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SAFETY improvements being made to an accident blackspot in south Pembrokeshire are expected to cause traffic disruption until August.
The South Wales Trunk Roads Agency has begun work to improve the A477/A4075 Nash fingerpost junction, which has been the subject of safety concerns in the past.
The central reservation will be widened to provide additional stacking space for turning vehicles. Three-way lights are in operation at the junction.
In February 2012, the Western Telegraph reported that the trunk agency was to look at the safety of the junction, where two people had died the previous year.
The move to review the layout of the Nash fingerpost junction, the turning for Pembroke off the A477, was welcomed by south Pembrokeshire MP Simon Hart at the time.
Mr Hart had lobbied the Welsh Government on behalf of worried residents and Welsh Transport Minister Carl Sergeant has instructed the SWTRA to undertake an "assessment of the performance of the junction."
Speaking in 2012, Mr Hart said: "There is a refuge island in the middle of the road but apparently this is a "ghost refuge" and is only supposed to be used by cars travelling from Pembroke Dock towards Carew who want to turn right to Pembroke.
"If you are turning across the traffic to go from Pembroke to Carew then you are supposed to make the manoeuvre in one go but it just isn't possible as it's such a busy road – you'd be waiting there all day."
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - State officials say a legal challenge from a stadium opponent has forced them to delay the sale of bonds to finance the new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings.
The $468 million bond sale had been scheduled for Monday and Tuesday.
Minnesota Management and Budget Commissioner Jim Showalter says he hopes the delay will be brief.
Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority chairwoman Michele Kelm-Helgen says a longer delay would prevent the state from paying contractors for work they've already done, and jeopardize a Wells Fargo office development near the stadium.
The challenge was filed with the Minnesota Supreme Court by former Minneapolis mayoral candidate Doug Mann. He says the bond sale is unconstitutional. He says a referendum should have been held to let Minneapolis voters decide whether to finance the stadium.


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A new online bowhunter education course is designed to help South Dakota bowhunters improve their skills and stay safe in the woods.
Bowhunter Ed, an official course of the National Bowhunter Education Foundation, teaches safe in-the-field practices, bow shooting basics, different methods of bowhunting, and shot placement and recovery techniques. By completing this Bowhunter Ed course, students satisfy bowhunter educational requirements for South Dakota, with no field day required.
"The bowhunter-ed.com course is South Dakota's official online bowhunter education course. The training is a great idea for students because they learn safe practices and study information that will truly help them in the field," said Jason Kool, hunter education administrator for the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks.
The new South Dakota-approved online bowhunter education course allows students to study for free, paying only when they pass the course. All first-time archery big game hunters as well as big game archery licensees 12 through 15 years of age are required to have their South Dakota bowhunter education certificate.
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To take the South Dakota-approved bowhunter education course, visit http://www.bowhunter-ed.com/southdakota/.
While bowhunter education isn't required in some states, several states and provinces do require it. The South Dakota Bowhunter Ed course will satisfy the bowhunter education requirements mandated by the following states and provinces:
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"Bowhunting seasons in South Dakota and many other states will be opening in late summer," said Marilyn Bentz, executive director of the National Bowhunter Education Foundation.
"If South Dakota residents are planning to hunt big game in South Dakota with a bow, or you are planning to bowhunt in a state requiring a bowhunter education certificate, you would be wise to take this course or a traditional course now. Then you can dedicate the remainder of the summer to fine tuning your equipment and shooting."
For more information regarding the NBEF or becoming an instructor, contact the NBEF at firstname.lastname@example.com or visit http://www.nbef.org/. To take an online bowhunter education course, visit http://www.bowhunter-ed.com/.
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'I can see clearly now, the vague has gone!'August 29, 2013 at 9:39 pm | Posted in Me | 6 Comments
Tags: glasses, hydroxychloroquine, optician, optics, short sighted
(Apologies to Johnny Nash!)
I'm on hydroxychloroquine, which means I'm supposed to have an eye test every year – but I forgot and the optician forgot to send me a reminder!
Then a vague concern that my eyesight might not be as clear as it ought to be, combined with being unable to remember when I had my last eye test made me go and check with the optician, who is handily just down the road from work.
And the outcome is – I have glasses – first time ever – for distance vision i.e. basically driving. It's slightly concerning (to me, but not to the optician, so it must be OK really) how much clearer things are, considering I only had the vaguest inkling that I might have a problem, and especially considering that two years ago (my last eye test) I didn't have a problem! If I look at things without the glasses they don't appear blurred – but then I put them on and they're suddenly incredibly clear!
I suppose these things just creep up on one – the eye-sight deteriorated pretty gradually over those two years, and it's only a very light prescription I have now, but the difference is quite extraordinary.
I'm getting used to them – or at least I've now stopped having hysterics every time I catch sight of myself in a mirror or shop window!
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U.S. News & World Report has an article about efforts by the transition team for President-elect Barack Obama to reach out to leaders of religious denominations. Participants in some of these meetings said they'd already attended multiple sessions with Obama's team, and that this represented a marked difference from the limited contacts they have had in the last eight years with the current administration.
The story doesn't specifically refer to the Obama team's contacts with Catholic groups. But several of Obama's staff members met with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops committees on domestic and international policy during their December joint meeting in Washington.
Bishops' committee members met via teleconference with Denis McDonough, an Obama foreign policy adviser and member of the transition's national security working group, and with Melody Barnes, the president-elect's designate to head his Domestic Policy Council. Others who worked on Obama's campaign and are involved in religious outreach attended various sessions with the committees.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say the Marine general who just left a 19-month command in Afghanistan is undecided about becoming the U.S. military's top soldier in Europe after being linked to — and cleared of — a sex scandal that felled former CIA Director David Petraeus.
Marine Gen. John Allen was nominated last fall for the coveted job overseeing U.S. and NATO forces in Europe.
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(AP) LOS ANGELES - It was an unfortunate night for Skylar Laine on "American Idol."
The 18-year-old country rocker from Brandon, Miss., who imbued Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son" and Dusty Springfield's "Say You Love Me" with her twangy sensibilities on Wednesday's show was revealed to have received the fewest viewer votes Thursday on the Fox singing contest.
Laine was joined at the bottom by Hollie Cavanagh, the 18-year-old balladeer from McKinney, Texas, who opened Wednesday's installment with a pop-infused take on Ike and Tina Turner's "River Deep Mountain High," and later dialed it down with the Leona Lewis hit "Bleeding Love."
"They both sang their faces off last night," said "Idol" judge Randy Jackson.
The other singers remaining in the competition are booming 20-year-old gospel singer Joshua Ledet of Westlake, La.; bluesy 21-year-old pawn shop worker Phillip Phillips of Leesburg, Ga.; and budding 16-year-old pop diva Jessica Sanchez of San Diego.
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I previously blogged about my fears that making the .NET languages available in Yukon might lead to horrible stored procedures by people who don't understand the difference between set-based and iterative processing. I am still worried about that, but I just read a blog entry by Greg Linwood that talks more about using the .NET languages in lieu of extended stored procedures and COM. Okay, I can accept that and see value in it. We get a lot of questions on SQLTeam about sending email from SQL Server without using SQLMail (usually because they don't have an Exchange Server. There are a few articles on SQLTeam about how to do that in SQL 7 or 2000. But I could imagine it might be easier / better to do this with a .NET assembly instead of, for example, the sp_OA calls. On the other hand, I read somewhere that SQLMail was changed in Yukon to allow sending SMTP mail without an Exchange Server, so maybe this whole example I cooked up is already obsolete.
Ah well... time will tell. Can't say I personally have had any real need to do COM or XPs yet anyway, so it might all just be a moot point for me.
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The Minnesota Wild are in Texas Tuesday night for a matchup with the Dallas Stars (6:30 PM, AM 1390 The FAN).
The Wild are 27-19-5 with 59 points and in eighth place in the Western Conference. Minnesota is currently tied with 7th place VAN and are four points ahead of ninth place Phoenix.
Dallas is 21-20-8 overall this season, putting them in 11th place with 50 points.
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by, 02-13-2013 at 04:41 PM (1199 Views)
This has been an absolutely horrible week in the hobby for me. Between the big snow storm we got delaying the delivery of our Upper Deck NHCD packs, scams and rip off stories I am so angry I could explode.
First we got an email saying that Upper Deck in an effort to discourage National Hockey Card Day items being delivered early (so crooks and cheats could sell them on ebay) the distributors weren't supposed to ship until Thursday for Friday delivery and Saturday giveaways. I voiced my concern that if something should happen to delay the shipment we wouldn't have them in time but that concern went for not and low and behold we get hit with the biggest snow storm in a decade and our packs don't arrive till the following Monday . Now we spend Saturday apologizing to people who drove to our store but couldn't get packs. We gave away packs from last year, 10 card sets of Biography of a Season from last year and some Crosby NHCD bonus cards from last year as well to try and lessen the disappointment. Plus we took addresses down and will be shipping this year's NHCD stuff to everyone. BTW...we heard from people that this year's NHCD singles were being sold on ebay as early as Thursday .
Now on to the scammer story which caught me off guard as the product came from DAC in the States. We ordered a Blaster Box of 2010-11 Upper Deck Series 2 for a customer who came in and picked it up. On top of paying duties on the item making the price higher then expected (shipped to us by UPS...big mistake as the item was never opened by Canada Customs but that is another story) the shrink wrap had NO Upper Deck logo on it. The contents yielded packs that had been obviously resealed, were missing cards and no inserts or young guns rookies. I gave the customer back his money but my first thought was that I had heard about this scam from Wal Mart and Zellers stores but did not think getting this product from DAC would be a problem. Even though DAC gave us our money back for the product we still lost money because of the shipping and customs costs that we paid
Now for the rip offs and while there were a couple this week the worst one was from a local flea market hack. A guy comes in with a box of cards to sell and you say I will give you twenty-five dollars for it. He says no thanks it is worth more then that so you tell him to let you see what he has. You quickly grab six vintage o-pee-chee cards and tell him you will give him ten bucks for them knowing full well that they are worth a heck of a lot more and he takes it. The six cards in question included two Gordie Howe cards booking at two hundred and fifty bucks. You are a f%&king crook and should be shot at close range several times starting in the lower body area. Things like this are why this hobby has crapped out over the years and why I scratch my head in total amazement
Anyway, this has been a tough week but we will struggle on trying to keep the hobby safe and honest despite the inconceivable number of con artists and crooks out there.


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Most support PSNH selling its plantsBy DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
June 10. 2013 7:11PM
The investigation by state regulators into the Public Service of New Hampshire electric supply rates brought together a strong alliance in support of change, with environmental groups, consumer groups, wholesale electricity providers and competitive retail suppliers urging the PUC to find a way for PSNH to sell its power plants.
The cost of operating power plants is built into the PSNH energy supply rate, which has gone up in the past two years as the regulated utility begins to recoup costs associated with pollution controls at Merrimack Station in Bow.
Those higher prices have given competitors an opportunity to come into the market and take away PSNH customers for energy supply, even though PSNH still delivers the electricity.
Rather than endorse a system that has made their entry into the market possible, the competitive suppliers, by and large, support the kind of changes the PUC is recommending.
"We found competitive retail suppliers far less interested in the 'headroom' created by the significant gap between market and PSNH's default prices, as compared with supporting a market that is conducive to competition over the longer term," the PUC staff wrote.
The Retail Energy Supply Association, representing companies that sell energy to large users, urged PSNH to embrace the recommendations.
"The report got it right," said Dan Allegretti, RESA's New England chair. "It points out that on the one hand the current situation provides an opportunity for retail suppliers to offer substantial savings to customers, as compared to the default price from PSNH, but it also points out, and we would agree, that longer term a much more stable and durable restructuring is needed in which PSNH is out of the electric commodity business, and becomes a delivery company."
The two companies that have succeeded in attracting the largest number of customers away from PSNH endorsed the PUC report, even though it may lead to changes that make their pricing less competitive.
"ENH Power believes the forced divestiture of PSNH generation assets is long overdue," said Kevin Dean, a co-owner of the company that has signed up 58,000 former PSNH customers. "We believe that this is consistent with the intent of the deregulation in New Hampshire and is in the best interest of the consumers."
Taff Tschamler, senior vice president of business development at North American Power, which has 35,000 electric supply customers in the state, echoed that sentiment.
"We support changing the current policy of guaranteeing profits and cost recovery for PSNH power plants, regardless of whether the plants operate or not," he said. "There are a range of better alternatives to the current policy, one of which is divestiture."
The New England Power Generators Association, representing power plant owners, called on PSNH to take up the challenge, and create an unregulated subsidiary to take over the power plants and compete on an equal footing with NEPGA members.
"We agree with the PUC staff report that if PSNH feels so strongly that the assets represent a value, that they should put their money where their mouth is and place them in a non-utility subsidiary," said NEPGA President Dan Dolan.
Bart Fromuth, managing director of Resident Power, with 8,000 customers, said the retail suppliers are not of one mind on the subject.
"We're going to be spending a lot of money here in New Hampshire to solve a problem the competitive market could solve on its own," he said. "I find it somewhat dubious for the report to claim that it's got the support of all competitive suppliers. If you look at the suppliers supporting (forced divestiture), it's those who have wholesale assets that would be able to compete for PSNH business as default provider."firstname.lastname@example.com


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The crash happened on Western Road, just west of Wauwatosa Road.
The Ozaukee County Sheriff's Office said the woman was driving eastbound on Western Road she lost control, crossed the center line, struck a culvert and rolled over several times.
The woman was taken to Froedtert Hospital by Flight for Life.
The Sheriff's Office said it believes her injuries were non-life-threatening.
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Jonathan Strong of NRO reports that Harry Reid has not been involved in the negotiations between the White House and congressional Republicans to make a deal that would raise the debt ceiling and end the government shutdown. Is this a case of Democrats playing good-cop/bad-cop? And if so, who is the good cop?
Obama and Reid both share the same overriding goal — crushing congressional Republicans. Both, presumably, are delighted with poll results that show Republicans taking a big hit over the government shutdown.
But there is some divergence of interests. Obama is president. As such, he presumably must worry more than Reid about the potential adverse consequences that most expect would occur if the debt ceiling isn't raised.
Reed has little cause to worry much about how history will judge this showdown. Obama does. I doubt that he wishes to be remembered as the president whose refusal seriously to negotiate helped trigger a recession. Bob Woodward would be more than happy to write that book.
To be sure, Obama isn't running for reelection. As Nate Silver points out, this means he has somewhat less incentive to make a deal than he did in 2011, when an economic downturn would have jeopardized his reelection prospects. But Obama is still running for "historically great president." Such presidents don't preside over two recessions.
Reid has to keep his Senate Democrat colleagues happy, which means being highly attentive to the 2014 election. Presumably, if he sees polls that show the current standoff hurting endangered Democrats like Sens. Landrieu and Pryor, he will look for an exit strategy. Presumably, he has yet to see such polls.
There is also a divergence of personalities between Obama and Reid. It seems to me that Obama is the more flexible of the two — both in terms of the willingness to make a deal and the capacity to find a creative one.
In sum, Obama seems like the good cop, comparatively speaking. And though there may be an element of a "good cop, bad cop" act here, I don't assume that this is the entire story.


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Sony is the top manufacturer in smartphone making and they are as good as they are in the making of home appliances. In MWC users are expecting to give the warm welcome to their most anticipated handset Xperia Z4, but surprisingly company delay the smartphone announcement and offer the tablet version of Xperia Z4 called Xperia Z4 tablet which is light in weight and slim in design. The Xperia Z4 tablet is 50% lighter in comparison with iPad Air 2 and has the same thickness. The actual flagship of the company will launch during IFA which will be held on September, but users are quite impressed with Xperia Z4 tablet because of the slimness and its powerful features.
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Sony Xperia Z4 tablet face the very tough rival iPad Air 2 and for holding the position Sony make the large screen device. The Xperia Z4 Tablet has 10.1 inches screen and support 2K display which provides 2560 x 1600 pixels resolution which delivers 299ppi density. These pixels resolution provides a sharp and bright display resolution to the users and users are able to read and use the device without the need of any shade. Well, there is no doubt that the tablet is better in display specs and will be able to f ace the rival easily.
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The Xperia Z4 tablet is quite impressive and has many good and powerful features and one of them its powerful battery. The slate of energized by Non-removable Li-Po 6000 mAh battery which gives the good and sufficient backup to the tablet but the main drawback is that the slate has a non-removable battery and users need to replace the whole tablet which is the costliest deal for the users for not only their money but they also lost their data which will be stored in the device.
Sony is quite famous for designing the camera devices and they placed the good pairs of camera in their smartphones. Company placed 8.1 rear camera for taking the well-balanced images from the tablet with 3264 x 2448 pixels, autofocus, Geo-tagging, touch focus, face/smile detection, HDR and for capturing the selfies the tablet has 5.1 megapixel front facing camera which fulfill the photographic passion of the users.
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The construction management major at John Brown University builds students to succeed in the construction industry through a balanced application of technical expertise, ethics, stewardship, creativity, craftsmanship, work, community and leadership
"I love that construction management is such a practical major," senior Chris Cox said. "We have hands-on activities in every class, and I know that I am being prepared well for my career."
After graduation, CM majors become involved in construction, architecture, civil engineering and structural engineering. They often become project managers, superintendents and schedulers, as well as cost estimators and safety officers.
At JBU, the program takes a distinctive "hands-on" approach. The department strives to incorporate theory in the classroom with practical experience in the world and lab. Setting up plans, working on designs and building are not extracurricular activities, but are integrated right into the program.
The CM program also trains graduates to develop a philosophy of building that is grounded in their Christian faith and guides their craft and relationships.
"Nabholz Construction has a long history of hiring Construction Management students from John Brown University. The JBU Program develops future construction professionals with the maturity, integrity and self-confidence to be successful construction professionals. They also bring practical skills, are effective communicators and problem solvers, work well in a team-oriented environment, and bring a strong desire to add value." - Steve Clouten, DBIA; EVP Operations, Nabholz
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Leonard Hilton, 82 - August 06, 2008
Leonard Vern Hilton, 82, of Kearney, formerly of Gothenburg, died Monday, July 28, 2008, at Kearney.
Services were held on Saturday, Aug. 2, at the Zion Lutheran Church of Gothenburg with the Rev. Bill Terry officiating. Burial took place at the Gothenburg Cemetery.
Hilton was born on May 10, 1926, at Gothenburg to Elmer and Eva (Keiper) Hilton. He attended School District No. 51 north of Farnam, and the Farnam High School.
When he was in the 10th grade, his family moved to Lexington, where he finished the 10th grade at the South 17 School, and was baptized and confirmed on April 2, 1942, at the First Presbyterian Church. He graduated from Lexington High School in May of 1943, where he lettered in track.
He was inducted into the Army on May 19, 1945, at Fort Leavenworth, KS, and completed basic training at Camp Walters, TX. He was on the way to Japan when the peace treaty was signed, so he was re-stationed in Hawaii where he served for 13 months. He obtained the rank of corporal of the Twenty-third Quartermaster Group.
Hilton was discharged from the Army on Nov. 1, 1946, at Camp Beale, CA. He returned to Nebraska to start farming for himself.
He married Virginia June Buesing on Aug. 9, 1953, at the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church. To this union, four children were born, each at the Cozad Community Hospital.
Music and baseball were an intricate part of his life, according to family members, as many Sunday afternoons were spent playing ball with his cousins and competing against neighboring towns as well.
Hilton enjoyed playing many instruments such as the piano, guitar and especially the accordion, said family members. He was part of a local group known as the Hay Valley Boys.
?He also enjoyed time with his children as they participated in 4-H, according to family members. He became a member of the Dawson County Fair Board where he was active for 25 years. He recently attended the Dawson County Fair and helped park cars as well. He was also proud to be known as a member of the Plum Creekers of Lexington.
?Hilton and his wife were active members of the National Pony Express Association–Nebraska Division (NPEA), being a dedicated 30-year member. He and his wife took part in the annual re-rides, most recently, he followed the route in June. He served as president and organized riders of the 1996 Olympic Torch Run.
He also enjoyed traveling, spending time with family and attending activities of his grandchildren, according to family members.
Hilton was preceded in death by: his wife, Virginia; a daughter, Patty Jo; a son, Doug.
Survivors include: two daughters—Peggy Ronnekamp of Indiana, and Penny (Ron) Meyer of Shelton; five grandchildren—Andy (Tabbatha) Ronnekamp, Stephanie Ronnekamp, Travis, Jessica and Tracy Meyer; two great-grandchildren—Zoey and Kaia Ronnekamp; two brothers—Orville Hilton and Marvin (Carol) Hilton; two sisters—Doris (George) Hergenrader and June (Jerry) Walker; numerous nephews and nieces.
Memorials are suggested to the National Pony Express Association-Nebraska Division.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.blase strauser.com. Arrangements have been placed in the care of Blase-Strauser Memorial Chapel of Gothenburg.
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I'll start off by saying that there will still be Bricks N' Beer, so don't worry, there will always be a silly hat to see. I've had enough with being a completest.As much as I love the Bricks, keeping up with the Chase figures has just done me in.Its much to expensive and even when you save $$ by throwing down for a case, the investment is allot of $$ to slap down at once. I'm going to stick to a few Bricks per Series (especially if they are Imperials) and maybe some of the lower end Carded ones that they release in the future. Whatever catches my eye, just not the entire series anymore. If there happens to be a chase I want I'll take my chance with Bricks n' Beer! I'd also like to keep some $$ open for the higher end stuff like the RAH Fett and a 400% Fett.So as you see I'm not done, just not going to keep as much stuff and keep the collection small. I keep telling myself that I won't spend allot of $$ on toys but I already went insane this year, so I have to make a change, my house and car are being neglected! So keep your eyes peeled in the For Sale section.Doc -- I Dream of Kubricks...
I sold just about everything I wanted to.Only have the Imperial Officer and a Carded Luke, so get em while you can!I need to raise funds for a MC of Series 8...if they ever announce it and my new Crack: RAH (CRAHK)Lobot! Lobot! Lobot!Rock onCB
The fact is one of the things we are hooked on is the collecting itself. Too long of a drought and we start to realize we don't "need" it like before.
I think I've come to the conclusion that my kubrick collection will be one of the last things left as the rest of the collection goes away over the years. It is unique, small enough to filt in a medium size tub, and I just love the way they look like the characters, without looking like the characters- they are just excellent toy representations of the movie that defines my childhood (and more of my adulthood than I care to admit).
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Mont Vernon man due in court for Amherst fatalityBy KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
Union Leader Correspondent
January 07. 2014 7:31PM
AMHERST — The 20-year-old man accused of negligent homicide in the death of a former Amherst fire chief will be back in court next week.
Travis Hobbs of Mont Vernon was allegedly using his cell phone — possibly texting or checking his email — when the car he was driving struck and killed John Bachman, 71, on Dec. 23 outside of Bachman's Amherst home, according to police.
Hobbs, who eventually turned himself in to police, told authorities he thought he hit a snowbank on Merrimack Road and continued driving.
Bachman, who was getting mail at the end of his driveway at the time of the accident, died of his injuries at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center.
A court clerk said this week that Hobbs' probable cause hearing originally scheduled for this past Monday was continued at the request of Hobbs' attorney. The hearing has been rescheduled for 9:30 a.m. Jan. 16 at the 9th Circuit Court, Milford District Division, said the clerk.
Hobbs, a graduate of Souhegan High School, has been free on $50,000 personal recognizance and $1,000 cash-only bail since his arraignment on Dec. 24. Hobbs, currently a student at Nashua Community College, has been ordered by a judge to not drive a motor vehicle and to continue living with his parents in Mont Vernon.
If the court finds probable cause, the negligent homicide charge against Hobbs will be introduced to a Hillsborough County Superior Court grand jury for a possible indictment. If convicted, he could face up to seven years in prison.
Bachman's death, coupled with other distracted driving accidents recently in New Hampshire, has prompted local fire officials to launch a campaign against texting and driving.
"His sudden passing has gripped the Amherst Fire Department and our community of fire and emergency services throughout the region," says a posting on the department's website.
Amherst Fire Chief Mark Boynton and Lt. Chris Buchanan are asking drivers to take a pledge to not text and drive in an effort to avoid additional car accidents related to cell phone use.
"It was reported by authorities that texting while driving was allegedly a key part of the fatal accident that took Chief Bachman's life. Such incidents so close to home remind us all of the very real dangers of distracted driving," says the posting.


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Guys, because i don't have enough time could anyone tell me what is PGP keys about? Not the history. Just the use and how it work. How can i make a PGP public key?
There are two classes of key-based encryption algorithms, symmetric (or secret-key) and asymmetric (or public-key) algorithms. The difference is that symmetric algorithms use the same key for encryption and decryption (or the decryption key is easily derived from the encryption key), whereas asymmetric algorithms use a different key for encryption and decryption, and the decryption key cannot be derived from the encryption key.
you have to create a public key so that others can view your protected data...
am i wrong?
that should explain most of it...
PGP(Pretty Good Privacy) was developed by MIT and was recently acquired by Network Associates. PGP implements commercial grade encryption and secure signing of files and emails. In order to use it, you have to create a key and enter a secure passphrase to protect your private key. Then you must upload your public key to the keyserver so others can encrypt files for to you and verify your digital signature.
$person!=$kiddie or die(\"Alas, die you hotmail hacker!!\");
A couple of other things:
1) When you create a key, you automatically have a private and public key. The public key can then be sent to a keyserver.
2) You can choose the level of encryption of your key (768 to 4096 bit encryption)
3) You can choose to make a subkey if you choose, however, it usually isn't necassary for most people or applications.
4) For God's sake, don't forget your password! If you do, anything you had encrypted with that key is irretrieveable. Their ain't no back door
Having said that, PGP 8.0 or 8.0.2 is a fantastic program. Very stable and no one is cracking your encrypted information.
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1. download the program
2. create a public/private key pair
3. send your friends your public key or post it on a public key server
4. encrypt a file with the public key of the recipient
5 send the signed and encrypted file to a recipient
6 the recipient will decrypt the file with their private key and verify the file with your public key.
i think that's how it works, dont quote me.
In an other forum i am logged in the profile you can add your public key.
Why not add this feature in our forum here?
ii-monk, I think that's a great idea! Also, thebunny, actually, you have the order a little mixed up; you would encrypt using your own private key, and your recipient would use your public key to decrypt. Also, they can verify your public key and assign a level of trust to it which can be downloaded into the public key on a key server.They can sign it as well, showing everyone that they know you are the true holder of that key and that you can or cannot be truated. Since my twin brother and I both use PGP, naturallyI assign him the highest level of trust (even though I still remember the Christmas toy he broke when we were 5 years old!). Or if you want, you can find my keys at keyserver PGP under Michal Baskett, one of which has a level of 2048, and the other of 4096 bit encryption, a type of Diffie Hillman, and no expiration dates.
I will post it on the right forum.
the thread is this.
Don't believe MIT had anything to do with the "invention" (development) of PGP. They were and still are a distribution point for the older versions.
PGP was developed and distributed by Phil Zimmermann (two-n's). He still keeps his fingers in, and is a "reseller" of PGP 8.0. That information is here:
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From January 1998 when Network Associates (NAI) acquired PGP Inc, until February 2002, when NAI shut down its PGP activities, NAI was the primary source of PGP software. Now you can't get it from them anymore, which is just as well, since the PGP community was never happy with NAI's stewardship of PGP. And the old NAI versions don't run on Windows XP or Mac OS X. The good news is that since August 2002, you can get PGP from its new owner, PGP Corporation, at www.pgp.com, or better yet buy it from me. And of course it now runs on Windows XP and Mac OS X. The Dark Times are over. PGP is back!
PGP Freeware and Source Code
NAI had suspended the long-standing tradition of publishing PGP source code for peer review, a reckless move that eroded public confidence in the product. The new PGP Corp has reinstated this tradition, which allows anyone to download and inspect the http://www1.pgp.com/products/sourcecode.html PGP source code for bugs, and also shows that it has no back doors. And they still offer http://www1.pgp.com/products/freeware.html freeware versions for noncommercial use.
*******more information is at Phil's website, excerpt below:
The history of PGP can be found (with many other info links) at Phil's site:
Version 8.XX was developed after Phil left for private practice.
Version 7.xx has a remote hole that needs fixed by a small hotfix.
I use Version 7.03 (with hotfix) which i *believe* was the last one Phil worked on before he left the project. .. Although, if you now download version 7.xx you will probably find an NAI user agreement attached. When i downloaded it there was no such agreement. (go figure, maybe in the corporate crossover it got deleted?)
Version 7.03 had no "backdoor" (except for the bug hole that hotfix closes), *BUT*, i am not sure about any later version not having a private door for some alphabet entity, although Phil says he has examined 8.0 and it is clean. I trust what Phil says.
I also purchased the NAI commercial version (the one with no source code available) to see what was different. Too bad, i think they had a decent product going. It was called "PGP Personal Security" and was a firewall, email encryptor, PGP secure disk and a bunch of other things that integrated nicely. Who knows why they abandoned it, maybe they did not want to reveal the new source code, who knows. Not too different from PGP 7.03 actually, but was easy to load up. It was fun, but is now replaced on that machine with McAfee VurusScan 7.0 which is also a firewall and configures quite easily and seems to do a good job.
Anyway, the history of PGP, as well as everything else you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask... is al at the link(s) above.
Regards, TOM
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will meet in the Oval Office at 3:15 p.m. ET (1915 GMT) on Tuesday with Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, and other House Democratic leaders, the White House said in a statement.
The meeting comes as Congress struggles to reach a deal to lift the debt ceiling by a Thursday deadline.
The White House rejected a new House Republican proposal on Tuesday morning and has said it prefers a proposal from Democrats and Republicans in Senate.
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I only come out at night! I am a music photographer and all my work is done in dark clubs and venues. Music, especially electronic music, is a big part of what makes my heart beat, and being able to combine music and photography is a dream come true.
Since November 2009 I have lived as a nomad. I was the former Head of IT in a Danish Government agency, but wanted to see new horizons and I left Copenhagen and my job in 2009. In 2013, Charlene Winfred made a short film about my life on the road called Beyond, you can watch it here.
I have been on the road for more than six years now, and I am still wandering the world, although I can usually be found in Copenhagen during the summer months, enjoying the music festivals.
I am a member of KAGE, an international photography collective. I photograph exclusively with the Fujifilm X-series cameras and lenses.
I am the author of the ebook GET IN THE LOOP – How To Make Great Music Images.


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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's proposed federal budget is more campaign commercial than governing document.
His $3.8 trillion budget for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 — and blueprint for the coming decade — is filled with promises sure to appeal to voters that he wants to win for his re-election in November, such as new spending to hire teachers and tax increases on the wealthy.
Yet it has no chance of passing Congress, where Republicans already have vetoed his calls for more spending and taxes. It offers little prospect of breaking the Washington cycle of lurching from fiscal crisis to fiscal crisis with temporary agreements and no consensus on permanent solutions. And it maintains a decade of red ink while putting off until after the election — at the earliest — any detailed proposals to fix long-term problems in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
"It's not going to be enacted," said Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a bipartisan group that advocates fiscal responsibility. "It's designed to shape the campaign. There's a lot of spending for new investments and there's spending caps in the future so he can claim two things at once."
"The president's budget fails to lay out a substantive path to restore fiscal sanity," said David M. Walker, former director of the Government Accountability Office. "It does not include enough specifics regarding comprehensive tax reform and neglects any reforms to Social Security. It is not bold enough or specific enough regarding proposed changes to Medicare, Medicaid and other health reforms."
Obama unveiled his budget proposal at a community college in Annandale, Va., — a swing state he won in 2008 and is courting heavily this year — where he used the same broad themes he's used since Labor Day to frame the coming election.
"We've got a choice," he said. "We can settle for a country where a few people do really, really well, and everybody else struggles to get by. Or we can restore an economy where everybody gets a fair shot, everybody does their fair share, everybody plays by the same set of rules — from Washington to Wall Street to Main Street."
In his budget, he stressed the need for federal spending to help people get a better foothold in a struggling economy. Among his proposals: a $350 billion plan to stimulate the economy, including many specifics that Congress rejected last year.
He also proposed letting tax cuts expire as scheduled on Dec. 31 for those making more than $250,000. That's unlikely to happen the way he wants, either; Republicans, who control the House of Representatives and can block Senate action, are against it.
He proposes to extend the Bush-era tax cuts permanently for incomes below $250,000. Republicans demand that the tax cuts be extended for higher incomes also. If both sides hold firm, they'll let all the tax cuts expire at the end of this year; one likely compromise: They could extend them all, as they did for two years at the end of 2010.
Obama did propose changing a part of Medicare financing that would end one of Washington's annual stopgap solutions: the need every year to restore full Medicare payments to doctors. Prospects for permanently fixing the problem, caused by an earlier law mandating lower payments, remain uncertain.
The president did not, however, propose specific solutions to the long-term problems in Medicare and Social Security, which will grow worse as the baby boom generation retires and collects benefits.
"This is a moment when our country requires a dramatic, bipartisan effort to reduce the deficit," said Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent. "While there are elements in the president's budget I would support, it does not propose the type of bold entitlement and tax reform that is necessary to substantially reduce the deficit. Quite simply, it is not the blueprint we need to put our fiscal house back in order."
Even if enacted as proposed, Obama's budget would spend $901 billion more next year than it took in. That would be the first time in five years that the annual deficit dipped below $1 trillion. And it would clearly fall short of his 2009 pledge to cut the deficit in half by 2013 — to about $650 billion by his own accounting at the time.
Obama used the new budget to portray himself as a deficit hawk, saying he'd cut $4 trillion from projected deficits over the next 10 years. However, he and Congress already agreed to $2.1 trillion of that last year when they enacted the Budget Control Act.
Also, he counts as spending cuts $850 billion that would have been spent on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — as if they would have raged on for another decade.
"The administration ... is assuming nearly $850 billion in 'war savings' that were never going to be spent anyway," said Bixby.
Added Walker, "The budget uses accounting gimmicks to generate 'savings.'"
Over the coming decade, Obama's budget would include deficits totaling $6.7 trillion. Including interest, they would increase the debt held by the public from $11.6 trillion in fiscal 2012 to $19.5 trillion in fiscal 2022. It was $7.5 trillion when he took office in 2009.
One result of the deficits: The amount of the federal budget devoted to paying interest would jump from 6 percent this year to 14.6 percent in 2022.
Deficits over the coming decade would be lower — totaling about $3.1 trillion — if Congress and Obama did nothing. That's largely because taxes would go up for everyone as the Bush-era tax cuts expire Dec. 31.
Mitt Romney, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, blasted Obama for refusing to offer specifics on entitlement reform. The former Massachusetts governor has proposed raising the retirement age for Social Security and means-testing benefits for wealthier Americans.
"I believe we can save Social Security and Medicare with a few common-sense reforms, and, unlike President Obama, I'm not afraid to put them on the table," Romney said.
Obama's campaign attacked Romney's proposals.
"Romney's devastating cuts to Medicare and Social Security won't sound like common sense to most Americans," said Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt.
In the Republican-controlled House, Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., plans to propose a budget in April that would attempt to rein in Medicare spending. He's expected to propose anew that Medicare beneficiaries after 2022 get to pick from different plans, with federal aid to help pay the cost.
His Social Security proposals are less specific, though Ryan has in the past proposed permitting taxpayers to invest their Social Security taxes in private accounts.
In the Democratic-controlled Senate, Democrats did not bring a budget to the Senate floor last year and don't plan to do so this year. By law, Congress is supposed to pass a general budget outline by April 15. The outline guides the appropriations and tax-writing committees, which then write legislation specifying spending and tax levels.
(William Douglas of the Washington Bureau contributed.)
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(Reuters) - Enrollment by Hispanics in U.S. colleges rose 15 percent from 2011 to 2012 even as the overall college population declined, the U.S. Census Bureau said in a report published on Tuesday.
Nearly 3.4 million Hispanics enrolled in college undergraduate or graduate programs in 2012, as the adult Hispanic population grew and because of greater demand from within the ethnic group, the bureau said.
Hispanic students have grown as a percentage of the overall college student population from 11 percent in 2006 to 17 percent in 2012.
Meanwhile, overall U.S. college enrollment fell 2.3 percent to 19.9 million from 2011 to 2012, reversing a trend toward increasing enrollment over the previous five years.
The overall student population had grown sharply from 2006 to 2011, and this year's decline was attributed almost entirely to lower numbers of older students, those 25 and older, the bureau said.
Foreign-born students and students whose parents were foreign-born made up 32 percent of all those enrolled in school at all levels in 2012, the survey said.
The bureau's annual survey of school enrollment examines data at levels from nursery to graduate school and by characteristics such as age, sex, race and other factors.
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By Rob Glidden
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The Board of Education approved a school budget of $85.3 million for the next fiscal year that includes the funds necessary to launch a full-day kindergarten program.
The recommended budget represents a 3.51 percent increase over the previous year. This is a reduction of about $900,000 from the proposal presented by Superintendent of Schools Dr. Joseph Erardi, which would have been a 4.87 percent increase.
Most of the BOE's discussion hinged on the all-day kindergarten proposal, which adds about a million dollars to the budget but is offset somewhat by staff reductions elsewhere. The net increase in staffing costs to the budget associated with the program amounts to $457,792 with another $147,745 devoted to one-time expenses like furniture.
The kindergarten proposal has gotten a variety of different reactions in the community over the last several weeks. During the meeting, however, everyone from the public who spoke and referenced the issue expressed support for the idea.
"We went to kindergarten a long time ago, but the world has changed since then," said Bill Lutz, who sits on the executive board of the Southington Education Foundation. "It's become a more complex and competitive world."
The BOE decided to include the proposal within the budget, citing the stricter federal and state standards and the desire to make sure kindergarteners had more time to socialize and play.
"I want to give the children in Southington the best possible start they can have," said Vice-Chair Terri Carmody.
Eight of the board's nine members voted in favor of the budget with the kindergarten program included, although some expressed concerns and uncertainty. Board member Zaya Oshana opted to abstain from the vote.
"There's no real evidence out there that this works," Oshana said. "I don't feel comfortable putting it in place without knowing that."
During the discussion, the board also expressed some anxiety about the overall size of the budget request and sought to reduce some other small line-items. After voting individually to cut several of these other expenses, the board had the final amount it would pass on the Board of Finance.
"I believe in all-day kindergarten as a parent and the majority of staff and parents support it," said Chairman Brian Goralski, but he also noted that the board's loyalty to the program would be tested if the BOF or the Town Council made significant cuts to their request and they were forced to decide how to adjust their budget.


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Ken David and his wife, Judy, live at 15896 Comstock St., across the street from Peach Plains Elementary School. He strung metal lawn chairs from trees on their property on Monday. One of them is next to the driveway. The other one hangs next to the road, not far from a sign that says, "Take Back Our Country in November."
Ken David said it's no secret he is a Mitt Romney supporter.
But that doesn't mean the lawn chairs hanging in his front yard are an attack on President Barack Obama, or anyone else for that matter.
Area residents are calling the display racist and an attack on the Democratic president. They say the hanging chair is symbolic of lynching Obama.
David said it's "absolutely not" an attack — it's a decoration, though he admits to being somewhat of a political activist.
"People decorate their trees all the time," he said. "We're no different than anyone else."
David and his wife, Judy, live at 15896 Comstock St., across the street from Peach Plains Elementary School. He strung metal lawn chairs from trees on their property on Monday. One of them is next to the driveway. The other one hangs next to the road, not far from a sign that says, "Take Back Our Country in November."
The Lakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance sees the situation as a chance to talk about the display and its possible meaning.
The Alliance will host a Community Conversation on the display from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, in the Grand Haven Community Center's Escanaba Room.
David said he saw a police car with an officer shining a spotlight at the chairs on Monday night.
On Wednesday morning, Ottawa County Sheriff's deputies stopped and talked to David about the chairs. A complaint had apparently been made by someone at the school, David said.
The homeowner said he has done nothing wrong.
"This is my property. I have the right to freedom of expression," David said.
Some members of the Tri-Cities area think David has taken that expression too far.
"There are all sorts of incidences of this (chair hanging) happening across the country," said Grand Haven Township resident Ed Ketterer, who has a child attending Peach Plains. "... I don't buy it that the chair doesn't have the racial connotation."
Just sitting on the ground, the chair would not be a problem, Ketterer said.
"It's kind of funny — it's mocking what (Clint) Eastwood did at the convention," Ketterer said, referring to a speech the actor made at the Republican National Convention in August, next to an empty chair representing President Obama. "When you hang it from a tree, you take it to a new level."
Ketterer said there is no way David would not know what the empty chair represents.
"To me, it's not about rights, it's about decency," Ketterer said. "I wouldn't condone it anywhere."
In an e-mail to the Tribune, another area resident said she was also disturbed by the hanging chair.
"I'm all for freedom of speech," Donna Timmer wrote, "but when my granddaughter asked what it meant, it was hard to explain."
Ketterer said he had the same problem with his third-grade son.
"We talked around the issue," he said. "We said it was a political sign and that it was against President Obama."


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When an artist has an extraordinary voice, it can be difficult to sort great songs from OK songs sung beautifully. In the past few years I've continually returned to "Grown Unknown" by Lia Ices. Not only is her voice astonishing, but the complicated lyrics and thoughtful textures make the record soothing without becoming background music. It's a gorgeous, rewarding album that's more than just an awesome voice.
That leads us to "Burn Your Fire For No Witness," the breakout record (and first for indie heavyweight label Jagjaguwar) from former Logan Square resident Angel Olsen, who's now based in North Carolina. Is this an album of fantastic songs? I don't think so. There's a sense of Olsen having two settings—quietly haunting vs. toe-tapping indie rocker—and a jagged uneasiness in listening. Perhaps that's intentional; many lyrics chronicle discomfort from different perspectives. "If only we grew wiser with each breath," she sings on the mellow, almost Brazilian "Iota," "If only we could dance our way to death." Earlier, on the warbling country shuffle of "Hi-Five," she adds humor by asking, "Are you lonely too? Hi-five! So am I."
Despite Olsen's intoxicating, Edith Piaf-esque voice, the forgettable music too often feels like it's trying to get out of the singer's way, though her words are sometimes powerful, sometimes average. That yields delicate, breathtaking results on "Enemy," while "Dance Slow Decades" blossoms to devastate. Still, I can't shake the sense that the album would be just as interesting with Olsen singing a cappella, which is a complaint about the material and a compliment to the performer. To cozy up to a fireplace and ride her vocal roller coaster is to connect with Olsen's Fiona Apple-ish confession on the otherwise plain "Stars": "I feel so much at once that I could scream."
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2016 (Senior)
Appeared in 28 games earning five starts… hit .222 (6-for-27) with three RBI and two runs scored… drew five walks… made six appearances in the circle with eight strikeouts in 12.2 innings of work… recorded her first hit of the season against Iona (2/26) and scored her first run against Brown (3/5)… drove in her first run of the season and tallied her first multi-hit game of the season against Bryant (3/15)… recorded a hit in her final career at bat in a 3-0 loss to Furman in the SoCon Tournament… finished her career wit ha .256 batting average and had a 8-4 record in the circle with a 5.42 ERA and 42 strikeouts.
2015 (Junior):
Saw action in 22 games, starting 14 as a DP/pitcher ... hit a career-best .326 and set career highs in hits (14), runs (4), doubles (3), home runs (3) and RBI (14) ... was 2-0 in the circle in two appearances, starting one game ... finished with 6.2 innings and three strikeouts ... was 2-for-2 with a home run and four RBI against George Washington (Feb. 28) and picked up the win in relief after throwing 2.2 innings ... earned a win after throwing four innings and allowed just one earned run against Howard (March 6) ... blasted her second home run at UC Riverside (March 6), which was a game-tying three-run homer ... had two or more hits in five games ... went 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBI against NC State (March 18) ... picked up a hit against Elon (March 25) ... made the SoCon honor roll.
2014 (Sophomore):
Appeared in seven games, starting five as a DP/pitcher ... hit .125 on two hits with an RBI ... had a 6-4 record in the circle ... pitched in 22 games, starting 13 ... threw four complete games with one shutout in 73.2 innings and had 31 strikeouts ... picked up her first hit as a Spartan against Ohio (Feb. 8) ... first start came against George Washington (Feb. 22) throwing five innings, allowing just one earned run with three strikeouts ... earned her first victory in the circle against Bucknell (Feb. 28) after pitching a season-best six innings ... had a RBI single in game two against Samford (Mar. 22) ... earned a victory against North Carolina A&T (Mar. 5) throwing five shutout innings with two strikeouts ... threw four innings and picked up the win against North Carolina A&T (Mar. 27) ... threw eight innings and earned a victory in game two against Liberty (April 2) ... went seven innings in a complete game win in game two against UNCW (April 9) ... threw a two-hit shutout in game two at Charlotte (April 16) earning the win in five innings.
2013 (Freshman) at Spartanburg Methodist:
As a freshman, she competed at junior college Spartanburg Methodist … was named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-South region second team … she finished the year with a 15-2 record in 95 innings pitched with 86 strikeouts … had 26 appearances with a 2.27 ERA and one save … as a hitter she hit .320 on the season with six home runs, six doubles and 23 RBI … she helped her team finished 41-15 with a regular season championship and runner-up finish in the Region X Tournament … made the Region X All-Tournament team.
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played all four years with South Stanly high school, hitting .364 during her senior season … had two home runs, 36 hits, two doubles and 31 RBI … also went 8-2 in the circle with four shutouts and 61 strikeouts … helped her team finished with a 27-7 record and a No. 26 ranking in North Carolina.
Lacey Elizabeth Leary … born August 18, 1994 in Albemarle, N.C. … daughter of Robert and Tracey Leary … undecided on a major.
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Pop quiz: How did Google get its employees to donate nearly 800,000 meals to charity this holiday season?
The answer, it turns out, was a quiz.
The company distributed a 10-question quiz to as many of its 30,000 employees as it could reach, designed to educate them about world hunger issues. The quiz came with an appealing hook: Google gave every employee who completed the quiz $10 to donate to a hunger charity of their choosing.
The quiz was a hit: more than 6,000 people took it. Google offices in 41 countries participated. In Mountain View alone, hundreds of employees descended upon a local Costco and bought more than 27,000 pounds of food, filling an 18-wheel truck. The Mountain View office donated $800,000 to the Second Harvest Food Bank.
Philanthropy at Google is nothing new, but the company's approach is. As the holidays approached this year, the company's social responsibility team started brainstorming ideas for a charity campaign that would make a bigger, more concentrated impact.
The company had never previously mounted a holiday giving campaign around the world. Employees on the philanthropy team decided to take existing efforts inside the company and help them to scale around the world. It was, in short, an effort to make charity at Google more Googley.
It was also an effort to rally Googlers around a cause -- something that doesn't always come naturally to the independent thinkers at Google.
"Sometimes being Googley means you're doing your own thing," said Diane Solinger, who helped to organize this year's campaign. "Being Googley together is part of our team's charter. We want us to feel connected. And so rather than reinvent the wheel and say 'We're going to do X ourselves,' we looked to where Googlers are already doing things. We said, let's add some fuel to that fire."
Solinger and her team found that hunger and food security issues were important to Googlers around the world. Several senior vice presidents serve on the boards of nonprofits devoted to fighting hunger, and the company saw employees participate in an Action Against Hunger effort during Ramadan. The Mountain View office's Costco trip is a longstanding and beloved tradition. Hunger seemed like an ideal cause to work in during the holidays.
Employees worked on the campaign in their 20 percent time, writing a quiz that could be shared with as many Googlers as possible, designing a logo, and writing code to support the campaign on the back end. (Jessan Hutchison-Quillian, a Google software engineer, wrote code that allowed employees to make a donation simply by swiping their badges.)
Once it was finished, the team advertised the quiz via e-mail, word of mouth, and placards at tables in Google cafeterias. Individual offices were encouraged to design their own campaigns to benefit local organizations. An Illinois office did a benefit for the Greater Chicago Food Depository; the New York team contributed to Hurricane Sandy relief.
"The people here really have a desire to do good," said Hutchison-Quillian, based in the Seattle office, where his teammates volunteered with an organization called Food Lifeline. "But we have so much on our own plates that it's really hard to make the time to go figure out where's the place where I can really make a difference. That's what made this campaign great -- we take away all the complexity of deciding where to give."