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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Just one year removed from a show-stopping performance by Carlos Correa that ultimately impacted the 2012 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, is it possible another young Puerto Rican prospect can have a similar impact at this weekend's 2013 Perfect Game World Showcase?
Nothing, certainly, can be ruled out at this point.
2012 Perfect Game All-American shortstop Jan Hernandez from Puerto Rico will be at the 16th annual PG World Showcase Saturday and Sunday at Terry Park looking to make a splash similar to the one Correa made just 12 months ago.
That was when 2011 PG All-American Correa put on an exceptional hitting and defensive display that enhanced his standing in the eyes of the MLB scouting community and eventually led to him being the No. 1 overall pick of the Houston Astros in the 2012 draft.
Hernandez enters the 2013 PG World Showcase as the nation's No. 18 overall prospect (No. 1 in Puerto Rico) in the class of 2013 and is one of nearly 60 Puerto Rican prospects that will be here this weekend. The PG World Showcase -- with close to 220 participants this year -- continues to take on more of an international flavor every year, with mostly upper class players from the Dominican Republic, Canada and this year Germany, joining those from nearly all of the lower 48 states and Puerto Rico.
The World Showcase will be staged simultaneously with the 2013 PG World Uncommitted Showcase and 2013 National Underclass Showcase-Session 3. Those events will bring more than 200 additional prospects to Terry Park this weekend.
Hernandez will be among the most closely watched. He was the recipient of the 2012 PG Nick Adenhart Award at the PG All-American Classic presented by Rawlings in August, an award that recognizes a prospect's heart and character. He has done nothing but continue to impress at every PG event he's attended since the Classic, including being named the top prospect at the inaugural PG Caribbean Showcase in Puerto Rico in November.
Hernandez has not committed to a college and is widely viewed as a first-round draft selection in June.
All of the island's top 10-ranked 2013 prospects will join No. 1-ranked Hernandez here this weekend, including No. 2 catcher Carlos Diaz, No. 3 right-hander Joe Alexander Jimenez, No. 4 catcher Rene Melendez Pena and No. 5 shortstop Edwin Diaz. Puerto Rican No. 8-ranked shortstop Johneshwy Fargas, named the No. 2 top prospect at the Caribbean Showcase behind Hernandez, will also be here.
No young ballplayer has been more active over the holiday break than standout shortstop/right-hander Nicholas Gordon from Windemere, Fla. Gordon, the son of former MLB closer Tom "Flash" Gordon, is a junior at Olympia High School and is ranked No. 3 nationally in the class of 2014.
He spent last weekend here performing at the 2012 PG National Underclass Showcase-Main Event and was named the event's No. 2 overall top 2014 prospect. PG's national scouting director David Rawnsley noted that Gordon's "left-handed swing is crisp and short" and his "shortstop skills and tools keep maturing and he may be the top defensive player in the 2014 class." He also threw 91 mph off the mound at the event.
Top 2013s from the mainland that will be in attendance include No. 24-ranked Jon Denney, a catcher from Yukon, Okla.; No. 45 Wesley Jones, a shortstop from Lithonia, Ga., who was named the Most Valuable Player at the 2012 PG WWBA World Championship in Jupiter, Fla., while helping East Cobb Baseball to the championship of that event in late October; No. 50 first baseman Nick Longhi from Venice, Fla.; and No. 72 shortstop Connor Heady from Prospect, Kentucky.
Denney has signed with Arkansas, Jones with Georgia, Longhi with Louisiana State and Heady with Kentucky.
Three highly regarded Dominican prospects -- left-hander Jacob Constante, third baseman Rafael Devers and outfielder Manuel Sanchez -- are expected to make their PG debuts. They were originally scheduled to be in Jupiter at the end of October but weren't able to make the trip from their homeland due to Hurricane Sandy.
The World Showcase was the first national-level showcase ever staged by Perfect Game, making its debut in 1997. One of the first attendees at the event was a young outfielder from Carlsbad, N.M., named Cody Ross who was selected in the fourth-round of the 1999 MLB amateur draft by the Detroit Tigers and has enjoyed nine productive seasons in the big leagues. He signed a three-year, $26 million deal with the Arizona Diamondbacks late last month.
Ross enjoyed his first experience at the 1997 PG World Showcase so much he returned again in 1998 when he was joined at Terry Park by MLB All-Star Carl Crawford, among others.
"I came down (to Fort Myers) and there were quite a few scouts and quite a few college (recruiters) in the stands watching a bunch of us play," Ross recalled during a conversation with Perfect Game at spring training last March when he was a member of the Boston Red Sox.
"I remember somebody telling me 'It's going to be good for you because a lot of these college teams and a lot of these scouts have never seen you because you're on the West Coast.' It was great exposure for me there."


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BASKETBALL: Elida rolls into title game
COLUMBUS — Elida needed just four seconds to take a lead it would never relinquish.
Senior Reggie McAdams flicked the opening tip out to teammate Dakota Mathias, rolled to the basket, took Mathias' 30-foot alley-oop pass and slammed it hard through the rim.
Game over.
It was all downhill from there for St. Clairsville as the Western Buckeye League champion Bulldogs rolled to a dominating 61-27 win over the Red Devils in a Division II boys basketball state semifinal Friday at Value City Arena.
Elida will face undefeated Dayton Dunbar (27-0) in the state championship game at 4:30 today.
The Bulldogs blanked St. Clairsville in the first quarter, racing out to a 15-0 lead after eight minutes. The Red Devils played Elida even in the second quarter and trailed 26-11 at the half.
But Cory Royster took over in the third quarter as the Bulldogs pulled away to a 48-20 lead after three, scoring 16 of their 22 third-quarter points in the paint.
St. Clairsville had no answer for Royster or McAdams. Royster dominated the paint, scoring 18 points and pulling down 18 rebounds. McAdams, the Division II co-player of the year in the state, added 17 points and grabbed nine boards.
Elida held Dan Monteroso, who shared player of the year honors with McAdams, to just six points. Monteroso came into the game averaging 26 points per game.
In the other semifinal Friday, Dunbar pulled away from Mentor Lake Catholic for a 75-60 win.
Andre Yates led Dunbar 26 points. Deontae Hawkins added 19 points and grabbed 12 rebounds.

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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Les Miles: I'm still not coming to Michigan
"There was some information on ESPN that Rich Rodriguez has been named the new coach at Michigan and I think it's imperative that I straighten something out. Just because Rodriguez was hired, their reverse psychology ploy to really try to get me won't work. I'm the head coach at LSU, I will be the head coach at LSU and I have no interest in talking to anyone else about why I still have wet dreams about my days in Ann Arbor," said Miles who had been frothing at the mouth until he uttered the words "Ann Arbor," which caused his eyes to mist over.
Dabbing at them with a maize and blue hanky he pulled from his pocket, Miles continued, "I'm only excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play Ohio State in a few weeks for the Big Ten championsh-- the BCS championship. It's unfortunate I had to address the Wolv-- my team with this information. With that being done, we'll be ready to play. There will be no questions for me. I represent me in this issue. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much and have a go blu-- a great day."
Unable to stem the waterworks, Miles then stormed off the stage and scheduled another denial press conference tomorrow.
In a related story, Brady Hoke's interview for the Michigan job has been picked up for use in a future episode of NBC's Bloopers, Bleepers and Practical Jokes.
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- Da Vest said...
I wonder how many people in Baton Rouge are bummed that Les is still their coach? I know I would be if I was them.
I predict that this is the beginning of LSU's slow slide into mediocrity ala Miami.
I think R2 is a great hire. I'm expecting a very memorable Tressel/R2 era.
When Schiano gets to PSU, the B10 will be hot.
Go Bucks.
- December 18, 2007 9:53 AM
- Out of Conference said...
Hey Yost - you know I love the site and usually bite my tongue, so I say this with reluctance. Perhaps the Miles/press conferences joke is reaching the end of its shelf life. I don't know how many ways the man could have said he is not taking the job, he is the LSU coach but was still hounded by the press, bloggers, fans, etc. wondering if he was telling the truth. If anything, I think the more worthy gag material would be the dumbass media, bloggers, fans, and public (including me) that insisted he was still very probably going to be the next Michigan coach, even thogh he denied it every chance he got.
How many times is a coach allowed to talk to a recruit? So, how nervous do you think Miles was that his recruits may not believe him when he says he'll be their coach next year? A press conference is a wonderful way to reinforce to recruits that he is NOT leaving LSU any time soon and not have it count against the maximum allowed recruiting contacts.
I don't see LSU going anywhere soon from the national scene.
- December 18, 2007 10:02 AM
- AtlREjunkie said...
I also found the post a bit in poor taste. As a UM alum living in the South, I can completely identify with Miles' nostalgia for Ann Arbor. And it was tough watching someone who obviously cared for his alma mater get hounded by the press. Of course he didn't handle everything as best he could, but he was pretty genuine about it all.
- December 18, 2007 11:01 AM
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- December 18, 2007 11:42 AM
- Jerry said...
I love the post. As a Buckeye fan I am highly disappointed that Miles did not go to Michigan. The guy is a complete wreck on the sidelines as well as his press conferences. I would have loved to have seen him in AA. He'd be an embarrassment to UM...
- December 18, 2007 11:50 AM
- TitleIX said...
Les Miles made his own damn bed. HE'S the one who should have kept his mouth shut about the whole damned deal.
Do you think we all knew what we knew because we're psychic?
UH...no. He yapped to everyone who would listen and then acted like a petulant child who got caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
No sympathy here.
to follow Yost's lead....
Do you think Les will sell R2 that house he just bought up here?????
- December 18, 2007 3:54 PM
- Poseur said...
Warning upfront: I'm an LSU fan.
Outside of EDSBS, this is my favorite college football blog, and it's also made me a Michigan fan. But seriously, let the Miles thing go. I honestly have no problem with Michigan trying to hire Les before our bowl game, but it's not like Miles was calling these press conferences unprompted. The media, and ESPN in particular, kept the story alive. Miles was actually denying a story he wasn't creating.
Seriously, good luck with RR. I hope he pans out for you guys.
And finally, though I can't speak for the Tiger Nation... I'm estatic Miles is still our coach. Then again, I remember that we drove off Chollie Mack for going 8-3 every year and ended up with Curly Hallman and going 3-8 every year.
- December 18, 2007 7:37 PM
- Matt said...
Should've added a paragraph at the end where Herbstreit reported that RR was a smokescreen and Miles to UM was still a done deal.
- December 21, 2007 11:21 PM
- Joshua said...
What's more telling? The maybe one too many Miles press conferences or your continual obsessing over Miles, even as you have hired a new coach.
Good luck with your new coach. Folks would be lying if they said cfb is better without Michigan somewhere in the hunt every fall.
- December 29, 2007 12:22 PM


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Cyanobacteria linked to neurological diseaseUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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HONOLULU - Cyanobacteria throughout the world may produce a toxin linked to certain types of neurological disease, an international team of researchers announced today in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Samples of cyanobacteria collected from diverse habitats produced BMAA, a toxic amino acid.
"We surveyed 30 cultures of cyanobacteria maintained at Stockholm University in Sweden, the University of Dundee in Scotland, and the University of Hawai'i," explained Dr. Paul Alan Cox, Director of the Institute for Ethnomedicine at Kauai's National Tropical Botanical Garden. "Ninety-five percent of the cyanobacterial genera produce BMAA."
University of Hawai'i researchers Robert Bidigare and Georgia Tien of the Center for Marine Microbial Ecology & Diversity (CMMED) collaborated with Cox on this research project by isolating and providing blue green algal clones from their extensive culture collection. CMMED is the proprietor of the Patterson Cyanobacteria Collection, the largest collection of cyanobacterial strains in the world. About 20 years ago, Dr. Greg Patterson, formally of UH, assembled this collection of greater than 2,000 strains, representing most continents.
"The value of this collection cannot be underestimated. For example, cryptophycin, a potent anticancer agent, was isolated from a Nostoc sp. strain in the Patterson Culture Collection," said Bidigare.
"Currently due to considerations for ecological protection and sensitivity to bioprospecting and native rights, a field collection of this geographic scope and magnitude can no longer be assembled. Consequently this is a unique and valuable resource for renewable energy sources exploration, experimental pharmacology, marine natural products, including phytotoxins, and biotechnology applications," said Bidigare.
Until recently, BMAA was known only from cycads, plants of warm areas of the world that are sometimes eaten by indigenous people such as the Chamorro of Guam. Researchers have proposed a link between BMAA and an ALS-like disease suffered by the Chamorro people. Cox, Canadian scientist Dr. Susan Murch, and Dr. Sandra Banack at California State University, Fullerton, found that BMAA is produced by cyanobacteria resident in the roots of the cycad trees.
Interest in the hypothesis increased when BMAA was found in the brain tissues of several Alzheimer's disease patients in Canada. This discovery spurred cyanobacterial experts Bidigare, Dr. Birgitta Bergman at Stockholm University, and Dr. Geoffrey Codd at the University of Dundee to collaborate with Cox's team to see if the toxin is produced by other forms of cyanobacteria. Cyanobacteria are common in oceans, lakes, and even soils throughout the world.
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' article includes a satellite photograph of a 100-mile long bloom of cyanobacteria off the Florida coast. Although cyanobacteria are known to produce a variety of hazardous molecules, researchers say that this is the first indication that diverse species of cyanobacteria produce the same toxin.
The study raises more questions than answers, scientists caution. The link between BMAA and neurological disease remains an unproven hypothesis, Cox explains. This new study merely indicates that human exposure to BMAA may be possible in many places throughout the world. Researchers suggest that BMAA should be monitored in reservoirs and other water supplies contaminated by cyanobacteria.
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Research Article Citation:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 5, 2005, vol. 102, no. 14
Diverse taxa of cyanobacteria produce B-N-methylamino-L-alanine, a neurotoxic amino acid
Paul Alan Cox, Sandra Anne Banack, Susan J. Murch, Ulla Rasmussen, Georgia Tien, Robert Richard Bidigare, James S. Metcalf, Louise F. Morrison, Geoffrey A. Codd, and Birgitta Bergman
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It was a great year for Social CRM, Social Selling and the world of SaaS. We've collected a bunch of great articles over the course of the year so we wanted to share the the top 25 blog posts from 2012. Any others we should add to the list? Leave them in the comments.
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A Level Set Method for Multiobjective Combinatorial Optimization: Application to the Quadratic Assignment Problem (2002)
Multiobjective combinatorial optimization problems have received increasing attention in recent years. Nevertheless, many algorithms are still restricted to the bicriteria case. In this paper we propose a new algorithm for computing all Pareto optimal solutions. Our algorithm is based on the notion of level sets and level curves and contains as a subproblem the determination of K best solutions for a single objective combinatorial optimization problem. We apply the method to the Multiobjective Quadratic Assignment Problem (MOQAP). We present two algorithms for ranking QAP solutions and nally give computational results comparing the methods.
Scheduling and location models are often used to tackle problems in production, logistics, and supply chain management. Instead of treating these models independent of each other, as is usually done in the literature, we consider in this paper an integrated model in which the locations of machines define release times for jobs. Polynomial solution algorithms are presented for single machine problems in which the scheduling part can be solved by the earliest release time rule.
In this paper we consider the location of stops along the edges of an already existing public transportation network. This can be the introduction of bus stops along some given bus routes, or of railway stations along the tracks in a railway network. The positive effect of new stops is given by the better access of the potential customers to their closest station, while the increasement of travel time caused by the additional stopping activities of the trains leads to a negative effect. The goal is to cover all given demand points with a minimal amount of additional traveling time, where covering may be defined with respect to an arbitrary norm (or even a gauge). Unfortunately, this problem is NP-hard, even if only the Euclidean distance is used. In this paper, we give a reduction to a finite candidate set leading to a discrete set covering problem. Moreover, we identify network structures in which the coefficient matrix of the resulting set covering problem is totally unimodular, and use this result to derive efficient solution approaches. Various extensions of the problem are also discussed.
We consider the problem of locating a line with respect to some existing facilities in 3-dimensional space, such that the sum of weighted distances between the line and the facilities is minimized. Measuring distance using the l_p norm is discussed, along with the special cases of Euclidean and rectangular norms. Heuristic solution procedures for finding a local minimum are outlined.


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This was my last week of summer vacation, and I spent most of it scrubbing, scraping and painting. We live in a small, sweet old house that is in need of some work. We've been holding off on fixing things up till we have enough money saved for real renovations, but it had gotten to the point where things were really starting to get grubby. Several cans of white paint later, the house is looking a lot fresher.
When we moved in, we made the rookie move of painting each room a bold, vibrant colour. The old kitchen paint was aptly named "Highlighter Yellow", which made the room look even smaller than it was.
Now it's a wash of white with blue accents. I've always loved white and blue for a kitchen. So crisp and clean.
Our small kitchen lacks cabinet space, so most of our food, baking dishes, and kitchen appliances are stored in big plastic bins on these utility shelves–not very attractive. I bought 8 metres of old-fashioned kitchen toweling and made curtains to hide the clutter.
Much better!
My favourite part is this little wall hanging. It's actually a denim rag rug, but looks rather fetching as a wall decoration. DH is not so sure about it, but I love it!
Now that the big work is done, I can concentrate on spending the rest of this weekend with more relaxing occupations.
I spent the afternoon sorting some of my favourite fabric scraps into coordinated piles. I've got a plan for these, though I don't yet want to reveal what that is.
I hope you are having a lovely weekend too!
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Freshening things up
This was my last week of summer vacation, and I spent most of it scrubbing, scraping and painting. We live in a small, sweet old house that is in need of some work. We've been holding off on fixing things up till we have enough money saved for real renovations, but it had gotten to the point where things were really starting to get grubby. Several cans of white paint later, the house is looking a lot fresher.
I love freshening up things and you did a great job in your kitchen! I love how you transformed the utility shelves! Everything looks beautiful with a fresh coat of white paint. I'm specially smitten with the corner with the denim wall hanging, the pretty terracota planters and the amazing vine growing just outside your kitchen window :-)
- August 20, 2011 at 8:38 PM
I love it Nicole!! Reminds me of my last home/kitchen. The paint was white with a hint of blue and I loved it. Your curtains are pretty! Thanks for the inspiration :)
- August 20, 2011 at 10:22 PM
would making sure the topside of the denim wallhanging was really straight like the underside is now make your other half more convinced of its beauty? Sonehow the sagging does not do it justice, I think. I love its potentials ;-)
- August 21, 2011 at 8:41 AM
Very nice!!! good job - would have to agree that also prefer the white to the very bright yellow!!! good job!!
- August 21, 2011 at 9:32 AM
elena gold
oh wow! love the white and blue kitchen. very genius making the cupboard curtains too. and personally i love the wall hanging, and just how it is. lovely organic shape, color and texture. :)
- August 21, 2011 at 9:33 AM
Your kitchen looks fresh and inviting. I like the little touches especially your wall tapestry and the pottery. I went to art at the farm yesterday, it was full of local artists including a weaver and a potter with the most amazing bowls. Looking forward to the mystery of the fabrics--what will it be?
- August 21, 2011 at 5:34 PM
Love the kitchen! It's inspiring me to get off my duff and refresh the tired old kitchen in my 1920's era house. Would those fabric scraps be waiting to be part of a quilt top? I can't wait to see your finished project.
- August 22, 2011 at 10:31 AM
Cozy Memories
I was going to say everything Geninne said above, she literally took all the words off my mouth ! I adore what you & your loved one have made of the kitchen. That yellow wall really had to go, my gosh. White & denim blue are a gorgeous color combo, so clean & fresh.
- August 22, 2011 at 3:52 PM
-beautiful photos
-love the wall hanging
-love the last photo with the piles of beautiful patterned fabric - can't wait!
- August 22, 2011 at 11:36 PM
Well, done on the kitchen! It's beautiful. (Wish oh wish I could join you for coffee one morning!) xo
- August 23, 2011 at 3:20 PM
Margie Oomen
i can't wait to see it in person next time i am in ottawa
- August 23, 2011 at 10:46 PM
How pretty and peaceful! Blue and white are one of my favorite color combinations.
Can't wait to see what you have up your sleeve with the fabrics!
- August 28, 2011 at 9:40 AM
what a beautiful space! I would love to live there!
- August 30, 2011 at 2:54 PM
I think white walls are the best! I bet your kitchen looks fresh and new!
- August 30, 2011 at 3:19 PM
Hi Nicole! What a treat it was to meet you and your partner at Geninne's workshop, and you were so sweet to provide us all with so much visual inspiration. Your blog is gorgeous!
- September 5, 2011 at 10:29 AM
you have a gorgeous home. love the paintjob!
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All of the defendants in the Seven Falls fraud case, except for the luxury golf course's developer, Keith Vinson, have pleaded guilty as of Tuesday afternoon, when three defendants agreed to plea deals in U.S. District Court.
ASHEVILLE — All of the defendants in the Seven Falls fraud case — except for the luxury golf course's developer, Keith Vinson — had pleaded guilty as of Tuesday afternoon, when three defendants agreed to plea deals in U.S. District Court.
Five of Vinson's six co-defendants have also agreed to provide evidence against him in a trial now set to begin the week of Oct. 7.
George M. Gabler, who has worked as a certified public accountant since 1978, pleaded guilty to one count of withholding information about a crime. He faces up to three years in prison, $250,000 in fines and no more than one year of supervised release for the charge.
In an address before Magistrate Judge Dennis Howell, Gabler thanked the government, the court and his attorney for working "through a mountain of details to try to understand the complexities" of his case. Gabler was initially charged with bank fraud.
Aaron Ollis, who served as a real estate appraiser for 25 years in Western North Carolina, and Thomas "Ted" Durham Jr., a former president of Pisgah Community Bank, each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government. Both face up to five years in prison, $250,000 in fines and no more than three years of supervised release for the charge.
Ollis approached the defense table Tuesday and declined to comment on the case.
Court records show that losses ranging in amounts from $2.5 million to $12 million have been recorded in the investigation. Ollis, however, "did not personally profit from the transactions constituting these losses, except for the fees charged for his appraisal reports, which is approximately $7,000," according to the plea agreement.
In the arrangement, Ollis agreed to pay full restitution.
He was added to the case in a superseding indictment last year and charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, bank fraud and misapplication of bank funds. He initially pleaded not guilty Dec. 18.
Durham approached the defense table minutes after 3 p.m. and offered a voluntary plea of guilty. He also declined to comment.
Last week, real estate investors and private money lenders Avery Ted "Buck" Cashion III of Lake Lure and Raymond "Ray" Chapman of Brevard pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Like Ollis and Durham, they face up to five years in prison, $250,000 in fines and no more than three years of supervised release for the charge.
Cashion, Chapman and Durham initially faced a slew of charges from wire fraud and money laundering to embezzlement and defrauding the government.
In March, co-defendant Andrew Quinn Hager pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. He faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine on the conspiracy charge, according to court records.
Hager, Cashion, Chapman, Ollis and Gabler agreed to provide evidence in the investigation, which now zeroes in on Vinson. The five defendants may be granted shorter sentences than provided by federal guidelines if prosecutors deem their assistance to have been vital in the government's investigation and prosecution.
Their other charges are set to be dismissed at sentencing. They will not be able to appeal their pleas or convictions unless they can prove their case was botched by ineffective counsel or prosecutorial misconduct.
'Counsel' defense
A preliminary trial brief for Vinson alleges that the developer was acting on the advice of his attorneys when it came to certain actions aimed at keeping two flailing luxury developments afloat.
The 2008 "economic downturn" brought his developments of Seven Falls, a planned 1,400-acre golf course community in Etowah, and Queens Gap, a 4,000-acre resort in Rutherford County, "to a screeching halt," according to the brief.
Vinson "anticipates that, as to at least some of the counts, particularly the counts relating to the so-called 'lot loan program' and 'Queens Gap Fraud,' that his actions relating to those offenses were based on advice of counsel."
According to a bill of information filed Feb. 26, "the conspirators would solicit loans secured by undeveloped Seven Falls lots from several federally-insured banks. While the loans would appear to the banks as if they were traditional loans to individuals purchasing lots in Seven Falls," they were in fact "short-term financing for Seven Falls and its developer, Vinson, who was unable to take out additional loans."
In a 34-page superseding bill of indictment filed in December, Vinson and his co-defendants were said to have "devised and executed various schemes" to defraud and "obtain more than $23 million they needed to forestall the failure of their luxury residential development and golf resort."
Pisgah Community Bank and the Bank of Asheville "had particularly heavy concentrations of Seven Falls-related loans," according to the indictment.
Durham and former Bank of Asheville President George Gordon "Buddy" Greenwood "conspired to conceal the risks posed by Seven Falls-related loans from their shareholders, auditors and regulators," according to the indictment.
Greenwood was found guilty of bank fraud charges and sentenced in May to four years in federal prison. Sentencing hearings for Cashion, Chapman, Durham, Gabler, Hager and Ollis have yet to be set.
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Yale's Society of Orpheus and Bacchus to Hold Concert at South Dade Senior High School
The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus is happy to announce a concert to be held at South Dade Senior High School as part of its 2011-2012 annual Winter Tour. The concert is in collaboration with the Homestead Community Concerts Association, and made possible by the support of Community Bank of Florida, The Homestead / South Dade Kiwanis Club, Mayor Steven C. Bateman, City of Homestead, Mr. and Mrs. David Berrones, and TWN Industries.
The concert will be held on Tuesday, January 2nd, at 7:00 PM, in the auditorium of South Dade Senior High School, 28401 Southwest 167th Avenue, Homestead, FL 33030. General admission tickets will be on sale for $10 at all Community Bank of Florida branches and at the law office of John P. Maas.
About the Society of Orpheus and Bacchus: On All Hallows' Eve in 1938, twelve of the sweetest voices at Yale converged on Mory's Temple Bar to form an a cappella group unlike any other. This group went without a name until they capitalized on a backhanded compliment received at a party— heard above the tinkle of ice was "These SOBs are good!" These groundbreaking singers invoked the talents of Orpheus, minstrel to Olympus, and the legacy of Bacchus, god of revelry, knowing quite well that good music and good spirits are essential to the success of any party.
The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus is the second-longest-running collegiate a cappella group in the nation. They have an enormous repertoire spanning more than seven decades that includes traditional, jazz, blues, rock and roll, and original compositions. They also inject a healthy dose of comedy into performances to make each concert engaging and unique. They have brought their unique blend of showmanship all around the nation and the globe: from the White House to the shores of Aruba to Cityplaza in Hong Kong. If you'd like more information about The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus' tour to South Florida, or are interested in scheduling a performance, please contact Jonny Barclay at 203-285-9649 or e-mail Jonny at email@example.com.


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If discussing skillets, the two characteristics of a pre WW2 pan that first grab your attention are:
- They are lighter in weight. The walls and bottom are thinner than a modern Lodge skillet.
- They have a much smoother interior surface.
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On the left is a Lodge 8SK 10.5" skillet. On the right is a Favorite Piqua Ware skillet of the same size. The Lodge is probably 16 years old while the Favorite is at least 74 years old. I don't know the exact date of manufacture for the Favorite but the Favorite factory shut it's doors in late 1934, a casualty of the Great Depression.
Griswolds, Wagners, Wapaks, (and probably others) offered similar quality. Old Lodges were very smooth as well.
Which do I prefer? If I could only have one I like the older pieces best. Fortunately I get to have old and new so I've developed some preferences.
For very high heat applications (like blackening fish) I'll take the newer heavier pans. For normal everyday lower temp cooking like making eggs the old pieces are simply unbeatable.
One common mistake many people make is assuming that the old pieces are more nonstick because they have been cooked in for 50+ years. This is not true. I clean all my old iron down to bare metal so I'm losing the accumulated seasoning. Even after starting from nothing the old pans outperform the newer ones (with 16+ years of seasoning) within just a couple of months.


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Adam and Sarah struggle to find balance between personal and professional life, while Julia deals with the delicate balance of social structure for six-year-olds. Crosby learns about the difficulties of being a father.
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|2010-09-21 at 10:00 pm
Parenthood shows a funny, affecting, distinctive voice that you'll want to keep listening to.Time Full Review
Its first two episodes do give the show a very strong foundation on which to build.Zap2it (Inside the Box) Full Review
Parenthood strikes all the right notes, although it's not yet can't-miss television. It's sweet and funny and heartbreaking, and relatable to the point of cliche.Chicago Sun-Times Full Review
Tere's real promise in Parenthood. In time, we may all genuinely care whether Crosby and Sarah find themselves, or at least grow up.Newsday Full Review
It does the near impossible for any extended-family drama: It manages to be poignant and funny without becoming ridiculously soapy and larded with cliches.San Francisco Chronicle Full Review
While everyone is terrific, Tierney brought it to another level. Graham's Sarah is more frenetic than the low-key Tierney's version, but kudos to Graham for stepping in and making Sarah her own. Solid stuff all around.New York Post Full Review
Parenthood isn't better than "Modern Family," but it's different--it's its own creation, thanks to the deft touch and careful characterizations developed by executive producer Jason Katims and his writers.Entertainment Weekly Full Review
Parenthood, like the experience itself, is an evolving tale, and one worth watching.The Hollywood Reporter Full Review
All those plot threads could be beneficial in sustaining the series on a serialized basis, but Parenthood's multifaceted vision of family risks feeling too precious in places.Variety Full Review
The Bravermans are more interesting than the sum of their plights. The actors sparkle, even in muted form, but the Berkeley they inhabit feels a lot like upscale Brentwood, minus the Lexus sports cars and nanny cams.The New York Times Full Review
Though filled with far more tender and often tear-jerking moments than actual laughs, the first hour of Parenthood seems a solid and steady enough vehicle for such a brilliant cast.Los Angeles Times Full Review
Like the movie that inspired it, Parenthood isn't an instant classic, but it's smart and warm and knowing, and it casts its net so wide that at least part of it should connect with you.Newark Star-Ledger Full Review
What it lacks thus far are the laugh-out-loud oments that made the movie such a joy....That's not to say Parenthood isn't worth a look. Graham, the adorable "Gilmore Girls" alum, rocks the heck out of every scene she's in.San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa Times Full Review
Even when the show gets a bit melodramatic or overwrought, however, Parenthood's good intentions radiate throughout its many story lines. But do good intentions make for reliably compelling family drama? That depends on your tolerance for its frequent tonal shifts and occasional manic intervals.Chicago Tribune Full Review
A decent but slightly pedestrian family drama that throws off a "Brothers & Sisters" vibe whenever its sibling characters are in the same room.Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Full Review
This one starts out at a frenetic clip, and even A-list talent is helpless in the face of the formulaic banter that such occasions demand. Only when the show slows down--midway through, does Parenthood suggest that it may have something worth watching.Kansas City Star Full Review
It has a very good cast, and Katims has a great track record. But he doesn't seem to have quite figured this one out yet.Deseret News Full Review
I've only seen two episodes and while I'm not yet ready to move in with the Bravermans, I'm at least curious to see what they're doing next.Philadelphia Daily News Full Review
The overstuffed pilot piles on a few too many weepy crises, many involving Adam's young son (who may have Asperger's syndrome), but the strong cast's considerable charm breaks through.TV Guide Magazine Full Review
Parenthood is liberally spiced with humor, and like all Ron Howard productions, it also has regular moments designed to make our hearts feel all toasty. But other parts aren't funny at all for the large Braverman family around which the show revolves.New York Daily News Full Review
Parenthood is a fairly promising ensemble dramedy that shows TV expanding beyond an emphasis on nuclear families to look at broader family systems reaching from ages 5 to 75.Boston Globe Full Review
This adaptation of the hit 1989 movie is emotionally ample, as any decent family drama should be, but the premiere feels like a dowdier cousin of shows already out there.People Weekly Full Review
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On Parenthood, a top-notch cast of veteran actors struggles to wrestle a mountain of cliches into submission.Philadelphia Inquirer Full Review
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Watching this dismal intragenerational cluster of families is sort of like seeing a Roots for the cannibal gangs in The Road.Miami Herald Full Review
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Hi everyone! Could anyone please kindly check for any grammatical errors in the journal entry below?
Sandy Strides
As always, before every trek, I would feel excited, because we would go to a different place each week and therefore, enriching our knowledge of the environment. This time around, we went to the beach (Pantai Tungku), unlike the last two treks which were in the forest.
One of the main purposes of the trek this week was maintaining a cleaner and greener environment. Sad to say, but it is a fact that litter-strewn beaches are a common sight in Brunei. Rubbish such as plastic bottles, Styrofoam containers, and plastic bags make up a large percentage of the rubbish seen at beaches. I find it quite ironic that people go to the beach to relax, find peace in the calmness of the ocean, have a good time with family members or friends, and yet, they are the ones who help to pollute the seashore! Rubbish bins ought to be made available, and the citizens of Brunei should be more aware and responsible of the cleanliness of their surroundings. If they dont care, who will? They should not simply wait for others. Brunei is our home, and we are the ones who should see that it is well taken care of.
The challenge that I encountered this week involved large stacks of rocks. On one occasion, we had to climb down a steep pile of rocks, and the other, walk on them. Mind you, those boulders had large gaps between them, and some werent really stable. I found the experience adventurous, nevertheless.
Again this time: minimal animal encounter. The only animal that I remember seeing was a bee. Oh yea, and lots of cocoons suspended on coniferous trees!
Thanks, in advance!
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You mean to say that the comma is to be inserted between 'treks' and 'which'?
Ok, thanks for the help!
Comments and suggestions.
The challenge that I encountered this week involved large stacks of rocks.[/quote]
Say "piles" instead of "stacks"; the word "stacks" implies someone put the rocks there.
Space between paragraphs.
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Think you've got what it takes to command one of the United States' elite military squads? Knowing where to position your men for maximum effect is only the beginning. Take a break from battle and get a sitrep from this group of likeminded tacticians.
The new trailer looked awsome on XBL, I already want it.
What do think about the new trailer
Looks bada**. Can't wait for this game to come out.
I am extremely excited about the game and it's class elements. I am also excited for some nice Co-Op story.
I like how the animators use ex- special forces soldiers to do the character animation :3
I'm happy because now its time for the real shooters to come out and play. All out warfare I can't wait
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Without porn there would be no internet. Porn companies did a lot for www in the beginning. They pioneered videos and HD and a lot more stuff.
Depending on the industry where this happened (such as healthcare) leaving a terminal available for a cleaner to access would also be a sackable offense.
Who said that the cleaner was logged in as GP? Any of my coworkers can log into my PC, and I can log into any of theirs. Since so many things are tied into having a user ID and password (payroll for one), I wouldn't be surprised if the cleaning crew have logins as well.
I don't know why you got modded down... this is entirely valid.
I used to work for an extremely large organization that authenticated on Active Directory, and did not place any permission restrictions on what workstations were used. Anyone with a valid AD account could log into any workstations, and able to access whatever resources that their particular profile had access too, regardless of workstation. Many used roaming profiles and some worked on multiple sites, so it was even more insignificant which w
Is Windows still doing the "copy the entire profile over the network" thing when you log in at someone else's computer? And then copy it again when you log in at yet another?
No it would not unless he was in charge of security. All the pc's would lock on inactivity and require credentials to get back in. It is possible that the cleaner had credentials since for instance at my hospital every employee has an id and password that can be used to log in from any computer attached to our network. They are not even supposed to be shut down at night because they need to receive updates.
I notice on slashdot that a lot of people have misconceptions about how hospital networks actually f
Let me put it this way. If you are not in the healthcare industry and you are about to make a post that some lapse in security is a sackable offence in a hospital environment 99% of the time you are outright dead wrong and look like a moron for saying so.
Well yeah, that's what usually happens when you know nothing about a subject and for some reason still insist on forming strong opinions about it.
That doesn't seem to stop anyone, though. I guess they think if they just have enough passion it will make up
I lose a bit of accuracy on every post, but make it up in volume.
Actually, it sounds like your keyboard was what received the sacking
Your leave everything accessible to the cleaners? No passwords on the computers?
Do you also leave the bank account information and online banking passwords written on a whiteboard for them to view?
Ya, um, maybe you've watched a bit too much TV, but in order to get access to someones personal data you need MORE then a keyboard. Who's to say the cleaning staff wasn't logged on as a guest account on the machine?
It's quite common in some industry's, FYI, to have the cleaning staff required to pass a certain level of security clearance.
But hey, one guy's funny anecdote is enough information for you to blindly ramble on like you know everything, so feel free to continue.
It is common in a lot of smaller to midsize companies that a dedicated cleaning guy/group or janitors (not a rent-a-cleaner) have their own e-mail address and can subsequently logon to the computers at work even if it's just to see special tasks (clean up the break room before a meeting) or log their time.
Who's to say the cleaning staff wasn't logged on as a guest account on the machine?
Leaving guest accounts enabled should be a sacking offense for whoever is responsible for that piece of configuration.
why? for your industry sure, for my industry absolutely, but for some it might make sense to have a generic, limited access account setup on some systems - it depends on many factors that neither you nor I could even guess at.
I notice you said "leaving guest accounts enabled" I assume you were assuming I was talking about the ones in Windows? I hope not...
The reason for guest accounts in the first place is to not have people logging into other people's accounts or using them.
Example: a customer, a vendor, salesman, whatever says "can I use your computer to check my gmail?" Probably 90% of the people out there aren't going to say no.
So you let him use your computer. And then while he uses it, you have to babysit him. And stand over him. Otherwise, you just gave him full access to the network.
The alternative is to enable guest accounts.
Obviously they went straight in the bin.... (and the cleaner was sacked on the spot)
I don't understand this need to be super-serious about trivial matters. No need to give the guy a pink slip. Have a laugh, then forget about it.
My dad once owned a company. When working late, he caught one department head fucking the cleaning lady. Did you think he sacked the guy? Hell, no. Just laughed and asked him to turn off the lights when they'd leave the office.
On a related note, FriendFinder Networks is filing for an IPO.
Dealt with a couple of interview candidates who had worked there (they apparently use Perl). I don't think any of them really appreciated the time they spent there, though.
Worked in a server room in a basement that was on a heavily wooded property, spiders, salamanders and moles weren't uncommon. I got bit in the head by a Hobo Spider, necrotic tissue and nerve damage ensued.
it was probably a brown recluse spider not the Hobo Spider since the tissue necrosis cannot be reproduced in the lab using that spider venom. For more info read : An approach to spider bites. Erroneous attribution of dermonecrotic lesions to brown recluse or hobo spider bites in Canada. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15455808 [nih.gov]
Except for taking the spider to the Oregon Poison Center at Oregon Health Sciences University, where it was shipped off to Oregon State and they said "It's a Hobo Spider" and Brown Recluse not being native to the area.
A spider that was identified as a Hobo Spider (Tegenaria agrestis), it bit my head, other Tegenaria agrestis and T.domestica were seen in my building and in my basement, I had tissue necrosis and nerve pain.
I've read the NIH report and all the drama on the Hobo vs Funnel Webs vs Brown Recluse
OK then the ref in my article might be wrong even if they are more recent.... I was feeling safe since I hate dangerous spiders and they don't live in Canada were I live. Since you tell me that T.agrestis is really dangerous and you seems to have good scientific refs combined with anecdotal evidence so I will start to live in fear of the brown spiders again
The bite point started out like a pimple with two puncture holes.
I got a fever and just felt like crap, first Doctor didn't believe it was a spider bite dispite my having caught the stupid thing and having it in a plastic container.
Fast forward three days, an area the size of a quarter dollar is purple/red/black, changing colors and oozing puss. The doctors that looked at me that time believed it was a spider bite.
That was December 2001, the nerve pain is mostly gone now, but the scar and muscle there still
It was a one in million/ten million bite, don't worry about 'em.
I will still kill all the brown spiders (not all existing brown spiders just the one I saw) with a metal thingy just to be sure....
'have made it over to Boise' makes it sound like they're currently slowly marching eastward from PDX. Let me add another data point: I've been stompin' hobos in Pocatello (Eastern Idaho) since the late 80's.
When I bought a house in Idaho Falls (elevation 4600, 3 hrs east of Boise) in 1997, we'd catch 15-18 per NIGHT in glue traps. Stupid prior homeowner had landscaped with literally hundreds of square feet of 3/4"-4" river rock, and the interstitial spaces were the best damn hobo habitat I've ever seen (
I moved up to Anchorage just to escape the Hobos
We get some seriously giant furry monsters up here that have ridden the ferries and Alcan though.
try getting bit by a hobo sapiens! rrrrawwr!
should have told her, "no teeth".
My first job as a full time IT person was as a network analyst at a meat plant that killed 3500 head of cattle a day. I took it because I was broke and needed the money right after school. The facility I worked at was their only Canadian operation and given the size, it required a Canadian office of around 200 people (accounting, procurement, sales, shipping, etc.). So they had to have a network admin on site. That would be me for the time I was there.
The "interesting" part of the job was the part when the
Hunting backups in Fukushima
Be vewy, vewy, qwiet.....
"IT - Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
Or: No, that particular device is NOT bus powered. Result of a 90 minute support call with a user who was adamant they knew it was plugged in and switched on. I really don't miss the 'Magic' of SCSI.
* After spending 10 minutes determining a "computer" won't turn on because the user is pushing the power button on the monitor, she asks, "Well, Greg took his laptop with him. Does that mean I can't use his computer?"
* The director who begged me to go to her house and set up her home computer to be able to check work email, only for me to discov
I'm currently working a Help Desk so I'm aoih wari aoweifuo iaueoainfoawirubauwhetuhisg.
Could it get any worse than astro-turfing for InfoWorld? Probably not. Maybe if it became common knowledge that InfoWorld actually pays Slashdot for placing his astro-turf slashvertisements...?
My God! It's full of Arse!
Hum... wasn't the original quote with something like crabs? or lobsters maybe?
D&C, yep, quite sick...
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CRYSTAL LAKE – The Senior Care Volunteer Network, formerly Faith in Action, will host a cake and ice cream social Sept. 19 to celebrate 15 years of serving seniors in the community.
This free event will be from 4 to 7 p.m. at First Congregational Church, 461 Pierson St., in Crystal Lake.
There will be a special presentation, and door prizes also will be available.
For information and to RSVP, call 815-455-3120 or visit scvnmchenrycounty.org.
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Frigid Fire Fighting is Nothing New for the Bangor Fire Department
It was a brutal Thursday night in January, back in 2004, when Bangor fire fighters were called out in subzero temperatures for a report of smoke coming from the Bangor Masonic Hall building at the corner of Main and Water Streets. I vividly remember that night turning my scanner off for the evening thinking it would be a terrible night for any of the first responders who might be called out.
That's when my phone rang and a friend, who was a fellow news broadcaster at the time, said, "I don't know if you want to know, but there's a fire downtown." I waited a few minutes, shuddering at the thought of going outside, and then I turned my scanner back on and made the call. When the dispatcher said, "Susan you may want to come out for this," I knew I needed to bundle up and was dreading the exposure to the cold.
When I got to the scene fire truck horns were blaring and air tank alarms on the fire fighter's backs were warning them to clear the building. That's when I noticed their uniforms were frozen, and those men with beards and mustaches were collecting icicles on their facial hair. The streets and side walks on the city block were treacherous underfoot and the fire hoses seemed like massive snow guns as the stubborn fire refused to be extinguished.
It was the lead story for all news outlets for certain as irreplaceable artifacts collected by the Masons were destroyed along with other businesses like Yankee Shoe Repair located on the ground floor. This fire raged on for hours yet remarkably, injuries sustained were minimal. The structural integrity of the building, because of the extreme heat on the inside and cold on the outside, worried fire fighters who were concerned the building might collapse uncontrollably, threatening other buildings and people downtown. A crane was eventually brought in to knock the building down.
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Comp Cams unveils Gen V LT-1 grinds and RHS unveils two new heads, including one for small-bore, high-flow LS engines.
The folks from the Comp Group (Comp Cams, RHS, TCI Automotive, FAST, etc., unveiled a host of interesting new parts at the 2013 SEMA Show to enhance the performance of your new or old Bow Tie.
The new 2014 Corvette Stingray and Chevy trucks with the Gen V small-block are just hitting showrooms, but Comp Cams already has a line of camshafts for them that work with their advanced engine features (direct injection, variable valve time and active fuel management. These XFITM-series hydraulic roller cams allow users to leverage the OE technology for performance gains. Designed for the new LT1/L83/L86 V-8s, they feature four different lobe profiles to both create AFM compatibility and optimize intake and exhaust valve opening/closing events. They also increase torque and horsepower throughout the entire rpmrange, according to Comp, providing excellent responsiveness and mid-range power over stock. With a couple of C7 Corvettes already running in the 10s as we write this, there no doubt the need for this grinds exists!
With all this tech used by these engines, the cams must be used with Comp's Phaser Limiter Kit (Part No. 5456), which limits the range of camshaft movement from 62 to 22 crank degrees, thus requiring VVT program tuning. The grinds are available for stock to highly modified applications. The smaller cams were developed for the L83 and L86 truck engines, while the larger versions are better suited to high-performance LT-1 applications. There are four off-the-shelf cams available, all with .572-inch lift (with a 1.8 ratio rocker). Duration at .050 varies from 212/224 (intake/exhaust) to 224/236. Custom grinds are also available.
On the cylinder head from RHS unveiled a CNC-ported LS7-design cylinder head to use with Chevy's 5.7- and 6.0-liter LS engines. The Pro Elite 3.900-inch bore LS7 headsare said to boost horsepower by up to 100 over stock and feature all of the benefits of other RHS LS7 heads. These cylinder heads fit all LS applications down to the stock 3.900-inch bore and utilize LS7 intake manifolds.
They also come with unfinished P-Port (unfinished runner) versions, the heads' intake ports are raised .220-inch from the stock location for a straight line of sight into the cylinder, and utilize the LS 6-bolt head design compatible with both the RHS LS Race Block and GM LSX Block. They can also be used with OEM, 4-bolt blocks. Additionally, a .750-inch- thick deck surface and reinforced rocker rails make for more rigidity in high horsepower and boosted applications. According to RHS, these heads are designed to use eight standard, LS1- style exhaust rockers and eight offset LS3-style intake rockers and stands, so there's no need to order a full set of less common 1.8 ratio LS7 rockers.
If you've got between 454 and 502 cubes from yourstreet/race LS, Comp unveiled its Pro Elite 307cc Big-Port LS7 CNC-ported cylinder heads. According to RHS, theseare the only raised runner aftermarket LS7 heads with the runner volume to support large cubic inch applications, yet are still able to utilize both production and aftermarket intake manifolds and valve trains. Like the Pro Elite 3.900 heads, the intake ports are raised .220-inch from the stock location and the heads feature a .750-inch thick deck surface They work with all existing LS7 parts but have bigger intake ports and valves than the standard RHS Pro Elite LS7 heads.
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Hidden Valley Nature Center – Community Supported Forestry
By Rebecca Goldfine
The miles of woods that encircle Bambi Jones and Tracy Moskovitz's farm, located in a small valley in Whitefield, Maine, reinforce their home's tranquility and remote feel. But the forest is far from an impassable buffer shielding them from the outside world. Instead, it's more like an extension of their farm.
Pietree Apple Orchard
By Joyce White
Maine Apple Day at Pietree Orchard in Sweden was a lively celebration of apples. Shelves were lined with crisp, just-picked apples, and trees were loaded with ripe pick-your-own fruit. Visitors enjoyed freshly pressed apple cider, apple cider donuts and apple pizza – with caramelized apples and ricotta cheese for the more adventurous, or traditional pepperoni for others.
Veggies for All: Relieving Hunger in Local Communities
By Holli Cederholm
On the third Saturday of every month, a well-traveled road in Unity, Maine, becomes obstructed with heavier than usual traffic as clients of the Volunteer Regional Food Pantry line up to receive their monthly box of food assistance. While this food pantry is unique among hunger relief agencies in its growing focus on nutritional quality, its well rounded offering also includes seasonal food – organically grown, fresh-from-the-soil produce.
Farmers Cultivate Customers on Facebook
By Polly Shyka
In July of 2010, Facebook, the world's most popular social networking platform, announced that it had 500 million users worldwide. Although Facebook began as a campus photo directory where college and prep school students could list personal information and attributes, it has grown into a mega-directory where people can connect with friends from the past and present.
Making Local Eating a Way of Life
By Marina Schauffler
Recent media attention on local foods has raised public awareness about the health benefits and community returns from thriving local agriculture. Often, though, stories portray local "foodies" as purists fixated on 100-mile diets that banish even imported condiments. Eating from local sources comes off looking like an extremist food fad, rather than a practical means of supporting one's home ecosystem and economy.
John Eastman's "Guarding the Cornfields"
American Plains Indians As Farmers: The Dream That Might Have Been
By John Koster
American Mythology 101 holds that the Plains Indians had to be subdued and constrained to reservations because they were too proud or too lazy to take up farming. The myth permeates Hollywood Westerns and high school textbooks.
Maine's Hoophouse Movement Expanding: A Tribute to Farmers' Innovative Instincts
By Jo Anne Bander
As crocuses and wild spring greens emerged in Maine, so did crops in an increasing number of ballooning structures: hoophouses. These structures that extend the growing season and even allow four-season farming are an increasingly important component of farm infrastructure.
Soil Management in High Tunnels
The 2010 Farmer to Farmer Conference at Point Lookout in Northport, Maine, featured a session on managing soils in high tunnels. Speakers were Vern Grubinger, University of Vermont vegetable and berry specialist; Bruce Hoskins of the University of Maine Diagnostic Lab; and Paul Volckhausen, who, with his wife Karen, grows organic tomatoes and other crops in high tunnels at Happy Town Farm in Orland, Maine.
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Rutabagas – They're Not Really Turnips!
By Will Bonsall
When I was a kid, I really loved turnips, even though I had never tasted one. Oh, I thought I had; didn't we use turnips in that traditional New England Boiled Dinner we had on special occasions, along with corned beef, carrots, beets, potatoes and so on? Sure, turnips were an old Maine favorite, but I didn't learn until years later that they weren't really turnips – they were rutabagas!
Using a Bulkhead as a Root Cellar
By Adam Tomash
When I built my first house in northern Maine, I placed a small, stone-faced root cellar under the house with access through a trap door in the floor. A stepladder provided access and worked well. We kept root crops and canned goods there to keep them from freezing in our absence.
Lambsquarters: Prince of Wild Greens
By Jean Ann Pollard
Lambsquarters! Pigweed! Fat-hen, goosefoot, bacon weed, dirty Dick, Muck Hill weed. Despite numerous, often odoriferous monikers (and this little list is only partial), Chenopodium album is a delicious, nutritious delight for foragers, and a summer treat no one should miss.
Summer Vacation, Garden-Style
By Roberta Bailey
We all pack a lot into our fleeting Maine summers. Lettuce, spinach and peas intertwine with weddings and graduations, green beans and raspberries bump up against summer camp, melons and blueberries go to the beach, sweet corn attends a barbeque, tomatoes are the life of the party, then the kale finds itself wondering where the woolly sweaters got stowed, and the carrots and potatoes actually need some warmer gloves for this task.
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By Cheryl Wixson
Starting in June, my friend Heather and I celebrate the seasonal bounty with weekly trips we call Farm Days. Every Thursday we leave Deer Isle, car packed with cooler, shopping tote and six-pack carrier, and enjoy a local foods treasure hunt. When we return home, we'll provision our kitchens with the best of the summer harvest and delicious, farm-fresh treats.
In the Orchard – Summer Tasks
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As spring rolls into summer, I hope you've had a beautifully blooming, successfully pollinated orchard and avoided those late spring frosts that can kill blossoms and ruin your hopes for a satisfying harvest come fall.
Poisonous Plants in Pastures
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If a pasture has enough palatable plants to eat, livestock will generally avoid the poisonous plants. But livestock are individuals, and there are always exceptions. So any pasture management method that results in over grazing will encourage animals to eat plants they would normally avoid.
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After nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) is the next nutrient most likely to limit crop growth on farms and in gardens. It has a much simpler cycle in farm systems, and, unlike N – the availability of which depends heavily on biological activity – the availability of P usually depends simply on whether your soil has enough.
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Setting long-term goals can be difficult. Setting goals for the next 100 years or more might seem impossible, or at least impractical. Yet good forestry requires such foresight and intention.
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Attorney General Bill Lockyer Obtains Preliminary Injunction Against Unscrupulous Immigration Consultants
(LOS ANGELES) – The Los Angeles County Superior Court today issued a preliminary injunction sought by Attorney General Bill Lockyer against Asian Pacific Legal Services ("APLS"); its owners, Walter Wenko and Miao Huang; and six lawyers who allegedly allowed their names to be used to further the false impression that legal services were being provided to immigrant clients.
"This is another important step in an on-going effort to stop unscrupulous immigration consultants who take advantage of vulnerable Californians knowing that because of language barriers and fear they will not report being victimized," Lockyer said. He noted that other legal actions could be brought against unscrupulous immigration consultants elsewhere in the state.
The preliminary injunction issued by Superior Court Judge Jon Mayeda prohibits the defendants from engaging in the unauthorized practice of law, illegal fee splitting, violations of the Immigration Consultant Act, and continuing to make false and misleading statements to their immigrant clients regarding the type and quality of legal services provided, and the case results that would be obtained.
The Attorney General in October filed a civil complaint against APLS, its owners and the six lawyers for allegedly taking advantage of immigrant clients. The complaint alleges that the defendants have been illegally portraying themselves as lawyers, engaging in false advertising and violating state laws regulating immigration consultants. Five of the nine individual defendants did not oppose the Attorney General's motion and stipulated to the preliminary injunction.
The Attorney General earlier obtained preliminary injunctions against Immigration Solution Center and Immigration World Wide Services, two large immigration consultant firms in Los Angeles. The Attorney General filed civil complaints against these companies alleging false advertising and violations of state laws regulating immigration consultants. These two companies were ordered last month to immediately stop advertising themselves as lawyers, provide specified training to employees to prevent misleading customers and to make available to clients copies of documents completed on their behalf.
The Attorney General's lawsuit against APLS alleges that the company and its employees have since at least April 1998 engaged in an improper scheme to sell immigration and other legal services, primarily to Chinese-speaking immigrants in the Alhambra and Monterey Park area of Los Angeles County. Although disbarred in March 1998, Wenko advertised his company in the 1999, 2000 and 2001 Chinese Consumer Yellow Pages for Southern California under the "Attorneys" section. The company also sought to mislead clients by promising legal advice and services and guaranteeing favorable results it could not reasonably assure.
The complaint alleges that clients were harmed by receiving incorrect or incompetent legal advice from non-attorneys, inaccurate translations of client statements, or had applications or rebuttals denied because of the lack of preparation by the attorneys used by the company.
Attorney General Lockyer urged consumers to be careful about who they consult on immigration issues, noting that the Attorney General's Office of Immigrant Assistance has developed the brochure, "Immigration Services: Protecting Your Consumer Rights," which is available on the California Department of Justice web site at: http://ag.ca.gov/immigrant/publications.htm


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U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman in New Orleans today overturned the Administration's moratorium on off-shore drilling imposed by the Interior Department. Calling it arbitrarily imposed and rash, the Judge concluded that the government acted wrongly in stopping all drilling just because one rig had an accident.
The Interior Department had halted approval of any new permits for deep-water drilling and suspended drilling of 33 exploratory wells in the Gulf.
Here's what the Judge had to say in rendering his decision:
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is an unprecedented, sad, ugly and inhuman disaster," he wrote. "What seems clear is that the federal government has been pressed by what happened on the Deepwater Horizon into an otherwise sweeping confirmation that all Gulf deep-water drilling activities put us all in a universal threat of irreparable harm."
His ruling prohibits federal officials from enforcing the moratorium until a trial is held. He did not set a trial date.--Fox News
This was definitely the right thing to do. The moratorium would have crippled the world's energy supplies, cost thousands of jobs, and further damaged the economies of both the states directly affected by the spill, as well as the nation at large.
We expect the White House will appeal. You didn't expect them to admit they overreacted and made a mistake, did you?
This decision, if upheld, would also place limits on the Executive branch's authority. Many feel the President exceeded his authority in imposing the moratorium, or directing that it be imposed. The President's powers ARE NOT unlimited, and there must be a basis in law for his actions.
And now to ClearOurBrainZ !
We cannot afford to let emotion overcome reality as it relates to our energy policy. We have to have increased domestic production of oil and gas while we transition to cleaner technologies.
The moratorium was a kick in the pants to Louisiana and the other gulf state's economies, already losing money from the lack of tourist business this summer.
Thank you, Your Honor.
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The Messenger of Allah
In a cave at the foot of Mount Hira near Mecca, where he had spent six months in solitary meditation, the vision came to Muhammad. The Angel Gabriel roused him from his bed with the stern command: "Proclaim!" Rubbing his eyes, the startled Muhammad gasped, "But what shall I proclaim?" Suddenly his throat tightened as though the angel were choking him. Again came the command: "Proclaim!" And again the terrified Muhammad felt the choking grip. "Proclaim!" ordered the angel for a third time. "Proclaim in the name of the Lord, the Creator who created man from a clot of blood! Proclaim! Your Lord is most gracious. It is he who has taught man by the pen that which he does not know."
Thus it was, according to Islamic tradition, that an unremarkable Arab trader from Mecca was inspired to preach God's word in the year A.D. 610. Compared with Jesus or the Buddha, information about the life of the man who became known as the Messenger of Allah is relatively abundant, although the facts have been embellished with pious folklore. Some have claimed that at Muhammad's birth the palace of the Persian emperor trembled, or that a mysterious light ignited at his mother's breast, shining all the way to Syria, 800 miles away. It was said that his body cast no shadow and that when Ms hair fell into a fire it would not burn. Muhammad himself disdained any miraculous claims, insisting that he was merely the all-too-human conduit through which God had revealed himself.
It is known that the Prophet was born about A.D. 570 to a member of the respected Meccan clan of Hashim. His father died shortly before Muhammad was born, and his mother when the boy was only six. Two years later, his doting grandfather Abd al-Muttalib died, leaving the orphan in the care of a poor uncle, Abu Talib. As a youth, Muhammad was set to work tending his uncle's herds; he later recalled that task as a mark of divine favor. "God sent no prophet who was not a herdsman," he told his disciples. "Moses was a herdsman. David was a herdsman. I, too, was commissioned for prophethood while I grazed my family's cattle."
As a young man, Muhammad was exposed to the currents of religious debate then swirling through the Middle East. He would listen avidly as Jews and Christians argued over their faiths. Those discussions may have fed his dissatisfaction with the traditional polytheistic religion of the Arabs, who believed in a panoply of tribal gods and jinn, headed by a deity known as Allah, Says Muhammad's French biographer, Maxime Rodinson: "Both Jews and Christians despised the Arabs, regarding them as savages who did not even possess an organized church."
At 25, Muhammad accepted a marriage proposal from Khadijah, a rich Meccan widow 15 years his senior, for whom he had led a successful caravan. With his financial security assured by Khadijah's wealth and business, he began to venture into the desert, to contemplate and pray, as had other Arab holy men before him.
According to legend, Muhammad had earned a reputation as a wise and saintly man even before his first revelation from the angel on Mount Hira. Looking out from the balcony of his Mecca home one day, he saw the members of four clans arguing over which of them should be allowed to carry the Black Stone, a huge meteorite that the Arabs regarded as sacred, to its new resting place in a rebuilt shrine called the Ka'ba. Unknown to Muhammad, they had resolved to let the first man who walked into the sanctuary decide the matter. Entering the holy place, Muhammad proposed a satisfactory compromise: placing the Black Stone on a blanket, he instructed each tribe to lift one corner. Then he personally laid the meteorite in its new niche.
At 40, Muhammad began to preach the new faith of Islam, which was gradually being revealed to him on his sojourns in the desert. Some of this religion was familiar to Arabs who knew about the monotheistic teachings of Jews and Christians. His countrymen, for example, could readily accept Muhammad's assertion that Allah, long regarded as the highest of the desert gods, was the same God worshiped by Jews and Christians. But Meccan traders felt threatened by Muhammad's growing power. Both Jews and Christians questioned his claim that he was revealing the true word of God to the Arabs, in effect joining them as "People of the Book." In 622, after being harassed by bis opponents, Muhammad and his followers escaped to Medina in a migration known as the hegira.
To a growing body of converts, Muhammad began to elaborate on his new religion. Revelations came to him in trances; his descriptions of those encounters, memorized and recorded by his adherents, were later collected as the Koran. As his followers grew in strength and numbers, Muhammad began a series of raids on Meccan caravans, which led to several indecisive battles with their avenging war parties. In 628 the Meccans agreed to let Muhammad's followers make their pilgrimage to the Ka'ba, which the new faith continued to regard as a sacred shrine. Muslims believe it is the spot where Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Ishmael at God's command. Two years later the Prophet led an army of 10,000 into his former city, taking control in a bloodless victory.
For all the pious legends that grew up even in his lifetime, Muhammad remained a humble and, in some ways, unfulfilled man. He occasionally incurred the wrath of his wives and concubines. All of his sons died in childhood, leaving him with no male heir. In 632 he led a pilgrimage to Mecca, where he declared, "I have perfected your religion and completed my favors for you." Three months later he fell ill in Medina and died. To his zealous followers went the task of spreading the word of Allah, not only throughout Arabia but far beyond it as well.
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I would suggest that the Dome, Wembley the Olympics and just about anything else shows how London centric both Tories and Labour have been and are. In a sensible world the national stadium for football would be somewhere in the Midlands and as mentioned the dome should have similarly been in Brum or some such.
I have a plan that all politicians should have to live in sackcloth and ashes, London be allowed to sink into the Thames and Scotland always win every world cup


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Latest update : 2012-07-30
'Aleppo, the mother of all battles'
FRENCH PAPERS, Mon. 30/07/12: French daily Libération sent reporters to the north of Syria to interview refugees fleeing the fighting in Aleppo. According to Le Figaro, Syrian rebels are begging for weapons to resist government soldiers. And Le Parisien explores an increasing number of French people leaving the country to retire abroad.


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SAVANNA – Clark Everett Nesbitt, 94, of Savanna, previously of Rockford, died Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013, at Walnut Manor Nursing Home in Walnut.
Clark was born June 25, 1918, in Savanna, the son of Arthur and Lucille (Clark) Nesbitt. He was a member of the class of 1936 at Savanna High School. He married Mary Goedecke. Mary passed away June 19, 1999.
He served his country in the Army as an X-ray technician during World War II. Clark owned and operated a Standard Oil station and Shell Oil station from 1957 to 1971 in Rockford. He graduated from Realtor's Institute in Peoria and worked as a real estate broker and partner at Crown Realtors in Rockford from 1971 to 1981.
Clark attended First United Methodist Church in Savanna. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge AF and AM 173 in Cherry Valley; Scottish Rite Consistory in Freeport; Tebala Shrine in Rockford; and Carroll County Shrine Club. He was a past member of the Rockford Moose Lodge. He enjoyed antique cars, fishing, hunting, and photography.
Clark is survived by a brother-in-law, Al Goedecke of Hazelton, Pa.; and four cousins locally, Jonathon (Audrey) Nesbitt of Sterling, Michael (Carol) Nesbitt of Savanna, and Jerald (Kamilla) Ritenour and Paul Ritenour, both of Preston, Iowa.
Clark was preceded in death by his wife, Mary; and his parents.
A Masonic service will be at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at First United Methodist Church in Savanna, followed by visitation from 10 to 11 a.m., and the funeral at 11 a.m. Military honors will be accorded by Savanna Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2223.
Visit www.lawjonesfuneralhome.com to send condolences.