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Former Miami quarterback Vinny Testaverde will be elected into the College Football Hall of Fame, the National Football Foundation announced Monday.
Testaverde, who played at UM in 1982 and from 1984-1986, was a first-team All-America selection, Heisman Trophy winner and recipient of several other major awards following a senior season in which he led the Hurricanes to the 1987 Fiesta Bowl National Championship.
Testaverde redshirted in 1983, but compiled a 23-3 record as a starter under coaches Howard Schnellenberger and Jimmy Johnson.
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The No. 1 overall draft pick by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Testaverde was a two-time Pro Bowl selection. He is one of seven former Canes players and 10th overall now in the Hall of the Fame. Others include: Bennie Blades (2006), Don Bosseler (1990), Andy Gustafson (1985), Jack Harding (1980), Ted Hendricks (1987), Jimmy Johnson (2012), Russell Maryland (2011), Gino Toretta (2009) and Arnold Tucker (2008).
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Access Space employs six part-time members of staff who make up our core team. On any day it's likely that two, three or more of us will be in the space. If you'd like to get in touch with one of them individually, please use our email contact form or phone Access Space.
Jake is The Creative Producer at Access Space. He has been involved with making music in Sheffield since the 1980s and is now an artist, musician/producer and composer with a strong interest in media art, new technology and education. He is also the Creative Director of HackingSheffield.org.
He was a partner in FON (Sheffield's first large commercial recording studio) and a member of industrial/electronic band Chakk in the 1980s. He has been one of the "freestyle techno" trio Heights of Abraham since 1991.
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He is a seasoned public speaker, and has presented at Council of Europe events in Strasbourg and Brussels, to São Paulo City Council, at a conference at the French Senate, and at numerous media arts festivals,research conferences, and academic institutions. He is a self-taught LPIC1 Engineer and delivers Linux training for enterprises and communities.
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John has been the driving force behind the commissioning of Refab Space, undertaking a huge amount of construction work as a volunteer. John's expertise is as a technician, and he's the genius behind "Artbot" - an autonomous, free-roaming robot artist controlled by Arduinos. John now organises access to the equipment, including the laser cutter, CNC machine, RepRap 3D printers, electronics tools and more.
Access Space has an ever-expanding team of volunteers, who help out with hardware, software, recycling and the general running of the space. Some of our volunteers are listed here.
Fuad helps us assess, analyse and repair computers, and has recently started installing and configuring Linux. He often comes in early (before we open) and works to maximise the number of PCs we can revive.
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Phil is an expert with Inkscape, the open source vector graphics editor. At Access Space he helps by facilitating "Chess Saturdays" helping beginners of all ages to take their first steps with chess. Phil's also been a huge help recently preparing Refab Space.
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Application deadline is November 15th, 2017.
October 2017 Examination Applications are now closed.
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Application Fees: In order to make its certification financially accessible to all those qualified to participate, despite the wide variance in economic conditions throughout the world, IBLCE uses the purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita metric as determined by international organisations such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. PPP takes into account the relative cost of living and the inflation rates of countries. Further information on fees can be found in the Candidate Information Guide and the Fee Schedule.
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Use this link to access the online system. The Login Page will appear as in the screenshot below. You will click on the "New or First Time User" link to set up an account. You will receive an account activation email from IBLCE Credential Manager. The account activation email will allow you to set up your own password and access the system.
When will I be approved to sit the exam and how will I know I've been approved?
How quickly you are approved to sit the exam is largely dependent upon your completion of the application forms and your submission of any required documentation. Unless there are unusual circumstances, you should know the status of your application within about two weeks of IBLCE's final receipt of all required forms and supporting documentation. You will be notified of your approval to sit the exam through a message on the "My Home Page" screen of your IBLCE Credential Manager account. Please note that you will not receive a notification email – you must login to the system to see if you have been approved. See the screenshot below as an example of how the "My Home Page" screen will appear.
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A colorful skinny silk scarf works best with a tone-on-tone blouse or dress, as it can immediately jazz up that boring outfit. The classic way of wearing a skinny scarf is to simply wrap it around the neck and let the two ends fall loosely in the front. Sporting such a scarf can draw attention to the face and away from the problem areas of the body like a tummy bulge. The adorable silk scarves are really popular and can go with jean jackets, shirts or little white dresses.


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ASPEN – The lack of snow and visitors to ski resorts this warm early season has left ski resort employees facing hard times.
Aspen Skiing Co. is helping by picking up dinner for its workers.
The Aspen Times reports Thursday that the company has revived an effort to help ski workers during dry seasons. The company offered free dinner this week to employees who had their work schedules altered because of lack of snow
Skico vice president Jim Laing says 88 diners showed up to the Buttermilk restaurant. He says that most were seasonal employees who are new in town and scraping by on limited funds.
Laing says free dinners will continue until Skico resumes normal operations for this time of year. He said Skico is not planning any layoffs.


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text: U.S. feed grain supplies for 2012/13 are projected slightly higher this month, with corn production forecast 19 million bushels higher and sorghum production forecast up by 4 million bushels. The forecast U.S. corn and sorghum yields are increased 0.3 bushels per acre and 0.9 bushels per acre, respectively, to 122.3 bushels/acre and 51.1 bushels/acre. Total U.S. corn supplies for 2012/13 are projected up 45 million bushels, but remain at a 9-year low. Tight corn supplies due to drought are expected to result in record-high prices, which will ration demand and lower use. Corn use is projected 17 million bushels higher with increases in food, seed, and industrial use. Ending stocks are forecast up 28 million bushels to 647 million bushels, the lowest since 1995/96. Projected 2012/13 world coarse grain supplies, use, and ending stocks are increased slightly this month. U.S. projected 2012/13 corn exports are unchanged this month despite a slow start as competitors' shipments are expected to slow later in the year.


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Recent economic data reflecting sentiment of both manufacturing and service-sector businesses suggest they might not be that concerned about either the sequester or the end of the payroll tax holiday. This builds from other reports I've recently covered about the consumer and business investment in equipment and software. As a result, economic growth is likely to continue, perhaps at a higher rate, according to researchers at the San Francisco Fed, who pencil in GDP growth in 2013 of 2.7%.
Let's see what the data tell us. For starters, we can look at service sector companies. This is a wide-ranging sector, including industries as diverse as agriculture and mining in the basic commodities category to more economically sensitive sectors such as retail and wholesale. Also included are healthcare, construction, utilities, finance and others. We see that business activity has picked up, according to the Institute for Supply Management's Non-Manufacturing Index. The headline printed at 56.0, a faster clip than in January's 55.2, in this diffusion index where anything above 50 indicates expansion. This is the best growth in the past 12 months.
New orders, in particular, posted a strong monthly gain of 3.8 points to 58.2, and employment held roughly steady at an expansionary 57.2. Despite problems in Europe, new export orders advanced to 60.5 from 55.5. Survey respondents believe their inventories are too high, however, and this may mean that some could place fewer orders with manufacturers in the future. That hasn't happened yet.
In the separate ISM Manufacturing index, the headline number increased by 1.1 points to 54.2, and new orders instead increased to a decent 57.8 from 53.3. Employment measures show continued growth, and overall business activity advanced to 57.6 from 53.6. Even exports are growing, with a 53.5 reading, up from 50.5 the month before.
That's a lot of numbers, but what do they mean? They mean that economic activity should improve. The growth in new orders from those who deal directly with consumers all point to relatively few worries about economic headwinds. And these survey data are recent, published in the past week with data collected in the past month.
The San Francisco Fed echoes this view that economic activity should pick up. In its recent research, it pointed to the fourth-quarter GDP report that showed underlying private sector demand was strong -- once you strip out a (temporary) inventory correction and a drop in defense spending. As these factors subside, growth in 2013 should be 2.7% vs. 1.5% in 2012, with the unemployment rate falling to 7% by the end of the year.
Of course, there are well-known headwinds. The researchers highlighted a couple of possible detractions from growth, noting the risks from federal government spending cuts, including defense and social services, and the ongoing problems in Europe that could flare up. Still, the risks of economic contraction are low, with separate research from the Cleveland Fed pointing to the odds of a recession in the next 12 months at just 6.4%.
On balance, though, whether you look at business sentiment, consumer survey data or real private final demand, the outlook points to continued growth. Maybe businesses prefer the relative certainty of the sequester and the end of the payroll tax holiday vs. the uncertainty of an ongoing debate of how to cut the deficit. Or maybe they believe that funds not diverted by the government issuing massive amounts of debt to fund the deficit frees up more capital for them to invest. Or perhaps they believe the private sector, including markets overseas (noting the growth in export orders for both the manufacturing and service sectors) will help.
In any case, even though the 2.7% growth forecast by the San Francisco Fed isn't exactly robust compared to what it could be, dire predictions of the impact of federal government spending aren't evident in the data so far.


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A SECURITY review is being carried out at Hargroves Cycles after a high performance bike worth £5,900 was stolen on Monday.
Wiltshire Police is investigating CCTV footage of the specialised red and black Sworks Enduro FSR Carbon 2011 being taken from the store, in Penzance Drive, at 11.30am.
Two men came to the shop and asked about the bike which had been on display since Friday. One walked out the front door with it and was quickly followed by the other man.
Mark Sealey, Hargroves Cycles manager, said: "I was off when the bike was stolen but I came in the next day and thought it had been sold. This is really frustrating as it had only come in on Friday and was worth a lot of money.
"We were really busy when it was taken and now we are looking at making some security changes.
"We are looking at improving the CCTV as well as introducing a new door system and product tagging. This inevitably will cost thousands of pounds, which isn't ideal."
Mark said the increased interest in cycling in recent years means expensive bikes and equipment are being targeted more often by thieves.
"This bike was the best of the best and because of the price we tend to only have one on display.
"We want to have the top bikes in the shop but when things like this happen it makes it difficult," he said.
"Given that we are a specialised bike shop with regular customers we are hearing of people having their bikes taken on a regular basis which is very frustrating."
The man who took the bike is described as being white, wearing a baseball cap and black North Face body warmer while the other man was also white, wearing a black coat and sunglasses.
To aid the police in their investigations, staff from Hargroves Cycles have being putting pictures of the two men on social media.
Tom Holden, the shop's assistant manager, said: "I know as staff we don't actually own the bike but we are all as sick as anything it has been taken and hope the police and the public can help us get it back."
Anyone with information can call 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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Registration is open for the Delano Lacrosse Club at www.DelanoLacrosse.com.
The club will have open lacrosse in the hockey rink this year over spring break from March 25-29. Times will be posted the web site.
This year marks the first year of play in the Minnesota State High School League for boys and girls varsity and junior varsity teams. Both programs enjoyed consistent success at the club level and look forward to the increased level of competition.
The club leagues adopted the U-system this past off-season. Instead of grouping by grades, they will group by age. The cut-off day is Sept. 1 of the preceding year.
U11 is for fourth and fifth graders born on or after 9/1/01 for example. U13 is for grades sixth and seventh and U1 is for grade eight and early ninth.
Players can play up one level if they have the game skills.
A mandatory parent meeting for club levels U15, U13 and U11 is 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 12 in the Delano High School cafeteria.
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September 30, 2011 4:53 pm
Everything is bigger in Texas, including a new AL West superpower.
With nearly 40,000 in attendance at their final 2011 home game on Wednesday night, Mike Scioscia's Angels went out with a resounding bang—but not of their own doing, unfortunately. The Halos found themselves on the receiving end of a torturous game-winning blast by the slugger who had played out his entire pre-2011 career in an Angels uniform. I would make some kind of remark about Mike Napoli's two-homer game being tantamount to adding insult to injury for the Angels, but the problem is that Napoli had already taken care of that the previous night when he clubbed two more homers during a 10-3 drubbing of his former team.
And during the intervening hours between his team's final two games, Scioscia found himself in the awkward position of simultaneously defending Napoli's chops behind the plate and assigning responsibility for the consummation of the Napoli-for-Wells deal: "The issue was [Kendrys] Morales was expected back, and we needed to get better in the outfield, so some decisions were made by Tony [Reagins] and Arte [Moreno] as to what the team would look like." If I really wanted to make this article about the Angels, I'd point again towards Ken Rosenthal's recent assertion that the real power in the Angels organization lies with Scioscia and Moreno, and maybe wonder out loud about Scioscia's apparent fingering of Reagins and Moreno as the lone parties responsible for shaping the Napoli trade... but this article is less about the Halos, and more about the team that ultimately ended up steamrolling its way to the division crown.
September 23, 2011 5:00 am
The Athletics' inability to draw a crowd is a reflection of their poor record and awful stadium situation.
On September 4, 2002, the Oakland Athletics crammed a season-high 55,000-plus fans into the then-named Network Associates Coliseum for what is often fondly remembered as the climactic epoch of Moneyball—the night that the Athletics frittered away an early 11-run lead at home against the lowly Royals, followed by a classic incredulity-fueled Billy Beane tantrum, followed by Scott Hatteberg's heartwarming pinch-hit blast in the bottom of the ninth inning to win it. At the outset of the chapter devoted to that particular game, Michael Lewis painted a surreal picture of a "traffic jam extraordinary even by Northern California standards stretched as far as the eye could see" leading up to the sea of concrete surrounding the Coliseum on all sides.
On Wednesday night, the Coliseum played host to the playoff-bound Rangers and a comparatively exciting pitching matchup (Brandon McCarthy vs. C.J. Wilson). The announced crowd of 19,589—a figure that would rank somewhere between subpar and miserable in virtually every other major-league market, but actually constitutes the 27th-best showing in Oakland's first 80 home dates of the season. In case you were wondering what such an announced attendance total actually looks like, here was the scene from what is now named the O.co Coliseum less than five minutes before first pitch on Wednesday:
September 16, 2011 12:00 am
After failing to take advantage of a lull in the schedule, the Halos are running out of time to contend.
There's one particular kind of vision with which we're all well acquainted, regardless of whether it has yet infiltrated our darkest nightmares—the vision where there's something laid out just before us that we desperately want, but the harder we pursue it and the further we reach out towards it, the more distant it becomes. Ideally, said vision is accompanied by some form of horror trance music, heavily distorted surroundings, and enormous projection screens depicting a larger-than-life De La Soul mockingly, uproariously laughing at our plight. Said vision would likely also have been preceded by the consumption of a generous quantity of high-quality alcohol, but since tales of that sort are best left to folks like my good friend Jason Parks, I'm going to swing this back around into an actual baseball point.
We all know of this vision, but not all of us have had the misfortune of dealing with such an experience in real life. The 2011 Angels aren't so lucky. It's not that they were widely regarded as favorites within their division before the outset of the season (note: they weren't), or even that they currently seem destined to fall short of their ultimate goal (as reflected in their post-season odds, which are now in great danger of slipping beneath the 1-in-20 mark). Well, it is partly about the second one, but one of the more frustrating realities from the Angels' perspective has been their recurring failure over the last four months to make it back over the first-place hump. Each time they've surged back within a stone's throw of Texas, they've fallen behind yet again. And even though the Angels have hung tough with their first-place adversaries throughout that four-month period, they have now all but run out of the one commodity that they need most: time.
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September 9, 2011 9:00 am
One of the newest members of the 2,000-hit club has been a huge offensive upgrade for Texas, but was it worth it?
On Sunday, eight months and a day after word leaked of his defection to the land of cattle ranches, oil fields, and mind-melting Big 12 Conference feuds, Adrian Beltre ripped a seemingly nondescript single through the right side of the infield at Fenway Park to move recent 2,000-hit club entrant Michael Young from first to third base. If not for the momentary stoppage of play and the ensuing game of hot potato that ultimately steered the game ball over into the relative safety of the Rangers' dugout, an in-house spectator likely wouldn't have assumed any special significance of the hit—a hit that was itself Beltre's 2,000th hit, rendering him the youngest third baseman in history to reach the plateau, and one of only 46 players in history to reach the 2,000-hit milestone by the end of his age-32 season. Texas won, 11-4.
Three nights later, the never-say-die Angels extracted nearly everything they could have reasonably hoped for out of their own third baseman... or basemen, even. With the bottom of the eighth inning underway, and with Los Angeles staring down the barrel of a potential 1-0 loss to Charlie Furbush and the Mariners (and thus facing the prospect of gaining only one half-game in the AL West standings during a three-week stretch where their schedule was a relative cakewalk), the third-base platoon of (a pinch-hitting) Alberto Callaspo and Maicer Izturis went walk-double to put the Angels ahead for good. For one night, at least, it would have been difficult to argue vigorously in favor of an alternate reality where the Angels, not the Rangers, had won the Beltre sweepstakes.
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September 1, 2011 10:22 am
A look at the deals and non-deals made by the AL West front offices at the waiver deadline.
You know, for a division race that is supposed to be the most exciting one still going with major post-season implications attached (I don't count that back-and-forth affair between Boston and New York in the AL East, since both clubs are all but assured of playing on into October anyway), I'm not so sure the AL West's two-team battle is really living up to its top billing. The Rangers' division-winning chances have fluctuated within the 80-95 percent range for the better part of two months and still rest within close proximity of the 90 percent mark as of this morning, and Texas has spent 140 days in first place this season compared to just 25 days for Los Angeles. It does still fit within the parameters of what we would define as a legitimate playoff race, and both clubs have done their respective parts to ensure the Angels sticking around, but the "race" is beginning to feel a bit one-sided.
And on Wednesday, the final day where players could be traded and still retain post-season eligibility with their new clubs, the deepest and most talented team in the division continued to pile on the talent while the two cellar-dwellers pulled off a couple of largely inconsequential—but nevertheless interesting—deals, and the second-running Angels did nothing ... again. Running concurrent to those waiver-period trade storylines are a few different chunks of news and speculation relating to the front offices of each AL West club, and so it strikes me that this might be a good opportunity to juxtapose the trade storylines alongside those front-office storylines, and see what comes of the whole process.
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August 25, 2011 11:52 am
How Jered Weaver's contract extension will affect C.J. Wilson's impending free agency.
One week ago, I labeled Jered Weaver's looming post-2012 eligibility for free agency as one of several key threats to the Angels' five-year competitive window. Turns out it took only a couple of days for that threat to end up completely neutralized because Weaver (much to the dismay of the AL West's other denizens) will play out each of his next five seasons in an Angels uniform, having consented to a five-year, $85 million deal that most neutral observers seem to regard as a win-win pact for player and team alike. Ben Lindbergh already analyzed the direct implications of the contract in exhaustive detail, and I can't think of much to add on that front that wouldn't be redundant, so this obviously isn't going to be an article dedicated solely to Jered Weaver.
My only addition would be this: since the deal's announcement, Weaver's drawn great praise from some circles for choosing comfort and loyalty to the Angels organization over the largest guaranteed dollar amount. I appreciate that, and I do find his choice and willingness to eschew the extraction of every last possible dollar at least somewhat commendable. But at the same time, I've stumbled upon some comments from people in those same circles who have used the Weaver extension as a jumping-off point to snipe at those professional athletes who do gun for deals promising the most money.
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August 19, 2011 12:19 am
Over the course of the week, the outlook in the AL West has changed completely, leaving three teams to look toward what the future holds.
For the increasingly difficult-to-catch frontrunner atop the AL West, the future is already now. For the two teams firmly entrenched in the cellar, the future is tomorrow. And for the team caught in the middle, it's not entirely clear where the future is headed. In theory, the Angels and Rangers are still locked in a violent tussle for the right to claim divisional supremacy, but just as I found myself expecting a great race to the finish (not a wholly unreasonable expectation, given that the Angels were still sitting within two games of first place as recently as this past Saturday morning), something a little odd happened: Texas stopped losing, and Los Angeles stopped winning... altogether.
Since blowing up the Athletics in Oakland to the tune of a 23-8 scoring advantage over this past weekend, the Rangers collected three consecutive road victories against the Angels before falling to them last night, and vaulting their lead in the AL West to a whopping six games with just 37 games left to play. That definitely wasn't the turn I was expecting. I do expect the Angels to whittle down at least a small portion of that deficit over the next three weeks, as they get to contend with a far less daunting schedule than the Rangers (who must play 16 games in 17 days against the Red Sox, Angels, and Rays from Aug. 22-Sept. 7), but it's apparent that the post-season dream is rapidly slipping from the Angels' grasp.
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August 12, 2011 10:14 am
Out West, the Angels' inability to take advantage of situations on the basepaths could cost them a division title.
Last season, there were two divisions (the NL West, from which the reigning world champion Giants arose, and the AL East) that were decided by a margin of three games or fewer. In 2009, there were two more division races (the AL Central, which the Twins captured by a single game, and again the NL West) that came down to a swing of three or fewer games. 2008? Three races. 2007? Four races. Over the last four years, every division in baseball has been able to boast at least one pennant race resolved within the final three days of the season—well, every division except the AL West.
Throughout the better part of the early- to mid-aughts, the AL West stood proud and tall as one of the more hotly-contested divisions in the game; four of the five division titles between 2002-06 were secured by a margin of no more than four games. But over the last four seasons, the average margin of victory in the AL West has been a far less suspenseful 11.5 games. That's great for the conquering team but not so great for those fans of AL West teams who enjoy an ample dose of divisional parity, and definitely not so great for the distant second-place team whose late-season gate receipts are inhibited by their non-contender status.
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August 5, 2011 5:38 am
While there were no aces or big boppers dealt in the AL West before the deadline, Texas fixed up its bullpen while Seattle tried to collect young talent.
For a division that has seen at least one player with the major-league credentials of a Cliff Lee or Matt Holliday or Mark Teixeira dealt at each of the last four trade deadlines, this year's late-July game of transactional roulette just didn't have the same amount of big-name punch to it. However, what it lacked in that department was amply compensated for elsewhere. The Rangers, of course, secured two of their highest-priority trade targets (though their season-long story of bullpen woe has just now taken another bizarre turn), whereas the Mariners converted two of their five rotation regulars into a small collection of young position players. Oakland managed to get little done, and the Angels took that deadline abstinence one step further by becoming one of only two legitimate playoff contenders (along with the Yankees) that didn't complete a single trade. How will the AL West be shaped by what did and didn't happen over the last seven days?
It was apparent last week that the market's few readily-available trade resources didn't match up very well with what the Angels needed, as their rumored top positional trade target, Aramis Ramirez, ultimately invoked his no-trade clause to remain in Chicago, leaving the still-decent Alberto Callaspo/Maicer Izturis platoon intact at third base. And from a retrospective standpoint, the only two bats to be moved with legitimate difference-making potential as far as this season was concerned (Hunter Pence and Carlos Beltran) were both exclusive to corner-outfield spots, both of which are occupied at present by the immovable Vernon Wells and Torii Hunter.
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July 28, 2011 11:01 am
A look at what AL West teams may end up doing before Sunday's trade deadline.
Early Wednesday afternoon, the Angels' Ervin Santana nailed down only the 11th no-hitterin the last 93 years where the lack of hits was somehow accompanied by at least one run allowed. Shortly thereafter, the Mariners snapped their historic 17-game losing streak behind a stunning nine-run, 17-hit outburst from an anemic Seattle lineup and seven frames of one-run baseball from Felix Hernandez at Yankee Stadium. A few hours later, the Rangers dropped their second consecutive home game to the sub-.500 Twins and watched their first-place lead slip to a meager two games. A little while after that, the Athletics' also-anemic offense pounded out 13 runs to seal a clean three-game home sweep of the Rays.
There's a huge part of me that wants to devote ample attention to each one of these stories, but it's late July, which means that the overriding storyline throughout baseball—and, of course, the AL West—is the non-waiver trade deadline. That, I think, deserves the preponderance of the attention this week as we look at two contenders who have every reason in the world to be buyers and two non-contenders that we would naturally assume to be aggressive sellers. As you'll see, however, sometimes our preconceived notions don't cleanly match up with the reality of baseball's trade market. Aside from gazing into each AL West ballclub's trade situation, I've also highlighted the career record of each currently employed general manager in the division, as well as the three most notable July trades that each has made over the last three seasons:
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July 21, 2011 5:01 am
The rest of the division may be a dud, but the Rangers' red-hot run looks all the more impressive when compared to their past rotations.
I'm beginning to wonder if I've broken the AL West. I'm being facetious, of course, but the timing has caught me a little off guard. Since writing at length about how Seattle was making something of a spirited go at the division crown and might have a decent shot at swinging a .500 season, the Mariners have dropped from an even 38-38 (2 ½ games back) to 43-54 (12 ½ games), effectively crushing any lingering hopes of contending in 2011. Something similarly strange has happened to the Angels, as my efforts to paint them as legitimate contenders for the division crown just seven days ago had been rewarded by a sharp 3 ½-game drop in the standings and a one-week post-season odds plunge of 11.9 percent going into Wednesday night.
But rather than falsely attribute the coincidentally-timed struggles of the Rangers' competition to any of my work at Baseball Prospectus, let's just be brutally honest about what's going on here: Texas has gone into hyperdrive. Seriously. Before dropping a 9-8 heartbreaker in Anaheim during the waning hours of Wednesday evening (a game the Rangers led by an 8-3 margin after chasing Dan Haren early, leading to a peak win expectancy of 96.4 percent), Texas had collected 12 straight wins, a high-water mark for winning streaks among American League ballclubs since the Red Sox accomplished that same feat back in June 2006.
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July 14, 2011 9:00 am
The Angels have been able to rely on good fortune and solid performances to stage improbable comebacks for the last few years.
The date was May 30, an unseasonably cool Saturday evening in Orange County, and its resident Angels were beginning to run out of answers. They had tripped coming off the starting block and fallen behind in the division race almost immediately, dropping eight of their first 12 games of the season (including three straight at Minnesota). Though their record had stabilized to an unremarkable 24-23 entering the night, the first-place Rangers were then threatening to pull away from the mad scramble, having amassed the second-largest division lead (4.5 games) in baseball in less than two months' time, and having just reeled off an impressive six wins in eight games.
That night, however, hinted at the possibility of being everyone's favorite nebulous, media-invented stimulant to the Angels' weakening heart known as the "turning point." Despite appearing to be something of a huge pitching mismatch on paper, Los Angeles' Matt Palmer remained in lockstep with Seattle's Felix Hernandez for seven innings, with neither team pushing a run across until a one-out Erick Aybar double in the bottom of the seventh plated an unearned run against the King. Two more runs in the eighth, and the Angels' closer was on to lock down a stunning shutout win against one of the great starting pitchers of our generation. Men cheered. Women swooned. Children cried. The earth shook. The Rally Monkey spazzed out and had to be heavily sedated.
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The Willits City Council has cancelled the Blosser Lane improvement project because of a CalTrans requirement the city conduct unprecedented environmental, archaeological and biological studies along the roadway to qualify for a $644,000 grant. The city portion of the project cost was $844,000.
The project, which would have upgraded the sidewalks along Blosser Lane and repaved the roadway, has been in the works for many years. The grant was awarded to the city through the Mendocino Council of Governments.
MCOG Director Phil Dow says all but the $40,000 allocated to this year's activities can be repurposed elsewhere in Mendocino County.
For the new sidewalks and repaving of the existing roadway, CalTrans, acting in its role as the administrator of the federal program, required the city to take a series of unprecedented steps. These included:
1. A National Historic Preservation Act map of the area resulting in an Archaeological Survey Report and a Historic Property Survey Report.
CalTrans Senior Environmental Planner Brandon Larsen advised the city of the potential the railroad tracks could be eligible for the national historic register and might require a Historic Resource Evaluation Report as well.
Larsen is assigned to the CalTrans Office of Local Assistance. He did not say what reports the Skunk Train operator might be required to submit for any maintenance it performed along the tracks should it be declared a national treasure.
2. An Initial Site Assessment for Hazardous Waste was required to be sent to CalTrans for review and approval.
3. A Natural Environmental Study needed to be completed to assess impacts to flora and fauna in the area, including impacts to federally threatened species. Concerns about impact of the new sidewalks on the Migratory Bird Act also were expressed, along with concerns about the new sidewalks potentially contributing to the spread of invasive species. That the weeds and star thistle currently in the unpaved walkways were more likely to spread invasive species instead of replacing them with concrete sidewalks was not discussed.
4. The city would be required to conduct a Wetland Delineation to delineate potential jurisdictional waters in the western roadside ditch. Any work in this are would require a Clean Water Act 404 permit from the US Army Corps of Engineers, a 401 permit from the Regional Water Quality Control Board, a 1602 permit from the California Department of Fish and Game, an Encroachment Permit from CalTrans and an Encroachment Permit from the North Coast Railroad Authority, according to Larsen. Such permits would likely require mitigation of some unknown variety and scope.
The estimated cost just to conduct these studies was $50,000. Any required mitigation or restudies would have to be added to the final cost.
The city had already revised its plans for the new sidewalks once based on CalTrans input in an effort to avoid some of these issues. The process involved to submit changes is so complex there is not time to submit a third set of plans?including dropping the west side sidewalk entirely?and conduct the required studies this fiscal year.


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Sunday, September 24, 2017
Anxiety and Stress Disorders
Adult bedwetting
In the last few months I have found myself about 5-10 times each month wetting the bed. It almost seems as though I was awake when starting to go, despite the hour being 3:00 AM, sometimes earlier and sometimes later. I think it started shortly after I was in all probability raped or gang raped as I had been out to a bar and was drinking diet pepsi. I was left at my friends house as I live in a different city. Anyway, that is when this started shortly after that, but I find it too embarrassing, shameful and even guilty about talking to someone about the bedwetting. I see a therapist and she is aware that I was possibly raped/gang raped; however, it was never discussed as I was probably drugged with something so I don`t remember much of what occurred, but in my dreams prior to my bedwetting things are like a blur and from what I remember about the dream is that someone or others are on me and then laughing and that is usually when I have wet the bed. I`m not sure what to do as I am so embarrassed and ashamed about the bedwetting that I haven`t told anyone. After the possible assault I did not seek medical treatment; however, I did have testing done for STD`s that came back negative. Now the bedwetting is really getting me down to where I`m not sure what to do. I take medication for ADHD (generic Ritalin), Melatonin 9 mg over the counter to help sleep, 2 mg of Klonopin to help induce sleep as well as help with anxiety, 1200 mg Omega Fish Oil and Wellbutrin XL 300 mg. Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated, thanks.
The most important thing for you to do is to talk to your therapist and your psychiatrist about these stressful events and what is happening to you now. It would also be appropriate for you to see your primary care doctor for a urinary check up to make sure there is no infection or problem like diabetes that could also be going on.
As I'm sure you are aware, without being honest with your mental health practitioners, it will be difficult for them to help you get better. If your concern is so great that you would write to us for assistance, I hope you will also share with your therapist and doctor. While it is always difficult to talk about things that seem "embarrassing," I am sure that your therapist will appreciate your difficulties and be sensitive to how difficult it is for you to talk about it. Bring in to your next visit the note you wrote to us -- it can serve as a starting place for telling your story.
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A 20-year-old Ulverston man who has been charged with attempted rape, sexual assault and threats to kill a woman in her 50s has been named as Liam Hughes.
Police were called to a property in Ulverston town centre at around 6.40pm on Thursday, after reports the woman was being assualted by an unknown male in her own home.
The alleged victim's son raised the alarm after finding a man in his mother's house.
She is being supported by family members and specially-trained officers.
Mr Hughes, of Devonshire Road, is due to appear at Furness Magistrates' Court today.