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The rally intends to end soon… then it should be ending now. Like last week's signal, new trend high closes tend not to happen on Fridays. That helped to anticipate this week's dip would be recovered. A new high close must be avoided this Friday for a decline to get underway soon.
Pattern points… (Setups and technicals)
The rally has no unfinished business above. Thursday's retest of last Friday's 1463.00 high was all but required, and likely to be probed up to 1464.25-1465.50. Its afternoon retest wasn't extended in time to put higher requirements into play.
The rally's momentum is questionable. The afternoon's retest of the morning's highs was ongoing into the final hour and through the 3:10-3:20 window. The timing can reflect strong hands' intentions, and status quo right then was not outright bullish.
The rally's sponsorship is (feeling) exhausted. Not to be confused with expended, buyers have been doing the heavy lifting. A lot of buying pressure was expended into and out of Thursday morning's test of 1465.00. The interim dip to 1455.75 was recovered entirely from its morning low.
What's Next… (Outlook and opportunities)
None of which is bearish, except to undermine the later extension higher up to 1467.25. A new high close on Friday would suggest the same trend protection as last Friday. So if the rally intends to end soon, then it should be ending now. Otherwise, next targeted is 1469.75 and potentially 1474.25, but neither is required.
Look for at least one update overnight or ahead of the Morning Market Tour… My thoughts on the day's econ calendar are linked here.


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Meeting high expectations is nothing new to the Tecumseh High School softball team. After all, the Indians have been one of the area's top programs over the past decade.
With a new coach leading a talented core, the goals remained high for the Indians in 2013. One remarkable postseason run later, those expectations were exceeded.
Tecumseh began the season unranked, but finished with a 33-5-3 overall record. The Indians captured a district championship and won a regional title in dramatic fashion. They capped it off by upsetting three straight state-ranked teams to capture the Division 2 state title.
From unheralded to undisputed champions.
The Tecumseh softball team's state championship run has been named the Lenawee County sports story of the year for 2013. The result was decided by The Daily Telegram sports staff and its contributors.
"This is a great honor for the kids," Tecumseh coach Jeff Nowak said. "We didn't know if we were state final good, but we knew we were good enough to compete with anyone and make some kind of run. I'm really proud of this team, and it's all about the girls."
Nowak knew what he had at his disposal when he took over the Tecumseh softball program last year, having coached many of his players in Little League and travel softball. He also was familiar with the Indians' thirst to get back to the level seen in their state championship runs in 2007 and 2008.
"Living in Tecumseh and being involved with the Little League, I knew of the level of competitiveness and expectations that were there in the community," Nowak said. "That was a bit of a nervous spot for me at the beginning, but this was a special group of kids. About midway through the season, they set their goal to get back to Battle Creek."
The first turning point came in early May. The Indians competed in the Canton Tournament and came away with three ties against Division 1 programs. The following weekend, Tecumseh advanced to the semifinals of the Ann Arbor Tournament, which featured state powers Garden City, Sterling Heights Stevenson and Wayland Union.
After breezing through the district tournament, the Indians reached another turning point in the Division 2 regional final against Carleton Airport. Despite outhitting the Jets by a wide margin, Tecumseh found itself down 5-2 after four innings. The Indians fought back, plating a run in the fifth inning, before doubles by Kelsey Rendell and Kylie Hill along with a single by Katie Martin in the seventh made it 5-5. Tecumseh broke the tie with three runs in the 10th inning to capture the regional crown.
In that game, Tecumseh belted out 16 hits while Emily Maves recorded 21 strikeouts.
"It was one of those games that we really played well and held our own, and we were fortunate to win," Nowak said. "The Airport game was a gelling point for the girls and helped their confidence. They felt like they could do anything after that."
When they got to Bailey Park, the Indians showed the rest of the state why their confidence was warranted.
Tecumseh faced No. 1-ranked Stevensville Lakeshore in the state quarterfinal. Behind three hits and three RBIs from Hill, two hits and two runs by Rendell and 14 more strikeouts by Maves, the Indians stunned the Lancers 5-1.
"It feels amazing," Hill said after the game. "Just to be the underdogs and win, it feels good."
Against No. 2-ranked Livonia Ladywood in the state semifinals, the Indians were even better. A three-run triple by Hill got Tecumseh started, and Rendell blasted a three-run home run to spark an 8-0 victory over the defending state champions.
The Indians capped their dream season with another dominating victory, a 5-1 win over No. 7-ranked Saginaw Swan Valley in the state title game.
"This is unbelievable," Maves said after the game. "We came from the bottom as the underdogs and did it."
Over the final three games, Maves allowed one run on 11 hits while striking out 33 in 21 innings. Maves was named the county Pitcher of the Year. Meanwhile, Rendell, Hill and Kelsea Kaliszuk joined Maves on the Division 2 All-State team.
"It's hard to say that one player carried us," said Nowak, who was named county Coach of the Year. "Certainly Emily's pitching was a big part, but we had multiple contributions from our hitters every game. We had a great offensive year scoring runs and putting pressure on teams."
The title run swept up the entire Tecumseh community, drawing up memories of the championships five years earlier.
"It was nice to see the community get behind the girls," Nowak said. "We had kids who graduated come back and students who were on summer vacation at the games. It was a great experience for us to go through that."
Tecumseh softball is county's story of the year
Meeting high expectations is nothing new to the Tecumseh High School softball team. After all, the Indians have been one of the area's top programs over the past decade.

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6:30 pm
Martha Stewart's Cooking School "Shrimp" In this episode, Martha offers a primer on a favorite crustacean. She explains which varieties of shrimp to buy and how to store them, plus whether to cook them with or without the shell and how to devein them. Basic cooking techniques result in delicious recipes for shrimp cocktail, an updated version of scampi, a traditional shrimp boil and simple grilled shrimp. D
7:00 pm
Ask This Old House "Hanging a Flat Panel TV/Controlling Insects Without Pesticides" Master electrician Scott Caron helps a homeowner hang a flat panel television on the wall and conceal all the wiring. Back in the workshop, Scott shows host Kevin O'Connor examples of different types of electrical outlets. Then, Kevin, along with landscape contractor Roger Cook, plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey and general contractor Tom Silva, asks, "What Is It?" Afterward, Roger heads to Miami to help a homeowner control the insect pests in her yard without the use of pesticides. D
7:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe Classics "France's Alsace" After village-hopping and wine-shopping along the Alsatian wine road, we savor the world-class cuisine and art of Colmar and visit the birthplace of Champagne.G
8:00 pm
Rudy Maxa's World "Food, Drink & Place" At Istanbul's Spice Market, persimmons are split open, their insides resembling melting rubies. Brown-gold paprika is carefully molded into the shape of a pyramid. Cinnamon, cumin, ginger, and cardamom infuse the air with the fragrance of the East. D
8:30 pm
Essential Pepin "Good Catch!" Grilled Swordfish With Spicy Yogurt Sauce; Baked Mackerel With Potatoes And Onions; Seafood With "Handkerchiefs"; Poached Trout In Vegetable Broth. D
9:00 pm
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Indian Classics Made Easy" Man on the Street John "Doc" Willoughby learns about Indian cuisine from Chef Floyd Cardoz. Then, test cook Becky Hays teaches host Christopher Kimball how to make two classic Indian recipes: Indian Flatbread and Indian-Style Spinach with Fresh Cheese. And finally, equipment expert Adam Ried reveals his top pick for juicers in the Equipment Corner, and gadget guru Lisa McManus reviews some of her favorite kitchen gadgets. D
9:30 pm
Joanne Weir's Cooking Class "Spicy Sausage Penne & Harvest Flatbread" Joanne shows her student Jerry how to prepare one of her favorite pasta recipes, and gives Jerry a "punching" lesson with flatbread dough. Recipes: (1) PENNE WITH TOMATOES, SPICY FENNEL SAUSAGE AND CREAM, (2) WINE COUNTRY FLATBREAD WITH GRAPES AND TOASTED WALNUTS. Student: Jerry Feldman - International Business Development. D
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Pati's Mexican Table "Convent Food" Aren't convents supposed to be austere, dull places? In Mexico, everything's a little more colorful - including the food of Catholic nuns. Delicious, labor-intensive mole is probably the most well-known food to come out of the convents, but Pati will explore some easier, but just as tasty recipes, including: Picadillo Empanadas of the Immaculate Conception; White Rice and Poblano Rajas Casserole; Almond and Porto Cake. D
10:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe Classics "France's Alsace" After village-hopping and wine-shopping along the Alsatian wine road, we savor the world-class cuisine and art of Colmar and visit the birthplace of Champagne.G
11:00 pm
Theater Talk "In the Lower Depths with Barbra, plus On Broadway with Evans & Feldman" Our guests are actor Michael Urie and playwright Jonathan Tolins of Buyer & Cellar, Tolins's new hit comedy at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, inspired by an unlikely subject, Barbra Streisand's lavish coffee table book, My Passion for Design. In this ingenious and original play, Urie gives a bravura solo performance as the out-of-work actor hired to maintain a private mall of shops Streisand has created for herself in the basement of her barn, containing her vast hoard of fabulous stuff. He spends his days waiting to serve the mall's only customer, Streisand, and then she arrives. D
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Closer to Truth "What's Beyond Physics?" Are there revolutionary discoveries yet to be made? Radical revelations and shocking secrets? Does physical reality go beyond what we know today? Far beyond?. D


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By BRUCE SMITH
Associated Press
ISLE OF PALMS, S.C. (AP) - Gov. Nikki Haley says a probe into the hacking of South Carolina tax returns is almost complete, and she hopes to report next week on just what happened.
Haley was on the Isle of Palms Thursday to speak to the state Chamber of Commerce. She told reporters the hacking investigation is about 95% complete.
Officials announced last month a hacker using an international computer address got in to Revenue Department computers compromising both Social Security and credit card numbers.
Officials have said as many as 3.6 million tax returns back to 1998 may have been hacked.
Haley said Thursday that number may be high, but, out of an abundance of caution, officials wanted taxpayers who filed during that period to sign up for free credit monitoring.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Be it known by all present that the anonymous clown who ponied up $92,613 for one bloody sock ex-Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling wore in a World Series game was not I. First, I don�t have enough money to waste it buying a 9-year-old sweat sock, bloody or otherwise. I wouldn�t pay even 9 bucks for a matched pair of brand-new designer socks, let alone $92,000.
Second, I wouldn�t dream of coughing up a small fortune to own something I had no clue how to use. I can just imagine showing the thing off to houseguests: �Oh, hey, why don�t we stop by the den, I have something special to show you folks. Ta-da, Look at that!�
�So? Looks like an old sock to me. Why is it framed? What happened to it? Did the color run in the washer? Or did you lose the mate in the dryer? Happens at our place all the time, doesn�t it, honey?�
�No, no. Schilling wore it the night he won Game 2 of the 2004 Series. You remember. He hurt his ankle, and it kept bleeding after they sewed it up.�
�What, it cost you a shilling? That�s a lot of bloody money for a simple bloody old sock, isn�t it, old sport?�
�Hey, it�s a collector�s item, don�t you understand? They had it in the Baseball Hall of Fame, but Curt needed some cash after blowing all his money on a business deal that went belly up, so he put it up for auction. And I got it � for just over 90 grand. Was I lucky or what?�
�You paid what?�
�Yeah, 92 thou. A real bargain. You probably know the ball that went through Billy Buckner�s legs in the �86 Series and wound up costing the Sox the world championship brought in $418,000, right? And they got over a million bucks for the hockey stick and two jerseys Mike Eruzione used in the �80 Olympics against Russia.�
I�ve been racking my brain trying to come up with a big-money scheme to rival Messrs. Schilling, Buckner and Eruzione. It probably won�t have a sports connection, though. In high school, I played some baseball but put in a lot of bench time. One game, the coach yelled to me to get up. I leaped forward in a split-second, and he cracked, �I�m sending in the bench.� I got a few splinters, I know that, but I doubt they�d bring much at auction.
As a grownup playing slow-pitch softball, I once grounded a ball back to the pitcher, then ran straight past him to second base, skipping first.
With my luck, if I managed to get over 90 grand for a bloody sock, before we got it framed, my wife would scoop it up with rest of the laundry and throw it in the wash. And for once, every stain would disappear like magic. Then I�d have to display the thing with an asterisk under it, pointing out that the blood had been inadvertently erased.
As it is, one of the principal activities in our household already is finding socks that match. I have two piles in my dresser drawer, one with matched pairs, the other with what I call �loners.� We never throw them away, in hopes that their counterparts will turn up somewhere in the house. They never do, but you never know. What am I offered for four loners, any one of which I may have been wearing the day the coach almost sent me in? Let�s start the bidding at $9,000.
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November 7, 1997 NR 22-1997
Governor Tony Knowles will hold a videoconference meeting with regents, officials and other members of the University of Alaska community Monday, November 10, beginning at 3:45 p.m. to discuss the university budget for FY99. The news media is invited to attend.
The governor will speak from the conference room in his office in the capitol building in Juneau; other videoconference sites include the Egan Library on the campus of UAS at 1120 Glacier Highway in Juneau; in Anchorage, the videoconference room in the University Lake Building at 3890 University Lake Drive on the UAA campus, and in Fairbanks in Room 212 of the Butrovich Building on the UAF campus.
Office of the Governor, Tom Moyer, Fairbanks, 907-451-2920
University of Alaska, Bob Miller, Fairbanks, 907-474-7272


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The Office of Tax Compliance, under the Office of Vice President for Finance and Associate Treasurer, has a primary mission to ensure compliance with various tax laws and regulations promulgated by the U.S. federal government, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the City of Philadelphia, and other local government jurisdictions.


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Texas state parks visitors embrace growing geocaching craze
Seeking new ways to combine their children's love of digital devices with the health benefits and fun of being outdoors, many parents are turning to geocaching, a hunt for hidden "treasures," or caches, using the latest technology.
More than 90 state parks located throughout Texas are increasingly embracing such visitors by offering more than 1,074 geocaches, or prize-filled containers, which can be located online in advance or by using a smartphone application. In addition, many state parks have begun to host Geocache 101 workshops, free with normal park entry, to teach newbies the basics of this modern day twist on an old-fashioned treasure hunt.
"There's been an 82 percent increase in the number of geocaches in our state parks in the past three years," said Robert Owen, Texas State Parks outdoor education specialist. "Geocaching is family-friendly and more accessible than ever thanks to new Smartphone technology. You no longer have to have a GPS device to find the cache locations."
Geocaching participants find coordinates, share photos and tips, and learn all the particulars about the activity. After finding the latitude and longitude of a hidden cache, geocachers are guided to within 12 feet of its location. Then, geocachers search the surrounding terrain until they locate the "goodies" in a container that might be as small as a film canister or as large as an ammo box. These treasures are never buried, so no shovel is needed.
Geocaching, which is the hunt for more than 3 million items hidden by people worldwide, is also supported by online communities, including http://www.geocaching.com. According to the website there are 11,788 caches within 100 miles of downtown Beaumont.
Stephanie Molina, director of marketing for the Beaumont CVB, said the activity is already becoming popular in Southeast Texas.
"Go look, you'll be amazed at what's already out there," Molina said. "There are plenty of them hidden in the area, and a ton of them already around Beaumont."
Molina added that the CVB plans to market Southeast Texas area geocaching in the near future.
"I know Conroe has a program already developed," she said, "and I had planned on doing it this year, but we're working on other things right now that are taking priority over it."
Molina added that local parks would most likely be involved in the planning.
Youngsters will especially enjoy the Texas State Parks Geocache Challenge that kicked off Oct. 1, 2012, and is ongoing. Last year, nearly 11,000 geocache "finds" occurred in state parks alone, and hundreds of children learned interesting facts and stories about Texas history, conservation and stewardship of Texas State Parks, while also earning prizes.
For more information and to find coordinates of prize-filled caches in Texas State Parks, visit http://texasstateparks.org/geocache.
State parks offering an introduction to geocaching workshop this fall
Austin area
Lockhart State Park
Inks Lake State Park
Dallas/Ft. Worth area:
Purtis Creek State Park
Cedar Hill State Park
Dinosaur Valley State Park
Lake Mineral Wells State Park
Martin Creek State Park
Houston area:
Stephen F. Austin State Park
San Antonio area:
Guadalupe River State Park
Lake Corpus Christi State Park
Goliad State Park and Historic Site
Government Canyon State Natural Area


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Rokita Distributes New Investor Education Materials
Contact: Cam Savage
Indianapolis - Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita announced today that his office will begin distributing a series of five new brochures aimed at educating Hoosiers about safe investing. "Each year too many Hoosiers lose their life-savings to con-artists, because they don't base their investment decisions on hard facts. Some fall victim to scams that promise get-rich-quick returns on their investments. Others just don't learn enough about in what and with whom they are investing," Rokita said.
The brochures cover common investing questions and offer tips about how to avoid scams and scam artists.
Internet Fraud - The Internet has given new life to older scams that have been around for years and allows con-artists to reach millions of people everyday.
Fraud Aimed at Older Americans - Older Americans are often the target of aggressive scams involving unregistered securities, promissory notes, viaticals, charitable gift annuities and ponzi schemes.
Promissory Notes - A favorite among con artists, promissory notes are routinely used as a legitimate means for companies to raise capital. However, legitimate promissory notes are marketed almost exclusively to corporate or large-scale investors.
Risky Ventures - All investments involve some risk, but some investments like viaticals and oil and gas ventures are favorites among con artists.
Understanding Mutual Funds - One of the most popular forms of investment in today's market, mutual funds, like all investments, offer risk with the potential for reward.
The brochures, Internet Fraud, Fraud Aimed at Older Americans, Promissory Notes, Risky Ventures and Understanding Mutual Funds, are available from the Secretary of State's office or online at http://www.sos.in.gov/. For copies of the brochures, please contact the Secretary of State's Securities Division at 800-223-8791.


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Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. held a news conference today at Citizens Bank Park to wrap up the season. Here are some highlights:
On the lineup: "Abilitywise, there is no question in my mind this is a championship caliber lineup and championship caliber players. We have to go about it in a different way. I have talked to Greg Gross and talked to Charlie. We have to have a different mindset or different approach than we did in '08 or 2010. We don't have nearly as much power, have to be better with two strikes, better situational at-bats. Those are frankly things we have to change."
On Ryan Howard's injury: "I don't think it's going to be half a season. It may compromise part of the season. He is going to see Dr. Meyerson today in Baltimore. He may also seek another opinion from Dr. Anderson in North Carolina. We're going to try to get it done as quickly as possible … Every single day we wait [impacts his return]. But we have to make sure the swelling has gone down enough to do the surgery. We are doing our due diligence to make sure we get the right guy, someone that Ryan feels comfortable with.
How long will he be out? "At least 4 months. After that, [I] would not even be able to tell you until after he has the surgery. [We] can discuss it with the doctors and go from there."
How will that impact potential offseason moves?: "I don't think it will, unless they tell us he is going to be out for a year, and I don't think that is going to happen.
On who would play first base if Howard is not ready: "We're not sure. Gload is having surgery for hip labrum. If Mayberry is a guy that ends up having to play first base, we'll be looking at somebody for left field. I'm hoping we won't have to go that route, hoping Ryan Howard will be in that No. 4 hole in April."
On talent in the system for trades: "I don't know that we have to make that many trades. We have some strong pieces and a good core of players to work with right now. I would say if we are going to acquiring players, it would probably be free agents that we would sign from outside the organization. As you know, I am not opposed to doing that."
On Jimmy Rollins: "We're not going to have any discussions with Jimmy publicly ... There's no question we want Jimmy back, want him to play shortstop for us, be in our uniform and play for the next several years. It's just a matter of whether we can get to the finish line … Things will be kept private and we'll try to figure it out."
On Jimmy Rollins' ability compared to his MVP season: "It's hard to argue that he still has the offensive ability to do the same kind of things, because he hasn't done it the last couple of years. Part of it is because of injuries. He still is one of the premier defensive shortstops in the game … That is probably one of the most important elements that Jimmy brings, along with his personality, is his ability to be so steady. He is about as steady a shortstop as can be."
On Rollins' desire for a 5-year deal: "As far as length is concerned, the commitment we're going to put into it, internally, we're still kicking it around as to how far we want to go with Jimmy to keep him here. He knows our priority absolutely is to keep him in our uniform."
On the desire for the roster to get younger: "We do have to try to get young. We did it with our staff and have to do it with our position players. It's a young game, played by young players and hopefully we can get younger."
On Placido Polanco, who underwent double sports hernia surgery today: "Right now our biggest concern about Polly is to get him healthy … I'm not sure he was clearly 100 percent healthy during the end of the year. Age is an issue. We have to make sure to give him down time. I think he will play better if he's not playing every single game. We have to give him some support as far as playing third base is concerned. Polly is the kind of guy that we're trying to strive to have more readily at our disposal. Those are the kinds of at-bats. He works the count, he understands the importance of making contract with two strikes. Those are the things we're looking to improve [overall]. He epitomizes that. He was not swinging the bat we think that he can and we think that he will."
On left field: "It's an open competition. If we were going to start the season, Ibanez is a free agent, we have a pretty darn good in-house candidate in John Mayberry … We certainly haven't made a decision."
On Domonic Brown: "He's got some work to do in left field. He's down in Instructional League. He's got some things to work on his hitting … For me, I'd keep him in Triple A and let him get 500 or 600 at-bats there."
On Ryan Madson: "He sits in the same place as Jimmy. I talked to Ryan yesterday. He knows how we feel. We'd like to bring him back as our closer next year. It takes two to tango. Again, negotiations will be private. He is excited about being a free agent … On a personal level, I think it's important for him and his family."
On the closer, if Madson signs elsewhere: "I don't feel comfortable with the guys we have internally. If Ryan does not sign, we might have to go outside the organization. There are some people in our system who think DeFratus or Aumont can do that; I am not convinced of that yet. "
On whether they would give Madson more than 3 years, which has been standard policy for pitchers other than Cliff Lee: "Those are questions that I'm not going to be answering. We will keep that internal. When ready to make an announcement on Ryan Madson, we'll make it."
On Roy Oswalt: "We're still discussing that internally. I have to put a call into his agent today to get what his thoughts are. We have not made any final decision on Roy. He's still one of the better starting pitchers in baseball. We have to make a decision, might be a tough one."
On Cole Hamels: "We have internally talked about extending him and keeping him around … He is one of the more effective and one of the better lefthanded pitchers in the game. We hope we can bring him back and keep him for a while."
Does the long ball favored by Charlie Manuel work with the Phillies' revised philosophy?: "We're very much on the same page. Charlie is about getting a good ball to hit and capitalizing on it. He's about grinding out hits. Charlie likes the home run. We all do. I do too. He's come to the realization that its not just about the home run. A lot of different pieces of the puzzle to scoring runs. It's not just about the home run. We just don't have same offensive team that we had in 2008. We have to realize that and work with it … We should have more .300 hitters. These guys have the ability to do it, it's whether they are committed to doing it or not."
On whether the lineup would be more effective if guys got more days off: "Charlie is going to play these guys when he knows they're ready to play. It's up to Charlie's ability to manage that. Martinez, Valdez got plate appearances, Mayberry got plate appearances. I'm more concerned about us committing to a different style or a different approach to our offensive game than I am about anything else."
On the payroll, compared to this year's: "Don't know yet. I would say it would be similar."
On whether these players can get better: "We fail ourselves if we decide this is what we are and not try to get better. We owe it to our fans, our players and to each other to try to change to get better, to get it to this level. Our next level is to get to the World Series and win it. I am very pleased with how things worked out pitching-wise. I loved development of some of young pitchers in the bullpen. I think defensively we had a very, very good club again. We've been spoiled by that over the last 10 years. Offensively, we have to try to look at different ways to improve. We have the personnel to do it, it's matter of whether they want to take the time and be committed to improving on some areas they need to improve on."
On how the changes can be made?: "I think, for me, a lot of it depends on the composition of the club, a lot of it depends on what happens with Jimmy and some other players and how we allocate our available dollars. If the guys playing on our club don't make adjustments we're going to have some trouble … I am challenging Charlie and GG to help facilitate that … Charlie is in agreement that we have to change the way we approach some things. If we can do that and are committed to it then we can be successful."
On the value of change in the clubhouse: "Change is good. I don't think we need a whole lot of changes. We're going to have to change because we have a lot of free agents. The changes may happen organically."
On Utley's knee issues: "I don't think it's behind him. The way he managed it and Scott Sheridan managed it was incredible. He was in the lineup every day. One of the things that he and Scott and I have talked about is to make sure that he stays strong. There may be times when he may need more days off over the course of the season. More importantly, working on ways for him to strengthen his legs. That is one of the things that he wasn't able to do and affected his power. He was not able to squat and some other exercises because of the injury and what's going on in his knees. He's going to have to go about it a different ways. We're going to go about different ways to make him stay strong."
Can he be the player that he was?: "I couldn't tell you. A lot of it depends on how he feels during the course of the offseason and how he goes about his business … Is he going to be a 30 home run, 110 RBI guy and hit .300? I don't know that. I hope he is. That will help us. Whatever we get out of Chase is going to help us. I know he is going to strive to get to the point where he can maximixe his numbers and his production."
What would losing Rollins mean?: "It would be a big loss. There's no question about it. He's been a big part of organization for a long time. We want him to continue to be a big part of this organization. … Not just on a physical level as a ballplayer, but I have an affinity for him as a person. I will say that it will be a huge blow for us, but not insurmountable. If he's not with us, we will make the proper adjustments to replace him. Not sure whether that will be internal or going outside the organization. Some in the organization think Freddy Galvis is ready to be a shortstop in the major leagues every day; there are some who don't. Time will tell. Hopefully we won't have to take care of that. We will have to make those decisions once we figure out what is happening with Jimmy."
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BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. -- The Chicago Fire's second half explosion of goals in Wednesday night's 5-1 U.S. Open Cup quarterfinal win over Orlando City sort of felt like it had been coming for a while and still the final score might be slightly deceiving.
Though they scored early from Chris Rolfe's sixth minute header, they conceded the equalizer six minutes after halftime when City's Rob Valentino finished from close range.
In the moments after conceding the goal, Orlando looked the better side, threatening Sean Johnson's frame multiple times.
Like he has so much this season, winger Patrick Nyarko took matters into his own hands, blasting up the left flank and finishing past Miguel Gallardo to restore the 2-1 lead.
"I think Patrick's goal was game changing," said Rolfe. "At that point we're looking at a tied game and they had tons of momentum and we didn't look to have much life."
The goal certainly woke the Fire up and moments later, Jeff Larentowicz chipped Rolfe into the box where he finished for his second of the match and third in the 2013 competition.
Asked if he felt stress after not tallying since a 2-0 third round win over Charlotte Eagles, Rolfe said "There's always stress. [I'm] Always trying to get better, always trying to help the team.
If I feel like I'm not helping the team then I get frustrated. I'm glad you haven't seen that come out on the field. We're all working hard to get better and tonight it came together."
Together it indeed did come. If the third goal didn't put Orlando away, Yann Songo'o's sending off after pulling down substitute Joel Lindpere outside the area in the 71st minute put City to the sword.
From there, Mike Magee sprung up and scored his seventh goal in as many matches since joining the Fire.
A second red card was shown to the Lions in the 85th minute as Adama Mbengue went in recklessly on Jalil Anibaba.
With the Fire up two men, Lindpere chipped in another icing goal off a feed from Duka in second half stoppage time to close out a 5-1 win.
After plenty of games this season where the Fire created multiple chances but saw their finishing go begging, the 5-1 scoreline was coming according to Duka.
"I think our chemistry is getting better," said Duka. "The score line doesn't show how this game really went. The other team played well – give credit to them. Every game our chemistry is building and right now we're just finishing our chances."
As for the next round, the Fire will face D.C. United at home on August 7 after the capitol city club defeated the New England Revolution 3-1 earlier Thursday night in Germantown, Maryland.
Though D.C. sit bottom of the 19-team Major League Soccer standings and the Fire comfortably beat them 2-0 earlier this month, United's run in the 2013 Open Cup seems similar to the Fire's run to the final in 2011.
"D.C. looks like they're trying to make a long run in this Open Cup," said Duka. "Maybe their season's not going so well so they're putting their eggs in this basket.
"It's going to be a tough game and we just have to go in sharp in the final third and just finish. If we do that it might end up like tonight."
After many missed opportunities in 2013, four goal second half vs. Orlando was coming for Fire
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. -- The Chicago Fire's second half explosion of goals in Wednesday night's 5-1 U.S. Open Cup quarterfinal win over Orlando City sort of felt like it had been coming for a while and still the final score might be slightly deceiving.


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Autopsies completed on Dwight shooting victims
Victims related....
Dwight police confirmed Monday evening that the two women killed sometime early Saturday morning died from gunshot wounds. Autopsies were completed Monday.
A third shooting victim, the man who called 911 around 4:38 am, is recovering.
Investigators have interviewed several people. No suspects have been identified.
The victims, 60-year-old Donna J. Denker and 30-year-old Kelli L. Denker were mother and daughter. Both are from Dwight.


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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is threatening to freeze visa liberalization and economic cooperation talks and boycott the G8 summit in Russia's Sochi if Moscow does not deescalate the crisis in Ukraine's Crimean peninsula by Thursday.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said the EU would give Russia until an emergency summit of EU leaders is held on Thursday to show clear signs of goodwill, including a willingness to open talks and a withdrawal of Russian troops to their barracks in the Crimea.
If not, Fabius said the EU would start implementing punitive measures.
EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy called the emergency summit late Monday after the foreign ministers ended their talks.


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The Rural Life... My Various Hobbies...
The photo above is of one of the gardens I've had in years past. It was taken as the sun rose one steamy July morning while the leaves were still dripping with dew and the bees were just beginning to stir.
The trellis at left supported a tangle of pole beans and scarlet runner beans. As I stood on a stepladder to pick the beans that summer, I was often within just a few feet of hummingbirds who were visiting the red bean blossoms.
The trellis at right had a climbing rose on it. I had dug up a few sprigs of a rose from another part of our yard. It had grown down a bank where we mowed it with the grass. "Poor things," I thought, and made a teepee in my garden for the sprigs to climb. Envigorated by the garden soil, they threw out 15-foot thorny canes that rooted where they touched down. I finally cut it down to the ground and used Roundup on its stumps.
I see cantaloupe, tomatoes, some sprigs of dill, corn in the back, a sunflower, gloriosa daisy, marigolds, iris, other flowers -- that was a good garden. I think this was my 1996 garden.
I have downsized my garden quite a lot in recent years. One reason is that I haven't done any canning for several years, so I don't need to grow more than we can eat fresh. Another reason is that we have one less person eating at home now that Keely is in college.
Another reason is that I've never had my garden plowed and I've never owned a rototiller. I just dig it up myself. It is not that difficult, but I am not quite as enthusiastic about digging nowadays as I was 10 or 15 years ago.
Of course, there's no sense in digging up pathways and other areas that aren't actively growing anything, so I always put a mulch on them and cultivate the soil only where I plan to plant.
For the cucumbers I planted today, I dug up an area about 3 feet in circumference, worked some compost and manure into the soil, and made a "hill" to plant the seeds in. Then I covered the entire area that I expect the vines to grow with black plastic. I laid an 8-foot pallet (salvaged from a junk heap once upon a time) over the plastic, and cut an X over the hill of enriched soil. Last, I planted the seeds. When the vines grow, they will lay on the pallet not the plastic. This is better for the health of the vines, in my opinion.
I like to put mulch around all the plants to keep down the weeds and hold moisture in the soil. My favorite mulch is five or six sheets of newspapers covered over with straw. I sometimes use black plastic as described above, but I prefer the newspaper/straw combination because it is equally effective and it biodegrades, adding humus to the soil. (Plastic has to be removed in the fall.) I prefer to keep hoeing and weeding to a minimum, so I work hard to mulch the entire garden and after that, a minimum of maintenance is required.
About two weeks ago, I planted six tomato plants and six pepper plants. Only Dennis and I eat them. A few days ago, one of the neighbor ladies brought me another seven tomato plants and three more pepper plants and I planted them this evening. I know we'll have more than we can eat -- maybe I will can some tomato juice again -- doubtful, though, if I get a job this fall.
I am actually giving myself a little pep talk with this post because I hate to be lagging so far behind with my garden. I was too "stove-up" in my shoulder to do much in my garden this spring, so this year I have my latest garden ever. I'm not even done planting it and it's mid-June. Fortunately there's still time for it to grow and produce before frost! And in the meantime, I'll be visiting some of the many produce stands along the roadsides.
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SOURCE: Jackson, Russell. Review of Julius Caesar. Shakespeare Quarterly 53, no. 4 (winter 2002): 536-49.
In the following excerpted review of Edward Hall's 2002 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Julius Caesar, Jackson notes that despite Hall's "ruthless" cutting of Shakespeare's text, the director managed an effective staging by balancing ideological allusions with innovative perspectives on character.
The seasons final main house production was Julius Caesar, directed by Edward Hall in a ruthlessly cut version that removed the first scene and all its business with the citizens, simplified the battlefield sequences, and was played without an interval. The audience was confronted with the legend "Peace. Freedom. Liberty." projected on the back wall. As the house lights went down, the denim-jacketed soothsayer opened a trap door in the stage to produce a bleeding heart. He stood to one side—he lurked around through much of the play—as thunderous drumming, in the manner of...
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Midtown is a district in Toronto. It is roughly defined as bounded by Bloor Street to the south, Lawrence Avenue to the north, Oakwood Avenue to the west and Bayview Avenue to the east. The intersection of Yonge and Eglinton is the heart of Midtown.
Midtown isn't an area with a large number of museums, theatres, or other tourist attractions. The best way to enjoy it is to pretend that you live there, and enjoy the shops, restaurants, and cafes that the area has.
Get in
Taking the Yonge Subway Line to St. Clair, Davisville, Eglinton, or Lawrence station will put you in Midtown Toronto.
Take this self-guided Discovery Walk through the area's parks, the Don Valley Ravines and Mt Pleasant Cemetary (PDF map). This walk is 11km long and takes about 3 hours to complete. You can just do a portion of the walk if you prefer. There will be signs along the way to indicate that you're on the Discovery Walk route. For safety in the ravines, take a friend with you.
There are a lot of restaurant choices in Midtown, ranging from some of Toronto's best (and priciest) restaurants to neighbourhood establishments. Midtown also has some of the best pastry shops in the city.
Yonge and St. Clair:
"Scallywags". Just West of Yonge Street on St. Clair. A vibrant pub with an excellent and heated patio.
"Fox and the Fiddle". Yonge Street and Heath Street. Has extensive patios.
Yonge and Eglinton:
"The Duke of Kent". Yonge Street at Roehampton Ave. (one block north of Eglinton) A traditional British pub favoured by many expatriates. Excellent food and a small patio.
"6 Degrees" Yonge Street, just north of Roehampton Ave. A newer nightclub. Similar to Clubland venues but with a Midtown feel. Only worthwhile (and open) on weekend evenings. A good feel for downtown clubs without all the fuss.
"Mystique Lounge" Yonge Street, South of Eglinton, at Manor Road. Midtown's only strip club. Not a bad time.
To say that there are very few accommodation options in the area would be an understatement. It's better to choose a downtown hotel and travel to midtown.
Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View Blvd (just off Yonge, one block north of Eglinton). +1 416 393-7610. Computers with internet access.


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Feb. 17, 2013
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (seminoles.com) – Another strong pitching performance by Tulsa's Aimee Creger (4-0) was too much for No. 25/21 Florida State softball as Tulsa defeated the Seminoles, 4-1, in the Unconquered Invitational championship on Sunday at JoAnne Graf Field.
For the second consecutive outing against the Seminoles (7-2), Creger was virtually flawless against Florida State's offense as she threw a complete game and allowed one unearned run while striking out 11 and surrendering just four hits. Creger was largely responsible for Tulsa's victory over Florida State earlier in the tournament, delivering seven no-hit innings before giving up a few runs to the Seminoles in extra frames.
"Tulsa was an impressive bunch," head coach Lonni Alameda said. "We played well this tournament but struggled against Tulsa a little bit. Our hitting wasn't on point today and we seemed to struggle a little bit against a good pitcher. You just learn to take what you can from the losses, get back to work, correct the mistakes and focus on the next opponent."
Sophomore pitcher Lacey Waldrop put together a fine appearance for the Seminoles when she entered with one out in the third inning. Using a combination of pitches, Waldrop threw the Golden Hurricane (7-3) off-balanced and retired all 11 of her batters in relief.
Waldrop relieved starter Monica Perry (4-2), who took the loss after allowing four runs in 2.1 innings pitched on a cold morning in Tallahassee. She was only supported by four base hits, all singles, from Tiffani Brown, Briana Hamilton, Celeste Gomez and Kelly Hensley.
Tulsa jumped on the scoreboard first in the opening inning when Lacey Middlebrooks delivered a two-out RBI single through the right side to plate Caitlin Everett. Haley Henshaw then followed with a first-pitch swing for a two-run home run to centerfield to pad the Golden Hurricane lead to 3-0.
Florida State crawled back in the top of the second inning with a run scored on a chopping grounder from Morgan Bullock with the bases loaded. Bullock's ground shot was mishandled by Tulsa second baseman Shelby Blanton to bring home a run. Two batters later, Courtney Senas hit a bloop shot to left field that was snagged by diving outfielder Jodi Edmiston to save a few more runs scored.
Opportunity knocked for the Seminoles in the third inning when Hamilton and Hensley recorded singles through the left side to eventually set up runners on the corners with two outs. With two outs, Victoria East stepped to the plate and hit an in-between pop-up that was grabbed by Creger to end the scoring threat.
In the third inning, Caitlin Everett doubled to left field and was driven home with one out on a single up the middle from Samantha Cobb, making it 4-1. Waldrop then entered with one out and struck out cleanup batter Lacey Middlebrooks before getting a groundout from Henshaw to end the third.
The early run support was all Creger needed as she finished the rest of the game to cap an impressive showing at the Unconquered Invitational. Tulsa finished 4-1 at the tournament, while the Seminoles went 3-2 which included two Top 25 victories over Hofstra on Saturday.
Florida State takes a 10-day hiatus from playing at home, with its next game at JoAnne Graf Field being played on Feb. 28 against Troy. The Seminoles play next on Wednesday, Feb. 20 at UCF with first pitch scheduled for 6 p.m.
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This is an interesting, exhilarating moment. I've been a rabid live music fan for quite some time now. I suppose the first jam band I saw perform live was Max Creek at the original Lupo's in Providence, circa 1982 (and what do you know, they're still at it, with a new disc and many new fans, now tearing it up at the new Lupo's- it's strange, sometimes I feel as though everyone else at these shows stays the same age while I'm the only one getting any older- well okay, me and the band). At any rate, more than any time I can recall, there is now a swell of groups committed to the art of improvisation. We intend to spread the good word with jambands.com.
The web zine you are now browsing is the product of more than fifty persons who devoted their time to the site simply due to their love of the music. Each month I'll probably single out someone who really digs deep for the cause- this time it is Jeff Waful. Jeff, former WERS Space Jam host, and live music madman, learned this week of an illness to a family member. Nonetheless, this Jam Band trooper hauled his ass into a copy shop (and a rather lame one at that by Jeff's account) in order to make sure that the section he edits (CD Reviews) made it in on time. Since I'm hyping Jeff, I might as well tell you that his column, Waful House, which focuses this month on glowsticks, is one of Andy's favorite pieces.
At any rate, what I very much wish to do is publicly thank everyone involved in the site. They've really produced a jam-packed debut issue. Of course the amazing thing is we all have to do it again in 30 days. So please, join us. Float an idea or an article to an editor. Tell us about that band or that show that really moved you (or failed to move you, and why). We promise to do the same. Oh yes, and feel free to send me nasty email about my crappy cartoon, Mikey.
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The case for being open about money
How many people know the nitty gritty of your financial position? My guess is very few outside the relevant professionals, like your accountant or mortgage broker, because it's just not the type of thing Australians openly delve into. Talking about money is variously viewed as impolite, garish or simply taboo.
Research suggests that when we do talk about money, we don't always give the full story.
A 2016 survey of 1014 Australians nationwide, commissioned by Fox Symes Debt Solutions and conducted by Galaxy, found that more than one in two people have deceived a partner, family or friends about money. Two out of three people with children living at home hide debt and spending from their loved ones, compared with less than one in two people without children at home.
What we earn, what we spend, and how we manage our financial affairs are matters on which many of us are tight-lipped. And while there is certainly a place for discretion, particularly in this realm, I often wonder if there isn't value in lifting the veil of secrecy from time to time. Not merely because of voyeurism's allure but because without a little transparency we're flying blind.
For those of us who don't openly detail our fiscal positions, and have family and friends who are similarly inclined, the ins and outs of how other people manage their money is totally mysterious despite potentially being enormously enlightening.
Personally I am always intrigued to discover what other families spend on food, electricity and all of the general expenses households face. When these topics come up I always find the responses from family or friends to be either reassuring or instructive. Reassuring if we're in the same ballpark for certain expenses, and instructive when it emerges that we are possibly paying far more for our phones or internet than we need to.
But when it comes to the big picture of how other people make their money work, it is rarely discussed so making a comparison is impossible. And yet, that is arguably where being able to make those comparisons would be most valuable.
While it's easy to compare notes on what you spend in a week to feed your family, opening up about what you earn, how you and your partner managed to piece together a deposit, or how much credit card debt you have are not subjects we usually explore.
In recent months I have come to learn a little more about the bigger picture of a few friends' financial positions and it wasn't because they left their bank statements on the kitchen bench. It was because money is a major source of angst for lots of Australians and when an opportunity for a private conversation arose, it came up.
I was relieved it did come up because for the first time I was able to appreciate their circumstances, and put our own in context. No two families are the same but I found it enormously reassuring to discover that the lion's share of the house deposits people had saved, had come about because of inheritances or gifts from family. Previously I had assumed there was some financial wizardry I wasn't aware of that helped individuals piece together enough for even a modest property in Sydney.
According to the annual Stress and wellbeing report by the Australian Psychological Society, finances is right at the top of our list of worries. Research by the Centre for Social Impact, conducted for National Australia Bank, showed that two million Australians are experiencing severe or high financial stress, while a further 10 million are living with some level of financial worry. It is unsurprising given money is entirely unavoidable on a daily basis and its impact is anything but inconsequential.
Which makes it all the more curious – and unhelpful – that we don't talk about it.
Sharing your bank balance with all and sundry is hardly advisable, but nor is keeping your true financial position from the people you love.
Financial stress is not rare and while the adage of a problem shared is a problem halved isn't strictly true, there is value in opening up. Reaching out to a friend or a family member you trust is worth considering whether things are good or bad. Those conversations have the power to change not just how you look at money but how you manage it too.
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NEW YORK (AP) — One of the performers at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade knows all too well the lasting impact of Superstorm Sandy.
The parents of 15-year-old Carson Stewart, from Darien, Conn., opened their suddenly powerless home to two struggling families after Sandy hit. More than 20 displaced people camped out for days in the Stewart home.
"It brought our family and our friends a lot closer, in a literal and metaphorical sense," Carson said. "We were all bonding and sitting around the fire."
One family was from the nearby hard-hit island community of Harbor View in Norwalk — "Pianos were floating through the street. It was crazy," he said — and the other was their neighbors, whose home needed 2,800 gallons of water pumped out.
At the parade on Thursday, Carson performed along with 135 other students from Stagedoor Manor, a prominent Catskills-area theater camp. They sang "Santa By the Book" from the new musical "Yes, Virginia The Musical," which had its world premiere at the summer camp earlier this year.
The group, like all performers at the parade, wore pins over their hearts to show their solidarity with the victims of Sandy. Carson said he hoped the festivities can help the recovery: "It's a time for rejoicing, a time to be happy and it alleviates your worries, at least for a few hours."


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i've tried 4 times following guides from dc-talk dcemulation and 2 others.
i've tried leaving the scummvm.bin alone. this causes the console reset loop (freeze w/ DCHakker) i've tried renaming that to 1st_read.bin Same result but in DCHakker it resets the DC,
im trying to Just make a disc with Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle Both Monkey island 1 & 2 and Sam & Max hit the Road
they come from the real deal after buying on ebay. so i'm not piratin em, i've compressed the WAV audio tracks ripped from my Monkey island 1 CD
i Just Cant Get It To Work! i could on a PS2 or wii but the point in getting this to work on the dreamcast is bring some games into it's small library i have for it.
Can't get it to work, too... Tried also different ways. A short tutorial or wiki-update would be great.
I have always used the following and never produced a coaster
using Linux...
dd if=/dev/zero bs=2352 count=300 of=audio.raw
cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom -multi -audio audio.raw
cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom -msinfo
# Replace 0,11702 with values from previous command
mkisofs -l -d -relaxed-filenames -C 0,11702 -o tmp.iso cd-image
( cat IP.BIN ; dd if=tmp.iso bs=2048 skip=16 ) > data.raw
# Need to use -xa, NOT -xa1 to ensure that 2048 byte blocks are used. This may vary on different versions of cdrecord
cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom -multi -xa data.raw
I haven't really used the Dreamcast in some time, but I remember that on a certain computer, I used to have a very difficult time. In my experience, the computer it's done on, for whatever reason, has a major impact on the success of the burn. I don't know if it's hardware or software related.
For the computer that always caused me trouble, the only way I was ever able to successfully burn these CDs was to first compile the image into a CDI file using Boot Dreams and then burn them with the free version of Disc Juggler. I was still never able to make a CD that included all of the games on the ScummVM disc, but swapping once ScummVM had loaded wasn't a big deal.
On another computer, I believe I was able to compile and burn everything with Boot Dreams.
On my newer laptop, I believe I can burn with Imgburn and its CDI plugin.
Anyway, try the first thing I said. Use Boot Dreams to compile the CDI image and burn it with Disc Juggler. It's never failed me.


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Saturn is the only planet in May 2011 evening skies. Face south southeast at dusk, and you'll see Saturn near a star of similar brightness— Spica in Virgo. Saturn is significantly higher in the sky than Spica and a bit to its right as you face south. Last month, Earth passed between the Sun and Saturn. That alignment, called opposition, put Saturn in the sky all night long. The ringed planet is now well placed for evening viewing, and remains in the evening sky until late September 2011.
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The other four naked eye planets are involved in a very close gathering low in the east at dawn. You will need a clear view all the way to the east northeastern horizon at daybreak to observe this planet massing. However, the planets do outshine all stars in this general area. If you're able to observe any points of light just above the horizon as dawn begins, you're probably seeing the planets. As of now, Venus and Mercury rise first, with Mercury about a degree under the brighter Venus. Mars and Jupiter are a bit to their lower left, with Mars a little to the left of Jupiter. Mars was less that half a degree above Jupiter on May 1, and is now slowly pulling away from it. Venus and Mercury are moving faster, so they are closing the gap on Mars and Jupiter.
On the morning of May 11, Venus and Mercury will be aligned with Jupiter, with Venus less than one degree from Jupiter. This is also when the entire grouping is the most compact, with all four planets within six degrees of one another. By May 21, Mercury and Venus will have caught up with Mars, with Venus just over a degree from the red planet. After this, Mercury and Venus pull ahead of Mars and thus go deeper into the sun's glare. Mars and Jupiter, left behind, remain in the morning sky all summer.
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A swath of brilliant winter stars sets in the west at dusk this month. Orion, the Hunter, is still visible in the west as May begins. His two dogs, represented by Sirius and Procyon, are to his left. To Orion's right is Taurus, the Bull, with the star Aldebaran as its eye. Gemini, the Twins, are above Orion. The Big Dipper is above the North Star, with its handle pointing to the right. From that handle, you can 'arc to Arcturus' and then 'speed on to Spica;' those stars are in the east and southeast at dusk. Leo, the Lion, passes almost overhead in late evening.
As Orion and Taurus set, look for Antares, brightest star of Scorpius, the Scorpion, to rise in the southeast. At the same time, Vega, brightest star of the Summer Triangle, appears low in the northeast. These stars remind us that summer is on the way.
Moon Phases in May 2011:
New Moon May 3, 1:50 a.m.
1st Quarter May 10, 3:32 p.m.
Full Moon May 17, 6:07 a.m.
Last Quarter May 24, 1:51 p.m.


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I provided responses to the posts, but I also wanted to put up a public response which all could see.
The person who calls Noventi "amateur hour" obviously has a bone to pick or otherwise has a strategic reason for trying to bash them. As I say in my response in agreement with the person who provided the positive review, I and my team work very closely with Giacomo and James, and to a lesser extent we've dealt with Masa and Pierluigi. They have been extremely helpful and have absolutely never hindered the progress of our company, which deals in areas quite different from Giacomo's and Jame's backgrounds. Noventi taps it's network to help entrepreneurs whenever possible; they understand that entrepreneurs sometimes have to zig where they thought would zag; they BELIEVE in their entrepreneurs; they provide constructive criticism and solid advice; they are flexible and supportive; in fact, they are downright nice, good people. They let the managers run the show, and they help when appropriate or when requested. As an entrepreneur, you can't go wrong with Noventi. When it's time to start the next company, I'll definitely come back to them.PRIVATE: Members Only


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Installation and multimedia artist João Vasco Paiva explores sound and imagery from natural and urban environments, mapping apparently random phenomena and using the information to create aesthetic frameworks. "All of my work is about finding random patterns within nature, to then use as an ordered structure," he says. For Palimpseptic (2011), Paiva observed and captured the experience of the Hong Kong Central subway station, constructing a gallery installation around a set of subway turnstiles. After collecting three hours of data from the station, he programmed the turnstiles to rotate according to the rhythm and frequency of the crowd flow. He also incorporated abstract imagery drawn from the aesthetic components of the station—advertisements, maps, and signage—reducing their forms down to a minimal compositional vocabulary.
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Martha E. Pemantel
Martha E. Pemantel, 66, of Jamestown, passed away peacefully May 28, 2012, surrounded by her loving family. She entered God's hands and was joined by her loving parents.
Born in Newport, she was a daughter of the late Capt. William A. Sr. and Martha R. (Dutton) Pemantel.
Martha worked as a secretary for the University of Rhode Island for 34 years before retiring. During her youth she was active in many sports and was a member of the Jamestown bowling league. She enjoyed walking, traveling, bingo and the Boston Red Sox. She loved and cherished her six nieces and nephews, and eight great-nieces and great-nephews.
She leaves two sisters, Nancy J. Pinksaw and her husband Michael of Jamestown, and Laura J. Pudjunis and her husband William of Wakefield; and a brother, William A. Pemantel Jr. and his wife Patricia of North Olmsted, Ohio.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend a graveside service on Friday, June 1, at 11 a.m. in Cedar Cemetery in Jamestown.
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Adobe Productions Inc. will be allowed to shoot scenes using the county courthouse square and lawn.
Pender County officials say Adobe Productions Inc. will be allowed to shoot scenes using the county courthouse square and lawn soon for the movie "Tammy," but an official agreement between the film company and the county is still in the works.
"There's an agreement being worked out right now between our attorney and their attorney, and I think it's very close to being done," County Manager Michael Duvall said Thursday.
But filming is set to start Friday on property in the town of Burgaw's jurisdiction.
The comedy starring Melissa McCarthy and Susan Sarandon is slated to film scenes with three cast members and about a dozen extras inside Burgaw's former EMS building at 108 Wilmington St. on Friday before heading over to the town's police headquarters at 109 N. Walker St., according to a town film permit.
Various driving scenes will take place next week before filming wraps in town on May 30, the permit says.
As Burgaw attracts more and more film producers, Duvall said, the county is realizing it needs formal policies on how to deal with the film industry and film requests to use county property.
"We've been getting a lot of (film) requests. As county manager, I will be recommending that the board take a closer look into this and start looking at establishing policies and procedures," Duvall said.
Though commissioners were expected to discuss setting policies regarding filming in Pender at their last meeting, Duvall said the board will likely address the issue after the budget process is complete.
As for the "Tammy" request, Duvall said, "It's just an agreement between Pender County and Adobe Films to be able to film a few hours on the courthouse square…. Commissioners have to get comfortable with it, our attorney has to get comfortable with it, and the court clerk and the film company have to get comfortable with it, so we've got all of these parties trying to get comfortable and we're almost there. Right now, it's between our attorney and the film company's attorney."
Duvall said using county property such as the courthouse square for filming can present some complex issues to consider because various entities are involved, and residents have to be considered, particularly regarding parking and people attending court sessions such as traffic court.
"When you're dealing with a courthouse, it's obviously different than a cornfield. It's a more complex location, with more people involved …," Duvall said
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Politics and culture hold back efforts
The Office of Management and Budget is trying to lower costs associated with data centers and is working with agencies via the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative to develop agencywide data consolidation plans, which they have to integrate in their fiscal 2012 budget submissions.
The push to consolidate data centers makes sense because each of the more than 100 federal agencies has anywhere from five to 20 data centers, said Ken Griffey, transition manager for NASA's National Center for Critical Information Processing and Storage, a federal shared services data center. NCCIPS hosts data centers for the Homeland Security and Transportation departments, as well as the Navy's supercomputers.
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"Pure common sense says that we can save billions if we consolidate," Griffey said."I wonder how practical that is going to be. NASA has 10 fiefdoms. NASA appears to be an agency on the surface, but it is very politically driven for each state that has a NASA center."
The challenge, he said, results from the fact that NASA data centers provide jobs. It's unlikely that any state is going to volunteer to give up its data center and the 1,000 or so jobs the center provides.
"I see those as obstacles to data center consolidation. The obstacles are more in the political arena," Griffey said.
NASA has been working on data center consolidation for two years, he said. The NASA Enterprise Data Center Request for Proposal will be coming out in September or October, which is a major deal for NASA, he said.
Griffey spoke on June 7 during a Data Center Consolidation panel at the GTRA meeting held in Bedford Springs, Pa. Joining Griffey on the panel were Paul Christy, chief technology officer of the Small Business Administration; and Stephen Fletcher, CIO of Utah and president of NASCIO.
The discussions around data consolidation have focused on green IT, resources and the depate over whether to go to the cloud. However, SBA officials have had to take 10 steps back and talk about client systems rationalization, Christy said.
"Before you change hardware you need to take systems and determine how you rationalize them," Christy said. "In my case, I inherited a couple years ago a lot of client systems that had to do with credit, client-facing systems and stove-piped administrative systems."
All of those systems had to be aligned for data center consolidation. The systems were all associated with client records. So SBA adapted a customer relationship management system that shrunk about 60 applications that had different versions of client records to about 14 with one client record, he said.
Then SBA took credit and loan systems and started moving them from old Cobol-based programs on mainframe computers to relational databases on Oracle Financials software. Time and attendance applications were move to a Microsoft SharePoint platform.
"So we are ending up with three categories of applications where we had 24," he said. SBA has also been able to reduce the number of processors and storage systems and, as a result of all this activity, are better prepared to consider data centers consolidation in the cloud.
SBA has four data centers. They are in Irvine, Calif.; Denver, Colo.; Herndon, Va..; and Washington, D.C. The agency can't collapse too much physically or geographically without losing some flexibility, Christy said. However, among these data centers there are more than 250 servers. Virtualization is the biggest consolidation effort going on now at SBA. Three-quarters of the servers are Microsoft Windows machines and the remaining are Sun Microsystems Solaris machines, he said.
For SBA, the obstacles are less about the states and more about internal cultiure. The agency's IT department employees prefer to have servers on site, he said.
Being the only representative from a state on the panel, Fletcher wanted attendees to understand challenges state governments face.
"Unlike the federal government we have to balance budget by law," Fletcher said. So there is a financial incentive to lower costs. There might be some push-back because of lost of jobs. However, "if you can save millions of dollars in consolidation and that helps balance the budget, that is a good thing," Fletcher said.
Data center consolidation simplifies operations, improves management and security issues. Utah has reduced 35 data centers down to two -- a primary and a backup center. Utah has also reduced the number of servers from 1,800 to 450 – about 80 percent virtualized. The state is moving forward with the virtualization of the remaining 20 percent of servers, Fletcher said.
By consolidating data centers, Utah can become a center of excellence, providing data center capabilities to cities and counties. The cities and counties can pay for data center services out of their operational budgets, he said.
"We know how to provide hosting services and infrastructure because we are part of the state and we offer this to our cities and counties," Fletcher said. "For smaller cities this was a wonderful idea because they didn't have to invest up front on this capital."
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A critical--and often forgotten component--of data center consolidation is the communications "pipes". As a long time federal employee, my experience has been that the Government does not have the big bandwidth pipes needed to support a small number of large data centers. In the middle of the work day, when everyone is at work on both the east and west coasts, network traffic is often noticeably slow. So what is going to happen when there is an increase by many magnitudes in network traffic? Without network redundancy to those few conslidated data centers, the network becomes a single point of failure. Network problems will mean a widespread loss in productivity. It sounds easy to say, let's move all the Government's computers to a small number of big data centers, but there is a lot more to it than physically moving servers!
Good example of why the decision needs to be taken out of the hands of the agency heads, at both federal and state/local levels. The people who pass the appropriations and write the checks need to mandate that all support services will be common-serviced where possible, absent a very compelling case why they should not be. Long-haul telecom would be another excellent area for common-servicing. I could name several more, but you get the idea. Of course, since the people who pass the appropriations and pay the bills are even more driven by politics, it will never happen.
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WORCESTER — The last four years have not been easy ones for 16-year-old Kayla Rosiello and her 10-year-old brother, Michael. On the night of Feb. 3, 2010, they watched as their mother, Maureen Rosiello, was fatally beaten by their father, Keith Rosiello. "I am the girl who got up the courage to testify against her abusive father, and I am also the same girl who watched her mother die," she said in a prepared impact statement.
WORCESTER — The last four years have not been easy ones for 16-year-old Kayla Rosiello and her 10-year-old brother, Michael.
On the night of Feb. 3, 2010, they watched as their mother, Maureen Rosiello, was fatally beaten by their father, Keith Rosiello, in the family's home at 32 Deerfield Road in Shrewsbury.
Last Thursday, a Worcester Superior Court jury convicted the 49-year-old Mr. Rosiello of first-degree murder in the killing. Kayla and Michael, the prosecution's key witnesses, were lauded by District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. for the courage they displayed in testifying against their father.
This morning, Judge Janet Kenton-Walker sentenced Mr. Rosiello to the mandatory term of life imprisonment without parole.
Before the sentence was imposed, however, Kayla once again addressed the court.
"I am the girl who got up the courage to testify against her abusive father, and I am also the same girl who watched her mother die," she said in a prepared impact statement.
Despite the counseling she and her brother have received, Kayla said there are times when she struggles to find the strength she needs to go on. At such times, she said, she thinks about what her mother would have wanted for her.
"Mom wouldn't want me to cry, to crumble and be weak. She would want me to stand tall, lead a new life, set goals and live happily. Mom lived in hell for Michael and I. She stayed in the house and suffered for years so that we could grow up with a mom, and so she could see us grow up.
"I am not going to let her suffering go without meaning and appreciation," Kayla said.
"Dad may have broken Mom, taken her hope, her pride, her dreams and her physical presence. But her spirit will live on through both me and Michael forever," she told the court.
Kayla also read an impact statement written by her little brother.
"My dad should be very ashamed of his actions on Feb. 3, 2010. His actions have now forced me to never see my mother again," Michael wrote.
The 44-year-old victim's mother, Margaret Lynch, also read an impact statement.
"The impact of losing a child is like no other. No matter how old they are or whether they died from an accident, sickness or something as horrible as domestic violence, it just stays in your heart," Mrs. Lynch said.
She recalled attending a vigil for domestic violence victims not long after her daughter's death. Mr. Early, one of the speakers, talked about how domestic violence "starts with dating," Mrs. Lynch said.
Thinking back on her daughter's relationship with Mr. Rosiello, which began in high school, the victim's mother said she came to realize that the "turmoil" began while they were still dating. She spoke of the death of her husband, Bill, that followed his daughter's slaying.
"Bill's heart was truly broken, and we lost him 4� months after Maureen's death," she said.
Mrs. Lynch talked about how Maureen's sister, Christine Carney, and brother-in-law, Peter Carney, took the "traumatized" Rosiello children into their home after their mother was killed.
"They are raising them with discipline and love, as they did their own two grown sons," she said.
"The children have come so far because of the love of relatives, friends, parents of friends and teachers. They will be like their mother, full of hope and love. You took that away from Maureen slowly over the years, growing from anger to abuse," she said to Mr. Rosiello.
"In the end, Keith, love conquers all. Love conquered this tragedy. It has taken four years of counseling, good times, difficult times, but always love. ... No more isolation, no more control, just love," Mrs. Lynch said.
Mr. Rosiello apologized to his children and his wife's family for what he described as, "this tragedy."
"I never wanted it," he said in a barely audible voice.
He called himself a failure as both a husband and father.
"I want you to know that those failures haunt me every day, every night," he said.
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The Social Storefront – How to Sell Your Products and Services on Facebook
Have you ever considered extending your small business storefront to Facebook?
According to The New York Times, small retailers are having more success than their larger counterparts when it comes to selling socially with Facebook storefronts proving to be a successful outlet for small businesses with less than $100,000 in revenue and fewer than 10 employees.
Yet Facebook storefronts present business owners with a number of challenges. For example, if you have a business page on Facebook, you do not own it; Facebook does, and as such, it is free to change the look, feel, security and functionality of your page when it sees fit. Furthermore, many consumers may be reticent about conducting financial transactions on social media.
If your small business is interested in exploring this new revenue stream, here are some tips to help you get started building your social storefront:
1. Build Your Facebook Storefront
Facebook storefronts are wholly independent of Facebook and are enabled by third party apps and services from companies such as Ecwid, BigCommerce's SocialShop application and VendorShop Social. Alternatively, you can also have an app developer build you a custom storefront.
These apps offer a number of social shopping features that you can add to your Facebook business page. Some are free, with options to upgrade for increased functionality, while others charge a low monthly subscription fee. (Note: The Facebook store provider market is an emerging one with new start-ups popping up regularly. Furthermore, established players are increasingly targeted for acquisition. So do your due diligence on this one. Look for providers with a good customer service track record and try not to get locked into time-bound contracts.)
Whichever app you choose, getting started is quite easy. Once your app is installed, you can add product listings; a welcome page to showcase certain products and promotions; a shopping cart; and a variety of payment options such as PayPal. Some apps also include tools to promote your storefront to your fans, via email, your blog or website.
2. Personalize Your Storefront
Next, personalize your storefront to reflect your brand and appeal to the fans and customers you are hoping to engage with and sell to. Think about adding a human element to your banner image—this will help connect you with your potential buyers. To maximize your Facebook sales, look for ways to engage and connect—post tips that relate to your industry; share articles, images and blogs that might be of interest; and have a dialogue with your fans. Above all, inject some personality into your page—this is a huge differentiator for small businesses, so use it!
The New York Times also suggests pinning and tagging status updates and photos to attract fans and keep your page dynamic. For example, you could run a contest that encourages customers to tag your products in the photos they post on their Facebook page. In doing so, you'll get free visibility on that person's wall for all their friends and followers to see. You can also use the pin feature to highlight a product of the week or a special discount.
3. Be Social, Build a Community
Make your page an active one—treat it as you would your own bricks and mortar store. Meet and greet fans, and engage with them. Encourage them to post by asking open-ended questions in your status updates; comment on and like the interaction that follows.
You can also grow your community outside the confines of our own page. For example, follow business pages that relate to your products, industry or neighborhood and interact with folks on those pages (without being overly promotional). For example, if you own a retail store on Main Street, look around and find out who else is on Facebook—your local coffee shop, library, community newspaper? Give them a like (using your business page profile) and join in the conversation with other business owners and their customers. Your business will appear on their wall and help increase your visibility and likeability!
4. Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket
It's unlikely that Facebook will ever be your only sales channel. So test the waters before you set up your store and ask your fans and customers if they'd be interested in buying from you via Facebook. Then, once you are up and running, don't ignore your website or retail location. Small businesses are known to get as much as 15-30 percent of their sales from Facebook, but remember that not everyone is on Facebook, and not all are comfortable doing business there.
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For some real-world examples of how small businesses are using Facebook storefronts, check out this article from The New York Times: Small Retailers Open Up Storefronts on Facebook Pages.
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Chris Scullion: ''The decision to follow-up 2001's Luigi's Mansion is one of Nintendo's oddest in recent years. While there's no denying the GameCube original's cult status, the 12-year-old spin-off is hardly at the top of our sequel wishlist.''
As much as I'm looking forward to it... I have to name drop Fire Emblem right now. That game is just looking... Amazing... I seriously think that'll be the best 3DS game for a good while. However, Luigi's Mansion is looking great, and I REALLY hope it's an outstanding game. :]
They should do a Wii U port....don't see why one of the best Gamecube launch games gets a sequel on a hand-held.
They should add more Tower's or Mansions to the Multiplayer.
That would help get the people who maybe on the fence about buying it to make the move.
Loved the first Luigi's Mansion, I happen to be a huge Luigi fan because I think he gets disrespected quite a bit, I wish they would do a console version of the game though.