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Chapelboro and 97.9 WCHL will be hosting a Food Truck Rodeo in the Vilcom parking lot off Weaver Dairy Road in Chapel Hill (directions below). The event will be Wednesday, May 15th, from 5:30-8:00 p.m. and everyone and their friends and family are invited!
The Rodeo is poised to celebrate the launch of WCHL and Chapelboro's new website at Chapelboro.com, lovingly named Chapelboro 2.0! The "2.0" represents a whole new wave of connectivity and interactions for Chapelboro/WCHL users and listeners. It's now even faster to get all the info you need, and even easier to upload the events and comments that you want to see in YOUR digital town square.
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2D Animation of Letters
Budget £20-250 GBP
2 Quick Things needed done
Required to draw two alphabetical letters and transform them in 2D using translate, rotate and scale functions.
To produce an animation sequence that transform the initials and then reverses the transformation exactly so the initials return to their starting position.
These are 2D and are required to be done in OpenGL in Microsoft Visual Studios.
Please also include a small word document (A single paragraph or two) describing the way it was made and any problems you ran into.
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Repaving M-52 from Valley Road to M-50 was selected over a proposed paving project on Occidental Highway with Lenawee County's share of special state road funding.
Road projects across the state that were selected for $115 million in funding were announced Thursday by state legislators and the Michigan Department of Transportation.
Lenawee County Road Commission officials expressed disappointment in the announcement of funding for M-52 rather than repair of the more heavily traveled Occidental Highway and Valley Road route between Adrian and Tecumseh.
The road commission submitted a proposal for a $1.3 million repaving project on the deteriorating county road route when the special state road funding became available in May. The road commission is now pursuing a 2015 paving project with grants covering about half the cost.
Repaving a section of M-52 that appears to be in good condition rather than the potholed Occidental Highway route was a surprise, said Scott Merillat, road commission managing director.
"No extra revenue for us there," he said. "You can make your own idea out of that."
"We don't have the right politicians," said road commissioner Robert Emery.
The Occidental Highway route has much more traffic than the section of M-52, Emery said, and M-52 is in much better condition.
A list of 103 state and local transportation projects was announced Thursday for construction in 2014 with $115 million from the state's recently created Roads and Risks Reserve (RRR) Fund.
"This is fantastic news and a great first step toward improving our roads," said Michigan Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville, R-Monroe. "Three years of sound budget decisions and living within our means has made it possible to direct existing resources toward our roads. Instead of seeking new revenue, we were able to tighten our belts and fund priority projects throughout the state."
Monroe County received funding for six projects, five of them on county roads. The largest is a $5 million project on Samaria Road. Monroe County also received $1.42 million for a project on Tuttle Hill Road, $780,000 for two projects on Wabash Road and $280,000 for a signal project on Vivian Road. Another $3.5 million is to be spent on concrete patching on Interstate 75 in Monroe County.
Two projects were funded in Jackson County. Jefferson Road is to be resurfaced from U.S. 127 to the village of Brooklyn for $990,000. A project on M-106 was awarded $1.75 million.
"The people of Michigan want and deserve better roads. There is still much more work to be done to address all of our infrastructure needs in Michigan, but this is an important part of that process," Richardville said.
State Sen. Bruce Caswell, R-Pittsford, announced projects in Branch and St. Joseph counties as well as the M-52 project in Lenawee County.
"I often hear from citizens that we need to fix our roads. The road improvement money announced today will help to better our roads and ensure driver safety," Caswell said in a news release. "These funds represent a good first step in the ongoing discussions in Lansing about how to address Michigan's continued infrastructure needs."
State Rep. Nancy Jenkins, R-Clayton, said in a news release that more projects will be announced later. The Legislature created the special fund with $230 million in existing state revenue with half the money available for appropriation on Oct. 1. The other half could be appropriated on Feb. 1.
"Our roads and bridges are such an important part of our everyday lives here in Michigan, so I am glad we were able to set aside funds to improve them," said Jenkins. "These improvements will help us to invest in our state's future, which will benefit citizens across Michigan."
The news about the funding for the M-52 project came a day after the state released its new five-year plan for projects on state highways. That plan showed no projects in Lenawee County.
One project had been listed for 2017 in MDOT's last five-year plan. Dropped from the schedule is a restoration and rehabilitation project for 5.7 miles of M-34 from M-52 to Hazen Creek, just east of Benner Highway in Dover Township.
The M-34 project will likely be rescheduled further in the future than 2018, said MDOT spokeswoman Kari Arend. The proposed five-year plan up for adoption in January by the State Transportation Commission is for 2014 through 2018.
While no construction projects are in the new plan in Lenawee County, a $2.1 million resurfacing project on U.S. 12 is still scheduled for 2014, said Arend. Milling and paving is to take place on 11.3 miles of U.S. 12 from M-50 in Cambridge Township to M-52 west of Clinton.
No other significant highway or bridge work is currently planned on state roads in Lenawee County.
MDOT completed a major reconstruction and repaving of M-52 through Adrian in 2012 as well as work on U.S. 223 near Adrian and M-50 near Tecumseh.
The full five-year plan document is available on the MDOT website at www.michigan.gov/mdot5yearplan. The location, description and proposed construction year of upcoming MDOT projects are also on an interactive map online at the same website.
Public comments on the draft plan are to be accepted until Jan. 10. Comments can be directed to Bob Parsons, public involvement and hearings officer, Bureau of Highways, Michigan Department of Transportation, P.O. Box 30050, Lansing, MI 48909. Comments can also sent by fax at 517-373-9255
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State: Fix M-52, not Occidental Highway
Repaving M-52 from Valley Road to M-50 was selected over a proposed paving project on Occidental Highway with Lenawee County's share of special state road funding.


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As I've written earlier(danish), I've arrived rather late to the test-driven development-train. As a result I have a large application, developed in Rails, but without utilizing the test framework. Granted I have lately added some unit-tests, but in the whole, I would deem the application uncovered by tests.
Such a beast is difficult to handle. To upgrade it to support the latest Rails version (2.3.5 in this time of writing) is like jumping of a plane and hope to catch a floating parachute on your way down. On the other hand, writing unit-tests and functional tests to cover all current functionality is a huge task, that is discouraging simply by its presence. To put it short: The application has grown beyond my control.
So how to tackle this situation? I want the entire application (or most of at least) covered by test, but I will not be able to spare the next 3 months doing nothing but writing unit and functional tests.
Enter Cucumber.
With Cucumber I am able to create happy paths for all the use cases in my application. I know how each area of the application is supposed to be used, and by outlining these uses in Cucumber features and scenarios, I get a basic coverage of all functionality.
This is a very top-down approach. I don't get to test each small functionality separately. And even the Cucumber guys encourage coders to write more than just happy paths (adding also scenarios that are supposed to test for error messages). But at least, if something breaks, I will know about it. So when I change something in my application, I run all my cucumber features. If one of the scenarios fail, I can now focus on writing more detailed tests for this particular part of the application.
A big thanks to Aslak Hellesøy and friends for helping me reclaim control of my application!


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My Mom said she lost Peanut earlier. This can be a very bad thing, he has ended up in some pretty bizarre places. She tried all the 'tricks' to get him to come out from his hiding place. She finally gave up, knowing I'd be home soon to look....and then as she walked past the entry way, she discovered his latest hiding place. Too cute.
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Many industries are eying opportunities in Indonesia and Northeast and Southeast Asia, thanks to the rapid economic growth of those areas. For example, satellite operator SES SA has contracted Boeing for a new satellite to expand direct-to-home broadcasting and other communications services to those markets (see figure). This satellite also will provide maritime communications for vessels in the Indian Ocean.
Dubbed SES-9, this Ku-band 702 high-power (HP) satellite will be built in Boeing's El Segundo, CA Satellite Development Center (see photo). It is designed to operate for 15 years in geosynchronous orbit with a 12.7-kW payload and 57 high-power Ku-band transponders (equivalent to 81 36-MHz transponders). Boeing introduced the 702 satellite design more than 15 years ago and has evolved the design since then. For instance, this satellite's xenon-ion propulsion and chemical bi-propellant systems are uniquely designed to reduce the spacecraft's launch weight while allowing for maximum payload capacity.
The spacecraft, which will be co-located with SES' existing SES-7 and NSS-11 satellites, will be positioned at 108.2 deg. east longitude. It will provide incremental additional as well as replacement communications capacity. This is the 11th spacecraft that SES has ordered from Boeing and the contract includes an option for another.


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The Confidential Intermediary Program certifies Confidential Intermediaries (CIs) through the Certification and Licensing Division of the Arizona Supreme Court. CIs provide a service to help facilitate contact between parties of an adoption (adoption triad members) or siblings separated as a result of a dependency action.
The Confidential Intermediary Program was established by the Arizona State Legislature in 1992, by enacting A.R.S. §8-134 (adoption triad member searches). In 2007, the Arizona State Legislature extended the role of the Confidential Intermediary Program to include the Sibling Information Exchange Program (SIX) by enacting A.R.S. §8-543, which provides former dependent children the ability to locate, and stay in touch with, siblings separated by a dependency action. Under both statutes, Confidential Intermediaries are provided access to court records in order to obtain information necessary to locate the sought after party. Consent from all parties is required for the sharing of identifying and non-identifying information.
Next Confidential Intermediary Training and Examination
October 22- 24, 2018
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The Arizona Supreme Court is currently seeking interested candidates for appointment to the Confidential Intermediary Board. The Confidential Intermediary Board is comprised of eleven volunteer members appointed by the Chief Justice for three-year terms. The Confidential Intermediary Board meets every three months to consider and make decisions regarding certification and disciplinary matters involving certified confidential intermediaries. The Board also makes recommendations to the Arizona Supreme Court regarding confidential intermediary and sibling information exchange issues. Applications are being sought for the following Board positions:
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It's almost October, which means that for the past couple of months, I've been busy perfecting our new fall specials. One of our new features is the "Mile-High Meatloaf," and I thought a little background on the history of meatloaf would be in order.
Nobody knows exactly when meatloaf was first created. Early records show that for centuries, cooks would mince already-cooked meat by hand and re-form it into molds. Some even believe that meatloaf has its origin in scrapple, a mixture of ground pork and cornmeal served by German-Americans in Pennsylvania since Colonial times.
But it wasn't until the Great Depression and World War II that the American public began incorporating ground meat into family meals on a widespread basis. It was critical for families to stretch food dollars as much as possible. Using an inexpensive ground meat and throwing in leftovers and other less-than-fancy ingredients along with a few spices gave cooks a way to use up things that might otherwise go to waste. This is the reason we all feel that our mom's meatloaf is the best. There are as many different variations as there are families and generations.
Today, many hail meatloaf as the ultimate comfort food. Because of its appeal as a traditional family dinner, Americans are ordering meatloaf at restaurants in record numbers. For that reason, I invite you to try our Mile-High Meatloaf. We'll fill your need for comfort food with four slices of our private recipe meatloaf served over a grilled slice of homemade Italian bread. To make it a Mile-High, we top it with two large scoops of fluffy mashed potatoes, savory beef gravy and crisp onion rings. You really have to see it (and eat it) to believe it.
The Mile-High Meatloaf will be featured at Eat'n Park from Monday, September 29th until Wednesday, November 26th. It is a limited time offer, so be sure to stop in and give it a try. Then come on back to the blog and let me know what you think.
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Editors' note (December 6, 2013): We've lowered the performance score of the Nexus 10 due to recent releases of more powerful tablets in the marketplace.
It's the first question anyone asks when they're interested in a tablet: "Is it as good as the current
That said, if you have no interest in owning an Apple product anyway, but are still in the market for a premium tablet, the Nexus 10 should be at or near the top of your list. The choice isn't as cut and dry as it should be, unfortunately. Your other go-to Android option -- the
The Nexus 10's stock charger uses its Micro-USB port to charge and -- as it turns out -- that's not the most efficient way to charge a high-end tablet. Overnight charging will be fine, but if you ever need to charge in a hurry, there are currently no other options. Google mentioned a Pogo charger option at release, but has been mum on the subject ever since.
So why is the Nexus 10 potentially the best Android tablet? Its screen is gorgeous and the sharpest around compared with any tablet, and it is the most comfortable 10-inch tablet to hold in your hand with a durability that ensures you won't immediate blow a gasket if your kids drop it. Furthermore, it's the first tablet to run Android 4.2, which brings with it great new features -- Photo Sphere, which lets you capture a three-dimensional model of a real-world space, is one of the coolest I've ever experienced on a tablet.
For most, the iPad is still the tablet of choice, but for those looking for an alternative to Apple's much more constrained OS, Google has delivered one of the best yet. Like the Nexus 7 before it, the Nexus 10 marks a significant step toward a much more competitive tablet market, and its design heralds a new paradigm from which all other tablets should consider cribbing ASAP.
Just for the record, in the 7-inch tablet space, it's the Nexus 7, not the iPad Mini, that currently reigns as the best small tablet.
The Google Nexus 10 is one of the best designed tablets yet. At 1.33 pounds, it's fairly light and has a slightly concave shape, with a subtly beveled back design. Thanks to its light weight and smoothly rounded corners the tablet never digs into your palms when held with two hands. The back is a soft, grippy, almost rubbery plastic that not only feels great to hold, but doubles as protection for the tablet. The aforementioned rounded corners have that same rubbery plastic around them. The whole outer shell feels almost like an exoskeleton accessory, specifically designed to protect the delicate tablet organs inside.
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This feels like a tablet you can get a little rough with and one that won't immediately induce apoplexy when your kid grabs it. Also, there are no scratchy edges and no fine corners. While preparing this review, I mistakenly dropped the tablet a couple of times onto a concrete floor and saw not one scratch or dent. Now, I'm not recommending you go whipping these things around, but I really appreciate how it flies in the face of the iPad's and Transformer Infinity's luxury tablet design. It's actually more appropriate for families willing to share the device, but we'll get to how Google plans to make that easier a bit later.
Manufactured by Samsung, the all-black tablet bears a passing resemblance to the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, and like that tablet, its bezels are wide. The side bezels, thanks to the inclusion of dual, front-facing speaker grilles, are especially so. Though some may prefer thinner bezels, the wider ones here make the tablet easier to hold in two hands. Your hands do cover the speakers if held in landscape mode, but since the speaker grille is also really long -- spanning about 5.5 inches of the tablet's 6.9-inch height -- there's plenty of room for sound to get through. Also, if you're holding it while listening to something, you'll likely have headphones on.
Google keeps things simple for physical features. On the left edge is a headphone jack and Micro-USB charging/data port. In the left corner of the top edge sit the power/sleep button and volume rocker. Alone, on the right edge is a Micro-HDMI port, with a magnetic Pogo Pin charger on the bottom edge.
Along the top of the tablet's back is a textured strip that feels like a refinement of the Nexus 7's back texture material. Within that strip (which is also removable) is a rear-facing 5-megapixel camera next to an LED flash and microphone. On the front, in the middle of the top bezel, is the tablet's front-facing 1.9-megapixel camera and ambient light sensor. On the back, right in middle, is a large, embossed Nexus logo above a smaller Samsung one.
The Nexus 10 isn't a sexy tablet, but it's the one above all current 10-inch tablets I'd rather hold in my hands.
Hardware features
The Nexus 10 is the first tablet to house Samsung's 1.7GHz dual-core Exynos 5250 CPU. It uses a Mali T-604 as its graphics processor and has 2GB of RAM. The Exynos 5250 was built using the Cortex-A15 process and is one of the first tablet CPUs to truly rival Apple's A5 and A6 family, purely from a specs perspective. It also supports 802.11 b/g/n (2.4GHz and 5GHz) and MIMO Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, and NFC (near-field communication). There's also a gyroscope, a barometer, an accelerometer, and a digital compass.
Android 4.0, the second
If you've seen Android 4.1 on the Nexus 7, visually you'll have a good idea of what to expect from 4.2. It has the same controlled and focused feel that so far only the Nexus 7 has played host to on the tablet front. It's less intimidating to the uninitiated than the typical Android tablet interface and feels less constrained than its original implementation on the Nexus 7.
The now-familiar tray on the bottom of the home screen is, by default, filled with Google services apps such as Play, Music, Books, YouTube, and Magazines. There's also a folder housing Chrome as well as Google Maps, Google Plus, Gmail, and other services. Directly in the middle of the tray is the apps button. Swiping up from the home button and across the apps button takes you to Google Now, Google's predictive personalized helper.
Google Now uses voice recognition to field queries and displays information such as the current weather, local bus schedules, and nearby restaurants you may be interested in. The thought is that Google Now will give you information when you need it. If it's 5 p.m. and you're about to leave work, it will conceivably update you with traffic information without you having to fetch it. The information would just appear in Google Now at the right time. In my experience, Google Now rarely feels like a useful feature and only recently does it seem to track my history across devices. I'm still willing to give it a chance, but would love to see its benefits be more clearly outlined in future versions. Right now it feels kind of separate from everything else and would benefit from better integration with the OS.
The new new
There are quite a few new features in 4.2; some interesting and useful, others just kind of cool. First, the gesture type feature is Google's native OS answer to Swype. I'm not a Swype user, but I was impressed by gesture type's ability to accurately interpret my finger sliding and determine, for the most part, what I wanted to type. It did, however, have trouble with the word "badass," which is kind of unacceptable to me.
Tablet settings can now be accessed much quicker. Simply swipe down from the top-right corner to reveal a tray of shortcuts including brightness, Wi-Fi settings, general settings, battery life, airplane mode, and so on.
Magnification attempts to take advantage of the screen's high resolution. By enabling it in settings and tapping the screen three times in quick succession, assets on the screen will magnify in the section where you tapped. This is different from zooming, which scales images and text and applies anti-aliasing to smooth things out. Magnify simply makes things bigger. It's a nice feature for those with poor eyesight, but I was disappointed by the lack of anti-aliasing.
Daydreams is essentially an interactive screensaver that plays when the tablet is asleep and charging. You can choose to display a clock, colors, jelly beans, or, my favorite implementation, Google Currents. Stories from your feed will slowly scroll across the screen, and tapping any of them opens the story in the Currents app.
Gmail gets a new design and a new, awesome feature. Awesome to me, at least. When viewing your in-box, you can now swipe messages away to archive them. As a person who gets a lot of spam in his inbox, this well-implemented addition is one of those details that seems small on paper, but makes a huge difference in your experience.
When it was first announced, Miracast was listed as one of the Nexus 10's key features. Since then, Google's pulled back from that support and currently supports Miracast only in its Nexus 4 smartphone. Unfortunately, there has been no word from Google on when or if Miracast support for the Nexus 10 will ever be announced.
Multi screen
Multi Screen implements users accounts in Android 4.2. Simply add a new user from the Settings>Users menu and follow the steps to setup an additional user account. New user accounts and all content on those accounts can be deleted by the tablet owner (the primary account) at any time. Also, any other user accounts on the tablet can accept updated app permissions on behalf of the additional account.
To switch to a new user you're required to enter the lock screen, select the user icon, and then unlock the tablet. This is a less elegant solution than the Nook HD's implementation of profiles which allows you to simply tap the user account at the top of the screen, select your new user, and watch your content change to the new user's content before your eyes.
Also, the Nook HD lets you to set up multiple child and adult profiles, allowing parents to have more than one administrative account. As far as I can tell, only one administrative account per tablet is allowed in Android 4.2.
Lock screen
"More information on lock screens!" is what Android fans have demanded for years. Actually, I don't know if anyone's ever said that, but it's what Google is delivering anyway. Now you can add multiple e-mail in-boxes, calendars, and clocks to the lock screen. You can also add a widget called "What's this song?," which is a song identifier added to Android in 4.0, now quickly available on your lock screen.
The widget will listen to a song (either playing on the device or from another device and within seconds identify said song and conveniently provide you with a link to the Google Play store to purchase it. I can see this being useful at times, but it's definitely a weird choice for the lock screen.


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For years, my husband has continuously asked me to make "saucy ribs." But for some reason, every recipe I have tried, although good, never really gave me that sweet, spicy, sticky, lick-your-fingers ribs. Until last night.
Thanks to my parents, a bottle of liquid smoke was in my stocking this year (which is apparently available in many specialty food stores or online and can be used in many dishes!). I had heard of the ingredient and was curious about the depth of flavor it would add to items made in the kitchen vs. the grill. So when I found a saucy rib recipe that required liquid smoke, I knew I had to try it.
You need a weekend day for this one, but it is WELL worth it. I will never make another rib recipe again. The sauce is AMAZING and has such complex flavors – layering the liquid smoke, molasses, coffee and cinnamon. Then, it combines that sauciness with a great dry rub along with slow roasting the ribs until they fall off the bone.
The recipe is from Bon Appetit, but I made a few changes based on user reviews. I changed the recipe for a slower roast, and reduced the sugar for the right balance of sweet and spicy/smoky.
As someone who has tried many rib recipes, take my word that this one will be your favorite. And, if you have any doubts, just ask my rib-requesting husband!
Serves 8
Sauce (might want to make extra!)
4 teaspoons olive oil
1 cup minced onion
1 1/2 cups water
1 cup ketchup
2/3 cup packed golden brown sugar
2/3 cup cider vinegar
1/4 cup unsulfured (light) molasses (although I used dark and it tasted great!)
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoons instant coffee powder
2 teaspoons prepared mustard
2 teaspoons chili powder
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
6 baby back pork rib racks (about 9 pounds total weight)
1/2 cup cider vinegar
4 teaspoons liquid smoke flavoring
6 tablespoons chili powder
3 tablespoons ground cumin
1 1/2 tablespoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
2 tablespoons brown sugar
For Sauce:
Heat oil in heavy large saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and sauté until translucent, about 5 minutes. Whisk in remaining ingredients. Bring to boil. Reduce heat; simmer until reduced to 3 cups, stirring occasionally, about 30 minutes. (Can be prepared 1 week ahead. Cover and refrigerate.)
For Ribs:
Score white membrane on underside of ribs. Place ribs in large roasting pan. Mix vinegar and liquid smoke in small bowl; brush over both sides of ribs. Refrigerate 2 hours.
Preheat oven to 300°F. Mix chili powder, cumin, sugar, onion powder and cayenne. Rub over both sides of ribs. Season with salt and pepper. Arrange ribs, meat side up, in single layer on 2 large baking sheets. Roast 3 hours, covering loosely with foil if browning too quickly.
Remove ribs from oven. Brush both sides of ribs with 3/4 cup sauce. Roast 10 minutes. Brush both sides of ribs with additional 3/4 cup sauce. Roast 15 minutes longer. Remove ribs from oven. Cover with foil; let stand 15 minutes.
Cut ribs between bones into 3- to 4- rib sections. Serve with remaining sauce.
Tags: baby back, baked, barbeque, BBQ, bon appetit, brown sugar, chili, coffee, ketchup, liquid smoke, molasses, mustard, onion, Pork, recipe, ribs, slow roast, spicy, sticky, sweet, vinegar, winter, worcestershire


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CHICAGO (AP) — Cook County judges have hidden hundreds of court files from public view since 2000, some without reason or proper justification, according to a published report Sunday.
Several of the sealed files involved well-known Chicago residents and institutions, including a chef, businessmen, the Archdiocese of Chicago and the Chicago Cubs, according to a story in Sunday editions of the Chicago Tribune (trib.in/QNBQlJ).
The newspaper's findings run contrary to Illinois case law, which says public documents shouldn't be sealed. In several cases, judges failed to provide their rationale for sealing files and hid entire files instead of removing sensitive information, such as Social Security numbers, that would have otherwise made the files public.
The Tribune looked at dozens of previously sealed files. Its analysis found that 166 of the 436 cases remained sealed as of July 1. In nearly 100 cases, both the plaintiffs' and the defendants' identities also remained secret.
The newspaper's findings also showed that information concerning well-connected individuals has been protected.
Award-winning chef Laurent Gras, who opened L20 in Chicago, sued the driver in a 2008 bike collision that injured Gras. Gras filed a complaint under a pseudonym asked that the file be kept sealed. Judge William Maddux granted the request, and didn't give a reason in his written order.
The file was unsealed in 2009 by another judge who found that there "was no lawful basis to suppress the entire court file."
Maddux defended his action.
"I don't seal just anything. My own perspective, attitude is, it's a public document, a public record, and there has to be a really good reason to seal the file," he said.
Some of the other formerly sealed cases involved judges.
Elliot Muse, then a Cook County judge, sued lawyer Adam Bourgeois Jr., in 1998 for allegedly failing to pay more than $15,000 in rent. Months after Bourgeois became a Cook County judge, the case was sealed with no reason for the order.
It was signed by then Judge Wayne Rhine, who didn't request the sealing but said he had no problem signing it.
"I didn't want two sitting judges hanging out their dirty laundry," Rhine told the Tribune.
State law authorizes the sealing of files involving children, the mentally ill and whistleblowers. In other cases, judges are largely left on their own to determine whether to hide a public file.
The volume of sealed cases in Cook County has prompted criticism from at least one watchdog group.
"These cases go to the integrity of the courts system, said Arthur Bryant, who's the executive director of Washington, D.C-based Public Justice. The group fights for openness in courts.
"It is hard to have a democratic system, or one that works to make sure the law is just and the courts are fair, if what happens in the courts is secret."
Information from: Chicago Tribune, http://www.chicagotribune.com


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I've been out of town and off the grid – nothing like 10 days of family camping and roadtripping to unwind! – and now I'm back in black. Well, black polka dotted jammies, but that's beside the point.
I received this email while on vacation, with a request for anonymous reprint. Take a look, then weigh in on whether Considering's idea is crazy or not:
Dear Jen,
Recently you've made the transition from employee to contractor, and have had positive things to say about it. Having spent a year as a contractor in the advertising industry before landing my current full time position, I appreciate the appeal. I was reminded of your joyous reports of the transition to serial contractor today after spending some time on the phone with a client.
Some backstory, I have two current problems at my current employer. The first is that I seem to be on a non-technical management track. The second is that in the short term my duties are very strategical and not tactical. I like either doing things myself or supervising/mentoring other people on short term tasks. I don't have the patience to wait multiple days for someone to start a delegated task, and that's often required at my current job for reasons I can't get into.
However, today I got dragged into an issue with a client. A "why ain't this working" issue in which we were tracing activity from one of their workstations, through their firewall, our firewall, and finally onto their server. Afterwards, I realized that I really enjoyed that. Then I realized if I worked some sort of help desk/support line I would do that all the time.
Now let me explain myself. I don't mean low level read the script help desk. I'm talking about the level of support people pay big money for, like when you pay $200+ to call Microsoft, Dell gold support, or something on that level. I'm currently a .NET developer so I don't know if there is a help desk I'm a good fit for besides Microsoft Support. However, something like the Azure support team might be a good fit for me because I've been a UNIX admin, PHP programmer, and de facto DBA and sysadmin in former lives. This breadth of experience is exactly why I enjoy and excel at diagnosing issues where someone is using PHP on Linux to call .NET web services through two firewalls, and then creating an XML file from the results that sits on a FTP server that a process on an AS/400 will pick up.
Now I figure that 95% of the calls fielded are relatively simple things from companies that use support tickets as a la carte consulting to support their infrastructure. I'm also aware that sometime the issue is making the client realize the issue is on their end. I think that's a good trade-off. I like variety. I'll deal with the mundane for the rare opportunity to be presented with the creme de la creme of edge cases and obscure bugs. I'll deal with masses of dull inside the box thinkers for the chance to educate the occasional curious mind.
So my questions for your faithful readers are as follows. Is such a support position feasible for a senior level developer living in the United States? Is my only opportunity for this pursuing a job at Microsoft Support or are there other companies where developers get paid to talk on the phone to clients for short term (measured in minutes or hours at most) engagements? Has anyone worked one of these high end help desks that can talk about experience? Finally, is this idea bat shit crazy.
Considering transition.
Well, Considering, I personally think that any time you see a need, it's probably worthwhile to at least test the waters. Is it possible to do a trial run in your free time, while keeping your full time job? Maybe offer a company a free run, get some feedback, and see how they like it?
Now, my dear readers…some of you have your own companies, and all of you have experience in the field. What do you think about Considering's idea? Let us know in the comments.
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Does a standard cloud API makes sense? I'm still of the opinion that there is too much diversity out there and that the time is not ripe yet. There are many indispensable features in Amazon EC2 that no-one else has implemented at scale or for which there is no different take. The whole EBS feature set is one example. Image sharing and publishing is another one. Elastic IPs is another example. Eucalyptus has implementations for all this, but I can't point to someone operating them at scale. In any case, Tom White offers the following "Turing complete set of cloud compute services":
1. Instance lifecycle. The lifecycle defines the basic commands to provision, start, stop, and terminate instances. The bare-bones of a compute service.
2. Shared images. While it is possible to bootstrap from plain OS images created by the cloud service provider, the ability to build your own customized image, and crucially to share it with others provides a social element that helps drive adoption of a cloud platform.
3. Instance metadata. This feature allows you to inject small amounts of user-specific metadata to each instance at boot time - e.g. secret keys, or custom boot parameters - which allows another level of customization. This feature works well in conjunction with shared images: the common non-user specific code is baked into the shared image, and the user-specific code is supplied at launch time as metadata.
4. Network controls. Cloud providers need to think about the network environment that the user's instances run in. Offering such services as DNS, firewalling, VPNs (and exposing it via an API) makes it easy for developers to get started quickly without having to build this infrastructure themselves.
This is a great start and I would wholeheartedly agree that these are requirements, but I don't think they're enough. In order to operate interesting services (or acquire interesting customers) a cloud must offer more than this. I'm not yet sure what the list exactly is, but the following come to mind:
- Security groups or vlans: users must be able to control the network boundary around their servers, they must be able to group servers into tiers, and they must be able to create private communication structures. I believe the only two differences between security groups and vlans to be that a network interface can be in many security groups but only one vlan and that vlans can offer layer-2 multicast (and no-IP protocols) while security groups can't.
- Private IPs and remappable public IPs: going hand-in-hand with the notion of private communication structures goes the notion of private IP addresses. Of course publicly routable addresses are required as well, and there has to be some way to remap those IPs such that the failure of a server can be masked or a quick fail-over for other purposes can be engineered. I believe that in the end NAT (as used by Amazon's Elastic IPs) is the only scalable choice, but I'm ready to learn new things and there certainly is room for improvement over EIPs.
- Mountable storage volumes with snapshot backup: we did operate for a long time without Amazon EBS and at the time the "we need no expensive SAN" feeling was great, but after operating databases in EC2 with EBS for several years now there's no way I'm going back. I need to be able to mount a storage volume on a server, operate it, take a snapshot backup, and then create a fresh volume from that snapshot on another server. I'm ok for the volume to be a remote filesystem as opposed to a block device, and I'm ok for the snapshot to be another volume as opposed to tertiary storage (S3 in Amazon's case). Oh, but please don't make it hard to do this across failure zones so the two above servers are failure-isolated.
In my opinion we can't be successful until we can hash out all these features with a reasonable degree of flexibility so providers can differentiate yet at the same time a reasonable degree of uniformity so users (like the RightScale cloud management system and its pre-built ServerTemplates) can write portable systems. I have not heard the discussion reach the level of sophistication needed (and I freely admit that I haven't listened as hard as I could have) and frankly I also feel like we're all still learning new things all the time. On the RightScale end we're in the process of reworking our multi-cloud layer so we can incorporate some of the above feature sets in a standardized manner so I hope I can make more specific contributions in the near future.


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WASHINGTON — It's early to be drinking, but just after 10:30 a.m. on a weekday, Jim Koch, the founder of Samuel Adams beer, pops open a bottle of lager and regales his audience with stories.
It's no barroom banter. Koch is standing behind a lectern at a small-business convention in a Washington conference room, describing his battles on the front lines of special-interest tax lobbying on Capitol Hill.
Koch tells the conventioneers how he is trying to persuade Congress to grant an excise tax break for his brewery, and others much smaller. The break would cost Americans about $4.75 million a year in lost taxes from his Boston Beer Co. alone.
It may seem odd that the fabled beer company is joining forces with the loafered lobbyists of K Street in a bid for business tax breaks. But it reflects a little-known aspect of the Sam Adams brand, a more literal connection to the tax protester for whom the company is named.
That philosophy is evident in Koch's unconventional argument: That his company — which had more than $600 million in sales in 2012, exports to 30 foreign countries, and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange — should, for tax purposes, still be considered a small craft brewer.
"We're sort of like the jumbo shrimp," Koch asserted in an interview.
At the heart of the company's Washington strategy is an attempt to persuade Congress to expand the size of "small brewers'' who can qualify for a discounted excise tax on beer sales, seeking to raise the current limit from brewers who produce 2 million barrels a year to those who produce 6 million barrels.
Under current law, brewers producing more than 2 million barrels pay the full $18 tax on every barrel they make. Because Boston Beer sells in the vicinity of 2.7 million barrels a year, it finds itself in the large-brewer category.
The legislation that Koch is pushing would not only expand who qualifies for the excise tax discount, it would also enlarge the break itself — which has helped draw legions of small-time brewers to the cause. Qualifying brewers would pay $3.50 per barrel on their first 60,000 barrels, or half of what they currently pay, and then $16 per barrel after that, up to 2 million barrels.
A key component of the public-relations and lobbying campaign has been to make sure that Sam Adams — despite its considerable size, with 1 percent of the American beer market — is still viewed by the public, politicians, and even the craft-brewing industry as a "craft beer'' manufacturer.
It is a subject that could inspire hours of debate at a pub, especially among beer nerds who can write treatises defending their favorite triple IPAs, stouts, and black lagers.
For Boston Beer, Koch said, the point is to be able to compete with the huge beer companies that dominate the market.
"The fundamental issue is, there's a difference between Sam Adams and Bud and MillerCoors," he said.
But the measure to raise the limit for qualifying companies has also raised some eyebrows.
"I was just struck by the fact that Boston Beer is involved in this, in any discussion of quote, craft beer," said Matthew Gardner, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a liberal think tank. "Boston Beer sure acts an awful lot like a conventional large corporation."
That includes flexing its industry muscle. In January 2011, the Brewers Association, the trade group on whose board Koch recently sat, changed its definition to accommodate Boston Beer, allowing up to 6 million barrels annually to qualify as "craft,'' rather than 2 million, the old threshold that had been set to match the federal definition for small beer.
"They wanted to take care of Jim and make sure he was considered a craft brewer, because he was on the board and he's been such a leader," said Harry Schuhmacher, editor and publisher of Beer Business Daily, which covers the industry.
Koch has a different explanation; he said there was huge support because members felt it would be "crazy to kick the pioneers out of our industry" based on their success.
He prefers brewing to lobbying, he said, but must lobby to protect himself and small brewers from the market dominance of Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors, who together control more than 80 percent of the beer market.
Boston Beer spent $165,000 on federal lobbying last year and $185,000 in 2011, up from just $10,000 in 2008, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The Brewers Association spent $354,000 in federal lobbying last year, a large rise for a group that spent no money in 2007. Boston Beer employees have also given at least $90,000 to federal candidates since 1997, according to Federal Election Commission data.
Though Koch's lobbying expenses are still relatively modest by industry standards, his easy charm and the compelling story of his company have opened doors for him on Capitol Hill. On a recent Sunday, he said, Senator Rob Portman, the Republican from Ohio, called to give Koch his home number because he wanted to see if he could help. The bill had 175 sponsors in the House last session and 43 in the Senate.
"What I've learned is politicians are not the enemy," Koch told the audience at the Omni Shoreham Hotel ballroom in Washington last week during the small business convention. "They are actually all very reasonable people, bright people."
A beer-industry analysis by Harvard economist John N. Friedman estimated the excise tax cut would create 5,000 jobs within 18 months, though not necessarily in the beer industry. It is based on a more general beer-stimulus theory — the idea that money in the hands of consumers and brewers would flow back into the economy.
The industry estimates the tax break would cost the federal government $67 million a year, which Koch argues is a relatively small hit on the federal budget.
The Democratic sponsor of the Small BREW Act, Representative Richard E. Neal of Springfield, who sits on the powerful House Ways and Means committee, held an event with Koch at Barrington Brewery & Restaurant earlier this year in Great Barrington. Neal issued a press release calling the tax relief bill a jobs measure.
In an interview, he acknowledged that he has "always rejected theology that tax cuts pay for themselves." But "there are some tax cuts that are better than others," including this one, he said, arguing that it would help the flourishing small brewers in Western Massachusetts expand.
Neal said the bill was not written specifically to benefit Boston Beer. But he argues that the company is "tiny, when competing with the international" giants that control the industry.
But even as Koch has rallied craft brewers, he faces significant obstacles.
Anheuser-Busch InBev, MillerCoors, and the Beer Institute, a competing lobby seen as more closely linked to the large brewers, dwarf the craft brewers' lobbying and are seeking a different set of tax breaks, which would cut the excise tax by 50 percent for all beer companies. The Beer Institute's bill would not alter the definition of small brewers to include Boston Beer, but it would eliminate the excise tax completely for much smaller breweries, those making fewer than 15,000 barrels a year.
"We've always supported additional tax relief" for small brewers, said Christopher Thorne, vice president of communications for the Beer Institute.
"But it should go to those small brewers who genuinely need those pathways to the marketplace," he added, without mentioning specific breweries.
(Koch said he would save $30 million under the Beer Institute proposal, proof, he argues, that his intentions are to help small brewers by siding with their tax relief plan.)
There are also beer aficionados who question whether Boston Beer, which now sells Twisted Tea, popular among novice drinkers at college keg parties, can really be called a craft beer anymore.
"Everyone here will probably say no," said Danielle Robidoux, a 24-year-old server at the Publick House, a craft beer pub in Brookline that does not include Sam Adams on its voluminous beer menu. "The bigger something gets, the more it's going to lose that kind of magic."Noah Bierman can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @noahbierman.


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A recent Poverty Matters blog post in the Guardian noted that mobile technologies and social media are creating cheap ways for citizens to interact with their governments and that development projects are trying to tap into these technologies. It gave a plug to the Bank's new Open Finances mobile app that lets users find and monitor bank-funded projects near where they live, using mapping and GPS technology.
With the advent of the New Year and given the on-going work in the Bank on the open agenda, here are three things we may accomplish in 2013:
Tap into Big Data – if successful, we hope this would allow us to:
- Measure poverty in "real time" using alternative techniques made possible by the widespread availability of high-frequency data.
- Create a "prediction model" to determine whether funds are likely to be used for the purposes intended – thus helping make better decisions BEFORE the money leaves the Bank.
- Develop and apply advanced computing solutions to address major humanitarian challenges (like natural disasters). See related blog post by Patrick Meier.
Create Vibrant Citizen Feedback Loops - we know citizen feedback empowers, and new technologies allow us to do this cheaply, and wouldn't it be great if they could:
- Reinforce social infrastructure and social cohesion, which makes it more likely that we'll survive a catastrophe, as pointed out recently on NPR, or in fragile situations, as mentioned in a new study by the Bank, Societal Dynamics and Fragility.
Share Knowledge More Effectively – At the 2012 Annual Meetings, Dr. Kim said that he wants the World Bank to become a solutions Bank. This would mean that we would need to:
- Communicate knowledge in a way that is practical, that inspires, and that helps our members build shared prosperity.
- Identify great ideas that are scalable and accelerate the spread of solutions to end poverty.
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Lindenwood University has been recognized for the third consecutive year as one of America's Best Christian Colleges on the basis of an evaluation of the nation's colleges and universities.
Institutional Research & Evaluation, Inc., an independent research organization specializing in higher education, surveyed four-year institutions to identify schools with an academically superior student body and which incorporate Christian principles and beliefs into the educational environment.
"Lindenwood had a fall freshman class that was superior," said Lindenwood President Dennis Spellmann. "In fact, the academic performance of the majority of our students is directly responsible for Lindenwood receiving this designation. The best students are attracted to the best colleges, and the students attending Lindenwood are among the nation's best."
To be considered for the designation of America's Best Christian Colleges an institution must be an accredited, four-year college or university which provides facilities for the support of a dynamic on-campus residential education, offering opportunities to qualified students for financial assistance based on need, academics and athletic merits. All colleges must be affiliated with a recognized Christian denomination or be a non-denominational institution providing an educational experience incorporating fundamental Christian principles and beliefs into the instructional and social aspects of the student's lives.


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Militis Justica had a productive week, dropping Etraeus and Tel'arn for the first time and finally getting a look at Elisande. After barely peeking at Phase 2 of the Grand Magistrix encounter, MJ decided to take one more shot at the ruler of Suramar before retiring for the evening; it paid off.
Thank you to everyone who was there to pick up the slack while I was out at the beginning of Nighthold.
Next on the docket: Gul'dan!


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Jordan Zimmerman's Sing-A-Long Blog – A Parody "A Man's Gotta Do"
Jordan Zimmerman:
A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
Don't go through rehab if you can't follow through.
All the dollars, taking dollars, into my own hands.
Soon I'll control my curveball.
My contract's your demand.
Stephen Strasburg:
Stand back basebal fans, nothing here to see!
There was fadin' attendance but now in the middle of it, me!
Yes Stephen Strasburg's here, hair blowin' in the breeze.
Baseball needs my pitchin' expertise!
A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
It seems MLB begins with me attractin' you.
The only doom that's looming is the pitch count over my head.
So I'll give you a sec to catch your breath.
Bud Selig:
Thank you Strasburg, man. I don't think I can explain how important it was that you joined the Nats. They would be contracted. MLB would be decreased. Thank you sir for never usin' PEDs!
Strasburg: Don't worry about it – A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
Selig: You came from California.
Zimmerman: Are you kidding?
Strasburg: It seems MLB begins with me attractin' you.
Selig: I wonder what awards you'll win.
Strasburg: Which amateur draft were you watching?
Strasburg: When you're the ace, you can't be paced. What's the use?
Selig: Our TV ratings are growing by a ton!
Zimmerman: Did you notice that he looks like Mark Prior?
Strasburg: The only doom that's looming is your fans loving me to death.
Selig: Assuming I'm not loving you to death.
Zimmerman: Whaat-e-vah!
Strasburg: So please give me a sec to catch my breath.
Selig: Please give me a sec to catch my breath.
Strasburg: Ow.
Zimmerman: Tommy John!
Simply Enjoying Sabremetrics
If you've followed baseball a bit over the last ten or twenty years, you might've heard a term bandied (and in some cases, ridiculed) called sabremetrics. You might even hear more about the term creep into the media since Michael Lewis's book "Moneyball" is scheduled to hit the big screen on September 23rd starring Brad Pitt. Yet you might still wonder what it is, why people care, and how much of it is "much ado about nothing".
Sabremetrics is, to put it simply, the study of the measurable elements of the game of baseball. In other words, you got a group of people who really love baseball and for fun (and in recent years, as a career), dive as deep as they can into the bits and pieces of the game to figure part of it out. Just as there are people who try to predict the stock market or to figure out how to build a better mouse trap and what parts of a mouse trap are better than others, sabremetricians try to find concrete evidence in baseball. Now, that isn't a really easy thing to do. Sure, baseball as elements of the hard sciences such as physics, geometry and mathematics. Yet, it's also a game played by people and the best player in the world can strike out four times in a row or the best pitcher can have problems finding the strike zone with a GPS and a trebuchet on a given day. Then, think of all the things not in a typical physics equation that can fiddle with a baseball thrown to the plate like how the wind speed and humidity can flatten a curveball in Colorado and sabremetricians got a lot of noise that they have to wade through. And that's even before "lucK" tosses a wrench in the equation!
So what are some of the concepts that sabremetricians use? Well, since sabremetricians try to study what they can measure (with some reliability), what they do is break the events in baseball down to a series of events that have a chance of leading to a subsequent set of events. As an example, sabremetricians try to calculate if a player gets on first base, what would be their chance to score? How does their chance to score change with one out in the inning? What if there is one out with a left-handed groundball pitcher throws against a right-handed flyball hitter when the infield is shifted to the third base side? Sabremetricians can get even deeper into the scenarios and the probabilities of certain outcomes than that, but you get the idea.
One fundamental concept of sabremetrics and probabilities is that a team that scores more runs than it allows is more likely to win more games than it loses. Sounds pretty simple, right? Yet, tt wasn't always something that was regularly thought about. Bill James, one of the forefathers of sabremetrics, popularized that insight (along with many others) around thirty years ago. If you ever check the baseball standings and see run differential, represented as the difference between runs scored and runs allowed, you can thank him for that. What made him so innovative was that he asked simple questions that challenged "common knowledge" assumptions and went about trying to find answers to those questions. In turn, he'd publish what he found in "The Bill James Baseball Abstract" and encourage others to look into what he was investigating. Thus, more people asking more questions lead to more knowledge about baseball. In case you're wondering, he's been working for the Red Sox since 2003 and while he obviously can't claim all the credit for breaking the Babe's curse, it's very possible his insight on baseball has helped turn the Red Sox into a winning team.
If you want to talk about the importance of runs, you also need to talk about the components that make up runs. Sabremetrics, in recent years, has helped to look closer at those elements. If you looked on the backs of most baseball cards and in most baseball yearbooks before this millenium, the statistics you would see for a player would be their batting average, runs, home runs and runs batted in. Until sabremetrics, there was little true appreciation of how much walks helped an offense no matter how many times the adage "a walk is as good as a hit" was repeated ad nauseam by Little League coaches across America. Heck, some major league hitters would even get chastized for taking a walk.. even by some of the players-turned-broadcasters who were valued by sabremetricians precisely for their ability to get on base! Nowadays, the value of a walk has gone more mainstream and you can find on-base percentage and walks included in box scores and television broadcasts.
On the flipside, the perspective on what components make a good pitcher have also changed. It used to be that wins and ERA were the only factors that mattered when evaluating Cy Young Award candidates. Nowadays, ERA has diminished in importance among the sabremetric community. Research by Voros McCracken and others suggest that a pitchers tend to have some control over their walk rates, their strikeout rates and their home runs allowed. Whether batted balls that are not home runs are converted into outs are more dependent on a team's defense than a particular skill the pitcher has besides, perhaps groundball/flyball ratio. This increased understanding of what pitchers can influence has permeated through mainstream baseball thought, to the point where the voters in 2010 awarded Felix Hernandez the Cy Young Award though he won only thirteen games and was only one game over .500 (13-12). Why did he win? Because he was a monster at preventing runners from reaching base but received so few wins because of the anemic offensive performance of the Seattle Mariners offense.
Another nice thing about sabremetrics is it makes it possible to compare players from different parks, leagues, eras and even competition levels. WHen new innovations come to sabremetrics, they are often applied to past years to arrive at new insights. Baseball is a great game for that because, to paraphase Kevin Costner from "For the Love of the Game", they count everything in baseball and those counts can always be reevaluated and put into a new context. Tools like Pitch Fx can tell you about the movement and velocity of a pitcher's pitches in such a way that you can see how a Stephen Strasburg fastball differs from Aroldis Champan's. There are projection systems to predict what major league players would do like PECOTA and Marcel. You can even use Brian Cartwright's Oliver projection system to look at Japanese, Korean, semi-pro, Cape Code and college leagues and estimate how those players would perform if they were in the major leagues.
As sabremetricians identify components to scoring runs and winning games, they developed the idea of a replacement-level player to measure the talent on a given major league roster. A replacement-level player is basically a freely available Triple-A talent that any team could acquire for cheap. The idea is to identify players who provide as much value to your team as possible above replacement level with as low of a cost as possible. Measurement tools such as EqA, VORP and WAR all are used in such a fashion and can even be used to see if a pitcher is more valuable than a hitter or vice versa. Besides identifying value, keeping costs low can also be used to get the most "bang for your buck". This concept was most illustrated in Moneyball where Oakland A's GM Billy Beane had to figure out how to field a competitive team with a small payroll. To do so, he utilized sabremetrics to find market inefficiencies in how the rest of baseball evaluated players and used those efficiencies to acquire players who could provide as much value as possible for as cheaply as possible.
Yet, beyond increasing our understanding of baseball, the best aspects of sabremetrics are that it encourages passionate discussion among fans about the game, then provides those fans a framework to do their own research. Ever wonder if a certain pitcher is injured? You can look at the velocity and movement of his pitches for a clue. Do you really think Hank Aaron was better than Babe Ruth? Sabremetrics gives you tools to do comparisons. Just like a baseball commentator during a game or comparing the backs of baseball cards with your friends, sabremetrics provides just one more way of looking at players and thus, another way to appreciate the game.
So how do you get started? Browse the web. They're all out there. Pick a name from this post and look up some of what they have written. Check out some of the baseball links on the right hand side of this post and click on any article you find there that looks interesting. Go to google and look up a term like WAR or on-base percentage. Take a peek and you might just see something about baseball you didn't before. And once you do, make sure to tell your friends!


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Dream Big. Work Fiercely.
As I walked into this particular one-day conference, a woman and her daughter approached me and introduced themselves to me. "My daughter was hoping you'd come so she could meet you." The woman smiled at me. "She read your book and enjoyed it."
I shook hands with the daughter, always excited to meet a new reader. At first I assumed the mom was the writer attending the conference and that she'd brought along her daughter for the fun of it. But I quickly realized that the daughter was the writer and that the mom was there for support.
As things turned out, I ended up sitting across the table from the mother-daughter pair, Chris and Amanda Barratt. During the course of the day, I was able to learn more about Amanda's writing journey.
I was amazed to find out Amanda is 14 years old, writes 1000 words a day, has completed four novels, and has already begun to pitch her books at various major writing conferences. Not only has she begun to attend writer's conferences, but she also has a professional blog and has started interviewing published authors (and this week she interviewed me! Check it out here!)
The encounter with this amazing young woman was inspiring. I went home and told my older children about her, hoping I could encourage them in two simple things:
1. Don't be afraid to dream big.
Dreams are free for everyone. It doesn't matter who you are, where you're from, or what your background is. Dreams have no boundaries. Most of us live in a time and place where we have the freedom to choose to be or do anything. Class, gender, race, money, even age—none of that matters anymore.
If we're not dreaming big, it's likely because we're stopping ourselves rather than someone else holding us back. We could be hung up by fear of failure, laziness, lack of inspiration, or any number of personal inhibitions.
I asked my children to look at what they enjoy, the areas where they're gifted, and the things they're most passionate about. Then I challenged them to get excited about something, to pursue it with abandon, to think positively about accomplishing that particular aspiration.
I told them, "If Amanda Barratt at age 14 can start living out her dream of being a writer, you can start living out your dreams too."
The lesson is true for all of us. Start dreaming big. Don't put it off. We can begin living out our dreams today.
2. Be willing to work really hard.
Anyone can dream. That's the easy part. But it takes infinitely more than wishful thinking to make our dreams come true.
Amanda is off to a great start at realizing her dream of becoming a published author. She's not just sitting around talking about how she wants to become a writer someday, or how she'll get more serious about it when she's older, or how she'll invest in her writing career when she's more certain of her future. Instead, she's pursuing it with all her might NOW.
We can have great intentions, but we have to follow them up with plain-and-simple hard work. That means we have to make plans, plot out our goals, and then do the daily work of getting from here to there—even when we wake up some days and feel like giving up on our dream.
The fact is, if a young 14 year old can write 1000 words a day and complete four books, then the rest of us have no excuses.
Absolutely no excuses whatsoever.
We need to stop complaining, stand up (or sit up!), and get to work.
Dream big, but work fiercely.
What do you think? Are you dreaming big enough? And are you working hard enough to make your dreams become reality? (Aren't you as inspired by Amanda as I am?!)
*Photo credit: flickr Heidi 0201
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Good morning, Jody! I'm not surprised at all by Amanda. Teenagers amaze and inpire me each and every day. But my daughter (your daughters' age) is a writer and she and I discover other writers like Amanda quite often who, like you said, are DOING IT, no excuses. And these children who are living their dream are writing stories that are big and exciting. They let nothing hold them or their writing back.ReplyDelete
I wish I could highlight or bold that last sentence - THEY LET NOTHING HOLD THEM OR THEIR WRITING BACK. I know I could use a little lesson in that. Write freely with no excuses.
What an inspiring post! And what an inspiring young lady.
Happy Friday, Jody!! Have a good weekend.
That's incredible. And what a supportive Mom! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
What an amazing teen. Thank you for sharing about her. I love hearing stories that show teens in a positive light because society tends to be downers about teens not achieving their goals.ReplyDelete
I love what you said about dreams having no boundaries. In fact, I think I will write a blog post about that topic next week.
Jody, you are an inspiration to so many!
Again, your blog amazes me.ReplyDelete
If you have the time or interest, check out two posts on my blog Writingandliving.blogspot.com: 12/20/2010 Young Writers and 12/28/2010 What I like about young writers. Children really are our future.
Okay, A. Amanda rocks. And B. I dream big and work hard.ReplyDelete
Happy Mother's Day to another hardworking mama!
~ Wendy
What an inspiring read Jody. There really is such a huge difference in wishing and dreaming, and then doing something about it. It's something I have to remind myself of every day!ReplyDelete
What an exciting future that young girl has. How inspiring.
Happy weekend to you!
Wow! Amanda is a great example for us all. Thanks for sharing her story with us. There really is a huge difference in dreaming and working hard, and even though some might say a published author got lucky, there's no doubt every one of them worked hard.ReplyDelete
Happy Mother's Day!
To find one's passion at so young an age is amazing to begin with. To have the self-confidence, support and tenacity to see it through is mind-boggling. Thanks for sharing about her, Jody.ReplyDelete
Goodmorning everyone!! Thank you for chiming in with your thoughts today!ReplyDelete
Heather, I think you hit on something very key, something that I think applies to adult writers (as well as youth). We can't let anything hold us back. That means we can't let anything stop us from sitting down to write. But also, we need to allow ourselves to dream big about our stories too. Sometimes we're too tame in what we write!
Amanda sounds like an amazing person!! Dream big and work hard...that's a great combination.ReplyDelete
Young people are amazing. My husband teaches close to 150 of them each year, and we attend some of the events at his high school. I marvel at the students' many talents and abilities as well as their accomplishments.ReplyDelete
I think it's important to remember that it's never too late to pursue a dream. I've got a few decades on Amanda, and mine is coming true.
This post reminds me of my favorite scripture, Ecclesiastes 11:9: "You who are young, make the most of your youth. Relish your youthful vigor. If something looks good to you, pursue it. But know also that not just anything goes; you have to answer to God for every last bit of it."ReplyDelete
I love that verse because it completely sums up what I live my life by. We each have a different calling/path for our lives and shouldn't just wait to begin going after what we enjoy until after school, but start now. I wrote a post similar to this topic a while back if you'd like to take a look.
Thanks for sharing this! More young people need to realize that it's never too early to begin pursuing your dreams. =)
You're one Lovely Mama, did you know that?ReplyDelete
Wow! My folks are convinced the best writers produce their best work in their 50s - I'm 28 and still have trouble convincing myself that I'm mature enough to write something publishable. At 14 I had no hope! Will try to let this encourage me rather then sinking into feeling like I haven't acheived anything so far... (I spent my 20s getting my PhD, which is fab, but not something people want to read!)ReplyDelete
Wow, Amanda is so inspiring! Thanks so much for sharing her story with us. I've been writing stories since I learned how to read and write, but I didn't start really taking my writing seriously until I was 21. Good for her for pursuing her dream now! Amanda has a very bright future ahead of her.ReplyDelete
Definitely inspired! (And wishing I had had that kind of drive when I was 14...imagine where I'd be today.) Now to go revisit that thing I call a schedule and figure out how to rededicate myself to my craft. lol...ReplyDelete
Wonderful post about an inspiring teen. I look forward to the day when I see Amanda Barratt's novels for sale.ReplyDelete
Thank you for profiling her and showing some fellow author support.
Brilliant! I wish I could say I had that determination and focus when I was her age. That is just so amazing and inspirational.ReplyDelete
We so often lose sight of our own dreams, our own aspirations because we get bogged down in daily life. It just becomes a matter of asking ourselves 'Why not?' We may stumble, we may fall, we may succeed. "There is no try." ~to quote Yoda. If we give it our all we stand just as much a chance at succeeding as failing.
Jody, you made the vital connection between dreams and hard work. It's only with hard work that dreams become reality. And Amanda's an inspiring example of someone who's making her dreams come true.ReplyDelete
I can't wait to read Amanda's book(s) one day!
Thanks; I needed that.ReplyDelete
What an inspiration! That is absolutely amazing. I love that she's dreaming big, and Mom is encouraging her. Great stuff.ReplyDelete
I also love that it doesn't matter how young OR old we are, we are free to pursue our dreams.
How impressive! Fourteen years old and writing 1000 words a day and has four novels under her belt! That young lady puts me to shame!ReplyDelete
But, what great advice for your own children to hear: "Don't be afraid to dream big, and do be willing to work really hard." Of all the rules floating around out there, nice to see it can really be distilled into those two pieces of advice. Good for us adults to hear, too!
- AnonymousMay 09, 2011 12:37 AM
Very inspiring, thanks for sharing it! I constantly have to remind myself and even give myself permission to dream big. There is so much more possibilities when we dreaming big can become a part of our daily lives.ReplyDelete
Great post! Procrastination sometimes gets the better of us and as we go along and grow older the list of reasons we create for keeping ourselves from pursuing our dreams seems to grow longer. Amanda's a great inspriration for anyone at any age and reminder to stop making excuses and get back to business :)ReplyDelete
"If we're not dreaming big, it's likely because we're stopping ourselves rather than someone else holding us back."ReplyDelete
I agree with this! It is our divine right and ability to dream. To conceive. To imagine. Nobody has control over that. The moment we acknowledge our fears--we allow our dreams a little breathing room.
And then they can take us on a ride.
To Dream!
- AnonymousMay 16, 2011 7:51 PM
To have such clear goals at that age is a blessing because excuses and burdens arrive once you get older. I was twice British champion in Tae Kwon-Do at 16 and I don't even make it down the gym these days. Teenagers are lucky that they have all this energy and if they have purpose too it can be very productive. What a nice reminder to get on with it, thanks Jody!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 4:02 PM
Wow. This was inspiring. And it gave me a swift kick in the rear-end.ReplyDelete


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Ever since my daughters last birthday she has been talking about this cowgirl party she wanted. So the
theme we went with was cowgirls, with alot of bandanna's incorporated in. I have always loved the design pattern on bandanna's so I used that design through out most of the Party Printables. My first stop was the fabric store as I have always loved burlap backdrops and this fit the theme perfectly, we went with a dark brown burlap fabric found at my local fabric store. Then i set out to find Mini Hay Bales, well that was alot hard than I had thought. After searching all over my mom suggested I call Michael's craft store and they had them. They were perfect exactly what I had been looking for to put on the dessert table. I got small wooden crates at Joanne fabrics along with some paper shreds to cover up the foam box that the cake pops were stuck in. I got some brown and hot pink bandannas at Wilco and tied them together and strung them around the table adding a little more of the bandannas print.
She had to have a cute cowgirl outfit s with tons of searching for the perfect cowgirl party outfit, I finally found the perfect one for her party from Rachel Casey's I found it in red and brown and she said she could make it for my in pink and brown to match her party perfectly. Then I went to Target and found the pink straw hat and the pink cowgirl boots to finish off her outfit. She was one happy little girl when she saw what momma brought home. She couldn't wait to try on her new Cowgirl outfit. :-)
We stuck with the hot pink, brown and light pink theme through out all the desserts. I knew I had to contact Lynlee North Beckett for cowgirl toppers as i have seen some of her cowgirl fondants before and just loved them. And as always once they arrived they were even cuter than I had hoped. We topped half of the cupcakes with the cowgirl fondant toppers and the other half with the printable cowgirl toppers for the center piece. I then wanted to do caramel apples because they are my favorite and when I saw Roni's Sugar Creations on Facebook and all her fabulous caramel apples I was hooked. I can't even tell you how excited I was when I opened the box of caramel apples, they were awesome she even added little cowgirl hats to the top of each caramel apple stick that really topped them off. They were dipped in caramel and then chocolate and topped off with some hot pink drizzled chocolate, then she finished them with some bows and cowgirl hats. I had a hard time eating one because they were so cute, but once I took my first bit I couldn't stop eating them they were fabulous tasting. they really added the perfect touch to the dessert table. We made small cones out of the extra pattern paper from the cowgirl printable package and and stuck a plastic stick in them so we could stick them into the hay bales and filled them with caramel corn. On the other hay bale we stuck in some #5 lollipop suckers from Vintage Confections and sat some cupcakes in front of them. Next we added some cute paisley and cow print cake pops from Cupcake Cuties Bakery to the small wooden crates we had got. I had Hayley Cakes and Cookies make some cowgirl cookies to match and they looked perfect for this party. and last i just bought some mini chocolate donuts at my local grocery store to my empty stops on the table :-) They are a good cheap table filler. We also bought glass root beer bottles and added our Cowgirl labels to them to help them fit the theme ever better.
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City of Lincoln
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Mayor Chris Beutler today presented the Mayor's Award of Excellence for April to Officer Steven Wiese, a 10-year veteran of the Lincoln Police Department. The monthly award recognizes City employees who consistently provide exemplary service and work that demonstrates personal commitment to the City. The award was presented at the beginning of today's City Council meeting.
Wiese is currently assigned as an Investigator with the Technical Investigation Unit, specializing in checks and frauds. Sergeant Sandra Myers nominated him in the category of productivity. Myers said Wiese is tenacious and thorough and is highly regarded by businesses that are often victimized by forgers and those passing counterfeit checks.
One recent case, which resulted in three arrests, involved more than $25,000 in losses from counterfeit checks. Wiese recognized the handwriting on the checks and believed they came from suspects he had previously investigated for similar crimes. Through extensive interviews and photo lineups, Steve tied three suspects into the counterfeit ring.
In January, Wiese arrested two women, clearing a total of 24 felony counterfeit cases. Both women provided information on others involved in the ring. In February, Wiese led a team to serve a search warrant at a Lincoln home. The suspects were reported to be using narcotics and carrying guns, and the house was protected by surveillance equipment. The warrant was successfully served and produced evidence of narcotics, stolen property and handguns. Also found were hundreds of documents supporting forgery and manufacturing of counterfeit checks, identifications and credit cards.
The suspects remain in jail, awaiting trial on numerous felony charges. The information on weapons and narcotics also has contributed to another ongoing case. Myers said this is just one example of the many complicated cases Wiese has successfully investigated, and it demonstrates the role of illegal drugs in local crime.
The other categories in which employees can be nominated are customer relations, loss prevention, safety and valor. Consideration also may be given to nominations that demonstrate self-initiated accomplishments or those completed outside of the nominee's job description.
All City employees are eligible for the Mayor's Award of Excellence except for elected and appointed officials. Individuals or teams can be nominated by supervisors, peers, subordinates and the general public. Nomination forms are available on the City Web site at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: personnel) or from department heads, employee bulletin boards or the Personnel Department, which oversees the awards program.
All nominations are reviewed by the Mayor's Award of Excellence Committee, which includes a representative with each union and a non-union representative appointed by the Mayor. Award winners receive a $100 U.S. savings bond, a day off with pay and a plaque. Monthly winners are eligible to receive the annual award, which comes with a $500 U.S. savings bond, two days off with pay and a plaque.


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Simon NL's first 10-game winner as Reds rout Bucs
PITTSBURGH -- Everyone was hitting for the Reds on Wednesday -- seriously, everyone.
The Reds churned out nine hits in the first four innings, one hit each by each batter in the starting lineup. They totaled 14 knocks and routed the Pirates, 11-4, to make Alfredo Simon the National League's first 10-game winner and pull the Reds' record to .500 (35-35) for the first time since they were 11-11 on April 24.View Full Game Coverage
PITTSBURGH -- Everyone was hitting for the Reds on Wednesday -- seriously, everyone.
The Reds churned out nine hits in the first four innings, one hit each by each batter in the starting lineup. They totaled 14 knocks and routed the Pirates, 11-4, to make Alfredo Simon the National League's first 10-game winner and pull the Reds' record to .500 (35-35) for the first time since they were 11-11 on April 24.View Full Game Coverage
"Considering where we've been the first two months of the season, it's a place we had to get to in order to move forward and beyond it," manager Bryan Price said of his Reds, who were six games under the mark three weeks ago. "Certainly, coming into it, it wasn't our goal to be .500 at the middle of June, but considering how we started, we had to get here."
In a game that featured a one-hour, 15-minute rain delay in the seventh inning, the majority of the damage came in a station-to-station carousel of a third inning when Cincinnati scored seven times -- a season best for one frame. Nine straight batters reached base against Pirates starter and former Red Edinson Volquez. Six got aboard via singles, Brandon Phillips had an RBI double and there was one walk and one hit batter.
Even Simon had a hit, albeit a controversial one. With the bases loaded, Simon hit a soft grounder to the left of the pitcher's mound, and Devin Mesoraco appeared to be thrown out on a force play. However, the play went under an umpire review and it was determined Russell Martin violated Rule 7.13, which states a catcher may not block the pathway of the runner unless he has possession of the ball.
The overturned call shocked and angered the PNC Park crowd and everyone in a Pirates uniform, including manager Clint Hurdle, who was ejected for arguing by crew chief Jerry Layne. It also puzzled Mesoraco, a catcher who said he would have defended the play in a similar fashion to Martin.
"He just has to try to catch the ball and keep his foot on the base," Mesoraco said. "It's a force play, I don't know. I don't think that is the intention of the rule -- a force play like that and he's blocking the plate. I wouldn't have done anything different myself."
Somewhat lost in the fallout of the ruling was that it gave Simon an RBI single, and the bases were still loaded for Billy Hamilton. The speedy outfielder promptly struck a two-run single -- the final punch of the third-inning onslaught.
"Things got away from him in third," Hurdle said of Volquez, who was charged with eight runs in 2 1/3 innings. "Fastball command wasn't nailed down from the beginning. He got out of his delivery, maybe tried to do more than he needed to against a team he played for."
Simon gave up three runs in 6 1/3 innings while striking out five and walking three en route to reaching the 10-win plateau. It's an impressive feat for the right-hander, who had 19 career Major League starts entering this season.
"To see him out there consistently [pitching] six, seven, eight innings and giving us a chance to win -- and not only that but we're winning those games, there's something to be said about that," Price said.
Simon's previous season-high in innings was 115 2/3 in 2011, when he made 16 starts and seven relief appearances for the Orioles. He has 88 2/3 innings under his belt after Wednesday's victory, and said he doesn't plan on fatigue factoring in his standout season.
"I feel good, I feel brand new," said the 33-year-old Simon. "I know I can control 200 innings, it's not going to be a big deal for me. I got a great arm and it's not going to be a big deal for me."
On a night when the offense was rather evenly dispersed, Skip Schumaker (two hits and three RBIs) and Hamilton (three hits, three RBIs) stood out. The Reds' cumulative performance came on the heels of their offensive surge Sunday against the Brewers, in which they scored 13 runs on 19 hits, both season highs.
Cincinnati's bats have been more in sync since first baseman Joey Votto returned from the disabled list last week. The Reds have won six of seven, scoring an average of 6.7 runs per game in that span.
"Offensively, with the way we're swinging the bat right now," Mesoraco said, "with Billy really getting on base here in the past couple of games, Joey and Jay Bruce back healthy, Brandon doing his thing, Todd Frazier really swinging it, I think we can really string some wins together."
Stephen Pianovich is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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