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l've had beer, chips and my TV set tuned into ESPN2 from my living room. I watched the Canes take on former coach Butch Davis and the Carolina Tar Heels in Chapel Hill. We shared our thoughts and I kept track of some notes as the game went on.
- UNC finds itself back in Miami territory when UM cornerback Bruce Johnson falls down on coverage on a short pass and Brandon Tate runs past the Miami defense -- despite losing his shoe -- all the way to UM 27. UNC settles for a field goa, making 30-20 with 14:12 left to play.
- Can the Canes keep their momentum going now? The offensed has to come through again now.
- Big third down conversion on 3rd and 15. Wright finds Sam Shields over the middle for a first down. But shortly after, Wright throws his third interception of the game when he forces the ball in. UNC takes over at its 41.
- Well, UM's defense limits the damage and holds UNC to another Conner Barth field goal, his fourth of the game. With 10:55 left to play, Miami trails 33-20.
- Miami is moving the football on the ground, peppering UNC with Graig Cooper and Javarris James. Can the Hurricanes score?
- Big fourth down with 6:47 left to play deep inside UNC territory. Wright keeps it and gets the first down. Canes fans can breathe a momentary sigh of relief.
- And it lasts just a moment. Another bad decision and bad throw by Kyle Wright. Four interceptions for Wright. It looks like it just isn't meant to be for Miami. 6:15 left to play.
- It's not over yet. Graig Cooper flips the ball to Darnell Jenkins on a punt return, the Canes build a wall and Miami moves the ball to the UNC 11 with 2:59 to play. Miami eventually scores on a Javarris James' plunge with 1:17 left to play in the game. But the Canes had to blow two time outs inside the 5. Now, they need an onside kick.
- Hakeem Nicks recovers the onside kick for UNC. The Canes are going to go down in UNC again. But at least, they battled back and made a game of it. They just couldn't overcome a terrible first half.
- Wow. What was that? With 12:38 to go in the first half, a different UM team comes out of the break and marches right down the field and scores a touchdown on a 1-yard Kyle Wright sneak to make it 27-7.
- The Rock was at UM this week. Anybody smell a comeback?
- On UNC's first drive of the second half, the Canes force a fumble on the their third play. Kenny Phillips forces it. Spencer Adkins recovers. Miami has the ball at UNC 30.
- Miami capitalizes when Wright connects with Sam Shields on a 4-yard, fourth down touchdown pass. Francesco Zampogna, though, misses the extra point when he hits the upright. But so far, the Canes have shown some life. It's 27-13 now.
- It was announced on TV by the way that McCarthy and Dixon will not return from their injuries today.
- Change the quarterback! This team stinks! Where are you now pessimistic Canes fans? Kyle Wright connects with Darnell Jenkins on a 97-yard touchdown pass to make it 27-20 with 4:22 left in the third quarter. Wright tried it first with Shields, but overthrew him. The second longest play in UM history has the Canes right back in the game. Wow!
- The Canes get the ball back, but on third down, Wright gets sacked. Miami ends up punting and UNC gets the ball back. The pressure is now once again on Miami's defense.
- Canes have put themselves in a much deeper hole after having a punt blocked inside their own 20. Yates scores on a 1-yard sneak with 11:25 left to put Carolina up 20-0.
- Both Antonio Dixon and Colin McCarthy were injured in the last series. Dixon had to be helped off the field and appears to have suffered a serious knee injury.
- The nightmare continues. After Kyle Wright and the offense struggle to pick up a first down again, UNC takes over and scores again. Brandon Tate on a 55-yard reverse makes it 27-0 with 9:59 left in the first half. Is it time to fire up the buses? Already?
- What I wouldn't do to be a fly on the wall in the Canes locker room right now. UM has been outgained 279-113.
- Kyle Wright has thrown two interceptions and has looked like the old Kyle Wright. Everything has gone wrong.
- After the teams exchange punts, Carolina draws first blood when Anthony Elzy gashes the Miami defense on a long touchdown run with 10:33 left in the first quarter.
- With 4:33 left in the first quarter, Conner Barth connects on his 16th straight field goal, a 33-yarder, to put Carolina up 10-0. On the drive, Calais Campbell was flagged for a phantom roughing the passer penalty. Replays showed Campbell never hit quarterback T.J. Yates. Amazing!
- Miami responds by moving the ball downfield after Ryan Hill gives them a real nice return out to midfield. But the drive fizzles and Francesco Zampogna misses a 32-yard field goal with 2:15 left.
- The hits keep on coming for Carolina. After another long passing play moves the ball into Miami territory, Conner Barth -- that guy again -- connects on a season-long 51-yard field goal to put Carolina up 13-0.
- This just in: The Canes are in trouble.


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Departure from Fenway came out of left field
Terry Francona rode off into the sunset after a very successful run of eight years in which he may have established himself as the best manager in Red Sox history.
Francona looked like a Red Sox lifer, and though eight years can be an eternity in baseball, you just figured he would grow old as their manager. That eternity ended sooner than expected.
"To be totally honest, I was completely surprised by the ordeal,'' said former Red Sox outfielder Ellis Burks, who played for Francona on the 2004 team.
"He'll always hold a special place in my heart,'' said Rays designated hitter Johnny Damon, one of the Idiots who gave Francona his first championship in 2004. "He's a Hall of Fame manager.
"I know that Tito had the right group of players together at that time and he didn't need to do a lot of babysitting. We were a little crazy, but in that clubhouse and on the field, we went all-out and we had fun together as a team.
"That's what it's all about. We were together and we really cared about each other. It's like it was on the Yankees and how it is here in Tampa Bay.
"From what we hear, it wasn't like that in Boston this year and I'm not close enough to know why it wasn't. But I know something like that would bother Tito.''
While Francona professed his love for his players this season, he knew something was amiss. He didn't sense that fierce loyalty to one another, a trait the 2004 team and even the 2007 team had.
Francona is a baseball lifer, and if anyone can judge those things, it would be him. He has been in clubhouses since he was a little kid with his father, and he understands the culture of good clubhouses and bad. And when he couldn't get through to some of the people he had been able to get through to before, he felt his voice was no longer being heard.
If he changed his managerial style to be tougher, he said, he wouldn't be true to himself. So he elected not to be the kick-butt guy the Red Sox now need. He elected to stay as he was. And he knew in this case it wasn't good enough.
The baseball world remains stunned.
"I don't know enough about the real stuff behind the scenes,'' wrote former Braves president Stan Kasten in a text. "I'm a big fan of Terry's. Good temperament. Smart. Consistent. But Theo [Epstein], John [Henry], Tom [Werner] and Larry [Lucchino] are smart too.
"Bottom line, I was surprised. But I kept Bobby [Cox] all those years because it's just not that easy to be good all the time, even though we kept coming up short. It puts pressure on the next guy. But the last time [i.e. Grady Little], it put a lot of pressure on the guy, and he won two rings.''
Giants general manager Brian Sabean said, "There's got to be more to the story.''
Former Sox manager Kevin Kennedy, fired after the 1996 season, concurred: "Don't get it. There's got to be more to it. Maybe I can come back.''
Who knows if Francona will have second thoughts in the days to come? What we know is he made a quick decision.
He walked away from $4.5 million per season, though he gets a $750,000 buyout and will likely land in one of the Chicago spots if he chooses to manage again so soon.
"He'll always be considered a player's manager,'' Damon said. "He always had a good way about him. He made you loose when you walked into that clubhouse. His door was always open.
"He depended on veterans to provide leadership and make sure the players took care of their business. He didn't understand when a player didn't have enough pride to go out there and put in his work to improve.''
Did Francona simply run out of Johnny Damons to make sure players were in line? Probably.
Other than Dustin Pedroia, no real leaders emerged. Jason Varitek was the captain, but with his limited role, he probably didn't carry as much weight. Jacoby Ellsbury still hasn't shown leadership, though that may evolve. Adrian Gonzalez was a force offensively but not as a leader. Carl Crawford struggled so much he wasn't able to add much in that department.
The pitchers, now under much scrutiny, obviously didn't live up to their responsibilities, especially in light of the report by John Tomase of the Herald that pitchers were drinking beer in the clubhouse on days they weren't starting.
Where did Francona's voice go?
How could someone who won two World Series suddenly lose that voice in his own clubhouse after he had treated his players with so much respect?
The bottom line is, players need limits and they need to be disciplined. You can't leave them to do the right things on their own. Overpaid veterans need a good swift kick at times.
For four months, the Sox won because they were talented, but once it got down to the nitty-gritty, the things they neglected leading up to that finally caught up to them.
The lack of conditioning really hurt. It showed up with little aches and pains and injuries. The lack of professionalism was startling. The owners paying exorbitant salaries had to feel ripped off.
It'll be interesting to see whether the owners regret not being more proactive in picking up Francona's option. They don't seem to be sweating it now. But baseball people are surprised that the Sox would allow this to happen, which is why many believe there was more here than met the eye.
"When you think of some of the game's best managers, don't you put Terry Francona at the top of the list?'' asked one rival general manager. "He'll be able to pick and choose where he wants to go.
"When you go out there and pick a manager, you never know. With Terry Francona, you know. He's one of the best.''
Who's in charge?
Managers seem to be getting empoweredIs Major League Baseball trending toward giving managers more personnel power, much like the NFL with Bill Belichick and Mike Shanahan?
Start with Tony La Russa. Then there is Mike Scioscia, Jim Leyland, and now Buck Showalter.
When Angels general manager Tony Reagins resigned last week, it was obvious that Scioscia controls the personnel decisions on the team. Reagins did the contract negotiations and initiated trade talks, but with Scioscia's blessing.
Many veteran executives will tell you there's no way you can wear both hats because the baseball season is too long and the manager has too many other things to worry about.
In these cases, they're not technically wearing two hats, but their input is huge.
"The great thing about Mike [Scioscia] is that he's a tremendous listener,'' said Angels scout Mike Pagliarulo. "He loves the give and take. He loves different opinions and he soaks it all in. He's really terrific in that regard. We have a good group of people over there and Mike is someone we all respect and enjoy being around.''
What will happen with Showalter in Baltimore is anyone's guess. He could become the GM. Or he could remain the manager with major personnel and organizational power. That seems to be the case already.
In some ways, giving the manager the power is great because the players know who has the hammer. If there's a strong GM who tends to have his hands in things, it diminishes the manager's power.
"I think that's true,'' said an AL manager. "So many of us are out there doing our jobs but you always wonder whether your decision is the one that stands or can the player go above you and get his way?
"It's important that the players know the manager is the guy in charge and he can affect your playing time.''
All of baseball will be watching to see what happens in Baltimore.
By some measures, Sox best in their fieldThe Red Sox certainly lit up the UZR world of Fangraphs.com, which measures defensive prowess. They were best at first base (Adrian Gonzalez), second base (Dustin Pedroia), and center field (Jacoby Ellsbury).
They weren't so hot at third base (Kevin Youkilis) and left field (Carl Crawford), and pretty average at shortstop. No Sox players were listed at catcher or right field.
Ellsbury scored 15.6, which is his defensive contribution in theoretical runs above or below the average at his position. Gonzalez was 11.1, which bested the Yankees' Mark Teixeira (8.6) and the Reds' Joey Votto (7.4) while Pedroia's 17.9 was ahead of Texas's Ian Kinsler (15.0) and the Angels' Howie Kendrick (14.4).
Marco Scutaro finished at 0.7, slightly above average.
Will the Sox bring back Scutaro for one more year or give Jose Iglesias his shot right out of the gate in spring training? Iglesias would be a major defensive upgrade, but the feeling is he needs another half-season at Triple A to improve his offense.
On the negative side, Youkilis, in his first full season back at third base, was -2.3 while Crawford was -2.2, which is really surprising for a Gold Glove winner.
At third base, the top UZR player was the Phillies' Placido Polanco with a 14 followed by the Giants' Pablo Sandoval at 12.3 and Texas's Adrian Beltre at 11.2.
Crawford obviously had to make adjustments to Fenway and misjudged a lot of balls. The Yankees' Brett Gardner blew away the competition in left with a 25.2 UZR, while Kansas City's Alex Gordon was second at 10.5 and Gerardo Parra of Arizona was next at 9.8.
Scutaro finished in the lower half of shortstops, slightly ahead of former Red Sox shortstop Alex Gonzalez, who came in with a surprising -0.3. The White Sox' Alexei Ramirez led all shortstops with an 11.9, followed by Baltimore's J.J. Hardy (10.7) and Kansas City's Alcides Escobar (10.2).
Apropos of nothing
1. We wish Dennis ''Go-Go'' Gilbert a speedy recovery following a household accident. Stevie Wonder's Calabasas, Calif., neighbor, is a special adviser to White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf and has done so much for the Scouts Foundation; 2. What do Red Sox coaching assistant Rob Leary and Tom Brady have in common? Both played catcher and quarterback at San Mateo (Calif.) High School. Both were drafted as catchers by the Montreal Expos. ''The comparisons stop there,'' Leary laughed; 3. A lot of readers have suggested that Carl Crawford needs his eyes checked. Could it be that simple?; 4. Never knew this, but Fenway Park's lighting is considered the best in baseball; 5. Speaking of Crawford, the Sox need to bring in the right-field fences to accommodate his hitting style.
Updates on nine
1.DeMarlo Hale, Red Sox bench coach - One of these days, someone is going to recognize Hale's value as a manager. The two Chicago jobs are open, and he should be under strong consideration for both. Hale has strong people skills and players respect him. He often was the guy who put out fires in the clubhouse, a role Brad Mills had before taking the Astros managing job.
2. Jarrod Saltalamacchia, C, Red Sox - When Shaun Clancy bought Foley's Bar in New York City about eight years ago, he inherited some plates. On the plates was the name ''Saltalamacchia'' with a family crest. Sox broadcaster Joe Castiglione sent a photo of the plate to Jarrod's father, and, it turns out, it was indeed the family crest. Foley's is a popular watering hole among sportswriters, umpires, scouts, and visiting players and coaches. It's a big Red Sox bar in particular, which makes the finding bizarre.
3. Michael Cuddyer, OF, free agent - If he doesn't re-sign with the Twins he will be a target of a few teams. The Red Sox? Cuddyer, a former infielder who could protect you at third base (even though he doesn't care to play there), might be a decent fit in Boston. He is an average to above-average defender, but he does have a strong arm. Given that Jacoby Ellsbury and Crawford have below-average arms, that would be a plus, especially in right field at Fenway. One problem: He is 32.
4. Brad Mills, manager, Astros - He expects to return as manager with a status quo of the current situation. Major League Baseball has not yet approved the sale of Drayton McLane's interest to Jim Crane as owner.
Commissioner Bud Selig seems to have reservations about Crane's past inflammatory comments about minorities and women. Crane also would have to sign off on moving to the American League as part of a revamped format of two 15-team leagues, with three divisions of five teams each. There has been resistance from the Astros and their fans, even though the move would create a natural rivalry with the Rangers. One problem is that they'd be in a West Division, which they feel would hurt TV ratings because of the late starts.
5. Joe Torre, vice president, MLB - Crazier things have happened, but it's not believed that Torre would be interested in the Red Sox job, though Lou Gorman nearly hired him when Joe Morgan was fired. Torre seems happy in his new job with MLB. Also not entirely sure he would fit with the statistical analysis component the Red Sox are looking for.
6. Terry Francona, former manager, Red Sox - A White Sox source said they will likely wait to see what Tony La Russa decides to do after his run in the playoffs with St. Louis is over. La Russa, who is at the end of his contract, has remained best of friends with Reinsdorf and may want to return to the place where he began his managerial career. If he has already indicated he's not interested, the White Sox would likely speak to Francona, who has maintained a very good relationship with Reinsdorf since he managed the team's Double A Birmingham affiliate in 1994, which included the very public Michael Jordan foray into baseball.
7. Kirk Gibson, manager, Diamondbacks - Could the Red Sox swing a deal with the D-Backs to get Gibson as their manager? Just dreaming. Imagine if Gibson ever caught pitchers drinking beer in the clubhouse during games. Might have to call the Boston Police homicide department. Gibson is a great example of the type of manager the Sox need. Is there anyone out there quite like him?
8. Bruce Chen, LHP, Royals - Since he was targeted to pitch the 163d game, will the Sox pursue him as a free agent? Chen pitched for the Sox in 2003 but was a journeyman spot starter at the time. He was excited about the possibility of joining the Red Sox last week. ''My whole career,'' he said, ''I always wanted to help a team [reach the playoffs]. When I heard there was a possibility of me going to Boston, I'll be honest, I wanted it to happen, because you want to be the guy.'' Since Chen will be a Type B free agent, the Royals wanted two prospects. Chen finished 12-8 with a 3.77 ERA in 25 starts. On the day he almost got traded, he went out and shut out the Twins for eight innings in a 1-0 loss.
9. Kelly Shoppach, C, Rays - You can always tie things in with the Red Sox. Shoppach hit only .176 for the Rays this season but proved to be a force in Game 1 of the Division Series vs. Texas with two homers in a 9-0 win. Johnny Damon also homered to give the Rays an early 2-0 lead. Shoppach, you'll remember, was traded for Coco Crisp after the Red Sox decided that Crisp would be a better option than Damon in center field.
How did that work out?
Short hops
From the Bill Chuck files: ''Three players who had at least 300 plate appearances hit under .200: Brandon Inge (.197), Chone Figgins (.188), and Adam Dunn (.159). There were three last year as well, and a total of four between 2000-08.'' ..... Happy birthday to Scott Schoeneweis (38) and Ernie Riles (51).
Nick Cafardo can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @nickcafardo. Material from interviews, wire services, other beat writers, and league and team sources was used in this report.


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LEBANON (AP) — State health officials have cited a southern Illinois nursing home for leaving a sick, disabled man at a truck stop without his medication or ID because he refused to submit to a mandatory background check.
Petersen Health Network, which operates 90-bed the Lebanon Care Center, was cited for improper nursing care, violating a resident's rights and an involuntary transfer, The Belleville News-Democrat reported (http://bit.ly/1btaDUz ).
Greg Wilson, Petersen's vice president of operations, said the company plans to appeal.
Thomas Hearty, 56, was left at a Denny's at a Flying J truck stop in Alorton in late July after he refused to undergo a criminal background check mandated by state law.
Police found Hearty, who has a history of diabetes and strokes, sitting in his wheelchair outside the restaurant with his clothes in two clear, plastic bags. Hearty has a 1992 felony burglary conviction, the paper reported.
"The facility continues to maintain that at all times it was in compliance with all state (and) federal regulations and was acting at the direction of the Illinois Department of Public Health in discharging the resident," Wilson said in a statement.
Wilson said the nursing home employees simply took Hearty where he asked to go after he had to leave the facility because keeping him without a fingerprint background check would have been illegal.
Alorton police took Hearty to a hospital and he returned to the nursing home the next day. He's been there ever since.
"They were responsible for my care and my well-being and I think they neglected both aspects there," Hearty told the newspaper.
Neither Lebanon Care Center nor Petersen Health Network were fined, but they will have to submit a corrective action plan to the Illinois Department of Public Health. They can lose eligibility for a two-year license, but would be able to get a one-year license.
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Among the collecting community, F.F. Ertl III is most widely known for its series of Highway 61 replicas in 1/18th scale, spanning a range of American cars of lore from the supercharged Kaiser Manhattan to a Max Wedge-powered 1964 Dodge 330 street fighter.
The firm's lineup, actually, is much deeper than that. An offshoot of the prior Ertl Toys, it still offers high-quality replicas of farm equipment under its new Trademark Models brand, and has also entered the 1/64th-scale die-cast highway truck marker through another division, Highway Promotions.
In that spirit, Highway Promotions has just introduced a series of three truck-themed holiday ornaments that would look sharp dangling from your truckin' tree or wreath. In factory-authentic color and graphics schemes, they replicate demonstrators from Freightliner, International and Peterbilt, all pulling 53-foot box vans, and each is backed by a ribbon to secure it to the tree. These are gem-fine and tiny, measuring out to 1/256th scale. By way of comparison, Z-scale model railroad equipment, that hobby's smallest functional scale, is actually larger with 1/220th proportioning. There's a neat little piece of trivia you can toss out while sipping a few Captain Morgan-spiked eggnogs.
Price? Just $5.99 each. Interested? Give Ertl III a shout in Dubuque, Iowa, at 877-874-5467 and tell them Hemmings sent you.
(This post originally appeared in the September 22, 2005, issue of the Hemmings eWeekly Newsletter.)


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Committee Reports:
Presidents Report: Was given by Pat Vaughn,
The ArkGeo Board has been very active since the last meeting in July, serving as liaisons to the standing committees and hosting 3 Eat-N-Greet Events at different locations across the state with one more scheduled on 10/17/09 in Stuttgart.
We have been approached by the Arkansas game and Fish Commission regarding a new "adoption" policy and look forward to working with them in an effort to bring geocaching into WMA's of Arkansas.
We continue to receive more and more request to present geocaching to different youth and civic groups and also have been contacted reguarding investigating the possibility of bringing Geowoodstock to Arkansas.
Treasurer's Report: Was given by the Treasurer, Beth Daniel. Current bank balance is $1,114.80. The sale of merchandise from the Searcy Event has not been added to this as of the Board meeting.
Website managers: Report was not given.
Election Committee: No activity this quarter.
Fund Raising Committee: Report, No activity this quarter.
Community Relations: Report was given by Chair, David Spicer.
Pending board approval the community Relations Committee has been asked to prepare a presentation and to staff a booth at an annual event sponsored by the Pulaski Area Geographic Information System.
The event is scheduled for November 18th, 2009 at Verizon Arena in North Little Rock. If participation is approved by the board the representatives for ArkGeo antipate staffing a booth and conducting a presentation for attendees.
Events Committee No report this quarter.
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DETROIT >> On draft day in 2006, neither Max Scherzer, nor his roommate at the University of Missouri, Nathan Culp, could sleep.
"We both woke up early," Scherzer remembered, as draft day approaches, eight years later. "This was the day you were waiting for, where you got to see where you'd spend the next stage of your baseball career."
Despite the early wake-up call — the draft started at noon, or 9 a.m. in Malibu, Calif., where Scherzer was staying with his family, all eyes were glued to the computer screen, as the drama unfolded.
"Back then, this is how the draft was, it was just online. I was with my parents, we were just tracking it online, as the picks came out. When pick No. 11 came, and the Diamondbacks picked me, we were just hugging it out, being happy, because that was one of the teams I wanted to get drafted by," Scherzer said. "It was a good day, and great moment, because we had just won the regionals, and were going on to Super Regionals."
Culp went in the fourth round to the Padres.
The two would go their separate ways — with Scherzer eventually traded to the Tigers, his career peaking last year with a Cy Young win, and Culp's minor-league career maxing out in Triple-A in 2010.
The draft is now in prime time, with Rounds 1 and 2 (and the compensatory and competitive balance sub-rounds) on Thursday, starting at 7 p.m. They're broadcast on MLB Network television, and streamed live on MLB.com.
The Tigers have the 23rd pick in the first round, and the 63rd pick overall in the second round.
Rounds 3-10 will be Friday, starting at 1 p.m., with the draft concluding Saturday with Rounds 11-40. Both days, it will be streamed on MLB.com.
But it's no less exciting for those kids who are waiting to see or hear their names called off, once the festivities begin.
"Yeah, it's anticipation, because you've worked for so many years to put yourself in that position. You've made so many choices, decisions to eventually play professional baseball, and this is your opportunity to get drafted by a team. It's just a really exciting time," Scherzer said. "A lot of anxiousness. You just want it to get over with, you want it to be done with."
For Rajai Davis, who went through the process as a high school player in the 2001 draft, lasting until the 38th round, it was a far more drawn-out process.
"A lot of them are going through 'Am I going to get drafted?' or 'When am I going to get drafted?' Is it going to be Day One? Or am I going to go Day Two? If you don't go Day One, it's like 'uhhhh.....' Especially when you hear so much about 'This is where we have you, we have you first 10 rounds' and they don't even pick you," Davis said.
"Then what do you think, 'Am I even going to get drafted?'
"It's like my whole life, my whole everything. All my work I've focused on, and now it's laying — my whole dreams are laying in the limbo of somebody who might like me or not like me.
"You just need that one person to like you, though."
Davis found that in the Pirates, who drafted him after 1,138 other players had been picked. For Davis, it was even harder, because he had no way to follow the draft.
"Honestly, I didn't know where to follow it. Honestly, I don't even know if I had internet. I didn't know how to surf the Internet, if I did have it. I don't even know how I found out. I think somebody told me. Somebody called me and told me they drafted me. I think it was my scout," Davis recalled.
"Honestly, I didn't know. I found out earlier that day that they were thinking about drafting me. I was like 'Oooh.' This was my dream come true, what I'd talked about when I was nine, 10 years old. When I told my mom, 11 years old, 'I'm going to be a Major League Baseball player,' this is the road to being what I've always dreamed of."
Davis had to wait from the time he found out they might drafted him until he actually got the phone call.
"That was real difficult. But then, after you're drafted, it's like Oh, man, now you're drafted, now what? Do you sign? This is your dream, your opportunity. But do you sign? And how much do you sign for? What is right, what is good, what will work for you?" Davis said.
"I think that was more mind-boggling than the actual lead up to the draft."
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Vista's Morgan Matteson, who had 18 points, goes up for a shot as Sweetwater's La Jaye Gray defends.
VISTA Except for one season when Morgan Matteson was playing for the Vista High girls basketball freshman team and sister Paige was still in eighth grade, they have been teammates for 11 seasons.
"We've basically played together since I was about 6 and she was 5," Morgan Matteson said. "She's always been in the post and I've always been a guard."
As those days together wind down — Morgan is a senior and Paige is a junior — they continue to fill their roles to perfection.
They were at it Tuesday night in the first round of the San Diego Section Division I playoffs at home against Sweetwater.
The Matteson sisters — Morgan is Miss Outside while Paige is Miss Inside — combined for 23 points and 14 rebounds to help lead the No. 4-seeded Panthers to an easy 68-32 victory over the Red Devils.
That performance where Morgan scored 18 points and Paige collected 11 rebounds adds one more home game to Morgan's agenda.
Vista (18-11) will host Mission Hills (17-11) in a quarterfinal game Friday night.
"The thought of playing my last game for Vista is kind of scary," said Morgan Matteson, who was icing her left knee and left hip after the game. "I'm still kind of shocked senior season came and went and that CIF is here now."
Most of the Mission Hills team watched the second half after beating Carlsbad in a first-round game in San Marcos.
By the time the Grizzlies arrived at halftime, the Panthers had pretty much wrapped up the win with a 36-14 halftime edge.
Morgan Matteson nailed 11 of her team's first 16 points in the game, hitting three of her five 3-pointers in the opening quarter.
"I was kind of feeling it in the game," Matteson said. "My first 3-pointer was an air ball, but coach tells me all the time to keep shooting no matter what.
"You have to have that mentality or every miss will bother you."
The game was tied 3-3 as point guard Jamee Mangoba and Anastacia Rodriguez of Sweetwater (13-13) exchanged 3-pointers.
Matteson hit three straight 3-pointers after that and the rest of the night belonged to Vista, which built a 22-point halftime lead at 36-14 and stretched the lead to 32 points in the third quarter.
The biggest lead of the game came in the fourth quarter as Vista led 64-25 with 4:24 to play.
"Taking it to them was the whole point," Vista coach Pat Moramarco said. "Get the game under control in the first quarter and play it out from there.
"Our plan is always to shoot a lot of 3s, although we didn't hit a very good percentage in this game."
Led by Morgan Matteson, the Panthers nailed 10 3-pointers, far short of the school record of 15.
The Panthers also got a double-double from Rashawna Williams with 12 points and 11 rebounds. Patricia McClure added 10 points as well.
Vista also battered the Red Devils, who were led by Anastacia Rodriguez's 12 points, for a 48-18 edge in rebounds.
"That's crazy to outrebound a team like that," Morgan Matteson said. "We didn't know much about them except we saw two game films.
"We just had to trust coach and play our game."
Thanks to the Matteson sisters, there's yet another playoff game.
"I like our chances Friday night," Morgan said. "It's one step at a time from here on out.
"I do know I'm not ready to turn in my jersey yet."
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I have been running Xfce on my Fedora laptop for a couple of years without much issue. I just installed Mint 14 Xfce version on my desktop computer and I'm having numerous issues. The version is 4.10. All updates have been applied. This computer ran Ubuntu Lucid Gnome for several years until I recently did a fresh install of Xubuntu 12.04. However, Xubuntu 12.04 has a problem with the video causing X to lock up, although otherwise I had no problem. I decided to run Mint 14 Xfce from the live DVD for awhile. After it ran successfully for several days without locking up X I went ahead and installed it, wiping out Xubuntu 12.04. Here are some problems that I need help with:
1) The screensaver is a mess. At first there was no Screensaver option in the Settings utility. Then my friend Mr. Google told me that Xfce no longer came with Xscreensaver but used Gnome screensaver instead. I decided to install Xscreensaver, after which I had an option (icon) for the screensaver in Settings. I selected my favorite screensaver (GL Matrix, which worked fine on Lucid and Xubuntu 12.04), but now when it kicks in the screen just flashes as though it is having video display issues. Compositing is turned on, but I may not have done it properly or there may be other settings that I need to change. I think there is something about Gnome screensaver is already running and causing issues with Xscreensaver, but I can't figure out how to solve the problem.
2) The panel on my Fedora laptop looks like this:
Note that it is on the left side of the screen. I am trying to duplicate that panel on the Mint desktop computer, but the settings options are different. The main problem is that the labels for Places and Launcher are vertical rather than horizontal, and the window buttons are either vertical, or if I tell it to turn off the text the icons are enormous. I also added the weather plugin to the panel and the text is vertical, plus the icon is enormous. I would show a screenshot of what the Mint desktop panel looks like, but the screenshot utility on the Mint desktop sends the file to somewhre unknown; I cannot find it.
Any help gratefully accepted!
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> The main problem is that the labels for Places and Launcher are vertical rather than horizontal[...]
Panel Preferences->Display->Mode: Deskbar
Panel Preferences->Display->Row Size: ~28px
Panel Preferences->Display->Number of rows: 3~4
> The main problem is that the labels for Places and Launcher are vertical rather than horizontal[...]
Panel Preferences->Display->Mode: Deskbar
Panel Preferences->Display->Row Size: ~28px
Panel Preferences->Display->Number of rows: 3~4
Thanks a million. Problems completely solved, except for the prompt color in the terminal. I received an e-mail from a user here with instructions for the color, but the instructions didn't work. I'll join the Mint forums and ask there. How do you think it will go when the first post by a new user there is how to get rid of the Mint colors?
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Still having problems with the screensaver.
At first there was no Screensaver icon in Settings Manager. After hours of googling I discovered that you had to install Xscreensaver in order for Mint Xfce to display the Screensaver settings option. I installed Xscreensaver and then I had a Screensaver setting icon. But apparently Xfce now comes with the Gnome screensaver by default, so after installing Xscreensaver I had two screensavers. I couldn't make any changes without shutting down Gnome screensaver and starting Xscreensaver. And when I did so and selected a screensaver from the choices, it was messed up. After experimenting I discovered that about half the screensavers in the choices list did not display properly.
At the moment I have uninstalled Xscreensaver so I am back to just having the Gnome screensaver running, and no Screensaver icon in Settings Manager. Can someone please tell me how to change my screensaver settings with this default installation?
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XFCE on Mint 14 has indeed a lot of bugs.
I've enjoyed XFCE for quite a long time on various distros, including Manjaro. I've also had Mint 14 for about 2 months and have a serious issue with XFCE: when deleting a file I sometimes only get the "remove permanently" option and not "remove". If I use it anyway it does not delete the selected file but the whole folder !
It is very unforntunate because I love both Mint and XFCE but the 2 of them obviously don't cope with each other.
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Also running Mint 14 Xfce here. Love it, no problems - but I added the Xfce 4.10 and 4.12 PPAs to my sources list, so some of the numerous updates that I got via them would have fixed bugs and added features to Xfce and Xfce-related components/apps.
Run Synaptic Package Manager. Type xscreensaver into Synaptic's search box. Mark it for installation, along with at least xscreensaver-data if it does not get automatically marked for installation when you mark xscreensaver. Look through the list and also mark other files that you wish to add (xscreensaver-gl, xscreensaver-gl-extra, xscreensaver-data-extra, xscreensaver-screensaver-webcollage, et cetera).
This may prompt you to allow Synaptic to uninstall some portions of the gnome-screensaver app, if it conflics with xscreensaver (I cannot remember) when you click the button in Synaptic to apply changes. In any event, after installing the above files, type gnome-screensaver into Synaptic's search box. Mark it for removal (or complete removal), along with other gnome-screensaver-related files that are installed (note that xscreensaver shows up in the list of results - do not accidentally remove it, and do not remove any of the xscreensaver data files, either). Apply changes again to remove gnome-screensaver.
I suggested adding xscreensaver before removing gnome-screensaver in case some component in your system depends on "any screensaver," meaning that one must be installed... If that is the case (not a clue), removing your only screensaver would most likely cause that component to be removed as well. IDK about screensaver apps, but I have read about that occuring when somone tried to remove their only web browser before installing a different one, so better safe than sorry.
After you are finished with Synaptic, close it. You can now configure your screensaver app - and the individual "hacks" (screensavers) normally; the option is under Settings in your menu.
As far as "how to change my screensaver settings with this default installation?" goes, you can't if you mean with gnome-screensaver as your screensaver app. This, believe it or not, is apparently not regarded as a bug by the developer of gnome-screensaver, lol (only by the countless people who have and probably will continue to mark it as a bug), since he not only marks those bug reports as "won't fix," he also posted in one of the threads that "any screensaver that requires configuring is inherently broken," or somesuch. A couple of issues I see with that is that some screensavers are meant to be user-configured by design - such as any screensaver that displays user-defined text or displays images from a directory of the user's choosing - and, since not every computer has top-shelf graphics, a user might naturally want to run a screensaver of their choosing but need to "dial down" the eye-candy a little bit.
But that's easy to fix, just use xscreensaver instead.
Regarding your issue with deleting files, I cannot help you with that because when I delete a file, I delete it (not move it to a "trash" directory), so I always use the delete (aka "permanently delete) option. And I have never experienced it deleting an entire directory or any file(s) other than the one(s) I am trying to delete. Works fine for me in Thunar (1.6.3, but also on previous versions) and PCManFM (1.0.1).
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It took the community about a month to release the XFCE version of Mint 14 so I guess they don't just add PPAs but I will soon upgrade to Mint 15 so I will give these PPAs a try to see how it works.
No, they don't just add PPAs, lol. I would guess that they don't add them at all, although the versions of some of the components found within those PPAs might (assumption: some or all will, depending on how long ago those newer versions hit (some have been in there for a while, but others are more recent), when they declare the "freeze" and start trying to fix bugs and get everything to work well together as opposed to adding new things, and so on).
I suspect that anything that gets used that isn't in Ubuntu's (Xubuntu's?) repos would be compiled from source, but IDK.
Seems like the Xfce version won't be released until after the KDE version. I just checked Mint's "ISO Images" web page and saw that the June 18th versions of Olivia KDE were both rejected yesterday. There is of yet no KDE version that is "approved for RC release" - but perhaps today's i386 version ("95% tested") will make it that far.
I remain hopeful that a Mint 15 (Olivia) Xfce version will be released, sometime, but it would be reassuring to be able to see an .ISO listed on that webpage even if it is quickly marked as "rejected." I understand limited resources/man-hours, but neither Cinnamon nor MATE fit the need of a low-resource OS that is anything but low in the features department. I have installed Mint 14's Xfce on ~ten-year old computers and on new ones and it works well on all of them (and the computers' owners are happy with what they have).
Here is the address for Mint's ISO Images page:
And here are the two Xfce PPAs if you or anyone else (running a compatible distro) wish to add them to your sources for daily use or experimentation (there is a way to "purge" PPAs and the versions of software that they provide if one later chooses, but I don't know how that works as I have not needed it):
These two PPAs state that they are compatible with (Ubuntu's) 12.04, 12.10, and 13.04, so they should work fine with Mint Xfce from 13 (LTS) to 15.
BtW, Mint 14 appears to be supported until April, 2014. "Quantal" must have been the last non-LTS version of Ubuntu that had a decent support-window (for a non-LTS, of course). This means that distros built on it (Mint 14) will have support for three months longer than distros built on "Raring" (Mint 15). I might end up sticking with 14. It's been very good to me so far, lol.
Apologies for rambling,
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An Afghan refugee convicted a second time of murdering his wife, has asked for a reduced sentence this time around, citing among his reasons that he was burdened by the fact his five children would now have to grow up in foster care.
Soltan Ahmad Azizi was jailed in 2010 for a minimum of 17-and-a-half years for strangling Marzieh Rahimi with her veil at the couple's Hampton Park home in 2007.
The mother of five was killed in front of their three-month-old baby and 22-month-old toddler in what the court heard was an unplanned attack during a fit of rage.
He was aware at the time that his wife wanted to leave him.
Azizi's defence lawyers appealed against his original conviction on the grounds that inadmissible or prejudicial evidence was presented to the jury, including statements made by his wife about previous physical, psychological and emotional abuse.
They also argued that the jury was not given the option of the alternative charge of defensive homicide.
But a second jury found him guilty of murder last month.
At his pre-sentence plea hearing before Justice Stephen Kaye today, defence barrister Julian McMahon said a lower jail term was warranted this time, considering significant differences in the nature of evidence presented at the two trials.
He said no evidence was presented at the retrial which suggested Azizi had been violent or abusive towards his wife before he killed her.
"The case against him was of a harsher nature and more condemnatory manner than in the second trial," Mr McMahon said.
He also argued among his reasons for a lighter sentence that Azizi was the only Afghan prisoner at Barwon, where he was likely to return to serve his sentence, which would make his jail time more onerous.
The fact that his five children would have to grow up in foster care while he was in jail over their mother's death was also a "very great burden for a father to carry", Ms McMahon said.
But prosecutor Michele Williams, SC, argued that Azizi should receive the same sentence handed down last time.
She submitted that if the murder was the result of unexplained violence, then Justice Kaye should accept that Azizi was a man who had not accepted responsibility for his actions.
"The children are left without a mother for one simple fact: he killed her," she said.
"He murdered her ... She wanted to leave him and he knew it and he killed her in an explosion of rage."
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These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.
"The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project includes data on how these changes affect news about political, economic, and social affairs. Visit the Open Society Foundations' website to see the full version of each country's report.
CIMA worked with the Open Society Foundations to identify the most important digital media indicators in the series of reports. The mapping tool allows for the visualization of these indicators from each report and enables the comparison of digital media penetration in various countries. Please note that some data from the reports has been recalculated to ensure that comparable data is presented in the map." READ MORE
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ICT for WASH and public service delivery
"In June, two organisations focussed on using ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in the water and sanitation sector joined forces in Cape Town. SeeSaw, a social enterprise that customises ICT to support sanitation and water providers and iComms, a University of Cape Town research unit (Information for Community Oriented Mu nicipal Services) co-hosted a two day event to look at how ICT tools are changing the way that public services function in developing countries.
There are growing expectations that harnessing ICT intelligently can bring about radical improvements in the way that health, education and other sectors function, particularly in developing countries. SeeSaw and iComms wanted to look at this in more detail – and to build on the open sharing of experience to provide general principles to those planning to harness ICT for public service delivery. Their overarching goal is to help practitioners cut through much of the complexity and hype surrounding ICT usage and give them a robust set of guidelines with which to plan and negotiate partnerships and projects on the ground." READ MORE
Transparency International
Young activists: the future of social media in the Arab world
"The onset of the Arab uprisings demonstrated the power of social media and its effect of people protesting for their rights. Youth were an integral part of the revolutions, with many grassroots initiatives springing up online in response to years of endemic corruption.
In the search for more ways to use technology to fight corruption, last month we organised a conference for social media activists and bloggers in Mohammedia, Morocco.
The goal behind this unique gathering of youth from the Arab region was to spread a culture of transparency via social media." READ MORE
Anti-Corruption Views - Anti-corruption activists pledge to crack down on kleptocrats
"'Don't let them get away with it,' Cobus de Swardt, managing director of Transparency International, said this weekend in closing the International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) in Brasilia.
Attendees at the event in Brazil pledged to ramp up their campaign to end impunity for political and business leaders who steal public money.
The messages repeated by campaigners at the conference were clear: Bankers must not be allowed to profit by accepting the deposits of kleptocrats who loot public coffers; political leaders who line their own pockets at the expense of citizens should be prosecuted; businesses should not evade taxes by choosing favorable jurisdictions to base operations; and public officials who fail to provide public services and take bribes must be held to account." READ MORE
Tanzanian transporters pay $13,000 in bribes per month – report
"Tanzanian transport companies each pay almost $13,000 a month in bribes to authorities, a survey of East Africa's transport corridors by Transparency International showed on Monday.
Their Kenyan counterparts pay an average of $6,715 a month each in bribes to revenue authorities, police officers and customs officials, highlighting the difficulties of opening up trade within the five-nation East African Community (EAC).
"Corruption is deeply entrenched amongst the regulatory institutions operating along the main transport corridors in the region," said the report titled 'Bribery as a Non-Tariff Barrier to Trade: A Case Study of East African Trade Corridors'." READ MORE
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Taking participation to a new level with GovCamp
"I recently got back from three days of intensive brainstorming in Bitola with some of the country's leading whizz kids to come up with new ways of using social media to increase accountability in local government.
And I'm sure everyone who took part would agree that this event took participation in governance to a new level.
GovCamp is the first think-tank of its kind in the country and a model of how citizen participation can go beyond consultation to active involvement in generating solutions to improve local services." READ MORE


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Submission + - What HP's TouchPad Fire Sale Teaches iPad Rivals
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Christopher Williams writes that the success of HP's fire sale in unloading hundreds of thousands of TouchPads at heavily discounted prices may provide clues to other Apple competitors hoping to loosen the iPad's stranglehold on the tablet computing market. The main Google Android tablets, made by Samsung and Motorola, are pitched at around the same price point as the iPad but, put together with all the other Android tablets, it's estimated the iPad outsells them eight to one so "the problem becomes circular: the user base is too small for app developers to invest in," writes Williams, "so users buy an iPad because there are more apps and the user base gets even smaller relative to Apple's." According to Williams Android tablet makers must find a way of breaking the cycle to avoid the TouchPad's fate. "No doubt acutely aware of this is Amazon, which is rumored to be preparing to release an Android tablet this autumn," writes Williams adding that Amazon must price their "iPad killer" at break-even or a loss to succeed. "Its online retail empire and the Kindle brand mean Amazon has the marketing clout to take on the iPad, but on the evidence of HP's successful TouchPad sell off, the question is whether it has the courage to put its money on the line. ""


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Apple has given its online support forum a face lift of sorts. In the preparatory stages for close to a year, the revamped Apple Support Communities has been imbued with a new social networking aspect that effectively replaces the antiquated Apple Discussions board.
"Apple Support Communities brings together thousands of Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, and iPad users from around the world to discuss Apple products and topics," Apple says. "Apple Support communities provides a wealth of information about your favorite Apple hardware and software products to help you get the most out of your purchase. And, in the spirit of community, you can also help other Apple Support Communities' users by answering their questions."
Joining ASC is fairly straightforward. Once you sign in with your Apple ID, simply create a username for the Community and, when prompted, agree to the new ASC terms and conditions. Once you're in, you'll find a host of "communities" through which you can sift in hopes of finding one that's pertinent to your inquiry, product, or service. You can even use widgets to bring you the content you're interested in, from within or even outside the community. And making the experience a personalized one, users can spruce up their profiles with pics and avatars.
Given the greater social emphasis of the online forums, Apple has even gone so far as to present standards of "Community Etiquette" that ASC members must abide by. The policy mandates include:
- Post only technical support questions and answers, unless otherwise noted.
- Be polite, constructive and stay on topic.
- Search for questions similar to your own before submitting them to the community.
- Reward helpful community members by marking answers to your questions helpful and correct.
- Avoid speculation and rumors.
For more info or to see what the revamp looks like, check out Apple Support Communities for yourself.


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|MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development
|Sergei Golubchik and Andrew Hutchings
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|Packt Publishing
|Michael J. Ross
|A practical and example-rich introduction to developing MySQL plug-ins.
The book spans 288 pages, most of which are organized into ten chapters, followed by an appendix and an index. The first chapter explains the details of how to compile, link, and install MySQL User Defined Functions (UDFs), as well as proper MySQL plug-ins. For those people working on Windows platforms, numerous screenshots are provided, showing how to work with Microsoft Visual Studio (which is freely available). Readers learn how to use MySQL command-line utilities for building and packaging plug-ins, and the options needed to do so. The subsequent chapter focuses on UDFs — both normal and aggregate ones — which are technically not part of the MySQL Plugin API, although they may be in the future. However, they can be thought of as precursors to true plug-ins, because they are written in C/C++, loaded dynamically at runtime, and extend the capabilities of the MySQL server — in this case, by being callable from within SQL statements. The authors explicate how to install and utilize UDFs, and provide several examples.
The book's remaining chapters explore different types of plug-ins, starting with the most basic kind of all, Daemon plug-ins, which can run code utilizing a dedicated thread in the mysqld server process. Readers are shown how Daemon plug-ins are structured — including their declarations, types, status variables, and configuration system variables. To demonstrate these components, the authors dissect four separate sample plug-ins, line by line, with a great deal of helpful commentary. The next two chapters, 4 and 5, delve into schema-related plug-ins, starting with those that create tables, and ending with more advanced topics, such as how to access and output information about a server's internal data structures. These two chapters present almost half a dozen examples, as equally detailed as those of the earlier material.
During the past several years, all relational database systems are seeing increased use of full-text parsing, for various purposes. Chapters 6 and 7 show the reader how to create plug-ins that supplement the full-text search capabilities already baked into MySQL. The first sample plug-in presented by the authors could be used by PHP programmers for parsing their scripts, while another sample could be used by developers who need to match user input (which may include typos), using a Soundex algorithm. The final three chapters cover many aspects of storage engines, ranging from a basic read-only engine to a more complex one that supports indexes. The book concludes with an appendix that surveys the primary enhancements to the Plug-in API that database developers may see in versions of MySQL after 5.1.
On the publisher's site, there are no reported errata, but here are some that I found in just the first couple pages, to get the list started: "class [a] to" (page 1), "on [a] MySQL fork" (page 2), and "ask [the] questions" (page 2). Also, countless phrases and sentences in the book are oddly constructed, with multi-word adjectives missing hyphens, commas used where semicolons are called for, and sometimes both mistakes committed in the same sentence, such as the very first sentence of the preface. In fact, the lead author admits that he prefers reading fiction to a dictionary. Regardless, the information and instruction provided by the authors are generally clear to the reader, and ably illustrated with the sample code.
The book and thus the reader benefit greatly from the extensive MySQL experience and knowledge of the authors, reflected in the depth of coverage of the various topics. MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development brings together valuable information that is otherwise tedious to find — scattered throughout the API source code, official documentation, and online forum threads. For any programmer interested in unleashing the full potential of their MySQL servers through the creation and use of plug-ins, this book is an essential resource.
Michael J. Ross is a freelance website developer and writer.
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CHICAGO (AP) — A jury has convicted a Chicago attorney of murdering former NBA center Eddy Curry's ex-girlfriend and infant daughter four years ago.
Fredrick Goings showed no reaction when the jury's guilty verdict was read Tuesday in the January 2009 shooting deaths of 24-year-old Nova Henry and her and Curry's 10-month-old daughter, Ava.
Goings represented Henry in a child custody case against the former Chicago Bulls, New York Knicks and Miami Heat center and was also romantically involved with her. Prosecutors say Henry tried to end her relationship with Goings and moved out with her and Curry's two children.
They say Goings shot Henry in her home while she was holding the infant. Her and Curry's then-3-year-old son was also there but wasn't harmed.
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The good news is that awhile after entrée was finished the lady 2 seats to my right went to have a cigarette (her boyfriend went too), and when she came back was noticeably friendlier. I actually wondered if he'd had a word to her about it!
I'd say you reacted in the only polite fashion you could under the circumstances! Must have felt very awkward though, and quite isolating. Well done!
Using phones at the dinner table is never OK. Using them at your DH's work do = never OK x 23233000. That said, I think your DH and his colleagues were rude to ignore you in the way they did. If you are at a formal dinner, and one person is looking a bit 'alone', you make conversation with that person. Them's the rules.
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i have a leaking gas tank and need to get to it . How hard is this cross member to remove and can it be done without a lift. Is it heavy? Should one person attempt this with just jack stands? I am willing to bet this tank is leaking at the seam from all the posts i have read and needs to be replaced.
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1997 subuaru legacy outback cross member removal
Started by mkontax , Dec 31 2012 09:11 AM
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Posted 31 December 2012 - 09:11 AM
Posted 31 December 2012 - 09:41 AM
you might find it to be the fuel filler neck. worth a look before getting that involved.
Posted 31 December 2012 - 09:59 AM
you might find it to be the fuel filler neck. worth a look before getting that involved.
Absolutely check this first. They have a tendency to rust out at the bottom. The black plastic shield on it holds roks, sand, and moisture. Check with a full tank or immediately after putting fuel in the car.
Posted 31 December 2012 - 11:49 AM
i did a tank two weeks ago was a ordeal had to lower the xmember and the front suspention supports but left it all hanging on the cvs and struts and was able to slip the tank out forwards oh and had to pull rear half of driveshaft the xmember dosent have to come out just be lowerd. And check filler spout first and meatal feul lines on top of tank they like to pinhole and leak down the tank
Posted 31 December 2012 - 12:52 PM
ok...i am going to do this...i will examine filler spout first and then go from there....not my luck usually with this car to have it that easy but i am hoping. I appreciate the feedback
Posted 06 January 2013 - 10:01 AM
ok found the leak...its on top of the tank....a rust out area directly under rear seat....it is directly below an access hole that had a rubber plug in it...so i plan to repair it with fiberglass and resin and not remove the tank at this point...
my question is wheter i can drop the tank 1 inch to give myself a little room to work on the repair:eek:
my question is wheter i can drop the tank 1 inch to give myself a little room to work on the repair:eek:
Posted 07 January 2013 - 12:04 PM
Went out to harbor freight and purchased high torque impact. I have decided not to attempt to loosen cross member for several days until the threads of bolts are totally soaked with penetrating oil. In the mean time i have carefully peeled back the rusted area of the seat support sheet metal giving me more area to apply epoxy putty to the holes . I pushed the putty in and am waiting it to dry thoroughly. If this works, I will delay further removal of cross member but just attempt to prepare the bolts for future removal because tank replacement is inevitable at some point. I think I need a psychiatrist to help free me from my obsession with this vehicle....lol. If it wasn't for the incredible ability of this vehicle to plow through 4 foot snow drifts in upstate new york back in the 80's, it would have long been sent to its grave. It is an amazing vehicle from this regard and am afraid that a new one would not be its' equal. New outback owners who were former 90'S subaru owners....please help dispell my paranoia!!!!! By the way, I now live in coastal north carolina....i have not attempted to use it in flood waters yet but i am sure that day will come.
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Baby You Can Drive My Car
The Eric Firestone Gallery in East Hampton will show "Parts & Service," a show dedicated to the "glory of the garage," on Saturday beginning with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. The theme is racing, motorcycle culture, mechanics, and other automotive concerns and fetishes. The show will include artifacts, photography, and mixed-media works with images of car wrecks, burning rubber, car designs, and pinups.
The artists are John Chamberlain, Pia Dehne, Nick Dine, Robert Lazzarini, Shelter Serra, Max Snow, Eric White, and Firooz Zahedi, among many others. The show will be on view through Sept. 2.
Lerma and Martinez
Beginning tomorrow, Halsey Mckay in East Hampton will show the work of Jose Lerma and Eddie Martinez. According to the gallery, "both artists use creative material approaches to painting and its history as the starting point for their practice." All fictive, the works display the political histories of made-up nations and conflicts using the interaction of the denizens. Mr. Lerma has a linear and sinewy approach, whereas Mr. Martinez "scrapes and scratches the oils onto the picture plane in an exorcism of angst."
This is the first showing of the artists' work on the South Fork, and it will be on view through Aug. 29. A reception will be held on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.
Beres at Olko
The Monika Olko Gallery in Sag Harbor will show the paintings of James Beres beginning Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Over the course of a 40-year career, the artist has had his work exhibited in museums such as the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut and the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan, as well as in galleries such as the David Whitney Gallery in New York and the one at the School of Visual Arts. He was discovered by Klaus Kertess, who had a long association with the Whitney Museum.
Mr. Beres describes his abstract work as "images floating off the surface, at the same time reinforcing the flatness through the negative space."
Photography by Berman
The Youngblood Gallery in Sag Harbor will show the photographs of Fern Berman beginning Saturday and running through Aug. 25. Ms. Berman, who lives in Connecticut and East Hampton, prints her images on watercolor paper. While the images she captures are realistic, she focuses on close-up details that make the photographs seem more abstract. Her work has been collected by Wesleyan University and the New Britain Museum of Art.
"Convergence" Emerges
Those who missed Christopher Engel's paintings at Hampton Hang in Water Mill can see his work at Romany Kramoris in Sag Harbor beginning today. A reception will be held on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.
"Convergence" is a selection of his recent works with an ancestral theme. "There are points in life when all lines come together," Mr. Engel said. "They converge. There is an alignment of thoughts and ideas." In the paintings, figures may mix with Byzantine angels, and shamanistic figures play with toys and the spirit world, or they may refer to Matisse or other artists. The work is on view through Aug. 30.
Davis at Marcelle
Beginning on Saturday, the Peter Marcelle Gallery in Bridgehampton will present paintings by Lisa Corinne Davis with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Her oil-on-wood-panel works suggest an underlying graph or map-like structure that appears to be obliterated by the application of painted elements on top of it. Other times it appears to dissolve as the surface liquefies in saturated colors, some that look like blood, bile, or other vital fluids. The compositions integrate geometric and expressionistic abstraction, breaking down one and solidifying the other.
Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and has been exhibited and reviewed widely. An associate professor at Hunter College in New York, she has taught art at the Parsons School of Design, the Cooper Union School of Art, and Yale University. The show will be on view through Aug. 23.
Diaspora Vibe 2.0
The Southampton Cultural Center will show "Diaspora Vibe 2.0," featuring the work of more than 30 artists from the Latin American and Caribbean diaspora. A benefit reception and party on Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. will honor Grace Y. Ingelton, an artist advocate. She will receive the 365 Art for Change Award for supporting several generations of outstanding artists through the organization she helped found, the Dedicators. Among those artists are Romare Bearden, Lois Mailou Jones, Benny Andrews, and Roy DeCarava.
The mediums of painting, photography, installation, mixed media, metal works, wood carvings, printmaking, textiles, and miniature drawings on handmade paper are part of the show. According to the organizers, the works on view will "express the daily struggles, triumphs, and spiritual journeys of many of the artists exhibited." Tickets to the party cost $125 and can be purchased online at globalartsmediainc.com. The exhibit runs through Aug. 26.
On the Pottery Trail
Five ceramicists in East Hampton, Springs, and Sag Harbor will hold a studio tour and sale on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The East Hampton studios belong to Phyllis Spiegel at 15 Springwood Way and Karen Lissack at 85 Old Northwest Road, and the Springs studio is Joel Kaplan's at 28 Cedar Ridge Drive. The Sag Harbor potters are Beverly Granger at 24 Soundview Drive and Nancy Robbins at 51 Round Pond Lane. Those who visit all five studios will receive a free gift.
Franklin and Sobel
The Crazy Monkey Gallery in Amagansett will show Anna Franklin's flower paintings and Cynthia Sobel's abstract paintings in a show opening today. A reception will be held Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. Other artists on view in a separate group show will be Andrea McCafferty, Daniel Schoenheimer, Jana Hayden, Wilhelmina Howe, Lance Corey, Bob Tucker, Sheila Rotner, and Diane Marxe.
Ms. Franklin's series is called " Incandescence," to mark summer and its bounty of colorful and fragrant flowers and memories of her childhood in Italy. Ms. Sobel's new paintings are abstract memories of the island of Capri and Gardiner's Bay. She will also show impressionistic plein-air watercolors from both places. The exhibition is on view through Aug. 27.
Watermill Open House
The Watermill Center will open its doors to the public on Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m. In addition to tours of the grounds, on view will be a Mike Kelley video display and installations put together for the center's annual benefit, which this year is called the Big Bang. Artists who have been participating in the center's summer residency program will be on hand to speak about their work. The event is free.
Lola Schnabel at Tripoli
"Night Vision," a solo show of work by Lola Montes Schnabel, will open next week at the Tripoli Gallery of Contemporary Art in Southampton. A reception will be held next Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m.
The show will feature 13 new paintings that resulted from the artist's experiments painting with a single candle burning in an otherwise dark room. The focus is on the burning wick and the properties of the flame. The series is about constraints — in subject, light, and a limited palette of black, gold, and white. It will be on view through Sept. 13.


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Another day, another flip flop. At Sunday's Mike Huckabee-hosted presidential forum, Republican candidate Mitt Romney offered up yet another flip flop, this time on reducing global warming pollution from cars and trucks. He said that he would "get the EPA out of its effort to manage carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles and trucks."
Back in 2004, then Governor Romney signed Massachusetts up to copy California in implementing carbon emissions standards for light duty vehicles. The car companies pretty much hated that because it created a dreaded "patchwork," in which the standard would apply in about half of the states but not in the rest.
Luckily, the Obama administration stepped in. The President brokered a deal to come up with a single national standard to reduce carbon pollution, which the car companies, the states, unions, EPA, and environmental groups like NRDC could all agree on. He made it happen primarily through a rule issued by EPA, which reduces pollution, saves consumers money, and reduces confusion for industry. That program was so successful that last month, EPA proposed to extend and strengthen the program through 2025.
Back to Romney. Of course, no one likes a flip-flopper. But the truth is, sometimes it makes sense to change your mind. You get new information, like former climate-skeptic Richard Muller who came to his senses and realized the globe really is warming up. That's what makes Romney's latest flip flop so infuriating. Almost every bit of new information we have shows that the need to reduce global warming pollution is greater than ever and the dangers are worse than we previously thought.
And the rules that Romney once supported, but now decries, provide tremendous benefits. The new set of rules would save over 4 billion barrels of oil. Owners of new efficient vehicles would save up to $4,400 over the life of the vehicle. Since he doesn't seem to have any problem with changing his positions, can we humbly suggest that the Governor just go ahead and switch back to the position that is good for industry, good for consumers and good for the planet?


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The deaths of a 2-year-old girl and a 44-year-old woman were reported within a span of 11 minutes Wednesday in Pontiac.
Oakland County sheriff's deputies responded at 9:30 a.m. to a home in the 700 block of Fourth Street, where the 2-year-old girl was found unresponsive in her crib.
CPR had begun when deputies arrived. The child was transported to St. Joseph Mercy in Pontiac, where she was pronounced dead.
The child's father said she had extensive medical issues, officials said.
At 9:41 a.m., the sheriff's office received a call about an unresponsive woman in the 400 block of University Drive.
Emergency medical personnel were already on the scene and attempting to revive the woman before deputies arrived. The woman was pronounced dead at McLaren Oakland Hospital.
Detectives are attempting to determine whether narcotic medications which had recently been prescribed for the woman contributed to her death.
Autopsies are pending and investigations are ongoing in both cases, officials said.


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Nabokov's Game
Nabokov: His Life in Part
Andrew Field's critical book, Nabokov, His Life in Art, published ten years ago, still stands out as an inquisitive, catholic, and satisfying study of a macabre and lyrical grammarian of genius, the pages of whose novels blister the hands as one turns them. His intellect has the fever of the classic Russian gambler. The game is sometimes cards—he writes his books on index cards, and even talks by them in formal interviews—but mostly chess, played to prosecute and win.
Now, in attempting a portrait or a "Life in Part," as he rather nervously calls it, Mr. Field has discreetly joined in Nabokov's game. He arrives at the famous hotel in Montreux with tape recorder, pencil, and notebook, to work on a "first biography" of the novelist whose charming wife looks on as the players sit opposite each other. Curious that a novelist who has put on autobiographical masks in his writing, who strongly believes that a writer's intimate life is in his works, and who has exposed a persona in Speak Memory, should want his biography to be done now. Perhaps Speak Memory has left him with the irritating sensation—which all autobiographers know—that the memoir has the half-vacant stare of a premature tombstone; perhaps he is tired of the gaps and the flattening, telescoping tricks of recollection, and can't bear to think of things he forgot at the time.
But, as Mr. Field says, Nabokov is above all a professional. Both husband and wife, for all their deep privacy, are aware that a first biography of any famous person sets a tone for its successors. The odd thing is that Nabokov, who is something of an actor and intensely aware of projected selves and double natures, who knows that one lives in other people's lives as well as in one's own, showed alarm when, for example, Field revealed that he had questioned others already, including Nabokov's sister. The large Nabokov family is an empire and thinks of its anecdotage as a closed shop. One really does not want to become an anecdote outside the circle, but fears that this is what biography means. There is no special vanity in this: one is entitled to contradict one's brother, sister, aunts and uncles. One is not even necessarily vain: an imaginative man hates to see his "pleasing, anxious being" wasted in mere family gossip.
What about Field, the competitor (as he calls himself) in the game of biographical chess? The opening chapters are really a defensive examination of the biographical maneuver and in this are highly Nabokovian. There is even a comic incident. Arriving one Sunday for lunch at the perfectly out-of-date and grand hotel in Montreux, Field wore an open-necked shirt and no jacket, thinking that he was going to eat in the Nabokovs' vast apartment. But on Sundays they eat "hotel food" in the restaurant and Mme Nabokov tactfully suggests that he…
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RZA sees the latest Wu-Tang Clan endeavor as the end of the influential rap group as we know it.
The 44-year-old Wu-Tang leader and producer says he's still six weeks or so away from finishing the Clan's overdue new album "A Better Tomorrow." The process has made him realize he's got different priorities these days.
"When you're a young man, you're hustling and you've got 12 hours a day to dedicate to music. It might be more than that," said the rapper, whose real name is Robert Diggs, in a phone interview. "The energy that's important is constantly pouring out. But when you've got to go seek for the energy, it becomes a little more difficult. Wu-Tang is forever, I'll never take back that statement. But we haven't recorded a lot of studio albums. This is the first album we've recorded in seven years, actually. And we can't wait seven years for another album."
RZA foresees a future where the spirit of the Wu-Tang Clan lives on in the children of the original nine members of the New York-based collective and in the untold scores of rappers, producers and entrepreneurs influenced by the group — folks like Drake, whose "Wu-Tang Forever" drew a lot of attention earlier this year. He's had trouble wrapping up the collective's plans in the now, though.
The 20th anniversary of the release of "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)," the Clan's still-powerful debut album, came and went last week, and the album meant to celebrate the moment remains a work in progress.
RZA says he traveled around the country gathering material for the album, even stopping over in Memphis, Tenn., where he conducted original recording sessions with players from the revered Stax and Hi record labels. Most of his production is complete, and most of the other members of the group — including GZA, Method Man, Ghostface Killah and Inspectah Deck — completed their versework in two sessions over the summer. He hopes to have it completed in 45 days or so after sending it to a few outside producers for final touches.
One obstacle remains.
"Everybody did their verses except Raekwon," RZA said. "He hasn't turned in his verses yet. I don't know if he's still trying to find the vibe of the music. We have to talk about it before it becomes too late. But he hasn't come to the table yet."
Attempts to reach Raekwon for comment were unsuccessful. RZA says he's not sure if the project can be completed without his crewmate: "Well, you know what, that's something that I would take a vote on with the rest of the crew. I'm not a dictator about that. Raekwon is a valuable energy to the Wu-Tang, his voice, his lyrics, his approach. Rae is a master lyricist."
RZA's got plenty to do in the meantime. He's recently finished the screenplay for what he hopes will be his second feature film and he's acting in the new Fox series "Gang Related," playing a Los Angeles police officer on a Los Angeles gang unit.
"There are moles inside the police department from the gang culture, that's the whole trick about the series," he said. "Who's going to turn out to be the double agents? Who's gang-related? Each week it's getting closer. I don't know if it's going to be me or not."
More and more, he sees acting — not producing — as his 9 to 5.
"I live in a capitalist country so I respect, 'Cash rules,'" he said. "That might get me on the mic at 50. But I prefer not to be on the mic at 50."


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John Webster on the Givenness of Neighbors
The way we understand the occasion of such a thing as " neighbors" fundamentally changes our actions toward them. Here is one of the most helpful things I've read on the simple idea—we have neighbors.
In his book Holiness, John Webster writes:
Love involves my acknowledgement that I am obliged by my neighbor as a reality given to me by God, a reality which I would often like to evade but which encounters me with a transcendent imperative force.
Why is this 'transcendent' ground for works of human fellowship theologically decisive? Because thereby my neighbour, the one with whom I stand in relation, is given to me, forming part of my destiny in the company of the saints. My neighbour is a summons to fellowship, because in him or her I find a claim on me that is not causal or fortuitous (and thereby dispensable) but rather precedes my will and requires that I act in my neighbour's regard.
Without a sense that fellowship is (God-) given, my neighbour would not present a sufficiently strong claim to disturb me out of complacency and indifference into active, initiative-taking regard. Some basic acts of human fellowship—mercy to strangers, fidelity, patient attentiveness to the unlovely, devotion to long-standing and largely unreciprocated care of the comatose and handicapped—require for their sustenance a perception that the neighbor is one with whom I have been set in fellowship independent of (sometimes against) my will.
My neighbour obliges me because he or she is the presence to me of the appointment and vocation of the holy God. Without givenness, without fellowship as more than a contingent fact, without the neighbour as a divine call, there is only my will. But, if fellowship is a condition and not merely one possibility for my ironic self to entertain, then in building common life—in culture, politics and ethics—I resist the relationlessness of sin into which I may drift, and, sanctified by Christ and Spirit, I realize my nature as one created for holiness (97, paragraphing mine).


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – To cap the fund-raising efforts for the 2012-13 school year, the Georgia College Student-Athlete Advisory Committee hosted the school's first Make-A-Wish Athletics Semi-Formal Dance Saturday, April 27, raising an additional $700 for the cause.
Assistant Director of Athletics Ginger Chaffinch serves as the SAAC Advisor.
"It was a great turnout for the first year hosting the event," she said. "Everyone had a great time and most importantly, we raised more funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. We hope to grow upon this event to make it an annual mainstay in our philanthropic efforts."
Senior Tyler Franks of the GC men's tennis team served as the evening's disc jockey, as members of the Georgia College athletic programs danced into the late hours of Saturday evening for a great cause.
Director of Athletics Wendell Staton was impressed with the student-athlete turnout for the event.
"I have always said that the most impressive thing about our University is our students, and their resourcefulness with this event reiterates that concept," he said. "It was a great night and we have an absolutely outstanding group of student-athletes who understand the big picture."
The Make-A-Wish Foundation is an organization that helps grant wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions. The foundation has enriched the lives of thousands of children through its wish-granting work.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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This is the wrong answer game, the more random and funny the better but keep it twilight related.
Make sure that you post a wrong answer to the question above you and that you post a new question for the next poster.
Here is an example:
What happens to edward when he goes out in the sun?
He turns green
What is Jacob?
An alien
From the last thread:
Why was everyone surprised that Leah changed into a wolf?


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By Ben Levisohn
Can anything stop the Philippines?
The iShares MSCI Philippines Investable Market Index (EPHE) exchange-traded fund has returned 45% during the past year–and even yesterday's emerging market selloff, which caused the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF (EEM) to plunge 1.4%, caused the Philippines fund to drop just 0.3%. Clearly, the market believes it's found something special in this tiny Southeast Asian nation.
A lot has been going right for the Philippines. In a report released today, HSBC's Trinh Nguyen summarized the country's transformation:
One of the greatest comeback stories in the past year has been the Philippines. The island nation has transformed from the "sick man of Asia" to a symbol of what gradual and steady reform can achieve. The economy surpassed expectations by expanding 6.6% from 3.9%, exceeding its long-term output potential of 5%, a remarkable feat, especially given the backdrop of the global slump in 2012. Remittances shielded the Philippines from sluggish external demand. Timely fiscal and monetary policy also bolstered government and private consumption.
Nguyen expects the economic good times to continue for at least 2013. She upped her forecast for the Philippines GDP growth to 5.9% from 4.9%, with Philippines the beneficiary of global macro improvements, as well as improvements at home. He writes:
For this year, we revise our GDP forecast upward by 1ppt to reflect stronger growth in Japan, improved economic indicators from the US as well as unusually accommodative monetary policy both abroad and at home. Consistently positive political and macro newsflow supports the case for the Philippines. The Aquino administration has gained public trust according to opinion polls for his fiscal consolidation and anti-corruption efforts — refreshing for a nation with a history of colorful leaders.
Still, nothing's perfect. Nguyen notes:
…a lot of work is still required. While the country is endowed with natural resources, a skilled labour force, favorable demographics, and a dynamic domestic market to counter the global slump, a still lacklustre infrastructure and business environment hinder investment and productivity. Stagnant FDI inflows reflect challenges such as high costs of electricity, poor infrastructure, and restrictive ownership laws.
The Philippines, however, may have the tools it need to meet those challenges, especially if the country earns an investment-grade credit rating during the second half of 2013, which would lower the cost of funding for infrastructure products. And the Philippines will have to continue to show a commitment to reform in order to keep the good times rolling.
The iShares MSCI Philippines ETF has gained 0.7% to $39.61 today, and is up 9.15% so far this year.


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Summer is Here! Central Library will close at 6 pm on Thursdays and will be closed Sundays until September. Enjoy!
Log in
It's September, back-to-school, library card sign-up month.
Once again, we join libraries across the country in reminding parents and caregivers that a library card is the most important school supply of all.
Your KPL card provides access to print books, ebooks, online homework help, and research tools and resources. We are pleased local businesses and organizations are partnering with us to offer an incentive just for showing your KPL card during September. If you don't already have a card, here is a further incentive.
Click here for the entire list and information on signing up for a KPL card.
See you at the library or at one of our partners.
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Books for: Kids, Teens & Tweens


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While the electronics industry wrestles with a standard for stereoscopic television, there is steady progress toward 3-D programming, especially for sports and other live events.
"The chicken-and-egg problem is being broken," says Ian Rose, president of Kerner Software Technologies. Kerner is part of a new 3-D TV network venture with AMG TV and hopes to be broadcasting 3-D part time by the end of 2009.
They are looking at several potential sources for programming — sources that will be available to whatever 3-D broadcasters emerge.
Several networks are experimenting with 3-D and looking forward eagerly to putting 3-D in homes.
"At each step, we get more excited about it," says Brian Lenz, head of product development for BSkyB.
Satcaster had its first-ever 3-D telecast earlier this month, sending a Keane concert out from Abbey Road Studio to a few 3-D viewing venues and over the Web.
"At each step we realize it's about perfecting it — it's not about inventing it at this point."
BSkyB has experimented with 3-D sports but chose a more arts-centric event for its first stereo telecast. "We thought, 'Let's not get testosterone-centric and let's do other genres,' so we did some arts content."
Concerts and opera in 3-D are likely to become a regular attraction in theaters before sports, as rehearsed events in contained spaces are easier to shoot, and they present fewer technical challenges than football or basketball.
Still, some expect sports to be the "killer app" for 3-D TV, just as 3-D itself was the killer app for digital cinema, and 3-D sports tests are accelerating.
In the U.S., Burbank-based 3ality Digital has worked with the National Football League and the NCAA to beam football games to theaters. The National Basketball Assn. is especially enthusiastic about 3-D, having used technology from 3ality's rival, Pace Technologies, to broadcast 3-D games and All-Star events to arenas and theaters.
ESPN has tested 3-D with basketball, football and the X Games, though none of its tests have been seen publicly.
The network's exec VP of technology, Chuck Pagano, says: "From our judgment, when the fans see it, they're going to be blown away by it. But there's still a lot of challenges ahead."
Aside from the lack of consumer electronics standards, 3-D distribution remains a problem.
"It's still a bandwidth hog," says Pagano, and while 3ality has demonstrated 3-D over a normal HD satellite link, Pagano is still looking for the next generation of broadcast compression.
Occupying some middle ground between arts and sports is the 3-D footage TV Globo in Brazil shot of Rio's Carnaval.
"My feeling is that 3-D will be the biggest revolution in cinema, games and television for the upcoming years," says Jose Dias, R&D multimedia director for the network.
Dias, a longtime 3-D buff, says, "The reaction (to the footage) is amazing — people really love it."
Dias expects it will be five to 10 years before there's a standard to bring 3-D broadcasts into homes.