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Have you ever noticed that lots of people talk about systems management, or desktop management or endpoint management and that very often it looks beautiful but upon closer inspection you discover it's a tragic intersection of lipstick and pig?
Yeah, me too. I've seen too many customers and non-customers who have dropped millions of dollars on some desktop management solution that created more problems than it solved. Fortunately that doesn't have to be true.
The Novell solution set is incredibly comprehensive and brings unique value to the marketplace. The primary value to organizations that have already made investments in alternate solutions is that they do not need to make further investment in Kubota or Caterpillar for the purpose of the forklift upgrade. This is because ZENworks is built to work modularly. Certainly the pieces work together marvellously, but we aren't so arrogant as to believe that every org will use only our tools. We've been doing ZENworks for over twelve years, we've achieved maturity for today's market ahead of the others. As Patrick Hynes likes to say, ZENworks is a hot-rod.
So why is ZENworks the best choice for customers right now?
Do you remember when we went through the pain to re-architect the entire ZENworks engine? We did this to ensure that ZENworks did not have a dependency on any particular estate. It was a lot of hard work and a fundamental set of changes were required. Our Product Managers fielded a high volume of questions on the "whys" Fortunately our Systems and Resource Management leadership stood by their guns. and we are now at the state where we have a wonderful product with great scalability. But, readers will remember that there were some teething pains in that process. Our major competitors are in the process of re-architecture right now. However fine their people and teams are, they will experience teething pains too. In today's fragile economy and state of caution, customers of those vendors are very concerned about what's going to happen to their installs, their skills and their overall plans.
Landesk is in the blender. First they were bought by Avocent whose focus had always been switching technology and recently by Emerson Electric, a renowned provider of electrical equipment. Is Landesk up on cinder blocks in the yard? They are working to lock customers into 3 year deals, with emphasis on the lock part. Their future is not clear at this point. The question I would ask if I were a customer CIO is what is Emerson's long term commitment to Landesk? It's a pretty reasonable question I think.
Symantec is working to position itself as the endpoint security company and customers fear that there is not sufficient focus on their investments in Altiris. They've built a brand new release that will have teething pain. Symantec is successful in malware protection – it drives revenue for them. Customers still aren't clear on the commitment to endpoint management. And to be fair Symantec is really focused on Windows. Understanding the market demographics, one can see this, but it's always important to remember that when it comes to endpoint management, cross-platform is reality.
And what of our friends at Microsoft? They have worked hard to build SCCM. It's a decent enough offering, so long as you like the idea of being handcuffed to Microsoft. And you need a lot of hardware. It's big. From a value delivery perspective, it's not a contest. Engage your Endpoint Management specialist with your customers to understand how this fits the customer specifically, or more particularly, how we fit better.
Now is the ideal time to be aggressive in going after the competition. They did this when we re-architected, and it's time to return the favour.
So what makes ZENworks better than the alternatives?
ZENworks has evolved significantly since the version 7 code base, and even since the first cut of the ZENworks 10 release. It is technically richer than anything out in the market and also follows the ITIL model in design and delivery. ITIL is on the requirements list for every large and very large organization and has received enough impetus that small and medium business are putting ITIL on their requirements list. All of the North American Endpoint Management team have achieved ITIL certification and the rest of the End User Computing team will also be certified this year. This is not like other certifications, you cannot buy "answers" or challenge the exam and hope to pass. It's hard work and when you understand the ITIL framework, it's easy to show how a solution like ZENworks, by aligning to the ITIL framework, creates incredible customer value.
When customers and prospects look at the UI from the competitors they'll see a mishmash. Looks and function matter – ask Apple. Our solutions have a brilliantly intuitive UI framework. It's role based, easy to use, delivers dynamic links and provides a much higher usability index. Customers like the deliverable of single agent, single console.
ZENworks uses a single database schema that does not require the implementer to have a bucket of SQL server skills. ZENworks doesn't have a preferred frame of reference, the engine runs on Windows and on Linux, the database can be Sybase (included), SQL Server or Oracle. The full version of the industry standard Admin Studio that builds application packages is included. We include the Business Objects reporting engine that has over 25 years of proven industry success. Why is this so important? Because we all know we will be called upon to prove value in an easily consumed way.
Organizations are aggressively building their plans for Windows 7. We have more proven capabilities in this space than any other offering. We all need to be asking customers about their plans for Windows 7. If they are planning to migrate to Windows 7 look at the ZENworks Trifecta. Presentations have been done and there is a posted netcast at www.novell.com/salestalk discussing this program. If the organization is not moving to Windows 7, ZENworks is a great set of solutions to help them get the house in better shape.
The ZENworks family has a number of components that provide enormous function level values. ZENworks Configuration Management, ZENworks Application Virtualization, ZENworks Asset Management, ZENworks Endpoint Security Management, ZENworks Handheld Management, ZENworks Linux Management, ZENworks Network Access Control, ZENworks Patch Management, ZENworks USB/Wireless Security are all the members (so far!) of the ZENworks family. Customers and prospects face business challenges every day that are resolved by one or more of these components. If you aren't cognizant of the value proposition of each component, please reach out to your local Endpoint Management specialist and to Enablement Central to get up to speed.
There's more coming too. In this fiscal year, you'll see additional value being added through new components and enhancements to existing solutions. ZENworks is the best choice today, and tomorrow.
So as they used to say on Saturday morning TV, "and now you know". And with half the battle won, let's get out there and win the other half.
Until next time, peace. More or less. Ok peace after the battle is won by us. Toss out the lipstick tube and let the pig go.


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What better way to start off the morning than with an update for the official Facebook app? And we're not talking about the beta one either, but the full-fledged version that usually lags behind the beta by a few weeks. Indeed, the last time it was updated was in July so it's about due for its 30-day fix up.
Unfortunately, it doesn't have a changelog listed in the app description, though if we had to venture to guess it includes some of those beta features introduced last week, though evidently not multiple image support (we'll update this post if we note any changes). Will it fix issues people are having? We hope so, because despite all the improvements the last few Store reviews have been abysmal.
Regardless, if you've been having problems with the official Facebook app and aren't keen on using the Beta, then you can grab version 188.8.131.52 here in the Store (if you do want to live on the edge of your seat, here's the Beta link). It's still Windows Phone 8 only and nope, we have no idea where that Windows Phone 7.x beta is, despite it reportedly coming out this month.
Update: Oddly enough, version 5.0.3 has been on the Store already yet the "updated date" now reads for today. We're unsure if this is a minor fix or just a Store error.
Update 2: When not logged into the Windows Phone Store, it does list 5.0.3 for Windows Phone 7.x, though it is currently not live. What we could be seeing is the Store live pushing out the update to their servers. Stay tuned.
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Pork Tenderloin Cordon Bleu with Mushroom-Mustard Cream Sauce Recipe
Cooking projects for people who'd like nothing more than to spend a sunday afternoon surrounded by the wonderful aromas of the kitchen.
- Yield:4 to 6
- Active time: 25 minutes
- Total time:1 hour
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- 2 pork tenderloins (2 to 2 1/2 pounds total), trimmed of fat and silver-skin and butterflied
- Kosher salt
- Cracked black pepper
- 4 medium-thick slices smoked tavern ham
- 4 medium-thick slices Swiss cheese
- 3 tablespoons coarse-ground mustard, divided use
- 4 ounces cream cheese
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup breadcrumbs
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 8 ounces cremini mushrooms, thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup dry white wine
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1/2 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and preheat oven to 350°F.
Season pork with salt and pepper. Lay two ham slices over the inside of each butterflied pork tenderloin. Top with two slices of Swiss cheese each. Mix 1 1/2 tablespoons mustard and cream cheese in a small bowl. Spread mixture evenly on top of Swiss cheese. Starting about 1/2-inch from the bottom and leaving 1/2-inch on either side, pull the bottom edge of meat up and over the filling and roll up into a thick cylinder, burrito-style. Using butcher's twine, tie the meat to seal.
Season flour with salt and pepper to taste and place in a large, shallow baking or pie dish. Season breadcrumbs with salt and pepper to taste and place in another large, shallow dish. Place egg in a third large, shallow dish. Dredge pork in flour and shake off excess. Next, dredge it in egg, taking care to coat all surfaces. Finally, roll meat in breadcrumbs.
Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large, stove top-safe roasting pan over medium-high heat. When oil is shimmering, sear tenderloins on all sides, about 7 minutes total. Add mushrooms on either side of meat. Drizzle meat and mushrooms with remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil and transfer to oven to cook until it reaches an internal temperature of 145°F, about 35 minutes. Remove pork from oven, transfer to a platter and tent with foil.
Place roasting pan on the stove top over medium-high heat. Add white wine and scrape pan with a wooden spoon to loosen browned bits. Add remaining 1 1/2 tablespoons mustard, along with heavy cream and Worcestershire sauce. Season with salt and pepper, if needed. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium and reduce slightly until sauce just coats the back of a spoon but a swiped finger leaves a clean line.
Discard string from pork tenderloin, slice, and serve immediately with mushroom-mustard sauce.
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A proposal to open up the L.A River through Cypress Park and Elysian Valley to boating this summer conjures up images of a lazy afternoon spent drifting down stream. The reality, however, will be much different. In fact, it sounds like anyone who attempts to kayak or canoe the approximately 2-1/2 mile section of the river south of Fletcher Drive will spend a lot of their time carrying and dragging their boat or riding in cars and shuttle buses.
"There will be paddling. There will be dragging," said Walter Young with the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority, which will help provide security and maintenance during the pilot program. "This is a challenging trip."
Young made his remarks during a recent meeting about The L.A. River Recreational Zone, which would open the river south of Fletcher Drive to canoeing, hiking and other recreational for a three-month period beginning Memorial Day. But anyone anyone who thinks they will be able to float down the river on an inner-tube or race across it on a jet ski will be disappointed. They are not allowed. Only non-motorized canoes and kayaks will be permitted, and they can only enter and exit the river at specific points.
Getting those canoes into and out of the water will also be a complex and perhaps time-consuming process. While boats will enter the river near the Fletcher Drive bridge in Elysian Valley, some of the boaters will have to park their cars and trucks under the 5 Freeway near the Cypress Park Home Depot. Getting back to those vehicles will mean taking a shuttle bus that runs along Riverside Drive. The process may seen "cumbersome" but it's not unusual for kayakers and canoists, Young.
But once those boaters get into the river, it's not guaranteed the water will be deep enough to support a canoe or kayak. The boaters will have to prepare for a fair amount of portaging to get across rocky crossing, Young said. In fact, Young said there will be a long walk from where the boaters have to exit the river and get to Oso Park, where a shuttle bus will take people back to their vehicles.
How long will this 2-1/2 mile long journey down the L.A. River take? Perhaps two to three hours – not including the shuttle ride – for those are familiar with that section of the river, said, George Wolfe, President of L.A. River Expeditions. "More [time] if you've boated before but have never been through it; a whole lot more if you've never boated at all."


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By Todd Starnes on July 6, 2012
A Phoenix man has been sentenced to 60 days in jail after he refused to stop hosting Bible studies in the privacy of his home – in violation of the city's building code laws.
However, the Phoenix city prosecutor's office said the violations have nothing to do with religious freedom — and everything to do with public safety.
"It came down to zoning and proper permitting," said Vicki Hill, the chief assistant city prosecutor. "Any time you are holding a gathering of people continuously as he does — we have concerns about people being able to exit the facility properly in case there is a fire — and that's really all this comes down to."
According to court documents provided to Fox News Radio, Michael Salman was found guilty in the City of Phoenix Court of 67 code violations. He was sentenced to 60 days in jail along with three years probation and a $12,180 fine. He could be jailed as early as next week unless the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals grants an emergency injunction.
"They're cracking down on religious activities and religious use," Salman told Fox News Radio. "They're attacking what I as a Christian do in the privacy of my home."
"If I had people coming to my home on a regular basis for poker night or Monday Night Football, it would be permitted," he said. "But when someone says to us we are not allowed to gather because of religious purposes – that is when you have discrimination."
However, the Arizona courts consistently ruled against Salman – ultimately declaring that he was engaged in church activities and that the city did not violate his constitutional rights to religious freedom.
The long-running feud between Salman and the City of Phoenix culminated in the summer of 2009 when nearly a dozen police along with city inspectors raided their home. Armed with a search warrant, police confined the Salman family to the living room as they combed the property looking for violations.
Salman is the owner of Mighty Mike's Burgers — and he is also an ordained pastor. He and his wife have been hosting Bible studies on their 4.6 acre property since 2005. The gatherings were originally attended by as many as 15 people.
Hill said the city became aware of the meetings after neighbors apparently complained about traffic congestion.
In 2007 they received a letter from the city informing them that the Bible studies were not permitted in their living room because it was in violation of the construction code.
A few months later, members of the Phoenix Fire Dept. broke up the family's Good Friday fellowship. As many as 20 people were in their backyard eating a meal when firefighters threatened to call the police – unless their guests left the premises.
"Immediately after that, we decided to contact an attorney," Salman told Fox News Radio. "The city emphasized that bible studies or church-related activities are not permitted on residences because you have non-family members coming to the home and such use is considered church use."
In the summer of 2008 firefighters once again broke up a gathering – and Salman finally reached his breaking point. He ordered the firefighters to leave his property.
"We told them they had no right," he said. "They had been harassing us since February. This is our home. We are a private gathering. This is Christians gathering on my private property."
The city ignored the Salmans until 2009 – when they built a 2,000 square foot building in their backyard. Salman said he applied for and was granted the proper building permits. He also said the building has passed a city inspection.
"At that point we took our Bible study from our living room – and we moved it into that building," he said. "We started worshipping in that building every weekend."
However, Hill said Salman has "mischaracterized the facts" of the permit. She said he was given a permit to convert a garage into a game room.
"Any other occupancy or use – business, commercial, assembly, church, etc, is expressly prohibited pursuant to the city of Phoenix building code and ordinances," she told Fox News Radio.
On June 11, 2009, the Phoenix Police Dept. showed up with a search warrant. When they had completed the search, Salman was charged with 67 code violations.
He was charged with not having emergency exit signs over the doors. He was charged with not having handicap parking spaces and not having handicap ramps.
"Imagine everything that a public building would have or a commercial building would have," he said. "Anything we didn't have was a violation."
The largest source of contention has been whether or not Salman is running a church. He insists it is not.
But his building certainly resembles a church. It has chairs for as many as 40 people. There is a pulpit. There's a sign out front – along with a cross.
"Just because visitors come to my home three times a week and we discuss the Bible – if that's their definition of a church then so be it," he said.
"At what point does the government have the right to state that you cannot have family and friends over at your home three times a week?" he asked. "People have a right to gather on their property as long as parking is available, as long as they aren't parking in the street, as long as they aren't violating noise ordinances."
Hill said the facts are clear.
"He built a structure that he said wasn't a church — that is in fact — a church," she said. "It's a church."
And the courts agreed — noting in a Jan. 4, 2010 ruling: "The state is not saying the Salmans can't run a church or have worship services at the location. But the state is saying that if they do so, they must do it properly and in accord with fire and zoning codes."
Salman's attorney has filed an appeal with the federal court – and unless they intervene – Salman will start serving his sentence on July 9.


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Ian Leonard won all three matches at number six singles at the 2011 Kerry Seward Invitational to win the individual title in that flight. His victory helped Wabash finish third out of eight teams at the event.
The Memorial is a combination of a dual match of six singles and three doubles flights in a tournament draw format. Team points are earned by the finishing place of each individual player to determine the tournament champion.
Leonard (right) opened play on Saturday with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Transylvania's Tyler Pewitt. Leonard cruised to a 6-1, 6-0 win over Brian Howes from Carthage in the second round before defeating Blake Troller from Ohio Northern 6-1, 6-1 in the finals.
Ricky Ritter finished second at number five singles. The senior scored two early victories — a 6-4, 6-1 win against Daken Starkenburg from Coe College and a 6-3, 6-2 win against Nick Boomgarden from Carthage. Coe's Sean Stokstad defeated Ritter 6-3, 7-5 in the finals.
Ritter (left) and teammate Peter Gunderman were second at number two doubles. The duo picked up an 8-6 victory in the first round against the Coe doubles team of Matt Whiteside and Boomgarden. An 8-3 win against Curtis Newman and Kyle Tucker from Coe in the semifinals sent the Wabash team to the championship match, but an 8-5 loss to Michael Kathary and Khang Do Thai gave the Little Giants a second-place finish.
Leonard combined with Evan Bayless to take second place at number three doubles. An 8-1 victory over Brent Frizell and Michael Weber from Rose-Hulman and an 8-4 win over Russell Mull and Howes from Carthage was followed by an 8-5 loss to Jeff Damisch and Michael Janssen from Coe in the finals.
Wade Miller took third place at number four singles. He opened with a 6-4, 6-4 victory against Ohio Northern's Nick Kowalczyk before falling 7-6 (4), 6-1 to the eventual flight champion Jonathan Roger from Coe. Miller rebounded with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Seth Hendrickson from Rose-Hulman in the finals.
Wabash scored a total of 52 points to finish in third place, edging Carthage College by a point. Coe's Crimson team won the title with 59 points.


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Something that always disturbs me when I see a new forum is people making scores of empty forums for exceedingly specific topics that no one has an interest in posting in (least of all them) because no one has posted there.
New forums should be made when one topic overwhelms the general discussion, or is offending part of your membership (religion and politics, for example). It takes a few minutes to move the relevant threads over, yes, but it's really no big deal.
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Man it is so refreshing to see some good advice on building a successful forum. I've tried starting about 10 or so and I help moderate 2 or three, that was hard work. But thank you for posting this, I think its time to go back a revist a few things.
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Remember That Time Yoko Ono Jammed With Chuck Berry on a Morning Talk Show?
For one week in February 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono invaded living rooms across America when they co-hosted 'The Mike Douglas Show.'
Douglas was a staple of morning television back in the day, playing host to a fairly wide variety of guests, including actors, musicians, politicians and general celebrities. Having guest hosts was a regular feature on the show. But inviting hell-raisers like Lennon and Ono to co-host for a week was just asking for trouble.
The couple sat down besides Douglas during his interviews. But more significantly, they had a huge hand in picking who would appear on the show during their residency. And their picks were as controversial as they were far from the mainstream guests that usually populated TV talk shows back then: comedian George Carlin, Black Panther leader Bobby Seale, radical activist Jerry Rubin and rock 'n' roll pioneer Chuck Berry.
Lennon and his band, Elephant's Memory, even performed with Berry on a pair of the legend's classic hits, 'Memphis' and 'Johnny B. Goode.'
It was thrilling enough to watch Lennon jam with one of his rock 'n' roll heroes on songs that helped form the future Beatle's formative music years. But apparently it wasn't as a reverential moment for Ono, who seemed to think a little updating of the classic cuts was in order.
As the band jammed on, Ono showed up onstage with a drum and proceeded to pound away while Lennon and Berry ripped through 'Memphis.' Perhaps moved by the music, she even removed the microphone from its stand at one point and did that Yoko thing she does on top of the music.
Even though he never says a word or breaks from character, there is a sudden look of horror on Berry's face as he comes to the realization of what's happening to his beloved tune. Meanwhile, Lennon and band played on, business as usual, Ono finished on the mic and then returned to her drum pounding. You can watch the video of the performance above.
While the concept of such a display of music, politics, art and humor in mid-American homes may have seemed a bit outlandish at the time, in some ways, it seems even more out there now. It's doubtful that any TV show today would give up the reins and allow its guests to have such influence over the proceedings. And it sure as hell wouldn't let someone like Ono anywhere near a microphone.


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MIAMI—Dwyane Wade sat on the floor of the hallway leading into the Heat locker room, the Larry O'Brien trophy standing between his ankles, a championship cap on his head and a champagne-soaked white T-shirt clinging to his torso. He gazed ahead—miles away, mentally—apparently unaware of the horde of media clamoring outside to get in.
Chris Bosh strolled out of the locker room, found Wade sitting and joined him. Then came LeBron James, squatting on Wade's other side. Wade put an arm around each and said, "This is why we did it."
Perhaps. More accurately, though, it should be said that this is why James did it, why he bolted from his hometown Cavaliers seeking the comfort of his All-Star friends together here in Miami. Let's face it, if the Heat's free-agent haul in '10 had been limited to Bosh, they wouldn't be here.
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But James is here. And the payoff came on Thursday night in Game 7, the Heat completing an exhausting, thrilling NBA Finals with a 95-88 win to earn their second consecutive championship.
"The vision that I had when I decided to come here is all coming true," James said. "Through adversity, through everything we've been through, we've been able to persevere and to win back‑to‑back championships. It's an unbelievable feeling. I'm happy to be part of such a first‑class organization."
It is the organization, of course, that is happy to have him. This has not been an easy series for James, who shot just 43.3 percent in the first six games of this series, and only 29.2 percent from the 3-point line. But when most needed, James was at his best. He scored 37 points on the night, shooting 12-for-23 from the field and 5-for-10 from the 3-point line. He had 12 rebounds and four assists, and though he was not shy about hoisting shots from the arc, he also managed to make eight trips to the free throw line, and made all eight.
It was fitting, too, that the biggest shot of the game for James came not on a 3-pointer or a soaring dunk—no, it came on a simple jumper from the right elbow. That, it turned out, was no coincidence. James credited the San Antonio defensive game-plan for scrambling his whole approach in this series, accounting for his poor shooting, but he said a big part of what he was able to do in Game 7 came down to reasserting himself and the player he has become.
"Two‑and‑a‑half games, I watched film, and my mind started to work and I said, 'OK, this is how they're going to play me for the whole series,'" James said. "I looked at all my regular‑season stats, all my playoff stats, and I was one of the best midrange shooters in the game. I shot a career high from the 3‑point line. I just told myself, don't abandon what you've done all year. Don't abandon it now. Don't force the paint. If it's there, take it. If not, take the jumper."
He listened to his own advice. With just 27.9 seconds left in the game, following a crucial miss in the lane by Tim Duncan, James had the ball with the Heat up, 90-88. Rather than force a drive, rather than force a 3-pointer, James got to the right elbow and lifted into a jumper. It was true, and put the Heat up by two possessions, a deficit the Spurs could not overcome.
And so James was able to sit, with Wade and Bosh, huddled before the championship trophy. Much was riding on this series, this game, for James—not so much in terms of the media blather over James' waxing and waning legacy, but in terms of fulfilling the promise he made to fans and himself in 2010 about what the Heat's future held.
It was brash and it was off-putting, but it happened three short summers ago: James promised that the union of he, Wade and Bosh would yield multiple title. There would have been heartbreak had he gotten this far only to fall.
"It's the ebb and flow, the highs and lows of life," Wade said. "He's been in a championship now, what, four times? And he has won two of them. That's a great percentage when you can make it to the Finals. So the story is still yet to be seen as far as what he is going to end up with. But right now he is going to enjoy No. 2. Winning back-to-back, there's not a lot of people who have done that."
There are not a lot of people who have had the kind of 12-month stretch that James has had. He won the NBA Finals last year, and was the series MVP. He went to London with Team USA and led the Americans to a gold medal, his second straight. He won his second consecutive MVP this spring, and now has his second championship ring and was again named MVP.
Everything, basketball-wise, has finally come together for James. The promises he made have been fulfilled. So what's next?
"Give my body a break," he said. "I think that's the smartest thing. I got a wedding coming up with my beautiful fiancée. And it will be an unbelievable wedding now that we've won, instead of losing. I might have called it off if we lost."
All right, then. One more promise to fulfill.


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The Seattle Seahawks are awful. Putrid. Miserable. Monstrously ugly. They're 10 1/2 point underdogs at home to the Saints on Saturday, and that line seems downright courteous to a team that went 3-7 over its last ten games and was outscored by double digits in every single game it lost this year. No one thinks the Seahawks can win this game. Even the Seahawks don't think they can win this game. They're the turd in the playoff punch bowl and surely they know it. I think they're even getting a little kick out of it.
But you'd be a fool to assume that Saturday's outcome is a given. OH YES YOU WOULD. History tells us that any number of KRAYZEE and unexpected things can happen during the course of a football game. After all, who expected the Giants to beat the Pats in 2007? Who expected the Pats to beat the Rams in 2001? Sure, both those teams had the advantage of being competent, but that doesn't mean the Seahawks can't rise up and shock the world by somehow beating the defending champs. Here are eight reasons why:
1. They're home dogs. ALWAYS beware the home underdog! I have it on good authority that home underdogs beat the spread 97% of the time. You can bank on it. (NOTE: Stat actually false.)
2. When everyone thinks one team will win, that team never wins. This week's Seattle game represents the biggest contrarian alert in history. I picked Seattle to beat the spread and I've had to restrain myself for the past 22 hours to smack my own forehead as hard as possible and change course because they're the SEAHAWKS, man. But that doesn't matter when you have karma on your side, brother.
3. Does no one remember that the Saints are happy to lose to bad teams? Remember: They got crushed by Cleveland at home and they lost to Arizona – ARIZONA! – on the road. This is not the same Saints team that won a title last year.
They turn the ball over plenty enough where you can actually see a game plan for how Seattle could win. A few early turnovers. A big surge from the crowd. A sudden lead. BOOM! It's a miracle! Well, not a miracle. More of a perversion of the whole playoff system. But still… TRIUMPH!
4. The Saints can't run the ball. Pierre Thomas just joined Chris Ivory on IR. That leaves the heavy rushing load to… GUHHHHH… Julius Jones. Ask Seattle fans what they think of Julius Jones' ability to NOT fail.
5. Drew Brees' backup is Chase Daniel. All it takes is one injury for everything to suddenly turn, so if you see Drew Brees get his knee mangled in the first quarter on Sunday and give way to Chase Daniel… You see? Not so implausible.
6. The Heavens portend it. Look, birds are falling out of the SKY right now. Does that strike you as a sign that orderliness is thriving right now? No, it suggests something is horrible and wrong. I can think of no better omen that a 7-9 team might win a playoff game.
7. Is Pete Carroll secretly a genius? Well, no. No, he's not. But he can wave a towel like no other. You can't tell me players don't appreciate that!
8. Random stuff happens, I tell you. Look, the Saints win this game 99 times out of 100. But you never know if you'll spin the roulette wheel and land on that ONE bad time now, eh? All it takes is a flat game from New Orleans and they can lose, frankly, to any team with a resting pulse. That's how the NFL works. So don't assume that Saturday's game will automatically be a 44-0 rout. It probably will be, but the Football Gods have a cruel way of defying you like that. Beware the Hawks.


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Ten reasons the Braves are NL East champs
ATLANTA -- While the Braves entered this season with hopes of returning to the postseason for a second straight year, it is safe to say they did not envision the journey that unfolded. Significant injuries and disappointing performances provided by projected key contributors made the road much more bumpy than envisioned.
Despite the injuries and poor performances by some, the Braves more or less cruised to a National League East championship. Manager Fredi Gonzalez guided his club through the rough patches and managed to push the right buttons at the right time.
ATLANTA -- While the Braves entered this season with hopes of returning to the postseason for a second straight year, it is safe to say they did not envision the journey that unfolded. Significant injuries and disappointing performances provided by projected key contributors made the road much more bumpy than envisioned.
Despite the injuries and poor performances by some, the Braves more or less cruised to a National League East championship. Manager Fredi Gonzalez guided his club through the rough patches and managed to push the right buttons at the right time.
Consequently, the Braves led the NL East for all but one day and ended up clinching their first division title since 2005 on Sunday. Here is a look at 10 key reasons Gonzalez's club is now anxiously awaiting the chance to extend its success during the postseason.
First baseman Freddie Freeman spent this season proving why hitting coach Greg Walker has spent the past two years touting him as one of the game's top young hitters. Freeman thrived in run-producing opportunities while notching the game's second-best batting average with runners in scoring position as of Monday. His ability to hit for power to all fields and shorten his swing when necessary helped him compile the first 100-RBI season of his career and become a top National League MVP Award candidate. He is now one home run shy of becoming the first Atlanta player since Chipper Jones in 2007 to tally 25 homers and drive in more than 100 runs.
A defensive wizard's unexpected power
There is no doubt Freeman will get strong consideration for the NL MVP Award. But those who have watched the Braves on a daily basis could argue shortstop Andrelton Simmons has been even more valuable. He has solidified his status as an elite defender while recording more defensive runs saved than any other shortstop since the stat originated in 2003. Along with being a pitcher's best friend, he has also hit 17 home runs as of Monday, the second-highest total ever recorded by a Braves shortstop. Not bad for a guy whose offensive contributions will always be overshadowed by what he can do with his glove.
A red-hot start
Early indication of this club's potential was displayed as it won 13 of its first 15 games. This sizzling stretch was highlighted by a perfect six-game road trip that included the first of the two three-game sweeps completed at Nationals Park this year. Justin Upton tallied nine of the 12 April home runs during those 15 games.
14 straight
The drama surrounding the National League East race evaporated as the Braves claimed another three-game road sweep of the second-place Nationals during a 14-game winning streak that began on July 26 with a series-opening win over the Cardinals. Atlanta's division lead went from eight games to 15 1/2 games during this perfect stretch.
The 14-game winning streak began just two days after the Braves lost their veteran leader, Tim Hudson, to a horrific season-ending right leg fracture. Hudson's absence created a rotation spot for Alex Wood, who responded by posting the second-best ERA (0.90) ever recorded by a rookie pitcher during the month of August. Wood's success mirrored that of Luis Avilan, Jordan Walden and David Carpenter, who combined to fill the significant void that was created when the club's projected top setup men, Eric O'Flaherty and Jonny Venters, underwent Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery in May.
Kool Craig and the new gang
The Braves have spent most of this season leading the Majors with a bullpen ERA that could end up being the best in franchise history. Much of this has had to do with Craig Kimbrel, who has further established himself as the game's premier closer. But this overall success certainly wasn't envisioned when O'Flaherty and Venters were lost with just a quarter of the season complete. Avilan flourished as he spent his first full season sharing the setup role with Walden, who was rock solid before suffering a groin strain in late August.
Maturation of the rotation
When this season started, Hudson and Paul Maholm were the only members of the rotation who had made more than 53 career starts. But youth did not prove to be a detriment. Mike Minor and Kris Medlen built on the tremendous success they had during last year's second half and Julio Teheran quickly evolved from suspect prospect to legit front-line starter. Hudson and Maholm are the only Atlanta pitchers who have posted an ERA greater than 3.25 while making at least 10 starts.
Moving J-Hey to the top spot
The renewed optimism that surrounds the Braves is a product of the recent return of Jason Heyward, who flourished for the three weeks he spent in the leadoff spot before fracturing his jaw on Aug. 21. Simmons proved ineffective in the leadoff role and Jordan Schafer proved inconsistent when he was at the top of the lineup. Heyward hit .345 with a .418 on-base percentage in the first 23 games he played after moving to the leadoff spot on July 27. It was not a coincidence that Atlanta went 19-4 and averaged 5.0 runs during that span.
Gonzalez's steady hand
After watching the Braves endure their September collapse in 2011, Gonzalez said he and his players would learn from that experience. As his club entered this year's stretch run, he had no problem sitting the club's two highest-paid players -- B.J. Upton and Dan Uggla. He might have been more patient than some fans might have liked with the pair of veterans, who hit below .200 most of the season. But during the season's most important weeks, he simply made the moves that made the most sense for the team.
Wren's productive winter
Braves general manager Frank Wren was lauded for his offseason acquisitions of the Upton brothers. While Justin Upton played a key role in this team's success, Wren's under-the-radar winter moves also provided significant value. Two players claimed off waivers, Carpenter and Schafer, became dependable assets. Then there was Ramiro Pena, who signed a one-year deal in December that created little fanfare. But before undergoing season-ending surgery in June, Pena was one of those utility players who thrived after making the move from the American League to the National League.
Wren also benefited from his ability to get a pitcher of Walden's potential in exchange for Tommy Hanson just hours before Hanson would have likely been non-tendered. While Hanson extended his struggles with the Angels this season, Walden regained the successful form he had when he notched 32 saves two years ago.
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com.


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(Not part of KSA 8-1344) Persons under the age of 14 are prohibited from riding in any portion of the vehicle not intended for passengers; this includes riding in the back of pickup trucks. (Fine is $20 plus court costs and is a traffic infraction.)
Amended Kansas Safety Belt Use Act - KSA 8-2503, Subsection (b)
Primary law (enacted 2007):
1. Requires that each occupant who is at least 14-17 years of age must be buckled in.
2. This is a primary violation. Each occupant in violation is to be individually cited and fined.
3. The fine for each violation is $60 (with no court costs).


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"Jeanne D'Arc at Vaucouleurs" describes a crucial incident in the life of the French saint. On February 23, 1429, she was given permission by the local military commander, Robert de Baudricourt, to go to the French king, Charles VII, at Chinon. Although only 17, she had convinced Baudricourt of her powers through her successful prophecy of a French defeat just days before. This play was written by Will Hutchins, a teacher and painter at the Deerfield Academy, and it was an outdoor production. The year was 1909, and the critical success of the play - the local newspaper predicted that "these dramatics may come to have a large place in the life" of Deerfield -probably inspired the first Deerfield Pageant held the following year. The cast in this play, like the pageant's, was almost entirely drawn from Deerfield residents, a group described as a "company of educated amateurs."
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text: Missing Data in the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), 1977-2000 [United States] (ICPSR 32061) Version Date: Nov 26, 2012 View help for published Cite this study | Share this page Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn × Citation Targonski, Joseph. Missing Data in the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), 1977-2000 [United States]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-11-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR32061.v1 Export Citation: RIS (generic format for RefWorks, EndNote, etc.) EndNote Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Joseph Targonski, University of Illinois-Chicago https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR32061.v1 Version V1 Analyze Online Slide tabs to view more At A Glance Data & Documentation Variables Data-related Publications Export Metadata Staff Project Description Summary View help for Summary This study reexamined and recoded missing data in the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) for the years 1977 to 2000 for all police agencies in the United States. The principal investigator conducted a data cleaning of 20,067 Originating Agency Identifiers (ORIs) contained within the Offenses-Known UCR data from 1977 to 2000. Data cleaning involved performing agency name checks and creating new numerical codes for different types of missing data including missing data codes that identify whether a record was aggregated to a particular month, whether no data were reported (true missing), if more than one index crime was missing, if a particular index crime (motor vehicle theft, larceny, burglary, assault, robbery, rape, murder) was missing, researcher assigned missing value codes according to the "rule of 20", outlier values, whether an ORI was covered by another agency, and whether an agency did not exist during a particular time period. Citation View help for Citation Targonski, Joseph. Missing Data in the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), 1977-2000 [United States]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-11-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR32061.v1 Export Citation: RIS (generic format for RefWorks, EndNote, etc.) EndNote Funding View help for Funding United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (2004-IJ-CX-0006) Subject Terms View help for Subject Terms assault auto theft burglary crime rates crime reporting crime statistics larceny law enforcement murder offenses police police departments police records police reports rape records management robbery Uniform Crime Reports Geographic Coverage View help for Geographic Coverage United States Smallest Geographic Unit View help for Smallest Geographic Unit county Distributor(s) View help for Distributor(s) Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Scope of Project Time Period(s) View help for Time Period(s) 1977 -- 2000 Date of Collection View help for Date of Collection 1977 -- 2000 Data Collection Notes View help for Data Collection Notes The principal investigator submitted data for this project in Microsoft Excel format. ICPSR is distributing the Microsoft Excel data so that secondary users can view the color codes developed by the principal investigator for the various forms of missing data. Additionally, ICPSR converted the original Microsoft Excel data into a full suite of formats for preservation and dissemination, including SAS, SPSS, and Stata formats. More detailed information about imputation methodologies in the Offenses-Known Uniform Crime Reports, data cleaning, and the creation and testing of simulation datasets is available in the project's report (Targonski, 2011; NCJ 235152). Methodology Study Purpose View help for Study Purpose The purpose of this study was to reexamine and recode missing data in the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) for the years 1977 to 2000 for all police agencies in the United States. Study Design View help for Study Design The principal investigator performed a data cleaning of 20,067 Originating Agency Identifiers (ORIs) based on the Offenses-Known Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program Data from 1977 to 2000. The UCR Offenses-Known data collection assembles monthly crime tabulations on what is known as the "Return A" form, which is submitted monthly by police agencies. This includes the crime index, which encompasses murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft. The agency-level files from 1977-2000 were merged by the principal investigator using the ORI as the key variable to create a single longitudinal dataset. The longitudinal dataset was further prepared and cleaned by the principal investigator to create the final version that is being distributed as part of this data collection. Data cleaning entailed performing agency name checks, identifying "true missing" values, creating monthly aggregation missing value codes, identifying agencies that are "covered by" another agency, flagging non-existent agencies, creating researcher assigned missing values according to the "rule of 20", and accounting for negative values as well as outlier values. Specifically, the principal investigator performed the following data cleaning tasks: Agency name checks were performed to ensure the ORI code for each year refers to one and only one agency and to determine the years in which the ORI existed. Any month with a missing value for the Return A variable DATE LAST UPDATE was recoded as a "true missing" value (-99). To accurately account for the number of months reported, months that were flagged as missing by the DATE LAST UPDATE were recoded using distinct monthly aggregation missing value codes (-112 through -102). Some smaller agencies choose to report their UCR data through a larger neighboring agency, rather than report directly themselves to the FBI or state-reporting agency. This is a "covered by" situation, whereby the larger agency acts as the "covering" agency. For the analysis of missing data when an agency's data was "covered by" another agency, a missing value code (-85) was assigned to months in which the agency was covered by another agency. For the years that an ORI was not in existence between 1977 and 2000, another missing value code (-80) was also assigned to the months in which that particular agency did not exist. A missing value code (-90) was assigned according to a "rule of 20". The "rule of 20" established that an ORI with an average of 20 or more index crimes per month could not have zero index crimes in a month, if the DATE LAST UPDATE flagged the Return A as being submitted. For the purpose of screening outliers in the negative values, -4 was determined as the cutoff for legitimate values. Any values less than -4 were recoded as missing values (-99), since they were most likely data entry errors. To identify additional outlier values, as part of the data screening process, each agency's trend was examined graphically. In the process, outliers were detected for the crime index. The outlier values were also recoded as -90. For the crimes of motor vehicle theft, larceny, burglary, assault, robbery, rape, and murder, missing data codes (-97 through -91) were assigned if a particular index crime was missing. Additionally, if more than one index crime was missing, it was assigned a separate missing data code (-98). Sample View help for Sample The sample consists of 20,067 police agencies in the United States, as identified by all Originating Agency Identifiers (ORIs) in the Offenses-Known Uniform Crime Reporting data from 1977 to 2000. Time Method View help for Time Method Longitudinal Universe View help for Universe All police agencies in the United States between 1977 and 2000. Unit(s) of Observation View help for Unit(s) of Observation agency Data Source View help for Data Source UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING PROGRAM DATA: 1975-1997 [ICPSR 9028] UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING PROGRAM DATA: OFFENSES KNOWN AND CLEARANCES BY ARREST, 1999 [ICPSR 3158] UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING PROGRAM DATA: OFFENSES KNOWN AND CLEARANCES BY ARREST, 1998 [ICPSR 2904] UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING PROGRAM DATA: OFFENSES KNOWN AND CLEARANCES BY ARREST, 2000 [ICPSR 3447] Method of Data Collection View help for Method of Data Collection administrative records data Mode of Data Collection View help for Mode of Data Collection record abstracts Description of Variables View help for Description of Variables This study contains a total of 410 variables including an Originating Agency Identifier (ORI) name and code, population totals by year, covering agency by year, statistical metropolitan area by year, county code by year, FBI group by year, and FBI crime index totals by month and year. Response Rates View help for Response Rates Not applicable. Presence of Common Scales View help for Presence of Common Scales None. Version(s) Original Release Date View help for Original Release Date 2012-11-26 Version History View help for Version History 2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was: Targonski, Joseph. Missing Data in the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), 1977-2000 [United States]. ICPSR32061-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-11-26. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR32061.v1 2012-11-26 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:Created variable labels and/or value labels.Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes. Analysis Information Weight View help for Weight None. Notes The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution. This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.


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As far as mixing in clover in with winter wheat or big and beasty(an guessing this is like a turnip type mix) the answer will be based on this
those to seed mixeswinter wheat/turnips, DON"T get mowed, where as clover does better with a few mowings, mowing clover keeps it tender, and desirable to deer and like critters, due to the more tender it is, the better(they claim) tasting it is and the easier it is for deer to digest it, thus why they prefer it cut
mowing clover will also help in a HUGE way to keep weeds at bay, or will for sure help keep clover the main crop
Clover always looks GREAT in early spring to mid summer, then as weed seeds blow all over hell from??? And thus landing in clover plots, manymany times without mowing or spraying a clover plot can be taken over, as fast or slow, pending on clover plots take/stand, and any mowing or spraying of course
but weeds grow fater than clover, thus why there a pain in the ass to deal with
adding clover to a wheat/turnip plot, removes the ability to mow and maybe even spray that said plot?
so adding clover can be done, BUT at same time, you will have less tools to use to maintain that plot
PLUS, wheat and turnips are seasonal plantings, so every yr they need to be replaced
and clover is an annual, so your more or less wasting clover(to a point) clover will add free nitrogen to the soil, which is never a bad thing, but clover seed isn't cheap either really so??
that's your budget's call on seeding over wheat/turnips


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BRINGING POE HOME: Newton resident Paul Lewis, an English professor at Boston College, will mark Edgar Allan Poe's 205th birthday next Sunday at an event providing an overview of the public art initiative commemorating his ties to Boston.
Lewis, chairman of the Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston, will participate in a panel discussion, "The Poe Statue Project: Public Art, Creativity, Politics, and the Law," at 3 p.m. in Room 101 of BC's Devlin Hall, 140 Commonwealth Ave. in Chestnut Hill.
He will be joined by Boston Art Commission director Karin Goodfellow, Boston arts lawyer Andrew Epstein, and Hartwick College associate philosophy professor Stefanie Rocknak, who created a work in wood, "Poe Returning to Boston,'' that is being prepared for display in the author's original hometown as a life-size bronze sculpture.
The panelists will address the legal, artistic, political, and fund-raising challenges of the project, its current status, and the public art process. Organizers, who are in the final phase of fund-raising, hope to install the sculpture this year in Boston's Edgar Allen Poe Square, at Boylston and Charles streets.
Poe was born in Boston in 1809, and returned in 1827 to his birth city, where he published works including "Tamerlane and Other Poems," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "Hop-Frog."
According to Lewis, Poe deserves the tribute because he challenged contemporaries such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Margaret Fuller, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, deriding them as "Frogpondians" and "so-called Transcendentalists."
"By resisting then-fashionable didacticism and promoting literature for its own sake, Poe became a foundational figure in the development of popular culture," Lewis says.
For more information on next Sunday's event, contact Lewis at 617-552-3710 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
SWEET GESTURE: Every December for the past 10 years, students at the Fay School in Southborough have raised funds for charity by selling candy-cane greetings. This holiday season's effort held special meaning, with seventh- to ninth-graders raising more than $1,500 for the Spaulding Hospital for Continuing Medical Care Cambridge as a tribute to a Fay alumna from Sudbury.
The gift honors Aubrey Baumbach , a Lafayette College freshman who was critically injured in a hit-and-run accident as she walked with fellow members of the crew team after a practice in November. She has been continuing her recovering at Spaulding, where she was transferred after her initial treatment in Pennsylvania.
Fay art teacher Billy Claire, who with English teacher Deb Smith advises the dozen students coordinating the $1 "candy-cane-o-gram'' sale, said he was heartened by the response. The drive exceeded the $1,000 goal for the first time, partly thanks to an anonymous $250 gift from a Fay parent and the donation of 1,200 candy canes by a Concord real estate agency, Barrett Sotheby's International Realty.
"Our students, colleagues, and everyone around us really went the extra distance to support the fund-raiser," Claire said. "It's an amazing thing."
ADOPTION OPTION: In 1989, Marlene Fine and Fern Johnson of Carlisle decided to adopt a child, and expected to be working with an international organization. But then the women — who are white — learned about the large number of black children in foster care across the United States.
"It turned us upside down," Johnson recalled.
Just four months later, they welcomed 4-week-old William into their home. Two years after that, they waited a similarly short period before 4-month-old Julius joined their family.
Fine, a communications professor at Simmons College, and Johnson, a sociolinguist in the English department at Clark University, recently wrote the book they wish had been available to them at the time. They will discuss "The Interracial Adoption Option: Creating a Family Across Race" on Wednesday at the Nashoba Brooks School, 200 Strawberry Hill Road in Concord.
The authors will begin signing copies of the book at 6:30 p.m., and then offer a presentation and take part in a panel discussion with adoptive parents moderated by Charles Streff, a former consulting psychologist at the Fenn School in Concord who is now in clinical practice in Acton.
Despite their academic knowledge of race and culture, Johnson said, she and Fine realized early on that there was still much to learn. In their book, they describe their personal experiences, offer practical advice, and share vignettes from others regarding skin and hair care, school issues, creating a support system, the importance of a healthy racial identify, and what to do if you suspect your child is being treated unfairly because of race.
As a example of how even innocent incidents can feel prejudicial, Fine recalls becoming increasingly frustrated when Julius, a talented trumpet player, never performed a solo in the middle school band. By the third year, she was prepared to confront the band director — until Julius informed her that he had turned down multiple invitations to do so.
Fine said their hope is for the book to serve as a useful resource for those interested in issues of race, as well as individuals pursuing adoption.
"Ultimately, we want to share with people what has been an incredibly empowering and joyful journey," she added, "in hope that others might join us."
The book event is cosponsored by Nashoba Brooks and the Fenn School. For more information on their book, visit the publisher's website, www.jkp.com .
HAPPY DAY, POPEYE: Watertown resident Fred Grandinetti has teamed with New York actor Cuyle Carvin once again to wish Popeye a happy 85th birthday on Friday.
The spinach-loving sailor man first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip "Thimble Theatre" (later renamed "Popeye") by Elzie Crisler Segar on Jan. 17, 1929.
In the brief segment on Grandinetti's award-winning cable-access series "Drawing With Fred," Popeye squeezes open a can of spinach and the contents land in Carvin's mouth. As Carvin flexes his biceps, images of Popeye over the years appear on his chest.
Grandinetti, author of three books and numerous articles about Popeye, noted that the character's determination was an inspiration during the Great Depression. Popeye was also the first comic-strip superhero, predating Superman's emergence in 1938, he said.
"It is always a pleasure for me to come up with creative ways to honor Popeye's achievements," Grandinetti said.
"Drawing With Fred" airs in Watertown, Needham, Salem, and New Bedford, and can be viewed at www.facebook.com/drawingwithfred.People items may be submitted to Cindy Cantrell at email@example.com.


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Chairman Joseph T. Kelliher's statement on Puget Energy, Inc.
"Today, the Commission conditionally approves the merger of Puget Energy, the holding company that owns Puget Sound Energy and other public utilities, and a number of investor firms, led by Macquarie Group. We authorize the transaction as consistent in the public interest. We find the transaction will not harm competition or rate, and will not adversely affect regulation. We also find that the merger will not result in improper cross subsidization.
This order demonstrates the Commission's approach to police improper cross subsidization, as required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Cross subsidization is not a new responsibility for the Commission, preventing cross subsidies has been at the heart of our economic regulation since the 1930s. Up to this point, we have policed cross subsidies primarily when we set rates, rather than at the point of a merger.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 expanded the Commission's merger authority and gave us this new responsibility to police improper cross subsidies in the course of merger review. We have been careful in our exercise of this new authority.
It is important to recognize that a great variety of transactions are subject to section 203 of the Federal Power Act, and that certain types of transactions are unlikely to raise cross subsidization concerns. For example, transactions not involving a franchised public utility with captive customers, or transactions involving a sale of assets between a public utility and a non-affiliate. We established safe harbors for these types of transactions.
Other types of transactions raise some risk of cross subsidization. Both federal and state regulators have an interest in policing cross subsidies, and the kind of transactions that entail potential cross subsidization would typically be subject to review by both federal and state regulators. For that reason, we consulted closely with our state colleagues on the best way to police improper cross subsidies. Our state colleagues actively participated in the development of our expanded merger authority and urged us to refrain from taking a preemptive approach.
The reality is that as a general matter there is more than one way to prevent improper cross subsidization. In our exercise of our new responsibility to police cross subsidies in the course of merger review, we could have taken a preemptive approach, laying down a uniform federal rule on cross subsidization that would override inconsistent state approaches. Under this approach some state merger conditions would be preempted, even if they would guard against improper cross subsidization just as effectively as the federal rule. Recognizing the common interest in policing improper cross subsidization, that approach seemed wholly inappropriate, since it would produce unnecessary conflict between federal and state regulators that did not advance the public interest.
Under our more flexible approach, we will give a hard look to merger conditions imposed by a state commission to protect consumers from improper cross subsidization or encumbrance, such as ring fencing or other measures. If we determine these conditions are sufficient to guard against improper cross subsidization, FERC will not impose additional conditions. Where a state lacks authority to condition mergers, FERC will craft appropriate safeguards against improper cross subsidization.
In this case, the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission has strong ring fencing requirements, and the applicants have proposed ring fencing commitments and other measures to insulate Puget Sound from any risk related to the financial activities of its affiliates as a result of the transaction. Under our approach, we will accept the conditions adopted by the Washington commission unless we find them inadequate to police improper cross subsidization. We reserve our authority to issue supplemental orders as appropriate after reviewing the ring fencing provisions adopted by the Washington commission
I believe our approach in this transaction demonstrates the soundness of FERC's approach towards policing improper cross subsidization."
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WOODBURY,. BRIAN: The Brian Woodbury Songbook
For those who like songs, a little eccentric but not too strange, with full arrangements, more in the mainstream of show tradition, except with flashes of brilliance, Brian is one of the few- 'Consummate songwriting and craft, says Van Dyke Parks, 'not since Esquivel and the young Brian Wilson have I heard sound of this romantic design. Indispensable.' A song has to please many masters. These shift from the centre to the edge. Of course I prefer the edge; and you won't come across this CD anywhere else, I'm sure.
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15 years ago Jeff Buckley, Cameron Diaz, Gunshot Glitter, Jeff Buckley, Jeff Buckley Grace, Mystery White Boy, Sketches for my sweetheart the drunk, Twitter Jeff Buckley, Yasmin Selena Butt
Blogposts are funny little things. You don't do one for ages and then two come along at once. This wasn't the one I planned to post today, but it feels imperative that I do, because it marks a day, that many people around the world are taking a moment to pause and consider.
Life is hectic and I would be a liar if I said that if it hadn't been trending on Twitter, I might not have noticed this very fact. But it was 15 years ago that singer song-writer, son of Tim and Mary, Scorpio, Mystery White Boy and the American boy with the gorgeous, multi-octave voice, actually christened Scott – but known as Jeff Buckley, drowned. He was last witnessed wading into the water, playing his guitar. It was widely regarded as an accident. I believe it was too.
He was young, barely thirty, and at the time he was completing his follow up album to cult success and his critically-acclaimed debut, Grace, with a record titled ' Sketches for my Sweetheart the Drunk.' Back in 1994, Jeff had become a folk-rock poster boy. He was an attractive, more handsome version of his father,' Song to the Siren' tunesmith, Tim Buckley. A father who had been largely absent from his son's life.
I remember reading about him in SKY magazine. If memory serves me well, he featured in the same issue that featured a young, stunning Cameron Diaz on the front. I think I took one look at her and decided ' Right, young lady, you are coming home with ME!'
I had no idea that it would be the boy with the eyebrows featured inside, who would steal my heart both musically and otherwise. I still have the issue. I loved the piece on Jeff. I remember buying 'Grace' on tape from Reckless Records in Islington for £5.99, which was a whole heap of cash to me on a student grant. Plus both the CD single releases for ' Last Goodbye,' because I wanted the extra tracks. Not that I had a CD player to play them on. I was always a bit of a completist when it came to buying the things I loved.
I really, really wanted to see him play live. I remember scanning gig dates and then spotting with huge excitement that he was actually playing dates in the UK. But then the disappointment that I'd missed his London dates. There was one gig left listed. It was all the way in Cambridge. And I had my finals on at University. I would love to write and say that I dropped everything and went to see him play. But I can't because I didn't. It was too big an upheaval when I had a bunch of Russian history dates to learn and the suchlike. I told myself, I'd see him play the next time I spotted he was touring and playing live. But that time never came. Because on May 29th 1997, Jeff Buckley died.
I read about it in TNT magazine. One of those freebie titles you see handed out at tube stations and I still remember how utterly shocked I was. It was a lovely,sunny day and I was probably gallivanting around Londinium as you do. I just remember feeling numb and thinking, what a senseless, senseless waste of one so young. I couldn't quite comprehend it. Accidental deaths are heartbreaking, because you end up thinking, if he'd decided to sunbathe he'd still be alive. If he decided to go and eat an ice-cream he'd still be with us. But that kind of thinking just leads nowhere fast thanks to the butterfly effect. Different actions herald different consequences.
The music press all debated what would happen to Jeff's album ' Sketches for my Sweetheart The Drunk.' I knew he'd not completed it, many of the songs were unfinished or in demo form. I just know that the idea of never hearing it felt awful, so I am so grateful that his mother, Mary, decided to finish it somehow and release it. As records go I genuinely think it's a great one. It was released as a double CD I loved it. I loved the rawness and flaws of the lo-fi tracks especially, and the one that jumped out at me was 'Gunshot Glitter.'
I thought what a title! What an absolutely cracking, fantastic title. It put all kinds of images in my head and I loved how twisted and raw his voice sounded on it. The music has an almost splintered quality to it. I never forgot that song. Almost a decade later when I was working on my debut novel, which is set in London and Manchester and features an anti-heroine who is dark, messed up, but struggling to find her way back to redemption, despite having committed some seriously heinous deeds, I had to name a club which was the focal point of the story and I remembered the name of the song I loved so much. Gunshot Glitter. The line ' Lipstick my name across your mirror/ Bloodred with faked gunshot glitter.'
It stayed in my head.
It never left.
And so I chose it as my title and named the club after it. As is the case when someone beautiful and talented dies, the media and the world eulogise them and the sales of their records shoot through the roof. We do that thing of coveting something, because we don't realise what we had until it's gone. Jeff Buckley was awesome and I am so glad I twigged that in his life-time. To me, music, art, film, books are enduring and it means a lot to me that I am surrounded by it and can look to it all for my own creative inspiration.
So, thank you, Jeff, for Gunshot Glitter. Thank you for being one of the key inspirations for my debut novel. It's going to be self-published later this year because I wanted to do it my way and retain creative control. You 'll hear more about it all in due course.
There was a place for him in the world and judging by this beautiful outpour and the remembrances on Twitter, there was a place for him in many people's hearts and music collections too. If you have your own memory of Jeff or his music, share it. Let's all remember the Mystery White Boy today.


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Has anyone had the pleasure of having all of these synths in your rig at one time? In either case (Whether you had them all at once or at different times), what was your experiences like with them? Which do you think sound better overall for the type of music that YOU do?
As you see, this is not a true VERSUS question, but I just like to see different opinions based on personal experience, as well as the creative ideas of others.
Talk away!