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Rep. Cusack ensures Braintree's state House district remains intact
Braintree officials are looking towards upcoming elections with new district lines, as well as provisions to help servicemen and women cast their absentee ballots.
Although there were few changes, the redistricting means that Fifth Norfolk Representative Mark Cusack, a Braintree Democrat, will also represent Precinct 4 in Randolph.
The Fifth Norfolk District previously consisted of the Town of Braintree, Precinct 3 in Randolph, and Precinct 1 in Holbrook. Under the proposed map released Wednesday by the Special Joint Committee on Redistricting, Precinct 4 in Randolph was added to the district.
According to a release, "the only real change is that he will now represent Precinct 4 in Randolph, which, due to re-precincting, is about 95% of the former precinct."
Cusack said it was important that Braintree remain intact in the redistricting process.
"I fought hard to keep Braintree whole and the Fifth Norfolk intact," Cusack said. "My district shifted slightly due to new lines being drawn up for precincts in Randolph, which went from 8 to 12 precincts. It is an honor serving the 5th Norfolk District and I am glad it is staying geographically similar."
Overall, Massachusetts' population increased by 3.1 percent.
Both the House and the Senate will vote on the newly drawn maps in upcoming weeks. Cusack expects the governor to approve the documents by Nov. 6 in order for all prospective candidates to establish residency a year before their next election.
Braintree previously saw shifts in the number of precincts in the town in May, after their population boomed six percent from 2000 to 2010.
Approximately 2,800 people in the town were impacted by the process, which shifted some of the precinct boundaries within the town, and renamed the precincts from 1 through 12 to 1A/1B through 6A/6B.
Now, the precinct names better suggest the district boundaries (as each district is made up of two precincts each).
Although the council voted on the adaptations in late May, the renaming and redistricting won't take effect until the presidential primary election in March 2012. Councilors had to approve the new maps quickly as they needed to be in effect for nomination papers for party Town Committees for August 2011.
According to officials, the new districts won't come into play until November 2013.
Town Councilors are also looking forward to upcoming elections with the support of House Bill Number 1972.
Currently, under federal law, any absentee ballot must be delivered 45 days prior to an election.
The problem is that Massachusetts's state primary is 42 days before the election, requiring the state to get a waiver every two years. The solution to the problem is that the voter must send in his or her vote by fax or e-mail.
To do so, the voter was required to sign a statement waving his or her right to a secret ballot.
It's a concept that is utterly baffling, City Clerk Joe Powers said, and the new bill would move the state primary to the first Tuesday in June.
"That [soldiers] exercise their right they protect [is important]…these men and women are being asked to waive a basic fundamental right that we are never asked to do," Powers said. "I find it wrong that we would disallow a constitutional and god given right to a secret ballots."
Councilors unanimously supported the motion at their meeting this past week.


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Gym Motivation Tips: 4 Don't Go Too Hard
Gym Motivation Tips: Don't Go Too HardA major excuse in not following through with fitness goals is that there is never enough time, or it's just too much effort after a long workday. While this may feel like a legitimate excuse, it's actually BS. You know it. I know it. Many go at it too hard in the beginning of their fitness plan and quickly call it quits, as the effort and result haven't produced what you had hoped. New research from the University of Copenhagen has found that moderate exercise (30 minutes daily), is just as beneficial as a full hour of hardcore training when it comes to staying committed. In fact, these shortened workouts proved to increase motivation, leading to an all-around healthier lifestyle. By the end of the study, those who devoted 30 minutes to a workout lost an average of 8 pounds in 3 months, while those who worked out for a full hour only lost 6.
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Public Image 101
Written by david.beyer, Posted in General
The Cubs players' outbursts against the media, against umpires, and against other players in the 2004 season has been a continuing storyline filled with silly action that would make a Michael Bay movie seem slow-paced and well thought out.
Volumes could be written about this behavior, but I want to focus on the athletes wearing Cubbie blue this year and their relationship with the media. At this point in major media history, it is the job of a journalist to make public any flaws he or she discovers in an athlete. With that in mind, it becomes part of a player's job not to speak with the media, but to handle them as a politician would.
That's difficult. Imagine having to speak with members of the media whom you have known since you were twenty years old; people around whom you have begun to feel comfortable. They travel with you on the road. They see you after every game. Whatever you do for a living — work in an office, deal drugs out of your back seat, teach in a classroom, whatever — imagine having those people in your lives.
Now imagine you've had a tough day. You just walked out of a meeting where you were told that you had to fire two members of your staff for reasons you do not agree with. On top of that, one of your co-workers at the same level is going through a rough patch at home and he's not pulling his weight. You've tried to help him out for about a month by sharing some of his workload, but it's starting to get on your nerves. In the meeting, you just had to cover his butt again.
When you walk out the door of the office, bedraggled, hungry, and emotionally worn down, a reporter you've known for years and has treated you fairly starts asking you how it's going at work. He talks with you at length; it gets conversational, and you start to open up a little.
He's had a rough patch and has writer's block. He has nothing to write about, so he makes public your lamentations.
That'd piss you off, so maybe you spout off the next time you see him. He, in turn, starts griping to his reporter buddies. The other guys start researching, and publishing, his complaints about you. Now, because of one bad day, three different stories about you being a jerk at work are in three different papers.
It's that quick and easy to mess up your public image. Is that what happened to the Cubs players this year? I doubt it. They've thrown out more conspiracies than Oliver Stone. But you can see how easy an acrimonious relationship between a player and reporter could begin. I want to take it easy on these Cubs. Sosa, Mercker, Alou, Dusty Baker, and others have all sniped with reporters or announcers, and none of it is excusable, but apart from the ridiculous attacks on Steve Stone, most of it could be conceivably arrived at by the imaginary scenario I outlined above.
There is a simple formula to using the media to your advantage:
1) guard your words when a reporter is present
2) keep problems inside the clubhouse
3) speak ill of someone only if you want to send a message.
That's it. That's all you have to do.
Speaking to a reporter is like having a Public Address system on whenever you're in public. If the Cubs had kept that in mind, they wouldn't have made public the following follies:
1) "Umpires are squeezing our team or are out to get me individually"
2) "Our announcers are making us look bad"
3) "My manager doesn't support me"
All that's just in the last month. All year, Cubs have been shooting their mouths off to the media. Imagine every reporter as a PA system and you will not talk yourself into trouble.
There are times when the media can be used to help; times when a team leader or the manager wants to tear into a player if he knows it will motivate that player. Or when he wants to attempt to get into an opponent's head. Same thing: if you see the media as a PA system, you get your message out.
REPORTERS ARE NOT THERE TO BE DRINKING BUDDIES. Or therapists. Or vigilantes out to pursue justice. They will not turn off the mic if they know you're just frustrated after a bad game. Many different Cubs players, and their manager as well, have gone boo-hooing to the media. I do not know what they were expecting to happen, but it couldn't be what actually did happen: they alienated the media and many of their fans.
It takes discipline to change one's perspective like this, but most Cubs players would benefit from seeing members of the media as public address systems, capable only of carrying a message.


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Good morning and welcome to Bear Bites, your daily dose of Bears news.
- Jay Cutler finally breaks his silence, speaking on everything to his knee to organized workouts to a charity run he's doing in Naperville. (Chicago Sun-Times)
- Julius Peppers was at the United Center on Thursday night, watching Derrick Rose come up with another insane under the basket move and the Bulls beat the Celtics. (Chicago Tribune)
- Here's an insanely early look at which Bear could make the Pro Bowl for the first time in 2011. My pick? Staley the Bear. He's overdue. (Windy City Gridiron)
- Who will the Bears go with to be the third linebacker next to Brian Urlacher and Lance Briggs? (Yahoo! Sports)
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Rally against the disqualification of Egypt's presidential candidate Hazem Abu IsmailNews , Egypt - 06 April 2012
On April 6, 2012 thousands of Salafi Islamists rallied in Cairo's Tahrir square to protest the disqualifying of Hazem Salah Abu Ismail from 2012 Egypt's presidential race, after Egyptian Authority for Migration and Passports issued a statement saying that Abu Ismail's mother is a US citizen.
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KABUL, Afghanistan {AP} A U.S. special-forces gunship swung into action Tuesday, raking a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan with heavy machine gun and cannon fire. Fierce daylight bombing at Kabul set an International Red Cross warehouse afire.
Massive explosions from the battle over Kabul's skies could be heard along the front lines between Taliban and Afghan opposition forces 30 miles to the north. Huge clouds of black smoke billowed on the capital's northern edge.
The second straight day of fierce daylight raids and the first use of the low-flying, lumbering AC-130 marked an intensification of the air campaign against Taliban military sites and leaders.
It also signaled U.S. confidence that more than a week of attacks by ship-launched cruise missiles and high-flying jets had greatly eased the threat from Taliban air defense.
Secretary of State Colin Powell, in neighboring Pakistan to shore up support for the U.S.-led campaign, said Afghanistan's Islamic regime was "under enormous pressure" but refused to say whether he thought it near collapse.
Tuesday's fresh waves of air strikes targeted the Taliban on multiple fronts military bases and airports outside the capital of Kabul, Taliban leaders' southern base city of Kandahar and the key northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif a former opposition stronghold.
In mid-afternoon, two jets dropped five bombs on military targets in the Kheir Khana section of northern Kabul and two more bombs around the airport, raising a huge cloud of black smoke.
An Associated Press reporter with opposition forces on the Shomali plain north of Kabul could hear huge explosions from the bombardment and the roar of heavy guns.
A bomb struck an International Red Cross compound at Khair Khana, sending Afghan workers running to try to salvage blankets, tents and medicine from the fire. One guard was injured, the ICRC said in Islamabad, Pakistan. ICRC spokesman Mario Musa said the facility's roof was marked with a Red Cross insignia.
Witnesses said they also saw several Taliban military trucks near the same area.
The area north of Kabul holds four Taliban military bases, a government transport depot and a fuel depot. Fuel and the government vehicles are believed to have been relocated since the U.S.-led strikes started.
Nearby, another bomb injured three farmers working in their fields when the U.S. jets roared overhead, residents said.
Taliban Information Ministry official Abdul Himat said 13 civilians died in the pre-dawn assault at Kandahar. The Taliban also said two people were killed in Tuesday's attack on Mazar-e-Sharif. The claims could not be independently verified.
In Washington, a defense official confirmed the overnight attack was led by an AC-130, marking the first acknowledged use of special-forces aircraft in the offensive, which began on Oct. 7. The official spoke on condition of anonymity.
Previous raids had targeted anti-aircraft artillery sites and other military installations with the aim of making the skies safe for aircraft like the AC-130. The Taliban are believed to still hold an unknown number of shoulder-fired Stinger missiles capable of bringing down aircraft, however.
High-firepower AC-130s typically are used to support ground forces trained for small-unit operations. There was no word whether the gunship's deployment meant special forces had entered the battle on the ground.
Aiming to make the skies safe, U.S. forces have made particular targets out of airports in Taliban territory throughout the campaign. Attacks put the Jalalabad airport in eastern Afghanistan out of commission almost from the start.
Other strikes have pounded Taliban jets at Kabul and the sprawling airport complex at Kandahar, which holds at least 300 housing units of Osama bin Laden's followers.
The only other major airfields in Taliban territory, at Shindand in southwestern Afghanistan and in Herat, have also taken repeated strikes.
The United States launched the air campaign to root out bin Laden the top suspect in the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States and to punish Afghanistan's rulers, the Taliban Islamic militia, who harbor him.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, speaking at the Pentagon, suggested Monday that U.S. airstrikes could next start targeting Taliban front-line positions facing Afghan opposition fighters in the northeast.
"I suspect that in the period ahead that's not going to be a very safe place to be" for Taliban fighters, Rumsfeld said.
Taking advantage of the massive assaults, opposition forces on the ground claimed Monday to have advanced within miles of Mazar-e-Sharif.
In the Tajikistan capital Dushanbe, a spokesman for the opposition northern alliance said opposition troops were approaching Mazar-e-Sharif from the northeast and northwest and that some units were as close as 4 miles away.
The claim by Abdul Vadud, the military attache of the opposition-controlled Afghan Embassy in Dushanbe, could not be confirmed.
Mazar-e-Sharif is the largest city in northern Afghanistan and is dominated by ethnic minority Uzbeks. The fundamentalist Taliban, who are Sunni Muslims, captured the city in 1998 and have since ruled it with an iron hand.
Taking the city would enable the opposition to consolidate its grip on the small area it controls in the north, since the town controls routes running east to west and linking pockets of the northern alliance's strength.
Pakistan, which has agreed to lend logistical support for the campaign, has pressed for the U.S. and British offensive to avoid directly helping opposition troops. Pakistan fears the northern alliance, its longtime opponent, will seize power from the Taliban.
With Powell beside him, Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf told an Islamabad news conference Tuesday the military strikes should "short and targeted."
EDITOR'S NOTE Kathy Gannon contributed to this report from Islamabad, Pakistan.
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Peavy surrenders first slam in loss to Giants
Peavy surrenders first slam in loss to Giants
Edgar Renteria's fourth-inning grand slam against Jake Peavy made it all academic.
"It goes to show you how one pitch can change the complexion of a game," San Diego manager Bud Black said after the Padres dropped an 8-3 decision to the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday night.
One pitch for Peavy has been the tale of the season.
"It's been a recurring theme for me in my starts," the former National League Cy Young Award winner said. "I feel good in my first start and if I take one pitch back [a two-out, first-inning, bases-loaded single by Los Angeles Dodger James Loney], it's two fewer runs. And the one pitch to [Carlos] Delgado [a three-run home run in the first inning] in my last start."
It was a rare night for Peavy overall. He allowed six earned runs for the first time since his Wild Card playoff start at Colorado in 2007. He threw 85 pitches or less for the 14th time in 203 Major League starts, and just the fifth time since the start of the 2006 season.
His 13th start in San Francisco proved unlucky in another way: He allowed the first grand slam of his notable career in the fourth inning to Edgar Renteria. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, it was the second-longest active streak among pitchers who had never allowed a grand slam (1,284 1/3 innings). Houston Astros pitcher Brian Moehler has the longest active streak among pitchers who have never given up a slam at 1,360.
"You just can't make a mistake like that, especially with the pitcher on deck," Peavy said. "Edgar has good numbers against me, I know that. It's always singles. I know what I have to do to get him out, but you have to execute. If you don't execute, he's going to make you pay."
Giants starter Matt Cain wasn't exactly at his best, but he was good enough. He allowed two runs on nine hits and did not walk a batter. He struck out five.
"He's got great stuff," Headley said of Cain. "He has the capability of making a pitch to get out of a situation. Having said that, we swung the bats well against him; we just couldn't punch anyone in. I have no problem with what we did. We got ourselves in good situations."
The fourth inning turned out to be San Diego's undoing on both ends. In the top of the inning, Gonzalez and Headley each singled to open things up.
Kevin Kouzmanoff drove a ball to the gap in right-center. Gonzalez held to see if the ball would be caught, but Headley had the better angle from first and caught up to Gonzalez.
"I think we both did the right thing," Headley said. "Right off the bat, I knew it wasn't going to be caught. I was at second and Adrian was at second making sure. Once I got close to him, he took off. It was a matter of a split-second. If it's not a perfect play, we both score. Credit [Aaron] Rowand for being in position to play the carom and get the ball in quickly."
When the ball landed, Headley was right behind Gonzalez, and the relay throw was on target at home. Gonzalez was able to just avoid Bengie Molina's tag, but Headley was caught trying to jump over the tag.
"It's just a reaction thing," Headley said. "I wasn't really thinking; I was trying to score."
Kouzmanoff reached third on the play, but was stranded there as Henry Blanco struck out and Luis Rodriguez flied out.
"We got a bunch of singles and Kouz gets a big hit with the ball in the gap and the inning looks like it has the making of a few runs," Black said. "We never got the knockout blow. With a ball hit that high and where Adrian was, it was tough to tell where the ball was. That was unfortunate for us."
The Padres lost their second straight for the first time this season. It follows a lengthy road trip on the East Coast and Monday's rainout in Philadelphia.
"I'm going to get better," Peavy said. "I'm not that far off health-wise."
Rick Eymer is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho could be the next western state to engage in a public lands fight with the federal government. Last year, Utah and Arizona passed legislation demanding the federal government turn over control of millions of acres of public acreage in those states. Utah's governor signed the bill, while Arizona's was vetoed by Gov. Jan Brewer. Today, the Utah legislator who led passage of that state's bill urged Idaho lawmakers take the same step toward managing public land in its borders.


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- Australian Grand Prix - The Final Stint
Back with a bangLaurence Edmondson March 17, 2013
A round-up of the good, the bad and the downright ugly from the 2013 Australian Grand Prix
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King Kimi
Making a two-stop strategy work when everybody else was struggling to a three-stop was impressive. But just to underline Lotus' superiority on Sunday evening at Albert Park, Kimi Raikkonen set the quickest time of the race on lap 56. It was a middle finger to the rest of the field and signalled the end of Fernando Alonso's chances of fighting for victory. While everybody else was managing tyre degradation and getting slower lap after lap, Raikkonen and Lotus were enjoying a phenomenon Pirelli refer to as "negative degradation", whereby the performance gain from the decreasing fuel load trumps the performance lost from the tyres. In Melbourne this weekend, achieving "negative degradation" was the engineering equivalent of achieving Zen. In those temperatures, on that circuit and with these tyres, Raikkonen and Lotus had its set-up nailed and its car perfectly honed. But you only have to look at Romain Grosjean's race to see how delicate Lotus' advantage was. He started one place behind Raikkonen but dropped to 11th at the start and from that point onwards ruined his tyres in traffic and was forced onto a three-stop strategy. So while the conditions played to the strengths of the Lotus, Raikkonen's ability to work his way up to fourth at the start and run in clear air was vital. It remains to be seen whether Lotus will retain its advantage in Malaysia.
McLaren misery
McLaren raised a number of concerns about its car during pre-season testing, but it was hard to believe the car was a complete dud after the promise it had shown at the first test. Inside the team, however, the engineers and mechanics knew better. On the first day at Jerez the team had used a set-up that ran the car very close to the ground and it simply wouldn't be workable at other tracks. However, on Friday in Australia the latest set-up also looked far from workable as the car bucked from bump to bump while struggling for grip. The team is hoping F1's visit to a "proper circuit" in Malaysia next weekend will see a return to form, but Martin Whitmarsh admitted four days would probably not be enough to completely reverse the team's fortunes. There has also been talk of returning to the basis of last year's car, but Whitmarsh insists the team will persevere with the MP4-28.
The Story of the Weekend
- Shock Red Bull - Somewhere between qualifying and the race Red Bull lost its tag as favourites for a championship whitewash
- Shocker McLaren - The car is possibly worse than its 2009 effort, which is really not good
- Best overtake Kimi Raikkonen - Lewis Hamilton is not an easy person to pass, least of all when he's in his first race for his new team. But Raikkonen managed it at the start of the race in what would prove to be a crucial move
- Best lap Fernando Alonso - On lap 22 he managed to put in a quick enough time to get ahead of both Vettel and Sutil as they returned from the pits
- Worst lap Mark Webber - His first lap saw him drop from second to seventh after a problem with his car's ECU messed up his start procedure
- Drive of the day Kimi Raikkonen - For getting the most from the new tyres as everybody else, including his team-mate, struggled
Rain, rain, go away...
It was far from ideal for Formula One to postpone the first qualifying session of the season to Sunday morning. It was also ironic that the late session - scheduled to provide European audiences with a palatable viewing experience - eventually restricted those wanting to watch both the end of Q3 and the start of the race to less than five hours of sleep. However, in much the same way tennis and cricket occasionally suffer rain delays, F1 is also vulnerable to poor weather. The key difference is that heavy rain doesn't just make it difficult to partake in the sport, it makes it downright dangerous. "When it gets to wet for these tyres it doesn't matter what speed you drive around, you will aquaplane," Jenson Button explained on Saturday night. "That is it because the tyre cannot take a certain amount of water. When you hit that water you are completely out of control and you might as well close your eyes and take your hands off the steering wheel. That is not what F1 racing is about. It's about a guy trying to tame a 750bhp Formula One car, but in conditions where he can actually tame it. You could say 30 years ago that they probably would have raced in these conditions, but safety has come a long way since then and I'm very happy that I'm racing in this period of time."
Sutil returns
After a year away from the sport, Adrian Sutil showed few signs he had been away. The pressure on him to perform is huge this year, but he appears to be relishing it and put in a very impressive performance on Sunday. Like the Lotus, the Force India is lighter on its tyres that its rivals and Sutil had the 'advantage' of starting the race outside the top ten. By not taking part in Q3 he had a free choice of tyres at the start of the race, and with Nico Hulkenberg failing to make the grid, his 12th place gird position put him in the prime position to exploit that. His strategy was the reverse of Raikkonen's and his early long stints on the mediums allowed him to take the lead twice before the reality check of the super-soft tyres hit in his final stint. He finished the race 3.381s clear of team-mate Paul di Resta and took the first step towards proving he deserves his second chance.
Raging Bull
Over one lap there is little doubt that Red Bull is king. In qualifying Sebastian Vettel was 0.6s faster than his nearest non-Red Bull rival, but oddly that did not transfer into the race. Tyre preservation was not the RB9's strong point in the race and it was made to look rather average as Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso closed in during the first stint. It appears as though Red Bull's approach of taking pole, running and hiding will not pay off this year as the tyres play a key role in making or breaking races. If Pirelli continue to bring aggressive compound choices to races it could be a very mixed season that will force Red Bull to change tack. But Christian Horner believes the car's set-up was not suited to the unexpectedly cool conditions, so it remains to be seen whether normal service will be resumed in Malaysia.
Mixed success for Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes had a mixed weekend. At times it looked as though the car had the potential to challenge for the podium, but ultimately it fell short. Figuring out what happened in the race is not easy. After qualifying third it is clear that one lap pace is not too big an issue, but as Red Bull's race proved, that is no guarantee of success in the race. On the super-soft tyres the early signs were good as Hamilton set himself up for a two-stop strategy by stretching his first stint to 13 laps, but on the medium he struggled for balance and had to revert to a three stopper. In the end he drifted away from the rear of Felipe Massa's Ferrari and only managed to hold off Mark Webber by 1.239s. Still, it could be worse, he could be driving a McLaren.


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"pirates" = Cheap 7 year olds, who don't take their community seriously.
Just saying..
Use the money to get someone to make your own custom one
Good communities = people who coded their script from scratch instead of buying it like a fucking moron.
You don't need to run Open Aura. If you take your community seriously, just run something else or pay the money for a legit version. I'm just saying that people who use crappy unlegit versions are not taking their communities seriously.
If you want to run something else than Open Aura that doesn't cost any money, sure. Why not? But how will your community be any unique and qualitative if you're just one crappy unlegit Open Aura server out of several others?
Stop sucking his dick for the love o god, and wake up. Realize you are being scammed.
A better analogy is paying for beans when you could get them for free without them being encased in saran wrap
It's quite obvious this is turning into an argument...
Overall, people do not believe that Kuro's gamemodes are worth the price. Some commonly recommended gamemodes you could try instead are:
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According to the people who have responded to this thread, the majority believe you should not get HL2RP and that it is not worth the money.
Can we be done here?
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All of them are less qualitative gamemodes when it comes to true profound roleplay. I promise you, you can't get the same roleplay experience with those gamemodes.
Maybe that's why Kuro got 34 customers? Like it or not, but he has worked a lot with his gamemode and it has payed off for him, and most of his customers are satisfied.
I have at least 12,000 users of one of my scripts. 34 is nothing.
Oh, and there have been PLENTY of people who have asked for refunds. By the way, they don't have a refund policy.
Why can't people let things rest?
Refer to the thread about why people don't like Gmod Roleplay if you're going to analyze "true" roleplay.
We get it already:
-The majority think Kuro's scripts are overpriced.
-The scripts mentioned earlier are recommended over paying.
-Kuro is still making money.
-We shouldn't give a damn over who is using what script as long as people are having fun.
As far as the no-refund policy, they should play the game-mode before making the mistake of buying something they didn't like.
Can we please stop posting now?
How anyone can be that dumb?
OpenAura is the next DarkRP, it consists mostly from deathmatch, lack of actual roleplay, story and character development. Take a look at Phase Four servers, they are horrible.
DarkRP is the exact opposite. DarkRP doesn't even got characters. DarkRP doesn't even got a local OOC command and did not have any /me command until the latest versions. It still don't got any /it command. The whole concept of jobs like gangster, mobboss, and hobo is just absurd. The mentioned "jobs" aren't jobs. Really, the whole "job" concept in general is very strange. Instead of looking at players like members of different groups (jobs) a true roleplay gamemode should look at players as individual characters which can have several jobs at the same time and develop criminality even though they aren't a member of any group or job.
Open Aura has maybe become a bit like the new DarkRP on many servers. But the reason for that is mainly because of the leaked versions of it, that makes it possible for any kid to start an Open Aura server and ruin Open Aura's reputation.
OpenAura never had a reputation to ruin anyway.
Well, if you want to see Open Aura at its best moments, you should try out some more professional servers.
This one pretty good for example: 22.214.171.124:27015
The script doesn't dicate quality of RP. It's possible to have amazing roleplay on DarkRP, if you got enough like-minded individuals to do so. Not that I'd reccomend it, but I'm just saying, people bitch about which gamemode is the best way too much. An intelligent community head will look for basic script stability and performance over stupid post processing and fancy vgui.
Relying on a script makes you a bad roleplayer, end of story.
You got scammed son.
Out of several hundreds of DarkRP server we can find 2 professional servers. Out of 8 Open Aura servers, we can find 2 professional servers.. Wait.. Maybe script actually got some kind of impact?
"Relying on a script makes you a bad roleplayer, end of story." I totally agree. I don't see what you're trying to suggest here. As I've said several times, the script surely got an impact, but a professional server administration and management are even more important parts of a successful server.
I give up. Nobody seems to realize that the OP is gone.


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April 19
1897 — John J. McDermott wins the first Boston Marathon in 2 hours, 55 minutes, 10 seconds.
1930 — Clarence DeMar wins the Boston Marathon for a record seventh time, in 2:34:48.2.
1947 — The Toronto Maple Leafs post a 2-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens to take the Stanley Cup in six games.
1948 — Gerard Cote of Canada wins his fourth Boston Marathon with a time of 2:31:02.
1950 — Ham Kee Yong, 19, becomes the youngest to win the Boston Marathon, finishing in 2:32:39.
1965 — The Boston Celtics have five players score 20 or more points in a 129-123 victory over Los Angeles in Game 2 of the NBA Finals. It's the first time in Finals history there are five 20-point scorers on one team. John Havlicek leads Boston with 24 points, Tom Sanders and Bill Russell score 23, Tommy Heinsohn 22 and Sam Jones 20. Jerry West leads the Lakers with 45.
1982 — Alberto Salazaar breaks the 2:09 mark with a record 2:08:51 finish in the Boston Marathon.
1986 — Michael Spinks wins a split decision against Larry Holmes to retain the world heavyweight title in Las Vegas.
1991 — Evander Holyfield retains the heavyweight title with a unanimous 12-round decision over 42-year-old challenger George Foreman in Atlantic City, N.J.
1992 — Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls wins his sixth straight NBA scoring title with a 30.1 average.
1993 — Kenya's Cosmas N'deti, running his second marathon, beats Kim Jae-Yong of South Korea by 10 seconds to win the Boston Marathon in 2:09.33. Olga Markova of Russia successfully defends her title with a time of 2:25:27.
1998 — San Antonio beats Denver 96-82 to set an NBA record for the largest single-season turnaround. The Spurs improve by 36 games from 20 wins in 1997.
1998 — Chicago's Michael Jordan scores 44 points to lead the Bulls over the Knicks, 111-109, in the final game of the regular season, securing his record 10th NBA scoring title with a 28.7 points per game average.
2000 — Minnesota's Kevin Garnett becomes the ninth player in NBA history to average 20 points, 10 rebounds and five assists in a season. The last to do it was Charles Barkley for Phoenix in 1992-93.
2009 — Rafael Nadal becomes the first player to win five straight Monte Carlo Masters titles by beating Novak Djokovic 6-3, 2-6, 6-1. The top-ranked Spaniard, however, loses a set at the clay court tournament for the first time since the 2006 final against Roger Federer.
2010 — Kenya's Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot wins the Boston Marathon, breaking the course record with a time of 2:05:52. Ethiopia's Teyba Erkesso wins the women's race in 2:26:11, outsprinting Russia's Tatyana Pushkareva to win by three seconds.


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Anyone Who Walked By, Kicked
The following are two complaints passed on by Haaretz to the IDF Spokesman's Office in the Central Command at the beginning of the week, to get reactions with regard to the behavior of soldiers at the Qalandiyah checkpoint south of Ramallah and at the mobile checkpoint in the Nablus area.
The following are two complaints passed on by Haaretz to the IDF Spokesman's Office in the Central Command at the beginning of the week, to get reactions with regard to the behavior of soldiers at the Qalandiyah checkpoint south of Ramallah and at the mobile checkpoint in the Nablus area.
Three hours of kneeling
A., who is 34(the full details of the complainant have been given to the IDF Spokesman), is a plasterer by profession and lives in Ramallah. His family is from a village northwest of the city. Last week he was offered work in the A Ram neighborhood, south of the Qalandiyah checkpoint. According to A., for the last two years he was nowhere near the checkpoint and was unaware of the rules and regulations governing it.
On Saturday, July 19, he went to the checkpoint. He gave the soldier his identity card. Folded into the card was his membership card in the Fatah movement, which includes his clan name - Barghouti - which does not appear in his ID card. He says that when the soldier noticed that name in the card, the soldier asked if A. was related to Marwan Barghouti. A. explained he was not directly related and that they come from different villages. The soldier answered something like "so what, Marwan Barghouti lives in Ramallah now," and ordered A. to stand aside. Afterward, the soldier blindfolded him with a piece of cloth and led him to a hill overlooking the checkpoint. There, he was handcuffed behind his back and told to kneel on the ground with his eyes blindfolded and his hands handcuffed behind his back.
According to A. he was held in that position, under the sky, until the next day, July 20, until four in the afternoon - more than 30 hours. He reckons he was held next to a building that serves as an outhouse. The entire time the soldiers ignored his requests to use the toilet and told him to "do it in your pants." They also ignored his request to loosen or remove the handcuffs. On the Shabbath, they allowed him to drink water once, around two in the afternoon. One soldier held a plastic cup and watered him that way.
Every once in a while, he said, people who walked past would kick him. But when night fell, and there were no more people going through the checkpoint, some of the soldiers got together and in an organized manner beat him. He felt them using fists and a stick on his neck and back. In addition, he felt them putting out burning cigarettes on his head (A. is bald). He said he shouted to please take off the handcuffs, which cut off the blood to his hands.
That night he received a sandwich to eat and for the coming hours another cup of water. The next day, judging by the voices, he could tell the soldiers had been replaced. The new soldiers did not beat him. One asked where he was from and where were his ID papers. He answered, "You have the papers." No other soldier related to him during all that Sunday, July 20.
A. knew how to tell the time according to the muezzin from the nearby mosque. Around 4:30 in the afternoon, one of the soldiers used a radio to make contact with someone, said "there's nothing on him," and then removed the blindfold and handcuffs, ordering him to go home. His ID card was returned to him, but not the Fatah ID card.
He gave this testimony to Haaretz about two-and-a-half hours after he was released, at the Ramallah hospital where he was examined. He had difficulty moving his hands after being
handcuffed for so many hours. The palms of his hands were very swollen and he had difficulty grasping objects. His upper back was covered with fresh bruises. Round burns marked his head.
First dance, then hop
Four soldiers got out of a jeep or an APC in the hilly area northwest of Nablus and for 10 hours held seven passengers of a taxi and the driver, humiliating them.
On Sunday July 20, around 7:30 A.M., G., one of the passengers (all the details - without names - have been given to the spokesman) left Nablus on his way to the village where his family lives north of Nablus. It is a 20-kilometer trip, involving lengthy walks by foot and taxi tides over hilly dirt roads that bypass checkpoints that Palestinians are usually not allowed to pass through.
G. got into a taxi with seven other people. Soon after, around 11 in the morning, in the area between the villages of Dir Sharf and Nakura, the taxi encountered a jeep and an APC. Soldiers got out of one of the vehicles. The taxi was confiscated, and the driver was told to pick it up at he army camp at Shavei Shomron. Four soldiers remained to guard the eight people, and the jeep and APC continued on their way.
The soldiers collected the ID cards and one of the soldiers put them in his pocket. According to one of the Palestinians, during the entire time they were held, there was no examination of the ID cards and their owners, through the radio.
According to one of the passengers, during the hours, about once every half hour, the soldiers made the eight people do all sorts of tasks. Dance, hop on one foot, repeat various slogans in Hebrew, stand up, sit down, stand up and sit down, over and over. Around 4:30 in the afternoon, they were allowed to walk back to Nablus.
The IDF says:
"The claims are being fully examined in a context that included questioning of the soldiers and officers who serve in the place by the commander of the zone. For that purpose, the complainant has been invited in to provide evidence and describe the details of the event and the examination will continue.
These are very serious complaints about behavior that has no place in the IDF. The IDF regards with severity any behavior that involves humiliation and violence toward the Palestinian population. The subject will continue to be examined in the most in-depth manner and to the extent that the complaints turn out to be true, the matter will be handled with full severity."
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Why should Americans care about possible 2004 vote miscounts? The 2004 election is over. Its old news. The only reason for rehashing prior elections is to ensure that our votes are counted the way voters intend in the future. Should Americans trust that our votes are counted accurately; or is wholesale electronic election tampering occurring? How could the evidence of vote tampering be hidden? Is the future of democracy and U.S. elections at stake? The U.S. press has dismissed exit polls as surprisingly inaccurate in the 2004 presidential election when exit polls conflicted with official vote counts. Were Exit Polls Wrong or Vote Counts Altered?
(PRWEB) February 16, 2006 -- On February 14, 2006, the National Election Data Archive, a group of volunteer mathematicians, released a report asking that new measures be taken immediately in order to assure the integrity of future U.S. election results. Their new report discusses why current measures to ensure vote count accuracy, such as testing and certification, are inadequate; discusses how evidence of vote miscounts are hidden by current election reporting procedures; and recommends independent vote count audits, public detailed election data monitoring, and public exit poll data.
The National Election Data Archives report also summarizes a scientific analysis of Ohios precinct-level exit polls in laymans terms. Why should Americans care about Ohios 2004 vote counts? Ohio was a key battleground state. Whichever presidential candidate won Ohio became president. Ohio is also the only state for which pollsters publicly released sufficient precinct-level exit poll and vote count data to perform a valid mathematical analysis. Exit polls by the same exit polling firm, Edison/Mitofsky International, were recently used to judge when elections in the Ukraine and Azerbaijan were valid. Exit polls in the 2004 presidential election were not just randomly inaccurate: Bush's reported vote tally was higher than the exit polls anticipated and the inaccuracy was highest in precincts with the highest reported Bush vote. The pollsters said: Bush voters completed fewer exit polls. However, the National Election Archives analysis finds that the exit poll error explanation is inconsistent with the data and claim that John Kerry might be president today, if votes had been accurately counted in Ohio.
In June 2005 The Election Science Institute (ESI) and pollster Mitofsky issued a paper Ohio 2004 Exit Polls: Explaining the Discrepancy which asserts that an exit poll error explanation is much more likely than the fraud accusation theory to account for most, if not all, of the observed discrepancy between the exit polls and the actual results. Precinct-level exit poll data released with ESIs report shows that the overall average discrepancy between Ohios exit poll and certified vote count margins between Kerry and Bush was 11.7 percentage points.
However, In October, 2005, the National Election Archive released a paper which gives counterexamples to show that the Election Science Institutes analysis was based on an invalid premise. On January 17, 2006 the National Election Archive released its own scientific Ohio exit poll discrepancy analysis, The Gun Is Smoking: 2004 Ohio Precinct-level Exit Poll Data Show Virtually Irrefutable Evidence of Vote Miscount. This analysis concluded that Ohios huge exit poll discrepancy pattern is consistent with outcome-altering errors in vote counts.
Two things are certain in this controversy about U.S. exit poll accuracy:
1. The Election Science Institute and the National Election Archive cannot both be correct, and
2. Any university mathematics department in America could evaluate the two conflicting studies and decide which analysis is mathematically correct.
The National Election Archive challenges every journalist interested in discovering if outcome-altering vote miscounts or exit poll error is the more probable cause of Ohios exit poll discrepancy; to help resolve this critical question. The answer may make the difference as to whether Americans take steps to ensure vote count accuracy in future elections or not. The National Election Archive urges the National Election Pool media consortium to accept this math challenge by sharing these two conflicting election studies with mathematics faculty at any university to determine which analysis is mathematically correct.
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/OH/Ohio-Exit-Polls-2004.pdf and http://electionscience.org/reports/view_reports
The survival of democracy and the future of our civilization may depend on taking steps to ensure the accuracy of elections. As the Election Science Institute said, The public has a right to know exactly how elections work and to verify for themselves that the voting and the counting is done right.
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Apple has been dealing with a lot in the last few months, being accused of lacking innovation, CEO Tim Cook going under the leadership microscope, and the company coming under scrutiny for dodging billions in tax payments. Despite this adversity, Apple has once again come out on top. For the third straight year since 2009, Apple has been named the world's most valuable brand. The rankings are determined by Millward Brown's annual BrandZ study of brands in the United States.
Apple's value as a brand increased by only 1% this year, which comes out to about $185 million, up from the $183 million they earned from a year ago. Apple's 1% brand value increase is still trailing behind Google, whose brand value increased by as much as 5%. Millward Brown noted in its report that the technology sector was flat, but Apple is still seeing some form of positive growth with this honor for three consecutive years. With Apple as number one in terms of brand value, Google, IBM, McDonald's and Coca Cola follow up very close with their own respective brand growth. Apple has the potential to spin this into positive marketing to sell its products, especially during a time when some customers are not seeing the best side of Apple.
If the Cupertino, California based company continues to be named most valuable brand of the year annually, then Apple will retain its spot as one of the big dogs. This helps them to attract new customers that may be interested in awards that Apple has won in the past, as well as those who are already part of the brand and constantly update their devices. It is not surprising that Apple is the world's most valuable brand, especially with its extensive user base of both iOS and OS X products, and its focus on detail in both the retail store and outside as well.
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Israel's Tragic Treatment of Asylum Seekers Must Be Stopped
Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar wants to deport asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea, but we should be taking our obligations toward them far more seriously.
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Waste at the Top / A Government Not Governing
Netanyahu forewent value added tax on fruits and vegetables in July 2009 despite an agreement to impose VAT, so now he'll have to surrender all the economic principles he believes in.
The campaign to save the middle class has begun, but a more appropriate name for the effort would be the campaign to save the Likud government. The only thing that matters is that the electorate not be angry with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. As long as they don't vote for any other party, everything else is less important.
So who in the meantime is running the country? The populist triumvirate that is setting the pace of events: Histadrut labor federation head Ofer Eini, Manufacturers Association chief Shraga Brosh and Shlomo Buhbut of the Union of Local Governments. Netanyahu is afraid of Eini's threat of a general strike because he wants things to be quiet. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, too, is afraid of Eini. He's trying to meet with the union leader to exchange a few words about taxes, prices and the minimum wage. It's humiliating. This is a government that isn't governing. It's a government that's being dragged around.
Netanyahu is paying the price of his past conduct. Who better than he knows that giving into pressure encourages greater pressures. If you forgo value added tax on fruits and vegetables, as happened in July 2009 despite an agreement to impose VAT, you'll have to surrender all the economic principles you believe in.
Netanyahu is paying the price of the Western world's most bloated and wasteful government: 29 ministers and eight deputy ministers. Just a couple of weeks ago he gave that ridiculous five-member Atzmaut faction of Defense Minister Ehud Barak four ministerial posts. Netanyahu doesn't understand that this incurs the public's wrath and a sense of waste.
Netanyahu himself, in his first term as prime minister, passed a law providing that the cabinet would have just 18 ministers.
At the time, he understood the symbolism of projecting efficiency. That's no longer the case. He's sure that with more posts, budgets and perks, he'll buy the ministers' goodwill and save his job, but if this isn't buying the chance to rule, what is it?
Netanyahu and Steinitz are paying the price of the large and bloated budget they passed just a month ago in the Knesset. They agreed to give everybody what they wanted. They gave every government ministry lots of additional funding, from the police and immigrant absorption to the environment. Everything's important. There are no priorities. They distributed billions to yeshivas and Shas religious seminary students, increased social welfare allocations, gave the railroads more, increased grants to industry, hired more people and raised their salaries. Yesterday the defense budget got another NIS 700 million.
At the beginning of the year, the local authorities threatened the mother of all strikes. Netanyahu and Steinitz got scared and increased equalization grants by NIS 800 million. Eini threatened a strike and won a generous wage agreement for the public sector. Then he supported a strike by port workers, who are particularly well paid. The Finance Ministry is weak, so why not take when you can?
And then came the day to pay up. That means higher taxes because you can't increase spending without raising taxes. It doesn't work.
In economics, there's no such thing as a free lunch. So that same generous Finance Ministry had to levy additional taxes on fuel, to impose VAT on water and increase public-transportation fares.
There is one correct solution to this chaos: Present the cabinet with a program of budget cuts of several billion shekels. With the money that is saved, the public's tax burden, including that on fuel, will be reduced and the increase in water rates will be moderated.
The middle class will not be saved by a discount of a few agorot on gasoline. The moment the public thinks the government up there is wasteful, nothing will stop the anger.
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Seema, a 23-year-old master's student, was initially excited to meet her Meet Market date, Robert, a 25-year-old client services associate, at Midtown's Brasserie 8 1/2. But after more than two hours of him sharing far too much personal informaiton, she left the restaurant with eyes for someone else entirely.
He said:
I got to the restaurant 10 minutes early, and though the staff was very friendly, it was a little intimidating because it was a very corporate atmosphere.
Right off the bat, Seema was cheerful and energetic, and we clicked pretty well as we chatted in the U-shape booth. We talked about family – she's Indian and I'm Nigerian – and the fact that our cultures were so similar. She's also vegetarian, which scored points with me because I like it when someone believes in something yet respects the fact that other people may eat meat, like me.
However, I knew that we didn't have any romantic chemistry. When the photographer came, it was fun to pose with her. But when he tried to get us do more romantic stuff, it was awkward. We were acting like sixth-graders discovering the opposite sex again.
In that light, it wasn't surprising that our goodbye was little awkward. It was the moment when we "should" have exchanged phone numbers, but I feel like taking someone's number is an unsaid promise to call, and I knew I wasn't going to. Yes, we clicked and Seema was very sweet and polite, but there was no attraction. She just wasn't my type.
She said:
Robert was sweating generously when I arrived, which was flattering, since I assumed he was nervous to meet me, but also slightly alarming – dude, it's just dinner.
We began talking right away, and the waitress had to come by three times before we had a chance to look at the menu. However, I soon learned that Robert's a TMI kind of guy: Over the next 2 ½ hours, he used our date to discuss very personal details of his life, to the point of his mother's reproductive history – no joke. Sure, we bonded over similarities like the trials of having immigrant parents, but for the record, I now totally relate to men who gripe about women who talk too much – after a while, even your smile begins to hurt.
Robert was a really nice guy, and our conversation never stalled. However, this guy had an opinion on everything, and I felt as if I was a sounding board instead of an equal participant in the conversation.
If I ever see him on the street, I'll be sure to say hi. But to be honest, the person who I'm actually looking forward to running into is the Post cameraman – holler at me, Rich!
4 HEARTS I'll die if you don't call
3 HEARTS Definitely maybe, baby!
2 HEARTS We're better off friends
1 HEART I'd rather kiss my super
NO HEARTS It's not me, it's you!
Robert 2 HEARTS "Posing romantically, it was like we were in sixth grade again."
Seema 2 HEARTS "I was more into the Post fotog than my date."


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Empower our local community to create long-lasting social, economic and environmental improvementsin Wilton, Quidhampton, Burcombe and environs
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Formed in 2012 to create an effective, community led, alternative to private, profit-driven development in our area as an independent and non-profit organisation. more…
True mixed use
We aim to build low cost work spaces for local businesses & the kind of homes that families want to live in – including a high proportion of affordable housing. more…
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We aim to help acquire suitable local sites on behalf of the community and then build and manage developments that people actually want. more…
We make genuine commitment to sustainable technologies. A unique opportunity to bring some joined-up thinking to planning in our own town. more…
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Forest Forge is back in Wilton Friday 8th December
After a sell out 2016 show we are excited to host Forest Forge with their production of The Frog Prince 6.30pm Friday 8th December at Wilton Community Centre. Tickets available from Monday 20th November at the Valley News Office, West Street, Wilton - Office Opening...read more
Wilton Christmas Market and Light Switch On 4th December
Business Enterprise Hub
As a shareholder in Our Wilton CIC, Wilton Community Land Trust are delighted to confirm that 80% of the funding has been secured and plans submitted under reserved matters planning for the new Enterprise Hub at Wilton Hill. The Business Enterprise Hub is due for...read more
New Directors on board for Wilton CLT
Wilton Community Land Trust is entering an exciting phase in its development as the community interest company welcomes three new directors to the board to strengthen its knowledge base for its future plans. Alice Harwood - Chartered Landscape Architect and Wilton...read more
New Directors
New directors were elected to the management board at Wilton Community Land Trust'sannual meeting on July 6, when more members joined and the trust's main aims were underlined. Chairman Mark Pountain and company secretary Sam Thake stepped down from their roles after...read more
Wilton Week – a success!
The sun shone, the music played and the community came together to celebrate the end of a successful Pop-Up Week in Wilton and enjoy the event at The Shopping Village on Sunday. Funded by Wiltshire Council and Wilton Town Council and delivered by Wilton Community Land...read more
The first locally-led Community Land Trust in Wiltshire
Wilton Community Land Trust
Or Wilton CLT for short is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales with the Financial Services Authority (FSA) as a society with charitable rules under the Co-Operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014. Supporters of Wilton CLT over the age of 16 pay a membership fee of £1 and are able to nominate members to the Board of Directors of the Community Land Trust every year at the Annual General Meeting to make sure that the Board is guided by the interest of the community as a whole.
Wilton CLT evolved from the Wilton Eco Park Development Community Association. That association had come into being in May 2011, to explore the possibility of community being involvement in the development of the MoD owned former Erskine Barracks site on the edge of Wilton. The site has outline planning permission for 450 homes and which would effectively increase the population of Wilton by over 20% and local people felt it was important to maximise the community benefit of the development, by aiming to establish a centre of excellence in sustainable living, with high quality housing, community facilities, plus employment and social enterprise opportunities.
Since formation, Wilton Community Land Trust has worked to influence how development will take place on the site and since its acquisition by Redrow Homes Ltd we continue to be closely involved in shaping the regeneration of the site. The former Erskine Barracks site has recently been renamed 'Wilton Hill' and there is now a separate website, where you can more information about this innovative development.
The Wilton Charter
The Wilton Charter was developed as a set of guiding principles for the future, ready for the development of the Erskine Barracks site. Through public meetings and consultations we have created the 'Wilton Charter', a set of standards the community would like to see on the Erskine Barracks site.
- Creating high quality opportunities and local economic benefit
- Genuine community participation, ownership and pride (of place)
- Connecting to local need as a priority
- Innovation (technological, social, economic, environmental, leadership)
- Ensuring social wellbeing
- Creating a vibrant development.
- Honesty and transparency in all we do
- Commercially viable and deliverable
- Intergenerational and inclusive
- Financially equitable
The Charter was endorsed by over 100 attendees at a public meeting held in the Michael Herbert Hall on the 18th of February 2012.
What is a Community Land Trust?
Wilton CLT is a community land trust (also known as a 'development trust'). These are community owned and led organisations.
Community Land Trusts:
- Use social enterprises, trading for social purpose, and ownership of buildings and land, to bring about long-term social, economic and environmental benefits in their community.
- Operate in both urban and rural areas, often in neighbourhoods which have experienced the worst economic decline.
- Are independent, but work with the public sector, private businesses, and with other community groups.
- Are community 'anchor' organisations, delivering services and facilities, finding solutions to local problems, and helping other organisations and initiatives succeed.
The CLT Network and Locality are organisations that coordinate CLTs and development trusts.
- The ambition is for a successful development trust or community land trust to be established in every community.
- There are now over 500 CLTs and development trusts in both urban and rural areas. While many are still small, others are operating at a much larger scale.
Why does Wilton need its own Community Land Trust?
With increased development planned, South Wiltshire is changing and Wilton is no exception.
- Wilton Community Land Trust provides a realistic alternative to profit-led private development.
- It gives the people an opportunity to benefit, by for example, buying sites in the town, and developing and managing them for the community; development of the kind that people actually want.
After considerable local consultation Wilton Community Land Trust was founded in April 2012 to offer an alternative to private development with its need for profit-driven investment.
Wilton CLT works alongside other organisations such as Wilton Town Council to ensure a coordinated approach.
Our Objectives
Wilton Community Land Trust's objectives are to support the provision of the following for the benefit of the community:
- To maintain or improve the physical, social and economic infrastructure within the parishes of Wilton, Quidhampton and Burcombe and their environs;
- To advance education (particularly concerning asset based community development and enterprises with a community or environmental focus); and
- To provide an opportunity for public-spirited people and organisations to contribute financially to the community, with the expectation of a social dividend, rather than personal financial reward.
Examples of the ways in which the CLT can carry out its objects may include:
- Providing housing for those in need and help to improve housing standards;
- Creating training and employment opportunities by the provision of workspace, buildings or land;
- Developing new or existing services to the local community that contribute to the local economy.


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Handel & Haydn Society
Handel & Haydn Society
The Handel and Haydn Society returns to the intimate Hannaford Hall for a concert inspired by Felix Mendelssohn's own music library. His extensive collection contained works by composers from Handel to Mozart, whose compositions greatly influenced the composer early in his life. Electrifying concertmaster Aisslinn Nosky leads her fellow string players in a chamber program of baroque and classical works by George Frideric Handel, J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach and Mendelssohn. Internationally recognized for its revelatory style that uses the instruments and techniques of the composer's time, the Handel and Haydn Society is known for its unmatched artistry, and is considered America's oldest continuously performing arts organization.
Tickets: $40
Members: $36
Student Deal: $10
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Hong Kong Encounteraf Stephen Fallon
Synopsis:In creating this brand new series, we have listened to travellers´ needs and created a series that enables travellers to travel the way they want to. This work includes a City Diary that takes readers to the best events and festivals around. An Itineraries chapter allows travellers to plan their time effectively. The new Neighbourhood structure better reflects how visitors see the city - holistically rather than isolated ´points of interest´. It features a new Directory of practical information. A new Themes section gives eat, sleep and shop information - and allows the reader to access the city by subculture (eating out, gay culture, art and more). It comes with a detachable pull-out map. It includes a Bluelist from our website written by a reader. The best of Hong Kong´s enormous restaurant scene is dished up with opinion and flair by long-time gourmand Steve Fallon.
- Sprog:
- Engelsk
- 9781741045758
- Forlag:
- Lonely Planet / Aschehoug
- Indbinding:
- Hæftet
- Sideantal:
- 128
- Udgivet:
- 18. Maj 2007
Andre udgaver:
- Kan ikke skaffes


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Rational Inattention and Portfolio Selection
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- Author(s): LIXIN HUANG, HONG LIU
- Published: Aug 14, 2007
- Pages: 1999-2040
- DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2007.01263.x
Costly information acquisition makes it rational for investors to obtain important economic news with only limited frequency or limited accuracy. We show that this rational inattention to important news may make investors over‐ or underinvest. In addition, the optimal trading strategy is "myopic" with respect to future news frequency and accuracy. We find that the optimal news frequency is nonmonotonic in news accuracy and investment horizon. Furthermore, when both news frequency and news accuracy are endogenized, an investor with a higher risk aversion or a longer investment horizon chooses less frequent but more accurate periodic news updates.


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Twins lose to Blue Jays in rain-delayed exhibition contest
FT. MEYERS, Fla. - The Minnesota Twins lost to the Blue Jays 7-4 in a rain-delayed Grapefruit League game in Fort Myers Thursday afternoon.
Starter Nick Blackburn gave up a pair of home runs and allowed three earned runs in three innings of work. Joe Nathan and Glen Perkins each pitched a scoreless side for Minnesota. Luke Hughes had a double and drove in his team-high tenth run of the spring.
The Twins host the Red Sox this afternoon.


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Mark & Susan Susz secure naming rights
It may have been the time Susan Susz's parents took her and her three siblings to Starlight to see "Sound of Music." Or it perhaps it was her mother's penchant for singing opera around the house — and at friends' weddings. Or it might have been the piano lessons she took as a child. Whatever the influence, Susan Susz has become an enthusiastic arts supporter. And that commitment led to Susan and her husband Mark become donors to the Kauffman Center.
"When Mark and I married 12 years ago," Susan shared recently, "I started engaging him in the arts activities I enjoyed. Soon, attending the theater, ballet and the symphony became activities we enjoyed regularly together." Susan quickly added that Mark didn't require much convincing; business interests earlier in his life just took most of his attention. Now that he's sold his business and retired, the arts fit right in.
Mark and Susan Susz's introduction to the Kauffman Center came through good friends Tom and Linda Beal. "We had heard bits and pieces about a new performing arts center, but no one had really filled us in," Susan recalls.
That issue was remedied when the Beals invited them to lunch with Julia Irene Kauffman along with a small group of potential supporters. "We were immediately impressed," Susan shared. Mark and Susan liked the idea of Kansas City getting high-quality performance spaces for the groups they enjoyed. "Plus we were wowed by the emphasis on quality. There was so much attention being placed on acoustics and technical excellence," Susan added.
Later, Mark and Susan met with President & CEO Jane Chu and began to talk about a contribution to the center. After reviewing a range of naming opportunities available to donors, Mark and Susan decided to fund and name three items within the Kauffman Center, including a glass elevator that is set prominently in the grand gallery.
"I liked the centrality of this special elevator and its graceful design," Mark said. "Funding the elevator also seemed to have a nice synergy with our personal interest in getting more people to arts performances." Susan says that the location of the Kauffman Center is so prominent that people will easily find their way from the highway loop to the center. "Then the elevator will whisk them away to a delightful experience. I'm looking forward to everything about it," she concludes.
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Black Eyed Peas return with re-imagined #WheresTheLove
NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) - "It's a tough subject to talk about. We had no choice but to react to it," said Apl. De. Ap. of the 'Black Eyed Peas' about the band's new, re-imagined version of the 2003 hit, 'Where is the Love?'
#WheresTheLove questions the social crisis gripping the nation regarding racism and inequality. All money raised from its sale will go towards science, technology, engineering and math education in America's inner cities.
"Education is at the core of why I put Black Eyed Pease together," said founder will. i. am.
"It's the old lyrics with new flavor: The Game, Mary J. Blige and ASAP Rocky," said Taboo.
"We spend money on war but we don't spend money on education in this country. We need education reform," said will. i. am.
For more information, visit Facebook.com/BlackEyedPeas.


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In a move that could provide a boost toward official approval, the Carmel Valley Community Planning Board this week endorsed the Flower Hill Promenade's contentious proposed expansion.
After roughly six years of planning, presentations and adjustments, the mall project will go before the San Diego Planning Commission, possibly in September.
The expansion includes a 35,000-square-foot Whole Foods Market and a four-level parking garage. An UltraStar movie theater in the mall would be demolished.
Frisco White, the board's chairman, said the 11-3 vote largely hinged on the support voiced by the neighboring Spindrift housing complex, which had expressed concerns over a proposed realignment of Flower Hill Drive along the rear of the mall. That road, which feeds into the neighborhood, would also be the site of the parking garage. The plans no longer call for it to be realigned.
The community planning board functions in an advisory role to San Diego city departments.
"We're excited that we did it with community support and having worked with them and really adjusted our project according to their requests and input and suggestions," said Flower Hill owner Jeffrey Essakow.
Some say the project was not adjusted enough. Robert Vicino, spokesman for the group Citizens Against Flower Hill's Excessive Expansion, said he mostly dislikes the proposed parking garage.
"It will be highly visible to the freeway and the entire community, and changes the character of our neighborhood and valley," he said. Underground parking should have been part of the plan, Vicino said.
Essakow said underground parking, while in the original blueprints, had to be removed because it was not economically feasible given the project was scaled back from what had been presented in 2004. The expanded mall had been planned for 265,000 square feet. Now it's 173,000 square feet, or about 61,000 over the current mall. Essakow said an underground parking structure is three times more expensive than aboveground parking.
White said the choice of above- or below-ground parking is of less concern to the board.
"Our job is not to design a project for an applicant. Our job is to review and critique what they are proposing," he said, adding the bigger concern was over effects on access to Spindrift residents.
Greg Rothnem, a member of the Spindrift homeowners board, said the community's support went from "good" to "very good" over the last seven months of working with project officials.
"Everybody acknowledged there was a need for revitalizing the center," he said. "The developer was able to come up with a design to address our concerns so we were OK."
Although the mall is just east of Interstate 5 on Via de la Valle and many think it is in Del Mar, it is technically in the city of San Diego. It does, however, receive sewer utilities and public safety services from Solana Beach, which submitted a comment letter challenging many assertions made by the project's draft Environmental Impact Report.
Essakow said 10 to 12 agencies submitted responses to its draft EIR. He said he expects a final environmental report to be released in the next two or three weeks.
Solana Beach City Manager David Ott said he could not comment until the city sees the final report. Essakow said he expects the project to go before the San Diego Planning Commission in September, the San Diego City Council in October, and if approved, could break ground in March, April or May 2011. He said the Whole Foods could open by the latter part of 2012.


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Rising Rookie Hurlers
Ray reviews for young pitchers everyone is talking about: Bauer, Stroman, Bradley and Meyer.
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Everyone loves youngsters. I would guess that, literally, a third of the questions I receive daily deal with a minor leaguer, a rookie or a guy in his second season. It's so unbelievably predictable. Every week there's a new "flavor" to talk about. Every single week. Right now the hottest names are two hurlers with the Indians and Blue Jays, but there are two others that people have a great interest in who belong to the Diamondbacks and Twins organizations. Being that I'm a man of the people, here are my thoughts on all four.
Funky delivery and off-putting personality aside, Trevor Bauer has an elite arm. Period. It hasn't always been smooth sailing though as last year in 22 starts at Triple-A he had a 4.15 ERA and 1.58 WHIP thanks to an insanely high 7.16 BB/9 mark. Yeah, he sometimes completely loses the strike zone and has no idea where the ball is going. None. This is a young man who in 55 career minor league starts is the proud owner of a 4.5 BB/9 mark. That's not going to get in done in the big leagues where batters are even more discerning than they are in the minors meaning that some of the punchouts Bauer gets, his K/9 mark is 9.9, could disappear a bit as big league hitters spit on the junk he's tossing up there in two strike counts. At the same time... boy does this kid have an arm.
In four minor league starts this season Bauer is 3-0 with a 1.40 ERA, 0.97 WHIP and 4.00 K/BB ratio. Remember the wildness that I just noted though. His current 4.00 K/BB ratio is literally almost double his career 2.18 mark. Remember we're only talking four starts in the minors this year. 'But Ray, he dominated in his one start in the big leagues this year too.' True enough Bauer did throw six innings allowing two runs (one earned) with six strikeouts. But to repeat, it's been five outings. Do those five outings totally erase the previous 59? I know for some they do. For me, not even close.
The Indians have demoted Carlos Carrasco to the bullpen as the one time high level prospect continues to struggle mightily. To take the rotation spot next week it appears that the Indians will call on either Bauer or Josh Tomlin. We all hope it's Bauer who has immeasurable upside when compared to the steady Tomlin. What would I do right now?
AL-only: He should have been drafted. If he wasn't, join a new league.
15 team mixed: Add immediately.
12 team mixed: Can add depending on depth of current staff.
10 team mixed: I don't add minor leaguers in 10 team leagues, especially ones with spotty track records.
I wrote about Marcus Stroman Monday in Stroman, HOU & CHC Bullpens.
AL-only: He should have been drafted. If he wasn't, join a new league.
15 team mixed: Add immediately.
12 team mixed: I would highly recommend adding him.
10 team mixed: I don't add minor leaguers in 10 team leagues, but he's still intriguing.
2014 was supposed to be Archie Bradley's coming out party. There was some hope that he would open the year in the Diamondbacks' rotation but it didn't happen (the late signing of Bronson Arroyo pretty much sealed the deal on Bradley starting the year in the minors). Then something strange happened. The D'backs had chances to add Bradley to the rotation, and they kept on passing. When Patrick Corbin went down with Tommy John surgery he was replaced by Josh Collmenter. Then Trevor Cahill was moved to the bullpen and the team went with Mike Bolsinger. Mike Bolsinger? Exactly. The fact is that Bradley blows that duo away talent wise, so why hasn't he been given a shot? Some thoughts, and no, the 'we don't want to call him and and have the pressure be on him to be our savior' crap the team is trying to sell is bunk (at least in my mind).
Coming into 2014 Bradley didn't have one inning pitched above Double-A.
Coming into 2014 he'd thrown a total of 294 professional innings. Back in the day "they" wanted guys to get 500 innings in the minors.
Let's not forget, despite what happened with Bryce Harper last year and George Springer this year, that teams generally leave their youngsters in the minors until June so that they can surpass the Super2 thing and thereby control a player for one more year before free agency begins.
All valid points.
But here's another fact that people need to consider. They aren't. It's like they are totally oblivious to what I'm about to write. I'm completely serious. How many of you know that...
Bradley is 1-4 with a 5.18 ERA and 1.56 WHIP at Triple-A?
Bradley has been awful this season. Awful. There's no way they are going to call him up when he's pitching like this. He's an immense talent but he's just not getting it done right now.
NL-only: He should have been drafted. If he wasn't, join a new league.
15 team mixed: Can add cause he could, could dominate when called up.
12 team mixed: Not interested at the moment.
10 team mixed: No interest.
BREAKING NEWS: Bradley has been placed on the 7 day DL with a flexor strain in his elbow. Uh oh. This could be, note I said could be, a prelude to Tommy John surgery. For now, the team expects him to start throwing again in two weeks and be fine after a little rest.
Alex Meyer stands about 6'8" giving him a huge advantage. Not only does he release the ball a bit closer to home plate than most, but he's able to change the plane of his pitches with great effectiveness getting a great downward angle on his pitches to give him a nice advantage over batters. Most think that Meyer will settle in as a #2 SP in the big leagues, an a potentially dominant when once he harnesses the mechanics. Certainly looks like he's started down that path right now. Through five starts at Triple-A he has a 2.70 ERA, 1.13 WHIP and 11.81 K/9. He's bee historically good over his last two outings covering 12.2 innings: zero runs, five hits, 22 punchouts (he's also walked six). So he will be up immediately, right? Not according to Mike Berardino of the Pioneer Press who had this to say on Twitter. "Best case: June."
I would agree with that as the most likely outcome, but note how the Twins' rotation is currently pitching (i.e. horribly): Kevin Correia (7.33 ERA), Ricky Nolasco (6.67 ERA), Phil Hughes (5.14 ERA), Mike Pelfrey (7.32) and Kyle Gibson (3.63). Just keep that in mind if Correia or Pelfrey gets lit up again.
AL-only: He should have been drafted. If he wasn't, join a new league.
15 team mixed: Maybe. If he's not up until mid-June, you doing to wait that long?
12 team mixed: Nah.
10 team mixed: No interest.
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Ray Flowers
Matthew Davis - I can do that move to Ross. Honestly, I'd give consideration to dropping Pineda. I've been warning about him, no one listened, and now he could miss a month. Touch and go with his health. He didn't even make my top 100 SPs in the Updated PLAYER RANKINGS. http://www.fantasyalarm.com/articles/flowers/18452/may-updated-player-rankings/05/02/2014 12:43 pm
Matthew Davis
Hi Ray, Please keep the info coming - articles are fantastic. Would you drop Robbie Ross for Stroman? HtH 12 Team (he'd be a bench player) Current rotation: Bailey, Cueto, Eovaldi, Haren, Kennedy, Shelby Miller, Wily Peralta, and CJ Wilson. Bench: Gerrit Cole, Pineda, and Ross with Holland and Paxton on the DL.05/02/2014 9:47 am
Ray Flowers
Jonathan Layden - Fine move adding Burnett. I would stick with the rotation you currently have though.05/01/2014 11:47 am
Jonathan Layden
Ray, My team has been decimated by injuries and I am trying to stay in it. It is a league that uses k/ 9 instead of k's . Currently rolling out Strasburg, Shelby Miller, Burnett, Kluber, Ross, and Lincecum. Started by moving the struggling Salazar for Burnett. Now considering dropping one these starters for Jesse Chavez or Garrett Richards. Do you think I should stand pat or make a change? Thanks!04/30/2014 11:36 pm
Ray Flowers
jeffry szush - Wow, amazing you have all of those huge young arms. That's a massive amount of young arms though. How many do you keep? You cant keep them all... might look to deal 1/2 at least to get more established guys. Stroman, Meyer, Bauer, Paxton, Heaney, Wisler. Thanks for the kind words.04/29/2014 9:58 pm
jeffry szush
Ray, great piece. It is very relevant to me as I own Stroman, Bauer, and Meyer in my 16 team, 12 keeper, H2H daily lineup league. I took over a bad team and am in complete rebuild mode. I also happen to own James Paxton, Matt Wisler, and Andrew Heaney. With James Shields as my only true keepable pitcher, how do you see the above list of hurlers panning out? Do you think I will be able to muster 3-4 keepers out of those guys? Care to give me a 1-6 ranking of them? I assume most will pitch and sometime this season so hopefully I will get a chance to see if any project to be viable SPs in the MLB. Keep up the good work, my man.04/29/2014 6:53 pm


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On Saab 9-5 and 9-3 models years 99-03 Saab is suggesting a PCV(Posite Crankcase Ventilation) upgrade. If you are having troubles with oil leaks and/or oil backing up into your turbo causing smoke to billow out of your exhaust pipe this may be what your Saab needs. Regardless of your year or model if you have an oil leak you should check the function of your PCV system. This can be done by checking that all hoses and passages are clear and that the check valve still works as a one way valve.
The need for a crankcase ventilation system comes in play due to piston blow-by. During each power stroke gases escape past the piston rings and into the crankcase. These gases cause high pressure that can push oil out of seals and gaskets. In the old days engines had what they called a road draft tube to vent excessive crankcase pressure. This was a very simple system just a small tube running from the crankcase and down behind the engine opening under the car to the atmosphere. As air flowed by the tube it created a negative pressure pulling the blow-by out of the engine.
the 60's Smog control came into play and the PCV system was created.
This system draws the crankcase blow-by back into the air intake and re-burns
these gases keeping them from the atmosphere. This system is comprised
of 2 hoses and a check valve. One large hose from the valve cover to the
air cleaner and one small vacuum hose from the valve cover to the intake
with a check valve in-between on Turbo models (non turbo has no check
valve). This is the most basic of systems that you may find on older Saab
models. Today it is basically the same but there is a few more hoses and
a oil separator box connecting to the turbo.
Saab has determined that the oil separator box on 9-3 and 9-5's PCV system has inadequate flow. This is responsible for oil leaks at the timing cover area and smoke from the tail pipe during start up. It is also recommended to change the hoses and check valve at the same time to be sure all is in proper shape.
(This article is meant to educate a consumer,or as a guideline for professionals. You can cause serious damage to your vehicle and/or cause yourself injury. Only those qualified should attempt repairs. I do my best to assure that the above info is correct but take no responsibility for any damages incurred.)
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