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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Two cheers for Tim Geithner.
Say what? Wasn't the former Treasury secretary a lackey of Wall Street and no friend of the little guy (or gal)? Lots of people think so. Twitter and other Web hot spots were aflame again Wednesday with sniping about Geithner in the wake of news that he's taken a job at the Council on Foreign Relations. See: Twitter users rush to name Geithner's forthcoming book.
Liberals are bitter he didn't severely punish banks for financial misdeeds or do more to help ordinary folks in need, such as underwater homeowners who owe more on their mortgages than their properties are worth. Conservatives believe he pushed for too much regulation and federal intervention in the economy.
And who can forget about the tax-payment boo-boo that almost sank Geithner's nomination in 2009 and earned him the derisive nickname "Turbo Tax Tim"?
In the light of history, the criticism might have merit. Yet it largely misses the point. Geithner — along with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke — played a decisive role in 2008-09 to prevent the U.S. from sinking into another Great Depression.
Together they led the way to shore up a keeling banking system, restore calm on Wall Street, and fend off radical initiatives from the left and laissez-faire cries on the right that could have stunted even the mild recovery that has taken hold.
Simply put, Geithner was handed a loudly ticking time bomb with the potential to blow up the economy. He did a good job under incredible pressure to defuse the crisis with the limited government tools available to him at the time.
What does Geithner get for all that? Not much thanks. He's got plenty of critics across the political spectrum. Read: Tim Geithner: The exit interview*.
"Geithner was attacked by the right and the left, each from their own skewed view of matters," said Robert E. Wright, an historian at Augustana College in South Dakota who has written extensively about America's economic history.
"But let us never forget that he became Treasury secretary during a very difficult period and should be credited with keeping the financial system and economy together at a time when it seemed that one more shock could unravel it all," Wright said.
The outcome could have been a lot worse — and there's no telling if his expected successor, budget guru and longtime Obama lieutenant Jack Lew, will follow Geithner's carefully calibrated approach.
Not the usual type
Geithner wasn't a natural fit. Virtually every secretary in the past century has been a well-known businessman, high-powered financier or deeply experienced politician. And most were older than Geithner — he was named secretary at age 48 — when they took office.
Geithner, for his part, spent his entire career in public service, working his way up the ladder in a variety of financial positions at home and overseas. He didn't shuffle from the public and private sectors like most of his predecessors, earning big money between government gigs.
So he was a virtual unknown nationally when President Barack Obama nominated him in 2009, and some critics questioned his alleged lack of gravitas (Wall Street and Washington both love the idea of gravitas).
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Nor was Geithner a terribly compelling personality. Somewhat diffident and soft-spoken, he could appear alternately tentative and abrasive in public, especially early in his tenure. He rubbed some people wrong, such as members of Congress.
Even nominal ally Christine Lagarde, chief of the International Monetary Fund, has said Geithner could be "a little bit irritating."
His low profile almost cost him. The nomination brought to light the fact that Geithner failed to pay some federal taxes a decade ago when he worked at the International Monetary Fund. The parsimonious Geithner — not a bad trait in a Treasury secretary — used tax-preparation software to complete his own returns.
The episode made Geithner the butt of late-night TV jokes, but the president stuck by him. He won confirmation in a 60-34 Senate vote.
Geithner's long background in government finance made him a good candidate for the Treasury job, especially given a thin Democratic bench. He was the head of the New York Federal Reserve from 2003 to 2008 and was intimately involved in the rescue of Wall Street and the U.S. economy in the waning stages of the Bush administration, working side by side with Bernanke and Bush's Treasury secretary, Henry Paulson.
Many critics say Geithner contributed to the panic in the autumn of 2008 because of lenient treatment of Wall Street as New York Fed chief. Maybe so, but he was just one of many people in positions of authority who might have been able to forestall the panic but failed to do so. The list of the guilty extends back to the 1990s and includes dozens of financial and political luminaries of all persuasions.
The truth is, almost no one saw the panic coming.
Eyewitness to meltdown
In any case, Geithner's ordeal gave him a closer look at the problems facing Wall Street and the economy than almost any Democrat whom Obama could have chosen. He was able to quickly pick up where Paulson left off and provide stability during the precarious transition from the Bush to the Obama presidencies.
That is a critical point. One reason the first phase of the Great Depression was so terrible was a poor handoff from the Hoover administration to Franklin Roosevelt between the November 1932 election and FDR's taking office in March 1933. The economy plunged to its worst depths during the four-month interlude because of a lack of direction.
Geithner provided direction almost from the outset. He launched a high-profile series of "stress tests" to gauge the soundness of U.S. banks, reprising an approach used by the Roosevelt administration in 1933. Banks were closed by Roosevelt during a national "bank holiday" and only allowed to reopen if they proved their credit-worthiness.
Just as in the Great Depression, the 2009 stress tests showed that most banks were OK. The ones in trouble were required to raise capital to shore up their balance sheets.
The move restored confidence in the U.S. banking system and put Wall Street on the road to recovery. Europe took note and adopted a similar tactic in its financial crisis a few years later.
"I don't get all the anti-Geithner sentiment," economics professor Justin Wolfers of the University of Michigan tweeted Wednesday. "How many of us are confident that we would have done a better job? Different, yes. But better?"
Almost as important, Geithner was a calm, centrist voice in an Obama administration that might have pursued more populist measures if not for his presence.
At the height of the panic, for example, some leading liberal economists such as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman called for the government to nationalize struggling banks or pursue other far-reaching solutions. Such a tactic might have ended in disaster, but Geithner warned the president off, and Obama trusted his new secretary to pursue a more traditional strategy.
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That is what he did. Geithner charted a steady course through the economic wreckage of the worst recession in more than 70 years, as he (and predecessor Paulson) confronted more challenges than any Treasury head of the modern era.
"He was very good at understanding the mechanics of how things work and how things need to get done," said Steve Blitz, longtime economist ITG Investment Research. "For a nuts-and-bolts guy, he was very competent."
What critics say
Geithner's other moves to restore the economy weren't very successful, such as curbing huge U.S. deficits or fixing the battered housing sector. Yet those are complicated problems whose solutions no secretary could solve without broader public and political support outside of the Treasury building.
Geithner doesn't stand shoulder to shoulder with giants like Alexander Hamilton or Albert Gallatin, two secretaries early in the republic who built the financial edifice responsible for the nation's modern-day economic success. But he's one of the few to serve with distinction among the many mediocrities who've held the post.
Obama himself listened to other voices in the White House when designing a controversial stimulus in 2009 and crafting other economic initiatives. Geithner had the president's ear, but his wasn't the only voice. That was more a reflection of Obama's governing style than any lack of faith in his Treasury secretary.
Another complaint about Geithner revolves around his role in the Dodd-Frank Act, the Wall Street reform legislation that he supported. The complicated 848-page law hits almost every area of the financial industry, but it was really the handiwork of a Democratic Congress touchy enough about its own institutional power not to take dictation from the Treasury.
Opponents in the financial industry and on the political right say Dodd-Frank has cost jobs, made it harder for banks to provide loans and still won't prevent government bailouts if large financial institutions fail.
The last accusation — that banks are still too big too fail — is also a mantra of Geithner's liberal critics.
"His doctrine of 'overwhelming force' over the past four years can be translated into plain English as 'unconditional bailouts for big banks,' " former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson wrote in recent Bloomberg column.
Only time will tell if those criticisms are on the mark. The economy could enter another boom eventually and vindicate Geithner. Or Wall Street could blow up again and the U.S. would fail to achieve the kind of growth Americans are used to.
If neither happens, the historian Wright said, Geither will probably fade into obscurity like most of the nation's 75 Treasury secretaries.
That is too bad. Geithner doesn't stand shoulder to shoulder with giants like Alexander Hamilton and Albert Gallatin, two secretaries early in the republic who built the financial edifice responsible for the nation's modern-day economic success. But he's one of the few to serve with distinction among the many mediocrities who've held the post.
For an opposing view, read 'Why history may be unkind to Tim Geithner,' at Real Clear Politics.


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Hey folks, great forum... I've lurked for quite some time (and learned a LOT about color quality for building LED lighting) and this is my first post.
I have a 2008 Honda Fit which I'd like to retrofit with LED lamps for the parking lights, front directionals (for use with a directional-to-DRL widget), license plate lights, dome light and maybe tail lights. The Fit has a tiny battery with minimal reserve capacity, plus I want a fun project and to save 3lb of CO2 emission or whatever over the car's life. :P I also have some questions about headlamps.
Front parking lights are amber 194NA. I see a ton of choices here, I really would like good visibility for nighttime city driving so I'm guessing a 120 degree beam at least. As bright as possible that's legal and won't burn itself up.
Front directionals are very important, as I'd like to get a controller that turns them into daytime running lamps when they're not activated, possibly this kit if it would work with LEDs. Again, bright and long lifespan as they'll be on whenever the car is. Front directionals are 7440NA amber.
License plate lamps are 168. I would prefer warm white.
Dome lamp is a DE3022. Again, I would prefer warm white.
Tail lights are a combo of 7443 and 7440.
As far as headlamps go, I have a question about Osram halogen automotive lamps. Of all the lamps listed here, comparing the 64150 lamps from different series (Nightbreaker Plus vs Ultralife, for example), the color temperature and lifespan vary dramatically, but they all seem to cast about 1500 lumens. I don't understand how a Nightbreaker Plus can claim an extra 30m beam length and 90% more light on the road when it's producing about the same lumens as all the other bulbs.
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A Marietta woman will spend six months in jail after making false reports to police about the death of Jaleayah Davis.
Ember Stafford pleaded guilty on Thursday to filing a false report.
She told police she saw Jaleayah the night of her death and witnessed the accident. In her report, she says another car forced Jaleayah's off the road, causing the wreck.
After police spent over 30 hours investigating the claims, Stafford admitted to lying about the whole thing.
Jaleayah's mother, Kim, was in the courtroom Thursday. She says she's not upset with Stafford's false reports and still believes her daughter was murdered.
The sheriff's office closed the case this year, stating her death was the result of an accident.
Stafford also has to pay a 500 dollar fine.
It's been over a year, and now the case is closed. Officials are releasing what happened to Jaleayah Davis.
The autopsy results came back last week, after being reviewed by the State Medical Examiners Office. Wood County Sheriff's deputies and the prosecutor spoke with the family Thursday, before releasing the results to us.
It took more than a year.
This is the official explanation closing the Jaleayah Davis case:
"Following a lengthy investigation it was concluded by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of the State of West Virginia that Ms. Davis died as a result of multiple catastrophic injuries sustained as an unrestrained driver of a car that lost control and struck a guardrail post on Interstate 77," says Wood County Sheriff Office Chief Shawn Graham.
That's how investigators say Jaleayah Davis died in November 2011.
"The death circumstances as determined by investigative and postmortem findings indicate the manner of death was accident."
An accident that began with a night of partying with friends. The state medical examiner says Jaleayah's blood alcohol concentration was point 19 when she died. With advance testing showing a level of point 24 earlier that night.
"Just another tragic example that drinking and driving is something that is very dangerous and unfortunately leads to a lot of people losing their lives."
Kia Motors engineers, crash testing experts, and medical evidence detail the accident. They say it started with her driving along I-77 and hitting a guardrail.
"The result of the vehicle striking the guardrail caused Ms Davis to be ejected from the passenger side front window. This finding is supported by the fact the door post to the passenger side door was cracked and samples taken from this post were tested and found as a positive match of Ms. Davis' DNA. After exiting the vehicle, Ms. Davis struck the guardrail and the force of the collision sent Ms. Davis over her vehicle and into the traffic lane of I-77. After Ms. Davis came to rest in the travel lane of I-77, she was struck by a tractor trailer."
Police believe Jaleayah was killed instantly when she was thrown from the car.
"She was deceased before she was hit by the tractor trailer. There was physical evidence on the scene that lead us to that conclusion."
Rumors. Speculation. Foul play. All part of the community controversy surrounding the case. Investigators believe the evidence rules it out and points to Jaleayah being the only person in the car.
"The fact the drivers side airbag deployed, and the passenger side airbag did not deploy was another key factor to lead us to the conclusion that this was a tragic single vehicle accident that resulted in the death of this young lady."
They say another key factor in the case is how her car was found. It was found running with all the doors locked.
Deputies say this case is closed and hope the community and the family will come to peace with those results.
"We hope the conclusion of this investigation makes a lot of people realize what this was and that it was a horrible tragic accident."
WTAP has reached out to the family for comment. Requests were not immediately returned.
Update: 3/12/2013 10:45 A.M.
An autopsy has been completed on the death 17 months ago of a Marietta woman.
But Chief Deputy Shawn Graham of the Wood County Sheriff's Office says the results will not be released until he meets with members of the victim's family and the Wood County Prosecutor.
Jaleayah Davis died in an accident in the early morning hours of November 19, 2011. But the details of the accident have been a mystery, and it has been under investigation since then.
"But it's definitely heartbreaking. Definitely hard for people to accept the fact that she was so young when she passed away. It's just really hard for everybody. That's how I would describe it," says Davis' friend Ali Strahler.
One year ago Jaleayah Davis died in a car accident on I77. There's still little known about the events leading up to her death.
Since then, family and friends have been desperately seeking answers.
"It's definitely hard. It's mindblowing that it's been a year and there's still no answers. Especially people that were with her that night and haven't said anything. It's just crazy that somebody's life was taken away from them so innocently. And if there's just any way for anyone to say what might of happened that would probably put a lot of people's minds at ease, and help her family sleep at night and keep going on with their lives. It's just hard for people to go on without answers and have no idea what happened," says Strahler.
They join to remember the young woman and show support for the family still dealing with the loss.
Some of Davis' closest friends organized a vigil to bring beauty and light to a sad situation.
"When I woke up this (Monday) morning I had a very empty feeling in my chest. My heart went out to the Davis family completely. I was hoping that this event would actually help them feel like just because it's been a year it's not being forgotten. People still are seeking for justice and supporting her family 100 %," says Strahler.
The Wood County Sheriff's Office says they are continuing the process of investigation in Davis' death.
A woman tells police she was an eyewitness to the events leading up to the death of Jaleayah Davis, and now she's behind bars for lying.
Deputies arrested Ember Stafford on Thursday for falsely reporting an emergency incident.
She faces charges in Washington County for being a fugitive from justice.
The Wood County Sheriff's Office says Stafford told them she was an eye witness to the events surrounding the death of Davis a year ago.
Police say she falsely accused several people and as a result, the sheriff's office spent many hours following bogus leads.
Polygraph operators also spent about 30 hours interviewing those people.
She's awaiting extradition to Wood County.
The Wood County Sheriff's Office says they are continuing the process of investigation in Davis' death.
A case that's still not closed, but may be one step closer.
Jaleayah Davis' car is now back from the lab in Charleston.
Officials aren't releasing any details about their findings as the investigation is still ongoing, but Wood County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Don Dougherty says they plan on sending specific evidence to the FBI.
"The vehicle involved in the crash has been returned to us. We have some evidence that needs to go to the FBI lab to be reviewed. We're waiting on some reports back from our CIB lab in the state on their examinations."
Anyone with information is asked to contact the sheriff's office and ask for Detective Camille Waldron at 304-424-1834.
While many of us were enjoying time with our families this Christmas, the Davis' are still grieving.
"We didn't have Christmas. There was no Christmas. There was nothing for us to celebrate. Jaleayah wasn't there, " Kim Davis, Jaleayah's mother said.
Jaleayah Davis was killed on November 19th after her car and body were found on Interstate 77. Although it's been a little over month, the family recalls the nights events like it was yesterday.
"Taubi called and she said, Jaleayah's dead...Jaleayah's dead." Kim remembers.
While the Sheriff's Office is still investigating to determine if a crime was committed or if it was an accident, the Davis family is convinced someone killed Jaleayah.
"This was not an accident. This was absolutely, absolutely not an accident," Kim says.
The family is still asking for help from anyone who knows what happened that horrible evening.
Kim says about her daughter, "Jaleayah never deserved anything like this. Jaleayah never did anything to anybody to hurt anybody. She was so sweet."
Remembering the beautiful 19 year old woman by the smell of her lotion, her sister and best friend, Taubi, found a way to feel a little bit closer to Jaleayah.
"So every night before I go to sleep I put it on, and it smells like her. So it's like she's sleeping with me every night. and I have her pictures all over my room," Taubi shares.
For now a family tries to cope with their loss, but knows closure may never come.
"People say it's supposed to get easier. It doesn't. It just gets harder. I loved her so much," Kim says.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the sheriff's office and ask for Detective Camille Waldron at 304-424-1834.
UPDATE: Monday, November 28th 2:15pm
The car involved in an accident that left a Marietta woman dead is on its way to the West Virginia State Lab in Charleston.
Authorities from Wood County sheriff's Office loaded the car into a trailer Monday morning and sent it down to Charleston for further investigation.
Details surround the accident that killed 20 year old Jaleayah Davis are scarce but officials confirm the accident is being investigated as suspicious.
anyone with tips or insight into what may have happened the morning of the accident is asked to get in touch with the Wood County Sheriff's Office at 304-424-1834 or the Suspicious Activity Hotline at 304- 834- 3909. All tips can be left anonymously.
Wood County Sheriff Jeff Sandy says the West Virginia Medical Examiner has confirmed Jaleayah Davis as the victim of the Saturday morning accident along Interstate 77.
In a special press release, Sheriff Sandy says, "The Wood County Sheriff's Office has received notification from the West Virginia Chief Medical Examiners office today at 11:25 AM that the deceased female that was found on Interstate 77 near the 181 mile make has been identified as Jaleayah Rose Davis DOB 11/02/91. There is no additional information available to be released at this time."
UPDATED: Monday, November 21, 10:30 PM
Authorities are still not releasing the name of the woman in a fatal accident this week but friends and family have identified her as Jaleayah Davis.
Friends of Jaleayah Davis gathered to share memories and prayers for Jaleayah and her family.
"Her smile and her laugh... that was her... that was Jaleayah," says friends of Jaleayah
The sudden death of their friend that they knew and loved... has left many looking for answers about what happened that tragic Saturday morning.
The Wood County Sheriff's Office says the Washington County female was found dead around four a-m Saturday morning on Interstate I-77 near mile marker 181.
They say the female was hit by a vehicle and sustained multiple traumatic injuries.
"When I found out, my heart just sank, I called my mom and just started tearing up."
"Yeah I haven't cried in years and that day... was the first time in a long time," say friends of the victim.
A time not easy for anyone and authorities say the accident is being investigated as suspicious.
Jaleayah once lived in Williamstown then moving to Marietta and friends from both sides of the river say they will never forget her intriguing qualities.
"Whenever she was there... you knew she was there, and her smile... her smile it lit up the room, it just lit up the room," friends remembered of Jaleayah.
"All I remember is her cute little laugh that I won't ever forget it, it will pound in my head for the rest of my life."
"She really brightened up the room when she was there."
"Happy, happy... happy."
And while they laughed and shared the good memories, it was easy to see the tears being held back.
And when asked why they were there to talk about an old friend... the answer was quick.. and easy.
"Because we love Jaleayah." "To show support," says her friends. "She deserves this." "I feel as a friend we all represent her now, and I know she's watching us."
Friends say shirts will be sold for donations to the family through a facebook group that has been started called Justice for Jaleayah, a place to remember and honor both her and her family.
"We love you guys."
Donations for the family are also being accepted at People's Bank in Marietta.
The investigation into Saturday morning accident along 77 that claimed the life of a Washington County woman is ongoing and the Wood County Sheriff's Office is asking anyone with information to come forward.
Sergeant B.A. Pickens says the deputies were out once again last night investigating the accident and looking for answers.
The Sergeant says shortly before4 :00 Saturday morning, deputies arrived on the scene of an accident near mile marker 181. He says the female was struck by a vehicle and sustained multiple traumatic injuries adding that the victim's car was found against the guardrail north of where her body was located.
The accident is being investigated as suspicious.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Wood County Sheriff's Office at 304-424-1834.
Tips may be left anonymously.
According to Wood County Sheriff's Office, Sergeant B.A. Pickens, the Marietta resident and female killed, was struck by a vehicle and sustained multiple traumatic injuries.
He adds that the females car was found against the guardrail north of where her body was located.
Deputies and detectives have been working around the clock to put the pieces together in the crash that is being investigated as suspicious in nature.
Interstate 77 was closed for about 5 hours Saturday morning.
The accident is still under investigation.
According to Wood County Sheriff Jeff Sandy, deputies arrived around 4:00 am to the scene of an accident around mile marker 181.
One female is confirmed dead, but her name is not being released until the family is notified.
The Wood County Crash Team is currently conducting an investigation into the cause of the accident.


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Slow Club are a London-based duo signed to Moshi Moshi. They've released two albums, toured internationally and played with the likes of KT Tunstall and Florence and the Machine.
We visited Charles and Rebecca, who have recently been developing their first 'proper' home studio setup, to talk gear/recording:
"Charles: We've just got a Focusrite Scarlett 8i6 - it's nice to have good quality stuff going in [to the computer] and it's made a big difference having nice mic pres. Also, having more than two inputs is really cool.
Rebecca: It opens up quite a lot of doors for us because we're not "techhy" - whereas before we'd have to knock something up on GarageBand to then go and demo elsewhere, now we can record to a high standard ourselves very easily.
Charles: Previously we've just used poor quality samples and then had to re-record/time-stretch them. Now we can try out different ideas and know that we can keep them to confidently use in the future. It means recording can become a continuous process alongside writing/production, where we're using good quality gear from the start.
We've also begun to experiment with Ableton using a Novation Launchpad - the layout in User 1 mode is good fun and an interesting extension beyond a typical MIDI keyboard."
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ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Reggie Bush has watched film of the Detroit Lions, and he has seen the opposing safeties playing deep and paying extra attention to Calvin Johnson.
"It's a running back's dream," Bush said. "We have to be able to run the ball in that situation. One of the reasons I wanted to come here is to be able to bring a balanced attack."
Bush was introduced Wednesday, part of a big day for the Lions, who also landed free agents Glover Quin and Jason Jones and retained Chris Houston.
Those moves should help the defense, and the Lions are hoping Bush can give a boost to an offense that already includes Johnson and quarterback Matthew Stafford.
The Lions did not disclose financial terms of Bush's four-year contract, but it is reportedly worth around $16 million. Detroit also agreed to deals with Quin, a safety, Jones, a defensive end, and Houston, a cornerback.
Bush certainly adds more speed to Detroit's backfield, which already includes 233-pound running back Mikel Leshoure. Bush rushed for 986 yards for Miami last season after a 1,086-yard output for the Dolphins in 2011.
Detroit went 4-12 in 2012 despite Johnson's record-setting season at wide receiver. The running game was never all that consistent — the Lions had only four runs of 20 or more yards, which tied them for the fewest in the league.
"The thing that was important to us was not just the talent of Reggie Bush, but also the way those talents complemented the other players we have on offense," coach Jim Schwartz said. "That was really the basis of our interest in Reggie."
Detroit lacked a big-play running back because Jahvid Best, a first-round draft pick in 2010, didn't play at all last season. His future is in doubt because of concussion problems.
Bush was a change-of-pace and third-down back in his five years with New Orleans before being traded to Miami following the 2011 lockout. Detroit is still building around Stafford and Johnson, and Bush is looking forward to fitting in.
"Having a quarterback like Matthew makes all the difference," Bush said. "This offense doesn't work without him."
Stafford said he helped recruit Bush during Detroit's push to sign him.
"It's clear to me he is all about winning," Stafford said. "Football is about matchups, and this gives our offense some tremendous options. It's exciting for me personally and it's exciting for our entire team. Reggie is a proven commodity. He has made plays at every level of his career."
The Lions have other needs besides running back, of course. Jones, who is from the Detroit area, played 12 games with the Seattle Seahawks last season. He was not a starter, but the 6-foot-5, 276-pound Jones could play a bigger role with the Lions, who released veteran defensive end Kyle Vanden Bosch last month.
"No words to describe how excited I am to come back," said Jones, who is from Southfield.
Jones signed a three-year deal. Quin's is five years.
Houston started 42 games for the Lions over the last three seasons. Prior to that, he played his first three years with the Atlanta Falcons. He had five interceptions in 2011, when Detroit made the playoffs.
Houston missed two games last season because of a sprained left ankle, but that was in September. He started every game the rest of the way, finishing with two interceptions and two forced fumbles.
Quin has played four years for the Houston Texans. He started 16 games in each of the last three seasons.
"In this league, it's all about if you can play on Sundays," Quin said. "Obviously, being healthy ... and not missing games, obviously, that plays a part in a team's decision."


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Reichow takes second at Oz
MINNEAPOLIS – The South Dakota State men's cross country team finished in second at the Oz Memorial on Friday night. Joel Reichow led the Jacks again this season with his second place finish.
Reichow ran a personal best in the 6k with his time of 19:19.5. Host Minnesota's Steve Sulkin won the meet with his time of 19:17.7.
Drew Kraft was the second Jackrabbit to finish in the top-ten. Kraft finished in eighth with his overall time of 19:42.8.
Trevor Capra, Wilson Hacker and Brendan Sage all ran their first 6k race of their college careers. Capra finished in 18th with his time of 20:10.1, Sage clocked-in at 19:49.7 to take 12th and Hacker placed 23rd with his time of 20:25.4.
Andrew Thies finished in 17th with his time of 20:02.0.
Anthony Bongard ran his first race for the Jackrabbits in over two years, he finished in 21st with a final time of 20:21.2.
The Jackrabbits will not compete again until the end of the month when they go back to the Les Bolstad Golf Course to run in the Griak Invitational. The Griak Invitational will be held on Sept. 28.


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Some players exited the Raiders facility Wednesday and headed for far-away places, anywhere, to get away from the daily grind of the NFL, if only for a few days. For quarterback Terrelle Pryor, it was business as usual.
See, Pryor isn't one to take days off. Each day is another opportunity for him to get better. To that end, he spent two days with offensive coordinator Greg Olson and quarterbacks coach John DeFilippo watching video and getting a better grasp of "situational football," Pryor said.
Pryor used another day to work with throwing mechanics guru Tom House, a former major-league pitcher who has carved out a niche as a specialist for athletes seeking ways to improve their throwing.
Olson first recommended House to Pryor this offseason. Pryor followed through, worked with House and returned a refined quarterback. During the bye week, House traveled to Oakland, where he helped Pryor iron out a few kinks.
In particular, Pryor said, House pointed out that Pryor got a bit out of whack with his balance and keeping his ear over his right (back) foot when he throws.
"I wasn't exploding as much as I should be," Pryor said. "That was the main thing, getting my balance and getting my ear back there all the time and sitting on the back foot. That was a thing we really attacked and got better at as that bye week progressed."
By the end of the week, Pryor felt confident that he had tightened up his throwing mechanics, improved his understanding on ways to direct the offense and positioned himself to succeed the final 10 games and beyond.
"I got better," Pryor said. "It was a great time to get some work in. I didn't really get any days off. There's no time to get off anyways. You have to work constantly to improve."
Pryor said Olson is fond of cautioning against so-called "briefcase coaches and players."
Here's Pryor's explanation for just what that phrase means and how it does nothing to describe his approach to his craft.
A briefcase player is "a guy that after practice and the meeting you just take off and go," Pryor said. "You have to stay and spend some extra time on your work and your craft because when it comes down to it at the end of the day there's no replays at the end of the game. It's for real.
"You're gonna be looked at how you play and overcome stuff in that game at the end of the day. You have to make sure when you go out there and game day you know what's going on."
Few work as hard or as long as Pryor.
— Courtesy of @VicTafur, the Steelers lost their past seven games outside the Eastern Standard Time zone, dating to a Nov. 2011, win at Kansas City. Also, the Steelers are 0-4 on the West Coast since they beat the San Diego Chargers in 2005.
— From the Something Has To Give Department:
The Raiders last won a game coming off a bye in 2002, the season they advanced to the Super Bowl. Since that season, the Raiders are 0-10 in such games. The Steelers last beat the Raiders at the Oakland Coliseum in 1995.
Barring a tie Sunday, one of these streaks is going to end.
— Pittsburgh native Stefen Wisniewski returned to practice Wednesday, just in time to get ready for his first game since Sept. 29 and against a team he grew up rooting for.
Wisniewski doesn't hide the fact that he's from Pittsburgh or that he watched them all the time as a youngster. He also makes no bones about wanting to beat the Steelers just a little bit more than other teams.
"It's cool to play against a team that you grew up watching," Wisniewski said. "It's also cool for bragging rights. I spend my offseasons out there, so I want to be able to hold my head high and wear my Raiders gear with pride when I'm walking around Pittsburgh this offseason."
Coach Dennis Allen said he's confident that Wisniewski will be able to play Sunday. That takes on added import because of the difficulty in playing against a Dick Lebeau defense, where there's a heavy burden placed upon the center to pick up potential blitzes in advance and bark out the proper protections.
"Absolutely," Allen said. "Communication is going to be critical against this defense and making sure we can identify where the rushers are coming from, and Wiz has done a great job of doing that for us all year long so it's good to have him back out there."
Wisniewski said there's similarities between the Raiders defense under Jason Tarver and the Steelers defense. There's also plenty of differences, such as the way Lebeau disguises his blitzes.
"Tarver likes to bring a lot of overload stuff," Wisniewski said. "He likes to kind of bluff one side and bring the other side. The Steelers will just kind of have everyone milling around in there and then some of them are coming, some of them are dropping. So, definitely different things but a lot of the same misdirection stuff."
— With the release of defensive tackle Christo Bilukidi today, the Raiders are down to four players from their 2012 draft class.
Linebacker Nathan Stupar was the first to go, at the end of training camp in 2012. Bilukidi lasted a little more than a year longer. He played in 13 games last season and five this season.
The remaining players are: offensive lineman Tony Bergstrom, linebacker Miles Burris, wide receiver Juron Criner and defensive end Jack Crawford.
Of the six players selected by general manager Reggie McKenzie in his first time spearheading a draft, none has developed into a long-term starter.
Burris flashed last season and earned a starting job when veteran Aaron Curry suffered an injury during the offseason. He's now on the mend from offseason knee surgery and not assured playing time when he returns.
Criner hasn't been active for any games this season. Bergstrom is on season-ending injured reserve. He started one game last season. Crawford is a seldom-used backup.
— Running back Darren McFadden had an extra week to heal his hamstring. Allen said it appears as if the added time off helped McFadden quite a bit, as it did the other players.
"I don't think anybody's 100 percent at this point in time during the year," Allen said, "but he looks explosive."
— If Tony Pashos (hip) and Andre Gurode (knee) aren't able to play Sunday, Allen said, it's likely that the Raiders will sign Jack Cornell from the practice squad and place him on the 53-man roster as a means of adding depth.
— Allen stopped shy of calling Sunday's game a must-win game, but he didn't shy away from its importance.
"It would be big for us to come off a bye and get this win and start what I'm saying (is the) stretch run of the season, and start it off right," Allen said. "This isn't make or break, but this is a big game for us. We need to play well and we need to get in these games against good teams and find out ways to win."
The Steelers started 0-4 but rebounded with victories in each of their past two games.
"This is a good football team that we're playing," Allen said. "They understand how to win. They know what the formula is to win in this league and they've done a really good job of it the last couple of weeks."


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The federal government, through the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), recently issued new guidelines that expand the opportunities for individuals to voluntarily self-identify as protected veterans and/or individuals with disabilities, and to request reasonable accommodations. All organizations with federal contracts, including Penn State, will be required to provide notifications at several points throughout the employment life cycle. The multiple notifications are intended to ensure that applicants and employees are provided ample opportunity to voluntarily self-identify and to request consideration of an accommodation when they are comfortable doing so or due to updated circumstances.
Notifications of the ability to self-identify as a protected veteran and/or individual with a disability must now be provided to job applicants, those offered employment and all employees of the University. Completion of the forms associated with self-identification, however, is completely voluntary. Any information disclosed cannot be used in evaluating the applicant or employee, and the form confirms that an employee may voluntarily self-identify at a later date without consequence.
Penn State has always supported initiatives to assist individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.
"The multiple opportunities for disclosure may appear cumbersome at first blush, but it should be recognized that protected veterans and individuals with disabilities are often reluctant to self-identify either because they worry about potential discrimination from prospective employers or because they don't want to be perceived as needing special consideration," explained Kenneth Lehrman, Penn State's vice provost for affirmative action. "In the final analysis, the multiple opportunities will afford Penn State a clearer picture of how well our proactive efforts to recruit and hire veterans and individuals with disabilities are actually working."


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Hey Strangekittens! I hope you're liking the new site's look. It's oodles more functional and much smoother. This week's recipe is a bit more time consuming, but it's so yummy! It took me about 45mins.
Serves 2.
You will need:
- 6 chicken thighs, skin on
- 1 large yam (get a long one, it'll make it easier)
- Half a cabbage, cut into ribbons
- 2 big handfuls of baby spinach
- Seasoning: Garlic powder, onion powder, rock salt and pepper
- Condiments: Sriracha sauce, sesame oil (optional), organic maple syrup (or raw unfiltered honey, I usually use that but I don't have any left)
1. Preheat the oven to 425.
2. Whip out that raw chicken onto a buttered roasting/sheet pan. Don't like butter? Screw you, butter is awesome. Season it with the garlic and onion powder, salt, and pepper.
Squirt a little bit of Sririracha sauce on there. Just a dab, we want to thinly coat it, not drown it. That stuff is spicy. Next, you wanna drop a dime sized amount of either melted honey or maple syrup on each piece of chicken. Using a basting brush (or your fingers, you dirty animal) and make sure the seasoning and sauce evenly coats the chicken.
Stick that stuff in the oven on the middle rack. Mine only has two racks, so the top one in my case, lol! Should take about 45mins if they're frozen like mine. Start heating a wok with some butter.
3. While the chicken is cooking, peel the yam. Slice it into really thin, long strips. Be careful, we don't want extra blood flavour. I used a potato peeler, but you could use a mandolin slicer. You can do it with a knife but it'll take forever, seriously. I make them about 1cm wide. Stick them in a heated wok with some melted butter, on medium high.
4. Boring part over. If you haven't already, slice the cabbage into ribbons. You do this by laying it on it's side and slicing from the top like this:
Throw that in the pan with the yam, and the spinach. Give it a good splash of sesame oil, and some pepper and garlic powder. start tossing it around with a pair of silicone tipped tongs, or a wooden spoon.
Make sure everything is evenly coated with butter, oil and seasoning. This won't take long…maybe ten minutes. I like to steam it a bit by turning down the heat and putting the lid on for a couple minutes. If you like your veggies a little firmer then skip that and keep tossing. You'll know it's done when the yam starts breaking apart.
Serve with the chicken on top (awww yeah)
Yum yum! Enjoy. If you want it spicier, use more Sriracha.


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Sunday, July 31, 2011
There are winners and then there are the rest of us…
4 comments:
- harmfulguy said...
I'm almost disappointed that I'm not going to need to do any Big Game Hunting in Ladue next week.
- NativeNYker said...
Ur brilliant!
- Andygirl said...
Amen, girl. At this point, the only thing we can do is try not to think about how fucked we are, lest it keep us up at night.
I used to have pretty solid respect for some of the top conservative thinkers, William F. Buckley, et al. They were less about social programs and mandated religion, and more about fiscal conservatism. I didn't agree with everything they said, but I could see where they were coming from with it. These new "conservatives?" Not even in the same universe as those old farts. It's ironic to think the same people who worship at the altar of Ronald Reagan would probably call him a pansy liberal if he were running for office today. The republican party is a joke, and not even a shadow of its formal self.
The rich don't even win in this because if you take everything away from the groups who buy all your shitty stuff that you create then there is no one left to buy your shitty stuff and you stop making money. The economy, like nature has a way of wiping the slate clean, blowing everything up and killing everything in sight,starting over.
They are killing themselves slowly. Ask those rich folks who jumped off building during the Great Depression or found themselves destitute like everyone else. It is happening, the reckoning will come.
The rest of us are having to so what we must we are learning to life off of less we are slowly readjusting and it is this that will save us. We will help each other through this we always do.
Take comfort, it hurts now but we are on it.


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|Team Chaplain/Director, Community Outreach
Father Thomas J. Valenti is in his eighth year heading Columbia Athletics' community outreach efforts and has served as the Lions' team chaplain for 14 years. He offers spiritual guidence/counseling to team members, conducts an optional prayer service for the team on each game day, and convenes the Columbia Student-Athlete Community Outreach Committee.
With the full support and encouragement of Head Coach Norries Wilson, the team offers tutoring and sports clinics to children of the South Bronx. With "Father V's" guidance, the team also sponsors an annual Thanksgiving Food Drive and Toys for Tots Program. The success of these two programs and others benefit many in need of assistance in the New York area.
His ministry on a college campus began at Ithaca College. During his four years at Ithaca, he served as team chaplain for the Division III football program.
A native of Rochester, New York, Father Valenti was ordained a priest in 1976. While in Rochester, he served as the Assistant to the Bishop for Vocations, among other assignments.


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The influence of the Junior Ryder Cup will be in full evidence over the next few weeks, with 19 former players competing in two of golf's biggest events, The Open Championship and the Ricoh Women's British Open.
This week World Number Two Rory McIlroy will attempt to win his third Major Championship, nine years after he represented Europe in the junior version of The Ryder Cup.
He is joined at Muirfield by five other European past Junior Ryder Cup players for the season's third Major: Sergio Garcia, who was part of the first competition in 1995; Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts and Spaniard Rafa Cabrera-Bello, who both played in 1999; Englishman Oliver Fisher (2004) and Italian Matteo Manassero (2008), who recently won The European Tour's flagship event, the BMW PGA Championship.
Three Americans in the field also showed their potential as Junior Ryder Cup players: Hunter Mahan (1999), Bud Cauley (2006) and Jordan Spieth (2008 and 2010), who won the John Deere Classic on the US PGA Tour last week at the age of 19.
The female Junior Ryder Cup players have done even better, with ten in the field for the Ricoh Women's British Open at St Andrew's from August 1-4.
Norway's Suzann Pettersen was part of the early teams in 1997 and 1999 before launching a successful professional career and playing in six Solheim Cups, and is joined by Dewi Claire Schreefel of Holland (2002), Florentyna Parker of England (2004), Spain's Carlota Ciganda (2004 and 2006) and Belen Mozo (2004), Carly Booth of Scotland (2006 and 2008), Klara Spilkova of the Czech Republic (2010) and Americans Vicky Hurst (2006), Jennifer Johnson and Lexi Thompson (both 2008).
The Junior Ryder Cup celebrates the progress and hard work taking place at the grass roots level of golf, which helps talented young players develop into national team amateurs and some – in the case of McIlroy, Mahan and Colsaerts – to The Ryder Cup itself. In the PGA and PGAs of Europe, golf has a much envied network of expert coaches who, together with golf club volunteers and national governing bodies, help and guide young golfers towards achieving their full potential.
The 2014 Junior Ryder Cup will take place on the Rosemount Course at Blairgowrie Golf Club in Scotland, from September 23 to 24.
Ryder Cup Director Richard Hills said: "The success of The Ryder Cup has put us in the fortunate position to, through the Junior Ryder Cup, be able to celebrate the abundance of young talent in Europe and the USA.
"To see so many former Junior Ryder Cup players in The Open and Women's British Open is a chance for all the parents, volunteers, coaches, clubs and amateur governing bodies, who have helped these players along the way, to be as excited about the future as we are."


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Re: Do you go to church?
I am a Christian and attend church as often as I can. My family has be going to Saturday night services which was weird at first bu then we settled into it. And honestly we haven't been attending that much because of my all-star baseball schedule. Herer we are trying to enjoy our Canada Day weekend camping in the US And we have to keep going back and forth over the border. But about the christened and baptized thing, I believe christening is a more of a Catholic tradition. But Christians sometimes do it because they choose to. But generally all Christians are baptized. Speaking on general terms there.


text: I am sure there is a Buckeye fan or two out there. Anyone have any thoughts or insights on Anthony Gonzalez being drafted in the first round by the Indianapolis Colts??? I know conventional wisdom here in Indy was the Colts needed to draft to help that shaky defense but many including myself just sit back and let the the genius GM Bill Polian work his magic and make the picks that in the end look absolutely brilliant!!! Any thoughts???


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No. 55 Men's Tennis Falls in Tough Match to No. 50 Yale, 4-3
By ODU Athletics
March 17, 2013
NORFOLK, Va. - Old Dominion University men's tennis won the double point but Marc Powers defeated Albert Ochagavia in a hard fought 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 match at No. 2 singles as No. 50 Yale defeated No. 55 ODU Sunday afternoon in Wilmington.
ODU (11-5) got off to a fast start as No. 48 Can Cetinel and Carlos Lopez Villa defeated No. 59 Daniel Hoffman and Powers 8-4 at No. 1 doubles. Wesley Barrett and Tim Schweig clinched the doubles point with an 8-6 triumph at No. 3.
No. 120 Lopez Villa cruised to an 6-2, 6-3 win at No. 1 singles but Hoffman got Yale on the board with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Dante Terenzio at No. 3. Martin Svenning was a 6-2, 7-6 winner at No. 4. while Zach Dean defeated Tim Schweig at No. 6, 6-2, 6-2.
Jonas Kuwert earned ODU its second singles victory at No. 5 with a 7-6, 6-3 win over Zach Krumholz.
Powers and Ochagavia battled it out at No. 2, with Powers winning the first set and Ochagavia the second, and Powers coming away with a tight 6-4 win in the third set.
ODU returns from spring break and hosts Delaware on Sunday, March 31.


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Well hello again! Today, we're going to take our first dip into Power Firmware Maintenance. This is a fairly large topic so I'm going to break up these posts. This first one will focus on a general overview, the terminology, and how the release process works.
Power Firmware Maintenance Overview
There are millions and millions of lines of source code within (FSP, PHYP, PFW) and outside (HMC) your Power Systems. The picture below shows these different subsystems in more detail. Firmware updates are used for two main purposes.
1. Provide new function to the existing system or support a new system (Major Release)
2. Fix bugs (Service Pack)
- Release Level: A major, new function (software or hardware enablement), disruptive firmware upgrade.
- Service Pack: Typically a minor, bug fix, code update which is one of the following types:
- Concurrent: A code update that allows the operating system(s) running on the Power system to continue running while the update is installed and activated.
- Deferred: A code fix that is concurrent but does not activate on the system until it has been rebooted. Many times this type of fix is related to chip initialization changes.
- Partition Deferred: A code fix that is concurrent but not activated until the partition is rebooted.
- Disruptive: A code fix which requires the system to be rebooted during the code update process.
There are also a variety of severities associated with service packs. The most important one to look out for is HIPER (High Impact, Pervasive). One of the worst feelings we have in development is when we see a customers system hit a problem for an issue we already had released a fix for. Just because you haven't hit the issue yet doesn't mean you won't, so update! Please review all HIPER fixes and install any applicable ones as soon as possible. There are all sorts of ways to stay informed and be notified when they come out (see links below).
Under the Hood of Power Firmware Maintenance
The FSP is running an embedded operating system with some extraordinary (I'm sure you have no guesses on which area I work in :) power firmware applications running on it; one of which is an application responsible for handling code updates. A firmware update to the FSP originates from either the HMC (via ethernet over to the FSP), a USB stick, or via the OS running on the Power System. Either way, the firmware is sent to the FSP as a series of binary images. These binary images are written into a special location in the FSP filesystem. This special location is actually an alternate boot filesystem (i.e. the FSP has 2 boot locations to support firmware updates and redundancy). The firmware images are not only for the FSP, but also for PHYP and PFW, etc. The FSP is then rebooted and when it comes up it is using the new firmware. Depending on the type of firmware update (concurrent or non-concurrent) or upgrade, the system is either power cycled (disruptive) or remains booted throughout the entire firmware update process (concurrent or deferred). If there is an error during the firmware update, the FSP will automatically go back to the previous level of firmware. The technology involved in doing a concurrent code update to the PHYP firmware is pretty amazing stuff (i.e. your partition continues to run and operate as the firmware underneath it updates itself).
The HMC code update process is a bit simpler in that it's running on a more standard computer system. It has the same features as the FSP based code update process. You can always go back to the previous version if something bad happens during the update.
The Power Firmware team averages 2 major releases a year. Though most releases include new hardware enablement, the focus of one of the releases is new function. Since the application of Service Packs has impacts to our customers, we've been expanding the interval between service packs with the goal to release service packs for each release every six months (with one release, three months after the initial release availability).
Release Process
The release process is similar between major releases and service pack updates. Major releases (especially ones which involve a new chip technology) have a lot more software simulation involved in them throughout the release process. Each developer has access to their own full system simulator in which they can run and validate the code as they write it. Once the hardware arrives, we shift into test phases, with the test phases becoming more complex and intricate as we get close to the release date. The service packs follow a similar version of this process. Release readiness is based, in part, by looking at previous releases (i.e. P6, P5, ...) and analyzing types and numbers of defects being found by the test teams as well as the interval between defect discovery.
Links and Tools
Fix Central: Location for all Power Firmware updates.
Fix Level Reccomendation Tool (FLRT): A tool which compares current levels of firmware and software and recommends appropriate levels to update to.
Firmware Overview and Recomendations Presentation (A presentation from our Product Engineering team with more details and links)


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Heading into tomorrow night's draft, there's both anticipation and uncertainty for the Lightning. At 27th overall, Director of Amateur Scouting Al Murray believes there is a high likelihood the team will get a player it wants. In fact, in an interview with Damian Crisdotero [5], he noted many teams will be getting players they might have ranked as lottery players due to the wide open nature of this draft beyond the top 10-12 picks. In our own conversations with the Lightning organization, we've learned the team is currently focusing on about a dozen players for the 27th pick, and they feel confident at least one of those 12 players will be available when their turn to come one stage arrives. Of course, the team didn't share that list of 12 players with us, but it does offer us the opportunity for an interesting exercise: who would be on Bolt Prospects' list? Here's a list of a 12 players that are on Bolt Prospects' board for pick 27 at the 2011 NHL Entry Draft:
1.) C Rocco Grimaldi, USNTDP (USA): We believe Grimaldi will have to convert to the wing as a pro, if not sooner at North Dakota, and wing is the least pressing need for the Lightning organization. But, the opportunity to draft a player like Grimaldi rarely happens. There hasn't been a, "the next Martin St. Louis [6]" in the past 10 or so years, and we doubt there will be another player like Grimaldi in another 10. Offensive defensemen and goaltenders can be had any year. The opportunity to draft the super-skilled heir to the franchise's heart-and-soul player won't come along again any time soon.
2.) D Jonas Brodin, Leksand (SWE): This is a safe, safe pick for the Lightning and should net them a 25-35 point a year, solid, minutes eating defenseman. His upside isn't as high as some of the other d-men on our board, but he seems bust-proof because of the maturity of his game.
3.) D Oscar Klefbom, Leksand (SWE): Oscar Klefbom is by no means bust-proof, but he's got the upside to become a #2 defenseman in the organization. We love the chance he could become the perfect second pairing anchor to supplement Victor Hedman [7] on the top pairing.
4.) RW J.T. Miller [8], USNTDP (USA): Al Murray has mentioned over and over again in pre-draft interviews that the Lightning are first and foremost looking for players with a high degree of character and work ethic. Arguably the hardest working player in this draft is J.T. Miller of the USNTDP. Miller could be the perfect high-energy forechecker to collect and distribute the puck for the multitude of snipers the Lightning already have.
5.) D Joe Morrow, Portland (WHL): What the playoffs demonstrated, particularly before Marc-Andre Bergeron [9] was inserted into the lineup, was how lacking the Lightning are when it comes to puck rushing defensemen. Morrow is the kind of aggressive puck carrying blueliner that could help the Lightning break down the trap teams like the Penguins and Bruins utilized in the postseason.
6.) D Duncan Siemens, Saskatoon (WHL): Worst-case scenario, in drafting Siemens, you get a solid stay-at-home defenseman like Chris Phillips that can play for your team for the next decade. Best-case scenario, if his offensive numbers weren't just a product of being paired with Stefan Elliot, the team could get solid production out of him, too.
7.) C Zack Phillips, St. John (QMJHL): Here's a player that's tough for us to get a read on. Athletically, he's not quite the blue chip prospect we'd hope to get. Still, we can't fight this nagging suspicion he might be another Brad Richards [10]-type who ends up being more than the sum of his parts because of his hockey smarts.
8.) G John Gibson, USNTDP (USA): Gibson's a very solid goaltending prospect in a draft that is otherwise devoid of 1st round caliber talent in net. Drafting Gibson would give the Lightning a goaltender of the future to succeed Dustin Tokarski [11] in that role once Tic, presumably, ascends to the NHL.
9.) D Ryan Sproul, Sault Ste Marie (OHL): Surprise! In Sproul we see a late blooming righty shot defenseman with a lot of athletic gifts who scored 14 goals from the backline on a terrible Greyhounds team. We've been trying to determine this week if he'd be a reach in the 1st round. Apparently, it might not be.
10.) D Connor Murphy, USNTDP (USA): If he didn't have an injury history, he'd be even higher on our list. We liked his father, and Murphy's a chip off the old block with better athletic gifts.
11.) RW Rickard Rakell, Plymouth (OHL): Will he score 20 or more goals consistently? Maybe not. However, at a minimum, this is the kind of hard working checking line player you absolutely must have to be successful in the NHL playoffs. See: Bergenheim, Sean.
12.) RW Tomas Jurco, St. John (QMJHL) Our guilty pleasure, Jurco could be nothing more than a shootout specialist when push comes to shove. But, we see a player with a good sized frame and a willingness to put work in to improve his game. The vouch from Gerard Gallant goes a long way, and imagining a line with Richard Panik [12]'s dazzling skill on one wing and Jurco's on the other is captivating to daydream about.
For what it's worth, Bolt Prospects' staff has already participated in two mock drafts, and in complete isolation from one another we selected the same player. In Chad Schnarr's Twitter Mock Draft [13] with Mark Pukalo of TampaBayLightning.com, the Lightning selected J.T. Miller of the USNTDP. Meanwhile, and without any coordination between us, I happened to select (SPOILER ALERT) J.T. Miller of the USNTDP in the blogger's draft held at TheDetroitSportsSite.com [14]. Chad will be releasing another mock draft tomorrow here on Bolt Prospects, but heading into tomorrow night we can confirm that our writing team is definitely in sync and ready to go.


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Laurels and Darts: Darts to Catawba County commissioners
Darts this week to the Catawba County Board of Commissioners for departing from leaders' elected duty of governing our county and instead taking a partisan action that is nothing more than an attempt to spotlight a hot-button issue on this year's statewide ballots.
Ultimately, our disagreement with county leaders' action has nothing to do with the 3-2 decision they delivered in support of a proposed constitutional amendment that would define marriage in North Carolina as a union between one man and one woman.
Our dart has nothing to do with marriage, or whether you are for or against Amendment 1.
We make it a policy that we don't tell people how they should vote. Sure, in hopes of creating an informed electorate, we offer opinions on all sides of important issues and deliver information about ballot topics and candidates.
But we do not use our position as newspaper of record in Catawba County to tell people how to vote.
County commissioners shouldn't use their elected position to do so either.
That said, our disappointment in Catawba County Commissioners' action is rooted in the fact that they used their meeting as a political stump.
In considering a resolution written and suggested by a county citizen who sought input on a purely political issue, county commissioners set a dangerous precedent illustrating that, going forward, our local governing body believes it is OK to tell citizens how to vote. By taking up the measure at all, our county commissioners paved the way for government to enter the voting booth and direct our hands as we navigate through touch screen ballots.
If county leaders are compelled to tell us how to vote on statewide referendums like Amendment 1, what is to stop them from using their position as a government body to tell us how to vote for members of the General Assembly, the governor's office or Congress? If county leaders feel justified in telling us how to vote on a referendum that doesn't pertain to the business of Catawba County, it is only a slippery slope until they tell us how to vote for president.
Catawba County's elected government has no place legislating an opinion on the personal decisions we make come voting day. Yet that's what commissioners did this week, in spite of commission member Lynn Lail's well-intentioned motion to refuse consideration of the matter.
We elect those five citizens to study, consider and vote their opinion on matters related to the governing of Catawba County, including the investment of citizen tax dollars. We do not elect them to hoist the banner of political movements, promote religious philosophies or offer opinions on our own morality. We elect them to govern.
Important decisions about how people vote on important issues, such as amending our state's constitution, must be left to the citizens.


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LAFAYETTE -- A funny thing happened at Waneka Lake after the rains fell in September. It stopped leaking.
The Lafayette lake, which typically loses about 300,000 gallons of water a day this time of year, has held steady. Its level has barely dipped in the 11 weeks since parts of Boulder County were deluged with more than 17 inches of rain over the course of five days.
"We've never experienced this phenomenon before," Lafayette Public Works Director Doug Short said. "Since the week of Sept. 11, the level of the lake stabilized without us having to add any water to the reservoir."
The obvious answer, he said, is that ground saturation from the floods helped keep the leaking in check. But is that still the case more than two months after the floodwaters retreated?
"It's interesting it has held this long," Short said. "It's a very curious event."
Curious enough that the city has hired a geotechnical design firm to dig groundwater monitoring wells around Waneka Lake. Crews with Brierley Associates used mobile drilling rigs Tuesday to bore up to 60 feet underground at four locations.
"At least we'll know where the water table is and whether it affects the reservoir," Short said.
Up to 1 1/2 acre-feet of water leak a day
For decades, Waneka Lake has lost up to 1.5 acre-feet of water a day. Short said while no definitive cause of the seepage has been identified, the likely suspects are a porous lakebed and long-ago-abandoned coal mine shafts that like to collect water.
In times of severe drought -- like the summer of 2012 -- the ongoing water loss at Waneka has forced the city to postpone its paddleboat and canoe program for the season.
"In times of shortage, it's a luxury to put water in there for recreation," Short said, noting that the city's two drinking water reservoirs take precedence over Waneka Lake.
Robin Dornfest, Brierley's regional manager at the company's Fort Collins office, said the geology around Waneka Lake is "fairly complex," with lots of historic mining activity and non-active fault lines that could affect the movement of groundwater. The lake's stabilization could be due to a simple saturation of the ground from the September floods or to something more significant, he said.
"What is interesting is that something has changed," Dornfest said. "Trying to figure out what has changed and why the system is behaving this way is what we're looking at."
His suspicion is that the current situation won't last forever and that the leakage will return in time, but he said he won't really know until data from the monitoring stations his company is installing come back for analysis.
"What we're doing is gathering data to firm up why the lake is leaking and why it stopped leaking," Dornfest said.
'Return of the wetland'
Amy Peavey, a Lafayette resident of 13 years who stood near the boathouse Tuesday with her children, said she has been enjoying the lake's fullness over the last couple of months. But she suspects that what was happening before will resume.
"I would venture to guess that if another drought comes this summer, the lake would eventually go back down," she said.
On the other side of the lake, where a flock of hundreds of ducks engaged in a cacophonous wing-slapping flap, Judy Lampman said she'd like to see Waneka stay high if only to support more wildlife.
"It's good to see the birds," said the nine-year city resident. "It's the return of the wetland."
Asked whether the groundwater monitoring wells might one day yield information leading to a permanent fix to the leakage problem at Waneka, Dornfest said it will depend on how badly Lafayette wants to keep the water level stable in the lake -- and how much the city is willing to pony up to make it happen.
"We can almost always engineer a solution for most problems," he said. "It's a question of whether it's cost-effective."
Contact Camera Staff Writer John Aguilar at 303-473-1389, firstname.lastname@example.com or twitter.com/abuvthefold.


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Ocera Therapeutics Presents Data on the Prevalence of Mild Hepatic Encephalopathy Defined as Neurocognitive Impairment in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis at EASL Annual Meeting
Company also presents additional preclinical data on AST-120
VIENNA, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Ocera Therapeutics, Inc.
presented an analysis of the prevalence of neurocognitive
impairment in ambulatory cirrhotic patients. The data came from the
screening period of the ASTUTE Study, an ongoing Phase 2b study
evaluating the safety and efficacy of AST-120 (spherical carbon
adsorbent) in the treatment of mild hepatic encephalopathy (MHE).
The poster was presented yesterday at the annual meeting of the
European Association for the Study of Liver (EASL) in Vienna,
Austria. Efficacy and safety data from the ASTUTE study are
expected in the summer of 2010.
"ASTUTE is the first prospective study screening patients with
stable cirrhosis for MHE using the RBANS, a diagnostic test
recommended in by the International Society for Hepatic
Encephalopathy and Nitrogen Metabolism (ISHEN). The findings
establish the fact that a majority of patients have a
neurocognitive deficit and suffer from MHE, an indication for which
there are no drugs approved and with an unmet need for a safe and
well-tolerated treatment option," stated Dr. Laurent Fischer, CEO
of Ocera Therapeutics. "AST-120 is an attractive treatment option
for MHE because of its well-established safety profile, and its
demonstrated ability to reduce circulating ammonia levels and brain
edema in a model of cirrhosis."
Dr. Roger Butterworth, President of ISHEN noted, "the importance
of MHE and its prevalence in patients with liver cirrhosis has been
underestimated until now. This landmark study shows that a majority
of patients with cirrhosis indeed suffer from MHE. We should
consider screening all patients with severe liver disease for MHE
and evaluate treatment options as this is a reversible
The company also presented data today demonstrating the
potential of AST-120 to lower ammonia and reduce brain edema
(swelling) in a preclinical model of cirrhosis. The data support
that high ammonia levels caused by cirrhosis of the liver is a
primary factor for development of brain edema. Notably, AST-120
significantly reduced ammonia in a dose-dependent fashion and brain
edema responded to the treatment.
About ASTUTE Study
ASTUTE is a randomized, double blind, multicenter study
evaluating 148 patients with liver cirrhosis and MHE. The study
employed the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of
Neuropsychological Status (RBANS), a validated instrument developed
by Dr. Christopher Randolph of Loyola University in Chicago. RBANS
was used to screen cirrhotic patients for evidence of MHE and study
eligibility, and found that MHE was present in the majority of
patients screened. The study is designed to evaluate the effects of
AST-120 compared to placebo on neurocognitive function using a
variety of validated instruments. In addition, quality of life and
clinical global evaluations as well as safety assessments are being
About AST-120
AST-120 is a novel proprietary spherical carbon adsorbent with a
selective adsorption profile for a variety of unwanted substances
and toxins, most importantly ammonia, the primary toxin linked to
hepatic encephalopathy in patients with liver cirrhosis. AST-120
also adsorbs other substances, which may be responsible for
conditions including Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), and pouchitis.
Adsorbed substances include ammonia, indoles (serotonin),
histamine, bile acids, advanced glycation endproducts (AGE), and
certain bacterial toxins. Ocera licensed the compound from Kureha
Corporation (Japan) in 2005. AST-120 has been used chronically by
over 360,000 patients and studied in over 3,000 patients
About Hepatic Encephalopathy
Hepatic Encephalopathy (HE) is a neuropsychiatric condition in
which severe liver disease contributes to an accumulation of toxic
substances, including ammonia that impair brain function. HE ranges
in severity from mild personality changes to disorientation,
delirium, coma and death. It has been reported that over 50% of
patients with cirrhosis of the liver who do not have evidence of
overt HE will still have neuropsychiatric impairment if tested.
This more subtle impairment has been termed MHE, and has been
associated with impaired quality of life, job loss and increased
risk of motor vehicle accident in these patients. MHE is currently
rarely diagnosed by physicians and there are no approved treatments
for MHE.
About Ocera Therapeutics, Inc.
Ocera Therapeutics, based in San Diego, California, USA, is a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of proprietary compounds to treat acute and chronic liver diseases and a broad range of gastrointestinal disorders. In addition to AST-120, Ocera is developing OCR-002, an ammonia detoxification agent, for the treatment of hospitalized patients with acute hepatic encephalopathy and acute liver failure. Ocera has raised $62.5 million dollars in venture financing from Domain Associates, Sofinnova Ventures, Thomas, McNerney & Partners, Montagu Newhall and InterWest Partners.
Posted: April 2010


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Where a huge expanse of northern sky and endless plain meets a modern, outward-looking Canadian city. The Rockies dominate the view... meaning excellent winter sports and high-altitude après-ski, Canadian style
Alberta's lively capital is an international business hub and the city's hotel scene has evolved to match its clientele. Shiny high-rise chains dominate Downtown, but you'll find boutique accommodation secreted away down leafy side streets if you know where to look. The showy but fabulous Westin Calgary (320 4th Avenue SW) heads up the luxury market, with the Fairmont Palliser (133 9th Avenue SW) hot on its heels. The scenic Kensington Riverside Inn (1126 Memorial Drive NW) is a good option for mid-budget visitors. Travelling on the cheap? You can expect a good standard service at the Ramada Hotel in Downtown (708 8th Avenue SW).
If your dream day involves perusing the glass-walled corridors of a modern mega-mall then Calgary is the stuff of your fantasies. It has three giant shopping centres: the Core in Downtown (8th Avenue SW), the gigantic Chinook Centre (6455 Macleod Trail SW) and the all-new and architecturally extravagant CrossIron Mills (261055 Crossiron Boulevard). Visitors keen to escape Calgary's mainstream retail culture should make like the locals and head to the Marda Loop, a buzzing little neighbourhood packed with artisan stores and boutique fashion outlets. Crossroads Market (1235 26th Avenue SE) is the best place to pick up fresh and local produce, while 17th Avenue SW has a concentration of vintage stores – check out Kit Apparel at 926 and Divine at 720.
Behind the standard veneer of fast food joints and burger bars, Calgary hides a growing commitment to fabulous food. The past few years have seen an explosion in restaurants that cater for the mid-range budget yet deliver dishes usually associated with much costlier prices. Model Milk (308 17th Avenue SW), with its shabby chic industrial décor and tantalising contemporary menu is one of the best, but French-style neighbourhood bistros such as Cassis (2505 17th Avenue SW) are the locals' hangouts of the moment. For something truly special, however, you have to head to Teatro (200 8th Avenue SE) – a Michelin-worthy eatery specialising in local produce prepared with lashings of theatricality.
May-JuneThe annual Calgary comedy festival runs for 11 days and nights in early summer, and attracts the best stand-up comedians from all corners of the globe. Budding comics can also take part in workshops, learn how to write hilarious scenarios and even showcase their work in front of the great and the good from the world of comedy.
JulyThis spectacular display of courage and horsemanship has to be seen to be believed. Billed as the 'greatest outdoor show on Earth', it's a nine-day rodeo extravaganza that claims to be the world's largest western festival.
AugustMany of Canada's bright young stars first made it big at the Calgary Fringe. The festival lasts for just over a week, and features hundreds of artists playing in venues across the city.
SeptemberThis annual, citywide spectacle is a celebration of science, engineering and art. Installations range from buildings that become musical instruments to build-your-own art bikes.
SeptemberAttracting around 50,000 film enthusiasts and featuring everything from small independent productions to Hollywood blockbusters, this is one of the largest film festivals in Canada. It's also a good time to scan the streets for starlets.


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Originally published on January 2, 2014 3:47 pm
Two of the best roots rock musicians of their generation make an appearance on a special episode of World Cafe, which is hosted in NPR's Studio A at the organization's headquarters in Washington, D.C. Singer Susan Tedeschi and her husband, guitarist Derek Trucks, joined forces in 2010 and formed the Tedeschi Trucks Band.
During this session, listeners will hear a soulfully enchanting performance of songs from the group's new record, Made Up Mind, in front of an enthusiastic audience. Host David Dye also uses today's show to introduce the "Not-So Newlywed Game," as he quizzes the couple about life together.
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Submission + - Ubuntu 13.10 'Saucy Salamander' Final has been released!
donadony writes: Finally, the most expected distribution in Linux World, Ubuntu 13.10 'Saucy Salamander' final has been released, there is no official release announcement yet, but the download page of Saucyhas been updated with the final packages. Just like most of you, We also expected it very long. This awesome distribution has come with plenty of new features and improvements.


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Thought you might find this interesting I have just begun experimenting with a Sony DSC-P5 and Ikelite DS-50 in combination.
So far I have had it in the pool for an hour, which convinced me that it is essential to block off the internal camera flash. The pool water was cloudy and produced a result just like the classic backscatter shots you see in the textbooks, because the internal flash faces straight ahead. There were unacceptable levels of backscatter for any shot over about 1 foot. Thanks to INUZUKA.m and others I realized it would be very easy to fix. In fact even easier than I thought, I just taped black cardboard over the flash itself (so it could go inside the housing). I took pictures above water in a dark-ish room with the flash on (but taped) to convince myself that I had essentially eliminated any light output from the flash.
Next thing I wanted to convince myself of was that the slave would still fire with this arrangement it did the sensor is extremely sensitive even on Minimum. Then I wanted to convice myself that the DS-50 in combination with this camera was indeed handling the TTL exposure. It definitely IS. I have posted some samples below. The last 4 shots show this
1. DS-50 in TTL mode, internal flash on but taped off
Looks great!
2. Strobe OFF, internal flash on but taped off
Good, no light from flash.. should eliminate the backscatter
3. Strobe in Manual mode, internal flash on but taped off
Way overexposed! Proves the TTL is working
4. Strobe OFF, internal flash untaped
For reference
Thanks Ikelite. The strobe works great with this camera.
This weekend Ill be in the Bahamas trying this rig out for real.
Cheers all
Sony DSC-P5 and Ike DS-50 TTL Experiments
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Engineers, conductors deal with grief from fatal accidents | News
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- In the last three years in Duval County, four people have been killed walking on railroad tracks.
That number may seem pretty small, but there are the unseen victims to consider in these cases as well: The men and women who have to witness a train killing a pedestrian with absolutely nothing they can do to stop it.
Hidden behind black glass of a locomotive engine, high above the road, a tiny crew does its best to control hundreds of tons of speeding steel and cargo.
"There's two people on train crew: Engineer and conductor," said CSX's Cliff Stayton.
Stayton was an engineer with the railroad company for 20 years.
And with names like "engineer" and "conductor" there's a sense of control, but once the men get it going, the train is in charge.
"Trains can't stop quickly, there's nothing you can do about it," he said.
Emergency brakes can help slow a train down, but it can take a mile or more for a train to come to a complete stop.
And Stayton said over the course of a career it's not if, but when train crews will witness fatalities.
"I was involved in numerous incidents," he said.
"I went through three semis, hit four automobiles, and a seven-year-old who was playing chicken on the tracks."
It's not an indictment on his ability, but on poor decisions.
"They'll go around gates or dart out in front of you and unfortunately this is common in the day in the life of," Stayton said.
A short cut, an adventure, a walk on the tracks are all illegal. It's trespassing on private property.
And those are all things Stayton said leads to the worst kind of accidents.
"Quite frankly, they're ugly."
Especially for the people in the engine.
"You're looking right down at the person, or the pedestrian right before impact."
Since 2008, Florida ranks #4 in train deaths, when it comes to people trespassing on the lines.
Specifically when it comes to trespassing and people walking on lines, 106 have been killed on Florida railroads.
"It's very common for you to relive that, you're back on the train, going through the same territory," he said.
That's why Stayton said each year, dozens of train operators have to give it up.
He stuck with it.
"Because that's how I supported my family. You have to get back up on the train."
He's moved up in the ranks now and works in the downtown Jacksonville high rise.
But he uses his years of experience to help keep engineers on the job, even after tragedy.
"I've held grown men in my arms while they sobbed," he said.
CSX, like most train corporations around the country, now have critical incident programs.
Allon Wright is the director of CSX's program, which gives counseling and support to employees involved in fatal railroad accidents whether directly or indirectly.
"Individuals may require immediate attention or sometimes we're seeing delays that can last months or years," Wright said.
He said fatal train accidents can lead to post traumatic stress for engineers and conductors.
"We really want to make sure people get the help they need," Wright said.
Counseling comes for these workers after such accidents, but also before.
Stayton said fatalities on the line are so common that engineers and conductors have to be prepared and educated for the sad reality that their train will probably one day kill someone.
"I wish it was the exception that engineers would have to go through this," Stayton said. "But reality is it's not if, but when."
CSX wants all their employees in town to use their counseling that's available free of charge. They say it's especially important for those who may have been involved in accidents years ago and still suffer from it.
This should also serve as a reminder that all train tracks are private property, you can be arrested for walking on them ... or worse, killed.