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Many TV shows have ended their run on the tube, so viewers have a lot of new programs to sample. For one thing, it's interesting to note that quite a number of new morning shows and newscasts have started telecasting.
On Solar News TV, Jing Magsaysay is hosting "Daybreak" at 6 a.m., a one-hour waker-upper in English. It's a big departure from the loud and hectic morning shows on other channels, so viewers who want a less strident way to start their day could opt to watch it, instead. We should observe, however, that the show is sometimes too low-key and even dour.
Another new morning show is "Kape at Balita," hosted on the GMA News Channel by Susan Enriquez, et al. What makes this show different is the fact that its key hosts are female, so it could be trying to appeal to a largely female viewership.
Other new programs include teleseryes like "Coffee Prince," in which Kris Bernal's character tries to pass herself off as a boy—not very successfully at all. Don't shows like this care about the importance of believability? Kim Chiu was similarly unsuccessful in this regard in "My Binondo Girl," but she did better than Kris is phlegmatically faring in this one.
An HBO limited series that is of particular interest to local boxing fans is the six-telecast "On Freddie Roach" show, a reality program aired every Monday at 10 p.m. Roach owns and operates the Wild Card boxing club in Los Angeles, and one of the champion boxers he has helped develop is Manny Pacquiao.
But, the series is focused on much more than just Roach's involvement in boxing. It turns out that he has Parkinson's disease, a debilitating condition that constantly tests his resolve, and makes his achievements all the more impressive and inspirational for viewers who are fighting their own battles in real life!
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RAID Box/NAS/server advice for '09 Mini/MBP
First, let me apologize - I know this is going to be a long post, lol. If you read it through and especially if you respond, thank you thank you thank you!
SUMMARY: I'm tired of dealing with connection issues between OS X and Windows Home Server. Suggestions? I have an '09 mini and 5 1TB SATA hard drives.
OK, here's my dilemma:
I have always had a Mac for the last several years, but I have always gone back and forth with my main desktop/bulk storage machine. Until just recently, my desktop was an HP workstation - during its tenure with me, I also purchased and setup an HP Microserver to put all of my external hard drives (5 total drives, a couple were inside the workstation) into one accessible place. A couple of months ago, I got fed up with the big-ness and loud-ness (not to mention the hot-ness!) of the HP workstation. So it went to eBay and I replaced it with the best Mac I could afford - a 2009 mini server. And I already had an '09 15" MBP.
Since moving to the mini meant giving up my five internal hard drive bays, I knew that all of my data (and hard drives) would have to live in the Microserver. No problem - moved everything over, it's got 5TB of storage total anyway, and I only have about 1.5-2TB of data right now...
Now I'm running into issues. Problem isn't really the server (it runs Windows Home Server 2011) or the mini (Mountain Lion), per se - it's that the network connections refuse to stay active. I've read that's an issue with 10.8, but let me explain one other part - sometimes the mini refuses to let me reconnect the drives unless I reboot it. Same with the server; sometimes I have to restart it. In other words, these two just refuse to get along. (And don't get me started with the MBP - it's wifi of course, so these issues are even worse.)
Basically, I'm tired of it. I'm almost 100% convinced that it's a combination of Windows Home Server and Mac OS X not cooperating. Not sure who's at fault; don't really care. Just tired of restarting my machines every day...
What do you guys suggest I do? Here are some of my thoughts:
1) Use a different server OS. Maybe FreeNAS or Ubuntu. Have any of you used either of these with Mountain Lion? How's it work with OS X? This would be the easiest/cheapest, so obviously I'm for it.
2) Sell the server and get a RAID enclosure. Something like the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2. (Keep in mind that my 2009's don't have Thunderbolt or USB 3.0, so it would have to be something that supports Firewire 800)
3) Sell the server and get a NAS of some sort. After my current network issues troubles, I almost think I'd prefer attached storage. I can simply share to the MBP, as the mini is always on.
4) Some other suggestion I haven't thought of?
What I have right now:
4x 1TB WD Green hard drives (WD10EARS)
1x 1TB WD Blue hard drive (WD10EALS)
Gigabit Ethernet between mini and server
One last bit of info: I'm a poor school teacher and we have a new baby. Spending money (for drives or enclosures) is out of the question. I can sell things to do this, but I can't spend any extra. My wife would kill me.
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The Third Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that an offer of judgment in response to a claim for attorneys' fees in a citizen suit under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) is valid. Interfaith Community Organization, et al. v. Honeywell International, inc., et al., Nos. 11-3813 and 11-3814, June 4, 2013.The ruling came in the ongoing litigation between public interest plaintiffs and Honeywell over hexavalent chromium contamination in New Jersey. As part of consent decrees to remove the contamination, Honeywell agreed to pay the plaintiffs' attorneys' fees to monitor the remediation efforts. In 2009, Honeywell challenged the reasonableness of certain fee applications, and it served a Rule 68 offer of judgment for the fees. Rule 68 provides that if a judgment is not more favorable to the offeree than the unaccepted offer, the offeree must pay costs incurred after the offer is made. The plaintiffs argued that an offer of judgment in a RCRA citizen suit violated the Rules Enabling Act, 28 U.S.C. §2072, and was null and void because it discouraged the very citizen suits that Congress intended to promote. The district court agreed, and Honeywell appealed.
The Rules Enabling Act empowers the Supreme Court to prescribe practice and procedure rules, so long as such rules do not "abridge, enlarge or modify any substantive right." In Honeywell, the Third Circuit noted that a rule of procedure is valid if it regulates the "manner and means" of enforcing litigants' rights, but not if it alters "the rules of decision by which the court will adjudicate those rights." Using that criterion, it found that the "rule of decision" governing the adjudication of a fee dispute is not affected, whether there is an offer of judgment. The court also rejected as irrelevant the district court's concern about the potential "chilling" effect of Rule 68 on RCRA citizen suits. "It may very well be that a Rule 68 offer of judgment … will require a [RCRA] plaintiff to make a hard choice," or to take less than it believes it deserves, but that does not abridge or modify plaintiff's substantive rights to attorneys' fees. The court added that the RCRA fee-shifting provision encourages meritorious claims, Rule 68 encourages settlements, and the two objectives are not incompatible. Therefore, enforcing Rule 68 in the context of a RCRA suit does not violate the Rules Enabling Act.
Rule 68(c) authorizes an offer of judgment where liability has been established but "the extent of liability remains to be determined by further proceedings." The plaintiffs argued that the term "liability" in the rule does not include a dispute over attorneys' fees. The court rejected the argument and construed the term broadly to encompass "all legal responsibilities," including the extent of Honeywell's liability for attorneys' fees.
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No direct rendering after Ubuntu upgrade
I just upgraded to Ubuntu 7.04/Feisty Fawn a couple of days ago and ever since haven't been able to get Beryl working again. I found out the cause of this is that I don't have direct rendering (using glxinfo | grep direct, I get return "direct rendering: no").
I've tried loads of things to try to bring it back but so far have made no progress at all apart from causing Xorg to completely break and not load up again... In which case, I've had to reinstall the Nvidia drivers from the command line again before rebooting into Gnome.
My current xorg.conf is as follows.
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
Re: No direct rendering after Ubuntu upgrade
Your xorg.conf file is missing some lines that I have in mine under feisty. In the Screen section there's a GLX option line:
Section "Screen"
Section "Extensions"
Hopefully that will get you up and running. I've made other changes to my xorg.conf file, but none related to Beryl.
Re: No direct rendering after Ubuntu upgrade
Put those lines in, and I've reinstalled the Nvidia drivers after performing all of the steps in the thread http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490
Still no direct rendering though :(
ls -al /usr/lib/libGL* gives me:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2007-04-21 22:23 /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 -> libGLcore.so.1.0.9755
Re: No direct rendering after Ubuntu upgrade
Please post a bug report and the output of glxinfo.
Re: No direct rendering after Ubuntu upgrade
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Bug report attached.
Output of glxinfo:
name of display: :0.0
Edit.. Just in case you need it.. My new xorg.conf as well:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
Re: No direct rendering after Ubuntu upgrade
Also, in my Xorg.0.log file, I have the errors:
(EE) Unable to locate/open config file: "/root/xorg.config.new"
Re: No direct rendering after Ubuntu upgrade
The fact that it can't find its configuration file at /root/xorg.config.new is the heart of the problem: It's falling back to the nv driver because it thinks there's no config file. With the X server running this way, try running "ps aux | grep X" in a terminal to see if the -config option is being passed into the server by whatever is starting it.
Re: No direct rendering after Ubuntu upgrade
This is what I'm getting returned..
root 4892 1.9 10.1 61348 52388 ? SL 08:27 2:10 /usr/bin/Xgl :0 :0 -fullscreen -ac -accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv:fbo -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
Re: No direct rendering after Ubuntu upgrade
Oh, you're running Xgl... In that case, the log file you posted was not the one from the actually running X server. You want Xorg.93.log instead of Xorg.0.log.
Not having direct rendering in Xgl is expected behavior.
Re: No direct rendering after Ubuntu upgrade
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I have the same problem - after upgrade from Edgu to Fiesty i lost hardware 3D support. I tray install with some strange flags (i found on this forum workaround ) :
NVIDIA-Linux-*.run --x-module-path=`X -showDefaultModulePath 2>&1 | cut -d, -f1` --x-library-path=`X -showDefaultLibPath 2>&1`
But didn't work for me :/ .
I use may own configuration kernel - always the same but this time didn't work I put may config and nvidia-bug_report for diagnose.
Software version :
Xorg 7.2
kernel 184.108.40.206
gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)
GNU Make 3.81
May Hardware:
GF 6200N -> Asus
K7NF2-RAID ASrock
Chieftec 450 V
2 optical drivers
1 HUB - 4 ports USB 1.1
2 hard drives
Re: No direct rendering after Ubuntu upgrade
OK, I've given up and reinstalled Feisty as a clean install.. Everything works straight away.. Sorry to waste anyone's time!
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Moments from Chimney Park's annual Fairy House Festival this past Saturday. The park was packed with hundreds of fairies, elves, gnomes, and other special creatures.
People coming together to help Baltimore. Holly Cripps cofounder of "We Ride to Provide" has spearheaded an effort to raise money for supplies for Baltimore police and their K9 units. These officers along with their K9 companions are on the front lines of the recent unrest in the Baltimore Streets.
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Indian Creek Middle School student Katlyn Williams was named Hometown Hero Wednesday by The Covington News and General Mills.
On April 3, at approximately 2:35 a.m. the Newton County 911 received a call in reference to a home invasion at the Salem Terrace Apartments on Salem Road in Newton County.
(UPDATE) At approximately 2:35 a.m. the Newton County Sheriff's Department received a call regarding a shots fired incident at a Salem Terrace apartment Friday. One male was dead inside of the apartment.
Newton Medical Center's Auxiliary Gala Crystal & Cotton a celebration of Southern Culture & Preservation was held Saturday at Burge Plantation in Masfield Ga.
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Big events are planned at the Covington Square every weekend in October, which will be good for business but, probably, bad for traffic.
You've heard of Savannah's Gulfstream plane manufacturing center. Imagine something like that here. Or something better, perhaps.
Nowhere in Georgia is there a highway dedicated to World War II veterans.
Mayor Ronnie Johnston convinced the Covington City Council to take a "gamble" Monday and give $25,000 to the forming "commercial improvement district," which business owners are forming along U.S. 278 to raise money for area improvements.
Thousands of people may have been awed by the sight of colorful fireworks exploding above Covington's Historic Courthouse clock tower, but Covington's Independence in the Park festival organizers were definitely in awe of how the event seemed to go off without a hitch Friday.
With a predicted zero percent chance of rain, a fireworks show in Rockdale and events in Social Circle today will pose the threat of a crowded Fourth of July in Newton County.
The Covington Police Department is warning residents to be wary of phone calls asking for any financial or personal information.
A group of local churches and ministries are working together to turn the Nelson Heights Community Center into a bustling place this summer.
Floyd Street resident Hugh Burnett presented the Covington City Council Monday with a list of questions he and his neighbors would like to see answered before the city begins work to turn Legion Field into a public park and event space.
Two Covington electric workers are recovering well this week after being injured on the job last Friday when a wire came loose, causing an arc flash – where electricity travels through the air between conductors – and burning the workers.
The Covington City Council voted to purchase a wooded 97.78-acre tract in the heart of the city that touches five separate neighborhoods and could add more connectivity to the city in the future.
Covington has a lot of long-tenured employees, and, while that's a good thing, it's posing problems when the city tries to recruit and retain qualified replacements.
The square will still get spruced up this year, even if those plans no longer include a gazebo.
T.K. Adams led the Newton County Community Band in his final concert Monday night.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed a suite of amendments to Regulation D, Form D and Rule 156 under the Securities Act of 1933 (Securities Act) (Proposed Rules). According to the SEC, the Proposing Release comes in connection with the adoption of amendments to permit general solicitation and general advertising in certain circumstances, as discussed in a recent OnPoint. A majority of the SEC Commissioners state that the Proposed Rules are intended to (i) enhance the SEC's ability to monitor how the market will implement the new private offering regime and (ii) provide additional investor safeguards to combat concerns in connection with permitting issuers to engage in general solicitation and general advertising under the newly created paragraph (c) of Rule 506.
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Small believes a ridge of high pressure that has dominated on or near the coast much of this fall will shift to the east in winter, allowing bigger storms to barrel into California from the west.
Alex Tardy, a colleague of Small's in the Rancho Bernardo office, said it's another tough year for long-range forecasting. He said the Pacific north of the equator is warmer than usual, and that could affect the jet stream. Storms that do make it to Southern California could be laden with more moisture.
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WASHINGTON, DC - The US Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have issued statements on the direction compensation reform will take under the Obama administration - saying they will not put caps on pay at financial firms.
The Treasury's "we will not cap pay" promise does not extend to the recipients of government funds through the Troubled Assets Relief Program (Tarp), for whom a Treasury interim final rule statement stipulated bonus limits, blocks on golden parachutes, and a clawback for bonuses deemed inappropriate.
Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner and SEC chairwoman Mary Shapiro outlined their industry-wide visions for remuneration reform in broad statements, highlighting the need for bonuses to be closely tied to risk management, emphasising the long-term nature of those risk horizons, and stressing the part transparency and disclosure requirements will play in new pay rules.
Shapiro's statement focused on executive compensation and transparency rules, while Geithner's did not distinguish between the levels of employees to whom the rules will apply and made more overt reference to the application of the rules throughout financial firms.
Geithner's 'broad-based principles' began by stressing the need for an extension of performance-based pay metrics from stock price alone, for individuals, business units and the firm as a whole.
The SEC disclosure emphasis runs true to expectations, as the regulator has already proposed extending disclosure requirements for pay structures for more employees within the firm.
"I firmly believe better disclosure of compensation leads to more informed shareholders and in turn to more accountable corporate directors," said Shapiro. "This is the foundation of our capital markets."
The Treasury secretary said risk managers would play a greater role in setting remuneration policies and providing a corrective influence against the kind of misaligned incentives that contributed to the crisis.
"At many firms, compensation design unintentionally encouraged excessive risk-taking, providing incentives that ultimately put the health of the company in danger," he said. "Meanwhile, risk managers too often lacked the stature or the authority necessary to impose a check on these activities."
On extending the time horizons for risk-based remuneration, Geithner said reform needed to extend "beyond top executives to those involved at different levels in designing, selling and packaging both simple and complex financial instruments".
The role of shareholders and effective disclosure feature heavily. Geithner said Treasury would push Congress to give the SEC new powers to force firms to give shareholders a non-binding vote - or 'say on pay' - on executive compensation packages. He also added the necessity that "golden parachutes and supplemental retirement packages align the interests of executives and shareholders".
Shapiro - seen as the more reluctant party to heavily regulate in the compensation debate - highlighted the SEC's traditional position against capping pay and stressed the importance of disclosure rules in its preferred approach to reform.
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PRETORIA, South Africa — Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been arrested after a 30-year-old woman was shot dead at his home in South Africa.
Police say Pistorius was taken into custody after the shooting early Thursday morning at his home in a gated complex in the country's capital, Pretoria.
Lt. Col. Katlego Mogale told The Associated Press that police received a call in the early hours of the morning that there had been a shooting at the double-amputee runner's home.
Mogale said when police arrived they found paramedics trying to revive the woman, who had been shot an unspecified number of times. Mogale said the woman died at the house.
Officers found a 9-mm pistol at the scene and took the 26-year-old Pistorius into custody. Mogale said Pistorius was expected to appear in court later on Thursday.
Many South African media outlets reported that the woman was Pistorius' girlfriend and that he may have mistaken her for a burglar and shot her, but police did not clarify the woman's relationship to Pistorius.
Pistorius made history at the London Olympics last year when he became the first double-amputee runner to compete on the track at the Games and is one of South Africa's most famous sportsman.
Having had both his legs amputated below the knee when he was less than a year old, he campaigned for years to be allowed to compete against able-bodied athletes and finally was cleared by sport's highest court to be able to run at the top events.
He competed in the 400 meters and on South Africa's 4×400 relay team at the London Games and also retained his Paralympic title in the 400 meters in London.
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Luxilon or Red Code...?
In years past, I never could afford a Luxilon reel. I always purchased Topspin Cyberflash but the playability of it was very inconsistent after an hour of hitting with it.
I've been using Redcode in my Pure Storm GT Tour for the last year and a half now. It's been a long time since I used Luxilon. That was back when I was using nCode 90/K90. Circumstances have changed and I can afford Luxilon now.
I have a tournament next weekend and I'm almost out of string. Deciding now whether to buy a Lux or Red Code reel. Any suggestions?
is there a reason why you want to change strings? what do you dislike about red code?
There's nothing I don't like about red code.
I've never tried Lux in my Pure Storm before. I liked Lux when I had it in my old N90/K90's but then it got expensive and I had to stick with the cheaper alternative of Topspin Cyberflash.
Now that I'm much better off financially, Luxilon can enter the picture again.
Of course, if some of you convince me to stay with RC over Lux, I don't mind either. I just need some help soon because I need to get the string by next weekend (which shoudln't be a prob with TW's 2 day shipping).
Glad you can afford Lux now, but changing right before a tourny is a bad idea, particularly when you haven't hit with it in a while. Red Code is a fine string, and if you have no issues with it keep it around, at least until you have time to get used to it again and look a little closer at tensions etc.
Red Code lasts a lot longer than ALU, but there is no savings in getting the reel. Like was said above, I'd stick with Red Code for now. Maybe get several sets of it and a couple sets of ALU for comparison after the tourney.
I agree with just getting a couple sets... that way you don't have a whole lot of unused string in a reel sitting around... unless you know you can use it on other people's frames or something....
yep, save changes for after tournament, but make no mistake: red code and alu power are totally in different leagues
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The legislative debate over assisted suicide is over, for now, but it will return, reviving familiar antagonisms: One side will argue for choice and the other side, partly represented by disability rights advocates, will argue for protection. Behind the seemingly monolithic façade of the disability rights movement, however, percolates a range of opinions.
One of the writers of this commentary has several disabilities, including terminal cancer. Both of us are long-time activists in the disability rights movement. And we both would consider supporting assisted suicide legislation, if written with stringent safeguards.
Some historical context is in order. It is no exaggeration that the disability movement entered this debate freighted with the genocidal history of its constituency. Quality of life was a value assigned by others. People were denied the opportunity to practice self-determination and self-definition. Stigma, dependence and isolation conspired to create a distinct underclass of the disabled, with every reason to fear for its life.
The movement's message was that criteria for quality of life must be self-generated rather than defined by an able-bodied cabal too frightened of or uncomfortable with disability to fairly assess the experience of a person who has one. This critique expanded the notion of disability from a simple medical diagnosis to a civil rights category.
Is the struggle over? No. People still battle prejudice and devaluation. Vigilance is still a necessity.
All this being true, it is time for the movement to participate in the assisted-suicide debate with openness to the ethical complexity of the issue.
The opposition to assisted suicide may be distilled to five arguments.
First is the slippery slope contention, whereby any bill creates the conditions for descent into state-sanctioned murder. Questionable practices elsewhere are referenced not to open discussion, but shut it down. Nazism is a frequent allusion. Inflated language runs rampant.
Good legislation, however, would take the grease out of a slippery slope argument by creating limitations that go beyond current practices in other places.
Second is the origination argument, whereby the role of Compassion and Choices Inc. (which shares roots with the disability-phobic, and defunct, Hemlock Society) in the sponsorship of numerous assisted-suicide bills is reason enough for some to denounce the proposal. Ideas, however, should be judged on their merits, not on the company they keep.
The third argument flows from the absence of an ideal health system. Until treatment and community support are available and affordable, this argument goes, self-generated actions (assisted or unassisted) to end life will be influenced by inequity. We bemoan the lack of equality in health care, but conceive of circumstances justifying assisted suicide that fall outside the pale of such ideological considerations.
Fourth, opponents maintain that the availability and refinement of palliative care makes the issue irrelevant. But the vexing central questions remain: Should choice be wrested from the individual? And what of the person for whom no useful palliative options exist?
Last, some argue that disabled people require protection from acting upon the false assumption that life with disability is impossible to manage and devoid of joy. Yet one of us, living with her own pending death, wants the right - the choice - to obtain assistance to end her life if and when she feels the need to do so. After all, the two founding principles of the disability rights movement are autonomy and choice. We believe the movement comes near to repudiating its foundations by seeking to determine quality of life for people pushed to unfathomable degrees of suffering.
It is not our purpose here to recommend the precise parameters of future legislation. We propose only the following: 1) Any legislation must be written in collaboration with a diverse constituency, including people with disabilities, and 2) Its language must protec civil rights and the integrity of the decision-making process.
People deserve the opportunity to choose for themselves what they can bear, how long they can bear it and whether or not they may avail themselves of assistance to reach a most personal and final goal.
May Terry has worked for the Disabilities Network of Eastern Connecticut and the Connecticut Legal Rights Project. Elanah Sherman is an advocate at the State Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities, a group which opposes assisted suicide legislation.
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I say 4 foot because sailing the gulf coast of the US over 4 foot resticts most of our favorite places to anchor. Having only once had the pleasure of the Bahamas I found a few places we could not enter because dads' Hunter drew to much. So that is where the 4 foot idea comes from.
When we (wife and I) think about sailing we look at ocean crossing as a needed evil to get to the cool places. We want to be able to duck in to places others can't.
My personal experience with center board,dagger board, swing keel is all in protected waters and I do not find sufficient writings on there use as true bluewater boats. (I am Sure you guys can give the names of some books I just hadn't really found enough info.)
I am comfortable in close quarters in a 33 footer. A decent amount of experience. Much larger than that and well you know married coouple in their late 40's, slow reflexes and all.
Thoughts on multi hull vessels. Well sailing flat to me is a very uneasy feeling. Tried it a couple of times with friends and it just isn't me.
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2nd and Seven – If your safeties are
bigger than your linebackers… - It's not a question that most teams
are faced with, well, unless you're an Auburn Tiger defensive coach,
player or fan. However, the Tigers have flourished with speed, in lieu
of size, at the linebacker position over the past few years, and this
year's group will be similar to those of the past. Will Herring, last
year's starting safety will move up to a linebacker spot, and in so
doing, he becomes the biggest potential starting linebacker.
Regardless, when speed met size in the Capital One Bowl last season, it
was Wisconsin's size and strength that won out in a big way. These
linebackers aren't going to have the luxury of playing behind a nose
tackle like TJ Jackson or a defensive end like Stanley McClover, so it
might be a little tougher to succeed without those two star defensive
linemen. Consequently, if there's a significant amount of pressure on
any one unit this season, helloooo, linebackers.
3rd and Three – Consistent Cox –
The breakout of Kenny Irons by midseason seemed to mask the play of
Brandon Cox, the soon-to-be junior quarterback, who took over for Jason
Campbell, a first round NFL draft pick. Cox had nearly a 2 to 1 TD to
interception ratio and had some key moments, including the throw to
Devin Aromashodu against Georgia that put the Tigers in position to make
the game winning field goal. Shoot, he threw only three interceptions
in the last nine games of the regular season. However, in the Capital
One Bowl, Cox did not play well, finishing 15 of 33 and one pick. As
Cox was harassed into such a poor day, the Tiger offense never found its
end of year groove. With Irons getting 25 to 30 carries a week, Cox
must keep defenses from loading the box. When he does, Al Borges' Tiger
offense could and will be lethal.
4th and One – Where There's a Gunn,
there's smoke, wait, oh, something like that – The loss of Stanley
McClover, a tremendous speed pass rusher, would typically signal rough
times for Auburn, but that's far from the truth. Marquies Gunn and
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Brayden Schenn and Braydon Coburn scored goals to make Philadelphia's Craig Berube a winner in his coaching debut, leading the Flyers past the Florida Panthers 2-1 on Tuesday night.
Panthers End Five-Game Losing Streak With Win In Philly
Jonathan Huberdeau is getting quite comfortable in Philadelphia. Huberdeau and Peter Mueller each had two goals to help the Florida Panthers snap a five-game losing streak with a 5-2 victory over the Flyers on Thursday night.
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Blown out at home last month by the Flyers, the Florida Panthers would not be embarrassed twice. Jonathon Huberdeau and Peter Mueller both scored goals in a shootout to lead the Panthers to a 3-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night.
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Boston's 85-75 win in Game 7 over Philadelphia on Saturday night earned the Celtics a trip to Miami, where the reigning East champion Heat will host Game 1 of this year's conference title series Monday night.
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The Florida Panthers were all set to break out the champagne and celebrate the team's first playoff berth in more than a decade, then the Winnipeg Jets finally showed up for Tuesday's game and put the celebration on ice.
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Been wondering what master classes you can choose from? Wonder no longer! Our master classes have now been posted. Check out our master class page (http://www.siwc.ca/schedule/2011/thursday) for details.
This is not the first time our plans for SiWC have made me wish I could be in more than one place at the same time, and I'm sure it won't be the last. I think you'll feel the same way when you check out the nine amazing options. Last year's three-time-slot schedule for master classes was hugely popular with many of you, so we're bringing it back. You can take up to three master classes this year, with classes available at 9:30am, 1:30pm, and 5:30pm.
And we haven't forgotten about our beginners. Just starting to dip...
Well, hello. Welcome to Wednesday. If you're Canadian and anything like me, you're off by at least a day, thanks to the long weekend. But it is Wednesday, and I'm pleased to bring you a few more presenters for SiWC 2011.
Say hello to Ian Weir, Kris Rothstein, Robert McCammon, and Cricket Freeman.
New to SiWC this year is Ian Weir. Ian is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Daniel O'Thunder, published in 2009, was a finalist for four awards: the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction.
Among his extensive television credits, he was writer and executive producer of the critically acclaimed CBC gangland miniseries ...
Monday, Monday. Time to pull a few more presenters out of my trusty hat to share with you, don't you think?
Meet Meg Tilly, Wendy Roberts, Terence Young, and kc dyer.
Meg Tilly is the author of two adult novels, Singing Songs (Penguin/Dutton, A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, 1994) and Gemma (St. Martin's Press.) Her first YA novel, Porcupine was released by Tundra/McClelland & Stewart in Sept 2007, and was shortlisted for a BC Book Prize, The Canadian Libraries Association Best Children's Book 2008 and Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award 2008 It also was an Ontario Library Top Ten Best Bets 2008. First Time, a reluctant reader, was released by Orca in Nov 2008.
Tilly is...
Happy Friday! It's been a (rare so far this spring) sunny day here at SiWC Central, and it has me a little giddy. Hope your day has been similarly sunny. I'd wager it'll get even brighter when you meet the Friday Five I have for you today.
Say hello to Margaret George, Eileen Cook, Nephele Tempest, Michael Slade and Ken Sherman.
Margaret George is the author of six biographical novels, set in the ancient world and Tudor England. They are: The Autobiography of Henry VIII (1986), Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles (1992), The Memoirs of Cleopatra (1997), Mary Called Magdalene (2002), Helen of Troy (2006), and Elizabeth I (2011). All of these have been New York Times bestsellers,...
Welcome Wednesday has rolled around once again. (Is it just me, or are the weeks flying by? SiWC will be here before we know it!)
I have a handful of presenters to introduce to you today. What strikes me about all of them - and all our presenters - is what multi-facted, multi-talented people they are. It's a good reminder to me when I look at their bios: step away from the computer once in awhile and fill the well with other inspirations.
Meet Mary Robinette Kowal, Verna Dreisbach, I.J. Schecter, Kari-Lynn Winters, and Sean Cranbury.
Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of Shades of Milk and Honey (Tor 2010). In 2008 she won the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. Her stories have...
Happy Monday to you! Here at SiWC Central, we're settling in for a busy week. First up, of course, is Meet More Monday, a chance to introduce you to another handful of SiWC 2011 presenters. Please give a warm welcome to Patricia Young, Susan Safyan, Kathleen Ortiz, Diana Gabaldon, and Robert Dugoni.
Patricia Young has published ten collections of poetry, most recently "An Auto-erotic History of Swings" with Sono Nis Press. She has twice been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for poetry, won the B. C. Book Prize for Poetry , the Pat Lowther Award for poetry, two National Magazine Awards, the League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Prize, the CBC Literary Award for Poetry, the Arc Poem of the Year Prize and the inaugural Rooke-Metcalf Award for a collection...
(With apologies to Five For Fighting for inspiring the subject line.) It's Friday, ladies and gentlemen! Our first newsletter of the year went out yesterday, and we know lots of you are stopping by to see what's new on the site. So why not bring you a few presenters to celebrate the weekend? And yes, for those of you who wondered, each presenter is added to our speaker list - clickable on the left side bar - as I blog them. The full roster will appear there over the next couple of weeks as I introduce them here.
So here we go! Five for Friday, I promised you, and I won't let you down.
Meet Hallie Ephron, Susan Juby, Jill Marr, Jeffery McGraw, and Luke Ryan.
Hallie Ephron is an avid reader, author, and award-winning book reviewer for the BOSTON GLOBE. Her...
I thought it was about time I lifted my head from planning SiWC and had a look around at what else is going on in the world. Lots happening out there, and I thought you might like to know about some of it. Interested? Links below.
The Lower Mainland lost a much-loved blogger this week. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Derek Miller. We didn't know him ourselves, but have an amazing number of "six degrees" connections with him, enough to tell us this guy was something special. Pete Martin of the Vancouver Sun writes about him, and his touching, poignant last blog, here: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/death+foretold+Burnaby+blogger+...
Happy Wednesday to you.
Did you see our last blog? Registration pricing information is UP! Check out the aptly named "Registration/pricing" link in the header for details of this year's packages.
Updates will be coming fast and furiously in the next few weeks. Check back often. Or better yet, follow us @siwctweets, on your blog reader, or on Facebook to keep up with all the news.
In the spirit of fast and furious updates, I'm going to introduce you to four presenters today. We are delighted to welcome them to SiWC. Say hello to editor Kaylan Adair, agent Rita Rosenkranz, and authors Ken Scholes and Jack Whyte.
Kaylan Adair is an editor at Candlewick Press, an independent, employee-owned children's book publisher located in...
Our 2011 registration and pricing information is UP! Check out the registration link HERE for his year's information.
We have something very special for all you early birds this year. As well as getting the best choice of appointments, we're also rewarding your early commitment to the conference with savings! Book in June, and you get to LOCK IN last year's prices!
You may know we work on a cost recovery basis, and do our very best to keep our prices as low as possible, and we are delighted to be able to offer you the chance to save a few dollars in June.
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Deadlocked in a tough campaign in September 2010, Gov. Pat Quinn launched a $55 million anti-violence grant program, doling out money to groups on the South Side and south suburbs, home to core Democratic voters.
Weeks later, Quinn piled up a 500,000-vote advantage over his Republican challenger in Cook County — one of only four Illinois counties the governor carried en route to a slim 31,384-vote victory.
Now the very program critics say helped Quinn win election four years ago is threatening to undermine his re-election in 2014.
On Friday, Cook County and federal prosecutors looking into Quinn's troubled Neighborhood Recovery Initiative asked for records, including payments, time sheets and personnel files involving the Illinois Violence Prevention Authority — the now-defunct agency that had run the program.
The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, the agency that inherited the program and the violence prevention authority, received a Cook County grand jury subpoena, while federal prosecutors in Springfield made an inquiry for similar records.
"We are working with these agencies to provide all records and requested information," said agency spokeswoman Cristin Evans.
Earlier in the week, the state comptroller disclosed it had complied with a request from federal authorities to turn over copies of contracts and canceled checks from the anti-violence initiative. That came after the revelation that the Cook County state's attorney's office had subpoenaed Quinn's economic development agency and the Illinois auditor general, who had concluded the program was "hastily implemented" and mismanaged.
It was the latest problem for Quinn, who two weeks ago found his administration the subject of a federal lawsuit alleging illegal political hiring at the Illinois Department of Transportation. In addition, an attorney representing Quinn confirmed last week that the state's executive inspector general also is looking into the allegations of political hiring at IDOT.
Taken together, the events have allowed Republican challenger Bruce Rauner to try to chip away at what has been one of the main pillars of Quinn's public career: his honesty and integrity.
Quinn becomes the fourth consecutive governor to face federal scrutiny, following his former running mate Rod Blagojevich, imprisoned for corruption; Republican George Ryan, convicted in the licenses-for-bribes scandal; and Republican Jim Edgar, who twice had to testify at trials involving a contracting scandal in his administration. A fifth, Jim Thompson, lost a landmark federal patronage hiring lawsuit.
"It fits into a framework of a story that is already pervasive, and that is the constant harping on corruption in Illinois government and long-term problems of abuse of power in high places," said John Jackson, visiting professor at the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
"So it doesn't take much to sort of fit that narrative, and it gives Rauner something more to talk about. And he's already of course got a megaphone that is fueled by millions of millions of dollars, so he will step up that message by using these issues that now have some credence," he said.
The revelations have prompted Quinn to play defense, including doing a series of interviews on Friday with Chicago TV stations. It is an uncharacteristic role for Quinn, a veteran campaigner, who has never been shy to go on the offensive against a political opponent to win an election.
"While there is no doubt that Gov. Quinn inherited an ethical crisis from two corrupt governors in a row, everyone knows he has been cleaning up state government since the day he arrived and when a problem comes to light he works to immediately get to the bottom of the issue, root out any problems whenever they should arise, and create new reforms and safeguards," a statement from Quinn's campaign said.
Quinn has maintained that once he became aware of the problems with the program in 2012, he worked to have the violence prevention authority taken over by the criminal justice information authority —an agency operating under the governor's office.
"The important thing is to identify the problem, hold departments accountable and make sure we act swiftly to squarely address the problem and resolve it," Quinn said a day before the federal inquiry surfaced.
"I think the people of Illinois know where I stand. I always believe in doing the right thing. And I think the right thing is always to hold agencies accountable," said Quinn, who ran for a series of offices as an outsider for decades before succeeding Blagojevich in 2009.
Quinn's administration and campaign have sought to change the subject in a variety of ways, from attacking Rauner's views on education and health care to announcing the governor's support for legislation that would ban pet shops from selling animals from "puppy mill" breeders.
But Quinn's problems provide an easy attack line for Rauner, who won the March primary election as he assailed what he called a vast culture of corruption in Springfield even before the most recent revelations.
"This is a sad event that the people of Illinois have seen too many times. The people deserve better than to have yet another governor under federal investigation," Rauner said in a statement last week.


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