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Minnesota man stops breathing in police custody, dies
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating the death of a 26-year-old man who stopped breathing while in Mankato police custody.
According to the Mankato Department of Public Safety, it happened on New Year's Day just after 4:30 a.m. in a grocery store parking lot. Authorities say Andrew Derek Layton of North Mankato was found passed out in the store's entryway. Police say they woke Layton up, and he became combative.
An ambulance took Layton to the Blue Earth County Jail. Once at the jail, authorities found Layton was not breathing and had no pulse. Lifesaving measures were taken and Layton was taken to a hospital.
KEYC-TV reports Layton died last Saturday. The Ramsey County medical examiner's office will perform an autopsy. Results are pending.
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SWING IN SWEDEN Tee them High and Let them Fly….
From the south right up to the north, Sweden is a golfer's playground. Unique courses provide excitement and challenge, stimulation and relaxing serenity. Nordic Driving tees are surrounded by thick pine forests, crystal lakes are edged by a sturdy rough. And wide-open fairways, occasionally cut by traps of sand, unfold onto emerald green putting greens.
In numbers of courses and golf clubs, Sweden is one of Europe's major golf countries. Swedish golf clubs are affiliated with the Swedish Golf Federation, but each individual club sets its own green fees and establishes the terms under which players have access to its course.
Golfing season varies a lot from one end of the country to another. In southernmost Sweden, golf is possible from March to November – but if weather permits, all year.The farther north you go, the later the courses open. In northernmost Sweden, the season runs from May to September/October. But on the other hand, the midnight sun up in the north permits golf around the clock from June to August. Bjorkliden Golf Course was build 1929 and its peak time was when the so called dollar trains started to roll in Sweden during the fiftieth. With Sami people as caddies and when the light of the midnight sun was flooding they hit a few shoots on the course, celebrated in champagne and returned to their trains to find more adventure.
Skåne is one of the least expensive and most efficient golfing paradise in Europe. Here you have about 60 courses within a 50 minute drive. From Malmo you can reach 30 courses, all within 30 minutes. Many clubs collaborate with hotels over golf packages and reduced green fees. You can combine golf in Skåne with a culinary trip around this southern part of the country and also visit one of the many castles located in this region. www.skane.com
To play on a course you must be member of a recognized golf club and have a handicap of at least 36.
Players must observe accepted etiquette regarding the care of the grounds and consideration of other players.
Golf is very good exercise – in Sweden we do not use golf carts as we do in USA.The carts might make money for the club but it really does not speed up the game as many might think.
In Sweden the length of the course is measures in meter while in the States (and England of course), the golf courses are in yards.
Read more about golf and wellness in Sweden: http://www.visitsweden.com/sweden/Attractions/Wellness-in-Sweden/Play-golf-in-Sweden/
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text: Linda and John Davidson's home on 1401 E. Bowie St. received the Beeville Garden Club's Yard of the Month Award for October. An arch of red honeysuckle and ponytail palms welcome visitors to a yard dressed for Halloween with jack-o'-lanterns surrounded by chrysanthemums. Fire bush, potato vines, hibiscus and Boston fern also enhance the yard's appeal. The back yard has several varieties of blooming plants, hanging plants and greenery such as candlestick, staghorn fern, blue sky vine and lantana.


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Survivors include her husband, Ramon Silvas of Refugio; four daughters, Minerva Canales, Beatrice Perez, Angie Zuniga and Elvira Borjas, all of Refugio; three sons, Raymond J. Silvas and Peter Silvas, both of Refugio and Michael Silvas of Woodsboro; a brother, Oscar Castellano of San Antonio; 22 grandchildren; and 28 great-grandchildren.
The rosary was recited at 7 p.m. Monday, June 24, at Moore Funeral Home Chapel. The funeral Mass was celebrated at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 25, at St. James Catholic Church in Refugio. Burial was in Holy Cross Cemetery.


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Ervin Santana and His Critics – Ervin Gets Backup
Francisco Rodriguez seems to be the latest Angels' Latin player to blow off the beat writers.
I was in Florida for Ervin Santana's last start Saturday night, but he seems to have done well enough that Matt Hurst of the Riverside Press-Enterprise sheathed his poison pen for the night.
Ervin's cold war with the press may have brought him new allies.
Ben Bolch of the Los Angeles Times reported that Francisco Rodriguez is the latest Angels' Latin pitcher to snap at the press. After reporters questioned him about his blown save Friday night, Rodriguez replied:
I'm not getting the job done," Rodriguez said. "That's all you guys want to hear. That's all I've got to say. Thank you."
Bolch reported that, "Rodriguez later appeared to soften, calling one reporter who regularly covers the team over to his clubhouse locker for a lengthy discussion."
Just who that reporter was remains unnamed, although Orange County Register sports columnist Mark Whicker published today a lengthy article about Rodriguez and his distant persona.
Register columnist Jeff Miller published an article today suggesting that Angels players are reluctant these days when interviewed by the press. Miller notes that the Latin players in particular tend to give interviews only through a translator, although most of them speak English just fine.
Meanwhile, MLB.com reports that Santana will go to the bullpen temporarily while Bartolo Colon gets the start Friday night at Chicago. Ervin's response came through "translator" Kelvim Escobar. "I'm going to be ready when they need me."
Media hubris aside, the Angels continue to cruise towards the playoffs, and I guess I should be the first one to suggest that Angels GM Bill Stoneman be voted Executive of the Year. But that'll have to wait until another column.
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"Ervin's cold war with the press may have brought him new allies."
Excellence in team sports favors group identity over individual desires. It means that a good teammate does not expose another teammate for the sake of a story. On the other hand, a good journalist is supposed to report the truth—the good, the bad and the ugly. These are roles with conflicting obligations. Which is why athletes occasionally get burned when they treat reporters as confidantes.
Regardless how much we might wish (or pretend) otherwise, we writers and fans are not Ervin's teammates. It means that beat-writer blogs claiming to be an "Insider's Look" are rarely more than oversold promises and wannabe ego. Either they're not telling everything they know, or more likely, not getting anything special.
Players are boring to interview? What has media presence got do with baseball? More to the point, the inability to tell an interesting story is a failing of our ATHLETES? Am I really supposed to care less about Jeff Mathis' ability to handle pitchers and more that his locker "looks like the aisle at the grocery store you try to avoid. … packages of Snickers and Oreos, boxes of 'Nilla Wafers and Little Debbie's Honey Buns…"?
I'm being a tad hyperbolic here. The last example was in fact a nice hook for the story—the high-caloric fuel for Jeff's iron-man schedule. Nonetheless, wouldn't it be wonderful if SPORTS reporters spent more time talking about the GAME, instead of the GOSSIP?
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RSBS Digest: Badass
I think that picture just about says it all. Catch flying bat in one hand, gyroscopically protect beer in other. There's a pretty good chance he impregnated the woman in front of him during the process, too, because when you're that badass, nothing can stop you.
You know what else is badass? Tigers. Sure, you can make all the jokes you want about the 2008 team that started off losing way too many games to the Royals or the 2003 team that lost 119 games. The fact of the matter is, Tigers are badass. You want proof? How about a tiger killing a lion. Yeah. You don't get much more badass than that.
Good journalism, though, means looking at both sides of an argument. I have presented you with my understanding of badass but it's hard to judge badassness unless you have seen its inverse as well. You know, something that is not badass. For instance, this:
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Even the description of the tiger event was badass…" leaving the animal dying in a pool of blood." Wow. The fact that they think the zoo is still safe for visitors despite having a tiger who can escape like Houdini and slay Lions is beyond badass…it is sheer stupidity. But the beer guy? Genius!
Tigers are badass. Got it. Great evidence. The Tigers are badass? Well, you have to admit, you really only cited evidence to the contrary by mentioning '03 and '08, the Tigers not being actual tigers and all. That photo? Yes, clearly much more "hey, you guys up for a beer?" than strictly badass. This blog however? Definitely badass, especially when the debate grows "heated".
You've inspired me to find a way to make the Mets badass rather than just assbad.
If this had been a podcast, the theme from "Shaft" would have been playing in the background. Some say "badass" is an attitude, a lifetime achievement. Maybe it is just a simple as stepping up to the moment, doing the right thing, plus saving that cold adult libation for your own lips.
Richard Roundtree and Samuel L Jackson both would be proud.
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Nikon D600 pictures and hands-onPocket-lint
The Nikon D600 crosses the two segments of Nikon's line of DSLR cameras: it's a pro spec full-frame camera, with some distinctly consumer features.
Launching at £1,955 - and without doubt some good deals will bring that price down after launch - it's priced within reach of the Nikon D800. But where that model still sits in the £2k+ bracket, we can't help feeling that this full-frame little brother will attract a lot of attention.
In the hands the Nikon D600 is reassuringly weighty. It's 760g without the battery, the lens you choose will quickly push this weight skywards, but it's more compact than both its bigger brothers. But it is Nikon's smallest and lightest full frame camera, ever.
That doesn't mean this is an entirely new, or compromised, model. Much of what we find in the Nikon D600 is an evolution of the components found in the D800 and D4 paired with those from the D7000.
However, the sensor is newly developed. The 24.3-megapixel CMOS sensor is full-frame, FX format, as Nikon calls it. This is backed by the EXPEED 3 image processor.
Nikon is assuring great performance under all lighting conditions and if it performs like the D4 and D800, then there's plenty to be excited about.
The Multi-CAM4800 autofocus system offers up to 39-points, like the D7000. In our test shots before the UK unveiling, we found the D600 to be fast and responsive. Focusing was impressively fast, although we had only a limited range of scenarios to test.
Equally, we weren't able to view any of our shots on the big screen, but previewing them on the 3.2-inch 921k-dot display on the rear, they looked impressive, as did the quality of that screen. The viewfinder is bright and detailed, with plenty of information on display to aid shooting without the need constantly to move your eye from the action.
There is a shoulder display that carries most shooting information, which offers rear illumination, but there is no illumination on the rear buttons as you'll find on higher pro Nikon models.
The biggest change from the pro models is the presence of a top mode dial that's very much consumer fare. It offers typical shooting modes, such as aperture and shutter priority, as well as things like Auto and Scene modes, and this, along with the general arrangement of controls, leaves the D600 feeling much closer to the D7000.
In our brief time with the camera we weren't able to test the shooting performance, or many of the features that this camera offers, so a definitive evaluation will have to wait for our Nikon D600 review, which will be along soon after launch.
However, it's clear that the Nikon D600 offers huge potential and we can't wait to put it through its paces.
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 ==About Chuck Ludlam==
 * Twice served as a Peace Corps Volunteer, Nepal (1968-70; Ag Extension) and with Paula in Senegal (2005-07; Agro-Forestry Extension).

 * Co-founder of Friends of Nepal and member of the Board of Directors, National Peace Corps Association.

 * Advisor to the Obama/Biden Transition Team for the Peace Corps.

 * In June 2008, after a five-year effort, secured enactment of Section 110 of H.R. 6081 (P.L. 110-245), which provides tax relief to Peace Corps Volunteers and staff on the sale of a personal residence, the first provision of the Dodd/Kennedy Peace Corps Volunteer Empowerment Act(S. 732) (PCVEA) to be enacted into law.

 * In July 2006, published the Peace Corps Medical Clearance Guidelines, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, on PeaceCorpsOnLine together with an explanation of the guidelines and detailed reform proposals. These proposed reforms were included in the Dodd/Kennedy PCVEA and largely incorporated in the March 2008 Final Program Evaluation Report: Peace Corps' Medical Clearance System (IG-08-08-E) of the Peace Corps Inspector General. Thus, much of this Dodd/Kennedy PCVEA provision is now being implemented.

 * In November 2005, persuaded the Office of Personnel Management to issue regulations eliminating the double payment of health insurance premiums by Federal government retirees who serve as Volunteers. The PCVEA presses the Peace Corps to extend this victory to retirees of state and local government and corporations.

 * Active in crafting National Service initiatives to strengthen and expand the Peace Corps and establish program to recruit and place 85,000 volunteers abroad as Prosperity Volunteers (S. 3487 and S. 277) and Global Service Fellows (S. 2609).

 * Over a forty-year period served as staff and legal counsel to various House and Senate Committees (1965, 1967, 1975-79, 1981-93, and 2001-05) and the Carter White House (1979-81); trial attorney at the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection (1972-75); and Vice President and principal lobbyist for the association representing the biotechnology industry (1993-2001).

 * See oral history of career published by the Senate Historical Office at http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/oral_history/Ludlam_chuck.htm and is also available in audio tapes at http://www.evoca.com/chuckludlam.

 * Stanford University (BA 1967) and University of Michigan Law School (JD, 1972).

 * Recipient of the Stanford Centennial Medallion in 1992.

 * Office of Stanford in Government at Haas Public Service Center named for "Chuck Ludlam."

 ===Chuck Ludlam and Paula Hirschoff===

 * While serving in Senegal, invited by Senator Chris Dodd to testify on behalf of the 8,000 current Volunteers before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee regarding the Dodd/Kennedy [[Peace Corps Volunteer Empowerment Act]], S. 732 (PCVEA). Flew to Washington at their own expense to testify in support of the legislation.

 * See their oral and written testimony at http://foreign.senate.gov/testimony/2007/Ludlam_HirschoffTestimony070725.pdf and http://foreign.senate.gov/testimony/2007/HirschoffTestimony070725.pdf. A video of the hearing can be viewed at http://foreign.senate.gov/hearings/2007/hrg070725a.html.

 * Their article "A Call for Peace Corps Reform" appears in the fall 2008 issue of WorldView, the magazine of the National Peace Corps Association.

 == Peace Corps related Letters, Memos, and Reports on PCWiki ==

 * http://peacecorpswiki.org/images/LudlamHirschoff.pdf
 July 24, 2009 Memorandum: Plan to Strengthen and Expand the Peace Corps:
 Priorities for President Obama's First Term. Sent to Aaron Williams when arrived as director to Peace Corps.

 * Dodd/Kennedy [[Peace Corps Volunteer Empowerment Act]], S. 732 (PCVEA)
 Composed by Chuck Ludam

 === Open Letter to oppose legislation to authorize a commemorative monument===
 to the Peace Corps near the National Mall in Washington DC

 Dear National Parks Subcommittee, Commission on Fine Arts, and National Capital Planning Commission Staff, and Judy Scott Feldman (Save the Mall):
 09/02/09

 Proposals are under discussion to seek introduction and enactment of legislation to authorize a commemorative monument to the Peace Corps near the Mall. We believe this proposal is ill conceived and should be rejected.

Several of you have said you share our view that this commemorative monument does not fall within the ambit of the Commemorative Works Act (P.L. 107-217; Chapter 89) that "limits monuments to memory of an individual, group, event or other significant element of American history that have been dead or past 25 years."

Clearly this proposal does not meet the "25 year" test and cannot be a monument to the Volunteers or the deceased Volunteers. Proponents of this idea seem to believe, however, that the Act leaves latitude to authorize a commemorative monument to an idea, in this case the idea of the Peace Corps. Several of you have said that this is not a reasonable interpretation of this law.

In any event, the proposal should not be authorized for the reasons presented here.

Is the idea of the Peace Corps so "monumental" that we need a monument to commemorate it near the Mall? If the Congress is going to authorize monuments to ideas rather than individuals and historical events, then we should start with the biggest ideas like the Bill of Rights, racial equality and tolerance, free enterprise economics, and liberal immigration policies.

If a commemorative monument is authorized regarding the idea of volunteer service, it should focus on the American tradition of community service rather than on one particular, recent and government-run model of this service. If we single out one particular program, why the Peace Corps rather than, for example, the AFS or the Fullbright program? Why single out a government program when most of our society's volunteerism lies in the private sector?

We must remember that the Peace Corps is one of hundreds of government programs that are authorized and funded year by year. It is not permanent. Moreover, it is not unusual in representing a great idea; all government programs represent ideas.

Are the ideas represented by the Peace Corps exceptional compared to those embodied in other government programs? We have no monument on the Mall to the New Deal or Great Society programs. We have no monument to the space program. We have no memorial to the Land Grant College Act. Or to the national parks/wilderness systems. Or to environmental programs. Or labor rights or child welfare programs. The Peace Corps is but one of hundreds of well-intentioned government programs and a rather small one at that. Its 200,000 participants are few by government standards and a fraction of the number of participants in AmeriCorps/Vista.

Many of us who served as Volunteers find the notion of a commemorative monument to be embarrassing. Our pride in our service is strong but we see no need to be lionized with a monument. Moreover, few Volunteers in the field would support a monument. Their view of the Peace Corps is that it should be reformed, not expanded (46% to 20%).

If this proposal goes forward, we may well see pickets at the groundbreaking ceremony from Volunteers. Support for this proposal could be seen as self-referential and politically self-serving for the returned Volunteers who are Members of Congress.

The monument that returned Volunteers do need is funding to help them fulfill the third goal (informing Americans about the countries where they served), which the Congress and the Peace Corps have never adequately provided. Strangely and sadly, the 2009 version of Senator Dodd's Peace Corps authorization deletes the authorization for these grants that was included in his 2007 bill. If the Congress wants to honor the RPCVs, these grants should be the focus, not a monument of marble and bronze.

The principal proponent of this proposal, the National Peace Corps Association, has not as yet acted on a pending proposal to raise up to $7 million for the project. To begin to raise these funds before this monument is authorized would be premature. It should not do so, but rather, should focus its fundraising on endowing a program to support returned and current Volunteers. The proposed $7 million could endow 35 $10,000 grants per year for Volunteers, a much better use of these funds.

The sentiment for the monument is seems similar to that driving NPCA's "more Peace Corps" campaign to double Peace Corps funding, e.g. that the Peace Corps should be immune from serious criticism and reform because it embodies great ideas and attracts idealistic Americans. This type of sentimentality stands in the way of reflection, renewal and reform and has led to atrophy at the agency.

Indeed, The Peace Corps has deeply embedded and fundamental problems. The pervasive mismanagement is documented by the Volunteers in the 2008 Peace Corps survey. There are perhaps 15 well-managed programs out of more than 70. The Volunteers are voting with their feet with 35% terminating before completing their service. The Peace Corps claims that 20 countries are "shovel ready" for the Peace Corps and that there is a big surplus of applicants. Both assertions are contrary to fact. The Peace Corps record of First Goal results (development projects abroad) is undocumented and unevaluated. Can anyone name a single development idea or program that the Peace Corps has taken to scale worldwide? These issues are discussed in depth in the Peace Corps reform plan that we have published (see attached).

Finally, the future of the Peace Corps is not clear. Congress has enacted legislation and supported funding for another program, Volunteers for Prosperity (the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act), which will compete directly with the Peace Corps. The new program relies on the AmeriCorps model of placing volunteers with NGOs at one quarter the cost per individual. Over the next 10 years we'll see if the Peace Corps model-one that is bureaucratic, risk averse and spending $45,000 per Volunteer per year-is more effective than a decentralized, private sector approach. Then we'll know if the Peace Corps has stood the test of time and competition. For now it's premature to say how relevant the Peace Corps model of service will be over the long term.

We urge you to oppose this proposal and protect the National Mall from narrow and special interest commemorative monuments. We urge you to consider whether the Congress and NPCA will be embarrassed by this transparent act of self-congratulation. What we need is fundamental Peace Corps reform so that this program does not continue to atrophy. We need Third Goal funding. And, as for satisfaction and pride in service, RPCVs have those in their hearts.

By way of introduction, we have both twice served as Peace Corps Volunteers (Chuck: Nepal, 68-70, and Senegal, 05-07; Paula, Kenya 68-70 and Senegal 05-07). Chuck serves on the Board of the National Peace Corps Association, served as an advisor to the Obama transition team for the Peace Corps, and founded Friends of Nepal. We were selected by Senator Chris Dodd to represent the 8000 Volunteers in his July 2007 hearing on Peace Corps reform, flying in from Senegal at our own expense. Chuck served on the staff of various House and Senate Committees between 1965 and 2005 and the staff of the Carter White House and Federal Trade Commission. He also served for seven and a half years as the principal lobbyist for the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). Paula has served on the Friends of Kenya Board and has had a 35-year career as a teacher, journalist, writer, and editor.

It is because we love the Peace Corps and believe in its ideals that we have led the push to secure fundamental Peace Corps reform and now take the lead in opposing the commemorative monument.

Thank you very much for considering our point of view.

Chuck Ludlam and Paula Hirschoff

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today on the grounds of the National Mall, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued its annual report of deaths and injuries involving legal and illegal fireworks for calendar year 2012. Fireworks can have a life-altering impact on consumers, including severe eye injuries, loss of limbs, and even death. CPSC works closely with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP); the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fireworks, and Explosives; the Department of Transportation; and the Department of Justice to enforce federal safety standards and raise awareness about the dangers of fireworks.
Last year, CPSC received reports of six men who were killed by professional-grade, homemade or banned firework devices. In addition, an estimated 8,700 consumers were treated in U.S. hospital emergency departments for fireworks-related injuries.
Between June 22, 2012 and July 22, 2012, more than 5,000 consumers were treated in hospital emergency rooms due to fireworks-related injuries. Sixty percent of all fireworks injuries occur during the 30 days surrounding the July 4 holiday. More than half of these reported injuries involved burns to the hands, head and face. About 1,000 reported injuries involved sparklers and bottle rockets, fireworks that are frequently and incorrectly considered safe for young children.
Follow-up investigations of incidents showed that most injuries were associated with malfunctioning fireworks or improper use. Malfunctioning fireworks often resulted in unexpected flight paths and dangerous debris. Improper use included igniting fireworks too close to someone, lighting fireworks in one's hand and playing with lit or used fireworks. Most victims recovered from their injuries or were expected to recover completely; however, several victims reported that their injuries might be long term.
"These figures represent more than numbers; they represent the lives of real people who have been affected well beyond the Fourth of July" said CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum. "The federal government is working hard to keep the public safe by monitoring the ports, the marketplace, and the transportation of fireworks. Now, we need consumers to do their part and celebrate safely."
Working with CBP, CPSC conducts surveillance on imported fireworks. During 2012, the agencies collected and tested shipments of imported fireworks for compliance with the Federal Hazardous Substance Act (FHSA). About 30 percent of the tested products were found to be in violation of the law and were immediately stopped at the U.S. port. This import surveillance program strives to keep violative and dangerous fireworks off of U.S. store shelves and roadside stands.
"The solid partnership between CBP, CPSC and other agencies at the Import Safety Commercial Targeting and Analysis Center (CTAC) enables greater sharing of information and targeting to ensure the safety of imported fireworks," said CBP Assistant Commissioner Allen Gina. "Interagency collaboration at the CTAC results in the identification and interdiction of potentially unsafe imported merchandise, including non-compliant fireworks, and truly exemplifies working together as one U.S. Government at the Border to protect American consumers."
At the national level, CBP, CPSC and the Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) work side-by-side at the CTAC in Washington, DC to effectively combat the importation of illegal fireworks. The CTAC provides a platform for the agencies to share data, analyze import trends and conduct joint risk-based targeting to identify fireworks shipments that pose a safety risk.
"Fireworks are explosives. Protecting the public means making sure that our safety regulations work when these explosives are being transported," said PHMSA Administrator Cynthia Quarterman.
"As the federal law enforcement agency charged with enforcing federal explosives laws, ATF actively works with other federal agencies, such as CPSC, through its fireworks enforcement program to protect the public from the dangers of illegal explosives devices," said ATF Acting Director B. Todd Jones.
Consumers who decide to purchase legal fireworks are urged to take these safety steps.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of
thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the
nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical or
mechanical hazard. CPSC's work to help ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters and household
chemicals -– contributed to a decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 40 years.
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The Pepper wreck was found on the Tagus River mouth, Lisbon, Portugal, in 1993, during an archaeological survey promoted by the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, directed by Francisco Alves.
From 1996 to 1998 it was excavated by the Instituto Português de Arqueologia / Centro Nacional de Arqueologia Náutica e Subaquática as part of the program of the Portuguese pavilion at the 1998 world exhibition EXPO'98.
In 1999 and 2000 the remains of its hull were excavated by the Centro Nacional de Arqueologia Náutica e Subaquática, with the support of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology / Texas A&M University.
Its excavation yielded a large collection of artifacts dated from the late 16th and early 17th centuries, and lead to the tentative identification of this shipwreck as the nau Nossa Senhora dos Mártires, wrecked on September 15 1606 on its way back from Cochin, in India.
The study of its hull remains - which include a portion of the keel, eleven frames, and some of the planking - yielded interesting results and a first glance at these largely unknown ships: the Portuguese naus da India.


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The only roundabout on island, located by McDonald's Tafuna. Whitehorn Construction is contracted to create 3 more roundabouts as part of its scope of work for the Airport Road project. The project is on hold while Public Works awaits the materials list from Whitehorn that must be federally approved before the project can proceed. Read story left.
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The concern was sufficient to prompt STISD Superintendent Dr. Brett Belmarez to caution board members at their April 8 session — a meeting originally canceled — that "others" may have participated in what the act terms a "walking quorum," in which members of a board use social media to discuss and decide on subjects that should be addressed in a public meeting.
Belmarez would only say that "others" may have included some board members and community members.
Appropriately, the first item on the agenda, after the pledge of allegiance, was a 12-minute video — produced by the Texas Attorney General — on the act and its legal requirements for board members.
It mandates that all board members must complete a training course on the act within 90 days of their election.
"Having this on the agenda was no coincidence," Belmarez says.
At issue was not only certain agenda items but the meeting itself.
In a "board update," written and compiled by Belmarez and distributed to board members five days before the April session was scheduled, board President Keith Petrus asked Belmarez to poll each board member about whether to have a meeting.
"A board meeting in April wasn't needed," Belmarez says, "because of the lack of business that needed to be presented to the trustees for approval."
But when asked, five of seven trustees favored an April meeting — two originally voted for May then changed to April — because, Trustee Edward Polasek replied, "for Mr. (James) Bennett's items."
Belmarez called the rushed meeting "highly unorthodox."
Eight days later, in the next edition of "board update," he complained of not having received in writing the questions of subtopics on the non-traditional agenda items.
"Knowing the questions in advance is respectful, professional, courteous and prevents surprises," he wrote.
Significantly, two of Bennett's items prompted the caution Belmarez issued.
"On advice of legal council, and based on the fact that administration is aware that there has been or that there is contemplated a reported/alleged violation or violations of the Texas Open Meetings Act in the form of a 'walking quorum,' administration must refrain from any discussion of or involvement in this item," Belmarez read.
"To discuss, deliberate, or to be, in any way, involved in this item, may render or later find that administration is complicit with, condones or is involved in an item derived outside of a properly posted meeting."
His statement hints that some items got placed on the agenda through the use of a walking quorum.
The two items concerned the status of the Athletic Booster Club — the subject of enmity between the club and Athletic Director Russell Joy, and a review of board policy that allows Belmarez to spend up to $50,000 without board review during the construction of the district's new elementary school.
"I am at a loss to know what I am to do about this," Petrus said. "This process apparently has been tainted by something that is beyond my control…I'm kind of throwing my hands up."
Citing the advice of legal counsel, the board took no action on the Athletic Booster Club item, and it postponed the superintendent's spending authority discussion until its next regular meeting, May 13.
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MIAMI (AP) If the numbers are to be believed, then the New York Knicks' season is about to end. Of the other 101 teams to lose the first three games in a best-of-seven NBA series, none ultimately prevailed and only 10 managed to stave off elimination twice.
That doesn't mean the Miami Heat are leaving anything to chance.
For the past two days, the Heat have stewed over and stared at the tape of what went wrong at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, when a litany of things - 11 missed free throws, 16 missed 3-pointers, two blown double-digit leads, giving up a 19-2 run in the third quarter and having all that capped by a botched play at the end of regulation - added up to an 89-87 loss that extended the Knicks' season.
When the teams' Eastern Conference first-round series resumes Wednesday night, the Heat expect to be sharper.
''You carry it with you 24 hours, you go over what needs to be done, you correct it and you get rid of it,'' Heat forward LeBron James said. ''That's not saying that you don't care about it but you've got to move on to the next game. You can't let it linger too much and carry that game into Game 5. So Game 4 for us is over. We're preparing for Game 5 now.''
Miami leads the best-of-seven 3-1, and needs only a home win Wednesday for a ticket to the East semifinals.
According to STATS LLC, seven teams rallied from down 3-0 in a series before losing in six games, and other three extended things all the way to Game 7 before succumbing.
''That's the exciting part for me,'' said Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony, who carried New York with 41 points - the most from anyone yet in this postseason - in Game 4. ''I mean, history is definitely not on our side right now. But we believe and we're confident that we want to go down there and win this basketball game and bring it back here. We get this one, who knows what can happen.''
Of course, not only are the Knicks dealing with long odds, they're doing so with a short bench.
Iman Shumpert tore a knee ligament in Game 1, and Baron Davis left Game 4 with a catastrophic knee injury - dislocated kneecap, two torn ligaments and a torn tendon. Shumpert won't play for months, Davis is out at least a year, and the Knicks ended speculation Tuesday by saying Jeremy Lin's recovery from knee surgery will not allow him to play in the rest of the series against Miami regardless of how long it goes.
''If he's not ready to go based on how he's feeling, we've got to respect that and move on,'' Knicks interim coach Mike Woodson said.
Amare Stoudemire returned for Game 4 after slicing open his left hand by striking a metal-and-glass case holding a fire extinguisher moments after the Knicks dropped the second game of the series.
At the time, the odds of him and the Knicks playing again in Miami didn't look good. But here they are, and Stoudemire spent part of Tuesday saying how his team has a chance ''to do something special.''
''I just don't want to look at that fire extinguisher at all,'' Stoudemire said. ''But getting a win in Miami would be huge for us.''
The Knicks know exactly what to expect from the Heat. The Heat can't say the same about the Knicks, given how the absence of Shumpert and now Davis will lead to probably some unconventional lineup choices by Woodson at times.
''They'll bring something different so we've got to be prepared, in a sense like it's a regular-season game,'' Heat guard Dwyane Wade said. ''It'll be a little tougher. Five games in, everyone pretty much knows each other's offensive package a little bit. You can throw a couple wrinkles in but you kind of get to the point now where you start to know what guys are going to do.''
So it'll likely be Mike Bibby starting at the point for the Knicks in Game 5, which happened only four times in the regular season. Bibby was 6-for-40 - 15 percent - from the field in fourth quarters this season, including playoffs, before hitting a 3-pointer that gave New York an 84-81 lead with 1:23 left Sunday.
If Davis hadn't gotten hurt, Bibby might never have gotten the chance to make that shot, especially if Woodson had gone with his instinct to have J.R. Smith at the point down the stretch.
''Then I never would have seen the big shot that Bibby hit, if I had done that,'' Woodson said.
That shot was almost forgotten when Sunday's game ended, first because of a shot-clock-winding-down 3-pointer by Anthony over Shane Battier with 54 seconds left to play that gave New York the lead, and then how Wade lost the ball briefly before missing a 3 of his own on the final play of the game.
''Without getting too descriptive on what we were looking for, at the end of the day we had an open lane on that drive,'' Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. ''We've seen Dwyane make those plays time and time again over the years. We'll live with that. In the paint he lost the dribble, but it was a pretty good opportunity to attack the rim. But it became a broken play and we know what happened from there.''
The Starters
Keys To The Game
Transition Defense- we cannot let them get easy buckets
Rebounding- No 2nd chance points
Runs- Miami thrives off of consecutive 7-0 runs, we have to limit that
Weather The Storm- we dont win the game in the 1st half but like Game 1 we can lose it, stay poised and under control
3 Point Shooting- We need to hit at least 7 3's to win, JR, Novak, Bibby, Toney and Melo should all hit 1 and 2 of them should hit 2
Defense- Everyone has to defend
Movement- Both ball and player movement
Key Matchup
In my eyes LeBron dont wanna deal with a hot Carmelo, but I think this game LeBron takes the challenge of defending Carmelo in the 2nd half. If Carmelo can impose his will on LeBron the Knicks have a great shot at winning this game
Amar'e Stoudemire, Tyson Chandler and Carmelo Anthony dominate in the paint, JR Smith goes for 15 and Novak hits 3 3's, Miami maintains a small lead up until the 4th where the Knicks come through when it matters most, instead of Wade taking the last shot they go to LeBron who back rims a fade away jumper with Landry Fields defending him, Knicks win 93-91
Don't Worry, Be Happy
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Let's Take Those ****ers Down
Good job! I like it!
I believe TD will give us a surprise!
The rest of the team will get back to their April form!
Go Knicks!!! Yeah!!!!
Throw realism to the wind, I believe! We can take this game.
Knicks should come out ready from the get go. After 3 days of rest the HEAT are going to be firing on all cylinders. I'm sure they'll go out and lead us by 10 pts or so but the Knicks should just keep fighting and not fall in love with the three ball when they lock up the paint.
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With a win in Game 4, all pressure's off. Got that monkey off the back. If they lose, I wouldnt be terribly dissappointed but a win tonight would be a bonus!
Go Knicks!!!
God I wish we have this kind of inspiration for game 5, 6 and 7!!Nuggets avoid 1st-round elimination, surviving Kobe's 43-point game for 102-99 win in Game 5
The Denver Nuggets plastered Andrew Bynum's words all over their locker room and across their minds, drawing fiery inspiration from the Lakers centre's declaration that closeout playoff games are sometimes easy when an opponent quits.
"That's true, closeouts can be easy," Bryant said. "Tonight wasn't one of those nights. ... Did it pump them up? Probably. You never want to give anybody bulletin board material, but if you're going to be a champion, you've got to play through things like that."
Nice game thread up super early. Long odds but we come out hard tonight and get this series back to NY. In MELO we trust and STAT needs another 20/10. We need a third scorer. Calling JR, we need your hot hand tonight. Stuck at work but will have the game on. Go Knicks!
Nice GT.. love the optimism.
I want Woody to work his magic and show all the doubters out there that he's worthy of a long-term contract.
This will need to be a really gutsy win for the knicks. On the road, against a team that is focused and sharp. they will be on their A game.
That intensity may actually work against them however. Being too hyped in a game can lead to T.O's and bad play making. We all have seen how LeBron does when the intensity is turned up, so it'll be important to get into him early and often. We also need to shut down Bosh. He was killing us in the first half of game 4 but was taken out of his game in the 2nd half.
Wade will do what wade does but I have seen a lot of maturing out of Fields and I think he can make wade play an honest game. If we can keep Wade from getting to the rim with good D out front and Tyson playing big down low we can squeak out the win in Miami. Then it's back to the Garden where the Knicks can make anything happen.
I will have to watch this on an adth feed as i don't get the TNT broadcasts. I hate watching on my computer. Next year i'll be buying a League Pass package.
Repped, nice thread. Just want the team to play with energy and give a decent effort tonight.
Just go out there and play the best ball you can. As long as we leave it all on the floor...I'll be happy with the results. Beating the Heat with our beat up team would be sweet.


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GOP's Petrowski tops Seidel for Senate seat
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republican Jerry Petrowski has defeated Democrat Donna Seidel for an open Senate seat in Tuesday's recall elections.
RESULTS: Wisconsin Recall Election Results
Democrats upset with Republican Gov. Scott Walker's polarizing plan to strip most public workers of nearly all their union rights forced the governor, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and four GOP senators, including Pam Galloway of Wausau, into recall elections this past winter. Walker claimed the plan was needed to control the state budget, but many public workers opposed erosion of their bargaining rights.
Galloway chose to resign rather than defend her seat. State election officials decided to continue with the election to fill her seat regardless.
Seidel and Petrowski both currently serve in the state Assembly.
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WATERLOO A book by Tanis MacDonald, associate professor in Wilfrid Laurier Universitys Department of English and Film Studies, has been shortlisted for the 2012 Gabrielle Roy Prize, which honours the best in Canadian literary criticism. WLU Press published MacDonalds book, The Daughters Way: Canadian Womens Paternal Elegies, marking the fifth year in a row that the press has had a book on the shortlist, three of which have won.
I would like to congratulate Tanis MacDonald for being chosen as a finalist for this years Gabrielle Roy Prize, said Abby Goodrum, vice-president: research. We truly value her work both as a practicing poet and as a recognized literary scholar, and WLU Press has once again taken its place as an influential Canadian academic publisher.
The Daughters Way investigates negotiations of female subjectivity in 20th-century Canadian womens elegies, with a special emphasis on the fathers death as a literary and political watershed. The book examines the work of Dorothy Livesay, P.K. Page, Jay Macpherson, Margaret Atwood, Kristjana Gunnars, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Anne Carson and Erin Mouré. Some poets treat the father as a metaphor for socio-political power while others explore more personal iterations of loss, but all the poets in The Daughters Way seek to redefine daughterly duty in a contemporary context.
I am so pleased to be a finalist for this years Gabrielle Roy Prize, said MacDonald. There is nothing quite like knowing the book on which I spent so much time has been read with such care and honoured in this way.
Not only was Gabrielle Roy a great writer, she was also from Saint Boniface, the Quartier Français of Winnipeg, the city where I am originally from, so I feel as though theres a Manitoban convergence happening. Roy herself wrote Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts? which is an excellent question to ask, and one that my book regards through the lens of the elegiac form.
MacDonald is the author of three books of poetry, including her most recent Rue the Day (Turnstone Press, 2008). She is also the editor of Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt (WLU Press, 2006).
The winner of the 2012 Gabrielle Roy Prize will be announced June 1 at a reception at the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures annual conference taking place in Victoria, British Columbia.
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Roberto Clemente Day 2009
What a better way to honor a humanitarian, civil servant and not to mention baseball player. Roberto Clemente is a legend. Not just in Pittsburgh but across the baseball world. Not just our country of the United State but the world. From the desolate islands of Latin America to the hills of Western Pennsylvania. Clemente paved teh way for so many athletes to make their way to America and make a living playing the sport they love. While he was not the first minority or Latin American ballplayer for that matter the impact he made on the game is second to none.
Clemente showcased his unparralled athletic ability and proved that spanish speaking ballplayers could flourish in America. Clemente played his entire 18 year career in the black and gold uniform of the Pirates. He was originally signed by the Dodgers but thanks to teh Rule 5 draft Pittsburgh was bale to lure him away. In perhaps the biggest move of the 1950s or even in all of the storied years of Major League Baseball.
In a Pirates uniform Roberto gave 100% effort no matter the situation, scenario or possiblity.
In the outfield he had amazing speed and range. He had the arm of a cannon and could gun down runners at any base. At the plate he made contact and could rip the ball a mile. He had a knack for seeing good pitches and could hit nearly anything. He recorded 3,000 hits over the span of nearly two decades.
In 1973 the Roberto Clemente award was established.
Originally called the Commisioners award it was renamed after the tragic plane crash death of Roberto himself. He dies much to young but died in the most respectable way possible. Delievering hurricane relief supplies to Nicaragua. His passion was helping others. He was quoted saying many beautiful comments about his life in Puerto Rico and how giving back is the most important thing in life. The award has been given to the MLB player that has emphasized the ideals of Roberto. last year, Albert Pujols took home the award. A player on each team is nominated for the prestigious Clemente trophy. Here is a list of all the players that are nominated for 2009.
Even today people recognize the accomplishments and life of Roberto. Every player hailing from the Latin America part of the world feels his prescence and carries the torch Clemente has passed to each of them.
Just last night I had the privelege of watching the movie Sugar.
It is the story of ficticious pitcher Miguel Santos. While it is a work of fiction it portrays what every single ballplayer from the Dominican Republic must go through to crack a major league roster. The sport is king on the island and with millions of young players out there only a select lucky few are noticed by major league scouts. The movie take you to the town of San Pedro from the neighborhood slums to the Baseball Academy established by Kansas City.
Miguel is part of teh academy trying to pitch his way to the United States. He is eventually brought up and proves himself in spring training. He makes a single A roster in a farm town in Iowa. The boundaries he experiences and the struggles he goes through are always overlooked. The problems that are experienced by all Domincan ballplayers trying to make it through a major league system are defined in this movie. Miguel comes across Roberto Clemente, while he was never introduced to the story of his life he reads a book about his life to pass the time while traveling to and from small town cities. He turns into his favorite player and he relaizes him and Roberto went through the same things and have a similair story.
This movie is a must see for every baseball fan. It makes you laugh and cry and gives a greater appreciation for foreign born players. I do not want to give too much away but I will leave you with this. For every Jose Reyes, Robinson Cano and Johnny Cueto there is a Miguel Santos.
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Great award to honor such a fantastic player and humanitarian.
I am guessing it might come down to Albert Pujols again and it might be his to lose. But still, the legacy of this award and the respect that it brings to the game and the honored player is awesome.
I never got to see Roberto Clemente play except in videos and film clips, but the ease and grace of his motions both at the plate and in the field truly make me wish I could have seen him in real life. It would make all of this even more exciting to me.
Great post. Prefect imagery.
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Thank you Matt for reminding us that a baseball player – and ALL of us – need to be measured by what we give back. No act of compassion is too small.
Our nominee was Orlando Hudson. I know he was proud to have such an honor. So how is school going? Post a couple of pictures for us.
Roberto Clemente was a great ballplayer on the field, and a great person on and off the field. He should be honored more.
The Indians nominee is Johnny Peralta. I wish i could have seen Roberto play. I hear and see some of the old videos of him, but to see him play everyday would have been awesome.
Roberto Clemente… what a shame. I remember learning about Clemete and seeing a movie when I was in 4th grade… never forgot his story or his name. Great stuff man – he's definently a giant reason the Pirates have such an amazing history…
Back when the All-Star game was in Pittsburgh – 2006 I think it was – I heard that Clemente was having his number retired. I thought it was in all of baseball, but then I found out it was just for the Pirates. If you ask me, everyone should retire number 21 in honor of Roberto Clemente, because what he did set the bar for excellence in giving back. If he did not do what he did, we may not have so many ballplayers with there great charities and fundations.
Matt: When I was in elementary school I read a biography of Roberto Clemente. What an amazing man. Great ballplayer, even better person. That movie "sugar" seems interesting.
Nice entry, Matt. I've been amazed by everything I've heard about Clemente. It must have been a terrible day for the world when he died–and he young too, and in the prime of his career. I can only imagine what more he could have done if he had had the chance.
I was watching an interesting segment on him on MLB Network, and his son actually had a premonition about his father not coming back. I was also amazed at some of his artifacts that I was able to see at the Baseball Hall of Fame. I'll post the pictures on Facebook eventually. I hope all is well🙂
Awesome post, friend! So how about 'your' M's? Are you proud of them? Hehe, you should be! :] Gosh I love Wilson but I sure wish he could hit better!!! Have a fantastic weekend! xoxo http://diamondgirl55.mlblogs.com


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Posted on August 27, 2014
At the start of the academic year, Grand Valley announces a new initiative that continues its commitment to ensure students will be prepared for lifelong learning and careers in an ever-changing society.
The Design Thinking Initiative is a human-centered approach to solving problems and meeting needs using an organized method of defining, observing and considering those impacted. Provost Gayle R. Davis announced that John Berry will lead this initiative.
Berry has more than four decades of innovative design-related involvement with corporations, higher education, and nonprofit and professional associations on a regional and national level. Berry is executive director and founder of Design West Michigan, a design advocacy organization with more than 1,100 members. He also served as vice president for corporate communications for Herman Miller.
Davis said Berry will lead the exploration of how to connect existing programs, classes and co-curricular activities with appropriate new ones, and collaborate with other creative and innovative organizations in the region.
Grand Valley President Thomas J. Haas said the university recognizes the importance of providing learning experiences to expand students exposure to integrated processes and systems.
"Design Thinking brings another opportunity to our students to see how collaboration and creativity can benefit all their lives and the growth of their communities," Haas said.
Berry said he looks forward to establishing partnerships with organizations "that have an interest in expanding our design ecosystem. "
"Grand Valley's initiative significantly adds to the design ecosystem of West Michigan, which is extremely robust with design talent," Berry said. "Creating this initiative will allow students to gain additional experience with innovation and problem-solving that also will increase our regions' ability to create and grow."
Berry earned a master's of fine arts degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He is a past board member of the Michigan Humanities Council, Ox-Bow Art and Artists School, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Kendall College of Art and Design. He is a current member of the National Advisory Committee for Cranbrook Academy of Art.


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D.C. Police Investigating NBC's Gregory For Violations of Gun Banning Laws
Washington D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier has affirmed that the department is looking into allegations that NBC's David Gregory violated D.C.'s gun banning laws during a recent taping of Meet the Press.
In a discussion about gun control on the December 23 broadcast of the NBC Sunday morning political talk show, host David Gregory brandished a 30-round magazine purportedly for an AR-15 or similar "assault rifle."
Washington D.C.'s gun laws, however, state that even possessing such a device is a violation. Meet the Press is filmed at NBC's D.C. studios.
The law in question is titled: DC High Capacity Ammunition Magazines — D.C. Official Code 7-2506.01, and reads (my bold):
(b) No person in the District shall possess, sell, or transfer any large capacity ammunition feeding device regardless of whether the device is attached to a firearm. For the purposes of this subsection, the term large capacity ammunition feeding device means a magazine, belt, drum, feed strip, or similar device that has a capacity of, or that can be readily restored or converted to accept, more than 10 rounds of ammunition. The term large capacity ammunition feeding device shall not include an attached tubular device designed to accept, and capable of operating only with, .22 caliber rimfire ammunition.
Breitbart contacted the office of the police chief and asked if there were any plans to look into this apparent violation of the District's gun laws. In response, Chief Lanier replied, "Yes, we are investigating the incident to determine if the magazine was in fact real."
NBC has declined to comment on the investigation.
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I'm guessing by now you already know that Van Jones, President Obama's "Green Jobs Czar" tendered his resignation in the


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Firm's Recall Hotline: (888) 922-9245
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Name of Product: Wooden Hammock Stands
Units: About 30,000
Importer: Pottery Barn, of San Francisco, Calif.
Hazard: When used outdoors, the wood in the hammock stand can deteriorate over time and break, posing a risk of falls and lacerations to consumers.
Incidents/Injuries: Pottery Barn has received 12 reports of injuries requiring medical attention, including lacerations, neck and back pain, bruising, and one incident involving fractured ribs and about 50 reports of the hammock stand breaking.
Description: The wooden hammock stands measure about 154 ½ inches long by 53 ½ inches in height by 53 inches in width. There are two black metal brackets on the base and on the arms of the hammock stand. All Pottery Barn two pole wooden hammock stands sold from 2003 through 2008 are included in this recall.
Sold through: Pottery Barn catalog and the firm's Web site from March 2003 through July 2008 for about $300.
Manufactured in: China
Remedy: Consumers should remove the two top side brackets of the hammock stand and dispose of the remaining portion of the hammock stand. Contact Pottery Barn to schedule a free pickup of the brackets and to receive a merchandise credit for the amount of the stand.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Pottery Barn toll-free at (888) 922-9245 anytime or visit the firm's Web site at www.potterybarn.com
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The 2010 Black Weblog Awards Finalists
In several categories, only one ballot separated the finalists. Talk about a close race! When we tell you that every nomination counts and you need to campaign if you want to win, we mean it.
We'll talk a little bit about our vote audit process and give you a couple of helpful hints in a later post, but for now, we present to you our 2010 Black Weblog Awards finalists.
Best Blog Design
Best Blog Network
- Global Grind Network
- New Music Cartel Network
- Real Black Network
- theFreshXpress.com Blog Network
- We Are Black Women Network
Best Blog Post Series
- "Black Republicans" (via The Urban Politico)
- "How I Finally Found Faith" (via Three Ways to Take It)
- "I Love Black Men" Series (via Black 'n' Bougie)
- "Michael Jackson and the Five Stages of Grief" (via What Would Thembi Do?)
- "Wet Wednesdays Erotica"(via Naked With Socks On)
Best Business Blog
Best Cooking or Food Blog
Best Culture Blog
Best Faith-Based Blog
- GospelPundit.com
- In Search of His Face
- Reflection of a Jazz Theologian
- The Golden Era Gospel Blog
- The Old Black Church!
Best Fashion or Beauty Blog
Best Film Blog
- Black Box Office
- Film Reviews 2 Go
- Invisible Woman
- Random Film, Television and Literature Criticisms
- Shadow and Act
Best Gaming or Comics Blog
Best Gossip Blog
Best Group Blog
Best Health or Wellness Blog
- A Black Girl's Guide to Weight Loss
- Savvy Brown
- The Broken Brown Egg Blog
- The Daily Raw Cafe
- The Raw Mocha Angel
Best Hip-Hop Blog
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Best International Blog
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Best Microblog
- Black Love Poster | Tumblr
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Best Music Blog
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Blog to Watch
- Angry Black Lady Chronicles
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- The Urbane Urbanite
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The Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index issued last week found that trust in America's financial system has reached 27 percent, its highest level reported since 2008 at the beginning of the economic crisis. This is a five-point increase from the last Index issued in December 2012. Despite the increase in trust, the report also finds that half of Americans say they are angry about the current economic situation.
"The driving factor of this increase is trust towards the stock markets and banks," said Luigi Zingales, co-author of the Financial Trust Index and Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and the David G. Booth Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Trust in banks soared to 40 percent in the latest survey from 28 percent in March, while trust in the stock market rose to 19 percent from 13 percent. However, 52 percent of people now consider the stock market overvalued, while 19 percent say it is undervalued.
"On the housing front, the survey also found 46 percent of people expect home prices to rise in the next 12 months," said Paola Sapienza, co-author of the Financial Trust Index and the Merrill Lynch Capital Markets Research professor of finance at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. "This is up from 40 percent in the December 2012 Index."
The Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index measures public opinion over three-month periods to track changes in attitude.
About the survey: On a quarterly basis, the Financial Trust Index captures the amount of trust that Americans have in the institutions in which they can invest their money. The survey is conducted by Social Science Research Solutions as part of its weekly national telephone survey. In the most recent wave, a total of 1,012 individuals were surveyed by live interviewers March 20-27. The institutions considered in the survey are banks, the stock market, mutual funds and large corporations.


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The Wegmans School of Pharmacy Class of 2016 Receives White Coats
The Wegmans School of Pharmacy at St. John Fisher College held a white coat ceremony on Sunday, January 13, to officially mark the entrance of the Class of 2016 into the profession. A total of 78 first-year pharmacy students participated in this "rite of passage," which officially welcomed them into the program.
Dean Scott Swigart made brief opening remarks, welcoming the students along with their friends and family to the ceremony, and congratulated them for successfully completing their first semester. Firefighter Ted Scardino, who survived the tragic Christmas Eve shooting in Webster, was at the ceremony for his son, Robert, a first-year pharmacy student. Swigart acknowledged Scardino and thanked him for his service, which quickly sparked a moving standing ovation.
Dr. Curtis Haas, Director of Pharmacy, University of Rochester Medical Center, served as the keynote speaker. And Fisher alumnus, Dr. Amit Patel '10, led the class in the reading of the Pharmacist's Oath.
The pharmacy students who received white coats are:
Mansour Abdulky, Marwa Amer, Melissa Baliva, Jillian Bankoff, Matthew Bernardez, Richard Besley, Michael Bettini, Katelynn Blunden, Kayla Bonanza, Lillian Brennan, Barbara Broderick, Nicholas Callara, Nicole Camp, Trevor Carey, David Chen, Jenna Clark, Janis Connor, Steven Conway, Maame Dampare, Dyanna Diaz, Shakola Dickinson, Stefanie DiLoreto, Taylor Duell, Danielle Dunn, Patrick Fall, Bryan Fitzgerald, Joshua Ford, James Freeman, Amanda Gertz, Brittany Harrington, Megan Harris, Zachary Hayes, Alexandra Hess, Heidi Hess, Melanie Johnson, Caitlin Kerr, Megan Koch, Heather Konieczny, Boris Krasnov, Charles Levin, Lauren Logar, Matthew Lombardozzi, Leah Madsen, Patrick McCabe, Ryan McKelvie, Heather Miller, Joseph Monette, Ann Montaperto, Nicole Murphy, Leanna Naab, Jennifer Nadra, Brian Nguyen, Tram Nguyen, Trang Nguyen, Olawumi Oladapo, Jeffrey Parish, Daniel Parshall, Rosetta Persaud, Michael Popielarczyk, Vladimir Poplavskiy, Chenzira Raphael, Ashley Rath, Steven Rush, Matthew Sayles, Robert Scardino, Jennifer Scott, John Snyder, Jennifer Spall, Jamie Stanton, Lauren Stummer, Nhon Ta, Mohammed Vaid, Scott Vrooman, Julie Wawrzyniak, Scott Welch, Amanda Wendt, Matthew Yacobucci, and Megan Ziegler.


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Upgrades present risks to software systems, not least of which is inadvertent damage to features and data. Telecom systems, in particular, typically have stringent architectural availability and reliability quality attributes. Adding new telecom features is often fraught with difficulty--the same is true for other demanding areas such as flight simulation.
In this article, I'll use aspect oriented programming (AOP) as a means of intercepting Java methods that I want to upgrade. The intercepted code can then be added to the operational system to provide the required interim feature(s). For the next major release (following the upgrade), the upgrade code can then be moved out of the interception area into the main code base. This use of interception reduces the risk of updating the main class.
The intercepted code is set up using the following
script file. (Please see the
dynaop project on java.net for more information.) This is a script file in the sense that it
annotates a class and prepares it for interception by another at
runtime. It's not an executable script file.
// Apply interceptor to all getter methods in the class
new UpgradeInterceptor()
NMSSubject class is a client in the Observer
pattern; we want to upgrade the method
getNewData(). The
UpgradeInterceptor class provides the AOP instrumentation
for intercepting
getNewData(). Once intercepted, the
method can be augmented (to call into a JNDI naming service) and the
expanded data is returned transparently to the original client.
I'll make use of the Observer design pattern and upgrade a subclass method via AOP. This illustrates the merit of separating code for handling data production and consumption. An additional strand introduces, in passing, some software architecture concepts.
The Observer pattern (also known as publish-subscribe) is useful for designing code with a single server and multiple client classes. It implicitly encourages the separation of concerns between data producers and consumers. An example from network management is where a server application maintains a virtual picture of the topology of network of devices. It does this by a combination of polling (actively requesting) and (passively) listening for messages concerning device and link status. Figure 1 illustrates the idea with a topology server that communicates with a network of devices. A set of clients then takes a view of the topology server's data via the Observer pattern.
Figure 1. Topology Server and the Observer Pattern
The fidelity of the "picture" maintained by the server determines
the quality of the users' view of the managed network. This is an
important networking area, referred to as
discovery. Many
device types support their own version of discovery; e.g., IP routers
work hard to maintain an up-to-date picture of the surrounding network.
If a distant link fails, then the routers must try to figure out the
effect this has on their internal tables. This process is called
convergence and can be thought of as a specific example of
the more general problem of discovery. For more on this and related
subject matter, please see Network
Management, MIBs & MPLS: Principles, Design &
Returning to Figure 1, the topology picture (or designated parts of it) can be communicated to the clients and kept up to date using the Observer pattern. In other words, when the topology server detects a change in the network, it communicates this to the clients using an appropriate method in the Observer pattern.
Let's take a look at an implementation of the observer.
My data producer (or publisher) is a class called
NMSSubject that implements an interface called
interface Subject {
void addObserver(Observer observer);
void removeObserver(Observer observer);
void notifyObservers(); }
As we can see,
Subject has three methods that allow
observers to be added, removed, and notified (the notify is used for
updating observer data). These methods operate on a
Collection object
in the
NMSSubject class (the acronym "NMS" stands for
network management system).
public class NMSSubject implements Subject {
Collection observers = new ArrayList();
public void addObserver(Observer observer) {
observers.add(observer); }
public void removeObserver(Observer observer) {
this.observers.remove(observer); }
public void notifyObservers() {
for (Iterator i = observers.iterator(); i.hasNext();)
((Observer) i.next()).update(this); }
// Have AOP intercept the next call and in turn call into JNDI
// The legacy code might have been reading from a file or database.
// The intercepted code could call into JNDI or some other API
// This can be used as a temporary measure to avoid an upgrade
public String getNewData() {
return "Data Set: "; // Call into JNDI here via AOP }
The last method in
NMSSubject is called
getNewData(), which is our target upgrade code. We want to
intercept calls to
getNewData() via AOP and upgrade them
transparently, so that the calling client will not be aware of any
A single interface provides an update method, into which is passed an
instance of the
NMSSubject class. This update method calls
into the
getNewData() method of the
subject class.
interface Observer {
void update(NMSSubject subject); }
public class NMSListener implements Observer {
public void update(NMSSubject subject) {
updateView(subject.getNewData()); }
public void updateView(String data) {
System.out.println("Updated subject data is " + data); }
getNewData() method is intercepted for upgrade by a
class called
UpgradeInterceptor. Let's look at this class.
Once we've intercepted the
getNewData() method, its
return data can be augmented by a call into a JNDI naming service. The
call searches for a file named report.txt. This data is
then returned to the caller--
public class UpgradeInterceptor implements Interceptor
public Object intercept(Invocation invocation)
throws Throwable
String methodName = getFullMethodName(invocation);
System.out.println("Intercepted method name: " + methodName);
// Call the intercepted method.
Object result = invocation.proceed();
// Now call into JNDI to get some data
Lookup aLookup = new Lookup();
// Add this data to the intercepted method result
return (String) result + aLookup.directoryLookup("report.txt");
Lookup class retrieves the required object
(report.txt) from the naming service using the following
// Create the initial context
Context ctx = new InitialContext(env);
// Look up an object
Object obj = ctx.lookup(searchElement);
The object is then returned to the intercept method.
The code was written using Java Standard Edition version 1.5.0_01. The following four AOP-related .jar files are required and have to be placed in the classpath:
These can be downloaded from the
dynaop project's Documents and Files page.
They're included in a single .zip file called dynaop-1.0-beta.zip.
Remember to place the script file (mentioned at the start of
the article) in the same folder as the source code. You'll also have to
install JNDI and copy the file report.txt into the root
(e.g., D:\). Then compile these with the other Java files
and execute the program with the command:
java ObserverTest
This should generate the following output:
Intercepted method name: NMSSubject.getNewData()
Updated subject data is Data Set: E:\report.txt
Elapsed time in seconds 2
The first line indicates the interception and call into the upgrade code. The second line indicates the augmented data. The third line illustrates the time taken to run the program--an uninstrumented version of the program has an elapsed time of zero! This overhead is a downside to using the AOP technique.
We've now seen all of the elements required to implement an AOP-borne
upgrade. For the example above, I added the upgrade code in the
UpgradeInterceptor class. Let's say we had an
operational system that we wanted to upgrade (perhaps some serious bug
had just been discovered). Let's assume that the
ObserverTest class in the field has no AOP
To upgrade the
ObserverTest class, we have to copy the
following files:
dynaop script file dynaop.bsh.
The next time the
ObserverTest class is
instantiated, it will use interception, thereby facilitating the
Related Reading
AspectJ Cookbook
Once the
ObserverTest class has been upgraded in this
fashion, the fielded code no longer matches the compiled version--a potentially confusing state. A full release would be
advisable at some convenient time to re-align the source with the
released code. This technique should be used only in exceptional
circumstances--if at all! Also, there is a potentially
substantial time penalty incurred during the interception process.
Most successful software applications tend to suffer from feature creep--adding more code as each release unfolds. Some organizations still celebrate the number of lines of code their indefatigable programmers add as the product matures! Traditionally, this is sometimes referred to as "vertical development"--the software grows like an ever-expanding skyscraper.
A major benefit of AOP is that it allows for horizontal (rather than vertical) integration of new features. This powerful model facilitates a healthy degree of separation between legacy code and new features. Beyond this, AOP is an instrumentation technique that allows interfaces to be updated by intercepting code. This provides a useful mechanism for upgrading code as part of a minor or patch release. If the code has adhered to design principles such as separation of concerns, then the interception can be very effective at reducing risk. In this example, that separation was achieved with the Observer pattern, which provides a clear separation between data publishers and subscribers.
dynaop project
Stephen B. Morris is an independent writer/consultant based in Ireland.
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About penalizing points
Penalizing a chase caliber team whether it is 6 points (kyle penalty) to the common 25 point variety. If (& I really mean when) these teams make the chase the penalty is just like it never happpened. I mean 10th place is equal with 1st place in seeding as far as where they are after the 26th race. So if the points penalty keeps a team in say 7th place instead of 6th place, the points for the beginning of the chase is still the same (based on wins only) So if nascar wants to try & keep teams from innovating. Then they need to penalize points in the chase to get their attention. the 48 penalty is what got me thinking of this, but I am not trying to talk about their penalty directly. (Innocent or not doesnt matter for this post)
Peoples kneejerk reaction was that the 48 team were screwed. When in fact it could have been a 100 point penalty & the 48 team would have made the chase easily (if it were last year) So I know the 48 team isnt stressed on the 25 pts. So my thought is if you are trying to keep a team from messing with Nascars Chi. then they need to look at Chase points being taken away. Not points in week 1.
Again I dont this made out to be about JJ & Chad. I am talking in general for any team.
I mean lets say week 25 Ryan is caught cheating & he has a 67 point lead on 10th place, say 7th in points. Nascar levys a 25 point penalty (& please suspend the CC) Wooptie Doo. Now he 42 pts ahead of 10th place & where he ends up in the top 10 doesnt matter (in current rules).
Wouldnt you think a more effective penalty would be to penalize Chase points?


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SuperNava explodes at Fenway
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How about that NAVA!! At'ta way to break in. You are so right when you say it's not just a season of rookie pitchers making noise…it's rookies in general. What a great rookie class we have this year. The Sox farm is fertile! Only good things come from that.
Look at all your "projects!" Well, maybe Nava wasn't a project, but you did see him back before he was a star. Sorry you slept through his big debut, but I can understand why. Congrats on putting the test behind you!
Is so much fun to hear Vin talking about Nava, Stratsburg and Heyward. After his 60+ years covering baseball and the Dodgers, that excitement still there in his voice.
He will be at FEnway Park Friday night.
this new wave of sox stars is getting exciting. itll be a while before i pick up Nava on my fantasy team but nothing like a shot like that right out of teh box to get you noticed.
dont think i toold you but my annual ballpark trip will be to miami! july 16th i think against the nationals. any tips for a nice miami-fied weekend? aside from listening to Will Smith. i better hear women singing "welcome to miamai" to me!


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Home List of Titles Spectra of globular clusters in the Sombrero galaxy: evidence for spectroscopic metallicity bimodality
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/208710
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- Title
- Spectra of globular clusters in the Sombrero galaxy: evidence for spectroscopic metallicity bimodality
- Author(s)
- Alves-Brito, Alan; Hau, George K. T.; Forbes, Duncan A.; Spitler, Lee R.; Strader, Jay; Brodie, Jean P.; Rhode, Katherine L.
- Abstract
- We present a large sample of over 200 integrated-light spectra of confirmed globular clusters (GCs) associated with the Sombrero (M104) galaxy taken with the Deep Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph (DEIMOS) instrument on the Keck telescope. A significant fraction of the spectra have signal-to-noise ratio levels high enough to allow measurements of GC metallicities using the method of Brodie & Huchra. We find a distribution of spectroscopic metallicities in the range -2.2 < [Fe/H] < +0.1 that is bimodal, with peaks at [Fe/H]---1.4 and -0.6. Thus, the GC system of the Sombrero galaxy, like a few other galaxies now studied in detail, reveals a bimodal spectroscopic metallicity distribution supporting the long-held belief that colour bimodality reflects two metallicity subpopulations. This further suggests that the transformation from optical colour to metallicity for old stellar populations, such as GCs, is not strongly non-linear. We also explore the radial and magnitude distribution with metallicity for GC subpopulations but small number statistics prevent any clear trends in these distributions.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
- Source
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 417, no. 3 (Nov 2011), pp. 1823-1838
- Publication year
- 2011
- FOR Code(s)
- 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
- Keyword(s)
- Globular clusters; M104; NGC 4594; Sombrero galaxy; Star clusters
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- 0035-8711
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2011 The Authors. Journal compilation copyright © 2011 Royal Astronomical Society. The accepted manuscript is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. The definitive publication is available at www.interscience.wiley.com.
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Tag Archives: Flower Films
Berkeley documentary filmmaker Les Blank to be honored
Update, 9:10 p.m.: Les Blank was able to attend the City Council meeting and heard the proclamation that was made about him. He was accompanied by his son Harrod Blank and many friends showed up to support him. Berkeleyside's Emilie Raguso was at the meeting and posted the photo below to Twitter and on our Facebook page (where there's also video of Harrod Blank addressing the Council.)
Original story: "Les Blank is one of the best documentary filmmakers in America," says Susan Wengraf, councilwoman for district 6 in Berkeley, who plans to present Blank with a proclamation at tonight's meeting of the City Council.
Blank, who has lived in Berkeley for 35 years, and whose company Flower Films, is based in El Cerrito, may not be able to attend the meeting at which he will be honored, however, as he is very ill. (On Monday, Blank's son Harrod told friends he hoped his father would be there.)
Wengraf, who has know the filmmaker for nearly 40 years, says she is crossing her fingers Blank will be there, but she takes comfort from the fact that an informal proclamation was made at a recent screening of clips of Blank's films. Many of his friends were there and Blank answered questions from the audience. "Harrod said it made him very happy and lifted his spirits," Wengraf says. … Continue reading »


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Dodgers Fans against Stadium Violence
From the Divisionarivalry.com where I purchased my Vin Scully t-shirt:
Divisional Rivalry Shirts have teamed up with "Dodger Fans
against Stadium Violence" to make some Tees available to purchase to show
we do NOT promote Stadium Violence. What happened on 3/31/2011 is
unacceptable. It's ALL for the LOVE and SUPPORT of Baseball and your team
and should not go beyond that. The proceeds of these shirts will be donated
to help Bryan Stow and his family.
A women's size is in the works.
Note: The reward to capture the rats (ratas con dos patas) that did this to Bryan Stow is up to 100,000.
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Emma: This is a great idea, I hope people follow the shirt's message. Again, it's a shame what happened. Hopefully things like this will be prevented in the future…
That was a real tragedy. I hope people do not bash Dodgers fans, like they always do with Philly fans, based on one idiot. A handful of morons do not represent our teams! I love the tee shirts…hope it helps raise awareness.
Thanks for gettin' the word out, Emma. This is an important movement and I'm all for it. Great shirts. Hope the message is spread by seeing good folks wearing them.
Dodgers have hired former LA Police Chief Bratton, so that is a step in the right direction to address security.
You right that a handful of thugs does not represent the Dodger fans but we need them to go away some for good in jail.
We are spreading the word!
Dodger Fans against Stadium Violence!
What a great shirt with a great message, but when I went on that website, I was dismayed to see that they sell extremely crude and offensive shirts that can provoke fights like this. Seems a bit contradictory to me.
You are right. The only shirt I have bought from there is the Vin Scully shirt. I don't agree with some of the shirt. The one of Dodgers against Stadium Violence was the idea of a friend of mine Teresa and one of her friends. I work with Teresa.
If you check my page (a few blogs back), I too pointed out these skivosas DO NOT represent Dadger fans. There's also a reference I made about seeing MORE than my share of fights in the stands @ FedEx for Redskins games. (Trust me, I know.)
Now it's up to $100,000 for these scum? Isn't that just a tad TOO LOW?
the amount is climbing. I've turn those two thugs without even any reward money. I know many Dodger fans that feel the same way. If would be good that the person getting the reward give back half or some of the money to Bryan Stow.