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HP has been a part of my life for ages. In the 1970s I used their high-voltage power-supplies. I bought their first ink-jet printer. I have used their printers in every school from the 1990s until this year. I have used many Compaq PCs at work.
Now, HP is becoming a part of my career as Linux advocate. They intend to push WebOS/Linux everywhere:
HP plans to ship 100 million WebOS connected devices per year. That sounds a lot like what I have been telling Dell to do for years, have a unified approach and push.
Since HP is the top PC unit seller according to IDC, this target amounts to a major share growth for Linux. HP ships about 18 million PCs per quarter, 72 million per year. This will make them also the largest unit shipper of Linux desktops.
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UNR on a cheapo ASUS netbook is running Matlab 2010 with aplomb, OpenOffice, Octave, and Gnumeric, too. The same netbook bogged down with default XP and MSOffice 2010 on it (it was the default software install – now paved over). Its been more of a full blown OS than Windows or Leopard (I haven't put HackOS/X on it but apparently ASUS eee's take to it well based on the blog boards….)
Think of WebOS on desktops more as a fast boot environment like Splashtop rather than full-blown OS.
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The cleanup has begun in some parts of Long Island while others continue to deal with flooding from heavy rain fall that began late Tuesday and intensified on Wednesday. Cars remain stranded after rain pounded the area. More than 13 inches of rain fell in Islip. The National Weather Service said the rain was the largest event on record for New York State in a 24-hour period.


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TWO award-winning colts will be sold at a charity auction after a pony show next weekend.
The auction takes place after the Dales Pony Show, at Barnard Castle Auction Mart, on Saturday, November 9.
Keith and Maureen Metcalf, of Meadow View, Bolam, in County Durham, who have showed Dales Ponies for more than 36 years, have offered to sell two animals in aid of the Great North Air Ambulance and The Brain Tumour Charity.
Bolam Paddy was born on May 15, to Bolam Sophie and Westwick Taffy, and Bolam Storm was born on April 5, to Earnwell Charmane and Bolam OK.
Both colts are described as good natured and have been shown locally and won prizes in the 2013 season.
Libby Bell, of Barnard Castle Auction Mart, will host the auction at 2pm.
An event spokeswoman said: "This is a very generous donation by Mr Metcalf and we hope that people will come along and support two very worthy causes."
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Just days after revealing details behind her seventh studio album, Rihanna couldn't help but offer her Twitter followers a peek at her second cover for the U.S. version of Vogue. While the approach and premise behind the November 2012 issue may not reveal anything new — her red dress recalling the Little Mermaid locks of her first cover, "I love to have fun", etc. — it will certainly help build up anticipation for Unapologetic, out November 19.
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The Vancouver Canucks have been lauded for their moves to bolster their defense by trading for Keith Ballard and signing Dan Hamhuis this summer. Some in the media have even gone so far as to declare the Canucks the favourite for the 2011 Stanley Cup.
It's true that the team is set in goal, on the blueline and in their top-six forward ranks. But there are some skeptics out there who wonder about the third and fourth lines. Is there enough depth here for a Cup run? Let's take a look.
So who else could play on Malhotra's line, with or without Hodgeson? The most likely players are Jannick Hansen and Tanner Glass. Hansen is a speedy forward who at times excels at forechecking and creating chances. Of the two he seems more suitable for third-line duty. Glass is a physical energy forward who could be adequate on a checking line, but seems more suited for a 4th line role.
Of course there also offensive prospects Jordan Schroeder and Sergei Shirokov. Both have had high expectations put on them. Shirokov is older and has more professional experience. But Schroeder no doubt has the higher upside. Although small, Schroeder has elite scoring abiliy and was a real steal in the 2009 draft. The problem with these two forwards is whether or not they are NHL ready and whether they possess enough defensive ability to play on an NHL third-line.
Players destined for the 4th line or reserve status who have an outside shot include Rick Rypien, Darcy Hordichuk, Victor Oreskovich, Joel Perrault,. Alexandre Bolduc and Gauillaume Desbiens. But I think that any Canucks fan would agree that ideally those fellows do not even come close to seeing top-9 ice-time.
That leaves two other area's: Free Agency and Trades. With the trade market virtually stagnant, I won't even begin to consider possible options. But with cheap veteran talent abundant in free agency, let's take a look at some forwards the Canucks could (and should) be interested in.
Frederick Modin: Has lost any vestige he once had of offensive ability, but is still defensively responsible and provides a veteran presence. Should come extremely cheap.
Owen Nolan: The ideal choice, but might be out of Vancouver's price range. Gritty, experienced, a born leader and still can score (though not at the same pace as at his best).
Scott Walker: Again, gritty and experienced, with a knack for scoring clutch goals.
Jay Pandolfo: A veteran checker, has lost a step over time but still has some gas left in the tank.
Jere Lehtinen: Once the best defensive forward in the NHL, age is catching up to him. Likely to retire.
Raffi Torres: Gritty with some offensive ability, lacks defensive polish.
Darcy Tucker: A shadow of his former self, probably not on many teams radar.
Bill Guerin: A veteran scorer could be a good presence should one or two of the younger prospects make the team.
Jeff Halpern: Once one of the top defensive forwards in the NHL, has virtually disappeared from the average fan's conscious. Could still be a cheap serviceable option.
Ruslan Fedotenko: Still has a reputation for big goals, but not all that useful.
Brendan Morrison. Former Canuck star would likely welcome a return, but does he fit into the new team structure?
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PINKHAM NOTCH, N.H. (AP) - It's a long way off from the annual bicycle races up New Hampshire's Mount Washington, but registration is already closed for one of them.
A total of 635 cyclists have registered for the 42nd Mount Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb, which is scheduled for Aug. 16. Over the years, the race has attained great popularity and usually fills quickly.
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U.S. Rep. Ron Barber issued a statement today after the president's announcement that he will seek congressional authorization for limited military strike in response to the use of chemical weapons against civilians in Syria.
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This use of chemical weapons is a terrible assault against innocent men, women and than 400 children. The United States and the nations of the world must condemn such a heinous crime against humanity.
I look forward to the debate in Congress regarding the president's decision and to receiving additional information regarding the U.S. government's findings and proposed military action against Syria. Before I vote on this issue, I want to hear the administration's complete rationale for action and the potential impact on other nations and our allies in the region. Congress must consider both the proposed response and the potential consequences of military action."
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Women's Literature in the 19th Century
Modern critical analysis of nineteenth-century women's literature seeks, in part, to understand the underlying reasons that women authors, especially in America, Britain, and France, were able to gain such widespread exposure and prominence in an age known for its patriarchal and often dismissive attitude toward the intellectual abilities of women. In addition, scholars have examined the broad thematic concerns that characterize much of the literary output of nineteenth-century women writers, many arguing that it was in the nineteenth century that gender-consciousness and feminist attitudes first came to the forefront of the literary imagination, changing forever how the works of female authors would be written and regarded.
The number of published women authors was greater in the nineteenth century than in any preceding century. Women's access to higher education increased exponentially during the century, providing them with skills that they could use to develop their art. The growth of market economies, cities, and life expectancies changed how women in Europe and the United States were expected to conform to new societal pressures, and made many women more conscious of their imposed social, legal, and political inequality. Finally, the many social reform movements led by nineteenth-century women, such as religious revivalism, abolitionism, temperance, and suffrage, gave women writers a context, an audience, and a forum in which they could express their views. While most scholars agree that many women writers expressly or tacitly accepted the separate sphere of domesticity that the age assumed of them, they also argue that as the century progressed, an increasing number of women began to express, in their writing, their dissatisfaction with gender relations and the plight of women in general. Throughout the Victorian era, the "woman question" regarding woman's true place in art and society was a subject that was hotly debated, spurred in large part by the rapid rise in literature by and for women.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, women writers were largely confined to the genres of children's literature and poetry. The emotionalism of poetry, particularly poetry in which depth of feeling and sentiment, morality, and intuition were expressed and celebrated, was considered a "feminine genre," suitable for women writers. As nineteenth-century women increasingly began to write fiction, however, critical reviews of the age often derided the inferior talents of women novelists, faulting what they perceived as women's lack of worldly experience, critical judgment, and rationality—traits thought to characterize men—and dismissing their works as little better than pulp designed to appeal to the unrefined tastes of an ever-expanding female readership. Many of the century's greatest novelists, including Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Mary Shelley, and George Sand, never completely escaped the condescension of critics whose negative assessments of their works were often based on the author's gender. Scholars argue that the legacy of this sexism has been a historic dismissal of the work of many of the age's most popular, gifted, and influential women writers, consistently judged as unworthy of academic study.
Some modern critics have continued to disregard the contributions of nineteenth-century women authors, while others have noted that by the end of the century, women novelists were more prevalent, and often more popular, than male novelists. Others have focused on representations of women in literature written both by men and women to illuminate the full spectrum of expectations of and perspectives on women and their perceived roles in society. Commentators have also compared the thematic concerns of women writers in England, France, and the United States, recognizing in these three cultures intersecting movements toward creative and feminist literary expression. In recent decades, critics have examined the contributions of African American and Native American women authors, as well as the influence of the nineteenth-century periodical press, analyzing the increasing radicalism of journals and essays edited and written by feminist pioneers such as Frances Power Cobbe and Sarah Josepha Hale.
Toward the end of the century, nineteenth-century women writers expanded their subject matter, moving beyond highlighting the lives and hardships suffered by women locked in domestic prisons. Instead, they increasingly expressed their individualism and demanded more equal partner-ships—in marriage, public life, law, and politics—with men.
Representative Works
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion (novels) 1818
Miss Marjoribanks (novel) 1866
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre (novel) 1847
Villette (novel) 1853
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh (poetry) 1857
Josephine Butler
The Education and Employment of Women (nonfiction) 1868
Kate Chopin
The Awakening (novel) 1898
Frances Power Cobbe
Essays in the Pursuit of Women (essays) 1863
The Life of Frances Power Cobbe: By Herself (autobiography) 1894
Dinah Craik
Olive (novel) 1850
George Eliot
Romola (novel) 1863
Middlemarch (novel) 1871-72
Fanny Fern
Ruth Hall (novel) 1855
Margaret Fuller
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (nonfiction) 1845
Elizabeth Gaskell
Ruth (novel) 1853
Adam Bede (novel) 1859
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper (novella) 1892
Women and Economics (nonfiction) 1898
Sarah Grimké
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women (letters and essays) 1834
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
"The Two Offers" (short story) 1859
Sketches of Southern Life (folklore poetry) 1872
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter (novel) 1859
Marietta Holley
My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's (short stories) 1873
Sarah Orne Jewett
A White Heron and other Stories (short stories) 1886
A Country Doctor (novel) 1884
"Tom's Husband" (short story) 1886
The Country of the Pointed Firs (short stories) 1896
Anna Cora Mowatt
Fashion; or, Life in New York (play) 1854
Caroline Sheridan Norton
English Laws for Women (essay) 1854
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Woman's Bible (prose) 1895
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Uncle Lot" (short story) 1834
Uncle Tom's Cabin (novel) 1852
The Pearl of Orr's Island (novel) 1862
Susan Warner
The Wide, Wide World (novel) 1851
Primary Sources
StéPhanie-FéLicité Ducrest, Comtesse De Genlis (Essay Date 1811)
SOURCE: Ducrest, Stéphanie-Félicité. "Preliminary Reflections."In The Influence of Women on French Literature, translated by Matthew Bray and Amy Simowitz, pp. 208-11. Paris: Maradan, 1811.
In the following essay, Ducrest relates the importance of women writers to French literature.
Men of letters have over women authors a superiority of achievement that, assuredly, one cannot fail to recognize or contest. All of the works of women taken together are not worth a few choice pages from Bossuet or Pascal, or a few scenes from Corneille, Racine, or...
(The entire section is 1747 words.)
Elizabeth Oakes Smith (Essay Date 1851)
SOURCE: Smith, Elizabeth Oakes. Woman and Her Needs, pp. 10-29. New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1851.
In the following excerpt, Smith underscores the importance of "Woman thought."
Whatever difference of opinion may exist amongst us as to the propriety of the recent Conventions held in our Country, called "Woman's Rights," the fact stands by itself, a handwriting on the wall, proclaiming a sense of wrong, a sense of something demanding redress, and this is fact enough to justify the movement to all candid eyes. Indeed enough to render it praiseworthy. For one, I am glad to see that our Republic has produced a class...
(The entire section is 2868 words.)
Josephine Butler (Essay Date 1868)
SOURCE: Butler, Josephine. "The Education and Employment of Women." In Women's Writing of the Victorian Period 1837-1901: An Anthology, edited by Harriet Devine Jump, pp. 162-65. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.
In the following excerpt, originally published in The Education and Employment of Women in 1868, Butler describes two separate rationales for women's rights to equal education, concluding that educated women would prove to be a benefit to gender relations and society as a whole.
There are two classes of advocates of the improvement of the education and condition of women The one class urge...
(The entire section is 1468 words.)
Frances Power Cobbe (Poem Date 1871)
SOURCE: Cobbe, Frances Power. "To Elizabeth Garrett Anderson." In Women's Writing of the Victorian Period 1837-1901: An Anthology, edited by Harriet Devine Jump, pp. 181-82. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.
In the following poem, originally published in 1871, Cobbe details many of the institutions that the women's rights movement needed to overcome.
The Woman's cause was rising fast
When to the Surgeons' College past
A maid who bore in fingers nice
A banner with the...
(The entire section is 545 words.)
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (Poem Date 1892)
SOURCE: Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth. "The Witch." In The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, Second Edition, edited by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, p. 1147. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996.
In the following poem, originally published in 1892, Coleridge characterizes marriage as being akin to death for women.
I have walked a great while over the snow,
And I am not tall nor strong.
My clothes are wet, and my teeth are set,
And the way was hard and long.
I have wandered over the fruitful earth,
But I never came here...
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City of Old Town v. Dimoulas et al. Download as PDF Back to Opinions Page MAINE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT Reporter of Decisions Decision: 2002 ME 133 Docket: Pen-01-146 Argued: April 4, 2002 Decided: August 9, 2002 Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and CLIFFORD, DANA, ALEXANDER, CALKINS, and LEVY, JJ. CITY OF OLD TOWN v. ANTONIOS DIMOULAS et al. CLIFFORD, J. [¶1] Antonios and Claudia Dimoulas appeal from several judgments entered in the Superior Court (Penobscot County). The Dimoulases appeal from a summary judgment (Marden, J.) entered in favor of the City of Old Town in the Dimoulases' counterclaim to recover damages for defamation; a judgment (Marsano, J.) entered following a jury trial declaring that a zoning ordinance adopted by referendum is inconsistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan and constitutes illegal spot zoning; and a judgment as a matter of law (Marsano, J.) in favor of the City in the Dimoulases' counterclaim brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that the City violated their civil rights by failing to act in a timely manner in their attempt to renew their victualer's license. The City cross-appeals from that part of the judgment following the jury verdict (Marsano, J.) that the City is collaterally estopped from denying a license to the Dimoulases because of the Planning Board's prior approval of a site plan. We vacate the judgment declaring the ordinance invalid, but affirm the judgments on the section 1983 and defamation claims. We do not reach the collateral estoppel question. [¶2] The City's Comprehensive Plan was adopted by the City Council in April of 1995. Regarding the Stillwater area, where the parcel of land at the center of this dispute is located, the Plan provides, in pertinent part:
Commercial activity in what is now downtown Old Town began
around 1832 to serve the workers, sawmill operators, and river
drivers who congregated in this area. Downtown is still an important
local commercial center, although Stillwater Avenue had superseded
downtown as the principal commercial area. . . . The Stillwater area
grew up around the ledges in Stillwater. Although Stillwater village
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Old Town, Me., Comprehensive Plan 9-1 (April, 1995). [¶3] Later, in a section entitled "Commercial and Industrial Trends," the Plan describes the development of commercial activity in the Stillwater area in more detail:
While the downtown area still contains the largest
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recent decades. There is now a great deal of commercial activity
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Id. at 9-4. [¶4] The City Charter allows ordinances to be adopted by referendum. It provides that "[a]n ordinance adopted by a vote of the people shall not be repealed or amended except by a vote of the people, unless such ordinance shall otherwise expressly provide." [¶5] Section 111.4 of the City Zoning Ordinances defines the Commercial-Business C-1 zone as follows:
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land use should be consistent with the objective to develop and
maintain the central business district.
Old Town, Me., Zoning Ordinance § 111.4 (January 23, 1984). [¶6] Subsection (b) of that same section lists permitted uses for land zoned C-1. Almost any normal business activity is permitted in the C-1 zone. [¶7] The Dimoulases had been operating a small store on Stillwater Avenue for several years. In addition to groceries and other sundries, the store had a delicatessen and bakery. Although the store property was zoned as residential, the store did not violate the zoning ordinance because the ordinance allowed neighborhood grocery stores in residential areas. In 1995, the Dimoulases decided to set up tables and chairs where customers could eat deli and bakery items. The Code Enforcement Officer determined that these proposed changes would not be consistent with the definition of neighborhood grocery store. The Dimoulases appealed this determination to the Zoning Board of Appeals (the Board), where they argued that the tables and chairs did not bring the store outside the definition of neighborhood grocery store because a neighborhood grocery store was defined as a business primarily for the purpose of selling food for consumption off-premises. The Dimoulases reasoned that providing a location for on-premises consumption of food was a secondary purpose because the area with the tables and chairs took up only about ten percent of the floor space of the store. The Board agreed, and reversed the determination of the Code Enforcement Officer. [¶8] In regard to the issuance of licenses, the ordinances provide, in pertinent part:
When any applicant or premises is found, based upon the appropriate
inspections by the city or the department of human services (division
of health engineering), not in compliance with the requirements of
the department of human services or city regulation, the city may
refuse issuance of the license.
Old Town, Me., Zoning Ordinance § 10-22(a) (January 16, 1984). [¶9] The Dimoulases obtained a victualer's license on November 12, 1997. This license was revoked after the Code Enforcement Officer inspected the premises and determined that the Dimoulases were using more than ten percent of the floor space for the on-premises consumption of products purchased at the store and were consequently not in compliance with the zoning ordinances.{1} [¶10] In appealing this determination, the Dimoulases asked the Planning Board to rezone their property from Residential R-1 to Commercial C-1.{2} The Board took evidence and considered this proposed change at a hearing on May 22, 1998. At the end of the hearing, the Board found that rezoning the property to C-1 would be inconsistent with the Comprehensive Plan and would constitute illegal spot zoning. It consequently refused to rezone the property. [¶11] In response to this denial, the Dimoulases arranged to have a referendum presented to the voters in the next election that would change the classification of the lot on which the store was located from R-1 to Commercial C-1. In a special election on June 9, 1998, the question presented to the voters was whether to:
Amend the Official Zoning Map of the City of Old Town, Maine by
changing 827 Stillwater Avenue, Map 15, Lot 7 on the City of Old
Town tax maps, from R-1 to Commercial C-1.
[¶12] The Planning Board had held a public hearing on the proposed amendment on May 22, 1998. The Board unanimously recommended that the voters not adopt the proposed ordinance, but the voters approved the amendment. Immediately after the election, the Dimoulases appealed the City Clerk's May 27, 1998 denial of a victualer's license on the ground that the City Clerk's determination was rendered "moot" by the referendum. The City Council did not hold a hearing or issue a ruling on this appeal. [¶13] On June 24, 1998, the City, its Code Enforcement Officer, and two neighbors of the Dimoulases filed a complaint in the Superior Court against the Dimoulases seeking a declaratory judgment that the amendment adopted by referendum was void because it failed to comply with the Comprehensive Plan and constituted illegal spot zoning, and that the restaurant was located on a parcel of land zoned R1-S.{3} The Dimoulases counterclaimed seeking damages for (1) violations of their civil rights, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, arising out of the refusal of the City to issue the victualer's license, and (2) defamation arising from derogatory comments made by the City Manager about the Dimoulases. [¶14] On June 29, 1998, the Dimoulases applied for a site plan review pursuant to the City's Zoning Ordinances. The site plan review was required in order for the Dimoulases to obtain a victualer's license. The site plan was approved on September 14, 1998, and the Dimoulases received a victualer's license in October. [¶15] Meanwhile, the Superior Court entered a summary judgment in favor of the City in the Dimoulases' defamation counterclaim, on the ground that the City is immune under the Maine Tort Claims Act. The court denied summary judgment on the other claims. A jury trial was held on the remaining issues.{4} The jury found that (1) the amendment to the ordinance adopted by referendum was invalid because it was inconsistent with the Comprehensive Plan, (2) the amendment constituted illegal spot zoning, (3) the property is located in an R1-S district and consequently is not zoned for use as a restaurant, (4) the Dimoulases were nevertheless entitled to continue operating the Market Cafe as a restaurant because the approval of the site plan was res judicata and the City was estopped from claiming that the Dimoulases could not operate a restaurant, and (5) the City had violated the Dimoulases civil rights, and the Dimoulases were damaged in the amount of $2500. The parties renewed motions for judgments as a matter of law on the claims. [¶16] The Superior Court upheld the jury's determinations on the question involving the Comprehensive Plan and spot zoning, as well as the determination that the Dimoulases could continue to operate their enterprise as a restaurant. The court vacated the jury's verdict in favor of the Dimoulases on their section 1983 claim, and entered judgment for the City, concluding that the Dimoulases did not have a property interest in a victualer's license as a matter of law, and that the evidence on damages was insufficient. The Dimoulases appealed the judgments against them, and the City cross-appealed that part of the judgment that the Dimoulases were entitled to continue to operate the restaurant. I. [¶17] Any municipal zoning ordinance must "be pursuant to and consistent with a comprehensive plan adopted by the municipal legislative body." 30-A M.R.S.A. § 4352(2) (1996). A "comprehensive plan" is "a document or interrelated documents containing the elements established under section 4326, subsections 1 to 4 ['local growth management program'], including the strategies for an implementation program which are consistent with the goals and guidelines established under subchapter II ['GROWTH MANAGEMENT PROGRAM']." Id. § 4301(3). [¶18] Although the question of whether the ordinance is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan is a question of law, the burden is on the City, as the party challenging the ordinance, to "prov[e] that the challenged amendment[ ] [is] inconsistent with the . . . comprehensive plan." Vella v. Town of Camden, 677 A.2d 1051, 1053 (Me. 1996). In enacting the ordinance, the voters of Old Town determined that the proposed ordinance was in harmony with the Comprehensive Plan. We discern no error in that determination. [¶19] Although the City identifies several sections of the Comprehensive Plan that it contends the ordinance violates, these provisions do not prohibit commercial development in the Stillwater area. The City argues that the absence of a statement affirmatively allowing commercial development in the Stillwater area should be interpreted to mean that no commercial development is permitted. We disagree. The absence of language expressly allowing commercial development in the Stillwater area does not necessarily mean that no development is allowed, and some commercial development in that area is not inconsistent with the Comprehensive Plan. [¶20] The City also contends that the ordinance adopted by the voters was illegal "spot zoning." The term "spot zoning" refers to any zoning ordinance that is designed to specifically benefit a particular parcel of land. Vella, 677 A.2d at 1053. "Spot zoning" is not itself a pejorative term, and the mere fact that an ordinance benefits a particular piece of land will not render it illegal. Id. Illegal spot zoning is the "process of singling out a small parcel of land for a use classification totally different from that of the surrounding area, for the benefit of the owner of such property and to the detriment of other owners." Id. at 1053-54 (quoting Rodgers v. Village of Tarrytown, 96 N.E.2d 731, 734 (N.Y. 1951)). In order to constitute illegal spot zoning, the ordinance "(1) must pertain to a single parcel or a limited areaordinarily for the benefit of a particular property owner or specially interested partyand (2) must be inconsistent with the city's comprehensive plan, or if there is none, with the character and zoning of the surrounding area, or the purposes of zoning regulation, i.e., the public health, safety, and general welfare." Citizens Ass'n of Georgetown, Inc. v. District of Columbia Zoning Comm'n, 402 A.2d 36, 39-40 (D.C. 1979) (followed by Vella, 677 A.2d at 1053). [¶21] Because the City has failed to establish that this ordinance is inconsistent with the Comprehensive Plan, the ordinance does not constitute illegal spot zoning.{5} Accordingly, we vacate the judgment entered on the jury verdict that the ordinance is inconsistent with the Comprehensive Plan and is illegal spot zoning, and do not address the City's challenge to the jury's determination that it was estopped from prohibiting the Dimoulases from operating the restaurant.{6} II. [¶22] The Dimoulases also challenge the Superior Court's decision to set aside the jury verdict finding that their civil rights had been violated and awarding them $2500 in damages. The jury's findings of fact are entitled to deference, and we review the record to determine whether there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's verdict. Marquis v. Farm Family Mut. Ins. Co., 628 A.2d 644, 648 (Me. 1993). [¶23] In order to establish a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the plaintiff must establish "(i) that the conduct complained of has been committed under color of state law, and (ii) that this conduct worked a denial of rights secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States." Chongris v. Board of Appeals of the Town of Andover, 811 F.2d 36, 40 (1st Cir. 1987). If the plaintiff is able to establish the deprivation of an interest protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, we must decide what process is "due" and whether it was provided. Id. [¶24] Even if we assume that the Dimoulases' right to a victualer's license constituted a property interest sufficient to trigger the protections of the due process clause, and that the damage evidence presented by the Dimoulases was sufficient, we are unpersuaded that the Dimoulases were denied adequate process. Applicants to an administrative entity are entitled, at a minimum, to notice and the opportunity to be heard before an adverse determination is made against them. See Gorham v. Town of Cape Elizabeth, 625 A.2d 898, 902 (Me. 1993) (applicant to an administrative board is entitled to a fair and unbiased hearing). In this case, the City Council did not address the Dimoulases' appeal from the denial of their request for a victualer's license. The City did bring a declaratory judgment action, however, to determine the validity of the recently enacted amendment to the ordinance that rezoned the land to allow the Dimoulases to operate the restaurant. For purposes of a due process analysis, the legal issues surrounding the amendment to the ordinance, and the right of the Dimoulases to operate the restaurant were resolved in court proceedings. The court proceedings gave the Dimoulases notice and an opportunity to be heard on the issue of their right to operate their restaurant, and there was no denial of due process. III. [¶25] The Dimoulases also challenge the summary judgment granted to the City in their defamation counterclaim based on comments made by the City Manager at a meeting of the City Council. The Dimoulases concede that the City would normally be immune from liability under the Maine Tort Claims Act, 14 M.R.S.A. § 8101-8118 (1980 & Supp. 2001), for the comments of the City Manager in this context, but argue that liability has been waived pursuant to 14 M.R.S.A. § 8116 (Supp. 2001), which provides that a governmental entity waives its immunity to the extent it obtains insurance that provides coverage in areas where the entity would normally enjoy immunity. Here the City has a policy issued by the Maine Municipal Association Property & Casualty Pool. The policy, however, limited coverage to "those areas for which governmental immunity has been expressly waived" pursuant to specified provisions, and also provided that "[l]iability coverage shall not be deemed a waiver of any immunities or limitation of damages available under the Maine Tort Claims Act, or other Maine statutory law, judicial precedent or common law." In Doucette v. City of Lewiston, 1997 ME 157, ¶¶ 8-10, 697 A.2d 1292, 1294, we concluded that this disclaimer is sufficient to avoid a waiver of immunity pursuant to section 8116. Accordingly, summary judgment was properly entered in favor of the City on the Dimoulases' defamation claim. The entry is:
Judgment affirmed in part, and vacated in part and
remanded to the Superior Court.
___________________________________ Attorney for the plaintiff: Mark V. Franco, Esq. (orally) Thompson & Bowie 3 Canal Plaza Portland, Maine 04112 For the defendants: Antonios Dimoulas Claudia Dimoulas P.O. Box 252 Stillwater, Maine 04489 Charles E. Gilbert, Esq. (orally) Gilbert & Greif 82 Columbia St. P.O. Box 2339 Bangor, Maine 04402


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Ramblers can immerse themselves in history during a guided walk about Edwardian life in Harrow.
Organised by the Harrow Hill Trust, Sunday's walk will feature information on the then new hospital in Roxeth Hill, shopping in Middle Road and West Street, and former pubs in the area.
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Thread: The 2007 Minnesota Vikings
The 2007 Minnesota Vikings
If we are going to contend next year...we gott make some changes...here is what i think we should do...
Free Agency (We will have at least 30 million in cap space and will probably get mroe when we release fred smoot)
DE Justin Smith. We need a pass rusher. Even though we don't have the best secondary around, the problem is the pass rush. The opposing quarterback is simply havinf too much time and it is impossible for the covereage to hold up that long. We get help when erasmus james comes back, but we have no rush from the otehr side. Udeze is better suited as a third down DT or a goal line DE. Dwight Freeney would be ideal, but lets be realistic. Plus Justin Smith is betetr against the run.
TE Tony Gonzalez. There are no stud free agent wide receivers, so well have to address that in the draft. Wiggins is decent but isn't athletic enough to stretch the field. Gonzalez on the other hand is one of the best TE to ever play the game. He would demand more coverage than Wiggins, and that would help our wide receivers greatly. He also might be more inclined to come here because of Tony Richardson.
OG Eric Steinbach. Our line is good but, the right side can use another blocker. Artis hicks isnt bad, but steinbach is much better. He is also young, and assumeing Ryan Cook continues to progress, he will complete our line.
CB Roderick Hood. After smoot is gone, we will need a dime cornerback. He can play that role and eventually replace Winfield when he moves on.
NFL Draft
I think that we need to trade up and get calvin johnson.We probably need to trade up into the top 3 in order to get him, which would cost us our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd round picks.
If we do this, our team will look like this:
QB - Tarvaris Jackson
RB - Chester Taylor
FB - Tony Richardson
WR - Calvin Johnson
WR - Troy Williamson
TE - Tony Gonzalez
LT - Bryant McKinnie
LG - Steve Hutchinson
C - Matt Birk
RG - Eric Steinbach
RT - Ryan Cook
DE - Justin Smith
DT - Kevin Williams
DT - Pat Williams
DE - Erasmus James
OLB - Chad Greenway
MLB - EJ Henderson
OLB - Ben Leber
CB - Antoine Winfield
S - Darren Sharper
S - Dwight Smith
CB - Cedric Griffin
K - Ryan Longwell
P - Chris Kluwe
KR/PR - Mewelde Moore
With this team, our defense will be great. The run defense will stay the same, but our pass D will greatly improve with the addition of Justin Smith, the presence of Erasmus James, and the return of Chad Greenway, who is a coverage linebacker.
Our offense will be better as long as T-Jack doesn't turn it over. The run game will be great, and our receieving core will actually be pretty good. If Williamson can improve, he would see single coverage a lot due to the attention that Tony Gonzalez and Calvin Johnosn would require as well as the defneders that would need to contain T-Jack.
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This thread is 5 seconds away from being locked and merged somewhere else just fyi.
I like it.
I like all the additions.
Although I would rather see us trade less draft picks and throw in some crappy players like Rosenthal, Kleinsasser, Udeze, Whittle, Smoot into a deal with the cardinals for Fitzgerald or if the colts try to hang on to Freeney we could do a trade there.
What about Nate Clements from Buf? He would fit well here.
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I read to the part where you list Williamson and an unproven rookie as our starting WRs, LOL, Good luck with that.
Re: The 2007 Minnesota Vikings
Clements is great, but i dont think we need a starter, i think that winfield and griffin are great for our scheme. And i dont think that clements would come over if he knew he was going to be a nickel.
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"PurplePackerEater" wrote:
I read to the part where you list Williamson and an unproven rookie as our starting WRs, LOL, Good luck with that.
Re: The 2007 Minnesota Vikings
I'm sure the draft will be discussed in detail when the time comes..., Does anyone how many teams picking above the Vikings will be in the market for receivers?
Considering their needs and other players available in the draft:
1). Detroit (2-12) You're kidding
2). Oakland (2-12) Questionable
3). Tampa Bay (3-11) Possibly
4). Arizona (4-10) Stacked at WR
5). Houston (4-10) Possibly
6). Cleveland (4-10) Doubt it
Does anybody know the needs of these teams?
Of course we're not sure where we'll pick after these teams either.
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Re: The 2007 Minnesota Vikings
I would say that Tampa Bay is the most likely of those teams and maybe oakland, depending on what they do with porter and moss
Re: The 2007 Minnesota Vikings
"PurplePackerEater" wrote:
I read to the part where you list Williamson and an unproven rookie as our starting WRs, LOL, Good luck with that.
Re: The 2007 Minnesota Vikings
"PurplePackerEater" wrote:
I read to the part where you list Williamson and an unproven rookie as our starting WRs, LOL, Good luck with that.
Re: The 2007 Minnesota Vikings
You have to remember that Troy Williamson was highly scouted coming out of college as well... Going for Calvin Johnson is not necessarily going to push us into a playoff caliber team.. You can't figure by having a few rookies, and some not so great players that we will improve much..
Our problems go much deeper then the players that we have right now.. Playcalling is suspect most of the time, and we have all new systems, and coaches.. While adding Tony Gonzalez to the mix would be nice, it is only a temporary fix.. He is a great TE, but his better days are far behind him.. Another training camp along with this season will work wonders in getting all the players on the same page..
We will more then likely cut Fred Smoot, and that will inherit some cap space.. They will have a bunch of money to get some FA's that will greatly improve our team.. I do agree with you that Gonzalez would require extra attention, but right now Williamson has to be considered a 1st rd bust.. The only notiable thing he has done in his short career is drop passes.. Not exactly the reputation that a young WR wants, or needs..
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How Nuclear Weapons Work (2010)
Most nuclear weapons today—including those in the U.S., Russian, British, French, and Chinese arsenals—are two-stage thermonuclear weapons that derive their explosive energy from the combined power of nuclear fission and fusion. An initial fission reaction generates the high temperatures needed to trigger a secondary—and much more powerful—fusion reaction (hence the term "thermonuclear"). Israel, India, and Pakistan are generally believed to possess nuclear weapons that utilize only nuclear fission, although some of these nations may also have some thermonuclear weapons. North Korea first tested a fission-based weapon in 2006, and tested another in 2009.
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The nuclei of atoms consist of two types of particles: positively charged protons and neutrons with no electric charge. (All atoms of the same element have the same number of protons, but the number of neutrons can vary.) The nuclei of some radioactive elements can split—or fission—if bombarded with fast-moving neutrons. The by-products of this fission are two lighter nuclei, one or more free neutrons, and energy in the form of heat and light.
Certain isotopes of radioactive elements (i.e., variations of the same element with different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus) such as plutonium-239 or uranium-235 can emit two neutrons when they fission. These secondary neutrons then collide with other nearby nuclei, causing them to fission and release two more neutrons. Each fission reaction doubles the amount of neutrons and energy released, causing a chain reaction. After only a few microseconds, this chain reaction can produce an explosion equivalent to the detonation of many thousands of tons (or kilotons) of TNT. The so-called atomic (or A-) bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nag asaki, Japan, in 1945 were fission-based, and had explosive yields equivalent to about 15 and 20 kilotons of TNT, respectively. Similar fission processes (though controlled) generate the energy in nuclear reactors.
Thermonuclear Weapons
Thermonuclear weapons can produce much larger explosions than fission weapons; the first thermonuclear test explosion had a yield of about 10,000 kilotons (or 10 megatons). Today, U.S. warheads commonly have explosive yields of several hundred kilotons.
Essentially, the destructive energy produced by such weapons is the result of three separate but nearly simultaneous explosions. The first is the detonation of chemical explosives that surround a hollow sphere (or "pit") of plutonium-239 metal. The force from this blast is directed inward, compressing the pit and bringing its atoms closer together. When the plutonium pit becomes dense enough to sustain a fission chain reaction (a condition termed "supercritical"), a neutron generator injects neutrons into the pit to initiate the fission chain reaction. Together, these chemical and fission explosions are known as the nuclear "primary."
The primary produces the high temperatures and pressures required to ignite fusion reactions in the "secondary," which actually produces the third explosion. In fusion, two or more atomic nuclei fuse into one heavier nucleus and, in the process, release a great deal of energy. In a thermonuclear weapon, isotopes of hydrogen undergo fusion, which is why these weapons are commonly called hydrogen or H-bombs.
In practice, a thermonuclear weapon (such as that illustrated in the diagram) is even more complicated than the description above suggests.
First, a pure fission primary is inefficient since the plutonium pit will blow itself apart before much of the available plutonium-239 fissions. To reduce the amount of plutonium needed, the fission reaction can be "boosted" so that a higher fraction of the plutonium fissions. For boosted primaries, hydrogen gas (consisting of the isotopes deuterium and tritium, which have one and two neutrons, respectively, in addition to the one proton that all hydrogen atoms have) is placed inside the hollow center of the pit. As the plutonium fissions, enough heat is produced to cause the "boost" gas to undergo fusion, releasing a burst of high-energy neutrons that, in turn, induce additional fissions in the pit.
The fusion fuel in the secondary takes the form of lithium deuteride (a solid compound of lithium and deuterium). Inside the layer of fusion fuel is a fission "spark plug" consisting of either plutonium-239 or uranium-235. As the primary explosion compresses the fusion fuel from the outside, the spark plug material becomes supercritical and fissions, heating the fusion fuel from the inside and helping to initiate the fusion reactions. Finally, a layer of uranium that surrounds the fusion fuel undergoes fission in response to the neutrons released by the fusion reactions, generally contributing more than half of the total explosive yield of a thermonuclear weapon.
The Non-Nuclear Components
In addition to the primary and secondary nuclear components that constitute the "nuclear explosive package," a thermonuclear weapon typically has thousands of non-nuclear components. These perform a variety of functions such as preventing the accidental detonation and unauthorized use of the weapon, arming the weapon by removing these barriers to detonation, determining the altitude of the weapon during its delivery so that it detonates at the correct location, and initiating the detonation by setting off the chemical explosives.
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State police have arrested two people suspected in a home invasion in Windham last week.
Two children were alone in their Back Road home in Windham when two men broke in on Monday, Jan. 20 and ransacked the house, according to police and family members.
They children hid in a bathroom during the break-in. They were not harmed.
At 8 a.m. on Monday, state police developed information on where Carlos Nadal, 23, of Oxbow Drive in Danielson, and Cristhian Gonzalez-Diaz, 32, of Jeffrey Road in Windham, were and took them into custody about an hour later.
Both were charged with conspiracy to commit burglary in the second degree, third-degree larceny, first-degree criminal mischief and cruelty to animals.
Nadal is being held on $150,000 bond and Gonzalez-Diaz is being held on $500,000 bond. Both will be arraigned on Tuesday.
State police have also launched a separate investigation to determine whether there was a delay in trooper response
to the home invasion and why a delay might have occurred.


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Nathan Kress Digs Donatello!
What's not to love about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? They heart pizza (who doesn't?), they know how to kick major ninja butt and they're the most adorable shade of green! And iCarly star Nathan Kress knows first hand what makes one of these turtles so great, 'cause he plays a character who's just like him! Nathan admitted that Donatello is his fave turtle because of his super tech-y genius. But we know Freddie's a bit of a tech smartie, too! Great minds think alike, so maybe that's why Nathan identifies most with this brain-of-the-group. Regardless, we're loving his turtle spirit!


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From the FanPosts -Joel
Over the last day or two, a fan shot by JayhawksNChiefs and a fan post by juvatbull have sought to prove statistically that certain ideas about Alex Smith's play, particularly the comparisons to Matt Cassel, are demonstrably false. I think they proved rather definitively that Smith is a far more efficient quarterback than Cassel, but at the end of his post, juvatbull made the following statement:
Alex Smith's future looks bright--at least as bright as Joe Flacco's.
Now, this type of statement makes my brow furrow, my eyes squint, and my brain say, "I wonder." After all, I have not been a fan of the trade for Smith. I preferred a simpler, more Maddenesque solution to the problem at quarterback. Andy Reid and John Dorsey did not consult me on this, however, and now we have Alex Smith. But, is he as good as Flacco? That's the question.
My problem with Alex Smith, is primarily that his numbers are inflated by very selective application of his skills in practical situations. In other words, his stats are only as good as they are because Harbaugh used him only in situations that he had a very good chance to be successful. That, if asked to pass more, his efficiency would be significantly worse than they have been over the last two seasons.
So, here was the basis of my meta-analysis of the stats of these two quarterbacks. First, I am only looking at the 24 games encompassing the regular season of 2011 and the first 8 games of 2012. This might make my analysis seem like cherry picking; selective to Smith's best years. As the data will show, though, this doesn't really matter, a point I will come back to later. Regardless, there is enough data from these games to form a basis for comparison.
I then broke down the quarterback ratings by either quarterbacks average number of attempts per game. The idea being, if we compare either players' games by the number of passes they attempted, it will tell us how efficient Alex Smith would be if he had a Joe Flacco work load and vice-versa. So my demarcations are 27 attempts per game and 34 attempts per game, Smith and Flacco's averages respectively.
Here is the result of my analysis (note that ratings for >27 pass attempts also include data from games with >34 pass attempts):
Rating in games with <27 attempts: 109.4 (13 games)
Rating in games with >27 attempts: 81.8 (11 games)
Rating in games with >34 attempts: 75.0 (3 games)
Rating in games with <27 attempts: 88.9 (8 games)
Rating in games with >27 attempts: 76.9 (16 games)
Rating in games with >34 attempts: 73.3 (10 games)
Rating in games with <27 attempts: 103.2 (6 games)
Rating in games with >27 attempts: 92.6 (18 games)
Rating in games with >34 attempts: 94.5 (7 games)
From these breakdowns, it's clear that both quarterbacks are more efficient when they have fewer attempts in a game. When they pass more than 34 times in a game, both quarterbacks are significantly less efficient and, I would say, about equal in their relative efficiency at that level. When demarcating games by Smith's average of 27 passes per game, we likewise see greater efficiency as the number of attempts go down, and less efficiency as the numbers go up. Smith as compared to Flacco, is consistently more efficient regardless of the number of attempts, but has a far more precipitous decline when he exceeds his average of 27 passes per game. Flacco, though not as efficient overall, is more steady in his efficiency as his attempts increase.
With these data, I believe my initial belief, that Smith's extraordinary efficiency is a product of a highly-selective coach is true. In another circumstance, particularly one where he is expected to pass more, we would expect him to be significantly less-efficient. However, even in so doing, he would still be at a reasonably average-to-above-average level of efficiency. As such, I think juvatbull's claim that Smith's future is at least as bright as Flacco's is not only reasonable, it may even be understated a bit.
More to the point, though, there lies a significant question that has been asked multiple times since Alex Smith was traded for: Can Alex Smith lead the Chiefs to a Super Bowl? If Flacco can quarterback a Superbowl winning team, why shouldn't Smith also be able?
There were two other arguments against Alex Smith that I will bring up: his 3rd-down conversion percentage, and his performance before Harbaugh. Taking the second first, the reason why I didn't include previous data is I believe a game by game analysis will substantiate the above findings, that Smith's efficiency was hindered by the number of throws he was forced to make. While the assertion of JayhawksNChiefs and juvatbull, that Smith's stats trend up over the course of his career, is absolutely correct, we don't have to defend Smith on the basis of him improving over that time. He wasn't as bad as those stats suggest, even from the beginning, and has improved steadily in his performance over that time. His older numbers were as deflated as his recent numbers are inflated.
As far as the 3rd down efficiency percentage, an article from Inside the 49ers by PressDemocrat.com does a good job of comparing Smith to Flacco. While ostensibly it seems to suggest that Flacco is the much better quarterback on 3rd down, what's important to note about the article, is that it was written a year ago... a year before Joe Flacco both won the Super Bowl and had the lowest 3rd-down efficiency percentage of his career, ranking 21st in the NFL.
Before I started doing this analysis, I was a doubter. Even now I wouldn't necessarily identify myself as a Smith Fan; not until he starts playing here up to his potential. But, what I have proven to my own satisfaction is that Smith is probably about middle-third NFL quarterback. How he performs this year will be tied to how much he is expected to throw. My prediction is his quarterback rating will be about 100 if he averages 25 attempts per game or less, and will drop by about 15 for every 5 more passes he averages above that. And ultimately, if he remains healthy, he can lead our team to a Super Bowl and win it.
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I have added some numbers for Matt Cassel for comparison. What is important to note about these stats for Cassel: They are 15 games from Cassel's best season (2010) and 9 games from his second best season (2008). Also important to note is that in these games Cassel was playing in two different systems. The first group he was playing under Todd Haley/Charlie Weis, the second group he was playing under Belichick. All but one of the games he threw over 34 attempts were from the latter group.
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Win a Trip to Orlando in Renewing Your Mind's 20 Years on Air "Conference & Cruise" Promotion
from Nathan W. Bingham Aug 28, 2014 Category: Ministry NewsIn 1994, Dr. R.C. Sproul set out to proclaim, teach, and defend the holiness of God as revealed in the Bible against the backdrop of culture, philosophy, apologetics, ethics, and church history, to all who would listen through the medium of broadcasting. The outcome was the daily radio broadcast ... Keep Reading
The Purposes of God
from Nathan W. Bingham Jun 10, 2014 Category: Tabletalk MagazineHere's an excerpt from The Purposes of God, R.C. Sproul's contribution to the June issue of Tabletalk: Keep Reading
Preparing Your Heart for Worship
from R.C. Sproul Jun 09, 2014 Category: ArticlesIt is very important that we take time to prepare our hearts to worship God before we set foot in the sanctuary on Sunday morning. God made this clear amid the awesome circumstances of the giving of the law in Exodus 19. Keep Reading
Social Media Highlights (06/08/14)
from Nathan W. Bingham Jun 08, 2014 Category: Ministry NewsHere are highlights from our various Facebook and Twitter accounts over the past week. Keep Reading
2014 West Coast Conference — Day 2
from Nathan W. Bingham Jun 07, 2014 Category: EventsOur 2014 West Coast Conference has come to a close. Over two days, thousands of Christians enjoyed teaching and fellowship as they were encouraged to live as Christians in a post-Christian culture. You can go back and browse the official conference hashtag #ligcon on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Google+ for some of the updates, but here's a summary and several highlights from this final day. Keep Reading
Does God Own Everything That You Possess?
from David E. Briones Jun 07, 2014 Category: ArticlesRecognizing God as the ultimate giver and supreme owner of all your possessions will, by the marvelous work of the Holy Spirit, generate Christ-exalting traits within you. Keep Reading
2014 West Coast Conference — Day 1
from Nathan W. Bingham Jun 06, 2014 Category: EventsToday, thousands gathered in Seattle for our 2014 West Coast Conference, Overcoming the World: Being a Christian in a Post-Christian Culture. For news and updates, please follow the official conference hashtag #ligcon on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Google+. Below is a summary and several highlights from today. Keep Reading
By Grace Alone: An Interview with Sinclair Ferguson
from Nathan W. Bingham Jun 06, 2014 Category: ArticlesSinclair Ferguson is a Ligonier teaching fellow and the dean of the D.Min. program at Ligonier Academy. We're grateful he was able to join us to discuss the theme of his book By Grace Alone: How the Grace of God Amazes Me. Keep Reading
$5 Friday: Roman Catholicism, the Reformation, & Christian Character
from Nathan W. Bingham Jun 06, 2014 Category: Ministry NewsIt's time for our weekly $5 Friday sale. Keep Reading
Contending for Peace and Purity
from Nathan W. Bingham Jun 05, 2014 Category: Tabletalk MagazineHere's an excerpt from Contending for Peace and Purity, Burk Parsons' contribution to the June issue of Tabletalk: Keep Reading
An Introduction to Orthodox Christology: The Historical Books and Psalms
from Keith Mathison Jun 04, 2014 Category: ArticlesWe turn now to several significant texts found in the historical books and in the Psalms. The historical books, narrate the story of the rise and fall of Israel as well as the development of the Israelite monarchy. Keep Reading


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- The Touch of Your Lips: Tribute to Bill Evans by C. Michael Bailey
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The Touch of Your Lips: Tribute to Bill Evans
Track Listing: M.A.S.H; Send in the Clowns; We Will Meet Again; Daniel's Waltz; For Sandra; Only Child; Rhythm Changes; The Touch of Your Lips; La Valse Des Chipirons; Liebeslied.
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I think we all have our opinions on the current state of the A's coaching staff. Most of them, I would venture to guess, are negative. So here's the opportunity to play pretend-Billy-Beane in an area that doesn't get talked about as much. So how would you restructure the A's coaching staff? I have a couple of ideas.
Manager: Rickey Henderson
Third Base: Eric Chavez
Bullpen: Dennis Eckersley
Hitting: Mark McGwire
First Base: Carney Lansford
Bench: Dave Stewart
Pitching: Curt Young
This staff, as you might have already noticed, leans heavily on the 1989 World Series team. Six of the seven guys on the list were members of that squad. There's a reason for that: a coaching staff needs cohesion and camaraderie every bit as much as the players do. I'm not sure if a coaching staff has ever been assembled with an eye toward that so much as this one is, but I like the idea. In addition, I think these guys are all very smart. I think Rickey, McGwire, Carney, Eckersley, Chavez, and Stewart all proved that during their playing careers, and Young has proved it as a coach.
I could go on for hours about why Rickey should be managing a big-league ballclub, starting with my opinion that he's the greatest player of all time, and I could go on for almost as long about what a coup it was for the Cardinals to hire McGwire to be their hitting coach. I think Eckersley may be largely responsible, along with Tony LaRussa, for the shape of the modern bullpen, and would be an obvious choice for "assistant pitching coach." Carney was a great fundamentals player and has a lot to teach younger players, we've already seen Curt Young doing a great job, and I pick Stew for bench coach because of his close existing friendship with Rickey (who described Stew as his "best friend" at his HOF induction) and because I think he would be well-positioned to advise Rickey on pitching issues, the one area where Rickey's wisdom might be slightly less developed.
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LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) - Construction crews are out across mid-Michigan, tackling several projects.
Northbound Pennsylvania Avenue is closed between Mount Hope and Pershing Drive. Board of Water & Light crews are working on the water service in the area. Work should be wrapped up by early afternoon.
Livingston County
There will be lane closures on US-23 in Green Oak Township between M-36 and 8 Mile Road starting at 10p.m. Friday.
There will also be lane closures on US-23 in Hartland, between Crouse and Clyde Roads starting at 9p.m.
Ingham County
MDOT crews are making repairs to Lake Lansing Road over US-127. As a result, there are some lane closures and a lane shift.
In East Lansing, crews are working on a section of Grand River Avenue, between Coolidge and Park Lake Roads. There are lane shifts and closures there as well.
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Michael Laws – a clown too far?
'Petty terrorists' must be stopped - Laws
Wanganui Mayor Michael Laws compares New Zealand gangs' lawlessness to violence in Zimbabwe and says the army should be called in to crush them if necessary. His comments come after several gang-related incidents in Invercargill and Hawke's Bay last week. "There is only one way to deal with these petty terrorists. That is to outlaw gangs and provide police with the resources to crush them," he said. "If that involves bringing in the army, then so be it." The influence of gangs in effect created "homes-away-from-home in prison". "Until politicians and police headquarters grow some testes, then gangs will continue to recruit new kids, engage in organised crime and kill people."
Oh Lord, where to begin? I used to like Michael, after reading his very good book, The Demon Profession , you got the real feeling that Michael was a very principled voice within NZ First and took his responsibilities as an MP very seriously, however since then he has bloated into Talkback reactionary dog whistle speech that seems more intent at creating heat than any light. This latest outburst is perhaps his worst to date, setting the Army on NZ citizens because we have decided those citizens are 'terrorists' is perhaps the most ill thought out, backward, fear mongering bullshit I've ever had the displeasure of reading. The Army? Michael wants to turn the Army on it's own citizens? He then, without even understanding the irony, invokes the collapse of Zimbabwe as a reason why we should use the Army, of course in Zimbabwe Mugabe has in fact used the Army on his own citizens and managed to do that by painting his opposition out as traitors and terrorists. The way we deal with organized crime in NZ is by reforming the old SFO and attack the financial structures that allow Organized Crime to prosper and have the assets to keep ahead of the Police, as for street gangs, the societal alienation that drives much recruitment for gangs needs to be tackled while a much quicker Court system would hand out quicker Justice so that gang members do perceive that there is a direct counter reaction to their actions, with Court cases taking almost 2 years at the moment, there is no immediate effect felt. These are structural and resourcing issues and would go much further in finding solutions than the madness of suggesting we have the Army turn their guns on a splinter group within society and crush them in some type of bloodbath that Commissioner Laws envisions would be an Apocalyptic cleansing of the filth from the planet, only someone drinking deeply from their own well of bullshit could ever believe that is a solution.


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I'm an idiot. Make that a complete idiot.
Amazon.com do deliver to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, and indeed everywhere else in Russia. I am just incapable of reading an onscreen message. One of the books I was trying to order was out of print, and hence I was ordering it second hand through a third party affiliate of Amazon. This third party don't deliver to Russia, hence a warning flagged up beneath this particular book as well as at the top of the page. Your clueless blogger saw a long list of books with a warning at the top and bottom and assumed the entire list was unable to be shipped to Russia.
As I said: idiot. Still, at least that's an idiot with a book supply.


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FRIENDSVILLE (WATE) - A deputy with the Blount County Sheriff's Office was injured Thursday afternoon while attempting to serve a warrant.
Blount County officials say Deputy Eddie Nickerson sustained a broken ankle, a gash to his head, and exposure to a chemical spray while attempting to take Joshua Hackler, 26, into custody.
Nickerson responded to 103 Hollyhock Way in Friendsville around 2:30 p.m. to serve a warrant on Hackler along with Chessica Gayheart, 27.
Officials say Hackler resisted arrest, assaulting Nickerson and knocking his pepper spray from his holster.
Hackler then sprayed Nickerson in the face.
Additional units arrived soon after, taking Hackler and Gayheart into custody.
Another deputy, Nathan Payne, was pricked by a needle while frisking Hackler and was taken to the emergency room for tests.
Both Hackley and Gayheart are charged with aggravated assault and resisting arrest. Hackler is charged with possession of drug paraphernalia as well.
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