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The decline of Europe's middle class
The ruling elites could also experience quite unpleasant consequences due to the crisis. In the long run, Europe's system of civil values could be damaged. The middle class could cease to exist as such.
The World Bank says middle class people usually have higher education, earn at least 2,700 euros per month, own real estate and bank accounts. Spain is a telling example here. When the crisis just broke out, more than 50% of Spaniards said they belonged to the middle class. Latest polls have revealed that the Spanish middle class now smaller. Salary cuts, higher taxes and loans are forcing more and more people out of the middle class. Some 60% of Spanish families are affected by unemployment and a lack of income.
Tough austerity measures which are being actively implemented in the eurozone's south are applied all across the EU though with different intensity, Mr. Vasily Koltashov, the head of the Centre for Economic Studies at the Institute of Globalization and Social Trends, told the VoR…
"This policy could result in the disappearance of the middle class which once used to be the basis of democracy in Europe and even triggered social-democratic changes in the region, ensuring a rise in living standards in the 1950-1970s. In view of this we can now speak about the decline of European liberal democracy as middle class people are turning into the poor. Tax policy and social cuts affect people's well-being."
From time to time national governments adopt declarations and optimistic forecasts. The French government has promised an economic growth in 2013, while the country's middle class fears that the situation will get even worse. Negative economic trends have come to the European North from Greece or Spain and are spreading very fast, says Vasily Koltashov. In Germany, which is believed to have no economic difficulties, 25% of the population have the so-called 'mini jobs' and earn less than 400 euros per month. These are people who failed to find a job and are offered this salary. Traditionally the prosperous European North is no longer that great, the expert says. The decline can be seen everywhere, people are getting less money and do not feel secure any longer.
Mass protests against austerity policies in Greece, Spain, Italy, France and even in Great Britain are staged by middle class people.
Nearly a century and a half ago the founder of the social-economic theory, Karl Marx, said that the bourgeoisie should rely on the middle class. Nowadays many analysts say that the ruling European elites may have to deal with its once conservative and reliable middle class social layer breaking up into radical far-right and far-left parties.


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Point Loma Nazarene University is in a period of transition.
The private Christian university is about the break ground on a $28 million science building partly funded by its biggest fundraising campaign ever.
At the same time, it is refocusing its academic priorities and phasing out some majors to avoid a looming financial shortfall created in part by the Great Recession. And it plans to generate more revenue by boosting enrollment and expanding programs at its three satellite campuses, with an eye to opening other locations as well.
Founded in 1902 in Los Angeles, the university first relocated to Pasadena in 1910 and arrived in San Diego in 1973. Perched on a 90-acre site with stunning ocean views, the university has grown from about 900 students to about 2,600 undergraduates. It also has about 1,000 graduate students, mainly at its branches.
The university's plans for the future, said Provost Kerry Fulcher, are in response to a changing landscape in higher education and the need to ensure a stable future.
"I kind of see it as, you have to have different arrows in your quiver, you have to diversify your portfolio," he said. "We need to remain responsive to the needs that are out there."
Officials say the construction of a 32,000-square foot science center in the heart of the campus, expected to be complete by summer 2015, is a welcome addition to campus that replaces an aging building long outgrown and strengthens a key academic program.
The new facility will include 13 labs for biology, chemistry and anatomy as well as four classrooms. It will boast outdoor decks and terraces and the architect that designed it expects it to become a new center of campus.
Science faculty members say the facility should help the university win research grants that now elude it and better attract students and faculty.
Space in the old building is so tight, professors say, that specialized equipment must be rotated in and out of labs depending on the work being done.
"It's like changing the sets in the act of a play," said Ken Martin, chairman of the chemistry department.
Science has long been a strong academic program at the university, which early on began offering research opportunities for undergraduates. Fulcher, a former chair of the Biology Department, said the university prides itself on providing students meaningful research experiences.
"They immediately are right in the midst of it, working with very expensive equipment that typically graduate students would be working with," Fulcher said. "It is not at all uncommon for them to get published in a peer-reviewed journal."
Although the university has a strong liberal arts focus, nearly 40 percent of its undergraduate students major in science-related studies.
Even before a spade of dirt is turned for the new science building, other changes are being undertaken to shore up the university's future.
Officials say the recession began taking a toll on university finances in 2008, weakening returns on its endowment. The university cut back its scholarships and imposed budget cuts and salary freezes. Enrollment on the main campus inched up from 2,450 to 2,600, which brought in more revenue.
Financial planners projected a $10 million budget gap by 2018-19 if no changes were made, prompting the university to launch a systemic review of its operations about two years ago.
This week, officials announced the results of the process, which is expected to generate nearly $3.3 million in savings.
Several low-enrollment majors will be phased out, including theater, family and consumer sciences, fashion and interiors, romance languages and a combined philosophy-theology major. No staff will be laid off; retiring professors may not be replaced with full-time faculty members. The campus expects to lose 10 to 15 of its 164 full-time faculty over the next four to five years.
University officials say all students enrolled in the affected programs or accepted into the majors will have the opportunity to complete their degrees.
In addition to pruning its academic offerings, the university will seek additional revenue by expanding graduate, adult degree-completion and professional certificate programs operated out of campuses in Bakersfield, Mission Valley and Liberty Station.
Fulcher said there are plans to eventually operate up to eight branch campuses.
Joe Watkins, vice president for external relations, said university officials undertook the lengthy review of operations to ensure that circumstances didn't dictate more drastic cuts in the future.
"If we aren't proactive about it, we will be like some of the other institutions that all of a sudden are cutting 20 percent of their curriculum and 20 percent of their faculty," Watkins said. "We have sought prudently to avoid that."

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Cenation or Cenough: A hard look at John Cena
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Hey guys! Today I'm gonna try something a little different. I don't normally like to focus a blog on a single wrestler, but John Cena is pretty much in a category of his own so I think I can devote a blog to him. First of all let me start off by saying I am not a Cena fan and have not been since his days in thuganomics; that being said I will do my best to do him justice and be impartial in this blog looking at both sides of the coin.
It's in my opinion that John Cena is one of the last wrestlers to work his way to the top in a traditional manner. Unlike most guys nowadays John didn't take the fast road to the main event scene and in fact started near the bottom winning the smaller belts before making his way to the main event scene in which he eventually became "the man". In fact, it was the fans' admiration towards John Cena that led to his push and I'm sure at first most of us were happy to see a young talented wrestler earn his place in the company. However, something we didn't expect would happen due to this, and that was that John Cena would become the sole face of the WWE a few years.
Loved by children and women (not me) Cena is the biggest name in WWE today, the face of the company and someone I'd imagine most wrestlers don't want to face in the ring. The reason for this being simple; Cena is not capable of putting people over. It's not his fault, I'm sure he doesn't decide when he wins and loses and he seems like a great guy who'd be willing to put other over, however, the powers that be simply don't want Cena losing. Perhaps it's meant to sell more Cena merchandise since kids love a good super hero and they even found a way to cash in on our hatred of his gimmick with their "we hate Cena" t-shirts so they're pretty much set right? Except my mother always told me not put all my eggs in one basket cause if the basket breaks I'll have no eggs left; same is true for WWE and John Cena. Cena is the goose with the golden eggs and WWE is milking it for all he's worth, however, if Cena were to suffer a serious or even permanent injury what would WWE do?
WWE has a few other major faces (big names) besides John Cena, obviously they're much smaller faces in comparisson, but still big names. The biggest ones being Undertaker (inactive most of the year), Triple H (same as Undertaker), CM Punk, Randy Orton and Chris Jericho (too soon to tell how long he'll be around). As I mentioned in my previous blog WWE has very little in the way of heel wrestlers and many of them weren't given the proper buildup. The top heel wrestlers I would say are Christian, Kane, The Miz, ADR and maybe a few others I can't think of right now. Regardless of how much the fans can like a heel wrestler in WWE that wrestler will never stay on top for long and many will be reduced to nothing. I truly believe it's the worst era to be a heel in the WWE because there will always be a wall to stop them and that walll is John Cena. They say that to be the man you have to beat the man; John Cena is the man and since WWE doesn't want Cena to lose then the heels will never be on the same scale and in fact most will be pushed back to midcards once they face Cena and lose. I'm not saying John Cena never loses a match, but it's extremely rare and he not only wins, but he makes people look weak in the process.
Off the top of my head, the wrestlers who have beaten Cena in the past years are Randy Orton, CM Punk, The MIz and Alberto Del Rio, however, in most cases if they manage to beat him once Cena comes back with a vengence completely burrying them in the rematch. This is the reason I believe that Orton and Punk have been kept away from Cena lately, because WWE has nothing to win by having one of them face Cena since if Cena wins he might burry them and if he loses they risk ruining his Super Cena persona so it's best to feed Cena the smaller fish in the pond. In recent history we saw this in effect when Cena faced off against Kane. Kane had alot of fan support in spite of being a heel, partly because he looked cool with the mask and partly because people are sick of Cena, however, that didn't stop Cena from beating Kane every time they had a match and how much of a monster is Kane now?
Cena is not without redeeming qualities. As I mentioned previously he seems like a great guy and he does alot of charity work, but I think people forget that alot of his charity work is WWE's attempt at getting media attention. Singer and actress Selena Gomez did some charity work not long ago, she went to visit one of her biggest fans who is very sick, but unlike John Cena's charity work there were no cameras there for Selena's visit, there were no newspapers covering her visit to talk about how great she was, in fact the only reason anyone found out she even performed that charity was the fan posted pictures with Selena on her Facebook account or something. When people want to do good things they don't need to tell the world so everyone knows how great they are which again shows that alot of the good things Cena does are for public relations reasons. They're still great things and make people happy, but you have to wonder how many he'd be willing to do without the media involved.
Finally, as I mentioned on my previous blog, I believe Cena is the biggest face and the biggest heel today. The fact that he gets such mixed reactions makes it so, but WWE will not be making Cena a heel any time soon because it's too risky for them. I believe the way Cena has been dominating the promos between him and the Rock are WWE's attempt to get the fans on Cena's side and maybe even make The Rock look like the big shot Hollywood heel. I also believe WWE tried to get the fans behind Cena when they started the whole storyline with Zack Ryder. Zack gained the support of the fans mostly through his Youtube show and the fans loved him and wanted to see him pushed. WWE cashed in on his popularity by associating Cena the with Ryder and making it seem like it was Cena's support that gained Ryder the push. Regardless of how good of friends Cena and Ryder may be backstage we all know that best friends backstage can be enemies in the ring so really even if Cena's support backstage helped Ryder gain a push they didn't have to make it into a storyline, they did it because Ryder was loved by the fans and Cena would hopefully be loved by association. Even the way the storyline ended suggests Cena is a standup guy since they turned Eve into the sultry temptress and Cena's just the poor guy she used to get to the top causing Cena to lose his dear friend through no fault of his own. So yes I truly believe WWE wants the fans to like Cena and change our minds about him because if they can't then they're just going to keep pushing him down our throats anyway, but they'd rather push him down our throats if we enjoyed it than if it makes us want to puke.
Well that's the end of my blog and I hope I analyzed John Cena in a fair way without coming off too biased or upsetting any of his fans lol. Whether you love Cena or hate him, agree or dissagree leave a comment down bellow .


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Bicyclists are fuming over a crackdown at UC Berkeley.
University of California police have always enforced campus bicycling laws, but vigorous enforcement and steep fines in an era of tuition hikes has enraged students. Campus police say citations are up only slightly over last year.
The San Francisco Chronicle says freshman Devin Shoop got a $220 ticket in September for locking his bicycle to a railing instead of a bike rack. Two weeks later, he got a $220 ticket for failing to stop at a stop sign.
Critics have started a Facebook page for complaints about the steep fines, they've staged bicycle civil disobedience and they've written letters to campus police.
Campus police Lt. Alex Yao says they are trying to ensure the safety of pedestrians.
Information from: San Francisco Chronicle, http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle


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TEL AVIV (Apr. 10)
Hundreds of guests en route to a Passover celebration at Israel's southernmost point, the port city of Eilat, were stranded in the Negev by a sudden rainstorm that dumped as much water on the area in two hours as it normally gets in two years.
The road to Eilat was cut and large portions of the road were submerged. The travelers found shelter in Beersheba and Mitzpeh Ramon where they waited while kibbutz volunteers and army units worked around the clock to repair both the road and battered telephone lines.
The airport at Eilat also was damaged by heavy currents. Communications were restored this morning with the port city and people started to pour in for the festivities tonight and tomorrow which will feature a huge display on the life of Eilat in ancient days and now.
Passover ceremonies were held for the first time since Roman days on Massada Hill overlooking the Dead Sea. The Seder commemorated the heroic fight for freedom of the Jews against the Romans.
Israel's kibbutzim were filled to capacity by the Passover visitors and, in the north, the weather was pleasant, swelling the ranks of hitchhikers.


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Back from the dead - and back on the case! Even being murdered doesn't keep a good detective down, and in the Unnatural Quarter - inhabited by ghosts, vampires, werewolves, mummies, and all sorts of creatures that go bump (or thud!) in the night - a zombie PI fits right in. Dan Chambeaux, aka "Shamble", solves a string of madcap cases with his ghost girlfriend Sheyenne, his Best Human Friend Officer Toby McGoohan, and his firebrand lawyer partner Robin Deyer.
©2015 WordFire Press (P)2015 WordFire Press
"Undead Detective lifeless narration"
I tried to listen to this. I have read and loved the author's work in the past. I didn't make it past the first chapter. The narration is stilted, more like a radio announcer than a narrator. The rhythm is off, and it just feels clunky. To be fully honest on the review, as I said, I listened to less than the first chapter.
Lady Gato
"Narration is Dreadful"
The book is good, but the narrator is no Phil Gigante! Very disappointing.
"Narrator is a bit lifeless..."
The narrator leaves a bit to be desired in this installment. The previous narrator, Phil Gigante, did a great job. Bring him back and the series will get renewed life!...And 5 stars!
"Nice collection"
I am a huge fan of the Dan Shamble PI series and have listened to every novel and read every novella available. If you haven't read the previous books, you should at least read/listen to the first before listening to this. It is not necessary to enjoy this one but it will give you more background. This book contains the short stories that are available separately as novellas. Since I am frugal, I read each .99 cent versions instead of using my audible credits to listen. When I got the chance to listen to the entire collection, I jumped for joy. Then after listening, my happy bubble was deflated a little. The stories are still great but Phil Gigante is not the narrator. This narration is ok, but not nearly as good. His voices are very different and his pace seems to stutter and be off at times. Still, this is a good listen and would have been worth using one of my precious credits; if I hadn't gotten the opportunity to listen for free.
"This audio book was provided by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review courtesy of AudiobookBlast dot com."
I Love a great supernatural tale, a Love story, PNR, a Cool Mystery and Most Sci-Fi....if there are vampires, weres or witches in it, that's a plus! Basically I am a 40+ y/o young at heart woman rediscovering the wonderful world of books and am now addicted! Lol I LOVE AUDIBLE!!!!!
maybe the print version...maybe not.I was bored at about ch3....
the whole story was just so so...so I was glad when it ended...
The narration was ok...but maybe not the right narrator for this one...
dumb question...
** I was given a free coy of this book in exchange for an honest review **
The firt story,I liked it was entertaining...at about ch3, I got soooo bored..and felt that way on and off through the rest of the book..YMMV....I may try book one with the other narrator, because I do like a good mystery...and I kind of like the writing style of this author...and see potential...
"HORRIBLE with this narrator"
Kevin Anderson yes - UNLESS it was read by Michael Gilboe
The narration ruined everything I liked about the previous books. This one had Road Kill as a short story which I listened to the first time with Phil Gigante reading it. I couldn't stand it with Gilboe
Everything. He sounds like a bad impersonation of an exaggerated William Shatner when he does Dan. Robin, Chyene, MaGoo... all horrid. The harpy ... I can't go on. It's just horrid. I hope I can get a refund
If i had read the book vs listening to it, I would have liked it.... right now, this narrator has ruined the series for me. Horrid.
A good narrator can just bring the story to life... and a bad one can kill it. Band move to change.
BRING BACK PHIL GIGANTE or I'm done.
Wish I could make sure Kevin Anderson saw this. I HAD been recommending the series to some friends
"The Puns! the PUNS!!!!!"
Regrettably memorable: the Christmas puns. I had no idea that there were so many ways to mock Santa.Cheerfully memorable: The Dirty Harry impression. Michael Gilboe obviously has a lot of fun with the last story doing the 'Hairy Harry' character.
I listened to this while driving to and from work. My options are usually news radio, political talk radio, music stations that have been playing the same stuff for years and audiobooks. I found it lightly entertaining for that purpose and didn't feel any desire to go to another option. However, I also had no desire to listen to it outside of my car.
This audiobook was provided by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review courtesy of AudiobookBlast dot com.I am a fan of Mr. Anderson's novels, but this is the first of the working stiff books that I had tried. I was excited to try this one out. For the most part I found it lightly entertaining for my daily commute, but I probably won't be getting any more working stiff stories. Mr. Anderson comes off as trying too hard to be funny. I enjoy puns quite a bit and I know he can write a enticing yarn, but this falls flat too often with everything being forced.
"Great tongue in cheek detective horror comedy"
Great story. Have read many other books by this author but this was my first intro to his detective story. Highly recommend for all ages. I received this audiobook from the author narrator or publisher free via audiobookblast in exchange for an unbiased review.
"The cases don't solve themselves."
And books don't read themselves either. I like this narrator ... just not as much as Phil Gigante. This guy does the stories justice in his own way. HE IS A GOOD PERFORMER, I just happen to prefer the other/previous narrator.
This is a collection of unconnected short stories, some of which have been previously published individually. I thoroughly enjoyed these stories.
I can't wait for Kevin Anderson to put out some more Dan Shamble tales to listen to.
"Very fun monster book"
I have not read the print version of Working Stiff so i cannot say definitively but with how much i enjoyed this book most likey yes it is a lot better than the print version
No, not at all. The stories are too short and too lighthearted to have created any of my my seat suspence
Dan Shamble, because he does a good P.I. voice, or atleast what i would imagine a P.I. to sound like.
Just because you dies, doesn't mean the job is over, So i came back to finish mine.
I was very leery about this book before listening to it. Once it started and i heard the main character was a zombie telling the story in first person I rolled my eyes and decided this book really wasn't worth the effort of listening to it, but it was the only audiobook i had on my ipod so i did.
I was very plesantly surprised at how much I ended up enjoying it. I even want to get the rest in the series
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Incidents reported to Maumelle police through November 1:
100 Commercial Park Court: On Oct. 30, Rachel Sumner, 30, of Maumelle, was arrested and charged with public intoxication after police received calls about a man harassing residents at Highland Point Apartments. After refusing officers orders to go inside his apartment, Sgt. Dustin Ivey said he arrested Sumner and took him to the Pulaski County Regional Detention Center.
20514 Highway 365 North: On Oct. 30, Aaron Kelly, 28, of Memphis, was arrested and charged with public intoxication, obstructing governmental operations and disorderly conduct in a parking lot where officers said shwe was leaning up against an officer's unit, crying. Kelly was allegedly incoherent and belligerent with all those present, screaming obscenities at officers and alarming employees and customers present. Kelly was arrested and taken to Pulaski County Regional Detension Center.
100 Millwood Circle: Brian Compton, 36, of Maumelle, was arrested on Oct. 30 for Criminal Contempt
5 Sharondale Place: On Oct. 12, Stephen Keeton, 65, of Maumelle, reported that somone had enterd his Toyota 4-Runner and stolen a $500 Bowie knife, a $1,200 Colt 45, a $660 Nikon Coolpix camera, a $250 compass and carrying case, a $69.95 camping stove, a $100 lantern, a $600 Garmin GPS, a $120 TI graphing calculator, a $100 Gerber mutitool and $50 Gerber knife.
109 Summit Drive: On Oct. 16, Michael Strawn, 38, of Maumelle, reported that a $50 remote garage door opener had been stolen.
118 Summit Valley Circle: On Oct. 16, Amanda Burrough, 31, of Maumelle, reported that a $200 portable DVD player had been stolen from her vehicle.
400 Pine Forest Drive: On Oct. 17, Amanda Fowlkes reported that an $800 Nikon D-40 camera had been stolen from her. She sad she had been at an event at the chool on Sept. 27 and placed the camera beside her chair in an all purpose room at the school. She said that when she returned home after the even she noticed the camera was missing from her purse. She did not return to the school that night because everyone had alrady left and she did not have a key to the building. When she arrived the next morning, she learned that the camera had not been turned in to the office.
1128 Arnold Palmer Drive: On Oct. 18, Paul Elliot, 68, of Maumelle, reported that two political signs had been stolen from his front yard.
2002 Murphy Drive: On Oct. 19, Justin Hurst, 34, of Maumelle, reported that someone had entered his vehicle and stolen his $50 black leather wallet which contained his Arkansas drivers license, social security card, PayPal Mastercard, Arvest debit card, US Bank debit card, two $50 Home Depot gift cards, Petco Pet Pal card, Best Buy Rewards zone card and Gamestop discount card. Also stolen was $250 Zune 250 gigabyte MP3 player. Two attempts have already been made to make charges to the PayPal card, with one attempt at a North Little Rock Exxon Mobile station and another at a Hardees.
4 Powder Cove: On Oct. 22, Debra Brunson, 61, of Maumelle,reported that someone had entered her open garage and stole her $25 brown tri-fold leather wallet from her unlocked vehicle. Items within the wallet were a Regions Visa debit card, Chase Visa card and $40 in cash. Brunson said she has cancelled the cards and discovered two charges for $75 on her Regions debit card and one charge on her Chase Visa card.
10 Hightail Drive: On Oct. 30, Brian Culp, 54, reported to police that his 2005 Ford Expedition had been broken into and a $400 Acer laptop, a $50 briefcase and a $50 external speaker were stolen after his briefcase was found on a neighbor's doorstep without those items. The neighbor said her unlocked vehicle had also been gone through but nothing appeared stolen.
501 Valencia Drive: Rosalyn Bowman, 73, reproted to police that her black leather wallet, which contained a debit card, were stolen. Bowman told officers she believed her wallet fell out of her purse Oct. 24 when she was coming home from an EZ Mart. She did not discover that the wallet was missing until the following day when she was contacted about a fraudulent charge of $147.29 on her debit card.
110 Commons Drive: On Oct. 27, Kroger reported that two 30-packs of Bud Light were stolen by a suspect who walked out of the store and some paper towels in a cart. The suspect is described as a heavyset white female in her 30s wearing black pants with a white stripe and a pink T-shirt. The suspect loaded the packs of Bud Light into a white Chevrolet Trailblazer.
110 Commons Drive: On Oct. 27, Kroger reported that a white male in his late 20s walked out of the store with a $100 Mirro 10-piece cookware set, $90 16-piece Kitchen Aid knife set and a $120 Bialetti eight-piece cookware set. The suspect got into a gray Toyota Avalon and drove southbound out of the parking lot.
23 Kingspark Drive: On Oct. 30, Robert Trowbridge, 31, of Maumelle, reported that a $250 10-inch Kicker Box speaker amp combo was stolen from his 2004 Jeep Wrangler. Trowbridge said the soft top had been pried back around the driver side door. He said that he noticed all his belongings had been gone through.
62 Windsor Drive: On Oct. 21, Stephan Kostelecky, 24, of Maumelle, reproted that his blue K2 Echo bike was stolen from his back patio. His bike was covered byt a tarp along with his wife's bike, which was not stolen. Kostelecky said he heard noise in front of Oct. 18 and saw two males riding bicycles by his home. He thought they may have done damage to his vehicle, but they had not and the next day he discovered his bike missing.
100 Park Drive: On Oct. 17, Patrice Brown, 48, of Maumelle, reported that someone had tried to force her daughter's bedroom door open. She said the front door had been unlocked and the only door damaged had been the door to her daughter's room. She said she didn't think anything had been taken from the residence.
9510 Counts Massie Road: On Oct. 24, $600 in damage was committed by vandals to a window and door to a ticketbooth. According to officers, someone shot through the window and door of the ticket booth.
900 Edgewood Drive: On Oct. 25, Angela Papp, 31, of Jacksonville, reported that a baseball or rock broke her car windshield on Oct. 4.
1201 Edgewood Drive: On Oct. 30, Farris Scott, 44, of Benton, reported that two cable boxes worth $25,000 were badly damaged.
425 Hyman Drive: On Oct. 31 a stop sign was vandalized.
2002 Murphy Drive: On Oct. 16, Karen Gibbs, 54, reproted that her stolen American Express Card was used at Kroger fuel pumps in the amount of $125 and in the store for $215 on Oct. 14. The theft of her purse that contained the card happened on the same day at a Wal-Mart in North Little Rock.


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Sean Rodriguez was born in Miami, Fla. and selected in the third round in the 2003 June Draft by the Los Angeles Angels.
He made his Major League debut with the Angels on April 19, 2008 but was acquired by the Rays in 2009 as part of the Scott Kazmir trade. Rodriguez made his first career Opening Day start in 2010 and spent his first full season in the majors after setting several spring training club records.
The 2011 season was the second consecutive year he batted everywhere in the lineup, with the exception of cleanup. He was also one of six major leaguers to start at all four infield positions.
Sean has countless friends and family members in Miami, and each season when the Rays visit the Marlins his family hosts a barbecue with 50 or more people in attendance.
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Is this to be expected??? I know the system sees it as
another file system, so that probably does not like the
thing to just disappear under its feet, but....
Also, even when the cdrom device is not mounted,
within the desktop I can stil play musical cds! how can this be?
let me know your idea about it
you can not eject a mounted cd. you know perfectly well how windows deal with that... BSOD. it's a dumb thing to want to do, so linux doesn't let you do it.
audio cd's... a plague of identical questions this week. audio cd's do NOT have a file system, so can not be mounted. windows just pretends.
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Many billionaires came out today to comment on the government disaster trifecta: the shutdown, looming debt ceiling and potential debt default. In the course of the conversation, they also gifted the public with their thinking on some of their stock holdings. One of the most-followed, David Einhorn of hedge fund Greenlight Capital, devoted a portion of his Bloomberg interview discussing two in particular: Vodafone and a Green Mountain short.
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ:GMCR)
David Einhorn called Green Mountain "one of the tougher things that has gone on in our portfolio this year," for good reason. The stock is up 212% over the past 12 months. But it has not yet returned to its heights before Einhorn's public takedown of the company at the Value Investing Congress on Oct. 17, 2011. The revelation of a Greenlight Capital short position cut the stock price from over $92 to less than $44 within a month.
Green Mountain is trading for $75.26 Wednesday, having eased off of a 52-week high of $89.66 reached last month.
Einhorn still intends to stay with his short position. He said on Bloomberg:
"We remain as we do, that the books are over-caffeinated if you would. The company says that it sells a lot of coffee. There's no doubt they sell a lot of coffee. We don't think they sell anywhere near as much as they say, and there's some real discrepancies in the accounts. They had an analyst day a few weeks ago and they were asked to explain the numbers, and the CEO's cavalier response was look, we don't do straight math, and we're not going to get into this now. Well, if you're not going to get into this now at an investor conference, when are you going to get into it?"
He continued: "There's a lot of ways I think for Green Mountain to pan out for us, this year it hasn't been panning out for us. I look at it, the competition is increasing, they're losing market shares in their stores, their platform has been commoditized, anyone can make a k-cup, the supply is now out there, the prices are falling, I think that they're going to miss on the business side from an earnings perspective sometime over the next year, and ultimately they're going to be commoditized away. In addition, you have the regulatory risk that somebody actually wakes up one day and says look, these numbers aren't what they're represented to be."
Green Mountain started out in 1981 as a small Vermont coffee shop, and partnered with Keurig to manufacture and sell its individual-sized K-cups. In 2006 Green Mountain bought Keurig for $104 million, and has had robust growth. Revenue per share increased at a rate of 53.8% and EBITDA per share at a rate of 72.8% annually over the past five years.
Growth in the company's fiscal third quarter was at the low end of its expectations with 11% revenue growth while GAAP net income increased 59%. This places net sales and earnings for the first three quarters of the year up 14% and 32%, respectively, over the same period last year, reflecting slowing growth.
Last year revenues grew 46% and earnings grew 81.5% over the previous year.
The company currently has a P/E of 26.5, P/B of 4.5 and P/S of 2.78.
Vodafone (NASDAQ:VOD)
Einhorn holds 1,373,896 shares of Vodafone as of the end of the second quarter. He initially bought 1.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2012 when the price averaged $27, then reduced 226,104 shares in the second quarter of 2013 when the price averaged $29. Verizon shares have climbed to almost $36 each on Wednesday.
"We're not really participants I the high grade credit market, that's not really our thing. Our role in this was we own Vodafone, which was selling its stake to Verizon Wireless… When we bought it, you were getting pretty much no credit for their stake in Verizon Wireless. Now we see that that was a really valuable stake, I think $130 billion or something like that. I think Vodafone remains pretty attractive because once you strip out the consideration you're getting for Verizon, the rest of the European business is a pretty cheap value."
"I think this is Vodafone's exit from the U.S. If anything, they could ultimately become a target for someone like AT&T that wants to get more exposure into Europe."
When asked about whether Vodafone could have squeezed more money out of the Verizon deal, Einhorn replied:
"I would give Vodafone an A or maybe an A+ on this negotiation. You know, Verizon took a very aggressive tack with them for a lot of years, saying you're a minority, we're not going to give you a dividend. Then eventually Verizon needed a dividend so they started paying it, but sporadically. And they really tried to squeeze these guys out. They finally came in the spring and said maybe we'll whatever. Then it turned out that they couldn't bridge the bid-ask, and Vodafone held out. And eventually Verizon came back to the table and they paid a higher price now than I think they would have even have had to pay in the spring."
He also still sees value in Vodafone as an independent company without Verizon:
"But Vodafone is not mostly a wireline business, mostly they're cellular in Europe. So you have that wireless component there. When you strip out the Verizon Wireless valuation, you're buying it for about two turns of EBITDA less than comparable companies. And I think it actually has better prospects, better growth and a better network than many of its peers."
Einhorn is referring to the deal reached on Sept. 2 in which Verizon (VZN) agreed to purchase Vodafone's U.S. group which consisted primarily of a 45% Verizon Wireless stake for $130 billion in mostly cash and stock. Verizon said the deal would immediately increase earnings per share by 10%.
Verizon shareholders received a 53 cent per share dividend from the deal.
Vodafone returned all of the Verizon shares and $23.9 billion in cash to shareholders and use the proceeds in a new investment initiative called "Project Spring" through which it will invest up to £6 over the next three fiscal years back into growing the business.
Verizon shares have risen 42% year to date to $35.83 Wednesday. The company trades with a P/E of 261.6, P/B of 1.5 and P/S of 2.42.
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The Western year 1949, in China's ancient lunar calendar, is a leap year, with two seventh months or a double July. The superstitious say a double July means a month more of rain and so a great flood.
Last week the great flood of 1949, the highest and most disastrous in 20 years, had passed its crest. As the waters subsided, the misery they had created grew. In the six southern provinces still under their sway, the Nationalists reported 10 million people in need of flood relief.
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A castle cake for Alexis' first birthday.
The cake is based on a two-tier version by Yummy Cupcakes, which I just loved, and I added the turrets after seeing Dulcie Blue Bakery's version of that same cake.
The tier sizes are 9", 7" and 5" and I will be writing a tutorial for my Facebook Page very soon.
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This cake is awesome and most beautiful. I hoped you posted the tutorial as you stated. Please let me know. Awesome, awesome and thanks so much for sharing.!!!! Great job!!!
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Is a woman in a 1928 film who appears to have a cell phone glued to her ear in fact a time traveler? That's what some conspiracy theorists think this eerie scene (video below) from Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film, "The Circus" is proof positive that such technology exists. Watch the clip below and be sure to post what you think!
"I kept winding it back, playing it; winding it back, playing it back, and I couldn't explain this," he says. "I want to get this out there to let people try and give me an idea, because right now the only conclusion that I can come to — it sounds absolutely ridiculous, I'm sure, to some people — it's a time traveler." Although, as filmmaker George Clarke notes, the "old woman … looks like a man in drag … on a mobile phone."
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Revamping R&D: The New Laboratory In Your Pocket?
The nature of science shares striking similarities across many industry verticals. Whether it's biologics, chemicals or new product formulations, they are all performed with a high degree of similarity from company to company. This is exemplified by the fact that R&D informatics platforms such as LIMS, ELNs and SDMS are used, and provide real benefits in all science-related sectors. Although this seems fairly straightforward, things are changing. Organizations are under increasing business pressure to innovate faster and improve efficiency and throughput, all while boosting profitability. With all of these challenges ahead, they're changing the way they work and the informatics they use. One way of innovating is by becoming mobile.
Tapping into technologies
Against this backdrop companies are turning to new technologies to meet their business demands. Mobile technologies rank top of the list with the promise of "on-the-go" data and applications. High-performance computing infrastructure now means massive data analytics at the stroke of a key—this was once the realm of specialist computer science. Everything as-a-service and the "Internet of things" provide the possibility of an instant online connection to anything, anywhere, anytime. These technologies coupled with business strategies—such as outsourcing, real collaboration and 24/7 follow-the-sun laboratory processes—means the industry is trying to stay ahead to keep pace with change.
Mobile technologies, in particular, are enhancing today's laboratory environment. Researchers just want to do the science. They now wish to capture a piece of information and upload it to data systems automatically, without the rigmarole of writing it down at the instrument, carrying the paper around, getting to a PC and then entering the data. There's also the use of tablets and mobile apps for managers who typically want to review and approve work from the laboratory on the move. The latest mobile technologies and better browser functionalities are now making this a reality.
Browser-based R&D at your fingertips
There are many applications that scientists and engineers are required to use. Every day they capture information, data, context and ideas and relate these to something else. Most informatics systems have been developed and used as PC clients where all the features and functions are in one place and accessible, but a reasonable size screen and computer power is needed to run them. To date, this approach to scientific application design and building has delivered measurable business benefits, boosting efficiency and throughput, and shouldn't be overlooked. Nevertheless, browser technologies can be used to optimize applications and user experience. The Web has been around for many years now and so have Web browsers, but they haven't always been suitable for use in certain applications or within some scientific domains. Reporting, dash-boarding and information dissemination are all really well suited to Web browser technology and they're now features of most Web-based solutions.
Computationally and usability-intensive functions have been a little more difficult to optimize until the arrival of better browsers. Simple features such as drag-and-drop have been missing or weren't intuitive to users. This has hampered the acceptance of browser-based ELNs and LIMS, but with the advent of HTML5 and the evolution of browsers a much richer and optimized experience can now be delivered to scientists and researchers. Tools like IDBS' E-WorkBook Suite have evolved from thick client PC-based applications to Web browser-based applications. And in offering specific in browser functions like annotation tools and office document rendering and manipulation, the user acceptance is high.
True mobile working
Scientist and researchers' diverse workflows and software application experience demands can now be delivered via browser technologies. Getting them working with mobile solutions is the next step to moving the paperless laboratory to the mobile-augmented laboratory. However, there are some aspects of mobile technology that have to be considered.
Security is a critical concern and the policy of how, what data and where data can be consumed needs to be addressed and properly managed. This isn't just a requirement for mobile aspects, but also the changing face of collaboration between organizations. Companies are looking to partner and collaborate on a massive scale with a significant number of different partners in an effort to improve innovation. They all need, or want, access to specific data and context. The days of data "inside the castle walls" are gone. This requires a rethink of security and how it's applied. One aspect of this means that the data needs to be properly categorized and managed so it can be shared easily and securely, without undermining the corporate IP and knowledge.
The other aspect that needs to be considered with mobile in the laboratory is the eventual emergence of lots of apps that will do specific tasks and elements of a workflow. These will need to be strung together in a coherent manner, andthey need to store the data in a way which ensures it's consumable by other apps in the workflow. This is the foundation of a true mobile laboratory since the data is what drives R&D organizations' decisions.
A final aspect of mobile technology that often gets overlooked is the need for a screen that works with gloves. Most gloves in the laboratory are made of latex, which doesn't work well with tablet and mobile touch screens. There are options like styluses or using different kinds of gloves, but these need to be considered before significant budget is spent on new tablets. In addition, these tools must be made impervious to chemicals as well as ensuring that, if they go into a restricted area, they stay there. PCs are difficult to move but tablets are very easy to carry out of a Biosafety CAT 3 laboratory.
The right tools for the job
Lots of apps need to be part of a platform that has a data management backbone to capture and store data with context in a manner that is consumable by other apps and systems. This is a prerequisite for any mobile-based strategy. Data without context and structure is essentially useless.
Mobile apps should be there to augment the researcher's working environment and activities, rather than act as the sole place to work. There will always be requirements from users to leverage a more feature-rich interface at a workstation, where more information can be aggregated, analyzed, visualized and explored easily. Simple tasks like signing off experiments, reviewing and tagging or registering a data point or inventory item are all ideal candidates for mobile or tablet-based tasks.
The next step could, perhaps, be taking the mobile technology and making it wearable. Google Glass and wearable technologies that monitor our health are becoming more mainstream, so it makes sense that this could be taken into the laboratory. How this will happen is another question entirely as currently the costs and capabilities are a little prohibitive. That said, it isn't too dissimilar to the web and mobile technology arena just a few years ago.
For now though, mobile science looks like it will deliver great promise. The market is looking more towards specific apps for note taking or interacting with simple instruments rather than having access to a whole feature-rich application on a mobile device. This is the ideal approach for data capture and for breaking down the workflow into bite-size chunks. Taking this pragmatic route means avoiding cramming desktop tools onto devices which aren't ergonomically or functionally able to cope, andensures scientists and researchers can benefit from the increased efficiencies and data sharing which mobile working can offer.


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We in the Navy of the United States are anchored in the strong holding ground of our successful past, yet already we feel and see the leading indicators of a storm that threatens to wreck us at our hard-won anchorage. We face not a small squall and some temporary discomfort, but a typhoon more ominous than any we have encountered since 1944. This time it is a typhoon of change. Now is not the moment for backward-looking nostalgia, timid inaction, nervous knee-jerk reactions, or mere hope. We must weigh anchor, pick the right course, and do all the difficult things necessary to sail onward at best speed, within the typhoon, through new and uncharted seas.
America is the land of opportunity and transformation it thrives on both. Naturally, American Sailors are used to change and excel at it. The Naval Services led the way in steam, ironclads, carrier aviation, amphibious warfare, nuclear power, and sea-based missiles. To preserve our naval preeminence, we must continue to be at the forefront of innovation and adaptation.
The purpose of this Newport Paper is to stimulate thinking, discussion, and new approaches within the Navy. It is meant to be a primer for every Sailor of new seas. Not an academic work, it is more firmly rooted in my own observations and perceptions than in the scholarly work of others. Some of the unusual conclusions presented here grew out of wide-ranging and spirited discussions held among the leaders of the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets in the spring and summer of 1997.
Welcome aboard.
Make all preparations for getting underway.
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DEAR DC: Please Give Us Batwoman Posters by J.H. Williams III
If you're a regular comic book reader, you already know what I'm about to tell you: J.H. Williams III is amazing. The art that he's doing on "Detective Comics" will make your eyes drop out of their sockets and leave you scrambling to find them on the floor. His current run on the Batman title with Greg Rucka — where Batwoman has displaced the absent Bruce Wayne as the lead character — is quite simply a classic in the making, and I pity the artist who has to follow him.
What it has made me want — aside from Williams drawing Batwoman, forever — are posters of the absolutely stunning two-page spreads that keep exploding across the book, courtesy of Mr. Williams. And while I've posted a few of my favorites here, the great part is that he drops these kinds of masterpieces in his issues pretty much all the time. I would be thrilled to pay money to put them up on my walls, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
A closing caveat: If you've been waiting for the trade — and I say this as someone who often does — don't. There aren't many titles that I absolutely cannot wait to look inside every month, but for as long as Williams is drawing, I'll be grabbing it off the rack on new comic book day, ready to be astonished.
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Veteran Chad Henne, who played decently and was responsible for all their wins this year, said he understood that the Jags would either find a free agent or use a high pick in the draft on one.
"Absolutely, there's no doubt about it," Henne said, via Ryan O'Halloran of the Florida Times-Union. "All of the things that went on, the outcome obviously isn't what we wanted, winning only four games, but the second half of the season, we did get better and do some really good things."
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> 1. Modify the float8 test so that the table contains exactly the same > values on all platforms. In this case, this would mean removing > the "extra" rows that creep in on NetBSD because of the different > handling of small (in absolute value) numbers. Following this > strategy generally (i.e., in other similar cases) would mean that > all tables could be used at will by "derived" tests without > propagating special cases beyond the direct tests where boundary > cases are critical to include. OK, I agree that the first option is probably preferable. But... This will ripple across several of the regression tests, and we will need to carefully check the changed results in those tests to ensure that we understand the changes. We can't just assume that they are due to the different input values. Also, I would strongly prefer that we keep the internals of the float8 test the same, so it continues to test edge-effect operations and results. Then, at or near the end of the float8 test, empty the table and re-insert some better-behaved values (in fact, it could be the same values that the table started with probably; I haven't looked). Absolutely. That was my intent. The internal tests should be as rigorous as possible. The last thing done would be to leave the table in a state that is absolutely identical across all platforms. Yes, deleting everything and reinserting the well-behaved values seems like the easiest thing to do. I don't think anything will ripple much, actually. The entire point, though, is to reduce the possible ripple of special cases (after the correct consistency is guarranteed). I should have no trouble recognizing changes, since for me everything passes regression, except the union test. Cheers, Brook
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The Chevy Sonic is refreshed for 2017 with new front and rear fascias, and even base models now come with a 7-inch touch-screen infotainment system that's Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatible. Premium features such as heated steering wheel, power-adjustable driver's seat and rear-park assist become available.
Apart from three new exterior colors – Nightfall Gray Metallic, Mosaic Black Metallic and Kinetic Blue Metallic – the Chevrolet Sonic carries over for 2016 with no significant changes.
Available as a sedan or versatile hatchback, the 2017 Chevrolet Sonic slots between the tiny Spark and compact Cruze in Chevy's lineup. With its efficiency, surprising feature content and easy driving manners, the Sonic has always been a worthy rival to the Ford Fiesta, Kia Rio, Hyundai Accent and Toyota Yaris. Thanks to a freshening for 2017, the new Sonic presents an even better option for younger drivers or commuters on a budget, thanks to the addition of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone compatibility and available features like built-in Wi-Fi not usually found in a subcompact car. While base models still don't offer power windows, those willing to spend a bit more can find plenty of value in the 2017 Sonic.


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Chicks: What happens to the leftovers after they eat?
Question: After the chicks are done eating, what do the parents do with the leftovers? Do they eat it themselves? What happens to the carcass?
Answer: As you can see in this picture, after the chicks finish eating the adult takes away the remains. If the parents are hungry, they eat the leftovers. If not, they cache it on the cliff or building for later meals.
Even if the chicks eat the entire meal, the parents take away the carcass to keep the nest clean. Rotting food and excrement are bad for baby birds and the smell of food would attract predators, so the parents tidy up. The level of cleanliness varies among individuals, though. Tasha, at Gulf Tower, is a good housekeeper. Dorothy, at Pitt, is able to keep up appearances in the first week after hatching but she gives up after that. The difference is amazing.
Oh, and the carcass… At Pitt the adult peregrines fly a short distance away from the building and drop the carcass. Sometimes it lands on a lower roof, sometimes on the Cathedral lawn.
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# Tracion 29 Apr 2009 at 10:42 pm
I have to laugh at the thought! RE: a carcass landing on the Cathedral lawn! As an alumni, I once spent many a sunny day on that lawn. I can only imagine my reaction if a bird carcass landed next to me or on me!! Hilarious!!
# Sueon 04 May 2009 at 5:51 pm
It looks like the chicks eat raw, "unprocessed" meat. Do the mothers pre-digest the meals at all?
How do their little systems handle their meals if not pre-processed?
# Kate St. Johnon 05 May 2009 at 9:59 am
The chicks are born with the ability to digest meat immediately. Their parents don't have to pre-digest anything for them. As far as I can tell the only difference between feeding newborn chicks and larger ones is the size of the tidbits the parents present to them.


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Sales is evolving faster than ever and the main catalyst is the introduction and use of new technologies that impact every stage of the sales process. In fact, half the battle in sales today is just staying up to date with all of these new technologies — not to mention understanding how to use them.
As a sales trainer for many of the world's leading companies — including Salesforce.com and Box — I'm constantly implementing and evaluating new sales tools to understand how and where they fit into the overall sales process.
It's always frustrated me that sales is the #1 profession in the world and yet none of us are formally taught how to do it. For the most part we are all self-taught through trial and error. Based on this, I believe we need to help each other out and share what works so we can all improve and make sure we sell the right way.
The 2016 Inside Sales Software Guide is a collection of best-in-class sales technologies broken down into specific categories that align with the different areas of the sales process. The eBook gives you what you need to be successful in today's hyper-competitive sales environment. For sales or sales ops leaders looking for a place to go to find out what their "Sales Technology Stack" should be, this is it.
The best analogy I've heard of what it takes to be successful in sales today is Ironman. If Tony Stark went out to fight all those villains as a regular human he would get killed instantly. But, with the suit, he's unstoppable. Being a sales rep with strong selling skills, the ability to build rapport and a strong work ethic isn't enough anymore. We need to leverage the technology out there to become our own version of Ironman so we can go kick ass and sell the right way.
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FROM relegation candidates to play-off hopefuls – Concord's league campaign certainly wasn't boring.
The Beachboys had high hopes coming into the season that they could improve on last year's eighth-place finish in the Ryman Premier league.
And they had good cause for optimism.
The departures of left-sided duo Gary Ogilvie and Danny Glozier aside, they retained the majority of their squad including prolific striker Tony Stokes, and made some quality additions.
But it all got off to a horrible start with their first league win not coming until October at relegated Horsham.
It left everyone at the club – and not least joint managers Danny Cowley and Danny Scopes – soul searching. And they found the answers they were looking for with a sensational run of results from winter time which saw them move within three points of the play-offs by early April.
It also meant they had wiped out a 19-point gap between them and Canvey as they briefly over-took their fierce rivals.
So it was not without a good dose of irony that Canvey came to the Aspect Arena and claimed a battling 2-0 win which was the first of five-straight defeats and the end of Concord's season.
The season's review has already prompted a major change with the decision of Scopes to stand down as joint manager and leave Cowley in sole charge of team affairs.
Cowley has repeatedly said this season's trials and tribulations have taught him more about his side than the previous five seasons of unprecedented success. And he'll be looking to use those lessons to make Concord a force to be reckoned with again next season.
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Fishing Friday: The Best Conventional Reel Ever?
No matter where you fish nor what species you're after, there are bound to be some conventional reels in your arsenal. Here are three top picks, which every angler can appreciate: Penn, Shimano, and Shakespeare.
August 30, 2013
A while back we tried to help you nail down the best spinning reel for the way you fish, and when it comes to picking out the best conventional reel, there are plenty to choose from—as in, hundreds of candidates. In fact, depending on where you fish and what you fish for it's almost impossible to limit ourselves to just three picks. There are, however, a few classic reels that stand out from the crowd. Here are three top picks, for the best conventional reel ever made.
Penn Reels has a number of classics, but the Senator tops them all. This line of conventional reels is simple, inexpensive, and bulletproof. In fact, I have some my father handed down to me decades ago, and they still work perfectly well. Don't expect any fancy level-winders, magnetic brakes, or fast gearing—Senators are reels for the minimalist—but do expect to get your money's worth, and then some.
Shimano is well known in all segments of the fishing world, from freshwater bass anglers to saltwater inshore specialists, to blue-water big game aficionados. And while this company's offerings please all of the aforementioned anglers, their Tiagra series has become the gold standard for large offshore trolling reels. These reels range in size from the 12-pound class clear up to the 130-pound class, are some of the most reliable lever-drag reels in the world, and can do battle with the largest fish in the ocean. They're also heavy, expensive, and have relatively low gear ratios. But when push comes to shove and there's a 1,000 pound blue marlin on the end of the line, the Tiagra what you want to be cranking.
Shakespeare has a conventional reel that also belongs in this mix, even though it's dirt-cheap and less than graceful: the EZ Cast. This reel goes for $40, and if you're a hard-core angler you wouldn't want to use it for long. So, why the heck does it make this list? Simple—try as you might, it's virtually impossible to get an EZ Cast to backlash. That makes it ideal for kids and first-timers, who may have their initial fishing experience ruined by bird's nests and tangles. Keep one in your arsenal, for those newbies.
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Each of these apps are on sale or free for a limited time, so get them quick before the prices go up. You can check out our Price Drops section for real-time deals, as well as our top games price drops. Also look at yesterday's deals post, which include many deals that are still relevant.
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Certification sought for campus newspaper advisers p. 15
By: George Garneau
AIMING TO LIFT the professional standards of advisers to campus newspapers, College Media Advisers (CMA) is working to establish a certification program.
The plan by the 700-member association is designed to improve the quality and credibility of campus media advisers by establishing voluntary qualifications for them to meet, to earn the title Certified College Media Adviser.
The proposal calls for CMA to create a certification board to which members could apply after three years on the job. Applicants would have to show a r?sum?, letters of recommendation and work samples. In an interview before the board, they would be expected to demonstrate knowledge of the law and the ethics confronting college media.
To maintain certification, advisers would have to attend at least one CMA convention every three years and would need five hours a year of professional training.
Proponents said the CMA board is likely to approve the measure in June, clearing the way for the certification committee to begin processing applications at its next convention, in November.
"We think it's going to be good for the progression and good for the individual adviser," said Roz Florez, a lawyer who advises at the University of Cincinnati.
Now, there are no standards governing campus media advisers. As a result, their quality varies widely.
They range from full-time advisers who are versed in student press case law, to instructors who moonlight as advisers and only got the assignment because nobody else wanted it. Some get paid, some don't. Some are faculty, some administration, some neither.
Advisers to campus newspapers, yearbooks, magazines and electronic media routinely work under a cross-fire: from college administrators who want positive press on one side, and on the other from student journalists who want to practice their journalism skills unconstrained.
Veteran advisers concede that the skills of their colleagues vary widely.
In some cases, they say, administrators choose people who can be manipulated, either because of their ignorance of press issues or because they need the job. One survey last year found that student editors cited their advisers as the very ones most likely to ask them to censor.
Students at the recent CMA convention in New York frequently complained that their advisers are of little help.
Nor is the job necessarily a piece of cake. One untenured adviser, who was fired after the student newspaper's aggressive crime stories enraged the top administrator, said he wouldn't take an adviser job again ? without tenure.
At a meeting to explain the credentialing measure, advocates rejected the suggestion it was a step toward licensing. It is strictly voluntary, they said, and a step toward improving the quality of college media advisers.
"Professional journalists should welcome this because it means we are committed to professionalism," said Michael Brennan of George Mason University. Certification would also enhance advisers' standing on campus, and provide a lift to beleaguered advisers locking horns in negotiations with administrators.


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32 going on 52: On the Ohio State football scandal
The first time I felt old was when NHL draft prospects started being younger than me.
Since then, there have been many times when I could literally feel the gray hairs growing: being in a bar with a bunch of early 20-somethings in popped-collar polo shirts, the 10-year reunion of the Ravens Super Bowl XXXV championship team, the upcoming 20-year anniversary of Nirvana's "Nevermind" album (the first record I ever bought with my own money) and now, the Ohio State football scandal.
For those that don't know, the scandal at The Ohio State University goes like this: players had been trading signed memorabilia – autographs, jerseys, etc. – for tattoos and cash, a violation of NCAA rules.
Making the matter worse, the tattoo parlor owner has been under investigation by the feds for running marijuana. Sweater-vested coach Jim Tressel lied about his knowledge of the tats-for-memorabilia scheme and was forced out of his job on Monday. According to a Sports Illustrated article, the scheme has been going on for years under Tressel's watch.
Unlike most people who write about sports, especially college sports, I have no real outrage at this scandal. People cheat in college sports, happens all the time in a culture where only two things count: winning and money. It happened at Kentucky and CCNY in the 1950s, it happened at Tulane and SMU in the 1980s and it's happened at OSU and USC now.
My reaction to all this is: God, do I feel old. Let me explain.
College players breaking rules and winning-obsessed coaches covering up for them is nothing new. But tattoos? The great OSU football program is going to get hammered by sanctions over tattoos?
If I may turn into Dana Carvey's "Grumpy Old Man" character for a second, "In my day, when college players cheated they shaved points, accepted cars from boosters or took briefcases full of cash. Nobody ever cheated just to get a tattoo. Only sailors and convicts had tattoos. We had to walk to school in the snow and we liked it!"
How many tats could these guys get anyway? Having never been tatted up, I can't relate. Tats used to be a sign of rebellion, but these days, everybody has one. You're almost being more rebellious if you DON'T have a tattoo. My 57-year-old aunt has three tattoos for crying out loud.
Mind you, I have nothing personal against tattoos. If you want it that's your choice, and if it's meant to honor someone that's fine. For example, a friend of mine has tats on both arms to honor his late mother and father.
The tattoo thing started to come in vogue in the late 1990s. I was playing football at Western New England College in Springfield, Mass., at the time and a few guys on the team had started to get inked up. A couple of guys had gotten bear paws – our team nickname was the Golden Bears – on their legs with their numbers on it. Looking back, I'm glad I didn't partake, mostly because the tats themselves were extraordinarily lame, and also because I left the school after two years.
I personally knew I wasn't ever going to get a tattoo just around the time I graduated college. I was working at a restaurant in Tilghman, Md., in the summer. One of our regular bar customers was a guy, he had to have been in his 80s at the time, that had been in the Navy back in the day and had a big tattoo of a senorita on his chest. Needless to say, old tattoos on old skin are not exactly attractive. Like the guy in the movie "8MM" said, "There are some things that you see, and you can't unsee see them."
I guess the whole point of this rambling diatribe is that the idea of young men trading autographed jerseys for tattoos is something very new, very unusual and makes me feel like one of these stodgy, old geezers that doesn't understand younger people.
Like the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer (to use another dated 1990s SNL reference, yet another thing making me feel old), a world of trading your shoulder pads (as SI alleged quarterback Terrelle Pryor did) for tattoos confuses the living hell out of me. As if guys like Pryor, a likely NFL prospect, weren't going to have enough money for tats once they sign their first pro contract?
And that's to say nothing of Tressel, the coach dubbed "the Senator," who stupidly covered-up what is, truth be told, a nothing story as far as NCAA violations go.
After all, this wasn't SMU boosters paying half the roster, or basketball guys from Boston College taking money from mobsters to shave points in the 1970s. This was a bunch of kids being dumb. Kids do dumb things; it's part of life.
But instead of being forthcoming about his knowledge of his players being dumb, Tressel, befitting a man nicknamed "the Senator," went all Nixon on us, attempting to cover up his players' petty crimes. Only in Tressel's case, there was no Haldeman, Mitchell or Ehrlichman around to take the fall for him. Now, Tressel's out of a job, OSU will likely feel the wrath of the NCAA, and the players involved will be persona non grata in Buckeye-crazed Columbus, especially players who talked to the media like ex-wide receiver Ray Small.
Which just goes to show that big-time athletics at the college level is, for the most part, a shady, awful and corrupt business on all levels, and I'm truly glad I don't follow it. Things like what has happened at OSU make me almost glad my alma mater, Towson University, is mostly a nonfactor in athletics. Better to lose and be clean than win and get caught up in a ridiculous scandal over tattoos.
Now get off my lawn!
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