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Traffic Panic
- Publisher: Neon Play
- Genre: Entertainment
- Released: 3 Feb, 2011
- Size: 13.1 MB
- Price: FREE!
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Description★★★ NOW FREE to celebrate the release of Traffic Panic 3D! ★★★
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Earn FREE COINS in this game to buy more levels and power-ups, including Nitro, SLOW, Bikes, x2 and 911.
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Ex-Priest Accused of Abuse Seeks Back pay From Milwaukee Archdiocese
The list of creditors for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee includes hundreds of child sexual abuse victims, along with a bank, pension funds and others typical in bankruptcy cases. It also includes one less usual: a priest removed from the priesthood amid allegations of abuse.
Marvin Knighton was charged with child sexual abuse in 2002 but acquitted by a jury the next year. The church still removed him from the priesthood, however, saying its investigation found two allegations against him had merit.
Knighton steadfastly fought his dismissal and has put in a claim for $450,000 for back pay from the archdiocese in federal bankruptcy court. A church bankruptcy expert said while the claim is not unique, it is highly unusual. Knighton's victims called it "disturbing" and "grossly inappropriate."
"That money should be going to survivors, not child molesters," said Thomas C. Bersch Jr., who said he was abused by Knighton in the 1970s. "During the bankruptcy proceedings, if he gets even a nickel of this money, it would be the most unbelievable thing that could happen. I wish there is something I could do to prevent that."
Attorney James Stang, who has represented sexual abuse victims on creditors councils in nine bankruptcy cases involving Catholic dioceses and religious orders, said a few priests have filed claims for back pay, health care or legal costs even when they've been credibly accused of abuse. In most cases, the claims are eventually dismissed.
The church may argue that any money it owes the priest is offset by the cost of the abuse, or "there have just been objections based on the fact that these are evil men," Stang said.
The Milwaukee archdiocese is the eighth in the United States to file for bankruptcy. Five of the other seven said no priests filed claims during their bankruptcies. In Wilmington, Del., three priests who had been removed from ministry following allegations of abuse filed claims, diocese spokesman Bob Krebs said. He didn't know the details or outcome of those claims.


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Keeping an undefeated season alive isn't the only motivation for some of the players on the Hilliard Davidson High School football team heading into an OCC-Central Division game against visiting Upper Arlington on Friday, Oct. 11.
Keeping an undefeated season alive isn't the only motivation for some of the players on the Hilliard Davidson High School football team heading into an OCC-Central Division game against visiting Upper Arlington on Friday, Oct. 11.
According to Wildcats coach Brian White, some of his seniors haven't forgotten a 40-0 loss to the Golden Bears in a freshman game three years ago.
"They beat us very soundly, as soundly as our freshman team has ever been beaten," White said.
"This might be the chance this senior class has been waiting for to play them."
Motivation aside, Davidson has more important goals that it is chasing. The Wildcats are 6-0 overall and 3-0 in the OCC-Central after a 63-12 rout of Westland on Oct. 4 and are entering a four-game stretch against opponents currently with a .500 record or better.
Meanwhile, UA, which defeated Central Crossing 41-7 on Oct. 4 to improve to 3-3 and 2-1, might have to win out to make the playoffs. The Bears, who have qualified for the postseason only once (2011) in the past four seasons, were 20th in the Division I, Region 2 computer ratings through five games. The top 16 teams in the region make the playoffs.
Last week, Davidson was seventh in the Division I state poll and third in the Region 2 computer ratings.
"We haven't talked much about it, but the kids see what's out there. They know everything that's at stake," UA coach Mike Golden said.
"We know the team we're facing, and our guys are focused on beating them."
Davidson has won the past four meetings with UA, including 42-14 last year, and leads the all-time series 12-5.
Senior Nick Stull scored on a 62-yard kickoff return and an 8-yard blocked punt return and senior running back D.D. Clark ran for 80 yards and two touchdowns on 11 carries to power the Wildcats past Westland. Davidson outgained Westland 371-105 in total yards and limited the Cougars to minus-1 yard rushing.
Clark is the Wildcats' leading rusher with 591 yards and six touchdowns on 77 carries, and senior quarterback Nick Iske has attempted only 22 passes this season, completing 11 for 252 yards and four touchdowns with no interceptions.
UA's quarterback, junior Kyle Kaparos, led the Bears' offense against Central Crossing, rushing for 100 yards and a touchdown on nine carries and completing eight of 16 passes for 131 yards and another score.
"He's one of the fastest kids we have. We've told him if he has an open lane (to run), go ahead and take it," Golden said of Kaparos.
"It helps us be creative. I really enjoyed seeing Kyle taking charge of the offense like he did."
Senior running back and linebacker Chris Frey, a Michigan State recruit, has rushed for a team-high 592 yards and five touchdowns on 87 carries and has 37 tackles and five sacks. Senior linebacker and running back Chase Greenlee has a team-high 44.5 tackles.
Receiving threats for the Bears include seniors Jackson Finfrock, Harrison Heath, Lewis Hughes and Sam Wheeler. All but Heath, who doubles as a linebacker, also start in the secondary on defense.
"They're not going to make mistakes young teams make. They're experienced," White said of UA.
"We know we're going to take their best shot. Our guys have to be ready."


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Autoimmune diseases are conditions in which the body makes antibodies against one's own normal body chemicals. In these diseases, antibodies cannot tell antigens in the inside of the cell from antigens outside of the cell. When the antibodies attack the internal cells, the reactions can be local - in just a small area, or systemic - throughout the whole body. The skin and connective tissues (cartilage, bone, tendons) are most affected but other tissues can be affected, as well, including nerve and muscle.
Terms for autoimmune disease include collagen vascular disease or collagen disease. Other autoimmune diseases include the following:
systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE, or lupus)
antiphospholipid syndrome
myasthenia gravis
rheumatoid arthritis
Some autoimmune diseases have little or no effect on pregnancy, while others can greatly increase the risks for pregnancy loss and maternal and fetal illness. Likewise, pregnancy can affect some autoimmune diseases, but not others.
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Leslie O'Flahavan at Writing Matters concludes that using "and/or" is "just plain dumb."
To find out why, read her post, which includes lots of support from writing experts.
At the (new) legal writer, Raymond Ward adds to the debate, concluding that while not "plain dumb," he does try to avoid using "and/or."


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I have a two year old Trusteam that won't kick on the airhandler fan this season. (Airhandler and heat pump work fine) IAQ tells the unit it needs humidity, unit boils the water, but the fan won't kick on. I've tried all the fan options for IAQ parameter 25. Setting 25-2 (humidity turns fan on) is the only one that allows the unit to turn on the humidity light and boil water. When I switch it to 25-1, the unit shuts the humidity off. Wiring appears to be OK -- it worked like this last year ! I do not have any blinking LED error lights. This is on a separate 20A circuit, so I should have sufficient amperage (this was a problem a poster had on another HVAC site). I've rebooted and reset the unit and the IAQ configs..
Seems like it should be a programming issue, but I can't find an answer in the manuals. I've called Honeywell Customer Care, but they say they can't help homeowners -- even for this type of problem.
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7:00 PM Nature – "Echo: An Elephant To Remember"
Echo, the elephant matriarch, was the subject of many NATURE films and the leader of a carefully studied herd of elephants in Africa. Last year, she died of natural causes. This film is a look back at this remarkable animal through extraordinary footage and interviews with the researchers that cared for and studied this amazing herd.
8:00 PM NOVA – "Japan's Killer Quake"
In its worst crisis since World War II, Japan faces disaster on an epic scale: a rising death toll in the tens of thousands, massive destruction of homes and businesses, shortages of water and power, and the specter of nuclear reactor meltdowns. The facts and figures are astonishing. The March 11th earthquake was the world's fourth largest earthquake since record keeping began in 1900 and the worst ever to shake Japan. The seismic shock wave released over 4,000 times the energy of the largest nuclear test ever conducted; it shifted the earth's axis by 6 inches and shortened the day by a few millionths of a second. The tsunami slammed Japan's coast with 30 feet-high waves that traveled 6 miles inland, obliterating entire towns in a matter of minutes. JAPAN'S KILLER QUAKE combines authoritative on-the-spot reporting, personal stories of tragedy and survival, compelling eyewitness videos, explanatory graphics and exclusive helicopter footage for a unique look at the science behind the catastrophe.
9:00 PM Secrets Of The Dead – "Japanese Supersub"
Spring, 1946. Ten months after the end of World War II, an explosion rocked the Pacific off the coast of Hawaii. America had just destroyed one of Japan's most advanced weapons systems. But this was no belated attack against the defeated Japanese. Rather, it was an attempt to keep an advanced, top-secret submarine out of the hands of the Russians. What was this sub and where had it come from? Secrets of the Dead: Japanese SuperSub investigates, revealing the startling story of Japan's successful creation of a technological masterpiece-an aircraft carrier submarine that could blow up the Panama Canal, reach the U.S. main land undetected, and unleash panic-inducing air attacks on American civilians. How close did Japan's secret sub come to attacking America? And how did America's own top-secret super-weapon put an end to the Japanese threat?


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One of the first things many already noted - myself included - was that the offending class library was not in the Harmony source tree, which should mean it didn't come from Harmony. However, the header and some of the language suggested otherwise, but in fact really didn't, as Apache's statement explains.
"Even though the code in question has an Apache license, it is not part of Harmony. PolicyNodeImpl.java is simply not a Harmony class," the ASF states, "Verifying that something is from the Apache Software Foundation is very easy to do: our sources are all posted online. So it is sad when people don't take that step."
Of course, we did take that step, but people still weren't convinced, mostly because of the language at the beginning of the file. Via email, ASF member Geir Magnusson Jr. explained this in more detail.
"I realize the code is under the org.apache.harmony package and has the Apache License on it, but putting things in org.apache.* namespace when testing Java in the org.apache.* package generally is a technical necessity, and anyone is free to license software under the Apache License," Geir explains, "In fact, we encourage it :)."
So, that's that, then. Despite claims made all over the place - including on OSNews, made by me - the class in question does not, and did not come, from the Apache Harmony project. My apologies for taking part in spreading the confusion.


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Caprial and John visit one of the only organic chestnut farmers in the country and discover how this classic nut is starting to make a big comeback. Chicken Legs Braised with Dried Chestnuts and Sweet Vermouth; Chestnut Blue Cheese Crackers; Chestnut Ginger Shortbread Cookies.
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ATHENS, Ohio – The number 43 is carved on one of the hundreds of small marble headstones that are the only identification for those buried in the cemeteries at The Ridges, the former state mental hospital overlooking Athens and Ohio University.
ATHENS, Ohio – The number 43 is carved on one of the hundreds of small marble headstones that are the only identification for those buried in the cemeteries at The Ridges, the former state mental hospital overlooking Athens and Ohio University.
For decades, patients who died at the Athens Lunatic Asylum whose remains weren�t claimed by family members were given minimalist burials: no embalming, a plain wooden coffin, four pallbearers, a hospital official, and a chaplain. There was no music, flowers or mourners. The graves were only numbered for decades; no one knows why, although Katherine Ziff, who wrote a book about the first 30 years of the asylum�s history, said it may simply have been state government cost-cutting to buy a supply of numbered tombstones ready for use.
No. 43 is anonymous no more.
The grave on a gentle slope of Cemetery No. 1 belongs to Rachel Paulk Davis, an Athens County wife and mother who died at the asylum on Oct. 18, 1884, at the age of 76. Records from that time are scarce, but it appears Davis was committed by family members because she had become forgetful and paranoid. She married David Davis in 1829 and had seven children.
On April 20 this year, more than 128 years after Davis� death, a small stone etched with her name and the date of her birth and death was installed at the cemetery. It was done with the approval of Pam McGee-Martin, a California resident who is Davis� great-great-great grand-niece. McGee-Martin learned about her relative�s unmarked grave from the Friends of the Athens Asylum Cemeteries, a volunteer group whose goal is to identify as many graves as possible.
�I believe all the people buried in The Ridges should have headstones with their names,� McGee-Martin said. �Being assigned a number steals their dignity...The people buried in The Ridges deserve better than being anonymous with just a number assigned to their last resting place.�
Ziff, a psychologist and school counselor who turned her doctoral dissertation into a book called Asylum on the Hill, said when the facility opened in 1874 that it was the �crown jewel� of a new attitude toward the mentally ill: moral treatment. The buildings scattered over nearly 1,000 acres of rolling ridges overlooking the Hockhocking River required 18.5 million bricks to build. As Ohio�s fifth psychiatric hospital, it had operating budget of $112,000, a remarkably high figure at the time.
The facility was designed by Dr. Robert Kirkbride, head of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. Kirkbride abandoned the cruel practices of drugging, chaining, and locking away mental patients. Instead, Kirkbride believed the disease was curable and advocated that hospitals be built in rural areas, with large patient rooms, abundant open spaces, and gardens where patients could walk and peacefully recuperate.
�They made a valiant effort,� Ziff said. �It did mark a change that we were not going to punish and put more resources into care. It was an almost paternalistic effort to help the �poor unfortunates,� as they called them.�
The facility was closed in 1991 and was subsequently sold to Ohio University, except for the three cemeteries which remained islands of state property. With no one tending them, the final resting places of nearly 2,000 people, many of them Civil War veterans, fell into disrepair. Hundreds of gravestones collapsed or were broken off by visitors and some coffins were exposed. Rumors grew that the cemeteries were haunted, attracting students, curiosity seekers and a Fox TV documentary crew at Halloween.
A few years ago, the fathers of two sons coping with mental illness, Tom Walker and Greg Polzer, both of Athens, decided to do something about it. They have worked tirelessly, replacing broken headstones, cleaning up the property, and blocking erosion from a nearby creek.
�We�re trying to bring some dignity to the people who lived and died there,� Polzer said. � Through no fault of their own, they suffered from mental illness.�


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DineTonite For Android, iOS
DineTonite is a free app that will pay you back for dining out. Although there are existing food apps like GrubHub and Yelp, DineTonite provides restaurant guidance and even makes the reservation. Built by independent developer PDA Trade, this Android and iOS app provides deep discounts when dining at participating restaurants.
Users can search by city, location, cuisine and/or date. They are then sorted by availability, pricing and even by discount. Also great, the discount is discreetly deducted from the check at the end of the meal. This means no fussing for printed or forgotten coupons. The cities available for this app are only within the U.S., and include Baltimore, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Las Vegas, Miami, New Orleans, New York, Orlando and West Palm Beach, and various cities throughout New Jersey. Even though there's a $5 dollar booking fee for reservations kept, the savings more than compensates. We think DineTonite is dynamite.


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School-based forest units: the tradition existed in Azerbaijan before, now it's time to restore it and to make it fi t the contemporary environment. So far, children have been sensitised to forest protection thanks to the efforts of the Centre of Environmental Education in Baku. Now, a European-supported initiative is aiming to extend their work and to create school-based teams of 'Young Foresters'. Because the necessity to prevent deforestation and to expand the green topsoil is today a priority in the country, which cannot be met without increasing the population's environmental education.
"The future is in our hands. The environment we will be living in depends very much on how we will protect plants and forests, how we will prevent deforestation." This is the opinion of 14-year-old Sahavat Huseynov. He is a member of the "Green Patrol" unit, established under the Republican Centre of Environmental Education of Azerbaijan's Ministry of Education. This Centre supports the idea of creating school-based teams of "Young foresters", which is being implemented within the EU-funded ENPI-FLEG (Forest Law Enforcement and Governance) Program.
The Centre is located in one of the most beautiful spots of Baku, in a park where the residence of famous oil-magnates, the brothers Ludwig and Robert Nobel, stood in the early 20th century. "We plant trees regularly," says Sahavat Huseynov, "and our 'Green Patrol' also monitors the large Nizami Park in Baku, where we prevent pollution and do not allow other kids to break and harm trees. We try to explain to them that this damages not only nature, but the lives of people themselves."
Building on an old tradition: school-based forest units
Azer Garayev, National Consultant of ENPI FLEG in Azerbaijan says that the Program's major objective is to inform the public about the need to prevent deforestation and the importance to expand the green topsoil. "But we were aware that this task cannot be fulfilled without some environmental education. That is why the Azerbaijani component of the Program came up with the idea of creating teams of 'young foresters' in schools," says Garayev. "This idea existed in Azerbaijan before, and now our purpose is to restore those traditions, modernize them for the contemporary environment."
The Republican Centre of Environmental Education is in fact the only place in the country where systematic work promoting children's engagement in the protection of the environment has been organized. ENPI FLEG's education consultant in Azerbaijan, Lala Dadasheva, says the Centre works with teachers to increase their knowledge on the need to prevent deforestation. The teachers in turn work with their students, organizing study-tours and tree-planting actions. The center has 54 branches throughout the country.
Local NGOs and media are also very interested in the forest protection activities, says Dadasheva: "The forest is not only a source of fuel or raw materials for industries: it is also a source of the richest biological variety."
Pilot initiatives to create school-based forest units will be implemented under the Program in three Azerbaijani provinces – in the South, North and Western regions. "If we are able to include at least 20% of the pupils in the young foresters' teams, it will be success," Garayev says. The teams will include mostly children from provinces who live close to forests. "But children from cities should not be left behind. There is an idea," he continues, "to establish summer camps in forest areas where both kids from cities and local children would live together. They could do plenty of useful work regarding protection of forests, monitoring of climate changes, etc." Such camps could also be international, to attract children from other countries.
Deforestation doesn't lead to a better life
The ENPI FLEG Program, which has been implemented in Azerbaijan since mid-2010, covers a wide spectrum of issues. One of its components is research on "the economic and social impact of illegal deforestation and unsustainable use of forests resources on the life of local residents."
The Program's scientific consultant on social and economic analysis, Azad Aliyev, says that the Ismailly region, 160km west from Baku, was selected for the research. An opinion poll was conducted among the people of the area to study the influence of deforestation. "The results showed that the average people in this region are poorer than in the rest of the country," Aliyev says, adding that the picture is typical of other forest regions of Azerbaijan too. Local residents mostly use forest to get fuel. "Although this practice declined significantly in recent years due to a law banning deforestation and to awareness campaigns, people still cut forests illegally," Azad Aliyev says. Meanwhile, not only does deforestation not lead to a better life for local residents, but it also has serious environmental consequences, even influencing people's health. "Deforestation creates a large oxygen deficit," continues Aliyev, "and it causes diseases among local residents." During the last two centuries the amount of land covered by forests has decreased almost three times, and currently it represents only 11.8% of the country's land. This trend could continue if serious measures to save forest resources are not applied.
A lot has been done, more is to come
Azer Garayev from FLEG believes that among the reasons behind the unsustainable use of forests since the mid-1990s, is the rise in unemployment and poverty levels, the lack of access to energy resources and the sudden development of livestock farming. "This last element negatively affects forests development," says Garayev, "because uncontrolled pasture of animals results in cattle eating the sprigs." Rahim Ibrahimov, head of section of the forests development department of Azerbaijan's Ministry of ecology and natural resources, believes that the ENPI FLEG Program meets the government's strategy on the prevention of deforestation and increase in forest land from the current 11.8% to 25-30%. "Azerbaijan has done a lot of work in this sector: between 2003 and 2008, a large number of trees were planted, resulting in more than 71,634 hectares of forests. But more is still to be done, so the ENPI FLEG Program is very important for us, to inform, to increase the population's environmental knowledge and to explain the practical advantages of forest areas."
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A high school teacher is facing questions from administrators after giving a vocabulary quiz that included digs at President Bush and the extreme right.Pop grammar quiz: Principal Sue Maguire said she hoped to speak to (whoever, whomever) complained about the quiz and any students who might be concerned.
Bret Chenkin, a social studies and English teacher at Mount Anthony Union High School, said he gave the quiz to his students several months ago. The quiz asked students to pick the proper words to complete sentences.
One example: "I wish Bush would be (coherent, eschewed) for once during a speech, but there are theories that his everyday diction charms the below-average mind, hence insuring him Republican votes." "Coherent" is the right answer.
Principal Sue Maguire said she hoped to speak to whomever complained about the quiz and any students who might be concerned.
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Chenkin, 36, a teacher for seven years, said he isn't shy about sharing his liberal views with students as a way of prompting debate, but said the quizzes are being taken out of context.Chenkin's attempt at a defense is way better than we saw from the Madison, Wisconsin third grade teachers earlier this week ("I don't see it as a controversial issue"). And it's notable that he's teaching older students. I'd like to know more about the whole context. What were the other sentences on the test? What is the rest of the class time like? Do students comfortably debate with him and take different opinions? I like seeing his willingness to change and include divergent viewpoints, but it sounds as though he's only doing that to keep people from giving him "grief." He should want to do it as a matter of being a good educator.
"The kids know it's hyperbolic, so-to-speak," he said. "They know it's tongue in cheek." But he said he would change his teaching methods if some are concerned.
"I'll put in both sides," he said. "Especially if it's going to cause a lot of grief."
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Austin Hansen resigns to take position at UNC
After five years on the bench for the Jackrabbits, South Dakota State assistant men's basketball coach Austin Hansen resigned his position at SDSU to accept an assistant coaching position the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colo.
"I appreciate the opportunity coach Nagy and South Dakota State gave me to be a part of this program for five years," Hansen said of his time at SDSU. "I'm very grateful to have coached a tremendous group of guys that have worked hard to achieve a very high level of success for SDSU basketball. The efforts of these guys have provided me with this new opportunity, and I couldn't be more thankful to them. I wish them nothing but the best for continued success."
A 2003 graduate of South Dakota State, Hansen joined the Jackrabbits as an assistant coach in 2008 after five years as an assistant at Minnesota State, Mankato. In his five years at SDSU, he helped turn the program into a perennial contender in The Summit League and helped lead the Jacks to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in 2012 and 2013.
"I can't express enough how much I appreciate Austin and the job he did for us," head coach Scott Nagy said. "If you track the progression of our team since he came here, you can easily see how important he has been to our program. It's very difficult for me to let him go, but I know he wants to stretch his boundaries, so I wish him nothing but the best. He is a tremendous coach and has a great future."
SDSU plans to begin an immediate national search for Hansen's replacement.


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Sega doesn't even plan to show the game at next week's Tokyo Game Show, according to MTV Multiplayer. In fact, "any Japanese release will be evaluated after MadWorld is released here."
The plan is undoubtedly in response to a recent spate of Japanese bannings for violence, the most recent being EA Redwood Shores' Dead Space. But the other usual suspects in censorship cases--Germany and Australia--are being treated the same way. "[The German and Australian] markets could see MadWorld, but it's not part of Sega's strategy right now," reads MTV's report.
MadWorld is violent enough to make headlines at Shacknews for that alone. As such, Sega's even concerned about the game's release in the land that inspired Grand Theft Auto 4. "Sega is working closely with the Entertainment Software Ratings Board to ensure the game receives just an M rating ... The ESRB receives new builds on a regular basis and Sega notes their feedback. Sega ... isn't looking to surprise them."


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About the Book
Why is there a great big tree in the house?!?
And why are all these boxes underneath it?
Hey—what is that?!? Where did it come from?
Uh-oh. This isn't good. . . . This isn't good at all!
In this hilarious follow-up to the New York Times bestselling picture book Charlie the Ranch Dog, Ree Drummond—the Pioneer Woman herself—delivers a story about getting into the holiday spirit and finding the good in all. Even though Charlie may not have put a kitty on his Christmas list, he learns that if you keep an open heart, new friends can come in unexpected packages.
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Product Details
- Imprint: HarperCollins
- On Sale: 09/25/2012
- Pages: 40
- List Price: 21.99 CAD
- Ages: 4 to 8
- BISAC1: JUVENILE FICTION / Holidays & Celebrations / Christmas & Advent
- BISAC2: JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Farm Animals
- BISAC3: JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Dogs


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ANIMALS around the Hunter will either feel relieved or disappointed with the end of the festive season.
Many of the region's pets have been shown off to friends and family dressed up in tinsel, santa's hats and reindeer antlers over Christmas.
The Newcastle Herald was inundated with hundreds of the posing pet pictures after calling for submissions to the Christmas Pet Competition.
Creylln Collison's entry of her cat, Max, surrounded by his favourite treats was picked as the winner in a random draw.
Ms Collison takes home a $250 voucher for PetStock Warners Bay and Adamstown, and will be able to spoil her favourite furry friend with some well-deserved goodies.
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LAKE PLACID - The first championships of the 23rd annual Lake Placid Summit Lacrosse Tournament were decided Wednesday, as the five junior divisions wrapped up play in the seven-day event that features more than 3,500 youth and adult players.
The first final of the day was in the boys under-15 division, with Maryland's Academy Mortgage claiming a 10-8 victory over the Black Rhinos, a team that traveled to Lake Placid all the way from Portland, Ore.
The two squads came close to winning titles a year ago. After finishing runner-up in 2011, head coach Greg Speed saw his players survive a see-saw battle with the Rhinos, who were coached by Syracuse University legend Ryan Powell. Trailing 4-1 early, Academy stormed back to take a 7-5 lead, but then fell into an 8-7 deficit before scoring the final three goals of the match to claim the championship.
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Players from Academy Mortgage celebrate their under-15 championship in the 23rd Annual Lake Placid Summit Lacrosse Tournament after they defeated the Black Rhinos 10-8 in Wednesday's championship game.
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It marked the second title the Annapolis, Md. area select team has won in its four straight visits to Lake Placid for the Summit tournament.
"Our No. 1 goal was to have fun, and our second goal was to win," Speed said. "We finished second a year ago when our team was Anne Arundel, so obviously we wanted to go one better this year. We did a great job sharing the ball, and we were aggressive on defense.
"Those guys we played on the Rhinos, they were legit. They definitely have some guys who will be playing D-I lacrosse in college," Speed added. "They certainly opened up some eyes that lacrosse is a big deal on the West Coast. The days when the only hotbeds for lacrosse are in New York state and Maryland are over."
Academy finished with a 5-0 record, while the Rhinos ended the tournament with a 4-1 mark. In a display of how badly the Rhinos wanted to win a championship here, a number of their players left the field in tears.
"The kids are heartbroken," said Powell, whose Black Rhinos fell in the semifinals at the Lake Placid Summit in 2011. "We came across the U.S. on a 12-day trip. We already won one championship at the Mad Lax Tournament in Maryland and really wanted to take two titles on this trip.
"We faced a talented team today. They were unselfish and really moved the ball well," Powell continued. "We had a good group of kids who worked hard and played for each other. It's been a long summer of lacrosse for our kids. The guys have been at it for seven weeks."
In the only girls division, the Star Riders Blue, a team that consists mainly of Syracuse area high schoolers, eked out a 13-12 victory over Mass Elite in Wednesday's final. Taylor Poplawski, who will be a senior at Christian Brothers Academy and will play college lacrosse at Syracuse, was named that game's most valuable player.
"We kept a steady pace," Poplawski said. "We were either tied or in the lead the whole way. We did a great job generating offense, and our defense was just a wall. It's a pretty big win for our team. The competition is pretty tough. I saw a lot of players here who will be going D-I in college."
The Star Riders Blue finished with a 5-0 record while Mass Elite ended the tournament at 5-1.
The boys under-18 division had both gold and silver brackets and FCA National swept its way to both championships.
The gold bracket final came down to another battle decided by a single goal, as the FCA National High School team edged Liberty 8-7. FCA National, a squad featuring a slew of Division I college recruits, climbed back from an early 3-1 deficit to earn the win.
FCA National finished with a 5-0 record, outscoring its opponents by a combined 64-30 during its title run.
FCA National's path to the crown in the silver bracket was a little easier, as it topped Clarence 10-5 in the final.
The Lake Placid Summit Lacrosse Tournament runs through Sunday, with hundreds of games being contested at the North Elba athletic fields.


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Bradford Bulls have today announced that Centre Richard Johnson has been awarded the Number 27 shirt for next season.
Johnson, from Oldham, has been with the club for the last six ears and his elevation to the First Team Squad is seen as reward for the effort he has shown throughout his time at the Grattan Stadium. He has yet to make a First Team appearance for the club but is highly regarded by the Coaching staff. He Captained the Bulls Senior Academy side last season and recently signed a one year extension to his contract.
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DIAMOND – A tax credit could be in the future for Diamond and Coal City property owners affected by the tornado.
Two distinct tax exemptions may apply to several homeowners who made improvements to their property during post-tornado construction.
Diamond Mayor Terry Kernc said she and county assessor Dave Henderson are working on making the two exemptions available to homeowners as they may require an application process. Depending on each homeowner's situation, the exemptions may not take effect until the 2015 tax year or later.
"I just want everyone to be aware that this is out there," Kernc said. "The last thing I want is for anyone to miss an opportunity."
Natural Disaster
Homestead Exemption
The Natural Disaster Homestead Exemption is a permanent tax credit that reimburses homeowners whose property values may have increased after a disaster.
Often during the reconstruction process, owners make home improvements or increases in living space, altering their home's property value and potentially driving up property taxes.
The exemption considers assessed property value before the disaster struck and compares that value to whatever the home's new value is after upgrades are made. The difference between the two figures is issued as a reimbursement.
"If your home was totally demolished, you literally have a brand-new home that could be worth much more than your previous home," Kernc said.
The reimbursement amount is fixed and applies to homeowners every tax cycle until they sell their home.
However, the natural disaster exemption is capped, meaning those who made significant improvements may not receive the full difference between pre and post tornado values.
Improvement Exemption
To qualify for this exemption, no disaster damage is needed. It simply applies to homeowners who make improvements to their property, Henderson said.
The improvement exemption works in tandem with the natural disaster credit. For example, if a homeowner hits the limit on the natural disaster tax credit, then they could likely receive a homestead improvement exemption as well.
The combined exemptions work together to help disaster-affected homeowners to mitigate property tax increases.
A noted difference: This exemption is only available for four tax years and after the four years a homeowner utilizes the exemption, it expires.
Henderson said for years the Grundy County assessor's office has automatically applied the homestead improvement exemption to eligible households.
"It makes life easier because often, they don't even know about it," Henderson said.
Henderson said his office is still deciding the easiest way to make the natural disaster exemptions available, but assured homeowners no hurry is necessary at this point.
"Really, there's no rush on this," he said. "Our goal is to make things as easy as possible for the taxpayers."


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HANOVER, N.H. – The final installment of this season's 'Coach's Corner with Amy Patton' has the Dartmouth women's lacrosse head coach looking back at the 2013 campaign that concluded in May.
Patton talks about senior leadership, quality opponents, the successes of Ivy League teams on a national level, the team's new captains and more in this season-ending recap.
The Big Green reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament in 2013, but the end-of-season success was just a small portion of what was accomplished by this year's team.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — TITLE: "Nothing's Free"
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AIRING: The Mitt Romney campaign would not disclose where the ad is airing.
KEY IMAGES: "Some think Obamacare is the same as free health care, but nothing is free," a male narrator says as a graphic of two pills forming an "equals" sign between the words "Obamacare" and "Free Health Care" fills the screen.
"Obama is raiding $716 billion from Medicare, changing the program forever, taxing wheelchairs and pacemakers, raising taxes on families making less than $120,000," a narrator says as a shot of an empty wheelchair and an aerial view of a suburban neighborhood appear on the screen.
"Free health care comes at a very high price," says the narrator. "The Romney-Ryan plan will restore Medicare funding and protect and strengthen the program for the next generation."
ANALYSIS: The ad oversimplifies President Barack Obama's health care plan and Medicare, two big government programs that have emerged as key issues in the presidential race. Medicare in particular, a popular program serving nearly 50 million seniors and disabled people, has become a flashpoint since Romney named Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman and chairman of the House Budget Committee, as his running mate.
The ad first asserts that "some" people think Obamacare is the same as free care, but doesn't bother to say who that might be.
It then criticizes Obama for "raiding" money from Medicare to pay for the new expansion of health care coverage that is his signature achievement.
Both Romney and Obama are seeking to stoke fears among older voters about each other's proposed Medicare changes, each charging the other would gut the program.
In swing states that have large elderly populations such as Florida, Iowa and Pennsylvania, Medicare could be a key issue this fall. Retirees have often resisted changing the program.
The GOP ticket has also targeted Obama's health care plan, which includes reductions in Medicare spending of $700 billion over 10 years. What Romney's ad doesn't mention is that those cuts come from payments to health care providers, not from benefits to seniors. The ad also fails to note that the budget plan Ryan wrote included the same cut.
In turn, the Obama campaign has hammered away at Ryan's plan to shift future retirees into a system dominated by private insurance plans.
Democrats and Republicans alike have taken advantage of peculiar federal accounting rules that, on paper, allow Medicare savings spent for another purpose to also be credited to the program's trust fund for inpatient care. Obama's health care law used Medicare cuts to pay for covering the uninsured. The Ryan budgets passed by the House kept those cuts and applied them to reducing the federal deficit.
The ad's claim that Obama's health care law taxes wheelchairs is questionable.
The tax actually applies to medical device makers, not consumers directly. It helps pay for the health care overhaul's expansion of health care coverage to 30 million Americans. The tax is aimed at U.S. sales of medical devices used chiefly by doctors and hospitals, such as pacemakers and CT scan machines. Exempted are consumer items like eyeglasses and kits for many blood tests that people can perform on themselves, as well as other medical devices yet to be specified.
The Obama administration says old-fashioned wheelchairs and the newer powered ones will also be exempt from the tax under proposed regulations being finalized by the IRS.
The ad's claim that Obama's plan raises taxes on families making less than $120,000 lacks important background.
Starting in 2014, Obama's law requires most Americans to carry health insurance either through an employer, a government program or by purchasing their own policy. There are exemptions for financial hardship, religious beliefs or membership in American Indian tribes.
The penalties will be collected by the Internal Revenue Service through tax returns, but the IRS will not have the authority to bring criminal charges or file liens against those who don't pay.
About 3 million of those who could be required to pay fines in 2016 will have incomes below $59,000 for individuals and $120,000 for families of four, according to Congressional Budget Office projections.
The penalties will be phased in starting in 2014. By 2016, those who must get insurance but don't will be fined $695 or 2.5 percent of their household income, whichever is greater.


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Justin Bieber's DUI arrest not only revealed his penchant for fast cars, but also introduced a new phrase to the beauty lexicon: "eyebrow connoisseur," which is how Bieber's female companion in drag racing, Chantel Jeffries, describes herself on her Twitter bio. Jeffries is a Wilhelmina model and designer of an eponymous eyebrow brush, according to The Cut. So it would appear that the title is a deserved one, if previously undefined to most people.
|Brooke Shields Bares All
In the 1980s, nothing came between actress Brooke Shields and her Calvins. But "The Blue Lagoon" star was just as provocative for her big, bold brows arching above her blue eyes. Some may consider her the original "eyebrow connoisseur."
|Tweezerman Tweezers Arrive
While many women adopted Shields' natural brow aesthetic, proper grooming was always in vogue. A new hair-removal product that debuted in 1980 called the Splintertweeze by Tweezerman quickly became a favorite among magazine editors and beauty junkies. Its successor, Tweezerman Slant, has remained the company's best-selling product to this day, tucked inside the arsenal of any true "eyebrow connoisseur."
|Eyebrow Threading Comes West
As hair-removal has become more popular over the years, many have looked for alternatives to ubiquitous plucking and waxing techniques to shape their brows. It was only a matter of time before the ancient Indian method called "eyebrow threading," in which a thread is rolled and twisted over areas with unwanted hair, became the hot treatment at salons in the U.S.
|Bejeweled Brows Hit Runways
In 2012, luxury fashion label Chanel caught extra eyes on the runway when it decorated its models natural brows with crystalline strips of jewelry as part of Paris Fashion Week at Grand Palais -- eyebrow couture for the connoisseur.
|Chantel Jeffries, Eyebrow Connoisseur
While it's uncertain whether Bieber's blonde-haired pal will use this recent press to expand her line of "eyebrow connoisseur" products, her catchphrase will likely be around for at least a little while longer.


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Oh, No! A corporation wrangles, delays, misplaces, obfuscates in the face of a lawsuit. Heaven's, what is the world coming to?
Microsoft must be the very first to EVER do this.
A fine counter-argument. I'm surprised it isn't used more often.
"Come on, Your Honor, it's not like I'm the first to EVER commit this crime!"
What can you expect when it's a story about Microsoft allegedly doing something bad though?
- Nth hand unverified, information (My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious. )
According to Cringley:
The former Microsoft contract employee who contacted me on this issue did not do so anonymously, by the way. I know his name and how to reach him. We have talked on the phone more than once. He did not hesitate to name names.
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Which is why Enron is still around...
Enron is not gone because the reality that they actually had no money overtook their fiction, Enron is gone because they changed their name to CrossCountry Energy Corp. While most of their business activities stopped they were too well connected to just disappear.
http://www.enron.com/corp/pressroom/releases/2003/ ene/062503release.html [enron.com]
http://www.igorinternational.com/press/bloomberg-c orporate-business-name.php [igorinternational.com] - read down a bit.
These days when you are as large as microsoft is, it doesnt really matter if you break the law.
If you do, and actually get caught, you get some token fine and you chalk it up as a cost of doing business and move on.
Sad but true. And I think I finally know why it happens...
Microsoft is so large, so widespread, and so universally relied upon, that it is very hard to punish Microsoft the corporation without also significantly hurting the rest of the country. For example, if we force them to reveal their s
These days when you are as large as microsoft is, it doesnt really matter if you break the law.
On the flipside, when you're as large as Microsoft, it doesn't really matter if you don't break the law - you'll still get sued by gold-diggers.
I think we need a corporate records retention law to help avoid these sorts of situations.
Good point. Accurate and long-term recording of, say, username <-> timestamp <-> IP mappings would be great for some lawsuits...
What if this was the work of one individual?
A person who had her own agenda, wasn't in sync with the goals of our company?
Well, that usually works.
It's a fascinating story, and even names one person at Microsoft. (Emphasis mine)
You can name someone within a company as the perpetrator of a crime all you want-- we all know from experience that when someone does something as part of a corporation, it's virtually guaranteed that they will never face personal legal consequences for it. (And, similarly, no matter how bad a company is, there is no "corporate death penalty".)
Corporations have evolved into legal entities in which people can do illegal th
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Long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… wait, that's a completely different story. Let's start again: in the past millenium I used something called HSC. It was an HTML preprocessor, that gave me an idea for the solution, that works for me now.
Needed tools:
* SVN (or any version control system of your choice; it's not essential, but you'll still have to use the scripts …and after all, what sane person doesn't use some VCS anyway?),
* conversion table – e.g. in (keyword:value\n)* format,
* custom commit script that runs keyword->value conversion on *.css files and then commits,
* second script that converts value->keyword on update.
Instead of svn commands, I use the custom scripts as Total Commander buttons or CLI commands. This way I have the keywords where I need them (my working copy) and keep the code in repository clean, so no server-side scripting is needed.
The scripts can use local (every developer may have own keywords in her/his working copy) or global conversion table.
You can use it for more than colours (i.e. images), but it may be not 100% update-safe.
Of course there are some limitations:
- you have to commit changes to see them (not a minus for me, but you may want to create a script that will export a local preview),
- lossy conversion on update (you can't have more than one keyword for one value),
- you can use the keywords only in external style sheets or face a serious mess if you try to run the conversions on all files (again, not a minus for me, and in my library I have header_style() and inline_style() functions that use the global conversion table if I really, really need it; not recommended, though).
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At 87, William Trauger strives for an ambitious goal. He wants to live to be 100.
This is why he was so worried when his doctors recommended an aortic valve replacement to correct an obstruction along one of the heart's main sources of oxygen-rich blood. His condition, "aortic stenosis," normally requires open heart surgery.


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'The Terminal'
Steven Spielberg's movie stars Tom Hanks as a citizen of Krakozhia who is stranded at JFK airport for nine months. Harsh, right? That's nothing compared to the inspiration for the film: Mehran Karimi Nasseri is an Iranian refugee who was stuck in Charles De Gaulle airport for 17 years after his refugee papers were stolen. The stalemate finally ended in 2006 when he was taken to the hospital for an unspecified illness. And no, he said there was no Catherine Zeta-Jones character to make those 17 years go by more quickly.
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The Bruins claimed Kaspars Daugavins on waivers from the Senators Wednesday. The 24-year-old forward scored one goal and two assists in 19 games for the Senators while averaging 11:25 of ice time per appearance.
The 6-foot, 213-pound Daugavins opened eyes around the league against the Bruins on March 11. In a shootout loss against Tuukka Rask, Daugavins pushed the puck forward with the toe of his blade, then tried a spin-o-rama. Rask kicked out Daugavins's bid with his left pad.
Daugavins scored his only goal of the season against the Bruins. The left-shot Daugavins snapped a long-distance shot past Anton Khudobin during the Bruins' 2-1 win on March 21.
Daugavins, who will be a restricted free agent at the end of the season, was practicing with the Senators Wednesday.


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Monday, April 12, 2010
Madness Monday & 52 Weeks Challenge-Week15-Write a Letter
Write a letter. It these days of emotionless email, the art of letter writing is getting lost. Pick one of your information needs or queries and write a letter requesting information. You may want to write to a small library or a relative asking for family history information. If you're requesting a return reply, be sure to include any forms that are required, funds (if necessary) or a self-addressed, stamped envelope for return correspondence. If you write a genealogy blog, include a post about the information you requested and from whom.
To be perfectly honest, I had pretty much decided not to do this week's challenge just because I'm so busy. But then this turned up:
Our theory is that since he was cremated, the marker may have been too large (its dimensions are about 12" by 24"). But then one asks the question, does he have a marker? No one can remember and anyone who should remember is no longer with us.
So, I've written a letter to Riverside Memorial Park in Spokane, Washington where my grandparents are interred, asking if they have a marker of any sort for my grandparents and if not how we can go about rectifying the situation. It seemed like this warranted a letter, rather than a phone call, and the timing of this week's challenge couldn't have been better!
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I hope you get an answer.ReplyDelete
Look forward to you finding out about this mystery and the reply you get. Amazing how your hand was forced into writign the letter and in doing so keeping up with the chalengeReplyDelete
We have some family members who have these markers, and I see them everywhere in the cemeteries here.ReplyDelete
I believe, (though am not 100% sure) that the military or government pays for the bronze marker that you see above.
One of our family members on my husband's side, this is his whole marker, and another of our family members, it is attached to the back of the upright stone that is in the cemetery, even though right before he died the man ended up deciding to be cremated and have his ashes spread over the farm that he farmed for years and loved. (His wife is still living.)
When my husband and I were recording the tombstones/burials in a small cemetery, we saw many of these, and for many others who have a primary stone, this stone serves as a footstone.
Hope this helps in some way!
- Kim PontrelloJune 16, 2010 at 9:22 AM
After looking through the home and garage with you, I am amazed of all the things you have found. How interesting to find an "unused" bronze marker with your grandpa's name!ReplyDelete
Did you ever hear back from Riverside? It is part of Fairmount Memorial Association, which owns five cemeteries in the Spokane area.ReplyDelete
Miriam, No I haven't heard back from them. It's probably time for a follow-up. Thanks for reminding me!ReplyDelete


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Monique Blakes third DePriest School instructor to receive teaching honor
Stunned doesn't quite describe Monique Blakes' reactions when a string of TV news cameras filed into her first-grade classroom.
"When I saw the radio and the news people, I'm like, 'OK, did I fill out for a sweepstakes that I didn't know about,' and then when the mayor came in, oh my God," said Blakes, a seven-year teacher at Oscar DePriest Elementary School.
It wasn't a sweepstakes entry that brought the media and the mayor to her classroom Thursday morning May 10. Blakes has been named a 2012 Golden Apple Award winner. Blakes was among 10 recipients to get a surprise visit at their schools last week. The Golden Apple award recognizes teachers' outstanding contributions in the classrooms.
"It's just overwhelming. I just can't even express my heart," Blakes said, fighting back tears as family members and her students hugged and congratulated her. A fellow teacher, who was a 2008 Golden Apple recipient, nominated Blakes for the honor. This makes three Golden Apple awardees for Oscar DePriest, 139 S. Parkside.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who joined in on the surprise, applauded both Blakes and the school's principal, Minnie Watson, for creating a "trifecta formula" for setting high student expectations. The school, Emanuel said, has an accountable principal, great teachers and involved parents. For that, the school saw a 20 point jump in test scores within the last two years, he added.
"I just wanted to come and surprise you because I am so impressed with what you have done," Emanuel said, adding that the students "scored a touchdown with a great teacher."
Several of Blakes' students, including Zakyah Parker, were happy to see her honored. "She is nice and she is sweet, and she deserves the award because I think she is the best teacher ever, the seven-year-old said.
Annette Gurley, Chicago Public Schools' chief of elementary schools for Austin and North Lawndale, lauded Blakes' teaching acumen, crediting her for bringing concepts learned at teacher conferences and implementing them in class. Blakes' principal also gives the teacher high marks. Mainly for taking the time in getting to know the students and adjusting her instruction to meet each student's needs.
"She pushes her children really hard," Watson said. "She believes that they can learn and she gets them to believe that they can learn also."
Blakes' mom, Alma Moody, a single-parent who raised two daughters, couldn't be more proud of her daughter. Moody said she was not surprised that her daughter went into teaching. Blakes' grandmother was a pre-school teacher in the former Cabrini Green housing development, and her sister, who drove up from Florida for the occasion, was an eighth-grade teacher in suburban Harvey. Moody, who often volunteers at the school, sees the connection her daughter has with the students.
"The children just love her," Moody said.
Teaching is Blakes' second career choice. She worked for a time as a chemical engineer before realized that wasn't her passion. She did a few stints teaching at a local YMCA and at several summer programs at Chicago Public Schools when she realized she was good with kids.
Blakes, a Lincoln Park resident, wanted to teach in an urban school environment; giving those disadvantaged students a similar educational opportunity afforded to her in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.
"I could have picked a school over there by me, but I didn't want to. I wanted to come back here and give these students an opportunity to go to the next level," said Blakes, who holds a masters degrees, and received training at Academy of Urban School Leadership.
In accepting the award, Blakes said it is not about her accomplishments, but ensuring her students get the best education. "It is all for my students because I teach from my heart. They're the future. If I don't give it to them, who will?"
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Clouds of gnocchi nestle themselves in a creamy sauce amongst sweet hunks of butternut squash, tender baby spinach, fresh herbs and Parmesan cheese. Swoon.
Lately I am obsessed with gnocchi, little Italian potato dumplings that are soft and pillowy, kind of chewy and in my mind, so versatile. I can't get enough of them – whether I tuck them away into soups, saute them with any and every possible vegetable I can get my hands on, or douse them in red sauce – I keep going back for more!
If I had to pick one perfect Autumn dish this would be in the running. So immensely comforting, hearty and full of quintessential flavors like sage and butternut that marry so beautifully. Not to mention it comes together easily and quickly.
You have every excuse to make it! And not one not to.
Clouds of gnocchi nestle themselves in a creamy sauce amongst sweet hunks of butternut squash, tender baby spinach, fresh herbs and Parmesan cheese.
- Add oil to a large ovenproof skillet over medium heat; add squash and onions; cook, stirring occasionally, until slightly soft and golden, 8-10 minutes. Add the garlic, red pepper flakes, 1 teaspoon salt and a few twists of black pepper; cook until garlic is fragrant, about 2 more minutes.
- Preheat the broiler. Add the chicken broth and half & half to the skillet. When it starts to simmer, stir in the gnocchi, adding more chicken broth if needed so the gnocchi has enough liquid to cook in. Pile the spinach leaves on top and slowly stir them in as they wilt. Cover and cook until the gnocchi are just tender, about 5 minutes.
- Uncover and stir in 1/4 cup parmesan and herbs. Sprinkle the remaining 1/2 cup parmesan over top; transfer to the broiler and cook until golden and bubbly, about 3 minutes.
*This method of cooking works best with gnocchi you find in the refrigerated, fresh pasta section of your market or in the dried pasta aisle (or homemade, if you're inclined!), not with frozen gnocchi.
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Eric Schmidt , the executive chairman of Google, launched a straightforward attack on internet censorship and the digital divide in his keynote speech at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona.
"We need to act now to avoid new digital cast system," he said in a direct address to the assembled mobile industries, and also via livestream.
He spoke with a pure Californian vision for an internet that is censorship free, includes the five billion yet to get access and saves lives.
Schmidt spoke said: "The web is great with just two billion people using it. Imagine how great it can be with the next five billion."
"We forget about these people," he said of people living without access to the internet. "It's a scarce resource for them, they live in digital oases if you will, and most have no connectivity."
For this group, Schmidt sees his Google Android smart phones as potentially saving lives.
"Every handset could have a basic medical diagnostic tool built in," he said. "Smart phones don't have to work on 4G there, they could talk to each other in a mesh network."
Schmidt called the net a "digital watering hole", and saying that for nomadic people embrace technology that improves their lives, citing solar chargers for mobile phones and satellite phones as examples.
"Technology is a leveller, those with nothing will have something," he added.
With greater access, ideally through fiber optic cable human rights abuses and suffering under dictatorial regimes could lessen.
"There will be fewer places for dictators, it will be easier to organise against dictators - we saw that in the Arab Spring. In times of war and suffering, it will be impossible to ignore cries for help," he added, referencing Assad's brutality in Syria as an example.
He had high praise for the people who will built this vision. "Developers," he said, "Are the engineers of human freedom."
Schmidt spoke passionately against internet regulation.
"Do not vulcanise the internet," he said. "Do not give in to anything that will divide the internet, with parts of it managed in different ways, even if it seems logical now. I cannot be emphatic enough."
Schmidt did not mention SOPA, PIPA or ACTA directly, but rather mentioned in the Q & A session that there are "many" ways that governments are trying to regulate the internet.
He said they will fail: "The internet is like water, it will find a way around the restrictions."
Schmidt said 40 countries operate some kind of internet censorship, and 25 countries block Google.
In the Q & A session, he showed a brief glint of humour when an Iranian audience member asked when he would lift the ban on Chrome downloads in Iran. As a US company, Google is barred from trading with Iran under the embargo "We can't violate US law, and in prison, there's no bandwidth."


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Compiling database for Gen2 Brat sales evaluations
Posted 18 March 2009 - 07:02 PM
If you sell a Brat (or know somewhat who did) could you please send me an email with year, VIN#, miles, general condition, actual selling price, location (state or province is enough unless you want to add the city), and the date of sale. Add a link to ebay, craigslist or other on-line selling agency if you think it will help the database, send it to me at edrach at spamcop dot net. I would make it available to USMB members who are having a similar time convincing an insurance company of what the "real" value of their Brat is. Thanks.
If someone wants to start a database for other models, feel free, I'm limiting myself to gen2 brats only.
Perhaps this could be stickied.
Posted 23 March 2009 - 08:05 PM
Posted 26 March 2009 - 12:36 AM
For my rough condition brat.
Does this help Ed?
Hope so...
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Posted 24 April 2009 - 01:21 AM
i was driving it and some guy outta nowhere told me about a '82 brat that his friend had.. it was sitting for 4 yrs.. an 80 yr old man got it when it had 5k mi.. BONE STOCK.. lil rust, 135k, jump seats and canopy! so im the third owner and offered him $1500 for it.. i put a EJ22T motor and 5sp dual range trans in it and i dont see myself ever letting go of it!!!
Posted 21 June 2009 - 07:59 PM
Edited by Mr. Carb, 21 June 2009 - 08:03 PM.
Posted 25 June 2009 - 08:22 PM
The adjuster went to two dealer's (one Subaru and one Chevy) and asked "what would you put it on the lot for?" One said $3000 and the other $3900; the average plus taxes, etc came to around $3900. That's the number I used for the small claims court action on my son's '82 Brat which we won handily. I should have asked for more!
Ed, what did the insurance company say when you showed them the paper work involving my brat, which was far from mint condition, and they still gave me around 3900 for it? See picture below, thats what it looked like before it was totaled.
I went back to State Farm on our "pristine" '84 Brat and asked for a re-evaluation. I've got paperwork from them putting the value at between $5000 and $6000.
If anyone has a clean, rust-free, running gen2 Brat, it might be a fine investment.
Edited by edrach, 25 June 2009 - 08:26 PM.
Posted 26 August 2009 - 03:33 PM
I just paid $1700 for it in non-running condition. I swooped it up from a repair shop that had it for a while and the owner got fed up and wanted out of it.
I was told that this shop's corporate office paid out the owner $3100 for it. Not real sure how they got to that price.
Also, when the owner signed the title over to the shop, he left in the same folder a printout of the eBay auction where he'd won it in Dec '08 for $2300.
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Posted 01 July 2010 - 11:50 AM
Here is a web address that shows production by year for all subarus
I know this is a bit off topic but I am curious. According to Wiki it is said that the body style was restyled in 81. According to this link 5553 were produced that year. Anyone know the stats of how many were of the old style?
I ask because a guy I got parts from said something about it being rare and I should not get rid of it.
Posted 20 July 2010 - 01:39 PM
Posted 20 July 2010 - 02:46 PM
I know this is a bit off topic but I am curious. According to Wiki it is said that the body style was restyled in 81. According to this link 5553 were produced that year. Anyone know the stats of how many were of the old style?
I ask because a guy I got parts from said something about it being rare and I should not get rid of it.
The body change was for the 1982 model year. The 1981's had 1800 and dual range 4sp.
Posted 03 December 2010 - 06:24 PM
Posted 06 January 2011 - 03:32 PM
Just letting everyone know what they might be able to do.
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Posted 08 October 2011 - 02:47 PM
Posted 14 October 2011 - 10:50 PM
Currently, I have a letter from my insurance carrier with a valuation of $6K for my '84 very clean Brat with under 120K miles on it.
I stole mine 6 years ago for $1200. It was cosmetically challenged, but easily rectified. I cleaned the carpets, had my buddy recover the seats and resealed the engine. Had a guy offer me $3000 for it last 4th of July when we were cruisin around the woods (FS-7020). I've fought the insurance companies before on stuff like this. You're going to have to write up a very good fact based eval. They will only change the price with included hard evidence. Your best bet will be the Evil Bay sales you've been recording. You pay and pay and pay these *sses and when it comes time to collect what's due, you get to take it up the tailpipe with no dinner or good night kiss!
As to fighting with the insurance company, that might be the case. We wound up suing the taxi driver that rear ended my son's '82 after the insurance company refused to budge on their offer of $475 for it and totalling it. After almost three years (statute of limitations was looming) we filed suit in small claims court and produced documentation that averaged $3400. Taxi driver refused arbitration (dumb) and had ZERO counter to our claim other than he didn't think it was worth much (i.e. no written documentation). Judge awarded us the entire $3400 plus expenses for filing. It cost us time and effort and was well worth it. We still have the '82 since the insurance company didn't want the hassle of disposing of it and the title is still good.:burnout:We'll be cleaning up the rust and finishing the 5 lug wheel conversion soon (I hope).
Posted 18 December 2011 - 02:32 AM
Drove it all summer and currently restoring it this winter (off the road currently)
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Posted 01 January 2012 - 11:58 PM
Mine owes me more than that last figure.......Kiwi
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Washington Nationals Class AAA manager Tony Beasley is a candidate to become the team's third base coach next season, replacing Houston Astros manager Bo Porter at the position. The Nats will wait to finalize their coaching staff until after manager Davey Johnson's contract situation is settled, though.
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The Washington Nationals have named Randy Knorr manager for Triple-A Syracuse, Tony Beasley manager for Double-A Harrisburg and Gary Cathcart manager for Class A Auburn, according to USAToday.com. Franklin Bravo and Luis Ordaz were also named pitching coach and hitting coach respectively for Auburn.
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Jaipur-based Himanshu Soni, a newcomer, will be seen portraying Buddha on mythological show 'Buddha'.
Himanshu went through a vigorous training and extensive creative sessions to understand every nuance of his character and demeanor of Prince Siddharth.
"I am 100 percent sure that we have made the right decision by taking Himanshu on board. He has put his soul in it and I must congratulate him for that," B.K. Modi, chairman, Spice Studios, said at a press conference.
From meditation to going through literature and Buddha's preaching, martial arts training and horse riding, the 24-year-old did everything to make his character look perfect.
Since it was his first public appearance, Himanshu was a bit nervous. He said that he is hoping to win the audience' heart through his character.
"I just want the audience to give me blessings and love. I just hope that I am able to win the audience' heart," he said.
The team of 'Buddha' will visit Sarnath, near Varanasi, Friday, as Buddha gave his first sermon there and the Buddhist sangha (community) also came into existence there.
"We are going to Sarnath tomorrow (Friday) as Himanshu wanted to seek blessings from there. Sarnath has a connection as Buddha first taught about dharma there," Modi said.
Prince Siddharth's love interest Yashodhara will be played by 2010 Miss India finalist, Kajal Jain.


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DEVENS -- Christmas, 1941.
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7. The United States was at war.
Four days later, Germany declared war on the United States. The USA officially entered the global conflict.
The immediate effects on an American family living in Belgium were painful. The father, an employee at the Hammond Organ Company based in Chicago, who was assigned to the office in Brussels, Belgium, was taken away by the Germans.
"We were lucky, we were living in the woods," Christian de Marcken said.
The U.S. born youth was 12 at the time, the oldest of nine children, when the Germans invaded Belgium on May 10, 1940.
Rents of very large buildings were cheap. The family lived in a castle in the woods at the end of a long driveway.
"Father was pleasantly plump when he was captured," de Marcken said, but he did not remain that way. "The Germans did not torture American civilians. They were left to die of hunger," de Marcken said.
When things began to go badly for the Germans, they sent their dying prisoners home. "They were afraid of reprisal," he said.
An American doctor, also a prisoner, came up with a way to make it seem as though the elder de Marcken was dying. The latter had only one kidney and by dehydrating himself, the test would show that the last kidney was failing so the Germans would send him home to die. The ploy worked and de Marcken made his way home to his family.
He weighed only 109 pounds.
The children kept looking at the man, a bum who dared to sit in their father's seat. It took only 30 seconds for the bearded man to shove his elbow into their mother's ribs and say, "Are you going to kiss me?" and only then did the family recognize him.
"Father would be arrested yet again and condemned to death for helping American airmen escape back to England," said de Marcken. After one month on death row, he was placed with 91 other prisoners in an overcrowded cattle box car. He escaped, thanks to the "heroic" action of the Belgian underground, said de Marcken, which diverted the train to a cul de sac and the American army, which was liberating Belgium in early September 1944. The German guards ran away.
He walked back home as the road passing by the house was strafed by the U.S. 9th Air Force P-47 fighter-bombers. Anti-tank barricades blocked the road, encampments of soldiers left weapons, ammunition and other treasures behind, all for the children to discover. The children had learned to play among the detritus of war.
A Signal Corps Battalion spent three or four days on the property as they were heading for the battle front. "As fast as they came, they were gone," de Marcken said.
In mid 1943, the teenage de Marcken developed blood poisoning from years of poor nutrition. Later, after the bilingual de Marcken trained as an infantry soldier with the 9th Infantry Division, he became a military policeman in Orleans, France.
He returned to attend high school in Boston when he was 28. He earned a mechanical engineering degree from Tufts University and then worked for different companies in Massachusetts.
Christian de Marcken and his wife, Jeanne, who grew up in Belgium during the war, now dedicate their time raising awareness of the battles in that country and the soldiers who fought in them.
They work with the National Museum of the U.S. Army in Fort Belvoir, VA, the Remember 39-45 Museum in Belgium, and the Fort Devens Museum in Devens.
They have also helped families of black soldiers, de Marcken said, who were tortured and massacred by the German SS during the Battle of the Bulge, to visit the site where their ancestors were assassinated and are now buried. The Belgian Museum provides the families of these soldiers a place to stay. They will provide free lodging, free food and transportation. All they need to purchase are the plane tickets.
Closer to home, de Marcken has given part of his collection to the Fort Devens Museum, including a tent the Signal Corps left behind, a pair of snowshoes lost by another unit, one of his "fatigue shirts" and his leather MP gear.
He can be found regularly at the Fort Devens Museum sharing his story of World War II. " I am asked to come if a class or a slew of children are scheduled to visit the museum," he said.
One special item remains at home. During the long years her husband was in prison camps in Germany, de Marcken's mother sewed an American Flag, with 13 stripes and 48 stars. (Hawaii and Alaska were not yet states.) When the German who was assigned to guard the American family was asleep, working from memory, the Belgian-born woman sewed the flag. She got the proportions wrong, her son says, and the stars are pointed the wrong way, but even with an enemy soldier in the house, she worked on the flag, hiding it beneath the floorboards in her bedroom to keep it safe.
"Mother was very proud of her American husband and her nine children," de Marcken wrote in an e-mail.
The family hid allied airmen and anti-German underground members in special chutes made between the rafters of the attic, keeping them safe from the resident German soldier and the middle of the night inspections by the Nazi storm troopers.
The family hid a small Jewish boy, Eddy Greymeyer, who was two years younger than Christian. He had his own bed and simply blended in with the nine children. The Germans never counted to see how many children were around, said de Marcken.
Both Eddy and the flag were saved.
Christian de Marcken is a veteran of the Korean era, secretary and historian of the Central Massachusetts Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge, Major Lamar J. Souter M.D. Chapter XXII Worcester.
Editor's note: This story is being reprinted due to errors in a previously published version.


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I'm afraid.
For the first time ever, I'm afraid.
But hell if I going to show this... this noob who's drugged up on power that I'm afraid. I do still have some pride you know.
"Siggy," I say in my most patronizing voice. "The only reason you got me, was because of your element of surprise. But I know what you are now, and I know that you're not even a nightmare. Hon, you're more like a leech. No powers of your own. Sad, little monkey has to steal from others before you could be considered important, aren't you? I may not be the nightmare, but at least I have powers of my own, leech."
I act well. I've had practice, and besides I've fought wars harder than this, so I can at least pretend that I'm a pompous nightmare with no fear in front of this leech.
I smile, and turn our body back to my form, letting my shadows form their octopus curls behind me.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Six members of the Yale gymnastics team competed in the USAG Collegiate National Championships semifinals on Friday in the final meet of the year for the Bulldogs. The meet was hosted by Brown. The Yale gymnasts competed individually during the team semifinal poriton of the competition.
On the vault, sophomore Camilla Opperman scored a 9.700 to finish in 15th place. Junior Morgan Traina was right behind her, tying for 19th place with a 9.650. Junior Joyce Li finished 26th with a 9.550.
On the uneven parallel bars, Traina scored a career-high 9.850 to finish tied for sixth place, Yale's best finish on the day. Li was 21st with a 9.700 and senior Nicole Tay was 29th with a 9.550.
Li was Yale's top finisher on the balance beam, scoring a 9.550 to finish in 14th place. Traina tied for 28th place with a 9.175 while sophomore Brittney Sooksengdao tied for 30th with a 9.125.
On the floor excercise, Opperman tied for seventh place with a 9.750.
In the all-around competition, Li finished seventh with a combined score of 37.600 and Traina finished eighth with a 37.375.
In the team competition, Bridgeport finished first with a score of 195.225 in Saturday's finals.
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High 5
Griffin Bailey , Natick: The junior goalie picked up his first varsity shutout with 14 saves in an 8-0 win over Brookline.
Samantha DiReda , Shrewsbury: The senior notched three goals and an assist in a 5-2 win over Algonquin Regional that saw the Colonials rally from a 2-0 deficit.
Rachel Hamilton , Newton North: The freshman came through with both of her team's goals in a 2-1 triumph over Dedham as the Tigers won their seventh of the season.
Bryan Hunt , Arlington Catholic: The senior made 29 saves to hold St. Mary's of Lynn scoreless in a 1-0 win.
Sara Lehman , Lexington: The senior scored twice and handed out two helpers as the Minutemen surged to their ninth win of the season, a 4-1 effort over Framingham.
Top 10 boys' teams
(Records through Sunday, with next game listed)
1. Arlington Catholic (6-2-4); Sat., vs. Austin Prep
2. Lincoln-Sudbury Regional (10-0-2); Sat., at Haverhill
3. Medway (10-0-3); Fri., vs. Hopkinton
4. Medfield (13-1); Sat., vs. Bellingham
5. Arlington (6-4-4); Sat., at Woburn
6. Marlborough (9-3); Sat., at Hudson
7. Waltham (8-4-2); Sat., vs. Chelmsford
8. St. John's High (4-7-3); Thurs., vs. Shrewsbury
9. Shrewsbury (10-1-1); Thurs., at St. John's High
10. Groton-Dunstable Regional (10-1-2); Sat., at Auburn/Millbury
Top 10 girls' teams
1. Arlington Catholic (9-2-2); Sat., vs. Central Catholic
2. Lexington (9-2-1); Sat., vs. Reading
3. Wellesley (9-0-3); Sat., vs. Norwood
4. Acton-Boxborough Regional (9-4); Sat., at Chelmsford
5. Lincoln-Sudbury Regional (11-3); Sat., at Newton South
6. Arlington (7-5); Sat., at Woburn
7. Medway/Ashland (9-3-2); Mon., vs. Canton
8. Shrewsbury (6-4); Sun., at Springfield Cathedral
9. Watertown/Melrose (5-6-2); Sat., at Wilmington
10. Newton North (7-5-1); Sat., vs. Brookline
Boys' Game of the week
Marlborough at Hudson, Saturday, 2:20 p.m., New England Sports Center: Junior Jake Chiasson leads the high-scoring Panthers as they look for a season sweep against senior goalie Shane Berry and the rival Hawks.
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2003 Baseball
weekly recap
Bluffton baseball squad falls at HCAC-leader Hanover in first league testBy Tim Stried
March 24, 2003
|Special to: The Bluffton News (Mar. 27), The Witmarsum (Mar. 28), Alumni e-newsletter (Mar. 25), but you read it here first.
Since posting a 4-4 record in Florida two weeks ago, the Bluffton College baseball team saw its first four "northern" games cancelled and was able to spend just two days practicing outside. Good news finally arrived last weekend in that the Beavers finally were able to get in three games. The bad news, however, is that those three games were all at Hanover College, which now leads the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference with a 15-2 record.
In Bluffton's first HCAC three-game series of the season, Hanover posted victories of 6-0, 8-0 and 7-3 on Friday and Saturday to drop BC's record to 4-7 overall and 0-3 in the HCAC.
Bluffton is scheduled to host Wilmington on March 26 before getting back into HCAC play against Transylvania at home on March 28 and 29. BC will then host Urbana on April 2.
Juniors Kyle Alberson (.528, 8 HR, 21 RBI), Bob Heitkamp (.417, 1 HR, 3 RBI) and Jim Dwenger (.364, 5 RBI) lead the team in most offensive categories so far this season. Among the pitchers, junior Josh Underwood (1-2, 7.20 ERA) leads the team in innings pitched (20.0), while senior Wes Hall (1-1, 1 save, 9.88 ERA) and freshman Steve Hastings (1-0, 4.15 ERA) own the staff's best winning percentages.
In the three-game series at Hanover, Alberson collected four hits, including two doubles, and sophomore Brad Moore went 3-for-3 in the final game Saturday. Dwenger added two hits in the series, as well.


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Greece's international lenders will enforce additional supervision on the country's troubled banks along with the billions of euros they will provide to shore them up, senior bankers said on Friday.
The so-called troika of the European Commission, European Central Bank and IMF lenders wants its own monitors at each bank receiving state support to oversee credit policies and restructuring plans.
"The supervision by monitoring trustees has been demanded by the troika and the EU Competition Commission," one of the bankers with direct knowledge of the matter said, declining to be named. "The trustees will not only be looking at new credit, they will also have a say on how lenders are managing their entire loan book and their follow-up on existing loans."
They will also oversee any lending to top management, board members and staff and their families, the banker said.
Of Greece's second 130 billion euro (US$166 billion) bailout package, 50 billion euros is earmarked to recapitalize the country's battered banking sector, and international lenders want better supervision to ensure banks follow best practice.
On Monday, Athens unveiled a long-awaited framework to recapitalize its banks, whose equity base was nearly wiped out by huge losses from a sovereign debt swap and rising loan writedowns in a deep recession.
Under the plan, banks will have to issue new shares to achieve at least a 6 percent core Tier 1 capital adequacy ratio plus bonds that can be converted into shares — so-called CoCos — to boost it up to 9 percent.
The private sector will have to take up at least 10 percent of the new shares to be issued to keep lenders privately run. Failure will mean nationalization.
The remainder will be taken up by a bank support fund, the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF), which is funded from the country's bailout and has already injected 18.5 billion euros into the country's four biggest banks.
The HFSF, which will provide most of the new capital by buying most of the new shares and all of the convertible bonds, will become the banks' biggest shareholder.
Concerns over the dilutive impact of the scheme on current shareholders and an annual 7 percent coupon that banks will have to pay annually on the CoCos pulled the banking index down 15 percent.
"Adding an extra layer of supervision will mean less flexibility for bank managements," Euroxx Securities analyst Maria Kanellopoulou said. "The troika does not want banks to be nationalized. But given the large amounts that will be pumped into them, it wants to have a say."
Bankers expressed reservations on the troika's demand for tighter scrutiny, saying it might prove cumbersome for commercial banking operations.
"This demand by the troika shows lack of trust. It will place too much responsibility in the hands of monitoring trustees who are not commercial bankers," said a senior banker who declined to be named.
"Overseeing restructuring plans is logical, but when it comes to credit policy it may make things a bit dysfunctional, inefficient," the banker said. "But the troika thinks this is necessary, and that's that."
The independent monitors will be picked from credible auditing firms and will have to be approved by the European Commission. They will report to the troika and have full access to banks' books, the bankers said.
According to Kathimerini newspaper, the tighter supervision also aims to cut the umbilical cord between banks and the political system and big media organizations, some of which have received loans that might not have been granted under strict banking criteria.