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WASHINGTON (AP) — A controversial torture report by the Senate Intelligence Committee paints a pattern of CIA deception about the effectiveness of waterboarding and other brutal interrogation methods used on terror suspects after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to leaked findings. The committee said it will ask the Justice Department to investigate how the material was published.
The McClatchy news service late Thursday published what it said are the voluminous, still-classified review's 20 findings. It concludes that the "enhanced interrogation techniques" failed to produce valuable intelligence; the CIA misled the Bush administration, Congress and the public about the value of the harsh treatment; the agency employed unauthorized techniques on detainees and improperly detained others; and it never properly evaluated its own actions.
Both the CIA's interrogation techniques and confinement conditions "were brutal and far worse than the agency communicated to policymakers."
The reported findings are consistent with what senators have detailed about the investigation since its 2009 inception and with what numerous news reports, human rights organizations and various governmental and non-governmental studies have suggested in the decade since the CIA's program started to coming to light. President Barack Obama has likened the harsh interrogations to torture, but the spy agency defends its actions and says much in the Senate committee's report is inaccurate.
The committee voted last week to declassify the summary and conclusions of the 6,600-page review and is now waiting for the Obama administration to censor material sensitive to national security.
The panel's chairwoman, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said an investigation into how the findings were published was underway. The two pages of findings published by McClatchy did not include the names of any U.S. government employees or terror detainees, locations of secret CIA prisons or anything else that might threaten national security. They also did not indicate how or why the committee reached its conclusions.
"If someone distributed any part of this classified report, they broke the law and should be prosecuted," Feinstein said. "The committee is investigating this unauthorized disclosure, and I intend to refer the matter to the Department of Justice."
James Asher, McClatchy's Washington bureau chief, said the news service was disappointed that Feinstein might seek a Justice Department investigation of its journalism. "We believe that Americans need to know what the CIA might have done to detainees and who is responsible for any questionable practices, which is why we have vigorously covered this story," Asher said in a statement.
CIA spokesman Dean Boyd declined to address the publication of the findings.
"Given the report remains classified, we are unable to comment," Boyd said. He said the CIA was committed to carrying out an "expeditious classification review" of the parts of the report the Senate committee wants to make public. He reiterated, however, that the spy agency disagreed with several areas of the report.
The committee and the CIA are embroiled in a related dispute concerning the production of the report, with each side accusing the other of illegal snooping. The Justice Department is reviewing competing criminal complaints.
Given the ongoing tensions, Feinstein has appealed to President Barack Obama for the White House to head the declassification process for the torture report. The Obama administration up to now has said the CIA will take the lead in blacking out sections of the report that might reveal national security secrets, in consultation with other agencies of the executive branch.
The CIA has a "clear conflict of interest," Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., said in a letter to Obama Friday.
In an opinion piece in The Washington Post, Feinstein and Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, a fellow Democratic member of the committee, said the public release of almost 500 pages of the report is "the best way to ensure that this program of secret detention and coercive interrogation never happens again."
"It will also serve to uphold America's practice of admitting wrongdoing and learning from its mistakes," they said.
The senators sought to answer two of the main criticisms of the report from former CIA officials and others: that its conclusions were predetermined and that that it didn't include direct interviews with CIA officials.
Calling the report "fact-based," Feinstein and Rockefeller said almost every sentence in the report is attributed to CIA cables, internal notes, emails, testimony and other documents.
They acknowledged that Justice Department reviews of the spy agency's program meant top CIA managers, lawyers, counterterrorism personnel, analysts and interrogators didn't have to speak to the committee. But they said Senate investigators used transcripts from more than 100 interviews conducted by internal CIA auditors and other agency officials that took place while the harsh interrogations were still ongoing or shortly after they ended.
Associated Press writer Stephen Braun contributed to this report.
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Long ago, a gust of wintery wind blew open the door to the Neighborhood House, and in walked a little girl, her cheeks tinged blue from the cold.
No one knew exactly from where she came or who she was, but that didn't stop the school's staff from embracing her.
"Warm arms were held out to greet her, hot milk provided, and her thin underwear replaced by warm flannels," according to an account in "Fifty Years of Neighborhood House" published in 1944, "but she was too ill from exposure and lack of food to respond to the children's happy enthusiasm."
The small girl stayed at the Neighborhood House, where she was nursed back to health. The girl, whose father had left her family and whose mother had fallen ill, eventually grew up to become a trusted member of the community.
The exact date that Baby Blue, as she became known, wandered into the Neighborhood Houseis now fuzzy to many, but the story, along with a picture of the girl, still hangs neatly on a Neighborhood House wall. Though much has changed since that black-and-white photo was taken, the Neighborhood House's mission has remained largely the same: helping children and families succeed.
Today, about 130 children spend all or part of their days at Poplar Grove's Neighborhood House for preschool, kindergarten, before- and after-school care and during the summer and school breaks.The organization also provides supervised day care for non-aggressive adults in two other locations.The private, nonprofit serves families on a sliding fee scale based on their income, with families paying an average of $160 to $170 per month, said Jacob Brace, the organization's executive director. Neighborhood House also boasts the state's only private, nonprofit, year-round, accredited preschool program.
It's a preschool program that focuses on learning through hands-on experiences, with emphasis on art, outdoor play, computers, toys and games, sand and water, discovery, cooking, music and movement, among other things.
Kids often choose their own activities, gravitating to different stations set up in each preschool room, said Kelly Condie, preschool and youth program director. On a recent day in teacher Rachel Rodriguez's classroom for 4-year-olds and 5-year-olds, most of the tykes headed to the Play-Doh station, while a few others hung out by the computer and at a drawing station.
"I like to play," said 4-year-old Andy Gonzales as he squashed and shaped the colorful clay.
Volunteers worked with kids at their stations, engaging them in conversation, while Rodriguez individually tested students' fine motor skills at a nearby table, asking them to cut along straight, curved and zigzag lines on a sheet of paper.
Rodriguez said working on such skills now helps prepare the kids for kindergarten.
"They start these skills early so by the time they get up [to kindergarten] they kind of are building on that," she said.
Brace said 100 percent of the Neighborhood House's preschool kids leave the program ready for kindergarten. That's despite about 95 percent coming from low-income homes.
But parents don't just send their kids to Neighborhood House for the academics. They send them there because they consider it a safe, economical place for their children to spend time while they're at work. The center is open 250 days a year, and offers meals before and after school as well as busing to schools for kids in kindergarten through sixth grade.
Susana Coria, a single mother, drops her little girl off at the Neighborhood House preschool each weekday morning as she heads to her job as a restaurant manager. She said the center is "a lot of help."
"She's been learning a lot, English especially," Coria said.
Francisco Miranda, of West Valley City, also drops his 4-year-old and 6-year-old off at the Neighborhood House each day on his way to work as a floor technician in North Salt Lake. There, they eat breakfast each day before school begins.
"We need it," Miranda said. "They help us a lot by caring for our kids during the day."
On a recent day, Miranda and his family stayed late for a Thanksgiving dinner served up by students from Highland's Lone Peak High, who are raising money for the Neighborhood House this holiday season.
The Neighborhood House relies on donations and fees from families to keep running, Brace said.
Though it was founded 118 years ago, the center still remains true to its roots, using the money it collects to try to better the lives of those its serves.
Another photo that hangs in a different hallway shows Neighborhood House children posing for a camera around 1930. In that photo, a little girl in knee-highs and a dress holds a toothbrush. Another small girl holds a bowl of fruit and a little boy in overalls clutches soap and a towel. Together, they represent the Neighborhood House's focus on teaching children hygiene and nutrition, among other things. In short, they represent child welfare.
"These needs," Brace said, "have not changed in 2012."
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A closely watched index of German business optimism rose more than expected in August, underlining improving growth prospects for the struggling euro area.
The Ifo index released Tuesday rose to 107.5 from 106.2 in July. Market analysts had expected 107.0.
The increase in the index — the fourth monthly rise in a row — is a further sign of Germany's improving economy, which expanded a robust 0.7 percent in the second quarter from the previous quarter and helped pull the 17-country currency union out of 18 months of recession. The eurozone expanded 0.3 percent from the quarter before.
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I have more than 4,000 digital photos stored on my computer. They are an unorganized mess.
We are THAT Family
by Kristen
I have more than 4,000 digital photos stored on my computer. They are an unorganized mess.
Valarie Lea says
Oh goodness thats funny!! This and other various reasons is why my hubby does not use the camera. Besides my booty would take up the whole darn picture. 🙂
Andrea says
Funnny! I delete pictures like that…mostly because my hubs doesn't usually get the camera and when he does he decided to take similar pictures when I'm in yoga pants or worse…sweat pants! What is he thinking!
Melanie says
Oh that is hilarious!! Aren't hubbies so funny?
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Tracy DeLuca says
DH takes those of me, too. I usually delete them off of the digital before I upload to the computer. Then he gets mad at me! LOL
I love that you are keeping them… you guys are so sweet together!
jen says
OH, that is just too funny! You should make him a photo book for your next anniversary!
Mzzterry says
Too funny!!
Mrs. Brownstone @ XBOX Wife says
Oh, I love this! That is one of the sweetest things I've ever read!
The Apron Queen says
I think I'm going to change my blog roll for you to "Bootlylicious: instead of We are THAT family. 😀
Jen @ One Moms World says
LOL… How funny. I have a lot of random pictures as well but it is when my girls get a hold of the camera.
Nikki says
Awwwww. That's so sweet! What a fun album. 🙂
Owlhaven says
Too funny!!
Mary, mom to many
Debye says
What a sweet (and funny) story!
Jenn says
What a sweetie you have –
Janel@Dandelion Dayz says
very sweet!!!
Mark @ NowParenting says
My wife doesn't like it when I take pictures of her like this. I do it all in fun but she insists on me deleting them soon after. Maybe she secretly does like it and she just won't confess. 🙂 Too funny either way.
Jack's Mommy says
ROFL!!!!! my hubby does the same thing to me!!! i just found a set of booty piccies he took the other day from 2 years ago whilst I was playing with our dogs..lol..i was quite sad to realize i didn't have those particular pants anymore too. aren't hubbies hilarious!!??
(on a nicer note, i will admit to taking the same kinda pictures of my hubby's biceps and shoulders..lol)
Monica says
How sweet is that!! What a great hubby you have!
Kristin says
That is too cute. The bum and the hubby. lol
that is SO something my husband would do. 🙂
Gray Matters says
Love it!
Michelle says
lol. i agree with Karen.. that is something my hubby would do… have a great day..
Heidi says
That is sooo sweet! He sounds like a great guy. 🙂
Wonderful World of Weiners says
Hallie 🙂
mom_of2boys says
Too funny! I like the "What Works for Him" folder name.
NO REASON NEEDED says
That's too funny!!! Gotta admit, I too have some of those photo's taken of me.
The Happy Housewife says
Very, very funny! You are a sweet wife to give him his own folder, any pictures of my rear end go straight to the little trash can on my computer screen.
Cindy Swanson says
You know what? I think that is FANTASTIC. My husband would be rewarded handsomely for saying something that sweet. 🙂
Lilypad Mom says
That's great! My husband always takes the most random pictures of me, and always when I look my worst. But he loves them and says they are just for him.
Thank you for the reminder that I need to get all the pictures on my computer organized and properly stored!
Denise says
How funny!!!! I'm sure if we all looked close enough we'd find tons of these pictures on our computers as well. Have a Great Day
Tiff says
My hubby does that too but i always delete them. UGH who wants to look at my big butt!
Jae says
Aww!! Wow, yeah, he's a keeper. That's really sweet and cute! And your backside is small, so no worries!
LifeAtTheCircus.com says
Very Sweet! Isn't it nice to know your loved?
Auds at Barking Mad says
Awwwwwww that's sweet!
My hubby, on the other hand, fears certain death if he were to EVER take a picture of my backside. Seriously!
I feel ya on the photo organizing thing. I dread it. I sorta went a bit mad when I got my big girl camera (a super sweeeeeeeet DSLR) last year, and now I have 20+ thousand photos that are awaiting organization. No wonder my computer is so slow!
Marcy - The Glamorous Life! says
Oh you funny gal! Okay so ONCE I asked my husband to use my professional camera to take a nice photo of me for my photog site. He took 5-10 photos and said-"okay I think I got a couple good ones, can I go watch my golf now?"….well, I ran to upload- and what did I see? ONE photo of my face and the rest of my CHEST! Apparently- THAT is what works for him!!!! Hey have you tried PICASA? You will DIE how awesome it is. You load it for FREE and it finds all the pics on your computer FOR YOU. SO easy to organize….try try try…I have 27,000 images on my system!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Patty says
Thats priceless!! Happy WW
The Sweet Family says
I know what you mean. I managed to take all of our pics and put them on individual cd's and into our fire-proof safe.
Cute story about your husband. Thanks for sharing!
Bina says
What is it with men? My husband does the SAME thing! However, on the last batch of pictures I down loaded, not only did I find my butt more times than I care to count, but he took pictures of his TRI bike. UPCLOSE pictures. Okay, so I knew he liked it, but I didn't know he liked it THAT much!
Happy2bme says
I think its true love!!! ha ha. Happy WW!!
Kate's Crazy Life says
So funny! But very sweet too. 🙂
Domestic Accident says
It is a very cute butt. Who could blame him?
Jen @ JenuineJen says
That is a really sweet story. I am glad that the love is strong in your marriage. BTW, I just signed up to follow you on twitter.
Elaine A. says
That is AWESOME!!! I am a little suprised my husband hasn't done this. He's always slapping mine! I love this!
Amanda Eck says
ahahahahaha that is too cute! isnt nice to be wanted? especially on those days when you feel so un-appealing. there are days I cant even stand myself and my hubby still wants me. crazy!
Heather J. says
Very Nice……
Like I said before,
You have the best husband.
Oh that is great…I love your blog and that tops it all! Thank heavens for awesome hubbys, eh?
Alyson @ 3 P's
Mama Smurf says
That's hilarious! It's the little things our hubbies do that make us smile!
I have a few of those shots myself…like I said before, my boobies provide a constant source of comedy for us.
Oh.my.word! How funny! You'll be glad you saved those. Or he will, I'm not sure.
That is so awesome! I wish my hubby was as sweet! 🙂
Shelley says
That's the sweetest thing! What a good guy. I'd do the same thing – keep the pics to remind you next time he's not being quite so sweet…
Kaye says
Just when you think you want to strangle them, they end up being so sweet! =) Very cute and sweet!
Michelle Hix says
It would have been more funny if you thought he was taking pictures of someone else's behind only to later realize it was yours! I don't think I'd recognize my own butt!
AJ says
I love this post. What a fun family!
cre8tivkj says
LOL! I laugh cuz my hubby has done that to me, only his pictures are the moving kind (video). I think I'd rather see the pictures still rather than moving (makes me want to jump on a treadmill right then and there, I cringe). Cute post!
lori says
ONE day…ONE day I tell ya…I'll be FIRST!!
but it's not today….
I do have to tell you that I was reading a post of yours last night…LAUGHING OUT LOUD…and hubby wondered why such fun at 9 pm…without him…I showed him the PERM post and the overflowing tub…then he understood!!
He said that lady needs to write a BOOK…her random posts are HYSTERICAL..
I agree….
and apparently so do 53 commenters in FRONT of me!!
your pics look strangely like the ones my 13 year old has bogging down MY computer….
have a great one!!
Krista says
That is AWESOME! Sometimes I just don't feel pretty at all and it totally amazes me that the hubby can't take his eyes off me. God works in mysterious ways I guess… 🙂
Baby Mama (Tamra) says
Too funny!
Traci says
How sweet! (did you ever think anyone would say that about a random booty shot!) Thanks for making me remember that my husband loves me as is! Sometimes he will make comments about me and I will just roll my eyes and think "there is no way he could possible find that attractive!" I am going to try and really believe those comments from now on!
Soliloquy says
Remember that scene from Miss Congeniality?
"You loooooove me. You think I'm sexxxxy. You want to daaaaaate me."
You gotta' use that one on hubby.
I got nothing better. The Mother Breach took all the sass out of me.
For today.
But good news: I'm baaaack!
Soliloquy says
I'm losing it. Typo on my URL. Sorry.
Is it 5:00 yet?
Happy Mommy says
First I will say, oh my gosh you have 59 comments today!!! I really need to figure out how to do the wfmw on Rocks in my dryer, because you know how I love comments!!!
And that is absolutely hilarious!
We are on the book The Horse and his Boy. I never read the books as a child it is wonderful to have my husband read them to us all.
I am glad you have the same kind of husband I do, wonderful.
Amy says
HA! Love it! He's definitely a keeper. 🙂
~ Amy @ Memoirs of a Mommy
Stephanie says
Nice tushie!
marky says
LOL! I love it! you have a great hubby.
Storm says
Kudos to hubby for thinking you are still cute after 14 years of marriage. Kudos to you for sharing photos of your derriere. I don't know if I would have the guts. 🙂
heather says
K. This had me laughing. I can relate. my husbands photo taking moment of choice is while I am in the SHOWER! Needless to say, those will not make it to the blog!
* TONYA * says
ha ha, I'm loving it. I have found quite an assortment of 'those' kinds of pictures on my hard drive before too. It seems like everytime I bend over my boobs or butt are being photographed.
Colleen - Mommy Always Wins says
Don't they have the strangest ways of staying dear to our hearts? My hubby still picks up candy bars at the gas station for me. I'd rather have that than flowers any day. :O)
(And I have those same jeans you're wearing in the "My hiney" picture. and I'm pretty sure the same white button-up shirt from the last photo. NY & Co?)
Brea in Texas says
How wonderful! This post completely made me smile. How blessed you are!!
jskell911 says
My sweetie is just like that! LOL. He always let's me go up stairs first, so he can pat my behind. Nice on those days when you're just feeling gross, isn't it?
Amy Jo says
awwww.. you wouldn't include this in your hard cover blog album? I happened to catch this off of Shannon's WFM a while back and thought it was VERY funny. It was great to see it again…
Bethany says
Okay…I've got to stop reading, or I won't be able to breathe anymore!! I'm loving your blog!
Kimberly says
You gotta love a man like that!!
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According to prosecutors, Jose Chavez, 31, was desperate to avoid another felony drug-dealing conviction when he allegedly asked a relative to pass a note to a juror on the last day of his trial.
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Deputy District Attorney Daniel Rothbach said Chavez has been charged this week with felony jury tampering.
The charge is rare, presumably because most defendants know better than to risk angering a judge by messing with the panel.
"It was pretty shocking," said Melanie Griswold, the prosecutor in Chavez's drug trial. "Had the juror read the note and told other jurors about it, there was a good chance the case would have been declared a mistrial."
The unusual case began in July on the fifth day of Chavez's trial on charges of possessing $500 to $800 worth of methamphetamine for sale.
The lawyers had finished their closing arguments when Judge Julia Alloggiamento informed the lawyers that a female juror had reported that Chavez's stepfather tried to pass a note to her.
The juror refused to take the note, and the stepfather threw it away. But a bailiff recovered it from the trash.
Chavez's handwritten note explained that his 4-year-old daughter had died in a fire — information that the judge had ruled could not be presented at trial after Griswold successfully argued that the man's grief was no excuse for dealing drugs. At the time of his arrest, Chavez was on parole for prior drug sales.
It appears the fire that killed his daughter was meth-related, but it is unclear whether the note included that information.
Chavez apparently chose that particular juror because she looked "sort of kind," prosecutors said..
Chavez was convicted of the drug-dealing charge and faces up to 10 years in prison — on top of the six years he could get if he is found guilty of tampering.
Contact Tracey Kaplan at 408-278-3482. Follow her at Twitter.com/tkaplanreport


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It's said that the rich get richer. And that's certainly true at the moment in the tech world.
Grabbing Bloomberg's No. 2 spot among the world's top billionaries, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has an estimated worth of $63.4 billion as of yesterday. Despite donating a hefty amount of money to charitable causes, Gates' net worth managed to rise 1.1 percent over the past year, making him the richest tech mogul on the list.
Worth $40.7 billion, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison saw a 3.6 percent gain in his fortune last year. The largest chunk of his wealth comes from his 23.5 percent share of Oracle, according to Bloomberg, though he also owns a 49 percent slice of software company NetSuite.
Amazon chief Jeff Bezos took the No. 20 spot with a net worth of $24.1 billion, a 2.4 percent gain from a year ago. Google's Larry Page is worth $21.8 billion, while fellow co-founder Sergey Brin has a fortune of $21.6 billion, both up 1.9 percent from last year.
The owner of India's Wipro, Azim Premji, is worth $15.8 billion. Other tech players on the list include Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen with $14.4 billion to his name, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer with $14.2 billion, and Dell CEO Michael Dell with $13.3 billion.
And despite the weak performance of Facebook's post-IPO stock, CEO Mark Zuckerberg saw his net worth rise by 5.1 percent from a year ago to $12.9 billion.
So who's No. 1 on the list? Worth $76.4 billion, Mexican mogul Carlos Slim Helu is the world's richest person with stakes in telecommunications, banking, mining, and several individual companies.
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Amarillo, TX – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, commented today on the opening of Planned Parenthood's new "abortion fortress" in suburban Chicago.
"I commend the actions taken by Aurora residents to delay the opening of Planned Parenthood's latest and largest abortion center," said Fr. Pavone. "That the clinic is now open only means that pro-lifers will now intensify our efforts so that the life-saving presence of God's people will surround the facility until the killing stops."
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NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott appeared as a guest on the first hour of NPR's Science Friday show on April 10, 2009.
Two projects to celebrate the Darwin anniversaries — the bicentennial of Darwin's birth and the sesquicentennial of the publication of On the Origin of Species — are soliciting video contributions.
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Judges win one, lose one, advance in ECAC tourney
Brandeis defeated Rivier College, 7-5, but fell to Endicott, 6-1The Brandeis softball team, top-seeded in the 2012 ECAC Division III New England Tournament, will have to come through the elimination bracket to win their second title in team history. The Judges defeated fifth-seed Rivier College, 7-5, in their opener today, but bowed to No. 3 seed Endicott, 6-1, later in the day. Brandeis will take on No. 7 seed Simmons College at 11 a.m. tomorrow (Sunday) in an elimination game. The winner of that contest will face Endicott in the championship round at 1 p.m.
In the first game of the day, Brandeis jumped out to a 5-0 lead after four innings and extended it to 7-1 through six before holding off a late Rivier rally to escape with a 7-5 win.
The Judges opened the scoring in the bottom of the first when center fielder Lauren Porcaro '12 hit an infield single to bring home third baseman Brittany Grimm '12, who had hit a one-out double. Brandeis had Rivier hurler Lauren Beatty on the ropes early, but the Judges left the bases loaded in the first and third innings, while Grimm lined into an inning-ending double play in the second.
Brandeis broke through in the fourth, scoring four runs on just two hits, with only one ball leaving the infield. Beatty threw three walks in the inning, including a lead-off pass to right fielder Casey Ducinski '13. First baseman Amanda Genovese '15 followed with a bunt single, then beat the Raider shortstop to second base on a slow roller by Grimm. Beatty then issued bases-loaded walks to shortstop Marianne Specker and Porcaro to drive in runs before designated player Anya Kamber '15 singled to right for one more. Beatty retired the next three hitters, but also fired a wild pitch that allowed Specker to score Brandeis' fifth run of the game.
Rivier finally broke through in the sixth on a solo home run by junior catcher Marissa Mercier off Brandeis reliever Melissa Nolan. It was Mercier's 10th of the season. Brandeis got two back in the bottom of the inning when Porcaro walked, stole second and third and scored on an illegal pitch by Raider pitcher Hillary Tarr. Nolan drove in Kamber, who also walked and had a steal, to make the game 7-1.
Rivier made the game interesting in the top of the seventh, when Mercier's infield single scored Nicole Peacock, who had walked and advanced all the way to third on a single wild pitch. Two batters later, Karen Waterman took Nolan deep for a three-run shot, cutting the lead to 7-5, but Brandeis' Caroline Miller '12 got the final out.
Offensively, Brandeis got 10 of their 12 hits from the top five batters in the order, led by Kamber's 3-for-3 performance and Porcaro, who reached base in all four player appearances, going 2-for-2 with two walks and two RBIs. Rivier was paced by Mercier, who went 4-for-4 with her two-run homer, and Waterman, who drove in a game-high three runs with her late blast.
Miller picked up the win to improve to 15-7 on the season, just the seventh 15-win season in school history. She tossed 4.1 innings, allowing four hits and striking out four. Beatty suffered just her third loss of the season, falling to 11-3, allowing 11 hits and seven earned runs over 5.1 innings. She walked five and struck out three.
Two Endicott homers -- their fifth and sixth of the day -- and a fine pitching performance from Nell O'Connor put the Gulls into tomorrow's championship round.
Endicott opened the scoring with two runs in the first inning. Designated player Colleen Martin tripled to left field to knock in 2B Jesse Bilafer. Martin then scored on a wild pitch.
Brandeis got one of those runs back in the bottom of the frame. Amanda Genovese doubled to lead off the inning and then stole third, her team-high 18th swipe of the season. Grimm followed with a lineout to center field that allowed Genovese to tag up and score. The RBI was Grimm's 100th of her career, making her the seventh player in school history to reach that plateau. A hit by Porcaro and an error on a ball hit by Kamber put Brandeis in good position to tie the game, but O'Connor got a grounder to first to end the inning.
The Gulls gave O'Connor some more breathing room with a pair of homers, Byrne Katz's second of the day to lead off the fourth and a two-run job by Alexandra Moise in the top of the fifth. Pinch runner Katelyn Soja executed a double steal of home in the sixth to round out the scoring.
O'Connor held Brandeis to five hits and one earned run in seven innings. She improved to 10-6 by striking out five and walking just two. Brandeis pitcher Caroline Miller fell to 15-8 on the season after allowing eight hits and five earned runs in five innings. Miller struck out 10 Endicott hitters, moving her within three of Brandeis' single-season record with 160 on the campaign.
Offensively, in addition the two home runs, Bilafer had a fine game with three hits, including a double, and two runs scored. She also provided terrific defense for the Gulls at second base. For the Judges, Genovese and Porcaro provided four of the team's five hits.
Brandeis fell to 25-17 with the loss, while Endicott moves to 25-17-1 and needs just one win tomorrow to take home the ECAC crown.
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Diego Simeone's men responded well from their loss against Rubin Kazan with a win over Valladolid, meanwhile there was important wins for Valencia, Malaga, and Espanyol
New Deportivo coach, Fernando Vazquez, got off to a losing start as boss as he saw his side go down 3-1 to Sevilla on Friday evening.
His tenure got off to the worst possible start as the home side went ahead after just five minutes when Ivan Rakitic headed in from Andujar Coke's cross. Sevilla doubled the lead just before the half-hour mark when Gary Medel latched on to a threaded pass from Jesus Navas to smash a strike into the corner.
Depor were given a ray of hope five minutes later when Riki finished from close range. However, Los Rojiblancos restored their two-goal lead five minutes before the break when Medel also netted from a few yards out to earn his brace.
The visitors had a few opportunities to grab a goal back in the second half, but Sevilla held on for the three points.
Celta Vigo succumbed to their third defeat in a row on Saturday as they were defeated 3-1 by Getafe at Coliseum Alfonso Perez.
It was an uphill task for the visitors from early on as they went behind after just 10 minutes. A poor pass from Gustavo Cabral saw Abdel Barrada intercept the ball and slide through to Adrian Colunga, who fired a left-footed strike past goalkeepe, Javi Varas.
Augusto Fernandez headed home from Roberto Lago's cross to draw the visitors level after 20 minutes. However, Getafe edged ahead once again 15 minutes later when Diego Castro was in the right place at the right time to scrappily finish after the ball had been cleared off the line.
The Madrid-based side took the match further beyond Celta just before half time when Federico Fernandez bulleted a header in from a corner kick, ensuring more La Liga misery for the visitors.
A solitary strike from Javier Saviola gave Malaga a narrow 1-0 win over Athletic Bilbao at La Rosaleda, ensuring Manuel Pellegrini's men ended the weekend still in the fourth Champions League spot in La Liga.
The hosts enjoyed the better of the early exchanges, and went ahead after 18 minutes. On-loan Chelsea man, Lucas Piazon, showed endeavour to burst into the box and reverse a pass inside for Saviola, who blasted high into the top of the net.
Willy Caballero was the star of the show for the remainder of the match. The Malaga 'keeper denied three Ibai Gomez strikes and pulled off two outstanding saves to keep out Aritz Aduriz to allow his side to hold on to their lead until the final whistle.
A goal in the first four minutes from Kike Sola gave Osasuna a vital 1-0 win over relegation rivals, Real Zaragoza, on Saturday evening.
The hosts got off to the perfect start, and opened the scoring in the first few minutes of the match. Abella Damia whipped a cross into the box and Sola rose high to power a header into the net.
Zaragoza had a great opportunity to level when Ruben Rochina headed towards goal, only to see his attempt brilliantly turned round the post by 'keeper, Andres Fernandez.
The victory for the hosts means Osasuna overtake Zaragoza in the Spanish Primera Division table.
The hosts struck the first blow 17 minutes in when Nikos Karabelas brought down Carlos Vela inside the area and a penalty was awarded. The Mexican dusted himself off to step up and convert the spotkick.
However, 10 minutes later Levante were given a penalty of their own. Chory Castro knocked over Christian Lell in the box and Michel tucked away into the corner.
Karabelas was sent off 10 minutes into the second half for a second bookable offence, but Levante managed to remain solid at the back and hold out for the draw.
The hosts looked to be in for a tough match when Tino Costa was shown a straight red card in the first period for a poor challenge on Jose Nunes.
However, Los Che eventually took the lead when Ricardo Costa beat everyone in the air to head in from the centre of the penalty box. Roberto Soldado doubled the lead nine minutes from time when he latched on to a pass from Daniel Parejo before firing low into the bottom corner.
Mallorca failed to muster up any kind of threat in the latter stages and Valencia claimed all three points.
Radamel Falcao was in the right place at the right time to fire home from close range after 10 minutes, giving Diego Simeone's men an early lead.
The visitors were missing Diego Costa for their two previous matches, which they lost, but the Brazilian returned from his suspension and doubled the lead eight minutes after the break. He latched on to a flick-on from Jorge Koke before firing a low half-volley into the bottom corner.
Cristian Rodriguez completed the win when he took advantage of some poor defending at the back post from Antonio Rukavina to stab the ball past Daniel Hernandez.
Javier Aguirre has sparked an astonishing revival since taking over as boss os Espanyol, and their good form continued as they netted after just seven minutes. Christian Stuani went on a maraudin run down the right and clipped a cross into the centre for Garcia, who expertly finished past 'keeper, Adrian.
Betis did have a few chances in the second half to equalise. Chica came closest went his terrific curled shot from outside the box went inches by the post, but Espanyol held out to move up to 12th in the table.


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Suffolk, ss. DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW APPEALS
Appeal of:
Joan Mello,
v. CR-06-907
Fall River Retirement Board,
Appearance for Petitioner:
John C. O'Neil
O'Neil, Lucey & O'Neil
120 Purchase Street
Box 1150
Fall River, Ma. 02722
Appearance for Respondent:
Lane Hermann, Esq.
Law Offices of Michael Sacco
285 College Highway
P.O. Box 479
Southampton, Ma. 01073
Administrative Magistrate:
Joan Freiman Fink, Esq.
Pursuant to G.L. c. 32 §16(4), the Petitioner, Joan Mello, is appealing the October 31, 2006 decision of the Respondent, Fall River Retirement Board, denying her request for accidental death benefits (Exhibit 1). The appeal was timely filed in accordance with the provisions of G.L. c. 32 §16(4).
A hearing pursuant to G.L. c. 7 §4H was held on November 28, 2007 at the offices of the Division of Administrative Law Appeals, 98 N. Washington Street, Boston, Ma. Various documents were entered into evidence at the hearing (Exhibits 1 -14). One cassette tape recording was made of the hearing.
Based on the evidence presented, I make the following findings of fact:
1. The Petitioner, Joan Mello, was married to and living with Antone Mello at the time of his death on July 19, 2005 (testimony of the Petitioner).
2. Antone Mello, d.o.b. 9/22/30, had been employed by the Fall River Fire Department since October 7, 1956 as a fire fighter (testimony of the Petitioner, Exhibit 6).
3. In October of 1989, the Petitioner and her husband attended a wedding in New Jersey. While at the wedding, Mr. Mello suffered a myocardial infarction. He never returned to work after that incident (testimony of the Petitioner).
4. On or about September of 1990, Mr. Mello filed an application for accidental disability retirement benefits based on the G.L. c. 32 §94, the so-called Heart Law (testimony of the Petitioner, Exhibit 5).
5. Mr. Mello was examined by a Regional Medical Panel on September 5, 1990. This Medical Panel responded in the affirmative to the questions of disability and permanence. The Panel also stated that there is "no evidence to offset the presumption that Mr. Mello's cardiac disease is job-related. Therefore, he falls under the heart law and accidental disability applies" (Exhibit 7).
6. Mr. Mello's application for accidental disability retirement benefits was approved by the Fall River Retirement Board under the Heart Law with an effective retirement date of November 2, 1990 (stipulation of the parties).
7. In early 1990, shortly after suffering the myocardial infarction, Mr. Mello was diagnosed with diabetes (testimony of the Petitioner).
8. In 2000, Mr. Mello was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and in 2002, he was diagnosed with dementia (testimony of the Petitioner).
9. Mr. Mello died on July 19, 2005. The death certificate for Mr. Mello lists sepsis (48 hours) due to urinary tract infection (3 days) as the immediate cause of death (Exhibit 4).
10. On October 4, 2005, the Petitioner filed an application for accidental death benefits pursuant to G.L. c. 32 §9 (stipulation of the parties).
11. On August 11, 2005, Dr. Harvey Reback, Mr. Mello's treating physician, submitted a letter in support of the Petitioner's application. In this letter, Dr. Reback opined that Mr. Mello's "coronary artery disease complicated his urinary tract infection causing him to go into irreversible septic shock (with hypotension) and his poor cardiac status was contributory in the fact that his blood pressure could not be maintained and brought back to a normal level" (Exhibit 12).
12. On November 13, 2005, the Fall River Retirement Board sent the Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission (PERAC) a request for Appointment of a Regional Medical Panel to review the medical records of Antone Mello in connection with the Petitioner's application for accidental death benefits (Exhibit 6).
13. On December 15, 2005, the Fall River Retirement Board sent Dr. Madhusadan Thakur, a cardiologist, a copy of Mr. Mello's medical records including his prior Medical Panel certificate of 1990, his death certificate, notes from his treating physician, Dr. Reback, and from Dr. Reback's associate, Dr. Yufit, as well as the records from the Charlton Hospital at the time of Mr. Mello's death (Exhibit 7).
14. Following his review of the records, Dr. Thakur submitted a letter to PERAC dated December 26, 2005. In this letter, Dr. Thakur opined that Mr. Mello "died of sepsis from urinary tract infection in a patient who was on long-term urinary catheter and had a history of neurogenic bladder which might have been related to autonomic neuropathy due to diabetes. It is my professional opinion that the cause of his death is neither related nor as a result of the condition for which he retired in 1990" (Exhibit 8).
15. On June 12, 2006, the Fall River Retirement Board requested that PERAC send Dr. Thakur a supplemental letter from Dr. Reback as well as some additional medical records including the discharge summary from Charlton Hospital (Exhibit 9).
16. On July 6, 2006, PERAC sought clarification from Dr. Thakur requesting that he review the additional medical records including the letter from Dr. Reback (Exhibit 10).
17. On September 11, 2006, Dr. Thakur provided PERAC with an addendum to his original report in which he reaffirmed his original position that Mr. Mello "died of urosepsis from urinary tract infection" and that he found no causal relationship between Mr. Mello's death of urosepsis and the coronary artery disease which he suffered in 1990 and which led to his retirement under the Heart Law (Exhibit 11).
18. On October 31, 2006, the Fall River Retirement Board sent the Petitioner formal notification that her application for accidental death benefits had been denied (Exhibit 1).
19. On November 7, 2006, he Petitioner filed a timely appeal of this decision with the Contributory Retirement Appeal Board (Exhibit 2).
After reviewing the evidence in this case, I conclude that the Petitioner has failed to sustain her burden to prove that the death of her husband was the natural and proximate result of the injury or hazard on account of which he was retired as required by the provisions of G.L. c. 32 § 9 (1). See Cataldo v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board, 343 Mass. 312, 314 (1961). The Petitioner has the burden of proof on the issue of causation. Robinson v. CRAB, 20 Mass. App. Ct. 634, 482 N.E. 2d 514 (1985).
Mr. Mello was awarded accidental disability retirement benefits in November 1990 as a result of severe coronary artery disease and resultant myocardial infarction. There is nothing in any of the medical records submitted at the time of his retirement that makes any mention of urosepsis or urinary tract infection. Rather, his claim for accidental disability retirement in 1990 listed his cardiac condition as the sole cause of his permanent disability from employment.
On July 18, 2005, almost fifteen years after he retired, Mr. Mello was admitted to the hospital suffering from urosepsis and septic shock. He subsequently succumbed to complications from urosepsis the next day, July 19th, 2005.
Although the Petitioner was diagnosed with diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and dementia in the intervening almost fifteen years after his retirement, there is nothing in the medical records submitted that indicate that he suffered from any form of urosepsis until the day before he died. In addition, Mr. Mello's death certificate makes no mention of coronary artery disease.
The only evidence of a causal relationship between Mr. Mello's cardiac condition and his development of urosepsis all those years later were the opinions of his treating physicians, Dr. Reback and his partner, Dr. Yufit, who treated Mr. Mello during his final hospitalization. In his letter of August 11, 2005, Dr. Reback opined that Mr. Mello's "coronary artery disease complicated his urinary tract infection causing him to go into irreversible septic shock…" (Exhibit 12).
Dr. Thakur, the cardiac specialist, who reviewed all of Mr. Mello's medical records including the records from his treating physician, Dr. Reback, as well as the records from his final hospitalization in 2005, opined that his death was the result of sepsis from urinary tract infection rather than related to or the result of the cardiac condition for which he was retired in 1990. The Fall River Retirement Board sent Dr. Thakur a request for clarification providing him with further medical records and asking him to review Dr. Reback's additional letters of support. In September of 2006, Dr. Thakur reaffirmed his original opinion that Mr. Mello's death was not the natural and proximate result of the personal injury sustained or hazard undergone on account of which he retired in 1990.
The Petitioner argues that Dr. Thakur's opinion should not be credited as he erroneously stated in his letter of clarification that Dr. Reback, and not Dr. Yufit, treated Mr. Mello during his final hospitalization in July of 2005. Notwithstanding the Petitioner's argument, although Dr. Thakur did indeed reference Dr. Reback and not Dr. Yufit (Dr. Reback's colleague in the same medical practice), as Mr. Mello's treating physician during his last hospitalization, this mistake is de minimis and has no impact on the validity of Dr. Thakur's opinion. I found Dr. Thakur's opinion to be fully supported by the evidence, both medical and non-medical, provided in this case and credited his conclusion that Mr. Mello's death was not causally connected to his cardiac condition from which he was retired approximately fifteen years before his death. Where there are conflicting medical opinions, the fact finder determines what probative value to give to the medical opinions, including the ability to rely exclusively on one opinion while completely discounting another opinion. Robinson v. CRAB, 482 N.E. 2d 514 (1985).
Since the Petitioner failed to meet her burden to demonstrate that her husband's death was the "natural and proximate result of the injury or hazard on account of which he was retired," she is not entitled to accidental death benefits pursuant to the provisions of G.L. c.32 §9.
Accordingly, the decision of the Fall River Retirement Board denying the Petitioner's application for accidental death benefits is affirmed.
Joan Freiman Fink, Esq.
Administrative Magistrate
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A new set of simulations shows that systems with so-called "hot Jupiters" might also have mini-Oort clouds detectable by today's space telescopes, giving astronomers a new potential tool for finding exotic extrasolar systems.
A newborn stellar system is a messy place. Infant planets compete to accrete gas and material, gobbling up anything that comes close. Sometimes these newly formed planets will pass near each other, gravitationally ricocheting into a new orbital configuration. Today's space telescopes could detect the clouds of icy bodies produced by these close encounters, pointing observers to certain types of planetary systems.A new study by Sean Raymond (Universitè de Bordeaux) and Phillip Armitage (University of Colorado) examined the effects of planet interactions on the remaning planetesimals in simulated solar systems. Each simulation started with 3 gas giants and a disk of smaller bodies. Raymond and Armitage tracked the interactions over time, measuring the position and velocity of every object in the simulation. They chose a variety of initial masses and locations for their planets and ran thousands of simulations. They found that for a small fraction of systems, a cloud of small bodies would form about 100 to 1,000 times farther away from the central star than Earth's distance from the Sun.
These clouds are 1,000 times smaller than the solar system's Oort Cloud, the flock of small bodies thought to be our source of long-period comets. Nevertheless, the mini-Oort clouds share many Oort Cloud characteristics: they're roughly sphere-shaped (rather than contained in a disk) and the individual objects take a long time to complete their highly elliptical orbits. Their origin is similar to the Oort Cloud's too. When gas giants graze the planetesimal disk, the ensuing gravitational mosh pit adds energy to the planetesimals, flinging them to more elliptical and inclined orbits. Some of the objects are ejected from the system completely.
In most of the simulations, only one gas giant remains while the other two are completely ejected. The surviving giant migrates inward, becoming a "hot Jupiter," scorchingly close the central star. With the gas giants out of the picture, the planetesimals settle into new orbits quite different from their original trajectories.
The interaction between planetesimals in their new orbits would produce dust that would be visible with the Spitzer and Herschel Space Telescopes. If Raymond and Armitage are correct, then the presence of hot Jupiters and mini-Oort clouds would be correlated. It is now up to observers to test this prediction and see if the gravitational madhouse that is a newborn solar system really does produce comets and mini-Oort clouds around other stars.


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Edited to add: The mass storage image will include an empty FAT partition; the script will prompt to optionally mount it. The CD image cannot do the same -- instead the script will prompt to optionally mount a partition from another drive.
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Hi jggimi ! you're doing a great job , I like the mass storage option for FAT.
I'll be pleased to be using the LiveCD.
Best of luck !
(Maybe you'd consider including a few useful firefox add-ons .. like noscript/locale changer/useragent/etc...
and for tubes ? )
Thank you, daemonfowl. You've recommended perhaps a dozen different applications in this thread already. Each time, I've told you the same thing. Please re-read the thread, paying attention to my responses to your suggestions.
I am not adding any of your suggestions. If I did, I may as well add everyone's suggestions, including a suggestion to install every single distributable package.
Why limit the applications?
Those all sound like good changes jggimi. Keeping it simple, small and (particularly) manageable are all very good things IMO.
I'm going to have to rethink my plans.
The OS (all filesets but comp52.tgz) plus mutt, xpdf, fluxbox, firefox, and libreoffice_no_java consume 1.2GB, nearly twice the size of a CD and well beyond 1GB sticks (which are 1,000,000,000 bytes or 953 MB). When I replace libreoffice with gnumeric and abiword the size only drops to 1.1 GB. Without the office products its about 626 MB, but it would have less utility; forcing users to use Google Docs, MS Office 365, or other cloud offerings.
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Hi jggimi !!
Maybe you'd consider replacing fluxbox itself with some lighter window manager (openbox .. ) .. epdfview instead of xpdf .. as the former uses minimal libs (no gnome libs) ..
I know you're a big admirer of Firefox .. can't you put Seamonkey instead ? then you'd omit mutt too ..
You're a hacker , you may look at the software choices made for lighter live OSes like Peppermint ,, WattOS .. Pentoo ..
( ps. : if the LiveCD is directed to BSD community mostly .. then why just bother using window managers other than default cwm/fvwm ? maybe all you need is a tweak of xdm to aulogin to X .. again this is feasible only if fluxbox REALLY takes space :-)
If the LiveCD is directed to newcomers : they are more likely to fit into 2 broad categories :
Nix-familiar : these would taste OpenBSD spices without much trouble (hehe talking as though I'm a ... LOL !)
Mac-Win herd : they would rather need a GUI-GUI boosted LiveDVD with Gnome or Kde .
Please all , please none , my friend )
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Firefox and Libreoffice are the pigs here. Unfortunately, I can't think of anything as full‐featured that doesn't take up more space. You could replace Libreoffice with siag and Firefox with NetSurf, but most people wouldn't find that useful.
There's no getting around it: this stuff doesn't fit on CDs anymore. There's no making these packages any smaller, so you'll have to sacrifice features: a lightweight browser (NetSurf or Dillo), lightweight mail (nail), lightweight office/typesetter (siag or lout). Or drop one or more categories from that list. It's a shame that people don't care about fitting things in CDs anymore, making this necessary…
Many thanks to the forum regulars who put time and effort into helping others solve their problems.
If you wish to be helpful, take the advice I've given multiple times in this thread, and install the OS and your desired applications on a spare disk drive or USB device. From that you will see how much capacity is consumed and you may be able to make a rational, reasoned argument for one solution over another. Otherwise, please stop posting your suggestions.
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This thread is now locked. Although well-intentioned, various members have twisted it into advocating their own wish lists & agendas such that the thread really no longer serves much purpose.
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Decisions are a part of life. At various times you may need to choose the best vacation spot, job candidate, babysitter, or place to live. Your most important decision may be figuring out your best romantic partner. Relationships matter – a lot. They have implications for your health , your reactions to stress and even how you look at the world .
But how can you determine if your current romantic partner is the best of the best for you? It's hard to know what factors truly matter, what you should not overvalue, or what is best to ignore entirely.
This kind of assessment comes up in a variety of contexts. Consider, for example, something that may seem entirely unrelated to relationships: determining whether a baseball player qualifies for the Hall of Fame. The task requires wading through dozens and dozens of highly qualified candidates, each with various outstanding characteristics, to determine who warrants permanent enshrinement. Still, no candidate is absolutely perfect – just like finding a quality relationship partner.
So as a relationship scientist, I've gathered inspiration from the Hall of Fame selection process and infused some science to draw up a checklist of intangibles you can use to think about your own relationship.
There are two general ways to make assessments: data and your gut feeling. In a sport like baseball, with a plethora of statistics, a data-based approach makes sense. But for a player to be truly Hall of Fame worthy, numbers may not tell the whole story. It should be visceral, a player should feel like a Hall of Famer. As Malcom Gladwell famously observed in his book " Blink ," snap judgments can have astounding accuracy. As a psychology professor myself, one example that always amazes me is that student assessments of a professor based on a 30-second silent video clip matches students' evaluations based on the entire semester.
Relying on gut feelings isn't perfect. But intuition is an important component of decisions , especially social ones. Clearly, people rely on instincts in a variety of situations such as deciding which job to take, which daycare is best, and who you should date. Trusting your own feelings is sometimes necessary because expert information is hard to access – published research articles are often locked behind paywalls – or written in a way that defies comprehension. And of course, the very nature of science and statistics is to focus on what is most typical in a population, instead of what is best for any individual.
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Perhaps with the value of instinctive evaluation in mind, famous baseball statistician Bill James created the " Keltner List ." Named for a seven-time All-Star with borderline qualifications, the list was devised as a way to help assess a player's Baseball Hall of Fame viability.
Even though James is a statistician, the Keltner List is intentionally nonscientific. Rather, it's a collection of 15 questions that anyone can quickly answer to help guide an overall assessment of a player's worthiness for the Hall of Fame. (Think: "Was he the best player on his team?") The answers are not meant to provide a definitive conclusion, but rather to force a careful consideration of the most important information.
Back to relationships. A similar process can help you determine whether your current romantic partner belongs in your relationship Hall of Fame. Inspired by the Keltner List concept, I've put together a list of 15 questions to highlight what matters most. Like the Keltner List, my approach to relationship assessment is intentionally not scientific and has not been tested empirically (though that isn't a bad idea for future research).
That said, as a relationship scientist, I couldn't help but use science as a guide. In crafting each question, I consulted the existing research to ground it in the science of what contributes to a healthy relationship. Note that this list isn't about helping you pick the best Tinder date, hookup or short-term fling. The questions focus on what matters for serious, long-term, committed, sustainable love. To benefit from this exercise, you need to be honest. If you're lying to yourself, you won't gain any insight. As computer programmers say, "garbage in, garbage out."
Consider each question and answer truthfully with a simple yes or no response:
At this point you may be tempted to tally your responses. Remember, this isn't about generating a score, but rather engaging in a self-guided tour through what's important in relationships. That said, the best answer for every question is a quick, certain and unqualified "yes."
Looking at the list, you may take issue with a question or two and think, "that's not important." First, I'd say that the scientific evidence begs to differ. But that's also why there are 15 questions. More questions provide greater accuracy. While any one question may not perfectly capture your relationship, 15 different perspectives gives a fairly complete picture.
Are there different questions you could ask? Sure. More questions? No doubt, but Bill James stuck to 15 questions for his Keltner List, so I did as well.
With relationships, like selections to a Hall of Fame, there aren't easy answers and no guarantees for what the future holds. As much as you may like a definitive scoring system where a partner with at least a 12 out of 15 is a "keeper," that isn't possible. Relationships are complex. Any attempt at an easy answer is inevitably an oversimplification.
Instead, consider your responses to this list as additional data points that provide new insights. Don't stop here. When you make important decisions – like who you're going to spend the rest of your life with! – collect as much data as possible. Consult the experts, yourself and, as Question 10 suggests, your friends. By using both your head and your heart you can make the best decision about whether your romantic partner is Hall of Fame material.
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Allocating your income shouldn't be too difficult, but it can involve some math. You'll need to determine if the income you're allocating is earned or unearned,as these are handled differently:Earned income Unearned income
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Find a paystub with the pay period ending around the time of your move. The YTD (Year-To-Date) amount on the paystub is how much you earned while residing in your former state.
Method 2 – this method is pretty accurate as long as your income is more or less the same from paycheck to paycheck.
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Selectmen saw red Monday night. Lots of it.
Selectmen saw red Monday night.
Lots of it.
More than 200 people - all dressed in red - crowded into the board's meeting room saying they wanted no part of a casino in town.
Steve Trettel and John Seaver, co-chairmen of Casino Free Milford, presented selectmen with a list of impacts a casino would have on the town based on a variety of research, including the experience of the communities in Connecticut near Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun.
The group opposes an $850 million resort-casino proposed by Colorado developer David Nunes, in partnership with Warner Gaming and Foxwoods. The venue, called Crossroads Massachusetts, would be built at the intersection of I-495 and Rte. 16.
"It would forever change the character of our community. It'll destroy local business and take money out of the community," Trettel said.
Trettel and Seaver talked about the demands a casino would place on the town, including services like water, sewers, police, fire/EMS and the schools.
"Milford taxpayers would have to pay forever for the expanded infrastructure required to service a casino," Trettel said of the water and sewer services.
Seaver identified a direct link between a casino and a rise in crime in the community, including crimes like drunk driving, embezzlement and drug violations.
Seaver said the overall traffic would become an issue on local roads as well as major highways. He said the on- and off-ramps Nunes is proposing on I-495 aren't likely to be built, noting Federal Highway Authority regulations.
"We suggest that you don't drink the Kool-Aid just yet," Seaver said. "It seems improbable that the Federal Highway Authority … would grant a variance."
While Trettel conceded that a casino would bring jobs, he said, citing research from Connecticut communities near Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun, that those jobs are low-paying, dead-end jobs that likely wouldn't appeal to those in the Milford area and would instead bring in transient workers.
Those workers would put a stress on not only the housing market, said Trettel, again citing data from Connecticut, but also the schools in terms of hiring additional personnel to educate non-English speaking students.
"You could choose to shut this down now by refusing to negotiate," Trettel said, to applause from the crowd.
Selectmen Chairman Brian Murray said Monday night's session was for information-gathering and doesn't want to deny people the right to vote on the issue, as is written into the gaming law.
"I have responsibility to the people who don't want it, who want it and all the people who want more information," said Selectman Dino DeBartolomeis.
Selectman William Buckley continued to be openly opposed to the casino.
"The question becomes – to what extent is our quality of life for sale?" Buckley said.
Lindsay Corcoran can be reached at 508-634-7582 or firstname.lastname@example.com. For Milford news throughout the day, follow her on Twitter @lacorcmdn.


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