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The number of players at Kyneton's training session tonight will determine whether the embattled club fields a senior football team next season.
Kyneton Football Netball Club president Cello Matricadi said the Tigers must sign enough players tonight for it to submit a competitive squad to the Bendigo Football Netball League board on Thursday.
Kyneton has recruited "a couple" of players since last week, but needs players who have verbally committed to front-up at Kyneton Showgrounds tonight for training under new coach Brian Walsh.
"(Tonight's) pretty much our D-Day of where we're going to be," Matricadi said yesterday.
"We need to see them there at training and get them signed up.
"We've had a couple of signings, which is good. We've had a lot who say they're coming, but until we see them - until something's written down on paper and signed - we'll take it from there."
Kyneton officials have been scrambling to recruit players in the past few weeks and Matricadi believes the club could field a senior team if those who have said they will play put pen to paper.
"We're reasonably confident we can, but it's one of those things they've just got to turn up instead of hanging back and waiting to see what we're going to get," he said.
Kyneton will hold a meeting after training tonight to update members, supporters and the local community on the club's position.
Kyneton has discussed its options if it doesn't have enough player numbers to take to the BFNL board and will finalise those options at a club meeting tomorrow.
"We've got a few things pencilled down as the options we're going to do…and the direction the club could possibly go in if things don't work out or if they do work out," Matricadi said.
Kyneton will only take a list of signed players to its meeting with the BFNL on Thursday.
"Just for us as a club and probably to a league to be fair we would like to have all the signings there to prove that we are going to be competitive in the league," he said.
"As far as we go from there, that's up to the league and the rest of the clubs to decide. "For us to make sure that we're confident enough that we're going to have a quality senior side is probably our key."
The BFNL has its first scheduled meeting of the year on Friday, where it will discuss Kyneton's future before speaking with the other nine clubs.


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Author Wendy Willis '88 will visit Willamette on March 12 to read from her collection of poems, "Blood Sisters of the Republic."
"Blood Sisters of the Republic," published in 2012, explores the history of the United States in a different, poetic lens. According to critics, it voices the real stories of women from past to present and touches on the themes of pain, joy, love and grit.
"I hope that the reading will be a space where we can all slow down, take a breath, and connect to the crazy mix of gusto and fragility that is the human experience," Willis says.
"I am grateful to have readers and listeners for the work. Poetry can be a lonely art, so I look forward to gathering with others who also love the power and possibility of poems."
Willis' talk is a part of the Hallie Ford Literary Series, which brings renowned authors from around the world to campus to share their work and experiences with the Willamette community. The free event will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Hatfield Room at the Hatfield Library.
After reading selections of her book and poems by other authors, Willis will take questions about her craft, the writing process and the publishing experience. Copies of her books will be available for sale.
Scott Nadelson, Hallie Ford Chairman and English professor, has wanted to bring Willis to campus since her book was accepted for publication. He says her multi-faceted life will resonate with students.
"It's a wonderful opportunity for students to hear about the journey of one of their predecessors who has had such success," he says. "Students and community members can hear how she has managed to balance an artistic career with a life doing important work in the world."
After earning a bachelor's degree in politics from Willamette, Willis attended Georgetown Law Center, where she graduated magna cum laude. She lives in Portland and works as the executive director of Policy Consensus Initiative, a national nonprofit organization that works to improve democratic governance.
During her lecture, she plans to share some of her experiences as a poet and political advocate — ranging from sharing her work in national publications to working as a federal public defender and law clerk at the Oregon Supreme Court.
Willis says she is looking forward to the event and sharing her words of advice with students.
"Read, read and read some more. Follow your interests. Feed your imagination. Let those who have come before and those who are working now inspire you to what is possible," she says. "Then sit at your desk."
The Hallie Ford Series is concluding the year with a lecture from novelist Adrianne Harun on April 3. Harun is the author of "A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain." Published earlier this year, the book has already received rave reviews from the likes of Booklist, Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly.
• Article by Natalie Pate '15, politics and French/Francophone studies major

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Douglas W. Stotlar is president and chief executive officer of Con-way Inc. (NYSE:CNW), a $5.6 billion freight transportation and logistics services company headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Con-way delivers industry-leading services through its primary operating companies of Con-way Freight, Menlo Worldwide Logistics and Con-way Truckload. These operating units provide high-performance, day-definite less-than-truckload (LTL), full truckload and intermodal freight transportation; logistics, warehousing and supply chain management services. Con-way also operates Con-way Manufacturing, a trailer refurbishing and manufacturing company which supplies trailing equipment to the company's trucking fleets. Con-way Inc. and its subsidiaries operate from more than 500 locations in North America and 20 countries across five continents.
As the company's top executive, Stotlar is responsible for the overall management and performance of the company. He was named to his current position in April 2005.
Stotlar previously served as president and chief executive officer of Con-Way Transportation Services, Inc. (renamed Con-way Freight in 2006). Appointed to this position in 2004, he was responsible for the day-to-day management and long-term strategic planning of an LTL trucking company operating a network of regional trucking units throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico. He also directed the company's non-asset based business units, Con-Way NOW, Con-Way Logistics and Con-Way Air.
Before being named head of Con-way, Stotlar served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Con-way Transportation Services (CTS), a position he had held since June 2002. From 1997 to 2002, he was executive vice president of operations for CTS. Prior to joining the CTS corporate staff, Stotlar served as vice president and general manager of Con-Way NOW after drafting and executing its business plan, and launching the company in 1996.
Stotlar joined the Con-way organization in 1985 as a freight operations supervisor for Con-Way Central Express (CCX, now known as Con-way Freight), one of the company's regional trucking subsidiaries. He subsequently advanced to management posts in Columbus, Ohio; Fort Wayne, Ind.; and Milwaukee, Wis., where he was named northwest regional manager for 12 service centers.
A native of Newbury, Ohio, Stotlar earned his bachelor's degree in transportation and logistics from The Ohio State University. He serves as vice president at large, treasurer and a member of the executive committee of the American Trucking Associations; is on the board of the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI).
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June 18, 2004
London, England - A select group of men and women from the Brown Track & Field program traveled to England for their quad-annual foreign trip and came away with victories against St Mary's College and Birmingham University. The trip is a combined excursion with Dartmouth and occurs every Olympic year. Athletes are selected for the trip based on their performance at the Heptagonal League championships. Twenty-seven athletes represented Brown and twenty-three competed for Dartmouth.
The triangular meet was contested Wednesday evening, June 16 at St Mary's College, about 30 minutes outside of London. Brown and Dartmouth combined forces to compete against St Mary's and Birmingham, as well as a number of guests from Kenya. The meet came down to the final events, the 4x100 and 4x400 relays. Both teams were behind going into the relays, but won all four of the races to win their respective meets.
On the men's side, wins were turned in by Daveed Diggs in the 110 high hurdles; Dallas Dissmore in the 400 meters (48.7); Brendan O'Keefe in the 1500; Jake Golenor in the discus; Ray Bobrownicki in the high jump; and, Grant Bowen in the pole vault.
Golenor threw over 160 feet in the discus, as did Kent Walls who took second. The pole vault was also a one-two affair with captain Tony Hatala grabbing the runner-up spot. Dissmore, Diggs and Bowen joined forces with Dartmouth's Fatih Stanley on the 4x100. On the 4x400 relay, Dartmouth's Richard Cedrone and Joe Maruchek ran the first and third legs while O'Keefe doubled back on the second leg before Dissmore anchored in 47.5 for the win.
The women had similar success. Captain-elect Jill Lynch won the discus over teammate Grace Cunningham and she took second in the shot put. Triple jumpers Brittany Grover and Dominique Bosa-Edwards swept the top two spots in the triple jump and Dartmouth's Lilly Bertz led a one-two finish in the pole vault with Alison Brager. Katie Rowinski won the high jump.
On the track Emily Lewis-LaMonica got things started for the Brown-Dartmouth group by winning the 400 intermediate hurdles in 63.0. Jaylon White and Lauren Linder went two-three in the 100 in 12.2 and 12.4, respectively, while Linder placed fourth to captain Julia Stevenson's third in the 200. Kate Cushing ran 4:36, good for second in the 1500 and Fara Kitton ran 14.4 in the 100 high hurdles to take third. Naja Ferjan pulled double-duty in the 800 (third in 2:11) and the 400 (second in 58.0) before anchoring the 4x400 relay in 57.0. Lewis-LaMonica ran the second leg of the relay. Stevenson, Linder, Kitton and White combined for the win in the 4x100 relay.
The team will continue to tour England with stops at Windsor Castle, Stratford on Avon and Oxford University. The remaining four days of the trip be spent in London at London University's Ramsey Hall. This trip culminates a successful year for the Brown Track & Field and Cross Country program. Last fall, the men's cross country team won their first-ever Heptagonal League team title and a little over a month ago, the women took second in the Outdoor Heptagonal League Track & Field meet. Individually, senior-to-be Jeff Gaudette earned All-American honors in the cross country season. Both squads will return a solid core of athletes for the 2004-05 year and look forward to competing successfully on both a league and national level.


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UNCW Press Release
WILMINGTON, North Carolina – Colonial Athletic Association scoring leader Devon Saddler poured in 24 points and slippery sophomore guard Jarvis Threatt added a career-high 21 as second-place Delaware escaped with a narrow 79-78 victory over UNCW in conference men's basketball play Saturday night at Trask Coliseum.
The Blue Hens, who snapped an eight-game losing streak in Wilmington, won their second straight to improve to 16-13 overall and 11-5 in the CAA. UD gained a sweep of the regular season series after beating the Seahawks, 71-56, on Feb. 2 in Newark. The Seahawks lost their second game in a row and stand 10-18 and 5-11 heading into the final two games of the season.
Saddler, a 6-2, 210-pound shooter from Aberdeen, Md., went 10-of-20 from the floor and played all but one minute for the Blue Hens, who shot a sizzling 62.1 percent in the first half before cooling off slightly down the stretch. Threatt matched his career-high with 12 rebounds and sophomore guard Kyle Anderson chipped in 12 for UD.
Senior forward Keith Rendleman paced the Seahawks with 26 points and 12 rebounds for his 18th double-double of the season and the 40th of his storied career. He fouled out with 1:06 remaining after anchoring four players in double digits. Junior guard Chris Dixon scored 12 and sophomore forward Cedrick Williams and sophomore guard Freddie Jackson contributed 11 apiece.
Four of UD's previous four games had been decided by two points or less and this one was no different. After senior forward Josh Brinkley made the second of two free throws with just over a minute left to play to give UD a 79-78 edge, UNCW's Dylan Sherwood missed a jumper and the Blue Hens returned the favor at the other end of the floor.
Dixon grabbed the rebound with 11 seconds remaining and following a timeout, the junior college transfer's 12-footer on the left elbow careened off the rim and the two teams scrambled for the rebound as time expired.
Both teams shot over 50 percent from the floor, but the failure to cash in at the free throw line hurt the Seahawks, who went just 7-of-18 at the charity stripe. The Blue Hens shot 54.5 percent overall and UNCW made 52.5 percent.
UD built a 44-36 lead at intermission after making 62.1 percent from the floor, including 6-of-10 from long distance, and remained in control until the Seahawks gained some momentum midway through the second half.
Brinkley's bucket over Sherwood at 11:45 gave UD a 60-57 advantage, but Rendleman had a monster dunk and Craig Ponder's pretty triple on the left wing gave UNCW its first lead of the night, 62-60, with 11:01 remaining.
The Blue Hens battled back and grabbed a 78-76 advantage when Saddler connected on a floater in the paint at 2:38. Freddie Jackson then converted a fast break layup with 1:20 on the clock, setting up another dramatic finish for seventh-year skipper Monte Ross and his club.
UD came out firing in the opening minutes, making six of its first eight shots, to build a 13-8 lead at the first media timeout. Veteran Jamelle Hagins slipped inside for a reverse layup at 14:26 to give the Blue Hens a quick five-point edge.
The Blue Hens remained hot and stretched the margin to 23-14 on a baby hook in the lane by Carl Batiste at 10:12. UD made 11 of its first 15 field goals to take command early.
The Seahawks responded, however, with a 9-0 spurt to tie the score. Rendleman converted an athletic tip dunk to start the rally and Tanner Milson's three-pointer in front of the UD bench knotted the score at 23-all with 7:47 left in the first period.
UD answered with back-to-back triples by Saddler and Anderson to get the score back to 32-25 at 5:40 and took a 37-27 advantage at 4:09 after an 11-2 run. The Blue Hens then took a 44-36 lead into the break.
The Seahawks conclude their home schedule on Wednesday, Feb. 27, when William & Mary visits Trask Coliseum. The Blue Hens travel to Hempstead, N.Y., on Wednesday to battle the Pride at 7 p.m.
GAME NOTES: The Seahawks still lead the all-time series by a 16-7 margin...UNCW now stands 8-2 against the Blue Hens at Trask Coliseum…The two teams still have not played an overtime game in the 23-game series…It was Ross' first win at Trask Coliseum since taking over the UD program seven years ago…UD won the rebounding battle, 32-29…The Seahawks entered the game averaging 15.0 turnovers per game and committed a season-low two miscues…Williams had three blocks…It was the first time Rendleman had fouled out since the first matchup with the Blue Hens on Feb. 2 in Newark…Threatt added five assists to his full stat sheet…Rendleman went a sub-par 4-of-11 at the free throw line…The Seahawks shot 61.5 percent in the second half….Both teams scored 32 points in the paint.
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For the first time ever in Florida, personal computers, electronic book readers and other electronics will be tax exempt during the back to school sales tax holiday this summer.
The Florida Legislature upgraded what is usually tax-fee during the sales tax holiday, which falls over the weekend of August 2-4 this year. Pencils, paper, erasers, notebooks and other back to school supplies have been expanded to include digital merchandise selling up to $750, according a press release from the Florida Retail Federation.
"Digital literacy is essential for our children, and we appreciate the work of all the legislative supporters of the sales tax holiday," said Rick McAllister, president and CEO of the Florida Retail Federation, in a statement. "By expanding the sales tax holiday to include computers and accessories, Florida's lawmakers are helping make these learning tools more affordable for families. It will give thousands of Florida families an opportunity to buy their first computers, or upgrade the ones they own."
During the tax holiday weekend, there will be no state or local taxes on e-book readers like a Barnes & Noble Nook or Amazon Kindle, laptops, desktops and tablets. Cell phones, video game consoles and other digital media receivers are not included in the tax break.
Other tax exempt items this year include shoes and apparel up to $75 and school supplies up to $15.
The sales tax holiday weekend in Florida generated $115 million more in taxable sales in 2010, and gross sales projections for August 2010 surpassed $289 million, according to a study by the Washington Economics Group.
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For more shopping news in Southwest Florida, follow reporter Justine Griffin on Twitter and Facebook or email her at email@example.com. Read What's In Store in print on Tuesdays.


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text: UMW News BureauThe University of Montana Western men's basketball team took an early lead in the 3 p.m. game at the Westminster Tipoff Tournament and rolled on to easily defeat Northern New Mexico (NNM) 96-68 on Saturday, Nov. 5. By Lowell Peterson The University of Montana Western men's basketball team took an early lead in the 3 p.m. game at the Westminster Tipoff Tournament and rolled on to easily defeat Northern New Mexico (NNM) 96-68 on Saturday, Nov. 5. After Christian Camacho opened the scoring with a short jumper to put the Eagles on top, the Bulldogs scored the next eight points and would not trail again in the game. The run was sparked by two Tyler Hurley free throws, a Brandon Brown steal and layup and rebound tip-ins by Tyler Miller and Kyle Erickson. Northern New Mexico cut the lead to one, at 10-9, but it was the closest they would get in a game dominated by the Bulldogs. Montana Western led by 16 points with 3:09 to play before the Eagles went on a 9-4 run to end the first half with the Bulldogs on top 44-33. The Bulldogs scored the first 15 points of the second half to take a 26-point lead, 59-33, at the 15:59 mark in the game. Cedric Clarington, scoring four points and dishing out four assists, had a hand in 12 of the 15 points during the run. With just under 11 minutes to play Montana Western built the lead to a game-high 33 points, 77-44, on a short jump shot by Clarington. The Bulldogs had six players score in double figures. Brown scored 19 points, grabbed six rebounds and had six steals. Three of the steals led to thunderous dunks. Erickson scored 16 points and hauled in eight rebounds. Clarington scored 13 and had five assists. Hurley, Miller and Jordan Overstreet each scored 10 points. Miller also had a game-high 10 rebounds to record a double-double. Bridger Chambers just missed double figures, scoring nine points, and Jacob Proctor added seven. Camacho led the Eagles with 12 points and Eric Bouma came off the bench to score 11. Daniel Molina grabbed seven rebounds to lead Northern New Mexico. In spite of the victory margin and 96 points the Bulldogs shot poorly from outside the three point line, making only 3-of-21. Take away the three point shots and Montana Western went 35-of-52 from the field (.673) and was tough inside, scoring 58 points in the paint. Montana Western improved to 5-1 on the season and Northern New Mexico remained winless at 0-6. The Bulldogs travel to Billings to play in the Rocky Mountain Tournament on Nov. 11 and 12. On Friday, the Bulldogs play third-ranked Robert Morris University and on Saturday they face off against Evergreen State. Both games will be played at 5:30 p.m. in the Fortin Center on the Rocky Mountain Campus.


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Match 22
No. 1 Duke (20-1) vs. No. 44 Boston College (12-7)
Friday, April 11 | 3:45 p.m.
Durham, N.C. | Ambler Tennis Stadium
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DURHAM, N.C. – The top-ranked Duke women's tennis team extended its win streak to 12 matches after posting victories over NC State, 7-0, and No. 14 Miami, 6-1, moving the Blue Devils to 20-1 on the season and 10-1 in conference play. Duke welcomes No. 44 Boston College to Ambler Tennis Stadium Friday, with the contest scheduled for a 3:45 p.m. start. Duke's two seniors, Marianne Jodoin and Hanna Mar, will be honored as part of a Senior Day celebration, prior to the commencement of the competition.
All regular season Duke women's tennis home events at Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center and Ambler Tennis Stadium are free to the public. General public parking is available in the Blue Zone parking lot off of Duke University Road.
Boston College Series History
The Blue Devils lead the series against the Eagles, 9-0. Duke's undefeated mark against Boston College dates back to Oct. 17, 1986, when the Blue Devils defeated the Eagles 7-2 in Durham, N.C. In the most recent meeting between the two teams, Duke shutout Boston College, 7-0. Over the nine-match stretch, Duke has outscored the Eagles, 62-5, with 7-0 victories in five of the team's wins.
Scouting the Eagles
The Eagles enter Friday's contest on a two-match win streak after notching victories over Wake Forest, 5-2, and NC State, 7-0. Boston College owns a 12-7 overall record this season and a 4-5 conference ledger. The Eagles posted strong play at home in 2014 with eight wins over 11 matches. Boston College defeated three ranked opponents this season, including No. 46 Harvard (5-2), No. 32 Georgia Tech (4-3) and No. 66 Wake Forest (5-2).
Senior Contributions
Duke's two seniors, Marianne Jodoin and Hanna Mar, will be honored at the start of Friday's match. The duo has combined to play 196 singles matches in a Duke uniform. Jodoin enters Friday's competition on an eight-match singles win streak. Jodoin has posted nine wins in 11 matches this season at the No. 6 position and boasts a perfect 5-0 mark at the No. 5 position. Mar is set to compete in her final home match in Durham with an overall record of 15-2 this season, including an unblemished 4-0 record at the No. 2 position and a near-perfect ledger of 8-1 at the No. 3 position.
Team-Win Milestones
With a 6-1 defeat of Miami Sunday, the Blue Devils earned their 20th win of the season and the 10th conference victory in 2014. Duke has notched 20 or more wins in 14 of the last 18 seasons and recorded double-digit ACC wins for the fourth time in school history.
Duke in ITA Polls
Duke remains atop the ITA team rankings, marking the fourth consecutive week as the No. 1 ranked team in the nation and the eighth week since Feb. 11. The Blue Devils secured the No. 1 ranking after winning the ITA National Team Indoors Championship in Charlottesville, Va., Feb. 10.
Five singles players and five doubles pairs also garnered rankings from the ITA. The Blue Devils are headlined by Beatrice Capra, who ranks fifth in the latest ITA polls, released April 8. In addition to Capra, 23rd-ranked Ester Goldfeld, 32nd-ranked Hanna Mar, 114th-ranked Alyssa Smith and 122nd-ranked Chalena Scholl also represent Duke in the ITA rankings.
Two Duke tandems appear among the nation's top-20 doubles teams, including the fourth-ranked duo of Capra and Mar and the 20th-ranked pair of Goldfeld and Smith. Joining Duke's two top-20 doubles pairs is the 35th-ranked team of junior Annie Mulholland and Goldfeld, No. 53 Goldfeld and Jodoin and the 66th-ranked tandem of Mulholland and Scholl.
Winning Streaks Abound
Seven of Duke's eight singles players and six of the team's 10 doubles pairs enter Friday's contest with win streaks of two or more matches. Junior Ester Goldfeld and senior Marianne Jodoin both have won eight straight matches, leading the Blue Devils, while sophomore Beatrice Capra and junior Annie Mulholland both own five match win streaks. In doubles, the pair of Goldfeld and Smith and the duo of Jodoin and Smith both earned six-straight wins while the tandem of Capra and Mar and the duo of Mulholland and freshman Chalena Scholl both own four-match win streaks.
Home Sweet Home
The Blue Devils remain undefeated at home this season, posting a perfect 10-0 mark in Durham. During the 10-match stretch, the Blue Devils defeated opponents by a combined score of 62-8. Duke's home winning streak dates back to Jan. 12 when the Blue Devils defeated William & Mary, 6-1.
20-Plus Win Club
The Blue Devils feature five singles players who have reached 20 wins this season, including Beatrice Capra (25-6), Ester Goldfeld (25-7), Marianne Jodoin (23-7), Hanna Mar (22-9) and Alyssa Smith (22-8).


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Exceptional People, a new book by Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron, and Meera Balarajan, puts migration in a deep historical context–some 50,000 years of it. This topic isn't going away any time soon, not with election season just around the corner, so this is one to keep an eye on.
By bringing a whole new set of evidence to the raging debate, Goldin argues that migration is not simply a problem to be fixed but rather a process to be managed and coordinating that management is the challenge currently facing the U.S. Exceptional People will be published on June 1 and to kick off his U.S. media tour, Ian Goldin was interviewed by "Patriot Games" for BlogTalkRadio.


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Many in the urban population consider themselves environmental activists while most agricultural producers think of themselves as active environmentalists.
It just makes good sense for those who make their living off of the land to take good care of it.
"Most often we're talking with an urban audience, and we're outnumbered in the congress and we're outnumbered in the Texas Legislature and state legislatures in general. Simply to say that I'm a good steward doesn't necessarily go over."
Don Renchie works in the Agricultural and Environmental Safety Program for Texas A&M Agrilife Extension.
"That's why I tell guys, be sure that when you're talking with the public explain to them that more than 50% of all the pesticides that are used in the United States are used for water, for us to go out and treat water so you can drink it."
Renchie also says that the 854 million pounds of pesticides that are used in the U.S. for quote, agricultural purposes, are not only used for agricultural purposes.
"But they also support structural pest control, they support government pest control and homeowners. There is more than 985 million pounds of wood preservatives used as compared to that 854 million pounds that are used for producing the food, for protecting the public's health, for homeowners to go out and do their own, as well as for government to use pesticides on your behalf."
Agricultural producers have a vested economic interest to not use any more pesticides than they need.
"When we're talking to those centers of influence, those decision makers, we want those guys to make sure that they understand, we aren't the culprit. As a matter of fact, we are the groups of those individuals that are those stewards and we're out there trying to use the products in a manner to produce food and to protect the public's health."
Renchie says that the education of non-agriculturalists, and homeowners specifically, is also necessary.
"And that if we have this thing in lock step, or in sync, then we can also educate those others out there in the public that are using these products in a manner that necessarily agriculture may not be."
I'm Kailey Carey, looking at Brazos Valley agriculture, From The Ground Up.


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Little Bobby CD Release • Shoulder Voices • Blackout Disciples • Venus Bogardus • Mr. and Mrs. Jones • Radgo
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I've watched Little Bobby Tucker for years, and I've listened very carefully. I don't mind attesting to the fact that his latest solo effort pushes him over the edge; it's equal parts concept album, dance album and confessional. It's all psychology and honesty. Each song involves a musical and historical depth and layering that works under the guise of simplicity to obscure the weird complexity Bobby creates. In each song, said complexity deals with a woman in his life, and women are always in his life; there are undertones of sex and wine. A little anger is let go, like a note floated down the river, but the overall stamp is, "It is what it is." One line I had to listen to over and over again really sums up his positive spin on what some would consider negative experiences: "Don't give up so quickly on me." Admission to the 21-and-over release party—also starring Venus Bogardus, Mr. and Mrs. Jones and Blackout Disciples—costs $5 and includes a copy of the CD. (Jim Phillips)
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As promised, at E3 Epic properly lifted the wraps off its next-generation engine, Unreal Engine 4. While the real-time cinematic teased before is jolly nice and all, the real highlight is a good long look at the tech and tools themselves.
"It is up to Epic ... to motivate Sony and Microsoft not to phone in what these next consoles are going to be. It needs to be a quantum leap," Epic design director Cliff Bleszinski recently commented. "They need to damn near render Avatar in real time, because I want it and gamers want it--even if they don't know they want it."
Of course, the PC is used to show off these demos and will happily keep pace with it all.
Square Enix also showed off its new engine, Luminous Studio, with the Agni's Philosophy tech demo. Nvidia was around too, to show off real-time characters on its GPUs with A New Dawn.
If you simply want to watch a pretty thing, here's that UE4 'Elemental' demo:
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But the real meat and potatoes is in this ten-minute walkthrough, showing off specific effects and capabilities of Unreal Engine 4. It also demonstrates how remarkably clean and simple the editor and workflow are for developers, which will surely save a fair few hours and headaches:
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Between the trailer premiers, backstage carnival games, and, yes, tea-bagging it was easy to miss the actual Video Game Award winners during the telecast.
With the help of a couple pauses on the recorder, I put together this quick recap of all the winners, many of which only received a brief mention. Of course the show culminated in the Game of the Year award, which the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim took home. For all the rest, check out the list after the jump.
Game of the Year: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Best Action Adventure Game: Batman: Arkham City
Best Xbox 360 Game: Batman: Arkham City
Best Adapted Videogame: Batman: Arkham City
Best PS3 Game: Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
Best Graphics: Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
Best Wii Game: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Best Motion Game: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Best Fighting Game: Mortal Kombat
Best Independent Game: Minecraft
Best Handheld/Mobile Game: Super Mario 3D Land
Best Song in a Game: Bastion
Best Original Score: Bastion
Best Downloadable Game: Bastion
Best Individual Sports Game: Fight Night Champion
Best PC Game: Portal 2
Best Multiplayer: Portal 2
Best DLC: Portal 2
Best Performance by a Human Male: Portal 2
Best Performance by a Human Female: Portal 2
Best Driving Game: Forza Motorsport 4
Best Shooter: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Character of the Year: The Joker
Best RPG: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Studio of the Year: Bethesda Game Studios


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10-6-05 - President Bush sought Thursday to revive waning public support for the war in Iraq, accusing militants of seeking to establish a "radical Islamic empire that spans from Spain to Indonesia" with Iraq serving as the main front.
Islamic radicals are being sheltered by "allies of convenience like Syria and Iran," Bush declared in a speech before the National Endowment for Democracy.
He said the United States and its allies had foiled at least 10 plots by the al-Qaida terror network in the four years since the Sept. 11 terror attacks _ three of them in the United States _ and he warned other nations not to support or harbor groups with al-Qaida ties.
Polls show declining American support for the war that has thus far claimed more than 1,940 members of the U.S. military. Bush's policy faces a crucial test in Iraq's Oct. 15 referendum on a new constitution, a vote that Bush has said terrorists will try to derail.
In remarks clearly aimed at those seeking a withdrawal of U.S. troops, Bush said: "There's always a temptation in the middle of a long struggle to seek the quiet life, to escape the duties and problems of the world and to hope the enemy grows weary of fanaticism and tired of murder."
"We will keep our nerve and we will win that victory," he said.
Asked about the president's singling out of Iran and Syria as "allies of convenience," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said, "They continue to move in the wrong direction."
Likewise, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in London that explosive devices that have killed U.S.-led troops were similar to those used by the Iranian-linked militant group Hezbollah.
"There is no justification for Iran or any other country interfering in Iraq," Blair said at a news conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.
Iran's ambassador in London, Seyed Mohammad Hossein Adeli, said the charges were not supported by evidence and "we are against any kind of action which might jeopardize or destroy the stabilization process of Iraq."
At the White House, McClellan was asked about Bush's reference to 10 foiled terror attacks. He said some of the information the president based his remarks on remains classified.
McClellan mentioned the conviction of Iyman Faris, a Columbus, Ohio, truck driver who authorities said plotted attacks on the Brooklyn Bridge and a central Ohio shopping mall. Administration officials have previously claimed success in breaking up terror cells in New York, Oregon, Virginia and Florida.
"We have been successful in disrupting certain plots. Some have been made public or are in the public domain, like Richard Reid," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told reporters. "Others are classified." Shoe-bomber Richard Reid is serving a life sentence after a failed attempt to blow up an American Airlines flight in 2001.
Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Jack Reed, D-R.I., challenged Bush's remarks at a Capitol Hill news conference.
"I believe the president has offered America a false choice, between resolve and retreat," Durbin said. "The real choice is between a strategy of accountability and more vague generalities. We must move beyond policies of fear to a forceful commitment to protect the United States and its values."
Bush said Islamic extremists hope to use "the vacuum created by an American retreat" to gain control of Iraq and use it as a base for launching attacks against other countries.
"The murderous ideology of the Islamic radicals is the great challenge of our new century," he said. "Like the ideology of communism, our new enemy teaches that innocent individuals can be sacrificed to serve a political vision."
"The militants believe that controlling one country will rally the Muslim masses, enabling them to overthrow all moderate governments in the region, and establish a radical Islamic empire that spans from Spain to Indonesia," Bush asserted.
"Against such an enemy, there's only one effective response: We never back down, never give in and never accept anything less than complete victory," Bush declared.
Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, said the speech was "one he should've made a few years ago. I'm glad he made it now."
"I've been saying for a long time the president needs to better define this war," Santorum said.
Countering claims that the U.S. military presence in Iraq is fueling radicalism, Bush noted that American troops were not there on Sept. 11, 2001. He said Russia did not support the military action in Iraq, yet a terrorist attack in Beslan, Russia, left more than 300 schoolchildren dead in 2004.
"The terrorists regard Iraq as the central front in the war against humanity. And we must recognize Iraq as the central front in our war on terror," he said.


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Two Hundred and Five
Uke is like an electron. Not the electron of Classical Physics, a hard little ball of indivisible stuff following a predictable path; rather the electron of Quantum Mechanics, until observed neither here or there but both, following a path(?) seemingly of its own choosing.
When I interact with uke I can assume nothing, expect nothing, predict nothing. Assuming, expecting, predicting all distance me from now. Uke can be neither right or wrong. He can't move too early or late. He can't be ahead of the technique or behind the technique. He can only be where he is, doing what he's doing, from moment to moment. Being in the now requires that I simply accept what uke offers me at any given moment. In so doing we provide the fertile environment from which technique may grow.
The moment we connect there is no uke, no nage, no we. Connection is the key. Though our roles are opposite they are at the same time complimentary, each necessary for the entity we become to be fully realized. A coin has two sides. Imagine a coin with no depth. Where is the line dividing one side from the other? Where is the distinction that differentiates me from uke once we have begun to interact?
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At the end of 1982, tension was high between the Soviet Union and the United States. Yuri Andropov had just become General Secretary of the Communist Party. American President Ronald Reagan used tough rhetoric.
Samantha Smith, who had seen television programs on nuclear war and devastation, was concerned. She wrote to Andropov, asking bluntly, "Are you going to vote to have a war or not? If you aren't please tell me how you are going to help to not have a war."
She added, "... I would like to know why you want to conquer the world or at least our country."


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A Perl script implements a singing, musical Internet
Admittedly, the implementation shown here wastes resources on the local machine, but it can indeed convert quasi-parallel requests into sounds. To allow this to happen, the script keeps a reference to the wheel object that generates the sound because POE cleans the object up immediately if nobody takes care of it. The wheel's task of playing the sound does not end at sound_play(), because the POE kernel processes it slice by slice after the function terminates. To avoid an untimely demise, while at the same time avoiding keeping wheels for longer than necessary, line 79 saves a reference to the wheel object in the POE session heap with the key players and the wheel's ID.
Because the wheel defines a CloseEvent with a callback sound_ended, POE calls the function defined in line 48 when the sound process terminates; in turn, the function deletes the wheel reference to let POE move in for the kill.
Another issue is that POE::Wheel::Run does not automatically clean up terminated child processes, instead leaving them lying around as zombies on the Unix system. Therefore, line 68 defines a SIGCHLD handler that tells the parent process to issue a wait() for the terminated child process and prevent it from turning into a zombie.
As soon as a client connects to port 8080 on the POE::Component::Server::TCP server component, its state machine changes state to ClientConnected. In the callback, $_[HEAP]{client} contains a client object whose put() method is used by the server to send messages to the client. The server uses ClientConnected to inform the connecting client of the available sound files before announcing Ready when you are.
Whenever the client sends a line to the server, the server jumps to the subroutine mapped to the ClientInput state. The received message is available in $_[ARG0], one of the @_ argument array fields typical of POE.
To prevent the client from attacking the server with nasty shell commands, instead of sending a sound file as expected, line 29 checks the file name to see whether it contains anything apart from the normal characters and immediately issues an error message and rejects the request in this case.
The client sends the q character to indicate that it wants to quit the session; the server then switches to the shutdown state, terminating the current client connection but leaving the server running. If the client really does send the name of an existing sound file, the sound_play function plays the file and returns a status string, which the server sends via put() to the client to confirm successful execution.
End of the Tunnel
At the other end of the tunnel, the POE script (boom-sender) in Listing 2 monitors the web server's access logfile. It runs on the hosted machine and uses the POE framework's TCP client component to keep in touch with the server.
Listing 2
01 #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w 02 use strict; 03 use POE; 04 use POE::Wheel::FollowTail; 05 use POE::Component::Client::TCP; 06 use ApacheLog::Parser 07 qw(parse_line_to_hash); 08 use Log::Log4perl qw(:easy); 09 Log::Log4perl->easy_init($DEBUG); 10 11 POE::Component::Client::TCP->new( 12 Alias => 'boom', 13 RemoteAddress => 'localhost', 14 RemotePort => 8080, 15 ServerInput => sub { 16 DEBUG "Server says: $_[ARG0]"; 17 }, 18 InlineStates => { 19 send => sub { 20 DEBUG "Sending [$_[ARG0]] to server"; 21 $_[HEAP]->{server}->put($_[ARG0]); 22 }, 23 }, 24 ConnectError => sub { 25 LOGDIE "Cannot connect to server"; 26 } 27 ); 28 29 POE::Session->create( 30 inline_states => { 31 _start => sub { 32 $_[HEAP]->{tail} = 33 POE::Wheel::FollowTail->new( 34 Filename => 35 "/var/log/apache2/access.log", 36 InputEvent => "got_log_line", 37 ResetEvent => "got_log_rollover", 38 ); 39 }, 40 got_log_line => sub { 41 my %fields = 42 parse_line_to_hash $_[ARG0]; 43 my $file = $fields{ file }; 44 if(my $sound = file2sound($file)) { 45 POE::Kernel->post("boom", "send", 46 $sound); 47 } 48 }, 49 got_log_rollover => sub { 50 DEBUG "Log rolled over."; 51 }, 52 } 53 ); 54 55 POE::Kernel->run(); 56 exit; 57 58 ########################################### 59 sub file2sound { 60 ########################################### 61 $_ = $_[0]; 62 63 DEBUG "Got $_"; 64 65 s#/$#/index.html#; 66 67 m#/index.html$# and 68 return "article-page.wav"; 69 70 m#/posting.php# and 71 return "forum-post.wav"; 72 73 m#/viewforum.php# and 74 return "forum-page.wav"; 75 76 m#/images/.*html# and 77 return "image.wav"; 78 79 return ""; 80 }
Among other things, the Client::TCP POE component defines the ServerInput and ConnectError events; the script jumps to the callbacks for these events if the server sends text back or a connection fails.
Boom-sender uses InlineStates to define the send state, which uses put() to send a message to the server that was passed in.
Thanks to the FollowTail wheel from the POE toolbox, the logfile monitoring session defined in line 29 notices when the web server appends a line to the logfile defined in line 35. Again, it is important to have a reference to the wheel to prevent POE cleaning it up after the _start callback terminates.
The reference is kept in the POE session heap under the tail key while the session is active – that is, until boom-sender terminates.
Production systems will tend to rotate their logfiles daily; FollowTail is prepared for this and jumps to the got_log_rollover callback mapped to ResetEvent in this case. All this does is write a debug message to let the user know what is going on. Whenever the wheel finds a newly appended line in the log, it changes state to got_log_line and executes the matching callback. It uses the CPAN ApacheLog::Parser module to analyze the new lines, which have the following format:
188.8.131.52 - - [01/Sep/2008:17:25:20-0700] "GET /1/p3.html HTTP/ 1.0" 200 8678 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:126.96.36.199) Gecko/20080721 BonEcho/18.104.22.168"
The parse_line_to_hash() function exported by this module returns a hash containing the file requested by the http request under the file key.
In line 12, the TCP client component defines an alias (boom) for its session. The FollowTail wheel, running in another session defined in line 29, can use the following lines to tell the TCP server which sound file it needs to play:
POE::Kernel->post("boom", "send",file2sound($file));
Because two different sessions are communicating here, I can't use yield() to send the event; instead, I must use post() with the alias of the receiving session. Then the name of the WAV file is sent by the POE kernel to the send callback in the boom session as argument ARG0. The callback then uses put() to send the name to the TCP client in line 21, which in turn passes it on to the sound server – not directly, but to port 8080 on the local machine, and thus through the tunnel to port 8080 on the sound server.
Avoiding Cacophony
If every entry in the access log were to trigger a sound, a web page with 20 images, which the browser retrieves in short succession, would trigger an annoying cluster of superimposed noises. For this reason, boom-sender filters the access log output and only transmits to the sound server in case of index pages, high-res images, and discussion forum activity.
The file2sound() function defined in line 59 expects the file path requested by the browser (for example, /index.html) and returns the name of the sound file to play.
To allow this to happen, it makes a few assumptions – for example, that a path that ends with a / should output an index.html file – that you might need to modify when installing.
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Ponce is a city on the south coast of Puerto Rico.
Ponce is the second largest city in Puerto Rico. The city was founded by Ponce de Leon's grandson Juan Ponce de León y Loayza in 1692, but not much seems to have happened since then, and it's far less touristy in character than San Juan. Ponce's draw is its rich history and unique architecture. The atmosphere is charmingly laid-back, a stark contrast to the bustling economic and nightlife districts of San Juan. Even as the island's second largest city, tourists may be shocked or refreshed to find that Ponce's downtown is a single quaint city square with no steady nightlife.
Get in
By air
Mercedita International Airport, a quick cab ride from downtown, offers up to 4 daily flights to the USA. Spirit,and Jet Blue offer low fares and service to the airport. For intra-island service, Cape Air has many daily flights to the capital in San Juan.
By car
Ponce is reachable via the main island expressway. It's located about 64 miles from San Juan. The drive takes about one hour. The road is modern and convenient and restaurants and shops are readily available throughout the trip.
By público
Ponce has a large público terminal at the intersection of Calle Union and Calle Vives, a few blocks north of Plaza las Delicias. Públicos to San Juan (1-2 hrs, $15) depart from pier 5A, mostly early in the morning. Call Chóferes Unidos de Ponce at 787-764-0540 to make a reservation; they can also pick you up for a small extra fee.
Getting around
The downtown area is compact and very attractive to explore on foot. Cabs are cheap and plentiful, should you need one, although many museums and restaurants are within a very short distance of the central plaza. The historic center has quality sidewalks. Public transportation in Ponce is pretty much non-existent, although there's a touristy "train" that does a loop of the downtown. Parking can be quite a challenge at times.
Most of Ponce's sights are tightly packed around the main square of Plaza las Delicias.
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Central Ponce has a number of bars around the main square. Note that many are closed Monday nights and Holidays.
Most hotels are clustered around Plaza Degetau, easy walking distance to the downtown sites and museums but far from the water and beach. Most have private parking.
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Ince turns down Cardiff
Thomas Ince has rejected a move to Cardiff City and decided to stay at Blackpool.
The Premier League newcomers had agreed an £8 million fee for the England Under-21 forward, but he has opted to remain at Bloomfield Road.
Ince, 21, had also agreed personal terms with Cardiff, but cited family reasons for his decision not to move. His first child has just been born, while his father, Paul, is Blackpool's manager.
"The player didn't want to leave his family or the Seasiders at this stage of his life," Cardiff said in a statement on their official website.
It is also a blow to Liverpool, who had a 35% sell-on clause included in the deal that took Ince to Bloomfield Road in 2011 and would have received almost £3 million had he signed for City.
Ince scored 18 goals last season and had been a target for both Liverpool and Reading in the January transfer window.
Cardiff have made only one summer signing so far, bringing in Danish striker Andreas Cornelius for a club record £7.5 million.
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During its 5:45 p.m. meeting at city hall Thursday, Hendersonville City Council will, among other items, consider forgiving a $25,000 grant from a business that promised the funds if the city switched to rollout recycle carts.
Hendersonville City Council will hear the latest appraisal report for the former Grey Hosiery Mill property during its 5:45 p.m. meeting at city hall.
Council members will also consider forgiving a $25,000 grant from a business that promised the funds if the city switched to rollout recycle carts.
The new carts were distributed to citizens over the yuletide season. On Monday, the city officially started collecting them instead of the previously used bins.
Ron Moore of American Recycling Inc., encouraged City Council in March to expand its recycling program, replacing its bins with larger rollout carts. He offered to provide a grant of $25,000 if the city continued to use his company's services and switched to the bigger carts. The grant was to be used to help offset the costs of the switch, which required an additional truck and staff to operate it.
The city agreed to the recycling revision, purchased the carts and included the grant fundss in the budget to cover it.
On Nov. 29, Moore told the city his business is struggling and asked for the city to release him from his $25,000 commitment. Moore is scheduled to face the council Thursday night.
City officials met Thursday morning to discuss the new recycling program and the costs and savings associated with it. The city also received a $75,000 grant from the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources to help purchase the carts.
The remaining $134,500 cost of the program will likely come from the city's environmental services fund — a pot of money funded by garbage fees and the city's general fund.
The city's current recycling program is saving $43,800 a year in tipping fees by diverting recyclables out of the landfill. The city hopes the savings will increase to $56,800 a year as people fill the larger carts.
On Thursday night, City Council will also consider refunding Miller's Laundry and Cleaners $10,875 in system development charges paid when the company relocated an existing operation to a new facility with water-efficient equipment that reduced its usage. Councilman Jeff Miller, who owns the business, will have to be excused from the vote.
The city is allowed to grant reimbursements of water system impact fees to businesses that relocate within the city and demonstrate a reduction in water usage over time.
City Council will also consider the creation of a business advisory committee to advise the board on policy issues that may affect local businesses — an idea broached by Councilman Ron Stephens. The committee would be manned by seven to nine members, initially serving three-year, two-year and one-year staggered terms. The committee would serve in an advisory capacity only.
Members would be required to own local businesses or commercial property within Hendersonville, but may not necessarily reside within the city. The committee would meet quarterly at lunch.
City Council will also discuss questions the staff has had concerning the three-year financing of system development charges. City Manager John Connet has prepared a memorandum describing these questions and requests of guidance from the city council to be presented to the board at the meeting.
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Centennial changes
- August 27, 2009
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As it celebrates its 100th anniversary, Richmond-based Williams Mullen is implementing a new strategic plan that will emphasize its attorneys' industry expertise.
So far, the firm, which employs more than 300 lawyers in 30 practice areas across Virginia, North Carolina and Washington, D.C., has created five industry service groups:
• financial services,
• hospitality,
• long-term care,
• retail, and
• transportation and logistics.
It expects to create additional industry service groups over the next few months, including government contracts, public/private partnerships, health-care informatics, private equity and communications.
The firm's new strategic plan is less a shift in focus than it is an emphasis on creating additional value for its clients, says Julious P. Smith Jr., chairman and CEO. "Our attorneys understand and appreciate our clients' industries. This understanding of the challenges our clients face allows us to act more as counselors or advisers than as traditional lawyers."
And there's good news for lawyers looking for work in a tough economy. The new structure may lead to new hires. "We must keep pace with changes and new demands created by our clients' businesses, and our recruitment efforts complement that," says Smith.
To mark its centennial, the firm's attorneys are performing 100 hours of community or pro-bono service this year.
Next summer, the law firm will become the lead tenant in a 15-story office building being constructed in downtown Richmond.


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Story highlights
- Troops push back attempt to storm a prison in Port Said
- Clashes break out between protesters and security forces in Suez
- Morsy acknowledges dissent and calls for a dialogue with 11 political parties Monday
- An opposition leader issues demands before agreeing to a dialogue
Anti-government protesters defied Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy's curfew order in cities along the Suez Canal and clashed with police and troops in restive Port Said, state-run news outlets reported early Tuesday.
Twenty minutes after the 9 p.m. curfew began, demonstrators chanted, "With our souls, with our blood, we will sacrifice for you, Port Said," state-run television reported.
Egyptian troops beat back an attempt by a half-dozen armed gunmen to storm a prison in Port Said, where dozens of people were killed in clashes over the weekend, according to the news service EgyNews. Nine people were injured in earlier clashes at a police station, said Abdel Rahman Farah, a supervisor of Port Said Hospitals.
In the port city of Alexandria, west of Port Said, protesters sat on train tracks, disrupting rail travel at the Sidi Gaber station. There were also anti-government demonstrations in Cairo, and protesters took to the streets of Suez and clashed with security forces, state-run Nile TV reported.
Morsy declared a limited state of emergency for hot spots Sunday and announced a 30-day nighttime curfew for the provinces of Port Said, Ismailia and Suez.
The Islamist-dominated Shura Council approved Morsy's declaration of the state of emergency in the three governorates. The legislative body also granted the armed forces judicial powers to "safeguard state institutions against saboteurs and restore security."
The embattled country's latest cycle of violence stemmed from two seemingly unrelated events.
On Friday, the second anniversary of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, protesters angry with the slow pace of change as well as anti-Morsy demonstrators fought with his supporters and police in cities such as Suez and Ismailia.
At least seven people were killed in those clashes, including several by gunfire. It was not immediately clear who was responsible.
Then on Saturday, a judge issued death sentences for 21 people from Port Said for their roles in a football game riot last year. Those sentences sparked deadly clashes between security forces and relatives of the convicted, some of whom tried to storm the prison in Port Said.
At least 38 people, including civilians and soldiers, have been killed there in the past two days.
In a speech Sunday night, Morsy decried the behavior of "criminals," saying recent violence "does not have anything to do with the Egyptian revolution. ... In fact, it is against the revolution."
But he acknowledged the legitimate dissent in Egypt, saying "dialogue is the only way to bring about stability and security."
To this end, he invited representatives from 11 political parties to a meeting Monday.
But a key opposition leader issued conditions before accepting Morsy's call for dialogue.
"Without accepting his responsibility as a president for the latest bloody events, promising to form a government of national salvation and commissioning a balanced committee to amend the constitution, any dialogue will be a waste of time," said Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the Constitution Party and a member of the opposition National Salvation Front.
On Sunday, the National Salvation Front called for "peaceful protests" and held the president responsible "for the excessive violence used by security forces against protesters," according to a statement posted on the state-run Al-Ahram news website.
The group made several demands before it would urge people to stop protesting, including the formation of a new government and making changes to what it called the "distorted constitution" that voters passed, in a referendum, last month.
Morsy's supporters warned the opposition against such demands Monday.
"We would like for the political forces, especially the National Salvation Front, to realize how important this defining moment is and to put the interest of the nation above all," said Gamal Tag, senior leader of the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.
"They need to know that President Morsy's call for dialogue is not out of weakness, but it is out of his responsibility as president. ... Some forces are still putting conditions and obstacles before this national dialogue in order to make it fail. These people do not put forward the national interest. They are looking for personal gains."
The latest strife comes as Egyptians mark the second anniversary of one of the most violent and significant days in the Egyptian revolution.
January 28, 2011, was dubbed the "Friday of Rage" because thousands of peaceful protesters seeking an end to President Hosni Mubarak's three-decade rule in Cairo were met with excessive force.
It was also the day that Mubarak cut off Internet and cell phone service as many Egyptians decided to join the revolution seeking his ouster.
Some liberal factions are calling Monday the "Monday of Rage," and groups such as the National Salvation Front plan to demonstrate near Cairo's Tahrir Square in memory of those killed two years ago.


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The William Chrisman boys golf team continues to improve.
Jake Becker was the medalist with a 39 at par-35 Hodge Park to lead the Bears to an 187-228 victory Tuesday over Winnetonka.
"This was our first dual of the season and our lowest team score on nine holes since I took over the the program in 2012," said Chrisman coach Jacob Basnight. "So, im pretty proud of our guys."
Josue Najera shot 44, Max Merit 49 and Garrett Giles 55 for the Bears.
RAYMORE-PECULIAR TOURNAMENT: Fort Osage's Cody Ball and Chrisman's Jake Becker had strong rounds in the Raymore-Peculiar Tournament Monday at Country Creek Golf Club.
Ball shot a career-best 80 as Fort Osage totaled 349. Becker's 86 led Chrisman's total of 399.
"This was a good day for our team," Fort Osage coach Roger Hunt said. "Ball was striking his driver real well, and his putting was solid."
Sam Morgan (88), Micah Lewis (90), Brice Richardson (91) Sage Miller (94) completed the scoring for Fort Osage.
Josue Najera posted 100, Max Merit 105, Garrett Giles 108 and Travis Stephens 124 for Chrisman.
"Today was a 54-stroke improvement from last year's team score and our third consecutive team score under 400 on 18 holes, which in my previous two seasons as head coach we had never shot under 400 as a team," Chrisman coach Jacob Basnight said. "I like the direction our entire program is headed as our junior varsity team shot 41 strokes less than last year's team score."
GRAIN VALLEY EAGLE INVITATIONAL: Grain Valley settled for eighth place with 375 and Oak Grove was 12th with 413 in Monday's tournament at par-72 Adams Pointe Golf Club.
Warrensburg sophomore Bailey Woods was the medalist for the second consecutive year with a 70.
Hunter Peterson led Grain Valley with an 82, Cameron Skinner shot 89, Miguel Contreras 90, Alex Hoover 106 and Hunter Rogers 110. Bryce Mercer's 89 led Oak Grove. Quin Bunyar had 91, Justin Collins 114 and Cameron Lauber 118.
"We had great weather," Grain Valley coach Andy Herbert said. "Our top three are hanging in there. We have to find a No. 4 and No. 5. But the kids are coming around and working hard."


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I'm back to work in two weeks and am more than a little worried about how exactly to manage pumping while at work. It's usually a struggle to find time to sit down for lunch, let alone pump enough to produce milk for LO. Luckily, I respond pretty well to my pump, but I know to keep up supply it's usually about frequency too, and not just volume.
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The first batch of Raspberry Pi has arrived at an Oxford warehouse. Orders of the coveted £31 computer could be with IT enthusiasts early next week.
The credit card-sized computer board is designed to entice children and IT enthusiasts into learning how to programme a computer.
Glenn Jarrett, head of electronics marketing at RS Components, which has taken delivery of the units said: "We are delighted to have the first batch of fully compliant products in our warehouse and to be able to invite the first wave of customers who registered for a Raspberry Pi to place their orders from this initial stock. There has been a great deal of anticipation for Raspberry Pi since its launch at the end of February, and it is important that we provide a delivery guarantee to customers when they place their order."
The Raspberry Pi is plugs into a TV and a keyboard to create a fully working, ARM-based PC. It will handle spreadsheets, word-processing, games and play high definition video.
Raspberry Pi has been so popular that the site crashed, and orders were only available to a handful of customers keen to get their hands on the supercheap computer.
If you're hoping to land one of the new computers, invitations to order from the Raspberry Pi online store will be sent out shortly to the first group of customers who registered on the site. Those who registered first will be able to order first.
For a mass-produced piece of electronic equipment, stocks of Raspberry Pi are extraordinarily limited. Only one board per customer is allowed. The creators planned to release a small amount at first, but seriously underestimated how popular it would be.
Eben Upton, executive director of the Raspberry Pi Foundation told The Huffington Post: "We're staggered by the level of demand for the Raspberry Pi. Even as recently as Christmas, we were expecting to maybe sell a few tens of thousands over the lifetime of the product, which lead us to build a fairly small initial run. Our partners are working hard to manufacture and distribute more units, with the next batch expected to arrive in the UK within the next couple of weeks."
To order your own Raspberry Pi, head to RS's website, or RaspberryPI.org.
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Budget Cuts by Joe Ferris
Folk/Punk Protest song Budget Cuts by solo acoustic singer/song-writer Joe Ferris.
This is another preview of my E.P that I released this month. It's available on my website, where you'll also find links to videos and lots of lo-fi recordings.
The title says it all really - it's a song about the state of the world economy and the injustice in real people having to suffer for the failures of the state, while the people with the power who create these situations get stupid bonuses and go on 4 holidays a year.


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In recent years, China's real estate market has boomed. A three-bedroom apartment in Shanghai overlooking the river would cost more than $3 million. But that's beginning to change. The slide comes as the world's most dynamic economy grapples with other challenges, including massive local government debt and slowing growth.
After Boom, China's Property Market Heads Lower
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Jarrod Fairclough Presents: The Ramblings of a Muppet Nerd – The Museum Of Jarrod Art
Jarrod Fairclough - Hello. Me again.
Let me tell you a little about myself. I'm studying animation, about to begin my third and final year. It means that I'm constantly doodling and drawing, and various times this had led me to draw Muppets, both of The Muppets and Sesame Street categories. Now, I am no professional by any means. I'm no Dave Hulteen, or Chris Smigliano, or anyone like that. I do this for a bit of fun, and I thought maybe I could indulge myself a little. Speaking of indulging myself, remember when I wrote that love letter to Jason Segel a while back? I have to admit I got a little self-conscious when I found out he reads this website. It means he read the letter. Do... do you think he likes me? Anyway, awkwardness aside, allow me to talk about each of the drawings, and look out for special comments by a mystery guest, which I'm pretty sure I already revealed was going to be Joe Mathieu ages ago...
JOE MATHIEU: Cute, sketchy version of Ernie and Bert looking somewhat embarrassed about something. The Ed Koren line makes them appear insecure and a bit nervous. Their hair is exactly how I used to draw it in the early 70's when I drew them with pen and ink.
JOE MATHIEU: 1936; the year Jim was born. The Muppets have a period, sort of Steamboat Willie, look about them. I have to admit that I first saw Sesame Street on black and white TV!
JOE MATHIEU: Very nice. I would still like to see everyone bunched together, though. Aren't rainbows beautiful?
JOE MATHIEU: Everyone seems happier now that they are in color! I think they would be even happier if they were mashed closer together. Jim always liked the characters smashed together; look at all the group photos with Jim in the middle. He liked all the heads touching, making an all-over pattern. Where's Miss Piggy?
JOE MATHIEU: There's a handsome group! I love the funky architecture growing out of a grassy field, especially with the addition of a medieval castle on the right! I always loved drawing the Count, but the underside of his cape always gave me fits; working digitally would have been a god-send. What exactly is Grover carrying?
Joe, Grover is carrying a cape.
JOE MATHIEU: I have no idea what this is about, but I love it! These drawings are a lot of fun. I can't help but remember that when we started drawing the Muppets for books and products in the early 70's, Jim did not want a codified style where everyone was forced to draw the characters in the same style with the same technique. He encouraged everyone to interpret the Muppets in their own way. I think it has gone a bit in the other direction these days, but that was how Jim liked it. Also, he didn't think that the drawings had to be overly accurate representations of the puppets, either. I think he felt that the puppets had their physical limitations that the illustrators didn't have to be hobbled by. Good job, Jarrod!
Okay, before we continue, two things. One, "I have no idea what this is about, but I love it!" may just be my favourite review ever. I'm currently getting a website together, and at the top of it I've put that line. Two, I've often thought that the characters are all looking too much the same in all the Sesame books lately. It's nice to know that Jim loved a different look, and it may just be my delusional state, but I read that also as "Jim would have loved this drawing."
Okay, now, next are a few images I didn't get Joe to comment on, because I either forgot or I didn't expect him to comment on it.
that Scandanavian fan art site I saw a much better Kermit-Jim Puppet picture, one I love so much I'm considering printing and framing it.
Thanks again to Joe Mathieu. I genuinely cannot put into words how good he has been to me over the last year or so! We've traded e-mails back and forth, and he's become a bit of a mentor in my eyes!
So that's just some of my Sesame Street and Muppet drawings. I'm sure in another six months or so I'll have enough to do another MOJA article. Next time I'll be talking about the wait for The Muppets, and how I managed to see it so many times for free (and no, I didn't download it).
Life is a happy song, my friends. And it's also a fillet of fish. Yes it is.
The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier, firstname.lastname@example.com
Jan 30, 2012
The Ramblings of Jarrod Fairclough, Muppet Nerd - Part 5
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2 things. 1) I dunno if it's just my iPad, but the shadings very off. That's alright though. 2) Ryan, I totally dont blame you for not including that last drawing!ReplyDeleteReplies
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The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to furnish subsistence to employees of the United States Department of Agriculture in the Territory of Alaska, and to purchase personal equipment and supplies for them, and to make deductions to meet the cost thereof from any money appropriated for salary payments or otherwise due such employees.
Section was formerly classified to section 543a of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.
Insofar as the provisions of this section relating to subsistence may conflict with those of sections 821 to 823, and 827 to 833 of former Title 5, which are now covered by sections 102, 105, 2105, 2106, 5701, 5705, 5707 and 5708 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, they were repealed by section 829 of former Title 5, which is now covered by section 5708 of Title 5.
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University of Maryland will offer free online courses
Four of University of Maryland's most popular courses will be available online this spring for free, the Baltimore Business Journal reported.
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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Winnipeg Jets were able to string some victories together despite continued struggles on the power play.
Who knows how far the Jets can stretch their current run if they get their special teams on track.
Winnipeg aims for a fifth straight win on Sunday night as it visits a strong home club in the Minnesota Wild.
The Jets had gone 0-for-17 on the power play in their previous six games ahead of Friday night's home clash with the Philadelphia Flyers. Stretching back even further, Winnipeg had scored just one goal in its previous 47 chances on the man advantage, but got a pair of power-play goals from Dustin Byfuglien versus the Flyers to force extra time in an eventual 3-2 shootout win.
Byfuglien scored in the first period and netted the game-tying goal with 5:37 left in regulation. Bryan Little then had the winner in the shootout and Ondrej Pavelec made 32 saves.
"The big thing for our team is I think we felt confident enough that we would be able to score to get it to overtime," said Jets head coach Claude Noel. "I think the power play obviously was a big plus for us, getting us a couple of goals. Long time waiting for us for that to happen."
Each of Winnipeg's last three victories have come in the shootout and it has won five of six in the tie-break format this season.
The Jets did lose defenseman Zach Bogosian to a lower-body injury late in the second period and he is not expected to play tonight.
With Bogosian out, Zach Redmond is expected to return to the lineup for the first time since he suffered a serious cut to his right leg during practice on Feb. 21. He was actually recalled from the minors on Nov. 3, but Noel didn't want to change his lineup during a winning streak.
"I've been up here for a couple weeks and we've been playing well. That's kind of how it shakes out sometimes. You never want a guy to go down with injury, but definitely an opportunity," said Redmond.
Winnipeg's next test comes against a Minnesota team that is 9-1-2 at home on the season. The Wild are wrapping a three-game homestand tonight and won their fifth in a row in Minnesota with Friday's 3-2 victory over the Florida Panthers.
Zach Parise and Jason Pominville scored in the first period before the Panthers answered with a pair of third-period tallies. Charlie Coyle, though, prevented extra time as he put home the go-ahead goal for Minnesota with 8:22 to play.
Mikko Koivu logged his second assist of the game on Coyle's winner.
"I just tried to get myself in position for a scoring chance and (Koivu) put (the puck) right on my stick and it found a way home," Coyle said.
Pominville's 12th goal of the season tied a club record for the most through 20 games, matching Marian Gaborik in 2002-03 and Brian Rolston in 2006-07.
Josh Harding made 22 saves for the Wild, who are 9-1-1 in their past 11 overall.
Harding has again taken over the No. 1 role for Niklas Backstrom, who is out with an upper-body injury believed to be a concussion sustained when he took an elbow to the head on Wednesday versus Toronto. Backstrom also missed time earlier this season with a knee injury and Harding has gone 11-2-2 with a 1.26 goals against average and .945 save percentage in 16 games (13 starts) on the season.
Harding faced the Jets for the first time in his career on Oct. 10, a 2-1 win in which he needed to make 14 saves.
Pavelec took the loss, stopping 28-of-30 shots faced while falling to 2-1-0 with a 1.34 GAA lifetime versus the Wild.
That contest marked the first of five meetings this year between the clubs and the Wild snapped a four-game series slide. They are 4-1-1 with a tie in seven all-time meetings at home with the Jets franchise.


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Punxsy MS XC completes home slate, runs at Ridgway
PUNXSUTAWNEY – The Punxsy middle school cross country runners have been showing great progress this fall.
The young harriers had two runners, Brady Young and Alexis Vite, in the top 10 at last Saturday's Ridgway Invitational before closing the home slate with a good showing Tuesday afternoon.
Last weekend on the boys' side, Young ran to a sixth place finish on the 1.7-mile middle school course. His time of 10:17 was fast enough to earn him one of the T-shirts given to the top 10 finishers.
In the same race for the girls, Vite claimed the last T-shirt eligible finish by taking 10th in a time of 12:24.
Punxsy had three other boys run at Ridgway. Austin McKendree ran under 11 minutes (10:55) for 16th place in the 52-runner field. Alex Eberhart was not far behind in 23rd (11:26). Jake Dinger completed the runners in 46th (13:26).
The Lady Chucks had five other Saturday runners with two more in the top 20. Isabel Hackenberry captured 15th (12:48) and Ashley Vite ran 19th (13:04).
Claira Stephens was just outside of the top 20 in 22nd (13:20). The other three Punxsy girls were Elia Gaston 29th (14:10), Caitlyn Rodgers 32nd (14:21) and Dureena Pierce 37th (15:35).
On Tuesday, the middle school team completed the home cross country schedule against both Ridgway and Brockway.
Young and McKendree were the top Chucks on the boys side again. Young was second (12:32), eight seconds behind the race winner from Ridgway — Aaron Shilk.
McKendree was third on the 1.9-mile course in 12:49 while Eberhart came across the finish line in seventh (14:04).
Steven Detrie and Dinger came across within a second of each other in 10th (15:28) and 11th (15:29).
Brady Snyder completed the course next in 15:48 for 12th while Thomas Barrick ran a 17:18 for 15th.
The Vite sisters were the girls top runners. Alexis finished less than two seconds (15:15.93) ahead of Ashley's 15:17.68.
The Lady Chucks also had taken places three through six in order of Stephens (16:13), Hackenberry (16:34.08), Milla Rowles (16:34.46) and Gaston (16:39).
Rogers and Pierce wrapped up the Punxsy runners with times of 17:26 and 19:48.
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By Kasey Panetta, Associate Editor
A few weeks ago, I came across an article on Slate talking about a school in Texas that had put RFID tags [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/10/11/rfid_tracking_texas_schools_force_kids_to_wear_electronic_chips.html [1]] in the student ID cards that everyone has to wear. The article—available at the link—was a discussion on whether the tags were an invasion of privacy. In light of the Saudi Arabian government tracking women, it has now taken on an interesting layer of murky rights.
It's an interesting—though not entirely new—question.
Should school-aged children have the same right to privacy that an adult might have? When it comes to locker searches, the answer is a resounding no. It's been made pretty clear over the past couple years that when you're on school property, you surrender some of the freedoms you might otherwise have (i.e., random drug testing or dress codes).
According to the two San Antonio schools, the creepily named "Student Locator Project", the point of the project is three-fold. In addition to the obvious benefits of a smart card like simplifying voting for school dances, providing access to the cafeteria and library, serving as ID, and allowing students to purchase tickets to school events, the cards were designed to increase student safety and increase attendance. The school claims that being able to locate students who are not in their seats during roll call, but are actually on campus somewhere, will allow administrators to first figure out where kids are before sending them back to class. They also claim that increased attendance equals increased state revenues since a lot of revenue is apparently calculated by daily attendance.[http://www.nisd.net/studentlocator/ [2]]
Just for the sake of information, the RFID tags don't contain any personal information about the students. They contain a serial number—different from the student's ID number—that corresponds to the student's name in an encrypted list.
Most of this took place over the summer, so fast forward to the beginning of the school year and there was a bit of a kerfuffle about the tags.
Critics from the creatively named Chip Free Schools argue that it's a massive invasion of privacy. First, they are concerned about what they call "dehumanizing uses," citing that administrators could track how long a student is in the bathroom. Secondly, arguably more powerful, is that students will be scared to use school counseling or therapy services if they know they're being tracked. Lastly, they find "tracking and monitoring them in their development may condition them to accept constant monitoring and tracking of their whereabouts and behaviors. This could usher in a society that accepts this kind of treatment as routine rather than an encroachment of privacy and civil liberties."
I know I'll probably be in the minority on this one, but of all of these, I only find the second reason compelling. Kids are often embarrassed enough that they are in a position to seek help from a therapist or counselor, without having to worry that they're going to be monitored. This seems like a pretty easy problem to solve. Kids entering the office could leave their tags with the teacher or in a designated place.
That being said, the first two concerns seem dependent on how trustworthy the monitors are and if it's a 24/7 monitoring or if it's recorded. Probably the person in charge of this shouldn't be someone interested in how long a student is in the bathroom. In fact, that person should probably not be in the school at all. Also, according to the administration, the chips don't track students when they're in the bathroom.
The third reason is purely philosophical. Personally, if I was really fired up about being tagged like a deer, it's not something that I would suddenly become complacent toward as I got older. This might even serve to turn some kids into activists and alert them that they need to be aware of what's going on around them. [I still have a problem with random drug testing that stems from a high school policy.] On the other hand if, like most teenagers, these kids are absorbed in normal high school stuff, they're not going to care about this, anyway. Also, considering most schools have security cameras, it's pretty hard to make this protest stick.
In a bonus story, one dad complained that the chips were "the mark of the beast" and objected on biblical grounds. His daughter refused to wear the ID card even when administrators offered to remove the chip. That's almost a different issue, but it's interesting to see on what grounds people are complaining.
The positives are that schools know where students are—barring a situation in which the ID card is removed. This could be a really great tool during an emergency situation or even to make sure chronic class skippers have their keister in a seat. As a parent, you expect the school to know where your kid is at all times. The chip, which only works on school grounds, is making it easier to locate your child.
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In a story that received a good bit of attention in the blogosphere, ESPNEWS anchor Will Selva was suspended indefinitely on Dec. 30 for plagiarism. He had introduced a story on the air about the Los Angeles Lakers, using the words of Orange County Register columnist Kevin Ding as his own, without attributing the source.
Ding called Selva out, an investigation followed, and the Worldwide Leader took swift and decisive action.
Selva apologized in a statement:
"I made a horrible mistake and I'm deeply sorry. I did not live up to my high standards or ESPN's. I sincerely apologize for my sloppiness, especially to Kevin Ding, viewers and colleagues. In my 15 years in broadcast journalism, nothing like this has ever happened and I will make every effort to ensure it won't happen again."
Sounds sincere and contrite. But do you believe Selva? Suspended after it was proved he was a fraud, how can we believe "nothing like this has ever happened" before? Why should we? Because Selva's statement is written, are we simply jumping to conclusions? Are we interpreting his tone correctly? If he was an anchor with more name recognition, would we be more inclined to believe him? Whatever the case, Selva is going to have a hard time recovering from this incident. An incident that could have been avoided if he simply said, "Kevin Ding of the Orange County Register said it best in his Sunday column…".
Look no further than Mike Barnicle, Jayson Blair, and Judith Miller to see how the combination of plagiarism and fabricating stories has affected writers' careers. Barnicle continued to work, and four years ago signed on as a columnist at the Boston Herald. Blair got a book deal soon after his flap at the New York Times. Miller, whose reporting on weapons of mass destruction was found to be inaccurate and worse, false, and later served jail time for her refusing to testify before a grand jury in the Valerie Plame case, has recently landed at the Conservative magazine and website Newsmax as a columnist.
Those scribes got second chances. Does Selva's situation merit one?
The journalist in me says no. There isn't any circumstance that should result in his reinstatement. Selva violated the most basic principle of the craft and he should be fired, not suspended. The empathic side of me, however, says yes, but that second chance isn't deserved. It has to be earned, like a series of trials it takes to regain trust in a friend, lover or spouse who breached trust in some way.
Plagiarism is dangerous territory. I know from personal experience. I wrote a column in this space during the 2009 season where I analyzed how different beat writers were covering the same game. My goal was to show how different writers from different papers see the game through different prisms to ultimately craft similar stories. Now, I know from being in press boxes that while the writers sit in close quarters, no one is looking over anyone's shoulder with that look that says, "Hey, what did you put down for Number 3?" Every writer is in his or her own zone, headphones in to check accuracy of quotes on the recorder, scrambling like hell to make deadline. The chorus of clickety-clacking on laptop keyboards tells you as much. Invariably, by pure coincidence, angles will be similar, certain quotes or sections of quotes will be similar, and in some cases, even certain phrases and word choices describing the action will be either similar or exact. Again, this is pure coincidence. And it's rare that it happens.
It just so happened that in my analysis, I noticed an exact phrase appearing in different game stories from two writers representing two different papers. In jest, I wrote that one of the writers "copied off (the other writer's) paper." It was a regrettable choice of words on my part, and I wish like hell I could take it back. But if there's one thing I learned in my Intro to Communication Theory class during my freshman year of college, it's that communication of any kind is irreversible. I went for the laugh with the "copied off his paper" line; maybe I got it, maybe I didn't. What I got was an e-mail in my personal inbox the next morning from one of the writers. I did not anticipate the content of the note, and I was stunned.
Point blank, the writer asked me if I was accusing him of plagiarism, and if I was, I'd better be ready to prove it.