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This article was published 4/4/2011 (2332 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Over the seven years I have attended the CFL Player's Association Annual General Meeting in the world's largest playground of Las Vegas, I have found that you can always count on a prevailing theme to emerge from the conference and inundate your thoughts after the discussions, and this year was no different.
After three days of meetings with Reebok, the commissioner and his legal representation, our legal counsel, and the CFLPA executive, I found myself concerned with one issue more than any other as I boarded the 8:30 p.m. direct flight back to Winnipeg: player safety and the future of the game of football. Period.
This obviously sounds like a dramatic assessment to make when you realize that the numbers for the CFL were better in 2010 than they have ever been. We learned this year that we beat the NHL on average viewership per game, and anytime football surpasses hockey north of the border it's a big deal. Even when it comes to merchandising, the Saskatchewan Roughriders sell the third most apparel out of any team in Canada right now, just after the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens. That being said, allow me to share with you some of the information we were run over with that led me to draw such a conclusion.
According to information from a UNC study we were shown, "Repeatedly concussed NFL players had five times the rate of mild cognitive impairment (pre-Alzheimers) than the average population." The same study also showed that, "...retired NFL football players suffer from Alzheimer's disease at a 37 per cent higher rate than average." Going into this conference we were all somewhat familiar with the long term consequences of playing football, but not to the depth that was introduced at our meetings.
Next we were shown that Time Magazine had produced a story about football called The Most Dangerous Game, and the author, Sean Gregory, concluded that, "Men between the ages of 30 and 49 have a one in a thousand chance of being diagnosed with dementia, Alzheimers, or another memory related disease. An NFL retiree has a one in fifty-three chance of receiving the same diagnosis." This was around the moment in Las Vegas where a collective 'thunk' was heard as all of our jaws hit the floor. These are not CFL statistics, but you would have to be pretty naive to think that these facts do not apply to our game as well.
By this point, morale was already at an all time low at Planet Hollywood, but then, if you can imagine, things got worse as we were shown the findings by Michael Glueck M.D. and Robert Cihak M.D. who wrote, "It is not a widely disseminated, downloaded or discussed fact that the average life expectancy for all pro football players, including all positions and backgrounds, is 55 years. Several insurance carriers say it is 51 years." According to this math, if I can live for another 19 years I will be beating the average! (Insert false enthusiasm here.) After hearing this sobering fact, I have to admit, I stopped paying so much attention to our report on the CFLPA pension plan, as it kind of defeats the purpose of saving money for retirement when you learn that most all of the people that work in your industry die 10 years before the normal age of retirement in Canada of 65.
I don't have any children at the moment, but if I do end up having a son I can honestly tell you I'm not sure right now whether he should play football and whether I would even encourage him to. Though the game has changed my life in numerous beneficial ways and afforded me opportunities, exposure, and a lifestyle I have always coveted, only in the last few years have the results of studies like these been coming out and people in our game made aware of the damage we are doing to ourselves.
These life-altering consequences and hazards of playing football are still not mainstream yet, but what do you expect will happen to participation at the grass roots level when it does? You don't have to be a professional football player to traumatize and permanently injure your brain. It happens at all levels of the game.
Before I go start working on my will this afternoon, I will leave you with the results of a Head Trauma-G-force study done by the University of Oklahoma that we also saw in Las Vegas. It tells us that, "Head to head lineman impact G-force," is 20 to 30 Gs. It also tells us that the, "G-force required for a fighter pilot to pass out," is five to six Gs. What happens to a lineman that plays 15 years of professional football and on average, experiences "head to head lineman impacts" 60 times a game, roughly 18 times a year?
I guess we are not going to have to wait too long to find out.
Doug Brown, always a hard-hitting defensive tackle for the Blue Bombers and frequently a hard-hitting columnist, appears Tuesdays in the Free Press.


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Croquettes with Serrano Ham and Manchego Cheese
Croquettes are adorned with parsley for these bite-size appetizers.
- Servings: 12
- Yield: Makes about 16
Source: Martha Stewart Living, September 2006
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/4 cup finely chopped onion
- Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper
- 7 tablespoons all-purpose flour, plus more for shaping
- 3/4 cup whole milk
- 6 tablespoons finely chopped serrano ham
- 1/3 cup plus 1/4 cup grated Manchego cheese (about 1 3/4 ounces)
- 3 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups fresh breadcrumbs
- Vegetable oil, for frying
- Fresh flat-leaf parsley sprigs, for garnish
Heat butter and oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat until butter has melted. Add onion; season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is translucent, about 3 minutes. Add flour; cook, stirring, 1 minute. Whisk in milk, and cook, whisking, 3 minutes. Whisk in ham and 1/3 cup cheese. Season with salt and pepper as desired. Spread mixture onto a baking sheet, and let cool completely. Mixture can be refrigerated in an airtight container up to 2 days.
Whisk together eggs in a shallow dish. Stir together breadcrumbs and remaining 1/4 cup cheese in another shallow dish. Scoop tablespoons of cooled mixture, and shape with floured hands into 2-inch ovals. Working with 1 oval at a time, coat in beaten egg, then in breadcrumb mixture. Transfer to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Heat 2 1/2 inches oil in a large, heavy stockpot until it registers 375 degrees on a deep-fry thermometer. Working in batches to avoid crowding, fry croquettes, flipping once, until dark golden brown, 1 to 2 minutes total. Using a slotted spoon, transfer to paper towels to drain. (Adjust heat between batches as needed to keep oil at a steady temperature.) Serve warm, garnished with parsley sprigs.

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By Melissa Daniels | PA Independent
HARRISBURG – State Sen. Daylin Leach, D-Montgomery often compares Pennsylvania's marijuana laws to the alcohol prohibition laws of the early 20th century.
He says it's a culture war that one day will end. Maybe sooner than one might think.
"I'm sure that in 10 years, we will look back on prohibition as a quaint relic of the past," Leach said.
Leach, one of the state's most progressive lawmakers, introduced legislation to legalize marijuana use for adults age 21 and older. Leach's legislation envisions marijuana sold alongside alcohol in state liquor stores and beer distributors, with production, distribution and sale regulated in a similar way as alcohol.
Leach made the social and economic case for marijuana legalization at a Monday afternoon news conference, where he said that keeping marijuana illegal makes criminals out of people who "smoke a plant."
Leach said keeping marijuana illegal is irrational on several levels, comparing it to alcohol and tobacco that can be deadly but are legal. Marijuana, conversely, is prescribed medically in 18 states.
"Like the original prohibition, the prohibition of marijuana has resulted in damages far in excess of what the actual substance we're controlling could ever do," he said. "This is a cruel, irrational policy that we've had for 75 years without revisiting."
But in Pennsylvania – especially this session – Leach's idea is little more than a pipe dream.
Janet Kelley, deputy director of communications for Gov. Tom Corbett, said he would not sign a bill legalizing marijuana.
"Governor Corbett has personally witnessed the devastation of illegal drugs on Pennsylvania communities throughout his career," Kelley said in an email to PA Independent. "He does not believe that loosening restrictions on illegal drugs is in the interest of public safety."
Leach said that he didn't think it was rational for the governor to "keep people in prison or threat of prison for marijuana" while offering up a proposal to increase the number of places that can sell alcohol, referring to Corbett's latest liquor privatization push.
Leach said the administration is leaving millions of dollars on the table.
The state spends about $325 million a year prosecuting nearly 25,000 marijuana arrests, according federal statistics from 2006. If the drug were legalized, Leach said they would not only save that money, but make additional millions from taxing marijuana — at least $25 million a year, he said.
Opponents to legalization point out that social costs could outweigh the benefits. The Office of National Drug Control Policy compares the situation to alcohol, which they say costs more than it takes in.
"Federal excise taxes collected on alcohol in 2007 totaled around $9 billion; states collected around $5.5 billion," reads the federal government fact sheet on legalization. "Combined, these amounts are less than 10 percent of the estimated $185 billion in alcohol‐related costs to health care, criminal justice, and the workplace in lost productivity."
The office bolsters the drug's danger by citing negative effects of marijuana as "dependence, respiratory and mental illness, poor motor performance, and impaired cognitive and immune system functioning."
Leach doesn't necessarily have public opinion on his side. The latest Franklin and Marshall College poll found that 55 percent of polled Pennsylvania voters oppose marijuana legalization, compared to 36 percent in support.
However, legalization marijuana for medical use has widespread bipartisan support. The poll found 82 percent of polled voters "strongly" or somewhat" favor allowing adults to use marijuana if a doctor recommends it. About 76 percent of polled voters said the same in 2006. The poll surveyed 622 Pennsylvania voters between Jan. 29 and Feb. 3, with a margin of error of 3.9 percentage points.
Terry Madonna, executive director of the Center for Politics and Public Opinion at the college, called the support "overwhelming." But without any real legislative push, the concept wouldn't go far.
"To do this it take the leadership from the Legislature and the governor to endorse it," he said, "and I haven't heard that to be the case."
Leach said while he supports medical marijuana proposals, he does not think that solves the problem of "marijuana prohibition."
Allen St. Pierre, executive director of the Washington, D.C.,-based National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, has lobbied on behalf of state and federal policy changes for decades.
He said seeing a legalization proposal pop up in Pennsylvania was surprising, but that it's happening more and more — especially since voters in Washington state and Colorado approved legalization in a referendum in the November 2012 election.
"We did not have the commonwealth of Pennsylvania on our radar scope at all," St. Pierre said. "We think that's indicative of how politically salient the issue for marijuana reform is today."
Ten states have legalization bills pending, compared to one state five years ago, St.Pierre said. And a federal discussion began on Capitol Hill last week with pro-marijuana proposals from Reps. Jared Polis, D-Colo., and Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore.
Their bills would create federal laws regulating production and retail sale for marijuana in states that have already legalization consumption for medical or recreational uses.
"Mr. Leach may be slightly ahead of the curve in Pennsylvania, but he's pretty much on the curve nationally," St. Pierre said.
Contact Melissa Daniels at [email protected]


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Best Bourbon Cocktails for Fall
Bourbon can be enjoyed year-round, but there's nothing quite like sipping the robust, smoky whisky during the crisp fall months. After all, the US Senate declared September National Bourbon Heritage Month, so even the government thinks it's a good idea to drink the aged liquor in the fall.
Bourbon can be enjoyed year-round, but there's nothing quite like sipping the robust, smoky whisky during the crisp fall months. After all, the US Senate declared September National Bourbon Heritage Month, so even the government thinks it's a good idea to drink the aged liquor in the fall.
To give bourbon an extra fall kick, try enjoying it in one of these delicious fall cocktails. With ingredients including vanilla, fig, ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg these drinks are like drinking autumn in a glass. Enjoy them well into the holiday season – bourbon is the officiall in-law cure-all.
New-Fashioned Ginger Cocktail
As the trees turn their beautiful gold and burnt orange colors for fall, this New Fashioned Ginger cocktail also sports a bright golden straw color that's perfect for autumn. The tastes of bourbon, fresh ginger and orange also give it a warm, fall kick. Plus, it's made with Maker's 46, which makes everything more delicious.
Autumn's Old Fashioned
Another twist on the classic American drink, this one includes orange bitters, muddle orange and Jim Beam's Red Stag Cinnamon Bourbon – sounds like everything you need for a delicious cocktail. It was uploaded to Pinterest by user Ben Kessler, who has the full recipe on his page.
Maple Bourbon Cider
Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you don't like getting lost in corn mazes and picking apples fresh from the orchard. But while you're enjoying these childlike fall activities, you can enoy a mature apple cider with this Maple Bourbon Cider recipe. The sweetness is balanced out by a dash of cayenne pepper for a true spiced cider that won't disappoint.
Spiked Pumpkin Spice Latte
Everyone's favorite coffee drink for fall just got a major upgrade. Use this simple recipe to make your own version of a pumpkin spiced latte right at home and add, you guessed it, a shot of bourbon. Guarantee you Starbucks doesn't have that on the menu.
Smashing Pumpkin Recipe
Just like the rock band, this cocktail seems rough around the edges, but actually has a delicate soft side. The Smashing Pumpkin featured in Garden & Gun magazine contains fresh pumpkin, cloves, cinnamon, allspice and a dash of celery bitters. Pumpkin perfection.
Fig and Bourbon Cocktail
Figs and cocktails don't really seem like a likely combination, but this Fig and Bourbon cocktail from My Man's Belly proves us skeptics wrong. The delicious drink includes Cointreau, Brown Sugar Fig Simple Syrup (which is surprisingly easy to make), and dark chocolate bitters. This is perfect for an after-dinner drink, or to help ease the tension around the holidays – which, let's be honest, is the majority of the holiday season.
See how Dawn Sandomeno and Elizabeth Mascali elevate the every day with their fantastic recipes and ideas!Read More »


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"We introduced Google Apps for Teams in 2008 to allow people with a verified business or school email address to collaborate using non-email applications from Google like Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Talk. Over time, we realized that Google Apps for Teams was not as useful for people as we originally anticipated. Beginning September 4, 2012, we'll start converting existing Google Apps for Teams accounts into personal Google Accounts, and shutting down Google Apps for Teams. This change does not affect other editions of Google Apps."
Now days under the Larry's leadership, Google is in razor sharp FOCUS and SHUT DOWN MODE, shutting down all the unnecessary or less used things over the time. Shutting down Google Apps Team is part of it.
Small companies like us heavily rely on Google Apps for daily Emails and Google Docs for collaboration. So is it the end of era of free emails and docs for small businesses?
Wait, Do not panic, it is not.
Our major concern with Google Apps is Free Emails for small businesses? will it be affected?
Google Apps Free Email is something which is most widely used and they can not afford to shut it down, they are only shutting down the Google Apps Team – Gtalk, Calender, Docs. But it doesn't mean that these will just vanish into thin air but they are converting Google Apps Team into Google personal account which we did that around 2 years ago for Google.com/a/techshu.com [Link 1, Link 2] when they 1st introduced this option, now days our team members do not see google.com/a/techshu.com anywhere which means we are using Google Personal Account services. and guess what we didn't loose our email address which is ema...@techshu.com and we are still using Google docs.
- Good for Google Biz – They want to make it exclusive only for Google Apps Business and Enterprise (Now Business with Vault) package.
- Good for us – With Google Personal account we can have access to all Google services not just limited to few services.
- Good for Google – By Converting Google Apps Team into Google Personal Account, they want to keep us under umbrella of new Google Privacy Terms and Conditions for Google personal accounts which is applicable to any Google services you use you can't run away from them.
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Here is what happens when your Google Apps Team account is shutdown and converted into Google Personal Account.


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Um, thank you. Here's a small tip ~~~.
Sobekhotep wrote:Hittite is on your wishlist. Is it possible to learn this language?
Does a language has to be possible to learn to be on my wishlist? I also wish to learn Ancient Egyptian but I can't - unless going back in time. Anyway, I think I've also seen a course to learn Hittite somewhere around my place .... or it was Hindi? I dunno
Oh, and thank you, Delodephius, for those two links! I'll read through the pages anytime soon.


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Brewer at the Legislature: Wind energy is testament to greed
Groene at the Legislature: Holding NRDs responsible
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MULLEN-Only 19 seconds separated the first and second place race teams Saturday at the sixth annual Polar Bear Tank Race, organizer Mitch Glidden said.
The River Rats -- Adrian Jensen, Tim Barkley and Trent Waltz from Chadron; Dan Avery of Hay Springs, Nick Brost of Indianola and Tony Corbin of Mullen -- placed second with a time of 1:05:05.
Third place went to the "Rumble on the River" team of racers from Mullen, Ainsworth, Maywood and Kearney with a time of 1:05:33 and fourth place went to the Brew Crew of Crete, Wilber and Dorchester with a time of 1:05:45.
The race was extremely close, with only 59 seconds between first and fourth place.
The temperature was around 40 degrees when the first tank was launched at 9 a.m. MT, with a light wind. But the weather warmed throughout the day.
There were seven other teams that just floated down the course after they launched at 1-minute intervals, Glidden said.
The Best Decorated Tank was Pretty in Pink by Cheryl Sheldon, Susan Bartels, Susan Proskover, Annette Henkel, Deb Moore and Christine Karell of Alliance.
It was their first time in the race.
The Best Costumed Tank Team was Rumble On The River, with Eric Donahue of Maywood, Jesse Jacobs of Kearney, Wade Marsh of Mullen and Trevor Glidden of Ainsworth.
Teams from Lincoln, Omaha, Bellevue, Alma, Wahoo, Central City, Milford, Seward, Henderson, Alliance, McCook and Gordon, with 4-7 members, competed.
Glidden said some individual team members came from as far away as Grays Lake (a suburb of Chicago), Maple Valley, Wash.; Glenwood Springs and Castle Rock, Colo.; Fayetteville, Ark. and Laveen, Ariz.
People from ages 21 to 70-plus competed, with all-male, all-female and couples teams.
When the tankers reached the finish at a campsite near Nebraska Highway 97, they were transported to the Consolidated Telephone building north of Mullen for a hamburger lunch provided by Nebraskaland National Bank of Mullen.
A prime-rib dinner awards banquet was held Saturday night in the Seneca Community Auditorium with Rustic Restaurant of Mullen catering and Brahmers of Thedford providing the cash bar.
The organizers expressed thanks to local sponsors, including Consolidated Telephone for use of their building, with breakfast hosted by Kirk and Jody Jacobs, lunch provided by Nebraskaland National Bank; the Hooker County Visitors Committee and Thomas County Visitors Committee; the Middle Loup River Ranch Guest House of Thedford and Glidden Canoe Rentals of Mullen.
More than half of the teams were returning teams from last year. Nearly 40 percent of the teams have participated all six years.
The event is held each year to promote the Sandhills Journey Scenic Byway -- Nebraska Highway 2 between Grand Island and Alliance -- and its communities.
For information about next years race contact Mitch Glidden 308-546-2206 or 888-278-6167, or email email@example.com or visit the Sandhills Journey Scenic Byway website at www.SandhillsJourney.com
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A few years ago we would grill 3 or 4 times a week. Until we move into a new house. Then we would only grill once or twice a month. Now that we are settled into our new home I wanted to start cooking out again. So I went all out and bought 12 cookbooks on grilling and BBQing with the intention of keeping the best ones. If you've read my other Post in the "General Discussion" section then you already know 5 of the 6 books that I kept were by Steven Raichlen. I loved his show on PBS and I continue to enjoy his books. As a result of cooking Coke Can Chicken last weekend, which was the best chicken I've ever had, my wife is at the store right now buying meat for tomorrow. I will be smoking brisket, a couple of pork butts, and grilling fajitas tomorrow (and loving it! )
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U.S. corn futures tumbled to the one-day limit on losses Wednesday and wheat futures fell more than 4% as concerns over low supplies eased.
Both grains have sold off sharply, with corn futures falling to a six-week low after setting all-time highs earlier this month. The pullback in wheat futures was even sharper, touching an 11-month low Wednesday at the Chicago Board of Trade. CBOT December corn dropped 30 cents, or 4.4%, to $6.50 1/4 a bushel. The daily limit expands to 45 cents Thursday.
Funds sold an estimated 30,000 corn contracts, according to floor traders. The big feature in the market was widespread speculation that a large macro fund was liquidating positions in grain futures, said Dan Basse, president of AgResource Co., a Chicago-based agricultural advisory service.
Corn prices also were driven lower by slowing demand and favorable weather for the U.S. crop that is developing. Forecasts for warmer temperatures in the Midwest encouraged projections that output may exceed previous outlooks. Corn futures dropped to their lowest levels since early May, effectively extracting the premium fueled by spring planting problems.
The slide was overdone, as inventories of corn remain tight at a 15-year low, said Jason Britt, president of Central States Commodities, a brokerage in Kansas City, Mo. He said the steep decline "smells of something" and noted talk about fund liquidation.
Wheat slumped on a combination of new supplies from the U.S. harvest that is under way and increased supplies in the export market as output rises in the Black Sea region, analysts said.
European wheat futures sank as well. Prices in Paris were weaker before day trading began in Chicago at 10:30 a.m. EDT and dropped as much as 7%.
"Once Chicago opened, it became a race to the bottom between it and the European markets," said Mike Zuzolo, president of Global Commodity Analytics & Consulting, a brokerage in Indiana.
Commodity funds were unloading positions, including an estimated 8,000 wheat contracts at CBOT. Most-active CBOT September wheat dropped 32 1/4 cents or 4.6% to $6.73 1/4; KCBT September lost 32 3/4 cents or 4% to $7.88 3/4; MGE September dropped 33 3/4 cents or 3.8% to $8.51 1/2.
U.S. soybean futures stumbled, ending at a five-week low on spillover weakness from grain futures. The market was consumed in broad-based selling in grain futures, falling on a domino effect of tumbling wheat and corn futures, said Citi analyst Mario Balletto in Chicago. CBOT November soy ended down 1.3% at $13.32 1/2 a bushel.
Other Markets
CBOT July soymeal dropped 1.3% to $347.10 a short ton and December soyoil fell 0.8% to 57.50 cents a pound.
U.S. rice futures settled lower as selling engulfed the grain markets. Wheat, which exerts the most influence on rice because both grains are global food staples, sank more than 5% to a seven-month low. CBOT September rice lost 22 1/2 cents or 1.5%, to $14.62 1/2 per hundredweight.
Ethanol futures sank as corn prices dropped by their one-day limit. Spillover pressure from corn overshadowed federal data showing ethanol production last week increased 2.3% to 901,000 barrels a day. Ethanol for December delivery lost seven cents, or 2.8%, to $2.389 a gallon. Oat futures fought off heavy selling that hit other grain markets, with the September contract slipping 2 1/2 cents, or 0.7%, to $3.59 a bushel.
-Tom Polansek contributed to this article


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9 March 2011 Samsun Aks Tv
That means that our Prophet (saas) never saw half of the Muslim community at that time. Almighty Allah says in one verse that "After that no other women are lawful for you nor may you exchange them for other wives, even though their beauty might be pleasing to you." Allah says it is unlawful. Our brother may be saying that our Prophet (saas) saw them [women] behind their veils. There are verses saying that he saw them openly, that there were women he liked. How could our Prophet (saas) have liked any women if he did not see their faces? Is it possible for him not to have dealings with the Muslim community and not to have looked them in the face? Of course he looked at them. That means he also saw their beauty. How could our Prophet (saas) not see his Community? Why should he not look at their faces? Out of the question. Our Prophet (saas) often spoke to women.
Kaçkar TV, 9 March 2011
We bring the dead to life and We record what they send ahead and what they leave behind. We have listed everything in a clear register. (Surah Ya Sin, 12)
In other words, Allah says He records everything that people do in their lives. He says He records it all as images and sounds, that He preserves it all. We cannot know, but we will see it all in the Hereafter. There may be a piece of crystal that holds all of a person's characteristics and their whole lives. Allah says, "We bring the dead to life..." The resurrection of the dead is a most glorious thing. A blessing from Allah. Allah constantly creates people. But we regard that as unextraordinary as we are so used to it. We die every time we go to sleep. We die every evening. But we are resurrected every morning when we wake up. But we regard that as ordinary because we are so familiar with it. But if we told people they die and are resurrected every day they will be hugely taken aback. They may be reluctant to go to bed. But Allah says He will bring them back to life. A person believes he will wake up again and be resurrected. But if Allah so chooses that person will not wake up again. He may remain asleep and never wake up again.


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Why do you ride?
It was one of those blind-sides. A humdinger. She asked the question and it floated in the air, waiting for that snappy answer. That flowing wordsmith ladden arrangement of flowery juxtaposition that would somehow explain what it is.
The why. Why we do what we do.
Meanwhile, the TV camera atop its tripod sat patiently awaiting my response.


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PASADENA, Texas - A Houston area man who was demoted then fired from his job revealed to Local 2 Investigates he had a plan to kill some of his co-workers.
"I was prepared to take those individuals out," Michael Shepard said.
Shepard worked for 14 years at the Oxy Vinyls plant in Pasadena, Texas. He said on September 22, 2011 he went to the plant without a gun, but with a plan to hold three people hostage.
"No one would have ever guessed, my mom was shocked when I told her," he said.
Shepard said, if necessary, he was prepared to force the three employees to inhale Nitrogen gas.
"I was going to take those three individuals into an office, I was going to barricade myself in and I was going to spend a couple of hours with them and I was going to set some things straight," Shepard, 44, said.
A Pasadena police report confirms Shepard caused a commotion at Oxy Vinyls at 4403 Pasadena Freeway on September 22, 2011. Nobody was injured.
Shepard was not charged with a crime, instead, according to the police report, he was taken to Bay Shore Hospital where he voluntarily submitted to psychiatric evaluation.
The former plant worker said he was released four days later.
Shepard is now out the hospital, and out of work. He told Local 2 Investigates Joel Eisenbaum he remains on permanent disability but has not and does not plan in the future to take psychotropic medication prescribed to him by doctors.
"What I want people to know is I am no longer a danger to anyone," Shepard said.
Shepard appeared to have disdain for the recent events that transpired in Aurora.
"The difference is he only cares about himself, I care about others," Shepard said about suspect James Holmes.
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Ila Rodeback's Obituary
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Ila Miller Rodeback, 84, of Lindon passed away Thursday, July 24, 2008 at her home. She was born July 11, 1924 in Farnum, ID to James Theron and Luella Hendrickson Miller. She married Charles Lyle Rodeback on February 11, 1946 in the Salt Lake Temple.
Ila grew up near St. Anthony, Idaho and attended schools there where she loved to play sports. After her marriage, she and Charles made their home in Lindon where they raised their five children. She worked at Lindon and Aspen Elementary in the school lunch program for many years and was avid BYU football fan. She was devoted member of the LDS Church and served faithfully in many callings during her life.
She is survived by her husband Charles of Lindon; five children: Kathie (Curtis) Atkinson, Lakewood, CO; Kent (Kathy) Rodeback, Springville; Charlie (Richard) Crandall, Springville; Delynn (Becky) Rodeback, Alpine; Rick (Michelle) Rodeback, Payson; 24 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; five siblings: Belva (Jack) Meredith, Theron (Clairice) Miller, Warren (Yvonne) Miller, Marilyn Peay, James (Kaylene) Miller. She was preceded in death by her parents and sister, Verla Omer.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. in the Lindon Second Ward Chapel, 610 West 100 South, Lindon. Friends may call Monday evening from 6-8 p.m. at Olpin Family Mortuary, 494 South 300 East, Pleasant Grove and at the church on Tuesday one hour prior to services.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - More than four in five older Americans are expected to keep working during their latter years, a sign that traditional retirement is becoming out of reach.
Among Americans ages 50 and older who currently have jobs, 82 percent expect to work in some form during retirement, according to a poll by the Associated Press.
Sixty-five used to be the age the majority of people left the workplace, but if you look around, you'll notice more and more people older than 65 are still working.
"I was looking for a job and they had a sign on the door, and I live within walking distance, so I decided I would give it a try," said 79-year-old Gilbert House, who works at European Street Cafe. "I love it. Excellent people to work for."
House, who prepares food, was retired for 12 years. He said living off Social Security was a challenge. He now lives comfortably because he has a job again.
"I would have to pay my bills and then hope I had enough to eat on," he said. "Now I can pay my bills and eat and put gas in my car and pay my insurance."
Although House loves working, his advice for younger people is to plan for their future.
"Have a 401k at work, please save on your own, because prices just keep going up, and if you run into an illness it's very expensive," House said.
The AP polled a little more than 1,000 people ages 50 and older. The poll found that four out of five people say they expect to keep working instead of retiring.
The still-sluggish economy, battered 401k retirement plans and inadequate savings are to blame.
Financial planner Joe Krier says people need to start putting away money as early as they can. He said 25 years old is a great time to start.
"Most people don't start seriously saving for retirement until they are 50 or so, and they are way behind the eight ball," Krier said.
He said people can put their money to work now so they won't have to later in life.
"Set a certain percentage of your pay aside, no matter how small, just get in the habit of doing it," he said. "And I would say no less than 5 percent of your pay as a starting point."
Excluding pensions and homes, 39 percent of survey respondents say they have $100,000 or less saved for retirement. Nearly one-quarter have less than $10,000.
Krier said that's not enough to live off of for your golden years. The amount of money you'll need is much higher.
"For most people, it's a half-a-million to $3 million dollars you actually need to be looking at," he said.
Krier said although it sounds like a huge chunk of change, retirees will be spending that for the remaining years of their life. He said it needs to be enough money to get them through a couple of decades comfortably.
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January 7th, 2010 | SMWC
Financial Sustainability Conference @ MoneySmart Week
Money Smart Week (MSW) Indiana 2009 was October 10-17. Video recordings of the presentations are available below.
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, a proud partner with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, brought debt experts to campus for the Financial Sustainability Conference of MoneySmart Week. The sessions were recorded and are available by clicking on the links below.
An education is an investment that is often financed with scholarships, grants, loans, and credit cards. According to the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, "two out of three college students graduate with debt and the average borrower who graduates from a public college owes $17,250 from student loans." (Volume 3, August 2006). Even worse, "the number of college graduates with at least $40,000 in student loan debt has increased 10-fold in the past decade." (Paying with Plastic - Survey, National Association of College and University Business Officers, nacubo.org)
Presentation Topics
- Establishing and Reestablishing Credit in Today's Economy
- Establishing Credit
- Tricks Our Brains Play On Our Wallets
- Tips to Avoid Identity Theft
- Job Hunting Tips in Today's Economic Climate
- Student Borrowing Trends
- Life After the Woods; Perspective from the ISU Credit Union
- The Current Economy - Dialogue with the Gurus
- Student Panel - Money issues from the perspective of current students
Establishing and Reestablishing Credit in Today's Economy
Erin Alsman Robertson (SMWC class of 2000)
Keynote Speaker
Director, Mortgage and Credit Services Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership
Erin Robertson is a life-long Hoosier who is very familiar with many of the economic and social issues facing the residents of central Indiana. She serves as the Director of Mortgage and Credit Services at the Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership (INHP), a nonprofit agency that empowers low- and moderate-income families to attain, maintain and sustain long term, successful homeownership. In this position, Erin oversees a HUD-approved program delivering pre-purchase housing counseling to families seeking to overcome barriers that presently stand in the way of obtaining mortgage financing. Some of Erin's notable accomplishments since joining INHP are the design of a counseling program geared to the specific needs of families participating in the Section 8 Homeownership program, development of a standardized process for delivery of services and increased utilization of technological resources. Erin received her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in 2000 and her Master of Business Administration degree from Anderson University in 2004. She is also a Certified Financial Planner™ professional and was certified by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling as a Certified Consumer Credit Counselor. Erin also has received the Indiana Homeownership Education and Counseling certification and has been certified as a Credit Report Interpreter by the Associated Credit Bureaus.
Discussion Questions
- What are 3-5 aspects of Erin's presentation that stand out to you?
- What is a credit report and what might be on it?
- How long can old, negative information last on your credit report?
- What might be a good credit score?
- Annualcreditreport.com will allow you to pull how many free credit reports from each bureau every year?
- If you cosign for a loan that you didn't personally take out, how much liability do you assume for the payments?
- Why might health insurance or disability insurance be important for young people?
- What one key aspect of Erin's presentation stood out to you the most?
Establishing Credit
Karla Bensinger
Old National Bank
Karla Bensinger has lived in the Terre Haute community all her life and has been involved extensively in various community organizations. Karla's banking career has spanned over 30 years with various job appointments along the way. She began as a bookkeeper and teller, and from there advanced to Manager of Customer Service, Loan Officer, and Banking Center Manager. Karla is currently the Affinity Relationship Officer for the Northwest Region of Old National Bank. This position entails, conducting presentations at organizations and companies which covers the concerns of our current economic environment. Many of the topics covered are about obtaining and keeping good credit, guarding against identity theft, the workings of FDIC Insurance and being prepared for retirement. One of the most gratifying aspects of her job as an Affinity Relationship Officer is meeting with individuals and assisting them with their financial concerns.
Discussion Questions
- What is the average balance on charge cards in the US?
- In your opinion, what are some of the best tips for using credit cards and establishing credit?
- Where can you find your credit score?How does this affect your ability to borrow from a bank?
Tricks our Brains Play on our Wallets
Ron Moore
Adjunct Professor, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
Ron has served 24 years as a civilian in the Department of Defense, mostly in the Pentagon as a staff member for the Secretary of Defense. He also had assignments on the President's staff (Office of Management and Budget), at USAF headquarters in Europe, and at Harvard. Since he retired from Federal service in 2003, Ron has been an adjunct instructor in history, economics, political science, and management for various graduate and undergraduate programs at both SMWC and ISU.
Discussion Questions
- What is behavior economics?
- Explain the concept of "free" money.
- What do "bargains" or flea markets tend to do to our brains and wallets?
- How are you sometimes irrational with your money?
Tips to Avoid Identity Theft
Laura A. Turner, J.D.
Deputy Attorney General
Professional Licensing & Homeowner Protection Unit, Consumer Protection Divsion
Born and raised in Terre Haute, Indiana, Laura Turner has always been interested in the law. Turner attended high school at Terre Haute North Vigo and graduated magna cum laude from her undergraduate alma mater, Indiana State University, where she majored in Criminology and minored in Economics. Turner went on to attend Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis where she earned her Juris Doctorate while completing 180 hours in pro bono legal services. Turner serves as a Deputy Attorney General for the State of Indiana in the Professional Licensing and Homeowner Protection Unit.
Discussion Questions
- What does the Consumer Protections Division in Indiana do?
- Explain the "Do not Call" Law in Indiana.
- What are some ways to avoid Identity theft?
Job Hunting Tips in Today's Economic Climate
Jackie Fischer
Career Development Center, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
Jackie has been employed at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College for 15 years, including the last 12 years as associate director of the Career Development Center. She works with campus and distance students throughout their career development process, including assisting them during experiential learning activities. She also teaches adjunct in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department and is currently pursuing her doctorate in Counselor Education from Indiana State University.
Discussion Questions
- Why is networking important in job searches?
- What might be considered a traditional job-search method?
- Why is it important to engage in non-traditional methods?
- What is an elevator speech?What is your elevator speech?
Life After The Woods; Perspective From the ISU Credit Union
Amanda Vester (SMWC Class of 2005)
Marketing Coordinator, ISU Credit Union
Amanda has been with ISU Credit Union for two and a half years. She oversees all aspects of marketing from business development to press releases to website updates and everything in between. Prior to the credit union, Amanda worked in the SMWC Office of Admissions. While a student at SMWC, she wrote for The Woods newspaper and played softball all four years. Amanda recently received her Masters in Management from Indiana Wesleyan University. She is also on the Residential Life staff as a Resident Community Advisor at SMWC.
Discussion Questions
- How did a "work study" at SMWC help Amanda get started in her career?
- Describe some of Amanda's tips on money management?
- Why is "networking" highlighted in the presentation?
The Current Economy - Dialogue with the Gurus
Panel seminar with:
D. J. Wasmer
Director of the Master of Leadership Development, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
Frank Whittle
Professor of Business, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
Darrel Gosse
Visiting Professor, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
Dr. D.J. Wasmer is a Professor of Business and Director of the Master of Leadership Development program at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. Dr. Wasmer has taught Marketing and Economics for over 25 years and previously served as Chair of the Department of Business and Information Systems at SMWC for 15 years. He has published a variety of articles primarily in the areas of internal marketing, services marketing, and marketing education. In addition to his duties at SMWC, Dr. Wasmer has held leadership positions on a number of not for profit boards, currently serving as Treasurer of the Terre Haute Children's Museum.
Frank Whittle, Professor of Business, has taught at SMWC for nine years focusing in the areas of Human Resource Management and Business Administration. He contributes to a number of committees in the community such as Student Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM Advisory) and the Transportation Advisory Committee. He owns ADA Employment LLC, which contracts with the Department of Labor/Office of Workers Compensation Program and Indiana Vocational Rehabilitation Services.
Darrel Gosse has enjoyed his accounting career. After graduating from the University of Iowa as an accounting major, he was employed by Arthur Andersen LLP as an auditor for about 15 years (including 4 years in Australia – Melbourne and Sydney). Next he earned a PhD at Michigan State, and taught for several years at Indiana University (Bloomington) and Ball State University. His most recent experience was several years as a Controller for an Ohio manufacturing company that manufactured automobile parts for Honda. He has been fortunate to have had extensive experience in public accounting, managerial accounting, and teaching.
Discussion Questions
- What factors does DJ attribute to causing the 2008-2009 recession?
- What was the national unemployment rate at the time of the presentation? How does that compare to Indiana's unemployment, or Indiana's past unemployment rates?
- What factors might be beneficial for a student today to make herself more marketable in the job field?
- Why are hot tubs more expensive?
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Watertown Daily Times: Clayton micro-distillery nearing completion
CLAYTON — Construction of a 2,240-square-foot micro-distillery outside the village is about 90 percent done, and the facility is on track to be running in January.
"The only thing that's left is our interior finishes, the bar inside the retail space and distilling equipment," co-owner Michael L. Aubertine said of the project, which broke ground last spring. He said a 250-gallon copper pot still capable of processing 1,300 pounds of grain per day is set to arrive in December, but much of the equipment already has been installed. The facility houses a bin of grain needed to start making spirits, a full line of bottling equipment, scales and 1,500-liter fermentation tanks.
Ideally, Mr. Aubertine said, workers will start producing vodka, gin and fruit-flavored brandies by the end of January after equipment is installed and permits are acquired. If that timeline holds, the business likely will be open to the public by February. "The plan is to get as much stock built up in February and March to have some kind of ribbon-cutting in the spring," he said.
Mr. Aubertine owns the facility with Clayton resident Michael L. Ingerson and Roger R. Howard, a Watertown small-business owner.
The distillery will be set up much like a winery, with a 960-square-foot retail space and tasting bar, and will include merchandise such as hats and T-shirts. Free quarter-ounce samples of spirits will be available and a full line of products will be showcased at the bar area. Daily tours of the facility will be hosted.
In addition to vodkas and gin, the distillery later will sell strawberry-rhubarb- and lemon-jello-flavored liquors. It also will start producing large barrels of whiskey that need to age for three years before they can be bottled and sold.
"We're shooting for two barrels per month," Mr. Aubertine said, adding that the return on that should help make the distillery profitable. "Our profitability should turn around completely once we pull whiskey out of the barrel, but it will be four or five years until we see the return on our investment."
A Clayton farm owned by Mr. Aubertine's parents, Terry and Linda Aubertine, will grow wheat, oats, rye and corn to be used at the distillery.
As a qualified farm distillery, Mr. Aubertine said, the company will be able to sell its products to retail stores, restaurants and bars.


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HOUSTON - A Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo volunteer said she had her truck stolen out of a parking lot and now she has a warning for others.
"I just don't want it to happen to anyone else. I don't want anyone else to feel that false sense of security," said the woman, who asked to have her identity hidden.
She said she parked in a secured lot for volunteers, one with police officers and parking lot workers everywhere.
"They are so stringent about who can park in that lot." She said.
The woman, who had just gotten off work, said she locked all of her belongings inside her Ford F-150 and went in to the rodeo.
When she came out later, her truck was gone.
Police found it a a few miles away hours later. It had been stripped.
"They had lifted up all the seats and took all the floor mats," she said, "They took my computer, iPad, all my business files, purse, umbrella, tools."
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo staff told KPRC Local 2 they are taking the incident very seriously and are looking into it.
They also said they take every safety precaution possible and in the past ten years, the rodeo has only had two vehicles stolen from the volunteer lot.
"It really is a compromising position to be in," said the woman. "You're going there to volunteer, you feel like you're going to be safe and it wasn't."
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Menston and Burley-in-Wharfedale MP Philip Davies has called on the Government to "get a grip" on the benefits system, as just three in every 100 benefits cheats is sent to prison.
Most escape with a fine or community service and one in five walk away with a conditional discharge, no more than a slap on the wrist, according to official figures given to Philip Davies.
The Shipley constituency MP said Government needed to get a grip on the benefit system and judges must use powers to send the message benefit cheats will be punished.
He said: "This theft from the taxpayer is a serious offence and brings the benefits system into disrepute. It should be treated as seriously by the courts as it is by the public."
Latest figures for 2012 show of the 7,101 cheats found guilty just 250 were sent to prison with the average sentence six months.
In addition 1,351 cheats were fined, 2,947 given community service and 1,447 given a condition discharge meaning they were let off as long as they abided by certain rules. More than 1,000 were also given suspended sentence – all but walking free from their crime.
Justice Minister, Jeremy Wright, said: "The Government has also introduced a tougher loss of benefit penalty to restrict benefits to people convicted of benefit fraud or who have accepted an administrative penalty. Benefits can be reduced for periods of 13 weeks, 26 weeks or three years, dependent on the number of benefit fraud offences committed within a specified period, where the latest offence results in a conviction.
"Judges make their decisions independently of Government based on the facts of each case. The maximum penalty for fraud is ten years in prison."


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MANITOBANS won't have to wait longer than the Feb. 5 national launch of the BlackBerry Z10.
Well, at least some Manitobans won't have to wait.
Rogers, Bell and Telus will have the new BlackBerrys in next Tuesday, but MTS, the largest mobility company in the province, won't have the new devices until early March.
Stan Kurtas, MTS's vice-president of marketing, said the large national carriers with deeper supply chains will get the phones first because they have more spots to get them into.
As a regional player — even though it has a commanding share of its regional market — MTS has to wait. Even SaskTel subscribers will have access to the new phone next week, owing to the fact it is part of Bell's distribution network.
But based on historic market reactions here, Kurtas does not think the delay will be too painful for MTS or its customers.
"We launched the iPhone 4 a year after everyone else and it was the single-biggest sales day we've ever had," Kurtas said. "We don't think our customers will be too worried about waiting a couple of weeks, especially knowing they can pre-order right away."


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Six Thinking Hats is the title and subject of a book by Edward De Bono, published in 1985.
De Bono considered human cognition and thought to be of several types, approaches, or orientations. He theorized that of these approaches, most people used only one or two of the approaches and that people developed thinking habits which in turn limited people to those approaches. De Bono believed that if the various approaches could be identified and a system of their use developed which could be taught, that people could be more productive in meetings and in collaborating within groups and teams by deliberately using the approaches.
As a result of his investigations, De Bono was able to describe a process of deliberately adopting a particular approach to a problem as an implementation of Parallel Thinking™ as well as an aid to lateral thinking. Six different approaches are described, and each is symbolised by the act of putting on a coloured hat, either actually or imaginatively. This he suggests can be done either by individuals working alone or in groups.
De Bono's six hats are:
- White hat (Blank sheet): Information & reports (objective)
- Red hat (Fire): Intuition, opinion & emotion (subjective)
- Yellow hat (Sun): Praise, positive aspects, (objective)
- Black hat (Judge's robe): Criticism, negative aspects, modus tollens (objective)
- Green hat (Plant): Alternatives, new approaches & 'everything goes' (speculative)
- Blue hat (Sky): "Big Picture," "Conductor hat," "Meta hat," "thinking about thinking", overall process (overview)
The main purposes of using Six Thinking Hats are:
- focus and improve the thinking process
- encourage creative, parallel and lateral thinking
- improve communication
- speed up decision making
- avoid debate
De Bono believed that the key to a successful use of the Six Think Hats methodology was the deliberate focusing of the discussion on a particular approach as needed during the meeting or collaboration session. For instance, a meeting may be called to review a particular problem and to develop a solution for the problem. The Six Thinking Hats method could then be used in a sequence to first of all explore the problem, then develop a set of solutions, and to finally choose a solution through critical examination of the solution set.
So the meeting may start with everyone assuming the Blue hat to discuss how the meeting will be conducted and to develop the goals and objectives. The discussion may then move to Red hat thinking in order to collect opinions and reactions to the problem. This phase may also be used to develop constraints for the actual solution such as who will be affected by the problem and/or solutions. Next the discussion may move to the Green hat in order to generate ideas and possible solutions. Next the discussion may move between White hat thinking as part of developing information and Black hat thinking to develop criticisms of the solution set.
Because everyone is focused on a particular approach at any one time, the group tends to be more collaborative than if one person is reacting emotionally (Red hat) while another person is trying to be objective (White hat) and still another person is being critical of the points which emerge from the discussion (Black hat).
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In what continues to be the biggest news story of the year, the NSA was successful in vacuuming up enough data to be declared as dangerous to liberty as APT. Every week a major new revelation of NSA snooping emerged, from the capture of cellphone metadata to the interception of data from cloud providers. You can be sure this show is not over, folks.
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The entire world has grown tired of the NSA spying on everything and wants the pendulum to swing back toward protecting individual privacy. There's even a chance that Congress will act to rein in the NSA's ability to conduct sweeping audits. Either way, cloud providers are reacting faster than the bureaucrats and are encrypting customer data, at rest and in transit, to make eavesdropping harder. Privacy add-ons are popping up everywhere. How well your product or service protects your customer's privacy has become a key differentiator.
This is great news. Privacy protections were shattered in the wake of 9/11. Finally, people are saying enough is enough. The only real question is whether governments will stay engaged long enough to actually change the laws that allow wholesale spying on people not suspected of any crime.
Security blessing No. 2: Arrests and botnet takedowns proliferate
It's been a wonderful year for arrests of malware kingpins and takedowns of botnets. Many major botnets have been disrupted, including ZeroAccess, Citadel, and Bamital. Those successes followed a banner year -- 2012 saw a similar wave of botnet destruction.
Some experts say botnet takedowns make little difference, given the huge volume of nefarious activity. But the miscreants who were arrested might disagree, including a leader of the Reveton ransomware gang, Blackhole Exploit Kit creator "Paunch," several Carberp botnet leaders, three guys behind the Gozi Trojan, and Hamza Bendelladj, alleged co-creator of the Spyeye banking Trojan. All these takedowns and arrests not only made us safer, but even led to less spam reaching our mailboxes.
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A few folks have been asking: where is the house that Mr. Adams picked up and turned around because of a disagreement with his neighbor?
The answer is: the house at 7 Richmond St., Haverhill, MA, moved by John Frederick Adams (Generation #9).
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I am not 100% sure, but an informal search has identified this house (pictured above), which fits details documented by Garry Adams in 2000 in the following ways:
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- Aerial view shows a body of water that may have been a pool (or pond)
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- The house had been turned into a duplex
The real estate listing above states that the house was built in 1900, and is a Single Family property.
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BOSTON -- This game had a familiar feel after just one inning on Monday at Fenway Park.
The Phillies stranded a runner at second base in the top of the first against Red Sox right-hander Alfredo Aceves, who entered the night with an 8.20 ERA, while Phillies right-hander Tyler Cloyd allowed three runs in the bottom of the first to hand the Red Sox a three-run lead.
The Phillies turned that three-run deficit into a 9-3 loss.
They fell to 24-27 after flirting with .500 this weekend.
"I said two weeks ago that the more that we play, we'll show how good we are," Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said. "To me, the more we play, we'll see how good we can possibly play and what we'll do."
The loss felt like an inevitability after the first inning based on a couple things: the Phillies' offense has not shown an ability to score runs in bunches, and the Red Sox appeared to be on their way to an early knockout of Cloyd, who dropped to 1-1 with a 5.74 ERA in three starts with the Phillies after posting a 1-4 record and 6.57 ERA in seven starts with Triple-A Lehigh Valley.
Cloyd stranded two runners in the second before allowing three more runs to score in the third to make it 6-1.
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"Command for me, in my view, wasn't there at all tonight," Cloyd said. "I had no control over the two-seamer. My ball was up and I couldn't get ahead of hitters. I still had some movement on the ball, but when it's up in the zone, it's definitely easier to hit."
"I thought we had an outstanding approach, not only against Cloyd, but seemingly each guy that came to the mound tonight," Red Sox manager John Farrell said.
His performance echoed a couple of starts the last time the Phillies visited Fenway Park in 2010. Jamie Moyer allowed nine runs in one inning in the first game of the three-game series. Joe Blanton allowed nine in four innings in the second game.
The Phillies finished second in the National League in scoring in 2010, so they could outhit poor pitching on occasion. That is not the case this year. The offense entered Monday 12th in the league in runs per game. They have scored three or fewer runs in 29 games.
The Marlins (40), Mariners (33), Dodgers (31) and Nationals (29) entered the night with more games with three or fewer runs, but that should not console anybody.
Aceves, who could be optioned Tuesday, had allowed 18 runs, 26 hits, 12 walks and six home runs in 18 2/3 innings this season. He started Monday because the Red Sox scratched Clay Buchholz, who could not pitch because of a sore collarbone.
Erik Kratz hit a solo home run to right field in the third inning to make it 3-1. Twenty-four of the Phillies' last 25 home runs have been solo homers, mostly a byproduct of the fact that the Phillies entered the night with a dismal .301 on-base percentage.
It is tough to score with runners rarely on base.
They got the rare multirun homer in the eighth, when Domonic Brown hit a two-run shot to make it 8-3. Brown leads the team with 10 homers and 29 RBIs.
Manuel shuffled his lineup Monday, moving Jimmy Rollins from first to third, Michael Young from third to second and returning Ben Revere to the leadoff spot. Maybe Brown could move up soon. He has hit sixth 41 times this season and fifth seven times. But he is producing. Most of the rest of the team is not. Could he move up to get a few more at-bats?
What is there to lose?
"I kind of like where he's at," Manuel said. "I won't say I won't move anyone up. But I like what he's doing."
The rest of the team will need to do better to leave Boston with a split.
"It's tough," said Revere, when asked about the early 6-1 deficit. "They've got a good bullpen. They've got great hitters. It's kind of tough. But we've got [Cliff] Lee on the mound tomorrow, so we know he's going to give us a good matchup and everything. We'll be going right at them."
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Jordan Abel Boijseauneau, 19, has been charged with murder.
Montgomery County sheriff's deputies said Jordan Boijseauneau beat his 17-year-old sister, Estephani Boijseauneau, in their home on Marshburn near Glenwood near Magnolia on Tuesday.
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Inside the First Android Wear Devices: LG G Watch & Samsung Gear Live Teardownby Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/30/2014 4:50 PM EST
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bengildenstein - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkIt's humbling to think that these smartwatches feature SoCs that should be comparable in CPU/GPU performance to my 2012 Nexus 7. These are extremely capable computers, certainly capable of running the majority of content on the Play Store, though not in a practical way given the ultra-small display. Reply
JeffFlanagan - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkThe SOC may be comparable to your phone, but if the CPU is cranked as fast as the one in your phone to run phone apps, the battery life would have to be terrible. These batteries are tiny! Reply
bengildenstein - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkYou are correct! I remember reading that the clock rate of the CPU in these smartwatches was around 1.2GHz, but I think that was literature on the typical clocks of the SoC itself (targeted for low-end smartphones). In practice, a little googling has revealed that they are clocked at around 800MHz, which is ~60% of the speed (and the A7 is slower than the A9). I would expect that the GPU would be underclocked as well (though even at very low-clocks, the 305 may be comparable to the Tegra 3).
Given another generation iteration, these devices should feature Cortex A53, or equivalent CPUs which would be clock-for-clock as capable as the A9 found in Nexus 7, though it remains to be seen if the final clock speed will reach the 1.3GHz found in the tablet. Given a node-shrink (which is looking more like 14nm FinFET every day) they most certainly should perform as well, if not better.
As it currently stands, these smartwatches are still very capable computers! Reply
DanNeely - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkI wouldn't be surprised to see them go the other direction. Like macs, I don't see any need for a quad core A7 CPU in the first place. I suspect it had more to do with picking something that would require minimal porting effort and/or being able to use an off the shelf SoC with support for features that haven't trickled down to lower end chips (eg the newest bluetooth), and wouldn't be surprised if a future generation launched with a dual core A5 or even a single core M3 to extend battery life or allow for a smaller package. Reply
Morawka - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkand these SOC's are designed for phones. imagine how much battery life they'll get when they design a soc around a watch. Reply
Thrawn - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkThe highest clock speed may not be the best way to save power but doing Intel's race to sleep method for something like this is still valid and requires a powerful CPU to actually be the lowest energy usage that a responsive device is going to get. The super low wattage CPUs are used in devices that don't have to directly interact with us and so we don't notice slower speed. Reply
macs - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkI still don't get why they use quad core SOC for a watch.
2 faster core should be a better solution for mobile devices in general and even more on a watch... Reply
knightspawn1138 - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkI would guess that the quad-core at a lower speed helps conserve battery by allowing the CPU to complete more tasks simultaneously, reducing the time the chip would spend out of low-power mode. Reply
DanNeely - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkPreliminary benchmarking results suggest that only 1 core is enabled. (Single and multi-core versions of geekbench returned the same results.) This lends support to my speculation that the chip was picked primarily because it made implementation easier, not because they needed this much cpu power.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/06/reviewing-a... Reply
Guspaz - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkThese things look surprisingly space inefficient on the inside... Looks like there's significant room for improvement for manufacturers who really go nuts in miniaturization, like mounting components to thinner flexible substrates. Reply
uhuznaa - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkYes, I thought the same. These things almost look like prototypes, there's a lot you could do with deeper integration here. Just shows that they aren't really committed to the very idea of smartwatches it seems. The quad-cores with only one core enabled also show that this is just about getting something out of the door as quickly as possible.
I'm more and more curious about what Apple will come up with. Reply
tuxfool - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkIndeed. The Pebble Smartwatch has all of its internals on flexpcb. Reply
787b - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkhttp://images.anandtech.com/doci/8228/Android%20We...
Anyone knows what is the black tar on PCB next to RAM/SoC stack? Reply
smkennedy - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkIt's a underfill material to help keep the BGA (ball grid array) packages from popping off the board if it is flexed. Essentially a glue to hold the chips on and improve reliability. Most smartphones will have it as well. Reply
787b - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkThanks. I guess Samsung uses less glue than LG, so it can't be seen on the picture. Reply
Devo2007 - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkYou mentioned the LG display looked better, but was the Samsung "bad?" In what way was the LG better? Reply
ahse0w - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkI wonder if the watch gets hot under load.
Or there is no such power intensive app for the smartwatches yet.. Reply
michaelljones - Monday, June 30, 2014 - linkLooks like sensor wins for Invensense in both cases as well. A M65x class part in the LG and a M92x class part in the Samsung. Reply
Gadgety - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkVery interesting piece.
"One thing is for sure: those batteries are going to have to get thinner, or find a new place to live. Perhaps split up and distributed into a watch band?"
I saw somewhere a battery in the watch band has been patented by Apple. Looking forward to the patent battles, injuctions, bans, counter suing etc. Reply
Gadgety - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkOn the LG G Watch "Two more screws hold the incredibly small PCB in place."
"Overall Samsung definitely has the more compact (and complex) internal PCB (the picture at the top of the article compares the two side by side)"
If LG's PCB is incredibly small, what superlative could be used to describe Samsung's? Even incredibly smaller?
On a side note, I missed the battery capacity of the Samsung.
Looking forward to the review. Reply
jjj - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkSuper lame that they have to use phone parts. A phone SoC , that Synaptics touch, they could easily use something with 2 point touch. They are freaking giants. they could make an effort to do it right. This is not how you sell 10 million units in a quarter and ofc the market won't take off with pathetic hardware , insane pricing and lack of functionality. Reply
ciparis - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - link"Perhaps split up and distributed into a watch band?"
Yes! Lithium Polymer batteries, maybe? So long as it can't explode and blow off your hand... Reply
Icehawk - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkIf the battery is in the band then you can't easily swap them out. I know it was mentioned that at least one of these new watches takes standard 22mm bands.
I don't get the need for much CPU/GPU power at all - it should be mostly a second display. Reply
kyuu - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkBoth of these have swappable bands. Putting any circuitry in the band is a really crap idea no matter how you go about it.
It needs enough CPU/GPU to drive the UI. The paired phone isn't going to be rendering the UI elements and animations. Reply
uhuznaa - Thursday, July 03, 2014 - linkStill, CPU requirements are small and the GPU has only very few pixels to throw around (compared to modern smartphones). Using actual smartphone SoCs for these things isn't the best idea when comes to battery life. If you have an actual idea what the thing will do and a long-term plan and can design your own SoC towards that you should be able to get by with less power. Reply
sndinc - Thursday, July 03, 2014 - linkMy question is simple. Do the watches heat up while on your wrist? Just wondering since sometimes my smart phone seems hot. Reply


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