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Craig Stern is giving his views on the eleven differences between Telepath Tactics and The Battle for Wesnoth, which can be viewed as similar games. This is what Craig mentions on why to begin comaring them anyway:
There is an argument to be made that this isn't even a legitimate question to ask. Even if the games were similar, what would be the harm in having more than one game in a similar style on the same platform? Ask this sort of question of virtually any pair of similar games, and it sounds transparently silly. "We already have a ton of Fire Emblem games. Why do we need Fire Emblem: Awakening?" "We already have the Diablo series. Why do we need Torchlight?" The answer is obvious: variety. For someone who enjoys the core experience of these games, even the relatively small differences between Diablo and Torchlight, or between Fire Emblem: Awakening and its predecessors, are sufficient justification for the new games' existence.
But let's set that aside for a moment and talk about Telepath Tactics and The Battle for Wesnoth specifically. I was actually confused when people first started asking what the difference was; it is only a slight exaggeration to say that this is like demanding to know the difference between Risk and Chess! These games are about as different as two games in the same subgenre can be.
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Until recently, millionaire philanthropist Michael Bienes was the toast of South Florida, a man who threw lavish parties and fundraisers at his $7 million estate on the Intracoastal Waterway, where he seemed a mixture of Gatsby and Meyer Wolfsheim. Now sources say he is a ruined man, so anguished that family and friends are concerned he might take his own life.
The 72-year-old Bienes, they say, lost his massive fortune in the Bernie Madoff scandal. The New York Times quoted a Bienes attorney saying the man had lost tens of millions of dollars. On top of that, Bienes steered hundreds of people, many of them his own friends, to invest their savings in what turned out to be a $50 billion rip-off.
If you want to know the extent of the fallout from the Madoff scandal here in South Florida, you have to begin with the distraught man in his Fort Lauderdale mansion. The local arts community has lost perhaps its greatest benefactor. Bienes abruptly resigned his board post at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts after the scandal broke. And the Archdiocese of Miami is also reeling from the downfall of a man it had knighted.
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But it's not just the arts crowd or the church feeling the pain; it's all of those friends and associates who Bienes fed to Madoff. Those same people, some of whom lost fortunes, are now left to wonder: Did their acquaintance know about the Ponzi scheme? Is he a perpetrator, a victim, or a bit of both?
"I heard [Bienes] lost everything," says Tony Stefanelli, a longtime friend who has surrendered about $14 million in the Madoff scandal. "I understand he was crying and everything else. I don't blame Michael, and don't believe he was involved in any way with the scamming."
That might be true, but the fact remains that Bienes has already been caught violating the law for Madoff. Bienes and longtime business partner Frank Avellino were among the very first "feeders" to Madoff's fund back in the 1960s, raising hundreds of millions of dollars from their accounting firm's clients, friends, and others.
By the early 1990s, they were managing 3,200 investors who'd put in nearly half a billion dollars, all of which they funneled into Madoff's hands.
Unfortunately, the operation was illegal. Both Bienes and Avellino were accountants, not licensed securities traders. The Securities and Exchange Commission caught them in 1992, fined them hundreds of thousands of dollars, shut them down, and forced them to return $440 million they'd raised.
But that appears to have been just a bump in the road in the lucrative relationship between Madoff and Bienes. Investors say Bienes and Avellino never stopped dealing with Madoff or raising money for the swindler's fund. They simply steered some of those same investors — who were accustomed to Madoff's famed 18 percent returns — to Fort Lauderdale accountant Michael D. Sullivan.
Two investors, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they were encouraged by Avellino and Bienes to put their money in Sullivan's account after the SEC returned their money. Both did so — and lost hundreds of thousands of dollars when Madoff went down.
"The only irregularity was that they were not registered to sell securities," says the investor, who lost about $200,000 and spoke on condition of anonymity. "Everybody got every penny back, including interest. Nobody got hurt. So we were all sitting there with our money and put it back in with Sullivan."
Last month, Sullivan sent a letter informing investors that all of their money had been lost in the Madoff scandal, says the source. The Florida Office of Financial Regulation could find no broker's license or investment advisor's license in Sullivan's name. Sullivan couldn't be reached for comment. A man who answered the phone at his office said he wasn't available. "I am just helping out during this time," he said in a funereal tone.
After the SEC action, Bienes and Avellino partnered in a series of companies that also had investments in Madoff's fund, according to another anonymous investor who produced documents proving it. One of those documents shows that Christ Church United Methodist, which Sullivan attends, was among those investors. Asked about the church's Madoff investment, Pastor Alex Shanks said he would call back. He didn't.
This investor also provided documents from companies run by Bienes and Avellino that invested with Madoff.
It gets worse. Avellino, who sold his $2 million house in Fort Lauderdale in 2007 and owns a winter home in Palm Beach, was recently sued by the housekeeper of yet another residence, his $10 million summer home in Nantucket. The housekeeper claimed in Massachusetts civil court that Avellino caused her to sink her life savings of $124,000 into something called the Kenn Jordan Foundation. She claims Avellino informed her shortly before the Madoff scandal broke that all of her money had been lost.
Florida corporate records show that Avellino ran the Kenn Jordan Foundation from his former address in Fort Lauderdale. It was dissolved in 2001. Avellino and Bienes also ran other partnerships, including Mayfair Bookkeeping Services, from that same address before switching it over last year to Avellino's home address in Palm Beach.
The Mayfair firm also does business in London, where the Bieneses own a home and have donated millions to the London opera scene. Madoff, incidentally, also has headquarters in London, specifically — where else? — in the Mayfair financial district.
Interestingly, an early registered agent listed on companies run by Bienes and Avellino was Keith Wasserstrom, the disgraced former Hollywood commissioner who was convicted in 2007 of official misconduct. His involvement ended in the mid-1990s.
Friends of Bienes — all of them well-heeled — generally don't want to talk about the situation. When New Times called longtime chum and onetime business partner Fred Millsaps, his wife Audrey answered the phone. She said her husband didn't want to discuss Bienes or Madoff.
"He's very distressed about it," she said. "Many people are very distressed about it."
Asked if she and Fred had invested in Madoff's fund, she responded, "Bienes and my husband talked about it, but the decision was made not to invest, thankfully."
Gauging Madoff's damage to South Florida isn't easy, but there were definitely hundreds of victims. Foundations run by Miami's most wealthy citizens — including Stephen Muss, the Potamkins, and Norman Braman — lost tens of millions. And if Bienes is truly wiped out, that alone counts as a tragedy for many charities.
Bienes told a London publication in 2005 that he and his wife Dianne had donated some $30 million to causes in South Florida. Indeed, they gave enough money to have their names etched in plaques all over town.
The couple donated $4 million to Holy Cross Hospital for the Michael and Dianne Bienes Comprehensive Cancer Center. More recently, they poured $2.5 million into St. Thomas Aquinas High School, which recently opened the Bienes Center for the Arts.
The Archdiocese of Miami actually knighted both Bienes and his wife recently, not a small feat for a Jewish kid from New York.
Piecing together Bienes's life isn't easy. He became a certified public accountant and worked at a New York firm with Madoff's father-in-law, Saul Alpern. He and Avellino met Madoff at the firm and began funneling investments to him in the 1960s.
Bienes was originally married to a Jewish woman and had children before a divorce. Sources say he has little to no contact with his children.
He then met and married Dianne Dydo. The couple, who have no children, began visiting South Florida in 1974 and permanently settled in Fort Lauderdale in 1987, according to old newspaper accounts.
"They were thought of as these wacky people who would give away money," says one of the Madoff victims.
Before they left for London, Dianne took elocution lessons to learn to speak with a British accent. At one point, both of them had their teeth capped with veneers.
"They were these big white Chiclet things; they could barely talk with them," says the source.
The Bieneses were well known for the parties they threw at their Fort Lauderdale home, which is splayed across two lots, one with the 6,000-square-foot house, the other with a 10,000-square-foot "party pavilion" they built in 1991. The estate includes a large indoor pool, a climate-controlled wine closet, and a cold-storage compartment for Dianne's furs.
In a 1993 article about the Bienes estate, the Sun-Sentinel described the home as "an elegant configuration of stately columns, towering picture windows, and expansive terraces that seem to go on...and on...and on."
Local newspapers routinely wrote glowingly of the couple's home and the parties they held in the early 1990s, when the Bieneses were donating millions to the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, Miami City Ballet, and Opera Guild of Fort Lauderdale.
One night in 1995, in what seems an incredibly symbolic stroke, the couple threw a "Gatsby Gala," celebrating those times of legendary parties — and legendary excess — that precipitated the Great Depression.
"The pool was covered with a dance floor, Jerry Wayne played the music of long ago," wrote the Sun-Sentinel. "The hooch flowed like water, and flappers swarmed about... The dinner was exquisite. Gold service plates and table wear, gold-tipped napkins, gold runners between the bowls of roses. You've got the picture — 24 karats all the way."
Interestingly, neither the Sentinel nor the Miami Herald reported the SEC action in 1992.
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Stefanelli, who lost $14 million, attended some of those parties. He says Bienes, whom he once vacationed with in Brazil, confided that the Catholic Church was heavily invested, as was Monsignor Vincent Kelly of Fort Lauderdale, along with Kelly's relatives in Ireland. The Archdiocese of Miami denied it had any of its funds invested with Madoff.
"You want to know how it feels?" Stefanelli says. "How does it feel to be a rich, wealthy millionaire one day and the next day you have nothing, or next to nothing."
The 76-year-old Stefanelli also invested his children's money with Madoff. Their meeting was arranged by Bienes in 1992 after the SEC action. He invested directly with Madoff, whom he says deserves to be treated like a murderer. "My sons want to kill me right now, but my daughters are a little more understanding," he says. "My wife is ill, and I don't have much left. I have some property, but that's not easy to sell. I have enough for a few years, and I don't think I'll last much longer than that."
Through it all, he has faith that Bienes didn't knowingly lead him to desolation. But like everybody else, he can't be sure.


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REDLAND Bay's Heath Reed has squeezed in a third victory at the Coca-Cola Morobe Open between the nappy changing duties that are set to grow in his household.
The father of 20-month-old twins Luke and Emma has largely been a part-time golfer for the past 12 months and will be a dad for a third time by the end of the year.
Reed (67-67-70-70) can suddenly afford a whole lot more Snugglers after his $20,000 jackpot in Papua New Guinea last Sunday when a tropical downpour flooded the final green in Lae.
Play was suspended for an hour with Reed just one putt from the climax, a par putt from under a metre on the last hole for his 10-under finish.
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McLeod won four of his six matches as defending champion Queensland finished fourth.
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JASON Day is running out of tournaments to get in the groove for the US Open at Pinehurst (June 12-15) because of his lingering thumb injury.
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In the manual it says to press and hold the temperature and dryness buttons for 5 seconds.
This did not work.
To deactivate the demo mode:
Turn cycle knob to last cycle on right.
Press start to save cycle position.
Press cancel to turn machine off.
Within 10 seconds, wake unit by pressing start once,
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Turn the selector knob to TIME DRY, press START then CANCEL.
Wake the dryer up by pressing any button then IMMEDIATELY AND SIMULTANEOUSLY,
press and hold the CANCEL and CTRL LOCK buttons for five seconds
You need to go to the "set prefs" on the control then go to the "RESET" option.
press select for reset and the machine will reset.
The "install cycle" will be displayed, just push cancel and our washer should operate properly.
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I know my last post was about Vi Landry's death and I'm not trying to dwell on it to bum out casual blogofneworleans readers, whoever you are, but I've been super ill this week and in between running a 102 degree fever while DJ'ing at the St. Roch Tavern on Saturday (as I do ever Saturday, hint hint) and breaking out in hives from head to toe (including one on the tip of my tongue) on Monday morning, the one thing I managed to do was bike down to the Bywater for Vi's Second Line.And may I say:I've been to a lot of parades, street parties, festivals, shows, whatever in New Orleans, all for a lot of different causes, and this was one of the most loving and beautiful events I've ever seen. About sixty or so people, mostly local Bywater and Midcity weirdoes: Local artists, punks and bohemian types mixed in with old neighborhood people who new Vi when she bar-tended at Vaughan's, or through her mom who lives on Alvar Street. Even Bill Moss, my old boss from French Quarter bikes, brought his trumpet down.
I never see that guy. There were also a couple of van loads of New Yorkers who came down all gathered on the corners of Dauphine and Press. As Vi's friend B.C. had said the day before at the funeral: "It takes a certain type of person to get a bunch of straight people and a bunch of freaky people in a room together, and Vi was that person." It was like a little replay of Mardi Gras's Sunday Night Krewe of Eris parade, only with a more serious tone.Friends had gotten together to commemorate Vi in every way they could think. A group had built a mock-up of a canoe (Vi had gone out and gotten a canoe while living in Brooklyn as a way to stay in touch with her Louisiana roots) which was being carried at the front of the parade covered in flowers, notes, candles and other offerings that people put aboard along the way. THis was being flanked by a little auxiliary canoe on wheels that had two flood-damaged trumpets mounted to its sides and was full of ice, water and booze. Some paraders wore shirts with an image of Vi surrounded by lilies on the breast. One New York friend had made a block print and printed patches with Vi's name surrounded by a heart, and several members of the marching band were rocking these on their suits and dresses and vests and hats as they bleated and banged out somber numbers like "I'll Fly Away" and "Closer Walk with Thee". We made our way down Dauphine Street to stop in front of Coffeea, where the band took a break then launched into more raucous and festive numbers. We headed over to Vi's Mom's house where she and mourning friends sat on the stoop and gratefully waved at the marchers and band as they played a couple of songs there. From there it was over to BJ's, then up to the levee and along the Industrial Canal. Seeing everyone running up the hill: A storm of colors, stripes, polka dots, petticoats, top hats, tails, Vi shirts, trumpets, trombones, bass drums, clarinets (well one, thank you Mr. Ben Schenk, and other Panorama members who showed up), and whatever else folks had thought to grab...At the Point behind the Naval Base where the Canal meets the Mississippi, as barges and dinghies puttered past us, speeches were made, songs were sung, tears were spilled and more offerings were added to the canoe before it was walked out into the river by a couple of guides (as the sun and temperature dropped) and set ablaze. It seemed like it might float back toward us, or even into the low hanging branches just up the bank from us, but it actually just lingered about twenty feet out as it burned, then collapsed in on itself and went out. As the band launched into "Down by the Riverside", folks danced and sang and popped champagne or, if they preferred, sat on the rocks and stared out over the river with their thoughts, and the charred boat actually caught the current and headed off toward the Gulf. "There she goes." I heard an older guy who I've seen over at BJ's say. After that everyone made their way over to Vaughan's where we were greeted lovingly by the owner and bartender. There was food and drink, more brass band tomfoolery in the street, and everyonw walked away, I think feeling not just full of love for Vi but for each other. Perhaps even a little more for each other than they had at the beginning of the day. It was definitely one of those times that makes both native New Orleanians and we that have chosen this lump of mud as home remember why we keep coming back.


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Knee-Deep: Is there a Deep Ellum resurrection in the making (though we never really thought it had died in the first place. It was more in sleep mode.)? First, there's the item former DO music editor Sam Machkovech dug up for his blog, www.bigdlittled.com, in which he notes Trees is reopening (we give you props, fella, for tracing down that little item). Next we hear Deep Ellum Live has started booking gigs. What's next, are hipsters gonna start wearing torn jeans and flannel shirts again?
Blog log: A big change in the terrain of the Dallas music blogosphere this past week: Local stalwart Cindy Chaffin, who founded the standard-bearer of the Dallas blogsistence, Texasgigs.com, four years ago, and who subsequently moved over to FineLineLive.com about a year ago, has semi-retired from the music blog biz.
If you are already a local blog reader, you've read Chaffin's fare-thee-well already (whaddya want from us? We're a weekly!). If not, you should check out her goodbye column on FineLine, or hit up DFWQuick's blog (http://blahblahblah.beloblog.com/) for her contributions.
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Mic Check: In extremely important karaoke news, Rock Star Karaoke, which takes place every Wednesday night at the Barley House, has added the Knack's "My Sharona" to the live karaoke band's repertoire. As DO staffer Merritt Martin commented recently, "That's just askin' for trouble."
Handstamps: So much rock, so little time...While we don't endorse the fact that 7 million lame bands have sprung up around the current (already fading) fad of synth-based power pop, because, well, most of them suck, we do heartily endorse Arizona's Peachcake, who play Wednesday, November 22, along with Spitalfield, Boys Like Girls, Punchline and Valencia, at the Door (Dallas). Peachcake gets it in a way others don't; instead of relying on the '80s and indulging in false nostalgia, the group picks up where Depeche Mode stopped and runs into the future, all techno beats and spot-on, unobvious melodies...If you don't catch the Hidden Cameras elaborate Gypsy Tea Room show Thursday, November 23, you can still indulge in a scaled-down version of Joel Gibb's glib homo-rock at the in-store that day at 6 p.m., Good Records...The Fun!Fun!Fun! with Ben Lee Dallas tour stop, scheduled for Friday, November 24, at the Lakewood Theater, has been canceled. Guess it's not so fun after all...Finally, don't forget to go, right now, to www.frontgatetickets.com and purchase your tix for the Spune Productions Christmas extravaganza. This 'un'll be a doozy: Starlight Mints, Pleasant Grove, Baboon, The Marked Men, Record Hop, Stumptone, Dove Hunter, Red Monroe and Ghostcar will pack Hailey's on December 9 to help you forget that you basically have to spend the next month with your family. Ten bucks advance will gain you access to auditory eggnog, and since the giant number of band members alone will fill half the place's capacity anyway, you might want to grab tickets while you can. So, go get 'em. Seriously...what are you doing still here—go!


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WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Sean Burroughs, a third baseman for Team USA in the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, has made history today (September 27, 2000). Mr. Burroughs is the first former player from a Little League Baseball World Series championship team to receive an Olympic Medal. Team USA defeated Cuba 4-0 for the title. Mr. Burroughs was hitless in one official at-bat in the game.
Mr. Burroughs led the Long Beach (Calif.) Little League team to back-to-back world championships in 1992 and '93, pitching two no-hitters during the 1993 tournament and striking out 16 in each game. His 8-0 blanking of Bedford, N.H., on Aug. 26, 1993, was the most recent no-hitter in Little League World Series play.
The ninth overall pick in the 1998 June Free Agent Draft by the San Diego Padres, Mr. Burroughs became a third baseman after his Little League days. He is the son of 1974 American League Most Valuable Player Jeff Burroughs, who coached the Long Beach Little League teams in the Little League World Series.
Little League is the world's largest youth sports organization, with 2.9 million players in all 50 states and 103 other countries. The Little League Baseball World Series is the culmination of the world's largest youth sports tournament, with about 16,000 games played worldwide in the 40 days leading up to the Series in Williamsport.
For more information contact:
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Cherub is an electronic pop duo that has taken the world of music by storm. Jason Huber and Jordan Kelley like to do things a little differently, a little unconventionally. And it shows in their music. The two of them have fused funk music from the 80's with pop to come up with a sound that is as unique as any on the circuit today. The duo is now on tour and will be performing around the country. Book your Cherub tickets and catch the two of them hit the stage for an unforgettable experience.
Cherub's story begins with Jason and Jordan meeting for the very first time at a dorm party at the Middle Tennessee State University. Both of them were involved with music in one way or another back then. Jason was a member of a band that was into psychedelic folk rock. On the other hand, Jordan was trying to make an impact in the hip-hop scene that was becoming a big part of the Nashville music landscape.
Jordan was making music for a hip-hop band and he asked Jason to turn his music into DJ music. Huber agreed and Kelley gave him "Man of the Hour," an EP that he had composed on his own. The two of them went to work and that was then they realized that what they were doing had a lot of potential. It was a perfect match. Kelley's songs were perfectly turned into live performance material by Huber and Cherub was formed in 2010.
The two of them went to work and came up with "Doses and Mimosas," the track that went on to become a huge hit. It was also a part of their album titled "MoM & DaD" which they released independently in the year 2012. MoM & DaD was a big success that went as high as the top spot on the "most talked about" chart by HypeMachine.
It was the breakthrough Cherub needed. The duo was under the spotlight all of a sudden and that brought their way opportunities aplenty. They performed at Electric Forest, SXSW, the Snowball Music Fest and last but not the least, at Bonnaroo. The exposure they got from those performances helped them grow. And grow they did. Cherub began to perform more regularly and those concerts started to bring their way more recognitions and headlines.
Cherub made the most of their potential by coming out with "100 Bottles," an EP in 2013. It was another hit and the duo got invitations to play at festivals like Austin City Limits, Governor's Ball and Lollapalooza soon afterwards. They followed that up by going to Europe for their first ever tour of the continent. Cherub then released another EP titled "Antipasto" later that year on their own. Like the previous two releases, it was made available through digital download as well. The EP had the kind of music that Jordan and Jason had always thought of making.
Cherub has made an impact on the music scene and a serious one at that. "Doses and Mimosas" went as high as the number forty three spot on the Billboard Rock Airplay. It also went on to capture thirty ninth place on Alternative Songs. The track has also generated well in excess of one million hits on YouTube.
The duo has now signed up with Columbia Records and that is another indication of how far they have come since making their debut just four years back. "Year of the Caprese" is the title of their debut album under the Columbia banner. They are working on it and the scheduled release date isn't too far off now.
They are all set to take the stage once again, so grab your Cherub tickets and let the power of their music hit you hard.


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City of Janesville refines requirements for electronic billboards
Beth Wheelock
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
For every new electronic billboard a company would need to remove one of its non-conforming static billboards, says Gale Price, manager of building and development services. The non-conforming billboards are typically in residential neighborhoods. The city could waive that requirement for companies that don't have many billboards in Janesville because the city doesn't want to put companies at a competitive disadvantage.
A moratorium on new electronic billboards expires February 27.
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text: On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Shawn Guo <email@example.com> wrote:> On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 04:07:23AM +0800, Dong Aisheng wrote:> ...>> However If IMX uses the data model i described above, the binding is>> then a little different from tegra. that means we may need to change>> to let each soc's pinctrl driver do real pinmux map parsing (maybe>> add a callback in pinctrl.ops) based on their soc specific pinctrl>> configuration node like pmx_usdhc4 above instread of let pinctrl core>> do a standard pinmux map parsing which is our target we discussed so>> long for.>>> Yeah, this seems a reasonable alternative to me. Pushing the pinmux_map> construction down to individual pinctrl driver, who can interpret 'mux'> property best, will relieve the pinctrl core from understanding the> property for different cases, so that we can even save the property> 'mux-unit' I asked for. And doing so somehow aligns with non-dt case,> where the pinmux_map is constructed by individual pinctrl driver too> (with help from PINMUX_MAP_* macros in board file).>Yes, that's i think may be right way we should go now.The reasons are as we met so many issues and discussed so long, wefeel like that it's hard to make a standard dt binding in pintrl corebased on one mux property format to cover all the differences fordifferent SOCs likeTegra(using HW group) and IMX(using virtual group).We need to fix these issues on a higher level that each SOC pinctrldriver implements their pinmux map parsing function, pinctrl corecalls these functions to get the pinmux maps the driver parsed insteadof pinctrl core parsing itself.It could be something like:in pinmux_get() { struct pinmux_map *maps; u32 num; ... maps = pinctrl.ops.get_pinmux_map(pinmux_node, &num); ret = pinmux_map_register(maps, num); ... ret = pinmux_enable_maps(maps, num);}The basic binding idea for this way is:1) pinctrl core is only responsible for the pinmux map parsing.Each pinctrl driver is responsible for the function and group creationno matter whether they're defined in drivers or parsed from devicetree.2) The pinctrl driver is responsible for their pinmux node definitionsto cover their hw difference. However we prefer to reference theformat as Stephen proposed to align each SOC best. And each pinctrldriver is responsible for the real pinmux map parsing by implementingthe pinmux_map_parse callback function.3) when calling pinmux_get, we dynamically parse and create the pinmuxmap table for each device.4) the hog_on_boot map nodes are defined under SoC's pinctrl device node.The pinctrl driver is responsible for parsing and register them.Generally speaking, this way is very flexible and can cover mostdifferences between each SoCs.It should work for both IMX and Tegra well. Tegra can still do on thesame binding as before as Stephen proposed. The only difference isthat the real pinmux map parsing is moved from pinctrl core to Tegrapinctrl driver. And IMX can still use virtual group as we wished(ithink this is correct since pinctrl subsystem does not have arestriction that user can only use pure hw group).For other SOCs, i guess it should also work.RegardsDong Aisheng--To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to firstname.lastname@example.com majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/


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Okay, California Pacific Airlines ready again
FAA-certified, but start dates out of Carlsbad airport uncertain (psst, April)
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On the next block I spot a bus stop outfitted with an advertisement for a vacation-and-travel website. If ever there were a worthy space for a bright rocket pop poster, a brown aluminum-and-Plexiglas billboard at a taxpayer-funded bus stop in a poor neighborhood is it.
Behind the bus stop glows the bright fluorescent fixtures of a parking lot, and a sign, and also a marquee of a pharmacy and department store. At the next intersection, I crank the wheel to the right and circle the block, and on the east side of the parking lot, diagonal and down a sidewalk a bit from the bus stop, I park, pull my shopping bag from the passenger's seat, and step out into the January chill.
It's 9:48 of a Wednesday night.
University Avenue still teems with the halogen lights, revving engines, and sputtering tailpipes of passing cars and buses. Shoppers funnel into and out of the drugstore, trading parking spaces and swishing plastic shopping bags. I set my canvas bag on the ground in front of the bus stop bench, and I sit. The ad in which frolicking white people romp on a white sand beach seems oddly mundane and out of context for a community ten minutes' drive time from the ocean. From the bench, I touch the smeary plastic and watch for police cars.
I gather the bag from between my legs, stand, and walk back to my car. Driving through the stream of University Avenue, I scan again for potential areas to hang my posters, swiveling my neck, propping up on the plastic interseat console to survey blighted buildings and the dead-weed fields surrounded by wood and chain-link fences.
I circle the inner city, uptown. I stay away from downtown and the beaches. Although I have to work in those areas, I don't consider them my home. The territory of my house radiates out from the North Park Water Tower at its center, and the 8, College Avenue, University Avenue, and Park Boulevard circumscribe it.
Trash cans offer surfaces of opportunity, but street utility boxes, for me, are off limits. I hate those boxes. Let me tell you why. A North Park business association called North Park Main Street saw fit to adopt the locked metal bins, take submissions from artists, panel juries, choose designs, and provide art supplies for the painting and decorating of the normally bland metal cubes that protrude from the sidewalk. Let me rephrase that. A business association — so, if you don't own a business in North Park, you don't get a say — adopted the metal bins — even though they belong to us all — took submissions from (bad) artists, paneled juries — with people whose credentials are unknown to the rest of us (perhaps they are merely business associates, or friends, or the jury could be a retarded chimpanzee and a lukewarm pot of coffee, we don't know) — and they decided how these municipal features should be decorated. Bully for them for taking charge of a beautification program, because that's exactly what I'm doing and I'd love nothing more than to paper one of these ugly sons of bitches, but I won't. The artists who painted them have already left their mark, and no matter how terrifically repugnant I find any one of these boxes (although, some of them are real nice; there's a lovely one, painted with chairs and tables in a very van Gogh style, on 30th and El Cajon, in front of a furniture store), I would not go over someone else's work.
Tonight, I motor my clown car past the North Park Water Tower. It rises above Howard Street and Idaho Street, sentry and epicenter of the cracked sidewalk, asphalt grit, and green-grass playgrounds of uptown. Tomorrow night will be the real thing, and my guts tingle with anticipation.
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Here's what you need for making multicolor stenciled posters:
An X-Acto knife or sharp razor-blade tool
An ink pen (a black Sharpie worked best for me);
A tablet of newsprint paper (this paper will bear the design and be pasted);
A tablet of thick paper. I chose watercolor paper that proved to be too thin. Next time I'll use sturdy craft paper (this paper is for the stencil; ideally, it should be the same size as the newsprint);
Paint (spray paint, good old Krylon worked well for me).
Begin by designing your poster. With your Sharpie, lay out on the large pad of newsprint an approximation of how you'd like your poster to appear. A quick sketch will do.
Lay a sheet of the sturdy paper over the sketch on the newsprint. With your Sharpie, solidify the outline of the design. If you can't see your design well, taping the two sheets of paper to a window will help. Trace along and clean up your design as you go.
For alignment with subsequent sheets of paper, ink in two dots somewhere outside the design. (Trust me, two dots smaller than a thumbprint but larger than a pen tip will do, doesn't much matter where you put them, as long as the dots aren't close together.)
Now. You should have a newsprint layer on bottom and on top, a craft-paper outline of your design, featuring two dots on either side.
Lay another clean sheet of craft paper down on the outline. Tape it in place if needed. Start with the dots. Recreate them on the top paper. Then outline the areas of one color. In my rocket pop example, the bottom of the pop is dark blue, just an oblong square that will be spray-painted blue through the stencil.
Remove that sheet and lay a clean one down. Repeat the last steps until you have outlines of all your colored shapes.
Now lie on your belly in your bedroom or kitchen and cut out each block of color from its sheet of paper, using the X-Acto knife or razor-blade tool. Cut out the little dots on each sheet too.
I love this: "Bronzed food — have you ever seen bronzed food? It looks exactly like rotten food, only grosser than the real thing."
Hurrah for the RPSA!
Location and longevity!
Check out North County Public Art projects at www.carlsbadcrawl.com
Too bad you didn't tour Cardiff during this article. You would have seen another horrendous piece of ummm....art(?) in the form of an effeminate bronze surfer statue that has plenty of the "soft quality and angles" to the wrist. This "iconic" statue is an iconic slap in the face to artists and surfers alike but an even bigger iconic eye-sore. "Bronzed surfer - have you ever seen a bronzed surfer?" Wish I hadn't actually.
For all of the civic beauty found in San Diego little is in the form of public art and of that which is beautiful an even smaller portion is of any significance. But then, little private art produced in San Diego is worth mention either.
Artist communities? Please! Retirement communities if anything. Regardless of age San Diego artists are little house painters happy with a pretty picture and the fact that the title of "artist" elevates the stature of cognitive laziness. San Diego artists are either retired or hiding and the art establishment, museums and galleries, the institutions that are supposed to play interpreter between artists and the average citizen are doing little to help inform the public or encourage any kind of debate over art's validity; much less local art's validity.
I'd also like to thank the Rocket Pop Street Artist for taking the time to think and to write. Although I see the connection between graffiti and street art in its illegality the difference between the two must be discussed and defined in much the same way the integrity of public art must be debated.


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Moms Not Dads Influence Kids Happiness the Most
Children are happiest when their mothers are happy, but their dad's happiness has little affect on them. Nearly three-quarters of children whose mothers are content with their relationship report feeling happy at home. But when their mothers are unhappy, only 55 percent of kids are 'completely satisfied' with family life. In contrast, the research found that a father's happiness makes no difference to his offspring. The study also found that those kids living with two parents — either biological or step — were most content. (Daily Mail)


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Visit the Center for Distance Learning and Teaching Open House on April 19
Dr. Heeyoung Kim, coordinator of distance learning
After introducing distance learning to its students in 2006 with a total of six online courses, Rider now offers its students 122 different class sections, with more to come in the fall. In fact, even traditional, "face-to-face" classes are increasingly incorporating components of online learning, so while this developing mode has become a key asset to the University community, it has also highlighted a need to eliminate redundancy and establish a uniform, cohesive strategy for the future.
To that end, the College of Continuing Studies, the Teaching and Learning Center, and the Office of Information Technology have pooled their collective resources to establish the Center for Distance Learning and Teaching, which promises an efficient and coordinated streamlining of Rider's online educational efforts for both faculty and students. Both faculty and online learners are welcome to attend the Center's Open House on Tuesday, April 19, from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Bristol Myers Squibb Center for Science Teaching & Learning, on the third floor of the Science and Technology Center.
The Open House will provide an opportunity in an informal setting for faculty and students to learn about the Center's mission, and familiarize themselves with the physical space, which can be used as a workspace or support center.
"We spent the last year-and-a-half investigating support services offered by units across the University to meet the needs of our online learners and instructors," said Dr. Kathleen Browne, academic director of The Learning Center (TLC), a resource and networking center that promotes and enhances the teaching mission of the University. "We found that because each of our units was already providing some support, it made sense to collaborate, eliminate any replicated services, full support gaps and ultimately improve the efficiency and coherency of our combined support."
The result was what Carol Kondrach, associate vice president for Information Technology, calls an "easy access, high-value, comprehensive, centralized support infrastructure for distance-learning programs, integrated with existing technology- and teaching-support resources."
Overseeing the new Center for Distance Learning and Teaching is Dr. Heeyoung Kim, who began work at Rider last summer as the coordinator of distance learning. She said that the support of the Center will be of help to all students, but, in particular, to many College of Continuing Studies (CCS) students who are just reentering higher education.
"CCS has a lot of returning students who have had difficulty using some of the related technology, but our goal is to create a place that provides student support, onsite," said Kim, who mentioned that the Center will also offer an online orientation and open hours. "We want to create options for students, not obstacles."
Boris Vilic, dean of the CCS, said the purpose behind the Center for Distance Learning and Teaching is ultimately student-centered, but that the improved clarity and efficiency it brings to online education will provide additional support for faculty, as well.
"Our plan was guided by the deans and priorities for their colleges," Vilic said. "But through this collaborative approach, we found that there were already services in place that some faculty were unaware of. The University is committed to providing support to its faculty, regardless of their teaching modality (online or face-to-face). Over the past five years, distance learning has evolved into an integral part of Rider, and this new Center will play a key role in ensuring that the excellent academic and student service continue to be the hallmarks of a Rider education, regardless of class format."
Kondrach agreed. "Combing the pedagogical, technological and academic business needs, as well as support resources for students and faculty in one place, enables them to have all their needs addressed at once," she said, adding that this collaborative approach provides a forward-looking, holistic, and agile approach to innovate and expand distance learning programs at Rider.


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Grace has memories of a "strange man" who moved into her neighborhood, despite the efforts of the police to make him feel unwelcome, and remembers watching a then-young Constantine savagely beating the man.
Today, as Grace and Brett play pool in her neighborhood tavern, some of her childhood pals arrive, and one falls off the bar. But Tony refuses treatment, and they continue their pub crawl. Then Constantine calls. When Grace meets Franco, he advises her and her family to leave Chicago.
Constantine introduces Grace to Traci, a call girl who's pregnant with an alderman's child. Meanwhile, Franco meets with ex-mob boss Paul Moretti, whom he kept alive following his shooting by Constantine. Franco tells Moretti that mobster-turned-informant Ralph Sevarino is under FBI protection in a local hotel. Moretti gives Franco a photo of a woman, Peggy, and orders him to find her.
Constantine meets the alderman, shows him a sonogram, and tells him to vote in favor of allowing gaming machines in the city. He refuses.
Tony and his pals come to the hospital. Grace staples Tony's head wound, notices brain fluid on his shirt, and rushes him into E.R. Later, Grace makes a key recommendation at a pre-surgery meeting with Dr. Lauren Baylor but learns that Olivia has been given the plum job of assisting Baylor.
Brett tells Grace the fluid wasn't Tony's, but they find his pal, Jimmy, in the waiting room, leaking fluid from his nose, and race him into surgery. Constantine informs Grace that Traci's water broke, and Grace asks Ro to help her deliver the baby. Franco finds Peggy working in a coffee shop and follows her home.
After the baby is born, Traci doesn't want to see it, but she asks for Constantine's money. While Grace relays this to Constantine, Traci loses consciousness, forcing Grace and Ro to perform an emergency hysterectomy. When Traci comes to, she now wants to keep the only baby she'll ever have. Constantine says no.
As Baylor and Olivia perform their surgery, Olivia slips and severs a major nerve. Meanwhile, Franco discovers that Peggy is Sevarino's daughter.
Stafford tells Grace that Jimmy is OK, but a postoperative scan revealed a potentially deadly condition in his brain. When Grace explains the situation to Jimmy and his wife, they decide to forgo a risky surgery and live with his ten percent chance of dying from the condition.
Baylor tells Grace about Olivia's error, adding that Olivia was forced upon her by Stafford, and advises her to be bolder. Later, Grace hands Traci her baby and a plane ticket. Meanwhile, Constantine gives the alderman a lock of the baby's hair and threatens to reveal his parentage.
Moretti enters Peggy's apartment, puts a gun to her head, and forces her to open a video chat with her father. Moretti tells Sevarino to either kill himself with the gun that's been smuggled into his room or he'll kill Peggy. Sevarino pulls the trigger.
Constantine confronts Grace about Traci's disappearance, then reimburses her for the airfare. Grace again remembers Constantine beating that strange man.
Later, Constantine watches the TV news reporting that the alderman now favors allowing gaming machines in Chicago -- and there is also a mention of Sevarino's suicide. Franco and Moretti are watching too.


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Press release
Author Gloria Houston will be the guest bookseller at Spellbound on Nov. 30
Spellbound Children's Bookshop is pleased to announce that it will be hosting author Gloria Houston as a guest bookseller on Saturday, November 30, from 3:00 to 5:00pm, to chat with customers and recommend her favorite books, including her own award-winning works, as part of the national Indies First movement.
Gloria Houston PhD is the author of numerous books for children, including My Great-Aunt Arizona, illustrated by Susan Condie Lamb, which was a Smithsonian Treasure, among other honors and is a perennial favorite of teachers. Perhaps her most famous book is The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree, illustrated by Barbara Cooney, which was an annual Publishers Weekly Bestseller and was named a Best Book of the Decade by the American Library Association. She currently lives in Western North Carolina.
In addition to showing her support for independent bookstores, Dr. Houston is visiting Spellbound to celebrate Ruthie's 100th Birthday and the 25th year of The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree in hardcover, available for a limited time with a special celebration seal and signed by the real Ruthie.
About Indies First:
Hundreds of independent bookstores across the country will be hosting local authors this Saturday, thanks to a movement called Indies First. Launched by noted author Sherman Alexie, Indies First encourages authors to volunteer at their local store, to give back some of the support that independent bookstores have traditionally given to authors.
Other participating Indies First stores and authors may be found on IndieBound.org.


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"We Are All Connected" is our school wide theme for 2014-2015.
Please remember to check with your child as the year goes on to make sure that they have the supplies they need. We often need pencils, but glue or glue sticks also need to be refilled or replaced. Also, as the cold weather approaches please be sure your child is dressed appropriately for the temperature. We reccomend that children wear a hat, mittens, coat, boots, and snowpants.


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School's back in. But in Quebec public schools, Catholic and Protestant religious instruction are on their way out.
While most people were thinking about summer holidays, Quebec's provincial government quietly passed a bill on June 15 that will eliminate Catholic and Protestant religious instruction in the province's public schools by 2008, reported the Catholic Times of Montreal.
The Ministry of Education did not issue a press release notifying the public. As well, no reports appeared in the English-language secular press.
A new program on ethics and religious culture will replace the current Catholic, Protestant and moral instruction program in 2008.
Schools can offer Catholic and Protestant religious instruction until then, but the law stipulates that a school may decide to replace it with an ecumenical program before that time.
Even faith-based private schools will have to offer the new program as of 2008. They may continue to offer confessional instruction, but only as an additional course, the minister's press attaché told the Montreal newspaper.
Education Minister Jean-Marc Fournier presented Bill 95 in May, saying that it would better respond to "the current social challenges and the needs of Quebec youth today."
However, parents and citizens groups, and the Assembly of Quebec Catholic Bishops rallied against the bill. A committee in favor of maintaining religious instruction in public schools submitted a petition of more than 60,000 signatures to the provincial government.
At the beginning of June, the citizens' committee and the Quebec bishops also presented a brief to a parliamentary hearing committee, which had been set up to hold public consultations on the bill.
The bishops said confessional instruction in public schools should be maintained because religious instruction is an important part of a child's formation. Christianity is also a significant aspect of Quebec heritage and children must learn about it in school. They also argued that the new program would likely conflict with the values Christian parents are teaching their children at home.
However, none of these arguments or petitions proved to be persuasive. "The hearings were merely a façade," Jocelyne St-Cyr told the Catholic Times. St-Cyr heads the committee in favor of maintaining religious instruction in public schools. "The minister thinks that he has respected democracy but he has not."
Brief history of Catholic instruction in Quebec
Quebecers have received Catholic and Protestant religious instruction in public schools for more than 150 years. It was even guaranteed as a right in Canada's founding document—the British North America Act of 1867.
However, in 1997, the Quebec government sought an amendment to the Constitution, requesting to opt out of this legal assurance, and the Supreme Court of Canada granted the request.
Since then, the Quebec government has been slowly phasing out religious instruction through a series of successive laws, despite repeated promises to Catholic and Protestant parents that religious instruction would be maintained.


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This month's Liverpool Acoustic eXtra takes place on Friday 8th July 2011 at the View Two Gallery on Mathew Street. The music is provided by a very special line-up, each hand-picked from the basket of talent that is the local acoustic scene.
Liverpool Acoustic Spotlight #48
The Kevin Critchley Outfit - C Song
Rachael Dunn - Ladybird
Matt Reekie - Down At The Docks
The Good Intentions - Gone So Long
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It's time once again for Rathole Radio, and on this show I played all Creative Commons tracks. I also talked about my recent trip to see
It's time for another Rathole Radio and together with my usual eclectic mix of tunes I also have a fabulous guest. Fit & The Conniptions AKA Wayne Myers joins us live to talk about music, Linux, funny names and more. I had some technical problems getting him on the line but once I'd got some more coal in the furnace we were away. Enjoy!
Guess who's back? Back in the studio and back to a more regular show at last. This might be the most eclectic Rathole Radio ever. There's a bit of everything in here, well it feels like it anyway. So put your feet up, get comfy, grab yourself a drink and dig in.
The penultimate Rathole Radio before the gig on April 24th in Liverpool. Nerves are starting to rise but the main problem I had this week was the loss of hearing in one ear. I did the show with one ear but wasn't feeling up to a live track I'm afraid. I was pleased to announce that we'll be joined next time by fellow podcaster and musician Nick Tann though, listen out for that on April 17th. I also played some great tracks of varying styles for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!
Hello everyone, welcome to the Liverpool Acoustic eXtra Spotlight for April 2011. Hope you're all well and enjoying this wonderful sunshine we're having. First off on behalf of Stuart Todd and myself we would like to thank everyone who came to last month's Liverpool Acoustic Extra opening night gig. For those who were there I'm sure you'll agree it was a great night of live music. For those of you who missed it, fear not, because in the show notes below there is a video you can watch from the night.
Rathole Radio is on the loose again and nobody is safe! This time I played my usual eclectic mix of styles and waffled on in a seemingly never ending conversation with myself. I also remembered my guitar this time and played my version of the classic "Many Rivers To Cross" by Jimmy Cliff. What a seminal tune it is. There's plenty of news about the Rathole Radio gig to dig your teeth into as well. I hope you enjoy the show.
Time for another Rathole Radio and this time I played a nice range of music. It encompassed everything from jazz to blues and electro to rock. Most of these tunes came from Jamendo and are also Creative Commons licensed which I encourage. There's also a live recording of me playing with 20lb Sounds earlier this year.
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Welcome to another Rathole Radio. I was back in the UK this time and back to a live broadcast. Many people joined me in the chat room and we had a good time. I played my usual eclectic mix of tunes and some listeners described the selection this time as "relaxed". You can decide for yourself. I also gave my rendition of "Long May You Run" by Neil Young.


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Self-Storage's Uniqueness
While the self-storage industry shares many characteristics of typical real estate investments, a few things make it unique to investors. The main difference is the lease term. A typical self-storage lease is month to month. As the economy recovers, a self-storage investor will be able to capture the improving rental rates quicker by renewing month-to-month tenants at a higher rate.
In addition, a cap rate for office, industrial and retail is handled differently than self-storage. Annual tenant improvement, maintenance reserves and leasing commissions are excluded from NOI. Even if an investor is purchasing these types of assets at an 8 percent cap rate, it does not take into account the tenant improvement and commissions at lease expirations.
Self-storage does not have tenant improvements or leasing commissions, and maintenance reserves are included in NOI. Therefore, an investor purchasing a self-storage property at an 8 percent cap rate is a true return compared to office, industrial and retail cap rates.
Due to short leases in self-storage, most investors typically run a five-year DCF. The shorter hold period for self-storage will have an effect on the cash flow and residual split. Self-storage typically utilizes 35-65 percent on a stabilized property versus 50-50 for a 10-year DCF, which is attributed to the shorter hold time.
In 2008, self-storage operations were resilient against the recession. Many operators' NOI increased or held steady for most of the year. Today there are higher barriers to entry and fewer lending dollars, which could mean less competition for those already in existence. Put it altogether and self-storage is poised to reap the benefits of a recovering economy.
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Zack Smith isnt expected to get a call from the NHLs VP of discipline Colin Campbell about his actions Saturday night.
The Senators winger should consider himself fortunate after he received a five-minute baording major in the third period for a hit on Leafs defenceman Matt Lashoff during the clubs 4-2 loss to their archrivals.
Lashoff is fine and Smith knows he did wrong.
A suspension likely isnt necessary.
I didnt mean to hit the guy that way. Its unfortunate how it turned out, said Smith.
If I could do it again, I wouldnt have hit him that way.
Was it a major? Sure, it was a major. But, at the same time, (Marek) Svatos gets a crosscheck to the head (from Jay Rosehill) and thats two minutes.
I dont consider myself a dirty player. Its just unfortunate, he said.
Smith is well aware headshots are in the spotlight.
I dont think Id be out of line if I said its a sensitive subject right now, said Smith. It is something that needs to be looked at it.
Hits like that are definitely under the microscope the way concussions are being treated.
Like I said, its unfortunate the way it happened, Smith said. I never meant to have it turn out that way.
Coach Cory Clouston claimed Smith shouldnt have gotten a major in the first place.
Zack needs to play aggressive. He probably shouldnt have finished his check in that case, said Clouston.
Its tough. I dont think it warranted a five-minute, but it definitely was a penalty.
The Senators will take part in Kraft Hockeyville next fall for the second straight year.
Late on Saturday on Hockey Night in Canada, Conception Bay South, NFLD. was chosen for next seasons Kraft Hockeyville. The Sens will face the Atlanta Thrashers on Sept. 26 in Conception Bay, with $100,000 being donated to the community for rink upgrades.
LW Colin Greening, a St. Johns native, will be excited.
Last fall, the Sens took on Buffalo in Dundas.
The Senators sent D Andre Benoit and D Patrick Wiercioch to their AHL affiliate in Binghamton on Sunday to suit up against the Albany River Rats. Both are expected to return in time to face the Flyers Tuesday night at home ... Clouston was pleased with the performance of newcomer Stephane Da Costa in his NHL debut against the Leafs. He hit a post in the third, played 11:22 and had four shots on net after being signed as a free agent Thursday. He competed hard and I saw some good things, said Clouston. He was very creative and had some good chances. For a first game, I thought he played pretty good. ... Clouston was quick to offer up Saturday that D Filip Kuba, who looked terrible against the Leafs, was playing hurt and probably shouldnt have been playing. Thats fine, but why was Kuba the leading ice-time recipient with 23:59?


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NFL Lockout Watch, Day 18: Players Defend Legal Right To Decertify Union In Filings
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WAITING ON NLRB "IMPLAUSIBLE": The players also contended that the league's argument that the court should defer to the National Labor Relations Board until it decides on an unfair bargaining charge brought by the league was implausible. There is no NLRB process until the agency moves on a charge, the players explained, so the NFL is asking the court not to take jurisdiction over something that may not materialize. The Minnesota federal court has a hearing next Wednesday to hear arguments on whether to issue an injunction to lift the lockout (Daniel Kaplan, SportsBusiness Journal). In Boston, Greg Bedard notes one of the "major contentions of the players is that the settlement agreement in the prior work stoppage of 1987 gave them the right to decertify because the NFL insisted the NFLPA reconstitute to formulate a new" CBA. In return, the players "were given the right to pick up where they left off as a trade association if the CBA ended." The players also "made the argument that employers 'cannot force employees to remain a union,' and the NFL's insistence that changing the status of the union is the equivalent to 'flicking a switch' is not valid because the players surrender labor law rights when they decertify" (BOSTON GLOBE, 3/29).
FULL NELSON: In DC, Amy Shipley writes U.S. District Judge Susan Nelson "wields substantial power over the fate of the nation's most popular sport ... as an April 6 hearing in her St. Paul courtroom approaches," with her first ruling "likely to determine how soon players get back on the field and under what conditions." The players "will score a major victory if Nelson grants their request for a preliminary injunction to lift the lockout," as they "could return to work while the owners, who would almost surely appeal, would confront the possibility of more grim anti-trust rulings from her." The owners' position, meantime, "would be strengthened by an extended lockout, which could destroy players' morale as their wallets grow lighter." The lockout "would remain in place if Nelson decides in favor of the owners or abides by" the NFL's request to defer to the NLRB. Nelson's background "suggests she might press for settlement talks sooner than later, but it offers little hint about which side she might favor in the short term." Colleagues and attorneys said that Nelson's "ability to broker deals is surpassed only by her reputation for even-handedness in the court room." Her credentials "might partly explain why NFL players did not request the case be moved from Nelson's bench to that of David S. Doty, another judge in the same district who oversaw the NFL's last collective bargaining agreement -- and whom the NFL accused in filings last year of favoring the players in NFL disputes" (WASHINGTON POST, 3/29). Former U.S. attorney Thomas Heffelfinger suggested that Nelson "will thoroughly examine the facts and arguments before rendering a fair and informed decision." Heffelfinger: "There's no doubt she's in control of the courtroom. She has a reputation of being open to arguments and being very decisive. She's had enough big matters before her that the size (of the NFL case) won't put her off" (USA TODAY, 3/29).
THIS IS JUST A TEST: USA TODAY's Jarrett Bell writes the NFL "could face a tough skirmish with players over its HGH testing plan." HGH "has been on the banned substance list since the late 1980s, but it hasn't been tested for because there has never been a reliable urine test." NFL VP/Law & Labor Policy Adolpho Birch said that a "better process for analysis, collection and storage is one reason the NFL is pushing more aggressively on the HGH front." Birch: "If we don't have one positive (HGH) test in eight years, it would still be worth it to conduct this test" (USA TODAY, 3/29). FOXSPORTS.com's Alex Marvez wrote a "spike in recreational and performance-enhancing drug use isn't Adolpho Birch's biggest concern," as he is "more worried about those players who were receiving treatment and counseling under league auspices." Those programs are "no longer mandatory" without a CBA. Because those in the NFL's drug program are "protected by confidentiality," Birch said that he is "unaware how many players were receiving treatment before the lockout." He "believes that most players will continue to shun drug use even without the threat of random testing" during the lockout (FOXSPORTS.com, 3/28).
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RESPECT, JUST A LITTLE BIT: Free agent RB Fred Taylor, when asked if owners respect players, said, "There are some very good owners out there. There are some very good businessmen out there. It's a give and a take. ... For the most part, it's a good relationship between owners and players. Right now they're using their leverage as businessmen. That's what it's really all about. I don't think they ever really wanted us to drop our percentage down (that far). I think that was moreso a leverage ploy, a strategic move by the owners. ... In all fairness to the owners, they're just trying to handle business. They're businessmen" (JACKSONVILLE.com, 3/28).
SMALL VICTORY: In Ft. Lauderdale, Omar Kelly reported NFL players Friday "received a victory when NFL teams, owners were ordered to stop unlawful attempts to reduce workers compensation benefits" to injured players. U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty "issued an injunction requiring all NFL teams and owners to stop seeking to reduce the worker compensation benefits due to former NFL players as a result of injuries they suffered while playing the game." Kelly wrote, "Of course it's a small victory that won't get us closer to ending this lockout, but considering player safety and long term treatment is the only issue I'm personally advocating for it's an important one" (SUN-SENTINEL.com, 3/28).


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Corporate volunteering has been evolving over recent years from what could once have been categorised, perhaps a little harshly, as tokenistic, self promotion. The paternalistic idea of businesses and their employees going out into "the community" to help and do good is becoming outdated.
Positioning the business as benefactor misses the richness of the relationship between companies and community partners. When the relationship is at its best there is no fixed position within the flow of knowledge, learning and support that occurs during volunteering.
There has always been some recognition of the business benefits of volunteering, such as staff wellbeing and retention. But at the Guardian as relationships with our community partners develop we are starting to understand how much we gain. The old philanthropic Victorian view of volunteering as doing good is becoming an outdated and one-dimensional perspective.
Guardian News & Media's (GNM's) volunteering week – 3-7 June - has this mutuality at its heart. The relationships with the community groups, schools and charities we are working with, our community partners, have been developing over a number of years. The volunteering projects have been co-developed and where possible integrated into our ongoing community programme. This means we are not just parachuting in and out after the day has finished. GNM employees get two days volunteering each year and we hope that staff will use this time to continue their work with the community partner, giving the projects longevity.
Last year's volunteering week received good feedback from volunteers and community partners and in April this year was awarded the Environmental category award at this year's Newspaper Awards. Feedback from staff also showed how working together on volunteering projects with people from different departments supported a key business goal of collaborative working.
Our community partners are specialists in their area. They have a depth of knowledge and understanding that our staff simply do not have. Our staff, in their turn, bring an enormous range of talent, knowledge and skills from journalist to marketing to digital interactive design – to name a few.
The projects themselves have been co-developed and are tailored to the needs of both the business and community partner. These projects provide an open space for both parties to develop, test and enhance skills.
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More than 250 volunteers have signed up for Volunteering Week 2013. There are 17 projects during the week. 16 will take place in greater London, mainly in the King's Cross area where we are based, and one in Manchester.
We will keep you posted on twitter @GNMvolunteering #GNMVW2013 and look out for with videos, blogposts and pictures on this site as the week develops.


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NORTH ENGLISH — Dorothy Ann Dillon, 92, of North English, died Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, in the Care Center in North English.
Celebration of life service will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 7, at the Powell Funeral Home in North English with the Rev. Luke Caster officiating. Burial will be in the White Pigeon Cemetery in rural Webster. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. A memorial fund has been established for the English Valley Care Center, Keswick First Responders or Essence of Life Hospice.


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Rodrigo Borgia picks up his papal skirts and walks out on to the public balcony. Sixty-one years old. How many years does he have in front of him? By his age, four of the five popes he had served were already rotting in their tombs. Sixty-one. Three sons, a ripening daughter and a sublime young mistress, ready to drop more fruit.
Borgia blood. Thick with ambition and determination. How long does he need? Give him another ten - no, fifteen - summers and he will have the bull crest emblazoned over half of Italy. The crowd roars its greeting. But as Pope Alexander VI lifts his hands to offer the traditional blessing, silence falls. The clothes have become the man.
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The recent BBC Radio4 serialisation (Book at Bedtime) didn't do this book anywhere near the justice it deservies and I'm glad that it didn't put me off this unadbridged version, which is quite simply outstanding. Maybe even on a par with Wolf Hall? The narration is superb.
"A pleasure to enjoy"
This is a wonderful historical novel that transports you to the Borgia court. The enchantment is made more enjoyable by the extraordinary reader who captures the characters and the emotions beautifully
"A Renaissance Feast"
I was inspired to download 'Blood and Beauty' having read Dunant's 'Sacred Hearts' and 'In the Company of the Courtesan.' This is a wonderful, all-consuming feast of a novel, which I'd recommend to anyone with an interest in historical fiction. Dunant really brings the Borgias to life - and they become so much more than the one-dimensional historical villains they are normally portrayed as. John Telfer's narration is a joy. He throws himself at the book with gusto, verve and great skill.
"Gripped after a slow start"
Intrigue, blood, death, fascinating characters. Loved it. Beautifully written with wonderfully evocative imagery. Well read although sometimes distracting falsetto used for the female roles.
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Superb. Can't wait to start the sequel. And fabulous narration. An epic story told masterfully.
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I didn't enjoy this. I found it boring and if I could have skipped pages on audio I would have. I couldn't wait for it to end. The writing brought none of the drama and intrigue of the Borgias to life for me, it was like reading a history book, completely distracted from the actual characters, I just don't get why people rave about this book.
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