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...individual entrepreneurs need to seek the a tax adviser and foreign or e-commerce based services are outlawed.
So what's the deal ? The situation is then similar to Germany, with the exception that the adviser is not mandatory but practically indispensable (even for freelancers) since the German tax system is the most complicated in the world.
And I can assure you that there are lots of freelancers in Germany.
... since the German tax system is the most complicated in the world.
I seriously doubt that - have you got any references?
If German tax code is more complicated, then I really feel for Germans.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the Belgian one is more complex!
The deal is the widespread tax evasion in Ukraine. Not widespread as "German federal states are buying the Swiss bank account CD and expect a rise of self reports" but as in "Taxes? Somebody actually pays taxes in this country?"
not to knock Germany, but you don't have lots of freelancers compared to Ukraine.
I hire Ukrainians all the time. I've never hired a German. (and I'm of German descent.) I've never even had a German freelancer bid on my projects @ 99designs, elance, guru, etc.
Most of EU still has not realized that high taxes kill entrepreneurship, and thus kill the economy. lowering taxes grows the economy and thus increases the tax base -- but having a sizeable tax base is not nearly as important as having a sizeable economy, so better to err on the side of caution and cut taxes and entitlements where possible.
To be fair to Germany (I'm half German), I rent about 10 servers in German datacenters, but that's in a big datacenter company. It's harder to find the sort of one-person shops (like mine) that are common in low-tax countries and/or rapidly growing countries like India and Ukraine. If Ukraine does this, it's to their overall detriment, I can assure you. If anything, they should CUT freelancer taxes to encourage foreign investment and create more jobs. If my price goes up, guess what... I just won't hire any more Ukrainians -- there are plenty of other hungrier people in hungry countries.
This is reality. This is business. If government stifles business, business leaves (as it should) and the economy shrinks and hopefully those idiots get voted out. If government invites business, economy grows, people get jobs, and (almost) everyone is happy. It's either a positive cycle or a negative one. Business needs government -- but government need business.
Too bad I can't hire my own government services (or not, as I choose and can afford). I'd probably hire more polite public servants. It'd be great if there were cooperatives I could join (or not, if I chose not to) that would provide roads, schools, security, libraries, etc. Even better if those cooperatives competed with each other for my business. Kind of like a Home Owner's Association in the U.S. or something like that.
All the one-person-companies I know are either getting together and form a company or become consultants working for a company. Perhaps that is the reason nobody bids at your projects. They all already have a job.
When we started looking for a new website for our Belgian company, we got a LOT of Belgians and no Ukrainians. And the Belgians where all companies. Some as small as 2 people, other enourmous. All companies worked with consultants based in Belgium. No idea what nationalities they were.
So my first guess as to why they do not bid on your project is because they do not need it as they already HAVE a job (and social security and payed holidays and
And I am half German too. (No idea what the relevance is to anything, but apparently there is some)
And I am half German too. (No idea what the relevance is to anything, but apparently there is some)
It's a pre-emptive strike against being called a bigot for daring to criticize the policies of a government or country to which you are not native. People get that a lot, hence the poster's reflexive flinch and disclaimner. I've experienced that in the UK for daring to point out the obvious, because, despite being a dual citizen, my accent is North American. My wife (who is English) gets the same shit when
Most of EU still has not realized that high taxes kill entrepreneurship, and thus kill the economy. lowering taxes grows the economy and thus increases the tax base -- but having a sizeable tax base is not nearly as important as having a sizeable economy, so better to err on the side of caution and cut taxes and entitlements where possible.
Oh yes, the Reagan theory of economy. I wonder how many more countries will go bankrupt before they realize that it doesn't work, and that they are not an exception?
But hey, the financial elite of those countries can get themselves a bit more money at the expense of everyone else, so it's okay, right?
Oh yes, the Reagan theory of economy. I wonder how many more countries will go bankrupt before they realize that it doesn't work, and that they are not an exception?
Let's look at the countries going bankrupt now... Greece? Socialist. Portugal? Socialist. Spain? Socialist. UK? Not quite bankrupt yet, but socialist. United States of America? Socialist, and racing towards bankruptcy as fast as congress can carry it. Are any of those countries following Ronald Reagan's model? No! They are, as usual, following t
I hire Ukrainians all the time. I've never hired a German. (and I'm of German descent.) I've never even had a German freelancer bid on my projects @ 99designs, elance, guru, etc.
Could this be due to the fact that what you're offering might be financially interesting for Ukranians, but isn't worth getting out of bed for for those us in Western Europe?
This is reality. This is business. If government stifles business, business leaves (as it should) and the economy shrinks and hopefully those idiots get voted o
The Finanzamt is essentially a bloated beast, 4 times the size of the IRS with respect to population.
The comparison is unfair. According to Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] (which we know is inerrant) 95% of taxes in Germany are to the federation; German states collect much less taxation than US states, and their taxation rights are limited. In particular, the German VAT goes to the federation, whereas sales tax in the US go to the states or other local authorities (IIRC).
A fair comparison would be summing up all the federal and state Finanzämter and comparing with the sum of the IRS and local tax authorities in the US.
Let me present a different way of thinking:
It's essentially the same organization.
German states collect much less taxation than US states, and their taxation rights are limited. In particular, the German VAT goes to the federation, whereas sales tax in the US go to the states or other local authorities (IIRC).
But not all states in the US even have sales tax. Not all states have income tax, either. Of course, some states, like California, have both, but the simple truth is that it costs more to maintain California for the same reasons that people want to live here. Californians are a majority in California again for the first time in many years because many people aren't willing to foot the bill for a variety of reasons but surely including taxes, and they are leaving. How can one complain? The system is working.
Are there any states that don't have property (land) tax?
That's not true. As a German freelancer working on your own you only need to learn one simple book keeping method (called "doppelte Buchfuehrung"). You can learn it within 3 days from books and there are also plenty of programs to automatize it. I don't claim that German bureaucracy doesn't suck, it does, but it by far does not amount to what the Ukranian government wants to introduce.
Guess I was a poet.
Not that I'd know it.
This move by the government seems to reek of monumental levels of fail and dumbness.
Oh well. The Ukraine's loss is someone else's gain.
This will drive up outsourcing prices, which drives up the market value of us programmers here in the U.S., at least a little bit.
Not to worry--I'm sure there are already some inventive U.S. politicians and business leaders hard at work innovating a synergistic solution to this disturbing development.
Is this really such a big deal?
From my understanding there are many countries in the world that requires a registered commercial organization (and all the required administration that follows) to perform certain kind of jobs.
Perhaps sad for the Ukrainian people that working internationally becomes more cumbersome but I can also understand that the state want to keep track of what business is conducted from the country.
Bravo to you catmistake. My favorite line from my favorite movie!
freelancers in Ukraine will have several choices: stop doing freelance work, start working illegally, become a full-fledged company subject to multiple cumbersome rules for taxation, or leave the country.
As a ukrainian I can easily guess which option my fellow citizens will choose. And I'm not proud of it...
Also as a Ukrainian (at least, Ukrainian born), I'm proud of the choice most would choose when faced with an oppressive, corrupt government.
... and so did the rest of the orange revolution people. But instead of changing the country they decided to spend 5 years squabbling with each other. Obviously the electorate had enough and voted in a pro russian government.
No, in the US its perfectly legal to be a stand alone freelance person... The US incentivizes you to become a business entity by offering tax breaks and such. If you are a sole-proprietor in the US your tax rate can be up to twice as high as if you form an LLC or S-Corp, so you are rewarded heavily for incorporating.
This is exactly the opposite, they are outlawing the low (no?) tax option to drive everyone into a situation where they will pay much higher taxes.
Thing is, in the US, you want to have an LLC for the limited liability. That's what I did for a couple years in between real jobs. It was 1 sheet of paper and $110 to set up an LLC in Missouri. Then I just set up a separate checking account for the business.
In some states, it's cheaper to go S-Corp, but you still have to have a board of directors and quarterly board meetings. My current business is an S-Corp because the filing fees were substantially less in Illinois plus there are multiple investors in
They will work illegally. No big deal. That's what any intelligent citizen of any country does when their lawmaking weasels start cranking stupid laws like that.
They will work illegally. No big deal. That's what any intelligent citizen of any country does when their lawmaking weasels start cranking stupid laws like that.
Why is that law stupid?
What's to say against requiring someone to keep books so you can tax them correctly.
No really. I'm a self-employed german and I'm outsourcing book-keeping and tax-filing (it's just too complicated and I would lose more money than it costs if I didn't). That's just the cost of doing business (well, part of it)
I just got more cost-competitive compared to my ukrainian competition.
Level playing field -> fair game.
The man is killing the country so he can kiss Putin's ass. Kills me.
Well, he got elected fair and square after 6 years of rule by the pro-Western faction, so I guess people hated them more...
The US government tried 'policing' Al Capone to little effect. Tax evasion was what brought him down.
Lately Amsterdam has seriously 'cleaned up' its red light district in much the same manner. For a synopsis you can get a pretty good idea by reading the web page of Yab Yum, the 'leading' brothel, back in the day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yab_Yum_(brothel) [wikipedia.org], or just google it.
Bottom line is: The city wants to audit your books. Which stands to reason money laundering is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.
Anyone doing any kind of legitimate business knows this, and knows the costs and effort required to maintain audit able records. These people expect nothing less of other businesses. It seems a reasonable expectation of anyone doing any kind of legal business, and keeps a level playing field, among the tax base.
It is everybody's personal responsibility not to pay any taxes to the best of their abilities. A municipality, a regional or a federal government wants to know what you are doing? Let them hire investigators and follow you for a while.
The best idea is to have an off-shore bank account where money is deposited by the employer, a bank account in a country where they don't harass people for being industrious. Since this is about IT, it is obviously easy to avoid any kind of problem with normal import/export
How the fuck does this outer-libertarian ranting get modded "interesting"? Guess what, the currencies are backed by the systems that tax you. I think Jesus said it best: render unto Caesar.
If you think it's your responsibility to not pay taxes, you should also consider it your responsibility to not use official currency, use roads, the power grid, water, etc., etc. If you do all that, then fine (I don't have a problem with survivalists, society needs an opt-out!), but otherwise stop justifying your greedy "
Most pragmatists are pragmatists; some communists live in a commune; a few Christian conservatives aren't repressed homosexuals. No libertarians live by libertarian principles. It's reassuring because I've always believed libertarianism to be the least realisable of all the well-known political ideals.
Perhaps if I wasn't privately educated and decided to drive a car I would understand where these libertarians are coming from. I can only guess that they're trying to say that their lack of success can be blam
What gets my goat about (I think mostly American) libertarians is that they are most passionate about individualism pertaining to a necessarily communal system: money. On the other hand, they seem to go quiet and mumble shit about 'states rights' if pressed on social liberties, which are clearly much more private matters of conscience.
I am the guy that posted the original comment. I am not American, I travel most of my life, I have bank accounts in different countries, my business is in different countries from where my bank accounts are and I spend my money for pleasure in other countries, where I have no business or bank accounts. I live by my principles, money of a state do not matter to me in any way, I hold most money in gold. Cheers.
Sorry man, I have to agree with circletimessquare; you're a parasite. Claiming you're some sort of free-spirit that doesn't really care about money anyway is disingenuous. I suspect yo know that you could earn money (or even spend it!) without the systems and infrastructure that taxing entities provide. You're just trying to justify shirking your obvious responsibilities with some half-arsed attempt at radical libertarianism. Grow up and pay your damn taxes.
How the fuck does this outer-libertarian ranting get modded "interesting"?
- why the fuck wouldn't the above comment be modded "interesting" or "insightful"? It is extremely interesting to see any kind of support of governments and of their spending with our money. You can believe what you believe, and I can believe what I believe and many people find my position interesting and insightful whatever your objections may be.
If you followed that to the ultimate conclusion then there'd be no taxes, no government or any other public function. Failed states like Somalia is your ideal. Every society since the dawn of civilization has had shared resources and shared responsibilities, the only difference is that with money we're now taking it in through taxes instead of labor. Extreme libertarians like you are essentially anti-democratic, because you reject any authority the people (demos) has. You demand the right to live among a pe
If you follow MY ideas to the ultimate conclusion, then you'd have a working economy that could not be destroyed by state money manipulation and you'd have no wars that are funded by states that only benefit the largest players while destroying lives of people and nations.
I am not an anarchist, I am not interested in Somalia. I believe states have one real purpose: justice system, a court system and a punishment system to punish transgressions, such as harm done to individuals and to public property and environment.
In my world no company would get any public funding at all. There would be no income tax at all. There would be sales tax, which means that consumption is not encouraged, but production is and that is the real wealth, not fiat money.
In my world states would not have money to run wars of opportunity. In my world businesses could not own governments because governments would have very limited function: justice and punishment, which is much easier to control than all of the stuff governments do now.
In my world there would be no regulations against business, but in my world any business or individual hurting other individuals or public property (environment) would be punished severely both materially and criminally.
What do I do to live by my principles? My affairs are spread out between countries, bank accounts are where it suits me best, business is where it suits me best while I make any purchases again, in places that suit me best. It's about optimizing the life to get out of being a state slave.
In my world no company would get any public funding at all.
In your world there would be no corporations, only cooperatives and partnerships. There is absolutely no basis in libertarian political theory for the existence of corporations, whose primary purpose is to allow groups of individuals acting under the rubric of "a corporation" to do something that no individual acting alone, in partnership, or as part of a cooperative can do: avoid legal liability for the consequences of their individual actions.
Corporate law is a pure product of the state's monopoly on force, which is being used to decree that certain types of organization (corporations) are to be priviledged over others (cooperatives, partnerships and individuals acting alone.) The only reason for this is pragmatic: corporations are huge engines of creation and productivity, and we owe a great deal of our wealth to the corporate form of organization. But that wealth is made possible only by the nanny-state sheltering individuals within corporations from the consequences of their actions.
So it is not clear why any libertarian keep talking about what "companies" can or cannot do, as in a libertarian system there would not and could not be any companies or corporations, only fully-liable individuals acting in partnership or cooperation.
If you follow MY ideas to the ultimate conclusion, then you'd have a working economy that could not be destroyed by state money manipulation and you'd have no wars that are funded by states that only benefit the largest players while destroying lives of people and nations.
I kind of doubt that; what you're advocating will create a gigantic power vacuum where the government used to be, and you're proposing that it will just stay that way without anyone stepping in and filling it. Sorry, but nature abhors a va
I kind of doubt that; what you're advocating will create a gigantic power vacuum where the government used to be
- at least the US government was not always occupying that place, at least not before the beginning of the twentieth century.
The best economic development, the biggest increase to overall quality of life for all people, including the most poor came with the industrial revolution, with the capitalism.
Before capitalism there was no way to put together enough money and resources to start mid-size businesses. You are proposing a false choice: either government provides money to start a small business or the g
I'm a freelancer in the US, most of my work is for a company in Taiwan. My work is legal and ethical. I keep not-well-organized but truthful and complete books with the help of a family member. I pay at least as much in taxes as I'm supposed to, and the cost of having a professional do them would quite probably outweigh any additional reduction they'd find.
The idea that I must be doing something wrong because I don't employ a full-time bookkeeper isn't just flawed, it's deeply offensive, and I believe worth
Please do not be offended, as I only wrote of audit-able record-keeping, not of a requirement for a full-time book-keeping employee. This simply means producing an invoice for the client, and an audit-able paper-trail of earnings.
Using the example of Amsterdam, where prostitution remains legal to this day and trade unions exist, everyone involved must still pay taxes. Money laundering is illegal. As I understand, this has also diminished another serious issue: human trafficking.
So an I.T. worker must provid
Accurate accounting of income is easy for a small/one-man show. Expensesare another matter altogether, which is what the US is moving to. If you have $200k in gross income and have non-trivial expenses, your average expense size might be $20, but inncomewould usually be one or two orders of magnitude higher.
We have a full-time book keeper and quarterly CPA reviews... But our expenses are tracked primarily by credit card statements. Individual transaction tracking would require us to spend 15% of our sala
The problem is that the majority of Ukrainian freelancers already work illegally.
Corporate entities have a far higher tax payment rate than individuals, especially in the internet sphere where freelancers don't have physical office space or physical deliverables that can be tracked by authorities. Furthermore, individual entrepreneurs providing internet-based services in Ukraine make it hard for the tax-paying corporate entities to compete.
This has become important because Ukraine is set to receive from $19-20 billion from the IMF in the next two and a half years if they can show that they are making progress in reducing their budget deficits, so there's a lot of incentive to try to push tax payments up.
As someone who has used Ukrainian freelancers in the past, none of the workers I used chose to do things legally. I asked them why, and they said all the taxes and bureaucracy were so odious. Going legit was just not financially viable for them, even though I was paying them the local equivalent of executive level wages. The tax and legal system in Ukraine is so broken, that it's common knowledge that the best way to screw yourself is to try to go legit. All it does is open the door to half a dozen "ins
if you are already doing freelance work, it means you already have connections, resume, and the experience to show for it. leave the country. that will teach them, VERY badly.
Right... so, let them eat cake, basically.
It's difficult to move even to a different city in Ukraine (you need a residence permit). As far as going to work in a different country, the entire international system is basically designed to prevent that. And it's not as if the world is your oyster... Your choices for visa-free travel as a Ukrainian are the former Soviet Union (except the parts that are now EU members) and that's it. You can pick up temporary visa's in-country in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Thailand and Vietnam.
And nobody gives work visas for freelancers, so you'd be working illegally anyway.
Shhhh. The former Soviet states are now shining examples of capitalism. Pointing out that internal passports are still required (and that pro-Western governments are so hated that governments which implements these sorts of laws are voted in democratically) ruins the dream.
In Soviet Russia, outlaws work for YOU!
I work in the UK as a freelancer in IT and I need to have my own company, pay taxes and have an accountant.
I used to work in Holland as a freelancer in IT in there I needed to
Even if you don't want to have your own company, there are in fact schemes like "Umbrela Companies" which are in fact accountant managed companies who will temporary "employ" the freelancers and pass them all the income from their contracts minus tax and their part of corporation costs. These are however less tax efficient (you are taxed as an employee and income usually pays more taxes than dividends or capital gains) than just having your own company.
I'm sure Ukraine has some smart accountants who would love to setup some scheme like this.
Somehow I suspect that the real concern here is that freelancers will have to start paying real taxes like everybody else (my hearth weeps) instead of getting their roads, schools and law-enforcement for free.
I work in the UK as a freelancer in IT and I need to have my own company, pay taxes and have an accountant.
There is nothing in UK law that forces any of this (apart from paying taxes) on you. It may provide you with limited liability or tax advantages, but its still your decision.
In addition, it is comparatively cheap and easy in the UK.
There is nothing in UK law that forces any of this (apart from paying taxes) on you. It may provide you with limited liability or tax advantages, but its still your decision.
Umm, IR35?
Not sure why Aceticon is +5 Informative, the parent is correct that you do not need to have your own company or have an accountant in the UK. You can simply declare yourself as self-employed (Sole Trader) to HMRC. Your earnings are then directly taxed as income.
As the_womble says, it is cheap to set up a limited company, you can have it done for around $50, and even then you still do not need an accountant. It is quite simple and straightforward to do everything yourself.
Aceticon may suspect what he wants,
I think you're confusing a true freelancer with a contractor. While laws like IR35 affect the latter, a freelancer should be doing work for many clients simultaneously under their own rules, and do not need a Ltd company or an accountant (if they don't want to).
Move to the UK, claim asylum, work illegally and apply for social support.
It could be worse, they could have implemented something like IR35.
So starting in 2011, freelancers in Ukraine will have several choices: stop doing freelance work, start working illegally, become a full-fledged company subject to multiple cumbersome rules for taxation, or leave the country.
Four options. That's one each!
Seems to me this is a good thing. I've heard a lot of talk lately about how programming isn't regulated in any way, you don't need a degree or certification, etc etc. Any hack can jump on a keyboard and claim to be a programmer. There's no industry-wide way to determine if your new coder is a hack or an artist.
For hacks and newbies, that's a great thing. It lets them land a job. For professionals and companies, it's a pain in the ass.
Now, in the Ukraine, they still don't require any actual certificatio
They talk of Internet start-ups? Do we need another tweeter or facebook? Internet revolution is over. Everything is there: communication, JPGs, videos, shopping carts, databases, maps, etc.
Now we have to put products and services online in earnest, it means hard tedious work at the existing physical businesses.
But the new revolution is commencing in robotics. Computers are getting sensors (web-cams, mikes, etc.) and begin to move.
I recently started learn to to program a Parallax's educational robot. This th
I am curious as to why such legislation would get proposed.
Is there massive tax evasion by freelance IT workers, that is far an about other industries?
Are the problems of quality or fraud that would lead the government to want to discourage freelance IT work?
Most "freelancers" in the Ukraine are actually really employees. A strange coincidence of a building full of hundreds of "freelancers" all working on projects for the same client...
The reason, a 25€ / year "flat tax" on top of the salaries paid for the hiring company. That's a HUGE difference to the income tax / social security in, for example, European countries. In my own country, workers take home about 50% of their total official wage, and the company
And it has been so for a long time so, unfortunately, there isn't much of a freelance IT industry around here.
The problem people from countries such as the US and the UK don't seem to understand is that setting up an actual company in Brazil (and I imagine Ukraine to be similar) is that it's a HUGE hassle. By that I mean it's a 2-3 month process, involving more than 10 different government institutions you need to visit in person. You need to get a proper "commercial address", which can't be your home (unless you re-register it as a commercial building, which is another hassle and pays much higher property taxes).
When I worked as a freelancer, I did the math and I would pay about 25% of my earnings in fees and accounting. Then, I would pay income tax (progressive scale which tops at 27.5%) on the remaining 75%. Also, as a freelancer, I would need to pay 20% to social security instead of the regular 11%.
In short, I would end up with roughly ~50% of what I earned. Then I would proceed to buy goods which were already taxed to hell and my purchasing power would be effectively cut in half again (the cheapest Honda Civic here costs US$37K).
I just restricted to working only to foreign companies. The pay was better *and* I wouldn't need to register myself as a company to do that, as the tax code has general provisions for "money from foreign countries". The consequence is that it was very difficult to prove my income whenever needed (home financing, etc), as everything here requires a "regular" proof of earnings.
From my personal experience, I can say that, yes, this is bad news for Ukrainians.
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For the ninth straight year, an anonymous donor has dropped a $20 Liberty Eagle gold coin in one of The Salvation Army of Lee, Hendry and Glades Counties' red kettles. The coin, as in previous years, was wrapped in a note that reads, "In loving memory of Mimi." The coin is dated 1925 and is estimated to be worth around $1,300.
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This generous donation comes as The Salvation Army's red kettle season moves into full swing during Thanksgiving week. With 26 days left to ring the bell, The Army has reached 18 percent of its 2013 goal of $615,000. These critical funds enable The Salvation Army to meet the continuing needs of the most vulnerable in our community.
Since Thanksgiving falls later in the calendar this year, The Salvation Army lost several critical days to ring the bell at large retailers. The organization hopes that increased giving, along with uncommon donations like the Mimi coin, will help make up for those lost days.
In 2012 The Salvation Army served a total more than 4,200 families, 20,000 individuals throughout Lee, Hendry & Glades Counties, providing thousands of toys and more than 5,600 food baskets through its Christmas Cheer program.
If you would like to help, toy donations and volunteer bell ringers are greatly needed call 278-1551.


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Lady Wildcats shut out Robert F. Kennedy 11-0
Taft's varsity girls' tennis team remained a perfect 11-0 in the South Sequoia League with a 9-0 drubbing of the 0-11 Robert F. Kennedy Thunderbirds. Taft's JV remained a perfect 10-0 with a 9-0 win over RFK. Both games were played in Delano.
In the varsity No. 1 singles match, Ana Estrada beat Andrea Simenta, 6-1, 6-0.
Taylan Erro did the same to Sabrina Buccat, as did Yeraldin Barrera over Fabiola Cisneros. Diana Medina was the first player off the court with a quick double bagel, 6-0, 6-0, over Mayra Valle. In the closest varsity match of the day, Gloria Hartley beat Kenia Orozco, 6-2, 6-1. Roxi Barboza beat Faye Tabalanza, 6-1, 6-0.
Taft easily won all three doubles pro sets. Medina and Lupita Lozano shut out Buccat and Cisneros, 8-0, Hartley and Barboza beat Valle and Tabalanza, 8-1, and JC Yarbrough and Melissa Gore blanked Briana DeLeon and Karla Arroyo, 8-0. Barboza remained unbeaten for the season at 18-0 while Gore is a perfect 10-0. Taft improved to 14-3 overall.
The story was similar in the JV match. Haven Cook improved to 27-1 with an 8-1 win. Gloria Okafor won 8-2, as did Maria Sanchez. Liliana Noriega and Lupe Salomon each shut out their opponents, 8-0. RFK forfeit No. 6 singles and No. 3 doubles. Jen River and Noriega won at No. 1 doubles, 8-3. In the closest match of the day, Paige Gaylord and Luz Cisneros came from behind to win, 8-6. Taft's JV improved to 14-6 overall.
On Tuesday, Taft's varsity hosts McFarland. McFarland does not have a JV team. On Wednesday, Taft's varsity hosts Arvin.
On Thursday, Taft's JV travels to Arvin. All the league games are scheduled at 4 p.m.
Taft's varsity will play in Division II of the Lewis Cup on Friday and Saturday,Oct. 12-13 at Bakersfield High. On Friday, at 11 a.m., Taft plays Centennial and at 2:30 p.m. plays Tehachapi. On Saturday, at 9:30 a.m., Taft plays BHS, and at 2:30 p.m. plays Monache of Porterville.
"This is a great opportunity for us to play two good Division I teams in Bakersfield and Centennial and two top Division II teams in Tehachapi and Monache," Taft coach Jim Carnal said. Taft is a Division IV team.
"This will give us some tough competition heading into the Valley team playoffs, which begin Oct. 23."


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Sedgefield to Stand in India
Graded stakes performer Sedgefield has been purchased by Jai Govind Stud for stallion duty in Jaipur, India.
Graded stakes performer Sedgefield has been purchased by Jai Govind Stud for stallion duty in Jaipur, India.
Heiligbrodt Racing Stable's Inca King will look to make it five-for-seven on the grass, as the 3-year-old son of Sir Cat carries top weight of 123 pounds for the $150,000 Commonwealth Turf Nov. 11 at Churchill Downs.
Nine 3-year-olds will go to postward in the 13th running of the $500,000-added Indiana Derby (gr. II). Scheduled as the ninth race on the 12-race card Oct. 6, the estimated post time for the Derby is 9:50 p.m. EDT.
Street Sense, winner of the Kentucky Derby presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), worked a half-mile May 30 at Churchill Downs as his owner, Jim Tafel, and trainer, Carl Nafzger, consider a possible start in the June 9 Belmont Stakes (gr. I), the final jewel of racing's Triple Crown.
Eight graded stakes winners are among the 78 early nominations for $750,000 Colonial Turf Cup (gr. IIIT) at Colonial Downs on June 16.
Larry Jones, in his familiar white cowboy hat, has become a recognizable figure during the build-up to the Triple Crown. The personable 50-year old conditioner might be switching to a black cowboy hat as he and his star Hard Spun hope to spoil the Triple Crown hopes of Street Sense and trainer Carl Nafzger in the $1 million Preakness Stakes (gr. I) at Pimlico Race Course on May 19.
The work of the morning at Churchill Downs Monday was Hard Spun's :57 3/5 scorcher, but other Derby hopefuls went through their final paces over the main track just after the renovation break. Trainer Bill Kaplan sent out Storm in May and Imawildandcrazyguy while trainer Darrin Miller worked Silverton Hills' Sedgefield.
The first five finishers in yesterday's $750,000 Toyota Blue Grass (gr. I) -- Dominican, Street Sense, Zanjero, Teuflesberg and Great Hunter -- are all, according to their connections, pointing toward a start in the May 5 Kentucky Derby (gr. I) Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I). Four of those five were separated by only a neck at the wire in yesterday's race.
Trainers Darrin Miller, who has Dominican in the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (gr. I), and Bob Holthus, who has Officer Rocket in the Arkansas Derby (gr. II), discuss their chances as the Triple Crown trail continues.
A brief snow flurry during the running of the $150,000 Central Bank Transylvania (gr. IIIT), Friday's opening day feature at the Keeneland spring meet, couldn't stop Marcavelly, who sprinted away from his 3-year-old rivals in the stretch to post a 3 1/2-length win on the turf.
The Transylvania Stakes for 3-year-olds on turf and the traditional college scholarship day highlight Friday's opening card at Keeneland in Lexington.
There is no escaping the fact that Hard Spun proved he is a brilliant, classy horse with his bounce back performance in the Lane's End Stakes (gr. II), but there is a question that pops up, that will be echoed after the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (gr. I): how legitimate was this race, or any race for that matter, run over a synthetic surface?
Fox Hill Farms' Hard Spun regained his status as a leading Triple Crown contender with a powerful win in the $500,000 Lane's End Stakes (gr. II) for 3-year-olds on Turfway Park's all-weather track Saturday.
Hard Spun, who won his first four races by 28 lengths before tasting defeat in the Feb. 19 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park, is the lukewarm favorite for Satuday's Lane End Stakes (gr. II) at Turfway Park.
Peachtree Stable's Twilight Meteor rallied through the stretch for a hard-fought half-length victory over Sedgefield in Saturday's $77,250 Hallandale Beach Stakes at Gulfstream Park, a 1 1/16-mile turf test for 3-year-olds.
The $100,000 Hallandale Beach Stakes for 3-year-olds, a 1 1/16 miles turf test on Saturday's card at Gulfstream Park, attracted an overflow field of 16, although only 12 will start.
Herman Heinlein's newly turned 3-year-old gelding Soldier's Dancer, sent off as the 3-2 favorite, won his second stakes race over the Calder turf, the $100,000 Tropical Park Derby (gr. IIIT), by three-quarters of a length on New Year's Day.
Four planned all-weather tracks in Britain have been given the go-ahead to apply for fixtures in 2006, meaning that dirt racing will become more widespread.


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The LIRR is replacing the station platform, canopy, staircases, elevator and escalator, as well as the platform waiting room, lighting, public address system and signage. The railroad is also starting work on the installation of a pocket track just east of the station that will improve train service and frequency, as well as on-board seat availability.
The project represents the biggest improvement effort at Massapequa Station since the station was raised from street level in 1953. The LIRR will carry out the work in three phases arranged to ensure that train service continues uninterrupted throughout the project, though some schedule changes may be necessary at times.
The newest phase (1B) of the Massapequa platform project is expected to continue through early spring 2014.


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When the Supreme Court finishes its term, most court watchers take a well-earned holiday. But for Evan Lee, that's when the real work begins.
Lee is one of four regular commentators on the Federal Judicial Center's video program "Supreme Court: The Term in Review." Filmed annually in July after the high court's term ends in late June, the show is designed to give federal court judges and judicial staff top-notch analysis of the court's term. The show has gotten rave reviews from district judges and their staffs; it is the Federal Judicial Center's most popular content.
Joining Lee on the program are fellow constitutional and criminal law rock stars Erwin Chemerinsky of UC Irvine, Suzanna Sherry of Vanderbilt, and Laurie Levenson of Loyola of Los Angeles. They've taken a team approach to SCOTUS analysis for the last 13 years.
The program is not for the intellectually timid. Rather than solely highlighting the most controversial cases, such as marriage equality, Lee and his cohorts dive into the legal nitty-gritty of decisions district and appellate court judges need to apply immediately.
"Law professors are usually paid to give opinions about whether laws or cases are good or bad, workable or unworkable," Lee said. "But here, that's not really our job. The Supreme Court is way up on the mountain top. They typically decide things at a very broad and general level. Our job is basically to take those stone tablets and try to make them usable and intelligible to folks who have to apply those rulings on an every-day level."
The show requires tremendous preparation to squeeze an entire year of precedent into a live two-hour program. The show's producer assigns each case to two faculty commentators, who then prepare remarks, circulate talking points, and work together to script the show. Lee, for example, needed to prep extensively on the affirmative action case, Fisher v. University of Texas, handed down the last week of the term. Most news outlets called it a "nuanced," decision that "sidestepped" the issue, but Lee and his team need to parse the case for judges who will have to apply it immediately, and know how to rule despite the lack of a bright-line decision.
The show is less "Crossfire" and more "MacNeil/Lehrer." All four faculty members make frequent appearances on television, radio, and in the newspapers. Occasionally the panelists will challenge each other with respect to the meaning of a decision or its impact going forward, but they are always polite to each other. "While we stay clear of politics, we have to speculate on a decision's meaning, in real time," Lee said. They also have to be prepared to take questions from a live audience. This year's program aired live July 18.
"The hardest thing about the show is to follow the script, but sound natural. We can't completely ad-lib it," like many news programs. Nor is there much rehearsal. "It's a pretty slam-bang kind of thing. We come in to Washington, rehearse for a day, shoot the program, and then get on the plane and leave," he said.
The foursome does have a sacred tradition, though. After the day's rehearsal they meet for dinner at a Washington restaurant. "We've all grown old together," Lee said.
Though the show is a mainstay in the Federal Judiciary Center's professional education for the nation's federal judges, it is not exactly a mainstream media hit. While the programs are posted on YouTube, they average only about 1,500 hits. Still, apart from TED talks, it is some of the highest I.Q. content available. And for Supreme Court junkies, there is nothing better.


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- ITV Report
Blind pensioner seeks taser compensation
A blind stroke victim has issued a compensation claim after he was Tasered by police who mistook his white stick for a samurai sword.
Colin Farmer, 63, collapsed to the ground in shock after being shot in the back with a 50,000-volt Taser stun gun. He believed he might be dying from another stroke.
The blunder happened on October 12 last year after reports were received of a man walking through the town centre in Chorley, Lancashire, with a martial arts weapon.
Mr Farmer, who has suffered two strokes and walks at a "snail's pace", was on his way to a pub to meet friends for a drink and did not realise anything was wrong until the officer Tasered him.
He has sent a letter to Lancashire Constabulary today, claiming damages for assault, false imprisonment and a breach of his human rights.
He is also seeking a declaration of incompatibility from the High Court in relation to the use of the Taser.
An investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission is ongoing.
Lancashire Police were unable to comment.


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Social Security was designed as an insurance system in the 1930s, so elderly people would not starve and be bankrupt when they retired. Its idea was to supplement the elderly's retirement, although it is the sole income for many. I am retired, and I and my employers paid into SS for almost 50 years, so it is no "gift" to me. SS has an enormous surplus which our government has been borrowing from for decades. Now that we are getting close to the time where the government will have to start paying SS back the money they took from it, they are trying to "reform" SS to "save" it. It needs no "saving" as SS owns more of our national debt than the Chinese and Japanese combined; it only needs to be repaid what was borrowed from it.
To lump Social Security into the category of "entitlements" is a misleading attempt by our elected representatives, so we will allow them not to have to repay what they "stole" from its reserves. And this system would be there for the next 100 years with no changes if the current cap on earnings (approximately $110,000) would be eliminated. A simple change to save SS but the millionaire/billionaire friends of our Congress will tell them not to make this into the laws.
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Operation Medicine Drop is being sponsored by the Winston-Salem Police Department, The Northwest Piedmont Chapter of Safe Kids NC and the Yadkin Riverkeeper.
Operation Medicine Drop is a safe way to get rid of unwanted medications, which in turn helps prevent accidental poisonings and drug abuse, and protects water quality. Flushing medications down the toilet or throwing them away creates safety and health hazards.
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IRVING, Tex. – Perennial NCAA DIII powerhouse LeTourneau University dealt Greenville softball a 8-0, 8-2 sweep in Tuesday night's twin-bill, Spring Break opener in Texas.
In game one of the double-dip LeTourneau (7-7) dominated from first pitch and never offered an opening for the visiting Panther squad. LU's ace Taylor Thibodeaux delivered an impressive performance from the mound, serving up a five-inning no hitter. Thibodeaux struck out 13 of the 18 GC batters that she faced and surrendered zero hits in the 8-0 complete game shutout.
For the Panthers, senior righty Lindsey Schuberth was charged with the loss. Schuberth tossed four innings and only registered six earned runs, but received no run support from the club offensively.
Unfortunately for the Black & Orange the nightcap showcased much of the same result as the preceding contest as the women fell by a margin of 8-2. LU proved productive again at the dish, scoring eight runs on ten hits to outpace the Panthers.
Offensively sophomore standout Mattie Fairchild showed life at the plate for the GC squad going 1-for-3 at the place with a run scored.
Defensively it was senior Angela Sheets that was dealt the defeat on the mound pitching three innings with seven earned. Freshman transfer Jessica Laubecher relieved Sheets in the fourth and posted a helpful four-inning no hitter while notching a strikeout.
The Panthers drop to 0-6 after the night pair and will look to get back on track tomorrow as they wrap up the Texas portion of their eight-game road trip with a double header against LeTourneau and Dallas.


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Ferrante said. In general, game companies don't seem to be very focused on security but rather on performance of the game itself, Ferrante said. Adding security checks can slow down games, and if the companies don't deem the problem a very critical issue, it will usually be ignored.
Well of course they care only about performance Its all their user base really cares about.
Well of course they care only about performance Its all their user base really cares about.
To be fair...nobody is interested in security until things go wrong, they will and they do. Then its look for a scapegoat, and the solution is to remove rights and privacy of the individual for the illusion protection, throw in a few laws, that only affect the law abiding and decent. Then we live in fear.
Yep, and that patch will clean up your computer after hackers take over the server and run a remote shell on your computer and pilfer any information their botnet can find. Thank god we don't have to write secure software any more since we can patch it any time we need to before the hackers actually run exploits.
Are you kidding? Why patch it.. is a feature, after all the future of modern warfare is cyber warfare! Users are now getting extra content for free,they should be thankful they aren't charged for a DLC pack that they are already using!
The game makes can install arbitrary code on the user's computer anyways by way of updates. (Anybody remember Sony's root-kit?). A remote shell is therefore trivial to implement.
The importance of the remote shell is not that "if you can get arbitrary code execution, you can get a remote shell" (this is pretty much a tautology). The importance is that it demonstrates the possibility of arbitrary code execution at all. A lot of security vulnerabilities are difficult to actually exploit. In most cases, the best that an attacker will ever achieve is denial of service ( a crash, or forced disconnect, or using up all the RAM so the game runs too slowly, or soemthing like that).
Contrary to what the movies would have you believe, actual exploits are (especially in a modern environment full of vulnerability mitigations) very difficult to produce in most cases. Many security researchers don't even bother with that step; it's enough to find the vulnerability and flag it "probably exploitable".
Contrary to what the movies would have you believe, actual exploits are (especially in a modern environment full of vulnerability mitigations) very difficult to produce in most cases. Many security researchers don't even bother with that step; it's enough to find the vulnerability and flag it "probably exploitable".
On another hand, unpatched, unresolved, unfixed security issues will attract hackers until they find a way to exploit them. So, no need to find an easy exploitable scenario to flag them as probably exploitable. Why someone should sit and wait it becomes exploitable to fix it? It's a kind of security through obscurity you are talking about. I'm sorry, but this must be secure by design.
What do you mean, I'm talking about security through obscurity? That makes nothing resembling sense. I certainly didn't suggest that the vuln shouldn't be reported if the researcher doesn't develop an exploit, nor that the developer shouldn't fix it. Some devs won't take a vuln seriously without a PoC, it's true, but that's a failure on their part, not on the researcher's. Some developers don't take security seriously regardless.
I also don't understand why you seem to think that flagging a vuln as probably
The attack stipulates the server-side is compromised. Updates come from the server-side. This is not a remote code execution, this is a compromised update server scenario, no need for any exploit at all.There is not much that can be done on client side to defend.
Good point on the distinction between server and client side, and the fact that a meaningful cliam is actually being made here (two, really: first that it's possible to get arbitrary code execution on the server, second that it's possible to leverage that into arbitrary code execution on the client).
However, I don't quite buy your argument about updates. The update server is not usually the game server. Compromising a game server doesn't (in theory) let you send an update to the client, much less force them
That's an oversimplification. If the patches are signed and the update system verifies the signatures using well tested libraries, it's probably much harder to attack it that way instead of using any of the other "data entry points", even if that data isn't supposed to contain code.
I agree, but only if the signature keys are off-line and well protected. This rarely seems to be the case though.
... by you know having LAN and private servers again so hacks don't take down the community. Security wouldn't be an issue for Diablo 3 if you could play the fucking game offline. But corporate greed and the dumb masses that feed the move to "online only" games this will become more frequent.
Security would absolutely still be an issue. The scope of an attack might be lower, but the actual threat of compromise would still exit unless they removed the multiplayer funcationity (clients and servers) entirely.
Well yes but THINK about having millions of people playing a SINGLE PLAYER GAME ONLINE, that means huge swaths of computers wouldn't have open ports/be communicating with servers at all if not for 'online drm'. Diablo 3 being a case in point, all these security issues are caused by gaming corporations wanting absolute control over everyone and everything in gaming.
The point is the whole centralization and DRM make security issues much bigger since companies tend to want control and as much information as possible about users and are careless with data. All that could be avoided if the multiplayer aspects of videogames didn't require being chained to online and all sorts of needing accounts, user info and other nonsense.
In Quake 3 you didn't need to sign up anywhere to play the damn game and you never had to give out emails or information to anybody. Not only that requiring users to be online when they play single player just creates a huge attack surface.
Security wouldn't be an issue for Diablo 3 if you could play the fucking game offline.
False. If you could play Diablo 3 offline and on LAN, there would still be a significant portion of the population that would want to play it on the battle.net servers. Just like Diablo 2. And those people would still need to have these security concerns addressed.
MW3. My mind will always translates as Mech Warrior.
Funny, my mind will always translate it as Moraff's World.
damn man.. I had forgotten about Moraffs games totally. was moraffs world any good?
MW3. My mind will always translates as Mech Warrior.
Same here!
Every time I see someone refer to Assassin's Creed 3 as "AC3" I read "Asheron's Call 3" in my head.
It's so quaint they think anyone cares.
Vulnerable to hacks indeed. WELL... if these Call of Duty Black Ops server thingies have become a problem, a way to hurt people I say maybe we should call it a day and just shut them down.
'Cause we don't want to hurt people now do we.
Do we??
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It's remarkable that a city the size of Northampton wants a poet laureate. It's more remarkable yet that Northampton's 30-ish thousand residents include a sufficient number of poets to sustain the office of laureate.
The office, with its two-year terms, only began in recent years, so the list of past Northampton poets laureate is short: Lenelle Moïse, Lesléa Newman, Jack Gilbert, Janet Aalfs and Martín Espada. It would be unfair to try to divine a common thread among them other than a pleasing number of accent marks over letters (and an umlaut!). Some of the poetry of past laureates addresses issues of identity, or of place and politics, certainly a good fit for Northampton.
With the recent announcement of the new poet laureate, author and gallery owner Richard Michelson, a particularly interesting flavor of poetry gets its two years in the sun. Michelson does not shy away from concerns of identity, place or politics—much of his work is drawn from his years growing up in Brooklyn, and Jewish identity is a clear concern. In his most recent volume of poetry, 2006's Battles & Lullabies (preceded by Head of the Family, Tap Dancing for the Relatives and a very limited edition work with etchings by Leonard Baskin called Masks), Michelson writes autobiographically, but also ventures into poems about other things, including the life of artist Edvard Munch and the Holocaust. When he addresses matters of identity or politics, he accomplishes something rare, using personal details to connect beautifully to those who don't necessarily share that identity or those politics; he reaches for that ultimate power of the poetic word, the universal and transcendent.
It's no easy task to work such magic, but Michelson, at his best, arrives there. Take these lines, for instance, from a poem in the section of Battles & Lullabies called "The Jews We Are":
Already I'm late. I've missed the cruise missile
and the silo debate, but I hand my wife her robe
and let her rest my head in what we're calling
the cradle of civilization. "Listen,"
she whispers, and I do hear something,
deep underground; a heartbeat,
like the tiniest test explosions.
That's typical for Michelson, a conflation of elements of the everyday and the large-scale that accomplishes more than either direction might offer on its own.
The affable Michelson says he's nearly done with a new collection of poems. He's hoping to publish it soon, during his time as poet laureate.
As for his plans to promote poetry during the next couple of years, Michelson says, "Because I have my finger in so many different artistic pots, one thing I hope to do is stir those pots together. There are so many writers as well as artists, et cetera, and a lot of groups don't even know each other.
"That's good in some ways because it shows that a lot of artistic things are happening," he continues. "One thing I can do is try to create some synergy between them. I am going to be doing interviews, probably every other week or so on Bill Newman's WHMP radio show, and talking about events that are happening around town. And I hope to add a poetry connection to the Arts Night Out. Beyond that, I've got a lot of ideas and I encourage people to email me with ideas about what they'd like to see."
Michelson's inaugural reading as poet laureate happens Thursday, May 3 at 7 p.m. in the Coolidge Room at the Forbes Library in Northampton.


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The Golden Eagles picked up 17 votes in the poll as they were picked 16th after finishing the 2011 season with a 1-10 (0-10 NSIC) mark.
The U of M, Crookston football team was picked to finish 16th in the 2012 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Preseason Coaches' Poll announced Tuesday by the league office. UMC seniors Richard Haley (RB, Detroit, Mich.) and Tevin Kellum (DB, Detroit, Mich.) were selected as 2012 NSIC Players to Watch for the Golden Eagles.
Minnesota Duluth (217 votes) was selected to finish first in the league with nine first-place votes. UMD advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2011 NCAA Division II Playoffs after winning the National Championship in 2010. St. Cloud State University (211 votes) was picked to finish second in the NSIC and received six first-place votes while Minnesota State University, Mankato (197 votes) was slated third in the poll and notched one first-place vote. Winona State University (175 votes) and Augustana College (169 votes) round out the top five in the NSIC Preseason Coaches' Poll.
The Golden Eagles picked up 17 votes in the poll as they were picked 16th after finishing the 2011 season with a 1-10 (0-10 NSIC) mark. UMC was slated to finish eighth in the new incarnation of the NSIC North Division which includes UMD, SCSU, Bemidji State University, University of Mary, Northern State University, new member Minot State University and Minnesota State University, Moorhead.
Minnesota, Crookston will be under new leadership in 2012 as Paul Miller takes the reins after previously serving as offensive coordinator for the Golden Eagles. In addition, UMC will also have new offensive and defensive coordinators in 2012. Jeff Cheek takes over the offense under Miller after serving as an offensive quality control assistant at Fresno State University and before that at his alma mater, Boise State University. On the defensive side of the ball, Ty Knott steps in after serving as secondary coach for Texas Southern University. Prior to that, Knott was the director of player development for the San Francisco 49ers.
Haley was selected as UMC's Offensive Player to Watch after setting the University of Minnesota, Crookston single-season rushing record as a junior with 1,556 yards on 305 carries with eight touchdowns. He also surpassed the mark for rushing attempts in a season for a Golden Eagle player. Haley was selected to the NSIC North Division All-Conference First Team Offense in his first season at UMC after transferring from Grand Rapids Community College. In addition, he was named a Beyond Sports College Network (BSN) Pre-Season All-America Second Team pick heading into the 2012 campaign. He averaged 141.5 yard per game and 5.1 yards per carry to lead the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference a season ago. In addition, he was second in the conference in all-purpose yards with 1,631.
Kellum, who came with Haley to UMC for Grand Rapids Community College, was selected UMC's Defensive Player to Watch after amassing 71 tackles from the defensive backfield a season ago to place second on the University of Minnesota, Crookston squad in that category. His 71 tackles also ranked him among the top in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference in that category. In addition, he racked up 2.5 tackles for loss for a net of 10 yards and five pass breakups in his first season with the Golden Eagles.
St. Cloud State quarterback Phillip Klaphake was named the NSIC North Offensive Preseason Player of the Year while Huskies' defensive back Marvin Matthews was selected the NSIC North Defensive Preseason Player of the Year. Winona State running back Rayon Simmons was named the NSIC South Offensive Preseason Player of the Year while Augustana linebacker Austin Luecke was selected NSIC South Defensive Preseason Player of the Year.
The Golden Eagles will open NSIC play Aug. 30 against Winona State on the road.


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Around a month ago Neil Patel ran a Crazy Egg test, which showed that most people weren't scrolling and reading the copy on NeilPatel.com.
Because of the data he decided to run an a/b test on the homepage.
The current homepage has 1292 words, plus the form fields are way below the fold so He felt it maybe decreasing my conversion rate.
He created a new version of the homepage, as seen below, that only contained 488 words and form fields higher on the page.
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text: I use a Ruger #1B in 30-06 with 165 gr. Accubonds. I have also used my Ruger #1B in 6mm Remington with 100 gr. Partitions. I took one spike bull with the 6mm at about 30 yards in the timber. My son used his 6mm two years ago to take a large cow at 350 yards with one shot with the 90 gr. E-tip! It took her behind her right shoulder and exited the center of her left shoulder. She went all of about 20 yards. Last year he used his 300 WSM and a 180 gr. Accubond to take his second cow. I also enjoy archery hunting and I shoot a Martin Damon Howatt Hunter 60# recurve.


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They contributed money to feed and care for the lion for a year. The group hopes to renew this adoption of Arthur every year.
Lions Club members who adopted Arthur include Daryl McCormick, Ken Hazlitt, Allen Meyer, Alvin Murphy, Randy Bang, Doug Kaufman, Jay Lee, Dan Moreno, Wilmer Johnson, Bob Slonecker, Dave Conley, Tom Mertens, Cal Johnson, Carol Graybill, Jay Stafford, Mike Reager, Brandon Barnes, Les Copass and Rory Hough
Arthur was the lone African lion among 18 animals facing an uncertain future when a Nebraska zoo was shut down by the USDA, due to animal abuse and safety violations. Undernourished and underweight, Arthur was doing his best to survive the cold Nebraska winters.
TWAS was soon contacted and immediately went to rescue Arthur and the rest of the animals living in the awful conditions.
Now living a life "fit for a king" at TWAS, Arthur enjoys being with other lions in his habitat, and gives the occasional friendly "aowww" to the humans on the observation deck 30 feet above him.


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Norwegian Finery
Norwegian Finery
Dragter fra Fane ved Bergen. Boston: J.H. Bufford, 1872.
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This colorful lithograph was produced by J.H. Bufford & Co. as part of their ambitious publication Norway Illustrated. The portfolio set included views of cities, fjords, and glaciers, as well as plates depicting costumes in different parts of the country. The Society's copy of the book includes text and views, but lacked the costume plates, including this one, until recently.


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Dog #201 – Why Petland Should Stop Selling Puppies #BtC4A
She had been brought to our shelter by a local service organization, who had rescued her, pregnant and scared, from a puppy mill. They cared for her during her pregnancy and after the birth of her puppies, but she was so damaged emotionally that they had considered euthanizing her thinking that she would never be able to be anything but a scared unsocialized dog, afraid of everything and everyone. Her foster mom wanted to give her a chance and asked our shelter manager if he would take her. He agreed.
When I first met her on that day at the shelter, she was sitting at the back of her kennel – terrified and alone. She cowered in my presence and avoided direct eye contact. When I raised my hand to unlock the kennel door, she went straight to the ground and curled into a little ball with feet curled under her body, frozen in fear. It was easy to get the leash on her, but getting her to walk to the door to go outside was a slow process and required slow movements.
I walked her around the shelter property so she could go to the bathroom, but it was more of a crawl than a walk. She moved slowly, her body slunk low to the ground, and she would freeze at any sudden movement or loud noise. I avoided talking to her, hoping it would calm her. It didn't. After a short walk, I sat down on the parking lot curb and waited to see what she would do. Her whole body language conveyed fear and distrust – averted eyes, lowered head and body, frozen body posture. She kept her back towards me the whole time. She did not trust me, and I didn't blame her at all.
I let her be while I remained seated. I hoped that giving her some time to adjust to my presence would help. It didn't. She allowed me to pet her, but I think that was only because she was too scared to move. My heart broke for her. It was at that moment that I knew that this dog and I were somehow going to be connected. I just didn't know then how much.
It would be much later before I would learn that she had a tattoo in her ear. The number 201. Dog number 201 in a puppy mill of how many? How many breeding dogs in dog number 201's puppy mill were left behind? How many were not rescued?
Dog #201 is also known as Daisy. My dog Daisy. She was breeding dog in a puppy mill for four years. I can't say how many litters she had, but my vet surmised that it had been many since her skin hangs down as if it had been stretched often by pregnancy. I can't even begin to guess where all her puppies went, but it's not out of the realm of possibility that they could have ended up at a Petland store since Petland USA gets 95% of their puppies from puppy mills.
That's why I am joining Be the Change for Animals today to blog about puppy mills and Petland. All week Be the Change for Animals has been asking people to sign our petition (started by my friend Mary Haight over at Dancing Dog Blog) to ask Petland USA to stop selling puppy mill puppies. We need 50,000 signatures and we only have 750 signatures. Hardly enough to convince Petland USA to stop selling puppy mill puppies like Petland Canada decided to do earlier this year is it?
Daisy and I are asking for your help. We are asking you to join this cause and ask Petland USA to stop selling puppy mill puppies. It took me less than a minute to add my name to the petition. Will you join us? Change doesn't happen unless people speak up. We need you.
Sign and Share the Petition at Change.org
Write to Petland USA on Facebook and Twitter
Paste the following across your social media outlets:
Tell @Petland USA to Stop Selling Pets! Sign the Petition: http://chn.ge/qT2HNs #BTC4A #Change
1. 99% of puppies sold in pet stores come from puppy mills.
2. Nearly 100% of all puppies in pet stores have parasites when they are purchased.
3. 48% of puppies being sold in pet stores were ill or incubating an illness at the time of purchase, according to a recent California study.
4. 500,000 puppies are born in puppy mills and sold in pet stores every year in the United States.
5. There are 35,000 pet stores in America
6. Puppy millers can make more than $300,000 growing puppies every year.
7. Puppy mills have been around since the early 1960s.
8. Almost every Puppy sold in a pet store has a mother who will spend her entire life in a tiny cage, never being petted, never being walked, never being treated like a dog.
9. Female dogs are usually bred 2x a year. At that rate, they usually burn out by age 5, at which time they are put to death.
10. About 1 million breeder dogs are confined in puppy mills throughout the country.
This data can also be found at Madonna of the Mills.
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MADISON COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - Jason Singleton's defense attorney says State Police went into his home illegally after they found his wife dead. He says they had no legitimate reason to go inside.
A state trooper said when he got to Jason Singleton's house to make sure no one came and went, he noticed something odd.
"When I arrived, I noticed the garage door was open. After sitting there, I noticed that I could smell, like, a charred smoke. It almost smelled as if something was on fire or had been on fire," said Trooper Edwin Botkin of the Kentucky State Police.
Botkin said he called for backup and when they got there, they were ordered to do a sweep of the house to make sure there were no more victims or suspects inside and evidence wasn't being destroyed.
"We were basically going in to make sure nobody was in there, nobody else was injured," said Botkin.
A search warrant hadn't yet been issued. Defense attorneys say the sweep of the house was illegal and the search warrant that came later shouldn't have been issued. They want any evidence that was found in that search to be thrown out.
"There was a door. Just inside that door, there was a knife on the ground to the left hand side," said Botkin.
"Did they find all these concerns they had? Was there anyone in there destroying evidence? No. Was there any fire inside there? No," said defense attorney Jim Baechtold.
"The search was a reasonable search in an effort to discover another victim, living or dead. The defendant's fourth amendment rights in this case were not violated," ruled Judge William Clouse.
Jason Singleton's defense attorney says there are other pieces of evidence he plans to dispute.


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On April 21, five years of hard work for the Green River Grotto student organization and WKU's Hoffman Environmental Research Institute, with help from numerous other like-minded organizations, including the Greater Cincinnati Grotto, Louisville Grotto, Hart of Kentucky Grotto, Pine Mountain Grotto, and the American Cave Conservation Association, culminated in a grand cleanup at the Crumps Cave Education and Research Preserve in Warren County.
This effort has been an ongoing one for the Grotto and Hoffman Institute in order to restore this fragile cave ecosystem back to its natural state.
Crumps Cave, which had served as a tourist cave, was purchased by WKU in 2008 with funds from the Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund. The cleanup last weekend is part of an ongoing effort to remove old tourist infrastructure and human impacts, such as wiring from trail lighting, a treated lumber boardwalk, old metal, bottles, and other garbage that washed, or was dumped, into the cave over many decades. The cave serves as a highly important research site for various projects by students and faculty at WKU involving water quality, climate change and groundwater resources, and is home to the endangered Gray bat (Myotis grisescens).
Much of the cleanup was focused on the remnants of debris left behind in May 2010, when the major flood that impacted the area caused widespread damage, including the flooding of Crumps Cave and the destruction and scattering of the trash pile that the groups had already collected for removal near the cave's entrance. Despite this setback, several small cleanups to gather these materials together finally paid off in a 20-yard dumpster of garbage being removed from the site.
With help from the Twin Lakes Karst Conservancy and the Windy City Grotto, the April 21 event was the final push to finish the majority of the cleanup efforts and restore the site to the original vision of a natural, safe research and education preserve.
"The Grotto has actively engaged in many of these types of cleanup and outreach efforts, and the Crumps Cave cleanup is a great milestone to reach given the amount of effort and time volunteered by its members, along with many other very generous groups, to make this all possible," said Green River Grotto faculty advisor Dr. Jason Polk. "Crumps Cave will serve as a safe, functional, and very important research and educational site for many years to come, and much thanks is owed to the perseverance of local volunteers, cavers, scientists, students, and the Hoffman Institute in bringing this to fruition."
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Derek Jeter has finally come to the realization that he won't be ready for Opening Day. "Pretty much that looks like what's going to happen," Jeter said Tuesday when asked about starting the season on the disabled list. "I've told you guys all along my goal was to be ready on Opening Day and I didn't reach it. Yeah. It's disappointing. "I just ran out of days." Jeter was receiving treatment on his surgically repaired left ankle Tuesday, restricted from any baseball activity for a third consecutive day. The Captain is still hopeful that he'll be ready to return from the DL when he's eligible to return April 6, but he's also looking at the big picture when it comes to his rehab going forward. "I'm going to stop putting dates on it," Jeter said. "But if you ask me, of course, yeah, I think I'll be ready by then.
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Derek Jeter finally rules out playing Opening Day
New York Daily News | Mar 27


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One of the oldest streets in Brenham may get a new name.
But some residents are fighting the change.
Brenham's African American community has a dream of its own: to rename a well known and historical street after one of the greatest civil rights leaders.
"Every other place has an MLK and it'd be nice to have it around here," said Brenham resident Eddie Dorsey.
But just up the street are differing opinions. Some residents think the name change might erase the street's own historical importance.
"It's simply academy street. It was on the map before Brenham was a city," said Academy Street resident Christy Flicker.
Flicker has lived on east Academy for ten years and says her street is just not a fitting tribute.
"We're going to honor Dr. King but we're just going to give him a nondescript street in a residential area? It doesn't seem first rate compared to some of the other things {the city's} done," said Flicker.
Flicker and others have signed a petition to stop the name change.
But just as many residents are signing their support...which puts the city council right in the middle.
"There's not unanimity in the community about the change. But the vast majority believe there should be something in honor of Dr. King," said City Manager Terry Roberts.
The council could reach a compromise by naming the west side of the street after Martin Luther King but not changing the name on the east side of the street.
"You're not going to satisfy everybody and the council just has to weigh what's best for the entire community," said Roberts.
And that route may or may not be through Academy Street.


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God Cant Give You More Than You Can Handle?
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This is a conversation i just had with my cousin whose mom was killed last night.
Me and her were talking cuz she also lost her uncle 1 month and 1 day ago. And a few years ago she lost ehr brother to suicide.
So as we were talking she tells me "god wouldnt give you anymore than you can handle". and this is my response
me: i would agree with that but i cant
her: ?
me: if you think about life. if people could handle what was given to them, why do some commit suicide? Why do some of them turn to drugs? Alcohol? Now not everyone turns to this stuff when faced with hard times, but there are alot that do and they dont come back. does that make sense?
her: Yeah I can understand where your coming from
me: there are people who can handle it but then there are people who cant. If people do take the time to stop and think about what they are going through and sit down and breathe then maybe yes. but not everyone can do that. Also there are those people who are going through so much and people do say "god wouldnt give you anymore than you can handle" but im reality yes he would. trial and tribulation. its his way of seeing what you can and cant handle and if you are strong enough to "come back" from it so to speak. And when someone is going through alot, really the last thing they probably want to hear is "god wouldnt give you anymore than you can handle", and i say this because (and i am not a christian but i do believe in higher powers, no one knows what they are thinking or what they have planned for someone in this life or the next life. does that make sense?
her: Yeah I see what your saying
me: i think you are the first one who does. lol
her: Lol. Really?
me: yea really
her: Oh wow
me: im friends with alot of Christians(and i have no problem with the christian religion mind you) but alot of christians dont want to see anything from a different point of view. Not all christians are like that but alot that i have come across are
her: yeah i know what you meanl
With God, ALL things are possible.
Did those people who committed suicide turn to God, or to other things when life got rough? Turning to drugs and alcohol only makes things worse. The only way to get through some things is to walk with God.
all things maybe possible, but possibility isn't a guarantee. My family is VERY christian. Including my cousin who committed suicide. Not everyone can handle.
Quoting Anonymous:
I disagree.
With God, ALL things are possible.
Did those people who committed suicide turn to God, or to other things when life got rough? Turning to drugs and alcohol only makes things worse. The only way to get through some things is to walk with God.
so you believe everyone can handle the same thing? everyone can come through ontop without problems?
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Disagree. While I do believe god has a part in everything we do, I completly disagree that he has the power/will to change our futures. He give us the tools, if we fuck it up, oh well.


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Theodore Paul 'Ted' Helmich
Theodore Paul 'Ted' Helmich
Theodore Paul "Ted" Helmich, 74, died Monday, March 25, 2013, at his home in Benton. He was born March 27, 1938, in Benton to Edward and Edna (Hill) Helmich of Benton.
Ted graduated from Bryant High School and attended Arkansas Tech University. After two years in the U.S. Army as a mechanic, he graduated with honors from the University of Arkansas with a degree in mechanical engineering. Ted retired from Alcoa after 28 years of service.
A member of Zion Lutheran Church at Avilla, he served in various leadership positions. A devoted follower of Christ, Ted shared his faith in words and deeds to his family, friends, and new acquaintances. He was quick to use his interests and gifts to help others by sharing from his garden, fixing about anything, and offering his time to teach a skill or just listen. Family gatherings were a favorite of Ted's, cherishing times when all were gathered under the same roof and around the same table.
Ted loved greatly, in many expressions; his children and grandchildren are blessed to have benefited from that love. His relationship to Glenda was a beautiful example of God's intentions for marriage.
He was predeceased by his parents, brothers Edward and August and sister Lucille Seibert.
He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Glenda (Revis) Helmich; a son, Bryan Helmich and wife Vanessa of Wylie, Texas; a daughter, Marna Helmich Musteen and husband Jason of West Point, N.Y.; and grandchildren, Victoria, Nicholas and Elizabeth Helmich and Rachel and Thomas Musteen. He is also survived by his siblings, Irene Schrader of Alexander, Helen Auw of Ontario, Ore., Arthur Helmich and wife Shirley of Benton, Clarence Helmich and wife Dorothy of Whitehouse, Tenn.; and his sisters-in-law, Caroline Helmich and Annalee Helmich.
Funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 6, at Zion Lutheran Church in Avilla with burial to follow at Zion Lutheran Cemetery. Pallbearers are Tom Bennett, Dick Hoffman, Doug Mays, Bob Maertens, Gary Hoppe and Louis Seiter.
Visitation is planned for 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 5, at Ashby Funeral Home in Benton. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to Zion Lutheran Church in Avilla or Arkansas Hospice.
Online guest book: www.ashbyfuneralhome.com


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The Peninsula Oilers don't usually make a lot of mistakes, but they did on Friday, and it cost them badly.
The Oilers suffered a malady of blunders that led to a 7-2 loss against the Mat-Su Miners at Coral Seymour Memorial park.
Oilers coach Kyle Richardson had two words to describe the game.
"Walks and errors," Richardson said. "You can't win baseball games making errors. You can't, it's impossible. All you do is put yourself in a hole."
The loss left the Miners with a 2-1 series lead against the Oilers in the three days they competed this week. The Oilers stand with a 1-2 season record which places them fifth in the six-team Alaska Baseball League standings. The Anchorage Bucs lead with a perfect 5-0 record.
The loss also ruined the pitching debut of Billy Strode, out of Florida State University. Strode recorded the loss, pitching the first three innings with four hits, five runs and two strikeouts.
"You just gotta grind it out," Richardson said. "You move on to the next day, and take each individual day as a challenge. The players that are really good at this game can isolate events, and can compartmentalize events, and if they're having a bad day defensively, they don't carry it to the plate."
The Oilers led 2-0 early after Andre Mercurio scored both runs off a single from Adam Sonabend and a double from Kye Hunt and in the first and second innings, respectively.
It was the third inning that gave the Oilers all the trouble.
Christin Stewart hit what should have been a single, but second baseman Jake Alvarez overthrew to Dillon Dobson on first, so not only did Stewart get to second, but it allowed Josh Williams and Ben Wylly to make it home. In addition, an erroneous throw to Noah Holmes at third allowed A.J. Simcox to score a third run.
For the Miners, Simcox hit 2 for 3 with two runs and one RBI, and teammate Wylly hit 1 for 3 with two runs.
Sonabend led the Oilers by hitting 2 for 3 with an RBI. Hunt went 2 for 4 with an RBI, and Michael Hoo went 1 for 2.
Two more runs were scored in the same inning, leaving the Oilers trailing 5-2.
"We knew that we had to play with a lot of energy because the Kenai team is such a good ball club," said Miners coach Ben Taylor. "The story for me was the quality performance that Ty Schlottmann put in. We got a good seven innings from him. After a rough first inning, he settled down and really allowed us to play well."
Schlottmann got the win by pitching seven innings with two runs and four strikeouts.
In total, the Oilers committed six errors, while the Miners only had one. Each team had eight hits.
The Oilers next game will be on the road against the Anchorage Glacier Pilots, on Sunday at 4 p.m.