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302 events at Peking, up 1 from Athens' total.
Most, oldest, youngest medal winners at Peking
The most medals (8) were won by US swimmer Michael Phelps -
all Gold, bringing his total medal haul to 15, all but two of them Gold.
What changes at London?
There will be 302 medal events at London, same as in Peking. 224 of these will
be individual events, the other 78 are team events (2 or more per team).
Canoeing: the Men's 500m sprint events for both Kayak
and Canoe have been dropped and replaced by even shorter, 200m races. Sprint
events have been contested since Montreal 1976.
Tennis: after an absence of 88 years, the Mixed Doubles event returns. It was last won by Richard Williams and Hazel Wightman (USA) in 1924 (Paris).
Boxing: oh dear, women's boxing is introduced in three weight classes. In the men's division, Featherweight has been dropped, with weight limits adjusted for Fly and Bantam.
Fencing: more fiddling here, the Women's Sabre Team event was dropped
after only one outing (won by the Ukraine in 2008) and replaced with
Women's Épée team event.
Update: at the start of
the Sydney Games (15 Sep 2000), US diver Hal Haig "Harry" Prieste, aged 103, emerged
as the oldest living Olympic medallist. Born on 23 Nov 1896, he had won the
Bronze medal in the platform diving on 29 Aug 1920 at Antwerp, when he was 23
years of age. He continued enjoyment of his medal until his death on 20 April
2001, aged 104.
There is speculation that a young boy from Paris took part in the 1900 rowing as a coxswain in the Dutch pair oars boat. Before the Final, it was considered that regular coxswain Hermanus Brockmann was, at 60kg, too heavy and was replaced by this boy, whose name or age has never been determined despite considerable efforts. He may have been as young as seven. Only a photograph exists, showing him with his two oarsmen Françoise Brandt and Roelof Klein. This decision evidently paid off, since the Dutch won the Gold medal. The question of which coxswain was handed the Gold medal has not been answered.
Most infamous?
US shooter James Howard Snook, winner of two Gold medals at Antwerp in 1920 may well be in front here. Eight years after winning his Gold medals, by then a professor of veterinary medicine at Ohio State University and aged 48, Snook was convicted for killing his mistress with a hammer and was executed by electric chair in Ohio eight months after committing his crime.
Most world records set on a single day
on July 25, 1976 seven world records were set - three in Athletics (Men's 800m, 400m hurdles and Javelin) and four in Swimming (Men's 100m freestyle, 400m individual medley and women's 800m and 4x100m relay freestyle). No other day in Olympic history can match that.


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ABI has arranged a special conference rate of $290 per night. Reservations must be made directly with the resort by July 21, 2013. To secure the reduced rate, reservations may be made only once you have registered with ABI. Upon payment of the conference registration fees, you will receive your hotel reservation information with your conference confirmation. Rooms are held on a first-come, first-served basis. ABI cannot guarantee any rooms after the specially rated ABI block is filled.
Fly into Reno/Tahoe International Airport (RNO). Discounted air travel is available through American Airlines. For transportation to and from the hotel, take the Rolling CLE bus ride for some extra ethics credit (see below).
Attire is casual throughout the conference.
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All fees, except a $75 handling fee, will be refunded if notice of cancellation is received in writing by August 1, 2013. No refunds will be made if notice is received after August 1, although substitutions will be allowed. After August 1, upon written request, a coupon for 20% off the registration fee (not including optional events) will be issued, which can be used (by the cancelling registrant only) for any ABI educational program up to one year after this conference, or for this same conference next year.
Continuing Education
10 hours of general CLE credit including 1.25 hours of ethics, is pending in states calculating CLE on a 60-minute hour and 12 hours of general CLE credit including 1.5 hours of ethics in 50-minute-hour states. Credit hours granted are subject to approval from each state. 12 hours of CPE credit including 1.5 hours of ethics are available. California MCLE: ABI certifies that this activity has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 10 hours, of which 1.25 hours will apply to ethics. NY MCLE: This transitional and non-transitional program has been approved in accordance with the requirements of the CLE Board for a maximum of 10 credit hours, of which 1.5 hours of credit can be applied toward the ethics professionalism requirement.
*ABI offers intermediate-advanced level courses, which assume that attendees will have at least some detailed knowledge of insolvency matters. ABI is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE sponsors. State boards of accountancy have the final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Ave. North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN 37219-2417, or www.nasba.org. For more information regarding administrative policies such as complaint and refund, please contact the American Bankruptcy Institute at (703) 739-0800.
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Attorney Specialist Certification
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In ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs, a basic triangle symbolizes a shark's tooth which was an instrument of great power. Shark's teeth or niho mano were seen as protectors because some sharks or mano are guardian spirits or ancestor gods while others can be kapua which are part god part human.
Those who are fortunate enough to have a shark aumakua depend on the guardian animal for assistance in fishing, protection from dangers posed by other lesser sharks, rescue from drowning and safety from sorcery.
The aumakua might appear in dreams to give guidance or spiritual strength in tough times, warning when danger threatens and inspiration in the arts It is believed that family members will always recognize a family aumakua in any shape. There are many Hawaiian sailors or canoe rowers who credit their aumakua in the shape of a dolphin or shark for guiding them home when lost on the open water. It is said that if you remove barnacles from a shark's skin or share a catch with them, you will have nothing to fear from your aumakua.
Interestingly, mano also means passionate lover in Hawaiian and the word ho'omano can be used to describe someone who has a voracious and lustful appetite.
Sharks teeth as ancient weapons
Ancient weapons or lei o mano used shark's teeth as lethal weapons for cutting and slashing. War clubs, spears and daggers had shark's teeth slotted into them, mainly for close combat. An elliptical weapon with 42 tiger shark's teeth slotted into carved koa wood handle may have been brought to England by an expedition of Captain Cook's. It was likely wielded by a chieftain. There is a weapon called a knuckle duster which is a club shaped like a half moon, with a cut out for a grip. Shark teeth are studded into the outer circumference of the half-circle.
Spears made of stone or wood with shark's teeth could easily shear off a man's limbs when thrown as a javelin from afar or cut through skin like a hot knife through butter when engaged in close hand-to-hand combat.
Attaching the sharks' teeth securely to a strong wooden support was crucial to creating a weapon that could withstand rigorous combat. Old Hawaiian artisans refined this skill of weaponry and adopted advanced tactics such as using used the open elliptical shape to keep the weapon light enough to not quickly exhaust the warrior in a long combat.
There were also various techniques of securely attaching the shark's teeth onto the different weapons of war. The shark's teeth were either laced, directly pegged into, lashed to a peg or anchored to a plug, the last for small tools or small weapons that used only one shark's tooth to lacerate vital points on the enemy's body. These weapons embodied the undaunting fierceness and voraciousness of the mano.
Wearing a shark's tooth is believed to invoke the protector of the mano aumakua to bring good fortune to the wearer, and protects divers and surfers from accidents and shark attacks.
In traditional Hawaiian, the tapas weavers would weave a watermark into the sleeping kappa as an artist's signature and would use vertical rows of triangles to represent shark's teeth. Complex triangular motifs in Hawaiian tribal tattooing and in the feathered coats worn by the chiefs were believed to embody the divine power of the shark and accorded them strength, ferocity and protection.
Legend of guardian sharks
Ka'ahupahu and brother Kahi'uka were caring and benevolent gods who assumed the forms of the mano. They protected the fishermen and marine life and fought off man-eating sharks. Kahi'uka had his mighty tail, which he used to smite unfriendly sharks or thrashed on the water as a warning signal to his fishermen worshipers. The two guardian sharks lived in caves around the lochs of Pu'uloa or Pearl Harbor and the folks would bring them food and scrape barnacles off their skin.
Nowadays, Ka'ahupahau no longer lives in Pu'uloa. However, a previous attempt by the government to build a dry-dock over her old home was unwelcomed and greeted with great fear by the natives. It was barely completed when the whole structure collapsed with a loud clash, and today, a floating dock stands in its place, While scientists attribute the fault to volcanic tremors on the ocean floor, the Hawaiians believe that her brother, Kahi'uka with the powerful tail still guards the blue lagoon in Pearl Harbor.
The Hawaiians both revere and fear the sharks, and a shark aumakua is believed to have guided the first Polynesians to Hawaii, in one version of the story. Whichever type of mano you encounter depends on circumstances, but following the Hawaiian tradition of praying to their aumakua when they enter the water can certainly help.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (17 January, 2013)--The number of initiatives that protect and restore forests, wetlands, and other water-rich ecosystems has nearly doubled in just four years as governments urgently seek sustainable alternatives to costly industrial infrastructure, according to a new report from Forest Trends' Ecosystem Marketplace.
"Whether you need to save water-starved China from economic ruin or protect drinking water for New York City, investing in natural resources is emerging as the most cost-efficient and effective way to secure clean water and recharge our dangerously depleted streams and aquifers," said Michael Jenkins, Forest Trends President and CEO. "80 percent of the world is now facing significant threats to water security. We are witnessing the early stages of a global response that could transform the way we value and manage the world's watersheds."
The report, State of Watershed Payments 2012, is the second installment of the most comprehensive inventory to date of initiatives around the world that are paying individuals and communities to revive or preserve water-friendly features of the landscape. Such features include wetlands, streams, and forests that can capture, filter, and store freshwater.
Experts at Forest Trends' Ecosystem Marketplace, which tracks a variety of programs that provide "payments for environmental services" or PES, find investments in watershed services emerging in both the developed and developing world as a "powerful new source for financing conservation"--and also a way to provide new "green" income opportunities for rural communities.
The report counts at least 205 programs--up from 103 in 2008--that in 2011 collectively generated US $8.17 billion in investments, an increase of nearly $2 billion above 2008 levels. The report also identifies a raft of new programs gearing up for launch in the next year. "The level of activity is far more intense than it was just a few years ago when we began tracking these types of investments," Jenkins said.
For the most part, the watershed investment programs documented in the report involve relatively simple exchanges, but the return on investment can be considerable.
For example, authorities in China are providing new health insurance benefits to 108,000 residents in struggling communities that lie upstream of the bustling southern coastal city of Zhuhai in exchange for adopting land management practices that will improve drinking water for the region. The program is just one among many such efforts underway in China, which emerged in the Ecosystem Marketplace report as the world leader in using investments in watershed services to deal with water challenges. In fact, China accounts for 91 percent of the watershed investments in 2011 documented in the report.
China has the lowest amount of freshwater resources per capita of any major country in the world, according to the World Bank, and water scarcity and water pollution already cost China 2.3 percent of its gross domestic product. "Water insecurity poses probably the single biggest risk to the country's continued economic growth today, and the government has clearly decided that its ecological investments will pay off," the Forest Trends report states.
On the other side of the world, officials in New York City were faced with the prospect of spending billions of dollars on new water treatment infrastructure. They opted instead for a much cheaper program that compensates farmers in the Catskills for reducing pollution in the lakes and streams that provide the city with its drinking water. The effort has been credited with, among other things, keeping safe drinking water flowing from city taps throughout Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath--filtration plants and water infrastructure require electricity to function, while natural ecosystems function throughout even the longest power outages.
But China and New York City are not alone in grappling with major water-related challenges. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency reports that in the last five years almost every region has experienced water deficits and at least 36 states will face some type of water shortage in 2013. Ecosystem Marketplace documents 68 watershed payment programs in North America and 18 more in development that respond to these challenges. Leading the charge are Oregon, Washington state, and also Minnesota.
Meanwhile, in the developing world, 700 million people in 40 countries face water shortages. Today, one third of the World Bank's loan portfolio involves water projects. And though investments in watershed services are growing rapidly, they are tiny compared to the estimated US $1 trillion per year that will be needed through 2025 to meet water supply and sanitation demands. Analysts at Ecosystem Marketplace note that devoting even a small fraction of these investments to "green" solutions that protect water at its source--compared to "gray" solutions like water treatment facilities--could generate huge returns by simultaneously providing water security along with a host of environmental and social benefits.
Inventorying Investments in "Natural Infrastructure"
The Ecosystem Marketplace inventory of watershed investments reveals a wide array of creative and innovative approaches around the world where, faced with major water challenges, "leaders and communities have opted to invest in our natural infrastructure and reward the people who protect it." For example:
Investing in a Portfolio of Ecosystem Services
"The benefits from these watershed programs extend far beyond water: they support biodiversity, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and provide income for the rural poor," said Genevieve Bennett, lead author of the report and a research analyst with Ecosystem Marketplace.
Bennett said work is already underway to tap these synergies and make conservation even more lucrative by combining investments in watershed services with payments for other types of ecosystem services. For example, in Vietnam, tourism operators make investments in watershed conservation that are based, in part, on the estimated values of a pristine landscape for the tourism industry. In the US state of Georgia, the Carroll County government has created stream-bank mitigation credits on land that was originally acquired to protect key water source areas. And in Indonesia, watershed investments have been packaged with credits for conserving carbon stored in forested areas.
One disappointing finding, according to Forest Trends, was the limited participation of the private sector in paying for watershed services--despite the fact that a majority of the Global 500 companies report experiencing water-related challenges. Forest Trends identified only 53 programs that included private sector participation, the majority of which involved beverage companies. Instead, most of the programs tracked in the report are operated by NGOs or governments.
"It may be that many companies are waiting to see programs become better established," Bennett said. "Unlike the carbon trading world, water lacks well-established tools and standards that help companies to understand and mitigate their risk, and that seems to be a major hurdle."
Overall, Bennett and her colleagues believe the market for investments in watershed services is primed for considerable growth, particularly as economic conditions improve. They find evidence indicating that China's "already massive investments" will increase significantly, along with investments in Latin America and the United States.
Forest Trends' mission is to maintain, restore, and enhance forests and connected natural ecosystems, which provide life-sustaining processes, by promoting incentives stemming from a broad range of ecosystem services and products. Specifically, Forest Trends seeks to catalyze the development of integrated carbon, water, and biodiversity incentives that deliver real conservation outcomes and benefits to local communities and other stewards of our natural resources.
Forest Trends analyzes strategic market and policy issues, catalyzes connections between producers, communities and investors, and develops new financial tools to help markets work for conservation and people. Ecosystem Marketplace, an initiative of Forest Trends, is a leading source of information on environmental markets and payments for ecosystem services. Our publicly available information sources include annual reports, quantitative market tracking, weekly articles, daily news, and news briefs designed for different payments for ecosystem services stakeholders. We believe that by providing solid and trustworthy information, we can help incentives and payments for ecosystem services become a fundamental part of our economic and environmental systems.
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Reconnaissance of the battle field at Bull Run, Va., fought July 21, 1861
Report of Lieut. Henry L. Abbot ... upon explorations for a railroad route from the Sacramento Valley to the Columbia River.
Report of the Board on Fortifications or Other Defenses appointed by the President of the United States under the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1885 ...
Report upon experiments and investigations to develop a system of submarine mines for defending the harbors of the United States.
Report upon the physics and hydraulics of the Mississippi river, upon the protection of the alluvial region against overflow, and upon the deepening of the mouths : based upon surveys and investigations made under the acts of Congress directing the topographical and hydrographical survey of the delta of the Mississippi river ..., submitted to the bureau of Topographical Engineers, War Department, 1861
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12:00pm: Depart Mt. Vernon, IA for Chicago, IL
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9:30am: Career panel at the MacArthur Foundation, one of the world's largest and most well respected non-profit and philanthropic organizations
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Electro-Motive Diesel, one of the two largest suppliers of locomotives to the freight industry, cut a ribbon this week on a traction motor maintenance and overhaul facility in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
John S. Hamilton, president and CEO of LaGrange, Ill.-based Electro-Motive, said "this facility represents a significant step for EMD. By performing traction motor remanufacturing for EMD customers throughout the Western Hemisphere – as part of our broader strategy to support our global customers with EMD facilities – it will ensure that their locomotives remain highly reliable."
The new facility occupies over 110,000 square feet. Operations began there last month, and at full capacity it is expected to employ over 150 people. The building is located in the Tres Naciones Industrial Park, which provides the infrastructure for over forty industries from eleven countries.
While this was the only new support facility EMD discussed this week for its Western Hemisphere customer base, the manufacturer said it also has expanded its parts warehouse operations in China.
The company won a contract in 2005 to supply the China Ministry of Railways with 300 hevy-haul, 6,000-horsepower locomotives designed specifically for that market. "The completion of testing and production in China has seen the fleet growing, with a good number in service now," EMD said.
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Are we really turning off the bugs?on October 29, 2013 @ 6:32 am (Updated: 10:02 am - 10/29/13 )
"If all the citizens in Europe believe that America is spying on every individual citizen, then I think that people do not love America anymore," said one German official.
They have threatened to un-love us - they cannot fathom why, for example, we would eavesdrop on Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is, after all, a friend.
Well, I doubt that we were doing it to learn juicy private tidbits. If we were after that we wouldn't waste our time with the Germans. We'd tap the Italians.
But why do it at all? Well, I think part of it might have been to find out what other, less-friendly eavesdroppers might have been learning. Because it turns out Angela Merkel, according to German Television, was in the habit of sending numerous text messages using an ordinary cell phone.
"Her cell phone is a run-of-the-mill Nokia, that even lay-persons can crack with software available online," said one reporter.
Which means every time she sent a text, the bad guys could see it too. And my guess is the NSA wants to know what the bad guys are seeing.
Of course, now that it's out, the president will have to bend over backwards to promise we will never ever do this again.
But here's what he's got to be thinking: Suppose I turn off the bugs, and then a week or a month or a year later, I get a call at 3 a.m. that one of my embassies has been blown up?
Which is why I think, regardless of any public statement, we will keep on bugging even friendly countries - unless we're pretty darn sure that country is willing and able to thoroughly bug itself.
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We have exactly two weeks of data to go on right now. It's far too early in the season to be able to draw any conclusions from any of the data we're seeing, but that doesn't mean we can't have some fun with small sample sizes. We're going to skip the normal table and breakdown format that we all know and love. This week's LNL will feature some of the more ridiculous things that have been observed and quantified in the first few weeks of the season.
You know it's early in the season if Omar Infante is the only Miami Marlin capable of hitting for power. Speaking of Infante, he's got some numbers that are simply unsustainable. Infante is currently sporting a HR:FB ratio of 19.0%. He owns a 5.2% mark for his career and posted a 8.9% mark when he "exploded† for 16 homers during his career year in 2004. Infante's BABIP numbers are totally skewed thanks to his power production. He owns a .273 BABIP versus a .333 actual batting average.
The advanced metrics claim that the power production isn't sustainable for Infante and fantasy GMs need to take that into consideration when discussing trades. It's likely that we've already seen the best Infante has to offer in 2012 and it's going to be a long march to a season with fewer than 10 homers for ol' Omar.
Andre Ethier teased fantasy owners with a .380/.446/.556 slash line last April. His .452 BABIP signaled that he was a regression candidate and his injury troubles sent him from candidate status straight to the president of RegressionLand. Ethier is off to another hot start this April with a .283/.353/.674 slash line. His BABIP is a reasonable .290 and he owns a .322 BABIP for his career. Ethier's 23.5% HR:FB ratio is almost double his career rate of 12.3%. The concern here is that his walk rate has dropped below 8% while his K% rate is over 20%. That could be a trade off for his new found power, but it's too early to tell.
Ethier's value is contingent on his health. He should be a productive fantasy player as long as he can stay healthy. It's a situation that will have to be closely monitored all year. It might be a good idea to sell Ethier at the first sign of weakness, but enjoy the production as long as it lasts.
A.J. Pierzynski is another hitter outperforming his career averages at a ridiculous rate. Pierzynski currently owns a 40.0% HR:FB ratio. A.J. posted a 6.5% ratio last year and owns an 8.6% ratio for his career. He's managed get a couple of long flies over the fence. Look to deal Pierzynski if there's a gullible GM in your league. He won't be able to sustain this kind of production for much longer.
Pre-season overdraft candidate Eric Hosmer has gotten off to a slow start. Don't panic. It's a function of small sample size and poor BABIP. Hosmer is only hitting .158 on balls in play. We don't have enough data to build an accurate profile on Hosmer at the major league level, but we can all agree that .158 is far too low for a hitter of Hosmer's ability. He owns a 42.5% FB rate. That's awfully high and should cause a hitter to carry a lower than average BABIP. His LD % is only at 10.0%. That number should rise closer to the 18.7% number that Hosmer carried last year and his production should rise with it.
Pre-season sleeper Lucas Duda is delivering the power production, but he has a putrid batting average and he's striking out at a rate that would make Adam Dunn shake his head. Duda owns a 53.1% FB rate. That's a large part of the reason why his BABIP is sitting at .207. The K's are likely a function of the power production and could be an issue that fantasy GMs will have to deal with all year. The K-rate is a concern, but there's not much fantasy GMs can do except wait and see. Sending him to the waiver wire for the flavor of the week is a shortsighted strategy that will likely lead to regret and remorse. The problem is that his trade value has gone from overrated to almost nonexistent. The best strategy at this point is to simply ride out the poor performances.
John Mayberry has zero runs scored, zero homers, zero steals and only two RBIs  in 12 games. Even Brent Morel has managed to score seven runs and his OBP is .000(not an actual number, but watch a White Sox game and see if you remember Morel getting on base). Mayberry owns a .292 BABIP, but has a 0.0% walk rate. This is guy that drew walks at a 8.8% clip in 296 PAs in 2011. He's having a horrific start at the plate. It's part bad luck and part bad approach. It's hard to tell if he'll be able to live up to any of the preseason hype that Mayberry had. Fantasy GMs should either take a chance on the waiver wire or keep Mayberry on the bench until he can draw a walk.
We've discussed a bunch of the more unusual hitting performances to date, now for the pitchers.
Jeremy Hellickson's xFIP is 5.97. He's carrying a 3.29 K/9 in 13 ⅔ 2012 innings. The regression is coming. Oh, it's on it's way. Any day now.
Josh Johnson owners have legit reasons to be concerned about JJ's poor start. Velocity and K's are down and his BABIP and walk-rate is up. Those are bad for fantasy teams, but there is some good news. His GB:FB ratio is a ridiculously high 3.40. He owns a 1.48 ratio for his career. He's giving up ground balls and a lot of them are getting through the holes in the Miami infield. It looks like he's a victim of the luck dragon combined. Now, the walks and velocity drop are actually the bigger concerns. He could be working his way back after an extended layoff or he could have a hidden injury. At this point it looks like he's still working his way back, but any drop in production from a pitcher with Johnson's injury history should raise an eyebrow.
Zack Greinke has continued to pitch well, but still carries the ERA of a guy who should be struggling. He isn't. He's maintained his high K/9(9.68 so far in 2012) and low BB/9(1.53 in 2012). He's sporting a not-so-nifty .365 BABIP, but his 2.31 xFIP indicates that his 5.09 actual ERA is a mirage. Greinke will be fine. Greinke owners need to show some patience and discipline.
Tom Milone is a pitcher who is outperforming his metrics. Milone has always posted solid K numbers in the minors, but his lack of overpowering stuff will limit his strikeout potential at the major league level. Milone has a 3.21 K/9 and a 3.21 BB/9. His 4.67 xFIP indicates that his 2.57 actual ERA is in fact a mirage. He puts a ton of balls in play and his .154 BABIP is simply unsustainable over the long haul. He might be fine in spot starts(versus weaker offenses at home or Seattle on the road), but that's about as far as anyone should go on Milone.
Remember when we warned you about pitchers coming off of career years? C.J. Wilson is another pitcher that fantasy GMs should be concerned about. His velocity is actually up from last year, but he's started the season by walking a ton of batters. His BB/9 sits at 4.15. He's gotten away with walking batters because his BABIP for his first few games is at .205. His 4.32 xFIP indicates that he's been getting by on luck and could be in for a rough ride. His 2.98 BB/9 in 2011 was a career low for Wilson and it's not unreasonable to think that he could regress to his 3.76 career average.
We'll end this with a pitcher on which a lot of e-ink has been spilled. Tim Lincecum's poor start has been overblown to the point of cliche. The underlying metrics say that he's fine. There is a drop in velocity, yes, but he's still posting a 10.54 K/9 and a 2.63 BB/9. Those are not the numbers of a man who is pitching hurt or whatever the speculation is about Lincecum. The problem lies with his .465 BABIP. He's giving up a hit almost every other time a ball is put in play. His 45.8% strand rate goes hand in hand with the fact that he's been really unlucky on balls hit in play. His 2.68 xFIP indicates that better fortunes are in store for The Freak. The only number that should give fantasy GMs any concern with Lincecum(other than his ERA and WHIP, of course) is his 29.2% line drive rate. That's a full 10 percent over his career average. So, one the one hand Lincecum is striking out 10.54 batters per nine innings, but giving up line drives in bunches in the other. This simply does not compute. Fantasy GMs need to exercise patience. Two weeks of bad baseball does not a season make.


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In the wake
of the Tucson shootings, there has been a new call to "tone
down" political rhetoric. Of course, much of the call
to "civility" has come from the left — accompanied
by hateful, uncivil rhetoric — which seeks to both politically exploit
the situation as well as shut down its opposition.
One of the
loudest voices for "civility" comes from Jim
Wallis and the Sojourners group, which seek to espouse a "Progressive
Gospel" in which Christianity is melded with the Welfare State.
After the shooting, Wallis wrote that it was "an attack
on the soul of the nation," which is nothing less than
a declaration that the only Gospel is a political gospel.
(I give credit
to Wallis for not joining in with the New York Times in blaming
Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin for the shooting, and the rhetoric on
his own "God's Politics" blog has been more conciliatory
than what one sees elsewhere from the Left. I also support Wallis'
criticism of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and his condemnation
of the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.)
I do find the latest "call to civility" from Wallis and
his group to be interesting, given the history of Sojourners and
the political viewpoints that have come from the magazine Sojourners
over the years. What I find is not that they support civility for
its own sake; rather, "civility" is a political tool by
which people accept the worst of what the state does, and do it
In 1979, the
government of Vietnam was attempting to impose its communist "vision"
upon unwilling people, and the government used summary executions,
concentration camps, and other acts of coercion. The result was
grinding poverty, starvation, and an exodus of refugees, called
"the boat people." Many people saw this refugee crisis
as a natural outgrowth of tyranny, but Wallis saw things differently.
The "boat
people," you see, were nothing more than slaves to capitalism.
He wrote:
"Many of today's [Vietnamese] refugees were inoculated with a taste
for a Western lifestyle during the war and are fleeing to support
their consumer habit in other lands." (Sojourners, September
1979, signed editorial)
To be honest,
the idea that people would put their very lives at risk to take
rickety boats onto the open seas, to be possibly murdered by pirates,
and to live for years in squalid refugee camps so that they might
have the opportunity to shop at Wal-Mart (which Wallis also hates)
is an obscenity. However, his statement, as well as events that
have occurred since then, also provides a window into his view of
political "civility."
One does not
have to look to Vietnam to understand that Wallis openly endorses
predations by "Progressive" governments against its citizens.
After the Waco massacre in 1993, I scoured a number of issues of
Sojourners, trying to find any mention of the worst government-caused
domestic bloodbath since Wounded Knee of a century before. There
was nothing; it is as though Waco and its aftermath never happened.
The political left supported Janet Reno and her assault on the Branch
Davidians, so in the view of Wallis and others, they got what they
Likewise, I
have read nothing in Sojourners that deals with the police
excesses of the Drug War. (The latest
issue deals with the racial disparities of the Drug War as well
as the issue of mass incarceration, but it does not go to the heart
of the problem: the expansion of the power of the state itself.
Instead, Sojourners calls for restraint upon whom the government
arrests to be accompanied by the growth of state power to control
what people eat, think, and do. No one there seems to notice the
Although the
magazine and Wallis have condemned any kind of violent rhetoric
that is aimed at expansion of the U.S. welfare state apparatus (even
if that expansion is accompanied by state-sponsored violence), nonetheless
they also have given almost uncritical support to some of the most
violent and murderous regimes in history. Pol Pot wiped out a quarter
of the population of Cambodia in the name of establishing communism?
This act of genocide totally was ignored by Sojourners while
taking place.
For that matter,
Wallis openly supported the worst excesses of Mao's China (while
endorsing the same kind of economic program imposed by Mao in his
"Great Leap Forward" that led to the slaughter of millions),
and he has had no problem with both violent rhetoric and
violent revolution in the name of imposing communism. "Civility"
applies only to silence people who believe that the "Progressive"
state also is a violent state.
Wallis was
not even willing to apply the rules of civility to himself and Marvin
Olasky from World magazine when Olasky
found that Wallis' organization was receiving money from George
Soros' Open Society Institute, which pushes atheism and abortion
on demand. In return, Wallis publicly called Olasky a "liar"
until Olasky published the tax records and other official statements
that proved beyond a doubt that Wallis had received $325,000 from
Soros, not a trifling sum. (After being fully exposed, Wallis apologized.)
So, in seeing
Wallis and his organization through the years, we come to understand
that if the state seems to impose a "Progressive" vision
through expansion of the welfare-security state, any opposition
to such a vision is illegitimate. If one speaks against the "death
panels" that always seem to accompany state-controlled medical
care, then one is lying. If one objects to the massive new influx
of criminal penalties that will be used to enforce the worst provisions
of "ObamaCare," then one is both a liar and also an "uncivil"
other words, "civility" is a one-way concept. The state
— and especially the state that imposes a "welfare" vision
upon others — is free to engage in violence, use violent rhetoric,
and kill or imprison anyone who stands in the way of such a "vision."
One is not "uncivil" unless he or she opposes such a regime,
even if the opposition is only in the form of words.
Wallis does
not want a "civil" society in which people respect one
another and serve each other. Instead he agitates for a society
in which the state is a master and everyone else is to be subservient
to the implementation of raw state power. "Civility" and
mutual respect for each other does not come from such a political
and social arrangement, but I think that Wallis understands that
point perfectly. And like the poor boat people, if we don't like
this kind of regime, then it is our own fault. However, we are not
free to leave, and we certainly should not be free to say publicly
(or privately) that we don't like it. Instead, we must learn to
love Big Brother.
24, 2011
L. Anderson, Ph.D. [send him
mail], teaches economics at Frostburg State University in Maryland,
and is an adjunct scholar of the Ludwig
von Mises Institute. He
also is a consultant with American Economic Services. Visit
his blog.


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The Historical Society is an association of residents and others who have an interest in the history of the
Town and its vicinity. Its stated purpose is "to collect and preserve information, documents, and artifacts related
to the history of Cushing; to encourage the publication of historical information; and to encourage the preservation
of significant landmarks." Members have also found considerable satisfaction from the social contacts resulting
from membership. There are about 190 members, many of whom are summer visitors. Meeting attendance ranges from 35 to 55
The Society normally meets at 7:30 PM on the second Thursday of each month, from April through October,
but in April and October, the membership gathers for a covered dish supper starting at 6:00 PM.
A (usually) short business meeting precedes a program of an invited speaker on some historical subject, featuring
Cushing history, when possible.
The Society maintains an independent web site at http://www.cushingmainehistoricalsociety.org. It features listings of program plans and other current information.
The Society meets in its meeting house at 17 Hathorn Point Road, or in the barn that stands behind.
Once per year, there is a service in the old (1854) Society-owned South Cushing Church.
Starting in 2003 a series of art shows has been held annually in the barn behind the meeting house, termed the
"Arts in the Barn summer exhibition series." This activity will also occur in 2008.
The Society has mapped and catalogued the ancient cemeteries of the town, and assists the Town Cemetery Board
by maintaining a current list of burials, which is posted on the internet. In 2003 and 2004 it administered two financial
grants for restoration of the eight oldest of the 23 cemeteries and burial sites.
Document, book and photo archives are catalogued in loose leaf form. The indexes are available in the Cushing Library and
in the Historical Society meeting house. The catalogues are also available on this web site
Persons interested in membership should attend a meeting, or contact one of the officers listed below.
The Society was founded under the leadeship of Ruth Aiken (deceased) in August 1969.
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Coalition Opposes Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger
A collection of companies, public interest groups and labor unions said the deal with Comcast would harm both consumers and competition.
December 4, 2014, Thursday
A Plumbing Problem for the Internet (and the Stock Market)
How the net neutrality debate has jostled the stock price of one keeper of the pipes.
November 16, 2014, Sunday
Net Neutrality Rules
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November 15, 2014, Saturday
Net Neutrality Review Could Give Comcast an Out in the Time Warner Cable Deal
Comcast is locked into its deal with Time Warner Cable unless it gets a timely assist from the Federal Communications Commission.
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This is the ultimate gut-check on the administration's entire environmental policy. The pipeline, and the planet-igniting death-juice it will carry, is an environmental catastrophe even if it never leaks, which it will, because it is a pipeline being built by a company whose pipelines leak. Given the nature of the global climate crisis, the project doesn't make a lick of sense. Watch the whole board.
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MTB World Cup Final Round Preview – Hafjell, Norway
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This weekend the World Cup circus rolls into its final destination for the year, Hafjell in Norway.
Aaron Gwin has already clinched the overall from Greg Minnaar, but Greg isn't safe with all to play for, with Gee Atherton a measly 19 points behind in 3rd place.
As for the women, the overall is still undecided, with Rachel Atherton and Emmeline Ragot in hot contention for the title. It could go home with either of them.
The track looks like a combination of some pretty gnarly jumps at the top of the course into some super steep and rooty wooded sections with a couple of long, high speed grassy sections thrown in for good measure.
Will Longden's been twittering…
With that, the riders seem to be loving the track on the tweetbox…
Looking at the track, there are plenty of riders in with a chance here – the loose rocky, rooty gnar will no doubt give the young guns some ammo to lock and load. We've got a feeling it might not be the Aaron Gwin domination that people have come to expect. Riders like Josh Bryceland will be hungry to translate some strong results from the rest of the season into a win, and the ultra consistent, now World Champion, Greg Minnaar can't be ruled out either.
We can't help thinking that this track will suit the ragged style of Emmeline Ragot, provided she can stay on her bike and get down in one piece. Rachel Atherton will be pushing the limits though, she'll be strong on the pedally sections and hungry for that overall win.
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Sometimes it's the random celebrity sighting like recent visitors Michael Douglas and Glenn Close that gives Michael's that jolt of adrenaline during our weekly Wednesday visits. And sometimes it's the sheer power quotient of the dining room that gets our attention. As one regular told me: "I can always tell who is looking for money and who is writing the checks when I come here. It's the best business scorecard around."
Today I was joined by power publicist Catherine Saxton, who knows just about everybody but never spins and tells, and Richard Smullen, co-founder and CEO of Beezag and AdGenesis. We had a fascinating chat about the 'wild west' of Internet advertising and how absolutely maddening those unwanted pop-up ads are. When Richard launched Beezag last November with Laurent Alhadeff, they created a different kind of online advertising environment which they've cleverly coined as 'Me-commerce.' Richard explains beezag's consumer-centric marketing concept this way: "It's about relevancy and reward. Consumers watch entertaining branded content and video ads they love and get discounts they deserve because they're thanked with special offers and incentives from advertisers."
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The 1999 Legislature, through Senate Concurrent Resolution 12, directed the Comptroller of Public Accounts "to develop strategies for increasing the efficiency and reducing the complexity of fee collection and dispersal by county and municipal clerks." The present report is offered in response to this charge.
The issue of court-cost simplification has formed the basis of several past studies in state government, including proposals in each biennial report of the Comptroller's Texas Performance Review (TPR) released between 1993 and 1997. In response to TPR's 1997 recommendations, the Legislature authorized the consolidation of ten state court costs and fees and directed the Comptroller's office to allocate the consolidated revenue to various funds and programs supported by the old costs and fees.
During that same 1997 legislative session, however, the Legislature also created four new court fees, and added two more in 1999. Numerous city and county officials have told the Comptroller's office that a further simplification of the state's complex array of court costs and fees would lessen the administrative burden on their localities. The findings and recommendations contained in this report could help the state achievethis goal.
The first recommendation would consolidate all state courts costs and fees levied on criminal convictions into a single cost that would be reported to the state on a quarterly basis. Any new court costs or fees pertaining to criminal convictions created in the future should be included in the consolidated cost. This would eliminate multiple report forms cities and counties must file and ensure that the remaining reports are due on a uniform date.
The Comptroller's office also recommends consolidation of all civil costs and fees in district courts into a single cost. All civil fees would be reported quarterly. Again, many individual reports presently due on varying dates would be made uniform.
A third recommendation would establish a uniform due date for reports concerning costs connected to the Sexual Assault Program Fund and the Substance Abuse Felony Program; these reports currently lack a statutory due date.
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You've been watching the selling
prices of your neighborhood's homes decline month after month. You're
not alone. Single-family home prices had their largest quarterly
drop in 29 years, according to the latest
survey by the National Association of Realtors.
But there is a bright side.
As home values decrease, so do property assessments.
Just as assessments increased during the real estate boom, now they
should be lower. And a lower assessment means you'll pay less in
property taxes. If your property taxes haven't declined along with
your house's value, you should take action: Appeal the assessment.
You can
fight city hall
Property tax increases are determined by home values, not set
by local governments. Different formulas are used to figure property
taxes, but all depend on a home's assessed value. Some jurisdictions
use a home's actual market value, while others use a percentage
of a property's worth.
Whatever value is used, it's multiplied by the local
tax rate to compute the property's final bill. As home values decrease,
so do their assessed values. Homeowners end up paying less even
though the tax rate stays the same.
The National Taxpayers Union, a Washington, D.C.,
advocacy group whose goal is to lower taxes, estimates that as much
as 60 percent of taxable property in the United States is over-assessed.
But despite the growing tax bills, only half of homeowners protest
their assessments. That means many may be paying more property taxes
than necessary.
property owner really should monitor his assessment every year, with a particular
emphasis in a reassessment year, if applicable," says Illinois state Rep. Franco A. Coladipietro
of the law firm of Amari & Locallo based in Chicago.
Many taxpayers
fail to fight because they don't understand the process (it is complicated) or
because they can't stomach doing the research and providing evidence to prove
the assessment is wrong. Instead, they opt for what Glenn Straus, president of
Straus & Co., a Dallas-based property tax consulting firm that works with
businesses, calls the cuss-and-pay system.
"They cuss
the bill and then they pay it," Straus says.
That's too
bad, since the appeal work isn't as difficult as homeowners fear. In fact, it's
something most can do themselves. Sure, the process is tedious and bureaucratic,
says Peter J. Sepp, the National Taxpayers Union's vice president of communications,
but it's no more difficult than representing yourself in traffic or small claims
If you really don't have the time, hire a property
tax consultant or attorney to do the work. Many of these consultants charge on
a contingency basis, meaning they'll take a percentage of the tax savings if they
succeed in lowering your assessment.
"Fees are charged
various ways," says Les Abrams, a property tax analyst with Nearhood Law
Offices in Scottsdale, Ariz. "Some will work on contingency, others will
charge flat fees and some will do work by the hour."
the appeals process If you decide on a do-it-yourself appeal,
you first need to establish your timeline. When do assessments go out? When is
the deadline for appealing? Call your local assessor's office for this information.
along with the appeals process, can vary from locality to locality. So does the
amount of time permitted for an appeal. Sometimes a homeowner might have only
30 days to appeal. In other jurisdictions, you could have up to 120 days.
your request for an appeal arrives at the assessor's office even a day after the
protest deadline, you're out of luck and will have to wait until the following
year (or sometimes the next assessment, which could be longer) before you can
appeal. Straus says you might want to send your request for an appeal by certified
mail so you'll have proof that it was received before the deadline.
you receive your assessment, it's time to build your case. It's not enough to
bemoan how high your taxes are. Complaining about how those excessive tax dollars
are spent won't help either. You need cold, hard facts.
can be appealed on two grounds: a mistake in the assessment of your house or an
assessment at a higher rate than comparable homes.
the mistakes Mistakes happen more often than you think. Many
assessors don't even come on your property to inspect it. They simply compare
a written description of your home with that of similar properties in your neighborhood.
Appraisers also may use historical information that's wrong.
A home's square footage, for example, might have been incorrectly calculated on
original construction documents.
Or the assessor may have
a slightly different view than you do of your home. "The assessor may be
counting a screened in porch as year-round living space and you only use it in
the summer," says Sepp.
Obvious mistakes aren't difficult
to spot. Is the inhabitable square footage figure correct? Does the assessment
say your home has four bedrooms when it only has three? But you also should consider
checking the assessment's accuracy by comparing it with a recent appraisal of
your property. If you don't have one, hire an appraiser for a new evaluation.
Make sure that any property changes, particularly those that
would negatively affect the value of your home, are part of the assessment. For
example, maybe a bridge has gone out near your home, making your house much less
accessible (and less valuable).
Don't forget any modifications
you've made. If you've torn down a garage to increase garden space, your home's
value likely would be less.
Look closely
at your neighbors The other way to challenge an assessment
is to see how your home stacks up to comparable houses in your neighborhood. Comparable
means homes of the same size, age and general location.
example, Straus lives in a 550-home subdivision in Texas. But even within the
subdivision, there are differences that affect value. Homes near a busy road in
the community are valued less than those abutting a quiet creek.
can find information on comparable homes and their worth at the assessor's office.
If you don't want to do the legwork yourself, hire a Realtor or an appraiser to
collect the data. Straus recommends getting comparisons on five to 10 homes.
you have your comparative data, go over the figures and decide whether you have
a case. If you believe that your assessment is too high, contact your assessor's
office and try to arrange a one-on-one, informal meeting. Sometimes simply pointing
out the facts can be enough for the assessor to lower an assessment.
says 95 percent of his commercial cases are settled informally without the need
of a hearing. Just be aware that when you meet with your assessor, it's a negotiation.
You may still end up with a higher rate than you'd like, but one that is lower
than the assessor's original appraisal.
to the hearing If the assessor won't meet with you (and some
counties won't permit informal meetings) or you meet but fail to reach an agreement,
the next step is to protest the assessment.
Ask the assessor
what the deadlines are to file a protest and what the procedure is. Follow the
guidelines to the letter to ensure against your appeal being thrown out on a technicality.
your hearing, gather all your evidence and put it in order. For example, you may
want to collect photos of comparable properties or put the market data into a
spreadsheet that makes it easy for the hearing officials to see the basis of your
argument. Your presentation doesn't have to be as polished as Perry Mason's, but
being organized will help you put on the strongest possible case.
sitting in on somebody else's hearing before your appeals date. Here you'll see
how the board operates. You can also get a sense of what arguments do and don't
What if the board doesn't rule in your favor despite
your compelling presentation? You always can go to court, but in most cases it
will cost you more that the amount of tax money you might save. But you may not
need to take such drastic action. Many states have a state appeals board where
you can take your case if the local panel rejects your petition, Straus says.
And remember to stay composed and professional throughout
the process.
"Calling them SOBs is not a good negotiation
tactic," Straus says. "The appeal hearing is an emotional thing because
it goes straight to your wallet, but you have to stay calm."
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