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WACO (January 10, 2013)-A group of six former McLennan County sheriff's deputies has filed a lawsuit in federal court that alleges their First Amendment rights were violated when they were fired.
Dallas attorney Don Tittle filed the suit late Wednesday afternoon in federal district court in Waco.
The complaint, obtained Thursday by News 10, lists Jimmie Channon, W. Derrick Johnson, William I. McKamey, Anthony W. McRae, J.C. Riggs and Norman Wade as plaintiffs and Sheriff Parnell McNamara and McLennan County as defendants.
In the complaint Tittle says the plaintiffs were denied their right to free speech and claims they were terminated from employment at the sheriff's office solely because they supported McNamara's primary opponent for the sheriff's job.
The lawsuit claim states all the plaintiffs openly campaigned for Randy Plemons, who McNamara defeated in the GOP Primary for the right to run for the job in the general election, which McNamara also won.
The lawsuit claim points out that combined the plaintiffs had more than 114 years experience in law enforcement and all had been given excellent job reviews.
"The unprecedented firings were obvious political retaliation," the claim states.
Further, the claim states that McNamara's actions "caused past and future economic damage to each plaintiff in the form of lost wages and benefits. Also each plaintiff has sustained damage to his reputation, ability to earn a living and standing in the community, and will continue to be so damaged in the future."
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One of Ed Carpenter's favorite perks of the Christmas tree business is seeing children's faces light up when they pick out a tree.
On Tuesday, a group of pre-schoolers visited his Christmas tree farm in Laingsburg, and although they had nearly 60,000 evergreens to choose from, they settled on a small tree for their classroom. A few kids helped Carpenter cut it down.
Every winter Carpenter says he sells somewhere between 2,500 and 3,000 trees. He plants a few thousand trees during April. This year, Carpenter lost a few seedlings to the summer drought, but most of his crop survived.
Carpenter says the weekend after Thanksgiving is going to be the busiest, but he has already sold quite a few. He says there is one week less between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, so sales have already picked up.
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bung 1
A stopper for closing a hole in a container.
Example sentences
- His invention was designed to cut a hole through an existing bung or stopper rather than through the oak barrel head.
- On a thirsty day, unscrupulous carters were known to extract a free drink from a keg of porter by boring a small hole through the bung, inserting a goose quill and sucking some of the contents.
- A barrel is made up of staves shaped into a bulging cylinder, with hoops round it, a flat circular head at either end, and at least one hole for a bung.
verb[with object]
1Close with a stopper: the casks are bunged before delivery
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- They phoned West Wiltshire Housing Society which sent someone out to mend the damaged wires and bung up the hole into the attic but the squirrels were not deterred and more got in through a gap from their neighbour's house.
- In the mean time, until the hole is bunged, Slemko recommends that customers not access the Web site.
- Additionally, the Feds sought assurance that the patches MS has issued are adequate to bung the holes without causing problems for the machines they're installed on.
1.1 (bung something up) Block (something), typically by overfilling it: you let vegetable peelings bung up the sink
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- I feel light headed, my ears are bunged up and my balance feels hazy.
- It has three different sized grating thingies and the picture on the box very clearly shows it grating cheese, which puts a stop to the n'er-do-wells warning me that cheese would bung it up.
- One fine day it gets bunged up: and there you are.
Late Middle English: from Middle Dutch bonghe (noun).
Words that rhyme with bungamong, clung, dung, flung, hung, lung, outflung, rung, shantung, slung, sprung, strung, stung, sung, swung, tongue, underslung, wrung, young
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British informal
verb[with object and adverbial of direction]
Put or throw (something) somewhere in a careless or casual way: fill out the reply-paid card and bung it in the post
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- And then, one who stares at a computer terminal for hours together would not be hard-pressed to market a 'dancing bindi' and bung in an application package for the same.
- Better cook a steak at home and bung some oven chips under the grill.
- In other words, the factories have the proper machinery and simply bung out an extra 100 pairs a week.
A bribe.
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- I know I'm not the only one to have stopped supporting animal welfare groups, so ultimately these groups will lose power as their donation base shrinks and they can no longer afford million pound bungs to the parliamentary Labour party.
- The real Licensee isn't monikered thus because he owns a bar, but because he's alleged to have a licence to operate in the city, through judicious bungs and threats to police and politicians.
- House-price control is also naive because there are so many ways round it, from free cars, holidays, insurance and moving expenses to bungs in offshore accounts.
Early 19th century: symbolic; the noun sense dates from the 1950s.
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Australian /NZ informal
1Broken down, ruined, or useless.
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- As the people downstairs had absented themselves to a haven of fresh air somewhere, we were unable to inform them of this bung fuse and therefore unable to rectify the situation.
- All I can say is that my business partners have a sore shoulder, a screwy leg, a skin infection; and I am nursing a bung knee.
- Latham won the running race, while McManus ended up with a bung leg.
2 dated Dead.
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- In parts of Australia, in New South Wales and Queensland, the word "bung" is an aboriginal word meaning 'dead.'
go bung Australian /NZ informal
- This tank doesn't have CO2 and no heaters to go bung.
- My career goes bung.
- Gee I hope the tube isn't going bung!
- The word found its way into nineteenth-century Australian pidgin, where the phrase to go bung meant 'to die'.
1Break down; fail or go bankrupt.
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Mid 19th century (originally Australian pidgin): from Yagara (an extinct Aboriginal language).
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STATE LINE — The Middleburg/Mason-Dixon Historical Society will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in the State Line Ruritan building.
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Definición de liberal en inglés:
1Open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values: they have more liberal views toward marriage and divorce than some people
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- In spite of all experience they hoped that Prussia was more open to liberal ideas than Austria.
- Western countries pride themselves on their supposedly liberal acceptance of different cultures.
- Why do liberal ideas often connect to unhappiness?
1.1Favorable to or respectful of individual rights and freedoms: liberal citizenship laws
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- Crime rates here are comparable to, and in many cases lower than, those in countries with liberal gun laws.
- Freedom and a liberal society was redeemed for some but not all.
- Look at Ireland and Scotland and their liberal liquor laws - drunks rage all night.
tolerant, unprejudiced, unbigoted, broad-minded, open-minded, enlightened;
permissive, free, free and easy, easygoing, libertarian, indulgent, lenient
1.2(In a political context) favoring maximum individual liberty in political and social reform: a liberal democratic state
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- Social reformism within a liberal democratic framework is apparently just one more snare in the mechanism of domination.
- It comes from a deep-seated conviction that there is only one economic system, the globalised free market, set in the political context of liberal democracy.
- The Democrats have abandoned any policy of liberal social reform and adapted themselves, in deeds if not in words, to the class-war policies of the Republicans.
progressive, advanced, modern, forward-looking, forward-thinking, progressivist, enlightened, reformist, radical
1.3 (Liberal) Of or characteristic of Liberals or a Liberal Party.
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- Moreover, they tended to characterize conservative senators critically while characterizing liberal senators in flattering terms.
- The left often laments the ideological gulf between itself and even the most liberal Democrats in office.
- Most liberal Democrats have never been willing to recognize that extent to which terrorism threatens this country.
1.4 (Liberal) (In the UK) relating to the Liberal Democrat Party: the Liberal leader
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- No, both the Labor and Liberal Parties have always used their patronage system to sometimes stack the board with party political hacks.
- You have to go back to before the First World War when the then Liberal party held the reins of power in the city.
- If you're in a safe Labor or safe Liberal seat, you'll get nothing.
1.5 Theology Regarding many traditional beliefs as dispensable, invalidated by modern thought, or liable to change.
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- Others who had found that church too theologically liberal for their tastes espoused a more traditional theology.
- In this regard then, post-Christian liberal religion is at odds with peace and justice movements that struggle to remain Christian.
- These similarities notwithstanding, liberal Catholicism and Modern Orthodoxy seem to be currently facing two different fates.
2 [attributive] (Of education) concerned mainly with broadening a person's general knowledge and experience, rather than with technical or professional training.
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- In Korea, general education, rather than liberal education, is the preferred term.
- Community colleges offering two-year programs in liberal education and occupational training meet both of these criteria.
- Learning communities can bring general education, liberal education, and, sometimes, the major together.
wide-ranging, broad-based, general
3(Especially of an interpretation of a law) broadly construed or understood; not strictly literal or exact: they could have given the 1968 Act a more liberal interpretation
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- Dr Javaid Iqbal, in the end, approves of the Sufis' liberal interpretation of Islam, which helped poetry, music and dance to find a place in Muslim culture.
- Many activists of the sharia movement in economic discourse and activities are also against a liberal interpretation of Islam.
- It seemed a liberal interpretation of the term 'cosmopolitan' - but then that's rural living for you.
flexible, broad, loose, rough, free, general, nonliteral, nonspecific, imprecise, vague, indefinite
4Given, used, or occurring in generous amounts: liberal amounts of wine had been consumed
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- Garden ponds won't count, though, so if you have a swimming pool, fill it with water lilies and goldfish, take down the diving board and apply liberal amounts of weed and reeds until he has gone.
- Then you want a nice mayo, white vinegar, relish base, with liberal amounts of pepper, some salt and paprika.
- There was also a liberal amount of calamari, but mostly just legs that weren't that appealing to chase around with a fork.
4.1(Of a person) giving generously: Sam was too liberal with the wine
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- Their son was particularly concerned that we bless the space under his bed, so I was liberal with the holy water for his sake.
- He was even liberal in dishing out helpings for Natalia.
- He was very liberal when it came to buying drinks, and in return I was a friend to him.
1A person of liberal views.
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- Many economic liberals have an optimistic view of economic globalization.
- Leftists and liberals find this turn of events an indication of bad days to come.
- How could he be defended in the pages of our press by supposed liberals and left-wingers?
1.1 (Liberal) A supporter or member of a Liberal Party.
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- To essentially claim that he is no better than the Liberals or Tories is plain sectarianism.
- The Tories and Liberals were easily beaten into third and fourth places.
- The Liberals said they were opposed to the war but supported it once it began.
liberalness sustantivo
- Oraciones de ejemplo
- The Finance and Expenditure Committee did not suggest any changes to the bill that significantly affected the balance between the restrictiveness and the liberalness of the regime.
Middle English: via Old French from Latin liberalis, from liber 'free (man)'. The original sense was 'suitable for a free man', hence 'suitable for a gentleman' (one not tied to a trade), surviving in liberal arts. Another early sense, 'generous' (sense 4 of the adjective), gave rise to an obsolete meaning 'free from restraint', leading to sense 1 of the adjective (late 18th century).
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STOCKTON - Authorities conducted a multiagency sweep Wednesday in response to a spike in shootings and robberies in Weston Ranch as part of the city's Operation Ceasefire approach to combatting violent crime by targeting individual gangs and offenders.
Analysis after the spate of violent crimes led to the identification of a new group active in Weston Ranch, according to a news release from the Stockton Police Department announcing the enforcement mission Wednesday.
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RIPON - A 34-year-old man wielded a sawed-off shotgun after demanding sex from a woman about to take a dip in the Stanislaus River on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Ripon Police Department.
The man, identified by police as Jose Vasquez Sanchez of Hughson, then chased the victim, assaulting her in front of a residence on Reynolds Drive, according to police.
Police got a call that a man was trying to kidnap a woman at gunpoint at the bike bridge parking lot at Parallel Avenue and Reynolds Drive, where Sanchez had reportedly demanded sex from the woman, who was with a group of other young adults, according to police. He then returned with the shotgun and chased the victim after she fled.
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Important Patch Set Updates (PSU) for Oracle Secure Global Desktop
By Fat Bloke on Dec 20, 2013
Oracle has released some important Patch Set Updates (PSUs) for Oracle Secure Global Desktop which customers should be aware of.
These critical patch clusters are available for immediate download and installation, as described in the following version-specific announcements:
- Patch Set Update for Secure Global Desktop 5.0 (Doc ID 1606985.1)
- Patch Set Update for Secure Global Desktop 4.71 (Doc ID 1607050.1)
- Patch Set Update for Secure Global Desktop 4.63 (Doc ID 1607706.1)
Patch Set Updates are available for all active Long Term Support (LTS) maintenance releases, as enumerated within the Secure Global Desktop Release Announcement Reference (1597467.1). No other versions of SGD are designated to receive a formal PSU. Administrators of earlier releases—(i.e. 4.5, 4.60, 4.61, 4.62, or 4.70)—must move to a designated maintenance release in order to apply these comprehensive solutions.
ACTION REQUIRED: The Oracle Support team would like to stress the importance of the immediate consideration and installation of the December 2013 PSUs, as planned updates to the Java plug-in will adversely impact the user experience of all unpatched versions of Secure Global Desktop prior to Secure Global Desktop 5.10.
These changes will require proactive action on behalf of SGD Administrators to prevent service interruption when the forthcoming updates planned for Java do arrive.
Additional information regarding this particular scenario is described within a dedicated knowledge article:
- Users Connecting to Secure Global Desktop are Presented with Dialog, "This application will be blocked in a future Java security update because the JAR file manifest does not contain the Permissions attribute." (Doc ID 1594506.1)


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Reflections from our First Weatherstone Grad
This summer brought the completion of the first round of Dennis Weatherstone Pre-Doctoral Fellowships, funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation in memory of Sir Dennis Weatherstone, the former chair and CEO of J.P. Morgan, to encourage promising young scientists to chose autism research as their career.
In this blog post, Meaghan Parlade, the first Weatherstone grad to complete her fellowship, reflects on her experience and the program's importance to future autism research.
The life of a pre-doctoral student can be intense and taxing, to say the least. However, the training and experiences I have garnered during the past (dare I say it?) seven years have been invaluable in positioning me to achieve my ultimate goal: to further the scientific understanding of autism in a way that improves the lives of affected children and families. Families affected by autism are some of the most steadfast, passionate, and deeply devoted people I have ever encountered. No doubt, they will continue to inspire my work.
Looking back at my training, one experience stands out above the rest as the most formidable in shaping my development as a clinician and scientist: The Dennis Weatherstone Predoctoral Fellowship awarded by Autism Speaks. I am honored to be the first to complete the program.
With the support of Autism Speaks and in collaboration with my graduate advisor Jana Iverson, PhD, at the University of Pittsburgh, I have been investigating the development of communication skills in infants who have an older sibling on the autism spectrum. These skills include gestures, smiles, eye contact and sounds.
In conducting this research, our hope is to identify behavioral indicators of autism at a much earlier point than is currently possible. This, we further hope, will allow earlier diagnosis and treatment and lead to improved outcomes. In addition, by studying the development of social difficulties during infancy, we hope to improve our understanding of social communication difficulties in older children on the spectrum—and, in turn, hasten the development of tailored interventions.
Fellowships such as mine are highly coveted by my classmates because the financial support allows us to focus intensely on our research instead of taking on such time-consuming jobs such as teaching and working in faculty labs. The Weatherstone Fellowship allowed me to devote the majority of the past two years to my scientific research, clinical goals, and professional development. It also allowed me to meet regularly with other Weatherstone fellows and their advisors (all of whom are leading scientists in autism research) and to participate in national autism scientific meetings—opportunities that will enable me to develop future collaborations.
Finally, I believe this experience played an instrumental role in helping me secure a predoctoral internship in clinical psychology, the final step in my training to become a child psychologist and practice independently in clinical and research positions. Starting Sept. 1st, I will begin my internship at the Mailman Center for Child Development at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine—as the program's first autism intern.
As I look forward to this new exciting step in my career, I continue to reflect on my experience as a Weatherstone fellow. I appreciate how it has helped prepare me for a career dedicated to excellence in both research endeavors and clinical work, ultimately allowing me to better serve the unique needs of children and families affected by autism.


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Headlines for Saturday:
- Backlog: Friends 00:20
- Reading paper 00:21
- Thank you, Lazy Web! - Feedrinse 01:07
- Uh oh... 01:20
- More Rails twiddling 02:17
- Deskbar applet - GNOME coolness! 02:22
- Meep! Comments lost! 02:29
- Alejandro 12:26
45 papers read.
212 papers to go.
|Work on reading paper
|Evening: Pick up papers from AJAX
|Morning to afternoon: Take ferry to Central Island and bliss out in some lakeside park
|Check out livebooks : E-Mail from Harvey V. Chua
|Lunch with Andrew
|Get in touch with mentees
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Random Japanese sentence: いなくなった猫はまだ見つかってない。 The missing cat has not been found yet.
2. Reading paper: 00:21
Random Japanese sentence: たとえどしゃぶりになろうとも行かなければならない。 I have to go even if it rains cats and dogs.
3. Thank you, Lazy Web! - Feedrinse: 01:07
Now, someone just needs to think about how to make this work for free...
Random Japanese sentence: うちの猫は大変海苔が好きである。 Our cat is very fond of sea weeds.
4. Uh oh...: 01:20
Must figure out where to find Fujitsu AC adapters here... Output: 16V 2.5A.
Random Japanese sentence: 彼はとても満足そうに見える。 He looks like a cat that ate the canary.
5. More Rails twiddling: 02:17
Random Japanese sentence: ねこはひなたで遊ぶのが好きだ。 Cats like playing in the sun.
6. Deskbar applet - GNOME coolness!: 02:22
Random Japanese sentence: 猫はテーブルの上で眠った。 The cat slept on the table.
7. Meep! Comments lost!: 02:29
... and if it was about my recent crisis, don't worry, I know you care... =)
Random Japanese sentence: 猫は背中を丸める。 A cat arches its back.
8. Alejandro: 12:26
Alejandro is one of the maintenance staff here. I first encountered him and his co-worker when I was practicing billiards. They joked about not wanting to play against me because I looked so serious, and thereafter I smiled at them whenever I ran into them.
Today we chatted a bit more. He asked me what I was taking and where I was from. Upon learning that I'm from the Philippines, he said a few words in Tagalog. (Aww!) He also asked if I was planning to return or stay in Canada, and I told him that I wasn't sure yet. A PhD is tempting, and so is work, but I miss my country.
He asked me what I was doing, and I told him about the reading paper
that I'm working on. "You should be outside," he said. "It's a
beautiful day. You can study until fwop," and he mimed a clock's
hands, "and then you can go dancing." He proceeded to demo salsa,
merengue, and other Latin dances. And he knew how to dance really
A Spanish teacher in his native Chile, he found upon arriving in Canada that few of his university credits would be honored and that he'd have to start all over again. He said, "Forget it," and started a pizzeria. He worked hard for six years, but it folded and he was left with a huge debt. Now he works at Graduate House to pay the bills.
I told him how even PhDs from developing coutries are often forced to give up what they had trained to do, and how many people from the Philippines go to other countries to find better opportunities but don't get further than being a domestic helper or a construction worker, much less open a pizzeria. I said, "Well, at least you have salsa..." He laughed.
Canada has its own little sorrows.
Random Japanese sentence: このようにして、おじいさんは、あたりをみまわすたびに、きれいなねこがみつかっておいていくことができなくなりました。そして知らない間に、そこにいるねこをみんな拾い上げてつれていくことになってしまいました。 So it happened that every time the very old man looked up, he saw another cat which was so pretty he could not bear to leave it, and before he knew it, he had chosen them all.
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After two impressive victories in Alberta to open their lockout-delayed season, the Sharks return home Thursday night to face the Phoenix Coyotes in the first NHL game at HP Pavilion in more than nine months.
But for one Shark, the homecoming has taken a lot longer: Defenseman Brad Stuart will be wearing a teal jersey in San Jose for the first time in seven years, one month and 29 days.
Stuart said Wednesday that he's excited about returning, though he has no regrets about the course his career has taken.
"I've learned a lot in the time while I was gone and I feel like I'm a better player because of it," Stuart said, adding he was also "a little bit anxious. It's going to be kind of strange going through the Shark mouth again."
Stuart, 33 returns a different hockey player than the one who left at 26. He plays with a bit of a mean streak that wasn't on display very much in his first go-round.
It is the journey over the past seven years that has helped change him.
The Sharks made Stuart the third player taken overall in the 1998 NHL draft. He was a blue-chip blueliner who played 377 games over five-plus seasons in San Jose, scoring 36 goals and adding 117 assists.
Stuart's last home game as a Shark was Nov. 26, 2005 -- a 7-6 loss to the Detroit Red Wings in which he earned an assist. Four days later, general manager Doug Wilson pulled off the blockbuster trade that sent Stuart, Marco Sturm and Wayne Primeau to the Boston Bruins for Joe Thornton.
Stuart said the trade, coming only a few months after his wedding, was extremely disruptive. But he said he didn't make it personal.
"I never looked at it like the Sharks didn't want me any more, but I was a little bit shocked," Stuart said. "It was part of the business, but still there was a lot of stuff you had to deal with."
There would be stops in Calgary, Los Angeles and Detroit before the circle back to San Jose was complete.
Knowing he wanted to return for family reasons, the Sharks acquired Stuart from the Red Wings on June 20. A three-year, $10.8 million contract extension followed.
"Career-wise and from a personal standpoint, it was perfect," Stuart said. "The team has a good chance to win and I have a chance to be a big part of that. And I get to see my family every day that I'm home."
That last point was the stickler in Detroit.
Stuart was living in Los Gatos in his third season as a Shark when he met his future wife, Melissa, who grew up there. She and her young stepdaughter, Cierra, did follow Stuart to Boston and Los Angeles, but went back to Los Gatos while he played in Canada because of family issues.
The four-year deal he signed with the Red Wings in 2007 was considered one move too many for Cierra to have any stability in her life.
Beyond that, the family was growing with the addition of two boys, Jake, 6, and Logan, 4.
"At that point my stepdaughter was 12 or 13, and that's an age where it gets harder for them to keep changing," Stuart explained. "They've got friends, they've got schools, they've got family. You can't just rip them away from all that stuff."
Stuart and the Red Wings worked out an arrangement that allowed the defenseman to fly home to Los Gatos when the schedule allowed, even if it meant missing a practice.
Other times, Melissa and the children would fly to Detroit.
Still, his wife would be the one who had to deal with routine problems in San Jose.
The Red Wings respected Stuart's desire to be closer to his family, but also let him know he would be welcomed back if things did not work out.
As events developed, Stuart never did test the free agent market. He knows he could be making more money if he had, but money was far from the top priority.
The multiple changes in scenery also led to the change in Stuart's game.
"I'm not a power-play guy anymore," he said. "I don't really care if I score any points. I want to be solid. I take a lot of pride in working hard, playing physical and killing penalties."
The dramatic change came after he arrived in Detroit.
"There were so many talented defensemen there, they didn't need me to contribute any offense," Stuart said. "I'm a lot more effective at what I do now than if I tried to keep my game more offensive. Who knows where I'd be now?"
In fact, Stuart is in San Jose now because of those changes. In June, Wilson praised him as "a physical, team-first defenseman who is tough to play against."
For now, Stuart plays alongside Marc-Edouard Vlasic as the top shutdown pair for coach Todd McLellan, whose time in Detroit overlapped with Stuart's.
"What it does," McLellan said of pairing Stuart with Vlasic, "is give us two pretty good defenders and we feel comfortable playing them against anybody's top line."
Whether old memories come rushing back when Stuart does skate through the shark mouth remains to be seen. But one thing that will make it special for him gets back to the reason Stuart is once again a Shark.
"To have a chance to have my boys there to see that will be a big thrill for me and for them," he said. "It's going to be fun."
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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi women's basketball team defeated Western Illinois in a 66-60 overtime thriller Friday night as part of the Emerald Beach Islanders Classic.
This was the first time since the 2009-10 season that the Islanders won their season opener.
In her first regular season game with the Islanders, Jasmine Shaw made a huge impact on the team offensively, knocking down one key three after the other en route to a team-high 20 points.
Darley, who is the team's leading scorer from last year, picked up right where she left off to register a double-double with 13 points to go along with 11 boards. After knocking down 10 points in the exhibition, freshman Shola Adebayo performed even better in the regular season opener with an impressive stat line with 14 points, five rebounds, four assists and six steals.
One of the key factors in the Islanders picking up the victory stemmed from the Leathernecks inability to knock down shots from behind the arc. Western Illinois only knocked down two threes on 20 attempts, including several key misses in overtime that would have tied the game up with the clock running down.
On the flipside, the Islanders went 7-20 from deep, seeming to knock down a trey every time the team was in need of one. For the game, A&M – Corpus Christi shot 37 percent from the field.
After giving up the first five points of the game, Ashanti Plummer scooped up a three-point attempt by Shaw that rattled in and out and put it in to give the Islanders their first points of the 2013-14 season.
The Islanders then cut the lead down to one at the 17:36 mark before both teams went cold during the next three minutes and 29 seconds. When the scoring resumed, it was mostly one sided, as Western Illinois scored the next eight points to jump out to a 12-4 lead with 12:16 left to play in the first half.
It was then that the Islanders mounted a run of their own, which was spearheaded by Adebayo. After three points by A&M – Corpus Christi, Adebayo picked a pass off and took it the other way for an easy layup. Shortly after, the Islanders forced a turnover and Adebayo busted one from behind the arc to put her team within one possession.
Shortly thereafter, Adebayo made an impact on the game via an assist to junior Lexy Harris to tie the game up for the first time since it was 0-0.
However, once again, both sides could not find any offensive rhythm during the next three minutes, including three turnovers by Western Illinois. Finally the Leatherneck's preseason all-conference pick Ashley Luke snapped the scoreless streak, putting them back up by two.
Once again, it was Adebayo reeking havoc for the Islanders, as she picked off another pass and dished it off to Darley to make it an 18-16 game with 4:06 left in the first.
The game would then go back and forth the rest of the half with the Islanders pulling within two three times before a three by Adebayo with 36 seconds left would give the Islanders their first lead of the game, going up 25-24. The score at the half would remain that way.
At the start of the second half the Leathernecks would quickly retain the lead, as a jumper just 39 seconds in would make the score 26-25 in favor of Western Illinois.
The momentum would not stay on their side though, as the Islanders got into a rhythm offensively, and would go on a 13-4 run to gain a six point lead with 11:58 remaining in regulation.
A layup by Marley Hall, who finished with the second-most points for her team with 14, pulled the Leathernecks within four halfway through the second half.
While it was the Islanders who were battling to tie the game up or take the lead in the first half, Western Illinois shared the same fate in the second half, as A&M – Corpus Christi seemed to answer after every Leatherneck bucket. After Luke knocked down two free throws to make it a one possession game with five minutes left on the clock, Adebayo knocked down another huge three to extend the lead back out to five. Taryn Gregory would knock down a free throw shortly after to push the lead up to six.
However, the Leathernecks would not go away quietly, as they continually chipped away at the lead before a three by Liz Skotowski tied the game up for the third time in the game, this time with 2:16 left to play.
Shaw responded in a big way, knocking down a three of her own on the next possession, extending the lead back out to three. There was no continued momentum though, with the Leathernecks scoring six of the next eight points to take their first lead in more than 17 minutes of play.
Next came another clutch shot by Shaw, as she drained her fifth and final three of the game to put the Islanders up two with only 30 seconds left in regulation. However, more than just the regulation clock would be needed on this night, as after a layup by the Leathernecks to tie it up, Adebayo missed a three as time expired to send the game into overtime.
The Islanders would tally the first four points of the half, with the second bucket coming in transition after Alissa Campanero stole the ball and then found Shaw with 3:10 left to play.
Just 14 seconds later though, Hall was able to convert on a layup to cut the lead to two as the clock ticked under three minutes.
This would be as close as the Leathernecks would get though, as they missed three threes down the stretch while the Islanders knocked down four free throws to secure the 66-60 win.
With the victory, A&M – Corpus Christi will now be set to take on Fairfield in the Emerald Beach Islanders Classic championship game at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday in the Dugan Wellness Center. The consolation game between UAB and Western Illinois will be played at 4 p.m.
A link to live stats and video for the game can be found at http://livestats.prestosports.com/tamucc/. For all the information regarding the Emerald Beach Islanders Classic you can visit the tournament central page at http://goislanders.com/sports/wbkb/2013-14/files/Tournament_Central.
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- Apr 19:
- Recovery fund established for Martinez boy injured in Boston Marathon bombings
- Boston bombings: TV networks plan prime-time coverage
- Boston bombings: Television can only 'hurry up and wait'
- Boston bombing suspects: Who are the two brothers?
- Police: Suspect who killed MIT cop is dead; second suspect tied to Boston bombing
- Apr 18:
- Boston Marathon bombings: Martinez boy takes 'huge step forward' in his recovery
- Boston bombing suspect on video sought; Obama at memorial: 'You will run again'
- Apr 17:
- Fremont manufacturer's battery was used in Boston bombings
- Boston Marathon bombing: Martinez boy's surgery a success
- Source: Authorities recover pressure cooker lid
- Apr 16:
- Oakland: Vigil, run planned to to honor Boston Marathon victims
- Restaurant manager Krystle Campbell, 29, ID'd as victim in Boston bombing
- Boston bombers will be found and punished
- Boston Marathon bombs were packed into pressure cookers filled with shrapnel
- Apr 15:
- Purdy: Remember Boston bombing next time in line
- Google helping friends, family locate Boston Marathon runners
- At least one from Bay Area wounded at Boston Marathon
- Boston Marathon explosions: Bay Area marathon runners describe chaotic scene after detonations
- Boston Marathon explosion: Early photos from the scene
- Boston Marathon explosions: BART, San Francisco step up police presence
- Boston Marathon explosion: Other cities beef up security in response to explosions
- Security beefed up worldwide after bombs at Boston Marathon
- Boston Marathon bombing kills 3, injures over 140
- Boston Marathon: Ethiopia's Desisa, Kenya's Jeptoo win in Boston
BOSTON -- A 12-year-old Martinez boy injured in the Boston Marathon bombings is recovering in Boston Children's Hospital after being struck by a piece of shrapnel, family friends said Monday.
The boy was waiting at the finish line for his mother, 40-year-old Katherine Hern, who was about 200 feet away from the finish line of the prestigious race, said Gay Gerlack, a former Martinez city council candidate and member of the Kiwanis Club of Martinez with Katherine Hern.
"He was very excited for his mother," Gerlack said.
Moments later, the child was standing with his father, Alan Hern, sister and family friends Frank and Sandra Hall, when he was hit in the thigh by a piece of shrapnel after the first explosion went off on the north side of Boylston Street. Neither his family nor their friends were injured in the bombings.
The boy was taken to Boston Children's Hospital, where he underwent surgery to remove the shrapnel.
Sandra Hall contacted a member of the Kiwanis Club of Martinez Monday afternoon to let them know that the surgery went well and that the boy was recovering in the hospital with his mother by his side, Gerlack said.
"There were so many children that were hurt," Gerlack said. "We feel very lucky that he's going to come out of this."
The Herns, who were scheduled to return to the Bay Area this week, will remain in Boston while the boy recovers, Gerlack said. The Halls will also stay to support the Hern family.
Added Gerlack, "That stress is off, but they still have a long ways to go."
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SANTA CLARA -- Jed York is a new-generation owner with a little bit of a mischievous side and, by the way, a team one victory away from the Super Bowl.
You could not imagine Paul Brown, Al Davis or Eddie DeBartolo firing off Twitter missives on their way to titles, could you?
(Well, not without a full-time censor at least.)
But here is York, the 49ers' CEO, with more than 1,000 tweets, alternately emotional, thoughtful, funny and always grounded and pointed toward a 49ers victory.
"Me sharing 140 characters here and there I think just allows fans to see that I'm a relatively normal person," York said in a phone interview Monday. "I try to give them some insight into the team or some insight into me, because I think fans deserve it."
But this, of course, is not a normal time for York or his 49ers, who make their second consecutive trip to the NFC Championship game when they play the Falcons in Atlanta on Sunday.
At the same time, York's new stadium is rising right next to the team's Santa Clara headquarters -- every day, the clanging and tractor roar practically blot out the noise of practice whistles and thuds.
So what does York feel about all of this weighty activity around him?
"Still a long way to go," York said. "We've made some progress, but a long way to go ...
"I think the team is in a good spot, but our goal is to win Super Bowls, and that's what we need to do."
Which is pure York -- he has his uncle Eddie D's passion, and he also has absorbed and embraced the grinding focus of his two best hires, coach Jim Harbaugh and general manager Trent Baalke.
"You have to respect the fact that you've gotten there two years in a row -- it's very difficult to get there even one year," York said. "But we need to do better than we did last year."
The big difference: Last year, Alex Smith was the quarterback in the playoffs, and he played a great game to beat New Orleans, then not so well in the NFC title game against the New York Giants.
This year, Colin Kaepernick took Smith's place in November, just put on one of the great physical performances in playoff history and now leads the team into Atlanta.
"When you look at Colin, that's something that kind of happened," York said. "Coach made a gut call -- you have two guys you really feel good with, and that's a good situation.
"It definitely was a gutsy call, and hopefully it ends up being the right one. Colin has played great."
York acknowledges that it is interesting to reach the NFC title game and face Falcons defensive coordinator Mike Nolan, who was such a large presence when he coached the 49ers from 2005 until October 2008, when York fired him.
In many ways, York says, Nolan initiated many of the fundamental changes that didn't take full form until Harbaugh's hiring in 2011.
"I think he is an unbelievable football coach," York said of Nolan. "He really helped establish a culture here that wasn't here before, about winning the right way, winning with class, being a tough, physical team.
"I think if things would've worked out differently, he could've been here for a long time."
But York, of course, is more than pleased with Harbaugh's leadership, achievements and full-force reinvigoration of this franchise.
And York said he absolutely understands why Harbaugh so often is clipped and guarded in public.
"He wants to win," York said of Harbaugh. "And he doesn't really mind being himself even if that doesn't put him in the best light with the media or anything like that, or with friends across the league.
"That's not what he's interested in. ... He's interested in winning. I respect that, and I know it's hard to try to hold yourself to that high standard."
Speaking of high standards, there is all that steel being stacked and lined up, just yards from York's office at 4949 Centennial.
"It's hard not to see it every day, because we're about 15 feet from it," York said. "It's been great to see go up ...
"I'm very impressed with the work, and we still have a long way to go with the stadium -- but it's fun to watch it go up and fun to start to put something together you've been working on for so long."
Can he enjoy it all? Eddie D told me last week that was his main advice to his nephew during this pressure-filled time.
Enjoy it, if possible.
"I'll tell you, though, having my son around definitely puts a lot more perspective to it," York said of his almost-3-month-old son, Jax.
"I'm trying to enjoy it as much as I can. As much as we want to grind, win the next one and win another and do all that, you want to try to enjoy the moment.
"Even if it's just for a second, you have to respect that you're here. You can grind 23 hours and 59 minutes, but maybe one minute a day you can try to enjoy it."
And then it's back to the grind, to thinking about beating Atlanta, winning the franchise's sixth Super Bowl, finishing that stadium, and on and on.
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Knitter's Review
May 20, 2010
Just as surfers seek the perfect wave, wool people are always on the hunt for the perfect fiber source. Last fall, I finally found mine.
I'd been signing books at Rhinebeck for several hours when a tall, distinguished-looking man in a weathered barn jacket appeared at my table. "My name is Eugene Wyatt," he said, holding out his hand, "and I raise one of the largest flocks of Saxon Merino sheep in the United States."
His farm is just 60 miles north of New York City, and every Saturday he trucks his wares—from fresh sausages to billowing hanks of extraordinarily soft yarn—to the Greenmarket in Union Square. It's my turn to introduce Eugene and his Catskill Merino to you.
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Local man accused of shooting his wife
The couple were seen arguing at a bar before the shooting, police say.
Published: Saturday, July 13, 2013 at 9:38 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, July 14, 2013 at 1:08 a.m.
A Houma man accused of shooting his wife after an argument at a bar has been jailed on a charge of attempted second-degree murder, authorities said today.
Christopher Toups, 33, of 608 Bayou Gardens Drive in Houma, was arrested this morning shortly after the incident, Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Jerry Larpenter said.
Deputies were called to 202 Gabi Court in Dularge about 2 a.m. by someone who reported a woman had been wounded. Upon arrival, deputies found the woman inside the couple's fishing camp with a gunshot wound to the neck, the sheriff said in a news release.
Toups told deputies the shooting was an accident and also claimed to have no knowledge of how his wife was shot, according to the Sheriff's Office. But further investigation turned up witnesses who saw the couple arguing as they left a bar prior to going to the camp.
The victim was taken to the local hospital and listed in guarded condition with a gunshot wound to the neck, the Sheriff's Office said.
Toups is in the Terrebonne Parish jail awaiting a bond hearing.
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Amherst Writers & Artists Press was founded in 1983 with two missions: to publish and support the work of emerging and established writers; and to cross boundaries of class, race and other difference by using writing as a tool of empowerment, giving voice to the silenced.
In our thirty-year history, we have published thirty-two books, all of them designed by the national and international, award-winning book designer, Barbara Werden.
Peregrine, published since 1983, is our literary journal, and will release its 26th volume of poetry and fiction this winter, making it one of the longer-lived independent literary journals in the country. Manuscripts of poetry and fiction may be sent between March 15 and May 15. We encourage simultaneous submission.
AWA Press is not seeking book manuscripts at this time.
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Desmana moschata
|Scope: Global
|Scientific Name:
|Desmana moschata
|Species Authority:
|(Linnaeus, 1758)
|Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
|Taxonomic Notes:
|The only representative of its genus.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Vulnerable A2bc+4bc ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Tsytsulina, K., Formozov, N., Sheftel, B. & Zagorodnyuk, I.
|Amori, G. (Small Nonvolant Mammal Red List Authority) & Temple, H. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)
A rare species with a fragmented distribution. Population size, area of occupancy, and habitat quality are all declining, and the species faces a number of serious threats including bycatch, habitat loss and degradation, water pollution, and competition from introduced species. Surveys in Russia indicate that the population declined from 39,000 in 1985 to 27,000 in 2000/2001, and it is suspected that rates of decline have increased since then. The desman recently went extinct in Belarus. Overall, it is suspected that declines exceed 30% over a ten-year period in the past or future, so the species is assessed as Vulnerable.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species occurs in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan; it has recently disappeared from Belarus. At the beginning of the 20th century the desman was common in the Dnepr, Don, Volga and Ural rivers basins. Its current range is very fragmented, and it has disappeared from many areas where it formerly occurred. At the end of the 19th century it disappeared from Ukraine, but was reintroduced in the 1950s. In the 1990s it was found again in the Desna (a tributary of the Dnepr, Ukraine).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Kazakhstan; Russian Federation; Ukraine
Regionally extinct:Belarus
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|At the beginning of the 1970s in the Soviet Union there were about 70,000 individuals, of which the majority occurred in Russia, with about 1,500 individuals in Kazahstan and single records in Ukraine and Belarus. More recent surveys in the Russian Federation indicate that the population there declined from 39,000 in 1985 to 27,000 in 2000/2001, and it is suspected that rates of decline have increased since then owing to growing threats from fisheries bycatch. The 2000/2001 survey covered around 30,000 km of the banks of rivers, lakes and artificial reservoirs, and a uniform methodology was used (see the Biodiversity Conservation Centre website http://www.biodiversity.ru/eng/programs/desman/results.html for further details). In Ukraine the desman is currently very rare and in Belarus it has recently been extirpated.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|A riparian species, it is found in holes primarily along oxbow lakes, less frequently by rivers and ponds. It does not inhabit all water bodies within its range; it has quite strict habitat requirements and prefers water bodies with rich water-marsh vegetation, bushes and primary forests along the banks. Prefers lakes with 1-2 m depth with rich invertebrate fauna. Also found in small rivers with slow flow. In favourable years it is able to reproduce during the whole year, but usually has two reproduction peaks at the end of spring and autumn. Males participate in care of young. Omnivorous, recorded feeding on at least 72 species of water invertebrates and 30 plant species, as well as fish and amphibians.
|Terrestrial; Freshwater
|Major Threat(s):
The main threat to the Russian desman at present is the widespread use of fixed fishing nets. These nets, which are used by poachers, have become increasingly cheap and widely available in recent years: a recent study recorded 50 'outlets' freely selling these nets on the Moscow-Vladimir section of the Nizhny Novgorod highway alone (http://www.biodiversity.ru/eng/programs/desman/results.html). The very low price and high durability of modern nets means that poachers often leave them in the water for days or even months, checking them only occasionally and often abandoning them. A desman dies on average within 5-10 minutes when trapped in a net.
The second most important threat is the use of 'electric landing nets' (or electric rods), which use an electric current to stun fish. These items of equipment, also used by poachers, have become widespread over the last 10-15 years. They are not believed to directly harm desmans, as a general rule, but they almost totally wipe out the fish and aquatic invertebrates that the desman depends upon.
A third major threat is habitat loss and degradation. During the second half of the twentieth century water pollution, creation of impoundments, drainage, clearance of riparian vegetation, and uncontrolled agricultural exploitation of flood plains became widespread and contributed to the decline in the species' population. However, this process has abated somewhat in the last decade, and its influence on the decline in the Russian desman population is today secondary. Competition for breeding sites with introduced nutria (Myocastor coypus) and muskrats (Ondatra zibethicus) may also be a threat.
|Conservation Actions:
The desman is listed in the Russian Red Data Book (under category 2: declining in number rare relict species). It is protected in the buffer zone of Okskiy, Voronezhskiy, Kaluzhskie Zaseki Zapovednik, and Ugra National Parks and several small protected areas. This species has been the subject of re-introductions attempts. Recently, conservationists tried to reintroduce it to the Desna basin, in the area of Bryanskiy Les Zapodnenik. The Biodiversity Conservation Centre has started a public campaign against nylon nets and electro-fishing.
Conservation measures recommended to stabilize and improve the condition of the Russian desman throughout its range include the following:
· Banning the unrestricted sale of nets and net-making materials;
· Developing a system of measures to combat electric landing nets; and
· Setting up specialized hunting reserves in the desman's key areas of habitation.
|Tsytsulina, K., Formozov, N., Sheftel, B. & Zagorodnyuk, I. 2008. Desmana moschata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T6506A12785607. . Downloaded on 28 August 2016.
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A Nobel Prize-winning economist and champion of capitalism, the late Milton Friedman advocated choice and competition in a free market system.
That philosophy extended to public education, with Friedman proposing the adoption of a voucher system that would allow parents to "spend" their children's educational dollars at the school of their choice.
Kansas Citians can celebrate what would have been Friedman's 100th birthday as education reformer Virginia Walden-Ford discusses the movement for school choice on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, at 6:30 p.m. at the Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St.
Walden-Ford is uniquely qualified to address the issue. A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, she was raised by public school educators (her father was the first black assistant superintendent of the Little Rock School District) and she and her twin sister were among the 130 African American students handpicked in the mid-1960s to further desegregate the city's high schools, an effort that began in 1957 with the confrontation between black students and Gov. Orval Faubus on the school house steps.
She is a founding member of the Black Alliance for Educational Options, Inc., and received the group's 2004 Vision Award. She serves on the board of the Booker T. Washington Public Charter School and as executive director of D.C. Parents for School Choice.
Walden-Ford is a visiting fellow in domestic policy studies at the Heritage Foundation, a think tank with the mission of formulating and promoting conservative public policies. The winner of the Heritage Foundation's 2004 Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship, she is the author of Voices, Choices, and Second Chances: How to Win the Battle to Bring Opportunity Scholarships to Your State.
This event is co-sponsored by The Foundation for Educational Choice, the Kansas Policy Institute, and the Show-Me Institute.
Admission is free. The event will be preceded by a 6 p.m. reception. RSVP online [1] or call 816.701.3407.
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Today: A report from The Information contends eBay is telling some PayPal job candidates that he company may be spun off, pushing stock higher. Also: Earnings reports from Silicon Valley software companies Salesforce and Intuit.
The Lead: eBay now considering spinning off PayPal, report says
Just a few months after fending off activist investor Carl Icahn's aggressive call to spin off PayPal, eBay is bringing up the idea in interviews with candidates for the top job at its payments company, according to a Thursday report.
Two unnamed sources told subscription news website The Information that eBay is suggesting PayPal could become an independent entity within a year while trying to replace David Marcus at the helm of its payments arm. The report juiced eBay's stock Thursday, sending it 4.7 percent higher to $55.89.
PayPal, which eBay acquired for $1.5 billion in 2002, is the fastest growing segment of eBay's business and could soon account for half of the San Jose e-commerce giant's revenues.
Icahn launched a campaign to have the company spin off its online-payments business in January, and reportedly bought up more than $1 billion in eBay stock while publicly attacking CEO John Donahoe and board members such as venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.
After nearly three months of acrimonious public exchanges between eBay and Icahn, the two sides settled their differences, with eBay nominating an Icahn-approved board member and Icahn agreeing to drop his proposal to split off PayPal.
Even at that time, however, not everyone believed the issue had been put to rest.
"Just because Carl Icahn struck this agreement doesn't mean the issue won't continue and someone else won't carry the mantle," S&P Capital IQ analyst Scott Kessler told this newspaper at the time. "The situation is not completely over."
In a Thursday statement, eBay did not categorically deny interest in a PayPal spinoff, which it had previously described as "not a good idea" in sparring with Icahn.
"The board will continue to assess all alternatives to create that long term (shareholder) value and to enhance the growth and competitive positions of both eBay and PayPal," spokeswoman Amanda Miller said in an email. "This position has not changed."
If eBay were to spin off PayPal, it would not be the first time a Silicon Valley company has fended off the investor's demands only to later follow the suggested path: After Apple denied Icahn's calls for greater investor return of cash, it increased its share repurchases beyond already-record levels earlier this year.
PayPal has been undergoing a transformation in the past year, including the $800 million acquisition of Braintree, which facilitates payments for other companies and came with consumer-facing payments offering Venmo. That acquisition helped fuel a new service introduced this week that allows one-touch payments from mobile applications, which eBay hopes will boost PayPal's adoption by small businesses.
PayPal's leadership changes have not been as positive. Marcus, who was president of PayPal, left for a job at Facebook in June, just a month after the company's new director of strategy, Rakesh "Rocky" Agrawal, departed and subsequently went on a days-long Twitter rant that targeted other executives.
Overall, eBay is the seventh-largest technology company in Silicon Valley in terms of revenues, racking up sales of $16.05 billion in 2013. PayPal accounted for $6.1 billion of those revenues, which would have made it the 16th largest valley tech firm on its own, ahead of such stalwarts as Yahoo and Adobe. In the first half of 2014, PayPal brought in $3.79 billion in revenues, 43.9 percent of eBay's total.
SV150 market report: Salesforce, Intuit release earnings reports
eBay's gains helped Silicon Valley tech stocks outpace a small advance from the larger market, but shares in two large Bay Area software companies headed in opposite directions following their earnings reports Thursday afternoon.
Cloud-software pioneer Salesforce again showed off booming revenues and big losses, and satisfied investors by increasing its projected sales total for the entire year. The San Francisco company revealed a net loss of $61.1 million, or 10 cents a share, on revenues of $1.3 billion, falling from rare profits in the same period a year ago but increasing sales 37.8 percent. Shares gained to near $56 in late trading after closing with a 0.6 percent increase at $55.71. Intuit headed the opposite way after the Santa Clara software company reported a wide net loss as it looks to switch to the cloud platform Salesforce has helped to popularize. Intuit reported a loss of $73 million, or 14 cents a share, on sales of $714 million, and predicted that it will see revenues decline in the just-begun fiscal year due to its cloud transition. Intuit stock fell to less than $85 in after-hours action after closing with a 0.6 percent advance at $85.81.
Hewlett-Packard enjoyed a healthy bump after its earnings report Wednesday afternoon showed the Palo Alto tech giant's first year-over-year revenue gain in nearly three years, rising 5.4 percent to $37. Apple established a record closing high for a third consecutive day, but not by much: The Cupertino company gained a whole penny to $100.58. Facebook declined 0.3 percent to $74.57 while a class-action lawsuit in Europe grew, and LinkedIn increased 0.6 percent to $219.20 before news leaked Thursday afternoon that an important executive is leaving the company.
Up: HP, eBay, Intel, Gilead, Applied Materials, Adobe
Down: Zynga, GoPro, SunPower, VMware, Nvidia, AMD
The SV150 index of Silicon Valley's largest tech companies: Up 10.29, or 0.64 percent, to 1,609.37
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Up 5.62, or 0.12 percent, to 4,532.1
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Up 60.36, or 0.36 percent, to 17,039.49
And the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index: Up 5.86, or 0.29 percent, to 1,992.37
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25 years ago
Marietta officials backed a $5 increase for license tags. The hope is that the increase will allow for more street repairs.
Carl Clovis agreed to sell his radio stations, WEYQ-FM and WBRJ-FM, to Virginia-based Tschudy Communications Corp. for $2.3 million.
Compiled by Amanda Nicholson, Marietta College Special Collections.