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so a player who gets volume stats to go along with his volume minutes = bad
so a player who gets volume stats to go along with his volume minutes = bad
Regarding remarks about Gay's contract and the worthiness of it...I always thing you have to consider the market here in Toronto and how attractive we are to free agents. How easily could we get a player of Gay's talent level at a lesser contract in free agency? Not too easily I'm afraid. It often comes down to trades in which case the playing feild is much more level, but how many teams want to trade a player making $20 mil/year that is worth $20 mil/year? This is the reason I'm a big advocate of tanking and building through the draft......now I'm off topic...
he has better fg% than westbrook, harden, JJ, jr smith, paul george, the list goes one. they all only have 1-3 more attempts pg than derozan (paul george is the same). but again, hes 11th in MADE.
you want to talk about defense? yea, hes just average in the league. not below, but just average. average steals, average dreb. yet there are games where gets 3, 4 steals a game.
you can argue his pricetag is high, but theres no way you can argue against his production. which none of you seem to be doing aside from throwing out blanket statements 'he sucks'
i guess only top 5 players in the entire league in all categories are only good enough for the raptors?
Toronto's fan base is so hilarious. If we had Lebron James there would be hatred towards him if we had MJ there would be nitpicking.
I think DeMar represents a conflict point between analytics geeks and intangibles guys. DeMar's analytics are mediocre, that much is true. But basketball isn't baseball and it can't JUST be about analytics because that doesn't really work: Chris Paul has zero championships and in part it's because his amazing stats are counterbalanced by a control freak personality that hurts teams.
DeMar has a stupidly good work ethic, isn't a selfish player, actually wants to play for Toronto, and makes the locker room a better place. That really does matter. Is he overpaid right now? Definitely. Would he be overpaid at 6 million instead of 9.5? I tend to think he wouldn't be.
The million-dollar question, then, is "is he tradeable" and the answer to that question is a qualified "yes." Out of Rudy, Lowry, Ross and DeMar (our "good" trade assets), I think DeMar is the one you want to trade least.
He is an average starter making above average money.... Well above average..... Like double it.
Here is DeRozan compared to the players you list and average SG.
Do you notice all the red in derozans line? He is below average in a lot of categories.
Also, all those guys can create for themselves.
Top 5 would be great but I'd settle for average but I would expect more at $9.5m per year.
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anyone frustrated by the rumours of a potential boston-nj deal showing that boston will blow it up and start over. Even if we just keep some of our future core, injuries aside, we will still be 7-11.
http://www.82games.com/1213/1213TOR2.HTM)...but he's horrible!
Hey if they trade him, they trade him. But let's look at dude for what he is. Bargnani NEVER had the stats Demar has with an even higher usage per 48. Dude is pretty solid.
I'm hearing on twitter that all trades had to be done at 2pm today....which doesn't jive since I've seen numerous draft night swaps
Fact: that's the top 20 most used line-ups...
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Sunday, January 01, 2012
Before I move onto my goals for January I'd like to take a moment or two to reflect on 2011 and what happened in this year for me.
First off. This is the first year I've had when I've had a job. I only ever did seasonal work and I finally got a job back in June 2010 and even know I'm sill working there and truly enjoying it.
Second, I met a guy, ok it's a lot more complicated because there are things about this boy than I plan on keeping secret so I'm not judged, but he's a boy but I honestly can't see it working out between me. Not because he is 12 years older than me, that doesn't bother, but the circumstances he was in when I met him. I can see them becoming a problem, but hopefully it will work out and who knows what 2012 will hold for me. I don't know!
I had a lot of nights out and family time in 2011 and I think I came more out my shell more. I was the type of girl to dance with family, talk to them at the table and that was in. 2011 involved me actually talking to guys and I plan on keeping it that way in 2012.
I got a new phone. Probably not as important for everyone but it was for me as it was my first contract phone which meant I had to learn to not spend all my money as soon as I got it. I have a problem with money. If I have it, I spend it. Need to learn on that.
2011 wasn't such a big year for me but hopefully 2012 will be even bigger with more time to blog (or not
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Got my January weight and measurements all sorted and I will be blogging them each month so I, along with everyone else can see my progress (hopefully it will be noticeable.)
Weight: 155lbs
Waist: 78 cm
Hips: 98 cm
Thigh: 56 cm
Upper Arm: 30 cm
Wanted to get my New Years Resolutions thought about and sorted come January 1st so I started way back in November. Looking back now its seems a rather long time ago I sat down in my Aunties house and had a good think about what I wanted to achieve in 2012. Some of you may think what I put down is for vanity but it's not...well it sort of is, but there is always a reason behind what I put down and it's always something I want to achieve and to see in me. So I will have on my list quite a large amount of things I'd like to achieve and since there are 364 days in a year I don't have to aim for them all, right from the beginning.
# 1: A Picture A Day
This may seem vain but I've always had a problem with how I look so with a picture a day I'm hoping it's going to help me to like how I love and to embrace me for who I am and not who I want to be.
What I Will Do:
Daily I will take a picture (clean hair, and dressed) and I will like how I look even if I look awful.
# 2: Complexion
For as long as I can remember (puberty) I have had bad to ok skin, but I'm fed up of waking up and seeing a new spot here and a blemish there because I get too lazy to wash my face every morning and night. I usually only do one a day, come 2012 that will stop. I'm fed up of wondering what I'm doing wrong instead of looking at what I should be doing. 2012 will be the year I will see a big change in me and how I feel towards myself.
What I Will Do:
I will wash my face morning and night with my special wipes and wash it with a normal face wipes when I get home from work, and after every exercise I will do.
# 3: Lose Weight
This is a big one for me since I first discovered spark back in January 2011 and haven't seen a change in me at all in a year. Weight I lost I put back on. This time I will lose weight and it will stay off. I'm saying good bye to those pounds I don't want.
What I Will Do:
I will weight myself every fortnight, and take my measurements at the end of every month.
# 4: Eat Healthy
No more chips, pizza, sweets, chocolate, ice cream. Well not no more, but not as many as I eat now. Sweets usually appear in my hand daily and magically move into my stomach. From now on, when sweets appear in my hand, they will be magically moved back onto the shelf. Time for my sweet and treat time to become fruit time.
What I Will Do:
I'm not going to cut out all the unhealthy food I like completely, I'll just cut it down, a lot and limit myself to when I will eat it. I might save them for treats for reaching goals or such.
I will watch the amount of food I eat, just because it is on my plate doesn't mean I have to eat it.
# 5: Motivation
I have no motivation, I find it hard to get-up-and-go in the morning and the longer I lie there 'waking up' faster time goes on without me along for the ride. I don't do gyms, never have never will, but I do have an exercise ball, walls, floor and the strength in myself to do dance DVDs to help me lose weight, the internet to get yoga videos and pilates videos and I can use my ball to do crunches, all in all, I have no reason to say no apart from being lazy.
What I Will Do:
I'm really bad with motivation so I guess my motivation will have to come from me. The treats at the end of every fortnight will hopefully motivate me towards a good month.
# 6: Exercise
I've never liked exercise whether it be running, jogging, workouts. But I did use to like swimming, until I saw what I looked like in a bikini. It's not a pretty sight. Exercise will go from a little part of my life to a large part in my life. They say it takes a month to get a new hobby. Guess what my January goal will be? Take up Exercise as a hobby and try to learn to love it.
What I Will Do:
I have three DVDs I can do. Patsy Palmer Ibiza Dance DVD, 10 Minute Solutions: Dance Yourself Thin and 4 15 minutes Pilates DVD.
# 7: Plan Plan Plan
I have a really bad habit of not planning anything out. Come January Once a week on a weekend I will plan out my next week with food and exercise. Also on the last day of every month I will reward myself, not with food, for sticking to my monthly goals and plans.
What I Will Do:
I have written up a planner to help me through my days with times to do things. One for days off work and one for my days in work. I will hopefully be able to follow them through pretty easy. Also every Sunday I will plan my meals for the next week and hopefully knowing what I have to do will keep me on track.
# 8: Priorities
I will stop obsessing over the impossible and concentrate on the possible. I always obsess over what I know I can't have, or I can't do and never look at those little thinks I can do, so this year I will concentrate on what I can do as appose to what I can't do.
What I Will Do:
I will list the little thinks I can do (New Years Resolutions) and work on them all one by one, but I will be doing them all, all the time.
I will be doing all my new healthy habits with my mum, so I've vowed that I will give up certain things and have one day a week when I will allow myself a slip up whether it be chocolate or a dip I am in love with (rather high in calories)
Below I will be listing the things I will give up and/or cut back on and below that I will list the foods I will be adding into my daily diet.
Give Up:
Bread (cut back)
Sugar (cut back)
Granola (cut back)
Sugary Cereals (cut back)
Diet Soda (cut back) (I go for sugar free)
Eat More:
Brown Rice
Iceberg Lettuce
I'd also like to thank a special person on here, who has helped me quite a lot whether from just sending me little comments or through reading her blogs, but that person is EVER-HOPEFUL. I have linked you to their spark page and if you ever need advice or a pick-me-up comment them and you won't regret it. I never have.
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thanks love you say the nicest things.i would like to thank you too.sounds like you have a lot for but also sounds like you have a plan of action for it all as well.it os great that your mother is doing this with you.that is more than it´s weight in gold you know.also when planning you meals for a week you then have to decide when you will do the shopping for your menu .it is easier to keep to it if you have the ingrediants on hand.so keep a seperate piece of paper next to you as you plan the menu to write your shopping list on it.you can do this.we ll have it in us to do as long as we never give up.remember though this is more about being healthy and good about ourselves than are actual looks.beauty comes from with in and from our acceptance at how beautiful and wonderous our body is after all look at all it does ,izt carries us,it breathes it takes us from one place to another.we are all really remarkable when we learn that and to respect ourselves for who we are it becomes easier to treat it with the kindness it deserves.you can do this love,have faith in yourself and know you are worth .
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US county-level determinants of inbound FDI: evidence from a two-step modified count data model
We employ a two-step modified count data model to determine the county-level attributes that are conducive to attracting new foreign plants. Our estimation results indicate that previous counts of foreign direct investment, market size and accessibility, and land area are positively related to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) occurrences; while higher input costs deter new foreign firm entry. Contrary to anecdotal evidence, our results suggest that stringent environmental regulations do not have a negative impact on FDI inflows. These findings have significant implications for policymakers, as flows of FDI are expected to increase dramatically given the economic integration of our global economy.
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(Viola; Captain; Sailors)
Shipwrecked, Viola lands on the coast of Illyria, along with the Captain of the ship that went down and some other sailors. She hopes against hope that her brother has not drowned either, and the Captain comforts her by telling her that she saw her brother holding on to a mast. She questions him about the country; as he was born nearby he is able to tell her that it is Orsino's land, and that rumor has it he is wooing Olivia. Viola wishes she could serve Olivia when she hears how the Countess lives in retreat, but the Captain tells her that would be impossible, as Olivia is receiving no-one. She resolves instead to serve Orsino, and pays the Captain to help her disguise herself as a eunuch. (65 lines)
Enter Viola, a Captain, and Sailors.
What country, friends, is this?
This is Illyria, lady.
And what should I do in Illyria?
My brother he is in Elysium.
Perchance he is not drown'd—what think you, sailors?
It is perchance that you yourself were saved.
O my poor brother! And so perchance may he be.
True, madam, and to comfort you with chance,
Assure yourself, after our ship did split,
When you, and those poor number saved with you,
Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother,
Most provident in peril, bind himself
(Courage and hope both teaching him the practice)
To a strong mast that liv'd upon the sea;
Where like Arion on the dolphin's back,
I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves
So long as I could see.
For saying so, there's gold.
Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope,
Whereto thy speech serves for authority,
The like of him. Know'st thou this country?
Ay, madam, well, for I was bred and born
Not three hours' travel from this very place.
Who governs here?
A noble duke, in nature as in name.
What is his name?
Orsino! I have heard my father name him. He was a bachelor then.
And so is now, or was so very late;
For but a month ago I went from hence,
And then 'twas fresh in murmur (as you know
What great ones do, the less will prattle of)
That he did seek the love of fair Olivia.
What's she?
A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count
That died some twelvemonth since, then leaving her
In the protection of his son, her brother,
Who shortly also died; for whose dear love,
They say, she hath abjur'd the company
And sight of men.
O that I serv'd that lady,
And might not be delivered to the world
Till I had made mine own occasion mellow
What my estate is!
That were hard to compass,
Because she will admit no kind of suit,
No, not the Duke's.
There is a fair behavior in thee, captain,
And though that nature with a beauteous wall
Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee
I will believe thou hast a mind that suits
With this thy fair and outward character.
I prithee (and I'll pay thee bounteously)
Conceal me what I am, and be my aid
For such disguise as haply shall become
The form of my intent. I'll serve this duke;
Thou shalt present me as an eunuch to him,
It may be worth thy pains; for I can sing
And speak to him in many sorts of music
That will allow me very worth his service.
What else may hap, to time I will commit,
Only shape thou thy silence to my wit.
Be you his eunuch, and your mute I'll be;
When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see.
I thank thee. Lead me on.


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wow this is sooo amazing prob one of my favs love how u did this 5/5 fav
Oh wow! i wish i was there too!
Words canno explain how hilariously true this is! Well done!
Ooooooooooooooooooo Excellent!!! Sooo beautiful!!! Great job! 5/5
REALLY REALLY AWESOME... just love the effects you got with this technique. I need to learn how to use the layer tool.. Got any pointer feel free to pass them on ,, Great work here!
The Layer tool is Brilliant and very useful for getting really clean edges if you use it with the eraser tool. I am still learning how to use it and there is a lot more to it than I first thought. For example...if you have about 3 layers you can click on Layer 1 (on the blank rectangle to the right of the words) and add things under the other layers....AND....I have started using an extra layer to make shadows using the spray tool over and to the side of the object then erase where the spray tool has covered the object! I hope this makes sense...it's hard to explain in words :0/ Perhaps I will have a go at doing a demo...if I can work it out!!!?? Hope this helps
Tutorial submitted....:O)
This really helped me, thank you! i never tried layers before!
wow...how did you do this?.. plus i like the lettering did you use a tablet to do the letters there so neat
Hi...and thanks! I used the layer tool to copy the postcard then wrote through using eraser tool. All my pictures are done with mouse so if I want neater, controlled writing I use the Smoothing tool so that I don't get any wobbles:0) Hope that helps
I love this so crisp and clean/../.
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Waking to nurse every hour!
I CAN'T let him CIO. If I try to comfort him back to sleep w/o nursing it takes over an hour, so i get NO sleep! but if I just nurse he's back to sleep in 10 minutes.... But I feel like if I keep nursing him all night every time he wakes he's NEVER going to learn to sleep!!
I don't know what to do. I haven't slept in 7 months! (more if you count the fact that I was in preterm labor and up all night having contractions for 18 weeks before he was born!) I'm too tired to think straight about this.
Both my other kids slept through the night by 6-8 weeks! (both were ff 1after 6 weeks/ and 1 from birth)
HELP! Please! Help!
You don't have to feel guilty about wanting sleep. It's our natural human bodily function to NEED sleep. I don't know what you should do. I'm a first time mom-to-be. I'm going to breastfeed, so I just read ya'll blogs to see what type of things ya'll go through so I have an idea about what to expect. Maybe you could ask for help (if you have someone there to help), Maybe pump and let someone else feed for you so some nights you can get some rest. I'm sure it'll past. Good Luck Momma. :)
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Poor you! I remember those days well, although mine slept at least 3-4 hour stretches by 3 months of age.
Honestly, if you can give him a bottle of formula just before bed, he might sleep for 4 or 5 hours. I know, you enjoy EBFing, but you gotta sleep, Mama!
Your son has reaped the wonderful benefits of EBFing for quite some time. I'd supplement with formula just before bed.
doesn't make you a bad mom at all! makes you a more able-bodied mom.


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Last up before lunch, Fiserv showed the many ways consumers can interact with their online bank:
"Fiserv understands that convenience and supporting user preference are keys to increased adoption and usage of digital payments. Our innovation seamlessly blends a variety of information input modes in our mobile banking application, Mobiliti Enterprise.
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Finovate demo video: finovate.com/fall12vid/ (demo video will be posted next week)
Introducing Serge vanDam (VP, Mobile Solutions) and Andy Barnett (Senior Consultant)


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Before the Han dynasty, before Alexander the Great, even before Ramses, the first empire the world ever knew was built by a Mesopotamian ruler named Sargon of Akkad. He conquered and subjugated dozens of cities and villages between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers more than 4,000 years ago, forcing them to pay tribute in wheat, barley and silver. For a century the regime flourished, first under Sargon and then under his grandson until suddenly, mysteriously, it collapsed. Neither the capital city of Akkad, famed for its harbor filled with vessels from distant shores, nor the imperial records, etched in cuneiform and...
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If it's January, it must be retirement-survey season.
A slew of polls and studies on retirement have been published in recent weeks, many with the familiar refrain -- "Canadians aren't prepared! Let us manage your finances!"
Yet despite the self-serving tone, the polls (at least, those with sufficient sample sizes) yield interesting insights into how people are feeling about retirement. This is, after all, the year the first of the baby boomers turn 65 -- the beginning of a wave of the population having to make decisions about whether to stop working, how to make their money stretch and what to do with new found free time.
Here's a snapshot of what some of the surveys are telling us:
-- A third of boomers (those aged 45 to 64) have a retirement plan, according to TD Waterhouse. Two thirds are worried they won't have enough money and only 15 per cent feel very well prepared.
-- Incredibly, in that survey, nearly a third of respondents said they're "relying on a winning a lottery ticket." This seems somewhat worrisome, given the odds of scoring a jackpot. TD's spokeswoman says some who selected that answer did so in jest, but that it does show people "are feeling anxious and hopeless about having enough money to retire."
-- Four in ten Canadians with a group savings and retirement plan don't know what their future retirement income will be, and a similar proportion don't know if their current rate of retirement saving will meet their future income needs, according to survey conducted for Standard Life.
-- It also found that workplace retirement plan statements are not widely used because they are hard to understand and lack personalized recommendations and specific suggestions to improve retirement income.
-- Seven in 10 Canadians plan to keep on working after reaching retirement age, Bank of Nova Scotia's poll showed. Most want to keep working to stay mentally active, with others saying they want to remain socially connected. Thirty-eight per cent say they'll keep working out of financial need.
-- The portion of retirees without the financial resources to replace three-quarters of their pre-retirement consumption could rise sharply in the next 40 years, a study released last month by the C.D. Howe Institute said. It found that proportion could grow to more than two in five, from about one in six currently. "Future retirees will increasingly find maintaining their working-life consumption in retirement more difficult," it said.
-- Of those who plan to retire within the next five years – a third still feel they haven't put aside enough money, the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants' survey shows. The top reason for not socking away enough for retirement? Insufficient funds.
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Jobs still difficult to find in region
WORTHINGTON -- Anyone paging through the help wanted sections in newspapers and on websites these days is noticing a few trends.
If you have an interest or experience in health care, own your own tractor for over-the-road transport, or have a college degree or certification in teaching, marketing or financial management, there may be work for you in southwest Minnesota.
Earlier this week, the Jobs Now Coalition in Minnesota released information from the latest Job Vacancy Survey, showing that there were 91,000 job seekers in Greater Minnesota competing for 13,000 unfilled jobs in the fourth quarter of 2010. While the greatest unemployment rates tended to be in counties in central and northern Minnesota, southwest Minnesota counties are experiencing some of the highest jobless rates since the 1980s.
According to the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development website, Nobles County had a jobless rate of 5.9 percent in February 2011, compared with 5.5 percent in Jackson County, 5.6 percent in Rock and Cottonwood counties, 7.3 percent in Murray County and 8.4 percent in Pipestone County.
Cameron Macht, regional market analyst with the Minnesota WorkForce Center's Willmar office, said Friday that despite the higher jobless rates in southwest Minnesota (typically the rate is between 3 and 4 percent), he is starting to see some improvement.
"What we've seen is 2009 was really the peak of a lot of counties in southwest Minnesota," Macht said. "In comparison to two years ago, we're doing better."
Still, a report presented to Nobles County commissioners last week by the Southwest Minnesota Private Industry Council shows there are still a lot of people out of work in the region. The PIC spearheads the dislocated worker program, and is working directly with individuals who lost their jobs due to production facilities closing at Farley's & Sathers in Round Lake, Bayliner in Pipestone and Suzlon in Pipestone -- all within the last 17 months.
According to the PIC report, 132 employees of Bayliner are enrolled in the dislocated worker program, and only 60 of them are now employed. In comparison, Farley's & Sathers had 140 people enroll and only 34 have since found employment. At Suzlon, 70 employees who lost their job appear to have had the least success, with just two of them finding employment by the end of February 2011.
While Pipestone County is making a slower recovery in terms of people finding work, Rock, Nobles, Cottonwood and Jackson counties have jobless rates that are lower than both the state and national average.
Macht said part of the reason for the lower jobless rate in southwest Minnesota is its higher concentration in industries that are seeing a quicker recovery from the recession that ended in June 2009.
"Manufacturing has been leading some of the job growth in Minnesota," said Macht, adding that food manufacturing and metal fabrication businesses were less impacted by the recession.
"Agriculture is also a driver, and that industry has done relatively well in recent years," Macht said.
In the last six months, Macht said there has been additional demand statewide within certain industries, from meat packing plants to trucking companies, welding/manufacturing, retail and food service.
"Health care is definitely the industry that has the most openings," he added.
Kevin Honetschlager, site supervisor for the WorkForce Center in Worthington, said there is both training and financial assistance available to people who continue to search for work. The Worthington office, located in the Nobles County Government Center, has a resource room with half a dozen computers that can be used to aid people in job searches. One of the websites utilized to search for jobs is minnesotaworks.net.
"Anyone who comes in to the WorkForce Center would have access to staff (as well)," said Honetschlager. "There are programs out there for people that have lost jobs due to plant closings or business shutdowns. Working through employment counselors, they can look at the jobs in demand in the area and see what they can do to get their skills up to date to qualify for those positions."


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9 tips to block PEDv
Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) is back in full swing. Reports show that as of December 1, 2013, there were 1,512 cases of PEDv in 20 states.
"The disconcerting news is that this is an increase of 140 new locations from the week before, which is the largest one-week jump in cases [since the first outbreak May 1]," says Bob Thaler, South Dakota State University (SDSU) Extension swine specialist.
The number has since bumped to 22 states.
PEDv is devastating to swine production facilities. It is deadly to newborn piglets and causes adults to get very sick with diarrhea and vomiting. The virus thrives in cold, moist conditions (survives for 14 days in warm weather, 28 days in cold temperatures).
Luckily, PEDv isn't an airborne threat, but that doesn't mean it can't spread easily. A small amount of manure has the power to infect an entire facility. Here are tips to prevent that from happening:
- Make more boot and clothing changes.
- Limit access to your hog facilities.
- Wash and disinfect trucks and trailers more frequently.
- Consider shower-in and out.
Packing plants are PEDv-fests
- Before getting out of your truck, put on a pair of disposable boots.
- After you're done unloading and just before you're ready to head home, take off (and throw away) your boots.
When washing, beware!
Many truck washes carry PEDv.
- If there's any residue from the previous person, it can splash up on you, the truck or trailer, and be carried back to your production facility.
- If you do use a community truck wash, disinfecting the trailer is necessary. Talk with your veterinarian for the best options.
Some people have even gone to the measures of building their own truck wash.
Convenience stores are a threshold.
According to Thaler, there was a study conducted in Iowa where "over 50 convenience store floors were swabbed and tested positive for PEDv."
- Thaler recommends steering clear of convenience stores if you're going to your hog facility when heading home. At the very least, change shoes once you get home.


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Islesboro — The Rev. David W. Boulton, 85, of Islesboro, died Saturday, July 19, 2014, at The Boardman Cottage in Islesboro.
A complete obituary will be published later and services will be announced. If desired memorial gifts in his memory may be made to The Boardman Cottage, 131 Main Road, Islesboro, ME 04848 or to the Islesboro Health Center, P. O. Box 137, Islesboro, ME 04848.
Condolences and memories may be sahred with the Boulton family at longfuneralhomecamden.com. Arrangements are with the Long Funeral Home & Cremation Service, 9 Mountain St., Camden.


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It is said that his cult was introduced by a pre-Christian king names Tigernmus. During the prostrations one Samhain night, he and three fourths of his followers destroyed themselves.
The twelve lesser idols that encircle Crom have led to the assumption that he was a solar deity; certainly a fertility god. However, he has not been identified with any of the ancient Irish gods. According to legend, St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, cursed and destroyed it (the idol sunk back into the earth). The saint preached to the people against the burning of milk-cows and their first-born progeny.
Crom Cruach, or Cromm Crúac means bloody crescent or bloody bent one and is mentioned as such in the 6th century Dinnshenchas in the Book of Leinster. It is also referred to as Cenn Crúaic (bloody head) in the Tripartite Life of Patrick. Another name is ríg-íodal h-Eireann, the king idol of Ireland.


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Each year the National Garden Bureau designates a flower, a vegetable and a perennial for special focus and to educate the public.
They have designated 2012 as the year of the Year of the Herbs, the Year of the Huechera and the Year of the Geranium.
When we talk about the geranium, we are usually not using the right name for the bedding plants gardeners plant in late spring.
Although we call them geraniums, they are really pelargoniums. True geraniums are the cranesbills that are hardy herbaceous perennials, some of which are native to Utah.
The names got confused back in the 17th century when pelargoniums were brought from South Africa. Based on the shape of their flower, botanists called them both "geraniums."
The name stuck and it will not likely ever change because most nurseries still sell the pelargoniums as geraniums and the geraniums as hardy geraniums.
Pelargoniums are tender annuals plants that come mostly from South Africa. They have graced local gardens for decades with their showy blossoms, interesting leaves and even the different fragrance on those leaves.
My first recollection of these plants involved my grandmother, who had these in her in her kitchen window. They were usually cuttings taken in the fall, and she would root these in canning jars so she could plant them the following spring.
Later, several school teachers had large collections that they would overwinter in our classrooms. We watered and pruned and deheaded these plants so they looked good to set out in the spring.
These plants came to America in 1786 when Thomas Jefferson shipped the plant from France to one of this country's foremost horticulturists, John Bartram of Philadelphia. And each year, new hybrids and selections are introduced to the public.
All pelargoniums are not the same. There are numerous species and these species have many different characteristics. For simplicity, they are grouped into four basic types.
Common or zonal geraniums, as they are sometimes called, are Pelargonium x hortorum. These are the classic bedding plant, and it derives its name from the ring — or "zoned" — leaf markings.
These plants thrive in containers as single specimens as well as mass plantings in flower beds.
The plants can be single or double-flowered. The plants that grow as annuals get 1 foot to 2 feet tall with a similar spread.
These plants have an extensive range of blossom colors, ranging from pure white to salmon, pink, orange, magenta, lavender and brilliant red, with numerous showy variations of bi-colored blossoms.
There are also many fancy flowered types available.
Zonals include the fancy-leaved varieties with highly variegated foliage. The color of these leaves vary from very pale, yellowish green, to dark green, to those with dark, reddish banding.
These different colors overlap to create myriad patterns of colored leaves.
Regal and Angel Geraniums (Pelargonium domesticum) are also known as Martha Washington geraniums.
These do best in cooler areas because they need cool nighttime temperatures to bud.
The large bushy plants have large, single or double flowers with dramatic colors and patterns. These are difficult to grow in Utah.
Scented-leaf geraniums (Pelargonium domesticum) are often heirloom plants that are grown for their pleasing fragrance, unusual foliage, delicate flowers, essential oils and even for cooking.
The fragrance is created by oils in the leaves and is released when the leaves are rubbed.
There are many fragrances including those of roses, lemons, cloves, nutmeg, pine, peppermint, apple, pineapple, chocolate, coconut and many others.
Ivy-leaf geraniums (Pelargonium peltatum) have long, brittle stems with sculptured, ivy shaped succulent leaves.
These have a graceful trailing habit and are popular for hanging baskets, window-boxes and containers.
These plants flower profusely throughout the summer. They are covered with smaller, looser flower umbels of single, semi-double or double blossoms in shades of deep maroon, red or pink.
Traditionally, all types of these plants were propagated vegetatively, taking cuttings from mother plants. The first successful seed geraniums were introduced in 1962, and there are now many different cultivars that are grown from seeds.Comment on this story
Rather than worry about their name, spend your time finding one of the hundreds of these beautiful plants to grow well in your garden. Their robust growth, long bloom season and beautiful foliage and superb flowers are going to make your garden very attractive this season.
Garden tips
For more information on the Year of the Geranium, including additional history and cultural information, go to www.nbg.org
The Red Butte Spring Bulb Show and Competition will be held April 21 and 22, 9 a.m.-7:30 p.m. at the Red Butte Garden Visitors Center. The competition is open for any and all spring bulbs to everyone who would like to bring in flowers. Regular garden admission applies; members get in free.
Larry A. Sagers is a horticulture specialist for the Utah State University Extension Service at Thanksgiving Point.


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Posted by ESC on November 17, 2005
In Reply to: Could care less = couldn't care less posted by Anders on November 16, 2005
: : : : : : I heard Dr Phil (Frazier Crane on TV) use the expression "could care less" when in fact he means "couldn't care less". Although the two expressions are logical opposites, I quite often see them used interchangeably in Internet forums. My question is, if you find this to be an error, or if it is actually legitimate to say, as Dr Phil did: "She could care less about what you think" when you mean "she does not care (at all) what you think"?
: : : : : It's legitimate as long as your audience understands that you mean "couldn't care less" when you actually say the opposite. This is really the same as using a double negative like "We ain't got no bananas" to mean "We have no bananas". There are some who will point out the technical inaccuracy.
: : : : I find it to be an error, not just a technical inaccuracy. "I could care less" was discussed recently in a "pet peeves" thread on a forum for writers and editors. It was around in casual speech (not speech or writing where standard English is expected) before the Internet.
: : : Thank you for your comments. Ms Berg, I didn't mean to suggest that the expression was somehow particularly linked to the Internet, in terms of origin or otherwise. Clearly, the two expressions are phonetically related and the alternative must have come about as a spoken derivative. When I heard Dr Phil say this on TV today, I thought to myself: How can he talk like that and pass himself off as a doctor. But then I thought: Wait, this may be too harsh.
: : We can hope that Dr. Phil is consciously dumbing down his speech for his television audience. Perhaps he is avoiding big words and such, to avoid scaring off viewers whom he is legitimately trying to help. It's the same as a pediatrician wearing a smock with teddy bears on it.
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: Yes, that might be :-)
Stop me if I've told this one. A woman had a misunderstanding with a new boss. He would ask her to do some task and she would respond, "I don't care to." He thought she was saying she didn't want to do it. What she meant was the opposite, "I don't mind."
He noticed that she was doing what he asked. And eventually figured out what she was actually saying.


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Almost two months ago, George Chasse, the new face in Phoenix politics, sat down with a well-known Valley leader and discussed City Hall. Chasse explained that he hoped to run against incumbent Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard.
Chasse's confidant was aware that Mayor Goddard had stubbed his toe on several issues: ValTrans, the north-side amphitheatre, the beautification of Central Avenue, the new Phoenix Suns arena and the Formula One Grand Prix race downtown.
But Chasse wasn't interested in talking about issues. Chasse wanted to discuss Mayor Goddard's "homosexual lifestyle."
Chasse said there were pictures.
We put him under surveillance. People followed him around. We got it on him and we're going to use it, claimed Chasse.
We followed him at night to his house and we took pictures.
When questioned as to what Terry Goddard's personal life had to do with being mayor, Chasse allegedly responded, "I don't like queers, do you? It isn't fair for the rest of us to be subject to that sort of person being leader."
You must grasp that George Chasse is not part of the lunatic fringe in Arizona.
As chairman of Voters Against Senseless Transit (VAST), Chasse hung the biggest defeat of Goddard's career upon the popular mayor when voters rejected the $10.4 billion mass-transit proposal on March 28.
Today, just three months later, the man is a force to be reckoned with.
Ultimately, Chasse decided not to tackle Goddard directly. Yet he will still get his two cents into the race.
Former Republican state chairman Tom Pappas said that although Chasse is not part of the inner sanctum, he is part of "a larger circle of advisers" who are close to GOP hopeful Burt Kruglick.
Last Thursday Kruglick, the leader of Arizona's Republicans, announced that he would challenge Goddard in the October mayoral election.
Kruglick has already consulted with Lee Atwater, the McCarthy chain saw of the Republican party who is leading the GOP charge to wrest control of America's city halls from Democrats.
President George Bush's constellation consists of a thousand points of light and one Death Star, Lee Atwater. White fear of black criminals was forever linked to convict Willie Horton and Michael Dukakis by Atwater during the presidential election.
Recently, Atwater's office leveled a thinly veiled accusation of homosexuality at the new Democratic leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, Thomas Foley. Atwater's innuendo was so repugnant that even President Bush was embarrassed to the point that he repudiated the attack.
Now Atwater is savaging New York Mayor Ed Koch, an official who for years has endured snide comments about his bachelorhood.
Insiders close to the mayor fear that Goddard is next in line to be smeared.
This is not groundless paranoia. Although the Goddard forces are unaware of it, there was a conversation last week which illuminated the ugliness that passes for politics in Arizona.
The night before Kruglick's press conference to announce for mayor, Chasse again told his friend that Goddard's personal life would become a campaign issue.
"Burt won't ever use it directly," said Chasse, "but it will come out."
Well, of course. Isn't that the way this poisonous swill is always passed for public consumption? The benefactors of the Goddard-in-spandex rumor won't stand on their hind legs and make the charge. They will find some religious nutbasket or a sign-carrying malcontent to heave the cobblestone.
Then we will hear that they don't like to see this sort of campaign, that they are above this sort of campaign, and all the while they refuse to drive out the mouthfoamers from their midst.
Do not expect the accusations of homosexuality to surface until the final days of the election. That way a flustered Goddard will not have time to respond.
Let us have no part of this smarmy bargain.
This cannot fester until the last second. Stand up, now, and tell us your concern about Terry Goddard.
If they mean to kick in that crystal window with their jackboot, let them do it in the full glare of the morning light instead of the evening shadows.
If a man's private life is not just that, private, then let those of you who are obsessed with sex step forward. Let us examine this "evidence." What do your "pictures" have to do with City Hall? Let us see what you have to say. Let us see who you are.
When reached by phone, George Chasse claimed he had no idea, none whatsoever, regarding allegations over the mayor's private life. Chasse, in fact, expressed surprise after being informed that Goddard's personal habits threatened to become a campaign issue.
"I didn't know that," said Chasse. "This is the first time I've heard of it."
When pressured, however, Chasse backpedaled and then contradicted himself.
"I know some people who've said they got material on the mayor," explained Chasse. "They told me, when I asked what it was, they said, `You'll soon find out.'"
Chasse would not be more specific.
"I really don't have anything to do with it," he added. "That's not my ball game. And if I had it, I wouldn't release it."
The person Chasse originally talked to regarding the surveillance on Goddard's home said Chasse is changing his tune. Chasse's confidant was so stunned by their initial conversation that he kept a record of the dialogue.
Although Kruglick was unavailable for comment, one of his closest advisers, Tom Pappas, said Goddard's personal life will not be an issue.
More than most, Tom Pappas understands the stakes.
During the impeachment hearing of then-Governor Evan Mecham, a Tucson politician read the testimony of key prosecution witness Peggy Griffith. Again and again, as the live television broadcast went out across Arizona, Pappas was labeled a homosexual. Lee Watkins--tow-truck operator, ex-convict and most notorious member of the governor's kitchen cabinet--was the man making the charge.
There was never, not once, any proof offered that Tom Pappas was gay, let alone any explanation as to the political relevance of the man's sexuality.
"My family felt terrible," recalled Pappas. "But how do you fight something like that? My mother watched it on TV at home. My nephew saw it at school where his entire class had the impeachment hearings on. It hurts when your close friends hear something like that in a public forum. I guess it's something I'll put up with until I marry or die. There's always that thought when you're a single guy."
Goddard is also a single guy.
Pappas, however, doesn't feel Goddard's marital status is an issue nor does he feel his candidate will engage in this sort of slander.
"If I have anything to say, Kruglick won't have anything to do with it," said Pappas.
The real question, though, is how much will Pappas or Kruglick attempt to control others in their party.
Kruglick has shown little stomach for reeling in the wild-eyed, particularly if there was an up side for Burt in cutting deals with the restless. When the fundamentalists, the holy rollers, the talking-in-tongues populists and the Mechamites formed a coalition to elect the majority of the precinct's committee members within the state Republican party, Kruglick made book with the biblicalists to keep his seat as state chairman. Then Kruglick, a Jew, sat by silently and watched those he cannot control or discipline pass a resolution declaring America a Christian nation. Even Pappas readily admitted there are political operatives within the Republican party who will not listen.
"There are these guys downtown who even have bumper stickers ready," lamented Pappas.
One of the guys downtown that Pappas referred to is Leon Woodward.
Mecham loyalist, political iconoclast and the owner of significant blocks of parking in downtown Phoenix, Leon Woodward is a staunch Goddard foe. He fought, and won, a lengthy court battle with City Hall when Phoenix planners tried to force landscaping of the parking areas.
Woodward's bumper stickers read: "Terry, Does Brooke know about Mark?"
Brooke is Brooke Newell, Goddard's long-time girlfriend, and Mark is Mark Steinberg, the mayor's former campaign manager and good friend.
Woodward said last week that the bumper stickers weren't actually his.
"Someone gave them to me. Some Mecham guy, a whacko. I don't have them anymore," said Woodward.
Woodward agreed that Goddard's private life would indeed become a campaign issue.
"I've been told that, too. I wish I knew more. I'm all ears," said Woodward. "I'm interested. I would like to know if he is a queer . . . . I think it would be most damaging if he was because he denied he was. It's a matter of credibility."
I do not know if Terry Goddard goes to gay discos, but I am appalled at the thought that anyone would follow him and keep him under surveillance.
I do not know if Terry Goddard is homosexual, bisexual, heterosexual or asexual, but I am disgusted that someone would lurk in the bushes outside his home to take photographs of who comes and goes.
I do not know if Terry Goddard is going to marry Brooke Newell, but I am saddened that their courtship would be plastered with obscene bumper stickers.
Once before, Terry Goddard endured this type of smear. When Mecham's ex- press secretary, Ron Bellus, published his memoirs, he said that Terry Goddard was a homosexual. He identified his source as a member of the Phoenix gay community named "Butterfly."
Because Ron Bellus was widely dismissed within the Phoenix press corps as a fool and because his book was regarded as a joke, Goddard escaped the intended slander without a scratch.
Today, however, Goddard's blood is on the water after a series of well-publicized civic blunders.
Today there is a race for the mayor's seat. What's more, Kruglick has been playing footsie with the Mechamites for a long time. And this is a coalition that has proved it's capable of anything.
What has this combination of circumstances brought us?
The headlines in the afternoon daily when Kruglick announced said that observers were expecting a vicious, dirty campaign. But there were no details.
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So all of us were left hanging, waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Leon Woodward made it clear he was not part of any surveillance of Goddard's home.
"I'm not going to take that ball and run with it," said Woodward.
But he inquired whether or not we'd be interested in printing anything that might turn up.
Do not expect the accusations of homosexuality to surface until the final days of the election.
I do not know if Terry Goddard goes to gay discos, but I am appalled at the thought that anyone would follow him.


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LOS ANGELES, April 22 (UPI) -- Law enforcement agents insist that mobsters are largely a thickheaded and brutal lot, but the author of a new history of Chicago's infamous "Outfit" has tapped into a more nostalgic image of organized crime in America that has steadily mellowed over the years.
In his new mob history "The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America" (Bloomsbury, 550 pages, $35), Baltimore author Gus Russo sees gangsters as colorful characters to be sure, but also as important players in modern American history and an embodiment of America's literary love of the rugged individualist.
And judging from the reception he said he received on the streets of Chicago, the gangsters who belonged to the Outfit have been elevated to the romantic stature of Wild West anti-heroes Jesse James, Billy the Kid, or the captivating modern-day rogues -- John Gotti and fictional New Jersey mobster Tony Soprano.
"You go to Chicago today and talk to the old timers and nobody feared these guys," Russo told United Press International in a telephone interview. "That's what first hooked me on this story. You talk to these people and they tell you how great a guy Al Capone was."
People who actually knew the immortal mobster boss were children at the time and there aren't many of them left, but Russo said Chicagoans he came across while researching his book also had fond memories of Capone's lesser-known successors such as Tony Accardo, Sam Giancana and Murray Humphreys.
"Obviously, time plays games with your memory, but the number of comments you get like that is so overwhelming that you sense there must be some truth to it," said Russo, author of 1998's critically acclaimed "Live by the Sword," a history of the Kennedy Administration's secret war against Castro.
The Outfit ruthlessly knocked off its competition in the Roaring 1920s and went on to control virtually every sector of vice in the Windy City and quite a few legitimate industries as well. Politicians and many law enforcement officers were so corrupted they were more allies than adversaries to this virtual criminal army.
The ability of the mobster to live the good life without having to fear the government or kowtow to a skinflint employer, and avenge wrongs with enthusiastic violence, appealed to honest workingmen in much the same way as the gun-slinging cowboy heroes of the movies.
"In this country, we pride individual freedom above everything, and here are the ultimate free people who live by their own rules," Russo noted. "Many people distrust government, while the gangsters are open about it; people sort of respond to that individualism, especially when they get away with it for a long time."
As their power increased and spread west, the Outfit began to exert an economic and political influence that Russo sees as legitimately historical.
Most modern gangster books -- beginning with "The Last Mafioso" in 1981 and Nick Pileggi's 1985 classic "Wise Guy" -- are biographies of a particular hood, but Russo, whose book debuted as a bestseller in Chicago bookstores, took a different tack in "The Outfit" and placed the Chicago mob in context of U.S. history.
The fact that Las Vegas was launched by Mafia money from both Chicago and New York is no secret, but Russo also reminds the reader that Hollywood had plenty of gangsters and their allies in positions of power for decades.
Entertainers of the Rat Pack era in Vegas knew all of the wise guys, but the world of jazz may owe Al Capone an even bigger debt because he brought pioneering black musicians out of the segregated squalor of the South, north to Chicago, where they were treated like kings while playing in the mob's speakeasies.
The crumbling labor movement, the book alleges, may have been saved in the 1930s through its takeover by organized crime, which gave struggling unions some needed firepower against ruthless employers. One small union of Chicago elevator operators shook down residents of high-rise apartments buildings who were given the choice of ponying up the payment or hiking up the stairs.
The Outfit also is reputed to have played a pivotal role in John F. Kennedy's presidential election by getting Chicagoans to "vote early and vote often," a phrase coined by Humphreys, the son of Welsh immigrants who became a key aide to Capone and Accardo. According to Russo, the Outfit's assistance was also courted during the campaigns of FDR and Harry Truman, and they were also recruited into the anti-Castro campaign by then-Vice President Richard Nixon.
There was also the less-glamorous work of maintaining the Outfit's grip on the rackets, and Chicago had its corps of psychos that maintained discipline in the most brutal fashion; Russo's book mentions countless shootings, vicious throat slashings, the use of acid to blind victims and an unfortunate who had his face seared by a blowtorch.
But the violence appears to be a side issue that doesn't interfere with the book's image of mobsters as generally stand-up guys who didn't impose their wrath on anyone who didn't get out of line.
"You have to get past the initial shock," Russo chuckled about his research, "but the old-style guys from the 1920s through the 1960s saw violence as a last resort and it tended to be perpetrated on each other almost exclusively."
"They didn't rob old ladies or break into stores," he pointed out. "And you knew it when you were in trouble with them long before it happened. It wasn't the out-of-the-blue violence perpetrated on innocent people like you have today."
Some reviewers have found "The Outfit" to be a little obsequious to those who employed machine guns, bombs and torture to attain their goals, particularly in Russo's contention that organized crime would not exist without the complicity of respectable businesses, including modern-day banks that launder drug money for Latin American traffickers.
But in the "The Outfit," as in the legend of Robin Hood, the cops become secondary players to the characters who were as colorful as they were dangerous.
"The Outfit guys said, 'Look, people at all levels get away with stuff. The whole country is corrupt and we're just trying to get our piece,'" Russo said. "There are a lot of people who respond to that and say, 'Yeah, you're right.'"
Law enforcement may have the mob on the run these days, but as a new season of "The Sopranos" approaches and books like "The Outfit" continue to attract enthusiastic readers, those who document the history of gangsters will always have a piece of the action.


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Deadly Adventure is the title of Short Story #5 at the Risen site. Here we go:
Three men worked their way along a narrow, descending passage.
"You want to know what I think?" asked Olf, shouldering a pickaxe.
"No, not really," grumbled Dytar. "Keep the torch up, so we don't miss any traps."
"I'll tell you anyway," said the first. "I've got a feeling we are going to find a lot of gold. I can feel it in my little finger."
"Aah, in the last temple, it was in your big toe. Can't you make up your mind?" moaned Dirk. He was carrying a bundle of shovels. "And we didn't find anything, either."
"Well, that's because the guys from the Order were faster than us. But nobody's been here before us."
"Just be glad they didn't catch us outside the city."
"Hey, watch out! Stop," called Dytar, putting an end to the debate. "Don't you see that joint, you dimwit? That plate looks strange to me. That's bound to be another trapdoor."
"Well, that's better than those nasty spikes we had earlier."
There was a distant roar. Then a sound like nails sliding across stone. Closer. Much closer.
"What was that?" whispered Olf. "Did you hear that?"
"We're not deaf," breathed Dirk.
"Go back!"
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A Fairway shop that once received the distinction of being among the "Three Coolest" stores in America as recognized by a jewelry trade magazine is closing in favor of operating primarily on the web.
Churchill, which has had its storefront on Belinder Street next to the Fairway Police Department for eight years, will shut its doors sometime in March, says manager Chris Garrett.
"We don't know the exact date, but it will be soon," he said. "We've been online for many years now, and more and more that's where things are moving. So we're going to commit more time there."
Chuchill specializes in luxury accessories, featuring antiques and jewelry, primarily.
Garrett said Churchill owner Sally Hilkene is exploring the possibility of opening another story in southern California. Churchill opened 10 years ago in its initial location at the Crestwood Shops in Kansas City, Mo., before moving to its Fairway location two years later. The business also had a store on the Country Club Plaza, which closed ahead of a proposed redevelopment in the area.


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For perhaps the first time in five days, Nets Coach Don Casey was nearly himself -- relaxed, humorous and willing to make light of practically any situation.
He joked about the widespread reports of his dismissal early next week, saying that he may be reassigned as a housesitter for the summer home of Lewis Katz, the Nets' principal owner. He further waded into the self-deprecating humor that has made him one of the most likable men in the National Basketball Association, comparing his eventual firing to being ''jettisoned -- without a parachute.''
After wearing a despondent look since a report last Sunday quoted YankeeNets owners as saying he would be released at season's end, Casey seemed to emerge from his final meeting as the team's coach in a healthier mood. More than a therapeutic way of dealing with the rampant speculation, Casey's demeanor seemed to be a sign that he had finally accepted his fate.
''We'll see what the future holds,'' Casey said. ''It's like, Are you in remission? Until the condition is resolved, I bear with it.''
Casey, who addressed his players in an exit meeting today at the Nets' Champion Center, will meet with Katz either Monday or Tuesday and will most likely receive word of his firing. The players left for the summer knowing that the man they endorsed for the job last season would not survive.Continue reading the main story
''Right now we're all assuming that he's going to get fired based on how things are going,'' Stephon Marbury said. ''It's plain. In this business, it's cut and dry, right to the point. If you don't win, these are the questions that you have to ask. It all falls back on a coach. Some people may think it's fair. Some people may not. But that's just how it is.''
While the Nets, who began the season envisioning a near 50-victory record, cleaned their lockers in disappointment, they admitted to being relieved and thankful that their embarrassing 31-51 run was over.
''I'll be honest with you, I need a break,'' Keith Van Horn said. ''Never did I expect to go through all that we went through this year. Unbelievable. I hope that I never have anything that comes even close to this year because it's almost like we were cursed this year. I can't imagine that I'll ever have to go through anything like this again.''
The Nets' owners will try to avoid a repeat by making several front-office moves. Michael Rowe, who blasted unidentified YankeeNets officials on Wednesday for leaking information on the front-office shake-up, will be removed from the presidency and General Manager John Nash will most likely be released as well.
One YankeeNets official said Rowe would be offered an executive's position in the Newark Arena project, but after Rowe called the unidentified officials cowards on Wednesday, that could change. Nash's future is still uncertain and he is needed to work the N.B.A. draft until a replacement is named. The player roster will not be changed as dramatically. The core of Marbury, Van Horn, Kerry Kittles and Jayson Williams, who is expected to return to training camp in good health, will remain intact. Even if the club wanted to trade Van Horn, Kittles or Williams, the salary structure of their long-term contracts and their history of injuries would make it nearly impossible. The only way to make a major improvement on the roster will be through the draft.
After finishing with the seventh-worst record in the league, the Nets will enter the draft lottery with the seventh pick over all. Their top prospects are the centers Joel Pryzbilla of Minnesota and Chris Mihm of Texas, who is undecided whether he will enter the draft, and forward Marcus Fizer of Iowa State. Another option for the Nets is packaging the pick with a player like Jamie Feick for a higher selection or a current N.B.A. player.
Feick, who led the Nets with 9.3 rebounds a game in 27.7 minutes a game, is the most tradeable player because of his production and his relatively low six-year, $15 million contract. Feick, somewhat of a loner on the team, was shopped vigorously before the trading deadline and will most likely be put on the market.
The Nets have four free agents in Kendall Gill, Johnny Newman, Scott Burrell and Gheorghe Muresan. Gill, Newman and Burrell said they hoped to return to the Nets. Gill, a top perimeter defender, has played with the Nets for the past five seasons. He was paid $5.6 million this season and does not want to take a pay cut, but few teams, including the Nets, will be willing to pay him that much. Gill, however, has an advocate in the team's best player, Marbury.
''I want Kendall to come back very bad,'' Marbury said. ''I love playing with Kendall. Kendall plays hard. He plays defense and he plays with his heart. Kendall loves playing basketball, and I would definitely want him to be back here. We need his leadership on defense because he sparks us. He makes everyone step their defensive game up tremendously.''
With the Nets' dismal season over, the real action may just be starting.Continue reading the main story


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Starting this coming school year, Minnesota colleges and universities may have to dash a few career dreams.
Under a new law, schools have to tell students that if they have criminal convictions, they should check to make sure those convictions don't bar them from getting internships, degrees or even particular jobs.
Imagine you've been convicted of a crime, you've served your prison sentence, and you're motivated to seek a better life. You enroll in a two-year degree at a Twin Cities community college to study human services.
Near the end of the two years, you must do an internship to complete the degree. They ask for a background check, and your convictions suggest you're not human services material.
That's what happened to Shantae Holmes.
"You look at your peers and they're so excited about getting positions, coming into class and telling the instructor, 'this place just hired me, this place just hired me,'" Holmes said. "And you're sitting there [thinking] wow, you're going to get a degree and I may not."
Holmes will be the first to tell you that she has committed some serious crimes -- at least seven felonies. Some of them drug related, some fraud, like forging checks, and other crimes she doesn't want to talk about that she says stem from living on the streets.
"And you're sitting there [thinking] wow, you're going to get a degree and I may not."Shantae Holmes
Holmes takes responsibility for her crimes, but she thought that after eight years, society would be a little more forgiving. She said no one told her that her convictions might affect her ability to get an internship, a degree or a job in human services.
"I had the common sense to know I'm not going to go to the medical field because I know I've got some stuff that may reflect harm," Holmes said. "But for the individual who has abstained from a negative lifestyle for such a long period of time, you'd kind of think you could go anywhere."
The Council on Crime and Justice is an advocacy organization that conducts research on the causes and consequences of crime. It pushed for the notification law when it saw people, like Holmes, who were unaware of how their convictions might affect their potential jobs.
The council couldn't say how many people will be affected by this law, but says there are about 10,000 new felony convictions in Minnesota each year.
To determine what convictions bar entry to which occupations, and for how long, isn't easy. Some are pretty straightforward. For instance, persons with sex offenses can't work with children.
But other restrictions depend on the seriousness of the offense. For example, a person convicted of food stamp fraud is barred from working in some human services organizations for 15 years.
The council's director, former Hennepin County judge Pam Alexander, said the restrictions can be confusing.
"A lot of it is because we have many, many statutes that prohibit people with felony convictions from doing certain things, and I think most people don't understand how many of them we have," Alexander said. "I thought I was pretty learned in the whole thing, and found out there were many more than even I anticipated."
Alexander said it's important that a person have that information at the start of their schooling, so they can make better decisions about degrees and employment.
Colleges and universities say they aren't quite sure how to comply with the notification law. The University of Minnesota and MnSCU have begun adding a notice to admissions applications.
The legislation's co-author, Sen. Ron Latz, DFL-St. Louis Park, said the notification doesn't need to be complicated.
"If I were the lawyer advising these educational institutions, I would have a little form that each student that's accepted for admission would sign on the bottom: I acknowledge I've been informed that there are certain majors, or certain areas of study that having a criminal history is going to be a problem for getting a job in," Latz said.
Ultimately, Shantae Holmes did get her human services degree after a nonprofit that works with offenders gave her an internship.
She's now an advocate at a community, family and children services organization in Minneapolis, where she helps women from the streets and from prison transition into more stable lives.


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Richard Dean Downs, 50, of Washington, was arrested Tuesday and has been charged with sexual abuse, a Class B felony that can bring up to 25 years in prison.
Downs is being held in the Washington County Jail under $25,000 bail. Court records show that 10 percent will be sufficient for him to bond out. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 2.
According to the court record, Downs allegedly committed a sexual act on a subject under the age of 12 years old between Aug. 1, 2011, and Dec. 22, 2012. The report said that the victim had stated that Downs had made him commit a sex act as punishment for misbehaving. The victim reported that this had occurred while he was in fourth grade and stated it had not happened again until December of 2012.
The report said the victim was interviewed several times and was consistent with his statements. The victim had said he would be playing on his bed when he was supposed to be sleeping and that Downs would make him come down the steps and sit on one of the steps to perform the act.
According to Iowa Criminal Code sexual abuse includes committing a sex act on a child under the age of 12.


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The amazing circumstances involved in Georgia recruiting Anthony (Zippy) Morocco, ''General George'' Patton and Janet Harris, who will be inducted into the Bulldogs' Circle of Honor Friday night, ought to be in Ripley's ''Believe It Or Not''.
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Morocco is being honored for being Georgia's first basketball All-American but he was given a scholarship for being the top college football prospect in Ohio. Wallace Butts had seen him play in the 1948 Ohio High School all-star game, in which Zippy won the MVP award.
Usually the winner of this award winds up at perennial national power Ohio State. Zippy, however, had two unusual reasons to choose Georgia:
(1) His fellow townsman in Youngstown, O., Francis Frank Sinkwich, had led Georgia to the Rose Bowl and won the Heisman Award in 1942; and
(2), the nation's top Italian-American athlete, Charley Trippi, who had led Georgia to an unbeaten season in 1946 and the Chicago Cardinals to the NFL crown the next year, had made a special phone call to Zippy, encouraging him to become a Georgia Bulldog. Zippy's father, Camillo Morocco, was a native of Rome, Italy.
George Edward Patton, All-America defensive tackle and captain of Georgia's 1966 SEC and Cotton Bowl champions, was a native of Tuscumbia, Ala., and his older brothers Huston and James had starred at Alabama (national championship team) and Ole Miss, respectively. Georgia alumnus Bill Cloud of Atalla, Ala., had lured Tuscumbia's top college prospect, tackle/guard Vance Evans into accepting a Georgia grant-in-aid. Patton, a quarterback in high school, had tagged along with Evans on his recruiting trip to Athens and ended up getting a scholarship, too.
Patton rode the bench as a Georgia freshman T-QB in 1962 and was switched to end and tackle in the spring drills of 1963. He was back at T-QB on the B team in '63, but Vince Dooley (in his first season at Georgia in 1964) wanted George's fighting heart and athletic agility (6-foot-3, 215 pounds) somewhere in the starting lineup. He became a regular at defensive tackle three straight years, and played next to his high school buddy Vance Evans two years.
Janet Harris, Georgia's only four-time basketball All-American, was the nation's No. 1 college prospect while at John Marshall High in Chicago, Ill. Georgia coach Andy Landers first saw the 6-3 super star at the First Annual Invitational basketball camp at Georgia Military College in Milledgeville, Ga. The nation's top women's players were there, led by Harris and two other future Bulldog All-Americans, Teresa Edwards and Lisa O'Connor.
Landers this week also recalled: ''Our 1980 captain, Bernadette Locke (now head coach at Kentucky) was a counselor. Also there was the future Olympic track champion Jackie Joyner (now Kersee) of Lincoln High, St. Louis, Mo. I tried to recruit her, too, but she went to UCLA. And, Janet Harris, whom UCLA tried hard to recruit, actually telephoned me from Los Angeles while visiting UCLA, to tell me she wanted to attend Georgia. She was a fabulous performer for us, leading us to two SEC titles and the Final Four in 1983 and the NCAA finals in 1984. She was our top scorer and rebounder four straight years.''
Morocco, Patton and Harris were equally successful after graduating at Georgia: Morocco in real estate, Patton with the Harland check company, and Harris, 16 years a pro player and now with Federal Express in Chicago. Morocco and Patton both are retired, the former living in Athens and the latter in Duluth. They are most worthy members of Georgia's Circle of Honor.
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Thursday, September 26, 2002.
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MIAMI, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. actor Matt Damon reportedly took part in the running portion of Sunday's The Escape to Miami Triathlon.
The Miami Herald said the 38-year-old film star, who lives in Miami, was a member of a relay team along with his stepfather Jay Jones and family friend Barry Hetherington.
"My brother talked me into it," Damon told the newspaper, referring to Kyle Damon, who finished 27th in Sunday's competition. A total of 960 people competed in the event.
Matt Damon's wife Luciana and their newborn daughter Gia were waiting for him at the finish line. He completed the 6.2-mile leg of the race in 59 minutes, 54 seconds, the Herald said.
"I was doing this movie this summer where I had to put on all this weight and my brother told me, 'Oct. 5, save the date,'" Damon said, recalling how he decided to take his brother up on his offer because "I've got to get in shape for the next thing I'm doing."
Asked once the race was over if more running is in his future, Damon quipped: "I don't think so. I knew I was in trouble when the old guy with the oxygen tank passed me."


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Tech Insider: Get your phone festival ready for free!
The greatest summer festival is almost upon us and so here is a list of apps and gadgets that will help make Electric Picnic that bit better!
The greatest summer festival is almost upon us and so here is a list of apps and gadgets that will help make Electric Picnic that bit better!
Free on iOS and Android
The hardest part of heading to any festival is the packing, and so uPackingList provides a handy check-list to take the pain away.
It covers all kinds of trips from business and picnics to family holidays and camping. It's possible to export lists within the app to email.
Real Time Ireland
Free on iOS and Android
Transport for Ireland's app provides the user with real-time data for Dublin Bus, Bus Eireann, Luas and Irish Rail. This makes travelling to Stradballly, or any destination in Ireland, easy. The app allows users to set reminders for when their bus or train is approaching their stop, ensuring they are not left stranded!
Battery HD
Free on iOS and Android
There is no point in having a flashy phone with a super camera if your battery runs dead. This app will help optimise your battery life, until a charging port becomes available.
Festival Ready
Free on iOS and Android
This app is made by the folks behind the Swiss army watch and knives. Victorinox's Festival Ready app is multi-functional, but has a clean cut design making it extremely user friendly. Features of the app include 3D navigation, torch, live weather and festival camping tips.
Find My Friends
Free on Android
While the site of Electric Picnic is rather self contained and well laid out, people get lost. Find My Friends is a free app which allows users to find their pals using GPS on their phones, preventing a constant stream of "can you hear me now, where are you?!"
Pick of the week
Kensington Rechargeable Pocket Battery (Android)
Those heading to the festival for the entire weekend should invest in a portable charger. The Kensington Pocket Battery Pack is ideal for Android phone users as it adds up to 4 hours of talk time. The device has micro USB cables built in.
Available now at €19 in Harvey Norman
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Here's one way to give a small home the illusion of a little bit more space: paint the bulky furniture (like these armoires) the same color as the walls. Not only does it gives the walls a bit more dimension, it also gives noteworthy surroundings and accessories a lot more emphasis.
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This coin is encapsulated in a plastic case & is in clean proof condition. There's some residue on the case, but the coin's surface is pristine. The fields are mirrorlike & the details are frosty.
The obverse shows the bust of Queen Elizabeth II facing to the right, wearing her full regalia (a stylized variation on the Imperial State Crown, teardrop earrings, pearl necklace). The legend reads "Elizabeth II Australia 2000" clockwise from 7:00 to 4:00. The denomination is clockwise from 7:00 to 5:00.
On the reverse, there's a map of Australia, surrounded by 19 tall sailing ships (mostly they appear to be 3 or 4 masted schooners) representing the settlement era ships each with it's masts pointing toward the center of the coin. On the continent, there are 2 stickfigures that seem to be dancing in opposite directions next to 4 footprints (a mix of outlined & full). Wavy lines surround the shore, representing the Great Barrier Reef. At 6:00 is a 6 sided trapezoidal diamond that may represent the Olympic Torch, with 5 colorized rings.
Identification code: Australia KM-371
Date: 2000
Mint Mark: C (Canberra)
Mintage: 100,000 (sold in sets of 16)
Country of origin: Australia
Composition: 99.99% Silver
Size: 40.5 mm
Weight: 31.635 g (without the case)
Other details: The interlocking rings are the symbol of the Olympic Games. There are five interlocking rings, colored blue, yellow, black, green, and red on a white field. Originally designed in 1912 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin; the ring colours supposedly included all of those found on the national flags of the countries that competed in the Olympic games at that time. Coubertin wrote in the 1912 Olympique:
"…the six colours [including the flag's white background] thus combined reproduce the colours of all the nations, with no exception. The blue and yellow of Sweden, the blue and white of Greece, the tri- colours of France, England and America, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Hungary, the yellow and red of Spain next to the novelties of Brazil or Australia, with old Japan and new China. Here is truly an international symbol."
Estimated Value: $75 with silver at ~$28/oz


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