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It seems almost every year Colts President Bill Polian finds a way to get more out of less for his franchise during the NFL's off-season. One need look no further than cornerback Jacob Lacey, an undrafted free agent signing following the 2009 NFL Draft to see that the Colts front office is capable of finding tremendous value from players who are passed over multiple times by each of the 32 NFL franchises.
Polian also manages to find solid contributors from cast-offs who fail to stick on the team that originally drafts or signs a player. A couple examples would be Raheem Brock, originally signed by the Philadelphia Eagles, who contributed to the club for eight seasons at both defensive end and defensive tackle before he was granted his release entering the 2009 off-season. At that time Brock was tied with Dwight Freeney as the longest tenured Colts defensive lineman on the team.
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Glenn played college football for Nebraska, spending his first three years at running back. He was recruited as a star running back in high school, finishing eighth in total rushing yards in Texas Class 3A history, but never developed into a successful college rusher, partially due to a crowded backfield. Glenn and the Nebraska coaching staff reached a mutual agreement to transition him to linebacker for his senior season.
In his first and only year as a linebacker, Glenn managed to collect 51 tackles, including six tackles for a loss and four pass breakups in only nine games. He missed the final four games of the season after violating team policies, the reason for his suspension was not released.
After joining the team, already entering the first week of the 2009 regular season, Glenn went through the common process of getting shuffled around between getting released and making his way onto the practice squad. Finally, in week nine, Glenn made his debut against the Houston Texans and contributed a special teams tackle.
While he only added four additional special teams tackles over the following five weeks, where he made the most progress and showed signs of development and potential was in week 17 and in the divisional and conferences championship games in the playoffs. During that three-game span he tallied seven total tackles on special teams and in back-up role on defense.
What is noticeable about Glenn on the field is that he is dynamic, often used as a short-yardage lead blocker in the backfield on offense, fast, and plays with a high level of intensity. These attributes could allow him to stay on the squad in 2010, make him a powerful force on special teams coverage units, and lead to a larger role on defense.
Consider that this will be only his third year as a linebacker, his first full season playing in the NFL, and that he made regular contributions after he had the opportunity to learn the system at season's end a year ago and there is much to be excited about. Keep an eye on his progress throughout the summer and in the preseason. He could be on the verge of becoming difference-maker for the 2010 Indianapolis Colts.


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BLISS n Eso fans shouldn't let the rain deter them for preparing for tomorrow's concert at Stadium Mackay.
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Yamaha 48" Model U1 (1991)
The U1 model is Yamaha's top-recommended model for students, teachers & professionals. Made in Japan in 1991, this professional studio upright is in fantastic condition and is great for all levels of play. Before arriving to our showroom, this piano is evaluated, cleaned, serviced, polished and fully refurbished by retired Yamaha employees.Save $$$ off new (MSRP for New Yamaha U1 is $11,199 - The Piano Buyer, Spring 2016). The U-series upright pianos are what made Yamaha's reputation, and this is one fine example. Includes a height-adjustable piano bench & 3 Year warranty.
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Yamaha 45" Model B2 (2015) Mahogany
Purchased new in 2015, this Yamaha studio upright is now one of their most popular models. The polished mahogany finish is a nice touch on this nearly new Yamaha piano. The action and tone are great for beginner to intermediate students or casual pianists. If New, MSRP is $6,959 (The Piano Book, Fall 2016 - Larry Fine). Save $$$$Includes matching storage bench with padded top, owners guide and wool key cover. 5 year Parts & Labor warranty.
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Yamaha 43" M306 (1985)
This Yamaha console makes a great starter piano for any budding piano student. This Yamaha was Made in USA in 1985. The finish is dark satin cherry. The piano has been freshly serviced and is ready for a new home.Includes matching bench & 3 Year Parts & Labor warranty.
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Yamaha 5'8" Model C2 (1996)
We have a PianoWorks Certified Pre-owned Yamaha C2 from 1996. This piano is in like-new condition, has a medium tone, and is ready to play. Yamaha's C-series is their top production level piano. They make wonderful home pianos, but are built to withstand the rigors of institutional life. This is one of the pianos that made Yamaha's reputation. Compare with current MSRP for new: $42,499 (Piano Buyer - Spring 2016) and this piano is also a tremendous value.At 5'8" long, this piano is suitable for living rooms, teaching studios, choir rooms, etc.Includes original, padded bench with storage and 3 year warranty.
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Yamaha Digital Pianos P-255B with Stand and Pedal Unit Bundle
The best-selling Yamaha P-Series set the industry standard for what a compact, stylish digital piano should be. As the latest addition to this series, the P-255 offers a more authentic piano sound and feel than ever before. Thanks to its highly portable design, this digital piano can be played in any place or setting you desire. With Yamaha's knowledge of digital audio and over 125 years of experience building fine acoustic pianos, you can rest assured that the P-255 will meet and exceed your expectations of a portable digital piano. Optional extras such as the matching L-255 furniture stand and the LP-255 piano-style 3-pedal unit make the P-255 a pleasure to look at and play, even at home.
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*Price above does not include L-255 stand and LP-255 Pedal unit picturedThe best-selling Yamaha P-Series set the industry standard for what a compact, stylish digital piano should be. As the latest addition to this series, the P-255 offers a more authentic piano sound and feel than ever before. Thanks to its highly portable design, this digital piano can be played in any place or setting you desire. With Yamaha's knowledge of digital audio and over 125 years of experience building fine acoustic pianos, you can rest assured that the P-255 will meet and exceed your expectations of a portable digital piano. Optional extras such as the matching L-255 furniture stand and the LP-255 piano-style 3-pedal unit make the P-255 a pleasure to look at and play, even at home.
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New ArrivalReplacing the popular YDP-162, the new YDP-163 has Yamaha's latest innovations in digital piano touch and tone, while retaining its afforable price point. Here's some of the Arius YDP-163's featured improvements: Graded Hammer 3 keyboard action with three sensors and synthetic ivory keytops The Pure CF Engine on the YDP-163 more expressively delivers the Yamaha CFIIIS concert grand piano tone 20W stereo amplifier 192- note polyphony The YDP-163 has all of the conveniences of an electric piano without sacrificing the performance of an acoustic piano.Available in Black Walnut.
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Best Seller!The all-new Yamaha P-115 is here! Yamaha's follow-up to the industry's best-selling digital piano (the P-105) now has its own app for iOS. An elegant touch screen controller that makes getting to the features of the P-115 simple. P-Series has long been known for its compact and stylish lineup of products. The P-115 is a new model that offers improved piano performance, an enhanced speaker system, simple app operation and more. Comes with single footswitch pedal. Optional accessories are L-85 Furniture style Stand & LP-5A 3 Pedal unit (see additional images).
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Great Starter Piano!The Yamaha Arius YDP-143 digital piano provides authentic acoustic piano touch and tone suitable for any aspiring pianist. The Graded Hammer Standard (GHS) keyboard action helps build proper finger technique and strength for an easy transition to playing on acoustic pianos. Improved Pure CF Engine delivers expressive, high resolution recordings of the Yamaha CFIIIS concert grand piano. Damper Resonance digitally recreates acoustic piano depth of tone when pedaling, while newly improved reverbs set the stage for you to replicate the feeling of playing in a variety of different environments. With 192-note polyphony, many of the most complex piano compositions can be played without any dropped notes, and the sustained notes ring through faithfully. The Arius YDP-143 is available in either rosewood or black walnut finishes, and the furniture-style cabinet exceeds all expectations of the typical electric piano, lending a classic piano look to any home.
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Hardman 47" Decorator Studio (2011)
Here is another bargain brought to you by PianoWorks. This 47" Hardman studio upright piano is only a few years old with very little play. It makes a great piano for beginner to intermediate pianists and has excellent full tone. As a studio upright, the action and tone are better than console pianos typically offered for the same price. This piano was actually built as a Kawai design by Kawai trained craftsman.The finish is dark mahogany. The height-adjustable bench & slow-close fallboard make it particularly well suited for children starting out.Includes 5 Year Parts & Labor warranty.
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This beautiful studio piano is one of our best selling and most affordable new pianos. The piano comes with a matching adjustable bench, ideally suited for beginners. The touch and tone are fantastic, and for the price, it has one of the prettiest dark mahogany cabinets. The piano also features a slow-close fallboard to protect this little fingers. Buy new because the piano is backed by a 10 year manufacturers warranty.
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Coming Soon!The Yamaha C3 grand piano has been a professional standard bearer for the industry for over 40 years. Known for their rugged durability, recording prowess, smooth action and clear bright tone, this is a shining example of Yamaha C3. This piano is young (built in Japan in 2007) and has been professionally serviced. It looks and performs like new. If New, MSRP is $56,999 (The Piano Buyer, Fall 2016 - Larry Fine).This piano features Ivorite keytops and wood-composite sharps to give you a better textured feel over the keyboard. This piano also features a slow-close fallboard, safer for little fingers.Includes height-adjustable piano bench, 5-year Parts & Labor warranty. Ask us about this piano.
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I've recently gotten a bit of a name-crush on River for a girl. There's not really much to say about this one - it's a nature name, and it's got a lovely, relaxed feeling. The one combo I can come up with is River Amelie Rose.
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I'm pretty sure that River is more popular for girls - though don't take my word for it - however I prefer it for boys. It works find for a girl, and the imagery and the meaning and the colours etc etc are all very pretty and lovely, but at the moment I'm liking a lot of "girls" names on boys (Brooks, Sky, Devon, Phoenix) and River happens to be amongst them. River Amelie Rose is a lovely combo, although Rose continues to be bland in the middle. :)
River is one unisex name that I like on girls and boys.
I dislike most boyish names on girls, but I think cuz it is a word name, it doesn't bother me. I don't feel that it has a gender.
Your combo is quite pretty.
I think River has a very natural and calming feel. I don't identify it with one gender more than the other. It is more popular for boys in the US. It ranks #407 for boys and #686 for girls so it is definitely not overly popular for either sex and feels familiar on both. In my geographic area River is very overdone for boys. I would love to meet a little female River, and River Amelie Rose is amazing!!
Would be such a lovely name on a little girl.
River leans masculine but I like it on both genders. It is more common for boys in the US
I love River for a girl and your combo is beautiful.


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Surely someone on the Rangers coaching staff has seen a National League baseball game before the start of this year's World Series. That person should talk to Ron Washington, who apparently hasn't. Perhaps third base coach Dave Anderson, who played for years under Tommy Lasorda, might be able to provide a few tips on the basics.
We are speaking, of course, of the intentional walk to Nick Punto in the fourth inning. To start with, wow: there was an intentional walk issued to Nick Punto in the fourth inning. This is a player who has 2,984 career plate appearances and nine career free passes. Rarely has it come to pass that anyone thought it was a good idea to walk Nick Punto of their own accord. This makes sense: usually a manager is glad to see a career .249/.325/.327 hitter come to the plate. They accept them gratefully.
But what does the historical record tell us? Let's take a look at play-by-play records from 1993 through 2011. Let's restrict ourselves to games without a DH, where a position player batting eighth has come to bat with two outs and a runner on second.
In cases where the batter is walked intentionally, the result is a scoreless inning 88% of the time. In cases where a batter is not walked intentionally, a scoreless inning occurs 81% of the time. That's a seven-percent swing, so it looks at first blush like Washington made the right call to issue the free pass. The trouble is that we're looking at different pools of players in each pool; the players intentionally walked have a True Average of .243 that season, while players who aren't have a True Average of .238. So intentional walks more often occur to better hitters in the spot.
Punto is not anywhere near as good as either of those pools of hitters, despite a shiny .290 True Average in 2011. His tentative PECOTA projection for next season is just .227, so a much less dangerous hitter than even your typical eighth hitter. But even this oversells Punto's prowess at the plate, because a good deal of Punto's offensive value comes from his ability to draw a walk. Punto has just 14 career home runs, and he's not much of a doubles threat either. Looking at positive events (runs that increase the likelihood of scoring runs, in other words), Punto gets 78% of his positive offensive value from non-walk events over the past five seasons, compared to 85% for the average hitter. And the difference between a walk and a single is less in this spot than it would be otherwise, with Lance Berkman being the runner at second; he can make it from first to third on a single only 22% of the time, compared to 27% for the average batter. So rather than being an exceptionally good spot for an intentional walk, this is an exceptionally poor spot for an IBB, which should narrow the gap between the two options.
But no harm done, right? Unless you look at what it does to the next inning. The average team scores .60 runs in an inning where their leadoff hitter leads off the inning; when the pitcher leads off the inning that drops to .49 runs. Or to put it another way, you go from a 75% chance of a scoreless inning when the pitcher leads off to a 68% chance of a scoreless inning when the leadoff hitter bats to start the inning. While you may slightly increase the odds of getting out of that inning unscathed, you increase the odds that the opposing team scores runs in the next inning by at least the same amount.
Washington made a similar error in the sixth. With two outs and the go-ahead run on third base, he again passed Punto with what seemed to be a semi-intentional walk. This set off a series of moves in which both starting pitchers were removed from the game, with the result that Washington had traded from Punto vs. C.J. Wilson to Allen Craig vs. Alexi Ogando. As BP's Daniel Rathman wrote this morning, "Washington may be the only person on the planet who truly understands what he was trying to accomplish by ordering C.J. Wilson to walk Punto. If he thought that Ogando-versus-Craig favored the Rangers more than either Wilson or Ogando against Punto, then he may have taken too many bathroom breaks during middle school math."
The lucky thing for the Rangers is that talent on the field is far more important in deciding the outcomes of baseball games than the moves of the managers. Because if this series turns out to be decided by the machinations of Washington and LaRussa (who, it should be noted, seems to have taken my advice on pinch-hitting to heart), things would definitely seem to be in the Cardinals' favor right now.
Colin Wyers is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @cwyers
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Oct 20, 2011 10:39 AM
Uh, not to undermine the premise of the article, but... wasn't there a runner on 2nd---not bases empty---when Punto was walked in the 4th with the pitcher on deck????
Oct 20, 2011 10:52 AM
"In a game without a DH, a position player batting eighth has come to bat with two outs, bases empty 23,445 times. Do you know how many times those batters were intentionally walked? Twice"
Oct 20, 2011 10:53 AM
I can't believe Colin wasted all that time researching and writing about a situation that didn't actually take place last night. In the 4th, Washington elected to face the pitcher with 2 out and a man in scoring position rather a position player. Carpenter struck out pathetically on 3 pitches. I don't think anyone should be afraid to pitch to Punto, but I can't argue with the results of choosing to pitch to Carpenter instead.
Oct 20, 2011 11:43 AM
So the Rangers only scoring two runs wasn't part of the problem?
Oct 20, 2011 12:16 PM
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I can't believe it, either - not really any excuse for it, except I was writing this around one in the morning and I misread the box score. I submitted it to editing last night, someone caught it this morning and I redid it; something must've gotten crossed up and the old version got posted on the site by accident. I'll get the corrected version up soon. Sorry about that.
Oct 20, 2011 12:55 PM
I think it's even more remarkable that:
Oct 23, 2011 23:44 PM
Does Colin get sent down to AAA for this error? He has to write about college baseball for a month....only about 9 people will read it.
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U.S. Pressures Rich Nations to Fill Gap in Iraq Reconstruction Created by Security Needs
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
Published: October 1, 2004
The Bush administration is pressing wealthy countries to come up with money to help fill the gap created by its decision to divert $3.5 billion in American reconstruction funds for Iraq into security and job creation, administration officials said.
The drive to make up the difference in reconstruction funds comes ahead of a meeting of international donors, scheduled for Tokyo on Oct. 13-14, to take stock of what some acknowledge to have been a disappointing effort to raise money in Europe and the Arab world to rebuild Iraq.
At the first international donors conference on Iraq reconstruction, a year ago in Madrid, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell returned with pledges of $13 billion to be delivered over four years. At the time, American officials said they wanted as much money as possible to be handed out in the first year in an attempt to stabilize Iraq.
Only $1.3 billion of the pledged money has been provided so far, however, more than half of that from Britain and Japan, officials said.
One issue American officials expect they will have to address in Tokyo, however, is how little of the American reconstruction money has been delivered. Of the $18.4 billion Congress approved last year for Iraq, little more than $1 billion has been spent.
An important factor holding up reconstruction projects has been the continuing violence in Iraq, which prompted the administration's decision to shift some of the promised money into security.
''In Tokyo, we're going to spend a lot of time asking donors to put money into power and water and infrastructure projects that we've been unable to do because we've had to reprogram our funds,'' said a State Department official. ''Hopefully, these are sectors the donors will want to support.''
Administration officials say they are keeping their expectations low and have been careful not to set specific targets for the amount of money to be raised in Tokyo.
''This is not going to be a pledging meeting or a shaking-money-out-of-the-trees meeting,'' said an official involved in the planning. ''It's more of a notes-comparing, technical meeting.'' The United States is to be represented by Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage and by Anthony Wayne, an assistant secretary of state for economic and business affairs.
They and other American officials may face questions about the growing insurgency in Iraq and its effect on reconstruction spending, conference officials said. The continued fighting, bombings, kidnappings and sabotage have discouraged private contractors from seeking out the work.
Administration officials also say that cumbersome regulations for awarding contracts -- requiring requests for proposals and competitive bidding -- have delayed the spending of the money.
International donors are sympathetic to the problems that have plagued reconstruction projects in Iraq, foreign officials say. At the same time, they say that these problems make it difficult for them to come up with the money as fast as Washington wants.
''There is some real work being done in Iraq,'' said an official from an international donor agency. ''But it adds up to very little. It's hard to get countries to pony up more money when the money in the bank hasn't been spent.''
Other officials explain that it has not been easy to coordinate all the different projects that countries want to do. In addition, it took some time to set up two trust funds operated by the World Bank and the United Nations Development Fund.
Many donor countries, distrusting the American-led occupation as a potential recipient for donations, wanted to give money to the trust funds to ensure that it would not be siphoned off for other purposes. Further delays occurred when the Iraqi interim government took office on June 28 and changed personnel dealing with reconstruction.
At least $5.5 billion of the $13 billion pledged in Madrid was to come as loans from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, but the money could not be made available until Iraq regained some sovereignty and various technical issues were resolved, including a plan to calculate how to reschedule Iraq's debt.
''The issue is not so much fund-raising as getting results on the ground,'' said Joseph Saba, director of the Middle East at the World Bank. ''That's what the Tokyo meeting is all about.''
Last month, the Bush administration adopted a recommendation from the American ambassador in Baghdad, John D. Negroponte, to shift $3.5 billion away from water, power and other reconstruction projects and into security and job programs, in some cases channeled to unstable areas. This shift must still be approved by Congress.
At the time, Marc Grossman, under secretary of state for political affairs, said, ''We don't want anybody to walk away thinking that there won't be any money in these accounts left'' for the original purposes.
But in Iraq's planning and related ministries, there were complaints that the United States might be shortchanging long-term infrastructure needs to deal with a short-term security problem. It was then decided, administration officials said, to use the Tokyo donors' conference to make up some of the difference.
''It's been harder to get aid on the ground because of security problems,'' said an official. ''But we are disbursing funds. Donors like the World Bank and the United Nations have been afraid not to send big delegations into Iraq. But they're doing some creative things, like using local employees and video conferencing from offices in Jordan.''
This official said that the administration would try to get countries to speed up their pledges at Tokyo but that ''it's not a pledging conference but an opportunity to have Iraq lay out its vision of its needs.''


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Soucheray: Help them soldier on
If you have driven into Woodbury and seen the sign that designates our city as a "Yellow Ribbon City," you can be proud of that. Beginning in 2008, many cities and communities around Minnesota have organized a network of support systems to help the service men and women, and their families, while they are deployed. Our community joined the effort in 2009 and was awarded its designation on Jan. 5, 2010, by Gov. Pawlenty.
Deciding to join the Yellow Ribbon City Network meant that our city was willing to extend its efforts to the men and women who are involved in the service in some way around the world. According to the website Beyondtheyellowribbon.org, the initiative is "a collaborative, grass-roots effort between concerned patriotic citizens and their military members/citizen soldiers. Woodbury leaders and volunteers have joined with the Minnesota National Guard to support military families from all branches of the military (Army, Air Force, Marines, Navy and Coast Guard)."
The sorts of things that are needed by our citizen/soldiers are the everyday tasks that are necessary to keep a home running smoothly while they are away, and these tasks are filled by volunteers who have the time and the ability to do so. Some of the needed tasks include help with computer and Internet assistance, light inside work, such as help with cleaning or window-washing, or light outside work, such as chopping wood and mowing or raking the lawn. Other needs include light handyman help, such as furnace repair, light carpentry or painting. Still others include babysitting or day care and pet sitting, grooming or walking.
You can see that the needs are common necessities to every household and can become particularly necessary when a person is away from home for any length of time. You can become a volunteer, or request volunteer services, at woodburyyellowribbon.com. There you will complete an application requesting help or to offer your services to those in need.
One thing that may be particularly helpful at this time, and a beautiful coming together of those in need with those who have time to offer, is student groups that are required to fulfill service hours for a school project, scout troop or church group. If you help your young person go to the website and look at the opportunities that are listed, along with their abilities, skill levels and time available, you will likely find a service project that will be just right for them or their group.
In fact, it may provide an invitation to you to give a few hours on a Saturday this fall, helping to rake leaves, chopping wood and cleaning out the garage of a local service person. After you have completed the service, you could head back to your house for a chili dinner and a time to discuss how the experience impacted your child and his or her friends.
All in all, it seems that this is one intent of the Yellow Ribbon City Network, as its website states is that, "the Yellow Ribbon Network helps connect schools, local units of government, law enforcement, social services, churches, civic and volunteer organizations for the special needs of a military family during the deployment cycle."
The next meeting of the Yellow Ribbon Network is Thursday, Sept. 13, at 7-8 p.m.at City Hall. You will find more information at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Soucheray is a Woodbury resident and a licensed family therapist


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I blame Mrs. Geary, my eighth-grade journalism teacher, for neglecting to teach me a reporter should never vote.
Of course, my classmates and I were only 12 or 13 years old. Mrs. Geary's more immediate challenge was unraveling the mystery of journalism's inverted pyramid and combing our submissions for the five W's and an H.
I never intended to be a reporter. At the beginning of the school year I told the school's guidance counselor I wanted to be a trapper. Half a century later I find myself writing for an online news website. In the meantime, I have developed a bad habit. I've voted in every presidential election and nearly every local election since I turned 18.
Journalism Ethics 101
Imagine my surprise when I learned one of my colleagues doesn't vote as a matter of principle. Craig Medred responded to several readers who commented on a recent article on Bob Bell, a candidate for state senate locked in a tight race with his rival. Addressing one particularly partisan post, which accused him of trying to influence the results of the election, Medred explained, "That's why I don't vote and don't believe journalists should."
In another post, Medred added, "There are plenty of psychological studies out there that underline that when someone picks a candidate, they lose their skepticism about that candidate's behavior."
Reporters like Medred don't vote because they believe it might bias their writing or be perceived as bias by the public. Bias isn't important if no one is listening. So the problem of bias is compounded by influence, and by influence I mean a large audience.
Because most journalists take their profession seriously, this is a perennial debate. It finds some journalists on either side of the fence -- and some straddling it. An insightful explanation for why reporters should never, always, or sometimes vote is here. Reporters and editors tend to see themselves as watchdogs or umpires. Everyone knows you can't trust a watchdog that barks at some suspicious people but not others. So it behooves the press to be as objective as possible when reporting the news. Overall, I think most reporters and editors do a pretty decent job.
But there is no such thing as absolute objectivity. I agree that journalists should never lose their skepticism about a particular candidate or government official. But to make believe reporters are simply conduits for information, with no opinion whatsoever, is just that – make-believe. Whether one votes or not, everyone has opinions. And your opinions affect how and what you write. That's why good reporters try to avoid, or at least minimize, bias.
Many still distrust news media
That strategy doesn't appear to be convincing the masses.
The public, in a 2011 Gallup survey, rated the honesty and ethics of journalists only slightly higher than that of real estate agents and half as high as members of the clergy. Trust in the news media is declining. I suspect the public's distrust of the media is exacerbated by three factors: bad journalists, unsophisticated readers, and the Internet.
Like any profession, journalism has some bad apples. Journalists who plagiarize, pander, or just plain make up a story are occasionally caught and suffer the consequences. Unfortunately, unethical behavior, dutifully reported by the news media, lowers the public's opinion of all reporters.
Some news sources are unequivocally biased. For example, people who watched Fox News were less likely to know about current events than people who claimed to watch no news at all. Paradoxically, this hasn't hurt that news organization's popularity. For 10 years, according to the Washington Post, Fox News has been the nation's most-watch cable news network, with about three times as many viewers as CNN.
And that's because unsophisticated or naïve consumers of news are also to blame. Some people don't understand the difference between reporters and columnists. Both are journalists, but reporters are expected to be objective while columnists are paid to have an opinion. For example, Paul Jenkins, who has worked as an Associated Press reporter and Anchorage Times editor, is now a columnist who often provokes liberals. Similarly, fellow columnist Shannyn Moore regularly offers far more liberal views in print and on radio and television.
It's unlikely that all of those responding to the Gallup survey, which randomly sampled adults by phone, actually read newspapers or watch the news on television. About two months before the national election more than a quarter of U.S. adults hadn't read a newspaper – in print or online – in the previous 30 days. In a poll conducted last summer, about the same proportion didn't watch local television news and fewer watched specific national news sources on television. Where are they getting their news? Opinions of people whose primary source of news is the Internet, spouses, or their bowling team buddies may not be the best judges of bias in the news.
In fact, some of those who told the Gallup pollsters they didn't trust the news media may not read very well at all. A national study on adult literacy concluded nearly half of Americans had limited reading skills, experiencing "considerable difficulty in performing tasks that required them to integrate or synthesize information from complex or lengthy texts."
The Internet has contributed to the public's distrust of the media. Every point of view has a designer website where the news is biased for a target audience with similar views. Any news organization that tries to be objective or neutral looks awfully skewed if one's favorite source of news hypes conspiracy theories and doomsday predictions.
Should reporters vote?
Medred differentiates between journalists and reporters. Earlier this year he wrote, "A fair number of 'journalists' today lack the intelligence of a chimp. I long ago abandoned the idea I'm one of them. I'm a reporter and a writer. I report and I write. I'm no journalist."
I'm not a journalist either. I'm a scientist and a writer. As a writer, I'm paid to express my opinion. But, like reporters, my training as a scientist demands that I be fair and accurate. I can't write columns dripping with sarcasm, accusations, and name-calling.
Some journalists aren't fair and accurate, and many readers aren't competent judges of bias. Which brings me back to my no-longer-arcane question: Should reporters vote?
One way to frame an ethical question is to put yourself in someone else's shoes. Reporters are not the only ones whose personal opinions might bias their choice of a candidate and who can influence a great number of people.
People receive political advice from many sources: movie stars and other celebrities, corporate heads, teachers, elected officials, religious leaders, and news commentators like Rush Limbaugh and Jon Stewart. Are any of these influential sources less biased than the news media?
Why is it that, to preserve the illusion of complete objectivity, only reporters are expected to abstain from voting? If not voting helps one avoid bias, perhaps religious leaders shouldn't vote. Elected officials and high-level bureaucrats have a lot of influence, and they're often biased – you know, that Democrat/Republican thing. Maybe they shouldn't vote either. If voting leads to bias and bias (or the perception of bias) results in a loss of credibility, then there are a lot of us who shouldn't vote.
But that's not very democratic is it? I respect Medred's personal decision not to vote, but I believe everyone should vote. I will continue to vote. I'll also strive to be fair and accurate. I wish more people would do the same.
Rick Sinnott is a former Alaska Department of Fish and Game wildlife biologist. The views expressed here are the writer's own and are not necessarily endorsed by Alaska Dispatch. Contact him at rickjsinnott(at)gmail.com


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Get an overview of this hotelOrlando hotel near Convention Center and SeaWorld
Popular property highlights
When you stay at Ramada Orlando Near Convention Center in Orlando, you'll be in the suburbs and minutes from Ripley's Believe It or Not and I-Drive 360.
This hotel is close to Universal Studios Florida™ and SeaWorld® Orlando.
Make yourself at home in one of the 133 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Flat-screen televisions with cable programming provide entertainment, while complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include desks and coffee/tea makers, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Take advantage of recreation opportunities including an outdoor pool and a fitness center. This hotel also features complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and babysitting/childcare (surcharge). Spending a day of fun is easy with the complimentary theme park shuttle.
Take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours).
Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, dry cleaning/laundry services, and a 24-hour front desk. Free self parking is available onsite.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
Ramada Orlando Near Convention Center
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
This three-story Orlando hotel is around the corner from International Drive and two miles from SeaWorld and Universal Orlando.
Guests have access to a heated outdoor pool and sundeck, a 24-hour business center, complimentary parking, health club, and use of the nearby YMCA aquatic center. Wireless Internet access is complimentary throughout the hotel. The Ramada Convention Center I-Drive also operates a complimentary shuttle to Universal Studios, Sea World and Walt Disney World Resort. The hotel offers concierge services.
- Outdoor pool
- Free breakfast
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Children's club (surcharge)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Total number of rooms - 133
- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Number of floors - 3
- Elevator/lift
- Business center
- Concierge services
- Fitness facilities
- Free theme park shuttle
- Free WiFi
- One meeting room
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Luggage storage
- Children's club
- Laundry facilities
- Picnic area
- Free self parking
- Year Built 1989
- Free area shuttle
- 24-hour business center
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Area shuttle (complimentary)
- Theme park shuttle (complimentary)
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Access via exterior corridors
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Free local calls
- Microwave
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Cable TV service
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Room service (limited hours)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
A complimentary hot breakfast is served each morning.
This hotel does not have its own restaurant, however there are several dining options within walking distance.
Nearby restaurants:
Charlie's Steakhouse
The Crab House
Uno's Chicago Grill
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at 3 AM
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 2 children 17 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 10 per night.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Resort fee: USD 5.00 per accommodation, per night
- Breakfast
- Pool access
- Fitness center access
- Shuttle service
- Internet access
- Parking
- Additional inclusions
Optional extras
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 10 per night
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- Ramada Hotel Orlando Convention Center
- Ramada Orlando Convention Center
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Double bump!
Moms-to-be Selma Blair and Ali Landry made a perfect pregnant pair as they cooled down with some medicine balls after a workout in Los Angeles on Thursday (May 26).
Selma is expecting her first child with boyfriend Jason Bleic, while Ali is expecting her second child with husband Alejandro Monteverde.


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Win a Bunch of Cool Stuff with WGRD On New Year's Eve!
Thursday night, New Year's Eve, join me, Janna, and whoever stops by the GRD studios to hang for our Second Annual GRD All Request New Year's Eve Party! We'll take your calls beginning at 7 p.m. until midnight, whatever you want to hear! Well, not ANYTHING, your calls for Debbie Gibson will go unheeded, and you know who you are.
Then, at midnight, once we start Auld Lang Syne, we will get the 16th caller to be the first GRD winner of 2016!


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Most of their coffee is burnt. Nasty vile and burnt.
Now they have blonde for those who do not like burnt coffee. Blonde has no discernible coffee flavor at all.
They now make two coffees, one tasteless and one burnt and they are the most successful coffee chain ever.


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What you should know is that, as Weichert Sales Associates, we believe wholeheartedly in the unique, personal nature of real estate.
You will see that revealed in how we follow through on what we promise, as we carefully guide you through many steps and decisions along the way.
We are fully committed to providing you with what my company calls "The Weichert Difference" a noticeably higher level of service that will make your real estate experience as easy and as stress-free as possible.
You can expect from us:
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Feel free to contact us anytime, whether it's to get started on helping you realize your goals and dreams, or just to ask a question. We would welcome the opportunity to make a difference for you.


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World Machine is the creation of Stephen Schmitt, company founder and independent software developer. Stephen began research and development on terrain generation solutions as a hobby while studying applied mathematics at the University of Washington. For those interested, here's his story.
"World Machine began in many ways as a happy accident. I was experimenting on tools to improve some of the rather-crude terrain generation tools available at the time for graphic artists and game makers. Eventually I discovered some methods that I found very compelling. As the project grew it acquired more and more fans... and eventually I was able to take the jump and work on World Machine full time. Thanks for your support!"
Stephen resides in the northwest corner of the USA in Seattle, WA. He continues to devote himself to the development of World Machine and computer graphics in general. Besides software development, Stephen also enjoys hiking, skiing, beer brewing, photography, and writing about himself in the 3rd person! Ok, maybe not that last one..
If you want to drop me a line, send an email over to firstname.lastname@example.com! It's always great to hear from folks using World Machine.


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Albert King hardly has to make the statement in the title – as the record's plenty funky throughout, and has that great mix of blues with hipper 70s styles that you'd find in his best material for Stax Records! King's at the core, both on vocals and guitar – but the set also features some nice larger arrangements, and work by The Bar-Kays, Movement, and Memphis Horns – who help give the record a sweet Stax Records vibe, and a great setting for Albert to work in. Even Hot Buttered Soul provide a bit of backing vocals at points – and titles include "Cross Cut Saw", "Flat Tire", "I Wanna Get Funky", "Playing On Me", "Til My Back Ain't Go No Bone", and "Travelin Man". (80s pressing. Cover has marker on both sides & a promo stamp. Labels have some marker.) © 1996-2017, Dusty Groove, Inc.
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Below are stated conditions for a used vinyl records at Dusty Groove. Grading for the cover should be assumed to be near (within a "+" or "-") the grading for the vinyl. If there is significant divergence from the condition of the vinyl, or specific flaws, these will be noted in the comments section of the item. However, please be aware that since the emphasis of this site is towards the music listener, our main concern is with the vinyl of any used item we sell. Additionally, please note that all of our records are graded visually; considering the volume of used vinyl we handle, it is impossible for us to listen to each record. If we spot any significant flaws, we make every attempt to listen through them and note how they play.
The following grading conditions apply to the vinyl component of an album or single:
If something is noteworthy, we try to note it in the comments — especially if it is an oddity that is the only wrong thing about the record. This might include, but isn't limited to, warped records, tracks that skip, cover damage or wear as noted above, or strictly cosmetic flaws.


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Steve Rothaus has the letters that tie Bill McCollum to George Rekers:
Attorney General Bill McCollum personally requested that the state's Department of Children and Families hire antigay psychologist George Rekers at $300 an hour as an expert witness to defend Florida's ban on gay people adopting, records show.
"Our attorneys handling this case have searched long and hard for other expert witnesses with comparable expertise to Dr. Rekers and have been unable to identify any who would be available for this case," McCollum wrote in 2007 to then-DCF Secretary Bob Butterworth.
So, McCollum really, really wanted Rekers and all of his "expertise." You know, just like Rekers searched so hard for someone with the "expertise" to carry his luggage.
Rekers was a high-end, anti-gay rentboy for McCollum.


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New Music Releases For Sept. 7 Include Interpol, Sara Bareilles, and Robyn
What to Download: New Music This Week
Your return from the three-day weekend just got a little easier; not only are there a slew of new movies, there's some new music as well. Today's releases boast a wide variety: from indie rock to dance to soulful pop, here are the tracks I recommend for your discerning earbuds.
Interpol, Interpol
The lowdown: The New York rockers present their fourth studio album (the last with original bassist Carlos Dengler), with a similar sound to their innovative 2002 debut, Turn on the Bright Lights.
Choice tracks:
Download this album if you: Still have their first album in heavy rotation on your iPod.
Sara Bareilles, Kaleidoscope Heart
The lowdown: The piano-playing pop star is back with her third album, in which she mixes up her sound but still delivers plenty of radio-friendly songs.
Choice tracks:
"Gonna Get Over You"
"King of Anything"
Download this album if you: Need a smooth soundtrack for your next girls' night in.
See another release from Robyn when you
Robyn, Body Talk, Pt. 2
The lowdown: The Swedish singer returns with the second installment in her Body Talk trilogy, an album of fun and fast dance tracks where she invites listeners to shake their groove thing.
Choice tracks:
"In My Eyes"
"U Should Know Better" (featuring Snoop Dogg)
Download this album if you: Want to get the party started before you even leave the house.


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Queen Anne's bus crash injures 17, including 10 children
Charges are pending in a Queen Anne's County crash that sent 17 people to area hospitals, including ten children, Maryland police said. None of the injuries is believed to be life-threatening, according to police.
Authorities say that shortly before 9 a.m., a Volkswagen SUV turn left onto southbound Route 213 into the path of an oncoming bus, which swerved to avoid a collision.
The bus then hit a utility pole and flipped onto its passenger side. One adult was flown to a shock trauma center in Baltimore. The others were taken by ambulance to area hospitals.
The driver of the Volkswagen was identified as 49-year-old Carl Trenz, Jr. of Stevensville. He was transported from the scene with non-life threatening injuries.
He was charged with reckless driving, negligent driving, driver turning left failure to yield right of way to a vehicle approaching from the opposite direction, failure to yield right of way at a through highway, and failure to stop at an intersecting highway stop sign and yield the right of way.
The driver of the tour bus was identified as Curtis A. Dorsey, 86, of Still Pond, Md. He refused medical treatment at the scene, police said. Dorsey is the owner of Dorsey Transportation, the tour bus company hired for the trip.
County Chief of Emergency Services Kevin Aftung says the bus was headed from Worton Elementary School in Kent County to the National Zoo in Washington.
A large section of the bus' windshield was broken out in the crash and most of the people on the bus exited through that opening, police said.
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No. 11 player to watch: Webb Simpson
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Check out this preview of No. 11 Webb Simpson and join the discussion below on how you think he'll perform in 2014. Click here for more on the top 30 players to watch in 2013.
2014 OUTLOOK: If his early results in the 2013-14 campaign are any indication, Webb Simpson could be on track for a monster year. The 28-year-old has shot in the 60s seven times in the eight rounds he's played and been rewarded with a six-stroke win and a top-10. The victory was the fourth of his career and left Simpson trailing only Dustin Johnson, who has seven, and Rory McIlroy, with six, for wins in their 20s. He nearly had another at the RBC Heritage but ended up losing in a playoff to Graeme McDowell. That said, Simpson will undoubtedly be looking to improve his performance in the majors, where a tie for 25th at the PGA Championship, was his best. But the 2012 U.S. Open champion already knows he has the game to contend. -- Helen Ross
THUS FAR THIS SEASON: Simpson ended a victory drought of about 18 months when he won the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. He also tied for seventh at The McGladrey Classic and ranks fourth in the FedExCup.
Quintessential example of a top-shelf talent that makes for an automatic investment coming off a season without a victory. With a win at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open and a T7 at The McGladrey Classic, he's laid the foundation for another monster year. Loves to play a ton, too. -- Rob Bolton
Webb is a master trajectory-controller and he parlays this into good accuracy with his scoring irons. Also sneaky-long off the tee, this very patient competitor understands himself and his tendencies very well and this is in my opinion a great asset as he does not appear to attempt anything that isn't in his wheelhouse. Blessed with a wonderful approach to life and perspective as it relates to golf, Webb is a streaky putter and can go really low but if anything does let him down it is some inconsistency over the shorter putts. -- Mark Immelman
Webb's strength is that he has few weaknesses. He has ripped off 13 straight cuts dating back to June. Simpson is a son of the south and feels comfortable at his home base. He won the Wyndham Championship once before and could do it again at Sedgefield. -- Fred Albers
With his victory at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open early in 2013-14, Simpson could be poised for a big-time season. And driving accuracy could be critical yet again. Simpson hit just 59.57 percent of fairways in '09. By the end of '13, that number climbed to 63.30 percent, going from 140th to 55th on TOUR. -- Bill Cooney


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For the Sendai 89ers, unselfish team play has been a key to their success this season.
That characteristic was once again on display on Saturday in the 89ers' 100-78 home victory over the Toyama Grouses. With the win, coach Honoo Hamaguchi's bj-league club extended its winning streak to eight games.
Sendai had eight players with two or more assists, led by Kenichi Takahashi's four.
Josh Peppers scored 18 points for the 89ers, who improved to 25-12. The 89ers made 10 of 23 3-point shots, including 4-for-5 by Takahashi, who had a 17-point performance. Demetrius Guions added 15 points and Nick DeWitz and Gyno Pomare scored 13 apiece. All-Star center Chris Holm had 10 points and 16 rebounds.
The 89ers scored 62 second-half points.
At halftime, the scoreboard read Saitama 38, Toyama 38.
For the Grouses (14-23), Brian Harper had team-high totals in points (19) and rebounds (10).
Elsewhere Saturday, Mikey Marshall scored a game-high 34 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and made three steals and Gary Hamilton had 16 points, 20 boards and five assists in the Shiga Lakestars' 93-75 home win over the Rizing Fukuoka.
From the get-go, it was a one-sided contest, as the Western Conference's fourth-placed team overpowered the West's second-place squad.
Marshall scored seven of the Lakestars' first 10 points and the Rizing trailed 28-13 after one quarter and 54-28 at halftime.
Shiga (22-19) played without starting center Ray Schaefer, whose wife Sarah gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, on Saturday in Japan.
"I think the guys pulling together in Ray's absence is why we won," Lakestars coach Bob Pierce said. "No one wanted to have to apologize for losing on the day the twins were born."
Masashi Joho chipped in with 16 points, Chris Schlatter had 11 and Luke Zeller added eight points and eight rebounds for the hosts.
Shiga made 19 of 25 free throws to help its cause.
For Fukuoka (23-16), Michael Parker scored 22 points and Thiago Cordeiro had 14, while Kohei Mitomo added 11 and six assists.
Ricky Woods scored 42 points and Matt Lottich and Mike Bell had 18 points apiece in the Oita HeatDevils' 98-85 home win over the Takamatsu Five Arrows.
Woods, who had 37 points by the end of the third quarter, is the league's second-leading scorer (25.4 points per game). He was 12-for-15 at the free-throw line and pulled down nine rebounds. Bell led the HeatDevils (19-22) with 20 boards. Center Rashaad Singleton added 10 rebounds and three blocked shots off the bench.
Jeffrey Price had a 28-point performance for the Five Arrows (11-28). Yu Okada scored 12 points, but was 5-for-21 from the field, including 2-for-13 from 3-point range.
Jason Klotz scored 17 points and Ryan Blackwell added 16 in the Osaka Evessa's 80-61 win over the visiting Kyoto Hannaryz.
David Palmer and Lynn Washington each scored 11 for the Evessa (21-16).
The Hannaryz led 31-30 at the half, but Osaka pulled away in the third quarter, outscoring the expansion club 28-13.
Washington, a two-time bj-league MVP, returned to rotation after a three-game absence due to a leg injury. He came off the bench and played 16 minutes. He had six rebounds, one steal and one block.
Nile Murry added nine points and five assists for Osaka, and Jun Nakanishi scored eight and made three steals.
For Kyoto, J.R. Inman was the top scorer (15 points), while Reda Rhalimi had 14 and Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf pumped in nine. Naoto Takushi had eight points for the Hannaryz (14-23).
Kyoto made 18 turnovers and shot 22-for-64 from the field in defeat.


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Genealogical and family history of northern New York: a record of the achievements of her people and the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation.
New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co. 1910.
Transcribed by Coralynn Brown
The surname Doty was variously spelled Dotey, Doten, Doton, Dolton, Dowty and the similar surname Doughty is found at an early date in Plymouth colony, where Francis Doughty from Bristol, England, settled at Taunton as early as 1639, and James Doughty settled at Scituate before 1649. The origin of the name has not been satisfactorily settled, but there is reason to believe that the family had been in England several generations before the sailing of the "Mayflower."
(I) Edward Doty, immigrant, was one of the Pilgrim fathers. He came in the "Mayflower" in the employ of Stephen Hopkins. He had been apprenticed to a London tanner and was called servant, meaning apprentice, in the Plymouth records. Hopkins was a tanner. Doty was among the signers of the famous Compact drawn and executed on board the "Mayflower" at Plymouth. He was of the party that set forth to explore the country, Dec. 6, 1620. That Doty and his fellow-apprentice were not at that time thoroughly Puritanic in their views may be judged from the fact that they fought a duel. But a small part of the English people had come to disapprove of the duel, but the Pilgrim fathers saw fit to punish the combatants. They fought with swords and daggers and one was wounded in the hand, the other in the thigh. They were adjudged by the whole company "to have their head and feet tied together, and so to be for twenty-four hours, without meat and drink, which was begun to be inflicted, but within an hour, because of their great pains, at their own and their master's humble request, upon promise of better carriage, they are released by the governor."
His later disputes he took to court, and we find his name appearing often as plaintiff or defendant in the civil court. In 1624 he was granted land on Watson Hill, Plymouth, for a home lot. He had joined the church and was admitted a freeman before March 7, 1636-37. One of the first deeds at Plymouth on records is dated July 12, 1637, Edward Doty to Richard Derby, signs with a mark. He had many real estate transactions, and his rates show that he was in late life a man of property.
His occupation is given as planter, indicating he did not find much opportunity to follow his trade. In 1652 he was one of the purchasers of the Dartmouth tract. The name of his first wife is unknown.
Governor Bradford tells us that Faith Clark, daughter of Thurston Clarke, was his second wife. They were married at Plymouth, Jan. 6, 1634-35. He died at Plymouth Aug. 23, 1655. His will was dated May 20, 1655, and proved Nov. 21, 1655, bequeathing to his wife and children, mentioning Edward only by name.
His wife, Faith, married (second), March 14, 1666, John Phillips, of Plymouth.
The oldest house in Plymouth is the Doten house; the oldest wharf was named for Doty-Doten.
Faith Clarke was born in 1619, daughter of Thurston and Faith Clarke. They came from Ipswich, Suffolk, England, in the ship "Francis" in 1634. His name is also spelled Tristram Clarke.
Children of second wife:
Edward, mentioned below.
John, 1639-40.
Desire, 1645.
Isaac, Feb. 8, 1648-49.
Joseph, April 30, 1641.
(II) Edward (2), son of Edward (1) Doty, was born at Plymouth in 1637. He was a seaman. He had various grants of land at Plymouth and at Halifax, Mass. He served on various juries; was admitted a freeman in June, 1689. He was a man of high character, intelligence and thrift. He was drowned Feb. 8, 1689-90, with his son John and Elkanah Watson, while trying to enter Plymouth harbor.
He married, Feb. 25, 1662-63, Sarah, born at Plymouth in 1645, daughter of John and Patience and sister of Elder Thomas Faunce.
She married (second) April 26, 1693, John Buck, of Scituate, whither she went to live.
The Doty estate was distributed by agreement, Dec. 3, 1696.
Edward, May 20, 1664.
Sarah, June 9, 1666.
John, Aug. 4, 1668.
Mary (twin), July 9, 1671.
Martha (twin), July 9, 1671.
Elizabeth, Dec. 22, 1673.
Patience, July 7, 1676.
Mercy, Feb. 6, 1678.
Samuel, May 17, 1681, mentioned below.
Mercy, Sept. 23, 1684.
Benjamin, May 30, 1689.
(III) Captain Samuel, son of Edward (2) Doty, was born at Plymouth, May 17, 1681, died Jan. 26, 1750. His father was drowned when he was a young lad and Thomas Faunce and John Doty were appointed his guardians. He was a mariner. He sold his property at Plymouth in 1705 to his brother-in-law, Captain James Warren. He removed to Saybrook, Connecticut in 1703. In 1708 he bought a home lot at Saybrook Point for sixty pounds and afterward acquired much land in that town. He traded with the Barbadoes and West Indies and was a prominent merchant. His new sloop, "Six Friends," was impressed for naval purposes by the government in 1710. In Oct. 1727, he was chosen captain of the trainband; he was a member of the Connecticut general assembly in 1732-37.
An oil painting of Captain Samuel and anather of his daughter have been preserved and are now (1910) owned by Rev. William D. Doty, a descendant.
He had a cooper shop at Saybrook Point.
He married at Saybrook, Dec. 3, 1706, Anne, born at Saybrook, Aug. 2, 1687, daughter of Rev. Thomas and Esther (Hosmer) Buckingham, the latter a daughter of Thomas Hosmer. Anne Doty died at Saybrook, Dec. 16, 1745. Rev. Thomas Buckingham, of Welsh parents, was minister at Saybrook from 1670 to April 1, 1709, nearly sixty-three years [transcriber's note: my math says 37 years]; one of the founders of Yale College and a fellow from 1700 to 1709; a leader of the Puritans for many years.
Captain Doty and his wife are buried side by side at Saybrook and their gravestones of red sandstone are still standing (1910).
Sarah, born Nov. 18, 1708.
Samuel, mentioned below.
(IV) Samuel (2), son of Captain Samuel (1) Doty, was born at Saybrook, June 17, 1712, died at Deep River, Middlesex county, Conn. Dec. 16, 1751. He is buried in the old Saybrook burying ground near his father. He graduated at Yale University in the class of 1733. In 1738 he received from his father at Deep River, and the house he built upon this land is still standing (1910) and was lately occupied by lineal descendants.
He married, April 3, 1733, Margeria, born at Saybrook, July 14, 1708, daughter of John Jr. and Mary (Jones) Parker, the latter a daughter of Lieutenant Samuel Jones.
She died in 1785 at Deep River. A string of gold beads and an old portrait of Margeria are now in possession of Mrs. Julia N.D. Harvey of Saybrook. This portrait is almost a duplicate of that owned by Rev. William D. Doty, of Rocheser, N.Y. Margeria joined the church Nov. 27, 1774; her estate was administered by her son Samuel.
Sarah, born at Saybrook, Dec. 20, 1733.
Samuel, mentioned below.
Ann, born 1738, died Aug. 28, 1758.
John, baptized March 7, 1742; soldier in the revolution; confined in the British prison ships, New York.
(V) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) Doty, was born at Saybrook in 1736 in the part now called Deep River. He lived on the homestead with his mother after his father died, and followed the trade of carpenter and millwright. He was a soldier in the revolution, a sergeant in Captain John Ely's company, Colonel Samuel Holden's regiment (Sixth) at the seige of Boston until December, 1775; also in Captain Lathrop Allen's company, Colonel Samuel Elmore's regiment, in 1776, and was stationed in Tryon county, N.Y., at Fort Dayton, German Flats; in 1780 he was ensign of the Seventh Connecticut Regiment, Colonel Jacob Whitmore's company, Lieutenant Colonel Barzillai Beebe's regiment, and continued in the service until Oct. 17, 1780; also ensign in Captain James Smith's company, Colonel William Mead's regiment.
He returned to Deep River after the war, and soon afterward removed to Stephentown, Rensselaer county, New York, whither several sons and relatives had already located. He had a grist mill there. He also lived at Nassau and Brainard in the same county, and later in Albany county in the towns of Westerlo and Berne. In 1810 with his son Ethan he was living at Rensselaerville, Albany county, and both died there.
He was a tall and powerful man, a skilled craftsman, kind neighbor, and greately beloved by his family.
He married in 1758, Mercy Doty, of Saybrook, daughter of Benjamin and Hester (Bemer) Doty, a distant relative. She was an exceedingly active and energetic woman of great intelligence, probity and strength of character, a worthy wife and devoted mother.
Children born at Saybrook:
Samuel, 1759; took part in the battles of Germantown and Monmouth and wintered at Valley Forge; a pensioner.
John, Oct. 26, 1761.
Anna, 1763.
Danforth, March 24, 1767.
Warren, April 23, 1768.
Sarah, 1771.
William, July 18, 1774.
Ethan Allen, Aug. 18, 1776.
George Washington, July 4, 1782.
Mercy, died aged eighteen years.
(VI) Warren, son of Samuel (3) Doty, was born at Saybrook, April 23, 1768. He was a farmer, an early settler at Martinsburg, Lewis county, N.Y., and he died there in 1807, but was buried at Lowville.
He married at Stephentown, N.Y., Sarah Woods, born at Cherry Valley, N.Y. May 13, 1772, died at Spafford, Onondaga county, N.Y. July 31, 1862.
Children, born at Lowville:
Reuben, Nov. 5, 1792.
Diana, Sept. 3, 1794, married Abel Rice (see Rice VIII).
Silas, Sept. 13, 1796, died 1807.
Willard, July 4, 1798.
Mercy, born at Richfield, Otsego county, Nov. 8, 1806.
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A Jordanian paralympian and world record holder, sent home in disgrace along with two others, was freed when his 12 month jail term for sexual assault while training in Antrim in the run-up to the 2012 London paralympic games, was suspended for two years.
Crown Court Judge Jeffrey Miller QC on Tuesday told 33-year-old wheelchair-bound weight lifter Omar Sami Qaradhi, he had not only brought distress to his victims, he had abused the hospitality of Antrim, and brought shame on himself and fellow team members, and denied his country the real prospect of a gold medal.
Judge Miller also told Qaradhi: "For all this you must accept full responsibility and for the consequences to yourself, which this court accepts have been devastating".
A remorseful and apologetic Qaradhi had earlier pleaded guilty to sexually touching a thearpist and two teenage girls, just as he was about to go on trial at the Antrim court. He was one of three Jordanian athletes sent home just a week before the start of the London games.
Although charges against two others, Faisal Hammash and Motaz Al-Junadi were eventually dropped, the Jordanian Paralympic Committee, at the time, said in a written statement that it decided to pull all three out because it "would be inappropriate for the accused athletes to compete" in the Games.
King Abdullah of Jordan took a personal interest in the case, and from the Jordanian Embassy in London, a letter of authorisation securing Qaradhi's bail of £5,500, had been given to the court.
Judge Miller said that but for his offending Qaradhi could have brought "such pride to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordon and done so much for fellow paralympians and disabled people generally within the kingdom".
The judge said while he had borne in mind all the circumstances of the case, he could not "lose sight of the fact that you were invited and welcomed to this town as a member of the Jordanian Paralympic Team.
"The local population took great pride in being associated with the Olympic Movement and then London Olympics by acting as a host town. By your actions you first and foremost brought distress to your victims. Behyond that you abused the hsopitality extended to you as a team member. You brought shame to your fellow team members who you let down".
Earlier defence lawyer John McCrudden QC said he had been expressly instructed to make a complete and unqualified apology to each of the three victims. aradhi, he said, wished to apologise for the indignity, hurt and distress they had suffered as a result of his actions.
Mr McCrudden said that the paralympics would have been a life changing for Qaradhi, who was expected to win gold, and in return enjoyed fantastic success, and earn up to $70,000 (dollars money) from a grateful country. Instead, said Mr McCrudden, Qaradhi, whose gold-record breaking lift in the 2009 World Games, still stands, had lost everything.
The weight-lifter, who had literally 'clawed' his way out of poverty, had been, said Mr McCrudden, on the cusp of liberating not only himself, but also his widowed mother, but now everything had come 'crashing down.
The athlete, he added, had been "plunged into shame, plunged into isolation" and banned from the very sport he loved.
Prosecution lawyer Neil Connor had told the court that the weight lifter had first sexually touched one 14-year-old, after duping her into posing for a photograph with him. Days later, he did the same to a second schoolgirl. One of the girls was later able to identify Qaradhi from a photograph which appeared in the local Antrim Guardian newspaper.
Mr Connor said the athlete was arrested after he had inappropriately touched a therapist during a physio session before training. She had fled in tears and reported the matter to her manager. However, the lawyer accepted that the assaults had been 'opportunistic in nature, and short-lived'.
As part of his sentence Qaradhi was also put on the Sex Offenders' Register for the next ten years, and during that time if he wishes to return here he must give prior notification to the appropriate police authority or port of enty before doing so.


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OKRA-Run Charity Bar to Open Downtown
The new home of the soon-to-be-named OKRA charity bar.
Photos by Katharine Shilcutt
Imagine a bar run by Houston's best bartenders and mixologists where 100 percent of the proceeds would be donated to a local charity at the end of each month. It's not just a wild-eyed fantasy; it's about to become a reality in the former Red Cat Jazz Café location at 924 Congress.
That's where the Organized Kooperative on Restaurant Affairs is planning on opening a nonprofit charity bar this fall. One of OKRA's first initiatives when it was founded late last year by Anvil Bar & Refuge owner Bobby Heugel was to eventually open just such a bar. Now, pending some final financial contributions to fund its opening costs, that bar is almost a reality.
OKRA has always existed in order to support the local restaurant and bar community as well as encourage better public transit and use of dense urban corridors in Houston, all while raising money for charity at the same time. And it's these reasons that led the group to choose the downtown location at 924 Congress.
It's only a short light-rail ride away from OKRA supporters such as Mongoose versus Cobra, Leon's Lounge, Reef, The Continental Club, Double Trouble and Tacos a Go-Go. Its neighbors will be local businesses such as Niko Niko's, La Carafe, Hearsay, Warren's, Bitterman's Market Square Bar, Char Bar and the incoming Barnaby's.
But how will the charity end of the bar function?
The beautiful space at 924 Congress has been begging for a tenant.
Says the press release:
Once open, 100% of the bar's proceeds will be donated to a different Houston-based organization or social cause each month. Bar patrons will have the opportunity to select which charity is chosen as a beneficiary by voting from among four nominees for next month's elected charity. For each drink purchased, guests will receive one vote that they may cast before leaving the bar for the evening. The hope is that by benefiting a new charity each month and nominating four for the following, funding will be acquired for elected charities and awareness will be generated for other nominees. The space will also be available for events and activities that benefit additional organizations in Houston in need of a gathering space.
People familiar with the old Red Cat will recall just how gorgeous that space is, too. Built in 1882 as the Casino Saloon, the bar is located just off the new Market Square Park, directly in the middle of one of Houston's most vibrant historic districts. The original Casino Saloon served as a bar until Prohibition, when it became a barbershop.
A close-up of the distinctive, oval-shaped bar.
Scott Repass -- OKRA co-founder and owner of Poison Girl, Antidote and Black Hole Coffee House -- feels the space represents a unique opportunity to "do what we love and contribute in a meaningful way in a building that is gorgeous." The inviting space has a large, central, oval-shaped bar surrounded by brick walls decorated with gas light fixtures and a high glass ceiling in the rear of the bar that resembles an elegant Victorian-era greenhouse.
The new bar -- which has yet to be named -- will feature a well-chosen spirit selection and emphasize local craft beers as well as include a small collaborative food program from OKRA's culinary members, including Revival Market, Oxheart, The Modular and Paulie's.
It will be at least four months before the bar is open, but OKRA members are already excited. Says Justin Yu -- OKRA member and chef and owner of Oxheart -- of the long-awaited project: "The bar gives OKRA an outlet to support the community that supports our businesses every day."
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A softball-sized eyeball that washed up on a beach in Flordia has left experts baffled.
State wildlife officials in Florida are trying to determine the species of the blue eyeball, which was discovered by Gino Covacci on Pompano Beach, north of Fort Lauderdale.'It was very, very fresh,' he told the Sun Sentinel. 'It was still bleeding when I put it in the plastic bag.'The eyeball has been put on ice to preserve it and will be analysed at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St Petersburg.
Agency spokeswoman Carli Segelson says the eyeball likely came from a marine animal, since it was found on a beach.
'This is definitely an unusual situation, where an eye would be found independent of any other body part,' she added.
So far, possibilities include a giant squid, a whale or some type of large fish.
The organisation has added the image of the eye to its Facebook page and asked fans to get in touch with their suggestions.
Facebook users currently do not seem to be taking the quest for knowledge seriously, with some suggesting it came from Sauron, the scourge of Middle Earth, or even from Bigfoot.


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recovering a 'ntfs' partition which got ruined by mkfs.ext4 command
I just ruined my /ntfs partition. I used the mkfs command and stopped it by ^C immidiately, but it was too late.
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
Is there a way to recover NTFS partition now ?
The partition </dev/sdb1> was 'ntfs' and mkfs.ext4 did not check if it was a ext4 or give any pre-check warning, just went ahead with making the ext4 fs on a ntfs partition.
I think you'll need data recovery tools as the fat will be gone
eg. GetDataBack
I mean I would want to reverse the damage. Some how, ntfs should read back itself and create back all the directory structure (assuming its somewhere there not lost )
You might want to id the partition as NTFS in fdisk. Then run "ntfsfix". This may mark it so that Windows runs chkdisk on it when it boots up. I don't know how much redundancy there is in the NTFS filesystem, or if too much was deleted for chkdisk to run.
I have same problem here
Did you get any luck on recovering i-nodes?
The partition is flagged NTFS on fdisk
fix doesnt work
I'll post the output when I get home
I once managed to slice up an ntfs partition with a BSD system and I used Test disk as found on the Parted magic live CD to restore the partition table,however yours. sounds like you have overwritten data on the partition, Ohhh
If there is a way or a tool you might find what you need on either Parted magic live CD or even better the UBCD... good luck.
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C and Smalltalk
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What this manual presents
This document provides a tutorial introduction to the Smalltalk language in general, and the
Smalltalk implementation in particular. It does not provide exhaustive coverage of every feature of the language and its libraries; instead, it attempts to introduce a critical mass of ideas and techniques to get the Smalltalk novice moving in the right direction.
Who this manual is written for
This manual assumes that the reader is acquainted with the basics of computer science, and has reasonable proficiency with a procedural language such as C. It also assumes that the reader is already familiar with the usual janitorial tasks associated with programming: editing, moving files, and so forth.
Getting started
: Starting to explore
Some classes
: Using some of the Smalltalk classes
The hierarchy
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Creating classes
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Creating subclasses
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Code blocks (I)
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Code blocks (II)
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More subclassing
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"If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. i'll always be with you."
"One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics."
"You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness."