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STERLING — — Students at Northeastern Junior College may see an increase in fees next year. That is if the college becomes an iPad college, the first in Colorado, like President Jay Lee would like to see happen.
Lee gave up an update on the iPad college discussion to the Advisory Council on Thursday.
"On our inservice to kick off the spring semester, I announced that we would in fact be becoming an iPad college. However, I jumped the gun a little bit," he told the council.
In order for NJC to become an iPad college, students will first need to give approval, because the college is looking at charging a fee for the iPads.
"One of the things that we were talking about with the iPads is how would we get the iPads to the students. Essentially this is going to be a charge to the students," Lee said.
He believes the cost will be about $600, maybe a little more, for the device, a cover for the device and an insurance protection plan.
"If we were going to go through the Bookstore we would need student senate ASG (Associated Student Government) approval, but we've thought about that, and we think the best way to really do this is to make this a fee, as part of going to school here at NJC," Lee said.
Students taking seven or more credits during a semester would be expected to have an iPad Air device and the faculty would be expected to funnel as much education as possible through that device.
Lee said charging a fee seems like the best option, "so that we could kind of give (the iPads) all out at one time, have them all set up the same way, have some uniformity with that."
He will be meeting with the ASG president next week to set up a vote and engage in a campaign "to educate the students about what this means and we see as the value of this."
Among the benefits that Lee sees in becoming an iPad college is the possibility of more funding for NJC.
He explained that the Colorado Community College System plans to start rating colleges on several categories, including fall-to-fall retention, graduation, minority student success, remedial education success and transfer rate, and schools that are "successful in being the top rural school in those categories will receive money from the system, essentially a bonus check."
Right now, NJC would get some extra money because they have a higher percentage of students that transfer on to continue their education than other schools.
"But, that's the only place where we currently have a lead, or we're ahead, and to be honest with you, we are behind, significantly behind, in some of the other areas," Lee said.
NJC is fourth out of five colleges in fall-to-fall retention, third in graduation rate, fourth in graduation combined with transfer rate and fifth in minority student success.
"So, we have opportunities for improvement here and my argument is, is that (the iPad) this instrument, this tool will allow us to further engage our students, get them active, get them doing things in the classroom," Lee said.
He pointed out that schools that are using the iPad are seeing more student success. The radiology program at Northwest Kansas Technical College has seen students' board exam scores increase significantly after they started using the device.
"We hope that that's what's going to happen here," Lee said. "It's a big buy-in, we need faculty, staff really to get behind this and do this. I'm excited because it does seem like that we're getting that buy-in, some more eagerly than others, but it does seem to be an exciting opportunity for us."
Now the task is convincing students that the fee they would have to pay is worth it.
"Although it is expensive, it's an additional price tag for our students, we know that our students are not as well off as other students across the state, and this will be a burden, but we also think that the benefits outweigh that cost," Lee said.
He pointed out the device may actually help students save some money, because they won't have to pay for textbooks, since instructors will be using online textbooks and materials.
"(Students will) still be buying online books, but those online books are in many instances — not all of them — many instances are less expensive," Lee said.
He admits there are still a lot of questions to be answered, including whether they could have students pay a specific amount in the fall and in the spring or if they do some kind of payment plans, to help those who can't afford to pay the $600 all at once.
"I think a lot of those questions can be answered in the yes and that we can say 'yeah, we can work out some deals here in terms of making this more convenient for students.' But, it is, it's a question that we have to resolve," Lee said.
He was asked what they would do with students who already have an iPad. Lee said while Apple really wants all students to have an iPad Air, the newest version, an iPad 4 could work. Those that have an earlier edition, like an iPad 2 or 3, might have to do a swap with NJC and the college would then sell the older device.
Faculty is already starting to be trained on how to use the devices. A group of 20 employees will be going through Apple's Core Institute in March, to learn how to get the most out of the devices.
Lee is looking at having iPads on campus starting in the fall 2014 semester, provided the students give their approval.
"If not, (if students don't give their approval), if we have to work at it a little bit, I think we can do that."
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By Paul Minnis
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GREENSBURG – With just a little coaxing, Eagan Horine told Santa Claus exactly what he wanted for Christmas.
It was a list populated with trendy toy names like Bakugan, based on a Japanese animated action adventure television series, BeyBlade, a spinning-top toy, and Lalaloopsy, a line of rag dolls that is popular with girls.
"I liked talking to him," Horine, 8, of Greensburg, said after finishing with Santa. "You only get a chance to talk with him once a year."
Adults and children braved face-numbing temperatures Tuesday to enjoy free horse-drawn carriage rides, admire holiday-themed window displays and otherwise bask in the holiday atmosphere in downtown Greensburg.
The annual festivities got off to a bumpy start Friday when Main Street Greensburg postponed plans for the traditional holiday events. Instead, those events – minus a kickoff parade that never happened – were moved to Tuesday.
Parents and children who picked up blank "passports" at City Hall visited businesses on the square to have them stamped for a chance to win $10 gift cards. A horse-drawn carriage guided by Batesville residents Walt Mahan and Jerry Vogt clippity-clopped around the courthouse, giving parents and children a thrill.
Some seasonal events will continue.
For example:
• The Winter Farmers Market this Saturday, which began in November, will continue on the second Saturday of each month through April. Items for sale between 9 a.m. and noon at the City Hall gym, 314 W. Washington St., will include fresh produce, baked goods and homemade crafts and gifts, all from local vendors.
• Santa will be back to listen to children's wish lists from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Friday and Dec. 20 in the City Hall lobby. Parents can get a free picture of their children's encounters with Santa and let their children enjoy coloring and crafts.
Main Street Greensburg puts on the annual activities as a service to the community and to encourage people to shop locally, said Sarah Robinson, the organization's executive director. She said buying from local businesses supports the local economy by keeping more money circulating in Greensburg and Decatur County.
Santa was the star of the evening Tuesday.
One of the attendees in the courthouse announced at about 4:40 p.m. that Santa had been seen walking toward the building. Moments later, another one of Santa's helpers broke into a rendition of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," successfully getting some of the children to join in the singing as the anticipation level rose.
Santa's arrival was marked with heavy footsteps, a jingling of bells and that familiar "Ho! Ho! Ho!" that every child knows.
Savannah Boatman, 6, of Osgood, was one of the first children on Santa's lap. After placing her order for a Lalaloopsy doll, her mother shared with the newspaper their plans to take advantage of the passport stamping activity.
Caleb Berkemeier, 7, of Greensburg, told Santa he wanted dinosaurs (presumably fake ones) and a dinosaur book.
Santa posed for pictures, gently coaxing the shy children on his lap to give him a nice long list of gift ideas so he'd have plenty to choose from to place under the Christmas tree.
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A thought just crossed my mind. On paper, this year, the Lions could wind up with up to three players for either Boise State or U of Georgia this year. For example:
Boise St.
Round 1) Shea McClellen. OLB
Mid Rounds) Doug Martin, RB, Billy Winn, DE, Tyron Crawford, DE, George Iloka, FS,
Late Rounds) Kellen Moore, QB
(wow, they should have won the national championship with this crew).
U of Georgia
Round 1) Cordy Glenn, OT
Round 2) Brandon Boykins, CB
Round 3) Ben Jones, C
Would you draft three from which school for the Lions?


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MADISON (WKOW) -- A spokesperson for the Madison police says lead case investigator, MPD Det. Tom Helgren was able to identify 18-year-old Marcos A. Gamez, of Madison, as the suspect in the attempted murder outside of East Towne mall over the weekend.
Gamez turned himself in Tuesday, after learning that he was wanted by Det. Helgren. He has been tentatively charged with Attempted 1st Degree Intentional Homicide.
The Madison Police Department's Crime Prevention & Gang Unit (CPGU) provided significant assistance in the probe by helping conduct interviews, and by supplying intelligence to Det. Helgren.
The preliminary investigation indicates Gamez, who is gang affiliated, helped start a fight in the parking lot with members of a rival gang by mouthing off to the other group. The original physical fight was between two of Gamez's friends, and two young men from the other group. The 24-year-old victim, who is also gang affiliated, and was with the other gang members (not with Gamez's group), decided to intervene and try to break up the two-on-two fight. When he did so, he was stabbed by Gamez. Gamez, like the victim, had not been actively involved in the original physical fight. The victim is in stable condition at a local hospital.
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PIKE Hills Golf Club have re-affirmed their commitment to redesign their 18-hole course.
The Tadcaster Road-based club have re-submitted to City of York Council a planning application, which is for "change of use of 7.7 hectares of agricultural land to a golf course."
Pike Hills club secretary David Winterburn explained that the original planning permission for the planned redevelopment of the course had elapsed. That has prompted the new bid.
"The plans have already been drawn to redesign the course to make it longer," said Winterburn.
"The plans are there but the planning permission has run out, so this is just a matter of re-submitting the plans for approval."
If the plans are again approved the club will still have to raise the cash to fund the redesign proposals, added Winterburn.
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Real Name: Pierre Culliford
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Pierre Culliford (June 25, 1928 – December 24, 1992), known as Peyo, was a Belgian comics artist, perhaps best known for the creation of The Smurfs comic strip from which the cartoon show is based. His work is being carried on by his son Thierry Culliford, who has currently adopted the pen name Peyo for all future works through Studio Peyo.
Peyo, pseudonym of Pierre Culliford, is known all over the world as the creator of the 'Smurfs', originally known as 'Les Schtroumpfs' in French. The origins of these funny blue dwarves lie in Peyo's medieval 'Johan et Pirlouit' series, that appeared in Spirou magazine during its glory days in the 1950s. The huge popularity of 'Les Schtroumpfs' resulted in an animated feature film, an extensive merchandise line, a Hanna-Barbara TV series, and a Smurf theme park in Metz, France (called Big Bang Schtroumpf from 1989-91, and Walibi Schtroumpf from 1991-2002, bought by Six Flags in 1998).
After his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, Culliford went to work at an animation studios. The studios soon folded, but it did leave him the acquaintance of his befriended colleagues André Franquin, Morris and Eddy Paape. Peyo decided to turn to the advertising profession, while creating his first comic for the daily Le Dernière Heure.
This first comic was 'Johan', an historical series about a page. In addition, he launched the gag series 'Poussy' in Le Soir. 'Johan' also appeared in Le Soir from 1950, but moved over to Spirou magazine two years later. There, the series got its definite look. Johan's blond hair changed to black and the somewhat dull main character got the hilarious side-kick Pirlouit. 'Johan et Pirlouit' became one of the most popular series of the magazine.
In the 'Johan & Pirlouit' episode 'La Flûte à Six Trous' (in 'Le Journal de Spirou' magazine, October 1958), the two heroes discover the strange blue dwarves called Schtroumpfs. There is a legendary anecdote about the creation of the name of these dwarves. Peyo and Franquin were having dinner in a restaurant, when one them asked the other for the salt. Instead of asking 'Passez-moi le sel', he asked 'Passez-moi le schtroumpf', and the name was born!
Spirou's chief-editor Yvan Delporte saw the possibilities of the 'Smurfs' and persuaded Peyo to create a spin-off. The first solo appearances of 'Les Schtroumpfs' appeared in Spirou's "mini-récit" section, starting in 1959. The success was immense, so Peyo eventually redrew these first stories in "normal size" and continued the series in Spirou's regular pages.
Although Peyo was successful with 'Johan et Pirlouit' and even more with 'Les Schtroumpfs', he also launched the 'Benoît Brisefer' series in 1960. This comic, about a small boy with superhuman strength which he looses when he gets a cold, has become another Peyo classic. Peyo also produced new 'Poussy' gags in Spirou and created on 'Jacky et Célestin' in Le Soir Illustré. The expansion of activities and the increasing popularity of the 'Smurfs' resulted in the foundation of Peyo's own art studios. Peyo would teach many of today's famous comic artists in this studios, including Walthéry, Derib, Gos, De Gieter, Benn, Francis, Kox, Desorgher and Wasterlain. In the 1970s, Peyo more and more let go of his other series, to focus on the 'Smurfs'.
The upcoming international success of the 'Smurfs' in the early 1980s led to a reorganization of Peyo's activities. The business aspects of the Smurfs (merchandising, the Schtroumpfs magazine, and his own company: Cartoon Création) were handled by his family members. Peyo was head of his 'Smurf' empire until his death in 1992. In 1992, the studios created new albums of Peyo's older series, such as 'Johan et Pirlouit' and 'Benoît Brisefer'. Their creator Pierre Culliford died the same year from a heart attack.
In fiction
Peyo is at least referenced in-universe in the 2011 live-action movie as the Smurfs trapped in present-day New York City discover through the Internet and a magic book shop that their legend has been passed on into that age through him, that they basically have been likened to leprechauns who are supposed to give whoever they visit good luck. The Google page article found by Patrick Winslow in the movie lists Peyo as more of a documentator of the Smurfs rather than their creator.
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UNION, N.J. As the 2004 presidential election draws near, Kean University and Democracy Today, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to registering voters, have teamed up for the 1000 Votes, 1000 Voices campaign to boost voter registration among college students. The monthlong event will kick off with a voter-registration picnic on Wednesday, September 15, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Downs Hall Patio, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, N.J.
According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning
and Engagement, only 16 percent of eligible 18- to 24-year-old citizens
of New Jersey, and only 23 percent nationally, turned out to vote in the
2002 midterm election. With the college-age vote being highly underrepresented,
it is the responsibility of the institutions of higher education to provide
information and resources that enable students to register as is stipulated
by the Higher Education Act of 1998. "One of the main tenets of Kean
University's mission is to teach our students to serve as active and contributing
members of their communities," said Matthew Caruso, assistant to
Kean University President Dawood Farahi. "Kean students are very
engaged in campus governance. The 1000 Votes, 1000 Voices program
encourages them to carry this involvement into local, state, and national
politics." Through on-campus events, as well as attendance at meetings
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The UN Assault on the Catholic Church
Claudia Rosett, Wall Street Journal
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In the name of protecting children,the United Nations is now preaching to the Vatican. A report on the Holy See—released by a U.N. committee last week to much media fanfare—alleged that tens of thousands of children have been abused by Catholic clerics, and that the Vatican has helped cover it up.
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AbstractThis paper investigates the effects of introducing imperfect competition inan international business-cycle model. We provide some internationalevidence on markups and analyze the implications of increasing returns toscale and monopolistic competition for the effects and the internationaltransmission of technology and government spending shocks. We also considerexogenous markup fluctuations as a source of shocks and of transmission ofbusiness cycles. We show that imperfect competition improves the behavior ofa standard model driven by technology shocks, although the behavior offoreign trade variables remains unexplained. We also show that animperfectly competitive model driven by government shocks can explain theinternational business cycle at least as well as a model driven bytechnology shocks.
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The U.S. Marshals Service says a Michigan sex offender who made the state's "Top Ten Most Wanted" list has been arrested in Arizona.
Authorities say 51-year-old Anthony Wayne Dolson pleaded guilty in 1993 to several counts of sexual contact with someone under the age of 13. They say he failed to register as a sex offender and fled.
Dolson's last known address was in Port Huron.
The U.S. Marshals Service in Arizona was able to track down Dolson and arrest him without incident Thursday morning.
It's unclear if Dolson has an attorney.
Since May 2010, Dolson was featured on Michigan's Most Wanted Sex Offenders website at www.michigan.gov/absconders.
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I took my temperature when I first woke up in the night and then again at my usual wake-up time. Which temperature should I use?
In general, you should use the temperature from your regular wake-up time. If you get up in the night for any reason and you know that you will go back to sleep and wake again at your usual wake-up time, resist the urge to take your temperature. Taking your temperature more than once usually just leads to confusion and will often make you lose more sleep.
If you are not sure that you will be able to go back to sleep, you can take your temperature, but only use it on your chart if you are not able to go back to sleep. Always enter any special circumstances in the notes section of your chart so that you will remember what conditions might be affecting a temperature reading.
If you have learned through charting over several cycles that you are more likely to get an accurate reading after your longest resting time, rather than by taking your temperature at the same time, (when it is not possible to do both) then you can use the temperature that was taken after the longest sleep period. Over time (if necessary) you will learn the way your own temperature reacts to changes in waking and sleeping times.


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More than a year after a mudslide in West Rutland wiped out part of a busy road, repairs are back on track.
Dewey Ave is a residential street-- the route to Ira. In the spring of 2011 an embankment gave way, making travel in one of the lanes unsafe. Tropical Storm Irene put repairs on the back burner, but now the town has put the project out to bid and hopes repairs are wrapped up before winter.
"I thought this was a bad mudslide, and then when you look at the devastation around the state, we just knew we weren't a priority to anyone-- to the contractors, to the state itself. But it definitely needs to be fixed and it is a priority for our town," said Mary Ann Goulette, the town manager of West Rutland.
Bills are estimated to be five times the town's emergency budget allotment. So, officials are hoping state funding will come through.
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Despite the message still posted on its website, a clinic for Rock Hill-area veterans has reopened after closing several weeks ago when a fire sprinkler accidentally went off.
The Rock Hill Community Based Outpatient Clinic, operated by the William Jennings Bryan Dorn Veteran Affairs Medical Clinic in Columbia, closed after a fire sprinkler inadvertently discharged on Aug. 23.
At the time, officials did not have an estimate for when the clinic might reopen, but when contacted Thursday, clinic employees said the facility had reopened on Tuesday. Those same employees could not speak to the extent of the damage that caused the clinic to remain closed for about two and a half weeks.
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SSCC Teen Missions is taking a group of 6 high schoolers to Saint Louis Senegal for 10 day missions trip in July of 2012.
The people of Saint Louis Senegal are very poor, uneducated, sick, and hungry. Our team wants to partner with the missionaries already on the ground to help build a vocational school for run-away Talibe boys who have no education, food, or family. We want to love the people of Saint Louis Senegal, because Jesus loves them and we want to show that in a very practical way. Please consider donating to our team to help us accomplish this mission.


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Howard County police say that crime spikes periodically, such as a last weekend.
A suspect has been charged with armed robbery in connection with a 7-Eleven hold-up on Montgomery Road in Ellicott City that occurred Feb. 19. Police are investigating whether two Elkridge robberies—the and 7-Eleven on Old Waterloo Road, which were held up in a similar fashion on Feb. 18—are related.
"I can take any period of time and show you spikes," said Major Gary Gardner of the Howard County Police Department, in a phone interview.
In December, before the Waterloo area robberies of the 7-Elevens and the CVS, Gardner told Patch: "We've had I think about seven [commercial robberies] since Oct. 29—largely and some gas stations."
was between August and November, and after the latest incident—on Nov. 6—police of the suspect and offered a $1,000 reward for information. Those cases remain under investigation.
"There has not been an arrest in the case," said Elizabeth Schroen, HCPD spokeswoman.
The owners of the store were unavailable for comment.
Following the robberies, police said they have deployed more units on Route 1 in Elkridge for patrols.
In addition, an officer is now on what is called a "linear post," patrolling up and down US 1 between the Baltimore County line and MD 175.
"We have recently implemented the additional officer in the Elkridge area which was the ," said Howard County Police Captain Daniel Coon on Feb. 23. "We have continued to have an increased patrol presence in the Elkridge area to address a number of quality of life issues, to include loitering at businesses, [drug] use and business-related calls for service."


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- Nuts, such as walnuts and pistachios
- Fish, especially salmon
- Certain types of oils, like olive oil
- Avocado
- Seeds, such as sunflower seeds
You also do not have to shy away from animal meats on a low cholesterol diet. However, you should chose leaner meats, such as chicken and turkey. Additionally, any spare fat you see attached to the meat should also be trimmed away before consuming. And, if you get tired of these meats, try eating fish. Fish, especially salmon, are high in unsaturated fats.
And lastly, fruits and vegetables are also an important part of any heart-healthy diet. They are low in fat and calories and high in nutrients.
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AAC News And Notes
Well the University of Houston, a new member of the AAC, will be sporting new uniforms from Under Armor. They become the latest school to now have combination options. There are eight different uniform combinations in the new wardrobe,
Tuck: Gonzaga Joins Mid-Major #1′s
Yes, Kelly Olynyk, the Bulldogs are number one. A Mid-Major earning the top spot doesn't happen very often.


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CRICKET: Ryan the hero as Oxon do it again (From thisisoxfordshire)
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CRICKET: Ryan the hero as Oxon do it again
9:40am Monday 6th May 2013 in Sport By Ed Mezzetti, Sports reporter specialising in Rugby, Cricket and Athletics. Call me on 01865 425456
LUKE Ryan steered Oxfordshire to a nerve-jangling one-wicket victory over Bedfordshire at Bicester & North Oxford yesterday.
Oxon's captain hit the winning runs with two balls to spare as his side stumbled over the finish line in this Group 1 clash.
Having also won their opener against Devon by the same margin, Ryan is certainly proving a lucky skipper.
The hosts had were cruising on 161-1 at the drinks interval in reply to Bedfordshire's 262-6, but then made extremely hard work of what should have been a routine task.
Bedfordshire's spinners found far more control and potency than their seamers as the visitors came right back into the match.
However, Oxon had only themselves to blame, as too many poor shots made for a pulsating finish.
Bedfordshire opted to bat first, but suffered an early blow when Luke Thomas was caught behind in Daniel Rowe's first over.
Thomas's opening partner, captain Steve Stubbings, had other ideas and went on to top-score with 94 off 119 balls, featuring nine fours and a six.
Stubbings, who put on 115 for the second wicket with Robert Keogh (60), was finally out hit wicket, after playing back to a Ryan delivery.
Andy Reynoldson added an unbeaten 50 as Oxon struggled.
Ryan was the only home bowler to take two wickets, while Richard West had the best economy rate.
Oxon opener Damian Shirazi fell cheaply in the hosts' reply, but Richard Kaufman and Lloyd Sabin set about the chase with gusto.
They raced to 138-1 off 20 overs in style and were 161-1 at drinks.
The interval proved something of a turning point, with Kaufman falling for 68 in the first over after the resumption – albeit to a terrific diving catch from Stubbings.
Sabin followed ten minutes later for a superb 80 – his highest one-day score for Oxfordshire.
There was a moment of controversy when Bedfordshire were penalised with a no ball for having too many leg-side fielders.
And when Nathan Hawkes and Jamie Perkin fell in quick succession, there was more than a touch of tension creeping in.
It was 185-6 when Cater added to the collapse, but Oxon rallied with David Smith and West.
However, they shot themselves in the foot again when Smith skied a drive and West ran himself out.
Chad Keegan smashed 27 off just 13 balls, but was out to a soft shot having hit Andy Reynoldson for successive sixes.
This left Rowe and Ryan to save the day.
Oxon ended up needing three from the final over – where two singles and a Ryan four did the job.
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9:59am Tue 7 May 13
Talent Scout says...
But while winning ways continue I can't see it changing.
Nice to see the skipper doing it with the bat as well as the ball for once, long may it continue, but i don't think it will.
10:50pm Tue 7 May 13
christianmurphy says...
10:52pm Tue 7 May 13
christianmurphy says...
10:01am Wed 8 May 13
Talent Scout says...
Add Smith to the list to make it 4 out of 11.
I am a bit of a traditionalist. I have no problem with one or maximum 2 "overseas" type players to come in, who will improve the side. I believe Kaufman and Keegan do this.
As for Rowe and Smith i would rather see any of the following:
Geeson-Brown (Oxford), Ollie Wright (Banbury), Woods (Tew), Harry Smith (Tew), Harris (Tew), Megson (Tew), Manley (Tew), Pyket (Tiddington), Edmond Gross (Tew) or Hole (Shipton).
As i said before i don't think it will change during winning ways, but maybe it's the time to do it, while everyone else is playing well.
12:39pm Wed 8 May 13
Strauss says...
7:57am Thu 9 May 13
Talent Scout says...
8:11am Thu 9 May 13
Big Bad Blocker says...
To touch on Talent Scout's point, If the players step up and get runs and wickets then pick them. The lower down the leagues you play the better or more consistent your performances have to be, but it shouldn't exempt anyone from selection.
Who is Chad playing for this year?
11:14pm Thu 9 May 13
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7:40pm Fri 10 May 13
christianmurphy says...
Even so the seamers he listed, I don't know gross, are shall we say a bit buffet! Although I'm not minor county level I'd love to face some of them.
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Godzilla's Bond Rally Begins: QE II as "Cash for Clunkers" update
Remember our old "Cash for Clunkers" QE II model? I said that everyone who wanted to sell bonds at all for the next few months would do so before QE II ended. This would result in a natural vacuum of sellers after QE II ended.
I also said there would be the "Godzilla of all bond rallies" post QE II. This is a chart of 30 year yields. Yields are opposite of price. Lower yields mean higher prices.
See that huge red bar at the end? That means a huge rally in bond prices.
Lots of people think the world is ending right now. It looks bad out there, but there should be some appreciation of the fact that the most willing sellers of U.S. Treasuries sold them during the actual time of QE II.
The actual GDP numbers – while anemic – aren't falling at anywhere near late 2008 levels.
Question: How much of this panic is due to a completely wrong interpration of what's happening in the oil markets?
People say that lower oil prices means that the economy is tanking, but it's more likely that the speculative bid under oil just shifted out of oil.
Lower oil prices are great for the real economy, not bad.
Terrifying action in the markets
Just an FYI – we're getting terrifying action in the interest rate markets.
The 3 month FRA-OIS spread – the spread between overnight bank borrowing and overnight U.S. government borrowing* – is seeing huge gains.
In other cases, gains like this have meant there is a huge, worrisome problem in the world. Right now, Europe is on the verge of blowing out, but will this mean a run in the european shadow banking system? I don't know.
The european leadership has been able to calm things down over and over again, but it's pretty clear by now that the only solution is for the European Central bank to buy huge quantities of sovereign bonds.
Of course, this is political nitroglycerin. Macro Man will probably have some good insights if he will share them Also, we shouldn't discount his idea that currency interventions seem to solve the problem.
*This is a massive simplification, but good enough for non-pro's, of course.
Monetary Policy Sucks, Part IV: What do you do during a real estate crash?
Scott Sumner isn't a bad guy. He's a good guy. He's smart. He's creative. He's forceful. His ideas about NGDP aren't all wrong.
But someone needs to tell him that monetary policy sucks even during the good times. It sucks because it uses real estate as the primary vehicle for economic stimulation, which causes all sorts of bad outcomes for our economy.
And someone needs to tell him that right now, monetary policy is particularly bad. While it sucks even in the good times, right now monetary policy is nearly impotent.
The U.S. real estate market is in the middle what will be a legendary bust. Real estate prices are going down more than in the great depression. Nobody wants to borrow money to buy real estate.
But that's the channel that monetary policy uses. That's the part of the economy that monetary policy stimulates.
What monetary policy does is stimulate the economy by inducing people to borrow or not borrow money for real estate deals. That's why it works well at all.
So how cheap would money need to be to induce people to buy real estate that's going down 5% per year?
We can talk about monetary vs. fiscal policy all we want, but until at least one person who is advocating monetary policy identifies the exact group of people who are going to start borrowing enough money to stimulate the economy, why should we bother to respond?
Corporations don't need to borrow – they are sitting on a record horde of cash (they have more today). So the only channel left for monetary policy to work is through real estate.
Tell me, advocates of monetary policy, how is this supposed to work?
And why would you want it to work? There is a good chance real estate will drop another 20% or more in price. Do you want to saddle more people with houses they cannot sell, and mortgages that are too big?
Update: Parts I, Part II, Part III on why MP sucks. Note that most of these are too kind to monetary policy in that they assume it actually works!
Update on The Hyperinflation Hoax – we're gaining ground!
Great news! TC is now on the first page of Google results for "shadow government statistics"! for the post Why Shadow Government Statistics is very, very, very Wrong. One of the major ways people reach this blog is through a variety of searches for "shadow stats", "shadow statistics" and such. It is great to see this on the first page of results.
We do not have hyperinflation. People that say we do have Hyperinflation are either deluded, or not being truthful with you. Hyperinflation in the U.S. on May 9th, 2011, is a cruel hoax. Inflation is about 2-3% at this time.
The Hyperinflation Hoax is worse than we thought: We can't change the price of Oil
Remember that post about the futility of using monetary policy to impact the price of oil? It turns out that the elasticity of oil is even lower than I thought! The IMF – ok, no jokes – came out with a report showing the short term price elasticity is nearly irrelevant, while the long term price elasticity is freakishly tiny. The Blog world is a-titter about this.
The IMF says that a 10% increase in the price of oil results in 0.007% less demand in the short term.
The U.S. uses about 15 million barrels a day. A 10% increase in the price of oil results in – wait for it – a decrease of 1050 barrels of oil per day. Increasing the price of oil from $90 to $99 results in 1000 less barrels of oil demanded. That is 1 futures contract at the CME/NYMEX. A 1 lot. To put this in perspective, 319,000 contracts traded yesterday.
What level of interest rates – in the standard model- could be high enough to push down oil prices 20% or so, back to$90 a barrel? The demand for oil will not change in the slightest even if rates were increased to 5% tomorrow. People won't say "Oh, this quarter point increase in the Fed Funds rate makes me want to use less gasoline – or at least pay a lower price for it." A 10% increase in the actual price impacts demand by an amount so small it is a rounding error. Tiny movements in interest rates will have zero observable impact on the price we are willing to pay for gasoline.
Why in the world are people shouting about energy inflation? Even smart people can make this mistake, like Kevin Drum.
A self-inflicted cure of higher rates in response to high oil prices would be far worse than the disease. We know what it takes to get the price of oil down to $40 a barrel. It takes a global depression. It takes losing 500,000+ jobs a month in the U.S.
This is another reason to fight the Hyperinflation Hoax.
[Update: Seems the people over at Reason do not have quite as much reason as they might have thought.]
[Update: I made a mistake in oil demand. The actual numbers are a 10% increase in the price of oil causes a drop of .2% in demand after 20 years.
This translates to a decrease of demand of about 30,000 barrels a day. It does take 20 years for this to happen. So if we assume a linear drop, then it's a drop of about 125 barrels/day a month, every month for 20 years. This is still very small. I wonder how this number is significantly different than zero - it seems impossible that such a small effect would have an error term that's even smaller, considering the data used. ]
Fighting the Hyperinflation Hoax – and Winning!
The post, "ShadowStats: Still Very, Very, Very Wrong" has been receiving consistent hits from the search "Shadowstats". A quick investigation shows- We've made the front page of searches for "Shadowstats"!
That means some random people are clicking to find out that our inflation rate is only 2-3%, and are getting disabused of the 10% hyperinflation hoax.
Bonus: They get an exposure to Functional Finance and MMT.
We could probably get higher in the rankings – hint, hint, hint… :)
Shadow Government Statistics just does not match reality.
[Update: It turns out that a search for "shadowstats 10% inflation", Traders Crucible is 2 and 3 in Googles search. This "10% Inflation!" was a big story a few days ago, and gets repeated endlessly on places like zerohedge and other bond vigilante wanna-be places. Fighting the good fight here at TC.]
Shadow Stats: Still Very, Very, Very Wrong
Shadow Stats is frackin' wrong. No doubt about it. Shadow stats is wrong, even if Zero Hedge thinks they might be right. And yet gullible John Malloy sees fit to report this crappy data on CNBC.
Once again:
1 +U.S. Treasury Rates = (1 + inflation) * ( 1 + real rates)
We know what the Treasury Rate is with a high degree of certainty for points on the Yield Curve for the next 5 years, because they are traded in a highly liquid market. The real rate is what investors really make after you take into account inflation.
So rearrange this equation to find out how much investors are really making by investing in U.S. Debt:
(1 + U.S. Treasury rates )/ (1 + Inflation) = ( 1+ real rates)
If we use 10% inflation and plug in the latest 6 month T-Bill Rate, we can see how much investors are making.
The 6 month T-Bill rate is 0.11% Shadow Stats says we have 10% inflation. So using grade school math, investors in 6 month T-Bills are losing 8.99% per year due to inflation!
Wow – those investors are really stupid or really worried! Or maybe, just maybe, John Williams is wrong. Which one could it possibly be? Who can know?
Can you believe that this BS gets reported in the major media, by a guy who works for CNBC and used to work for Bloomberg? He must be a smart guy – every Bloomberg guy I've ever talked too has been whipsmart, and to go on CNBC is another huge step. So how can he not know this?
[Update: Here it is on the Front page of CNBC. We're getting less informed by this "news."]
[Update 2: Google "Shadowstats is wrong", and TC comes up #3. Slowly, we're getting traction.]
[Update 3 4/19/2011 Getting even more traction debunking Shadow Government Statistics. We've made the front page on the simple search term Shadowstats. For a complete roundup on why Shadowstats is wrong, and who is silly enough to promote this nonsense, see here, here, and here. ]
The "Big Idea": Insolvency is impossible, debasement is possible
Matt Yglesias is tackling the "Big Idea". Once you realize that U.S. insolvency isn't possible, a bunch of assumptions about the behavior of governments and the private sector need to go away too.
One of the biggest implications: The meaning of the yield curve is vastly simplified. Since default is impossible, default risk is zero. The yield curve is more transparent in meaning.
Over to Warren:
"Let me add that the govt. has full and direct control over the term structure of govt rates, but has elected not to act in that regard, instead only setting the fed funds rate, which means the rest of the term structure is determined by anticipated future fed funds settings (plus or minus a few technicals of supply and demand of the institutional structure)
So, for example, if 'the market' thinks QE causes inflation, it can't change the fed funds rate, but it can change longer term rates as market participants make the (incorrect) assumption that the coming inflation will cause the Fed to hike rates."
Matt Yglesias channels Warren Mosler:
One thing I'd say about the potential implications of a government shutdown on the bond market is that I think it's probably a mistake to see Treasury interest rates as primarily driven by default risk. If the government of El Salvador or Illinois borrows dollars, it might in the future run out of dollars and not repay its loan. But there's no reason the government of the United States should ever run out of dollars. It makes the dollars.
An increase in Treasury borrowing costs could be driven by hope or by fear. In the "hope" scenario, if investors increase their view of the growth outlook they'll become more willing to invest funds in things other than bonds and thus bond interest rates will have to go up. There's also a fear scenario, which would probably be about the value of the dollar. If you lend the US government some dollars, you're definitely going to get back the number of dollars that the US government promised you. But right now a dollar buys you about 0.70 euros and maybe five years from now it'll only buy you 0.65 euros, in which case lending euros to the Dutch government might look like a better bet than lending dollars to the USA. That would drive interest rates up, but it still wouldn't be default risk.
We can directly observe the cause of the "fear" – it is called inflation. In a free floating currency regime, we cannot control the value of the currency relative to other currencies. However, that isn't the mandate of the Fed, or the worry of most citizens. The Fed's mandate is price stability, and people fear inflation. We have tools and policies that can impact inflation.
Determining the exact rate of inflation is very hard. But we have good ballpark estimates, and every reasonable observer agrees that inflation is under 4% in the U.S.
Still, it is far more difficult to determine the willingness of the bond market to fund perpetual deficits. It turns out we don't have to determine this willingness. Note this should help to reduce business community uncertainty – the first step to confronting a fear is to identify it.
Bonds: Head and shouderish getting some notice
I wrote a post on the head and shoulderish formations in the long bonds and 10 year. This was now noticed by dshort and Chris Kimble. The bonds are very close to breaking out higher during risky times – this could be a huge "risk off" trade.
But given this potential rally in U.S. Treasuries, what is going on in the Euro today? It is strong even in the world wide "Japan will repatriate money" trade-o-the-day. How does this match with U.S. bonds completing this potential head and shoulders?
Curiouser and Curiouser…
MMT Flogs Bill Gross in Public Stockades…and where do you put an Ocean?
One of the core premises of MMT is that the funds to purchase government debt is created through the deficit spending of the debt. In other words, the there is 1:1 relationship (or very close to 1:1) between the amount of debt issued and the money available to purchase that debt.
The MMT premise is that the base money supply is defined by the amount of deficit spending, and not by deposits in banks. Of course, the amount of deficit spending usually matches up quite well with the amount of debt issued.
So when Bill Gross decides to ask "who is going to buy all of this debt that the U.S. Treasury will issue?", he is missing something so huge about government deficits, bonds, and savings that it boggles the mind. The money will be there – it must be there – by the accounting identity we know and love: Public Deficit = Private Savings + Currency Account Surplus
He certainly knows about the Widow Maker trade – Japan's experience with Quantitative Easing. Why would he think the experience of the U.S. will be any different?
Japan did QE back in the early 2000's – and look at their bond yields and inflation rates over the last decade. The "Widow Maker" trade – where the BV's have been calling for massive increases in Japanese government bond yields for as long as I've been following the markets – has been making Widows for going on 20 years now. Bill Gross knows this very, very well…why is he wading into the same situation in the U.S and not looking at the historical record of Japan?
From a conventional standpoint, Bond Vigilantes are theoretically correct – so why have they been wrong for 20 years in the case of Japan? Why didn't QE I cause vast amounts of inflation? QE I has already been in effect for over 2 years! $1.75 Trillion by March 2009. It's March 2011, folks. 24 months. And again, $1,750,000,000,000. Where is the 10% core inflation rate?
Let's look at the Japan experience with government debt in view of the MMT statement – really Mosler's statement – about the funds available to purchase government debt being created by the deficit spending. Read this Pimco (!) interview about Japans experience with QE – it's like a Onion article on Quantitative easing.
Choice Quotes:
In March 2001, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) began an historic new monetary policy known as "quantitative easing" in an effort to revive Japan's economy and end the deflationary decline in consumer prices. Five years later, on March 9, the BoJ ended the quantitative easing policy, satisfied that the Japanese economy was on the path to stable, reflationary growth.
Q: Why did the BoJ decide at the March 8-9 meeting to end the quantitative easing policy?Masanao: Quantitative easing worked; the Japanese economy is recovering and core consumer prices are rising. Before the BoJ's March meeting, the year-on-year change in Japan's core CPI had been positive for three consecutive months, and the core CPI has now increased for four consecutive months. Most importantly, BoJ policymakers expect a sustained recovery and continued increases in core consumer prices, fulfilling the conditions laid out in the commitment to maintain quantitative easing.
In 2011, these quotes read like an alternative history of Japan that never happened. Japan didn't have significant inflation at any point in the 00's. We know that even in 2006 Inflation in Japan was very low. We know that even 5 years after QE was tried by Japan, they had deflation for months on end.
Where can you store an Ocean?
One distinguishing factor with very, very popular currencies like the Euro, Yen, and USD is that there is so much of it floating around. We know this from the amount of trade and economic activity, from the number of assets and investments in those currencies, and from the amount of trading that happens in these currencies. You could say there are oceans of these currencies out there.
So where can you put an ocean? Where can you store this much of something? You don't have many choices. You need a place big enough to store ocean sized volumes. For the U.S. Dollar, there needs to be an asset class that can absorb $14,000,000,000,000 notional value of U.S. Dollars. I have a suggestion – the U.S. Government Debt market is a good fit.


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Consultant hired for Port Gamble study
PORT GAMBLE - Olympic Property Group has agreed to pay up to $180,000 for a consultant to study environmental impacts related to the redevelopment of Port Gamble.
Plans to revive the historic town are expected to be submitted in January, according to Jon Rose of the company.
Preliminary plans call for building 176 new homes at historical densities and similar to the renovated houses on the townsite today. A 100-room "lodge" and a restaurant are proposed on the waterfront, along with a dock for tourist boats.
Meanwhile, EA/Blumen consultants has been hired by the county to study the effects of the proposed development. The firm will work under the direction of county planners. Costs will be reimbursed by OPG, the planning arm of Pope Resources.
After the plans are submitted, the consultants will set up a public meeting to discuss what issues should be covered by an upcoming environmental impact statement on the project.
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It is possible that the Seller or our courier partners observe a holiday between the day you placed your order and the date of delivery, which is based on the timelines shown on the product page. In this case, we add a day to the estimated date. Some courier partners and Sellers do not work on Sundays and this is factored in to the delivery dates.
What do the different tags like "In Stock", "Available" mean?
What do the different tags like "In Stock", "Available" mean?
'In Stock'
For items listed as "In Stock", Sellers will mention the delivery time based on your location pincode (usually 2-3 business days, 4-5 business days or 4-6 business days in areas where standard courier service is available). For other areas, orders will be sent by Registered Post through the Indian Postal Service which may take 1-2 weeks depending on the location.
The Seller might not have the item in stock but can procure it when an order is placed. The delivery time will depend on the estimated procurement time and the estimated shipping time to your location.
'Preorder' or 'Forthcoming'
Such items are expected to be released soon and can be pre-booked for you. The item will be shipped to you on the day of it's official release launch and will reach you in 2 to 6 business days. The Preorder duration varies from item to item. Once known, release time and date is mentioned. (Eg. 5th May, August 3rd week)
'Out of Stock'
Currently, the item is not available for sale. Use the 'Notify Me' feature to know once it is available for purchase.
Sometimes, items have to be sourced by Sellers from outside India. These items are mentioned as 'Imported' on the product page and can take at least 10 days or more to be delivered to you.
'Back In Stock Soon'
The item is popular and is sold out. You can however 'book' an order for the product and it will be shipped according to the timelines mentioned by the Seller.
'Temporarily Unavailable'
The product is currently out of stock and is not available for purchase. The product could to be in stock soon. Use the 'Notify Me' feature to know when it is available for purchase.
'Permanently Discontinued'
This product is no longer available because it is obsolete and/or its production has been discontinued.
'Out of Print'
This product is not available because it is no longer published and has been permanently discontinued.
Why does the estimated delivery time vary for each seller?
Why does the estimated delivery time vary for each seller?
You have probably noticed varying estimated delivery times for Sellers of the product you are interested in. Delivery times are influenced by product availability, geographic location of the Seller, your shipping destination and the courier partner's time-to-deliver to your location.
Please enter your default pin code on the product page (you don't have to enter it every single time) to know more accurate delivery times on the product page itself.
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|30 days from delivery
|Damaged, Defective, Item not as described
|Type Accepted
|30 days from delivery
|Exchange for colors and size, Does not fit
|Type Accepted
|10 days from delivery
|Exchange for colors and size, Does not fit
|Type Accepted
|10 days from delivery
|Damaged, Defective, Item not as described
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first of all as always the delivery was within 2 days AGAIN, awesome service by flipkart.
But then the product is not great with the feel. It could have been a bit softer such that it would grip properly, still very slippery.
also while typing in potrait mode, its difficult to get the letters on the edge, if you are a person who does a lot of text/chat then u r going to feel uncomfortable.
the covers fits fine though but then not too happy about it..
At-least with respect to the product that I got, it just does the basic job of protecting the phone from scratches.
It fits to the phone well but the problem lies in openings that it has.
Camera of the phone partly gets covered hence not good when you want to take pics
Flash completely gets covered. Hence if you want to click a snap, you have to remove it completely and put it back again after the job is done.
So, basically there is zero attention to detail and many useful relevant entities get covered and hardly there is any attention to details while making this product.
I have been using the product for over 4 months now
Pros :
1. Fits perfectly when new
2. Protects both sides - when my phone falls down on either side, phone remains intact (no scrathes)
3. The silicon is really sturdy
Cons :
1. The silicon is so sturdy that it sticks to your pocket, doesn't slip through pocket. It'll help if someone is trying to steal from you (been there and would have helped, really)
2. The cover gets loose really soon, in around 2-3 weeks, but not so loose - still it fits.
3. You phone doesnt look all that great after putting it on (But, it protects so worth it)... (Expand)
Easy to Install and feels great in hand. The only Problem is while taking it out of the pocket
I placed for this silicone jelly case order on 06 oct & got on 09 oct awesome fast delivery.
1. This protects my phone from scratches.
2. Silicone sticks in pocket helps to dont theft your phone.
3. Goog product.
4. At new this recieved was tight but now its lose so i placed another case order on flipkart.
5. A must buy product.
6. Helps your moblie for shocks by silicone jelly case.
7. Cheapest and lowest price in comparing all indian webstores & pbysical stores.
8.awesome discount.
9. Premium. Material in outer & inner.
10. Best BUY.
when i bought this thing, it really fit well. but it was monsoon season. by 3 months, it became loose. this case did effectively save my phone from a lot of shocks but taking it out from my trouser pockets has always been a hassle. it gets stuck. as on date, it is pretty loose. (View complete review)
This case doesnt look good, it ruins the appearance of HTC wildfire. I regret I wasted 200 bucks on this cheap-looking case. It's surface attracts all kinds of dust and u can see the smudges on the case. (View complete review)
I bought this cover as soon as I ordered my new HTC Wildfire S and it has been really good in protecting my smartphone from dust and any other problems.
My mistake I have dropped my smartphone few times, but thanks to this cover which protected otherwise my smartphone would have had scars by now... (View complete review)
its a nice product which is not available in the shops it really safe guards your phone only problem is it spoils the look of the phone flipkart service was too good as usual delivery was before the promised time. (View complete review)
1. Fits well when new.
2. Since it's thick, it protects both the body and the screen, even when the phone falls off your hands.
3. Silicone gives the phone a good grip everywhere.. in your hands, in your pocket, on your car's dashboard, your tabletop, everywhere!
4. Unlike other silicone pr... (View complete review)


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Manuel Urdiales, 88
Manuel Urdiales, 88, went to meet the Lord Friday, January 11, 2013. A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, January 18, 2013 at First Assembly of God Church (1709 E 27th St) in Scottsbluff with Pastor Mariano Menendez officiating. Interment will follow at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Morrill. A prayer service will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, January 17 at River of Life Church (1802 9th Ave) in Scottsbluff. Memorials may be made to River of Life Church. Online condolences may be made by visiting www.jolliffefuneralhome.com. Jolliffe Funeral Home of Scottsbluff is assisting the family.
Manuel was born July 24, 1924 in Ranger, TX to Manuel and Hermina (Gonzales) Urdiales. He enjoyed fishing, playing cards, bowling, gardening, Rockies baseball and taking walks (collecting junk).
Manuel was a member of River of Life Church. His family and friends will truly miss him.
Survivors include his wife, Consuelo; children, Danny (Eleanor) Urdiales of Ft. Morgan, CO, George (Sandra) Urdiales of Ft. Collins, CO, Manuel Jr. (Sophie) Urdiales of Denver, CO, Domingo (Debora) Urdiales of Scottsbluff, Paul (Kathy) Urdiales of Morrill, David (Jackie) Urdiales of Denver, CO, Steve (Carolyn) Urdiales of Denver, CO, Carmen (Steve) Longoria of Morrill, Lupe (Robert) Sabala of Scottsbluff and Annie Urdiales of Scottsbluff; siblings, Leon (Nancy) Urdiales of Morrill, Luz (Eva) Urdiales of Morrill, Henry (Ramona) Urdiales of Gering, John Urdiales of San Diego, CA, Gene Urdiales of Tucson, AZ, Helen (Manuel) Martinez of Scottsbluff, Betty Hernandez of Kansas City, MO, Horencia (Albert) Gonzales of TX; seventeen grandkids; 27 great grandkids; along with many nieces and nephews.
Preceding Manuel in death was his first wife, Ermelina (Vigil); sons, Jessie and Michael; brothers, Urbano and Frank; sisters, Lupe and Alexandria (Narvais); brothers-in-law, Joe Hernandez and Louis Narvais; sisters-in-law, Ocelia and Maria.
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State Police have launched an internal investigation after photos of a State Police sergeant were posted on Facebook.
The pictures show the sergeant on duty and in uniform, posing with underage women, and you can see a large bottle of liquor in the background.
Investigators are trying to figure out why State Police Sergeant William Nasuti posed for the pictures and what exactly led up to it.
State Police say it started with Sergeant Nasuti encountering a group of young adults at a car parked at a Quincy quarry. It ended with the sergeant exhibiting what the State Police are calling "poor judgment".
Sergeant Nasuti posed for three different pictures with young women who are under 21.
Another shot shows a large bottle of alcohol on the cruiser's trunk and the bottle is also visible in one of the group photos.
Another picture shows a young man in the back of the cruiser sticking out his tongue.
One of the women in the photo posted the pictures on Facebook for her more than 800 Facebook friends to see. Someone then sent the pictures to Fox 25 writing, "...They are an absolute embarrassment not only to themselves but to the State Police and what they stand for. It irritates me that this guy could be pulling me over in the future for going 5 miles over the speed limit or something so small."
"It's not surprising that the photos bothered someone enough to send them in.," said Ethan Becker, author of the book Mastering Communication at Work and president of The Speech Improvement Company in Brookline.
Becker trains clients to always think about how they're portraying themselves to others, especially now, where anything you do could end up online.
"Thinking about professionalism in the moment, he probably would not have posed for the pictures," said Becker.
"He probably would have gone in, taken the alcohol if that was the appropriate thing to do, and go about his business."
Fox Undercover sent the pictures to the State Police who are now investigating.
In a statement State Police spokesman David Procopio says Sergeant Nasuti "...at one point secured a bottle of liquor that he placed on the trunk of his cruiser during the interaction, and temporarily detained one person in the back of his cruiser while he confirmed that person was of legal age to possess alcohol..."
According to Procopio, "That person was subsequently determined to be the group's designated driver, of legal age to transport alcohol, and not impaired."
The statement goes on, "The department's investigation will determine the sequence of events that followed, including the taking of the photographs. While the sergeant's initial interaction with the group was initiated for appropriate reasons, the State Police are disappointed in the poor judgment exhibited by his posing in some of the photos. The department will take appropriate action as determined by the results of its investigation."
"Once you are in a position of authority or a position of leadership, what you say can have a very long lasting impact. People have long memories," said Becker.
Alyssa Picot is the young woman who posted the photos on Facebook. She says she and her friends were celebrating her birthday, had car trouble, and were waiting for a friend. She wouldn't say if they'd been drinking.
"(Sergeant Nasuti) was very nice," said Picot. "I just don't want this guy to get in trouble."
For now, Sergeant Nasuti remains on active duty while the State Police internal investigation continues.
Nasuti's union, the State Police Association of Massachusetts, declined to comment on the case.
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(NOTE: Due to an editing error, the last three paragraphs of this letter to the editor printed Sunday did not appear. The letter is being reprinted here in its entirety)
On Thursday, contributors to the United Way of Trumbull County during the past 12-month period will be entitled to vote with regard to a historic proposition - whether or not to dissolve our 89-year old United Way organization that has helped tens of thousands of Trumbull County residents directly and through its network of human service agencies.
Along with 38 other members of the local United Way of Trumbull County board of trustees, I recently struggled with the recommendation to advance a formal proposal to dissolve the corporation and, upon similar action by the Youngstown-based United Way, create a new regional United Way corporation. The decision by the trustees to put it to a vote of the entire membership, as called for in the bylaws of the organization, passed only by a three-vote margin. This is certainly not an overwhelming majority. In fact, 40 percent of the trustees voted no or abstained from voting.
At the heart of the matter are questions with yet-unknown answers: Would a regional operation better serve the health and human service needs of our local Trumbull County neighbors? Would a regional organization remove the passion people have for our local United Way and the Trumbull County network of agencies? Past studies suggest that both donations and volunteer service would be diminished significantly. Although I believe that regionalization may be a well-conceived idea for many economic matters, it is not the best or most appropriate means of dealing with human needs or the needs of our local neighborhoods.
The questions are not unique to our Trumbull County community. Throughout Ohio, other United Ways have faced the very same concerns often brought upon by a reduction of contributions during a period of economic uncertainties. In nearly all cases, both similarly-sized and larger communities that have explored a regional United Way concept - Lebanon, Hamilton, Dayton, and Cincinnati - have chosen to maintain their existing operations and to remain as close as possible to their respective neighbors-in-need.
As a community, we all realize that Trumbull County has changed. Certainly, the era of large industrial companies with thousands of well-compensated employees joining to assist their community's safety net of services, peaked years ago. Yet, although contributions are less plentiful, United Way allocations to programs and services are more focused than ever to meet specific community needs. Certainly, collaborations and strategic alliances with both for-profit and non-profit organizations must continue to be explored and implemented, but not at the expense of eliminating our United Way and a trusted community partner.
Can our United Way once again achieve the fund-raising results of the past decade, raising the most of any community between Pittsburgh and Cleveland? It's unlikely in the near term, yet just like our neighboring counties - Ashtabula, Portage, Geauga, Mercer, Lawrence and others - we can strive to be the best smaller United Way community that we can be.
I believe we can improve our own United Way of Trumbull County without merging with our neighbors in Mahoning County.
John B. Taylor
Member, Board of Trustees
United Way of
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