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Stefanie Lawton is the big winner of a week-long trip to Winnipeg next December.
While that might not sound like much of a prize — Winnipeg in December is not exactly Paris in April — the Saskatoon skip was overjoyed Sunday morning at the prospect of spending a week with us in the dead of winter next year.
"It's huge. The Olympic Trials are something we've been working on for a long time," Lawton said following a 6-4 win over Winnipeg's Jennifer Jones team in Sunday's women's final of the Canada Cup of Curling in Moose Jaw.
"You kind of count points all year — the last couple of years — and to get that berth and not have to worry about counting points and worry about where you rank on the (Canadian Team Ranking System) that's nice, for sure. It feels really good."
With the win, Lawton becomes the third women's team now qualified for next December's Canadian Curling Trials at MTS Centre, where Canada's curling representatives for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi will be determined.
Lawton joins Jones, who qualified by winning the Canada Cup last year, and Edmonton's Heather Nedohin, who qualified by winning the Canadian womens curling championship last February.
Five more women's Trials berths are still to be determined. Three will be awarded at the end of this winter to the top three teams on the CTRS who still require berths and two more will be determined next November at a Pre-Trials qualifying bonspiel.
The Lawton team — third Sherry Anderson, second Sherry Singler and lead Marliese Kasner — have always excelled on the cashpiel circuit, but Lawton has earned a reputation over the years for wilting under pressure in the big game.
But the tight collar was nowhere in evidence on Sunday as Lawton repeatedly made big shots to bail her team out of trouble. In just the first five ends, Lawton authored four double takeouts to almost single-handedly carry her team to a 4-2 lead heading into the break.
Jones skip Kaitlyn Lawes -- who was skipping the Jones team in Moose Jaw for one final event before their namesake returns next month after giving birth in November — squandered what few opportunities Lawton did leave her to score, most notably rolling out on an open hit in the sixth end that would have provided a game-tying deuce.
Still, at game's end, it was Lawes who out-shot Lawton 80-74, her third game in a row in which she shot 80 percent or better. But it was Lawes who tipped her cap to Lawton.
"She was on fire. She was determined to make those and she did," Lawes said of Lawton. "It's a little disappointing but at the same time we were really, really happy to be playing in that final and it was a good week for us."
While the reconfigured Jones team — Ontario's Kirsten Wall filled in for Lawes at third, joining the traditional Jones front end of Jill Officer and Dawn Askin — lost their final game together, Lawes said the cash spiel season they spent together can only be judged as a success.
"We had such a great first half to the season. If you had told us we'd be in the final of the Canada Cup going into it, we'd have said it's a great way to end it off. It is a new team and, you know, I've never skipped at a Canada Cup before. So we're very pleased with our performance."
With $17,000 in winnings in Moose Jaw, the Jones foursome will head into the New Year in third on the World Curling Tour money list, behind only Lawton and Ontario's Rachel Homan.
Meanwhile, in addition to the Trials berth, Lawton earned $24,000 in first place money with Sunday's win and also picked up a chance to play in the 2014 Continental Cup in Las Vegas. It was the third time Lawton has won the Canada Cup.
Winnipeg's Jeff Stoughton will attempt to earn a Trials berth of his own in the men's final in Moose Jaw Sunday afternoon. Stoughton plays Ontario's Glenn Howard — who already has his trials berth — at 2:30 p.m. CT. The game is being broadcast live on TSN.


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CHICAGO - Amtrak and Michigan Department of Transportation are warning train travelers and freight shippers to expect delays of up to 90 minutes because of new speed restrictions put in place by railroad owner Norfolk Southern, which cited safety concerns.
Trains that had previously run at top speeds of 79 mph have been ordered to slow to 25-to-30 mph on certain track segments between Kalamazoo and Ann Arbor. As a result, Amtrak says passengers should expect delays of 45 to 90 minutes on Wolverine Service trains to and from Chicago and Detroit/Pontiac, including Jackson and Dearborn. Lesser delays are expected on the Blue Water train to and from Chicago and Port Huron.
"The decision by Norfolk Southern to reduce train speeds on the track shared with the Amtrak Wolverine and Blue Water services will have a serious impact on passenger service, and could cause delays for freight shippers, too," said Tim Hoeffner, director of the MDOT's Office of Rail.
While the duration of the service delays is unknown, Norfolk Southern has pledged to being track improvement work in three weeks. The company is in negotiations to sell the rail line to the State of Michigan.
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You can now find complete proceedings of the 2012 Four-State Dairy Nutrition and Management Conference online. A pdf of the proceedings can be accessed at the University of Wisconsin-Extension Dairy Cattle Nutrition web site.
Papers in the proceedings cover a wide range of topics that were discussed at the June 13-14 conference, held in Dubuque, Iowa.
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Three Jones School professors' research excellence is recognized through editorial reappointment and best paper awards. Robert Hoskisson, George R. Brown Professor of Management, was reappointed to a third term as an associate editor of Strategic Management Journal (SMJ). Sébastien Michenaud, assistant professor of finance, received two separate awards for his study, Do Analysts' Preferences Influence Corporate Policies; and Anastasiya Zavyalova, assistant professor of strategic management, won best conference paper award from the International Conference on Corporate Reputation, Brand, Identity and Competitiveness.
"Bob's prestigious reappointment reflects not only his peers' respect but the impact he continues to have in the field of strategic management," said Bill Glick, dean of the Jones Graduate School of Business and H. Joe Nelson III Professor of Management. "Sébastien and Annie are making tremendous contributions as junior faculty with big ideas. The Jones School is honored to have our faculty being recognized for their thought leadership that creates impact."
Hoskisson joined the Jones School faculty in 2009. His research is focused on corporate strategy and its outcomes in regard to performance and managerial commitment to innovation. He was recognized by The Times Higher Education as one of the top 25 scholars in the world in business and economics based on the number of articles with more than 50 citations Along with his associate editorship at SMJ, Professor Hoskisson is also president of the Strategic Management Society. He earned his Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine, and both a B.S. and M.A. from Brigham Young University.
Michenaud, along with three co-authors, won the Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance sponsored by McGraw-Hill Education from the Financial Management Association. They also accepted the "Larry Lang Corporate Finance Best Paper Award" at the annual European Financial Management Association Conference. The study shows how equity analyst preferences influence corporate investment and financing policies. Professor Michenaud teaches the core finance class to the professional evening and week-end MBA students. He is the recipient of the Award for Excellence in Teaching by the MBA for Professionals Evening Class of 2012. He earned his Ph.D. from HEC, Paris.
Zavyalova, the lead author with two co-authors, presented "The Dark Side of Prominence: Organizational Consequences of Seeking Media Coverage" at Reputation Institute's 17th International Conference on Corporate Reputation, Brand Identity and Competitiveness, where it received the best conference paper award. In September she also won the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation Best Dissertation Award for her dissertation titled "The Benefits and Burdens of High Reputation During Disruptions: The Role of Media Reputation, Organizational Identification, and Disruption Type." Her research focuses on negative events in organizations (e.g. product recalls, on-campus murders and NCAA scandals in U.S. universities, child abuse scandals in Catholic Church) and the role of media and organizational identification for stakeholder support following these negative events. She earned her Ph.D. in strategic management from the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business.


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Part of Speech: Noun, mass
Meaning: Good condition, health, tune, or spirits.
Notes: Kilter is another word on its last leg that we would like to rescue from the lexical boneyard. We hear it today almost exclusively in the expression "out of kilter". However, the use of this Good Word is by no means limited to a single negative phrase.
In Play: Dr. Goodword is frequently asked, "If something is not out of kilter, is it 'in kilter'?" "Yes," is always the good doctor's answer: "Everyone at the party was in good kilter so the party was a great success." Anything that can be out of kilter can as well be in good kilter: "The choir is sounding better, but their music still isn't in perfect kilter."
Word History: Today's Good Word is a corruption of kelter, but a corruption that began in the middle of the 17th century, so there is little chance of going back now. Kelter is still preserved in some British dialects, but kilterclearly is favored today. The question is, then, where does kelter come from and the straightforward answer is that no one has the foggiest notion. No semantically related words resembling kelter can be found in English or any other language in its family. That leaves us with little more to say about this word except to thank Perry Dror for his contribution to keeping our Good Word series in high kilter by suggesting fascinating words like today's.


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ORRVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- A northeast Ohio school district plans to allow a science teacher to carry a firearm during class -- a move the superintendent says was prompted by last month's mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.
WEWS-TV in Cleveland reports (http://bit.ly/USlpXa ) that the science teacher at Orrville City Schools is also an officer with the nearby Lawrence Township Police Department.
Orrville City Schools Superintendent Jon Ritchie says there was little opposition to the move from the district, which is about an hour southwest of Cleveland.
Ritchie says the district approached the teacher about the idea. He says it saves the schools from hiring security personnel.
Orrville resident Nicole Walker tells the station that having someone inside her children's school following the Newtown, Conn., shooting puts her mind even more at ease.
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DETROIT - A 35-year-old Auburn Hills man has been charged with human trafficking for allegedly sexually exploiting a 16-year-old girl by recruiting her to work as a prostitute.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said Thursday Jackie Robinson Harris is also facing prostitution charges and a criminal enterprise charge -- all are felony charges that carry up to 20 years in prison.
Schuette said Harris is accused of recruiting the teen from Pontiac and enticing her to help run a prostitution ring before later having her work as a prostitute.
Harris was arrested in Warren on Wednesday by the Michigan State Police with assistance from the Warren Police Department.
- Pimps hit social networks to recruit teens
- 18-year-old allegedly held as slave in Southfield
- Michigan lawmaker aims to fight human trafficking
- Defenders expose human trafficking in metro Detroit
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Nora Eddington (February 25, 1924 – April 10, 2001) is best known as the second wife of actor Errol Flynn. She was also featured as an actress in several minor film roles.
Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1924, the daughter of Jack Eddington of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's office,[1] Nora Eddington was nineteen when she met Errol Flynn in February 1943[2] – at the time, she was working at the courthouse where Flynn's notorious 1943 trial for statutory rape was taking place.[3] Flynn was acquitted and they were married in 1944 in Mexico.[4] Their daughter, Deirdre, was born on January 10, 1945.[4] By the time their second daughter, Rory, was born in March 1947, their marriage was already essentially over.[5] The couple were divorced in 1949, but parted on fairly amicable terms,[5][6] with Eddington (now Eddington Flynn) given custody of the children.[7]
Shortly after the divorce she married singer Dick Haymes,[6] on July 17, 1949. She and Haymes had been having an affair for some time, a fact which became public knowledge by way of the gossip columns.[7] Her marriage to Haymes, during which she suffered a miscarriage, lasted four years, a period which Haymes later characterized in an unpublished autobiography as "not a Dick Haymes marriage".[7] After divorcing Haymes she married Richard Black, a marriage which lasted for most of the rest of her life – they had a son named Kevin, who died from leukemia at the age of 10.[8] Richard and Nora Black divorced sometime before her death.[9]
Eddington was highly critical of Charles Higham's biography of her first husband, Errol Flynn, the Untold Story, stating to Maggie Daly of the Chicago Tribune: "I resent Higham's book because it is a fraud. He hasn't come up with a single document about Errol's supposed tie-in with the Gestapo, but continues to go around the country saying he has".[10][11] Her own book about her life with Flynn, entitled Errol and Me, was published in 1960.
Nora Eddington died in 2001, aged 77,[9] after a long battle with kidney disease, at Cedars Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles. She was interred in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery beside her son Kevin


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Unlike rival Microsoft, Apple has consistently been able to get a significant portion of its Mac customers to quickly upgrade to the newest version of OS X, data from a Web measurement company showed.
The last three versions of Apple's desktop operating system have been adopted at a rate almost three times that of the best-performing edition of Windows, 2009's Windows 7.
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In the first five months of OS X 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8 availability -- known as Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion, respectively -- nearly a third of all Mac owners upgraded to the newest edition, according to California-based Internet metrics firm Net Applications.
Five months after its 2009 launch, Snow Leopard powered 32 percent of all Macs, while Lion and Mountain Lion, which debuted in 2011 and 2012, each accounted for 29 percent of all Mac machines by the end of their fifth month.
That's in contrast to Microsoft Windows, which has had varied success in the same time span: At the end of its fifth month, Windows 7 accounted for 11 percent of all Windows PCs, more than twice the 5 percent share of Vista two years earlier.
Windows 8, which shipped in late October 2012, looks to be on the same usage uptake trajectory as Vista, although that could, of course, change in the upcoming months.
Why Mac owners consistently upgrade OS X is unknown, although it may be related to price: All three of the most recent editions cost less than $30, with the latest, Mountain Lion, priced even lower, at $20.
By comparison, Windows 7's best deal was a short-lived $50-per-license deal during the summer of 2009. An upgrade to Vista's primary consumer-grade edition ran $159 in early 2007.
Only Windows 8, which has not reached its fifth month of availability, has competed with Apple's lower prices for any length of time. Microsoft discounted Windows 8 Pro upgrades to just $40, a deal that began in late October and expires at the end of January 2013.
The difference between OS X's and Windows' uptake paces is more easily explained: If OS X is a dinghy that changes course on a dime, Windows is the behemoth oil tanker that requires miles to take a different heading.
Even with its slightly-increased global usage share -- in November OS X accounted for 7.3 percent of all desktop and notebook personal computers, up from 6.5 percent a year earlier -- Apple's operating system is still mostly used by consumers, who can upgrade on a whim.
Not so with Windows. Enterprises -- and they control hundreds of millions of PCs worldwide -- are conservative organizations and historically lethargic in adopting a new OS, a characteristic that inevitably lengthens uptake and turning what for OS X is a trend line that rises sharply into one for Windows that rise ever-so-slowly.
For example, it took Windows 7 more than a year-and-a-half to reach a 30 percent share of all Windows PCs. OS X 10.7, aka Lion did, that in a third the time.
Net Applications' latest statistics also showed a very close race between Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion for the OS X usage crown. At the end of November, the trio were virtually tied for share, with Snow Leopard leading at 30 percent of all Macs, and Lion and Mountain Lion in second and third place, with 29.9 percent and 29.3 percent.
Snow Leopard, a keeper for many Mac owners, may be Apple's version of Windows XP, the Microsoft OS that defies obsolescence. Last month, Snow Leopard lost 1.4 percentage points, about the same as the month before. Lion also lost 1.4 points. Mountain Lion picked up the slack from both, as well as a smaller number of defections from 2007's Leopard, to gain 3.5 points.
Net Applications measures operating system usage by tracking unique visitors to approximately 40,000 Web sites. More information about its November stats can be found on the company's website.
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer, or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Gators chasing greatness in final SEC stretch
Published: Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 6:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 28, 2014 at 8:05 p.m.
Florida coach Billy Donovan is never short on buzz words he uses to motivate his team.
Saturday's game
Who: No. 1 Florida Gators (26-2, 15-0 SEC) vs. LSU Tigers (17-10, 8-7)
When: 4 p.m.
Where: O'Connell Center, Gainesville
Gainesville-area radio: AM-850, 103.7 FM
So when Arkansas knocked off Kentucky in overtime Thursday night, clinching Florida's third Southeastern Conference regular-season title in the last four years, Donovan texted his players to pass along congratulations.
But Donovan added a slogan to keep his players from becoming complacent.
"Coach D also told us that we need to chase greatness and what happened had nothing to do with us," Florida sophomore guard Michael Frazier II. "We still have a game tomorrow that we need to focus on and that we're going to try and win."
That chase will continue on Saturday when the No. 1 Gators take a 20-game winning streak into their matchup with LSU. Florida still has plenty to play for, a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament and the chance to become the first SEC team to go undefeated through an 18-game conference schedule.
"I still think there is a lot out there in front of our team," Donovan said.
And unlike an NFL team that's clinched a bye in the playoffs, don't expect Donovan to hold back minutes of his players on account of resting them for the SEC or NCAA tournaments. The Gators will be bolstered by the return of freshman point guard Kasey Hill, who sat out UF's last three games with a groin strain. Donovan said from a health standpoint, the Gators are "as good as they can be right now."
"We don't have anything significantly ailing," Donovan said. "But I think everybody's probably somewhat banged up. Everybody's probably dealing with sore knees, lower backs, tendinitis, those kind of things that are wear-and-tear injuries. But we can adjust practice, and we can do things to kind of get them back physically."
Donovan acknowledged that "it's always special" to win an SEC title. The Gators have won six SEC regular-season titles in 18 seasons under Donovan and four outright SEC regular-season crowns since 2007.
"I am proud of whatever the number is that we've been able to do over the eight years, not just for this group, but for the groups before them," Donovan said. "To me, competing and playing for championships is a big deal."
Said Frazier: "It's great to have that honor. But we still have a lot of things to accomplish. We still have a lot of goals."
For now, Donovan is concerned about the challenges that LSU presents. While the Tigers have struggled on the road this season (2-7), they have proven capable of rising to the occasion in big moments. Last week, LSU took Kentucky to overtime at Rupp Arena before falling 77-76 on a last-second putback by Kentucky freshman center Julius Randle.
Donovan pointed out that LSU is among the league leaders in scoring offense (third, 77.3 points per game) and assists (second, 14.7 assists per game).
"They are a really, really talented team," Donovan said. "I would say their basketball team has a lot of answers at a lot of different spots, and they have just about six guys averaging double-figure points. They are an unselfish team.
"They're just about in the top four and five of every offensive statistical category. Defensively, we'll have our hands full."
1989 team honored
During Saturday's game against LSU, Florida will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its 1989 team, which won the first SEC basketball title in school history.
The 1989 team finished 21-13 overall and 13-5 in the SEC to win the regular-season crown. The Gators reached the NCAA Tournament that season but lost to Colorado State in the first round (68-46).
Team captain Clifford Lett is among players expected to attend the ceremony. The team was coached by Norm Sloan, who died in 2003. Sadly, another key member of UF's 1989 squad, center Dwayne Schintzius, died in 2012 at 43 due to complications from leukemia.
G Michael Frazier II 6-4 So. 12.2 ppg, 3.5 rpg
G Scottie Wilbekin 6-2 Sr. 13.5 ppg, 3.9 apg
F Casey Prather 6-6 Sr 14.8 ppg, 5.4 rpg
F Will Yeguete 6-7 Sr. 5.3 ppg, 5.3 rpg
C Patric Young 6-9 Sr. 10.8 ppg, 6.3 rpg
G Shavon Coleman 6-5 Sr. 9.0 ppg, 4.0 rpg
G Anthony Hickey 5-11 Jr. 9.3 ppg, 3.8 apg
F Jarell Martin 6-9 Fr. 10.3 ppg, 4.5 rpg
F Jordan Mickey 6-8 Fr. 13.4 ppg, 7.4 rpg
C Johnny O'Bryant III 6-9 Jr. 15.5 ppg, 7.8 rpg
Notes: Florida returns to the O'Connell Center, where it has won 30 straight. … The Gators are 42-60 all-time against LSU and 13-8 against the Tigers under Billy Donovan. … Florida is 13-2 in games decided by single digits and 6-1 in games decided by five points or less. … Florida sophomore forward Dorian Finney-Smith, in the running for the SEC's sixth man of the year award, is averaging 9.3 points and a team-high 7.1 rebounds off the bench. … The Gators are first in the SEC and eighth in the nation in scoring defense, allowing 58.6 points per game. … LSU has won two of its last three games, with the lone loss coming in overtime at Kentucky. … LSU freshman forward Jordan Mickey leads the SEC in blocked shots at 3.3 per game. … LSU senior guard Andre Stringer, another SEC sixth man candidate, is averaging 11.9 ppg and 2.8 apg off the bench. … Florida's 15 SEC wins are the most in one season in school history.
Three things to watch
1. LSU's frontline
Florida coach Billy Donovan said matching up with LSU's frontcourt is a "major concern." With junior center Johnny O'Bryant III, freshman forward Jordan Mickey and freshman forward Jarell Martin up front, LSU ranks second in the SEC in blocked shots (6.3 bpg) and sixth in rebounding margin (plus-4.1). "O'Bryant is back and he was clearly as good as any frontcourt player in the league last year," Donovan said. "Now, (LSU) adds Martin, who is really a versatile forward. Big and strong, shoots it, can score, makes 3s, was 4-for-5 against (Texas) A&M from the 3-point line. And now you can take a guy like Mickey, who's the league leader in shot blocking, a lot like Anthony Davis was for Kentucky a few years ago where he can really, really alter the game around the basket. Now O'Bryant has got some legitimate guys around him." O'Bryant is prone to foul trouble, especially on the road, so look for Florida to try to challenge him inside early in an effort to draw some fouls.
2. Taking care of the ball
LSU also is second in the SEC in steals (8.2 pg) with ball-hawking point guard Anthony Hickey always capable of creating turnovers. It will be important for Florida starting guards Scottie Wilbekin and Michael Frazier II to stay strong with the ball when LSU throws some pressure defense at them. "The coach emphasized to us yesterday they get a lot of steals, so we're going to have to do a good job taking care of the ball, executing on offense and getting stops on defense," Frazier II said.
3. The free-throw line
LSU is a physical team that fouls early and often. The Tigers rank ninth in the SEC (and 191st in the nation) in fouls at 19.4 per game. That should present plenty of opportunities at the free-throw line for the Gators. Florida has been better at the line of late, but took a step back with a 7 of 12 night from the line against Vanderbilt. For the season, Florida ranks ninth the SEC in free-throw shooting at 67.7 percent, but LSU is right behind in 10th at 67.3 percent.
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Paddlers preparing for season's first big adventure
Published: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 3:05 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 3:05 p.m.
Experienced and novice paddlers are invited to canoe or kayak on Paddle Florida Inc.'s first trip of the paddling season, a 65-mile, five-day journey along the Suwannee and Withlacoochee rivers.
If you go
What: Paddle Florida Inc.'s Suwannee River trip (from Madison Blue Springs State Park to Branford).
When: Oct. 26-31
Cost: $275 for adults, $250 for senior citizens and college students, $225 for 8-17 year olds, and children under seven are free. The recommended meal plan is an additional $150 per person, which provides three meals a day. The Paddle Florida Lite option, which allows paddlers to do only certain days of a trip, costs $60 per person per day and $30 for meals each day.
Deadline to register: Friday. To register and for more information, visit paddleflorida.org.
The trip, which will give participants a chance to see springs, wildlife and to camp along the river and enjoy live entertainment, is Oct. 26 to 31. The deadline for early registration is Friday.
Water levels are up right now after all the recent rains, meaning paddling should be easy, said executive director Bill Richards.
This trip is the first of five that the organization will offer during this paddling season, which is October to April.
Paddle Florida Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting canoeing and kayaking in Florida and promoting water conservation. It offers one trip through each of Florida's five water management districts a season.
Richards said that while water levels are high now, people still need to learn the importance of conserving water, he said.
During the Suwannee trip, country musician Tom Shed will perform on Oct. 29 during dinner. Grant Peeples, another country music performer, will play on Oct. 30.
Paddle Florida Inc. offers an alternate option for those who can't or don't want to go on the whole trip, Richards said. People can register to paddle for certain days of a trip instead of going on the whole trip, through the Paddle Florida Lite program.
The next trip after the Suwannee trip is a 30-mile trip down the Wekiva River to the St. Johns River from Nov. 30- Dec. 3. The registration deadline is Nov. 16.
From Jan. 18-21, paddlers can canoe and kayak 35 miles through the Florida Keys. This is the hardest trip, Richards said. The registration deadline is Jan. 4.
Paddlers can make a 60-mile journey from Lake Panasoffkee through swamps and streams to the Gulf of Mexico Feb. 13-18. The deadline to register is Jan. 30.
There will be a 76-mile trip March 16-22 down the Ochlockonee River in the Panhandle. The registration deadline is March 2.
Since Paddle Florida started in 2008, Richards said he has had people from 8-80 years old and from 28 states go on paddling trips.
"Anyone can do it," Richards said. "Once you're out there, it's easy. I've had people paddle for the first time on a trip and say it's easier than they thought."
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World Cup record: Miroslav Klose celebrates his goal. Photo: Getty Images
Miroslav Klose equalled Brazilian legend Ronaldo's record of 15 World Cup goals to spare Germany's blushes with the equaliser in Saturday's 2-2 Group G draw against Ghana.
Mario Goetze had given Germany the lead before goals from Andre Ayew and Asamoah Gyan turned the game on its head and threatened to cause a major upset for the Black Stars in Fortaleza.
But Klose had the last laugh with a poacher's goal just 19 minutes from time.
Ghana's Asamoah Gyan, centre, had fired Ghana into a 2-1 lead. Photo: Reuters
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"It doesn't matter whether I play from the start or come off the bench: all games are important and 15 goals in 20 World Cup games isn't bad," said the Lazio striker.
German captain Phillip Lahm refused to use the sweltering conditions as a reason for their performance.
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Miroslav Klose of Germany scores his team's second goal. Photo: Getty Images
"We had the better chances, but overall we can't be satisfied."
Gyan, whose goal saw him join Cameroon legend Roger Milla as the leading all-time African scorer with five, said that they had played much better than in the 2-1 defeat to the United States.
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"I think tactically we were perfect today.
"Now we definitely have to beat Portugal. We will have to focus but we believe we can beat them."
With the USA playing Portugal in Manaus on Sunday, the result breathes life back into Ghana's hopes of reaching the last 16.
The Germans could be knocked from top of the group and must beat Jurgen Klinsmann's Stars and Stripes in Recife on Thursday to be sure of reaching the knock-out stages.
Having at times bossed the first half, and only been denied by two fantastic Manuel Neuer saves from Sulley Muntari and Christian Atsu, Ghana switched off at the start of the second.
Thomas Mueller picked out Goetze running into the box and the Bayern Munich midfielder mistimed his header, but the ball went in off his knee before rebounding past Ghana goalkeeper Abdul-Fatawu Dauda.
The lead lasted only three minutes.
Harrison Afful crossed into the box and Ayew, on his 50th appearance for the Black Stars, climbed above Shkodran Mustafi and the static Per Mertesacker, playing his 100th game for Germany, to flick a header beyond Neuer.
Nine minutes later things got even better for Ghana as Muntari dispossessed Germany captain Philipp Lahm in midfield and slid the ball through to Black Stars captain Gyan to smash the ball past Neuer.
The Black Stars broke out in some impressive dance moves in celebration wafter Gyan's goal.
Ghana were running riot and Germany were just hangig on, but an inspired substitution by coach Joachim Loew brought Klose into the fray to stab home from a yard out after Benedikt Hoewedes flicked on Toni Kroos's corner.
Both sides had late chances to win the game as Jordan Ayew headed over with the German defence again all at sea.
At the other end, only a superb Kwadwo Asamoah tackle denied Mueller before Ozil also went close, while Gyan pulled a late shot wide in a frantic finish.
Mueller required extensive treatment for a cut over an eye at the final whistle, after crashing into centre-back John Boye, but should be fit to face the USA.
Jerome Boateng has a thigh injury and Loew has said he hopes to have the Bayern Munich defender fit for the America clash.
Kevin-Prince Boateng, who has failed to have the impact he had in the 2010 finals, said that a draw had been a fair result.
"We had set out to win today, but we should be happy with the result," said Ghana's Kevin-Prince Boateng.
"It went backwards and forwards, Germany could have won it, we could have won it - the point was fair.
"We didn't want to let them get into the game, that was the key today."


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Dennis McGuire's son, also named Dennis, and McGuire's daughter, Amber, referred to the "agony and terror" of watching him as he appeared to gasp in his final moments Thursday.
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Resources and Helpful Links
March 18, 2005, 04:24:23 PM »
As I browse around the 'net I often find interesting and helpful links. Figured I'd start a topic where such info could be posted. For instance, found a quick easy source for biographical data at the following URL:
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March 18, 2005, 05:17:23 PM »
Allows you to search for radio stations around the world. Cans search by state, country, format, or call letters:
A couple price search engines:
Free sex offender search:
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Eureka Alert
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April 02, 2005, 03:53:29 PM »
Eureka Alert is a site that compiles recent scientific findings. They can be found at:
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Resources and Helpful Links
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April 08, 2005, 04:06:07 PM »
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If you thought the Google Maps were rather interesting, check these out (as it takes it in for a deeper picture imo).
- Can view aerial pictures of properties where you can zoom in to see the neighborhood.
- Can view business addresses / commercial properties from the front along with viewing what the other businesses around the area look like.
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Physics and Technology Site
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May 13, 2005, 11:54:47 AM »
Interesting and well organized site containing stories about leading edge physics and technology news. Check it out at:
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Second Amendment Resource
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May 17, 2005, 04:51:17 PM »
Very comprehensive site devoted to second amendment and gun control issues:
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cheap gas site
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May 17, 2005, 10:00:44 PM »
which integrates GasBuddy (
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Sex Offender Search Map
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July 28, 2005, 04:12:35 PM »
Search for registered sex offenders by address, zip code, etc. and have the results displayed on a map at:
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Stop Faxing me or I'll Sieze your Cessna
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October 22, 2005, 05:26:33 PM »
Perhaps misfiled, but this librarian got annoyed with junk faxes and so used various resources to put a lien against the faxer's private aircraft. Pretty good humor.
And You Thought Late Fees Were Bad
Matthew O'Neil, a librarian at Palm Harbor Library in Palm Harbor, Florida, hates junk faxes. He's channeled his disgust for one particular fax blaster into small claims court.
His reward? A private airplane. His tale:
Over the course of the last few months I have received unsolicited facsimile transmissions from one particular fax blaster. The number for removal and the number to fax back the advertisements for health insurance, mortgages, hot leads, selling my business and so on is also in my area code. The telephone number is not serviced by the local exchange carrier (Verizon) but a competing local exchange carrier (CLEC)
After the first fax on August 7th I called the ?removal? number on the fax but it was busy. I tried about six times but it was always busy. I used nanpa.com to find out who serviced the number and complained to them (the faxer?s phone company). The faxes continued. I filed 1 small claims suit against the sender and subpoenaed the records of the CLEC (competing local exchange carrier- the faxer?s phone company) they sent me the records within 3 hours of receiving the subpoena. It seems that other had complained about the illegal faxing as well.
When I found out who was really sending the faxes I decided I should use my librarian super powers to find out more about them. I found out that they are incorporated in Florida (using sunbiz.org and lexis-nexus) I found out the corporation holds assets in corporate name. The corporation has only one officer and for some reason he put both an automobile and an aircraft in corporate name (thanks to lexis-nexus). I don?t have any idea why he didn?t put them in his own name so creditors could not attach them.
So since I knew there were assets to attach I filed one additional small claims action for each illegal fax for a total of ten. The law limits the damages to $500 for each fax sent. However if there is an egregious violation they allow treble damages. So I filed 9 additional small claims actions against the same party- each fax must be a separate action.
The legal requirements were a bit of a pain in the arse, but nothing a librarian couldn?t handle. I served the resident agent of the corporation as required. We had a court date scheduled. I went to court and full well expected these geniuses to show up as they called me and asked me to dismiss the suit. I said for $1000 to the Leukemia Society (this is called an offer in compromise). They never called back. Well they never showed up in Court either. In the pre-trial conference I met with the hearing officer and asked for treble damages and costs as I the violations were egregious, I have to change my telephone number, and I had made an offer in compromise to mitigate damages. Well the hearing officer looked at my information and immediately transferred it to the judge. (In Small Claims they try to mediate things rather than punish people). A few days later after the notice of hearing was served upon myself and the registered agent a conference was held with the judge ?. Guess who was there! Yep just me and the nice judge.
So the judge and I chatted for ten minutes or so in case they were stuck in traffic, then he tried the removal number on the fax and it was amazingly busy. So the hearing began and I presented all of my evidence and since they were not there they presented none of theirs (a default judgment would have garnered me only minimal damages so I asked to proceed in absentia), The judge asked me a few questions about my fax machine, what kind of toner (I use a roll which is quite expensive as opposed to the new laser faxes) and if I changed my fax number solely because of this.
Then I made a motion to merge all the cases into one hearing (as 10 copies of everything had gone out with the same date and time on them) the judge thought this was just spiffy, as it would save the Court time. I moved for treble damages and noted that their failure to show up after being properly served was contempt for the process and for the Court itself. I figured it would fail and I?d simply get default judgments X 10/ Well it worked. I asked for no stay of the execution beyond statutory requirements and was given that as well.
I figured as the nasty faxers would contact me in the interim, as there is a waiting period before judgments can be enforced. Well they never did. I guess they thought I was joking around.
So Monday I took my paperwork and a check for $800 to the sheriff and asked that they execute the judgment against the company. I asked that they seize a Cessna 340, a Lexus, and cash assets of the defendant. So the sheriff stamped and stapled and filed and collated the paperwork. Today I found out that they have seized the aircraft the corporation owns and will sell it at public auction next month.
I will get my money! The defendant has ignored all of the notices given to him and the time for appeals has passed. If no one bids higher than the judgment at the public auction the aircraft is mine. I was awarded $1500 for each fax, plus filing fees for each case of $155, plus fees for copies, printing, certified mail and the like. The total is $16837.32. I think I?ll come out OK since the aircraft is valued at more than a quarter of a million dollars and it is chained to the ground until after the sheriff?s sale. Oh, and I get back the $800 I paid the sheriff too.
Moral of this story:
1) Don?t screw with the librarian
2) Libraries- take action on your unsolicited faxes- they are illegal.
3) Reference tools are your friends!
Oh and it is all going to the Leukeima Society less my costs. In fact if they were nice and reading this I would settle for a ckeck for $10K to the Leukemia Society and my costs reimbursed ($10*$155, $800 plus misc postage and copying less than $200)
Friday October 14, @03:43AM [ #3771 ]
What was here has been settled. I have entered into an agreement that makes me whole, and provides a charitable donation. However in the settlement agreement I was asked not to discuss the particulars of the case. I agreed to remove my previous post from LISNews as the company could possibly be identified. (even though I left that detail out)
I can say that I am more than pleased with the outcome.
845 PM - still waiting for the fax they promised by the end of business. Fax is on and paper is in the machine (this fax I let them send it is the satisfaction of judgement.) I'm not signing anything until the checks arrive
9:30AM Saturday The fax really was there, the paper was just not in exactly right to print.
Two things I learned for next time.
If you file multiple suits serve them individually. If you put 9 of them in one envelope and send it certified mail to the defendant they may argue improper service.
Even if you have a judgement the defendant can appeal. If the judgements combined are more than the limits of small claims court then they can ask to have it transferred to county or circuit court (I don't know if it will be transferred but just something to consider.)
So if I have to sue someone in small claims court again for several things that happen over several days I'll file each one on a different day and serve them independent of one another.
I'll try and post the story again after I tidy it up.... or at least post how I went about doing it. I just don't want to torque anyone off, even though I have the fax I don't have the checks.
Tom Stillman
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I don't know why!
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October 25, 2005, 10:16:58 PM »
Let us digress.
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FBI Murder Stats
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December 13, 2005, 11:02:17 AM »
Murder stats broken down in various useful manners. Check it out at:
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Resources and Helpful Links
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December 13, 2005, 11:27:27 AM »
Very useful! Thank you!
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Jihad Web Links and Info
Reply #12 on:
January 02, 2006, 01:48:00 PM »
A couple extremist links and a Scientific American piece about Islamofascist use of the web.
December 26, 2005
Virtual Jihad
The Internet as the ideal terrorism recruiting tool
By Luis Miguel Ariza
If you read Arabic and want a degree in jihad, click on
. If you're lucky--the site disappears and reappears--you will see a post that belongs to the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF). It announces the "Al Qaeda University of Jihad Studies." According to Ahmad al-Wathiq Billah, the GIMF "Deputy General Emir," students "pass through faculties devoted to the cause of the caliphate through morale boosting and bombings," and the site offers specialization in "electronic, media, spiritual and financial jihad."
The Internet has long been essential for terrorism, but what has surprised experts is the growth of such Islamist (radical Islam) and jihadist sites. Their continuing rise suggests that recruitment for a "holy war" against the West could proceed unabated, despite capture of key leaders.
According to Gabriel Weimann, a professor of communications at the University of Haifa in Israel, the number of all terrorist Web sites--those advocating or inciting terrorism or political violence--has grown from a dozen in 1997 to almost 4,700 today, a nearly 400-fold increase. (By comparison, the total number of Web sites has risen about 50- to 100-fold.) The enumeration includes various Marxist, Nazi and racist groups, but by far the dominant type, according to Weimann, is the Islamist-jihadist variety, which accounts for about 70 percent.
The war in Iraq provides plenty of motivation for radicals, and the Internet appears to be facilitating them, even if legitimate governments shun them. "We are talking about groups that are opposed and persecuted all over the Arab and Muslim world, so the Internet becomes the only alternative to spread their messages," says Reu ven Paz, director of PRISM (Project for the Research of Islamist Movements), a watchdog group in Herzliya, Israel. The spread "is like an attempt to create a virtual Islamic nation."
Scott Atran, a research director at the Jean Nicod Institute of the CNRS in Paris, studies the group dynamics of terrorists. He notes that the attackers of Madrid, London and Bali were autonomous groups, like "swarms that aggregate to strike and then vanish." The open, anarchic structure of the Internet supports this "chaotic dynamics" modus operandi as a way for militants to recruit new members and look for goals or inspiration. "Without the Internet, the extreme fragmentation and decentralization of the jihadi movement into a still functioning global network just would not be possible," Atran argues. "I think we can expect more independent attacks by autonomous groups because of the Internet."
Atran cites the Madrid train bombings on March 11, 2004, as a good example: a computer of one of the attackers showed evidence of systematic downloading from the same site that delivered a document entitled "Jihadi Iraq: Hopes and Dangers," which had circulated on the Net some months before the massacre. Among other charges, the document called for attacking Spain to force a withdrawal of that nation's troops from Iraq.
Atran, who has interviewed several radical jihadists, says that the Internet has spread a homogenized, flat notion of Islam, one that has little to do with Islamic tradition. The militants express a message of martyrdom for the sake of global jihad as life's noblest cause. "I was very surprised to find, from the suburbs of Paris to the jungles of Indonesia, that people gave to me basically the same stuff, in the same words," Atran says.
Combating the problem might come at the expense of the freedom expected on the Internet. Weimann has argued that data mining could sniff out jihadists or remove information before would-be terrorists see it. Marc Sageman, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania and a former CIA officer, notes that the nature of Islamist-jihadist sites could be turned against them. "In jihad, with so many Web sites, you have many potential messages, and you do not know what is true," he remarks. This lack of authenticity, he notes, could serve as a basis for a misinformation campaign to foil jihadists.
Atran thinks it may be possible to fight the virulent ideas not just with a fist but also with an outstretched hand. The chat room could serve as a forum for life-affirming ideas as it does for terrorist ones. Convincing jihadists of alternative values would be a long process, he admits. But "I have seen groups of mujahedeens" transformed from fighters to community helpers. If that conversion works in physical space, he says, "I do not see any reasons why we cannot do that in cyberspace."
Power User
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Where's George?
Reply #13 on:
January 25, 2006, 08:20:23 PM »
Link where you enter the serial numbers off of dollar bills to see where they've been.
And a piece about how the data is used:
Banknote tracking helps model spread of disease
18:15 25 January 2006
NewScientist.com news service
Will Knight
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organisation
Amaral Research Group, Northwestern University
Where's George
Tracking the movements of hundreds of thousands of banknotes across the US could provide scientists with a vital new tool to help combat the spread of deadly infectious diseases like bird flu.
Modern transport has transformed the speed at which epidemics can spread, enabling disease to rip through populations and leap across continents at frightening speed.
However, scientists possess few mathematical models to help them understand these movements and how this might govern the global spread of disease. To a large degree, this is because tracking the movements of so many people over such a large area is next to impossible.
But now physicists from the Max Planck Institute in G?ttingen, Germany, and the University of Santa Barbara, California, US, have developed a model to explain these movements, based on the tracked movements of US banknotes.
Dirk Brockmann and colleagues used an online project called
(George Washington's image is on the $1 bill) to track the movements of dollar bills by serial number. Visitors to the site enter the serial number of banknotes in their possession and can see where else the note may have been.
The team tracked 464,670 dollar bills across the US using 1,033,095 individual reports. The fact the notes are carried by people suggests it is a good way of modelling other things that people may carry, including disease.
Piggy bank
The researchers noticed that the bills' move according to two mathematical rules, each known as a power law. One describes the distance travelled in each step of the journey, the other the length of time spent between journeys.
While most notes travel a short distance each time, there is a slim probability that it will leap a very long distance ? perhaps carried from one side of the US to the other in the wallet of a passenger taking a flight. Secondly, while some notes move on quickly, there is a fair chance that it will remain in one place for a long period ? for instance stuffed into a child's piggy bank.
Although the movements of individual bills remain unpredictable, the mathematical rules make it possible to calculate the probability that a bill will have travelled a certain distance over a certain amount of time. "What's triggering this is our behaviour," Brockmann told New Scientist. "That is what you need if you want to build quantitative models for the spread of disease."
Very, very important
Brockmann admits that the movement of money may not perfectly mirror that of people. For one thing, he says, it may be that only certain types of people are interested in seeing where their bills have been and entering that on
. However, he says comparing the model to publicly available information on passenger flights and road travel suggests that it is accurate.
Luis Amaral at Northwestern University, US, believes the study could indeed prove very useful to epidemiologists. ?Understanding the way people move can be very, very important for developing strategies for fighting disease," he told New Scientist. "It seems like a very cool study."
But Amaral also says that the comparison between banknotes and disease is far from perfect. "Banknotes do not reproduce like a disease," he notes.
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Ask an Imam
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March 04, 2006, 08:31:56 PM »
Took me a while to confirm that this site is straight up and not a put on:
Ask an Imam:
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The common form of democracy prevalent at the moment is representative democracy, in which the citizens do not exercise their right of legislating and issuing political decrees in person, but rather through representatives chosen by them. The constitution of a democratic country will be largely influenced by the needs and wants of its people. Thus, if its people want casinos, bars, gay marriages, prostitution, etc. then with sufficient public pressure, all these vices can be accommodated for. From this, it becomes simple to understand that there can never be scope for a democratic rule from the Islamic point of view.
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Iran Military Guide
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Guide to Iran's military capabilities:
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Royal Society Link
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England's Royal Society has made all of it's publications since 1665 available online. Some of science's greatest discoveries are documented here.
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Terrorism Knowledge Base
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October 30, 2006, 05:51:08 PM »
Interesting site with various interactive maps charting terrorist incidents, groups, leaders, etc.
Kind of amusing to scan through the groups. Ever heard of the "Action Committee of Winegrowers?" How 'bout the "Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors?"
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A site that tracks online efforts to quash speech, file sharing, etc:
2008 Piracy Incidence Map
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Link that shows worldwide piracy hotspots:
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I've just bopped around the site a little; looks like it could be an good resource:
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Remember Regulations.gov? It was launched by the federal government in 2003. While it's a nice symbolic step for transparency, the site is poky, has a bad interface, and (in my experience) has a pretty spectacular record of not being about to locate the reg you're looking for. It's basically the online equivalent of a bored lady on the phone saying "I'm sorry, ma'am. I don't have a record of that."
Not to worry: A new privately run site, OpenRegs.com, launched yesterday. The very sexy-looking site is the brainchild of Jerry Brito of the George Mason's Mercatus Center (also one of my fellow bloggers at the world's foremost libertarian food blog, Crispy on the Outside), and Peter Snyder, a Chicago-based programmer. You can track specific agencies or specific topics.
The site also encourages commenting and offers tools to facilitate the exchange of gossip about each agency, which you'd better believe is frowned upon over at the .gov site.
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How would you have written the encyclopedia entry about last week's news that the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which was first published in 1768, has stopped putting out a printed version? The media naturally focused on this fact alonethe loss of the printed volume. The more interesting story is whether Britannica can survive online.
Those of us who grew up with the leather volumes tend toward nostalgia. In the pre-digital era, Britannica was the definitive way to impart and search information. The surprise is that for many people Britannica remains a key way to find authoritative knowledge online at a time when Wikipedia is a top-10 website.
In the peak year of 1990, 120,000 sets of the printed Britannica were sold; only 8,000 sets of the 2010 edition have been sold. Yet a company representative says 500,000 subscribers pay some $70 a year for unlimited access to its website. This means that despite the free alternative of Wikipedia, more people pay to access Britannica online annually than paid for the print version in any year. The company estimates that "tens of millions of people around the world" also have access to the online version through their library, school or college.
This is remarkable considering the great success of Wikipedia, which covers many more topicsin English, four million versus the Britannica's fewer than 100,000by letting anyone post or update entries, with mostly volunteer editors vetting the results. Britannica hopes there is a place for a brand that claims to be authoritative instead of crowd-sourced.
Britannica has 100 full-time editors who have worked with contributors over the years such as Albert Einstein, Milton Friedman and Alfred Hitchcock (who replied "98.6" when asked by Britannica to list his degrees on its contributor information form). Britannica's marketing division says, "There's no such thing as a bad questionbut there are bad answers." In 2008, company president Jorge Cauz told the New Yorker, "Wikipedia is to Britannica as 'American Idol' is to the Juilliard School." (This quote appears in the Wikipedia entry on Mr. Cauz.)
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.An anecdotal comparison of Britannica and Wikipedia shows the value of the premium source, but also the generally high quality of the crowd-sourced edition. The Britannica entry on itself comes to 30 pages when printed out, while Wikipedia has 23 pages; Britannica covers Wikipedia in three pages while Wikipedia has 39 pages on itself. The Wikipedia entry on the solar system, at 23 pages, is twice as long as the Britannica version. Evolution has a 61-page entry in the Britannica, by a University of California scholar, while Wikipedia has 44 pages, including an exhaustive 288 footnotes.
Still, length is not always the best indicator of value. Britannica has a well-crafted, six-page entry on economist Friedrich Hayek, for example, compared with a 15-page Wikipedia entry that includes random anecdotes alongside more serious analysis, reflecting the group wiki-effort based on consensus rather than a unified approach to a topic.
On the other hand, if you're more interested in actress Salma Hayek, Britannica has less than one page ("known for her sultry good looks and intelligence"), compared with Wikipedia's 11 pages, which include exhaustive detail on her films, TV appearances and charitable work. If you're interested in the foot ailment Morton's Neuroma, Wikipedia has a more complete entry than the Mayo Clinic's, and Britannica has none.
The Wikimedia Foundation that oversees Wikipedia has its own worries. Its strategic plan, posted online, says its biggest risk is the declining number of volunteer editors. Many entries include cautions that the reliability of information hasn't been confirmed. "Declining participation is by far the most serious problem facing the Wikimedia projects," the group says. "The success of the projects is entirely dependent upon a thriving, healthy editing community."
Another related issue: "Risk of editorial scandal can't be mitigated; there is an inherent level of risk that we cannot sidestep." This is especially true as Wikipedia adds new languages and countries, including many that censor results. It's not clear that the volunteer model is sustainable, though few would have imagined that Wikipedia could grow to have a goal for this year of serving one billion online readers with 50 million articles in some 280 languages.
Britannica remains a profitable business, especially after dropping its print version, but to survive it will have to be the most accurate sourceand make the case that authoritative sources matter. For Wikipedia, the challenge is whether volunteers can sustain what has become the world's largest compendium of facts and sometimes knowledge.
As usual in this Internet era, consumers have the best of both worlds: They can choose to rely only on Wikipedia, or they also pay for Britannica and its online scholarship. Even without the printed Britannica, we have more information at our fingertips than ever before. We should all hope that neither Britannica nor Wikipedia will ever have to write the other's obituary.
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|Tour de Adams
Date Climbed: Jun 20, 2015
|Climbed with Kevin and Sarah, we went up to Willow Lake then up PT 13580, up Adams' South Ridge, down the NW ridge to PT 13153 and then out South Crestone. Nice loop, 3 peaks and two drainages from one trailhead. Too bad the mosquitos were out in full force all day.
|Posted Jun 22, 2015 11:39 am
|Trip report
Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2011
|See trip report at http://www.summitpost.org/circular-tour-of-mt-adams/737634
|Posted Jul 26, 2013 4:55 pm
|Via Pt. 13,546
Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2013
|Another solo venture. Didn't see a soul all day even though the TH parking lot was full. Went up & over 13,546 first, hit Adams and over to Point 13,153. Great day!!
Ran into the same small herd of bighorn three times!
|Posted Jul 24, 2013 4:22 pm
|West Ridge
Date Climbed: Jun 29, 2013
|Day hike from South Crestone TH via Willow Lake approach. Nice walking on knobby slabs, great views of the Crestones.
|Posted Jun 30, 2013 4:37 pm
|West Ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 24, 2012
|Cold, wet, and cloudy day. Almost no views. Hanging on the summit in the clouds was beautiful, though, and the route was enjoyable. Would go back in better weather.
|Posted Aug 29, 2012 9:22 pm
|From Fluted
Date Climbed: May 25, 2012
|From Fluted. The ridge is somewhat intricate class 3 until it turns west. Trip report.
|Posted May 26, 2012 1:30 pm
|Snowy East Ridge
Date Climbed: Oct 16, 2011
|Climbed East Ridge from Horn Lake. Snow was sugary and loaded in places. Made for a fun day!
|Posted Oct 17, 2011 1:32 am
|Matt Lemke
|What a summit! SW slopes
Date Climbed: Sep 4, 2011
|A spectacular day and great views of the Crestones, Humboldy and Kit Carsen. Horn Creek area was also very pretty!
|Posted Sep 16, 2011 5:06 pm
|First over 10,000 ft peak
Date Climbed: Nov 20, 2010
|My first backpacking trip, first over 10,000 ft peak. Did it with Alex. We camped at Willow Creek Lake for the first night and climbed up the peak the second day and descend all the way down. The camping night was very cold to me, but the peak was unforgettable. A start of real mountain adventure.
|Posted Aug 30, 2011 12:25 am
| East ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 27, 2011
|Climbed Adams, via. horn lakes aproach. From Horn lakes, it was a long steep hike up to the east ridge, and from there we did the ridge proper all the way to the summit. although this is rated class 3, staying on the true ridge makes this a class 4/5 climb on wonderful rock. 10 hours car to car.
|Posted Aug 29, 2011 4:38 pm
|One of my first big mountains (after several on Hood)
Date Climbed: Jun 12, 1998
|Guessing at the dates. First big one for me after Hood.
|Posted Dec 21, 2010 7:51 pm
|Eric Holle
|West Ridge
Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2010
|Third time's the charm - perfect weather to finally stand on Adams' summit! Amazing views of all the surrounding peaks. With 13,153.
|Posted Jul 19, 2010 11:30 am
|West Ridge
Date Climbed: Jul 17, 2009
|Climbed Unnamed 13546, Adams, and Unnamed 13580 RT in around 8 hours car to car via Willow Lake.
|Posted Jul 24, 2009 8:54 pm
|South side
Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2001
|Left van in pouring rain and set up tent at tree line. Woke up to good skies and headed up to summit. Long ways and elevation will sock you.
|Posted Jan 1, 2009 2:48 pm
|NW ridge up, W ridge down
Date Climbed: Nov 24, 2007
|Climbed Adams as part of a 3 day, 2 night backpack to Willow Lake to test out our new cold weather gear. Overnight temps were about 0 degrees F... brrr! Summit day was incredibly windy and cold but we managed to get UN 13546 & UN 13153 as well. Adams was a bit spicy with snow and ice.
|Posted Sep 16, 2008 3:11 pm
|Tour de Adams
Date Climbed: Aug 21, 2008
|Climbed roughly the NW Ridge from UN 13153. Made a unique detour at the base of summit cap and found some really difficult climbing that made things 1000x more difficult. Descended W Ridge on my way to "Montana Mujeres," UN 13546. A complete tour of the 13ers in the S Crestone Creek drainage.
|Posted Aug 22, 2008 9:44 pm
|Tour de Adams
Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2008
|Up the NW Ridge from South Crestone Creek, down the West Ridge into Willow Creek. Spectacular day.
|Posted Aug 21, 2008 11:18 pm
|W ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2008
|brag brag brag
|Posted Aug 5, 2008 1:56 am
|A Good Finish
Date Climbed: Jul 20, 2008
|A nice climb to cap off a great weekend spent at Willow Lake.
|Posted Jul 21, 2008 12:06 pm
|From Willow Lake
Date Climbed: Jun 17, 2008
|I climbed 13,546, Adams and 13580 all from Willow Lake. This was the day after the Kit Carson Group. I climbed the S Ridge of 13,546 and circled around to finish with the W Slopes of 13580.
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An appearance in the semifinals of the Division II doubles bracket by junior Dillon Segur and sophomore Egon Samaai highlighted action for the Liberty Flames men's tennis squad this past weekend at the Southern Intercollegiate Championships (SIC). Samaai also posted a strong showing in singles play, reaching the quarterfinals of the Division III bracket.
Overall, the Flames recorded 10 singles victories and three doubles wins during the weekend. The SIC, the nation's oldest fall collegiate tournament, featured players from some of the top tennis programs in the country, including Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Vanderbilt and Clemson.
Segur and Samaai opened doubles play with a dominating 8-1 victory against Tennessee's Sunay Bhat and Colton Norton. In the round of 16, the Flames' duo rolled past Anton Kovrigin and Jeffrey Offerdahl of Vanderbilt, 8-3, to advance to the quarterfinals against Alabama's Stuart Kenyon and Saxon Buehning. Segur and Samaai downed the Crimson Tide's tandem, 8-5, for their third win of the tournament. In the semifinals, Segur and Samaai's run was ended by Rodrigo Encinas and Josh Record of College of Charleston, 8-6.
Samaai's strong play continued in his singles matches. The sophomore downed Colin Edwards of Georgia Tech, 6-4, 6-2. In the second round, Samaai ousted Record in three sets, 6-2, 5-7, 6-1. Samaai's round of 16 matchup pitted the South African native against Joao Silva of ETSU. Samaai outlasted Silva in the first set, 7-6, before dominating the second set, 6-1, to advance to the quarterfinals. Alex Calot of Charlotte dealt Samaai his first loss, defeating the sophomore, 6-2, 6-1.
Four more Flames notched victories in their opening matches. In the Division I bracket, Shea Thomas defeated Portland's Reid deLaubenfels, 7-5, 6-2, before falling to Hunter Harrington of Clemson, 6-2, 6-3.
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Gold has fallen below $US1200 for the first time in nearly three years, as month-end book squaring and relentless liquidation by institutional investors sent bullion prices sharply lower.
Despite slumping another 1.7 per cent to $US1180.57 an ounce this morning, its lowest since August 2010, gold has rebounded to $US1204.60 an ounce.
Overnight, gold reversed early gains in New York trade, and the slide accelerated with stop-loss orders triggered after the price fell below $US1225 an ounce to $US1199.51, down 2.1 per cent. Its session low of $US1197.1 an ounce was its lowest since August 12, 2010.
Gold has slid nearly $US200 an ounce in 10 days. It is down more than 28 per cent for the year and is headed for a 25 per cent loss for the second quarter, its biggest quarterly decline since at least 1968.
The overnight slide came despite gains in other precious metals and commodities, including crude oil, and even as the benchmark 10-year US Treasury yield fell below 2.5 per cent.
Falling yields for Treasuries usually encourage buying of gold, which pays no interest.
Analysts cited forced liquidations of gold unrelated to market fundamentals, and quarter-end selling by funds polishing portfolios through the time-honored practice of window dressing.
"You don't want to catch a falling knife, so people who might be buyers are stepping aside and don't want to show gold at their quarter-end statement," said Axel Merk, chief investment officer at Merk Funds.
US Comex gold futures for August delivery settled down $US18.2 at $US1211.6 an ounce. Trading volume was 270,000 lots, heavier than its 30-day average of 214,000, preliminary Reuters data showed.
Bullion has taken a beating since the beginning of last week after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke laid out a strategy to wind down the bank's $85 billion monthly bond purchases on the back of a recovering economy.
That would tend to drive up interest rates, making gold less attractive as a safe haven for funds in a low-rate environment.
The market brushed aside comments by two Fed policymakers on Thursday who sought to dissuade investors that monetary accommodation would fade soon. In separate speeches, each went so far as to say markets have misinterpreted the US central bank's intentions.
But Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank president Dennis Lockhart said the Fed could consider pulling back on its bond-buying stimulus sooner than expected if the US economy grows more quickly than anticipated and the jobless rate falls rapidly.
"Nobody wants to own gold anymore," Frank McGhee, the head dealer at Integrated Brokerage Services LLC in Chicago, said in a telephone interview. "We're getting a continuous grind down with heavy liquidation. All the news about the US is not helping, and the markets are looking forward" to better prospects for the economy, he said.
Silver futures for September delivery dropped 0.3 per cent to close at $US18.553 an ounce on the Comex. The metal has plunged 39 per cent this year.
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James Taylor of the JGSGB kindly sent me notification of their 1st Family History Fair to be held on 7 July 2013 at Elstree. The fair will include family history exhibitors & vendors and also representatives of Jewish cultural organisations which will be very helpful for those dipping their toe into Jewish genealogy and culture for the first time.
There will also be translators on hand to help decipher Hebrew into English. However I suspect that the most important aspect for researchers will be the lectures given by experts on Jewish genealogy. Below is a list of the lectures on offer. Wouldn't it be great if these could be videoed and made available online?
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- From Tolerance to Expulsion by Dr John Richmond FFA, BA, MA, PhD
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A very valid point.
Yup, and a question more people in the media should be asking.
Well this is a head scratcher.
So, did he talk about it? Or did he just ask a rhetorical question?
The question of the ages!
don't you think that happens with every team in football. Simms has been captain obvious for long time now.
It's like this for the whole organization . From the owner all the way down to the towel boys. When we lose it's front page news and when we win,
How come when we lose, it's always someone's fault, but when we win, nobody is at fault?
Simms is always praising Romo.
The psychology seems to me to be simple. As a fan, you expect to win. When you don't, finger pointing happens. It's Romo/Garrett/OL/etc.
No. When Tony has a bad game they seem to have multiple segments on it dedicated to telling people how bad he did.
No. Because it doesn't.
I was listening to Pat Kirwin on his Sirius NFL radio show and was disgusted at the conversation he had with a Cowboy fan. Basically both Kirwin and this Cowboys fan threw the Cowboy nation under the bus as being hyper-critical of Romo as if the friggin media had nothing to do with it. There is a small percentage of Romo haters out there, but many of them were led to that place by the BS media. You can count the number of pro-Romo media types on one hand,,,
NO! In fact it is quite the opposite.
Drew Brees throws 5 picks, and he gets a pass. Does he get criticized for that game?
I don't care if he won a Super Bowl or not - that is past history just like all the other Super Bowls.
It is not who you are, it is what logo is on your helmet.
Cowboys and Raiders will never get the credit they deserve, and get slammed much more than they deserve.
The media has zero integrity.
Raiders - huh?
Imagine if Romo had criticized his OC/HC the way that Roethlisberger has criticized Todd Haley on several occassions this season.
media would having a field day, it'd be a total circus. But Ben's allowed to apologize and claim that it's just his emotions getting the better of him and that's that. NO talk of disfunction on the team or chaos in the lockerroom.
Nope. Perfect example, Phillip Rivers. The guy has been AWFUL for two seasons now. Not a peep and the blame goes to Norv like it's somehow his fault.
I went to a Chase bank to get new checks and a debit card yesterday here in San Diego. The guy helping us saw my hat and said 'nice, a Cowboys fan'. So, I had to ask him if he was a fan too. He replied yes and went right into how Romo sucks and never wins.
Usually, I stop right there and don't get into a conversation, but I had too this time so I dove right in. After about 2 mins of me telling him how the Cowboys would have about 3 wins w/o Tony, I asked him if he has watched them play this year. His answer--"No, I have not watched a game since 2010".
Wow, how can some actually have an opinion of his play who hasn't even seen him play in two years? My guess is the media's perception and I don't think he has even watched more than 5 games in his life.
I was infuriated at this point and my wife knew it, she was pinching me under the table trying to get me to shut-up, heh
While on the other hand, Mark Sanchez threw 5 picks and lost his job. In fact, his career as a Jet is over.


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HOME player Andy Taylor gets the first crack at earning himself a cash boost when he takes on World Bowls Tour qualifier Danny Dennison in this weekend's Clarrie Dunbar open singles tournament.
Taylor has been drawn to face the Torquay United player, the highest ranked in the Standerwick club's event, an honour which puts a £50 bounty of Dennison's head.
Clarrie's Taylor has first crack at winning the cash as 64 players compete for the title over two days starting tomorrow (Saturday).
The event is one of 26 open singles events on the planetbowls circuit, with points from the tournament contributing to the national ranking list.
The top 32 ranked players then play in the Grand Final tournament for the overall PlanetBowls Title at Boston in October.
Also at the Clarrie event will be world number two Rob Paxton, from Taunton Deane, as well as champions from other PlanetBowls tournaments, including Westlecot (Swindon winner Brian Lees (Welford on Avon), Barwell champion Shaun Jones (Malvern Hills) and Camberley Open winner Nick Revell (Five Rivers, Salisbury).
2013 Grand Final runner up Scott Edwards (Adur, Hove) and England International and Commonwealth Games bronze medallist; Sian Gordonwill also feature.
Clarrie's own 2010 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Graham Shadwell is also in the field.
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In case of wooden furniture, please note that wood has inherent qualities such as marginal differences in stain and varnish, unique grain patterns etc. These are visible on a finished product and result in two otherwise identical items looking different. These are natural features of wood that provide character to each piece of wooden furniture and are accepted as per Industry standards. Small knots are also sometimes visible on the surface which is filled in by the furniture craftsmen during manufacture.
Placing an order: Please check dimensions of the stairway and entrance to your premise before buying, so as to ensure that there is no problem in getting the product inside. In such a situation we will not be able to accept return or cancellation. There are some items that you will need to assemble on your own or you will need to arrange your own carpenter for assembly. Wherever Socktail provides, the carpenter visits will be scheduled subsequent to the delivery of the item.
On Delivery: For all items that are expected to stand, ensure that the item is steady and straight. Unevenness up to 5 mm happens due to difference in surfaces and floor levels and is an accepted industry standard. Bushes will have to be attached to balance the item. In case of dust or a lack of shine, rubbing the surface with a cloth will help. This is an accepted method for cleaning the surface of a furniture item and making it shine.
Damages: Socktail shipping arrangements to your doorstep have been designed to ensure a zero-damage, hassle-free experience, please contact us immediately, in case:
Cancellations: We accept cancellation of furniture orders up to 24 hours of placing the same.Pieces of furniture are made specifically for your order.
Wooden Furniture Care and Cleaning Tips
Leather Furniture Care and Cleaning Tips
Fabric Upholstered Furniture Care and Cleaning Tips
Metal Furniture Care and Cleaning Tips
Wicker Furniture Care and Cleaning Tips
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National Ice Cream Month Archives
Blue Bell Opens West Phoenix Branch
June 28, 2013 by in Business News | Economy | Workforce
Blue Bell Creameries is expanding in Phoenix with the opening of a branch in West Phoenix. The new full-service, 13,000 square-foot distribution and sales facility at 5175 W. Watkins Rd. in Phoenix went into service this month. A grand opening on Thursday, July 11 at 10:30 am will feature Secretary of State Ken Bennett as… Read More →