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TAMPA, Fla. -- New York ace CC Sabathia got a little stronger with each inning in his spring training debut.
After a rough first inning, Sabathia worked four more innings, allowing two runs and eight hits in the Yankees' 7-3 victory over the Miami Marlins on Friday.
The Marlins scored twice on three hits and a walk in the first against Sabathia, who also was charged with an error on an errant pickoff attempt to first. Rob Brantly had an RBI single during the inning.
"He got better as the day went on, so I was happy," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.
The left-hander struck out two and walked one in his first game since arthroscopic surgery Oct. 25 to remove a bone spur from his left elbow. Sabathia pitched in several simulated games before making the start Friday.
"Felt pretty good first time out," Sabathia said. "Didn't have any problems. Changeup was good. Fastball command needs to be a little better."
Sabathia, the expected opening day starter, had two trips to the disabled list last year. A strained left groin kept him out from June 24 to July 17 and an inflamed left elbow sidelined him from Aug. 8-24. The 32-year-old was 15-6 with a 3.38 ERA, his fewest regular-season wins since 2006, and 2-1 in three playoff starts.
"The last few innings, his fastball command was really good," Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli said. "His slider was amazing the whole game."
Derek Jeter played shortstop flawlessly for the second time since ankle surgery last fall. The New York captain went 1 for 3, hitting a single between short and third in the third.
"Everything is good," Jeter said. "Making steps. No problems. Honestly, it's like any other spring training. You get more action as you move along."
Cervelli hit a solo homer in the second, and Travis Hafner had a two-run shot in the third off John Maine. The Miami starter gave up three runs and three hits in three innings.
"I got into patterns," Maine said. "Threw too many fastballs. On the otherhand, it's something I do need to work on. Fastball wasn't all that great. That's why I have to go out there and do it."
Maine, who hasn't pitched in the major leagues since 2010 and is competing for a spot in the Marlins' rotation, had two strikeouts and two walks.
Jeter fielded Adeiny Hechavarria's second-inning grounder and threw him out at first. The 38-year-old star caught a liner by Austin Kearns in the third and doubled Kevin Kouzmanoff off first base, and also threw out Kearns on a fifth-inning grounder.
Another Miami starter, Jacob Turner, struggled in a three-inning outing Thursday in a minor league game on the Marlins' offday.
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New York third baseman Ronnier Mustelier left in the fourth with bruises on both legs after running into a railing near the stands on Juan Pierre's foul ball. Girardi doesn't expect Mustelier to play until Tuesday.
"He hit it pretty hard," Girardi said.
Through a translator, Mustelier said his right knee was sore, but that overall he was fine.
NOTES: Marlins INFs Placido Polanco (oblique) and Greg Dobbs (calf) could play in Saturday's game against the New York Mets. ... Yankees reliever Boone Logan (sore elbow) is scheduled to throw batting practice for the first time Saturday. ... Former major league RHP Chris Bootcheck joined the Yankees for the game from their minor league camp. He is on the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre roster. ... Miami 3B Nick Green had three hits. ... New York C Chris Stewart, who has shoulder soreness after being hit by a foul tip Wednesday, is expected to play Saturday. ... Yankees GM Brian Cashman, who recently broke his right leg and dislocated the ankle while skydiving in Florida with the U.S. Army Golden Knights, is using a non-mechanical scooter that Jeter utilized during his rehab after his surgery last year.


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Peter King boxing match questioned by ethics watchdog group
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Peter King's decision to help a friend's business by participating in an exhibition boxing match isn't the worst ethics violation, but it still clearly crosses the line, an ethics watchdog group said Thursday.
King (R-Seaford) has drawn wide attention for being willing to get into the ring with a fighter less than half his age, New York kickboxing champion Josh Foley. King said he's doing it to promote his friend and trainer Chris Cardona's for-profit kickboxing event at Mulcahy's Pub in Wantagh on Saturday.
But Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said King might have overlooked the House Code of Ethics requirement to avoid appearing to favor one business.
"It is an ethics violation. Is it the most serious violation in the world? No," she said. "But you're not allowed to do that. It's clear. It's not a gray area."
King, who sent out an email to his campaign list to advertise the event Wednesday, disagreed.
"Lending my time to a local gym and pub in the community in which I have absolutely no financial interest is part of my job as a congressman," he said.
King said he has high regard for Mulcahy's Pub, which has held fundraisers for families of police and firefighters killed or wounded in the line of duty.
"I believe it is entirely appropriate to assist businesses in my community, such as appearing at grand openings of new businesses or celebrating the expansion of current businesses," he said.
But Sloan said the House Code of Ethics says lawmakers should never "discriminate unfairly by the dispensing of special favors" to one individual or to one commercial business.
Sloan said her group criticized Rep. Michael Grimm (R-Staten Island) in 2011 when he appeared in a promotional video for a friend's business. The video was taken down.
Washington ethics attorney Stanley Brand called the violation "trivial at best." Sloan said she won't file a complaint since the Ethics Committee would just tell King not to do it again.
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U.S. Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez will give a policy speech on the Iraq War Friday, Oct. 6, at an event sponsored by the Princeton College Democrats. The lecture will be at 5 p.m. in McCormick 101, with doors opening at 4:15 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
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Wow. More and more people are being told about this site. The number of visits are increasing every week and yesterday was a new record: More than 16,000 visits in a day. The chart above shows the number of daily visits since 2011.
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New Year's Resolutions
With the New Year upon us, I've decided to set a few goals, or resolutions for myself for the upcoming 2012 ballhawking season.
So, here are my resolutions, listed from easiest to accomplish to hardest:
1) Snag 400 balls
I have snagged at least 400 balls in the past three seasons. (412 in 2009, 544 in 2010, and 422 in 2011). According to mygameballs, no ballhawk has ever had four consecutive 400+ seasons.
2) Snag career ball #2,000
I would need to snag 456 balls in 2012 to achieve this goal. Two thousand career balls would make me the third ballhawk to reach that plateau behind Zack Hample and John Witt.
3) Snag 500 balls.
Its only been achieved by two people, Zack Hample in 2008, 2009 and 2011, and myself in 2010. A lofty goal.
4) Attend 100 games.
It looks like if I really pushed myself that I could attend 107 games between Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Baltimore and Cincinnati. However, once the dog days of summer roll around, I know I'll feel like taking some time off before catching a second wind in mid August. A lot will depend on the weather as we lost about fourteen batting practices last year due to rain at PNC Park. Most of those times I just went home rather than toil for hours in the rain for a ball or two.
5) Hike up my career average to 5.00
Currently, I have a career average of 4.80 balls per game. That's 1,544 balls in 322 games. Let's just say for example that I attend 78 games – the same number that I did in 2011… I'd need to snag 456 balls in 78 games, or average 5.85 balls per game to bring my career average up to 5.00 even.
6) Set a new career record in average per game.
In 2010, I averaged 6.18 balls per game. I'd need to average 6.19 to break that obviously, but that won't be easy. 2011 brought larger crowds to PNC Park, jamming the already small area in left field. (We only have six rows to work with!) Obviously, numbers took a hit. All of the PNC ballhawks averages tumbled in 2011 except for Zac Weiss. The only way I'd average more than 6.19 would be for the Pirates to be awful once again, and I don't see that happening. Sure, they may not have a winning record, but they'll at least be respectable. It'd help if PNC opened their gates at 4:30 like Cleveland, Washington, Cincinnati (bp tour)…
7) Have fifteen double digit games.
In 2011, I had only six games in which I snagged 10 or more balls. In 2010 I had 14. Opening Day 2011 at PNC Park was my best game of the year, where I snagged 13.
8) Snag 15 balls in a game.
I've never done it. I've had some opportunities where I've snagged 13 here and there but didn't hang around for the game and left right after BP (such as Cleveland on 5-13-11 last year). My career high is 14. The PNC Park record is 16 – however, I was coaching the day that Nick Pelescak set it and wasn't there to defend the previous record that he and I shared.
9) Snag 600 balls in a season.
I've never done it before. Only one other ballhawk ever has – Zack Hample in 2011 when he broke my season record that I had set in 2010.
10) Set the PNC Park record with 17 in a game.
It would take a perfect storm. I'd need low attendance, about four easter eggs, four toss ups, four glove tricks, and five hit balls to do it. It sounds easy, but it won't be, in fact, I'd list this as the hardest of all goals to achieve, because PNC Park isn't as easy as people think it is.
So there you have it, a long list of 10 goals. The last time I set published goals was for the 2010 season, and I reached 3 out of 4 of them. The only goal I failed to reach that year was 90 games, and I missed it by two.
Last year I decided to not publish and goals, I had them in my mind, but they kept changing throughout the season. First I wanted to finish first on mygameballs for the second year in a row, but I abandoned that after seeing Zack Hample snag 200+ balls in 25+ games in April. Then I decided to snag 545 balls, to set a personal high, but that changed too when PNC Park crowds began to swell and ballhawking became doubly as hard. From there my goals dropped to 500, 450, and then eventually I settled on beating 412, my previous 2nd best effort in 2009. I ended up finishing with 422 last year.
Of course many of these goals will hinge upon family, finances, and health. We'll see what happens.


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Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he *must* deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. "For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.…
~Matthew 16:24-25~
I added emphasis above even though it really needs none. Do you see where I added it? It's that pesky little word that many do not like to pay attention to in the Bible.
Ouch, that's a tough one, isn't it?
Why now? Why when so many have stepped out and helped us? Why when the Lord showed us everlasting goodness through His people that *are* denying themselves for His purpose?
Because there are more. More precious children who have been made in the image of the Almighty and holding the Breath of life within them, waiting for a family to call their own. More families answering the call of faith to step out on this seemingly impossible journey.
A friend recently said something that I thought was significant.
The cost of adoption is not about the family who is adopting. It is entirely for the benefit of the child who will no longer be an orphan. He cannot pay. Cannot even take out a loan. But we can stand at his side, and pay on his behalf.
Orphans are children who have been done a great harm, even if it was done out of necessity or love. They have been denied the un-earned love of parents that the majority of us have been given as a gift.
Do you see what I getting at here? I am not just asking you to support people in their efforts, no more than I was asking you to support my efforts. I asking you to support an ORPHAN. Folks, this *is* a biblical mandate. I'm asking you to care. Asking you to not look the other way this time. Please. If we do not raise their ransom and help break them free NO ONE WILL.
I want to one day stand in front of the Almighty and hear those words that I live my life to hear...
"Well Done Good and Faithful Servant."
What else is there to live for, folks? Really? This life is the first inch on that big ol' line we call eternity. Do you *REALLY* believe it? Be MOVED TO ACTION! Please!
I don't know about you, but me? I do NOT want to stand before the Father some day and say that I turned my back after seeing this....
I have news for you , ladies and gentleman, this isn't some old holocaust picture. This is today'sholocaust! These are REAL children. This is reality. Reality that many want to deny but reality none the less.
I understand not everyone can adopt, I do. Although, I do believe that there are many that just don't want to adopt the children that actually need to be adopted. They want perfect. They want what my friend says is "a puppy that doesn't poop". Again, news flash here y'all, no kid is perfect and none come with guarantees. We are all born to serve and bring glory to God. I assure you that He didn't "make a mistake" when He created the children that aren't what society calls "perfect". I don't know much, but that, my friends, I *do* know.
We are funded, all glory to God. If it is His will we will be home with two less very soon. But there are MORE!
I am going to highlight one family today.
Meet the Jenks.
The Jenks said, "Yes, Lord, we will obey. We don't how this will happen, but we know who You are. You are faithful Lord. You are good, Lord. You WILL show us the way, Lord.
Who are they? From them...
A FAMILY. A Family that WANTS two that have lived nearly 13 years without someone wanting them.
Folks, I'm not just asking you to sponsor a family that is adopting. I'm asking you to take part in raising a ransom. A ransom for two lives. Two lives that have one last chance for a family.
Creations of the Almighty.
Two lives that carry the Breath of Life in them.
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Many families wait to see how God will pave the way for them.
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I promise your world will be rocked!
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So Julie Benz died tragically at the end of last season of "Dexter." Bring on the new blonde!
The Showtime network announced yesterday that actress Julia Stiles will appear in 10 episodes of season 5 in a mysterious role. All it says in a press release is that she will form a "unique relationship" with conflicted serial killer/crime solver Dexter (Michael C. Hall).
No matter what it will be interesting. The show always makes the best of its new blood (if you will). Can anyone ever look the formerly lovable John Lithgow in the face after his blood-chilling turn on the series?
And Stiles wouldn't be wasting her time with a rare television crossover from movies unless she was going to take a serious bite out of something. Longshot guess based on nothing more than a whim -- she'll play a fellow serial killer or a medium from the Whoopi Goldberg old school who'll communicate with Dexter's deceased wife (Benz). Or both.
We can dream.
The show's producers have also insisted that even though she is dead, Benz will somehow return in season 5 as well.
Production begins this month for the show which will make its bloody return in the fall. It's going to be interesting!
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Processed by Kelli Kanvin in 2005 and updated by James Risk, June-September, 2010 and Lara Westwood, September, 2013
The Civil War is often viewed as America's bloodiest war. It lasted from 1861-1865 and tore the Union apart, frequently pitting brother against brother. The stirring, and sometimes graphic, images of the Civil War were captured, however by some of the leading photographers of the time, including the famous Mathew B. Brady.
Before the Civil War even began, Mathew Brady was a well-known photographer and the proprietor of a gallery in New York City. Brady was known for establishing the idea of creating a photographic catalog of the most distinguished Americans, and had amassed an impressive collection. In 1851, Brady met Alexander Gardner during a trip to Europe, and in 1856, the Scotsman and fellow photographer became business partners with Brady. Gardner was an admirable businessman, and in 1858, the team opened a second photographic studio and gallery in Washington, DC. This was a prime location for their business because as political tensions over slavery were mounting, Gardner and Brady made a point to photograph politicians from both sides of the debate for the collection of distinguished Americans, sensing that dissolution of the Union lay in the near future.
In 1861, Gardner brought the Carte DeVisite to their business, whose small size allowed for quick reproduction and portability, and was extremely popular. As Southern states began seceding and state militias were forming and converging on Washington, this new form of photography became even more popular and kept Brady and Gardner busy, with soldiers eager to pose.
As the war officially began, Brady and Gardner wanted to continue to photograph its images to document history. Brady secured approval for photographers to be in the field with the Union army, and Gardner struck a deal with photographic suppliers E. & H. T. Anthony to reproduce wartime images on a massive scale for sale to the public, while paying the Brady Gallery a percentage of the profits and crediting each image as a "Photo by Brady." There were many technical limitations to shooting in the field including poor light, weather and the need for clean water. Additionally, any motion in the scene would create a blur on the negative, so all photographs were posed portraits or were of stationary objects or scenery. More importantly, the photographers were not allowed in the vicinity of the battle action, so most photographs of the war were deceptively peaceful, with many of them showing soldiers in camp.
In 1862, sometime after the Battle of Antietam, Gardner ended his partnership with Brady and opened his own photography studio and gallery in Washington, taking with him one of Brady's most experienced field operators, Timothy O'Sullivan. Throughout the remainder of the war, Brady and Gardner would be in competition for the best photographs. With the departure of Gardner and O'Sullivan, Brady hired his nephew, Levin Corbin Handy, to assist him. Many photographs of the Civil War have been credited to Handy, however, this appears unlikely. At the time that Handy began working with Brady, he was approximately 12 years old. While later photographs after the war could very well be the work of Levin Handy, those credited to him during the Civil War years are likely photographs in which he assisted in the identification of the image.
By the end of the war, Brady was so in debt from financing his field operations that he was forced to sell his pictures. But he was unable to convince the government to buy the complete set of his pictures, and so in 1868, the Washington gallery was sold at auction to pay Brady's debts and some of the negatives were dispersed. Finally, in 1875, Brady received $25,000 from Congress for title to his collection of negatives. The E. & H. T. Anthony Company, who had helped finance Brady's wartime effort, continued to publish and sell Brady's war images and acquired ownership of a portion of his negatives as payment for a debt. At the turn of the century, the Anthony Company appears to have sold Brady's negatives to various proprietors, and consequently, numerous collectors have ended up with pieces of the Brady's Civil War collection. It is entirely possible that through this means, the Boyd Family acquired a portion of Brady's photographs.
Information in this narrative came from, and additional information can be found in the following sources:
Armstrong, Jennifer. Photo by Brady: A Picture of the Civil War. New York: Atheneum Books, 2005.
Miller, Francis Trevelyan, ed. The Photographic History of the Civil War. New York: Review of Reviews Co., 1911.
National Portrait Gallery, Mathew Brady Portraits. Smithsonian Institution. April 2005. <http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brady/>.
Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. Library of Congress. April 2005. <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwarquery.html>.
Collection Origin
The Civil War Photograph Collection's provenance before it became the property of the Maryland Historical Society is unknown. It is possible that this collection is a donation of the Boyd Family.
Scope and Content
The Civil War Photograph Collection contains images representing over 70 years of history, from 1861 to 1935. The bulk of the subjects, however are from the Civil War, and primarily date from 1861 to 1865. Since the majority of photographs appear to be the work of Mathew Brady, the type of photographic processes present in the collection are relatively easy to identify. The two main processes present are card photographs, which include carte de visites and cabinet cards, and albumen prints. The carte de visites and cabinet cards are mostly represented in portraits, although there are a few scenes of battlefields and military life. These photographic mounts range in size from 4" x 2 1/2" to 6 ½" x 4 1/4". The albumen prints make up the majority of the collection and range in size from 5" x 7" to 12" x 14".
Identification is both a strength and a weakness in this collection. For those photographs which were already identified on the reverse of the image, or which were able to be identified in the course of processing, there is often ample information. However, many of the photographs remain unidentified and largely undated, and so it is difficult to gauge what portion of the War is covered most comprehensively. It is possible, however, that with time and considerable knowledge, a greater number of the images can be identified, leading to a better understanding of the strength of representation present in this collection.
The general subjects for which there is the most material is clear, however. There are the greatest number of images of people, more specifically military personnel and government officials. This is most likely related to the presence of photographs from Mathew Brady's album of distinguished Americans. In addition, there are a large number of images of military life, represented primarily by photographs of soldiers in camp. Virginia is heavily represented in the collection, especially Fredericksburg and various points along the James River.
While it is unclear how the Boyd Family is related to the Civil War photographs, there are several images present within that series that should not be overlooked, including some graphic images of Gettysburg. Additionally, the Boyds appear to have toured several Civil War sites in Virginia, well after the end of the war, and these photographs are a chronological representation of the landscape.
It should be noted that the series and subseries headings are based on the Library of Congress's Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms. The exception is Maritime Images, for which there was no equivalent in the TGMI, but is an institutionally accepted term.
Box 12 contains photographs that were added to collection in 2013, because of their similarities to the items in the collection. They are generally prints of photographs taken by Mathew Brady of Civil War scenes, and are grouped based on Library of Congress's Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms as with rest of the collection.
The Civil War Photograph Collection consists of eight major series: 1) Facilities; 2) Maritime Images; 3) Military Life; 4) Miscellaneous; 5) People; 6) Railroads; 7) War Damage, and 8) Boyd Family. Due to the volume of photographs present in this collection, and the large number of images currently unidentified, arrangement within the series is in no particular order, unless otherwise noted. Duplicates and similar scenes were grouped together when possible. Size: 4 ½ linear feet (12 boxes, 997 photographs)
Series List
Series I: Facilities
This series includes images of things that were built or established to serve a particular purpose. As such, the series has been broken down into the following subseries: Battlefields; Bridges; Forts and Fortifications; and Hospitals.
Subseries 1: Battlefields (Boxes 1, 7, 8, 12)
Included in this subseries are photographs of battle sites after fighting has occurred.
Subseries 2: Bridges (Boxes 1, 7)
This subseries is comprised of images of structures built over an obstacle, primarily rivers.
Subseries 3: Forts and Fortifications (Boxes 1, 7, 8, 12)
This subseries is made up of photographs of fortified facilities occupied by soldiers or permanent army posts. This includes images of weaponry/batteries, earthworks and defenses.
Subseries 4: Hospitals (Boxes 1, 4, 12)
Included in this subseries are photographs of facilities that were used as hospitals to treat wounded soldiers.
Series II: Maritime Images (Boxes 1, 7, 8)
This series is made up of images relating to the water, including boatyards, docks, ships and riverboats.
Subseries 1: Navy (Boxes 1, 8)
As a subseries of Maritime Images, Navy is primarily comprised of photographs of Union vessels and crew and mostly identified.
Series III: Military Life (Boxes 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 12)
This series contains photographs documenting all aspects of military life, including training, reviews, and camp life. The series is very loosely arranged the following way: identified pictures of military leaders, such as Grant, in the field; semi-informal images of both groups of soldiers and individuals, primarily in camp and many of which show the soldiers enjoying leisure time; formal photos of large groups of soldiers, including regiment portraits; formal photographs of smaller groups of soldiers; general views of camps; and lastly troops in movement, engaging in fighting, or battery exercises (as it is often difficult to distinguish between the two, they will be kept together until properly identified).
Series IV: Miscellaneous (Boxes 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12)
This series includes photographs of specific places, such as mills in Petersburg, Virginia, as well as unidentified city and natural landscapes.
Series V: People
As the largest of the series, this is comprised of both civilians and military officials, as well as a number of distinguished Americans from Brady's Photographic Catalog. For ease of access, the series has been divided into the following eight subseries: Crowds; Government Officials; Men—Portraits; Military Personnel; Prisoners; War Casualties; and Women—Portraits.
Subseries 1: Crowds (Box 3)
This subseries includes photos of civilians in large numbers. The locations of the crowds, as well as the activity they are engaged in, are unidentified.
Subseries 2: Government Officials
This subseries contains images of senators, representatives, and other notable public officials of the United States and Europe, as well as several portraits of Confederate officials.
Subsubseries A: United States (Boxes 3, 4, 6)
Included in this series are such figures as Schuyler Colfax and Rutherford B. Hayes.
Subsubseries B: Europe (Boxes 3, 4)
Among the notable Europeans are Disraeli and Queen Victoria.
Subseries 3: Men—Portraits (Boxes 3, 5)
This subseries contains civilian male portraits, some of which are unidentified. It is possible that a number of these men could be government officials in some capacity. Notable images include John Brown, Edwin Booth, and John H. Surratt.
Subseries 4: Military Personnel
This series is made up of photographs of soldiers and officers who served in some capacity during the Civil War. It is broken down into Union and Confederate personnel.
Subsubseries A: Confederate (Box 5)
Photographs of primarily Confederate officers. All identified.
Subsubseries B: Union (Boxes 5, 6, 12)
Photographs of primarily Union officers, but also soldiers, as well.
Subsubseries C: Union, Not from Life (Boxes 5, 6)
Photographs of Union officers taken from engravings or other artwork.
Subseries 5: Prisoners (Box 3)
This subseries contains photographs of the exchange of Confederate prisoners, as well as Confederate prisoner camps.
Subseries 6: War Casualties (Boxes 3, 4, 7, 9)
This subseries is made up of photos that focus on images of dead soldiers. This includes images of soldiers being buried, as well as those casualties on the battlefield.
Subseries 7: Women – Portraits (Box 6)
This is a very small subseries that contains some portraits of notable women, including the wife of Stephen Douglas and the actress Maggie Mitchell.
Series VI: Railroads (Boxes 3, 7, 9, 12)
This series is made up of photographs of railroad stations, tracks and general views of trains.
Series VII: War Damage (Boxes 3, 7, 9, 12)
This series is comprised of photos showing damage or views of damage caused by fighting. This includes damage on an individual scale, such as burned-out buildings, as well as on a larger scale, such as damage towns and cities.
Series VIII: Boyd Family (Boxes 10, 11)
This series is comprised of the family photographs of the Boyd Family, whose descendants include Andrew and Allen. Included are photos from family vacations to Europe, as well as to various Civil War sights and monuments. There are also portraits of family, friends and school groups. This series is broken down into the following subseries: Civil War; Family; Homes; Military; Miscellaneous; Vacations.
Subseries 1: Civil War (Box 10)
This subseries includes several photographs of Civil War-era images that were found with the family's photographs, and so were kept with them.
Subseries 2: Family (Box 10)
This subseries is further broken down and arranged by portraits of Children, Groups, Men and Women. Most images are unidentified, and so it is quite probable that many photographs are friends and acquaintances of the Boyds.
Subseries 3: Homes (Box 10)
This subseries is comprised of images of, presumably, one of the Boyds homes. It appears to be located in San Francisco.
Subseries 4: Military (Box 10)
This subseries is made up of military images relating to what seems to be the family's time in military service.
Subseries 5: Miscellaneous (Box 11)
This subseries is primarily comprised various locations whose relation to the Boyds is unknown.
Subseries 6: Vacations (Box 11)
This subseries includes photographs from the Boyd family's many travels to places including England, Egypt and France, as well as Civil War sites in Fredericksburg, Virginia.


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In mobile, the user is king. For a mobile operating system to be successful, users must buy phones running that operating system. Software is the result, not the cause, of the mobile revolution. The need for nice apps comes only when enough phones are sold and used. Without beating around the bush, this has been a major problem for the overall Windows Phone strategy. The partnership between Nokia and Microsoft has been the right move for selling more (compelling) devices and increasing the need for more apps and more integration with the rest of the Microsoft ecosystem.
From a consumer's viewpoint, Windows Phone is firmly the third OS by market share at present, following Android and iOS. Some analysts reckon that Windows Phone may be second only to Android by 2015 in a world with only four major mobile platforms left: Android, Windows Phone, iOS, and BlackBerry. In this regard, having excellent devices running the operating system is key. Applications are the offspring of large-scale device adoption.
Windows Phone, however, has much more potential in a B2B perspective as it's part of one technology stack that offers integrated mobile solutions and that is not limited to the device endpoint. This is what Gartner calls the "Mobile Enterprise Application Platform" (MEAP). In this regard, Microsoft seems a much more complete partner than any other company in the mobile space; and Windows Phone is a pillar of Microsoft's implementation of MEAP.
Microsoft has a wide range of middleware technologies for backing mobile solutions. Let's have a look at what it takes to develop mobile solutions using the Microsoft stack. First off, any mobile front end needs a layer that acts as a facade on top of existing services. Microsoft has various flavors of ASP.NET and IIS to create back-end sites and REST layers; it also has Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to create effective service-oriented infrastructure; and it has SQL Server and Dynamics CRM just to name a couple of storage- and business-related products.
You can use the same programming languages (C#, Visual Basic) and development framework (the .NET Framework, XAML) on the front and back ends and the same tools: Visual Studio and Blend.
As a mobile platform, Windows Phone leverages the Silverlight framework for development. While not all Windows Phone devices have the same screen size and hardware equipment, developing for Windows Phone devices is much easier than, say, for Android. There's nothing close to the difficulty of the Android device jungle when working with Windows Phone.
Compared with writing iOS and Android applications, developing applications for Windows Phone is much easier. If you're coming to Windows Phone with a .NET background, you will feel right at home.
Beyond this, writing a Windows Phone app poses the same challenges as any other mobile application — local storage, fake multitasking, wacky connectivity, limited resources, constrained input, and more. These are all standard challenges. Writing a mobile application is never quick and never cheap; but at least the tools around Windows Phone make it a lot easier, faster, and probably cheaper.
An area of Windows Phone development that certainly doesn't currently exceed expectations, however, is testing. As a developer, you can unlock your device and install up to 10 applications for live testing. But for the end user who wants try out the app under development, Windows Phone is annoying. On Android and BlackBerry, you email the executable; the customer checks the email on the target phone; the user taps on the executable; the executable installs and runs fine on the phone (and any other phone). On iOS, you run through a similar drill and download the app to the device via iTunes.
On Windows Phone, however, you have to set up a beta program and upload a version of the app that can run against a number of uniquely identified devices. Then the Windows Phone portal emails testers who download and install the application. The problem is that it currently takes 24 hours for the download to be available to the user. This is not ideal for sending quick updates and bug fixes during the development phase. In the alternative, the customer's device could be unlocked, thus allowing for direct upload. Unlocking requires getting a paid account to the Microsoft marketplace. This is not a tough condition as the customer still needs to register if she wants to publish the application in her name. However, it requires that the customer run Zune and Visual Studio tools on some computer, and not all customers are Windows-based.


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If you have been involved in a car accident and you are injured you may be entitled to compensation under the Motor Accidents Compensation Act 1998. Compensation is applicable under the Compulsory Third Party Insurance of the car at fault. This also includes if you were a passenger of the car at fault or a driver of a car that was not at fault.
Under the Motor Accidents Compensation Act 1998 "motor vehicle" includes a motor vehicle or trailer within the meaning of the Road Transport Act 2013 which defines a motor vehicle that is built to be propelled by a motor that forms part of the vehicle. This means that you are covered whether you are in any type of vehicle including but not limited to truck, motorcycle and forklift.
What am I entitled too?
Past treatment expenses that are reasonable and necessary. This covers treatment expenses such as physiotherapy, radiology investigations and any treatment related to the accident which your treatment providers believe is reasonable and necessary. You will initially receive a claim number that the expenses will be paid on and deducted from your compensation payment upon successful completion of your matter.
Future treatment expenses that are found to be reasonable and necessary. This covers what you may require in the future by way of payment in advance. It would need to be accepted as being a possibility future expense based on your injuries and disabilities. You would receive the payment upon successful completion of your matter as part of settlement.
Domestic Assistance
You are entitled to past domestic care compensation which is compensation if someone was required to provide you with free domestic care (household chores) where you are residing because of the accident if the legal threshold is met and accepted.
You are also entitled to a payment for your future domestic care requirement that you may need for the future. This will be based on your injuries and what the accepted doctor believes you require into the future. Because this based on future you would receive payment for this upon successful completion of your matter as part of settlement.
Economic Loss (loss of income/opportunity)
If you lose income or opportunity because of the accident then you are entitled to claim for those losses as part of your claim. For the past it will be based on the loss involved during the claim and would need to be causally related to the accident.
If because of the accident it is accepted that you have a reduced capacity to work into the future you are also entitled to claim for future loss of income/opportunity. This is based on how much reduction you have with regards to your ability to work in the future. You would receive the payment upon successful completion of your matter as part of settlement.
Pain and Suffering
If your injuries reach over 10% whole person impairment which is a threshold set by law as determined by an Independent Medical Examination and that examination is accepted you are entitled to claim damages for pain and suffering which is a separate entitlement to the above entitlements.
Call one of our experienced lawyers who will assist you and relieve you the process. There are time limits that apply to lodging a claim.
What if I can't find the vehicle at fault?
If you were a victim of a hit of run and you were not at fault you are still entitled to compensation if you are injured. An insurance company will be nominated and it will proceed as normal if you can establish that you took reasonable steps at identifying the vehicle.
What if I am at fault?
You are entitled to claim up to $5,000 by completing an Accident Notification Form through the State Insurance Regulatory Authority. This can cover you for treatment expenses of loss of income. You could be entitled to more through your own CTP Insurance Policy which you should contact for advice.
Legal costs and disbursements are also included in settlement which means a contribution to the costs are covered in the compensation. Whilst you do not pay for legal costs and disbursements out of pocket, they are deducted upon successful completion of your matter.


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Suspended Iowa State player reinstated after assault charges dropped
Charges against Bubu Palo dropped
A suspended Iowa State basketball player was reinstated to the team after sexual assault charges against him were dropped Monday.
Bubu Palo had been charged with with second-degree sexual assault. He had entered a not-guilty plea in the case.
"It's always been taught, 'innocent until proven guilty,' and I felt like I didn't really have the chance to defend myself before people were making these judgments against me," Palo said.
According to Ames police, Palo and Spencer Cruise offered a woman a ride home in May, and the woman was assaulted.
The Story County Attorney dismissed the charges against both Palo and Cruise based upon the "receipt of additional evidence."
"I'm not a perfect person -- I don't think anyone is -- and I make mistakes, but I would never make mistakes to this level, and for people to judge me off hearsay instead of letting me defend myself, that's probably what hurt the most," Palo said.
Attorneys said a blouse that had been in the possession of the witness for five and a half months was provided to police. Tests performed on the clothing showed that it was torn after it was washed, which was contrary to the testimony of the witness and her mother, attorneys said.
"I felt like the biggest weight had been lifted off of my shoulder, and finally I was able to clear my name and that justice was served," Palo said Monday.
Palo was suspended from the team in September when the charges were filed.
"I just really hope to get out there and just do whatever I can, accept any role I can, if I'm fortunate to get back on the team," Palo said Monday before he was reinstated to the team.


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A Top 5 North American Garden Worth Travelling For!ESCAPE from the hectic pace of everyday life with a visit to Annapolis Royal's beautiful Historic Gardens!
In a beautiful setting overlooking a tidal river valley, the Historic Gardens is a premiere Nova Scotia attraction showcasing gardening methods, designs and materials representing more than four hundred years of local history.
Some highlights:
- Our Rose Collection boasts hundreds of rose cultivars and thousands of fragrant and colourful blossoms.
- Our Innovative Garden showcases methods and plant materials suitable for today's urban garden.
- Our reconstructed Acadian House is based on the pre-deportation 1671 time period, designed using evidence from local archaeological excavations.


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Fact: smartphones capable of 4G data speeds are battery leeches. All iPhones up until now have been 3G smartphones. It's now rumored that the iPhone 5 will sport faux 4G speeds. Did Apple solve the battery conundrum? Not exactly.
According to the credible Japanese blog Macotakara, a China Unicom exec has reportedly revealed in a presentation that the iPhone 5 will have pseudo 4G speeds when it launches.
The trend in the U.S. right now is to call any data speed that's faster than 3G "4G." In essence, HSPA+ technology which is basically a supercharged version of 3G capable of a theoretical 21Mbps is really like 3G+ — not quite as fast as LTE 4G which can theoretically hit download speeds of 1Gbps.
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
In short, AT&T and T-Mobile both advertise its HSPA+ speeds as "4G." Meanwhile Sprint and Verizon are the only real carriers with real 4G networks.
If the slide is to believed, then the iPhone 5 will be marketed as 4G-ready. Just don't believe the marketing crap, because it's not real real 4G.
HSPA+ won't suck your battery life as much, which is a good thing and it's still plenty fast for streaming videos and stuff, but if you're locked into AT&T's 2GB per month data plan, you'll be burning it up so fast it won't even matter. As for the iPhone 5 hitting T-Mobile? Well, that's not happening.
Macotakara, via MacRumors


text: Hyacinth macaws are one of the largest species of parrot. They are beautiful, smart, and can even mimic human speech. They have a blue body of feathers, a solid black beak, and yellow circling their eyes and lower part of their beak. They nest in pre-existing holes in trees with a clutch of two to three eggs. Chicks stay with the mother until they are 6 months old. Macaws have four toes—two toes face forward and two face backward. These feet are called zygodactyl, and are great for perching on branches, climbing in trees, and even holding food. Parrots use vocalizations to keep in constant contact with one another in their habitat, even if they are on opposite sides of the forest. They have a very loud call, called a contact call, they use for this. It's their way of saying, "Hey, I'm in a tree over here! Where are you?" These birds are often kept as pets. Parrots can be challenging to live with, because they haven't been domesticated for thousands of years the way dogs and cats have. They are still wild animals and have adaptations that allow them to live in the wild. Did You Know? They have beaks specially designed for cracking the hardest nuts in the world. Diet Macaws eat primarily nuts from native palms, such as acuri and bocaiuva palms, but they also eat fruits and vegetables. Their beaks are strong enough to crack open coconuts. Size Typical length is about 40 inches, which is a little longer than a yardstick, and they can have a wingspan of 5 feet. However, they usually weigh only about 42 ounces, which is as much as a large guinea pig! Range Hyacinth macaws can be found in parts of Brazil, eastern Bolivia, and northeastern Paraguay. Unlike most parrots that prefer tropical rain forest habitats, hyacinth macaws prefer lightly forested areas such as palm swamps and flooded grasslands. A major part of the population lives in the Pantanal region of Brazil. Population Status The hyacinth macaw is considered vulnerable to extinction due to habitat loss and over-collection for the pet trade. Predators Adult macaws have no known predators in the wild, but toucans, corvids, possums, and coatis prey on the eggs. Back to the Top


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No time to lose
Ramen soup is a delight that's over in minutes. In Tokyo, there are places selling it everywhere, and each one has its own recipe.
There's something magical about your first ramen soup in Japan. The oily film left by the broth in your throat, the steaming, far-too-long wheat noodles that burn your tongue, the tender pork and the famous ajitsuke tamago egg floating innocently in the bowl. Ramen is a very Japanese thing. It originated in China and only became popular in Japan in the 19th century. Today, ramen is a fixture in cities all over the West.
No one knows the exact number of ramen restaurants in Japan, but it's said to be at least 200 000 – between 5000 and 10 000 in Tokyo alone. Which one should I pick? A friend sends me to Akihabara, a district known chiefly for electronic toys, to a small restaurant, the Menya Musashi Bujin – one of the best and nearly always crowded. A long wait is all part of the experience here, as is choosing your soup from a machine, always bearing three things in mind.
First: The fish-stock version tastes strange and leaves a funny smell in the restaurant. Second: The "large portion" is meant for laborers, not the usual Central European stomachs. Third: Ramen is not for sedate spooning; you wolf it down because once all the ingredients have been added to the broth, the noodles turn slimy within ten minutes. Fourth: After draining your bowl, please vacate your seat swiftly – there's a long line waiting. The notoriously hectic atmosphere precludes the annoying "best lists" that often dog international dishes. There are no bests with ramen; how can you enjoy when you wolf? So my ramen rule no. 5 for Toyko is: The best soup is the one you are currently eating.
Getting there
Lufthansa is offering daily flights to Tokyo (HND) from Frankfurt (FRA) and Munich (MUC) in December. Use the app to calculate your miles: miles-and-more.com/app


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NH Pease Greeters low on funds, need help from community
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — The Pease Greeters, who show up at Portsmouth International Airport to welcome troops headed home or overseas, are in need of more funds.
The bulk of their money goes to entertain and feed the troops during their layover.
Since 2005, the Pease Greeters have welcomed thousands of soldiers — and many have thanked them for their support.
The group also mails care packages and organizes volunteer efforts to support veterans, members of the armed services and their families. The co-founders were honored in 2010 by the Military Officers Association of America, and members met with President Bush in 2008.
Charles Cove, chairman of the Pease Greeters, tells the Portsmouth Herald (http://bit.ly/XKbK79) the organization's funding has hit an all-time low and it is seeking help from the community.
Information from: Portsmouth Herald, http://www.seacoastonline.com


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So you're coming into The Exiled with no idea what the heck is going on, right?. What's leather? What does the different colored powered dust (Pigments) do? Why is everyone killing me? How do I survive?
Those may be some of your questions. No worries. I'm here to help. I was like you at one point and it took me a few days to put things together for myself how this game works and what does what and how.
This won't be a long guide, just the basics to get you on your way and exploring the game and it's contents. Let me give a decent preamble first. A word of warning so to speak, unlike other survival games....(and like MANY survival games...) Going solo is going to be an UPHILL battle for the entire time you're on your chosen server. This game very much caters to those IN a clan as to those who aren't. Not saying you can't go around solo ganking and having a good time but if you want to do more of the end game content. You will need to be in a clan to experience sieges and to actually survive any kind of hunting party that comes for you. So yes, you can 1v1 or 1v2 maybe even 1v3 but beyond that, it will get tougher and tougher. Having your own settlement will be almost impossible to hold alone as building one requires A LOT of resources and forget about holding it if you're sieged vs a larger clan, you'll need to be content living in the wild or neutral towns. That does not mean you have to join the first Zerg Guild that kills you over and over around the Newbie town. (IT WILL HAPPEN) but it's not a bad idea to say yes, take whatever free crap you can get, get past their area of influence and drop ranks and run, find another group or whatever you'd like. Or stay with them. Your call.
OKAY! Onto the meat of the guide.
What is going on? The tutorial is confusing.
So the tutorial will give you a pretty good idea on the very VERY basics of the game. It will ask you about your starting playstyle. There is NOTHING wrong with saying you want to be friendly, looking for a clan or anything else, etc. Other words, there are no buffs or debuffs to those options and they can be removed anytime. This just helps other plays identify right away if you're new or not. As you progress through there are different weapons and different armors you can wear that provide different abilities. Don't rush through this, take your time to try them all out, learn all the beginner combos available. You can go back and forth between the areas of the tutorial with no penalty to switch and swap. I would highly recommend as a new player learning the game going with Spear and Shield and Leather or Mail. I prefer Leather armor for it's life steal ability which helps in PvP or PvE and it's sprint ability, also useful in getting away from people trying to kill you in a pinch. The SS combo also provides nice stunning/offensive/ranged combos but very decent DPS for meleeing as well. The long range of the Spear is nice for kiting mobs/players around as well (except against ranged or other spear users).
All players also start with the SAME stats in terms of health, energy, etc. Weapons and Armors determine what kind of bonuses or penalties you get to your stats. People in Robes have a much higher Run Speed than those in Leather or Mail because of the stats that armor provides but they won't have nearly as much Health or Physical Resistance as those in Leather or Mail. Review all the attributes each weapon/armor provides to bring yourself to your preferred playstyle. Remember, it's not permanent. You can always craft the other weapons/armors later.
Again, take your time going through everything before deciding on your kit, once you leave, you're stuck with it until you earn resources to switch.
I'm the ultimate fighter, I'm killing everyone and I'm picking up EVERYTHING. What do all these items do?
To be as short and to the point as possible.
Pigments will help you level your skills. For example. Black pigment is needed to level your Spear and Shield skills. White will be needed to level your leather armor skills. The map (M by default) will show you the world map, on the left there is a tickbox where you can click PIGMENTS and it will show you all the zones that drop the pigment you are looking for. This goes for resources and reagents as well.
Resources, such as wood, hemp, leather, etc, are needed to build settlements or open up new areas. It's also valuable for you to level up your weapon and armor DIRECTLY. Basically you start with a default weapon and armor when you leave the tutorial but if you view your character screen (C by default) you'll see that your weapon and armor slots are empty. Think of it this way. Your default items are considered -1 tier. As you level up you unlock the ability to craft higher tier weapons automatically going from +0 all the way to +9. The higher the tier, the more resources it requires to craft. You will want to craft your +0 weapon and armor ASAP. The basic item stats given even at this level are a good boost to your ability to survive and farm mobs in PvE. DO NOT WORRY ABOUT ADJUSTING STATS AT THIS POINT. JUST FARM WHAT YOU NEED AND CRAFT IT.
Reagents come in a variety of names that usually end in TAL. These are necessary to adjust the stats on your weapons and armor that you craft. Want to add more health? You're going to need Blood of TAL. But remember, it's a give and take system. If you want to add more HEALTH to an item, you need to remove points from another stat (which costs nothing to do). So if you want to play a super tanky, hard to kill mother chicken. You could remove all stats from everything and dump them into physical/mental resistance and health but at the cost of being able to move as quickly as other players or use your abilities as often. Play around with it once you get a better grasp of the game and how the stats work.
Because I'm so awesome, everybody wants to be my friend. Sometimes my friends aren't friends with my other friends. Sometimes I just want to kill everyone. What should I do?
Joining a Clan is purely up to you. As I mentioned before, if you really want to get into the true late game content of the game. You will need to be in a Clan to fully realize this. Now I may be wrong here but based on my time learning the game. I had much more fun playing with others than playing with myself. (By myself?) Don't be afraid to live the bachelor life either. There is plenty of enjoyment of being hired out as a bounty hunter or to act as a 3rd party.... "enforcer" from one Clan on another Clan without the latter knowing who sent you and why you keep killing their Caravans/Them. The world is your oyster, it's what you make of it.
What are all these dead animals, crash sites on my map mean? What's a jail camp or whatever.
So basically, fallen pack animals/meteors spawn randomly everywhere on the map and you have to capture and hold these points for 5 minutes in order to obtain their resources. (Wood, Leather, etc) When you activate them (using spacebar) you have to generally fight off random creatures. It's very easy and a very reliable way to obtain resources. Until at less than 5 seconds left on the timer a group of jerks come through, slaughter you and claim the site for themselves. That could happen. Generally though you're able to collect your spoils after 5 minutes and be on your way.
The Revenant or Jailer camps are where you will farm your reagents and/or pigments. Generally farming Mobs is very easy to do. Unless there happens to be other players doing exactly what you're trying to do. This is where things get tricky. If you run into a Clan that is actively farming that area, you could very easily find yourself facing off against multiple opponents AND the angry mobs roaming the area. Choose your fights carefully and always scout the area. There is usually enough bush around a site to recon the area before committing to a gank or farming.
That's pretty much the highlights, I won't ruin the rest of the game for you! Now get in there and have fun!
If you're interested, I'll be streaming my learning experiences and gameplay over at www.twitch.tv/sabinblitz84 as well.
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Not long into Rick Gervais' fourth stint as host of the Golden Globes, his first since 2012, he promised to break with tradition - and be nice: "I've changed. Not as much as Bruce Jenner, obviously."
No one, of course, expected a radical personality transformation from Gervais, who greeted the celebrity-filled crowd at The Beverly Hilton hotel by calling them "disgusting, pill-popping, sexual deviant scum." If anything, the four-year absence made the heart grow colder, as Gervais gleefully hurled some of his sharpest barbs yet at the Hollywood elite, clearly confident the groans in the audience were being drowned out by the laughter of folks watching from home.
Gervais succeeded, at least by his own measure as a surrogate regular-guy, beer-fueled snark-and-shock machine: He delivered a wickedly funny and irreverent performance using the same old approach, armed with plenty of new material.
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"I'm going to do this monologue and then go into hiding, okay - not even Sean Penn will find me," Gervais cracked, referring to news of the actor's interview with the until recently on-the-run Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
Other quips were somewhat less timely, but just as pointed. Gervais introduced Matt Damon as "the only person Ben Affleck hasn't been unfaithful to." He declared "Schindler's List" funnier than the recent comedy "Pixels." After musing about "Transparent" star Jeffrey Tambor's anatomy, Gervais described an uncomfortable anatomical use for one of his own Golden Globe trophies ("That award is, no offense, worthless").
He made up - sort of - with his most infamous past target, Mel Gibson, who appeared as a presenter: "I'd rather have a drink with him in his hotel room tonight than with Bill Cosby," Gervais deadpanned.
Gervais proved at his best, and perhaps most controversial, when tackling pay disparity between men and women performers in Hollywood. He joked that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, who hosted the three previous Globes broadcasts on NBC, made as much for the gig combined as he did ("It's not my fault if they want to share the money, is it?"). He also tweaked Jennifer Lawrence, an outspoken critic of pay disparities: "There were marches on the street with factory workers and nurses saying, 'How can a 25-year-old live on $52 million?'"
The bit proved vintage Gervais: He used his obnoxious comedy persona to highlight the inherent unfairness of pay disparities, while slamming Hollywood as out of touch. That's about as subtle as Gervais gets - and not everyone is going to get it, or appreciate it, as evidenced by the grumbling after his riff about producers saving salary on all-female remakes of "Ghostbusters" and "Oceans 11." ("Shut up, I don't care," Gervais replied.)
The show's producers knew what they were getting when they brought back Gervais, which seemed to only boost his sense of freedom to say whatever he wanted. His style appeared to rub off on some of the presenters: Andy Samberg made the night's first Bill Cosby joke. Jonah Hill got bleeped as he played the bear from "The Revenant." Jamie Foxx mocked Steve Harvey's Miss Universe mess-up - and skewered the Golden Globes for ignoring "Straight Outta Compton."
But the show clearly belonged to Ricky Gervais, who hasn't changed. Neither has Hollywood. They deserve one another - for at least one night a year.
Jere Hester is Director of News Products and Projects at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the author of "Raising a Beatle Baby: How John, Paul, George and Ringo Helped us Come Together as a Family." Follow him on Twitter.


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Be Still, My Soul
31243, Hymns, Be Still, My Soul, no. 124
1. Be still, my soul: The Lord is on thy side;
With patience bear thy cross of grief or pain.
Leave to thy God to order and provide;
In ev'ry change he faithful will remain.
Be still, my soul: Thy best, thy heav'nly Friend
Thru thorny ways leads to a joyful end.
2. Be still, my soul: Thy God doth undertake
To guide the future as he has the past.
Thy hope, thy confidence let nothing shake;
All now mysterious shall be bright at last.
Be still, my soul: The waves and winds still know
His voice who ruled them while he dwelt below.
3. Be still, my soul: The hour is hast'ning on
When we shall be forever with the Lord,
When disappointment, grief, and fear are gone,
Sorrow forgot, love's purest joys restored.
Be still, my soul: When change and tears are past,
All safe and blessed we shall meet at last.
Text: Katharina von Schlegel, b. 1697; trans. by Jane Borthwick, 1813-1897
Music: Jean Sibelius, 1865-1957. © 1900 Breitkopf & Härtel. Arr. copyright, 1933, by the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education; renewed, 1961; from The Hymnal. Used by permission of The Westminister John Knox Press, Philadelphia, PA. Making copies without written permission of the copyright owner is prohibited.


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We know the Hollywood Foreign Press Association doesn't think of itself as little more than an Academy Award opening act, but to the rest of the world, the biggest takeaway from the Golden Globes is a clearer sense of who is going to be battling it out for Oscar next month.
The official nominee announcement doesn't come down until January 24th, but judging by what happened at the Globes last night, this is our early stab at how we see the field coming together. And since we're throwing things at the gilded wall to see what sticks, we'll go ahead and make some wild winner predictions while we're at it.
And the nominees (and winners) of the 84th Annual Academy Awards might be...
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George Clooney - "The Descendants"
Brad Pitt - "Moneyball"
Michael Fassbender - "Shame"
Jean Dujardin - "The Artist"
Ryan Gosling - "Drive"
Who Will Win: Jean Dujardin
Who Should Win: Michael Fassbender
The Academy will be looking to veer away from just copying the Globes as often as they can, and they'll do so by throwing a nod to Gosling not for "Ides of March" or "Crazy Stupid Love" but for the movie that had everyone talking in 2011. However, they won't be so maverick as to avoid making it the Year of "The Artist." Either way, the golden phallus should go to Fassbender, for what was by far the bravest and most affecting performance of the year.
Christopher Plummer - "Beginners"
Kenneth Branagh - "My Week with Marilyn"
Albert Brooks - "Drive"
Jonah Hill - "Moneyball"
John Hawkes - "Martha Marcy May Marlene"
Who Will Win: Christopher Plummer
Who Should Win: Christopher Plummer
The man oozes charm, and both the Globes and the Academy love to honor classy Hollywood vets. Plummer has had a banner year, not just for his role in "Beginners" but he also sparkled with a smaller supporting turn in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." The Academy will thumb its nose at the HFPA and acknowledge John Hawkes for the totally ignored "Martha Marcy May Marlene."
Meryl Streep - "The Iron Lady"
Michelle Williams - "My Week with Marilyn"
Charlize Theron - "Young Adult"
Glenn Close - "Albert Nobbs"
Viola Davis - "The Help"
Who Will Win: Meryl Streep
Who Should Win: Michelle Williams
In a battle of the biopics, Meryl has this so sewn up it's a non-question. That's a shame, because Williams charmed instead of barnstormed and wouldn't everyone feel better cheering the spirit of Marilyn Monroe than the spectre of Margaret Thatcher?
Berenice Bejo - "The Artist"
Jessica Chastain - "The Help"
Octavia Spencer - "The Help"
Shailene Woodley - "The Descendants"
Marion Cotillard - "Midnight in Paris"
Who Will Win: Octavia Spencer
Who Should Win: Marion Cotillard
Nothing against Octavia - she is great in "The Help" and solidified her Oscar standing with a truly heartfelt and endearing acceptance speech at the Globes. However, we wouldn't mind seeing the Academy not only nominate the passed-over Cotillard but give her the statue for her standout performance in a movie loaded with them.
George Clooney - "Ides of March"
Martin Scorsese - "Hugo"
Alexander Payne - "The Descendants"
Michel Hazanavicius - "The Artist"
Woody Allen - "Midnight in Paris"
Who Will Win: Michel Hazanavicius
Who Should Win: Michel Hazanavicius
We're fairly certain the Oscars will completely snub David Fincher and all of "Dragon Tattoo" and inexplicably fail to recognize "Moneyball's" Bennett Miller, so Hazanavicius has this one in the bag. Scorsese's Globe win for "Hugo" was a fluke, and Clooney is getting more love for his acting role in "Descendants" than for his political drama.
"The Artist"
"The Descendants"
"The Help"
"War Horse"
"Ides of March"
"Midnight in Paris"
"My Week with Marilyn"
Who Will Win: "The Artist"
Who Should Win: "The Artist"
This is been a year of great performances but mediocre films, so even with 10 to choose from there aren't really any strong arguments Academy voters can make for not handing it over to the French silent film tribute.
"The Adventures of Tintin"
"Cars 2"
"Puss in Boots"
"Arthur Christmas"
Who Will Win: "The Adventures of Tintin"
Who Should Win: "Rango"
Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson will finally win the Pixar Award for Best Pixar Movie (see what happens when you stupidly take cute, child-friendly characters and make them shoot at each other for no reason, guys?), but Gore Verbinski's criminally-underrated oddity "Rango" really was the best animated movie of the year. Hands down.
"The Flowers of War" (China)
"In the Land of Blood and Honey" (United States)
"The Kid with a Bike" (Belgium)
"A Separation" (Iran)
"The Skin I Live In" (Spain)
Who Will Win: "A Separation"
Who Should Win: "A Separation"
Oh, like you really care that much.
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash - 'The Descendants"
Tate Taylor - "The Help"
Lee Hall, Richard Curtis - "War Horse"
Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin - "Moneyball"
Adrian Hodges - "My Week with Marilyn"
Who Will Win: "The Descendants"
Who Should Win: "Moneyball"
The Academy isn't about to let Team Clooney go home empty-handed, but the overly voice-over-reliant script isn't really the best choice. Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin took a dry, numbers-heavy baseball tome and turned it into a movie that could be enjoyed even by non-stat-nerds. That's impressive.
Woody Allen - "Midnight in Paris"
Michel Hazanavicius - "The Artist"
Mike Mills - "Beginners"
Will Reiser - "50/50"
Abi Morgan - "The Iron Lady"
Who Will Win: "Midnight in Paris"
Who Should Win: "50/50"
Woody Allen's writing more than his directing is what motors "Midnight," and the Academy will follow the Globes' lead here. But Reiser's ability to turn his real-life experience battling cancer into a funny and touching movie deserves Oscar gold.
Anything to add, Peter Dinklage?
The actual Academy Award nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 24th at 8:30 AM ET. The 84th Annual Academy Awards are handed out live Sunday, February 26th.


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Airbnb profits prompted S.F. eviction, ex-tenant says
After almost a decade in his rent-controlled apartment on San Francisco's Russian Hill, Chris Butler was evicted on the grounds that the owner's husband needed to move in.
Instead, he said, the owner shuffled around existing tenants and listed two of the four units in the building on short-term rental site Airbnb for $125 and $145 a night - considerably more than the $1,840 a month Butler paid.
"There are laws in place for decades related to these types of issues," he said. "They forced me out of a home I loved. It was incredibly difficult to find a place, especially because I have a really old dog. I ended up paying over double what I was paying there."
Now Butler is suing the landlords for unjust eviction.
His case highlights an ongoing issue of Airbnb and other sites that allow people to rent out spare rooms or entire apartments to temporary visitors. Critics charge that the new sharing-economy services are so lucrative - and so laxly regulated - that they are forcing out residents and driving up rents by reducing the supply of available housing.
Targeting rental sites
City leaders are working on legislation to address these issues and two other major complaints: Short-term stays violate San Francisco laws against rentals of less than 30 days, and Airbnb and its hosts fail to collect the city's 14 percent hotel occupancy tax.
"Airbnb is contributing to the displacement of long-term tenants in San Francisco," said Butler's attorney, Joseph Tobener. "It has made it so easy to go into the short-term rental business; it is ubiquitous."
Robert Sheppard, an attorney for the landlords, said in an e-mail: "There was nothing improper or illegal done by the owners in 2012 or since." Butler was evicted "with legal just cause for a family member to move into his unit, and, in fact, a family member did move into Mr. Butler's unit," he said.
San Francisco's Airbnb said cases like Butler's are isolated instances.
"This story is an unacceptable violation of the law, and experts have found that this kind of story is incredibly rare," the company said.
Founded in 2008, Airbnb has become a runaway success, with 700 employees and a valuation of $2.5 billion. It books about 60,000 stays every night in 190 countries, taking a 12 percent cut of transactions. While the private company doesn't release its financials, a conservative estimate puts its revenue at $100 million a year.
Renting out rooms, apartments or houses helps many people make ends meet, Airbnb said. "Ninety percent of Airbnb hosts in San Francisco use Airbnb to occasionally rent out only the home in which they live and 56 percent of hosts use their Airbnb income to help pay their mortgage or rent," the company said.
The company commissioned a study from UC Berkeley business Professor Ken Rosen a few months ago that found that short-term rentals of perhaps a couple of thousand at a time are such a small percentage of the city's 378,000 apartments, homes and condominiums that they "cannot have a measurable impact on housing costs or renter demand."
Supply versus demand
The root causes of San Francisco's rising rents are economic and demographic, Rosen wrote. With 25,000 jobs created since 2009 and a limited amount of new housing available, demand outpaces supply.
David Chiu, president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, said he has serious concerns about Airbnb and its ilk.
"There has been no enforcement of city rules in this area and very little accountability," he said. "We need to make sure that our scarce rental stock is being used for permanently residing San Franciscans, not for short-term rentals that allow owners or tenants to make a quick buck."
Chiu said he's working on legislation to address the situation.
"We want to ensure that residents who are benefiting from Airbnb are paying taxes the same way the hotel community does," he said. "We need to make sure this activity is not displacing permanent San Francisco residents. We need accountability on any quality-of-life issues or more serious liability that could occur."
That legislation has been in the offing for almost two years, but it has run into a range of legal and policy issues.
Mayor's stance on rentals
Francis Tsang, a spokesman for Mayor Ed Lee, said in a statement that the mayor just outlined his commitment to protect rental housing in his State of the City speech on Friday through such measures as reform of the Ellis Act, the state law that allows evictions for certain causes. The mayor is also working on "stabilizing and protecting at-risk, rent-controlled units through rehabilitation loans and a new program to permanently stabilize rent conditions in at-risk units."
The mayor's statement did not directly address Airbnb's impact.
Ted Gullicksen, executive director of the San Francisco Tenants Union, said he thinks displacements in favor of short-term rentals on Airbnb and a similar site, VRBO, are widespread.
"It's definitely a huge problem," he said. "It's become so lucrative to run these hotels, and the landlords don't have to worry about rent-control laws. It drives up prices for all rentals."
Calls about Airbnb
Tenant-rights attorney Tobener said lately he gets about 15 calls a week related to Airbnb on a range of issues: people like Butler who say they were evicted in favor of Airbnb rentals, tenants being evicted for renting out their apartments on the service, and tenants trying to stop their neighbors from hosting short-term guests.
Sheppard, the owners' attorney, said Butler has refused offers to return to his former apartment and that renting the apartments on Airbnb is temporary until Butler decides if he wants to move back in.
Tobener, Butler's attorney, said the offers came only after the lawsuit was filed, and that Butler declined in part because it's unpleasant to live next door to transient visitors.
"Airbnb causes tenants to want to leave," he said, "because it's a constant flow of strangers in your building."
Carolyn Said is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @csaid


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As Dems Convene, Food Stamp Rolls Hit Record Level — And It's a Story Only in the Business Press
Completing a two-month full reversal of a tiny decline which began earlier in the year, the USDA reported on Friday that participation in the Food Stamp program, which the government wants everyone to call SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), reached an all-time record high in June. The program's had 46.67 million participants that month, eclipsing the previous record of 46.51 million in December 2011.
Only the business press seems interested in covering the story. What follows are excerpts from the story at Bloomberg Business Week, where the most important story element for reporter Alan Bjerga was the impact on Dear Leader's reelection effort:
Food-Stamp Use Climbs to Record, Reviving Campaign Issue
Food-stamp use reached a record 46.7 million people in June, the government said, as Democrats prepare to nominate President Barack Obama for a second term with the economy as a chief issue in the campaign.
Participation was up 0.4 percent from May and 3.3 percent higher than a year earlier and has remained greater than 46 million all year as the unemployment rate stayed higher than 8 percent. New jobless numbers will be released Sept. 7.
"Too many middle-class families who have fallen on hard times are still struggling," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in an e-mailed statement today. "Our goal is to get these families the temporary assistance they need so they are able to get through these tough times and back on their feet as soon as possible."
Food-stamp spending, which more than doubled in four years to a record $75.7 billion in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2011, is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's biggest annual expense. Republicans in Congress have criticized the cost of the program, and the House budget plan approved in April sponsored by Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the party's vice- presidential nominee, would cut expenses by $33 billion over 10 years.
As usual, there is no mention of the program's cost drivers other than the economy itself.
First, benefits are about 30% higher per household now than they were five years ago. Food prices have increased, but by nowhere near that level.
What's more, the number of households participating in the program has continued to rise even as total participation has (until the past two months) leveled off. Compared to September 2011, total participation is up by 402,000, but the number of households has increased by 503,000. Yes, you read that right.
This indicates that the number of single persons on the program is increasing faster than the number of families (in fact, the number of families is probably going down). This strikes me as more than a little ominous.
Certainly there are single people, principally the elderly and truly disabled, who might need the program. But the change in household makeup more likely indicates that many younger people are choosing to apply for and are receiving benefits. Given the known stories about university students with well-off parents and others being encouraged to sign up for the program, how easy it is to get the benefits to start flowing, and how little monitoring there is of when someone should no longer be receiving them, it's hard to believe that there isn't room for "cuts" which would not harm anyone's ability to keep eating — if necessary, using resources of their own which are readily available.
June's record level of participation in the food stamp program wasn't news at the Associated Press or the New York Times as of 9 PM ET Tuesday. A Google News search surfaces about 16 stories, the large majority of which are reprints of the Bloomberg Business Week story. I guess the those covering politics and general U.S. news don't want to disturb Democrats in Charlotte with uncomfortable news and questions about why an economy that is supposedly recovering continues to experience rising levels of dependency.
One other business web site, CNBC, had a story covering the food stamp news, and, almost incredibly, identified the real reason why the programs numbers continue to climb while a hardened, Keynesian koolaid liberal who appears to be quite pleased about it:
There were fewer than 31 million people on food stamps as recently as November 2008, but an aggressive effort from President Obama's administration has helped build participation, with the total increasing by 44 percent since the president took office in January 2009.
Liberal commentator Alan Colmes, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece Tuesday, cites the expansion as a key achievement of the Obama administration, as participants "only stay on it an average of nine months" and circulate $1.73 back into the economy for each food stamp dollar spent.
Wow. What an "achievement."
Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org.


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Compatibility and IE8
In Dean's recent Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone post, he highlighted our responsibility to deliver both interoperability (web pages working well across different browsers) and backwards compatibility (web pages working well across different versions of IE). We need to do both, so that IE8 continues to work with the billions of pages on the web today that already work in IE6 and IE7 but also makes the development of the next billion pages (in an interoperable way) much easier. Continuing Dean's theme, I'd like to talk about some steps we are taking in IE8 to achieve these goals.
I've been on the IE team for over a decade, and I've seen us apply the "Don't Break the Web" rule in six different major versions of IE in different ways. In IE 6, we used the DOCTYPE switch to enable different "modes" of behavior to protect compatibility. When we released IE 6 in 2001, very few pages on the web were in "standards mode" (my team ran a report on the top 200 web sites at the time that reported less than 1%) – few people knew what a DOCTYPE was, and few tools generated them. We used the DOCTYPE switch in IE6 to change the box model to comply with the standards and enable developers to opt-in to the new behavior. We'd already seen so much content written to IE5.x's non-standard interpretation of the CSS2 spec that we couldn't change it without causing a slew of problems.
In IE7 we made a lot more changes to improve IE's standards compliance, particularly with CSS. We limited these behavior changes to IE's "standards mode" only, and we expected that this would help limit compatibility problems as it had in the past. Unfortunately, and somewhat surprisingly to us, this wasn't true; many of those changes made IE incompatible with content that was already part of the web. It turned out by the time IE7 shipped in late 2006, roughly half of the top 200 US web sites were in "standards mode". Many of those sites had been "opted in" to standards mode by a tool that generated their content; many of them had probably been hand-coded by someone who was trying to do the right thing, and make their HTML code valid according to the W3C. Regardless, users of those sites expected them to keep working the same, even when they downloaded a new version of IE. Unfortunately, that didn't happen.
But wait, a lot of people say at this point, why isn't this a problem for Firefox, or Safari, or any other browser? The answer is that developers of many sites had worked around many of the shortcomings or outright errors in IE6, and now expected IE7 to work just like IE6. Web developers expected us, for example, to maintain our model for how content overflows its box, even in "standards mode," even though it didn't follow the specification – because they'd already made their content work with our model. In many cases, these sites would have worked better if they had served IE7 the same content and stylesheets they were serving when visited with a non-IE browser, but they had "fixed their content" for IE. Sites didn't work, and users experienced problems.
In short, there was an expectation that even under standards mode, IE would keep working the same way. Because sites expected IE6 behavior, the DOCTYPE switch failed to protect compatibility in the real world when we changed behavior under standards mode to become more compliant. We realized that "Don't Break the Web" should really be translated to "Don't change what developers expect IE to do for current pages that are already deployed." (Of course, for content that is developed to a later standard that isn't deployed yet, you can expect different things.)
With this painful and unexpected lesson under our belt, we worked together with The Web Standards Project (in the WaSP-Microsoft Task Force) on this problem. I can't give them enough credit for this work; it's tough to step into the shoes of a browser vendor that ships to half a billion users to figure out what the best thing to do is, when you really just want to sit down and write code to the standards. We started from a simple statement of "enable (and encourage) interoperable web development, but don't force IE to break pages that work properly in IE today." I think we all want to converge to a world where a web developer doesn't have to spend much time at all testing and recoding their site for different browsers. At the same time, we can't break the web experience on current sites for users like my mom, even for as good a reason as improving standards compliance. With all the great styling and layout changes we're working on in our new engine for IE8 to be much more standards compliant, that's a lot of potential breakage. (More details in the near future, but the Acid2 announcement gives you some idea.)
We realized that the model for web development was really "write to the standard, then test against and fix problems in the most popular browsers." This meant that the web developer had one crucial piece of information we could make use of – what version of IE they had tested against, and after much discussion in the WaSP-MS task force, we ended up with a <meta>-based "opt-in to the browser version I tested with" strategy.
Aaron Gustafson, one of the members of the WaSP-MicrosoftTask Force wrote an article detailing where we ended up that was posted on A List Apart today; I highly recommend reading it for a different perspective. I'll summarize, though, that:
- "Quirks mode" remains the same, and compatible with current content.
- "Standards mode" remains the same as IE7, and compatible with current content.
- If you (the page developer) really want the best standards support IE8 can give, you can get it by inserting a simple <meta> element. Aaron gives more details on this in his article.
We believe this approach has the best blend of allowing web developers to easily write code to interoperable web standards while not causing compatibility problems with current content. We also think this approach allows developers to opt in to standards behavior on their own schedule and as it makes sense to them, instead of forcing developers into a responsive mode when a new version of IE has different behavior on their current pages. I'm excited by all the standards work we're doing in IE8; I'm even more excited that we won't cause a lot of compatibility problems for our users and web developers.
Chris Wilson
IE Platform Architect


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text: Sheesh, if it's not one thing it's another: first the International Space Station had space toilet issues, and now bulbs are burning out in the new Japanese Kibo module. Lots of them. About half of the 21 fluorescent bulbs have burned out since it was installed earlier this year and, with other outages on the station, there are no more spares aboard. Replacements won't get there until the November Shuttle flight...which has Japan's space agency Jaxa worried it'll be too dark in Kibo for the science experiments it was designed for. You might wonder why they don't use LEDs: JAXA's working on those, but won't get them to orbit until 2010. In space no one can see you scream in frustration. [Wired Science]