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Last year was my worst fantasy hockey year in some time. Both of my teams were absolute busts, my league preview predictions were horrendous, I completely missed the sudden explosion of mobile, young, scoring defensemen, I blew my 20 free agent years like George Steinbrenner tweaked on coke, and I traded for Steve Mason.
But like a movie hero at the 85-minute mark, I've come clean with my sins, realized what I've done wrong and vowed to fix everything. I've shed the year-to-year WVHL and I'm even going to admit what I got wrong about each team in the 2009-2010 preview. It's a new me, and I have Oprah to thank!
2009 – Totally missed Drew Doughty turning into Bobby Orr, called this team weak at center right before Henrik Sedin scored 112 points, did not account for Ryan Miller.
2010 – Like any great dynasty, The Dynamite Kid isn't looking to stop at just one title and nine celebratory bottles of Sam Adams Noble Pils. Goalie and right wing were itches for this team. Rashes, really. The kind just under your skin that you can never quite soothe. So they used their three picks on a goalie and two right wings. Of course, if Lehtonen gets hurt (like always) and Turco sucks (like always), that goalie itch won't go away, even if Larry scratches to the point of scabbing. Stop touching it!
Missing Streit for six months will hurt, as will having Huselius and Kostitsyn healthy, but with Sedin, Staal, Ovechkin, Nash, Doughty, Myers and Miller all on board, the defending champs will have a good shot at defending their champness.
2011 – With 9 guys heading into free agency in the summer of 2011, and 7 pending for 2012, this team will be turning a few locker stalls over in the future. Ah, I'm sure having Myers, Doughty, Staal and Nash all up at once won't create any tough decisions. Derek Stepan might get called up from the farm squad in October…of 2010.
2009 – Called their '09-'10 outlook "Not amazing" before they won the Presidents Trophy by 17 points. Although I did predict they'd be the most active team in the 2010 draft and they did keep the fewest players. Even when I'm self-flagellating, I'm self-congratulating!
2010 – Trading Patrick Kane for Jonathan Toews and a 2nd round pick that turned into Nikita Filatov has the potential to turn into an all-timer. We're talking Neely for Pederson level. Then again, Filatov has the potential to turn into a 20-point, -17 nightmare before returning to Russia. Who can say, really? And if he does, Klevvy also has Jakub Voracek.
The Muzhiks also made some great draft picks in Neuvirth (already the starter), Voracek, McBain, Oshie and Simmonds. The hard part will be figuring out how to give 7 guys 15 years without losing half of them in 2012.
But with the guys this team has in net, they might have a title in hand by then anyway.
2011 – In 2011, they might not need to draft more than 2 guys. But in 2012? Oh man. They'd better hope the Mayans were right, or they're going to be losing some really good players. Of course, that'll just make room for Schneider and Ekman-Larsson.
2009 – Ragged on them for taking Jonas Hiller instead of Giguere before Hiller stole the job and posted 30 wins. I did correctly call the Cammalleri, Carter and Hartnell backslides, though.
2010 – Geez, I don't know. Last year, I said their current outlook was "cloudy" and this year I have even less of an idea. I think the main thing that bothers me is that they don't have one dominant player. I'm an American and I like stars, baby! Out of Cartner, Hartnell, Cammalleri and Iginla, at least two of them should bounce back, there's great blueline scoring and Ward and Hiller should be able to carry a lot of the weight.
About the only interesting thing about this team is that only 5 guys on it play in the Campbell Conference and 3 of them are Sharks. He has more guys from the Patrick Division (7) on the roster. Seems a little provincial, I guess.
2011 – Also cloudy. This team has a weird mix of old guys and young guys and I feel like half the roster is going to be churned through midseason pickups. They should be set in net, I bet.
2009 – Predicted that most of their guys were going back in the pool one year early. They kept 18 players this summer.
2010 – If you enjoyed the Blackhawks breaking up their team this past summer, wait until you see what the Mexicans do. Guys will be fleeing this roster like it was Sonora. An incredible 13 Mexican contracts expire after this season. And of the guys on 2-year deals, Souray is in Hershey and Savard might miss the year with concussion problems. The Oilers actually hated Souray so much that they sent him to SOMEBODY ELSE's AHL affiliate. That is really distancing yourself from a guy.
And if those aren't enough roster hijinks for you, with only two players drafted but 17 contract years needing to be filled, Mason Raymond and Antti Niemi will be getting 9- and 8-year deals. Or maybe a 15-year deal and a 2-year deal. The Mexicans are being run with all the foresight and planning of, well, Mexico.
2011 – Um, well, the team will be a little bit different next year.
2009 – Said they had one good goalie and then question marks, which was technically true. But I was referring to Nabokov, not Rask.
2010 – This year, the Slashers drafted for need, not for speed. They came into the draft with two defensemen and one goalie, but left with with four of each. Of course, three of those goalies are backups starting the season.
Marian Gaborik's games played the last three years are 77-17-76, which I'm sure is a coincidence, not a pattern. And if Gaborik goes down, the Slashers have his linemate, Alexander Frolov, who usually plays a full season but only tries for half of it. Frolov likes to score 20 points in 15 games, take the next 30 off, then score another 25 in the next 20 games. He's very fun and unpredictable.
Duncan Keith had 69 points last year?!?
2011 – I unno. They'll still be in the league, I guess.
2009 – Said they would miss the playoffs, even with Crosby and Luongo, which was wrong. But I was right in wondering why they had so many prospects in Tavares, Varlamov, Little, Filatov, Neal, Stalberg and Lisin. Only Varlamov and Neal are still with the team.
2010 – And Varlamov is about to become Washington's backup. This team is thin in goal with LeClaire and Varlamov fighting for 40 starts, and thin at center with Hodgson heading back to Manitoba. But they're deep at right wing and defense, particularly with Byfuglien qualifying for each position.
This team has two huge stars and enough good players to fool itself that it has a chance, but too many holes and iffy players to actually have that chance.
2011 – At least four pretty decent players are leaving town next summer, no matter how those five bonus years are doled out.
2009 – Said Ryan Getzlaf would score 90 points for a long time right before he struggled to 69 points, predicted half of his team would go back into the draft pool when he actually ended up keeping 16.
2010 – Kopitar, Getzlaf and Stamkos is about as good as it gets down the middle, but with 10 guys on a 1-year deal, including every right wing, it's now or never for the Donnies. But with such serious questions on the wings, it's more likely to be never. Will Nate have the balls to move one of his super centers for help on the wing?!?!
No, probably not.
The Van Massenhoevens had two weird drafts. They opened up by taking two Swedes 20 years apart in age, Paajarvi and Lidstrom. Then they closed the regular draft by taking a guy out with a concussion for 3 months (Mueller) and a guy fighting for a starting job (Niittymaki). Then, in the farm draft, they opened with two guys who will be in the NHL this year and then finished with two Penguins that are long, long, long term guys. Eh, I'm sure Nate knows what he's doing. His extremely average fantasy hockey record speaks for itself.
2011 – Stamkos, Getzlaf and Heatley locked up for the next three years is a really nice place to start.
2009 – Didn't expect the end of offensive defensemen scarcity and overrated my blueline, claiming to have two of the best in the league, was entirely wrong about the value of my goalies, almost everything else I said.
2010 – Believe it or not, I had about the best offense in the league last year, and that was with Franzen and Hemsky missing almost the whole season. But my goalies were so epically bad that the best I could do was win a week 5-4, and the worst I would do is lose 9-1. It was one of the worst performances in net I've ever seen from one team, and when I went 0-6-1 through the middle of the season, I was cooked.
The firepower is still on board, and with Spezza, Backstrom, Ryan, Marleau, Hemsky, Eriksson, Koivu, and Franzen, offense will not be hard to come by. If Phaneuf and Chara bounce back and my goaltending is even average, this team should roll.
I know I always love and overrate my teams like any good parent, but seriously, show me a better offense. Show me! Name one!
And if it gets to the point where I'm only starting Lundqvist every week, so be it.
2011 – I hated the Tangradi pick right as I made it, and with this Wheeling mess coming right as the draft contract years are to be finalized, I hate it even more. Two of my farm picks will be in the NHL this year, and Bozak might be decent. He'll definitely be playing for me after I cut Dubinsky again. And if Corey Crawford takes starts in Chicago, hey, look at me.
Whereas a lot of Gatekeeper teams will be flushing the system this year, I set up myself to lose guys in two years. I have 8 guys on 2-year deals. I already have Presidential Economic Advisor Austen Goolsbee on staff to figure out a way to game these contracts and not let one of my many 40-goal scorers walk free.
2009 – I said they were decent. That was overly generous.
2010 – Caulen is moving to San Francisco for a few years, but he should probably be moving to Denver to be near his beloved Avalanche young stars. Then again, maybe distance is a good thing, because if Chris Stewart is anything less than the next Jarome Iginla, Caulen will be heartbroken.
The Whale Cove (named before that Japanese documentary about dolphin meat came out) is putting together a pretty solid core for the future…except his entire goalie corps, Stewart, Duchene and Okposo are free agents next summer. So while it's probably fun to own the Tavares to Okposo connection and the St. Louis blueline, these guys might not be playing together for too long.
Which means that basically he has four superstars, a bunch of 50-60 point guys and good goalies. Well, two good goalies, at least. Hey, you know what? That's usually a recipe for success.
2011 – So, ironically, the Whale Cove will improve greatly this season, ruining their draft position for the loaded Gatekeeper 2011 re-entry draft.
2009 – I said this was a "really, really good team" with a good 2010 outlook and a "really good" future outlook. They lost the first 5 weeks, only won 4 weeks out of 21 and finished last by 12 points. Oops.
2010 – Then again, if you're going to flame out, do it in the year it delivers Taylor Hall to your doorstep. With Malkin, Zetterberg, Kessel, Green, Visnovsky, Bogosian and Brodeur all in place, this team is primed to avenge last season's debacle.
Although depth is still a major issue, and if any of the stars struggle again, you'll see a repeat of last year, when their stars struggled and the team got mauled.
2011 – Scuderi isn't afraid to trade, and if one star got moved for some depth pieces, they'd have it made.


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"Travail" and "travel." Have you ever noticed how those two words sound similar? It's no coincidence--they come from the same Middle English root meaning to torment, labor, strive, or journey. And sure enough, even today, travel can be hard work. You have a lot of things to keep up with, especially if you fly with a bag full of electronics.
Trying to keep your gadgets charged? Wish you could put a lid on mobile phone bills while roaming internationally? Want to stay connected to the Internet, without paying for yet another wireless carrier contract? I'll show you what you need to stay in the know when you're on the go.
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Snow Shovel Stretch: Shoulders and Torso
Some areas of the US are getting dumped on by snow. That translates to lots of shoveling, which definitely helps burn calories and tones your muscles but can leave you with aches and pains too. I've already shown you how to stretch your lower back and hamstrings using a shovel, so here are some stretches to target your shoulders, upper back, front abs, and the sides of your torso.
Here's how to do the first stretch, which feels great on sore shoulders.
- Stand with your feet hip distance apart. Extend your arms out in front of your chest, holding the handle with one hand and the other end of the shovel with the other hand.
- Raise the shovel over your head and, as you gently arch back, lower the shovel behind you as much as you can. You should feel a nice release in the chest, shoulders, and abs.
- After 30 seconds, bring the shovel to the front of your body and lower it to the ground.
For another stretch that will target the sides of your body
- Stand with your feet together. Extend your arms out in front of your chest, holding the handle with one hand and the other end of the shovel with your other hand.
- Raise the shovel up over your head and then arch to the side, lowering the bottom end of the shovel toward the ground. Try to keep equal weight in both feet, and gaze up toward the sky.
- After 30 seconds, raise the shovel over your head and switch sides, holding for another 30 seconds.


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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., or FDIC, currently provides expanded deposit insurance for noninterest-bearing transaction accounts, which small businesses, municipalities, hospitals and other entities use to meet payroll and operational expenses.
That expanded insurance, known as the Transaction Account Guarantee, or TAG, program, was started in October 2008, extended in 2010 and is scheduled to sunset Dec. 31.
But now, state and community banking groups want Congress to continue TAG for another two years and they've made their talking points clear in a recent letter, signed by 8o banking groups and sent to congressional leaders.
The letter argues that failure to extend TAG would disrupt the banking system and hinder all those small business and other organizations that use noninterest-bearing transaction accounts. Approximately $1.4 trillion is deposited in these bank accounts, according to the Independent Community Bankers of America, or ICBA, a banking industry group in Washington, D.C.
According to the letter, the program's original purpose was to give depositors comfort that their money was safe and ensure that banks nationwide had the necessary liquidity to meet the credit needs of their communities. Those needs have not abated.
One of the banking groups' concerns is that if TAG is allowed to expire, insurance for noninterest-bearing transaction accounts will revert to the $250,000 limit for all deposit accounts and amounts over that limit -- some $1.4 trillion -- will become uninsured. Those uninsured amounts could become "hot money" that jumps from bank to bank and acts as a destabilizing factor in the banking system, according to a position paper on the ICBA website.
"The abrupt expiration of insurance coverage for noninterest-bearing transaction accounts carries the risk of sudden dislocation of funds and other unintended consequences for banks, credit availability and the economy," the associations wrote. "Notably, this coverage is not free, nor is it supported by tax dollars. Banks fully pay to have this coverage through their FDIC insurance premiums and cannot pay interest on these accounts."
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What Is Content Curation & How it Can Help Market Your Brand
By Bob Speyer and Alison Brown, Web Success Team
Content curation is the identifying, selecting and sharing of content that is meaningful to a specific target audience as well as other online resources such as articles, blog posts, videos, tweets, and photos. Done correctly, it can play a vital role in helping your brand succeed; and is particularly effective when sharing relevant information with your social network.
We are constantly inundated with advertisements, articles and other forms of information daily. However, content curation helps your audience see only the most important news or updates, since you have taken the first step and filtered out irrelevant information.
By curating content, you can narrow down interesting news to share with your social network, thereby enticing consumers to read your posts and support your company. The more interesting the news or information that you post, the more likely they will be to trust your brand. In fact, in curating content, you don't have to be the original creator, rather you can be a facilitator for sharing of useful information.
Who Are You Talking to?
The more online support you gain from posting relevant information, the more successful your brand will be. By determining what your market is, you can better evaluate the kind of information that will be well received. After you determine what your focus will be, it's important that you share pertinent information that has to do with their interests and also relates to your industry. By staying relevant and interesting, people will keep reading your posts.
Choosing the Right Social Media Platform
Various industries use certain social media websites over others, depending on whom they are trying to reach. Figuring out your demographic and choosing the right platform is important if you want your posts to have greater visibility. If your audience consists of a mostly younger demographic, then Twitter and Facebook may be the best ways to engage them online.
If using Twitter, you can make connections online that will get your brand noticed. It may take time to cultivate influential followers, but if you can get someone with over one hundred thousand followers to mention your company, that's even better!
Timing Is Key
Most social media gurus will tell you that the timing of your posts is crucial. If you post an article in the middle of the night, chances are that it won't get much attention. Most people troll the Internet during work hours, so posting information anytime between 9-5PM is preferable. If you want to take it a step further, you can also try posting articles at various times throughout the day and see what time frame invokes the most visitors. Wednesdays are the best days to post, followed by Tuesday and Thursday, then Monday and Fridays.
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Posting relevant content in one place diminishes the search, research and education time for your readers. The more neutral content you share, the more your audience see that you are not "trying to sell them" by pushing your products and promoting your services — rather you are out to add value.
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Kashmir is the most beautiful place in India! It's heaven! I just came back spending my holidays there.
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Kashmir is the most beautiful place in India! It's heaven! I just came back spending my holidays there.
Here r the pics: Enjoy!
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Kashmir does look like a very beautiful place
Thanks for sharing your pics with us
I hope you had a great time.
Looks like you did.
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The garden is so beautiful.
So many amazing places in the world!
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I'm a God damn and proud good fan... and I love it! = )>
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wow its so beautiful there
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Tks a lot everyone!
Yeah it was really fun!
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fabulous pics Priya, i'm not sure about the gun one though..........lol........that looks a bit scary.....
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Tks Fluffy,
That gun pic was for fun. There is lot of security in Kashmir & the armymen were very friendly. They let me hold their gun & pose for the photograph.
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some of them are lovely love your plane wing one x
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Have you ever wanted a light-up suit—like something straight out of Tron or Blades of Glory—but found the chipboards available too big or annoying to build into clothing? The "wearable technology" fans over at Adafruit Industries have a solution.
The Adafruit Gemma platform board builds on the successes of the popular Adafruit FLORA board, but is considerably smaller. At one inch in diameter, it's essentially a mini Arduino board, but purely for use with wearable tech.
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Panetta likened the North to Iran, describing them as "rogue states".
London: Outgoing Pentagon chief Leon Panetta has said that North Korean military ambitions are a 'serious threat' to the US.
Panetta likened the North to Iran, describing them as "rogue states".
In a farewell speech at the Pentagon, Panetta said the US would continue to be tested by unpredictable regimes in years to come, the BBC reports.
He said that the 'US is going to have to deal with weapons of mass destruction and the proliferation.'
Panetta's remarks in a speech made after Pyongyang carried out its third nuclear test on Tuesday.
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Ehresmann, Andrée C. and Vanbremeersch, Jean-Paul (1999) How to model consciousness in Memory Evolutive Systems? [Preprint]
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Memory Evolutive Systems (MES) represent a mathematical model, based on Category Theory, to study natural open autonomous systems such as biological, neural or social systems. It has been progressively developed by the authors in a series of papers since 1986. In this model the dynamics is modulated by the competitive interactions between a net of internal more or less complex organs of regulation, called CoRegulators (CR), with a differential access to a central hierarchical Memory. This article attempts to model the notions of Semantics and Consciousness in such a MES A Semantics will emerge through the detection of specific invariances by the CRs that leads to classify objects according to their main attributes, and record the invariance classes. The model explains how it relies on a hierarchical 2 steps process: first a pragmatically 'acted' classification at the level of specific attributes (such as colors), then this classification is 'reflected' and analyzed at a higher level, and a new formal unit, called a 'concept', is formed to represent the invariance class (e.g., the color 'blue'). The introduction of more and more abstract concepts gives more flexibility to the comportment. It is essential for the development of some kind of 'consciousness'. A 'conscious' CR is characterized by the capacity to respond to a new event or to a fracture by an increase in awareness, which permits: (i) to extend its actual 'landscape' (formed by the information it can gather) retrospectively to past lower levels; (ii) to operate an abduction process in this extended landscape to find possible causes of the fracture; (iii) and finally to planify a strategy for several steps ahead, through the formation of internal 'virtual' landscapes in which strategies can be tried without energy costs. Thus consciousness would amount to an internalization of Semantics and Time, giving a selective advantage. In the second Part of the paper, a MES modeling a neural system is explicitly described and it is shown how the various processes described above are in agreement with present neurophysiological knowledge. Finally the general ideas are illustrated on a concrete example.
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This article was published 17/7/2014 (1104 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Councillors surprised a senior administrator this morning when they suspended committee rules to question CFO Mike Ruta about the KPMG audit.
Couns. Russ Wyatt and Paula Havixbeck spent 50 minutes questioning Ruta over lingering issues from the damning audit into the conversion of the old downtown Canada Post warehouse into the new police headquarters building.
Several times, acting city solicitor Krista Boryskavich tried to shield Ruta from questioning – claiming questions were inappropriate because of council's request for Manitoba Justice to review the audit; asking that questions be put to Ruta in writing and allow him time to respond, in writing; and that the questions were beyond the jurisdiction of the finance committee.
But Wyatt and Havixbeck ignored Boryskavich, and continued to question Ruta over what he knew about questionable management decisions on the troubled project.
"It's important to ask questions why things happened and, more importantly, why other things didn't happen, and why things happened for the reason they did," Wyatt said following the meeting, adding he didn't warn Ruta ahead of time that he would be questioned.
"Why there wasn't the kind of due diligence that should have been done to manage this project as it went forward is really shocking."
It was Wyatt, chairman of the committee, who requested the committee rule be suspended when the agenda was completed and kept the meeting going.
Only Coun. Grant Nordman didn't ask Ruta any questions and he left after 10 minutes, citing he had to participate in a telephone conference call.
The project was approved by council in 2009 with a $135 million budget but that skyrocketed to $210 million. The conversion is nearly complete and police will begin moving in the fall.
The KPMG audit found civic officials failed to follow city procedures put in place to manage the design, procurement and construction of major projects; and, that the city lacks many essential policies and procedures to govern administrative handling of such projects.
The questioning of Ruta came a day after council accepted the KPMG audit but a motion to hold a special meeting next week, to question administration about the audit and the EY audit of 33 real estate transactions released last week, was defeated in a 4-12 vote. Wyatt and Havixbeck were on the losing side of that vote.
Mayor Sam Katz, who argued against a special meeting, said councillors could question the administration any time they wanted about the audit – which Havixbeck repeatedly told Boryskavich when she tried to stop the questioning.
When Boryskavich said the questions were going beyond the jurisdiction of the finance committee, Havixbeck said all the issues are relevant to the committee.
Wyatt said he hoped other councillors would use their committees to also question administration.
Wyatt said he remains concerned that the administration oversight committee for the $210-million project failed to keep notes or minutes of their meetings, except for one.
"This turned out to be a $210-million project and it seemed to me the project management was very loosey-goosey," Wyatt said.
Disclosures by City of Winnipeg Chief Financial Officer Mike Ruta
The following is an edited version of the exchange between CFO Mike Ruta and Couns. Russ Wyatt and Paula Havixbeck at the finance committee meeting.
Wyatt: Engineering firm AAR was hired in 2011, without tender, for a contract of $2.6M, but Ruta approved an additional $1.8 million in 2012; the same firm was awarded another $470,000 contract in December 2013, which Ruta approved in March 2014. The firm was paid a total of $5.465 million when the original contract was not to exceed $2.6 million.
Ruta: The administration has authority to exceed council-authorized individual contracts so long as the project is under budget.
Havixbeck: How was AAR chosen?
Ruta: Doesn't recall who recommended the firm, probably staff in planning, property and development could answer that.
Wyatt: Why did the administrative oversight committee not keep minutes or notes from its meetings?
Ruta: All relevant issues were discussed but could not explain why minutes not kept.
Havixbeck: Do you have a letter from the Surety Association of Canada recommending the bond value on the project be reduced from 50 per cent to 25 per cent?
Ruta: This question was asked by the media. We do have emails going back and forth. The general theme was that the surety association and bonding groups said you could make it more competitive by lowering the bond value.
Free Press Note: The president of the Surety Association told the Free Press in November it had not advised the City of Winnipeg it was a good idea to lower the bond value. The association said lowering the bond value "would be irresponsible."
Havixbeck: The project director Dunmore Corp president Ossama AbouZeid was hired without tendering, on whose recommendation?
Ruta: Former CAO Phil Sheegl recommended the firm. He's not sure if there was a written contract.
Havixbeck: Has any action been taken on staff for issues identified in the audits, like re-training?
Ruta: Staff are diligent professionals who exercise their best judgment.
Havixbeck: Who within the administration knew the designs of the project were only 30 per cent complete when presented to council in 2011 as a guaranteed maximum price?
Ruta: My staff are accountants... they get information from our engineers.


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For all those fans of free jazz, avant garde, etc. WKCR and Anthony Braxton are providing coverage of the 2014 Tri-Centric festival. See www.wkcr.org for more details and schedule. As I broadened my horizons as a listener of improvisational music, I heard about Anthony Braxton. He is one of those innovators who I feel can't be categorized. It's always an experience for me to learn about people like Braxton because it's different and new. I often use youtube to discover his music, and also the music of the composers involved with the Tri-Centric festival. See previous post of a sample of Braxton's work.
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Monday, April 7, 2014
A few vinyl record lots for sale
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Thursday, April 3, 2014
Three music birthdays this month: Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington
There are three very special birthdays this month in the music world; Billie Holiday, April 7, 1915, Charles Mingus, April 22, 1922, and Duke Ellington, April 29, 1899. WKCR New York City radio 89.9 F.M. www.wkcr.org celebrates these birthdays with 24 hour broadcasts. They have been doing this for over 40 years, and I've been listening to them for over 25 years. I highly recommend them. See www.wkcr.org for details on the broadcasts and further information.
Thursday, March 27, 2014
YUSEF LATEEF & ADAM RUDOLPH live in Milan Full
Yusef Lateef recently died in December of last year at age 91. He had a tremendous career. I was looking for his albums on youtube, and found this duo with Adam Rudolph which was recorded in Milann, Italy in 2012.
Friday, February 28, 2014
What will I do with all these records?
I love just about any kind of music, and have been a record collector for many years. So I have a good collection, far too many to listen to each one more than once, so I have been trying to sell them. I started on ebay, but in recent years I have been dissatisfied with their policies. To put it bluntly, they got too greedy with their fees and their control of paypal. So I decided to look for other selling websites. Etsy is o.k. but I think it's more for arts and crafts. I found webstore, which has the lowest fees and conditions, good reviews, and I'm sticking with it. I have mostly jazz, with some rock, and soul. I recently added a few more listings. If you have seen the list, and don't see what you're looking for, send me a wish list; I may have it. The following is what was added this week: Eagles, Santana, Dire Straits, a lot of fusion with Chick Corea, Airto, Joe Farrell, Deodato, Eddie Harris, Les McCann, Ray Charles, Third World, Brand X (Phil Collins on drums), Etta Jones, Dinah Washington, Nancy Wilson.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Ornette Coleman and Bix Beiderbecke birthday broadcasts
This month WKCR will be doing two 24 hour birthday broadcasts: Ornette Coleman March 9 and Bix Beiderbecke March 10. Bix Beiderbecke was one of the early pioneers of the improvised solo. He was active in the 20's and early 30's, and died much too young in 1931. Ornette Coleman was one of the inventors of the free jazz movement. He has had a long and varied career, which is still going strong at age 84. In 2007 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his album Sound Grammar. See www.wkcr.org. I have been listening to these broadcasts for many years, and they are both entertaining and informative. I don't think there is another radio station in the world that devotes this much time to honor a musician. If there is, let me know.
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- We have started a *Friends of Noisebridge* wall where you should put a photo and some info about you to help welcome new folks to the space.
- We have **21486.50** ducats in our bucket, and have not touched the reserve $15000 in over a month.
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- It is the consensus of Noisebridge to spend a net sum of $1000 for a contractor to retrofit our lighting for efficiency.
- We reached consensus regarding how to deal with Rob 2.0:

Be it the consensus of Noisebridge that the issue of banning Rob 2.0 (a.k.a. Dank) be deferred until either he or his advocate Mitch or Kelly, gives fair notice and attends a meeting. Until that time he is unwelcome at Noisebridge.


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Thousands of students were back in session Monday at both San Bernardino Valley College in San Bernardino and Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa.
Nicole Aboytes walked onto the Wolverine campus in San Bernardino ready to start her second year of college.
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More than 5,300 students are enrolled at Crafton Hills where school officials were looking to increase enrollment going into the 2013 fall and 2014 spring semesters.
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"(CHC's President Cheryl Marshall) also is focused on reaching out to the community and will be hosting a 'Come to College' Family Fest on Oct. 12. Her goal is to reach out to elementary school families to encourage them to start thinking about college now."
To keep students abreast of the goings on at each respective site, both SBVC and CHC have embraced social media, by creating accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram with the day's news, Petinak said. The goal is to communicate to students in a real-time fashion.
"When the SBVC website was down briefly (Monday) morning, we posted updates and work-a-rounds on social media channels so students could still print out their classrooms," he said.
Added Hoffman: "My goal is to use these outlets to let them know about classes being added, construction updates, campus events, etc."


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Packers Get It Done!
When the Packers needed one…they got it! Up against the wall with a one game deficit to the Minnesota Vikings, the Packers got a big win with the Vikings having a one game lead in the NFC North. The trick
When the Packers needed one…they got it! Up against the wall with a one game deficit to the Minnesota Vikings, the Packers got a big win with the Vikings having a one game lead in the NFC North. The trick
The Packers play the Lions this Sunday in a game at Lambeau Field. This season so far has been about a sort of "bipolar" Packers team that had found a way to win with either the offense or the defense
The decision to promote James Starks to starting running back was easy from a performance standpoint but difficult from a personal standpoint. I love that kid and hope he gets back on his horse very soon. In the meantime, James
Perhaps it was wishful thinking that the Packers' deep-rooted issues on both sides of the football would be resolved in just one week of practice. Green Bay's stagnant offense and inconsistencies on defense followed the team from Denver to Bank
After a "humbling" loss at the hands of the Broncos, the Packers hope to rebound against another unbeaten. The good news is that the loss to the Broncos was an AFC loss…this game against the Panthers is a game that
Friday's predictions…will they come true? What is your prediction for tonight's game? Here are my thoughts for the game along with JR's prediction video. Enjoy and let us know what your prediction is in the comments below or back on
Raves How many #GoPackGo can I get on the FB fan page for this win? This was a game everyone was thinking could be a sleeper but this team will not be denied at Lambeau. I predicted a blowout and
So, you've had some time to process things from preseason game one. You've read a bunch of observations and opinions from around the internet about the game. Now, it's your turn.
There will be a lot of different things I'll be looking for tonight when the Packers take the field against the Patriots. It's a preseason game, so most of those things I'll just be kind of taking in. But there's


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Between the Lines: Touchdown Celebrations
Throughout the 2014 football season, LFSN Game On reporter Alan York will take a weekly look inside Liberty's football program in a segment called "Between the Lines."
During this week's segment, York looks at what players do when they want to celebrate a play on the field, whether it be a touchdown scored or a big defensive stop or turnover.
In recent years, the NCAA has added rules to try to lessen the excessive celebrations following a touchdown. NCAA Football Rule 9-2, Article 1(a) (1) (d) prohibits "Any delayed, excessive, prolonged or choreographed act by which a player (or players) attempts to focus attention upon himself (or themselves)." Violators of the rule can be penalized 15 yards on the ensuing kickoff if an official deems a player's actions to be too much.
With the newer guidelines in place, players have found a tasteful way to show their enthusiasm on the field following a big play without showing up their opponent.
During today's segment, York talks with running back D.J. Abnar, quarterback Josh Woodrum, safety Jacob Hagen and cornerback Kenny Scott about how the Flames celebrate on the field.


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Andover Business - Best Dressed
From Andover Answers
Best Dressed, owned by Erin Ryan, was located in Park Street Village. The store featured fashions from New York City..
In July of 2006, Best Dressed moved to 89 Main Street, next to the Lantern Brunch. However, as of 2010, Bella Beads moved to the 89 Main Street location.
- "Kids' picks help stock Best Dressed", Andover Townsman, October 13, 2005.
- "Best Dressed moving to Andover Village", Andover Townsman, July 13, 2006.
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I'd like to offer a few more predictions about Thomson Reuters Legal's (TRL) latest version of Westlaw, known now only as Project Cobalt:
- Default search will not require Boolean connectors, however, the user will be able to switch to Boolean. I wouldn't be surprised to see users run the same search with and without connectors just to compare the results. The user will expect the same results, and this is where I think education will be important. The results should be different with natural language processing, meaning better because it will undoubtedly be supported by semantic and sentiment analysis. This should yield better, more accurate search results.
- Search queries can be targeted to specific databases, but the menus will be consolidated. For example, I suspect law reviews will be collapsed under a single directory, and if the user wants to narrow the search to a specific journal, she will just type the name of it in the search box along with other search terms. Perhaps similar to Google's "site" search feature, except more flexible.
- Search speeds will be significantly faster, but will probably still be throttled to maintain uniformity of user experience at all times of the day.
- Faceted search will finally make an appearance.
- Results Plus will be more tightly integrated into the search results. I don't see this as a separate application any longer because the user needs to be able to appreciate, visually, the relationship and ranking of Results Plus hits to her primary search query. This may help drive in-platform upgrades.
- A "Westlaw Store?" I wouldn't be surprise to see TRL borrow from Apple and allow users to set up a store account and to buy one-off access to books and databases in an effort to increase conversion to higher tier plans. How this could be accomplished without completely infuriating sales reps, I have no idea.
- I agree with Joe Hodnicki that I think we'll see pricing packages similar to Microsoft, with TRL Solo, Small Law, Large Law, and Academic packages. I'm sure the matrix will be more complicated than this, and the need for publications outside of these packages might be satisfied by one off purchases through the Westlaw Store.
- Maintenance fees? Once you purchase a package, I wouldn't be surprised to see a yearly maintenance fee as part of the offering. This is a common practice in the software industry, and can be adjusted by TRL every year, most likely based on your usage (which will still be heavily monitored).
- Free web results. The user will now have access to blog posts, law firm articles, etc. and will be able to click through to the them (meaning outside of TRL's frame). I suspect these click throughs and leading content will be used as part of the sentiment and semantic analysis for the in-Westlaw results.
- More white space. I think we'll see a cleaner, leaner look with minimal visual interference. The focus will be on search results.
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PROMISING dance DJ Al English is "the daddy" — after he released a new record and became a father in the space of two days.
Mr English's girlfriend gave birth to their daughter Alice Elizabeth on August 19, the day after he released his single Need to Know on iTunes.
The single has received support from some of the biggest names in dance music, including BBC Radio 1 DJ Shadow Child and the German DJ and music producer Loco Dice.
The new father has also been given his own radio slot on Bolton FM where he will play dance music every Friday night.
Mr English, aged 27, of Amblethorn Drive, Sharples, said: "When Alice was handed to us, it was the happiest moment of my life — I just burst into tears.
"Becoming a dad has been a complete eye-opener. It's a new motivation for me — I know I have to make money and put food on the table for Alice.
"In the past, I've become engrossed in my own world of music and it's been quite difficult to strike a balance between family and music, so I have had to find the balance and that's even more true now.
"I'm hoping the new single will get me a greater following. I'm not bothered about the money, I want greater exposure and hopefully this single will achieve that."
Mr English is the studio manager at Raise The Youth, a social enterprise in Great Lever which helps children and young people who are primarily from disadvantaged backgrounds.
He has been a musician since he was at high school and is also part of a vocal house duo called Mojofluxx with friend Alex Gillott.
His girlfriend, Jenny Robinson, aged 29, who has another daughter, six-year-old Ava-May, said: "Alex always works so hard and I'm so proud of him. We're both over the moon. Alice is just perfect."
Mr English's new single Need to Know is available on iTunes and on his Soundcloud page at soundcloud.com/alenglish


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About the Book
Book Three: "In Which P. Dunk Takes Up Poetry and Wins a Surprize"
In the third of P. Dunk Skiddlewink's adventures, "In Which P.Dunk Takes Up Poetry and Wins a Surprize", you will not only be stuck with P. Dunk, the desert lizard, yet again, but also most all the folks in Dry Gulch Canyon and, introducing LaVerne and Vinnie Buzzard. This you gotta see.
P. Dunk gets a swelled head, egged on by his new literary agents, Vinnie and Verne. When they recognize P. Dunk's hidden talent for poetry, they plan how P. Dunk can make them a load of dough. P. Dunk, as usual, doesn't have a clue, but all of his friends do.
This time, it's Carl Highcliff, the Raven, who racks his birdbrain for a scheme that might free P. Dunk from the clutches of the Buzzards, while at the same time, teach him a lesson once and for all – a desert lizard more stuck on himself, you've never seen.
Is this one really worth it, you ask? Haven't you had enough of Mr. P. Dunk Skiddlewink yet? Well, if you haven't, after you get a load of P. Dunk dressed to the nines in his bowler and his cane, you probably will have – had enough that is. But what the heck, I figure it's worth it, just to see Mr. Skiddlewink learn the meaning of true friendship, and that a friend like Charlie Coyote is worth more than a bazillion bucks.
Ages: P. Dunk Skiddlewink is appropriate for reading fun from 4-16 years old. It's a mixture of Winnie the Pooh meets Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam meets the true beauty of the Southwest American Desert. The characters and their environment are educationally accurate as to life in the desert of the Colorado Plateau (Southern Utah and Northern Arizona) and is a fun teaching companion for any Parent who wants to relive wildlife sightings with their children or prepare them for an upcoming trip to this glorious area full of stunning National Parks (such as Grand Canyon National Park, Zion, Arches, Canyonlands, Lake Powell and similar state parks).
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WTO, Listen To The States
America's trade partners may feel a little confused. The U.S. is pushing to implement some of the same rules that apply to trade in manufactured goods to the growing international trade in services such as insurance, accounting, engineering, and the like. Progress in the services segment of the World Trade Organization negotiations has been halting, though Washington has long been a determined advocate for such liberalization. But there's a new roadblock.
U.S. governors and other officials say new trade rules and the judges that enforce them are impinging on states' rights. This echoes complaints from liberal and conservative critics of free trade that the U.S. is surrendering its sovereignty to an obscure organization in Geneva that can overrule U.S. laws and regulations. The alliance of Left and Right and state officialdom could call an abrupt halt to the WTO talks and to Bush's ambitious trade agenda.
The states are correct: Their powers are being circumscribed. Of course, Europe and other nations whose systems of government aren't as fragmented aren't particularly sympathetic to the states' rights arguments. In addition, the U.S. trade deficit, at a harrowing $617 billion, is suppressing job creation and putting heat on local politicians to preserve contracts for in-state businesses and workers. Even the services trade, one of the few areas where the U.S. has enjoyed a surplus, is struggling: The surplus has shrunk from $101.2 billion in 1999 to just $48.5 billion in 2004.
If the talks are to get back on track, the WTO will have to take seriously some of the states' misgivings. Too many WTO panels, which operate in secret and need not follow legal precedents, have been unsympathetic to environmental concerns. Trade negotiators have ignored the potential conflicts between trade rules and the state and federal powers to protect health, safety, and workers' rights.
A compromise needs to be struck that recognizes the legitimate rights of America's states to exercise powers. Under the U.S. Constitution, many powers to pass laws and regulate trade are reserved to the states. Washington should be careful about bargaining them away.


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(Akron) - The Welcome Home LeBron Community Rally is set.
Akron City Council has been swamped by people wishing to participate in the event.
The festival takes place on August 8th in the University of Akron's InfoCision Stadium at 7:15 p.m.
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Ramsay Sante will acquire the Clinique Convert Hospital from France's biggest private hospitals operator, Generale de Sante, for €15 million ($20.57 million).
The 178-bed hospital is in Bourg-en-Bresse in the Rhone-Alpes region, and is the first acquisition for Ramsay Sante since Ramsay acquired 57 per cent of the group early in 2010.
Ramsay managing director
He said Ramsay Sante would continue to investigate acquisition opportunities in the highly fragmented French market.
"We are very excited about the growth prospects in the French market, and the acquisition of Clinique Convert is an important first step for Ramsay Sante's growth," Mr Rex said.


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Bertil Roos, if you didn't already know, is a rather entrepreneurial fellow who grew up on a small fishing island on the coast of Sweden, developed a passion for automobiles, and grew up to race Formula One cars in Europe. He eventually skipped across the pond and opened his own driving school in the Poconos. But his ambitions didn't stop there, and now Roos has sunk his tentacles across the country, establishing franchises at a few select racetracks. Roos' Formula 2000 Racers — low-riding racecars with open cockpits and carbon-fiber bodies — go from zero to 60 in 4.2 seconds, reach 130 mph, and "pull up to 2 Gs in the corners." It's not cheap, though; a half-day sesh starts at $495; a five-day package costs more than 5 Gs.
When you need porn, you need it now. And we understand that. So forget that Something Sexy for Him & Her has a great selection of erotica — teen, bi, gay, lesbian, vintage VHS, and everything from midget gang-bangs to Japanese animation. Forget that the prices are affordable (check out their two-for-one sales), the place is well-lit, and the staff lets you peruse the porn in relative peace. Forget that they also sell kinky shoes, slinky outfits, hulking dildos, and other accessories to enhance your porn experience. (Speaking of experience, check out Something Sexy's instructional video selection: For ladies who'd rather give than receive, try the "Backdoor My Boyfriend" how-to, available on VHS and DVD.) Shouldn't the best adult video store be the one that's open when most others aren't — say, late Sunday night on an important Christian holiday in the latter part of March? That's Something Sexy. Sure, they've got 20-hour porn box sets, vibrators, and sexy outfits, but so does any other good porn shop. Something Sexy, though, is also there with the merch at odd hours, ready and willing on those late, lonely Sunday nights, when only a glistening movie-box blond can give you what you need.
Ethnic grocery stores typically offer an aesthetic worth soaking in even if you don't purchase a thing. When it comes to local Caribbean grocery stores, Bedessee East-West Indian Foods is the perfect example. They've got two aisles devoted to curries alone, and lots of foods found throughout the Caribbean. They also have a wide selection of chutneys, pepper sauces, and seasonings that you can't find in a typical supermarket, plus numerous Caribbean beers from Lion Stout to Carib, and plenty of island juices and sodas priced 50 cents to a dollar cheaper than other places around town. Items here are affordable; a family could tackle all of their grocery needs at Bedessee without a problem. What makes the market really stand out is the way the East-West Indian part of their name plays a role: You can get Bollywood films here and statues of Vishnu, plus full cricket sets. The place is half grocery store, half botanica; you can also purchase candles to ward off evil spirits, oils, and machetes. And they've got an African section with Nigerian yam flour, palm oil, fufu, sweet potatoes, and more. The produce section is respectable, with breadfruit, callaloo, plantains, and aloe among customer favorites. They've also got a meat section stocked with goat, oxtail, chicken, and dried fish. It's rare to find all these items in one place whether you're stateside or in the islands, which is why Bedessee is a Caribbean market worth exploring.
If you've always wanted to be a racecar driver but lacked, say, the kingly fortune required to build, fine-tune, and maintain a monster automobile, it's OK. Moroso Motorsports has made it easy for those of us whose last name is not Earnhardt or Petty to quench our need for speed. For just 20 beans, you can pull up in your trusty Hyundai and have your way with the quarter-mile drag strip. When the official motions to you, pull up at the starting line ("Do a burnout if you like," say Moroso staff), and look at the "Christmas tree," the signal that progresses from red to yellow to green. At green, hit the pedal. At the end of the strip, pull over to the timing booth to receive a little slip with specs like your top speed. It all seems to go by lickety-split, so just pull back into the queue do it all over again. Test & Tune goes down every Wednesday and Friday from 6 to 11 p.m.
When you walk into Florida Cigar Company, the first thing you'll notice is the immense collection of cigars from all over the world. It's one of the largest selections in Broward County. Finger through boxes with all the top names — Don Carlos, Dupont, CAO, Prometheus — and think of the generations of skill rolled into each of these magnificent smokes. Soon you'll find a few you can't leave without. Next, make your way to the bar, where you'll find a friendly 'tender with just the drink to match your cigar, from a stock of top-shelf libations. The crowd is eclectic but mellow here, and the plasmas are always tuned to sports. Ease into a plush leather seat and light that baby up. The stresses of life seem to slip away with each creamy pull, expelled in thick puffs of the good life.
What do you look for in a comic book shop? A good selection of new books as well as an extensive catalogue of back issues, for one. But what else? Good prices don't hurt, especially if you're looking to round out that collection of Wolverine originals. You'd also want a knowledgeable staff — guys and gals who live the life, who can tell you about the latest issue of Jack of Fables or why you need to get some Y: The Last Man up in that mug. And since you're into comics, you probably want a place to game, too — a joint that will not only let you throw down on some Hordes or Warhammer 40K table-top action, but whose employees will bust out their pieces and play alongside you. Basically you've just described your ideal comic shop: War & Pieces. It's the kind of place where you'll not only get a huge selection of monthly issues and graphic novels, but they'll actually let you make a list of favorites, then bag and board them and hold them aside in your own personal box till you pick them up. For that service they'll charge you nothing, and reward you with a 10 percent discount on all comics in the store to boot, provided you pick up at least five copies a month. Now that's customer service. Add to that an extensive list of nightly gaming sessions, artists workshops, and miniatures leagues all taking place inside the hand-painted gaming dungeon, and you've got the ultimate comic destination.