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High-scoring offenses to face off when Yough hosts Jeannette
The big question surrounding Friday's WPIAL Class AA Interstate Conference first-place football game between No. 8 Jeannette (2-0, 2-0) and Yough (2-0, 2-0) is will Yough senior quarterback Tyler Donahue play?
Donahue, a three-year starter for the Cougars, injured his non-throwing shoulder during the season opener, and Yough coach Mark Crovak lists him as doubtful.
He was held out of last week's game at Brownsville.
"He's not practicing because he hasn't been cleared to play," Crovak said before Tuesday's practice. "We hope to get him back, but I'm doubtful.
"I don't think he'll be back for at least another game. We're preparing that he won't play. If he plays, it's a bonus."
If Donahue cannot play, junior Eric Baer will replace him. Baer has completed 16 of 23 passes for 190 yards and three touchdowns in a little more than a game. He relieved Donahue in the Charleroi game Week 1.
Crovak said Baer had some issues with the snaps he needs to clean up.
Jeannette coach Roy Hall said he's preparing for both quarterbacks, especially for Donahue.
"He's the X-factor for them," Hall said. "He does a lot of things well for them. He returned a kickoff for a touchdown in the first game."
But Hall said Yough has more than just Donahue. He's concerned about running backs Tom Sever and Clayton Waldron, whose father Doug was Hall's teammate at Jeannette in the early 1980s.
"They're going to be a handful," Hall said. "They have a lot of seniors, and this is the best Yough team I've seen since they beat us in 2006."
Both teams enter the game with high-scoring offenses. Jeannette is averaging 55.5 points per game and Yough 41.0.
But what has Hall concerned is his team's poor tackling.
"I'm happy we're 2-0, but definitely not happy with the defense," Hall said. "We have to play better. We didn't play well defensively against Charleroi. Thank God the offense is playing well."
Jeannette led Charleroi, 22-13, at halftime before erupting in the third quarter en route to a 62-27 victory.
"We can't play that way defensively against Yough, Mt. Pleasant, Washington or Greensburg Central Catholic," Hall said. "The mistakes we're making are fixable."
Offensively, there isn't much to fix.
Junior quarterback Julian Batts has completed 17 of 20 passes for 206 yards and two touchdowns. But the Jayhawks have many weapons, including running backs Terrell Canady, Damone Morton and Quentin Rickard all scoring at least two touchdowns.
"The thing that jumps out to me on film is how many weapons they have and how the spread the ball around," Crovak said. "There is not one kid you can take away. I'd like to say if you take away the quarterback you can shut them down. We have to be assignment sound and do the job on defense."
Yough faced some adversity at Brownsville last week. The Cougars were down 14-0 early, but rallied for a 30-21 victory.
Crovak felt his team grew up during the game.
"I told the kids we quite possibly learned how to win," Crovak said. "Teams here in the past may have lain down and taken the beating. This group didn't do it.
"At halftime, they didn't get excited and they listened to what (the coaches) told them to do, and it worked. The seniors we have on this team are tremendous leaders. They are unselfish, they just want to win. It's a nice thing to have."
One player Crovak said he needs to get the ball to is slot back Eric Borkovich.
Crovak called him a playmaker.
"The offensive line has to do the job for us to have a chance to win," Crovak said. "We have players who are experienced, and they listen.
"This game is going to come down to turnovers. We made too many mistakes last year, and it cost us."
Jeannette was a 45-13 winner in 2012.
Hall said Batts has become the leader he expected, and that freshman linebacker/running back Kareem Hall, his nephew, is getting comfortable and is playing well.
"We're playing a team with a lot of experience and has something to prove," Hall said.
Paul Schofield is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or via Twitter @Schofield_Trib.


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MANAGER Jimmy Reid insists his Pickering Town players will not be allowed to "go through the motions" as 2012 draws to a close.
The Mill Lane club's last two games of the year are away to lowly Glasshoughton Welfare today and at relegation-threatened Winterton on Saturday.
The Pikes have recorded impressive wins over promotion-chasing Bridlington Town, Scarborough Athletic and Worksop Parramore during the first half of the Northern Counties East League campaign.
However, Reid is concerned a number of his players fail to perform against some of the premier division's lesser lights.
The Pikes boss said: "We have lost points against teams like that before or not won by as many goals as we should have done.
"We've got some quality players at the club and we, as managers and coaches, shouldn't have to say anything to them in these games.
"But this is when we don't raise the stakes. We are not going to accept going through the motions.
"We are paying these lads and we want our money's worth. The bottom line is that they should be coming off the pitch with no petrol left in the tank.
"Expectations are a bit higher now and the players have accepted that. We are not going to get promoted this season, but we want to finish the season as high as we can.
"We need to catch the group of teams above us in the table. We are chasing that group and when we catch that group, then you target the next group, and so on."
Looking at the back-to-back festive away games, Reid said: "We have got to go there and bring three points back.
"You have to perform the best you can, get your head on, get three points, say 'thank you very much' and come home.
"Glasshoughton have had a change of manager recently, with the two former Tadcaster lads Rob Hunter and Mark Smitheringale going in there.
"I know they are trying to recruit a few players and they will be better than when we beat them last month.
"Winterton are down near the bottom and we just need to go away and look to get three points."
Eddie Cass will come into contention for the Glasshoughton clash, having missed the Bridlington game following his switch from Brid back to Pickering.
Tom Fenwick is also available after missing the last two weeks of action.
Forward Ged Dalton has seen a specialist about his troublesome knee injury and, although there is evidence of scar tissue, he could be back for Saturday.
Said Reid: "We should have 18 or 19 players to choose from now and they will be fighting for 14 places on a match day. That can only be good for us."
Tadcaster Albion travel to Hall Road Rangers looking for their first premier division win in four matches.
In division one, Knaresborough Town are away to struggling Yorkshire Amateur today.
Harrogate Town, 12th in Blue Square Bet North, host Workington at Wetherby Road knowing a win would take them above their ninth-placed visitors.
Harrogate Railway Athletic visit second-from-bottom Goole in Evo-Stik League division one north.


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Ever since psychiatrist Leo Kanner identified a neurological condition he called autism in 1943, parents whose children have been diagnosed with the most severe form of the illness -- usually in the toddler stage, before age 3 -- have found themselves desperately searching for some way not to lose their children to autism's closed-off world. Unfortunately, such parents have often found misguided doctors, ill-informed psychologists and outright charlatans eager to proffer help.
Paul A. Offit, a pediatrician and the chief of infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, has gathered this sorry parade of self-styled samaritans for "Autism's False Prophets," an invaluable chronicle that relates some of the many ways in which the vulnerabilities of anxious parents have been exploited.
First, though, some basics about the disorder: According to the Autism Society of America, children and adults with autism "typically show difficulties in verbal and non-verbal communication, social interactions, and leisure or play activities." But there is a wide range of severity, hence the use of the umbrella term "autism spectrum disorder." At the less severe end of the spectrum, a diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome is sometimes applied to cases where there is no delay in children's acquisition of language. (The Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger noted this milder form of autism in 1944, but it wasn't formalized as a diagnosis until the 1990s.)
For a disorder that has been noticed and described relatively recently, autism is quite common, affecting as many as one in 150 children. And the frequency of the diagnosis is increasing, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The natural reaction to such an increase is: "Something must be causing it." The next step is: "Someone is to blame" -- followed by lawsuits, if only people can figure out whom to sue.
Autism's False Prophets
By Paul A. Offit, M.D.
(Columbia University Press, 298 pages, $24.95)
Dr. Offit notes two likely causes of the increase in autism diagnoses. One is that the definition of the disorder has broadened over time, so that children with mild symptoms are now being diagnosed when once they would have been regarded as merely quirky. That's certainly plausible. My son, now in his mid-30s, sought a formal evaluation a year ago, just to satisfy his curiosity about whether he's really an Aspy, as those with Asperger's sometimes call themselves. And indeed he is. But when he started school three decades ago, and his teachers worried about why he seemed to have trouble making friends, no one so much as mentioned a neurological problem as a possible explanation. Today they would, and they'd also have more useful guidance on what might help him (he seemed fine to us, his parents).
The second cause of the rise in autism diagnoses, according to Dr. Offit, is that in earlier times children with severe symptoms of what we now recognize as autism were more likely to be diagnosed, often incorrectly, as mentally retarded.
Just as autism is being found more often, so, it seems, are dubious explanations for the source of an illness that so far has defied medicine's attempts to find its origins. The parade of "false prophets" began lining up soon after the disorder was defined.
At mid-century, psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim set up a school in Chicago, and published a book, based on his theory that autism was precipitated by the "black milk" of mothers who treated children with a frosty emotional distance. His claims of successful treatment were widely disseminated; that the claims were fraudulent, not so much.
Next in Dr. Offit's parade are the advocates of "facilitated communication" from the 1970s and 1980s, who claimed that their approach enabled nonverbal children to express their true selves. Facilitated communication entailed having a "facilitator" support a child's hand or arm, helping the child type on a keyboard or use other devices. The method was easily debunked with a simple experiment: Don't allow the facilitator to see what the child is seeing and suddenly the child's communication skills evaporate. But facilitated communication flourished for years. Nobody thought to do the experiments until the children's true selves -- or at least their imaginative helpers -- began recounting false tales of sexual abuse.
In 1998, a British doctor named Andrew Wakefield joined the ranks of autism explainers, announcing in The Lancet that the disorder was caused by the triple vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) given to young children. Only later did it emerge that the children he studied were clients of a lawyer who was searching for evidence he could use in a lawsuit. The disclosure prompted most of the co-authors of Dr. Wakefield's article to disavow it.
The MMR episode seems like just a prelude to the American manifestation of the childhood-vaccines panic of recent years. As Dr. Offit reports, the autism bogeyman is now the use of thimerosal, a preservative in vaccines. Thimerosal, as many studies in several countries have shown, is safe; whatever may be causing the increase in autism diagnoses, thimerosal isn't it. But in an excess of caution, federal agencies pushed to have thimerosal removed from almost all childhood vaccines.
The government's action was unnecessary but in itself not harmful. The problem was that removing the preservative seemed to confirm parents' fears: If thimerosal wasn't harmful, why get rid of it? The government's action did have the useful side effect of setting up a natural experiment. If thimerosal had been a cause of autism, the appearance of new cases should have begun to slow. In fact, autism diagnoses continued to climb.
Of course, the evidence rejecting thimerosal as a cause of autism had no effect on true believers, whose ranks include distraught parents and those beating the drums for their own patented remedies. Dr. Offit wonders why parents who distrust scientists and public health officials for refusing to admit that vaccines cause autism -- after all, they don't -- "haven't been similarly skeptical of the vast array of autism therapies, all of which are claimed to work and all of which are based on theories that are ill-founded, poorly conceived, contradictory, or disproved." Good question.
Ms. Seebach is a writer in Northfield, Minn.


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This article was published 25/6/2013 (1486 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Lloyd Axworthy's time with the University of Winnipeg is running out.
A member of the university's board of regents confirmed Axworthy told the board at its meeting Monday night he will not seek a third term as president and vice-chancellor of the U of W.
Axworthy's current five-year term expires June 2014.
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Thirty years after the Conquest, the nascent impression that the Normans had made on the English landscape was acquiring permanence in stone. In Norwich, their timber motte and bailey castle had been dismantled and was being replaced by a formidable stone edifice, which was to crown the huge earthworks beneath. Castles were instruments of war; their presence became a symbol of the dominance of a new aristocracy, and the subjugation of conquered people.
In 1096, work began on another no less eloquent, or emphatic, expression of Norman supremacy in the city - a cathedral. In the decades since the Conquest, the English church had been purged and repopulated by men loyal to King William. It had also grown. Ever prodigious builders, religious houses quickly sprung up across the country, as if to add a spiritual base to the new regime's lay authority. In 1096, Herbert de Losinga, a bishop from the Conqueror's native duchy, laid the foundation stone in Norwich with a stone from Normandy. When it was completed, Normandy stone towered over the city just as Norman men towered over England.
In 1087, the man who towered above all else in the Anglo-Norman Kingdom died. His third son William Rufus inherited England, his eldest, Robert Curthose, was left with Normandy. The Conqueror's decision to split his kingdom left his achievements at the mercy of a sibling rivalry that within a year had given way to out and out war. Out of the maelstrom, Rufus ultimately emerged victorious. Lacking the guile, intelligence, and vigour of his father, in a kingdom beset by acrimony the Norman project stalled under his helm.
For some however, there were still opportunities to plot the course of those who had followed in the Conqueror's wake. This was particularly true in the clergy. The church had been transformed by William I. By the year of his death, just one of the twelve bishoprics in England at the time of the conquest was in the hands of an English bishop. The rest had been made vacant, and filled, by Normans. Monastic houses were similarly treated, and it was this convention that brought Herbert de Losinga to England. Soon after Rufus' accession, the prior of Fécamp, Normandy, was summoned to the position of abbot of Ramsey, Cambridgeshire.
Temptation however, lay elsewhere. For an ambitious clergyman, there were few greater prizes on the table than a bishopric. The Conqueror's reform of the church had redefined and enhanced the position, and when the see of Thetford became available in 1090, de Losinga made his interest known. It would be obtained at a price.
Unlike his father, William II had little interest in the church, but had found that he could exploit vacancies high up in its hierarchy by treating them along feudal lines. Rufus was acutely aware of the potential income, the Domesday Survey had recorded that church lands accounted for twenty-six percent of Norman England, and the king wanted his share of the wealth. The bishop-elect therefore was expected to pay a sum for his new see, much in the same way as a lay heir paid money to the crown when he came into his inheritance. The price for de Losinga was a thousand marks. He had the resources, but it put him on a collision course with his faith.
For the church, relief in exchange for a bishopric was indistinguishable from simony, the sin of paying a price for spiritual office. The portents were there for all to see at de Losinga's consecration in 1091. The ceremony included a prognostication, whereby a page of the gospels was opened at random and it was believed that whatever phrase came to the eye, would foretell the bishop's future character. For the new incumbent of the see of Thetford, it was Matthew 26:50: "Friend, wherefore art though come", Christ's words to Judas. Devastated and stricken with guilt, Herbert de Losinga fled to Rome to repent.
The heirs of St Peter in Rome had, like the Conqueror of England, been occupied by efforts to reform their church. Indeed, a convergence between their respective agendas on this point produced something of a marriage of convenience in the run up to 1066, as William received Pope Alexander II's backing for his invasion of England in return for his pledge to transform its ecclesiastic affairs. The overarching ambition of the medieval papacy was the establishment of strict hierarchy in the church, with all lines leading to the pontiff as the supreme head of Latin Christendom. The advantages for William were more tangible and he used them to full effect. Having suppressed all lay opposition in England, the Conqueror exploited his papal legates to depose the native bishops, and then set about cutting his ties with Rome. William I was not the only sovereign intransigent towards pope's designs. In 1075, the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry IV, was excommunicated by Alexander's successor, Gregory VII, for meddling in church affairs. Far from repentant, Henry occupied Rome and had his own man, Clement III, declared pope.
Under Gregory, England's relationship with the papacy deteriorated further. After his death, in ignominious exile, neither the Conqueror nor his son Rufus recognised his designated successor, Urban II. Papal legates were refused permission to cross the channel, their letters were censored, and no Norman bishop was allowed to visit the pope without the king's consent. Short of this crucial authorisation for his quest, Herbert de Losinga arrived in Rome.
The Lateran Palace was still occupied by the German anti-Pope Clement III, but it was to his rival that the beleaguered bishop headed. Urban II had been brought to Rome from France by Gregory, and, after the brief reign of Victor III, had risen above the malaise left by his former mentor to be named pontiff in 1087. A committed reformer, Urban's more circumspect approach had found more allies than previous efforts to transform the church. There were however, more facets to the movement than papal supremacy, and in the Bishop of Thetford, the pope found a willing ally. De Losinga is known to have contributed a tract on clerical marriage which was one of the cornerstones of reform, which had already been abolished in England after the conquest. Another issue behind the reform movement nevertheless was simony, and it was for that sin that de Losinga sought absolution. What Urban asked of the bishop is lost in the sands of time but the vim and vigour with which he pursued his later projects certainly lend themselves to the notions of penance and divine inspiration with which he left Rome. De Losinga resigned his bishopric and received it back from the pope's hands; he was now free to attend to his spiritual affairs back in Norfolk. Or so he thought.
On his return to England de Losinga faced the full brunt of the folly of his flight. Recognising Urban's authority ran contrary to the king's edict, and Rufus seized Thetford in retribution. De Losinga was in due course reinstated but alas, like his meeting with Urban, there are no written records of the reconciliation. The speed with which bishop redeemed himself with both masters is certainly notable, for the pope some form of pledge to further the interests of the church would seem an obvious gambit, his relations with the king however, appear more complex. Some contemporary sources paint de Losinga as a creature of the king's court. His initial appointment to Ramsay put him in Orderic Vitalis' inventory of those in whom Rufus looked "less for piety" than for "obsequiousness and willing service in secular affairs". He featured similarly in William of Malmesbury's list of those in the church with "a lust for gold" and "venal ambition", but neither writer excludes the possibility of redemption for later achievement and modern historians tend to argue the bishop was no sycophant. De Losinga's escapade in Rome could have cost him dearly; whatever happened for him to regain the king's favour was Norwich's gain.
Among de Losinga's first acts as bishop was to align his diocese with the streamlining and improvement in church administration since the conquest, which had gradually seen cathedrals re-sited in more populous centres. In 1070 Norfolk, Bishop Herfast had transferred the seat of his Norfolk see from Elmham to Thetford; now in 1094 de Losinga brought it to Norwich. A site was selected for a new cathedral to be built by the river, provided by a transportation network for the stone arriving from Caen via Yarmouth. The preference for Normandy stone was based upon the logistical realities of building in eleventh century Norwich, necessitated by the lack of local freestone and inaccessibility of other quarries, but the bedding of Norman rock into English soil further symbolised the submission of the conquered people. The tension between the church and the city that culminated in the paroxysms of violence of the thirteenth century had its roots in de Losinga's planning. Two churches and a sizeable Saxon settlement were razed to clear space for the cathedral, and the monastery the new bishop founded to serve it.
The Norman Conquest was an apocalyptic event for those who resided in Norwich in 1066, but by the time Herbert de Losinga laid the foundation stone of his new church thirty years later the city had emerged thirty percent larger with a booming economy to support its ambitious bishop's designs. The bishop's vision was gargantuan, on the scale of the great Episcopal cities of Europe. One of the twelve largest churches of the period, in dimensions it stood in comparison to Old St Peter's in Rome and was equal in architectural magnificence. There are no explicit references to architecture in de Losinga's surviving writings, but there is little doubt that his involvement was direct. His efforts to cajole his workers seemingly knew no bounds:
"I love you and am striving to deliver you, slow and indolent as you are, out of the hands of the divine severity. Often have I stirred you up in person...to apply yourselves fervently and diligently to the work of your church, and to show carefulness in that work, as done under the inspection of God's own eyes".
Under the bishop's assured if overbearing direction, progress was made rapidly; within five years, with the eastern chapels, presbytery, transepts and choir all completed, he consecrated Norwich Cathedral. Building work slowed as de Losinga advanced in years and it was more than a quarter of a century after his death that the construction work was finally finished in 1145.
In the cathedral precinct de Losinga established an Episcopal Grammar School. Scholarly and well read, this lasting impact on education in the city is indicative of a learned man. In later life there are records of him vociferously urging an abbot named Richard of Ely to send him the works of the ancient Jewish historian Josephus: "Send me Josephus. You have often made the excuse the book is fallen to bits, but now that it has been rebound no pretext is left to you". De Losinga is also known to have read Josephus' near-contemporary Ovid, pagan classical literature at odds with his own faith. He raised this contradiction in a letter in which he described a dream where he was questioned whether Christ should be preached and Ovid recited by the same mouth. This capacity for personal introspection did not however extend to engaging in the theological debates of the day or searching for new answers. De Losinga found solace in the requisite texts and was unflinching in his faith, in his words: "We seek a rational explanation, but the highest reason is to trust God's will and word".
He did not however shirk from politics. In August 1100, William Rufus was fatally shot through the lung by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest. With his elder brother Robert on Crusade in the Holy Land, the king's younger sibling Henry seized the throne. This reopened the fractious debate between the papacy and the crown. Adhering to reforms of Pope Gregory that had alienated and infuriated the Holy Roman Emperor quarter of a century before, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Anselm, refused to receive the customary investiture from the monarch, or pay homage. De Losinga was one of three bishops sent to Rome to represent the royal cause. The expedition was a shambles from start to finish, personally and collectively. The Norwich bishop was captured on route to the Eternal City and held to ransom. He obtained his release but finally reaching Rome the Pope was predictably unsympathetic to their cause. And still, on their return home, the bishops contrived to confuse the message. Ultimately a second embassy had to be dispatched for clarification.
De Losinga also took a diplomatic role in the perennial dispute in the English church between the respective rights of the archbishops of Canterbury and York. Here he sided with Anselm. Whilst somewhat anomalous to his representations for the king in Rome, it seems clear that through his contribution of a polemic on clerical marriage, his flight to Urban as opposed to Clement, and his later attendance at three church councils passing reforming decrees, on which side of the fence he stood. In any case his attempts at mediating between Canterbury and York were unsuccessful, with the latter refusing to give any ground. Towards the end of his life he undertook a second attempt, but illness ultimately prevented him taking the case to pope for arbitration.
The tension between the archbishoprics mirrored a conflict de Losinga inherited between his own diocese and the affluent monastery at Bury St Edmunds. The riches of Bury had long been eyed jealously by the East Anglian bishops, who sought to bring the see under their jurisdiction. One of de Losinga's predecessors, Herfast, incurred the wrath of Canterbury for his predatory designs: "were you to devote less time gambling to games of chance to reed the bible for a change and to learn some canon law, you would cease to argue with your mother church". This question mark of devotion could not be levelled at Herbert de Losinga, but the bishop nevertheless harboured ambitions of his own. It is suggested by the chronicler Eadmer that the ransom the bishop was forced to pay when he was captured on his way to Rome had in fact been intended to sway the Popes favour to his cause. Whilst it is possible that this is a slight on the de Losinga's character, Eadmer was a close associate of Anselm, it is likely he would have met him, and with little political capital to gain from such allegations, their veracity cannot be discounted. In his own diocese, de Losinga attempted to exercise power verging on megalomania. In 1107 Roger Bigod founded another religious house on his doorstep but out of his jurisdiction. Thetford Priory was Cluniac and thereby subject to only the abbot of Cluny in France, and the Pope. De Losinga made his antipathy known in refusing to consecrate the churchyard until Episcopal dues were restored to him. The unseemly dispute continued when Bigod died and the Thetford monks were compelled to allow his body to lain to rest in Norwich Cathedral, instead of at his own priory.
William the Conqueror initiated a far-reaching programme of reform in the English church that successfully usurped the native clergy and achieved autonomy from Rome, but what it spawned was about more than Norman hegemony. It gave rise to unholy politics in which Herbert de Losinga undoubtedly indulged, but the extent to which this despoils his legacy is still open to question. The thirty years after the Conquest were ruthless times as the country was transformed, and a new aristocracy manoeuvred for position. De Losinga was caught in the tumult and this at times appeared to impair his judgement. Nevertheless the impression he made on the county of Norfolk is largely positive. A dynamic man, his vision and energy is embodied by the grandeur of his great Cathedral in Norwich which stands as his defining legacy. It is equally important that his contribution to the history of the upcoming ports of Lynn and Yarmouth should not be overlooked. Lynn fell fully under the bishop's somewhat overbearing control, but this in no way hindered its development. A collection of small settlements when building work commenced on St Margaret's Church and Priory he founded in 1101, until his death de Losinga oversaw the gradual expansion and making of the modern town. Yarmouth was less rigidly controlled but in establishing St Nicholas' Church and Priory he established a firm base and like Lynn the town benefited from the Bishop's acumen. In the case of Norwich, where he imported his ecclesiastical practices and imbued the project with his continental vision, and at Lynn and Yarmouth where he employed expertise attained from his home port of Fécamp, the Norman practices brought by the bishop changed Norfolk forever.
Robert Smith
December 2010


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The deal means Tabcorp's 2130 TAB outlets will not face competition in NSW from rival bricks and mortar operations for another 20 years, though they can still compete for punters online.
As reported in The Australian Financial Review last month, there was little competition for a second licence, but the NSW government had been open to the idea of allowing a rival into the market.
Tabcorp's exclusivity for tote and fixed odds retail betting will be extended for 20 years to June 2033 under the in-principle agreement.
While the company's NSW retail wagering licence does not expire until 2097, its exclusivity was due to end on June 22.
The company agreed to pay the NSW government $75 million, including an initial payment of $50 million and $25 million over a 10-year period from 2024. The price was broadly in line with analysts' forecasts, which ranged from $50 million to $100 million, but exceeded some expectations for exclusivity to be extended 15 years.
"By acting swiftly, Tabcorp has also removed a potential overhang, which had potential to drag on for several months beyond June," UBS analyst Sam Theodore said.
'Great outcome'
The new deal removes uncertainty for Tabcorp, which faces growing competition from bookmakers. It suffered a blow in Victoria last year when the state government scraped a poker machine-licence duopoly it enjoyed alongside Tatts Group.
The company's shares closed 2¢ lower at $3.22 on Thursday. The NSW agreement had already been factored into the company's share price.
Tabcorp holds the licence for both its 210 standalone TAB agencies and the 760 services in clubs and 1160 in hotels. NSW is its biggest market
It hired investment bank Greenhill to negotiate with the NSW government.
The government could have opened up retail operations to other players if both sides could not agree on a fee, but it is understood no competitors were serious about setting up rival bricks and mortar operations in the state.
As well as competing over the TAB outlets, a new entrant would have to come to a revenue-sharing agreement with the NSW racing industry.
"This is a great outcome for TAB, but it is also the right outcome for the NSW racing industry," Tabcorp chief executive
NSW is an important market for Tabcorp. Punters bet $2.9 billion at the company's retail outlets in the three quarters to March 31, 2013 – almost a third of the company's wagering turnover for that period.
The $75 million deal compares to $410 million that Tabcorp recently paid for 12 years in Victoria, but that also included the fee for the licence, which it already owned in NSW.
The next big challenge for Tabcorp is resolving a broadcast rights dispute with Tabcorp's Sky channel and the Thoroughbred Vision network (TVN). It is understood negotiations have now resumed after stalling due to a board crisis at TVN.
Meanwhile, Tabcorp spinoff Echo Entertainment and James Packer's Crown Ltd are due to submit rival proposals for gaming and leisure facilities in Sydney on Friday.
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Pittsburgh cyclists tackle the city's toughest hills
Danny Chew's idea of fun isn't the same as most peoples'.
For instance, most people wouldn't consider walking up Canton Avenue in Beechview fun.
Pittsburgh's steepest road is only one-tenth of a mile long, but its 37 percent grade means that for every 100 feet there is a 37-foot elevation gain.
It is also cobblestone.
Chew, 45, thinks it's fun to ride his bike up Canton Avenue.
On Saturday, Chew and other like-minded -- some might say masochistic -- cyclists will race up not just Canton Avenue but 13 of Pittsburgh's steepest hills in the annual Dirty Dozen bike race.
"That's a fun hill," Chew, 45, said of Canton Avenue. "People who make it stand at the top and cheer for the people that are trying to make it. It's quite a spectacle on that hill."
This year is the 25th anniversary of the race, which will begin at 10 a.m. at the Washington Boulevard bike oval.
The first Dirty Dozen was in 1983 after Chew, his brother Tom and their friend Bob Gottlieb decided to design a race showcasing the city's steepest hills. Using topographic maps, they scouted the Pittsburgh streets until they found 13 mini-mountains guaranteed to burn both lungs and limbs.
Five people participated in the first race, and only the three founders finished.
Last year, Chew said the race had its biggest turnout ever, with 125 riders, including 79 rookies.
Chew believes about 90-100 racers finished the 50-mile course, on which there is no racing between hills, only up. The race takes roughly six hours to complete.
Of the finishers, Chew believes only 75 or so made it up every hill, and only 16 scored points, which are earned by finishing in the top five on each hill. A perfect score is 65 points.
Mike Stubna, 31, finished second last year with 38 points, one fewer than three-time defending champion Steve Cummings.
"Some people are happy just to finish," Stubna said of the race. "I'd like to go for the overall win. If you want to do that you have to be able to consistently score points. It's so competitive that you have to be able to score in the top five on every hill."
Stubna, who grew up in Carnegie, recently moved to Philadelphia and urged friends there to start a similar race.
The first annual Philadelphia Dirty Dozen, a 40-mile, 13-hill race, was held on Nov. 3. The final hill was the famous Manayunk Wall, but Stubna, who won the race, said that even that isn't as difficult as the toughest hills in Pittsburgh's Dirty Dozen.
"Pittsburgh definitely has some harder hills than The Wall," Stubna said.
Chew said there's no such thing as a hill too steep to ride.
The lifetime cyclist has crossed the country eight times on his bike, winning the Race Across America twice and never finishing lower than fourth. He once rode to Iowa in four days, competed in and won a 24-hour race, then rode back to Pittsburgh.
His goal is to ride 1 million miles in his lifetime.
He's just 300 miles short of hitting his 1 millionth kilometer, and figures he should reach 1 million miles at the age of 70.
Chew's best advice to Dirty Dozen rookies is to pace oneself.
That, and to spread out on Canton Avenue in the very likely event of a crash.
"That hill gets about half the people the first time up," Chew said. "People don't take it seriously enough. Once they crash or don't make it once or twice, then they take it more seriously. But some people try three and four times and don't make it and give up. The hill just defeats them."
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Two days after Thanksgiving, some of the city's most extreme cyclists will participate in the 25th Dirty Dozen race up 13 of Pittsburgh's steepest hills. Here's the list, in race order:
1 - Center Avenue and Guyasuta Road in Aspinwall
2 - Ravine Street and Sharps Hill in Sharpsburg
3 - Berryhill Road between Saxonburg Boulevard and Middle Road in Glenshaw
4 - High Street and Seavy Road in Etna
5 - Logan Street in Millvale
6 - Rialto Street across from the 31st Street Bridge in the North Side
7 - Suffolk, Hazelton and Burgess Streets in the North Side
8 - Sycamore Street in Mt. Washington
9 - Canton Avenue in Beechview
10 - Boustead Street in Beechview
11 - Welsh Way in the South Side
12 - Barry, Holt and Eleanor Streets in the South Side
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Frequently Asked Questions about Extended Producer Responsibility
Questions and Answers
What is Extended Producer Responsibility?
Extended producer responsibility (EPR) is a policy approach in which a producer's responsibility, physical and/or financial, for a product is extended to the post-consumer stage of a product's life cycle. EPR shifts responsibility upstream in the product life cycle to the producer (i.e. brand owners, first importers or manufacturers) and away from municipalities and general taxpayers.
EPR programs are commonly made mandatory through legislation, but can also be adopted voluntarily (i.e. retail take-back programs) or even take the form of negotiated agreements between governments and industry. Legislated EPR programs are often adopted by jurisdictions when a designated waste stream is too costly or not profitable enough for producers or recyclers to voluntarily recover at the end of its useful life. Governments may adopt producer responsibility to achieve a greater recovery of secondary materials or as a means to divert materials from disposal. Legislated producer responsibility programs reflect the "polluter-pays-principle," since producers are made responsible for the waste management costs of their products.
To date, the concept of EPR has been used to ensure the proper end-of-life management of a broad and growing range of post-consumer products such as batteries, electronic equipment, ozone-depleting substances, paints, pesticide containers, pharmaceuticals, used oil, and used tires. Since its inception in Europe in the early 1990s, EPR and product stewardship initiatives have gained popularity rapidly, with programs in place throughout Europe, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, the United States and Canada.
What does Extended Producer Responsibility involve?
Many products such as electronics, appliances, paint and engine oil need to be properly managed at the end of their useful life. Under the terms of an Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) program, collection is a responsibility of the producer and collection sites are established allowing for the recovery of end-of-life products. Consumers can then return their products at the designated collection sites, after which the product will be recycled or properly disposed of.
In order to create a harmonized approach to EPR, the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) has prepared a Canada-wide Action Plan for Extended Producer Responsibility with common coordinated policies and commitments for government action and common key elements for building producer responsibility for priority products. Many provinces already have a number of EPR programs up and running and many more will become operational in the coming years. For a list of EPR programs in Canada, see the Extended Producer Responsibility and Product Stewardship Inventory of Programs.
What are the benefits of Extended Producer Responsibility?
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) supports waste reduction, reuse and recycling activities, and reduces the burden on municipalities for the physical and/or financial requirements of waste management by providing a non-tax base funding for the programs. Considering that municipalities have limited ability to affect the generation of waste, EPR as a concept aims to shift waste management costs onto producers, who have the ability to incorporate changes in product and packaging design to reduce waste.
Who does what?
In cases where responsibility is assigned to individual producers, the regulated producers proceed to either collect the end-of-life products through their own private schemes or to form a collective organization, also referred to as a producer responsibility organization (PRO). Commonly, a PRO is designated by producers or through legislation, after which the organization becomes responsible for meeting the recovery and recycling obligations of the individual producers.
The PRO arranges for the collection, transportation, and environmentally sound recycling or disposal of end-of-life products at different collection sites across the jurisdiction. Municipalities may participate in the collection of end-of-life products as a service provider. Consumers participate in the programs by returning the end-of-life products to the designated collection sites and in some cases, by providing funding through a unit-fee charged at the point of sale that is collected by the PRO.
In Canada, some of the extended producer responsibility (EPR) programs use a visible fee at the point of sale while others are integrated into the price of the product – depending on the product and the province. Government involvement may range from the development of regulations, performance standards, developing and implementing monitoring protocols and enforcing the regulations.
At the federal level, Environment Canada has identified EPR as a risk management option for products containing substances that are considered toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA 1999). EPR can reduce the risks associated with the disposal of products containing toxic substances by promoting environmentally sound end-of-life management. See the "Highlights" side bar on the main page for further information.
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By Mary Foster, Associated Press Writer
NEW ORLEANS Revius Ortique Jr., a former civil rights attorney who became the first black justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court, died Sunday. He was 84.
Ortique died in Baton Rouge from complications with a stroke he suffered June 14, current Justice Kitty Kimbal told The Associated Press. Ortique and his wife moved to Louisiana's capital after their New Orleans home was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina.
"I think he was one of the finest judges I every had the privilege to work with,'" said Kimball, who took her seat on the court in 1992, one day before Ortique did. "I never knew anyone who did not like him. He exemplified the word gentleman."
Ortique had to step down from the court in June 1994 when he turned 70, the state's mandatory judicial retirement age.
As a civil rights attorney in the 1950s and '60s, he led efforts in the state to integrate labor unions and represented black workers in lawsuits seeking pay equal to their white counterparts.
In 1958, Ortique was elected to the first of five terms as president of the Urban League of Greater New Orleans. A year later, he was elected president of the National Bar Association, an association of black lawyers and judges. He served three terms as president of the Community Relations Council, a biracial group in New Orleans.
"I think many people do not know what his role was early in the civil rights movement," said Sybil Morial, widow of New Orleans' first black mayor Ernest "Dutch" Morial, and mother of former Mayor Marc Morial.
"There were many factions then working for various things -- boycotts for jobs, use of restrooms, lunch counters," she said. "He was one of the negotiators for all the groups. He had credibility with both the white and black communities."
The Times-Picayune reported Sunday that in the mid-1960s, when Ortique led the National Bar Association, he lobbied President Lyndon Johnson to appoint black judges to the federal bench. Johnson later nominated Thurgood Marshall, who became the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Justice Ortique was an inspiration to all Louisiana lawyers and judges," said Criminal Court Judge Arthur Hunter. "Not just African-American lawyers and judges, but all lawyers and judges."
He was appointed by five U.S. presidents to various commissions and boards, including a stint under President Clinton as an alternate U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
He was chairman for eight years of the New Orleans Aviation Board after being appointed by Mayor Marc Morial.
"He was a giant, a pioneer," said Morial, now president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League. "Everywhere he served -- as a lawyer, a judge, a Supreme Court justice -- he did it with distinction."
Ortique was born in New Orleans and served four years as an Army officer during World War II. He earned a bachelor's degree from Dillard University, a master's degree from Indiana University and a law degree from Southern University in 1956.
In 1978, the Louisiana Supreme Court appointed Ortique to a seat on the Civil District bench to complete the term of Adrian Duplantier, who was appointed to a federal district judgeship.
In 1979, he was elected to fill out the term of Oliver Carriere, who was retiring. He was re-elected, without opposition, in 1984, and he was elected chief judge two years later.
He is survived by his wife, Miriam Marie Victorianne Ortique, a daughter, Rhesa Marie McDonald; and three grandchildren. Funeral arrangements were pending.
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From: Bob Francis <>
Subject: [KYBOURBO-L] Moses Thomas, part four
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 21:23:10 -0500
A study of Loudoun County Personal Property Tax Lists 1782 - 1784 and
Loudoun County Land Books 1782 - 1787 show James Whaley or James Whaley, Jr.
in the very close neighborhood of [5] Moses Thomas. The Loudoun County
Personal Property Tax List 1785 shows the "estate of James Whaley"
indicating said James Whaley, Sr. is dead. [5] Moses Thomas witnessed a
codicil 8 July 1784 to the will of James Whaley in which will said Whaley
named as his daughter Elizabeth Remey "known as Whaley" (Will of James
Whaley, Loudoun Co. Va. 8 July 1784 - 9 Aug. 1784).
Shortly after the will was written [5] Moses Thomas married third Elizabeth
Remey "known as Whaley" born 1755 to James Whaley and his sister/law Barbara
Remey while he was married to Lydia Ann Remey, both daughters of Jacob
Remey, Sr. who died in Loudoun County ca 10 September 1787. The birthdate of
Elizabeth Remey "known as Whaley" is confirmed by Bourbon County, Kentucky
Circuit Court suit #1236, 12 September 1848 - September term 1852. The
following records confirm beyond a doubt that Elizabeth, wife of [5] Moses
Thomas was one of seven illegitimate children born to James Whaley and
Barbara Remey while he was married to her sister Lydia Ann Remey - - Loudoun
Co. Va. Order Bk A:98 and 208, the Loudoun Co. Va. Will 1787 for James
Whaley. Elizabeth, wife of [5] Moses Thomas may have been the first
illegitimate child of the seven named in the will of James Whaley since the
orders aforementioned refer to a base-born child born six months previous to
9 May 1758. Six children were born to [5] Moses Thomas and Elizabeth Remey
"known as Whaley". They were [551 Mary Ann "Polly" Thomas born ca 1785, [561
James Thomas, [57] Robert Thomas, [581 Emma "Leanna" Thomas - - all born in
Loudoun County. Four more children were born of this marriage in Bourbon
County, Kentucky. They were [591 George Thomas, [50] Henry Thomas, [5A]
Elizabeth Thomas and [5B] Sally Thomas.
[5] Moses Thomas appears frequently in Loudoun County orders 1783 -. 1790.
Bk M:22, 1790, orders [11] William Mitchell to pay unto [5] Moses Thomas 500
pds. tobacco for witnessing 20 days in suit William Mitchell vs. Lane.
Fairfax Order Bk 1788:87-91, 19 March 1790 names [5] Moses Thomas admstr. of
estate of Benjamin Clark Payne deceased.
Said Payne was killed during a fox hunt by his horse slipping at a jump
("The Paynes of Virginia" p. 249, Brooke Payne)
Loudoun County Order Bk P:120 (1792 - 1794) show Moses Thomas Lt. of 57th
Regiment of the first Battalion Officers Recommended in Militia of this
county 14 May 1793.
(p. 144) Records were found for the years 1791 - 1794 which indicate [5]
Moses Thomas was much involved with the business of Frying Pan Baptist
Church in Loudoun County (Frying Pan Baptist Church Records 1791 - 1798,
Reel #225, Virginia Room, Fairfax County Library). It appears evident he was
involved with this group before 1791 for which period there are no records.
The minutes disclosed:
13 May 1791, Moses Thomas is chosen for clerk.
20 June 1791, Church satisfied with report of Brother Thomas and Brother
Jackson concerning Sister Blinco.
23 July 1791, Moses Thomas was appointed messenger to the ? association.
23 March 1792, Moses Thomases JUDAH suspended from communion for telling an
untruth. Brother Coleman and Brother Moses Thomas appointed as messengers to
Bull Run next meeting.
17 January 1793, Brother Moses Thomas is to give Brother Helm notice to
attend the next day of business.
17 October 1793, Brother Nicholas (?Nichols) applied for dismission and was
directed to clerk for same (Compiler believes this notation may refer to the
husband of Elizabeth Thomas Nichols, niece of [5] Moses Thomas.).
17 July 1794, Robert Jackson and Moses Thomas appointed to attend
association 17 July 1794.
16 October 1794, negro JUDAH ?Reston belonging to Brother Thomas, Sister
Cockerill, Brother Thomas to have dismission.
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The road to Flowers Vineyards and Winery
is an adventure in itself. Driving up Highway 1 from Bodega Bay with stunning seashore
vistas scant yards to the left, youre sometimes forced to slow to 5 miles an hour
behind farm trucks, student drivers, and tourists in GMC pickups from Detroit. Its
as much a test of the drivers patience as it is the autos brakes. And once you
turn off on Meyers Grade Road, the fun really starts. You climb up and up to 1,500 feet
above sea level, twisting and turning beside steep, plunging forested ravines, before
entering the gate to Camp Meeting Ridge. And then, after a little more driving, you come
to the vineyards that are always above the fog
We drove past the winery, and parked outside the Flowers
lovely home. Bree introduced us to Joan and Walt
Flowers and their friend and chef Sandra
Simile-Kehn. We took a few minutes to chat and refresh ourselves before
being whisked off to view the "new ranch," about four miles away, as the crow
flies. As we rode, Walt and Joan told us that theyd moved from Pennsylvania to
CMR in May 1996, when the house and winery were built. "Its been fun to watch
the dream," Joan said with a smile.
They also described the area, and in particular, their biggest fear, forest fire. The
Sonoma Coast is heavily wooded, getting precious little rain in the summer, and they
endeavor to establish and maintain cleared perimeters around all the growing areas. Drip
irrigation is a must here as well; its just too arid to dry farm.
Though still mostly under construction, the new ranch is breathtaking. Its built on 327 acres of red soil, fractured rock and clay; Walt related Steve Kistlers comment that "this is Burgundy." Much of the property consists of terraced slopes on steep inclines. 22 acres of Pinot Noir were planted in 1998, with another four acres on "Mt. Baldy" and eight to ten acres on "Upper and Lower Heavenly" in the works. "Baldy" is slated for Pinot Meunier and from its top, you can see the Pacific off in the distance in three different directions. "Upper Heavenly" is designated for Pinot Noir (Calera clone), while Chardonnay (Mount Eden, Hyde Wente and Phelps clones) is planned for "Lower Heavenly."
The script calls for 10 acres of Pinot Noir, 2 acres of Pinot Meunier and 3 acres of Chardonnay to be planted in 1999, with another 9 acres of Pinot Noir and 2 acres of Chardonnay in 2000, for a total of 48 acres. Theres also a 3.5 acre area that will be planted with Syrah either in 2000 or 2001.
"And, we think there are several other small areas that will be good sites," Joan told me, "but we need time to explore."
Once these new vineyards are fully operational, the winery aims to eventually produce 10,000 cases, with the capability of 12,000 if need be.
Its fascinating to see the various stages of development here. Walt says the project is "frightfully expensive." An incredible amount of work has gone into the new ranch, and theres a lot yet to do. Much of the area had to be cleared and regraded, and 800-900 tons of rock had to be added to a one-acre plot for underdrainage.
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo softball team (19-25, 6-9 SSC) rallied from a three-run deficit to defeat the Florida Southern College Moccasins (23-20, 9-12 SSC), 4-3, in an 11-inning thriller, Wednesday evening from University. Earleir, the Lions dropped game one of the SSC doubleheader by the score of 6-2.
On the day, the Lions combined for 13 hits, including a pair of three-hit performances from Tiffinee Harvey and Jaime Walker. Harvey added to her doubles total, connecting on her 18th in the win. While Walker used the last of her three singles to drive in the game-winning run in game two. Brittany Yates snapped her homerless streak with a solo blast in game one and scored a game-high three runs, while Agen smacked her 15th double of 2010. Sarah Boyd went 2-for-7 on the day with a double and three RBI and Ana Castillo platted one run, as well as going 1-for-8 from the plate.
In game one, Saint Leo appeared to have erased the memories of last night's extra-inning's loss to FSC, posting a pair of runs in the second. Yates got things rolling in the right direction, smashing a lead-off home run to give the Lions a 1-0 advantage. The solo shot broke a 13-game homerless streak for the catcher and now stands at 11 on the year. Boyd followed with a walk and advanced home on a Fielding error by the Mocs' Foley with Alex Garris at the plate.
Unfortunately, that was all the offense the Lions were able to generate as Brittany Alderman registered zero's for the remainder of the contest. The Mocs answered the Lions two runs with a four of their own in the top of the third. Leading the Florida Southern charge was Peggy Alex and her RBI double. The Mocs registered two hits during the frame and also took advantage of a Lions' fielding miscue which led to one of the four runs being scored.
FSC added to their lead with a two-run fifth inning, as a trio of Mocs connected three extra-base hits to make the score 6-2.
The Lions couldn't respond to the Florida Southern offensive outburst as they dropped their fifth-straight contest to the Mocs.
Walker (5-8) was handed the loss, allowing four earned runs over seven innings. She allowed only one walk and seven hits while completing her eighth game of the season.
Game two was a reversal of fortunes, as Saint Leo used four unanswered runs to claim a 4-3 win. It was Florida Southern who struck first, tallying two runs on two hits. The big blow in the inning came from Christine Clark, as she posted an RBI triple.
Two innings later, Clark extended the Mocs' lead with an RBI single through the left side. The 3-0 lead appeared to give FSC all the momentum. However, in the bottom of the sixth, Agen led a string of six-straight batters to reach base. Castillo and Harvey reached on back-to-back singles and Yates loaded the bases with a walk. Boyd then came to the plate with an opportunity to shrink the lead. That is exactly what she did, swatting a line drive over the centerfielder's head to clear the bases and tie the ballgame up at three runs apiece.
The hit swung all momentum back towards the Lions. Eventually forcing extra-innings, Ashton Whidden fought through a pair of frames where the Mocs pushed runners in scoring position. As for the offense, after having 10-of-11 batters retired, the Lions made a push towards victory in the bottom of the 11th. Yates started the frame with a single and advanced to second on a Boyd groundout. That set the stage for Walker. With one out and the count full, the Surrey, British Columbia native roped a single up the middle. Yates rounded the third base bag and slid across home plate just ahead of the throw.
The win snapped the Lions six-game losing streak. In total, the two teams left 22 combined runners on base during the second contest.
Whidden (13-11) was fantastic in the circle for the Green & Gold as she went the distance for SLU in the longest outing of her career. She scattered 11 hits and allowed just two earned runs, while striking out three.
The Lions will take a one-day break before opening up a three-game series with Nova Southeastern. First pitch for the conference showdown with the Sharks is set for Friday, April, 16 at 7:00 p.m.
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This paper compares U.S. firms which issued equity between 1976 and 1993 to those which issued debt. with an emphasis on determining the relative importance. Our results suggest that both the static tradeoff and pecking order explanations of capital structure choice theories are useful in explaining firm behavior. Consistent with the static-tradeoff story, we find that firms which have less debt than predicted by a cross-sectional predictive model of the debt ratio are the most likely to issue debt. Moreover, profitable firms which can enjoy significant gains from leverage are the most likely to issue debt. At the same time, we confirm previous studies which show that firms are much more likely to issue equity after experiencing a rise in their share price. This phenomenon can be rationalized with an asymmetric information/pecking order story. Because there are other potential explanations for the share price rise/equity issue relation, we stratify our analyses by proxies for asymmetry of information between insiders and outsiders including firm size, extent of analyst following and the level of dividend payout. Surprisingly, the impact of share prices rises on the incidence of equity issues is largest among firms with low informational asymmetry. This is not consistent with the informational asymmetry explanation of why firms issue equity. We thank Michael Barclay, Steve Kaplan, Craig Lewis, David Mauer, Bob McDonald, Stewart Myers and participants at the 1994 NBER Autumn Conference on Corporate Finance for helpful discussions and comments. The first author benefitted from research support from the Charles A. Dice Center for Financial Research of Ohio State University.
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Walmart pulls out of old CU campus site near Trader Joe's project most neighbors embrace
The celebration started late yesterday afternoon in the neighborhoods around Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, as news spread that Walmart had pulled out of the project that Jeff Fuqua plans to put in the old University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
If the timing had been a little different, they could have celebrated with a bottle of Two-Buck Chuck.
Yesterday, Walmart released this statement:
While Walmart will not be part of the planned redevelopment of the former University of Colorado Health Sciences campus, we will continue to evaluate other opportunities to serve Denver area customers and expand access to affordable groceries.
One of the ironies of this fight was that while neighbors were almost universally opposed to a Walmart going into the area, most have embraced the Trader Joe's that is being built just a block away, at Eighth and Colorado, on a piece of property that was originally going to be an upscale hotel. But that development does not involve tax-increment financing, unlike the CU project; the TIF deal was the reason that councilmembers Jeanne Robb and Mary Beth Susman announced their opposition to Fuqua's project three weeks ago.
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And although Boulder is also getting a Trader Joe's, this Denver site is the one that will likely stock liquor, including the legendary Charles Shaw wine known as Two-Buck Chuck. (Under arcane Colorado laws, only one site of a multi-store operation can sell liquor.) The public hearing for a liquor-license at the Trader Joe's at 790 Colorado Boulevard is set for October 26 at the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses.
The CU site has been in flux for close to a decade, since the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center decided to move to a new campus in Aurora; the last occupants moved out in 2007. Fuqua is the third developer to attempt a project on the site. The next Colorado Boulevard Healthcare District meeting is set for November 1 -- without Walmart at the table.
But neighbors will be there.
And Do It Right at 9th, formerly known as Stop Wal-Mart Colorado, released this statement as the news spread yesterday.
We couldn't be more pleased. We are proud of the role played by concerned neighbors in communicating to City Council representatives that Wal-mart was not the right way to go at 9th and Colorado. It is a real victory for 'the little guy'. Councilwomen Susman and Robb were so responsive and helpful - we are deeply grateful. Now we can get down to working with the developer, the City and CU on a plan that works for the surrounding neighborhoods and is truly beneficial for all of East Denver."
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A MASTERPLAN for the Wilderspool site is planned 'soon' according to the development team who bought the land.
Warrington Wolves played its last game at the famous old ground on Thursday.
A spokesman for Wire Regeneration said: 'Wilderspool Stadium has been purchased by Wire Regeneration Limited which is a recently formed joint venture between developer Langtree and Warrington Borough Council.
"Wire Regeneration has already commenced work on the upgrade of Wharf Industrial Estate and is soon to start on the production of a masterplan for the Southern Gateway area of Warrington.
"The masterplan will set out proposed future uses for the area which includes the Wilderspool Stadium site."


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Live Greener Starting Today: Putting Earth Day into Action
Lately the only paper bills that make their way into my mailbox are of the medical kind, because I've been suppressing my paper bills and statements since the option became available and pay them online as well. I love living a mostly paperless lifestyle — not only does it create less clutter on all available surfaces in my apartment, but I know it's doing some environmental good, too.
It surprised me to learn that most Americans still pay their bills by sending a check through the mail, as determined by a 2007 Federal Reserve survey. Switching to a system of electronic bill-pay is easy as green-apple pie and you'd be reducing your carbon footprint drastically — the Environmental Protection Agency reports that paper billing uses more than 674 million gallons of fuel each year! Visit PayItGreen.org to learn more about making the switch.


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Youdell, Deborah (2004) Wounds and reinscriptions: schools, sexualities and performative subjects. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 25 (4). pp. 477-494. ISSN 0159-6306. DOI UNSPECIFIED
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Boys in school, homophobia, and forms of masculinity are currently the focus of significant debate in and about education and schools. Much of this discussion takes as given the sexual orientation, and therefore sexual identity, of the students of whom it speaks and mobilizes equal rights discourses on behalf of gay and lesbian students. This paper offers an alternative view of the school level processes at work around these issues. The paper takes up Judith Butler's ongoing engagement with Foucault and her recent rearticulation of Althusser and Bourdieu to analyse data generated through school ethnography in Britain and Australia. This analysis details the processes through which gender and sexual identities are constituted inside schools; illustrates the mutually constitutive relationship between gender and sexuality in contemporary discursive frames; and demonstrates how students resist wounded homosexual identities and constitute legitimate Other selves through their day-to-day practices.
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Watch the Dropkick Murphys Beat Up a Nazi Skinhead for St. Patrick's Day...
You can get away with a lot of weird, generally unacceptable drunken behavior at a Dropkick Murphys show, but if there's one thing the band draws the line at, it's racism. At a recent pre-St. Patrick's Day show in New York, one bonehead asshole thought it would be cool to start seig heiling during the band's traditional set-ending cover of AC/DC's "TNT."
Bassist Ken Casey took exception to this. Via Consequence of Sound:
It was St Patty's Day week, the shows were packed, and people were getting drunk. And Rowdy. Really Rowdy. As has become tradition the band invited the ladies to come onto the stage for their encore of "Kiss Me Im Shitfaced" 50+ ladies made it past the barricade and onto the stage and danced the song away. The band then kicked into "Skinhead on the MBTA" and a ton of dudes werre getting past security and the stage ended up being packed tighter than the underside of a real man's kilt. As the band kicked into T.N.T. by AC/DC some moron started seig heiling (the nazi salute) in time to the beat.
Ken Casey noticed this and ran right over to the guy, smashed him in the face, took off his bass and hit him with that and then jumped on him and all out chaos ensued. We could only assume from our vantage point that said nazi got his ass kicked. About 30 seconds later Ken emerged from the pileup with his shirt torn and made his way back to the front of the stage. He strapped on his bass and said into the microphone "Nazis are NOT FUCKING WELCOME at a Dropkick Murphys show."
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When the Coalition government came to power in Victoria last year, many critics feared there would be a greater focus on pushing out the city's limits rather than a Parisian model of medium-density projects along major transport routes.
Urban densification has long been a political hot potato in Melbourne, and the key inner-city councils of Stonnington, Boroondara, Yarra and Moreland have all adopted a hard-line approach against large apartment projects.
Developers complain the harsh opposition from councils and community groups is thwarting their attempts to provide affordable housing across middle and inner-ring suburbs.
Sydney-based developer Lend Lease has been forced to redesign its Orrong Road project in Armadale with a lower-yielding scheme after its initial planning application for 500 dwellings was knocked back by the Stonnington Council.
The developer is about to start building another 550 apartments and townhouses at the former Channel 9 studio site in Richmond, in the City of Yarra.
Proving the popularity of inner-city offerings in Melbourne, Lend Lease's latest project in Docklands, Convesso Concavo, is already more than 50 per cent sold.
RMIT professor Michael Buxton said although 12,000 apartments were built across inner Melbourne last year, the high cost of delivery was undermining the city's housing affordability.
He said a lack of clear planning regulation, rising labour costs and a "speculative land boom" among developers competing for inner-city sites was forcing developers to charge more for homes.
A recent report from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute showed that would-be home owners require at least $100,000 in income before they could afford to buy an apartment in Melbourne's inner-ring suburbs.
"The development industry has already worked this out, which explains the proliferation of one- and two-bedroom apartments in inner-city and middle-ring Melbourne in the past decade," the study found.
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José María 'Pichu' Torcida (ESP), skipper, Iberdrola Team (ESP): 'We really can´t ask for more, we had two great starts and we sailed in the right sides. The key was going downwind, we knew that we couldn´t make any mistakes there. The first race had 18-20 knots and the second one 20-22, so it was key for us not to make mistakes at that speed, that´s why we got such a distance from the rest of the boats. It was easier for us to hold our advantage the second time sailing upwind. It´s a very close competition, we are a bit ahead of the rest handling the boat because we´ve had more practice, but we know that there´s good teams that will improve their performances in the next races. Today was a perfect way to start, a good wind, sunshine and waves. The key for us was in the manoeuvres and there was not much difference between the boats and the racing is close and quite tough. It was a good day for the team.
'I think the manoeuvres and downwind speed, we were very comfortable with the boat. For these type of boats which are very flat, very wide with big kites with twenty knots it was very exciting. We probably only had a couple of days training in these kind of conditions in Valencia, not quite as much wind. It is difficult in the gybes because you don't have a grinder, so we need a lot of coordination between the trimmers and the kite and with the helmsman because it is not difficult to lose the rudder.'
Vasco Vascotto (ITA), strategist, Audi Azzurra Sailing Team (ITA): 'The difference between yesterday and today lies in the fact that we sailed a lot better, with a cooler head and a warm heart, a key combination to finish well. We have to keep going like we are so far, trying not to make mistakes like the ones we made in the first races. We have tofind a way to sail clean. We are not always going to be so lucky as we were today, and that means that we have to keep the same attitude that we´ve shown. We had currents, wind, waves… everything that you need to sail and have fun in the boat'.
Ed Baird (USA), skipper-helm, Quantum Racing (USA): 'It was a lot of fun, the breeze was up. In the second race we had a little jump at the starting line, enough to sneak out in front of the group near the weather mark. The boys did a tremendous job at the first run. Somehow, we got a puff or two extra from the other guys and that was the end of the race. Perfect conditions for this kind of boats, they go great upwind and downwind. It was tons of fun'.
Adrian Stead (GBR) tactician Quantum Racing (USA): 'It was a good result for us, a good result for Ed (Baird) and one to give the team some confidence. Really although we were quite early to launch the boat we have ended up behind where we wanted to be because of various different issues. It could have been worse for us when we lost the stanchions, we just managed to save things which was important, but we had a little in hand.'
Ignacio Triay (ESP), trimmer, Bribón (ESP): 'We had a perfect start in the first race, it´s that simple. We got ahead of the fleet, and once you´re in that position, if you have enough speed, you stretch and stretch and you just keep going, it´s just a matter of not making mistakes handling your boat. In the second one we got trapped and they've pushed us out by the committee boat. That made us start in the last place and in the bad side. Even in that situation the boat had speed, so we managed to get close to the fleet and made a glorious first stretch downwind. We passed ALL4ONE and reached RÀN, but he missed a few more meters to pass them. We are happy with the boat´s speed, today we´ve shown that it´s a good start what counts. A bad one means a disaster.'
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I did my duty as a good wife, and shared with my husband for snack time! We tried a variety if dips/dunkers (hello - remember dunkaroos!) with our Chocolate spreads!
I have to say that this stuff was more than a little addicting. Obviously the apples were a winner - and so were the almonds! I wasn't sold on the kiwi - and I may have only had stale graham crackers, that was kind of a buzz kill.
Fast forward to our return from vacation, and hubs made himself a pb and Hershey's Spreads chocolate sandwich for lunch. Guess it's a keeper! I did want to mention that I didn't see any in my stores until after the new year, but we've spotted it in two Giants and an Acme - so I know it can be found for you to try in SE Pennsylvania!


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I got a solicitation from a local firm addressed to "resident"
How impersonal! I was pissed at the arrogance of these people. Not to know my name. Or anything about me. And here they were trying to get me to go to some housing development or other called Bliss Boulevard. Said I already had a place up there.
Resident! Indeed. Then I saw this on the bottom: "The unexamined mind is a hazardous place for the resident" — I chuckled. In my own mind, I am "I", I don't have a name. The watcher, the observer, the live in resident.
So I stopped and read it again: It said –
Many of us are too busy dealing with the gears of life to focus on the things that bring us joy. Imagine that you have a great stand-up comic that lives inside of your mind. That guy would know just what to say to you to get you cheerful, yes? Imagine a place where all your possibilities were yours to pick and choose for YOUR reasons alone. Imagine a restaurant with the most fabulous menu of emotions. That place is already available to you: the Resident. It is YOURS to move in and take charge any time you want.
The joy of a great stand-up comic already lives on your section of Bliss Boulevard. You already have the place of possibilities in you, don't you? Dish up your favorite Joys. Come visit. St. John's Jim can guide you into your very own spot.
You are the resident. Visit often. Get to know the place.
You visit the spa to have the world see you better, visit Bliss Blvd to see the world better.
Then I noticed: St. John's Jim!??! That's me! This is a shameless plug for my own services. Now I am steamed, Who do I think I am?


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Wow. Of all the teams to come out and just give up on a season, you'd think the Devils wouldn't be it.
This was a pretty proud organization, with a pretty impressive history, even if I despise them with every fiber of my being. So to see them come out, and flat out not give a shit if they win or lose, was QUITE shocking.
Lucky us.
This was a game the Rangers absolutely 100% HAD to have. Luckily we did, and locked in the #6 spot for us thanks to the Sens failing to beat the Flyers. Flyers have done the Rangers some impressive favors the past few nights by taking out the Icelanders and the Senators. Thanks Flybags!
What I liked about tonight was that really we were a 2-line team. Not relying on the Stepan line alone to carry us. Nash, Zucc and Richards were arguably better than the Stepan, Callahan, Hagelin trio. That's really saying something. Part of it is that both Zucc and Richards are trying to find Nash…and, well, Nash can score. Makes sense. Richards has been playing some pretty good hockey of late and that bodes well for the Rangers heading into the series with Washington. I don't think this is going to be like last season, Washington tried to out-Ranger the Rangers. They are playing some pretty good hockey, and their PP is absolutely Lethal, with that said the Rangers are scoring a lot of goals for the most part of late, and that bodes well since last year we couldn't score playoff goals to save our lives.
Playoff preview coming probably tomorrow. Been pretty busy of late, several business related things have been going on at the same time which is basically making me work 10-14 hours a day 7 days a week. Finding time to write this blog and watch Rangers games=less time sleeping.
One other heads up. I will be out of the country May 10th to May 20th (going on my belated honeymoon with my wife), so no blog updates then. Sadly, looks like I'll be missing some playoff hockey (hopefully)


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Like a Kid in a Candy Shop
I feel an immediate urge to share my feel of thrill,
And, who wouldn't be thrilled after experiencing catchy tunes mixed with cocktails in a showroom full of unreleased fashion?
Our eminent press agency in Sweden - A World Beneath arranged their press day today. Their showroom was full of fresh stuff from Nike, Burton, WeSC, Elvine, Wood Wood, and last but not least, Frank Dandy. Especially our newcomers, Frank, Fivestar and Bronx were treated with excited curiosity.
This fall will be something out of the ordinary.