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In the aftermath of the Newtown, Ct. tragedy last week, Estherville Lincoln Central superintendent Tara Paul issued a statement to the community about how the district is working to reassure everyone that the school is safe and secure for students.
Paul mentioned the board policy and Crisis Management Plan and Team designated to address such incidents. Paul said a focus continues to ensure that adults greet students as they arrive and that teachers and staff are visible in the hallways and other areas. Giving a sense of normalcy is also a key focus of teachers and staff.
Paul also encourages parents to talk to their children about the incident, if the child wishes.
This is an excellent approach to the situation, and one that will work.
While it's easy to say that the Newtown incident was clear on the other side of the country, there could very well be an impact on young children who may have a strong affinity for what happened there. While parents may choose to not expose their children to news reports, kids can still hear about it at school. Parents do need to be ready to answer their questions and concerns.
Hopefully, there will be another news event that will eclipse or at least overshadow Newtown.
As the Christmas season approaches, we can rest assured that as parents take Paul's advice and address their children's questions, Christmas observances will continue as they have in the past.
Maybe this would be a good year to attend that Christmas Eve service you've missed the past several years, or invite an elderly single person over for Christmas dinner. Or maybe take a nice Christmas dinner over to someone who's homebound.
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With the 2012 NBA Playoffs right around the corner it only seems fitting that Jordan Brand is prepping to retro a classic 'Playoffs' colorway from the Air Jordan line. Think of it as a reminder of sorts, lest the younger generation lose sight of the dominance displayed by MJ in his heyday. The Air Jordan XII 'Playoffs' actually first showed up at the 1997 NBA All-Star Game, wherein Michael made them look good while also making history with the first triple-double in the history of the game. The sneakers of course again popped up on Michael's feet during the Bull's post-season bid of that same year, one that ended in yet another championship for the squad and landed Michael Jordan smack dab in the middle of another three-peat. The Bulls' finals matchup against Karl Malone and the Utah Jazz saw Michael laughing in the face of detractors who touted the season as one where his age would begin to show, with Chicago emerging victorious in six games and MJ adding another Finals MVP Award to his resume to go with his new hardware.
This year's version of the sneaker comes as the first in what promises to be a healthy year for the Air Jordan XII, with new colorways mixed in with a few that hold a bit more history like the 'Playoffs' shown here. The obviously Bulls-based sneaker lets black and white play the dominant roles on the upper, with the red aspects being decidedly more minimal than in previous 'Playoffs' colorways. Click through to get some beautifully detailed shots that show off the 2012 retro of the Air Jordan XII 'Playoffs' as well as photos from Michael's tenure in the sneakers, and a highlight reel from his epic All-Star Game performance. When you're done with that make sure you drop a comment to let us know if you're picking up the Air Jordan XII 'Playoffs' this Saturday, April 21st. Photos: US10/Sneaker News
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Israel asks Hungary to withdraw journalism award
- Associated Press
- March 18, 2013 - 4:34 PM
BUDAPEST, Hungary - Hungary should withdraw a state journalism award given to a TV presenter whose station was fined in 2011 for making derogatory remarks about Gypsies and Jews, Israel's ambassador said Monday.
Ambassador Ilan Mor said in a statement that Ferenc Szaniszlo's award was given "to the wrong person for the very wrong reasons."
"His ideas do not belong in a free and democratic society like the one in Hungary," Mor said. "While Israel and Hungary are cooperating in fighting against anti-Semitism, such awards might cause (a) negative impression and lead us to the wrong direction."
In comments made on his show on Echo TV in 2011, Szaniszlo said Gypsies — or Roma — are monkeys and implied that Jews and Roma have carried out anti-Hungarian activities.
Minister of Human Resources Zoltan Balog said he was unaware of Szaniszlo's remarks and regretted giving him the Mihaly Tancsis award, but said he did not have the power to take it back.
Several earlier recipients of the Tancsis award said they would return the prize because they did not want to be associated with Szaniszlo, who was honored on Friday, even though a panel of journalists advising Balog had not supported the decision.
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Crisps and Chips: Teen Fiction with a British Connection - Teaser by Emily, Teen Blogger
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Daniel Radcliffe and Benedict Cumberbatch, Doctor Who and Sherlock. Those are all very well known (and mostly loved) creations straight from the UK. We may tune into the BBC to watch our favourite shows and actors, but how many of us have taken the chance to read some good young adult fiction with a British connection? If the only books you could come up with were written by J.K. Rowling, have no fear, I'm here with a few great suggestions....
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Even if I like a software to be free as in freedom, I respect a software developer to do whatever with his software
Even if I like a software to be free as in freedom, I respect a software developer to do whatever with his software
There are and needs to be more stringent restrictions on what can be put in a license agreement. Right now you could sign away your first born with my Primary Recombinant DNA Acquisition license but I'd be SOL when I came to collect.
License often carry unreasonable terms for the licensee and no responsibility for the licenser. I think that licenses should be standardised (as in ISO) and ha
Which license redefines math so that 1980 + 10 = 2000, and taking 93% leaves only 3% remaining?
The Sonny Bono License.
The summary left out part of a sentence:
It's important to note that the top 10 licenses cover 93% of all projects and the top 20 almost 97%.
Welcome to New Math! Where any answer is the right one!
Way to go Jimmy!
Slow day.
Here's some more ideas:
Would you smell a nasty fart to prevent terrorism?
Would you give up your ability to see if it meant you could time travel?
Would you listen to an entire Britney Spears album if it could bring about world peace?
You owe me a meal and a bottle of brain bleach for that written Goatse/PainSeries.
Please mod down.
just ask rms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ [youtube.com]
-- Would you take a job as Steve "Monkeyboy" Ballmer's toe-cheese extractor if it meant Microsoft would publish only via OSS licenses?
I suppose it would be a worthy sacrifice.
-- Would you take a position as Steve "Tyrant" Jobs' fashion consultant if it meant Apple would open up the app store?
I am willing to expend my life in pursuit of turtlenecks if it means Openness for all.
-- Would you lick Stallman's neck and armpit if it meant GNU/Hurd became a complete, usable, modern kernel?
No! Not in a thousand lifetimes, no! What do you think I am, you sick twisted fuck?!?
Microsoft to publish their source code under OSS licenses? So you want Steve Ballmer's toe cheese to not only be smelled by you but also to proliferate throughout the entire internet?
-- Would you lick Stallman's neck and armpit if it meant GNU/Hurd became a complete, usable, modern kernel?
Would get Stallman to finally shut up? If so, I'd definitely consider it.
you, sir, owe me a new keyboard, plus a case of hard liquor to remove the mental image of someone licking RMS's armpit from my brain
-- Would you take a position as Steve "Tyrant" Jobs' fashion consultant if it meant Apple would open up the app store?
That's easy. I could write a program to do that!
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("Ah, Mr Jobs. Try the black skivvy - I am sure you will like it.\n");
return 0;
Would you lick Stallman's neck and armpit if it meant GNU/Hurd became a complete, usable, modern kernel?
C'mon now, asking for someone to sacrifice his life for a cause, even as worthy as that, is too much!
Would you listen to an entire Britney Spears album if it could bring about world peace?
Britney's albums are hardly what I would call "music", and the concept of world peace is the antithesis to human nature. Regardless, it's par for the course.
Would you listen to an entire Britney Spears album if it could bring about world peace?
Depends, is "world peace" defined as "all humans exterminated" and is the Spears album the delivery method of said destruction?
If a software license exists, and no software is written that is available under the terms of that license, does it merit discussion on Slashdot?
It looks to me as somebody set up a site to create a gallery of TOSes so software writers can get some ideas... but then the site got attacked by the typical forum trolls took over and we get a comedy site as the end result. This belongs to Idle next to news from The Onion.
No software? I'm dissapointed...
Seems like a decent fit for grave / graveyard info screens, embedded software used for some equipment required for transplants, controlling the morgue, etc.
Although would it be possible for this license to have close to an applicable use? Ie. Software for dealing with funeral expenses. You can only use it if you are dead, and being dead gives leave for your family to access the software license only. If you aren't dead, then they or you are breaking the terms of the license. Just a thought, obviously the terms of excessive punishment may need to be edited.
I believe a court would find that clause unenforceable and sever it from the rest of the contract.
I believe a court would also find that you lack any sense of humor. The D&R license is a joke.
No, really?
It's still offered as license. Since it's offered as an option with a BSD license it doesn't really matter, but if the software was actually valuable and other license more restrictive making such a joke could end up costing you when someone tries to get a court to strip bits out and just leave "you can have it all"...
Only if it was unconditional. If (as with most free software licenses) it was conditioned on actions that would ordinarily violate copyright, the court might simply ignore the clause as irrelevant (and probably whimsical*), and rule that you're guilty of copyright violation. In fact, as with the GPL, it's unlikely that the license would ever be mentioned in court, since the plaintiff has a straightforward copyright violation case, and the defendant can't claim to be dead and thus protected from prosecutio
The "freedom to encumber" works is like the "freedom to punch someone"
-- Gregory Maxwell, discussion on licensing
That would be a good description of copyright, and thus copyright licenses, but not contracts in general. The terms of a contract are merely conditions which you require to be met before you will voluntarily give the other party some of your property, which you are in no way obligated to do. No matter what the terms may be, they impose no expense on others; one is always free to ignore the offer should one find the terms unpalatable. Licenses are similar, but the copyrights which give licenses their power are artificial social-engineering constructs which only exist at the expense of others.
Fair, although contract law has recognised certain topics where contracts are not free for good reason - situations of some sorts are considered generally either coercive or one-sided enough that the public good is ill-served by the absence of some (or significant regulation). Landlord-tenant law is one example, although English common law has accumulated a long list of other circumstances and remedies to specific abuses, many of which we've kept in the US.
I recognize that modern contract law has (incorrectly and unjustly, IMHO) rendered certain kinds of contractual terms void. However, even if such terms were fully enforceable they would still be nothing like the "freedom to punch someone" referred to in the Gregory Maxwell quote.
I don't know about serving "the public good"—that isn't really the purpose of contracts, at least not directly—but no mere contractual term is ever truly coercive per se. Somewhere along the line the idea came about that
Many of us support the use of force to serve the public good, and feel that the public good is in fact the whole point of government and society.
I see where you're coming from though - there's a number of ways to think about the goals/purposes of these things.
Many of us support the use of force to serve the public good, and feel that the public good is in fact the whole point of government and society.
I would not really disagree with either of those statements. However, in my considered opinion the initiation of force against non-aggressors never serves the public good. The purpose of government may indeed be to serve the public good, but I feel its fundamental nature as a legitimized aggressor can only serve to undermine that purpose.
I am not a utilitarian; I do not believe that it is possible to weight the benefits to some against involuntary costs imposed on others. The obvious corellary is that the o
It's not only utilitarians who consider such weighings - various principled philosophies do as well. Any concept of duty that's not wholly negative requires it. It sounds like your perspective is somewhere in the Libertarian-Objectivist spectrum - mine is somewhere in the Academic-Socialist spectrum - I suspect we're not going to see eye-to-eye on what you'd call coercion. To me, autonomy is one thing that's important for human happiness and well-being but it's something I'd sacrifice in certain structured
I already responded to all of this in the GP comment:
Somewhere along the line the idea came about that because someone really wants something, it is somehow coercive to place conditions on giving it to them (even though you aren't required to give it to them at all). I obviously reject this notion; coercion is force, and only force.
"Really want" includes things you think you need for survival: food, shelter, work. No one is obligated to provide you with any of that; if they choose to offer it to you they have an absolute right to impose whatever conditions they want. Of course you are free to reject their conditions, but they are equally free to keep their property.
Tempering that somewhat, note that I consider contracts to only include transfers of alienable property. In other words
Libertarian viewpoint which places liberty as the highest value is completely incompatible with the anarchistic viewpoint because liberty cannot exist in an anarchy
On the contrary, liberty cannot exist except in anarchy. Simply put, government is legitimized aggression; that is the only trait which distinguishes it from other private organizations, such as co-ops. Liberty is the absence of aggression. The libertarian viewpoint is that aggression (initiation of force against a non-aggressor) is never legitimate. The libertarian society can only be anarchistic; if it had a government then it would be endorsing aggression, and thus not libertarian.
A fully libertarian soc
That would be a good description of copyright, and thus copyright licenses, but not contracts in general.
"Contracts in general" is a really bad description of software licenses. Contracts are rarely one sided and almost always negotiated between parties. More over they require express consent in the form of a signature to be valid. A software license is never negotiated, has no responsibilities for the vendor and uses implied consent (shrink wrap Eula, press F8, click I agree). Most contracts define the
The point of quips are that they state a position succinctly and with charm, not that they rely on the authority of the person who said them. I could tell you who he is, but it doesn't really matter.
Your honor it is clear the defendant rejected the BSD license. They must therefore have accepted the alternate D&R licenses. In recognition of this we demand the death of the defendant as fulfillment of the terms of the license.
The Death and Repudiation License is nothing compared to the EULA of iPhone OS 5.1
I remember many shareware authors writing strange things in their terms and licenses.
I recall that a common graphics viewer those cool new GIF files (among many other formats) wrote that if you continued using their software after 30 days without paying then a demon would be visited by demons who would torment you.
I was just a kid, didn't have a job, and I never paid. Demons rarely ever visited, and when they did it was just to borrow a cup of sugar or use the phone.
I have seen ones, approved by the permit people no less, with instructions to the 'bat cave', lyrics from Pink Floyd, and all kinds of weird junk.
I recall that a common graphics viewer those cool new GIF files (among many other formats) wrote that if you continued using their software after 30 days without paying then a demon would be visited by demons who would torment you.
Graphics Workshop had something like this. In fact:
If you want to see additional features in Graphic Workshop, register
it. If we had an Arcturian mega-dollar for everyone who has said
they'd most certainly register their copy if we'd add just one
more thing to it, we could buy ourselves a universe and retire.
Oh yes, should you fail to support this program and continue to
use it, a leather winged demon of the night will tear itself,
shrieking blood and fury, from the endless caverns of the nether
world, hurl itself into the darkness with a thirst for blood on
its slavering fangs and search the very threads of time for the
throbbing of your heartbeat. Just thought you'd want to know
I was an adult, had a job, and never bought (mainly because I
One of my schoolmates released some software with a custom license, which was basically the old-form original UC Berkeley BSD license with a restriction prohibiting any use by persons in "Country Code F", defined as (paraphrasing from memory):
"France, Belgium, Quebec, Sengal, Ghana, Did we mention France?"
I think it was bad experiences with language classes in high school, but I'm not sure.
The D&R license doesn't require anyone to die... you just have to be dead to use software under it. The license even specifies how this is to be accomplished. You're allowed to tell your heirs to use the software on your behalf after you're dead.
The really puzzling clause is the revocation clause, which not only allows the licensor to revoke the license, but proclaims that the licensor WILL revoke the license, and then the heirs will be punished "to the fullest extent of the law." I believe a court would only find liability for usage AFTER the licensor revoked, regardless of the drafter's intention.
Another strange clause seems to say that ghosts and angels are not considered dead for purposes of the license. Pure silliness, of course. What court would claim jurisdiction over angels and ghosts? Certainly not a human one. And an inhuman one is not likely to respect software licenses. The drafter made a big mistake here in failing to define ghosts and angels. These words are just begging for a legal definition.
I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.
"Cake or death?" That's a pretty easy question. Anyone could answer that.
- "Cake or death?"
- "Eh, cake please."
- "Very well! Give him cake!"
- "Oh, thanks very much. It's very nice."
- "You! Cake or death?"
- Uh, cake for me, too, please."
- "Very well! Give him cake, too! We're gonna run out of cake at this rate. You! Cake or death?"
- "Uh, death, please. No, cake! Cake! Cake, sorry. Sorry..."
- "You said death first, uh-uh, death first!"
- "Well, I meant cake!"
- "Oh
"Would the software license [orig.: 'my country'] die for me?"
I saw this once on the intertubes:
I am willing to die to prove that my god exists!!! Are you willing to die to prove that he doesn't!
So it's all well and good.
Wow! That sort of quote is the quintessence of the median of American theological debate.
Since the probability of the first happening is vanishingly small (at least for the moron who spouted it), and the probability of the second higher than the first (at least in this country), being rational, I'd tend to say no to the second. However, that still is not a proof of God's existence (or non-existence). A greater willingness to die stupidly does not a proof make.
Of course, being a heathen (and somewhat snar
I'm willing to eat a tasty cupcake to prove your god doesn't exist. It may not be as dramatic as dying, but it is every bit as effective a proof!
A -lot- of commercial software have that in their licenses. So many, in fact, that I find myself wondering if there aren't laws in some first world countries that force that to be in there somewhere unless you have specific certifications.
You don't think Windows for the Navy actually runs the mission critical systems like the reactor do you? Regardless, every system on the modern navy has a manual control system, not that you can actually hit a target with manual fire control as was proved many times during WWII, but the controls are there just in case you want to fire 1000 shells and only hit the target once.
You don't think Windows for the Navy actually runs the mission critical systems like the reactor do you?
I thought everything mission critical in the military had to be written in Ada?
I don't know how they reconcile that with Windows for Battleships exactly.
I think that's a moot point, because nobody uses battleships anymore. [wikipedia.org]
It was Windows for Warships.
Kids these days, just don't get alliteration any more.
Windows for Battleships is specifically certified for such applications.
It's just like the operating systems that run the equipment on fighter jets - they are very thoroughly tested and cleared by the military first.
Unlike some oil companies I know, which buy the most expensive product then trust the vendor to tell them how awesome it is even though all their employees are screaming about how it runs slower and with fewer features than the 30 year old tech they were using before. *twitch*
Well, thank god, really
I wouldn't want a java program controlling a nuclear facility!
Or better, I wouldn't want the average java programmer making a java program that will control a nuclear facility.
Or better, I wouldn't want the average java programmer making a java program that will control a nuclear facility.
Yeah, but that provision means even drawing up a rough preliminary schematic on a drawing program written in Java is verboten. And I believe I found that gem in the JRE EULA, so all common users have to agree to it, not just developers. But you can always get around it by switching to OpenJDK, so beware!
You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of missiles, or nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
The reality distortion field will not be weaponized!
You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of missiles, or nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
That's a really stupid way for them to word that provision. What if you work at a DoD lab or Northrup Grumman and you like to jam out while you work?
...."the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility." That's in Sun's EULA. For real.
According to James Gosling, its there for good reason; to paraphrase: "During the early days of Java there were some guys getting support from Sun for a nuclear simulator. After some long discussions, they found out they were using it for the operation of a nuclear power plant. Sun and their lawyers wanted no part of anything like that, just in case."
Somewhat related is one of my favorite fortune cookies:
NOTE: No warranties, either express or implied, are hereby given. All
software is supplied as is, without guarantee. The user assumes all
responsibility for damages resulting from the use of these features,
including, but not limited to, frustration, disgust, system abends, disk
head-crashes, general malfeasance, floods, fires, shark attack, nerve
gas, locust infestation, cyclones, hurricanes, tsunamis, local
electromagnetic disruptions, hydraulic brake syst
My family and a few select friends that I believe to be better people than myself.
I would like to think I would give my life if it meant saving more that one person. As Spock said (which probably came from someone else I'm sure): The needs of the many outweight the needs of the few or the one.
There are several constraints on these things of course, and in reality if it comes right down to it, I would probably not have the courage to do so, even if I think I do now while I'm not facing the decision directl
Who goeth a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing. -- Thomas Tusser


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Quiet winds on an early spring day allowed a plume of gas and ash to hover above Shiveluch Volcano. This false-color (near infrared, red, and green) image was collected by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on the Terra satellite on April 3, 2013. Snow is white, ash is light brown, volcanic debris is dark brown, and vegetation is red. Three other volcanoes—Bezymianny, Tolbachik, and Kizimen—on the Kamchatka Peninsula were erupting simultaneously, and visible in the (very large) full image. A fourth, Klyuchevskaya, exhibited a small plume.
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- Kamchatka and the Northern Kuriles volcanoes: Erupting or Restless Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team.
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Lightning Returns is a big game with lots of things going on. A new combat system, a ridiculous story, and changing clothes are just a few of the talking points. In this episode of Test Chamber, Game Informer's Andrew Reiner and Joe Juba show the third Final Fantasy XIII game in action while covering the important topics...and dumb mustaches.
You can watch the episode below, but if you want even more Lightning Returns, read our review and our beginner's guide to be fully prepared for the end of the world.
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|Is everyone who wears an orange shirt or vest a Caltrans worker?
No. They may be city or county or private workers, or even probationers working off their time. Caltrans does its own maintenance work, but for new projects or major reconstruction, private contractors are hired. To identify Caltrans workers, look for the white hard hats and orange trucks with the CT logo on the side.


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Linux Security Modules Project Update 8
James Morris writes: "Here's an update on the Linux Security Modules project (LSM). In April last year, the NSA proposed SELinux at the first Linux Kernel Summit. Following feedback from Linus, the LSM project was initiated by Crispin Cowan to develop a generic access control framework for Linux which would allow different types of security policies to be implemented as loadable kernel modules. Rather than having to choose one security model, LSM aims to provide a framework for incorporating a variety of advanced security mechanisms into Linux with a minimal effect on the base kernel. This week, Chris Wright (the principal maintainer) formally announced patches for the 2.4 and 2.5 kernels. Chris will be presenting LSM at this year's Kernel Summit and giving a talk at OLS, hopefully kicking off discussion on acceptance of LSM into the main kernel. Projects which have already been ported to LSM include SELinux, LIDS, DTE, Openwall and Posix.1e Capabilities. Check out the newly re-vamped web site for downloads, documentation and general information."


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The practice of sharing the Cup with members of the championship team began in 1995 with the New Jersey Devils. Prior to that, the celebration was a team affair and seldom did individuals get the opportunity to share their victory with family and friends. Going back several decades, team members often didn't even get to cradle the Cup. More often than not, the Cup was placed on a table at centre ice, the league president presented the trophy to the team captain who accepted it, then placed it back on the table or carried it to the dressing room. After an official team portrait, in uniform with the Stanley Cup the next morning, most team members never got the chance to see Lord Stanley's mug again, let alone examine their names engraved in the silver patina of the Cup's barrel.
This summer, the Stanley Cup will again log thousands of travel miles. As plans are being finalized, it appears the Cup will travel to three Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario), seven states (North Carolina, North Dakota, Michigan, Maine, Missouri, New York and Minnesota) as well as to the Czech Republic, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland and the Ukraine.
Every Hurricane player can celebrate in the way he best sees fit, but you know that every celebration, no matter how public or private, will include a drink (or two) out of the bowl of the Stanley Cup.
Hall of Famer Red Kelly laughs every time he witnesses this time-honoured tradition take place. "In the last game (of the Stanley Cup final), I had my knee frozen and I passed out in the shower," began Red. "They took me to the hospital on a stretcher. Mr. Pearson (the Canadian Prime Minister) was at the game and he came into the dressing room and I didn't even get to see him. I was on crutches and didn't get to be part of any of the celebration. (Leaf owner) Harold Ballard brought the Cup and a couple bottles of champagne and a photographer out to my house and they took a picture of my family around the Cup. I put my newborn son Conn (named after former Leaf owner, Conn Smythe) in the Cup and they took a picture. And the look on Conn's face -- he did the whole load in the Cup! Our family always chuckles when they see guys drinking the champagne out of the Cup."
Located on the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, Campbell River is called the 'Salmon Capital of Canada' for good reason. Like Brind'Amour, thousands of hearty fish return home every summer. In the captain's case, it's to bond. For the salmon, it's to spawn.
The Stanley Cup was flown from Vancouver over the Georgia Strait to Campbell River, arriving at noon on Sunday, June 25. It was met there by two of the many people who worked on the Rod Brind'Amour Cystic Fibrosis Golf Classic, which had taken place the day before. They took the Cup to the hotel where Rod and teammate Mike Commodore were waiting. After a short visit with family and friends, the Hurricane workhorses were front and centre in a celebratory parade through the centre of Campbell River. Almost 6,000 residents lined Shoppers Row and cheered wildly as Brind'Amour and Commodore, with the Stanley Cup riding shotgun, waved to the crowd from an open convertible, leading the parade through town.
The parade concluded at the Tyree Plaza, where acting mayor Roy Grant welcomed Campbell River's favourite citizen and announced, much to the astonishment of the 'Canes' captain, that a street was to be named in his honour! Brind'Amour Road will be found in a newly-constructed subdivision, at the corners of Jubilee Parkway and Highway 19A. No one runs over Rod on the ice, so this will be the only way anyone will be able to make that claim.
Rod, Mike Commodore and the Stanley Cup went back to the Brind'Amour family home where Rod's father Bob, mother Linda and brother Michel, a Toronto police officer, waited with great anticipation. Good food was spread out waiting for the return of the conquering heroes.
Returning home, the Brind'Amours served dinner. Every time someone called out, 'Hey Mike,' four guys answered -- Mike Commodore, Rod's friend Mike from Philadelphia, another pal named Mike from North Carolina and the keeper of the Cup, Mike Bolt. Bob and Linda Brind'Amour had prepared a beautiful barbecue (Rod's Dad called it a 'Bob-ecue') of fresh salmon and pork chops.
On Monday (June 26), Rod decided to take his buddies fishing. Although they left the Stanley Cup behind at the family home, Rod and the boys drowned a few worms�and that was about all, although 'Philadelphia Mike' swore he had one that got away.
Bob Brind'Amour drove the Cup to meet the boys, and then proceeded back up to Elk Falls, which by then, had re-opened. Amidst the stunning rustic scenery, Rod, Mike Commodore and the Stanley Cup waded out into the river for photos, although Brind'Amour ensured that the trophy never touched the water's surface. It was a refreshing afternoon, both with the swirling, crystal clear water flowing around the athletes and refreshing to see the strain erased from the faces and shoulders of the Hurricane stars. "Man, this is the same place we used to swim before I went away to play hockey," smiled Brind'Amour.
At that point, Mike Commodore headed to the hotel while Rod and his family returned home. Friends of Rod's parents were there waiting to say hello to Bob and Linda's kid, and to see the Stanley Cup. After photos, all enjoyed another barbecue. At 7PM, the Stanley Cup was packed up and flown back to Vancouver.
On Tuesday, the Stanley Cup takes Carolina's Cam Ward and Eric Staal for a tour of New York City, and you'll bite into the Big Apple right here with the 'Stanley Cup Journal.'
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Orrstown battles loan losses
It's been a tough 12 months for Orrstown Bank and its holding company, Orrstown Financial Services Inc.
On April 6, 2011, Orrstown's stock closed at 29.28, its high for the year. On Monday this week, it closed at 7.82, a drop of 73 percent.
In July, Orrstown reported what it later called its first-ever quarterly loss, totaling $10.6 million. In October, the Shippensburg-based bank announced it was suspending its dividend indefinitely at the direction of its federal regulator.
In January, Orrstown reported losses for 2011 of $23 million, making it the only major publicly traded midstate-based bank to lose money that year. On March 12, it revised the loss upward to $32 million.
Ten days later, Orrstown announced it had signed a consent order with the state Department of Banking and a written agreement with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The order and agreement call on Orrstown to strengthen its board oversight and risk management and prune its portfolio of bad loans.
"They have huge challenges ahead," said Peter Labella, president of FMA Advisory Inc., a wealth management firm based in Harrisburg.
Orrstown declined to comment to the Business Journal until after its first-quarter earnings release and May 1 annual meeting, spokesman Mark Bayer said. However, the bank's managers have issued several public statements indicating their recognition of the need for a turnaround.
"We are not satisfied with our results and know you deserve better," President and CEO Thomas Quinn wrote in a letter to shareholders introducing Orrstown Financial's 2011 annual report.
Founded in 1919, Orrstown has long enjoyed a sterling reputation as a prudent small-town bank, local bankers and analysts said. For its first 60 years, it operated a single location, according to a company history. Its sole acquisition was PerryCounty's First National Bank of Newport in 2007.
In April 2009, it went public, trading on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol ORRF. Today it has assets of $1.45 billion and 21 offices in a footprint that stretches along Interstate 81 from Camp Hill to Hagerstown, Md.
Quinn has been Orrstown Bank's president since May 2009. He succeeded Ken Shoemaker, who led the bank for more than 20 years and remains on Orrstown Financial's board. Shoemaker will step down next month, though he will remain the bank's president emeritus.
In his letter to shareholders, Quinn cited commercial loans, particularly commercial real estate loans, as the source of Orrstown's troubles. The company took a one-time goodwill impairment charge of $19.4 million, he noted.
Analyst Matt Schultheis follows Orrstown for Boenning & Scattergood, a Philadelphia-area investment banking and finance firm. He said he suspects the bank kept lending money for real estate projects in 2007-09, after other banks pulled back during the recession.
At the time, Orrstown was engaged in a push to expand its market up and down Interstate 81, northeast toward Carlisle and southwest toward Hagerstown, he said.
Orrstown's "total risk assets," a category that includes nonperforming loans and those restructured to help borrowers, increased from $18.4 million in December 2010 to $113.8 million in December 2011, according to Orrstown's annual financial filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Orrstown's fourth-quarter call reports for 2010 and 2011, as filed with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., show sharp year-on-year jumps in most categories of nonperforming loans. Nonperforming construction and land development loans went from $93,000 to $18 million. Bad residential mortgages surged from $443,000 to $28.4 million. Nonperforming loans secured by commercial properties went from $2.1 million to $18.1 million.
Nonperforming commercial and industrial loans did drop from $9.5 million in 2010 to $405,000 in 2011. However, Orrstown reported $9.5 million in charge-offs for that category in 2011, along with charge-offs of $9.1 million on construction and land development loans, $2.5 million on residential mortgages and $3.4 million on loans secured by commercial properties, the call report said.
It's hard not to lose money when land development loans go bad, said George Millward, a managing director at bank consulting firm The Kafafian Group.
"Basically, what you have is expensive dirt," he said.
If infrastructure has been put in, that's even more money gone, he said.
"It seems to me from what I'm seeing they're handling this fairly aggressively," recognizing losses and moving on, Schultheis said. However, some of that is being forced on Orrstown by regulators, he said.
In its quarterly statements, Orrstown alludes to a small number of lending relationships that soured. Those remain undisclosed, with one exception: Orrstown said last summer it was writing off its entire $8.6 million loan to bankrupt Camp Hill-based construction lending firm Yorktown Funding Inc.
Yorktown Funding funneled money from several midstate banks into housing construction in, among other places,Florida'sLee County, center of a major speculative building boom and bust. For a while, Orrstown planned to underwrite Yorktown Funding II, a successor to Yorktown Funding owned and operated by the same businessmen but reversed course last summer.
The Philadelphia Fed and state Department of Banking required Orrstown to obtain independent consultants to go over its loans and lending practices. The consultants are to evaluate all senior managers for competence. In addition, the state's consent order calls for an equivalent review to be conducted on board members.
"That's not uncommon, but it's probably not as prevalent" as demands that managers be evaluated, said John Soffronoff of ICS Risk Advisors, a New York-based consulting firm that advises banks on regulatory compliance and risk management.
Can Orrstown overcome its problems? The board and management are "committed to restoring the Company's performance to historic levels," the annual report said.
Labella said he's not certain Orrstown can return to health on its own.
"I would think it would be very difficult to overcome the challenges," he said.
One top executive at a midstate bank, who asked not to be named, said he expects Orrstown to be sold.
"The odds of Orrstown surviving are slim to none," he said.
However, finding a purchaser would be difficult, Schultheis said. Banks want to buy institutions without significant loan problems, he said.
The next couple of quarters will be crucial for Orrstown, Schultheis said. If the bank can clear the bulk of its bad loans off its books, and no fresh concerns turn up, that will be an encouraging sign, he said.
"I can point to banks that had the same type of issues that are doing really well today," he said.


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The UN General Assembly has unanimously approved a resolution calling for a global ban on female genital mutilation, a centuries-old practice stemming from the belief that circumcising girls controls women's sexuality and enhances fertility.
It also has been linked to religious beliefs, although Muslim and Christian leaders have spoken out against it.
The UN said in 2010 that about 70 million girls and women had undergone the procedure. The World Health Organization said about 6,000 girls were circumcised every day.
The resolution, adopted Thursday by consensus, calls the practice harmful and a serious threat to the psychological, sexual and reproductive health of women and girls.
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Puella Magi Madoka MagicaSubmitted by Teen Services on April 5, 2013 - 9:19am
I've been hearing for months that I need to read a manga staring Madoka, so I finally picked this up to see what everyone has been talking about. Turns out there is a lot to talk about.
Madoka is a typical school girl until she meets a magical talking cat that wants to make a deal with her and turn her into a magical girl. As a magical girl Madoka would fight witches and stop them from cursing and hurting others. The magic cat has Madoka shadow one of his magical girls so that she can see what having powers is all about.
Now for those of you getting a distinct Sailor Moon vibe the resemblance stops there. Madoka's version is much, much darker. Think Sailor Moon with less humor, more blood, and a talking cat that definitely has a hidden agenda that has nothing to do with becoming the moon princess. In the first volume people get hurt and Madoka realizes that getting to have magical powers is not all sunshine and moonbeams. There is death and grief, and feeling all alone against the powers of evil. Also not all of the magical girls work together. There is some very serious rivalries going on between magical girls. The Sailor Scouts never threatened to kill each other.
Madoka Magika takes the normal magical girl story and turns it on its head. Take the serious tone of Claymore and put that into a story about a high school girl getting magic from a talking animal and you have Puella Magi Madoka Magica in a nutshell. For those who love the magical theme, but are sick of reading the same thing every time.
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Abbeville, AL - Authorities have officially charged three individuals in the death of 17-year-old Tyric Brown that occurred Saturday, April 13.
17-year-old Marquise Barwick, 17-year-old Gregory Spann and 18-year-old Montrez Brown, all of Abbeville, have been charged with murder.
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2014 Fantasy Baseball Player Profile: Matt Cain
I've always been a fan of Matt Cain. Have I allowed that to blind me to what is going on in 2014?
I like Matt Cain. Not only does he pitch for the Giants, but he's stable. In this day and age when, literally, every day you crank up the computer you are bombarded with reports of injured pitchers, Cain is a nice pitcher to own. Yes, he's dealt with some concerns with his health this season, and for that matter a bit last season, but from 2006-13 he threw at least 180 innings each season. How many others accomplished that feat? The answer is five: Mark Buehrle, CC Sabathia, Felix Hernandez, Bronson Arroyo and Justin Verlander. Cain's performance was down last season and I predicted a rebound (here is his preseason Player Profile). It hasn't materialized. Will it or is it time to move on?
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Cain is 1-7 this year. I try not to fault a hurler when their won-loss record is deficient, but it's hard not to get stuck on that number. Maybe Cain isn't a winner? Maybe Cain is snake-bit? Whatever you want to call it, he's never been a big winner. Cain has won 15 games just once and for his career he's 94-95. Just not good. But again, how much control does a pitcher have over his W-L record? We can debate that another time, but I'd lean toward the side that says he can influence it but ultimately it's out of his hands.
Cain has a 4.00 ERA and he has a 4.27 mark this season. For a guy who owns a 3.39 career ERA it's clear that Cain has lost it. That's what many think. Is that accurate?
Cain's fastball velocity this year is 91.6 mph. The last four seasons the mark has been between 91.2 and 91.6 mph. Cain's slider velocity is 86.2 mph this season. The last four years the mark has been between 85.1 and 86.5 mph. Clearly velocity is not an issue.
Cain has thrown a first pitch strike 61.6 percent of the time. His career mark is 59.7 percent though his rates were 61.0, 62.4 and 63.3 percent the last three seasons. Still, there is no real change here.
Cain has a swinging strike percentage of 8.8 percent this season. What's his career mark? Try 8.8 percent.
The contact rate against Cain, the amount of contact batters make on all their cuts, is 80.5 percent this season. His career mark is 81.0 percent.
There are two categories that point to a slight concern, but notice I used the word "slight." The percentage of pitches that batters are hacking at that are outside the strike zone is 28.9 percent. While that is better than his career 28.1 percent mark it is below the 30.9-33.5 percent mark he's had the last four seasons. Cain also is sporting an eight year low in the total percentage of swings that batters take at his pitches. For his career batters swing at 47.8 percent of his offerings. This season the mark is 46.1 percent. Something to keep an eye on, but not a dire warning.
That's a whole lot of "normal" for Cain, you have to admit that, right?
Though his record sucks banana peels, and his ERA is far from ideal, many have seemingly missed that even with all his struggles his WHIP is 1.26. That's not a terrible mark. Now for a guy who is at 1.10 the past four years it's disappointing, but the guy still has 14-15 starts to try and bring that number down. Everyone loves Yordano Ventura, right? His mark is 1.24 this season.
Cain has never been a huge strikeout guy – his totals come from staying healthy and throwing a lot of innings. His K/9 mark is down a half batter from his career mark at 7.04, and that would be a 9-year low. Again, not terribly down, but down. The problem with the pullback in the Ks is that its been accompanied by a significant up turn in walks. Not only would his 3.20 per nine mark this season be a six year high, but over the past four seasons his mark has been 2.44, substantially below where he's at this season. I take it as a positive that he's walked a total of seven batters over his last four starts, why don't you?
Cain has a 19.4 percent line drive rate. His career mark is 19.3 percent.
Cain has a 45.2 percent ground ball rate. That's the best of his career, substantially (his previous best is 41.7 percent in 2011, the only time in his career he's had a mark of 40 percent). The resultant 1.27 GB/FB ratio is the best of his career (it would be only his second mark in the 1's). This is a very positive development for the decidedly fly ball arm that is Cain.
It's those damn home runs though. Cain had never allowed a HR/9 mark above 0.91 prior to last season. The mark ended up being 1.12 at the end of 2013. So, we've seen regression this year, right? Nope. His HR/9 mark is even higher at 1.28. Now I just noted how he's got the best GB/FB ratio of his career, and his current fly ball rate of 35.5 percent would also be a career best. How do you allow fewer fly balls than ever before but more homers than ever before? Cain's homer to fly ball ratio is 13.6 percent. Last year was the first time he finished a season with a mark above 8.4 percent and it was 10.8 percent. This year the mark is even higher at 13.6 percent. Honest question. Given all the "normal" with Cain this year compared to his career levels, do you really think it logical to posit that a man with a 7.4 percent career HR/F ratio would see that number rise by 84 percent? Think about that.
There's a whole lot of "normal" Matt Cain going on here. I looked at the data, analyzed it objectively, and it's still telling me that Cain should be someone who shows an improvement in the second half.
10 team lg: Give his record and current ratios you could move on from him in this format. There are just too many solid options out there to hold on to a guy who isn't producing unless your team is healthy and in really good shape.
12 team lg: Someone needs to own Cain. I would suggest that you make a play to add him to your squad. Most owners won't agree with the data and will think Cain is on the cusp of being washed up. You could likely add him at a solid discount.
15 team lg: A great target. As I've noted, a return to solid overall numbers certainly is indicated by the data. If you can grab him at the right price, do it. If you own him, be patient.
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Tom Wolf doesn't understand the Corbett administration's rush to privatize the state lottery — and the business leader knows a thing or two about the lottery, having run it as state Revenue Secretary a few years ago.
From his perspective, the lottery isn't broken — so why "fix" it?
It's well-run — without a lot of bloated bureaucracy.
It returns something like a 30 percent net profit — which most business owners would be pretty happy with these days.
The lottery provides a lot of funding for programs benefiting "older Pennsylvanians."
And a proposed deal with a British company — the only bidder for the job — guaranteeing $34 billion in profits for the state over the next 20 years seems like a chancy proposition. Not unlike buying, well, a lottery ticket.
The leader of the Wolf Organization — who has been cited as a possible candidate for governor — makes some excellent points.
It might be that the only way to boost such profits would be to dramatically expand lottery gambling opportunities — and it seems like we already have plenty of opportunities for people who really can't afford it to plunk down their cash on games that the "house" usually wins.
Is that what we want in Pennsylvania? Don't we have enough "gaming" what with the existing lottery and the casinos that dot the state?
It would be pointless to argue against state-sanctioned gambling — people are going to do it, and that genie left the bottle long ago. But it does seem reasonable to debate how much state-profiting gambling is necessary.
And it does seem like the Corbett administration is rushing a deal to privatize the lottery.
A recent lawsuit filed by state Democrats argues the governor doesn't even have the authority to privatize the system without approval by the Legislature.
State officials need to slow this process, think it through, make certain they understand all the ramifications and pitfalls of such a move. If, in the end, it seems like a can't-lose proposition that's not designed to turn state gambling devotees into the nation's biggest losers, then go ahead.
There's nothing inherently wrong with privatizing state services if they can be done more efficiently by the private sector.
The state's liquor and wine sales system is a good example of that. The Liquor Control Board has tried in recent years to improve customer service and to operate more like private-sector enterprises, but it's doing a lousy job of that. Here's a good, if perhaps isolated, example: On the night before Thanksgiving last month, an evening when you would expect many people to stop for a bottle of wine with dinner the next evening, the state store at the Manchester Crossroads Shopping Center in York had just two clerks on duty — and an unmanned register. The checkout lines circled all the way around the inside of the very large store. That's just plain bad management.
The state stores should definitely be privatized — but it's not clear you can say the same thing about the lottery. You just don't see that kind of inconvenience and inefficiency in lottery sales. Tickets are readily available at private business — and you only see significant lines when the Powerball jackpot reaches the stratosphere.
That's not to say there aren't inefficiencies in the lottery, but they're not readily apparent to the outsider — or even to a former insider such as Wolf.
Let's think this through before gambling on something we might come to regret.
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First, a House panel signed off on a dramatic increase to the maximum daily fines for drilling infractions, from $1,000 to $15,000. Another committee approved a bill to require each oil and gas location to be inspected at least once a year, a significant increase.
More than a dozen additional proposals could come before state lawmakers in the next few weeks. Criticism of the industry shows no sign of abating after the state's drilling regulator, the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission, enacted tougher rules earlier this year. Lawmakers typically defer to the commission, but that could be changing.
The drilling debates threaten to fracture the Democratic majority in the Capitol. Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper zealously defends the industry, especially the controversial drilling procedure of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The administration has vowed to sue cities and counties that try to ban the technique, which involves injecting high-pressure mixtures of water, sand or gravel and chemicals to extract oil and gas from rock.
Other Democrats say local governments should have the ability to prohibit practices they don't like, and that Colorado's historic deference to the energy industry has gone too far.
The Legislature got a preview of fights to come Thursday when the fine hike came before the House Transportation & Energy Committee. The Democrat-led panel forwarded a proposal to hike fines that haven't been raised since 1955.
"This bill is about accountability and responsibility," said the measure's sponsor, Rep. Mike Foote, D-Longmont. His hometown has banned fracking and has been sued by the Colorado Oil & Gas Association, with Hickenlooper's administration taking the industry's side.
Foote argued Thursday that Colorado's drilling fines are outdated and less than in many other states.
"Right now our fine system is not adequate to keep those producers accountable," said Foote, who has sponsored another bill to reduce industry's influence on the regulatory commission.
The industry didn't fight the fine hike, but it suggested it needs more review.
"We'd like to have further discussions ... about what that number ought to be," said Jim Cole, COGA's lobbyist.
The industry fought harder against the increased inspections, which energy companies would have to pay for through increased taxes. A legislative estimate predicted that annual inspections would cost more than $8 million next year.
"We think this bill goes a bit too far," Cole said.
The sponsor of the inspections bill said that public distrust of the oil and gas industry in Colorado means that the industry could actually be helped by increased inspections. Sen. Matt Jones, D-Louisville, said that wells are currently inspected about every 3 1/2 years, leading to public concern about wells near homes and schools.
"Wells are not inspected frequently or thoroughly enough," Jones said.


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Annual Scholarship Brunch Brings Together Recipients and Donors
Student scholarship recipients had a chance to say thank you to their scholarship donors this month during a luncheon which brought both parties together at Stevens. Scholarships, provided by the generous support of a variety of donors, account for more than one million dollars of aid for our students each year.
The donors were a mix of both those offering personal scholarship funds and representatives for their class. They represented 26 of Stevens scholarship funds. More than 100 students along with their parents attended the recognition luncheon.
"Our annual scholarship luncheon provides the donors and the students with the opportunity to meet and share their Stevens experiences," said Edward Eichhorn Vice President for Development. "This year's luncheon was a great success. The students and their families got the opportunity to meet many of our scholarship sponsors, and our donors got to learn about the very positive impact of their philanthropy for today's undergraduates."
Speakers included Joseph J. Kaminski, a graduate of the Class of 1960 who contributed his scholarship gift six years ago at the time of his 45th reunion and Justin Rodriguez, class of 2008, who was the first recipient of The Kaminski Family Endowed Scholarship.
The Kaminski Scholarship is given to a student with a minimum GPA of 2.8 and financial need. The preference is for the award to be given to a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School, Joe's own alma mater. Both Rodriguez and Tatyana Kaverina, Kaminski's current student recipient who attended the brunch with her mother and brother, are also Brooklyn Tech graduates.
Kaminski and Rodriguez have enjoyed a close connection and similar journey. Rodriguez even plans to attend Kaminski's own alma mater for an MBA program, at Dartmouth.
"The connections you make at this event are about so much more than just the generous support you receive in scholarship aid from donors," Rodriguez told the students in attendance. "It is all about building relationships that are long lasting."


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My problem is that the rear bar assembly seems to have an M3 measurement that is too wide and causes the base of the towers to dig into the rain gutters by about an eighth of an inch on each side. I followed the instructions precisely and tower tension is adjusted properly. Seems to me that maybe these measurements might fit a sedan better than a Wagon, but not sure.
Anyone else experience this issue? Also, the spacing between the bars is supposed to be 30" and that seems very little. My old '87 wagon had a factory rack that was mounted towards the back of the wagon's roof. Would make more sense to me if this was also mounted or spaced out more evenly on the large amount of space I have on the roof instead of cramming both bars so close to the front.
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LONG POND - Chip Ganassi Racing likely was not on many people's lists of teams that could potentially dominate Sunday afternoon at Pocono Raceway.
But with Scott Dixon leading the way, the team swept the podium in the Pocono IndyCar 400 Fueled by Sunoco.
Dixon led the final 28 laps to take the checkered flag in the IZOD IndyCar Series race. Teammates Charlie Kimball and Dario Franchitti finished second and third, respectively, as open-wheel racing made its return to the 2.5-mile triangular track after a 23-year absence.
It is the 30th career IndyCar victory for Dixon, moving him into sole possession of 10th place on the all-time win list. It also is the 100th win for his sponsor, Target, in motor sports and the 200th victory for Honda in North American open-wheel racing.
"The milestones are great," Dixon said, "but I think the first person I saw when I got out of the car (in Victory Lane) was Chip. I said to him, 'You know, this morning, I didn't think we would be sitting here.'
"To say the least, it was a little bit of a shock."
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swept the podium Sunday, it would be Andretti Autosport. It dominated much of the weekend at Long Pond and took the top three spots in qualifying.
However, James Hinchcliffe crashed on the opening lap. Ryan Hunter-Reay was involved in a pit-road accident with Takuma Sato. And pole-sitter Marco Andretti faded at the end after being forced to save fuel and finished 10th despite leading 88 of the first 121 laps.
"Obviously, it didn't work out the way we wanted it to," team owner Michael Andretti said.
Fuel mileage was the difference.
All three of the Ganassi cars started outside the top 10. Kimball was 12th, Dixon 17th after being penalized 10 spots for an unapproved engine change and Franchitti 20th.
They were able to work their way to the front, though, because they were able to run a few extra laps on a tank of fuel.
"It became apparent when they started pitting," Franchitti said. "I looked down at how much fuel I had left and I was like, 'OK, leaders are starting to pit.' Maybe it was because they were out front and we were in the draft.
"Next stop, leaders are pitting and I thought, we've definitely got something here. So we just kept pushing and each time we would come out of the pit, we would be further up."
At first, Dixon said he thought Mike Hull, Ganassi Racing managing director, was being coy on the radio when he said they could run a few more laps before having to pit.
"Then I looked down at my actual tank number and I'm like, 'Wow, we can go another seven laps,' " Dixon said. "So I think we were beating the majority of them. And I think it kind of hit them a little bit late to make corrections. It's a lot easier to save fuel over 150 laps than try to save it all about 30 (laps to go)."
After making his final pit stop of the race on Lap 131, Dixon claimed the lead on Lap 133 after Kimball and Franchitti made their last stops. He stayed there the rest of the way and wound up beating Kimball to the finish line by 0.4572 seconds - the second-closest margin of victory in Pocono history. The closest is .2700 by Danny Sullivan over Rick Mears in 1984.
"Scott had stopped a lap earlier and just had a little bit more momentum than I did when I came out of pit lane," Kimble said. "I knew that meant he was going to be the race leader. That was my shot and he was just able to get a little more momentum on me into (Turn) 3. And once he had the spot - we all were doing everything we could."
Still, Kimble's second-place finish matched his career best from last season at Toronto.
Coming into Pocono, Dixon had led one lap all season. Sunday's win provided a bright moment in an otherwise rough year.
"We have had sort of small parts of goodness, but not the consistency that we have been used to," Dixon said. "When we have had good cars, we've maybe had an engine problem and when we've had good engines, we've had a bit of a car problem.
"So it's nice to get back."


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Amanda holds Alex hostage and tells Nikita she will release Alex in exchange for Ari. Michael assigns Nikita and Sean to handle the exchange of prisoners, but Ryan adds Owen to the team at the last minute, which makes Michael suspicious. While in captivity, Alex befriends a fellow prisoner named Larissa and vows to break them both out of the jail, which ultimately conflicts with Nikita's plan, forcing Alex to choose between Nikita and her promise to Larissa.
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The show promises to be sexy fun. [6 Sep 2010, p.47]People Weekly Full Review
Based on Luc Besson's 1999 film La Femme Nikita (and mercifully, less cheesy than the 1997-2001 Peta Wilson TV Series), this promising adaptation follows the same premise. [10 Sep 2010, p.83]Entertainment Weekly Full Review
Nikita is a breakthrough for teen-happy CW, its riskiest show yet--one aimed at adults. It's one they might enjoy.Boston Herald Full Review
Pretty much all a fan (or critic) could ask of a cult series remake is this: Does the newbie measure up? Based on all available evidence--the 42-minute premiere--the answer is yes.Newsday Full Review
Though Nikita is certainly dark, it's not as unbearably so as the USA cable version, which was too slick and soulless for its own good. The new version feels much more like a rollicking popcorn thrill ride.San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa Times Full Review
Putting aside for a moment questions about whether it signifies the imminent collapse of Western civilization and even the human reproductive impulse, this version of Nikita can still provide a rollicking, if slightly psychotic, good time.Miami Herald Full Review
"Fun" hasn't been a big part of her job description, but she may have found some of it here.New York Daily News Full Review
If I had to choose between this and watching Michael Scott take a final lap around the tired Office halls of Dunder Mifflin on NBC--its dreadful companion comedy Outsourced isn't even an option--I'm leaning toward the drop-dead-deadly assassin.TV Guide Magazine Full Review
When it comes to espionage stories or action-adventure in general, originality isn't as crucial as a good execution of the basics, and in that regard, the first hour of Nikita delivers.The Huffington Post Full Review
The latest incarnation, Nikita, which begins on the CW network on Thursday, is a surprisingly sophisticated and satisfying adaptation.The New York Times Full Review
CW's Nikita remake isn't nearly as awful as you'd imagine. In fact, it's remarkably good.Salon Full Review
The CW under the direction of McG (does anybody have a full name anymore?) has made a fresh, terrific and terrifically silly Nikita.New York Post Full Review
It's a well-woven tale, with the different strings hanging together nicely and leading off in a few directions you might not expect. The direction is crisp, the cast is fine, the loopholes are mostly closed and the secret-agency/new-identity world is generally convincing, making this in some sense a version of Dollhouse that works better than the original.USA Today Full Review
You might remember that because Nikita is aimed directly at 24 fans. Not as ambitious nor as entertaining, it is just as decidedly unbelievable yet diverting.Philadelphia Inquirer Full Review
Nikita is good, but it's not transcendent.Hitfix Full Review
While Q is probably more adept at flaunting her butt-kicking skills than emoting, the pilot is head-turning enough to warrant a second look at the show.Variety Full Review
Amid such generic plotting, the show serves up an extended action sequence in a hotel that's nicely shot and choreographed, establishing the template for other fight scenes. It appears that Nikita is going to be a down-and-dirty brawling kind of series, where martial arts serve a function besides looking really cool.PopMatters Full Review
The pilot comes across top-heavy with exposition and flashbacks that lay out a dense backstory. While a rich mythology typically is mandatory for an espionage series to attract a cult following, it could prove a barrier to entry when piled too high at the beginning.The Hollywood Reporter Full Review
If you don't want or need to be surprised, it's a pretty well-paced, gorgeously shot and fast-moving pilot, and Maggie Q, who is practically computer-designed to play the role, seems worth all the publicity investment The CW has placed in her.Time Full Review
Ms. Q's Nikita is only half so crush-worthy as Bionic Woman's Jaime Sommers or Dollhouse's what's-her-name, but her predicament is no less tasty.Slate Full Review
The CW remake isn't awful, by any means. The pilot rushes ahead nicely, with a twist at the end that gestures toward many possible future plotlines. But we've seen the whole thing many times before.Boston Globe Full Review
It's difficult to make cold-blooded and calculating people interesting and empathetic, and yet it must be done. Because fight scenes will take you only so far. Especially when there are no big dance numbers.Los Angeles Times Full Review
"Doll House" covered this territory with more creativity, but we could always use another female superhero on TV. Especially one who has mastered the technology of the "lipstick bomb."Chicago Sun-Times Full Review
It's an hour that you'll be able to understand and appreciate, even if you love "Sons of Anarchy" more. Sometimes it's fun to take a spin on your old bike, so to speak.San Francisco Chronicle Full Review
Even with its ample servings of va-va-boom, a lot of edgy potential is wasted in Nikita, the CW's retinkering of the much-tinkered-with story of the sexy assassin who is betrayed and hunted by "the Division," the top-secret government agency that trained her.Washington Post Full Review
What I can say is that despite my admiration for an energetic performance by Q (between "Hellcats" and "Nikita," the CW seems determined to show its new stars getting more of a workout than you'll see on, say, "Gossip Girl"), and a lingering fondness for West that goes all the way back to "Once and Again," there was nothing in tonight's episode that made me care enough about any of these characters to spend a single unpaid minute with them.Philadelphia Daily News Full Review
Producers of The CW's new series have taken the bones of the Nikita story and grafted on a new recruits sub-plot, sort of ideal for young CW audience, but it also makes for a convoluted series pilot that bounces around from one hollow story line to another.Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Full Review
Nikita is just another bland spy drama, an excuse to put women in skimpy outfits--Alias without a heart, Chuck without the sense of humor, and Covert Affairs without the good casting.Slant Magazine Full Review


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City Council approved Economic Development Director Dana Brunett to move forward with studying the expansion of the Community Redevelopment Agency to include the Mid-Cape Industrial Park area.
The plan had been reviewed and approved by the CRA board of commissioners before Brunett brought it before council Monday night as new business.
"This is a chance for us to clean up an older industrial development in the city and increase the tax base," said Brunett. "It would assist in attracting new businesses and encourage established businesses to clean up or redevelop their property."
The area is generally bordered on the north by Viscaya Parkway and Southeast 9th Street, west from Del Prado Boulevard along the Rubicon Canal on the south and Cultural Park Boulevard on the west.
Councilmember Rick Williams cast the one dissenting vote that concluded a lengthy discussion.
"I think the borders are too big," said Williams. "There are some residential areas in there that does not make sense."
"Those residences are the area's neighbors," countered Brunett. "Their property values will go up too because of the redevelopment incentives. It's another tool in the toolbox."
With a 7-1 approval vote in his pocket, Brunett goes ahead with a needs analysis study to see if creating the separate CRA district will be beneficial. Upon completion, Brunett will go back to council for a decision on forming the CRA.
Council unanimously approved two ordinances dealing with the Land Use and Development Regulations associated with the city's participation in the National Flood Insurance Program.
Basically, the new ordinances incorporate the Florida Building Codes into the local floodplain management regulations in order to maintain participation in the flood insurance program. No members of the public spoke for or against the ordinances during the public hearings and council only had a couple of questions seeking clarifications.
In other business, council approved the city's labor agreement with the Cape Coral Professional Fire Fighters Local 2424 Union and reformed details of the union's pension plan.
Pension plan reforms will save the city $65.6 million over the next 25 years, according to City Manager John Szerlag. The agreement concludes negotiations that stalled several months ago before the two sides finally came to an agreement.
Among the changes are employees must work for the fire department for 10 years to become fully vested in the pension plan. New employees will have to work 25 years in the department or reach the age of 52 before receiving retirement benefits.
The contract approval completes the city's negotiations with all three of its employee unions. Szerlag said the agreements will save the city more than $185 million in pension costs over the next 25 years.


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Is it possible to use a webcam to count how many jumps I do while skip roping.
And displaying the number live on a screen!
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A veteran who helped "defend the indefensible" at a vulnerable Army outpost in Afghanistan received the nation's highest award for military valor Monday at a tearful White House ceremony that also honored the eight men who did not survive a Taliban attack.
President Barack Obama lauded former Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha's bravery in fighting back an intense daylong barrage by enemy fighters. The Taliban descended on Combat Outpost Keating in the mountains near the Pakistan border at 6 a.m. on Oct. 3, 2009, shaking Romesha out of his bed into what Obama said has been called one of the most intense battles of the war in Afghanistan.
The Americans were outmanned 53 to more than 300, but most survived against those odds. "These men were outnumbered, outgunned, and almost overrun," Obama said.
Romesha, 31, listened to the commendation while fighting back tears, sometimes unsuccessfully, the families of his fallen comrades sitting together and crying near the back of his East Room audience. Other troops who fought that day also watched as the president placed the medal hanging from a blue ribbon around Romesha's neck.
"I'm feeling conflicted with this medal I now wear," Romesha told reporters outside the West Wing after the ceremony. "The joy comes from recognition for us doing our jobs as soldiers on distant battlefields, but is countered by the constant reminder of the loss of our battle buddies, my battle buddies, my soldiers, my friends."
Eight U.S. soldiers were killed in the fighting and other 22 wounded, including Romesha, who was peppered with shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade in the hip, arm and neck. But he fought through his wounds to help lead other soldiers to safety, defend the burning camp from encroaching Taliban fighters, personally taking out at least 10, and retrieve the bodies of the fallen Americans.
Romesha also served twice in Iraq and is the fourth living Medal of Honor recipient for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Romesha grew up in the small town of Lake City, Calif., and deployed out of Fort Carson, Colo., fulfilling a tradition of military service shared by his grandfather, his father and his brothers. He now lives in Minot, N.D., with his wife and three children and works in the oil fields.
His 11â"2-year-old son, Colin, in a tiny little suit and tie, got the somber ceremony off to a light start just before his father and the president entered the room. He scrambled behind the podium and played peek-a-boo with the audience before one of the president's military aides picked him off the stage and put him back into his mother's arms.


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Two weeks ago, we walked into Icecrown Citadel and took out the first line of defenses that the Lich King had put in place. Last week, we went though The Plague Works, toppling Tweedledee and Tweedledumb and showed the Professor the follies of potion abuse. This week, we are going to play with some vampires. Now these vampires do not sparkle, but they can still be quite annoying. These are the San'layn, a subsection of the Darkfallen, and the Crimson Halls is where their leadership calls home. There have been several seen throughout the history Azeroth and they are quite instrumental in overseeing the Scourge's operations. In the halls we get to face three princes and their dark queen.
As before, this is not an end all, be all guide. These are simply my opinions and thoughts on these bosses. There are several ways to do them, and I encourage you to find ones that work for you.
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"We are thrilled when our student-athletes receive well-deserved recognition for their academic accomplishments," said Dartmouth Director of Athletics and Recreation Harry Sheehy. "As hard as our students work in the classroom, their success is also a reflection of the outstanding collaboration between our faculty, our deans and other personnel on campus."
The Ivy League also topped the survey, with the Ancient Eight combining for an average rating of 97.9%. Dartmouth led the way, followed by Brown (99.3), Columbia (98.5), Harvard (98.3), Yale (97.1), Cornell (97.0), Princeton (96.7) and Penn (96.4).
This marks the second consecutive year that the Ivy League has been included in the GSR data, as the NCAA did not collect graduation rate data for student-athletes who were not receiving athletically-related aid until 2004. Now that the six-year graduation rate data for those student-athletes who began college in 2004 is available, the data includes Ivy League schools.
The average GSR for the last four graduating classes of all Division I student-athletes(2002-2005) remains at 80 percent, still at an all-time high for the NCAA, according to NCAA President Mark Emmert. The most recent one-year GSR for the 2005 class is 81 percent, down one point from last year. Most sports remained steady or were down slightly in year-to-year comparisons.
The NCAA's Graduation Success Rate includes transfer students and student-athletes who leave in good academic standing. The GSR measures graduation over six years from first-time college enrollment.
Each spring, the NCAA also releases a separate set of data, the Academic Progress Rate (APR), which measures both academic performance and retention. Each athletic program receives an APR score, with teams falling under a certain threshold subject to penalties such as loss of scholarships and postseason bans. The top 10 percent in each sport receive APR Public Recognition Awards from the NCAA. Last June, Dartmouth had more programs honored than any other school in Division I, with 23 teams recognized. All of Dartmouth's programs easily met the NCAA minimum standard, and 18 maintained perfect scores.
"Anne Hudak (Associate AD for Peak Performance) plays a key role in facilitating academic resources on campus for our athletes," Sheehy added. "This excellence is what occurs with intentional action and is a wonderful example of the great work that goes on in Dartmouth Peak Performance."


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MSU Law Mobile Law Clinic Offers Relief to Taxpayers across Michigan
East Lansing, MI — Students from the Michigan State University College of Law Alvin L. Storrs Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic will take the Law College's mobile law clinic on its first major trip to help low-income residents alleviate their tax disputes.
Five student clinicians from the Storrs Tax Clinic will visit several communities in northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula, starting July 15, 2012. The students, who are authorized to practice in front of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), will offer free services to city residents during the trip, and will be accompanied by two licensed attorneys.
"I'm elated that the first tour on a grand scale is occurring," said Michele Halloran, director of the Storrs Tax Clinic. "This is precisely why MSU Law purchased the mobile law clinic—to ensure that our student clinicians interface with as many people in Michigan as possible, even those who live a distance from East Lansing."
During the tour, student clinicians also will recruit clients for free long-term tax representation.
"Tax representation is what we do and what we do well," Halloran said. "The Storrs Tax Clinic is a key resource for low-income taxpayers throughout Michigan."
Planned stops for the tour include the Traverse Area District Library (noon to 5 p.m. on July 15), Lake Superior State University Library in Sault Ste. Marie (noon to 5 p.m. on July 16), the Peter White Public Library in Marquette (3 to 7:30 p.m. on July 17), the Portage Lake United Church in Houghton (2 to 6 p.m. on July 18), the Dickinson County Library in Iron Mountain (noon to 5:45 p.m. on July 19), and the First Presbyterian Church in Escanaba (2 to 7 p.m. on July 20).
Student clinicians from the MSU Law Small Business & Nonprofit Law Clinic will join their fellow students from the Storrs Tax Clinic in Traverse City, Sault Ste. Marie, and Houghton-Hancock to offer legal counsel related to transactional areas of small business and nonprofit law.
The Mobile Law Clinic is a converted bookmobile that can be used by all of the clinical programs at the MSU College of Law.
Originally established in 1999, the Alvin L. Storrs Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic was renamed in honor of its founder in 2012. The Storrs Clinic serves low-income taxpayers who are in controversy with the IRS or who have cases before the U.S. Tax Court. The Storrs Clinic also counsels people for whom English is a second language about their rights and responsibilities under the Internal Revenue Code. The clinic is one of several practice areas within the MSU College of Law Legal Clinic—a high-energy, small law firm environment in which students apply their knowledge of the substantive law to real-life situations under the guidance and supervision of licensed attorneys. The growing roster of Legal Clinic practice areas also includes chance at childhood, civil rights law, First Amendment law, housing law, immigration law, plea and sentencing, and small business and nonprofit law. Student clinicians provide an important service for the betterment of the community while discovering their niche in the field of law.
Michigan State University College of Law, a leading institution of legal education with a long history of educating practice-ready attorneys, prepares future lawyers to use ethics, ambition, and intellect to solve the world's problems. As one of only a few private law schools affiliated with a major research university, MSU Law offers comprehensive interdisciplinary opportunities combined with a personalized legal education. After 100 years as a private and independent institution, the affiliation with MSU has put the Law College on an upward trajectory of national and international reputation and reach. MSU Law professors are gifted teachers and distinguished scholars, its curriculum is rigorous and challenging, and its facility is equipped with the latest resources—all affirming MSU Law's commitment to educating 21st-century lawyers.
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2004 Volleyball
Defiance College 3, Bluffton University 1
By Ben Risinger, Sports Information Director
October 5, 2004
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University volleyball team (7-12, 0-2 HCAC) lost in
four games to rival Defiance College (15-5, 2-0 HCAC) on Tuesday night. Match scores
were: 30-25 DC, 30-19 B, 31-29 DC, 30-22 DC.
The Beavers were led by senior Courtney Tisher (Rittman/Rittman) who registered 17 kills in only 40 attempts and six blocks on the game. Senior Kelly Kettinger (Oregon/Clay) posted four service aces and 26 service receptions.
"We played very well as a team tonight," head coach Sara Wakefield said. "We took
game two and went the distance in game three. Overall, I'm happy to see us playing
more together as we go into the conference season."
Bluffton University will be back in action on Friday when they travel to Wilmington College for a three-way meet. The Beavers will play Wilmington and Emory & Henry.


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No team with ZERO honest wins (without cheating) should be mentioned in "dynasty" conversations. Pasterisks never won a SB. They got awarded some, but this is a different story
No team with ZERO honest wins (without cheating) should be mentioned in "dynasty" conversations. Pasterisks never won a SB. They got awarded some, but this is a different story
Dynasty talk is so retarded because it's all arbitrary. What defines a dynasty is so subjective I don't know why people post about this ****. It's like arguing about what constitutes the perfect set of breasts.
PS - the answer is small nipples, small, pink areola and enough size that there is cleavage.
In all seriousness, what difference does it make to us, Jets Fans?
We're not the Pats. We're not the Ravens. We have no horse in the debate.
I'd much rather read a debate about the differences between Champion QB's like Flacco and Brady, and QB's like Sanchez.
Can our man ever do what Flacco did yesterday? Thats what I care about.
in the salary cap era there will be few if any dynasties
one quibble with the post that talked about the "history of the league"
I think there were a few dynasties long before the 1960s Packers
think Monsters of the Midway for one
but, I'll just let anyone who really cares look up the league champions since 1926 and get the answers themselves
Ravens 2 legit SB
NE Cheaters 0
end of discussion.
The biggest difference SAR forgot to mention is they have at least one other team to contend with in their division, unlike the Patriots.
So in 2013, we consider 2 championships in 13 years a dynasty?
What's gonna happen in 2018?
Speaking of the Pats' dynasty, here's a shirtless Gronk partying after the Super Bowl. At least this time he was not dancing on a broken ankle. But that Stone cold stunner with the broken forearm at the end probably wasn't the brightest thing to do.
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Yii Meetup In London
Posted 12 December 2012 - 11:45 AM
In line with the brilliant initiative from the guys across the pond (NY), I am organising a Yii meetup group in London.
I am sure there are some keen londoners aching to exchange ideas and best practices around Yii.
Please sign up at http://www.meetup.co...ramework-Group/ to be part of the group, but do please
drop me a line should you want to clarify/suggest anything, from venues to topics.
Cass Surek
Posted 12 December 2012 - 04:14 PM
cass, on 12 December 2012 - 11:45 AM, said:
Sounds great! Good luck with it, and feel free to get in touch if you want to discuss ideas. Maybe we can organize a developer exchange in the future!
Posted 23 January 2013 - 05:42 AM
Did you get any takers ? I'm in Cornwall though, a long way from London !
Posted 25 January 2013 - 09:59 AM
lisol, on 23 January 2013 - 05:42 AM, said:
Did you get any takers ? I'm in Cornwall though, a long way from London !
Hi Justin,
Maybe we can have a surf trip to Cornwall one of these days, but then, software developers and surfboards usually don't go well together.
Yes, there are almost 20 people in the group and we have the first meeting scheduled to this coming February.
I hope you can come to one of them sometime!
Posted 25 January 2013 - 10:01 AM
Benjamin Haas, on 12 December 2012 - 04:14 PM, said:
Hi Ben,
It'd be good to understand what subjects you've covered over there. I've scheduled a first meeting here to discuss with people and should be able to get a feeling about what they want covered.
It'd be great to organise an exchange in the future. Superb idea!
Let's keep the communication flowing.
Posted 28 January 2013 - 10:24 AM
We're using Yii in our company and I would love hearing experiences and way of working even from a project management point of view (product breakdown and such boring stuff)
Posted 28 January 2013 - 10:34 AM
The Peach, on 28 January 2013 - 10:24 AM, said:
We're using Yii in our company and I would love hearing experiences and way of working even from a project management point of view (product breakdown and such boring stuff)
Super! Looking forward to discussing that aspect of development as well.
Posted 30 January 2013 - 05:43 AM
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cass, on 25 January 2013 - 10:01 AM, said:
Hey Cass,
We've had two meetups so far (with the third happening tonight), both with ~15 attendees. We spent the first meetup going around the room and introducing ourselves and sharing our experiences w/ Yii. It was surprising - but pretty cool - to find that people had lots to say/inquire about. For the second meetup, I gave a demo of a base Yii install, and then installing/using the User and Rights module (http://www.benjaminl...-rights-5-steps). Another member demoed his Asteroid extension (http://www.yiiframew...nsion/asteroid/), and then we spent the remainder talking about various Yii extensions and modules. I asked members to bring demos to tonight's meetup, as I have nothing specific planned.
Hope that helps! I'd love to hear a post-game report from your meetup.
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I have to say I'm not jumping hoops over this trade. It isn't like we picked up Castillo from the Marlins. I wonder how much of an upgrade Jimenez will be with Castro and Olmedo playing second base? Add to that Freel who is back playing at Louisville.
Of course, if the Reds don't end this four-game losing streak by putting it to Houston come this week, it won't matter who we acquire.