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The first Savage Tide has already touched the mortal world, yet none who live today recall this terrible time of red ruin. It swept over an ancient city, transforming beggar and noble, merchant and thief, resident and visitor, one and all into feral, ravenous fiends. What took the ancients hundreds of years to build came crumbling down in a matter of days. When the tide's final ripples faded, only ruins remained.
Now, after a thousand years, the hidden architect of the Savage Tide gazes upon new targets. This time, the doom will not be limited to one hapless city. This time, all of civilization is perched on the shore, blissfully ignorant of what the tide is about to bring in.

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MERRILLVILLE, Ind. - A Northern Indiana grocer unlawfully refused to hire a class of women to night shift stocking jobs because of their sex, according to a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, SVT, LLC, doing business as Ultra Foods in Merrillville, Ind., favored male employees for its night stocker position because of their sex and rejected qualified females who applied for this position.
Discrimination in hiring on the basis of sex violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The EEOC asserts that the corporation's actions were intentional and demonstrated a reckless indifference to the applicants' federally protected rights.
The EEOC filed suit (Case No. 2:13-cv-0245 -RLM-PRC in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, Hammond Division) on July 19. The agency is seeking back pay, compensatory and punitive damages as well as other relief, including a permanent injunction to prevent the company from engaging in future sex discrimination in hiring.
"Ordinarily, an applicant's sex should play no lawful role in an employer's hiring decisions, and an employer who disregards federal protections designed to level the playing field for all applicants does so at its own peril," said Laurie A. Young, regional attorney for the EEOC's Indianapolis District Office.
Eliminating barriers in recruitment and hiring, especially class-based recruitment and hiring practices that discriminate against racial, ethnic and religious groups, older workers, women, and people with disabilities, is one of six national priorities identified by the EEOC's Strategic Enforcement Plan.
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After posting evidence of hacks against 10 organizations around the world, including NASA and the U.S. Air Force, a new gray hat hacker group going by the name The Unknowns said most of the vulnerabilities the group exploited have been patched.
The group, which claims to be promoting Internet security, said closing those vulnerabilities was its goal.
"We are not Anonymous Version 2 and we are not against the US Government," the group said in a post on Pastebin. The Unknowns have offered to test websites and alert the owners of any weaknesses without releasing hacked information. "We're here to help and we're asking nothing in exchange," its message said.
The group conducted attacks in April and announced them May 1 on its Twitter feed, reported by a number of news sites, including E Hacking News. It revealed evidence of the hacks in several posts on Pastebin.
Among the hacked websites were those of NASA's Glenn Research Center, the Defense Department's Joint Pathology Center, the Air Force's home page and a Harvard University research project, according to the group's post.
The Unknowns also claimed hacks of the European Space Agency, Thai Royal Navy, French Ministry of Defense, Bahrain Ministry of Defense, French automaker Renault and, to top it off, the Jordanian Yellow Pages.
Information posted to Pastebin included screenshots, administrator account names and other documents. The group also posted Air Force documents to the site MediaFire and, from the NASA hack, names, addresses, e-mail addresses and employers on 736 people on Pastebin, ZDNet reported. That information, however, apparently has been taken down from Pastebin.
The group acknowledged the damage and promised to e-mail victims information on how they hacked into databases, saying its goal is better security. "Our goal was never to harm anyone, we want to make this whole Internet world more secured because, simply, it's not at all and we want to help," the group said in one of its Pastebin posts.
In its initial statement on Pastebin, the group had threatened hacks against "all the other websites out there," while offering a gray hat deal: "Contact us before we take action and we will help you, and will not release anything.... It's your choice now." Its later post said that, since news of the attacks, the group has been getting requests, via e-mail, to check organizations' websites.
NASA and the European Space Agency confirmed the hacks, ZDNet reported. A NASA spokesperson said the agency took Glenn's site offline temporarily after noticing the attack April 20.
A spokesperson for the European Space Agency told ZDNet the hackers used SQL injection in the attack, exploiting a vulnerability that "needs to be addressed at a coding level."
Gray hat hackers, as the name suggests, traditionally fall in between white hat hackers — security experts who conduct penetration testing and other procedures to help organizations identify weaknesses — and black hat hackers, who engage in outright criminal behavior. Gray hats might cross legal lines, but only to expose vulnerabilities without profiting from the hack or causing serious damage.
The Unknowns' reference to Anonymous was to the hacktivist group that has gained a lot of notoriety for attacks on government and corporate organizations around the world, often in protest of a range of development, from pending anti-piracy legislation, to arrests of hackers, to what the group deems corporate greed.
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The bureaucracy's response will be more useless regulations, and longer, even more hard to remember passwords. So get bigger post it notes to write them down.
Seems like the "gray hats", at least these "Unknowns", just want to get the bureucratic behemoths moving on increasing their speed and efficiency in implementing security-related patches and updates. Sometimes it takes a verified breach of security before some upper management types will authorized the funding and personel required to adequately maintain the security of their systems.
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At a ceremony held at Denver's Central Library, Denver section of the National Council of Negro Women paid tribute to the seven chosen as Living Portraits of African American Women for 2010: Jocelyn Miller, Sharletta Evans, Vanessa Anderson, Brionne Wright, Virginia Payne, Vivian Stovall and Ann White.
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Jocelyn Miller is a Channel 7 (KMGH) Everyday Hero for her volunteer efforts as director of the East High School Drum Line and for the work of her nonprofit, community-based resource center. The drum line was asked to perform at the Democratic National Convention, which was held here in August, 2008, on the night that Barack Obama delivered his Presidential nomination acceptance speech. Jocelyn is the founder and executive director of the Robert A. Miller Education Resource Center. It is named in memory of her father and provides support for parents, caregivers and teachers by conducting interactive workshops and classes. The center is designed to meet the needs of the community it serves; through training in parenting, literacy, building self-esteem/identity, community resources, healthy lifestyles and managing emotions. In addition to the numerous responsibilities at the center, Jocelyn is a member of numerous organizations, including the East Denver Collaborative; Clayton Policy Council; Community Base Resource Team, Denver Human Services, and Friends of Food for Thought.


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Quite. It makes absolute sense to concentrate the best medical skills and financial resources into fewer surgical units, so that the outcomes for children who need this specific surgery and care can be improved.
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The 24-year-old winger tweeted on Monday: 'Had enough of been (sic) treated like a kid! £fedup just want to play football.' Compton, who has been advised by Whittingham to consider a loan spell away from the club, later removed the post.
"Players sometimes feel if they are not in the squad they are out of it. Well, that's not the case," the Pompey chief told the Portsmouth News.
"You need everybody all the time and they have to keep doing the right things all the time, because at one stage or other they will be on the pitch and will be the difference.
"Another time Jack will be on the bench, I'll look around, look at him and get him on. He won't be the only one. He was going to Plymouth for some games but that didn't quite go through - it didn't come off for him, but he's still very much part of things."
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Dani Alves has voiced his satisfaction with Barcelona's 2-2 Champions League draw against Paris Saint-Germain, even though he has admitted they were hoping for a victory after going 2-1 up late in the second half.
The Blaugrana had to settle for a draw in the first-leg of the quarter-final tie following Blaise Matuidi's stoppage-time equaliser, but the Brazilian full-back remained upbeat after the game.
"The way the game unfolded, we could have hoped for a better result. This is still a good result for us, though, especially as we were playing away from home," Alves told Uefa.com.
"At this stage of the competition, all the teams are very strong, so we were expecting a tough game. PSG have top quality players and they showed that."
The Brazil international then went on to discuss the injuries Lionel Messi and Javier Mascherano picked up against PSG, and stated the Argentine duo will be sorely missed.
"That's the one negative," he said. Both Leo and Javier are playing very good football at the moment and they're very important to us.
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AAPT Named Kip Thorne as the 2012 John David Jackson Excellence in Graduate Physics Education Awardee
College Park, Maryland, October 14, 2011—The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) announced today that the 2012 AAPT John David Jackson Excellence in Graduate Physics Education Award winner is Kip Thorne.
This prestigious award will be presented to Thorne at a Ceremonial Session of the 2012 AAPT Winter Meeting at the Ontario Convention Center in Ontario, CA.
In accepting the award, Thorne noted, "Given the high value that I personally place on mentoring and pedagogy, I am extremely pleased to be honored by the John David Jackson Award. My pleasure in this award is significantly increased by its being associated with David Jackson, for whom I have great admiration."
Thorne received his B.S. degree from Caltech and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. After two years of postdoctoral study, he returned to Caltech as an Associate Professor in 1967, was promoted to Professor of Theoretical Physics in 1970, became The William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor in 1981, and The Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics in 1991.
In June 2009 Thorne resigned his Feyman Professorship (becoming the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus) in order to ramp up a new career in writing, movies, and continued scientific research. His research has focused on gravitation physics and astrophysics, with emphasis on relativistic stars, black holes and gravitational waves.
In the late 1960's and early 70's he laid the foundations for the theory of pulsations of relativistic stars and the gravitational waves they emit. During the 70's and 80's he developed mathematical formalisms by which astrophysicists analyze the generation of gravitational waves and worked closely with Vladimir Braginsky, Ronald Drever and Rainer Weiss on developing new technical ideas and plans for gravitational wave detection. He is widely recognized as one of several people who have had the greatest influence on the field of General Relativity over the past four decades.
Thorne is a co-founder (with Weiss and Drever) of the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) Project and his research group has provided theoretical support for LIGO, including identifying gravitational wave sources that LIGO should target, laying foundations for data analysis techniques by which their waves will be sought, designing the baffles to control scattered light in the LIGO beam tubes, and, in collaboration with Vladimir Braginsky's (Moscow Russia) research group, inventing quantum-nondemolition designs for advanced gravity-wave detectors.
With John A. Wheeler and Charles W. Misner, Thorne co-authored in 1973 the textbook Gravitation, from which most of the present generation of scientists have learned general relativity. He is also a co-author of Gravitation Theory and Gravitational Collapse (1965) and Black Holes: The Membrane Paradigm (1986), and the sole author of Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (1994). He is currently putting the finishing touches on a new textbook, co-authored with Roger Blandford, covering all the areas of classical physics that PhD students are often not exposed to, but should be: statistical physics, optics, elasticity, fluid dynamics, plasma physics and general relativity.
Thorne has been mentor and thesis advisor for more than 50 Ph.D. physicists who have gone on to become world leaders in their chosen fields of research and teaching. A list of current leaders in relativity, gravitational waves, relativistic astrophysics, and even quantum information theory, would be heavily populated by former graduate students of Kip Thorne, together with other students who took his courses and were inspired and enabled by them. Student success is not always correlated with competence of mentors, but in Thorne's case, his students are unanimous in their appreciation of his attention to encouraging them, helping them, teaching them to present their work to best effect in written and oral forms, and teaching them to respect and make best use of collaborators and competitors. In 2004 his work was recognized with the Caltech Graduate Student Council Mentoring Award.
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Typography is the art and science of using type to communicate through language, in clear, legible and visually engaging ways. It involves the intentional selection of font, color, size, spacing, layout, and alignment. It can convey a message quickly and evoke emotion when done well on a website. When not done well, it can make the overall experience messy and hard to engage with.
The two major categories of fonts are serif and sans serif. Serif fonts have serifs, small feet, at the end of the letter stroke. Sans serif fonts do not have these feet. Serif fonts usually convey a feeling of professionalism and tradition. While sans serif fonts carry a feeling of being modern, clean and fresh.
Sans serif fonts have been shown to be easier to read online in body copy, with the opposite is true for print. This is because serifs make it tougher for the eye to follow on a lit screen.
Line Height refers to the space between the individual lines of text. Having the right line height can make a website's text more readable and easier to scan. If it's too close together it can cause the reader to have to squint. If it's too far apart it will be confusing to look at.
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Hierarchy can sound like an obvious concept, but is an easy one to get lost once someone has gotten deep into writing their own content. It is what organizes and defines how to read through content and assigns higher importance to different areas. This plays a huge role in making copy successfully scannable for the reader. In typography hierarchy can be created through size, color, weight and uppercase lettering. In all of these categories it's important to choose a few intentional variations but not too many, or the organized hierarchy will be lost to chaos.
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Experimental setup and salivary testosterone levels. Participants ( = 243) arrived at the lab at 9:00 a.m., had their hands scanned to take 2D:4D measures, completed an intake survey, and gave a baseline saliva sample ("A") before application of either T or placebo topical gel. After a 4-h loading period, participants came back to the lab and took part in a battery of behavioral tasks. Three additional saliva samples ("B," "C," and "D") were collected during the experiment, all of which indicated elevated T levels in the treatment group compared to the placebo group. The behavioral tasks reported were the main focus of the study, and took place immediately following the participants' return the lab in the afternoon (after saliva sample B). Error bars denote s.e.m.
Participants viewed five pairs of pretested apparel brands in a randomized, counterbalanced order. One brand of each pair was associated with higher social rank than the other (e.g., Calvin Klein, high vs. Levi's, low). Importantly, perceived social rank difference between the brands in each pair was substantially greater than perceived difference in quality, mitigating the possibility that the latter influenced participants' preferences in our task (see Fig. and Supplementary Table). Participants indicated the extent to which they preferred one brand relative to the other using 10-point rating scales (Fig.).
Task to assess preference for brands high versus low in social rank and results. Preference task showing the setup and main dependent variable. Mean social rank and quality association ratings of brands pre-classified based on a pretest as high vs. low rank, by main study participants ( = 243); perceived differences in social rank associations between the brands were substantially greater than the difference in perceived quality. Mean preference toward the high (versus low) social rank brands for the two treatment groups (-scored at the pair level). Error bars denote s.e.m. For the corresponding dot plot, see Supplementary Fig.
A series of mixed-effects linear models that included random intercepts for participant and brand pair examined the effect of T on brand preferences (with higher ratings indicating greater preference for the high over the low social-rank brands). We found that the T group preferred the brands with higher social rank compared to the placebo group (standardized β = 0.18, 95% CI = [0.045 0.359], z = 2.01, p = 0.04; Fig. and Supplementary Table). The effect was robust when controlling for age, mood, treatment expectancy, the 2D:4D digit finger ratio (a proxy of prenatal T exposure), and post-treatment levels of all measured hormones that were unaffected by T treatment.
Additional analyses revealed that participants' baseline (pre-treatment) T levels were also associated with greater preference for brands with higher social rank ( β = 0.13, 95% CI = [0.042 0.220], z = 2.867, p = 0.004; see Supplementary Table; the treatment effects were robust to controlling for baseline T), suggesting that the effect of T is both "activational" (i.e., behavior is influenced by transient changes in T levels) and "dispositional" (i.e., behavior is related to baseline T levels, which are relatively stable when measured within individuals at the same time of day). We found a similar effect for baseline levels of androstenedione ( z = 2.53, p < 0.01), a downstream metabolite of testosterone. Levels of androstenedione correlate with testosterone (in our sample r = 0.44, p < 0.01), and it has been suggested (by animal studies) to have potent behavioral effects that are similar to those of T (see Supplementary Table).
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Now that you have the tone and the feel, start to dig a little deeper. Ask yourself what your philosophy is. What do you want your business to be? And how do you go about doing it? This will help you find your voice, and it will enable you to build a quick structure that can start to point you in the right direction towards building your business.
KS: Is it important to look at how your business sits amidst its competitors? Or do you just focus on who you are internally? How much should you let the environment and market space shape who you are?
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When you think of a moment of doubt or struggle, what person or experience has prompted you to ask deeper questions about your faith? How do these questions sustain your faith journey?
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PSG midfielder David Beckham has warned Manchester United that Cristiano Ronaldo's first return to Old Trafford will inspire him.
The former England captain spent nine years at United, before facing his former club while on loan at Milan, and expects the Portuguese international to impress for Real Madrid.
Beckham told reporters: "It will be an exciting game, and a special night for Cristiano going back to Manchester.
"United has a special place in his heart. The fans love him and it will be a great occasion. You enjoy going back [to your former club] and I am sure it will inspire him. Many things inspire great players and him going back will be a special night.
"United did very well at the Bernabeu. It will be a great game to watch. They are two great teams with great players, so it's difficult to call."
That tie is delicately poised at 1-1, and PSG's second leg with Valencia gives Beckham one last chance at the Champions League.
The 37-year-old's new club take a 2-1 lead into their home game, but will be without Zlatan Ibrahimovic for two matches after his sending-off in the first leg.
Beckham added: "It's exciting to be back and this will be a big game for PSG. We've got ourselves in a good position by winning away but that doesn't mean it will be easy here. As long as we play well and work hard, we'll be OK.
"The competition still has the big guns and it is nice to be in it. People are talking about a shift in power with Barcelona having lost their first game [2-0 against Milan], but no one should ever doubt their players even now.
"They have a home game to come and it doesn't matter if they're two or three down … I know what it's like to play against them when they're up against it and it's not easy."


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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A high school cross country coach is charged with felony sodomy involving a female runner who says she was abused 17 years ago.
James Bliss Wilder III is on leave with pay as Lindbergh High School track coach and physical education teacher at Sperreng Middle School after his Tuesday arrest. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (bit.ly/16d0IcC) reports the alleged victim recently came forward. She was a 16-year-old member of the Lindbergh High track team at the time.
Wilder faces six counts of second-degree statutory sodomy for crimes that prosecutors say occurred between August 1996 and the teen's 18th birthday in 1997. Police say some of the sex acts took place at the high school. He remains in jail on a $50,000 cash bond. Online court records don't list a defense attorney.
Information from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, http://www.stltoday.com


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Today, I am very happy to welcome Natalie Bahm to my blog. Natalie is the author of The Secret Underground, a children's novel she chose to publish as a fundraiser (with the blessing of her amazing agent, Sara Megibow) to support one very special, very sick little boy. She is also a debut author! I encourage you to read Natalie's take on young romance, explore her site which has more information about the fundraiser, and purchase a copy of The Secret Underground. Without further ado, here's Natalie:
Everyone Loves a Little Romance
I'm a children's writer. I write stories about adventure and growing up, and explore how family and friends play a role in those things. My characters try to figure out where they fit in the world and learn to speak for themselves.
And I also like to include a little romance.
There are plenty of people who believe middle grade fiction is not the place for romance. Those people clearly do not remember what it's like to be an eleven-year-old! When I was eleven I had crushes on boys. I daydreamed about my own happily ever after and wondered what kissing would be like. I enjoyed books with a little fun and adventure, but my biggest requirement for a great read was that it included a love story.
Middle grade romance is obviously different from grown up romance and even young adult. My stories tend to focus on feelings that are based on admiration rather than lust (there'll be plenty of time for that later!)
I also don't include a whole lot of physical stuff. I think in the five books I've written there are may be two handholding scenes and one kiss. But there's plenty of teasing and compliments and goose bumps and butterflies—all the things that make first love fun.
For me, no story is complete without a little love—and that's true whether a reader is nine or ninety.
My first book, The Secret Underground has a sweet little romance. It's an adventure about a girl who discovers her little brother is digging tunnels along with all the neighborhood boys (including the cutest boy in her class).
It's a very special project that my agent, Sara Megibow, and I put together as a fundraiser for a little boy who's been in the hospital off and on since birth. You can learn more about the book and the project HERE. I hope you'll consider buying a copy for a child in your life.
The paperback version is available on Amazon. The eBook can be purchased just about anywhere eBooks are sold. You can buy the audiobook through iTunes, Audible, and Amazon. The paperback will be available through more booksellers soon.
Thank you, Natalie! I hope the fundraising goes well. Please come back to chat any time!


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How to protect your home for less than $100By SHAWNE K. WICKHAM
New Hampshire Sunday News
September 07. 2013 10:55PM
Manchester and surrounding communities have been plagued by a spike in home burglaries in recent months, keeping police busy and residents on edge.
But common sense and a few easy-to-install devices can help protect your home and family from intruders without costing a fortune, according to Officer Paul Rondeau, a crime prevention specialist at the Manchester Police Department.
Wireless window and door alarms, vibration detectors for sliding-glass doors, hotel-style door guards and motion-detection outdoor lights - all available at area retailers - can discourage burglars or alert residents if someone does try to get in.
Rondeau recently purchased all you'd need to protect an average home for just under $100.
For instance, there's a simple device available for about $10 that allows you to keep a window open a few inches but that triggers an audible alarm if someone tries to open it wider.
A motion-activated alarm with strobe light will cost about $15, while a motion-activated light that screws into an outdoor fixture will run about $20, he said.
A few simple precautions, such as keeping ladders locked and out of sight (so burglars can't use them to gain access to upper windows), locking car doors and keeping bushes trimmed (to eliminate hiding places), can go a long way as well, Rondeau said.
One of his favorite tips: Install shades in your garage and shed windows. "They're looking to see if you're home," he said. "No car? Nobody home."
And don't put large boxes that contained expensive items such as TVs on the curb for trash pickup. "That's a billboard telling the whole neighborhood you just bought a new TV," he said. Instead, he suggests cutting the cardboard into smaller pieces to go out with the recycling.
And that garage-door remote you keep on your car's visor? "Mount it with Velcro under the dash, out of sight." Otherwise, a burglar could use it to gain access to the garage and, quite possibly, that inside house door you always keep unlocked.
Geoffrey Davis is an owner of Electronic Security Protection Inc. in Manchester, which has been in the security-alarm business for 24 years.
He and two partners just launched a new venture, homQu, selling do-it-yourself wireless systems from a kiosk at the Mall of New Hampshire.
"We've only been up and running in there since Tuesday, and we've had a great response," Davis said.
A basic security package from homQu starts at $495 plus a $29 monthly contract, Davis said. Customers can add other home-automation services that let them know when their kids get home from school, turn on the heat or lights from their smartphone, or even take a photo of an intruder who's tripped the alarm.
And since the new security systems rely on cellphones, cutting a home's phone lines won't disable the system as it used to, Davis said.
Meanwhile, don't make it easy for burglars to figure out when you won't be home, experts advise.
"I think it's important to make your house look lived in, like someone's home," Davis said.
That's why he likes the new home-automation systems that turn lights on from a smartphone.
Rondeau has another piece of advice: "Don't announce on Facebook that you're going on vacation." That goes for the kids, as well, he said.
Still, Davis said he understands not everyone can afford a home security system.
He agreed with Rondeau that homeowners can do a lot to protect themselves with the technology available today.
"Anything is better than nothing," he said. "And a burglar does not like a lot of noise and a lot of attention. So if you can put some things on your windows that are going to make noise if somebody opens them, absolutely that's better than nothing."
Davis said it's not just city dwellers who need to think about home security. "I live in a small town, and people think because they live in a small town that they don't have anything to worry about.
"You may have less of it, but you still have the same kinds of things. If you talk to most small-town police chiefs, one of the two or three things they get the most calls about is burglaries," he said.
"You need to be aware."
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There are still openings for tubas at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival. Applications and audition materials can be uploaded via our website http://sewaneemusicfestival.org/. Repertoire and conductors are now able to be viewed as well. This looks like another exciting summer on the mountain!
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NEWS: Atlantic blue crab trap closure ends early, Aug. 20-29 cancelled. Learn more
Florida Atlantic Blue Crab Trap/Pot Fishery Gear Regulations and Guidelines
The blue crab effort management plan for the commercial blue crab fishery limits both the number of fishermen and traps in the blue crab fishery.
A hard crab endorsement (VH, VN), soft crab (VS) and a blue crab incidental take (VI) endorsement can be associated with either an individual or vessel Saltwater Products License (SPL). The cost of a blue crab endorsement (VH, VN, VS) is $125 and $25 for the incidental take endorsement. Endorsements must be renewed by September 30.
From these endorsement fees, $25 is dedicated to the trap retrieval program with the retrieval fee waived for up to 5 traps retrieved during trap retrieval. Traps retrieved during closed season by FWC will be assessed a retrieval fee of $10 per trap.
Commission issued blue crab trap tags will be required on blue crab traps with an annual fee of .50 cents per trap tag and can be ordered in increments of 50.
Leasing or renting of endorsements, tags or traps is prohibited.
Blue crab endorsements will be transferable from May 1, through the last day of February, but the buyer must purchase the endorsement and trap tags. The buyer must also work no fewer than 14 days fishing blue crab on the buyer's/endorsement holder's vessel and document this activity at the time of transfer.
Requalification: Beginning with license year 2010/2011, the holder of a blue crab effort management endorsement must requalify for the endorsement number by documenting landings in at least one of the three previous license years. Each endorsement number will then be valid for three years from the date of requalification, but must still be renewed annually.
How to requalify by type:
A hard crab (VH) endorsement is required to harvest commercial quantities of hard shell blue. A VH endorsement entitles the owner to fish up to 600 inshore blue crab traps, and an additional 400 traps offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, per endorsed SPL. A total of 150 soft crabs per endorsed SPL may be landed daily as bycatch. Fishermen can maintain as many as three shedding tanks without possessing a soft shell crab endorsement.
A soft crab (VS) endorsement is required to harvest commercial quantities of soft shell crabs. A VS endorsement allows up to 400 peeler traps to be fished and allows the holder to operate a blue crab shedding facility with greater than 3 shedding tanks. Entities with more than one qualifying SPL are entitled to receive up to 250 additional traps per additional endorsed SPL.
A hard crab (VN) endorsement is a nontransferable blue crab endorsement that allows the endorsement holder to deploy 100 hard shell blue crab traps in any state waters where blue crab traps are allowed. A total of 150 soft crabs per endorsed SPL may be landed daily as bycatch. Fishermen can maintain as many as three shedding tanks without possessing a soft crab endorsement. The non-transferable blue crab endorsement cannot be sold or other wise transferred. If the holder of a VN endorsement purchases a VH endorsement the non-transferrable endorsement shall be forfeited.
A blue crab (VI) incidental take endorsement allows persons possessing a valid stone crab endorsement or persons who can demonstrate landings of blue crabs as bycatch using legal shrimping gear, to harvest and sell up to 200 pounds of blue crabs as bycatch, provided the amount does not exceed 200 pounds of blue crabs per vessel per trip.
In an effort to identify and retrieve lost and abandoned blue crab traps from Florida, the FWC has established regional blue crab trap closures. These 6 regional closures last up to 10 days and prohibit using traps for the recreational and commercial harvest of blue crabs in these areas. The closures alternate coasts every year with closures on the east coast of Florida occurring during the even numbered years and closures on the west coast occurring on the odd years.
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These closed seasons only apply to standard blue crab traps. The harvest of blue crabs by other gear, such as dip nets and fold-up traps, is permitted during the closures. Traps that are attached to private property such as a dock are not included in the closures.
(applies to commercial stone crab, blue crab and lobster vessels)
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Middleton residents weigh impact of schoolBy JOHN QUINN
Union Leader Correspondent
February 17. 2014 8:16PM
WOLFEBORO — While Middleton residents were impressed by the schools of Gov. Wentworth, some people still have questions about whether they can afford to build their own school in town.
About 60 residents and officials from Middleton took part in Saturday's tour of the Kingswood Complex, which includes the Kingswood Region High School, the junior high school and the arts center.
On March 11, Middleton residents will decide whether to withdraw from Farmington schools, accept a tuition agreement with Gov. Wentworth Regional School and take out a $6,592,500 bond to build a new school.
After Saturday's tour, Middleton School Board member Ken Garry, who's helped spearhead the withdrawal process, said it's important to focus on the "positive." He referred questions about the potential cost and estimated tax impact of the $6.6 million bond to build a new school to School Administrative Unit 61, which oversees students from Farmington and Middleton.
Superintendent Steve Welford could not be reached for comment about the potential tax impact Monday.
During Middleton's School District's Deliberative Session on Feb. 8, Garry estimated that the tax impact of the $210,000 interest payment is $1.30 per $1,000 of valuated property.
About 85 residents attended the session in Middleton.
The bond in Article 2 – which requires a 60 percent majority to pass – would also allocate $210,000 for the interest of the first year's bond payment to build a new school for students in kindergarten through grade 6 along King's Highway. It will only go into effect if the articles regarding withdrawing and the tuition agreement also are approved.
While the school board planned to discuss the potential tax impact of constructing and operating the school, which would be located on district-owned property, officials did not release an estimate at the Jan. 18 bond hearing, in a recent newsletter to residents or at meetings.
Garry said the school board plans to meet Wednesday to discuss the contents of the second mailing to residents. He would not say if it would include information about the estimated tax impact and referred inquiries to School Board Chair Andrea Bowden.
Although officials previously said they intend to present detailed information during the deliberative session about the financial impact of withdrawing and building a new 27,500 square-foot school, members of the School Board could not be reached for comment about the matter both in person and via e-mail.
The Middleton School Board is scheduled to meet Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in the Middleton Town Offices.
Stacy Trites, of Wolfeboro, who chairs the Gov. Wentworth Regional School Board, welcomed Middleton residents to the facility, which recently underwent major renovations. She added they are very proud of the results.
"It's our hope, Middleton that you grow your own school," Kelly Colby, principal of the Effingham Elementary School told Middleton residents Saturday, adding the community will reap the benefits of a small-town school.
Colby said the school – which educates students through grade 6 — enjoys the support of local parents and residents, hosts meetings and helps tie the community together.
While Brookfield students attend Wolfeboro schools, the other five communities in Gov. Wentworth – including Effingham, New Durham, Ossipee, Tuftonboro and Wolfeboro – are educated locally before joining each other at Kingswood Regional Middle School.
In March, residents of Middleton and Gov. Wentworth must both separately approve the tuition agreement, which would allow local students in grades 7-12 to attend schools in Wolfeboro between July 1, 2015, and June 30, 2025. The contract can be cancelled or extended in 2023.
If Middleton residents approve Article 6, the district could withdraw from the Authorized Regional Enrollment Area (AREA) agreement, which was enacted in 1972. If approved, Middleton students in grades 7-12 would no longer be educated in Farmington after July of 2015. Students in kindergarten through grade 6 would leave the following year.
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To use the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro I created to work with either the Microsoft Money sample file or your own financial data, open the "Downloads" file above. Open the Sample.xls file, and in the Microsoft Excel Tools menu, select Macro, Visual Basic Editor. Inside the editor, right-click the project on the left called VBAProject (Sample.xls), and select Import File. (Note that if you click Export To Excel in Money, which launches Excel with the Sample.csv file, then go into VBA, you'll see the project name as Sample.csv.) Next, select the MSMoneyHelper.bas file. After you import the macro, open the Visual Basic Editor's Run menu, and select Run Macro. Choose the macro named ProcessMoneyData, and click Run. After the macro has finished executing, you can save the Excel file as Sample.xls and import it into Microsoft Access.
If you don't have the VBA macro that I created or you want to use another extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) method to perform similar steps, here are the specific formatting tasks that my macro performs:
- Delete the first six title rows at the top of the file.
- Reformat column B in date format.
- Insert three columns in front of the Amount column and name them Subcategory, Action, and Security.
Begin stepping through the rows of data, and perform the following steps:
- If the row is blank, delete it.
- If the row is part of a split transaction, duplicate the date, payee, and account from the previous row of the same split transaction.
- Delete the first row of a split transaction. (The first row is just a subtotal of the subsequent rows. If you import the first row, you'll be duplicating data.)
- Split the category field into category and subcategory and separate them with a colon.
- If the memo contains information about an investment transaction, create separate action and security fields.
- Fill any empty fields with "(none)."
- Delete the last two rows of the report because they don't contain valid data.
I'm not a VBA expert, but I do know an important trick that you can use for creating VBA macros: If you want to know how to perform an Excel task in VBA, pull down the Tools menu and select Macro, Record, New Macro. Perform the task that you want to record in Excel and end the macro. You can then enter the Visual Basic Editor and inspect the macro that Excel created.


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GREENSBORO, N.C. � The federal judge overseeing the criminal trial of John Edwards will sharply curtail the testimony of a key defense witness who could have raised doubt about whether the former presidential candidate broke campaign finance laws.
Edwards' lawyers had intended to call former Federal Election Commission chairman Scott E. Thomas as their first witness Monday morning, but prosecutors objected.
U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Eagles sent the jury home early so she could listen as Thomas answered questions to preview his intended testimony.
Thomas said it was his opinion that nearly $1 million secretly provided by two campaign donors and used to hide the Democrat's then-pregnant mistress while he sought the White House in 2008 did not qualify as federal campaign contributions under existing federal law.
"These are intensely personal, by their very nature," said Thomas, who served on the FEC from 1986 to 2006 after appointments by Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. "In my view this is a clear-cut case that the payments were not campaign contributions."
Thomas cited past cases before the FEC to support his position, including a $96,000 payment in 2008 by the parents of then-Republican Sen. John Ensign of Nevada to his then-mistress that was later determined not to have violated the law.
Thomas also said federal election law was so complicated that reasonable and knowledgeable people can disagree about whether something qualifies as a political contribution. To win a conviction under the law, prosecutors must show not only that Edwards knew about the scheme but also that he knew he was violating the law.
But the jury deciding Edwards' fate will not hear any of that testimony, which supports the defense position that the secret payments benefiting Edwards' then-mistress Rielle Hunter were gifts from his wealthy friends, not political contributions intended to aide his presidential candidacy.
Judge Eagles agreed with prosecutors that Thomas' personal opinions and past FEC rulings are irrelevant to their criminal prosecution of Edwards.
She said the former commissioner made what amounts to a closing argument for the defense and that campaign finance statutes weren't as confusing as Thomas made them out to be.
"It just doesn't seem that complicated to me," Eagles said. "It doesn't seem to me the jury needs the help."
Eagles said she would allow Thomas to take the stand, but barred nearly all of his expected testimony.
Lead defense lawyer Abbe Lowell appeared incredulous as he asked Eagles for further explanation of her ruling, which he suggested flew in the face of established case law. He warned that the limits amounted to "reversible error" that might be overturned on appeal.
The judge responded by chastising Lowell for what she perceived as his disrespectful tone.
"That sounds like you are arguing with me," Eagles said sternly. She reminded Lowell, a well-known Washington defense attorney, that she was not the judge in those other cases.
The exchange came after 14 days of testimony from prosecution witnesses who recounted the lurid details of the extramarital affair carried on by Edwards while his wife Elizabeth battled terminal cancer; she died in late 2010.
Edwards has pleaded not guilty to six criminal counts including conspiracy to violate the Federal Election Campaign Act, accepting contributions that well exceeded campaign finance limits, and filing false campaign-finance statements. Edwards faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted.
Edwards' attorneys began his defense Monday by attempting to shift the focus away from the sex scandal to the technical issue of whether Edwards' alleged behavior violated campaign finance laws.
Even the federal government appears split on the issue.
The FEC previously decided that the money used in the cover-up of Edwards' affair were not campaign contributions.
Unable to call Thomas as their first witness, the defense presented Lora Haggard, the chief financial officer of the John Edwards for President committee and the campaign's top staffer in charge of complying with FEC regulations.
She testified that the money from heiress Rachel "Bunny" Mellon and Edwards campaign finance chairman Fred Baron, now deceased, has still never been reported on the campaign's required disclosure reports; even after Edwards was charged, FEC auditors said it didn't need to be.
She also said Edwards was never involved in formulating, filling out or filing campaign finance reports that were sent to the FEC. In the sixth count of his indictment, Edwards is accused of causing his campaign to file a false report through deceit.
"We never gave him a report to review," Haggard said. "He had no input."
Prosecutors rested their case Thursday by playing a tape of a 2008 national television interview in which the Democrat repeatedly lied about his extramarital affair and denied fathering Hunter's baby. Earlier testimony from a parade of former aides and advisers also showed an unappealing side of Edwards, with some casting him as a liar and bad husband.
The defense has not yet indicted whether Edwards or Hunter will take the stand.
Before winning a U.S. Senate seat in 1998, Edwards made a fortune as a personal injury lawyer renowned for his ability to sway jurors. But his testimony would expose himself to a likely withering cross-examination about his past lies and personal failings.
Lowell said that on Tuesday the defense expects to call Edwards' 30-year-old daughter, lawyer Cate Edwards, to the witness stand. She has been accompanying him during the trial. Edwards is also a single parent to two younger children.
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Hello all, I'm a new member. I teach Latin, and I'm in the process of learning Greek to pass a placement exam for a MA program. I'm using Hansen and Quinn, and I have run into some confusion regarding participles:
1. They reference circumstantial participles as being able to make up the protasis in a conditional sentence (section 70). Does the tense of indicative in the apodosis then govern the tense of the phrase (i.e. ο αν λυων ... λυω present gen. condition and ο λυων... ελυοω past gen. condition)?
2. A specific example from the exercises that I am uncertain about:
οι αν βλαπτομενοι μη φυλαττωνται τους πολεμιους, υπ εκεινων μη αρχθωμεν (unit 8, III.11)
Does oi have an indefinite force like "whoever", as in 'Let whoever is not harmed guard the enemies, let us not be ruled by them." ?
I appreciate any help.
valete, grammatici!


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paddys needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 72 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
* This is a guaranteed contest *
We're building a web-based project planning and management system with a strong Web 2.0 look & feel.
The software is based on a brand new Project Management (PM) Methodology, called the GO method, which uses traffic lights as simple indicators of the status at different levels of the program and project plan.
We are aiming to create a clean, professional, user friendly app that makes users eyebrows go up, not down :)
There are two main groups - traditional, experienced PM operators as single users, and online/remote groups who may be less experienced with PM.
Therefore we want to make the look and feel of the site as simple as possible, but friendly enough to entice novice users to keep using it.
The styles of the 37signals guys are a good place to start...
For this contest, we need a PNG file for 2 pages.
- Dashboard Page (page that displays when a user first logs in)
- Standard Page
The standard page design will be used as a template for all other pages in the system.
Standard across both designs will be 2 TOP menu bars. Primary menu:
- My Goals
- Stakeholders
- My Outcomes
- My Outputs
- My Activities
- My Risks
- My Communications
And secondary menu (smaller & above the primary menu):
- My Account
- Quick Links
- Help
- Logout
Features on the Dashboard:
- A distinct "Bulletin Board" area with a small video thumbnail and a tutorial/help message
- A list of goal/plan names
- An "Overview" area that shows the project status of each goal, using traffic light icons, along with links to the remaining todo items for that goal
- An "Inbox" area that says "You have (11) new activities" and "You have (22) new stakeholders"
Features on the Standard Page:
- See http://www.planna.com/images/NewCSS.jpg for content .. everything can be resized and moved and colors can be changed (our original logo can be seen at http://www.planna.com
The tone of this design should be SIMPLE – CLEAN – STRUCTURED – PROFESSIONAL. We'll be using AJAX to enhance usability. Please keep that in mind if it means anything to you.
Thanks for submitting .. we'll provide good feedback to make sure we get this right!
To make it clear, we want:
- A very web 2.0 feel .. white space, clean, crisp, big buttons, very user friendly
- Should be extremely pleasing to the eye
- Logo & menus will be standard at the top of both designs
- Color scheme is up to you, but it must complement our logo (predominant color is green)
- Standard page must be "flexible" .. it will be used as a template for 50-60 other pages that have varying content
- See description above for required features
- Most importantly .. it has to make the user say "OOOOOO!" (in a good way)
We don't want:
- A very busy site with everything crammed together
- Anything that looks like it came from the year 2004 or earlier


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Another View -- Betsy McCaughey: Scaremongering is the left's hobbyBETSY McCAUGHEY
July 17. 2014 10:36PM
"REALLY, WE SHOULD be afraid of this court," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's June 30th Hobby Lobby ruling.
Afraid of Hobby Lobby? Nonsense. Democratic politicians are lying about the court's ruling, scaremongering and trying to whip up a war over reproductive rights before the fall election. Here are the lies they're telling and the truth you need to know.
Referring to the justices' 5-4 ruling, Pelosi expressed outrage that "five guys" will "start determining what contraceptions are legal."
In truth, the court did nothing like that. Every birth control method that was legal before the ruling is still legal.
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray announced that : "after five justices decided that an employer's personal views can interfere with a woman's access to essential health services, we in Congress need to act quickly to right this wrong."
Another whopper. Nothing in Hobby Lobby gives employers control over a woman's birth control choices. The Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby and a related chain of Christian bookstores, objected to paying for four types of birth control that their religious teachings consider abortifacients. Their health plan covers 16 of the 20 types mandated by the Obama administration's insurance regulations. The court ruled that Hobby Lobby is protected by the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act of 1993 and doesn't have to pay for the other four products. But women can still choose to use them.
The hyperbole prize goes to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who called the ruling "deeply disturbing" and then launched into a discussion of oppression of women around the world.
Not to worry. Hobby Lobby will not lead to Shariah law.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Hobby Lobby "outrageous" and pledged quick action on a bill proposed by Murray and U.S. Sen. Mark Udall that would require for-profit business owners to pay for all forms of birth control, even if it violates their religious conscience. The bill is misleadingly called the Protect Women's Health from Corporate Interference Act.
Reid didn't hide the blatantly political motive behind it. "People are going to have to walk down here and vote, and if they vote with the five men on the Supreme Court, I think they are going to be treated unfavorably come November with the elections."
Reid is suggesting the female electorate will swap religious liberty for free pills in November. Really? Morning after pills cost $35-$50. Religious liberty is worth more than that.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she was "stunned that we live in a world where the Supreme Court of the United States of America would even consider putting the interests of big corporations before the fundamental rights of American women."
Wrong, Sen. Warren. She's a former law professor. But she got this one backwards. Religious liberty is a fundamental right, guaranteed by the Constitution. (Free pills are not.) Thomas Jefferson explained that "No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man (or woman) than that which protects the right to conscience."
American law exempts Amish from compulsory 12 years of education, spares Christian Scientists from mandatory vaccinations and protects Muslims from being forced to shave their beards. That is also what the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act of 1993 is intended to do — protect religious individuals from the force of the state.
How about Warren's claim that Hobby Lobby benefits big corporations? Also untrue.
It applies only to closely- held companies where owners would share a religious conviction.
The "big corporations" rhetoric is a diversion. In 2008, Sens. Murray and Hillary Clinton offered legislation to reduce conscience protections for doctors, pharmacists and other health care workers who refuse to prescribe morning after pills and other birth control products based on religious beliefs. U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, an ob/gyn, warned that doctors would resist. The legislation stalled, but on Jan. 2, the Obama administration accomplished the same thing by regulation.
The Democratic Party appears to be rejecting our American heritage of tolerance and insisting everyone show lockstep obedience to a radical feminist agenda. Do they really believe free pills trump liberty? Or are they cynically hoping some women voters will fall for that hogwash in November?
Betsy McCaughey, a former lieutenant governor of New York, is a syndicated columnist.
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State Sen. George Maziarz's bill to authorize Niagara County to pass a local law directing the Niagara County Office of Social Services to make shelter allowance payments directly to landlords has cleared the Senate committee on local government. This legislation comes after the Niagara County Legislature passed a resolution seeking direct payment to landlords of shelter allowances, and is intended to ensure that payments made to tenants on public assistance for housing are used only for their intended purpose.
"There is a large concern from landlords in my district, and particularly in Niagara Falls, that they are not receiving rent from their tenants, monies which come directly from the Department of Social Services," Maziarz said. "Many of my constituents were concerned because, not only were the landlords not getting paid, but the taxpayer money from the county for the shelter allowance was not being properly used. I am hopeful that this bill will pass once it gets to the Senate floor. It is now time for the Assembly to introduce and move this bill out of committee as well."
The bill now moves to the Senate calendar and will be considered for a floor vote in the near future.


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Canon's LV-7285 projector will make your presentations shine- without breaking the budget. These value-driven, portable XGA (1280 x 800) resolution projectors deliver astonishingly bright images and high contrast, and are ideal for education and small-to-medium-sized business environments.
Featuring network capability, easy-to-use controls, added security features and advanced image-optimizing technology- the LV-7285 epitomizes convenience while producing images of the superior quality for which Canon is renowned. The LV-7285 was designed with a high-efficiency power supply, and other energy-saving features such as sleep timer, quick startup and a carbon meter. The projector also features DVI-I support and less than 1W standby power consumption. In addition, the projector's improved lamp lighting system can now deliver up to 5,000 hours of lamp life. Compact and lightweight, the LV-7285's built-in carrying handle makes for easy transportation to wherever presentations are needed.


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Denise Milani : Festive Snow Globes
It's been a few years since we've featured Denise Milani, and I can't really tell you why. There is a never-ending supply of hot Milani photos, for any topic that you desire. Take Christmas for example, there seems to be no fewer than 4 sets of photos taken of Denise Milani posing for Christmas with her "Snow Globes." She demonstrates such range as a model, moving from busty girl in a package, to busty girl decorating the tree, and making it look effortless in the process. God bless Denise, for showing us the true meaning of Christmas.


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Wizards-Hawks Preview
After suffering for almost a month without a win, the Washington
Wizards have enjoyed some success lately. Based on their most
recent visit to Atlanta, they now might have a good chance to end
another pair of droughts.
The Wizards look for the first victory away from home and try to
avoid a 10th straight road defeat to the Hawks on Friday night.
Washington (2-13) opened with a franchise-record 12 consecutive
losses but has since won two of three – both at home.
The most recent victory was particularly surprising, beating
Miami 105-101 on Tuesday to end the defending champion's six-game
win streak. Jordan Crawford scored 22 points and Kevin Seraphin
added 16 with 10 rebounds for the Wizards, who matched a season
high by shooting 48.1 percent and never trailed in the final three
"It's a big momentum win for us, obviously," point guard Shaun
Livingston said. "We've been struggling to put together four
Though the Wizards still own the NBA's worst record, average a
league-low 90.4 points and are not sure when injured star John Wall
(knee) will make his season debut, their recent progress has been a
long time coming as far as the team is concerned.
"It basically just shows how good of a team we are, how good we
can be. That's the main thing," said Crawford, averaging 19.3
points in four games since being moved back into a reserve
The next step for Washington is to find success on the road,
where at 0-7 it joins Sacramento as the NBA's only winless teams
away from home. However, four of those losses have been by six
points or fewer and two went to overtime, including a 101-100
defeat in Atlanta on Nov. 21.
The Hawks took the lead with 1.9 seconds left in overtime on
Kyle Korver's long 3-pointer, but the Wizards thought they earned
their first win when Martell Webster made a layup as the buzzer
sounded. One official initially ruled the basket was good, but the
crew conferred and ruled it was late, a call that was later
confirmed by video review.
Washington lost its previous eight visits to Atlanta by an
average of 13.0 points. The Wizards last won there Jan. 11, 2008,
going 1-16 overall against the Hawks since that victory.
Seraphin had a season-high 21 points and 10 rebounds in last
month's matchup and enters Friday having posted three straight
Teammate Trevor Ariza had his only double-double of the season
in that game with 12 points and 15 boards off the bench, but he is
likely to miss this one with a calf injury.
Korver could return for Atlanta (10-5), which has won seven of
eight, after missing one contest due to back spasms and Wednesday's
home game versus Denver with his wife about to give birth.
The Hawks still beat the Nuggets 108-104 as Al Horford had 25
points with 12 rebounds and Josh Smith added 16 and 13.
While Atlanta allowed 100 points in consecutive games for the
first time this season, it made some key stops down the stretch to
bounce back from a 113-111 home loss to Cleveland last Friday.
"Hopefully we can just build from this game," coach Larry Drew
said. "I'm just happy that we pushed through it. The difference was
we kept pushing. We didn't break. We didn't bend."
Smith, who turned 27 on Wednesday, has averaged 22.0 points and
11.3 rebounds in his last six games versus Washington.


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The new body to be known as the 'For the Good of the Game Task Force' has been created as FIFA becomes increasingly concerned about issues such as multi-club ownership corruption betting and bribery as well as the continued interference by some governments into the running of football in their countries.
Delegates voted 198-1 in favour of the establishment of the task force which FIFA president Sepp Blatter said would be composed of representatives from all walks of the game.
In his address to Congress Blatter said that although there were many positive aspects and encouraging developments in football there were also increasing dangers.
'We need to counter these risks. We need to be aware of these dangers. Where there is smoke there is fire and we need to put out the fires' he said.
Without naming the organisation directly he harshly criticised the group of G14 elite European clubs.
'There is a movement in club football which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa' he said.
'The gap is getting wider and wider. This is a problem you should be concerned about' he told delegates.
He also highlighted areas of non-compliance with FIFA statutes which includes clubs taking soccer-related problems to civil courts the multi-ownership of clubs and government interference in the running of national football associations.
'We have been accused of all sorts of things for example in the fight against doping when we were the ones who made headway first.
'We have been accused of other things and books will be published about football being destructive and evil. Perhaps we need to be more careful and pay more attention.'
But he said the time had come for FIFA to rise to the challenges that threaten the organisation.
It is planned that the Task Force will report directly to the executive committee and one of the strategies to be used by the new body will be to set up an early warning system to detect irregular betting patterns on matches.
The Task Force is also expected to work with police and other enforcement agencies to detect and prosecute those involved in trying to fix matches.
European soccer's governing body UEFA has been working closely with FIFA on ways to solve the problem which has grown alarmingly since the advent of internet betting.
FIFA and UEFA are also becoming increasingly concerned about rich individuals owning more than one club and their possible involvement in irregular transfer deals.
Among other matters resolved in the opening session of the Congress the first in FIFA'S 101-year history to be held in Africa the Congress suspended Yemen from membership by 184-5 votes because of government interference in the running of the national FA.
'It hurts me that we have to suspend a member' said Blatter 'but we also have a duty to protect our statutes.'


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Health Matters: Stress Management
Steven D. Hickman, Psy.D. discusses the field of behavioral medicine, specifically assessing and treating patients with chronic pain and illness. Dr. Hickman utilizes Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) a particular way of paying attention: with mindful intention, in the moment, without judgment. Although MBSR embraces the acceptance of things as they are without striving, research has shown that, with regular practice, it has the potential to lower stress, anxiety, and depression. It can promote relaxation, improve concentration, raise self-awareness, and enhance the immune system. Series: "Health Matters" [12/2004] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 9110]
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Belmont man charged with intent to sell drugsBy DAN SEUFERT
Sunday News Correspondent
March 22. 2014 6:58PM
BELMONT - A 20-year-old Brown Hill Road man was arrested Thursday night on a charge of possession of drugs with intent to distribute, according to authorities.
Ryan J. Davis was arrested after a police officer initiated a safety check of his car at the Route 106 Park and Ride lot, police said.
While speaking to Davis, the officer "suspected Davis was using and possibly in possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia," Lt. Rich Mann said in a news release.
A written voluntary consent to search the Ford F-150 that Davis "was in control of in the parking lot" led to the discovery of "a quantity of marijuana," Mann said.
Officers found a small metal safe, a ledger, several glass mason jars containing loose marijuana, plastic bags consistent with packaging, metal grinders, glass smoking pipes and a quantity of cash.
The items were seized and Davis was charged with possession of drugs with intent to distribute, a Class B Felony. Davis was booked and released on personal recognizance bail with a May 1 arraignment date in the Laconia Circuit Court.
Mann said the drug arrest is one of many the department has made recently.
"The police department remains committed in our efforts to take a stance against the surge of drug activity. Although this latest arrest is unrelated to recent drug incidents in our community, it is very concerning to us that drug use and possession is a recurring problem," Mann said.
"Officers continue to pursue drug investigations by seeking out those who pose a risk to the health, well-being and safety of our residents," he said.
Mann urged anyone with information about suspected drug activity to contact the police department at 267-8350, or via the Greater Laconia Crime Line at 524-1717.


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Jamestown Historical Society News
The renovation of the interior of the museum has begun! I know some of you have noticed, because I've received a couple of telephone calls asking why the windows were boarded up. If you could see the inside, you'd be even more startled. The front room is empty and the walls are bare, revealing the old plaster and wainscoting.
Bill Burgin of Burgin Lambert, Inc., Newport, the designer of the new town hall and past president of JHS, designed the renovation. We've hired Coastal Restorations, Inc., of Newport to do the work and to help us preserve as much of the historical fabric of the building as possible. The renovation will proceed in two phases:
Phase I, to be completed this spring, will include the installation of insulation and an environmental control system. The windows are out being restored right now. When they're reinstalled, outer storm windows will be placed over them to protect them from further deterioration.
A heat exchange system will provide cooling in the summer and heat in the winter. An emergency exit door has already been roughed in to replace the northernmost window on the east side of the building. Most of the bookshelves - relics of the time when the museum was the town library - will be preserved in the back room, which will be our workroom. The plaster is being patched. The woodwork is being repaired. And finally the downstairs rooms will be painted.
Phase II is planned for the fall and will address the building's exterior. A handicap access ramp will be built along the east side of the museum; the ramp will lead to a new stone terrace across the right front of building. New steps from the street will have a gentler rise than the current stoop stairs. The exterior of the building will be scraped, repaired as necessary, and repainted. New signage and landscaping are also planned.
In preparation for the renovation, the entire collection in the museum has been removed to interim sites. As we move it back to the museum and to the new vault in the town hall, the volunteers on the collections committee, with help from two summer interns from the College of the Holy Cross, will be carefully checking the data in the computerized catalog to make sure that everything is properly described and appropriately photographed.
The two-phase approach was decided on in order to have the museum open this summer. Our exhibit this year, The Jamestown Bridge 1940-2007, Concept to Demolition, is sponsored by the Rhode Island Department of Transportation and mounted in cooperation with the Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc. The opening of the exhibit on June 30 will be a party to celebrate both the exhibit and our first chance to show off the newly renovated interior of our museum. The festivities will start at 1 p.m. Make a note on your calendar now.
Battery Day Saturday, March 12, is Battery Day. The Friends of the Conanicut Battery, with support from the JHS, are celebrating early this year to coincide with the spring Jamestown Cub Scout Pack 1, Fort Getty Camporee. Formal activities begin at 11 a.m., with a serenade of martial tunes by the Jamestown Community
There'll be lots to see and hear. The Cub Scouts, joined by some of the Boy Scouts from Jamestown Troop 1, will march from Fort Getty to join in the celebration. The Newport Artillery will fire cannon salutes across the West Passage. Representatives of France and Great Britain, whose troops occupied the Battery during the Revolution, will raise the flags of their countries. We'll sing The Star-Spangled Banner while Jamestown's American Legion and VFW units raise the American flag.
Plan to stay on after the flag raising to visit with Captain Tew and his Company of the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment, Continental Line, at their Revolutionary War encampment. They'll show you what it was like to live out of a tent during the long fight for independence.
Horsehead in July
Planning for the big capital campaign fundraiser on July 28 at Horsehead is well underway. A horse and carriage ride up the original sweeping entryway to the house is planned as the beginning of a wonderful, fun experience. I'll have more details in later columns, but in the meantime, don't forget to reserve the day.