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The list of hopefuls to replace Pasco County's retiring School Board members continues to grow.
The latest to enter the races are Laura Semer for District 5, which Frank Parker is leaving after one term, and Mike Ryan for District 3, which Cathi Martin is retiring from after three terms. With these announced candidates, the field for four seats on the ballot has reached 12 people. (Who said no one wants to perform public service?)
Semer, who has a daughter in International Baccalaureate and a son on a McKay Scholarship, said she would use her knowledge of schools plus her business background (she used to work on Wall Street before owning an ice cream shop and then a consulting firm) to help improve the school district. "I want to be able to help the kids like Jonathan, the kids like my daughter Iris, and all the children in between," she said.
Ryan, owner of Samuelsen Builders Realty, said he had worked to develop the Trinity area over several years and now felt the time was right to "step forward and go into public service." He noted his own business knowledge, his passion for working with young people, and his past experience working on the Dayspring Academy charter school board of directors as a strong foundation to help the district make it through tough financial times. "I really don't have any political experience," he added, "which can be a good thing."
Other candidates for District 5 include Karen King and Donna Munsen. Other candidates for District 3 are Sallie Skipper and Cynthia Armstrong. Official qualifying for the positions takes place in mid June.


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Before sitting, recall the art of Shutting Up.
Okay, lemme express something here: You'll be able to leave the blasted theatre. I swear. Honest. No kidding: you'll leave the building. No one is going to keep you here forever despite the fact that you should've been locked up in the first place. So here's the deal: How about watching the entire movie? No really. That movie that you paid for with the money that you went to all the trouble stealing from mommy's purse? Yeah how does the idea of watching it grab ya? Too Much? I don't care….
I know you're going to have a hard time grasping this with your flaccid brain being all addicted to asprin, pot or Fen Phen – or whatever you think is cool to be addicted to these days, but maybe you should keep your lumpy nethers in your seat until the movie's finished. That would be very helpful. I don't need to see someone walking around the theatre, coming back in and out when they realize they forgot their jacket or they noticed the movie is still going or to give the audience another glimpse as to what an abused ego you have. – All of this occuring while the very thing you and many others paid for is still dancing….
Besides, what's your bloody rush? You're only going to rush out of the theatre at break neck speed to stand on the escalator all the way to the top/bottom as to not over use your trunk-like legs (See "Fen-Phen") that can clearly only handle moving that huge head of yours 50 paces at a time without stopping for air. Now I realize that you've got important things to do like try to wear more cigarettes behind your ear or figure out how to wear pants even lower and still claim they're "on", but that garbage can wait, all right? I don't need you and your freinds/family/posse/crew/peeps/bitches/children/hostages roaming around ruining the last 5 minutes of my movie because you deem it necessary to let everyone know that you've magically figured out -all by yourself- that the film is going to end soon. Good for you. Idiot.
I get wonderful delight from film's false endings; watching morons exiting the theatre early need to shamefully crawl back to their seats as the movie they were trying to leave for no reason whatsoever, spare needing to get home to hump the crack in the couch, continues in its story. This was easily the one redeeming thing from Godzilla. Years ago, but what a vivid memory. Ahh…..


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http://photorumors.com/2014/04/04/this-is-the-upcoming-leica-t-type-701-camera/If this is true then this will be the most depressing moment in the history of Leica IMHO .......A non-full frame (APS-C) camera with an EVF
Why is either a 24x16mm format or an EVF so depressing, so long as there are lenses designed for its format and Leica also keeps making true rangefinders in 36x24mm format, and SLRs in 45x30mm format? I do not see a problem in Leica offering a range of format sizes, price levels, and viewfinder technologies.
http://photorumors.com/2014/04/04/this-is-the-upcoming-leica-t-type-701-camera/If this is true then this will be the most depressing moment in the history of Leica IMHO
The priority is not going to be autofocus but the implementation of combined live view and focus peaking.
I don't like this obsession with Made In Germany.
I've discussed this elsewhere before, but Leica is a company that makes superlative mechanics and optics. Unfortunately, only one of those is truly crucial to camera design and manufacturing anymore, and it ain't the former.Prior to going digital, Leica's cameras were already behind the 8-ball when it came to electronics. It's why they turned to Minolta in the 1970s (and in recent years to Panasonic).As soon as the camera became both mechanism AND medium (aka digital cameras), this problem was magnified over night.The company's solution (I think wisely) was to position itself as an ultra high end purveyor of luxury photographic instruments. They turned a disadvantage building cameras using expensive antediluvian technology into a strength by marketing their products as exclusive, luxury goods manufactured with "old world craftsmanship". Leica became the Rolex of cameras; a fashion statement. If I sound flippant or cynical, I don't mean to be; IMO it was a smart move on their part. The photographic world can certainly support one uber luxury camera brand
and Leica ought to be it.I really can't comment on Leica's forthcoming interchangeable mirrorless camera. My biggest fear is that it will continue the tradition of using electronics that are a few years behind current, state-of-the-art Japanese designs thus overpriced and under spec'd but we won't know for sure until it's announced.
I'm not seeing Leica strictly as a fashion statement. But there's no denying that the company itself sees itself, at least in part, this way. Just look at the special edition Ms that have been created in conjunction with fashion manufacturers. It speaks volumes about where the company is positioning itself.
I guess what I'm saying is that while Leica is relevant as a maker of luxury instruments, it hasn't been particularly relevant as a camera manufacturer, per se, since about 1970.
But it will require designing and building a cutting edge camera that caters to photographers' needs first and foremost, and rich collectors second.
I'm not criticizing their strategy so much as hoping that they'll create a quality product that is a bit more on the cutting edge ...
I walk past 2 leica shops several times a week, I have never seen a customer inside or going in/out, maybe they sell a lot of microscopes/industrial optical products to keep these loss-leader outlets going?


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The odorless watery slightly milky kind has increased alot keeps making me think i'm bleeding .-. plus after 2 kids i never had this problem til i become pregnant like sometimes when i sneeze or cough unexpectedly i pee myself not lots but yeah it's pee...so embaressing lol.
same here.. i don't remember having discharge this much with the boys...with this boy it's like im constantly changing pantyliner or having to go wipe.. it's chaffing my downstairs =/
Just makes me more paranoid because i bled at 9 weeks thought we were losing her so i check the tp and sheets constantly when i wake up every morning sad i know but yeah so scared of losing her.
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Hodgdon has a load for 160 GR which if you start mid load should work since most ball are around 150GR.
Do yourself one favor, take some unprimed cases and get your load working first. It's not the easiest process.
This is what I found. You need to bell the case as little as possible. Most dies when you bell/expand the top of the case it expands the first 1/3 of the case to the size of the bullet. This is too big for the round ball. The first couple that I loaded looked perfect,,, but when you took hold of the ball it would spin in the case.
I have the belling plug on order for a 45 and I'm going to have a friend machine the lower end smaller than the case so that it only bells the top so that the cases holds the ball much tighter. Hope it works.
The accuracy was dismal but at 7 yards was a fun round to shoot. Actually my cap and ball 44's shoot ball MUCH better but it was a fun experiment. In my Ruger the ball felt like shooting a 22. Lots of smoke and soot with Unique. Velocity was 560 FPS, a real magnum.
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Chief executive officers whose companies financially outperformed their peers over a three-year period received long-term incentive award payouts that were more than 50 percent above their target, according to an analysis by consultancy Watson Wyatt Worldwide.
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"The fact that high-performing companies rewarded their CEOs with above-target payouts shows a strong correlation between pay and performance," says Ira Kay, global director of compensation consulting at Watson Wyatt. "We believe that for the most part, strong company performance led to above target awards. While there may be a few cases of companies setting goals that were too easy to achieve, it's clear that rewards play a crucial part in driving most CEOs to excel."
The analysis also found that:
"With the SEC disclosure rules now in effect for the second year, performance goals for annual and long-term incentive plans are sure to attract more attention this proxy season," Kay says.
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Australia's business schools offer short, intensive courses to hone the skills of busy professionals. Many participants attend open courses – often in CBD campuses, but some organisations contract these schools to run customised executive education courses in-house. Teresa Russell reports
Executive education courses usually take anything from two days to two weeks to complete. The longer ones might be intensive residential programs. However some providers have taken a purposefully non-residential stance, finding that work-life balance issues mean that there is a strong market for courses that send participants home each night.
The names of available executive education programs differ from one business school to another. Indeed, it seems that the schools take quite some time thinking up innovative names that will differentiate their offerings from all the others. Despite what they are called, the general themes of the programs taught usually cover management, leadership and human resources; strategy and operations; marketing and client relationships and finance and accounting.
Courses cost anything from a few thousand dollars to some that give little change out of $20,000. The higher priced ones are occasionally marketed as mini-MBAs, as the subjects covered – and often the faculty teaching them – come from highly reputable MBA programs.
Open courses have the advantage of providing participants a ready-made network of business people working in a wide range of organisations and industries. Open courses are useful if only a few individuals in one organisation need a particular type of development at a particular point in time.
However, many companies today find that they have either a shallow talent pool in their succession pipeline, or that they are operating in an increasingly complex business environment in which skills gaps have become evident. They find they have the critical mass to justify paying one of the open program providers to tailor a management development program to suit their specific business needs.
Boyd Williams, senior vice-president human resources Asia-Pacific for DHL, says that his company has been experiencing double-digit growth year on year, with its workforce growing at the same rate.
Although DHL is an iconic brand in the international express courier business, it is now much more than that. Five years ago it was acquired by Deutsche Post as part of its strategy to change from being a German postal service to being the largest logistics business in the world. It now has 500,000 employees worldwide working in its freight forwarding, contract logistics and international express courier businesses.
Williams is based in Singapore in DHL's Asia-Pacific express courier business, which employs 28,000 people. "In this growing market, we identified a need for high-calibre business leaders for the future. We targeted our senior management team across the region and engaged the AGSM to run a pretty intensive two-week program," he says. DHL has now run three of these programs since 2004.
David Preiss, CEO of LGPro, chose RMIT BusinessSchool to help develop and run an emerging leaders program run over a 12-month period. This program is now in its fifth year.
LGPro is the peak body and professional member association for people working in local government in Victoria. Its primary function as a not-for-profit organisation is to provide professional development within local government. All 79 councils in Victoria have LGPro members.
Stuart Cleary, general manager human resources of FKP Property Group says that employee numbers in his organisation have doubled to approximately 1,200 since 2005, primarily through acquisition. Since then, the company has sent 20 people to AGSM's leadership programs and is currently in the process of briefing AGSM on the development of a tailored customised leadership program.
FKP operates primarily on the east coast of Australia. It is a diversified property and investment group with interests in development, construction, land subdivision, retirement village ownership and management, investment, property and asset management.
Choosing and briefing a provider
As there is no ready reference of executive development programs available in Australia, it is up to HR to stay (or get) up-to-date with what's on the market. Networking, internet research, advertisements and articles in trade journals, referrals and direct contact with business schools and other learning providers are all valid ways of conducting this research. Published rankings are also available. The Financial Times, for example, provides a list of the top 45 schools around the world providing executive education.
Williams says that DHL's decision to use AGSM was made by its CEO who had previous experience with the school, but that Williams had worked with them in previous jobs as well. "We outsourced this program because we didn't have leading edge knowledge in-house – and nor could we have built it," he says.
Recent programs were composed of two one-week modules. The first week covered strategy and finance and in the second, leadership, human resources and leading change. Project teams of 3–5 people are asked to solve real DHL business problems. Solutions are presented to the regional board that decides whether or not to implement them.
At the conclusion of each program, Williams and the program director review the participant assessments, look at the outcomes of implemented solutions of the group projects, canvass the views of the regional board who sponsor the program and then decide what business challenges need to be included in the next program. The program director then adjusts the design of the next program. The 2008 program will include a marketing module as a result of this review process.
Preiss at LGPro says that the need for tailored learning was identified at an annual conference about five years ago when a participant in a leadership workshop stood up and said, "It's been great to have my aspirations and professional development needs acknowledged. I now feel I have a future in local government."
"We checked the interest level among our members. It was incredibly strong, so we created the outline of the broad program and put it out to tender to a number of tertiary education providers," says Preiss. RMIT delivers the two-day introductory forum that covers the subjects knowing yourself, understanding your organisation and gaining insight into various leadership styles.
The whole group of 24 is given a project to complete that is presented at LGPro's next annual conference.
FKP's strong relationship with AGSM meant it was the obvious provider to create a customised program for them. "We explained to them that we are a very results-focused organisation that achieves results through our people. Strong leaders will drive our people to perform in order to achieve our desired business results. The outcome from FKP's investment in leadership development must be reflected in our business results," says Cleary.
FKP plans to run three two-day modules over a six-month period. "Participants will be assigned projects at the end of each module to make sure skills are brought back into the workplace. They can be assessed over the six-month period and start talking and networking within the business," he says.
Business outcomes
The major benefit of tailored learning programs over open executive education programs is undoubtedly the specific, targeted business projects that participants are set. The downside is that they don't get to network with people outside their business or industry.
At DHL, Williams says that the financial and business impact of the proposed solutions to business problems "is big, obvious and easy to measure." Just one project currently being implemented is expected to save somewhere between 2–3 million. "Just that one project pays for all three programs we have run so far," he says, "but I can't put my hand on my heart and say we have sustained improved performance from our participants. Ideally I'd like to evaluate that effectiveness, but if these projects are driving revenue and minimising costs, I ask myself if I do really need to do it?" says Williams.
Cleary plans to measure participant success at FKP's custom leadership program through achievement of KPIs, as well as monitoring the success of the projects they have been assigned.
Other measures
All three organisations ask participants to assess the program they attended and then modify the next one according to any feedback. Preiss says that one of the measures of success of its Emerging Leaders program is its popularity. "We could fill the course three times over, but we can only run it once each year. We have to make sure that there is a suitable range of diversity in the group in terms of age, professional background and level of seniority," says Preiss.
LGPro now has an Emerging Leaders graduate network that not only continues their professional development, but also provides real assistance in the sector. "The program has mentoring built into it. Participants have become mentors. A lot of the councils have their graduates present to staff or the management team about what they have learnt and how that can be brought back into the organisation.
The strong message from Williams, Preiss and Cleary is to be clear from the outset about why you are pursuing customised executive education and what you want as an outcome.
"You have to have a great relationship with a provider that understands your business and what is important to you. Don't send people off to do training for training's sake. You need to see results in your business," says Cleary.
"Generic leadership programs are bland," says Preiss. "You need to know what the leadership issues and challenges are for your particular sector and incorporate them into your program, unless you want generic leaders. Leadership is not a job title. It's an activity. It's not a noun. It's a verb. So don't just choose participants by position, or you'll get it wrong," concludes Preiss.
Williams says it is vital that the senior leadership team participates. "Leverage the brain power you've got on real business issues. We're not running a mini-MBA inside our business. If we were, I would never get the money to fund it," he asserts.
ProVision: from a different angle
Representing more than 410 independent optometry practices in Australia, ProVision provides a wide range of practice support services to help its members grow their businesses in a competitive market. Part of its offering includes over 130 days of education programs per year.
"We responded to the needs of our members and introduced a management education program this year. Leadership, strategic management and change management were seen as critical modules that would deliver real benefits to practitioners," says Jackie McKenzie, ProVision's corporate marketing manager.
Uniquely, ProVision provides this program free of charge to its members, strengthening the relationships it has with its members and bolstering the value of that membership.
Because optometrists are all university graduates, ProVision knew that course content would have to be pitched at a postgraduate level. "We engaged MGSM to deliver the program for a few reasons. If a university delivered the program, we knew it would have credibility among our members and could be positioned appropriately to attract maximum participation. Also, we wanted a residential program that would cater to the broad geographical diversity of our membership," says McKenzie.
ProVision had an overwhelming response to the course from participants, with all sessions completely booked out. "We measure the value of the education both through feedback, as well as by improvements made in their individual practices,"she says.
Strategy in action
Cathy Powell is currently doing an MBA through the University of Queensland. She is employed by the ANZ Bank and applied for a promotion to the position of local CEO, Pacific market, which includes 10 retail bank branches between Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
"There were several reasons I enrolled myself in a five-day Strategy in Action program run by the UQ Business School - Downtown. I thought it would help with my application for promotion and would give me a head start in the role if I got the job. It also meant I would get two credit points towards my MBA, without having to attend 13 weeks of night lectures when I had just started a new job," says Powell.
"I really enjoyed the program, primarily because of interaction with other participants who came from various industries as well as from overseas. Listening to what other organisations were facing and participating in discussions around this was amazing. I was always told that MBAs were all about the networking opportunities, but this course confirmed that for me," she says.
Her only criticism of the program was that it was quite intense and left little time to do the group assignment. She would have preferred the course to run over a three-week period (2+2+1). "Five days out of the business is a long time and a huge commitment," she says.
Powell was promoted and is now extremely busy and pleased she took the time to do the course, as it is helping her create a strategic direction in her market.


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Volunteer fire departments are like old-fashioned mom-and-pop stores.
We tend to like the idea of them — that services we need can be provided by our friends and neighbors. But they are pretty much doomed as communities get larger and residents more demanding.
At some point, we want a SuperTarget and we want our firefighters to be pros.
That's what came to mind when I read about the weekend brush fire that wiped out the studio and home of famed pop artist Jim Rosenquist.
Fighting this fire was mainly the responsibility of the Hernando Beach Volunteer Fire Department. Maybe, I thought, its time had come.
For those of you who don't know the details, a brush fire broke out in the coastal hammock in Aripeka about 3 a.m. Saturday. Hernando Beach volunteers put the fire out and, before leaving at 10 a.m., called Division of Forestry firefighters who had been dispatched from their station north of Brooksville and told them not to bother responding.
Then, that afternoon, the fire reignited — or a separate one started, according to Hernando Beach Chief Steve Knowlton. Burning rapidly and unpredictably, it spread both east and west of Indian Bay Road, consuming 62 acres of brush, as well as perhaps millions of dollars worth of Rosenquist's art.
On Tuesday, representatives from the half-dozen departments that responded to the afternoon fire met for a critique to discuss how they could have fought it better.
The biggest safety concern: Hernando Beach volunteers parked their personal vehicles on Indian Bay, blocking the only escape route, said Hernando County Fire Rescue Assistant Chief Frank DeFrancesco:
"We had fire on both sides of the road, moving very quickly. We had units in the middle (of the road), and we had the possibility of firefighters being trapped.''
DeFrancesco also questioned whether Knowlton should have been quicker to call for help.
Knowlton said he requested aid from Forestry as soon as he arrived at the fire, 12 minutes after it was reported, and called for a county tanker truck about nine minutes after that. He summoned Spring Hill Fire Rescue, the closest department, 18 minutes later — just as the fire jumped across Indian Bay and headed toward Rosenquist's property.
A resident reported the fire Saturday afternoon as "flames kicking back up again (in) the same location as the earlier fire,'' which raises the question of whether Knowlton should have allowed the Forestry crew to continue to the scene in the morning and make sure the first fire was out cold.
No, Knowlton said, when he arrived in the afternoon he could clearly see the second fire's starting point about 200 yards north of the first one, and a report of kids running away from the area suggested it might have been intentionally set.
Even if Hernando's best departments had been on the scene from the start, firefighters agreed, there's no guarantee they could have saved Rosenquist's property.
Aripeka is a dead zone for radios, making communication difficult. Water had to be trucked in from a distant hydrant. With the flames fed by drought-parched brush and high, shifting winds, "this was just an out-of-control fire, fault of nobody,'' said Bob Kanner, a former Spring Hill Fire Rescue commissioner and an emergency medical instructor.
"As far as I can see, Hernando Beach is a bunch of hardworking volunteers who fight fires because of their hearts and not their wallets," Kanner said.
That's the impression I got when I visited the department's station on Shoal Line Boulevard Tuesday evening for one of its twice-weekly training sessions.
Before practicing firefighting skills, the volunteers checked and cleaned their trucks and equipment. And Knowlton struck me as a guy you'd be lucky to have as a neighbor — a Springstead High teacher and retired police officer who for years has been willing to roll out of bed at any hour to fight fires without pay.
The department received generally high marks from a consultant hired last year to study whether the county would benefit from a consolidated, professional fire department. A single department would be ideal, the report said, but it also noted that Hernando Beach's response times were slightly shorter than the county's. And it costs homeowners $66 annually compared to $194 for the county department.
That's not to say this system has no drawbacks. Most of its volunteers are in their late teens or early 20s, donating their time in exchange for training that will allow them to move on to a professional department. Even Knowlton acknowledged they may have been overwhelmed by Saturday afternoon's fire.
"None of our guys had seen anything like it,'' he said. "That's the kind of fire you see on TV from California.''
A Division of Forestry investigator will determine whether the volunteers made any serious mistakes fighting the fire. Meanwhile, residents remain loyal to the department, said Fran Baird, a longtime board member of the Hernando Beach Property Owners Association: "Everybody is happy the way it is.''
And, whether Hernando Beach keeps its volunteer department is, as it should be, up to the people who live there.


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- Clinical validity of a normal pulmonary angiogram in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism--a critical reviewE J van Beek
Section of Academic Radiology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK
Clin Radiol 56:838-42. 2001..To determine the validity of a normal pulmonary angiogram in the exclusion of pulmonary embolism (PE), based on the safety of withholding anticoagulant therapy in patients with a normal pulmonary angiogram...
- Upper thoracic spinal fractures in trauma patients - a diagnostic pitfallE J van Beek
Department of Radiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Injury 31:219-23. 2000..Upper thoracic spinal fractures are easily missed in patients with multiple injuries. In patients with neurological symptoms CT and/or MRI is required as soon as the general condition of the patient permits this...
- Hyperpolarized 3-helium MR imaging of the lungs: testing the concept of a central production facilityE J R Van Beek
Unit of Academic Radiology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Eur Radiol 13:2583-6. 2003..The feasibility of a central production facility for hyperpolarized 3-helium was demonstrated. This should enable a wider distribution of gas for this novel technology without the need for local start-up costs...
- MRI for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolismEdwin J R van Beek
Unit of Academic Radiology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK
J Magn Reson Imaging 18:627-40. 2003..As will be demonstrated, some of these techniques are now entering the clinical arena, and it is anticipated that MR imaging (MRI) will have an increasing role in the initial diagnosis and follow-up of patients with acute PE...
- MR imaging of the lungs with hyperpolarized helium-3 gas transported by airJ M Wild
Academic Unit of Radiology, University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, UK
Phys Med Biol 47:N185-90. 2002..In this study, the feasibility of transporting large quantities of HP gas for in vivo MR imaging from a remote production facility in Mainz, Germany, by airfreight to Sheffield, UK, was successfully demonstrated...


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Cincinnati, The Kroger Co. said Tuesday its second-quarter earnings rose 28%, and boosted guidance for the full year. Net income for the quarter ended Aug. 18 rose to $267.3 million from $209 million in the year-ago quarter.
Revenue rose 7% to $16.14 billion from $15.14 billion last year, while same-store sales grew 5.8% including fuel, and 5.1% excluding fuel.


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Basabe doubles down on starting call
IOWA CITY -- The first stat in the season box score is "gp-gs." That's sports shorthand for "games played-games started." For junior forward Melsahn Basabe, that read 20-0 until Thursday night.
The whole starting concept isn't a big deal for Basabe. The 6-foot-7, 228-pounder sees it as an "administrative decision."
"Honestly guys, I really don't get caught up in that," Basabe said. "I get caught up in the game and having fun and competing and battling. I trust my coaches. I listen to them and take the information they give to me and use it to my advantage. And I let them make all those administrative decisions and whatever's going down, I'm totally with."
Thursday night in Iowa's 76-67 victory over Penn State at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, credit Iowa coach Fran McCaffery with the correct administrative decision.
Basabe made his first start and responded with 10 points and 10 rebounds, the 10th double-double of his career and Iowa's third this season (forward Aaron White has the other two).
Basabe said it wasn't a big deal, but he did know that he started the first 52 games of his college career.
"I appreciated that coach wanted me to start and I wanted to bring energy," said Basabe, who's scored in double figures in four of Iowa's last six games.
Given Basabe's recent oomph, McCaffery knew he wanted him in the starting lineup, but he didn't know who he would replace until the last minute before lineups were turned.
Freshman guard Anthony Clemmons, who's struggled recently, went to the bench. He responded with eight points in 14 minutes.
"They wanted me to bring energy off the bench and give Mike [Gesell] a shot at the point," Clemmons said. "It was a lot of stress relief. Coming off the bench, all I thought about was giving my team a boost."
So, everything worked Thursday night, granted it was against the last-place team in the Big Ten. The Nittany Lions fell to 0-9 in league play. So yes, it was a good night to break in a new lineup.
"Melsahn Basabe was terrific," PSU coach Pat Chambers said. "He's playing really well, that's probably why they started him tonight. The last four or five games, he's been a beast. He played all over the glass. He was aggressive and dunking everything. He's playing great basketball."
At 3-5 in the Big Ten, the Hawkeyes face a three-game critical stretch that goes at Minnesota on Sunday, at Wisconsin on Wednesday and then Northwestern at Carver-Hawkeye next Saturday.
McCaffery's plan right now is to go forward with Thursday's lineup, which included Basabe, center Adam Woodbury, forwards Aaron White and Devyn Marble and point guard Gesell.
That "gp-gs" will at least go to 20-2 and beyond for Basabe, who drew a technical foul for a taunt after a first-half dunk.
"He's been very efficient," McCaffery said. "He makes his free throws. He sticks his nose in the glass. He gives you a low-post presence. And defensively he's just so far ahead of where he used to be.
"He used to hurt us defensively. Well, he was in the wrong place a lot. That's why he was fouling.�Now, he's in the right place. He's seeing the game and affecting the game at both ends. What you're seeing is a guy who has more confidence in himself."
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Updated valgrind packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Valgrind is a tool to help users find memory management problems in the programs. Valgrind can detect a lot of problems that are otherwise very hard to find or diagnose.
The valgrind packages have been upgraded to upstream version 3.6.0, which provides several bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#661245)
Bug Fixes
- When MySQL Server was run via valgrind, an error in valgrind prevented MySQL Server from writing to its log file and caused it to return a number of error messages. This bug has been fixed and MySQL Server now starts up normally when run via valgrind.
- When the snmpd tool was executed under valgrind on the 64-bit PowerPC architecture, it terminated unexpectedly. This bug has been fixed and the "valgrind /usr/sbin/snmpd" command now works as expected.
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Photos: ElemantalC and Colin Young-Wolff
To mark the launch of the Harley Iron 883, the company commissioned Shepard Fairey and several other artists it describes as "low brow" to create original art based on the bike and to decorate its fuel tank. The show is running at Santa Monica's Robert Berman Gallery until February 21st.
Shepard, who created the iconic Obama "Hope" image, created both the
promotional flyer for the exhibition and an original painting of
Johnny Ramone.
It's great to see a major manufacturer not only realizing that it needs
to aggressively pursue a new, younger audience, but doing so in a way
that's credible, accessible and aspirational. If Harley and its rivals
put more marketing effort into this style of project and less into
cheesy videos and condescending campaigns targeted at rednecks we think
they'd see a significant reduction in the increasingly ancient average
rider age.
We're a bit disappointed with how literal, even by his own
standards, Shepard's work turned out, but the exhibition does have some
notable highlights. Ignore for a minute the unambitious tanks -- which
seek to accomplish nothing new outside of decoration -- and focus
instead on the other artwork. A particular favorite is Shawn Barber's
crotchety old man, which glorifies the traditional Harley rider
stereotype without relying on either the obvious -- bikes and their
accoutrements -- or the unrealistic -- the character is as appealing for
his flaws and humanity as he is for the perceived romance of his
lifestyle. You don't really want to be him, but somehow you're happy
that he exists. David Trulli's piece is also pretty cool, providing a
tactile sense of speed and style, leaving identity, setting and context
up to the viewer.
This isn't the first such exhibition from Harley, similar ones have
been held for each of the Dark Custom lineup. Judging by the success of
this event, neither will this be the last. In the future we hope to see
Harley release its marketing grasp slightly, choosing artists from a
wider selection of styles, presenting them with a more creative brief,
then allowing them to create more ambitious projects. When it comes to
corporate sponsorship of the art world, just like the Iron 883, less is
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Last week I tried to create a PHP stream context which set multiple headers; an Authorization header and a Content-Type header. All the examples I could find showed headers built up as a string with newlines added manually, which seemed pretty clunky and not-streams-like to me.
In fact, you've been able to pass this as an array since PHP 5.2.10, so to set multiple headers in the stream context, I just used this:
<?php $options = ["http" => [ "method" => "POST", "header" => ["Authorization: token " . $access_token, "Content-Type: application/json"], "content" => $data ]]; $context = stream_context_create($options);
$access_token had been set elsewhere (in fact I usually put credentials in a separate file and exclude it from source control in an effort not to spread my access credentials further than I mean to!), and
$data is already encoded as JSON. For completeness, you can make the POST request like this:
<?php // make the request $response = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
Hopefully this will help someone else doing the same thing next time (or at least I know I can come back here when I can't remember!), the array approach seems more elegant and maintainable to me.


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November 10, 2000, 07:23 PM
I just picked up my new Ruger SRH in .44 mag w/ a 9.5" barrel yesterday. I plan to try some whitetail hunting with it as soon as I buy a scope for it. What factory loads do you recommend? These will not be big whitetails, but rather Texas Hill Country doggy deer, with bucks averaging about 140 lbs. Shots will most likely be fired from distances of 50-75 yds. I bought some Winchester 240 gr today that is marked as "Hunting", mainly for plinking, but I'll use it for hunting if the concensus is good. Any opinions?


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Cape Town – Ajax Cape Town's hopes of securing a top eight finish to this season's Premiership campaign took another serious blow when they went down 2-0 to Mpumalanga Black Aces at the Athlone Stadium on Friday night.
The hosts looked disjointed for most of the game, struggling to find fluency or any sort of potency in their attacks.
Aces got off to a perfect start, going ahead after just one minute when Thabo Qalinge squared the ball for Tendai Ndoro, who held off the his marker before picking out the bottom corner for a clinically taken goal.
Ajax's first chance came seven minutes later and saw Eleazar Rodgers heading the ball over the bar.
The game remained tightly balanced, although it was AmaZayoni who were playing the better football, passing the ball around nicely, while Ajax looked to go the more direct route.
There were half chances for the home side but Aidan Jenniker failed to get any power on his shot, while Rodgers' effort was deflected wide of goal.
Just after the half hour mark and Abia Nale had a chance for Aces, but his effort was well dealt with by home keeper Anssi Jaakkola.
Going into added time and AmaZayoni looked set to double their lead when Abia Nale played in Onyekachi Okonkwo, who hit his strike well, only to see Urban Warriors keeper Jaakkola making a remarkable save with his feet.
There was little change to the balance of play after the restart as Ajax continued to look flat and out of ideas up front, leading coach Roger De Sa to make a double change as he brought on Simbarashe Sithole and Toriq Losper.
But again it was the Mpumalanga side who looked more threatening in attack, with Jaakkola doing well to keep out Ndoro's angled drive on the hour mark.
Ajax finally begun to make some headway into their opponents' half as the game moved into the final quarter and the hosts were close to an equaliser when Losper played in Sithole with a cross, the Zimbabwean's header flashing inches over the bar.
It was AmaZayoni however who were to add to the score-line, Ndoro tapping home in the 79th minute from close range after a swift counter-attack had seen three Aces players bearing down on goal, with only Dominic Isaacs back to defend for the home team.
Clive Barker's side were able to play out the remainder of the game without any issues, the result sending Aces up to fifth spot on the table. – Sapa


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TFO 'Deer Creek' Spey Rod.
Selling a rod for a Buddy of mine.
TFO 'Deer Creek' Spey Rod. 14' 7-8 wt. new rod has only been lawn cast a couple times, once by me. Beautiful rod, TFO calls it an Amethyst colored blank.
This rod is spotless, clean cork, no scratches or blemishes that I can see.
Asking $270.00 + shipping.(retails for $359.00). One heckuva good deal.
Re: TFO 'Deer Creek' Spey Rod.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm, thanks John. I'll be thinking about this deal all day...
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December 10, 2001, 04:03 PM
Hi I was wondering if anyone could tell me of any differences in the mag tubes on the preban and post ban Benelli m1 tactical. I was thinking of buying one, and wanted to know how to tell the difference between the two. Thanks for any help.


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Camels & ChocolateNovember 5, 2008 at 9:45 am
Wow, what an action-packed week…the election…your anniversary…your burfday.
You are the most beautiful bride ever, btw. Happy anniversary!
Wow, what an action-packed week…the election…your anniversary…your burfday.
You are the most beautiful bride ever, btw. Happy anniversary!
Ooh, pretty! You look amazing in that dress. Happy anniversary!
so so so beautiful
you guys are way too cute!
That dress is amazing. Happy Anniversary!
Oh my word, how gorgeous! Happy Anniversary!
You SHOULD always stand on rocks and gaze lovingly at each other. Not only do you look gorgeous, I hear that that is actually the key to a happy marriage.
Happy Anniversary!!
Happy anniversary! You two are crazily gorgeous.
Happy Anniversary! You look beautiful.
aw. ;)
Happy anniversary, you crazy kids!
Seriously, it's like a picture from a bridal magazine.
Look at your buff arm in that photo! Two tickets to the gun show…
Congratulations! On finding the right one, on making it work! Revel in it! Own it! Awesome!
Awww! Happy Anniversary, you two!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!! Sip some wine, share the time.
da bishOp
You didn't mention it was your anniversary when I saw you this morning! Happy Anniversary–what a beautiful photo of a beautiful couple!
Oh, well. This just topples the universal happiness scales right over. Happy! Anniversary you two.
Happy Anniversary!
omg, you look GORGEOUS! i love your dress, your hair- all of it!
Gorgeous photo. Happy Anniversary.
Congratulations! That is a beautiul, beautiful picture.
Happy Everything-that's-Going-On!!!!
(And I really hope that you post more photos from your wedding! Gah! You're too gorgeous for words.)
Thank you! I have a few more wedding photos here:
Is that a yellow orchid in your hair? Inspired choice! Happy Anniversary to you both!
Happy Anniversary! What a gorgeous photo.
I needed some beautiful this morning. Thanks.
Stunning image!! Happy anniversary!
Happy anniversary! That's a gorgeous picture.
That is an amazing photo!
That is a beautiful photo. Happy birthday and anniversary and send my condolences to you son, I just got over a double ear infection and BOO is right!
So pretty! You look like models in your photo!
Happy anniversary (two days late).
That is just gorgeous. Look how perfect and priceless y'all look.
May you always gaze lovingly into each other's eyes, at least once a day, rocks or no stinkin' rocks. ;-)
Happy Anniversary!


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An openly gay baseball and volleyball coach at a Catholic school in South Dakota has been retained despite the concerns he harbored that coming out would jeopardize his position.
As reported by the Associated Press, 25-year-old Nate Alfson is believed to be the first openly gay prep coach in South Dakota sports history. The head volleyball and baseball coach at St. Mary's High in Dell Rapids, S.D., announced that he was gay on the popular homosexual sports website Out Sports in a piece in which he also voiced concerns about his job safety because of his suddenly revealed sexual orientation.
It turns out that he had nothing to worry about, as he made clear in an email to Out Sports and on his personal Facebook page on Tuesday.
"The meeting with the school went great," Alfson said in his email to the website. "We talked about being on the same page as each other and that they were willing to walk through this with me and support me."
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls went further, saying that all individuals should be treated with respect regardless of their sexual orientation and confirming that sexual orientation alone should not disqualify anyone from serving the church.
That's a refreshing break from traditional Catholic doctrine, and perhaps a template for modern religious schools. Alfson will be judged on his teams' results and his students behavior. No coach could ask for anything more.


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Keep Doin' That (Rich Bitch) Lyrics / Paroles
[Intro: Rick Ross]
Her puppy named Panamera
Her puppy named Panamera
She got a condo in the area
Rich bitch
Uh, yeah
[Verse 1: Rick Ross]
She stay at her friend's and all these bitches is bad
Watch them lick on each other, I'm talkin' pussy to ass
Dope boy still at large, trackin' device on their car
Tattoos on her arm, Double M diamond charms
Chanel bag on her hip, Hermès bracelets and things
Let her fuck Meek Mill, told her keep chasin' her dreams
Get the Lexus to flip, purple Texas to sip
She make it rain like a nigga, we got more money to get
Rich bitch, call her rich bitch
Cause she fuck with dope boys and can suck a good dick
[Hook: R. Kelly]
Yeah, I'm a spend up all this money
Girl, you doin' somethin' to me
Hell yeah, keep doin' that
Doin' that, keep doin' that, doin' that, keep doin' that
Doin' that, keep doin' that, doin' that
[Verse 2: R. Kelly]
I be feastin' on Tinder, she taste just like peaches
Diamond-studded La Perla, that pussy's prestigious
Yeah, she remind me of somethin' but that shit ain't my Jeep
Matchin' Bugattis, Versace sheets when we freak
She be movin' that dough, quarter mil on her wrist
Why you niggas be slippin'? This bitch is fuckin' your bitch
Saks fifth pop tags, neiman I pop tags
Crocodile, python, that's a zoo on her bag
She on the phone makin' deals, we gettin' them checks
My Penelope Cruz, I let her meet my connects
I fuck her all on the marble, yeah, that girl is a freak
She like comin' in mornin', she's the female me
[Verse 3: Rick Ross]
Room service for weeks, a dozel towel on the beach
She only wear panties once, then pass it down to her niece
Let's go shoppin' at Boca, sixty stuffed in the sofa
Can't be tweetin' locations, she postin' pics from her yoga
Never party with locals, niggas with them Boost Mobiles
VIP with dope boys, the DJ shout out to Sosa
Valet park in the Wraith, cocaine all on her face
Her Rolex icy as mine, throw up my gang sign
We goin' bottle for bottle, Belaire Rose to the Brut
Rich bitch is her name and she Chanel to the boot
Uh, I be droppin' so much, nigga
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Most mutual funds focus on a narrow niche, such as small-cap growth or large-cap value. But there's a better way.
A few managers take an all-cap approach, holding stocks of all sizes. So why would that benefit investors?
In recent years, small stocks have soared. That has helped top all-cap managers outdo the large stocks of the S&P 500
Solid choices include Barrow All-Cap Core (BALAX), Davidson Multi-Cap Equity (DFMAX) and Keeley All-Cap Value (KACVX). Over the past 12 months, BALAX is up 24.7%, DFMAX is up 24.5% and KACVX is up 22.8%. By comparison, Vanguard's Total Stock Market Index Fund (VTSMX), which captures all stocks in the U.S. market in proportion to their market value, is up 20.5%, while the S&P 500 is up 19.3% over the same time frame.
Some all-cap funds shift their allocations as conditions change. During the turmoil of 2008, Keeley All-Cap Value had half its assets in depressed small stocks, with the rest in mid and large caps. Then as small stocks rallied, the fund began shifting to cheaper large caps. Keeley now has only 17% in small caps. "We have the ability to move around the markets to find values," says portfolio manager Ed Ciskowski.


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Yes, I'm attempting to get back to blogging regularly again! I've been working so jolly hard these last few weeks (to make up for months of slacking - I'm not going to pretend I'm in any way hard done by!) that I've been seriously lacking in personal/creativity time. Now that I've replenished the coffers, I hope to be able to strike a balance between work and fun stuff, and hopefully be able to start tackling my immense list of project ideas.
Of course, one benefit of working on ebay all day is that it does give me the opportunity to bag the odd bargain. This coat was a recent find, and though it's not in perfect condition (the lining is quite damaged, and there are two buttons missing), it was still a bit of a steal at £40. I love the nipped waist and square 40s shoulders. There's also velvet detailing on the collar and around the hem. I've picked out some black bakelite Deco buttons on Etsy to replace the current ones (you've no idea how hard it is to find a matching set of 7 one-inch black buttons!).
I'm also pushing the envelope a bit by wearing pastels. I wear red and black so often I feel like I'm stuck in a red and black rut, even though I love wearing other colours. So, although you can't see it as I didn't take the coat off for any pictures, I'm wearing a 1930s (possibly) pink sweater and my baby blue cardigan - which was why I chose this baby blue plastic brooch, even though no-one would actually see the reasoning behind it!
1940s hat (which you may remember from last winter) and coat, ebay; Sweater, vintage fashion fair; 1950s gloves, can't remember; 1950s plastic brooch, car boot sale.


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Other than J.C. Romero becoming the latest in a string of homecomings, joining Cliff Lee, Juan Samuel and Ryne Sandberg, it's been awful quiet in Philliesville over the holiday season.
But you can bet there will be plenty of noise when 2011 begins. Off the field, the Phils still have some business to take care of (namely giving Charlie Manuel a new contract). On the field, it's expected to be a season unlike any other with an ace-packed, World Series-or-bust rotation.
But before you can have visions of October, it's best to stay in the moment and not get too ahead of yourself. Without further delay, here is a list of New Year's resolutions, Phillies-style.
Ryan Howard: While he remains the game's preeminent power hitter, Howard has left one and just one memory ingrained into the psyche of Phillies fans this winter, and it involves him having his bat stuck on his shoulder. His resolution: Less looking at third strikes, more swinging.
Chase Utley: The golden boy in the eyes of fans, there isn't a whole lot of squabbling over anything the second baseman does wrong. It's probably because he does a lot of things right. But if Utley were to have one resolution for the 2011 season, it's that he should volunteer for the occasional day off during the summer. Utley recently turned 32 and needs to keep his body fresh. (See Rollins, Jimmy).
Cole Hamels: Perhaps lost in the shuffle that was Doc Halladay's dominance, Roy Oswalt's emergence and Cliff Lee's surprising acquisition was the coming of age story that was Hamels' 2010. If Hamels needs a resolution for the New Year, it's to keep the same focus for 2011 and not to think about the contract that expires after the season.
J.C. Romero: Throw strikes.
Gary "Sarge" Matthews: Consider the top hat.
Brad Lidge: Yogi Berra once said that baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical. If anyone could ever work out that math, it's the Phils closer. When he has struggled, it's because he hasn't felt right physically or mentally. He was riding good mojo in the last half of 2010. His resolution: Stay out of his own way and, like Hamels last year, let his talent carry him.
Placido Polanco: Is there anything Polanco doesn't do well? It's no wonder he's been a personal favorite of Charlie Manuel's since his first tenure with the team. Maybe try not to get hit in the elbow with any more pitches.�
Rich Dubee: Easy on the pregame dugout spit puddles.
Scott Mathieson: Easy one --- develop an effective secondary pitch. The Phils hired Hall of Famer Bruce Sutter for this very reason. If Sutter can parlay his mastery of the split-fingered fastball to Mathieson, the hard-throwing Canadian can realize his high-ceiling potential in the major league bullpen this summer.
Roy Halladay: Stay perfect.
Shane Victorino: Davey Lopes left, but that doesn't mean the reigning leadoff hitter's base stealing has to suffer. Victorino was an astounding 4-for-7 in stolen base attempts in 153 games in 2006, the year before Lopes arrived. No one benefited more from Lopes' tutelage. Victorino's resolution? Don't forget Lopes' lessons and use your motor mouth to bug Sam Perlozzo and Juan Samuel, who also have a lot to teach.
Carlos Ruiz: Last year's patience at the plate was a revelation. Ruiz's .400 on-base percentage was fourth in the NL among hitters with 400 plate appearances. Retain that info and repeat.
Charlie Manuel: Since the right field situation appears to be a platoon at present, don't fall into the easy route of playing righties against left-handed pitchers and vice versa. If Domonic Brown isn't ready for everyday duty and needs more minor league tutoring, let Ben Francisco play the majority of the time, even against right-handed pitchers. He has better overall tools than Ross Gload and showed in Cleveland that he can perform when playing regularly.
Ross Gload: Smile every now and then.
Wilson Valdez: Keep smiling.
Cliff Lee: Try to avoid the late-summer stumbling block (August of 2010, September of 2009). Otherwise, stay perfect.
Roy Oswalt: Imagine every ballpark is Citizens Bank Park. Upon his arrival to Philadelphia in July, Oswalt went 5-0 with a 1.76 ERA at the Phillies home park. In his career, Oswalt is 9-0 with a 2.10 ERA in 10 games at Citizens Bank Park.
Tom McCarthy: Sports on television means the picture often tells the story, and probably even more so with the pace of baseball. Sometimes more is less for a lead play-by-play man.
Jimmy Rollins: Join Halladay, Howard and Ibanez as an early entrant into the greater Tampa Bay/Clearwater area. As athletes grow into their 30s, the work they put in before the season is as important as the day-to-day work during the season in terms of keeping your body in tip-top shape. Report early, work out often.
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And if this year is anything like the years before, if rivergoers aren't careful, some of them will die.
At least two drowned last year; 25 drowned between 2005 and 2010, according to the county Department of Health and Human Services.
Nature is gorgeous. Nature is wonderful. Nature is a sight to be seen.
But nature will kill you if you don't respect it. River currents run fast and cold here. If the water doesn't suck you down, the rapid drop in temperature will paralyze your limbs, and then you're as good as gone.
So maintain a healthy respect for the great outdoors. If you do plan on visiting the rivers, plan on visiting the rivers. Learn CPR. Never turn your back on water. Carry a radio when boating. Alert someone of your plans for the day and when you'll be getting home. Monitor weather conditions. Wear a life jacket -- especially if you're an adult around children. The power of your good example could save not only your life but theirs as well.
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Members of the Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association trounced the faculty and staff of Kingsborough Community College in an aggressive softball match on Sunday.
(View the photo gallery by Sheepshead Bites' Erica Sherman below.)
"It was highly competitive," said Michael Goldstein, the school's director of alumni relations and public information. "I didn't think it was going to be, but it turned out the gentlemen from the MBNA came out to play."
But Goldstein and his team aren't feeling so sore over the loss. The game raised funds for Kingsborough programs. Money is still coming in, but the group said they will present Dr. Saul Katz, dean of continuing education, with a check for more than $1,000 at their meeting next Monday.
"It was a beautiful community effort, one for the sake of the school," said MBNA Public Relations Chairperson Edmond Dweck. "It brought together our community with the Kingsborough community, which is important for the future."
The final score was 10 to 8, and with MBNA pulling ahead towards the end of the nine-inning game that lasted more than two hours.
The ceremonial first pitched was tossed by Community Board 15 Chairperson Theresa Scavo, and the MBNA featured some celebrity pitchers, including Councilman Michael Nelson and Civil Court Judge Eugene Schwartzwald.
"It was for a great cause, everyone had a great time, a lot of laughs," said Goldstein. "It was really, really very nice of them to do this for students. That's how you raise money – by having a lot of fun."
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by Connor Goodwin
Over the next few weeks (Feb. 13-24), there will be an "online carnival dedicated to what happens when technology and the written word collide." Otherwise titled, the Digital Writer's Festival. The festival itself will take place in Australia, but not to worry for all the events will be live-streamed. However, all events will happen in Australian Eastern Time (AEDT). For those in Chicago (CST), we are 14 hours behind. All those literary insomniacs will have something to preoccupy themselves with for the month of February. The festival is largely composed of panels that will be discussing all aspects of the literary sphere and its interaction with the digital sphere. This includes publishing with e-readers, sexting, teen blogs, the multilingual web, the ethics of digital journalism, and many more. There are dozens of writers, readers, and publishers involved in the festival. Many will be participating via video conference call. Included are authors such as Giancarlo DiTrapano (NY Tyrant Books/ Magazine), Blake Butler (HTMLgiant), Ken Baumann, and Mira Gonzalez. Not surprisingly, all of these names came across through their internet presence, via Twitter, blogs, and Tumblr. The authors mentioned above are only a small fraction of those participating—the festival is hosting an international array of speakers. This global scale emphasizes the kind of transcendence of boundaries made possible by the digital age.


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Elizabeth Cutter of Minneapolis is running for an open seat on the Hennepin County District Court bench.
She came in first in the primary with approximately 42 percent of the vote. Steven Antolak came in second with approximately 22 percent and will also be on the ballot.
Cutter is a senior assistant Hennepin County Attorney in charge of felony domestic violence prosecution. She also serves on the Domestic Violence Steering Committee, the Fatality Review Team, and the Family Violence Coordinating Council.
She was president of Minnesota Women Lawyers in 2010-2011 and selected as Attorney of the Year in 2011 by "Minnesota Lawyer." She serves on the District Ethics Committee and was a member of the Nominating Committee for the Hennepin County Bar Association.
Cutter is a board member at Interact Center for the Arts. She has also served on the board of Minnesota Comprehensive Health Association and on the Enrollee Appeals Committee for more than 20 years.
Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz appointed cutter to the Minnesota Rules of Evidence Committee.
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McElderry Park gets grant to reduce crime
BALTIMORE - Kids on the stoop, mom talking to neighbors—generations in East Baltimore were built on this charming idea of community and not what Donna Pryor hears outside once the sun goes down.
"I was lying in my room and my kids were in the middle room and it sounded like the bullets were coming in our bedroom. We all just fell on the floor." [How many times have you heard that around here?] "Every other night it seems like it," Pryor responded, "I mean its constant."
A constant battle between good and evil, a war waged for the heart of East Baltimore, but after enough dark, loud nights it's just not clear who is winning.
"It's terrible to live in East Baltimore and it wasn't always like this," Pryor lamented.
Sgt. Anthony Maggio is well aware it wasn't always like this, these are the streets he grew up on, the same streets he polices today.
"It brings back memories," he said. "Of course it was a lot different when I was younger in elementary school. As I got to my teens it started to get bad. When I was 15 we moved out of the area for that reason, but yeah...it definitely brings back memories."
Maggio is one of two sergeants in charge of 16 officers that work the Monument Street Initiative, a special enforcement aimed at removing the infected wound that is as long as Monument Street itself ripping right through the heart of East Baltimore.
It is a corridor full of drugs and violent crime that has slowly rotted the once strong middle class communities directly to the north and south of it.
"It definitely brings down the quality of life around here... no doubt," Maggio says as he patrols the area," they sell everything in this corridor: marijuana, heroin, cocaine, mollies, prescription pills. You have a large variety of drugs that are available so you have a large group of people that use different types of drugs that come here to buy."
And linger, creating an incubator of poverty, addiction and violence that has steadily spread north and south infecting neighborhoods like Milton-Montford, Madison-Eastend, Ellwood and McElderry Park.
While seeing some successes in more concentrated policing, it hasn't done much to stem 15 to 20 years of neighborhood decay, but McElderry Park is where the city and residents are drawing the line.
Backed by nearly a million federal dollars, the community is launching a different kind of warfare.
"We have to find creative, innovative solutions to deal with the issues of public safety," said LeVar Michael with the Baltimore Mayor's Office on Criminal Justice.
Michael is in charge of helping McElderry Park declare a new kind of fight.
The Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation program is part of the Obama Administration's Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative.
McElderry Park is one of just 15 neighborhoods nationwide in 2012 to receive the the specified grant totaling just less than a million dollars over three years, but it comes with a caveat.
"What this grant does is it takes a holistic approach. We are not just gonna look at the traditional way of addressing crime. We are actually going to touch on a number of different issues," Michael said.
Those issues are being worked out in meetings of the MceElderry Park Community Association and its partners.
The grant money is only awarded after a year of strategic planning of creative solutions to crime.
The community is using various data to develop programs aimed at countering the diseased parts of the neighborhood.
In the past decade or so, stats show about 22 percent of homes in the small neighborhood are vacant, only about 32 percent are owned and in 2010 nearly 26 percent of families with children lived below the poverty level.
Possible solutions backed by the federal money range from better street lighting, rehab tax credits for developers and a robust mentor program for the neighborhood's youth.
All the programs being discussed and architected are designed specifically to address McElderry Park on a hyper local level and not the 'one size fits all' approach of more policing or blue light crime cameras.
"If we don't do it right this time, we are really screwed," said McElderry Park Community Association President Glenn Ross.
Over the years Ross has seen federal dollars come and federal dollars go, this opportunity though, this is a unique shot.
McElderry Park is part of a wider East Baltimore area currently being considered for what is called a Promise Zone by the white house.
The Obama Administration will only make 20 such designations next year.
If the neighborhoods combining to form East Baltimore are one of them, it means first dibs on even more federal money to fight crime in this alternative way and heal this area from the street up.
"We are looking at other federal dollars coming down here and if we do not have our act together as an organization, we are going to miss out on funding opportunities," Ross said.
McElderry Park has until February to present its holistic crime plan for the Byrne grant and start using the nearly 1 million dollars within its small boarders.
Success will be measured after another two years in the way of crime stats and quality of life indicators, but for residents here like Donna Pryor, success will always be measured in the view from her stoop.
"Being able to feel safe. Being able to allow my kids to come outside and play. Being able to sit outside, enjoy myself and talk to my neighbors. You don't even have that anymore."


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The Queensland and NSW governments will each cop a $3 billion hit from the introduction of the carbon tax as their state-owned generators are slashed in value and operating costs increase for public services.
Queensland Treasurer
This is on top of the $1.4 billion worth of costs over the next four years estimated by state Treasury and Deloitte Access Economics last year; $640 million of the costs stemmed from the write-down on the generators and a further $435 million hit was due to dividends and tax-equivalent payments over the next two years.
The Costello audit revised that impact upwards by $1.6 billion because of overly optimistic revenue forecasts for the next few years from Treasury.
Despite this cost, the Costello audit concluded that studies on other states showed they might actually be hit harder.
Last year the former Bligh Queensland government announced it would allocate $100 million a year to help its departments deal with the extra costs created by the carbon tax.
But it is unclear whether the new Liberal National Party government – which is opposed to the carbon tax – will commit the money when it hands down its first budget in September.
In NSW, the O'Farrell government has revised down the value of power generators in NSW by $3 billion as a result of the carbon tax.
The hit to the state's bottom line from the carbon tax has increased from $1 billion to $1.5 billion, according to the most recent NSW budget – a rise cited as the reason for the increase in coal royalties.
The Queensland and NSW governments have unsuccessfully sought compensation from the federal government for the loss in value of their electricity generators.
In Victoria, the privatised energy supply system is facing difficulties – particularly for generators seeking refinancing.
He said recent flooding at Yallourn power station which forced the closure of part of the plant, highlighted the fact that if brown coal-fired Hazelwood Power Station, in the Latrobe Valley, closed under the carbon tax's contract for closure program, "Victoria would see the lights go out".
"The carbon tax issues . . . are fraught and problematic and they pose a risk to power supplies in this state," Mr Baillieu said.
Although the exact figure of the cost of carbon tax to the state remained to be seen, he expected it to cost "tens of millions of dollars".
"In the education system, in the hospital system, just the cost of power, paying the extra power bills is going to be very significant. It will cost additional [money] to run the train and tram services, just the extra power prices."
He said departments had factored in higher running expenses.
The South Australian government has allocated $10 million a year to help its agencies cope with increased utility bills.
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