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PATTERSON - Connor Larkin is playing his best golf at just the right time.
Nothing is settled yet in the final week of the Valley Oak League.
Despite being held to a combined no-hitter by Weston Ranch's Larry Martinez and Jordan Severin, East Union downed the Cougars 3-2 Saturday at Agostini Field, keeping the Lancers in the fourth and final Valley Oak League playoff slot and eliminating Weston Ranch from post-season competition.
Manteca's Juan Gomez has a heck of a kick.
There won't be third meeting between rivals Manteca and Sierra in the Sac-Joaquin Section playoffs.
Kenny Wooten will not be graduating from Manteca High almost two months after helping the boys basketball team win its first state championship.
Manuel Pires started coaching Sierra's girls soccer team when the school opened in the mid-90s, thinking he'd retire soon after the youngest of his three daughters, Veronica (class of 2004), graduated.
There was a time when Mariah Jeffrey figured her senior season at East Union would be her last as a soccer player.
LATHROP - Sierra is still very much in the hunt for a Sac-Joaquin Section playoff berth.
The Ripon and Ripon Christian girls soccer teams both ended the regular season with blowout victories on the road.
Even as an up-and-coming sophomore, Kevin Rodriguez was a leader by example.
Michael Hatfield could always knock down the 3.
RIPON - Ripon clinched its first Trans-Valley League baseball championship since 2001 Thursday after the Indians sent Riverbank home with an 8-0 loss, but they are not celebrating just yet.
The Trans-Valley and Southern League boys singles champions were one and done in the Sac-Joaquin Section Coed Tennis Tournament at Oak Park in Stockton on Thursday.
Ripon - Ripon High has all but secured another Trans-Valley League title following Wednesday's 3-1 victory over visiting Escalon.
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Mikaela Ferreira stood out in a stacked lineup with her bat, but it was her defense that helped propel Ripon High's softball team to ...
After a horrific start Tuesday, Giants pitcher Zac Cook got three consecutive outs to end the first inning and then blanked the Red Sox through ...
Three Weston Ranch graduates are going their separate ways for college.
Abby Buitrago is the Southern League's MVP for a third straight season, while Cindy Alvarez and Courtney Slamon are the Most Valuable Offensive and ...
Bikram Thiara made history Saturday night.
Ty Griggs, 14, has continued to gain momentum from his memorable effort at Augusta National in early April.
"El Toro" to his teammates and coaches, East Union senior Marco Gonzales was a nightmare for opposing clubs.
CLOVIS - The numbers flashed across the board near the finish line after the third and final heat of the 300-meter hurdles in the CIF State ...
With Alexis Erich shelved all season by an ACL injury, senior first baseman Michelle Castro and junior pitcher Mikayla Bongi filled the void well for ...
Sierra hurdler Bikram Thiara scheduled his workouts for the morning to avoid the heat this week.
Leah Manuleleua graduated as the Manteca High girls soccer team's all-time career leader in goals scored, but she has meant much more to the ...
LODI - The sting of defeat may linger for John DeVisser, Ripon Christian's fiery baseball coach who endured his fair share losses for the Knights ...
LODI – It may be baseball season, but Ronaldo Tijero's football training came in handy Monday night.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.--The last time President Bush visited Tennessee last September, it was to campaign with GOP Senate hopeful Bob Corker against the Democrats. Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Corker was in the audience and the state's Democratic governor was on the stage at the convention center here for a folksy discussion on how to improve the health-care system.
Bush hailed the governor, Phil Bredesen, for his "innovative policies," as he talked up his new plan to increase coverage of the uninsured by tinkering with the tax code and giving states more flexibility to design low-cost benefit plans for those who lack health coverage. Bredesen said it was the first time he had been invited to appear with Bush in such a setting.
Democrats in Washington are showing little enthusiasm for the Bush health agenda, but the president is plugging away, insisting he sees hope for compromise before his term ends in less than two years. Indeed, the end seemed on his mind as he bantered with several hundred audience members, arguing for greater transparency in health-care pricing.
"I don't know about you, but I don't remember ever asking how much something was going to cost when it came to health care. I do when it comes to a car -- or I used to," Bush said, quickly remembering that he is driven around in a limousine. " I will soon!" he added to laughter.
While the focus of his administration is the war in Iraq, Bush is pushing an ambitious health-care agenda, the key element of which is a tax plan to make it easier for individuals to purchase health insurance coverage in the private market. He is also proposing to restrain the growth of Medicare and Medicaid by cutting payments to health providers and charging higher premiums to wealthier individuals, a plan Democrats have described as dead on arrival.
Under his tax plan, every family would get a standard deduction of $15,000 and individuals would get a deduction of $7,500 if they buy health coverage, whether they obtain it through their employer or individually. Bush says this would help rectify a situation in which people who work for companies that do not offer health coverage do not get any tax break for buying insurance, as workers essentially get through employer-sponsored health plans. He argued that his plan would make insurance more affordable for middle-income workers.
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"NOVI VINODOLSKI" Novi Vinodolski by croisbeauty
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Novi Vinodolski, small town on the Adriatic coast is the place where I was born. Perhaps it is not the most beautiful place on earth but certainly it is dearest to me. Here I have learn to speak, to walk, to swim, if not for other reason I keep it always deep inside of my heart.
Right in front of the mainland, there is a small islet called San Marino and few milles into the sea there is island of Krk, which is the biggest island in the Adriatic. Among the locals, the islet of San Marino is called "otok ljubavi", the islet of lovers.
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i cannot believe i never saw this page before! the home town of boris the great! novi vinodolski looks like a beautiful place to grow up. nice personal page boris! :-)
It is an perfect place for a happy childhood jou had, great page
I loved to read about your childhood. Seeing the place where you learned to swim and imagining you going on an adventure to Krk is great!!!
Your love for that place sprout out of every page ! Why Novi Vinodolski ? Was there previously another town ? Is the Vinodol Codex on display somewhere ? A picture of that precious document would be welcome. Only great pages allow questions to arise !
I love the stone work that the houses have! Fantastic pictures!! The area around Novi Vinodolski looks so beautiful!!
The adriatic coast was also my beloved place for spending holidays. I can say, that still it is. There is no similiar place in the world. The pictures you have shown us calls for many memories. It is very beautifull indeed.
a nice page written with your heart...
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The procession to the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed by many to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, is seen in the biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem, Monday, Dec. 24, 2007. (AP)
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) - Jesus' traditional birthplace is
decorated with Christmas lights and a three-story-tall Christmas
An estimated 30,000 tourists and Christian pilgrims are expected
to flock to Bethlehem's Manger Square on Christmas Eve, offering
encouragement to merchants in the Palestinian town.
Bethlehem is separated from nearby Jerusalem by a security barrier that Israel erected to block terrorist attacks, but both sides seem anxious to welcome visitors and ease their passage.
Bethlehem's mayor says he hopes "the star that led the three wise men to Bethlehem will lead the great powers and brighten their way toward genuine peace."
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Problem with recursive macros
Trying to call a macro from within itself yields No previous macro, and then it's impossible to enter macro recording again - Emacs will just state "not defining macro".
To reproduce, make a buffer like so:
Then execute: qqqqqdwj@qq@q: That should clear register q, (start record to q, stop, start record to q again) delete the first word, move a line down, attempt to call the for-now-empty q macro (this is where it fails) then end recording and call q. Expected behavior is that all lines should have their first word removed.
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The "Not defining macro" bug has been fixed in commit
7d73b80, but it is unclear to me how self-referential macros are supposed to work. In Emacs, such a macro will trigger infinite recursion.
In Vim, a macro will fail if any of its actions fails, such as a missing search term, or attempting to move beyond the last line/word/letter of the buffer. This is often an excellent way to get things done very fast rather than designing complex regexes.
So calling
@qin the macro
qdoes indeed start an infinite recursion, but it is cancelled by reaching the end of the line?
In this case, end of file, but yes. A simpler example would be something like
Which would append WORD to all words until end of buffer. Shame if it's not possible in Emacs at all.
Okay, I added support for recursive keyboard macros in commit
8255491. If you do enter an infinite recursion, you can quit it with
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Springs police were sent all over town early Monday morning on multiple reports of shots fired.
Though scant evidence was found in most of the cases, police have a suspect vehicle for one of the incidents. After witnesses reported hearing shots ring out at a southeast side bar shortly before 2 a.m., they tell police a car smashed through a fence as it sped away from the area.
Police found a destroyed section on fence bordering the Casa Grande Bar, located on the 2400 block of S. Academy.
One witnesses told police that several shots were fired before the car left the area.
The suspect vehicle has been described as a gold four-door sedan, possibly a Saturn. Police say there may be a couple of bullet holes on the driver's side, as well as significant damage on that same side from where the car hit the fence.
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Hire of Gibbons completes Padres' minor-league coaching staff
SAN DIEGO — The Padres announced the completion of their minor-league coaching staff on Thursday with the hire of John Gibbons as their Double-A San Antonio manager.
The team also officially announced the hires of Single-A managers Shawn Wooten (Lake Elsinore) and Jose Valentin (Fort Wayne) in a team release.
Team sources said last week Wooten was set to replace Phil Plantier as the Storm manager. Earlier this week, a source confirmed Valentin, who was part of the 1992 trade that brought Gary Sheffield to the Padres, will take over at Fort Wayne for Wooten .
Plantier was named the Padres' major league hitting coach last week. The Padres also lost Doug Dascenzo, who last season managed San Antonio to a Texas League title, to the Atlanta Braves in September. Dascenzo joined the Braves as their minor-league base running coordinator . San Antonio won 94 regular season games under Dascenzo and won six of seven postseason games. The team was last week honored as minor-league baseball's team of the year.
Gibbons spent the last three seasons as a bench coach for the Kansas City Royals. Prior to Kansas City, Gibbons managed the Toronto Blue Jays from 2004-08 .


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I have a question regarding User Controls created with Visual Studio 2010.
Specifically, I have created a simple User Control extending the default Label .Net control. Using the Designer, I specified the BackColor of my User Control to "White" (note that my User Control does have an area of its own not occupied by any other control). After building the project, I used my control on a form of a second project under the same solution by dragging it from the toolbox.
After the placement of the control, I modified the very same property of my User Control and turned BackColor to "Red". I recompiled the entire solution (with project dependencies checked - user control project first and the dependent second project last). Subsequently, I created a second instance of my User Control on the form (by dragging it from the toolbox). Although this second instance appears with "Red" background as expected, the first instance persists with the "White" BackColor.
This is highly non-intuitive to me and I am wondering why? I expect ALL controls to adopt any changes made to the base class when the changes affect properties not overriden after their placement on the form. The only conclusion I managed to derive is that it has to do with VS generating the "designer.vb" code for the first instance of the control and NEVER regenerating it afterwards, even though the base user control has been altered and recompiled.
Any ideas ?
UPDATE: Thank you all for your answers! I would like to point out that setting the BackColor property was merely an example for illustrating my point. It appears to me that even if no properties at all are defined for my custom control during design time, VS generates a standard set of properties in the code behind( in addition to any explicit properties defined by the developer). Therefore, omitting the explicit specification of properties does not always tackle the problem (the default VS mechanism of setting properties in the designer.vb file). I believe the only way to address the issue once and for all, is to set property initialization code inside the control's New or Load method; not always a practical solution when a lot of initialization needs to be performed!


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Leading discount supermarket chain ALDI topped the list as the world's simplest brand for the third year running, while Google dominated the US rankings.
In this episode of Brand Matters, Brian Rafferty, global director of research insights, breaks down our new Brand ROI methodology and why it can be a useful tool for CMOs to sell in the value of brand in an organization.
Brand Britain has long been a debated subject, writes Rana Brightman, strategy director at Siegel+Gale. What does it mean to be British? What defines our national identity?
This week we were featured in LA Times, Adweek and Brand New.
In this Q&A, we speak with Billy Kingsland, group director of naming, about the intersection of brand naming and brand voice, and how they work together and separately to help define the brand.
This week we were featured in The Drum, CMO.com and Tenfold.
Strategist Simi Nijher weighs in on the value of Brand Britain in the wake of Brexit, and whether the "Made In ____" label even applies in this day and age.
At a recent Siegel+Gale event, we captured some on the spot commentary from group strategy director Liana Dinghile. She addresses brand relevance, the VUCA atmosphere brands find themselves in now, and how to create lasting customer connection through authenticity.
Geraint Jones shares 4 ways automotive industry brands can adapt swiftly to consumers' needs and expectations as automotive brands and the market change.
Philip Davies, president, EMEA opines on how language in branding is not a passive component, but rather, one of the modes by which brands come alive.
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my cumulus don't support polish letters. there's anythin' I can change about that?
my cumulus don't support polish letters. there's anythin' I can change about that?
would somebody help me? :)
Hi Matthew. Please see the faq for more info on this. It will point you to a post I did that details how to add support for your language.
changing the code a bit could help a lot with polish characters:
$tagcloud = urlencode( remove_accents(str_replace( " ", " ", ob_get_clean() ) ) );
Any chance to get this done in next release?
I considered adding that in in the 1.20 release. However, this would make it impossible to get the accents working by changing the Flash movie. I realize not everyone has Flash or knows how to use it, but one of my reasons for going open source with this was so that people would be able to create and release language-specific versions of the Flash movie.
If I remove accents in the PHP code, adding them to the Flash movie wouldn't bring them back. Besides, the change is quite easy to add if you're unable to edit the Flash. I could make it configurable through the options page (accent removal on/off) but I'm trying to keep the number of options to a minimum for usability, and I'm not sure how many people (countries) this affects.
I'll try and include this in a post I'm preparing about the most common WP-Cumulus hacks.
Of course, there is a source for the plugin available and anyone who is tech savvy enough can do that. But this is pretty annoying in the situation when you update your plugins via WP automatic upgrade system - which allows you to perform the upgrade from your browser, basically anywhere. For me, such upgrade requires necessary steps - I need to FTP to my hosting provider, download the source, fix it (and remember how), then upload it back and check for results. This is pretty annoying and error prone.
I know that Flash movie can be fixed, but such fixed version is overwritten every time I upgrade the plugin, so it brings me back to the first solution. Adding the option would help users like me a lot - this is the only plugin from many I use that requires manual fixes each time I upgrade.
I'm not sure how many diacritic characters the flash movie contains but I believe that many of people are affected by this. I can speak only for myself but on a few occasions I seriously considered removing the plugin, despite the fact I love it.
There's another solution that doesn't require adding options. Wp-cumulus could check the active language setting and if it is different from those languages that don't require accents keep the encoding as it is now, and for remaining languages (including Polish) activate remove_accents() function.
What about other alphabets, for example Russian or Armenian? Do you plan do something for full unicode support? Or may be there is some possibilities to do it by my own?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks, I've found your mannual on adding new letters and made it myself: http://mk.am/wp-cumulus-armenian-letters/
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A few months ago, I was fortunate to hear a BBC radio abridgement of All Will Be Well: A Memoir [1], read by the Irish novelist John McGahern, who died of cancer at the end of March. A light tenor voice, scarcely betraying his seventy-one years, offered a rural idyll of County Leitrim, place of the writer's birth and retirement. The lyrical evocation clashed with a somber formative story of childhood loss and fear—fear of the trembling sort.
In All Will Be Well (Alfred A. Knopf, $25, 289 pp.), McGahern combines the unabashed longing of a child for his mother (also a victim of cancer) with ambivalent awe of his bullying policeman father. His book's title registers a rural acceptance of the cyclical nature of things, mirrored in the rites of the church and lived according to an agricultural pattern. His mother's mediation of religious belief works itself out in a schoolteacher's routine, and partly defuses the impossible tensions between her and her husband. "A child can become infected with unhappiness," McGahern writes, signaling the pain of that time.
In a career of more than fifty years, the writer reaped what was sown in that boyhood. "There are no things more cruel than truths about ourselves spoken to us by another that are perceived to be at least half true," observes the narrator of McGahern's short story "The Country Funeral," recording an exchange...
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District 6 Town Hall Meetings
Posted: 05/07/2011 - District 6 Commissioner Hamp Baxley will be holding town hall meetings to hear from the people.
Posted: 05/07/2011 - District 6 Commissioner Hamp Baxley will be holding town hall meetings to hear from the people.
Posted: 05/07/2011 - Thousands of volunteers headed to the University of Alabama with chainsaws, wrecking bars and food to tornado victims.
Posted: 05/07/2011 - HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) -- A series of town hall meetings has been scheduled to give tornado victims a chance to meet with aid workers.
Updated: 05/07/2011 - Police say one person has died and another was injured during separate shootings in downtown Atlanta.
Updated: 05/06/2011 - The Wiregrass exceeds expectations following one of the worst natural disasters to ever hit Alabama.
Updated: 05/06/2011 - The Second Annual motorcycle fundraiser "Hardee's Ride for Hope" will begin at 9:00 a.m. Saturday, May 7th.
Posted: 05/06/2011 - Dothan Police Department Narcotic Officers seize marijuana, cash and police scanner.
Posted: 05/06/2011 - On Saturday evening, May 7, 2011 beginning at 6pm, the City of Enterprise Street Department will begin re-painting the intersection around the Boll Weevil Monument.
Posted: 05/06/2011 - Ozark and Daleville will head to the polls to decide if draft beer will come to their cities.
Posted: 05/06/2011 - Interviews for the next Dothan City School board superintendent are underway.
Updated: 05/06/2011 - An everyday habit for many, may quickly raise customers bills in the city of Dothan and employees with the utilities department say it can be prevented.
Updated: 05/06/2011 - A student at a local elementary school is in the hospital with a case of bacterial meningitis and school officials are taking steps to protect other students from the disease.
Posted: 05/06/2011 - TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- Officials said the University of Alabama's athletics department is donating $1 million to tornado relief efforts.
Updated: 05/06/2011 - Gov. Robert Bentley says Alabama has been approved for a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to hire workers to help in rebuilding efforts from the deadly tornadoes.
Posted: 05/05/2011 - On Saturday, May 7, 2011 beginning at 7am, the City of Enterprise Street Department will begin re-painting the intersection around the Boll Weevil Monument.
Posted: 05/05/2011 - Late Wednesday afternoon police responded to the area of 209 Apache Drive regarding a shooting into an occupied vehicle.
Posted: 05/05/2011 - The City of Enterprise opened a new donated goods center and changed the hours at the current donated goods center at 311 E. Brunson St.
Posted: 05/05/2011 - To date, the City of Dothan / Houston County Disaster Relief collection point, at Westgate Fire Station has dispatched one tractor trailer full of relief supplies.
Posted: 05/05/2011 - Attorney General Luther Strange thanked representatives from the government of Japan for remembering Alabama's tornado victims even as they are still in the midst of recovery from the massive earthquake and tsunami that recently devastated their own country.
Posted: 05/05/2011 - Sales grow for online ticket company.
Posted: 05/05/2011 - People across the country and in the Wiregrass are coming together to pray today.
Updated: 05/05/2011 - AG Strange thanks Japanese government for donation to Alabama's tornado victims.
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It's the barely-known disaster which claimed the lives of four Birmingham seamen at the height of the Second World War.
But the sinking of HMS Dasher is still at the centre of mystery and intrigue, 70 years later.
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Hotel Casa De La Palma, Puebla
- Free continental breakfast and WiFi
Main amenities
- 16 guestrooms
- Spa services
- Airport shuttle
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Meeting room
- Multilingual staff
- Free newspapers in the lobby
- Tour/ticket assistance
- Porter/bellhop
For families
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Daily housekeeping
What's around
- In Historic Center
- Los Sapos Bazaar (0.1 mi / 0.2 km)
- Poblano de Arte Virreinal Museum (0.1 mi / 0.2 km)
- Santa Monica Convent and Museum of Religious Art (0.1 mi / 0.2 km)
- Amparo Museum (0.2 mi / 0.3 km)
- Palafoxiana Library (0.2 mi / 0.4 km)
Hotel Casa De La Palma, Puebla
Hotel Info: 020 3027 9803from £46
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- This hotel has 16 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 3 floors
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- Airport shuttle (available on request) *
- No parking
- Area shuttle within 200 km *
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- Free continental breakfast daily
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Free use of nearby fitness center
- Spa services on site
- Ecotours nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- One meeting room
- 24-hour front desk
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free newspapers in lobby
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- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built 1715
- Designated smoking areas (fines apply)
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- Free WiFi
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- Daily housekeeping
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OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Ray Lewis literally stood in the middle of the Baltimore Ravens' record-setting defense in 2000. Now he's the centerpiece of a unit that ranked No. 1 in the NFL this season.
No team in NFL history allowed fewer points over 16 games than the 2000 Ravens, who also set a league record by permitting only 970 yards rushing. The current defense, however, might be even better.
Lewis, arguably the person best equipped to make that assessment, believes this defense has more versatility. But he won't register his final answer until the 2006 Ravens duplicate the success of the world champions six years ago.
"There are so many different things that we do as a defense right now, and that's why I don't want to compare us to 2000. Because of what we did in 2000, you're only judged if we go win a championship," Lewis said this week. "So, if we win this Super Bowl, then you can put us up there. Right now, we just did what we needed to do to get to where we are."
They've done it with style, too. The Ravens have allowed 201 points, lowest in the league this year and only 36 more than the record-setting defense of 2000. Baltimore finished with a plus-17 turnover differential, a team-record 60 sacks and was the first unit in franchise history to finish as the No. 1 ranked defense in the league.
The current unit has its own personality, but traces its roots to the 2000 defense.
"The heritage we have is there," coach Brian Billick said. "They recognize that."
Rex Ryan was the defensive line coach in 2000 under Marvin Lewis, who put together a 4-3 defense that recorded four shutouts and permitted one touchdown in four postseason games.
"It was probably the most elite 4-3 defense of all time," Ryan said Wednesday.
Working with a more athletic cast of players, Ryan has employed a 3-4 attack that has allowed only 264.1 yards per game, yielded an NFL-low 236 first downs and amassed 28 interceptions.
"Now we're kind of set up where up it's a mix of a lot of different things because of the athletes we have," Ryan said. "It's a little bit more creative than what we had in 2000."
So, which is better?
"I think they're both elite, both outstanding," he said.
The current edition is clearly agile. The tackles on the 2000 team -- Tony Siragusa and Sam Adams -- both weighed well over 330 pounds. Kelly Gregg and rookie Haloti Ngata are not as heavy, but quicker to shed a block.
Plus, this defense has fleet-footed linebackers Bart Scott and Adalius Thomas, whom the Ravens are counting on heavily to hinder Indianapolis quarterback Peyton Manning in Saturday's second-round playoff game.
"They have changed the unit, but I think they know the type of player that they want," Colts coach Tony Dungy said. "They've gotten very versatile guys: Adalius Thomas and Scott. Those guys are exceptional players. They can do a lot of things. They can cover, they can blitz, they can take on guards and take on tight ends. They just are very, very complementary parts."
So is safety Ed Reed, who has more than adequately filled the role Rod Woodson held in 2000.
Chris McAlister was a second-year cornerback on the Super Bowl-winning team. Now he's headed to his third Pro Bowl after picking off a career-high six passes and scoring two touchdowns.
"In all honesty, it's a different group of guys than we had in 2000. We had a lot more veterans around then. I was a baby," he said. "Right now, the feeling in the locker room is that as long as we stay together and do what we've been coached up to do, there's no team out there that can beat us."
The alignment and the names have changed over the past six years, but the one constant of both units is the swagger.
The Ravens didn't think there was an offense that could budge them in 2000, and they certainly don't believe Manning, Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne are going to finesse their way into the end zone Saturday.
"You can be pretty all you want to, but it's going to be a physical ballgame," Lewis said. "We can create a lot of hard matches for a lot of people. It's very difficult right now to defend us. No disrespect to anyone across the league, but we don't really worry about offenses. They have to worry about us because we're coming from so many different ways."
Manning has a pretty good idea what to expect Saturday.
"They're really outstanding in all three phases of defense," Manning said, "so we've got a real big challenge."
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Hell undoubtedly keeps a warm climate, but there's a good chance that a few of the ladies featured here could challenge the heat output from the realm down below. Some girls who will eventually go down as the industry's true legends offer up their posteriors for significant and straightforward anal madness. At times, it's perhaps too straightforward, as some ultra tight editing hurts some of the performances, but there are still plenty of highlights.
Alex Sanders digs his tongue deep into Mika Tan's rectal cavity before railing her hard. Tyla Wynn receives a large enema before doing her duty. Destiny Deville howls like a werewolf while being pounded, as Audrey Hollander naturally endures a d.p. next to her. However, harlots such as Sierra Sinn, Marie Luv and Kelly Wells also pull d.p. dalliances, making this a well-rounded effort overall.


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Police Investigating Another Anti-Semitic Crime in Brooklyn
Swastikas were etched onto metal inside an elevator in a Williamsburg building.
The NYPD's hate crime unit is investigating an incident at 70 Ross Street in Williamsburg where swastikas were etched onto the metal inside a building's elevator. This is just the latest in a series of recent anti-Semitic crimes in Brooklyn.
Earlier this month, vandals torched cars and painted swastikas on benches in Midwood; less than a week later, a sign at Avenue J station, also in Midwood, was altered to read "Avenue Jew."
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Wis. Lawmakers Want To Loosen Margarine Law
More than a century ago, lawmakers in Wisconsin banned margarine if it was colored yellow to serve as a substitute for butter. The law was repealed in 1967. But the spread remains forbidden by the state in public places like restaurants and prisons — unless specifically requested.
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And today's last word in business comes from the state that calls itself America's Dairyland. And that last word is: free the margarine.
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Lawmakers in Wisconsin think it's time to loosen an old state law. Well, over a century ago, lawmakers in that big dairy farming state banned margarine if it was colored yellow to serve as a substitute for butter.
INSKEEP: This prohibition led to decades of margarine smuggling across state lines. The law was finally repealed in 1967 - one of the lesser-known social upheavals of the 1960s.
GREENE: But the spread remains forbidden by the state in public places, like restaurants and prisons - unless specifically requested. Now the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that a dozen Wisconsin lawmakers want those restrictions to melt away, as well.
INSKEEP: But the effort is leaving a bad taste for some in the state that ranks second in the nation in butter production. That's the business news on MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.
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The Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors voted on May 10 to establish new fares, amend, and eliminate existing transit fares for Stanislaus Regional Transit. The changes were triggered by the eligibility of Federal Transit Administration funds, said Public Works Director Matt Machado.
Beginning June 1, a new watering schedule will go into effect. The new schedule will prohibit watering between the hours of 9 a.m. and 7 p.m., Sunday through Saturday.
California Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross announced Friday that she would permanently increase the price dairy producers are paid for 4b milk used to make cheese, effective June 1.
Turlock Christian School can now move forward with plans to convert the old MedicAlert offices into an elementary school campus, following the Turlock Planning Commission's approval of a Minor Discretionary Permit for the project on Thursday.
More and more local residents are registering to vote, either online or by paper registration form, as the June 7 Presidential Primary Election draws near. The Stanislaus County Registrar of Voters received 2,047 online voter registrations on Tuesday alone, in addition to paper registration forms. In comparison, the Registrar of Voters received 447 voter registrations on May 10, 148 on May 3 and 138 on April 26.
A new fire engine is slated to roll into Turlock and it will be replacing one that has left fire fighters stranded out on calls and has cumulatively spent nearly a year out of service.
While Turlock Christian School families have been anxiously awaiting the opening of the private school's first stand alone campus, school officials must first convince the Turlock Planning Commission that the conversion of the site from the former MedicAlert offices to an elementary campus won't cause excessive traffic problems.
The Senate Committee on Agriculture, chaired by Senator Cathleen Galgiani, will hold an informational hearing titled "Crisis in the Golden State: Asian Citrus Psyllid's Threat to Destroy California Citrus" on Tuesday the State Capitol.
When considering outdoor water use, there are many ways to conserve in areas other than just landscape irrigation. Listed below, are suggestions for reducing water use outside the home.
The Turlock City Council approved a Water Supply Agreement on Tuesday that will see the Del Puerto Water District paying $175 per acre foot for Turlock recycled wastewater for the next 40 years.
One of the main goals of the bipartisan San Joaquin Valley Caucus was achieved Tuesday when Governor Jerry Brown announced that he signed SB269, giving businesses more time for Americans with Disabilities Act fixes.
For almost a year, the City of Turlock has been tackling the issue of the many broken sidewalks and overgrown and diseased trees that have become hazards for Turlock's residents. The Street Tree and Sidewalk ad hoc committee finished its work on Tuesday, by presenting a revised Street Tree Theme and Map that addresses some of the issues that arise with different tree varieties.
As Turlock gears up for its first-ever by-district City Council election in November, the current City Council will address the issue of campaign finance regulations through a series of special meetings in June.
Despite the fact that Turlockers had to don galoshes and rain coats last week - a rarity for May in the Central Valley - make no mistake, the drought isn't over.
Water Awareness Month began during California's drought from 1987-1992. It was developed by the State Department of Water Resources and the Association of California Water Agencies to educate the public on the importance of efficient water use and conservation efforts.
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Watson's special education teachers and instructional aides utilize a variety of special education technologies when teaching children with special needs. Technologies such as communications devices, SMART Boards and iPads are easily adapted to meet each student's individualized educational needs. iPads in Special Education Classrooms In this modern age of technology, Watson's students are proving that … Read More


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A bitch. Used primarily when trying to sound like a pirate.
Aargh, ye scurvy she dog! Why don't ye show ol' Captain Jack yer booty?
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She-dog is an old southern expression used to infer a particular woman is like a female dog - and will "do it" with practically any male that comes along. (i.e., a slut).
Usage: I don't know how John Mike can trust any of those young-uns are his, that wife of his ain't nuthin' but an old she-dog.
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An ugly, very mean or rude woman.
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I have done web programming through PHP, so I know the basics of HTML, CSS, and sessions. Nontheless, there's probably a lot of concepts and theory behind web development which I'm probably missing since my original approach came from knowing a language, not a platform itself.
Where does one go to learn the practices and general theory, applicable for all programming languages, about:
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-Differences in browser rendering
-Web site design
-Optimization for loading
-Session management, cookies
-Client-side scripting, Javascript
-Security (this is a biggie)
-Development paradigms
-Template languages
My question basically arises from the fact that nowadays most sites seem like a spaghetti mesh of embedded and external CSS and Javascript, AJAX, server-side scripts, APIs and frameworks that manage everything under the sun and have a million different ways of doing the same thing (from security to forms to validation to code generation), and it seems there is no authoritative source for any of this; and when you stick to any framework there seems to be a lot "magic" going on which hides an unknown level of complexity (GWT's preferred use needs client-side caching, Django provides modules for handling ORM, ASP.NET has a template language which maps in weird ways to client-side variables, etc.)


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Where will they go next? For some members of the class of 2016, this summer marks the start of budding international careers.
Meet Jiyeong "Faith" Park '16, a service trip leader, first-year mentor, global ambassador and member of Wheel & Chain and Dickinson Christian Fellowship.
Alumni, faculty, students and friends of the college celebrated a landmark year in global education, on campus, across the country and abroad. Here's how.
Students gained an in-depth understanding of the refugee crisis when they traveled to Italy to interview local officials, nonprofit leaders and migrants.
Four seniors land Fulbright ETAs and will soon head to Germany, Indonesia and Spain.
Global Education Photo Contest brings key study abroad experiences to light.
For the fourth consecutive year, you'll find Dickinson among the Peace Corps' top-10 volunteer-producing small colleges in the nation.
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QUESTION: Justin and his wife have completed the first two Baby Steps, and now they're building a fully funded emergency fund in Baby Step 3. They would like to move out of their current home, so Justin asks Dave if selling the house is a viable option for funding the third Baby Step. They currently have about $32,000 equity in their present home.
ANSWER: Well, I wouldn't sell the house just to do Baby Step 3. My goodness, that's usually a fairly easy Baby Step after you've gotten out of debt. A fully funded emergency fund means saving three to six months of expenses, and you shouldn't have to sell a house to pull that off.
But if you don't like the house anyway, and you're planning on selling it, then yes, set some of the equity aside. I would not put all of the equity into the next deal. I'd hold back my three to six months, so that when you move into another house you're debt-free with a fully funded emergency fund sitting there.
There's nothing to keep you from selling it today. So if that's what you decide to do, just set back enough so that you still have an emergency fund in place and use the remainder for your down payment. If that equation works for you, then sell the house. If not, you may need to completely save up your emergency fund before you sell the house in order to make it work.
When you move, I want you to have an emergency fund and be debt-free in addition to your down payment. That's what we're after.
QUESTION: Michelle and her husband are on Baby Step 2 of Dave's plan, and recently they had to rent a car at a combined Thrifty and Dollar rental desk while on a trip to Florida. They tried to pay for the rental with a debit card, and the attendant told them he would have to pull their credit report if they used a debit card instead of a credit card. In the process, he mentioned a concern about people stealing the cars and closing their checking accounts. He tried to ease their minds by saying that all rental companies operate this way. Dave sets the record straight and explains that he always uses a debit card for car rentals.
ANSWER: That's a bunch of crap. That's just a particular company that didn't offer the service. There's a really easy way to alleviate that kind of stress – just walk to a different rental desk.
It's not true that all the big companies operate that way. I have a debit card I use to rent cars everywhere I go. I have no trouble doing things that way. Now, there may be some companies that don't take them. But him telling you it's the only way to rent a car without a big hassle is a bunch of crap. Lots of rental companies take debit cards without all that.
When you're setting up your reservation, you need to have cleared that to make sure that company you're dealing with takes debit cards. But almost all of them do. I wasn't aware Dollar didn't. Thrifty, maybe that's who it is. They may not. Enterprise is sporadic; sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. So check before you go. There are plenty of people who rent to folks with a debit card.
QUESTION: Joan from San Antonio, Texas, is worried that she may have too much money invested in certificates of deposit (CDs). She is a recent widow, and her husband handled all the finances, but he left her in great shape. Her total nest egg is more than $1 million, with about $300,000 of that in CDs. A $317,000 annuity, a 403(b) and IRAs worth about $900,000 round out the investments. She also has two homes that are paid for, plus a brand-new, paid-for car. Joan asks Dave and his guest, Chris Hogan, for guidance going forward.
ANSWER: You and your husband did a very good job. You're worth well over $1 million. Congratulations, you're a millionaire. You're set, but you're wise to be careful. The CDs do give you some stability, but obviously they're not earning anything. If you've had good luck with a variable annuity, that's fine. But you've also had very good luck with your mutual fund investing. Chris, what do you see?
Chris Hogan: Joan, I think you and your husband have done a great job setting you up for your future. The position you're in financially, with a paid-off home, a paid-off vacation home, and a paid-for car, you are focused. You are allergic to debt, and I want you to keep doing that. With all this money in different areas, you're diversified. It's now a matter of you wrapping your arms around it and truly understanding what will work for you going forward. The CDs are not going to offer you any great growth. I kind of allude to them as money kicked up in a hammock. It's not working for you. You all worked hard for that money, so I'd like to see that money now working hard for you.
I would encourage you to reach out to one of our Endorsed Local Providers (ELPs). We have them in the San Antonio area, and you can have a great conversation, feel comfortable, and not feel like someone's trying to sell you some stuff.
Dave: The big thing is that you're trying to understand this. You need someone in your corner who's teaching you, not selling you. If you get a weird feeling like there's a little bit of slime in the room or you feel like your arm's being twisted, get out of that room. You need to learn, and your job — every time you see your investment person — is to leave that room a little bit smarter.
Chris Hogan: What I would tell Joan, too, is that you guys have done well, you've worked hard, and you need to be focusing on what's next for you. What are you going to do, and what are you going to do to enjoy this money? I can hear that angst in your voice — that being unsure of what to do next. An ELP can help that.
QUESTION: Brandon and his wife are 31 years old. They have no debt except for their house, and they also have an emergency fund and college savings in place. They're motivated to save for retirement, so they're also investing 15% of their income. They make around $100,000 annually and have $50,000 in their nest egg. Now, they've saved $22,000 for a newer car. Brandon wonders if they should spend the entire $22,000 on a car.
ANSWER: At 31 years old, you're going to be more than fine for retirement if you keep doing what you're doing. A $22,000 car is not unreasonable. You have your emergency fund in addition to your nest egg and car savings, so I'd buy the car.
You're doing all the right stuff. Your kids are going to school debt-free, and you're going to have the house paid off in no time. Chances are you're going to retire a multi-millionaire at the rate you're going if nothing changes. If things get better, and most people's incomes go up throughout their lives as a general trend, then you're going to make and invest even more money. You could have $5 million to $10 million, dude. You're going to be in great shape!


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I'm looking at antennas, and noticed there is some differences between them, e.g +23db gain, or +11db gain.
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Is there an app which shows me more detailed information about the reception while I subtly change the direction or position of the antenna? The installer basically put it in what seems to me the easiest place for him to reach.


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For the second consecutive night, powerful storms shook parts of Colorado. The power of Thursday's storms was enhanced by tornadic activity in Elbert and El Paso Counties.
The El Paso County Sheriff's Office reports receiving information about a home damaged by a tornado near the intersection of Soapweed Road and Big Springs Road in Ellicott.
The National Weather Service from Boulder also reports seven or eight homes were damaged 15 miles southeast of Kiowa in Elbert County when two twisters touched down. One home on County Road 82 was destroyed. In all of that, only one person suffered a minor injury.
The weather also downed power lines near Calhan Road, north of the town of the same name, and into Elbert County. The Elizabeth Fire Department says that has caused three grass fires.
Flooding was also reported at the intersection of Highway 94 and Calhan Highway.
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Loan Commitments:
Issues Related to Pricing, Trading, and Accounting
GAO-05-131: Published: Feb 14, 2005. Publicly Released: Feb 14, 2005.
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Federal banking regulators reported that commercial banks held about $1.6 trillion in syndicated loans in 2003. Loan commitments--a promise to make a set amount of credit available in the future--represented $1 trillion (about 64 percent) of these loans. Issues have been raised whether commercial banks systematically underprice loan commitments and whether generally accepted accounting principles provide meaningful disclosure of the economics of these commitments. This report discusses (1) differences between the pricing of loan commitments and loans, and assesses data that are available about the trading of loan commitments; (2) the extent to which credit default swaps are used to reduce the credit risk from loan commitments, and what credit default swap prices indicate about the prices of loan commitments; and (3) differences between commercial and investment banks' accounting treatment of loan commitments, and the strengths and weaknesses of fair value accounting.
Loan commitments and loans have different characteristics, making it difficult to directly compare the prices of these instruments. First, a loan commitment gives a company the option to borrow a certain amount in the future, while a loan actually provides funds to the borrower. Second, lenders typically charge fees for making credit contingently available through a loan commitment but charge interest on a loan. Third, loan commitments are typically unsecured--that is, borrowers do not have to pledge collateral--while loans are typically secured. Most of those we interviewed told us that loan commitments are rarely traded in the secondary market because selling them could jeopardize relationships with borrowers and because institutional investors were reluctant to purchase them. Some investment bankers expressed concerns that loan commitments were systematically underpriced, but the available information did not support such assertions. Commercial bankers told us that they used credit default swaps--contracts that can transfer the credit risk of a loan or loan commitment to another party--to reduce credit risk on small amounts of their loan commitment portfolios. Some investment bankers contended that credit default swaps and loan commitments were similar instruments and that credit default swap prices could provide information about the appropriateness of prices for loan commitments. We found that it was not possible to use credit default swap prices to determine the appropriateness of prices for loan commitments. Specifically, they differed in triggering events, payment schedule, trading, and financial covenants. Under current accounting standards, designed to reflect their respective business models, commercial and investment banks account for loan commitments differently, causing a temporary difference in the recognition of fee income. Further, revenue from fee income appeared to be relatively small compared with revenue from other bank activity and the difference would be resolved by the end of the commitment period. As a result, we did not find any evidence that following a different accounting model offered the commercial banks a consistent competitive advantage over investment banks. Further, commercial and investment banks have similar fair value financial statement disclosure requirements and, as a result, provide similar information about the fair value of their financial instruments. It appears that the economic substance of loan commitments is recognized in the financial statements and related footnotes in a clear, measurable, and evident fashion under both the historic cost and fair value approach. While some have indicated that fair value accounting might disclose more relevant information than the historical cost model, all the conceptual and implementation issues have not been resolved. Until these issues are resolved, commercial and investment banks will continue to follow different accounting models for loan commitments.
Jul 29, 2016
DATA ACT:Improvements Needed in Reviewing Agency Implementation Plans and Monitoring ProgressGAO-16-698: Published: Jul 29, 2016. Publicly Released: Jul 29, 2016.
Jul 28, 2016
Financial Management Systems:HUD Needs to Address Management and Governance Weaknesses That Jeopardize Its Modernization EffortsGAO-16-656: Published: Jul 28, 2016. Publicly Released: Jul 28, 2016.
Management Report:Areas for Improvement in the Bureau of the Fiscal Service's Information Systems ControlsGAO-16-655R: Published: Jul 28, 2016. Publicly Released: Jul 28, 2016.
Jul 13, 2016
Management Report:Improvements Needed in Controls over the Processes Used to Prepare the U.S. Consolidated Financial StatementsGAO-16-621: Published: Jul 13, 2016. Publicly Released: Jul 13, 2016.
Jul 11, 2016
Improper Payments:CFO Act Agencies Need to Improve Efforts to Address Compliance IssuesGAO-16-554: Published: Jun 30, 2016. Publicly Released: Jul 11, 2016.
Jun 13, 2016
Management Report:Improvements Needed in CFPB's Internal Controls and Accounting ProceduresGAO-16-522R: Published: Jun 13, 2016. Publicly Released: Jun 13, 2016.
Jun 6, 2016
Management Report:Areas for Improvement in the Federal Reserve Banks' Information Systems ControlsGAO-16-601R: Published: Jun 6, 2016. Publicly Released: Jun 6, 2016.
May 26, 2016
DOD Financial Management:Greater Visibility Needed to Better Assess Audit Readiness for Property, Plant, and EquipmentGAO-16-383: Published: May 26, 2016. Publicly Released: May 26, 2016.
May 18, 2016
Management Report:Improvements Are Needed to Enhance the Internal Revenue Service's Internal Control over Financial ReportingGAO-16-457R: Published: May 18, 2016. Publicly Released: May 18, 2016.
Apr 6, 2016
Fiscal Year 2015 U.S. Government Financial Statements:Need to Address the Government's Remaining Financial Management Challenges and Long-Term Fiscal PathGAO-16-541T: Published: Apr 6, 2016. Publicly Released: Apr 6, 2016.
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Definición de apposite en inglés:
Apt in the circumstances or in relation to something: an apposite quotation the observations are apposite to the discussion
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- The comments I earlier made concerning the biography of the subject ladder are equally apposite the present circumstances.
- Such considerations are particularly apposite in relation to Glastonbury.
appropriate, suitable, fitting, apt, befitting;
relevant, pertinent, to the point, to the purpose, applicable, germane, material, congruous, felicitous;
Latin ad rem
formal appurtenant
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- Popularly mooted 'Governance Reform' in the South Asian subcontinent should appositely commence from the leadership ranks.
- The breeding female and male will differ appositely in some traits, female legs require a more slender appearance than the strong bone required for a bull calf.
- They have talked late into the night, and, appositely, it is now dawn.
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- It's not a book I've read, so I can't comment on the appositeness or otherwise of the result.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (July 8, 2014) An inmate escaped from a jail in Albuquerque, N.M., by hiding in a laundry basket, but his freedom was short-lived, authorities said.
Kevin Matthew Perkins, 28, squeezed into the basket Monday to escape from the Metropolitan Detention Center.
The basket was taken to another facility and when an officer opened the door of the truck in which it was transported, Perkins jumped out of the basket and ran, authorities said.
Later, Albuquerque police received a report of a break-in at an assisted living complex, where officers found broken glass from a window and followed a trail of blood that led them to Perkins.
Court records show Perkins is jailed on several charges, including robbery and credit card fraud.


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Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Meet the ADR Staff
Maureen A. Denihan
Maureen A. Denihan is the Executive Director of ADR Programs with the District Court of Maryland ADR Office. In that capacity, she works with judges, court staff, interns, volunteers and community partners to build, maintain and strengthen existing ADR programs in the District Court. In managing ADR programs, Maureen is responsible for drafting internal and external policy and procedure manuals, developing training and orientation programs, and oversight of the ADR internship program. She works collaboratively both within the ADR Office and with external partners to develop, implement, evaluate and improve programs and to assist neutrals that provide services.
Maureen has been with the ADR since January 2004, and formerly served in the capacity of Coordinator of ADR Volunteers, and then ADR Manager, and then Deputy Director/Programs Development and Community Outreach Director, before being promoted to her current position. Maureen is a mediator, is licensed to practice law in Maryland and is a member of the Maryland Chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR).
Maureen has presented at national and local ADR conferences including the ACR's Annual Conference, the Maryland Mediator's convention, the Maryland Program for Mediator Excellence (MPME) Member's Only Synergy Session, the Center for Alternative's Dispute Resolution Annual Conference, the Maryland ADR Roster Manager's Conference on topics including: Ethics; Agreement Writing; Getting Plugged In: Going Beyond the 40-Hours of Mediation Training; Dealing with Sticky Situations (as a Roster Manager); Making the Most of Your MPME Membership; and, others.
Shannon M. Baker
Shannon M. Baker is the Regional ADR Programs Director for the District Court of Maryland ADR Office in Baltimore City and Harford County. In this position, she directs and provides support for the Day of Trial mediation and settlement conference programs, pretrial mediation programs, and develops and maintains partnerships with local law schools and community mediation centers. Shannon is a 2007 graduate from Susquehanna University with a B.A. in French and a B.S. in Business Administration, with an emphasis in Global Management. She also interned and studied abroad in Paris, France. Shannon is in her fourth and final year of the evening program at the University of Baltimore School of Law. While attending UB, Shannon has served as a Teaching Assistant, Teaching Scholar, President of Parents in Law School, and has participated in the Mediation Clinic for Families. In her "free" time, Shannon enjoys acting, singing, running, and volunteering at her local theatre. Shannon, her partner Chris, and stepson Chance will be welcoming a new member to their York, PA household in December 2013.
Leona Elliott
Leona S. Elliott, Director of Roster Management, has been with the District Court of Maryland ADR Office since April 2008. In this position, she is responsible for scheduling over 300 ADR Volunteers across the State for the Day of Trial Mediation and Settlement Conferencing programs on a quarterly basis. She is also responsible for reviewing ADR Practitioner Activity Reports and other forms. She also reviews incoming ADR volunteer applications of potential volunteers to determine if there is a need to add new volunteers in specific districts and if they are ready to go through the orientation program for mediation and settlement conference neutral programs. She also works with the Executive Director, Deputy Director, and the Regional ADR Program Directors to conduct orientation training and volunteer appreciation events.
Leona has a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from Virginia Union University. Leona was first introduced to mediation as a participant in 2004. Several months later, she completed the training to become a volunteer mediator and has been a volunteer with Community Mediation in Baltimore City since 2004 and is a former Board Member. Her training in mediation includes the Basic Mediation (inclusive model), Parenting Plan Mediation and Re-entry Mediation at Community Mediation. She also has received training in the Transformative model with Louise Phipps-Senft and facilitative training with Cecilia Paizs, Esq. She has also conducted workshops highlighting the experience of both the Participant and the Mediator at the mediation table which she refers to as a "gift at the table."
Cindy Faucette
Cindy holds a BA degree in Political Science from Virginia Tech and a BS degree in Paralegal Studies from the University of Maryland. Prior to joining the District Court of Maryland ADR Office, she was a paralegal with an insurance defense firm. Cindy joined the District Court of Maryland ADR Office in April 2004 as Regional ADR Coordinator and completed the 50 hour Basic Mediation Training, offered by MACMC (now Community Mediation Maryland) in October 2004 and 20-Child Access Mediation, offered by Mediation Matters, Inc., in July 2005. Cindy currently holds the position of Regional ADR Program Director with the District Court of Maryland ADR Office managing programs in Baltimore, Carroll, Howard, Frederick and Washington counties.
Andrew Fontanella
Andrew comes to the District Court ADR Office after working almost 30 years as a litigation attorney in the private sector. He graduated from Temple University School of Law and started working in a small firm in Paterson, New Jersey. There he was exposed to a wide range of litigation issues in both the criminal and civil arenas.
After working in the New Jersey Courts for 7 years, he transitioned to a Catholic (Franciscan) ministry formation program. This program took him to different cities throughout the east coast, and Lima, Peru, for 10 weeks to experience a cultural and linguistic immersion. Although he remained in the program for only 3-1/2 years, he took away some unique insights and language skills that launched him on a journey with the Latino and Deaf populations. Those were the communities he served when he returned to the practice of law in Rockville, Maryland. In 2000, Andrew launched his own practice that served the Latino and Deaf communities in Maryland.
In the last 10 years, Andrew began actively pursuing training in alternative dispute resolution processes. He trained in collaborative, law, mediation from the transformative and facilitative frameworks, and conflict coaching. He also added to his skill base facilitation and community conferencing. Before joining the office, Andrew was a volunteer on the District Court roster in Baltimore City and currently mediates with the family division of the Baltimore City Circuit Court. He also remains a member of the team of core mediators and trainers for Baltimore Mediation.
Gretchen Kainz
Gretchen A. Kainz is the Regional ADR Programs Director in Montgomery and Prince George's Counties. Her background includes working as a Family Mediator, serving as a Voc Rehab Counselor in Europe for Disabled American Veterans, and helping abused and neglected children in Florida. She spent eight years in the US Air Force as a Morse Code Operator (-.-- .- -.--) and was blessed with the opportunity to serve her country while traveling extensively and earning a Bachelor and a Master's degree. One current adventure she's excited about is her ongoing training in Shadow Work, a somatic healing modality, to become a certified facilitator. Yay! Gretchen is passionate about traveling, eating delicious food, self-growth opportunities, exercising, and living a full life with great people around her. She lives in Riverdale, Maryland with her partner, Tony; and occasionally, her two amazing stepsons, Chris and Nick, come up to hang-out, too. High-five!
Sarah Kauffman
Sarah is currently the Data Management and Public Information Director for the District Court of Maryland ADR Office. In this position, Sarah is responsible for collecting and analyzing the incoming data for all ADR volunteers, the editor-in-chief of the ADR Office e-Newsletter, and maintaining the office website. She also supervises the ADR Office internship program. In 2013, she became a member of the ADR Program Managers. Before holding this position, she was both the Administrative Assistant and a full-time intern for the ADR Office. Sarah holds a B.A. in Communication and Conflict Resolution from Juniata College and a M.S. in Negotiation and Conflict Management from the University of Baltimore. She received her 40-hour Basic Mediation Training from Mediation Matters in 2010 and two 20-hour mediation trainings from Baltimore Mediation. Sarah lives in Mt. Airy, Maryland with her husband Justin, son Jaxson, and cat Geno.
Katherine Quinn
Kate received a Bachelor's degree from Georgia State University in June, 1980, and a J.D. from Emory University School of Law in May, 1983. She worked as an attorney at Georgia Legal Services and in private practice in Florida from June, 1983 through May, 1990. After staying home for a number of years with young children, Kate began working at the District and Circuit Courts in Calvert County from August 2002 through December, 2007. Along with other duties at the court, she assisted in developing a mediation program for CINA cases (Child in Need of Assistance). After leaving the courts, she started a private practice that included mediation and collaborative law, as well as volunteering as a community mediator and Board member.
Kate came to the District Court ADR Office in January, 2010. She is the Regional ADR Program Director for Southern Maryland (Calvert, Charles and St. Mary's Counties) and Anne Arundel County. She is involved in the Maryland Program for Mediator Excellence as part of the Self-Awareness and Reflective Practice Section.
Kate lives in Huntingtown, Maryland with her husband, David. She has two grown children, a daughter, Allison, and a son, Daniel. She enjoys cooking, yoga, and traveling with her family.