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Billy Butler was pleased to win the 2009 Les Milgram Royals Player of the Year Award and hopes that it is the first of many. However, team performance outweighs individual accomplishments for Butler.
On playing first base
Billy is comfortable at first base. Butler believes he proved he can play there. He knows that he will continue to make progress as this was his first full season at the position.
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Butler played in 159 games this season and is focused on staying healthy again next year. He believes that the Royals will surprise people next year.
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Butler is spending time with his family this offseason. In addition, he has been focusing on the same strength training and conditioning programs that he employed last offseason. His spare time includes coaching basketball and watching his beloved Washington Redskins.
The fans
Billy batted .361 with 16 of his 21 home runs at Kauffman Stadium. The 16 home runs are the most at home by a Royals player since 2002 and the third-highest total this decade. He attributes his success at home to the fans. Butler loves playing at Kauffman Stadium and says that the fans are the best. He believes that the atmosphere at home in April and May helped the club when the fans of KC showed their true passion for the Royals.
The American League Cy Young Award will be announced on Tuesday. Will Zack Greinke join former Royals Bret Saberhagen (1985, 1989) and David Cone (1994) in the winner's circle? Stay tuned to royals.com and Around the Horn. The Bruce Rice Royals Pitcher of the Year Award will also be announced.


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Head-to-head: ReRe 5, Dinara 1
Last meeting: WTA Championships (hard), ReRe 6-4, 6-1
We've arrived at the first major final of the season in Oz and it pits one lady baller going for her first Grand Slam title versus another looking to add to her ever-growing major title haul of nine. Oh, and the winner grabs the keys to the WTA Penthouse from current resident Jelena Jankovic.
Serena Williams will battle Dinara Safina on Saturday night in Melbourne for the Aussie Open ladies' crown. Let's take a look!
How They Got Here: ReRe, who just became the all-time career earnings leader in all of women's sports by reaching the Aussie Open final and winning the doubles crown with sister Venus, began the fortnight showing some rust but rounded into form during the third set of her quarterfinal match against Svetlana Kuznetsova. The 27-year old went on to oust the streaking Elena Dementieva 6-3, 6-4 in the semifinals by serving with accuracy and defending relentlessly. It will be ReRe's fourth Aussie Open final and third consecutive Grand Slam final.
Dinara also struggled with her form during the tourney, going the distance in the three of her matches and coming back from 2-5 down and two match points to defeat Frenchie Alize Cornet in the fourth round. Like ReRe, the Russian was able to subdue another streaking lady baller, Vera Zvonareva, 6-3, 7-6 (4) in the semifinals to make her first Oz Open final and second career Grand Slam final.
The last time these two ladies met was at the 2008 season-ending WTA Championships in Doha when ReRe, who eventually withdrew from the tourney with injury, dominated an exhausted Dinara 6-4, 6-1 in round robin play.
The 9-time Grand Slammer was asked about battling the Russian and how her game has developed over the years:
Q. How important is the experience factor tomorrow, the fact you've been there so many times before, Dinara has only played in one Grand Slam final?
SERENA WILLIAMS: Well, I don't know if that factors in too much. Once you make it to one Grand Slam final, you pretty much know what to expect. So if she hadn't made it to the final before, then I would say, yeah, I'd be more experienced. Seeing as she's already been there, I think if anything she's going to be way more hungry for it and want it even more. That's going to be definitely going for her.
Q. You were on the tour five years before Dinara came along. Can you tell us how you looked at her when she first came on and how you've seen her develop.
SERENA WILLIAMS: She's developed a lot. She's gotten a lot more confident. When she first came, she was so young and so sweet. I mean, she's still sweet now. You can just see she's more focused now, more intense, and you can just totally see the change.
Q. What about from a game perspective?
SERENA WILLIAMS: Yeah, her game has just developed. It's improved leaps and bounds.
Dinara was asked about her lone win over the American and what it will take to beat her:
Q. In [Berlin '08] you also beat Serena Williams. Do you think that will help you going into the final?Outlook: Dinara's game, especially her serve, has deserted her throughout the fortnight but she showcased her mental toughness by gutting out wins with pure desire and belief. That being said, her first serve percentage needs to be high in the final so that she can play first-strike tennis and control the center of the court. If not, she'll be on the defensive immediately in the point and spend the evening on her back foot defending against ReRe's barrage of groundies - a certain recipe for a Dinara disaster.
DINARA SAFINA: Well, you know, it was a clay court. Now it's completely different. I don't know if we're going to play with the roof open, closed. So let's see what's gonna be on Saturday. So let's see how it's gonna be the conditions. It's different tournament. It's not only that I played her in Berlin, I played two more times against her. I hope I will use ‑‑ the mistakes that I did after, I will not use it next time.
Q. Do you think at the US Open and the Championships when you played her, you just weren't physically or mentally prepared for it?
DINARA SAFINA: Well, those two tournaments it's tough to judge, because playing US Open and Masters, especially Masters, I was just not ready to play at all. I was dead completely. There was nothing inside of me anymore. And also, US Open, coming after winning two tournaments in a row, playing final at Beijing, that took so much energy out of me. When I got there, I was just not ready to play. So now it's different. It's beginning of the season. It's another tournament. Just looking forward for my next challenge.
Q. Serena Williams, is she more intimidating to play against than some of the other girls? Other girls seem to crumble under the pressure of playing her at times.
DINARA SAFINA: I cannot talk about the other players, how they feel when they play against her. I just can talk on my own. You know, we played three times last year. I beat her once. I'm looking forward for this time to play against her.
This match, like most matches involving ReRe, is on her racquet - no question. She possesses endless experience, a more complete game, can play tough-as-nails defense when necessary, and has proven her champion's mettle time and time again in the biggest matches. Plus, her serve is the best in the game when it's clicking - and it has since the Rod Laver retractable roof was closed.
It will take a zoning Dinara to knock a determined ReRe off the path to her 10th career major final - but I don't see that happening.


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ELKHART — Hundreds packed St. Vincent de Paul Church for the eighth annual Northern Indiana Hispanic Health Coalition Health Fair Saturday.
The Elkhart-based nonprofit organization had planned for 400 to 500 people to show up to the fair, which included stations checking kidneys, blood pressure, lipid panels, cholesterol, eyes, body mass index and for sickle cell anemia and HIV.
Nearly 800 people, however, entered the church from when the doors opened at 8 a.m. until they shut at 1 p.m., according to Liliana Quintero, executive director of the coalition. Quintero said that even after the doors closed for the day, the kidney station ran until about 3 p.m.
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About 140 bilingual volunteers were also on hand to not only perform health check-ups, but to educate participants. "We are responding to a huge need and that is prevention," Quintero said. Quintero noted the difficulties of language barriers and lack of transportation often prevent many in the area from fully understanding their conditions and how to treat them.
She believed, however, many participants left with a greater understanding of how to take care of themselves and how to avoid certain ailments. The setting allowed many people access to information they would not otherwise have been able to access.
The Northern Indiana Hispanic Health Coalition recently expanded to include health fairs in Kosciusko and Noble counties this year. For more information on the group, visit nihhc.com.


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|Swimmers setting new personal bests
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HHS swim team members have been performing well, improving personal best records at every turn.
The local girls swam in the Windsor Holiday Meet Saturday, Dec. 22 and competed in the Keith Wiedeman Invitational in Greeley.
The local girls competed in a dual at Eaton Tuesday, Jan. 8 and will travel to the Valor Invite at the Mines Rec. Center Saturday, Jan. 12.
Coach Luke Thomas noted highlights from the last two meets.
At Windsor, the meet consisted of eight teams, both 4A and 5A. Dani Brandt set two new personal records in addition to placing and earning points in each of her four events. Lori McWilliams placed and earned points in each of her four events.
Jayden Durbin placed and earned points in each of her four events and set one personal record. LaKyla Moore placed and earned points in three events. Malena McWilliams set two new personal records.
Fourteen schools competed at the meet in Greeley last Saturday, with about half of them being 5A schools.
"We showed that though we are a small team, we are still a mighty team," said coach Thomas. "Our girls swam really hard after the winter break and gained the competitive edge back for our upcoming meets."
Brandt, Lori McWilliams, Durbin and Moore set a new best for their 200 freestyle relay.
Additionally, the following swimmers set new personal records on Saturday: Meg Strauss, Brittney Prottsman, Jentry Andersen, Katlin Davis and Malena McWilliams.
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At the second spot, there was, remarkably, a tiny island, 60 feet by 60 feet, a spit of land in the middle of the endless ocean. Like something out of James Bond, a helicopter landed on the sand and a table and two chairs were set out. A man had flown his girlfriend out there to propose. I don't imagine he expected a boat full of 75 people to be watching, but we were.
Back on the boat, we turned toward Cairns, where our ship was docked. It began to rain hard. Tea and cake were served at 4 o'clock, of course, in the downpour. For two hours we plowed through rough water, getting back to the Odyssey, our home away from home, at 6 p.m. It was New Year's Eve.
The next day we landed in Townsville, Australia, and went off to a koala sanctuary. You know how vicious those koalas can be. I had to screw my courage to the sticking place before hugging one.
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Five major U.S. trucking companies endorse EOBRs for all commercial trucks
September 29, 2010 - LM Editorial
WASHINGTON—Five leading U.S. trucking companies are calling for federal regulations that would require all interstate trucking companies to install electronic on-board recorders (EOBRs) on all their trucks to verify legal duty status of their drivers.
The "Commercial Driver Compliance Improvement Act" already has been introduced by Sens. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., that would require trucks have these devices within three years.
The companies endorsing the bill are five giants in the truckload sector—Schneider National (second-largest TL carrier by revenue), U.S. Xpress (fourth largest), J.B. Hunt Transportation Services (fifth largest), Knight Transportation (10th largest), and Maverick USA, a major flatbed carrier with more than $300 million in revenue.
"Electronic on-board recorders (EOBRs) will improve safety on our nation's highways by applying technology to document driver compliance to the hours of service rules," says Craig Harper, J.B. Hunt chief operating officer. "Early evaluation of the Comprehensive Safety Analysis (CSA 2010) data suggests that carriers with higher levels of hours of service compliance have lower crash involvement."
The legislation would install an electronic device that would identify the truck driver, record his or her driving status, and could monitor the location and movement of the vehicle.
These executives say the legislation to modernize safety. As currently construed, a driver's hours of service is written in paper "log books" to verify compliance with hours of service regulations, which are under review by the federal government.
The current system is rife with fraud, said drivers, who often ridicule the paper log books by calling them "comic books." It is not unusual for drivers to maintain two sets of logs—one to get paid, cover actual hours; the other fictitious, to stay within the legal hours set by the government. Installing EOBRs would eliminate much of the guesswork.
"This legislation is a sensible initiative to improve working conditions for commercial drivers and to promote highway safety," says Kevin Knight, chairman and CEO of Phoenix-based Knight Transportation. "Under a uniform standard, the public will be able to rely n the hours of service of all drivers, rather than just some drivers."
Mandating use of EOBRs commits the entire supply chain, including shippers, to meeting the challenges of Just-in-Time ground transportation, says Maverick CEO Steve Williams, a former chairman of the American Trucking Associations.
"The trucking industry operates in an environment that is becoming increasingly more complex and congested," Williams said. "All stakeholders must be assured that the people who are privileged to operate commercial vehicles are well trained, drug- and alcohol-free and sufficiently rested."
Don Osterberg, senior vice president of safety for Schneider National, says the current HOS are science-based and reasonable. He says the problem isn't with the rules, but with a lack of compliance.
"Electronic logging devices take the non-compliance issues off the table," Osterberg says. "Given limited enforcement resources, there are carriers whose value proposition is that they'll accept risk that compliant carriers will not accept. In short, they play 'catch me if you can' with the Department of Transportation. They are rarely caught. This doesn't serve our industry or public safety well."
Osterberg says the "inherent looseness" of the current system of paper logs fosters this behavior as they can be easily manipulated in a driver's favor. "Electronic logs, by comparison, are difficult to manipulate and make it nearly impossible to falsify records of hours worked."
U.S. Xpress Co-Chairman and President Pat Quinn says his $1.4 billion company began implementing EOBRs about three years ago and is currently expanding it throughout his fleet. "In our experience, our drivers have adapted well to the use of electronic logs," says Quinn, another former ATA chairman.
"It has made our drivers and our operation more efficient," Quinn says flatly. "We believe that it also helped our company to maintain our high standards for safety."
Trucking industry officials said it was probably too late for Congress to act on this measure this year. Rather, they are focusing on 2011 as the time for its passage, when a five-year highway reauthorization bill also is up for debate.
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In a Way, Zimmerman Very Guilty
July 21, 2013
A gun changes everything. Perhaps that's the lesson many Americans ought to take from the tragic death of Trayvon Martin. It's something we really need to think abou....
Mr. Zimmerman lived in Florida where a concealed carry permit requires no more than an application. There is no class, no overseeing and evaluation by an exofficer or teaching by exmilitary in the handling of firearms as well as the responsibility that is required to possess one let alone carry it on your person. That said it was not the gun that gave Zimmerman bravado it was his need to be "important" in the eyes of the neighborhood. He took a man's life by chasing him down. He may have had to fight back but only since the man he was chasing believed his life was in danger. It was not the gun that took Mr. Martin's life it was an emotionally immature adult male named Mr. Zimmerman who took his life. It is too easy to blame the gun and I wonder if he had a knife or club would he also have persued this young man - of course he would have even after being told by an officer of the law to cease and desist.
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What about the young couple tortured and killed by 4 black men, what about the 2 yr. old that was shot point black in the face by black men, what about the businesman beat up serioustly by 4 black men. What is being done or said about those.
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In NO WAY was Zimmerman guilty. If he didn't have a gun, he would be dead and Martin would be a free man.
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Why don't we all put our true values where our mouths are. (Sure, that's gonna happen.) If you think Zimmerman is guilty, take a stand by vowing never to set foot in the south again. That means Key West, Myrtle Beach, even Austin, TX (yes TX is a southern state, not a western state). Do you have the stones to do that? I do and I did. On the other hand, if you think Zimmerman is innocent you have obviously bought into to the whole Southern gun-sucking, kamo-klown sensibility. If so, why are you still up here? Please, head on down to Dixie and join up with the like-minded. Go, now!
Just please don't come back.
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Martin was a POTHEAD
Martin was a small time hood gang banger wanne be
Martin went by the Facebook tag of "New Age N***ga"
Martin boasted in Twitter of beating up a white bus driver a few months before.
Martin was expelled from school from writing "F***k" on the walls.
He was in possession of stolen jewelry for which he said he got "from friends". Like every thief says, right???
Trayvon was a football player, 6'3" 160 lbs of lean muscle.
He was NOT the innocent 12 year kid you see pictured in liberal media.
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Did somebody put a gun to Mike Meyers head to write this??
Goosegirl, where were YOU on the night of ________???
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Oh well, Mike, what say you now. Action speaks louder than words. *******abcnews.go****/US/george-zimmerman-emerged-hiding-truck-crash-rescue/storynew?id=19735432 Like the media, 'What if George hadn't gotten out of his truck?' Would he have done this if he was not carrying?
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way to go mike. I agree. just another brave soul by the gun not the hands.
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Ohiodem "If you don't think the blacks have been discriminated against in this country blah blah blah"
Did I say blacks have never been discriminated against? Pay more attention, ODunce. LOL
So you're one of the few who think Zimmerman should have been found guilty to make amends for past discrimination against blacks, eh? Make an example of that "white Hispanic." Maybe a good old fashioned lynching would make you feel better.
And so you admit there WERE riots. But just "a few isolated incendents." So I was right. And you were wrong. As usual.
"Incendents"? Hey spelling bee champ, tell us who's the moron now. "Halarious." LOL
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Toolsaver, You are a moron, there were a few isolated incendents. What disappoints your type there weren't cities burned. It's halarious whenever someone points out your racism you guys are the first to claim someone else is. If you don't think the blacks have been discriminated against in this country you show how stupid you are. If Travon martin was white he would be alive today. If Travon Martin was white and Zimmerman had shot him you would be calling for all hispanics to be deported. I'll bet you are living off the government teet, aren't you. A disabilty I bet.
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Ohiodem "I would also like to add that in my opinion if Trayvon Martin would have been white he would not have viewed him as a "suspect" in the first place. Trayvon Martin would not have been confronted at all if he was white and he would be alive today."
There's a word used for people who form opinions and make assumptions based on the races of others. What was that word again? You loony leftists use that word all the time. Starts with an r... ends in acist... hmmmmmm....
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Ohiodem, don't read those posts. It's best you remain ignorant about the rioting, as that information will totally screw up the rosy view MSNBC has painted for you.
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About 350 Los Angeles Police Department officers were deployed in South L.A., and a citywide tactical alert was declared around 8:30 p.m. Firefighters even responded to the disturbances, extinguishing several small fires and tending to a couple minor injuries. Around 30 extra firefighters were deployed in the area as a precaution, along with arson investigators and chiefs working with the LAPD. Of those injured, one included a cameraman for KCAL9/KCBS who was wounded in an assault. He was taken away in an ambulance with a possible concussion. A KPCC public radio reporter said protesters, who were trying to steal her camera, made off with her phone and video card."
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Laist, on the Los Angeles riot "The peaceful assembly began at 6 p.m., but a mob of about 150 people split from the rally around 8 p.m. and wreaked havoc on Crenshaw Boulevard in South Los Angeles—all in protest of the George Zimmerman murder trial verdict. Businesses were damaged, bystanders were assaulted, traffic was blocked and cars were vandalized, according to City News Service. Protesters swarmed a Wal-Mart at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, and the L.A. Times reports that young vandals threw merchandise on the ground while shouting. Some protesters attempted to break open glass jewelry displays. Adding to the mayhem, protesters reportedly smashed a window at a Jack in the Box. KPCC, who live blogged the protests, said some protesters held sticks or signs and rode motorized bikes.
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But about 50 people allegedly sought cover behind cinder block walls and began throwing rocks and bottles at officers, Walker said.
"Officers were able to clear out the business areas preventing additional acts of vandalism," Walker said. "Shortly after dispersing the crowd, officers responded to a report of a subject who had been physically assaulted by one of the protesters."
Police found a suspect in the assault, chased him and took him into custody. He was identified a Byron Thomas, 22, a parolee.
The 11 arrests included charges of assault with a deadly weapon, battery, assault on a police horse, assault on a peace officer and vandalism, Walker said. One police car was damaged by a thrown rock."
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Redlands LomaLinda Patch, on the San Bernardino riot "Police described violence that broke out during a Trayvon-Zimmerman protest Thursday on Base Line as civil unrest.
About 8:45 p.m. July 18, police responded to multiple reports of people "committing various acts of vandalism" in the 200 block of East Base Line, San Bernardino police Sgt. T. Walker said in a statement.
Some of the individuals had been a part of a protest march that ended in the 300 block of East Base Line, Walker said.
"Officers encountered a group of approximately 120 subjects in the parking lot of a restaurant at this location," Walker said. "Without provocation, subjects in the crowd began throwing rocks and bottles at passing motorists, police vehicles, and police personnel."
Police ordered the crowd to disperse, and the majority of the crowd began to leave, Walker said.
But about 50 people allegedly sought cover behind cinder block walls and began throwing rocks and bottles at
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LA Times, more on the Oakland riot, July 16 "The Oakland Police Department arrested at least six people Monday night after declaring an unlawful assembly in downtown when a protest against the George Zimmerman verdict grew violent, officials said. Protesters marched through the streets smashing windows, lighting garbage on fire and throwing fireworks at police officers, officials said. A Flora Restaurant and Bar waiter was hit in the face with a hammer and bleeding, according to tweets from reporters with the Bay Area News Group, which includes the Oakland Tribune and San Jose Mercury News. The same restaurant had its windows broken over the weekend in similar protests. Photographs from protesters and reporters at the scene showed cracked glass on storefronts and graffiti scrawled across buildings. Some people were burning American flags."
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Ohiodem "First of all there has been no (rioting) over the Zimmerman case."
LA Times, on the Oakland riot, July 16 "For the third consecutive night, a crowd of hundreds gathered Monday in downtown Oakland to protest George Zimmerman's acquittal in the shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. The protests turned violent, Oakland Police Department spokeswoman told The Times on Monday, as members of the crowd threw bottles and fireworks at police officers, smashed store windows and burned U.S. flags."
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I would also like to remind the folks that keep bringing up how OJ Simpson killed those incent white people and no white people rioted when he was found not guilty. First of all there has been no (rioting) over the Zimmerman case. Second the people bringing OJ up were the very same racists that said Nicole Simpson was white trash and deserved what she got. You can deny it but I heard that comment many times during the trial and since.
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This is one of the very few times I can agree 100% with a commentary by Mike Myer. Usally he follows the party line to the "t", but this time he has the ---s to speak the truth. I would also like to add that in my opinion if Trayvon Martin would have been white he would not have viewed him as a "suspect" in the first place. Trayvon Martin would not have been confronted at all if he was white and he would be alive today.
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What are the "many" lies GZ told?
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Vincent, nobody needs to hear about your love life. And if you don't like the verdict, take it up with Eric Holder. He isn't doing anything else these days.
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The same people who wanted O.J.to be set free after mutilating two white people are the only people who are crying about this verdict. There are how ever two huge differences in this case. O.J. set out with intent to kill them. George Zimmerman did not.
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I grew up in a tough neighborhood and was involved in "fist" fights on many occasions. I've had my nose bloodied and broken, black eyes and head bruised. Whenever I was on he bottom, I usually tried to roll out and if that didn't work, I bit my way out. Shortly after the fight was over, we shook it off and forgot about it. THIS MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ABOUT RACE, BUT IT WAS ABOUT A COWARD!
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zIMMERMANS many lies will lose the civil suit for him, and they should.
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WASHINGTON – Hundreds of thousands of federal workers may be put on notice that they could be furloughed in the event of sequestration.
Some might be wondering if there is anything they can do about it. The answer: There is a system that allows certain federal workers to file an appeal.
Furloughed employees who qualify can appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent agency with just over 200 employees in Washington and some regional offices across the country. The office itself could be impacted by furloughs.
According to Federal News Radio, the burden of proof rests with the employee to prove the furlough was "personally motivated."
It would be very difficult for a federal employee to prove the furlough was motivated by something other than a lack of funds. Successful appeals are very rare, Federal News Radio reports.
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According to the Office of Personnel Management, "excepted employees" are employees who are exempted from the furlough by law because they are:
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Before you drop down the money, have you checked out some of the other 'lesser' offerings? ArtRage and Sketchbook come mind first; both have (had?) free versions to try that had a limited number of tools to use (brushes, pens, etc). I believe ArtRage is quite inexpensive. Again, both do best with a pressure sensitive tablet.
The trial for Sketchbook is here (at the bottom): http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...&siteID=123112 (I don't remember the difference between the two sketchbook options)
ArtRage info and such can be found here: http://www.artrage.com/ ; IIRC, 2.6 is the free version, and the other two are much newer and have costs associated with them.
Both are much simpler than Painter, but, I have to admit, I enjoy using them more.
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Sources: Jake Knott out for Saturday with shoulder injury - Iowa State Daily: Sports
At least the speculation is over...
This is not good news.
...and there it is.
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I would hope that this is just another example of the daily's ****** journalism... but unfortunately there's been way too much smoke about this all week.
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I hope this doesn't kill his NFL chances. I also want to see him in Cyclone gear the rest of the year!
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i have an installed zimbra 5.0.13 on redhat 5.1 . It is the Opensource edition. I make a backup with rsync . With some previous releases i did use the rsync copy to test the upgrade before doing in in production.
Client wants to migrate to centos , so i thought it would be wise to go immediately to centos 6.0 . But helas , when trying to start up the zimbra copy as a first start , before doing the migration to version 7 , he complains about perl
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Is centos 6.0 not supported for zimbra 5.0.13 ? Then i have to upgrade zimbra first on centos 5.6 for example to the latest version 7.
But afterwards i really have to upgrade the os also to centos 6.0
As a test , i tried to install zimbra 7 on centos 6 : i didn't finish the complete install but after creating some symbolic links for libstdc++ , i went fine without any perl errors.
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All industries are facing current change in the nation's recession, as economic conditions drive many decisions for doing business in a different way to stay afloat.
But last Thursday's announcement that Friday would see the last publication of the almost 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News hit the newspaper industry hard. The fact many of us were together for our annual Colorado Press Association convention led to extensive discussion.
It wasn't a complete surprise, as announcement had been made if a buyer wasn't found, the paper could fold. However, seeing the reaction on the faces of people very close to the situation as the announcement was stated, made it a grim reality which we could all relate to.
Rocky Editor and Publisher John Temple said in his editorial column in the Rocky's final edition, "You could say it's sad, and you'd be right, but you could also say that it's remarkable how long the Rocky survived."
Temple said he prefers to dwell on the second sentiment, in part "because it meshes with our view of this state's potentially boundless future and the expectation that better days await even most of those hit hardest by the current economic free fall."
Once the shock of the message was absorbed, I was proud of my colleagues who showed strength in defending an industry we believe in wholeheartedly.
While newspaper people talked of their quarterly week-long furloughs, mandated in order to save money, most still look with optimism to the future of newspapers.
Will we have to adapt to economic conditions? Of course. Will we have to think outside the box for online extensions of our printed copy in which we take much pride? Absolutely. Will we have to educate ourselves in the ways each generation wants to "get" the news? You bet. And will we have to retrain ourselves on the best source routes for info? Undoubtedly.
Outgoing CPA president Steve Henson of the Pueblo Chieftain described it well when he said newspapering isn't a job. "It's who we are."
As a newspaper industry, we discussed the significance of being in touch with our community. That emphasis is now magnified as economic struggles reign. In general, a fellow newspaper publisher said, it's the papers which are connected to and know their communities that will survive and thrive.
I don't claim to be on top of the latest in either computer or communication technology—just ask my children, who passed me by long ago. However, I felt I was making progress with an understanding of blogging, website loading, pdfs, Facebook and more.
Last weekend I heard more new foreign terms that I plan to check out. From twitter to tweeter, I'm in the dark, but hope to see the light soon with these social messaging utilities.
An online subscription base for the full edition of each week's Holyoke Enterprise—not just selected articles— is in planning stages.
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It has been said by those who understand how numbers can be used as propaganda that there are lies, there are damned lies, and there are statistics....
listen to or read Bob Woodards actual Reporting on Obama and the sequester...Yes Virginia, there is still one real news reporter still alive in the USA.
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Not just Woodward threatened, read below:
"WASHINGTON -- Bob Woodward isn't the only person who's received threats for airing the Obama administration's dirty laundry. It seems anyone is a potential target of the White House these days - even former senior members of the Clinton administration.
A day after Woodward's claim that a senior White House official had told him he would "regret" writing a column criticizing President Obama's stance on the sequester, Lanny Davis, a longtime close advisor to President Bill Clinton, told WMAL's Mornings on the Mall Thursday he had received similar threats for newspaper columns he had written about Obama in the Washington Times.
Davis told WMAL that his editor, John Solomon, "received a phone call from a senior Obama White House official who didn't like some of my columns, even though I'm a supporter of Obama. I couldn't imagine why this call was made." Davis says the Obama aide told Solomon, "that if he contin
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Thank you, Choking Smoker. Isn't ironic that ole' Mike is accusing the President of doing just what he himself does in virtually every political op. ed. he writes. Maybe the President has been reading Mr. Myer's columns.
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Pretty bad when our gov. has to lie to the people just to raise taxes in order to support those who don't want to support themselves.
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Let's see...
The figure I keep hearing is $85 billion. Sounds like a lot, until you consider all the stuff this "cut" will supposedly do away with. Air traffic, school lunches, police, teachers, firefighters, medicare, border security, military, etc, etc...
Boy, if we are getting all that for $85 billion, what a bargain!!!
Of course that raises the question of what are they squandering the OTHER $3.415 TRILLION on????
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Why did I put quotes on "cut"? Nowhere else but Washington would reducing the INCREASE in spending by $85 billion be called a CUT!!!
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The Blue Star Museums program was announced Wednesday at the San Antonio Museum of Art in San Antonio, Texas.
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The initiative began in 2010 with fewer than 1,000 museums and has more than doubled in size. New participants this year include the High Museum in Atlanta and The Thinkery children's museum in Austin, Texas.