about forgetting an ex over a few drinks and a potential rebound.


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- Tuberville beat Alabama 7 times in his 10 years, famously winning 6 in a row between 2002 and 2007. You should know that Ralph "Shug" Jordan beat Alabama 9 times during his 25 seasons at the helm on the Plains. Pat Dye won 6 of 12 meetings with the Red Elephants. I'd give Shug some credit, but he won four of those before Bear Bryant. Comparatively, though, Tommy supped on the mediocrity of Dubose, Franchione, and Shula.
- Speaking of, can you believe that in 10 years, Tommy Tuberville faced FOUR DIFFERENT COACHES in the Iron Bowl. In fact, just against his five division opponents, Tuberville met twelve different coaches on the field of
battlehis extraordinarily flaky profession.
- Mike Donahue (1904-06, 08-22) remains tied for the second-largest win total among Auburn coaches. His ledger after his first 10 seasons was 56-13-2 (.811). Jordan was 71-29-3 (.710). Pat Dye was 89-38-3 (.729). Tuberville's overall record of 85-40-0 (.680) does, indeed, rank him behind his forbears in that category.
In short, if Auburn was seeking a coach on the level of Donahue, Dye, and Jordan, it is unclear whether or not Tuberville was their man. Tom's all-time ledger there is .05 ahead of their all-time ledger. Tuberville ran a good program for Auburn. He didn't get in trouble. He beat his primary rival often. But, by historical standards, Tommy does not quite measure up.


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Nebraska Homeless Assistance Program (NHAP)
State Continuum of Care CommitteeThe State Continuum of Care (CoC) Committee is one of four standing subcommittees of the Nebraska Commission on Housing and Homelessness. The role of Commission is to advise the Governor on affordable housing and homelessness issues. In support of this role, the State CoC Committee provides recommendations to the Commission on the needs of individuals and families in Nebraska who are experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness and proposes possible strategies to address these needs and prevent homelessness in the future.
For 2013, the State CoC Committee is currently charged by the Commission with reviewing and updating Nebraska's 10-year plan to address homelessness and incorporating the goals of Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness.
Past accomplishments of the Committee include:
A review of state regulations for the Nebraska Homeless Assistance Program.
Input on and selection of an allocation formula that is based on population and povertydata, as well as quality projects, resulting in an equitable distribution of funds across the state.
Service on grant review teams that recommend the grant awards.
Research of Homeless Management Information Systems and the recommendation ofadopting Bowman System, LLC - ServicePoint.
Recommending allocation procedures for the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housingProgram (HPRP) of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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---- — SALEM — Parishioners in this traditional Catholic city will meet Sunday to learn about a sweeping plan to reorganize parishes and streamline the Archdiocese of Boston.
The Rev. Paul Soper, who recently was appointed director of pastoral planning for the archdiocese, is the featured speaker at a 7 p.m. meeting in Immaculate Conception Church's former school auditorium on Hawthorne Boulevard.
Notices of the meeting appeared in church bulletins.
This meeting is being held as Cardinal Sean O'Malley gets closer to announcing the start of the implementation process and the establishment of the first "collaboratives," which are groupings of two or more parishes under one pastor with a merged pastoral team and parish council. An announcement is expected this month, according to local church leaders.
Over time, the archdiocese plans to combine its 288 parishes into 135 collaboratives that will share staff and resources. After the first group of collaboratives is named, the others are expected to be phased in over several years, local officials said.
There has been speculation that Salem could be in that first group largely because the city's four parishes — Immaculate Conception, St. James, Ste. Anne and St. John the Baptist — established a task force almost two years ago and are well along in the planning process. Those four parishes, which will retain their church buildings and finances, make up the new Salem collaborative.
"If we do end up being in phase one, I think we're ready to move forward," said Andrea Schwartz, co-chairman of the Salem Parish Task Force.
Schwartz and other church leaders stressed, however, that they don't know what the cardinal's decision will be.
Salem Catholics are being encouraged to attend Sunday's meeting to learn more about a plan that will reshape the church in this area. Although the issue has been discussed at individual parishes, this is the first citywide meeting. This will be an opportunity to ask questions and, hopefully, put an end to rumors, officials said.
"I think it's important for everybody to hear it at the same place, at the same time and from the same person," said the Rev. John Sheridan, pastor of St. James.
Although this new plan represents a significant change in church life, it is widely seen as preferable to the upheaval caused by the wave of church closings in 2004. There are no closings as part of this new plan.
The archdiocese has turned to collaboratives as a way to make use of limited resources at a time of declining church attendance, a growing priest shortage and limited financial resources. Church leaders see it as the best way to focus on evangelization, bring Catholics back to the church, increase Mass attendance and strengthen the parish structure.
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A Nevada man has filed court documents to be legally recognized as the father of a Georgia boy who prosecutors say was confined to a bedroom for years with little food in their suburban Atlanta home.
A Paulding County grand jury last month indicted the teen's stepfather, Paul Comer, and mother, Sheila Comer, on charges that include cruelty to children and false imprisonment. Lawyers for the Comers said their clients are innocent and another side of the story will emerge at trial.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/U5E5B8) that Tony Wawrzynski says his son, now 18, was 3 years old when his then-girlfriend disappeared with the toddler.
Paulding County Superior Court records show that Wawrzynski has filed a paternity petition to be legally recognized as the teenager's father.
Information from: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, http://www.ajc.com
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Kevin Garnett will not play for the Boston Celtics when they attempt to break-up the Miami Heat's 22-game win streak, the team announced on Monday afternoon. Garnett will miss his second straight game with a leg injury.
For more on the Boston Celtics please visit Celtics Blog and for the Miami Heat perspective, check out Hot Hot Hoops
For Boston, the move is not surprising.
With the Celtics sitting at the No. 7 spot in the Eastern Conference standings, they can afford to rest Garnett, their veteran power forward who is averaging 14.8 points and 7.8 rebounds this season. Garnett has missed two games this season (both Celtics victories) including Saturday's victory over the Charlotte Bobcats.
However, Monday night's game is different than most others in the regular season, with the Heat attempting to win their 23rd straight game. That would be the second-most consecutive wins for any team in NBA history, and would trail only the Los Angeles Lakers, who set a mark of 33 straight victories during the 1971-72 season.
Miami last lost on February 1, against the Indiana Pacers.
More in the NBA:
• How MJ helped Gerald Henderson
• The brilliance of Marc Gasol
• Printable bracket for March Madness


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Well, I lied. It's not really the final countdown. I figured there'd be, maybe 5 or 6 Allard Baird players left on the 40-man roster. Not so:
Henry Barrera #35 RP
Luke Hochevar #44 SP (2006 draft)
Dusty Hughes #31 RP
Blake Wood #38 RP (2006 draft)
Everett Teaford # RP (2006 draft)
Position Players
Mike Aviles #30 2B (Hard to believe. It was even rumored that other teams had interest - but he's still around.)
Billy Butler #16 1B
Kila Ka'aihue #25 1B
Jeff Bianchi #15 SS
Jarrod Dyson #1 CF (2006 draft)
Alex Gordon #4 LF (although, Alex Gordon "3B" is long gone)
Mitch Maier #12 CF
Derrick Robinson LF (2006 draft)
--any mistakes, please advise--
(Note: 2006 draftees are thought to be drafted at Ladnier's discretion, rather than Moore's. Some conspiracy theorists might suggest otherwise. For instance: Jarrod Dyson - Did Moore not whisper that name into Ladnier's ear near the end of the draft?)
That makes 13 players, 5 of which are from the 2006 draft, so AT LEAST 8 non-Moore players remain. This number could shrink substantially in the spring if Maier, Kila, Dyson, Barrera, and/or Hughes don't remain.


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JS/Flea.A is a slow email worm that operates as a signature in an HTML formatted mail. To hide itself and to make analysis more difficult, Flea uses several encryption layers.
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Variant:Flea.A, JS/Flea.A, VBS/Flea.A.Dropper, REG/Flea.A
The Visual Basic script code changes Internet Explorer settings so, that any URL entered into address bar without a specific protocol prefix (usually "http:" part in the beginning of the URL) will be directed into worm code, causing that the system will be reinfected.
The worm also attempts to add a number of buttons to Internet Explorer with labels "SEARCH", "ANTIVIRUS", "PILLS" and "SECURITY". Selecting any of these buttons will cause the worm to reinfect the system.
The worm drops two files into Windows installation directory, "c****" and "c****.htm" where **** is a number based on the current date. These first file contain the changes made to the registry and the second file contains the actual signature file used by the worm.
Finally the worm will alter the signature and stationary settings of both Outlook Express 5.x and 6.x. After this all email messages sent from an infected system will contain the hidden link to the worm code.
F-Secure Anti-Virus detects JS/Flea.A with the update released on
October 21st, 2003:
Detection Type: PC
Database: 2003-10-21_02
Description Created: Mikko Hypponen, October 23h, 2003
Technical Details: Katrin Tocheva and Sami Rautiainen, October 23h, 2003
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Broward County Libraries Division Celebrates Juneteenth with Northwest Library's Blues and Sweet Potato Pie Festival
: June 6, 2013
: Catherine McElrath, Libraries Division
: 954-357-7402
Kick off the summer and celebrate Juneteenth with the
Northwest Library's
annual Blues and Sweet Potato Pie Festival, to be held Saturday, June 15, 2013, at Apollo Park, located at 1580 N.W. 3 Ave.,
Pompano Beach
, FL 33060, which is adjacent to the Northwest Library.
The Festival, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., is free and open to the public. From children's fun to great music and food, the Blues and Sweet Potato Pie Festival offers a good time for all ages.
The Blues and Sweet Potato Pie Festival will feature the following entertainment:
• Driving Force, Rhythm & Blues Funk Band
• Derrick the DJ
• Sister Josephine Watkins, Comedienne
• Gary D. Wright, Entertainer/Radio Personality
• Windell Campbell, Storyteller
• Games and Prizes
• Step Dancing
• Face Painting
• Exhibits
• Three-on-Three Basketball
• Sweet Potato Pie Bake-off
Juneteenth, celebrated annually on June 19, is a holiday that marks the official end of slavery when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas to announce the Civil War was over and all who were enslaved were now free.
During the Blues and Sweet Potato Pie Festival, Northwest Branch Library will also begin registering children, teens and adults for the Summer Reading Program. Read books, earn rewards and get the chance to win great prizes! For information on Children and Teens Summer Reading Program, including a list of events, visit the
live calendar
or download the
2013 Summer Reading Program booklet
. Adults can visit the Adult Summer Reading Program
live calendar
or download the
Adult Summer Reading Program booklet
For more information about the Blues and Sweet Potato Pie Festival, which is sponsored by the
Friends of Northwest Library
, please call Northwest Library at 954-357-6599. Northwest Library is located at 1580 N.W. 3 Ave., Pompano Beach, FL 33060.
The award-winning Broward County Libraries Division, founded in 1974, is the ninth largest library system in the nation by population served and one of the busiest, with more than 9 million walk-in customers visiting its
40 locations
annually. The library has more than 3.4 million items and 2,000 computers for public use and offers hundreds of events and programs to meet the needs of the Broward County's diverse community. The library continues its strong emphasis on literacy, after-school programs and electronic access. In addition to our comprehensive Web site,
, which provides information about library activities, links to online catalogs, reference information and databases, customers can visit
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After hearing Joe Simpson tell me at the beginning of yesterday's Braves/Cubs telecast that Derek Lowe had a good spring, that his new motion was wondrous, that his late 2009 troubles were behind him, that the sun had risen, and that the liquor was tasty, my first thought was "how long until he blows up?" The answer was less than an inning as Marlon Byrd blasted a three-run homer after a couple other Cubbies had recorded hard-hit, fly ball outs on our "ground-ball pitcher."
It is true that D Lowe settled down in the second inning before giving up another homer, then mostly settled down for the remainder of his six innings of work. Granted, Mr. Heyward, Cohiba Escobar, Mac Daddy, et al kept the pressure off Lowe with their bats. You can't read too much into one start, but D Lowe's line looked a lot like many of his lines near the end of 2009:
Sure, there were several ground ball outs, but there were also some hard hit fly balls, plus the "catch" by Natey Mac that was one of the worst calls ever made that didn't involve tequila shots. The "catch" probably saved Lowe from giving up at least one more run and perhaps two.
Derek Lowe was still a good pitcher early last season, but he was not the same pitcher he was the previous four years in Los Angeles. Here was Lowe's line through his first 25 starts of 2009:
150 IP, 162 Hits, 8 HR, 49 BB (2.94 BB/9), 79 K's (4.74 K/9), 4.08 ERA, 1.41 WHIP
Lowe gave up a few more hits and a few more walks as a Brave, as his WHIP for his four seasons in L.A. were 1.25, 1.27, 1.27, and 1.13. His ERA was up slightly from the Dodger days as well. However, Lowe was also mostly keeping the ball down, as his home run rate dropped a bit. He was still an effective pitcher, at least league-average. Then, beginning with an August 18 start against the Mets, something unraveled. This is Lowe's line since that start, including yesterday's game:
50.2 IP, 75 Hits, 10 HR, 17 BB (3.02 BB/9), 34 K's (6.04 K/9), 6.75 ERA, 1.82 WHIP
The only good news there is the boost in strikeouts, and that boost was exclusive to last season as Lowe had only two K's in six innings yesterday. Also, the strikeout increase is dwarfed by the big increase in hits, the small rise in walks, and the huge increase in homers. I am not an expert, but it sounds as if Lowe's sinker stopped sinking as much, or at least as often, last August 18. If the much ballyhooed "change in pitching motion" made any difference yesterday, it was only sporadic at best.
We need to see a few more starts from D Lowe before making any definitive call, and I still believe there is a good chance Lowe will be a league-average pitcher this year. As I have said before, if he and Iron Chef Kenshin Kawakami are league-average and the other pitchers perform as they should, the Braves should win the East. But Lowe blew his chance to show that his late '09 swoon was behind him, and the pressure to perform will only increase from here on out. We can click our ruby slippers as much as we want, but the Braves' bats aren't going to give D Lowe double digits every time out.


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A former Austin City Councilman started fasting Tuesday and won't end it until he raises $6,000.
Raul Alvarez says he's not trying to make a statement about gentrification in east Austin. He's just trying to help longtime residents who can't afford to pay city and county taxes because of gentrification.
FOX 7 visited with 81-year-old Trinadad Estrada, who says she has plenty of bills to pay such as utilities and insurance, just to name a few.She says everything keeps going up including taxes she pays on her house on 4th Street in east Austin. It's a home that has been in her family for nearly 80 years.
"It's pretty hard cause I have to take some money out of my check instead of paying my bills," said Estrada. "More buildings around, my taxes will go up."
Alvarez, wants to help long time east Austin residents, like Estrada. He's part of East Side Guardians, a project that is trying to ensure east Austin is affordable for everyone. So at El Azteca off 7th Street, Alvarez ordered his last meal, until he raises $6,000.
"This is a choice for me that I'm making so I can better understand their situation but they don't have a choice, they live this way month to month and can you imagine being in that situation so that's why the fast," said Alvarez.
Earlier this year, East Side Guardians released a study showing a third of longtime residents of four central east Austin neighborhoods no longer owned their homes. Two thirds of long time homeowners still in east Austin have the 65 year old and over property tax exemption. Which means the majority of the latter group are likely on fixed incomes and can't afford the yearly tax and fee increases.
Alvarez says it's a worthy cause, one he admits his wife and two children had second thoughts about at first.
"She's definitely behind me 100 percent. My kids still think I'm a little crazy," said Alvarez.
It is craziness 81-year-old Estrada is grateful for.
"I appreciate it that they try to help," said Estrada.
"If its seven days great, if its 10 days, not so great," said Alvarez.
Alvarez says he will have water and bread during his fast. He has a full time job and two young children and needs some energy.
The group already raised $19,000 and needs to $6,000 to get a matching $25,000 grant. To help or for more information, just go to Eastsideguardians.org.
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Traffic on the Tennessee River has been halted because of a shift in the old Ledbetter Bridge between Paducah and Livingston County.
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet spokesman Keith Todd says inspectors are checking on what caused a drop on the west end of the bridge. Todd says two sections of the decking dropped about 2 feet.
McCracken County Sheriff Jon Hayden confirmed Wednesday that boat and barge traffic was stopped after the overnight drop.
Hayden said cabinet engineers began inspecting the bridge Wednesday morning, the Army Corps of Engineers was notified and geological experts from the University of Kentucky were called.
A new bridge opened last July, almost a year ahead of schedule. It replaces the two-lane Ledbetter Bridge, which was opened to traffic in 1931.
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