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Replacing Windows in Stucco Walls, continued
Around here, most new windows are vinyl and have integral fins. Installing them in old buildings is similar to installing them in new ones. In both cases, the fin is installed over flash paper.
The usual procedure in new construction is to run a strip of flashing across the wall just under the opening and lap it with strips that run up either side. The window is installed over those pieces, and a fourth piece of flashing is applied above the window so that it laps the side flashings and upper fin. The walls and every fin except the bottom one are covered with two layers of building paper before the lath and stucco are applied.
Flashing material. In the stucco trade, we still refer to flashing as flashing paper, even though it's now made from other materials. Most of the builders in this area use Moistop (Fortifiber Building Systems, Reno, Nev.; 800/773-4777, www.fortifiber.com), a paperlike polyethylene membrane with a fiberglass core. One version goes on with nails, but you can also get it with peel-and-stick material along one edge. I have no problem using either of these products on new construction. You can also use them on replacement jobs, but for that kind of work, I prefer to use a peel-and-stick adhesive membrane such as FortiFlash (also from Fortifiber). It has a rubberized asphalt core and a polyethylene skin and is similar to other sheet membranes such as Ice & Water Shield. I use FortiFlash for a couple of reasons. It's self-sealing, so it won't leak at fastener penetrations. It's very flexible, and the entire back side is sticky, so it seals tight to whatever I put it on. Adhesive membrane flashings cost more but are worth it if they can help me avoid even one leak per year.
Once the old window is out of the way, the author installs new peel-and-stick flashing around the opening, sliding it under the lath and adhering it on top of the existing paper.
Installing the new window then proceeds normally.
Base flashings. Ideally, the old window would come out without causing any damage to the existing paper. However, old paper can be extremely delicate. By the time you get the nails out, it's unlikely there will be much left of the edge. Fortunately, a damaged edge can be repaired by lapping an adhesive membrane over it.
Inspectors want you to fold back the old paper and put the new flashings under them. After the window is in, you're supposed to fold the paper back over the fin. The trouble is that older stucco buildings are covered with a different kind of paper than we use today. The old stuff is sometimes so fragile that it will break when you fold it back. It's a disaster if the paper breaks off where it comes out from under the stucco because there's no easy way to make the repair. You're supposed to lap over the break at least 6 inches with another piece of building paper. The only way to do that is to tear out more stucco. If the building is sheathed, you'd have to take out 6 more inches; but if it's open-stud, the next good stopping point could be 14 1/2 inches away. You could shorten that distance by installing another stud closer to the break, but you'd need to do it from the inside.
Alternate flashing method. If the old paper is in good shape, we'll fold it back and install the flashing against the framing in the usual way. But if the paper is fragile, we'll install the side flashings over it. That way we don't have to risk breaking it to get the window in. Depending on how much stucco was removed, the flashing might lap 3 or 4 inches onto the paper. We always use FortiFlash for this application because it will stick to the existing paper and create a seam that water has a hard time getting through. Once the flashings are in, it's time to install the window.
Before you install the window, use a caulking gun to put a thick bead of sealant along all four edges of the opening. It's important to use a good-quality sealant that's compatible with the flashing, window, and building paper. We use Moistop Sealant, a polyurethane product from Fortifiber.
The window is placed against the sealant and flashings, plumbed, and secured to the building with roofing nails driven through the holes in the flange. The final step is to run a strip of flashing over the upper fin all the way to the outer edges of the side flashings. This top piece of flashing should tuck under the existing building paper above.
Papering in. Once the window is installed, it's time to paper it in. The conventional way to paper in a house is to cover it with two layers of grade D building paper. The paper should lap the top and side fins and tuck under the bottom piece of flashing. This works fine when the flashings are under the paper but is impossible when the flashings are over it, which is often the case on replacement jobs.
With the new window in place, a second layer of peel-and-stick seals the window flanges to the first layer.
The top strip goes in last and is tucked under the existing paper above. Next, the author bends the original lath back into place in preparation for stucco.
He then fills in with a new strip of diamond lath, overlapping the original wire by several inches to prevent cracking.
Although the fins are bedded in sealant, they are still supposed to be covered. Grade D paper will work, but only if you remove enough stucco to get the required 6-inch vertical lap. It's better to paper in the window with self-adhering membrane because you don't need much lap to get a good seal.
I start by running a horizontal strip of FortiFlash across the bottom fin. Technically, this step is not necessary, because the lower flange already laps over a piece of flashing. I do it to ensure that water doesn't get through the nail punch-outs and to cover the small voids that sometimes exist at the mitered corners of the flange.
Next, I install strips of membrane over the side fins. They should be long enough to lap the strip below the window and tuck under the old paper at the top of the opening. The last strip of membrane covers the upper fin, laps the side strips, and, again, tucks under the existing paper at the top. We inspect the paper for nail holes and fill those we find with the same polyurethane sealant we used to set the windows. The wall should now be waterproof.
After the window is papered in, it's time to install lath. The old lath can be folded back down onto the paper and reused. If any of it's missing, you can patch it with new material. All kinds of wire lath are made for doing stucco. It doesn't matter what kind you use as long as there's a good tie-in. This means there should be a few inches of overlap between the old and new lath. If the lath doesn't lap, cracks are likely to develop at that spot.
We normally use expanded metal diamond lath on replacement jobs because we can get it in precut strips to fit the 3- to 4-inch space we have to work with. The diamond lath goes over the existing wire and is fastened every 6 inches with staples or 1 1/4-inch roofing nails. For larger repairs, we'd use self-furring wire lath.
Materials. In this area, builders use traditional three-coat stucco. It's about 7/8 inch thick and consists of a scratch coat, brown coat, and finish coat. The first two coats are made on site by combining plastic cement, bulk sand, and water. We use a premixed bagged product for the top coat, which contains white cement, sand, and lime. It's mixed with water on site.
The author trowels on Maxit 690, a premixed one-coat reinforced stucco that reduces the time it takes to make a patch.
A worker rolls on a bonding agent, which helps the stucco finish coat adhere to the painted surface of the existing stucco.
Repairs made with traditional cement-based stucco require multiple trips and take weeks to complete because cure time is needed between coats of mud. The scratch coat should cure for 48 hours, and the brown coat should cure for 7 days. Shrinkage cracks may appear in the finish if you skimp on curing.
We use traditional materials for new work and for large repairs. Window replacements are different because there's only a small area to patch. For small repairs, we'll use a one-coat system for the scratch and brown: Maxit 690 (Maxit, Antioch, Ill.; 847/395-7110, www.maxit-usa.com), a premixed bagged product that contains Portland cement, sand, glass fiber, lime, and additives that reduce shrinking.
Maxit 690 can be applied in a single coat up to 1 inch thick or in two coats that can go on the same day. It's more expensive than traditional material, but the labor savings make up for it by allowing you to make one less trip to the site. The manufacturer recommends 7 to 21 days of cure time, but we have had no problems with finishes applied after only a day or two of cure.
We always cover windows with plastic to keep stucco off the frame and to prevent the glass from being scratched. The plastic is held on with plastic tape, which is removed as soon as the repairs are complete. The tape can leave an adhesive residue if you leave it on too long. Never use duct tape, because the adhesive ruins vinyl frames.
Base and finish coat. The one-coat material is mixed on site and applied to the lath with a trowel. We don't want it to sag, so we add just enough water to create a very stiff mix. I'll build the base coat flush to the surrounding stucco and then use a sponge float to smooth it out. In some cases, I'll cut it back slightly to accommodate the thickness of the finish coat. This might be 1/8 inch for smooth finishes and more for textures. A day or so later, we'll come back to apply the top coat.
For the sand finish being applied here, the top coat is applied with a trowel.
It is then feathered out with a sponge float, which brings the sand to the surface.
There are many different ways to apply the top coat of stucco. It can go on smooth or textured, be painted after it cures or be applied with the color already in it. It's beyond the scope of this article to describe all the ways there are to apply texture, but I can explain how we do the sand finish that's on the houses pictured here.
The top coat has to cover the areas we patched and feather onto the existing stucco. If distance isn't too great, we'll extend the top coat to the nearest corner. That way the transition between new and old will be harder to see. Stucco does not adhere well to paint, so if the building was painted, you'll need to use a liquid bonding agent. It gets applied to painted surfaces where the top coat will be feathered in. We generally use bonding agent on all patches, because it prevents the base coat from sucking the moisture out of the top coat. This makes the top coat easier to work and prevents cracks by promoting an even cure.
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LUBBOCK, Texas - Cade Storey of Dallas finished on top of the Boys Division with a 1-under-par 71 in the K12 Qualifier for the Randy Smith Classic presented by the Lubbock Sports Authority at The Rawls Course at Texas Tech University. Grace Choi, also of Dallas, medaled in the Girls Division, carding a 1-over-par 73.
Conducted by the American Junior Golf Association, the K¹² Qualifier for the Randy Smith Classic presented by the Lubbock Sports Authority was an 18-hole stroke play event held at the The Rawls Course at Texas Tech University. The tournament field featured 39 boys and six girls, ages 12-18, from six states, Philippines and Canada. The Boys Division played the par-72 course at 7,019 yards, while the Girls Division played the course at 6,231 yards. K¹² Qualifiers give juniors an opportunity to "play their way in" to coinciding AJGA Open tournaments or earn a Tournament Exemption or Performance Star for a future event. The K¹² Qualifier Series offers opportunities for AJGA juniors at approximately 50 AJGA Open events.
Storey started the day with a birdie on No. 2, his first hole of the shotgun start. He birdied four more holes during the K12 Qualifier to lead the competition by two strokes. Storey took a Tournament Exemption toward another AJGA event instead of playing in the Randy Smith Classic presented by the Lubbock Sports Authority.
"I didn't hit the ball too well, but once I made a few putts I just rallied off that," Storey said.
Chase Griggs of Edmond, Okla., Charles Ewing of Dallas, Alec Heinen of Edmond, Okla., Jeremy LeGuen of Highland Village, Texas, Andrew Cole of Edmond, Okla., Jay Cox of Paris, Texas, Brandon Pederson of Austin, Texas, Conner Thompson of Oklahoma City, Charles Shields of Edmond, Okla., Collin Ward of Amarillo, Texas, Patrick Aldrin Uy of Antipolo, Philippines, Christopher Kim of San Diego, penciled in their spots into Tuesday's field. Jacob Jameson of Lovington, N.M., Preston Standley of Plano, Texas, Juan Gonzalez of McAllen, Texas and Cody Hardison, also of Plano, Texas, qualified for the event but opted to take a Tournament Exemption.
Choi's first nine holes proved to be hard on her scorecard, as she bogeyed Nos. 4, 7 and 8, all par-4 holes. Her four birdies, three of which came on the back nine, helped her to take home medalist honors by four strokes, despite double-bogeying her final hole.
"I started making a lot of good putts," Choi said. "You have to have good course management here. The greens are really firm and fast, and it helped with the ball rolling really hard in the fairways."
Chelsea Bretcher of Austin, Texas finished the event with a 5-over-par 77 and will join Choi on Tuesday to compete in the event. Sammi Stevens of Hereford, Texas, was the final qualifier in the Girls Division, shooting two strokes behind Bretcher with a 7-over-par 79 to finish in third.
K¹² Inc., a technology-based education company, is the nation's leading provider of proprietary curriculum and online education programs to students in grades K-12. K¹² provides its curriculum and academic services to online schools, traditional classrooms, blended school programs, and directly to families. Over 55,000 students in 23 states and the District of Columbia are enrolled in online public schools that use the K¹² program. K¹² Inc. also operates the K¹² International Academy, an accredited, diploma-granting online private school serving students worldwide. The K¹² academic program is used by many young people pursuing careers in athletics, music, art, acting, and other professions that require a high degree of scheduling flexibility. More information can be found at www.k12.com.
The American Junior Golf Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the overall growth and development of young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf. The AJGA, the largest Association of its kind, has an annual junior membership (boys and girls ages 12-18) of approximately 5,000 junior golfers from 50 states and 30 foreign countries.
Titleist, the AJGA's National Sponsor, has been the catalyst and driving force behind the Association's success since 1989. Rolex Watch USA, which is in its third decade of AJGA support, became the inaugural AJGA Premier Partner in 2004. In 2007, after 12 years of support, Polo Ralph Lauren became the AJGA's second Premier Partner.
AJGA alumni have risen to the top of amateur, collegiate and professional golf. More than 160 former AJGA juniors currently play on the PGA and LPGA Tours and have compiled more than 350 wins. AJGA alumni include Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Jim Furyk, Stewart Cink, Davis Love III, Cristie Kerr, Pat Hurst, Paula Creamer, Brittany Lincicome, Morgan Pressel and Julieta Granada.
First-round tee times for the Randy Smith Classic presented by the Lubbock Sports Authority will run from 7:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. off the No. 1 tee Tuesday, June 16, at The Rawls Course at Texas Tech University. For more information, please contact Tournament Director Walker Hill at (678) 617-2417 or click here.
LUBBOCK, Texas - K12 Qualifier Series results from the Randy Smith Classic presented by the Lubbock Sports Authority conducted by the
American Junior Golf Association at The Rawls Course at Texas Tech University. Par: Boys: 36-36-72; Girls: 36-36-72. Yardage: Boys: 7,019; Girls:
6,231. Rating/Slope: Boys: 73.9/136; Girls: 72/126.
# Cade Storey, Dallas, Texas 36-35-71
Chase Griggs, Edmond, Okla. 34-39-73
# Jacob Jameson, Lovington, N.M. 35-38-73
Charles Ewing, Dallas, Texas 35-38-73
Alec Heinen, Edmond, Okla. 37-37-74
# Preston Standley, Plano, Texas 37-37-74
# Juan Gonzalez, McAllen, Texas 39-35-74
Jeremy LeGuen, Highland Village, Texas 37-38-75
# Peter Thorseth, Richmond, Texas 37-38-75
Andrew Cole, Edmond, Okla. 36-39-75
Jay Cox, Paris, Texas 38-37-75
Brandon Pederson, Austin, Texas 38-38-76
Conner Thompson, Oklahoma City, Okla. 38-38-76
Charles Shields, Edmond, Okla. 39-37-76
# Cody Hardison, Plano, Texas 37-39-76
Collin Ward, Amarillo, Texas 40-37-77
Patrick Aldrin Uy, Antipolo, Philippines 38-39-77
*Christopher Kim, San Diego, Calif. 36-42-78
Hunter Zetsche, Frisco, Texas 38-39-77
Jonathan Rego, San Dimas, Calif. 40-38-78
Matthew Perrine, Austin, Texas 39-39-78
Paul Wolf, Southlake, Texas 39-39-78
Derek Manross, Perryton, Texas 36-42-78
Tyler Stamets, Scottsdale, Ariz. 39-39-78
Dan Wagner, Dallas, Texas 41-38-79
Tyler Norton, Texarkana, Texas 38-41-79
Jeffrey Merrell, Aledo, Texas 39-40-79
Jacob O'Dell, Edmond, Okla. 40-39-79
Aaron Wong, Chandler, Ariz. 38-41-79
Kyle Berka, Portola Valley, Calif. 38-42-80
Patrick Russo, Lewisville, Texas 42-38-80
Brian Clifford, Villa Park, Calif. 42-38-80
Steven Lauterbach, McKinney, Texas 37-43-80
Samuel Fidone, Lufkin, Texas 39-42-81
Michael Hocker II, Chapel Hill, N.C. 39-42-81
Michael Walton, Fort Worth, Texas 41-41-82
Kevin Weber, Coto De Caza, Calif. 40-42-82
Taylor Arreola, Lovington, N.M. 40-42-82
David Hayward, Norman, Okla. 44-41-85
Grace Choi, Dallas, Texas 38-35-73
Chelsea Bretcher, Austin, Texas 38-39-77
Sammi Stevens, Hereford, Texas 38-41-79
Sinae Montoya, Lubbock, Texas 41-39-80
Julie Hwang, Langley, British Columbia 41-39-80
Ellen Handa, Poway, Calif. 43-43-86
* - Qualified via sudden-death playoff
# - Player opted to take one AJGA Tournament Exemption in lieu of playing in this week's event
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CAROLINA BEACH - The Town of Carolina Beach was granted another extension from the U.S. Army to continue various operations until September of this year on land leased since the early 1970's. Now they must pay for an environmental assessment of the property.
The Town was notified in April of last year they were in violation of their 1972 lease agreement with the U.S. Army for land off of Dow Road. The "buffer zone" is land owned by the U.S. Army for the Military Ocean Terminal at Sunny Point (MOTSU) across the Cape Fear River in Brunswick County. The port deals in ammunition and the buffer zone serves as a "blast zone" in the event of an incident. The zone covers the largest area of land west of Dow Road in Carolina Beach, Kure Beach and Fort Fisher.
The property housed the Town's Operations Department including public works, public utilities, storm water department and the Town's garage. Additionally, it was home to a greenhouse and various office and storage areas.
The 1972 lease only permitted a wastewater treatment plant, a storage building and related uses. To date the green house and an office trailer have been removed. The Town worked to restore other areas of the site and comply with the original lease. One of the more complicated issues is where to relocate dumpsters used to hold trash collected from public trashcans throughout Town and along the beach front as well as debris picked up from the side of the road.
The Army originally demanded the Town comply by the end of 2012 and granted an extension until June 2013 to continue using dumpsters on site and a garage to maintain Town vehicles.
The Town searched for alternate locations for both the dumpsters and garage for a number of months. They ultimately approved a permit to locate both on property they own in a residential district behind the Federal Point Shopping Center. That would have called for using a small portion of a nearly 10-acre tract of land for trash compactors and a garage building.
The Council heard concerns from adjacent property owners regarding wetlands, odor, noise and impact on property values and approved their own conditional use permit at their March 12, meeting. The residents subsequently filed an appeal to that decision in New Hanover County Superior Court. That case is still pending.
Town has been negotiating with a property owner to lease land located at 110 Dow Road adjacent to an existing commercial storage facility in the Industrial Zone.
He said that land already has utilities and power and current negotiations are to lease the land for a period of five years with future lease options.
The Army Corp of Engineers will require soil sampling at areas such as an undercarriage wash rack area, trash storage area - including an area for runoff from refuse - the maintenance and storage building, storage shed areas and areas
where petroleum was previously stored. That included fueling vehicles and equipment and storing used oil for recycling and disposal.
The Town is contracting with Catlin Engineers and Scientists to conduct the environmental review.
At the Council's May 14, meeting Planning Director Ed Parvin explained, "One of the things we have to do to come into compliance is we have to do an environmental study. The study is fairly detailed on what they are asking us to do and we are going to need a budget transfer from the water and sewer reserve fund. We are asking for $30,000 to be transferred to accommodate that study."
The Council voted unanimously to approve the funding.
Last month Councilman Steve Shuttleworth said it's important to note the problem facing the Town with coming into compliance with the 1972 lease was brought on by the actions of previous administrations and they are now having to take steps to come into compliance and rectify the situation before that lease comes up for renewal in the near future.
He said decades went by while the Town used the property in a way that wasn't permitted by the Army and now they are faced with ramifications of the actions of previous administrations and the tremendous cost to the taxpayers.
Since last year the Town has paid $236,756.29 to come into compliance with the lease. $96,569.42 of that cost was for removing debris and vegetation. Operations Director Brian Stanberry said, "All of the construction projects over the last 30 years. Any type of debris went back there so you had a big massive pile that had sprawled out through the whole site." Shuttleworth said the price tag is even larger. He said, "Almost a third of a million dollars, $340,000 to clean up this property and we're not done yet."


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With our beautiful location and the professional services of "Dream Beach Wedding" with Rev Aline Rozok, together we can make your dreams come true!
Let Rev Rozok & her family worry over the details, after more than a decade of officiating weddings on the beach, they know exactly what it takes to produce your "perfect" beach wedding.
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This home is perfect for large family vacations or for housing the brides wedding entourage.
Fully furnished beach house includes:
- Private rooftop deck with panoramic views of the ocean and the city, perfect for watching the sunsets
- Gas Fireplaces in the living room and the master bedroom
- 4 bedrooms (with additional roll-away bedding & pull out sofas for sleeping up to 14 people)
- Master bedroom has a walk-in closet, patio overlooking the beach, gas fireplace & mini-fridge
- 3 full bathrooms (2 Showers & a jacuzzi tub)
- Washer & Dryer conveniently located on the second floor with the bedrooms
- Fully furnished kitchen with 2 ovens, stove, microwave, coffeepot, dishwasher, ice-maker, toaster, hot water pot, pots & pans for cooking, flatware & steak knives, cooking utensils, etc..
- Kitchen island bar that is perfect for entertaining
- Dining room has a 180° view of the beach/ocean to watch the wonderful sunsets as you eat
- 4th bedroom is a perfect Game room for kids to hook up their game systems, allowing the adults to keep the living room
- Beautiful & Modern European furnishings
- Two car garage
- Cable TV with premium channels
- High Speed WiFi Internet
- Modern side-by-side Refrigerator/freezer with ice-maker
- Dishwasher
- Microwave
- BBQ patio grill
- Patio table with umbrella
- Rooftop patio furniture as well
- Bedrooms
- bedroom 1: 1 Cal King
- bedroom 2: 4 Twin beds
- bedroom 3: 1 Queen Murphy bed
- bedroom 4: 1 Queen Murphy bed & 1 Queen futon
- 3 Additional twin beds on rollers
- Bathrooms
- Master bathroom: Large shower
- Bathroom 2: Jacuzzi tub/shower
- Bathroom 3: Shower
activities and attractions in Imperial Beach San Diego Area
- Sunbathing
- Swimming
- Surfing
- Beach volleyball
- Boogie boarding
- Pier fishing
- Eating at Salty's Restaurant at the end of the pier
- Walking distance to Imperial Beach Pier, restaurants, and coffee shops.
- Just a few minutes' drive to Coronado Island, San Diego Bay Cruises, San Diego Zoo, Balboa Park, Seaport Village, San Diego Harbor, USS Midway museum, and Sea World.
- Golf at nearby Chula Vista Country Club or Coronado Country Club
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Renting now for Summer of 2015! Please ask if you do not see the dates you want on the calendar.
Winter Rates (Sept 8, 2014 - May 21, 2015):
$475 per night (3 night min)
$3325 per week (7 days)
Summer Rates (May 22, 2015 - Sept 6, 2015):
$650 per night (3 night min)
$4550 per week (7 days)
For stays that include one of the following holidays, an additional 25% fee will be added to the rental fee.
- Memorial Day
- Independence Day
- Labor Day
For stays that include one of the following holidays, an additional 30% fee will be added to the rental fee.
- Thanksgiving Day
- Christmas Eve/Day
- New Years Eve/Day
- Valentines Day
- Easter Weekend
All rentals require the following, regardless of duration of stay:
- $500-$1000 Security Deposit (Deposit will vary depending upon use of house.)
- $5000 Renters insurance (affordable and easy to get, ask the manager how)
- $200 Cleaning fee
- City hotel tax of 10%
Hunter Fitzgerald
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Prior to paying a reservation deposit, always verify payment instructions by calling the phone number displayed on this listing page. By contacting the owner directly and paying by an approved method - credit card, paypal, check or bank transfer - your reservation payment will be protected up to $1,000.Learn more in our Security Center
Top things to do in Imperial Beach
- Swimming and Sunbathing
- Beach Volleyball
- Surfing / Boogie Boarding
- Bird watching at the local wildlife estuary
- Fishing off the Imperial Beach pier
Top things to do on a budget
- Swimming and Sunbathing
- Beach Volleyball
- Surfing / Boogie Boarding
- Visit Balboa Park
- Bird watching at the local wildlife estuary
Top things to do with a family
- Swimming and Sunbathing
- Visit SeaWorld
- Visit the San Diego Zoo
- Visit Balboa Park
- Fishing off the Imperial Beach pier
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Matsuzaka's agent wants fee distribution process changed
BOSTON -- During his time as a powerful baseball agent, Scott Boras has seen just about everything. But he experienced quite a different thing over the past few weeks in negotiating a contract with the Red Sox for the services of Japanese star Daisuke Matsuzaka.
The one thing that was hard for Boras to get past -- and perhaps the reason the negotiations took so long -- was that the Seibu Lions got nearly as much during the posting process ($51.1 million) as his client will get over the life of his six-year contract. Matsuzaka will make a guaranteed $52 million, with escalator clauses that could bring it to $60 million.
Boras doesn't have a problem with the posting system in itself. He just thinks the way the posting fee gets distributed should undergo a drastic overhaul.
"This is an internationally curious negotiation," said Boras. "In my mind, the system needs to be this: If there is a posting application, so be it. But the money goes to the player, and then the clubs negotiate from that foundation and the player negotiates and then they reach a final number.
"Then a percentage of that number is then given to the franchise [in Japan]. That's how you truly negotiate those contracts, because then the club is truly paying the player whatever they choose to pay him. The cost of that is that you understand that the posting system is your choice. You're giving that team back from your total, and you get to make that decision. If they had a system like that, I'd say it would be much more manageable than building a barrier between the two parties, which this posting system does."
But under that system, would the teams in Japan still have the same incentive to post a prized player to the Major Leagues?
"I think for great players, you're still going to obtain sums of money that are great for them," Boras said. "Remember that it's a percentage of the whole. It just has to be limited to where this system can be representative of the teams' desire."
In the end, Boras might not have loved the process, but he essentially viewed it as a successful negotiation.
"My greatest concern through the process was that this young man and his abilities could transfer to his contract," said Boras.
Originally, there seemed to be a school of thought that Boras would want a shorter contract for Matsuzaka which would enable him to be a free agent after three or four years.
But in the end, he didn't mind signing off on the six-year deal.
"We had no reservation about the years," said Boras. "We have a young pitcher who will be a free agent at a young age. We want his family to spend a good number of years here in the States -- where they have a consistent place -- and having the ability to stay in one city for six years was frankly something we were very happy with. It allows him to know the league. It's not in any way a negative."
Matsuzaka's contract will break down thusly: He'll make a base salary of $6 million in 2007, $8 million for the next three years after that, and $10 million annually for the last two years of the deal. The contract also included a $2 million signing bonus.
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The recently passed Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA) will intensify a crisis in immigrant communities while benefiting a burgeoning immigrant incarceration industry.
Amongst other things, the omnibus bill, passed in December 2004, consolidates the nation's intelligence programs into a National Intelligence Program, creates a Director of National Intelligence, and increases border enforcement.
According to human rights advocates, some of the most odious measures in the original bill, such as depriving asylum seekers of judicial review and allowing deportation to countries where torture is likely, were removed before passage.
However, one of the bill's largely overlooked provisions authorizes 40,000 new immigrant detention beds by 2010. That triples the current immigrant detention system continuing an assault on immigrant communities started in the Clinton administration and intensified since the 9/11 attacks.
The Human Face of Immigrant Incarceration
Only a handful of the current 22,000 immigrant detainees are suspected of any connection to terrorism. In fact, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, before 1996's Anti Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act was passed as few as 4,000 immigrants were detained on a given day. Most of the newly detained are either asylum seekers or "criminal aliens" – immigrants convicted of crimes, anything as low as shoplifting or minor drug possession charges – who are awaiting deportation hearings.
Aarti Shahani from New York-based Families for Freedom, a New York-based immigrant rights organization, says the addition of 40,000 immigrant detainment beds will put added strain on detainees and families already struggling with long detainments.
"There is a financial effect on families of the ongoing costs of telephone calls, commissaries, and travel, as well as the emotional effect of knowing your loved one is behind bars," Shahani said.
Take, for example, Linden Corrica and Carol McDonald.
In 2003, Corrica, a legal resident from Guyana, was arrested and plead guilty to possession of marijuana in New York. Corrica, expected to be returned to his family after a few weeks in jail. Instead, immigration screeners at Rikers Island whisked him off to a federal detention center in Louisiana where he has been held, awaiting deportation hearings, for well over a year.
Carol McDonald, Corrica's wife, says that his detainment has provided a hardship on the family. "It's been really, really hard," she says. "Right now I'm doing three jobs, number one to support me and my daughter who are here, and to support him and the telephone calls and the lawyer's fee."
McDonald says that most policy makers do not seem interested in how long detentions affect families. "They just want to deny that it's affecting families," she says. "They talk about family values, well here is real suffering."
Incarceration for Profit
Sadly, what is bad for immigrant families, has become very good for business.
Notorious private prison companies like Corrections Corporation of America and the Geo Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections) have been major benefactors of immigrant detention increases. The Department of Homeland Security contracts out for nearly all of its detention beds to private companies which are likely to receive substantial contract awards if the new legislation receives necessary funding.
"This is pork at its worst," says Judy Greene, a policy analyst with the Justice Strategies. "This will be a massive new bailout of the private prison industry."
And Greene isn't alone in such predictions.
MSN Money's Michael Brush, in a glowing analysis of prison industry stocks, writes that the legislation "makes it likely that more illegal immigrants will be caught." He continues, "Lawmakers estimate that by 2010 the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement will need another 40,000 prison 'beds,' as they say in the business."
Actually, Brush is a bit mistaken. While the increased border patrol does make it more likely that undocumented immigrants will be caught, that alone does not create a need for detention beds. Proven alternatives to detention exist.
Just ask the Vera Institute. From 1997-2000 they operated an Appearance Assistance Program for immigrant asylum seekers and "criminal aliens" to attempt to demonstrate that alternatives to detention exist. The program used a series of check-ups to ensure that immigrants would show up to their hearings, where an immigration judge will rule on their fate. Over 90% of people appeared for their immigration hearings in this program, a rate substantially higher than that for people released on bond or parole.
So, why the need for 40,000 new beds now? Shahani, of Families for Freedom, fears that the end result of this bill is that more people will end up spending longer amounts of time in detention centers. When there are an excess of beds, she says, there is little incentive for immigration courts to expedite hearings or practice alternatives to detention.
In addition, incarceration culture runs wild on Capitol Hill. A nation that locks up over 2.2 million people, the large majority for non-violent crimes, is more likely to refer immigrant detainees to jail cells than to other, more cost-effective solutions.
Private prison corporations will not be alone in looking to profit from the expanded detention system. Public entities, such as county jails and even state corrections departments may try to win the lucrative federal detention contracts.
Dana Kaplan of the National Resource Center on Prisons and Communities says the intelligence bill will further a growing trend of local jail expansion even at a time when many states are scaling back their state-controlled prison systems.
"When word is out that the government is looking to house 40,000 new detainees, that puts a huge incentive on local jail systems to expand especially when there is no funding for other services (that provide jobs) in the region," Kaplan says.
New York is an example of the way that local jails can lead to a sort of back-door expansion to the prison system. According to Kaplan, while New York's state prison population has slightly decreased in the past several years, the local jail system has expanded by nearly 16% in the past 10 years.
This trend is especially troubling because when prison expansion is decentralized, enormous political and economic pressure is expended to keep prison beds full.
Texas: Ground Zero for Immigrant Incarceration
In 2003, Reeves County, Texas built a 960 bed expansion to its 2,000 bed jail. The county, located in sparsely populated west Texas, built the expansion with the hopes of obtaining a federal contract to house detainees.
The only problem is that the contract never came. Even after desperate measure like hiring majority whip Tom Delay's brother to lobby the federal government for prisoners, the expansion was still sitting empty after nearly a year. Eventually, the county privatized its jail and began importing prisoners from Arizona.
Reeves County represents an interesting paradox in the immigrant incarceration industry. On one hand, federal legislators have justified tripling the current detention system by claiming that the system is badly overcrowded. At the same time, many of the recently built immigrant detention centers are not full.
The answer to lies in the "if you build it, they will come" mentality that prison operators have taken to heart. Greene, Kaplan, and Shahani all agree that if the detention system is expanded, even when it appears that there is not an excess of detainees, the system will find people to warehouse in these facilities.
And Texas has become ground zero in this immigrant incarceration boom. The lone star state is home to at least 7,000 proposed or recently built prison beds – all of which are intended to house immigrant detainees and all of which are to be housed a private prison company.
IRTPA will hasten the spread of jails and detention centers in rural west and south Texas, a region fast becoming dependent on detention centers as a major source of economic development.
Where's the hope?
According to Shahani, hope to stop immigrant detention expansion lies in a combined effort between immigrant communities and rural communities where the detention centers are sited.
There is a growing sense that prisons, jails, and detention centers are not the economic boon for small towns promised by jail developers.
In fact, a study from Washington State and Ohio State professors published in Social Science Quarterly last year studied 3,000 communities that built prisons in the past 30 years. The study found that those communities actually ended up with slower economic growth than similar communities that did not build prisons. The study has been used by community activists to derail several jail proposals.
Shahani recounts the story of taking families from New York to Louisiana to visit their loved ones in detention. In several of the detention facilities family members were not allowed to be in the same room, instead forced to communicate via a closed circuit television system. Many of the family members refused to make a return trip because they didn't want to see the detainees in such inhumane conditions.
IRTPA will create 40,000 more of these heart-breaking stories. To drive back the damaging effects of this bill on immigrant communities will be a long process, but one worth fighting.
Bob Libal is a student/youth organizer for Grassroots Leadership's Not With Our Money! campaign in Austin, Texas. He can be reached at [email protected]


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There are 25-30 functioning satellites in the US Global Positioning System. Each one orbits the earth twice a day following one of six prescribed orbital paths. That means that the number of satellites that are visible to a GPS receiver and the geometry of the satellite constellation are changing constantly. For some kinds of work, this variability needs to be taken in to account and measures for working around it are referred to as "planning".
Why would the GPS gods choose such vague terminology? The fact that the same function was called "mission planning" back when the system was owned by the Defense Department may have something to do with it. Anything more informative and they would have to kill you.
Recreation-grade GPS Work
The geometry of the GPS satellite constellation is not usually a significant factor when preparing for natural resources field work. The worst possible geometry is not catastrophic for the normal performance of the system. However, an awareness of constellation geometry can be very helpful on projects requiring high quality mapping work in tree cover.
Trimble's GNSS Planning Online website offers a fast and easy way to predict when satellite geometry might be a problem. The example shown at right is for the UW-Green Bay campus on Thanksgiving morning, 2013. PDOP (position dilution of precision) is represented by the green line and values over 2.0 are bad news for working in tree cover.
Submeter GPS Work
What is true of planning for recreation grade work is also true for submeter work. The Internet-based planning utility described above can be used, but submeter receivers have a built-in planning function.


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As reported by NBC Sports' PFT, the Steelers have signed former Patriots punter Zoltan Mesko and waived secoind year man Drew Butler.
Mesko was cut by the Patriots this past weekend along with Tim Tebow and a dozen others as NFL rosters were trimmed down. He lost the starting punting job to rookie Ryan Allen, undrafted free agent out of Louisiana Tech.
Drew Butler (an undrafted free agent himself in 2012 from UGA) beat out Jeremy Kapinos for the starting punting job last season and beat out former Bills punter Brian Moorman for the starting job this season. However, it appears that the front office and coaching staff look at Mesko as an upgrade from Butler.
In 2010 (his rookie year), Mesko set an NFL rookie record with net punting yard average of 38.4 yards. With that, his yards-per-punt average was at 43.2 yards.
Last season, Mesko had a YPP average of 43.1 which was actually lower than Drew Butler's YPP average of 43.8 (all stats from Pro Football Ref).
For further backing of PFT's report, Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette tweeted this moments ago:
Steelers confirm P Zoltan Mesko signing and release of P Drew Butler— Ed Bouchette (@EdBouchette) September 2, 2013
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Steelers also claimed cornerback Antwon Blake on waivers from the Jacksonville Jaguars.— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) September 2, 2013


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Here is the finished quilt for our friends' little boy due any minute now. I love the way it turned out, so simple but really bright and colorful. This is such an easy quilt to make with stash fabric and really doesn't take long at all.
I kept the quilting simple with two parallel lines on either side of each horizontal seam. I also cheated by buying pre-made bias tape, which is similar to the pre-made quilt binding I have used before but the bias tape is more narrow. It looks fantastic and is so quick and easy, and for someone whose craft time is based solely around the nap time of a 6 week-old baby, a gal's got to do what a gal's got to do to get the job done.
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The Kendall County 4-H Federation aims to break its past donation record during next month's Bowl-A-Thon. The 14th annual event will raise funds for the Kendall County Food Pantry.
To reach their goal, 4-H Federation youth are seeking donations to support the cause, as well as donations of appropriate prizes for each of the 4-H members bowling in the fund-raiser. This year's event is scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 23 at Idle Hours Lanes in Sandwich.
The 4-H Federation is a small group of high-school-age 4-H youth from throughout the county. Together, they plan, organize and execute this event, and other leadership and service projects in Kendall County.
The annual Bowl-A-Thon is the group's largest community service project. Each year, they have raised thousands of dollars for various causes. In 2010, they raised more than $2,600 for local food pantries; $2,900 was donated to Honor Flight Chicago in 2011; $2,500 went to Heifer International in 2012 and $3350 was raised for Heifer International last year.
If you would like to donate to this event, contact your local 4-H Federation member, or contact 4-H Program Coordinator Kim Eisnaugle at firstname.lastname@example.com or at 630-553-5823. For more information on University of Illinois Extension 4-H programs in Kendall County, contact Eisnaugle or visit web.extension.illinois.edu/dkk/.
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To the surprise of no one save the dude who's running Big Guwop's Instagram account these days, Gucci Mane has been sentenced to 183 days in jail. So goes my theory that he'd be out on 10/17.
According to reports, Gucci's early September arrest for weed and a firearm lead to his probation violation. The tweet spree and his assault on grammar and punctuation are not included in his charges, but we haven't forgot.
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Chance for community groups to get £5,000 with Tour de France projects
1:30pm Thursday 5th June 2014 in News
SEVEN Tour-de-France focused community projects in Otley are in with a chance of receiving up to £5,000.
The proposals, which range from installing a public bicycle pump in the town centre to creating a film entitled The Day Le Tour de France Came To Otley, have been shortlisted for this year's Voice Your Choice award.
Run by the Town Council, the annual competition seeks suggestions from the community and then gets the public to vote to decide on the final winner or winners.
The council has put aside £5,000 this time to back local Tour de France legacy projects - and voting has now begun.
The public ballot runs until noon on Monday, June 9 and votes can be cast at the following venues: Otley Core Resource Centre; Otley Library; Otley Courthouse; Otley Action for Older People Office; All Saints Primary School; Ashfield Primary School; St Joseph's Primary School; Westgate Primary School; The Whartons Primary School; Prince Henry's Grammar School; Asda; Sainsbury's, and Waitrose.
Votes, which must score each project in order of preference - with seven points going to the first choice and one to the least favourite - can also be cast online at: www.surveymonkey.com/s/voiceyourchoice2014 .
The voting website contains photographs and brief descriptions of each of the shortlisted ideas, which also include: the introduction of cycle specific road signs; the creation of a bicycle shaped new dry stone 'gateway' to the town; a stone sculpture depicting the race's peleton; the installation of a high profile, specially designed yellow cycling stand; the planting of a new avenue of trees along Pool Road.


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The British DJ, who currently has a hit with the Sam Smith-assisted track, 'La La La,' achieved his dreams thanks in part to the game show Deal or No Deal.
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The first time Emeli Sandé heard herself on the radio she was in a taxi on her way back from a London studio. It was 4 o'clock in the morning and the city appeared to be asleep. Sandé, on the other hand, was wide-awake.
Emeli Sandé Talks Beyoncé Cover, Kendrick Lamar Collab & The Re-emergence Of Singer-Songwriters
Emeli Sande sat down with Radio.com to talk about covering Beyoncé, collaborating with Kendrick Lamar and why Miguel winning a GRAMMY is so important to her.
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U.K. singer Emeli Sande is riding high on the news that her debut album 'Our Version of Events' has toppled a 50 year record in her home country, knocking The Beatles' 'Please, Please Me' out of the top spot (62 weeks) for the most consecutive weeks spent in the top 10 singles chart.
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Maury County authorities are on the lookout for a home burglar who has struck as many as five times in communities located in the east part of the county. Detectives say the bandit took guns, jewels, computers and gaming equipment during the home burglaries which occurred around Interstate 65 and Bear Creeks Pike. The most recent break-in occurred on February 7 where the burglar was caught on surveillance video breaking out a glass door and stealing guns from a home. The homeowner, Michael Yuhas told Nashville's News 2 he had the surveillance cameras added to his home after a previous break-in. The footage shows the man coming up the stairs, peering in the back windows before jerking out the cable upon noticing the camera. "Luckily my wife wasn't home," Yuhas said. "You don't want to come home and find someone in your house." One of the guns taken from the 22-year-old's home was a 30-30 rifle from the 1940s. "It's an heirloom," Yuhas said. "My grandfather shot his first deer. My father shot his first deer and it was passed down to me." Investigators say the suspect is suspected in at least four break-ins that occurred in a two day period. "His MO is the same. He checks the front of the house and then breaks a window or glass in the back," Investigator Terry Dial said. Anyone with information should call the Maury County Sheriff's Office at 931-380-5733.
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It might not be the most popular sport on Penn State's campus, but rugby is something that PSU has been very good at, and for quite a long time.
While the Men don't have any national championships to their name (to be fair, PSU Berks won a D-III title in 2010), they have had their share of All-Americans, a current starter on the US National Team (I believe he's still on the team, anyway), and 6 runner-up finishes. But, they are a perennial playoff team, and are usually one of the top, if not the top, eastern team.
The women, however, have a much more illustrious history. Since the onset of Division 1 women's rugby championships in 1991, PSU had (up until this weekend) appeared in 15 out of 21 finals match ups, won 6 of them, and only failed to make the final once since 1995. They've been a top-3 finisher every year since 1993. Frankly, you could make the argument that the Lady Ruggers are the most historically dominant team on campus.
Over the past two weekends, both the Men's and Women's rugby teams' seasons came to an end. It went better for the Women than it did for the Men... much, much better.
On Saturday, May 5th, the Men traveled down to Marieta, GA to face of against Life University. Life has an interesting history, which I detailed (along with a brief match preview) in a comment:
Life University played against Men's clubs for most of the 90s, then played in the US Rugby Super League from 1997 to 2002— THE premiere rugby league in the U.S. And they didn't get blown out— they won a national title in 2000 before returning to collegiate rugby recently. They're undefeated this year, and have won matches by an average score of 68-7. Basically… our men need to play hard, smart, mistake-free rugby… and get a few lucky bounces.
Well, uh, that didn't happen. If you can handle the pain, the highlights are here. PSU actually jumped (hopped?) out to a 3-0 lead off a Joe Baker penalty kick, but from that point on, it was a full-on bed-shitting.
Life ran off 75 unanswered points... which would remain unanswered. PSU's big guys played well enough, but the sir (referee, for all you non-ruggers) was calling offsides infractions very, very tightly, which became problematic. Life likes to get the ball outside to their backs, so PSU was trying to counter that by flying upfield as fast as possible to apply pressure. It worked initially, but once the sir started whistling more and more often, PSU got less aggressive, and Life ran away with the match. Literally. Some poor open-field tackling, tired legs, and, frankly, some excellent and fundamentally sound open-field running and offloads in contact by Life were big factors as well.
The women had a decidedly less bed-shitty weekend.
They started off the weekend on Friday with a convincing 46-15 win over BYU in the semi-final round. They then met Stanford in the final on Saturday... again. These two teams have been matched up in the final every year except one since 2005, with the split at 3 wins a piece. Penn State's biggest advantage? Fresh legs. PSU has just about unequaled depth, so throughout the playoffs they rarely need to keep their starting 15 on the field and usually max out their substitutions each game. And even then, that's if they even play some of their starters in the earlier rounds. Like I said, this team is DEEP.
The match started slowly between PSU and Stanford, with hard tackling and physical play. For about 25 minutes, the game was scoreless. Stanford struck first, gaining a numbers advantage to one side of the field to take a 5-0 lead. The Lady Ruggers struck back on their very next phase, though, to tie the game at 5-5 on a game-MVP Kasey Ferlic pass to All-American Sadie Anderson. Another Stanford score (plus conversion this time) and an uncoverted try from Ferlic (she was EVERYWHERE) had PSU going into the half down 12-10.
In true Penn State fashion, the game started to turn to favor the physical, smart, crisp play of our Lady Ruggers. The pack was flat-out dominant in the second half, pushing and wheeling and making life hell for the opposing pack. The backs clamped down on the speed that Stanford possessed on the outside by HARD, sound tackling.
The pack for Penn State just kept running pack-and-go after pick-and-go (the equivalent to running a fullback lead up the middle in football, you could say), and pinned Stanford down near their try line early in the second half. With the defense bunched in to prevent the pick-and-gos, a quick pass out to Ferlic allowed her to scamper in easily for another try. 15-12 PSU.
Anderson would score another try in much the same fashion (picture that drive against Iowa, followed by the play-action to the TE for the touchdown.. that's the kind of physical dominance and strategy we're talking about here). Christiane Pheil would score a try of her own when the PSU scrum pushed over the Stanford try line.
But it was the last try of the game that was the most impressive. Stanford was backed up against their own try line (again), but owned possession of a scrum. They inserted the ball and tried to drive over.. but didn't. They started moving backwards as the PSU pack surged forward, shoving them backwards over their own ball. PSU took possession within Stanford's own scoring zone and touched the already-grounded ball for their final score.
32-12 was the final to send PSU to their 7th national championship. I still know a handful of the Lady Ruggers, and I can tell you this was much-deserved for the hard work they put in year-round. Congratulations to all of them, and here's to working towards your 8th championship next year!
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Marathon solidarity with Boston
Runners and spectators of the 33rd London Marathon turned out in force today in a show of solidarity to the victims of the Boston bomb attacks. More than 35,000 runners ran the 26.2 mile route.
Bill Neely reflects on marathon after Boston bombings
International Editor Bill Neely has reflected on running the London Marathon after spending the past week in Boston reporting on the marathon bombings.
He told Sports Editor Steve Scott: "Whatever pain I feel at the minute, and everyone here, I think a lot of people were feeling at one...And part of the running community with the people of Boston."
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Double Olympic champion Mo Farah has promised he will run the full London Marathon next year after completing 13.1 miles today.
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After 5 years, former MacDill Air Force Base Sgt. Ralph Wright is finally on trial. He's accused of murdering his girlfriend, Paula O'Conner, and his 15 month old Alijah.
The two victims were found dead in O'Conner's St. Petersburg home on July 6, 2007.
During opening statements today, Asst. State Attorney James Hellickson described how O'Conner was strangled. "The defendant grabbed Paula O'Conner around the neck and began to squeeze, he squeezed so hard it was difficult for her to breathe."
Alijah was found smothered, face down in his crib.
Hellickson told jurors the toddler, Alijah, was the main target. Before the murders, O'Conner had filed a paternity suit against Wright and was seeking child support. She also needed help paying for medical bills because Alijah was born with heart defects and had several surgeries.
"Only one person had the motive to kill Alijah, who did not want the responsibility, did not want the medical bills, did not want to pay back child support," said Hellickson.
Prosecutors also told the jury that DNA on a military pilot's glove found at the murder scene, matched Wright and the victims.
But Wright's attorney said investigators ignored other tips and leads and only focused on Wright as a suspect. Attorney William Bennett pointed at O'Conner's teenaged daughter, Victoria. She benefited from a $540,000 insurance policy upon the deaths of her mother and step-brother.
"The person who gained the most financially from the death of the baby was Victoria Goodin," said Bennett.
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Noah's is often out of poppy seed bagels, TOGOs is often out of Dutch Crunch bread. These are just examples of a phenomenon I've noticed in many food establishments over the years. My question is this: if you managed a store, and there was a popular item that you sold out of hours before closing time, how about making more of that? And the items you have left over every day, how about making less of those?
Poppy seed bagels are popular, they are often gone a couple of hours before Noah's closes. There are always plenty of other, less popular bagels on the shelves. Why doesn't the manager make LESS of the bagels that are always left over and MORE poppy seed bagels?
I used to go to a bakery that was often out of chocolate croissants by late afternoon, but they always had many scones. So, why not make more chocolate croissants and less scones? I asked the manager that question and I got a lot of words back that made no sense. Something about always selling out of them early. Yes, so why not make (or order) MORE? This was too difficult for him to comprehend and I could not get an articulate reply.
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They may be creating demand which is often popular in the video game market during the holiday season. If you only make a limited number and everybody knows you are going to run out, people buy them who may be on the fence or buy them "just in case." Of course another explanation is that they are just to lazy or dumb.
on Dec 17, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Well, I for one am glad that we are on to the hard hitting subjects! Steve - try running a business. Perishables are expensive. Times are tight. Very tight. Suppliers and employees are unreliable. There are numerous reasons.
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what about eating cake?


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Charleston, IL (Sports Network) - Eastern Illinois head football coach Bob Spoo will retire after the 2011 season - his 50th as a coach at the high school or college level.
It will be Spoo's 24th season as EIU's head coach and 25th overall with the Panthers. He tenure is the fourth-longest at one school in NCAA Division I.
At a university news conference Monday, Spoo read from a prepared statement that he "was honored to have been able to serve as the head coach at one school for such a long time."
Spoo has a 142-122-1 record through 23 seasons, including 2-9 this season. His nine FCS playoff appearances rank fifth all-time and his 67 Ohio Valley Conference wins are fourth in the long history of the conference.
"We are honored that Coach Spoo has decided to return to coach at Eastern Illinois for one more season," athletic director Barbara Burke said. "He has been the face of this program for many years and we are thrilled to have one more season to celebrate his success as our football coach. We felt that we needed to make this announcement at this time to silence any rumors that may surface about the future direction of our program."
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LeClaire police have arrested and charged three adults with possessing marijuana and giving it to four young teenagers in their home.
After officers received a tip that a runaway was staying there, and this isn't the first time one of the adults has been accused of sheltering a runaway.
Brenda Brames was charged in July with harboring a runaway.
That case is pending, and she now faces drug possession and child endangerment charges after Friday's arrest.
Paul Zumbrum Jr., and Timothy Brames have also been charged with having marijuana and giving it to minors.
All three are out on bond.
The arrest took place in one of LeClaire's quiet neighborhoods, shocking neighbors.
The police arrested all three adults at 806 Falcon Drive, in the Eagle View Heights neighborhood.
It's in a cul-de-sac and neighbors say the entire area is very quiet.
There's a lot of older residents living here and the homeowners association says it doesn't even a neighborhood watch.
The police say drug activity can happen anywhere though, and they need neighbors to report suspicious activity to stop it.
"There were five squad cars here last Friday night, which doesn't really set the tone for this neighborhood," says Neighborhood board vice president Eddy Jones.
She's lived in Eagle View Heights for 14 years. She loves living here.
"It's a quiet, nice neighborhood, we have good neighbors, they take care of their property."
Except the activity at the house down the street makes her uncomfortable.
"We don't like the comings and goings, the types of people that are there," says Jones.
That's the type of activity police say neighbors need to report.
"People coming and going on a regular basis at odd times of the night, strange vehicles coming and going, things that just appear to be odd that aren't normal, in their neighborhood," says Interim LeClaire Chief Shane Themas.
He says drugs can find their way into any LeClaire neighborhood.
"Drug use and this type of behavior, it can cross any income level boundaries, it can be found in any neighborhood."
He says drugs rarely show up in LeClaire.
"We don't see it real often, but unfortunately in this case that is what happened," says Themas.
Even though Jones is shocked it did happen, she doesn't believe this case is unique to her neighborhood.
"I don't think it's atypical for any of our communities right now, I think it's a sign of the times," says Jones.
A sign police want to prevent with tips from neighbors.
Court records show none of the accused has any criminal past.
But the juveniles involved in Friday's bust told officers they went to the house because the adults would give them marijuana.
Allowing the teens to smoke it with them.
The Brames make their first appearance in court Friday.
Zumbrum's next court date has yet to be scheduled.
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