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In a battle on a bridge over the Nile River in Cairo, gunfire rang out and flames leaped from a burning car as the rival camps threw volleys of stones and fireworks at each other. Military armored vehicles raced across the bridge in a counterattack on Morsi's supporters.
The clashes accelerated after the supreme leader of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood defiantly proclaimed that his followers would not give up street action until the return of the country's first freely elected president, swept out of power days earlier by the military. Morsi opponents called out the public to defend against the Brotherhood, deepening the battle lines.
In scenes of mayhem, troops opened fire on peaceful pro-Morsi protesters. Islamists threw one opponent off a rooftop.
"God make Morsi victorious and bring him back to the palace," Brotherhood chief Mohammed Badie proclaimed before cheering supporters at a Cairo mosque in his first appearance since the overthrow. "We are his soldiers we defend him with our lives."
Badie said it was a matter of honor for the military to abide by its pledge of loyalty to the president, in what appeared to be an attempt to pull it away from its leadership.
"Your leader is Morsi. ... Return to the people of Egypt," he said.
Hours later, Badie's deputy, Khairat el-Shater, considered the most powerful figure in the organization, was arrested in a Cairo apartment along with his brother on allegations of inciting violence, Interior Ministry spokesman Hani Abdel-Latif told The Associated Press.
After the speech, a large crowd of Islamists surged across 6th October Bridge over the Nile toward Tahrir Square, where a giant crowd of Morsi's opponents had been massed all day. Battles broke out there and near the neighboring state TV building. Pro-Morsi youth shielded themselves from flying stones and fireworks with sheets of barricaded metal. A car burned at the top of an exit ramp amid the sounds of automatic weapons and shotguns.
"They are firing at us, sons of dogs! Where is the army?" one Morsi opponent shouted as another was brought to medics with his jeans soaked in blood from leg wounds. At least three people were killed at the bridge.
The fighting ended when at least seven armored personnel carriers sped across the bridge, chasing away the Morsi supporters. Young civilians jumped onto the roofs of the APCs, shouting insults at the Islamists and chanting, "The people and army are one hand."
Across the country, clashes erupted as Morsi supporters tried to storm local government buildings or military facilities, battling police or Morsi opponents. At least 30 people were killed throughout the day in Egypt, with 210 wounded, Heath Ministry official Khaled el-Khatib told The Associated Press.
Islamists descended on anti-Morsi rally, opening fire with guns in the Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria, where at least 12 people were killed, mostly Morsi opponents, emergency services official Amr Salama said. One man was stabbed and thrown from the roof of a building by Morsi supporters after he raised an Egyptian flag and shouted insults against the ousted president, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene.
Five policemen killed by militants in shootings around the Sinai city of el-Arish, according to security officials speaking on condition of anonymity because not authorized to talk to the press.
The U.S. State Department condemned the violence and called on all Egyptian leaders to denounce the use of force and prevent further bloodshed among their supporters.
"The voices of all who are protesting peacefully must be heard -- including those who welcomed the events of earlier this week and those who supported President Morsi," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement. "The Egyptian people must come together to resolve their differences peacefully."
Col. Ahmed Ali, a spokesman for the armed forces, said the Muslim Brotherhood was trying to "pick a fight" with the army and "drag it to a clash in order to send a message to the West that what happened in the country is a coup and that the military is cracking down on the peaceful protesters."
That mirrored a statement from an umbrella group of Morsi opponents -- including the National Salvation Front and youth groups. The group urged the public to take to the streets immediately "to defend popular legitimacy" against what they called a "malicious plot" by the Brotherhood.


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MOREHEAD, Ky. - Senior Frank Davis was on fire from long range, connecting on 7-of-9 3-pointers, and freshman Jud Dillard made his first career start and recorded his first double-double, scoring a career high 25 points and grabbing 12 rebounds, but the Tennessee Tech men's basketball team fell at Morehead State Saturday night, 84-75 in OVC play.
Davis finished with 21 points, and sophomore Kevin Murphy reached double figures for the 17th consecutive game, chipping in with 16 points and five rebounds. Dillard hit 9-of-12 shots from the field, and five of his 12 board came on the offensive end. But second-place Morehead State was too much for Tech. Kenneth Faried led the Eagles with 26 points and 17 rebounds, helping lead MSU to a 39-29 advantage on the glass.
The Golden Eagles built a 23-18 lead in the first half, but the Eagles went on a 12-0 run to take a 30-23 lead. The Golden Eagles would chip away before the break, going into halftime down 32-34.
"I'm proud of our kids," TTU head coach Mike Sutton said. "We played hard. If we play that hard all the time we'll be in good shape."
The game saw a total of seven ties and eight lead changes. The Golden Eagles tied the game at 45 on a 3-pointer from Davis with 13:21 to play, but Morehead State went on a 7-1 run to take a lead they would not give back.
"We just needed to make a couple more plays in a hostile environment, and we didn't do it," Sutton said.
Tech, which leads the OVC in 3-point field goal percentage, hit 9-of-18 3's in the game, and shot 49.0 percent from the field, hitting 24-of-49 attempts. The Golden Eagles finished with 13 turnovers, which led to 19 MSU points. Morehead State shot 51.9 percent from the field, connecting on 27-of-52 attempts.
Steve Peterson scored 20 points for Morehead State, Demonte Harper had 17, Brandon Shingles finished with 13 and Maze Stallworth chipped in eight points and eight rebounds for the Eagles.
Elijah Muhammad finished with five points and a team-leading six assists for the Golden Eagles, and Alfred Jones finished with six points and five rebounds. Murphy, Jones and Bassey Inameti all fouled out for the Golden Eagles.
"The foul trouble changed our rotation, which really affected the game." Sutton said. "We've got to get a little bit more production out of our inside guys. They played well but we need a little more rebounding."
The Golden Eagles will wrap up their three-game road trip on Tuesday night at Austin Peay. Tech beat the Gov's in Cookeville earlier this season. The Golden Eagles will return home on Feb. 11 to take on Murray State, which will be Pack the House Night in Eblen Center. Tech will host UT Martin on Feb. 13.
For ticket information please contact the Golden Eagle athletics ticket office at (931) 372-3940 or visit TTUsports.com.

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Instead of a slap on the wrist, repeat drunk drivers would have to slap on a bracelet that monitors and reports when they've been drinking.
Saying "there are no more free passes for those who choose to drive under the influence," Governor Jay Inslee and a bipartisan group of lawmakers are considering ways to increase accountability and penalties for DUIs.
One proposal includes a choice of six months jail time or enrollment in a sobriety program on a second offense. The sobriety program involves constantly wearing a device that is able to detect if a person drinks alcohol.
The ankle-monitoring bracelet is called a SCRAM by a Seattle company that provides the devices. That stands for Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor.
The half-pound bracelet captures alcohol readings every 30 minutes and can detect tampering.
"Nationally, it's been on about 300,000 offenders," says Dan Altvater who represents Alcohol Monitoring Systems in Seattle. "In the state of Washington it started to be used in Spokane in 2005 and since then we have had over 7,000 offenders on SCRAM.
The bracelets use a different technology than the breathalyzer and blood alcohol tests. These bracelets detect alcohol through the skin.
"Transdermal technology has been around for about 100 years. We know the human body can absorb and secrete things through the skin," Alvater says.
"We're actually able to take alcohol from the skin run it across a traditional fuel cell and come up with what's called a transdermal alcohol content. When you smell alcohol coming off someone that is literally ethanol vapor coming off their skin, so that's what we quantify."
The bracelets do not detect drug use.
Data from the bracelet is uploaded from a base station the offender keeps in his or her home. They are able to transfer the information without removing the bracelet.
The data is sent to Denver, Colorado where the company has about 150 employees who interpret the data and report back to police, probation staff, or the court supervising the DUI offender.
"The goal is to go after the hard core drunk drivers," says Alvater. "These offenders have been told not to drink throughout their life, but they've never been held accountable. For the first time in their life somebody is saying there will be repercussions."
He says there are "swift and certain sanctions" for those who try to remove a bracelet or are detected drinking in violation of a court order. Jail time is the most likely consequence.
The program makes the repeat drunk drivers pay the cost of the bracelet system.
Offenders placed on the alcohol-monitoring bracelets pay between $10 and $12 per day for the SCRAM and the costs associated with it. That's far less than the $125 per day to house an inmate in King County Jail.
"When you look at compliance rates in Washington they mirror what we see nationally, meaning when offenders are on SCRAM they are sober and get through the entire program 77 percent of the time," Alvater says. "On any given day if you break that data down, 99.3 percent of them are sober each day."
The legislature hasn't attached a cost to the proposed legislation – House Bill 2030 and Senate Bill 5912.
When I talked with State Rep. Roger Goodman, who is leading the effort in the legislature, he estimated the proposed legislation to strengthen state DUI laws and penalties would cost between $10 million and $15 million.
State lawmakers are facing about a $1.3 billion budget shortfall and they're under a state Supreme Court order to increase education funding.
Gov. Inslee acknowledges the cost would not be "insignificant" but he also says "People who choose to get behind the wheel must know that we are done giving them a free pass."
By LINDA THOMAS
KIRO Radio's Tim Haeck contributed to this report.


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Finally, after a decade or more of fighting extradition from the UK, Abu Hamza has been deported to the US. He's tried every court in the land and inevitably the European Court of Human Rights too. Finally, yesterday afternoon, the High Court dismissed a last ditch ruse to stay in the UK and Hamza has been bundled onto a flight to the US where he faces trial.
I hope you guys in the US are as pleased to be getting him as we are to see him go.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stock futures rallied on Friday, erasing modest losses after data showed the American economy created more jobs than expected in November, and the unemployment rate fell to the lowest level since December 2008.
Nonfarm payrolls rose by 146,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7% from 7.9%, the Labor Department reported.
Contrary to expectations, Hurricane Sandy appeared to have little effect on the jobs market in November. The data were much better than expected, with economists projecting an increase of 80,000 jobs and an unchanged unemployment rate. Read: U.S. creates 146,000 jobs in November; jobless rate drops.
Down 22 points before the data, futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average US:DJZ2 were lately up 69 points to 13,132.
S&P 500 index futures SPZ2, +0.00% climbed 8 points to 1,421; they were trading down 3.60 points before the jobs data.
Nasdaq 100 futures US:NDZ2 advanced 16.75 points, or 0.6%, to 2,670.7.
In addition to the labor data, the preliminary December consumer- sentiment gauge from the University of Michigan and Thomson Reuters, due at 9:55 a.m., is seen edging back to a reading of 82.0 from 82.7.
Consumer-credit data for October are seen expanding due to growing student and car loans, the Federal Reserve is likely to report at 3 p.m.
Besides economic data, investors will continue to watch closely developments in Washington where the White House and Republicans are trying to reach a fiscal-cliff deal.
"Many investors continue to take a neutral view as they wait for the outcome of fiscal-cliff negotiations. Whether those investors will get the rally they're hoping for, or whether success has already been priced in, is the key question," said Rebecca O'Keefe, head of investment at Interactive Investor in London.
Wall Street posted a modest rise on Thursday, with analysts tying strength to expectations the fiscal cliff — heavy spending cuts and tax hikes due to begin taking effect on Jan. 1. — will be avoided.
European stocks turned higher, buoyed by the U.S. jobs report. Sentiment had been dented earlier after Germany's Bundesbank on Friday sharply cut its forecast for 2013 growth but said the country's labor market should remain relatively insulated ahead of a rebound in 2014. Read The Tell: Some bad news abut that German engine of growth.
Stocks in focus
Netflix Inc. NFLX, +0.57% shares will be in focus. The DVD-rental and streaming-media company said that the staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is recommending a civil action against the company and its CEO because of a posting on a social-media site. Read about Netflix
Palo Alto Networks Inc. PANW, +0.07% shares may be active in the premarket. Late on Thursday, the producer of computer-network- security technology reported a fiscal-first-quarter loss of 5 cents a share and adjusted earnings of 4 cents. Analysts surveyed by FactSet produced a consensus estimate for the quarter of profit of 3 cents a share.
Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. US:SWHC , the Springfield, Mass., gun maker, reported that fiscal-second-quarter net income jumped on 48% higher sales. The company also lifted its outlook for fiscal 2013 and approved a $20 million stock buyback.
The dollar rose versus most major rivals including the euro.


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Submission + - A Step Forward for Fusion (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: In the high-stakes race to realize fusion energy, a smaller lab may be putting the squeeze on the big boys. Worldwide efforts to harness fusion for energy on Earth currently focus on two multibillion dollar facilities: the ITER fusion reactor in France and the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California. But other, cheaper approaches exist—and one of them may have a chance to be the first to reach "break-even," a key milestone in which a process produces more energy than needed to trigger the fusion reaction. Researchers at the Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico are set to announce that their process, known as magnetized liner inertial fusion, has passed the first of three tests, putting it on track for an attempt at the coveted break-even. The team expects to take its first shot at fusion before the end of 2013.


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Happiness, prestige, and even amount of spending money I have, is not fact moron. It is in the eye of the beholder. That is what everyone is trying to say. That is ok though, keep on thinking that the status of your school, job, and money you have is all that matters in life. Man, I feel bad for you at this point.
Did you just call someone a "commoner"?Freaking awesome. This just gets better all the time. I have never seen someone try as hard to compensate as you. You are as detached from reality as they come. Like the above poster I am becoming fascinated with you. Please tell us about yourself: Play any sports? Favorite countries visited? What are your friends like? Do you have friends? Any meaningful relationships with real live flesh and blood people? Were you abused? What was high school like? Where do you hang out? Do you masturbate a lot? Most embarrassing moment? One true love? Favorite music? Why in hell would you want to spend time in the Hamptons? Do you have a website? Do you play an instrument? Why do you like this message board SO much when no one likes you (I'll give you the benefit of understatement here)? What do you do with the fraction of your day left over after bickering with strangers on the internet (and porn)?Please share.
Oh come on, you wily Lover Of Women, you. It's been five minutes. Respond already! Are you taking a porn break? Engaging in your richly rewarding life outside of this message board? No, on second thought I guess that wouldn't be mathematically possible would it? Well nevermind about the having a life bit, that might have been a bit of a stretch. Just hurry back and placate my curiosity or I'll have to do something drastic like work on an outline.
My most embarrassing moment was listening to some old bag talk about her cancer; she was hideous and it was distressing to see something so ugly.
Already admitted by NYLS, but I'm leaning towards St. John's, although I've heard not-so-good things about the latter ..


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As students continue to settle into college life and their studies in the new academic year, personal safety and security should also be a top priority. For many new students, this is the first time they have been responsible for their own safety. By adopting simple safety measures and knowing what college resources are available, students will be well equipped to keep themselves and their belongings safe.
"Although Penn State Harrisburg is a safe campus, that doesn't mean that crimes can't happen," said Kevin Stoehr, campus chief of police. "Simple, common sense measures go a long way to help students not become victims."
Chief Stoehr provided basic safety tips for students:
Be aware of your surroundings. Always be cognizant of where you are, who is around you and what time of day it is.
"If it's dark, we recommend walking with a buddy or contacting the campus escort service," Stoehr said.
The campus escort service, available to all students, faculty, and staff, provides a police officer to walk individuals to their dorms and vehicles if they feel unsafe. You can reach this service at 717-948-6232.
Eliminate the opportunity for thefts. Lock your dorm room or apartment doors and windows. If you commute, lock your car doors. Keep an eye on your belongings.
"Crimes of opportunity are very common," Stoehr said. "Taking the time to secure your belongings goes a long way to ensuring you will not become a victim of theft."
For more safety tips, visit harrisburg.psu.edu/safety-police-services/crime-prevention-measures.
Penn State Harrisburg is currently installing additional security cameras and ID card readers to better secure access to certain buildings, Stoehr added.
He also urged all faculty, staff, and students to register for PSUTXT, an easy and accessible system that notifies individuals via cell phone or e-mail in the event of a campus closure or emergency.
"This is the best way we can reach you in case of an emergency," Stoehr added.
To register, visit psutxt.psu.edu. Be sure to select Harrisburg Alerts in the Optional Groups section to ensure that you receive notifications specific to this campus.
Penn State Harrisburg police services operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with officers on duty around the clock. The campus police are also available by dialing 911.
Emergency phones are available throughout campus. "If someone picks up one of the phones, an officer is dispatched," Stoehr said. "The caller doesn't even have to say anything."
Students should also program the number for campus police – 717-948-6232 – into their cellphones and/or keep the number in an accessible place at all times.
Stoehr said that illegal drug use and underage drinking are the most common safety issues that colleges face. Penn State Harrisburg has strict policies on alcohol and drug use, which are strongly enforced.
Sexual assault is one of the most serious crimes plaguing college campuses nationwide. Penn State Harrisburg offers many informational resources on dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The campus also offers self-defense classes.
Stoehr said the most important step a victim of sexual assault can take is to report the incident. "Often times, these crimes go unreported. I urge students to report these incidents to the police. If they do not want to go to the police, they can confidentially report it to Counseling Services. Our priority is the physical and emotional well-being of the victim."
To educate and equip women with the knowledge and skills they need to prevent, avoid, and survive assaults, the Department of Safety and Police Services offers the Rape Aggression Defense: Systems of Self Defense (R.A.D.) program and the Self-Defense Awareness and Familiarization Exchange (S.A.F.E.) program on campus. For more information, visit harrisburg.psu.edu/safety-police-services/self-defense.
Emotional support services are also available on and off campus:
On Campus - Counseling Services is available to provide emotional and logistical support for crisis situations such as sexual assault by calling 717-948-6025.
Off Campus - The Rape Crisis Center is a community service with a 24-hour hotline. Trained individuals are available to help victims deal with the emotional, legal, and medical issues related to sexual assaults. A representative can also accompany victims to the hospital and court proceedings. Call 717-238-7273 or 1-800-654-1211 for more information.
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You can look at the top of the Rangers' 2010 draft class in one of two ways.
You can fixate on the fact that the club's picks at 15, 22, 45, and 49 were ranked by Baseball America, two weeks ago, as (respectively) unranked, 51st, 126th, and 98th on the publications assessment of the draft's top 200 prospects.
Or you can note that the Rangers' first three picks were each speculated at some point in the week leading up to the draft by either Jim Callis of BA, Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com, or Keith Law of ESPN to be the Rangers' first overall selection at 15, and that two of the players were considered to be riding the most helium on draft boards in the last couple weeks.
You can view the apparent fact that, according to several sources overnight, the Rangers were on the verge of coming to terms with their first two picks - at slot or lower - as a sign that (1) they were overdrafted strictly because of their signability, or (2) the Rangers have gotten off to a great start by locking down those two down, giving them some cost certainty as they head into the remaining 49 rounds without having dipped into the $1-2 million pad they have budgeted for going over slot throughout the draft class.
Is outfielder-defensive back Jake Skole the next Grady Sizemore? Or the next K.C. Herren?
Can Kellin Deglan buck the odds at the most difficult position to draft well at (as Peter Gammons wrote on Saturday: "The 35-year history of the Draft is lined with monumental mistakes selecting catchers")?
Is flamethrowing Florida righthander Luke Jackson the next Eric Hurley? Or the next Shane Funk?
With several high-profile pitchers still on the board, and Tommy Mendonca a year into his pro career, was the selection of Mike Olt a duplicative shot taken on a power/defense third baseman with hit tool questions, or a worthwhile effort to add another slug prospect to a system relatively thin in that area?
In the baseball draft, there are often more than just two sides to every coin, particularly before the players even get on a plane. This year that feels more true than usual, when compared with recent drafts that had a Justin Smoak or Tanner Scheppers to wrap our arms around instantly, or even a signability decision like Rick Porcello or Matt Purke to get the talk shows fired up about. In spite of the Rangers' firepower (four of the first 49 picks) and handicap (budgetary issues reportedly handcuffing the club more than in recent drafts), most experts probably won't single Texas out - at least through the first and supplemental first rounds - on a short list of the winners or the losers around the league.
It's always wise to adopt a "time will tell" attitude on any baseball draft, but with the top of this Rangers class, it seems almost obligatory. Even without a Smoak or Porcello story to get in the way of a good Tony Romo golf segment on local radio this morning, any or all of the Rangers' four picks last night could end up factoring in heavily to the big picture - or all four could disappoint.
The Rangers' four Day One selections:
1 (15th overall, pick awarded for failure to sign 2009 1st-rounder Matt Purke). JAKE SKOLE, OF, Blessed Trinity High School (Ga.) (scout: Ryan Coe)
(last year's first-round pick: Matt Purke; recent Rangers first-round picks include Justin Smoak, Blake Beavan, Michael Main, Kasey Kiker, Thomas Diamond, Mark Teixeira, John Danks, Carlos Pena; best number 15 pick in last 25 years: Chase Utley [Phillies, 2000])
Jake Skole, safety prospect.
In football, at least.
In baseball? Maybe not.
Georgia Tech wanted Skole as a defensive back, offering the First-Team All-State selection a full scholarship to play safety for the Ramblin' Wreck as well as an invitation to walk onto the baseball squad in the spring, where he'd be teammates with his brother Matt, an All-Conference third baseman who just completed his sophomore season at the school.
But was his selection by the Rangers last night a safe one? Judging by his placement (if at all) on the various mock drafts published the last few weeks, and by his reportedly imminent agreement to a signing bonus at or near slot, you might think so.
The Rangers deny it.
First-year scout Ryan Coe, who joined the Rangers in October after coaching at Kennesaw State University since 1998 (he had former Ranger Jason Jones in 1998-99), got to know Skole and his family when Skole was 12 years old. There were scouts around the league in on Skole when the 2010 season began, but none probably had a book on the kid like Coe, who also coached Skole in summer camps.
Before Skole's high school senior season got underway, he was nowhere to be found in BA's pre-season ranking of the top 100 high school draft prospects, or the top 20 outfielders. When he then tore ligaments in his ankle three games into the season, getting tangled up with the opposing first baseman as he was trying to beat out a bunt, he presumably fell off the radar for a lot of clubs, and certainly the industry publications. The injury cost Skole nearly two months of action and, combined with what was thought to be a solid commitment to the Georgia Tech football program, much play during most of the mock draft season.
But he returned in time for Blessed Trinity's two-week playoff run, and in six games he hit .452 with six home runs and 21 RBI. In what would be his final high school game, on May 24 in the Georgia Class AA semifinals, Skole went 2 for 3 off of Cook County High School righthander Kaleb Cowart, whose 97-mph fastball helped make him the Angels' top pick last night, 18th overall. Skole singled and doubled off Cowart, barreling the ball both times, and suddenly his name started showing up on mock drafts and in blog write-ups. If anything, it might have forced Texas to think of Skole with the 15th pick - assuming he lasted that long (BA's Jim Callis wrote on Friday that Toronto at number 11 was "one of a few clubs in on [the] fast-rising" outfielder, and John Sickels suggested that Tampa Bay had strong interest at number 17) - rather than waiting to use a later pick on him.
But regardless of where Skole thought he might go before his late May high school heroics, he's apparently not inflating his price to the point at which negotiations would drag on into nervous territory (as the 15th pick, which was compensation for last year's unconverted Matt Purke selection, would leave Texas empty-handed and without any 2011 compensation if it failed to get a deal done by August 16 [unless the pick were a college senior]). Skole has reportedly already called Georgia Tech football coach Paul Johnson to tell him he's not coming to school, and an agreement with the Rangers could come this week, putting Skole in line to be in uniform when the short-season leagues kick off later this month, assuming his ankle is ready to go.
The Rangers will administer a physical before finalizing any deal, but they're confident that the ankle is fine. Both sides are evidently prepared to agree to something in the range of a slotted signing bonus (which would presumably fall just short of $2 million). This won't be like the Yankees' negotiations five years ago with fellow two-sport Georgia Tech recruit Austin Jackson, who turned pro out of Denton Ryan High School for a reported $800,000, which was a record figure for an eighth-round pick.
Incidentally, Skole won't need to actually play college football for the five-year amortized bonus we discussed yesterday to be available. The league has to approve the five-year option for two-sport players, and apparently it's a near-certainty for players like Skole with demonstrable two-sport opportunities, even if they never play the second sport.
A left-handed hitter who stands 6'1", 188, Skole has shown raw power and good bat speed, though he's had difficulty with offspeed pitches. A tremendous athlete who was timed at 3.79 to first and 6.54 in the 60, he's generally graded as a corner outfielder but the Rangers believe he can handle center field. The future power grade and plus arm belie the occasional Johnny Damon comps, and though he might not profile as complete a player as Grady Sizemore, that name does come up, and not just because of the defensive back background.
As Skole develops, a J.D. Drew type of ceiling might make more sense than a Damon upside, especially once the organization gets to work on his swing mechanics. (And on that point, don't be surprised or discouraged if Skole shows very little punch for a month or so. The Rangers typically allow a first-year player 75 or 100 at-bats before they start to modify his approach - unless he asks for help sooner. For reference, in past Newberg Reports there are well-documented stories about how the club handled Chris Davis and Tommy Mendonca in their draft years.)
Kevin Goldstein's comment moments after the pick was straightforward: "Skole is brilliant at 15. Tons of tools and signable at 15. Just fantastic."
The Rangers insists that while the signability is a plus, they chose Skole because he was at the top of their board when pick number 15 came up. Now, does that mean Zack Cox and Stetson Allie, for instance, weren't on the board at all given their anticipated bonus demands and the unprotected nature of the pick, or did Texas simply prefer Skole from a talent standpoint? We won't know that answer, just as we didn't for years regarding Minnesota's choice of local prep Joe Mauer over Mark Prior and Mark Teixeira at the top of the 2001 draft, a decision that was widely characterized then as a signability concession.
Does Skole, who fairly or not will be inextricably linked to Purke (just as Scheppers and Milton Bradley are connected), have Purke's upside? At this point, no scout would say yes to that question. But was Skole a signability pick?
The Rangers insist he wasn't. But the willingness to sign quickly does mean we ought to start finding out about him right away, and that's something we can all look forward to.
1 (22nd overall). KELLIN DEGLAN, C, R.E. Mountain Secondary School (B.C., Canada) (scout: Gary McGraw)
(best number 22 pick in last 25 years: Rafael Palmeiro [Cubs, 1985])
Just two years ago, Texas was thought to have more depth at catcher than it knew what to do with. Every national columnist was speculating as to which blue-chip pitching prospects around the league Texas would be able to choose from by trading one if not two or three of Gerald Laird, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Taylor Teagarden, and Max Ramirez.
Daniels, rightfully so, said before the 2008 season: "Catching certainly is the strength of our organization. We'll just let it play out. . . . Some people may look at it as a logjam or that we have decisions to make, but I look at it as you can't have enough of a good thing."
Today, Laird is gone, Saltalamacchia and Teagarden are wearing AAA and AA uniforms, and Ramirez is in Texas, backing up a 34-year-old journeyman getting the first chance of his career to be a frontline backstop.
Catching is hard to develop. And risky to invest in. But the Rangers have seen as much of Kellin Deglan as any club, and they believe he has a chance to be a tremendous asset, both at the plate and behind it.
A product of a British Columbia high school that has no baseball program, Deglan (who turned 18 last week) played for the Langley Blaze of the wood bat British Columbia Premier Baseball League (which counts Rich Harden, Justin Morneau, and Ryan Dempster as alums) as well as Canada's junior national team, which traveled to the Dominican Summer League in May and faced clubs that included the Rangers' Dominican affiliate. His club also toured Arizona in March, passing through Surprise at one point. (Deglan also spent a week living and working out with Morneau this winter.)
Big at 6'2", 200 but considered athletic for the position, Deglan throws well and shows a feel for the game. He has good hands and quick feet, logging pop times at or just under two seconds. The left-handed hitter flashes plus power, and scouts believe he will compete with the bat, though as with most catchers, patience will be required. Those makeup and leadership buzzwords will pop up with Deglan, too, which of course is probably as important for catchers as any other position.
Deglan's commitment to Florida International is moot, as he has reportedly already agreed to a below-slot signing bonus of $1 million, pending a physical later this week.
The Rangers system now boasts catching prospects from Venezuela (Tomas Telis and Leonel De Los Santos), Mexico (Jose Felix), Australia (Guy Edmonds), New Jersey (Vin DiFazio), Colombia (Jorge Alfaro), and British Columbia (Deglan). (Prediction: Texas drafts Columbia University catcher Dean Forthun in the 50th round tomorrow. Not really.)
Would it have made more sense for Texas to roll the dice at number 22 on a riskier over-slot player like Cox or Allie or Anthony Ranaudo or Zach Lee, since a failure to come to terms with the player would have meant extra money to allocate to other picks (or July 2 international free agents) and an extra first-round pick next year, when presumably the budgetary constraints will be less onerous? Surely it was an option the front office discussed, which must mean they love what Deglan brings to the system and had no interest in forgoing the chance to add him to the fold just to strengthen other parts of the draft or the budget in Latin America.
Especially when he was willing to sign for less than slot, which will help with the rest of the draft and on July 2 without deferring the pick for 12 months and losing that year of development.
1-Supp (45, pick awarded for loss of Marlon Byrd). LUKE JACKSON, RHP, Calvary Christian Academy HS (Fla.) (scout: Juan Alvarez)
(last year's supplemental first-round pick: Tanner Scheppers; past Rangers supplemental first-round picks include Julio Borbon, Tommy Hunter, Neil Ramirez, Colby Lewis, Chad Hawkins; best number 45 pick in last 25 years: Gerald Laird [Athletics, 1998])
Like Skole, Luke Jackson was a late riser, figuring in last month as a possible third- or fourth-rounder before showing up yesterday as a "strong" possibility for the Rangers at 15 or 22 (both according to Keith Law) or as Florida's choice at 23 (Jim Callis). It's not clear how easy a sign he'll be, as he has a commitment to pitch for the University of Miami in the bag, though he has suggested he's motivated to turn pro.
Jackson, a prep soccer player who didn't play baseball year-round and who didn't take up pitching at all until the ninth grade, sat 91-94 with late life for scouts all spring, touching 96 late in the season (up from 87-91 a year ago). His arm action is clean and at 6'2", 180 scouts believe there's projection for more (and for workhorse durability), but an inconsistent 12-to-6 curve and changeup kept him from sitting in the same pre-draft tier as fellow Florida prep pitchers Karsten Whitson and A.J. Cole - though Cole remains on the board this morning, while Texas made sure Jackson didn't get out of the supplemental first round.
The 18-year-old went 8-0, 0.90 with two saves in 10 starts (including three shutouts) and four relief appearances for Calvary Christian this spring. In 54.2 innings, he scattered 30 hits (.155 opponents' average) and 19 walks while setting 87 hitters down on strikes. He drilled seven hitters and yielded one home run. At the plate, Jackson hit .308/.396/.436 in 78 at-bats, going deep twice and driving in 22 runs. Interestingly, he also committed 12 errors (five on days he pitched).
There's objectively less pressure to convert on this pick since it came in the supplemental first round rather than the first itself, but the last two times Texas has had supplemental firsts, they've turned out to be the key picks from those drafts. Last year, Scheppers keyed the draft class (with first-rounder Matt Purke not signing). In 2007, two of the club's three supplemental firsts - Julio Borbon and Tommy Hunter - have paid off sooner than first-rounders Blake Beavan and Michael Main, predictably so given their relative stages of development when drafted.
Jackson won't fit into either category - he won't follow first-rounders who fail to sign and he's not clearly further along developmentally than the Rangers' top two picks - but there's no reason to assume the Rangers don't have hopes just as high for the one pitcher they took on Monday as for the other three players they selected.
1-Supp (49, pick awarded for loss of Ivan Rodriguez). MIKE OLT, 3B, Univ. of Connecticut (scout: Jay Heafner)
(best number 49 pick in last 25 years: Carlos Beltran [Royals, 1995])
Tremendous raw power and premium defense at third base. Sound familiar?
The Rangers used a second-round pick last year (62nd overall) on Fresno State third baseman Tommy Mendonca, who profiles in much the same way that University of Connecticut third baseman Mike Olt does.
Olt comes to the Rangers having just set UConn's all-time home run record with 44 - eclipsing the 43 that Jason Grabowski, the Rangers' second-round pick in 1997, hit for the Huskies - but it's his defense that Baseball America tabbed as third-best in the draft (at any position) and that Director of Amateur Scouting Kip Fagg wanted to talk about last night: "We feel like [Olt] is a premium defender at third base," said Fagg. "He profiles as a power bat, but his strength is big-time defense."
Texas has spent early picks on third basemen with some regularity the last few years, but Johnny Whittleman (second round, 2005) and Matt West (second round, 2007) and Mendonca have each had their share of struggles. In a system short on productive corner bats, Olt will get a chance to establish himself as a reliable defensive player whose bat will play at third.
Olt played shortstop as a freshman at Connecticut, hitting .318 with 13 home runs and setting a school record with 61 RBI. He was named the top prospect in the New England Collegiate League the following summer and then hit .301 (eight homers and 40 RBI) as a sophomore, missing a third of the season with ankle and wrist injuries. Healthier in 2010, Olt hit .318/.401/.659 with 23 home runs and reestablished the school's season RBI mark with 76.
The 21-year-old has good hands and feet, solid range, and a strong arm from third. There are holes in his right-handed swing - he struck out 54 times in 264 at-bats this season - but the bat speed is there, and scouts believe in his approach at the plate and coachability. It's been a long time since third base was so uniformly thin in the big leagues, and in Olt the Rangers see a player they obviously believe could give them an developmental asset, particularly if he can make more consistent contact and take advantage of his power potential while providing lockdown defense at third.
The second round kicks off at 11:00 this morning, with Texas picking 72nd overall. The club then picks at 103 in the third round, 136 in the fourth round, and every 30 picks thereafter. Today's proceedings will conclude with the 30th round, and the 31st through 50th rounds will take place tomorrow.
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Danny Raye Arnold, 49, of Flintville, died Sunday (Nov. 18, 2012) at Lincoln Medical Center. Mr. Arnold was a native of Lincoln County, the son of the late Fred Raye Arnold and Carolyn Brannon Arnold, who survives. He worked as a gin operator at the Elora Gin. Mr. Arnold is survived by his wife, Linda Arnold of Elora; daughter, Wendy Arnold and Paul Dickey of Huntland; son, Landon Arnold of Flintville; mother, Carolyn Arnold of Elora; brothers, Kenny Arnold of Elora, Doug and Candy Arnold of Fayetteville; nephews, Freddie Arnold, Tyler Arnold, Eli Arnold, Justin Schmidt, Blake Schmidt; great-niece, Brooklyn Arnold. Visitation is set for Tuesday evening from 5 until 8 p.m. at Gallant-Riverview Funeral Home. Funeral services will be conducted on Wednesday at 1 p.m. in the chapel of Gallant-Riverview Funeral Home with Bro. Eddie Graves officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Gallant-Riverview Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Debbie Dunn, 61, of Fayetteville, died Wednesday (Nov. 14, 2012) at her residence. Mrs. Dunn was born Dec. 16, 1950 in Shelbyville to the late Joe Mullins and Juanita Watley Overcast. She worked in the photo lab at Walmart for thirteen years and was a member of Molino Baptist Church. Along with her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband, Bobby Dunn, who passed away in 2008. She is survived by daughter, Nita and Paul Moffett of Murfreesboro; son, Jay Dunn of Wilmington, Del.; step-daughter, Gina Chapman of Manchester; sister, Bobbie and Joe Vetter of Shelbyville; brother, Larry and Kay Overcast of Shelbyville; five grandchildren, Rachael Chapman, Ben Chapman, Heather Moffett, Cherokee Moffett, Helena Dunn; and great-grandchild, William Chapman. Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon in the chapel of Gallant-Riverview Funeral Home with Bro. Cleo Moon officiating. Burial was in Stewarts Cemetery. Gallant-Riverview Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Jean Volney Agee Graham, 88, of Taft, died Sunday (Nov. 11, 2012) at Bailey Manor in Fayetteville. Originally from Lebanon, she was the daughter of the late Guy Marshall and Jessie Lee Frakes Agee. She received her education from Middle Tennessee State Teachers' College and worked for the Agricultural Extension Service as Home Demonstration Agent and later taught Home Economics in public schools. She married the late Frank Edward Graham in 1954 and had five children: Volney Graham (Donna), Helen Graham Bobo (David), Dan Graham, Bob Graham, Barnabas "Barnay" Graham, who all survive. Her grandchildren include Adam, Abby and Alex Graham, Sydney Bobo Hurst (Jake), Landry and Ivey Bobo, Emily and Ben Graham, Matthew, Lucas, Andrea and Andrew Graham; and one great-grandchild, Payton Hurst. She was a longtime member of Taft Church of Christ, where she taught Sunday school for many years. Funeral services were conducted on Wednesday afternoon at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Joe Brown officiating. Burial followed at Blanche Cemetery beside her husband. Higgins Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Joe M. Knott, 101, of Fayetteville, died Monday (Nov. 12, 2012) at Donalson Care Center. He was born on Jan. 9, 1911, in Lincoln County to the late Dan and Robbie Knott. He was an assembly line worker for General Motors. Along with his parents, he was preceded in death by his son, William (Billy) Knott, and brother, Ray Knott. Survivors include his wife, Ida Mae Thomison Knott of Fayetteville; step-sons, Warden (Joann) Thomison of Fayetteville, Robert (Mary Ann) Thomison of Livonia, Mich., William (Clarita) Thomison of Ladson, S.C., Charles (Yolanda) Thomison of Rex, Ga.; four grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; 11 great-great-grandchildren; nine step-grandchildren; 12 step-great- grandchildren; cousins, Katherine Neece, Freddie McKinney, both of Fayetteville; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon in the chapel of Gallant-Riverview Funeral Home with the Rev. Chris Grizzard officiating. Burial followed in Pleasant View Cemetery. Gallant-Riverview Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Ann Marie McNatt, 41, of Prospect, died Monday (Nov. 5, 2012) at her home. A native of Bartow, Fla., she was the daughter of the late William Lloyd McNatt and Mary Ann Cooper McNatt. Funeral services were held Friday at Ardmore Chapel Funeral Home with Bro. Eddie Woodard officiating. Ardmore Chapel Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Justin Brett Nichols, 33, of Ardmore, died Saturday (Nov. 10, 2012) at Alive Hospice in Nashville. Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon with the Rev. Ray Stonecypher officiating. Burial followed in Blanche Cemetery. Ardmore Chapel Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Luther R. Shelton, 89, of Fayetteville, died Monday (Nov. 12, 2012) at his residence. A native of Lincoln County, Mr. Shelton was the son of the late John Robert and Allie Hobbs Shelton. Mr. Shelton was a veteran of the Army, having served in WWII, worked for the Lincoln County Highway Department and was a member of the Lincoln Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife of 65 years, Ernestine Trentham Shelton of Fayetteville; son, Larry R. Shelton of Fayetteville; daughters, Joy Branch and husband, Reagor, Patsy Shelton, all of Fayetteville; grandsons, Mickey Branch and wife, Sarah, of Fayetteville, Ryan Shelton of Nashville; two step-grandsons, Stevie Branch and wife, Yvonne, and Braden Simms; step granddaughters, Lyndsey Bertram and Angela Branch; sister, Jeralene Gilley of Fayetteville; several nieces and nephews; and his beloved dog, Bea. He was preceded in death by brothers, Oliver Shelton, Floyd Shelton, James Shelton and T.A. Shelton, and step-grandson, Reagor Lee Branch. Graveside services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at Lincoln Cemetery with the Rev. Kirk Smith officiating. The family requests that memorial donations be made to the Fayetteville-Lincoln County Animal Shelter. Higgins Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Thomas E. Sullenger, 89, of Phoenix, Ariz., died Thursday (Nov. 8, 2012). Memorial services will be held Saturday afternoon (Nov. 24) in the chapel of Gallant-Riverview Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 1 until 1:30 p.m. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Gallant-Riverview Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
James Cole Sumners, 90, of Blanche, died Thursday (Nov. 15, 2012) at Donalson Care Center in Fayetteville. He was born Sept. 6, 1922, a native of Lincoln County and the son of the late Leon Eli and Clara Mae Cole Sumners. Mr. Sumners was a member of the Blanche United Methodist Church. He made his career in farming and stayed active in his farming operation until his health failed during the last two years. Mr. Sumners also drove a school bus for the Lincoln County School System for 33 years. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, serving during WWII, a former ASCD County Committeeman, loan committee member with Farmers Home Administration and a past director in the Lincoln Farmers Co-op. Tending his cattle, reminiscing about the past and telling stories about his boyhood days growing up in Coldwater were some of his favorite activities. In addition to his parents, Mr. Sumners preceded in death by his wife, Sarah Opal Whitt Sumners, and a younger brother, Ray Sumners. He is survived by two brothers, Thomas Wilburn Sumners of Fayetteville and Marcus Neal Sumners of Hendersonville; four sons, James C. Sumners, Jr., (Marianna), Danny R. Sumners (Teresa), Donny M. Sumners (Jackie), all of Blanche, and Benny J. Sumners (Kathy) of Toney, Ala.; two grandchildren, Faith Sumners Hayes of Murfreesboro and Jonathan Sumners of Fayetteville; four step-grandchildren, Stephen, Gary and Jason Turner and Dana Wright; six step-grandchildren; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at Higgins Funeral Home with the Rev. William Moede officiating. Burial followed in Blanche Cemetery beside his wife, Sarah Opal Whitt Sumners. Memorials may be made to the Blanche United Methodist Church Building Fund. Higgins Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Wanda Faye Hicklen Thompson, 65, of Madison, formerly of Fayetteville, died Saturday (Nov. 17, 2012) at her residence. A native of Lincoln County, she was the daughter of the late Clifton and Lucille Whitt Hicklen. She was a homemaker and a member of the Madison Church of Christ. Survivors include her husband, Clyde Edward Thompson of Madison; a step-daughter, Gwen Huskey of Nashville; sisters, Betty Wright, Brenda Laten and husband, Marlon, and Doris McAlister and husband, Harold. Visitation will be held today Wednesday from 11 a.m. until noon at Higgins Funeral Home followed by graveside services at 1 p.m. at Gatlin Cemetery. Higgins Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Honduras Thrasher of Belvidere died Saturday (Nov. 3, 2012) after an extended illness. He was 82. Mr. Thrasher was born Aug. 14, 1930, and was a veteran of the Korean War. He was the son of Gurley L. and Bessie L. (Hendrix) Thrasher of Belvidere. Honduras is survived by his wife of 59 years, Lorene (Benson) Thrasher; two children, Randall Thrasher and Rebecca Thrasher (Lyndon) Haston, all of Belvidere; a sister Henrietta (Charles) Dillon from Smyrna; grandsons, Aaron G. (Maranda) Thrasher of Spanaway, Wash., and R. Cain (Cherry) Thrasher of Belvidere; nieces, LeAnne Langston Rice of Hermitage and Shannon Langston Alford of Lebanon; nephews, Roy Wayne Whitworth of Gurley, Ala., Roger Whitworth of Park City and Johnny Whitworth of Fayetteville; great-granddaughter, Arabella R. Thrasher of Spanaway. He was preceded by his parents; sister, Martha Anders; niece, Stacye Langston; nephew, Allen Whitworth; and stepmothers, Luverl Steelman Thrasher and Vinnie Bates Thrasher. Honduras had an over 40-year career as a milk truck driver for many Middle Tennessee dairy companies. He treasured time spent with family and had a love for farming and being outdoors in the country. Funeral services were held Wednesday (Nov. 7) at Moore-Cortner Funeral Home with burial in Walnut Grove Cemetery at the Walnut Grove United Methodist Church in Belvidere where he was a member for many years. Arrangements by Moore-Cortner Funeral Home.


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THE thought of playing on to next year's Ashes filled Mike Hussey - heartbeat of the Australian batting order and custodian of the team song - with dread, not excitement. That's when he knew it was time to go.
Hussey told captain Michael Clarke and coach Mickey Arthur on Friday night of his decision to leave international cricket, on his own terms and on top, after the Sydney Test against Sri Lanka.
He led the team in a beer-soaked rendition of ''Beneath the Southern Cross I stand, a sprig of wattle in my hand'' - a duty he inherited from Justin Langer - in the middle of the MCG hours after Australia took an unassailable series lead.
The 37-year-old wants to belt it out one more time at the SCG, but feels completely comfortable about turning his back on tours of England and India after a challenging year during which the demands of touring took a toll.
Hussey has four children under eight including six-month-old Oscar, who was born prematurely last winter. Though his sudden retirement leaves a huge hole in Australia's Ashes plans, it will bring personal contentment. ''The last away trip, just the volume of time that you're actually away, it gets harder and harder, really. Instead of looking forward to the tour of India and being excited by an Ashes series, I was dreading it. If you're not 100 per cent in it, you shouldn't be there, you're probably just going to let the team down. That was the clincher … I'm very comfortable with the decision,'' Hussey said.
''The last two away tours in particular have been quite brutal. We really struggled through a 3½-month stint and then the next one was 3½ months away. The next stint was going to be 6½ months away and I just really don't want to do that.''
On Saturday, Hussey contacted his teammates individually to share the news, which came as a shock on account of his 475 runs this summer at 79.16, with three centuries.
It comes less than a month after the retirement of Ricky Ponting.
Hussey expressed pride at having forged a late but stunning Test career that has spanned 78 Tests and produced 6183 runs at an average of 51.52, just a tick below Ponting's.
''I feel really happy, actually. I feel like I've been able to accomplish way more than I ever dreamed of, so I can walk away not feeling like I've got to do something more or prove anything else to myself.
''It does feel good, to know I'm still in the team and not have that horrible feeling of not playing very well or thinking that you're going to be left out. I'm lucky in that respect. Not many people get to go out on their own terms.''
Hussey, who has spoken of a desire to captain his home state of Western Australia, will relax for his Sydney farewell. ''The last time playing in a Boxing Day Test is pretty special and waving to the crowd afterwards, I thought I'm going to miss this. But I'm looking forward to when it's all done … no more having that sick feeling in my stomach before I go out and bat.''


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FOXBOROUGH — Outlandish and outspoken, Terrell Suggs kept bellowing over and over again "And the Ravens . . . are going to the Super Bowl!'' for everyone to hear in the visitors' locker room at Gillette Stadium following Baltimore's 28-13 victory over the Patriots in Sunday night's AFC Championship game.
Suggs kept up his refrain, shouting it over the top of the exuberant din.
It was in keeping with his over-the-top and in-your-face persona, more of which was on display immediately after the game when he bounded into the locker room and bid the Patriots adieu by shouting, "Tell them to have fun at the Pro Bowl! Shut them out in the second half! Arrogant [expletive]!''
Yet once the bluster of Suggs's initial outburst had subsided, the man dubbed "T-Sizzle'' simmered down and took a surprising turn when he paid Tom Brady and the Patriots, the team that had defeated the Ravens' in last year's AFC Championship, "the utmost respect''.
"What would this league be like without 12 and the New England Patriots?'' Suggs said. "People don't like them because they win, they're a great team, and they have every right to be who they are.
"We respect the rivalry, and it's heated, but even enemies can show respect in times of war. Had it been any other team in this championship, both teams would've probably won by a landslide. But these two teams, we had to play each other.''
And that is precisely why there had been such an emotional initial reaction from Suggs and his teammates right after the win.
As he sat in his locker, peeling away the layers of armor, Suggs had kept up pumping up the volume on his monologue.
"Shut out in the second half! In Foxborough!'' he had said, reciting the Ravens' impressive accomplishment to Ray Lewis, the retiring veteran linebacker and emotional leader of Baltimore's defense.
"Oh my God, oh my God,'' came Lewis's reply, as he undressed at his locker and shook his head in disbelief.
Suggs began drawing a crowd of reporters to his locker.
"My wife told me we were going to win by 10 points,'' he said. "She was just 5 points short. She kept telling me, 'Babe, quit worrying about it, quit watching all the damn film, come to bed. Y'all going to win by 10 points.' I was like, 'Ah, I got to watch more film because this woman doesn't know what she's talking about.' ''
Suggs had continued to run down the Patriots.
"Since Spygate they just can't seem to get it done,'' he said. "Who would've known that? That's crazy, though. They just gave them $500,000 fine, but they almost lynched [Saints coach] Sean Payton.''
But when Suggs had removed his gear, he struck a different, more respectful tone.
His voice wasn't booming now.
His words weren't as cutting.
He had put a cease-fire on his Angry Bird act.
"All b.s. aside, all ego and arrogance aside, that is one . . . hell . . . of . . . a ballclub,'' Suggs said. "I mean, you got to play perfect to beat 'em, and we did damn near just that to win this game.''
Suggs paused to let his words hit home.
"I'm speaking to you like with so much humility, because it's a great victory for the City of Baltimore and the Ravens,'' he said. "If we went through somebody else, it wouldn't have been the same. Yeah, it is a rivalry between us and them, and me and 12, but like I said, even enemies can show respect.
"And they get the utmost.''
Asked if he ever caught up to Brady after the game on the field, Suggs said he did not.
"I was too busy looking for my wife and I was too busy celebrating with my fans,'' Suggs said. "But like I said, against any other team, this win [wouldn't have been as sweet], especially how the game last year ended, and who 12 is, who their head coach is, and who their owner is.
"You'll never get another battle like this for 20 years between two teams in the AFC Championship. So we have the utmost respect for them.''Michael Vega can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Blackburn boss Gary Bowyer has confirmed that talks between the club and Aston Villa midfielder Barry Bannan have broken down.
Despite having a bid accepted for the 23-year-old, Rovers have reportedly struggled to agree personal terms with the Scotland international.
"We had a bid and that was accepted, but we've not continued talks at this present moment in time," Bowyer told the Lancashire Telegraph.
"We're exploring all options, there might be a chance it might happen, if not we have to be prepared for it not happening.
"We've just got to keep as many plates spinning at the moment as we possibly can. We have a massive list and we're exploring all avenues at this moment but we are hopeful of bringing in certainly one or maybe two more."


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Cape Coral police detectives are working a couple of grand theft cases involving a man, officials reported.
The man entered the Walmart, at 1619 Del Prado Blvd. S., loaded three DVR systems onto a cart and left the store without paying. The stolen items are valued at approximately $1,038.65.
He met up with another man, loaded the items into a early 2000's light-colored Chevrolet Impala and left.
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Authorities are asking for the public's help in identifying the pictured man, who is sought in connection to some store thefts.
On another occasion, the same man entered the same store and left with a big screen television.
Lee County Sheriff's Office detectives are also working a case with the same man.
Anyone with information on the identity of the man is asked to contact the Cape Coral Police Department at (239) 574-3223. You can also submit an anonymous tip at: www.capecops.com/web-tips or by texting "CCPD plus your message" to CRIMES (274637). People can also contact Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers at (800) 780-TIPS.
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Print this FREE 60-day Trial Membership pass and take it to your local BJ's Wholesale Club to activate it.
Good for new members only and must be activated by 12/31/12.
I'm more than a teensy bit jealous of those of you that get to take advantage of this because BJ's accepts all manufacturer's coupons! Plus, in addition to accepting manufacturers' coupons, BJ's also issues its own coupons—a huge incentive to becoming a member. Shoppers can combine both types of coupons— such as when purchasing a shrink-wrapped multi-pack of "individual for sale" packaged items like a three-pack of toothpaste. Sadly there aren't any locations close to me.


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Cashman says he regrets A-Rod comment
NEW YORK (AP) -- Brian Cashman says he regrets the words he used in an angry response to Alex Rodriguez's injury update on Twitter, but the New York Yankees general manager insists the team wants a healthy A-Rod back at third base as soon as possible.
Cashman says owner Hal Steinbrenner told him he spoke withRodriguez on Wednesday in Tampa, Fla., and reiterated that injury information should be announced by the team, not individual players on social media.
Cashman says Rodriguez did not get back to him after he tried to contact the slugger Tuesday night.
The star third baseman tweeted Tuesday evening that his hip surgeon had cleared him to play in rehabilitation games, a move that angered Cashman because Rodriguez has not been cleared by team doctors yet. Cashman told ESPNNewYork.com that ''Alex should just shut ... up,'' punctuating his comment with a profanity.
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Last night while doing the figure 8 in class the furry something-or-other went after Ruby. She wouldn't get near it again, and woudn't approach the Sheltie either. Lovely. She was very hesitant to go anywhere the Golden either - and we have a loooong history of fear of Goldens.
Unlike the class that Riggs is in, the guy that teaches Ruby's class (though funny/annoying) is a trainer. The German Shepherd went after him three different times during class and he just told the handler to come early next week to work on problem. The poor woman was near tears over the way the dog was behaving.
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"Stand Your Gound" law in Florida
"Stand Your Gound" law in Florida
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I wasn't sure whether or not to put this in the "Gun Control" topic or not so i just decided to make my own topic on it but anyway the "Stand Your Ground" law means that if you feel threatened you have the right to use force or deadly force. Now i support this law to an extent. On one hand it's good to have so people will watch what they say and thus will make for nicer people because think of it, would you want to cock off to someone and have them beat you up or worse yet blow your fucking head off, I think not. Now on the other hand it has the possiblity to produce some nut cases who will go around blowing people away for no reason and using the "I felt threatened" defense. What is your stance on this new law in Florida.
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Trat (ตราด) is the capital city of Trat Province, Eastern Thailand.
Trat is the capital of Trat Province, located on the Cambodian border in Southeastern Thailand. Most travellers will use Trat as an access point to Ko Chang island.
Get in
By plane
Tiny Trat Airport (TDX) is served only by Bangkok Airways from Bangkok. Alternatively (and much cheaper), a 1st class bus service connects Trat directly with Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK).
By bus
Buses to Trat depart from Bangkok's Eastern (Ekamai) and Northern (Moh Chit) Bus Terminals (5 hours). From Ekamai buses run frequently throughout the day with the evening bus schedule less frequent at 17:30, 19:00 and then an overnight bus at 24:00. 1st Class is around ฿240 and the government-run bus has a nice 2nd class (air-con but no toilet) for 188 baht.
If attempting to go to the border with Cambodia and continue onward to Phnom Penh via one of the regular Cambodian bus services the same day, it is advisable to take one of the overnight buses from Bangkok to Trat. The overnight buses will arrive at the Trat bus depot very early in the morning and you can then catch the first morning mini-bus from the Trat bus depot to the border post itself.
The regular Cambodian buses that leave Koh Kong for Phnom Penh depart Koh Kong around 08:00, so in order to catch the bus you do need to be across the border when it first opens in the morning or shortly thereafter. Taking a mid-day bus from Bangkok does ultimately put you into Koh Kong either too late to cross the border (border is not a 24-hour operation) the same day or too late to catch the bus onward to Phnom Penh. In these cases you will have to spend the night in a hotel on the Thai or Cambodian side before moving onward.
To go straight out to the border by minivan costs(~120 baht) to cross over to Koh Kong
Regular connections from Chanthaburi and other provincial capitals are also available from the Trat bus depot.
On the east side of the main market building is the local share-taxi departure area, you can't miss the blue cars and pick-ups. Departures toward most provincial villages leave when the vehicle is full, including those to Haad Lek. Connections from there are available onward to the Cambodian border and Koh Kong.
Get around
The town is sufficiently small to make walking the best mode of transport, although there is little to do besides explore the small streets and relax. If needed, a motorbike taxi will take you just about anywhere in town, including to the bus terminal, 20 baht.
Trat can be a starting point for a motorcycle trip to Ko Chang. Rentals of Honda and Yamaha motorbikes, in good condition, can be hired at the shop on Sukhumvit south of the market area (~200 baht). Drive south along Sukhumvit for about 45 minutes, and follow signs for the ferry quay. Be sure to top up with petrol before taking the ferry, as fuel prices on the island are rather high. Also, caution is required when driving on the island as the roads, although in excellent condition, are steep and winding, extremely so in some instances. (Furthermore, if bringing your motorbike on the ferry you have no choice but to immediately go over the most dangerous hill, since it lies between the ferry piers and all the beaches. Carrying maps of Ko Chang and Trat province is advisable, as the routes are not always clear.
Cycle around the scenic lake which is just a few minutes cycle away from Trat town centre. Its about 10 km around the lake and is scenic the whole way around. There are a few places to eat and drink as well. Hire a bicycle from Tattoo Guesthouse opposite Pop Guesthouse for 50 baht for all day. Use the bike also to go shopping at the huge Tesco Lotus supermarket on the edge of town. It has an excellent pharmacy. Unfortunately there is no Aeon Bank ATM here like other Tesco locations around the country, as theirs is the only ATM that is free to use. All others have a fee of 150 baht.
Have a 2 hour kick boxing lesson in the ring, at Tattoo Guesthouse.
Resident expats have set up a few used bookshops which provide English and German books at fair prices. They can be found in the small streets south of the central market.
Trat offers some of the best value hotels and guesthouses in Thailand.
Travel a bit further down the side streets south of the market off the main road (Sukhumvit) to find the guesthouse area with more choices and a bit more character.
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OKOLONA Authorities say a man was found dead after a house fire in Clark County.
Authorities say the fire broke out Monday night at a home on Arkansas 53.
Clark County Sheriff Jason Watson told the Daily Siftings Herald that passersby called authorities after seeing smoke coming from the split-level home.
Firefighters from the Gurdon, Okolona and Hollywood departments responded to the blaze.
Okolona firefighter Jim Cox, who also serves as the town's mayor, said the smoke and steam from the blaze was intense.
Cox said the home's basement "acted like a fire pit," which made the fire difficult to extinguish.
The victim's name hasn't been released. Authorities have not yet determined the cause of the fire.
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ECMA Script 3.11 for workgroups.
The joke works this time !
ECMA Script 3.11 for workgroups.
The joke works this time !
Dude, that joke is so 1993!
The current version is going from 4.0 to 3.5.9
It's not dead. There will eventually be a Fourth Edition of ECMAScript, it just isn't the focus now. The ES4 proposal wasn't ever enshrined as the actual Fourth Edition either.
I was really skeptical about the concessions made by the ES4 side before I listened to some of their rationale; it wasn't so much concessions to the 3.1 side, it was that the things they were dropping didn't adequately solve the problems they were put in to solve.
There's a great talk about it here: http://openwebpodcast.com/episode-2-brendan-eich-and-arun-ranganathan-on-ecmascript-harmony [openwebpodcast.com]
And it wants to go for a walk.
And notice that the adoption of scripting of web pages are slow in order to allow the web pages to be useful even on older browsers.
Most of the functionality in JavaScript 1.5 is sufficient for what you normally want to do.
The only problem is that JavaScript/ECMAScript from a language point of view isn't really good. A strongly statically typed script language would have been better since it would have allowed the developers to catch a lot of bugs that now occasionally blows up in the face of the users.
The only problem is that JavaScript/ECMAScript from a language point of view isn't really good. A strongly statically typed script language would have been better since it would have allowed the developers to catch a lot of bugs that now occasionally blows up in the face of the users.
That would be the worst possible thing to happen to Javascript. I know, I know... let's not get into a religious war over static/dynamic typing. There are valid points for each in different contexts, but a language in Javascript's problem domain is probably one of the worst contexts for static typing.
Keeping the language small, clean and simple should be the priorities. If you want Java in the browser, well... that's already available.
Original post says
abandoned the proposed ECMAScript 4.0 language specification in favor of a more limited specification dubbed 'Harmony,' or ECMAScript 3.1.
That is wrong, ES3.1 is the smaller increment and repair of the current third standard, and "Harmony" is new features beyond that. Doug Crockford, who seemed opposed to much of ES4, wrote:
Some of the features that were in ES4 were reasonable, so a new project, called Harmony, is starting which will look at adapting the best of ES4 on top of
It is good to see the standards committee taking a breather from major new features, and instead focusing upon the alignment of behavior of functionality across the various browsers.
Hopefully, there will be a robust and rigorous compliance test suite as a deliverable of this standards process.
I would disagree (to some degree) that more features are in fact needed. For example, E4X (and a native XML doc object) being standardized in the browsers would be a huge benefit.
That being said, I think that a lot of the feature bloat going into the proposed v4 was really not all that great. I think this is generally a step in the right direction.
Perhaps add in a few fixes for annoying parts of the language and similar, but overall if it's just made to be consistent across browsers, that would go a long ways.
YES! But the next revision...
1) They NEED to release a long list of test cases that can be run against implementations.
2) How about having toString() output JSON? (at least specify exactly what it should output.)
If anything new:
Access methods for Object():
Allows a function to monitor read/write/exec of an object's properties (EXTREMELY useful for client side patching of implementation bugs.)
A Console object loosely modeled after FireBug with a focus on unit testing. Implementation optional; b
With the exception of a few later-added methods (on Array for example), that's already there. The inconsistency is in the DOM, and that's not something ECMA covers.
I think Internet Explorer and Opera were the two I had trouble with, while Firefox and Safari worked fine.
> What is needed in the JavaScript world is not more
> features, but more consistency of implementation
> across the various browsers.
While I agree with you about the need for greater consistency of implementation, I don't expect that will ever happen. Microsoft does not want that to happen; and will do all it can to prevent cross-platform and cross-browser adherence to agreed standards where those standards will reduce its monopoly position - even to the extent of hijacking standardisation processes
I invite everyone to read Douglas Crockford's latest post on the YUI blog entitled: The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Premature Standardization [yuiblog.com]
He gives some insight into how ES4 got to where it is today and its impact on standards in general
This was the sentence of Crockford's post that really leapt out at me:
It went off the rails when people started to just make new stuff up.
That's generally true of standards committees. When they're documenting existing practices and seeking consensus and convergence between them, they're in their element. When they decide they can start inventing, rather than consolidating, they lose the plot altogether...
That line was about HTML5, which is absolutely ridiculous. The things that the WHATWG and W3C have added to the HTML5 proposal are one or both of the following:
- formalized semantics already informally in use as classes and ids (like the section and nav tags);
- behaviors already in use, drastically simplified (like Web Forms 2.0).
They didn't really "just make new stuff up", they're making the language and environment much more powerful, with real world use in mind. Both types of feature additions make devel
That line was about HTML 5
If you disagree with Crockford's opinions, the appropriate person to argue with is Crockford. I pulled out a quote to make a general point, one with which Crockford might not even agree, yet you don't seem to be too interested in talking to me.
Rest assured, the feeling is mutual.
Long live ECMAscript 5.0!
Such a damn shame to let ECMAScript edition 4 go in this way.
The small shame is for Adobe's efforts, who entered the ECMA standards body to contribute, donated the entire engine to Mozilla and plenty of other efforts to get this going. But AS3/Flash will not be affected in a big way from this.
The web community as a whole will be. That's where the big shame is: for all of us, web developers. I see that packages, namespaces, classes and early binding are out, likely forever.
Classes are not "sugar", we do need those paradigms when creating bigger applications, because they are more rigid, more readable, more maintainable, understandable. I love lambdas, prototypes and all that, but that's the lower level, the implementation inside a class, inside a package. Those are not interchangable paradigms.
The reasoning behind dropping all constructs appears to be the preconceived notion that JavaScript must exist in the form of disparate text files loosely connected to each other, something that doesn't scale to bigger efforts at all (and which makes Flash much more viable for such deployment), hence packages and early binding are out. What a mistake.
Who's to say we won't see JAR-like environment where bigger libraries can be compressed together, and some preprocessing can be done to ease the load on the client CPU/bandwidth? I've been praying we get such deployment option soon as a modern web application typically has to download a ton of CSS/JS/image files to build an average GUI nowadays. Why isn't this the focus of ECMA's efforts, but instead the focus is to maintain the status quo and reject us basics that have proven themselves in time to work well in all environments out there.
If you doubt this would work, look no further than Java/Flash applets distributed over the web in this fashion (and Flash is very widely used nowadays).
What ECMA has achieved with their decision, is to basically stagnate the browser environment, and empower third-party cross-browser plugins to eat more from the advanced web application market share, because Adobe's Flash, Microsoft's Silverlight are not even thinking of dropping their mature OOP features, just because ECMA said we don't need them.
With a good build/deployment script you can combine all of your CSS and JS files together, giving the advantage of better compression and less HTTP requests. If you have it set up in that way, you can split your script into as many files as you want.
Images are a bit different, you can't do much outside of spriting where you can.
This is not to say a JAR equivalent wouldn't be preferred, just that there are things you can do today.
You could actually incorporate a sprite building tool into a build/deployment script.
That would be a very nice addition to any JS UI toolkit.
It would take all the images (assuming they are of the same type...PNG gets my vote) and put them into a large image sprite... while adjusting all CSS and JS to use the new image.
Not an easy task i think... but interesting from an optimization POV anyways.
Classes are syntatic sugar. That's what the working group found, when it discovered that most class-centric features can be boiled down to simpler APIs such as
ES-Harmony is about standardizing new features that already work in (three out of four) major browsers, without changing the syntax of the language. Brendan Eich of Moz
Seriously, RTFA.
This thread's title is totally misleading. In fact, the summary is wrong. ES Harmony is NOT ES3.1. And of course, there's the anti-MS slant as usual, but no mention of Yahoo, which was also against ES4. Good ol'
So just in case you're too lazy to read the article, here's a quick summary:
ES Harmony is just an ES4 that the ES 3.1 guys agreed to work on after ES3.1 is out the door, while the ES4 guys agreed to work together with the ES3.1 guys on ES3.1. So ES Harmony (which could be ES4 o
I've played around a bit with AS3, and what I've found so far are a lot more annoyances than any useful additions. More importantly, it is not compatible with JS 1.5. In my experience so far, classes are only really "necessary" in so far as people whose first experience with OOP was C++/Java/C# don't seem to be willing to learn anything else. I've worked on many large projects written in JavaScript, and while there are a lot of annoyances that appear in JavaScript in large applications, all of them are e
here is a vision of the future where different browsers use different script languages
its as if internet explorer never decided to support javascript in the mid1990s but still gained massive market share, forcing us in the industry to code for sites in javascript and vbscript
and this should not surprise anyone. Cross platform technologies are a threat to Windows and since over 80% of Microsofts profits come from Windows, cross platform technologies are a threat to them. So don't wonder why Microsoft keeps pushing stuff which only works on Windows or pushes for things which slow down adaption for open standards.
Oh well; Microsoft scores one here, considering that Silverlight 2.0 will be scriptable using Python and Ruby out of the box.
By the way, the whole fuss about MS being behind this is pretty stupid and unfounded. MS was actually one to jump on the ES4 bandwagon early, along with Adobe - their early implementation of it was called JScript.NET, first released in 2002 with
I agree that packages are not generally useful for the web, but why not keep it as a language feature. Mandate that a parser accept it, but perhaps only mandate that core packages be supported, and that an implementation does not need to provide a means to add additional packages.
I really don't understand the AS 3.0's "namespace" feature. That looks like access specifiers to me.
The packages feature sounds more like C++'s namespaces to me. (Although C++ classes are also (effectively) namespaces, to the point
Although JavaScript is not very good as an application language, it can do some really neat things which makes it very interesting to language nerds which is why it is so popular.
One thing is that functions are also objects which means they can be returned and taken as parameters by other functions. This is called lambda coding. Function pointers do not allow you do to quite the same thing since they can't be dynamically generated and modified. It makes certain kinds of mathematical programming very easy
In my case, I really didn't START to like Javascript until I began to read up on it's functional capabilities.
I think you are confusing a few things. Lambda calculus is a simple universal model of computing invented by Church. A lambda expression can reference variables explicitly inside its scope ('bound') or outside ('unbound'). By performing a beta reduction, you explicitly bind a variable in a lambda expression. This is what the lambda operation in Lisp does.
It sounds like you are confusing the fact that functions are objects, and the fact that functions are closures. The fact that they are objects lets
I think I get what you're saying but the difference between function having closures and functions being objects, but I just intended to point out that unlike JavaScript, Java, C, and C++ don't allow first class functions (which I refer to as lambda functions) though they do allow first class objects and function pointers though
First class functions and Lambda functions in Lamda calculus are the same thing. I also used the calculation of a derivative using a lambda function as an example which is something
I'd love to see Haxe ( http://www.haxe.org/ [haxe.org] ) supersede Ecmascript.
All laws are simulations of reality. -- John C. Lilly


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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
* Shrinky Dink Fun: Homemade Stuffed Animal Name Tags
I've mentioned before that "C" has a thing for cats.
Her collection of stuffed kitties (and a few random dogs)
is getting out of control -- I think I counted 24 stuffed cats after Christmas.
Right now, she wants to "play kitties" morning, noon, and night.
Her big sister, "E" is kind enough to play with her
most of the time but my husband, my mom and dad,
my mother in law, our baby sitter, and myself
have all played our fair share of "kitties" lately.
The thing is, all of the cats have names (and personalities).
And we're supposed to remember them.
I have a hard enough time remembering what time
I have to be at the bus stop and in car-line and on what days
So, here was my "use what we have" solution to the stuffed animal name game.
We made collars and name tags for each animal with
shrinky dinks we had in the art studio and ribbon collars.
Just follow the directions on the package - we used the opaque kind with sharpies.
First, I cut out circles with a big circle craft punch in the Shrinky Dink Film
and punched a small hole in the top of each one with a regular hole punch.
Then, "C" drew pictures on one side and I wrote the names she dictated on the other.
"C" working on her favorite pink kitty "Rosie"s tag.
The tags fresh out of the oven.
Kitties modeling their new collars and tags in their "Kitty House" in "C"s room!
Time to play cats!
pink and green mama, MaryLea
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Serving in an elected position in the Kenai Peninsula Borough is not glamorous or exciting. Indeed, many of the positions on the various service areas remain vacant or have only one person on the ballot. This has led to discussions by some to eliminate voting for services area seats and give the power to the Borough Mayor to appoint all of the service areas (see KPB ordinance 2012-07). Some people have complained that the service area boards have no say in the operation of the service area and serve only as advisors to the administration. This view was solidified in late 2010 and early 2011 when the language that formed the Anchor Point Fire and Emergency Service Area, approved and voted on by the people over 25 years ago, was changed to remove the limited autonomy that it had once enjoyed and was relegated to the advisory role mandated by the Administration and the Assembly. I believe the elected service area boards should remain and have the ability to manage their organizations as independently as possible.
This type of big brother or government knows best attitude has also been demonstrated in a series of progressive steps initially directed at protecting fish habitat on portions of the Kenai River in 1996. These regulations that, according to the assembly, "may unduly restrict development rights" were expanded on in 2000 by applying the one size fits all approach to an additional 10 tributaries of the Kenai River and 14 other streams. Fearing that they had not regulated nearly enough of the property owners in the borough or sent enough traffic into the Kenai River Center for permits, last year the assembly decided to apply these Kenai River standards to "all anadromous waterbodies within the municipal boundaries of the Kenai Peninsula Borough".
I am as concerned as anyone in protecting fish habitat. My livelihood depends on strong returns as our business caters to sport and commercial fishermen throughout the year. But concern cannot win out over common sense. In addition to my concern over applying the same standards to Caribou Lake and Fox Creek that were designed for the Kenai River in 1996, I also refuse to support the expansion of the Borough government into a local chapter of the Department of Environmental Conservation or the Environmental Protection Agency. Once we decide that this is a legitimate purpose for our Borough government there will be no end to the expansion. An air quality standard for your wood burning stove to combat global climate change comes to mind.
If you want a Borough Assembly person that is interested in expanding the role of the Borough, that will tell you what you can do with your property and then increase the taxes and fees they charge you on that property, then I don't want your vote. I you want somebody that will stand up for the property owner and the tax payer, someone who thinks the Borough should focus on providing quality schools, waste management, and giving power back to the people, then vote for Jesse Clutts on October 2nd.


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Linux-Based Musical Keyboard Workstation Debuts 184
Henry G. writes "Lionstracs of Italy has released the Mediastation X-76 music workstation. It runs Red Hat and KDE 3.1. The base model features a 1.67 Ghz Athlon, 512MB RAM, 80GB HD, CDRW/DVD-ROM, 8.2" LCD, and a host of other things. Full specs can be found here and pictures can be found here. To this submitter, it looks more like a keyboardized computer than a computerized keyboard."


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New groundhog postmark available at post office
Visitors may have departed until next Groundhog Day, but everyone will continue to be reminded that Punxsutawney remains the Weather Capital of the World, thanks to Punxsy Phil and the post office.
As Groundhog Day arrived this year, so did a new groundhog postmark. In a contest seeking submissions last year, the winner is Sandy Zambory, who submitted two drawings to the Punxsutawney Area Chamber of Commerce, which were then forwarded to the post office.
Zambory has had a long love for art, after the experience she had in junior high when she began taking various art classes. She soon found that this was a hobby in which she excelled and took much pleasure.
Last year, Zambory, a member of the Punxsutawney Arts Association Inc., received a letter from the Chamber announcing to all club members that there would be a contest seeking line drawings for the proposed Groundhog Day postmark.
While Zambory knew she was going to enter the contest, inspiration — a groundhog, of course — wandered into her driveway. Once she snapped pictures of the groundhog, she soon began to draw.
After a few hours, Zambory presented her drawings to her family, who then picked the two best to submit. She later submitted her line-drawings of single groundhogs, one in cartoon form.
After the drawings were submitted, ballots appeared in The Spirit for all to cut and submit to the post office or Chamber of Commerce to vote for the best postmark.
Zambory has also designed three "Phantastic Phils!" in and around Punxsutawney.
At Gobbler's Knob during Groundhog Day last week, Zambory appeared with Punxsy Postmaster, John McBee in announcing the new postmark, which is available every day to all who stop by the Punxsutawney Post Office.