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NEW ORLEANS - Kobe Bryant will start for the Western Conference in the All-Star game, and Jason Kidd will be in the lineup for the East.
But with Bryant's right pinkie in a splint and Kidd stuck somewhere between New Jersey and Dallas in the midst of a trade on hold, nothing was a guarantee for either player Friday.
Bryant said he'd "rather not play" Sunday, but does not think he has a choice. NBA policy dictates that if a player is healthy enough to play in the final game before the break and the first one after, he won't be excused from the All-Star game. Bryant is hardly pleased with the rule.
"But what can you do?" he said. "I don't want to be suspended, miss a game."
It wasn't clear if Bryant would in fact be suspended if he sat out.
The Mavericks and Nets agreed to a deal Wednesday that would have sent Kidd to Dallas. But Devean George exercised his right in the collective bargaining agreement to block the trade.
Nets president Rod Thorn said George had asked for a trade earlier in the season.
"It is what is," Kidd said. "I don't know if I'm going to be with the Nets or Mavs or whoever it may be."
"It just happens that me being traded or me being on hold until being traded has taken on a life of its own and it's a big topic right now."
Thorn said George's stance hadn't changed as of Friday morning, which spares the NBA from having to figure out what to do when the starting point guard for the East happens to play for a team in the West.
"I haven't played for a Western Conference team. So I think I would be on the East," Kidd said. "It might have been different had I played last night for the Mavs, but I think everything will work itself out and I'll be on the East for right now."
It's the second straight year that Kidd and Bryant were in the All-Star weekend headlines. Kidd believed a trade was possible last year before the deadline and the Lakers were a candidate. A deal was almost made days later before falling through when the Lakers wouldn't include center Andrew Bynum, which angered Bryant.
So he knows how Nowitzki must feel.
"I saw him walking around," Bryant said. "I don't know how he's dealing with this - that close to getting Jason Kidd."
The Lakers aren't the only ones holding their breath over Bryant's injury. USA Basketball managing director Jerry Colangelo said coach Mike Krzyzewski called him in the morning when he heard news that could be damaging to the Americans' gold-medal hopes.
"I'm pulling for Kobe and I want him healthy because I want him in our uniform this summer," Colangelo said.
Bryant, who had to withdraw from U.S. teams in 2003, '04 and '06 before finally making his debut last summer, says he will play in the Olympics.
"I'm not missing this summer," he said. "Unless something drastic happens, God forbid. I've been waiting to play on this team for too long."
Bryant, who won his second All-Star game MVP award last year, is among the NBA's fiercest competitors. But don't expect to see him asking West coach Byron Scott to put him in at the end if Sunday's game is close.
"In my youth, yeah," he said. "In my old age of 29, no."
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Firstly, this young lady has taken initiative to do what very few have done. It's nice to know that there are some that are still willing to stand up for themselves. She stood up and made a stand for many young people the knowledge that they're not the only ones to think one thing or another. It's sorta refreshing to see someone as young grasping and putting her rights into application. Considering that this Pam Stenzel apparently can't grasp the idea of protected sex, in the first place, it doesn't surprise me that she's a thumper. She uses completely religious arrogance to allow her to LOOK like she knows what she's thinking about. I know plenty of people who've had sex with more than one partner… yet they've yet to have STDs or become pregnant. Ignorance MUST be bliss, after all. Yeah, I'm 26 and have yet to have sex, but it's not because of distorted idiots like her. It's got to do with my moral convictions and perceptions. People like her are the reason so much ignorance has survived. I'm not religious, yet I've got more sense in a single strand of hair on my head than she's got in her entirety. You can give the facts and statistics to back them up to give teens a reason to think about abstaining, but what they do isn't going to be changed by what people say, for what you say can only assist in consideration of what they might do. It's about the choices we make, that's where it all makes the difference. Yes, you risk becoming pregnant and risk transfer of STDs, but it's not entirely assured that you will. In all, keep on fighting, Kate. You'll have my backing.
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Welcome to WebmasterWorld Guest from 126.96.36.199
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What are your views on the topic? What's the current legal position (UK in particular)? Why are there so many non-accessibile sites still being produced?
How do you achieve accessibility without compromising design beauty?
This includes an old WordPress blog (gotta update it someday...) and a Gallery 2 installation.
Validation is NOT DIFFICULT. It is damn easy. I do it by habit, and it is a HUGE help in debugging. Especially active code, such as DHTML, PHP and AJAX. I just fixed a bug in a site I'm developing right now because the validator told me that there was an extra
. These bugs happen all the time when you are generating dynamic content.
WAI validation is hardly any extra work at all. The people who say that you can't have attractive, active content that validates and is accessible have never visited any of my sites.
Is there ever a compelling reason NOT write valid code?
Not that I would ever endorse sloppy invalid code, I can imagine occasions when it really doesn't matter...
I'm thinking of a page (maybe even a whole site) that is little more than a digital equivalent of a handwritten note pinned to a noticeboard
Not having the tools, skills, time, etc to craft a work of elegance should not preclude anyone from getting *their* message out there...
I'm afraid to find out the answer...
Day 22: Using real lists (or faking them properly)
You should provide alt attributes for all your bullet images. Use an asterisk as the alt text, to simulate what the list would look like if you were using real list markup. (To prevent this from displaying as a tooltip in visual browsers, you should also provide an empty title attribute.)
Validation is NOT DIFFICULT.
Yes it is. That's why 99.9% of the web is invalid.
Its not difficult for you or I because we've validated thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of pages. As you say, it becomes habit.
But, for the rest of the world, validation is a daunting task that many avoid. If it works in the two major browsers, that is all that matters.
Just because you validate, doesn't mean that you can automatically wear the WAI badge. In fact, many sites that validate don't pass WAI-A, the most basic level.
Please, don't tell everyone that validation is easy, it is not. For someone who has never validated a site before, being presented with the W3 validation results is a sight to behold. :)
presented with the W3 validation results is a sight to behold
Indeed. A thought just occured to me... I don't think I've ever seen a tutorial that starts with "Hello World' - which is rather odd, given that a web page is far more likely to be seen by the whole world than anything written in turbo-pascal
Day 22: Using real lists (or faking them properly)
That's what I was afraid of. And I disagree with that article. :)
That's what I was afraid of. And I disagree with that article.
I've never had to implement a solution like that so I can't say that I agree or disagree. I do know that during WAI-AAA manual inspection, that "*" came up. I can't see why anyone would want to use an image inside the
 and not assign it via CSS. I guess some of it is legacy stuff.
Sorry if I was not clear. This �trick� requires a little graphics work and good CSS. The example I show below actually provides a rollover effect for links, but with a little modification, it can be just a plain list.
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KISS FM: From Radical Radio To Big Business (The Inside Story Of A London Pirate Radio Station's Path To Success) by Grant Goddard
format: e-book + paperback 235x191x27mm
pages: 528
published: 1 July 2011
subjects: KNTD radio & TV industry, APW radio, JFD media studies
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In 1985, KISS FM had been just one of many illegal pirate radio stations in London playing black music that had been largely ignored by licensed broadcasters. By 1989, KISS FM had won an FM radio licence to broadcast legally to the whole of London, having fought off dozens of competing bids from some of the biggest names in broadcasting and industry. By 1991, KISS FM was attracting an audience of one million listeners a week, making it one of the most successful radio station launches in British broadcasting history.
The inside story of how a small London pirate radio station was transformed into one of Britain's most successful youth brands is uncovered in this book. KISS FM's remarkable trajectory was the culmination of a long-running campaign for a black music radio station in London that had been started in 1970 by soul music pirate station Radio Invicta. Also documented in this book is the determination of the government and commercial radio industry to rid Britain forever of pirate radio, and the abject failure of their desperate efforts.
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"This is the story of how Kiss morphed from a weekend only pirate into a multi-million pound brand. Expertly written by Grant Goddard, who was the brains behind the successful application, and who quite brilliantly and against the odds got Kiss on air in London on the 1st September 1990. The background story is incredible, and detailed to the point of almost every reference is attributed to source. … It's a MUST read. … Buy this book." UrbanRadio.co.uk
"Grant Goddard is either a prodigious note-keeper, or possesses a razor-sharp memory, such is his penchant for intricate detail in this fascinating tome. … Goddard's candid and precise recollections, however, are never short of captivating, and go far beyond the routine machinations of a business. … Definitely an absorbing read for anyone with an interest in the daring days of radio, and UK black music history generally." Black Sheep
"The 500+ page tome paints a vivid picture of the dynamics of London's vibrant yet shadowy pirate radio scene, the socio-political struggles behind the station's legalization, and its effect on the evolution of commercial broadcasting in the U.K. …. This is Goddard's second book in a single year; the first wholly deconstructed the myth that digital radio represents the future of broadcasting. Both are recommended reading." DIYmedia.net
"This remains not only the definitive text but also a fast paced well written insightful read with important lessons on how not to set up a business, especially a radio station. It is also, in many ways, a very sad book as it shows the genuine commitment people can give to a cause who can then only watch powerless as their dreams crash and burn, destroyed by the actions of others." Community Media Association
DAB Digital Radio: Licensed To Fail by Grant Goddard
format: paperback 297x210x17mm
pages: 316
published: 1 October 2010
subjects: KNTD radio & TV industry, APW radio, JFD media studies
keywords: media, broadcasting, radio, platform, digital, analogue
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"Digital radio switchover is unlikely to ever happen in the UK" writes radio specialist Grant Goddard. His book offers a blow-by-blow chronicle of the efforts to implement 'DAB' as a replacement for FM and AM radio in Britain, from the deliberations of the Digital Radio Working Group in 2008 to the legislation of the Digital Economy Act during the final days of the Labour government in 2010. Goddard uncovers a secret deal struck between the government and the UK commercial radio industry to force DAB radio upon the British public. He also exposes a wealth of inaccurate and distorted information published by radio industry lobbyists as part of their campaign to convince the government and consumers that take-up of DAB radio has been a success in the UK and overseas. Whereas, the data in this book show that consumer interest in DAB radio had already started slowing down, making switchover unlikely to ever happen in the UK.
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Looks like somebody's got his eye on the crown. Michel Bourez dropped a 9.13 in his first heat at the Reef Hawaiian Pro at Haleiwa, but then the Pacific started taking its name a bit too seriously. A week-long flat spell ensued, icing the fiery Spartan. That spell was shattered when competition finally resumed on Saturday. But could Michel build on that week-old momentum?
He could.
The contest wrapped up on Sunday in overhead bowls that were nothing but a good time. Michel met Freddy Patacchia, Jeremy Florez and Dion Atkinson in the final and he conquered like a bunch of chumps from Athens. Nonetheless, Dion Atkinson snagged a spot on the 2014 WCT. Freddy P. is the best bet for a Hawaiian winning the Triple Crown. And Jeremy Florez reportedly got a great hug from Sunny Garcia. Still, Michel is king for the day.
"Coming here, I felt great. I've been training for the past month, and just to come here solid, I feel like yeah, I deserve it," Michel said after the event. And now his brown Tahitian eyes are staring the Triple Crown directly in the crest. —Brendan Buckley


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Cyan McFarlane, a 2009 graduate of Mountain Pointe High School, received the presidential service award from New York University this spring.
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Made my first buttercream transfer last night. It turned out pretty good but i did bump it once and the frosting was sticky, not like my regular frosting which crusts. Is this the way it is supposed to be - sort of soft???
Thanks. I have a birthday cake to make tonight (actually I will probably be up all night at this point)
All my BCT stay pretty soft they never freeze all the way, and ussualy after you let it sit it will crust a little
Well, I tend to let it sit for about a half hour and then I sprinkle icing (powdered sugar) on top so I can smooth down with a spatula or my fingers before freezing it. My recipe does get very hard when frozen.
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As many growers were cutting back on selection and raising quantities on a select few varieties in the early '80s, it's no surprise that's when the innovative Jack Bigej and Al's Garden Center began growing its own plant material.
"We picked up on the trend toward the mass merchandisers and knew we had to diversify in order to stay ahead of the tide," Bigej says. That's exactly what he has done. The grower-retailer now produces between 1,500 and 2,200 varieties of perennials, and as an example on the annuals side, around 125 varieties of petunias and calibrachoas.
"We may have gone to an extreme, but we've certainly kept up diversity," says Bigej. Having total control over what you grow is only one advantage of being a grower-retailer. Other advantages include the possibility of branding your product and the ability to set your own pricing.
Branding At Al's
It is obvious that this dedicated grower and marketer produces an end-product that could benefit from a thoughtful approach to branding. That's exactly what Bigej has done. Almost every plant that comes from Al's Garden Center's three retail stores carries a simple but strong message: "Grown By Al's." When your name is on the product, quality control is paramount.
"If we're going to have a fall sale, we will buy extra October Glory Maple, or we'll grow Red Sunsets, but we'll grow four or five items that we buy at special prices, grow on and can sell at special prices," says Bigej. "So we grow for our sales." Quantities can also be controlled.
"If we grow too many, we just lower the price, put them on special, blow them out," Bigej says. "We're in control." The operation's newest venture is pot-in-pot in-ground sockets in the growing fields.
"It gives us total inventory control," Bigej says. "We have room at our new store for 952 trees, and we keep 952 trees there or very near that all the time. We just keep refilling as we sell. Our inventory is actually sitting out in the field, growing and increasing in value, instead of sitting jammed up on the retail floor." The company rarely runs out of merchandise–a very important feature in the lush and competitive Willamette Valley.
Perennial Possibilities
In retail numbers, Al's Garden Center grows and sells about $2.5 million in perennials every year. Current new construction includes 2 acres of Cravo retractable roof greenhouses just for perennials.
"We feel the retractable roof is the only way to grow perennials," Bigej says. "They don't like greenhouses except in the winter to keep them dry. The rest of the year we run them wide open. That's why we build retractables. We say this is the only way to go, if you can pencil it out and make it work. With the price of steel and everything else these days, you really have to get your pencil sharpened to figure it out. If you can afford it, it's a wonderful way to raise perennials." The idea of raising perennials from year to year is another big advantage–there doesn't have to be any spoilage.
"If we bring in 5,000 peonies and we don't sell them all this year, they're just worth more next year," Bigej says. "So we like that aspect of it." Bigej also reports experimenting with sizes and shapes to see what works.
"We can play with sizes," he says. "Let's try this phlox in a 5-gallon. If it doesn't work, drop the price, blow it out, we'll go do something else next year. You know, we can play around with a lot of things. If we had to have someone else grow it for us, they'd want to do it in a standard size that everybody else uses and on down the line. It gives us the advantage of being different. And, it just makes our selection phenomenal compared to a box store."
Building Loyal Customers
Bigej's sales of annuals isn't too shabby, either. He reports sales volume of $4.5 million in annuals and holding steady.
"They are going up slower than perennials or shrubs are, but we've been at it a heck of a lot longer and harder and really beat it up over the years," he says. "So we're kind of getting up to our max or in that range. Again, we will grow for specials."
Al's grows annuals in a variety selection and volume that turns heads. The grower side of the operation brings in unrooted cuttings from Central America, South America, Holland and Israel, rooting and selling to other greenhouses as rooted liners. "This helps us increase our selection on our varieties because we can do so many more varieties with the increased volume, and it helps us with our selection for our own plants — for our own retail," Bigej states.
He says in the spring, the company will try a season kick-off of 150,000 primroses at 50 cents a piece, leading consumers to their store through their wallets.
"Our theory is if we get them in the door first thing in the spring, then maybe we're their garden center for the year," he says. "That's true, especially if we can give them more than they expect. At 50 cents they're looking for a little tiny runty, ugly thing and we give them a beautiful 4-inch. It exceeds their expectations and it makes you look like a real hero, and maybe you will be their garden center for the rest of the year. That's what we're attempting to do."
Pricing Pressures
The low-price offers aren't a gimmick. Bigej reiterates that growing and retailing allows flexibility more like non-plant retailers.
"We can grow for our specials. If we want to run Candy Tuft, we grow an extra 2,000 to 3,000 and put it down at a price that it blows out. By doing this, it makes our pricing in our stores so much more attractive. We do just like Nordstrom or anybody else. Put a few things down there cheap, blow 'em out and get a little more for other things. It's the same thing that everyone does, it's nothing new."


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- Thank you #25.4! We the USA are not the Global Police. Our millitary in case people have forgotten is in not 1 but 2 separate Arab nations! While all eyes have been on Egypt now on Lybia at leat 8 american soldiers have died in Afganistan. Did anyone here a freking news report on it I didn't. Main …
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Make-Believe Billionaire and GOP Candidate Donald Trump Is A Birther Now !Fri Mar 18, 2011
Why the Rich should pay more taxesThu Mar 17, 2011
UN OKs 'all necessary measures,' no-fly zone to protect LibyansThu Mar 17, 2011
Haley Barbour's Google problemWed Mar 16, 2011
Assault on Collective Bargaining IllegalTue Mar 15, 2011
- Well that is as it should be. Union is a vvery nasty term huh? Well fight all you can because soon you will all be fired. Private Companies like umm Blackwater can become teachers now . Lol So sad they were punked I tried to tell them they were being played. Well some know now some are just dumb fo …
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Editor: As the date for Morris Steinheimer's hearing nears, we need to take a more dispassionate look at the facts. He was not arrested for driving his golf cart on the sidewalk. He was arrested for refusing to sign the citation charging him with doing so. He was strongly "encouraged" to take this action by his former mother-in-law. In asserting his "right" to ignore the law and do as he pleases, he maintains that his handicap gives him special privileges not available to non-handicapped persons.
Recently my wife and I observed Steinheimer and his companion Mandy Fugate in their golf cart going north on State Road A1A, on the sidewalk near the Ocean Gallery Condominium. As we overtook them in our car and I would estimate their speed was at least 20 mph, they were definitely moving out.
Somewhat ahead of them, also walking north on the sidewalk, was a young woman, heavily pregnant, pushing a baby carriage. At that particular point on S.R. A1A, the sidewalk is bordered by a long eight-inch high curb at the base of a grassy berm. The street side of the sidewalk is about two feet from S.R. A1A with another curb there stepping down to the highway.
Pedestrians can pass with ease but a golf cart takes up the entire sidewalk. Guess which of the parties had to struggle to maneuver her baby carriage into the street so the golf cart could pass by?
Golf carts do not belong on the sidewalk. This is not a disabled "right." It's a matter of common sense. Steinheimer should find alternate means of transportation.
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Judge Vogel bans pro se litigant Gladys Cok from self representation, demands she pay fines and hire attorneys prior to being able to represent herself again and orders cases dismissed with prejudice if lawyers aren't hired irregardless of the injustice that results or whether the litigant is able to afford representation.
In keeping with Judge Vogel's "the facts don't matter" mentality, the Supreme Court threw out the murder conviction of Troy Lassiter citing improper testimony. Judge Vogel still would not grant bail for Mr. Lassiter while he awaited a new trial. This conviction has to be one of the shakiest in Rhode Island history - see the related Derick Hazard page. Despite this, Judge Vogel still wouldn't give Lassiter the courtesy of bail.
By Russ Olivo- (2012) - Providence At the core of it was a vexing question that Superior Court Judge Netti Vogel just couldn't let go. Why would a woman, abandoned in the snow "like road kill" after a hit-and-run in Woonsocket, suddenly decide that a jail-time sentence was too severe for the driver? The riveting answers emerged during a bizarre hearing in Vogel's courtroom Tuesday that led the veteran jurist to do something judges seldom do: she revoked the driver's previous plea agreement with state prosecutors. That means 31-year-old Betsy J. Feliciano of Woonsocket could get up to 10 years now, whereas she might have escaped jail altogether in trade for her now-defunct guilty plea. "The guilty plea is being vacated," Vogel intoned tersely as Feliciano stood in front of her. "I will not be limited to the terms under these agreements."
Feliciano is facing one count of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in serious bodily injury to Donna Vanmoerkerque, 39, on Elm Street, the day after New Year's in 2011. The police stopped Feliciano for an unrelated traffic violation a day later and noticed a dent in the windshield brace in the shape of a human head. Feliciano was supposed to be sentenced on April 10, but Vogel postponed the date when Feliciano's defense lawyer produced a notarized letter from Vanmoerkerque indicating she no longer wanted Feliciano to serve jail time. Another problem for Vogel was that probation officials routinely prepare a pre-sentence report containing a victim-impact statement, but they had been unable to obtain one from Vanmoerkerque because they couldn't locate her, the judge said.
The judge wanted to interview Vanmoerkerque herself before moving forward with sentencing, saying she was concerned about what triggered the change of heart and that Vanmoerkerque might be "ducking" investigators. Vogel issued a supboena commanding Vanmoerkerque's appearance in court Tuesday morning, but the victim was AWOL for that, too. The judge later issued an order known as a body attachment for Vanmoerkerque, allowing the Woonsocket police to escort her to the courtroom, a maneuver not technically classified as an arrest. Nevertheless, Detective Lt. Eugene Jalette said officers located Vanmoerkerque at 98 Blackstone St. just after noon and delivered her to Superior Court.
"I had to satisfy myself that the victim did not change her position because anyone had forced her to do so," Vogel said. Wearing a tie-dyed sweatshirt in day-glo colors and blue jeans, Vanmoerkerque was finally sworn in to face questioning by Vogel about 2:15 p.m. Was she offered money to change her mind, the judge wanted to know. Threatened? Made promises of any kind?
"No m'am," Vanmoerkerque said repeatedly, it wasn't any of those things. She just wasn't as angry at Feliciano as she used to be. "Everybody makes mistakes," she told Vogel. "I think every person is entitled to make one or two in their lives. It's a big mistake and no, it shouldn't have happened, but it did."
But what about the letter, Vogel persisted. Why did she write it? Vanmoekerque looked at the judge and, in a pleading tone, asked, "I have to tell the truth?" Of course, Vogel told her, or she could be charged with criminal perjury because she was under oath.
And that's when Vanmoerkerque finally told the story about how "Betsy" - the woman who ran her over - showed up at her apartment, unannounced. "Betsy came to my apartment and asked me to write the letter," Vanmoerkerque said. "She said she needed it for court." Vanmoerkerque told the judge that Feliciano had apparently found out where she lived from mutual aquaintances at the church Vanmoerkerque attends. Vanmoerkerque was initially offended that Feliciano had "the gall" to track her down, but Vanmoerkerque said she ended up feeling sorry for her. She seemed remorseful, and Vanmoerkerque said they both had something in common: small children.
Vanmoerkerque's foregiveness was astounding, given the extent of the wounds she suffered in the hit-and-run. She listed them for the judge at one point: spinal injuries, continuing grand mal seizures, memory loss, pain and weakness in her limbs and hands. "I just can't do the simple things I was able to do before, wash pans, do dishes," she said. "I can't stand too long or walk too far." Despite the sincerity of Vanmoerkerque's testimony, the judge was not amused that Feliciano's role in the creation of the letter had been deliberately hidden from her before she agreed to accept the plea agreement. Amy Kempe, spokewoman for the attorney general, said later that Feliciano paid Vanmoerkerque the visit on Feb. 25, two days before she agreed to plea guilty in return for "a capped sentence" of no more than five years at the Adult Correctional Institutions, half the maximum. Whether any jail time was ordered would have been at the judge's discretion. After listening to Vanmoerkerque, a sullen-faced Feliciano rose to face the judge, with her hands buried in her pockets. "Get your hands out of your pockets, I'm sentencing you," the judge scolded.
Vogel wanted to know how the letter came to be notarized, but Feliciano initially refused to answer the question. After a brief chat with her lawyer, Tom Hanley, she told the judge she had help from a friend. In the end Vogel ordered Feliciano back to court on May 15 for resentencing. Under state law, she faces a maximum of 10 years in jail, plus suspension of her driving license for up to five years. After the hearing, State Prosecutor Jay Sullivan declined to say whether Feliciano's contact with the victim was "appropriate or inappropriate." Kempe said, however, Feliciano does not appear to have broken the law because no court order was in effect barring Feliciano from having contact with the victim. Feliciano remains free on $5,000 bail.
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Olim League week four review
A month in and the JC Olim League in Israel is starting to take shape. Jerusalem kick-started their season with a well-deserved 3-2 victory over Aviv City at Tel Aviv University on Saturday night.
The capital city side had the better of the opening exchanges with Jonny Hadi and Ori Kobi dominating the middle of the park. But, it was Aviv City who opened the scoring halfway through the first period. Raz Bauer tool advantage of a goalkeeping error to put the home side one up. Jerusalem hit back though before the break, David Zackon lashing home a left-footed shot.
Jerusalem were quicker out of the blocks in the second half too and they got their noses in front when skipper Dave Preston hit a long-range effort past Aviv City's giant keeper. The home side restored parity when Roy Morik latched onto a loose ball to hit home. But Preston was on hand to double his tally with another goal from distance to send Jerusalem home victorious. This result keeps Aviv City FC routed at the bottom of the table with three defeats out of three games.
Further north, Netanya hosted Modiin in a tightly contested affair. Netanya got off to a quick start, but were mostly restricted to long range shots. The best chance of the half came from a Netanya corner, where a fine double save by Yanki Tajtelbaum kept Netanya at bay, before Modiin were able to clear their lines. Modiin slowly started to grow in confidence, stringing some neat passes together, but the first half ended goalless.
The Modiin troops came out for the 2nd half with a much more positive approach and quickly launched wave after wave of pressure against the Netanya defence. Chaim Finn and Ben King Scott both carved out shooting chances, but found it difficult to beat the excellent Netanya keeper.
The game's turning point came after an hour, with the introduction of Modiin midfielder Jamie Lazarus whose defence-splitting pass found Chaim Finn, who calmly turned and slotted the ball into the back of the net.
Netanya responded superbly and were back on level terms within five minutes from the penalty spot. With two minutes on the clock, and the match seemingly headed for a draw, Modiin launched one final attack. A long ball over the top caused confusion in the Netanya defence and the goalkeeper's attempted clearance was blocked by the back of Finn, who turned to see the ball fly into the roof of the net.
A second equaliser proved to be too much to ask of the hardworking Netanya side, and as the final whistle blew, the Modiin faithful were left to celebrate a hard-fought 2-1 victory, and the first three points of the season.
Next week sees the new Brazil team begin their campaign against a strong, undefeated Jaffa side.
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Newark schools are fighting truancy on the other side of the desk.
Almost half of Newark public school teachers took two weeks of sick leave and a quarter took three or more weeks in the last academic year, theWall Street Journal reports.
The report comes as Newark teachers' contracts are set to expire on June 30 and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is in negotiations with the public schools and teachers' unions to establish a new contract. Because the state has direct control over Newark's public schools, Christie has a veto vote over the contract.
Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak called Newark's absentee numbers "completely unacceptable" in an interview with the Journal. "That kind of history certainly doesn't work in favor of the union and its negotiating position unless that problem can be fixed."
Newark Teachers' Union president Joseph Del Grosso says the absenteeism this year was "abnormal."
"People tended, I think, to use sick time this year because there was a threat that they might have to retire," Del Grosso told NBCNewYork, referring to planned budget cuts to New Jersey schools which were recently averted.
Because compensation for unused sick days is capped at $15,000, there was an "abnormal use of sick time" as people, expecting to retire at the end of the year, used up their accrued sick days.
New Jersey teachers also don't pay into New Jersey disability coverage, said Del Grosso, "so teachers hoard their sick days in case they get ill...at the end, they have a lot of sick days."
However, Governor Christie recently reached an agreement with New Jersey teachers to freeze salaries in order to avoid budget cuts and ensuing forced retirements.
"Once the governor decided he wasn't going to pursue that option I've seen things turn around a little," Del Grosso said with regard to teacher attendance.
With 40,000 students, Newark is one of the largest public school systems in the Northeast. Its teachers get 15 sick days and three personal days per year, and 28 days after 25 years of service. New York City teachers, in comparison, get 10 sick days a year.
The new contract will be negotiated by August, and although Del Grosso says that he may bring up the issue of New Jersey teachers' not being covered by New Jersey disability, he doesn't expect teacher absenteeism to be a key issue in the discussions.
The state has had management of Newark Public School s since 1995 because they are among the lowest-performing in the state and it was hoped that the move would improve the district's test scores and graduation rate.
Despite three state-appointed superintendents over the past fifteen years, student performance has not significantly improved.


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Water, especially treated water, is vital for a healthy and prosperous nation. After all, the good old adage says "water is life"; that is, and will remain, true forever. However, in an era when we are building a "Better Ghana" (which is long overdue, anyway), clean water is turning out to be a mirage and a source of, well, "not life".
There are reports of areas in Ghana where doctors are having to welcome new born babies with "pure water" ( the purity of which is doubtful) and households queuing at dawn just to get this commodity of life, that alone exposing especially women to danger of being raped and mugged by ruthless miscreants and leaving children either dozing in class – because they woke up too early to 'hunt' water- or dodging the latter part of school hours in order to get home early to fetch water before all their colleagues get home (early bird catches the worm).
The problem is, these challenges have been around since "when the Pope was an altar boy" (just quoting Lucky Dube) and governments have come and gone, and will continue to come and go, but these challenges persist. Interestingly, we all (politicians and non-politicians alike) know, in part, what the problem is but we are waiting for " the government(s) to do something about it".
I say we know the problem because we live in communities where people siphon water from the pipelines and use for "free" and no one dares to report them to the appropriate authorities for action. We are the same ones who either do "galamsey" or aid and abet foreigners to do so in our water sources where water is treated for us to use, thereby disrupting water treatment facilities and increasing cost of treatment, as such reduce supply of treated water.
We know the problem because we have been around since time immemorial when our pipelines have dilapidated and are spilling more treated water than they carry to our homes and little has been done to replace them. The cost of the water that is spilled could have replaced so many of these leaking pipelines.
We know the problem because we want water to be continuously subsidised for us to use or waste. It is ridiculous to see washing bays (or rather 'wasting' bays) splashing treated water on cars (which will be driven on the dusty roads again) and motorbike or even bicycles in Ghana. The cost is so cheap that people can actually pay to waste it. No one wants to pay realistic prices and so resources that could have been used to expand and improve water infrastructure is used to pay subsidies. The rural poor (myself inclusive), who probably have never seen any tap pay these subsidies for the urban folks to use or waste.
If we know all these, why are we still in dire need of water for daily use? Is it the case that we are shooting ourselves in the foot?
As the climate changes and the rainfall patterns become more erratic as is predicted, these water bodies will become less reliable as sources of water and the water table will go lower. I wonder how we can manage then, if in the abundance of water we cannot supply everyone with clean, potable and life saving water.
The fact of the matter is, if water supply is to be improved, there must be an overhaul of the management of the water company (not necessarily changing the name) and a total overhaul of the infrastructure to make them intelligent (we are in the age of technology), so that leaks and illegal siphoning is detected easily. The technology is there and so, thankfully, we do not have to re-invent the wheel. And for ones let us deal with the "galamseyers" who have only caused Ghana tremendous loses much to their personal gain. And that includes the Chinese (whether they give us loans or not).
Finally, let us put the politicisation of the price water aside and let the market determine the prices for us. You use more, you pay more. I think this will make us use water more efficiently and relieve the poor of the burden of paying for some people. After all, all the politicians know by now that it does not serve any ones good to continue "making a meal" out of pricing water and other utilities. The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) must be allowed to work to come out with innovative ways of pricing water in a way that will ensure access and affordability to all Ghanaians.
All inefficiencies in the system must be plugged (and we have the men to that), so that we don't pay for any waste. Then we can welcome our new born babies not with sachet water and our families will cease carrying "Kuffour gallons" (apologies) and waking up at dawn to chase water. We can do this, Yes we can.
K. D. Luke
Msc Climate Change and Policy,
University of Sussex, UK.
[email protected]


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Fantastic place, Shame i'm not allowed back after an incident with Snow, an uppy downy bollard and fireworks
Pictures or it didn't happen
Fantastic place, Shame i'm not allowed back after an incident with Snow, an uppy downy bollard and fireworks
Pictures or it didn't happen
Bar job for a bit.
Meet folk in the evening, ride during the day.
Given your budget, I'd be thinking French/Spanish/Italian ski resort. Easier to get a job at the start of the ski season and then use the winter to make contacts there. Come May you'll hopefully have wangled yourself a suitable job for summer. Good luck whatever you decide.
Canary Islands
Lots of sunshine. Some trails , PP rated Tenerife one of the best riding destinations hes ridden.
Spain / Spanish so in EU .
Huge holiday destination so lots of job opportunities
You already have some Spanish
You should be able to live cheaply enough to survive the 'winter'
My friend lives a colonial ex pat lifestyle in Zambia , loves it but you need more cash to get yourself out there.
Thanks for all the ideas everyone.
Andorra was first on my list until I found out I can't work there, it's not in EU and apparently difficult to get work permit
Spain makes a lot of sense, I've travelled around loads of it, beautiful country. But the unemployment rate there is a bit worrying. Something like 50% for 18-30 year olds?
Has anyone been to the "Hippie" commune near Orgiva? I've heard about it but not sure what the reality would be like?
Balearics, Mallorca is meant to be pretty good in places and there's some good Freeride stuff on the Island
Portugal sounds great but I don't know what to expect regarding work opportunities there. Has anyone been to Lagos?
French/Italian/Swiss alps, very appealing but I am unsure how easy it would be to get a job in bikepark? Liftie, dish-washer, driver? Anyone know if jobs like this are reasonably achievable?
Canada: god I wish it was possible again this year
USA/Australia/NZ: be nice but can't afford flights/no working Visa
Now this is high on my list as a possibility
I tried it once in 2005 in BC, wierd is an understatement, we managed to find the freakiest place possible:
"Psychic" nasty lady
One-eyed Hells Angel
Completely remote up dirt-track
Alpaca with a bob hairdo that had apparently "lost it's connection to the universe" so "Psychic" nasty lady fed it "Bovine Uterus"!!??
Horror hut with bucket toilet
Drinking water from stream "Don't worry we don't think it's got Beaver Fever!"
Pack-rats scratching at walls and roof of Horror-Hut as soon as dark fell.
I'm hoping for a more mellow WWOOF experience next time
Spain gets my vote. I lived out near Murcia for a bit on the Mar Menor, wish I could go back!
Balearics would be a good choice, plenty if touristy work to get you started, also cycling very popular, maybe get some work with some of the tour riding companies once you are established out there
A bit of googling says work permits for tourist/hospitality jobs in andorra are not that hard as long as you get all the paper work sorted.
Lagos is nice and the algarve has a pretty strong biking scene, both xc and downhill.
Brazil. It's the miracle country that will take over when China implodes in a mire of pollution and corruption. Stunning women too.
Personally I'm rather partial to the US so could easily consider it. However, I love Canada and they do seem to have a pretty outdoorsey sort of lifestyle. Stunning scenery. Yeah, I think I could pretty easily live in Canada.
Are you me sharkattack?
I now have 2 bikes, a tent, a van and a camera. I'm going to the first 3 rounds of the downhill world cup this year which starts in Scotland then goes to Italy and I'll have a month to kill until round 3 in Andorra. While I'm in Europe I plan to meet and mingle with as many people as possible and take advantage of any and all opportunities that come my way. I'm hoping to not come back and spend the winter somewhere warm and pleasant like southern Spain or Portugal. I have no idea what is actually going to happen but I can not wait to get started.
Also grazing the info in this thread with great interest.
Nice plan. I'm just grovelling around doing any old work til maybe April when the weather perks up and I'm doing something very very similar.
Burned out in a job a few years back and left to try and do something similar but circumstances put a stop to it. The start of it was to drive to the Le Mans 24hrs and go from there. Was a very very memorable 6 weeks. Hope it lasts longer this time. 30 winters in a row here is soul destroying.
BEen to area around Orgiva 4 times and going in a few weeks for a bike trip. Ridings good, winter climbing as well with snow in mountains.Thought it was cheap and although lots of expats still very Spanish. There's a few hippie sites about and a few crazy hippies. Haven't been to the sites but passed the time of day with people and everyone was nice enough but I wouldn't want to lend them a fiver.Thinking of heading down for next winter in the van with bike and climbing gear as I don't work too much over winter.
Funny how many of us end up wanting to escape the UK winters, no wonder there are so many ex-pat communities really. My parents live in Greece in an idyllic small coastal town, plenty of (various European) ex-pats around them even somewhere as remote as they are. Can barely conceal my jealousy skypeing them and seeing the contrast in our weather and comparative state of tan! I too am tiring of UK winters and am weary of the job I have been at for the last 15 years since finishing education. Hopefully this year will see a change and in the somewhat longer term I hope to at least be the other side of the channel, only returning as necessary.
Wish I had the courage to up and try and just do it like some here, work is no longer pushing me mentally and the years are beginning to tick over with alarming rapidity!
A mate went on holiday to NZ (many years ago now). Saved money for ages, quit his job working as a park ranger for a London borough council and went travelling for 6 months in NZ. On what was supposed to be his final day there, he was having a farewell party with some of the people he'd met while out there and they got him pissed and told him he didn't want to go back to England.
So he just never boarded his flight home.
It really helped with the visa stuff that he got engaged to a NZ girl and he's since had a variety of outdoorsy jobs including a stint working on a dive boat. Sounded ace.
So you could try that approach... "Holiday" then just extend it.
erm... pretty much anywhere - Britain's not that great. Besides, in some places there's a cachet that comes of being British (Britain not being one of them).
But you do miss the mix of cuisines, and the general cheapness of things.
Funny how many of us end up wanting to escape the UK winters
Never mind the winters, they're supposed to be shit, it's the so-called "summers" that get me down.
I'd go to France. In the Alps. My little brother has upped sticks with his wife and is starting a new life out there. Once he's got himself sorted I might just think about doing the same...
If you have a degree then you could teach English as a foreign language in China or Taiwan. A lot of schools will pay for your flight initially which you pay back after you start working. I spent two happy years in Taiwan doing just that and riding in the mountains every day. Plus if you are unattached you will have a constant barrage of beautiful Chinese girls flinging themselves at you. Never ceased to amaze me the amount of times I saw a fat middle aged ugly western man with a what looked like a supermodel Chinese gf! The cost of living is really cheap there (it's cheaper eating out than cooking at home) and cold weather is not something you'll experience.
New Zealand or South France.
Spain makes a lot of sense, I've travelled around loads of it, beautiful country. But the unemployment rate there is a bit worrying. Something like 50% for 18-30 year olds?
Realistically, don't come to Spain, unless you're planning on teaching English (and even then...). It's a lovely country, with lovely people, but the economy really is screwed. Forget agricultural / bar / hotel casual labour, the competition is huge, loads higher than it used to be (looking back just a couple of years...). Unless you've got something beyond unskilled labour to offer - forget it.
Have a simple plan, be flexible and enjoy yourself. If you can try and get more money that would obviously help. Get meeting people and hopefully you'll land on your feet.
You need to be realistic and there is a good chance things won't go to plan but that's all part of the adventure.
All the best fella.
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Seasonal Highlights
Close your eyes and distinctly imagine the picturesque setting of each season.
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In Minneapolis, the seasons are actually seasons. We go from 80 degrees to 30 degrees, and we trade in our water skis for snow skis with a smile. Very few destinations give you that perfect surrounding normally reserved for Hallmark cards. Relax on a sunny beach. Go cross country skiing. Kayak the Mississippi River. Rent a bike and ride amidst the changing trees. You can do it all here in Minneapolis. If any of this sounds like the vacation you deserve, then check out the events and itineraries for each season in Minneapolis.
We play just as hard in the snow as we do out of it. We fly kites at the Lake Harriet Kite Festival, play hockey at the U.S. Pond Hockey Championships and conquer the elements one ski at a time in the City of Lakes Loppet. Then, we head inside to play golf around the city in the Skyway Open and smell some flowers at the Minneapolis Home and Garden Show. Indoors or outdoors, we know how to experience winter to the fullest.
When spring rolls around, there's simply no better place to be in America. You won't find another city where you can enjoy this signature outdoor experience with the attractions of a big city. Read on to see the experiences Minneapolis is ready to offer you this spring.
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The other day I was talking to an old friend of mine from the Netherlands. She does all sorts of cool stuff with numbers, but she is not quite the nerd I am (but then, who is?). She was however telling me that she was actually working on quite a complicated model for her department. And that she didn't really know very well how to go about it.
Click.Some time ago I picked up a new project. When I first started working I had the background knowledge and skills (mathematics), but I had no experience whatsoever with what my job entailed: (quantitative) modeling. And thus I made a lot of mistakes, took the long route, got things wrong, ended up at the wrong place, etc. But through it all I actually got quite good at building models (if I say so myself).
How handy it would have been if someone had told me the basics of how to build a model when I started out…
And so "The modeler's handbook", my second writing project, was born. Or better to say, conceived. Because like any good baby, this one is going to take quite a few months to be full-grown. And until that time it needs to be cherished, protected and kept safe from the outside world.
Except of course that it doesn't. It should be shared, I should get feedback, I should get input to make it the best I can make it.
Which is where my friend comes in. She was interested in reading the (unfinished, unedited, not-ready-for publication, still-needs-a-load-of-work) first chapters.
She should. It'll help.
She shouldn't. It's scary!
What if it sucks. What if it's useless? What if…
And I know at some point I have to show something to someone. Why not her? Why not now? It'll never be perfect, even if it ever gets finished. But with some help it might get to be "good enough".
So… before the day is done, it'll be in the mail. Twelve more hours to make it slightly more good enough. Aargh!!!
What are your projects, ideas, brainwaves, etc. that you you haven't shared with anyone?


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Congrats to Carrie for her Top Female Vocalist win! :up :yay
On a side note: Did anyone see Kenny Chesney basically diss his fans for how the Entertainer of the Year was handled? Fans voted and he won and he basically said that it was a slap in the face and it cheapened the music. I would think you'd be humbled to have your fans vote you as the winner. I wish Rascal Flatts would have won! At least they would have appreciated it!


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Dortmund destroy Ajax 4-1
Ajax 1 – Borussia Dortmund 4 (Champions League, November 21, 2012) (Alternative highlights) Dortmund raced into an early lead in Amsterdam when Marco Reus slipped a shot through the keeper's legs. Mario Gotze doubled Dortmund's lead with a smart shot into the near post after he cut in from the left. The Germans all-but sealed tehir qualification into the next stage when Robert Lewandowski shredded the Ajax backline for a third time in 41st. Ajax's misery worsened when Robert Lewandowskibagged a fourth midday through the second period. Ajax got on the scoreboard through Danny Hoesen's deflected strike following a piece of wonderful skill from Erikson.