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Town of Cedarburg officials knowingly violated the state open meetings law by attending 27 secret sessions this year, City of Cedarburg Attorney Kaye Vance says in a complaint filed Thursday with Ozaukee County District Attorney Adam Gerol.
The complaint follows on the heels of a town decision in October to end more than a decade of sharing costs of library, recreation and senior services with the city.
The increasingly bitter rift between the neighboring communities appears to threaten progress on the town's long-sought goal of a cooperative boundary plan with the city, since there have been no further talks.
The closed-door meetings were held to discuss possible lawsuits or negotiations on specific issues - shared services and future use of the former Prochnow landfill - involving the city, according to Vance.
A public relations consultant sat in on at least four of the closed-door meetings, raising the question of why town board members needed to meet privately with legal counsel if someone else was allowed to sit in on the discussion, Vance said.
The town's public relations consultants are Lynne Broydrick and Bob Reddin of The Lynne Broydrick Group. Reddin also is a Brookfield alderman.
The complaint cites a 2007 state Appeals Court ruling that 10 closed-door meetings on the same set of subjects would be an excessive number.
"Bargaining does not require so many secret meetings," Vance said.
Cedarburg Mayor Greg Myers signed the complaint against the town. Myers is asking Gerol to investigate the allegations and order Town Chairman David Valentine and each of four town board supervisors to pay fines of up to $300 for each violation of the Wisconsin Open Meetings Law.
Town Administrator Jim Culotta said Thursday that he would not comment because he had not seen a copy of the complaint. Valentine didn't want to comment either, except to say that not all of the closed meetings dealt with city issues.
"They're paranoid," he said of city officials, adding that he didn't believe the town violated open meetings laws.
The complaint is based on town documents released to the city in response to several public records requests, Vance said.
"If the town supervisors' deliberate and repeated actions are left unchecked, it will severely undermine the Open Meetings law," the complaint says.
One alleged violation occurred on the printed agenda for a July 1 Town Board meeting, according to Vance. The agenda listed only tax parcel numbers of properties that the town intended to gain control of through eminent domain.
The agenda did not identify the parcels as the former Prochnow landfill, so it did not provide adequate public notice of the subject of discussion, the complaint says.
Consequently, the agenda did not comply with the law, and the town board's unanimous support that night for the eminent domain process could be voided, according to Vance. The city and town are among co-owners of the property that the town wants to include in a proposed 95-acre sports and recreation complex.
Before the meeting, there might have been an illegal series of one-on-one discussions between Culotta and individual supervisors regarding their support for using eminent domain, Vance said. A series of such discussions involving less than a quorum of a government body is known as a walking quorum and violates state law.
There is no other explanation for a news release, drafted at least 10 days before the meeting, which includes a reference to a 5-0 vote of the board, she said. She listened to a tape of the meeting and there was no discussion of the issue that night. The board simply voted to approve a motion in support of eminent domain, Vance said.
City officials also have said they were surprised by a town board decision in October to end more than a decade of sharing costs of library, recreation and senior programs.
The town had not posted any meeting agendas in the two week period between receiving a city offer on shared services and notifying the city on Oct. 19 that the town did not accept the offer, Vance said.
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Her rare blood cancer would give Geraldine Ferraro five years tops, doctors said in 1998. But here it was, February of Year 13, and she and her best pals were gathered at her New York home. "It wasn't goodbye, but a good girlie-girl afternoon, trading stories and joking," U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski recalls. "Her wit and grit carried her through, even in these last days."
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The Latino junior middleweight champion of the World Boxing Organization (WBO), Javier "La Bestia" Maciel, is very satisfied after his convincing win over Puerto Rican puncher Jorge "Destroyer" Melendez to win the USNBC 154-pound title of the World Boxing Council (WBC), which took place last Saturday on the Cotto-Martinez undercard from Madison Square Garden in New York.
Maciel (29-3, 20 KOs), current ranked No. 15-ranked by the WBO, says he inked a promotional agreement with Top Rank, who co-promoted Saturday's card. Maciel took the fight with Melendez on two weeks notice and bounced back after losing a decision to Brian Rose last October in Sheffield, England.
"I'm very happy. I think we put on a very good fight and it was a great victory, the best of my career. Beyond the short time I had to prepare, I had been training after my last fight and had to accelerate to get everything right. But a great group and a great team, who gave me everything I needed to take the victory," Maciel said.
"That Sunday [my manager] met with Top Rank and they wanted me to do two fights with them in America. First one would be in September, and if all goes well, we would return for something big, which is what we are hoping for, in December."
[QUOTE=Dean_Razorback;14654738]maciel reminded me a lot to chino, the pre garcia chino. i hope he gets better, he took the fight with only 2 weeks notice and still made a great fight[/QUOTE] hi reminds me too but he is way more…Comment by puga on 06-11-2014
Argentines and overhands = bread and butter....good fighter, lil work on stamina thoComment by Dean_Razorback on 06-11-2014
[QUOTE=Nicolino;14654723]awesome news, Maciel looked a lot better than last time against Rose, yet it was a close fight.[/QUOTE] maciel reminded me a lot to chino, the pre garcia chino. i hope he gets better, he took the fight with only…Comment by Nicolino on 06-11-2014
awesome news, Maciel looked a lot better than last time against Rose, yet it was a close fight.Comment by artfuL_ on 06-11-2014
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kids sent home because they were wearing American flag t-shirts on Vinci de mayo.
And now for the other side of the story.
Los Angeles, Alta California - May 7, 2010 - (ACN) The anti-Mexican bigotry and racism that has taken root in the state of Arizona has now spilled over into Northern California. A very ugly racial incident occurred during a Cinco de Mayo event at Live Oak High School in the small town of Morgan Hill located just southeast of San Jose. It appears that a group of bigoted White students in cahoots with some racist community members conspired to disrupt the Cinco de Mayo celebration at the school on Wednesday. The festive celebration was being held as a cultural awareness event on behalf of the general student population.
The event included festive Mexican decorations and a professional folklorico dance group but unfortunately it also included White racist teachers confiscating Mexican flags from the students. Mexican-American student Laura Ponce, a freshman, reported that a White school administrator had taken away the Mexican flag she was carrying as she was waiting to go home. Laura Ponce also reported that some White football jocks were yelling, "Mexico sucks!" Other Mexican-American students also reported that their flags were taken away.
When Mexican-American students complained to administrators that a group of football jocks wearing US flag bandanas and t-shirts were being disrespectful, Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez took steps to disarm a potentially explosive situation. It was apparent that the ill-mannered football jocks were instigating trouble. Both the assistant principal and the principal told the jocks that they should turn their t-shirts inside-out or be sent home.
A parent of two Mexican-American students, Teresa Casillas, said the American-flag wearing jocks were yelling "We live in America!" at the brunch break. She said her children were upset by their behavior at school, calling it disrespectful. "We're all offended by it," Casillas said. She said parents of all ethnicities she spoke with felt that way. "Morgan Hill is too small of a community to start any racial wars. This is just bringing it out a little bit more."
Yesterday, approximately 200 Mexican-American students walked out of school to march across town to the school district's headquarters. The students were yelling in unison, "We want respect!" and "Si se puede!" The Mexican-American students felt the White jocks were being disrespectful on the only day they celebrate their heritage. The student march was followed by pretty much the entire predominantly White police force of Morgan Hill.
Unfortunately, District Superintendent Wesley Smith and Assistant Superintendent Jay Totter, both who are White, are siding with the jocks and their parents against Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez who is Mexican-American. The 7 member Board of Education is also all White. Today, a group of Morgan Hill Tea-Baggers were demanding that the school district fire Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez, one of a very few professional educators in the district available to assure the protection of Mexican-American students from bias, discrimination, racism and bigotry that exists in the Morgan Hill community. The entire Mexican-American community of California should keep a very close eye on this developing situation
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(See Part 1 and Part 2 for the previous posts in this series.)
Disclaimer: The following post contains spoilers for Mass Effect's plot. If you wish to experience the game spoiler-free, then read at your own risk.
I've mentioned before that I love choice in video games. After years of playing fairly linear games, I was in pure awe when I was introduced to the fact that you can indeed choose your path in some games. Even in games like Final Fantasy VII, where the choices have little to no impact on the story, I still enjoyed seeing what happened if I bought the flower girl's flower or if I told her to run away. This element of choice is one of the reasons I love Bioware games so much. In addition to providing a rich story, Bioware games also give the player multiple ways to experience that story, and I personally love watching the story unfold differently depending on my actions. But all of this is old hat. I already gushed about my love of choice in my last post. Today's post is about something different.
Ever come across a choice in a game where you find you couldn't choose what you wanted because the game wouldn't let you? Yeah, so have I. I touched on this briefly in my last post when I lamented the fact that I couldn't choose to side with the enemy in Mass Effect, but at the same time I did throw out the caveat that Bioware can't give the player every option, especially when designing a trilogy of games that carry over decisions in past titles. That being said, there is still a major choice in the game that I'm pretty unhappy about, and that's what I would like to discuss today. The choice I'm talking about is the Rachni Queen decision on Noveria.
At several points during Mass Effect, a significant choice is presented. Some of these are more clearly defined along the lines of paragon and renegade, and a few of them are more morally ambiguous, including the Kaidan/Ashley choice, which is about as non-black-and-white as you can get. The Rachni Queen choice falls more in the former category. A quick refresher on exactly what happens: You fight your way through a malfunctioning laboratory in order to reach Noveria's boss. Along the way, you're constantly assaulted by giant, deadly insects known as Rachni. Apparently, the Rachni nearly wiped out civilization a few millennia ago before being brought to brink of extinction themselves. These new Rachni don't look any friendlier than their ancestors. After you dispatch the boss, you come across the Rachni Queen's cage. Communicating through a nearly dead Asari, the queen informs you that the Rachni are not mindless attack animals, as you may have been led to believe, but an intelligent species that has a very different understanding of life than humans or the other Citadel races have. The Rachni Queen states that she simply wishes to escape and restart the Rachni race, and she and her descendants will not attack the other races as their ancestors did. You are then presented with your major choice: either use the acid in the queen's cage to kill her, or release her so she can continue her species.
On my first playthrough, the choice was pretty obvious. I was a diehard Paragon, and so with little hesitation I released the queen into the wild. On the my second playthrough as a more neutral Shepard I decided that I would go against my original decision and kill the queen. This is where my issues with the decision began.
There are three options available when deciding the queen's fate. The top-right paragon option, which is to let her go, and the bottom-right renegade option, which is kill her, are pretty easy to understand. However, the neutral choice seems to be the exact same as the paragon one. While I guess this makes sense, I don't really like how the game makes you out to be a horrible, horrible person if you even think of killing that Rachni Queen. I mean, she does belong to a species of insects that attacked all civilization, right? On the other hand, I can see that choosing to essentially wipe out an intelligent species (committing genocide in the process, as some of my companions will helpfully remind me) is not really justifiable as a more paragon action. Having it be a renegade choice makes sense, then. I still don't like how the game asks me again after making my decision to kill the queen if I want to do it. It's like the game is shocked that I'm taking the renegade path and wants to make sure I'm not just losing my mind for a second (it also gives Kaidan the convenient chance to again helpfully remind me that I'm committing genocide). Even if I decide that I want to save the queen after initially choosing to kill her, the game still gives me a large paragon point bonus. I wish there were a more neutral path one could take with the decision. My next question, then (and this is my biggest peeve): why not give the player a third option of leaving it to the council?
Whatever companions are with the player at the time of the decision will chip in with their opinions. The more paragon ones will advise against killing the queen, while the more aggressive ones (like Wrex or Ashley) suggest killing it. However, I know for a fact that Garrus will suggest leaving the decision to the Council, and Kaidan will say the same thing if you talk to him after the mission on the Normandy (though he conveniently didn't mention that while I was making the decision, that jerk). Why can't the player let the council decide about the queen and leave it at that? The council will get mad no matter what I decide (giving me KOTOR 2/Kreia flashbacks), and it seems like the perfect neutral option. I guess the counter argument would be that Shepard doesn't have time to let the council decide (and the queen may try to stop him from leaving it the council, like she does if you decide to kill her). Still, if you aren't going to let me decide to leave it to the Council, then why would you have Garrus tell me to do so? That just doesn't seem to make sense to me.
Note, of course, that I haven't chosen the neutral option in this situation, so maybe I'm wrong and the game does let you let the Council decide. However, the neutral option reads "I'll free you," so I doubt it. Also, this is purely my opinion, and I'm sure there are others who disagree, and I'm sure there are effective counter-arguments that can be made to my points (I even mentioned a few in this post). Before I go, though, I'd like to talk about a couple other choices I had thoughts on.
While I think the decision to either save the Council or let them die is handled well and one of my favorite parts of the game, I wish that there were more consequences if one chooses the paragon path and does indeed save the Council. One of the main objections that my party members will raise is that saving the Council will result in the additional loss of human lives. However, this isn't seen at all in the first game's ending, as the battle with Sovereign seems to go exactly the same no matter what is chosen, and no additional mention of humans dying is really felt (though the Council will mention humans' sacrifice during the attack). Maybe the consequences of this will be felt in the sequel, but I think that Bioware could have made choosing the Paragon route have real consequences. Of course, the choice is compelling enough without the additional consequence (do you save the Council that has been holding humanity back, or do you let them die so humanity can get ahead, in effect upsetting galactic order?). I think I'm just a proponent of giving people consequences for their actions no matter what path they choose. Mass Effect does do this, but the "save the Council" decision is a point in the game where I felt it could have been done more.
On my final subject, I have to say I like the essential non-choice the game gives the player at the end when it asks him or her to nominate either Captain Anderson or Ambassador Udina to the Council as humanity's representative. Let's see, you have the choice between your mentor who has done nothing but support you throughout the entire story, or the guy who always argues with the council, always gets mad at you no matter what you do, and always has that annoying frown on his face. Seriously? That's a choice? I mean, is there anyone who honestly chose Ambassador Udina? I mean, maybe if I thought Captain Anderson shouldn't be mired up in politics, I might choose Udina, but still, Udina really has nothing going for him, in my opinion. I do like how you can just not choose and let the Council decide for themselves (and, again, why wasn't this an option on Noveria?), which is what I did my second playthrough. I plan to choose Udina on my third, Renegade playthrough just for kicks, but still... why would you choose him? Again, this is my personal opinion, but I just can't see anyone honestly choosing this guy because they like him.
That's it for Part 3. My apologies for the late posting (though I think it should technically still be Friday where I am when I post this), though considering how many views the first two parts got, I don't think a huge amount of people will be disappointed. ; ) In Part 4, I'll voice my opinions about the game's six party members. See you on Monday, if all goes well. God bless!


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While exploring the streets out in front of the restaurant, the sewers beneath it, the city's bustling marketplace, and the inside of the kitchen, you collect the hundreds of stars spread around the world as you complete each of your mission objectives, which usually involve an elaborate scheme to steal food from the humans. When jumping from ropes to poles, Remy can "stick" to the intended destination when above it. It cheapens the platforming a bit, as the area of precision is quite forgiving, so even if you're off the mark Remy will spin and pull into the rope or pot top, but it makes the precarious jumps kid-friendly. This makes the unforgiving slide sections at the end of each mission -- where Remy flies down sewer pipes at increasing speeds, trying to collect stars and jump holes without falling off -- all the more frustrating by comparison. And this is one of the few times that dying causes you to start the entire course from the beginning.
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You have to play through a specific minigame in the story mode before you can buy it in the shop, but with the point system, you can pick and choose which ones you want to have access to. This feels a bit like charging you for something that should be free and automatically available, but you can essentially save points and skip the minigames you don't like. With any extra points, you can buy cheats that range from killing all enemies in Remy's vicinity to making him fart each time he jumps. These are fairly expensive, though, so while you'll be able to unlock just about all the minigame and multiplayer modes through normal play, you'll have to go out of your way to obtain bonuses to unlock the cheats.
It's admittedly fun to go around collecting shiny things, but stars aren't the only items for you to find. Each area has an extra set of items, such as darts or bottles of dishwashing detergent, which you can collect. These items are especially compelling to search for, as they're usually spread far and wide around the level, and once collected, they spruce up your sewer home -- the darts set up a board for the rats to play and the detergent causes bubbles to float out of the center pipe. Collecting stars and items gives you a greater sense of purpose for Remy's existence, and it's really all that is holding this game together. All in all, while Ratatouille has its enjoyable moments, the main missions leave you feeling a bit hungry for something meatier, while the tasks like slides or races spoil your appetite.
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text: Marcio Feitosa, one of the biggest names in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, is a black belt under Carlos Gracie Junior, being also his master's right hand man in relation to Gracie Barra's affairs. A true ambassador of sport, Marcio Feitosa conquered the World Jiu Jitsu Championship on multiple occasions as well as the ADCC (Abu Dhabi Combat Club), the world's most prestigious Submission Wrestling event. When Gracie Barra moved its headquarters to the United States, Marcio Feitosa did the same, being made the international team's main coach and front man. Marcio Feitosa Jiu Jitsu Full Name: Marcio Feitosa Nickname: n/a Lineage: Mitsuyo Maeda > Carlos Gracie Sr. > Helio Gracie > Carlos Gracie Junior > Marcio Feitosa Main Competitive Achievements: World Champion (1997, 2001, 2002) ADCC Champion (2001) ADCC Brazilian Trials Winner (1999, 2000) Pan American Champion (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999) Brazilian National Champion (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999) World Silver Medallist (2006, 2003, 2000, 1999, 1998) Weigh Division: Peso Leve – Lightweight (76kg/167lbs) Team/Association: Gracie Barra Marcio Feitosa's Biography Marcio Feitosa was born on the 16th of May 1976 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was raised within an upper class family environment in Barra da Tijuca, one of the best burgs in Rio de Janeiro, but unfortunately his father abandoned the family leaving Marcio and his brother in charge of the household at the age of 12. Marcio trained extensively at the Gracie Barra academy from a very young age, and when he reached 15, his master Carlos Gracie Junior invited him to be an assistant coach at the gym. This allowed Feitosa to help his mother putting some much needed money towards the bills. Feitosa's hard training ethics paid off and by the age of 19 he received his black belt, just two years after this, he wrote his name in BJJ history by winning the first Pan American BJJ games and the Brazilian Nationals. Feitosa would go on to win the Mundials the next year and become one of the strongest competitors of his generation winning against legendary fighters such as Leonardo Vieira and Vitor Ribeiro. Marcio Feitosa is also one of the most famous Jiu Jitsu fighters among the Brazilian Jet Set media for his long term relationship with TV actress Taís Araújo. Marcio Feitosa Grappling Record 32 WINS BY POINTS 23 (72%) BY ADVANTAGES 4 (13%) BY SUBMISSION 3 (9%) BY DECISION 1 (3%) BY PENALTIES 1 (3%) BY DQ 0 (0%) 3 SUBMISSIONS WINS #214eb8 Armbar 67 2 #86e620 Ezekiel 33 1 3 (100%) SUBMISSIONS 10 LOSSES BY POINTS 4 (40%) BY ADVANTAGES 4 (40%) BY SUBMISSION 1 (10%) BY DECISION 0 (0%) BY PENALTIES 1 (10%) BY DQ 0 (0%) 1 SUBMISSION LOSSES #214eb8 Guillotine 100 1 1 (100%) SUBMISSION Marcio Feitosa Fight History ID Opponent W/L Method Competition Weight Stage Year 217Leonardo VieiraLeonardo VieiraLAdvWorld Champ.76KGF1998275Vitor ShaolinVitor ShaolinLPts: 2x2, AdvWorld Champ.76KGF1999365Leonardo VieiraLeonardo VieiraLN/ALPJJ75KGF2000381Vitor ShaolinVitor ShaolinLPenWorld Champ.76KGF2000415Renzo GracieRenzo GracieLGuillotineADCC77KGSF2000763Pablo PopovitchPablo PopovitchLPointsADCC77KGR12003867Daniel MoraesDaniel MoraesLAdvWorld Champ.76KGF20031097Reinaldo RibeiroReinaldo RibeiroLPts: 0x0, AdvGP Blackbelt70KG1/4F20041137Rany YahyaRany YahyaLN/AADCC66KGSF20051378Rubens CharlesRubens CharlesLPts: 8x0World Champ.70KGF200671Bob BassWPts: 2x0Pan American76KG1/4F199672Cleber LucianoWPts: 4x2Pan American76KGSF199674Renato BarretoRenato BarretoWPointsPan American76KGF1996111Leonardo VieiraLeonardo VieiraWAdvWorld Champ.76KGF1997130Royler GracieRoyler GracieWPts: 2x0Copa PeleN/ASPF1997203Andre MarolaWPts: 5x0Team Nationals76KGF1998244Royler GracieRoyler GracieWPts: 4x2Oscar de JJ74KGSPF1998264Wender BragaWPointsPan American76KGF1999380Leonardo SantosLeonardo SantosWAdvWorld Champ.76KGSF2000407Caol UnoWPts: 2x0ADCC77KGR12000413Carlos MachadoCarlos MachadoWPts: 2x0ADCC77KG1/4F2000418Leonardo VieiraLeonardo VieiraWAdvADCC77KG3PLC2000496Peter AngererWArmbarADCC77KGR12001503F. VasconcelosWPointsADCC77KG1/4F2001504Rodrigo GracieWPointsADCC77KGSF2001506Matt SerraMatt SerraWPenADCC77KGF2001578YamashiraWPts: 16x0World Champ.76KG1/4F2001579Leonardo SantosLeonardo SantosWAdvWorld Champ.76KGF2001610Daniel MoraesDaniel MoraesWPointsArnold Classic73KGF2001649Crezio SouzaCrezio SouzaWEzekielWorld Champ.76KGR12002650Rafael BarbosaRafael BarbosaWPts: 5x0World Champ.76KG1/4F2002652Marcelo PupoWReferee DecisionWorld Champ.76KGF2002861A. CandidoWPts: 12x0World Champ.76KGR12003863A. BrittesWArmbarWorld Champ.76KG1/4F2003865Marcos PachecoWPts: 11x8World Champ.76KGSF2003885Sean WilliamsWPts: 6x0Brazil vs USA76KGSPF20031093UnknownWPointsGP Blackbelt70KGR120041132Urija FaberWPointsADCC66KGR120051373Antonio Jr.WPts: 8x0World Champ.70KG1/4F20061377Reinaldo RibeiroReinaldo RibeiroWPts: 2x0World Champ.70KGSF20061746Wilson ReisWilson ReisWPts: 6x2NoGi Pan Am.76KG1/4F20071748Lucas LeiteLucas LeiteWPts: 2x0NoGi Pan Am.76KGF2007 Marcio Feitosa vs Urijah Faber This post is also available in: Portuguese (Brazil)


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When the fight starts, use your Voidwalker on his mace and then on the ground. When he brings it around jump through and attack his soft spot. He will fling you off and fall down, so attack away. When he gets back up, he will summon smaller demons. As you fight them he will do a wide sweep attack. Don't bother trying to put a portal on his mace because it will go away when he gets ready to do his attack. He may also do a smash attack, but you will see his hand raise, so you can dodge it. Just keep repeating this pattern and he will die.
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Minnelli, 66, has had physical difficulties in recent years, undergoing two hip replacements and a knee replacement. Several months ago, she canceled a TV appearance because of a broken ankle.
A performance she gave Aug. 11 at the Hollywood Bowl began substantially late, a glitch that shortened the show and was attributed to technical difficulties. The Los Angeles Times reported that Minnelli joked about her condition, saying she belonged equally to Dorothy and the Tin Man.
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The New York Yankees made qualifying offers to three of their free agents by Friday's 5 p.m. ET deadline: closer Rafael Soriano, starting pitcher Hiroki Kuroda and right-fielder Nick Swisher.
Of the three, only Kuroda is likely to accept the $13.3 million offer stipulated by the new collective bargaining agreement adopted by the players and the league last year. Soriano and Swisher are seeking long-term deals.
On Wednesday, Soriano notified the Yankees he would opt out of the final year of the three-year, $35 million contract he signed before the 2011 season, which would have paid him $14 million for 2013. Instead, he will take a $1.5 million buyout from the club and seek to parlay his outstanding 2012 season, in which he converted 42 of 46 save opportunities while substituting for Mariano Rivera, who suffered a season-ending knee injury on May 3.
According to the Yankees, Soriano and his agent, Scott Boras, are seeking a closer's job and a four-year deal in the neighborhood of $60 million, which would make him along with Rivera the highest paid relief pitcher in the game. Rivera, who was paid $15 million for 2012, is also a free agent.
Although Rivera recently told the Yankees he was considering retirement -- he will turn 43 this month -- the team believes there is a good chance he will return in 2013 and reassume his closing duties, making Soriano a luxury the club could not afford. Neither Yankees GM Brian Cashman nor Rivera's agent, Fern Cuza, returned calls seeking comment Friday afternoon.
Earlier in the season, Swisher, who made $10.25 million last season, was said to be seeking "a Jayson Werth contract," referring to the outfielder who was given a seven-year, $126 million deal by the Washington Nationals in 2010.
Swisher batted .272 with 24 home runs and 93 RBIs for the Yankees in 2012, but like many of the team's regulars, he had a horrendous postseason, with five hits in 30 at-bats and 10 strikeouts in eight playoff games.
A Yankees team source told ESPNNewYork.com earlier in the week that Swisher did not fit into the team's plans going forward because of owner Hal Steinbrenner's decree that the payroll must be slashed to $189 million by 2014.
Under the terms of the new CBA, a team receives a compensatory "sandwich" draft pick, between the first and second rounds of the amateur draft, for every one of its free agents who rejects a qualifying offer. Assuming Soriano and Swisher sign with other clubs, the Yankees are in line to receive at least two picks, and maybe three, if Kuroda decides to go elsewhere.
Among the Yankees free agents who did not receive qualifying offers are pitcher Andy Pettitte, catcher Russell Martin, infielder Eric Chavez and outfielders Raul Ibanez, Ichiro Suzuki and Andruw Jones. All played for much less than $13.3 million in 2012. The Yankees are expected to make an offer to Pettitte, who earned $2.5 million last year, and to Martin, with whom they were discussing a multiyear contract worth about $6 million a year last spring.


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Woman Will Eat Dog Food on YouTube Every Day Until Animal Rights Law Passes
As a Miami Beach resident Nikki Moustaki has an almost endless array of great dining right outside her doorstep, and yet everyday she eats dog food and uploads the dining experience to YouTube. The host of a pet related show on The Beach Channel plans to eat dog food at least once a day every day until an Ohio animal cruelty law known as Nitro's Law is passed. I don't think we've ever heard of something quite so heart warming while at the same time utterly disgusting.
Moustaki splits her time between her native Miami and New York, and yet the law she's championing is in Ohio. The law was spurred after 12 starving and 7 dead dogs were discovered in High Caliber K-9, a boarding kennel in Youngstown, OH. The law is named after Nitro, a pet Rottwieler who died at the facility while his family had to attend to a sick relative out of state, and would increase animal cruelty to a fifth degree felony in Ohio punishable by up to a year in jail. Ohio is only one of nine states that doesn't count the first count of animal cruelty as a felony. The law was passed in the state's House of Representatives, but died in the Senate. Moustaki won't stop until it's law.
"This isn't just a local issue, it's a national issue," Moustaki said in a release. "This didn't happen in my home state, but as someone who speaks up for animals, I consider them all in my backyard. Animals don't vote, but their owners do. If this can happen in Ohio, it can happen anywhere, and it's important for people to be aware of the laws in their state."
Though, she's since started included dog food in other recipes like "Malemute Mac and Cheeze," and "Bocker's Bruchetta." We should note though that she is eating a gourmet brand of dog food, and not that cheap stuff you buy at the grocery store.
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Remaster Knoppix without Remastering
If you have used Knoppix for any extended period of time, chances are you eventually thought about customizing it. You might have simply wanted to make cosmetic changes with a new background and a different theme, or you might have wanted to add programs, change what happens at startup, or make any number of more-intensive changes. Well, you aren't alone. There are more than a hundred different Knoppix-based live CDs in existence. Some have changed only a few tools, and others have performed a complete overhaul of the programs, the themes and even the file structure.
If you had decided to change Knoppix, you quickly would become acquainted with some of the guides both on-line and in print about Knoppix remastering. At that point, some of you would have read the complicated set of steps and decided it just wasn't worth it. Knoppix fits all of its software within a compressed loopback filesystem on the disc. To remaster Knoppix, you must make a copy of the uncompressed contents of that filesystem, use chroot to access the copy as though it were the root filesystem, make any changes you want to make, and then re-create the new cloop filesystem and ISO image with a few gigantic commands on the command line.
Of course, I oversimplified and excluded a few steps there. Besides some of the more technical steps, I also left out that minor bug you undoubtedly introduced but didn't notice until you booted. That means you get to go through the remastering process (especially the time-consuming steps of creating a new cloop filesystem) all over again. I also left out the step where you notice that even though you made minor changes, your ISO inexplicably is much larger than it was before and won't fit on a CD, so back to the remastering process you go to free up more space.
The fact is, traditional Knoppix remastering is a time-consuming, error-prone, complex process full of trial and error, but there is a better way. There are a few different methods you can use to tweak the default Knoppix disc without using the remastering process. I like to refer to these methods as "remastering Knoppix without remastering", because the default Knoppix cloop filesystem stays the same throughout the entire process.
I first became interested in low-impact Knoppix tweaks when I had to create a custom CD to include with my book, Knoppix Hacks. I didn't want to do much—just change the default background and add a few links to the desktop. Although I could have remastered the CD, I was concerned about introducing bugs, even with minor changes. Imagine if I had discovered a bug after the CD was printed and shipped around the country with the book! I figured if I could tweak Knoppix but leave the compressed image alone, I would reduce the risk considerably.
Ever since my first attempt to remaster Knoppix without remastering, I've used these methods so much that I actually prefer them and find them superior to remastering for most people's needs. Not only is the process much quicker and less complex, it's also simpler to migrate your changes once the next version of Knoppix is released.
The first method you can use to change Knoppix involves a classic Knoppix tool called saveconfig. This tool creates and lets you choose a number of different files and settings from your user's configuration files, all of the files on the desktop, and network, graphics and other settings. saveconfig then creates a tarball called configs.tbz out of the files and stores it on a USB key, hard drive or other writeable media of your choice along with a custom knoppix.sh script.
To run saveconfig, click K→Knoppix→Configure→Save Knoppix Configuration or type saveconfig in a terminal. Then, you can choose which settings to save and to which hard drive to save them. The next time you boot your computer, type myconfig=/dev/sda1/ to point Knoppix to a particular saved config, or type myconfig=scan, and Knoppix will scan all available drives for you. At the end of the boot process, Knoppix will run the knoppix.sh script on the drive, which will extract the tarball and restore your settings.
For minor, mostly cosmetic changes, the standard saveconfig script might serve all your needs. Simply make your changes, and then tell saveconfig to back up your personal configuration. This is useful, but you might want to back up only a few files, or you might want to add files that saveconfig doesn't save by default. To do that, you can tweak either the configs.tbz or knoppix.sh file. First, run saveconfig to create a configs.tbz and knoppix.sh file. Then, uncompress the configs.tbz file:
$ bunzip2 configs.tbz
Now, use tar to add new files to the tarball:
$ tar -rpPf configs.tar /path/to/file
You also can use tar to delete files:
tar --delete -pPf configs.tar /path/to/file
Once you are finished with your changes, you can recompress the tarball:
$ BZIP2=-9 bzip2 configs.tar $ mv configs.tar.bz2 configs.tbz
Another way to tweak saveconfig (or even bypass it altogether) is to realize that when you tell Knoppix to use a particular saved configuration, all it really does is execute the knoppix.sh file, which is a standard shell script. That shell script contains the tar commands to extract the file. This means anything you put in the knoppix.sh file will be executed at the end of the boot process. What's more, if you create a new Knoppix disc and place the knoppix.sh in the KNOPPIX/ directory on the disc, it will be executed automatically every time Knoppix boots. So, if there's an extra program you'd like Knoppix to have, just track down the .deb file for it and any of its dependencies, and add them to the disc. Then, in the knoppix.sh script you can put:
dpkg -i /cdrom/*.deb
Knoppix will install all of those programs at the end of the boot process. If you want to run any other commands or start any services, you also could put them in this script.
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Hi Dear Kyle
Thanks for the info. Currently I'm using Knoppix version 6 and as it has switched to LXDE, the instruction for the creating persistent disk image, as you said by selecting from menu ... is not available.
I have two questions:
1) How can I create the disk imgae from the terminal ?
2) After creating a disk can I resize it ?
Thanks a lot.
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Just after intermission in playwright James DeVita's "A Midnight Cry," the minister (Mark Corkins) hiding a terrified Lida Anderson (Malkia Stampley) tells her that "you need to act like you been living free your whole life."
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A new documentary called "Pattern and Practice" about minority tavern owners in Racine who say they are unfairly targeted by city officials is slated to premiere on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Journal Times reports.
The film alleges the city's Public Safety and Licensing Committee repeatedly has used different standards when handling matters of minority-owned taverns compared to white-owned taverns and that a disproportionate number of minority owners have their licenses revoked, according to the Journal Times. »Read Full Article


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Are you preparing students for the emerging Creative Class or for a subscription to Consumption Class?
The Intel video below highlights how the Creative Class works, communicates, collaborates, and produces work projects across geographies and time zones. It is not fair to say all jobs will be like this in the future. However, it is fair to say that future high-wage, creative careers, that will not be automated by machines, will have these characteristics.
After you watch this short video, leave your thoughts and perspectives on education and the Creative Class in the comments section. Afterwards, I will write about how even the most innocuous decisions for technology in learning affirms or refutes whether or not we are preparing students for creative and innovative work.
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