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A few days ago, it didn't seem like Kris Letang and the Pittsburgh Penguins were going to agree on a contract extension. Letang, 26, was looking for more money than the $7 million or Pittsburgh was reportedly willing to pay him, and negotiations took a personal turn.
None of that might matter anymore, though; the sides were approaching a deal at the NHL draft, according to multiple reports—though there's conflict over how close they are.
Kris Letang contract with Penguins. 8 years / 58 M (#58!) 7.25 AVV Limited no trade to 15 teams. #RDS— Renaud Lavoie (@RenLavoieRDS) June 30, 2013
Word from letang camp is that sides are "making progress" toward deal, but stopped shy of saying agreement is imminent.— Dave Molinari (@MolinariPG) June 30, 2013
The figures reported by Lavoie would be split down the middle, both in term and regarding the no-movement clause, which was also a stumbling block.
Letang, all things considered, is worth that much. He's a defenseman in his prime with a track record of success and capability to improve—plus the salary cap will be back over $70 million and rising when the deal kicks in.
It's also mandatory to remember than an elite player signing a contract today is different than it was in 2012 because of the eight-year-maximum and CBA restrictions on back-diving contracts. That leads (and will continue leading) to higher salary cap hits.
Arguments against Letang signing a deal that big: the fact that Pittsburgh already has nearly $18 million in cap space tied up with Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, Pittsburgh's organization depth at defense and Letang's rough playoff series against the Boston Bruins.


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Normally, January and February are the peak months for the flu. The Health Department has been running service announcements and posting signs at local hospitals and in doctors' offices to remind the public to get vaccinated. As in past years, the Department of Health has been out in the community, focusing on at-risk populations, with vaccination clinics.
Dr. Deborah McMahan, Fort Wayne-Allen County Health Commissioner, said doctors' offices have been telling her they have seen a lot more cases over the past couple of weeks.
"Thank goodness schools were out," McMahan said.
She attributed the recent surge to social aspects of the holiday season, when large groups of friends and family gather indoors and in close proximity. She encouraged the public to get their flu vaccinations.
McMahan said people seem to have become apathetic about getting vaccinations, not just flu shots but all vaccinations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported 60 percent of those who should get vaccinations are not.
She noted there has been an increase of flu in nursing homes and the majority of the deaths reported in the state were in the older population. People who claim to have gotten the flu after receiving the shot are wrong; the flu virus they are vaccinated with is dead and does not cause infection. Currently, a flu vaccine that a person would have to take only once in a lifetime is in the works. For those who are allergic to eggs, McMahan said, there are a couple of options with vaccines that have no egg involved in their manufacturing.
The 2012-13 vaccine protects against the three most common strains of influenza: H3N2, H1N1 and Influenza B. State health officials say that although cases of H1N1 and Influenza B have been reported, the H3N2 strain appears to be predominant. The 2012-13 vaccine appears to be a good match for circulating flu strains.
The shots are available by appointment at the Department of Health Medical Annex, 4813 New Haven Ave. There is a $9 charge for the vaccination.
Krista Stockman, spokeswoman for Fort Wayne Community Schools, said they have continued working with the Fort Wayne-Allen County Health Department and Parkview to offer flu vaccinations in all their Title I schools. She noted that before the Christmas break, they saw an upswing in the number of absences reported, with one to two schools a day having 10 percent or higher absentee rate.
Since their return from winter break, numbers are lower, but Stockman said that could change as students are once again close together in the classrooms. Last year their highest numbers for absenteeism were in January and February.
McMahan said a lot of common colds are being passed around but flu symptoms differ because of high fever, headache, fatigue, cough, sore throat and body aches.
"You don't recover from the flu in a week," McMahan said.
She encouraged people not to try to tough it out at work if they have the flu, but to stay home and rest.


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TELEVISIONS in West Swindon suddenly went dark last month after stronger signals from a nearby 4G mast cut out their reception.
The 4G roll-out in May included an upgrade of the mast on Tewkesbury Way, and residents were left at a loss when terrestrial aerials were badly affected by the network surge in the area.
Engineers have now visited some properties, including in Park Springs, to install new aerials and filters to solve the problems, and anyone else experiencing disruption is asked to contact At800, a company set up to solve the issues.
Bart Hathaway, 90, of Park Springs, lost reception for at least two weeks.
"It all started when the mast was put into operation about five or six weeks ago," he said. "We were watching the TV and suddenly everything just went blank. We were getting nothing.
"There is a complex of around 30 bungalows here, and those of us with terrestrial aerials have been affected. On examination they said the increased signal from the mobile monopole in Tewkesbury Way, about 100 metres from us, was affecting the aerial equipment.
"We were without television for about two weeks, and they have now come in and installed new aerials."
Bart has been cut off from regional television news, as his local programming now comes from the east.
"The mast has destroyed our signal from the west of England, so we no longer get regional programming like BBC Points West, which we all enjoy," he said.
"It is not only this block which is affected but also houses in the Westlea area. We are in the process of seeing what can be done, whether the aerial can be moved a little further away."
Coun Jim Robbins, (Lab, Mannington and Western), has been assisting residents with their reception problems following the 4G roll-out.
"The 4G mast on Tewkesbury Way was upgraded from a 3G mast on May 7," he said.
"About a week after that I got people from the area coming to me saying it was having a big impact on their television reception. We did a bit of research into the problem and spoke to the planning department about it.
"I got in touch with the agent who put the deal together, who gave me details for an organisation called At800. They were set up by all the 4G providers to support people if their reception is affected by the 4G masts. They were meant to have put a postcard round to all the householders who could be affected in the area, but have not done that in Park Springs or Toothill. It was a bit of a shock to them when their reception did not work.
"They have been pretty good so far, and have been round to a few houses to put special filters on the TVs, which seem to sort out the problem.
"The issues have been going on for around a month-and-a-half now. Vodafone have wanted to upgrade a number of masts as part of their 4G roll-out, and they were not expecting at that point for there to be interference."
A spokesman for Vodafone said: "At800 is the independent organisation created to ensure that all UK viewers continue to receive Freeview, or are offered a suitable alternative, when 4G at 800MHz is activated in their area.
"At800 is funded by and represent the UK mobile operators licensed to offer 4G mobile services at 800 MHz: EE, Telefónica UK (O2), Three and Vodafone. They are also the ones who should provide the leafleting about upgrades in the area and help residents when they have an issue."
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"It's never been just about flying."
What beautiful storytelling. It was hard to to watch without a dry eye at the end.
That is, if you overlook the fact that apparently it's so freaking expensive to fly on British Airways a boy can't afford to fly home to see his mum.
And if you also overlook the fact this tactic is so overused by travel industries it becomes parity. As if somehow piggy backing on our emotional moments makes up for an overcrowded, cramped, expensive, experience in the air. As if somehow the rude flight attendant actually gives a shit about the reason why you fly.
Not to mention the lost luggage.
British Airways has been running on this 'we connect people' platform for ages now. But their service is anything but.
So if you're a hardened jaded creative whose eyes still welled up at the end of this ad, here's an idea: Start thinking about creative ways to make your clients walk the walk and not just talk the talk. Because no beautiful tv spot/film/long form content piece will ever make up for a bad experience in the air. Perhaps British Airways should, in addition to bringing us all together, make it "about flying." You know-- since it's their job and all.
Remember what Jerry Della Famina said, kids: Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising.
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Well, I fly British airways a lot on long-hauls and I do it specifically because their cabin crew are kind of amazing. They're a very special kind of service-minded, with a distinct UK flair that I just love (when landing in London). Heathrow is a mess, terminal 5 where BA is, is quiet. I wish they would take better care of this, as I've had terrible ground service in some cities and I know that the UK cabin crew arm is basically propping up the entire brand at this point.
I do agree with you that the emotion story angle is getting to be Airliner standard these days, and wish they hadn't done it that way. Bringing people together is BA's hallmark since forever, it's a shame that this made me think Expedia right before I went to find my kleenex.


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The US surge in Afghanistan will turn up the heat on Karachi. Khalid Aziz, chairman of the Peshawar-based thinktank Regional Institute of Policy Research and Training, predicts that the start of the US-led onslaught in southern Afghanistan will have the unfortunate effect of inciting Taliban-led violence in the huge, already volatile port city.
"Pakistan is now the focal point (of the US-led assault)," Aziz, who is also an adviser to Pakistan president Asif Zardari on NWFP and FATA, said during a long conversation with me in New Delhi a few days ago. Aziz was here as part of the India-Afghanistan-Pakistan trialogue by the Delhi Policy Group.
Karachi has already been burdened with the ANP strife. Pashtuns have drifted to Karachi in droves over the years and now dominate the city's transport sector. Aziz says they also occupy the low-paid, bottom-rung jobs in construction and other labour-intensive sectors. (This has put severe pressure on the MQM's constituency base, leading to strong protests from MQM leaders.)
Add to this is the fact that the Taliban too have used the Pashtun presence to hide out and now the IDPs are adding to the pressure.
The volatile atmosphere is accentuating the traditional ethnic divides that rend the city. Also remember, says Aziz, Deobandi madrassas like the Binori mosque are always there to add to the fundamentalist mix. "In fact, the growing violence within the city could even freeze up the Karachi port." Such an eventuality will be disastrous for Pakistan's internal dynamics as well as the fact that the US transports almost 75% of its military supplies for Afghanistan through Karachi. As Aziz sees it, that's a disaster waiting to happen.
The US military strategy, in southern Afghanistan, as Aziz sees it, is intended to disrupt the Taliban activities. With their new bases in Zabol, the US assault would end up driving the Taliban to the east – that is, to the Waziristan areas of the NWFP. Therefore, as Aziz sees it, the Swat and Waziristan operations by the Pakistan army are also intended to be pre-emptive strikes. The idea is the old hammer-anvil strategy – that when the Taliban are being forced out of their operating areas in southern Afghanistan, they would not again (as during the Operation Anaconda in 2001-02) be able to take refuge in Pakistan, because of the Pakistan army's presence, which is using the clearing out operation to position itself there.
Aziz notices two focal points of the violence being unleashed in the NWFP. One, as discussed above, would be south Afghanistan and Karachi. The second would be Quetta in Balochistan. Here the Baloch nationalists/insurgents could be the wild card, he says, because it isn't yet clear how they would act. Quetta has become the home of the al-Qaida-Mullah Omar group. Balochistan is also home to other Taliban, numerous jundullahs supported by everyone from Iran to Karzai's brother, and Baloch liberation wallas. That's another potential disaster area that needs to be looked at, he says.
Aziz is also concerned that the "taqfiri" movement is not wholly religious extremist in nature. There is a large input of local grievances enmeshed with the religious jihadi movement. For instance, he says, in the areas of Matta, Khwajakhela and Charnbagh, there are many landlord-tenant tensions that have fed into the Taliban. In Swat too, the progressive decline in high-value agriculture incomes have fuelled the fires. In NWFP, a long-running battle for revenue-sharing between WAPDA and NWFP has resulted in a continuing loss for the provincial exchequer, which has severely hit local development and given local colour to what could have earlier been described as a foreign-infused religious extremist movement. Now the IDP camps, says Aziz, could become "Taliban recruiting centres".
The trouble with this is, it could actually give the Taliban greater staying power in the region. But these problems cannot possibly be solved overnight, not those that have festered for decades.
There is another problem here from the Indian perspective, as I see it. First, the Taliban are moving from the fighting to areas beyond the Swat valley to other districts, which will inevitably widen the war against the Taliban being fought in Pakistan. Second, and more ominous for India, the al-Qaida-Taliban leadership could plan another diversionary tactic. In 2001, when the al-Qaida-Taliban were fleeing the US operations in Tora Bora, they sponsored the attack on the Indian Parliament on December 13, 2001.
According to terrorism expert Bruce Riedel, the Parliament attack was an al-Qaida's tactic which incited an Indian and Pakistani military response. This moved Pakistani troops from the northwestern borders to the eastern border, leaving the field open for an escape route from Afghanistan. Could they do it again? India needs to be even more careful, more alert.


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Mathis opens rehab assignment with Jupiter
PHILADELPHIA -- You can basically say Spring Training has once again begun for Jeff Mathis.
The 30-year-old began his rehab assignment with two hits in four at-bats in five innings on Thursday night for Class A Jupiter. He started at catcher again for the Hammerheads on Friday, before he is scheduled to exclusively serve as the designated hitter on Saturday.
Mathis broke his right collarbone on Feb. 23 in the Marlins' first Spring Training game.
"Basically, he didn't have any Spring Training," Marlins manager Mike Redmond said. "He got hurt the very first game of Spring Training. He never gave himself a chance to get going. It's going to be up to him for how long it takes for him to get his legs under him and get in shape."
Mathis opened the season on the disabled list, and by rule, he can spend 20 days on rehab assignment before the team decides either to activate him or keep him on the DL.
The short-term plan is two games behind the plate and the third game as DH. Mathis also has to build up to catching full games.
"Being a catcher, you have to have your legs under you, and you have to catch nine innings or close to nine innings," Redmond said. "With that being his throwing arm, you have to make sure he gets his arm in shape. You want him to build his arm strength up, so when he gets here, he is game ready."
Joe Frisaro is a reporter for MLB.com. He writes a blog, called The Fish Pond. Follow him on Twitter


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The registration deadline has been extended for the Dairy Calf and Heifer Association annual conference, to be held April 1-3, 2014 at the Hyatt on Main in Green Bay, Wis.
"Only a few weeks away, dairy producers, calf and heifer raisers won't want to miss this event," says Vickie Franken, owner of City View Farms, near Sioux Center, Iowa and 2014 conference chair committee. "The response from dairy producers, calf and heifer raisers and industry for this upcoming conference has been overwhelming."
Conference highlights will include:
- Unique speakers and a wide variety of industry experts to share research, expertise and advice on calf and heifer management.
- Both presentations and hands-on demonstrations and tours at some of the industry's best dairy calf and heifer facilities.
- An educational track specific for farm employees and staff.
- Networking with other producers and industry leaders.
- Calf and heifer-specific trade show.
- Keynote speaker, Donald Driver - NFL superstar, Dancing with the Stars Champion and author.
- Reception at Lambeau Field and optional behind-the-scenes tour.
Heifer raisers, dairy producers, veterinarians, nutritionists and anyone with a vested interest in raising calves is invited to attend the upcoming conference.
Register today! The pre-registration deadline has been extended to Monday, March 31.
Register by visiting www.calfandheifer.org or calling 855-400-DCHA (3242). Sponsorship opportunities are also available for this can't miss event.
For the complete conference agenda and brochure, click here.


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We here at the South Florida Law Blog decided to clock in a few hours this weekend, because if we didn't we'd probably fall behind President Obama's new man-in-the trenches Eric Schneiderman.
President Obama only announced this new investigative unit during Tuesday's State of the Union, yet the "check", or in this case the subpoena, is already in the mail.
If you were skeptical that Obama was still interested in the status-quo when it comes to the banks and doing business, may we present Exhibit A.
Eric Schneiderman is turning himself into a modern-day Elliot Ness.
You remember Ness don't you?
The federal agent whose team of "Untouchables" couldn't be bought off and helped bring down Al Capone?
Schneiderman too has the era of a man who will not be co-opted. If anyone can stay above the fray and not be reeled in by the banks and their money, he can.
Investigation Going After Cause of Housing Crisis
Schneiderman has stood up to the President before, openly opposing the settlement agreement that we here at the South Florida Law Blog have railed against. And now he is Obama's point man for placing blame and creating accountability for causing the worst economic crisis in the US since the Depression.
The Huffington Post is reporting that outside of claims directly relating to robo-signing fiasco, the banks will not be released from the threat of prosecution for the vast majority of securities-related crimes.
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Founded in Seattle in 1996, Mars Hill Church is one of the largest and most-innovative churches in the US, with upwards of 14,000 people meeting weekly across multiple locations each week. Mars Hill has been recognized as the 28th largest, 3rd fastest-growing, and 2nd most-innovative church in the country by Outreach magazine. Pastor Mark Driscoll's sermons receive more than 10 million downloads per year, consistently rank #1 on iTunes, and he has over 450,000 combined followers on Facebook and Twitter.
Pastor Mark and his wife Grace co-authored Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, & Life Together which was released from Thomas Nelson in 2012 and reached #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list, #3 on Publisher Weekly's Nonfiction Hardbound list, #8 on the Wall Street Journal Nonfiction Combined List, and #38 on USA Today's Top 150 Books.
Mars Hill Music is made up of a variety of musicians and worship leaders who serve throughout the various Mars Hill locations. Since its humble beginnings in 1996, Mars Hill has been committed to the philosophy that each local Mars Hill Church would engage the culture in its local surroundings and point people to Jesus. Each Mars Hill band strives to do this with a natural expression and outgrowth of what God is doing in their cities.
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What would you say to your younger self?
Monday, April 16, 2012
Advice to the Twenty-Somethings
What would you say to your younger self?
9 comments:
- Tina Fariss Barbour said...
Dear twenty-something Tina,
Don't look to the future for your happiness. Appreciate the moment you're in.
When you make decisions, please don't base them on what you think someone else wants you to do.
And don't forget your writing. It's who you are.
- Monday, April 16, 2012
- Darla said...
My Grace, this is certainly something to think on.....
- Monday, April 16, 2012
- VW said...
"Good luck! I wouldn't trade my spot for yours, even if you have fewer wrinkles."
Life just keeps getting better, with more people to love . . . that balances out the increase in wrinkles and grey hairs, for sure.
- Monday, April 16, 2012
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
I would say always do what you love. It's an added bonus if you can make a living doing what you love!
- Monday, April 16, 2012
- Donna@Gardens Eye View said...
Not sure what I would tell myself....it would definitely deal with not giving away your self esteem to anyone...never let anyone treat you poorly and take time to get to know yourself...
- Monday, April 16, 2012
- ricki 'sprig to twig' said...
Life is long.
Live in the moment.
The worst times make the best stories.
- Tuesday, April 17, 2012
- serial tiller said...
I would tell myself to wait till I'm 34 to get married (since I married the "good" husband at that age) and to go to school earlier...buy a house and plant lots of trees so I can see them reach maturity before I hit the nursing home circuit!
- Tuesday, April 17, 2012
- bakingbarb said...
Oh my that is a difficult question, not sure I like it! I would say to my younger self to be stronger and know that there are wonderful people out there that do care. That is what I needed to know when I was younger.
- Tuesday, April 17, 2012
- Kim and Victoria said...
You know how tough that is, right?
What would I say? Stay in college, don't leave just because no one cares. Marry a good person and don't worry about the money. Tell the people you love that you do.
- Wednesday, April 18, 2012
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They were everywhere back in the late '70s and early '80s-fat-fendered Vettes with wild wings, aerodynamic front ends, and bulging quarter panels. Companies like Eckler's, with its '80 Greenwood Daytona body, and ACI, with its "Stalker" wide-body kit for the C4, gave Vette owners the opportunity to individualize their cars well beyond the usual paint-and-stripes makeover.
Up until recently, however, no one produced a similarly comprehensive body kit for the C5. Sure, there were dozens of bolt-on hoods, wings and ground effects on the market, but nothing to rival the fantastical appearance packages of years past. Ironically, it took a German enthusiast to give America's sports car a truly radical makeover. The results are, in a word, extreme.
Axel Jasiek is the co-owner of Extreme Corvette-the Bradenton, Florida, company that designed the kit. The German-born Jasiek is no stranger to sports cars; he drove Porsches on the Autobahn for years and has more than a passing familiarity with European tuners such as Koenig and Brabus. These firms have long applied radical wide-body conversions-replete with bulging quarter panels and pumped-up fender lines-to Benzes, BMWs, and the like. Jasiek is also familiar with the Geiger Corvettes that were designed and executed on Corvettes imported into Europe.
Jasiek and his partner, Ralf Schmidt, teamed up after Jasiek made a visit to the States and drove a few Vettes. He shipped a '98 roadster back to Germany and set about to, in his words, "make a great car look a bit greater." He and Schmidt designed the wide body and collaborated with a fiberglass fabrication company in Germany to produce the molds. The kit was an eye-poppin' success in Europe, sending Jasiek back to the U.S. to introduce the Extreme Wide Body to American Corvette aficionados.
When Jasiek calls the Extreme kit a "wide body," he's not exaggerating. The stock C5 has an overall width of 72.6 inches. The Extreme Corvette measures out at a belt-bustin' 84 inches across the front fenders and 89 across the rear deck. Amazingly, it looks neither bulbous nor out of proportion. While we only had the opportunity to inspect and photograph an Extreme body fitted on an '01 roadster, we did see photos of several coupe conversions, and they're a bonafide knockout.
At first, it's easy to assume that there's significant Viper influence in the design. But, according to Jasiek, the real inspiration for the Extreme Wide Body was the C3 Corvette. To him, the flare of the Third-Gen Vette's front fenders, the pinch in the doors, and the bulge of the rear quarters were all open to a contemporary interpretation.
By pushing these dimensions outward on the C5 form, the Extreme Wide Body achieves a powerful flow. And since it's lower than the stock body, the extra width makes it look slammed, even though the suspension remains at the factory ride height. Bolt on 19-inch front and ultra-wide 20-inch rear wheels, and the Extreme Corvette looks capable of sucking the centerline clean off the pavement. Smaller wheels and tires can be used, but forget about using the stock rims-they'll literally disappear in the Wide Body's wheelwells.
There's nothing complicated about installing the Extreme Wide Body package. It utilizes the factory attaching points, with adequate "give" provided for varying factory tolerances. The package comprises a front fascia, fenders, door skins, quarters with rocker sills, a rear fascia, and inner wheel panels. The factory hood, convertible deck, and rear decklid are retained, but any aftermarket hood would look great on the Extreme Wide Body. The convertible's trunk space isn't compromised by the conversion, but you'll need to get used to climbing over the additional bulk at the rockers when getting in or out.
The Extreme Wide Body can also serve as the launching point for even wilder customizing. Murals, billet or carbon-fiber trim, and engine-compartment brightwork will all complement the package. In fact, the more radical you go, the better a Wide Body C5 will look. One thing's for sure: This conversion is not for the timorous. If owning a Corvette gets you noticed, then wning an Extreme Wide Body Corvette will guarantee you'll be a magnet for every car freak within a 10-mile radius.
So, what does all this attention cost? According to Jasiek, the Wide Body package starts at $11,000 and can be installed and prepped for paint for an additional $5,000. A set of 11x19 front and 13x20 rear wheels and tires will set you back an additional $5,500. The price for the paint job is between you and the painter.
While there are no plans to offer an Extreme Wide Body for the C6, a package for the C4 is in the works. The front fascia features exposed headlamps and a riser hood with a front-center air scoop. The rear backlight is recessed la the '68 Corvette, and the rear fascia is pure C5. With the wider fenders and quarter panels, the car is so muscular you'd be hard pressed to tell it started life as a C4.
So, will the Corvette community embrace this radical new approach to C5 restyling? Yeah, we think so. After all, the average Vette owner likes to make his ride distinctive and one-of-a-kind. If nothing else, an Extreme Wide Body conversion is sure to accomplish that.


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Welcome to the Environmental Utilities Wastewater Utility Page. We are dedicated to providing a reliable, environmentally friendly and safe wastewater treatment system for the City of Roseville. This site contains helpful information on rates, wastewater facilities and maintenance programs. Please enjoy what this site has to offer and if you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at (916) 774-5750.
August 14, 2014 Are wipes really flushable? Even though wipes say they are flushable, often times they are not. Wipes can cause sewer backups. Prevent a backup. Throw wipes in the garbage, not in the toilet. Click here for more information.
January 17, 2014 The City of Roseville owns and operates the Dry Creek and Pleasant Grove Wastewater Treatment Plants. Discharges from the facilities are currently regulated by Waste Discharge Requirements issued by the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board. An Order is proposed to renew the NPDES Permits for these facilities. A public hearing concerning this matter will be held during the March Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board Meeting. The public hearing notices can be viewed at these links: Dry Creek WWTP Pleasant Grove WWTP
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With the return of the much-loved Great British Bake Off to BBC One we asked readers for pictures of their most bake off worthy cakes.
Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood should not rest on their laurels, we were inundated with cakes covered in glitter, rainbow colours and edible sand.
Tigger, trainers and lego were all created out of cake, along with the inevitable many 'minions' and 'Frozen' cakes.
Maldon and Burnham readers could easily compete with last year's Bake Off winner Frances Quinn and her three tier wedding cake, complete with edible confetti.
If anyone wants to send us a slice of their cake creation to sample, hungry Standard reporters would be very happy.


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LRT With a tip opening of 1.03, the MoBa Legend Bb Mouthpiece features an elegant, ringing quality, balanced by immediate responsiveness. This model is very popular with players of vintage French mouthpieces and is a good starting point if you like the M13Lyre and M15.
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ART Delicately named the Arabesque, this Bb mouthpiece has a tip opening of 1.19, but with a longer facing. The ART is perfect for those who play a B40 or B45 style of mouthpiece.
ART2 With a tip opening of 1.19, but a longer facing, the MoBa Arabesque 2 Bb Mouthpiece is comparable to the B40 and B45 while being tuned A=442.


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In a move that could help address ag labor concerns, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency wants to make it easier for undocumented immigrants to apply for visas.
The proposed change would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the country while their applications are being processed , according to the Federal Register.
Those seeking residency who have immediate relatives who are U.S. citizens can apply to stay in the country while their application is undergoing "consular processing," which can take 10 years to complete.
Current regulations require visa applicants leave the country while their paperwork is reviewed.
The change is aimed at undocumented immigrants who have family members who are U.S. citizens., in particular children born in the U.S.


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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents rounded up 92 immigrants last week in Colorado as part of a nationwide sweep designed to snare the most egregious criminals and fugitives among the illegal immigrant population.
Those arrested do not face certain deportation. ICE's hands are tied in some cases by a 2001 Supreme Court ruling that has been spotlighted since a Vietnamese ex-convict was charged last month with fatally shooting five people in San Francisco.
The ex-convict had been ordered deported six years ago but had been released from detention because his native country would not provide travel documents for his return. The Supreme Court's decision in Zadvydas vs. Davis allows immigrants who are subject to deportation orders to be detained for up to 180 days. Exceptions are made if they are likely to be deported soon after that, pose a terrorist threat or are deemed to be especially dangerous.
"Of the 94 arrested (that figure includes two in Wyoming), nobody is currently impacted by that," said ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok. "But they could be ultimately if we can't get travel documents."
Those arrested last week in Colorado include:
• A 30-year-old man from Mexico who had convictions for domestic violence, driving while impaired, illegally carrying a concealed firearm and possessing a controlled substance.
• A 27-year-old man from Mexico with convictions twice for possessing controlled substances and twice for drunken driving.
• A 24-year-old man from Thailand who had been convicted of sexual contact with no consent.
• A 42-year-old man from Mexico with convictions for trespass, theft, possessing and selling cocaine, criminal impersonation, false reporting, harassment and drunken driving.
A third of those arrested in the sweep in Colorado were in Denver. Aurora had 10 arrests. The rest were scattered among 21 other Colorado counties.


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Hello,I am a fresher into a job in web designing/development in India.The senior at the company which I have joined as a trainee uses mostly images from the Google search(many a times without even altering them) as backgrounds and other elements in professional websites.When I asked him about it he boasted of a 5 year experience in the field and said it was normal to use them. That had me wondering whether he was really right or not. I mean I also use some images from Google search, but they are mostly small elements like buttons etc., which are free for use from the author. For backgrounds i do use some Google images but I always for 70% part use some sort of formatting to pick out only certain areas within the image( never a full image, which is not submitted by client).Can anyone suggest what is right as I am confused whether to use such images( which of Course makes the work faster but less satisfying) or to go with my idea to develop in this field??
Hi devilsnare. Welcome to the forums.
No, don't assume that because you see an image on Google, you can just use it in your own projects. By default, images, text and so on are copyrighted material. So you need to check with the owner and get permission to use something that's not your own. If owners have given permission on their websites for the content to be used freely (like buttons etc.), then that's fine. But otherwise, you are basically stealing their content, and could get in trouble for it—or caught in devil's snare :shifty:—if you aren't careful.
Definitely not legal unless you have specific permission or the site you are taking it from indicates it's okay. Even then you really should make sure that THEY have the right to offer the image to people. Basically if you don't have the right to use the image, it's copyright infringement and you can be sued for 6 figure sums (up to $150,000 per infringement in the US I believe). Even worse for you if you are doing this as part of a business - especially if you are using these on client's sites. Some stock image companies actually have a bot that runs around the net identifying infringement, and it's clever enough to spot it from very small elements even if it's been changed from the original. They then send you an invoice for 4 or 5 figure sums per image, with a threat to sue if you don't pay up.
Basically I would suggest you either buy from an official stock image resource, or buy a decent camera and take the pictures yourself.
Just to add a point ....
The title of your post refers to "images from Google". The images you are referring to do not "belong" to Google, and it is not Google whose copyright you would be infringing if you used them. Google is merely the mechanism which finds the images for you. As the others have said, you need to obtain permission from the actual copyright holders in each case.
The reason I mention this point is that, if you are unclear about the role of Google in this context, you really need to brush up your knowledge on the which environment in which we are working.
The title of your post refers to "images from Google". The images you are referring to do not "belong" to Google, and it is not Google whose copyright you would be infringing if you used them. Google is merely the mechanism which finds the images for you. As the others have said, you need to obtain permission from the actual copyright holders in each case.
The reason I mention this point is that, if you are unclear about the role of Google in this context, you really need to brush up your knowledge on the which environment in which we are working.
If you use Google image search, then you can use the "Options" button at the top right of the results page to choose "Advanced Search". At the bottom of this page is an option to filter results by usage rights, so you can find images which are free to use, share or modify for commercial purposes. Of course, before using these images you should still check that this is correct, because at the end of the day it is your responsibility to ensure you have permission to use the images.
Initially, I was involved in using the very same practice (using copyright images) on my site but in result I got a plethora of mails from image owners demanding to remove images ASAP. Since, it was a tough job to remover every image one by one, I started giving image credit to sites from where I used to download them. It worked. Today, I get lot of mails of appreciation from the other end for giving them backlink.
It should have nothing to do with it being such a 'tough job' for you to remove the images (oh the inconvenience!). It's to do with the fact that unless you have a license to use the image or you can argue fair use, you are infringing the rights of the image owner.
You should contact the image owner first and ask them if it's okay to use the image. Simple as that - I don't see what's so difficult. Taking the image and just giving credit does not absolve you from legal action - and don't always assume the owner is just going to send you a cease and desist - they could simply come straight in with litigation. So far, you've been lucky - not every rights holder is going to be so forgiving, especially if you are using their image for commercial reasons.
Also, because you take specific parts of an image or heavily edit them it doen't mean you own the image
Just because you give credit to the owner you stole the image from doesn't suddenly mean you didn't steal it. Sounds like you were extremely fortunate that the owners decided to allow you to use the images in return for acknowledging them - they could just as easily have used that credit as additional evidence that the images really were stolen from them. Presumably none of the images came from a stock photo site as crediting the image would not have stopped them suing you for huge sums.
I agree with shadowbox. You should contact the image owner and if he allows to use the image then it would be good enough. if you use get an image from Google and use it on your website, it will be something like stealing and illegal.


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Can my actress wife buy a ticket to this event? We met Sara Jessica Parker last June near 43rd & 8th. And I met Susan Sarandon 3 years ago on 18th street between 5th & 6th ave.


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text: This guide is 5 steps. Please start at the beginning There are 2 other threads for this, but over time the steps have been refined so this new guide gives the same result with minimum effort. For reference the previous 2 guides are here: http://androidforums.com/desire-tips-tricks/160560-force-apps-install-sd-without-root.html http://androidforums.com/desire-tip...ed-device-noobs-guide-updated-09-02-11-a.html Note*** This is for the HTC desire. This should work on most android 2.2+ devices (no 2.1 devices can do this) but you will need your own devices drivers. For HTC devices, HTC Sync provides these. Feel free to ask questions about this process here if you do not have a desire, but other than confirming you have at least Android 2.2, I will not know any more than you do about your device specific issues. 1) download and install htc sync HTC Desire - Application - HTC Sync for all HTC Android Phones (NAM) 2) download sdk and extract to C:\ http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20471345/SUroot/Tools/PC/sdktools-toolsonly.rar Double click the zip file once downloaded and drag the "android-sdk-windows" folder (contained within) to your C: drive *** Note, the provided download is designed to work with this guide. The SDK has changed the path since so if you already downloaded the SDK, you can either keep with that and amend the instructions to reflect your path, or just download the supplied files. 3) Connect your phone by USB (you may need to test with USB and Charge only modes) 4) Open command prompt (in Windows) Go to Start > Run Type "Cmd" and press OK 5) In the black window: Type "cd\android-sdk-windows\tools" and press enter (or platform-tools if you have adb in there) Then Type "adb shell" and press enter Then Type "pm setInstallLocation 2" and press enter Further notes*** This will not move apps that are already installed. It changes the default install location to the SD card so newly installed apps should install to that location. To move apps you already have installed, download "Apps2sd" from the market. This will go through all apps that can be moved and allow you to press the "Move to SD" button for each, sequentially. For some people this will not install apps to the SD card, but still allow those apps to be moved manually. Keep an eye on this. If it doesn't work for you the first time. Try toggling usb debugging to the opposite of what it is currently set to. If it still fails, toggle back again.


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Researchers in one study compared 249 people hospitalized within six years of the onset of Parkinson's disease (PD) to 368 people hospitalized without any neurodegenerative diseases. Doctors measured participants' diets and glycemic index, and adjusted for age, sex, smoking history, body mass index, education, and area of residence. Compared to those who consumed the lowest levels, those who consumed the most beta-carotene were 44 percent less likely to develop Parkinson's disease, and those who consumed the most vitamin E were 55 percent less likely.
In a related study, researchers measured B-vitamin levels in the diets of the same two groups of hospitalized participants. Doctors said that the B vitamins help break down homocysteine, an inflammatory protein that may be related to the disease process. While scientists found no link to other B vitamins, people who got the most vitamin B6 were less likely to develop PD than those who got less vitamin B6.
In the first vitamin D Parkinson's disease study to follow people over time, researchers evaluated 3,173 Finnish men and women, aged 50 to 79, who were free of PD at the start of the study. Sunlight is limited in Finland, and average levels of vitamin D were well below the 75 to 80 nanomoles per liter of blood (nmol/L) optimal for vitamin D, doctors said. During 29 years of follow up, compared to those with vitamin D levels below 25 nmol/L, those with vitamin D levels of at least 50 nmol/L were 65 percent less likely to develop PD.


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New Program Teaches Kids Gang-Refusal Strategies
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12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
Aug. 16, 2004
New Program Teaches Kids Gang-Refusal Strategies
In a coordinated effort to fight gangs, the Fairfax County Police Department and three county human services agencies have started a summer camp to teach pre-teens gang-refusal strategies. This camp continues the county's campaign to stem gang recruitment in potential hot spots within its borders.
The "Road Dawgs Summer Camp" began today for 35 pre-teens from the Annandale area. Working collaboratively, the four county agencies recruited middle school students who are exposed to gangs. While this year's camp focuses on Annandale youth, "Road Dawgs" will be rolled out to other parts of the county in coming years.
Marrying the expertise of the police, Fairfax County Department of Community and Recreation Services, the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board and Fairfax County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court, the week-long day camp will run through Friday, Aug. 20, at a different county facility every day.
"It's just like the adage, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," said Captain Jack Hurlock, commander of the West Springfield District Station and one of the camp's architects. "Preventing kids from joining gangs is just as important as suppressing gang activity — and this camp is unique because it recognizes that only a joint effort can solve the gang problem."
"Road Dawgs" will focus on three main goals:
• Increase pre-teens' skills to resist joining gangs and experimentation
with tobacco, alcohol and drugs.
• Provide pre-teens with alternatives to "hanging out" — the unsupervised time when they typically might engage in violence or substance abuse.
• Introduce pre-teens to the numerous programs and services offered by the police and county human services agencies.
"By bringing together a diverse group, we are able to address issues from many different approaches," said Laura Yager, director of Prevention Services for the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board. "Our resources can be maximized because of our collaborative approach."
A centerpiece of the camp's activities will be the "Get Real About Violence" program, which will be run by Community Services Board employees. This program teaches gang-refusal through classroom instruction and role playing. Campers also will learn tobacco and alcohol prevention skills from Community and Recreation Services instructors. While the police engage in role playing, a judge with the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court will lecture the pre-teens about the myths and realities of gang life.
During the week, camp participants will visit the county's Criminal Justice Training Academy, Operations Support Bureau, the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court and the West Springfield District Police Station. Each day the children will engage in team-building, role playing and decision-making exercises.
At the camp's end, participants will be connected with other county programs and facilities, like the Police Department's "Explorer" program or the RECenters.
For more information about the "Road Dawgs Summer
Camp," please contact Captain Jack Hurlock with the West Springfield
District Police Station at 703-451-5066, TTY 711, or Evan Braff with the
Fairfax County Department Community and Recreation Services at


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This week's Poly Weekly #199: All My Love, a review of the Chicago play on open marriage and interview with write Tony Fiorentino.
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Pannapetar wrote:Ben wrote:At the very least, its unskilful and unwholesome as it creates powerful sankharas of lust that are difficult to eradicate.mikenz66 wrote:It's not "wrong" but it's a time-wasting and rather useless activity.Dhammakid wrote:I can attest to the scourge that sensual desire - particularly sexual - is on the development of sila, panna and samadhi.
I would be very careful with such statements. There is a good reason why the Buddhadharma gives few explicit rules about sexual misconduct and masturbation. It is certainly not up to us to retrofit the dhamma by generalising our opinions. What skilful practice with regard to the 3rd precept is, depends on largely the psychophysical makeup of the individual. Celibacy can be the best path for some, but it can be disastrous for others. It is not required for lay people.
Cheers, Thomas
I agree with your response to the quotes. We are, after, sexual beings. Self pleasuring has its place as a sexual response to one's sexual impulses. It is far better, as a layperson, to have a healthy appreciation and enjoyment of one's sexuality rather than taking a grim Calvinistic or Catholic approach that causes unnecessary and unhealthy shame and guilt. Like anything we do self-pleasuring can be misused, overdone and can become a problem, but in and of itself it is not a problem. As Woody Allen so rightly said: "Don't knock masturbation, it's sex with someone I love."


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Hampstead, Md. -- JoS. A. Bank Clothiers announced the opening of its 600th store, in the Shops at Midtown Miami on North Miami Avenue in Miami. The company said it expects to open another 200 stores in the future as part of its long-term plan to grow the chain to approximately 800 stores, including 700 full-line stores and 100 factory stores in the United States.
"Over the past five years, we have opened more than 190 new stores and created more than 3,000 jobs in the United States," stated R. Neal Black, CEO of JoS. A. Bank. "Our balance sheet continues to be strong and it positions us to be able to focus on the long-term growth prospects of the company."


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March 6, 2014 6:00 am
Wishcasting the Cubs' future.
You may think I have a bounce in my step because spring is on the way, but every sense available to me during this winter without end says you're wrong. You could argue it's because baseball is being played again in Arizona and Florida, but I'm not there to witness it, and even the densest cluster of pixels can't impersonate a warm breeze. No, it was Kris Bryant's first spring training at-bat that made me so giddy, the one that ended after nine pitches when the young third baseman blasted a towering drive to straight-away center. Before Bryant launched that ball into the mesosphere, I was the same skeptical Cubs fan I had always been, longing for but never truly expecting greatness. By the time it landed on the berm past the center field fence, however, I started to feel something I hadn't experienced in so long I nearly didn't recognize it: belief.
January 28, 2014 6:00 am
Immortalizing more of the arguments that you'd most like to see die.
Last week I presented Part One of the list of 14 nominees for the "Hall of Famously Weak Arguments," a compendium of the most annoyingly wrong positions we sometimes hear baseball fans or commentators defend. The first seven nominees will be listed below without further comment from me; the final seven nominees are then listed, along with descriptions of when they're heard, why they're weak, and (in the interest of fairness) when they might be correct.
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January 21, 2014 6:00 am
Immortalizing the arguments that you'd most like to see die.
One of the enduring joys of baseball fandom is the ability to engage in spirited debates on baseball topics both great and small—award voting, lineup construction, in-game strategies, anything and everything that makes up the game we all love. Baseball fandom without arguments would be like baseball without keeping score—aesthetically pleasing, but devoid of the passion that makes it worth paying attention to.
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July 18, 2013 6:04 am
The recent times that teams were right and we were wrong.
Here at Baseball Prospectus, one of our main jobs is to have opinions on just about every move made by every organization ever. Over the years, as the analytics revolution has spread throughout baseball—a process that amateur and semi-pro sabermetricians can take some credit for—the percentage of ridiculously unwise decisions that we can get all snarky about has been significantly reduced. Still, we do occasionally criticize a move, and even less occasionally, our opinions turn out to be wrong.
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April 30, 2012 3:00 am
Reviewing a new documentary about the often agonizing July 2nd signing process for international amateur prospects.
During last year's Wisconsin Film Festival, I watched a documentary entitled Open Season, about the events surrounding the tragic shootings of eight deer hunters in northern Wisconsin by a trespassing Minnesotan. The film was reasonably well-made and even-handed, given that the shooter happened to be a Hmong refugee and the victims were white Midwesterners, facts that could have easily enabled a broad black-and-white narrative of culture clash and racism rather than the grey-scale collision of individuals in a moment of escalating conflict. Watching the film didn't teach me anything new about the shootings and subsequent trial, as both occurred near my hometown, two of the victims were related to me, and it was unlikely the filmmakers could learn and express as much about the events and the environment surrounding them as I already knew, having to some extent lived them.
January 25, 2012 9:00 am
Following up with eight more baseball arguments that often don't make sense.
Last week in this space, I unveiled the first seven nominees for the Hall of Famously Weak Baseball Arguments, my fictional museum of unsupportable or outdated baseball beliefs. Below you'll find those initial seven listed without further comment, along with the final eight. As before, I've essayed to describe the times and places where you'll hear these groaners, why I believe they're weak, and situations in which they may actually be correct.
January 18, 2012 3:00 am
Deconstructing seven baseball arguments that usually don't make sense.
In the wake of this year's Hall of Fame voting season, and to help remove the bad taste left by some of the mind-numbingly bad arguments I've heard and read over the last few weeks for or against various HOF candidates, I thought it might be fun to open my very own Hall of Famously Bad Baseball Arguments. To do this, I need your help. I am hereby nominating you for membership in the BBWAA—Baseball Weak Argument Arbiters—and empowering you to nominate and vote for the baseball arguments that you find the most irritating and least convincing.
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November 17, 2011 3:00 am
Ken checks to see how many of his pre-season Over/Unders the readers called correctly and picks the most prescient BP reader.
Last spring in this space I introduced a contest entitled "Setting The Line," wherein I selected two key players from each American League and National League team, set a benchmark for what their 2011 season might produce in a given metric, and invited participants to select whether each player would score Over or Under that line. Now that the season is over and we are into awards season, it's time to announce a winner. By a landslide, the most prescient prognosticator this year was Matthew Kenerly, who ran down Rex Babiera in the home stretch by choosing the correct side of the line on 39 of 50 players. No one else had more than 37 correct, so Matthew showed himself to be head-and-shoulders above the crowd and has our permission to proclaim himself the wisest of all BP readers, a title I'm sure will earn him due deference during comments section discussions throughout the coming year. Less importantly, Matthew has won himself a free copy of Baseball Prospectus 2012 with as many author signatures as I can manage to round up this spring. Well done, Matthew.
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August 22, 2011 9:00 am
How to start rooting for a contender in mid-season without compromising your principles.
It's late August, and if the team you root for is already out of contention, you're not alone. According to our Playoff Odds Report, only 12 teams currently have even a 5 percent chance of making the postseason, meaning that fully 60 percent of teams are realistically playing out the string with more than a month to go. If you follow one of those teams and are the sort of fan who finds that having a heart-felt rooting interest greatly adds to your baseball enjoyment, what are you to do with the rest of the season? My recommendation is to become a bandwagon jumper, or more specifically, an Ethical Bandwagon Jumper (EBJ).
July 5, 2011 9:00 am
Checking in on the pre-season over/unders to see who's exceeding or underperforming expectations halfway through the season.
Last spring in this space I introduced a contest entitled "Setting The Line," wherein I selected two key players from each American League and National League team, set a benchmark for what their 2011 season might produce in a given metric, and invited participants to speculate about whether each player would score Over or Under that line. Now that we've reached an approximate midpoint to the season, I thought it worthwhile to take a look at where these players are compared to their set line and identify how well our readers have done at picking the over/under, both collectively and individually.
June 21, 2011 9:00 am
A trip through the annual unlocks Ken's inner muse.
Among the bells and whistles currently found on our player pages, by far my favorite section is the list of player comments taken from BP Annuals past. The cast of authors may change from year to year, but each season's comments are equally well-written and educational, and when read chronologically, they often provide a tremendously entertaining overview of a player's career—or at least how a player's career has been perceived over time.
May 19, 2011 4:04 am
A lot of younger veterans are having huge starts to their years, but are the stat lines legit, or will they be turning back into pumpkins soon?
Last year around this time, I wrote a series of articles about the "All-Bounceback Team," highlighting aging players who were off to such great starts that they had already provided more value than they had during the whole previous season, and predicting whether they could continue on at that level. In trying to put together a similar list this week, I noticed there are far more young veterans surpassing their recent performances than there were older veterans reclaiming their mojo. Thus, I've decided to use this year's columns to identify whether these players' performance so far points to a "Bounceback" for a veteran player, a "Breakthrough" for a young player who has never experienced much success, or is merely the "Balderdash" of small-sample success that's doomed to erode.


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There is little question the Detroit Pistons are a better team after signing super athletic wing player Josh Smith to a four-year, $56 million contract as a free agent.
What is uncertain is how much better. Are the Pistons a legitimate NBA championship contender? Hardly.
Are the Pistons good enough to reach the playoffs for the first time since 2009? You would think so.
The eighth and final seed in the Eastern Conference in 2012-13 was the Milwaukee Bucks. They had a 38-44 record. The Boston Celtics were the seventh seed. They were 41-40.
It's not exactly a high standard to make the playoffs in the NBA's Eastern Conference.
Smith was the leading scorer on the Atlanta Hawks, who won 44 games. The Hawks have had five straight winning seasons, although they won just a couple playoff series and did not make a serious NBA title threat in those years.
Smith played much of his time in Atlanta in the shadow of Joe Johnson. He is being paid like a genuine NBA star. He is unquestionably athletic and versatile, but it is very much in question whether he can be one of those rare players who lifts a franchise to greatness.
I've sensed some yawning about this signing by local fans, as if the Pistons have just thrown good money after bad, and Smith will prove to be another Ben Gordon or Charlie Villanueva. Smith is undeniably better than that. How much better is going to be based on how the young nucleus around him - Andre Drummond, Greg Monroe, Brandon Knight, Kyle Singler - develops. It will also depend on what type of balance the Pistons have on the floor and whether they mix well together.
That falls on Maurice Cheeks, the new coach.
Finding pieces to a puzzle is one thing. Making them fit together is another.
What Smith does is give the Pistons a big piece. Whether it is an essential piece to dramatic improvement is difficult to discern.
I think Pistons president of basketball operations Joe Dumars did a good job of identifying his team's biggest problem.
Perhaps fans were seeing the world through maize and blue colored glasses, but it seemed like there was an overstating of the Pistons' needs at point guard out of desire to draft Michigan star Trey Burke.
It wasn't like when they got Jose Calderon last season it was an ointment that cured the Pistons' ills.
Defensively, they were not very good. It has been their biggest problem by far and is seldom mentioned. On the offensive end, the Pistons would score in flurries. What the Pistons have lacked is an athletic wing player to take the ball to the basket late in games.
First-round draft choice Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and, especially, Smith are a step in the right direction.
It won't mean much if the Pistons ball movement isn't very good, though. That means trying to still fill a need at point guard, to at least backup Knight, in some way. The expiring contracts of Villanueva and Rodney Stuckey are nice items to dangle as trade bait in the convoluted world of the NBA in which addition by subtraction is a way of life.
It would help, too, if the Pistons have some form of motion offense which is dependent on player movement. It's especially true since Monroe is an exceptional passer out of the post, a resource which was has been under-utilized.
Smith is a big name among day-by-day NBA followers, but not among more general sports fans, who have essentially turned away from the Pistons the last few years.
If he is, indeed, a big time player rather than just an aggregation of good statistics, it will involve making those around him better - and those around him making him better.
And then the Pistons will be relevant again.
It falls under the category of possible, but not a given.
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CORTE MADERA TOWN COUNCIL's decision to leave the Association of Bay Area Governments is more symbolic than the start of a mass exodus from the regional agency.
The Town Council recently decided not to rescind its vote to withdraw from ABAG, becoming the only Bay Area municipality that's not part of the body.
The town's message is it wants ABAG to change the way it governs, or form a new agency, Marin-wide or possibly a North Bay agency, including Napa and Sonoma counties.
Other Marin cities have been reluctant to follow Corte Madera out of ABAG because they argue they are better off having a say in the decision-making process and it's easier to press for changes as a member.
"We never really felt we had a seat at the table," says Councilman Bob Ravasio, who is the town's ABAG representative. He says ABAG is structured in a way that counties and large cities control its agenda, its process and its decisions.
Over the years, state lawmakers have expanded the governance roles of regional agencies such as ABAG. When it comes to political pecking orders, ABAG has grown from a sort of regional cooperative into a bureaucratic powerhouse.
The political dustup over Plan Bay Area has raised ABAG's role to one of the drivers of changing land-use across the Bay Area.
Ravasio says that most of ABAG's 101 member cities and counties have no say in determining the agency's policies. The entire membership only gathers twice a year for Assembly sessions and those are for perfunctory votes on the budget and educational sessions on legislation and legal issues.
Substantive issues, such as the much-debated Plan Bay Area and affordable housing quotas, are left to small committees. ABAG members don't even have a say in the membership of those committees.
Bailing out of ABAG may not be the best strategy, but it was Corte Madera's way of getting heard.
Ravasio says he plans to spend the next year working with other Marin towns and cities to form a smaller Marin "Council of Governments" that could bring decisions such as grants and planning closer to home.
There's no guarantee that state-mandated regional fair share affordable housing quotas would change, but member cities and counties would have more of a say — a vote — on the numbers.
Corte Madera raises some good points.
But Marin is not an island. It is part of the Bay Area and should be an active participant in solving regional issues. ABAG should be a good place to get that done.
While some people would rather align themselves with Napa or Sonoma counties, Marin's geographic and demographic relationship with San Francisco is integral to our economy and supports the need to stay involved in ABAG.
If its processes are flawed, or members are left out of the decision-making process, cities and counties need to speak up and speak out. Members need to work together and make themselves heard.
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As much fun as it is to lead cheers for the Phillies at the game, it's even more fun reading about baseball in books, newspapers and magazines.
I love to check books out from the library that detail the history of baseball. It's fun to read about how the game has changed since its inception. Players dressed in funny looking uniforms, shared baseball gloves and teams didn't even have mascots!
The coolest thing about reading is that you can learn so much about the things that interest YOU the most by going to a bookstore or your local library!
My mom, Phoebe, used to read all the Dr. Seuss books to me when I was a baby Phanatic on the Galapagos Islands. My favorite was "Horton Hatches the Egg". But when I arrived in Philadelphia I could be found reading the Phillies Baseball Encyclopedia all the time. I also like to read books about the city of Philadelphia, outer space, animals ("Charlotte's Web" was one of my PHAVORITES!) and of course cookbooks - because I love to eat!
Over the years, I have been able to go on adventures in my imagination by reading books but I have also been able to go on real life adventures. I wanted to share some of my favorite moments with children and their parents so I became the star of my very own children's book series.
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The news Admiral are to supply AFC Wimbledon's kit for next season evokes memories for football fans of a certain generation.
John Fashanu and Vinny Jones and their Wimbledon team mates were once decked out in the company's kits but they are really more synonymous with the national team around the time of the Kevin Keegan perm.
There was uproar in the mid-1970s when the company first got the deal to kit out the Three Lions because, until then, England had just worn plain white.
The likes of Sir Tom Finney, who sadly died last week, Sir Stan Matthews and the heroes of 1966 hadn't needed red and blue trim on their shirts to be successful.
As if to enforce the traditionalists' grumbles, England went through some awful barren years in their first Admiral kit.
It's unfair to blame the kit – that initial offering still looks classy and wouldn't look out of place today – but the late 1970s were a period of staggering under-achievement by the national side.
Admiral went even more radical with their second shirt, worn to the 1980 European Championships and 1982 World Cup, a V-neck with thick stripes of red and blue above the chest.
That one does look dated, but Admiral had started a phenomenon.
Football shirts were no longer a once in a lifetime purchase, they were a fashion accessory clubs and national teams could profit from with kit changes every season.
However, that was the last England shirt Admiral made and, although they supplied kit for the Dons in the 1990s, it was the likes of Umbro, Adidas and Nike, which really profited from their foresight.
Admiral has come to prominence again in recent years with kits for Leeds United and the England cricket team – and their four-year Dons deal is good news for both club and company.
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While the Project's quantitative hurricane forecast for 2013 will not be released until April 10, the group's Dec. 7 Extended Range Forecast of Atlantic Seasonal Hurricane Activity and Landfall Strike Probability for 2013 includes a "qualitative discussion" on various factors underlining a very busy period for hurricane activity, that is likely to continue. According to the Dec. 7 report, the past seven years have been quite unusual, with no major hurricanes hitting the mainland, following a very difficult 2004 and 2005, "when seven of 13 major hurricanes made U.S. landfall," including the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina, which hit New Orleans in late August 2005. The Tropical Meteorology Project said that "The last 100-year climatology indicates that approximately 30% of all major hurricanes that form in the Atlantic basin make U.S. landfall as major hurricanes." While the Dec. 7 report didn't contain specific number predictions, it did include probabilities for tropical storm and hurricane hits for 2013. The probability of a "named storm" hitting the East Coast, including Florida, is 81%, while the probability of Category 1 or 2 hurricane hitting is 44%, with a 31% probability of a major hurricane of Category 3, 4 or 5 making landfall, during 2013.


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The Kansas City Chiefs fired head coach Romeo Crennel on Monday, while general manager Scott Pioli is yet to learn his fate.
The Chiefs have the first overall pick in the 2013 NFL Draft after finishing 2-14 this season. It will be up to owner Clark Hunt to decide if he wants that decision in the hands of Pioli, or someone else.
Crennel, 65, is 28-55 as a head coach with the Browns and Chiefs.
The Chiefs' only victories came against New Orleans and Carolina, the latter coming one day after linebacker Jovan Belcher shot his girlfriend to death and then drove to the team's practice facility and turned the gun on himself as Crennel and Pioli looked on.
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A PENSIONER'S life was saved by his smoke alarm after a cushion placed too close to a gas fire set alight.
Two engines from Blackburn fire station were called to a house in Brownhill Road at 3.30am today after receiving reports of a smoke alarm.
When they arrived, they could see the man through the front window sat on the floor with the lounge and hallway becoming smoke-logged.
Crew manager Lee Cook said: "The front door was unlocked and as we entered the building it was apparent the elderly man was in a state of distress.
"The fire involved a cushion from a sofa that had been placed too near a gas fire that was switched on.
"The man was visually impaired and appeared to have been moving items around his lounge area, unaware that the cushion was in close proximity too the fire."
Fire crews were on the scene for half an hour and gave oxygen to the man, who was taken to Royal Blackburn Hospital as a precaution due to his age.
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Sportsmanship is a lot like listening—we assume that everyone knows what it is and how to do it. But this is not always the case. Good sportsmanship allows us to enjoy the sports we play. When we coach children and teenagers in sports, it becomes even more important that we promote good sportsmanship.
Children play sports to have fun, but some parents and coaches promote a win-at-all-costs attitude. As parents and coaches, we play an important role in modeling the correct behaviors for our children. Children imitate what they see around them, especially when they observe a respected adult. Learning and adopting good sportsmanship will provide positive role modeling for children participating in sports.
Pat Summit, the well-respected women's basketball coach at the University of Tennessee, considers herself to be a role model to her students and athletes. She also tells her athletes, "You are role models. The question to ask is: What kind of role model will you be?"
She emphasizes that you don't have to be an athlete to be a role model, citing her parents as great models for sportsmanship and professionalism. She also cites her older brother Tommy as being a great role model because he was not only a great athlete but a great student as well, graduating from college with honors.
Pat's tips for parents are these: "Kids need to understand that they can go out there and compete to win, while being respectful. A good competitive spirit doesn't require one to play dirty or nasty. It is important to say to children, 'Do the best you can do.'"
She also adds that children learn valuable life skills through athletics, recognizing that competitors can still be your friends.
Below are some tips that parents can both demonstrate and teach to their children:
American Psychological Association
Mental Health America
Canadian Mental Health Organization
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10 tips for raising a good sport. PBS parents website. Available at: http://www.pbs.org/parents/food-and-fitness/sport-and-fitness/raise-a-good-sport. Accessed January 9, 2014.
Sportsmanship. Nemours Kids Health website. Available at: http://kidshealth.org/parent/emotions/behavior/sportsmanship.html. Updated October 2011. Accessed January 9, 2014.
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October 1st marks the first day of the 2012 Supreme Court Term. Thus far the Court's docket includes major cases about affirmative action, international law and the alien tort statute, national security, criminal law, and others. Notable cases include Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, concerning a public university's use of race in undergraduate admissions decisions and the Equal Protection Clause; Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, about the application of the Alien Tort Statute to human rights abuses abroad, and whether the statute covers corporations; Clapper v. Amnesty International USA, regarding the right to challenge the constitutionality of a global terrorism wiretapping program; Amgen Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, concerning the proof that investors need to pursue a securities fraud claim by class-action lawsuit; and Florida v. Harris and Florida v. Jardines, about police use of a drug-sniffing dog to search the exterior of a private residence under the Fourth Amendment, and whether a dog's "alert" constitutes probable cause for search of a private vehicle. The Court is also likely to add other significant cases, including potentially a case filed by proponents of California's "Proposition 8" challenge, which now has a certiorari petition pending. In addition to these cases and others, the panelists will discuss the current composition and the future of the Court, a particularly timely topic in light of the upcoming presidential election.
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CLEVELAND (AP) -- A northeastern Ohio man is facing an attempted murder charge after authorities say he put a pillow over his girlfriend's head and slit her throat.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports (http://bit.ly/TkOBHr) that 42-year-old Anthony Coughlin of Garfield Heights was arrested on a felony charge of attempted murder after the Saturday attack.
It's unclear whether he has an attorney.
The couple was staying with a man in Chagrin Falls, east of Cleveland, when Coughlin is accused of attacking her as she slept.
The other man awoke during the struggle, got the woman in his car and called 911 after arriving at a hospital that was closed.
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Angelina Jolie vs. Jennifer Aniston: Whose Brad Pitt Engagement Ring Is Better?
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Before Brad Pitt popped the question to the mom of his six children, Angelina Jolie, he got down on one knee in front of Jennifer Aniston in 1999.
Both times, Pitt has collaborated with the jeweler designing his future fiancee's engagement ring. For Aniston's multi-level, swirl-design sparkler, he tapped Silvia Damiani; for Jolie's giant emerald-cut stone, he worked with their long-time jeweler and friend, Robert Procop.
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But it looks like Pitt, 48, has gotten a bit more conservative when it comes down to the price tag. Back in 1999, Aniston's ring, which she debuted during a Sting concert in New York, was estimated to be worth around $500,000; jewelry expert Michael O'Connor quoted Jolie's ring to be somewhere around $250,000.
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On Friday, Brangelina fans everywhere were rejoicing when Pitt's rep confirmed that the long-time loves were finally settling down and making things official. Jolie, 36, flashed her new engagement bling during a private art viewing at LACMA on Wednesday.
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But lest we forget, before Aniston and Jolie, Gwyenth Paltrow stole Pitt's heart -- he proposed to her with a diamond sparkler in early 1997 after the pair dated for three years. They called off their plans to marry in June 1997.


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A statewide alert has been canceled for a missing, endangered adult.
Eugene Rhoades, 83, was found safe early Tuesday morning in Barberton, Ohio.
Rhoades suffers from Dementia and Parkinson's disease.
He went missing Monday at 10:00 a.m. from his residence in Doylestown, Ohio.
Authorities said Rhoades was likely barefoot.
Authorities in Wayne County want to thank the public for their assistance in locating Rhoades.
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