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Red for me.
Let us see if the forums will agree on whatever SDCC 2011 votes for?
This was used as a reference at the panel:
green !!!
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I would love both versions but I think I would prefer the red one
Green for me, I'm not fussed about a red one.
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I only voted red because that how he was seen the most but I could take green just as well, as long as we finally get the old dragon.
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Green may be my favorite color, but RED I vote RED
In this case it looks much better to my eyes.
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Even though the mini-comic came out first, when I think of Granamyr the first thing I imagine is his Filmation version so...
...RED gets my vote.
Went red, if he is young, red for me but if he is old looking then green, comic green/filmation red.
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Red, as I never saw the green one. But really, I dont care too much.
I'm sure it'll be Red.
I'd prefer the FILMation look.
I would dare to conclude based on current information that Comic Con vote was also majority vote from Org. So it matched with the popular demand.
Red all the way. Love the Filmation look.
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Touch 'em All: Victor Rojas on growing up at the K, calling the game he loves and riding in wood-paneled station wagons.
One of the great things about baseball is the connections that extend throughout the game. People with Royals ties are all over the sport. The Texas Rangers alone have former pitcher Steve Busby broadcasting for them and their Executive Vice President, Communications and Public Relations is former catcher Jim Sundberg.
Former second baseman Cookie Rojas is also tied to the Rangers. One of his sons, Victor, has been broadcasting for them for five years. Victor has a unique perspective of the Royals and Kansas City. He was growing up when the team was experiencing its surge in the 70s and 80s. Victor is a Kansas Citian (a graduate of Blue Valley High School) who's gone on to do big things in baseball. He serves as an English language play-by-play broadcaster for the Caribbean Series. He's broadcast the Major League All-Star Game and he's put together six seasons as a broadcaster in the Majors.
Victor was with the Rangers when they came to Kansas City in late August. And on their last day in town, he sat down with Around the Horn in one of the radio booths during batting practice to chat. With the renovations under way during the interview and now kicked into full swing, we asked Victor what he thought about the state of the stadium and asked about a few of his favorite memories. So here's the final Touch 'em All interview from the 2008 season. Hope you enjoy…
Around the Horn: Having spent time in Kansas City when you were younger, what does seeing the stadium going through renovation mean to you?
Victor Rojas: It makes me excited to see what the finished product will look like. I spent so many summers here, down in the tunnels and in the family room and all that stuff. Just from an aesthetic standpoint, this ballpark has been spectacular from day one for me. You see the plans that are in place, and for me anyways, just because of the connection I have to the city, you just can't help but be excited to see the finished ballpark.
ATH: You would have been eight or so when your dad finished playing?
VR: When he retired, I was in the fifth grade. I remember they had Cookie Rojas Night in September of '77. I remember that like it was yesterday. Both sets of my grandparents were here. They brought us out and gave my dad a wood-paneled Volare Station Wagon. Which we took to Spring Training the next spring when my dad was a coach for the Chicago Cubs.
ATH: Good times in the old station wagon (thoughts of the Griswolds dancing through ATH head)?
VR: (he laughs) Plymouth Volare, yea. (laughs again)
ATH: Obviously the ballpark has undergone some transformation since you were young. They've taken out the turf and put in grass and the scoreboards and the fences moving in and then back out. When you look out and see this kind of a change to the ballpark, is it heart warming or are you a little sentimental?
VR: No, no, no, no. I think because the general feeling and thought process of the facility is remaining intact. You're just kind of adding around it. I think the integrity of the ballpark remains. For me, of course the signature pieces are the crown scoreboard and the fountains out in right and into left-center. Because those things are staying and you get to see I-70 in the background, that's the view that I always had and it will remain, with some tweaking in the left field corner and the right field corner and some seats adjusting and stuff like that.
I think the best thing they did prior to this whole renovation process was: Number 1, take the turf out and put grass in and then go to the blue seats. It just makes the stadium pop. I know that if I weren't in baseball and weren't working in it, I'd come here every chance I got. I know the Royals have gone through some tough times over the last few seasons, but because of the memories I've had here, I love coming here. I love seeing the people who are still working in the front office – the few that are still here – and just coasting around the stadium.
ATH: Growing up with a father playing baseball, and then playing some minor league ball yourself, how did you ultimately get into broadcasting?
VR: The broadcasting thing was a whim. I was really young in high school. I was a 16-year-old senior at Blue Valley. I turned 17 in February and graduated in May. I wasn't quite ready to play baseball at the collegiate level, or at least I didn't think I was anyway. I was overwhelmed on a recruiting visit to Cal State-Fullerton. And because of that, we moved down to Florida right after I graduated in '86. I graduated in '85, but we moved in '86.
So to pass the time, I was just going to take a year off, but my dad said why don't you go to this radio broadcasting school and learn the business. And I did that for a year. Then I went on to play college baseball and the rest is history from that standpoint.
It was about 2000, the fall of 2000. I was kind of in one of those situations where – not a mid-life crisis – but I was kind of tired of doing what I was doing. So I thought maybe I'll give this broadcasting thing a try. I had a friend that was coaching for the Newark Bears and Rick Cerone – the former catcher – owned the team and so I sent them my resume. The plan was, let me sign as an independent league player and in my off time, work with the radio station, do some interviews and kind of get into it that way. Well I'd worked in professional sports and Cerone didn't want me as a player, not at 31, 32 yeas of age. But he said "You can come up here and you can put the team together since it's independent ball, and then you can do color on the radio."
I went up there and 30 days later – the way I tell it – our play-by-play guy quit before the season, so I became the play-by-play guy. And then a month later, our GM got fired and so I became the General Manager. So that was the beginning of my broadcasting career as the GM and play-by-play guy of the Newark Bears. I did that for two years.
Actually after my first year, I got in contact with this little thing called MLB Radio, which is now MLB.TV, Gameday Audio and a bunch of other things. They had some shows during the season and I got hired, in 2002, to do a morning show Monday through Friday. That led to doing the All-Star game in Milwaukee – the famous tie – for MLB.com. Then that off-season, a friend of mine decided to hook me up with an agent. He said, I'll listen to your stuff and critique you, but I can't take you on as a client, you can use me as a mentor type deal. And that winter the Diamondbacks were looking for a guy. Kevin Kennedy was also one of his clients and they said no to Kevin Kennedy because they wanted somebody full-time to do all the games and he was still doing some FOX games. So they hired me. And then the next offseason, the Rangers contacted me and hired me and I've been with them ever since. So really it was all just chance and luck – being in the right place at the right time.
ATH: Some broadcasters have a bit of a learning curve moving from the National League to American League with different players, teams and some rule differences. Which do you prefer?
VR: It's a completely different style of baseball. I really enjoyed spending time in the National League. For some reason the games are shorter. At least in my mind, the games are shorter, even with double switches and the like.
I think there's more strategy involved, just from that standpoint in how you use your bench – the quality of the guys that you have to bring in late in games and stuff like that. So I enjoyed that, but there's no doubt about the familiarity. So I guess I am kind of an American League guy and will always be that way.
ATH: Did you ever get to go on the road with your dad when you were young?
VR: The only time I remember going on the road, it might have been '76 or '77. There was a family trip to California. We went to Anaheim and Oakland. I remember Anaheim because we went to Disneyland. And I remember Oakland because I remember taking my first helicopter ride over Alcatraz and back in those days, the A's were pretty good. So they packed them in and they put the visiting families up the first base line in the upper deck. I remember my mom was royally, royally, upset about it. She couldn't wait to get back here and tell the folks in the ticket office here. And my brother caught a foul ball, which was the first foul ball I've ever seen a friend of mine catch in a game.
I think that's the only trip I remember going on when he was playing. I've visited with him since then when he was working.
ATH: Growing up in Kansas City, would you say that Kansas City is your favorite place to visit when you're on the road with the Rangers?
VR: Yea. People ask me all the time what's your favorite ballpark? What's your favorite city? This place will always have a pull for me. It will always be the number one place for me. We stay at the Plaza, I have friends here. So this will always be number one for me. Personally this is the place for me. Seattle would be nice because I like the city and the ballpark.
Of the newer ballparks, Pittsburgh is probably for me, the nicest, aesthetically, with the Roberto Clemente bridge and everything. But for me, Kansas City will always be number one because of the ties.
ATH: When you're calling a game, what do you pull from? Is it the years that you watched when you were younger or is it mostly from your time playing?
VR: I think it's a combination. I think, just like anything else, the more you do it, the more comfortable you feel. The more times you see things, you react in certain ways. I think you just draw on your own experiences to decipher what's going on on the field and be able to explain it from a broadcasting standpoint, especially on radio, where you have limited time. When your doing color and you're not on the play-by-play side, you have to get everything in between pitches. I think you fall back to, if something happens that you recall a specific instance when you were a player and that happened to you, then sure that pops up.
But for me, I follow baseball so much, I have a pretty decent recall where I can say "Hey, wasn't there a situation a couple years ago with the Yankees and the Red Sox…" and I kind of base my explanation on those experiences as opposed to just what I did on a baseball field or what my dad did on a baseball field. The ins and outs and the nuts and bolts of the games, where you're supposed to throw on a cut-off man and baserunning blunders, that kind of stuff is like second nature to me. I don't know how to explain it. It's just there. But as far as the storytelling part of it and what happened in your life, if that maybe coincides on the field then I can relate it or maybe fall back on what I've seen my dad go through?
ATH: Is that type of thing that you enjoy about what you do now, is the storytelling?
VR: Yea. And it all depends about the time of year. Both of our teams are out of it. A month ago, we were talking about the Rangers and the Wild Card and they were four and a half games out of it. So we were talking about the excitement of August and September.
But now, you do have to rely on different ways to keep the listener interested. Maybe you'll bring in some off-field kind of stuff, like I was playing golf this morning with a couple buddies and a funny thing happened. If the game is out of hand and there's some dead space, so you bring that kind of stuff up. A game like last night, it was two hours and change. You've got two pretty good guys going out there and throwing the ball well with a couple unearned runs, that's all baseball. But the Rangers tend to play a lot of three, three and a half hour games.
ATH: You and your dad were both in the Angels organization. Were you there at the same time when you were in their minor league system?
VR: Dad was there from '82 through '92, so the first couple of years of my minor league career.
ATH: What was that like? Did you get to work with him?
VR: Didn't see him at all. He did come out. He was actually managing in '88, when I was out in college in the desert in Palm Springs, California. I actually spent the summer with him that year. But when I actually started playing for the Angels, maybe one time he came to Arizona in '90, but that was when he was scouting.
ATH: Were you a clubhouse kid when you were growing up?
VR: Oh yea. Today's players are younger and aren't married or don't have kids. But it seemed like when I was growing up, from Marty Pattin to Al Fitzmorris to B-Mac to Kimmer Brett. There were tons of guys downstairs, Dusty Wathan, it just seemed like there were kids all over the place. Amos Otis's kids were there.
Now it's like the kids that are there are babies. I think it's just from that standpoint that guys are getting to the big leagues a lot faster.
ATH: What were some of your favorite memories from those years?
VR: The best part for me it just going out and shagging during batting practice. Dad was pretty strict about going out and shagging and once B.P. is over, shower up and get out of the clubhouse. This is where we work, respect that and I still carry that over to today. I go downstairs, get my lineup and get out. I don't hang out down there.
In this ballpark, the best times we ever had were during the games in the family room with the tape-ball game we would have. We would end in nine innings and we were just drenched in sweat. And there was this dolly, kind of like a thing that paramedics use. It was almost like a stretcher on wheels. Well there was one in there and we would stand on it, lean it back and race it around the room with it. That was to me the best part of it. Just hanging out with the guys…and having a crush on Jenny Splittorff. (Around the Horn and Victor both laugh)
ATH: Well, it's a good thing that was caught on tape. Thank you so much for your time.
VR: No problem.
Greatest Hitter: Don Mattingly, for me. I have personal reasons behind that. Even before I met him, I just loved his approach at the plate. My daughter's name is Mattingly. Her name is Mattingly Grace and not after Marl Grace. Her grandmother's name is Grace.
Greatest Pitcher: Not because he's our boss or the team president, but Nolan Ryan. It's tough to argue with Roger Clemens and what he did in his career, especially early on and in college. From my forty years on this earth and the limited guys I've seen, it'd probably have to be Nolan Ryan. I say Nolan, but the term greatest is tough to define. With what I've seen I have to say him because of the strikeouts and the no-hitters and just overall dominance. And he did it in such a fashion that he was almost humble that he did something. I mean Randy Johnson was fun to watch in Arizona, but it has to be Nolan.
World Series: I'm a huge Joe Maddon fan because he was my minor league coordinator when I was in the Angels system. That being said, I'm going to go with the Angels and the Cubs probably in the National League. It'll probably be the Cubs and the Angels and I'll go with the Angels because they probably have the upper hand in pitching.
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The other characters reflect on their own predicaments as well as those of their family members. They make assumptions, often false. The young make the mistakes that the old made earlier. The adult children are surprised when roles change.
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When challenged by commissioners from five eastern Colorado counties, Gov. John Hickenlooper conceded that the process for passing Senate Bill 252 on rural renewable energy in last year's Colorado Legislature was flawed.
He said he has told current legislative leadership that the legislative process must be fair and that legislation passed without all parties being allowed to participate will face a certain veto from him this year.
Representatives of the five rural counties that passed the secession advisory question last November met with Hickenlooper at the State Capitol Thursday, Feb. 6 to discuss issues behind that vote.
Trent Bushner, Yuma County commissioner, served as spokesman for county commissioners and others from Yuma, Washington, Cheyenne, Kit Carson and Phillips counties.
Phillips County Commissioners Harlan Stern and Joe Kinnie were in attendance along with county administrator Randy Schafer.
The group presented four major areas of concern to Hickenlooper, including renewable energy requirements, oil and gas regulations, gun control and transportation.
Mark Farnsworth, manager of Highline Electric Association, emphasized three major concerns with SB 252: additional monetary burden on a small membership to meet new standards, the possibility that the 2 percent cap would not allow companies to meet renewable energy requirements, and the potential of even more stringent future legislation.
Discussion focused on the process that appeared to ram the bill through from the 2013 Legislature to the governor's office without allowing input from affected electrical providers, despite the protests of a considerable number of rural Colorado entities and individuals.
Hickenlooper responded that he had felt that whatever small step Colorado could take to minimize the state's effect on the climate needed to be taken.
Commissioner Bushner addressed past and pending oil and gas regulations, focusing on those presently before the Colorado Air Pollution Commission that would put new controls on methane emissions. If those regulations are passed, Colorado would be the first state in the nation to put such controls in place.
Bushner noted that three of the larger oil and gas companies in the state met with Air Pollution Control Division staff and proposed a set of regulations. He said that eastern Colorado has many smaller oil and gas producers, with a majority of wells being stripper wells with limited production.
While larger companies may more easily afford costly equipment requirements demanded by more stringent regulations, margins for small producers are much tighter and might result in abandoned wells.
Bushner said that oil and gas company managers indicate that Colorado, once one of the top two or three states to drill in, is now near the bottom in red tape and regulations, frustrating drilling efforts. Bushner noted that Yuma County had almost 60 percent of its assessed value from natural gas three years ago but dropped to 29 percent for 2014.
Commissioners pointed out that eastern Colorado is already in an attainment area that currently meets air pollution standards. While the Front Range appears to have the pollution issues, the regulations are proposed for the entire state.
Several in the group expressed displeasure over state regulations that cover the entire state. "One size does not fit all," even though the state Legislature does not recognize that.
Bushner compared one-day permits in Kansas with 90-day permits in Colorado, pointing out that the choice of where to drill is, therefore, simple for oil and gas companies to make.
Addressing gun control, Cheyenne County Commissioner Rod Pelton said that guns are a way of life in rural Colorado, and the U.S. Constitution guarantees that right. He expressed his feeling that the stringent laws passed in Colorado infringe on the people's rights to have and use guns.
Hickenlooper asked Pelton his opinion on required background checks, citing how many people with criminal records had already been prevented from getting weapons. Pelton answered that criminals will still find a way to get a weapon. Due to lack of time, magazine size was not addressed.
Bushner, who is co-chair of the Eastern Transportation Planning Region and attends State Transportation Advisory Committee meetings, addressed transportation, the group's fourth issue.
He explained the recent Department of Transportation Responsible Acceleration of Maintenance and Partnerships Program that allows local government to propose projects and provide matching money.
In all of eastern Colorado, Yuma County was the only successful applicant, he said, but RAMP circumvents priority projects already on tap in each of the transportation planning regions and many rural local governments cannot provide match money.
In other issues, Washington County Commissioner Terry Hart expressed frustration over the lack of FEMA funding for individual flooding losses last fall in his county.
After a 50-minute meeting with the governor, the group gave additional concerns to Cabinet members Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar, Director of Natural Resources Mike King and Director of the Colorado Department of Local Affairs Reeves Brown.
Members of the group reiterated that rural Colorado is disenfranchised, with no voice in Colorado government, and that rural Colorado is dictated to and ignored.
Phillips County Administrator Randy Schafer presented the 2013 Phillips County proposal that would change representation in the state House of Representatives from a population base to mirroring the U.S. Senate with representation by area or to one representative per county.
Attending the session were Yuma County Commissioners Dean Wingfield, Robin Wiley and Trent Bushner; Kit Carson County Commissioners Dave Gwyn, Dave Hornung and Gary Koop; Washington County Commissioner Terry Hart; Cheyenne County Commissioner Rod Pelton; and Phillips County Commissioners Harlan Stern and Joe Kinnie.
Also in attendance were Phillips County Administrator Randy Schafer, Highline Electric Association Manager Mark Farnsworth and Y-W Electric board member Stuart Travis.
The group also met briefly with Sen. Greg Brophy. Tracee Bentley, director of Legislative Affairs and Strategic Initiatives, coordinated the meeting with the governor at the request of Yuma County.


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ARLINGTON, Va. (WUSA9) -- Arlington County Police say 43 high school students were charged with underage drinking at a party over the weekend.
Police responded to a report of a loud party on Saturday at about 9:40 p.m. in the 3500 block of N. Nottingham Street in the Williamsburg neighborhood.
When teens saw the officer approach the home a large group began running, jumping over fences and others began throwing beer cans and bottles at the officer, Arlington County Police Department spokesperson Dustin Sternbeck said.
According to Sternbeck, backup units arrived and officers were able to round up 43 teens between the ages of 15 and 18, all charged with underage consumption of alcohol.
The Arlington Public Schools Superintendent Patrick Murphy released the following statement following the incident:
"We were disheartened to learn about the events last Saturday. We are committed to continuing to collaborate with our community partners, such as Arlington's READY Coalition, to provide a strong network of support for parents and families that will help our students make good choices in school and in life for their health and well-being."
No charges were filed against the homeowners who were not home at the time of the incident, Sternback said.
Attached is a letter that Arlington Public Schools plan to send home to high school students this week.


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Transfer of PrescriptionsWe still want to make it as easy as possible for you to reorder your horse's medications, so we've transferred all on-file prescriptions to Allivet, a trusted online pharmacy. Allivet is Vet-VIPPS certified, just as our pharmacy was, and they're a Google Trusted Store with a Better Business Bureau A- rating, so we're confident they'll give you the care and service you deserve. You can shop their site at www.allivet.com or call 1-877-500-9944 to get started.
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To free up some space I would like to delete old archive accounts off our system. I created new archive accounts using zmarchiveconfig enable firstname.lastname@example.com. Then I did a full system backup and moved that to an offsite archive tape. I also have backups on a NAS storage if I need to access the accounts.
I checked and mail is going into the new archive accounts so now I would like to delete the old ones. However, when I go to delete the archive accounts I get the following error "Warning! One or more of the selected accounts are special system resources. Deleting these accounts may cause unexpected errors."
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5 Steps to improving your 3PL relationships
VESTED OUTSOURCING IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK - Source: Vested Outsourcing: Five Rules that will Transform Outsourcing
February 24, 2011 - LM Editorial
Step 1: Lay the foundation
The first thing a company should do before ever lifting a finger to outsource is to thoroughly understand if outsourcing is right for their operations. Management consultant Peter Drucker famously stated: "Do what you do best and outsource the rest."
The problem is that far too many companies jumped on to the outsourcing bandwagon without realizing if outsourcing was right for them.
The October LM case study on Armstrong raised a red flag for us when we read the statement: "Managing transportation was once a core competency of Armstrong." If managing transportation was a core competency, why did Armstrong outsource in the first place? This leads to our second tip: Don't outsource what is core. A company should only outsource when a service provider can do the work better, faster, or cheaper.
When Armstrong's 3PL relationship began failing early on they decided to move the work back in house. Because they brought the work back in house, we believe that Armstrong did not follow our second tip.
Step 2: Understand the business
Once a company has properly decided that outsourcing is the right choice and has done its homework associated with laying the foundation, it should take the time to establish a baseline that both benchmark the potential cost, service, or other opportunities.
Which leads us to our third tip: Understand your baseline and benchmarks before you outsource. In the Armstrong case study, one of the key decision makers said: "When we priced it out we were shocked to learn that we were less than half of what everyone else was charging."
The article explains that the Armstrong team discovered this after they realized that their 3PL was failing. If Armstrong had done sound baseline and benchmarked cost and service they would have realized that they had an outstanding team that would not have benefited from outsourcing; in turn, they would have prevented themselves the pain of transitioning the work only to bring it back in house.
Armstrong also pointed out that "there was a failure by the 3PL to understand Armstrong's customer requirements" and "the biggest flaw was that our 3PL took a one-size-fits-all approach…We have specialized needs, and they did not appreciate the complexity of our business."
|Tips to better outsourcing
decision making
tip #1: slow down and take the steps to get outsourcing right before you start any work.
tip #2: don't outsource what is core.
tip #3: Understand your baseline and benchmarks before you outsource.
tip #4: ensure potential suppliers understand the business.
tip # 5: develop clearly defined and measurable desired outcomes.
tip #6: identify risks before you transition the work.
tip #7: establish a pricing model with incentives that encourage service providers to put skin in the game.
tip #8: develop a governance structure based on insight versus oversight.
That sets up our fourth tip: Ensure potential suppliers understand the business. Our research and experience says that many companies are poor at stating their requirements. In fact, we often see service providers forced to "understand the business" based on a poorly written RFP and incomplete and inaccurate data.
One way to overcome this is for companies to open their doors and let service providers in to look around and explore the details of business. Let them ask for data—after all they'll need this to run your business effectively.
Once service providers have had a chance to thoroughly understand the business, the companies and the service providers should mutually agree on cost and service goals. We call these desired outcomes. If the service provider understands the baseline costs and service levels clearly then they can feel more comfortable about signing up to achieve your desired outcomes.
And this takes us out fifth tip: Develop clearly defined and measurable desired outcomes. You are outsourcing because you have gaps in where you are today and where you want to go (your desired outcomes). It is important to make sure the service providers understand those gaps and knows what success is (your desired outcomes).
The Armstrong case study pointed out that the arrangement was not meeting Armstrong's established costs and service goals. As researchers and educators, we love to review RFPs and poke holes in how poorly requirements are often stated and how few clearly state their desired outcomes.
Our experience is that service providers do not sign up to take on a client's business with the intent to fail. As such, we strongly recommend that all companies take the time to work with service providers to ensure they understand the business and communicate the desired outcomes and gaps.
About the Author
University of Tennessee Faculty Members
Kate Vitasek is a faculty member at the University of Tennessee's Center for Executive Education and is author of the popular book Vested Outsourcing: Five Rules that will Transform Outsourcing. Pete Moore and Bonnie Keith are Program Faculty members for the University's Vested Outsourcing and Air Force Strategic Sourcing programs. Moore is also author of LM's "Moore On Pricing" column.
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Environmental group says BP penalty isn't enough
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Lawyers for two BP oil rig workers say the Justice Department is trying to make scapegoats out of them.
The two were indicted today on federal charges including manslaughter, in the deaths of 11 workers in the rig explosion that led to the Gulf oil spill two and a half years ago.
Another man, a BP official, is charged with obstruction of Congress, for allegedly withholding information on how much oil was spewing from the blown-out well.
BP, meanwhile, has agreed to pay a record $4.5 billion in a settlement with the government. It includes nearly $1.3 billion in fines, the biggest criminal penalty in U.S. history. And Attorney General Eric Holder says much of the money will be used to restore the Gulf.
The settlement may not make much of a dent on the company's finances. BP made a record $25.8 billion in profits last year. And it will be given five years to pay.
The environmental group Greenpeace is criticizing the settlement as a slap on the wrist.
But the company still faces huge additional claims -- including billions of dollars in civil penalties the government is seeking under the Clean Water Act and other environmental laws. And a judge in New Orleans is considering a separate proposed settlement of $7.8 billion between BP and more than 100,000 businesses and individuals who say they were harmed by the spill.
AG Holder: Investigation of BP spill to continue
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says the BP settlement is the just the latest step in ongoing efforts to seek justice for the massive 2010 Gulf oil spill.
Holder said at a news conference that the settlement announced Thursday isn't the end of federal authorities' efforts and that the criminal investigation is continuing.
BP PLC has agreed to pay $4.5 billion in a settlement with the U.S. government over the disaster. Holder says much of that money will be used to restore the environment in the Gulf.
BP also said it would plead guilty to criminal charges related to the deaths of 11 workers and lying to Congress. Three men who worked for BP have also been charged in indictments unsealed Thursday.
The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record about the deal, also said two BP employees face manslaughter charges over the death of 11 people in the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that triggered the massive spill.
The person said BP will plead guilty to obstruction for lying to Congress about how much oil was pouring out of the ruptured well.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Two BP employees have been indicted on manslaughter charges in the 2010 Gulf oil spill disaster.
The federal indictment unsealed Thursday in New Orleans names BP well site leaders Robert Kaluza and Donald Vidrine. The indictment claims they acted negligently in their supervision of key safety tests performed on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig before an explosion killed 11 workers in April 2010.
The indictment says Kaluza and Vidrine failed to phone engineers onshore to alert them of problems in the drilling operation.
The charges come on the same day that BP announced that it has agreed to pay $4.5 billion in a settlement with the U.S. government to plead guilty to felony counts related to the deaths of 11 workers and lying to Congress.
BP executive charged with lying to authorities
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A BP executive has been indicted on charges that he lied to authorities about his work estimating the rate oil was flowing during the 2010 Gulf oil spill disaster.
A federal indictment unsealed Thursday charges David Rainey, who was BP's vice president of exploration for the Gulf of Mexico, on charges of obstruction of Congress and false statements.
The indictment claims that Rainey lied to federal investigators when they asked him how he calculated a flow rate estimate for BP's blown-out well in the days after the April 2010 disaster.
Indictments charging two BP well site leaders with manslaughter were also unsealed Thursday.
Earlier, BP announced that it has agreed to pay $4.5 billion in a settlement with the U.S. government and to plead guilty to felony counts related to the deaths of 11 workers and lying to Congress.


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- Preheat oven to 400° F.
- Unroll pie crust and press into 9 or 11 inch tart pan. Poke holes with a fork all over the crust and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Remove from refrigerator and place directly into the oven and bake for 10 minutes. Set aside once baked.
- In a medium bowl add cheese, mayonnaise and cream cheese. Mix until smooth.
- Cook bacon in a medium pan until crispy. Remove bacon from pan and allow to cool. Crumble bacon over the bottom of the cooked tart shell. Sprinkle green onions over bacon.
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By Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congress begins a wild and potentially chaotic week on Monday that may or may not end with a government shutdown on October 1 but will surely do nothing to improve its low standing with American voters.
With action to fund the government required in both the Senate and then once again in the House of Representatives, a down-to-the wire battle through next weekend is almost guaranteed.
And when members are finished with that, they will confront an even more volatile clash over increasing the government's borrowing authority, with its credit rating and possible default on the line.
The long Republican war against "Obamacare," President Barack Obama's healthcare signature law set for launch on October 1, is at the heart of the clashes ahead. Republicans are using both the threat of a shutdown as well as the debt ceiling in an effort to scuttle or delay the law.
Yet the only certainty is that when the dust settles, Obamacare will still be standing. Neither the Democratic Senate nor Obama will agree to a bill delaying the program, signed into law by the president in March, 2010 to provide health coverage for millions of uninsured Americans.
The clash is a potentially defining moment for Republicans, who are badly divided over the anti-Obamacare tactic being pursued by the House.
Influential conservatives, including senior Republicans in the Senate, strategist Karl Rove and Fox News broadcaster Bill O'Reilly have called it futile, warning that a shutdown could seriously damage Republicans on the eve of the 2014 elections.
O'Reilly last week described the effort as "fanaticism on the right," which is "harming the country. There's no way Obamacare is going to be defunded…. So why bother alienating independent Americans by embracing a futile exercise," he said on Fox.
Congressional authorization for the government to spend money runs out at the end of the fiscal year on September 30.
Whipped on by activists of the Tea Party movement, born in reaction to Obamacare when it was before Congress in 2009 and increasingly powerful in Republican election contests, Republicans in the House voted on Friday to make the measure conditional on defunding Obamacare.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has made it clear that he will work this week to delete the House Republicans' provision defunding Obamacare.
The first important vote on the House-passed Obamacare spending bill could come on Tuesday when Reid might stage a vote on a "motion to proceed," which basically asks the Senate's permission to debate a bill.
Sixty votes in the 100-member Senate likely will be required to approve this procedural move. Democrats control 54 votes -including those of two independents-versus 46 for Republicans.
An easy vote had been anticipated because it was thought that Republicans would surely vote to begin debate on a bill that aims to kill the healthcare law that they hate.
But U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas could make a filibuster stand at that point, slowing down the process, if nothing else.
Cruz, and to some extent his ally, Senator Mike Lee of Utah, have "gone rogue" on the Republican establishment in the Senate, with Cruz in particular the subject of bitter attack from some of his colleagues for traveling around the country urging a "no surrender" strategy on Obamacare.
If the "motion to proceed" passes, the Senate would then move to the bill itself with a Democratic amendment to strike the Obamacare provision.
Cruz could try again to slow or block the process by filibustering. Again, 60 votes would be needed move forward.
Winning that second procedural vote would open the door for Reid to then easily destroy the Obamacare provision, leaving the government funding part of the bill alive.
From there, Reid could push to pass the bill, again relying on just the 54 Democratic votes he controls, and then send the bill back to the House.
A somewhat less theatrical turn could see Democrats introduce and approve a straight-forward, six-week extension of spending at the current level and send that over to the House.
While there are a number of technical obstacles to that approach, it would free Senators from both parties from having to go on record one way or the other on Obamacare, making it harder for conservatives to use the vote against them in future elections.
It would have the same effect as stripping the House bill of the Obamacare provision.
After the Senate finishes, the measure to fund the government must then return to the U.S. House of Representatives.
By then, October 1 will be rapidly approaching and a high-stakes game of which-chamber-will-blink-first could unfold.
House Republicans next week hope to unveil a second important bill – one to prevent the U.S. government from defaulting on its debt sometime in October or November.
The legislation would raise the country's $16.7 trillion borrowing limit, but Republicans again want to extract something from Democrats in return for the debt limit hike.
They have been talking about attaching yet another plan to the debt limit bill that would gut Obamacare, as well as forcing a controversial approval of the Keystone oil pipeline running from Canada to the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
House Republicans say they also are looking at some tax provisions to possibly lop onto the debt limit bill.
Obama has warned Republicans against loading up the debt limit bill with unrelated items, saying he will not negotiate on a measure that in effect pays the government's outstanding bills.
Passage of a loaded-up debt limit bill in the House likely would trigger a rerun of the stop-gap spending fight that is consuming Washington now.
The combat over the shutdown and the debt ceiling is to some extent a rerun of past fiscal showdowns that have consumed much of the past three years, since Republicans took control of the House in the 2010 elections.
With every one of them, standing of Congress among Americans, never very high, has sunk even lower.
Ironically, the approval rating of Congress was on its way up, reaching a one-year high of 19 percent, according to the September 5-8 Gallup poll.


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GoJane's latest Blogger Friend Forever, Erika of Retro Flame, doing her thing in our metallic lucite heels.
GoJane's latest Blogger Friend Forever, Erika of Retro Flame, doing her thing in our metallic lucite heels.
GoJane's latest BFF, Attalia of Makeup A La Moda, doing her thing in our spiky faux suede wedges.
Good friends are hard to find. Good fashion bloggers are even more rare. It seems like the internet is littered with personal style blogs and it would take a lifetime to get through them all to decide on your faves. But we know you're a busy gal and and we'd rather you spend any free time you have shopping our site, rather than trolling the internet for some good reads and tasty pics. So we here at GoJane have gathered a team of web surfing fashionistas who will sort through the millions of fashion blogs for you. We've hand selected the cream of the crop and we're bringing these blogging babes to you dressed in some of GoJane's hottest items. We're calling these stylish GoJane loving' ladies our BFFs…Blogger Friends Forever! Que cute, huh?
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The top ballers in the world gathered for the annual Sony Ericsson Baller Party last night at LIV Club in the Fontainebleau Hotel.
The big trend for the ladies? Bold animal prints. Some did it well while others did it questionably. The boys stayed conservative with button-down shirts, suit/jackets, and jeans.
Venus Williams: Great dress, beautiful lines
Bethanie Mattek-Sands: Color me shocked. I can't believe it but B actually looks pretty good here.
Rafael Nadal: Really Rafa? You couldn't find a shirt to fit you?? Just show up topless then.
Caroline Wozniacki: Hey Wozzi, someone wants their piñata back.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: A snake died for that?
Agnieszka Radwanska: Cute dress, wrong shoes.
James Blake: You really should've taken up banking...or insurance sales.
Fernando Verdasco: CHEESEBALL.
Dominika Cibulkova: Tonight's entertainment is here boys. Get that pole ready.
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San Antonio, TX (Sports Network) - San Antonio Spurs All-Star Tim Duncan
suffered a sprained right ankle and a sprained left knee in the second quarter
of Saturday's game against the Washington Wizards.
Duncan, who was ruled out for the second half, was hurt when Washington
forward Martell Webster rolled onto the back of his knee as the two were
battling for a rebound.
Duncan, who had missed the team's previous four games with a sore knee, was
helped off the court by a pair of teammates before walking under his own
The Spurs, who were ahead 51-26, were in position for a 10th straight win.
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Bono has an odd crush on Mick Jagger, revealing he loves the Rolling Stones star's wrinkles.
The U2 frontman admits he is a big fan of the "Start Me Up" veteran, who turns 70 over the weekend, and would love to spend a day just wandering around with him.
In a new interview with a German newspaper, Bono says, "Mick looks a bit like (Mikhail) Baryshnikov, like a ballet dancer from a different age. At the same time he still has a very beautiful face. The wrinkles that run through it now have made it even more beautiful… because he wears those wrinkles well. I love his wrinkles."
"I would like to see him on the day (sic) and then I would like to carry his guitar case for him."
And Bono urges Jagger's critics to take another look at the Rolling Stones star, adding, "People despise Mick because they think he only thinks about money, but he is a businessman above all else. The fact is, he understands the business… because the Stones lost a lot of money in the beginning."
"I have to kneel in reverence to what he has achieved. What I like about him as a person is that he always speaks his mind openly and he never talks much about himself. He is not a narcissistic person."


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Well done sir!
Finalized version of the continent of Tarantia.
Back into my preferred style again! This is another map that follows the style of an Ascension tutorial, but this time with some of my own twists. Based on the WIP comments, I seem to have accomplished the effect I was after The intent was to have a map that looked like it came off a semi-modern printing press, and has seen a fair amount of use over the last hundred years or so (but carefully rolled and stored rather than folded).
Thanks to everyone for their support and kind comments!
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Well done sir!
That is impressive!
I am in awe of that map
Wow man, loving the map. It looks very professional, its the kind of look i envy.
Keep still so i can steal your creativity, i mean uh, congratulate you whole heartedly, yes thats what i meant *shifty eyes.
Great work.
It's not a huge secret really, check out the WIP thread here:
Credit where it's due again, the tutorial I was following was so clearly laid out it's hard NOT to make a good map from it
I just got informed that this map has been discovered hanging in the lobby of a higher-end resort in Jamaica. (what the heck? seriously??)
More details as I uncover them!
My finished maps
"...sometimes the most efficient way to make something look drawn by hand is to simply draw it by hand..."
I missed this map when you first-posted it and I have to say that it's really nice but is it's name Tirantia as it says in the map or Tarantia as it says in the forum?
I would go with what I put on the map itself, consider the forum spelling as a typo
My finished maps
"...sometimes the most efficient way to make something look drawn by hand is to simply draw it by hand..."
This is quite nice C-Max, but for me the mountains seem out of place - I think the lines are to 'soft' compared to the rest of the piece.
*shrugs* just my opinion...
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March 11, 1999
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There's a new singing cowboy in town, and his name is Ken Kunin.
"I've been in this crazy industry for about 10 years," says the lead vocalist/songwriter. And he's about to turn up the heat.
His band, davis waits, has been receiving radio airplay , including on local outlets KLOS and KTTC; and a cross-country tour in support of their new album, "the evolution of...," will follow after the New Year.
Comprised of 14 tracks of jangly American pop, "the evolution of..." covers some introspective terra firma -- love and life, with the occasional social commentary -- including "my dear kate," a valentine to his wife of five years, Kathryn Sharp; "transit," which, in Kunin's words, charts "the dilemma of winding up in a different city, where's my values today..."; and "senorita," the plight of an immigrant worker trying to make ends meet with dignity. Three producers helped breathe life into "the evolution of...," including newcomer Jon Griffin and John Philip Shenale, who produced Jane's Addiction's last real album, 1989's "Ritual de la Habitual."
Kunin -- who does all of the band's songwriting and considers it the best part of the musical process -- says that his music draws from his spiritual side.
"My Judaism has been a little more internal, not as community oriented," says Kunin. "But it still plays a definitely important part of my life, my family life."
Originally from Tarzana, Kunin is a former teacher of martial arts, yoga, and tai chi. He is also the brother of Rabbi Gordon Bernard-Kunin, a religious studies director at Bernard Milken Jewish Community Campus and founder of the Pico-Robertson-based Makor program. The erstwhile University of Arizona Eastern Studies major now lives in Van Nuys, where he runs his own label, Underhill Recordings, with Sharp.
"I'm pretty lucky in a sense that a lot of people my age, they're still searching for their soulmate," says the 31-year-old musician of his spouse.
Together, the Kunin and Sharp are also producing other artists, including singer/songwriter Leslie King; and an album by davis waits' guitarist/keyboardist, Brazilian jazz artist Angelo Metz.
Kunin, who grew up blasting Led Zeppelin and Bob Dylan on his stereo, also has an acoustic solo CD coming out in February. "The Return of Number Six" (a reference to the number on the baseball jersey he wore when he was eight) will reflect the spiritual inroads he has made. One song, "Grace to Fall From," will be his take on spirituality and religion; another tune, "Don't Make It Anything More," mocks the shallowness of celebrity worship.
So what sets davis waits from the contemporaries? According to Kunin, it's passion.
"How many times have you been to a show where you're watching a band and there's no passion... where you say, 'Come on I'm not buying it, it's not real!'"
Passion is a big part of Kunin's life and art. It is what drives him to handle his own producing and distribution. And it is what he tries to infuse in every live appearance.
"So much of our generation is stuck in front of the television," says Kunin. "What affects me most on a high holiday is when the rabbi is telling a story. He's not preaching, he's telling a tale. I like storytelling."
Perhaps we are witnessing "the evolution of..." another rabbi in the Kunin clan.
Join davis waits at the Joint on Jan. 15, 10 p.m. For more information on davis waits and upcoming local appearances, check out the band's official home page at www.daviswaits.com.
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Another year gone by and another Top 10 list for us to enjoy. This time, it's TorrentFreak's list of most pirated movies (BitTorrent) and it's not what you might think. Below you'll find the most pirated list and right under it, you'll find Imdb's list of top grossing films for 2011 – quite a difference. Now there are some things to consider, like the ability of the BitTorrent scene to get hold of good copies of the films and film release dates – that said, it seems like pirates have a different taste in cinema than broader America.
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A Pennsylvania meat processor is announcing an expansion of its voluntary meat recall.
The recall is resulting in the return of more than 27 million pounds of meat, which is the largest in USDA history. The Wampler Foods announcement comes on the heels of a production stoppage at a suburban Philadelphia plant because the meat may be contaminated with Listeria.
The voluntary recall also involves all cooked deli products made at the Franconia plant from May 1 through Oct. 11.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- WUSA 9 Meteorologist Howard Bernstein says it's going to be a disappointing winter if you're a snow lover. We have a nice start to the week and a full moon, or "a snow moon."
The Farmers' Almanac defines the snow moon this way: "Since the heaviest snow usually falls during this month, native tribes of the north and east most often called February's full Moon the Full Snow Moon. Some tribes also referred to this Moon as the Full Hunger Moon, since harsh weather conditions in their areas made hunting very difficult."
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This article [2] from The Atlantic asks a disheartening question, and cites an analysis of our economy in 2005 that explained:
. . . America was composed of two distinct groups: the rich and the rest. And for the purposes of investment decisions, the second group didn't matter; tracking its spending habits or worrying over its savings rate was a waste of time. All the action in the American economy was at the top: the richest 1 percent of households earned as much each year as the bottom 60 percent put together; they possessed as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent; and with each passing year, a greater share of the nation's treasure was flowing through their hands and into their pockets. It was this segment of the population, almost exclusively, that held the key to future growth and future returns. The analysts, Ajay Kapur, Niall Macleod, and Narendra Singh, had coined a term for this state of affairs: plutonomy.
So what is our nation's wealth doing so far out there? And what does plutonomy mean for people who are living on Earth? As we drift farther apart, there are rippling effects in education, marriages and families, religious beliefs and practices, and the American promise of social mobility. Read the excerpted paragraphs below, or see the full article here [2].
Excerpt from the article [2]:
The ease with which the rich and well educated have shrugged off the recession shouldn't be surprising; strong winds have been at their backs for many years. The recession, meanwhile, has restrained wage growth and enabled faster restructuring and offshoring, leaving many corporations with lower production costs and higher profits—and their executives with higher pay.
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America's classes are separating and changing. A tiny elite continues to float up and away from everyone else. Below it, suspended, sits what might be thought of as the professional middle class—unexceptional college graduates for whom the arrow of fortune points mostly sideways, and an upper tier of college graduates and postgraduates for whom it points progressively upward, but not spectacularly so. The professional middle class has grown anxious since the crash, and not without reason. Yet these anxieties should not distract us from a second, more important, cleavage in American society—the one between college graduates and everyone else.
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In the March 2010 issue of this magazine, I discussed [3] the wide-ranging social consequences of male economic problems, once they become chronic. Women tend not to marry (or stay married to) jobless or economically insecure men—though they do have children with them. And those children usually struggle when, as typically happens, their parents separate and their lives are unsettled. The Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson has connected the loss of manufacturing jobs from inner cities in the 1970s—and the resulting economic struggles of inner-city men—to many of the social ills that cropped up afterward. Those social ills eventually became self-reinforcing, passing from one generation to the next. In less privileged parts of the country, a larger, predominantly male underclass may now be forming, and with it, more-widespread cultural problems.
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One stubborn stereotype in the United States is that religious roots are deepest in blue-collar communities and small towns, and, more generally, among Americans who do not have college degrees. That was true in the 1970s. Yet since then, attendance at religious services has plummeted among moderately educated Americans, and is now much more common among college grads. So, too, is participation in civic groups. High-school seniors from affluent households are more likely to volunteer, join groups, go to church, and have strong academic ambitions than seniors used to be, and are as trusting of other people as seniors a generation ago; their peers from less affluent households have become less engaged on each of those fronts. A cultural chasm—which did not exist 40 years ago and which was still relatively small 20 years ago—has developed between the traditional middle class and the top 30 percent of society.
Over time, the United States has expected less and less of its elite, even as society has oriented itself in a way that is most likely to maximize their income. The top income-tax rate was 91 percent in 1960, 70 percent in 1980, 50 percent in 1986, and 39.6 percent in 2000, and is now 35 percent. Income from investments is taxed at a rate of 15 percent. The estate tax has been gutted.
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Even as we continue to strive to perfect the meritocracy, signs that things may be moving in the other direction are proliferating. The increasing segregation of Americans by education and income, and the widening cultural divide between families with college-educated parents and those without them, suggests that built-in advantages and disadvantages may be growing. And the concentration of wealth in relatively few hands opens the possibility that much of the next generation's elite might achieve their status through inheritance, not hard or innovative work.


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Wednesday Afternoon News, October 10
Examining Plymouth County Drug Court - Part 1
(Le Mars) -- Last week the Plymouth County Drug Court hosted the Chamber of Commerce coffee as
a way to help educate the public about Drug Court and its purpose and responsibilities. Plymouth County Drug Court Executive Director Don Nore says Drug Court isn't set up to pass judgement on those people convicted of crimes with addictions to drugs, alcohol, or other addictions. He says Drug Court offers a counseling session to help the offenders.
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Nore says incarceration is not always the answer for those with drug or alcohol addictions
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Nore says the Plymouth County Drug Court program is successful and rather unique to the state of Iowa.
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He says the Plymouth County Drug Court operates on a "shoestring" budget.
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The Drug Court executive director says 23 individuals are currently attending drug court. Over the past five years, the local program has had 126 people attend. Nore says although the drug court is successful, he admits that not all people are able to graduate from drug court. Sometimes, if the person violates their parole terms, that individual is placed in jail or prison. Tomorrow we will continue our series of reports on the Plymouth County Drug Court and we'll hear the comments from a local judge.
Cedar Rapids City Council Approves Plan For Casino
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - The Cedar Rapids City Council has voted to support local developers in their quest to build a casino on the area.
The council on Tuesday unanimously approved a proposal that says the council will exclusively support Steve Gray and his investor group in obtaining a state gambling license and building a casino.
The Linn County Board of Supervisors has already indicated its support.
Gray says his group is preparing a petition drive to force a referendum election next year, asking Linn County voters to approve gambling in the county. If they do, Gray's group would ask the Iowa
Racing and Gaming Commission for a license.
Gray and his group want to invest $80 million to $100 million to build a casino in or near Cedar Rapids.
Animal Rights Group Wants Stiffer Penalty On Des Moines Police Officer
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A Des Moines-based animal rights group wants harsher penalties for a Des Moines police officer over the death of a police dog in a hot car.
Officer Brian Mathis received a three-day unpaid suspension for leaving the dog in an unmarked car at the police station for over an hour in August.
Lin Sorenson, the founder of St. Francis Foundation for Pets, says the suspension is not adequate. She wants Mathis to pay back taxpayers for the cost of the dog.
Sorenson is asking for $25,000 for the cost of the dog, his training and possible damage to the car if he fought to escape.
Police spokesman Sgt. Chris Scott says officials decided against criminal charges because they found no criminal intent.
DNR To Investigate Deer Disease
OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) - Wildlife officials will meet with landowners in southern Iowa to discuss plans to contain chronic wasting disease, which was found in an area deer this summer.
Iowa Department of Natural Resources officials will meet Oct. 15 in Ottumwa to outline plans to collect additional samples for testing in Davis and Wapello counties during the deer hunting
A deer tested positive for the disease at a hunting preserve near Bloomfield in July, marking the first time it has been confirmed in Iowa. The disease damages animals' brain tissue, causing illness and eventually death.
The DNR says landowners will be key to its plan to stop the disease from spreading. Officials will collect samples from hunters and lockers where deer are processed to study the health of the
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If the Malloofs really wanted to be dick heads and screw Sac over since were tryign to screw them over and block there sale couldnt they trade our most valueable pieces away( Tyreke,Cousins) as a big F U??
If the Malloofs really wanted to be dick heads and screw Sac over since were tryign to screw them over and block there sale couldnt they trade our most valueable pieces away( Tyreke,Cousins) as a big F U??
Unless the Kings majorly luck out in the draft, they better stick with Cousins IMO.
How can u stick with Cousins? He will choke a coach eventually. He is a type of player like Ron artest. He was once known as a cancer and no one wanted to touch him nor coach him. Cousins is the exact same way but probably even worse. Ron Artest beats up fans and mans up on opposing players. Cousins beats up his own teamates. Cousins already has got 1 coach fired and possibly #2 soon. He hasnt grown up and still does the same bone head mistakes. There not mistakes that can be corrected on the court its mistakes that can be fixed with GROWING UP. Maybe u see the future better than I do but I dont see him growing up anytime soon and until he does hes a time bomb and everything n everyone in his way wont succeed
He's 22 - he'll get it. Artest is crazy - Cousins is overly emotional.
The chance to get a talent level, like Cousins, in the draft is VERY slim. Think of all the great players in the league - the Bryant's, the Durant's, the Duncan's - you don't sign those type of players outside of some rare exception, say like Miami did with Lebron. You bring in mid-level talent to compliment those great players. That's not to say Cousins will ever achieve that, but your chances of finding a player with the talent Cousins has is very difficult.
He's frustrating, no doubt, but unless you have a guarantee at getting a talent equal to him, which is extremely unlikely, why do you give up on it? You're getting 10 cents for your 50 bucks in a trade so why let go of him knowing you're getting little in return?
I agree with ur logic to a point. We def need to get talent back for Cousins and not fillers. Cousins has the potential to be a allstar and it should be fair to say we should get that back. I mean why couldnt we do a Rondo trade for Cousins. I know they were high on Cousins and there waas talk prior to Rondo going down. I mean the Clippers for KG are offering Jordan and Bledsoe who both id take on the Kings.
The best King we have is Isiah Thomas. Hes a leader and doesnt need a ego to make a difference. You see last nights game where he yelled at Cousins and told him wheer to be??? Did u see Tyreke freestyling on the bench to T-Rob and not focusin on the game. Then gets his number called and it shows he wasnt paying attention. The only baller we have that stays focused is Isiah Thomas smh!
Certainly wouldn't mind Rondo, of course, but the parts aren't there - and that's something you're going to continually find with a player with Cousins' talent, Cousins' lower value because of his problems and Cousins' current low salary.
And honestly - I don't even think they'd trade Rondo for Cousins - they'd want Cousins to pair with Rondo as a 20 something's nucleus.
As for the KG for Jordan and Bledsoe rumors, apparently, the only person interested in that is Vinny Del Negro (and the Celtics, of course) because Del Negro thinks it gives them a better chance to win immediately - and being he's in the final year of his deal and semi-lame duck if he doesn't get the Clippers deep, he's pushing for it. The rest of the Clippers front office knows what a robbery it is, long term.
Also - in regards to Thomas, I see him often get frustrated with the rest of the team and their inability to move the ball. I think he starts to try and initiate the offense since nobody else wants to. Tend to think he'd be more open to getting the offense set up if you know, the Kings actually had one. lol
Id do the Cousins trade for damn near any big name out there. Hell we can part with Tyreke too. It can land us Josh SMith,Milsap,Jefferson,Rondo,Jordan n Bledsoe. Like if they want KG for those last 2 names mentioned couldnt we add Cousins and draft pick or something to kidna help them? Wat about addign them more vets in Garcia or Salmons? Then trade Tyreke and someone. I know Rondo cant help us right of the bat cause he doesnt have shooters around him but ud have to trade Tyreke for someone cause him and Rondo together wont make crap. If u have a chance to get a allstar already proven then do so cause Cousins wont ever be a allstar.
If it was that easy, it would've been done. Nobody wants to pay equal talent for Cousins or Evans.
At that point you would have left:
PG: Thomas, Fredette
SG: Thorton
SF: Salmons, Outlaw
PF: Thompson, Patterson
C: Cousins, Hayes
It is pretty clear that the Kings can score. And I think they will continue to score more efficently as Thomas develops. I think the number #1 priority is to get an elite defensive FC player to go along with Cousins. Since Thomas AND Fredette have a negative Defensive Win share, the only way to shore up the defense is in the front court.
Okafor if he were to opt out, Howard - guess that isn't going to happen would be the top 2 to fill that void. Since it is unlikely that is going to happen, I would hope that Nerlens Noel would drop in the draft.
Josh Smith playing SF would also greatly help the defense. And that may be a possibility if the Kings were to over pay slightly. Although he may not want to come here.
I would then look at the free agent wings and ones that are defensive mided.
So, ideally - Smith, Noel and a defensive minded SG through draft or FA.
PG: Thomas, Fredette
SG: Salmons, Thorton
SF: Smith, Outlaw
PF: Noel, Thompson, Patterson
C: Cousins, Hayes
Have a plan, don't suck!
Problem for the Kings is scoring efficiently. Though it's not as bad a some teams, it's still pretty low. And the defensive efficiency, oh god.
Have a plan, don't suck!


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WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) -- It's a recall of a different kind of problem that caused nearly two dozen crashes.
This impacts 615,000 Toyota Sienna minivans from the 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009 model years.
The minivans can shift out of park on their own and roll away, and two people were hurt when it happened.
Toyota will replace the shift lock device on the vans for free.


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I know how to do this with sendmail via mailertable - ie, set up individual delivery points, and a default one for everything else. I'm sure this is doable in postfix, but not sure how.
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