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The Willits City Council voted 2-3 not to follow the rest of the county's ban on disposable plastic bags. Mayor Holly Madrigal and Councilwoman Madge Strong were the two votes in favor of the ordinance.
This followed on the heels of Tuesday's emergency vote by the board of supervisors temporarily modifying the county's plastic bag ordinance for all businesses within 25 miles of Willits. Supervisors lifted the county's requirement forcing customers to pay 10 cents each for paper bags for the next six months. The board determined this requirement created an unfair economic disadvantage for business such as Geiger's in Laytonville.
The cities of Fort Bragg and Ukiah have a similar ordinance in place, banning disposal carryout bags and requiring businesses to charge 10 cents for all paper bags provided to store customers.
The 10-cent payment is the actual estimated cost of the paper bag and is considered to be a needed disincentive to encourage customers to switch to reusable bags, according to Mendocino Solid Waste Management Authority General Manager Mike Sweeney.
Strong requested the proposed ordinance be brought before the Willits council. The proposal was mirrored on the Fort Bragg, Ukiah and Mendocino County ordinances.
Sweeney told the council his agency would draft a similar ordinance for Willits as well as any environmental review required by the California Environmental Quality Act at no cost to the city. Sweeney's only request was for the city to provide clear direction of support to him before spending his agency's resources.
Councilman Ron Orenstein was on a Willits council's ad hoc committee studying this issue last year. He voiced strong opposition to the proposed ordinance, stating it did not go far enough and would only substitute on pollutant for another.
Orenstein instead proposed the council ban all disposable bags and require businesses to sell cheap reusable bags instead.
Councilman Larry Stranske was opposed to the requirement forcing businesses to charge customers for paper bags.
Sweeney spoke in detail about the 60 other coastal area communities in California that had already banned disposable plastic bags.
Councilman Bruce Burton did not believe ordinances of this nature were the role of local government.


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Wessels Library is home to the campus learning center with peer tutors available from Sunday through Friday and a Writing Center to assist students with their written work across the curriculum. Computers are available in the library with Wi-Fi access throughout campus. The libraries printed collection of books and reference volumes spans three floors of the facility. Additionally, Wessels Library provides online access to a broad range of resources available 24/7 to the entire campus community.

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This week in Disney history ….
Feb. 6, 2009: The "it's a small world" ride reopens after a major refurbishment, which includes the addition of Disney characters and an American-inspired theme.
Feb. 6, 1985: Disneyland begins year-round, seven days-a-week operation. Before, Disneyland was traditionally closed on Monday and Tuesday during the off season.
Feb. 8, 2001: Disney California Adventure and Disney's Grand Californian Hotel open.
Feb. 9, 2010: Disneyland Resort hotel union members and supporters begin a week-long hunger strike as part of a contract dispute.
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How to Survive the Apocalypse
September 23, 2017
Prostatitis is swelling and irritation of the prostate gland. The condition is called bacterial prostatitis when it is caused by an infection with bacteria.
Ongoing irritation of the prostate that is not caused by bacteria is called chronic nonbacterial prostatitis.
Chronic prostatitis - bacterial; Acute prostatitis
Prostatitis is most often caused by a bacterial infection of the prostate gland. Any bacteria that can cause a urinary tract infection can cause acute bacterial prostatitis.
Some sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) can cause bacterial prostatitis. These include chlamydia and gonorrhea. STDs are more likely to occur from:
In men over age 35, E. coli and other common bacteria usually cause prostatitis. This type of prostatitis may occur after:
Acute prostatitis may also be caused by problems with the urethra or prostate, such as:
Men age 50 or older who have an enlarged prostate (benign prostatic hyperplasia) have a higher risk for prostatitis. The prostate gland may become blocked. This makes it easier for bacteria to grow. Symptoms of chronic prostatitis can be similar to symptoms of an enlarged prostate gland.
Symptoms of acute prostatitis can start quickly, and can include:
Symptoms of chronic prostatitis are similar, but not as severe. They often begin more slowly. Some people have no symptoms between episodes of prostatitis.
Urinary symptoms include:
Other symptoms that may occur with this condition:
If prostatitis occurs with an infection in or around the testicles (epididymitis or orchitis), you may also have symptoms of that condition.
Antibiotics are often used to treat prostate infections.
Often, the infection will not go away even after taking antibiotics for a long time. Your symptoms may come back when you stop the medicine.
If your swollen prostate gland makes it hard to empty your bladder, you may need a tube to empty it. The tube may be inserted through your abdomen (suprapubic catheter) or from inside your body (indwelling catheter).
To care for prostatitis at home:
Get checked by your health care provider after you finish taking your antibiotic treatment to make sure the infection is gone.
Not all types of prostatitis can be prevented.
Nickel JC. In: Wein AJ, ed. Prostatitis and related conditions, orchitis, and epididymitis. Campbell-Walsh Urology . 10th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 11.
Barry MJ, McNaughton-Collins M. Benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostatitis. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine . 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 131.


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Cardinals pull away from Mets with four-run fifth
Jay sparks bats with three runs scored; Greenwood wins in MLB debut
ST. LOUIS -- It had been 47 days since manager Mike Matheny last inserted Jon Jay into the starting lineup as the team's two-hole hitter. Jay first had to prove himself worthy of inclusion anywhere before Matheny would consider him again for top-of-the-order placement.
But with his grip strengthening on the starting center-field job, Jay was bumped back toward the top of the lineup on Monday. It was Matheny's attempt to front-load his lineup by on-base percentage, and Jay rewarded the move by serving as the catalyst in each of the Cardinals' three run-scoring innings.
The repeatable success of that offensive formula eased the pressure on a pitching staff that knew it would have to piece together nine innings without a true starter to fill in for Adam Wainwright. The Cardinals, who received 7 1/3 strong innings from second-time starter Carlos Martinez and debuting Nick Greenwood, won despite their ace's absence, taking the first game of this three-game series, 6-2, over the Mets at Busch Stadium.
The victory was the Cardinals' fourth consecutive one, matching the club's longest winning streak of the season.
"I feel like we're starting to hit our stride and everybody's starting to swing the bats good and our pitching has been solid -- it's kept us in almost every game," said Matt Holliday, who highlighted his night by driving in the 1,000th run of his career. "I feel like our team's playing well, and it's fun."
Martinez, quick to discuss his desire to be a Major League starter, got the chance Monday after the Cardinals chose to proceed cautiously with Wainwright and his irritated right elbow. Martinez was allotted a maximum of 60 pitches and spread out 59 over four innings.
A six-pitch first and eight-pitch second helped that efficiency, which took a hit when Martinez walked four batters over the next two innings. But he limited the Mets to one run while stranding five in those two frames, allowing the offense time to build its lead against winless Mets starter Jacob deGrom.
"I felt good overall," Martinez said, with Jaime Garcia translating. "I was able to battle and keep the team in the game. I made a couple mistakes with the walks there, but overall it was pretty good."
As for the offense, it found success while showing flashes of its former self. A team that thrived last season with timely hitting found all sorts of it behind Jay on Monday. Jay scored the first three of the Cardinals' six runs, being driven in once by Allen Craig, Matt Adams and Holliday. The club finished 6-for-9 with runners in scoring position.
"Nice to have those big two-out hits, too, once we get the guys on base like Jon," Matheny said. "That's a big offensive day for us."
That opportunistic hitting was such because Jay was getting on base. With an OBP of .367 this season, Jay's ability to consistently find a way on warranted the move up in the lineup. Only leadoff hitter Matt Carpenter (.373) and three-hole hitter Holliday (.378) have higher such marks.
"I'm just trying to help the team win every day," said Jay, who has hit safely in 10 of his last 11 games. "I don't look at numbers. I don't look at any of that. I've hit everywhere in the lineup in my career, so I don't care. I'm just trying to go out there, have fun, win some games."
The three hitters behind Jay each tallied multihit games and combined to drive in five. Craig finished with a three-hit night, the first of which drove home Jay in the opening frame. Craig's single in the third extended that frame long enough for Adams to drive Jay home on a two-out single to right.
It was the third straight multihit game for Craig, whose batting average continues to recover from a slow start. Craig, the team leader in RBIs, is now batting .264 on the season.
The Cardinals then broke out for a four-run fifth, knocking deGrom from the game. Holliday followed Jay's one-out double with a milestone-setting RBI single, an achievement the sellout crowd recognized with a standing ovation.
"To get a chance to play this long," Holliday said, "and get a 1,000 RBIs in the Majors Leagues in something special to me."
Craig and Adams added run-scoring extra-base hits, and Jhonny Peralta capped the scoring with a single.
"You look at their lineup, and top to bottom, they have a good lineup," Mets third baseman David Wright said, then noted that the New York lineup doesn't similarly match up.
It definitely didn't on Monday as Greenwood took the baton from Martinez and became the first Cardinals relief pitcher since 1988 (John Costello) to earn a win in his Major League debut.
The lefty opened the fifth with a walk of Curtis Granderson, but erased the outfielder on a double play and then retired eight more in a row. Two eighth-inning singles knocked him from the game with a five-run lead. Matheny, as he took the ball, intentionally delayed Greenwood's walk to the dugout.
"I just told him to sit here for a second, take a breath and enjoy it," Matheny said. "To just make it onto a big league field is such an accomplishment. But then to [have] such an impact in the game today and do such a great job in a real tough situation, he deserved that, and the fans let him know."
Greenwood, who will likely be sent back to Triple-A on Tuesday so the Cardinals can reinforce their bullpen or bench, later described the night as unbelievable.
"It's been a long road to get here," he said. "Realizing I'm going to come in the game and make an actual debut -- thinking about the grind, the struggles, the ups and downs -- I couldn't ask for a better outing."
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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- BSO Case Number: PB13-05-00904 / PB13-05-06008
- PIO Number: 13-5-26
- Date: May 22, 2013
- Time: 11:06 p.m.
- Place of Occurrence: 1700 block of Southwest 13 Court, Pompano Beach
- Jurisdiction: Pompano Beach
- State of Florida
- Floyd Bowers, 48, 3/30/65, 2054 Acapulco Dr., Miramar
Description of Incident:
Broward Sheriff's Office deputies arrested a Miramar man in possession of burglary tools and a van filled with 15 vehicle batteries. Detectives believe he may be responsible for a recent rash of battery thefts.
Wednesday (May 22) night a deputy was patrolling a closed industrial area in the 1700 block of Southwest 13 Court in Pompano Beach where several vehicle burglaries recently occurred. The deputy spotted a white van that fit the description of the van captured on surveillance video in connection with several grand theft cases. When the driver saw the BSO unit, he quickly made a U-turn and attempted to leave the area. The deputy conducted a traffic stop, and the suspicious driver was identified as Floyd Bowers, a career offender who was recently released on parole and has a revoked Florida drivers license. Through the van's side window, the deputy saw several batteries in the rear of the van. Bowers was arrested for grand theft, loitering, driving on a revoked license and possession of burglary tools.
Detectives have connected the same unidentified suspect and white van to the following grand thefts in Pompano Beach:
• Between 9:30 p.m. and 8:30 a.m., 5/6/13 – 5/7/13, 1040 SW 10 Ave., #5, four batteries stolen (surveillance video available)
• Between 12:30 and 1:10 a.m. on 5/7/13, 1552 SW 13 Ct., six truck batteries stolen
• Between 6:30 p.m. and 7 a.m., 5/6/13 – 5/7/13, 1216 SW12 Ave., two truck batteries stolen
• Between 4:30 p.m. and 7:45 a.m., 5/6/13 – 6/7/13, 1377 SW 12 Ave., three truck batteries stolen
• Between 5 p.m. and 5:30 a.m., 5/3/13 – 5/6/13, 1851 N. Powerline Rd., two truck batteries stolen
• Between 4:30 p.m. and 5:20 a.m., 5/6/13 – 5/7/13, 1400 SW 1 Ct., four batteries taken
Anyone with information on the recent rash of truck battery thefts, especially where the stolen batteries are being sold, is urged to call BSO Pompano Beach Det. Bob Rutkowski at (954) 786-4242.
INVESTIGATORS: Pompano Beach Det. B. Rutkowski, Sgt. R. Perez, CI
THIS REPORT BY: Veda Coleman-Wright/PIO Pompano Beach May 31, 2013 1300
Posted At: 05/31/2013 12:32 PM
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Social Media 3.0: Data-Driven, Fragmented, Expensive
Just the fact that the Social Media Insider Summit is now in its fifth year shows how mature the medium has become. But what does social media 3.0 look like? It's data-driven: marketers are increasingly looking at ways not only to use data better but to merge social data with other data streams. It's fragmented: even as Facebook and Twitter grab most of the money, and attention, newer platforms from Pinterest to Vine to Snapchat are garnering lots of interest from marketers.
Oh … and it's expensive. With several studies showing that organic reach may have become nigh impossible on Facebook, the maturity of it, and a few other, older platforms means marketers have to pay to play. Having friends or followers no longer guarantees that organic social marketing will gain traction, meaning that paid media is now the answer. In short, social marketing continues to innovate both on the front-end and the back-end, but some of the things that typified it in the early days, are dying off. The Social Media Insider Summit will take a close look at this dynamic marketplace.
As is always the case at MediaPost Summits, attendees will have unparalleled informal networking opportunities, whether they are connecting on the golf course, during a nighttime dinner on Lake Tahoe, or by the pool. The Social Media Insider Summit promises once again to be the perfect mixture of content, networking and fun. See you there!Read More
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Social Media Insider Summit Attendees Include:
"The Social Media Insider Summits always guarantee the best opportunity to network and learn from leading brand, agency and vendor luminaries in the industry. It's an event we look forward to every time!"
Rebecca Kaykas-Wolff, Product Marketing, Adobe
"I learned a lot from brands I don't normally hear from at the Social Media Insider Summit. It was great to learn fresh new information and hear perspectives I hadn't before. I felt the vendor presentations were especially useful. I partnered with a vendor from the Summit based on conversations and presentations they showed attendees." Chelsea Marti, Social Media Director, TurboTax (Intuit, Inc.)
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What Attendees are Saying About the Social Media Insider Summit series:
"The SMIS event had the perfect mix of retailers, agencies and vendors to generate a lot of ideas and gain a better understanding of the role social media plays in business today. I look forward to attending again next time!" Carri Lukasik, Marketing Manager, The Walt Disney Company
"The Social Media Insider Summit was one of the BEST conferences I've attended. From the quality of the content presented in the sessions to the round table discussions and the ample time for networking with fellow marketers and vendors, I left full of new ideas for our business. This is the best place I've found to network with other social marketers and quality vendors - I would highly recommend this event to anyone managing social media marketing." Jennifer Stafford, Social Media Manager, HomeAway.com
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"I attended MediaPost's Social Insider Summit and have to say, it was one of the best experiences I have had at a conference. I have been an interactive marketing executive for 12 years now and would put this right at the top of the heap. Superb content, great speakers and incredibly informative. Great work guys!" Dan Sundgren, Senior Director, Intelius
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The Cincinnati Bengals were denied a playoff victory for the second consecutive year because they had little offense other than that provided by A.J. Green, the NFL's best young receiver. To change their fortunes—at least, that's the hope—they took the best tight end and best running back in the 2013 draft.
The first- and second-round combination of Green and quarterback Andy Dalton in the 2011 draft helped turn Cincinnati back into a playoff team. This year, first-round pick Tyler Eifert and second-round selection Giovani Bernard can provide the necessary 1-2 punch to make the Bengals a playoff winner.
MORE: Bernard shines in preseason debut | Bills' rookies solid | FANTASY: 32 sleepers
Eifert is 6-6, 250, and Bernard is only 5-9 and 208 pounds. Physically, they couldn't be more different. Their goal, though, couldn't be more alike: make it a lot easier to be Green and Dalton.
The speedy Green has emerged as a premier deep threat in a short time, and for a young route-runner, it's most impressive how he has fought through constant double-teams to get open often for Dalton.
When they went with Eifert-Bernard back to back, the Bengals had eyes on players who could take advantage of Green's attention in the numbers game.
"They both have great skills and will help us in a lot of ways," Bengals coach Marvin Lewis said. They ought to have good opportunities to win one-on-one matchups. That's what you need. Football at times just comes down to winning the one-on-ones, keeping the sticks moving."
As moving targets, Eifert and Bernard will cause a whole new set of problems for defenses.
The Eifert Tower
Eifert, the winner of the John Mackey Award for college's best tight end and a vital part of a Notre Dame offense that played for the BCS national championship, was expected to go in the mid-to-late first round. The Steelers (No. 17), Giants (No. 19) and Bears (No. 20) were all in the mix, but it was a surprise for Eifert to go No. 21 to the Bengals.
Cincinnati already had a Pro Bowl-caliber tight end in Jermaine Gresham, who was taken No. 21 overall in '10. But adding Eifert was a sign the Bengals were a good enough team elsewhere to make a "luxury" pick and bring a special dimension to their offense.
"I was excited—I didn't expect to get drafted here," Eifert said. "When you look at the roster, we have a lot of young guys who make plays. It's fun playing next to those guys."
Watch Notre Dame games from 2012, and it was easy to spot Eifert. He was their most reliable receiver, and often seen dwarfing a pair of defenders draped to him in coverage. Even when he got Green-like treatment with the Irish, most balls that were thrown his way, he went up and got it. With the space Green clears stretching the field, Eifert is set up to remain a strong third-down and red zone option.
"It's more natural," Eifert said of that ability. "I don't really know how to work on it. When you're running drills, you try to high-point the ball when it's underthrown. The more you do it, the better you become."
Eifert came from a well-called offense with Brian Kelly, and joined another one with Bengals coordinator Jay Gruden. The difference is he no longer needs to worry about getting the concentration of the coverage. Eifert has been a quick study in a pro attack and has the physical tools to make an immediate impact.
"We have many concepts and move guys around in a lot of different spots," Eifert said of Gruden's offense. "It was fairly simple to pick up and understand. It's player-friendly."
Go Gio Go
No running backs went in the first round of the 2013 draft, and it wasn't a sure thing that Bernard would be the first off the board. Watching his most sensational highlight from playing for North Carolina last season, however, it should have convinced any team to give him that status.
Bernard returned a punt 74 yards for a touchdown to knock off rival NC State with 13 seconds left in a game last October. His day also included 230 more yards from scrimmage.
The Bengals have a strong, more traditional running back in BenJarvus Green-Ellis. Bernard is listed at the same position, but the Bengals will put him everywhere in 2013. Given he's already so comfortable with a dynamic hybrid role, it's a good familiar feeling.
"The biggest thing for me is being as versatile as possible," Bernard said. "I don't want to be a guy who can just do one thing. I pride myself in doing a lot of things well, catching a lot of balls."
When you consider that's he's joining Green, Eifert, Gresham and others, Bernard's combination of strength and 4.53 speed is worthy of the track team the Bengals have assembled.
"This offense is jam-packed with athletes, guys who can spread the field.," Bernard said. That's what Coach Gruden is trying to do: use every part of the green grass, take up all the spots on the field."
Dalton's ability to get so locked into Green during the 2011 lockout is what accelerated the effectiveness of the Bengals' offense. The quarterback has shown steady growth since, and is ready to be a more diverse distributor in '13. Used to looking to Green often—59 percent of the passes thrown Green's way were completions—Dalton will look at Eifert and Bernard as more than checkdowns.
"You can kind of put them anywhere," Dalton said of the rookies. "Tyler is a guy who's played in the slot and you can put him out wide. Gio, he's a good change of pace back."
The Bengals have thrived on throwing to Green, but needed the rest of the offense to catch up with the NFL's elite teams—all of whom are passing powers. Going young got them in the AFC race; going younger will get them closer to the finish line.


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DuPont Pioneer is introducing a new class of hybrids featuring a powerful pyramid of insect protection traits. Introduced to help control the lepidopteran order of insects, Optimum Leptra hybrids combine three traits to provide multiple modes of action and protection from a broad spectrum of above-ground corn pests.
The Optimum Leptra pyramid of protection combines the proven Herculex I, YieldGard Corn Borer and Agrisure Viptera traits with locally developed and tested Pioneer brand corn hybrids.
Pioneer is introducing six new Optimum Leptra products in limited volumes for the 2014 planting season. These products are targeted for southern U.S. growing environments with a maturity range from 113 to 118 CRM.
"Optimum Leptra hybrids offer three modes of action for excellent efficacy against southwestern corn borer and corn earworm, the two pests of highest concern for many growers in the southern U.S.," says Ryan French, DuPont Pioneer senior marketing manager-technology launch.
The Optimum Leptra pyramid of insect protection helps control an extensive array of above-ground corn pests, including European corn borer, southwestern corn borer, corn earworm, fall armyworm, black cutworm and western bean cutworm to help protect plant health, yield and grain quality.
Research trials conducted in the southern U.S. by Pioneer and independent universities demonstrated the superior pest protection provided by Optimum Leptra hybrids.
"In field trials, we've seen Optimum Leptra hybrids exhibit a 98 percent reduction in corn ear feeding damage across many pest pressure situations compared to non-Bt hybrids," French says.
Providing growers a wider window for spring planting is an additional benefit of Optimum Leptra hybrids. In late-planted corn, early reproductive stages may coincide with higher populations of corn earworm when there is a higher risk of damage.
"The protection from corn earworm in Optimum Leptra hybrids gives growers more flexibility at planting time in fields that may experience elevated pest pressure," French says. "Another advantage of multiple modes of action is the lowest required refuge in the U.S. cotton zone and greater durability to help preserve these insect-protection traits for continued use."
The multiple modes of action in Optimum Leptra hybrids allow for a 20 percent structured refuge in EPA-designated cotton counties, compared to a 50 percent refuge structure for corn hybrids with a single Bt trait. Optimum Leptra hybrids also offer flexible weed control options with tolerance to both glyphosate and glufosinate herbicides.
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Just days before My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic returns for its third season, a group of bronies — perhaps the most unlikely group of fans ever — has created a surprising commercial that puts a new face on the subculture.
Make that a few new faces — including a 28-year-old female scientist, two male members of the U.S. military and several other individuals who don't fit the familiar mold of bronies, the adult males who have helped turn a cartoon for young girls into a surprise crossover hit.
Aside from showing appreciation to the Hub and Hasbro for the show's continued existence, relaying the growing size of the brony herd was part of the agenda of the Brony Thank You Fund, which raised funds for the commercial. But while the message might seem humble, making the ad caused some rumblings within the brony community.
"When we first did the call for people [to be in the TV spot], people said, 'Oh my god it's going be a bunch of neckbeards cuddling their plushies and talking about their inner needs being fulfilled' and things like that," said James Turner, president of the Brony Thank You Fund, in a phone interview with Wired. "Then when we got the people and we said, We've got to have two people from the armed forces and professional people,' then it was, 'Oh, you're not going to have a representative group of the fandom.' It's like, which do you want, guys?"
In the two years since My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic premiered, brony fandom has evolved in ways that are hard to imagine — and offer a peek into the "ultra-cult era," where fans dig deeper and deeper in their quest for unique obsessions. Connected by the internet and fueled by a desire to stand out from the crowd, bronies and others seek out increasingly obscure corners of pop culture in which to stake a claim.
For bronies, the change has been as quick as it has been surprising. Originally a group of males in roughly their teens, 20s and 30s (perceived to be, well, neckbeards and this guy), the group has grown to include many people not fitting that description. Young women (often called "pegasisters") and military bronies, amongst many others, have joined the herd, with brony conventions attracting the likes of party rocker Andrew W.K. and bronies exhibiting a growing presence at nerd gatherings like New York Comic Con.
The commercial from the Brony Thank You Fund is designed to convey the changing brony landscape.
"It's my hope that the professionalism of the video and the fact that military members are willing to put themselves, in uniform, in front of a camera and tell the world that we are bronies will at least cause people to reconsider any of their preconceived notions," said Jeremy Sevey, the 30-year-old Navy lieutenant in the ad, in an e-mail to Wired. "Just because I happen to enjoy My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic and try to live by the tenets of friendship and respect towards all people does not mean I don't still possess the ability and willpower to fire or, if necessary, step in front of a bullet."
In other words, bronies — often the target of online ridicule — are standing their ground. It's now a full-fledged fandom, as involved as those for anything from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Star Trek (even if they haven't been around as long). While Trekkies once mounted a letter-writing campaign to save their show, Friendship Is Magic doesn't need help, so bronies are just showing gratitude in the run-up to Season 3, which begins Saturday on the Hub TV network.
It's an unusual and unprecedented move, according to Roberta Pearson, a professor of film and television studies at the University of Notthingham who has written about cult television fandom, who said she'd never heard of fans raising money to thank a network for a show.
"This is really rather remarkable," Pearson said in an e-mail to Wired. "This is a level of fan devotion I've not seen before."
The bronies' devotion isn't without just a little bit of strife. When the Brony Thank You Fund announced its initiative in May, the effort faced an immediate backlash. Internet commenters fretted that putting a bunch of bronies in a commercial would only draw the wrong kind of attention to the growing subculture, while confusing parents of children who watch the show. One reddit thread, titled "The Brony Thank you project — I don't want this, this will cause way to (sic) much controversy," collected statements to the effect of, "I'm as much of a basement-dwelling internet neckbeard as anybody, but at least I have the good sense to stay far away from a TV camera."
The negative reaction from places like 4chan, Ponychan and reddit was unfortunate, said Turner.
"I got a lot of comments from that particular sector, which were literally the words 'nothing good can come of this,'" he said. "I consider that to be such hubris to believe that you know that only the worst possible outcomes can come from something with such good intentions."
Others came to the project's defense but the debate continued. Eventually, the fund raised more than $16,500 through an Indiegogo campaign. Most of the controversy has since subsided, particularly after it was announced the project would donate leftover funds to Toys for Tots (so far $7,000 has been donated, Turner said, and the ad calls for more).
Now that the commercial is out, and getting positive responses from the brony community, the Brony Thank You Fund is also working on a scholarship for an aspiring animator who wants to attend CalArts (cheekily named the Derpy Hooves Animation Scholarship, after the fan-named pony with the crossed eyes).
A New Era of 'Ultra-Cult' Fandom
How did bronies come so far, and the brony herd grow so large, in so little time?
The internet, for one, has provided a way for disparate kinds of fans to find each other. The web wasn't around in the early days of Star Trek, but it did help fuel Buffy fandom. Still, the fact that a cute female vampire slayer found a cult following — net or no net — seems far more believable than a bunch of cartoon ponies finding an audience of young men and then spreading even further.
But maybe that's where fandom is headed in our increasingly fragmented society. Charles Soukup, associate professor of communication studies at the University of Northern Colorado, said that in today's cultural landscape — where heretofore "cult" topics like science fiction and comic books have become mainstream entertainment — brony-ing up might be the best option for creating a unique identity and nerding out.
"It appears we are moving toward the ultra-cult era in which media consumers discover extremely unexpected and obscure media texts to cultivate uniqueness and distinctiveness for their mediated identities," Soukup said in an email to Wired. "Bronies are a kind of perfect storm of this new ultra-cult media consumption as they combine an intense unexpectedness (adult male fans of television programs designed for little girls) with the status afforded arbiters discovering undiscovered or under-the-radar media products."
But My Little Pony fans likely won't stay under the radar much longer, and twenty-something female scientists might be the beginning.
For Amanda Hitchcock, a 28-year-old scientist who appears in the commercial, coming out of the closet as a brony isn't embarrassing, although she said she expects she'll get a lot of ribbing when her co-workers see the TV spot.
For her, it's all about giving back to the community where she — and so many others of various stripes — have found a home.
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Next >Des Moines — Three former Iowa Veterinary Specialties veterinarians and an operations manager have been hauled into court over what Iowa State University (ISU) is alleging was a subversive attempt at stealing away customers from its newly acquired specialty practice.
But the doctors say ISU's new non-profit specialty practice can't legally compete with their new private referral practice—the Iowa Veterinary Referral Center, which opened March 1 just six miles from the practice they left when ISU took it over.
ISU purchased Iowa Veterinary Specialties in January 2011 for $4.6 million with the intent of operating it as a 24-hour nonprofit emergency and surgical medicine facility to serve the Des Moines area.
Veterinarians Steven Reimer, Derek Nestor and Stan Wagner signed non-compete agreements with Iowa Veterinary Specialties, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court Feb. 28, and each were paid "substantial compensation" for their work at the practice. Wagner's non-compete agreement was non-transferrable. But both Reimer's and Nestor's non-compete agreements were to be honored through any sale or transfer of the practice and preclude the doctors from competing in any emergency or specialty medicine in the Des Moines area for two years after ending employment with Iowa Veterinary Specialties, argues Kelsey Knowles, attorney for ISU.
Reimer and Nestor, along with their attorneys, disagree. Both doctors were told by separate lawyers that a university-owned practice—a non-profit—could not legally compete with a private enterprise. They were told the university would not be able to enforce the non-compete agreements, which Reimer and Nestor say were signed after they were hired at Iowa Veterinary Specialties.
"Dr. Reimer and Dr. Nestor were fraudulently induced into signing the non-compete agreement at issue because IVS told them Dr. Nestor had an agreement to purchase IVS," writes Jesse Linebaugh, attorney for the defendants.
"We felt like we were going to be safe to proceed with opening our hospital," Nestor says.
The complaint response, filed March 16, goes on to detail the circumstances surrounding the signing of Nestor's and Reimer's non-compete agreements. The two had offered to purchase the practice in 2008, but their request was denied. Nestor then took a job at a clinic in South Carolina, but was persuaded to come back to Iowa Veterinary Specialties with a raise and an agreement to purchase the practice within five years with Reimer.
Reimer and Nestor say they signed amended agreements with the intent to take over the practice in the future and because they never imagined they would be in this predicament. For starters, Iowa Veterinary Specialties was founded out of the frustration of the previous owner with the university system, Reimer says.
"Not in a million years would I have thought they would have sold to the university they opened in response to," he explains. "Multiple clients have come over here frustrated with the university communication and care, and they've expressed significant concern to us about the quality of care they can get in central Iowa if this goes through. People in central Iowa want an option."
They had planned on buying the practice, but say they couldn't compete with the university's bid of a half a million dollars more than any other bidders.
"At the time we signed (the non-compete agreements), we had an oral agreement with the owners to eventually work out a deal to buy the hospital," Nestor explains.
The non-compete agreements were worded in a way that the doctors would have had to relocate out of state to continue practicing.
"We were all born and raised in Iowa," says Reimer. "We would have had to leave our home state where our families are."
Continuing on with the university was not an option for the veterinarians, both ISU alums.
"We weren't interested in continuing with the university just because of the different type of atmosphere that is involved with teaching and research," Nestor says, adding the heavy administrative model ISU employs would have made it "very inefficient to get things done."
Additionally, the veterinarians argue in their response to ISU's complaint to the courts, Reimer was not offered employment when ISU took over the practice, and the university has only "selectively" enforced non-compete agreements with other employees, "thus rendering them meaningless."
Despite the agreement, ISU's complaint alleges that Reimer, Wagner and Nestor ended their employment with the practice when the sale to ISU was finalized in February 2011 and immediately began advertising their services with another Des Moines specialty practice, the Iowa Veterinary Referral Center, in violation of the non-compete agreements.
The suit goes on to describe how the doctors and former Iowa Veterinary Specialties operations manager Paul Hanika allegedly used their former practice's computers to gain confidential client information to use in "setting up their competing venture." ISU also claims that the men used the practice's personnel and vendors to set up their business on company time and ran computer sweep programs to delete files and attempt to erase evidence of their information-gathering on the practice computers.
ISU asserts that $5,000 has been spent to restore the computer systems. ISU Veterinary Services Corp. is asking for $75,000 in damages altogether, plus an injunction to stop the men from continuing to violate the non-compete agreements or using any information they obtained while working for their former practice.
Hanika denies any wrongdoing and says ISU's goal in naming he and Wagner in the complaint is to shut the new practice down. In the defendants" answer to ISU's complaint, they point out that the practice's client list was virtually a list of all veterinarians in Iowa and can't be considered confidential information since the list is available to the public on the practice's own website.
While their practice so far as been successful, Reimer and Nestor say the stress of fighting ISU is something they could have done without.
"This has added a significant amount of stress beyond the normal stress that comes with opening a new practice, particularly one this size," says Nestor. "For anyone that's going to sign (a non-compete agreement), make sure you have your attorney read it thoroughly."
Reimer says they are fighting ISU's complaint because if this can happen to them, it could happen to anyone.
"I think this is a scary precedent for practice in the nation," he says. "Because universities can outbid just about anybody."
The veterinarians filed a countersuit against ISU April 18, alleging the university is monopolizing the veterinary specialty market in Iowa. A trial date has been set for October 15.


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Willits Farmer's Market: Anne Woida brings in the (organic) harvest
It's winter at the Willits Farmer's Market and that means smaller crowds and fewer vendors. But that doesn't stop veteran Anne Woida from showing up every Thursday to greet her loyal customers.
"When you're passionate about what you're doing, there's no better person to buy your produce from," Anne said.
Anne gladly brings her certified organic produce and plants every week just for the pleasure of talking with the people who enjoy her harvest.
C&A Farm sells wholesale to Mariposa Market and Ukiah Natural Foods, but Anne indulges in the pleasure of talking with shoppers directly and getting valuable feedback from the food lovers who consume her fresh vegetables.
Anne has been bringing the crop from C&A Organic Farm in the Redwood Valley to the market for the past three years. She grew up on her grandparent's farm and now runs the 10-acre farm with her husband, Chris.
Those early experiences are why Anne enjoys seeing kids at the farmer's market, helping them learn the basics about where food comes from.
"It's kind of like a block party," she said.
Shoppers not only get to meet the farmers who grow their food, they also can access the growers' expertise.
"What's important about the farmer's market is everybody here is bringing what they are best at," she said.
Anne also offers plants started locally, a better value than plants from big box stores that may come from anywhere.
"You're getting a local producer who can tell you what works and what doesn't," she said.
Anne wants to encourage shoppers to come out and experience the Farmer's Market even if they don't want to purchase every week. It's a chance to meet local growers and see what's available.
"All of us are committed to showing up for our customers," she said. "I can't say how much I appreciate the customers going out of their way to come to the grange and buy my lettuce."
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Heifer International, a U.S.–based non-profit organization, strives to end poverty and hunger by providing livestock and training to struggling communities. Working through a covenant relationship between the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and Heifer, Tim Wheeler is an advisor to the organization's Americas Program and facilitates its processes and workshops. He also assists with program reviews and planning. Tim's wife, Gloria, coordinates the mission team program for the PC(USA) and Heifer International. Mission teams come to assist in community improvement programs in rural communities and also in urban settings through the Presbyterian Church in Honduras' ministry in Tegucigalpa, the largest city in Honduras.
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Honduras is a largely mountainous, sparsely populated country at the hub of Central America. Once the center of the Mayan empire, Columbus landed there on his fourth voyage, in 1502, and named the region Honduras ("in the depths"), perhaps impressed by ridge after rolling ridge of pine-covered mountains. During the 20th century, when the military did not actually hold direct power in Honduras, they often had huge indirect power. Nevertheless, important social reforms began in 1954 with a national strike, more social reforms followed in the 1960s, and land reform came in the 1970s (with military support). Democracy returned in 1982, and in the 1990s the military influence in civilian government was greatly curbed. In recent years the weakness of public institutions has become evident as they struggle to respond effectively to present-day challenges, including the growing demands of a populace empowered by democracy. Although the per capita income of Honduras is one of the lowest in Latin America, it has improved slightly in recent decades. The PC(USA)'s partner church in Honduras, the Presbyterian Church in Honduras, is just 50 years old and was founded by missionaries from the National Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Guatemala. The Guatemalan church was founded in 1882 by Presbyterian missionaries from the United States.
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Tim and Gloria Wheeler see God's hand at work as Hondurans strive to improve their communities.
Looking through the lens of faith, the Wheelers saw God's providence in action in a poor rural community where a school once seemed to be an impossible dream. Yet God planted a vision in the minds of the people in the community and the Wheelers, and the dream became a reality. "A school was built to serve these marginalized people in a month's time by using the formula of coordinating with a local government, which provided some of the funding, and a mission team that provided building skills as well as some resources," Tim says. "Honduran young people who had learned building skills in some house-building projects worked with mission team members, and the school was built in record time."
The community previously had been ignored by the government, but Tim and Gloria played a role in changing that by bringing together the community, a mission team, and the local government. "When we see a local government turning to work with some of the poorest people in its jurisdiction, we know it is the will of God for this to happen," Gloria says.
In his work with Heifer, Tim says he is energized when people work together to make community programs more effective. "Then I know that progress will begin to be made in overcoming the terrifying symptoms of poverty and powerlessness," Tim says, "and that the quality of life will improve as part of a transforming process when people are afforded new opportunities for the first time in their lives."
Tim and Gloria say they are inspired by Jesus' teaching in Matthew 22:37-39 to love God with all of your heart, soul, and mind and to "love your neighbor as yourself." They also find great meaning in 1 John 3:18's instruction to "let us love not with words or tongue but with actions and in truth."
"As we strive to base our mission focus on 'loving your neighbor as yourself' and showing this 'with actions and in truth,' our challenge becomes real every day with the people we come into contact with in our mission assignment," Tim says.
Tim, a native of New York, holds a B.A. in history from Guilford University in Greensboro, N.C., and an M.A. in Latin American studies from American University in Washington, D.C. Gloria grew up in Honduras and earned a B.A. in public administration from the National University of Honduras.
Tim and Gloria have been married since 1978 and are the parents of three adult daughters, Marsha, Pamela, and Grace.
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Our daughter is graduating early from high school (in late Nov 2011). She would like to serve in mission for 1-2 months as a pre-college experience. We have been doing a lot of searching for a program that "fits", through friends, school, and church. Gloria and Tim Wheeler's ministry in Honduras appears to be right up her alley--especially the focus on Heifer International. She also read about the CARES program and found it calling to her. She has been studying Spanish in high school and plans to further her language studies in college. Is there any way to find out about some sort of mission trip for her with the Wheelers--either individually or part of a larger group?


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Brian Hansen's Olympic Quest: Find All the Blackhawks
U.S. speedskater Brian Hansen hasn't won an Olympic medal in Sochi, but at least he got the other souvenirs he came for: pictures of himself with all 10 Chicago Blackhawks playing at the Games.
Hansen, a lifelong fan from the Chicago area, has been informing people of his progress via Twitter since the team arrived three weeks ago. Marian Hossa was first. There was a two-for-one with Niklas Hjalmarsson and Johnny Oduya, who became numbers three and four. And on Tuesday, he took his tally to nine when he finally grabbed Jonathan Toews.


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The opening series at Dodger Stadium, one between longtime rivals, provided a study in contrast. The World Champion Giants have chosen to sacrifice defense for runs, while the Dodgers are taking the opposite approach. Consider four of the eight regular positions on Opening Day:
Such is the long-term hope, anyway. The short-term reality is that San Francisco committed three errors on Opening Day, including one each by Tejada and Burrell, and allowed one unearned run, which turned out to be the margin of difference in a 2-1 loss at Chavez Ravine.
Game two wasn't much better for the Giants. Errors by Sandoval (pandas have good hands but suspect arms) and starter Jonathan Sanchez led to two unearned runs in the sixth inning of another one-run loss. It may not be cool to measure defense in terms of errors, but it's also not cool to commit five in two days, essentially giving away two games.
And although the offense came through in a big way in Game three, the finale featured more defensive shenanigans. This time Huff took center stage, misplaying two balls into triples in a game his team lost by two runs.
Giants fans should be excited that the frequently youth-averse Bruce Bochy decided to let Brandon Belt do his thing at the big-league level, where his bat is needed most. However, at some point, Bochy may need to change his corner outfield alignment. There is a threshold beyond which offensive gains no longer offset defensive deficits.
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In Gwynn, meanwhile, the Dodgers have found that which has eluded them for nearly 30 years: a suitable replacement for Cecil Espy. Fans long have rued the day Espy was shipped along with Sid Bream to Pittsburgh for Bill Madlock, but a quick dip into the San Diego suburbs (Espy was from Point Loma, Gwynn from Poway) unearthed another fleet-footed defensive whiz who can't hit baseballs. Next on the agenda: Find replacements for Ralph Bryant and Franklin Stubbs. It's a long season, but one mustn't give up hope.
Tragically, the defensive talents of Gwynn were overshadowed by something indefensible. On Opening Day, after the game, two men beat a Giants fan at Dodger Stadium and "left him in a medically induced coma." Speaking as someone who cites baseball as his religion, I certainly understand the fervor the game can induce, but how does this happen? Alas, it is part of baseball's heritage. From The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract:
This is part of a longer essay on the state of fandom in the late 1970s and early 1980s. James goes on to talk about changes made shortly thereafter that largely curtailed such behavior and concludes with a passage that seems quaint in light of Thursday night's incident:
After a couple of years, people no longer expected to be able to go to ballgames to get drunk and scream at people. A whole generation of fans has grown up now to whom the idea of going to a baseball game to drink until you vomit would seem as foreign as the idea of going to Alaska to test out your new fly swatter.
Everything old is new again. Some people are just jerks, and while it's impossible to dismiss the actions of these thugs who may have ruined the lives of an entire family because a man was wearing the wrong colors, it's also impossible to understate the capacity of humans to inflict damage on each other for no good reason. I don't know how you fix this, but as Jon Weisman notes, "The game needs to remain a game, not a war."
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On a more pleasant note, the other intradivisional series saw Arizona beat the Rockies in the opener. Several strange things happened in this one. In no particular order:
Colorado took the next game behind Jorge De La Rosa, who worked 5 1/3 scoreless innings. We've discussed the Rockies' emphasis on efficiency from their starters, and although De La Rosa issued just one walk on Saturday, he needed 87 pitches to retire 16 Diamondbacks.
Time to panic? Hardly. It's one start.
The rubber match got snowed out, because that's how they roll in Denver in April. If you're Arizona, you've got to feel good about splitting the opening series at Coors Field. The Snakes are in the same position now as the Padres were at this time last year—with a paucity of identifiable big-league talent and almost universally expected to finish last in their division. That formula nearly pushed San Diego into the playoffs. Will the same happen in Arizona?
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Speaking of the Padres, they took two out of three in St. Louis. Busch Stadium traditionally has given them fits, although the fact that these weren't playoff games may have helped.
New center fielder Cameron Maybin, who is no Cecil Espy, made his presence felt immediately, launching a game-tying solo homer with two out in the ninth inning of the opener. He then singled home the eventual winning run. As I noted over at my blog, Maybin's homer was just the second game-tying homer with two out in the ninth ever by the Padres. Dramatic much?
And although they couldn't complete the sweep on Sunday, the Padres received a terrific performance from the unlikely Dustin Moseley, who allowed just one run in seven innings while taking the loss. Yes, the Cardinals were without Matt Holliday for the final two games, but last I heard, that Albert Pujols guy is pretty good.
Most people don't expect much from the Padres in 2011. Three games doesn't change that, but it's encouraging to see the starters give up six runs in 19 innings in the house of a presumed contender, one led by the best player on the planet. Considering that their ace, Mat Latos, isn't even on the active roster thanks to shoulder bursitis, San Diego will take it.
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I'm not totally familiar with Finnish laws but man they're uptight. Hwicha asked me to post the videos I took of him and the other Russian players asked me to put up their videos too. For legal and security reasons I have to edit out sound. I'm not totally sure about the legality of posting a video taken from one person and others being in the video by accident. It may be illegal to post without the consent of everyone easily identifiable in the videos so that'll limit the amount of videos I can post publicly. I also need to convert each video to reasonable file sizes by converting to mp4 format so that'll take time.
I used 320x240@60 FPS for analysis of form and timing and making identification of bystanders more difficult. My camera can take higher resolution video but only at 30 FPS which is much less useful form form and timing analysis. I consider things available to scrutiny at 60 FPS to be so important that it forced the lower resolution. I also had a hunch about the strict laws concerning identification of bystanders.
I'll be posting more videos of more non DGR members of the Russian team that asked me to post the videos. Finnish law forbids me to name them without asking their consent. Hwicha will have to do this for me as I don't have access to the others. They asked me to post but not publicize their names Stupid laws being incomplete and incompatible with reality...
I think it's legal for me to post those videos that have outsiders in them personally person to person. Just not publicize them on the internet for everyone to see.
I hope this link works. Let me know. http://www.mediafire.com/?etoujl2z3zb The site had major troubles with my browser. I couldn't get an account nor download because the site nagged me about cookies and I couldn't find the settings quickly in the new version of my browser.
Hwicha in this video throws with worse form than later on when I didn't get footage of him. His plant steps were occasionally shorter and worked better. I dropped a lot of standard DGR advice on him verbally so it'll take some time to put to use. The same with the other guys. One of them really threw a lot farther on the second day when I got to a bit finer details than the most common stuff. I think that there'll be good results coming from Russia sooner rather than later. On the other hand you have to realize that the sport is young in there.
I'll post more vids as I review the identification of outsiders and convert the videos. You can ask me for the vids containing non intended persons by private message. I'll get back to you on those as soon as I can after putting up the safe vids.


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Learn about some of AudioQuest's most popular speaker cable lines, and how to know if they're a good choice for your system.
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Dave: AudioQuest's design philosophy or goal is above all else, "do no harm." It's kind of like the Hippocratic Oath of speaker cables. They know that you can't improve on the original signal, but that you can minimize the loss of sound quality that happens as the signal travels through all of the cables in your system.
Steve: Yep. And we know that not everyone agrees that speaker cables can make a difference. Some people have never heard that kind of improvement before, and admittedly it gets easier to hear as your equipment gets better and more revealing. But if you like to listen closely and you have decent gear, we think the chances are that you will hear an improvement.
Dave: And one of the things that we've noticed most in speaker cables is better definition in the bass.
Steve: Better sound staging.
Dave: Right. Better, deeper sound staging and more high-frequency detail, and better clarity.
Steve: So in this video we're going to talk about what makes AudioQuest cables different, and give you an overview of their speaker wire lines.
Dave: Right. We're going to try to give you some advice on choosing the right wire for your system.
Steve: AudioQuest makes a broad range of speaker cables, and we're just going to talk about some of the key things that they have in common.
Dave: Right. They focus closely on the quality of materials used, including ultra-high-purity copper, and they pay close attention to just how those wires are arranged and wrapped inside of the cable.
Steve: Yeah, and AudioQuest uses fewer and larger copper strands than other cables that you might have seen. And all of these design details contribute to minimizing the potential sources of distortion.
Dave: Now we'll take a look at some specific lines. AudioQuest G2 entry-level cable is a great place to start for people who want better sound.
Steve: And this is X2 which is like G2 but it's a little thicker. It's got more copper, so it's for longer runs or for higher powered systems.
Dave: If you're a careful listener and you really want to get the best out of your system, AudioQuest Type 4 cable makes a great choice. It's ideal for music, and it gives you crystal-clear dialogue and sound effects with home theater systems.
Steve: It's a pretty big upgrade over the speaker cables that we've been talking about, and one of the first differences you'll notice is the banana connectors at both ends. These are silver-plated copper for really superior signal transfer and in general, banana connectors are a really easy, secure way to connect your speakers. They're a lot easier than, you know, trying to wrap the bare wire around the speaker posts.
Dave: Very convenient. And one of the biggest improvements in Type 4 is one that you can't see, because this cable uses solid core conductors.
Steve: And we've already talked about how AudioQuest prefers to use fewer and larger strands of copper, but this is even a step further.
Dave: Right. The conductors inside are individually insulated to isolate them from each other and remove any potential sources of distortion.
Steve: AudioQuest CV-4 is aimed at the serious listener with high-end gear — someone who really pays a lot of attention to the music; you know, really likes to sit down and listen and really wants to optimize their system.
Dave: Right. And one of the things that you'll see on the CV-4 is — it's kind of unusual and you may not have seen on cables before — is this battery pack. And, I'm about to get a little geeky on you here, but AudioQuest calls this their "Dielectric Bias System" or DBS and if you're the kind of listener who likes to warm their system up before really doing any serious listening.
Steve: Yeah, we do.
Dave: Yeah you'll love the cables because this battery keeps a constant voltage on the dielectric, or insulator, inside the cable. And that helps to keep the material aligned to match the signal flow, and it's almost like having a pre-warmed up, pre-broken in cable.
Steve: Also CV-4 uses higher-quality copper. It's what AudioQuest calls their "Perfect-Surface Copper," and I think our impressions have both been that the sound really is a little smoother and clearer.
Dave: CV-8 is the best AudioQuest speaker cable that we sell.
Steve: And I've actually been using CV-8 at home for about the last year or so, and I've been an audiophile for over 25 years, and I've used a bunch of different speaker cables, but CV-8 is definitely the best speaker cable I've ever used.
Dave: Yeah it's kind of like a revved-up CV-4. But AudioQuest uses more conductors so it's a thicker cable for better signal transfer.
Steve: It's a really good choice for very particular listeners. If you've got high-powered amps, if you've got speakers that are really revealing, if you're a demanding audiophile, CV-8 is something you should really listen to.
Dave: If you want to learn more about AudioQuest speaker cables, check out our website at crutchfield.com.
Steve: And if you need some help choosing the right cable for your system and listening preferences, just call our advisors.
Philip Spencer from AustinPosted on 8/27/2015
audioquest subwoofer cable has arrows on the wire . so... do you plug the cable into the subwoofer with the arrow facing the direction toward the subwoofer, or is the correct direction toward the receiver?
Clifton Bonds from Apopka, FlPosted on 12/24/2015
If you use the Type 4 and CV$ for the floor speakers when bi amping which cable do you use on the center speaker since I have have heard that all the speakers, except, the subwoofer, should have the same type of cable.


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The start of a new year may be an artificial punctuation point, but it does provide breathing space to assess the drivers of asset allocation. This year, financial advisers are ramping up their rhetoric against home bias, warning about overexposure to Australian assets – and equities in particular.
But that kind of talk hasn't stopped Aussie investors buying Australian investments in the past. So it will be interesting to see whether the anti-Aussie message hits home this time round.
Asked her thoughts about asset allocation in 2013, NAB private wealth senior adviser, Catherine Wong Doo, says she is encouraging clients to think about three key themes: the direction of the Australian dollar; the fact the Reserve Bank of Australia is still in loosening mode; and volatility.
For Wong Doo, the decisions that might follow from these themes are: an unhedged move into multinational equities; a move out of term deposits; and a move into alternative investments, both Australian and international.
"The NAB house view is that the Australian dollar will move 5 per cent lower against the US dollar over 2013," she says.
"So the question is whether it's a good time to move into overseas equities unhedged, or take the hedge off existing exposures.
"Australian equities have been good dividend payers," Wong Doo says. "By moving offshore you're moving into equities which traditionally don't pay such high dividends.
"But we would argue it is still worthwhile getting the exposure to sectors you can't access via Australian listed stocks: the multinational pharmaceutical companies, multinational consumer goods companies and multinational technology companies."
NAB believes there could be a further interest rate cut from the RBA in the first half of 2013.
Many clients, Wong Doo says, have reacted to the uncertain world economy of the last few years by going into cash.
It's not a risk-free environment for cash and fixed income any more, with tax and inflation eating into lower returns. "But the answer to the different world that is emerging now is not necessarily to switch back into equities," she says.
"We are talking to them about alternative assets – assets which aren't correlated to the equities market. We think there should be quite a large – 15 to 20 per cent – exposure to alternatives: private equity, commodity funds, hedge funds and global credit."
The managing director investment advisory at Dixon Advisory, Lyle Meaney, says the big theme is the decline in interest rates.
"We deal mainly with self-funded retirees," Meaney says. "Equities are looking more competitive, but they're not risk-free. And investor appetite is strong for hybrid issues, but they are not the equivalent of the government guarantee. You need to be rewarded quite a lot for giving up the government guarantee.
"We think Australians are overexposed to Australian equities, so we have diversified overseas."
Dixon has set up a residential property fund specialising in multi-family homes in the greater New York area targeting returns of 6 to 8 per cent. And because some clients do want growth, it has also put together two equities fund of funds, one specialising in Asian equities and another in emerging markets. All three are listed, Meaney says.
Multiforte Financial Services director and financial adviser, Kate McCallum, says the new year is unlikely to mark a noticeable shift in asset allocation.
"There shouldn't be a lot that you need to move because of noise in the market," she says. "But we do want to get better bang for buck."
Over recent months Multiforte has been slowly reducing client exposure to listed property trusts and the riskier end of fixed interest.
"The risky part now is the corporate bond market and credit securities or hybrid funds. We're gradually reducing exposure."
McCallum agrees it's time to consider shifting out of term deposits. "Low yields mean they're not really preserving the value of capital. The question we ask clients is, how much capital do they really want preserved. We call it a capital management approach?"
The Australian Financial Review


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Falmouth Gig Club's ladies' team has retained its crown for the fifth consecutive year at the World Pilot Gig Championships, with the mens' crew also taking the top spot.
The Falmouth ladies' super-veterans also powered across the line in first place.
The championships taking place on the Isles of Scilly feature some of the best gig rowing crews from around the world.
Falmouth's ladies team has not been beaten there since 2009 and they did not disappoint their fans once again.
Coming second behind them was the local team from St Mary's with Roseland in third place.


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Alumni Q&A with Hon. Cynthia Rayvis '85, Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles
Q: What was your path to law school?
A: I was an elementary school teacher. I obtained a master's degree in education and thought I was through with school. When my children were three and nine years old, I started looking for something new to try. When I went to college in the mid-sixties, it was unusual to study anything other than education and I really didn't explore anything else. At the time, law school just never occurred to me. That's the generation I came from. But I began thinking about it and exploring my options. I knew that I wanted to go to law school part-time because my youngest was still so young.
Q. What attracted you to the PLEAS program?
I looked at the part-time law programs in Los Angeles and was attracted to two of them, including Southwestern. I was debating which one to attend when I got a call from Southwestern about the PLEAS program in the summer of 1981. The person told me, "We have an experimental program for students to attend part-time, but it would be during the day. No one's ever done this before. Would you be interested?" I immediately agreed to it and I never looked back.
I decided to go to law school part-time, not having any idea what I would do with my degree, or whether I would practice law. I thought that going to law school would be really interesting. I didn't realize how much work it was going to be.
The first day of law school, I met two other people in the program. The staff, including the dean of students at that time, Sandra Cooper, watched over us. They bent over backwards to make our experience wonderful. When there was a required course that started at 9 a.m., we said, "You know, we'd really like to take the class at 10 because we need to drop our kids off, we need to do things, and if you're making this for parents, can you make it so that all of our classes are between 10 and 2?" And they said, "Sure." And next thing you know, there was a Torts class at 10. As the semesters went on, we rearranged our schedules a little bit so that we didn't have to go in every day. The three of us decided that we would go in three days and one of those three days we were there from 10 until 9:30 p.m.; we stayed and took a night class. That worked better for us. And each semester we changed it. But everything was offered to us between 10 and 2. Because it was a new program, we were just treated wonderfully.
At the same time, we had the experience of being in with other people, the full-time students. Most of them had no clue that we were part-time. I just found it to be a wonderful experience. I have very fond memories of everything but studying for exams.
What was really nice, I can't stress enough, is that they always listened to our feedback. I go back periodically. There was a reception for all of the PLEAS graduates for the first time five or six years ago, and it was then that I realized just how successful the program has been. There was also a reception recently, and I went back and spoke with some students. It's a terrific program.
Q: What advice would you give parents in law school?
A: I would emphasize that it's still a lot of work. I know there are people who work full-time and go to law school at night and have families, and I don't know how they do it. Those of us who are fortunate enough to study part-time during the day and not have to work are very fortunate.
I tell prospective continuing students, "It's more work than you think it's going to be. When it comes time to study for midterms and finals, it's just like it was in college." That's what you have to do. It's extremely helpful if you have other people who can support you during that time. During my time in the PLEAS program, I was doing a lot of carpooling for my older daughter, and then for my younger daughter as time went on, because it was a four year program. And I had a book in my car all the time, waiting for me. Your studies are always on your mind. It's a big commitment and people need to know that.
Q: Which were the most important courses and professors in your studies? Did you have any mentors?
A: I loved my criminal law courses; I found them to be fascinating. My professor in almost all of them was Paul Flynn, who later became a judge; he retired from the bench within the last few years. I remember one of my first classes my first semester was Torts with a brand-new, very young professor named Robert Lind, who I know is still there. That was the first class that he taught and he was good. Catherine Carpenter was a huge presence then. I never took a class from her. It just didn't happen and I don't know why. I think it had to do with scheduling. I know her, we talk when we see each other, and I know she's done an amazing amount for Southwestern. So in that way she's definitely been a presence.
Q: What is your fondest law school memory?
A: My favorite law school memory is being with my friends and having us pull each other up when things got down. We all had young kids. I was very close to one classmate in particular: Nancy Lemkin, who passed away two years ago. We spent every minute together at Southwestern. We never took a class apart from one another and we studied for finals at each other's homes. I loved the feeling of learning a whole new aspect of information that I had never known before. And I learned to think a different way. In law school, your professors ask questions of you in a certain way. Gradually you learn to think differently and to analyze things differently. I think that's been extremely helpful to me.
Q: Did you know that you wanted to go into criminal law before you started law school?
A: Oh, I didn't even know if I wanted to practice law. I just wanted to get a law degree and see what I could do with it. After my second year, I externed with the Public Defender's office and after my third year I externed with the DA's office. I realized that I liked the prosecutorial aspect more than the defense aspect. I never considered going into anything other than criminal law. And again, the only reason I did something else during those few years after law school was because it was the only part-time job I could get, though I certainly enjoyed it. What I enjoyed most those few years was every time I got to go to court for a summary judgment motion or anything like that. I loved making court appearances and I realized that's what I wanted to do. I was amazed because when I started out in law school, I said, "I certainly never want to go into a courtroom." Now that's where I spend every day. And I love it.
Q: What suggestions do you have for students interested in criminal law?
A: Certainly take every criminal law and law procedure class you can take. Do an externship or clerkship with the DA's office or the public defender's office. It's great experience. After you take Evidence, I believe you can be certified in the DA's office to do preliminary hearings, which is like a little mini-trial. It's wonderful experience. Observe a trial if you have time. Go observe courtroom proceedings; see if you like what you see and if you want to do that.
The other thing I did is I called people whose names I got from friends: both deputy district attorneys and deputy public defenders. I called and I talked to them. I asked them everything about their jobs. I wanted to know everything I could. And that's how I made my decision.
Q: Describe how your law career evolved.
A: I started off as a law clerk working for a sole practitioner who did civil work - tort litigation, plaintiff tort work, personal injury, medical malpractice. I did that for four years part-time because I wanted to wait until my youngest was a little bit older. She was twelve when I started working full-time. And again, I had the luxury of being able to do that because my husband was supporting me. So I worked part-time doing civil work.
During law school, in the summer, I externed in the D.A.'s office. I knew that's what I wanted to do, but there weren't part-time jobs. So I waited. My first full-time job as an attorney was 1990, when I was 41. I worked in the District Attorney's office for twelve years. At the time, people weren't joining the DA's office and staying there for their careers, which they are now. When I applied to be a judge, I think the average age was mid-to-late 40s, so I was just a little older. I was just about 55 when I became a judge.
Q: What did you like most about working in the District Attorney's Office? What was most challenging?
A: It was very challenging. It was very exciting. I always felt, from the first criminal law class I took, that that was the essence of law. Every day was different. I loved that job, it was a great job. I happen to have found a job that was a little bit better, but that was just a terrific job.
From the time I joined that office, there was terrific camaraderie. Talking to other attorneys about your issues was really fun. I loved doing trials. It's a wonderful feeling to be an advocate for a side, to argue that side, and to be ethical.
I always felt that being a Deputy District Attorney, you had a lot of power because if you didn't believe in a case, if you didn't feel you could prove the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, you could dismiss it. You had the power to do right. And I loved preparing for cases, looking at every little detail, and going out to the crime scenes and talking to witnesses.
I spent five years in the DA's office prosecuting gang members accused of murder when I was is in the Hard Core Gang Division. That was very challenging because I was working with victims or families of dead victims and dealing with them. It was very sad. I tried to make sure justice was done.
Q: When working in that kind of environment, is it hard to separate your personal life from the issues you deal with at work?
A: I could do it as long as I wasn't in trial. When I was in trial, that trial was on my mind 24 hours a day to the point where I had a little tape recorder next to my bed so that if I woke up in the middle of the night thinking of something, I could record the thought. When I wasn't in trial, I could leave it and come home and enjoy my life.
Q: How did you transition from your work in the DA's office to your work as a Superior Court judge?
A: I had been an advocate for one side or the other for my entire legal career. Then I was sworn in, found myself on the bench, and was supposed to be an impartial jurist. It does not happen overnight. It can't. I had spent all those years advocating for one side or the other. Once, early on, I had a preliminary hearing in which I was supposed to evaluate whether there was enough evidence to hold the defendant to answer to the charge. I found myself asking questions of the witness. I read the transcript and I thought to myself, "I've taken over the prosecutor's role here." So I started paying attention to that and realized that I was no longer an advocate. I realized that I had absolutely no stake in the outcome.
Q: What are you interests and hobbies outside of the law?
A: I like to travel when I have the chance. My favorites are Turkey, Southeast Asia, and the Galapagos Islands. I play golf - terribly, but I enjoy doing it. I like to ski.
And I've just become a grandmother, so that's my new passion. My granddaughter lives across the country, so that's going to be my new thing. I love to read and I belong to a book club and I do a lot of reading.
Life is busy.


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The proposed project involves the construction of a continuing care community and commercial/retail center, trails, and wetlands on a 119-acre site located 1/2 mile west of the intersection of Bell Road and Richardson Drive in the north Auburn area. The proposed project would consist of 858 residential units. The continuing care community consists of nine two- and three-story independent living buildings, 72 villa duplexes, 68 detached villas, two independent living buildings, and four retirement "common buildings" that in total equal 780 living units. The commercial/retail portion of the project would include three multi-story buildings with 33,500 square feet of commercial/retail with 28,500 square feet being used for retail and 5,000 square feet being used for office professional; five multi-story medical office and office professional buildings with a total of up to 90,000 square feet of medical office space, or up to 140,000 square feet of professional office space; 78 residential lofts that would occupy the second and third stories of the retail buildings and one of the medical office buildings (note: the 78 lofts are included in the total unit count of 858); an RV/boat storage facility; and two 22,500-square-foot professional office commercial buildings. In addition, the project applicant would construct a trail and mitigation wetlands on the undeveloped Auburn Recreation Park District lands to the northeast. The 24-acre Auburn Recreation Park District lands are considered to be part of the proposed 119-acre project site, and any potential impacts resulting from construction of trails and mitigation wetlands are evaluated in the EIR.
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Drew progressing but remains day to day
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Stephen Drew's concussion symptoms are not completely gone, but when they occur, they are "minimal," said Red Sox manager John Farrell.
The shortstop continues to ramp back up toward a return to action, though the club is unlikely to set a timetable until the residual effects of the concussion -- sustained March 7 -- are completely gone.
"Stephen will have a full workout this morning, much like he did [Saturday]," Farrell said. "He'll hit on the field. He'll take his ground balls. We'll still monitor day to day and see if we're closer to him getting back on the field with some kind of game reps hopefully soon."
Best-case scenario?
"It would be ideal if we could get him into some Minor League games before camp breaks," Farrell said. "We'll see how he comes out of these next two days."
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brownie Points, and follow him on Twitter @IanMBrowne. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Honestly this is almost the same reaction I have when I hear Dubstep.
"Dubstep rhythms are usually syncopated, and often shuffled or incorporating tuplets. The tempo is nearly always in the range of 138-142 beats per minute, with a clap or snare usually inserted every third beat in a bar." – Wikipedia
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Hello,I am having a real difficulty setting up xdebug on Sublime text. I know that the Xdebug should be set somewhat correctly, because it is working flawlessly on NetBeans.At the current time, when I start xdebug (XDebug Client plugin), it first does nothing. Then if I open the debug session in the browser, it does nothing again. If I refresh the page, it seems like it's waiting for Sublime to debug, because it says waiting for localhost. But inside Sublime, there is nothing happening.
Console shows this error:ImportError: /opt/sublime_text_2/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/pyexpat.so: undefined symbol: PyHashSecret
I would be grateful for any help. I honestly don't think I can go back from Sublime to other editor, I do love it. Working debugger is crucial though, so I really hope there is a way to get it working.
You probably want to post this on the plug-in's issue tracker github.com/martomo/SublimeTextXdebug/issues


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Corn futures responded surprisingly well to the weekly USDA Export Sales report Thursday, since the data seemed neutral-bearish, particularly for old crop values. Nearby futures rallied significantly soon thereafter, but set back toward unchanged levels later in the day. Wire service sources cited tight country conditions and firm cash prices as supporting the Chicago market. Bulls may also be expecting cool, wet conditions to force some acreage to shift from corn to beans. May corn had risen 2.5 cents to $6.5125/bushel at its Thursday close, while December inched 0.5 cent lower to $5.44.
The weekly USDA Export Sales report appeared somewhat supportive of soybean futures Thursday, since the results came in toward the upper end of pre-report forecasts. Strong soymeal sales probably boosted CBOT prices as well. Tight country markets and firm prices also seemed moderately bullish for prices. However, the idea that the latest rains will further delay spring plantings and shift corn acreage into soybeans seemed to weigh upon deferred futures. May soybeans closed 10.25 cents higher at $14.02/bushel Thursday, while May soyoil dipped 0.28 cents to 49.77 cents/pound, and May meal edged $2.1 higher to $395.0/ton.
Wheat futures also rallied in reaction to the weekly Export Sales data Thursday, since old crop sales topped forecasts and new crop commitments came in near the upper end of the predicted range. Weather also seems to be playing a substantial role in the wheat markets at this point. The moisture provided by the system sweeping across the country at this point will be very welcome everywhere, but cold Southern Plains temperatures may also have caused frosted portions of the winter wheat crop. This would explain the divergence between the Chicago and Kansas City markets. May CBOT wheat futures were unchanged at $6.9675/bushel at their Thursday settlement, while May KCBT wheat surged 8.75 cents to $7.3875, and May MGE futures climbed 4.5 cents to $7.845.
Cattle traders seemed to think the Wednesday CME breakdown was overdone, since short-covering reportedly boosted the Chicago market Thursday. The fact that feedlot operators in the western Corn Belt declined to take lower packer bids (as did their counterparts in the Southern Plains) may be sparking some buying as well. The firmness in the face of sizeable midday beef losses was rather impressive. June cattle closed 0.62 cents higher at 120.65 cents/pound Thursday, while December added 0.17 cents to 126.82. May feeder cattle futures lost 0.55 cents to 141.77 cents/pound, and August sank 0.35 cents to 148.82.
Wire service sourced also cited short-covering for supporting CME lean hog futures Thursday. The concurrent cattle strength, as well as the sizeable wholesale gains posted since Tuesday morning may also have supported the market. Conversely, substantial cash market losses in the western Corn Belt may have undercut some futures. Chicago prices were mixed to lower at the end of the day. The lightly traded May hog contract dipped 0.15 cents to 87.40 cents/pound late Thursday afternoon, while the June contract slid 0.05 cents to 89.45.


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Learn how to get "Better Milk Quality from Better Mastitis Therapy Decisions" during a webinar presented by eXtension. The webinar is scheduled for Feb. 12 from noon-1 p.m. Central Time.
During the webinar, Dr. Ron Erskine, Michigan State University, will discuss how to better identify cases of mastitis through tools such as milk culturing, somatic cell count records, and treatment records.