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Our Rooms - Fisher Cove Room
Located on the 2nd Floor of Campbell House
Continental Breakfast at the Twine Loft is complimentary with this room
Fisher Cove Room - The Features
Fisher Cove Room has windows facing Fisher Cove. There are two rooms rented in the Campbell House (Fisher Cove Room and Fort Point Room) The Campbell House is a 1-minute walk from the Twine Loft.
Important to know when picking this room: Campbell House is a registered heritage structure built in 1840. Ceilings are lower than average. Around 6 foot 2 in height in some areas.
All guests must be over the age of 6 to stay in this room.
- Wi-Fi
- Flat Screen TV- Highlight Channels: TSN, BBC
- DVD player available by request: There is a movie library in the Twine Loft including, Grand Seduction, Maudie, Shipping News, Random Passage
- Clock radio
- Iron / Ironing Board
- Bathrobe, Towels
- Shampoo / Conditioner Combo
- Makeup remover cloth, ear plugs (sometimes the foghorn sounds at night) Q-tips, cotton balls, nail file, soap bars
- Hair Dryer
Laundry service is available at an additional cost
The Shared Spaces and Amenities
Guests in the Fisher Cove Room share common areas with guests in Fort Point Room. This includes:
Sitting room area with traditional 1840s furniture, flat screen TV and DVD player
The dining room area (this is an extra common area for this house. All dining services for the inn are hosted at the Twine Loft) Here the guests have access to:
- Wine & water glasses, mugs
- Corkscrew
- Mini Fridge
- Keurig Coffee Maker: (regular and decaf coffee provided)
- Kettle (Orange Pekoe tea and hot chocolate provided)
- Sugar, Sweetener, Coffee Whitener
The Patio area behind Campbell House is where guests of Campbell House can bring their own beverages and overlook Fisher Cove.
Additional Areas our Guests Can Access
Twine Loft-Deck
Guests are always welcome on the Twine Loft deck without purchasing anything from the Twine Loft. Warm blankets and drink service are available.
Twine Loft-Loft
The Loft area is where we keep maps and brochures of the area and other businesses. There is also a sitting area and a few tables where guests can relax and/or request drink service. There is wifi in the Twine Loft in case you are looking for a change of scenery from your room, but would like to surf the web.
Travelling with Children
Our houses are historic and therefore not 100% soundproof. Guests staying in our individual rooms must be above the age of six. Our vacation homes are available for families with children of all ages.
Check-in and Check-out
Check In: 3pm (you may check in earlier if your room is ready)
Check Out: 11am
Rate: Rates for our rooms vary depending on season and length of stay. Visit our booking section and enter the dates you wish to stay to be shown availability and rates. A down payment of the first-night stay is required to book this room.
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Air will likely be unhealthy in the Central Valley for the next few days as the Junction Fire burns in Madera County.
Authorities say the smoke has triggered an air alert for at least five counties.
Since its start on Monday in Oakhurst, the Junction Fire has spread quickly.
It continues to threaten homes and pollute the air in surrounding counties including Stanislaus, Merced, Madera, Tulare, and Kings.
Anthony Presto with the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District says the smoke coupled with the hot days will pose a double danger.
"So what often happens during the summertime wildfires is not only do we get impacts from particulate matter which is the smoke, it's also generating the fuel to create ozone pollution," says Presto.
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Higher-yield bond funds run into trouble
In one of the more spectacular meltdowns in mutual fund history, Schwab YieldPlus - marketed as a higher-yielding alternative to money market funds - has plummeted to just $2.5 billion in assets from more than $13 billion in May.
The shrinkage reflects both a decline in the fund's asset value and a mass exodus by investors.
Year to date through Thursday, Schwab YieldPlus has lost 13.4 percent of its value, ranking dead last among ultra-short bond funds, according to Morningstar. The average fund in that category is down 1.5 percent this year.
A decline of that magnitude would not be unusual for a stock fund but is rare for a fixed-income fund, especially one that invests in short-term securities.
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Schwab YieldPlus is not the first but is by far the largest ultra-short-term bond fund to run into trouble as a result of its exposure to subprime and other mortgage-backed securities.
For investors, it underscores again that higher yield always means higher risk.
For the rest of us, it shows how the problems that started in subprime have spread to the far corners of the investment universe, even areas thought to be safe.
Schwab won't discuss the fund in any detail, in part because it is the subject of two class-action lawsuits.
It's not entirely clear what happened, but experts say that when the fund started to lose value last year, investors who thought they owned something resembling a money market fund started pulling out their money.
To meet redemptions, the fund had to sell assets into a declining market, which caused more losses, which sparked more redemptions in a wicked downward spiral.
Schwab Charitable, a San Francisco nonprofit that is not part of Schwab but uses its services, has pulled money that it manages for donors from the YieldPlus fund.
As of October, the largest investors in the fund were other Schwab mutual funds including Schwab Retirement Income Fund and four Schwab target-date retirement funds, according to Bloomberg.
Like most ultra-short bond funds, YieldPlus was designed as a higher-yielding alternative to money market funds. These funds don't have to follow the same strict rules imposed on money funds.
These rules try to prevent money funds from ever losing value, but neither money funds nor ultra-short bond funds are funded, as bank deposits are.
Ultra-short bond funds get a slightly higher yield than money funds by investing in slightly longer-term, slightly lower-quality securities.
Schwab advertised the fund on its Web site as "a smart alternative for your cash." Schwab made it clear that YieldPlus is not a money market fund, is not insured and could lose value.
But it also said the fund's share price had fluctuated by no more than 4 cents over the year ending Jan. 31, 2007, "giving it the relative stability necessary in today's market."
Outsiders seemed to agree. A Morningstar report from May 2007 called the fund "a solid alternative to cash, but it would be better with lower fees."
A top-selling fund
YieldPlus was one of the 20 top-selling mutual funds in 2006 and was in the top 10 during the first half of 2007, according to Morningstar.
Miriam Sjoblom, a Morningstar analyst who started covering the fund in autumn, says the Schwab fund took on "slightly more credit risk" than some of its peers.
As of December, it had about 46 percent of its assets in mortgage-backed securities and 8.8 percent in other asset-backed obligations. Sjoblom says she was told by Schwab that about 6 percent of assets were in subprime mortgage securities.
Things started unraveling in summer when the credit crisis hit. The fund lost 1.76 percent in July and August, not "disastrous" but enough to send skittish investors heading for the exit, "causing management to sell holdings in an unfavorable climate," Sjoblom wrote.
The exodus accelerated this year, especially in the past month.
Marc Itzkowitz, a software product manager in Palo Alto, invested more than $100,000 in the fund, starting in summer 2005, to put toward a down payment on a house.
"My forecast was, toward the end of the decade there would be a fall in real estate. I'm a renter. I wanted to park money in something that would be safe so when prices declined, I'd have my payment preserved," he says.
Itzkowitz says his financial adviser with Schwab Private Client Services recommended the YieldPlus fund. "It was sold to me as a money market equivalent fund," he says.
When he noticed the fund was losing value, he asked his adviser if he should move it into certificates of deposit, but the adviser said no.
$23,000 loss
Itzkowitz really started worrying about the fund in February, but didn't sell until last week, when his adviser told him to get out. Itzkowitz lost 17 percent, or about $23,000, enough to impact his home-buying plans.
He takes part of the blame himself. "It's my bad. You should never believe you can get higher yields without any risk," he says.
Itzkowitz put me in touch with his adviser, who declined to comment, referring me to Schwab, which had no comment beyond this brief statement:
"The YieldPlus portfolio is made up of securities with an average AA credit rating, but unfortunately, the fund has been negatively impacted during the past few months, primarily by liquidity problems in the fixed-income markets.
"However, the fund continues to deliver a strong yield, which is currently 5.94 percent. Our fund managers are working hard to try to preserve investor value in these difficult markets. We cannot predict when the markets will turn around and improve."
Reed Kathrein, a Berkeley attorney who has filed a suit on behalf of YieldPlus shareholders in district court in the Northern District of California, says, "Investment advisers have been up in arms about this whole thing."
Many got their clients into the fund, thinking it was as good as cash. When they saw it going down, "they either advised their clients to get out or got their clients out."
'Heading for the hills'
Norman Boone, president of Mosaic Financial Partners in San Francisco, got his clients into the fund in autumn and got them out - at a loss - last week.
"We liked the fact they had a diversified portfolio that was substantially investment grade, but because it wasn't all (rated) AAA," it was yielding about three-quarters of a percentage point more than money funds.
"We never considered it a money market fund," he says. But "you had people who were in it for the wrong reasons. They panicked, then you had other people panicking, then you had a crowd situation."
Boone says he still has faith in the fund, but "sometimes, if everyone is heading for the hills, you have to head for the hills too even if you don't think there's a fire."
Not so safe
A look at some ultra-short bond funds that have struggled, compared with the category average. Returns through Thursday.
|Year to date
|Schwab YieldPlus
|SSgA Yield Plus
|Fidelity Ultra-Short Bond
|Category average
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John Shoop, the offensive coordinator for the Purdue football team, was called into the office of Darrell Hazell, the team's head coach, and fired. It was 12:45 p.m. Sunday.
At first glance, this would appear to be a classic case of a coach firing some assistants — two defensive coaches were also given the boot — to save his own skin. The day before, Purdue ended its season with its 10th loss; indeed, in his three years as head coach, Hazell has gone 6-30, winning only twice against Big Ten opponents. Many Purdue fans believe that Hazell should have been fired, and that the main reason he was allowed to keep his job was that the university did not want to pay him the $6.7 million buyout his contract calls for.
Although Purdue's longtime athletic director, Morgan Burke, insisted in a news conference on Wednesday that the buyout had nothing to do with his decision to keep Hazell, Burke is known for being the tightfisted leader of an athletic department that is proudly self-sufficient.
But sometimes, even the firing of a football coach is not as simple as it might seem. It appears that the decision to fire Shoop was made not by Hazell, but by Burke. (Tom Schott, Purdue's senior associate athletic director for communication, vehemently denies this.) The evidence also suggests that the reason had surprisingly little to do with the Boilermakers' offense, or football at all.
Rather, the problem appears to have been the open advocacy for college athletes' rights expressed by Shoop and his wife, Marcia W. Mount Shoop, an ordained minister and the author of "Touchdowns for Jesus and Other Signs of Apocalypse: Lifting the Veil on Big-Time Sports."
After the Missouri football players went on their short strike early last month, the Shoops became an intolerable presence within Burke's athletic department. Although Schott denies this as well, it appears that their backing of the players in the O'Bannon lawsuit, their view that college athletes deserve due process from the N.C.A.A. and their sympathy with those who thought racism needed to be addressed on college campuses meant that they had to go.
The U.N.C. Years
I first met the Shoops in 2011, not long after John Shoop lost his job as an assistant football coach at the University of North Carolina. He had been something of a coaching prodigy; he was 25 when he became an assistant coach for the Carolina Panthers in 1995. He moved to the college ranks in 2007 to work alongside Butch Davis, the Tar Heels' new coach. But in 2010, a number of Carolina football players became embroiled in a big N.C.A.A. investigation, which eventually cost Davis his job. (Shoop was let go as well.)
What shocked Shoop and his wife was the willingness of the university to throw the players under the bus to cover its own behind. The coaching staff was never informed of the accusations, and once Shoop found out what had been going on, he was instructed not to speak publicly or talk to the players about the investigation. But an outraged Marcia Shoop began blogging about the injustice of the athletes' treatment. She and her husband also made their home a place where the embattled athletes could find solace.
"John offered my son stability," says Sharon Lee, the mother of Devon Ramsay, a North Carolina running back whom the N.C.A.A. accused, wrongly, of academic fraud. (Robert Orr, Ramsay's lawyer, was later able to persuade the N.C.A.A. to reverse its decision. I should point out that these events took place well before the discovery of the sham classes at U.N.C., a true scandal that reverberates on the campus to this day.)
Lee adds: "The Shoops opened their home to him, and spent holidays with him when he couldn't get home. John understood that these young people were in his care, and that his actions would impact them for the rest of their lives."
I told the Shoops recently that I thought their experience in Chapel Hill had radicalized them about the N.C.A.A. and about the inequities that college athletes face. Marcia Shoop did not disagree, but her husband took exception.
"I'm not a radical," he said. "I've never said that the players should be paid, for instance. But it struck me that these young men had no due process, and no advocate. I think they should have due process rights. And I also think that they should be able to make money off their own likeness. Those are not radical ideas."
Shoop took a year off before deciding to get back into the arena. When he did start thinking about landing a new job, he applied for head coaching openings at smaller colleges like Cornell and Davidson. But the athletic directors at such colleges, looking at his résumé, assumed that he was looking for a steppingstone that would help him move back to the big time.
"Marcia and I were really looking for a community that we could invest in completely," Shoop told me. Which, they believed, they finally found in West Lafayette, Ind., when, in 2013, Shoop landed on the coaching staff of Purdue's incoming head coach, Darrell Hazell.
Settling In in Indiana
By the time the Shoops got to Purdue, Burke had been the Boilermakers' athletic director for 20 years. A former Purdue swimmer, he had been an executive at Inland Steel, where he had risen to become vice president for operating and administrative services. He spent the two decades at Purdue changing the face of the athletics program, building or renovating numerous facilities, putting more emphasis on women's sports and steadily increasing revenue while keeping a tight rein on the budget so that Purdue athletics was never dependent on student fees or money from the university.
The women's basketball team won the N.C.A.A. championship in 1999, and the women's golf team did likewise in 2010. What's more, Purdue athletes — including in the revenue sports of men's basketball and football — receive real educations.
"I am studying organizational leadership with a minor in communications," said David Blough, a redshirt freshman who became the team's quarterback after the third game this season — and who was so upset about Shoop's firing that he was willing to speak to me on the record, a rare move for a college athlete. "The variety of majors on our team is amazing," he added.
But since the retirement of the longtime football coach Joe Tiller in 2008, Purdue football has struggled. And that matters not just in terms of wins and losses, but also in terms of revenue. Purdue's Ross-Ade Stadium seats 57,236 fans. This season, average attendance was below 38,000, resulting in a revenue shortfall of $3 million. "I haven't done the accounting," Burke told reporters at his news conference on Wednesday, but he said, "It's not a good picture."
The Shoops, meanwhile, settled in nicely in West Lafayette, finding exactly the kind of community they had been searching for. "We dove in," said Marcia Shoop, who started a cross-country team that eventually numbered over 80 runners.
They did not keep their views about college athletics a secret. A year after they arrived at Purdue, Marcia Shoop's book was published. Blough, the quarterback, told me that John Shoop spoke openly about his views — but he also told the players that just because he believed something, that did not mean they had to believe it as well. He was doing what any good college teacher does: exposing students to new ideas.
Marcia Shoop had a number of conversations with Burke about players' rights. According to her, Burke said he had no patience for the O'Bannon case and the effort by some Northwestern football players to form a union. As a former steel executive, he said, he had seen how the United Steelworkers operated, and he cited his distaste for the union as his reason for not supporting more rights for players. (Schott declined to respond to my questions about these conversations.)
In the spring, a Big Ten executive spoke to the Purdue athletic staff. After he had decried the O'Bannon decision — in which a federal judge ruled the N.C.A.A. was in violation of the antitrust laws — Shoop posed a question. Why should the N.C.A.A. care, he asked, if players make money on their own likeness? According to several people at the meeting, the Big Ten executive replied, "So you would be O.K. if a University of Texas student-athlete made $1 million signing autographs for an hour?"
"Well, yes, I would," Shoop said. "But that's not an answer to my question." An agitated Burke interrupted the exchange, put his arm around the executive, and suggested that if the two of them wanted to continue the conversation, they do it elsewhere. (Schott, who was also there, says that Burke did not try to cut off the conversation.)
Then, a few months ago, Marcia Shoop tried to organize a forum that would have featured the Purdue Neurotrauma Group, which has done pathbreaking work on the effect of repeated subconcussive blows to the brain, and a documentary, "The Business of Amateurs," by Bob DeMars, a former college defensive lineman. Burke told her that the athletic department would not be involved because of the film's emphasis on players' rights. He also made it clear to Shoop — and to the Purdue Neurotrauma Group, according to Tom Talavage, a scientist in the department — that the athletic department would not underwrite any of the costs of the event. (Schott did not respond to a direct question about Burke's response to the proposed forum.)
And then came the Missouri football players' strike.
On Nov. 9, Marcia Shoop wrote a blog post about the strike. Describing college athletes as an "unpaid labor force" in an "unjust situation," she wrote that "I continue to pray" that "the players find their voice" and will someday be able to "enact change."
Two days later, Stacy Clardie, who covers Purdue football for the website Gold and Black, part of the Rivals.com network, texted Marcia Shoop to tell her that she had heard from a source that John Shoop would be fired as soon as the season ended.
John Shoop confronted Hazell the next day. Hazell denied that he planned to fire him. A day later, with Purdue students staging an antiracism rally — and with the football team in Evanston, Ill., preparing for a game against Northwestern — the Boilermakers' quarterbacks posted on Twitter a photograph of themselves in support of the rally. Shoop was in the picture. He was also the only member of the athletic department to sign a letter to Mitch Daniels, the Purdue president and former Indiana governor, saying that racism needed to be addressed on campus.
Sixteen days later, he was history. Purdue's poor record made it easy to include Shoop along with the two defensive coaches, and to characterize it as a necessary housecleaning, as Purdue has done.
Late Thursday afternoon, Schott sent me a statement that said "the decision to part ways with three of our assistant coaches, who had at-will employment relationships, was based solely by the desire of Coach Hazell to improve our football program. Any suggestion to the contrary is patently false."
In his news conference on Wednesday, Burke said the Boilermakers needed "an offense you can articulate." Well, maybe.
Purdue's offense was very young, but despite inconsistent play and rookie mistakes, it showed real promise, something Burke also noted in his news conference. The Boilermakers scored 36, 38 and 55 points in games this season. More than two-thirds of the team's 40 offensive touchdowns were generated by first-year players. (The 55-point game, which resulted in one of Purdue's two wins this season, was against Nebraska.) That Shoop, the man who had recruited and nurtured virtually all of those young offensive players, was now gone appears to have escaped Burke. Oh, and the grade point average of the offensive players was 2.98. 'In Position to Succeed'
It is extremely rare — and risky — for a college athlete to speak out about anything beyond the game itself. Yet Blough, the quarterback, who still has three years of eligibility at Purdue, was willing to get on the phone with me to talk about Shoop. That's how much "Coach Shoop" means to him.
"He was one of the main reasons I came to Purdue," Blough said. "He always shared his view about life and taught us to be men. He put us in a position to succeed and gave us chances." He also praised Marcia Shoop and recalled how much he had enjoyed Thanksgiving with the Shoops — a holiday the Shoops celebrate with the football players every year.
As for the Boilermakers, Blough said he felt the team had shown in 2015 that it was headed in the right direction. "We were really young," he told me. "I think we only had four seniors of the top 22 guys. We were making progress."
When I asked if he thought Shoop had been fired unfairly, there was a long pause. "I don't feel comfortable answering that question," Blough finally replied.
I can't say I blame him. He saw what happens at Purdue when people speak out.


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Digital and culture minister Matt Hancock made his maiden speech to the music industry, but hardly bowled them over, at the BPI AGM.
Hancock – a big fan of cricket, thankfully for that metaphor, though not previously well-known to the music business – followed BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor on stage at the annual get-together of BPI members, held in a sweltering room at County Hall in London.
Taylor had made several requests of the government on behalf of the music business in his speech, perhaps most notably a renewed call for a "creative tax credit for music and video production in the UK". But Hancock did not make any direct response, beyond a vague pledge to help "support the environment for your success".
Hancock noted the achievements of the Music Export Growth Scheme, jointly run by the BPI and government, and pointed to the GREAT campaign to promote British culture and the reform of entertainment licensing laws as proof of that commitment. He also pledged support for Creative Content UK's "Get It Right From A Genuine Site" anti-piracy campaign and flagged up the new Digital Economy Bill as an opportunity for the music business to enhance their legal protection from digital piracy. But there was little sign of any new help for the music biz.
Hancock was on stronger ground when urging the industry to embrace diversity – even if that is a suggestion some in the biz might find a bit rich coming from a Conservative government, albeit one marginally less staffed by sons of privilege than the previous administration.
"We in government are on a mission to spread opportunity to all, not just the privileged few," he pledged. "It is the very real responsibility of everyone in this room to be a force for social mobility in Britain. No one should be excluded from your industry because of their accent or their postcode.
"Onstage talent is often diverse - because talent doesn't choose where it lands - but let's make sure not only that it remains so, but that it's matched by an equal diversity behind the scenes. In the boardroom as much as backstage.
"It's great that the BPI have given their assistance to the Rated Awards, taking place at the legendary Roundhouse this evening. This year there's a diverse range of talent on the Mercury Music prize shortlist. UK Music are also doing some sterling work, with the launch of the music industry's first ever workforce diversity survey.
"But, taken together, it's not enough. Music can't be the preserve of the privileged. Are you doing all you can to blast open the doors to the industry? I want the answer to be yes. Because the music industry is not just an industry: music defines how we are seen as a nation. It defines how we see ourselves – as individuals, as communities, as a nation.
"In Brexit Britain, it is more important than ever that we are, that we are seen as, and that we insist on being, the outward, open, global, progressive country we are when we are at our best."
There were, at least, a few signs that Hancock has more musical knowledge than so-far displayed by his boss, Culture Secretary Karen Bradley. He made a weak joke about Adele, quoted Bono and claimed to have hung out at Fabric in his youth (as did London Mayor Sadiq Khan recently – were all of our political leaders out raving there in the '00s?), even if he did mispronounce Skepta (it came out more like Skepcar). His favourite album meanwhile? Paul Simon's Graceland, apparently – at least that's the disc the BPI presented him with afterwards.
But the music business will be hoping for more substantial evidence he's on its side if he's to prove a biz-friendly replacement for the well-liked Ed Vaizey. Afterwards, some said they were "encouraged" by his words on helping the sector, although the word used by most BPI members seemed to be "bland".
A steady opening innings then. The biz will be hoping the Twenty20-style fireworks come later.
You can read Hancock's full speech here.


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Friday, October 24, 2014
Moose Jaw to Swift Current
8 comments :
- Country Gal said...
I love that first mural . Oh my I was wondering what you were up to in the first photos lol ! Christmas decorations already ? nooo to early for me lol !! Thanks for sharing lovely photos ! Have a good day !
- October 24, 2014 at 4:10 PM
- Pamela Gordon said...
Those bigs are amazing, especially the tiger lilies. I really like the murals and hear Moose Jaw is known for them. So is Stoney Plain, Alberta I think and Sussex, NB. :) Have a good weekend. Be safe.
- October 24, 2014 at 4:46 PM
- Linda aka Crafty Gardener said...
The murals are lovely. Love the big flower, and the moose, well guess it depends what angle you are viewing it from :)
- October 24, 2014 at 8:11 PM
That is some close-up pic of the big moose. Guess they believe in being anatomically correct out there. (giggle) Shame on them for having the Christmas decorations up already tho. Loved the native mural and its caption.
- October 25, 2014 at 3:33 PM
- eileeninmd said...
I love that moose.. And the murals are pretty.. What a lovely place..
Have a happy day..
PS, I know the moose is not real but I would love it if you linked up this post to my critter party post..
- October 26, 2014 at 9:49 AM
- carol l mckenna said...
fun and creative post and photos! Love the moose!
Happy Week ahead for you >
artmusedog and carol (A Creative Harbor)
- October 26, 2014 at 5:26 PM
- Linda W. said...
Love the mural and the big moose!
- October 26, 2014 at 6:48 PM
- Jen said...
I love the murals, and the big moose.
- October 26, 2014 at 10:00 PM


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The first two games of this three-game series with the Red Sox have been eventful. The Yankees got embarrassed Tuesday night. It was bad. Then, last night, they answered back with a good team win. And the benches cleared and punches were thrown. Even before the brawl, you could tell the rivalry has some more fire to it this year. I reckon last night's brawl won't the last two time tempers flare between these two clubs.
As for tonight's game, the Yankees are getting Aaron Hicks back from the disabled list, as expected. He went 2-for-4 on Opening Day before an intercostal issue sent him to the sidelines. Hicks played in Triple-A tune-up games the last two days (2-for-6 with a walk) and now he's ready to return. Glad to have him back. The lineup looks a bit more formidable with Hicksie and his switch-hitting bat. Here are the starting lineups:
New York Yankees
1. CF Brett Gardner
2. RF Aaron Judge
3. DH Giancarlo Stanton
4. SS Didi Gregorius
5. C Gary Sanchez
6. DH Aaron Hicks
7. 1B Neil Walker
8. 2B Tyler Wade
9. 3B Ronald Torreyes
RHP Sonny Gray
Boston Red Sox
1. RF Mookie Betts
2. LF Andrew Benintendi
3. 1B Hanley Ramirez
4. DH J.D. Martinez
5. 3B Rafael Devers
6. 2B Eduardo Nunez
7. CF Jackie Bradley Jr.
8. C Sandy Leon
9. SS Brock Holt
RHP Rick Porcello
The bad news: There's some rain in the forecast tonight. Not a ton, but there are supposedly showers on the way between 8pm and 10pm ET. Hopefully it's nothing that delays the game. That would stink. Tonight's series finale will begin at 7:10pm ET and you can watch on YES locally and MLB Network nationally. Enjoy the game.
Roster Move: Shane Robinson was designated for assignment to clear a roster spot for Hicks, the Yankees announced. As with Jace Peterson, I bet Robinson clears waivers, accepts the Triple-A assignment, and remains in the organization as a non-40-man roster player.
Injury Update: Brandon Drury (migraines) isn't done going through his battery of tests. He has more scheduled for the coming days. "A lot of the tests have come back negative so far but still waiting on a number of things he is going through. Hopefully we start to get answers trickling in more so (later this week) and beyond," said Aaron Boone to George King.
Suspensions: As expected, Tyler Austin and Joe Kelly were both suspended for last night's brawl. Austin got five games and Kelly got six games. They're both appealing and are eligible to play tonight.


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The Alabama Brewers Guild has officially announced that it will soon hit the Alabama craft beer community with the fourth release in its Capital Series, Duffie's Tavern Strong Ale.
The Capital Series is a line of annually released collaboration beers brewed by members of the Alabama Brewers Guild "to bring attention to Alabama's 200th year of statehood, and to promote local historical and preservation organizations." Each year's release is specifically designed to honor and celebrate one of Alabama's five historic capitals. Previous limited releases in the Capital Series include 2015's "St. Stephens Stout, paying homage to the territorial capital of Alabama"; 2016's Badlun Brothers Imperial Porter, named for the men that established Alabama's first brewery in Huntsville "during the year it served as the temporary capital and Alabama was admitted as the 22nd state"; and 2017's Mulberry Road Belgian-style Dubbel, brewed to recognize Cahawba as the first permanent capital of the State of Alabama from 1820-1826 and "inspired by the stately mulberry trees lining the streets of the scenic town of Old Cahawba."
Duffie's Tavern Strong Ale is the 2018 installment in the Capital Series and has been brewed to recognize Tuscaloosa, which served as Alabama's capital from 1826 to 1846. The beer's name – chosen after a meeting with the Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society – is a nod to the Old Tavern (a.k.a. Duffie's Tavern), "a historic stagecoach inn and political headquarters during Tuscaloosa's capital days" and presently a museum located near the city's Capitol Park.
As far as the actual beer goes, Duffie's Tavern is a take on "old English ales of the mid-nineteenth century." Deep red-orange in color, this "bold and warm" Strong Ale boasts "hints of toffee and dried fruits on the nose, . . . a classic earthy hop presence throughout, . . . [a] rich malt sweetness and a semi-dry, lingering crisp and bitter finish."
Duffie's Tavern Strong Ale was created with the assistance of the following sponsors "who provided services, products, and expertise to help [the Alabama Brewers Guild] develop a great beer with authentic flavors": White Labs, Country Malt Group, Dalton Box, Resource Label Group, Hopsteiner, and Iron Heart Canning Co.
12 oz. cans of Duffie's Tavern Strong Ale will be hitting shelves any day now and "a portion of the proceeds from the sale of this beer will benefit the Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society." You can expect to find this Limited Release at select craft beer establishments located throughout the state of Alabama. Prost!


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Fourth Department Holds That Non-Cumulation Clause Limits Recovery To Single Policy Limit In Lead Paint Case
Does a non-cumulation clause in an insurance policy limit recovery to a single policy limit, notwithstanding the fact that there is successive exposure to lead in the subject premises during a different policy period by different claimants? Yes says the Appellate Division, Fourth Department. See Nesmith v Allstate Ins. Co., 958 N.Y.S.2d 817 (4th Dep't 2013).
A non-cumulation clause in an insurance policy provides that regardless of the number of insureds, injured persons, claims, or policies involved, an insurer's total liability under the policy for damages resulting from one loss will not exceed the policy limit and that all bodily injury and property damage resulting from one loss or from continuous or repeated exposure to the same general conditions is considered the result of one loss.
The Court of Appeals, interpreting a non-cumulation clause, has held that the mere fact that property owners renew their policy for additional policy periods does not permit plaintiffs to recover more than a single policy limit. See Hiraldo v. Allstate Ins. Co., 5 N.Y.3d 508 (2005). In Ramirez v. Allstate Ins. Co., 26 A.D.3d 266 (1st Dep't 2006), the Appellate Division, First Department concluded that, although the subject children may have been exposed to lead at different times, exposure to the same lead hazard in the same apartment constitutes only one occurrence under the policy.
In Nesmith, the Fourth Department addressed a related issue: whether the exposure of children of different tenants to lead paint in an apartment during different tenancies is encompassed by a non-cumulation clause. The Court agreed with Allstate that its non-cumulation clause limited recovery to a single policy limit, notwithstanding the fact that there was successive exposure to lead in the same apartment during a different policy period by different claimants.
Allstate issued the subject policy in November 1991 to the owner of an apartment building in the City of Rochester. The policy, which had a per-occurrence limit of $500,000, covered one year and was renewed for two additional one-year periods. In 1993, two children were exposed to lead paint while living in an apartment in that building, and one suffered injuries as a result of that exposure. In 1994, two children of a subsequent tenant were also exposed to lead in the same apartment.
Two separate tort actions were commenced. One action settled for $350,000, which Allstate paid pursuant to its policy. Allstate offered the remaining $150,000 of coverage to settle the second action. In a declaratory judgment action brought by the plaintiffs, the trial court denied Allstate's motion for summary judgment seeking a declaration that the non-cumulation clause limited recovery to a single policy limit.
The Fourth Department reversed, concluding that "the only reasonable interpretation of that clause requires that the two claims be classified as a single accidental loss within the meaning of the policy." Nesmith, 958 N.Y.S.2d 817. The evidence established that the lead paint that injured the second set of children was the same lead paint that was present in the apartment when the first set of children lived there.
Thus, Nesmith is a continuation of the above line of cases, which limit the definition of an "occurrence" in the context of exposure-related personal injury cases. Exposure to the same lead hazard in the same apartment constitutes only one occurrence, regardless of the number of different tenants or tenancies involved.
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LONDON: Fifa president Sepp Blatter apologised for his 'unfortunate comments' on racism in the game but rejected calls to resign as head of the sport's governing body.
Blatter's initial comments, where he suggested that disputes on the pitch involving racist abuse should be resolved by a handshake, came after Liverpool's Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez was charged by the English Football Association (FA) for allegedly racially abusing Manchester United's French international defender Patrice Evra.
England captain John Terry is also facing a police and FA investigation over allegations he hurled racist abuse at QPR defender Anton Ferdinand.
Blatter's remarks sparked a storm in England, where he was already unpopular for the way in which he and Fifa dealt with the country's failed bid to stage the 2018 World Cup.
Players also criticised him, with former England captain David Beckham adding to the condemnation, although he stopped short of calling for Blatter to resign.
Blatter, however, was apologetic and regretted his remarks. "It hurts and I'm still hurting," Blatter told the BBC. "I couldn't envisage such a reaction.
"When you've done something which was not totally correct, I can only say I'm sorry for all those people affected by my declarations."
But when asked about calls that he should quit for his remarks, he refused. "I cannot resign. Why should I?
"When you're faced with a problem you have to face the problem. To leave would be totally unfair and not compatible with my fighting spirit."
Published in The Express Tribune, November 19th, 2011.


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Let's be clear…
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Train arrives in tunnel subway station in London, very squeaky. Entering train, very bumpy ride to next station, medium crowded, general walla. Recorded with Zoom H4 on-board mikes
Can I use this one in my mixtape?
Another great one! Which stations did you travel from and to?
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September 2014
JORDAN'S Ministry of Water and Irrigation plans to build a new $45-million wastewater pipeline to transport sewage from Zarqa Governorate and parts of Amman to the Al Samra Wastewater Treatment Plant, said a report.
The new pipeline will be set up next to an existing conveyor that was built 30 years ago, said the Jordan Times report.
The Al Samra plant is being expanded on a build, operate and transfer (BOT) contract at a cost of $223 million. It treats 75 per cent of wastewater generated in the kingdom and produces 70 per cent of the country's sludge. On completion of the expansion, it will have the capacity to treat about 133 million cu m of wastewater, compared to its current capacity of 60 million cu m, it added.
The ministry will also replace the old pipe which is worn out, leading to several instances of sewage leakage over the past years, it said.
The current pipeline, after being rehabilitated and fixed, will serve as a route for wastewater in emergencies.
Tender documents are being prepared for the project, with construction scheduled to start in April next year.


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Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Watkins Centre Re-visited
I want to state for the record that I am impressed with the Watkins Centre. The size and the scale of the project I believe are want was envisioned for the area when Route 288 was being funded years ago. I think we have to understand that once RT288 was completed and the bridge from Powhatan into Goochland County was completed that we would be faced with potential projects like these sooner or later. Folks thats really the underlying reason that roadway was built in the first place. I know I will get that it was built to connect Chesterfields population with that of the West End and offering easy access for those that work and or shop across the river. Wait. I think I have heard that before somewhere recently. Could it be Watkins Centre?
The meeting held back on June 4th convinced of one simple truth; we were being sold this project by sales folk. Now I understand that there is some vested interest in the project by parties involved and on thats not at all the issue in my mind. I have supported the proponents of this project, as Sen Watkins and Supervisor Sowder whose district the project will be located so this is simply not some political hack job taken at these individuals but what it seemed and to many I have spoken to since was this thing is all but done. Presence at the very meeting was like you unknowingly party to it all. This was a community meeting but truly for what end. Were we really involved? Is are insight or views part of the debate? Is their really any debate at all? Someone will need to help us defone within our county exactly what me mean when we say "community".
Look, I am not opposed to Watkins Centre, but the process our leadership continues to go through in its considerations for such projects. I recall during the Rt288 debate the powers that be used the rhetoric that the roadway would give us greater access to the other side of the river and now we need Watkins Centre as a means to limit the number of residents having to travel across the river and spend their hard earned money. The goal is to provide a mixed-use for business/office and retail with retail going in first and they want to impress upon us that we should support Chesterfield business and stay home. Okay. That begs the question then why do we have Rt288 in the first place. They want us to shop and in my estimation locate new business along the corridor so we work here as well and not feel compelled to travel across the river anymore.
My only real issue is that it will not matter what so ever if the mix of retail is not just right. If they cannot bring "new", okay thats something that gets thrown around all the time and I do not mean a new Walmart SuperCenter, I mean "new" retailers not operating in Richmond at all that are at the higher end. The beauty of Short Pump has not been its location or relatively easy access by residents, but the mix of small and large format retailers that were not here before, anywhere. Nordstroms, Crate & Barrel, Pottery Barn, Cheesecake Factory, were just a few that Richmonders wanted and Short PUmp brought them in and lets not forget about Stony Point.
So what does Watkins Centre plan to offer, really? All I think is that the size and scope of this project should have a site plan with signed leases by anchor tennants and other retail as a requirement BEFORE it goes any further. I am sure that the arguement over feasibility in that will be raised, but if I am not mistaken the developer had something similar to that for Short Pump which was delayed if I recall. Without providing new retail I believe the project will not meet expectation. The site must balance family needs, young urban singles, and seniors (a growing poulation in Chesterfield that is virtually be ignored the last five years) within a complex and to pull that off it must do more than simply state it will be high end mixed use-it must deliver it.
Some discussion of the project included that a grocery store would be one of the anchors. Opinion: if its not Wegmans, Shoppers or Harris Teeter big deal. The leadership is so content on coming from the perspective that "free market" philosophy should dominate the discussion and Chesterfield Towne Center will have to change and adapt to compete if fails to look at itself in the rhelm of how it is in fact impacting that landscape through its commercial growth view. We are allowing shiopping centers to go up a stones throw from one another and continue to build out Rt360 like the Rt60 and West Broad Street of old. Did we not learn our lesson? What do they really expect to be left behind? What will be the real impact on us?
Fact: Today it took me 19 minutes too drive from the RT60/Rt288 interchange down to Courthouse Rd and Chesterfield Towne Center. 19 minutes. These are the little things the powers seem to miss when they tell people about great it will be to have a shopping mall in their backyard and the financial impact on the county will be tremondous--how about this earmark the impact for very defined avenues, ie the increase seen will go to very specific things and mandate it before all of this even happens. I know , now thats just plain silly.
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J. Scott is your intent to"buy" the goods they are selling but you just do not like the way in which they are presenting the goods???
I always felt that Sen. Watkins should have removed himself from all this because of a conflict of interest he has regarding that site. Funny no one sounds off when its a Republican. Interesting.
- June 13, 2007 at 10:50:00 PM AST
- Bill Garnett said...
TO: Alter of Freedom
Looks like you have done your homework and you are coming close to unraveling the "hidden" agenda behind the Watkins Center developer's paradise. But I think you are seeing the glass as half empty. You are missing the real advantage the 288 corridor has for Chesterfield County residents.
And that advantage is that it gives any bright, energetic, hopeful, or mobile young resident an escape route out of the county and towards some place on this planet where there are job opportunities above retail clerk, a quality of life that includes more than strip malls and residential developments full of façade fronts, and a general tolerance among enlightened residents.
- June 14, 2007 at 1:35:00 AM AST
I am always skeptical when politicians tell we "need" something. I simply do not see the need in this project now. We are completely over run with shopping centers, maybe not malls of this magnitude but commercial centers nonetheless. Is this want they mean by "economic development" more retail outlets.
I guess the logic here they have approved so much residential zonings, upwards of 16,000 additional units last I heard with Magnolia Green and Roseland and others that those families will need places for their teenagers to work.
There is a point to be made and thats when our children graduate college are they looking to come here or Richmond anymore, I fear the answer is no. We have seen it every year where we lose a Fortune 500 company or just recently Wachovia announced leaving, Circuit City is in trouble, Capital One is laying people off again.
Is retail really the answer or simply the easier sell to people who have gotten way to caught up in consumer durables and the "gotta have" trendy items of the day. We bear this responsibility and the implication is they can convince us we "need" this kind of center to fill our lust for things and convenience.
- June 14, 2007 at 9:13:00 AM AST
I though that they told us that Magnolia and Roseland would have elementary schools in the developments as part of the approval process?
By the there is a site for watkins @ www.watkinscentre.net
- June 14, 2007 at 12:40:00 PM AST
Your question is a fair one. I believe that the developers have provided in the site planning and allocated land for the county to use for the schools, that is to say "land-only" the county,tax revenue will have to pay for the infrastructure of the schools themselves.
Nobody has said the developers are not smart. By providing the land for the schools they attempt to make it a "win-win" with the county officials because they know the county needs more schools desperately.
I am like the idea of the developers sharing some of the responsibility in this manner, but what I would like to see even more is for the county to already have the funds to actually build the school before approval of zonings. The county already has school being built but I do not think there has been approved funding for these particular schools yet given the early stages of the process. That should be completed and determined first, otherwise you end up with development moving forward with the schools not built and no timetable for the schools to adequately come on line to support the community as it grows. Again, we have seen this happen time and time again as our schools remain at max-levels.
While I applaud the "give and take" dynamic, I just believe our officials should be demanding more in the way of balance.
These areas are currently being considered to have so-called transportation districts with increased taxs on units within the district for those who live in them, which leads me to belive that the county will not be able to generate the revenue required from these areas for quite some time as the developments are built out over the next 10-15 years.
- June 14, 2007 at 3:00:00 PM AST
- schipwreck said...
Hey anonymous: True, it is probably not in Watkins' best political interest to involve himself in this project, but Republicans have had their fair share of "sound-offs" on the national spectrum. Come on now, it's only Chesterfield.
I wish Chesterfield would use transportation plans to direct development where it should go, rather than letting hop-scotch development dictate new, pork-barrel road projects like the frightening "wraparound" design of powhite parkway proposed through western chesterfield and beyond. Or what about the 8-lane-wide-and-still-packed hull street road corridor? Where's the high-end commercial development to service folks who live off of Hull Street? Nice try with Commonwealth Centre, but all the higher-end projects are going up further north, where the higher-end retailers already are (Short Pump, Patterson Avenue, Stony Point)!!!!!
- June 19, 2007 at 8:43:00 PM AST
I agree. Simply take a look at the Chesterfield Economic Dev. website and look at traffic stats and road projects. You knoew I think I'll right post on that this week...thanks.
- June 19, 2007 at 11:09:00 PM AST
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Girls who won the fat quarter/thread combo they should be coming to you soon - only 3 girls have claimed them and if the other two aren't claimed by next Wed. they will go to some other lucky follower :) So this is a little project you can make when your goodies come in the mail ;) If you didn't win...
Here is what you will need:
a fat quarter of fabric
elastic thread
regular thread
sewing machine
Step 1: Cut it into a piece 22" x 13". This is how I did it, but this might get confusing -
Fold your fat quarter in half (length-wise).
Step 2: Fold the bottom edge up 6 1/2 inches.
Step 3: Cut the remaining fabric at the top off (save it though b/c you will make the strap out of it).
Step 4: Fold it right sides together - it will now be 11"x13"
Like this:
Step 5: Flip it right sides out and press.
Step 6: Fold the bottom edge up to the top, making a rectangle for your bag.
Sew along both sides - these are the side seams of your bag.
Step 7: We are going to square the corners - just to give it a little shape. Simply measure 1/2" both directions from the corners. Connect them with a line, and sew across the line.
(My mom would say you must finish those inside seams - zig zag, serge, or pinking shears...)
Step 8: Elastic Thread There was a little bit of confusion about this on the scarf, so I am going to try to explain it better. Using your machine, wind the elastic thread onto the bobbin. I know it says to hand-wind it, but I have had better success winding it on my machine. Then put the bobbin in your machine, and thread the needle with regular thread. Sew a straight line around the opening of the bag - letting the fabric loosely flow through the machine. You could even place your finger behind the presser foot - where the fabric is feeding through - and kind of slow the fabric as it is feeding through - making it bunch up a little more. Just release it every couple inches or so. Once you have sewn around the top, wet it and hand scrunch it. Toss it in the dryer for a couple of minutes. You could also just steam press it. Either process should make the thread shrink up nicely.
(yes I stitched mine twice - I wasn't very happy the first time and I was too lazy to rip out the first seam...)
Step 9: Go and fetch that little remnant that you cut off at the beginning. Open it flat and cut or tear it into strips 3/4" wide and 22 " long. you should be able to get 7 strips.
Step 10: Braid three of the strips into one braid. Braid three more into another braid. To join them, lay one end of the braid ontop of the other, perpendicular to it, like this:
Trim off the raw edges and you should have one long, thin braid to use for a strap.
Step 11: Sew the ends of the strap onto the inside of the bag - where the side seams are located.
(Sorry this picture is kind of blurry)
For a bonus interest, take that 7th strip and tie it into a little bow on the strap.
And that's it!! You have a sassy little bag to swing over your shoulder and dash out the door the first chance you get!
Happy Sewing!


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A project which could help generate electricity and heat for Lincolnshire and improve the appearance of the county's verges begins a trail on Monday, April 23.
The grass verge cutter will start its first run from south of Coningsby, and will also operate in the Horncastle area.
The project presents a number of opportunities for both the county council and businesses whilst providing a sustainable solution to the disposal of verge cuttings.
The trial will remove verge cuttings using a specially designed machine and the cuttings will then be digested at an Anaerobic Digestion plant.
Eddy Poll, Executive Member for Commercial and Environmental Management at Lincolnshire County Council, said: "In addition to the potential to help generate sustainable heat and electricity, there are a number of advantages to removing the waste cuttings from verges.
"There would be potential for more frequent verge cutting and reduced costs, as well as more biodiverse road side verges which are more pleasant to look at."
• Verge biomass is a waste product of the council's verge cutting operation. It is currently left in situ and rots down.
The trial will run until the end of September with the grass verge harvester cutting on the roads in the Horncastle and Coningsby area.
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Illius Rock 2nite w/ Pretty & Nice
I'm still kinda cracked out from the eight shades of epic Presets & Circle smasher on Saturday, so I might sit this out (ahem Ray J). But Pretty & Nice are always fun, dynamic DJ duo Roguewaves know how to kill it in the booth and you can't beat free free free. I still have no idea what Illius is but they keep throwing free events and that's good enough for me.
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On April 9, 2018, the five candidates for Suffolk County District Attorney shared the stage at the English High School in Jamaica Plain to make their case to the voters. Voter Choice Massachusetts was invited to conduct a straw poll with Ranked Choice Voting to help voters navigate this crowded field and find out which of these candidates was able to consolidate a majority of attendees' support, which "pick one and pray" plurality voting -- the way we vote now -- routinely fails to do.
Civic and political organizations, as well as the public at large, are increasingly recognizing the critical role district attorneys play in our lives. Today, more than ever, the public is growing acutely aware of how important it is to have public oversight and involvement in our criminal justice system so that it works the very best it can. As a result, people are paying more and more attention to district attorney elections statewide and nationally.
The candidates are, in order of appearance in the photo: Rachael Rollins, Greg Henning, Shannon McAuliffe, Evandro Carvalho, and Linda Champion.
The forum was sponsored by JP Progressives and the Boston NAACP and was covered by this article in Commonwealth Magazine. (See the event Facebook page for more details about the event.) No Republican candidates have announced to run in their primary for this office, making the results of this Democratic primary decisive for the final outcome.
There are several self-described progressive candidates running. On the other hand, candidate Greg Henning has received significant campaign contributions from outgoing DA Dan Conley as well as police officers. This suggests he may be capable of consolidating a plurality of support from more moderate or conservative voters.
The way our "plurality" elections work now, voters can only pick one candidate on their ballot, and the winner is the person who gets the most votes, but not necessarily a majority -- more than 50%. The four self-described progressive candidates could end up splitting the support of their shared voter base and hurting each other. This would allow a more self-described moderate or conservative candidate to win with as little as 20% of the vote. If it turns out that the broad electorate leans progressive, then there is a problem. This splintering of ballots of like-minded voters between similar candidates could mean that the majority of the electorate could be denied a winner who they support.
Let's see what the straw poll was able to tell us. (If you're not familiar with how Ranked Choice Voting is counted, here is a 1.5 minute primer from Minneapolis.)
The Poll Results
The poll results are by no means scientific, and should never be construed as an accurate representation of the votes to be cast in the state primary election on September 11th. The poll only reflects the views of the attendees of the forum who chose to express their candidate preferences on our sample Ranked Choice Voting ballot (which can be viewed at the top of this post). (See Disclaimer Detail at the bottom of this post.)
Initial preferences
In the first round, in which only voters' 1st-choice votes were counted, Rachael Rollins is in the lead with a plurality of the vote. However, both Greg Henning and Shannon McAuliffe won solid support from the audience. Would Rollins struggle to maintain her top position as other candidates' voters moved on to their second choices or was she really the most preferred candidate?
The field consolidates
After the two lowest vote getters are eliminated and the ballots of their supporters counted towards those voters' next choices, the picture did not change much. At this point, Greg Henning would be eliminated as having the least support in the poll of the remaining candidates.
This poll could have still gone to either Rollins or McAuliffe, depending on the preferences of Henning's supporters. Rollins was holding a 10 point lead over McAuliffe with Henning's supporters still counted separately, reinforcing that she may have been the clear favorite of progressives voting at the forum (57% to 43%).
And the winner is...
Rachael Rollins won the RCV straw poll. She picked up 55% of Henning's votes, giving her a decisive double-digit victory. Thanks to the straw poll, we can be certain that the winner has true majority support -- not merely a plurality win of the "biggest faction".
Full round-by-round results
See full detail of round-by-round results with vote transfers here:
What does this all mean?
Attendees of this forum went all-in with ranking their ballots, proving how easy it is to use Ranked Choice Voting, even while sitting or standing in an auditorium. 93% of voters ranked three or more candidates. Just 4% voted for only a single candidate. Ranked Choice Voting took the pain of strategic voting out of the process, allowing voters to simply record their honest preferences: 1st choice, 2nd choice, 3rd choice.
Rachael Rollins was the decisive favorite at this forum by a strong 56.2% majority, as well as being the top choice among a crowded field, with 40.2% of the first-choice preferences. What we see from the first and second round is that Rollins had about 52-57% of the vote going towards the more progressive leaning candidates, in a poll where 74-77% of participants voted leaning progressive.
This suggests that with multiple self-described progressive candidates running and splitting votes, even if 65% of the general electorate votes progressive, the leader of this group, like Rollins in this poll, could still only come away with vote numbers in the low 30% range. This would mean a loss to a more moderate/conservative candidate like Henning if he consolidates just 35% of the vote. If Henning were to win with a majority of votes, then good for him and good for voters. However, putting candidates in office who are not supported by a majority of voters is not healthy in a democracy. Such vote-splitting is the Achilles' heel of how we elect candidates today using our "pick one and pray" plurality voting system.
There is a better way
The 5-way Suffolk County DA race is a textbook example: our voting system breaks down when similar candidates want to run. If we had Ranked Choice Voting, then similar candidates can freely run. Voters can enjoy the benefits of having more choices. No more pressuring candidates to drop out or pressuring voters to rally around "one" front-runner. No more "lesser of two evils" voting. There would be no more vote-splitting because voters can choose a cluster of similar candidates, and ranked choice voting would choose the strongest of the cluster, and every group of voters with shared interests stays unified. RCV allows every voter to choose their favorite as their 1st choice, then choose backup choices (2nd, 3rd, etc) if their first choice does not have enough support.
About Voter Choice Massachusetts
In light of Maine becoming the first state in US history to enact Ranked Choice Voting; and in light of a profoundly divisive 2016 presidential election season; perhaps you, like us, recognize how much a better voting system is needed right now. Voters should not be pressured to choose between the "lesser of two evils". Candidates with the best ideas, not the biggest bank accounts or the insider connections, should have a fair shot at running for office. The people of Massachusetts deserve better -- we deserve ranked choice voting.
At 10,000 members and over 200 active volunteers, Voter Choice Massachusetts is the largest and most active statewide Ranked Choice Voting movement in the nation right now (besides Maine); but we still need your help to win Ranked Choice Voting statewide. That's where you come in. Volunteer. Donate. Connect with us online.
***Disclaimer Detail
- Voter Choice Massachusetts is a strictly non-partisan organization and does not endorse any candidate, party, or partisan ideology.
- This poll was conducted at an event sponsored by organizations whose supporters lean strongly progressive.
- The poll was conducted using ranked paper ballots distributed amongst attendees. 82 valid ballots were collected. This is a very small sample size in the context of the race.
- It is very early in the race. Candidates' messages and voters concerns may still be evolving.
- Attending a forum like this may result in election participants being more informed than the average voter, making them a non-representative sample.
- The results may be biased based on the candidates' performances on this particular evening.


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New smartwatches running Android Wear, Google's version of Android made for wearable computers, can't download paid apps from the Play Store, according to a new blog post from Google.
Tech blog Android Police spotted the problem on Tuesday, reporting that it couldn't install paid apps on watches running Android Wear.
The issue, as it turns out, involves a security measure in which the Play Store encrypts paid apps to prevent piracy.
That feature, however, also made it impossible to extract and install these paid apps on Android Wear devices, according to Android Police.
Google has since issued a workaround to resolve the issue. Developers behind these paid apps now have to manually package the wearable APK, which Google explains in full on the Android Developer Blog.
In short, it means that developers that charge for their apps now have to do a little extra work to get their apps to work on Google's smartwatch platform.
The bug was spotted before these devices have reached the hands of most consumers. The LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live just went on sale this week. Motorola's Moto 360 watch should launch in a few months.
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Super Mario Odyssey Review
I am honestly lost for words. The spirit of Super Mario 64 lives on in this game. While you're playing, it will feel like you have stepped into a portal to your childhood. Let's be honest, no other franchise has made as big of an impact on the gaming industry


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Political Competence and Corporate Citizenship
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Senior executives from a variety of organizations are often called to testify about health policy issues. It is in the organization's best interest if these executives are both politically competent and good corporate citizens.
1. In general terms, what knowledge, skills, and individual behaviors must an executive have to be politically competent and to be good corporate citizens?
2. Think about a particular healthcare organization's corporate citizenship. How would you describe it (e.g., "good," "average," or "poor")? What did the organization do (or not do) to achieve this level of corporate citizenship?© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com October 9, 2019, 8:16 pm ad1c9bdddf
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Interesting questions! One approach to helping with questions like this is to look at the health and business literature from various sources, which you can then draw on for your final response. This is keeping within BrainMass policy for OTAs not to complete assingments or parts of assignments for students. It does give you ample information to successfully write your final copy, however. This is the approach this response takes. One example is looked at in question #2 and then analyzed using two criteria presented in the literature ("good" rating).
Let's take a closer look:
1. In general terms, what knowledge, skills, and individual behaviors must an executive have to be politically competent and to be good corporate citizens?
Political competence is the skills, perspectives, and values needed for effective political involvement within a given field of work or organization. Political competence is a necessary component necessary to be a good cooperate citizenship. Both are related to ethics. Whereas good corporate citizenship is about an organization acting ethically toward society as a whole, political competence is one of the necessary skill required to apply good cooperate citizenship. According to Dauenhauer (1996) political competence in citizens consists of four main components:
(1) The political competence person recognizes that politics, although inseparable from economics and morality, is not reducible to them. It has its own objective, norms and means. It must utilize both technico-scientific expertise and be advised by moral standards (e.g., in a respectful, not co-optive manner (e.g., political competent person is informed by other proposals, such as economics). Sensible political action can only aspire to provide structure and material and cultural resources, for people and/or organizations for people to work together in a peaceful and fair manner.
(2) The acceptance of the fact that all politics, like all actions, is both risky and transgressive - it always impinges on some people in some unexpected way. In politics, one can only work with probabilities.
(3) Recognizes the fragility of arena of politics, and all domains belonging to politics. S/he recognizes that no politics is free from the tendencies of tyranny, totalitarianism or anarchy. Thus, the political competent person recognizes the need to be vigilant against ignorant, thoughtless or criminal people, who threaten to undercut sound political practice and thus urge political representatives to reduce the frequency and intensity of state coercion.
(4) Like all human action, politics include bodily and thoughtly dimensions. The political competent person is not expected to set aside her or his blood ties, religious values, or cultural customs (bodily), but for political action to call for a setting aside of the bodily for the thoughtliness, is not to demean the bodily dimension. The political competent person can then set aside personal values and customs when necessary, in the betterment of society as a whole (Dauenhauer, 1996).
To add to this, according to Longest (2002), political competence is necessary for good corporate citizenship and includes the following:
1. Analyzing Public Policy Environments (e.g., " Public Interest" is a characteristic of "good corporate citizenship" and a quality of this organization)
2. Developing research designs and procedures for environmental analysis (i.e., scanning the Environment to Identify Strategic Public Policy Issues, strategic decision making of who/what should be scanned and monitoring strategic public policy issues, forecasting changes in strategic public policy issues-through Trend Extrapolation Scenario Development, etc. are skills necessary to be politically competent).
3. Assessing the Strategic Importance of Public Policy Issues (e.g. knowledge of public policy issues and implementing programs reflecting public trends)
4. Diffusing the Results of Environmental Analysis into Organizations, Systems, and Interest Groups (e..g, understanding and applying information, such as developing programs to meet the needs of the community).
5. Influencing Public Policy Environments i.e., by displaying organization behaviors consistent with "good corporate citizenship" often reflective of the organization's mission statement and executed through the implementation of policies as promised to the public in an open transparent manner, etc.) (Longest, 2002).
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From the nursing literature, Warner (2003) found, for example, that political competence is requisite within nursing to (e.g. to be a good corporate citizen): (a) intervene in the broad socioeconomic and environmental determinants of health, (b) intervene effectively in a culturally diverse society, (c) partner in development of a humane health care system, and (d) bring nursing's values to policy discussions. Specifically, this ...
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This solution discusses the knowledge, skills, and individual behaviors that an executive must have to be politically competent and to be good corporate citizens. By example, it also analyzes the level (e.g., "good," "average," or "poor") of corporate citizenship displayed by a health organization, and what it did (or not do) to achieve this level of corporate citizenship.


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This article is a player character biography page for Ameria of Moon Guard US
The contents herein are entirely player made and in no way represent official World of Warcraft history or occurrences which are accurate for all realms. The characters and events listed are of an independent nature and applied for roleplaying, fictional, speculative, or opinions from a limited playerbase only.
Aremia looks every inch a novice warrior despite being able to wield the Light. She prefers a solid two-handed blade to a clumsy mace that most paladins seem to favor and relies more heavily on that weapon than her other abilities.
She stands just six feet fall and is slim-limbed although gaining in bulky muscle as the days go by. Her hair is almost always bound in two tight, slightly off-center pigtails. She appears to carry herself with confidence but rarely seems to let her face reflect anything but superficial amusement or prideful resentment.
Her armor is serviceable but obviously used beyond its limits. Her blade is kept in keen repair but the pommel is often chipped or tarnished. The visible parts of her body are dotted with bruises, both fresh and healing, and usually a few nicks and scrapes for good measure. Caution doesn't seem to be part of her worries when out adventuring. It's also not uncommon for her knees and fingers to be grass-stained from picking flowers or to sport an odd stain caused by her latest alchemic experiment.
Aremia is as unorthodox as they come. She has no idea if her family survived the crash and hasn't bothered to try to find out. While not filled with bitterness, she detests the near-robotic faithfulness that her people have given to the Naaru and refuses to bow or pray to the beings of "Light" that claimed to have saved them. Where were they when her people were turned to demons? to Broken? decimated by Orcs? No, the Naaru only appeared after each traumatic incident to sweep in and "save" the poor Draenei after the fact. She has very little trust for them due to this.
Because of her feelings about the Naaru, she refuses to accept or admit that being able to wield the energy call "Light" is "gift" from these creatures. She also does not subscribe to the almost religious fervor that the humans apply to it. Instead, she believes that the Light is merely one part of a neutral energy that nearly anyone can draw in and warp into the force of their choosing. She relies more heavily on her weapon and budding strength and only calls upon the Light when absolutely necessary to further her goals of self betterment. She believes that by bettering herself she will be able to help all of Azeroth in due time.
Goals and motivationsEdit
Aremia is highly motivated to make herself a better person. She would seek to gain both physical power and increased intelligence as well as explore more of her new home. She curious about many things but often prefers to remain silent rather than admit her ignorance. She can be resistant to learning if such things are pressed upon her by force rather than offered to her in friendship.
Aremia doesn't trust the Naaru.
She is prideful and will often cut off her nose to spite her face.
She has a love of fine Dwarven stout and is easily plied with such things as good food, good drink, and good conversation.
Public knowledge and rumorsEdit
Lord Grayson Shadowbreaker has currently put a ban on Aremia's official training. No sanctified paladin trainer is to teach her anything further in the way of the Light until she offers a formal apology to an appointed trainer that she injured quite badly. Lord Shadowbreaker is still seeking someone with the right amount of finesse and attitude to be able to gain control of Aremia's on-the-field training. Rumor has it that she's been bribing a Dwarf to further her education of late.


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As we mentioned a few months ago, Alfa' r Connectors attended the most well-known European trade fair in the automation sector as exhibitors. On this occasion we would like to tell you about our visit to the SPS IPC DRIVES 2017 in Nuremberg, an unforgettable experience from which only positive things have been achieved.
Last November, on the 28th, 29th and 30th of November, we attended the SPS IPC DRIVES trade fair, an event that brings together leading figures in the electrical automation sector. Here we present news regarding software, technologies, in our case, connectors and all types of products related to the sector.
Alpha' r in the SPS IPC DRIVES
Thus, we had the opportunity and the pleasure to participate in this last edition of 2017, where we exhibited a selection of electrical connectors. Part of our team spent the three days in this beautiful German city on their stand, having the pleasure of having been able to greet and, in many cases meet our customers and a multitude of collaborators.
This experience has allowed us to strengthen ties with former clients and to face some others. This is because we work internationally, which is why with many of them we were never able to meet until the event happened. Similarly, we have met many other professionals in the connectors sector, both competitors and future partners and customers.
In any case, it is clear that the SPS IPC DRIVES fair in Nuremberg has had for us an affectionate and human component that we truly loved. To be able to promote these values is not always easy and this occasion has made us feel different, united in a different way to our clients and, above all, surprised by what events of this type, which seem to be exclusively working, can achieve.
Of course, not all the success of the event has been on an emotional level. It is more than evident that an event of this magnitude and with the experience of the professionals of assembly, coordination and a very long etcetera. it would have to be perfect, as it was. We were able to see how the entire staff was involved in every aspect we could imagine. In this way, the experience has been unforgettable for exhibitors, customers and collaborators alike.
In short, during our visit to the SPS IPC DRIVES trade fair in Nuremberg, we all had the opportunity, as exhibitors, to offer perfect integrated automation solutions.
We have also seen how simple it is to work with colleagues in the sector who, each of them in their own field, have been able to compete fairly with all the others, being able to offer complete electronic automation services to each and every one of the customers, whose needs were, of course, very different.
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Lupita Nyong'o is an actress, an activist and now she can add designer to her resume!
The 34-year-old attended the Black Panther world premiere event on Monday night alongside her mother, and while that's incredibly special in itself, Lupita also designed her mama's dress.
She took to Instagram for a little humble brag moment, sharing a photo of her mother to show her work.
"My mummy looked so pretty at the @blackpanther premiere," she wrote. "@kutula and I designed her dress. #humblebrag #BlackPanther."
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It's the tale of a convicted felon and ex-migrant worker, deported from the U.S., but there's more to Eduardo Garcia's story than meets the eye.
The deportee overcame a tough life to become a superstar chef, and has become one of Mexico's biggest culinary successes.
CGTN Martin Markovits reports from Mexico City.
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Ex-convict and US deportee beats odds to become Mexico's superstar chefIt's the tale of a convicted felon and ex-migrant worker, deported from the U.S., but there's more to Eduardo Garcia's story than meets the eye. The deportee overcame a tough life to become a superstar chef, and has become one of Mexico's biggest culinary successes.
Eduardo Garcia made his Maximo Bistrot one of the top restaurants in Mexico City's thriving food scene. Among his customers are Mexican movie stars, elite politicians and other patrons. But for Garcia, the son of Mexican migrant laborers in the U.S., it had not always been that way.
"I actually never went to any school, I always worked. I have vivid memories of picking tomatoes and oranges for sixteen hours a day when I was five -years -old. It's modern slavery," Garcia explained.
An aggravated assault conviction in the U.S. landed Garcia in prison for three years. He was deported twice to Mexico in 2000 and 2007. He decided to stay in Mexico and through cooking, his true passion, turned his life around.
"I have been always told that I could never do that, I was always told I was a convicted felon. So for me I have to be better than everyone else and I always say I'm not the best cook and I'm not the worst cook. But I love what I do," Garcia said.
Garcia opened his restaurant, Maximo Bistrot, in 2011 with four employees. Garcia and his wife now own three restaurants in Mexico City, and he is about to open two more in Paris and Dubai.
Garcia has six years under his belt as a restaurant owner, and his food is celebrated for its unique take on European dishes melded with traditional Mexican flavors. It has earned him the admiration of food lovers from all over the world.
Garcia said he feels his biggest accomplishment is that he has been able to make a successful business in Mexico. He employs 150 people in a country where it's difficult to make a living wage, and where few economic opportunities exist.
"I started to notice how most of my employees were making $500 a week which for Mexican standards and no education is really good. And they started to build their own homes, so to me it became a business that promotes and helps people stay in the country," Garcia said.
Garcia hopes his story can inspire the millions of his compatriots living illegally and in fear of being returned to their native land. He stands as proof that second chances do exist in a changing Mexico.