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Cubs A Possible Destination For David Price?
BY: John Mamola / 620wdae.com
Major League Baseball free agency is officially under way and what could be another interesting winter for the Tampa Bay Rays. The Rays have already picked up the options of Yunel Escobar, Ben Zobrist and David Dejesus with reportedly interest in signing DeJesus to a multi year deal in the future. However questions this off season will circle around the future of David Price who is eligible for arbitration heading into next season. Price's salary is expected to jump from 10 million to near 13-15 million dollars leading to rampant speculation that the 2012 Cy Young Award winner will be dealt this winter.
MLB.com senior columnist Phil Rogers joined WDAE's 'The Ron and Ian Show' Wednesday morning and said he fully expects Price to be traded this winter. Some of the teams rumored to be the new landing spot include both teams in Los Angeles and St. Louis, but Rogers believes a team from the Midwest could make a big play for Price.
"I know the Chicago Cubs covet Price" said Rogers. "They have good young prospects in their system, and they have guys that anyone would want."
Rogers believes the Cubs have good young hitting type prospects who could assist a Rays offense who finished fourth in runs scored in the AL East. Also Rogers notes the Cubs addition of Theo Epstein from the Boston Red Sox, who is very familiar with Price's tenure in Tampa Bay.
"Any team that trades for David Price isn't going to be doing it for two years, they're going to be doing it and plan to sign him to a long term contract looking at having him six or seven years. On that basis he could make sense for any team in baseball, a team like the Cubs."
Rogers says he believes that Tampa Bay Rays General Manager Andrew Friedman will spend the winter fielding offers. Rogers also stated it'll be tough for the Rays to get back in return what they would want for a pitcher the caliber of David Price.


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Amazon.com made waves in March when it announced Cloud Player, a new "cloud music" service that allows users to upload their music collections for personal use. It did so without a license agreement, and the major music labels were not amused. Sony Music said it was keeping its "legal options open" as it pressured Amazon to pay up.
In the following weeks, two more companies announced music services of their own. Google, which has long had a frosty relationship with the labels, followed Amazon's lead; Google Music Beta was announced without the Big Four on board (read our first impressions). But Apple has been negotiating licenses so it can operate iCloud with the labels' blessing.
[partner id="arstechnica"]The different strategies pursued by these firms presents a puzzle. Either Apple wasted millions of dollars on licenses it doesn't need, or Amazon and Google are vulnerable to massive copyright lawsuits. All three are sophisticated firms that employ a small army of lawyers, so it's a bit surprising that they reached such divergent assessments of what the law requires.
So how did it happen? And who's right?
A lost decade
It was a service ahead of its time. Slip a CD into your computer, and the music on it would instantly be added to your online locker. From there, it could be streamed to any Internet-connected computer. Several services do this today, but MP3.com was launched more than a decade ago.
The site was a 1990s dot-com star, flush with cash from its $340 million IPO. The recording industry sued, arguing that MP3.com needed licenses to store and then stream their music. MP3.com countered that the technology was legal under copyright's fair use doctrine, much as format-shifting a CD might be.
A federal judge sided with the labels, and the threat of astronomical statutory damages forced MP3.com to settle the case for $53.4 million. Weakened by litigation and the bursting of the dot-com bubble, the company was forced to sell itself to Vivendi Universal in 2001; the music locker feature was abandoned soon afterwards.
After the acquisition, the new parent company ordered MP3.com to sue its old law firm for malpractice, arguing that no competent lawyer would have advised a client that operating the streaming service was legal under copyright law.
This scorched-earth strategy worked. MP3.com founder Michael Robertson describes the record labels' legal strategy as "a very effective campaign of terror." By making examples of Napster, MP3.com, and other early innovators, the music industry was able to scare most of Silicon Valley away from developing technologies that would disrupt their industry. For example, angel investor Paul Graham has compared the labels to a "rogue state with nuclear weapons," and he discourages entrepreneurs from creating startups that touch their music.
The result was a lost decade for music innovation. Throughout the '00s, no major software companies followed in Robertson's footsteps to create music locker services.
Signs of life
The first green shoot to break through this parched ground was a 2008 decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The defendant was the New York cable company Cablevision. Rather than giving subscribers traditional DVRs that recorded programs within their homes, Cablevision developed an innovative "remote storage" DVR. Like an ordinary DVR, it records programs selected by the user and plays them back later, but the recorded content is stored in a Cablevision server room rather than a user's living room.
As usual, content providers sued for copyright infringement, saying that Cablevision was retransmitting their content without permission. Cablevision countered that its service was identical to users owning a long-range remote control, that all recording was done at the direction of users, and that separate copies of content were kept for each subscriber. How could the mere length of the wire make copyright infringers of the company?
In 2008, the Second Circuit ruled for Cablevision. The decision has obvious relevance for music lockers, as Cablevision argued that it was merely serving as a passive conduit for users to store and retrieve their content; music lockers say the same.
James Grimmelmann, a law professor at New York Law School, spoke with us about the legal implications of Cartoon Network v. Cablevision. It was a groundbreaking decision but also a "bizarre" case that fails to resolve a number of key issues, he said. Many observers expected the argument to focus on applying the Supreme Court's 1984 Sony decision, which held that "time shifting" with a VCR is legal under copyright's fair use doctrine. But the parties chose not to litigate the fair use question, focusing exclusively on whether Cablevision was directly liable for copyright infringement.
Thus, the Cablevision decision offers no real guidance on how to apply Sony to remote storage services. Nor does it provide any clarity on whether the providers of such services face indirect liability for the infringing activities of their users.
Still, when the Supreme Court declined to hear the Cablevision appeal in June 2009, the Second Circuit's decision became the strongest available legal foundation for a music locker service. So far this year, three companies—Amazon, Google, and Apple—have jumped on the opportunity it provided. And if these pioneers don't get burned, others are likely to follow.
The rematch
While all this was happening, MP3.com founder Michael Robertson wasn't sitting still. Radicalized by the labels' destruction of MP3.com, he launched a new company called MP3tunes in 2005. It bore an uncanny resemblance to his original firm. Users could purchase songs from an online store for $0.88 and store them in a music locker for streaming to any device. They could also upload music from their computers, or "sideload" free music from the Web using a search engine called sideload.com.
To no one's surprise, Robertson found himself in court again. EMI filed suit in 2007, and the two companies have been locked in litigation ever since. Robertson says the parties have concluded their arguments and are now awaiting the judge's ruling.
In our common-law system, earlier court decisions create precedents that shape later litigation. This means that, whether they like it or not, Robertson's competitors could be influenced by the outcome of his case. If Robertson wins his lawsuit, then Jeff Bezos and Larry Page can sleep more easily. On the other hand, if MP3tunes loses, it could call into question the legality of the larger companies' products. Google, at least, has taken an active interest in the MP3tunes case, filing an amicus brief in January in support of MP3tunes.
Looking for a safe harbor
One of the key weaknesses in MP3.com's legal defense was a consequence of its novel method of stocking its customers' lockers. In an era of 28.8k modems, actually ripping and uploading users' CD collections would have been a long, tedious process. So MP3.com came up with a novel solution: when a user inserted a CD into her computer, a fingerprint was calculated and compared to the fingerprints of thousands of ripped CDs that MP3.com had already loaded onto its servers. Users didn't actually have to upload their music because once MP3.com verified that a user had a copy of a particular CD, it just used the ripped copy it already had.
This "Beam-It" feature was functionally equivalent to a system in which users actually ripped and uploaded their music, and it was a lot more efficient. But it wasn't identical, and it created a fatal weakness in MP3.com's legal position. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act immunizes online service providers from liability when they store files on their servers "at the direction of a user." MP3.com was ripping the CDs itself; with no user involvement, it wasn't eligible for this powerful defense.
The newer MP3tunes avoided this Achilles' heel. With broadband now ubiquitous, MP3tunes requires users to upload actual copies of their music, greatly strengthening its claim to the safe harbor.
But EMI argues that MP3tunes is still ineligible for the safe harbor. To qualify, service providers must promptly remove material if they become "aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent." MP3tunes operates sideload.com, a music search engine that allows users with MP3tunes accounts to "sideload" search results into their lockers with one click. Plenty of infringing music is available in sideload.com search results, and EMI argues that MP3tunes's failure to actively filter these results makes it ineligible for the safe harbor.
Robertson tells Ars that this reading of the DMCA is too demanding. He points out that many of the same music files are available through mainstream search engines such as Google and Bing. A brief filed by Public Knowledge and several other groups agrees, arguing that the law only requires a service provider to remove specific content when they become aware it is infringing. They say that requiring services to actively monitor for infringing content would defeat the whole purpose of the safe harbor.
Google's ongoing struggle with Viacom over infringing content on YouTube will set an important precedent on this issue because Viacom made many of the same arguments about YouTube that EMI is now making about MP3tunes and sideload.com. In that case, Google prevailed at the district court level, and its appeal is now before the Second Circuit—the same court that decided Cablevision (and would hear any appeals in the EMI v. MP3tunes case).
Even if MP3tunes loses on the DMCA immunity issue, it can still fall back on the Second Circuit's holding in Cablevision, arguing that it is merely a passive provider of file-storage services.
But MP3tunes faces a serious obstacle to making this argument. In Cablevision, the Second Circuit relied on the fact that the RS-DVR system made a distinct copy of a program for each user who recorded it. This design choice strengthened the analogy between Cablevision's product and a traditional home VCR/DVR. It also helped Cablevision dodge liability under a 1984 decision that held that repeatedly showing the same video to different customers could violate the copyright holder's "public performance right."
Critics say the distinction is nonsensical. "There's no underlying policy logic," Grimmelmann tells Ars. "It's just courts distinguishing precedents they don't want to agree with."
Robertson—whose MP3tunes service deletes redundant copies if multiple users upload the same file—claims it would be preposterous to hold his company liable over this implementation detail. "If MP3tunes is guilty of copyright infringement for deduplication, then so is every technology company in the United States," he says.
He has a point. As the Public Knowledge brief points out, such "deduplication" techniques are widely used in the IT industry. They are used by mail servers, cloud-storage services, and backup software. Indeed, recent versions of Windows and Mac OS X have file systems with "transparent compression" functionality—essentially deduplication by another name.
If the courts hold that MP3tunes's use of deduplication techniques makes it liable for copyright infringement, numerous companies with otherwise-legal products could be forced to re-engineer them in a deliberately inefficient way to avoid liability.
New kids on the block
How do these factors affect Robertson's competitors? Amazon, Google, and Apple all offer the same core "music locker" functionality, but they each have important differences that could affect how each is viewed by the courts.
Apple has signed deals that should avoid legal trouble with the major labels, but they don't get Apple completely out of the woods. As we've reported, not every recording company is jumping on the iCloud bandwagon. Presumably, customers will demand that all of their songs be synced with iCloud regardless of whether Apple has signed a deal with their copyright holders. So Apple will have to choose between shipping an inferior product or risking lawsuits from smaller labels that choose not to sign up for iCloud. If it does the latter, then even Apple will have a (small) stake in MP3tunes' success. Update: As we've previously reported, (but this author overlooked) if a song isn't in Apple's Match catalog, iTunes will upload the user's copy of the song. So Apple does, in fact, have a stake in the MP3tunes case.
Google has taken the much larger risk of creating a music service without paying the labels a dime. But its strategy is conservative in every other respect. The company wouldn't talk to Ars on the record, instead directing us to its Terms of Service, which state that "you are directing Google to store a unique copy of Your Music on your behalf." This suggests that Google will be making millions of redundant copies of users' music in order to strengthen its claim to the Cablevision defense.
Google Music Beta doesn't offer the extensive sideloading functionality offered by MP3tunes—or, as far as we can tell, any sideloading options at all. Users will only be able to upload music from their computer hard drives, not from other sites. This strengthens Google's argument that its actions are legal under Cablevision, and also insulates the company from arguments that Google should be excluded from the DMCA safe harbor because too many users are sideloading pirated music.
Amazon.com did not respond to our request for an interview, so its situation is the least clear to us. But given the stakes, and Amazon's deep pockets, we're willing to bet the company will follow Google's lead and eschew deduplication despite its potential cost savings.
Grimmelmann points to one key difference between Google and Amazon: Amazon offers users the option to purchase music and put it directly into their lockers. "Amazon took the position that they didn't require additional permissions under their existing licenses" to offer this feature, he said. He isn't sure what legal theory Amazon uses to justify doing this, but "whatever it is, I'm confident their lawyers think it's fine."
We sought comment from the recording industry, but they were tight-lipped. The RIAA has praised Apple's licensed iCloud service, but an RIAA spokesman declined to comment on Google and Amazon's cloud music offerings.
An uncertain future
In other words, barring a major oversight by Amazon's lawyers, Google and Amazon are probably in the same legal boat. They have two lines of defense. The first is the DMCA safe harbor; if the courts decide they qualify, then they're likely to be immune from liability regardless of other factors.
If they aren't eligible for the safe harbor, then they'll fall back on the Second Circuit's Cablevision case. But this strategy has several risks. One risk is that the case could be litigated in another circuit that declines to follow the Second Circuit's lead. Another is that they could lose on the fair use issues that the Second Circuit didn't consider in Cablevision. A court could find that fair use does not entitle users to upload their music collections to a third-party server, and that Google and Amazon are liable for facilitating and profiting from this infringing activity.
These risks will be heightened if MP3tunes loses its battle with EMI. If EMI wins, the labels will try to convince the courts that Cloud Player and Music Beta are more like an MP3tunes music locker than a Cablevision RS-DVR. By closely following Cablevision's design principles and eschewing the more controversial features of MP3tunes, Google and Amazon have done all they can to make this a difficult argument to make. But MP3tunes, Music Beta, and Cloud Player still have the same core functionality, so the courts may not be convinced.
Still, judges seem to be strongly influenced by their perceptions about whether defendants are good corporate citizens. By carefully limiting their products' functionality and scrupulously hewing to the contours of the Cablevision case, Google and Amazon create the impression that they are well-meaning innovators doing their best to follow the law. That's doesn't guarantee that they'll prevail, but it's the best they can do in a deeply uncertain legal environment, short of paying for licenses.
If forced to bet, our money would be on Google and Amazon's services withstanding court scrutiny—but it's a tough call.
As for Robertson, we'd like to see him win, but we're not convinced he will. Sideload.com is a remarkably useful and well-designed service, but it's also an extremely convenient way to get large quantities of infringing music. Theoretically, this shouldn't matter for the DMCA safe harbor analysis; many of the same files are available on mainstream search engines. But it could affect the court's perception of MP3tunes's good-citizen status. If the courts think that MP3tunes and sideload.com are primarily a copyright-infringement system, they will figure out a way to rule against the company.
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Mountain Home AttorneyRick Spencer with deputiesreceiving new body armor.
Deputies thank Mr. Spencerfor his donation.
Attorney Rick Spencer givesdonation check to Mr. T. C. Carter,President of Baxter CountySheriff's Foundation, Inc.
Sheriff Montgomery expresses his apprecationto Mr. Spencer for his donation.
As the result of a generous donation from Mountain Home Attorney Frederick S. "Rick" Spencer, five Baxter County Sheriff's Deputies today are wearing new protective body armor vests. Mr. Spencer contacted Sheriff Montgomery a few weeks ago on Facebook offering to supply funding to purchase some new bullet proof vests for deputies in need. Mr. Spencer, being a former deputy sheriff himself, understands the vital importance of good, effective body armor for law enforcement officers working in the field and knows that it saves lives.
Arrangements were eventually made for Mr. Spencer to make a contribution of nearly $2,300 to the Baxter County Sheriff's Foundation, Inc. (www.baxtercountysherifffoundation.org) , which in turn would order and purchase body armor for five deputies who were wearing old body armor vests that were far past their expiration date.
New body armor vests were purchased for Sheriff's Sergeant Kevin Boucher and for Deputies Kristofer Savino, William Altazan, Brian Davis, and Scott Thrasher. Today, these vests were distributed to those deputies in the presence of Mr. Rick Spencer, Mr. T. C. Carter, who is President of the Baxter County Sheriff's Foundation, Inc., Sheriff Montgomery, and members of the press.
The Baxter County Sheriff's Office wishes to express its thank and grateful appreciation to Mr. Rick Spencer for his generous contribution providing for the safety of our deputies and to the Baxter County Sheriff's Foundation for accepting the donation and arranging for the purchase of these bullet proof vests. His donation will help assure that these deputies will return safe to their spouses and families at the end of their shifts.
As always, the Sheriff's Office wishes to extend its appreciation to the entire community for the continuing support, encouragement, and partnership we receive in the performance of our duties and mission.
/s/ John F. Montgomery,Baxter County Sheriff
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The federal bank and thrift regulatory agencies have announced the availability of the 2009 list of distressed or underserved nonmetropolitan middle-income geographies in which revitalization or stabilization activities will receive Community Reinvestment Act consideration as "community development."
"Distressed nonmetropolitan middle-income geographies" and "underserved nonmetropolitan middle-income geographies" are designated by the agencies in accordance with their CRA regulations.
As with past releases, the 2009 list will incorporate a one-year lag period for geographies designated as distressed or underserved in 2008, but not designated as such in the 2009 release.
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RHA MA750i Noise-Isolating In-Ear Headphones
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Featuring handmade dynamic drivers, machined stainless steel and a premium oxygen-free copper cable, the RHA MA750i earphones epitomise quality and performance. The signature aerophonic design and 560.1 drivers provide precise and balanced sound with a comfortable, noise-isolating fit. The inline remote allows you to switch seamlessly between your music library and calls.
Handmade 560.1 driver for articulate sound reproduction with a great depth of soundstage
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David Beckham is on his way to France to complete the formalities of a move to Paris St Germain, Sky Sports reports.
The 37-year-old midfielder is expected to be unveiled at a media conference on Thursday and will begin training with the club in the next fortnight. Beckham has been without a club since leaving MLS side LA Galaxy in December and has been training with Arsenal.
The former England captain had firm offers from 12 different clubs but has opted for Ligue 1's big spenders.
Despite recently announcing he was to permanently base his family in London, Beckham always said he would make a decision on his next move – based on "footballing reasons".
PSG have spent more than £200m in the last 18 months, and are managed by Carlo Ancelotti – who was in charge of AC Milan during Beckham's loan spell there. They are also still in this season's Champions League.
Beckham, who made a record 115 outfield appearances for England, was part of the Manchester United side that famously beat Bayern Munich to win the 1999 Champions League.
He left Old Trafford for Real Madrid in 2003, before agreeing his move to LA Galaxy in January 2007 and making his debut for the club in August in that year.
He attracted criticism from some Galaxy fans after agreeing loan moves to AC Milan in 2009 and 2010 which meant missing some of the MLS season.
And he brought an end to his five-and-half-year spell in the United States on 2 December after winning the MLS Cup for the second time.
PSG have been the highest-spending club in Europe in the past year and will officially unveil Beckham as their player in a press conference at 16:00 GMT.
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Many factors are used to calculate the premium or cost of an automobile insurance policy. These range from driving history to your age and discounts that are available. If you want to lower the premium for your automobile insurance, there are many options that are available.
The biggest factor that affects the premium for an automobile policy is driving history. Any accident or ticket within the last three to five years will be included on your driving history. One way to maintain a low-cost for your policy is to eliminate traffic tickets.
The best and easiest way to lower the cost of your insurance policy is to increase the deductible. This is the amount that the policy holder needs to pay when a claim is made. The deductible is reduced when a claim is paid. The standard deductible for a policy is $500. Increasing this amount to $1,000 or a higher will have an effect on the final cost.
Another way to lower the cost of your policy is to apply all available discounts. The discounts you have available will depend on various factors. One discount that is typically applied to a policy is your credit score. A lower score will mean a bigger discount. A second discount can be applied if your vehicle uses an anti-theft device. Contact your insurance company or insurance agent and see if you are receiving all the discounts that are available for your policy. You may have a discount that has not been applied.
The amount that you pay for your policy can also be decreased by lowering the coverage amounts. The amount of coverage you need is based on the type of vehicle being insured.. A newer vehicle requires a full coverage amount on your policy. If you have an older vehicle, consider lowering your collision and comprehensive coverage.


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This module adds the necessary script to the footer of ones site for prompting users to chat via Zopim Live Chat.
What is Zopim Live Chat?
Zopim increases engagement between you and your visitors, by allowing them to chat with you! Great for improving interaction with your users and increasing the time they spend on your site.
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This module was originally sponsored by Stitch Technologies, a Los Angeles web design company.
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MA – Evening of Evil w/ Bruce Campbell
August 29, 2014 by Colin Solan
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Bruce Campbell appears at the Wilbur Theatre on Saturday November 1st at 7:00 PM to host a special screening of The Evil Dead!
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Come experience The Evil Dead on the big screen with special guest Bruce Campbell for an exclusive Halloween viewing! Following the film will be a Q&A with Bruce Campbell! And don't miss out on the chance to take part in an exclusive Meet & Greet with Bruce Campbell! There's limited availability to purchase the Meet & Greet as an add-on to your regular ticket purchase. Plus VIP ticket gets a signed show poster.
The Evil Dead Launched Raimi and Tapert's careers and made star Bruce Campbell a cult movie icon. Spawning two hit sequels, The Evil Dead trilogy has become a fan phenomenon, ranked among the most popular and acclaimed cult horror movies of all time.
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CA – Talkin' Toons LIVE
February 26, 2014 by Colin Solan
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Voice actor Rob Paulsen welcomes Jess Harnell and Kevin Michael Richardson to Talkin' Toons LIVE on Tuesday March 4, 2014 at 8:00 PM at the Hollywood Improv!
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The world-famous Hollywood Improv is proud to invite you to join Emmy and Annie award winner Rob Paulsen as he talks about his experiences in voice acting!
About Rob Paulsen:
Born in Detroit, Rob Paulsen spent his childhood in Livonia and Rochester, attending Junior and Senior high school in Grand Blanc, Michigan. Rob loved cartoons like most kids but aspired to be a professional hockey player. "Fortunately, thanks to some big, strong, kid from Winnipeg who drilled me so hard my ears are still ringing, I learned around age 18 I had neither the talent nor the temperament to make a living playing hockey. So, I turned to my other passions: singing and acting."
The goal of bringing absolute believability to a fictional character, live-action or animated, is what every actor strives for. Those who are committed to their career and who combine experience, passion and skill are likely to succeed.
Those gifted with exceptional talent who focus on maximizing their potential by finding their own niche, quickly break away from the pack. After years of honing their craft and consistently delivering memorable performances in which the character impacts an indelible image on the viewer, the public and the industry take notice, singling out the best.
"I'm getting paid to do what I got in trouble for in the 7th grade," jests Rob, who won a Daytime Emmy in 1999 as "Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program" for Pinky and The Brain (Warner Bros.) Though nominated twice previously, the victory was especially sweet due to some formidable competition – fellow nominees Louie Anderson, Ernest Borgnine, Dennis Franz and Jeffery Tambor. In addition to his Emmy, Rob won back-to-back Annie Awards in 1997 and 1998. "I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business," he says.
"It's a treat to portray a complex character," Rob explains about Pinky, a goof-ball mouse with funny teeth, a head filled with clouds and an inane imagination that is punctuated with a staccato laugh. "Besides … where else could I find a job where emotional outbursts and odd exclamations like 'Egad!,' 'Narf!,' 'Poit!,' 'Splonk!,' and 'Zort!' are allowed and in fact, encouraged?" With over 2,000 half-hours of animation to his credit, Rob's versatility shines in his starring roles as the voices of Yakko, Pinky and Dr. Scratch 'n' Sniff in the Peabody and two-time Emmy award-winning series "Animaniacs."
Some of Rob's other well-known animated characters include Raphael of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," Arthur in "The Tick," the title role in "The Mask" (for a WHOLE lot less dough than Mr. Carrey, thank you), the title role in "Mighty Max," Carl Wheezer in "Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius," Jack Fenton in "Danny Phantom," Bobble in the "Tinkerbell" series of DVDs and hopefully more to come.
Paulsen's extensive credits include on-camera roles in numerous motion pictures including Body Double, Stewardess School, Eyes of Fire, The Perfect Match, and Warlocked. His television acting credits include guest-starring roles on MacGyver and St. Elsewhere. Additionally, he is one of the most sought-after voice actors in the commercial arena, performing in over 1000 commercial spots.
As passionate about "paying it forward" as he is about his lucrative career, Rob supports various charitable organizations, particularly those benefiting children and military veterans. Rob's volunteer work with GOALmodels has been particularly rewarding. GOALmodels, a high school program in Reseda, California, is designed to inspire 9th graders to set goals and overcome obstacles in life. Blending his life experiences with passion for his work, his presentations are informative, entertaining and inspiring. In his leisure time, Rob enjoys golf, riding his motorcycle and occasionally lacing up his skates for another chance to relive his past glory on the rink. He spends the majority of his free time with his wife, Parrish, and their two Yorkshire terriers, Pooshie and Tala.
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hey guys I have 63 impala with manual brakes. I would like to go
to power brakes with the front changed to discs. Some one told
me the kits are overpriced. He said to just buy the caliper brackets and get the rest of the parts at local parts
stores/salvage yards. Is he right ? Classic performance sells the brackets for 65.00. what rotors, calipers and master cyclinder and booster should I look for to go with the brackets. If he is wrong is there another gm car I can take the whole assembly off and put on the impala?
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do yourself a favor....... get in touch with Classic, or master Power brakes and just purchase a whole kit. You are going to save yourself a whole lot of headaches and worrying about the compatibilty of components. Now only that but anything brake component wise you get from a salvage yards typically needs to be completly rebuild anyway. I dont know about you but I like to know for sure that my car is going to stop when I hit the brakes. :)
i have thesame problem.
i have an impala 63 with powerbrakes and drums.
i want disks..
must be some car that it would fit from.
i have a 65 impala with disks on, only problem if i use those is that the 65 has the steering on the backside...
the 65-70 Impala's are completely different animals from the 58-64's............
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1958-64 Cars came with a single master cylinder that feed the drum brake system. The power disc brake system upgrades to a dual master cylinder and proportional valve. This allows the brake fluid system to be separate decreasing total system failure if one line is compromised. If your stock Chevy is in need of disc brakes this is the setup for you. Also offered is a 2" drop spindle kit. This kit lowers the car using a drop spindle. When upgrading to disc brake the car should be upgraded to 3/16 brake line, this size line build up more pressure and gives a much better pedal feel. 3/16" line is commonly used for disc brakes while 1/4" line is used on full drum brake cars.
I have a 67 Caprice that is mine. I put spindles from a 80 Camaro on it. It is rear steer. I swaped sides the parts list is.
Camaro spindles (free)
Calipers $35.00 each
Rotors $18.00
Pads $10.00
2 dash 3 brake line 16" $30.00
Two couplers for brake line $16.00
S-10 Brake Booster (Small One) $92.00
S-10 Master Cylinder $25.00
4 Upper ball joint Screw in. $56.00
4 Ball joint bungs $28.00
The car stops great. I made a set of upper control arms. I have done alot of cars like this. That 63 Buick that iI have pictures posted of is the same basic set up. It is way cheaper than going to some of these companies.
rileys.. works just fine
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Batting Around: PawSox staying put03/13/2014 10:00 AM ET
By Benjamin Hill / MiLB.com
The Pawtucket Red Sox play in 72-year-old McCoy Stadium, the oldest facility in Triple-A baseball. Nevertheless, they won't be going anywhere anytime soon.
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The PawSox, as they are referred to colloquially, have reached a lease extension agreement with the city of Pawtucket and the state of Rhode Island. This agreement keeps the team in McCoy Stadium through at least the 2021 campaign, with a five-year option beyond that. The lease extension came in the wake of a debate about a possible relocation to nearby Providence. It was a discussion sparked by a letter first published in the Providence Journal. Per Providence's Valley Breeze newspaper:
Mike Tamburro, president of the Pawtucket Red Sox, reaffirmed the team's long-term commitment to Pawtucket, saying the lease agreement was in the works "long before the piece" in The Journal.
"We've been here for 40 years and it's been a great home and a great partnership with the city and state," said Tamburro. "By extending this lease, we show everybody where we want to be."
Not only do the PawSox play in the oldest ballpark in the International League, they also can boast of having its longest affiliation. The club has been the Triple-A affiliate of the Red Sox since 1973 after three seasons as Boston's Double-A Eastern League affiliate.
Your requisite Columbia, S.C. ballpark update
No "Batting Around" column worth its salt would be complete without an update from Columbia, S.C., as Minor League owner Jason Freier (Fort Wayne TinCaps, Savannah Sand Gnats) is spearheading efforts to relocate a Minor League team there. The latest development in this saga occurred on March 4, as the Columbia City Council granted the first of two required approvals to build a publicly funded $35 million stadium. The 4-3 vote occurred amid what The State newspaper described as "increasingly vocal disagreements from residents and reluctance among a council minority."
It is possible that the final stadium approval vote could occur during the city council's March 18 meeting. If it goes through, then whatever team relocates there would likely (but not necessarily) play its inaugural season in 2016.
Living like a Lugnut
A proposed renovation plan to the Lansing Lugnuts' home, Cooley Law School Stadium, includes 80 apartment units that would be located just beyond the outfield fence. More from mlive.com:
The $22 million proposal calls for $11 million in publicly funded stadium upgrades along with an $11 million mixed-use project led by Lugnuts owner Tom Dickson and Lansing developer Pat Gillespie. The four-story development would include 80 apartment units and a year-round bar and grill.
The renovation plan needs to be approved by Lansing City Council; if this approval is received by May 1 then the apartments and restaurant could be complete by Opening Day 2016. Perhaps the best precedent for this sort of living situation can be found in Greenville, S.C., as the Field House at West End apartment complex overlooks West End Field (home of the Greenville Drive).
Palm County doubles down
Palm County, Fla., is home to Roger Dean Stadium, the Spring Training home for the Cardinals and Marlins as well as the regular-season home of the Florida State League's Palm Beach Cardinals and Jupiter Hammerheads. Nonetheless, plans are underway to build a new facility that would serve as the Spring Training site of both the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals.
The new stadium has been endorsed by Palm Beach's County Commission, but discussions are still in preliminary stages and much remains to be determined as regards both location and funding. If the stadium is eventually built, it, like Roger Dean Stadium, could potentially host Florida State League baseball.
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Japan's new plan to beat deflation: more baseball
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Can more baseball save Japan -- or at least Abenomics?
A set of recommendations to lift growth in Japan's economy drafted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's party seen by Reuters calls for slashing corporate taxes, reforming public pensions, and -- in a curve ball -- increasing the number of professional baseball teams to 16 from 12.
"Prosperous baseball teams could strengthen attachment to regional cities and help local economies thrive," said the report, which cited the success of U.S. Major League Baseball in nearly doubling from 16 teams to 30 since the 1960s.
Baseball is one of the most popular sports in Japan and draws more than 20 million fans to games each year, four times more than Japan's professional soccer J.League's top division.
Okinawa, where Abe is pushing to complete a long-planned relocation of a U.S. military base, could get government support to lure a baseball team, the report said.
Shizuoka, west of Tokyo, and two isolated areas that are losing population as Japan's population ages -- the island of Shikoku and the snow country centered on Niigata -- were also named as sites for possible new teams.
Baseball has deep roots in Japan, dating back to the 1870s, when the country began modernizing, and has spun off global stars such as New York Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka and Texas Rangers' ace Yu Darvish.
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Westpac lived up to its reputation as the best rated major bank in the country, announcing a 16 per cent increase in full-year net profit, driven by strong growth in business lending and a turnaround in its New Zealand operations and wealth management businesses.
Chief executive David Morgan said he was confident the bank would continue to outperform its peers, although he stuck to his policy of not providing specific short-term earnings guidance.
The bank's $2.5 billion net profit was driven by a 15 per cent jump in business lending, a 25 per cent increase in earnings from its institutional banking division and strong contributions from NZ and BT Financial Group.
"Westpac has never been in better shape," Dr Morgan said at the briefing in Sydney. "We are confident that we can continue to deliver strong results at the upper end of the sector," he said, adding that he was keen to stay in the top job until his contract expired at the end of 2007.
Most investors agreed that Westpac was the best placed major bank to withstand a slowing home loan market and increased competition from players such as HBOS and ING.
But Westpac's share price fell just over 1 per cent or 21c to $18.69 as some investors were disappointed it did not lift its dividend payout ratio. Westpac will pay a final dividend of 44c, taking its full-year payment to 86c fully franked, up 10 per cent from the previous year but lower than some expectations.
The share price was also affected by the bank's announcement that it could convert NZ-class shares into ordinary stock before May, diluting earnings per share.
Westpac's relative outperformance has been helped by the distractions of its competitors. National Australia Bank is still reeling from its foreign currency trading scandal, Commonwealth Bank is in the middle of a restructuring program and ANZ is focused on integrating its $5 billion acquisition in NZ.
"Westpac has generally been the most loved major bank in the market," said Invesco's head of equities Rohan Walsh. "They've got a simple strategy and they're delivering on it. You can't criticise that."
Westpac's cash earnings, the figure most closely watched by analysts, rose 13 per cent to $2.6 billion. Its business and consumer banking division, described by Dr Morgan as the group's "oil tanker", posted a 16 per cent jump in earnings as strong growth in business lending offset slower growth in mortgages.
Home lending slowed to 12 per cent growth as the bank reduced the number of loans sold through mortgage brokers and cut its exposure to high-risk markets such as investment properties and low-document loans.
Dr Morgan said the bank was in a good position to "participate in any industry consolidation," with a focus on banking and wealth management in Australia and NZ. But he added that potential targets looked "fully priced" at this stage.
Some analysts had been concerned that Westpac would make a bid for a general insurer, but Dr Morgan said he did not see any evidence that the synergies would be "significant".


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200m: 21.58 (2012)
100m: 10.17 (2012)
200m: 21.25 (2012)
300m: 34.00 (H.S.)
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2012 Indoor 60m: 5th, 6.72
2012 Outdoor 4x100mR: 6th, 40.47
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: First-team USTFCCCA Outdoor All-American (4x100mR)...Two-time SEC Scorer (2012, Indoor 60m/Outdoor 4x100mR).
2012: Honors - First-team USTFCCCA Outdoor All-American for his effort with the 4x100mR...Named to SEC All-Freshman Team (60m)...SEC Indoor Co-Freshman of the Week (Feb. 14)...Indoors - Came into the SEC Indoor meet ranked 10th in the 60m dash and walked away with a fifth-place performance...Did so by matching his PR of 6.72 in the final and was the race's top freshman finisher...Named to the SEC All-Freshman Team for that achievement...Ran a career-best 21.58 in the SEC 200m prelims but did not advance...Knocked out a personal-best time of 6.72 to claim victory in the Gold Division 60m dash at the Akron Invitational...That first career triumph helped him earn SEC Co-Freshman of the Week accolades on Feb. 14...Made his UT debut at the Kentucky Invitational, finishing third in the 60m dash in 6.78...Ran 22.33 at the Auburn Invitational for his first career indoor 200m clocking...Lowered his 200m PR to 22.14 at the Texas A&M Mondo Challenge...Came home from the New Balance Collegiate Invitational with new indoor bests in the 60 and 200 meters...Finished fifth in the consolation final in 6.74 after running 6.75 in the prelims...Carded a 22.01 readout in the college 200 prelims...Outdoors - Competed at the NAAA Sagicor National Championships and Olympic Trials in Trinidad & Tobago...Finished sixth overall in the 100m, earning a PR of 10.17...Ran the second leg of the 4x100m relay at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, contributing to a seventh-place finish in 40.21...The relay team had a season-best time in the semifinals, running 39.25...Competed in three events at the NCAA East Preliminary Round...Advanced to the NCAA Championships with the 4x100m relay team, contributing to their season-best time of 39.66 (No. 5 qualifier)...Did not advance individually in the 100m (10.67) or 200m (21.34) first round races...Contributed to the sixth-place finish and 40.47 readout by the 4x100m relay team at the SEC Outdoor Championships...Ran a wind-aided 10.43 in the 100m prelims and went 21.76 in the 200m prelims...Won the 100m dash (10.53) and nearly claimed the 200m (second in a career-best 21.25) at the UCLA/Washington State Double Dual...Also handled the second leg on UT's runner-up 4x100m relay (40.09)...Turned in a wind-aided 21.04 in the 200m to place fourth at the SEC/Big Ten Challenge...Also manned the second leg of UT's runner-up 4x100m relay (40.13)...Was the top collegiate finisher, but placed third overall, in the 100m dash with a season-best 10.40 readout at the Tennessee Challenge...Won the Showcase 100m dash at the Sea Ray Relays in a wind-aided 10.24, was third in the Showcase 200m (21.39) and ran on UT's third-place 4x400m relay (3:10.97)...Ran second 200m leg for UT on the sprint medley relay team (3:21.41) that finished second at the Penn Relays.
HIGH SCHOOL: James, a product of Queen's Royal College in Trinidad & Tobago, owns outdoor prep career-best times of 10.38 seconds in the 100-meter dash and 21.27 in the 200 meters...He earned a bronze medal in the 4x100m relay at the 2010 World Junior Championships and was a member of Trinidad & Tobago's fifth-place medley relay at the 2009 World Youth Championships...In addition to his 10.38 readout, James had four other 100m marks in the 10.4 range in 2011...One was a 10.44 readout in the prelims of the Pan Am Junior Championships, where he ended up placing seventh in the final at 10.57.
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Dear Aryeton,
For those who are interested in combat archery and/ or siege engines at Pennsic, there is a fast-track authorization program, if you are sponsored and trained by a member of the Chivalry.
I am willing to train and sponsor people, but this will require some organization and scheduling on both our parts, because there aren't so many weeks before Pennsic.
The important training, in my mind, is to teach people how to deal with the armored fighters and what the armored fighters are expecting. For this purpose, it's best to attend fighting practice. Anyone who wants my sponsorship will need to do some training directly with me.
I typically attend the Sunday fighting practice at Gray Gargoyles. I will *not* be at practice
tomorrrow, April 19, due to a recorder concert, but I have reserved the following Sundays for practice:
April 26
May 10
May 31
June 21
June 28
July To Be Determined.
I'm sorry that I can't commit to more practices. I will be at Border Skirmish, and I think that Simple Day is the last day for authorizing for Pennsic.
If you can make some of the above practices, that will be fine. If those days are bad for you, email me and we'll see what else we can do. Weeknight practices might be possible--I will also ask Sir Guerric and Sir Kilian if their schedules allow them to help.
Thank you for your attention. I look forward to a big and strong Midlands army!
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I have a Cisco ASA 5510. I have detected an infected workstation on my internal LAN which has caused my IP to be blacklisted by Barracuda Networks and other RBL. I have scanned and cleaned the workstation removing the spambot. I want to prevent all my internal workstations from sending SMTP traffic on Port 25 through my ASA 5510 device. I only need to allow my Exchange Server access to send out traffic on port 25. Can someone help me configure this setup using ASDM 5.0? I know it may be easier using CLI, but using the ASDM would really be preferred. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.


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Bowing down before it are words like "junk" and WikiLeaks," but the word "app" ended up becoming the clear cut winner as it was chosen as the 2010 word of the year. Naturally, the simple three lettered word managed to stay ingrained into the minds of consumers thanks to Apple's trademark on "there's an app for that" slogan.
Now if you want to be super formal, you can simply refer to it as "application," but it just sounds more natural and easier during conversations to call it "app." Nonetheless, the word was able to receive 69 votes from a panel of linguists from the society – thus gaining that prestigious title along the way.
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Brad Penny started and was hammered for six runs, including three home runs, in the first two innings but the general feeling was relief, not dread.
The big righthander didn't break 90 on his last start and since Jason Schmidt's troubles began that way all those month's ago, some wondered about Penny's recovery.
But that wasn't the case. Penny threw in the mid-90s but his location was what you might expect for a pitcher who has just come off eight weeks on the disabled list. That suggests that there isn't any sort of physical problem.
But after two innings the Dodgers were looking down a long, dark road in their attempt to come back against the N.L. East Division leader.
But that is just what they did.
After Ryan Howard smacked his Major League-leading 33rd homer and Greg Dobbs hit his fifth in the first inning and Jayson Werth hit another two-run shot in the second, Philadelphia led 6-1.
Jason Loney had worked a bases-loaded walk to drive in a run in the bottom of the first but the Dodgers left three on base.
Penny worked a scoreless third inning before leaving for a pinch-hitter. He allowed six hits and six runs, and his ERA swelled to 6.05.
From that point on, a posse of relievers galloped in from the bullpen and limited the slugging Phillies only one hit over the final six innings.
In the third inning Manny Ramirez, his dreadlocks not only uncut, but braided with red, blue and yellow thread, slugged a home run, his fifth, with Jeff Kent on base to cut the deficit to 6-3 after three innings.
Ethier ran his homer total to an even dozen with a shot into the right field seats in the fourth and L.A. trailed by two.
Kent's fourth hit, a two-run double in the eighth, scored pinch-hitter Juan Pierre and Russell Martin to tie the score.
Then with one out in the last of the ninth, Garciaparra, playing in only his 29th game of the season, drove a 2-1 pitch into left field to set off a wild celebration at home plate and Garciaparra's teammates hoisted him off the ground after he crossed home plate.
"I'm was just trying to drive the ball," said Garciaparra, playing in his second game after coming off the disabled list. "In that situation, to drive it and hit a guy in the bullpen, that's good.""
It was the third straight win over Philadelphia and fifth in seven games overall, and the Dodgers moved into a first-place tie with Arizona in the NL West. The Phillies, who have lost five straight to the Dodgers, dropped into a first-place tie with the Mets in the East.
"This is huge," Dodgers manager Joe Torre said. "If this doesn't help our confidence, I don't know what will. I've got to hand it to our bullpen, they came in and did a tremendous job," he said.
Ramirez is an amazing 21-for-45 (.467) with five homers and 16 RBIs in 12 games since being acquired July 31 from Boston. Kent had a season-high four hits and is 13-for-26 (.500) in seven games since being moved to the No. 3 spot in the order. Russell Martin, who has hit .220 the last six weeks was 3-for-3 to break a 1-for-16 slump and he added his first extra base hit in the last 15 games.
Torre seemed unfazed by Penny's performance and said, "We'll see how he feels, but at this point in time, he is our guy five days from now." That would be against against Colorado, because the Dodgers are off on Monday.
The Dodgers go to 61-59, the first time the club has been two games over .500 since they were 26-24 after losing to the Cubs on May 26, and they pulled even with Arizona.
In the final game of the four-game set with Philadelphia, Hiroki Kuroda faces Brett Myers.
Kuroda (6-8, 4.02 ERA), after a terrible start after the all-star break, is coming off solid back-to-back strong games. In his last start, he allowed the Giants one run in eight innings.
Myers (5-9, 5.09 ERA) has recorded a 2-0 record with a 2.10 ERA since a minor league rehab start. In nine career starts against the Dodgers, he is 3-1 with a 2.76 ERA.
All in all, it was one of those remarkable games that you might look back upon and say, "the whole thing turned around right here."
Then again, with a few games over 40 left in the wacky N.L. West race, who knows.
Score by innings Philadelphia 420 000 000-6 Los Angeles 102 100 21x-7 Los Angeles ab r h bi ave Kemp cf 5 0 0 0 .299 Ethier rf 5 2 2 1 .276 Kent 2b 5 1 4 2 .273 Ozuna pr-2b 0 0 0 0 .000 Ramirez lf 3 1 1 2 .467 Broxton p 0 0 0 0 .000 Loney 1b 4 0 1 1 .295 Blake 3b 5 0 0 0 .275 Garciaparra ss 5 1 1 1 .266 Martin c 3 1 3 0 .289 Penny p 1 0 0 0 .192 Sweeney ph 1 0 0 0 .125 Johnson p 1 0 0 0 .000 Beimel p 0 0 0 0 .000 Park p 0 0 0 0 .111 Pierre ph-lf 0 1 0 0 .279 Totals 38 7 12 7 Philadelphia 33 6 7 6 2b hits- Martin (20), Kent (22). HR- Ramirez (5), Ethier (12), Garciaparra (6). RBI- Loney (68), Ramirez 2 (16), Ethier (49), Garciaparra (20). LOB- Los Angeles 11, Philadelphia 9. Los Angeles in h r-er bb so era Penny 3.0 6 6-6 2 4 6.05 Johnson 2.2 1 0-0 2 5 3.10 Beimel 0.0 0 0-0 1 0 1.87 Park 2.1 0 0-0 1 1 2.62 Broxton (3-3) 1.0 0 0-0 0 2 3.58 HBP- by Penny, by Beimel. T- 3:08. Att- 45. 786.Dodger Blue Notes-- Los Angeles hopes Andruw Jones (left knee) will get 40-50 at-bats for Las Vegas during his upcoming Minor League rehab stint ... The Dodgers and Phillies each hit three homers on Wednesday, the most homers two teams have combined for at Dodger Stadium all season. ... The U.S. Olympic team lost to South Korea on Wednesday, 8-7, but both Dodgers farmhands played well. Terry Tiffee went 2-for-4 with an RBI and Mike Koplove threw 1.2 perfect innings. The Americans play the Netherlands on today. ... The Urban Youth Academy's high school All-Star team was introduced on the field before Wednesday's game. The club is headed to Japan on Friday to play a game against a Japanese high school All-Star team.


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I didn't realize that the Miss Universe pageant was on Saturday night until I heard the yells from the other room. Specifically, the yell of a tiny, innocent, four-year-old boy, coming from the living room: "I like Ms. Hungary! Long and lean!" My husband and I were at our friends' house, and while we girls were in the kitchen talking, the boys—two grown men and a child—had somehow discovered the pageant on TV. From there, it was a downward spiral.
I watched, even though I didn't want to. But it was like a car accident— I couldn't pull my eyes away—only the car was covered in sparkles and glitter and feathers and about eight tons of makeup. The teeth were neon, glow-in-the-dark white. The hair didn't move. The bodies—well, the bodies were incredible, and I kept thinking: What a shame it is that these girls have such amazing bodies and such pretty faces and wear such complete and utter crap.
Don't believe me? Well, lucky for you, dear readers, I've got a handy roundup of some of the best, worst, and downright terrifying outfits that went down in Moscow on Saturday. I'll warn you, though, it's not always pretty. And sometimes, as is the case with poor, misguided Miss USA, it involves Transformers. (Note: The four-year-old loved that one.)


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Activity note: Hotel check-in from 4:00 p.m.
Afternoon: Program Registration: After you have your room assignment, come over to the Road Scholar table in front of the entrance to the Lodge lobby to register with the program staff and get your welcome packet containing your name-tag, up-to-date schedule that reflects any last-minute changes, and other important information. If your arrival is delayed, please ask for your packet when you check in. Orientation: In the Chuck House, the Group Leader will greet everyone with a warm welcome and lead introductions. We will review the up-to-date program schedule and any changes, discuss roles and responsibilities, logistics, safety guidelines, emergency procedures including contact numbers for key staff, and answer any questions you may have. Morning rides last approximately 2 hours, and afternoon rides last approximately 1 hour. We will be dividing into groups based on age and experience so children receive age-appropriate instruction and rides with appropriate distance and difficulty. All rides will be led by ranch wranglers; distance and terrain depends on rider experience level and trail type. Scheduled free time is reserved for your personal independent exploration. Please be aware that program activities, schedules, and personnel may need to change due to local circumstances. In the event of changes, we will alert you as quickly as possible. Thank you for your understanding.
Dinner: On the lawns of the Ranch Chuck House at picnic tables, enjoy an all you can eat buffet BBQ meal, plus iced tea, lemonade, water; other beverages available for purchase.
Evening: Following dinner, we will take a wagon ride around the property and along trails to learn about the ranch and get a better sense of our surroundings. Then settle down around the bonfire for some s'mores and a sing-a-long. Our excitement continues with frog racing! Children race their frogs....you can pound on the floor behind them, whisper to them, blow on them...just not touch them!
Activity note: Morning rides last approximately 2 hours, and afternoon rides last approximately 1 hour. Ride distance and terrain depends on rider experience level and trail type.
Breakfast: In the Ranch Chuck House, enjoy a plated breakfast offering a wide variety of daily specials, meats, eggs, potatoes, yogurt, and fruit, plus coffee, tea, milk, juice, water.
Morning: Gathering at the Pond, we will take pictures with the grandchildren and prepare for our fun craft project later in the program. On the ranch's property, we'll meet the wranglers for a riding evaluation and horse assignments for the program. Greenhorn Creek Ranch has over 100 horses – one quarter horses, mustangs, drafts, and a few thoroughbreds. Our wranglers will lead a basic riding and safety instruction course to prepare us for fun days of riding ahead. We'll take our first trail ride after the safety instructions. The progressive riding program will help you achieve your riding goals as well as enjoy the fantastic scenery on the trail.
Lunch: In the Ranch Chuck House, enjoy a family style meal, plus iced tea, lemonade, water; other beverages available for purchase.
Afternoon: Getting to know our horses better, we will enjoy an afternoon trail ride into the beautiful terrain of the High Sierra. Returning to the Ranch, enjoy free time. Take this opportunity for personal independent exploration to see and do what interests you most including fishing in the pond, ping pong, horseshoes, or going for a swim. Please refer to the list of Free Time Opportunities. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions.
Dinner: At the Ranch, we will enjoy a plentiful family-style, BBQ meal, plus iced tea, lemonade, water; other beverages available for purchase.
Evening: Gather for an evening of delightful laughter with line dancing in the saloon and s'mores around a bonfire.
Breakfast: Ranch plated meal.
Morning: Morning trail ride! Every day brings a new experience on the trail. Will you be on a wide trail up a mountain this morning, or a narrow one-person trail? Maybe you'll be in and out of trees or bush wacking!
Lunch: Ranch family style meal.
Afternoon: We will have some time to digest with a friendly game of volleyball on the lawn. Head to the corral to saddle up and head out to our dinner cook-out location. If you wish for a more leisurely ride to the cook-out, you can ride in the wagon to meet up with the group.
Dinner: At picnic tables, we will have a freshly prepared cook-out, plus iced tea, lemonade, water.
Evening: We will ride or wagon back to the ranch, then children and grandparents will head off for their own activities. With the activity director, children with work on their crafts project to remember their ranch adventure followed by a kid's card night at the Saloon. Grandparents will learn about the history of Greenhorn Creek Ranch from the owners, Trish and Ralph.
Breakfast: Ranch plated meal.
Morning: Gather at the corral and saddle up for the trail ride. Nestled within 640 acres of wooded forest at an elevation of 4,400 feet, trails lead us through diverse and ever changing landscapes.
Lunch: Ranch family style meal.
Afternoon: Saddle up for our final trail ride at the ranch. Enjoy the beautiful surroundings and see how your riding has improved throughout the week. Afterwards relax around or in the pool, sit on the deck, or try your hand again at fishing in the Ranch Pond.
Dinner: Ranch family style meal.
Evening: Explore and learn about the ranch with a scavenger hunt around the property; we will find different items and historical information about the ranch. The fun continues with some karaoke in the saloon and dance hall.
Activity note: Ranch check-out by 11:00 a.m.
Breakfast: Ranch plated meal.
Morning: Learn the differences between a draft horse – sometimes called work horses – and riding horses from a local firefighter. Meet the draft horses and spend a little time petting them. The children will then share their craft projects that they worked on throughout the week. Our Group Leader will then lead a wrap up session and look back at the fond memories from the days of riding and fun. We hope you enjoy Road Scholar learning adventures and look forward to having you on rewarding programs in the future. Please join our Facebook page and share photos of your program. Visit us at www.facebook.com/rsadventures. Best wishes for all your journeys!


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Target: Brian Gosch, Speaker for the South Dakota House of Representatives
Goal: Pass legislation to make animal cruelty a felony in South Dakota
South Dakota remains the only state with no felony charges for animal cruelty. A measure will soon be put before the Legislature, however, that is expected to pass with enough support. The weak penalties that South Dakota currently has for animal abusers are decades behind the rest of the country and will never act as a deterrent, especially for repeat offenders. Animals in South Dakota deserve to be protected and these laws must be changed immediately.
Currently, the most severe punishment for animal cruelty is a maximum $2,000 fine and one year in prison. The only animal-related crime that can result in a felony is dog fighting, but the felony charge is not because of how heinous the crime is, but because of the gambling associated with it. The reason for the weak laws is resistance from livestock producers. Several bills have been presented in the past, but were repeatedly voted down because of pressure from the agriculture industry. State Veterinarian Dustin Oedekoven believes this bill will see success because it establishes that "standard accepted livestock-raising practices are not mistreatment." Meaning, the law would ensure livestock producers are in no way affected as long as they uphold the standards for treatment of farm and work animals.
If it passes, the bill would make intentional and malicious acts of cruelty or abuse a Class 6 felony, which carries a maximum penalty of two years in prison and a $4,000 fine. It would also end years of debate and frustration between animal welfare groups and those in the agriculture industry, hopefully increasing the chances of future improvements to the state's animal cruelty laws.
Please take a moment to sign the petition below and finally make animal cruelty a felony in all fifty states. South Dakota's current laws are unacceptable and this could be our best chance to change that.
Dear Speaker Gosch,
A bill will soon be presented to the state Legislature intending to make animal cruelty a felony. South Dakota is currently the only state in the country that does not have any felony penalties for animal torture, cruelty, or neglect mostly due to pressure from livestock producers. Animals deserve our protection and it is appalling that South Dakota is so far behind when it comes to punishing those who would cause so much suffering.
Please pass this bill so that all fifty states will finally hold animal cruelty in the same regard as other violent crimes. This may be your best chance and the animals of South Dakota shouldn't have to wait any longer.
[Your Name Here]
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"A mother's broken heart keeps waiting to know something about her only son, whom she has not seen for 670 days. A new hope is born on every sunrise to see Dr Mohamed Arab once again with us."
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"A mother's broken heart keeps waiting to know something about her only son, whom she has not seen for 670 days. A new hope is born on every sunrise to see Dr Mohamed Arab once again with us."
Three years ago when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton took the unprecedented step of travelling to the Eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to meet with rape survivors of the country's brutal conflict, I was elated and hopeful. Elated because Secretary Clinton was doing something that had never been done before—sending the message that sexual violence is just as high on America's foreign policy agenda as trade or traditional capital-to-capital diplomacy, and that the dignity and needs of survivors are a particular priority. Hopeful because I thought it meant perhaps three years later we would see some real change for women in that unending war.
I was wrong.
Tens of thousands of civilians have this very week been displaced following the fall of Goma, a city in Congo's war-torn east, to the armed group M23, worsening an already dire human rights situation. Since only April of this year, fighting between the Congolese army and the M23 armed group has displaced 226,000 people in North Kivu province, and 60,000 refugees have fled to Uganda and Rwanda. As with the many other chapters in what's become known as Africa's world war, sexual violence has been a trademark of the recent fighting. Amnesty International has documented numerous crimes under international law and other human rights violations committed in the course of fighting between M23 and the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) army in recent months.
On Feb. 11, 2010, Pattani Razeek, a Sri Lankan human rights defender, was apparently abducted in the town of Polonnaruwa in northcentral Sri Lanka. The police have identified but failed to question a man they consider the prime suspect in Razeek's enforced disappearance. The man is a former colleague of Razeek's and a close associate of the Minister for Industry and Commerce. Pattani Razeek's whereabouts remain unknown to this day.
Over the past several decades, Sri Lanka has experienced tens of thousands of enforced disappearances, the vast majority of which remain unresolved. They are one more example of the lack of accountability in Sri Lanka for human rights violations.
Please write to the Sri Lankan government and ask them to effectively investigate the disappearance of Pattani Razeek and hold accountable those responsible for this crime.


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