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MARK Cooper has spoken of his frustration at Swindon Town's disciplinary record this season, after the Robins picked up their 100th card of the term in the weekend defeat to Carlisle United.
Town have racked up 94 yellows and six reds over the course of the campaign, with six players receiving suspensions for cumulative bookings or dismissals – of which some, most notably Alex Pritchard, have picked up multiple bans.
For Cooper, those statistics are simply "not good enough". While he is pleased his players appear to have cleaned up their act a little in recent weeks – with 36 bookings or sending-offs in 20 games since the turn of the year compared to 64 in 30 matches up until the end of 2013 – overall he has been disappointed.
He told the Advertiser: "It's not been good enough. We've had too many silly sending-offs in my opinion. We've had one or two many cards for dissent, probably.
"You just keep fining them. If they get booked for dissent they get a nasty fine, if they get booked for violent conduct or sent off for violent conduct they get a nasty fine."
Pritchard has been suspended for six games this season, having racked up five and then 10 yellow cards followed by a red for violent conduct at Ashton Gate, and Cooper joked: "Pritch is still on direct debit with his fines.
"He will certainly have to learn, won't he, when he goes back to Tottenham or wherever he ends up next year. He knows he's missed too many games through suspension.
"It's something which, from his own, personal point of view, he has to sort out but overall they're starting to get better."
Cooper admitted to suffering from similar indiscipline during the early stages of his own career.
When asked how he learnt to adjust his game, he said: "I think you realise that you end up not playing and then you have to fight to get your place back. Somewhere along the line you think 'I better calm down here because if I get suspended I've got a fight on to get my place back'."

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THREE members of a Worcester killer's family have been sentenced for their part in trying to cover up his crime.
Andrew Heath was found dead at 4am after an arson attack at his flat in Warndon in December 2011.
Daniel Martin later admitted placing three wheelie bins in the porch of Mr Heath's maisonette and setting them alight.
Martin pleaded guilty at Birmingham Crown Court and was sentenced to 10 years in jail in November last year.
Yesterday Martin's mother, sister, and his sister's partner were sentenced for providing false information to detectives during the investigation.
His mother Teresa Martin, aged 46, of Rodborough Drive, Warndon, Worcester, was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment for providing false witness statements. She admitted lying to detectives about her son's whereabouts in three interviews where she claimed he was at her home until at least 4.30am on the morning of the fire, however it was proved the fire was started by Martin at around 3.30am.
Following a trial in October 2013, Sarah Martin, aged 27, and her partner Matthew Davies, aged 30, both of Maple Avenue, Worcester, were found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
Martin lied to officers on a number of occasions about her and her brother's whereabouts the morning of the fire while Davies was found guilty of providing a false statement claiming he knew nothing about the fire or his partner's brother's involvement.
This was proved untrue. At his trial he refused to give evidence in court or to enter the witness box and was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment, with Martin getting 12 months.
But because all three of the defendants had either been in prison on remand or on tags, they had completed their sentences in custody before they were given them in court and were subsequently released.
Detective Superintendent Paul Williamson, who led the investigation into the 52-year-old's death, said the family still faced the consequences of trying to cover up what had happened instead of putting their personal feelings aside to help the police uncover the truth behind Mr Heath's death.
He said: "Those who lie to the police, especially on such a serious case where someone has been killed, will have to face the consequences.
"Despite the main offender in this case, Daniel Martin, admitting he killed Andrew Heath, this has not stopped us pursuing those who have lied to the police in an attempt to protect him.
"We warned the defendants, in person and through the media, that if they did try to shield Martin they would be prosecuted, but they did not heed these warnings.
"Even though they are family members, we expect such loyalties to be put to one side when it comes to facing justice, especially for committing such a serious crime as manslaughter."
These sentences follow the imprisonment of three men in March 2013 for attempting to intimidate witnesses in the case via social media.


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2010 has been a tough year, especially for those in human resources who have the difficult task of dealing with the unpleasant consequences of a down economy. It's time to show recognition to the hard-working HR professionals for all that they do for Arizona's businesses.
The following are the honorees and finalists for the 2010 HR Awards:
HR Director of the Year
|Maureen SterbachVice President of Human Resources
St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical CenterWhen Maureen Sterbach joined St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in 1998, the hospital turnover rate was 24 percent and morale was predictably low. Flash forward 12 years and the picture couldn't be any more different. The hospital turnover rate is now 10 percent and growth has doubled to more than 5,000 employees.
|Teresa BuelowVice President of Human Resources
Lapre Scali & Co. Insurance Services
HR Industry Leader of the Year
|Cindy JonesVice President of the Human Resources Division
Synergy SevenThis past year, Synergy Seven has guided companies through the difficult decision of downsizing. Cindy Jones' veteran human resources skills came in handy during these precarious situations. The company's main role is to provide support during restructuring, downsizing and reinventing, resulting in a successful transition.
|Christine NicholsHuman Resource Manager
Human Capital Strategies
HR Team of the Year
|Direct Alliancewww.directalliance.com
Employees in HR Dept.: 12At Direct Alliance, there is no doubt as to what the outsourcing provider's most valuable asset is — its work force. Direct Alliance's "human capital" initiatives produce and retain the most innovative work force possible. The team filled more than 1,400 professional sales positions in 2010, doubling 2009's number.
|Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport AuthorityEmployees in HR Dept.: 4
|City of ScottsdaleEmployees in HR Dept.: 29
|KitchellEmployees in HR Dept.: 7


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I was somewhat taken aback (to put it mildly) when I received an e-mail from Nominet, entitled "WARNING: [yourdomain].co.uk is not intending to be renewed". It goes on to say "Your provider has cancelled their request to renew your domain name", which was news to me. The domain is due for renewal in a couple of weeks, and there is an invoice awaiting payment (but not overdue), which is the only contact I've had with the registrar on the subject.
It seemed pretty weird to me, and not the first administrative issue I've had with the registrar, so I decided to move the domain elsewhere. So far so good, until I e-mailed the current registrar to ask them to update the IP tag. I got a reply saying I had to complete their online form "for my convenience" and pay a fee of £10 + VAT to transfer my domain away. What? They choose not to renew it, for some unknown reason, and then want me to pay for the privilege of getting a new registrar?
I've never encountered either of these issues before. Has anybody else run into anything similar?
Don't you have a domain control panel for updating IPSTAG's?
Some older registrars still have antiquated systems, and, as many used to, charge for things we're used to getting free nowadays. I've got a clinet on such a registrar, you literally have to email support to chnage anything as the CP only lists the domains and nothing else!
Yep, some less savory domain registrars will hold your domain for ransom in order to retain customers.
The first registrar I was with wanted a form completing and a £10 charge - this was a few years ago when £10 was worth something - I contacted them and they wavered the charge as I had been with them for a while.
If you want to transfer your domain name to someone, for example if you have sold your business or sold your domain name, then you will need to complete the registrant transfer process.
TechnoBear is not transferring the account just moving it from one registrar to another.
Is it a miss communication as you are not transferring but moving? That may be why my fee was dropped a few years ago?
Nope. With other registrars where I haven't been able to update it myself, it's just been a case of a quick e-mail asking them to do it, and it's been done. I sent this lot a quick e-mail, and they replied immediately, telling me I needed to complete their form, which required everything from my full postal address to their billing ID number. I did that and so far I have "Your Ticket has been received and a member of our staff will review it and reply accordingly."
That link is for changing registrant - I knew there was a £10 fee for that.
Somehow, I doubt this lot will be so obliging. I have another site with them, on the same hosting package. (Both sites/domains actually belong to local non-profits, rather than to me.) The hosting packages state "free domain name for the duration of the hosting" - yes, I know there's no such thing as a free domain - but on the other account, the domain was invoiced along with the hosting. Unfortunately, I was ill at the time and they'd paid the invoice before I discovered the error. I contacted the company and they refused to refund the domain charges - said if we'd contacted them before the invoice was paid, they'd have amended it, but as it had already been paid, they "couldn't" refund it.
Well the first "mis-communication" would be when they told Nominet they weren't renewing the domain without communicating with the registrant. If Nominet hadn't e-mailed me, I wouldn't have known there was a problem.
I e-mailed the current registrar asking them to update the IP tag, so I would have thought it was clear that I'm changing registrars, not transferring the domain to another registrant.
I've experienced a few registrars charging a transfer out fee. If the worst comes to the worst, as long as you have an account with nominet and the domain registered there, you'll retain control no matter how obtuse the registrar is, as nominet retain ultimate control of uk domains.
Indeed - and I'm finding that very reassuring at the moment. If all else fails, I know I can ask them to change the registrar for me. (They also charge £10, but somehow I don't resent paying them half as much as I resent paying my current registrar.)
After an exchange of several e-mails, I got an "explanation" from my current registrar:
We have not cancelled the domain name, I think there was a problem where the system renewed the domain name by mistake - we have only cancelled this renewal and not the renewal of the domain name which isn't due right now.
I wonder why I don't feel reassured. :rolleyes: A system which renews things by mistake, charges for "free" domains, etc. I'm off - just as soon as I can get them to change the blasted IPS tag.
^ that sounds like the "system" is a human being
More than likely. The sad thing is that if they'd just said "Oops, sorry, we've screwed up" I would have a higher opinion of them and be less annoyed. Anybody can make a mistake; what really counts is how willing they are to rectify it. With their previous mistake, the answer was "not at all", and this isn't looking much better. 48 hours on and they still haven't changed the IPS tag. They haven't replied to my last three e-mails, although one of those was requesting them to change the nameservers, and they have actually done that. (Yes - that was another thing I discovered I couldn't do for myself. I'd never noticed before because I'd never needed to do it and I could hardly believe it when I found out. It's the only registrar I've ever encountered where that isn't possible.)
Hi TechnoBear,
As you tend to be very thorough you've likely tried this course, but I notice in the link to nominet that EastCoast provided under the contact link has a section for disputes. I don't know if they would go up to bat for you to get the process moving at your old registrar. I do know that in Canada if we register a dispute against a registrar with iCan they will contact the registrar normally via email within 2 days and give a 'soft warning' to get a customer's request moving or a policy violation fixed, if the registrar does not demonstrate action then they step up the warning, which can eventually suspend the registrars license.
Maybe the regulatory body can help you?
Hi Steve (nice to see you around :)), and thanks for the input.
I should probably have posted back to say what happened. I waited three days after requesting the IPS tag change, and it still hadn't been done. Not only that, but the company had stopped replying to e-mails. My last three went unanswered - including one telling them not to renew the hosting automatically as I was moving elsewhere. (I had to leave the card details on the account so they could take the transfer fee.)
Anyway, at that point I got really fed-up and decided to go to Nominet. I expected to have to go through a palaver, explaining why I was asking them to effect the change, rather than my registrar, but no. They suggest approaching your registrar first, as there may be no charge if the transfer is done that way, but if you choose to do it through Nominet, then there's no problem. It was actually quicker and easier than using my registrar's transfer request form, and of course the change took immediate effect. I have two other domains with that registrar, and I'm going to move both elsewhere. I'll just go direct to Nominet to do those and not bother trying to contact the current registrar at all.
i deleted my card details from the old registrar's account as soon as I'd arranged the transfer with Nominet. Just as well, as I've since been getting "unpaid invoice" e-mails for the hosting I had already informed them I intended to cancel. :rolleyes: The sooner I move the other two domains (and their hosting), the happier I'll be. My initial experience of this company was positive, with good, prompt customer support, but my current experience leaves me feeling they're going down the tubes fast.
Nice to hear that you are well TechnoBear! Also, glad that you got your issue resolved.
Good call on going to Nominet; most people don't think to go to their country's / region's regulating body but they have dealt with so many shifty hosts and complaints that most will have processes that actually help.


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Topic: Good results on latest scans -- the only explanation is prayer
My PET & CT scan results today indicated my cc lymph node tumor, which is outside my aorta off the left kidney, shrank and that the tumor isn't as "hot" as previous scans in Nov. 2008 and April 2009 (Y E A H !!!!!!!!).
After my recurrence diagnosis in November 2008 (initially deemed inoperable), I received Gemzar & 5-FU with Nulasta booster during the winter followed by a one-week round of radiation. April scan results showed minor shrinkage with a "wait and see" diagnosis (no further treatments ordered). Today, my surgeon said that I must have a "direct link above" for such positive results since that was the only explanation for the continued shrinkage. That's the most likely answer since I do have a vast support network of family, friends and faithul believers. They're my soft place to land.
Thanks for sharing in my good news. This website gives me a forum where people truly do understand the challenges of this disease and faith that a cure is forthcoming.
Never give up hope and never give up fighting.


text: For the most part, the rotation advice and such will remain unchanged. Where you'll see changes will be in the talent options, for the most part. There, it's pretty open; all three of the T4 options are solid, situationally, and PE/EB are really close to each other, PE being better for burst fights.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A former executive of the Jacksonville-based company, Lender Processing Services Inc. pleaded guilty Tuesday, admitting her participation in a six-year scheme to prepare and file more than 1 million fraudulently signed and notarized mortgage-related documents with property recorders' offices throughout the United States.
Lorraine Brown, 56, of Alpharetta, Ga., plead guilty to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. Brown faces a maximum potential penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, or twice the gross gain or loss from the crime. The date for sentencing has not yet been set.
"Lorraine Brown participated in a scheme to fabricate mortgage-related documents at the height of the financial crisis," said Assistant Attorney General Breuer. "She was responsible for more than a million fraudulent documents entering the system, directing company employees to forge and falsify documents relied on by property recorders, title insurers and others. Appropriately, she now faces the prospect of prison time."
"Homeownership is a huge step for American citizens," said U.S. Attorney O'Neill. "The process itself is often intimidating and lengthy. Consumers rely heavily on the integrity and due diligence of those serving as representatives throughout this process to secure their investments. When the integrity of this process is compromised, illegally, public confidence is eroded. We must work to assure the public that their investments are sound, worthy, and protected."
Special Agent in Charge Steinbach said, "Our country is increasingly faced with more pervasive and sophisticated fraud schemes that have the potential to disrupt entire markets and the economy as a whole. The FBI, with our partners, is committed to addressing these schemes. As these schemes continue to evolve and become more sophisticated, so too will we."
Brown was the chief executive of DocX LLC, which was involved in the preparation and recordation of mortgage-related documents throughout the country since the 1990s. DocX was acquired by an LPS predecessor company, and was part of LPS's business when LPS was formed as a stand-alone company in 2008. At that time, DocX was rebranded as "LPS Document Solutions, a Division of LPS." Brown was the president and senior managing director of LPS Document Solutions, which constituted DocX's operations.
DocX's main clients were residential mortgage servicers, which typically undertake certain actions for the owners of mortgage-backed promissory notes. Servicers hired DocX to, among other things, assist in creating and executing mortgage-related documents filed with recorders' offices. Only specific personnel at DocX were authorized by the clients to sign the documents.
According to plea documents filed today, employees of DocX, at the direction of Brown and others, began forging and falsifying signatures on the mortgage-related documents that they had been hired to prepare and file with property recorders' offices. Unbeknownst to the clients, Brown directed the authorized signers to allow other DocX employees, who were not authorized signers, to sign the mortgage-related documents and have them notarized as if actually executed by the authorized DocX employee.
Also according to plea documents, Brown implemented these signing practices at DocX to enable DocX and Brown to generate greater profit. Specifically, DocX was able to create, execute and file larger volumes of documents using these signing and notarization practices. To further increase profits, DocX also hired temporary workers to sign as authorized signers. These temporary employees worked for much lower costs and without the quality control represented by Brown to DocX's clients. Some of these temporary workers were able to sign thousands of mortgage-related instruments a day. Between 2003 and 2009, DocX generated approximately $60 million in gross revenue.
After these documents were falsely signed and fraudulently notarized, Brown authorized DocX employees to file and record them with local county property records offices across the country. Many of these documents –- particularly mortgage assignments, lost note affidavits and lost assignment affidavits -– were later relied upon in court proceedings, including property foreclosures and federal bankruptcy actions. Brown admitted she understood that property recorders, courts, title insurers and homeowners relied upon the documents as genuine.
Brown also admitted that she and others also took various steps to conceal their actions from clients, LPS corporate headquarters, law enforcement authorities and others. These actions included testing new employees to ensure they could mimic signatures, lying to LPS internal audit personnel during reviews of the operation in 2009, making false exculpatory statements after being confronted by LPS corporate officials about the acts and lying to the FBI during its investigation. LPS closed DocX in early 2010.
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HOUSTON - The trial of a Houston police officer accused of raping a woman resumed Tuesday after a nearly three-week break.
Abraham Joseph, 29, has been charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault.
Police said he kidnapped a waitress outside of El Diamante Nite Club, 3416 W. Fuqua, on Jan. 2, 2011, while he was on duty.
Prosecutors said Joseph handcuffed her, drove her to a secluded section of Townwood Park, 3600 Simsbrook, and raped her.
She claimed Joseph was dressed in his uniform and armed when she was kidnapped.
Prosecutors said Joseph originally arrested the woman and a man in in the parking lot of the night club. The woman claims that Joseph dropped the man off on the side of the road, took her to the park and then raped her while she was still handcuffed.
While on the stand earlier this month, the woman said Joseph ruined her life.
"He grabbed my skirt and put his hands under my dress," the woman said in Spanish.
Joseph's attorney claimed the sex was consensual.
During cross-examination on Tuesday, Joseph's attorney focused on inconsistencies in the woman's story. The woman attributed those to her emotional state, which she claims is because of the alleged attack.
The woman said she was originally afraid to come forward because she feared being deported. She is in the United States illegally.
Prosecutors said that Joseph has been investigated as a potential suspect in five separate rape cases.
If convicted, Joseph could be sentenced to up to life in prison.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - High winds from tropical storms and hurricanes can force bridges to be closed, even without construction.
And with so many people heading downtown for Florida-Georgia game activities this weekend, officials addressed their concerns.
"We will take that on a case by case basis," Michael Jacobsen, director of Emergency Preparedness for the city of Jacksonville, said of any decisions to close bridges. "It won't be as if we'll close all the bridges. We have gauges on top of all the bridges in Duval County. We can tell the wind speed going across those bridges, and we may have to secure, if it comes to it, one or two."
There is a command center set up downtown near EverBank Field, where officials are not only watching the crowds but the weather. City planners say they don't believe there will be weather problems Saturday, but they say the winds will make camp life at RV City difficult. Officials want people to use common sense with grills and tents.
Those downtown are taking the storm in stride.
"It's going to be a little windy, a little rainy. We can deal with it," Gator fan Ron Skinner said. "We really don't have a choice."
The Florida Department of Transportation leaned a lot earlier this year about how to prepare bridges under construction for tropical storms. After Tropical Storm Beryl, the Mathews bridge had to be closed while construction debris was removed. Transportation officials are making sure that will not happen again.
"We totally reviewed the situation after Beryl because there was some legitimate concerns raised why those platforms came apart," FDOT spokesman Mike Goldman said. "And as a result of that analysis, we strengthened the platforms and added wind strength."
Because of the winds, the Coast Guard is worried about those going to the game by boat.
"Stay off the water, come down via car, bus, carpool, but not on a boat," Lt. Grant Johnson said.
Boaters already docked at Metropolitan Park said they're not worried.
"We are tucked away in the marina, so as far as waves, not too concerned," boater Gene Morton said. "As far as wind, it's tied up pretty good."
JEA is standing by as high winds mean trees may come down and power may be lost.
"We are monitoring it, and all of our crews are on standby," JEA spokeswoman Gerri Boyce said. "So we are keeping an eye out on the winds and the rain. Also keep in mind that during these situations, we might receive calls from other areas asking for help. Right now we have not received any calls, but if the storm does turn, we expect some calls for help."
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Buddy has taken to doing the chirp, chirp thing in the mornings. It's that calling chirp, then the mad chirp follows. She doesn't calm much when I talk to her, and won't come out. I have no clue what she wants unless she's calling to my husband. He sleeps late on the weekends. Yesterday she calmed some after he got up, and she came out of the cage and flew the direction he went after he got his coffee.
I'm amazed how far she can fly with the wing clip she got, but she doesn't get any lift. I'm going to try a different Vet next time. I wasn't real thrilled with the one I saw because they wouldn't let me go back with Buddy. They probably don't want anyone to know how simple it is to clip wings. :-) Not that they charge a lot. It was only $18.00.


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Controlled burns could cause smoky conditions on several roads
Published: Friday, January 25, 2013 at 6:26 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, January 25, 2013 at 6:26 p.m.
The Florida Highway Patrol and Florida Forest Service are advising motorists to drive cautiously on certain roads in Alachua County, Levy County and near the Columbia/Suwannee County line due to prescribed burns that could create hazardous driving conditions.
Prescribed burns are being conducted in Levy County at State Road 121 and U.S. 19. FHP is monitoring road conditions in the area of SR 121, U.S. 19 and County Road 337 through the weekend.
In Alachua County, FHP is monitoring the area of County Road 234 and U.S. 441. Near the Columbia/Suwannee County line, FHP is also monitoring the roadways near County Road 250 because of a controlled burn south of Interstate 10.
Ludie Bond, wildfire mitigation specialist with the Florida Forest Service, said that, although they don't anticipate any major issues, it has been somewhat dry and drivers should always be cautious.
FHP Sgt. Tracy Hisler-Pace advises motorists to use good judgment and be prepared in case visibility changes quickly. FHP advises drivers to reduce their speed and use headlights on low beam if they are traveling in low-visibility areas.
The National Weather Service said it does not anticipate dense fog, just some patches around the area.
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MIAMI - Tropical Storm Barry formed off Mexico's Gulf Coast on Wednesday, prompting Mexican authorities to ready hundreds of shelters.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said the Atlantic hurricane season's second tropical storm was drenching areas in its path with up to 10 inches of rain in some places, raising the threat of flash floods.
In the late evening, Barry was about 40 miles (60 kilometers) northeast of Veracruz, Mexico, and was expected to make landfall near that port city Thursday morning.
The center predicted Barry would strengthen slightly before making landfall but said it would weaken soon after.
Veracruz state Civil Protection Secretary Noemi Guzman said 2,000 shelters had been readied in the state with mattresses, blankets, water and canned food. She said the shelters at schools and recreation centers could house up to 306,000 people.
The port of Veracruz was closed to small vessels because of the strong winds, Guzman said.
The storm had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 kph). It formed as a depression off the coast of Belize on Monday and began moving north.
A tropical storm warning was in effect on the Mexican coast from Punta El Lagarto to Tuxpan, in Veracruz state.
Meanwhile, late-night storms rumbled across Central Florida for the third straight day, dropping heavy rain on parts of the region.
There's a 40 percent chance of rain in the Orlando area on Wednesday, with high temperatures reaching the mid-90s. The "feels like" temperature, however, will be 100 degrees.
Rain chances drop to 20 percent on Thursday in Central Florida before jumping to 40 percent from Friday through Sunday.
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HotAir.com is reporting that Federal Way-area Democratic Congressman Adam Smith would probably be against any intervention in Iraq, this as President Barack Obama said Thursday that he would not rule out airstrikes to staunch the Jihadist army sweeping across the country.
Appearing on CNN on Thursday, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), a Democrat who voted in favor of the resolution which authorized the use of force in Iraq in 2002, expressed serious reservations about reengaging in military operations in Iraq.
"I would be very, very reluctant to dive back into that," Smith said of renewed operations in Iraq. "Are the al-Qaeda militants in Iraq threatening the U.S. in some way? Otherwise, we'd be being dragged into a war in a very difficult to predict way."
Read the whole story on Dems and Iraq here.
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To celebrate the life of the Scottish bard Robert Burns, Scotland will come to the south west with a four-course menu of culinary delights and trademark dishes.
The night will begin with a welcoming hot toddy on arrival accompanied by a Highland piper and the traditional address of the haggis.
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Owner Sandy Maundrell said: "It's wonderful to see the barn come to life and our Burns' Night supper promises to be a fun evening for everyone.
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Based on the precept that even the most mundane of utterances can blow minds with proper timing, the Sweet Georgia John is a sex act wherein at the moment right before your partner begins to climax you make a completely trivial comment. Just as he or she is about to orgasm you say something like "oh, by the way - Tom says hi" or "don't let me forget to take out the recycling." Any statement of relatively very little importance which would generally be voiced only in passing will suffice. Although potentially distracting, the manuever is intended neither to diminish nor enhance the experience of the orgasmee. Rather, its purpose is to render your partner's climax bizarre or surreal in light of your flippant remark while engendering an overall sense of trippiness. When performed by a female it is also known as a Sweet Georgia Jane.
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo women's soccer team (2-6-1, 1-3-1 SSC) fell to the Eckerd College Tritons (3-2-2, 1-1-1 SSC)) by a score of 2-1, Wednesday evening from Saint Leo University field.
Despite being tied at the half, the Lions were unable to recover from a late second half goal by the Tritons.
The Lions took an early lead in the contest when Saint Leo forward Shanelle Edwards broke away from an Eckerd defender and sent a laser past the hands of the Tritons' goalkeeper, Morgan Crescent, in the seventh minute.
Despite Saint Leo's early lead, the Tritons answered back on offense. In the 18th minute, a set piece came back to haunt the Lions when an Eckerd free kick resulted in a goal as Dana Treat headed in a pass from Arie Anahory.
The defining goal of the game came in the second half when Eckerd's Arie Anahory took control of the ball at the top of the box and edged it past Abby Evans to go ahead, 2-1. Despite a late push from the Green and Gold, the Tritons held off the attack as they notched their first conference win of the season, as well as taking their first win against the Lions since 2002.
In total, Evans notched three saves, while both teams combined for 32 shots, including 15 by Saint Leo.
The Lions will return to action on Wednesday, October 3, when they travel to Lakeland, Fla. to take on the Florida Southern Moccasins. Kickoff is slated for 5 p.m.
For more on the women's soccer program, visit SaintLeoLions.com. Also, make sure to 'Like' the Lions on Facebook and 'Follow' the Lions on Twitter.
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Community member heading project to update park in Arcata
ARCATA- The City of Arcata is working with neighbors near Greenview Park to update the almost fifty year old playground. One homeowner near the park has been spearheading the project and is planning to raise the money to make the park more accessible to children.
"It's just a little outdated," said Daniel Bixler, who has been working with the city on the park.
Bixler has been working with the Parks and Recreation department to organize the community to make updates to the park. Bixler said he is willing to write grants and fundraise money to make an 'inclusive park' that is accessible to children with disabilities. "This is a really great local neighborhood park that can meet all kid's needs," said Bixler.
The cost of an inclusive playground could cost upwards of $200,000 dollars. The city has committed to spend $40,000 on the project, but the remaining amount will have to be made through grants and fundraising.
Dan Diemer, Parks Superintendent, said the city has limited resources to devote to parks. "We can only do what we can afford," said Diemer.
Bixler is a local business owner and plans to raise the money through donations from local businesses. "We're going to start raising money. We're going to start writing grants, contacting people and really getting our fingers in the dirt," said Bixler.
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Why I Am Fixated on Cost & Competitiveness
Maybe I'm fixated on cost and competitiveness, but over Christmas, two things happened that drove me to ponder these themes. The first is that I was given a Boxee Box as a gift; the second is a technology, entertainment, and design (TED) lecture that I heard via Boxee by an incredible 19-year-old woman named Eva Vertes.
The Boxee Box is neither a new nor unique product as there are similar offerings in the marketplace. It brings content to your TV using the Internet in a simple and effective way. Boxee isn't revolutionary; it is just a low cost, convenient alternative to cable or satellite TV. However, like a flu virus identified a few years back, it can wreak havoc on traditional content companies.
The value proposition of the traditional content providers is under attack from this technology alternative. Thanks to Boxee, my $100/month cable bill can be replaced by a little more Internet bandwidth and Netflix. If I wanted to have slightly less convenience, I could just use my PC. This approach is roughly five times cheaper for the same (or possibly better) service. Cable and satellite companies must respond with differentiated business models, alternate business endeavors, or lower costs. As the value of their services drop (five times in my case) so will price. The rapid fall of long distance phone service consumer prices is a parallel example.
My fixation on cost dictates that a company must be the low-cost producer in the market space in which they compete. When heavy competition hits or alternative products appear, companies don't have time to begin cost cutting; they must already be cost effective. They must know that they are! They mustn't believe their own marketing hype; they must know for a fact based on real data that they can win the street fight when they have to. Fact-based knowledge is available through independent, third-party benchmarking like that from Lytica's Freebenchmarking.com and Component Cost Estimator products.
Eva Vertes brought my mind to organizational culture, although her talk had nothing to do with that subject. This remarkable young woman started working on the effects of heavy metal contamination on the nervous system at age 14, moved on to Alzheimer's research and then, at 19 (in 2005), she embarked on cancer research based on insights that most of the cut/chemo/radiate crowd seem to have missed (see: Eva Vertes looks to the future of medicine).
Why should this woman be so creative and productive while working at the edge of the established system? The question contains the answer. She was in the process of learning and getting an education rather than being engrained in the profession and its practices. The idea of being outside the system, tolerating a fringe, and allowing things that are different is at the heart of what has made America great.
While companies have organizational cultures, it is the people, or rather the behavior of people within the system, that determines what the culture is. Most behaviors driven by company culture are based on what they think made them successful in the past. This may be different from what actually made them successful and those behaviors they need to adopt in the future (or today).
I am not in the habit of quoting Einstein, but it appears that he agrees with me:
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
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While organizational culture is a powerful force in enabling results, it can also prevent results. Cultures are based on beliefs and rituals that cause things to be done over and over again the same way. If over and over again is practice, it aids proficiency. If it's a common approach to all problems, it's risky, or as Einstein says, "insanity."
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The House Girl
By Tara Conklin
HarperCollins, 384 pages, $23
There is a kind of bottomless longing evoked by the old African-American spiritual Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.
That longing acts like an undertow throughout this intriguing debut historical novel, and binds the two main characters whose lives could otherwise not be more different -- an artistic young female house slave in antebellum Virginia, and a modern-day white corporate lawyer aiming to make partner by the time she is 30.
Seattle-based author Tara Conklin worked many years as a litigator, and her observations of a beige legal world ring true. Her first published fiction appeared in the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology. That short story forms the jumping-off point for this novel.
Seventeen-year-old Josephine has never left the plantation except for one disastrous attempt at escape. The seriously ill "Missus," Lu Anne Bell, has secretly taught Josephine to read and allowed her -- at times -- to share the artist's studio. Josephine creates skilful portraits of daily life, including the slave woman who is the only mother she has ever known, but is destined to remain anonymous.
Her watercolour of the house and grounds hangs on the wall while Missus takes credit for it. Solidly based on documents like actual interviews with slaves, Conklin's research blends subtly into the background while successfully rendering a picture of the complex tensions inherent in 1850s society.
The book opens with a violent slap from "Mister." Vowing it to be the last one, Josephine prepares to run away that very same day, planning to take along a few of her own art works.
As in so many other novels about slavery -- Jubilee, Beloved and The Known World to name a few outstanding ones -- the dialect used in Conklin's original short story has quite a powerful impact. Not quite so in this novel. Josephine's inner life dominates over dialogue, and when she does speak, it's in a modified dialect, which dampens the effect.
Chapters about Lina spring to life in comparison. In 2004, she is madly researching a case that is headed for posterity. A wealthy African-American client has launched a suit seeking trillions in reparations for the harm done by slavery.
Someone with a photogenic face is required, who will serve as a symbol for the descendants of former slaves.
Her painter father tells her about the art world's latest controversy regarding the works of Lu Anne Bell, now revered by feminists and art historians. An exhibit is about to open that argues that it was in fact the house girl, Josephine Bell, who painted some of the best pieces. Could a descendant of Josephine's be the face Lina is looking for?
Meanwhile, Lina's father is preparing a major show of his own; for the first time in 20 years he is ready to paint his wife, Lina's mother, and is ready to break his complete silence on the topic of her death.
Like Josephine, Lina has no knowledge of her mother's past or family; she has only the vaguest recollection of a sense of belonging.
A suspenseful parallel search ensues. Archival letters (some found a little too easily), articles, and notes, which Conklin carries off well in distinctly different styles, provide clues to the fate of both Lina's mother and Josephine.
The end result is a historical novel that succeeds in giving voice to the voiceless. Hopefully this is only the beginning for Tara Conklin.
Ursula Fuchs, a Winnipeg nurse, can relate to the suspense of hunting through archives.


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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Well, week one and a couple of days.
A couple of upgrades await at the new site, including a daring innovation I call a "blogroll", which lists other sites of interest. It should be added today. Also, moderation has been made speedier - although evidently not speedy enough for many PSRs (previous site readers). Apologies for that, but Australian libel laws are ******* ******* ridiculous and require that each comment be viewed before publication. Incidentally, naughty words will be ******* cut or edited, so don't ******* use them. And editing the ******* things takes time, which causes delays, which adds to concerns about moderation not being ******* speedy enough.
(Not that many comments have required editing or cutting. Stunningly few, in fact. And the numerous lefties who've endlessly complained about being banned here and who vowed to show up in number at the new site simply haven't appeared. Wimps.)
By the way, your moderators at the new site are Tran and Nkomo, two hard-working young immigrants keen to make careers for themselves in the lucrative Australian moderation caper. A live-and-let-live type of guy, Nkomo is inclined to let even the most contentious comments through. He doesn't have issues with anybody, God bless him. Nkomo is a Libran who lists cricket and peace as his major interests.
But Tran is absolutely terrifying. The other day, down in the moderation pit, he got into a fight with one of Joe Hildebrand's nightshift moderators over possessive apostrophes. The ambulance guys said they'd never before seen such elaborate knife wounds.
Thing is, Tran was armed only with a thesaurus. Sharpened, admittedly, but still just a thesaurus.
Treat both of them well. And treat Tran with extreme caution.
Now head on over to the new site.
Monday, May 12, 2008
All suggestions/comments/criticism taken on board. Moderation (unavoidable at a mainstream site) will be made speedier. Solutions will be found. Justice will be delivered!
Remember, we're only 24 hours or so into this. Don't fear the newness. Only a few years ago my site had no comments facility at all; I used to get slammed for that, too. And later for allowing too many comments. Now, for not posting comments quickly enough ...
We'll sort things out. Might take a little while, but still.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Adjust your bookmarks, people. We've shifted over here.
The new site - the shiny new Daily Telegraph site - is only an hour or so old as I write and very much a work in progress. No links yet to other blogs, nor do I have any idea how comments are meant to happen. Give it (and me) a few days.
Massive thanks are owed to Florida's Andrea Harris, who patiently and expertly hosted me for five years and who during that time became something of a cult figure in Australia. It took the might of News Corporation to lure me away, Andrea.
Now - to the future!
Global warming continues losing heat, reports the Independent's Andrew Grice:
Gordon Brown, Ken Livingstone and 300 Labour councillors were not the only casualties of the local and London elections. No one seems to have noticed, but the other big losers were those people who care about the environment.
We might just look back on May Day 2008 as the moment when the power of green politics peaked and went into reverse. I hope I'm wrong, but I doubt it. The reaction of the two main parties to the elections was instructive ...
Mr Brown was not alone in relegating the environment to the back burner. David Cameron, the wind in his sails after the elections, held a prime ministerial press conference in which he set out his priorities for government. Significantly, the words "environment" and "climate change" did not appear in his 1,200-word statement.
Via Benny Peiser. Meanwhile, in Australia we're still fighting yesterday's battle:
Treasurer Wayne Swan will unveil an ambitious $2.3 billion climate change program in Tuesday's budget.
Also in Tuesday's budget: Swan's measures to combat scrimshaw piracy, cribbage addiction and pet rock abuse.
Sweary chef Gordon Ramsay is just as bossy off camera:
Mr Ramsay said he had already spoken to Prime Minister Gordon Brown about outlawing out-of-season produce.
When winter asparagus is outlawed, only outlaws will have winter asparagus.
He says it would cut carbon emissions as less food would be imported and also lead to improved standards of cooking.
Here's another idea: stop importing foreign television programs.
The TV chef said it was "fundamentally important" for chefs to provide locally-sourced food.
The same presumably applies to locally-sourced television. Ramsay's UK-sourced program is shown in Australia, the US, Canada ...
"I don't want to see asparagus on in the middle of December. I don't want to see strawberries from Kenya in the middle of March. I want to see it home grown."
Ramsay owns a Ferrari; a curious choice for an apparent anti-globalist.
"There should be stringent laws, licensing laws, to make sure produce is only used in season and season only," he said.
The Green Team's final tip is just for you, Gordon.
"If we don't restrict our movements within this industry of seasonal-produce only, then the whole thing will spiral out of control."
Strawberries in March. Why, it's absolute chaos!
UPDATE. Ramsay is a food fraud:
[Gordon Ramsay] fails quite brazenly to practise what he preaches in his own restaurants, which serve food from thousands of miles away.
Andrew Bolt has proof that Melbourne is more boring than Sydney.
UPDATE. And Canberra is more boring than Adelaide.
Friday, May 09, 2008
A world of leftoid conflict. (Art by Dave.)
You know, Port Phillip Bay could really do with some dredging.
In accordance with Labor tradition:
The Rudd Government is rejecting asylum seeker applications at a higher rate than the Howard government, according to an analysis of new figures.
An Asylum Seeker Research Centre report says the immigration department has knocked back 41 of the 42 cases it has had referred to it since Labor took power after the November 2007 election, a rejection rate of 97.6 per cent.
Time for Phillip Adams to start another reader campaign.
(Via Kae)
A positive environmental development.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
November 2007. Kevin Rudd is worried about the cost of petrol:
Rising food and petrol prices, coupled with recent interest rate rises, were putting extraordinary pressures on families, he said.
"The playback that I get from communities across the country is that families are under real financial pressure," he said.
May 2008. That pressure will increase, thanks to Kevin Rudd:
An emissions trading scheme is likely to increase petrol prices by about 10 cents a litre ...
Michael Rittenhouse recalls his Third World honeymoon. Take this as a cue to describe your own Third World travels (or honeymoon; whichever was more dangerous).
Remember when Nike was despised by the left because of globalisation? Times change:
Nike tops list of climate-friendly companies
UPDATE. Too much climate friendliness! Global cooling is now a flight-safety hazard.
UPDATE II. Rating the airborne celebrity hypocrites.
UPDATE III. Ground-level cool fuel tales from Mike H.:
As a long haul driver in the US I can remember driving through Montana during the winter about ten years ago in -80° F weather. In order to heat the cab of the truck I would put the heater controls on cab heat and watch the windows frost up. Then I would put the controls on window defrost and start freezing my feet. There wasn't enough heat in the diesel engine to do both jobs at the same time.
I passed a truck on the side of the road that had his fuel jelled and he had to walk a half of a mile to get some alcohol to melt the wax. Fortunately the truck stop in Billings was a balmy -60° F because all the trucks had their engines running, so I was able to sleep without becoming a carbon popsicle. In temperatures like that diesel engines can become so cool that they'll stop because the compression temp. is too cool for combustion.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Jock Paull, of TISM and Blind Lemon Chicken, has died at 50.
Kyoto trouble in Kyanada:
Canada will be probed on suspicion of violating rules for registering greenhouse gases that are the mainstay of a UN-led fight against global warming, official documents show.
Ottawa could be suspended from rights to trade carbon dioxide if found to be in breach of the rules by the enforcement branch of the UN's Kyoto Protocol. Greece was suspended last month, the first nation to face such a sanction under Kyoto.
Possibly Canada – lately punching out carbon at a level way above its Kyoto target – was simply trying to avoid committing New Zealand-style Kyotocide. Similar woes in the UK:
Labour's new green targets will cost every family in Britain more than £3,000, a Government dossier has warned. The decision by ministers to sign up to "unachievable" EU pledges on renewable energy will leave taxpayers with a £75billion bill.


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H.R. 1734, The Civilian Property Realignment Act (3 comments ↓ | 10 wiki edits )
- This item is from the 112th Congress (2011-2012) and is no longer current. Comments, voting, and wiki editing have been disabled, and the cost/savings estimate has been frozen.
- This bill, or a similar bill, was reintroduced in the current Congress as H.R. 695, The Civilian Property Realignment Act.
H.R. 1734 would decrease the deficit by realigning, consolidating, selling, disposing, and improving the efficiency of federal buildings and other civilian real property.
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PUTNAM COUNTY — For the second straight year, Putnam County is ranked #2 in Ohio in Health Outcomes according to the County Health Rankings just released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. The County Health Rankings was developed to provide counties across the country the ability to compare the local health status with others in the state. This is the fifth year for the rankings, which can be found at www.countyhealthrankings.org
According to the Health Outcomes ranking, which measures length of life and quality of life indicators, Putnam County has a low rate of premature death and the quality of life, such as reports of poor or fair health or poor physical and mental health days, is very low. Also, reports of mothers giving birth to low birthweight babies are lower than the state. These measures help boost the county in the rankings for health outcomes. Putnam County is also ranked #9 in the state in for overall Health Factors. This looks at: Health Behaviors such as smoking, obesity, exercise, alcohol use, sexually transmitted infections, etc.; Clinical Care, with measures such as uninsured population and ratio of county residents to physicians, mental health providers and dentists, mammography rates, etc.; Social and Economic factors which focuses on high school graduation, inadequate social support, violent crime, children in poverty, etc.; and Physical Environment which measures air pollution, drinking water violations, driving alone to work and long commute, etc.
There are no drastic changes in measures from the year before but there are some new items that are included that stand out. For example, only 48% of residents gave access to exercise opportunities according to the data provided and the ratio of residents to mental health providers is 3,833:1, which is very high compared to the state. The ratio of residents to dentists and primary care providers is also very high. According to the data provided in the rankings, 30% of Putnam County's adults are obese, which is the same as the state, and 23% of adults participate in excessive drinking, higher than the state at 18%.However, women in Putnam County are more likely to have a mammogram, there are fewer children living in poverty or in single-parent households and the high school graduation is very high.
The Putnam County Health Department is currently working with several other agencies and organizations in the county to develop a community health improvement plan that will focus on some of the measures provided in the rankings and have been determined to be a need in Putnam County. The three strategic issues that will be addressed are: Obesity (child and adult), Mental/Behavioral Health and Alcohol/Drug Use. The County Health Rankings provide data to help measure improvement as the plan is implemented.
For more information about the County Health Rankings or the community health improvement plan, contact Joan Kline at the Putnam County Health Department.
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Skin cancer is often or usually caused by years of too much
sun exposure. More than 90% of all skin cancers are found on body parts that
get the most sun most of the time. The face, neck, ears, hands, and arms are
common body parts that get skin cancer.
Skin cancer can often be
prevented by avoiding overexposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays (UV rays). UV
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dangerous as those from the sun.
The three main types of skin
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ABCDE system is a guide to detect signs of skin cancer in moles or growths on
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A person in the
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than a person in the northern United States. The risk for squamous cell cancer
is four times greater in the southern U.S. The closer a person lives to the
equator, the greater the cancer risk from sun exposure. The risk for skin
cancer also increases if you are exposed to intense sun year after year over
your lifetime.
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GSP Executive Director Dave Edwards has been named 2010 Citizen of the Year by The Greer Citizen. "Edwards is recognized for impacting Greer during the past year with a handful of projects at GSP anticipated to inject $50 million annually into the Greer economy," writes Greer Citizen Editor Jim Fair.
Since joining GSP International in July 2009, Edwards has help guide the Airport Commission in its efforts to secure the number one low fare carrier in the country Southwest Airlines. The airline is expected to begin service to GSP early in 2011. Responsible for the overall administration of the airport, Edwards has been instrumental in revamping a number of administrative policies and procedures, and outlining the need for the redevelopment of the existing terminal facilities to support the long-term commercial aviation needs of Upstate SC.
"He's a fantastic communicator. He has a lot of enthusiasm and it's so pure," said Reno Deaton, Executive Director of the Greer Development Corp. "…Pardon the pun, but the sky is the limit."


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WOOTTON Bassett put in a superb first-half performance to record an impressive 4-1 away victory at Sarum Youth Seniors on Saturday, writes LEE CLARK.
The Wiltshire side faced a potentially tricky trip to Castle Meadow to face a Sarum Youth Senior side that hadn't lost in the league since the latter stages of November, in what was the only game to survive the weather this weekend.
With Wootton Bassett's form of late being indifferent, manager Dave Terry introduced a few experienced players back from injury and the changes had a big impact.
Shaun Terry put the visitors in front early in the first half, as he hit a 35-yard screamer which left the Sarum goalkeeper clutching at air.
The ever-impressive Lewis Petrie doubled Bassett's advantage soon after, as they continued to play fantastic football leaving Sarum chasing shadows. Petrie scored twice more before half-time to complete his first half hat-trick and give Wootton Bassett a commanding 4-0 lead at the break.
At the interval, Dave Terry introduced three young substitutes as he was keen to give the younger players in the squad a chance with the three points virtually secured.
Sarum were much more competitive in the second half as they grabbed a consolation from the penalty spot to leave a small blot on what was otherwise a fantastic away performance by Bassett.
Terry was delighted with the first-half performance from his side.
"The attitude and the work rate in the first half was absolutely superb, all of the lads put in 110 per cent," he said.
Terry also praised the standard of the playing surface and felt it allowed his side to play the fantastic flowing football which was seen particularly in the earlier parts of the game.
"Some of our one-touch football was fantastic in the first half," he said. "The players really got it right after a bad spell as of late."


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METAIRIE — Chris Ivory had to sit through seven games and a bye week before getting his first carry of the season with the New Orleans Saints.
But, as Ivory showed everyone the past two weeks by rushing for 120 yards and two touchdowns on a 7.1-yard average, it's not about how long you have to wait, but what you do with the opportunity when it comes.
"It's a great thing to be out there," said Ivory, a man of few words, on Wednesday. "I've been waiting for it."
Running like he was angry for not getting a shot earlier, Ivory stepped in when Darren Sproles was sidelined with a fractured left hand. He ignited a dormant running game that has produced 140 and 148 yards in wins over Philadelphia and Atlanta.
Some say he's running angry and violently, but the chiseled, 218-pound Ivory prefers to call it aggressive running.
Whatever it is, it's working.
The Saints were averaging 72.6 rushing yards to rank last in the NFL through seven games; Ivory was inactive for five games, and he didn't set foot on the field in the two he dressed for.
But when he blasted a 9-yard run the first time he touched the ball against the Eagles on Nov. 5 and produced a 22-yard touchdown on his next carry, it seemed to energize the Saints. After picking up 48 yards on 10 attempts against the Eagles, he added 72 yards on seven carries against the Falcons.
His first carry, a 56-yard TD run was highlight-reel stuff. He outran Falcons cornerback Asante Samuel to the edge, eluded a would-be tackle by safety Thomas DeCoud in front of the Falcons' bench and then cut back across the field — stiff-arming cornerback Dunta Robinson at the 15 on his way to the end zone.
"They didn't want the whole thing," Ivory said when told Falcons defensive backs didn't seem interested in tackling him on that run. "(DeCoud) did try to attempt to grab the legs. That's about it. But he didn't do a great job with that. I've got some tree limbs down there."
Ivory punctuated the touchdown with an emphatic spike as more than 73,000 fans in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome roared — and wondered where he's been all this time. The answer is behind Pierre Thomas, Sproles, Mark Ingram and even undrafted free agent Travaris Cadet on the depth chart, even though there has been no clear explanation from the coaching staff for Ivory's absence.
"They just said when my number is called to just go out and give it my best," Ivory said. "(Running game coordinator Aaron Kromer) said, 'One moment you're down, and the next moment you're up and you're a star.' That was about it."
When asked whether Ivory appears to be running angry, interim coach Joe Vitt said the staff has seen him run over defenders since 2010, when he made the roster as an undrafted free agent and went on to lead the team in rushing.
"That's what he does," Vitt said. "He's one of those backs that does a great job of running behind his pads. He is one of those backs that, at his size, he can make you miss. At the same time, he can lower his pads and run over some people."
That was evident when, after stiff-arming Robinson on the first-quarter touchdown run, he ran over him — knocking him back a full 2 yards — at the end of a 13-yard screen pass in the third quarter that set up a touchdown.
That's where the aggressive running comes in, Ivory said with a smile.
"That was a perfect example," he said. "But it was a defensive back."
When asked if that counts, Ivory said it did.
"It counts just as much," he said. "For a DB, you want to take advantage of that and just let them feel your presence. If you do it enough, they don't want to tackle you."
Ivory uses his raw speed and power naturally, but Vitt said Ivory has become good at the little things, like switching the ball to the proper hand when finishing off his touchdown against the Falcons.
"Those are the little things that he's really worked on to become a better player," Vitt said. "It's fun to watch, and we're proud of him."
Saints quarterback Drew Brees likes what he has seen — "If that's the way he's going to run when he's frustrated, I hope he's really frustrated for the rest of the year," he said — and he's sure Ivory will get more opportunities, which was good news to receiver Lance Moore.
"The guy was on the bench, and we put him in and got the dust off him," Moore said Sunday. "It was exciting to see him run the ball and catch the ball. … I can't wait to see more."


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San Antonio native Lynn Eusan was only 20 years old when she made history as the first African-American homecoming queen at the University of Houston, and the first black homecoming queen at a predominantly white university in the South.
A civil rights pioneer at UH, Eusan was one of the founding members of the Afro-Americans for Black Liberation (AABL), a black-only offshoot of the university's multiracial Committee on Better Race Relations.
At the time, there were only about 1,000 black students at UH, and there was little, if any, interaction between black groups and white groups. But, despite facing death threats and being mocked by fraternity minstrel shows in blackface, Eusan's homecoming queen campaign was a joint effort by blacks and other minority students at the University of Houston.
Along with her community activism, Eusan also worked as a journalist and photographer, writing for the Voice of Hope and Houston Forward Times. In October 1971, a scholarship fund for black students studying in the field of journalism was established in her name. And in 1976, the Board of Regents named the park next to the University Hilton after Eusan.
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I keep my egg covered for peace of mind. It keeps bird droppings off, water from penetrating to the inside and hopefully keeps the metal parts (bands/bolts, etc) from rusting. The exterior on my egg does get uncomfortable to touch, but has never gotten to the point of burning me. Thats with high heat searing/both vents fully opened or high heat cleaning.
The pizza's look fantastic! I'm a big fan of the San Marzano tomatoes. Not that it makes too much difference, but if they are true San Marzano's, they will have a paper DOP label on them.


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Havant Borough Sports Awards
Location: Park Community School, Leigh Park
Havant Borough Sports Association working in partnership with Havant Borough Council is pleased to announce that the 33rd annual Sports Awards will take place on Thursday 28th February 2013.
After a fantastic Summer of sport, there has been no better time to put forward a nomination to recognise and celebrate success in one of the many categories.
The Awards will once again take place at Park Community School in Leigh Park from 7.30pm and will present to the winners and runners up of 16 categories. All applications forms need to be completed and returned by 16th December 2012.
Winners at the Havant Sports Awards will be automatically put forward to the Hampshire Sports Awards on 20th March 2012, to be hosted at Southampton Football Club.
Click here for Further information on how to nominate and to download guidelines to support you with your application.
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Earlier this week, I was working on one of the samples that we will be showing at MAX this year. The idea is to show people how to create a custom component in Java and then deploy it into the LiveCycle ES service container. The sample I needed to create has to be simple and not have any dependencies on internet access (this is a lab exercise and connectivity at large events is often spotty at best). Anyway, I decided to create a custom component that calls the JobManager API to query what instances might be in the LiveCycle ES server queue.
Just like any other service, I needed to get a handle on the current execution context so that I would use the same security context and connection factory already instantiated within the container. Basically, I need to get the exact same security context of the process that will be calling my component and use it to call JobManager as the calling user might not have permissions to query the LC ES queue. We can't be bypassing that now can we?
Anyway, after poking around for a while… I could not find any samples or documentation on it. So I talked to some of my resources (thanks Brad) and got the answer.
JobManager jm = new JobManager(ServiceClientFactory.createInstance());
In the code above, I simply create a new JobManager object and in the constructor arguments, use the ServiceClientFactory.createInstance() call. This will attempt to locate the container's context and pass it in the the ServiceClientFactory. From there, I can call any JobManager operation knowing that I will use the current user context and not bypass any security rules.
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TAMPA, Fla. – Saint Leo College alum and former Tampa Catholic baseball coach Pete Mulry, who led four state championship teams and established a dynasty that made TC one of the state's most powerful programs, has written a book titled "Conversations In the Seventh Inning Of My Life.'' In this book he interviewed 30 of his former Crusader players about the life skills they learned while competing for the iconic high-school baseball program.
The book is $15, $20 for a copy autographed by the author, and $50 for a book signed by Mulry and the former athletes interviewed. TC also will hold a book signing on Jan. 28, in which limited editions of the book, signed by all of the former players, will be available for $50. Mulry said all proceeds from his book will be donated to TC's campaign for installing lights at its baseball and softball fields. Tampa Catholic High School and Saint Leo University are both institutions under the Diocese of St. Petersburg.
"I'm in the time of my life where it's not about money or stuff,'' said Mulry, who manages a realty group in Perdido Key on Florida's Panhandle. "I've been blessed. To be honest, if Tampa Catholic didn't give me a break I probably didn't deserve, I might've been back pumping gas in New Jersey. "But they hired me as the baseball coach when I was 21 years old. I had some incredible experiences and got to coach a great group of kids. Well, those kids have grown up now and they are doing great things in the world. My idea was to show what they were doing and how their dedication to baseball and excellence got them started on the right foot.''
Mulry, a member of the first four-year graduating class at Saint Leo, was hired by TC for the 1967-68 school year, when the Crusaders first began playing their baseball games on campus. That 1968 team captured a state title under Mulry, who also guided state-title teams in 1971, 1973 and 1976. The 1973 team was named mythical national champions.
It was a career that eventually saw Mulry earn Hall of Fame honors at both Saint Leo and as a member of the inaugural class at Tampa Catholic.
Mulry said the title of his book means he has reached "the seventh-inning stretch of my life, a time to evaluate and reflect.'' Originally, he hoped to retire from his business and offer his service to TC for a year. But when Hurricane Ivan hit the Panhandle, he couldn't make that move.
A pair of his former players gave him the idea for a book. The TC players now serve as attorneys and CEOs, police officers and laborers, entrepreneurs and consultants, baseball coaches and team executives. They are different people. At the same time, they are the same people.
When Mulry had completed his work, he studied the 30 interviews. He created "common threads'' or the qualities that all of them shared. Responsibility. Teamwork. Hard work. Situational awareness. Commitment. Friendship. Discipline. Accountability. Confidence. Honesty. "I am thrilled with what these guys have done with their lives,'' Mulry said. "I am humbled that they believe the things we taught them helped to set them up for success.
"This is a story about baseball players, but I think their principles can be applied to teaching, sales, parenthood or just generally living life to the fullest. They made a lot of history at Tampa Catholic and this will be part of that history.''
And that history will help future generations of TC players, many of whom will find their way to Southard Stadium at Saint Leo. Mulry and his players learned their life's lessons on the baseball diamond. Now they are giving back.
More information on Pete Mulry, his legendary baseball career and how to purchase "Conversations in the Seventh Inning of My Life" can be found here.
The Tampa Tribune's Joey Johnston contributed to this story


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THE number of female prisoners has increased at 21 times the rate of male prisoners over the past 12 months according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Thursday.
They show the increase is due to the soaring rate of Aboriginal women in custody.
The report, Prisoners in Australia, shows the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander female prisoners rose by 20 per cent from June 30, 2011, compared with a rise of 3 per cent for non-Aboriginal women.
Prison policy expert Eileen Baldry, of the University of NSW, said the increase should be cause for alarm.
''Over the last 15 years, the rate of Aboriginal women in prison has soared,'' she said.
''That raises some interesting questions. Are Aboriginal women innately more criminal than non-Aboriginal women? No, they are not.''
She said Aboriginal women often lacked the social support afforded to the general population, while being at higher risk of domestic violence, mental or cognitive impairments, homelessness and poverty.
Dr Baldry said the rates of incarceration had increased despite warnings from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Justice that improved support mechanisms were preferable to incarceration.
''It has continued despite warnings that there should be other ways to deal with this, largely through providing support for these women,'' she said.
The statistics show the number of women in prison has increased by 48 per cent over the past decade while the number of male prisoners has risen by 29 per cent over the same period.
The director of the ABS National Centre for Crime and Justice Statistics, Fiona Dowsley, said female prisoners only made up a small proportion of the prison population - 2201 nationally.
''Females now make up seven per cent of Australia's total prisoner population,'' she said.
There are 29,383 people behind bars in Australia, an increase of 1 per cent since 2011 and 31 per cent since 2002.
Assault was the most common offence for males, accounting for 17 per cent of prisoners, followed by sexual assault which accounted for 15 per cent.
Drug-related crime was the most common reason for women ending up in jail, accounting for 17 per cent of cases, followed by assault, which accounted for 14 per cent.
Most prisoners had done time previously, with 55 per cent having served a sentence in an adult prison prior to their current spell inside.
About 80 per cent of prisoners were Australian-born with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people making up just over a quarter of the prison population.


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