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It does not take long to know what to expect out of Anderson County softball in 2011. Lady Bearcat coach Brian Glass pulls out a roster, then marks a "C" by four names.
"These are our team captains," he says. "They are all sophomores."
Very young. Very good.
With Anderson County set to host Mercer County in Monday's baseball season opener, it is time to get a quick rundown of the Bearcats from head coach L.W. Barnes.
"I've got no power. I've got no speed. And I've got no depth in the pitching staff. I do have good defense," Barnes says.
No one really believes Barnes, now in his 13th season leading the Bearcat baseball program. Having four regional championships and four runner-up finishes since 2000 will do that, you know.
Over 40 former Anderson County baseball players are expected to take part in the inaugural Alumni Game, set for Sunday, March 20 at Barnes Field.
Anderson coach L.W. Barnes said the game will provide a fun atmosphere and give Bearcat fans a chance to see some of the players from the past. Also on the program will be raffles, door prizes, silent auctions, and much more. All proceeds will benefit the Anderson County High School baseball program.
Recreation Tee Ball and Softball registrations
From staff reports
The Anderson County Department of Parks and Recreation will be holding registrations for tee ball and girls' softball on Saturday, March 19 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Stratton Building in Community Park.
Tee ball is available for boys and girls, ages 4-6. Softball is available for girls, ages 5 through high school seniors.
The fee for playing is $60 for the first child in a family and $50 for each additional child.
For more information call 839-6498.
Public meeting to discuss management of Beaver Lake
This week in Anderson County Sports
Anderson County High School
Sunday, March 20: Alumni Game, 2 p.m.
Monday, March 21: Mercer Co. at Anderson Co., 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 22: Anderson Co. at Boyle Co., 5:45 p.m.
Junior varsity baseball
Monday, March 21: Mercer Co. at Anderson Co., 7:45 p.m.
Tuesday, March 22: Anderson Co. at Boyle Co., 8 p.m.
Monday, March 21: Louisville Mercy at Anderson Co., 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 23: Louisville Butler at Anderson Co., 6 p.m.
(Junior varsity games immediately following)
Freshman softball
Eric McKee scored 29 points in 22 minutes to lead Kentucky Christian University to an 85-77 win over Lancaster Bible College in the first game of the National Christian College Athletic Association tournament being held in Springfield, Mo.
McKee and Kat Haney led Kentucky Christian to a 49-35 halftime lead with 14 points each in the first 20 minutes. The Knights scorched the nets at a 67 percent clip and hit 54 percent from beyond the 3-point line, according to the school website.
A Lawrenceburg man and his brother were found dead in Ohio, according to a story that appeared Monday on the website, Cincinnati.com.
Michael Lewis, 48, of Lawrenceburg, and his brother, Kenneth, 36, of Georgetown were found dead inside a home in Clermont County, Ohio, the website reported.
Police went to the home, which was being renovated, to check on the men after family members reported not hearing from them.
The website reported that police suspect the deaths were accidental, possibly the result of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Judge Donna Dutton heard the following cases during District Court proceedings Feb. 17.
Daniel L. Readnower, motion, fourth-degree assault (no visible injury) – continued March 3.
Devaun L. Robertson, disposition hearing, second-degree disorderly conduct – pleaded guilty, 60 days (conditionally discharged two years), $178 installment/deferred payment; second-degree fleeing or evading police (on foot) – pleaded guilty, 60 days (conditionally discharged two years); resisting arrest – pleaded guilty, 60 days (conditionally discharged two years).
Anderson County Jailer Joani Clark says she has had enough of Franklin County's jailer, and is considering moving inmates to Shelby County.
Clark revealed the problems she is having with Jailer Billy Roberts during last Tuesday morning's meeting of the Anderson County Fiscal Court.
"We've had numerous problems and it's getting on my last nerve," Clark said during her department head report. "I'm getting a proposal from Shelby County."
The man accused of raping a 15-year-old girl while she was unconscious was arraigned Tuesday morning in Anderson Circuit Court and entered a plea of not guilty.
Jeffrey Wayne Knight, 18, of 1282 Aaron Barnett Road, was indicted Feb. 22 by the Anderson County Grand Jury. He is charged with first-degree rape of a person incapable of consent/physically helpless.
Knight allegedly got the victim high on marijuana and drunk on whiskey last Nov. 12 at an address in Lawrenceburg.
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Hi! Everyone, I hope your holidays has been special. I miss this board alot, but without guidinglight I really dont do anything. I have just checked out the premere show of Venice, its good, but I look for more. It wolud be good if it worked out for them. I am not to sure if I would pay 10:00 for the season or not. If they asked me to pay for guidinglight I wouldnt even hesitate. I use to watch cbs daytime, but know with guidinglight gone its just not the same, and I dont make time to record them. I wish Bb, ATWT. Y&r much sucess, but I miss my guidinglight. I havent even gotten into another serious during day time. I do here alot about Days, but still havent tape a epsiode of that. Well I hope uyou all have a Merry christmas & a Happy New Year. Maybe lets make a deal will keep bombing, and another network will see what Cbs sacrifised, and bring Guidinglight back to life. I just hope it will never go back on Cbs ever again, if it does ever come back. I think if they placed it behind Days,On Nbc it would show that network that it still has life in it.
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Merrymary, speaking of missing Joshua. Wouldn't it be great to get him under the mistletoe? Shame on me. So many thoughts about those Lewis men are going through my naughty little mind.
Bizzie, as long as we are fantazing about the Lewis men, I know you would love to have Bill there with Josh. This is not being naughty, it is about us being wishful, it's our Christmas wish! It is so cold here in Pittsburgh, I need Joshua to keep me warm. Oh, to dream.....
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Ah, yes, I would like Bill here, so if Josh shows up and has Bill with him, just send Bill my way. I'm not sure that my husband would like it, that is unless Bill brought Lizzie with him. Those Lewis man sure make for some good dreaming during this cold weather. It is cold here in TN now too.
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Hi Steven, good to hear from ya! I too hope some way, some how GL returns to us!! I miss them all!!
Thaks everyone, I miss talking to all of you too. I hope the new year brings you love, hope, and anything else you desire. I know here that Cbs has now canceled ATWT, why in the world would they do this right after guiding light.I can say that for some reason they are giving more time to ATWT to wrap things up. Middle of December to september. Guidinglight had April to september, so dont anyone give up hope for ATWT it has time to be picked up else where. But here we go again, all I can say is if there is no chance for it to survive then they need to tell us. They should not get peoples spirit up , and let it crash and burn. And I am sorry, but I feel that Proctor and Gamble wants out. I feel if they really wanted to save Guidinglight and Atwt it could have been done. All they had to do is tell the networks, that they were pulling the plug on any proctor and gamble commercials for there network . The networks would lose alot, if it wasnt for those commercials, alot of these networks would go under. Well anyway please Fight for Atwt wheather you watch the show or not, I willkeep fighting even if I dont watch it. I will start to try to tune in to see the atwt, expecially with tom on the show. Everyone HAPPY NEW YEAR AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL
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as the world turns got the ax to and will end on sept 17 2010 boo hoo.thats even more bad news boo hoo
hi i havent posted in a while i still feel like somethings missing when i go to check the dvr. i miss guiding light alot. i am still hoping that something will come about to bring the charecters back.
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10 minutes into the first period of Wednesday's game against the Detroit Red Wings, Canucks fans got a chance to see a delightfully old-school moment: a slap-shot off the rush that rang off the post and in. That type of goal used to be a lot more common: the highlight reels from the 70′s and 80′s are full of players flying down the wing and unleashing a slapper from the top of the faceoff circle past a helpless goaltender. That just doesn't happen anymore.
What was even more electrifying was who scored the goal: it was Cody Hodgson, the rookie, giving the fans a flashback to the golden years.
It was a surprise not just because of how rare the slap-shot goal off the rush has become, but also because we haven't seen that side of Hodgson's game yet. The majority of Hodgson's shots this season seem to have been wristshots, with most of them being — to put it as nicely as possible — unimpressive.
Hodgson's goal on Jimmy Howard Wednesday night should serve to remind everyone that he was considered to have one of the hardest shots in the junior leagues: he was voted as having the second hardest shot in 2009 by OHL coaches and the third hardest in 2010, the year he only played 13 regular season games. Clearly, OHL coaches respected his shot.
Suffice it to say, after the game, a lot of people began talking about Hodgson on Twitter, the radio, and the Canucks.com forums. Oddly enough, though, most of them weren't talking about his gorgeous goal and his hellacious slap-shot. Instead, they were talking about his icetime.
Despite scoring an important goal, Hodgson had just over 9 minutes in icetime, 9:02 to be exact. That was more than fourth liners Dale Weise (8:01) and Andrew Ebbett (8:49), but less than Maxim Lapierre (9:46).
There are a fair number of Canucks fans and even members of the media who are baffled by this. It isn't an isolated incident either: Hodgson is averaging just 12:40 in ice time per game. He's currently 7th in rookie scoring in the league while playing fewer minutes than any other player in the top-14 in the category.
Sure, there are legitimate reasons why Hodgson did not get more ice time in that particular game — AV's desire to use more experienced veterans as the Red Wings battled back, the lack of powerplays, which is where Hodgson picks up some of his extra minutes — but there's no getting around the fact that Hodgson's ice time is being limited. There's just no denying it.
The question is why does anyone have a problem with that fact?
People seem to need a reminder that Hodgson is a rookie on a team with fantastic depth at forward, particularly at his centre position. While Vigneault has experimented with him on the wing at times, the team has a plethora of wingers, particularly top-six wingers. Even with David Booth out, Chris Higgins and Mason Raymond have been quick to entrench themselves as the best options on Kesler's wings. Instead, Malhotra has been bumped to the wing on Hodgson's line to help him grow into the role.
The team is also packed full of players who excel at special teams, leaving little room for an inexperienced rookie. Kesler, Malhotra, and Lapierre are all excellent penalty killing centres, while Burrows, Hansen, and Raymond are the go-to wingers, with Higgins a viable option as well. Hodgson has played an important role in making the second unit on the powerplay far more dangerous, but the powerplay opportunities have been drying up recently for the Canucks.
The issue is that Hodgson was a top-10 draft pick, was named the CHL Player of the Year in 2009, and led the 2009 World Junior Championship in scoring, ahead of number one pick John Tavares. Fans have expected him to immediately step into a top-six forward role; anything less is considered to be a failure of either Hodgson or coaching.
There's an odd assumption that playing Hodgson in a non-top-six role will somehow ruin his development, that he would be better served playing 20 minutes a night on the top line for the Chicago Wolves than 12 minutes a night in the NHL learning from some of the best players in the game. It's an assumption that doesn't make any sense to me. So I decided to look at some of the recent top-six players for the Canucks and how many minutes they played in their rookie seasons. I wanted to see if they were "ruined" by playing few minutes or if they were somehow groomed for success by being immediately placed in offensive situations.
Let's start with the biggest stars for the Canucks and, in my opinion, the greatest two Canucks of all time, Daniel and Henrik Sedin. In their rookie season in 2000-01, Daniel averaged 12:59 in ice time per game, just 19 seconds more than Hodgson is currently averaging. Henrik, on the other hand, was clearly favoured by the coaching staff, averaging 13:33 per game.
Alex Burrows is an interesting case: while he's a member of the NHL's best line now, he started as a bottom-six agitator, averaging just 10:24 per game back in 2005-06.
Mason Raymond, who has 7 points in 9 games since coming back from his devastating injury, averaged 12:31 in ice time per game in his rookie season of 2007-08.
What about Ryan Kesler, who is coming off a 41-goal season? He averaged just 10:42 in ice time per game in his rookie season back in 2003-04.
What about top-six forwards for the Canucks that started elsewhere? Well, Chris Higgins averaged a whopping 14:24 per game in his rookie season with the Canadiens in 2005-06, but he's the outlier. Mikael Samuelsson averaged 11:51 with the Rangers back in 2001-02, while David Booth averaged just 9:33 in ice time for the Panthers in his 2006-07 rookie season.
This may come as a surprise, but all of these players are currently in the midst of some very successful careers as top-six forwards. Their ice time in their rookie seasons didn't seem to affect them negatively at all in the long run.
Heck, let's look at Markus Naslund, who still holds the franchise records for goals and points. While we don't actually have the numbers for his ice time in his rookie season in 1993-94 as the NHL didn't start keeping track of it (or at least making it public knowledge) until 1997-98. That was his second full season with the Canucks and fifth of his NHL career and he was coming off a 21-goal, 41-point season in 1996-97.
Naslund averaged just 12:35 per game in 1997-98. Hodgson is currently averaging 12:40 per game. Once again, Naslund is the franchise leader in goals and points; playing limited minutes early in his career did not prevent him from being a star in the NHL.
What's most striking about this is that the players I've mentioned here have all succeeded for the Canucks. Some fans have suggested that trading Hodgson would be mutually beneficial, as the Canucks would gain a player or two for a playoff run while Hodgson would get more playing time on another team, but the Sedins, Burrows, Kesler, and Raymond all played limited minutes in their rookie seasons and grew into larger roles over time.
Hodgson is just 21 years old. He has a long NHL career ahead of him and all signs point to it being a very successful one. Limiting his ice time right now will not prevent him from being successful or contributing to the Canucks.Tags: Cody Hodgson, Stats
Yeah, it's not as simple as "More minutes = more points". Truth is that Hodgson's limited icetime can only help him. Not only will he be able to learn from the best (and he can learn some huge stuff from all four Canuck centres), but he won't burn out as quickly.
Due to injuries and whatnot, he hasn't played as much hockey as he's used to, and now the Canucks are hoping that he'll be in the lineup for 100+ NHL games? First-year pros tend to burn out at the end of their rookie seasons because of the grind of the AHL schedule, let alone the NHL, and if the Canucks are hoping for another Stanley Cup run and they want Hodgson to be a part of it, managing his rookie fatigue is going to matter.
That is exactly my thought on the matter. Let him gain valuable experience but don't burn him out by overplaying him now. He'll be much more valuable to the Canucks during the playoffs and in years to come.
And boy, was that a beautiful goal or what!?
I agree there's no reason to freak out about his ice time, I do think he deserves more. I think the Canucks and Hodgson would be better off giving him more ice time.
The point of giving him more ice time is not so that he can be a better player in 2-3 years. It's so that he can be better come April. Players improve by playing, not by sitting on the bench. He has shown that he can keep up, so why not play him?
I also think a lot of the comparisons to other players' ice time in their rookie years are pretty misleading. First off, remember that Hodgson played in 20 games last year (8 regular season and 12 playoffs) so he's not a raw rookie. In many ways, you can consider him a second year player.
Kesler in 2003-04 was more comparable to Hodgson last year, not this year.
Hodgson made the team out of training camp, with the intention of keeping him with the big club all year. That's not the same as being a midseason call-up like a lot of the guys you listed (Burrows, Kesler, Raymond, Booth).
Can Hodgson still be good in 2-3 years if he plays 10 minutes a night this year? Of course. But that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do for him or the Canucks.
I'm so tired of the 1040/Tony Gallagher fed hysteria about Hodgeson's icetime. Thanks for providing the numbers to put the kibosh to that insane lunacy.
Every time I hear that Hodgeson is being treated poorly whine start up I remember this guy from way, way back who set a then record of 121 goals in 1 season in the Quebec Junior league. I saw him play a game in 1971 against the Detroit Junior Red Wings, he scored 3 goals, had an assist and a fight. The fans in the Colisee adored him, as did everyone in Quebec City. The next year, and the year after that, and much of the year following that he languished on the end of the Montreal Canadiens bench. Because, in spite of his incredible skills, he was a rookie on a very good NHL team and had to learn the pro game/wait for his opportunity.
Guy Lafleur turned out to have a fairly decent career, in spite of treatment that would elicit silly claims from certain quarters hereabouts of the coach disliking him.
Can someone share a link to Daniel's post with Gallagher?
I've often wondered if one of the things lowering his ice time is that he always comes on for Kesler, and Kesler extends a lot of his shifts. I remember seeing a while back that Hodgson had almost as many shifts as Kesler. I'm too lazy to check the numbers on this one, but maybe you good folks at PITB can confirm or disconfirm?
Man, I love your posts that aim to inject reason in an oft-unreasonable fan base (lazy mixed metaphor be damned). You know, though, that many of the so-called fans whinging for Hodgson's increased ice time will only take away that outlier stat of Higgins'? That trading of Hodgson mantra is just about the most ridiculous example of blind fandumb going.
Another calm, collected, well-reasoned article. Well done, PITB. That said…
"Let's star [sic] with the biggest stars for the Canucks and, in my opinion, the greatest two Canucks of all time, Daniel and Henrik Sedin."
Close one can of worms, open up another. I wish you luck in defending that claim, sir.
I'm with Daniel on that claim. Is there anything the Sedins haven't done that anyone else in the argument has? They've won scoring titles, league MVPs, led the Canucks to within a game of the Stanley Cup, been captain, contributed to the community. Plus they're players unlike anything we've ever seen or likely will see again. To me, it's hardly a debate.
Y'know, it's funny – but I remember a lot of the early years with the Sedins where the complaints were that they were getting TOO MUCH, ice-time. And in this market, people get pretty owly if they feel that anyone is not earning what they're getting (see LOUNGO Re: Salary). I think the 'Sisters' vitriol started when Crawford was playing the crap out of them early on and they were producing little more than shifts of dizzying cycles.
While I completely agree with the article and think Hodgson's minutes are exactly where they should be – I think one positive side-effect of it all, is that its building a lot of fan/media support for him, which is a lot more constructive than media trolls who always feel they know best how to develop NHL players.
If Hodgson were to receive more top-six minutes, other top-six forwards would have to have minutes taken away. As the article points out, Hodgson is a rookie on a vet-laden team. Who exactly do the more-minutes-for-Hodgson crowd want to see minutes taken from?
I watched Hodgson last year play on the Moose….I don't why everyone assumes that playing in the AHL will give him 20mins+game time… last year he averaged the same minutes in the AHL as he currently is logging in the NHL. At least this year he gets NHL experience. This organization should trade him to a team that would appreciate his talents, and stop fucking him around!
The trading Hodgson argument is ridiculous I think, and I am thankful it seems to have died down. Do you think Cody might prefer to play 12 minutes on the reigning presidents trophy winner and SC finalist or 18 minutes on a disintegrating Anaheim (insert other team here)?
Furthermore the "Detroit model" is often bandied about as a strategy for us to follow. With Hodgson we have a clear succession plan at centre for the next 6-8 years. Without him we might very well crash and burn when the two greatest Canucks of all time (:P) retire. Cody's play over the last 20 games gives me a great deal of confidence for the future.
That's exaqctly it, the thing is that most people are so excited about having a first round, top 10 blue chip prospect and want to see him succeed in the way many rookies are succeeding in today's NHL. They want to see him tearing it up and showing how incredibly talented he is. They basically want him to play like he did in junior for us; they want CoHo to be in the running with people like RNH for the Calder. It's only natural that they want him to succeed and have someone to be proud of, right? It's just not realistic with the team we have though.


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Considering coming to Marrakech but worried about the political unrest in Middle East and North Africa?
Personal impressions
I was at the demo on Sunday 20 February morning in Marrakech and it was very peaceful. I was also out in Gueliz, the new town, in the afternoon, and my impression was that it was a different crowd, mostly bored, perhaps poorer disaffected young men out to take advantage and cause some damage.
None of the guests that we had staying at the Riad at the time were disturbed by what went on and none felt under any threat. All had been out during the day. One was in Jeema el Fna at midday and saw the demo protestors, all was calm. Again it seemed to be a different group that was rioting later on.
By Monday morning there was nothing to see, except a lot of police standing by. The souks were all open again. Some shops in Gueliz stayed closed. Most Moroccans are shocked by what happened in the afternoon.
The courts have been quick to deal with the rioters. The demonstrators have been allowed to continue. There are daily demonstrations in Rabat and that has been the case for a long time. They are unemployed graduates who just want the government to find them jobs. They are no cause for alarm. There are further demos talked of, and we can expect the same approval for the demonstrators but speedy action for rioters.
Some of the Western media has been alarmist of their analysis, particularly regards Morocco. However there is now a lot of informed analysis, both by Western and Arabic experts as well as a wealth of blogs from ordinary people. It has given us all a greater understanding of what is going on in North Africa and the Middle East, and in the West's complicity in maintaining the status quo. People here are very proud that their fellow Arabs have risen up, but also very clear it is not a path for Morocco, at least not yet whilst the King is making moves to reform.
The King is extremely popular here. He has done a lot for poor and the disadvantaged. There are a lot of development projects under way. Most people seem willing to let him try to change things, a few want to push him harder. There is a business and ruling elite which is disliked. There is nowhere near the dislike of the regime as in Tunisia, Egypt or Libya. But even the King acknowledges there must be change. Activists are presenting it as a wake-up call, not a demand for regime change.
Your safety
There is no targeting of tourists nor anger towards them, so don't be fearful on that part. If you are in Morocco at the time of any disturbances, the Moroccan police are extremely vigilant about the safety of tourists. As you have to fill in a landing card on arrival and at each subsequent accommodation, your whereabouts are always known by the police. We will be ready to support you if there are any difficulties.
Unless your Government Foreign Office advises not to travel then it is OK. As far as I am aware no European or Western governments have advised against travelling. Our position is that any cancellation before FO advice not to travel will be treated as a guest cancellation and subject to our cancellation payment provisions. If governments do advise not to travel then we will offer a postponement to a later time. Please ensure you take out travel insurance, and follow FO travel advice.
Personally I feel privileged to be in a part of the world that is finally waking up and speaking up against their oppression. Of course some other people would have a different perception of being around an uprising ( and as yet we do not have that here), and none of us would want to be caught up in what is going on in Libya.
Hope this re-assures you, and we will keep guests who are coming here informed if the situation changes
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In 1999, Karen Herman interviewed Fred Rogers for the Archive of American Television. The resulting nine-part (roughly four-and-a-half hour) interview spans the career of the man we've come to know as Mister Rogers. Throughout, Rogers conveys the same gentle, honest wisdom we all expect from the best neighbor ever. It's truly a joy to see such a thoughtful long-form discussion, and Herman truly knows her stuff (she is Director of the Archive, which is affiliated with the Academy of Television Arts &... READ ON
James Cameron narrates this documentary on the classic film 2001. It includes archival footage of the late Arthur C. Clarke in the 1960s touring spacecraft manufacturing facilities, footage of designers putting together models, snippets of archival footage of Kubrick, interviews with various luminaries, and various other amazing stuff I've never seen. It also features interviews with Doug Trumbull and others who did special effects for the film. If you're a 2001 fan, this is 43 minutes of candy.
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Stanley Kubrick's 2001 is a moody sci-fi masterpiece. Its pacing is, by modern sci-fi standards, slow -- but those of us who love the movie see that as part of its appeal. It's a slow burn, so to speak. Recently a speculative trailer for 2001 has been making the rounds. In this new trailer, the movie is marketed as a modern summer blockbuster, using the conventions of modern sci-fi/action trailers -- loud techno, lots of cuts, and goofy onscreen text with that "slam" sound to drive it into your dumb... READ ON
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On July 5, 2011, the 39-story "Techno-Mart" mall in Seoul, South Korea shook for ten minutes, causing a two-day evacuation and an investigation. The cause of the tremors? Seismic experts concluded that "The Power," a dance hit by the band Snap!, simply rocked too hard.
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SOME patients at Burton's Queen's Hospital could be spared from having to pay to park after the Government insisted free or greatly reduced prices must be made available for 'priority groups'.
The announcement will come as a relief to regular visitors to Queen's Hospital. Many have struggled to get their heads around the site's payment system, resulting in scores of fines.
The Mail was inundated with complaints in the months following the introduction of the Parking Eye system, with dozens of people complaining they had been unfairly penalised.
But under plans announced by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, hospitals across the country will be forced to waive fines for visitors who have a legitimate reason for running over the allotted time, such as treatment taking longer than expected.
Having to pay to park at hospitals is a thorny issue among many.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said parking charges placed an "added stress" on families at what is already a difficult time.
Burton MP Andrew Griffiths welcomed the move and called on Queen's bosses to "follow the guidance".
He said: "As one of the MPs calling for this reform, I really welcome the fact the Health Secretary is acting to prevent people from unfair and excessive car parking charges.
"One of my biggest postbags this year was over the car park at Queen's Hospital and I fully understand the frustrations and worry that excessive car parking charges cause.
"I would now urge the chief executive at Queen's to look at this guidance and see what can be done to provide free parking spaces for the disabled, elderly and people who are regular visitors."
Outlining his plan, Mr Hunt said: "Patients and families shouldn't have to deal with the added stress of unfair parking charges.
"These clear ground rules set out our expectations and will help the public hold the NHS to account for unfair charges or practices."
Charities including Macmillan Cancer Care also backed the plans.
Parking charges were the most common reason for patient complaints at UK hospitals last year.
It was revealed earlier this month that the trust which runs Burton's hospital raked in an extra £200,000 from parking fees during 2013-14.


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A.B. The heart of the Boston Bruins and Selke trophy finalist, Patrice Bergeron, was mic'd up for last night's playoff game 4 against the Detroit Red Wings.
Torey Krug's goal from the point came at 10:14 in the second period with the Bruins down 2-0. It was the first of 3 that would give the Bruins the eventual overtime win.
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Immediately after Krug scores you can hear the air being sucked out of Joe Louis Arena, the excited yet calm-under-pressure tone of the Bruins celebration and the never-quit attitude of the Black & Gold rallying around the "let's go boys" urging of #37.
If the NHL was smart they would mic-up every player for every playoff game and release an NFL Films type production in the off season.
Sidenote – Florek immediately saying it wasn't his goal (as if scoring would be a bad thing) "no I didn't, that's him," was representative of just how team oriented this 2014 edition of the Boston Bruins truly are. Florek wanted nothing to do with adding a tally to the "G" column of his stat sheet. Instead, he wanted to celebrate an unbelievable shot by his teammate, Torey Krug.


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Jonathan, it took me a while to read your response to my response to your response — I am watching football!
Far from me the thought that a game of football is anything more than a game of football.
For those who like football, the World Cup is the most epic tournament of all — the concentration of talent on the pitch and intensity of the emotions around the pitch is unprecedented. You either like it or not, of course, but to question the wisdom of club team versus national team is besides the point. It's been like that since 1930, and nobody wants to change it, because it is simply an exciting spectacle that hundreds of millions of people around the world wait for and watch religiously every four years.
America has not been privy to this extravagance for a long time — but look at the U.S. team. Before the World Cup came to the United States, the U.S. only moonlighted with semi-professional teams that would suffer basketball-score defeats. Since then, the American team has been steadily rising. It now plays in the big league. It is a remarkable accomplishment.
Are there political implications to the game? There should be none, whatsoever — although there was a war once because of a match. But the fans — and their passions — attest to a deep-seated sentiment of national pride, which in turn explains the popularity of the World Cup contest. The way that victory and defeat is taken is another testament to the power of nationalist feelings and patriotic pride — and all the better that it is expressed through peaceful enthusiasm and playful banter against adversaries, especially the old ones.
The interesting point is another one, and has little to do with the use of the flag by governments. If tyrannies ever tried to exploit the game for their own aggrandizement, they did not accomplish much. In recent decades, the only country I can think of that won a World Cup and was a dictatorship was Argentina in 1978 (Maggie Thatcher took care of them, eventually). And Communism never produced a winner — ideology always stands in the way of complex game strategies, bouts of individual creativeness, and the need to adjust quickly.
The interesting point is that it is often in those enlightened societies that reject patriotism as outdated and pernicious on philosophical grounds — Western Europe being a primary location, the newsroom of NPR a secondary one — that the World Cup unleashes patriotism in a way that no other sport competition in the world ever does, not even the Olympics. This raises an interesting question, first and foremost for those left-wing promoters of flower power who think nationalism is both pernicious and on the wane. The World Cup awakens the sentiment where leftists think there is none left (or there should not be, i.e., even in their own newsroom). And that, to me, is a good thing — it highlights the fallacy of the post-national, postmodern worldview, especially because all it takes is 22 men in shorts chasing a football to demonstrate this fine point of political philosophy.
As for the U.S., my point is even less ambitious. To see it join the big league as a serious contender to me is refreshing not because a victory for the United States (unlikely this time, by the way) would bring pride and prestige to democracy, or because of what it may or may not demonstrate about American nationalism or America's sudden abandonment of its exceptionalism. In fact, I think it proves American exceptionalism. Given how late America comes to football and how quickly it rises from obscurity to success, it would be yet another sign of certain characteristics that make America so unique. It would prove how fast and successful America is in mastering all things foreign and seamlessly integrating them in its own unique national fabric; it would offer yet another proof of immigrants becoming the standard bearers of American patriotism — just look at who plays for the national team and you'll see my point; and of sport being a ticket for them into the pantheon of all American heroes.
All in all a good thing — and one that a club-team international competition with the LA Galaxy beating the Muloudia Club d'Alger is not likely to engender.


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This article is the second of a three-part series on the future of hydroelectric control rooms. The authors envision the role of computerized control systems in the operation of hydroelectric generating systems and how smart technology might one day make the most of day-to-day management decisions now performed by human operators.
By Jery R. Stedinger and Charles D.D. Howard
Editor's Note: HRW asked two of hydro's creative thinkers to consider how the control room of the not-so-distant future might look. In this article, they extend their sights over the horizon to a day when both humans — and machines — occasionally may long for the good old days of manual operations.
At the Palo Verde hydroelectric plant, the latest update from the Reagan Power System Control Center scrolled across an unattended computer screen in a dark and silent room.
"There is good news and bad news. The good news is that the reservoirs in the North Central System are full to the brim. They are in a good position to meet peak loads for the next two to three weeks without having to purchase from Continental Electric. The bad news is the power system confusion. Power Sales Division has committed our share of the central system transmission line to a wheeling deal, so we can't use the North Central plants for at least another two days during peak hours. In the meantime, the reservoirs might spill warm water. If that happens, cold water must be released through low-level outlets to meet dynamic instream temperature requirements."
No one was there to read the bulletin. Diversified Electric Utility Company (DEUC) had completed full automation of the Palo Verde River system in 2011. The monitors remained in the empty room for maintenance personnel making field checks of the equipment.
"An update from sensors implanted in fish in the lower river is due in less than 5 minutes, providing data for determining the appropriate timing and need for low level releases," the update continued. "It will be important to lower system reservoirs during the next ten hours if the forecasted frontal system moves in. The fish eggs in the stream gravel are almost ripe, and the sonic gravel sensors will detect imminent sediment movement. Any significant disturbance of the riverbed by high spillway discharges would be costly for fish production. A buy-back from Continental Electric could be the best solution. System economic dispatch can be reworked."
Joe, that computer's on the phone
Joe Charboneau was just three days into retirement when the voice telephone signaled a call from the control room at Palo Verde. He responded: "This is Joe. What's the problem, OTTO?"
"Joe, I am having a very difficult problem here," said the voice of the quality-control computer. "I think there is a virus loose, but I can't quite track it down. I thought you might have some ideas."
"OTTO, there can't be a virus. You would know about it. You have been programmed to detect every possible virus that anyone could ever invent, and you know it. There must be something else that is the problem."
"Joe, it is definitely a virus. It seems to be located in the turbine temperature-sensing chip. Human personnel may need to replace the chip and purge a portion of the SCADA system. I have no access to the code."
Joe switched on the videophone and immediately was rewarded with a view of the interior displays in the control center. "OTTO, please switch the display to the main gallery and focus on the main cooling-water plumbing system gages."
The display switched to show a set of primitive pressure gages, their needles fluttering in response to the transients of pressure. "I want to look at the temperature gages." Joe turned on the zoom function on the videophone display so that he could read the gages.
"It looks okay from here, OTTO. Show me the oil temperatures and calculate the unit efficiencies compared to their normal ratings at this load."
OTTO switched the display and instantaneously responded with the numbers. Joe scratched his head. Everything appeared normal. "OTTO, you may or may not have a virus. It does not matter, because everything is fine. Do not become upset. Why don't you ask Harry to come in early this morning? Perhaps he can go down and test the chips."
"Thank you Joe. I am glad that everything is OK. I will let your replacement sleep until his normal reporting time. He is inexperienced and his abilities are … limited. In the meantime, if you don't mind, I will continue to monitor the vital signs and will call you again if conditions warrant."
"OTTO, Harry should be able to help you. That's his job."
"I don't want to contradict you Joe, but Harry has just completed his simulation school on software that has no human interaction. There is no way he would be able to detect anything more than I have already. The last time we asked for Harry's help, he made two human errors that canceled out each other. We were unable to detect a problem until it was too late."
|This is a mathematical representation of how the area-wide load flows of a power system would look on the screen of a system operator's control console in the not-too-distant future. Based on remotely sensed data, the system would portray how power flows are shifting over a grid. The various colors would show intensity or changing patterns of power flux.
"I see what you mean, OTTO. I guess it would be better to just work this out yourself. But keep me informed, and if you feel uncertain, be sure to call."
After Joe turned off the videophone, he reflected on the changes he had seen in 30 years with DEUC. The new computer programs had contributed a lot to the company's competitive advantage over its larger neighbor, Continental Electric. Downtime for unscheduled maintenance had been eliminated since OTTO's programming had been perfected for maintaining quality control and quality assurance. His self-doubt programming encouraged him to be thorough and careful in assessing incomplete and uncertain data. "The only thing worse than an obnoxious teenager is an overconfident maintenance computer," Joe mused to himself as he remembered some of his sparring with earlier generations of OTTO.
Meanwhile, back at the (cyber)ranch…
The image of the river below the Palo Verde hydroelectric plant stood out in the three-dimensional (3D) relief of the hologram that covered the 25-foot height of the north end of the plant control room. Pablo Yepez crossed the room and entered the hologram as he motioned to the computer for a zoom. At a swimming hole downstream from the power plant, three spirited high school youths were enjoying the warm summer afternoon and the low-flow conditions in the river. It took a few seconds for the computer to enhance the revised image transmitted from the cyberhawk. This biomechanical device had automatically launched itself earlier in the day, when dense low cloud cover interrupted satellite observation.
JENNIFER-2, the resident operations supervision computer at Palo Verde, had called Pablo into the control room because DEUC's Integrated Operations System (IOS) had requested a plant start-up in anticipation of local thunderstorm activity. Either JENNIFER or IOS certainly could handle the start-up, including taking public safety precautions. But human approval from the control center still was required for any major change in operations.
For his part, Pablo easily could manage operations of this plant. In addition to ten years' experience, he had extensive training and had just completed a refresher course. The company always was concerned that shift supervisors might lose touch with physical reality, forgetting the limitations and undocumented characteristics of the system. They didn't want a mentality that viewed system operations as just another holographic video game.
Pablo's training had included instruction on how to manually operate the gates and turbines at the plant, just like in the old days when operators watched the synchroscope lock on to the system frequency as a unit was started. It wasn't that long ago when a stray squirrel in the communication conduits at one of DEUC's facilities had selected a key piece of wiring for dinner. When it became necessary to operate the spill gates during a storm, the gates would not respond to commands from the plant control computer. A shift supervisor had to leave the control room, drive over to the dam, and climb up to where the gates could be manually operated. It was a remarkable failure of automation and made headlines in the national press.
The squirrel incident convinced company managers of how important it is to have people on the job in operations centers within a short drive from the dams. Of course, the new 3D holographic imaging technology provided virtual contact with headquarters and centralized coordination of the regional centers. This brings shift supervisors at all of the regional centers together for face-to-face conversations and conferences that include everything, except the smell of coffee.
The possibility that human operators would lose touch with actual operating decisions had worried engineers since the 2010s, when computer control began to dominate hydropower operations. Now, computers could handle all regular day-to-day decisions for the system. And, local plant computers like JENNIFER could operate individual plants and river basins much more reliably and efficiently than humans. There was certainly no need to second-guess computer decisions on efficient dispatch of generating units. However, the company was not ready to let computers completely take over for a couple of reasons.
First, it was important that human operators remain knowledgeable and experienced. Computers could not be set up to deal with every possible emergency that might develop, so DEUC had to have people ready to step in and take command in special situations. Second, liability under full automation had become a real concern for the company's managers. When something went wrong, a court could rule that operating companies were negligent if they had let machines make the key decision without human supervision — even if the computers had made reasonable decisions.
The need to start a second hydroelectric unit at the Palo Verde plant had been anticipated by IOS and referred to JENNIFER for human consultation. Pablo checked the infrared hologram of the area downstream from the plant, then the visible spectrum hologram. He scanned the displays from instream flow sensors and the biological data being relayed back from the monitored fish. Satisfied with public safety and biological conditions, Pablo put his thumb on the enable button to register approval for the start-up.
While Pablo was getting a cup of coffee, conditions changed again. IOS reoptimized the economic dispatch for all units in the river system. The look-ahead for 168 hours used new Palisraeli petabyte pattern recognition algorithms to estimate the probabilities for loads, hydrology, and weather. Every 3 seconds, as the updated status of loads and units changed, the unit dispatch was optimized again. This action continuously tuned the entire generation and transmission system. Every 15 minutes, the probabilistic analysis re-evaluated the projected streamflow condition and determined how the changing weather was likely to influence electrical loads and thermal plant operations.
Under new Environmental Feedback Regulations, the emission limits for DEUC's thermal plants were governed by real-time environmental protection requirements that reflected immediately attainable air quality improvements. Stack emission had to be changed in response to the latest changes in weather, so that the physical and biological environment actually was protected, as determined by real-time monitoring. Previous regulations had protected a hypothetical "paper" environment described by deterministic computer models. The new regulations often provided more flexibility for the utilities and more realistic environmental protection. On-line environmental modeling provided IOS with the data for calculating real-time air-quality targets.
Humans do have their place, after all
Two humans were present in the cool, dimly lit, and quiet ambiance of the Reagan control center. They sat in a corner, conversing in hushed voices as they monitored the power transfers and second-guessed the changing prices.
This was important work for people. The computer systems of DEUC and other utilities ran with different software, and not all of the software was equally intelligent or reliable. DEUC's IOS had been programmed to look for opportunities to buy and to sell power at a good price. But sometimes a trader's hunch was needed.
In the old days, the computers had monitored the inflow and outflow of power with the adjacent power system, fine-tuning the company's generation to maintain the penalty-free time limits. It had been a short step to program IOS to exchange information with adjacent utility computer systems while maintain system security for DEUC. Now, IOS automatically negotiated power exchanges with the computers of other companies in response to power system condition and dynamic short-term marginal costs.
Deregulation of the electric power industry had provided many opportunities for enterprising utilities. For less nimble companies, the plethora of independent power producers, transmission companies, and local distribution retailers had meant chaos. Customers on the same street received electric power from different retailers at different prices. Reliability council standards provided a fairly uniform level of service. A host of power exchanges and financial transactions were behind bringing electricity to the customer. The marketing and expansion planning computers had been completely redesigned to continuously determine load location and market share.
The cost to many consumers had risen as environmental and social costs of power generation, transmission, and consumption were added directly to electric bills. Customers had responded by painting or cladding buildings with electrodynamic and photoelectric materials and installing whole-building energy management systems. Some buildings often generated more energy than they consumed. IOS tracked cloud cover motions from satellite images and dynamically computed energy inputs and demands from "experience functions" for each customer class and geographic location.
The computer managed local distribution grids continuously and redistributed and balanced local generation with local consumption, exporting surpluses to adjacent neighborhoods and importing or exporting the difference to the highest-bidding utility. This system of distributed electricity generation was backed up by the generating capacity of utilities for nighttime and peak loads.
IOS closely watched the changing value of water in storage in DEUC's reservoirs and the value of hydropower at every moment, managing system generation to take advantage of sales and purchase opportunities. Loads and the distributed electricity generation surplus were anticipated by satellite tracking of weather systems, then confirmed by feedback over the cable television/Internet/digital interface that connected the utility with every customer residence and business unit.
Returning to the control room with a fresh cup of coffee, Pablo reflected back to his first day of work with Joe Charboneau, the veteran operator who had trained him. Joe had been awed by the computers that talked and followed his verbal instructions. Those machines were gone now. The old Palo Verde control computer, JENNIFER-1, had been a great help, but she didn't always put the facts together correctly. Sometimes she missed things completely. Her integration with other computers in the system also had left much to be desired.
An incident that actually had nothing to do with proper plant operations had been the final impetus for getting management to approve purchase of new station control computers. DEUC had been looking at a transmission line expansion plan with a neighboring utility. During the course of the analysis, JENNIFER-1 had provided confidential numbers from that negotiation to a counterpart computer at Continental Electric. Continental used the information to ruin the negotiations and cost DEUC million of dollars in potential profits.
JENNIFER-1 also had raised a few eyebrows by using the aquatic status data and biomechanical hawk to direct staff fisherman to the exact location of large fish within the Palo Verde stream system. JENNIFER-2 and IOS have much better internal security. They knew what they were supposed to know, and they could manage their assignments even when information temporarily was not available to them because of restrictions placed on the system by DEUC's Administrative Policy, Rates, or Public Participation computer systems. In doing so, JENNIFER and IOS took advantage of an astonishing development in computer science.
The development occurred when the gurus at Stanford University had finally integrated their advanced thinking in management and business administration with computer technology. Now, Controlled Ignorance (CI) was a well-established science. CI allowed a large integrated organization of people and computers to work effectively in the fish bowls of the modern information world.
Without CI, it would have been impossible to carry out business on the information superhighway. The newly emerging field of social science mathematics, developed first at Carnegie Mellon University in the 1970s with funding from IBM, provided the basic ideas and the trained people that kept the information highway from becoming a demolition derby.
IOS reflected a decade of technological advance. It was reliable and much less temperamental than the older computer systems. JENNIFER-1 had suffered from power surges when faced with inconsistent objectives. Not IOS. It knew that its job was to determine how to make the overall system work to meet the economic, social, and environmental objectives selected by human management, no matter how little sense these objective seemed to make. Ego suppression and conflict dissolution algorithms adapted from United Nations manuals ensured that IOS did not get bogged down by an irrational request. IOS just went ahead and did what it was told. The regional and local computers also had been improved.
JENNIFER-1 had caused embarrassment among operations and system professionals by pointing out inconsistencies in her programming priorities. She frequently had requested clarification and authorization from higher levels in the network, often requiring human intervention. JENNIFER-2 was more sophisticated, working equally smoothly with OTTO, the humble quality control machine, and IOS, the superbrain that managed the entire power system.
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Still, everything doesn't always work perfectly. Nursing his steaming coffee, Pablo began to have second thoughts about how IOS was scheduling the Palo Verde hydro resources. An agreement with the downstream power supplier seemed to be leading IOS astray. Under the agreement, it would be advantageous to schedule spills at Palo Verde to create high tailwater levels downstream. The overall loss of energy would drive up spot market prices. On balance, it appeared that while energy output would go down, the net revenue to the company would go up slightly.
Logical but wrong. This was just the type of counter-intuitive result that Pablo believed IOS should detect. Obviously, a subtle program change would be required. Leaning forward, Pablo wondered if things had been simpler in the old days, when Joe Charboneau actually controlled hydroelectric operations by telling the computers what to do.
"JENNIFER, please run the old scheduling model … the one that Joe wrote when he worked here," Pablo said.
"I am sorry Pablo, JOESCHED appears to be in FORTRAN, and we no longer have a compiler for that language."
JENNIFER displayed the first 30 lines of the code. "Good grief," said Pablo. "What is the meaning of IF(X)210,20,130?"
"I don't know, Pablo. What should I do?" JENNIFER whined slightly. "I'm not really programmed to understand this old language. Maybe I can learn it, if there is a book in one of the Internet museum libraries."
Pablo encouraged her. "Please check the libraries. Then convert that program to E!!, if you can."
"I have found a FORTRAN 2100 manual in the Rittsliboteq in Amsterdam," she replied after several seconds' delay.
The screen immediately changed to show the same code translated to Expressive (E!!) so that Pablo could review the explicit description of the calculations made by the old program. E!! was a combination of global logic, multivariate algebra and calculus, gothic German, and Zen Buddhism. This made it easy to read and very logical. It had replaced D**, which had superseded C**.
The logic of the old program was now clear. Pablo had been wrong about his rate-impact theory. The contract with the downstream independent power supplier had a grandfather clause that included a surcharge. The amount paid for energy purchased from the downstream supplier actually was greater than the market value under the prevailing conditions. Thus, the optimum strategy determined by IOS and Palo Verde included high releases to raise tailwater levels downstream. This would reduce the efficiency of the downstream plants and decrease their energy output. But this conflicted with the intent clauses of the area-wide coordination agreement and with good business practice. No wonder the computers were confused. JOESCHED had cleverly avoided the issue by feeding deliberately false information into the network until the hydraulic situation in the river had returned to normal. Only someone like Joe would recognize this rare situation and know what to do about it.
Pablo reflected on what he should do. He leaned back in his chair and put on virtual reality projection glasses to review a draft report on the coordination agreement. As an operations analyst, he was the senior member of the company's inter-utility coordination task force of computers and people.
The old-fashioned projection headgear still was useful for flipping pages and reading a book the way books were meant to be read. As Pablo turned the pages, the book's embedded logic transmitted data to the glasses. The agreement materialized on the blank paper. Clear, crisp text and engineering sketches glowed softly on the page in 3D color. When he touched the caption of a figure, a touch menu popped out on the page so that he could control the scale and perspective of the images hovering over the page of text.
Pablo wrote a few ideas down in the margins. He added comments on the effect of the coordination agreement on decisions made by IOS when river conditions and power exchange prices created a situation like the present. JENNIFER recorded Pablo's marginal notes for IOS. Later, they would be compiled with those from other reviewers.
Now, Pablo focused on the section of the agreement that dealt with head losses at downstream plants. If he understood Joe's old FORTRAN program properly, it should be fairly simple to get IOS patched up by rewording this section of the coordination agreement. JENNIFER closely followed Pablo's notes.
"What should we do right now?" she prodded nervously.
"Just accept the loss of revenue. Max out the energy value for the whole river. I'll talk it over with Sun Li at the downstream Continental Electric plant, and he can make up the loss of revenue some other time. You can record my instructions with IOS if you want to."
Pablo sighed, knowing that JENNIFER was programmed to do just that and thinking about how it was going to be explained to management at the end of the month.
"It won't be necessary," she replied. "I have an understanding with my counterpart at Continental. He will remind Sun Li when the time comes to repay the favor."
Pablo smiled and silently praised the gurus at Stanford for their marvelously thoughtful gift of CI. Now, if he and JENNIFER could just get the plan by WERNER, the company's regulatory relations computer, and PATSY in public participation, whose job was to allow the public to participate and provide input on key policy issues … to be continued.
Flavin, C., and N. Lenssen, "The Electricity Industry Sees the Light," Technology Review, May/June 1995, pages 42-49.
Jery Stedinger, PhD, is a professor at the Cornell University School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Chuck Howard is a principal in CddHoward Consulting Ltd.
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Sunday, April 7, 2013 from 2:00 PM to 6:30 PM (PDT)
Who's Going
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Comedy Hack Day is an overnight hackathon that brings together comedians and developers. We held the first one in NYC last September.
Join us at Twitter HQ to witness the entertaining demos for our second one, held in San Francisco. We have celebrity judges, free beer and whiskey, and we will be showcasing funny and weird and great apps, websites and products.
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When I was an orthodox believer I've always thought this invitation merely applied to people reading Revelation and wanting to repent NOW
14 "Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. 15 Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.You know, even though Revelation doesn't end with the restitution of all, and the "fullness of times" (Eph. 1: 10 ), its actually comforting to know that the wicked are simply Outside the holy city... I guess they'll only take a dip in the Lake of Fire ... I think God's punishments are actually set apart from the LOF... and the Brimstone is a mere purification process... perhaps that's why they will experience shame and weeping because of being cast out.What do you guys think of Rev. 22: 15? Are they physically suffering outside the holy city? I think they are merely shut out, because they don't have their wedding garments yet...
Thats a challenigng scripture, because it says murderes are outside the city, but didn't Jesus before that throw death in the lake of fire, how can one practice magic arts if the devil is in the lake of fire?,
After the LOF and the saved are within the city and the wicked are without the city, the gates of the city remain open. What do scriptures say as to why the gates remain open? And trees yielding fruit month by month (ongoing) for the healing of the nations. Certainly no one within the city needs healing anymore month after month.
Hmm I would say they might be situated simply outside the city AFTER they have been shamed and tested in the LOF...


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Great solo pot
I've been rocking this pot for two camping seasons, now. It's lightweight, durable, and boils quickly.
Like Senor Zombie-pants over there, I use it with an alcohol stove. The stove, my pot stand, the "pot holder", and a bandana fit inside the pot without a problem, so I have a small, lightweight kit that I can just grab and go. I wasn't thinking about zombies when I chose the Minimalist, but it works out well for those emergencies when you need to get out of the house and to the trailhead with a quickness.
The cozy and top work perfectly. I have to imagine that GSI put some serious thought into what neoprene to use for the cozy. It's thinner than your average beer cozy for light weight, but still insulates very well. And, remember to install the top upside-down if you cover your water while boiling. Otherwise, it gets stuck.
Last thing: the foon sucks. It pops apart if you load too much food onto it. And, by too much, I mean a spoonful. I replaced it with a non-telescoping bamboo spoon. 9 grams is tough to beat.
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Yokohama Tire Corporation Brings the Rubber to Dealers with Experiential Training Program
Stops in two major cities in California are part of a 10-city tour that features the ADVAN Neova® AD08, AVID® ENVigor™, S.drive® and AVID Touring S™
September 06, 2011
FULLERTON, CA (Sept. 6, 2011) – Dealers in California are getting a chance to test four of Yokohama Tire Corporation's best sports car and passenger car tires when the tire maker's experiential training program makes a stop in Anaheim on September 13-14 and in San Diego on September 21-22 as part of Yokohama's 10-city ride and drive program.
According to Shawn Denlein, Yokohama director of sales, Consumer Products, "the training program offers our dealers an opportunity to learn about our products and test them on various slalom-type courses, while providing the knowledge they need to advise consumers. We want dealers to see firsthand what the tires can do so they can translate this knowledge to their customers."
The dealer education is focused on four brands of Yokohama Tires: the ADVAN Neova® AD08, AVID® ENVigor™, S.drive® and the AVID Touring S™.
By the end of the tour, more than 1,500 representatives from wholesale tire distributors and individual retail outlets will have gone through the program's training.
Previous events occurred in St. Louis, Missouri; Chicago, Illinois; Salem, Virginia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Seattle, Washington. The tour began in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Yokohama Tire Corporation is the North American manufacturing and marketing arm of Tokyo, Japan-based The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., a global manufacturing and sales company of premium tires since 1917. Servicing a network of more than 4,500 points of sale in the U.S., Yokohama Tire Corporation is a leader in technology and innovation. The company's complete product line includes the dB Super E-spec™ – the world's first tire to use orange oil to reduce petroleum – as well as tires for high-performance, light truck, passenger car, commercial truck and bus, and off-the-road mining and construction applications. For more information on Yokohama's extensive product line, visit www.yokohamatire.com.
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A public letter to Hottiegram
Dear Hottiegram,
I know that somewhere a PR profile of me says that I cover "women's issues," but do you know where I work: A CATHOLIC MAGAZINE! I frequently get e-mails pitching me the latest diet fads, make-up, and other products that I would never put in U.S. Catholic magazine. Most of these e-mails I delete without even looking at them, but your press release warranted a response.
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President Obama's supporters have been consoling themselves in the aftermath of his disastrous performance at the presidential debate in Denver by repeating over and over again that debates don't really matter. If that didn't work, they would say that the verdict of the people would differ from that of the pundits, although the unanimous opinion of even the left-wing crew at MSNBC and the wishy-washy liberal/establishment types on CNN should have worried them more than anything that was said on Fox News. But today we received the first answers to the question of whether public opinion will be altered to any degree by the debate, and the answers are not what Democrats wanted to hear.
The poll of likely voters in three key swing states taken yesterday by We Ask America shows a remarkable swing in favor of Mitt Romney. Previous surveys by this firm as well as virtually every other pollster in Florida, Virginia and Ohio had shown Obama holding on to a firm lead. But according to the latest numbers, Romney has forged ahead in all three states. The Republican leads Obama by a margin of 49-46 percent in Florida, 48-45 percent in Virginia and 47-46 percent in Ohio. All three results are significant and very good news for the Republicans, but none more so than that in Ohio. Romney's rebound after a tough few weeks in which his leads in Florida and Virginia had been turned into deficits is clear. Obama's growing strength in Ohio had been moving it from a swing state to one that was starting to be considered to be firmly in the president's column. Romney's post-debate bounce has put it back into play on Real Clear Politics' Electoral College map.
We Ask America reports its margin of error for this poll is three percent, which means all these states are up for grabs. Unlike some other polls, its survey sample is also not heavily skewed toward the Democrats. For example, its Ohio figures show that 38 percent of respondents identify themselves as Democrats with 34 percent Republicans and 28 percent independents. It should also be noted that they listed libertarian candidate Gary Johnson as a choice, which is something that might have hurt Romney more than Obama.
The polls aren't all rosy for Romney today. While Rasmussen shows Romney up by one point in Virginia, they also have Obama up by one percent in Ohio and two percent in their national daily tracking poll. They also show the president with a net positive job approval rating. But even here, what we are seeing is a halt to the president's September surge and the beginning of a Romney recovery.
It is possible that this bounce won't last and that the post-debate push from Democrats which reverts to their successful tactic of sliming Romney as a liar and anything else you can think of will end the Republican's surge. Republicans still have to take into account the advantage the president gets from the tilt of the mainstream press and the reluctance of many voters to deny a second term to the first African-American president even if his record in office has been poor. The ferocious counter-attack on Romney from liberal outlets after they recovered their sense in the 24 hours after the debate is also bound to depress his numbers.
But these polls still show that what has happened is that a race that seemed on the verge of being over is up for grabs. So long as Romney is competitive in Florida, Virginia and especially Ohio, he can still win the presidency. Democrats who were hoping to put the election to bed early must make their peace with the fact that the election is back to being a nail-biter.


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Harold Parton
Harold Parton, age 70 of Sevierville, passed away Thursday, December 6, 2012. He was a dedicated member, minister and singer of the Pentecostal Church of God.
Harold is preceded in death by his sons, Anthony and Bob; daughter, Angela; parents, Robert and Ella Parton; brothers, J.R. and Dee; mother-in-law, Rue McMahan; brothers-in-law, Joe Ogle, Bill Styles, John Styles, Sherman Greene and Berl Boling.
He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Grace Parton; grandchildren, Jessica Creasong; great-grandchildren, Harley and Tessla; sisters-in-law, Anna Ogle, Betty Styles, Sonja Styles and Sylvia Parton; sisters and brother-in-law, Faye and Bill Wilson, Agnes Boling, Pearl Greene and Ina Whaley; special niece, Reba Brown; special friend, Eddie Ramsey; several nieces, nephews and cousins.
The family would like to extend a special thank you to the caregivers and employees of Care Choice of America, especially Andrew and the nurses and doctors that worked with him.
The family will receive friends 2-5 PM Sunday with funeral service to follow at 5 PM in the West Chapel of Atchley Funeral Home with Rev. Leroy Parton and Rev. Sean Guilliams officiating. Interment 11 AM Monday in Caton's Chapel Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Corban and Caleb Ogle, David Eberhardt, Kenney Finchum, Horace Lee Ogle, Wade Parton. Honorary pallbearer will be Eddie Ramsey. Arrangements by Atchley Funeral Home, Sevierville.


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QuickTwitt: Koscheck Jabs At Condit For Turning Down Fight
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-]. Carlos might as well fight Koscheck now lol .[-
hahah kosh is gunna be fighting him in febuary! im calling it now!
Condit isn't going to fight Kos. Condit is for sure getting a title shot if he wins on that card, this means they'll probably make it a top contender fight, and let's be honest.. Kos will probably never fight GSP again. Not for a long time anyways.
this would be a good fight cuz even if carlos did win kos cant get the title shot but winner of johny hendricks and fitch could easily be put into the gap plus that way jon fitch if he wins can be shut up he sucks bj took his ass down and gsp will do it too
i agree with the part that kos will never get a shot with GSP again. but i think that white and silva will consider putting that fight together! idk who else would be a good match for him. i would say johnson but he moved up to middleweight….
When did Rumble move up? He never did before…
he is going to fight vitor i think in ufc 142.
This is the stupidest prediction I've ever read.
Congratulations, you are a stupid peace of shit.
Damn! Kinda angry, aren't we? I gotta admit, that shit made me laugh though..
http://bit.ly/rCFeDJ ummm…it's not a prediction. It's already in the works. Who feels stupid now? lol
lol! a prediction? wtf? what a dumbass.. when you call your self 'BigDickSwingin' you know for sure that you are an idiot..
LOL a these people not knowing what you, me, and the rest of the world already know.
yes u are correct. its all over this website too. He is fighting Vitor at 185lbs WW
Johnson? Anthony "rumble" Johnson?
Yes that A. Johnson
i say condit and ellenberger that will be a good match
They fought before in the ufc…Ellenberger got robbed.
Damn! That's news to me! I guess Kos it is for Condits next fight.
Kos is not that good. He's a contender but his stand up is still mediocre on the UFC level. Had his chance got beat.
the most logical fight seems to be condit vs. ellenberger.
If Condit and Kos do fight, I got Kos winning that fight simply because he has great wrestling and can fall back on that if he can't compete in the standup game.
@ ThaGreenBandit
Don't forget about Condit's underrated jiu jitsu. Although I do agree Kosh can have his way controlling him on the ground all it takes is one slip up. I think Kosh can hang with him striking but he definitely wouldn't keep it in the standup the whole fight. I think they're a pretty evenly matched up overall. If Condit feels he's up for it, it's just another opportunity to prove to the world he's as good as speculated. Hope it goes down soon.
No doubt that Condit's JJ is underrated, but even the best JJ practioners have a hard time dealing with wrestlers, and Kos has been in the game a little to long to put himself in danger when on the ground, especially since he should know that Condit does have JJ skills. It would be an intersting matchup, though. Hope it goes down too
Condit is a more well rounded fighter than Kos,Kos is so one dimensional striking(overhand right) Kos is a better grappler ,Condit is alot more crafty than Kos! That is why Condit will win
OK, KOS is not fighting Condit people……. It is already been stated that GSP should be ready bt Feb, and Condit is waiting for his title fight, and he will not take a chance in losing that Titke fight by fighting a bum like KOS.
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Bum? Hardly.
LOGON – are u for real? Yo0 do know COndit is NOT fighting for the Title in Feb right? Before you go running your mouth how about you read some current events.
EOS lolz
So COndit is gonna sideline himself for 6 months + WAITING? Dana will not let that happen. COndit will fight before he gets his title shot I guarantee it.
EOS lol
You must have not gotten the memo….Diaz took the title shot from Condit. It is officially Diaz vs. GSP for the title in Febuary.
Bum is a bit harsh for Kos. I'm not a fan by any means, but he does have solid wrestling and it is possible to employ a lay/pray/punch game plan as evident with Paul Daley.
I believe Condit is the better fighter (striking and ground game) and his defence from the bottom is solid. Kos is put away.
And really, Kos is putting himself at risk of further deportation from the top 10 contention if he takes this fight.
Perhaps bum is an appropriate term after all lol
War Kos!
Kos wins that fight just like GSP would beat Condit. big wrestler on top all day. Condit got to have a better answer for wrestling. (condit vs mcdonald)
Kos needs to learn how to type before he attempts to fight condit. his eye is probably still shut or he would be able to type better than a 5 year old.
Most likely Condit will fight Fitch
Now that's a prediction I can get behind Fitch wins his next match. He might lose with all of that rust, I haven't seen him fight since he fought BJ.
Don't think so. Fitch is already fighting Johnny Hendricks at 141. With Koscheck calling him out the way he did, this fight will most likely happen.
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