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The Preet Bharara Interview
Published on Sat, Jul 21,2012 | 12:16, Updated at Sat, Jul 21 at 17:56Source : CNBC-TV18 | Watch Video :
Every week, we work hard to create original and interesting content for you. This week we are borrowing it. Only because he's a man everybody wants to hear from and he rarely does interviews. So when my CNBC US colleague Jim Cramer bagged an interview with him, I knew I had to share it with you. Here is the giant slayer, the Sheriff of Wall Street, the Public Prosecutor with a funny bone – Preet Bharara
Cramer: 65 and 66 is your record. I do not know of anyone who has had that kind of record - what percentage of the people in this room, besides you and I, are wearing a wire?
Bharara: That is your first question?
Cramer: Yes.
Bharara: Okay. Could I just to take a second to say it is great to be here - to say that it is really interesting, because I have never been interviewed by somebody – you are probably the only person in the country who is more caffeinated than I am. Let me also say that I know that you told me there were going to be a lot of people here from the hedge fund industry and other folks. I did not quite appreciate how many people, so I just want to apologize in advance that I do not have enough subpoenas for all of you. Obviously, I am kidding. I do have enough. What was your question again?
Cramer: How prevalent is it, insider trading, that we can even make a joke that there are - I mean think about it, you are making a joke about subpoenas and the answer is you have to have a lot of them because it certainly is much more systemic than we ever thought.
Bharara: Look, when we began looking at securities fraud cases in particular, insider trading cases, which were being looked at, a lot of the cases that we brought, the investigations began with the FBI and the SEC and prosecutors at my office before I got there three years ago, and we continued many of them and began many new ones.
I think about a year and a half ago, I made it a point to say that, given everything we had seen and given how casual people were- based on the evidence that we had seen and how arrogant some people seem to be acting- based on the evidence that we had seen, that it was rampant.
I think that was proven by the number of cases that we brought. And just to be clear, we brought 71 cases, and we have 65 convictions, and six are still pending. It is disheartening to have the level of insider trading that we have now proven beyond a reasonable doubt in dozens and dozens of cases, for a lot of reasons. Because I think people need to believe that the markets are fair and the same rules apply to everyone. And every time you have a case of insider trading that is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, you are showing that people's confidence in that belief is misplaced. It is especially disheartening, given the variety of cases that not only have been brought by my office, but other U.S. Attorney's offices around the country, that it is not limited to one industry; it is not limited to one type of person; it is not limited to one area of geography. You have it in the pharmaceutical industry, you have it in the hedge fund industry, you have it in the technology industry, you have it in the healthcare industry. And when you see the kind of insider trading cases that we have been bringing off late, which is a little bit different from the kind of classic insider trading cases that you have seen before where they were one-offs, you get concerned about culture, not only at trading entities, but also at companies.
Because what we have shown in cases that have been developed and proven in court, that there are literally people who are developing networks of sources, so that if they do not get the information from one source at a particular technology company, they might get it from another source. And if they can not get it from that source, they have a stable of other sources from sometimes places that are called "expert networks." So the problem and the concern you have about culture and about this problem, it is far beyond the fact of a single insider trading case or act, because we are bringing in individual cases, cases against individuals, multiple-count prosecutions. I think in the old days you would not quite see that level of pervasiveness.
Cramer: Why in the heck should we ever buy a stock again? I listened to what you just said. I have read your cases, I have read your speeches. I do not want to buy a stock, because I got a feeling that someone knows more than I do. And I do my homework, I try really, really hard on the show. It doesn't matter. You are telling me about a world where someone has it a day before I do.
Bharara: I do not think you are allowed to buy a stock.
Cramer: Recommend.
Bharara: Look, part of our job is in exposing these cases and showing that we can have a deterrent effect is to bring people's level of confidence in the market. I was once asked at a forum, something like this, except there were no screens, "You know isn't it the case, Preet, that these cases you are bringing are undermining people's confidence in the market?" I said that is an odd question, because I think it is the conduct that we are uncovering is what should be bringing people's confidence back. And I think if you have open and aggressive and fair and proper and proved cases that you bring, and you show that you are having a deterrent effect, which I believe we are having, although it is impossible to measure, I think that is the thing that over time gives people more confidence and tells people they are going to get the same fair shake as everybody else.
Cramer: As someone who tried and failed to get a job in your office under Rudy Giuliani, because I did not have the grades, Harvard law, did not matter, they turned me down, I am continually amazed how business people believe that the U.S. Attorney's office is somehow the repository of people who could not get a good job in private practice, and they do not fear you because they think you are not sophisticated enough to spot their strategies.
Bharara: Do these people actually say that? Look, the kind of people who come to my office are - and I am blessed to inherit a tradition of excellence in the office, I mean this is the same office whose heads included former Secretaries of State and people who ran for governor and people whose names are endowed on law school buildings, some of the smartest and most integrity filled lawyers and prosecutors that the country has ever seen.
And I do not think that they are a second tier to anybody. And I have also seen very, very many people who are incredibly privileged and incredibly smart in the financial sector and other sectors, quite frankly, and lawyers as well who are now sitting in jail cells because they thought they were too smart for public servants who engage in law enforcement.
But the other thing I will say about your question is, it is true that some people in our office do not have a business background, and we appreciate that. In the same way, that there are members of boards of directors who do not have subject matter expertise about companies that they are supposed to be overseeing and monitoring. And the same is true when you read about CEOs going from one industry to another industry. But we take great care at all times to make sure that we understand the facts. We have a lot of discussion with Counsels for companies. I have sat in the library at my office, in the conference rooms of my office, on a number of occasions when we are talking about the state of play with respect to a business organization, whether it is a financial institution or otherwise, and the CEO comes or the CFO comes and the General Counsel comes, and we have a discussion, and we have experts and consult with experts and we talk a lot about what the business model is. And if people say to us, "We do not understand what you are talking about; you do not understand what business is about," we say, "Well, prove us wrong." Because you know what? Cheating is cheating, and lying is lying, and whether it is masked behind 17 pages of PowerPoint presentations about why this particular tax shelter is okay, at the end of the day I think our folks and our investigators and the FBI and the SEC are smart enough to see through them.
Cramer: Let us talk about business models. You brought it up. In this room, I am sure we have a lot of people who are worried. All day today, I have been listening to all of Delivering Alpha and it has been fabulous. I hear people worried so much about fiscal deficit, worried what it could do to their firm. They worry about what the breakup of the euro could mean. They worry about the collapse of the Italian bond market. But there is a systemic risk that they seem to be not worried about, which is the franchise risk of you rolling that grenade into their office. Why do not they put it in there along with the euro and the fiscal?
Bharara: So, I think you are right. I am agreeing with you a lot today. I spent some time not only talking to groups like this, but going to business schools and talking to boards of directors and not just talking to lawyers and securities lawyers about this very issue; that people spent a lot of time thinking about external things, they spend a lot of time thinking about the bottom line, as they should, and they spend a lot of time thinking about the business model, and I think they sometimes forget about culture within a firm.
Culture is important, not just in a U.S. Attorney's office, not just in government, not just in Congress, not just at a school, at an institution, it is also important at a business organization and, in particular at financial institutions. I am shocked and amazed at how few people think about that. I mean you have a conference, and it is terrific, called Delivering Alpha. But I wonder and worry sometimes, based on my conversations with actual business people, not sitting behind my desk reviewing indictments that others have written, but conversations with people like you and others, that they are not spending enough time thinking about the kind of people that they are hiring, thinking about the culture that they are creating in their firm. The thing that happens to me a lot, and you and I talked about this a few minutes before we came out here, is a penchant in many, many places, not just in the business community, but in too many institutions, but we're here to talk about the business community, I think, of people wanting to come as close to the line as possible. And they think my job and the job that my corporate counsel should have should be to tell me how close to the line I can get so I can maximize my profit without going over the line. So I do not have to worry about the SEC or the FBI or Preet Bharara's office. The problem with that is it is a dangerous game to play.
I analogize it to a person who is trying to figure out the way to have as much to drink as possible at a bar, but not get pulled over for a DUI, not blow the DUI limit. I guess if you are really cleaver and you are really smart and you are good about body weights and you are good about figuring out what you have eaten and you are good about figuring out how much alcohol is in the drink, and you can do all that calculation in your head, and you are smarter than all the people in this room, I suppose you can do that for a while. But just think to yourself how long it is going to be before you blow the limit, before you are pulled over on the highway, and worse, before you kill someone on the highway.
I go to these business schools and these meetings and people - after making points like that, and I get a question that has often asked seriously, which kind of amazes me, and it goes something like this: Mr. Bharara, you talk about how important it is not to cross that line and be careful of that line between criminality and non-criminality. So my question to you is, how far from the line do you recommend that we stay? I say, you know, 3-1/2 feet is a good distance. It is obviously the wrong question, because if you are focused at every moment on where the line is and getting as close to the line as possible, maybe you won't be convicted of a crime. But what ends up happening is that it generates smoke and when smoke is generated, as happens in real life, firefighters show up. And firefighters, just like prosecutors in my office and other regulators, they are conditioned and they are trained to make sure that you do not do undue damage. But you have got to figure out whether or not there is a fire. And firefighters sometimes will go into a building to make sure they are saving lives and putting out the fire, and it turns out it was just smoke, but damage occurs to the building. And damage occurs, as I understand it, and as people in my office are sensitized to understanding it, to business organizations, even from the mere opening of an investigation. And we know that. The grenade analogy you mentioned before, just so people understand the context of that, is when I go to business groups and I talk to CEOs and members of boards of directors, I say: Look, you have to understand when you are assessing risk, when you are talking about what risk - at what cost you are delivering your alpha. You have to consider the risk, the catastrophic risk not just of a prosecution and a conviction, but of a mere investigation.
People understand in our office that the mere opening of investigation or discovery that we are investigating, whether it is a hedge fund or financial institution or any kind of business, can have a devastating collateral effect on the business even before there is a proven charge.
So on the one hand, we need to be very sensitive to that and make sure we are not doing anything undue and anything improper and that we are not over-reaching. But at the same time, we have a duty and obligation to uphold the law, because no one is above the law, and when we see things that may be going on, if we see smoke, we have an obligation to go and investigate. The correlator to that is, if you are a financial institution and you are sensitive to that kind of an investigation, and the mere opening of an investigation or the mere execution of a search warrant is such that it is going to ruin your business or cause people not to invest with you or cause creditors not to have anything to do with you or cause you reputational damage, then it is your obligation, if that is the kind of business you are in, to be that much more above board and that much farther away from the line as is possible.
Not only should the CFO think that, but everybody else in the company needs to think that also. It is not enough - I see over, over and over again, very smart people and very smart lawyers who are good and well-intentioned and have integrity and are ethical and they ask the wrong question. They say: How much time should we be spending on compliance issues? I do not know, as long as is required.
Somebody asked me once at the New York Stock Exchange, "Preet, what percentage of time should boards of directors be spending on ethical issues?" I almost fell off my chair. As much time as is required. If you are working - if you are a member of the board at a corrupt company and you have reason to believe it is corrupt, then you should be spending a lot of time on it. If you think it is pretty honest and you have asked a lot of questions and satisfied yourself that they had a plan in place and it is an honest place and everybody understands that integrity is important and honesty is important and candor is important and whistle blowers will be taken seriously and things will be investigated, then you can spend less time on it.
The other example I give, no business person would think to ask and think it would be an intelligent question to ask – I am getting a little bit out of my wheelhouse here - would think that it was an intelligent question to ask how much time should RIM, the BlackBerry manufacturer, spend or have spent thinking about the iPhone as competition? As much time as it takes. If it is a business question, people understand that you have to tailor the amount of time you spend on an issue, depending on what the problem is and understanding what the catastrophic risk is. People seem to understand catastrophic - although not always, given the example I just mentioned - seem to understand what catastrophic risk is as a business matter. But boards of directors and CEOs and CFOs and general counsels and outside counsels need to think seriously about the kinds of things that can happen to a company if they do not take seriously this issue of not just technical compliance, but really from within the marrow of the company, a culture of integrity and doing the best that you can.
Cramer: You talk about CEOs, CFO being on it, I know in your speeches you talk about notion of the team player and how some cultures are so rotten to be a team player, you basically have to break the rules, what happens if we put all this together and the CEO, CFO, board of directors have a team player attitude and it is at an institution that is too big to fail?
Bharara: I do not know about what you mean by too big to fail- you are talking about whether or not it should be the case that prosecutors ever deemed some institutions too big to prosecute. As a general principal manner, it is my view and I think it is Justice Department's view that no institution is too big to prosecute. There are guidelines that every prosecutor is required to follow and fact is you are required to consider, not just because of written guidelines, but because our principal job is to make sure that we are serving the cause of justice and there are situations in which collateral damage is so severe and so many people could lose their jobs and so many people could lose their money in terms of investments and so many people would be out of a customer base would be destroyed. There are lots of factors you are required to consider and prosecutors do but I do not think it should ever be said that any company or corporate institution is too big to prosecute because you set in place a tremendous more hazard that causes I think more corruption than you have in the first place. So I do not think you will find anybody saying there is anybody too big to prosecute but there are particular circumstances in which you take the consequences of a prosecution and I think that is only appropriate, fair and just.
Cramer: You are going after some pretty tough types. You got mob types, cartel members, violent criminals. How do the white collar violators stack up in terms of when your people serve them at their home? Do they come down in their pajamas in 6 a.m. and they see your crowd and do they react like tough guys?
Bharara: Not the most tough as you. Typically when agents go and arrest members of violent gangs or organized crime figures from one of the La Cosa Nostra families, they don't faint, the same is not true of white collar offenders and I am not just telling that as a sort of an interesting anecdote and something that you know about such people. Part of a prosecutor's job is to make sure that we are not only holding people accountable and we are not only bringing money back to victims who may have been victimized, but also they were having an effect on the rest of the industry and were having the turn effect on the rest of the population that might be considering engaging in crime or is engaging in and you want to get them to stop. I had been present for some of the meetings that's been going on today and I hear a lot of people talking about risk and people talking about how you assess risk and people talking about computational models and methods and I will tell you the difference between white collar criminals and other criminals is often white collar criminals are supposed to be people who understand risk and people who understand cost benefit analysis and often they went to premier business schools and so part of our job in return is I think more easily achieved in some ways with white collar criminals who understand if you make them understand it and if you show them the consequences of bad conduct and you show them that you are engaged in enforcement and you don't get a free pass and no one is above the law. Over time rational people who have gone to business schools and understand quantitative models will come to the inevitable conclusion that I shouldn't commit that crime, because not only will there just be a financial penalty to pay, I may have to disgorge my profits but my liberty could be taken away from me and that's part of the message that I think we want to send to people who are thinking about committing that crime.
But even more important than that if I can continue, when I go to these business schools and I talk to business groups and I will say the same thing to you folks- the vast majority of people at any institution, whether it's a government institution or a private equity firm or a hedge fund or an expert network company, all these places are overwhelmingly occupied by people who are honest and ethical and want to do the right thing and yet at all these places you find bad conduct taking place and conduct that's so bad that husbands and wives and brothers and people who rely on them and care about them are hold off to jail, you know why that is? A- it's because they committed a criminal misconduct, but also every single time you see it's because other people, these good people that I am talking about, the overwhelming majority of good people didn't do anything when they saw something funny. When they thought there was a hint of someone cooking the books, when they thought there was a hint of somebody getting an outside tip from somebody that they weren't supposed to get, when they thought there was an hint of somebody whose returns were little too good- all of these frauds were known or suspected by people virtually every single one of them was known and suspected by somebody who is smart, intelligent, wants to do the right thing and didn't. So the concern you have, I think, in financial institutions and in a lots of places and not to be too dramatic- you worry about having many pain states throughout industry where people knew that something funny was going on and I am not equating those things at all, but people knew something was on and they didn't say anything. So part of the goal for people like me coming out and talking to people like you and going to business schools and talking to those kids who are going to be leaders of capitalism around the world for generations to come is to get them to understand that if they are in a place and they think something funny is going on, they have to understand what the risk is and they have to screw up the courage somehow to elevate it to somebody and do something about it, because at the end of the day it's not worth the failure. I have seen institutions fail, hedge funds have gone under and people will sometimes complain and say we have an overreaching prosecutor. The fault lies with the folks at the place who didn't do enough to fair it out and we have a case after case after case. We have a case recently that we did that's outside of the financial industry where we had a contracting company who admitted that its company was responsible for defrauding the City of New York to the tune of USD 0.5 billion. There was a whistleblower complaint in that case that a lot of people knew about and was not investigated properly and they admitted when they ultimately handed over every penny of that fraud back to the people of City of New York that they did not investigate it properly. So part of our goal, I hope people understand, is not just to hold people in handcuffs, because we can't police every transaction, we can't police every trade, we can't police every document that gets prepared at a firm. What we can do it show that we are serious, show that we mean business and show that there is a role for very, very smart people who are throughout the business community to do something about the bad guys that they see before it becomes too bad.
Cramer: Alright. Let's go with this mini pain state analogy. One of the reasons why I think the Joe Paterno or his team got away was because he was Joe Paterno for heaven's sake. He was the top. He was the guy who cared more about people graduating. He gave money to the libraries. When I hear a name like Gupta or Raj, I just have to tell you if I were in your shoes, I would have said, 'No way! Gupta didn't need to do that. No way! Raj is a billionaire, that it can't be true? Don't you have a factor and you say, 'No, it is just not possible, not that guy?
Bharara: That's what defence lawyers say. It is a very common defence. There are millionaires who shoplift. There are people who do really stupid things. If every one was brilliant, then we would be out of business. As in your question, 'Why do people do these things?' I don't know, I actually don't get it sometimes. I am not a psychologist, I am not a shrink, I am not a life coach.
Cramer: I wouldn't take you as a life coach….
Bharara: Some people commit crime in white collar areas because they are bad people. They don't know right from wrong. Some people commit crime because they made a mistake and they got ii over their heads. Some people commit crime because there is a lot of pressure to meet deadlines. Some people are arrogant- they think they are never going to get caught. Some people have done their calculation and they figure it's a worth a risk. There are lots of reasons for that, but I am going to tell you, I don't know why. Somebody who has a billion dollars wants to risk his liberty and be taken away from his or her family for years and years for an extra million bucks. I think that's an important thing to be telling, in particular, young people who are coming into firms. I have a particular concern having gone to business schools, about young people who come into these industries where the job market is not great, the economy is not great and I literally have really young, smart earnest, people from Harvard Business School, from Wharton come up to me later and sometimes clearly speaking about an event that they personally experienced and say here I am at this company. I am a summer person there and I was there for a couple of years and I saw something that made me uncomfortable. What am I supposed to do? It's a tough market. I don't want to be a troublemaker and you have to figure out a way to embrace people like that saying something about it and I say you got to elevate it because if you don't elevate it, when the company goes down even though you were honest, you averted your eyes, so you are responsible for it and maybe more directly and importantly for your own purposes you are going to be out of the job and you are going to be associated with a tainted place. There are lots and lots of good people at these institutions that have gone under where we prosecuted some of the bad apples out of them and those people, they can't get jobs now I am guessing because they are associated with a bad place. So I think sometimes people need to think about the message that they are sending to people who are coming into these financial institutions and explain to them that you know integrity does matter, profit is important, delivering the alpha is also important, but part of that has to be a message to everybody who comes into the firm that lack of integrity and cheating is not going to be tolerated. It's not something that you just mention once a year when you send around the compliance program and it's very thick so people will be impressed by that. It's got to be more than that.
Cramer: In March of this year at SIFMA you said, we should be fearless in bringing righteous cases; no matter the public outcry. We should be fearless also in always walking away from cases no matter the public outcry in the opposite direction. There is a great public outcry about what happened with the mortgage crisis. Your record 65 cases won, 6 pending. Should it be 65 won, 15 not won because you went after some cases that were just too hard but you couldn't win, but you tried because you knew that there was something beyond the public outcry that was worth going after?
Bharara: We have only one standard and the standard is if we have a proof beyond a reasonable doubt to charge an individual or group of individuals or an institution with a crime and justice is served by bringing that case. We bring the case. Some of those 65 if we are going to stick with it, the entire trading cases were really hard. Some of those cases were not so hard. There was overwhelming evidence. When you have cases where you have people caught on a wire talking about destroying flash drives on which are contained inside information at 1 o'clock in the morning and are chasing garbage truck to get rid of that evidence; that's compelling stuff. But we bring the easy cases, or we bring hard cases- whether or not they are easy or hard- we bring cases we think are just to bring. That's not only true in the insider trading areas which everybody loves to talk about. It's true in all the securities fraud cases we bring. It's true in the public corruption cases we bring. It's true in the gang cases we bring. It's true in the terrorism cases we bring and everything we do that was the thing we think about. Anybody ultimately over time in an overall prosecutor's office who has a perfect win-loss record is not something to be admired because it's mean; you are only bringing in the easy cases and we don't do that. We have a good track record on this particular category of cases you are talking about. We could lose some- that doesn't mean we are going to stop. People before we had a verdict in a major case last year were saying things in advance of the verdict about what is going to happen to the insider trading prosecution program. What's the Attorney's office going to do, what's the FBI going to do if they lose that case? We could have lost the case. The answer was going to be, the same damn thing we have been doing up until that point, because it's not about winning or losing that case, because it is a difficult thing to convict somebody and it should be a difficult thing to convict somebody, to persuade 12, I don't know how many of you ever tried a case. I am guessing few or none, it is a hard thing to convince 12 people to order the same kind of pizza, much less to convince 12 ordinary Americans to sit there in judgement of another human being and know that if you convict that person, they are going to go to jail. In the recent case, you mentioned a name earlier, in the recent case there were newspaper articles about how the jury that convicted that person, one of your former peers was crying at the moment of the verdict. That tells me that the justice system is working, that people think that their responsibility is incredibly important and full of gravity which it is and tells you also and I hope the message from that verdict and from other verdicts is there is satisfaction when justice is done and when crime is prosecuted and victims are vindicated, but there is also an amount of sadness there, because it is a tragedy. When somebody who is incredibly accomplished and incredibly privileged and has done so much and perhaps even done a lot of good is stupid enough or arrogant enough to commit serious enough crimes that a jury has to deliberate over evidence and quickly reach a verdict that causes them to weep in the rendering of that verdict because you decided to commit a crime and you thought you weren't going to get caught.
Cramer: Last week's journal, clock is ticking on crisis charges about to get to the statute of limitations. Papers says that there is going to be some cases brought in next few weeks literally because it's almost done. Are we going to hear? I am not asking for names. Are there some cases that are about to be brought that I will pick up the paper in the next two weeks and see your name in it and see some big guns being taken down?
Bharara: I am just going to repeat what I said before. When there is evidence and we have the evidence and it's a righteous case and it's in the service of justice to bring a case we will bring a case. So stay tuned.


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HOOD RIVER — At the end of every season, a team recalls one or two games it "shoulda had." Games that were decided by a turnover, bad call or last-second shot. Games that, come playoff time, determine whether you play or go home.
For the HRV boys basketball team, Friday's 65-63 loss to Gresham may be the most difficult game to forget.
With eight seconds left and the Eagles down 63-61, Nate Armerding missed a floater in the lane. But he hustled to get his own rebound and snuck a pass through traffic to Eric Nelson, who laid it in to tie the score.
Without hesitation or a timeout, Gresham sent an outlet pass to Harrison Malone, who took a few dribbles and rose up for a six-foot baseliner that proved to be the game winner.
A stunned HRV side was unable to stop the clock and heaved the ball up in desperation, forced to reckon with its fourth straight conference defeat.
"(Gresham's) best chance in that situation was to attack the hoop," HRV coach Tom Ames said. "It was a sideline break, probably something they work on in practice. We were ready for it, he just made the shot."
Despite being on the losing end, Ames thought his team played strong from the opening tip to the final buzzer, and is still confident that the bounces will start going the Eagles' way.
Point guard Andy Holmson played one of his most complete games of the season, guiding the Eagle offense with 18 points on 7-7 shooting, and four assists.
Armerding matched Holmson's point total with 18, but had an atypical night shooting the ball, going 4-16 from the floor (1-9 three-pointers). He did, however, make 90 percent of his free throws — five in the fourth quarter — and add team highs in rebounds (6) and assists (5).
HRV also benefitted from strong inside games by Eric Nelson (12 pts., 5 reb.) and Heath Goin (6 pts., 2 reb.). Both players helped ignite an early 10-0 run for the Eagles that gave them a 23-10 lead at the end of one.
Gresham crept back into the game, and by halftime, was only down three at 33-30. The Gophers took their first lead of the game four minutes into the third and led until the final shot of the quarter, which Holmson buried from half court to tie it at 47-47.
Holmson then led off the fourth quarter with another trey, but Gresham weathered the storm, taking the lead with four minutes left and never looking back.
Gresham 65, HRV 63
HRV — Holmson 18, Armerding 18, Nelson 12, Goin 6, Bohn 5, Shyppertt 4
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Hugh Pickens writes writes: "The Washington Post reports that shortly after Republicans in the House of Representatives nixed the two-month extension to the payroll tax cut that passed the Senate 89 votes to 10, the White House launched a campaign on twitter to win over public opinion in the fight as the White House asked its 2.6 million followers what $40 would mean to them and Obama's campaign Twitter account re-published the message to its 11.6 million followers — turning #40dollars into a trending hashtag. Macon Phillips, the White House director of new media, wrote on his Twitter account Tuesday night that responses were coming in at the rate of 2,000 per hour. "Opponents of the payroll tax cut dismiss its impact by insisting $40 isn't a lot of money," says David Plouffe in an email to supporters, "but that's not the case for many families who are already working hard to make ends meet. Forty dollars buys a tank of gas or a fridge and pantry full of groceries. It covers a water bill or the cost of a prescription." However at least one Twitter user named @dcseth, who describes himself as "the Bitter Clinger Obama warned you about" and features a profile picture of himself with Mitt Romney, wrote that $40 "means I'm still $34,960 short for a ticket to an Obama fundraiser.""


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Circuit Judge Raul Zambrano gave no reason but perhaps clues can be found in the accusations against Sahmi Green, who was set to enter a plea of no contest to felony cruelty to animals.
A Palm Coast man accused of stabbing a pit bull to death was sworn in, ready to enter a plea and go to prison but a judge rejected the deal.
Circuit Judge Raul Zambrano gave no reason but perhaps clues can be found in the accusations against Sahmi Green, who was set to enter a plea of no contest to felony cruelty to animals and other charges.
The bizarre case includes a report that Green is said to have imitated the squeals of the dying dog and also said that he was using the dog to practice how to stab someone in preparation for mass murder.
Besides felony cruelty to animals, the 24-year-old Green is also charged with battery on a law enforcement officer and grand theft. The "negotiated resolution" called for him to serve two years in prison, said his defense attorney Brett Kocijan in court this week.
But Judge Zambrano told them to go back to the negotiating table.
"You know, I don't think I can accept that plea offer," Zambrano said during the hearing this week. "I'm sorry. So I'm not going to accept it. I'll let you guys renegotiate. OK."
Zambrano did not give a reason for rejecting the plea.
Green is not the only case in Flagler County in which a pit bull, a breed often in the news for biting or attacking someone, instead finds itself the alleged victim. Richard Marier, 68, a former Flagler County school board member, was arrested in July after he was accused of stabbing a neighbor's pit bull to death.
Marier told deputies with the Flagler County Sheriff's Office that the pit bull attacked his dog, according to a report. But deputies said Marier's dog did not appear injured. The pit bull's owner said his dog was not vicious and did not threaten the other dog.
Marier is free on $6,500 bail and prosecutors have yet to decide whether to file formal charges against him, said Klare Ly, spokeswoman for the 7th Circuit State Attorney's Office. She said it was an open investigation and declined to say why prosecutors have yet to make a decision on the case, other than sometimes more investigation is required.
As for Green, he remains held without bail in the Flagler County Inmate Facility. Green's defense attorney could not be reached for comment Friday.
Sentencing guidelines did not call for Green to serve any prison time, Ly said. Since Zambrano did not give a reason for rejecting the plea, prosecutors don't know what the judge objected to, Ly said.
"He could think two years is too much or two years is too little," Ly said.
But she said Green could face a maximum of 15 years.
The charge against Green for battery on a law enforcement officer stems from a disturbance on Jan. 15 at a bowling alley on Old Kings Road in Palm Coast. Green is accused of punching and smashing the glass of a vending machine. While at the jail, Green spat on a deputy, leading to the battery charge, a report said.
In the case of the pit bull, Samantha Lilly told deputies on Feb. 12 that Green, a roommate in a home on Prospect Lane, had taken the pit bull for a walk, according to a report. Green returned moments later to say the dog had been in a fight and the bleeding dog soon died. Deputies found a trail of blood from No. 5B Prospect Lane to No. 9B Prospect Lane, where deputies found a bloody kitchen knife, a report said.
The pit bull had been stabbed seven times, the report said.
Green said he had stabbed the dog in self-defense, the report said.
A man named Karl Brown said he saw Green getting a knife in the kitchen right before the dog was stabbed. Green said after the dog died, "It's just a (expletive deleted), who cares," the report said.
Lilly and Brown and another person, Nekosha Jones, all said the pit bull was not vicious, the report said. They also said Green admitted to stabbing the dog.
When deputies went to arrest Green, they found he was already in the Flagler County Inmate Facility.
Three days after Green was accused of stabbing the dog, a deputy heard him making squealing noises in the jail, the report said. Green said those were the sounds the pit bull was making as he killed it, the report said.
Green told a deputy that he had also killed a neighbor's dog a week before the pit bull. Green said "he was practicing on how to stab someone and that he wants to commit a mass murder," the report said.


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Identity and Access Control (Replication)
Authentication is the process by which an entity (typically a computer in this context) verifies that another entity, also called a principal, (typically another computer or user) is who or what it claims to be. Authorization is the process by which an authenticated principal is given access to resources, such as a file in the file system, or a table in a database.
Replication security uses authentication and authorization to control access to replicated database objects and to the computers and agents involved in replication processing. This is accomplished through three mechanisms:
Agent security
The replication agent security model allows fine-grained control over the accounts under which replication agents run and make connections. For detailed information about the agent security model, see Replication Agent Security Model. For information about setting logins and passwords for agents, see Manage Logins and Passwords in Replication.
Administration roles
Ensure that the correct server and database roles are used for replication setup, maintenance, and processing. For more information, see Security Role Requirements for Replication.
The publication access list (PAL)
Grant access to publications through the PAL. The PAL functions similarly to a Microsoft Windows access control list. When a Subscriber connects to the Publisher or Distributor and requests access to a publication, the authentication information passed by the agent is checked against the PAL. For more information and best practices for the PAL, see Secure the Publisher.
Filtering Published Data
In addition to using authentication and authorization to control access to replicated data and objects, replication includes two options to control what data is available at a Subscriber: column filtering and row filtering. For more information about filtering, see Filter Published Data.
When you define an article, you can publish only those columns that are necessary for the publication, and omit those that are unnecessary or contain sensitive data. For example, when publishing the Customer table from the Adventure Works database to sales representatives in the field, you can omit the AnnualSales column, which might be relevant only to executives at the company.
Filtering published data allows you to restrict access to data and allows you to specify the data that is available at the Subscriber. For example, you can filter the Customer table so that corporate partners only receive information about those customers whose ShareInfo column has a value of "yes." For merge replication, there are security considerations if you use a parameterized filter that includes HOST_NAME(). For more, see the section "Filtering with HOST_NAME()" in Parameterized Row Filters.
See Also
Security Overview (Replication)
Threat and Vulnerability Mitigation (Replication)


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In connection with a consumer credit transaction secured by a consumer's principal dwelling, no servicer shall fail to credit a payment to the consumer's loan account as of the date of receipt, except when a delay in crediting does not result in any charge to the consumer or in the reporting of negative information to a consumer reporting agency, except as required in subsection (b).
Section effective on the date on which final regulations implementing such section take effect, or on the date that is 18 months after the designated transfer date if such regulations have not been issued by that date, see section 1400(c) of Pub. L. 111–203, set out as an Effective Date of 2010 Amendment note under section 1601 of this title.
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John Terry's racist language towards Anton Ferdinand was used as an insult, an independent Football Association panel has found.
The commission which banned Terry for four matches said there was "no credible basis" for the Chelsea skipper's defence that he was only repeating words he believed the QPR defender said to him.
Terry admitted using the words "f***ing black c***" during a match in October last year but had claimed he had only been repeating words he thought Ferdinand had accused him of saying. In its full written reasons for the four-match ban, the FA's independent regulatory commission said it was satisfied the words were intended as an insult by Terry, who now has two weeks in which to appeal.
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Schedule Trigger
Launches a task at a specified date, time, or interval. This trigger is often used to schedule tasks to run at the end of each work day, or during other periods of down time. Additionally, this trigger includes an intuitive rescheduling feature to determine how to reschedule itself if it's late, and intelligently observes holiday schedules.


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MIAMI, Jan. 29, 2014--Getting into bed with a TV network is like being George Clooneyâs latest flame. Great while it lasts. Just donât fantasize about happily ever after.
Racing should keep this in mind as it justifiably celebrates the launch of the Jockey Club Tour on Fox Sports. When you donât have an abundance of suitors, you canât fret over âWill you still love me tomorrow?â
A story from my 30 years as a TV critic illustrates what racing can expect. The best handicapping I ever did wasnât at a racetrack. It was predicting the impact Miami Vice would have on South Florida.
The town fathers were apoplectic when NBC announced the new series starring Don Johnson and Phillip Michael Thomas. They were terrified the tourism industry would be irreparably harmed by ripped-from-the-headlines plots.
Drug wars had made the area resemble the Wild West, only with better weapons. Dadeland, an upscale showplace mall, had recently been the site of a ferocious gun battle waged with military assault rifles.
The Miami Vice pilot was screened for TV critics during a Los Angeles press tour. It was brilliant. The lead on my column for the Miami News was, ââMiami Viceâ will be the greatest thing ever to happen to Miami.â The paper put it on Page 1.
âMiami Viceâ didnât become an instant nationwide hit. It was scheduled against âFalcon Crest,â a popular prime-time soap bolstered by the extraordinary lead-in it inherited from still white hot âDallas.â
But âViceâ was huge in Miami. There was no such thing as too much Miami Vice in the paper. I wrote about the episodes, the music, the fashions and profiled every actor in the ensemble. My stories were available on several wire services, so they were being seen beyond Miami.
I became as popular on the set as pastels. The night the pilot aired for America, there was a lavish screening party at a Miami Beach hotel. I got to sit behind the ropes with the cast. When I temporarily ran out of story ideas and didnât show up on the set for more than a week, I got a call asking if I was mad about something.
Don Johnson sent me a message that I didnât have to have a story in mind to come out to the set. He said it was OK to come over and just hang out. He also invited me to his Star Island mansion some Saturday night to watch movies with his friends.
America finally discovered âMiami Viceâ during summer rerun season when the CBS soap operas went on hiatus. Millions of faithful fans, who had been hearing about âMiami Viceââvideo recorders were still fairly rareâtuned in to see what they were missing. Miami Vice was on its way.
A frenzy erupted in the publishing business to get Johnson and company on the covers of national news and entertainment magazines.
As Season Two approached, my paper naturally wanted a major takeout on what to expect. I called over to the people who had treated me the previous year as if I were âThe Bachelorâ and they were in the harem hoping to gain favor.
Numerous calls went unreturned. Eventually I got aggressive, leaving Johnson and others a sharp message reminding them that I was there when nobody else was and how it was bad form on their part to not even return my calls.
I finally got a pithy message from Johnsonâs rep. âThat was last year. Weâre hot now.â
To bring this full circle, Fox Sports 1 needs help now. It is the new kid on the national cable sports network block. The major broadcast networks, ESPN and the Turner empire cleverly tied up the professional sports leagues and major college conferences to long-term deals. So Fox Sports has to scramble to fill 168 hours a week without resorting to miniature golf and curling from Canada. Enter the relationship with racing.
However, the major sports deals will eventually expire and Fox, out of necessity, will probably overpay to grab some of them. As these sports begin to show up on the network, horse racing will be pushed aside. In effect, it will get the âThat was then. Weâre hot nowâ brush off. Pretty much what happened with ESPN.
This is not a phenomena restricted to sports, although it has manifested itself in a slightly different way on broadcast networks. When Fox arrived in the early â90s, it relied to a large extent on series geared toward African-American audiences: True Colors, Roc, Martin and In Living Color, to name a few.
Simple explanation: The black audience was being egregiously underserved by ABC, CBS and NBC. So Fox prudently went after that segment of America.
However, once the network created a few hits and was accepted by mainstream America on even footing with the then Big Three (snagging the NFL was a major coup), the shows with predominantly black casts began to diminish. Try finding one now.
The lesser UPN and WB networks, which came along in the mid-â90s, adhered to an identical strategy. UPN got off the ground with black-targeted series such as Moesha, The Parkers, All of Us, Girlfriends and Everybody Hates Chris.
The first series on WB was The Wayans Brothers. Parent âHood and Sister, Sister followed.
The two newbies eventually merged into the CW and the shows with African-American casts were jettisoned one by one until there were none, as the new entity discovered greater success targeting the 18-and-under crowd, also underserved in prime time.
TV critics get to meet with network executives in Los Angeles twice each year. At every one of these sessions while I was still on the beat, the CW executive in charge said the networkâs primary goal was to break out beyond teens by creating series with appeal to a more general audience. Thus far, success in this area has been limited. If and when it happens, it will be adios teens.
So racing and its fans should enjoy the honeymoon with Fox Sports while it lasts. It is hoped that this time the future of niche programming will last, not disappear.


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Forgive me: I don't have the most up to date rules, and I'm a little bit shaky on the ones I do know. My opponent also had been taught by me. Some things might be total violations of the rules.
The Line up
The complete fellowship (No cloaks)
3 iron guard
Around 20 haradrim soldiers (1 had a banner)
Suladan mounted
Haradrim chieftan with spear and bow
Sauron (without the ring)
The fellowship have made a wrong turn on their way south, and have wound up in Harad, where a they pass a hostile house of Haradrim. Little do they know that none other than Sauron is staying with them. The dwarves were from a previous scenario I played where the dwarves got slaughtered with Balin escaping alone into his temporary outpost. He emerges to get his revenge.
The fellowship must reach the other right corner on the other side of the board (traveling about 50") with more than half of them surviving. Crushing victory if they all survive, crushing loss is they all get slaughtered.
I had a desert area with lots of shrubs, and a lone building with a couple of ladders leading to the top, along with fences near the building. On the far end (away from the fellowship) the scenery changes abruptly into a grassy area bordered by a long outcrop and a giant log (The only way to get in the grassy area was through a narrow passage in between, the edge that had difficult terrain, or climbing the outcrop) About have the troops, Suladan, and the Hasharin start by the outcrop (being the victors of the last scenario waiting for Balin to come out), and the other half by the building. The fellowship starts on the far end away from the grassy area. Sauron comes on during turn five on the roll of a 4+ (having sensed the the power of the ring as the fellowship draws near, and the dwarves come out on turn 5.
Special Rules
If the ring bearer dies at the hands of Sauron, Sauron gains the one ring rules, and must be killed.
The game
In the beginning turns, the fellowship advanced, with boromir and gandalf being on the right side and the rest of them in the middle. Shots were exchanged between Legolas and the enemy archers. Suladan's forces moved to the building. Legolas killed a couple. A shot hit Legolas and wounded him and his fate failed him. Another shot hit Pippen, but he was saved narrowly by fate. Boromir enraged by this, rushes in other the course of a couple turns. My opponent seeing my forces going to the left side of the building, rushed in with Suladan, and Boromir was surrounded. The dwarves came out. Gandalf goes up the ladder to thee top of the building to get a better vantage point for blasting his enemies (the few archers up there fled). At this time, Sauron emerges. Great fear comes to me. Goaded by Gandalf he climbs up the ladder to the top of the building. Atop this building they have a fantastic battle of magic and weapons. As Boromir is slaughtering all who come before him with his extensive store of might, and safe from any bowfire in combat. He first struck down Suladan's horse, and then he made two wounds on him, automatically striking when Suladan failed his courage test, and finally killing him after several turns of being surrounded and rolling sixes. As all the fighting went on the right side of the building (Balin and the iron guard were doing some great slaughtering), Gimli and Aragorn escorted the hobbits across the left side where they encountered the fence guarded by several troops and the chieftan. Gandalf did a great job of running Sauron's resources low, as they exchanged/resisted spells. Boromir had smote down much of his enemies, but finally his luck betrayed him, and he rolled a high 3, but having only 2 might points remaining, he was then slain. Three soldiers who had slain Boromir then ran to charge Legolas who had been near in a bush shooting arrows when he could. Legolas was then slaughtered ruthlessly.
Aragorn had managed with Gimli to slay all the foes blocking him (even doing a heroic combat). As the hobbits were sneaking away to their objective, Aragorn climbed up the ladder to rescue Gandalf who had used up most of his fate and had a wound from the clutches of Sauron. Aragorn then realized that his life was worth more than saving Gandalf, and subsequently failed his courage test on double ones. He ran away as fast as he could, leaping off the building into the safety of some bushes. Gandalf the next turn blasted Sauron off the building using up the last of Gandalf's will and leaving Sauron with only a little. Gandalf then ran down the ladder to face him again. Aragorn came back. Balin and the remaining iron guard were finishing off the remaining troops. The guard went up the ladder. The next turn he decided he was too good to take the other ladder down to get to Sauron and decided to jump off the ledge, and then dying from the fall. Gandalf was killed by Sauron, although he had done very good.
The only forces remaining were the Hasharin, Sauron, a couple of other troops, the hobbits, Gimli, and Aragorn.
The hobbits and Gimli had traveled through the difficult terrain, They could see their end goal, and they felt hope. And then Sauron came. Aragorn had fought with him, and inflicted a wound on Sauron, but recieved much more vicious in return. He ran to join the Hobbits and Gimli on the outskirts of the board. Gimli advanced towards Sauron. Deep enemies Balin and the Hasharin fought eachother, but then Balin went to fight Sauron. The hasharin decided just to throw knives at him instead (with no fear of wounding Sauron). He and Gimli fought Sauron and managed to wound him! Then the hasharin, next turn threw a knife at Balin, but the knife missed and hit Sauron, and then got a six. And then got a six. And Sauron was wounded again! They kept fighting, but a lone archer (the last of the troops) in the distance who had followed the hobbits shot Pippen, but he survived, and Aragorn shot back and killed him. Gimli and Balin managed to do one more wound on Sauron, but then Sauron fled them the next turn towards the ring, and they realized that their short little legs don't go as fast as Sauron. Sauron then using the last of his will, chilled Merry's soul, and he was slain. Sauron charged Merry, and Aragorn joined the fight, and the dwarves caught up to him. Sauron won the fight and did a sweeping hit and killed Merry who's fate betrayed him. Sauron charged Frodo, and the rest had no choice but to surround him and hope that he did not win the fight. Sauron rolled a high 3! Rolling each member separately (because I didn't have enough dice), I rolled Frodo's two dice (double hits because Sauron was trapped), and he rolled a six and a one. Rolling again, hoping for a high roll, the roll was a four, not enough to wound, but being the mighty hero Frodo is, he spent two points of might, and with Sting and hand, he thrust it into Saurons face, and slayed him. Four members of the fellowship and Balin survived.
Although I hadn't met the requirements of the objective, we decided that it was a victory for me, only because I had slain Sauron, but eitherway, it was a close game. After quite the exciting match, we discussed what we did wrong and stuff, and my opponent said that using Sauron as more of a spell caster would have been more useful. I also think that my oppenent could have kept his troops more in one place, as they were scattered and easier to kill (besides the mosh pit around Boromir). I thought it was a good fun game. There were moments where I definitely thought I was going to win the game, and others where I thought I probably lost it, but it was great. I got to use the fellowship, and my opponent got to use Sauron.


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Capping Off the Uniform
by Dave Murray
What makes a good cap? Like with jerseys, there is a Gray Flannel Rule for caps, a couple things I expect to see in quality headware:
1.) Tradition is important, like for jerseys. The best caps have been around for years, linking generations. It's a bit of a curse, because it prevents teams from following the trends of the minute. But it seems when teams who stick with their traditions look back at their histories, they're glad they did. Of course, in these days of alternate caps, teams can do both, having their cake and selling it in the team shop, too, so to speak.
2.) Letters are desired over a logo, particularly if they represent the home city. There are a couple notable exceptions, mainly linked to tradition. The White Sox, for example, have used S-O-X on their caps for most of their existence. And the Blue Jays had a nice logo, for a while.
In ways, caps are more important than the jersey in terms of establishing team identity. Relatively few people walk around in jerseys outside of a game, but lots of people wear caps. They're a more affordable link between the team and the fans. They're also a legitimate part of the major-league uniform we all can wear. When was the last time you saw someone walking around in a football helmet?
So with that in mind, here are my rankings of the best and worst caps. These are stacked in alphabetical order within a few groups. And remember, all things are relative. Even the worst baseball cap is better than most things in all other sports.
The Classic
Atlanta Braves: The Braves went through cringeworthy caps until going retro with a look that uses the colors from their Milwaukee days as well as the 'A' they first used when arriving in Atlanta
Boston Red Sox: Just some slight, barely noticeable changes to the cap worn by Ted Williams. They should never change. I've purged the red-crowned caps from the 1970s from my memory.
Chicago Cubs (blue): Pure Cubbie, playful and traditional.
Cincinnati Reds (red): The classic cap with the wishbone 'C' should never be abandoned or even tinkered with after the reign of the Big Red Machine.
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Detroit Tigers (home and road): I have no particular love for the Old English 'D,' but you have to respect a tradition that goes back 100 years. The orange 'D' on the road cap works with the gray uniforms.
Kansas City Royals (blue): I salute the Royals for sticking with this design. Like the entire Royals uniform, it's pretty bland, but you have to respect the tradition.
Los Angeles Dodgers: Few letters can be linked so effortlessly as the 'L' and 'A' in this classic cap.
New York Mets (blue): Like treasures passed down from one generation to another, the 1962 expansion Mets introduced a cap that included blue from the departed Dodgers and orange interlocking NY from the also-departed Giants.
The Other New York Team: Yes, they belong on this list. No, there's no way I'm going to say anything nice about them. Move along.
Pittsburgh Pirates (solid black): Just like Roberto Clemente wore.
San Francisco Giants: Just like Willie Mays wore. That seems like a copout, especially back-to-back with the Pirates, but I think players like that form an identity for the team, especially when carried for decades. Both the Pirates and Giants have tinkered over the years but had the sense to return home.
Washington Nationals (solid red and blue versions): Well done! Using the old Senators' "pretzel" cap was a stroke of genius, restoring tradition and a fine-looking cap. I still would like to see some kind of homage to the Expos, maybe the pretzel on a tri-panel cap for an alternate.
The Very Good
Anaheim Angels: If the team still lists Anaheim as it's home town, this is a worthy cap, especially with the little halo atop the 'A.' I've long yearned for the return of the complete halo on the crown from back in the early days, which would automatically make the cap a classic.
Baltimore Orioles (black and the black with orange visor): The Orioles caps stand out because there's nothing like them. A detailed Oriole stretches across the front. It's neat, it's different, I like it. The orange-visored version gets a slight nod, but they are both solid caps. A rare exception to the Gray Flannel test.
Chicago Cubs (red visor): There's nothing wrong with this cap, but the solid-blue version looks better and is more traditional.
Chicago White Sox: I have a black tie with the Sox logo on it. One day I wore it to work, and someone said 'Why are you wearing a tie that says 'Sex' all over it?" Looking at it closely, part of the Old English 'S' cuts down through the 'O' and makes it look like an 'e' if you aren't looking closely. I've never worn the tie again, and really it's my only beef with the logo. I liked the block letters on Sox caps in the 1960s, but they sure wouldn't look good on the current uniform. If they would amend the logo to space out the letters and avoid this problem, the cap would be a classic.
Colorado Rockies (solid black): A nice, respectable cap, neat lettering, easy to read from a distance. This cap is on its way to being a classic.
Florida Marlins: I like the Marlins, and I like that they were able to combine a graphic element and the letter in a neat way. I thought the team's original teal versions were very South Florida. But I always thought the black version just looked better.
Houston Astros (black): The Astros have had a star on their cap -- albeit with an 'H' -- since the name change. The 'H' was dropped, but a star remains, making this a Texas tradition. I didn't like this version at first, preferring the "star in motion" it replaced. But this is one design that has grown on me.
Houston Astros ("brick"): This is one alternate cap that looks good, possibly better than the main cap.
New York Mets (blue visor, black crown): I prefer the traditional, solid-blue version, but this cap looks good, especially with the solid-white uniforms. Raised dark blue letters are outlined in orange and can be a little dark.
Minnesota Twins (TC on solid navy blue): The classic Twin Cities cap was restored a couple years ago and warmly welcomed.
Oakland Athletics (gold visor, green crown): This cap has existed long enough that it qualifies as a tradition, though the green has darkened from the bright 1970s. Having an 'A' instead of an 'O' has been in place since the days of Connie Mack, though there was some KC activity in the 1960s.
Oakland Athletics (green): A solid road cap, if there must be such things.
Philadelphia Phillies (red): I considered elevating this cap to the classic level. It's not far from it.
St. Louis Cardinals (alternate): Old-schoolers -- and I tend to be one -- will howl, but I like this alternate cap better than the traditional cap. The bird on the bat logo just looks cool.
Texas Rangers (blue): A fine cap and certainly better than the one they wore from birth through the Ryan era. There's a version with a white 'T' and another with a red 'T' that are so similar that having the second version is hard to justify.
The Good
Arizona Diamondbacks (purple with 'A'): I'm not keen on purple as a cap color, but I like the Diamondbacks 'A' logo, which has snake scales and a little tongue as part of the 'A.'
Cincinnati Reds (black visor, red crown): A team called the Reds should have solid-red caps, and that version seems to be banished to alternate land. But this version still looks good.
Milwaukee Brewers: The problem with this cap isn't what it is, it's what it isn't. The 'M' is OK and the wheat a nice touch. But the whole world (at least it seems like it) is screaming for the team to bring back the classic ball-in-glove logo.
New York Mets (black): It's not bad as far as alternate black caps go. There's no reason for it to exist, but that alone doesn't make it ugly.
Pittsburgh Pirates (yellow bill): An alternate they wear with the black jerseys. Had the traditional cap not been a classic, this would be a worthy cap. At least it's better than the stovepipes.
The Just OK
Arizona Diamondbacks (black with 'D'): The logo, a snake shaped into a 'D,' isn't bad, but caps are supposed to have the letter of the home city not team name. And I just don't think black works as a color for a team from Phoenix.
Colorado Rockies (solid purple and black crown, purple bill): There's no real reason for either of these to exist. The team should stick with the solid-black version.
Minnesota Twins ('M' on solid navy blue): Like the jerseys they came with, the 'M' caps just kind of lay there. Not good enough to be good and not bad enough to end up on the ugly list.
St. Louis Cardinals (red and blue): Tough call here, because the Cardinals uniforms are Hall of Fame material. But while the jerseys are amazing, the caps fall as flat as the team's performance in the 2004 World Series. I know those are tough letters to work into something interesting, and I also realize this has been the team's logo forever. But it just doesn't do much for me.
San Diego Padres (white and gold letters): The interlocking SD is all that remains from that first Padres team, surviving some of the strangest jerseys ever worn. These are plain but don't offend.
Seattle Mariners: Not a horrible cap by any means. But the compass atop the 'S' makes things a little too busy for my tastes.
Tampa Bay Devil Rays (all three versions): There are three large elements here, a 'T,' a 'B' and the ray, and it just looks too crowded. Some simplification is in order. Maybe have one with just the ray? I lump all three versions here because they differ only in color. But the shift is from black to dark green and really isn't that noticeable.
The Ugly
You'll notice a trend here. A lot of these caps have an element of black added in the past couple years and foisted on us to sell alternate caps.
Cincinnati Reds (red visor, black crown): Too dark, especially for a team called the Reds.
Cleveland Indians (solid blue and red visor): Opinions on this are going to rest on your opinion of Chief Wahoo. I've said he doesn't bother me, but I'm interviewed American Indians, and it really offends them. I haven't worn my Indians cap in a while because it makes me feel kind of funny, so I'm going to finally come down on the side that says it's time to retire Wahoo.
Cleveland Indians (a thing they claim is an 'I' logo): Based on the previous rant, my thinking is the Indians are trying to slowly distance themselves from Wahoo, and my guess is this will be the primary cap in a few years. But they can do better. I look at this logo and I see a 'G,' possibly a 'J,' maybe a 'T.' But unless they added to the alphabet Mrs. White taught me back in kindergarten, that is not an 'I.'
Kansas City Royals (black crown, blue bill): Another cap that exists just to have an alternate cap.
Oakland Athletics (black): Unlike the Mets' unnecessary black cap, this one actually is ugly. Dark lettering on a dark cap is a bad thing.
Minnesota Twins (TC with red crown): Not all retro things are cool. Some should be left on the scrap heap of history.
Philadelphia Phillies (blue bill, blue star in P): Just plain dumb. This screams, "We needed an alternate cap, and this was the best we could do."
Texas Rangers (black bill): Yet another design that exists just to have an alternate cap. The black bill doesn't work.
Toronto Blue Jays (black): Aside from being ugly, the logo is too darn big. This looks like a minor-league cap. And it's black. A team named Blue Jays needs to have blue as the dominant color in its uniform. The sad part is the Jays had excellent caps during their World Series run, with the solid-blue version getting the nod over the one with the white panel. And if they're going to have a letter on their cap, it needs to be a 'T' for Toronto instead of a 'J,' which I might add is only PART of the team name.
The Embarrassment to Humanity
Toronto Blue Jays (graphite): This is what happens when you turn your design completely over to the marketing types who apparently either don't know squat about baseball and its traditions or just don't give a damn.


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I'm very happy to have a native DVD Shrinker, but I already have some problems with it, usability wise.
Let me say first, that so far, the thing works, I have successfully shrunk 2/3 DVD's to .iso
K9Copy (repository version)
1. The interface is clean, but it's too stripped down. The open button should be more clearly reserved for reading the CD. There must be a better icon to use for that, and it should be called READ DISK or something, to be more obvious.
2. When I tried to save the file to my media drive, I was told that I can only save files locally, and the window closed. There was no way of bringing the read DVD back into the k9copy interface. I saw what would seem to be the right folder in /tmp/kde-nalmeth, but the files were way to small to be right.
The work was lost effectively. I'll try to file a bug if this isn't fixed in the newer version.
3. When I went through copying the disk again, I saved it "locally" in my /home. Then to my suprise a window pops up saying "Burning to DVD".
This threw me off, because typically that would mean you're burning to a DVD. Or so I would think.
I saw that my drive wasn't trying to do anything, and knew I already had a written disk in the drive, so I left it. At the end, the .iso is sitting where I wanted it.
Suffice to say, I really think the wording of the saving window should be "Ripping to .iso", or just "ripping". Anything but burning, you're doing the opposite. And as I said I think the Open button should be more clearly related to READING THE DISK. I guess all in all it's just a bit of an immature interface. The important thing is that it does the job.
I like how you can burn the shrunken image right in the same interface, but since I don't have a working burner ATM I haven't been able to test it.
I'd like to try the new one out to see if anything with the interface has changed.
Anyone else a little confused by k9copy at first?


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My wedding rings are so much more than a couple in love and deciding to spend the rest of their lives together. My rings are a reminder to me each and every day that I almost lost the man that I love. We already had a wonderful life in unwedded bliss when my husband didn't feel right and agreed to go to the hospital. While in an examination room he had a massive heart attack that had we been anywhere other than the hospital he would have died. We no longer live by the motto if it isn't broken then don't fix it as we both know how much we almost lost that day four years ago.


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Two suspects were arrested on burglary charges and placed in Northern Regional Jail on Thursday following an unarmed robbery at the Convenient Food Mart on Fourth Avenue in Paden City.
The first suspect, Ronald James Morris II, 20, of HC60 Box 157, Reader, was discovered walking along state Route 2 near the store following a 911 call which included a description of the burglar. According to Paden City Police Department (PCPD) records, the call came in at 6:49 p.m., and Patrolman Jason Utt had the suspect in custody two minutes later. Upon a search, money was found in the suspect's pocket that was believed to be the money stolen from Convenient.
Patrolman Utt then called off-duty Patrolman J.D. Kelly for assistance. Shortly thereafter the two located Morris' alleged accomplice, Paige Gray, 20, of 354 Virginia Street, New Martinsville. When they found her, she was driving a vehicle near the crime scene. They believe that she was preparing to pick up her boyfriend.
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Two suspects were arrested Thursday after an unarmed robbery at the Convenient Food Mart located on Fourth Avenue in Paden City.
Surveillance footage revealed that Morris entered the store while it was still open and, on two separate occasions, waited until the cashier was distracted or had walked elsewhere to allegedly steal money from the register. Approximately $250 was reported stolen from the cash register.
Although no threats were made or weapons involved, Paden City Police Chief Mike Kelly believes Morris entered the store with the intent to steal money. For the two separate instances, both Morris and Gray are being charged with two counts of burglary.
"We're continuing the investigation just to get everything taken care of," said Chief Kelly.
Sistersville Police Department and Wetzel County Sheriff's Office also assisted in the matter.


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Queen Latifah Building Respect for the 'Curvaceous Woman'
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Her clothing line for HSN is selling like crazy, but Queen Latifah says finding clothes as a plus-size woman was at one time a constant struggle.
"A lot of manufacturers don't respect the curvaceous woman," she laments in the January issue of ESSENCE. "They don't respect our dollar or our shape." Thankfully, she's found an understanding vendor in HSN. "[It's] been such a great partnership," she says. "I'm happy to make women's clothing I really like."
In August, Latifah told PEOPLE she was designing for real women who want affordable, wearable fashion. "It's really something you can incorporate into your existing wardrobe," she said of the tops, jackets, jeans and handbags in the Queen Collection. "I mean these are things that are really beautiful, but they're very wearable. We're really trying to make sure that they have the best fabrics possible, that it feels good on the body. I'm a Pisces, I'm sensitive; I like things to feel good on my skin."
Designed for women sizes 2 to 24, the collection is everything the actress wants: "stylish clothes that fit my body, and make me look good and feel good about myself," she shared. "I wanted to offer basically the same things that I have the opportunity to have."
Latifah, known for singing, acting, hosting and now designing, says her many talents are making the way for comparisons to a fellow jack-of-all-trades. "People say I'm going to be the next Oprah," she shares with ESSENCE. "No. Oprah is still Oprah. I'll be the next me. I feel like there's always a lane for me as long as I'm true to myself." For more with Latifah, visit ESSENCE.com.


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OKLAHOMA CITY (RED CROSS PR) -- Local forecasts are calling for some cold weather in Oklahoma with maybe even a touch of snow.
With the coldest temperatures expected for the season, the American Red Cross wants to remind the community to be safe when heating homes. Heating sources are the leading cause of house and apartment fires during the cold weather.
Heat sources such as space heaters, fireplaces or wood and coal stoves can pose a fire hazard. To reduce the risk of heating related fires, the Red Cross recommends keeping anything that can burn such as paper, bedding or furniture, at least three feet away from heating equipment and fireplaces and to never leave these unattended.
"In the last year the Central and Western Oklahoma Region responded to 440 house fires and 35 multi-family fires (apartments, condos, etc.) across the region." said Janienne Bella, Central and Western Oklahoma Region CEO. "But the good news is that there are steps you can take to reduce your risk of a home fire all year and during the chilly weather."
The Red Cross wants the number of house fires not to rise as the temperatures drop, so it offers the following fire prevention tips:
• All heaters need space. Keep all things that can burn (paper, matches, bedding, furniture, clothing, carpets, and rugs) at least three feet away from heating equipment.
• Never leave a fire in the fireplace unattended, and use a glass or metal fire screen to keep fire and embers in the fireplace.
• Never use a cooking range or oven to heat your home.
• Turn off portable space heaters every time you leave the room or go to sleep.
• Have wood and coal stoves, fireplaces, and chimneys inspected annually by a professional, and cleaned if necessary.
• If you must use a space heater, place it on a level, hard and nonflammable surface (such as ceramic tile floor), not on rugs, or carpets or near bedding or drapes. Plug power cords directly into outlets and never into an extension cord.
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K-12 Student Assessment
The Bureau of K-12 Assessment is responsible for all aspects of Florida's K-12 statewide student assessment programs, including developing, administering, scoring, and reporting the results for assessments aligned to the Florida Standards or Next Generation Sunshine State Standards, as well as assisting with the administration and reporting of several other K-12 student assessment programs. Services are provided both by Florida Department of Education (FDOE) staff and through various contracts with assessment vendors. The primary goal of these assessments is to provide information about student learning in Florida, as required by Florida law (see Section 1008.22, Florida Statutes).
Florida's K-12 Statewide Assessment Program
To learn about the individual K-12 assessments offered in Florida, visit the links below:
- Florida Standards Assessments: The Florida Standards Assessments, which measure student success with the Florida Standards, include assessments in English language arts (grades 3-10), mathematics (grades 3-8), and end-of-course assessments for Algebra 1 and Geometry.
- Statewide Science Assessment: The Statewide Science Assessment measures student success with the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards and includes assessments in grades 5 and 8.
- EOC Assessments: The End-of-Course Assessments are computer-based tests designed to measure student achievement of the specified standards for middle- and high-school level courses in science (Biology 1), social studies (Civics and U.S. History), and mathematics (Algebra 1 and Geometry).
- National and International Assessments (NAEP, PIRLS, PISA, and TIMSS): National and state assessments enable us to know how well students are doing in a variety of subjects at different ages and grade levels. International assessments allow us the unique opportunity to benchmark our students' performance to the performance of students in other countries. Florida participates in several national (NAEP) and international (PIRLS, PISA, TIMSS) criterion-referenced surveys.


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Those heroics earned him a spot on Mel Kiper Jr's 2013 NFL All-Rookie team ($). Kiper had this to say about Hopkins' first season in the League.
"The QB issues didn't help, but Hopkins still had 52 catches for 802 receiving yards, and he has a bright future."
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Kiper had Hopkins ranked as the 18th-best rookie overall, regardless of position.
The rookie from Clemson, however, tweeted this a few hours after the announcement.
San Diego's Keenan Allen and Terrance Williams of the Cowboys were the other receivers on Kiper's All-Rookie squad. Allen was his offensive rookie of the season, and ranked third overall. Buffalo inside linebacker Kiko Alonso was the top-ranked rookie, followed by Jets defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson.