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The second Ashes Test was one ball old when the gravity of Glenn McGrath's injury-enforced absence became apparent.
The first delivery is always bowled by McGrath, and almost always it lands right on the spot. This time the honour fell to Brett Lee, who sprayed the ball to first slip.
They say sport is a great leveller. The absence of McGrath from this Test and maybe the series could be the leveller this series needs.
The impact his freak ankle injury could have on the outcome of the Ashes cannot be overstated.
Of the 11 Australians selected to fight out the second Test, only the influence of Shane Warne comes close.
If Lee's first-ball wide was portentous, the afternoon thrashing of Australia's attack by Andrew Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen was a sobering reminder of McGrath's importance.
Australia fought back as great teams do, but great teams are made that way primarily because of great individuals.
In McGrath, Australia have lost one of the greatest.
They have managed before, most recently for a whole year in 2003/4 when they beat Zimbabwe at home, Sri Lanka away and drew with India in Australia.
The Aussies were also without Shane Warne in the latter series, a scenario too painful for most Australians to contemplate happening again.
McGrath, a farmer from Narromine, is a threat not only when the ball is in his hand.
When he grazes at third man, the knowledge the next over is his plays on a batsman's mind, and that opens doors for his colleagues.
The prey McGrath doesn't kill himself he softens up for his pack-mates.
He does the job of two bowlers, leads the attack and sets the agenda.
That is why he is the most influential player in the Australian team.
From the off, England's openers came out of their shells at Edgbaston, emboldened by the absence of the predator known as Pigeon.
Lee, with primary wicket-taking responsibilities resting on his shoulders, was cannon fodder for Marcus Trescothick early on.
And when fate frowns upon you, things can snowball from bad to worse.
Australia clung onto everything at Lord's, but the first chance of the day went begging when Warne dropped Andrew Strauss at first slip.
Trescothick was then handed a life when caught in the gully off a no-ball from Michael Kasprowicz, McGrath's replacement.
Bringing Warne on after only an hour's play would not have been in skipper Ricky Ponting's thoughts at breakfast.
But at breakfast McGrath was probably sitting opposite him, crunching on cornflakes and chewing over the day ahead.
Even the greatest leg-spinner of all-time can seem less threatening when McGrath isn't around.
Given his customary rough reception by the crowd, Warne was handed even rougher treatment in the middle until he spun one sharply to get rid of Strauss.
Australia are not a one-man band, and the pace attack's efforts to peg back Pietersen and Flintoff showed the cupboard is far from bare.
The visitors will be satisfied with the day's takings at Edgbaston after winning the toss, even if both England innings at Lord's yielded fewer runs.
But there is no replacing McGrath, and every over he remains out of action is too many as far as Australia are concerned.
If England needed something to get back in the Ashes, they got it in the form of a game of touch rugby and a cricket ball that should have been somewhere else.


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Slideshow: The secrets behind secret addictions
What to do when your secret addiction to cleaning gets in the way of your life and affects your daily activities.
A cleaning addiction can lead to the constant need and drive to want to clean. It is commonly known as a form of obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD.
Those with cleaning addiction display various symptoms including, spending many hours a week cleaning as if it is a part-time job or having a fear leaving your home unless everything is clean and organized.
According to the International OCD Foundation, people with OCD, engage in repetitive behavior or thoughts, have a constant fear of their daily activities being interrupted and come to use the compulsion as a form of 'escape.'
The internet and social media are powerful enablers to fuel a porn addiction. Porn addicts display anger or irritability when asked to stop. Addicts continue the behavior despite consequences involving relationships or job loss. For more information, MorningsideRecovery.com
Is it simply retail therapy or a serious shopping addiction? With drawers filled with clothes, unused makeup or cosmetics, or other products, some 'shopping enthusiasts' actually display signs of addiction.PHOTO: Flickr/Akira Ohgaki
Studies show that a shopping addict might feel the constant need to spend money as a result of feeling angry, anxious or lonely.
66% of people suffer from Nomopobia: the fear of not being in constant contact with their smartphone or mobile device. Morningside Recovery shows that the average American spends 144 minutes a day on their phone!
Some signs of shopping or spending addiction include: feeling lost without credit cards; lying about how much money was spent and thinking obsessively about money.PHOTO: Flicr/Luiz Fernando
According to ProjectKnow.com, those with a spending addiction may feel euphoric after making their purchase and could, at times, be argumentative with others when talking about their shopping habits.PHOTO: Flickr/Stephane <3
Excessive shopping and spending can result in a person needing professional help to regain control of his or her life, go to ProjectKnow.com for information.PHOTO: Flickr/Orin Zebest
WebMD states that sugar affects the same "feel-good" hormones in your body as street drugs. If you feel bad when you don't get your daily sugar "fix" or eat more than you planned, you could have a sugar addiction.
Many people live with an exercise addiction and can begin over training. According to FitDay.com, the release of endorphins can lead to what's called a 'runner's high.'
Researchers say this is caused by a surge of endorphins during intense exercise. "Researchers discovered that when beta-endorphins were injected into depressed patients, their moods were elevated. The experiment demonstrates that endorphins improve an athlete's mood during and after a workout."
Fitday.com says some warning signs of exercise addiction can be if the individual is working out alone or in isolation. Some signs of addiction also include working out even when in pain or with injuries.
An addiction to work could impact your health! MorningsideRecovery.com states that there is a direct correlation between the rate of heart disease and the number of hours worked in a day. Work addicts feel compelled to be "working all the time." This addiction can actually diminish productivity and can hurt work and personal relationships, according to CNN.com.
In some cases, people who drink more than one cup of coffee a day may display signs of caffeine addiction. Too much caffiene can lead to restlessness, insomnia, rapid heartbeat or muscle tremors. For more info click here.PHOTO: Flickr/M Shades
Withdrawel from caffeine can cause headaches and irritable behavior. In certain cases, it can lead to depression, according to research from Morningside Recovery.

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Ireland Extends Clean-Power Subsidy So Projects Can Be Completed
Ireland extended an incentive program for clean energy projects by two years to give developers more time to complete their developments.
Projects operating before the end of 2017 will be eligible for the second Renewable Energy Feed-in-Tariff program, compared with 2015 previously, according to Pat Rabbitte, the minister for communications, energy and natural resources.
The program began last year to spur the creation of 4,000 megawatts of renewable electricity capacity on the Irish grid. It backs small and large-scale onshore wind farms, biomass power stations and hydropower plants of less than 5 megawatts as Ireland seeks to get as much as 40 percent of its electricity from renewables by 2020 from about 20 percent now.
Ireland won't meet its clean power target without boosting the wind energy built to at least 250 megawatts a year from 180 megawatts now, Rabbitte told a conference in Dublin today.
Failure to meet the 40 percent goal will lead to European Union charges of as much as 150 million euros ($192 million) a year for each percentage point shortfall and another 250 million euros to buy emissions permits to fill the gap, Rabbitte said, citing estimates from the nation's Sustainable Energy Authority.
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When it came to expanding library hours and services in the neighborhoods, Margolis has had to fight City Hall every step of the way, and usually lost or had to settle for much less than requested or required. In a tight fiscal environment, that is the way of the world. But to suggest that Margolis favored the historic Copley Square library at the expense of the neighborhoods is just not true. Look at where the painful cuts in staffing have occurred and you'll see that Copley Square suffered so that the branches could soldier on.
When Margolis suggested consolidating redundant branches in order to provide better service in a more cost-effective way, City Hall thundered elitism: more rubbish. Keep your eye on East Boston. Now that former Senate president Robert Travaligni, who hails from that neighborhood, has left the State House, one of its two branches will likely be closed, and operations consolidated.
One of the tricks to keeping political score is not to listen to what public officials say, but to watch what they do. In this regard, Margolis was remarkably consistent. He said what he meant and he tried to act accordingly. A more politically acute individual might get away with that. But even Margolis's most ardent supporters will admit that policy, not politics, is his strong point. Couple this with his constitutional inability to kiss the mayoral rump — perhaps the most important requisite for survival in the Menino years — and you can begin to understand why Margolis's gold-plated library card is not being renewed.
Margolis, the library, and Boston deserve better. The letter-writing campaign that has been mounted on Maroglis's behalf will most likely have no immediate effect. The mayor spent years appointing sufficiently pliant souls to the BPL's board of trustees to achieve his end, and it is unlikely that his appointees will not do what the mayor requires. That sad bit of reality aside, it is important for the trustees to remember that their first loyalty — their only responsibility — should be to the library itself. It is their job to insulate the library from the vagaries of political life. Let us hope that in the future they are up to the task. Boston is watching.
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The Blaugrana overcame Mourinho's side 3-2, recovering from a goal down at Camp Nou, leaving the Catalan giants favourites to win the first trophy of the season
The Blaugrana had to recover from falling behind to Cristiano Ronaldo's header, and Xavi praised Barcelona's ability to get back into the match. Speaking to the press, he said: "We started the game well, but showed character to get back into the match.
"We had a great game, and to win was significant as it means we know what we have to do at the Bernabeu. If we play the same in Madrid [as we did at Camp Nou] then we will win the title."
Xavi also had words of encouragement for Victor Valdes, whose blunder late in the game at Camp Nou gifted Angel Di Maria the simplest of goals to leave the match in the balance at 3-2 in Barcelona's favour.
"Victor [Valdes] is a professional and the best goalkeeper that we could ask for," added Xavi.
Both Real Madrid and Barcelona return to Liga action at the weekend, before the two rivals commence battle at the Bernabeu on Wednesday.


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Victoria's Secret, famous for their underwear, lingerie, swimwear, lotions, creams and mists, also carries a pretty comprehensive beauty line. I bought these from Sophia (the make-up blogette) who got them in the US during the VS semi-annual sale. No better time to try them out I say.
Nice packaging, modern and simple.
This is a baked mineral eyeshadow quad. It is about the size of a MSF, but contains a lot less product. It has a dome shape, which is characteristic of baked mineral products.
The colours are rather pigmented (those are one swipe swatches) but not very unique. I'm liking the colour combi though.
Next up are a blush trio and a bronzer trio. The colours are pretty much muted and look very soft. I actually visualized them as brighter (I don't know why) and not so dull looking, so I was a bit surprised when I saw them in real life.
These are swatches of the individual colours, blush followed by bronzer. They are very sheer, but that means that they're buildable. They have a very slight amount of shimmer, barely noticeable.
The trios when swatched together. I've worn the Afterglow blush and I must say that I quite like it. It lasted the whole day, giving me a nice glow.


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Younger Australians are hooked on debt. Where will the buck stop? Geoff Strong and Farah Farouque report.
It took only a few years for the illusion of financial freedom to be hosed away by shame, for the joy of shopping to be blanked out by the harassment from creditors. By the end, "Priscilla", as she wants to be known in this story, was avoiding telephone calls, concealing the truth from her family and losing her job. A couple of months ago, she was declared bankrupt, aged 26.
She still lives at home with her parents, who worked hard and saved for what they bought.
"I was always a good girl," she says now. "I studied at school, didn't give my parents trouble and didn't get involved with drugs. But (spending) turned out to be an addiction as bad as any other."
For her, it all began with one
of those small, rectangular pieces
of plastic that slide innocuously
into our wallets, seduce us to
spend freely and, when the time
of reckoning comes, force us to
pay it all back with a big slice of
interest tacked on. Priscilla
"maxed out" her cards.
From the age of 18, when her first credit card seemed to unleash power, Priscilla's retail therapy was paid for by other people's money. By the time it was over, the eight-year binge had cost her $30,000.
What does she have to show for it? There is still a cheap video cassette recorder at her parents' home but the rest, like the expensive French perfume she loved to buy, has evaporated.
Like Priscilla, Australia is addicted to debt and the amount we owe is growing. Even including the third of the population that has no significant debt, the average Australian household now owes $134 for every $100 it earns, according to figures released last week by the Reserve Bank. Australia now has the third-highest ratio of household debt to household earnings in the Western world, behind only the Netherlands and Japan. But Japan and the Netherlands have an industry base that allows them to produce more than they import. Australia does not. Here, much of the nation's borrowing goes on buying consumer goods, such as household appliances, cars, holidays, entertainment and homes.
There is concern that, like Priscilla, our national spending is financed by other people's money, because our relatively low savings mean financial institutions borrow from overseas to lend to us. Australian households spent marginally more than they earned in the last financial year, saving only an average 0.8 per cent of their incomes. This is down fromsavings of 6.1 per cent 10 years ago and 11.9 per cent 20 years ago.
Just over a week ago, the Reserve Bank raised official interest rates from 4.75 to 5 per cent, increasing repayments on a typical $190,000 home loan by $31.35 a month. Economists are predicting rates will have risen by 1 per cent by next June, adding $125 to the monthly repayments on such a mortgage. Analysts argue over the significance of all this, particularly over whether households will be in strife as interest rates rise. But there is agreement on what is behind the change in attitude to money. The frugal generations are dying off, succeeded by younger ones who have never learned that the economic world can be a cruel place.
Dr Clive Hamilton, of the Canberra-based Australia Institute, studied the nation's consumption patterns last year. He has also explored the spread of "luxury fever" in his recent book, Growth Fetish, where he writes that "most people are prosperous beyond the dream of their parents and grandparents".
"People see debt as part of life these days," Hamilton says. "Young people have a particularly fatalistic attitude to debt. Even 30 years ago, there was value in being abstemious. Thrift was a virtue." Hamilton says a careful attitude to money was seeded in the generations that experienced the Depression and World War II. Even their more laissez-faire offspring—the baby boomers— have actively accumulated assets. But now many purse strings are in the hands of generations who have not faced the blowtorch of financial hardship.
Mark Peel, from the school of historical studies at Monash University, noted generational change in attitudes to money when he took oral histories from older Australians. He found fear of debt was strong in people over 60. Some even blamed themselves for the debt appetite of those who followed them. As one woman put it: "I didn't teach my daughter how to be poor. That was my mistake, because I thought the world had changed."
It has certainly changed in the sense that, rather than save to pay for something as intangible as a holiday, many people now borrow.
"Suzie" is a single mother who works as an alternative health therapist. She had to refinance her home after a messy marriage break-up. "The bank gave me $15,000 more than I needed, so I decided to take an overseas holiday to America. I figured I needed it." How will she pay it back? "I'll pay it back somehow. It will just take longer with the mortgage."
Australians are overoptimistic about the future state of their bank accounts, according to a survey released last week. The Fame and Fortune Survey, conducted by Hawker Britton UMR Research, found that while 26 per cent of Australians believed that one day they would be rolling in it, the brutal truth is that only 3 per cent of people aged over 65 actually consider themselves wealthy.
The survey was based on interviews with 1000 Australians over the age of 18. Hawker Britton managing director Bruce Hawker said: "The younger you are, the more rich and famous you think you will be . . . It's an extraordinary expression of optimism that nearly half the people under 30 believe it likely they are destined for fortune."
The generational divide might be wide but Hamilton argues that, when it comes to overconsumption, class boundaries have more or less dissolved. "Middle-class people can and do aspire to lifestyles of the rich, and working-class people aspire to not only the lifestyles of the middle-class but the rich as well," he says. "People take their consumption norms not from their communities but from TV and magazines . . . the lifestyles of the rich have become accessible."
Hamilton points out that our houses have become larger (the average size in 2000 was 221 square metres, compared with 130 in 1970). Conversely, household size — the average number of people living in a house — has fallen.
Similarly, 20 years ago, Australians built barbecues from bricks and a hotplate. Now, Hamilton observes, one fancy model costs $10,000. "We have a culture of discontent, which is constantly fostered by a vast marketing industry," he says. Where is it taking us?
Credit card debt is a tragedy for people such as Priscilla but it is only a small amount (about 3 per cent) of what Australians owe. Our borrowed money goes mostly on building or buying homes, the goods that go in them (which are increasingly imported from overseas) and speculating on the housing boom through buying investment properties.
October Bureau of Statistics figures revealed lending to housing investors soared 5.5 per cent in August, reaching a record $6.81 billion, or 35 per cent more than the year before.
Paul and Linda Eacott are a Box Hill couple in their 30s with a 10-month-old baby, a Honda four-wheel-drive and Falcon sedan that they owe money on and a renovated house on which they owe $178,000. They plan to borrow another $170,000 for a rental property.
Their income from his fulltime job as assistant travel agency manager and hers as a part-time midwife brings them close to the national average household income of $70,000.
They are not particularly worried by their debt level; they are more worried about missing out on the gains they have heard others are making from the investment property market.
"I know we are about the national average," says Linda, "but I don't want to be average, I want to be filthy, rotten rich. The only problem is I don't know how to go about it, unless I win Tattslotto." She jokes: "Why did I marry a travel agent?"
They try to pay $1500 a month off their debt but this does not leave much left over for discretionary spending such as meals out or —despite Paul's job in the industry — holidays. But the future holds one looming bigticket expense: private education. The private school they have their eyes on charges about $12,000 a year at today's prices.
Paul says they considered buying an investment property in Hobart but a swarm of investors got in earlier and priced them out. Now he says they are considering towns along the north Queensland coast.
They bought their small Box Hill weatherboard house seven years ago for $140,000 and spent $50,000 on renovations. "The bank has just valued it at $400,000, which means we can safely borrow $170,000," he says.
"To sit back and not take advantage of having this equity would be silly. I know superannuation is no good and shares? They don't seem to come to anything."
In the short term, though, their next significant expenditure will be a new television, DVD home entertainment sound system combination and, in the longer term, an extension to their home.
"I guess it is just keeping up with the Joneses," says Linda.
Professor Sue Richardson is director of the National Institute of Labour Studies at Flinders University. She believes an ideological shift by successive governments to encourage Australians to self-fund their retirements has brought about an obsession with investment property. "Most people don't understand the economy and they certainly don't understand the complexities of the private superannuation system. People are being forced to look after themselves and they are doing it through what they can understand — property.
"What they don't realise is that there is going to be terrible hardship when things go wrong, as they inevitably will."
But Dr Duncan Ironmonger, director of the Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, believes Australians are not seriously in danger over debt. "There will be some people who are over-exposed if there is a rise in interest rates but to say we are up to our neck in debt is a lot of hoo-ha. In terms of gearing, households are better off than many businesses. Most households have mortgages worth 15 to 20 per cent of their property's value. A business worth $10 million might have debt worth $4 million to $6 million."
But even borrowing for investment in housing is seen by some analysts as risky for Australia's economic future. Peter Brain, executive director of the National Institute of Economic and Industry Research, says that spending on housing speculation takes money away from investment in production, which helps us pay our way in the world.
"People are ultimately borrowing to consume; national debt is going to pay for hamburgers," he says. ''The banks keep dreaming up new ways to lend money. The latest is the reverse mortgage and that is going to be a social disaster. You've got the baby boomers who might have paid off their home but not left enough superannuation to provide the kind of retirement they want, so the banks will lend them maybe $100,000 against the value of their home.
"They don't pay it back, but it is taken out of the value of their estate when they die, plus interest. This means that the next generation, many of whom have not been able to get into the inflated housing market, will end up being left nothing when their parents die. It is just not sustainable; we have sold our futures."
Priscilla knows just what this means. Being bankrupt means it will be three years before she can do anything like borrow again or even have substantial savings.
Looking back, she notes how willing the stores and banks were to give her the six credit cards that led to her financial ruin and how aggressive they were in trying to get back their money when they realised she was in trouble.
"I know I should be ashamed of it but, in the end, bankruptcy was not so bad. Retail therapy — what good did it do me?
"Now that it is over I feel a sense of freedom. I feel relief."
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text: Hundreds of dogs, cats, rabbits and other homeless pets were at Marin Center Saturday in what is being hailed as "the most adoptable pets ever in one spot in the Bay Area." Most Northern California pet adoption and rescue agencies participated in the Bay Area Pet Fair and Adoptathon in the hope that 500 adoptable pets would find new homes during the weekend-long event. Some 435 pets were adopted last year. The fair is free and continues from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at 10 Avenue of the Flags in San Rafael. It also features stunt shows by rescue dogs, a dock for dogs to dive and get wet, a Marin Humane Society agility course and demonstrations by police K-9 teams. Adopting families will receive a $25 Pet Food Express gift card and $50 will be donated to rescue and adoption agencies.


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Claire Chambers was stuck in a low-paid job in a supermarket and felt like she was getting nowhere.
She didn't have any A-Levels so didn't think she could study for a degree and improve her job prospects.
But now, thanks to studying with The Open University, the mum of two has a degree - and she got a 2:1 - and is about to complete a Masters degree.
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"Before starting a family I had a poorly paid, very stressful and not very rewarding job. Thank goodness I gave this up after the birth of my first child," says Claire,44, from Nottingham.
"I decided to study with The Open University when my second child was born. I wanted to look forward to having a more rewarding career once the children were both at school. "Studying at home was ideal for me. I didn't want to be away from my children any more than I had to, so it meant I could juggle my role as a mum and fit my study around home life.
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"Once my children were both at school I was free to start looking for work. I saw two vacancies - one at a local software firm and one here at the university working on an e-learning project.
"I applied for both and was amazed when I got offered them both.
"My best friend was so inspired by my journey that she has signed up to study with the OU. She has now graduated with a BA and joined me as alumni.
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2 from NY accused of license fraud in New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Two foreign nationals residing in New York City while in the United States illegally are accused in New Mexico of trying to fraudulently obtain driver's licenses.
State Police say 31-year-old Manuel [auth] Chimbo-Pando of Ecuador and 29-year–old Turcios of El Salvador were arrested Tuesday in a joint investigation by State Police and Department of Tax and Revenue agents.
Felony charges in a criminal complaint accuse the men of responding to a newspaper ad, traveling to New Mexico from New York and paying $1,500 to a criminal ring for false documents to use to obtain driver's licenses.
State Police Sgt. Emmanuel Gutierrez says the two men live in Queens.
Gutierrez says investigators determined the men are in the United States illegally but that details on their immigration status aren't immediately available.
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City of Waukesha Fire Chief Jesse Alba, accused of sexually harassing a fire department employee, has been suspended with pay, effective immediately.
The decision was made Wednesday night by the Waukesha Police and Fire Commission after it went into closed session at City Hall.
A final disciplinary hearing that will determine whether to retain Alba is scheduled for 9 a.m. Sept. 12 at City Hall.
City Administrator Ed Henschel said it will resemble a court setting with the four-member Police and Fire Commission acting as the "jury."
At that time, the city will present its side, while Alba's attorney, Victor E. Plantinga, will present his client's side.
"We're glad we have a hearing date that's so close to resolve this," said Plantinga after the PFC made their decision.
Alba was present Wednesday night but did not speak.
A recently revealed independent investigation alleges that Alba violated the city's anti-harassment policy and other city rules.
It alleged that he asked on two separate occasions that a part-time fire department female employee resign from her position after he developed a romantic attraction to her, the complaint said.
The employee has since resigned.
Mayor Jeff Scrima had previously asked that Alba resign after the investigation was complete. Alba refused.
The alleged violations are not criminal.
Alba's attorney, however, said the entire story has not been told through the complaint.
"We do not believe the city has provided accurate information pertaining to the nature of the relationship between the complainant and Chief Alba," Plantinga said in a statement released after the hearing Wednesday. "We believe the evidence will establish that prior to Chief Alba being promoted to chief, he did engage in (a) consensual sexual relationship with the complainant that lasted for many months. This relationship never occurred on duty. This relationship also ended before the process for hiring a chief took place.
"While Chief Alba regrets the decision he made in his personal life, it is unfortunate that the decision must impact Chief Alba professionally. We look forward to presenting this evidence and questioning the credibility of witnesses whom the city is relying on to bring these charges."
Henschel has said based on the allegations in the complaint, "I determined there were clear violations of city policy, department rules and regulations and it called into question Mr. Alba's ability to make sound management decisions and to make good judgment as a leader of a large municipal (department)."
Before the PFC went into closed session Wednesday, the City of Waukesha's attorney stated why Alba should be put on administrative leave, something Henschel said he would have done immediately.
Plantinga also stated his case saying that the allegations took place before Alba was chief.
"There have been no violations of city rules that they are stating," Plantinga said.
Henschel said the investigation has caused low morale within the department and that Alba's behavior while chief and before becoming chief in April warrant a suspension.
But Plantinga accused the city of creating this low morale by making statements to the press. He said Alba has maintained his responsibilities while under investigation.
"He has continued performing his job responsibilities," Plantinga said. "If there's low morale it was created by Mr. Henschel that undermines his ability to lead the department."
Henschel said after the meeting that he has talked with fire department employees on how the investigation has impacted the WFD.
Alba started with the department in 1986, while working his way up the ranks. He replaced longtime chief Allen LaConte, who retired in March 2012, just four months ago.
The search cost the city more than $16,000. Henschel said that hiring the investigator to look into the allegations cost the city "several thousand dollars" and now hiring an attorney to represent the city on this matter has also cost another "several thousand dollars."
Alba makes about $110,000 annually as fire chief.


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Man found dead in North Palm Springs
North Palm Springs - Riverside County Sheriff's Department says a man was found dead lying in a roadway near the Windmills North of Palm Springs Monday afternoon.
Sheriff spokesman Deputy Albert Martinez says they got the call around 1:20 p.m. stating that a man was lying in the roadway. They got on scene and found the man on Garnet Road just South of Interstate Ten on Garnet Road. The man was pronounced dead on scene.
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A new equity deal for schools : a case study of policymaking in Queensland, Australia
Singh, Parlo & Taylor, Sandra (2007) A new equity deal for schools : a case study of policymaking in Queensland, Australia. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 28(3), pp. 301-331.
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In this paper we draw on concepts from policy sociology to analyse the new equity deal for schools in Queensland, Australia. We examine this 'new deal' through an analysis of the language of 'inclusion' and 'educational risk' in key policy documents associated with a major reform of public education in Queensland. In addition, we analyse the interview talk of key policy actors involved in policy framing, carriage and monitoring. We contextualize our concerns about equity issues in terms of the global information revolution. As Castells (2000) has noted globalism has increased rather than reduced social inequality. Good quality accessible education plays a role in challenging the inequalities produced by global informationalism. In Education Queensland, equity is still on the agenda, but in radically new neo-liberal economic ways. The focus is individualistic – each individual needs to be tracked because they are potentially 'at-risk' of 'school failure'. Identification of 'at-risk' students has been devolved to the level of the school and district and intervention strategies have to be devised at the local level. Stories of success are then to be shared/networked with other schools. We suggest that while 'target group equity' strategies were limited in terms of addressing issues of social exclusion and inequity in the new millennium, the new deal on equity, a market-individualistic approach is an inadequate alternative.
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With same-sex unions and the endorsement of a gay bishop, the limit has been reached, writes Peter Jensen.
Everyone who knows the Archbishop of Canterbury personally testifies to his deep commitment to the unity of the Anglican communion. It is also recognised that he is going to need all that commitment and his theological skills to hinder it from self-destructing.
Developments in the Canadian diocese of New Westminster provide a useful template for the future of the communion and the role of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
There, nine parishes have tried to withdraw from the jurisdiction of Bishop Michael Ingham, who approved blessing same-sex unions. They have secured the oversight of the Bishop of the Yukon. Such developments have been contested by Bishop Ingham.
For their part, they have appealed to the Archbishop of Canterbury for his recognition that they are authentically Anglican, and continue to be part of the Anglican communion. Can they be part of the communion if they have broken with their own (territorial) bishop?
The role of the archbishop in answering this question is crucial, though not utterly decisive. Clearly, his word matters a great deal to all involved, and all will be urging him to support them.
At stake are such issues as property and the succession of ministry. He is faced with extremely painful choices. They amount, I think, to three options.
First, he could do nothing. He would see the dissenters as a break-away group who should revert to the diocese, and simply continue to recognise the diocese of New Westminster as the only authentic Anglicans. The dissenters would be treated as akin to the many splinter groups that have broken from the Episcopal Church of the USA over the years.
Second, he could recognise both the dissenters and the diocese of New Westminster. The fact that the two groups are structurally out of communion with each other for the time being is not something that should trouble the archbishop.
His role is to take the long view and hold them together. This would amount to a recognition that the Anglican communion is a federation or network of local churches (dioceses), in varying relation to one another, but held together by history and respect for Canterbury. Third, he could take the view that Bishop Ingham has in fact broken unity by his action, and that it is an action so much at odds with the mind of the communion and the teaching of scripture that he can no longer have whatever benefits are conferred by the recognition of the See of Canterbury.
How can we assess the different options? There is something to be said for doing nothing. It recognises that the communion is a loose one, based more on history and structure than we had realised.
It does not exaggerate the role of the archbishop. It allows local people to deal with local problems. The problem for the Archbishop is that so many people in the communion see the particular issue of homosexuality as having high moral and spiritual importance, and requiring a firm and clear decision by him.
He raises the question of whether we are in fact dealing with a matter of such significance.
In my judgement, however, he has misjudged the present situation and his peaceable approach has run out of time. There are several reasons for this. First, although we may want to regard issues of human sexuality as of the second order, they are in fact so prominent in the Bible and the moral tradition is so clear that the "time for listening" beloved of liberal thinkers is not available.
Second, many people regard the matter of homosexuality as the last point of a drift that has been occurring for several decades. It is the final moment for the communion.
Third, the offence caused to churches in the global south by the maverick Western decision-making, which has badly affected them, has been seriously underestimated. There is deep hurt, and the communion has been destabilised.
In short, it is going to be difficult for the archbishop not to act. His moral authority is on the line. Even if he cannot accept that the blessing of same-sex unions and the endorsement of a gay bishop are wrong in themselves, it will be expected that he can see that faithful Anglicans have been disenfranchised for no other sin than holding on to the majority traditional view. Not to act will invite others to act in support of the traditionalists. What of the second option? It would not please many people, but it may actually create time for the communion to settle. On the other hand, it is a frank recognition that we are going to see "new alignments and new patterns".
Indeed, this route raises important theological questions about what makes a church a church. The communion would begin to look more like a network of interconnecting churches, some of which would be out of fellowship with the others. It is by no means certain that Canterbury would remain in any sense the focus.
Lastly, the third option requires disciplining the erring churches in the only realistic way possible, namely withdrawing recognition. This, of course, is the way of greatest risk, and requires the greatest courage. It would mean a belated recognition of the distance we have already come along a liberal path, and the need for decisive action. It would send a powerful moral and spiritual message to the churches of the West that our flirtation with secularism has gone too far and we are in real danger of losing the moral and spiritual imperatives of the gospel.
Of course it would lead to the alienation of many and the withdrawal from the communion of a significant number of players.
As the parishes in New Westminster testify, there is a limit to communion. It comes where souls are put at risk by sustained institutional disobedience to the word of God in scripture.
For myself, I believe that they were right to say that in the blessing of same-sex unions (and the endorsement of a gay bishop) the limit has been reached.
Peter Jensen is the Anglican archbishop of Sydney. This is an edited extract of an article published today in the British magazine New Directions.
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ok, by their own admission and by TCs admission the stud DEs are under performing
but, we do need to take a step back and look at other things beyond sacks
if a QB takes a 3 step drop and immediately throws a slant ...there is no way to get a sack, for example
Eli has only been sacked 4 times and we are not a west coast offense, dink and dunk team, we are always looking to throw it downfield and we take 5-7 step drops and this board was chicken littling it up about our line and our Tackles, so are we looking at a league wide trend? ... well, not for the Packers, but
so, long story short, i feel the sacks will come and they do tend to come in bunches, but now is a good time to remember other things
batted passes ... had a bunch of these on Sunday and it is the way to defend 3 step drops
QB hits
hurries, we've got a good number of INTs, which almost always are the product of the QB hurrying it
illegal procedures .... Cleveland had guys ... even the great Joe Thomas .... jump(ing) due to the challenge of trying to block JPP, etc.
run D ... ok before you chuckle, we are right in the middle of the pack vs. the run giving up 111 / game and we've played Trent Richardson, who we did hold to 80 ultimately, Demarco Murray, Lesean McCoy, Cam Newton/Deangelo Hall and Doug Martin ... Tuck and JPP do better than avg. as DEs vs. the run ... Osi, well not so much, but the point is to read the posts here, you would think we were last in the league vs. the run
and just one more thing ... a great clip from the Super Bowl highlights was hearing Tom Brady say that he felt like he was trying to throw in a forest


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Re: st: Reliability/ Factor analysis commands
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On 23 Feabh 2007, at 20:51, Vanessa Mahlberg wrote:
I´m a German student doing her diploma thesis in Human Resources
Management. I´ve got 2 questions.
Alpha has the drawback that it depends on the number of items. An
alternative, which does not, is Loevinger's H, which you will find if
you issue the command
1. I would like to do a reliability analysis with Spearman Brown. (I have already calculated Cronbach´s Alpha). I only found the command "Spearman´s rank correlation".
. findit loevinger
Can anybody please help me to get the reliability coeffizient
Stata has a whole chunk of manual devoted to factor analysis, which
tells you a lot about how to run it, including the name of the
command (-factor-).
2. How can I use a factor analysis with stata.I dont´t know the command.
I wonder if you need to read up on some general text that introduces the statistics of test evaluation. Your questions suggest that someone told you do go away and calculate statistics X, Y and Z, but not why.
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It sure is an exciting time to be a Jackets fan!
I think Vermette is ready for a change of scenery. Not really sure what to do about a backup for Mase. I've really liked all the moves Howson ha made since coming to C-Bus. We are seeing what a level head in management gets us. I tip my hat to Howson/Hitch and of course all the players for Carrying The Flag!!!


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The time is coming and, like the Borg, it's inevitable. Last night we were with a group from NPU at David and Linda Parkyn's home celebrating Christmas. Not only were we in the presence of friends and good music, but Linda pushed to think about a topic one more time. She asked what we would [Read More…]
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No one is left at my old employer to give me a reference. What do I do?
The old Manager knew you as an employee, so yes use him.UK
If previous employer don't give check reference,but still working and good relation and prevous employer don?
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Rosecrance Health Network, a nonprofit organization that provides behavioral health services for adolescents and adults, has opened an office in Pewaukee, its first in Wisconsin.
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Without wanting to oppose the whole document, the parts you quoted are pretty incomplete. first, calculating AART from clients perespective (as implicitely done in the article) is not a good idea, since you are mixing up tomcat response time, network transport, internet latency, all in one bunch. Why should tomcat care about the data once it left its buffers? Second, and most serious flaw of the article, is the inability to differ between net and gross request duration. There are more resources needed on the server besides the cpu. Disk io costs time too. With a AART of 1 second and one cpu you can still handle 10 requests per second if the net request duration is 0.1 seconds, even the gross duration is 1 second or more. regards Leon On Jan 29, 2008 3:11 PM, Andrew Hole <email@example.com> wrote: > Hello > > I read an interesting document from Mladen Turk (with whom I want to speak > directly, but I don't know direct contact) that there is a formula to > calculate the number of concurrent request: > http://people.apache.org/~mturk/docs/article/ftwai.html > > Calculating Load > > When determining the number of Tomcat servers that you will need to satisfy > the client load, the first and major task is determining the Average > Application Response Time (hereafter AART). As said before, to satisfy the > user experience the application has to respond within half of second. The > content received by the client browser usually triggers couple of physical > requests to the Web server (e.g. images). The web page usually consists of > html and image data, so client issues a series of requests, and the time > that all this gets processed and delivered is called AART. To get most out > of Tomcat you should limit the number of concurrent requests to 200 per CPU. > > So we can come with the simple formula to calculate the maximum number of > concurrent connections a physical box can handle: > > 500 > Concurrent requests = ( ---------- max 200 ) * Number of CPU's > AART (ms) > > The other thing that you must care is the Network throughput between the Web > server and Tomcat instances. This introduces a new variable called Average > Application Response Size (hereafter AARS), that is the number of bytes of > all context on a web page presented to the user. On a standard 100Mbps > network card with 8 Bits per Byte, the maximum theoretical throughput is > 12.5 MBytes. > > 12500 > Concurrent requests = --------------- > AARS (KBytes) > > For a 20KB AARS this will give a theoretical maximum of 625 concurrent > requests. You can add more cards or use faster 1Gbps hardware if need to > handle more load. > > The formulas above will give you rudimentary estimation of the number of > Tomcat boxes and CPU's that you will need to handle the desired number of > concurrent client requests. If you have to deploy the configuration without > having actual hardware, the closest you can get is to measure the AART on a > test platform and then compare the hardware vendor Specmarks. > > I would like to launch a discussion on the validity of this formula and, in > case of inappropriate, to try to get a more accurate formula. > > Thanks a lot > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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When bad sports turn good - time in Tiwi and the power of sport to do good
15/03/2013 , 10:59 AM by Karen Shrosbery
"You'd better find a way to prove it will make our community better."
Those were the words former 1233 Station Manager Mike McCluskey said to me back in 2005.
He was responding to another hair-brained scheme of mine - for 1233 ABC Newcastle to provide live radio coverage to this new, untested football competition to be known as the A-League.
I trudged away and produced a 25-page argument that boiled down to; "Sport unites us and connects us and that's what the ABC tries to do too. So let's do this, even though it is hard and we don't have the money."
We are now eight seasons into what has become much-loved coverage of a very popular competition and local team. ABC Grandstand now covers most A-League games across Australia.
But my old boss's words came back to me this week on the Tiwi Islands, as they have done many times since they were first uttered.
"Prove it will make our community better."
Bathurst and Melville Islands together form the Tiwi Islands - 80 kilometres north of the Darwin coastline, but still part of the Northern Territory. Between 2,500 and 3,500 people live here, all indigenous, but for a handful of school teachers and government administrators. The Tiwi Islands don't have a motel, a hotel, a hostel or a hospital, but they do have a thriving Australian Rules Football League, the TIFL.
I'm here to identify media talent and develop it. Three years ago, I created a Sports Commentary and Broadcasting Course for Papua New Guinea's National broadcaster, the Nuiguini Broadcasting Corporation Media Development Initiative, in conjunction with the unsung heroes of ABC International Projects, which led to a number of local commentary teams being created there.
In many developing regions, sport is considered a perfect vehicle for building better societies.
I know that must seem laughable to everyone following Australian professional sport right now. Communications are a bit hit and miss up here, but I saw enough of Twitter this morning to be aware there are more allegations that a substance meant for the farmyard has wound up inside a footballer instead.
In developing communities, however, sport is an entree to critical health and governance messages and programs. "Come for the footy, get on the electoral roll and see a nurse. But wait, we'll also throw in a free vaccination for the kids!"
Various indigenous bodies, the ABC and the Shire Council here have a dream that the amazing TIFL Grand Final coverage provided by Charlie King and HG Nelson could be replicated, weekly, by Tiwi-based broadcasters.
The eight teams of the TIFL are spread over substantial distances. Imalu fans wanting to go to the Grand Final this weekend, for example, face a long car ride then a boat trip and accommodation options are limited. If only every game could be beamed into their homes, no matter where on Tiwi they are.
Believe me, Tiwi's Got Talent (Patent pending).
Vicky, Samuela, Charlotte, Alfie, Casey, Daniel, Nich and Fab have spent more than a week wrestling with the concepts of play-by-play commentary, expert analysis, hosting a pre- and post-match show, researching, show preparation, interviewing techniques and laws of the game.
They've welcomed me and my brand of sports science stimulant, given it a Tiwi tweak and come up with their own brand of sports commentary that I know will become legendary if we can make it a regular event.
Local voices broadcasting local sport in the local language to the local people. That's the hope. No, that's the plan.
It is many years on, the world of sport has changed a lot and it is now Phil Ashley-Brown who has to listen to my wild schemes, but yes, I'm sure we can still "prove it will make our community better".
- Pictured: Fab and Nich with the TiwiAFL Prize, The Maurice Rioli Cup
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once upon a time, far far away..
i'm dealing with a women ruled and obsessed by her childhood memories, here is the the moment she was caught by her mother while playing a queen and oppressing her baby brother. started the concept with the mother but now she is presence only in the girl's acts and reaction. it's an overdoing reaction.but that's how she remembers. she is melodramatic.


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Soft yarn, a simple stitch pattern, and several sizes of crochet hooks combine to create a stylish shaped cowl that looks great, feels terrific and didn't use up too many brain cells to create! Twisty Cowl is crocheted in the round from the bottom up, and has two options for neckline fit. Wear the cowl over your coat, or tuck the bottom half under your collar for a more tailored look.
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I hiked into Forage Lake on August 2, 2012 and camped. I expected there to be grayling and golden trout of size and numbers based upon a scientific survey published in 2009 by IFG. Observing the lake from multiple vantage points during the morning, afternoon, and evening, did not indicate that there were any fish present, other than one large rise was noted. I encountered a similar situation in 2003, although I did see and hook one fiish on a fly ( which was lost before landing). Is it possible the fish are no longer present, or that they are holding in very deep water out of sight?
I would also note that the main campsite was heavily trashed in 2003 and 2012. In 2012, I bundled together about 30 lbs of garbage and assorted debris into some decaying plastic tarps and Tyvec plastic sheeting that were found at the site. The garbage included fishing line and an unopened bottle of salmon eggs. unfortunately, I was unable to backpack out this large amount of garbage.
Forage Lake was stocked with golden trout last year as well as 2004 and 2006, so it should have fish in it. It is possible that they were simply in deeper water and you just weren't able to see them, but usually if fish are in a mountain lake, they're fairly obvious. It's very possible that some or most of the fish died in a winterkill. Winterkill can definately happen if a shallow lake is covered by ice for an unusual length of time -- which could have happened this year. Sorry to hear about the garbage. Unfortunately, some people can be real slobs.


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Republican Attorney General candidate Chris Barden is calling on Democratic incumbent Lori Swanson to debate his eight times. Barden told reporters that he wants to have eight debates – one in each congressional district in Minnesota – between now and Election Day. Barden says the debate will give the public an opportunity to learn the differences between the two candidates.
Barden said his top priorities are suing to stop the federal health law, working to institute photo identification at the polls and making Minnesota's business climate more friendly. Barden says he would join a lawsuit filed by other attorneys general challenging the constitutionality of the federal health law. He also said he would lobby the Legislature to pass a law that requires photo identification at the polling place. Barden also said he would work to be an advocate for consumers and businesses if he's elected. He argues Swanson has been too focused on consumer issues at the expense of business.
Barden says the only debate that is currently scheduled is a KSTP-TV/League of Women Voters debate on October 16th.
I'm checking to see whether Swanson has agreed to appear at the KSTP-TV debate or any other debates.
Here's a response from Brian Bergson, with Swanson's campaign:
"AG Swanson is tending to the office's legal work, and hasn't yet seen Dr. Barden's political correspondence. She will participate in a debate sponsored by KSTP 5/League of Women Voters, but details and scheduling still need to be worked out."