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Two years ago, an 11-year-old boy arrived for his first day of school at St. Gregory's Catholic Science College in London. The school's dress code called for all boys to wear their hair with "short back and sides" in an effort to curb "gang culture". The boy showed up with his hair in cornrows, and was promptly turned away. Now he's had his day in court.
The now 13-year-old has worn cornrows since he was born. All of the men in his family also wear cornrows — it's part of their family tradition. This is something he is (and should be) proud of:
"I really like my hair and it's been that way all my life. This problem at school was the first time me and my mum ever talked about my hair, it's so normal to us … I really like my hair, my brother and dad have cornrows and we all like it. I really don't want to cut it off. This was the first time I had to ask the question, 'what's wrong with my hair?'"
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Unlike the French burka ban, this has nothing to do with religion. The boy's lawyer Angela Jackman sums it up quite nicely: "This is an important decision. It makes clear that non-religious cultural and family practices associated with a particular race fall within the protection of equalities legislation."
St. Gregory's is debating whether or not they will appeal the judge's decision. It's important to note that this case only dealt with the legality of the policy, not the legality of the boy's dismissal from school. That issue is being fought in a separate county court case. In the mean time, we think this little boy is an excellent "I Love My Hair" role model.

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Shutdown: National Park Service Closes Self-Sustaining Colonial Farm It Hasn't Supported Since 1980
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Eberly says that individuals and families saved the farm when the NPS zeroed its budget in 1980, so there is no need for the service now to shut it down or barricade its facilities, as it is doing. The NPS claims, in its actions at the World War II Memorial in Washington this week, that it doesn't want to go around closing monuments and parks, but it is taking these actions because it is worried about staffing and security.
Eberly's response is as clear as can be. "What utter crap. We have operated the Farm successfully for 32 years after the NPS cut the Farm from its budget in 1980 and are fully staffed and prepared to open today. But there are barricades at the Pavilions and entrance to the Farm. And if you were to park on the grass and visit on your own, you run the risk of being arrested. Of course, that will cost the NPS staff salaries to police the Farm against intruders while leaving it open will cost them nothing."
So the Claude Moore Colonial Farm is closed to all visitors until further notice. Its October festivities are in jeopardy. The farm has six full-time employees and many part-timers and interns. Those jobs are on the line. As long as the NPS has the barricades up, the farm cannot generate the revenue that it needs to sustain itself.
If President Obama and the Senate continue their pattern of declining any and all discussions with the House, could the temporary government shutdown mean a permanent closure for the farm? "Well it might because we're dependent on the income that we receive from visitors and events," Eberly told me. "We receive no income from the federal government." She added that the government is renting the barricades that it is using to close off the farm.
Closing the self-sufficient farm "is not about the money," Eberly said. "It's about making a point."
Eberly warns in her email that visitors now face the risk of arrest if they try to visit the farm, not because it cannot be staffed — her staff were ready to run the farm today, as they have for years — but because the National Park Service, in her words, has become "arrogant, arbitrary and vindictive."


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Bridge Scene: So many probabilities and possibilities in bridge
When playing bridge a declarer must evaluate the cards in his hand and in the dummy. He must consider the bidding; who bid what on his left or right and how many points did their bids show?
Considering all possibilities, or all possibilities that immediately come to mind, a player must make certain assumptions and evaluation of the odds. Luck can be factored into the equation but a player is required to keep alert and ready to modify or change the original plan if certain finesses do not work or the cards are stacked in one opponent's hand.
Experts found that holding eight cards of a suit, missing only the Queen, the best chance to capture the Queen is by finessing rather than playing the Ace and King. The reason is, when five cards are out, they will probably be divided 3-2. The missing Queen has a greater chance to be in the hand with the three. Do you know who has three and who has two? Sometimes you will know because of the bidding or play, or simple subtraction, but sometimes it is an educated guess.
When there are two or more options to bring home a contract a player must play the percentages or odds and determine which play offers the greatest reward?
When checking the table of probabilities, the scale shows how the adverse cards are divided and concludes that when a player and partner hold between them an even number of cards they will probably not find the missing cards breaking evenly but, holding an odd number of cards, the cards will probably break more evenly.
If the opponents hold two honors in a suit, they will be divided between the two hands 52 percent of the time and both will be in the same hand 48 percent of the time. When you study percentage probabilities you find the experts have fine tunes the concept to a dizzying degree.
In Duplicate Bridge heeding the percentage plays could mean an extra trick and a top board would be worth the risk of the contract, but in Rubber Bridge an extra trick would mean 20 or 30 point in your total score and is never worth the risk.
The Baron Barclay book store suggests three bridge books of the mystery genera which should provide some good reading. The Deadly End Play, a Pemberton Bridge Club Mystery, by Ken Allan, Take Out Double and Double Elimination, are both an Art Fraser bridge mystery by Jim Priebe. Each book is under $20 and can be ordered directly from the store online at BaronBarclay.com or call 1-800-274-2221.
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Add Administrative Templates to a Group Policy Object in Windows Server 2008 Domain
With Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, there is a new file format for the Administrative Templates that controls and standardizes the operating system and software in Active Directory domains.
Administrative Templates for GPOs are used to set and control the registry. There are hundreds of Administrative Templates available for Windows Server in 2008. For more details, you can see our article: Understanding Administrative Templates in Windows Server 2008.
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You are not limited to the Administrative Templates that come in Windows Server 2008 by default. For example, if your environment uses Office 2010, you can download and install the Office 2010 Administrative Templates that will allow you to configure settings for almost every aspect of all of the different software components in Office 2010, from the commonly used Word and Excel, to the more specialized Visio and Project.
In earlier versions of Windows Server, the Administrative Templates had an .ADM file extension, and were Unicode-based text files. In Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, the Administrative Template files are XML files with an ADMX or an ADML extension. Thankfully, if you still have your Administrative Templates in the classic ADM file type, then you can still use them. They can be installed through the use of the Group Policy Management Console, as described in our previous article, Adding New Administrative Templates to a GPO.
If you have one of the new XML-based Administrative Templates, you do not install it through the console in the same way as the classic ADM files. Instead, you only have to place the ADMX files into a location where either the Group Policy Editor (GPEDIT.MSC) or the Group Policy Management Console (gpmc.msc) can find and read it.
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First, the central store needs a root folder to store all of the language neutral Administrative Templates. It then needs a folder created that holds each language specific Administrative Template that your domain environment will create Group Policies for. On the PDC Emulator, create the folders like this:
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I will be using only one language (I'll use my language code in this example: EN-US). A full list of locales and languages are available at Microsoft's Locale Identifiers page.
$ codes = "EN-US" # If you want additional language codes, create $ languageCodes as an array: # $ languageCodes = "EN-US", "EN-CA", "FR-CA" $ path = "$ env:systemroot\sysvol\domain\policies\PolicyDefinitions" $ codes | Foreach-Object {New-Item –Path "$ path$ _" –Itemtype directory –Force}
You do not need to create the folder on each Domain Controller. When the Domain Controllers replicate, the folders will be created on each Domain Controller. Relying on the replication is the reason to create the folder on the Domain Controller that is holding the PDC emulator role.
Now that the central store is created, you only need to place the ADMX files into the correct section of the central store (language specific templates in the appropriate template folder, and the language neutral templates in the root folder).
Since the presence of a central store makes the group policy editing tools (GPEDIT and GPMC) stop looking in other places for Administrative Templates, you must populate the central store after creating it.
How to Populate the Central Store with PowerShell
Without populating the central store, all of the original Administrative Templates will not be seen by your group policy editing tools. To copy over all of the existing Administrative Templates from your workstation or Domain Controller, use PowerShell:
$ local = "$ env:systemroot\PolicyDefinitions" $ centralStore = "$ env:logonserver\sysvol\policies\PolicyDefinitions" Copy-Item –Path "$ local\*.*" –Destination $ centralstore –Recurse
This will populate the central store with all of the policies.
How to Use Administrative Templates Without a Central Store
When you do not require a central store, you can still install the Administrative Template files directly into the Workstation that you are working with the Group Policy on.
You can save the language neutral files (those with an ADMX extension) directly into the $ env:systemroot\PolicyDefinitions folder. There will already be some policy definitions present in that folder.
Language specific files (those with an ADML file extension) will need to be put directly into the language folder that it corresponds to (such as "EN-US").
When you need to expand the capabilities of Group Policy, you can find Administrative Templates provided by the vendor of the software or hardware. The classic « ADM » files which are used in previous versions of Windows Server still work in Server 2008. Additionally, there are new XML-based Administrative Templates identifiable by their ADMX file extension (or ADML for language specific templates.)
A central store can be set up on the domain controllers, which manages all of the Administrative Templates in use within the domain. Once set up, the central store makes adding the XML Administrative Templates available to all Group Policy Administrators in the domain, and adding more is as easy as copying files into the store.
Without a central store, you will just need to copy the Administrative Templates into the systemroot\PolicyDefinitions folder, and your group policy editor will pick up the new policies.
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Full match highlights - FC Dallas 1, Seattle 1
Jackson equalizes & makes it 1-1 in first half
Mauro Rosales scores first to make it 0-1, Seattle
Jackson chance on goal late in second half
Getting to FC Dallas Stadium on Sunday will require some thoughtful planning if you live near 635 and the Tollway.
Major demolition and construction projects this weekend will wreak havoc with traffic at the interchange -- so, we want to give all our DTID fans a heads up so you get to FC Dallas Stadium on time to watch FCD battle Seattle.
If you want full details on the step-by-step demolition and lane rerouting that will occur, you can go to the website of the construction project.
But long story short - don't take 635 or the Tollway to go north if you live in that area or use it to get to the match.
If you live near 635 & the Tollway, a side street like Preston or Midway might be best to skip around the mess and then get back on the Tollway a few blocks north.
If you live far enough west or east, I-35 or Central Expressway is a better choice. You can take both north to the George Bush Turnpike and then take the Turnpike to the Tollway.
Construction is scheduled to be occurring post-match, so use those alternate routes to get home, too.
UPDATE - 2:45 p.m. 8/30: Congrats to Nicholas Giaimo, Shelby Weaver, Juan Reyes, Art Cantu and Graham Malin for being our winners.
We have five pairs of seats for Sunday's match vs Seattle up for grabs in another FCDallas.com Scavenger Hunt.
First five entries with all the correct answers will win the tickets to Sunday's 6 p.m. match. All the answers can be found on FCDallas.com. We had strong responses when we did this previously, so get your answers in quick!
- What channel is this Sunday's match against Seattle on?
- Which FC Dallas player was recently named MLS Player of the Week?
- How many minutes did Blas Perez play against LA on 8/26?
- Who is FC Dallas' creative director?
- According to George John, who "chews gum like a champ"?
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FRISCO -- Kellyn Acosta participated in his first training session with the FC Dallas first team on Wednesday since signing a Homegrown player contract in July.
Acosta is not available for selection into the game day lineup until the 2013 season, but coach Schellas Hyndman was happy to have him on the training field.
"I introduced him to the team today," Hyndman said, adding that the veterans made Acosta give an introductory speech to the team.
"His speech was short and very to the point - 'I'm really excited to be here and I want to help the team.'"
During the 2011-12 FC Dallas Development Academy season, Acosta started 27 of the 28 games he played for the U-16 team. He scored nine times for the 12-4-8 side, which advanced to U.S. Soccer's Development Academy Playoffs. Acosta also played up with FC Dallas' U-18 team eight times, logging a total of 907 minutes.
In MLS Reserve League action, Acosta logged 90 minutes in a 3-2 loss to the Houston Dynamo Reserves on June 16. The young midfielder netted a goal in the 31st minute of that match.
FRISCO – This week's preparations by FC Dallas for its key match at the LA Galaxy (6 p.m. Sunday on NBC Sports Network) included a first for head coach Schellas Hyndman.
Hyndman and his staff usually analyze the most recent two or three matches of teams they are about to play. But the anemic showing of FC Dallas in a 0-1 loss on July 28 at home against the Galaxy meant that match video was broken down during the week.
It's an uncommon move according to the coach, who said it's "the first time since I've been here" the staff reached back for a specific match to scout rather than only look at a team's most recent form.
"They will come back out and pressure us again," Hyndman said. "Whether Donovan is on the field or Beckham is on the field, I think the whole mentality is 'Look, this is a team who didn't handle our pressure well, let's go out and pressure them again'," Hyndman said.
In addition to the pressure, Hyndman said that July match was the first time in 2012 he felt FC Dallas was outworked.
"For us it was a disappointing result, but at the same time it was an unusual, uncharacteristic effort on our part," Hyndman said.
FRISCO – The LA Galaxy begin CONCACAF Champions League play tonight and there will be more than a few interested observers in Dallas.
"Of course I'll be watching," said head coach Schellas Hyndman. "I've encouraged all our players to watch."
LA faces Isidro Metapan from El Salvador tonight at the Home Depot Center in opening round CCL play (9 p.m. CT on Fox Soccer). On Sunday, FC Dallas will be in California for a crucial match against the Galaxy for FC Dallas' playoff hopes (6 p.m. CT on NBC Sports Network).
But Hyndman doesn't think there will be any type of advantage for FCD with the quick turnaround for LA.
"When CCL really takes effect is after they've been traveling for three or four games, adding on MLS games, traveling from one country to another country and then turning around and playing a game. I think then you'll start to see the wear and tear," Hyndman said.
FC Dallas isn't the first, nor will it be the last, soccer team to wear a striped or hooped jersey. But we do take notice when new kits roll out with the horizontal stripes.
Back in April, we weren't the only ones to notice the similarities between the new U.S. Men's National Team jerseys and FCD's.
SMU caught our attention on Wednesday when they unveiled their new red and blue hooped jerseys on Facebook. Red & blue are, of course, FCD's colors and SMU's as well.
So which look do you like the best? FCD? USMNT? SMU?
FC Dallas' surge is getting noticed in the soccer world this week and David Ferreira is front and center in media coverage. The MLS Player of the Week spoke with ESPN's Jeff Carlisle and opened up about the difficulty of his lengthy rehab and his concerns about returning to the pitch. The entire piece is worth a read, but here's an excerpt:
"Definitely there were moments I thought that [I wouldn't return]," Ferreira said. "I was committed during all my therapy sessions, but then I injured myself again and nothing resulted quickly. The support of my family was fundamental and everyone as well as the group encouraged me and strengthened to keep looking forward. Thank God things are going well, and let's hope going forward there are no injuries and I can enjoy many more years of soccer."
Dale Hansen showed off quite the souvenir on Tuesday night's 6 p.m. newscast on Ch. 8. He recently attended a Rod Stewart concert at WinStar World Casino and a viewer taped him catching a soccer ball kicked into the crowd by the famous singer. That signed ball - which he showed on air - is an FC Dallas soccer ball autographed by Stewart. Watch the video from the newscast:
George John chatted with Gina Miller on Tuesday's edition of The Fan Sports Show on TXA21. The defender discussed the team's current winning streak and also fielded some questions about his Greek heritage.


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Houston County Courier - February 2008
By Daphne Hereford, Managing Editor
Houston County citizens are taking advantage of early voting in a very brisk fashion.
According to Houston County Clerk Bridget Lamb, early voting began on Tuesday, Feb. 19 with 112 Republicans and 93 Democrats casting ballots.
The trend continued on Wednesday, Feb. 20 with 120 Republicans and 65 Democrats making their way to the polls.
Voters on Thursday, Feb. 21 totaled 98 Republicans and 58 Democrats.
Temporary branches have also been established in the county for early voting and in Grapeland on Wednesday, Feb. 20, a total of 39 Republicans and 37 Democrats voiced their choices in the voting booth.
The temporary branch in Kennard on Thursday, Feb. 21 garnered 20 Republican votes and 9 Democratic votes.
A temporary branch was also open in Lovelady on Friday, Feb. 22.
Early voting will continue at the Houston County Courthouse Annex through Friday, Feb. 29.
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While writing about gossip I thought about the parallel with Religion.
Gossip is functional. It is essential for the workings of organizations, companies and basically any group. Managers often steer on gossip since any concrete information is not present. Mintzberg said "today's gossip may be tomorrow's fact".
There are many different types of people who gossip and since it is so functional we all take part in it, since not many things are "exact" or "we know 100% about it". It is used for power, to disrupt things, to destroy people, to socialize but often not consciously done.
If for example there is talk about a manager who has an affair or who is extremely lazy it could lead in then end to the resignation of that person. Without proof being there because one rule with gossip is that the person who is gossiped about should not know it.
We all know it, if you have had the unfortunate pleasure to experience gossip or suspect that you were "out" because of gossip then you will probably recognize the feeling that you would want to put the whole truth on a piece of paper and just show "everyone" the truth. But even then people will not believe you. Unless you have very exact, almost scientific proof or data and propagate this for some time throughout the organization.
Now take any religion in it's beginning days (being one of the hundreds of likewise cults at any time branching from older religions because of gossip). Read what is written en try to get some proof of what is written and you end up with nothing more than "what you heard from other people who in the end wrote it down" and precisely this is what science is not. Science are these proof or data "things" that should basically show everyone the exact real truth (although it could be too late).
The funny thing is that sometimes gossip has been around for so long that even when a report shows up that the manager performed more than any other manager that a large part of the organization will still hold the feelings about that manager or even worse he could be fired. And in the real society the thousands of people who have been killed for reasons of untrue gossip. You may remind yourself of the second world war.
And the funny thing with science is that even if, after 400 years, proof shows up that many parts of the gossip are untrue by fact, that the "belief" (which is exactly the gossip concept) survives in the heads of many people. They take the original gossip for granted instead of the proof of the report on the manager's performance. They propagate it to their kids and friends and families and relations because it has such an important place in our society. More important than exact facts, in fact. Just think of your own household and the reasons why you do what you do.
That's extremely sad but it makes it very clear that gossip is an essential human concept that should be studied much closer. Maybe memeology will give us one day some more tools to handle it, until then our society is build on it.
Gossip highly influences economy. It influences stocks. It influences companies on all levels on all decisions. We can complete make a company CMMI mature but still most decisions will be made based on gossip. What religion is, is in fact a formalization of the worst parts of gossip, but used for the same purposes. It even offers social structure for enabling gossip. Which is pretty brilliant. In a sense it is one of the biggest improvement of mankind. We somehow made a formalized structure for something that is not formalized by nature. We guide people from birth until death surrounded by formalized gossip rituals. Nobody understand why they are doing it, but hey, everybody is doing it so let's also do it (and belief it). Memes which were only gossip between a small group of people were written down and now are believed by millions of people, following the "guidelines" which have lost their context for a long time, and making it all from a scientific view "bizarre".
Science or facts will never have such an impact on on society. Just as you can implement a fantastic business intelligence system which gathers all data from a company it will barely influence decisions, it will only support already present-in-brains memes. If a CEO feels intuitively that he should go a certain direction by things he heard in his network and read around on the internet then that will be the new main direction of the company. If a country has gossip going around "crime" although crime is decreasing according to "scientific reports" there will still be a new government choosen who will focus on crime.
It's time scientists learn to realize that gossip is the way to spread information and use it accordingly.


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The Bishops' Letter "Economic Justice For All": Twenty-Five Years Later
In November 1986, in the midst of an economic expansion, the Bishops of the United States published a pastoral letter on Catholic Social Teaching and its policy implications. They gave it the title "Economic Justice for All." A quarter century later, the economy is stagnating, the Tea Party and Occupy Wall St. have emerged, and we are in the midst of a prolonged budget crisis.
- How well do the Bishops' analysis and prescriptions hold up after 25 years?
- How relevant is Catholic Social Teaching to today's economic and budget crisis?
- Does the current political deadlock on the budget reflect different views of economic justice?
The Berkley Center and the Governance Studies Program at Brookings convened a roundtable of four experts to address these questions: E.J. Dionne (Brookings Institution and Georgetown), Ross Douthat (New York Times), Christine Firer Hinze (Fordham) and Rev. Robert Sirico (Acton Institute). Center Director Tom Banchoff moderated.
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In many instances these days, employees are forced under threat of termination, to sign non-compete agreements. In many cases, even if signed, they may never be enforceable if the employee elected to go to another company. Make sure and have an employment law attorney check out your non-compete and advise you on your rights since non-compete laws vary greatly from state to state.
In the event, though, that you are a high-level employee, which access to confidential information, your former employer will probably seek to enforce the non-compete agreement. As is the case with Martin Collins and Ford Motor Company.
Ford Motor Co. is suing Martin E. Collins, a former executive it says is violating a non-compete agreement. Ford hired Collins as general sales manager for Ford and Lincoln in March; he began work May 2 at Ford's world headquarters in Dearborn. Collins managed the entire dealer distribution network for Ford and Lincoln, and provided "ongoing feedback to senior Ford management regarding sales performance, sales trends and progress toward program and budget goals," according to the lawsuit filed Thursday in Wayne Circuit Court and since moved to U.S. District Court in Detroit.
Ford claims Collins agreed to a confidential information/non-compete agreement prohibiting him from working for a competitor for two years. Collins told Ford he had acquired no confidential information during his tenure at the company.
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NIH Statement on Recognition of Haitian Organization Devoted to Health Research
June 17, 2010
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation today presented its prestigious $1 million Gates Award for Global Health to a Haitian organization devoted to HIV/AIDS. GHESKIO—known for the French acronym of Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections—is being recognized for making significant research discoveries, training the next generation of Haitian scientists, and for providing free, high-quality treatment to Haitians infected with HIV. Since the tragic earthquake in January, GHESKIO also has been caring for thousands of injured, sick, and homeless Haitians on and near its premises. GHESKIO is highly deserving of this honor. The organization has had astounding success over the past three decades, helping to cut in half the prevalence of Haitians infected with HIV.
GHESKIO was founded on the principle that the triad of research, training and service are all interlinked and essential to making progress and saving lives. Dr. Jean William (Bill) Pape, GHESKIO's founder and director, has led this effort, conducting cutting edge research on its prevention and treatment, and setting up clinics around Haiti to implement a national treatment program. Along the way, he has trained many cadres of clinicians, laboratory scientists and investigators, addressed a continuous stream of programmatic challenges, and provided answers to critically important research questions. Their efforts helped pave the way for the massive rollout of AIDS drug therapy throughout the developing world, via the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR, and other programs such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Several million people around the world are alive today due in part to these efforts.
GHESKIO is deserving of the Gates Award and recognition, not only for the success it has achieved for its work in Haiti, but as an example of how American investment in global research can be most effectively deployed. GHESKIO has developed local scientific leadership and an outreach program across Haiti that has been instrumental in helping the country address some of its most pressing problems, including HIV. This is a cause to celebrate and a lesson for all of us.
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The return of the Spice Girls has fans around the world jumping up and down with anticipation, including the Queen of England.
The Spice Girls have been invited to perform in front of her majesty for the Royal Variety Performance, according to Hello Magazine.
The show, set for December 3, is the same day the Girls are supposed to kick of their world tour in Canada.
"We've been having talks with them," a Royal Variety Performance organizer said. "They are keen, but it's a question of making it work physically."
If the Spice Girls go make the performance happen, they may have a very quick turnaround to make their tour kick-off in Vancouver.
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Jacktivities For 10/29: Lakers! Really That's All That Matters…
October 29, 2012 4:18 PM
- ONE MORE DAY. That's all that's left between us and the beginning of the NBA Season. Lakers v Mavericks tomorrow night at Staples, 7:30p tip time. Clippers play at Staples on Wednesday evening vs Memphis. C'mon Lakers and/or Clippers, help us forget about the Dodgers and Angels.
- Starting at 8pm tonight is a Friday the 13th movie marathon on AMC. Gotta starting with the original, which they are. DVR it if ya have to.
- Lastly, November 17th its RUSH, playing the Honda Center in Anaheim.
- Probably the biggest game of the year for the USC Football Trojans comes to the LA Coliseum this Saturday as they take on the Oregon Ducks, 4pm kick off.
- The biggest Halloween celebration there is is the West Hollywood Costume Carnival this Wednesday along Santa Monica Blvd. Starts at 6pm, goes until question mark. Road closures begin around 4pm.
- December 3rd remains the date that Aerosmith have chosen to play Staples Center.
- In the free food portion of today's JACktivities, apparently Taco Bell is giving everyone a free Doritos Loco Taco tomorrow from 2-6p due to something that happened in the World Series. Free taco!
- With the leper-filled San Francisco Giants winning the World Series, baseball season is officially over so now its basketball time. Lakers first real game of the year is tomorrow night, at Staples, 7:30p vs the Mavericks.
- The LACMA opens a first of its kind STANLEY KUBRICK exhibit on Thursday. This exhibit will be open thru June of next year.
- In concert news, Friday, November 9th Eddie Money plays the Downtown Civic Center in Downey.
- Need a family friendly option for your sex trophies and your pet? Howl-oween in Burbank, a pet costume party and trick or treat option for your ankle biters is on for Wednesday from 4-7p in Downtown Burbank.
- Barbara Steisand has a November 9th date at the Hollywood Bowl but since apparently you people still love her, they added another date at the Bowl on the 11th.


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Kick off your vacation on the beaches of South Florida when you book a Carnival cruise from Fort Lauderdale. Join fellow Carnival cruisers for a stay at the second-busiest cruise port in world, serving well over 3 million passengers each year. Before your cruise from Fort Lauderdale, Florida departs, you'll enjoy a bustling seafront city filled with watery canals, powdery beaches, and endless shopping at your fingertips.
Hit the beach before your cruise from Fort Lauderdale leaves port and make time to explore the rest of the city, too. There's stylish shopping on Las Olas and bargain-hunting at the Swap Shop. Despite the city's modern glitz, you'll still find traces of Old Florida style at the Stranahan House and the Bonnet House and Garden.
The closest attractions to your Carnival cruise from Fort Lauderdale are the Harbor Shops and the John Lloyd Beach State Park. This beach serves as much as a nature preserve—with its nesting sea turtles in summer, nature walk, and manatee sanctuary—as it does a popular local beach.
The flashy Museum of Discovery & Science has interactive displays on everything from local ecosystems to how garbage decomposes. The museum's IMAX theater shows eye-popping films on an enormous screen. The nearby Stranahan House, built in 1901, is the city's oldest standing structure, originally used as a trading post along the New River. Inside, you'll get a glimpse of pioneer life on the Florida frontier. Channel your inner Olympian at the International Swimming Hall of Fame, and plunge into one of the enormous pools after checking out 5-time gold medalist Johnny Weismuller's medal collection. On a guided tour of the Bonnet House Museum and Gardens, former home of artists Evelyn and Frederic Clay Bartlett, you'll see colorful portraits, landscapes, and murals adorning the walls. The extensive tropical gardens mirror the home's Caribbean plantation feel.
Before your flight home, let us take you on an Everglades Safari Tour, it is the best way to see the glades of the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation. Board a fast airboat through the grassy waters or take a swamp buggy safari to spot wildlife through the wetlands' arching trees.
While waiting for your cruise from Fort Lauderdale to depart, take advantage of the Florida sun on the city's soft-sand beaches. The Fort Lauderdale Beach Promenade stretches past hotels, shops, and restaurants lining the sugary powder-sand beach that helped put the city on the map. Palm-fringed Hollywood Beach is frequently rated one of America's best. The famous boardwalk is three miles of kitschy beachside fun, complete with souvenir shops, snack stands, and paths for biking and rollerblading. For something a bit more low key, Hugh Taylor Birch State Park has an extensive garden of tropical hammock trees, while Dania Beach has a fishing pier extending over light blue waters from uncrowded sands.
Join the trolleys and horse carriages as they make their way down Fort Lauderdale's Las Olas Boulevard, the main strip for boutiques, art galleries, restaurants, and bars. Classy names like Godiva and Swarovski can be found at the Galleria Mall, but you can score deals at the hundreds of outlets at Sawgrass Mills. For fun and flair, negotiate your way around the Swap Shop, the largest flea market in U.S., complete with more than 2,000 vendors, an amusement park, and a drive-in multiplex.
Sunny weather year-round and an abundance of courses make Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a golfer's dream. Try Emerald Hills for an exclusive challenge, or the 80-year-old Orangebrook Golf Course for one of the best deals in town: a round for under $25.


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"Dutch Don't Go We Need U"
It was June 4, 1987, and the man Baughman hired to guide the Hokies' football program had yet to coach a game at Lane Stadium. No farewell was going to be more difficult.
"I'd steal a hot stove for Frank Beamer," Baughman says today.
As would legions of Virginia Tech faithful.
Beamer has led the Hokies to unimagined heights, and Saturday he begins his 25th season as Virginia Tech's head coach, remarkable longevity in a most nomadic profession.
All of which makes Baughman's hiring of Beamer not only the most significant moment in Hokies history but also the most inspired.
Inspired because Beamer, a 1969 Virginia Tech graduate, wasn't the most credentialed candidate. One of his mentors was.
So if you believe much of life's turns are fated, that some things are just meant to be, this is a story for you.
"When you are in a position to hire a coach," Baughman says, "especially a coach of a high-profile sport, that hire might as well be a tattoo on your forehead, because it is going to be with you for the rest of your life, good or bad."
Baughman's position was uniquely awkward.
He arrived at Virginia Tech in December 1986 to succeed Bill Dooley, who doubled as the Hokies' football coach. On Dooley's watch, Tech had violated NCAA scholarship limits, prompting his exit from both positions, effective Dec. 31, the same day his team was to play North Carolina State in the Peach Bowl.
So while Dooley prepared the Hokies for the bowl — they won 25-24 on Chris Kinzer's field goal at the gun — and the NCAA pondered sanctions, Baughman searched for Dooley's coaching successor.
"Early on," Baughman says, "my focus was on Bobby Ross."
With good reason.
A VMI graduate and Richmond native, Ross had coached Maryland to three ACC championships in five years. But amid campus-wide turmoil caused by basketball All-American Len Bias' fatal cocaine overdose, he had just resigned.
Surely Ross, with a sterling 39-19-1 record at Maryland and NFL experience as a Kansas City Chiefs assistant, was the most qualified applicant.
"Timing is everything," Baughman says. "Bobby had just left Maryland, and I mean like the next day he was in Richmond, visiting his mother if I'm not mistaken, and I contacted Bobby and arranged to visit with him. …


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Inmate labor saves St. Lucie taxpayers thousands of dollars annually
ST. LUCIE COUNTY — Jail inmates recently helped convert a 21-year-old, 40-foot government surplus bus into a well-equipped jail transport vehicle, saving taxpayers with unpaid labor.
The Sheriff's Office paid a $3,000 transfer fee for the Blue Bird diesel-engine-powered bus and $6,500 for a wheelchair lift.
"A new bus equipped like this would cost more than $150,000," said Sheriff Ken J. Mascara. The custom work included fabricating, modifying and installing security gates on windows, confinement doors and security equipment for the bus interior, and seats to accommodate safety equipment.
Mascara said it's a "prime example" of how the Sheriff's Office has cut its costs and those of other county departments.
Labor from inmate workers saved the county an estimated $708,840 last year, according to a 2012 annual report on inmate labor hours and cost savings from the county's inmate work unit. Estimated savings are based on a $12 per hour starting pay for a county employee to do similar work instead of an unpaid jail work crew.
Work ranges from repairing and building structures at the county jail and gun range, to providing general maintenance for community projects, such as general lawn maintenance for Dogs & Cats Forever or upkeep for facilities at Indian River State College.
To qualify for work crews, inmates must "have a history free and clear of crimes against (people)," noted Maj. Patrick Tighe, director of detention at the Sheriff's Office.
"These people are pretty talented," Tighe said. "You just have to get the talent out."
There are about 150 inmates working at the county jail on a regular basis. Inmates can be called on for tasks throughout the county.
"The food bank might call and need a building renovated, and then we schedule it," Tighe said. "There are so many different things."
Some activities turn out to be quite creative. In a project similar to the renovated surplus bus, inmates converted an old fire department ambulance into a hostage negotiation truck.
"You go inside and it looks like a conference room," Tighe said.
Sheriff's officials work with the county to help save money. Tighe recalls three years ago when the county sent out bids to repair and paint a county facility, but the low bid was still too high at about $250,000. The inmate crew was called in to do the job at a more than $150,000 estimated savings, he said.
County departments — from the circuit clerk and appraiser's offices to the Board of Elections and St. Lucie County International Airport substation facilities — have benefited from the jail work unit.
Inmates have laid down carpet, refurbished county offices, cleaned up voter booths and relocated office furniture.
They work regularly at the Sheriff's Office gun range, performing landscaping, irrigation repair, installation of drainage pipes and other maintenance that saved the county an estimated $47,000 last summer. Inmates have also helped community service programs, such as moving furniture at the Boys & Girls Club, setting up boxing rings at the PAL center and assisting with toy distribution at the WPSL Christmas Kids.
Ironically, the jail work unit's labor force might be affected by the drop in the crime rate, which has led to a decrease in the jail population in recent years, Tighe said. The unit has had to turn down some requests from other county departments because of a lack of available inmate workers.
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L&L Provides Weishe Mine Update
Company Appoints Three Managers to Expand Sales
SEATTLE, April 2, 2012
. L & L Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: LLEN) ("L&L"), a U.S.-based company since 1995 with coal mining and
distribution businesses in China, today provided an update on its Weishe coal mine ("Weishe"), located in Guizhou Province.
After successfully completing a government inspection, which took place over the first few weeks of its test production, the recently
acquired Weishe mine received regulatory formal approval to begin initial coal production. During the inspection, regulators tested
Weishe's construction, air ventilation, safety equipment and coal extraction practices to ensure the newly constructed mine met
various new safety standards. The inspection is the first of a series of tests over the next five months to gain final approval.
Dickson Lee, Chairman & CEO of L&L, stated, "The construction and testing of the mine has gone smoothly. Weishe's timely
completion of the initial inspection is a testament to the excellent planning, hard work and dedication of our staff. On behalf of L&L, I
thank them for the excellent work."
L&L also announced that it has appointed Zhi Xie as its Senior Sales Director in Guizhou Province, who will expand L&L's coal sales
and marketing efforts at Weishe and throughout L&L's various wholesale outfits. Mr. Xie has 25 years of institutional coal sales
experience. He was Assistant General Manager at AVIC International Coal Logistics Co. Prior to that, Mr. Xie worked as Coal
Transportation Manager for the Guizhou Railroad Holdings Co., where he was responsible for 30 million tons of coal sales per year.
L&L also appointed two U.S.-trained bilingual financial managers to the Guizhou Operations. Mr. Hubert Chen, an MBA in Finance,
previously worked at L&L's Seattle office. Mr. Lin Po, an MBA in Accounting and Operations, previously worked at Shanghai for a
major US company. Both graduated from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona.
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uncertainties. Actual results of the future events described in this document could differ materially. Other than as required under the
securities laws, the Company does not assume a duty to update these forward-looking statements.
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