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UPPER PROVIDENCE — The township supervisors have authorized payment of $5,000 to the Schuylkill Canal Association.
The board's action took place at its work session on April 15. Vice Chairwoman Lisa Mossie made the motion to approve the expenditure, and board member John Pearson provided the second. The motion passed by a 3-0 vote.
Before the vote, township Manager George Waterman told the board that Upper Providence's 2013 budget contained a line item for a $5,000 contribution to community organizations.
At their Dec. 17 meeting, when they passed the township budget, the supervisors held off on a funding request from the association. In a letter the previous month, the organization had requested $15,000 from the township, but it was not included in the budget, and the board decided to revisit the issue later to see if any funds were available. Discussion at the time indicated that the township had provided the association with $8,000 in the past year.
At the December meeting, Betsy Daley, who was then the association's executive director, told the supervisors that, because of its financial situation, the county was not making a donation to the group.
Township Solicitor Ed Skypala asked Monday how the association had made out as far as getting county funding.
"They're not giving us any money," responded Gary Drennen, president of the association's board.
Pearson said he would like to see the township participate in the upcoming Canal Day. According to the association's website, the event is scheduled for June 30.
"I'd really like us to get involved," Pearson said, adding that he was not looking to spend "tons" of township money. He suggested possibly attending one or two of the association's meetings.
Drennen replied that the meetings are held at the Locktender's House on the second Tuesday of each month.
"We'll be there," Pearson said.
In other business, following a public hearing, the supervisors passed an amendment to the township code section concerning the fire and emergency services board.
According to the public notice for the hearing, under the amendment, the board will have 12 members, including the chiefs "of the official fire companies," as well as three additional Black Rock Fire Company members, the township's emergency management coordinator and three people appointed by the township supervisors. Additionally, each fire company may appoint two alternates to the board.
Waterman pointed out that the amended section also provided that fire companies within the township would maintain four members on the board.
Pearson made the motion to approve the amendment, and Mossie seconded it. The motion passed 3-0.
In a separate vote, the supervisors unanimously authorized advertising a public hearing for a zoning amendment for the proposed Freeland Village development, on 15.22 acres at 1095 Black Rock Road.
"This was recommended by the planning commission at its last meeting," Waterman said. He explained that the amendment would add a new article titled "mixed residential community." Waterman said the hearing would be held on May 20.
The motion to authorize advertisement of the hearing was made by Pearson and seconded by Mossie.
Additionally, the supervisors voted unanimously to appoint McMahon Associates as the township's traffic engineer. The board had authorized a request for proposals for a traffic engineer at its Jan. 7 meeting.


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First the Pats stayed competitive for those 8 years and went to the SB twice since then. How did building for a 2 year run work out for the jets?
The jets can't afford 25mill of cb how does Seattle afford 30mill? Seattle already has the best secondary in the NFL with Lane, Browner, Chancelor, Thomas, Sherman, Trufant.
A incremental improvement in one player out of that dime package does what for the team, that say Michael Johnson, Richard Seymour and William Beatty all of which will cost them less than Revis' 15 mill.
And this does not even take into consideration Revis' acl.
Paul Allen has 121mill to spend just like everyone else.

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dIt was close and it was cold. But ultimately the Dolphins pulled out a 38-31 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs today to stay on course for the playoffs.
If the Dolphins defeat the New York Jets next Sunday they will win the AFC East division one season after finishing last in the division in 2007.
This game was not easy. The defense that hadn't yielded a TD in three previous games was on its heels most of this day. At one point, the Chiefs scored touchdowns on four consecutive possessions.
But, as Bill Parcells says, "You are what your record says you are." And the Dolphins are a team that has won eight of nine games while the Chiefs have lost 22 of 24 games.
Miami is now 10-5 while KC is 2-13.
"The thing about the Dolphins is they've been doing it all year at the end of games, Chad Pennington's been able to come through," Dan Marino said on CBS after the game.
Did I mention the Dolphins have a large game against the Jets next week in the Meadowlands? That game should be flexed to a Sunday night game by Monday afternoon, assuming the Jets can win this afternoon.
"Is it a big game? Absolutely," said Miami quarterback Chad Pennington, who will be playing the team that discarded him in the preseason. "We're playing for the playoffs and we're glad to be a part of it."
To get there the Dolphins had to win the coldest game in the franchise's 43-year history.
Pennington completed 26 of 34 passes for 235 yards with three touchdowns and one interception against KC. Tight end Anthony Fasano caught three passes but two of those went for touchdowns. David Martin also had a touchdown for the second consecutive game.
"The one thing I'm going to say to you is we had a tremendous week of practice on offense this week and Wednesday was an outstanding day," coach Tony Sparano said. "And under these conditions they executed very well."
Great stuff, people.
So Jets week has officially started. Get to talking smack!!!!!


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In an interview most widely seen on the website of England's Motorcycle News, Stoner was harsh in his criticism of both Rossi and crew chief Jeremy Burgess, and their inability to make the Ducati a proven race winner. Stoner didn't deny having made the comments, but he quickly pointed out that they weren't made en masse, as presented.
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Hello: Gareon Conley
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After pretty much letting the cat out of the bag on Twitter yesterday, Massillon (OH) Washington cornerback Gareon Conley confirmed today that he has committed to Michigan ($). He becomes the 15th commitment in the class of 2013—the 13th to earn a four-star rating on at least one recruiting site—and the second cornerback, joining Cass Tech's Jourdan Lewis.
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Conley is flying under the radar to every service save Scout, though it's worth pointing out that Scout has updated their rankings most recently of the four. The sites are evenly split as to whether he's 6'1" or 6'2", and all agree that he's between 165 and 170 pounds. Considering Michigan wanted a bigger cornerback to add to the class and complement Jourdan Lewis, that's a pretty solid frame.
Bucknuts ranked Conley as the #16 player in Ohio for the class of 2013, one spot in front of Taco Charlton and two spots ahead of Mike McCray (this means you can probably expect him to move up when 247 updates their rankings). A concern about taller cornerbacks is usually their overall athleticism and fluidity in the hips, but neither is an issue according to Mark Porter ($):
"I think he may be the best pure corner in Ohio. His ball skills are second to none. His range and athletic ability are second to none. He can match up with the number one receiver. The trait that Cam (Burrows) has over him is he may be more physical. But Gareon is 'twitchier' in the hips."
Scout's group of Midwest analysts also has Conley ranked as the #16 player in the state, and Allen Trieu had some high praise in his evaluation ($):
I may disagree with Bill's statement on Munger [that he's the best player in Ohio nobody has heard of], because this might be the best kid in Ohio no one's talking about. He's long, smooth, can run, and shows good ball skills and smarts. He makes plays in zone and in man coverage, and although he definitely needs to add weight, he's a solid tackler as well.
Scout's Bill Greene questions Conley's size—though I assume it's about his weight; his height is an unquestioned positive—but echoes the sentiments about his athleticism and coverage ability ($):
A fine basketball player as well, Conley has the skill set to succeed at the next level. Although not blessed with great size, he has shown the willingness to come up and hit in run support. His best strength would be his coverage ability, and his speed. Very similar player to Canton McKinley's Jermaine Edmondson, who signed with Michigan State.
Finally, Massillon Washington assistant coach Jamie Palma notes that Conley's coverage ability is exemplary considering his height, making him an ideal matchup against larger receivers ($):
"One thing you don't see a lot of is guys that can defend and can play corner at 6-2," said Palma. "Most corners are 5-9 or 5-10… maybe six foot. He is a good 6-2 with a real long wingspan. So what I think he does is he brings that size out there at corner that you normally don't see. You think you are going to have a mismatch when you see a lot bigger wide outs. He matches up better with those types of players."
As you can see, Conley's biggest assets are his athletic ability and coverage skills given his size. Once he adds some weight, he should be able to match up quite well against bigger receivers while still having the speed and agility to hang with quicker players.
When he committed, Conley also held offers from Northwestern, Toledo, and West Virginia. According to 247, Cincinnati, Indiana, Ohio State, Virginia, and Wisconsin also showed interest.
In 2011, Conley recorded 26 solo tackles, three TFLs, a sack, nine pass breakups, and four interceptions, one of which he returned for a touchdown. He put up those numbers despite playing a large portion of the season while wearing a cast due to a wrist injury.
Bucknuts credited Conley with a 4.5, which I'll give three FAKEs out of five—he's reportedly pretty fast, but that sounds like just an estimation or hand-timed run.
Junior highlights [RATHER LARGE PUNTER ALERT AT THE :15 MARK]:
I've seen this pointed out elsewhere, but it bears repeating: his long stride bears an uncanny resemblance to Steve Breaston's.
Conley brings somethat that no other corner on the roster will by the time he shows up on campus, and that is size. Of the CBs on the current roster, only J.T. Floyd breaks the 6'0" barrier, and he'll be gone after the 2012 season. If Michigan wants a taller cornerback—and somebody who can come up in run support—to play the "field" corner (wide side of the field, as opposed to the "boundary"), Conley could see action early in his career.
That said, he's going to have to add some weight first. 170 pounds is quite skinny for a 6'2" frame, and if Conley is going to match up with bigger receivers, he's going to need to add some muscle. He has two years to do just that, so we'll see how he looks when he shows up on campus. If he takes a redshirt year, he should be right in the mix for a starting spot across from Blake Countess in 2014, likely competing with a trio of Cass Tech grads in Delonte Hollowell, Terry Richardson, and Jourdan Lewis.
Michigan is now almost certainly done recruiting at cornerback for 2013, barring a player like five-star Kendall Fuller deciding to come on board. They may be done recruiting the secondary entirely, as taking another safety to go along with Dymonte Thomas isn't imperative; again, however, a top talent like Su'a Cravens would have a spot available.
The Wolverines can now focus on bringing aboard a second tailback, one or two receivers, a nose tackle, and a strongside DE. After that, IN EARLY MARCH, the coaching staff can focus almost entirely on targeting the top players in the class and shifting their focus to the class of 2014. Jebus.
Yikes, thank you. NOBODY SAW THAT.
Saw what?
Even when I catch an EA add now and see Kate, I immediately think ANOTHER COMMIT!
Welcome Gareon! GO BLUE!
When I read the title of your post I assumed you were going to say that reading recruiting websites now leads to tumescence.
This never gets old.
I propose a dance off between her, Alex Morgan, and Danica Patrick.
...but I seem to like it.
Thank goodness for the slow connection speed I have here at work...her cadence is much slower and a lot more fun to watch.
I know some are wishing we would wait to see where all the big fish land and holding spots for super-stars, but this is the type of player Michigan needed and I am happy to have him.
It is hard to believe that this is #15 already.
Higher recruiting rankings don't guarantee future stardom or even that a guy is the staff's favorite player at a particular position.
Kelly Baraka, Darnell Hood, Pierre Rembert, Jerome Jackson, Max Martin and Kevin Grady gave us a ton of 4-star running back recruits, but if we hadn't signed Mike Hart we might have been fucked for a long time.
I'll take anybody who ends up being more JT Floyd than Justin Turner, no matter their ranking on Scout/Rivals.
coming out of high school
This is getting out of control. Now I must get a double shoulder belt with a Hans device just to post 'round these parts. Im sick of wearing a simple lab belt.
The bigger question; is this the late committment pair for the McCraken? Or is Gareon bringng someone else along for the ride? (Gideon? Isaac?)
I'm apparently one to talk, but Gideon is a fantastic song by My Morning Jacket, while Ben Gedeon is a four-star linebacker from Hudson, OH.
And I think turning away visits from Alex Anzalone and Shane Jones this weekend—with the coaches saying that they're full at linebacker—is quite telling when it comes to his status.
Lol. Was coming back to edit it too. Thanks for locking my typo in perpetuity!!
What is your assessment of comparison between Alex, Shane and Ben
I'm impressed by both Anzalone and Jones on film, but what I really like about Gedeon is his athleticism and ability to play in coverage. I think the other two guys might be a little more physical against the run, but Gedeon is probably the best against the pass—from the limited film I've seen and the scouting reports I've read—and he should be able to put on a fair amount of weight before/during college and still be quite athletic.
Gedeon also sounds like he has great character and is very intelligent. He will bring those intangibles along with his football skills. Really like the fact that his brother is captain of the Harvard football team.
I guess now we are in big fish territory.
2 receivers
1 running back
1 line backer
1 nose tackle
1 defensive end
1 wild card 5*
Woo hoo!!!!
He must be skinny as hell... Unless he hits the gym real hard its tough imagine him playing soon if he is that skinny.
Your last point about now targeting top players is real exciting at this stage. It seems like we can sit back now and wait and see which elite players choose us at this point!
I agree; i can see Conley R/S-ing trying to put on 'good' weight without losing that much speed or fluidity
He's more than a year away from even stepping on campus, so I'm not too worried at this point (about him redshirting). It'll be better to evaluate him once he gets on campus. There's A LOT OF TIME to for him to get stronger and bigger.
Holy shit thats a giant punter!
That was a fake all the way. That guy is a giant QB.
Reminded me strongly of Jared Lorenzen. Not quite as athletic, though, and his mechanics need work.
Wait he's not a consensus 4 star or top 100 guy. Hoke is clearly losing his touch!
Welcome aboard Gareon.
15 commits so far
40% from Ohio 6/15
33% from Michigan 5/15
13% from Illinois 2/15
Honarable mention to Pennsylvania and Colorado
I would love to see Illinois' number jump.
Is it just me or is that a block M on his pants? The picture I'm referring to is in the Friday recruting update. Seems like he'll fit right in.
I wonder if the staff told the other corners that planned on visiting today to turn around
Scout just added a player evaluation to his free profile [LINK]. Listed strengths are anticipation, body control, and instincts, while lone area for improvement (that they list) is jamming ability.
Conley has great length for a corner. He runs, changes directions and shows the fluidity to play the position even though he's a little taller than average. He has outstanding instincts and gets the jump on routes because of his timing and anticipation. Shows comfort in both man and zone schemes. Has good ball skills and height helps him with taller receivers. Needs to get stronger, but is a solid, aggressive tackler. - Allen Trieu
In these modern times, does a high school football star and future scholar athlete really need "jamming ability"? Pretty sure he'll be able to afford a few jars of Smuckers with his meal-plan cash.
Sounds like Scout is reaching big time to find a flaw with this kid.
"Pretty sure he'll be able to afford a few jars of Smuckers with his meal-plan cash."
W-What are you trying to say here?
He's talking about jamming ability. Smuckers is overrated though.
But I'm sure it is way better than anything Mr. Conley could whip up in his dorm room. It's cheap too. Seems like a total waste to boil down all those grapes when you could just spend a couple bucks and go to town on the PB&J's without the work.
On top of that, who even knows where you can buy pectin in A2? This is why I only pay attention to Rivals' recruiting analysis.
C'mon, man, did you just starting rooting for Michigan football yesterday? Everyone knows the players buy it at Downtown Home & Garden.
I just watched the video. That punter is an OL masquerading as a punter. I wonder how far he can kick it based on how high he can raise his right leg.
They gave 20 Ohio kids a 4-star rating last year, though that seems higher than usual. Looks like roughly the top 15-16 are usually the cutoff in the state. Roundtree was the last 4-star in 2008 at #17, to give a year-to-year comparison.
I think it's 16 plus two more that might not get/want a 5th year.
Steve Breaston indeed. Runs pretty much exactly like him. That's a good thing in my opinion.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but his school plays top notch competition in Ohio, right?
Ace hit the Steve Breaston nail on the head. I hope we can get Breaston-like production out of the kid...
Ace, my understanding is that Conley is headed for the boundary corner position (like JT Floyd) and Countess is the field corner.
Interesting. I assumed that Conley would be a field corner because of his height and the fact that he's pretty solid against the run—despite his lack of bulk, which I'm assuming will be partially remedied before he even gets on campus. I haven't been very impressed with Countess in run support, and I thought that's what the coaches are looking for in a field guy.
Field (wide side) corners are typically the quicker guys with better coverage skills, since they have cover a larger portion of the field. Boundary (short side) corners are typically better in run support, since they have to deal with more blockers in a confined area.
I'm not a big fan of Conley's run support abilities, but with his size, I imagine he's a boundary corner.
If a team manages to get tackled in the center of the field on every play we are totally screwed.
Mattison's rule is that if the opponent goes down in the middle of the field, both corners have to come out of the game and we play with 9 people.


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Leveon is gone. Good thing Cook is a beast....
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Reading between the lines not particularly necessary. After largely quieting Jadeveon Clowney in the Outback Bowl, Taylor Lewan has got to be out the door. Everyone expects it; latest bit to read into:
"I haven't addressed the team yet," Lewan said. "I'll address the team, then we'll do whatever (sports information director) Justin Dickens, Coach (Brady) Hoke wants to do and how he wants to let that out to the public.
"It's not fair to my team to tell y'all, then not tell them."
Why hold off for a formal announcement if he actually intended to stay for his senior season?
"Next question," Lewan said.
Ah well.
Hope for sanity. I'm still holding out for the Eye of Sauron but I'll take anything that gets Michigan and Ohio State in the same division. It sounds like that may in fact happen. Rittenberg:
Delany has said geography would be a bigger factor in the new division alignment than the first one, so expect several teams to be on the move. Several items to watch:
Will Ohio State and Michigan be placed in the same division? It would eliminate the possibility of a rematch in the Big Ten championship, but it might balance out the power between the two divisions.
Will Wisconsin move back to the "West" side of the league? The Badgers would like to play Iowa every year, and their rivalry against Nebraska packs plenty of potential.
I'm holding out a vague hope they'll add a ninth conference game.
Gallon checkup. The Mathlete was kind enough to run the numbers on my Gallon yards per target speculation from yesterday and came up with this:
Don't have bowl games in yet, but Gallon is 22nd in Yds/Target for players with 50+ targets. At 11.0 YPT, its the third best UM season, behind Hemingway last year (12.0) and Manningham in 2006 (11.1)
That is impressive. The bowl game may push Gallon above Manningham as long as Gardner didn't miss him too much, and Manningham was kind of good. I bet Gallon's final five games are even better. Bodes well for 2013, especially since Minnesota/Northwestern/Iowa/OSU/South Carolina is a pretty tough stretch relative to a full schedule with cupcakes and whatnot.
Of note: Gallon's 2011 was 10.8 on 42 targets, so you can tack that on to your sample size to increase your confidence he can play, and that Borges is a notch above previous offensive coordinators who did not desire to unleash the dragon as much.
MSU departures en route. Dion Sims is gone according to Joe Schad. LeVeon Bell is likely out the door after a bell-cow season at State. Will Gholston seems like he may be leaning to early entry as well:
"It's about the things I can do, and the other things in my life I have to take care of,'' Gholston said. "But I know I can graduate on time. I may have a year and a semester left (to get a degree).''
FWIW. Their defense should be fine without Gholston, but losing Bell would be rough. MSU has very little on their roster—just Nick Hill and a few not-so-touted freshmen. Unless they strike gold twice in a row that looks like a major dropoff.
[UPDATE: Bell declares.]
File under structure of the offense. Luke Winn charts Stauskas's threes to date:
Not much to read into that, I don't think, except when you play the 3 in this offense you end up on the left side of the floor mostly.
Winn also discovers a blocked three erroneously listed as a two from the Bradley game, which liessssss.
Hardaway status. Sounds like it's not going to be a big deal, but his availability for the Northwestern game is in doubt.
"Based on what I found out about the injury, it was something that needed a little bit of time (to rest) or it could nag him all year long. I do not know when he'll be back."
Burke had a sunnier take:
"They haven't told me, but it's not too serious," Michigan point guard Trey Burke said after the game. "I think it's just like a bone bruise. I'm sure he'll be back next game.
"But that's all I've heard, we just heard coach wanted to sit him for this game so nothing major could happen."
In the opposite of news, John Beilein desires Hardaway to be healthy.
Meanwhile, Northwestern's Reggie Hearn—their leading scorer—is out. The Wildcats are unlikely to pose a challenge even on the road that shorthanded.
Bonus loladidas moment. I forgot this one. Michigan wore alternate jerseys for the GLI, and on about half of them they screwed up the nameplates.
Here's hoping they're branding themselves "the apparel company for colorblind people."
Statement of slight annoyance. The kPOY suffers from Rebound Overrating Syndrome, as many basketball statistical measures do. Mason Plumlee is getting a lot of rebounds on both ends, but how important is that really when as a team the Blue Devils are sitting right on the national average on defense? And are poor on offense? If Plumlee's rebounding was truly a major asset Duke would probably be, you know, good at it. They are not, so he's probably just grabbing rebounds from teammates.
QED bit of this is that when Ben Wallace—who I love don't get me wrong—left the Pistons their rebounding changed in no way whatsoever. Rebounds just happen. They're important, but just because you get a lot doesn't mean someone else couldn't do as good a job if they were in your role. Meanwhile, on a team level the correlation between defensive rebounding and efficiency seems extremely weak. Exactly one of the top ten teams in DREB has a defense that ranks better than 77th in efficiency: Michigan, 39th. Three of the ten check in better than 100th. Hauling down monster boards is less important than any of the other four factors*, but it is the one defensive thing we have a stat for, so…
Trey Burke, obviously, is being robbed, and don't get me started on Russ Smith, whose main asset is huge usage on a team with the #1 D in the country. FIGHT ROS.
*[In the top ten in eFG%D you find one defense outside the top 100 and five top ten outfits. TOs have four outside the top 100 but also feature the top two defenses in the country, Louisville and Syracuse. FTrate also has four outside the top 100, but none very far outside and has six teams better than the 77th that DREB brings. Rebounding is the least important factor.]
Etc.: Canada, I know you gave us Stauskas but come on please refer to walk-ons as "Windsor's Kovacs" instead of "Windsor's Rudy." Lloyd Brady articles are epic, constant. Purdue beat Illinois last night; Nnanna Egwu DREB rate drops to an even 10.0. Free throws and luck.
So I clicked on your Ben Wallace article, read your statement about Billups being invaluable and sighed because apparently Joe Dumars couldn't figure that out (and also decided using that cap room on Ben Gordon and Charlie Vilanueva was a good idea)
Sadly it's time for Joe to go
NSFMF . . . he's starting to get things back together. The Billups trade was a gamble that blew up in his face (he wanted to rebuild on the fly with the cap space gained there, only to find that none of the elite free agents wanted to come), but his willingness to make bold moves that a lot of GMs wouldn't helped him build that contender in the first place. Detroit's not a glamorous destination. If you want to build a winner here, you've got to take risks. The Andre Drummond drafting was panned by a lot of people at the time (the Detroit Bad Boys blog gave him a D- draft grade), but it's looking like an absolute steal now.
The problem with the Billups trade wasn't actually the trade (I do realize that it was time to move on from that core), but rather spending it on subpar FA. The Pistons would have been better off sitting on the money and unintentionally intentionally tanking for a good draft position rather than being just good enough to avoid the prime draft slots.
I thought the Drummond pick was a no brainer. You don't get the chance to get a potential star guy like that at #8 very often so you snap him up when you can. Nonetheless Dumars should still get credit for pulling the trigger there. While I've been pretty consistent on thinking Dumars should go, I can't say with any certainty that there's a better option right now as far as GMs go.
Joe D's made his share of mistakes, but one thing I will give him is that he seems to have a lot of credibility among players around the league. Even the guys he trades never seem to be too upset with him. That could be worth something. Right now, with Drummond looking like he could possibly become a franchise player, I think we have to hang on to the GM that drafted him. Even if it was a no-brainer, Dumars is the guy who gave Drummond a chance when other GMs passed on him - that should hopefully resonate with him down the road when it's time to re-sign.
In the draft open thread everyone was excited that Drummond dropped. Dumars has not made the mistake the guys in front of him have the last three years by not passing on a dropping guy, but I'm not sure that's not damning with faint praise.
Unfortunately the year to really tank was last year. Because the other top picks the last few years since the trade haven't been world beaters. But yeah, this mentality of winning as much as you can is wrong headed. The object of the League isn't to be in the last spot of the playoffs every year, just good enough to get there, but never getting the players that make you great. It's to win championships. To do that you have to stink. Hard. It's not like they're selling out the arena anyway. So opening up the cap space to try and get that star wasn't a bad idea. When that star wasn't coming blowing the money on horrible free agents was counterproductive. It just made you average for more years. Save the space for flexibility and ability to sign someone really good if you get someone good in the draft to put him by.
And I question how hard he really went after that free agent class. It seemed more like he wasn't bending over backwards to get them, so rather than convince them, when he saw little interest he was ready to go another way. He signed his two stiffs the openign day of free agency. Of course he would have been better off finding a way to get Garnett like the Celtics did, because the T-Wolves didn't get a lot for him. And he was Billups buddy and probably presented a better chance at a championship than the Celtics did at that time. But that never seemed to work.
I'm not married to the idea of keeping Joe D, but it they were going to fire him, the time was a couple years ago. His track record is mixed, but I do like his willingness to make bold moves. A lot of franchises never go anywhere because they won't ever make the risky move. Drummond now looks like one of the three or four best players in this rookie class, but just six months ago, eight GMs passed on him. Dumars had the guts to take him.
Last year, at the time, I thought the Pistons screwed up by not tanking, but Drummond's made it a moot point. They can build around him. He has enough upside that even Monroe might be expendable as trade bait.
I just think his championship ledger as gotten a lot closer to even after Darko, Billups, and the free agent signings. The evil step mother screwed him out of years of being able to do ANYTHING and he's earned te right to try and rebuild. I just have a difference of opinion with him on how best to do that. I thought it was Mr. D who always wanted them to try and win as much as they can. But it seems to continue. Though they'll probably get lucky this year in the lottery when the reward is the great white hope.
One other MSU player who has considered going pro is their CB Dennard. He said a few days ago that "right now" he is staying in school but it isn't definite yet.
He's a guy who should go. He's not going to have a much better season than the one that just happened, since his safety help won't be as good next year. And he's as ready as anyone--I'd take him over any Lions CB right now.
IMO CBs were fine. Houston is a starting caliber CB and is way better than Dennard. Jonte Green showed a lot of promise in limited time and should only get better with coaching and experience. Bill Bentley was actually highly regarded and did well aside the fact that he doesn't turn his head around while the ball is in the air(common for young CBs).
S is a bigger mess than CB. Aside from Delmas who is a legit starting S, they have no talent or depth at S. They need to find a competent starting S opposite Delmas and a contenigency plan if Delmas is hurt again.
Interesting to note that if he had the requisite minutes (he plays in 36.5% of minutes, kenpom requires a minimum of 40% of minutes to count in rebounding stats), he'd be 2nd in the COUNTRY in offensive rebounding percentage and 30th in defensive rebounding percentage.
must be generated from the offense. Cause he went 45 of 50 on christmas from that pink zone. Maybe he should shoot from there more often during games... To think that 3-pt % could get higher(!)? wow....
The chart is particularly entertaining because people were complaining on his Christmas YouTube video that he was shooting all from the right side or the middle. But as we all suspected, he is equally deadly from the left!
I'm sure he was just practicing from the right side and top of the key because he only averages 55% from there in game times and wants to bring that average up to what he does from the left side.
I noticed that as well. I would've guessed from the Christmas video that the pink zone was his hot spot. But he has barely taken any from that range during actual gameplay.
Will Ohio State and Michigan be placed in the same division? It would eliminate the possibility of a rematch in the Big Ten championship, but it might balance out the power between the two divisions.
"You will get cake, but you will also get ice cream."
So is kenpom still worthless because it has Illinois ranked below Gonzaga? Someone please help me out here.
I'd love to have Lewan stay, but it will be good for Michigan in a way to have a really high first round pick. It seems like a long time since Jake Long went No. 1, though I realize that BG went in the first round too.
As for Stauskas, only 43% from the right corner? He needs to get to work over there. That's just slacking.
Small sample size!
...but...having Mahorn gobble all the defensive rebounds likely helped Laimbeer (a piss poor defender, but a good rebounder) focus more on his marking his man than having to block him out after a shot. Similarly, Rodman's ability to grab offensive rebounds not only added a ton of possesions, it allowed Laimbeer to run around the perimeter stalking 3s. Obviously those Piston teams were "you know...good at rebounding", but if Plumlee's rebounding is allowing his teammates to be more productive elsewhere on the floor, it's highly advantageous even if it doesn't help his team's overall rebounding stats.
Laimbeer a piss-poor defender? No way. He was not a great shotblocker but his physical D drove opposing centers nuts. He completely got under Kevin Duckworth's skin in the '90 NBA Finals (when Mahorn was no longer on the team).
I'll give you that on Duckworth (no HOFr there), clearly the amount of contact allowed then is far different than it is today, and that was to Laimbeer's advantage. If memory serves, both an aging Kareem and Parish (and later a very aging Cartwright) did good work on Billy. I guess my point is a relatively immobile center was allowed to focus on his D in part because he wasn't expected to have to grab every defensive board (largely due to the presence of Mahorn).
Not sure about this. I don't recall Mahorn being a great rebounder. Laimbeer usually ranked in the league leaders in rebounders - there was a stretch of about five years in the '80s where he was the top overall rebounder.
My recollection is that Mahorn was more the "goon" who roughed guys up and allowed Laimbeer/Rodman to dominate the glass.
Led the League in 85-86 in rebounds. Mahorn played more of the low post defense because even though he was an inch shorter he was heavier and stronger. Though it would depend on team to team. Mahorn used to drive McHale crazy. And of course when Rodman came into his own everyone's rebounding went down because he grabbed all the rebounds. All the rebounds.
Loved Mahorn's pull-the-chair maneuver. Rodman was amazing at the triple jump (er, ntTJ?). Good times.
Translation: Big Two champ vs the Little Eightish champ in every single Big Ten Championship Game. I'll take it.
Little eightish? There's like nineteen teams in that "ish."
Stupid inexorable march of time...
Well right now we've got the:
Big 2
Medium 3.5 *
Mediocre 2
Tire Fire 4
*Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Lawsuit Outstanding. Could be Medium 3, Banned 1
we'll see where Rutgers and Maryland slot in. My guess is mediocre and tire fire respectively
What was wrong with the nameplates on the hockey jerseys? They were designed to be throwback jerseys since the GLI was supposed to be played outdoors, and apparently M played with contrast colored nameplates sometime in their history. I haven't found any pictures to confirm, but I think it was likely intentional, not an adidas screwup.
The problem was that the some of the names were spelled wrong- #12 is Nieves not Neves
I spent Tuesday night drinking with Elliot Mealer, Jack Miller, and Taylor Lewan. Had a great time and of course I asked the burning question - Is Lewan leaving or staying. According to those closest to him he's staying. I did ask him after he'd had a few, and my impression was that he feels he has unfinished business at Michigan. He's a funny guy, and has far too many finger tattoos... oh and if any of them are under 21, they were drinking Coca Colas. I swear.
That sounds like a good time. Cheers to health.


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Cindy May
UW Law librarian Cindy May has received the 2014 Distinguished Service Award from the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin.
A chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries, LLAW was established to cultivate the profession of law librarianship in Wisconsin and to develop the usefulness of libraries and the skills of their users.
The award honors May for more than 40 years of outstanding service to LLAW, law libraries and the legal community. May began her UW Law Library career as a cataloguer and reference librarian in 1973, helped found LLAW in 1981, served as its president in 1986, and went on to chair a number of its committees. She has maintained a "Recommended Readings" column for the LLAW newsletter since its first publication in 1982.
Law librarian Victoria Coulter nominated May for the award. "Cindy has brought nationwide attention to Wisconsin law libraries over the years. I can't think of anyone who has given more of her time and energy to LLAW, AALL and law librarianship," she said.
May plans to retire from the Law Library in August 2014.
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The standard orentaion is wrong ... the use of ambugious terms like width which should be X instead is y ... and length is used for X it should be y. Sorry to say this is not a professional engineering platform or any other. Please lets have a discussion about this.. the standard view 3/4 is also wrong ... 0,0,0 should be at the lower left hand of the frount face... Its arguable everything is ... however the view should be from the objects point of view not a god/creater view when you work on the left hand side of the object its the left hand side of the object the not god's left hand side... Thus in the program you have the left side of the object the left side of god and the right side of the object being the right side of god. I am classically trained and worked in aerospace eng. ... Computer Vision, AutoCAD, Have done a lot of "CAD" programing... Rhino makes the same mistake.. POVRAY uses the left hand rule with Yup.... at least FreeCAD is correct in using the right hand rule Zup ... because of the mix up with X pointing out of the screen the standard reference lighting is comming from over the left hand shoulder and it should be the right hand shoulder... all of this is easy to fix.... IF fixed I have an open source CAD text book that could be used for FreeCAD training ... I also own the GNUCAD name... and would be willing to work with you... I have access to Volumetric Cad modules that could be intergrated... sorry for bad grammer or misspellings.. don't have the time to clean this up... carl at Common Good Public License dot org..
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Promising. But at this point on my Mac only promising. As the old adage said: "If it sounds too good to be true, that in fact is probably the case!" Best of Luck.
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Install OFFLINE on BeeFree OS using wizard. Excellent
I had high hopes for FreeCAD. All the tutorial videos looked fantastic, here and there a small glitch, not too much to worry about as the goal was still achieved. My Mac OS X version of FreeCAD is unusable and extremely unstable. My user experience in this environment is sad to say a complete disappointment. I will try the Windows version and have better results to report.
I hesitate to give even a one star rating. This software is absolutely unusable. Cannot even rotate a 3d object around any of its axes without also moving it around the screen some random amount at the same time. Please remove this software from the world.
I'm afraid I have to add my voice to perhaps encourage the developers (who are clearly genius's), but also to warn potential users. As many others are saying, the user interface is, sorry, diabolical. However, I have found it to be surprisingly robust, easy to install, and gives me just enough control to easily review designs from others -- excellent steps file import and export, good simple load and save & combine. It needs a ground up interface resign that was al least as simple to use as Google sketchup, and a simple snap grid of some sort instead of infinitely variable placement and rotation (so you can move something and back to precisely the same position) among other things..however, it is free, and currently there is no equal for free users (all I want to do is review things and make suggestions without buying something expensive). Libre is 2D, and BRL-Cad is more of a renderer from what I hear... maybe I'll try that next. So well done .. look forward to when it is finished and a coherent user-interface is added. Lastly, THANK YOU.
This is nice and helpful software. Please, search the Title in You tube - (how to make facebinder in FreeCA
FreeCAD has great promise, but it's young and very much a work in progress as yet. I like its user interface and much about the capabilities so far - though it has a few odities and bugs still. However!!! As at August 2015 it allows you to design a single homogeneous part (e.g. a moulding) as a unit. But most real things require an Assembly of parts (e.g. mouldingS + screws + bearings, etc..) - and that's not there yet - which rather scuppers any serious use yet. You can of course design many parts and even place many components on the same drawing. But that's not the same as being able to assemble individual parts into a component/product/composite-part. I know there are some good intentions and good features in the pipeline, like the Assembly module and true Parametric driven* design capability. Providing these are well thought out and well implemented, they'll make it a great product with much potential. [ * FreeCAD at present allows specification of the values of attributes (eg. length, width, height etc.). These can be changed (edited) and redrawing happens. However, to me true parametric driven CAD is being able to use formulae and variables in the attribute definitions, so that changing a value ripples the effect through the whole model, not just one item. ]
Very good program! Thank you guys!
It's an excellent software. It still lacks: - assembly management - FEM support for Code ASTER (open source certified engineering sofrware). There's just Calculix support :-( - structured mesh support (it's needed for FEM model patch test) - spline in sketch
If the version number of FreeCAD were an integer, my rating of it would be much lower. Since the version that I am using is .15, though, I think that it's a very impressive piece of software. The people involved with the creation of this program are doing a great job. I use Autodesk Inventor in my day job and have previously used Pro/E/Creo. The user interface and sketcher in FreeCAD are bother frustrating to use compared to those. Some of that, of course, can be attributed to being more accustomed to my regular software. Some appear to be bugs - it appears that certain operations are unsuccessful - but this may also be my learning curve with the interface. I added the Assembly2 workbench and like it so far. From what I've read, adding real assembly capability to the software is a major undertaking, but assembly is crucial to making this software more usable. If my programming skills were above mediocre, I would find a way to help with this project. I still might at some point but want to learn the software better first to find out what works, what doesn't work, and what things I might like to see changed.
It is a complex interface and using rules (example a form must be attach to the prévious form. what ever which parent you chose to create the new form. It is not a problem when you know, thanks to the communoty because it writen nowhere. Until now I do not succeed to make drawing for the work shop with cotation. Rockn says about FreeCàD "Mais vous savez que le futur c'est maintenant" I hope not, the 2D CAD where a lot more intuitive.
It's decent in some areas, but full of bugs and with a horrendous interface design and lack of options. It really needs a lot of improvement to avoid being the frustrating piece of software it is. Update: I decided to stop using it after giving it a lot of time. I just can't stand it. It's worse than an inkjet printer in the 90s. I can't remember so much frustration with any piece of software, and most of it coming from bad design decisions (i.e. seems to store external references as indexes to the element in the array of the sketch elements, so when one element in the sketch is deleted, everything done after goes crazy) and bad software development (lots of crashes and segmentation faults -especially when using its Python scripting). I think it will take a lot of work to make FreeCAD really functional, but right now it's not usable for any practical purposes (unless the design you're working on is quite simple). I won't recommend to use it unless you are playing or helping to develop it. And good luck with the latter.
Powerful and lightweight program. Easy to use.
FreeCAD is the CAD software of the future from mechanical to architecture work. But you know the future is now. FreeCAD est le logiciel de CAO du futur pour travailler depuis la mecanique jusqu'à l'architecture. Mais vous savez que le futur c'est maintenant.
FreeCAD is a powerful open source (LGPL license) parametric 3D CAD program. It is still under development, and version 0.14 was recently released. FreeCAD has an active web forum too. See the Users Showcase area to see some of what has been done with FreeCAD. There are also forum areas for those people who may have trouble installing FreeCAD, and another area for people who need help using FreeCAD. I have some YouTube video tutorials under the user name bejant000 that are intended to help new users learn FreeCAD to make 3D models. I've been using FreeCAD for just over a year (so yeah, I'm biased) and thought I'd post this info to help new FreeCAD users.
FreeCad is very good. There is another free CAD project: sourceforge.net/projects/cadplatform/
I've downloaded and installed FreeCad on a Windows 8 Platform but I am unable to open the program to start using it. Can you please help
Experiece from commercial CAD or not? It is just a matter about the way you are used to work. Once I got the hang on how to use FreeCAD it was really usefull to me. People praise Solidworks and Autodesk products simply because they are expected to be good, and people take the time and learn how to use them. CATIA would provide even more possibilities if you learn how to use it. At the end, the young and hungry generation might learn how to work in FreeCAD at start, then competing tools will not be as appealing at first glance. I really urge experienced CAD users to take the time to truly learn FreeCAD before giving up. Also for an opensource tool it must be easy to get started for a novice, because no one will pay for expensive education if you haven't spent a fortune on the software license. So I strongly agree with the concept of having an intuitive user interface, but I won't argue that FreeCAD can evolve even further, I really hope it does...
FreeCAD rocks!!!! The people complaining should realize that if they don't know what they are looking at they really shouldn't comment. I've yet to have it even work properly on my 64 bit windows system to get moving with it, a graphics issue, but I can see the API started, showing an entry point, Python being used, examples, and the transformation matrices are right there to be had!!! You might not understand what this is very important for, but I do!!! I'm going to give it a go. If I can help I will. I can't thank the people who have put this together enough. All those 'features' that people are asking for can be added by them for the most part. The important work is not only decent, but available where other CAD softwares will hide that functionality to control usage and sales. It's finally time to write some Python for me. I like the idea that I may be able to write something that works for someone else and then them not getting taken advantage of by the OS and CAD companies afterwards. I can't think clearly when I code if I can clearly see that what I develop will be used as a tool to take advantage of the people that I am trying to help in the first place. Kudo's to the crew regardless. You have done a great job already.
I've been using it for a few weeks now. It started out promising and I was able to make some good models for 3D printing. Then I hit a wall trying to do boolean operations. Apparently the OpenCasCade library that FreeCAD uses for booleans is not too robust. The end result is that I can't get the results I want which ultimately makes this a dead end for me. I'll keep using it for basic work, but I would never promote this to my peers/colleagues as a tool that gets real work done. I'll change my review when I can get consistent/quality results from boolean ops.
I have been trying to lean CAD for a long time. Apart from not being able to afford AutoCAD I have tried the Demo version and by the end of it I'd be lucky if I could draw a cube. I have been using FreeCAD for a little over a year now to draw mainly things that I need to visualise, till this my only option was a sheet of paper and a No2 Pencil if I was lucky I'd have a ruler handy. FreeCAD falls in with my mindset 100% its not over complicated there are very nice tutorials to get you drawing and the only things I could think of to improve would be screw threads I have drawn some but they are hollow and 3D printers don't like that. Gears would be nice and maybe a way to curve an object EG curve a cone into a something like a horn shape for an air duct. Now If you are a CAD designer with "real" CAD experience you will be falling of your chair laughing at the fact that I don't know some technical term for what I asked, but that's who this is aimed at. At the end of the day I have used FreeCAD to design many really cool things if you would like an example I have shared a few on thingyverse search for my username redsalamander all of it's done in FreeCAD. It simply works for me and my feeling is until they find something that can draw what I'm thinking this will do very nicely thank you.
Cool app, works great!
600 5 star ratings <-- haven't used a professional parametric 3D cad program. 150 1 star ratings <-- have used a professional parametric 3D cad program. A shovel is a godsend if you were digging with your bare hands. It kind of sucks if you had an excavator. FreeCAD is nowhere near professional 3D cad software such as Solidworks or Autodesk Inventor, which cost thousands of dollars/euros. Features are sparse, ui is clumsy. But it's free. I tried to give this 2/5, but I honestly cannot. For I have used professional 3D cad software.
Cool program - but the interface is terrible. It requires a tutorial just to find basic tools - and the measurement tool does not show unit type, so when I imported a file and finally found the measurement tool is just told me it was 664 long.
I discontinued Autocad and tried Freecad do continue drawing my house in 3D. I tried to move objects and extrude planes, and create walls... nothing was possible?? When I click a plane I can not extrude it.. the extrude button stays grayed out??? I have tried all kind of options for 20 minutes. Nothing works. Maybe this program actually is capable of doing anything, but the user interface makes it impossible to use. I am happy to teach the programmers how to make it user friendly. Terrible software. I can not use it.
Freecad is nice program and it is getting better with every new version. I use it with CalculiX (calculixforwin.com) for FEA analysis with commercial programs


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Blue Hens' Baseball Game Against Saint Josephs Tuesday Cancelled
By Delaware Athletics
Apr 21, 2014
NEWARK, Del. - The University of Delaware baseball team's game against Saint Joseph's that was scheduled for this Tuesday, April 22, has been cancelled.
The cancellation is due to Saint Joseph's appearance in the Liberty Bell Classic final against La Salle on the same day.
The Blue Hens are also scheduled to play the Hawks on May 6 at Saint Joseph's.
Delaware will next be in action against Temple at home on Wednesday. First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m. at Bob Hannah Stadium.
The Blue Hens will return to conference play this weekend as they host UNCW for a three-game series. Friday's game will start at 3 p.m., while Saturday and Sunday's contests will begin at 1 p.m.
The official rededication ceremony of Bob Hannah Stadium will take place prior to Sunday's game against the Seahawks.


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Australian defender Curtis Good admits it would break his heart if he missed out on Bradford City's League Cup final at Wembley.
The teenager played a vital role in helping City overcome Aston Villa over their two-legged semi-final and is now desperate to finish the job against Swansea at Wembley on February 24.
But the former Melbourne Heart man, who is on loan at Valley Parade from Premier League side Newcastle United, isn't certain to line up in the final as he is currently scheduled to return to the Magpies after this weekend's fixture against Fleetwood.
Good, who has already had his loan spell extended once before, is now concentrating all his efforts on convincing Bradford boss Phil Parkinson and his parent club to allow him to stay for at least another month.
"I'm going to have to soften the gaffer up. It would be heartbreaking if I wasn't allowed to stay and ended up watching it on the TV," he told local Bradford newspaper Telegraph and Argus.
"I don't know if I could do that. I would probably come and support the boys anyway.
"But hopefully we can sort something out. I've played both semi-finals, so maybe there's some rule in the back of the book saying that I've got to still be here."
The 19-year-old was lost for words when asked to describe his feelings after winning through to the final but was full of praise for his team-mates who have led Bradford to the most memorable cup run since their FA Cup win in 1911, a history he admits he was not aware of when he joined the club.
"It was hard to explain how I felt afterwards. It was probably relief at first when the whistle went because those four minutes when we had to hold on after the last goal felt like ages," he said.
"But I've never been part of a team with so much desire to get a result. We wanted to rise to the occasion and there was such determination to get the job done.
"When I first came to Bradford I wasn't sure how it would be. I'd not watched League Two before and I had no idea about the club.
"But I checked Wikipedia and read up on the history and really how big they are – and being here now, I realise what the support is like."
Newcastle manager Alan Pardew was in the stands to witness Bradford's triumph at Villa Park, although admittedly in preparation for the Geordies encounter against Aston Villa on Tuesday.
However it was also an opportunity for Good to remind the manager why the club signed him on a six-year-deal last year, with the Australian admitting he was unaware of Pardew's presence.
"I wasn't aware the manager was there at the time, my dad told me afterwards, but it was a pretty special moment for him to watch," Good said.
"Newcastle keep in contact and are always asking how I'm doing. I'm getting experience and I'm loving it here – for another month at least."
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'March Madness Dance set for March 1
Southern Lights Square and Round Dance Club will hold a "March Madness Dance" with advance dance at 6 p.m., early rounds at 7 p.m., and squares and rounds at 7:30 p.m. March 1 at the Whitmire Activity Building, Lily Pond Rd, Hendersonville. Food donations will be collected for The Storehouse. Caller: Stan Russell. Guest cuers: Don and Linda Hichman. For information, call 828-625-9969 or 828-697-7732.
Spring Doll Show planned
The Asheville Spring Doll Show and Sale will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 1 at the WNC Agricultural Center, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road, Fletcher. Doll appraisals and restringing will be available on site. Antique, vintage, modern, Barbie and Madam Alexander dolls will be among those presented. For more information, contact Jackie Stone at 828-505-1577 or email@example.com.
The Blue Ridge Community College Board of Trustees Facilities Committee will hold a joint meeting with the Finance and Investment Committee at 8 a.m. Tuesday in the board room in the Patton Building, 180 W. Campus Drive, Flat Rock. For more information, call Lee Anna Haney at 828-694-1885.
Biltmore's Food & Beverage department will interview to hire various culinary positions from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday at Biltmore Staffing Center, 1 North Pack Square, Asheville. Available positions include servers, hosts, banquet staff, prep cooks, line and lead cooks, line supervisors, baking and pastry cooks, and more. For a complete list of openings, visit www.biltmore.com/careers. For more information, contact Salem Bombace at 225-6130 or email@example.com.
Ikebana International in Western North Carolina will present a demonstration and workshop to introduce students to the Japanese Garden at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the auditorium of the Folk Art Center, Milepost 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. For more information, contact Patti Quinn Hill, chapter president, at 828-645-6633; email@example.com or www.ikebanaasheville.org.
A "Landscape Do's & Don'ts" program will be held from 3-4:30 Tuesday at Bullington Gardens, 33 Upper Red Oak Trail, Hendersonville. Nancy Duffy of Muddy Boots Garden Design will discuss common mistakes made in the landscape. Cost is $12. Call 828-698-6104 to register.
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As you have no doubt heard by now, Watch Dogs has emerged from the shadows with a new release date. Ubisoft's near-future Chicago will be at your fingertips on May 27.
To commemorate the new release date, Ubisoft has delivered the story trailer that was leaked this morning. You can check that out below.
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FREDERICK, Md. — The Frederick County Sheriff's office says a Gaithersburg man died in an early morning crash.
Officials say 20-year-old Daniel Swader died at the scene of the crash in the 8800 block of Gambrill Park Road shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday. Authorities say Swader was driving southbound on the road when his vehicle drove on to the southbound grassy shoulder, came back onto the road and spun into a tree on the northbound side of the road.
Authorities say Swader's body has been taken to the state Medical Examiner's office in Baltimore for an autopsy.
Investigators say a passenger in the car was not injured.
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The folks over at BerryScoop received this picture today showing two dummy Blackberry 8530 smartphones. One of the 8530s is going to be black as expected, but the other will come in Lavender. No other details were reported, so I would expect more info on price and release date to leak very soon.


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John Sickels' rankings are running a bit late this year because he suffered a concussion. He hasn't gotten to the Reds yet, but he's now kicking into high gear. You can follow it all here - http://www.minorleagueball.com/organ...-list-for-2014
I think he's the best in the business, often showing a healthy skepticism of prospects whose flaws get glossed over elsewhere. He also downgrades for OB issues.
He came out with his Red Sox list today. Anthony Ranaudo and Mookie Betts are the big risers. Bryce Brentz and Matt Barnes have taken the biggest tumbles.


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Softball to Begin Fall Campaign
BATON ROUGE - The LSU softball team will return to competition for the first time since its run to the Women's College World Series and will open the fall season with a quartet of games over the weekend at Tiger Park.
LSU will face off against Lamar [Saturday - 4:30 p.m.], Belhaven [Saturday - 7 p.m.], Northwestern State [Sunday - 2 p.m.] and LSU-Eunice [Sunday - 4 p.m.]. Admission is free to all fall contests at Tiger Park.
"Our goals are to work on ourselves and get our fundamentals correct during the fall season," head coach Beth Torina said. "I think if we do our job and are prepared, we will get the results that we want in the fall. It will be nice to see the team work together as one unit."
The Tigers bring back 13 letterwinners highlighted by NFCA All-America First-Team hurler Rachele Fico and All-SEC Freshman pick A.J. Andrews.
Fico garnered a 20-13 record, a stout 1.12 ERA, amassed 221 strikeouts and limited opponents to a .183 batting average during her 230.1 innings of work. All four marks were among the SEC's Top 6.
Andrews provided one of the most memorable moments of the 2012 season when she scored on an infield popup to vault LSU to a 1-0 win over South Florida at the WCWS.
The Tigers will welcome six newcomers into the fold sparked by Bianka Bell and Ashley Czechner. Bell is the reigning Florida Gatorade Player of the Year, while Czechner pitched Chattanooga State to the 2012 NJCAA National Championship.
"My plan is to play everyone evenly in the fall so I can get a look at what everyone can do at game speed," Torina said. "Game speed is a lot different than practice speed. You never know if you have one of those gamers on your team until you let them go play against somebody else. I'm excited to see what the newcomers will bring to the table."
Following this weekend's tournament, the Tigers will take on McNeese State for a Tuesday doubleheader. LSU also plays host the National Pro Fastpitch Back to School Tour on October 19 where former All-American Brittany Mack returns to Tiger Park.


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I swear, Romney was such a jackass for not pressing Lord O debate night...
12:05 PM, Feb 7, 2013 By DANIEL HALPER
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testified this morning on Capitol Hill that President Barack Obama was absent the night four Americans were murdered in Benghazi on September 11, 2012:
Panetta said, though he did meet with Obama at a 5 o'clock prescheduled gathering, the president left operational details, including knowledge of what resources were available to help the Americans under siege, "up to us."
In fact, Panetta says that the night of 9/11, he did not communicate with a single person at the White House. The attack resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.
Obama did not call or communicate in anyway with the defense secretary that night. There were no calls about what was going on in Benghazi. He never called to check-in.
I guess fearless leader was too busy watching the Golf Channel...:rolleyes:


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Music Director and Conductor Robertas Šervenikas
Conductor Martynas Staškus
Director, Choreographer Chen Shi-Zheng (JAV | Kinija)
Set Designer Walt Spangler (JAV)
Costume Designer Elizabeth Caitlin Ward (JAV)
Lighting Designer Scott Zielinski (JAV)
Video Designer Leigh Haas (Vokietija | Didžioji Britanija)
Chorus Master Česlovas Radžiūnas
Premiere: 8 May, 2009
"La Traviata" (The Fallen Woman) is the eighteenth of Verdi's operas and the first one to draw on the reality of the day. The opera premiered at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, on 6th March 1853. After the spectacular success of Rigoletto and Il Trovatore, the reception of this opera came as a shock to the composer – it was an unmitigated fiasco. The failure was blamed on the poor staging and the miscasting of singers. "Is it my fault or that of the singers?" Verdi wrote in a letter. "Only time will tell." The composer evidently sensed that the reasons for the failure had been more serious. The public must have got indignant at the choice of the protagonist – a downcast woman shown in the milieu, likewise corrupt.
A libretto by Francesco Maria Piave adapted from La Dame aux Camélias inspired Verdi to compose one of his most beautiful operas. Re-staged and performed at another Venetian opera house, San Benedetto, on 6 May 1854, La Traviata was a triumph. Alexandre Dumas couldn't be more right when he said, "Fifty years later, my "La Dame aux Camélias" would have sunk into oblivion, but Verdi made it immortal."
"La Traviata" was put on at the Lithuanian Opera and Ballet in 1920, 1931, 1952, 1974, 1980 and 1992; on 31 December 2005 and January 2006 we presented a production by the English National Opera. Traditionally showcased at each New Year's Eve until 2002, this opera received the largest number of performances on our stage ever. Opera to be shown on 8 May 2009 will be the 739th performance of "La Traviata" at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre.


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Emeril's Mascarpone and Marmalade Stuffed French Toast
Treat Your Mother to Emeril's Tasty French Toast
It's almost mother's day. So, show yours that you care with a special breakfast like Emeril's French toast.
Cooking Directions
In a mixing bowl whisk together the eggs, cream, orange juice, zest, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, sugar, and salt.
Lay the brioche slices flat on a clean work surface. Spread 1 side of each slice with 2 teaspoons of the mascarpone. Spread 2 teaspoons of the marmalade over the mascarpone on half of the slices. Place the slices together to form 4 sandwiches.
Working 1 at a time, dip the sandwich in the egg mixture, letting it sit about 1 1/2 minutes per side. Transfer to a plate and repeat with the remaining sandwiches.
Preheat a large nonstick skillet over low heat. Add 1 tablespoon of the butter. When the butter has melted, add 2 of the sandwiches and cook until golden brown on both sides, about 5 minutes per side. Repeat with the remaining butter and sandwiches.
Cut the French toast "sandwiches" in half and serve hot, dusted with powdered sugar and drizzled with maple syrup, as desired.
This recipe was styled by chef Karen Pickus for Good Morning America.
Recipe Summary
Main Ingredients: eggs, heavy cream, orange, cinnamon, nutmeg


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How did a major college become the recipient of a $25 million grant, the single largest financial award that college ever received?
The grant was awarded by the United States Agency for International Development, (USAID) to the College of William & Mary to be the center of an international effort to track foreign aid money, increase transparency of global aid, help effectively target, monitor and evaluate foreign aid.
The late Sen, Everrett Dirksen of Illinois, the Republican minority leader in the Senate, was credited saying, "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're taking real money." The same can be said about foreign aid. The money flows into foreign aid projects, not just from the United States, but 45 other donor countries and 46 multilateral donors, such as the World Bank.
In fact, the AidData database that runs from 1950 until 2012, list a million development projects in which $5.5 trillion was invested. Current projects absorb about $110-150 billion per year.
The monitoring of aid distribution and measuring its impact is a huge undertaking. It will involve a global network of scientist, economists, statisticians and other experts. But the inceptions of the project couldn't have been more modest.
As Michael Tierney, Hylton professor of government and co-director of the college's Institute for the Theory & Practice of International Relations put it, in an interview with the Lake Placid News and The Virginia Gazette, "This project started at the Green Leafe Cafe when the four of us, my honors thesis student Brad Parks, economist Rob Hicks, sociologist Timmons Roberts, and, I, a political scientist, encouraged Parks to turn his thesis into a book. The four of us sketched the outline of the book on the back of a napkin."
In 2003, Parks, Tierney's honor thesis student, was interested in studying the environmental impact of developmental assistance. He discovered that there were some fundamental problems with data that scholars had been using. A lot a data was missing or projects were mis-categorized. In one instance, a donor provided money to cut down the rain forest, while the other to protect bio-diversity and rope off the rain forest. But in the official dataset, the two projects had the same sector code forestry.
"We decided to fix that," Tierney said. "It seems crazy in retrospect, but we decided to gather the missing data and re-code each of the half a million projects by hand. This required a huge amount of smart student labor. We learned a lot in that process. The book that we originally thought would 'write itself, "Greening Aid?: Understanding the Environmental Impact of Development Assistance," was published in 2008 by Oxford University Press."
Since then the data gathered by the AidData research team has been used in many books and journal articles in the fields of political science, geography, economics, sociology and international relations.
Although the original database was not very useful for aid coordination or targeting, it lead to conversations with staff members at the World Bank, USAID and other development agencies. Then in 2007/2008 there was breakthrough. The Gates Foundation was getting into the business of funding foreign aid and development projects. They wanted to know what factors made aid projects more effective.
"Our interactions with foundations moved us from an exclusively academic project to one that was also focused on aid transparency and accountability," Tierney said. "It turns out that if people know where their tax dollars are going, it is much more likely that these expenditures will be effective. If aid beneficiaries know what a donor has promised, then they are more likely demand results from their own government or from those who are implementing an aid program."
The next chapter in the work of the William & Mary based project, in partnership with other research teams, is the development of sub-national geo-spatial data. Policymakers and citizens will be able to see in an instant, looking at a map, whether anti-poverty aid is going to the most impoverished parts of a country or whether educational aid is going to geographic areas where literacy is lowest.
"Within the academic/research community our work over the past decade has been well received," Tierney noted. "But governments and international organizations are more skeptical that a student-faculty research project should be the source of data that they use in their policy work. But if you provide value and can show that you are doing high quality work, then eventually even the skeptics come around."
Frank Shatz lives in Williamsburg, Va. and Lake Placid. His column was reprinted with permission from The Virginia Gazette.


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If x-3/x=sqrt(3) then 9/(x^4)+(x^4)/9 = ?
I got the answer as 7 with both a calculator and in exact closed form using quadratic formula but my son's teacher says there is a way to rearrange the equations to get the answer w/o actually solving for x. I have my doubts. Can anyone see how to do it w/o solving for x first?


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"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute."
—Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
Lots of suxage in ChitCago it appears. Although with one of Buck Ofama's key henchmen running the city is no surprise..Do you really think he honestly won the Mayoral election?
You have a whole lot of stupid going on if you do!
And their disarmament program and ignoring the second amendment..
Going well.
Chicago Police Chief: Second Amendment Is A Danger To Public Safety
Chicago's Chief of Police, who previously blamed "government-sponsored racism" and Sarah Palin for Chicago's gun violence, declared that the law-ful exercise of the Second Amendment was a threat to public safety. . . .
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Those evil AR 15s..
Oh wait….
About time someone got after the 'entrenched' assOs in Washington..
Democrats in Washington—including honorary Democrats Lindsay Graham and John McCain– are confused.
9 Phony Martyrs of the Left
9. Che Guevara.
No, Che isn't an American, but can anyone think of a leftist martyr who is more honored? After all, even Joe Hill doesn't have his face on t-shirts. Most of the other creeps listed here don't have Che's creds, either: a one-man "death panel," Che reviewed the murder lists for Fidel Castro's firing squads, wrote a manual on guerilla warfare, and then broadened his horizons to lead revolutions elsewhere. Bolivian forces killed him in 1967 (of course, "assisted" by the CIA, according to the Left) and that left only Time magazine in 1999 to name him one of the most influential people of the 20th century. The Time editors' elevation of this murderous thug to such a level represents an egregious — and sadly predictable — ignorance of historical facts.
DHS: Supports the 'Land of the Freebie'
Barack Benghazi Obama is always there when we don't need him, and he's never there when we do — as on the night of September 11, 2012 in Benghazi.
Why President Obama keeps the press away – playing golf with Tiger Woods doesn't look good with 12 million Americans out of work and a $16 trillion debt
LIFE is what matters: Message to Democrats (and Republicans) Trying to "compromise" Away My Gun Rights
- Social programs: All the "safety net" programs that you protect are no good to any of us IF WE ARE DEAD because you took away our right to adequately protect ourselves.
- Education: It does children no good for you to push for funding for their education IF THEY ARE DEAD because you took away their parent's right to adequately protect them AND refuse to allow them to be as well protected at school as you are at your work.
- Protection of the right to an abortion: An abortion does women no good IF THEY ARE DEAD because you took away our rights to adequately protect ourselves.


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Skip to comments.Polar Bears are not dying out, say scientists in book on popular 'scare stories'
Posted on 06/22/2009 8:41:17 PM PDT by Dysart
Polar bears are not dying out and Turkey Twizzlers are fine, according to a new book from scientists wishing to challenge science "scare stories"
Contrary to widely held belief, polar bear populations are rising, according to the scientists
It is widely thought that the polar ice caps will melt, causing sea levels to rise, resulting in the loss of cities along the coast, as well as a the majority of polar bears.
And if global warming does not kill us, then obesity or heart disease will thanks to an addiction to junk food and salt.
But a new book, compiled by Stanley Feldman, a professor of anaesthetics at London University, and Vincent Marks, a former professor of clinical biochemistry and dean of medicine at the University of Surrey, are questioning the end of the world and healthy eating tips.
Writing in The Daily Mail, the pair discuss Global Warming And Other --------: The Truth About All Those Science Scare Stories, where they examine the "facts" behind global warming, the future of polar bears and chef Jamie Oliver's nemesis, Turkey Twizzlers.
The Sun is behind Global Warming
Rather than man-made CO2 being responsible for global warming, they argue that there is evidence it is caused in part by the increase in the intensity of the Sun's heat.
CO2 levels
Although the level of CO2 is higher than the "pre-industrial" level today it is about 0.038 per cent of the atmosphere, compared to 0.02 per cent, carbon dioxide levels have often been as much as 10 times higher than they are today.
Polar bears and penguins are not dying out
Most populations of polar bear are doing well. Despite the melting in the Arctic ice cap, numbers have more than doubled since 1950.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
All global warming scare mongering stories are so full of crap, but it doesn't matter. They will be reported as fact forever.
Quick Google search identifies it as a fried turkey... something, served in UK under the guise of food, alongside the rest of the things they believe are edible.
Facts don't matter.
It's all about feelings!
If those who want to alter the balance of power in the world can get enough dopes like Obama to buy into it, they will have a catastrophic impact on the planet before enough people realize they were played to stop it.
Ok. Tanks. Smacks of Haggis...not that there's anything wrong with that-minced meat is indeed a staple.
Bears not dying.... A liberal horror story.
Not to worry, he's got his Pulitzer, Oscar and myriad other awards to keep him comfy. Oops, forgot about all the $$$$$$ from the global warming related corporation he's vested in.
Fried turkey is considered a delicacy in the state of Texas!
I know a guy that has a stuffed one standing up in his home, it's awesome!!
And, I'm sure, in Texas, it actually is delicious. In UK, on the other hand... I think I'd stick with beer only. If you can get it cold.
Billions were to have died no later than mid 80's.
LOL! Time (not the magazine) really does make fools of liberals.
"Despite the melting in the Arctic ice cap, numbers have more than doubled since 1950"
The Artic ice cap is not melting:
I wonder if liberals would support polar bear abortions. They probably would.
Actually, when you fry a turkey in Texas, you fry the whole turkey. It's great! You lower the turkey in a vat of boiling oil and cook the whole thing at one time.
Ah, I've seen that done on YouTube. Apparently it is well worthwhile, but you have to have the fire department on standby, as not to burn down your house. Fire suits seem recommended too, but it's hard to drink beer in one.
Remember, you have to cook it Outside!
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New Year's Snowstorm Measured .35 'Pedroias'
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Forget all that
Weather Channel
gobbledy-gook. You know, 'Polar Vortexes', 'Arctic Blasts' and 'ThunderSnow'? All you need to know about Winter in Boston is how many 'Pedroias' we got hit with in the latest snowstorm (which we
to refer to as 'Hercules" as insisted upon by the WeatherGeeks). Thanks to
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Happy Fourth!
I didn't even know these pictures existed until Jackie emailed earlier this week, gushing. Thanks Jackie! Sorry Jackie! But you were gushing!
Thought it would be a good way to send you on your weekend – Hot Harry and Tom Hardy who might not be holding a puppy but also isn't looking weirdly unattractive in costume. He does a lot of that these days.
These were taken last month at the Audi Polo Challenge in Ascot, England.
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Flash storage startup Pure Storage was on the receiving end of a lawsuit this week in which EMC charges that Pure Storage hatched a "deliberate scheme" to acquire EMC intellectual property by hiring 44 former EMC engineers and sales representatives.
EMC said the employees, who were under agreements not to disclose confidential information about EMC products and customers, departed "under suspicious circumstances" to Join Pure Storage.
Pure Storage CEO Scott Dietzen released an open letter Tuesday to "current, prospective and future" customers and partners about the litigation, in which he wrote: "We at Pure believe there is no merit whatsoever to any of these complaints."


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Here we go again.
Here we go again.
No goat killers on my island.
One lady has 13 children and 55 grandchildren. Have she ever heard of birth control?
No goat killers on my island.
I really wish they wouldn't start by eliminating one pair before they even get through the gates, even if they do get a chance to earn their way back on the show. It just seems needlessly cruel. I also didn't really like that one of the challenges to get on the show involved not just a physical test but a puzzle as well. I'm sure I could definitely outrun any of them (which isn't much to brag about, I realize, particularly since I'm not overweight), but I stink at puzzles. And really, what does the ability to solve a puzzle have to do with their desire to lose weight? In the past, at least, when they've included quizzes, they've been further along in the competition and have been based on stuff they should have learned--calorie counts, healthier food choices etc.--that have something to do with losing weight/maintaining a healthier lifestyle.
Not thrilled with the idea of two male trainers either--they couldn't find any female trainer to take Jillian's place?
And I really, really hope the red team turn out to be nice people, because I'd hate to be put in the position of disliking Mr. and Mrs. Claus (and you know they had to be put in the red shirts the moment the show got a look at those two).
I actually don't mind a Dolvett vs Bob show.
OK I am having a problem with Dolvett going mental because his team is taking water breaks and going to the bathroom. What does he want, his team to pass out due to dehydration, that's really smart. Or does his simply want them to piss in their pants. That was totally stupid.
No goat killers on my island.
Guess no one is watching this show....thought it might be too soon after the Holiday Break, and this might be a super long season after all the finale won't be until May. That's 5 months.
No goat killers on my island.
I'm here, I'm here! I had no clue the show was even starting until I happened to stumble across it; it has NOT be advertised around here at all!
Haven't seen anyone I can't stand yet, LOL. I've always wondered how long it was gonna be till someone got hurt & the stupid first challenge & it finally happened! It would really stink if being injured causes the poor guy to get sent home because of poor weight loss!
It doesn't start here for a couple of hours but I'm not sure I'm going to watch this season. I stopped watching it about halfway through last season. Just got too bored with it. I figure I can always catch up on here if I need a Biggest Loser fix
Last season I didn't even get into it until about halfway through either.
No goat killers on my island.
As for the water breaks, aren't they carting water bottles around with them the way most people in gyms do? Is there any reason they can't be drinking while on the treadmills?
I was also very scared for the guy who got so disoriented he had no idea who Bob was. I know they want to lose as much weight as soon as possible, but some people just have to start out more slowly, because they're in such bad shape to begin with that they can't safely go full tilt boogie right from the beginning.
Totally agree on both of these points! When Ali was saying that one pair would be going home, I just threw my hands up & kept saying, " I HATE when they do this! It SUCKS!"
On the puzzle, I'm glad SOMEONE on the show (was it green?) heard me & started working it out on the ground to save all that time sliding the pieces on & off the poles. But it would have been better for that second leg to be a purely physical challenge, especially since the first & third legs were.


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Survey of Consumer Attitudes and Behavior, Fall 1973 (ICPSR 7525)
Published: May 4, 2006
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This survey was undertaken to assess consumer sentiment and buying plans, as well as to provide information on their savings and investment habits and perceptions of government. Open-ended questions were asked concerning evaluations and expectations about personal finances, employment, recession, price changes, and the national business situation. Additional variables probe respondents' buying intentions for a house, automobiles, appliances, and other consumer durables, and respondents' appraisals of present market conditions for purchasing houses and other durables. Other variables probe respondents' assessments of their financial status relative to the previous year, their views of the government in Washington, the need for governmental changes, military spending, government support for Black people, and their satisfaction with their income and their jobs, as well as their opinion of married women working outside the home, women's liberation, and penalties for marijuana use. Information is also provided on respondents' political party identification, time spent with their children, savings accounts, contributions to charitable organizations, and car ownership and plans to buy a new one. Demographic variables provide information on respondents' age, sex, race, ethnic group, marital status, education, occupation, employment status, and family income.
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One respondent from each family unit in the dwellings sampled, usually the head of the family, or the wife. The dwelling units were selected by area probability sampling from primary sampling units. For each dwelling unit in the sample, an interview was sought with a respondent from the primary family and from each secondary family (if any). The head of the family (usually the husband) was the preferred respondent, but the wife could substitute if the head was not readily available.
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It's time to prepare for Pentecost Sunday!
There are a number of options in the lectionary: for the vigil of Pentecost and for Pentecost day. All of those texts can be found here. The SLU commentary focuses largely on the readings for Pentecost day as do the Sadlier notes for helping children prepare to hear the Word.
I can't predict which texts will be proclaimed in your parish - but you could make a phone call and ask. Or you might just take the time to read through all the texts, asking yourself, "Which readings would I choose - and why?"
My favorites for this weekend? From the vigil readings: Ezekiel 37:1-14 and Romans 8:22-27; and from the Mass on Pentecost day: John 20:19-23.
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The Afghan Tragedy
In Afghanistan in 1996 the Taliban inherited a profoundly damaged country; and five years later, the tasks of reconstruction and healing were more urgent, even before the US bombing began. The Taliban government's budget for the last year of their regime amounted to $82 million—and the meagerness of this sum for a country geographically bigger than France only tells part of the story. More than half of the income was expected to come from the semi-extortionate toll taxes imposed by their Mujahideen predecessors and continued by the Taliban; and more than half of those revenues were swallowed by the contingency fund to support the wars against the Tajiks in northern Afghanistan, formerly headed by Ahmed Shah Massoud, and against the Shiite Hazaras in the central highlands. The outlay for development was only $343,000, while the ministry that looked after the madrasas, religious schools, received $14 million, which in turn was five times more than the allocation for the Ministry of Health.1
In a country seething with endemic disease, and with the second-highest infant mortality rate in the world, these priorities look nothing but skewed. The outlay for the powerful Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice—which punished those whose beards were not the prescribed eight centimeters long, and those who did not observe prayers and fasts, and worked hard to ensure that male minds remained free of the sinful thoughts incited by the presence of unveiled women—was three times as much as that for development. For Mullah Omar and his advisers from the rural clergy, it was enough to be pious and virtuous, and a healthy Islamic society would be created by itself. And the punishment for those who strayed from virtue was draconian: adulterers were stoned to death, women were known to have the tips of their thumbs cut off for wearing nail polish. Not surprisingly, such cloud-cuckoo-land ideas—partly the result of their limited madrasa educations—and their brutal consequences made the Taliban increasingly unpopular among even the Pashtuns in the countryside who, oppressed by the Mujahideen, had initially welcomed them as liberators.
In the derelict Pashtun village I visited east of Kabul last spring, five months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, in an area heavily bombed and mined by the Soviet military, people talked, as they did elsewhere, of the irrelevance—indeed the nonexistence—of the Taliban government and the good deeds of the white men from the foreign NGOs and the UN, who were active all through the last two decades of war, supplying seeds, food, and health care, and who—like the aid workers arrested for allegedly preaching Christianity—worked in constant danger of being kidnapped and beaten up by the Taliban.
There were three Afghans sitting on the floor of the bare, low-roofed room, all of them in their late forties, variously disabled during the anti-Communist jihad, and prematurely aged, even the dim light from the lantern seeming harsh on their sunburned wrinkled faces and wiry gray beards. The…
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Hire a housekeeper, landscaper and personal chef!
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Hi everyone, I'm a working mom with a 3 month old and I just started back to work full-time. My son is a fantastic little boy and I have such a great time with him. Since I've been back at work, I don't have much time with him. I literally pick him up
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I'm pretty sure every working mom goes through this during her first few weeks (months) of being back to work after having a baby. It's tough but it really gets better. Just think of it this way -- you will be 100% responsible for that baby for 18 years. Plenty of time for him to know you are HIS mama, and he is yours. Good luck! You can do it.
Is your daughter a princess? There is a humorous column in the March 27 LA Times titled "Resist the princesses." Do you discourage it when your daughter wants to be a princess? Or is it just part of growing up for girls?
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I must admit, I kinda like the princess stuff. Not to an extreme, but I do think it's cute and fun. My daughter's still a little young for it, but she does LOVE "Cinderelly" and dancing in her tutu. Nothing wrong with that, in my opinion.


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A public television employee, Adrian Sobaru, prepares to jump from a balcony in the Romanian parliament building, in Bucharest, Romania, on Thursday, Dec. 23.
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Adrian Sobaru jumps from a balcony during a speech by Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc (not shown) in the Romanian parliament building on Thursday, Dec. 23. He sustained injuries but was reported to be conscious after the fall.
Paramedics attend to Adrian Sobaru after he jumped off the Parliament hall's balcony to protest the government's austerity drive, including wage cuts and tax hikes during a vote over wage reforms in Bucharest, Romaina on Thursday, Dec. 23. The Associated Press says the father of two jumped from aroudn 23 feet and landed on benches. No one else was injured.
The AP reports: Romania's government survived a no-confidence motion in Parliament on Thursday in a session overshadowed by a man who flung himself from the chamber's balcony, apparently in protest over the government austerity measures.
His injuries were not life-threatening. A loud thud reverberated in the chamber after the man, Adrian Sobaru — identified by the country's public television station as one of its engineers — jumped from a height of about 7 meters (23 feet).
He hit the benches shortly after Prime Minister Emil
Boc looked startled and rushed over to Sobaru, along with other lawmakers, before Speaker Mircea Geoana briefly postponed the session.
Boc called the incident "a tragedy that shocked me," and appealed for calm "in these tough times."
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Of course. No one made a thread, so I will.
Well, Pentatonix won Season 3 of The Sing-Off on NBC, and it looks like they'll be around for quite awhile. They have a website, and youtube (PTXOFFICIAL, I believe). Anywho, this is their latest cover. It's of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know."
I understand that I'm the only one on JUB who's sadly obsessed with this newly-found group, so I will worship them in this thread by my lonesome.
Oh, and "Somebody..." is a free download. It's kickass.
They're not perfect, but they're still kickass vocalists.