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Area 3T Extra Program Guidelines
Section 3, Area T
Effective April 1, 2011
The EXTRA program is a pilot program for U-10 through U-16 players (boys and girls) currently being offered in Area T of Section 3. This program is designed to provide options for players to play soccer at a more challenging level for those players who possess the desire and appropriate skills and abilities. These guidelines shall serve as the governing document for the EXTRA Program conducted in this Region/Area.
Because 14 Regions in Area 3T are participating in this program, the program is under the jurisdiction of the Area Director.
Each participating Area Director in a Section is responsible for overseeing/verifying that the National EXTRA program requirements are met as they pertain to player eligibility, coach eligibility, team formation, field support and Referee support by those Regions within their Area that elect to participate in the EXTRA program.
Each Regional Commissioner of a Region electing to participate in the EXTRA program is responsible for his/her Region's compliance with established player eligibility requirements. Player eligibility, as pertains to age requirements to participate in a specific gender/age bracket, is defined in the AYSO National Rules & Regulations.
In order to tryout for an EXTRA team, players must either be registered with AYSO or complete the Non-AYSO Registered Participant Form. There is no requirement that EXTRA players have previously played or registered as AYSO players. Players shall be selected through an evaluation and selection process described below. The AYSO National Office player database shall be the source of determining all players' current registration status, the creation of team rosters and ID cards.
Gender/age bracket placement of players shall be based on their age as of July 31 of the current registration year. EXTRA permits placement based on single year age increments. Divisions may be formed in single-year age brackets should there be sufficient teams to do so and with approval from the Section Director.
Placing/playing an ineligible player on a team may result in discipline being assessed against the player or coach as deemed appropriate by the Area Director.
Coaches participating in EXTRA should be of the excellent quality. At a minimum, EXTRA coaches (head or assistant) must:
Have a current Volunteer Application on file at the National Support & Training Center;
Be an AYSO trained and certified coach as specified in these Guidelines;
Be Safe Haven certified;
Be an active participant in the Region's standard primary program as an instructor, coach or Referee mentor, or other volunteer service the Region determines adequate to fulfill this requirement;
Be in good standing with the Region, Area and/or Section and AYSO;
Be approved by the Region board; and
Be evaluated and renewed each membership year.
Coaches desiring to coach must have completed age specific training/certification levels as listed below:
U-10 and U-12U-12 Coach
U-14Intermediate Coach
U-16Advanced Coach
It is strongly recommended that EXTRA program coaches be certified at least one level above the level they intend to coach (except as set forth above, U-10 coaches must be certified at the U-12 level). It is also strongly recommended that coaches have continuing education each year as designed by the Region or Area.
Those wanting to coach must fill in an application and submit it for approval. The Area EXTRA Coordinator will conduct a mandatory EXTRA coach meeting prior to the start of the EXTRA season which each coach assigned to an EXTRA team must attend.
Team rosters for teams participating in the EXTRA program must be received by the EXTRA Area Program Coordinator no later than one (1) calendar month prior to the start of the Extra season and shall include:
Region and division identification
The Coach and Assistant Coach names, addresses, home and cell phone numbers, e-mail addresses and current Coach Certification level.
Team member AYSO ID numbers
Player information: AYSO ID number, jersey number (subject to availability), name, address, phone number and birth date.
Team number, uniform colors and team name (if available).
Signature of the Regional Commissioner verifying players and coaches and confirming appropriate player registration and coach volunteer status, training and certification.
Revisions to rosters may occur when:
A player drops from a team.
The total amount of player drops, for whatever reason, lowers the number of permanent rostered players to less than the number of field players permitted in the division. At that point, the team will be allowed to add one (1) player. This player cannot be drafted from another AYSO team whose season is still in progress. The additional player must be approved by the Regional Commissioner and the Area Director.
Revised rosters must be submitted to the Area Extra Program Coordinator prior to the new team member participating in a game.
Regions shall prepare ID cards for each participating EXTRA player and for a maximum of two coaches per team from the eAYSO database. The ID cards shall bear the name, recent photo and AYSO ID# of the respective player or coach, and for coaches, their certification level as well as the signature of the Regional Commissioner. ID cards must be laminated.
Properly completed and laminated ID cards for all players and a maximum of two coaches and a team lineup card shall be presented to the Referee by each team prior to the start of each EXTRA program game.
Coaches must wear ID cards visibly on their person during all games. Cards may be clipped on jackets or shirts, or worn on neck lanyards.
For each EXTRA program team, the coaches must have a team roster, ID cards and copies of AYSO Player Registration Forms (with Emergency Authorization) for each participating player as well as their own ID cards. These must be at all events (games, practices, scrimmages, parties etc.) in which the team participates.
Fields Regions must provide an adequate number of fields. Fields/equipment needs to be age appropriate. Participating Regions are responsible for properly preparing all fields used. Field set-up and take down is the responsibility of the hosting Region
Officiating Referees will be assigned to games in divisions for which they are certified based on their badge level, as follows:
U-10 Basic
U-12/U14 Intermediate
U-16 Advanced
It is strongly recommended that EXTRA program referees be certified at least one level above the levels listed and that they have continuing education each year as designed by the Region.
All Referees participating shall obtain ID cards from their Regional Commissioner or Regional Referee Administrator that will bear their name, recent photo, AYSO ID#, current certification level and the signature of the Regional Commissioner or Regional Referee Administrator. ID cards must be laminated.
Regions must provide an adequate number of Referees who are certified as listed above for adequate coverage of EXTRA program games. Regional Commissioners are to attest to compliance with the Area staff's concurrence.
All EXTRA program games shall be officiated using the Diagonal System of Control, i.e. one Referee and two assistant Referees.
The use of "club linesmen" is encouraged when an insufficient number of assistant Referees are available. Club linesman shall only call the ball in and out of play. The Dual (two-man) System of Control is not allowed.
Regional Referee Administrators shall assign "neutral" Referees of appropriate skill and ability to all EXTRA program games assigned to their region. Referees shall be a minimum of two years older than the oldest players in the division to which they have been assigned. If Youth Referees are assigned to any games, a field monitor should also be assigned.
The EXTRA Program is designed for the U-10 through U-16 age divisions. Each year, the EXTRA Program Coordinator shall inform the participating Regions of the divisions that will be available for the coming season. Teams must be formed according to the approved selection procedures.
The maximum number of players on a team must not exceed the numbers stated in the AYSO National Rules and Regulations, but it is recommended that the maximum size roster be used. The EXTRA program AYSO short sided games guidelines. Teams are not permitted to use more players on the field than provided by the guidelines.
All participants in a selection process must be registered with AYSO prior to the process or complete the Non-AYSO Registered Participant Form and pay the requisite tryout fee (a non-refundable fee of $5.00 per form must be submitted by the hosting AYSO entity). These forms should be made available for on-site participation of any player not registered in AYSO prior to arriving at the evaluation. All currently registered AYSO players in the gender/age bracket of the selection being conducted are eligible to participate.
All players must be newly selected each membership year. Teams will be reformed and balanced each membership year. It is possible that not all players who tryout will be selected to a team.
Each player who participates in the player selection process will be notified promptly after the final selection date whether he or she was selected to a team. Notification must first be given to those players who were not selected with the assurance they will be placed on a standard primary program team in the standard Region process.
Regions are encouraged to select as large a team as allowed by AYSO Rules and Regulations to ensure enough players and substitutes are available each game day as well as to eliminate the need for adding players at a later date.
Two to four (2-4) evaluation opportunities should be offered. All players will wear numbers for selections. Evaluations will be as blind as possible.
Evaluators are strongly encouraged to use a short-sided game format to evaluate players. Evaluators may also use additional skill tests that are age appropriate and in accordance with AYSO's coaching programs.
Impartial Advanced Coaches (at minimum) or those with higher level coaching licenses (or where not currently feasible an Intermediate Coach with prior approval of the Area Extra Program Coordinator) will conduct the evaluations that create raw scores. Regardless of coaching license held, a parent of a player trying out for and EXTRA program team may not participate as an evaluator for his/her child's age division.
The Regional Coach Administrator also should be involved in the EXTRA program selection process. No coach who will be coaching an EXTRA program team may participate in the selection process in the division in which they will be coaching. The EXTRA program coach should observe all players throughout all the selections
When all selections have been completed, the Region will calculate scores for all participants and establish a rank order of participants.
The selection committee will consist of the Regional Commissioner, the Region Coach Administrator, the Regional EXTRA Program Coordinator and any other designees by the Regional Commissioner, all who must be neutral participants.
Regions are to notify all players who tried out as to their status within 48 hours of the conclusion of the last evaluation and player selections determined. Notification to those players who are not selected must first be made.
All uniforms and equipment will be in accordance with AYSO National Rules and Regulations.
EXTRA program teams shall be provided with uniforms similar to those provided to other primary program teams. General Region funds are not to be expended for any additional player uniforms, warm-ups, backpacks, additional field usage needs, etc.
The Home team in a match is responsible for wearing uniform jerseys (or scrimmage vests) that clearly distinguish them from the other team. In case of color conflicts, the Home team is required to change uniform colors. The Referee is the final authority on the safety of any player's uniform and equipment.
Teams are NOT permitted to begin practice or engage in any training activity until all participating teams have been chosen within their Region and approved by the Regional Commissioner, but no sooner than August 1 of the new membership year. Only players on the official roster are permitted to participate in team training.
The game schedule and standings (where applicable) for the EXTRA program shall be posted on the Region and Area Web sites and Regions should have a link to the Area Web site.
All games shall be played as scheduled (date, time and venue). The home coach is responsible for contacting the visiting coach 72 hours prior to the scheduled start of the game to confirm time and location.
In cases of games cancelled by adverse weather conditions (rain, poor air quality or act of God), the Region or Area shall make all reasonable effort reschedule the game to be played either prior to the end of the pool play season or as soon after the end of pool play as can be arranged. The applicable Regional Commissioners will sign off on the use of fields and referees for these make up games. All game scores will be reported to the Region EXTRA Program Coordinator who will report them to the Area EXTRA Program Coordinator for statistics compilation and posting.
To allow flexibility in rescheduling games, the final standings will not be determined until after one week after the last regularly scheduled games have been completed. This will allow for an additional week and weekend as an opportunity to make up games previously cancelled. The final standings will take into consideration the number of games played.
No team will be allowed to secure a place in positions 1 4 in the season standings as a result of not playing a scheduled game due the conditions described above. In such case(s), the Area Director will reschedule the match.
If either of the teams is not ready to play at the scheduled kick-off time, the Referee may allow a grace period of up to ten (10) minutes before canceling the game. A team not ready to play at that time shall forfeit that game. If a team does not show for a scheduled game, their opponent will be awarded a 1- 0 victory by forfeit. The Area EXTRA Program Coordinator may impose other sanctions if the forfeiting team gains an advantage by the forfeit.
The coaches, substitutes and spectators of the two teams watch the match from opposite sides of the field of play unless the Referee gives permission for them to be on the same side, in which case they will remain on opposite ends of the field, outside the coach technical area. Home teams shall have the choice as to side of field. Teams and spectators will only be allowed in areas approved by the Referee.
Coaches are responsible for reporting game scores to the Area EXTRA Program Coordinator via the online Quickbase System or to their Regional EXTRA Program Coordinator who will enter the results into the online Quickbase System. The Referee is responsible for reporting all misconduct, including the cautions or send-off of players, coaches, or spectators or any other area of concern including unsafe conditions etc. to the Misconduct Reporting email address within twenty-four (24) hours of the game. The Misconduct Reporting System will make appropriate distribution of the Misconduct Report.
If the Referee terminates a game before completion because of actions by players, coaches and/ or spectators, the outcome of the game will be determined by the administration of the program.
If the game termination is due to actions by both teams, or if it is undetermined, the game shall be deemed a forfeit by both teams, and no points shall be recorded in the standings.
If a game is suspended prior to completion due to inclement weather or any other unforeseen circumstances, the game score will stand as recorded by the Referee, provided one half or more of the regulation game time had been played at the time of suspension.
If less than one-half of the regulation game time had been played at the time of the game suspension, the game will be rescheduled and played in its entirety at a later date and time. If the game is not rescheduled for any reason, the game shall stand as a NOTPLAYED game, irrespective of the score at the time of game suspension.
The format of play and determination of standings shall be based on the number of teams participating in a specific gender/age bracket and may include average points per game as a method of determining standings for brackets with an uneven number of teams and/or games played.
For standings in primary program pool games, points shall be awarded as follows:
a. Win 3 points
b. Tie 1 point
c. Loss 0 points
Tie breakers for standings at the conclusion of pool play shall be as follows:
a. Head to Head play (outcome of the game involving the tied teams).
b. Team with the lowest number of goals against.
c. Goal Differential: goals scored, less goals allowed, maximum differential of three (3) goals per game.
d. Team with highest number of goals scored, maximum of three (3) goals per game (counting no more than three goals more than their opponents in any game).
e. Lowest point deductions for misconducts and send-offs.
f. Card draw.
U-10, U-12 and U-14 games shall have a substitution opportunity midway through each half, at half time and in the event of injury. The half time break will be five (5) minutes.
It is the responsibility of the Referee in EXTRA program games to submit a written Misconduct Report to the Area EXTRA Program Coordinator within 24 hours after the conclusion of the game at which the offence occurred.
The Referee must also report any behavior by coaches and/or spectators on or off the field that seriously interferes with the game and/or proper standards of conduct.
The penalty for a player, coach and/or spectator sent-off (Red Card) from the field for any reason in an EXTRA program game shall be a minimum one (1) game suspension. Such suspension shall be served in the first league game (not scrimmage) that is played following the game of the incident. The suspension for violent conduct or serious foul play shall be a minimum of two (2) games and the length of any suspension may be increased and other disciplinary measures applied if deemed warranted by the Area Director in conjunction with the Area EXTRA Program Coordinator.
If the player sent off is a minor (under 18 years of age), he/she must leave the field in the company of his/her parent(s) or guardian(s). Otherwise, the player may remain in the proximity of the field, under adult supervision by the coach or a Safe Haven certified adult.
Should violators of the penalties set forth in this section refuse to immediately leave the field when requested to do so by the Referee, the game shall be suspended until the situation has been resolved. If it is not resolved, in what the Referee considers a reasonable amount of time, the game shall be terminated and the incident reported to the Area EXTRA Program Coordinator.
A player serving a suspension and not in uniform may attend the team's next scheduled game as a spectator, but may not participate in any manner.
An adult serving a suspension may not be present at the game (including pre and post game activities) or participate in any manner.
In the event a suspended player or coach participates in a match for which he/she has been suspended, the game shall be recorded as a forfeit in favor of the opposing team. For each such event, the original suspension must be served at the next game played by the team, an additional one game suspension must be served at the following game, and the coach of such team must serve a one game suspension.
Send-Off's (Red Cards) and/or Cautions (Yellow Cards) given in EXTRA games are not subject to appeal.
The Area EXTRA Program Coordinator, the Area Director, with the assistance of the Area Referee Administrator(s) and the Area Coach Administrator(s), together with the respectiveRegional Commissioners, shall review all inter-regional disciplinary issues not resolved at the regional level. Any disciplinary action taken must be communicated within 96 hrs of the game in which the incident occurred. Disciplinary hearings may be called if deemed necessary by the Area Director, or if requested in writing.
The Area EXTRA Program Coordinator will publish a weekly Misconduct Report Summary distribution to the Area Director(s), Area/Region Referee Administrators, Region EXTRA Program Coordinators and Regional Commissioners. This report will list all cautions, send offs and information on other reports submitted by Referees and shall also list those suspensions that are to be served (by age division, player name, coach name, date and location).


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Executives of Archer Daniels Midland, making a $3 billion takeover bid for GrainCorp, faced aggressive questioning by Coalition MPs on Tuesday about the US-based agribusiness' history of price-fixing and whether it planned to use so-called thin-capitalisation rules to reduce its tax burden in Australia.
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Senator Heffernan said Australian grain growers would not tolerate "a bunch of shonks" and expressed doubts ADM understood the concerns of farmers likely to be affected.
"We're not into that shit," Senator Heffernan, a NSW Liberal, said of the company's history. "You're going to have to prove that you've cleaned the system out."
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Mr Pinner's appearance coincides with a concerted round of lobbying of farmers and politicians by the Illinois-based company to allay fears it could shut access to GrainCorp's strategic assets or increase costs to growers.
He told the two senators – both involved in agriculture – that it was in the best interests of the company to ensure its grain suppliers were well treated.
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In one heated exchange, Mr Pinner said if there was unhappiness with a future ADM-owned GrainCorp operation, the "farmer will vote with his truck".
An exasperated Senator Nash, a NSW Nationals member, replied, "Where to? You've not had a look [at what alternatives a farmer could use]. You do not understand what you're buying," Senator Heffernan added.
Senator Heffernan demanded answers on how ADM would fund the acquisition in case it sought to use thin-capitalisation rules on debt deduction to diminish its tax.
Mr Pinner said the funding had not been decided and emphasised the company always complied with tax rules.
"We have said we have sufficient resources in cash and credit lines," he said.
He also said GrainCorp's business would remain in Australia. "It's going to be an Australian company paying tax in Australia for the profits that are made."
ADM has pledged to invest an additional $50 million on top of the $250 million GrainCorp has already agreed to spend on capital investments.
Mr Pinner said ADM's investment was a "platform for growth" and a "good thing for Australia".
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A year ago iron ore was fetching $US179 a tonne and thermal coal $US120 a tonne. On these figures four of Australia's noisiest and most visible billionaires built unimaginable fortunes. In some ways they all looked like us, but they're not. As F. Scott Fitzgerald would say: the rich are different.
But they are also different from each other. And their total wealth is now very different from what it was last year. This week, both iron ore and coal crashed to $87 a tonne, and so went their fortunes.
Over $10 billion has been wiped from
Then there is Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest. The sound of mining hubris is here the loudest. For what makes Twiggy different from Rinehart and Palmer, but not Tinkler, is debt.
The firm he founded,
Of course, Power is the master of hyperbole. In August, he refused to acknowledge the risk of a collapse in iron ore prices or a significant slowdown in China's economy, Australia's largest commodities export market.
Instead, he said Fortescue's management would continue to pursue "unrealistic targets".
"We set totally unrealistic targets, but go all out to support people to achieve them," he said. "My role, and the role of the senior executives, is to make our people as successful as they possibly can be. A lot of leaders forget that."
Fortescue is one of many mining companies now scaling back investment and sacking staff as a result of the plunge in commodity prices, tighter funding conditions and high labour and construction costs.
On Tuesday, Fortescue took the step, welcomed by the market, of slashing its capital expenditure by a quarter to $4.6 billion by next year, which should help ease its debt burden. It also announced it would sack more than 1000 employees and contractors to conserve cash. It followed BHP Billiton's decision to defer its $US20 billion investment at Olympic Dam and the $US20 billion expansion of the Port Hedland outer harbour.
Analysis by the Weekend AFR's resources editor provides an estimate that at least $100 billion in mining and energy projects have already been deferred or shelved, as the return on investment is hard to justify.
Still, many remain bullish about the mining boom because of the investment pipeline story. There remains about $400 billion in mining and energy projects committed and planned, which is why Prime Minister
The great hope remains China in this equation. "China is still only 50 per cent through its process of urbanisation and industrialisation," Gillard reminded the market bears.
In 2011, iron ore was Australia's largest export, earning $64.1 billion, followed by coal at $46.8 billion. But as China's economy slows, its politicians are seeking a greater rebalancing towards a more sustainable form of growth, which will make its economy less commodity-intensive. In the longer term this may lead to more stable commodity prices. Westpac chief economist Bill Evans expects a 30 per cent recovery in bulk commodities next year, driven by an improving Chinese economy and less production of iron ore inside China. Greater liquidity coming from the European Central Bank and the United States to prop up their economies may also bolster demand.
"It's reasonable to assume this is an overshoot [of the iron ore price]. The bottoming out in the price might be a few months away," Evans says.
UBS global commodities analyst Tom Price expects the iron ore price will be back at about $US120 at the end of year but with a trend downwards over the next decade. By 2016-17, he says prices could be about $US85. Price says the mining industry is entering a new phase where "supply flows can now properly match the growth in demand in China, and perhaps a recovery in the US or a renaissance in India. And that will produce very stable price signals and it will ensure the resources allocated to this sector are done more efficiently."
The mining tycoons who have amassed their fortunes faster than in any previous mining boom have been held up by the media and the public as somehow smarter, wiser or more blessed than the rest of us. Rinehart was certainly more blessed than her peers. She inherited Hancock Prospecting after her father died in 1992 and while her father's estate was bankrupt and the business mired in debt, she was left vast and very valuable mining leases over rich iron ore deposits and also royalties from
This was the base on which she built her $19.7 billion fortune. She proved herself a shrewd operator by partnering with Rio Tinto to develop the iron ore mine Hope Downs, of which she shares 50 per cent of the profits and none of the operational risk. The latter is born by Rio.
Hope Downs opened in 2007, in time to ride the breathtaking rise in iron ore prices. Not surprisingly, Rinehart told The Australian Financial Review last year that Hope Downs has been her most astute business decision. Rio Tinto is considered among the world's lowest-cost producers of iron ore and as the commodity price has crashed back to earth, Rinehart and Rio are still sitting on a comfortable margin.
Another Rinehart joint venture is the Alpha coalmine and rail project, which is still being developed. Rinehart pocketed some cash at the right time selling a majority stake in the project to partner GVK last year. Analysts have speculated that at current coal prices, she would've struggled to find a partner for Alpha.
Rinehart has built her fortune and company without having to resort to using huge sums of debt, as some of her fellow tycoons have done. This will change with the $9.5 billion Roy Hill iron ore project, which is proving to be her biggest test yet. It's suffering an estimated $1 billion cost blow-out and there are delays in bedding down the funding. Rinehart may bring in other investors to reduce her risk profile and at worst the mine can be delayed if it's uneconomical.
Talk has been of the project, of which Rinehart controls 70 per cent, being contingent on an average iron ore price over the next decade of $US100 a tonne.
The other mining billionaire, who boasts to be mostly debt free, is Palmer, or at least that's the story he has been selling journalists in the past few weeks (see accompanying story). For many years now the market has been wondering about the true worth of the cocky Queenslander. While BRW's Rich List has put his fortune in the billions, Forbes magazine's own rich list has valued him at under a billion.
Palmer, who was schooled in the Joh Bjelke-Petersen tradition of bluster, has avoided talking about his mining investments recently, and no wonder, with his dismal failure to develop his Queensland coal deposits amid the coal price boom of the past few years.
"He tried really hard to sell stuff but at a ridiculous high price and ended up turning people off his idea," says UBS's Tom Price. Now that the coal price has fallen heavily the cost viability of developing Palmer's lower-quality coal deposits is questionable.
But as Bjelke-Petersen would say: "Don't you worry about that." Instead Palmer has been spruiking his other distractions, such as running for public office, buying holiday resorts and building the Titanic II.
He now wants to talk about mining again – only if it's iron ore – and the royalties that will be lining his pockets from the West Australian Cape Preston iron ore mine deal struck with Chinese trading house CITIC Pacific, which will begin producing later this year. Palmer's deal with CITIC was clever. The Chinese investment house is bearing all the risk and cost of the development, now expected to cost $US8 billion compared with an original estimate of $US1.1 billion in 2007. Palmer's only producing mining asset to date has been Queensland Nickel.
Forrest's Fortescue Metals is being slammed by the lower iron ore prices. If current iron ore prices hold, analysts have said that the group would be loss making for the next two years. The iron ore price is now well below the worst-case scenario of an average $US110 a tonne this year which Fortescue had anticipated.
"The marginal cost of producing his iron ore compared to the price he's getting now is pretty slim," says Westpac's Bill Evans. Forrest owns 32 per cent of Fortescue and his fortune has slid by one-third in the past two weeks, the value of his shareholding now about $3 billion. The company is resisting an equity raising that could help further reduce its $10 billion mountain of debt. It would dilute Twiggy's holding and influence over the company he founded and chairs.
What is paramount for Fortescue is it has enough cash flow to cover the interest payments on its debt. Iron ore prices at current levels are slashing cash flow from each tonne of output. Twiggy has proved he is a survivor in the past, but the challenges at Fortescue are mounting.
Meanwhile, Tinkler's days as a mining magnate appear to be over. His failure to privatise Whitehaven Coal and make multi-million dollar payments on several deals has many wondering about his dwindling fortune and solvency. Tinkler parlayed his fortune into more than $1 billion by repeatedly betting his mining assets, puzzling many why he didn't pause and consolidate his cash position. Instead he splashed money around on sporting teams, flashy cars and racehorses.
His appetite for risk and debt drew the awe of many but now his commercial acumen is really being tested as funding conditions tighten. His attempted $5.25 billion bid for Whitehaven Coal collapsed last month because of a lack of funding. Tinkler dreamed big and seemed to be a young man in an awful hurry. Now he's not answering questions about his debt problems or why his financing plans came apart.
As this gilded period in mining loses its gloss and the easy money stops rolling in, it is a time of reckoning that requires new strategies. Time may be against Tinkler as he tries to implement a new plan of action, and his peers who have borrowed too heavily.
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What is Autorun registry feature in Windows Operating Systems?
Windows Autorun is used for automatically opening or launching of the disks which are being inserted into the DVD and CD drive of the system. This would also be used for other type of removable storage devices like USB, flash drives and the memory cads. This is a feature found in the Windows Operating System. Users need a file called autorun.inf file to use Autorun. This is found with the root directory of the CD-ROM and also the USB device. This has lot of commands and they would all get executed when the media gets inserted to the system. This feature may cause issues, also since it would cause the spreading of the malware. The most important registry entries that would find with this Autorun is the NoDriveTypeAutoRun and NoDriveAutoRun which are found in both the per-machine and per-user settings.
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- NoDriveAutoRun
- Changing registry settings
This type of registry entry has got the capability to enable and disable the Autorun feature that is present on all the drive. For registry entry, the valid data present would range from 0x00 to 0xFF. In this case, the default value is the 0x95 or 0x91 and this would depend on the version of Windows. It is seen that valid data would be from 0x00 to 0xFF.The entry which is present in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE would over ride the entry in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Data in the entry is the bitmapped value, When ant bit corresponds is set to 1, the Autorun corresponds to that drive would be disabled.
This type of registry entry would enable or remove the Autorun feature in your system which is available on the individual drive. This is not being related with Group Policy and would not exist by default. If there is no entry, the value of data would be 0. Entry present on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE would override the HKEY_CURRENT_USER. In the whole 32-bit data, the lower 26 would represent the drive letters starts from A to Z. In this case, the data range would from 0x0 to 0x03FFFFFF. For an example, if the data value is 0x8, the Autorun is disabled on the D drive.
It is seen that the registry settings could be varied by using the command line reg.exe utility or the GUI regedit tool. In a text file, these registry settings might be placed and then name with .reg extension. Whenever you double click that file, those settings which are present in the file enter to the registry. The registry settings could also be changed from Group Policy. You need to restart the system to take effect of this registry changes.
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Diggle Station platform for investment
Date published: 23 March 2012
An attempt to reopen Diggle railway station has been launched in Saddleworth.
Parish councillor Garth Harkness has started a petition to call for the old platform to be brought back into use, as part of multi-million-pound investment. He said: "Network Rail's proposed Northern Hub rail investment plan 2014-19 to increase capacity on the railway lines from Leeds, Sheffield and Liverpool into Manchester is the best opportunity for a generation to make the case for reopening Diggle Station, which closed in the 1960s, as part of the Beeching cuts.
"As a Dobcross resident I know how much residents in Diggle, Dobcross and beyond and visitors to the area would welcome the reopening of Diggle Station."
Petition forms will be available in local post offices, shops and pubs. The petition will be presented to the Transport for Greater Manchester Committee on April 13.
Did I read that all trains my not stop at Greenfield or Ashton, recently? So why would they stop at Diggle in that case?
As a resident of Diggle i hope this does not happen, its already hard work getting in and out of the village.This would bring chaos.NO THANKS
"As a Dobcross resident I know how much residents in Diggle, Dobcross and beyond and visitors to the area would welcome the re-opening of Diggle Station." How do you know this Mr Harkness as I for one as a Digle resident, would not like to see the station re-open as traffic would be absolute chaos in/out of Diggle. Where would all the cars park? Maybe it would be useful for someone who doesn't live in the village but works in Manchester !!
morgan60 ive heard the same and that there are talks to cut down more stations like marsden over the hill- this allows faster trains through as the line has limited capacity, ie physcially you can only get so many trains per hour on the line- what ever they do with it- it would be a scandal if they do this and i hope these rumors of closures are wrong!
There has been an ongoing battle for over 20 years to reopen diggle halt,it'll never happen, and what next the old dobcross station, as morgan60 says why would they do this when there is talk of closing greenfeild witch is quite a busy station, but this does not seem to matter these as days providing the public with a service comes second to making money every time and in saddleworth the odd bus would be nice never mind a train.
There was an action group and meetings etc about Diggle Halt when I was on the Parish Council 15 years ago before the recession and before talk of closing stations along the line. Yes it would be good to have a another station in the area but honestly cant see it happening.
Don't believe rumours. Greenfield station will not close. There is talk about increasing the number of stopping trains to every 30m and skip-stopping (ie one train does Marsden/Mossley the next Slaithwaite/Greenfield etc) hence the frequency at Greenfield would be unchanged. There are more details on the Manchester hub website and frequent QA sessions (usually at Mcr Victoria).
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To Free or Not to Free E-Newspapers
February 4, 2014
By Ken Blum | Black Ink
The two most popular options are:
1. The online edition is free with any print subscription. Or, for the online edition only, the subscriber can pay a separate rate, usually the paper's local print subscription price. This way, the out-of-area subscriber can receive the online edition-only for the low local print subscription rate instead of one of the pricier out-of-area print subscription rates
2. The online edition is available to print subscribers but for a surcharge on top of any of the print subscription rates. The typical surcharge is only about $5. Again, the online edition-only option is offered for the local print subscription rate.
I really don't have a preference for either option 1 or 2. Both have their advantages and disadvantages.
Option one—all subscribers get free access to the online edition—creates a valuable premium to use to sell print subscriptions.
For example, "For one subscription rate you get both the print and online versions of the Bugle."
Option 2—print subscribers pay a modest surcharge for access to the online edition—creates an additional source of revenue to support the e-edition and website. The charge creates a sense of value (albeit at a bargain) for this amenity.
You can't go wrong with either choice, but keep the following in mind:
• Many papers offer free access to the online edition but don't let their subscribers know about it.
The free access isn't mentioned on subscription bills or in circulation promotion materials. The paper may run a house ad every now and then explaining the print subscription also includes online edition access, but for the most part the subscriber has to figure that out for herself.
So if you offer free access to the online edition for print subscribers, include an explanation about the service in all your renewal bills, circulation house ads, subscription rate information in the paper's masthead and, of course, on the website.
Also include clear information about how to obtain a password for the e-edition.
• The best option for subscribers outside the market is e-edition only.
The subscriber receives the online edition immediately instead of waiting a week for postal delivery of the print edition. The newspaper benefits from savings on expensive out-of-area postage—the profit margin for an online only subscription charged at local print rate is far greater than the margin for a print copy mailed at an out-of-area print rate.
• Some publishers will disagree, but in my opinion the e-edition subscription should involve access to only a PDF or PDF-like duplicate of the print edition; not both the duplicate print or text versions of all the stories with pictures.
I go around and around about this issue with some Web techies, but here are my talking points against offering all the stories as straight text with accompanying pictures.
1. The fact is that 90 percent of a typical paid newspaper's business is derived from the print product, and only 10 percent from a paper's website or online edition. Maybe that will change sometime in the future as e-reader technology progresses. But print rules now, so it's illogical to adopt any strategy that could cannibalize readership of the printed newspaper's news and ads.
2. Anywhere from 70 percent to 80 percent of a paid newspaper's revenue comes from advertising in print. Thus, it's imperative to not hide advertising in the print product from readers, even if they access the paper's news content electronically.
3. Frankly, website advertising in its current forms doesn't hold a candle to the effectiveness of print advertising.
When is the last time you had an advertiser rave about the results he got from an ad placed on your website?
This is why I see so many papers sell beaucoup advertising on the paper's website in an initial effort, and then the volume of ads fades into oblivion after contracts expire.
"The ad reps don't push the Web advertising," some argue.
But maybe they don't push it simply because deep down inside they know it's not a value for the client's advertising dollar.
Website advertising is a worthy supplement to print advertising, but it's sure as heck not a logical replacement for print advertising, not if getting results for the client is a priority.
Again, this could change in the future as technology speeds ahead. Maybe all hometown newspapers will be delivered electronically in the future.
Not now. It's not there yet. Not close to it yet.
We need to keep current on e-trends. But in the now, in the today, to emphasize electronic options while de-emphasizing or making any move to the detriment of the core print product amounts to nothing but financial foolishness. © Ken Blum 2014
Ken Blum is the publisher of Butterfly Publications, an advising/speaking/publishing business dedicated to improving the profitability and quality of community newspapers. He puts out a monthly free e-mail newsletter titled Black Inklings. It features nuts and bolts ideas to improve revenue and profits at hometown papers. To subscribe to the newsletter or contact Ken, e-mail him at email@example.com; or phone to 330-682-3416.


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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Jobless victims to be banned froom traveling (liberals want economic berlin walls)
As business and jobs evacuate liberal lands, so with it goes those who have lost everything due to the recession. Its not new. In the 1930s, the homeless and those who became destitute fled westward to states where new jobs could be found. California, then a conservative state that opposed Marxism was a thriving state that in spite of the great depression enjoyed a high standard of living. People went west to these and other locations.
Today in the new depression, the exodus is happening in liberal states. New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Michigan are experiencing a net migration loss and states such as Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa are seeing an influx of jobless seeking work. The loss is devastating to a state already hard pressed by unfair taxation by liberals, and now that taxable base that has been squeezed dry is running across borders to places that still have some semblance of economic free markets with it, those trying to regain the American dream.
What are Communist democrats to do? Government intervention is what. Soviet style.
Liberal Democrats want a ban on travel and moving. Either that or to make it more difficult. In the 70s 80s and 90s Liberals tried to do this with those taking children out of dangerous urban schools. Liberals wanted legislation to force children of other races to go to schools with different races and to punish them if they left or took them out. The plan was a disaster. Bright young students in middle class communities went to the ghettos with gangs metal detectors and drugs while urbanized youth went to these clean safe schools and turned them into war zones.
Of Course when the schools fell apart, the parents would just move to a different neighborhood with a different school system and in turn bring with them what ever urban behaviors the kids have. This happened frequently in Southerns New Hampshire during the 90s. Kids from Boston and New York came New Hampshire and brought with them, their criminal mentalities and urban ghetto ways and spread it around like a virus. Not only gang bangers, neo nazi skin heads also came along too. Minority students suffered the most.
Liberals have tried and failed to prevent parents from pulling their kids out of failed liberal schools just as they have failed to discourage people from pulling out of liberal states to New Hampshire. Its no wonder that tolls on roads going to NH have cost more and more.?
Well Liberals in the past decade have come up with a new plan. Ban the poor homeless jobless people from leaving and starting over in an American state that still has resemblance to America. How? many ways... One way that has become popular in states such as Maine, Massachusetts and California is to claim that simply being unemployed and homeless is the victim's fault and that it is a sign of severe mental illness.
Its amazing that liberals consider conservatives to be miserly and that we all label homeless people as undeserving. Which explains why I volunteered at the homeless shelter in Bangor and why my new business in New Hampshire regularly donate to Southern New Hampshire Rescue Mission and a similar establishments in Portsmouth Derry and Nashua. HMPH! One charge I have heard from liberals is that the conservatives blame them for their poverty. Meanwhile liberals do what they accuse us of doing and not only that, take steps to keep them from getting out of poverty in the process.
At least we don't spend other people's money fighting poverty much less keep them from advancing.
But getting back on topic, liberals are using a crisis situation to blame the victim and that its somehow their fault. They cant get a job because they have poor social skills or that they are somehow unintelligent and incapable of making their own decisions. Therefore government must step in and control them like robots. NOTE: Liberals consider everyone incapable of making any decision regardless of any diagnosis or IQ. Only the government is supposed to do that.
Since they are incompetent they shouldn't be allowed to move to Texas or New Hampshire to get a job. Those places after all do not have the kind of taxpayer funded social programs that liberals love and want us to believe actually work so you must stay put and let the government take care of everything. Meanwhile, your savings start to go down, you lose your home, you are in a shelter or a tent city and more and more jobs continue to sail over the border without you. But its no ones fault but yours. Why? You are incompetent. Why? You have no job. That's why you are incompetent.
This frightening scenario was thought only possible in totalitarian countries, the prevention of free movement for the peasant classes. Well its coming here to America my friends, not only for the poor peasants, but for struggling middle class as well.
So far these incidents have been very rare and have not shown up on the news but as the economy gets worse and as more people pull up roots and take with them their skills and their businesses, we'll be hearing more of it.
Greg Wilson, a former resident of Bangor Maine was one rare and unlucky victim. Upon graduating from high school, he was unable to find employment for 2 years when he finally got a job at McDonald's. That job lasted for only one year. His parents, both flaming liberals got the idea that their son must be mentally ill since it took him that long to land a job. (NOTE:This was going on in 2002, during the height of the recession when he was out of work. Not only that but we had an influx of Somalis Russians and Mexicans taking away most of the jobs.) Things went well for Greg and he was soon promoted to crew trainer but business at MCd's was slowing down due to the recession and he and many other employees had their hours cut. With with this and continued economic decline throughout the state, he had plans to leave and settle down in New Hampshire.
But the parents became hostile to Greg and forced him through physical and psychological intimidation to go to outpatient mental health services at Acadia Hospital. The Dr. David Bear a psychologist and a professor at UMass in Boston was assigned to Greg's case. He was declared mentally unfit with a diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism similar to what Dustin Hoffman's character the Rainman suffered. He was also said to have no job skills or social skills. This came about not from blood tests or Neurological scans or MRI's or anything. It came about from an interview with the parents. They even claimed that Greg didn't know how to tie his shoes or fasten buttons. An utter lie and complete lie since he wore crew shoes and the uniforms were button uniforms. They would have fired him if that had been the case!
Sadly based on hearsay and false rumors, Greg was deemed incompetent. His parents abuse caused him to lose composure at his job and fall back. He was soon fired afterwards. To make matters worse, his parents took away his money from his bank account to force him to sign up for SSI. It didn't end there, Greg's father gained power of attorney over his son and used it to forbid him to leave Maine. According to one of the Doctors at Acadia, it was a bad idea to leave Maine and live in New Hampshire because of the following reasons:
1. He would no longer be supported by his parents (YEAH RIGHT!)
2. New Hampshire has inadequate social programs for (supposedly) mentally ill mentally retarded individuals such as Greg. He needed to stay in Maine which has the programs.
3. Maine has lots and lots of wonderful programs and supports for Greg! (Tell that to homeless people in Maine who have been on the streets for over a year!)
4. The economy in Maine is fine, there is nothing wrong, its really Greg's fault he was and now is unemployed. (NOTE: During this time, Paper Mills all over Maine were shutting down due to excessive taxation, environmental regulations and out of control unions. The large Mill at Milinocket for example closed down turning the city into a wasteland, the mill in Bucksport laid off 5000 workers, the mill in Old Town went under and when it was bought off by a Canadian company only a fraction of its workforce was regained. As of writing this, most of Maine's factories and mills have shut down due to liberalism. The Doctors at Acadia must be the ones who are retarded to think that the Economy is fine.)
5. There is no reason for Greg to make such a big move over to another state. He should stay in Bangor. (YEAH! Tell that to small business owners who are packing up and going as far away as Texas to get away from Maine! Tell that also to the thousands of young people who are leaving the state every year to go to New Hampshire because there are no more work opportunities to be had for them. Tell it also to the millions of people in California who got fed up with what liberals did to their state and made an exodus to Oregon, Nebraska, Colorado, New Hampshire and Texas.)
The Doctors at Acadia forced Greg to go through a mental health plan that was heavily restrictive. Not only was he forbidden to move out of state, he couldn't even leave the Bangor area! He was also forced into a group home for adults with mental retardation and autism. In addition he was forced to go to all these different programs. The Ticket to work program, an ineffective job program that had a success rate of less than 10%, he was forced to apply for SSI, he was forced to go to community adult MHMR services and to go to follow up appointments with Acadia and a Human services worker based at Dorthia Dix Hospital.
He spent a year trapped in Maine like a prisoner in the Iron Curtain. He was employed only once at that time to a temporary job position. It lasted only for 2 weeks. The programs Greg was assigned to failed him every time and made no progress to getting him a good paying job or a home of his own. But staff at several of the programs began to question Greg's diagnosis. He was after all employed in the past, he wasn't a danger to himself or others, the evaluations relied too heavily on allegations by the parents and not biological evidence not only that, the state's economy was falling over around them.
Greg had applied to different legal aid groups to undue the damage and win back his liberty but Maine suffered from a shortage of legal aid. He did succeed in getting money to hire a lawyer at the Maine Bar association by panhandling and recycling. With further aid from the MCLU Greg was able to undo the power of attorney by his father and move to New Hampshire. Sadly, the damage had already been done...
Greg's credit rating had been harmed by his father through forced visitations with Acadia. He owed the hospital 8000$ and Mainecare, a free health care service refused to pay it. In addition, he was unsuccessful in leaving SSI. He only got 500$ a month. Not enough to live off of. And his money from McDonalds was also gone. To make matters worse, a lot of employers refused to hire Greg since he was getting social security money. They perceived that he was incompetent and unfit to work despite trying to explain it. When he got to New Hampshire, Greg stayed at a homeless shelter in Manchester for nearly a year trying to rebuild his shattered life. He was hired again by McDonald's but it was only part time. He shares a small apartment with a friend from the shelter in Derry.
Greg is not the only one to suffer this injustice. In Wasco California, George Burnham was also struggling to find work. California not only suffers from an economy that is assaulted at every level from heavy taxation and fees to massive regulations, California is also infested with millions of illegal aliens who work for below average pay under the table at jobs someone like George could be doing. His parents were also liberal and ignoring Kern Counties economic wasteland and all the Mexicans that were grabbing the few jobs left, went after their son. Like Greg, George was branded as incompetent. His doctors claimed he had bipolar and bad skills.
Not only this, the doctors claimed he was deeply disturbed because of his libertarian convictions. The doctor, white liberal and his assistant, a Mexican claimed he suffered from paranoid delusions about government taking liberty and that communism was behind America's ills. An exaggeration. The doctor forced George into involuntary commitment. George wanted to leave Kern and go live in another state. He had read of how 5000 jobs were being outsourced from California to Colorado and Nebraska and thought of moving to one of those places. Instead he was forbidden under an involuntary commitment order. He ended up on Skid Row Los Angeles for 3 years as a result of government meddling. He is still homeless.
Involuntary commitment isn't the only thing liberals use to coerce their hapless victims into a government plan. A plan which is almost certain to fail. Probation is another method. When GOP traitor Mitt Romney Passed Massachusetts' unjust and unconstitutional health care mandate requiring that all residents purchase expensive and ineffective health care, that wouldn't cover them anyway or be fined, many residents fled the state. To prevent it, Democrat activists thought of a brilliant strategy, probation. Memos were given to police chiefs and district attorneys throughout the state advising them to seek long probation periods for those with large enough incomes to keep them from leaving. Attempts were made using this to cite business owners for what should be petty violations of small regulations.
One businessman who tried to leave the state was cited for a minor infraction involving supposedly unpaid fees, another over parking tickets. Thankfully these deterrents were unsuccessful. Yet still, liberals used involuntary commitment to force residents to stay in the state. Florida is another place where this has become common and involved the Use of the Baker Act, an unconstitutional Orwellian piece of legislation used to lock up innocent people and then force them on involuntary commitments to keep them from leaving the state and even to confiscate their home and assets and dump them on the street.
The act of preventing travel or to punish travel is not uncommon in totalitarian countries. In Marxism it is also common. One of the planks for the Communist Manifesto calls for confiscating the property and assets of emigrants who try to leave or rebel against the system. Liberals disregard the Constitution but love Marx's planks. While these occurrences are still rare they ARE becoming more common especially in New England.
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Don't you put down David Bear! He's a good physician! Who ever heard of anyone been banned from leaving Maine!? I mean DHHS can't afford to take care of them all they've been given bus passes to go to places that can take care of them like California! My son for instance has Asperger's and is homeless in Bangor with no where to go! The Hope house shelter couldn't afford to support him so his case worker arranged for him to recieve a ticket to go to Los Angeles! Why would Maine keep people otherwise productive in a poverty state with no resources!? Why would they pay higher costs to do that?!
- November 17, 2015 at 6:57 PM
- mainestategop said...
David Bear is a communist. A typical Massachusetts red. Not everyone is able to get a bus ticket. The traveller aid society only does this for homeless when they are out of options. Also recent failings by the socialists in Maine have lead to a lack of resources so they have no choice but to send them away. It wasn't always like that. You couldn't get a ticket to LA for instance unless there was someone who could take you in otherwise they weren't allowed to put you from one homeless situation to another homeless situation. In a crisis the furthest you could go was Boston which is just as bad. Before that people like your sone were dumped off at Hope house or Acadia or the Oxford street shelter in Portland.
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What a load of crap from the state of MD.
I tried that, they stated that they do not have the records. Now what should I do? Is there a SOL for this type of thing?
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The 24-year old songstress, who signed a three-year contract with Barbados Tourist Authority to be the official face of the Caribbean island, shared the final product on her Instagram.
In the adverts, the "Diamonds" crooner is seen flaunting her beach bod in a colorful swimsuit with inspiration phrases like, "The biggest risk is not taking one" inscribed on the shots.
During her time shooting the ads, RiRi also found some time to tour pal Oprah Winfrey around her childhood haunts.
opened up about her true feelings for ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, confessing that he "was the love of [her] life."
"It's awkward because I still love him," she said of Brown, who is currently still on probation after assaulting her at a 2009 pre-Grammy Party. "My stomach drops, and I have to maintain this poker face and not let it get to the outer part of me."
Since the interview, Rihanna and Brown have seemingly rekindled their romance. The on-again, off-again couple were last seen at the Los Angeles' GreyStone Manor for a Halloween bash.
"Rihanna and Chris were dancing and drinking the entire night," an eyewitness told Celebuzz exclusively. "She wasn't even looking at any other guys but Chris."
But Rihanna is working as hard as she plays. Aside from shooting her Barbados Tourism ads, RiRi is also gearing up for the release of her upcoming album Unapologetic, which is set to hit shelves Nov. 19.
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Swirling CP soap is VERY easy to accomplish! When I gave it my first try, it was only the 3rd batch of soap I had ever made, and it turned out very good...I was happy to find that it was so easy - and the results were wonderful!
Making Swirls...
When trying out new ideas, I always like to start out with small, 1 lb. batches - that way if it bombs, its not a huge loss! Below is the recipe and instructions I used to make the soap pictured at the right.
Blue Raspberry Swirl
4 oz. coconut oil
8 oz. olive oil
4 oz. palm oil
6 oz. distilled water
2 1/4 oz. lye
.6 oz. raspberry fragrance oil
Combine oils and lye 110-120° temperatures. Add fragrance at light trace. Split the batch into 2/3 and 1/3. Color the 1/3 part with 1/4 tsp. Ultramarine Blue mixed with a little oil. Drizzled into white soap and then pour into a mold at medium to heavy trace. Insulate and let it remain in the mold 18-24 hours. Unmold and cut into bars - let cure 2-3 weeks. (Just a note - the FO I used was from Soap Supplies Plus - it didn't seize at all!)
I have also heard other methods of making swirls by separating the batch and coloring one part. Then pour the main batch into the mold, and then swirl the smaller part into that and swirl around with a knife.
The first method can easily be used for just about any mold. However if you are using a PVC mold, it might be a little harder to get your knife in there =) Another method I've heard is to stick a divider down the PVC, splitting it in half. Pour one color down one side, and the other color down the other side. Then just twist the cardboard as you pull it out. Haven't tried this, but I imagine it works very nicely.
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Penn National Gaming, which spent more than $40 million trying to defeat Maryland's referendum to expand gambling last fall, plans to bid this week to build a casino in Prince George's County, the company said in a federal regulatory filing.
The move would set up another round in a high-stakes duel with MGM Resorts, which spent about $40 million to support the ballot measure and is angling to build a casino at National Harbor.
Bids, which are due to the state by Friday, are being accepted for venues in a western swath of Prince George's that includes National Harbor and Rosecroft Raceway, a horse track in Fort Washington that Penn owns.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission last Friday, Penn said, "we intend to participate in the bidding process." But Penn spokeswoman Karen Bailey said Monday that she "still cannot confirm whether or not" the company will move forward with a bid and that no details would be released before a proposal is submitted.
The company with the winning bid would operate what analysts say could be one of the most lucrative casinos on the East Coast, drawing patrons from the District and Virginia as well as Maryland, where state-sponsored gambling is rapidly expanding.
In addition to authorizing a sixth casino, the ballot measure voters passed in November allows table games, such as blackjack and roulette, at the state's formerly slots-only venues. Figures released by the state on Monday showed an uptick in revenue at the state's largest casino, Maryland Live in Anne Arundel County, which added the new games last month.
MGM has promised an $800 million "luxury resort" at National Harbor, the 300-acre mini-city on the Potomac River. Plans call for a hotel, restaurants and retail, an entertainment venue, a spa and other attractions.
Penn has said less about what it envisions at Rosecroft. In a letter to Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) last summer, the company's chairman and chief executive pledged a $500 million investment if allowed to build at the venue in Fort Washington.
The chairman of the state commission charged with choosing the Prince George's casino site has said he hopes to complete the process by the end of the year. Under state law, the casino probably could not open before mid-2016.
Despite Penn's opposition to the ballot measure, the company has said for months that it would consider offering a bid to build on the property of the once-storied harness racing track. Penn bought Rosecroft at a bankruptcy auction in early 2011 with the aim of building a casino there.
The company's calculations changed last year, however, after Prince George's County Executive Rushern L. Baker III (D) and others started championing National Harbor as the preferred site and MGM was lined up by National Harbor as the operator.
In the SEC filing, Penn said, "we believe another operator could be selected" to operate the Prince George's site.
Penn, which operates 29 casinos and racetracks, noted that if it loses the bidding in Prince George's, properties it owns in Charles Town, W.Va., and in Perryville, Md., could take a financial hit because of the new competition.
Analysts have said Penn's opposition to Maryland's expansion plan was primarily driven by the threat of an MGM-owned casino to its Charles Town casino, one of the company's most profitable properties.
According to figures released Monday by the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency, the 1,138 slot machines at Penn-owned Hollywood Perryville generated $6.8 million in gross revenue in April. The Cecil County casino's modest table-game pit and poker room produced an additional $1.5 million in April.
Since opening in September 2010, Hollywood Perryville has pulled in more than $266 million in total gaming revenue, according to state figures; Penn National's post-tax share is nearly $90 million.
Slots are taxed at 67 percent by the state; the tax rate for table games is 20 percent.
Maryland Live, the state's largest casino, generated $38.1 million in slots revenue on 4,217 machines last month, according to the Gaming Control Agency. The casino, at Arundel Mills mall, launched 122 blackjack, roulette, craps and other live-action tables on April 11 and drew an additional $8.4 million from that operation in two-thirds of a month.
Meanwhile, the Casino at Ocean Downs, near Ocean City, generated nearly $4 million in gross slots revenue on 800 machines. The racetrack slots parlor on the Eastern Shore does not have table games.
A fourth Maryland venue, the Rocky Gap Casino Resort near Cumberland, is scheduled to open before Memorial Day.
Construction is underway in Baltimore on a Horseshoe Casino, which is scheduled to open in 2014.


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"Neighbors" Takes Top Honors at the Box Office
Comedy ruled at the box office, as "Neighbors" brought in the crowds for the weekend of May 9-11, 2014.
The Seth Rogen and Zac Efron fronted film nabbed an opening weekend total of $49 million.
After spending the last week on top, "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" landed in second place with a three day total of $37 million.
Rounding out the top five in earmarked earnings are "The Other Woman" ($9.2 million) in third, "Heaven is for Real" ($6.4 million) in fourth, and "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" ($5.6 million) in fifth.


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Washington, DC — Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid released the following statement on the third anniversary of the Iraq war. A fact check on President Bush's remarks today in Ohio follows below.
"As Americans across the country mark the three year anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, I join them in praising our courageous men and women who have fought bravely to defeat Saddam Hussein and end years of tyranny. We salute their courage, recognize the sacrifices they and their families have made over these past three years, and stand with them as the struggle in Iraq continues.
"Three years after the start of the Iraq war, we find that the dangerously incompetent policies of the Bush administration and the civilian leadership of our military have made America less safe and left Iraq on the precipice of all-out civil war. The Congress called on President Bush to make 2006 a year of significant transition, yet we have seen no change in course or strategy to make this a reality.
"We stand united in wanting to achieve success in Iraq. The president must urgently exercise his personal leadership to forge the political compromises necessary to create a government of national unity that will create stability in Iraq and allow our troops to begin to come home. The Iraqis must take responsibility for their freedom and security. Simply telling the Iraqi people that our troops will stand down when the Iraqi security forces stand up is a slogan, not a strategy. We must make clear that our continued presence will be determined by progress on the ground both militarily and politically. Until he changes course, we cannot expect different results or to be in a different position on the fourth anniversary."
Fact Check: George W. Bush
Bush Said Iraqi Troops Took the Lead in the Fight to Retake Tal Afar. Bush: "Iraqi forces took the lead. The primary force was ten Iraqi battalions backed by three coalition battalions. Many Iraqi units conducted their own anti-terrorist operations and controlled their own battle space. Hunting for the enemy fighters and securing neighborhoods block by block." [3/20/06]
FACT: Time Magazine's Baghdad Bureau Chief, Michael Ware, Debunked this Claim in November – Iraqi Troops Not in the Lead.
COOPER: The president also said today that, in the battle of Tal Afar, the assault in the north of Iraq, that he said it was led primarily by Iraqi security forces, 11 Iraqi battalions, backed by five coalition battalions providing support.
WARE: With the greatest respect to the president, that's completely wrong and is extraordinarily misleading.
COOPER: How do you know that?
WARE: I was in that battle from the very beginning to the very end.
I was with Iraqi units, right there on the front line, as they were battling with al Qaeda. They were not leading. They were being led by the U.S. Green Beret special forces with them, Green Berets who were following an American plan of attack, who were advancing with these Iraqi units as and when they were told to do so by the American battle planners. The Iraqis led nothing. [CNN, 11/30/05]
Bush Said He Never Linked 9/11 and Saddam Hussein. "First, if I might correct a misperception. I don't think we ever said — at least I didn't say that there was a direct connection between September the 11th and Saddam Hussein." [3/20/06]
– FACT: President Bush Linked "End of Major Combat" in Iraq with September 11th Attacks. In his speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, President Bush stated "The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror…We have not forgotten the victims of September the 11th — the last phone calls, the cold murder of children, the searches in the rubble. With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got." [Remarks by the President, 5/1/03]
– FACT: Bush Repeatedly Linked al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein to Argue for War in Iraq. For Example:
– "[Y]ou can't distinguish between al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror." [President Bush, Photo Opportunity, 9/25/02]
– "The regime has long-standing and continuing ties to terrorist organizations. And there are al-Qaeda terrorists inside Iraq. The regime is seeking a nuclear bomb, and with fissile material, could build one within a year." [President Bush, remarks at Rose Garden, 9/26/02]
– "Evidence from intelligence sources, secret communications, and statements by people now in custody reveal the Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of Al Qaeda. Secretly, and without fingerprints, he could provide one of his hidden weapons to terrorists, or help them develop their own." [President Bush, State of the Union, 1/28/03]
– "We also know that Iraq is harboring a terrorist network, headed by a senior al -Qaeda terrorist planner . . .The danger that Saddam Hussein poses reaches across the world." [President Bush, Statement in the Roosevelt Room, 2/6/03]
– "Saddam Hussein has longstanding, direct and continuing ties to terrorist networks. Senior members of Iraqi intelligence and Al Qaeda have met at least eight times since the early 1990s. Iraq has sent bomb-making document forgery experts to work with Al Qaeda. Iraq has also provided Al Qaeda with chemical and biological weapons training…We also know that Iraq is harboring a terrorist network headed by a senior Al Qaeda terrorist planner. This network runs a poison and explosive training camp in northeast Iraq, and many of its leaders are known to be in Baghdad." [President Bush, radio address, 2/8/03]
– "Senior members of Iraqi intelligence and al Qaeda have met at least eight times since the early 1990s. Iraq has sent bomb-making and document forgery experts to work with al Qaeda. Iraq has also provided al Qaeda with chemical and biological weapons training. We know that Iraq is harboring a terrorist network, headed by a senior al Qaeda terrorist planner. The network runs a poison and explosive training center in northeast Iraq, and many of its leaders are known to be in Baghdad." [President Bush, press conference, 2/6/03]
– "…And it [Iraq] has aided, trained and harbored terrorists, including operatives of al Qaeda." [President Bush, Address to the Nation, 3/17/03]
Bush Described Three Categories of People Fighting Against Democracy in Iraq. "I think in Iraq there are three types of folks that are trying to stop democracy. First of all, I think it's very important for people to understand one reason they're so violent and desperate is because they're trying to stop a society based upon liberty and you've got to ask why. The reason why is because it's the exact opposite of what they believe. There are three types. One is al Qaeda and al Qaeda is headed into there. Al Qaeda understands the danger of democracy spreading. So al-Zarqawi — this fellow al-Zarqawi is in charge of al Qaeda inside of Iraq which recruits foreign fighters and they embedded into Iraq because they wanted to fight us. They wanted to stop democracy. Secondly, there are Saddamists. These are folks that really enjoyed a life of privilege. These are people that were at the top of the heap. They have all of it and they don't like it. So they're trying to regroup. And the third group are rejectionists. These are essentially Sunnis as well who really weren't sure about what it meant to have minority rates and whether or not they're protected." [3/20/06]
– FACT: According to General Abizaid, Sectarian Strife Has Eclipsed Terrorism as the Chief Threat in Iraq. "Sectarian violence in Iraq has reached a level unprecedented since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 and is now eclipsing the insurgency as the chief security threat there, said Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East, who appeared with Rumsfeld." [Washington Post, 3/10/06]
– FACT: Former Interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, Believes Iraq is in a State of Civil War. "'It is unfortunate that we are in civil war,' the former prime minister told the British Broadcasting Corp. 'We are losing each day, as an average, 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.'" [LA Times, 3/20/06]
Bush Said FISA is Out of Date. "The FISA law, he's referring to the FISA law, I believe, is — was designed for a previous period and is slow and cumbersome and being able to do what Mike Hayden thinks is necessarily called hot pursuit. He designed a program that would enable us to listen from a known al Qaeda or suspected al Qaeda person and/or affiliate from making a phone call outside the United States in and in the united states out, with the idea to pick up quickly information for which to be able to respond in this environment we're in." [3/20/06]
– FACT: In Emergencies, the Government can Start the Surveillance and then Get a Warrant. "Under 'extraordinary' circumstances, the government also can wait 72 hours after beginning wiretaps to get a warrant, but the administration did not seek to do that under the special program, which monitors the international communications of some people inside the United States." [New York Times, 12/19/05]
– FACT: The Bush Administration Did Not Support Senator DeWine's 2002 Proposal to Change the FISA Standards, Claiming that the Change was Unnecessary and Likely Unconstitutional. "The Bush administration rejected a 2002 Senate proposal that would have made it easier for FBI agents to obtain surveillance warrants in terrorism cases, concluding that the system was working well and that it would likely be unconstitutional to lower the legal standard. The proposed legislation by Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) would have allowed the FBI to obtain surveillance warrants for non-U.S. citizens if they had a "reasonable suspicion" they were connected to terrorism — a lower standard than the "probable cause" requirement in the statute that governs the warrants." [Washington Post, 1/26/06]
Bush Said His Own Lawyers OK'd Warrantless Spying Program. "I was concerned about the legality of the program. So I asked lawyers which we have plenty of them in Washington to determine whether or not I could do this legally." [3/20/06]
– FACT: Justice Department Lawyers Have Left the Government because of Objections to Bush Policies. Deputy Attorney General James Comey led what Newsweek magazine described as a "Palace Revolt" at the Justice Department. "These Justice Department lawyers, backed by their intrepid boss Comey, had stood up to the hard-liners, centered in the office of the vice president, who wanted to give the president virtually unlimited powers in the war on terror. Demanding that the White House stop using what they saw as farfetched rationales for riding rough-shod over the law and the Constitution, Goldsmith and the others fought to bring government spying and interrogation methods within the law. They did so at their peril; ostracized, some were denied promotions, while others left for more comfortable climes in private law firms and academia. Some went so far as to line up private lawyers in 2004, anticipating that the president's eavesdropping program would draw scrutiny from Congress, if not prosecutors." [Newsweek, 2/6/06]


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January 22nd, 2010, 06:08
hi guys, I just registered here.
Let me first say, I'm not actually new to the Gothic games, they are beyond epic, and they are among my very best RPG memories, if only other dev's did RPG's this way. So anyway, although i'm not new, I do have a noobish question, its been a long time since i've played through Gothic 1.
So, its simple, its about selling your goods. Can you only trade? or can you sell?
I stole some stuff from the first camp you get to, the old camp i think. they only purchase through Ore?
Basically I sold a bunch of stuff, or managed to get all the stuff I wanted to sell to that Fisk guy, I managed to get all that stuff into the middle of the trade window, and then i hit enter, and it showed the value up top being close to 600 or so. So my assumption was that I was going to get 600 coins or something. I pressed enter, and accepted, but now I don't have anymore coins, and less stuff.
So i've done something wrong, or i've forgotten how the economy works.
Can someone shed some light on this?
thanks guys.
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Alrighty, the tricky part is over, onto the fun stuff.
I'm 6"1', ISTP, so I'm pretty much into everything. Currently hovering between Movies, Music, Games, Pubs, Cafés, Photography, Cooking and long walks practically anywhere (FitBit ftw).
I love world history, planning to experience some travel. In the near future
I'll try doing almost anything once, looking for fun with a new friend or long term relationship.
I have a dry sense of humour that occasionally delves into absurdism (way too much Terry Pratchett for one lifetime).
I work full time, and I'm one of the few people lucky enough to be doing something they love turning up to work for (Mondays still suck). As long as I'm making a difference, I'm happy.
I am planning my tour of Europe tasting and seeing the finest that they have to offer. Got any tips? :-P
Finding something new and exciting
Chilling with friends and making people laugh.
Burning food...
Tinkering with computers
It's really hard to pick a favourite one, and I keep being introduced to new films to watch
- Lord of the Rings (duh!)
- The Big Lebowski (not the best one for drinking games)
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Spaghetti Westerns rule)
- The Avengers (jokes and action, what's not to like?)
- King of Kong (take an incredibly boring topic, and turn it into one of the best dramas ever!)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (this sci-fi film has tricked me into watching a romantic flick)
- Her (ditto)
I'm not the biggest fan of horror (I always see the strings), as I have a horrible habit of correctly guessing the plot early on.
Plenty of new and old classics, not limited to: The Arcade Fire, The Decemberists, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, Otis Redding, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Wolf Parade and many more.
I'm on a pilgrimage to get through Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums, so I keep on finding stuff I love.
If it can change my opinion of characters/actors without me expecting it, then I'm generally hooked (firing writers doesn't count).
- Sherlock (wasn't expecting much, got hooked immediately)
- Game of Thrones (the only thing worse than characters I like being killed off, is finding more characters to like)
- Fargo (really dark, yet dry humour, and solid acting)
- BSG (a show where your opinions of characters change every two episodes)
- Silicon Valley (the humour hits way too close to home)
- Flight of the Conchords (singing that's actually funny)
I love books that make my laugh, I prefer those that draw me in with epic story lines and characters the author tries to make me care about.
- The Discworld Series (or anything by Terry Pratchett)
- Lord of the Rings (Who doesn't like that one?)
- Jeremy Clarkson's Reviews (Outrageously Funny)
- Musashi (an epic tale of a wandering Samurai, who ended up writing poetry)
- Way too many News and Tech Articles.
Good Friends and Family
Good Conversation
Gourmet hipster food
Variety in my life
Maybe more if I get to know you...


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Delaney and his wife, Donna, also host Shore Talk, a call-in program for WOND-AM in Atlantic City, broadcast each Saturday to southern New Jersey and Delaware. "We cover a variety of issues with an emphasis on relationship roles and disagreements," Delaney explains. "We are affectionately known as 'The Dueling Delaneys.'"
What Delaney terms "the strange story" of his broadcasting career began during his undergraduate years at UB, when, as campus coordinator for the Sen. Birch Bayh presidential campaign, he got involved with radio in order to date a woman who was working for WBFO. After graduating in history and education, he began to fill in for local radio personalities while working for Social Security in its Niagara Falls office, successfully transferring his broadcasting talents to New Jersey in 1986.
Delaney says UB's range of academic options prepared him for his second career. "On the radio show I go from scientific topics to politics to comedy to theater. At UB, I didn't stick microscopically to history; I hit everything in between. At the time you wonder how it will pay off. I now have so much appreciation for what UB did for me."