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CLEARWATER — Hot-button issues like offshore oil drilling and the "Taj Mahal" courthouse are shaping up to be key in the District 50 Florida House race. Experience and knowledge of the community are playing a part as well.
And then there's the fact that the Republican incumbent has raised nearly 90 times as much campaign money as his Democratic challenger — much of it from Tallahassee-based groups.
That's just one way that a couple of very different candidates are offering voters a study in contrasts in this Clearwater-based district, which includes parts of Largo and Safety Harbor.
Ed Hooper, the incumbent and a well-known political figure in Clearwater, is seeking a third term. He's part of the House Republican leadership and has voted with the leadership on a number of contentious issues.
The low-key Hooper, 63, says his priorities are jobs, schools, affordable property insurance and tougher immigration laws. Before entering the House, he was a Clearwater city commissioner and a longtime Clearwater firefighter.
Challenger Shelly Leonard, 37, is a relative newcomer who came to Clearwater from the Seattle area three years ago. She's a social worker, single mother and cancer survivor who says the Republican-dominated Legislature is broken and corrupt.
She blasts Hooper on the subject of oil drilling off Florida's Gulf Coast, although both candidates say they're opposed to it.
On the stump, Leonard links Hooper to disgraced Republican leaders Ray Sansom and Jim Greer, and criticizes Hooper's vote to fund the infamous $48 million "Taj Mahal" court of appeals building. She calls it "another Hooper blooper."
Hooper's response: "The budget is the budget. Whether I like components of it or not, you only get to vote on one budget. You either voted 'yes' to pass the budget or you voted 'no,' which would fund no education and no criminal justice. The Taj Mahal is bad, and somebody will fix that. But you can't vote a budget down and have the government come to a screeching halt."
Campaign money
Hooper has an overwhelming fundraising advantage.
As of Sept. 24 — the most recent campaign finance reporting deadline — Hooper had raised $83,000 and spent nearly $22,000 on his campaign. In contrast, Leonard had raised $940 and spent about $600.
This leads Hooper to wonder if the Democrats really consider Leonard to be a viable candidate. "Her own party has not exactly set the woods on fire stepping up to support her financially," he said.
Leonard calls her campaign "grass roots" and adds that the Democratic Party recently paid to mail her fliers to voters.
Most of Hooper's $83,000 war chest comes from a series of 145 donations of $500, the maximum allowed. Ten of those came from Clearwater. Many came from Tallahassee organizations like Associated Industries of Florida and the Florida Home Builders Association.
Oil drilling votes
When asked if he supports oil drilling off Florida's Gulf Coast, Hooper answers, "No! I was one of very few Republicans to vote against the bill offered in the House during the 2009 session."
That's true. In a break from party unity, Hooper and other Pinellas Republicans voted against a 2009 bill that would have legalized drilling in Florida waters. The House passed it, but the Senate didn't.
But Leonard criticizes him for voting to adjourn a special legislative session in July without putting a constitutional amendment on the ballot to ban offshore drilling. "They refused to even let the people vote on it," she says.
Hooper, a deputy majority leader in the House, has a solidly Republican voting record.
In the last legislative session, he voted to require women seeking abortions in Florida to view an ultrasound of the fetus first. He voted for a bill declaring that Florida developers in urban areas would no longer have to pay for the impact of their growth on roads and traffic. He voted to make so-called "leadership funds" legal again, allowing direct, unlimited payments of cash to the House speaker and Senate president.
Hooper also has been working on health care for the poor.
He voted for the taxpayer-subsidized Florida KidCare program, which makes it easier for poor families to get health insurance for their children. He successfully fought for funding to save the Willa Carson Health Resource Center, which provides medical care to the poor in Clearwater's North Greenwood neighborhood.
Cancer survivor
As for Leonard, she isn't your typical candidate. For starters, she's a 37-year-old survivor of oral cancer.
She's divorced. Her two young sons have muscular dystrophy. She still owes money for student loans. She's been through a bankruptcy and has a negative net worth. She explains that, like most bankruptcies in the United States, hers was due to medical causes.
She's living at On Top of the World retirement community to care for an elderly aunt. Until last year she was a social worker for Gulf Coast Community Care, but she's on hiatus from work to run for office. Her priorities are jobs, schools and green energy.
"My tongue is scarred," she says, "but I have a strong voice."
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Porsche 918 Spyder Drive Detailed in Virtual Demo
Porsche's 918 Spyder redefined what fast means for a road car at the Nurburgring last month.
Even people who have been lucky enough to see one of Stuttgart's finest probably missed out on seeing what Porsche's latest video of the car shows: its guts. A virtual tour of the car was just released today offering an in-depth explanation of how the car's drivetrain works depending on which of the five modes its pilot picks.
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The rev-heads and car lovers, now all returned to the melancholy of a burnout-free reality, have been replaced by cleaners and removalists, who are busy mounting a "military operation" to return Exhibition Park to its pre-Summernats state.
A group of roughly 30 cleaners are carefully scouring the grounds, removing rubbish, debris, and other traces of the car festival.
All the infrastructure - the generators, grandstands, marquees, hoppers, cabling, fencing, barricades, concrete blocks - will be pulled out of EPIC. By Monday, all evidence of Summernats will be gone, save the tyre marks pounded into the roadways and the burnout track over the three days.
The clean-up operation, according to Summernats co-owner Andy Lopez, is a major undertaking that will take up much of the week.
"They're going to break Exhibition Park down into sectors, hit it hard, try and clean it all up, go away and do another sector and then come back and rotate through one more time," Mr Lopez said.
The festival has again been hailed as a success by organisers, attracting 101,486 visitors and 1767 entrants, a 15 per cent jump on last year's numbers.
Mr Lopez said the first days without Summernats were hard to get through, for organisers and patrons alike.
"It's funny with a festival event like the Summernats. The event is a great party and a big celebration, but it's also a reunion of friends that you don't get to see for a year, and that's on a pretty big scale," he said.
"The Monday and Tuesday after the Summernats is a melancholic and slightly sad time."
Mr Lopez said the heat had been the biggest challenge of this year's event. He said there were 32 incidents of heat stress, but organisers had put in a range of proactive measures to help revellers stay cool.
"We tried to implement some more general shade structures around the place; that was always going to be very difficult," he said.
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All vehicles go out of alignment during normal use. Though tyre replacement companies can perform re-alignments, all they generally do is ensure that the front wheels track correctly with basic equipment. This is not a totally accurate solution and can still lead to abnormal tyre wear and poor handling characteristics.
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Texas-based Permian Tank will anchor a new industrial park in the community of 5,600 people. Hiring is to begin in the spring.


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Saturday, 15 January, 2000, 10:27 GMT
The seedy side of Subic Bay
By Belinda Rhodes in the Philippines
The USS Sante Fe, a nuclear submarine carrying more than 100 crew, docked in Subic's sparkling blue bay under an enormous Philippine flag.
The old base has gradually been transformed into an industrial zone and the Santa Fe's chief of staff, by chance a Filipino American, said he was impressed with what his fellow Filipinos have made of the base.
He probably wouldn't have been quite so impressed with his crew, however, had he witnessed them, as I did, out on the town of Olongapo, beyond the old gates.
Though their activities weren't quite as wild as the old days, they were a worrying reminder of what can happen when young men with dollars to spend arrive in a poor town.
I've long been fascinated by the extraordinary social impact Subic naval base had on Olongapo, and have made many trips back since covering its closure in 1992.
This time I looked up two former prostitutes I got to know back then, Perly and Linda. They're both around 40 and have American-Asian children fathered by GIs.
They've struggled to bring them up without any financial or emotional help from the fathers, a story the slums of Olongapo can tell thousands of times.
Consigning sleaze to the history books?
Perly and Linda now work for a support group for former prostitutes so they were agitated about the USS Santa Fe. We decided to go out that night and see what its men were up to.
In the old days seedy, neon-lit nightclubs occupied almost every building in the streets immediately surrounding the base. But we didn't find any Americans here.
The new mayor of the town has vowed to consign sleaze to the history books and claims she has spies out checking the bars for signs of prostitution. But the business hasn't gone away, it's just sprung up in a village along the coast, catering mainly to tourists and Navy retirees.
'Use a condom'
Perly, Linda and I took a jeepney - a rusty cross between a military vehicle and a minibus - through the dark, humid night to that village, and there, in the Rock Lobster disco, we found a few tall, well-built men getting drunk and having fun.
A few of them were swaying about pelvis to pelvis with local women on the dancefloor. Another man, seated, was gripping a petite, long-haired woman's thighs tightly between his own, while she caressed him from baseball cap to knees.
Soon she summoned the manager. The American handed over the so-called bar fine - a sum of money split between the woman and the bar - and the couple got up.
Perly managed to grab the woman's arm before she left. "Be sure to use a condom", she said.
The woman said she had one but didn't know if she could get the customer to use it. Perly frowned. "Now there'll be another American-Asian child," she sighed.
Black stockings and cowboy boots
The next bar we visited, the Tahiti Club, upset my friends even more. At one end of the room five or six very young women in spangly bikinis were dancing halfheartedly on a stage.
Around the edges American men and a few other foreigners were seated within touching distance of the dancers.
One woman, wearing black stockings and cowboy boots looked drunk or high on drugs. She brazenly bent down close to the customers, tempting them to touch her.
Perly and Linda looked very troubled. Other scantily clad women were playing pool or darts with American men, as Perly and Linda often had in the past before being bought out for the night.
We stayed an hour or so. Perly talked to a waitress and surreptitiously took notes, while Linda, who seemed to have sunk into a low, pensive mood, simply stared towards the stage.
When we came out, well after midnight, we stood on the roadside chatting for a few minutes beneath a banner saying Welcome US Navy. Perly had learned the dancers earn just under $5 a night if they wear revealing clothes, only $3 or $4 if they wear shorts.
On our way back my companions seemed depressed. As the jeepney juddered and screeched round the bends down the hill back to Olongapo they closed their eyes as if trying to shut out the bad memories.
Perly jumped off in the town centre while Linda escorted me to my hotel. Just before we parted she asked me what I'd thought about the Tahiti Club. I searched for the right words, not wanting to offend her.
"I think it's very ... sad", I said. "Yes," she replied, "especially the young one who was drunk."
I thanked Linda, but she responded with something between a sneer and a sigh, as if thanks for such an evening were misplaced.
Filipinos are very hospitable and welcoming people, but I think my two friends at least wish they could say no to hosting any more foreign ships on their shores.
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The Art of Cinema #392
Nothing Sacred
(William A. Wellman; 1937)
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- VP81955 said...
Good to see the Swedes held no grudge against Carole for lampooning Garbo in "The Princess Comes Across" the year before.
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Bop 'im good Carole!
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Does Carole Lombard feature yet in the Sex Education series? Any still from this or Twentieth Century should do it.
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Muslim Comedians Mo Amer and Azhar Usman Come to Carolines on Broadway, 5/22-23
Two of the Western world's most popular Muslim comedians will share their original comic voices on politics, religion and life in general when they take the stage at Carolines on Broadway for the first time, May 22 and 23.
Chicago-based Azhar Usman, who achieved worldwide notoriety as co-founder of the critically-acclaimed stand-up comedy show "Allah Made Me Funny," has teamed up with Los Angeles-based Mo Amer, who was recently featured in Rolling Stone as poised to takeover the Middle East through comedy.
"Could our timing be any worse, coming so soon after the Boston Marathon bombings?" Amer asked. "I was just hoping the guy they arrested would be a white dude and not another Arab guy! I got a mixed reaction when I said that on stage, the night it happened. I wasn't making fun of the attack, but as a Muslim comedian, how could I not talk about what had just happened?"
Born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents, Amer is now a U.S. citizen and the only American comedian to have appeared on Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef's popular television show "El Bernameg" ("The Program"). Youssef, who was recently named among TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People In The World for being the "Jon Stewart of the Middle East," was recently arrested in his home country on charges of blasphemy. Although a judge later dismissed the charges, the incident troubles Amer, who is a friend of Youssef.
"I am a firm believer in freedom of speech," Amer said. "What happened to Bassem Youssef bothers me as an American, as a comedian and as a Muslim. The idea that he 'insulted Islam' is absurd. You can't insult Islam. Islam is not a person. Who's really behind these ridiculous allegations, anyway?"
Just two months after the Gulf War broke out in 1990, Amer and his family were forced to flee Kuwait as refugees. They ended up in Houston, Texas. He was inspired to become a comedian when, as a child, his brother took him to see a performance by Bill Cosby at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. He has entertained civilian audiences and U.S. troops around the world, at one point spending several nights in Saddam Hussein's former palace, after Coalition Forces had converted it into a makeshift hotel. Performing for troops has changed his perspective on the U.S. soldiers, giving him more insight into their lives and diverse attitudes while broadening his understanding of power politics and global conflict.
"When I was just starting out, my mom would say, 'Don't talk about politics! Be careful... they're gonna send us back.' Being from a culture where there was no freedom of speech, I had to overcome a lot of brainwashing. There is still some psychological damage that I am working through," Amer jokes.
Usman, meanwhile, is best known for the "Allah Made Me Funny" tour and concert film he developed and performed with tour founder, Preacher Moss. The pair began performing the show together in 2004, and Amer also performed with the show for years. Usman's standup became sharper and more provocative over time, causing CNN to call him "America's Funniest Muslim." In 2011, standup pioneer and civil rights legend Dick Gregory attended their show in Washington DC, and then commented, "Allah Made Me Funny takes you to another planet!"
Usman is also the co-creator of the interfaith comedy touring show "Make Chai Not War," which gained international attention last year when the U.S. State Department sent Usman and co-creator Rajiv Satyal (along with guest comic Hari Kondabolu), to perform in seven cities in India.
Born to Indian-American parents in Chicago, Usman was a lawyer before going into comedy. He considers himself a citizen of the world and describes himself as "intellectually White, emotionally Japanese, spiritually Indian, psychically Persian, physically Arab, artistically Southeast Asian, romantically Latino, and psychologically Black." Standup heavyweight Dave Chappelle once remarked, "Azhar Usman is untouchable." Recently, he invited both Usman and Amer to open for him in San Francisco.
"Great standup is neither didactic nor message-laden; it is honest, raw, sincere, and fearlessly truthful," Usman said. "It is these attributes that make it authentic and therefore relatable. This is the basis of being not merely funny, but hilarious, and that's the real goal for a comics' comic."
Mo Amer and Azhar Usman will perform Wednesday, May 22 at 9:00 p.m. and Thursday, May 23 at 8:00 p.m. at Carolines on Broadway, 1626 Broadway, New York, New York 10019. Tickets are $27.25. For information, call 212-757-4100 or visit www.carolines.com.
Information about Azhar Usman is available at www.azhar.com. Information about Mo Amer is available at www.funnyarab.com.


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Gardening with squirrels
To get myself excited about Spring, I typed up some thoughts on how to protect fruit and vegetable gardens from squirrels. Have a look if that relates to your life.
To get myself excited about Spring, I typed up some thoughts on how to protect fruit and vegetable gardens from squirrels. Have a look if that relates to your life.
Thanks for visiting my website. I'd be grateful if you could fill in the form below so that an email is sent to Dr Dorin Schumacher, the CEO of The Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research. CPBR copy/pasted some of my copyrighted text … and then served me with legal papers demanding I take my site down, charging me with copyright infringement). The letter is already composed so all you have to do is hit the Send button. But feel free to modify the text if you have the time and feel so moved. If you want to visit any of the links I've mentioned, they're at the bottom of this page. I'd be hugely grateful if you could get the word out to others via Facebook and Twitter…would love to flood their inbox with several thousand petitions. Would. make. my. day.
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"Designing conference posters"
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So I just paid my first legal bill for smacking down CPBR's insane claim that I violated their copyright. I had naively hoped CPBR would offer a sincere apology and pay my legal fees (because they actually plagiarized me), but they haven't. But because I know they read my blog rather carefully, I wanted to provide a way for them to privately make it up to me…so here is a link to my Wish List on Amazon, populated with some camera items that I might actually own right now if I hadn't written a large check to my lawyer. If CPBR bought everything on it, the bill would be a small fraction of what they've spent on fancy lawyers already (I'm guessing $50,000 – $100,000). CPBR is a non-profit, so you will be able to see the exact amount when they post their 2013 tax returns online.
Anyway, thanks CPBR!
Hundreds of people have been asking, so I wanted to give a quick update on the plagiarism charge brought against me by The Consortium for Plant Biotechnology (CBPR). But first, in the likely event that you haven't heard: CPBR has accused me of violating the copyright on its "Call for Preproposals," a document that is delivered to thousands of interested grant applicants each year. It has demanded that I permanently remove my "Designing conference posters" page or face over $150,000 in damages and attorney's fees. The bizarre part of all this is that CPBR's content is actually, truly, verifiably mine — they infringed upon my clearly copyrighted text and are thus using a threat of bankruptcy-via-legal-action to force me to just give it to them. Somebody at CPBR is certifiably demented or delusional, perhaps both.
The update is that CPBR has not withdrawn its "Cease and Desist All Copyright Infringement" letter that they had sent to me via their lawyer.
Just in case you doubt me when I say CPBR clearly plagiarized my text, the image below shows the similarity between my document and the relevant section in CPBR's. I highlighted phrases that are identical to phrases found on my site.
Copyright disputes are decided on primacy, of course — who wrote the text first. I created my version in 1997 for students at Swarthmore College (as part of my Evolution course), and you can see archives of my page via the Wayback Machine if you doubt me. CPBR claims to have first drafted its version in 2005. Because I wrote mine eight years before they wrote their instructions, there is no possible way I could have copied them. Zero possibility that I copied them. 100% proof that they copied me. Facts, folks! Verifiable ones, too!
I'm being frequently asked why CPBR brought infringement charges against me when their guide text was clearly taken from me. I actually don't have the slightest idea. Dorin Schumacher, the founder, CEO, most surely knows. She's been called by reporters but seems to hang up on them. But according to a reporter who tried to reach her, her voice sounded really, really angry. She clearly thought this would all go differently. CPBR is in a public relations mess that can only be fixed by doing things she really doesn't want to do. In a way, I feel for her. Sucks to be her.
That's the update, unexciting as it is. If you are an administrator at any of the CPBR member companies or universities, I'd be grateful to be alerted if my content is included in future CPBR documents in any way, even if it's pared down to short phrases. If CPBR chooses to remove my content in future "call for proposals", that's sort of admitting that they were previously infringing… so it's likely they will keep things as is. Similarly, if you are a grant applicant and attend the annual CPBR poster session in D.C., I'd be grateful to know whether my text is distributed in the how-to sessions.
UPDATE on UPDATE: According to the site tracking software that is built into WordPress, CPBR.org has read this update. Several times.
Arnold & Porter LLP is threatening me with a big lawsuit, and I am wondering if anyone could help me parse a statement their lead lawyer made in a letter on behalf of The Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research, Inc.:
CPBR owns a copyright in a document titled "2014 Competition, Bioenergy and Biomass Conversion, From Plant-Based Research to Prototype Bio-Materials, Request for Preproposals, Submission Deadline: December 14, 2012."
(The bolding is mine.) If CPBR "owns a copyright," then it seems like the title or author would have to be registered in some database at the U.S. Copyright Office. I tried searching for the title, and also for the author, but couldn't find any matches.
It would be inconceivable (to me, at least) that CPBR's lawyers didn't check the copyright status of the document. And also inconceivable that they wouldn't do a quick Google search to see whose poster hints had primacy on the internet.
Any thoughts, folks?


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After Ryan Leak overheard his girlfriend telling a friend her dream was to get proposed and married on the same day, he did just that. With the help of her Pinterest account, he gave her the surprise engagement and wedding she wanted.
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Professional anglers are businesses unto themselves. Their "corporations" require exhausting efforts — both in the office and on the water — to be successful. Ask any of the successful anglers on tour, and they'll likely tell you that there's more work than one person can complete. Their business requires their own vision as well as that of another person to handle some of the day-to-day operations, if they're ever going to reach the top.
There may be no better representation of the impact a Bass Chief Operating Officer can have on her husband's fishing career than Julie Roumbanis. The daughter of Steve Swisher, an engineer who has worked for Zebco and Lowrance, Mrs. Roumbanis had been around the fishing business most of her life.
Before meeting his wife in June 2006, Fred Roumbanis was a good angler who showed flashes of brilliance mixed with inconsistency. However, since meeting his wife, Roumbanis has amassed some $693,540 in BASS earnings, two Elite level wins and two trips to the Bassmaster Classic. As Roumbanis would agree, his wife is the $600,000 woman ... and climbing.
The impact she made was immediate. She took control of scheduling, booking travel arrangements and communications.
"Julie took all of the drama out of my career right away," said the Bixby, Okla. pro. "She took over the running of the business end so that I could focus on finding and catching fish, and she did it all herself; I didn't ask her to."
For Mrs. Roumbanis, it was a labor of love from the start. "We knew that we were going to build a life together," she said. "I saw that Fred had a God-given talent for fishing; I wanted to be a part of supporting him and building our life around his talent."
What supporting him meant to her was that she would completely free his mind from all of the day-to-day busy work so he could concentrate on fishing. Those tasks not only meant the office work and travel coordination, but also a life on the road. "Being on the road is really our 'normal' life," she said of her and the couple's three-year-old son, Jackson, who accompany Roumbanis on the road. "When we're at home, it feels more like a departure from reality."
Days start early for the Roumbanis family, as the alarm usually sounds by 4:00 a.m. They pack up the lunches and supplies into Roumbanis' Triton then take him to the launch ramp for practice or a tournament day. After he's in the water, Mrs. Roumbanis and Jackson see to the needs of the day. Sometimes they include trips to the grocery store, a tackle store or even trips to the service yard for repairs to the trailer or tow vehicle.
Following the morning's errands, they retreat to the hotel or rental house where she lays Jackson down for a nap then opens the computer for some communications work. It's during this time that she plans travel, gets directions and communicates with sponsors. In the afternoon, on tournament days she drives to the weigh-in. If it's a practice day, she picks her husband up around dusk from the boat ramp. The next day they start the whole process over again.
Some might ask why she would go through all the trouble of performing all of those duties. "We're a team. We are working together to build a life for ourselves and for Jackson," she said. "We won't ever quit on Fred, and he will never quit on us. He goes out there and fishes beyond his passion and drive, and he does it for us — to give us a life. Even when it hurts to be out there, we're in this together. I never felt like I had a special place in this world until I met Fred, and knowing that makes me want to do everything I can to help him be what I know he can be."
Roumbanis said he realizes the effort his family puts into his career and is humbled by it.
"Yes, this is an individual sport — on the water," he said. "But it's a total team effort otherwise, and I wouldn't want to be doing this any other way than with Julie and Jackson with me."


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Coach's return fortuitous for Chartiers Valley girls basketball team
The Chartiers Valley girls basketball team more or less began the 2011-12 season last May, when Colts coach Spencer Stefko was abruptly fired, only to be rehired a month later.
Throughout the obscure, gone-and-here-again process, Chartiers Valley's players attended a school board meeting sporting black T-shirts with "Team Stefko" on the back and professed support for their coach, who has led them to a 108-41 record and four section titles since he was hired in 2006.
"Ever since our coach got fired, we wanted to show everybody that him getting fired really didn't have anything to do with anything," junior Mariah Wells said. "He's a great role model, and him getting ripped away from us really made us (upset). We all love him, and we didn't want to see him go."
Buoyed by the return of a coach who never really left, the Class AAA No. 3 Colts have won 18 of their 20 games and locked up the Section 5 title with Monday's 63-22 drubbing of McGuffey.
The nine-member Chartiers Valley school board voted unanimously to remove Stefko from his post May 10 but declined to elaborate, citing its policy to not comment on personnel decisions.
While the entire situation was shrouded in mystery — Stefko insists he still hasn't been told exactly why he was instructed to cancel all scheduled open gyms and have his belongings packed by the end of the school day — the fact that his players and their parents went to bat for him provided Stefko with some much-appreciated assurance.
"The coaching position was open, and they asked for the coach they wanted," Stefko said. "I told them at the beginning of the year, 'You asked for this. And as far as I'm concerned, that's a green light to push you as much as you need to be pushed.'
"They've really responded to that."
According to Stefko, his team has been chameleonic — able to win close games, blowouts, defensive games and shootouts, all with equal aplomb.
Chartiers Valley has scored between 41 and 50 points six times, 51 to 60 points eight times, and 61 or more six times. Moreover, the Colts' average margin of victory has been between one and 10 points six times, 11-20 points three times, 21-30 points six times and 31 or more three times.
"We can win a lot of different ways," sophomore guard Kassidy O'Keefe said.
Chartiers Valley, which relies almost exclusively on underclassmen, doesn't have anyone who's off the charts statistically — just the way Stefko wants it. Wells leads the way with 11.5 points per game, and sophomore Jenna Devinney isn't far behind at 11.3.
Six-foot-3 sophomore Kristin McGeough is pulling down a team-best 11.9 rebounds, and senior guard Kristen Castello is tops with 3.8 assists. But the biggest number has been the win total, something that has increased steadily since Stefko arrived.
"He's a big part of our team," said O'Keefe, who's averaging 10.1 points and 4.4 rebounds. "He helps support us, so we felt it was our job to support him and try to help get him back. We went to the meetings and fought for his job because we knew we needed him this year, and that brought us all together."


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I agree that if Google Editions offers online-only books - it's impact will be greatly reduced.
In a nutshell, I reckon:
Anything that encourages the ePub format, and brings it a step closer to being the accepted standard (hello, Amazon!?) is a good thing. GE will do that.
Another player in the market – especially one with the clout of the G-men – must encourage price competition.
Inter-device sharing is a VERY good thing. The less locked, DRM-laden devices and platforms the faster the takeup of ebooks in general – a very good thing. It also encourages more competiton, in hardware ebook software and the ebooks themselves.
If Google stand by their "open" stance on books, I wouldn't expect DRM on these books, but they may be web-only. I think that would greatly diminish the power of the store. Although web-only books make sense for Google, since Chrome is very web-centric, and there are rumours of a Google tablet, which is a guaranteed Chrome device.
Don't rule out those wily engineers from Mountain View coming up with some other way to allow reasonable cross-device sharing, but discourage rampant distribution of books. Some sort of built-in time-limit timebomb (like libraries use). I don't know.I
I don't know how long Amazon can swim against the ePub tide. If you own a Kindle, I'd say firmware update 2.8 or 3.0 might include ePub support.
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The Federal Reserve's policy makers may look like a happy united family, but disagreements about future monetary maneuvers are surfacing.
William Dudley, president of the New York Fed and Vice Chairman Janet Yellen agree than keeping interest rates fixed near zero percent until 2014 is needed to give the economy more time to recover.
Others like Charles Plosser, the Philadelphia Fed president say future stimulus should be linked to how the economy performs, not to a calendar. Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart and the St. Louis Fed president James Bullard don't think more easing is needed.
From 2008 to 2011, the Fed gobbled up $2.3 trillion in bonds via two acrobatic rounds of something called "quantitative easing" or "QE." That was the easy part. How does the Fed exit the party without anyone noticing?
Who are these People?
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is the monetary policymaking body of the Federal Reserve System. The FOMC is composed of 12 members, which consists of the seven members of the Board of Governors and five of the 12 Reserve Bank presidents.
This imperfect arrangement shows what a delicate balancing act the Fed truly has. Level headed financial opinions by Fed members with a disciplined fiscal sense are canceled out by the liberal free spending Keynesian members. Lockhart is a voting member on the FOMC this year and Bullard and Plosser are not.
The Fed's plan of redeploying $400 billion of short-term cash into long-term U.S. Treasuries (NYSEArca:TLT - News) won't be completed until June, yet financial markets are already begging for QE3. Will the Fed give the market another injection?
Unintended Beneficiaries
Although the broader economy has always been the Fed's intended target (that's what they tell us), financial markets, particularly high risk areas, have been the obvious beneficiaries.
"Risk on" trades in emerging market stocks (NYSEArca:EEM - News), junk bonds (NYSEArca:HYG - News), and small company stocks (NYSEArca:IWM - News) have enjoyed big gains. The $1 billion sale of Instagram to Facebook has the entire venture capital circuit in a frenzied state. But it's a double edged sword and high risk areas are showing some fatigue.
Over in China (NYSEArca:FXI - News), gross domestic product (GDP) increased a disappointing 8.1% during the first quarter from a year ago and fell short from the 8.4% median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg.
Distorted Markets
Whenever there's a sell-off, financial markets fret about the chances of more future monetary intervention by the Fed. And like an ill-mannered child, they throw a hissy fit if they think they're not going to get what they want. A psychologist would say financial markets have the same symptoms as the depressing state of a person addicted to drugs. Although the victim may feel well after their fix, the after effects are mortal.
The Fed's exit strategy from trillion dollar stimulus plans is becoming harder and harder because financial markets have become more and more addicted. The ETF Profit Strategy newsletter shows you how to navigate the treacherous waters of Fed manipulated markets along with simple income strategies used by large institutions.
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I love these tops! They are Gorgeous romantic designs that at the same time would make you feel feminine, flirty, whimsical, and cute!
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>General Running>Possible to be competitive/PR with this arrangement?
I know a guy who smoked a pound of weed a week and ran a 4:45 mile wearing high tops in gym class.
Runners run.
Oddly, I did set my 5K PR after this last marathon training cycle. I also set a 10K PR in the 10 Miler I referenced above, which is why I mentioned poor race strategy. For me, it seems like an hour of racing is about all my legs can muster that soon after a hard effort.
2 weeks after my 1'st successful BQ attempt I raced a 5k that was sort of okay, and the next day a half that was an abject effing disaster. I couldn't even hold the pace I'd just run in the marathon 2 weeks prior. I imagine with 2 more weeks it might have been a little better, but probably not much. I'd pick the half beforehand, no question.
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it's the fight in the dog. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
My blog is JT Running DC. It's awesome.
I am shooting to do the Houston Marathon this January. I have half marathon scheduled that I would like to do a month later that I would like to be somewhat competitive in. I haven't signed up for either because I don't want to sabotage myself for the Feb race. Has anyone hit a HM a month after a Marathon and had little drop off?
I ran my first marathon in Nov. 2012 (did a 3:56, which met my time goal of less than 4:00). I didn't really resume any focused training after that - just did random runs based on feel and whim. Exactly a month after my marathon, I did a HM just because a bunch of friends were doing it, and I crushed my old PR by 6 minutes (got a 1:44:11). YMMV.


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Marshmallow Magic
The front reads "Marshmallow Magic" and shows a magician made out of marshmallows holding a magic hat from which he draws a sherbet full of marshmallow magic. Single sheet folded almost in half and then vertically three more times. The back reads, "4 Air-Tight Pack-ettes In the Economy Pound Package of Campfire Marshmallows." Single sheet folded almost in half and then vertically three more times.View this piece: jpg pdf
Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker
Brand Name: Angelus-Campfire Marshmallows
Publisher: Angelus-Campfire Co. (Chicago, Ill.)
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The mother of a woman gunned down in an Augusta nightclub last year is suing the club, its owners and the two men charged with the homicide of Ashley Brown.
The suit filed June 6 asks to award Beverly Robinson for the "full value" of Brown's life at a price to be determined by a jury. Brown was 26 when she was fatally shot in the head Sept. 15 outside Club 5150 at 2864 Deans Bridge Road.
In October a prosecutor at a bond hearing said a fight involving Robert Leverett Wright and Dachavous Murphy broke out at the club that night. The pair left the club and returned minutes later; Wright was driving, and Murphy fired from the car's window at a crowd, Assistant District Attorney John O'Neal said.
One of the bullets hit Brown, who was celebrating a friend's birthday that night.
The lawsuit names Murphy and Wright as defendants, along with club co-owners Chartara Newman, Tavaras Jones and the property owner, William E. Walker III. It accuses them of negligence, nuisance, negligent homicide and wrongful death.


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John L. Smith: Twitter Reacts to Arkansas Coach's Outrageous Press ConferenceSeptember 19, 2012
When you are a prestigious SEC football program that starts the season ranked in the Top 10, you are going to be scrutinized for everything that you do.
Arkansas head football coach John L. Smith is the face of the program, for better or for worse. Right now, there is a lot more of the latter, as the Razorbacks have limped out of the gate to a 1-2 start, including a shocking defeat to Louisiana-Monroe and a humiliating loss to Alabama.
Most coaches would be searching for answers, which Smith surely is; he wants the media to keep its spirits up. In fact, to quote the coach himself, he just wants everyone to smile.
That was the message Smith delivered to the media at his weekly press conference on Tuesday, which led to some interesting reactions from fans and analysts on Twitter.
Lewis Hale, a self-proclaimed Razorbacks fan, was not too happy with what he heard from Smith and what it meant for the university in the grand scheme of things.
Just saw John L smith rambling like an idiot on @espn way to make our state an university look like crazy rednecks #smh #wps— Lewis Hale (@T_Bagga) September 19, 2012
That's an overreaction, as he didn't make anyone look like rednecks. He gave the world a soundbite to use forever, while just making himself look like a fool.
Patrick Woo, who works as a college football analyst, posed an interesting question to Arkansas sports writer Chris Bahn after seeing the press conference with the now-infamous quote.
@cbahn is it bad that I just can't stop watching the John L Smith "SMILE!" video over and over again?— Patrick Woo (@P_Woo) September 19, 2012
This is what Arkansas needs to embrace. It's not likely that Smith will be around long, but at least he gave the world a viral sensation that can last for a long, long time.
Matthew Marvin, who would appear to just be a sports fan venting, wonders what Arkansas saw in Smith when he was hired, aside from the fact that the university needed someone for the gig.
I realize they were crunched on time. But there had to be somebody better than John L. Smith for Arkansas to hire!— Matthew Marvin (@MMarvin22) September 19, 2012
It's of little comfort to Arkansas fans right now, but you just have to look at Smith as a body that is holding a place until someone better comes along. Bobby Petrino's ordeal put the program in a bad situation, which left it no time to dig itself out.
Self-described "Wonderboy" Seth Allen feels that the Arkansas program is becoming more of a mockery than anything else, which seems to upset him.
JOHN L. SMITH WE DO NOT NEED TO GIVE PEOPLE ANY MORE REASON TO LAUGH AT US #IDIOT— Seth Allen (@SethBrayAllen) September 19, 2012
People are laughing at Smith, if that helps, Seth. Plus, if you are going to go down, why not go down in a blaze of glory?
ESPN Dallas radio host Ted Emrich has a word of advice for anyone thinking about talking to Smith in the future.
But remember, you better smile or else John L. Smith won't talk to you.— Ted Emrich (@tedemrich) September 19, 2012
That's good advice for us all. We all take these things so seriously. It makes sense to let go and crack a smile when you can.
Finally, what better way to conclude Smith's hilariously over-the-top performance with the media than with a simple thought from the world-renowned SEC Logo that pretty much sums up what we are all thinking.
John L Smith is a weird dude...— The SEC Logo (@SEC_Logo) September 19, 2012
Smith is in a no-win situation right now. He knows and everyone around him knows it, so he has to do what he can to make it at least a relatively pleasant environment. He could be like Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine and alienate everyone on his team, so be grateful for the little things.
And don't forget to smile.


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New Zealand Lawyers Are on the Move
New Zealand Lawyers Are on the Move
AUCKLAND, 26 March 2013 – In a big shift from 12 months ago, the New Zealand legal sector is increasingly using mobile devices for work, with almost half using a company issued device, 18 per cent bringing their own device to work, and the remainder are using a mixture of the two, according to a LexisNexis survey of leading New Zealand legal professionals.
Undertaken at the recent NZ LAW conference in February, the survey shows that NZ Law members are using mobile devices for submitting information (100 per cent), referencing legal books (63 per cent), searching for specific legal information (63 per cent), capturing their own notes (58 per cent) and accessing commentary (17 per cent).
The respondents declared mobile devices most helpful for increasing productivity (40 per cent), saving time (30 per cent), increasing communication (20 per cent) and saving money (10 per cent).
"As mobile technology, digital books and social media cross over through advances in technology; it is changing how people work. When you combine the time consuming requirements of the legal profession; the referencing and research, a range of very exciting possibilities emerge that will increase productivity, save time and money," says Rachel Travers, LexisNexis Pacific executive director, content development.
In response to this demand from these increasingly mobile legal professionals, LexisNexis Pacific has developed LexisNexis® Red™, the world's first mobile digital referencing tool designed specifically for legal practitioners that is set to revolutionise the way lawyers work, both in and out of the office.
Developed locally in partnership with legal professionals from across New Zealand and Australia, LexisNexis Red allows lawyers and legislators to carry and instantly access the most up-to-date legal research and reference materials via their iPad, laptop and desktop computer, whether they are online or offline.
This world-first technology features advanced search, referencing and annotation functionality using hyperlinked indices, dynamic tables of contents, bookmarking and recent history, and provides access to a substantial proportion of looseleaf titles; eBooks and additional content to be released later this year.
In addition, looseleaf content is updated automatically when a user is connected to the internet, ensuring information is current and correct, as well as reducing significant filing and tracking time for legal practitioners.
Perhaps more than any other profession, the law revolves around words, reading material and research. The way in which it is accessed and utilised will continue to evolve due to advances in technology.
"We have learned that the need to be mobile is very important," says Travers. "Practitioners want to access information in court, the office, on the move, in down time and at client's offices, without having to be online. So eBooks and legal content is highly desirable on mobile devices. From legislation and cases, to dictionaries, alerts, and newsletters – it will all be mobile soon."
Alan Hay, executive officer at NZ LAW agrees: "Mobile devices are inevitable, so combining them with applications that can help increase productivity and efficiency is only obvious."
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Makeover on Cypress Street
Four houses for homeless veterans on Cypress Street in Moon Township, Pa., got an "extreme makeover" for their kitchen areas – courtesy of a Pittsburgh-based company, Wyatt, Inc. The houses are owned, operated and maintained by The Pennsylvania American Legion Housing for Homeless Veterans, Inc. "The Pennsylvania American Legion formed The Homeless Corporation in 1987 and purchased four homes to have as transitional housing for homeless veterans," said American Legion Past National Commander Ron Conley, who is manager of veterans affairs for Allegheny County. "Today, we have four homes in Moon Township, one home in Ephrata, Pa., and one home in Philadelphia." The house in Philly recently won an online contest for a $45,000 makeover, sponsored by Home & Garden Television (HGTV). Votes from Legionnaires around the world helped the home win the contest. On April 18, a Wyatt, Inc., truck arrived on Cypress Street, and volunteers immediately went to work renovating the four kitchen units. Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., said Wyatt worked all day to show their gratitude for local men and women who have served in the military. The Wyatt company had approached Murphy and asked him to help facilitate a community project that would help veterans. "I commend and thank Wyatt for making the remodeling project a reality for the Cypress Street homeless veterans," Murphy said. "Wyatt, and all the volunteers who worked to complete this project, have honored our area veterans by donating both labor and materials." About 30 volunteers – all Wyatt employees – pitched in to remodel the four kitchens, installing new doors, cabinets, fixtures, sinks and floors. "We just appreciate the opportunity to help improve the lives of those who have served our country," said Fred Episcopo, president of Wyatt, Inc. VA medical staff attend to the physical and mental well-being of the tenants, Conley said. "We've given an opportunity to more than 400 homeless veterans to become productive citizens," he said.


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A DOG owner has been left "devastated" after her two pets were shot dead by a Leigh Sinton farmer when they fled boarding kennels while she was on holiday.
June Roden put one-year-old Millie and three-year-old Benson into Brookend Boarding Kennels, but the dogs escaped whilst playing in a field.
They were shot dead by a farmer who hit them in the chest to protect his livestock.
She had been on holiday with her husband Chris in Spain when she received a heartbreaking call from kennel staff informing her of the dogs' death.
"We're just devastated and we couldn't believe it," she said.
"They were just gorgeous dogs and a big part of our home life."
She added the pets had not been discovered missing by kennel staff until 20 minutes after they had escaped, prompting an investigation by Worcestershire Regulatory Services (WRS), which is responsible for dog wardens and licensing.
Les Childs, owner of the kennels, said he was distraught by what had happened.
"My wife and I were deeply upset," he said. "We've seven acres of ground here. We are still not sure how they managed to get out. It's just been really tragic.
"60,000 dogs have used that field and over the eight years we've been here there's been no incidents. I just can't imagine how she must be feeling.
"They did sign to say that their dogs could go off lead and go into fields.
"They were aware that one of the dogs continually jumped the fence and they still brought their dogs to us after that. We do everything we can to make sure the dogs are safe."
Mrs Roden, who lives in Kidderminster, said in a previous stay at Brookend Kennels it was discovered that Millie could jump the gate in the exercise field but she came straight back when called.
She said: "I was concerned but knew, as long as they accompanied the dogs, they would not run off."
Andy Ferguson, WRS central operations manager said: "Worcestershire Regulatory Services is investigating the events that led up to the shooting.
"Once the facts have been established we will decide what action, if any, should be taken."
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Restaurant Recycling Program Honored
COLUMBUS, Ohio
Columbus mayor Michael Coleman honored 34 bars and restaurants on High Street Wednesday night.
The bars and restaurants all participate in a recycling pilot program, "Recylcing on High."
Restaurants receive free carts, promotional materials, and hauling three times a week.
The goal of the pilot is to find solutions to the unique needs of businesses attempting to recycle in traditionally challenging areas. L
It was part of the city's "GreenSpotLight" awards, honoring people helping make the city more environmentally friendly.
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Purpose-built Boominator PCB project
The "cAMP" purpose-built Boominator amplifier will be available soon from Canopy Sound!
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Saturnus's Boominator project is awfully nice, and I'm currently working on a smaller version of it to use as a solar powered camping stereo.
I've decided to make my own custom PCB for running it, with features that would be hard, impossible or impractical to do by combining pre-bought pieces. It will provide the following:
- Class D amplification for playing music from MP3 players, cellphones, CD players, etc.
- MPPT-tracking, solar battery charger. Set up for 12V SLA batteries in my application, but capable of doing lithium ion with resistor changes.
- Able to charge from an external AC adapter also.
- Battery protection. Everything shuts off if the battery gets too low.
- A 5V USB port or two for charging phones, MP3 players, etc.
The audio section will consist of:
- A stereo audio receiver that's tolerant of ground loops, so you can charge the device you're playing audio from without hearing charging noise.
- An Analog Devices SigmaDSP chip. This will perform volume control with a pot acting as a volume knob, equalization, noise gating, bass/stereo enhancement, crossovers for bi-amping, any number of other things to make the stereo sound better.
- Four total class D amplifier channels, each set up for driving 4 ohms, but capable of 8 ohms with inductor/capacitor changes. I'm planning to bi-amp the woofers/tweeters in my stereo, but you could use external crossovers instead and double the output power.
Right now I'm nailing down the parts list, mechanical form factor, etc. I'm designing this project in Eagle, and I'll share the design files under a CC license when it's done.
I won't say "group buy" just yet, but if enough people are interested in such a thing when the design is done, it could be arranged. Right now, this thread is intended to be a design log more than anything.
Sounds great! Big project. Can't wait to see what you come up with.
With the DSP, it wouldn't be to hard to add a digital input, right?
Sounds great. I designed a Class D power stage with TI components. But I found so difficult to build a high end feature-rich volume control circuit. And I'm interested in your volume control design. Share it with us once you are finished
Best wishes brother.
Digital input wouldn't be too hard to add. Requires a SPDIF receiver and an ASRC chip, which can be done with something like a TI SRC4382 chip, or by using a different SigmaDSP chip which implements SPDIF/ASRC bits.
Though, for what I'm using it for, I don't have any plans of adding such a feature. Nothing I plan on carrying into the woods has a digital output...
For form factor I'd recommend something that fits into a Hammond 1590N case as that is what is recommend for the Boominator. That's because the width is given by the battery's width, 66mm, and the length is limited by the space available between cooling cut outs. Typically around 122mm.
So a board size of max 60x115mm and total internal height of max 33mm including stand-offs.
I was originally planning on putting all the "user interface" stuff (enable switches, USB connector, audio input, DC charger input, volume knob) on one end of a circuit board, and a screw type terminal block on the other side for solar, battery, and audio connections.
The board would be bolted upside down to the underside of the top of the enclosure, between the two speaker enclosures and above the battery. For a more protected install, it could be bolted to a bent metal plate which provides a user interface "panel". The size of the card would match a 12V/7AH SLA battery.
I'll toss the idea together in Sketchup sometime.
Mounting a card like this in a 1590N style case is possible, but it's a bit hard to knock holes in a plastic hobby case while making it look good.
Are you planning a MOSFET / relay based system for the low voltage cutoff?
more details! :D
Here's the tentative parts list:
- Linear LT3652 MPPT solar charger IC.
- 2 x Analog Devices ADAU1592 class D amplifier IC
- ADAU1701 SigmaDSP chip + self-boot EEPROM + 24M oscillator.
- 12V-5V switching regulator for USB output.
- 12V-3.3V switching regulator for SigmaDSP, op-amps, etc.
- Low-Iq linear regulator/reference and low power comparator handling low battery shutdown.
- A couple of toggle switches to enable USB power and audio.
- A couple of LEDs to indicate charge state, a low battery shutdown condition, etc.
To configure the DSP, you'll need to construct a Ponyprog or similar device that can program an I2C EEPROM, and download a copy of SigmaStudio from Analog Devices to set up the processing configuration and generate a programming image.
The 1590N is a watertight aluminium enclosure. The casing itself will provide all the cooling you need.
Tell you what for use in the Boominator following limitation must be met:
- the casing must be aluminium, or otherwise adequate cooling must be reach by other means while observing the below requirement.
- the casing must be watertight, this includes all contacts and switches that might be on the case
- the casing must be absolute maximum 66x61x122mm in size.
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September 02, 2010
The story is familiar to anyone who saw Sandra Bullock's acceptance speech at the Oscars: A troubled young man is struggling to raise himself in a rough American inner city, and gets into trouble. He's taken in by a family only miles away from his turbulent upbringing in a setting that seems years apart. There's only two differences between Shawn Conway's story and "The Blind Side": Conway is in Detroit, not Memphis, and unlike Michael Oher, who protected his quarterback's blind side on the offensive line, Conway is protecting his quarterback's reputation as a wide receiver with size and speed.
A feature in the Detroit News describes how Conway was taken in by Seaholm High School head coach Chris Fahr in a last-ditch effort to keep the receiver from being expelled from the suburban Birmingham (Mich.) high school. Fahr's wife, Andrea, agreed to take in the 6-foot-4, 190-pound receiver after she learned that Conway's mother was in a Florida prison and his two sisters were in foster homes. Conway had previously lived with a grandmother and was virtually unsupervised, running the streets of Detroit before transferring out to suburban Birmingham to attend Seaholm with his cousin Richaud Pack (Pack now plays basketball for Florida International).
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When Conway lived with the Pack family, he still found himself away from day-in, day-out supervision, and eventually slipped back into the habits that had got him by on his own in Detroit. He was caught on tape stealing money from another student's locker, and the Seaholm principal considered expelling him.
Instead, Fahr said he would become a legal guardian for his receiver after his wife and two daughters, 15-year-old Alexandria and 11-year-old Sydney, agreed. The move may be the most important one yet in Conway's turbulent life.
"Yeah, in a way I felt like being caught changed my life," Conway [told the Detroit News]. "If I wasn't caught, I probably would not be in this situation here. I would be doing the same thing I was doing. [...]
"I feel like I am more like a son and actually part of the family. There are no blood differences or anything. I feel like I am at home."
Fahr has been instrumental in turning Conway's life around off the field and on it. Conway arrived at Seaholm predominantly as a jump-ball, deep-route receiver, but Fahr saw potential for Conway to be more consistent on short routes. After a little tutoring, the receiver in 2009 grabbed 38 receptions and six touchdowns, more than he'd ever had at Cass Tech and Cody High School during his first two seasons. He kicked off his 2010 season on an even more impressive note, scoring two touchdowns and racking up 170 yards in a 26-6 rout of North Farmington last Friday.
Conway participated in Michigan's 7-on-7 camp over the summer, drawing interest from the school's coaching staff. Fahr sent them a tape, and weeks later Conway and his coach made an official visit to Ann Arbor. By the end of the day, Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez offered him a scholarship, and the receiver accepted.
"Oh yeah, I am going to take advantage of it," Conway said. "I plan on staying at the University of Michigan for as long as they want me. You don't have to worry about that. All that other stuff is behind me now."
The gains on the field are dwarfed by what Conway claims he's gained off it. Last summer, the Fahrs drove their new family member down to Florida to see his mother in prison, trying to provide a bridge between his new family and the one he already had. Conway hadn't seen his mother in two years, and as soon as he was with her, the receiver broke down sobbing.
"He is a kid," Andrea Fahr [told the Detroit News]. "You could see that. I mean he just broke down. He was just a kid who saw his mom for the first time in two years. I just feel like him being with us that he does not have to put up this tough-guy front. When he starts to get tough, I get on him.
"I am not his mom, but I am playing the part. ... I am trying to do everything possible his senior year to make sure his mom stays connected to him. I am sending pictures and articles and things to her that I don't even tell Shawn. We respect that he has a mom and a dad. We are just honored to be able to take care of him, mentor him and be his parents for now."
And just like the Tuohys in Memphis, Conway's new family feels like it's gained something as well. Here's what Chris Fahr told the Detroit News about Conway.
"People ask, why would I do this? Why would I put my family in this situation?
"I personally made life tougher for me. There are a lot of people who don't like this. But I know where he was headed and I know where he would be five years from now if I did not do this. You might be able to live with yourself with the consequences. I can't. [...]
"It has been a real blessing," the coach said. "I never had a son. Him moving in has been a great dynamic for the family. He is very energetic and there is never a dull moment."
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By Gene McGivern
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Another busy sports weekend is here for St. Thomas varsity teams. Seven Tommy teams will compete this weekend.
The Tommy baseball team, ranked No. 1 nationally in NCAA Division III, hosts Carleton Saturday (1 p.m.) in two seven-inning games on the north campus diamond. The Tommies' final home game will be Monday vs. Concordia-St. Paul (3:30 p.m.) in one nine-inning game. UST took a 22-4 record into Thursday's doubleheader at Macalester.
The Tommy softball team, ranked No. 24 nationally in Division III, hosts St. Ben's Saturday (1 p.m) in two seven-inning conference games on the south campus diamond. The Tommies' final home games will be May 5 vs. St. Catherine. The Tommies took a 24-6 record into Thursday's doubleheader vs. Bethel.
The UST men's tennis team plays its final home dual match Friday vs. Bethel (4 p.m.), then plays Saturday at St. Olaf (11:30 a.m.). The winner of the UST-St. Olaf match has the inside track on second place in the final MIAC standings behind Gustavus.
The Tommy men's and women's track and field teams are also busy. The women had Kelly Faris running Thursday evening in the prestigious Drake Relays in Des Moines. The men's team also will have some competitors Friday and Saturday at the Drake Relays. Most of the Tommy track athletes will compete Saturday — the women's team at Macalester, and the men's team at St. John's.
In golf, the Tommy women's team will compete Friday and Saturday in the Minnesota state meet in the Mankato area, while the men's team will be in St. Cloud Sunday and Monday for the St. John's Invite.
The UST women's tennis team completed its dual season Thursday. The Tommies will try to wrap up a second-place conference finish at the May 4-5 MIAC Championships in Northfield.


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The fact that Microsoft and its partners are so touchy about letting journos touch their touchscreen products says that a) these RT tablets, snaplets, and fliplets are not quite as fully baked as Microsoft wants the world to think, and b) the Web publishing world desperately needs an irony font.
Let's face it. In an era of flat if not declining PC sales, hardware OEMs are looking for any foothold against the iProducts onslaught, which will only get worse once Apple unveils its new iPad Mini -- or whatever Tim Cook and company end up calling it -- later this fall. So they're grasping at anything that suggests a bit of flash or excitement, throwing it against the wall, and hoping it sticks.
And if they succeed? Then we'll have to call them sticklets.
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THOSE in favour of a constitutional monarchy often argue that its key virtue, over an elected president, lies in the fact that the monarch is above politics, not put in place by the shifting whim of an electorate, not sullied by the arguments of daily life. That is why they can represent the British people at home and abroad without causing offence or division.
Such an argument becomes untenable if the monarchy makes political remarks that impact negatively on the nation as a whole. Prince Charles's remarks comparing Russia with the Nazis were unacceptable; in making them he has provoked tensions between this nation and Russia. That is precisely why we pay the monarchy not to venture opinions.
Of course, the hypocrisy of the Daily Mail was much in evidence too. While protesting loudly that the prince must have the right to make private remarks, it was the Mail that ensured that those remarks were not private but were instead broadcast around the world.
Lest the Mail's inglorious history be forgotten, in the 1930s the Daily Mail and its former proprietor Lord Rothermere used the paper to praise the Nazis, Mussolini, and Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists.
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Two news stories this week gave me cause to reflect on the wisdom of Warren Buffett's decision to base himself in Omaha, Nebraska, far from the chatter of Wall Street.
Both stories showed the danger for investors of the modern world's slavish attention to breaking news. When Reuters started using carrier pigeons and the telegraph in the mid-19th century, information really did give investors a competitive advantage. Today, we have access to more data than is good for us.
The first story was about the IMF's embarrassing U-turn on its widely-scrutinised global economic assessment. Briefing the G20 this weekend, the IMF admitted that when it said in April that the emerging world was strong and Europe weak, it should have said the opposite; when it said that the US should rein in its fiscal tightening, it might better have said that the American economy would stay robust in the face of rising taxes; and when it said the UK should back off from austerity, it could really have presented Britain as a template for others to follow.
The charitable interpretation of the IMF's revision is that the facts have changed in the past four months. The less favourable conclusion is that no one, not even well-resourced and pointy-headed analysts, has much idea what is going on. The obvious corollary is that an investment approach that relies on the predictions and forecasts that make the headlines is doomed to fail.
The second story was about the market's increasingly confident bet that Mark Carney has got it wrong about the timing of the turn in the interest rate cycle.
Investors are now so confident about the UK's economic recovery that they have pencilled in higher rates nearly two years sooner than the Bank of England expects. What this suggests is that even when we have information we think we can rely on, there is not necessarily any agreement on what it actually means.
This reflects a well-known feature of behavioural psychology, the tendency to ascribe greater importance to information that is close to hand or recent. The difference between the market's view and the Bank's is simply one of interpretation, with investors giving more weight to recent positive news on the economy than the Bank is prepared to do. A further complication for investors when it comes to analysing the news is deciding how much is already factored into the price.
Take the IMF's comments on emerging markets, for example. The relative performances of emerging markets and those in the developed world, have been pointing to the problems just highlighted by the IMF for a good couple of years now. It's been a similar story in Japan this year. By the time the improving news on the economy was beginning to show in the numbers, the stock market had long since priced it in. As Jimmy Goldsmith famously said, when you see a bandwagon, it's too late.
Actually, it's more complex than this. The problem for investors is that very often, at the individual stock level, good news is not built into valuations for some time after it has become publicly available. Especially at the smaller end of the size spectrum, the market is just not that efficient.
This means that contrary to markets as a whole, where it can be better to travel than to arrive, good company news can trigger sustained outperformance as investors slowly accept the improved outlook.
This might sound like a counsel of despair for investors, but it shouldn't. Awareness of the limitations of knowledge is actually strangely liberating when it comes to managing your investments.
If you accept the folly of forecasting, you can concentrate on the facts, relying, for example, much more on a 10-year record of dividend growth than a broker's earnings forecast for the next couple of years.
If you accept that timing the cycles is bound to fail, you will invest according to the long-term, inevitable themes, such as demographic change, and less on what organisations such as the IMF think might happen this year.
You will make sure that you are well-diversified because you will accept that neither you, nor anyone else, really knows what is around the corner. You might even move to Omaha.
Tom Stevenson is head of investment writing at fund manager Fidelity