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A little taste of France has opened in the heart of Downtown. Chez du Bon Fresh Market & French Eaterie opened its doors on Nov. 15 at 122 S. High St., in digs that no longer bear any resemblance to the former Wendy's whose space it now occupies.
A little taste of France has opened in the heart of Downtown. Chez du Bon Fresh Market & French Eaterie opened its doors on Nov. 15 at 122 S. High St., in digs that no longer bear any resemblance to the former Wendy�s whose space it now occupies.
It�s part market, part restaurant and decidedly French, as the restaurant aims to serve those looking for a sit-down meal as well as those seeking quick takeout.
The space has a sit-down bistro on the mezzanine, as well as a florist; a charcuterie; and a bakery selling sandwiches and fresh-baked baguettes and pastries, including New Orleans-style beignets.
It also features made-to-order crepes, and a fresh market with jams, oils, vinegars, wine and beer, fresh produce and a dairy case featuring Snowville Creamery products.
The place also also sells coffee, including New Orleans� Cafe du Monde brand.
Owner Yavonne Sarber said she hopes Chez du Bon serves many needs.
Sarber is part of Fab Dining Group, which also owns De Novo Bistro and the Manifesto scotch bar Downtown.
She envisions Chez du Bon as a place where people can run in and grab beignets and chocolate croissants, or fill a basket for a picnic in Columbus Commons.
�But we also appeal to people who live Downtown and just need to pick up some produce and bread instead of heading out to shop in the suburbs,� Sarber said.
Either way, she hopes Chez du Bon will become Columbus� go-to destination for French cuisine.
The grab-and-go menu features lobster beignets, salad nicoise and seared ahi tuna sandwiches. The bistro serves dishes such as smoked salmon rillettes, French onion soup, duck confit cassoulet and Prince Edward Island mussels.
Chez du Bon is decked out in marble, with yellow and white-striped booths; large graphics on the walls; shimmering high-backed chairs and opulent, brightly colored chandeliers.
It took about three months of construction to convert it into a 5,500-square-foot space with a bar that seats 13, a bistro on the mezzanine that seats 30, and the market and bakery space.
�We like to say we de-Wendyfied it,� Sarber said. �I�m lucky I can visualize easily, and it�s become our best-looking spot yet. It�s beautiful. There�s not a chance anyone would recognize it� as a former fast-food restaurant.
Although Sarber, via Fab Dining Group, now operates three restaurants Downtown, she already is working on a fourth.
Construction is scheduled to begin on Jan. 1 on the latest concept: Pink Cow, a �blues bar and Southern food kind of thing,� Sarber said. It will be in the Thai Lotus restaurant space at 26 N. High St. It is set to open in 2014.
�There are so many opportunities Downtown. As long as the market wants us, we�ll keep going,� Sarber said. �I live down here. With all the residential coming in, people are excited to live and work Downtown again. We love the whole community feeling.�
Chez du Bon is open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday.Off the menu
� Peapod Play Cafe has opened at 4874 Thompson Rd. It has an indoor play space for children and a cafe for parents. For more information, go to www.peapodplaycafe.com.
� Strongwater Food & Spirits, a bar, restaurant and event space, has opened at 401 W. Town St.
� Holy Smoke in Gahanna is taking orders for carry-out Thanksgiving main courses, such as smoked turkey, and sides. Items can be picked up on Thanksgiving morning. For more information, call 614-471-8844.Obit file
� Gallo�s Pit Barbecue, 2234 W. Dublin-Granville Rd., has closed. A note on the company�s Facebook page said the restaurant�s catering division is still open for business, at least temporarily.
� Claddagh Irish Pub, 8745 Sancus Blvd., has closed and all of its contents have been auctioned off.
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Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Impacts on Knowledge Sharing: An Empirical Study
Purpose –This study attempted to examine the Influence of Organizational Citizenship Behavior by five dimensions: (altruism, courtesy, sportsmanship, conscientiousness, and civic virtue) on Knowledge Sharing in the Jordanian business environment – Specifically in pharmaceutical industry companies.
Design/methodology/approach – For this purpose, a questionnaire was developed and distributed to (205) employees were selected from the population of pharmaceutical industry companies. Number of (193) questionnaires were returned, (4) were rejected due to incomplete responses and (189) responses which comprises (92 %) of the target sample.
Findings –The most important findings of the study reveled that dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior (respectively: Sportsmanship, Conscientiousness, and Altruism) had more impact on the knowledge sharing are.
Originality/value – The paper contributes to previous research by adding to existing knowledge regarding Knowledge Sharing. The paper makes key recommendations towards development of Citizenship organizational behavior in Jordanian pharmaceutical industry companies and consequently enhancing knowledge sharing.
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PARIS (AP) - Regulators in Google's largest European markets are taking joint action to try and force the company to overhaul its privacy policy.
Led by France, organizations in Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Italy agreed Tuesday on the joint action.
The regulators claim Google has failed to make concrete changes to its privacy policy, leaving customers in the dark about the information the company has about them and how long it is kept. Last year the company merged 60 separate privacy policies into one universal procedure.
Officials from Google Inc. have said the policy was a necessary - and legal - streamlining.
Privacy experts say Google's ability to gather and combine user data is key for the company, whose search engine has about 95 percent market penetration in Europe.
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Mission work comes in all shapes and forms - preaching the gospel, teaching, medicine.
And even construction.
That's what a group from Grandview Baptist Church of Estherville will be doing in a few weeks when they depart Feb. 7 for a two-week stint in Las Piedras, Uruguay where they'll do finishing work on a church addition they built onto a house three years ago. Making the journey will be Loren and Linda Anderson, Cattie Tvedt and Betty and Dennis Lukins. It's a follow-up to the same trip the Andersons and Lukinses made February 2010 with seven other church members.
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Grandview Baptist Church members planning a February trip to Uruguay are Loren and Linda Anderson, Cattie Tvedt and Betty and Dennis Lukins.
They'll find temperatures of 94 to 100 and Sharon Clark, Linda's sister, who has served as a missionary there for 47 years, starting up churches.
Dennis, who works for the City of Estherville electrical department, and Loren, a contractor, will be putting their expertise to work when they put lights and a false ceiling and sheetrock in the church, actually a 20-by-40 concrete block addition to a house.
"We really do have a wonderful time," said Betty.
"By the time you're done, it's like you're leaving another family," added Dennis.
While there are no problems with civil unrest, Linda said there is a lot of crime and drugs. That's pretty apparent by the bars on the windows of homes. Paul Slaughter, church mission coordinator, said people even steal light fixtures and Linda said it isn't recommended that they walk around by themselves at night.
The Italian-influenced cuisine is wonderful, though, said Linda, with the seasons opposite ours, making it the equivalent of our August when they arrive. Winters tend to be cooler with temperatures into the 30s.
The trip is a special treat for Linda who will again get to see her sister, Sharon Clark, who's been a missionary there for 47 years, starting up churches. Sharon attended Pillsbury Baptist College in Owatonna, Minn.
Probably one of the hardest things about the trip will be getting there. They'll depart from Sioux Falls, S.D. and fly to Chicago then Miami and finally take an eight-and-a-half-hour flight to Montevideo, Uruguay.
Grandview Baptist will hold a valentine's banquet 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16 to raise funds for its various projects. Those attending will have the chance to see the missionaries in Uruguay via Skype.


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This free series of films will be held over five Wednesdays in February and March with each film beginning at 6:45 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.). Refreshments will be served.
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North Carolina developer takes on Norwich hotel effort
Norwich - A North Carolina hotel developer has completed foreclosure action on an abandoned, partially constructed hotel project on Route 82 off Interstate 395 at Exit 80, and city officials say the firm hopes to complete construction.
Winston Hospitality Inc. of Raleigh, N.C., completed a complex foreclosure process against former owner PRA at Norwich LLC and numerous other lien holders in Hartford Superior Court. The action was filed on the Norwich land records Tuesday for the incomplete hotel building at 154 Salem Turnpike.
Robert Winston, chief executive officer of the firm, could not be reached for comment Wednesday. Winston Hospitality's website describes the firm as a hotel development and management company with seven hotels in Alabama, North Carolina, Texas, Florida, Tennessee and Oklahoma.
Robert Mills, president of the Norwich Community Development Corp., said he has been in discussions with Winston since January. Mills said the company also took ownership of a defunct hotel project in Wallingford and plans to complete both hotels.
But Mills said the "2½ years of legal wrangling" was just the first obstacle for the firm. The abandoned building has been vandalized by metal thieves and now requires costly renovations. The local hotel market also remains depressed, adding to financial concerns for the project.
The property is not located in a city enterprise zone or in the downtown revitalization area, where it would automatically qualify for tax breaks and other city financial programs.
Mayor Peter Nystrom and City Manager Alan Bergren said city officials do not yet know what form of city assistance the developers will seek. Bergren said tax increment financing - in which future taxes are dedicated to paying off loans for the project - could be a possibility.
"It's good news," Bergren said of the takeover. "I don't know how long it's going to take. They've been working to close out a lot of liens. He did indicate it was a daunting task."
PRA at Norwich Inc., a Philadelphia-based company, received permits in 2006 for a 113-room Hampton Inn & Suites at the site. Construction progressed steadily, and the building seemed nearly done when work stopped and financial problems mounted. Several companies filed liens for unpaid work, and the Bank of Smithtown started foreclosure in August 2010.
Hotel developer's pitch for tax incentives needs OK from Norwich officials, who aren't convinced
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GroupOffice is a groupware suite that takes your office online, implementing online collaboration and CRM. It allows you to share projects, calendars, files and email online with co-workers and clients. It is easy to use and fully customizable. It also features synchronization with PDAs and Outlook.
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eLabFTW is an electronic laboratory notebook system. Once installed on a server, every member of a lab can write up their experiments, upload files, manage a database of products (antibodies, chemicals, siRNA, papers, or whatever you want). It was created with usability and security in mind, is very easy to use, and has a long list of features specific to research life.
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Madrona builds on the Django Web framework and PostGIS DBMS to offer a flexible set of building blocks for creating cutting-edge tools for decision support and area-based planning. It provides an automatic RESTful API for the GeoDjango feature models you create, with full CRUD operations and support for GeoJSON and KML, robust features for sharing and collaborative design amongst users, JavaScript libraries for quickly developing sophisticated client-side UIs, and the ability to use any 2D or 3D mapping client, including the Google Earth Web plugin.
A minimalist Web server for configuration forms.
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Just poking fun at some of the old days when this was a daily reminder... :mhcky21:
Player X
RC: 49.5 (MLB #5 and 1B #1)
Just poking fun at some of the old days when this was a daily reminder... :mhcky21:
Player X
RC: 49.5 (MLB #5 and 1B #1)
Player X? Is that Speed Racer's long lost brother (you young-pups won't understand!)?!?! Player X... I love it.
This Player X character is having a heck of year so far. I wonder if he has a good attitude, gets along with teammates and is well-received by the fans and opposing teams?
Back before HRs meant everything... Player X would be in serious consideration for the N.L. MVP award.
Small market fan... always hoping, but never expecting.
If player X hits .380 and Team Y makes the playoffs Player X WILL BE the NL MVP.
And Manager Z will be Manager of the Year. But will that be enough for a contract extension?Originally Posted by BuckeyeRed27
Will trade this space for a #1 starter.
Probably not if banned from baseball ex-manager A is reinstated to the game.Originally Posted by creek14
Not if Big-O has anything to say about it.Originally Posted by creek14
"It's easier to give up. I'm not a very vocal player. I lead by example. I take the attitude that I've got to go out and do it. Because of who I am, I've got to give everything I've got to come back."
-Ken Griffey Jr.
Player X definitely seems to be playing better than the Name Brand 1Bs.
The" I-mobile" is back.
The I-Mobile lives again.Originally Posted by RANDY IN CHAR NC
What a BEAU-TI-FUL looking set of wheels!
What's the point of these threads?
Grape works as a soda. Sort of as a gum. I wonder why it doesn't work as a pie. Grape pie? There's no grape pie. - Larry David
That maybe the boys wouldn't be 30-21 without Player X. Or that the run differential would be about 35 fewer without player X. Or that a roster of $325K sub-par guys would be the worst team in baseball.Originally Posted by MWM
And last but not least, giving some much deserved props to so-called Player X (and if it also pokes some gentle fun then who am I to complain!) :mhcky21:
I've been expecting this thread for a few days, after all Ben has been in a bad slump dragging his average down from .290 where it was for most of the season. It's time to mark him up as a failure but let us not forget the Reds' failures too in their own slumps- Kearns, Larue, Jimenez, Dunn.
Ben, in his rookie year, matched Casey. Sure he is not going to do that this year, but lets see where he ends up at season's end before we take fun from his failure. Let's wait a bit on player X too. If Casey slips, so do the Reds.
Also do not forget that the player the Reds received in return in that shrewd trade is now toiling in Buffalo below BB.
Broussard shoos away his slump
Monday, May 31, 2004
Paul Hoynes
Plain Dealer Reporter
Strange thoughts were bubbling in Ben Broussard's head.
He talked about burning incense or, maybe, a bat. He was open to any suggestion when Casey Blake offered him his old baseball shoes.
"They were size 12," Broussard said. "Casey said there were a lot of hits in them."
Broussard didn't need to hear another word. He grabbed the shoes, laced them up and waited for the hits to come Sunday in the Tribe's 4-3 victory over Oakland.
It took a while.
Tim Hudson struck out Broussard in the second inning. He bounced out to first in the fourth. By the time Broussard batted in the seventh, he was 0-for-27 and felt like he'd been fitted with a cement overcoat for the next episode of "The Sopranos."
"You start feeling that weight," Broussard said.
The weight lifted when Broussard lined a single off Eric Chavez's glove at third base.
"It's like when you hit your first big-league home run . . . you don't remember anything," he said.
Broussard has been through slumps in the minors, but never in the big leagues.
"This is a different demon up here," he said.
Broussard was happy the Indians won and that he went through a slump like this in May instead of September.
"I've got four months to build on it," he said. "I can enjoy the off-day and come back Tuesday and start from ground zero."
As for Blake's shoes, Broussard is keeping them.
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RALEIGH – North Carolina's seasonally adjusted May unemployment rate decreased to 8.8 percent from April's revised rate of 8.9 percent. The rate in April had been North Carolina's lowest point in more than four years.
From April to May this year, the national unemployment rate increased to 7.6 percent from 7.5 percent.
North Carolina's May 2013 rate was 0.7 of a percentage point lower than a year ago.
The number of people employed in North Carolina increased by 1,018 during the month and by 37,331 during the year. The jobless rate declined by 2,451 during the month and 29,767 during the year. This brings the total number of employed North Carolinians to 4,303,514 and the unemployed to 416,565.
However, North Carolina Budget and Tax Center public policy analyst, Allen Freyer previously told WCHL that the month-to-month comparison of the unemployment rate doesn't tell the whole story of North Carolina's current economic condition.
The total labor force, as calculated by the Department of Commerce, is the pool of prime age workers who have a job or want one. So a decrease in unemployed people does not always mean an increase in those employed.
It's also important to note that industry employment estimates are subject to large seasonal patterns. For example, of the major industries for which pay roll data are seasonally adjusted, Leisure & Hospitality Services had the largest over-the-month gain in jobs between April and May, while many other industries had an overall higher number of jobs despite a seasonal decrease.
The county unemployment rates for May 2013 are scheduled to be updated on Tuesday, July 2, 2013.


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Social Security Widow Benefits
What are the rules for widows, widowers, and survivors with their own benefits?
En español | Q. I know that Social Security provides monthly benefits for widows and widowers and their children. Can you explain how this program works?
A. The Social Security Administration (SSA) is best known for providing retirement benefits to 38 million Americans. The SSA also plays a less-noticed but equally significant role by providing financial help to Americans who have lost loved ones.
Under Social Security law, when a person who has worked and paid Social Security taxes dies, certain members of that person's family may be eligible for survivor benefits.
As a result, there are now about 5 million widows and widowers receiving monthly benefits from Social Security based on the earnings records of their deceased spouses. Benefits also go to many children of deceased workers.
Below is a list of who may be eligible to receive survivor benefits. Please be aware that the rules are complicated and the best source for personal information is Social Security at 1-800-772-1213 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday.
For more information, see: "Planning for Your Survivors."
Widows and widowers
- Widows and widowers who have reached full retirement age generally receive 100 percent of the spouse's benefit.
- They can take reduced survivor benefits as early as age 60-- or age 50 if disabled.
- If they are under full retirement age, they receive about 71.5 to 99 percent of the worker's benefit.
- They can receive benefits at any age if they take care of the deceased's child if the child is under age 16 or disabled. The individual caring for the child receives 75 percent of the worker's benefit.
Unmarried children
- Benefits can be paid to unmarried children under 18, or up to age 19, if they are attending high school full time. The child receives 75 percent of the worker's benefit.
- Under certain circumstances, benefits can be paid to stepchildren, grandchildren or adopted children. Benefits can be paid to children at any age if they were disabled before age 22 and remain disabled.
Dependent parents
- Benefits can be paid to dependent parents who are age 62 and older. For parents to qualify as dependents, the deceased worker -- that is, the son or daughter --would have had to provide at least one-half of the parent's financial support.
Divorced spouses
- If your divorced spouse dies, you can receive benefits as a widow or widower if the marriage lasted 10 years or more, you are age 60 or older (age 50 if disabled). Rules may vary if you remarry.
Q. What happens when widows or widowers who receive survivor benefits become eligible for their own retirement benefits?
A. Social Security provides widows and widowers with considerable flexibility in deciding how to take their benefits.
For example, a widow who took a reduced survivor benefit at age 60, can switch to her own earnings record when she becomes eligible at age 62-- if the benefit would be greater. Or she can wait to switch until she reaches full retirement age and receive her own full retirement benefit -- if that is higher.
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Having said that, the biggest problem I'm noticing is that Emily doesn't seem to face any challenges as she implements her plan.
She has endless resources, and they enable her to do anything and everything. But in order for this to remain interesting, we need to see some more obstacles thrown in her path, or even, maybe, have one of her revenge plots fail. At three episodes in, we have learned the formula, so now is the time to twist it on its head, and throw us something unexpected. Also, the threads of the story that revolve around Emily, Victoria, Daniel, and Jack are all edge-of-your-seat viewing, but it seems most of the secondary characters and story lines don't add a whole lot, and may need to be rethought.
So anyways, Declan and Jack's father died. Declan is having lots of issues with his father's death that I don't care about at all. Yeah, I said it. Declan is painful to watch. I'd like to write that it has nothing to do with Connor Paolo--but I think that it has everything to do with him. I also found him to be painful as Eric on GOSSIP GIRL as well. Maybe he is a black hole that makes anyone he interacts with uninteresting?Thankfully, any stick-nails-in-my-eyes scenes we are forced to endure with Jack and Declan tend to give way to a scene between Emily and Jack. Speaking of which, that damn dog Sammy can't seem to get it through his head that Emily is no longer Amanda. He needs to stay with Jack. When Emily brings Sammy back to Jack, the amazing chemistry that only seems to get stronger every week continues to crackle between these two.
Their screen time together is limited for the moment, but they make the most of every minute. I wanted Emily to run and embrace Jack when he told her that his dad was dead. That isn't going to happen anytime soon, so onward we go.
With the exception of the above, brief, interesting blip, the trajectory of this story line remains a dud. Nolan is dragged into this sinking ship of a subplot later on in the episode. When he is with Emily, there is a smarmy kind of intensity between the two of them. They almost seem to hate each other, and I don't actually think they are going to make out, but if it did happen, I wouldn't be surprised. Unfortunately, Nolan is also finding himself in Declan's orbit. He wants to help Declan get even with the guys that beat him up, so he gives Declan access to Adam's webcam. Golly, there seems to be no limit to what these people can do.
The first glimpse they get has Charlotte in the frame as well, so Declan won't record anything. Because he is a gentleman? It's unclear. Charlotte is the child that the Graysons don't need. Ever think to yourself: "Would there be anything missing from this show if these characters didn't exist?" Me too. The answer is no. Eventually Declan does get the goods on Adam (he is cheating on Charlotte) but instead of sending her the incriminating clip, heemails her a video of him asking her out. I hope that they go out on that boat together, never to return.
Amidst all of that clutter, we have the weekly Clash of The Titans face off: Victoria vs. Emily. While Emily continues her plan to get even with every person that did her father wrong, Victoria continues her quest to find out everything that she can about Emily. Her latest obsession is Emily's participation in the Landmark Preservation Committee, a group she belonged to with Michael Davis, ex-husband of Lydia Davis. In case you forgot, Lydia was the first victim that Emily took down.
This week's victim is Senator Kingsley. He was the federal prosecutor who tried her father's case. This did wonders for his career, and it's obvious that he is deeply involved with the Graysons' as Victoria is reluctant to plan the fundraiser for him, but she does it anyway. That, and the million shady references to what they've all done for each other. Thanks.
Erin had become pregnant, and Kingsley had been sending her money to "take care" of the situation. They manage to never say the word, "abortion." This is the Hamptons! But maybe they should have, since Erin keeps the baby. All of this goes against everything that his platform stands for.
Meanwhile, on her date with Daniel, Emily orchestrates a confrontation with Patrick, the brother of the girl who Daniel paralyzed in the accident that everyone likes to pretend never happened. Daniel tries to apologize, but Patrick understandably looses his shit and tells Daniel to apologize to Sara, his sister. Daniel later tells Emily that his mother had made it very publicly known how she felt about Daniel and Sara. He had grown drunk and mad that night, and took off, leading to the accident that left Sara injured. Sara was left with no permanent damage but a rough road of recovery. They paid off her family, and Daniel was told to never see Sara again.
Emily encourages him to own up to his mistakes. At first glance it seemed like Emily may have been out to get Daniel as well. But is getting to know him changing the trajectory of her plan for Daniel? Perhaps she is trying to save him from becoming the worst parts of his parents? Obviously she set Daniel up to see Patrick, but is it all a means to an end, to discern that Daniel is nothing like his parents? These are the kinds of cracks that we need to see in her facade. Maybe she is playing him and this is all a part of her plan to take down every member of the Grayson family, but it's nice to wonder. Plus, they are really dreamy together.
The day of the BBQ finally arrives! Victoria is practically floating on air, she is so pleased with herself. Victoria thinks that she has deduced that Emily was the reason that Michael and Lydia's marriage ended. Victoria's lust for Emily's head on a stake is only further fueled by Frank's revelation that Emily had driven Daniel to see Sarah at the rehab center. When Michael finally arrives, Victoria warmly greets him and brings him straight to Emily. . . who barely recognizes him.
Or at least that is how Emily plays it. Whatever Michael did, it was not with Emily, since he soon introduces Victoria to his date, Cameron, a girl about the same age as Emily. Turns out Emily is the one that had introduced the two of them. Victoria must have been so mad, she probably went to the yard to sacrifice heirloom, locally sourced, rare woodland creatures as a means of quenching her anger. For the moment, Emily seems to be one step ahead of Victoria. At some point, Victoria is going to get one over on Emily, and I eagerly anticipate the delicious laugh that will rise from deep within her shriveled soul when she does.
The evening quickly shifts focus to the downfall of Senator Kingsely. Before he can begin his presentation, he receives an email with a replacement speech that directs him to resign. When he looks up, he sees a very pregnant Erin in the audience. There seems to be no stone that Emily has left unturned! The senator announces his resignation, and we learn that Erin had been convinced that she had been in contact with the senator via text and email. Didn't she wonder why he never called?
She thought that he had said that he was going to leave his wife and be with her, and yet this was done all over text. I'd be suspicious. Plus, why in the world would he send you a plane ticket to come to a benefit for his campaign and announce it so publicly? That mistress wasn't very interested in a little thing called common sense.
Emily later tells Nolan that she got the video of the Senator and Erin after she bought the building that Erin lives in, and then had cameras installed as a part of the renovation. This is absurd. This is about as far as I'm willing to go before we start to introduce some bumps in the road for Emily's revenge plans.
Frank later discovers that the emails to Senator Kingsely came from Conrad's computer. But who would have motive to do that? Victoria of course. Earlier, we learned that Victoria had once gone to Kingsley with evidence to clear Daniel but didn't use it--at the urging of Conrad.
The twists and turns of the inner workings of the Grayson marriage, and their part in the downfall of Daniel Clark, as well as the epic battle we are gearing up for between Victoria and Emily, is what this show should focus on. Add to that the burgeoning love triangle between Daniel, Emily, and Jack, and you have everything that you need for a hit show. Declan and Charlotte are two of the most uninteresting characters on television today, and the introduction of Daniel's college roommate, Tyler, as an all-around troublemaker and love interest for Ashley, the party planner, is not necessary. Well thought-out secondary characters who prop up the main story need to be introduced. . . STAT.
Thankfully, the episode ended well, with another electric moment between Jack and Emily. She brought Sammy back to him once again, and they talked about his dad. As she turned to leave, she saw that the name of his boat was "Amanda." She is so affected by this it looks like she was punched in the stomach. That's the kind of emotional resonance I'm looking for! And after only the third episode! REVENGE, all in all, despite a few sour patches, I think you're really very sweet.
Brian Hewson contributes primetime reviews for We Love Soaps. Along with Greg Turner, Brian is the creator, writer, and producer of the web soap, EMPIRE, which can be found atwww.empiretheseries.com. Brian loves soaps.


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Jihad The Second, Bits And Pieces
Via Spartan Tailgate, naturally.
I still have a zillion tabs open and can't get to all of them in any sort of depth so a quick tour will have to suffice.
Chengelis articles. A couple of former player quotes:
"As much as I want to say (Rodriguez) is the only one (to surpass the 20-hour rule) and to say he's the worst, I can't," said one former player, who asked to remain anonymous. "I'm sure that happens at every school. It is what it is."
This guy doesn't appear to be all-in, eh? Another one:
"Every team does that, more or less," another former Michigan player said. "Everyone knows voluntary workouts you don't have to be there, but you have to be there. A lot of guys don't even know about the rule, but everybody signed the sheets (indicating you kept to the 20-hour rule). It was never a big deal. Those sheets were signed, and that's the only paper trail there is."
If that's true and compliance has lists of their spot checks, this tempest will quickly suck itself into a teapot. All that's left is anonymous mudslinging from former players (and non-anonymous statements from Clemons), some of which have been directly refuted.
Also, long snapper Sean Griffin disputes the reports about quality control staff checking up on voluntary workouts:
He said he frequently worked with the special teams during the offseason and that an allegation in the report that Rodriguez's staff broke rules by monitoring offseason scrimmages was not true, as far as he could tell.
"When I was helping with the specialists, there was never a coach, a graduate assistant, or a quality control coach there," he said. "I wasn't sitting there writing everything down and reporting to a coach. I worked out with a few of the new guys.
Epistolary bit. Email sent to Deadspin about this post, containing this snippet:
In fact, the coach apparently admitted to one violation during the presser, saying that they send strength coaches into the weight room during offseason lifting "so they don't drop a weight on their foot." (Caring!) Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's against the rules.
non-countable time:
m. *Voluntary individual workouts,* provided these workouts are not required or supervised by coaching staff members, except that such activities may be monitored for safety purposes or conducted by the institution's strength and conditioning personnel who have department wide duties.
I know that would have taken 30 seconds of research, so I understand why you didn't have time.
Smart Football devoted a ton of time and space to the thing; as always with Smart Football it's worth a read. He pulls out a couple recent teams that were dinged for exceeding practice limits:
In 2003, limits on facility use and practice time were almost completely ignored at SDSU, and, as a result, the program was placed on two-years of probation. More recently, SDSU exceeded the time allotted by the NCAA by about 15-minutes, and therefore voluntarily curtailed its practice time by an hour, broken up in 12-minute chunks over a week.
More drastic was Ball State. The NCAA investigated Ball State, though the scope went beyond just football and into a variety of sports. The NCAA found that BSU's softball team had "repeatedly exceeded daily and weekly practice hour limitations, failed to give student-athletes a required day off each week from athletically related activities, and conducted individual skill instruction sessions in violation of NCAA rules." That was not all, however. The NCAA also found that BSU had allowed [27 grand in book fraud, which led to scholarship reductions].
…But it is still early: these are just reports; we have nothing definite yet. And even if some players were working out on a Sunday, that alone doesn't seem like it would equal a "major violation." The questions are how widespread this was and how much of it flowed from the coaches — did they encourage it?
Whole thing, read it, etc.
The calling thing. The article in question quoted an anonymous player saying that members of the quality control or strength staff called players who weren't at voluntary workouts. Violation? I don't know. It's not specifically called out in the NCAA rules I reviewed. And it shows up in this article about Colorado (irony!) and Colorado State:
"They call it nonmandatory, but it's mandatory, really," CSU wide receiver Rashaun Greer said of conditioning coaches who keep tabs on attendance. "They will call (no-shows) or text, 'What's going on?' " CU strength-and-conditioning coach Jeff Pittman and his staff are keeping tabs on upward of 100 Buffs this summer. Pittman said participation is pretty much across the board, in every class. This was just chucked out in an article that alleged no violations and has been sitting, unremarked upon, on the Denver Post's website for over a month. It appears, then, that a chunk of the allegations in the article are not violations. Either that or Colorado and Colorado State are supremely dumb. Also, yes, I suppose I'm required by law to note that Toney Clemons transferred to play under Dan "This Is Division 1 Football!!!" Hawkins and there I've done it. Agh. No time (no time) to fisk Ray Ratto's epically dumb column on the thing but I will highlight this bit: it's the argument that Michigan is doing what all the other collegiate scofflaws are doing that strikes us here, first of all because it's such a little boy's argument. "Hey, everyone does it?" That's the one you drop when you get caught toilet-papering someone's house. Ironic of a sportswriter to go there but whatever. I will explain: "everyone does it" is not an attempt to excuse Michigan for misdeeds—because again we are talking about football players playing football. It's a way of evaluating the truth behind the implication that this is a Big Huge Deal that is Ed Martin For Football; if the NCAA average time spent is 45 hours a week, then it is totally plausible Michigan is asking that much out of its players without tripping over NCAA boundaries. Because everyone is.
"They call it nonmandatory, but it's mandatory, really," CSU wide receiver Rashaun Greer said of conditioning coaches who keep tabs on attendance. "They will call (no-shows) or text, 'What's going on?' "
CU strength-and-conditioning coach Jeff Pittman and his staff are keeping tabs on upward of 100 Buffs this summer. Pittman said participation is pretty much across the board, in every class.
This was just chucked out in an article that alleged no violations and has been sitting, unremarked upon, on the Denver Post's website for over a month. It appears, then, that a chunk of the allegations in the article are not violations. Either that or Colorado and Colorado State are supremely dumb.
Also, yes, I suppose I'm required by law to note that Toney Clemons transferred to play under Dan "This Is Division 1 Football!!!" Hawkins and there I've done it.
Agh. No time (no time) to fisk Ray Ratto's epically dumb column on the thing but I will highlight this bit:
it's the argument that Michigan is doing what all the other collegiate scofflaws are doing that strikes us here, first of all because it's such a little boy's argument. "Hey, everyone does it?" That's the one you drop when you get caught toilet-papering someone's house.
Ironic of a sportswriter to go there but whatever. I will explain: "everyone does it" is not an attempt to excuse Michigan for misdeeds—because again we are talking about football players playing football. It's a way of evaluating the truth behind the implication that this is a Big Huge Deal that is Ed Martin For Football; if the NCAA average time spent is 45 hours a week, then it is totally plausible Michigan is asking that much out of its players without tripping over NCAA boundaries. Because everyone is.
Etc.: In the diaries, an anonymous journalist says "I just don't understand how an educated reporter could look at that and not even attempt to figure out the breakdown of "required" and "voluntary" activities." Genuinely Sarcastic has a comprehensive take. Rittenberg has one too. And Jon Chait murders the Free Press' editors.
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Jihad: The Movie
Jihad-relevant snippets from today's press conference.
Jihad The Second: The Journalism-Type Substance
Cartoon via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
Previously: Practical Matters, Mike Forcier and Mike Schofield, Toney Clemons and countable hours, Stop bringing up Andrew Maxwell, and Rodriguez Press Conference Liveblog.
One nickel to the man who guesses the speaker of this statement about how much time college athletes put into their sports:
"Once you get past 40 hours, you're really pushing it, I think."
You get a nickel if you guessed NCAA president Myles Brand. He said this in response to a survey last year that found D-I football players spent 45 hours a week on football-related activities. So, yes, literally everyone is doing it. That's not a defense if the it in question is punching old ladies in the face, but it is when we're talking about an arbitrary cap on effort imposed by a bureaucracy. It's a defense when ludicrous doubling of NCAA regulations are alleged; if the stated average time put in by college athletes in an NCAA-sponsored survey is more than double the NCAA-mandated maximum, then that provides important context. Michigan's nine-hour Sundays—baldly asserted to be violations with zero wiggle: "every week started with a violation"—are plausibly legal.
Do the math: one day is gameday and one day is free by mandate. 45 hours / 5 days = 9 hours per day. Take away eight for a full eight-hour gameday and you still end up with 7.4. Clearly the NCAA regulations do not encompass all the hours players spend on football.
This article, which provides 100% relevant context, was not mentioned by the Free Press.
Why was Toney Clemons anonymous? Clemons told ESPN's Joe Schad that would confirm the allegations, and was completely willing to speak on the record. It stretches belief to think that the Free Press didn't ask him and he didn't talk. He's at Colorado now and there are no possible repercussions aside from some guys writing unflattering things about him on the internet. And yet the Free Press report failed to name him or any other player they took a quote from except the freshmen who were undoubtedly talking about Michigan's voluntary offseason program.
Why is this? I go back to the paragraph that describes the people they talked to in impressive, but vague detail:
For this report, the Free Press interviewed 10 current or former players and the parents of four others. In separate interviews, five players gave almost identical accounts of how the program is run, and a sixth player confirmed most of the descriptions. Other players, as well as parents of additional players, discussed the conditions in general. Several players declined to be interviewed at length but did not dispute the allegations when asked specifically about them.
Ten "former or current players," of whom five or six are responsible for the quotes in the story and the description of the Rodriguez program. One of them is Toney Clemons. The other four or five… well, I'm sure anyone who's followed Michigan football over the last year and a half can mentally insert candidates for the other spots. Why not tell us that the core of the story included current players, and how many? It's not like asserting any specific number of current players is going to endanger the anonymous whistle-blowers.
The Free Press chose not to provide this information, instead choosing to leave this vague, and spurring question after question about team unity, or the lack thereof.
To combat any complacency, Meyer has ordered strength coach Mickey Marotti to design the most difficult offseason that Florida's ever had.
"If there's any resistance," Meyer said, "that guy's not going to play."
This is a direct statement from Urban Meyer that a player who "resists" his punishing, "voluntary" offseason training regimen would not play—a bald assertion of power incompatible with the idea of voluntary attendance—and was not mentioned by the Free Press. Neither was this 2005 Ivan Maisel article on the Florida program titled "Offseason? Not anymore for title teams" or this USA Today article on increasingly mandatory "voluntary" summer conditioning that cites Mike Massey.
In fact, nowhere in the entire suite of articles is another program brought up except when two current members of Michigan State's team say—surprise!—they don't violate rules. Just like Mike Forcier and Mike Schofield.
Tom talked to one of the freshmen quoted in the piece, who said he was upset with the way his words were used.
"I told them I lift weight at 8 until 10:30, go to class, and come back and work with [veteran player]. [Then] we go watch film. They turn it all around."
All of that is voluntary activity in the eyes of the NCAA. (It is possible, but unlikely, that the weights were countable; in any case the quotes from the freshmen were vast misrepresentations.)
I bring all these items up because I was really angry at the reporting in the article in a way that I wasn't even when the Free Press gave us the by-the-numbers on what happened with Justin Feagin. I got upset later at the Rosenberg column on the thing, which launched a broadside at Rodriguez* without bothering to call Feagin's high school coach or check out his record. It is totally legitimate to find out what happened and then describe the facts, and that's what the original reporting on the Feagin case did.
But the article in question here was not that. I've been struggling to phrase it the right way, to come up with the right angle on it that adequately expresses the issue without descending to That Guy On The Internet stuff, and it turns out a reader—lawyer, naturally—did it for me:
I'm in Seattle this weekend so I was up late enough last night to read and digest the Rosenberg complaint. I call it a complaint because I'm a defense lawyer in Atlanta and read complaints written by plaintiffs' lawyers all the time. Their favorite tactic is to take a benign or easily explainable fact and put it in the worst light possible so as to sort of taint the defendant from the outset. I guess I didn't realize that Rosenberg was a columnist or some sort of writer employed to persuade readers to come to agree with his opinion rather than a journalist employed to investigate and report facts. He could not have written the entire thing in a more damning way - which is just what plaintiffs' lawyers do, except their job is to advocate on their client's behalf.
I have another email from a different lawyer who makes the exact same comparison.
The article arranges things to advocate for its position. It is not objective. It mentions major violations, and the fact that Michigan has never had any, and suggests that these qualify. Not once in its vast breadth does it mention the near-universal existence of similar practices or what that implies for the likelihood of NCAA sanctions. It purposefully obscures the distribution of current and former players in the ten asserted sources, four or five of which are excluded from the information provided below.
I'm a blogger and a Michigan fan and totally public about my thoughts and loyalties. You know where I'm coming from, and can evaluate the arguments in this space based on that information. Since I wear my bias on my sleeve I have to deploy facts and precedents and reasoning convincing enough to overcome that. Rosenberg and the Free Press are clearly biased but wrap themself in a cloak of objectivity that disguises the intent behind the artfully arranged statements and, if you didn't happen to be a close observer of Michigan football, makes it appear like Rodriguez is a monster. Is this objective?
That's right: Chris Webber. Bill Martin's announcement, two sentences in a press release, had "the ominous tones of a bad, old script". Is it even pretending to be objective anymore? I guess. But not well.
After the press conference today I asked Mark Snyder if he knew what a non-countable hour was. He refused to answer. I asked Michael Rosenberg, and he said yes. We then got into a conversation about the idea that many of the hours cited in the Free Press article were not countable and therefore would not trigger NCAA sanctions. I asked him why the article did not mention this, and he said it did. Here how well that assertion checks out:
At no point does the article mention the idea that some "football-related activities" are not counted:
Players spent at least nine hours on football activities on Sundays after games last fall. NCAA rules mandate a daily 4-hour limit. The Wolverines also exceeded the weekly limit of 20 hours, the athletes said.
That's it. The only wave to the idea that some of the time was legitimate in the eyes of the NCAA is this passage:
The players said the off-season work was clearly required. Several of them said players who failed to do all the strength and conditioning were forced to come back to finish or were punished with additional work.
"It was mandatory," one player said. "They'd tell you it wasn't, but it really was. If you didn't show up, there was punishment. I just felt for the guys that did miss a workout and had to go through the personal hell they would go through."
"Clearly required" then washes away the idea that any of the time requirements in the program were voluntary for the rest of the article. There is no mention of what the alternatives to doing the additional work were. Were they "we yank your scholarship" or "you won't play"? The former is a violation; the latter is life. I suggested to Rosenberg that players probably had no idea what counted as mandatory to the NCAA and what didn't, and that it was ludicrous to believe Rodriguez could be flouting NCAA regulations so vastly for eight years without a hint of trouble. He blinked, and asked what my name was.
The Free Press systematically overstated their case by omitting contextual information and misrepresenting quotes about voluntary workout programs. They have repeatedly raised the specter of major, program crippling sanctions. They took a side, and if that side turns out to be wrong the people responsible for the story should be held responsible for their errors in judgment.
They won't, of course. If and when Michigan releases the results of its internal probe and announces they've come up with either nothing or a pu-pu platter of secondary violations, people will laugh at NCAA enforcement, cite the Jerry Tarkanian quote, and laud the journalistic effort that went into proving football players play a lot of football.
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Jihad: Rodriguez Press Conference
You are not looking LIVE at the Junge Champions center, but a bunch of guys with TV cameras, myself, the two authors of It, and various other assembled media are. What's below is an attempted CIL of the press conference. Answers will be paraphrased but as accurate as possible; user contributions will be heavily moderated to keep things on topic. If you've got a question to ask, suggest away.
Unverified Voracity Addresses The Rest Of The Universe
Witty: not dead yet. Freshman cornerback Adrian Witty, the last incoming recruit held up by the Clearinghouse, retook the SAT in search of a point. In the process he may have revealed why he needs another point on the SAT:
"I think I did good on it," Witty said.
Witty's missed the entirety of fall camp; if he gets in he's all but guaranteed to redshirt. If he doesn't, I believe he can prep for a semester and come in January since he's so close. The NCAA cracked down on the prep school route a couple years ago but left the window open for guys who need one or two grades, IIRC.
Paki-bomb loaded and ready to run for two yards. Did I tell you about Angry Iowa Running Back-Hating God or did I tell you?
The big injury is Jewel Hampton's right knee, which has kept him off the practice field for most of camp. Ferentz told me it's unrealistic to expect Hampton to play Sept. 5 in the season opener against Northern Iowa. The coach also didn't rule out Hampton's injury affecting his availability this season.
Hampton is "80 percent likely" to take a redshirt year according to Iowa Scout.com guy Jon Miller. Redshirt freshman Jeff Brinson, the nominal #2, missed most of camp with an ankle issue, leaving walk-on and broad comic stereotype mashup Paki O'Meara atop the depth chart.
Black Heart Gold Pants, naturally, is all over this.
Historian. This time it's a recap of Michigan's first 38-0 win over Notre Dame in two parts:
Part II is lightboxed for your perusal.
This is a different thing now. All right, Michigan's strength and conditioning program this offseason has been sweet!
"I think so," Rodriguez tells Bret Bakita and Michael Grey, of The Starting Lineup, on WBBL-FM, "just judging on the way they look and how strong they feel.
"I think that's natural, particularly when you've got younger players; they're going to make a big gain in strength and conditioning from their first year to their second year. But even overall, the whole team has really bought in to what Mike and his staff are teaching down there in the weight room.
"Hopefully it'll show up on the field. Certainly, they look like they're moving around quicker, and I think their strength is certainly up from what it was a year ago."
Did I say something?
Hang the DJ. I am so down with using Morrissey as a half-serious, half-mocking approach to Michigan fandom, and sports fandom in general. There's a tag on this blog that I've used way more than I ever wanted to named "i know it's over and oh it never really began but in my heart it was so real." And next week one of your very special season preview posts is Morrissey based. (50 MGoPoints to the first person to guess which song is referenced.)
So, yeah:
I've seen it happen/in other people's lives/ now it's happening in mine. Morrissey and contemporary Michigan continue to be made for each other, and not in the good kind of way. The joke won't be funny once you get to the Notre Dame game, especially if Nick Sheridan as starter has to face a TAH-NOO-TAH defense unafraid to send blitzers from the corner, safety, and occasionally just running in crowds off the bench.
Son of a bitch I should have thought of that lyric last year. You haven't heard the last of this, Swindle! (You probably have.)
Schwing? Michigan's deadly 2010 hockey recruiting class looks set to get even deadlier with the news that Ontario forward Lucas Lessio has left Niagara's camp, presumably because he intends to commit to Michigan. Lessio was the #7 pick in the OHL draft and a source told the Wolverine's Michael Spath that Lessio would be the "best player to come to Michigan out of Ontario in the last decade," which would make him a more highly touted prospect than Mike Cammalleri, Brandon Burlon, Louie Caporusso, and Andrew Cogliano. Two of those guys are scoring-line NHL players and two are current or upcoming stars at Michigan. That is high praise.
As always, do not count your chickens before they show up on campus… but, yeah, Lessio has signed with St. Mikes and Yost Built diagnoses the positivity coming from Niagara's GM as Iraqi Minister of Information stuff. He actually played on Friday, picking up two goals and an assist in a 5-4 loss. It sounds like he's made his decision for justice.
Here's a Hockey News scouting report on Lessio. Summary: he good.
Etc.: Whoah. FO's ESPN insider content($) on the Big Ten predicts Michigan at 8-4… and Illinois at 4-8! Stanford decommit picks Northwestern over ND because he thinks "Northwestern has a better football program than Notre Dame." Two-part Rittenberg interview with Rodriguez: part one and part two. Dylan takes on expectations for the basketball team; personally I'll be happy with a season that ends in the second round of the NCAA tournament as long as the bid isn't in question on the last day of the regular season.
Jihad The Second: Stop Bringing Up Maxwell
This defense meme has been all of the internet yesterday and today, but it must be debunked. Here's freshman MSU QB Andrew Maxwell:
We're almost a full week into it and preseason camp is everything all of us freshmen expected it to be: learning a completely new style of football, working hard every day to try and move our way up the depth chart, meeting new people and trying to fit in with the flow of things, and trying to get used to this totally foreign schedule. A typical day consists of showing up for meetings as early as 7:30 a.m. and being dismissed after our final meeting at 9:30 p.m. In those 14 hours, we have meetings, practice, lunch, more meetings, film sessions, dinner and meetings.
184.108.40.206.5 Preseason Practice. Daily and weekly hour limitations do not apply to countable athletically related activities occurring during preseason practice prior to the first day of classes or the first scheduled contest, whichever is earlier.
Aw, hamburgers. Practice limits don't count during fall camp. You can stop bringing this up now.
Not that this prevented Michigan State from deleting that article in its entirety from its website. Here's an archived copy.
Devin Gardner is Better Than You
Just trust me on this one.
Though his Inkster team fell to Ann Arbor Pioneer by a score of 35-32, Devin Gardner showed last night why he is considered one of the top prospects in the nation. After seeing 4.5 high school football games over the course of three days, it was painfully obvious which player was the best: Devin Gardner. After Friday's Huber Heights Wayne game, I walked away impressed with QB Braxton Miller, and fully understood why he is considered the top dual threat QB in the 2011 class. However, Gardner was on a whole different level, with game-changing ability that can't even be quantified at times. The best thing to do is simply go to the...
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Gardner's final statline was approximately 10/13 passing for 97 yards and a touchdown, and 16 carries for 113 yards and another touchdown. He also had two incomplete passes on two-point conversions, and one successful run for 2 points. Gardner was hurt in the fourth quarter on a dive toward the pylon, and exited the game for two plays. However, as I tweeted, "On the third down he rose again," passing for a touchdown on fourth and goal.
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Jihad The Second: They Don't Know The Rules
One of the things that struck me in the article was these asides inserted to make it seem like Michigan's happy-go-lucky freshmen didn't know just how oppressed they were:
"It's crazy," said Hawthorne, who was not complaining about his coaches and was apparently unaware of the time-limit rules. … Stokes was not complaining. Like Hawthorne, he apparently was unaware of the rules.
Of course they don't know the rules. Neither do any of the (unnecessarily anonymous) sources. All the folk who played under Carr knew was that there was some limit; they had no idea what counted towards the limit. For an example, here's Toney Clemons:
"The allegations are true," Clemons said. "Nothing is fabricated or exaggerated in that story. I was there on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. or 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. depending on if guys needed treatment. You were there daylight to nighttime."
Now let me launch into a diatribe about reporters and their lack of critical thinking skills. You are faced with an accusation that Rich Rodriguez didn't skirt NCAA regulations but rode roughshod over them. Presumably he's been doing this for eight years without anyone noticing that he was more than doubling the NCAA's maximum requirements. Do you A) think "wait a minute, there's a disconnect worth thinking about here" or B) uncritically accept the allegation and start screaming hysterically? If you picked B, congratulations, you can have a low-paid job in a rapidly evaporating industry.
Here's A:
"On Sunday, it was lifting, film, dinner and practice," Clemons told Schad. "I usually got out around 10:20. I truly don't want to be associated with the program back there. But I am going to help benefit my teammates back there by speaking and giving testimony."
Here are various items that are non-countable activities according to the NCAA:
a. Training-table or competition-related meals;
b. Physical rehabilitation;
c. Dressing, showering or taping; …
h. Medical examinations or treatments; …
m. Voluntary individual workouts, provided these workouts are not required or supervised by coaching staff members, except that such activities may be monitored for safety purposes or conducted by the institution's strength and conditioning personnel who have department wide duties.
o. The provision of videotapes to a student-athlete by an institution's coach that include a personalized message and athletically related information (e.g., discussion of plays, general workout programs, lectures on strategy related to the sport), provided the viewing of the videotape by the student-athlete is voluntary;
p. Use of an institution's athletics facilities (which may be reserved) during the academic year or summer by student-athletes, provided the activities are not supervised by or held at the direction of any member of an institution's coaching staff.
I am willing to wager many amounts of money that the Sunday lifting was of the variety that fits the NCAA's definition of voluntary, as was the film. The rehab/examinations/dinner and any downtime in between practice and film and other activities definitely don't count. At no point has anyone in the media even broached this possibility. It has not occurred to them. Some of them specifically omit it because it conflicts with their aims*; some are just professional parrots.
When Michigan releases its compliance information, Michigan will check in at four hours of countable activity on Sunday. If they're over at all it will be by a small amount. I bet a dollar.
*(Mostly the aim is to make their story seem awesomer and justify the expense. Rosenberg and his publicly-professed hatred of Rodriguez are another matter.)
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(Washington County, FL; April 29, 2013)— The Panhandle Watermelon Festival has played host to legendary musicians for the last 5 decades, and this season will be no different. Heading the bill during the Panhandle Watermelon Festival June 28-29 is country music legend and Grammy award winner, Joe Diffie. Fans can also look forward to country music singer, Andy Griggs whose first three singles were all Top Ten Billboard hits and will kick off Friday night's show. "We work extremely hard to present Watermelon fans with an event geared for the enjoyment of every member of the family," states Chairman Colby Peel, "Panhandle Watermelon Festival is thrilled with the high quality our two day festival represents."
In addition to an award winning musical lineup, visitors will enjoy several kid centered activities including a bounce house and slide sponsored by Community South Credit Union and watermelon contests hosted by Northwest Florida Community Hospital.
Come hungry and feast on fare that goes hand in hand with Friday night Watermelon including hamburgers and hotdogs prepared by the Chipley Fire Department.
A family-oriented festival celebrating its 57th season, the Panhandle Watermelon Festival offers FREE entertainment and activities for all ages and has drawn generations of families to Washington County time and time again. Made possible in large part by presenting sponsors, McDonalds, Community South Credit Union, Tobacco Free Florida, Northwest Florida Community Hospital, and Wilbur Smith Law Firm, Panhandle Watermelon Festival has become a summer tradition that extends far beyond the Friday night stage.
Saturday's events commence early with the annual 5,000 meter Hot Trot Run at the Washington/Holmes Technical Center. At the same time, spectators can head over to the Shrine Club for the traditional Pancake Breakfast .
The family favorite Watermelon Parade is scheduled for 10am. Participants will organize at the Chipley High School Football Stadium and continue east on Hwy 90 through downtown to the delight of hundreds of eager faces.
Festivities will begin immediately following the parade at the Ag Center with gospel group Crossroads kicking off another talented lineup of musicians. The time-honored introduction of queens and the watermelon contest and auction, hosted by Auctioneer David Corbin, round out the lunchtime activities.
Summertime Magic Art Show, hosted by the Washington County Arts Council and on display in the east wing of the Ag Center, will feature artwork from local artists as well as noted artists from the Northwest Florida region.
Grammy award winning bluegrass group Dailey and Vincent will close the musical lineup with a much anticipated bluegrass show.
Numerous food and arts and crafts vendors will be scattered throughout the Ag Center grounds and visitors can drop by the Kiwanis table and pick up a complimentary slice of Watermelon (while supplies last).
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Tickets: $85.00 per person
Join MALT outdoors as we celebrate 21 years of "Saving the Land…Leaving a Legacy." Enjoy a farm fresh dinner, hosted bar, live music by Dakota Blonde and live & silent auctions. Honorary Chairs: Candy Allen and Bob Woodward.
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MARIETTA, Ohio — Marine Lance Cpl. Josh Taylor fulfilled a nearly lifelong dream when he joined the military right after graduating from a southeastern Ohio high school in 2010.
Taylor's grandfather, Larry Stephens, confirmed today that the 21-year-old Marine from Marietta was one of seven killed when a mortar exploded during a mountain warfare training exercise in Nevada Monday.
RELATED ARTICLE: Nevada town mourns Marines killed in explosion
Stephens said today his grandson had talked about being a Marine since he was about 5, watching the History Channel and studying the military. After joining, he worked with mortars and served tours in Afghanistan and Kuwait, and was preparing for another tour in Afghanistan.
Stephens called Taylor "polite, respectful," saying the young man would "do anything for anybody."
Taylor was engaged to be married, with a wedding planned for May.


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Good choice, guys.
Is that discount chain a media related product? Because if it's not then it meets their criteria.
It might, but that's still silly. If they were based in Germany and came up with "K-Mart" as their name, Americans would mock it. Let's work with people as they actually exist.
Xtreme Broadband Media Center or whatever would have kept the momentum.
Kobi works well enough.
Obviously not well enough since you couldn't even remember the correct name.
I agree, Jody is a great name, instantly recognizable and difficult to confuse with another name. It's not as ubiquitous as XBMC, nor does it imply the decade-plus heritage, but it'll become memorable over time, I'm sure...
Why is it that OSS projects always seem to pick names that are, at best, obscure, and at worst, completely nondescriptive, yet have cutesy sounding names? I think it started somewhere around 2000. Please stop. Pick more functional names so I don't have to explain to people, "no, dolphin is the file manager and konqueror is the browser.'
This also applies to libraries too. For example, anyone know what 'liborc', 'libnettle', 'libenchant', 'libmagic' or 'libcanberra' are without looking it up? I just picked these at random from
Stop. Using. Cutesy. Names.
So that's why Microsoft is the Winner. Everything has an obvious name like "Word" and "Office" and "Media Player"
Not that simple, but at least the terms are either obvious or intuitive enough for most to make the leap.
Microsoft has the benefit of being a market abusing behemoth with a large legal department. They get to play by a different set of rules than the rest of us. That's why Microsoft gets to get away with using trademarks that never should have been allowed.
Smaller organizations actually have to obey the rules.
Zune. Bing. Works. Visio. Vizact.
And lastly, Bob.
Nice, you now have Karnal knowledge!
I use Visio a fair amount for network diagrams.
I use Visio for chip circuit diagrams. The is no comparable tool. In Visio you can make a template with smart shapes that fits right in the document, enforces a consistent grid and the smart shapes can be programmed to do useful shit, like maintain an arrow head shape while the shape is stretched, or clear out the crossing line in an abutting bus tee or scale and position the text so it fits cleanly with the bus, or scales a gate automatically to fit the number of inputs (that land on the grid).
Visio used t
I use Visio. It is excellent.
Access (obviously a password management tool). Excel (clearly a standardised testing suite). Powerpoint (specialised electrical/electronic interface tool). SQL (who the hell knows what this is?). Outlook (Ah, this is obvious - a weather app).
Janus, Snowball, O'Hare, Memphis, Daytona, Cairo*, Whistler*, Longhorn, Vienna.
*Cairo was the codename for NT4.0 and Whistler the codename for xp, but x and p are the Greek letters chi and rho. Mind blowed yet?
I like the OpenOffice/LibreOffice naming convention for the suite components: Write, Draw, Impress, Base, Calc, Math. I mean, how user friendly do you want it?
SQL (who the hell knows what this is?).
SQL is Structured Query Language [wikipedia.org], an ISO standard since the 1980s. "Microsoft SQL Server" is as generic after the first word as "Windows Media Player". Other well-known products implementing subsets of the same standard have names like "SQLite", "MySQL", "PostgreSQL", and "ORACLE Database" (allegedly standing for "One Rich Aristocrat Called Larry Ellison").
Janus, Snowball, O'Hare, Memphis, Daytona, Cairo*, Whistler*, Longhorn, Vienna.
Codenames like these were not intended for use by the general public. For example, Whistler was renamed to "Windows XP" and Longhorn to "Windows Vista" b
This is the post Google age. You have to pick a nonsensical name so it will show up uniquely in a Google search. I'm a musician for example, and the days of naming your band something like "The Doors" is dead. That name would literally kill any chance you had at success in todays world.
ah bollocks, time for the second choice then: The Roof Shingles.
Absolute true, which is why the open source computer algebra project Maxima has a disastrous name. If you want to find out how to calculate something in it (which is often necessary because the documentation is bad), you can't just search for "maxima", you'll get a million unrelated things.
Absolutely! That's why Google named their programming language "Go". They clearly know a thing or two about name searching.
Pick more functional names so I don't have to explain to people, "no, dolphin is the file manager and konqueror is the browser.'
Yeah, "Safari" and "Opera" are such more functional names for a Web browser than "Konqueror".
(And "Windows Explorer" is such a functional name for a file manager; it doesn't at all sound as if somebody tried to give it a name reminiscent of their Web browser.)
FYI, "Windows Explorer" is much older than "Internet Explorer". The browser was likely named to mimic the file manager, not the other way around.
Cutesy eh? I like the sound of that. Would give a nice, hip ring to my app for filing tax returns.
applications have had random non function relational names for years, libraries shouldn't i agree but no matter what, this makes more sense than still going with the xbox media center, which works on everything except xbox's these days
Why is
.Net was a promotional name applied to many products at the time, much like XP before that.
Part of this was to align the current versions, and part of it was to emphasize the network capabilities being introduced. This all happened ~2002, and that was a very big thing (from a marketing perspective) at the time.
This post [stackoverflow.com] seems to think the main reason was the latter.
Partial list of
ActiveX becomes "Microsoft In-Browser Native Code API".
If you explain it like that, then it's far more confusing. ActiveX is a component architecture - an evolution of COM / OLE. It's used throughout Windows for embedding libraries as plugins in other applications. Pretty much every Windows application uses ActiveX, the web browser is probably among the ones that uses it the least.
Why is it that OSS projects always seem to pick names that are, at best, obscure, and at worst, completely nondescriptive, yet have cutesy sounding names?
Because OSS projects are led by unpaid software engineers, and they don't have a communications/marketing department?
This also applies to libraries too. For example, anyone know what 'liborc', 'libnettle', 'libenchant', 'libmagic' or 'libcanberra' are without looking it up? I just picked these at random from
I knew the purpose of 4 out of 5 of those libraries. But I'm the distro developer. Ordinary user has no business in knowing what library does what.
At least they didn't go for a "broken keyboard" name like Flikr, or a URL based name featuring the TLD of some unstable island nation.
Couldn't they have just redefined the acronym?
'Xenon Based Media Center'.. something something... It does not have to make sense. Just shorten it back to XBMC. There. No more trademark violation.
We don't even know what the X in xbox stands for either. No one cares.
Couldn't they have just redefined the acronym? 'Xenon Based Media Center'.. something something...
It's too late in the day for such a simple-minded solution to take hold.
A Google search for "X Box Media Center" returns 426 million hits. "XBMC" 4 million hits.
I believe this is an example of Poe's Law. If I weren't familiar with the Uncyclopedia, I probably would've started repeating it as fact.
Couldn't they have just redefined the acronym?
'Xenon Based Media Center'.. something something... It does not have to make sense. Just shorten it back to XBMC. There. No more trademark violation.
We don't even know what the X in xbox stands for either. No one cares.
^^ This.
The new name has nothing to do with XBMC or what it stands for. They may of well as called it Cloud, oh hail the buzz word that means fuck all and everything thats networked, at the same time.
Kodi seems like a bit of a joke when the char Name[0] went +1;
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Or if they "need" a name-change for whatever reason, why not XMBC (eXtendable Media Based Center)?.
I've found myself accidentally calling it that already because it is easier to say, and no messing around with meaningless "shiny" names like pointed out elsewhere.
That assumes that keeping the name XBMC was their goal. I'm not sure that it was.
I actually had ignored XBMC for years, believing that it's purpose was to create a media client for Xbox devices. It was not until this post that I realized it was something else entirely, and that I'm actually interested in it.
(If I can figure out how to set up caching properly, I will be using it exclusively on my media box)
I remember when they did this. It was the first time I was aware of that a computer was used in the naming process. IIRC they had an algorithm that generated inoffensive names that did not violate trademarks, that would have high recognition value, and had some sort of similarity to the original name. The computer went through 100s of thousands of names, came up with 100 or so that might work, Exxon was chosen from that group. I immediately thought it was just the sort of unaesthetic name a computer wou
plus NAS plus DLNA plus Android phone plus Localcast. Works like a treat, the entire family is thrilled.
XBMC couldn't even get the mouse cursor to work (I bought a wireless keyboard/accel-mouse for it) without closing the bug "get a better GPU".
Wish the Open Source solution could have been what the family room needed.
XBMC couldn't even get the mouse cursor to work (I bought a wireless keyboard/accel-mouse for it) without closing the bug "get a better GPU".
What in the word do you need a mouse for in XBMC? It is meant to be controlled with a television remote control, a smartphone app, or a web browser on another device. You don't even need the keyboard except when XBMC's scraper requires manual intervention.
I've got an Ouya, specifically to run XBMC. Runs pretty well with both the controller and a keyboard+mouse, except that the mouse speed is a bit high. Yes, it could use GigE and USB3.0, but running from the NAS it's fast enough and upscales what I've used, so far, in real time. Haven't found a good Linux Blu-Ray-to-stream converter, so no testing with those.
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Awesome Media Center
Xenu's Base Media Center
Awesome Like Beer Media Center
Drop the requirement for the 3D graphics card, since it's NEVER EVER used for anything remotely 3D graphics related.
Don't get me wrong, it's a great way for someone who doesn't know any better to run their CPU at 110% using software emulation, but otherwise a bad decision for their target market.
Pretty much every user interface technology built in the past 7-8 years requires a hardware graphics card.
Except the ones explicitly designed not to need such fripperies.
I suspect we have differing interpretations of what is cool.
this is going to make the 'XBMC' tattoo I got last month quite difficult to explain to people
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The Lady Bisons volleyball team closed out the regular season schedule with a 3-1 loss Tuesday night at the Eblen Center at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville.
The Lady Bisons won the opening game 390-27 and then lost 30-25, 2028 and 37-35. The final game score was the highest for the Lady Bisons or one of their opponents this season. The Lady Bisons ended a two-game winning streak against Ohio Valley Conference teams.
For the season the Lady Bisons were 4-3 against teams from the OVC this season.
Alex Scruggs had a match high 23 kills for the Lady Bisons. Lindsey Rutherford added 13 and Catherine Johnson finished with 11. Johnson also posted a career-high .526 hitting percentage.
Ann Mullins made a match-high 35 digs, her fifth match with 30 or more digs this season. Lindsey Rutherford added 25, earning the double-double. Samantha Sullivan was credited with 19 and Grace Gilmore chipped in with 10.
Erin Lynn led Tennessee Tech with 14 kills. Jessica Apslund and Laura Tyburski both had 12.
Katie Kenline led Tennessee Tech with 34 digs. Kappy Lang made 18. Tyburski finished with 16 to earn the double-double,
The Lady Bisons are the No. 3 seed in the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament which is scheduled for Nov. 17 and Nov. 18 at Belmont University. The Lady Bisons will play Mercer, the No. 6 seed, in the opening round. The winner plays Belmont, the No. 2 seed later in the day on the 17th.
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Gadsden County has its share of health problems. It has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the state and ranks third highest in its death rate for diabetes
County officials along with Florida A&M have just acquired a $6 million grant to help eliminate health disparities in this rural county. They're hoping research from this grant will help save lives.
Gerard McQuay has been diagnosed with diabetes for four years. He has been so ill these last few days that doctors have decided to admit him to the hospital. He is one of thousands of Gadsden residents diagnosed with the deadly disease.
Gadsden County officials and Florida A&M University, in partnership with Harvard University, are hoping to help future generations. A press conference Monday informed folks about a $6 million grant to study health disparities in the county.
"It allows us to conduct research in a multitude of arenas. We're going to look at high blood pressure and how it contributes to hypertension that's one of the major arenas of health disparities," says Dr. Cindy Hughes Harris, Dean of the School of Allied Health Services.
"Our desire is to create a social transformation movement that for the community creates new attitude new behavior new prospective about health," says Deborah Prothrow-Smith of the Harvard School of Public Health.
Gadsden county commissioners are hoping this four-year grant will be used as a means of prevention.
"In terms of diabetes if we catch the diabetes long before it causes you blindness, heart problem, your chances of living healthy prosperous life increases," says Gadsden County Commissioner, Ed Dixon.
This four-year grant will be used for social and scientific research. Gadsden County will serve as a model for the nation.
They are not just focusing on diabetes and infant mortality. They will be researching people who have cancer, heart disease, stroke, any of the diseases that impact the community.


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> I sent a baby shower gift from our whole family, but the thank you note was addressed only to me. Women-only baby showers strike me as sexist, but I respect other women's choices to celebrate as they wish. However, I was disappointed that my friend thanked only me when our card clearly indicated that the gift was from our whole family. What's your take?
N.S. / Cambridge
It can be hard at times to distinguish between sexism and responses to sexism. As I write, debate is still raging about Seth MacFarlane's hosting of the Academy Awards. Was his crass misogyny a slap in the face to the women of the industry he had been hired to celebrate? Or a devastatingly clever critique of the sexism of that very industry? I've heard and read furious arguments filled with bewilderment and humiliation.
So, cheers to at least talking about sexism in the context of a timely thank you note rather than a musical number entitled "We Saw Your Boobs." The discourse feels elevated already, as if by some rhetorical Wonderbra.
Give your friend a pass. For one thing, there's nothing anti-feminist about single-sex baby showers. They're a response to biological and social realities. Call them "Pre-Maternity-Leave Networking & Resource Allocation Power Circles" if that makes you feel better. Once you look past the mimosas and mini-cupcakes, that's muchly what they are. And speaking of mimosas, think how easily your card could have been misplaced or your husband's name not written down by whoever was taking notes. Your friend might not even know the gift was meant to be "from us."
> I have been working at a health center since I was in high school (I'm now in college). It started off as a class project and has been a great experience, but also causes me a lot of dread. It's not very formal — extremely casual dress and I never had an actual interview. I want to resign, but I'm not sure how formal I should be.
A.C. / Albuquerque
Sounds like you could just write "LATERZ YOLO" on the whiteboard and stop showing up. After a while they'll catch on and quit paying you. (They have been paying you, right?) And it wouldn't even matter, because you can bet a semester's tuition that they're far too disorganized to ever risk giving a bad reference.
Quit according to your own standards of professionalism, since your employer doesn't seem to have much going in that department. If you have a particular supervisor, tell him or her in person, first. Then send a general e-mail announcing that you will be resigning to focus on your studies, with a few lines about how much you've learned from the work and your colleagues and any relevant logistical details.
Finally, figure out the link between the dread (what a vivid word!) you have felt at work and the lack of structure and clear expectations in your job. Learn to recognize chaotic workplaces. Avoid them if you can. If you can't, or if the experience is worth the chaos, learn how to manage yourself and your stress. And congratulations! You've survived a major passage to adulthood: The Badly Managed Do-Gooder Job. Wear your merit badge with pride.
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This is you one-stop-spot for all thing Battlefield. From 1942 to Bad Company 2 and beyond, this is a great place to meet other players, talk matches and even recruit new clan members.
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I play on weekends when possible and am ranked 32 with a service star in engineer class
Add me I'm gamerdon on psn too let's help rank you up. Can u fly?
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It's gamerdon
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