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Hon. Akemi Arakaki '98: A Team Player On and Off the Bench
The Hon. Akemi Arakaki sees an unlikely parallel between two of her passions: basketball and the law.
"I'm four-foot-nine – the most unlikely person to ever be successful on a basketball court or a court of law," she said. "But if you work really hard at something you love, you can be successful. I have a lot of tenacity, and I'm scrappy. In both courts, I had to work really hard to become good."
She has found that her philosophy applies to the bench as well as the bar. "As an advocate, you get caught up in your case; you're trying to convince people you're right even if you're not," she said. "As judge, you get to consider all the arguments and all the law, and bring an unbiased opinion to a situation. It's challenging; we all have to check ourselves now and again and make sure we're looking at each case and the law with fresh eyes."
Appointed to the California Superior Court, Los Angeles County bench in 2010 by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger after more than 10 years as a public defender, Arakaki has continued to grow in her transition from litigator to adjudicator. Now in Antelope Valley and removed from the peer group she cultivated in Eastlake Juvenile Court, she has found the new setting liberating. "I was able to define myself as a judge without the baggage," she said. In her role as judge, she handles felony preliminary hearings in cases ranging from petty theft with priors to rapes and murders.
Arakaki plays basketball three times a week. Her favorite pastime is a carry-over from her law school days, when she played pick-up games with fellow members of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, an organization she led as president. At the same time, she was honing her trial skills in an entirely different court as a student in the Hobbs District Attorney Clinic, which she credits with giving her practical skills.
"Professor Hobbs really trained young people to be litigators, to be comfortable in the courtroom and to feel confident in the skills we were learning," she said. "It was no longer theory; it was putting everything we learned in the classroom to practice. I actually tried two cases and did two preliminary hearings before I finished my time there."
Raised in a family of teachers, Arakaki felt called to help kids from an early age. Growing up, her friends had brushes with police. After considering a career as an educator or social worker, she centered on the law. Early on, she had a strong desire to become a juvenile public defender. "I was a kid who got into some trouble, and I had a lot of friends who got into trouble and ended up in the delinquency system," she said.
Some of Arakaki's most rewarding memories as a deputy public defender in the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office stem from her time working at Eastlake Juvenile Court. She recalled spending a year and a half on the case of a female youth charged with multiple counts of kidnapping and false imprisonment. Arakaki and her team ultimately succeeded in securing the girl's release from state educational placement. "It's a huge feeling," Arakaki said. "As a practitioner, you have to remember it's the small victories. You can't just look at your track record by wins and losses."
Prior to serving in the public defender's office, Arakaki worked as an attorney for the Law Offices of Steve Escovar, a former public defender she opposed while prosecuting a case as a student in the Hobbs Clinic. Impressed by her trial work, he told her to call him when she graduated. She did, and the rest is history.
Outside of the courtroom, Arakaki has had a full plate of civic involvement. She was president of the Japanese American Bar Association, and she sits on the board of the Little Tokyo Service Center, a Community Development Corporation.
Arakaki credits Loyola Law School with giving her the skills necessary to excel on the bench. "I was in the best section," she said, naming her list of first-year professors: Linda Beres; David Burcham '84, president, Loyola Marymount University; Dean Victor Gold; and Chris May.
"My time at Loyola was three of the most rewarding years of my life," she said. "I really enjoyed law school. I got to meet and work with wonderful people. I'm still friends with them. I really believe Loyola trains true practitioners of the law. It's a great place to learn to be a lawyer, and it prepared me to be a judge."


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Meet Isaac Martinotti (age 12) and Isaac Bailey (age 13), two friends who share not only a first name, but also a love of working on bikes.
These neighborhood pals realized none of their friends could fix bikes, so they converted Isaac B's garage and driveway into their very own bike shop. They've named it I.A.I. Bike Repair (as in Isaac and Isaac) and they're eager for business.
Located on one of my regular Northeast bike routes (on Holman Ave.), I first heard about them through a tipster a few months ago. When I rode by over the weekend the shop was buzzing with activity so I decided to stop and check it out.
Isaac Bailey (age 13) was hunched over a BMX bike, swapping out the rear wheel for a smaller one while Isaac Martinotti (age 12) was busy cleaning up the shop, organizing parts, dusting cobwebs, and trying to figure out how their cash register worked.
The Isaacs are serious about their shop.
They've even secured a source for parts. According to Isaac M., each Thrusday they fill up their cargo trailer with old parts from the nearby Community Cycling Center. "It's just $5 for as much as you can carry," he said with a glimmer in his eye that any dumpster-diving bike nut would appreciate.
As for tools, they invested their allowance in a new set, and they even know how to use them. Isaac B. is a graduate of the CCC's afterschool bike club and Isaac M. took a welding class at his school. They also often seek out sage advice and help from the master builders at the Alberta Clownhouse bike shop.
The boys even found an old electronic cash register left in front of a nearby house for free. "It even works" said Isaac M. as he tinkered with it atop the checkout counter.
The boys were busy the whole time I was there. Several of their friends have dropped off bikes—one needs a flat tire fixed, the other a new wheel—and they're working on some other bikes that they hope to trade for some business cards and flyers.
I asked what they consider their specialities. Isaac B. says he's got a knack for spray painting parts and Isaac M. says he's especially good at brake adjustment.
I ran into Isaac B.'s mom at the store the other day. She was buying some invoice slips (I told you they were serious) and said she was happy they were so involved with this, instead of just hanging out on the streets, "They're really having fun with it…Isaac even asked me if they could do some commercials!"
You've got to love a city where kids aspire to have their own bike shop. Good luck Isaac and Isaac, I'll see you around the neighborhood.
[Thanks to Ayleen Crotty for the tip!]


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As the implementation and enforcement arm of Presidential policy government-wide, OMB carries out its mission through five critical processes that are essential to the President's ability to plan and implement his priorities across the Executive Branch:
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The Weird Things Andrew Mason Did As CEO Of Groupon
• Business InsiderWith the company's stock price in long decline, it's hardly a surprise.
But we'd like to take a look at Mason's weirder, more lighthearted side.
Groupon established itself early on as a quirky, humorous company, and it seems to stem from Mason's own personality.
In this Wall Street Journal interview, he was asked if he's mature enough to run the company. We loved his response:
"I was weird before we were a public company and managed to get it worth whatever it's worth. I'm going to continue doing my thing and work my butt off to add value for shareholders and as long as they and the board see fit to keep me in this role, I feel enormously privileged to serve."


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The Most Offensive Painting Ever Made
Yiull Damaso has achieved a true artistic milestone. He has created what is quite possibly the most offensive image ever made. The BBC reports that the forty-one year old South African artist is completing a large painting depicting former South African president and Nobel Laureate, Nelson Mandela as a corpse in the process of being dissected. Observing this process is a group of South African leaders from the past and present. The completed piece will be displayed in the Hyde Park shopping center in Johannesburg. Not surprisingly, the African National Congress has already criticized the piece, saying that it insults Mr. Mandela's dignity.
Perhaps we could forgive the artist if he was using this offensive imagery to make an important political statement. If Damaso was trying say that Mandela was somehow mistreated, or that ANC politicians had somehow exploited Mandela's revered stature for propaganda purposes, perhaps the painting might make more sense. But Damaso himself has stated that that his piece is not about politics, but about Mandela's mortality. "Nelson Mandela is a great man," he told BBC, "but he's just a man… The eventually passing of Mr. Mandela is something that we will have to face, as individuals, as a nation." Okay, but why now? Mandela has not passed away, so the idea of showing his half naked body on a dissecting table while the flesh of his left arm is being cut away is just creepy, arbitrary and disrespectful.
Weirder still is Damaso's decision to base his piece on Rembrandt's painting, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp. Damaso even dresses the dissection's observers, who include Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and President Jacob Zuma, in seventeenth century Dutch outfits.
Not only is Damaso's decision to parody Rembrandt random and visually confusing, it ignores the context of the earlier image. In Damaso's painting, Mandela's figure occupies the place of Aris Kindt, the man being dissected in Rembrandt's painting. Kindt was an armed robber, who was executed for his crime before being brought to the Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons. Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, the city's anatomist, was only allowed to work from the corpses of executed criminals. Damaso has not only killed of the father of his nation, he metaphorically stuck him in the position of a common low-life.
Damaso's painting substitutes the image of anatomist Dr. Nicolaes Tulp for a portrait of the deceased Nkosi Johnson, an HIV positive child activist who succumbed to the disease at age 12. Johnson's presence further complicates Damaso's simple message that we are all mortal. Damaso told The Guardian, "Nkosi Johnson, the only one in the painting who's no longer alive, is trying to show them that Mandela is just a man. So they should stop searching and get on with building the country." Artists have been painting memento moris for hundreds of years, but while death may be inevitable, death from AIDS at the age of 12 is not. Using the figure of the young activist as a mere symbol of death is simplistic and exploitative. Nkosi Johnson was the keynote speaker at the 13th International AIDS Conference, where he closed with the words "Care for us and accept us – we are all human beings. We are normal. We have hands. We have feet. We can walk, we can talk, we have needs just like everyone else – don't be afraid of us – we are all the same!"
Most of us share something else in common too. We fear death and we don't want a visual reminder that we or someone we revere will eventually pass away. Perhaps Damaso should have taken a lesson from Johnson's kindness and considered how Mandela might have felt at being depicted as half-naked, dead and flayed and how his countrymen will feel upon seeing his sinister painting.


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Bob Hunt Is An Outstanding Writer And Friend
He has written an article on Small Claims Court. Hopefully, none of you will ever have to go there, but if you do, you should be prepared. This article will prepare you. Thank you Bob for allowing me to share this.
Small Claims Court Manual Is Helpful To Real Estate Agents
Over the course of a career, a real estate broker or agent may find himself in small claims court in connection with a dispute arising out of a real estate transaction. He may be there as a defendant, as a witness, or even as a plaintiff. Sometimes, he may be involved just in an attempt to help a client, even if he doesn't have a role as a witness.
While small claims court may lack some of the trappings and formalities of higher venues, it can be intimidating enough to those who are not "regulars." Moreover, its procedures may be such as to confuse and/or hinder even those with a meritorious case to present.
Thus it is that the Small Claims Court Assistance Manual for REALTORS® and Their Clients, can provide valuable assistance to members of the California Association of Realtors® (CAR). The manual was created by the CAR legal staff. Its declared purpose is "to help REALTORS® and their clients prepare for and present a case in small claims court."
The Rules For Small Claims Courts Vary From State To State
In California, as of January 1, 2012, small claims court jurisdiction is up to $10,000. Small is bigger than it used to be. Even if a plaintiff is owed, or thinks he is owed, more than $10,000, he can choose to waive his rights to the excess and proceed in small claims court. Suppose there is a dispute over a $15,000 earnest money deposit. The plaintiff could waive the $5,000 excess over the court's jurisdiction. It is understandable why someone might want to do this. The case will be heard in a much shorter time frame than would be likely in a higher venue. Also, in small claims court there are minimal legal costs. That is because, with very limited exceptions, attorneys are not permitted to represent a party in a small claims court action.
The CAR small claims manual is designed to provide help for typical real estate related small claims matters. The first chapter provides an overview of small claims court. The second chapter is titled General Advice Applicable to all Claims; Preparing and Presenting Your Case. This consists of such down-to-earth suggestions as:
Create a folder with tabs, so that if the judge wants to see, for example, the purchase agreement, he or she can quickly flip right to it. The easier it is for a judge to find and view a document the more likely that judge will actually examine it…
Watch Several Cases Before Going To Court
State the most important part of your case first and follow up with your key points.
Definitely do not interrupt the judge. When the judge begins talking, you stop talking. Don't attempt to talk over the judge. The judge can interrupt you, but you cannot interrupt the judge.
Chapters 3 – 6 Of The Manual Address A Variety Of Scenarios
They are grouped around four categories:
Chapter 3 – Claims by a listing broker for compensation
Chapter 4 – Claims by a buyer for return of a deposit or damages
Chapter 5 – Claims by a seller for release of a deposit or damages
Chapter 6 – Defenses by a broker against claims made by a buyer
The scenarios have a sample opening statement, a list of suggested documents, a list of the relevant forms or clauses, and a list of supporting legal authorities for the position that is being taken. The appendix of the manual contains the relevant forms and documents as well as the legal authorities or cases. They are not just citations, they present the opinions. This appendix is more than 200 pages long.
CAR Members Can Access The Small Claims Manual
Found at the legal section of the organization web site, CAR.org. It can be downloaded, or one can just use the link. The manual is a valuable member benefit.
Bob Hunt is a CAR director and a trustee of its Legal Action Fund. He is the author of Real Estate the Ethical Way. His email address is [email protected]


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Body found just off I-85 Lanes shut down for hours; few details available on victim
Published 12:00 am Sunday, February 24, 2013
KANNAPOLIS — Investigators are asking for help after an unidentifiable body was found along Interstate 85 Saturday afternoon.
Sgt. G.A. Barger of the Highway Patrol said the victim was struck multiple times before a concerned motorist contacted authorities.
But authorities believe the death may have happened hours earlier.
Troopers have spoken to motorists who saw the body as early as 3:30 a.m. Saturday, Barger said. They, like others, assumed it was an animal carcass.
"A body was struck around, sometime over night," Barger said. "People passing this body thought it was a deer carcass. The earliest person was 3:30 a.m."
Authorities know the victim was a white person with red hair. No other information has been confirmed, he said.
"Obviously the body had been struck not once but multiple times," he said. "We've got to find out if anybody saw anything before 3 a.m. that can help us with what happened."
Barger said authorities are investigating if the person jumped from the Lane Street bridge, walked in front of a vehicle or even was killed before being found on the roadway.
The incident shut down both southbound lanes of Interstate 85 for about four hours Saturday afternoon.
Mt. Mitchell Volunteer Fire Chief Robert Earnhardt said a motorist riding with his family saw the body and turned around later to check Saturday afternoon.
"He said something just didn't look right," Earnhardt said.
Earnhardt said fire crews stayed on the interstate, cleaning the roadway until the lanes re-opened. Traffic began moving freely about 5:20 p.m.
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ON Scripture: Carolyn Sharp on Luke 1:39-56: Magnificat for a Broken World
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Luke 1:39-56: Magnificat for a Broken World
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I left St. Thomas' Episcopal Church in New Haven with a soaring spirit. The Lessons & Carols service-quintessentially Anglican worship interweaving Scripture and music-had just concluded. Particularly memorable had been a haunting setting by Roderick Williams of one of the seven Greater Antiphons of Advent: "O Adonai, et Dux domus Israel" ("O Adonai, and leader of the house of Israel"). This stunning piece has a dark edginess that beautifully captures what waiting for God can be like. Dissonances rise and clash above powerful choral continuities; impressions of order are challenged by free-form melodic descants; a tenor solo seeks valiantly to unfold the narrative of Israel's redemption against the backdrop of luminous but subtly disturbing musical chaos.
O Adonai, and leader of the house of Israel, who appeared to Moses in the flame of the burning bush and to him gave the Law: Come to redeem us with outstretched arm.
As I drove away, I passed the turn that would have taken me to the other church in my life. St. Andrew's, where I currently serve as a deacon, is just a few blocks away from St. Thomas', but it's in an entirely different world. The well-resourced St. Thomas' is located in a lovely neighborhood with million-dollar houses along the broad, tree-lined streets. St. Andrew's is in the troubled Newhallville area of New Haven. Across from the church is an overgrown vacant lot with trash and used drug paraphernalia caught up at the bottom of a chain-link fence. The neighborhood is plagued by crime; several shootings have taken place within a few blocks of the church in the past three months. With a tiny congregation and no endowment, St. Andrew's struggles to stay open. It hasn't helped that in recent months, the church has experienced two break-ins, an off-site robbery of its Sunday offering, and the home invasion of an elderly parishioner.
Naming Brokenness
What does it mean to wait for God in a broken world? What does it mean to wait in a time in which God's promise of redemption is met by the despair of the poor, the greed of those who exploit others, and the rage of those who commit violence? What does Advent mean for the real world?
Mary had some thoughts on that.
Her Magnificat is a powerful poem that holds together the grittiness of life on the margins and the resilient hope of those who trust in God. Mary found herself pregnant and not yet married in an ancient culture in which coercive control of female sexuality was a primary measure of masculine honor. Mary faced an uncertain future at best and devastating retribution from her community at worst. Indeed, the Gospel of Matthew is careful to note that Joseph planned to dismiss her quietly rather than expose her to public humiliation (Matt 1:18-19): the latter scenario could theoretically have included stoning for adultery, according to Jewish law. So I don't envision Mary as the radiant woman peacefully composing the Magnificat in Marie Ellenrieder's 1833 painting, but as a girl who sings defiantly to her God through her tears, fists clenched against an unknown future. Mary's courageous song of praise is a radical resource for those seeking to honor the holy amid the suffering and conflicts of real life.
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The Magnificat and Memory
Mary's hymn was influenced by the Song of Hannah, a triumphant paean to God dating centuries earlier. Hannah, a godly woman unable to conceive a child, finally becomes pregnant with Samuel, who will be celebrated in Israelite tradition as a mighty judge. She dedicates her boy to the Lord, singing of God's power to overthrow the arrogant enemies of the lowly. Luke's Magnificat draws on the Song of Hannah, inviting us to our own sources of memory to understand how God has transformed situations of risk and oppression. Gather with family to remember the stories of resilience that your grandparents told. Read David Levering Lewis' magnificent two-volume biography of W. E. B. Du Bois to remember the uncompromising passion of the early civil rights movement. Check the blogosphere to stay mindful of the prophetic witness of Aung San Suu Kyi in the ongoing political conflict in Myanmar. Remember.
The Magnificat and Justic e
Mary's song promises that God brings about wondrous reversals in the world: showing favor to the uncredentialed and ignored ("the lowly"); rendering ineffectual the machinations of the arrogant ("scattering the proud in the thoughts of their hearts"); bringing down those who exploit positions of power; lifting up the poor. Reflect on the Occupy Real Estate movement organizing in East New York as you hear the Magnificat sung by this Judean woman who had to shelter in a stable on the night she gave birth. Consider the transformative potential of micro-lending and other empowerment practices supported by Five Talents and other NGOs dedicated to ending poverty. For women who strive to bring new Magnificats to voice: consider the feminist writing retreats sponsored by the Resource Center for Women & Ministry in the South. Build your own capacity to sing for justice.
Last week, my spiritual director recommended a book that he deems a contender for this year's Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction: Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Pinker argues that we have gradually become less violent, less bent on destruction of the Other, than we have been in centuries past. I'd very much like to believe it. One Amazon reviewer has called the book, hilariously, a "juggernaut of guarded optimism." I love that mixed metaphor-it's a pitch-perfect descriptor of the overcompensatory yet spiritually tentative ethos of North American secular culture. Mary has a word to speak not only to our faith communities but to secular culture as well: remember traditions of transformation, acknowledge the brokenness of the present moment, and dare to hope for a future in which justice reigns.
O Adonai, and leader of the house of Israel, who appeared to Moses in the flame of the burning bush and to him gave the Law: Come to redeem us with outstretched arm.
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The Baltimore Ravens came out of Sunday's wild-card win over the Indianapolis Colts mostly injury-free.
On NFL Network
NFL Replay will re-air the
Baltimore Ravens' 24-9 victory over the
Indianapolis Colts from Wild Card Weekend on Wednesday, Jan. 9 at 9 p.m. ET.
Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports reported that Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs tweaked his surgically repaired right heel during the game, but the pain wasn't severe enough to pull him off the field.
"My Achilles started acting up, and it felt pretty bad, but I was like, '(Expletive) that,' " Suggs said after the win. "I wasn't going to let a repaired tendon steal our glory. We had work to do. We're trying to win a championship. And we had to make sure we did this for him."
"Him" meant Ray Lewis, the soon-to-be-retired All-Pro linebacker who now guides the Ravens into Denver to face a Broncos team that hasn't lost since Week 5.
Along with Suggs, linebacker Dannell Ellerbe suffered a sprained right ankle in the fourth quarter, but he downplayed the injury after the game.
"Yeah, I'll be fine. It's not that bad," Ellerbe told The Baltimore Sun. "At first, it was hurting. I walked it off."
Ellerbe has endured a string of injuries this season, including a broken and sprained thumb, a damaged left foot and Sunday's right ankle tweak. With the stakes against Denver sky high, we expect both defenders to be ready to go this weekend.
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Our staff handles plan reviews, permits, and building and housing inspections. The department ensures that construction on new or remodeled buildings within the City limits meet or exceed current codes and provide a safe environment for the community.
Business License Required for Contractors
If you are hiring a contractor to work on your home, contact this department to be sure the contractor has a local license. All contractors working in Ripon must have a license registered with the City (an out of town license in not sufficient.)
Building Inspections
The Building Inspection Division of the Public Works Department is overseen by the Director of Public Works\Building Official. The department is staffed with a Chief Building Inspector and one Building Inspector. All of the Department staff are ICBO Certified Inspectors.
The Building Department's primary responsibility is to ensure safety to life and property from all hazards incidental to the design, erection, repair, removal, demolition or use and the occupancy of building, structures or premises through the enforcement of City zoning regulations and state and local building codes. If you have a permit and need to schedule an inspection, please call (209)599-6079 the day before you want the inspection. This is a 24-hour recording line, please listen to the instructions and the inspection will be scheduled the following work day. AM & PM requests only.
Permit Processing
The Building Department processes applications, collects permit fees, appropriates development fees, and issues building permits for various residential, commercial, and industrial construction projects within the City of Ripon.
Plan Review
The Building Department reviews plans to ensure that the building structure, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, handicap accessibility, and energy usage is in compliance with all state and city adopted construction codes. Residential and light commercial plans are checked in-house and heavy commercial and industrial are sent out to professional plan check services.
The Building Department is responsible for inspecting the construction of all new and existing structures for conformity with approved plans and permits and for compliance with state and local building code requirements. A total of 1,815 inspections were performed last year.
Housing Inspection
The Department enforces minimum standards of the uniform housing codes for existing residential buildings to safeguard life, liability, health, property and public welfare by conducting health and safety inspections and responding to tenant complaints.
For questions on this report, contact Katie in the Building Department at (209)599-2613.


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Kansas Senate Panel to Examine Governor's Tax Plan
KSCB News - January 30, 2013 5:51 am
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – A Kansas Senate committee is holding two days of hearings on Gov. Sam Brownback's tax plan amid questions about whether it is fair to the state's poorest residents.
The Republican-dominated Assessment and Taxation Committee was beginning its review of the GOP governor's proposals Tuesday morning.
Brownback wants to phase in more income tax cuts over the next three years to follow up on reductions approved last year.
But to stabilize the budget, Brownback also wants to eliminate two popular income tax deductions for homeowners and keep the sales tax at its current rate, rather than letting it drop in July as planned.
The plan is drawing criticism from the Washington-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan research group that says the plan favors the wealthy. Brownback's administration disputes that.


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HOUSTON (AP) - Alex Rodriguez said dealing with his 211-game suspension stemming from baseball's Biogenesis drug investigation has been a "big burden" and adds he's ready to face it "head on" when the arbitration hearing on his grievance begins Monday.
The New York Yankees third baseman didn't expect to play this weekend during the team's season-ending series at Houston because of soreness in his legs.
He said he's excited to get the hearing started before arbitrator Fredric Horowitz and he plans to attend every day. Horowitz has set aside all five business days next week for sessions.
"I'm fighting for my life and my whole legacy," Rodriguez said. "Yeah, I should be there."
Rodriguez was suspended by MLB on Aug. 5, the day he returned from January hip surgery and a quadriceps injury sustained during a minor league rehabilitation assignment.
He dodged the question when asked whether he would consider it a victory if his suspension were shortened or would he would be satisfied only if it were overturned completely.
"I'm not going to get into that," he said. "I told you guys about a month-and-a-half ago that I'm not going to talk about it during the season. I'm kind of just giving you some color on it, but I'm not going to get into my expectations and whatnot."
He said he will discuss the case in detail at some unspecified point.
"Obviously this is going to be a grueling process all the way through," he said. "You'll hear the full story when the time is right for me, and that time is not just now."
The 38-year-old is hitting .244 with seven homers and 19 RBIs in 44 games this season and is six homers shy of tying Willie Mays' 660 for fourth place on the career list, behind only Barry Bonds (762), Hank Aaron (755) and Babe Ruth (714).
Rodriguez is owed $86 million in salaries by the Yankees: $25 million next year, $21 million in 2015 and $20 million in each of the final two seasons of his $275 million, 10-year deal. He can also earn five $6 million bonuses contemplated to be tying the home run marks of Mays, Ruth, Aaron and Bonds, and breaking Bonds' record.
How much money the Yankees save during any suspension could help determine whether they re-sign second baseman Robinson Cano or try to sign free agents such as catcher Brian McCann.
After missing so much time because of injuries this season, Rodriguez is eager to get back in a training routine and prepare for next season. He said however long he is suspended; it will leave him on the field more than he has been recently because of his health problems.
"It's not going to be longer no matter how you draw it up," he said. "It's not going to be longer than (when) I was out almost an entire year with no training. Whatever it is I think it should be hopefully less than that."
He believes he can still be a productive member of this team and can't wait for next season.
"I'm looking forward to coming back in great shape and being a big contributor," he said.
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Newswise — Bridal magazines are filled with images of the fairytale wedding " long white dresses, champagne, flowers and kisses. But a study by a University of Missouri-Columbia researcher has found that magazine portrayals of fairytale weddings are missing a key element: African-American brides.
"The dominant image of today's bride is that she is white, blond, blue-eyed and thin," said Cynthia Frisby, associate professor of advertising at MU's School of Journalism. "We would expect advertisements and images to reflect a multicultural value, but mainstream bridal magazines show predominantly white brides and a few black bridesmaids."
Frisby and Erika Engstrom, professor at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, studied mainstream bridal magazines published from 2000 to 2004. Their study was a follow-up to Chrys Ingraham's study of bridal magazines from 1959 to 1999, published in Ingraham's book "White Weddings," that found few African-American brides in the magazines. Frisby and Engstrom wanted to determine if recent trends toward multiculturalism and cultural sensitivity had led to changes since 1999.
The covers and advertisements of 57 randomly selected issues of Bride's Magazine, Modern Bride and Elegant Bride published from 2000 to 2004 were analyzed. Frisby and Engstrom did not find a significant improvement in the portrayal of African-American women: fewer than 2 percent of the advertisements featured African-American brides, and not a single magazine analyzed had an African-American bride on the cover. Images of African-American bridesmaids were more common.
"Our data seem to support the idea that the phrase 'always a bridesmaid, never a bride' was actually meant for how women of color are represented in bridal magazines," Frisby said. "Such portrayals of African-American women as bridesmaids may communicate a negative assumption that it's better for African Americans to stay in background roles as opposed to positions of equal status or power. Various forms of bias in bridal advertisements not only harm African-American women's sense of identity, but also derail attempts to show that our society is multicultural and accepting of people of color. Interracial settings and frequent portrayal of African Americans as main characters may help break down cultural and racial barriers and increase communication among people of all colors and ethnicities."
Frisby hopes this study will raise awareness and increase the number of images of African-Americans brides in mainstream magazines.
"It's possible that advertisers are simply unaware of the pattern developing in portrayals of African-American women as brides. Hopefully this study will call that to their attention," Frisby said. "A principle to remember: unequal status breeds prejudice."
The study was published in the fall 2006 issue of the journal Media Report to Women.


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Order & Chaos Online Review: The most massive game on Windows Phone 8
When Windows Phone launched with Xbox-branded games, many Xbox 360 fans picked up the platform in hopes of Xbox 360/XBLA-style experiences. Well, there are several Xbox Windows Phone games worthy of being released on consoles, but for the most part, they tend to be pick-up-and-play casual games.
It wasn't until the advent of Windows Phone 8 and Gameloft's increased support for it that we started getting more serious and complex games in the mobile Xbox lineup. The largest and most fully featured of those games is undoubtedly Order & Chaos Online. Can a massively multiplayer online RPG (MMORPG) like this work on less than massive smartphones? Read on to find out.
Take on an alter ego
You can have up to three separate characters (or five with an In-App Purchase), though even just a single character will take countless hours to "max out." Choose from five races and four classes, each of which can specialize in two subclasses. The two most important types for completing dungeons are Warrior "Tanks" and Monk "Healers." Learn a bit more about races and classes here.
After creating a character you'll run through a brief tutorial and then set out to explore a massive online world. Role-playing games typically have intricate stories, but MMOs necessarily reduce the focus on narrative. Order & Chaos's story comes via text delivered mostly before and after completing quests. Each new city or area you visit will have its own tales that unfold. You don't get an overarching story, but there's no real need when you're supposed to be partying up and socializing with friends and new people.
Party time
Now, you COULD play through everything except for high-level dungeons all by your lonesome; you'll have an experience very similar to Oblivion and Skyrim. But you'd also be missing out on the inherent social appeal of an MMO.
This game is one gigantic shared adventure, and there are many obvious benefits to interacting with your fellow players. Don't understand how something works? Can't figure out what to do in a quest? Instead of searching online, it's often faster and easier just to ask other players. In my experience, the general North American community has been quite helpful. You can always mute anyone who rubs you the wrong way – I've only done so twice so far.
Forming a team of 2-4 players also makes things much easier. Escort missions or quests that involve higher level enemies can be tough to survive on your own. Bring a friend along (or recruit someone new in chat) and you should have much less trouble. Teammates share XP from kills and some items dropped as well. Distribution of the more valuable loot depends on the team settings; I tend to let items go to whichever player can actually use them.
Dungeons and dragons
You'll especially want to party up when taking on instanced dungeons. The first dungeon (Knahswahs Prison) becomes available around level 20. Dungeons contain packs of high-level monsters and multiple bosses to battle. Without a balanced group of four party members, you're certain to be overwhelmed by the enemies.
Given the steep challenge of the dungeons, it's super satisfying when your team finally clears one. But I found that by the time my character was actually strong enough to be a real help in the Prison (closer to level 30 than 20), the gear I could get from the dungeon's loot was no longer of use. Taking a dungeon on at a low level could be profitable though, provided you have one or more higher level players to get the team through.
Dungeons are also held back slightly by the game's experience system. You don't gain XP from killing enemies that are more than 5 levels below your own, much to my chagrin. So running dungeons for XP isn't practical either. Still, people are constantly looking for dungeon help in the global chat. I bet they do it for the challenge and the shared goal more than anything.
Chatting it up
Order & Chaos offers a global chat channel in which anyone can converse, ask for help, or form a team. You can also switch your chat messages to local (just the map you occupy), team, or guild, as well as sending whispers (private messages). Chatting via touch screen keyboard (though not as convenient as voice chat) is such a breath of fresh air given how most multiplayer Xbox Windows Phone games like UNO & Friends and Asphalt 7 don't offer any way for players to communicate.
That said, Order & Chaos's chat feature could be better. Type a long message and the text goes off-screen so that you can't see much of what you're typing. And tapping anywhere outside of the keyboard sends the message as-is, often in an incomplete state. The game really should allow users to resume a message without sending it.
Speaking of chat and community, Order & Chaos players will probably want to join a guild. This game's guilds don't involve much of an energy investment; there's no guild bank, guild wars, or things like that. Being part of a guild just gives you access to the guild's private chat channel. Stick with a guild and you can get to know the other members, ask them for help, and help them when they need it.
WPCentral actually has its own guild made up of loyal readers and newcomers alike. Visit our official forum thread for instructions on joining up.
Big, beautiful, and buggy
Considering what a large game this is, it shouldn't come as a surprise that it suffers from a fair number of bugs. The most frustrating kind is when certain quests glitch and become impossible for anyone to complete. And in fact the second dungeon Relic's Key (pictured above) is currently bugged. One of the bosses causes the game to crash for the entire party, making the dungeon unbeatable. The game also just crashes at random times. Hopefully Gameloft fixes these problems in an update.
Speaking of bugs, Gameloft games on Windows Phone often suffer from broken Achievements. Thankfully Order & Chaos's Achievements all work just fine. They're also quite reasonable in difficulty, though time consuming. Naturally.
Surprisingly, there are no Achievements for completing dungeons. A few involve finding loot of high rarity – I still haven't come across an epic level item at level 30. The game awards an Achievement for every 10 experience levels, all the way up to the current maximum level of 60. Getting there will take dozens of hours, though a handful of dedicated players have already accomplished it in just a few short weeks.
Check out Part 1 and Part 2 of our Beginner's Guide for lots of helpful gameplay advice. The guide also describes lots of gameplay aspects like mounts, pets, and crafting that couldn't fit into this review.
Overall Impression
Casual games are a perfect fit for smartphones since you can play them for a few minutes at a time throughout your day. But sometimes you crave a longer, more interesting experience.
Order & Chaos Online is just the right game for when you have 30 minutes or an hour to kill. MMORPGs are time consuming games and typically played on PCs. But because this is a phone game, you have way more opportunities to play it than a PC game. You can literally play it anywhere; that's the beauty of phone gaming. You'll have to plug in your charger if you play for very long, but that's a small price to pay for the fun this game offers.
In this reviewer's opinion, Order & Chaos Online is the single best game for Windows Phone. Will you fall in love with it as well? The demo lets you play the first seven levels for free, so try it and see!
Order & Chaos Online – Windows Phone 8 with 1 GB RAM – 1012 MB - $6.99 – Store Link
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In 2007, Sean O'Sullivan, one of the founders of MapInfo, graciously made a donation to his alma mater, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY with the specific goal of creating a center for the promotion of open source among undergraduates:
"We have a duty to our fellow man to improve life on this planet. While technology has always been a huge enabler in improving quality of life, we now are at a point where, through open software and open content, these improvements can come at close to zero cost, opening up opportunities to all," said O'Sullivan
This donation gave birth to the Rensselaer Center for Open Source (RCOS), where every year about 100 undergraduates receive stipends to work on open source projects.
RCOS also identified a need to provide formal education on the practices of Open Source software, and crafted an elective course which has been taught for the last three years during the fall semester. The course is offered to EE and CS majors in particular.
The form and content of the course has been evolving over time. In 2009, it comprised the following syllabus:
Economics (3 lectures)
Intellectual Monopolies (2 lectures)
Software Patents (1 lecture)
Open Source Licensing (2 lectures)
Case Studies (CMake / VTK / GNOME / KDE...) (5 lectures)
Business Models (1 lecture)
Software Development Process (1 lecture)
Open Access Publishing (1 lecture)
Wikipedia & peer production (1 lecture)
Hands-On Exercises (gcc / kernel / sockets)
All the teaching materials are made publicly available under the Creative Commons by Attribution license and can be found here.
The course runs for 16 weeks, with two sessions of 1 hour 45 minutes every week. The typical session is divided in 1 hour of lecturing (really: lecturing!), and 45 minutes of hands-on activity.
Examples of hands-on activities have been:
Building gcc from source, applying a patch to it, rebuilding and running it.
Recompiling the Linux kernel, retouching it, rebuilding and booting it.
Jointly developing a simulation software that communicates many instances via sockets.
Grades are partitioned into 75% for quizzes (about 10 of them) and 25% for a class project that requires students to participate in an open source project of their choice.
Instructors in the course were volunteers form Kitware, a local open source company with close ties to RPI, and included the developers of open source projects such as CMake, VTK and ITK. They were complemented with invited speakers who offered talks to the larger campus community.
Invited speakers have included:
Michael Tiemann – President - Open Source Initiative, VP Open Source Affairs - RedHat
Daniel Frye – VP Open Systems Development - IBM
Chris DiBona - Open Source Programs Manager – Google
Kent Quirk – Linden Lab
Sandro Groganz – InitMarketing (Open Source Marketing)
James Cherkoff – Collaborative Marketing
Willy Walker – GNOME Accessibility Project
Bo Lipari – Executive Director, New Yorkers for Verified Voting
The course is a work in progress and we have been learning as we go.Here are a few things that we have had trouble with, which are most likely the result of our lack of pedagogical skills...but still may be helpful if you plan to implement a similar course:
Just expecting students to take initiative doesn't necessarily work.
Grades, Grades, Grades: There must be clear rules for them.
It was difficult to convince students to read, in full, any of our strongly recommended open source books.
When students search for FOSS projects to work on, it has been surprisingly difficult to evoke response from open source communities (more on this below).
We need a lawyer to help us with copyright, patents and licensing talks. Students will come up with the strangest, yet interesting, scenarios as questions and we are left speechless.
Things that we found work well:
TED Videos are a great pedagogical tool. We want more of them!
A lot of material about copyright is available online, particularly in YouTube.
Invited speakers are key to create connections between the students and the realities of FOSS.
On August 30, 2010, we will start Version 4.0 of the course. We are looking forward to this edition, because this year we come armed with three really big guns:
The support of the TeachingOpenSource community
The OpenHatch project, that will enable students to efficiently find suitable FOSS projects to work on.
A collaboration with HFOSS (Humanitarian FOSS), that we anticipate will also be a major source of student projects that are satisfying enough to make them forget about grades.
Through our course, imperfect as it is, we have learned a lot and would love to hear your ideas and suggestions for improvement. We would also enjoy hearing ideas to promote the creation of similar courses in other higher education institutions.
Ideas outside of the traditional teaching practices are particularly welcome!


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GUINEAS REVIEW: Churchill the kind of dogged digger that record-breaker Aidan O'Brien excels with
Giant's Causeway and Rock Of Gibraltar are two that spring readily to mind. Into the same category steps CHURCHILL, winner of Saturday's first Classic of the new Flat season, the Qipco 2000 Guineas, and author of more record-breaking history for the incomparable O'Brien.
Through his 2yo season, the imposing son of supersire Galileo was never spectacular, even though he racked up five wins on the spin, from Royal Ascot to the Dewhurst. But to use one of the well-worn phrases from the lexicon handbook of racing TV presenters and pundits, he always "got the job done", including at Group One level twice. And the monumental volume of support he received ahead of his Royal meeting win -- when, as a maiden with no right, on form or trends, to land the Chesham Stakes, he was backed into 8/11 favourite -- told us all we needed to know about highly regarded he was at Ballydoyle.
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Hide AdSo it came to pass in the Guineas too. More persistent market support, even though many professionals and media tipsters were keen to oppose him, and another trademark display that put tenacity before flair.
In some quarters, Churchill's win was wildly overplayed. I read descriptions such as "wonderfully authoritative" and "quite brilliant", which were very wide of the mark. Workmanlike was the best tag. Indeed so workmanlike that you were almost tempted to question the value of the form. But Churchill is a colt who has been transmitting misleading form signals since his early days. Always performing as if he was a work in progress, with better to come next time or more to follow in the future. More spunk than sparkle.
And I am sure there is much more to come from him. Paddock observers on Saturday were taken aback by his appearance as a powerful bull of a beast, very heavy-topped, very deep-girthed, with enormous hind quarters. It must have been a hell of a job to get him fit for this first assignment of the campaign. Indeed, there was still development pending on his coat and muscle definition, so O'Brien deserves huge credit for preparing him for such a high-profile race with such expertise, particularly as most of his rivals had benefited from a run this spring. I will be staggered if those in behind ever reverse placings over 1m.
Mind you, O'Brien is well used to such expertise. This was his eighth 2000 Guineas winner since he moved to Ballydoyle 21 years ago, surpassing the previous record for the historic contest, held by John Scott, which had lasted for no fewer than 155 years. And all were making their seasonal bows.
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It worked splendidly and by the time Churchill had hit the front, Barney Roy had got his galloping knickers in a twist on the Rowley Mile undulations, Al Wukair was being asked to come from too far back and Eminent (the paddock pick, incidentally) was looking uncomfortable on the fast ground to half-support racecourse rumours that he had been suffering from sore shins in the days leading up to the gig.
Things didn't quite pan out as planned 24 hours later when RHODODENDRON was expected to complete a Guineas double for O'Brien in the fillies' equivalent. This time, after travelling beautifully, the favourite hit trouble in running at a key stage of the contest and had to be exaggeratedly dragged left by Moore to get a run. But it didn't stop the Ballydoyle team celebrating another victory because stablemate WINTER, freshly acquired from the yard of the retired David Wachman, took full advantage
Winter's convincing win gave O'Brien his third Guineas double since 2005 and only the fourth achieved by anyone since the Second World War (the other being by Noel Murless back in 1967). And given that the grey had shown only modest form for Wachman in three juvenile starts, it could hardly have been a better advertisement of O'Brien's unique feel for a horse.
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Hide AdInevitably, the conclusion of the first Classics immediately triggered a debate about whether the big guns should now move on to Epsom and whether they will be suited to the extra half-mile of the Derby or Oaks.
In the case of Churchill, he looks like a sprinter, is the son of a mare who was a very speedy sprinter (Meow) and is closely related to an even speedier Group One-winning sprinter (Airwave). But O'Brien is convinced he's a colt who is so relaxed and so professional that "he could probably go as far as you want".
In the case of Winter, again the dam was a sprinter (Laddies Poker Two), who won the Wokingham at Royal Ascot. But she wasn't stopping up the Newmarket hill on Sunday and jockey Wayne Lordan is sure she will get at least 10f.
In the case of Rhododendron, my suspicion is that she could yet turn out to the best of all three. Her dam, Halfway To Heaven, was top-class at up to 10f and in the aftermath of the Guineas, it was most revealing to hear O'Brien tell Racing UK viewers that Rhododendron had "always been considered an Oaks filly, and this was a race just to get her season started".
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O'Brien's normal modus operandi is to support the two Guineas races in Ireland, but because they fall only a week before the Epsom Classics this year, I doubt that any of the trio will be asked to tackle both. My hunch is that Churchill will run in the Irish 2000 Guineas, Winter in the Irish 1000 Guineas and Rhododendron in the Oaks, with a cluster of his middle-distance colts in the mix for the Derby.


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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada jury ordered the state's largest health management organization on Tuesday to pay $500 million in punitive damages to three plaintiffs in a civil negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak.
Two companies — both subsidiaries of publicly traded UnitedHealth Group Inc. — signed a low-bid contract with the physician who ran the clinic where the outbreak started, despite warnings that he sped through procedures and pinched pennies at his clinics so much that patients were at risk of contracting blood-borne diseases, attorneys for those suing the companies argued.
They had sought almost $2.5 billion, telling the jury of five women and three men on Monday that a record amount would show health corporations they couldn't put profits ahead of patient safety. The jury instead assessed a $270 million punishment from Health Plan of Nevada and $230 million from parent company Sierra Health Services.
The smaller award wasn't a disappointment, said Robert Eglet, attorney for plaintiffs Bonnie and Carl Brunson, both in their 70s.
"The jury sent a strong message not only to HPN and Sierra Health, but to every HMO and health insurance company in this country," Eglet said. "You've got to provide a fair and responsible reimbursement rate to medical providers so that they are able to provide quality health care to their insured members."
Plaintiff Helen Meyer, 76, declared herself "very happy." She was represented by attorney Will Kemp.
The companies derided the award, promising to appeal and warning that it could drive up health insurance rates if it stands.
"The number announced today … represents fantasy damages, not punitive damages," said a statement from company spokesman Tyler Mason. "The only numbers that matter here are the higher insurance premiums that Nevadans may pay if health plans are held liable for the criminal conduct of independent doctors."
D. Lee Roberts Jr., lead defense attorney for Health Plan of Nevada and Sierra Health Services, had told the Clark County District Court jury the companies were punished enough by the $24 million awarded to plaintiffs last week in compensatory damages. That award was $9 million for Meyer, $12 million for Bonnie Brunson and $3 million for her husband for loss of consortium.
During six weeks of testimony and arguments, Roberts and other defense attorneys told the jury that Dipak Desai, the physician-owner of the clinics where Meyer and Bonnie Brunson were infected in 2005, was responsible for the hepatitis outbreak, not the companies.
The extent of the hepatitis exposure became apparent in 2008, when the Southern Nevada Health District in Las Vegas notified more than 50,000 people that they were at risk for blood-borne diseases including AIDS and should be tested.
Investigators later traced hepatitis C infections of nine people to procedures conducted in 2007 at Desai endoscopy clinics. Health officials said that although hepatitis C was found in another 105 Desai patients, the cases weren't conclusively linked to procedures at his clinics.
Desai, once a member of the Nevada state Board of Medical Examiners, wasn't named in the civil lawsuit involving Meyer and the Brunsons. He has denied wrongdoing, declared bankruptcy and surrendered his medical license, but faces trial in state court later this month and federal court next month on separate criminal charges stemming from the outbreak.
Desai's lawyers have fought to prove that he is so incapacitated by strokes and other physical ailments that he is unfit for trial. Prosecutors allege that he's faking his ailments to avoid punishment.
The amount awarded Tuesday matched an apparent record set in Nevada in 2010, when Eglet and Kemp won $500 million for other plaintiffs in another civil lawsuit that blamed pharmaceutical companies Teva Parenteral Medicines Inc. and Baxter Healthcare Corp. for the hepatitis outbreak.
That award was appealed, reduced and included in a February 2012 confidential settlement of about $280 million distributed among dozens of plaintiffs in similar cases.
Legal experts on Tuesday pointed to recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings and said any award in the HMO case greater than $240 million — or 10 times the compensatory figure — ran the risk of being slashed.
Darren McKinney, spokesman for the American Tort Reform Association in Washington, D.C., said the trial judge was likely to reduce the award.
"And if the trial judge fails to do that, surely the state Supreme Court, in light of previous U.S. Supreme Court rulings, will reduce it," he said.
John Kircher, a Marquette University law professor and author of the 2012 book, "Punitive Damages, Law and Practice," said a lower figure wasn't a sure thing.
"But the U.S. Supreme Court has said it sees due process problems if the punitive award exceeds compensatory damages by more than a double-digit percentage."
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World Series: Rangers 2, Cardinals 1
Published 12:00 am Thursday, October 20, 2011
By Ben Walker
Associated Press
ST. LOUIS — Josh Hamilton and the Texas hitters looked lost. They chased pitches that bounced, broke their bats and seemed totally overmatched.
Until the ninth inning, that is.
Down to their last three outs, and in danger of dropping into a serious World Series deficit, the Rangers rallied against St. Louis' vaunted bullpen.
Hamilton and Michael Young lifted sacrifice flies in the ninth and Texas startled the Cardinals 2-1 on Thursday night to even the Series at 1-all.
In a city excited by a Rally Squirrel, it was Groundhog Day — almost.
For the second straight night, Cardinals pinch-hitter Allen Craig greeted reliever Alexi Ogando with a go-ahead single. This time, Craig did it the seventh. In Game 1, his hit in the sixth sent the Cards to a 3-2 win.
The Rangers, however, were not done quite yet. Now, after a travel day, they will host Game 3 on Saturday night. Matt Harrison is set to start for the Rangers against Kyle Lohse.
"It would have been hard," Hamilton said of possibly facing being 0-2. "We would have been comfortable going back to our place, having three games. They're just like we are, never say die, til the last out is made. It makes it fun."
Texas has not lost two straight games since Aug. 23-25. They sure waited a while to save themselves on this night that began as duel between starters Colby Lewis and the Cardinals' Jaime Garcia.
Ian Kinsler opened the ninth with a bloop single against closer Jason Motte. Next up was Elvis Andrus, whose tremendous play at shortstop kept the game scoreless much earlier. He singled to center, sending Kinsler to third, and when the relay throw got away for a moment, Andrus scampered to second.
Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, who's been making all the right moves this October, brought in lefty Arthur Rhodes to face Hamilton. But the slumping slugger, slowed throughout the postseason by a groin injury, hit a solid fly ball that scored Kinsler and moved Andrus to third.
La Russa went to his bullpen again, bringing in Lance Lynn to face Young. The steady Texas veteran did his job, lofting a fly ball that sent Andrus scampering home.
Then it was Rangers manager Ron Washington's turn. He signaled for closer Neftali Feliz, who worked around a leadoff walk to earn the save. Mike Adams got the win.
The Cardinals broke through against Lewis in the seventh when David Freese singled with one out and took third on Nick Punto's two-out single. La Russa pulled Garcia and put up Craig, who was injured for most of the season.
Washington then went to Ogando. After a first-pitch foul, Craig lined a 96 mph heater over Kinsler at second base for the go-ahead run.
Up through the ninth, the Texas hitters were flailing.
Hamilton, the reigning AL MVP seemed to be wearing down with every swing in his first three at-bats.
Hamilton shattered his bat the first time up and slowly jogged to first base. Later, he weakly waved and appeared overmatched as he struck out on three pitches. That left him with an 0-for-16 Series slump dating to last October.
Hamilton's teammates were equally feeble. Maybe it was because none of the Texas starters had ever faced Garcia, maybe it was carryover from the stress that began in last year's World Series wipeout against San Francisco.
The acrobatic Andrus made a sensational play in the fifth to keep the game scoreless.
After a two-out single by Punto and a walk to the light-hitting Garcia, Rafael Furcal slapped a hard grounder up the middle. Andrus dived to his left to stop it on the edge of the outfield grass, got to his knees and flipped the ball with his glove about 25 feet to second baseman Kinsler, who barely beat Garcia to the bag for a forceout.
Texas batters, meanwhile, couldn't catch up with Garcia.
Their hardest hit early in the game came in the fourth — rather, it was the hardest a Texas player got hit.
Kinsler was at third base when Adrian Beltre sent a solid, one-hopper down the line. The foul ball nailed a ducking Kinsler in the right shoulder, and he grinned while playfully rubbing it off. No smiling, though, when Beltre took a poor cut at a low pitch and struck out to strand runners at the corners.
Garcia and Lewis dominated at the outset, and no one got a hit until Furcal doubled with two outs in the St. Louis third. Before that, the closest anyone came was Jon Jay, whose bunt danced along the third base line chalk before trickling foul.
Perhaps both sides could have used some hitting tips from Stan Musial. A month shy of his 91st birthday, Stan the Man was sitting in a Busch suite. The Cardinals Hall of Famer was shown on the video board and drew a big cheer.
NOTES: Garcia was the first Mexican-born starter in the World Series since Fernando Valenzuela in 1981. … The Cardinals hit into the most double plays in the majors this year, Texas was second. … Rangers president Nolan Ryan, before the game, on why he thought Texas would win in six games: "When I looked at St. Louis' pitching, I don't look at their pitching like a (Detroit ace Justin) Verlander, where you say boy, 'Verlander is on, we're going to hope that something good has to happen.' I'm not downplaying the Cardinals' pitching by any means."
The Associated Press
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The iris setosa (our native iris) thrives in a very boggy area of the garden. There are even marsh marigolds tucked in among them. Whenever I am mucking around in there I think back to the adult mink that paid a visit to our garden six years ago, and I start to wonder if it, or a relative, is lurking among the iris.
While this thought was foremost on my mind I felt a furry sensation brush against the back of my legs. I vaulted out of that plot and over a bench in one smooth move. Who knew I could still hustle like that? I have our canine companion, Jade, to thank. For such a large animal she is stealthy, I never ever heard her coming up behind me. Crazy dog. Crazy me.
But the point here is to plant your iris where they have plenty of moisture. This low spot in the garden would be just a muddy mess without those iris that found a home there 15 years ago.
Take a look around your garden. Finding the right spot for the right plant can be a challenge. For instance, raspberries are related to roses and both hate too much water. When we first moved into town, we were quick to put up a fence to thwart the moose. On the outside of this fence, facing the neighbors, I put in a row of rosa rugosa "Hansa," knowing they would quickly soften the fence, and look very good from the street. On the inside I put raspberries. Both were thriving.
Well, as life moves along, the neighbor who lived there at the time, did some fancy dirt work and that changed the dynamic of the water flow. Hence, neither the roses nor the raspberries will ever achieve their former glory.
What to do? I gave the roses to the new neighbor to put on his now much higher and drier ground, and am looking for ways to convince my non-gardening spouse, John, to build boxes for raspberries. Anything that will raise them up out of what is now soggy ground. Plus I can just imagine them being easier to manage — running the lawn mower between the boxes and being able to reach all the way around them. Better air circulation also would be a plus. I can't just move them to another spot because there isn't one. This place is booked.
As you know, I lost most of my perennials (recurring plants) thanks to an amazing amount of ice that came early and left late. Because I had an inkling of what was going on, I started more annuals (plants that have a one season life cycle) than usual. The only catch is that I don't really know what to do with them.
The garden has been devoted to perennials with a smattering of annuals for continual color. I always start some annuals, I have a few favorites, and I tuck them in among the perennials. It really is fun, no planning, just here and there, the result is usually a pleasant surprise.
But not now, oh no. This place looks like a trial garden. Everything planted in blocks and rows. Good grief. I am doomed to look at this all summer. Rats.
I digress. Where I am going with this is I spent most of today weeding these said perennial beds that are now mostly annuals with a few brand new perennials positioned for what I hope is future glory. The weeds are loving all the open space. They are taking advantage of my misfortune. Whereas the now deceased perennials shaded out the weeds, the weeds now have the full advantage and they know it.
One propitious glimmer is that I can now eradicate the forget-me-nots that have plagued my existence forever. The main clumps rotted out along with everything else but the seeds have germinated with a vengeance, and I am matching that vengeance with my own focused drive to remove them from my life. I have enlisted the aid of my oldest granddaughter, Cecilia. She can spot a forget-me-not in a heart beat and will nip them out of the bed tout suite. Bless her heart.
Get out your long-handled cultivator. You will use this wonderful tool to break up the surface of the soil so the water will soak in and reach the root mass instead of rolling off into the path or wherever.
Once again, John has come to the rescue. Years ago he devised a way to reclaim the water that our sump pump sends into a ditch. We now use that to water ornamentals. I won't use it on the vegetables because I am uncertain just where this water is coming from and what has leached into it. But there is no reason to let this water go into a ditch when it can be watering a very brown lawn.
Which brings me to our very brown lawn. Goodness, now there is a mess if ever there was one. We raked and threw grass seed around and are now watering with our reclaimed water. John refers to it as "subsistence water." Nothing ventured nothing gained.
Lots of questions coming in as to when to remove the floating row cover. Well, I usually wait until the plants are pushing up against it. But, with this heat, I am concerned that the cole corps will button, a term used when these plants form premature edible parts, which are very tiny and, therefore, useless.
So I took mine off, put a spoonful of crushed egg shells around the stem of each plant and wished them well. Hopefully, the dreaded fly that lays the dreaded maggot that is capable of annihilating the entire crop will go somewhere else. Cross your fingers.
The greenhouse is looking — dare I say it for fear of jinxing it? — fantastic. We are down to our last head of gorgeous lettuce before we start on what is thriving outside. The tomatoes have set their fruit, the cucumbers are loaded, the basil makes the whole place smell good and the green beans are blooming. All is well, so far.
I need to water every day. That does not mean you will need to water yours every day. Each greenhouse is a microcosm unto itself. You will need to interpret what it needs and once you accomplish this you and it will be on your way. Any problems you may be having will be due to either too much-too little water, too much-too little heat, too much-too little air circulation — you get the idea. Keep working it and you will win.
Rosemary Fitzpatrick is a longtime Homer gardener.


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He started by disassembling various fuses until he found one with an easy to remove fusible link. Once it was in pieces, he soldered a pair of wires to the fuse terminals and connected everything to a normally closed momentary pushbutton switch. After adding an inline fuse holder and reinserting the original fuse, he installed the button into the back of his glove box
Now instead of physically removing the fuse each time his stereo locks up, he can simply push a button and be on his way. Here's hoping a software fix is coming for [Jeff's] car sooner rather than later!


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'Monsanto Protection Act' might be repealed in Senate
The so-called Monsanto Protection Act signed into law earlier this year caused such an outrage that people around the world are planning to protest the biotech company later this month. Now a United States senator is expected to try and repeal that law.
According to the Huffington Post, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) plans to introduce an amendment in Washington that would repeal Section 735 from the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2013, a provision that has put St. Louis, Missouri-based Monsanto in the sights of environmentalists around the world.
Deep within the nearly 600-page spending bill, Section 735 includes language that lets biotech companies that experiment with genetically-engineered and genetically-modified crops test and sell lab-made products even if legal action is taken against them.
"The provision would strip federal courts of the authority to halt the sale and planting of an illegal, potentially hazardous GE crop while the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) assesses those potential hazards," dozens of farmers wrote the House of Representatives before the bill was passed in March. "Further, it would compel USDA to allow continued planting of that same crop upon request, even if in the course of its assessment the Department finds that it poses previously unrecognized risks."
But despite pleas from agriculturalists around the world, both the Senate and House approved the spending bill — with Section 735 in tow — and the act was signed into law just days later by US President Barack Obama.
Since being passed in late March, the spending bill has attracted immense criticism from all different sectors, including small-time farmers, Tea Party activists and even members of Congress. According to Huffington Post, however, Sen. Merkley is expected to be the first lawmaker in Washington to walk into the Capitol with a plan to repeal the amendment. HuffPo reported on Thursday that Merkley is planning to introduce an amendment on a separate farm bill going up to vote shortly that will reverse the so-called 'Protection Act.'
Should the prediction prove correct, it would suggest a change of heart for Sen. Merkley. According to the Vote Smart Project, Merkley was one of 73 senators that voted in favor of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act when it went up for vote on March 22. Only 26 senators voted 'nay' during that hearing, and the House approved it shortly thereafter.
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Demonstrations are scheduled in 36 countries on six continents later this month for anti-Monsanto activists to come together and protest the company. Speaking to Bloomberg this week, Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant said his critics exercise a "strange kind of reverse elitism" fueled by social media campaigns to condemn his company.
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S. African Envoy Summoned Over Labelling Flap
Israel's Foreign Ministry summoned the South African ambassador to Israel over the publication of a notice announcing a ban on labeling as Israeli products that originate from the West Bank.
Ismail Coovadia was scheduled to visit the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on Monday; no announcement was made by that night on whether such a meeting had taken place.
The Foreign Ministry was unable to call in Coovadia on Sunday because he turned off his cell phone, according to reports.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor called the South African decision to affix special labels on West Bank goods "racist."
"This is singling Israel out on a clearly political and national basis. This decision has racist characteristics," Palmor said. "The government of South Africa does not clarify in the new regulation what is defined as made in Judea and Samaria. The European Union has a list and clear criteria to distinguish between products made in Israeli settlements and those that are not. The vague phrasing in the South African regulation shows that there are no clear criteria and therefore it will hurt Israeli products in general. "
Palmor added that Israel has not received any information on the matter from the South African authorities.
A spokesman from the South African Department of International Relations refused to comment on the issue, saying only that the ambassador would visit the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem for consultations. "This is a notice issued by the trade ministry, therefore the matter lies within their responsibility," the spokesman emphasized.
Mary Kluk, national chairman of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, issued a statement Monday saying that South African Trade Minister Rob Davies' decision has transformed a technical trade issue into a political one.
"This decision was taken by the minister based on his communications with lobby groups that have a pronounced anti-Israel political agenda," Kluk said. "He has repeatedly declined to meet with the South African Jewish Board of Deputies in this regard."
Kluk told JTA on Sunday that the Jewish community plans to submit its reservations on the proposal in the coming days. Jewish community leaders are deliberating with a legal team and intend to pursue the matter vigorously, she said.
Israel's Culture and Sports Minister Limor Livnat spoke with the heads of the Jewish community in South Africa and encouraged them to act on the matter, and to pressure other members of the government to distance themselves from the trade minister's decision.
Livnat visited South Africa two months ago and met with her counterpart, Paul Mashatile. The minister told Livnat that his country will not promote sanctions against Israel.