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ATLANTA — The Phillies saw their first two starters get knocked around roughly by the Braves' unabashed mashers. Friday night, the temperature dropped and Cliff Lee put the freeze on Atlanta's hope to send the Phils back to Philly bruised by a sweep to open the season.
Lee didn't get much more run support than he got during a frustrating 2012 that saw him earn winning decisions in just six of his 30 starts, but he had little trouble making the little he got stick in a 2-0 series-salvaging win over Atlanta at Turner Field.
Lee allowed just two hits — a two-out single by Dan Uggla in the second inning, and a base hit by Justin Upton in the fourth that quickly was erased by an inning-ending double play.
"Yeah, I didn't get my first win last season until the Fourth of July," Lee said, a fact difficult to comprehend. "It's nice to get it out of the way on the first start, that's for sure."
The only other batter to reach base was Gerald Laird, who led off the sixth with a bouncer that went off Chase Utley's glove for an error. Lee stranded him at first by retiring the next three batters, then needed just 21 pitches to zip through the seventh and eighth innings and hand it over to Jonathan Papelbon.
Lee was on deck after the first two batters in the top of the eighth made outs. It might have been a blessing that Erik Kratz skied to center to end the inning, because that allowed Lee to breeze through the bottom of Atlanta's order and save set-up reliever Mike Adams for the home opener after he pitched Wednesday.
"I thought if we had a chance to score it might have made it tough for us (not to pinch-hit for Lee in the eighth)," Manuel said. "I felt like the last three innings his pitched might have been his best, in terms of getting after it."
Lee helped right the ship after Cole Hamels and Roy Halladay were flogged for 10 runs and five homers in the first two games combined. Lee got a chance to watch Atlanta's new-look lineup and how it attacked pitchers. Clearly he found some vulnerabilities.
"The first two innings they battled and got my pitch count up," Lee said of the Braves. "So to get eight innings after the first two innings and how that went, it felt pretty good."
Lee threw 106 pitches, 78 for strikes in his most dominating performance since he worked 10 shutout innings against San Francisco in his third start of last season.
"When it's that cold, it's not as big a deal to throw more pitches, in my opinion," Lee said. "When it's 95 degrees it's more taxing and takes more out of you."
The Phillies got both of their runs in the top of the second, as Braves starter Kris Medlen had difficulty with his control for five innings of work. It was the first time Atlanta lost one of the right-hander's starts since May 23, 2010, a stretch of 23 starts that were interrupted by Tommy John Surgery in 2011.
After Medlen escaped a bases-loaded jam in the first inning, the Phillies opened the second with Laynce Nix singling and catcher Erik Kratz thumping a double to left. Lee then helped himself by working a walk to load the bags.
For some reason, Ben Revere decided to take a hack at the first two pitches after Lee's free pass, then seemed to hit into a costly double play. However, Braves second baseman Dan Uggla inexplicably failed to make the relay throw to first, as Nix scored. After Jimmy Rollins worked another walk, Chase Utley scored Kratz with a sacrifice fly.
Before the game, Charlie Manuel tried to make light of the fact that some fans back home were edgy over the Phils losing their first two games.
"I'm gonna panic and go up there and jump off top of that stadium," he said, motioning to the nosebleed seats at Turner Field. "It would be my luck to live."
Fortunately for Manuel and the Phils, they get to show up at Citizens Bank Park for their opener with a win under their belts. After the win, the manager confessed the reception for the home opener will be much kinder and gentler as a 1-2 team than it would have been at 0-3.
"That's without a doubt ... without a doubt that helps," Manuel said. "We've got hope now."
"It's still way early," Lee said. "Obviously we would have liked to have won all three, but you can't do that once you lose one. Those first two games are behind us. Hopefully we can carry that win into Philly."
After the game the Phillies announced that the Diamondbacks paid the fee to bring outfielder Ender Inciarte back to the organization after the Phils selected him in the Rule 5 draft. The 22-year-old Venezuelan was dropped from the Phils' 25-man roster when they picked up outfielder Ezequiel Carrera off waivers Tuesday.


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Tire issue
Posted 01 January 2006 - 11:52 PM
Posted 01 January 2006 - 11:59 PM
Posted 02 January 2006 - 01:35 AM
tires on an awd/4wd vehicle should all be within 4/32nds of one another.
they should all be the same tire because different tread patterns have differing resistance
and don't downsize your tires, only upsize.
my 96 legacy is supposed to have 195/60R15 on it. it has 205/75R15. that's a 4 size increase.
Posted 02 January 2006 - 04:13 PM
Posted 02 January 2006 - 05:53 PM
I can't seem to find another 16" tire size that fits that radius. 195/60/16 should, but when I search on that size (taller and a little narrower), I can't find a mfgr of that size.
There are choices in the 15" range, but that would mean replacing the rims also. And some 15" rims may not fit over the brakes.
Posted 06 January 2006 - 11:17 AM
Posted 06 January 2006 - 02:25 PM
205/55/16 have the same diameter as 225/50/16.
wouldn't it be 215/50R16?....a size that doesn't exist....
Posted 06 January 2006 - 04:15 PM
Are you trying to rehash the debate on what is acceptable in terms of tire tread difference? As I'm sure you've read in the old posts, opinions vary on what is acceptable. Although if you listen to the logic of why replacing only 1 tire is bad, then the natural progression would be that replacing 2 tires (on the same axle) is twice as bad.
Some people say that you need to replace all four tires on an all wheel drive vehicle, and others say that you only need to replace two.
I always thought that 205/55/16 were fairly common sized tires- especially for sedans and these are about as narrow as 16" tires get. If you change tire sizes- to 225/50/16 as someone mentions, then you'll probably be paying more for your tires. I suppose you could change wheels and go with a 195/65/15- those tend to run a little cheaper.
Second, Subaru only recommends the tire size of p205 55R16 (H rated) is there another more common size that I could sub in the future? Any advice? Thanks
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Published: 2013/01/26
All-Star Lineup To Tour As Eric Burdon & The Animals
Eric Burdon has put together a new band to tour as Eric Burdon & The Animals. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame singer/songwriter (The Animals, WAR) has teamed up with keyboardist Steve Molitz (Particle), guitarist Eric McFadden (Stockholm Syndrome, P-Funk), percussionist Wally Ingram (Sheryl Crowe, Jackson Browne), drummer Eric Bolivar (Anders Osborne, Pimps of Joytime) and bassist Ron Johnson (KDTU, Warren Haynes Band). The group will hit the road in support of Burdon's new album 'Til Your River Runs Dry, though they will also be playing a mix of new and old material, including classic songs by The Animals and WAR. Burdon, Molitz and McFadden will also team up with The Roots for the debut performance of the band's new single "Water" on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon this Monday, January 28.
In other news, Molitz is currently in the studio working with Black Crowes guitarist Rich Robinson on a follow up to Robinson's 2011 release Through A Crooked sun. More information on that album will be available in the future.


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Murray, Ky. -- The Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles dropped their
Ohio Valley Conference finale Sunday at Murray State, 4-0. The win
gave the Racers the outright OVC regular season championship, and a
first-round bye in the conference tournament, which they will host
on Nov. 7 and 9.
The Golden Eagles, meanwhile, are awaiting final results from around the league to find out their tournament fate.
Tech (4-13-1, 3-4-1) was alone in fifth place in the OVC standings heading into the final day of league play, with Jacksonville State and Eastern Illinois within striking distance close behind. A loss or tie by either team would ensure Tech a spot in the OVC tournament.
The Golden Eagles wrap up the 2008 regular season with a non-conference game against Lipscomb on Wednesday, Oct. 29. The opening round of the OVC tournament is Nov. 4.


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Arizona junior RB Ka'Deem Carey carried 27 times for 169 yards and two touchdowns in Tuesday's 42-19 victory over Boston College in the Advocare V100 Bowl.
Transferring Clemson freshman DT Josh Belk said that his unofficial visit to South Carolina on Wednesday "went great."
Owen Brennan, the father of LSU sophomore QB Myles Brennan, said that his son remains "in a very, very good position to compete for the starting job" even after the team's addition of Ohio State QB Joe Burrow.
Kentucky redshirt junior S Marcus Walker was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of trafficking marijuana and cocaine.
In their updated post-spring depth chart released on Wednesday, Clemson listed senior QB Kelly Bryant as the starter.
Indefinitely suspended USC sophomore WR Joseph Lewis has reached a plea deal in which he's plead no contest to a pair of domestic battery charges.
USC and Alabama have officially agreed to a season-opening contest for Sept. 5, 2020, in Arlington, Texas.
With Georgia Tech's new multi-year APR (academic progress rate) standing at 980, HC Paul Johnson's $100,000 contract bonus has gone into effect.
Transferring Clemson freshman DT Josh Belk is visiting South Carolina and Georgia this week.
Tulane extended HC Willie Fritz through the 2023 season.
Rivals' Ira Schoffel reports that Florida State has suspended redshirt sophomore T Josh Ball for accusations of dating violence.
Penn State received a verbal commitment from five-star 2019 LB Brandon Smith.


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/30/zune_launch_take-up/
'Successful' Zune launch no threat to iPod?
Plays For Sure players need to watch out
Posted in Personal Tech, 30th November 2006 16:13 GMT
Interest in Microsoft's Zune media player appears to be diminishing, if Amazon.com's sales charts are anything to go by. This despite grabbing the number two slot in the US retail market immediately after its 14 November launch, according to figures from market watcher NPD.
NPD's numbers - published yesterday, according to EETimes - show Microsoft's player accounted for nine per cent of unit sales and 13 per cent of revenues in the seven days to 17 November. That placed it just ahead of SanDisk but well behind the iPod's figures of 63 per cent and 72.5 per cent, respectively.
NPD categorised the Zune launch "a success", achieving a decent share of the market despite its relatively high price.
Separately, a survey carried out on behalf of the Reuters newsagency revealed that a third of media player buyers considering a Zune purchase were looking to upgrade from a player they already own. That said only seven per cent of those surveyed, when presented with a list of players, said they were keen on a group that included the Zune.
By contrast, 80 per cent said they'd pick an iPod. Of that number, only 18 per cent said they were upgrading.
Zune's relative strength in the upgrade market lends weight to the argument that the device will hit Microsoft's Plays For Sure hardware partners more than it's going to hurt Apple. The iPod maker is clearly appealing to many more new users, so it's business is still coming through growing the market than canibalising it.
Apple's player today dominated Amazon.com's electronics best-sellers list, let alone the more specific MP3 players list, which contained just three non-Apple devices: two SanDisks - at chart positions six and eight - and a Creative, placed tenth.
Zune didn't even make the top 15 - the black version was listed in 17th place. The brown model came in at 37, the white one at 76. Amazon.com's numbers are updated hourly, and positions change frequently. But iPods tend to cluster around the top ten. ®


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Return to Ground Zero to witness the final chapter in an epic story of engineering, innovation and the perseverance of the human spirit: the completion of One World Trade Center. "Ground Zero Supertower" examines the new skyscraper rising up 104 stories and 1,776 feet from the site where the Twin Towers once stood. In this update of NOVA's Emmy-nominated special "Engineering Ground Zero," NOVA goes inside the construction of the tower's final floors and the installation of its soaring, 800-ton spire and beacon. NOVA also goes underground to see another engineering marvel taking shape here: the construction of a museum that will house artifacts from 9/11. The greatest test is still to come, though: Will the final product be a fitting site for national remembrance?
"Ground Zero Supertower" on NOVA airs on Wednesday, February 26th at 8:00 p.m.


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Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
HTS costs up to $300 a month to operate. We need your help!
Nice to see here an article on the basics of C++.. mind if I add something? :D
The return statement causes the main function to finish. return may be followed by a return code (in that example is followed by the return code 0). A return code of 0 for the main function is generally interpreted as the program worked as expected without any errors during its execution. This is the most usual way to end a C++ console program.
You could\'ve also explained that \" cin.get(); \".. you writed in the code and didn\'t mention it while explaining..
I\'m not flaming, good job on writing it. ^^
Just contructive criticize.. :rolleyes:
yeah i have noticed them thnaks for explaining the return sattement properly for me i know bits of C but i skipped C adn went staright to C++ and i only know up to the structural part of some programs but since you sadi i have done a good job i would like to thank you
9.... very good but you could tell about the variables.. i think :)
yea i am saving that for the next one
It\'s good for the hello world program. I would vote if I could.
A very good article for the basics. It would be nice to see a more advanced article on c++ though. 9/10
A well done tutorial on the basics, but i cant agree more that you cud\'ve explained more on the \"cin.get();\" statement as that is a not so obvious statement
yeah since this one has gone down well i am going to start an intermediate one and then move onto the advanced thanks guys
You need to explain, how to use a compiler, how to save and view your scripts etc etc... someone new to coding this language will get very confused at first with the compiler i can garuntee ;) Overall nice knowledge =]
The comments say it all..
Good work though ;)
thought this was a great article, especially for a beginner. I agree it would be great if you could write another article based on variables, input, if statements etc.
thnaks guys erm yeah ofcourse ill write another article erm maybe ill write a second article on compiler use but i learnt my compiler by myself and then i discovered the C++ Tutorials i am taking but thanks anyway
Good work but You could of done an advanced tutorial.. Theres PLENTY of basics out there people just need to google.
Good work. Ive already spent the last 2 months learning c++ though. It gets pretty bloody advanced later (I\'m not even at visual stuff yet):S
Anyway, nice!
Edit: Shouldn\'t main be
int main()
instead of
yeh so cin.get() waits for an input right? Im just starting to learn C++
prehaps talking about variables such as:
const char*
The most basic varibles would help...
A breif explaination of compilers wouldnt hurt. Good sample code for for newbies though, very light and understandable.
i believe it\'s iostream.h (i.e #include <iostream.h> as it\'s a header =], correct me if i\'m wrong =D)
Pyro, I believe that the iostream.h version is now deprectaed and simpply #include <iostream> works fine.
some basic variables would be nice but its a very good tutorial well explained nice one!
C++ = ugly
C = sexy :)
return 0; = return false.
should be int main(){} as you are return'ing '0', you can't type cast a function, then return something different!
yes it should me int main(). and i would write system("PAUSE"); instead of cin.get(); but maby it dosent work on Linux i dunno havent written C++ on Linux
Thanks for Sharing!!! 10/10!


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A panel of doctors and medical experts will not initially recommend medical marijuana as a legal treatment for people suffering from asthma or autism.
The ten-member panel will, on the other hand, initially recommend medical marijuana as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. A petition for insomnia patients will be discussed again at a later time.
Michigan voters approved a law in 2008 legalizing medical marijuana, setting up the panel in the process.
The group discussed each issue, taking past public comments into consideration, before voting. The recommendations are not final; a public hearing will take place on each of the four medical conditions before the committee reexamines the issues.
"There are thousands upon thousands, over 50,000 Michigan patients that could be affected by this ruling," said Becca Hollandsworth of the R.C. Randall Memorial Wellness Center. "Each of these illnesses have been very well scientifically shown that medical marijuana is a great option for it. As far as abuse of it goes, it's something that nobody has ever overdosed on and died from."
Doctors agreed that there had not been a marijuana overdose, to their memory. But issues arose on different standards for children and adults.
Some wondered about the effect of marijuana on a minor's brain development and others questioned the drug's effectiveness in some cases. For example, although marijuana has been found to help people fall asleep, it only provides a few hours of relief at a time for insomniacs.
Senator Rick Jones (R-Grand Ledge) says he supports medical marijuana in some cases, but added there are some legal conditions in which the drug doesn't help -- or may even cause harm.
"In my senate judiciary committee, I had experts come in, scientists from the University of Michigan, doctors of ophthalmology that begged us please, get glaucoma off the list," he said. "It simply doesn't work. That's horrifying that we have marijuana prescribed for something that it's really not working. And these are the best experts in the state that have come into my committee and said, this is a bad thing for Michigan."
Jones says he wants the panel to be able to take certain conditions off the approved list if it sees fit.
Each petition will be open for public comment at a date within 60 days, yet to be determined, after which the committee will meet again and discuss revising its recommendations.


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Mark your calendars, because in less than a year, the 2014 Winter Olympics will begin. So, it's a good time to announce that the Lake Placid News will once again send a reporter to cover the games firsthand - this time to Sochi, Russia.
The photojournalist credential is approved, a hotel room is in the works, and while there's still more work to do, there's some thank yous in order. Mainly to the Charles B. Decker Memorial Scholarship, named for a former editor of the sister paper of the LPN, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, who died at a young age. The scholarship is providing much-needed funding for this venture.
So thank you to the Decker family, the fund's trustees, its donors and its administrators at the Adirondack Community Trust, as well as the Saranac Lake Rotary Foundation for facilitating the grant.
For 22 years, Decker scholarships have only been given to high school graduates to study journalism (preferably print) in a university. This year, however, the trustees decided to do something different, something that benefits more than just one local person at a time. They adapted it to give a local reporter the opportunity to do something he's never done before - and in so doing, to connect our local Olympians with the thousands of people who are proud of them, connecting them across the globe via the LPN and ADE.
To fit within the spirit of the Decker Scholarship, the reporter who received the grant had to have never covered the Olympics before. Therefore, it couldn't be Senior Sports Writer Lou Reuter, who covered the games for the local papers in 2002 and 2010.
So going to the Winter Games will be Mike Lynch, the LPN and ADE sports and outdoors writer who has covered Winter Olympic sports since 2006, covers them regularly in Lake Placid and covers local Olympic hopefuls abroad. A year from now, Mike will be more than 5,000 miles away in the Caucasus Mountain resort town of Krasnaya Polyana, telling readers about our local competitors in biathlon, ski jumping, nordic combined, luge, bobsled among others.
Why does the local paper bother going to such lengths? The Associated Press would give thorough coverage to our local athletes if they win medals (Bill Demong and Andrew Weibrecht in 2010) but not to the ones in the middle of the pack.
For those in and around Lake Placid, the Winter Olympics may mean more than they do anywhere else in the world, and the Olympians going to Sochi are our neighbors and friends. They're working incredibly hard to reach their goal.
So in addition to the Decker Scholarship folks, thank you to our local Olympians and Olympic hopefuls who have devoted themselves to competing at the highest level in the world. Most people wouldn't imagine that our small, rural area regularly sends so many athletes to every Winter Olympics, but this is a rare place, a special place where the Winter Olympic spirit burns especially bright. A place that can send 12 Olympians to a single games, as this area did to Vancouver, should send a reporter.
The LPN is also grateful to our readers and advertisers - you keep this small, local weekly newspaper going. We do it all for you.
We also think of Charlie Decker. A Saranac Lake native, who played a critical role in the 1980 Winter Olympics here in Lake Placid, putting in long days and nights to pull together the Daily Olympic Digest. He was called up the chain by Ogden Newspapers to work at two of the LPN's parent company's West Virginia papers, but then returned and became
managing editor of the ADE in 1983. He left in 1986 to be state editor at the Watertown Daily Times, being promoted to assistant managing editor in 1989.
He was only 34 years old when he died of a stroke in 1991 in Watertown. He'd most likely be pleased to hear that the LPN will continue its Olympic tradition.


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Sensational reports from the Mirror are claiming that Manchester United ace may have handed in a transfer request on Tuesday.
According to the source, which cites an interview with football pundit Mark Lawrenson, the Dutch forward is unhappy with life under David Moyes and is seeking a move.
Lawrenson is supposed to have said: "There's all sorts of rumours coming out of the training ground at the moment.
"One or two of the press boys that I know that cover Manchester United, they're even saying that the big whisper is Van Persie might have asked for a transfer on Tuesday.
"So if that happens, what a mess that's going to be for David Moyes."
What a mess indeed. Following the Red Devils' indifferent start to the season there has been heavy criticism of the new manager, who hasn't yet lived up to his billing as Sir Alex Ferguson's ready-made successor.
Regardless of that though the news of Robin van Persie's desire to leave the club, if proven to be true, will be a huge blow for the Premier League champions.
The ex-Arsenal star was a massive influence during their title winning campaign last season, scoring 26 Premier League goals in 38 appearances.
Clarification over the mind-numbing reports will likely follow in the coming days.
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Men Completely Fail at 'The Crying Competition'
You know the whole notion that men aren't emotionally in touch with themselves? These guys in Venice Beach aren't doing a whole lot to dispel it. All they had to do was cry one measly tear and they would win. But they couldn't do it.


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Inside the West Side Tennis Club's historic stadium, Lil Wayne and protégé Drake duked it out on the stage for their New York City fans.
West Side Tennis Club president Roland Meier congratulated promoters for their work in another successful show at 1 Tennis Pl.
"It was incredible," Meier said. "The seats were lower than the maximum allowed, the crowds cleared out within 21 minutes and it was a great show. Everyone seemed happy."
Chris Jaray, 35, has lived at the corner of Clyde Street and 69th Avenue, just across the street from the stadium, his entire life.
"I think this concert was a little bigger (than previous shows), and I still think they did a really good job," Jaray said as he and his neighbors watched the crowds file out. "It's been here for years and years, and there were concerts in the 60's, there were concerts in the 90's. It's never been a problem, and I don't see why it would be one now."
While Jaray and the neighbors admitted there are some who are opposed to the noise, they seem to think the tennis club is going about the concert revival plan the right way.
"It is a very quiet neighborhood, so I can understand that it's a lot for the people to take in," he said. "The number [of shows per summer] they have now is good."
Despite the club's concern over bringing in the sometimes-profane performers, Meier said he hopes the positive response from the community is a tell-tale sign for future concerts.
"I feel like we passed a major hurdle for a successful Forest Hills Stadium revival," he said.
Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz sat in the third row for the first few songs of the rap battle last week, and although she opposed some the language, she was happy to see it was a safe night.
"The police department did a great job, and all the agencies did a great job at keeping the calm in the community," Koslowitz said. "Businesses also did okay."
The councilwoman added that she plans to hold a community outreach meeting at her office to address the concerns from the community.
As for the outcome of the Marvel-themed rap battle, Drake took home the victory in the final bout.


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Round Lake Park police say they have arrested a man on charges that he molested a girl in the village in 2006.
Police Chief George Filenko announced Saturday that Rudimiro Huerta, 45, who most recently lived on the 4500 block of South Avers Avenue in Chicago, has been charged with two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in the case that dates more than six years.
"Although national statistics have shown a decline in reported child sexual abuse cases, the problem still exists," Filenko said. "We are committed to providing justice to victims and encourage all victims to come forward"
During a hearing Friday, a judge ordered Huerta to be held in lieu of 10 percent of a $100,000 bond at the Lake County jail. Filenko said police took Huerta into custody Thursday.
Filenko said Round Lake Park police detectives were contacted in November by the victim's mother. He said the mom informed investigators that she recently had been contacted by Chicago Public Schools officials regarding a possible molestation of her daughter in Round Lake Park on Dec. 24, 2006.
Detectives were told the victim, who was 7 at the time, and her mother attended a holiday party in Round Lake Park when the attack is reported to have occurred, Filenko said. The woman and her daughter live in Chicago.
Working with the Lake County Children's Advocacy Center -- a division of the state's attorney's office -- Round Lake Park investigators capped the roughly two-month probe by finding Huerta at his Chicago home Thursday. Filenko said Huerta was questioned and made admissions to detectives regarding the molestation accusations.


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Unlike splitting the atom, this would not have an effect on the world at large, and would more accurately reflect voter's opinions. Vote splitting certainly would have been appropriate when looking back on 2012:
As usual, we view the voting process as strictly business; not personal:
The Steeplechase category one's very much like the turf category this year. In compiling our choices, we start by counting Grade 1s before getting into subjective analysis. So riddle me this:
Which is the more compelling resume, Demonstrative winning the G1 New York Turf Writers Cup Handicap and Colonial Cup, or Pierre Lunaire taking the Lonesome Glory and Grand National? We're not sure either.
The tie breaker for us, then was the overall record which had the former going 3-for-6 on the year, including Saratoga's restricted Jonathan Kiser and with higher earnings, as opposed to 'Pierre's' 2012 slate of 2-for-5.
4-Year-Old & Up Steeplechase
1. Demonstrative
2. Pierre Lunaire
3. Spy in the Sky
While the overall crop appears a little disappointing on its face with respect to depth at this juncture, the Juvenile category boasts and definitive, worthy champion.
How can anyone argue with an undefeated, deep slate of five victories at four different venues including two Grade 1s and a Grade 2?
The runnerup in this division hails from the same barn, is also undefeated at 3-for-3 and owns two graded wins, a G1 and a G2. The second runnerup was nearly unbeaten at 6-for-7. Among the wins were three Canadian stakes—one listed, two restricted—and Kentucky's G3 Iroquois and G2 Jockey Club Stakes.
Two-Year-Old Juvenile Colts
1. Shanghai Bobby
2. Violence
3. Uncaptured
The female category was a whole lot closer and I applaud the Executiveprivilege connections for rolling the dice and trying to nail down the championship on the racetrack rather than leaving it up to the voters.
No slight to Beholder's connections, which ultimately won the title on the racetrack ad whose filly only lost to the likely champion by a nose in Del Mar's G1 Debutante. And, lest anyone forget, the rubber match went formfully and Lasix-free.
Now So Many Ways, an undefeated 3-for-3 that includes the G2 Schuylerville and G1 Spinaway, and which could ultimately prove the better three-year-old.
I would not have casted a ballot for her because, no matter what the connections said, her non-participation in the Juvenile Fillies was about Lasix withdrawal going a distance of ground, even though the filly broke her maiden by 8 lengths in a Lasix-free debut.
Two-Year-Old Filly
1. Beholder
2. Executiveprivilege
3. So Many Ways
The only drama in the Three-Year-Old Colt division is whether it's clear leader and very good race horse, I'll Have Another, will be the Horse of the Year 2012. Indeed, there are two chances of that happening, and Slim is on holiday.
The runnerup spot gave me pause and even though Bodemeister wound up with twice as many seconds as firsts, one of his two wins was a 9-1/2 length Arkansas Derby romp and two winning efforts in the Triple Crown's first two legs which, of course, he lost to the certain champion-to-be.
Second runnerup was a lot more difficult for me but I had to opt for a classics winner which went 2-for-4 including the G2 Fountain of Youth over the winner with a more compelling 4-for-8 slate that included the G3 Withers, G2 Jim Dandy and one-half of the G1 Travers.
Three-Year-Old Colt or Gelding
1. I'll Have Another
2. Bodemeister
3. Union Rags
Actually, it is unlikely that even if My Miss Aurelia had won the G1 La Brea on Santa Anita's opening day program, I would have voted her best in show. But I hadn't thought about this situation that seriously and now there is no need.
The winner of the G1 Coaching Club Oaks and Alabama pulls far more weight than a head defeat in the G1 Cotillion while spotting her winning rivals seven pounds would have disqualified her from the top spot.
The candidacy of our third choice is, in our view, almost as legitimate as the two acknowledged frontrunners even without a two-turn victory of any kind. But two G1 victories in the prestigious Test and Acorn Stakes, plus a G3 score, is an impressive score card.
Perhaps the connections might have considered avoiding Groupie Doll and take on males in the Breeders' Cup Sprint. That certainly would have eliminated a blowout in the filly category and would have provided food for thought in the sprint division.
Three-Year-Old Filly
1. Questing
2. My Miss Aurelia
3. Contested
The first truly vexing category is that of older male: The more accomplished Fort Larned, given victories in the G1 Whitney and Breeders' Cup Classic, or Wise Dan, with a voluminous 5-for-6 slate, all graded stakes, three of them G1, none of which were on dirt.
Tevye the Dairyman would be proud: Tradition broke the tie. The battle for second runnerup was just as perplexing, but two G1s vs. no G1s won the day, losing it for Mucho Macho Man.
Four-Year-Old & Up Males
1. Fort Larned
2. Wise Dan
3. Shackleford
Coming Saturday: Final Choices for Horse and Trainer of the Year plus all remaining categories


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Riding the arm of junior pitcher Kiley Lythberg, the Central College softball team secured a sweep of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Saturday afternoon. Consecutive complete games by Lythberg guided the Dutch to wins of 5-3 and 5-0, and made it three wins this month over the Bluegolds.
Central, which is ranked No. 11 in the nation in the latest NFCA poll, had previously defeated Wisconsin-Eau Claire 2-0 in Panama City on March 13th. The Dutch are 14-5 and will need to maintain their high level of play next weekend, as they travel to Cedar Rapids to face last year's Division III runner-up – Coe College.


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I lost my first blog when I uploaded a photo and now I can't get it back. The post revision tool only goes back 4 and not 25 edits. Does this mean the whole thing is now lost??
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Welcome from Utah, EQ. No doubt you will enjoy it here. Lots to learn too!
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When you crawl up from Hell, you might find Heaven, in the U.P. Welcome from another Yooper!
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Thank you everyone for the warm welcome! I'll check out the trip planning thread for sure. I have a good friend who'd probably love to go, too.
I haven't spent much time at Pinckney Rec but this year I plan to check it out; I live five minutes from Brighton Rec so I usually end up over there trail hiking or at the lake with the spawn.
I've lived in MI for about 10 years and have never been up north. This year I hope to change that. =)
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Kristin Cavallari: I'm Putting My Acting Career on Hold
Vijat Mohindra
Absence makes the heart grow stronger? Not so, says Kristin Cavallari.
Since settling in the Windy City with her fiancé, Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler, the reality star has turned down several acting offers, preferring to focus on her fashion lines that keep her closer to the couple's home.
"I've passed on a couple of things that would have kept me here in L.A. because my fiancé Jay has to be in Chicago, so if I was here, we would never see each other," Cavallari says in Coco Eco magazine's April/May issue. "The sacrifices we make for love…"
With a big summer wedding in the works, the pair are planning to make their union permanent. However, other than sharing the season of their nuptials, the future newlyweds are keeping all other details secret.
For now, in place of pursuing her professional career on camera, Cavallari is balancing her designing projects — in addition to her shoe line with Chinese Laundry, the new mom recently launched a jewelry collection — with taking care of her two boys: Cutler and their 8-month-old son Camden Jack.
"It's easy to get wrapped up in your career and have that be your only focus, and I want my marriage to work and last — and family comes first," she says. "The design work is great because I can do most of it from Chicago and I have so much fun with it. I love it and it all works out."
Having quickly bounced back after baby, Cavallari has also been keeping up with her healthy habits that carried her through her pregnancy.
"My dad is a big health-nut so I've always tried to be as organic as possible, but when I became pregnant I took it to a whole new level and was even more conscious of what I was putting in my body," she shares. "I gained 25 pounds which is what I was supposed to gain, and since then I have been choosing more of a plant-based diet. I work out four times a week and just try to live healthy."
Not only did she shy away from red meat while expecting, but Cavallari, 26, also began to anticipate how she would provide her baby boy with a healthy start to life, too.
"It was more toward the end of my pregnancy that I started thinking about the products I would be buying and using, and started reading labels," she says. "I don't want to put anything on [Camden] which has chemicals, and so everything is organic."
Her rule of thumb? "If you can't pronounce the name, you should not be eating it. And it's the same for beauty products as well," she adds.
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Wandering Soul
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The TruthMy first boyfriend's name was Kyle. He had been two months younger than me, with burly muscles and a killer body. I still remembered the jealousy on my friends' faces when I introduced him. He hadn't attended our school, but we were in the same district.
"You're so lucky, Rose. Only you could have gotten a guy like him," A friend of mine commented. It had been the summer before freshman year. "He's so big and he looks like he could crush you…" She laughed. "But he looks
This is a very significant chapter, which I hope you all get. I wrote part of it when I was still working on the first chapter, and I've finally caught up. Please tell me what you think, and comments are appreciated!!! Thanks! :)
And he did, to a certain extent. My taste in guys hadn't wavered very far from the personality that was Kyle's… That is, when I first met him. It turned out he hadn't been very honest with me when we'd first met. He had already had a girlfriend, though he claimed they had been on a 'break'.
A break that broke my heart.
But first heartaches are supposed to be hard, and they're supposed to help anyone grow a thicker skin so that, no matter what happens, they'll be able to withstand anything coming they're way.
Kyle helped me in so many ways. Without him, I probably would have been ignorant to guys like him, and I may never have met David. I just wished it didn't have to be this way… I just wished I could have had more time with the perfect guy… I just wished I had been prepared for this kind of heartbreak.
Along the road back to the school, after spending the night at the beach, the three of us entered a rundown house. It had probably already been empty before we went in. That was what Natalya claimed when David had opposed to the idea of going into any building.
"We'll be fine," Natalya said with vehemence. "We're in a crisis, if you haven't noticed, and I think a few handy tools will do us some good."
"A few handy tools like what?" David nearly shouted.
I was almost surprised. What happened to the David who wanted to go to the school, and the David who agreed to spend a night on the beach, and the David I knew?
Natalya shrugged, oblivious to his tone. "Like a knife, or a flashlight, or… or I don't know! But we need stuff! We need knew clothes and blankets and… just survival things! You're the Boy Scout! I'm just trying to survive. We have to survive, you know? We're here for a reason."
"Just cut that crap, will you?"
I would have pursed my lips. They were arguing. I felt a bit frustrated at having to hear them, but a sense of hope was bubbling up in the center of my soul. It was a bit exhilarating. Something was coming. Something was going to happen. Maybe I still had a chance.
Natalya found a tattered bag under a few piles of wood. She hefted it over a shoulder and, with one glare at David, trotted into another room in search of her survival items. She really was determined to go through with this.
David growled in exasperation and hit the wall beside him with a fist. Pieces of debris sprinkled down on him playfully.
"Careful, David," I said. "If this house falls down, you'll never find my body. You have to go back to the school if you're to do that, and you can't if you kill yourself and Natalya."
He banged his fist again, and I gave up. "I never knew you had anger problems," I mentioned casually. Again, no answer. "I know it's early in the morning, but seriously! Be sad instead. Anger won't get you anywhere."
I knew from experience. It was Kyle who had taught me that. Anger was like a disease, spreading to the person being faced with it, and on and on until it came back. The cycle was almost never ending.
"Natalya!" David called out. "Come one!" And he hit his fist again.
She stumbled into the main room, a scowl on her face. "Alright, we're going." Her bag was irregularly shaped now. She gestured to the door. "Well? Come on. We should get out of here as fast as we can. You nearly brought the roof down."
"I didn't do anything!"
Natalya gaped. "The whole house was moving!"
"So? That wasn't me."
With a shake of her head, Natalya stomped out of the house, David following close behind. She said, "Who else could have been hitting the walls of the house over and over again if it wasn't you? Are you telling me ghosts exist?"
I nearly laughed. Ghosts, souls… They were similar.
"I never said anything about ghosts. Maybe there was an earthquake."
"Oh, please!" Natalya yelled. "What are you trying to prove?"
David shrugged, his eyes bugging wildly. "I don't know! Why don't you tell me? I mean, you don't seem to even notice what's happened to the world. No. Instead, you want to visit the beach, and you want to enter abandoned houses, and… It's like you don't care!"
"These are survival tools, David," Natalya said sternly. "For our survival. I see what's happening in the world and I'm trying to make sure we don't go too. That's all I'm saying. I do care, okay? I care a lot more than you know. But I can't forget that we still have a life to live. We can't forget that there still may be survivors, maybe across the ocean! We can't live next to our school for the rest of our lives."
"I don't believe this," David said.
"You better! You're just going to get killed!"
The sun shone bright again, depriving me of any vision for a second. My soul tried to whisk away from the light. I couldn't close my eyes. It died down after a moment. David was speaking.
"Well, maybe I want to die!"
That had me speechless, and Natalya looked stunned. Her bag hung loosely by a hand, just barely touching the ground. She gulped visibly and turned away, whispering something only I could hear, "You can't."
Before I knew it, David was on his way back to the rocks by the school, going back to the simple life he had gotten used to. I guessed what he was feeling, that going to the beach had been a bit too much, had been a bit too soon.
And he was struggling.
"See, Natalya?" I said softly. "He wasn't ready. You shouldn't have pushed him so hard."
She breathed in deeply, her chest rising high. She told me, or herself, "I have to try."
She moved more slowly, more unsure than she had been the night before. It was as if all personalities had been switched when the sun came up in the morning. I was no longer brooding, but David was coming to realize the disaster. I didn't know how long the shock would last. Perhaps forever.
It was too long a time.
"Don't let him die," I pleaded silently.
Natalya's face was a mask of determination. She didn't say a word, but I knew what she was thinking, and I knew she would get around to David. She had a way with words in a different way than I did, and she was much more stubborn.
I was not in the least afraid of David being close to death. It wouldn't be right.
The remains of the school came into view, which was when Natalya made a sharp turn around the side. Was she not ready either, to find out the truth?
David wasn't dead. His foot was twitching up and down, drumming against the floor he sat on. He seemed to be pondering something. He kept on staring in the direction of the place where we had met. I wondered if he missed it, if he missed me. He hadn't expressed his feelings in a while.
Natalya grabbed a piece of dry wood with contemplation. And then she took out a knife. She had nothing else to do.
After a time, I couldn't even remember how long, David looked at her, working her muscles, making use of her time like he should have been doing. Once he was over the shock, he would be ready to go to the school to find me. That was all I could hold on to.
"What do you think happens when we die?" Natalya finally asked. The breeze, I thought, would have felt very nice. Only the ruffling leaves told me there even was a breeze.
David shrugged, his gaze wandering away from her. "Ask the people who died. I wouldn't know."
"Don't be sore. You can't just give up."
"I want to give up. Life was perfect. And then my brother died. And then my parents died. And then my girlfriend died. And then the whole world disappeared, and it's only you. There's no once else but you, Natalya, and it's lonely. Don't you see how lonely it is?"
I couldn't hide the disapproval rising in me at the ruthless way David was lashing out at Natalya. It wasn't her fault she was alive! "And I am too," I shouted at him. "Natalya's right. You shouldn't be sore."
And then Natalya was irate. She stood up and threw down the knife she'd been using to carve patterns on her piece of wood. "You can't feel sorry for yourself. You can't be so dark. Look up! The sun is out. And the air—it's fresh for the first time in ages! Don't think you're in this alone. I lost my best friend. I lost the parents I hadn't been on good terms with since before I left high school. I never told them I loved them. At least you shared their final moments with them. That's something to count for, so please, don't feel sorry for yourself."
A strong breeze ruffled Natalya's long hair, and the silence was unnerving. If only I could have filled it. "I'm not dead, you guys," I kept wanting to correct. "My soul lives, even though I'm not in my body. You don't even know that Justin perfected his invention."
"What do you think?" David said finally, his scowl fading.
"About what?"
"About death. What happens to people when they die?"
Natalya thought for only a second before she opened her mouth. "I think they get judged by God, or whoever runs this world. That's when they find out everything—if they were talked about behind their backs, if their close ones really loved them, if there was anyone who played a part in where they ended up. They find out the chances they missed and the choices that were right. They know everything. Then they're sent to their place. If they've been doing all they thought was right, they go to heaven. If their soul is corrupt, they go to hell."
"And those in between?"
"I don't know. Purgatory. Or, even, remain on earth, but as a lost soul."
"Do you really think that happens? Souls get lost?"
Natalya shrugged. "I won't know till I die, I guess. But it would make sense. Maybe a soul just needs a sense of peace before he or she is judged by the… almighty one. You know, everything happens for a reason."
The repeated statement made more sense now.
David kept quiet and closed his eyes. There were tears ready to escape the corners of his eyes. "I hope Rose knows then," He said. "I hope she's seen her whole life before her eyes, and I hope she was told that I love her, and I always will, and I look forward to the day when we're reunited. I hope."
"You're not hopeless," Natalya told him, placing a hand on his shoulder.
But I was.
For the first time, I faced the possibility that I was dead.
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LuvLife said...
Feb. 19, 2013 at 8:16 pm
Feb. 19, 2013 at 8:16 pm
Wow. Stunning.Exceptional. Amazing job! I hope to see your book in a bookstore by the way! :)
whiterose said...
Apr. 27, 2012 at 12:38 am
Apr. 27, 2012 at 12:38 am
This seems so intense, I love it. I like how there's the perfect gentlemen and the sweet guy, but most of all I LOVE the end. This is most definitely 5/5. Keep writing, also can you check out some of my work.
Garnet77 replied...
Apr. 27, 2012 at 2:29 am
Apr. 27, 2012 at 2:29 am
Thank you! And I'll try to get around to your work soon :)
whiterose said...
Apr. 27, 2012 at 12:38 am
Apr. 27, 2012 at 12:38 am
This seems so intense, I love it. I like how there's the perfect gentlemen and the sweet guy, but most of all I LOVE the end. This is most definitely 5/5. Keep writing, also can you check out some of my work.
Coral Y. said...
Mar. 24, 2012 at 7:14 pm
Mar. 24, 2012 at 7:14 pm
Awesome story! The idea of watching your boyfriend fall for someone else when you can do nothing about it is heartwrenching...I liked your ending because it did seem fitting for Rose to finally let go of David even if it was a bit painful to read.
Garnet77 replied...
Mar. 24, 2012 at 7:45 pm
Mar. 24, 2012 at 7:45 pm
Yeah, that's what I was going for. Thank you so much for the comment! :)
CautionwetPaint said...
Jan. 6, 2012 at 9:14 am
Jan. 6, 2012 at 9:14 am
Hey garnet, sorry it took me so long to comment. But this is epic!!! It's definitely understandable how it got rated #2 :) I only had time to read the first chapter but I definitely intend on finishing it. Awesome Job!
Garnet77 replied...
Jan. 6, 2012 at 9:06 pm
Jan. 6, 2012 at 9:06 pm
Thanks!!! :)
Zenny said...
Dec. 11, 2011 at 9:17 am
Dec. 11, 2011 at 9:17 am
I really like your writing style. THe characters and Justin's problem and mentality with his father are believable, too. I really like it, especially how i kept reading even when there was light action in teh beginning. nice job.
Garnet77 replied...
Dec. 12, 2011 at 4:10 am
Dec. 12, 2011 at 4:10 am
I'm glad it seemed believable. Thank you :)
RayBaytheDinosaur said...
Oct. 24, 2011 at 11:29 pm
Oct. 24, 2011 at 11:29 pm
This is really awesome and so creative! You really have a great talent for writing =D
Garnet77 replied...
Oct. 25, 2011 at 12:08 am
Oct. 25, 2011 at 12:08 am
Thank you :)
ZeRo183. said...
Oct. 22, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Oct. 22, 2011 at 5:43 pm
wow. words can not describe, and i thought it was very true about the first love, it makes you more stronger.
Garnet77 replied...
Oct. 23, 2011 at 7:50 am
Oct. 23, 2011 at 7:50 am
Thanks so much :)
yellowflower said...
Sept. 10, 2011 at 1:21 pm
Sept. 10, 2011 at 1:21 pm
I love this! the idea of being there but not seen or heard is very intriguing! so creative! WOW! :)
Garnet77 replied...
Sept. 10, 2011 at 8:58 pm
Sept. 10, 2011 at 8:58 pm
Thank you :)
ArchimedesWhite replied...
Sept. 26, 2011 at 7:38 am
Sept. 26, 2011 at 7:38 am
I can't finish it right now, but i'm going to try. It is amazing, and i'm glad i waited...
All in all- well done!
Garnet77 replied...
Sept. 26, 2011 at 9:43 am
Sept. 26, 2011 at 9:43 am
Thank you!!
Garnet77 said...
Sept. 4, 2011 at 8:56 am
Sept. 4, 2011 at 8:56 am
The ending has been posted, so all of you have been waiting, please leave your thoughts! It would mean the world to me. :)
Timekeeper said...
Aug. 7, 2011 at 2:44 pm
Aug. 7, 2011 at 2:44 pm
Excellent! Your characters were relatable and grounded, even the "unrealistic" parts of the storyline were handled perfectly!


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Low wages combined with ever increasing demands of the professional era is forcing some players from the sport too early, says the boss of the New Zealand netball players' association.
The advent of the transtasman league has given some players the opportunity to earn a fulltime living from the sport, while others are at least earning a bit more than the petrol money players of Jodi Brown's era earned when they were starting out.
But the demands on the players are also much more taxing. To compete in the 17-week competition, players need to be fitter, faster and stronger - training and time commitments have intensified.
"I don't like the term semi-professional," says Tim Lythe, chief executive of the NZNPA.
"These are professional athletes training fulltime, they're just not getting paid a fulltime wage."
One of the biggest challenges for Lythe has been to educate franchises and coaches about what is fair to expect of the players given their remuneration. Teams have operated on a salary cap of just $300,000 in the competition's five years. Split 12 ways that is just $25,000, but socialism has never had a place in professional sport and star players take a big chunk of the cap, while the rest receive only the minimum player payment of $12,000.
"Some expectations are over the top. The coaches are fulltime, the administrators are fulltime, but not all the players are getting paid a fulltime wage. They want to win the competition so they want access to players 24/7, but that's just not realistic," Lythe said. "It can precipitate players leaving the sport."
The competition will always have top-end players and young rookies looking to establish themselves in the world's toughest netball league, but it is the "middle" tier that Lythe worries about - the experienced journeywomen who are still valuable contributors at ANZ Championship level.
"[This] group add depth and are the strength of the competition," Lythe says.
He cites players like former Mystics pair Stephanie Bond and Debbie White, who were forced to retire prematurely as they could not put their careers on hold for what they were being paid. There have been instances across the Tasman, too, the most notable being Firebirds defender Clare McMeniman, who retired at the age of just 26 after a stand-out performance in her side's grand final win in 2011.
Bond, a former Silver Ferns squad member, retired after two seasons in the ANZ Championship. The athletic defender found the training, travel and promotional commitments too difficult to juggle with her career as a sports lawyer.
"I reached a crossroads. I was trying to burn the candle at both ends and it wasn't really working," Bond says. "The sport has changed so much in terms of the hours you need to do and training during work hours, so it has basically become a choice you need to make - you can't play netball and work fulltime."
For the players to be paid more, the competition needs to be generating more revenue. But the lucrative broadcast deal from Australian networks that organisers were banking on when the competition started hasn't eventuated.
"It's really difficult to say the players need to be paid more because the money has to come from somewhere," says Bond. "There is a real balance between making it sustainable for the organisation and a sustainable career choice for the player."
Lythe, too, knows he's not in a position to demand more money for the players. The association has been able to make small steps this season, increasing the salary cap to $380,000 and raising the number of contracted players to 14 to formalise the training partner agreements. The minimum player payment has also increased marginally from $12,000 to $15,000.
"It's a small shift but it is a step in the right direction," Lythe says. "There is a frustration there that there is not a lot of money to go around."


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Rafa Benitez looks to continue Chelsea's impressive recent form with victory over Norwich at Carrow Road today.
The Chelsea boss guided the Blues to a famous 8-0 win against Aston Villa last Sunday, and the Spaniard is unlikely to make many changes from the starting XI that took apart Paul Lambert's young Villa side.
But John Obi Mikel is back in contention following the completion of his three-game ban, and the Nigerian could return to the Chelsea team. David Luiz's excellent performance in the holding midfield role means Mikel could replace Frank Lampard rather than the Brazilian.
John Terry is unlikely to be fit to face the Canaries, while Ryan Bertrand is still struggling with a groin injury and is rated as doubtful.
Fernando Torres, back among the goals under Benitez, will continue to spearhead the attack, but the Chelsea boss could opt for a slight reshuffle behind the striker.
Victor Moses, Eden Hazard and Juan Mata have all played regularly recently, and following the long trip to Japan for the Club World Cup, Benitez could go for the fresher legged Oscar in an advanced attacking midfield position.
Elsewhere, history suggests this could be a tough fixture for Norwich – they have not beaten Chelsea in their last eight attempts and the Stamford Bridge outfit haven not lost in their last seven Boxing Day matches. An imposing combination.
So, with the kick-off set for 3pm, GMF gives you it's predicted line-up...
Cech, Azpilicueta, Cahill, Ivanovic, Cole, Mikel, Luiz, Oscar, Moses, Hazard, Torres
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- Some of America's most cash-strapped taxpayers – those from low- and moderate-income families – spent nearly $1 billion in the latest year recorded for what is almost always an unnecessary product: the so-called "refund anticipation loan" at income tax time. With another tax season gearing up, consumer advocates at the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) and Consumer Federation of America (CFA) are warning taxpayers to steer clear of refund anticipation loans (RALs), one of the most avoidable tax-time expenses. New figures reveal that RALs drained about $960 million in loan fees, plus over $100 million in other fees, from the wallets of nearly 9.6 million American taxpayers in 2005. "Taxpayers can save themselves over a billion dollars by just saying 'no' to quick tax refund loans," says NCLC staff attorney Chi Chi Wu. "These loans take a chunk out of your hard earned tax refund, and they expose you to the risk of unmanageable debt if your refund doesn't arrive as expected."
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The Canadarm2 released Orbital Sciences' Cygnus commercial craft at 7:31 a.m. EDT Tuesday after three weeks at the International Space Station. Flight Engineers Luca Parmitano and Karen Nyberg were at the controls of the robotics workstation removing Cygnus from the Harmony node then safely releasing it.
Parmitano and Flight Engineer Mike Hopkins closed the hatches and depressurized Cygnus Monday morning. On Wednesday, the Cygnus will fire its engines for the last time at 1:41 p.m. and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere for a fiery destruction over the Pacific Ocean.
Cygnus delivered 1,300 pounds of gear on Sept. 29 when it arrived and was captured by Canadarm2 again with Nyberg and Parmitano at the controls. After Cygnus was captured and berthed to the Harmony node it successfully completed its demonstration mission to the International Space Station.
Orbital Sciences' first official commercial resupply mission is scheduled for launch in December when Cygnus on the Orbital 1 mission will launch from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Future Cygnus flights will ensure a robust national capability to deliver critical science research to orbit, significantly increasing NASA's ability to conduct new science investigations to the only laboratory in microgravity.
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John Colletta will be the featured speaker at a full day conference sponsored by the Lincoln-Lancaster County Genealogical Society and Southeast Community College on October 9, 2010. Cost is $50 which includes conference materials and lunch. The registration deadline is October 1. The conference will be held at the SCC Continuing Education Center, 301 S. 68th Street Place in Lincoln.
Colletta's topics are:
- Assembling and Writing a Narrative Family History
- Turning Biographical Facts into Real-Life Events: Building Historical Context
- Our Spectacular Library of Congress: An Overview with Research Examples
- Understanding Archives: What They Are and How to Use Them
The Greater Omaha Genealogical Society fall conference will be October 30, 2010 at Nebraska Methodist College, 720 N. 87th St., Omaha. Advance registration is $20 for membership and $30 for nonmembers. Lunch is available for $4.50
Sessions include:
- Land Records - presented by Lynne A. Farr
- Oral Histories - presented by Lucille Saunders
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Why Watching Basketball Made Me Think of QuiltingApril 6th, 2011 by Morna
As I watched the Final Four Tournament on Saturday, I was thinking about what basketball and the professional creative arts, specifically quilting, have something in common. Is it any surprise my mind would go to quilting?
1. Passion. This is the first obvious. These kids love basketball, and for them it is their art. What we pay attention to grows. Just as the college athletes pay attention to basketball and their skills and love of the game increase, our skill level in our art increases with increased attention. Our knowledge and love of the art grows as we look at more quilts, go to more galleries, take more classes. And, our skill level at marketing, and our passion at marketing, also increases proportionately to the effort we put into it. How much effort are you putting into growing your business?
2. Practice. For these teams to have made it this far, they had to practice quite a lot. It takes discipline to get to this level, and I know of players who spend extra hours in the gym to practice their free-throw or three-point shots. I often hear longarm quilters talk about the three Ps: practice, practice, practice. We can't expect to get good at anything without putting in the work. Do you schedule time on a regular basis to develop your skills?
3. "French pastry" isn't necessary. I can remember the late Al Maguire, college basketball coach and TV commentator, call the fancy moves kids made up and down the court "French pastry." Sometimes it's fun to watch all the fancy stuff; sometimes it pays off with a score; sometimes it doesn't. At a quilt show, we all ooh and aah at the quilt with all the complicated piecing and appliqué or the quilt with the elaborate feather stitching. It's a real treat, though, to see that quilt with the simple design that is just exquisitely executed. Fancy isn't always the answer.
4. The small guys can become the big guys. By the time the teams in the basketball tournament made it to the finals, none of the top seeds were left. One of those teams (VCU) was seeded number 11, meaning that at least 40 teams out of 68 in the tournament were ranked higher. We can see this in the quilt world. All the "big names" started out as "small names." I think what makes the difference in moving from small to big is a vision, practice and determination. It's a cliché to say, "it's anybody's game," but it's true. You just have to decide to get in the game.
5. It's a team effort. It's not one person on the college basketball team who wins or loses the game. Basketball great Michael Jordan is quoted as saying "There's no 'i' in team, but there is in 'win.'" Most of us in quilt or creative arts businesses need others on our team to make us successful. It could be the longarm quilter who turns our outstanding quilt top into a masterpiece, the group that tests our patterns before they get to market, even the babysitter who watches your kids so you have time to design.
6.Successful teams and athletes have winning coaches. I thinks it's important at almost any stage of our business to have someone to provide feedback, help you fulfill your vision, keep you accountable, and provide support. Successful sports teams or athletes have coaches that do this. Successful creative arts professionals also seek help, whether that's a formal arrangement with a business coach or a local support group with like-minded artists.
I can think of other comparisons between basketball and our business. I'm sure you can, too. Please share them here.
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Oh, good. Seems like we haven't had a proper internet war since Usenet vs. Scientology or vi vs. emacs.
Oh well, at least the right people usually win. What would've happened if Scientology or emacs had won?
I'm guessing Sanger certainly hoped for some sort of media frenzy. He's spent the past eight years since he quit working on Wikipedia mostly trying to trade off the fact that he used to be involved in it.
Judas Priest people. Are you gonna start making pigs wear clothes, and babies cover their nakedness (ohnoes!). "Because God created it, the human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve intact its splendor and its beauty." - Pope John Paul II
THIS is not pornography: (Although it is not safe for work.) It is Homo sapiens in his natural state. And that is all the wikipedia shows - it does Not display pornography.
http://www.domai.com/ [domai.com]
It is Homo sapiens in his natural state.
Don't go there expecting to see much naked his.
Normally, if you want to report a crime, you do it with an off the record quiet message to the authorities, which allows them to try to actually catch the people committing the crime in the act. Normally, if you want to get a project you are related to to stop doing something you worry might be a crime, you first contact the people responsible; especially those you believe aren't involved, and try to get them to do something about it. If, as it seems, Sanger went to the media first of all then that speaks volumes about his motivation.
Having said that; Wales is probably an okay guy, but his position in Wikipedia has been totally inappropriate since his personal life and finances intruded on the project. Once Wikipedia set its self up as an independent foundation all his power should have been derived from some clear democratic process in that foundation. The stupid thing (and the one which shows that he's a completely inappropriate person for the role) is the fact that he could probably have quite easily got himself elected president of the board or something and then none of the arguments against him would be nearly as effective. What Sanger has done may be a bit late, but it's definitely one of the strongest hopes of strengthening the Wikipedia project.
Indeed, this situation really threatens Wikipedia's standing as non-bias (specifically, censorship-free) and open, at least among those who didn't already know better. Could this be the straw that breaks Wikipedia?
No... It might hurt your feelings if you hold Wikipedia to be a divine entity... However, wikipedia is a made up of Humans, and AFAIK we're pretty good to fail...
That doesn't mean that wikipedia can't correct it.. It's not as if, Wikipedia is suddenly starting to support censorship all over the line... Just that maybe Wales, didn't think his every move fully through... Or that Fox will say what ever the **** they think will make people continue to watch their show...
By the way, to say that wikipedia is in
By the way, to say that wikipedia is in chaos, based on a statement from a single unnamed source... is bad press ethics...
Perhaps... Fox News is in chaos?
One has to wonder how much Fox News has been influenced by Jimmy Wales' former lover [wikipedia.org].
Wow.. she seems like a "nice" girl..
It has long been known to anyone who ever tried to contribute to Wikipedia just how much off the books power Wales has.
Which he has, very publicly, given up at least (IIRC) three times.
Larry's been sending a bunch of emails to at least one mailing list I subscribe to (EDTECH) breathlessly discussing the legion of kiddie porn images on Wikipedia and how teachers need to ban all access to Wikipedia.
The actual teachers, on the other hand, are mostly telling him to go away- they're already used to handling porn and other "forbidden" stuff in the classroom and it's simply not a big deal.
I don't know if he's really, genuinely worried or if this is just a lever to hurt Wales, but frankly it's kind of annoying. (I'm not a big fan of Wales either, but Larry's so obviously grinding his axe here he's not converting me at least)
"Though he remains the president of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wales is no longer able to delete files, remove administrators, assign projects or edit any content, sources say. Essentially, they say, he has gone from having free reign over the content and people involved in the websites to having the same capabilities of a low-level administrator."
Ignorance of the Masses => Democracy
Will we actually notice any changes?
Will we actually notice any changes?
Quite possibly. There have been many instances when Wikipedia's "consensus" (explicitly not democratic) decision-making completely failed and Wales stepped in as "the king" to make the final decision.
"Though he remains the president of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wales is no longer able to delete files, remove administrators, assign projects or edit any content, sources say. Essentially, they say, he has gone from having free reign over the content and people involved in the websites to having the same capabilities of a low-level administrator."
If something belongs to somebody, they always have more privileges than low-level wikipedia admin. Do you really think that he can't restore his super privileges
In the other direction, though, Wales has not in recent memory had unlimited use of any of those powers in practice. He had some bits set that gave him a bunch of admin privileges, but if he ever tried to use them, as he did here, you can see what the result would be: he was reverted and forced to back down. So I don't think the removal of bits is a particularly important change; then, as now, his primary power is soft-power.
Early on, yes (and I've been around since then, too). My comment is mostly referring to the past five years. The autofellatio and Sanger-editing incidents were in 2005, and incidentally, he didn't prevail on the latter one. The Rachel Madsen incident happened in 2007, and he did pretty much the opposite of prevailing on that one.
"Though he remains the president of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wales is no longer able to delete files, remove administrators, assign projects or edit any content, sources say. Essentially, they say, he has gone from having free reign over the content and people involved in the websites to having the same capabilities of a low-level administrator."
Uh... on Wikipedia, the capabilities of a low-level administrator include being able to delete files, assign projects and edit content. And yes, he can still do those things too.
I can't wait for Murdoch to get soundly trounced by the internet he hates so much.
Murdoch against porn?
http://www.page3.com/ [page3.com]
Wikipedia against "child" (by USA standards, and the more recent British standards) porn
The Sun and other British tabloids have also provoked controversy by featuring girls as young as 16 as topless models. Samantha Fox, Maria Whittaker, Debee Ashby, and many others began their topless modelling careers in The Sun at that age, while the Daily Sport was even known to count down the days until it could feature a teenage girl topless on her 16th birthday, as it did with Linsey Dawn McKenzie in 1994, among others. Although such photographs were legally permissible in the United Kingdom under the Protection of Children Act 1978, critics noted the irony of Murdoch's Sun and News of the World newspapers calling for stricter laws on the sexual abuse of minors, including the public identification of released pedophiles, while publishing topless photographs of girls whom many other jurisdictions would legally classify as underage minors.[8] Controversy over these young models ended when the Sexual Offences Act 2003 raised the minimum age for topless modelling to 18.
(From Wikipedia [wikipedia.org])
The Sun are guilty of much hypocrisy - but sorry, doing something that is legal, and only illegal elsewhere is not one of them. It would be absurd as criticising the Wikipedia (hosted in the US) Virgin Killers article, because it might be illegal in places like the UK.
A better example would be, as you note earlier in your comment, the habit of certain tabloids focusing on celebrities approaching 16 (most notably the Daily Star, who did this on one page, and then on the opposite page they were slagging off t
Er Flamebait? Did Larry Sanger get mods points, or is a mod here seriously suggesting that papers and Wikipedia should be constrained by what's illegal in other countries, even if it's legal for them?
Nudity of a human body, whether that body is 60, 16, or 6, is not a crime. Every day (when it's warm) millions of people around the world run-around topless or naked on beaches, or in nudist camps. Many of them even take photos and stick them in their family albums. Civilization has not collapsed.
We gave him all that Avatar money, so the wait can be long.
Larry Sanger totally and completely discredited himself by starting this allegation fiasco. From a pursuer of an alternative editing strategy (which, despite shortcomings, was addressing a real (or perceived as real) problem of content quality of Wikipedia due to editorial policy, he turned himself into a cheapshot troll that will resort to the dirtiest tactic possible to attract attention. Even if his allegations were genuine (which clearly they aren't, on numerous points of principle), he'll never be able to get over the sour grapes analogy which will forever become his soubriquet.
Even the minor PR damage caused to Wales (and I really think Wales was just looking for a reason/excuse to give up his adminship, as he was realizing "benevolent dictatorship" was no longer a fitting model for a project the scope and developmental maturity of Wikipedia) will not outweight the devastating damage to any professional reputation Sanger still had before this point.
Bye Larry. From a legitimate oppositioner to a resentful clown, all by a single, stupid, stupid decision. How sad.
Actually I don't blame Larry at all, in this witch hunt anyone that goes for the CYA strategy is just showing they have a brain. I mean we are living in an age where a drawing [themorningstarr.co.uk], no matter how crude [stuff.co.nz], and that involves no real children what so ever can get someone sent to PMITA prison depending on their location.
The simple fact is it has long since quit being about "protecting the children" and become a classic witch hunt where I doubt anyone is truly safe if they end up with a zealous prosecutor and a hang 'em high judge. Is that an elf in the game you are playing? Looks like she might be loli! Hell we are gonna have to have every single fantasy/Sci Fi book have a porn style "all models depicted or described in this work was over 18" in the front of the book just to keep from risking jail!
So don't blame the guy for CYA when it is the whole system that is completely fucked. I mean you can go to prison just for having words on a page [canadaeast.com] nowadays, so just the fact that he accessed those pages on his PC without reporting them could have landed the guy a jail sentence. I mean, what would you have him do, keep a stack of HDDs handy so he can burn his drive every time he accessed Wikimedia, in case something got cached? If you don't like this horseshit, write to your elected officials and try to organize your fellow citizens to get the laws overturned. Of course you'll probably be labeled a kiddy fiddler by the MSM and have your place raided, but that's what happens when you have a witch hunt and why most people will go for a CYA in this crazy time.
Somehow I doubt Sangers actually feared being prosecuted. I agree the laws are nonsense, but when something's being openly hosted and accessed by thousands of people, the most likely people to be prosecuted are those hosting it, and Wikimedia had not been prosecuted for hosting any materials despite having these up for a long time. That makes the likelihood of some random visitor being prosecuted quite small, and I find it unlikely Sangers really believed he was in danger of being prosecuted. More likely, he: 1) hates Wikipedia, so wants to do anything he can to bring it down; and 2) is a media whore.
You know... I went and read that link you posted about fictional writing, and with only a few small exceptions every single commenter was declaring that the punishment wasn't severe enough.
How sad.
Where would the law draw THAT line then ? Canada's law prohibits fictional writing about sex involving children... well I guess it's illegal to read Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliette in Canada then. Every single line in that play is a thinly veiled sexual refference, every single word they say is flirtatious and promising of sex. Juliette goes so far as to decry having to wait longer "to be enjoyed"... and according to the script... she is 12 years old.
Times change. In the 1600's a 12 year old girl was considered a grown woman and the average age of marriage was between 12 and 15 (you know that whole wait-till-you-marry idea must have been a LOT easier when that meant 2 years after puberty rather than about 20 like now) - point is.
By modern standards, Julliete was a child, way below the age of consent for just about any country. If we ban the stories this man had, we have to ban Shakespeare... well we wouldn't be first I guess.
Hell old Bowdler actually deemed himself justified to have the audacity to rewrite Shakespeare and remove the sex...
I didn't start my comment with "I hate childporn but..." - because it's a sign off the witch-hunt that everybody who shows a little reason in these matters feel the need to do that. Stallman spoke out against the witchhunt, and got a bunch of the Novellian New-breed OSS'ers calling him a paedohphile for it.
It seems humanity will never learn, witch-hunts are never just -and whatever atrocity leads to a witch-hunt, the one thing you can be sure of is that the witch-hunt will do nothing to reduce it. All it will do - is remove justice and freedoms from a whole lot of innocent people. My claim that censorship is never a good thing rest firstly on the fact that no matter how noble it's cause, it's never effective in any positive way - but it always has many negative effects.
Thank goodness I got to study Shakespeare BEFORE we Romeo and Juliette became illegal.
Where would the law draw THAT line then ? Canada's law prohibits fictional writing about sex involving children... well I guess it's illegal to read Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliette in Canada then. Every single line in that play is a thinly veiled sexual refference, every single word they say is flirtatious and promising of sex. Juliette goes so far as to decry having to wait longer "to be enjoyed"... and according to the script... she is 12 years old.
Yes, but there's no actual fucking on stage, so it sho
>Yes, but there's no actual fucking on stage, so it should be OK.
So a girl of 12 lying in bed dreaming out loud of her boy fucking her tomorrow is okay. At least some scholars believe that it was Shakespeare's intent to suggest she is masturbating while thinking about it - though of course hidden enough to pass the censhorship of the day. Several later stage productions show her in bed under the blankets with suggestive movements to reinforce this point. Even the 1996 movie with Leo DiCaprio very strongl
It is an odd society that we live in, in which Harry Potter fan-fic is considered child pornography, even though no children were victimized.
"They don't even bother to contact me before publishing nonsense."
FOX is in the business of publishing nonsense.
Is conservapedia a joke site serious or a bit of both?
The Schafly geniuses are deeply involved, so at least some of them think it's serious.
I'd be surprised if there weren't plenty of trolls too, unless editing privileges are restricted to insiders.
We simply want facts from wikipedia, nothing more, nothing less.
That's not possible from any source. The creation of "facts" is always a subjective and fraught process.
Fox News reported that Wikimedia is "in chaos"
Hello, pot; it's me, kettle!
No one will die, if Wiki has a few porn images.
Fox News, Cheerleaded an illegal war that resulted in over a million + dead.
Porn > War
Porn > Fox News
Porn > All Religions
Porn = Normal.
Wiki... Do your porn thing baby.
The summary is a bit inaccurate, which is okay considering the original charges appear to be inaccurate, or rather completely wrong, as well. But Fox news was accusing* wiki of hosting -child porn- not just regular porn.
*accusing here in the sense of "finding one anonymous source willing to say what you want to broadcast to the world and then quoting them." Some people find this more credible than if Fox news were to just say it outright "We accuse Wikimedia of hosting child porn and to prove it we are go
according to the article, the "pornography" at issue were all drawings, some under the "pedophilia" category and others under the "lolicon" category. All cartoon images, it seems, and all descriptive of the subject matter they're supposed to illustrate. It's an encyclopedia.
The problem is that there's a guy in jail for lolicon in the US so Sanger figured he could get Wikipedia in trouble by calling the FBI about it. I mean, can you believe this guy? "I'm going to sound really old fashioned, but I felt that it was my duty." Yeah right.
All people in possession of one of these books should be jailed pursuant to the set of child pornography laws. Teaching pediatrics is only for filthy perverts who should be hung by the balls and shot! Anyone who has a child actually come out of their body should also be imprisoned for rape. Emergency room personnel who witness a child being treated should be jailed as well.
Hysteria can bring down a civilization.
...More like Fox News published a story with one anonymous source that didn't say anything significant, and kdawson decided to take it seriously for some bizarre reason.
I suspect that Fox & others like to pour hate on it because it's easy and cheap to do so. There is always someone with a a bruised ego (e.g. perennial cry babies like Larry Sanger) and with so many disputed articles, it's not hard to sensationalize some angle. In the case of Fox I think they are also motivated to pour hate on the site because (despite its flaws) does strive for impartiality, citation and a neutral point of view. It's also free.
...any insufficiently moderated forum will turn into 4chan.
As Wikipedia is a "Hear-Say" Site, any porn must have been posted or found elsewhere and under a compatible license. Otherwise those posting are violating Wikipedia rules.
Don't nobody claim its not a hear-say site, because by its own rules that is exactly what it is.
With this in mind, Wikipedia may be guilty, and even guilty of biased and unfair articles, but they are not the originating source.
In fact there is a trace as to who or what IP posted such.
What this means is that if Wikipedia is busted and charged with crime then it means anyone who wants to do you harm all they habe to do is get "illegal conmtent" on your personal system and then call the authorities.
Being setup and entrapped is dangerous game, where the authorities acting on such enough or in a big way (as can happen here) can really undermine such authority in the public's eyes.
And who has motive to do something like this?
While main focus of Wikipedia are historical articles about things that happened in the past (and either passed away or continue to exist and function), both Wikipedia main page [wikipedia.org] and Wikinews [wikinews.org] have a high quality recent news - independent, free, ad free, from all over the world, with no corporate control, in essence everything Fox is opposed to.
So attacking Wikipedia is simply attacking the competitor.
Jimmy Wales personally removing some pornographic material from its servers
Did OP see the images? I looked at every single one directly after Sanger went to Faux News and while _some_ of them were definitely sexual in content and _some_ of them depicted adults forcing themselves onto children, they were not pornographic. We are talking age-old black-and-white prints. The best approximation I could come up with is http://www.gedichte-lyrik-poesie.de/Busch_Das_Bad_am_Samstagabend/Wilhelm_Busch_Bad_am_Samstagabend.gif [gedichte-lyrik-poesie.de] (I forgot the name of the artist who did the images in question). Linked pic actually shows bare skin and is a _lot_ more detailed and refined than the works in question, though. Go figure.
then giving up his special editing privileges under pressure
Wrong again. Wales removed some special rights from the Founder group which he has anyway by means of being a Steward. The Founder group has one member and was created after Wales left the board proper. Go figure.
So yah, the "Wikimedia Confusion" does exist, at least in the mind of OP. Instead of posting, he should have read up on the matter, though. And please stop calling those images porn. They are not. And by talking about 'porn' unopposed, Sanger, Faux and the other people with a personal agenda win by default.
PS: Even though the Wikimedia Foundation is based in the USA, the world is not and can not be bound by US conservative morals. Laws yes, morals no.
PPS: I hope they move to Iceland.
Sounds like they hired J. Jonah Jameson to run their news network. I guess they did not realize they guy came from a comic book instead of a role model from journalism school.
On the English Wikipedia, this was an issue, and it was dealt with through Wikipedia's usual mechanisms. Someone ran a program to make a list of images actually used in Wikipedia. Others went down that list, and put most of those images through "deletion review". Each one was voted on; most of them were restored. Images that nobody asked to have restored remain deleted. Essentially all the historical images were restored. Some of the junkier stuff was voted off the island. That all took place within a few days, and wasn't particularly contentious. On Wikipedia, this is now a closed issue. On Commons, which is administered by different people, there's still a discussion [wikimedia.org] going on.
Understand that you can upload images separately to Wikipedia or to the Wikimedia Commons. If you upload an image to Wikipedia, and it's not currently used in an article, it will be automatically deleted after a few weeks. So if others delete the image link in the article, and it stays deleted, after a while, the image file is deleted too. Commons, though, has a policy that "by custom the uploading of small numbers of images for use on a personal Commons user page is allowed." Some people try to use Commons as if it were Flickr, and if they don't overdo it, that's tolerated. A few people uploaded their porn collection. That seems to be the cause of the difficulty.
Complicating this is a system which automatically moves images that have been on the English Wikipedia for a while to Commons, changes the links to point to the copy on Commons, and deletes the copy on Wikipedia. This is intended to make images available to all the other language versions of Wikipedia, rather than having a separate copy for each language version. The assumption has been that nothing that went through that move would ever be deleted from Commons. When some images moved via that process were deleted, many Wikipedia editors were very bothered. Automatic movement of images to Commons was shut down for a while. There isn't a way to determine if an image on Commons is used on any wiki (there's a way for each wiki, but no global backlink search.). So automatically separating single-user personal stuff from images used in real articles is not currently implemented. I suspect that will be fixed.
On the governance side, it was pointed out that Wales isn't the head of the Wikimedia foundation any more. He's just a member of the board of directors. If he wanted to do this through the board, he can call a board meeting and try to get them to pass a resolution to change policy. He didn't take that route. As others pointed out, if anybody else did what Wales did, they'd be blocked. The general consensus is that Wales was out of line. Wales gave up some privileges, and the issue isn't even active in the dispute resolution system.
All in all, this was well handled. Wikipedia has had far worse disputes.
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