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Queensryche – Queen of the Reich
This single kills everything – a hundred times over. Anyone who ever thought 80's metal was a joke will be murdered a thousand times over by the time this ten minutes of melodic furious-ity is over. Prepare for total Domination! Two of their best songs on this small disc that are absolutely enchanting in their power and majesty. I may as well give up trying to describe this shit because words are not powerful enough to convey the brilliant contained in this piece of vinyl. But I will carry on…
'Queen of the Reich' itself is a powerful number that right off the mark with the opening sad and epic riff gets to evoking nothing but stunningly epic power metal majesty. This track is four minutes of the best heavy/power metal ever, with tonnes of conviction present in the vocals of legendary Geoff Tate. His voice is almost as amazing as Rob Halford's, with soaring highs that convey the dramatic themes of the song to a tee. The chorus of this one sends chills down my spine to this day. The prominent bass and crunching, rumbling guitars are excellent touches.
'The Lady Wore Black' is a haunting, slightly slower piece that is among the best in progressive metal. The haunting, sad qualities of the opening soft guitar are arranged perfectly with the truly powerful vocals of Tate. The chorus is the high point in this one again, with the soaring highs of the vocals evoking an awesome cinematic feel which is given extra impact by an impressive Wilton guitar riff. The simplistic approach to this song belies an incredible power. The chorus vocal is very simple with a mere two-tracks that give an effective harmony. The slower, emotionally driving softer guitar is brilliantly juxtaposed with the increasingly intense vocals of Tate which erupt in an orgasmic chorus.
An outright stunner on this one, but you're probably better advised to get their self-titled EP, with these two songs alongside two almost as amazing tracks in 'Nightrider' and 'Blinded'. These two really are two of the bands best tracks – like a concentrated form of the majesty and power that is Queensryche. Total brilliance and domination.


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When his role as team host gets tough, seeing the players he's responsible for hit the ice at the World Juniors reminds Nicholas Oriold why he volunteered his time.
"Being there and being part of it has been great," he said.
Calgary resident Oriold is one of two hosts for Team Switzerland, along with Henry Hollinger, and for the duration of the 2012 World Junior Hockey Championship in Calgary and Edmonton, his job is to make sure the jobs of trainers, management and coaches are a little bit easier, so those people can in turn make the lives of the players a little bit easier.
One of the two hosts gets up and moves through the day an hour ahead of the team, while the other travels with the team.
The gig includes arranging meals, finding transportation and all the little things a person doesn't really think about while watching the event from their living room — things Oriold said he took for granted before he was approached to volunteer.
"It's really interesting, and it's a really great group — this Swiss group — and I've really enjoyed working for them," said Oriold.
"They're really appreciative — they don't bark orders or anything like that.
"The team host is very much a support role, and it'd be easy for someone to just kind of be there only when needed, only speak when spoken to ... these guys are really welcoming."
Oriold has always been a hockey fan and a World Juniors fan, and loves to play as well, so this chance to see the tournament behind the scenes was an easy thing for him agree to.
It's more work than he figured, but he's loving it.
"I try to be that guy that does everything for (the team), so they don't have to worry about it," he said.
"They need to just focus on the game and focus on what they need to do to perform.
"If they're stuck doing a whole bunch of other random stuff, that can get in the way of their preparation."
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Gray, overcast skies reflected the somber mood at a paddle-out ceremony honoring a 17-year-old Torrey Pines High School student killed in a car crash.
A crowd estimated at 700 to 750 gathered on the grass at Powerhouse Park for the traditional surfer's memorial and listened as friends recounted memories of Alex Capozza, whose life was cut short a week ago when the car he was riding in with four other students crashed in Rancho Santa Fe.
"We are here to honor Alex's water spirit and connect him to the ocean one last time," Britt Galland said.
Galland, whose son was friends with Alex, said he was humbled to be asked to participate in the special memorial. He said his heart was broken for the family.
Alex was in a car that was traveling on La Granada near Rambla de las Flores about 1:45 a.m. last Sunday when the driver lost control and the car overturned. The driver faces vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving charges and is being held at Juvenile Hall.
Classmate Joey Roth, who said Alex's love of surfing was well known, explained the paddle-out as an ancient Polynesian ritual held to honor departed kings.
"He deserves nothing less than a king's send-off," Joey said to the mourners.
Other classmates, who all wore leis, choked back tears as they talked about the boy they described as funny and as a good friend.
Seana Brooks said she met Alex in third grade and had told him that one day they were going to get married. Seana talked about a journal the teen kept where he proudly recorded how many back flips he had done.
"Alex, I will always love you," she told the crowd.
Just before 10:30 a.m., about half the crowd picked up surfboards and ventured into the calm, cool ocean. They carried a multitude of colored flowers.
While some tossed yellow roses into the surf's edge, the rest of the crowd sat or stood and silently watched the procession.
Once in the water, the group formed a circle and held hands. They loudly chanted "Alex" four times and then said "Aloha, Alex," and threw their flowers and a wreath into the middle of the circle.
In the water, Britt Galland held Alex's surfboard over his head as Alex's father looked on from his own board. His mother and sister watched from a lifeguard boat.
"It was amazing," Galland said.
Finally the group "raised the water" and splashed each other before heading back to shore.
Pete Buckley, who joined in the paddle-out along with his 16-year-old son, who was a close friends of Alex, described that moment as a celebration of the teen's life.
Buckley's son Jack said it felt uplifting and was a fitting honor for his friend.
Classmate Ian Bullock, a 16-year-old Torrey Pines junior who participated in wrestling with Alex, said that it was a good feeling to celebrate the teen's life with everyone who loved him.
Dr. Ken Druck, who was asked by the family to officiate part of the ceremony and whose own daughter was killed in a bus crash, watched from the beach as the paddle-out unfolded.
"Look at this, look at this," Druck said. "If this doesn't melt your heart, what could. It's their way of saying I love you to Alex."


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ISLAMABAD: The power tariff has been increased by 30 to 72 per cent for different categories of consumers and different regions with effect from March 1.
A notification to this effect for distribution companies of Wapda was issued on Wednesday by the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority.
The increase to come into force with immediate effect passes on to consumers the impact of expensive rental power plants, inefficient plant utilisation and adverse energy mix during August last year.
The tariff hike will not apply to consumers using less than 50 units a month and to consumers of the Karachi Electric Supply Company.
Nepra had determined the increase in November but could not enforce it because of dissenting opinion of three of its five members and stay ordered by court.
One dissenting Nepra member has since retired, another stands by his opinion while the third has agreed to the increase with some procedural changes.
The Nepra notification directs "the distribution companies of Wapda to apply fuel adjustment charge of Rs3.0329 per unit to all consumer categories, except lifeline consumers in the billing month of March 2012".
According to the notification, rates for lower slabs of domestic consumers have gone up by up to 67 per cent while consumers in Azad Kashmir would have to pay over 72 per cent higher tariff for the same quantity of electricity they consumed last month.
On an average, the rates have increased by 30 per cent or Rs3.0329 per unit (kwh).
In practical terms, the monthly bills of all consumers will be much higher given the impact of 16 per cent general sales tax that goes up with the amount of average bills.
The tariff for the first 100 units of domestic consumption has been increased by about 67 per cent to Rs7.58 per unit from Rs4.54, jacking up the monthly bill by Rs354.
For the second slab of 101-300 units, the tariff increase will be of 44 per cent on base tariff of Rs6.86 per unit.
The tariff for 301-700 units has been increased by 28.55 per cent from Rs10.65 per unit and for over 700 units by 23 per cent.
For commercial consumers with sanctioned load of up to 5 kilowatt, the tariff has been raised by 23 per cent to Rs16.04 per unit while for those with more than 5kw by 37 per cent to Rs11.18 per unit.
The consumers in Azad Kashmir have been subjected to the highest increase of more than 72 per cent to Rs7.25 per unit from Rs4.21.
For industrial B-1 consumers, the tariff has been increased by 34 per cent to Rs11.94 per unit and for B-2 by 40 per cent to Rs10.63 per unit from Rs7.59 per unit. The peak tariff for this category will go up by 28 per cent, while off-peak rates will be higher by about 67 per cent.
For bulk consumers, the rates have been increased by 31 per cent for a sanctioned load of up to 5kw and by 35 per cent for load exceeding 5kw.
The tariff for street lighting has been increased by 25.33 per cent to Rs15.04 per unit from Rs12.
Nepra member from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Shaukat Ali Kundi, who wrote a dissenting note, said the merit order of power plants had not been adhered to, resulting in higher utilisation of inefficient and expensive plants and low capacity utilisation of efficient plants.
He said plant maintenance had been ignored by chief executives because of funding shortage, resulting in higher operational losses and malpractices in procurement of equipment and pilferage of oil and lubricants.
"It is abundantly clear that management of respective generation companies failed miserably to improve upon the performance of their plants," that contributed to higher generation cost and eventually the consumer-end tariff.
"Passing on inefficiencies of Gencos and NTDC to the consumers is in no way justified," he said.
But Nepra defended the increase on the grounds that "disallowing fuel cost of electricity generated by Karkey and cost of wind energy would further increase the power shortfall which would result in disrupting the economic activities. The authority considers that it is not in the interest of the consumers to disrupt the available electricity which in the current scenario is minimising the demand-supply gap".


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Anti-coal campaign makes headway
Students who have been at the forefront of an effort to stop the University's investment in coal made gains last week to attract more attention to their cause.
The UNC Sierra Student Coalition's Beyond Coal campaign succeeded in adding a referendum to the 2013 student body presidential ballot by passing it through Student Congress.
The referendum, which will be on the Feb. 12 ballot, will gauge student opinion on endowment investment in coal in an effort to encourage administrative response to the subject.
"We wanted to do something that would give us more traction with the administrators," said sophomore Jasmine Ruddy, the grassroots organizer for Beyond Coal. "That's why we are using the referendum."
Beyond Coal's goal is to receive support for coal divestment — stopping the use of endowment funds for investing in coal-using companies. They are hoping for support from at least 50 percent of the student body with the referendum.
"We claim to be a very sustainable university because of the great progress we're making on campus, but now we're asking the administrators to put their money where their mouths are," Ruddy said.
The referendum is nonbinding, so there will be no immediate change if it passes successfully.
But Campus Y Co-President Mackenzie Thomas said meeting the goal would send a strong, tangible message to administrators.
The Campus Y selected Beyond Coal as one of its supported semester campaigns last week.
Chancellor Holden Thorp made a promise in 2010 that the University would stop burning coal on campus by 2020. But the University still invests in it.
The University has an estimated $2.2 billion endowment to use at its discretion. As much as $100 million of that could be invested in the coal industry, Ruddy said.
"Our main issue with coal is that it threatens public health from cradle to grave — meaning that from extraction to combustion to disposal, the use of coal is polluting rivers, poisoning the local water in communities, and causing asthma and lung cancer," Ruddy said.
Beyond Coal campaign members said continuing to invest in coal — rather than renewable energy — might make UNC less competitive economically.
Senior Travis Crayton, chairman of Student Congress' rules and judiciary committee, who introduced the referendum, said he believes it should receive the support of the student body and administrators.
Ruddy said the referendum is just the next step in a larger effort toward environmental sustainability.
"We need to divest in coal and kick some ash."
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Monday, September 25, 2017
Colorectal Diseases
Quick seton question
If one has three Setons in place for perianal fistulas and has gone through two Remicade infusions with No. 3 happening at week`s end and there is still greenish-yellow pus coming from the Setons/fistulas, will the colorectal surgeon still be able to remove the Setons next week as was the original plan?
In other words, does having discharge even after three Remicade infusions delay the Setons removal?
Thank you.
Not necessarily. Your surgeon will have to look at the degree of inflammation and make that decision.
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Cole Hunt, Trey Martin and Brett Prihoda played a key role in El Campo's first state final appearance since 1967.
The three seniors will continue playing on the college level next season.
Hunt and Martin will play at Rice and Prihoda will play at Mary Hardin-Baylor.
The trio will do so as first-team selections on the 62nd Annual Collin Street Bakery/Texas Sports Writers Association All-State team.
Hunt was chosen as the co-Defensive Player of the Year after being picked on the defensive line.
Hunt had 117 tackles, including 17 sacks.
Martin was chosen at offensive tackle where he had 81 pancake blocks and did not allow a sack all season.
Prihoda was selected at linebacker. He led the Ricebirds with 170 tackles, including seven sacks, had one interception, caused two fumbles and recovered one.
"All of these guys deserve every honor they get," said El Campo coach Bob Gillis. "They worked very hard, were good leaders and were a big part of our success."
Gonzales senior running back Cecil Johnson was named to the second team.
Cuero's Caleb Harvey earned honorable mention at tackle and on the defensive line, and Yoakum's Keith Ratley received honorable mention at wide receiver and defensive back.
Also earning honorable mention were Yoakum offensive tackle Willie Hights and defensive lineman Rico Perry, Gonzales linebacker JT Miller and defensive back Zack Lopez, and Wharton linebacker Ramon Frazier and defensive back Alfred Pinkney.
Quarterbacks Kadarius Baker of Navasota and Tyler Jones of Stephenville were named co-Offensive Players of the Year. Jones was selected to the first team as an athlete.
Navasota lineman Jordan Wells shared Defensive Players of the Year honors with El Campo's Hunt.
Lee Fedora, who led Navasota to the Division II state championship, was named Coach of the Year.
Following are area selections on the 62nd Annual Collin Street Bakery/Texas Sports Writers Association Class 3A All-State football team.
Co-Defensive Player of the Year: Cole Hunt, sr., El Campo.
First Team
Offensive Tackle: Trey Martin, sr., El Campo.
Defensive Line: Cole Hunt, sr., El Campo.
Linebacker: Brett Prihoda, sr., El Campo.
Second Team
Running Back: Cecil Johnson, sr., Gonzales.
Honorable Mention
Offensive Tackle: Caleb Harvey, Cuero; Willie Hights, Yoakum.
Wide Receiver: Keith Ratley, Yoakum.
Defensive Line: Caleb Harvey, Cuero; Rico Perry, Yoakum.
Linebacker: Ramon Frazier, Wharton; JT Miller, Gonzales.
Defensive Back: Zack Lopez, Gonzales; Alfred Pinkney, Wharton; Keith Ratley, Yoakum.


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It might be a good idea for the folks from the McCain campaign to take a day off, take a breath, and then return to work. Republicans unaffiliated with the campaign tell me the "bunker" mentality there is really starting to hurt them.
To wit: McCain senior adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer on MSNBC today.
"As a proud resident of Oakton, Virginia, I can tell you that the Democrats have just come in from the District of Columbia and moved into northern Virginia," Pfotenhauer said, speaking of Democratic gains in that part of the state. "And that's really what you see there.
"But the rest of the state, 'real Virginia,' if you will, I think will be very responsive to Senator McCain's message," she continued.
Pfotenhauer went on to make a totally valid point about Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., having to play defense in Pennsylvania, as areas in battleground states where Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., could do well.
"And remember that, you know, you've got places in other states like northern Wisconsin, the iron range of Minnesota, south-central and southeastern Pennsylvania, the St. Louis suburbs and the rural areas of Missouri that are very responsive to our message," she said. "And again we're taking it to them in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. He's having to fight to defend there, as you can tell because he's deployed people like the Clintons out in Pennsylvania. And every speech Joe Biden gives, he says, 'I'm from Scranton.' You don't know what else he's going to say, but he sure gets that line in."
But the "real Virginia" line -- made in the wake of the nominee's brother, Joe McCain, referring to Arlington and Alexandria as "Communist country" -- is what's most likely to make news, and help Team Obama drive up Democratic turnout in the battleground state.
"Hey Nancy," said the MSNBC anchor, "I'm going to give you a chance to climb back off that ledge. Did you say 'real Virginia'?"
"I did say outside of north – well, I mean real Virginia, because northern Virginia is where I've always been, but real Virginia I take to be the – this part of the state that is more southern in nature, if you will," she said. "Northern Virginia is really metro D.C., as you're aware, Kevin."
An in-kind contribution to the Obama campaign's Get-Out-the-Vote apparatus from McCain's adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer. Nancy Pfotenhauer, ladies and gentleman.
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We've all been waiting with bated breath for the announcement of the NHL's 2011-2012 salary cap, primarily to see how much space the Flyers will have in order to sign goalie Ilya Bryzgalov and any of the restricted free agents they'd like to retain. TSN is reporting that the cap will be $64 million, with a floor of $48 million. Last year's cap was $59.4 million, and $64 million represents about the highest anyone was expecting the cap would be.
In other words, good news for the Flyers, who need as much room as possible.
Below, we'll take a look at the implications of the cap number, as well as the Flyers' hopes to move up in this Friday's NHL entry draft.
Frank Seravalli of the Daily News put together a nice contextual look at this year's cap as compared to previous seasons since its application in 2005 (even more interesting is a reminder of what the Flyers paid out before the cap was put in place). In 2011, the salary floor is $9 million more than the 2005 cap. Frank also points out that this season's floor may have a big impact on the market, forcing teams at the bottom to spend up:
It may sound crazy, but the biggest number reported on Monday may be the salary cap floor number. Why? Small market, low budget teams like Florida, who have just $18 million committed in salary for next season, will need to spend at least $30 million just to be cap compliant. They may be willing to take on a little more salary than normal off a team like the Flyers looking to dump.
I don't disagree, but I also wonder if the other side of that coin could hurt the Flyers in their attempts to negotiate. With both the cap and the floor increasing, so too could the demands of available, sought after players. Meanwhile, teams unlike the Flyers (ie, against the floor rather than the cap) may want to target a marketable big fish in free agency, and they just got a mandate to get spendy. Could that drive up the price on Bryzgalov?
With that in mind, if the Flyers really want Bryz to be their man, it was a good move to acquire the rights to start the talks before the floor was announced today, as well as having exclusive ability to negotiate through July 1 (including just before the draft day trade festivities). Although no agreement was made during last week's meeting, it seems progress was, and there's no indication that the two sides are far apart.
Switching gears to the league's other big item this week, Flyers fans are probably pretty used to the club not having many high picks when the NHL draft gets underway. At present, that is certainly the case in 2011, with the Flyers not set to be on the clock until pick #84, which falls in the third round.
That may change come draft day though. When asked whether he'd want to have a pick in the first two rounds on a conference call on Monday, GM Paul Holmgren gave the obvious answer that anyone would, but he also indicated that the Flyers will try to trade up.
"[We are] drafting at 84 right now and we'd like to move up, absolutely," Holmgren said. "Are we going to be able to? I don't know, we will see how it goes."
Nothing too earth-shattering here besides the Curtis, but the draft bit dovetails nicely with the salary cap picture. In addition to their need to restock their depleted prospect ranks, the Flyers may also need to clear some cap space this season in order to complete all the signings they're targeting, even with the cap increase.
Homer said he doesn't feel the Flyers are in a position where they have to clear cap space. But, that really depends on the demands of the players they're targeting. If in fact they do "choose" to shed some salary though, one appealing return would be to acquire a draft pick or two, given that they'd add the potential for future depth while also lowering the current salary mark. Of course, in order to do that, they'd have to shed a rostered player and deal with the subsequent hole left behind.
Two of the names you most hear linked to being sent away are Jeff Carter and Kris Versteeg, but while the need for cap space may be real, everything the Flyers have done with respect to these two players to date would indicate they want to keep them in the fold. Carter is a young, talented scorer with a manageable cap hit for the next decade. (I could go on, but I'm assuming most Flyers fans don't need a primer on Carter.) My guess is both sides made that deal in the hopes that Carter will be a career Flyer or close to it. Dealing him would surprise me, but nothing is out of the question after the debaculous end to the team's meek Cup run last month.
The cost of obtaining Versteeg was high (a first and a third), which is important for two reasons. First, it indicates the Flyers really wanted him. Versteeg's a versatile young player who can be chiseled in for 20+ goals per season, and, importantly, he is under contract at less than $3.1 million next season, after which he's still a restricted free agent. His career as a Flyer has been unceremonious so far, but there's been nothing to indicate the team doesn't want him going forward. And there shouldn't be. He's a good player who just turned 25.
The Flyers would also have trouble recouping what they paid for him. A player's value and a team's willingness to pay in picks for him is dependent in large part on the desire of the team trying to get him, which can involve a little desperation at the trade deadline with the playoffs looming, rather than the draft, when there's more time to tinker.
But with the Flyers probably looking to move up and possibly aiming to add some more prospects to their cupboard, it's a safe bet someone will be on the move soon.
It's already been an interesting off-season for the Flyers, but things are about to start moving pretty fast. The team meets with Bryzgalov again tomorrow, and Friday's draft, when many deals will happen league-wide, is looming on Friday. With all of the above forces acting on the Flyers at once, they're bound to be in the headlines a few more times heading into the weekend.


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The Dallas Morning News' average daily circulation dropped to 260,659 for the six months ending March 31, down 21.5 percent from the same period a year earlier, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported Monday.
The circulation decline at The News was significantly larger than the 8.7 percent average circulation decline at U.S. newspapers, according to audit bureau data.
The News' Sunday circulation also fell 21.5 percent - to about 373,000 - compared with an average industry decline of 6.5 percent.
The News' circulation declines were due in part to 2009 price hikes, including a more than 40 percent increase in the price of home delivery that took effect last May, executives said.
Nearly all major U.S. newspapers - even those that didn't raise prices - reported significant declines.
"I don't see any end to it, frankly," said John Morton, a newspaper industry analyst. "I think there will always be a core readership of print newspapers, but as readers die off faster than they're being replaced, that would suggest that newspaper circulation - print circulation at least - is going to decline into the foreseeable future."
As the number of subscribers declined last year, The News increased its audience through its niche products, including Briefing , a free newspaper delivered in higher-income neighborhoods; Quick, a free weekly focusing on entertainment news; and Al Día, a twice-weekly Spanish-language newspaper.
"By focusing on serving our core audience in The Dallas Morning News and shaping our portfolio to reach other targeted audiences, we are improving the value proposition for advertisers," said Jim Moroney, publisher of The News.
The price increase helped fuel a 10.6 percent gain in circulation revenue last year, to $88.6 million. And its effect on newspapers sold appears to be dissipating, Moroney said. The News' average circulation for the six months ending Sept. 30 was 263,810, only slightly higher than the figure for the most recent six-month period.
In the next audit bureau report, which will cover the six months ending in September, Moroney said he expected The News' circulation results to be closer to the industry average.
"I would hope we would be in the middle of the pack or better," he said. "I can't guarantee it. We still have a premium price in the marketplace."
Newspaper circulation continues to decline. Here is the average daily circulation for the six months ending in March, compared with the same period a year earlier. Publication Average daily circulation Percent change The Wall Street Journal 2,092,523 0.5 USA Today 1,826,622 -13.6 The New York Times 951,063 -8.5 Los Angeles Times 616,606 -14.7 Washington Post 578,482 -13.1 Daily News (New York) 535,059 -11.3 New York Post 525,004 -5.9 San Jose Mercury News 516,701 N/A Chicago Tribune 452,145 -9.8 Houston Chronicle 366,578 -13.8 The Philadelphia Inquirer 356,189 N/A The Arizona Republic 351,207 -9.9 Newsday 334,809 -9.1 The Denver Post 333,675 N/A Star Tribune (Minneapolis) 295,438 -7.7 St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times 278,888 -1.5 Chicago Sun-Times 268,803 -13.9 The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) 267,888 -8.1 The Oregonian 263,600 -1.8 The Seattle Times 263,468 N/A The Dallas Morning News 260,659 -21.5 Detroit Free Press 252,017 -13.3 San Diego Union-Tribune 249,630 -4.5 San Francisco Chronicle 241,330 -22.7 The Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.) 236,017 -17.8 SOURCES: Audit Bureau of Circulations; Editor and Publisher


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October 2, 2012 5:00 am
Paul closes out VP's season with his starting pitcher review.
It is review time at Value Picks. Since I wasn't here writing the starting pitcher VP from the jump, I don't have any preseason picks to review, so we'll dive in around late-April when I signed on and break the season up into a few segments.
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September 14, 2012 9:04 pm
Rotations are in serious flux as teams juggle starters down the stretch, but Paul helps make sense of it all in this week's Planner.
Some teams are running six-man rotations and every team seemingly has their rotation in flux, but we'll try to iron out the two-start pitchers for next week as we inch closer and closer to wrapping up yet another 162.
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September 10, 2012 5:00 am
A look at the Stephen Strasburg situation in Washington and what the Nats could have done to avoid this media nightmare.
The countdown had been coming for months. It was just a matter of what would happen when it ended. We're of course talking about the Washington Nationals' declaration that they would shut down starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg at 160 innings pitched, something that the club had said they would be doing after the no. 1 draft pick and Scott Boras client had Tommy John surgery in 2010 to replace the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow.
We counted. We watched. We never made it that far.
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August 29, 2012 9:28 am
If the Nationals had handled their ace's innings limit a little more like the Braves massaged Kris Medlen's, they might not be facing a Strasless October.
WARNING: Here there be hindsight.
We can't say Mike Rizzo didn't warn us. "There's not going to be a whole lot of tinkering done," he said. "We're going to run him out there until his innings are done." That was on February 20th, the earliest reference by Rizzo I can find to any specific plan for limiting Stephen Strasburg's workload. We knew then that the Nats weren't going to get creative: they were going to pitch Strasburg like any other starter until he was fresh out of innings. What we didn't know then (and what we still don't really know now), is when that would be. For months, everyone assumed Strasburg would go into storage after 160 innings. Why 160? As far as I can tell, the 160 meme began innocently enough, with this sentence from an mlb.com article by Bill Ladson on February 19th: "He is expected to throw 160 innings, the same number his teammate Jordan Zimmermann threw last year after coming off elbow reconstruction." Expected by whom? The article didn't say. Certainly not by the Nationals. But before long, 160 was ubiquitous, and usually attributed to the team. By the time Rizzo denied the number had come from him in an article at BP in April, it was already accepted as fact.
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April 12, 2012 11:15 am
Is the Nationals' great right-handed hope Stephen Strasburg really limited to 160 innings this season? To find out, BP goes straight to the source.
It's Opening Day at the Friendly Confines, and another six-month party is on in Wrigleyville. Bill Murray is on hand to throw out the first pitch, but he's an improv guy, so he instead lights out around the bases and slides theatrically into home plate while flipping the ball to Kerry Wood. Beer, brats, and celebrities hamming it up—another Cubs season is here.
One guy is all business. Washington wunderkind Stephen Strasburg is getting ready for his first season opener at the big-league level. It's been a long time coming. If you want to see a concrete sign that the Nationals have turned the corner as a franchise, there it is toeing the rubber on the mound at Wrigley Field, six-foot-four, a right arm like Zeus, only with a wider repertoire and better command.
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February 22, 2012 3:00 am
Roundtable discussion of the pressing questions facing the NL East teams as we approach the start of the season
1) After a disappointing sophomore campaign, what can we expect of Jason Heyward going forward?
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October 31, 2011 9:00 am
Is Goose Gossage right to say that Mariano Rivera has it "easy?"
Believe it or not, most of our writers didn't enter the world sporting an @baseballprospectus.com address; with a few exceptions, they started out somewhere else. In an effort to up your reading pleasure while tipping our caps to some of the most illuminating work being done elsewhere on the internet, we'll be yielding the stage once a week to the best and brightest baseball writers, researchers and thinkers from outside of the BP umbrella. If you'd like to nominate a guest contributor (including yourself), please drop us a line.
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October 19, 2011 9:00 am
Sizing up every facet of each contender in this season's Fall Classic.
August 12, 2011 11:32 pm
The D-Train makes an appearance on BP in addition to a Seattle starter you probably hadn't heard of before a few months ago.
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July 14, 2011 9:00 am
Mike looks at 2011's crop of young pitchers who maybe be approaching innings limits.
As I was reviewing the first half of the Dodgers season over at my own blog this week (shameless plug here), one topic that came up was the solid performance of rookie starter Rubby de la Rosa. Forced into the rotation about a month ago when fifth starter Jon Garland's season ended due to injury, he's offered the club plenty of value (3.74 ERA / 3.94 SIERA), striking out more than a man per inning while doing some on-the-job learning with his control at the major league level. While his debut has been a nice surprise, he is also already nearing a career high in innings pitched with 85 2/3 combined innings under his belt between the minors and majors this year. His previous high was 110 1/3 innings last season, which followed three years in which he totaled just 69 2/3 frames. The Dodgers are woefully out of the chase, so the priority must be on preserving the 22-year-old for the future–not pushing him beyond his limits this year in pursuit of an October run which will almost certainly not come.
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July 14, 2011 9:00 am
Concluding the two-part series by reviewing the best and worst first-half pitchers for each team.
To recap my methodology, here is what I wrote in the positional players' piece earlier this week:


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After two seasons as a running back at Apalachee, sophomore Stanley Williams will play the remainder of his high school career at George Walton Academy.
Wildcats coach Shane Davis confirmed to the Banner-Herald on Tuesday that Williams, who committed to Georgia prior to the 2011 season, had withdrawn from school at Apalachee and was planning to transfer to the Bulldogs of Region 8-A.
Williams did not play in Apalachee's last game of the season last Friday, a 45-42 loss to Loganville.
"Last Thursday, Stanley was suspended from our team indefinitely," Davis said. "Yesterday, his parents withdrew him from school and he is enrolled at George Walton Academy."
Through nine games, Williams had rushed for 891 yards and 13 touchdowns and had caught 10 passes for 305 yards and two touchdowns. As a freshman, he rushed for 964 yards and nine touchdowns in 10 games.
Williams could not be reached for comment.


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Blank space where list of user accounts should be shown.
Hi guys,
Got something weird happening with my User Accounts. Basically, when trying to change a password or change the name of a specific user account, the control panel shows a blank space, instead of showing all the user accounts I actually have.
Please see attached.
Is there any solution for this?
Appreciate it.
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This can be a result of you only having the one base admin account. It will often not show in this window unless specifically set to do so.
If you have multiple accounts on this machine and they are missing from this list I would first suggest a malware scan.
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|28 Sep 2012
Thanks for reply.
Definitely not a malware. Ran MalwareBytes, found nothing (only a couple of months old Win installation anyway).
I've also got a few admin accounts.
Weird or what.
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|28 Sep 2012
Alright that first obvious thing having failed, here's a old thread that deals with essentially this problem. Hopefully the info in it can be useful to you.
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Silicone nasal implant infection
I agree with the others' responses that it sounds like your implant needs to be removed due to an infection. You should visit with your surgeon as soon as possible to have this checked out. If your original surgeon is not available you should see someone nearby who can assess the situation.
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Implant infection is what you are likely experiencing and antibiotics are probably not going to help - you should see your surgeon and remove the implant
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The old castle in Baden-Baden
Discover one of Germany's most beautiful towns
If you like castles then the old castle ruins are for you!
The former seat of the Margrave of Baden is now an imposing ruin. The once significant castle was built between the 12th and 15th century and was destroyed by fire at the end of the 16th century.
The important section of the castle is Bernhardsbau (built around 1400) whose ground floor columns with the coat of arms borne by angels once supported the huge arch. In its heyday the castle had 100 rooms.
From the tower of the old castle you have a great view over Baden-Baden and can see the Rhine plain and the Vosges mountains in the distance. It's also worth visiting the castle bailey. The view from the castle and the tower is priceless.
There is a large aeolian harp in the ruins of the old castle's hall. The harp, which was installed in 1999, is 4.1m high and has 120 strings. It was designed and built by local musician and harp builder Rüdiger Oppermann, who has declared it the largest aeolian harp in Europe. The nylon strings are tuned to C and G. There used to be a small aeolian harp in the old castle's hall between 1851-1920.
Today the old castle is a popular destination and a starting point for walking tours around Baden-Baden and along the Battert mountain.
You can reach the old castle from the Hotel MERKUR on bus line 208 in around 7 minutes.
Homepage of the old castle in Baden-Baden: www.schloss-hohenbaden.de
Distance from Hotel MERKUR: about 2km
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CM Chandrababu Naidu has participated in Neeru Prgathi programme at Chittoor District today and he conveyed happy news to the farmers. CM Chandrababu Naidu has stated that the present lakhs of pump sets will be replaced with ultra modern pump sets at free of cost to all the farmers in the state. CM announced that his aim is to make AP a drought free state.


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While the idea of the business thriller isn't exactly well-traveled ground, we have been here a couple times. And our friends out at Lionsgate want a crack at the comparatively virgin terrain with their new "Arbitrage", a copy of which they sent our way for review.
You'll have to wait for almost Christmas to get a shot at this one, though, as it comes out December 21.
"Arbitrage" follows a hedge fund kingpin by the name of Robert Miller, a man whose life has been defined by his own ambition. He's got it all in the palm of his hand: money, power, a loving family…but there are cracks emerging in what will prove to be a facade. With Miller's empire staring into the abyss of oblivion, Miller is desperate to cash out and bug out before it's too late, and his darker deals find him out.
But one mistake is all it takes to bring the whole thing crashing down prematurely…with him underneath it. The law is beginning to take notice of Miller, and now Miller finds himself with the need to protect not his empire, but his family.
Think of this as sort of like "The Company Men", an earlier release from Anchor Bay, by way of the suspense thriller. They do a very nice job of setting this up, clearly showing that something is up, but just what, no one's quite sure of. They're dancing around it, and it's obvious that something's gone very, very wrong, but just how far the rabbit hole goes isn't near as obvious. Then, when that "mistake" I mentioned earlier actually hits, it becomes the ping-pong ball in the big plexiglas box full of mouse traps. It's very much worth watching, just to see the fallout from this string of disasters that ends up unveiling something much, much worse than anyone would ever have expected.
It's a little heavy on the drama–it's much more suspense than thriller–but at the same time, that lends weight and authenticity to the whole affair, the kind of weight and authenticity that you can't get just anywhere. Richard Gere does an excellent job with this, and he's backed up, more than ably, but a surprisingly compelling cast. The last few minutes will pack in a big surprise with them, though, so keep an eye out for that.
The special features on this one include some audio options for those with particularly potent home theater setups–dtsHD Master Audio will be available here–as well as your choice of English and Spanish subtitles. There's also a commentary track, a making-of featurette, a featurette on the main character, a set of deleted scenes, and even a set of trailers for some really rather old fare including "Killer Joe", "Winter's Bone", "Margin Call", "Friends With Kids", "Chicago", and as is commonly par for the course, a promotional video for Epix.
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Investments in the Dubai World Central projects reached Dh22 billion to date, according to Khalifa Al Zaffin, executive chairman of the Dubai Aviation City Corporation, who did not provide a breakdown of the spending.
More than 60 per cent of work on the Dh2 billion Dubai Airshow facility in Al Maktoum International Airport is complete so far, he said, adding that it should be ready at least a month before the show begins in November.
Around 11 per cent of work on the Dh3 billion Concourse D in Dubai International Airport is also done at this point, he said. The project, awarded to Al Jaber Contracting Company, is due for completion by the end of 2014 and will increase the airport capacity to 92.5 million passengers annually.
Fly Dubai, among other carriers, will operate some of their flights from Al Maktoum airport when during the closure of Dubai International Airport's northern runway for maintenance for three months, he added.
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Dubai authorities are also studying a project to allow Al Maktoum International Airport passengers to check in and sort their luggage at service stations around the emirate and then take a dedicated Metro to the new airport, Al Zaffin said.
Under this project, Dubai is considering setting up service stations in high-population areas within the city and linking them directly to the new airport. Passengers can check-in at the stations and sort their luggage then take a dedicated metro linne to the airport.
Relevant authorities are studying the project and it would be implemented through Dubai Airports, RTA, Emirates airlines and other flight operators, Al Zaffin said in Via Dubai, the latest newsletter issued by Dubai Civil Aviation Authority.
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text: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:16:24 -0500, jh wrote: > Jarrod wrote: > >> I would also prefer changing the name from "Tutorial" to "User Guide". > > I disagree, for two reasons. First, we are badly diluting our doc > effort and will fail to complete *any* documents to a user's > satisfaction with this approach. We need to close the scipy doc wiki I do not believe that preventing people from editing scipy docstrings will improve numpy documentation in any way; it will only prevent point fixes to Scipy docstrings (eg. people becoming annoyed with a specific bad docstring, and fixing it). We can say instead that "concentrate on Numpy", strongly, on the front page, and remove scipy links from the table on the front page. What in my opinion could help Numpy documentation now is coordination. For example via milestones: - Compile a list of functions; sort it appropriately, and parcel it out to manageable chunks (say, tens of items). - One possible way to parcel these could be to work in the order the functions currently appear in the current reference guide. - I'd include a couple of "unimportant" functions to each milestone, so that we don't end up with dull milestones at the end of the run. - Ask editors to work from top to bottom, one parcel at a time. Ditto for reviewers. - I wouldn't necessarily include any deadlines, as these will slip, which is demotivating. This should be fairly easy to compose, just requires putting up a new wiki page with appropriate links and sections for this. This could also speed up the review and QA that I feel is now not really progressing. > Second, a (good) user manual takes a level of planning and commitment > that has not gone into any of our documents so far. I don't think it's fair to say that no planning has been done. The content of the Numpy reference guide is based on Travis's work, and I streamlined it by editing out the user-guidish parts. Criticism is of course welcome, but it's more helpful to be specific. I have seen little to no feedback on this. > This tutorial > document cannot grow into a good user manual, because documents *never* > improve with organic growth. They must be planned and written with > scope in mind from the outset. We should reserve the name "User Manual" > for something we plan and execute to be good with that scope. > > To expand (only a little, I promise!) on the User Guide, it needs > chapters on specific numpy topics, starting with the text in the new > numpy.doc module, and it needs chapters on general topics like plotting, > 3D visualization, handling datasets, scientific data formats, etc. > Heavy-duty programming chapters belong in a separate document (NumPy > Programmer's Guide?). Advanced tricks need to be limited in the User > Guide or it will be far too long. It could go in its own guide, or > might better go in a web cookbook. I believe, like Gaël, that the "Scipy User Guide" (or Tutorial, whatever we choose to call it) can be more restricted in scope than what you describe above. Basically, we need only narrative documentation that explains background on what each of the parts does, gives motivation why and where it is useful, and gives examples how the functionality can be used that are more complete than those in the function docstrings. It is probably much easier to write this type of a document for Scipy than for Numpy, since the functionality in Scipy splits naturally to parts along submodule boundaries, and each of the submodules concentrates on a single topic. What you say above about planning of course applies inside each of these topics, but the problem is already less difficult, at least for the more narrowly focused pieces (e.g. `scipy.odr`). For the larger modules, like interpolate, the problem seems to split according to different groups of functionality. But yes, for each of the parts of Scipy, someone needs to have a vision of how the part of the document should be organized, and lay out the section structure. The current push for Scipy was to make use of material that was already written, in time for 0.7.0. We can maybe put off the push for tackling general documentation for the present, but I wouldn't object if someone already wants to stub out some of the Scipy submodules -- the fact that the writer must know the module well already limits the number of people to a small team, I'd believe. > We are a grass-roots community, but good books are not, and have never > been, written by a haphazard grass-roots effort, with everyone writing > whatever they feel like writing. The best you can hope for is to scope > and plan as a community, set goals for specific docs and sections of > docs, form small groups of writers, parcel out pieces with specific > goals to different groups, and then have a small editing team work with > the chapter teams to unify the pieces. This is a standard process in > academic publishing and it works well. Other than the > small-team-does-it-all model, I'm not aware of any other successful > authoring modes. Grass roots works on the doc wiki only because we've > provided strict guidelines and process, and each page is done by just > one or a few people. I completely agree with this. Adding random snippets one by one to the wiki will not work well for the narrative documentation, so let's not do it like that. Maybe we can ask people to first stub out the complete structure for a part, and recommend point edits only after the structure is in place. -- Pauli Virtanen


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As pressure to cut operational costs mounts in the growing financial turmoil, there are signs that billers are starting to take the issue of electronic communication in general and eBilling in particular, seriously. Yet, to date, Online Billing has failed. The replacement of environmentally damaging paper bills with convenient electronic bills, has achieved adoption rates of no more than 10% to 15% across industries, despite the claimed benefits for the environment, business and consumers. According to Haupt, it is not the concept of eBilling that is at fault, but rather the model.
"With Striatas eBilling solution, customers enjoy the advantage of having their eBill delivered directly and securely to their inbox, while traditional online billing portals lack the key prerequisites of simplicity and ease-of-use for the customer. Remembering a complex, system-generated username and password, keying these in without error and then navigating through a maze of web pages to find the relevant eBill has kept would-be users of online billing away in their droves."
So, the answer is to change the model. Instead of trying to change customer behaviour, Striata simply participates in the customers daily routine, by sending their eBill to their inbox. The simplicity, ease-of-use and security associated with Striatas eBilling model have ensured increased adoption rates benefiting both the client and their customers. There is no upfront customer registration, and no need for a customer to visit a website. Customers do not require more than a dial-up connection, and there is no need to remember usernames and passwords. The eBill looks the same as the paper bill that customers are used to, and they can view and pay it directly from within the eBill in less than 30 seconds, or they can save it and pay later.
"Striatas eBilling solution also has a fundamental advantage in that the biller can control the adoption rates and rollout. All that is required is their customers email address," explains Haupt.
Haupt stresses that as long as companies are expecting their customers to proactively do something to turn off paper, eBilling adoption will remain below 15%.
The benefits of Striatas Electronic Billing solution are significant:
Instant bill delivery, instead of the typical 3 5 day print and mail cycle;
Up to 80% saving on presentment and fulfilment;
Quicker payment and reduced DSO (Days Sales Outstanding);
Customer behaviour visibility through detailed email tracking;
Lowest possible cost of payment processing;
Fewer payment exceptions.
eBilling can still deliver the key is in the delivery of the bills directly into the recipients email inbox. This is the most effective method of getting more people to enrol in electronic billing.
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Rockford, IL, United States, 2010/02/22 - Intuitive secure displays cut shrink while maximizing sales through open merchandising.
Southern Imperial, Inc. expands its display and store fixture capabilities with the addition of a new division ILP Intelligent Loss Prevention. By introducing a division dedicated to slashing shrink, Southern Imperial now offers retailers a more comprehensive merchandising solution. ILP features retail loss prevention innovations that not only protect but also promote products.
ILP developed through a relationship with IMCo Inventory Management Consultants, a Berlin-based loss prevention consulting group whose extensively researched solutions brought significant shrink reduction to the European retail market. ILP will be the exclusive North American distributor of IMCos intelligent merchandising system.
By incorporating open merchandising into anti-theft displays, ILP offers secure solutions that deliver maximum brand impact and raise sales. Unlike defensive merchandising that can interrupt or even deter sales, testing has shown ILPs intuitive solutions to deliver a double-digit increase in sales.
The growing rise of ORC played a significant role in shaping the direction of ILP. To confront this challenge, ILP specifically designed its inaugural product line to secure hot products targeted by professional shoplifters due to their high resale value. Initial tests of these systems demonstrated an average stock loss reduction of well over 50%.
Developing smarter shrink solutions takes a consultative approach. ILP builds customized solutions for each customer around its core loss prevention technologies, remarked Stan Valiulis, President and CEO of Southern Imperial. As a division of Southern Imperial, ILP has the in-house capabilities to go beyond loss prevention and offer complete retail merchandising solutions under one roof. More information about ILP is available at IntelligentLossPrevention.com.
Southern Imperial, Inc. of Rockford, IL is the industrys leading manufacturer of store fixture hardware and retail display solutions delivering proven results and influencing point-of-purchase for the nations top retailers and their suppliers. For more information about Southern Imperial, visit SouthernImperial.com or call toll free (800) 747-4665.
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The West Bengal Human Rights Commission has sought from the city police chief a report on the alleged assault and molestation of a student of Rabindra Bharati University here, an official said Saturday.
"The victim has complained of police inaction. No arrest has been made despite a complaint filed by her alleging molestation and assault. So the commission has ordered Kolkata Police Commissioner (Surajit Kar Purkayastha) to submit a report within two weeks," commission's joint secretary Sujay Kumar Haldar told IANS.
The student had Tuesday filed a complaint at the Sinthi police station alleging that she was stalked, molested and assaulted by a group of students.
The girl later approached the commission with her grievance following which the order was issued.
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The BBC has announced the commission of a Christmas special and a third series for Call The Midwife.
Written by Heidi Thomas, the period drama will return to BBC One this Christmas for a one-off episode and in 2014 for eight new 60-minute episodes.
The second series of Call The Midwife is currently airing at 8pm on Sunday nights and is averaging a consolidated series average so far of 10.6 million/32.3%.
The official synopsis for Series 3 reads: "It's 1959 and the eve of the swinging Sixties. The winds of change are sweeping through the country and the residents of Nonnatus House face some momentous changes of their own."
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Colorado Springs City Clerk Kathryn Young is bringing in reinforcements to try to ensure that all ballots in the May 17 mayoral runoff are counted on Election Day.
Young, who came under fire last month after she sent workers home for the night without finishing the count, said Monday that she has hired about a dozen additional workers to help with the time-intensive job of processing ballots and verifying voter signatures.
"They've been in training for over a week," she said.
Still, Young didn't rule out the possibility that the count wouldn't be completed on Election Day.
"I'm not going to work these people 24 hours in a day. I won't do that," she said. "These are human beings, not horses, and I'm not going to work them like that."
Young said voters can help by returning their ballots as soon possible, she said.
"Don't wait until the last day and flood us," she said. "Get them in early."
In the April 5 election, 27,000 ballots were returned on Election Day, which Young said was unusual for a municipal election.
"Every election I've had, the ballots were counted that night, but we've not had the bombardment that we experienced on April 5," she said.
Young also encouraged voters to make sure they sign their ballots before returning them. Otherwise, her office has to contact those voters, which is time consuming and takes election workers away from other tasks, she said.
Young said her office has received about 400 ballots so far without the voter's signature.
Young cautioned voters who didn't vote in the April 5 election but are voting in the hard-fought and highly publicized mayoral race between Steve Bach and Richard Skorman to use the return envelope for the May 17 election. Otherwise, the ballot won't get counted, she said.
"It's a wrong election, and I can't use it," she said.
Turnout in the city's all-mail election has climbed to nearly 40 percent.
Of the 154,778 ballots that were mailed out to voters, 59,757 have been returned and scanned.
In the April 5 election, when eight candidates were in the mayor's race, 88,960 ballots were cast.
Ballots in the city's all-mail runoff election must be returned, not just postmarked, by 7 p.m. May 17, which is Election Day.
Ballots can be returned by mail or dropped off at one of the following locations 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through May 16 and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. May 17:
City Clerk's Office, 30 S. Nevada Ave., Suite 101
Colorado Springs Senior Center, 1514 N . Hancock Ave.
Fire Station #8, 3737 Airport Rd.
Fire Station #17, 3750 Tutt Blvd.
Fire Station #19, 2490 Research Parkway
Fire Station #20, 6755 Rangewood Dr.
Gold Hill Police Substation, 955 W. Moreno Ave.


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Lakshmi Manchu's Dongata movie audio is being luanched today and many VIPs have attended the event. Heroine Tamanna has also graced the occasion and she said that she is happy to be a part of this event. She shared that Mohan Babu has launched her with Sri movie and she owed her successful journey in Tollywood to him. Tamanna said that she knew Lakshmi since she acted in Sri and praised her voice . . .


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NEW PORT RICHEY — Hailey Mahadeen, 6, dreams of playing a role in a major Broadway production.
Tiffani Cruz, 12, has high hopes of having her own television show on the Disney Channel.
Jacob Andrews, 7, wants to be a professional tap dancer.
All are bright-eyed, eager kids getting a glimpse of what it feels like to be center stage at this year's theater camp at the Richey Suncoast Theatre.
They are among 56 others attending the five-day program in its 11th year, giving kids 6 to 16 an opportunity to explore their talents and perform in front of an audience.
"We have fun and it's great to see the kids grow right in front of our eyes," said Charlie Skelton, Richey Suncoast managing director.
The camp, run by Skelton, his wife Marie and several high school students, is a combination of fun and hard work.
During the theater camp, kids sing, play games like charades and audition for roles in a play they will perform at the end of the program. The script, usually written by Skelton, is modified as kids try out for the different characters. They also make their own props and create some of their costumes.
"The kids are like little sponges," Marie Skelton said. "They absorb everything they are taught, something adults can't do."
This year's play is The Election of the Mayor of Oz. The kids will become characters such as Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Wicked Witch and the Scarecrow.
"There are so many children with so much talent in different areas and we try to bring out that talent after we see the auditions," Charlie Skelton said.
Everybody gets a part.
"That's the fun part of this," said Caitlin Ramirez, a camp counselor.
The recent Gulf High School graduate has been part of the camp for 10 years. She said she loves performing but only does it for fun. She hopes to someday be an FBI agent.
Shawna Henthorne said her daughter Gloria, who would one day like to be a professional singer, has been part of the summer program for four years and that there really isn't another camp like this in the area.
"It's a big confidence boost when they come here," Henthorne said. "You just see them year after year get out of their shell and because the environment is very positive, they all encourage each other when one or other is too shy."
While some of them dream about one day finding themselves in the spotlight on opening night or being on television or in movies, others like Gino Ghirardo, 10, enjoy the behind the scenes duties. He was part of the stage crew in last year's play and plans to be part of that again this time around.
"I don't like being on stage because I have fun working the curtains and taking care of the props," he said.
"I wasn't expecting to have this much fun," said Hailey Mahadeen, who is at her first camp. "I thought it would be really strict, but we have been playing fun games and making friends."
The petite, soft spoken 6-year-old said she's thought about becoming an actress and performing in New York since she was 4.
"Some of these kids have never acted before," Charlie Skelton said. "Come Saturday, you are going to think they were on stage for years."
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Hawaii Electric Light Company (HELCO) has announced that at 2:55 pm on September 4, 2011, power was interrupted to approximately 4100 customers in Kona on Alii Drive and Kamehameha III Road due to a problem at the Kahaluu Substation. HELCO performed switching and power was restored to all customers at 3:21 pm.
HELCO apologizes for any inconvenience this may have caused and sincerely thanks customers for their cooperation and understanding. Mahalo.


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It's day seven of the January transfer window, and you can keep up to date with all the latest news, rumours and gossip each day with our handy Football Spy round-up.
Watch Darren Lewis's daily video guide to all the day's transfer news and talk - and you can leave your thoughts and questions about your club's transfer signings on the Football Spy blog
Today's big story
Tottenham set to sacrifice midfield flop Jermaine Jenas
Breaking news
Sunderland winger Ross Wallace has joined Preston on a permanent deal
Wigan have been granted a work permit for Hugo Rodallega
West Brom have released striker Bartosz Slusarski , who has returned to Poland
West Ham have rejected an improved offer from Manchester City for Craig Bellamy
Luis Boa Morte 's agent has claimed the West Ham midfielder has not been made aware of any interest in him from Hull .
Blackburn Rovers have signed young Macclesfield Town striker Nick Blackman for an undisclosed fee.
West Brom have allowed fringe strikers Sherjill MacDonald and Bartosz Slusarski to leave the club.
Bolton manager Gary Megson claims he has ended his interest in Joey Barton after Newcastle turned down a £2m bid. "There is an amount we would go to and that's it," said Megson. "We would not go any further."
Gossip from around the web
QPR are hoping to seal the signing of midfielder Liam Miller from Sunderland in the next 48 hours (ealinggazette.co.uk)
Manchester City striker Valeri Bojinov has snubbed the chance to move back to Italy with Lazio (tribalfootball.com)
Real Madrid are offering cash plus Javier Saviola for Wigan winger Luis Antonio Valencia (tribalfootball.com)
Stories from this morning's Daily Mirror
Aston Villa want to tempt Kenwyne Jones away from Sunderland
Portsmouth line up Real Madrid striker Javier Saviola to replace Jermain Defoe
Manchester City plan £3m bid for Chelsea keeper Carlo Cudicini
Tottenham offload Kevin-Prince Boateng to Borussia Dortmund
Stoke issue James Beattie with 24-hour transfer ultimatum
Blackburn take Benfica defender Marco Zoro on trial
Birmingham bid £1m for Doncaster defender Matthew Mills
Dexter Blackstock to snub Fulham and Bolton to win promotion with QPR
Burnley striker Ade Akinbiyi could be on the move... again
Portsmouth defender Hermann Hreidarsson to join Reading
Stories from this morning's other papers
Andrei Arshavin will join Arsenal in the January transfer window, despite Zenit St Petersburg turning down a £10m bid. (The Sun)
Emile Heskey has agreed a pre-contract deal to join Liverpool as a free agent in the summer. (Daily Mail)
Manchester City are closing in on a £12m deal to sign West Ham striker Craig Bellamy . (Independent)
Portsmouth will offer Manchester City £6m for striker Benjani and midfielder Michael Johnson . (The Sun)
Portsmouth want Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton . (Daily Star)
Newcastle are giving a trial to former Rangers winger Peter Lovenkrands . (The Sun)
Newcastle want Manchester City striker Jo on loan until the end of the season. (Daily Mail)
Spurs have rejected an offer for goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes . (Independent)
Everton and Fulham are checking on £2m-rated Norway winger Trond Olsen (Daily Mail)
Fulham want Watford midfielder John-Joe O'Toole (Times)
Stories from yesterday's Sunday Mirror
Chelsea pay Pini Zahavi £900,000 commission for Wayne Bridge's transfer to Manchester City
Manchester City to hijack Arsenal deal for Andrei Arshavin
Tottenham offer David Bentley to Middlesbrough in swap for Stewart Downing
Emile Heskey to stay at Wigan until the summer
Everton to bid £500k for Bristol City's James Wilson
Stoke step up chase for Lens striker Aruna Dindane
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Picture: Karen Sharpe Kramer - Stanley Kramer Centennial Screenings - High Noon at the Billy WilderTheater - Los Angeles, CA, United States - Sunday 29th September...
The widow of the late Stanley Kramer is bringing the director's cult comedy IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, Mad World back to the big screen, and she wants George Clooney and Donald Trump to join the existing cast members from the 1963 original in the new film.
KAREN SHARPE KRAMER has joined forces with BOBBY producer ED BASS to shape a sequel to the hit movie after discovering just how popular her late husband's film still is during a 40th anniversary tour in 2003.
Stars like Mickey Rooney, Carl Reiner and Jerry Lewis, who starred in the original, have been urging her to revisit the masterpiece for years, and now she's ready to plan a sequel.
Kramer insists she'll pay tribute to the comics from the original, who have since passed away, by featuring clips of them in the new movie - and she wants the new movie to also feature US cultural icons like former President Bill Clinton and property tycoon DONALD TRUMP.
Kramer is also hoping to persuade Reiner's OCEAN'S ELEVEN castmates Clooney and Brad Pitt to join the star-studded sequel line-up.
She says, "I presented George with the Stanley Kramer Award for GOOD NIGHT + GOOD LUCK in 2006 and he's a big fan of my husband's work. I'd like to find him just the right role in the sequel.
"We won't be doing this for the money, but for the spirit, so I'm hoping that, like Bobby, a number of stars will want to play a part."
It's also long, long, long... well, you get the picture. Mad, Mad World is...
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As Hawaii's Island Air enters a whole new phase of life this summer with the roll-out of a complete image and brand overhaul, half a world away Franco-Italian airframe maker ATR can add another regional carrier to its growing list of turboprop operators. By around the start of next month the long-time de Havilland Dash 8 operator officially begins the process of trading equipment allegiances with delivery of its first ex-American Eagle ATR 72-212, now undergoing a C-Check at Premier Aviation in Trois Rivieres, Quebec.
Speaking with AIN last week from her offices in Honolulu, Island Air CEO Leslie Kaneshiro said she expects the first airplane to start service in late October. Aircraft lessor Nordic Air Capital of Denmark has already sent the airline's second ATR 72-212 to Quebec, where Premier plans to start the overhaul process directly after it finishes the first airplane. Island Air expects to take delivery of the second machine–also formerly operated by American Eagle–by year-end, followed by another five or six 46-seat ATR 42-320s by the end of next year. Most of the airplanes, said Kaneshiro, have not quite reached the mid-point of their lifespans.
Now operating a trio of Dash 8-100s and a Saab 340 wet leased from Alaska's Peninsula Airways, Island Air retired its fourth Dash 8 in May when it reached the end of its 80,000-cycle lifespan. Two of its remaining three Dash 8s, all of which the airline plans to ground by the middle of next year, have also nearly reached their cycle limits. Kaneshiro explained that the availability of the ATRs convinced the airline to forego life extensions and to sell the one Dash 8 that hasn't reached the end of its service life.
The expansion plans come some six years after a fare war involving Mesa Air Group's go! subsidiary forced Island Air to retrench into what Kaneshiro called its core niche markets and slash the size of the airline virtually in half. Today, following the resulting demise of its former code-share partner Aloha Airlines and the return of a robust tourism market to Hawaii, Island Air has signaled its readiness for a revival. In fact, plans call for the fleet overhaul to more than double the airline's total capacity, allowing it to grow beyond its peak size.
"We have seen over the past several years tourism and enplanements and seats into Hawaii keep growing," said Kaneshiro. "For example, Allegiant just announced new service from Spokane, Washington, into Honolulu, and we've started to see that more and more. We know that Southwest is anticipated to come into Hawaii, and that's all extra capacity coming in from abroad, and yet they don't have a lot of options for inter-island connections."
Now operating under code-share alliances with Hawaiian Air and United Airlines, Island Air hopes to enter new code-share deals, perhaps even with major airlines from Asia and Europe. "As visa restrictions get lifted and it's easier for non-U.S. people to travel into Hawaii, we see that as a growing market," concluded Kaneshiro.