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Cliff Barrows has quite a few birthday memories. But as he celebrates 91 years on Sunday, he can point out one favorite.
It was on his 72nd birthday that Barrows proposed to his wife, Ann.
"Oh boy, talk about a happy birthday!" he said. "I just couldn't wait to tell everybody that this was my wonderful gift from God."
After his first wife Billie lost her battle with cancer, Barrows said he "prayed for someone to be to me what I needed to have."
He remembers meditating on Psalm 30:11 for some time when Ann, who'd also lost her husband to cancer, came along.
"We were both very grateful that God would give us an opportunity to see that there was grace to love again, even at our age," Ann said.
United in Service
The trio of Barrows, Billy Graham and the late George Beverly Shea are a constant memory of those who have followed Mr. Graham's ministry over the years. With his arms and mouth open wide, Barrows would direct the musical selections at each Crusade, while George Beverly Shea's deep voice boomed throughout arena after arena.
"All three of these men, they're such awesome men because of God," Ann said. "There was never that spirit of competition between them. It was always, 'how can I help you. How can I make you look good?' "
That was evidenced just last November as hundreds gathered to honor Billy Graham on his 95th birthday. After entering the room to a standing ovation, Graham took the microphone only to say one thing:
"Cliff, I want to thank you. This celebration is partly for you as well, and I want to thank you for all you've meant to me over these years. God bless you, and I love you."
In addition to Crusades, the two worked together for the Hour of Decision radio program, which Barrows has hosted since it started in 1950.
"I thank God for my relationship with Billy. He does my heart so much good. I think about him and pray for him constantly," Barrows said.
Keeping God Close
The show rarely stopped when birthdays came up on the road.
"We spent them doing the work we were called to do. We never took a day off," Barrows said.
He does recall one birthday while preparing for a Crusade in Scotland.
"Billy knew I wanted some bagpipes. I wanted to learn to play," Barrows said.
So Billy Graham sent his assistant Paul Maddox on a mission to buy a pair. Little did he know, Maddox would get the best bagpipes in town.
"When Billy saw the bill, he said, 'Man, I didn't mean one that good!' " Barrows chuckled. "I could wake up the neighborhood with those pipes."
Barrows grew up on a farm in Ceres, Calif., and came to Christ at the age of 10 after his pastor preached on John 3:16.
"I got up from my pew and went and gave my hand to the preacher and my heart to the Savior. And I've never been the same since."
These days, Barrows can still carry a tune, even blowing a song or two on the harmonica. His humble spirit and love for God many have encountered over the years is something Ann says is very genuine.
"It's not a performance-based relationship that he has with Christ. It is a real and living relationship," she explained.
For decades, Barrows has been committed to memorizing Scripture, and after losing his sight to macular degeneration, that's his biggest advice for any believer.
"I would ask everybody at whatever age to begin to hide the Word of God in your heart," he said. "Make a book your specialty."
Currently, Barrows is working on 1 John and 1 Peter. He's also memorized his favorite verse, Philippians 3:10, in the Amplified version and quotes it often: [For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope].
His words now to a younger Cliff Barrows:
"Seek God's guidance and direction in your life. 'Thy Word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee.' "


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Global Economic Crisis and HIV
July 6, 2009
A joint Word Bank/UNAIDS report looks at the potential impact of the global financial crisis on HIV prevention and treatment programmes worldwide. Using data collected in March 2009 from 71 countries, the analysis looks at how the crisis could affect the nearly 4 million people living with HIV on treatment, and the 7 million who need treatment but don't have access to it, and proposes some appropriate responses. The potential effects on prevention activities were also investigated. The report suggests that the well-being of millions of people could be put at risk.
The financial crisis started in the most-developed economies, but its impact has been felt in virtually all nations, leading to fears that donor assistance will remain flat or be cut, the budgetary revenues of developing countries will fall and worker remittances will decline. Many households may experience increased mortality and morbidity if the commitments made by the international community to sustain and increase access to antiretroviral treatment are not honoured and/or government expenditures on AIDS are reduced.
The report notes that an important lesson learned during previous crises is that cuts in core social development spending have long-term negative effects. Responding to fiscal pressures by reducing spending on HIV will reverse recent gains and require high-cost offsetting measures over the longer term.
Treatment at Risk
At present, nearly 4 million people are on antiretroviral treatment in the countries surveyed. Many more, however, would benefit if treatment were made available to them. Combination antiretroviral treatment, typically three drugs taken daily, suppresses levels of HIV (the 'viral load') in the blood to undetectable levels and halts progressive damage to the body's immune system. By taking the drugs as prescribed, people living with HIV can stay healthy, well and productive. However, if there are interruptions in taking the drugs, for example because of cutbacks in funding for AIDS treatment programmes, HIV replication is no longer suppressed and life-threatening conditions will develop, drug resistance will increase and there will be an increased potential for HIV transmission.
The report describes how respondents in 11% of the countries surveyed (home to 427,000 people on treatment) reported that the global crisis had already affected treatment programmes in their countries. Respondents in 31% of countries, with 1.8 million people on treatment, reported that they expect impacts on treatment this year, while 30% of countries were unsure if treatment would be affected. Programmes were found to be especially vulnerable in sub-Saharan Africa, eastern and central Europe and the Caribbean.
Programmes are vulnerable for a variety of reasons, including declining household incomes (in Africa, for example, household out-of-pocket spending accounts for up to 60% of total health expenditures) and uncertain external aid assistance, but the report notes that the effects would be the same whatever the reason for programme curtailment: increased mortality and morbidity, greater transmission risks, higher financial costs in the long run and an increased burden on health systems as more ill people crowd public hospitals.
For every two people accessing HIV treatment, another five people are becoming infected with HIV. Preventing new infections is therefore key to responding to the epidemic. However, the survey discovered that in 34 countries, where 75% of people with HIV live, prevention programmes for populations at higher risk are forecast to be affected. Programmes for these populations seem to be at risk because they are politically easier to cut; however, the consequences would be severe: less prevention that results in more new infections will mean greater future treatment needs, with large cost implications.
Responding to the Crisis
While the results of the survey are worrying, the report does give recommendations on interventions that could help to address the crisis. Using existing funding better by moving resources from low-impact to high-impact programmes and addressing urgent funding gaps are highlighted as measures that should be taken. Monitoring systems, including for treatment interruptions, and the importance of planning for an uncertain environment are other issues that need to be given attention.
This article was provided by UNAIDS. Visit UNAIDS' website to find out more about their activities, publications and services.

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text: DOOM 3 multiplayer networking info is a GameSpy Q&A, asking id's Robert Duffy about multiplayer networking architecture, player limit, and network upgrades down the road. TIME.com has brief hands-on impressions of the game. And lastly the official DOOM 3 site has been relaunched with more content, offering an overview of the game and a clip from the theme song among other things.


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More than 125 travel journalists from around North America will visit Rockford next year as part of Travel Media Showcase 2013. The tradeshow is expected to fill approximately 1,000 hotel room nights and bring in more than $100,000 for the local economy.
"These are people who influence the travel patterns and perceptions of cities. Now we have the opportunity to show first-hand what we have accomplished and the future we are headed toward." -Rockford Area Convention and Visitors Bureau President/CEO John Groh
The event is scheduled for August 20-23, 2013. According to the Rockford Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, journalists at the conference will represent media outlets including Fox News Travel, Golf Vacations Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Midwest Living, Huffington Post and Wall Street Journal.
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Standard & Poor's has notified the city of Cape Coral that it has raised the bond ratings for the city's water and sewer revenue debt, and utility assessment bond debt.
The long-term and underlying rating for water and sewer system revenue debt was raised to an "A" from an "A-" with the outlook as "stable." In addition, Standard & Poor's rating for the utility assessment bonds was upgraded to "BBB+" from "BBB" also with a "stable" outlook.
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What is your favorite eggcorn forum submission (to date)? I can tell you that mine is "comuffins," submitted by klakritz. http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=2365
If you have a favorite (i.e., one), true eggcorn or not, add it to this topic. We've had some very entertaining ones!
Feeling quite combobulated.
All-time favorite is too hard a choice, but among the submissions of the last month or so I especially like 'day view' for 'debut.'
I'm kind of partial to those lipness tests.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Hafta agree with Ken: "dayview" beats all comers in recent months.
Going back to June or so, I'd also mention Ken's own "revisitism" and David Vinson's "untilmatum" relayed by Kem.
Little early for the "best of the year" Christmas list, isn't it? The Halloween decorations are still up.
In the last couple of months Ken has posted three that were extra sweet:
"The plot sickens," http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=3239
"Lump and proletariat," http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=3206
"Fridge benefits," http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=3149
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Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
I too hope that our jumping the gum doesn't create a sticky mess where no one feels like posting best-ofs in January. But it's darn hard to keep from mentioning faves when someone asks.
I think that all three of those are among the more entertaining reshapings posted recently, but none of them is a perfect eggcorn for me. The first is usually a pun (even obviously so in some of Ken's citations—though others may be authentic). "Lump and" passes, I think, but it's a bit awkward. And I go back and forth on "fridge benefits." Could those people really have been thinking consciously about refrigerators? Sure, food would be a useful benefit and all, but it seems a bit oblique. (I didn't intend to be such a dogged provocateur this week….)
Did we post best-ofs last January? Besides, this isn't a "best-of" thread but our favorites. We can do a real best-of in January if anyone would like to start one. For me, comuffins literally made me laugh out loud. So that's what I was going for here. (Some stores have had Christmas stuff out since Labor Day, so why not get an early start on our year-end frivolity?) :-)
Feeling quite combobulated.
Pat-Admittedly the three I mentioned are not the most elegant eggcorns, but they are still eggcorns (If you question this, we should go back to the relevant threads and pick up the discussions. I reviewed the web citations on all three of these before my post and I'm convinced that at least some web page authors offer them seriously and with new imagery.) What these three lack in elegance they make up for, in my opinion, with humor, novelty and sheer perversity.
On issues of perfection and elegance, I defer to my California colleagues. I wouldn't know a double latte with dairy cream and twist of lemon from a cup of cold Nescafe.
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Kem—I think it's pretty hard to be sure that any instances of "the plot sickens" aren't puns. (This comment seems on-topic to me for this thread, but if you want to offer a more in-depth analysis on Ken's thread, I'll be happy to respond at greater length there.)
Kem wrote,
On issues of perfection and elegance, I defer to my California colleagues. I wouldn't know a double latte with dairy cream and twist of lemon from a cup of cold Nescafe.
Ha! I guess that shows how portable regional stereotypes are. This caffeine-negative California native couldn't tell you exactly what a double latte is. (I don't surf or drive, either.) I associate fancy coffees with the Great Northwest—uh, near you, Kem.
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Your're right, Pat-there are a lot of fancy coffee shops around here. What do you suppose they do in those places? Is the recent surge in posts on this board fueled by people with laptops listening in on caffeine propelled conversations?
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The Chinese Town Where Old Christmas Lights Go 117
The practices for this specific thing may have been cleaned up but China is still buried in a toxic wasteland. I have zero reason to believe they care one whit about the environment...
Indeed, if there's a weak environmental link in the chain, it's the American consumers who start it by buying tens of millions of pounds of Christmas tree lights every year, only to throw them into the recycle bin, guilt free, when a bulb breaks. But Li, for one, doesn't mind: that waste is the raw material for his green business.
The real story is that Americans are so wasteful that they'll throw away a string of lights for the sake of one bulb.
BTW wonder how their process will deal with LED lights?
Do people really do this? Is it some sort of laziness, or are people actually unaware that you can change the bulbs? And that it's not even hard to change them?
Try explaining to your average consumer just how you find exactly which bulb has failed. Many of these things use globes in series, for those who do not know.
If a bulb comes loose or gets twisted, that can still take out the whole strand. I bought a strand recently that wouldn't turn on. I had to pull out each bulb until I found the one with the bent leads. If the strand wasn't attached to a Christmas tree that I bought on clearance, I probably would have returned it to the store and it would have ended at the recycling plant in China.
I spent a half hour unsuccessfully trying to find the broken bulb in a string of lights. Ultimately, I ended up finding a dozen or so ones that wouldn't light before I gave up. With the amount of time I spent on it, I could have worked an extra half hour or so and just bought another string. It's hard to say how much more time it would have taken me to find out what the issue, for all I know it could have been a wire and not a bulb.
Last tester I tried was really hit or miss and not much better than manually
The quickest way to find the problem is to use an ohm meter.
Connect one lead of the meter to BOTH of the string plug's prongs. Please be sure it's not plugged in for safety
Starting with a light near the middle, remove it and use the other lead of the meter to test both contacts within the socket. The contact that does not conduct electricity will indicate which side of the string has the break. You have just eliminated half of the lights as the potential problem.
Place the bulb back into the socket, and d
The BEST way to test it is something like this:
http://www.fluke.com/fluke/usen/electrical-test-tools/electrical-testers/fluke-1ac-ii.htm?PID=56048&trck=1acii [fluke.com]
That's the deluxe "Amplified electronic testers (informally called electrical tester pens, test pens, or voltage detectors)", and I've actually seen functional versions at the dollar store.
Anyways, plug in the lights, and trace the wires from the live wire on the plug through the set till it doesn't light or just go side to side of all the sockets.
The real story is that Americans are so wasteful that they'll throw away a string of lights for the sake of one bulb.
The real story is that the EU made China clean up. Okay, Japan deserves some of the credit too.
The EU has introduced various rules aimed at cleaning up the pollution created why products are manufactured and disposed of, as well as protecting people's health. ROHS and WEEE are the most well known, and although technically the only apply to countries in the EU the reality is that China has to abide by them as well in order to sell to us and then recycle our waste.
It is just as shame that two other important initiatives, namely forcing manufacturers to standardise on USB micro/mini for charging and allow batteries to be replaced and removed for disposal, seem to have stalled. None the less it is a triumph for our left-wing socialist nanny-state anti-business anti-competitive anti-trade anti-consumer ecomentalist tree-hugging undemocratic bureaucratic United States of Europe. We made a real difference to our own lives and those of people in China, and even to people in the US since they get a lot of the same stuff from China that we do.
The thing is it hasn't been a sacrifice for us, it has been a massive benefit. All the dire warnings about prices going through the roof and companies abandoning the biggest market in the world turned out to be scaremongering.
I don't know why bureaucracy has become automatically bad in many people's eyes. Well, I do know why, it is because certain parts of the media love to harp on about how much money is wasted on it in the EU and government and how all the red tape prevents companies and bankers making qu
It is just as shame that two other important initiatives, namely forcing manufacturers to standardise on USB micro/mini for charging and allow batteries to be replaced and removed for disposal, seem to have stalled.
Stalled where? From my own observation, every non Apple manufactured gadget(*) released within the last 2 years uses USB for charging, and you can freely interchange chargers and USB cables.
* - Apple uses a non standard way [ladyada.net] to charge the iPhone, so it won't work with anything but an Apple blessed charger.
The real story is that Americans are so wasteful that they'll throw away a string of lights for the sake of one bulb.
BTW wonder how their process will deal with LED lights?
But it never really is one bulb is it? It's one bulb that takes out a potentially long string. On top of that the smaller the bulbs the less likely they are the replaceable types. Different manufacturers also make slightly different bulbs which makes fixing a string potentially impossible. The REAL story is that people manufacture disposable crap. With the cost of a new set of lights less than 10minutes of my hourly rate it gets hard to justify crapping around with a set of lights for an hour.
I got the shit
Surely in this case "the Jerusalem for Christmas tree light recycling" would be more fitting?
Surely in this case "the Jerusalem for Christmas tree light recycling" would be more fitting?
No, Mecca is the better word - there's a reason we use it. We say something is the 'mecca' for an activity or industry because of the Hajj [wikipedia.org]. Almost two million foreigners a year visiting one city for one specific ritual makes a pretty good metaphor for colossal, single-minded undertakings - the kind of single-mindedness you see in one town recycling billions of pounds of electrical waste, for example.
Evoking Jerusalem would be a confusing and less accurate metaphor for the sake of being cute.
And needlessly demeaning Mecca is better? Seriously, Mecca is more than just the end point of a massive annual pilgrimage.
From the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary:
"Mecca (as n. a Mecca) a place which attracts people of a particular group or with a particular interest: Holland is a Mecca for jazz enthusiasts."
Mecca in the dictionary has two meanings, as A noun and as a proper noun. We're using one form here, the other form being completely irrelevant. But I wish you all the best of luck in getting a correct and common use of an English word changed.
Right, because we still refer to black people as Negroes and the Chinese as Orientals. The point wasn't that people don't do it, the point was that it shows a distinct lack of cultural awareness which leads the failure in communication between the US and its allies and the Arab world.
No they don't. It says so right in the Oxford English Dictionary. The term "Negros" has fallen out of favour in the US and the UK and is often consider widely offensive. Similar words are used to describe "Oriental" which goes on to say that the word "Asian" is a more socially accepted alternative.
It's all written right there. You see the Dictionary is not as dumb a book you think it is, and you know what, if I offend some incredible minority out there by using a proper noun as a noun, then fuck it. I can't
And needlessly demeaning Mecca is better?
I'm not worried. Sounds like you'll let us know, if it ever happens.
well-meaning but often moronic regulations
There are people who don't realize how immensely detailed regulations must be to work. When regulations don't let recyclers release some toxic waste the result is that everything becomes toxic waste.
Unfortunately those people didn't learn from history. The theory was that a well planned and regulated economy would be more efficient than capitalism, and too many people cannot see that things don't work that way.
Countries with planned economies could never make detailed enough plans for it to work efficiently. If you do not produce enough six-millimeter bolts with hex heads you will not be able to make enough 1/4 HP electric motors so you will not have enough refrigerators.
When you consider all the different products an industrial economy needs you would need the whole population of the country working in the plans to make sure all the items needed will be available.
That's what's called "capitalism". A feedback system where the production of the economy is dynamically adjusted as needed. There's a control variable to allow one to compare the relative urgency in producing each item, this variable is called "price".
Government regulation should be limited to overall guiding principles, not detailed specifications.
Government regulation should be limited to overall guiding principles, not detailed specifications.
I would agree if pollution had a direct cost associated with it.
There are many things which have a large value to society (clean air) which have a near zero cost to the people impacting it (air pollution costs $0).
For capitalism without government regulation to work, someone needs to own the air and be able to charge for modifying its contents. Same for water sources such as large bodies of lakes and oceans; e
Computers have imporved a lot since the old USSR. How does your computer with billions of transistors know how to move information around inside itself to meet your needs without using money inside it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count [wikipedia.org]
How does Debian know what software to make and maintain? Can emails and chat messages act as currency?
Soon we will have print-on-demand with 3D printers. Does that not also change things? We may also have recycle-on-demand with nanotech devices.
An alternative idea f
Countries with planned economies could never make detailed enough plans for it to work efficiently. If you do not produce enough six-millimeter bolts with hex heads you will not be able to make enough 1/4 HP electric motors so you will not have enough refrigerators.
That's a classic "free market" claim. Then look at how Wal-Mart works.
Wal-Mart is a centrally planned economy, run from a headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. Store managers have almost no autonomy in the Wal-Mart system. Even the store thermostats are controlled from Bentonville. Purchasing is centralized in Bentonville, where vendors go to the famous Corridor of Doom to present their products to Wal-Mart buyers. ("What can you do for Wal-Mart today?" is how each buyer starts the conversation.)
Wal-Mart is a centrally planned economy, run from a headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Sure, but Target is not run from Bentonville. Neither is Sears or Amazon, or JCPenney. If you cannot find something you need on WalMart there are alternatives.
The only alternative supplier they had in the Soviet Union was the black market, the Russian Mafia. WalMart is not a closed system like the Soviet Union was and Cuba still is.
WalMart is just one of many suppliers of common household items, it's nowhere close to the complexity of a modern industrial economy.
Efficient as modern data processing systems m
Wal-Mart's data cycle is daily, and their planning cycle is weekly. Most small retailers don't have that clear an idea of what their stores are actually doing. This gives Wal-Mart a competitive advantage.
Then why is Wal-Mart's distribution so bone-headed stupid?
If you're into Transformers toys, there are a few Wal-Mart exclusives that are only available from Wal-mart.
Inevitably, distribution inequities exist. It can easily be sold out in the West, but shelfwarming (and clearanced) on the East coast.
It's a
Actually, an answer to that would be, tack on a domestic recycling surcharge to the price - basically, pay for the wages of the domestic recycling workers when you buy the lights.
What that would do is nearly guarantee that the lights are recycled properly and domestically, while also reducing unnecessary purchase of lights.
American consumers who start it by buying tens of millions of pounds of Christmas tree lights every year, only to throw them into the recycle bin, guilt free, when a bulb breaks.
And that is why the rest of the world hates you or thinks that you are fucking nuts.
Really? I thought the reason we are hated is the country has been taken over with war mongers and profiteers that will milk a false flag for everything its worth like how we are now saying Iran did 9/11 [bloomberg.com] which I have to give them credit, first bin Laden, then Iraq and now Iran, they are milking the living hell out of that single "terrorist attack" to enact the neo-con design Wolfowitz came up with back in the 90s.
Of the countries he listed for conquest all that is left is Iran and Syria and it looks like
I didn't see any masks on the workers.
It is hard to believe that process didn't produce any airborne toxins.
It is also hard to believe that the water added to the crushed lights to make a sludge for processing isn't polluting something somewhere.
Read the TFA
The contaminated water, meanwhile, flows into a recovery system, where it's re-circulated, over and over, through the recycling system.
The masks? No mention. So I don't know why. But probably the process does not make too much dusk? Or maybe the workers just don't like to wear one. (I don't like to wear a mask for more than 10 minutes.) Masks are cheap in China and one can get reusable ones.
Totally! I cringed as I watched that video. My sensitive body went crazy!
Always leave room to add an explanation if it doesn't work out.


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The Minnesota Vikings are close to a new stadium after the House early today approved a construction plan 71-60.
Representatives debated the stadium bill an hour and 50 minutes after day-long negotiations produced a compromise bill after the House and Senate passed differing versions.
The House adjourned for the year early today, shortly after passing the stadium bill.
Senators expect to take up the bill later today before adjourning for the year.
House bill author Rep. Morrie Lanning, R-Moorhead, shepherded the bill through the Legislature, after working on the issue seven years, to build the largest single project the state ever.
The new stadium will make Minnesota "a better place to live," Lanning said.
He predicted it will serve the state more than 50 years, replacing the outdated Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis.
The final House vote did not fall along party lines, but split both parties.
Those against the Lanning bill delivered strong speeches.
Rep. Mary Franson, R-Alexandria, said a stadium will not strengthen Minnesota. The state needs, instead, to lower taxes and invest in schools, she said.
Rep. Alice Hausman, DFL-St. Paul, complained that a project of nearly $1 billion was in the single bill, while the House could only pass a bill half that size to fund public works projects across the state.
"Minnesota taxpayers will be subsidizing fans," Franson said.
Rep. Tom Hackbarth, R-Cedar, said the funding approved in the bill, using expanded taxes with electronic pulltabs and bingo, never has been used.
"These electronic pulltabs don't exist anywhere," Hackbarth said, and likely will not produce enough revenue to repay stadium construction loans.
However, Vikings fans thanked legislators for keeping the team in Minnesota for another generation. Many in full Vikings outfits were in the House galleries and applauded when the vote was announced.
Lanning said he looks forward to a long stadium life that will serve many needs other than just professional football.
For Lanning, today's vote was the climax of seven years of working on the issue.
Stadium backers worked long hours in recent days as they tried to smooth over differences between the House and Senate and between legislators and the Vikings.
"There was a lot of give and take, a lot of compromise," Vikings Vice President Lester Bagley said.
Rep. Terry Morrow, DFL-St. Peter, told colleagues that Lanning worked hard to reach a compromise for the good of the entire state.
"We are investing in tradition, we are investing in entertainment," Morrow said.
Private meetings throughout Wednesday yielded a compromise between plans the House and Senate approved earlier in the week. But after a decade, the Vikings needed to wait a few more hours as bill writers fixed "technical" problems with the bill late Wednesday.
The Vikings are to pay $477 million toward construction costs, $50 million more than they wanted. The $975 million Minneapolis stadium, on the site of the Metrodome, would have 65,000 seats, expandable to 72,000.
Even as final details were being worked out, stadium backers were happy.
"This represents a well negotiated final product and we are hopeful that it will be received positively in both bodies of the Legislature," Dayton spokeswoman Katharine Tinucci said.
While stadium supporters said they were optimistic the plan will pass, doubts remained.
"Passing is anybody's guess," said Sen. Roger Reinert, DFL-Duluth, a member of the House-Senate conference committee that was to approve the bill Wednesday night.
The bill is a compromise, he added. "It is in keeping with substantially the bills in the House and Senate."
Another committee member said public reaction is very strong in favor of a stadium.
Sen. Bill Ingebrigtsen, R-Alexandria, said his emails run 10 to one in favor of a stadium. He gets 250 to 300 of them a day.
The compromise bill contains no surprises, but it did offer suspense because the Vikings did not immediately say if they could support it.
Most of the state's portion of stadium construction costs would come from taxes collected on new charitable gambling profits after electronic devices are added to pulltab and bingo games. The state would pay $348 million and Minneapolis $150 million.
Bagley long has said the Vikings would not pay more than $427 million, but the team did not say Wednesday night if it would pay $50 million more.
The public stadium authority would be responsible for any construction cost overruns as well as unexpected operating costs.
The compromise bill requires that amateur sports, community, and other public events have access to the stadium, much like at the three-decade-old Metrodome.
The Vikings would have exclusive rights to own a professional soccer team for the first five years the stadium is in operation.
Using charitable gambling taxes to finance the stadium was one of the most controversial parts of the plan. While the Senate inserted some user fees to supplement the gambling, legislators rejected attempts to switch to all user fee funding.
The compromise bill allows electronic pulltabs and bingo games, as well as tipboards, which is a gambling game based on scores but not the outcomes of sports contests.
Supporters say the gambling would provide enough money to repay the state's construction costs, although many lawmakers oppose that part of the plan.
The bill provides back-up funding in case the gambling revenues fall short of the state's needs. They include a tax on luxury boxes in the stadium, a sports-themed lottery game and other provisions.
The bill heads back to the House and Senate for final votes.
The final compromise was worked out in meetings that took all day Wednesday. Joining bill authors Lanning and Sen. Julie Rosen, R-Fairmont, were legislative leaders, other stadium backers, Vikings officials, business leaders, Gov. Mark Dayton aides and others.
The secret meetings drew flak from several legislators.
The Senate approved the original bill 38-28 late Tuesday after about 11 hours of debate. The House moved it forward 73-58 Monday following eight and a half hours of discussion.
The $975 million stadium construction proposal is the last major issue of the 2012 legislative session. If it passes, the Legislature is expected to adjourn for the year, followed by a large number of legislators giving retirement speeches.
The final votes could draw to an end a decade-long saga to build a Vikings stadium. The National Football League team has wanted a new facility that long, saying the Metrodome no longer can produce enough revenue, but the Twins baseball team and University of Minnesota football team took legislative priority for new sports venues.
While the stadium is known as a Vikings stadium, Lanning said the team would use it only a few days a year. Concerts, national sports events, high school games, monster truck rallies and other events would fill the stadium most of the time.
The stadium would be owned by the state and run by a public authority. However, host Minneapolis and the Vikings would pay operating costs.
The bill originally would have required the state to pay $398 million, the Vikings $427 million and Minneapolis $150 million.
Bills the two bodies passed were similar, but had differences.
One major difference was the House required the Vikings to increase their previously promised $427 million contribution limit by $105 million. The Senate sought $25 million more.
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John Farrell was eating Chinese food with Red Sox owner John Henry and president Larry Lucchino at their getting-to-know-you-again sitdown when Henry asked the obvious question of a man who'd already been and gone: "With all the issues, why would you want to come here?"
The Red Sox, after all, are emerging from the rubble of their worst season since 1965, when they lost 100 games. Bobby Valentine was dismissed after one season, the shortest tenure for a (non-interim) Boston manager in 78 years. The roster is punctuated by question marks. The fans, long past the euphoria of two World Series championships, are somewhere between apoplexy and apathy.
So why would Farrell, who spent four years here as Terry Francona's pitching coach during better times, return now? "This is the epicenter of the game," Farrell declared last week when he became Boston's 46th manager, and third in as many seasons.
An epicenter is the point directly above the focus of an earthquake, and after two seismic seasons in the swampy Fens, the front office was looking for stability and familiarity amid the upheaval. So, the Red Sox went with the man they would like to have had a year ago, trading starting shortstop Mike Aviles to the Blue Jays for Farrell, who'd spent the previous two years as head man in Toronto.
"Put yourself in our position," said Lucchino. "A guy comes in and says, this is a dream job for me, this is the epicenter of the baseball world. It makes you feel that the guy has a sense of the dimensions of the job and what he's buying into."
Farrell was in the dugout when the Sox swept the Rockies for the 2007 title. He was there when they lost the seventh game to the Rays the following year, when they were swept by the Angels in 2009, and when they missed the playoffs in 2010. Nobody had to walk him through the job description. "Not having sat in this seat but being close to it, to see the demands of the position, the passion of this region, the energy that is in this ballpark every single night . . . " said Farrell.
Those who know the man well weren't surprised he cycled back to Yawkey Way. "Johnny loved it there," said Arizona Diamondbacks pitching coach Charles Nagy, who was Farrell's teammate in Cleveland. "He enjoyed the city, enjoyed the team, enjoyed the organization. The fit was there for him."
After the Valentine misfit, Sox officials were in no position for another risky relationship, so they went with John Wayne in sanitary socks, a straight shooter whose personality and professional profile they knew by heart. "It was very comfortable," Lucchino said about their meeting. "You sit down, you don't spend the first hour of an interview finding out background and family and personality. You hit the ground running, and we did. I didn't know what kind of Chinese food John liked, but we do have a high degree of familiarity."
General manager Ben Cherington has known Farrell since he was Cleveland's farm director, a résumé point that the Sox, now in a reconstruction zone, found attractive. "It was one of those things that just bounced off the page," said Lucchino. "Because player development is the rock on which you build the church."
Had Farrell stayed on the front office path, he likely would have become a GM himself. But the lure of the uniform was irresistible. "When you track as an executive there comes a point where you can't go back to the field," observed Padres manager Bud Black, Farrell's former Indians teammate who later spent four years with the club as a special assistant to the general manager.
Farrell had been on the field for a decade, pitching 116 games for the Indians, Angels, and Tigers before retiring in 1996. Had he not been betrayed by his right elbow, which twice required surgery, he likely would have played in two World Series. He was a tall, sturdy Jersey guy whose father, Tom, had played on the same Cleveland minor league club as Rocky Colavito and Herb Score in the '50s and who'd been an overpowering figure on the mound at Shore Regional High School in Monmouth County.
"The reason why we were so successful was because of John," recalled Fred Kampf, a former Oakland farmhand who coached at Shore for nearly three decades. "I had three nice high school pitchers and they could go five innings. He would come in and blow people away for two innings and we'd win."
Scouts were entranced by the 90-mile-per-hour fastball that emerged from Farrell's oversized hands. "He could almost wrap his fingers around the baseball," testified Kampf. The Athletics drafted him during his senior year in 1980, but Farrell opted to go to Oklahoma State, and played in the College World Series four times.
The Indians, who were bouncing around the bottom of the American League East, plucked Farrell in the second round of the 1984 draft and briskly moved him up the development ladder. Three years later, when Doc Edwards, his former minor league manager, took over amid another busted season in Cleveland, he brought up Farrell and mentored him. "I remember those conversations with him," said Farrell, "his ability to just put his arm around you and make you feel, hey, you know what? It's going to be OK."
Farrell immediately became a staff workhorse and was regarded as an elder statesman in the clubhouse. "He was honest and straightforward, always the guy that people went to for advice," recalled Nagy, who was a rookie in 1990. "He was the voice of reason a lot of times."
The Indians of that era might have struggled on the field but they were rich in leaders. Five members of the 1988 team — Farrell, Black, Terry Francona, and Ron Washington, plus hitting coach Charlie Manuel — now are major league managers. "I think everybody wanted to stay in the game," said Farrell. "You don't sit there and map out your future. You're consumed by what you do today, and if that creates opportunities for you going forward, all the better."
Farrell's playing opportunities were sabotaged when he blew out his elbow in 1990 and missed the next two seasons. "You could tell that the will and the drive to keep going was extremely high," remarked Black. "The thing I admired about John was that there were no excuses. He didn't feel sorry for himself. I'm sure there were times when he got down but he never showed it. He battled for a long time through that."
Farrell signed as a free agent with California, endured a 3-12 reentry season in 1993, and spent the next three years going up and down between Triple A and the majors, before calling it a career in Detroit. He went back to Stillwater, where he served as OSU's pitching coach and recruiting coordinator for five years and picked up his business management diploma.
Then the Indians came calling. Mark Shapiro, who'd taken over as GM in 2001, had been impressed by Farrell during his earlier days in the front office. "Certain guys you earmark thinking, when I get a chance to move up this is a guy I want to take with me," said Shapiro, now the club president. "Being a farm director is great training for any job in baseball because you have to have a lot of tough conversations."
While Farrell is engaging and personable — "If you don't like John, there's something wrong with you," said Kampf — he also is consistently direct and candid. "Johnny will lay it out there," said Nagy. "As a player, all you can ask for is honesty — tell me where I stand. Johnny will sit a player down and say, hey, this is what's going on."
Farrell's upfront, frank, and consistent approach quickly proved productive with a gifted but mercurial Boston pitching staff that spanned an eclectic spectrum from Curt Schilling to Josh Beckett to Tim Wakefield to Jonathan Papelbon to Daisuke Matsuzaka.
Though the Sox didn't want to lose Farrell to Toronto, his two years as skipper there served to complete his résumé, which Boston's management felt was ideal for a franchise that needs to build from the bottom. "Ben is constantly talking about the Next Great Red Sox Team," said Lucchino. "That's the goal. We can see John Farrell as the Next Great Red Sox Manager of the Next Great Red Sox Team."
The club wanted Farrell badly enough to agree to a rare player-for-manager deal. "I just hope [Cherington] doesn't trade me again," Farrell quipped when he was introduced.
"We do need an outfielder," the GM mused.John Powers can be reached at email@example.com.


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Firefighters have battled three blazes in Sydney overnight, including the second fire in a week at an empty brothel and a suspicious fire at an Eagle Boys pizza shop.
Emergency services were called to the Le Confidante brothel on Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills, about 4am on Monday and found the three-storey building alight.
The fire spread through the roof and into the adjoining terrace house, before 16 firefighters extinguished the flames, Fire and Rescue NSW Superintendent Phil Lindsay said.
"There was a fire at the same property a week ago," he said.
No-one was injured and there were no evacuations.
Earlier, police and firefighters were called to Eagle Boys on King Street, Newtown, where they found a fire burning in the foyer.
"There was forced entry to the building and a strong smell of petrol," Superintendent Lindsay said.
Police established a crime scene and are now investigating the fire, which caused an estimated $10,000 worth of damage.
Early on Monday morning, 35 firefighters battled a huge fire at Kleenheat depot, a gas cylinder re-filling factory, on Grand Avenue, Rosehill.
"When firefighters arrived there were large volumes of black smoke and there were a number of gas bottles exploding," Superintendent Lindsay said.
The fire was under control by about 7am and did not spread to adjoining factories.
A statement from Kleenheat said no gas cylinders exploded.
Police established a perimeter around the factory and warned drivers to be careful as smoke drifted over the area.
Investigators will look into the cause of the fire.
Initial information suggested the blaze started in a re-filling booth inside the single storey factory and was possibly accidental.


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Magic Key Storytime
Hosted by: Westland Area Library
The event will start on: Jan 18, 2014 1:00 PM
And will end on: Jan 18, 2014 2:00 PM
Location: Westland Area Library
Address: 4740 W. Broad Street Columbus, OH 43228
Magic Key Storytime Let the members of the Westland High School Key Club unlock your imagination in these enchanting adventures through amazing tales, spectacular stories, crafts and refreshments. No registration required. Ages 7 and under.Westland Area Library Saturdays at 1:00 p.m.. January 18, February 15


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This is a really crappy title, I know. I'm trying. A little help here. It's a normal day for Bella Swan. Then she goes to see her friend Alice. Alice has some bad news for Bella. How will she react? Will she stop it? Will she be too late? This is my first fan fic and I'm really nervous. Tell me if I'm doing something is wrong. KELLY- STOP READING NOW!Chapter 7 Added!
DISCLAIMER: Unfortunately, none of the characters in my story belong to me. :( They all belong to the amazing Stephenie Meyer. Also, this isn't really why I think could actually happen. That's all up to Stephenie Meyer.
1. Nightmare
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I watched in horror as the two most important things in my life stood tensely face to face. Alice was by my side, equally tense. I stood frozen in place, unable to speak or move.
Then, they pounced at each other. I knew it was going to be a fight to the death. I had to do something to stop them. I acted then, on pure instinct. I didn't think, I just did. I threw myself into the air between them. I closed my eyes and hoped that I wouldn't be too late.
The pain stopped. I sat up quickly, too quickly. It was over. I was a vampire.
My eyes wandered through the blackness. There was nothing. Nothing except for Jacob Black. He stared at me with pure, unadulterated hate. Then, slowly at first, but gaining speed and shaking the whole time, he ran towards me. He jumped into the air, transforming into a wolf mid-flight. I ran from him, but it was hard. He was extraordinarily fast, even to a vampire.
Finally, I knew I had to stop. There was no point to this. I turned around and faced my fate. Jacob Black didn't hesitate. He pounced at me.
I woke with a start.
"Edward?!" I cried.
No answer. I whipped my head around, thinking I would see him lying next to me, but he wasn't. There was only a note, sitting on the pillow. It had Edward's graceful handwriting on it.
Bella, It read
I am so sorry to leave on such short notice, but I am going hunting with Jasper and Emmett and Emmett was ready to go now. He threatened to wake you up and I definitely didn't want to deprive you of sleep when you're already extremely tired. Once again, I am sorry and, as always, I have left my heart with you. Be safe. I love you.
Forever yours,
Ugh! I had wanted to talk to someone about my nightmare and he had seemed like the best person. But, then again, it probably wouldn't actually be a very good idea to tell him how afraid I was of Jake hating me, no matter how many times he assured me he wouldn't. That would only give Edward another excuse not to change me just yet. And Jake was the only reason I didn't want to change, but I had to choose and I knew who I couldn't live without.
But who else could I talk to? Neither of my parents nor any of my human friends knew that Jake was werewolf and Edward was a vampire, let alone that they were mortal enemies and I was going to be a vampire soon, too. So, that crossed them off my list.
Jacob was never an option. I mean, come on, what could I say? 'Hey Jake, guess what?! I had a nightmare that you're going to hate me when I'm a vampire and try and kill me! Isn't that great?' No. Plus, I don't think I could go through saying good-bye to Jake, again.
That left the Cullens. None of them could really understand having a werewolf as a best friend, let alone dreaming about him hating you.
Yet, I couldn't just keep this all bottled up inside of me. I guess Alice would probably be my best bet. She wouldn't be able to empathize, but she might be able to sympathize, more so than the other Cullens.
Once I had decided to discuss it with Alice, I went downstairs to get the cordless phone. I looked out the window in passing. Charlie's cruiser was gone.
As I reached down to grab the phone, it rang. I quickly picked it up and pushed the ON button.
"Hello?" I said.
"The answer is yes!" cried an excited voice that I recognized as Alice's.
"Huh?" I was totally confused.
"I Saw that you would call and ask if you could come over. And the answer is yes! I was going to call anyways, since Edward is gone hunting with Emmett and Jasper, and Rosalie and Esme are shopping, and Carlisle's at work. I thought we might go over some wedding details!"
Ugh! Separately, wedding and details were two of my least favorite words, but, put together, they were three times worse.
"Well...are you coming?" she asked, smugly. She already knew the answer. I didn't really want to go, but I definitely didn't want to hurt her feelings.
"I guess so," I replied, more to assure myself than Alice.
"Great! Do you want me to come pick you up?" She sounded thrilled.
"No, that's fine, Alice. I'll drive myself. I need to eat first. Give me thirty minutes." I also needed some more time to think about my dream.
"Okay, Bella. See you then!" She hung up.
I stood there for a while until the tone started beeping. Slowly, I pressed the OFF button and set the phone down.
Oh great! What had I gotten myself into? On the one hand, I hated planning big events, but on the other hand, I could talk to Alice. And I really needed to talk to Alice.
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Dembele, 28, failed to earn a regular starting spot in Tottenham's central midfield in the second half of last season, with Mauricio Pochettino preferring the partnership of Nabil Bentaleb and Ryan Mason instead.
The Belgium international has failed to fulfill his undoubted potential since moving from Fulham for £15million in August 2012 but remains a fans' favourite at White Hart Lane.
The problem for Dembele is that he has failed to find his best position during his time in north London, with Pochettino trying him centrally, out wide and even in the number 10 role – which is arguably where someone of his ability to beat players should be playing.
Sunderland captured Younes Kaboul from Spurs last week, while Black Cats striker Jermain Defoe scored 90 Premier League goals in two separate spells at White Hart Lane.


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It has been an up and down season for the Meridian High School Wildcats. But last week's victory over Oak Grove has put the team in the running for a state championship.
"These kids and the coaches have worked really hard. And it's just a testament to what they've done," said MHS athletic director Jermaine Brown.
And they say they're ready to meet South Panola Friday night.
"Everybody's been talking South Panola this and South Panola that. We ended Oak Grove's undefeated season and we're going to try to end South Panola's undefeated season tomorrow," said Cordera Eason, a senior runningback for Meridian.
"We're going to have to bring a lot to the table," said senior linebacker Roshaad Byrd. "South Panola, they're on a 44 game winning streak, you know. So we're going to have to play our hearts out. Come out with a victory."
The oldest trophy dates back to 1938. There's one for 1985 and 1990. Friday night, the Wildcats hope to bring home a trophy for 2005.
But it's something the kids say they can't do without their fans.
"The fans, you know, the kids look up in the stands and see everybody supporting them, cheering, everything," said Judge Little of Judge Little Sporting Goods. "It had to pump them up even more."
"We really appreciate the support of the community and the fans and we're definitely asking everybody to just come on out and root us on to victory," said Brown.
Tickets to the game are available in the MHS office for $10 per person. The price at the game is $12 per person. If you want to go on a school bus, the cost is $5 per passenger. Buses will leave the school Friday at 4:30 p.m.


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After being away from Tamagotchi's for so long I figured I'd start back by getting a classic that I didn't get before I stopped caring. The two I've been looking at the most are the Morino and the Umino. Can someone who has had both tell me which one they think I should get first? I am planning on getting both, I just want to know the one you guys had the most fun/enjoyment out of.
Morino or Umino?
Started23 Jan 2014
Last Post24 Jan 2014
Posted 23 January 2014 - 06:53 PM ( #2 )
Posted 23 January 2014 - 07:07 PM ( #3 )
So a choice between easy low maintenance and "randomly die every couple days". Both look so nice. XC
Posted 23 January 2014 - 07:14 PM ( #4 )
I would suggest the morino The umino is very demanding, and quite literally requires your attention all day. The morino is much more lax, and gets attacked by a predator every 3 - 4 hours (I cannot remember which, but attacks occur in a predictable manner on the hour or half hour, making care easier). The characters are adorable, there is no needy baby stage, and the cocoon temperature function is unique. However, the character you obtain on the morino is partially determined by its weight before it enters the cocoon. Sometimes you might wish to maximise its weight as much as possible, which means playing the game a minimum number of times. If you enjoy playing games with your tamagotchis then this version may become a bit boring if you are aiming for a high weight.
Another reason I like the morino is because there are two eggs that you can choose to hatch. One egg potentially gives rise to all the different characters, while the speckled egg gives you Kabutotchi where you try to increase his size, so you can make your decision based on how busy you are etc. There is the screensaver feature which some hate, but I personally like a lot. I like seeing my happy little bug flying around in the trees
The umino isn't bad or anything, but it is demanding, and you will be so happy when it finally goes to sleep each night. But because it is demanding, it gives you a great sense of fulfillment when it eventually survives to adulthood. Unique features like water quality and natural lighting by the sun make the umino another keeper. So I guess it depends on what you're looking for - the umino will need more attention, but both versions are stellar
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Posted 23 January 2014 - 07:58 PM ( #6 )
On the other hand i also have two morinos...i find them harder to evolve... And keeping the weight up is way trickier than u might think lol
Ultimately i believe both are truly adorable and have great characters and features
Posted 24 January 2014 - 03:41 AM ( #7 )
If you own and have played with an Angel, you'll like the Morino (similar maintenance, except for the predators dealie). If you want something very challenging and attention grabbing, then try the Umino.
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Hi everyone. I live in a condo complex that has four buildings which are all security buildings. I've lived here for a long time and I always felt safe until now. When I got home last Friday there were flyers posted on all three doors to my building. One of them said that a unit in my building had been burglarized on Wed. May 22nd sometime from 1pm-9pm. The other flyer said that at least 3 units had been burglarized in my building and another building on Thurs. May 23rd sometime from 11am-4pm. Tonight when I got home I saw another flyer with a picture of a car on it. It said that this car was stolen probably on Mon. May 27th during the night and they think that someone is targeting this complex.:(
On Thursday morning May 23rd, a woman that I did some pet sitting for came by so that I could give her back her keys. I went downstairs to let her in around 10:30am. I did notice that there were several men hanging around outside like they were waiting for someone. Someone also wrote a note on the back of one of the flyers that said that there were several workmen in our building on Wed. & Thurs. and that they left the doors open to our building so anyone would be able to get in. I left for work on Thurs. May 23rd around 11:15am and I didn't notice anything suspicious. The flyers also said that it looked like the burglars used a crowbar to open up the doors so they said to make sure that you make sure that your front doors are bolted and that all windows are closed when you leave. I always do this any way.
On Saturday I decided to walk around to see if I could find the units that had gotten broken into. I live on the second floor and one of the units was just down the hall from me. That's too close for comfort.:eek: It looked like the other 2 were on the first floor. I sure hope that they catch whoever is doing this soon. We already have a security patrol truck that drives around our parking lots at night. We're also supposed to have some security cameras in the parking lot areas but I've never seen them. My biggest fear would be if someone broke into my condo and then let my cats out. Losing any of them would be much more devastating to me than losing any of my material things. Thanks for reading this and please send some positive vibes my way.


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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – Russian officials have backed off on a plan to shut a clinic specialized in treating children with cancer in order to turn it into a medical center for the nation's top judges.
The St. Petersburg governor's office said Wednesday that City Hospital No. 31 will continue to serve patients as before. The Kremlin's property department also issued assurances that the hospital will not be used to serve members of Russia's top courts, which are being relocated from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
The plan to shut down the clinic caused outrage, with more than 100,000 people signing a petition to President Vladimir Putin urging him to scrap it. Some activists said they still distrust official assurances and would go ahead with a protest Wednesday.


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TSTC student center going green
Sweetwater, TX – A solar array which contains approximately 120 modules will produce about 30.5 Kilowatts, providing enough power to operate the student center in Sweetwater. The construction was done by Meridian Solar. The array is funded by SECO (State Energy Conservation Office) and TSTC West Texas and in addition to providing power to the center, it will also serve as a public and student display for green energy technology. TSTC Harlingen and TSTC Waco received a solar array over the past year. This is the first solar array for TSTC West Texas. About TSTCTexas State Technical College System (www.tstc.edu) consists of four technical schools: TSTC West Texas, which has campuses in Abilene, Breckenridge, Brownwood, and Sweetwater, TSTC Harlingen, TSTC Marshall and TSTC Waco. TSTC colleges rank consistently as top colleges in the state and nation for conferring associate degrees in engineering, precision production, computer information systems degrees, communication and information sciences, and enrollment of Hispanic students. More than 17,000 students attend TSTC each year in credit programs alone, and that number grows to nearly 30,000 when short-term continuing education and corporate training programs are included.


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The majority of contacts law enforcement has with the public happen during emergencies or emotional situations. Those situations are not always the most effective times for relationship building with the community. "Coffee with a Cop" provides a unique opportunity for community members to ask questions in a relaxed, one-on-one atmosphere and learn more about the department's work in Secaucus neighborhoods.
"We hope that community members will feel comfortable to ask questions, bring concerns, or simply get to know our officers," said Acting Police Chief John Cerny. "These interactions are the foundation of community partnerships."


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In the distant corners of your sports memory, does the name Danny Almonte ring a bell? He was the kid who struck out 16 en route to a perfect game in the 2001 Little League World Series. The trouble with Danny, however, was that his father forged his birth certificate to sneak him under the tournament's age limit. Instead of being a 12-year-old phenom, he was a 14-year-old padding his stats against younger kids. Of course he was dominant! I share this story as a reminder that age does matter. It's the reason there are birthday cutoffs for junior sports, but, for some reason, we seem to forget that fact when it comes to NFL prospects.
Consider that most people graduate from high school and enter college sometime around their 18th birthday. When accounting for a possible redshirt year, this means that the vast majority of college football players are between 18 and 23 years old, with the average starter being somewhere around 21 or 22. Based on this information, what type of player would you choose, a 23-year-old who dominated or a 19-year-old who dominated? The answer is clear -- the 19-year-old -- but there hasn't been a good way to incorporate that directly into the stats, which is why I created the Phenom Index.
The Phenom Index is my way of adjusting production based on how old a prospect is when they produce it. It works for several fantasy football relevant positions, but for this article, we'll be focusing on wide receivers. To calculate the index, we need two variables from a player's final college season: age and production. For age, it's just how old they are on December 31 of their final year. For production, we use Dominator Rating (DR), which was coined by Shawn Siegele. If you're not familiar, DR summarizes the percentage of a passing offense for which a player is responsible. So, if a receiver caught 1,000 yards of a possible 2,000 his DR would be 50%. I use this instead of raw stats because it doesn't care if a player comes from an option offense or a 5-wide scheme; it just looks at how dominant they were relative to their opportunities. The numbers look something like this:
Final Season Dominator Rating
45%- amazing
35%- above average
25%- average
15%- below average
5%- poor
Final Season Age for Draft Eligibles
24.5- old
23.5- older
22.5- average
21.5- younger
20.5- young
All we're doing now is comparing their production to their age. Since these numbers are on different scales, I standardize them before I divide them, but the Phenom Index is basically just:
Dominator Rating
If a player had exactly average production and was the exact average age their score would be 1, which always represents average production for any age. To have a high Phenom Index score means a player had high production and a lower age; a bad score would mean low production and higher age. Let's look at a real life example from the 2010 NFL Draft.
It's almost comical to think about now, but Jordan Shipley went three picks ahead of Eric Decker in the 2010 Draft. Shipley did have above-average production, but he was such an old prospect that his score was 6% below his age-expectation (.94 minus 1). We could speculate that Decker slid because of his pre-draft foot injury, but based on this metric, he was a far superior prospect and has delivered superior results. So, how much can the Phenom Index tell us about a player?
In a test of more than 300 receivers from 2006-2011, the Phenom Index alone explained 23% of variance in fantasy output over a player's first three NFL seasons. When combined with draft position it explained 46% of variance. Without ever watching a minute of film, looking at a player's 40 time or knowing how tall they are, the Phenom Index helps us predict 46% of a player's fantasy football success. For perspective, predicting 100% would mean that you and Michael J. Fox just got back from the future and know how everything will unfold.
To see how this translates into today's NFL, I've included the following tables, which show the best and worst scores for players drafted in the top 100 picks (2006-2013). I chose this cutoff because these guys were taken with valuable picks and expected to receive playing time. The first list is the younger guys who played far above their age-expectation and, to be clear, this is the complete list—no cherry picking.
For Josh Gordon, his final season at Baylor yielded average production, but because he was three years younger than average (19.7 compared to 22.5) his score is through the roof! Then consider his great physical attributes and strong rookie year performance and it's no wonder he exploded in 2013. Interpreting the numbers, he was more than 3 times better than his age expectation (4.48 minus 1), indicative of a high-caliber prospect. Another 2013 breakout, Keenan Allen, was nearly 2 times better than his age expectation. Like Eric Decker, Allen fell to the third round because of injury concerns, but the precocious talent was obviously there. Overall, 30% of this top cohort have posted WR1 seasons and more than half have posted a top-25 fantasy season. I think at least three more (Hopkins, Hill, Randle) will do so before their careers are over. Scoff at Dwayne Jarrett if you must, but alcohol-related issues derailed his career and there's no way to know about personal issues without access to these players.
Now for the bottom of the barrel, which consists of older college players with lesser performance, all of whom performed below their age-expectation before entering the NFL.
The only top 30 performer is Donnie Avery and it took him five years to achieve that. Harry Douglas came close in 2013, but that was his sixth pro season and largely reliant on others getting injured. The rest of this bunch is pretty underwhelming with the exception of 2013 draftees Williams, Patterson and Dobson. Personally, I don't think any of them will become elite options at the position. Cordarrelle Patterson, who derived more than 30% of his fantasy value from rushing stats, might be the most fantasy useful, but I won't own him on any teams. Oh, and if you know anyone in the Bills', Lions' or Rams' scouting departments, please point them in my direction.
What does this mean for the 2014 NFL Draft?
Let's take a look at the 13 receivers who appear in Josh Norris' Top 100 and how they rank on the Phenom Index.
You might be surprised to see Penn State receiver Allen Robinson so high on this list. He's not a trendy name, but his score is one of the best I have on record. Combine that with his physical attributes and I don't think a Dez Bryant comparison is far off. Cooks, Evans and Watkins all seem likely to go in the first round and their strong showing here reinforces that.
On the flip side of the equation, I'm pretty confused by how much love Marqise Lee and Kelvin Benjamin are getting. Lee is smaller, older and less productive than people realize, which leaves me feeling indifferent about him. For Benjamin, his raw numbers look good, but he accounted for less than 30% of Florida State's passing offense last year, which actually puts him below his age expectation. For context, Kelvin Benjamin is two months older than Josh Gordon. Imagine what Gordon would have done in the 'Noles offense in 2013 and then reevaluate how "dominant" Benjamin's performance actually was. This isn't to say that Lee or Benjamin will have no value in the NFL, but I think it's a reminder to tread carefully.


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This school year will be anything but normal for tens of thousands of students.
Damages to Florida schools are still being assessed. In Charlotte County, only four of 20 schools may be operational. Eleven other counties face problems.
Lt. Gov. Toni Jennings says the first thing the state has done is remove registration requirements so students from damaged areas can attend classes elsewhere.
"We are going to make sure that's facilitated, especially people who have been dislocated for some period of time, may have family in another county and we are going to make sure that those children are able to go back to school."
The state is looking for alternative space, including renting office space or calling on the Florida National Guard to help fast track some construction.
Jim Horne is the state's Education Commissioner and says, "The smaller rural counties lost a lot of portables. Of course, we are trying to look at in how much inventory we can put in place there. Polk County has really taken a pretty good hit from the storm."
In the past week the state has identified 150 brand new portable classrooms that are in the state but have not yet been set up. The state says those will be moved to the affected areas.
Education Commissioner Jim Horne says officials face monumental tasks that include planning new transportation routes and replacing water damaged text books.
"These students may have to travel a little further to go to school now than before, but to me my window is two weeks we have got to be up and going in two weeks."
The target for getting Charlotte County back in the classroom is August 31st. What is clear is that the 2004 school year will be far from normal for many students.
A team of 25 grief counselors has been assembled to help kids cope once they return to school.
The Florida School Boards Association estimates Charley did more than $100 million in damage to schools across the state.


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After losing three family members to pancreatic cancer, Jami Oliver is putting her all into fighting the disease that has a survival rate in the single digits.
After losing three family members to pancreatic cancer, Jami Oliver is putting her all into fighting the disease that has a survival rate in the single digits.
The Dublin resident is the Columbus advocacy coordinator for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network and she wants to get the kind of support breast cancer receives behind the cancer that is expected to affect about 45,000 people this year.
"I had a grandmother on my mother's side that died when I was 1," Oliver said.
"She was only 47 and had pancreatic cancer. Things have not changed in 40 years.
"What my grandmother faced in 1969, is what people face now."
According to information from the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, or PanCan, treatment options for pancreatic cancer are limited and there are no good early detection tools.
Despite living healthy, Oliver's mother also succumbed to pancreatic cancer.
"My mom used to say, 'I don't want you to have to watch me die like I did my mom,' " Oliver said. "Her 68-year-old brother got it and died."
Shortly after that, Oliver's mother was diagnosed with pancreatitis and then Type II Diabetes, two symptoms of the cancer.
"Literally six months later she started losing weight and she was diagnosed with phase four pancreatic cancer," Oliver said, noting her mother died four months after the diagnosis.
Knowing the odds were against them, Oliver and her three sisters sought testing that could identify the likelihood of them getting pancreatic cancer, but could find none.
With two sisters likely to get pancreatic cancer, Oliver turned to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.
"As I started looking into it, I realized what a good charity it is," she said. "Eighty-seven percent of the money goes into research."
Even though planning to move her Oliver Law Office to Dublin has kept her busy, Oliver went through four interviews to become the central Ohio advocacy coordinator for PanCan.
Soon after her appointment to PanCan, one of Oliver's sisters discovered she had precancerous cysts on her pancreas. Little can be done, however, but to monitor it.
Oliver is hoping to change that through PanCan. The group's goal is to find early detection tools and effective treatments.
To do that, funding is needed for research. Oliver will travel to Washington, D.C., June 17 and 18 for Advocacy Day. Advocates from throughout the country will meet in Washington, D.C., to ask Congress to protect federal funding for pancreatic cancer research.
Locally, people can get involved by calling their legislator June 18, Oliver said. Details are available online at pancan.org/TakeAction.
"There are so few survivors, it's heart breaking," she said.
Oliver also will lead a team in the Aug. 3 Purple Stride fundraiser in Columbus.
"It's (PanCan's) biggest fundraiser of the year," she said.
"It's not as big as Komen yet, but it will be. By 2015 or 2020, (pancreatic cancer) will be the second leading cause of cancer death."
The Columbus PanCan group meets at 7 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month at the Columbus AIDS Task Force offices on the third floor of the Fifth Third building at 4400 N. High St. in Columbus.


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Friday, November 15, 2013
The babysitter
"I'm so excited and I just can't hide it. I'm about to lose control and I think I like it." Not only are these the lyrics to a popular, early-1980s anthem by the heavy-metal trio "The Pointer Sisters," but it also pretty much sums up how I'm feeling right now. I usually write about stuff that happened in the past but today I'm going to try and wax poetic about the future.
You see, as I'm writing this, I am but a mere two days from some vacation time from work. I'm like a little kid two days before Christmas. I have a whole laundry list of things I want to get done over the next week. Ironically, none of those things involve laundry. If I get a fraction of these items accomplished, it should be a fun time.
Let me tell you about the first thing that I'm going to do on this wild, devil-may-care furlough. I am accompanying my wife to Bloomington and/or Normal, Illinois where she will be attending a two-day, high-school business teachers conference. She goes to one of these just about every year and she thought it would be fun if I went with her this year. I figured, it's the first day of vacation, why not?
Upon first glance, this may not sound like a raucous, full-tilt adventure to you, but allow me to explain. My 20-year-old son goes to college in Bloomington and/or Normal, and I get to play with him and his buddies while my wife attends the conference. That's right, I get to become an honorary member of "Animal House" and it was all my wife's idea. I'm going to be like James Bond with a license to kill.
My wife has kept telling me that this will be a great chance for my son and I to bond. Also, she thinks that it it will be good for my son and his room-mates to have an older, more mature presence in the house to help them along the road to becoming rational-thinking young men. I have learned something from this line of thinking. I've been writing this semi-regular column for over two years now and apparently my wife has not read one of them. I couldn't figure out why she thinks that I will all of the sudden start speaking with a voice of reason.
And then, on the drive to work today, I had an epiphany. My wife doesn't really think that I'm going to be a guiding light to these young men. No, my son and his friends are the cheapest form of babysitting that my wife can find in the Bloomington and/or Normal area for a two-day period. Basically she's dropping me off with my son so I don't wander off and get into any trouble.
Now, I usually tend to believe that my wife is the intelligent one in our relationship, but I don't think that she has thought this one all the way through. Does it really seem like it's a good idea to have me babysat by a younger version of myself? He's too young to know any better and I'm too old to care. Add three other guys that are oblivious to common sense, and that's a recipe for disaster. A hilarious amount of disaster.
I remember what I was like when I was a 20-year-old college student and from that perspective, this is a horrible idea. When all this is said and done, I wouldn't be surprised if the Department of Human Services comes in and takes me away from my wife to place me in a home with more responsible care-givers.
As far as the next few days go, I can't wait to see what it's like to hang out with four guys half my age. If my memory is any good, I'm not sure that I will survive the festivities that are about to ensue, but I'll give it my best shot, at least until 7:30, maybe a quarter after 8:00. Ever since the time change, that's about the time that I'm ready for bed anymore.
By the time that most of you read this, I should be back and confined to the safety of my home. If not, I may need to raise enough bail money to get five guys out of the Bloomington and/or Normal jail. But don't worry, I'll pay you back. Since I have written about this excursion, I'm sure that it's all tax deductible.
The best part about this whole adventure is, no matter what happens over the next couple of days, I have all of next week to recover. So if you're not doing anything, come on over to my house and we can play. My other babysitter will be at work.
Please be sure to check out my comic strip "Nothing is not Something" on the Go Comics website. You can find it by clicking here. The more subscribers I get, the better. Thank-you in advance.
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Teresa Hebebrand called to order the regular meeting of the Upshur County No-Kill Shelter at 6:00 PM on September 4, 2012 at the home of Ann Hamilton and Tim Anderson. Michelle Enloe read the minutes from the two last meetings. The minutes were approved as read.
Ann Hamilton discussed the progress of legal paperwork in progress to incorporate the organization. Proposed changes to the draft of the paperwork included a new purpose clause. She also answered previously asked questions. She stated that the registered agent can change during the life of the corporation, that the shelter's CPA, Daphne Grimes, will need to file for an EIN, and that Counsel will be completing the Deluxe Corporation Kit as opposed to the Standard Kit. Additionally, Ann proposed that Sarah Slocum's title be changed from Head of Operations to Manager. Those present voted to adopt all above changes by a majority vote.
The issue of finding a suitable location for the shelter was discussed by Anita Smith. There is no solid lead at this time, but there are several locations that need to be researched by the Board to determine if they may be suitable. A few "must-have" features of a suitable location include a minimum square footage of 5,000 square feet, at least 3 acres of land, and a location outside of city limits. Locations to be considered include "struck-off" properties and county-owned properties. The Board asked those present to send the shelter an email if a new potential location is identified.
Teresa Hebebrand announced the formation of two committees in order to facilitate progress for the shelter. Each Committee will be independent of the Board, must hold meetings separately from regular organization meetings, and must elect a Chairperson to lead the Committee and act as a liaison to the Board.
Teresa Hebebrand discussed the formation of the Networking Committee. This Committee is very important to the shelter and will be responsible for finding information on rescues, shelters, and sanctuaries that could potentially help the shelter find homes for its animals. The Committee will also be responsible for assessing adoptable animals and gathering information about them to determine if they can be placed with any of the rescues, shelters, or sanctuaries that were located. Members of the Committees will then need to post information about the animals on appropriate websites and contact entities in the network that may be interested in the animals. Teresa suggested that the Committee visit Petfinder.com and BestFriends.org for ideas and leads. The Board urged the Committee to begin working immediately to build a network so that it can be fully established when the shelter becomes operational.
Those who signed up for the Networking Committee were: Kara Diane Davis, Kendra Franklin, Kandace Jones, Amanda McLeroy Penny (not present), Elaine Quarles, Rusty Rose (not present), and Lisa LeKay Sobey (not present).
Sarah Slocum discussed the formation of the Fundraising Committee. The purpose of this Committee is to research and identify potential fundraising opportunities and present them to the board. Also, the Committee will be responsible for soliciting donations from businesses and people in the community. Several ideas were presented by those present, such as creating and selling buttons and jewelry, holding a pet photography event, and possibly creating an event for the Yamboree in October. The Board urged the Committee to begin working immediately to organize its thoughts and ideas.
Those who signed up for the Fundraising Committee were: Babs Crombie, Kara Diane Davis, Lou Hewitt, Kandace Jones, Hailey Langford, Dianne Morris, Heather Quinn, Jennifer Quinn, and Diane Watts.
Sarah Slocum presented the shelter's Wish List, which was attached to the agenda. It is vital that items be collected as soon as possible in order to accumulate a large amount of inventory by the time the shelter becomes operational. Gently-used and off-brand items are perfectly acceptable. Used items will be sterilized upon receipt. Items with large holes (such as crocheted blankets) are discouraged. All donations, both monetary and otherwise, will be documented, and donors will receive receipts for their contributions. The Secretary of the Board, Michelle Enloe, will have an updated Wish List at all times, which will be available upon request. Donations can be dropped off at Magnetic Freedom in Gilmer, or donors may contact Sarah Slocum to make other arrangements.
Finally, it was determined that no future meeting date will be set at the current time. It will be set depending on need and communicated to everyone on the contact list via email and Facebook. Those present agreed by a majority vote to move future meeting times from 6:00 PM to 6:30 PM.
Teresa Hebebrand adjourned the meeting at 7:10 PM and the minutes submitted by Michelle Enloe.
Those present at the meeting were: Tim Anderson, Gerba Barnes, Debra Bullfinch, Babs Crombie, Ceci Crombie, Kara Diane Davis, Michelle Enloe, Kendra Franklin, Ralph Richard Godfrey, Nancy Godfrey, Paula Haggard, Ann Hamilton, Teresa Hebebrand, Kristi Henry, Lou Hewitt, Kandace Jones, Hailey Langford, JoAnn McKay, Dianne Morris, Dr. Cherie Nazzal, Elaine Quarles, Heather Quinn, Jennifer Quinn, Judy Reeher, Sarah Slocum, Anita Smith, and Diane Watts.
Anyone who is interested in being inolved either directly or indirectly with the no-kill shelter is invited to contact us on Facebook under Second Chances of Upshur County or Dr Cherie Nazzal's Facebook page or email the organization at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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