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Subject: Re: [DNA] What is the maximum time testing should take?
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 16:01:33 -0500
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From the Carlisle Patriot Sept 20, 1844 posted with permission of the transcriber, Laura J.
Something strange about this, why didn't they go to the workhouse? I know many people were too proud to do so but one would think pride would have taken a back seat in these circumstances. One has to wonder what became of the wife and children - they must surely have ended up in the workhouse anyway.
On Wednesday a poor man named JAMES PEMBERTON, blacksmith, residing at
Baines's-lane, in this town, and formerly of Gateshead, put an end to his
existence by poison. He had a wife and four children, and had been out of
employment since January last. During that time he and his family had
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days past they had nothing to eat but what was given by their neighbours,
who being poor, had but little to spare. After he had taken the fatal
draught, he communicated to his wife what he had done. Mr. EMBLETON was
sent for, who applied the stomach-pump, after which he rallied, and
conversed very sensibly with his wife and others; he requested something to
eat, but his wife had nothing to give him. Mr. TAYLOR, the relieving
officer, promptly visited the residence, which presented an indescribable
picture of destitution. PEMBERTON was lying on a straw bed in a corner,
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and a stool. Mr. TAYLOR gave an order for some provisions for their
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It's odd when you realize that the novels and short stories of Philip K. Dick have been adapted to the screen almost as frequently as that of Stephen King or John Grisham. Odd because, unlike the pulpier writing of both King and Grisham, Dick's stories are quite cerebral and, in the most traditional Hollywood sense, uncinematic. Here's a quick rundown: "Blade Runner" (1982), "Total Recall" (1990), the French film "Confessions De'un Barjo" (1992), "Screamers" (1995), "Impostor" (2002), "Minority Report" (2002), "Paycheck" (2003), "A Scanner Darkly" (2006), and the now in-production adaptation of "The Golden Man", since retitled "Next" starring Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore.
In most cases, Dick's dense and paradoxical plots are used as nothing more than loose pretexts for standard Hollywood action adventure stories. These often feature more proactive heroes in place of the meditative and often reality challenged protagonists of Dick's original stories. Clearly, Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Total Recall" wasn't going to waste time with philosophical arguments when he could fire off a few rounds to establish his own sense of reality.
However, Richard Linklater is a filmmaker who has demonstrated an almost obsessive interest in philosophic debate and discussion. From the opening scene of his first released feature, "Slacker", Linklater has made the "uncinematic" talking head his niche and has demonstrated a mysterious ability to float on magic carpets of non plots and inaction without putting everyone into a collective coma. His characters talk and theorize, question and rebut, pause to think, and then talk some more but somehow all this is rendered by Linklater as spellbinding cinema, which is what I found "A Scanner Darkly" to be.
With "A Scanner Darkly", director Richard Linklater has married the Kafkaesque plot of Dick's 1977 novel with his own sensibility for just letting the movie "hang out" and come up with what could be described as "Waking Life" with a story. And what a complex, paradoxical story it is: Keanu Reeves plays an undercover narcotics detective named Officer Fred who ingests massive amounts of a dangerous drug called Substance D in order to maintain his cover. As Bob Arctor, Officer Fred surrounds himself with various hangers on in the hopes of tracking down the suppliers of Substance D.
Offer Fred's circle of friends include his house-mates Barris (a dazzling Robert Downey, Jr.) and Luckman (Woody Harrelson), Charles Freck (Rory Cochrane), who is moving into a more frenzied stage of addiction, and Donna Hawthorne (Winona Ryder) who may or may not be the one who has the connection to the suppliers. Since it's required that all narcotics agents remain anonymous to each other, officers wear a "scramble suit" of constantly shifting identities. This is how Officer Fred is given the mind bending task of spying on Arctor: No one in his unit knows that Fred is Arctor.
Since Substance D is a hallucinogen which, over time, weakens the functions of the brain's left hemisphere forcing the right hemisphere to accommodate, Arctor begins to loose his grip on reality. Is he Officer Fred spying on Bob Arctor or is he really Bob Arctor who pretends to be Officer Fred at work? Since he is so confused, no one else can be less confused and in some really crazy events, Downey , Jr. informs on Arctor to Arctor as Fred.
The synopsis above makes the movie sound like some kind of police procedural similar to "Serpico" or "The French Connection", but this could not be farther from the truth. Linklater slides around all of the plot points, leaves it to the audience to figure out the various inter-relationships and focuses on what he likes most: characters in perfectly crafted conversations, just hanging out. Once again, he makes the most of these conversations to slyly develop both character and story.
Now, for the big difference: the visual style. The surreal, almost liquid rotoscoped animation from "Waking Life" is applied to "A Scanner Darkly", and with a story steeped in rubbery reality, this is a really great choice. The film would not be half as good were it not animated. Everything — roads, trees, houses, people, and skies — seem to hang in temporary space, always about to shift and twist away at a moment's notice. A further uncanniness is created by the perfectly rotoscoped features of Reeves, Downey , Jr., Harrelson and Ryder, whose celebrity faces are so familiar to us. The animation places them all in a hyper reality, familiar and yet strange. The actors literally become the characters they are playing and quite differently from how Stanislovski intended.
Finally, I think it's about time someone created a new award to give away, that of "Most Improved Actor". I can't think of another actor who has improved more through the years than Keanu Reeves, who really gives an excellent performance as Offer Fred aka Bob Arctor. Or is that Bob Arctor aka Officer Fred?
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CAST: Rory Cochrane …. Charles Freck
Robert Downey Jr. …. James Barris
Mitch Baker …. Brown Bear Lodge Host
Woody Harrelson …. Ernie Luckman
Keanu Reeves …. Bob Arctor
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I heard this on NPR during my carpool commute in to the office today.The Elements of Style ... the opera.You won't believe your ears. … [Read more...]
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Here are more paragraphs from recently published Christian film reviews. Get out your red pen and respond in the comments section.Remember, the goal here is to emphasize the need for better film writing, not to ridicule anybody or put down any particular online review site.The first ste of excerpts is from a new review of Sideways. I won't say who wrote it. I won't say who published it. I'll just say it proved very difficult to read because I kept wanting to wake up the editor.Here's … [Read more...]
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When you take a "selfie" with a friend you are not only spreading love, but also possible head lice.
A California lice expert says she's seen a big increase in head lice among teens within the past year. Marcy McQuillian, who works at a head lice removal company says, "Typically it's younger children I treat, because they're at higher risk for head-to-head contact. But now teens are sticking their heads together every day to take cell phone pics."
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OMG, Miley Cyrus just got a freakin' piglet for a pet!!!
While on her Bangerz tour, Miley Cyrus had some spare time and a few extra bucks to splurge on an adorable baby pig! She took to Instagram to showcase her newest partner in crime – and the pics are just too much to handle!! The tiny, pink bundle of joy named Bubba Sue (STAHP) can be seen in pics kissing, sleeping and snuggling the pop singer. AWW!
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The portrait of Anne Summers, by artist Neil Moore.
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"Twenty years ago, Rocky Mountain ski resorts recruited heavily in the Midwest, reasoning that young people from Minnesota and Iowa were more polite than New Yorkers and more likely to show up for work than Californians," the Arizona Republic writes. Now, most resorts are staffed by foreign workers. "'We're trying to perform this five-star service level and the employable in the U.S. that are out of work just don't really fit that standard,' said Rich Jensen, recruiting manager at Deer Valley. 'Not that you don't get any good U.S. applicants, but you get a lot of really quality kids from out of the country.'"
North Carolina officials say they are concerned about the continued use of fake ID documents. "In some cases, illegal aliens use their fake documents to get a North Carolina driver's license, which opens doors for them that some in law enforcement find troubling. . . In fact, people are coming to the area from as far as New York and Connecticut to get North Carolina licenses with fake IDs," the News Record notes. "The motor-vehicle agency has tightened its requirements by attempting to verify each applicant's Social Security number with the federal government before issuing a license...One day, [a police spokesman] said, a deputy decided to try a new technique when he was sent to the DMV office. 'The deputy walked in and said, 'All illegal aliens with false IDs, please step forward,' Six people did,' Jones said. 'They thought we had a special line for people with fake IDs. It sounds like a Chevy Chase movie, but it really happened.'"
The Washington Post has a story about the continuing effort to find and deport illegal alien absconders - who have fled to avoid deportation. "The search for the absconders wasn't supposed to be this difficult. When the program was announced in December 2001, officials said they would put the absconders' names into FBI's National Crime Information Center database. That would allow local and state police to identify whether people they stopped for routine infractions were on the list. . . But after three years, only 38,521 names are in the database -- about 10 percent of the absconders [an ICE spokesman said]." The paper writes, "For all their frustrations, the fugitive teams have made progress. In the first seven months of fiscal 2004, they apprehended 7,239 absconders, twice as many as in the same period a year earlier, according to ICE statistics. The agency is drawing up plans for 30 more teams, probably including one focused on both the District and Northern Virginia. But budget problems have bedeviled ICE, and Knocke said it wasn't clear if all 30 teams would be fielded by the end of 2005."
"President Bush's plan to liberalize the nation's immigration laws to allow millions of undocumented workers the opportunity for legal status appears to be on a collision course with newly aroused sentiment among House Republicans pushing for a crackdown on illegal immigration," the Washington Post writes. "Bush describes his immigration proposal as one of the top goals of his second term, calling it a humane way to get a handle on the nation's mushrooming illegal immigration problem. Republican strategists, led by White House chief political adviser Karl Rove, also see the proposal as an important element in their plan to expand the party's base among the nation's fast-growing Hispanic population."
"In a December 4 incident that received scant media attention, a Bangladeshi Muslim man named Fakhrul Islam was among a group of 13 illegal aliens arrested near Brownsville, Texas, just across the border from Mexico. Border Patrol agents have said that one of the men detained along with Islam was a member of Mara Salvatrucha, a violent Salvadoran criminal gang with more than 300,000 members across Central and North America, including powerful enterprises in several major U.S. cities," says Erick Stackelbeck. "In July, Adnan El-Shukrijumah, a high-ranking Al-Qaeda leader and one of the most wanted terrorists in the world, was spotted in Honduras meeting with members of MS-13. Attorney General John Ashcroft has said that El-Shukrijumah, who he has described as a 'clear and present danger to America,' is seeking ways to infiltrate the U.S. via the Mexican border, and is willing to pay top dollar in order to do so."
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A PERSHORE man has been banned from all bars and pubs in the town and from being drunk in public.
Christian Bond, aged 32, of Cornmore, Pershore, was served with a two-year Conviction-related Anti-social Behaviour Order, or Crasbo, last August at Worcester Magistrates' Court.
The order came into effect in Thursday, January 24, when Bond was released from prison on licence after serving six months of a one-year sentence. He had been convicted of possessing three kitchen knives in public and threatening to burn down a house.
The order bans him from entering licensed premises in Pershore, being drunk in public, drinking in public, possessing alcohol in an open container in public, or behaving in a way likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
PC John Hunter said: "I have known Bond since the 90s and he has admitted to me before that he has a drink problem.
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"While he is a pleasant young man when sober, when he has had a drink he becomes violent, threatening and abusive; his language is vile. He cannot control himself and does not care who hears his abuse, including children."
He said an two-year anti-social behaviour order against Bond in 2007 was effective, but since it expired, there has been a recent escalation of disorder and threats to the public.
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Into the 1950s and into the 1960s there was still very little demand for table wines. The majority of wines sold in those days were Ports and Sherries – sweet wines fortified with grape spirit. Beer had been the national beverage for decades. But slowly, over the years, and into the 1970s, the NZ palate became a bit more sophisticated.
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The happiest day of the year has arrived, and if you don't believe me, then you obviously don't have a fantasy baseball team. For the next few months I'll be reveling in the joy of numbers and player news, with every piece of data being operable rather than inert—every new fact, every new at bat or injury, leads to a series of reevaluations, a host of potential decisions, a cascade of consequences that one can nonetheless feel one has mastered. In all, fantasy baseball is like a simplified stock market, and I can play a being a daytrader, with all the intensity and obsession that implies, without having to venture my retirement savings to do it. I can have the high blood pressure without the profit. If I put half as much energy into research companies as I did into researching shortstops, I could probably make a mint.
The analytical tools used for investing and fantasy-baseball play are rapidly converging, especially with data available on the big administrative sites like CBS.Sportsline and ESPN and Yahoo on what is happening across fantasy leagues in the aggregate—you get the rough equivelent of a stock's beta, as well as a speculatively determined sense of a player's value, and which players saw heavy volume. You can see in how many leagues a player is being used, at what position he was drated on average, and several different objective measures of his value on a daily, weekly, or season long basis. (And of course you get analyst's reports daily when there is news for a particular player—just as Yahoo gives you company news for your portfolio, it provides player news for your fantasy squad, along with how should affect whether you buy, hold, or sell. The very notion of fantasy baseball is a kind of derivatives market, in which values are derived from another source and slightly distorted, magnified, laden with different incentives. My investment strategy? Get some steady value guys—proven established players whose production won't surprise or disappoint—and then take on some risk with players with growth potential, such as pitchers in their third full year or players coming off injury-plagued seasons. You need a few blue chippers, but often enough, the small caps outproduce that big-salary guys.
This kind of thinking is probably what's behind those who complain that fantasy sports "destroy" the fun of being a sports fan, or constitutes some phony kind of fandom, turning baseball into pseudo-business. In truth, it reflects perfectly the values of American culture: it stresses the individual over the team, and holds individuals accountable for things the larger team often controls (a pitcher's wins, a hitter's RBIs); it enshrines financial calculation and analysis as a primary mode of pleasure (tracking the value of your holdings is a value unto itself; possession itself is the most pleasurable form of spectatorship) and the most rational way of assessing who's winning (success must be measured in numbers). It reiterates the sense that there should be no emotional investment in something without a quantifiable stake, and no leisure that doesn't in some way mimic work.
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Darren Huckerby can understand why it is a frustrating time to be a Norwich fan.
The Canaries were among the summer favourites for an instant return to the top flight following their relegation from the Premiership last season - but have struggled to find any sort of consistency so far.
They beat Luton 2-0 on Saturday but are still languishing in 15th place in the table.
It is a far cry from the club's last promotion campaign in 2004 when Norwich won the title and finished 15 points clear of third-placed Sunderland to go up in style.
Huckerby, who played an important role in that success after joining from Manchester City, feels there are several reasons why Norwich have failed to repeat that success.
He told BBC Sport: "People just thought we would walk it this time and that has been one of the biggest problems.
"But first and foremost, I think that in our last season at this level, nobody thought we were going to be as good as we were.
"I would not say we sneaked in through the back door but people did not see us as a threat. By the time they realised we were a good team it was too late.
"This time teams are wary. Every team that has come to Carrow Road has sat behind the ball, hoping to nick something.
"Fair enough if that is what they think they need to do - but it has not made things easy for us.
"Also, things really went for us last time. We did not have any injuries and I think that makes a big difference because we have not got the biggest squad in the world this year.
"We have been losing a lot of key players - we lost Dean Marney for three months, Jason Shackell has been out for two months now and Leon McKenzie has been out long-term too.
"We have not had a settled side yet this season - I don't think we have gone two games with the same team. I know it is no excuse but it makes a big difference.
"And we have lost and drawn a lot of games that we should have won - but we are still playing against good teams. They know how to play in this division and it is taking us a bit of time to get used to it."
Norwich's poor league position has led to speculation over the future of manager Nigel Worthington - but Huckerby believes the players should take responsibility too.
"The best we can hope for now is a play-off place," he added. "With the kind of people we have got in our squad that should be the least we get.
"We do not have a divine right to win games or be top of the league but we expect ourselves to do better.
"The pressure on the manager has come through to the players a little bit. We know we have not been playing as well as we can and obviously he is the first one who gets the stick."
Worthington publicly questioned the effort his players had put in after their defeat by Wolves at the start of November but Huckerby insists his team-mates' attitude is not a problem - and feels it is still possible to salvage some success this season.
"That was more spur of the moment from the gaffer after the game I think," he explained. "I have never seen it happen where people are not putting it in.
"The players always give their best but sometimes the other team are better than you. On the day Wolves were better than us.
"More than anything I think the gaffer just wanted us to realise that we're in a very lucky position with what we're doing, and we have got to give it our all every game.
"I have not been playing as well as I can do and neither has the team. But hopefully when we get everybody back fit we will be able to push on.
"A lot of things have gone wrong for us this season but we are still only six points off the play-offs."


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Jockey Patrick Valenzuela's suspension for the remainder of 2004 was upheld Friday by the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club Board of Stewards, which recommended that the California Horse Racing Board deny any future license applications from the rider.The ruling by stewards Ingrid Fermin, Tom Ward and George Slender, came five days after they heard seven hours of testimony over three days in a hearing at Del Mar last week requested by the jockey over a July 2 suspension. The original suspension was handed down at Hollywood Park when Valenzuela was unable to provide hair for follicle testing as directed by his conditional license to ride. The CHRB had required the additional testing when it allowed Valenzuela to return from an earlier suspension in May.Valenzuela testified he had not read the amended requirements of his license.
"Rather than make every effort to comply with the hair follicle testing process, (Valenzuela) found another way to evade testing and thereby violated (the license agreement)," stewards said in an official statement released by the CHRB.
Jim Ahern, the deputy attorney general representing the CHRB, called seven witnesses during the hearing – including an expert in hair testing and Valenzuela himself – in an effort to prove the initial suspension was within the rights of the stewards based on the restrictions of the jockey's conditional license.
"It is what we were arguing for and the reason we put on the extensive case we did," Ahern said. "What's missed here is that the stewards upheld their ruling (from July 2) and in a very real sense the burden of proof was on (Valenzuela).
"This case can't be looked at in isolation because of Mr. Valenzuela's extensive disciplinary history. It's now up to the CHRB to adopt or not adopt (the latest stewards ruling) and then it's up to Mr. Valenzuela and his lawyers whether they want to take it to superior court."
Valenzuela filed a lawsuit on July 16 in anticipation of an adverse decision from the stewards, Ahern said. The jockey could appeal the CHRB's administrative ruling, which is expected to come within the next few days. If denied, it could lead to request for a temporary restraining order allowing him to ride pending an appeal. If he loses that appeal, which could be heard by either an administrative law judge or the state racing commissioners, he could then again go to superior court. There was no indication what action, if any, Valenzuela would take as of late Friday afternoon. His attorney, Neil Papiano, did not return a phone message. Papiano argued during the hearing that Valenzuela should not be deprived of his livelihood when he has not tested positive for drug use. He also contended that the CHRB had failed to provide the requirements for hair follicle testing so that the jockey could fully comply.
"The issue of safety on the racetrack includes jockeys, exercise riders, pony riders, outriders and, of course, the horses," the stewards' official statement said. "These obligations cannot be compromised. (Valenzuela) has been a talented jockey for many years, but it is evident that he has failed to learn that he must be held accountable for the consequences of his behavior."
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Pistachio Biscotti
This biscotti dough freezes well, so make a double or triple batch but bake only two logs at a time.
- Servings: Makes about 2 dozen biscotti
- 1 stick (4 ounces) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup (packed) light brown sugar
- 6 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 teaspoon finely grated orange zest
- 1 large egg
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2/3 cup ground almonds (about 4 ounces)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup shelled unsalted pistachios (about 5 ounces)
How to make this recipe
Line a large heavy baking sheet with parchment paper. In a large bowl, using a wooden spoon, beat the butter with the sugars, vanilla and orange zest until creamy. Beat in the egg. Mix in the flour, almonds, baking powder, cinnamon and alt. Stir in the pistachios.
Form the dough into two 12-inch logs and wrap in wax paper. Place on a small baking sheet and refrigerate until chilled, about 2 hours.
Preheat the oven to 325°. Unwrap the logs and set them on the prepared baking sheet at least 3 inches apart. Bake for about 35 minutes, or until golden and dry to the touch. Let cool for about 30 minutes, then cut the logs on the diagonal into 3/4-inch-thick slices. Line the baking sheet with fresh parchment and arrange the biscotti on the paper without touching each other. Bake for about 25 minutes, or until golden. Cool on a rack.
Make Ahead
The logs can be refrigerated overnight or wrapped in foil and frozen for up to 1 month. Thaw before baking. The baked biscotti can be stored in a covered cookie tin for up to 5 days.


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LAKEWOOD RANCH - In the market to buy a new home or maybe just look? Now is your opportunity.
The Lakewood Ranch Tour of Homes kicked off on Friday. There are 47 model homes on the tour, and according to county officials, this year is the first in several that the housing market is steadily rising and the number of sales in Lakewood Ranch alone are proof.
It's taken some hits and made minor improvements over the last few years, but now things are looking up, consistently, for the housing market. "The nose of the airplane is headed in the right direction for the first time in a while. Actually, today, we've had over 439 new home sales here in Lakewood Ranch, that's a 46% percent increase year to date," says Jimmy Stewart, Vice President of Sales, LWR Communities.
Stewart says over 60% of all home sales in Lakewood Ranch are new home sales, and that trend is evident at Manatee County's Building Department with a waiting room full of contractors applying for permits.
"Manatee County is experiencing a good number of building applications and permits that are coming online this year, as opposed to last, we're up over 30%," says Manatee County Spokesperson Nick Azzara.
In October alone, building permits for new single family homes are up 60% in Manatee County. "A number of homes are being built in Lakewood Ranch and the Parrish areas. They've been on the books for a number of years but they're now being built in response to customer demand," says Azzara.
While this home is listed for nearly $600,000, Stewart says Lakewood Ranch offers something for a buyer with any budget. "We have home prices, and home packages here in Lakewood Ranch that start in the 150's and over 5 million, so what we're seeing is in that middle market are the major purchases."
The Tour of Homes runs through November 18th and displays homes built by over 16 different builders.


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With 28:20 to play in the first half against Belton last Friday, Copperas Cove senior center-midfielder Shelbie Letzer groaned in pain and fell to the grass.
She suffered a severe right ankle sprain the game before and re-aggravated it.
Letzer, Cove's captain, was assisted off the field. On the sidelines, she was limping and wincing in pain.
A reasonable assumption, with just three games left on Cove's schedule, and the Lady Bulldawgs eliminated from the postseason derby, was that this was a season-ending injury.
"But sitting on the bench isn't my thing," Letzer said. "I don't like watching, especially when I feel I can be helping my team."
At the 25:10 mark, Letzer told head coach Hagen Streckel she was ready to play, and Streckel put her back on the field.
A three-minute rest was long enough for Letzer.
"Shelbie doesn't look at injuries like anybody else," Streckel said. "To Shelbie, if a bone isn't broken, she jumps right back into the game. All she wants to know is if she's OK. Shelbie won't let things like injuries slow her down. She never backs down from any challenge. I haven't met anyone quite like her in a long, long time."
Despite being marked by Belton the rest of the contest, Letzer played outstanding. She stopped numerous offensive thrusts by the Lady Tigers.
And it was Letzer who most often led Cove on its offensive charges.
"Yes, we lost to Belton (5-0), the best team in our district," Letzer said. "But I believe this was one of the best games we'd played all year."
Letzer's career ends March 21, senior night, with a home contest against Temple.
Her legacy is secure.
She is the second-leading goal scorer in school history and the all-time leader in assists.
Letzer made First-Team All-Area and First-Team All-District in her freshman, sophomore and junior seasons. She will most certainly receive such honors again in 2014.
"Shelbie is very talented," said Matthew Watt, Ellison's head coach. "When you face Cove, Shelbie is the player you must key on. You have to try and stop her movements because she can shoot from everywhere. Last season, she beat us on this 25-yard blast. She's their locomotive, she makes them go."
In a 2013 road contest against Temple, Letzer broke a scoreless tie with a 40-yard torpedo, propelling the Lady Bulldawgs to a 3-1 victory.
"That goal and that game is my favorite memory of high school soccer," Letzer said. "It shocked everybody that we won and it sent us to the playoffs."
Streckel said Letzer is a natural leader.
"Simply by her presence on the field, she seems to challenge all her teammates to step it up," he said. "She forces our opponents to step up their efforts, too, because they have to defend her. She is so accurate with her passes and her shots. Her soccer thought pattern is at a very, very high speed."
Letzer will play this fall for Incarnate Word in San Antonio on a full soccer scholarship.
"Shelbie will be so hard to replace," said Cove assistant coach Pat Rox. "She has been the heartbeat of our team. She makes every player around her a better player."
"Shelbie will excel at the collegiate level, too," Watt said. "She'll acclimate herself quickly and she'll do great."
Letzer and her teammates will face Watt's Ellison Lady Eagles on Tuesday at Ellison.
"Never mind my ankle," Letzer said. "I will be playing in both of our last two games. I expect us to go out with a bang. I want us to play these last two games like we know how to play. And, of course, I expect to win."


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Online auction giant eBay (EBAY) is expanding its same-day delivery service for brick-and-mortar retailers.
Ebay Now currently serves major retailers in New York City's borough of Queens, Dallas, San Jose, Chicago and the San Francisco area. The company plans to bring eBay Now to 25 major metropolitan markets in the U.S. by the close of 2014. It is also looking at the possibility of taking eBay Now to overseas markets like London, ecommercebytes notes.
The service is not available for items sold through eBay's auction website. Shoppers can purchase items on online storefronts from hundreds of retailers. The products will then be delivered — usually within 1 to 2 hours — for a $5 fee per order.
Here are some of the brick-and-mortar retailers using eBay Now:
- Best Buy (BBY)
- AutoZone (AZO)
- Home Depot (HD)
- Walgreen (WAG)
- RadioShack (RSH)
- JCPenney (JCP)
- Macy's (M)
- Barnes & Noble (BKS)
- Crate & Barrel
- Urban Outfitters (URBN)
- Office Depot (ODP)
- Microsoft (MSFT)
- Toys' R Us
- GameStop (GME)
- Staples (SPLS)
EBAY stock fell about 1% in Thursday morning trading. EBAY stock has been mostly flat over the past 12 months.


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TOP STORY >> Cabot says no to road project
Leader staff writer
IN SHORT: Council rejects plan to pay for road that would ease downtown congestion.
The road under construction mostly in Lonoke County that would take some of the traffic heading to Wal-Mart out of downtown Cabot will not be completed this year. Thats because a proposed plan to get the city to pay for part of the construction fell through Monday night with the failure of a proposed city ordinance.
I said all along that I wouldnt be able to complete it this year unless the city helped. I dont have any choice now but to wait until next year when the next ad-ministration takes over, said Lonoke County Judge Charlie Trout-man, who has paid for the road construction so far out of his road and bridge fund.
The failed ordinance would have provided $200,000 to help with construction of the new road in exchange for the county replacing seven narrow bridges on First Street with round culverts. Although the council vote was 4-3 to pass the ordinance, five were needed. But even if it had passed, Mayor Stubby Stumbaugh had vowed to veto it and it would have taken six to override the veto.
The discussion about the ordinance was often heated and the reasons to vote it down were numerous.
The mayor and Alderman David Polantz said the culverts wouldnt carry any more water than the bridges and a temporary fix like the culverts would do nothing to help with future growth.
The culverts would be wider than the bridges, but no guardrails or sidewalks were included in the $75,000 price the county judge gave or the $82,500 it was increased to after an engineering report said one bridge would require a larger culvert and one would require several.
Im going to go out on a limb and say that $82,500 is going to put it back maybe to where it is now. Were not making any improvement, Stumbaugh said.
Polantz pointed out that none of the numbers quoted over the three months the ordinance has been before the council have been based on any study showing how much the work would cost.
Troutman wanted to replace the bridges with culverts for $75,000 instead of the $750,000 the city would pay for box culverts, he said. But no one really knows how much any of the work would cost.
All the numbers were made up, Polantz said. Were sitting here wasting council time. We might as well be playing cards.
City Engineer Gail Mainard agreed with Polantz. Both sides are just wild guesses, he said.
Alderman David Cook brought another issue to the table. He wanted to know when and how it was decided that the bridges needed to be replaced and who decided they were the top priority for the $2 million in bond money that was included for streets when voters approved last year the extension of a one-cent city sales tax.
The answer from the mayor was that the council decided. Cook said he wanted to put the bridges on the back burner and look at other work that needs to be done.
Polantz, Cook and Jerry Stephens voted against the ordinance that was sponsored by Alderman Odis Waymack and Tom Armstrong. In addition to the sponsors, James Glenn and Bob Duke voted for it.
The mayor said from the time the ordinance was introduced in March that no one knew if the culverts would even be adequate for the water that would flow through them. To answer that question, Waymack hired professional engineer Adam Whitlow to conduct a flow study, for which he has been billed $2,300.
Waymack said after the vote that he hopes it wasnt for nothing. Stumbaugh is running for Con-gress and the next mayor might be more receptive, he said, adding, Its money I made for serving on the city council, so I might as well spend it for the good of the city.
Troutman, who has attended most of the council meetings since the ordinance was introduced, said he was glad the quorum court meetings he presides over are more reserved.
The last thing I ever intended to do was get in Cabot city politics, he said.
Theyve got problems I dont need.
Ive personally never seen such animosity be-tween a mayor and council. Its almost like a shouting match between them. Im certainly glad I dont have that.
In other business, the council passed a resolution authorizing the mayor and city clerk to negotiate for the purchase or lease of the Community Bank building next to city hall.
The bank has offered to sell the building for $1.1 million or lease it for $3,500 a month with the option to buy it in five or 10 years. If the city leases and buys after five years the purchase price would be $890,000. After 10 years of leasing the purchase price would be $678,000.
Stumbaugh told the council that if the administrative offices are moved out of city hall to the bank building, the police department located in the basement would be able to expand.


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Honey-Vanilla Poached Apricots
- 1/2 cup slivered almonds
- 2/3 cup honey
- 1 vanilla bean
- 6 large firm-ripe apricots
- 2 tablespoons Amaretto
- 1/2 cup low-fat vanilla Greek yogurt
Preheat oven to 350°F. Spread almonds on an ungreased baking sheet. Toast for 6 to 8 minutes, shaking pan occasionally, until nuts are golden. Transfer to a bowl to cool.
In a pan over medium-high heat, mix honey and 1 1/2 cups water. Split vanilla bean in half lengthwise, scrape out seeds and add seeds and pod to honey. Bring mixture to a boil; cook for 4 to 5 minutes.
Cut apricots in half; remove pits. Add apricot halves to poaching liquid, cover and reduce heat to low. Cook until tender but not mushy, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove from liquid with a slotted spoon. Arrange 3 halves in each of 4 dessert dishes. Return liquid to a boil. Cook over high heat until liquid has reduced to about 1/2 cup, 6 to 8 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in Amaretto. Discard vanilla pods. Top apricots with 2 Tbsp. vanilla yogurt and sprinkle with almonds. Spoon 2 Tbsp. liquid over apricots and serve.
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- Cook Time: Have peaches but no apricots? Use them (peeled) instead. Or try tossing in nectarines.
- Yield: Serves: 4 (serving size: 3 apricot halves, 2 tbsp. yogurt, 2 tbsp. almonds, 2 tbsp. poaching liquid)
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A week ago the Mayor was saying he was going to run for reelection because he could do more as Mayor than as a United States Senator. Now (see Gary's post below) he says the Mayor doesn't have enough power.
This proves one thing: Mayor Meeker's lost control of the City Council. His solution is to put more power in his hands. Then he can ignore the Council. But consider this: five of the seven Council members, like Meeker, are Democrats. Maybe the real problem, and why the Council voted down the Mayor's roundabouts on Hillsborough Street, is they weren't such a good idea.
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Alan wrote:
> Dave,
> Can you be more specific? The stata2mplus command saves a data set for Mplus and writes a simple Mplus program to verify that it worked. Stata's own sem command can do a lot with quantitative endogenous variables in Stata 12.1.
Phil wrote:
> We, the UCLA Statistical Consulting Group, use Mplus when we have CFA
> or SEM models with binary, ordinal or multinomial outcomes. We also
> use it to get the Satorra-Bentler scaled chi-square. And also for
> latent class models. We use Stata for all of our Mplus data
> management and send it to Mplus using -stata2mplus-. Mplus 7 runs on
> my Macbook Pro just fine.
I am interested in what is not common between the two software choices for
analysis of longitudinal and hierarchical data, mostly.
I was just skimming the growth curve chapter in Rabe-Hesketh and Skrondal's text and
noted how you can model continuous outcome longitudinal data using either -sem- or
-xtmixed-, and was curious if this is also true for categorical outcomes.
So Mplus allows categorical outcomes, but so does Stata (xtmelogit, xtmepoisson), just
not in the context of SEM or -sem-.
I was considering purchasing an Mplus license which is used in a longitudinal
data analysis course I'm going to take soon. However, even if you go back to school
and are a full time student, Mplus must be purchased at expensive non-student prices if you gained
an advanced degree in a non-quantitative field. They have this strange stipulation
in their license. So I'm just balancing that purchase with a potential new
version of Stata coming out next summer with SEM additions, etc.
Mplus 7 looks very good.
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