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By JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press
KAMPALA, Uganda -- The Ugandan parliamentarian behind an anti-gay bill that attracted worldwide condemnation said the most controversial part of the legislation - the death penalty provision - is likely to be dropped from the bill.
David Bahati said if the parliament committee the bill currently sits before recommends that the death penalty provision be removed, "I would concede."
"The death penalty is something we have moved away from," Bahati told The Associated Press in an interview.
After Bahati's anti-gay bill was proposed some 18 months ago, it attracted international condemnation, including from President Barack Obama. Since the initial uproar, the bill has languished in committee.
But Stephen Tashobya, the chairman of the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, said the legislation may come up for a vote before parliament's session ends May 12.
"We shall try and see how far we can go with the bill. It may be possible. We are doing all we can. We have limited time," he said Tuesday, before adding: "Many people have expressed concern about that provision providing for the death sentence and I'm sure when we start hearings on that bill we will hear many more concerns."
Homosexuality is highly unpopular in Uganda, and pastors in this Christian country speak out loudly against the practice. Bahati said he thinks the bill would become law if voted on by legislators.
"I can guarantee you I have not seen any member of parliament who is opposed to it," he said.
Frank Mugisha, the director of Sexual Minorities Uganda, a gay rights group, said anti-gay sentiment in Uganda has increased since the bill's introduction. More gays are being harassed, he said, because of media attention and because church leaders have been preaching for the bill's passage to congregations.
Bahati's original bill carried harsh provisions. The original bill would mandate a death sentence for active homosexuals living with HIV or in cases of same-sex rape. "Serial offenders" also could face capital punishment, but the legislation did not define the term. Anyone convicted of a homosexual act would face life imprisonment.
Anyone who "aids, abets, counsels or procures another to engage of acts of homosexuality" would face seven years in prison. Landlords who rent rooms or homes to homosexuals also could get seven years.
"If the bill passes we cannot even be allowed to do our work," Mugisha said.
Last year a tabloid newspaper in Uganda published the names and photos of men it alleged were gay. One cover included the words "Hang Them." Shortly afterward, in January, a prominent gay rights activist whose picture was published was bludgeoned to death, though authorities contend David Kato's sexual orientation had nothing to do with the killing.
Mugisha said the murder was not thoroughly investigated. "I think it had to do with all the hate that has been spread. All avenues lead to a homophobia-based crime," he said.
Bahati called Kato's death regrettable.
"My reaction is that I extend condolences to the family, parents of Kato. It's regrettable that they could find themselves in this situation, and also regrettable that he could be allowed to be used to recruit our children. But the death of Kato had nothing to do with the bill in parliament," he said.
Bahati, 36, is serving his first term. He said that the bill has helped raise public awareness about what he calls "the dangers to our children." Many Ugandan leaders who support the bill say that gay Ugandans recruit school children to become homosexual.
Mugisha says no one has ever been arrested for doing such a thing despite Uganda being what he called a highly homophobic country.
Bahati submitted his bill in late 2009, several months after American evangelicals attended a conference in Kampala. Those U.S. religious leaders consider same-gender relationships sinful and believe gays and lesbians can become heterosexual through prayer and counseling, fueling speculation that the Americans helped craft the bill.
Bahati said that was false and he labeled it a communication strategy and "conspiracy" by pro-gay groups in the U.S. to make his bill easier to attack.
"I didn't meet any American evangelicals. I've said before we have friends in America but they have nothing to do with the bill. This actually has been an insult to suggest that Ugandans cannot think for themselves, that we have to wait for America to think for us," he said.


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Wild Card Wednesday..Hope Your Ready?
Today is the day. You have to play like there is no tomorrow, because to lose is to subject yourself with the possiblity of packing boxes for your journey home this off season instead of packing for Texas or Detroit and some really meaningful games. There is a lot still to play for here. Records are going to be shattered before the dust settles either on Wild Card Wednesday, or Titantic Thursday.
After 5,392 strolls to the plate and 1,437 innings of hurling a little white sphere, the Rays most important 27 outs of their season come to fruition in game 162. Who in their right mind would have thought a squad sporting a team batting average of only .244 which is ranked 25th out of 30 teams in the Major Leagues would still have a legitimate shot at post season glory on the last day of the season? Someone slap me right now, I got to be sure this is not a dream.
Did you know that from the duo of the Tampa Bay Rays or the Boston Red Sox the eventual American League Wild Card winner will become the first American League team EVER to go from 0-6 then gain a spot in the post season?
At one point the Rays way back in early April, they were in the AL East cellar with a 1-8 mark. The Rays went on to harvest 89 wins since that low point. The most wins ever by a team that started 1-8 in the season. To put into total perspective, the Rays have gone 15-8 while Boston has floundered to a 6-17 mark since the Rays were 9 games out of any Wild Card consideration on September 4, 2011.
With the Rays win on Monday night combined with a Red Sox loss, the Rays and Red Sox have not been on the same plateau in the AL East since May 23,2011….a period of over 126 days. Want another great eye-opener? With both teams winning last night, it will set up the 8th consecutive Major League Baseball divisional or Wild Card to possibly be decided during the final regular season contest.
This is the type of environment and game intensity the combined 33 members of the Rays roster strive and dream about during the 180 days of the regular season….having a chance to clinch a post season berth at home, then having a chance to celebrate with the Rays 10th man(woman), the Rays Republic. 161 games in the books and the Rays are still very much alive and within a single game changing moment of the seasonal brass ring.
Only thing that can defeat them now is their old offensive machine to turn into a 1972 Ford Pinto instead of a 2011 Ford Mustang. But I got a feeling Rays Manager Joe Maddon will have their engine purring, revving up the RPM's like an old muscle car tomorrow night and ready to put the pedal to the metal, find that internal fortitude and bravado and thrust it deep into the New York Yankees midsections.
I imagine there will be more than a few people in the training room after Wednesday night's contest complaining of a sore neck going from the action on the field to just under the TBT Deck checking the out-of-town scoreboard with regularity.
I truly believe both in my mind and in my soul the Rays have an impending victory cornered and just have to be sure not to give it away. In their corner is the simple fact the Red Sox have not won back-to-back games since late August while the Rays are sporting a 4-game winning streak.
You want to think that winning tomorrow night would turn into a simple "win and your in" post season chance, but that could be farther from the truth. If the Rays play like they have over the past 4 games, play error-free baseball with a bit of an edge, then Evan Longoria and crew will have that brass ring in their hand tomorrow night. I have phoned my new friends Fate, Destiny and Hope who have have been in the stands over the past few days, they have told me their other friend Karma is really eager to come cheer and help the Rays in the finale. I have a good feeling about "Wild Card Wednesday".


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New Canaan forecast: Bad weather storming into town
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The National Weather Service says daytime skies will be mostly sunny, with the temperature rising to a high in the mid-40s/ There will be a north wind 5 to 8 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
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On Friday, stormy conditions prevail with more rain -- and possibly a thunderstorm -- mainly before noon, and the NWS warns that some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. Patchy fog will settle over parts of the region before noon, and a chance of showers is possible through the afternoon. The high temperature is will be about 50 degrees, with an east wind 17 to 26 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon gusting as high as 38 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90 percent.
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Sunday should be mostly sunny, with a high temperature about 40 degrees, with breezy conditions. Nighttime will be partly cloudy, with a low temperature in the mid-20s.
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There's something profoundly dispiriting about the way Conservative politicians and commentators profess themselves "outraged" by supposedly "political" charities.
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Burns – clearly a sensitive soul – said he was "shocked" by what he called an "overtly" political image contained in a tweet put out out by the charity, and reported it to the Charity Commission on the grounds that Oxfam had breached the rules on political campaigning.
Charity Commission guidance is clear that while charities must not be politically partisan, or support political parties, they can oppose and campaign against policies in pursuit of their charitable mission.


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"This terrific book does for the humble loaf what Mark Kurlansky does for cod." —Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved
"This is entertaining history and an example of food studies in action." —Marion Nestle, Food Politics blog
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Patriots' Rob Gronkowski breaks forearm again
- Tight end was first hurt Nov. 18
- He returned in Week 17 and scored a TD
- Despite down time%2C Gronkowski still named to AFC Pro Bowl team
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots Pro Bowl tight end Rob Gronkowski re-injured his left forearm in Sunday's playoff game against the Houston Texans and will miss the remainder of the postseason, according to a person informed of the diagnosis doctors made on Sunday.
The person, who spoke to USA TODAY Sports on condition of anonymity because the Patriots haven't yet announced the extent of the injury, said Gronkowski will require another surgery to repair the bone.
New England head coach Bill Belichick offered no update after his team beat Houston 41-28 to advance to the AFC Championship Game.
However one of his star linemen did.
"That's always a tough break. Everyone on the team loves Rob, as a person, as a player," said left guard Logan Mankins. "It's a tough break for him, a tough break for our team. But whoever gets put in the spot has to do the job. We're all counting on them."
Belichick did offer that Gronkowski wouldn't have been active if he wasn't fit for duty.
"He wouldn't have played if he wasn't," Belichick said, adding medical decisions are left to team physicians.
Gronkowski was injured when he leaped to catch a pass from Tom Brady in the first quarter of Sunday's game. He landed on his left forearm, which was heavily bandaged and padded. Gronkowski was flexing his hand on the sideline and soon was taken to the locker room for further evaluation. X-rays revealed the new damage.
Gronkowski was originally injured on Nov. 18 against the Indianapolis Colts while blocking on an extra point late in a blowout victory. He missed the next five games before returning for the regular-season finale. He appeared limited in that game and again on Sunday even before he reinjured the arm.
This comes a year after Gronkowski was limited in the Super Bowl loss to the New York Giants with a high-ankle sprain. If he was healthy that day, perhaps the Patriots win that game. This latest injury certainly affects their outlook this season as well.
Follow Mike Garafolo on Twitter @mikegarafolo
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The Last Man
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The Unauthorized History of the Acapocalypse – Part 1
Every a cappella group has a story. In this unique, episodic, narrative feature we will trace the formation and first, tumultuous year in the history of the fictional Acapocalypse.
Every a cappella group has a story. In this unique, episodic, narrative feature we will trace the formation and first, tumultuous year in the history of The Acapocalypse.
Josh Phillips stood at the front of the lecture hall, his back to a podium, a chalkboard, a pull-down projection screen. The hall stretched out to easily 200 hundred seats, arranged in stadium-style. The place was easily as large as the biggest classroom at Shermantown Community College. Here at Grand State, it was probably just another room, one that would be readily available for an a cappella group like The Grand Standers to host its auditions.
"So you're Josh Phillips." A guy with a mess of curly black hair read from his clipboard. He looked up, and looked at him in such a way that communicated confidence, smugness, and the slightest hint of a challenge. "Tell us a little about yourself."
Josh felt very small standing in front of them. In truth, he had felt that small sensation since he started at SCC that fall, much like when he first set foot in high school. Every graduation left you standing tall. Every new beginning cut you back down to size.
"I'm a freshman, majoring in hotel management."
"We have a hotel management major?" the guy with the black hair asked.
The girl next to him, a knockout with brown hair that stretched well past her shoulders, turned over a page in her clipboard. "And what's with the address? Freshmen have to live in the dorms."
Josh figured there was no sense prolonging this part. "I don't actually go to school here. I'm at SCC. Hoping to transfer in next year."
The girl smiled. "Sweetheart, this group's for Grand State students only."
"I just figured since I'm planning to come here anyway—"
"Current Grand State students." The smile faded by degrees.
Josh ran a hand through his close-cut blond hair. "It's just—I've been in my high school a cappella group for three years. I was even the student director my senior year. And I've been a fan of The Grand Standers forever. I even went to see you guys compete at the semifinals last year—where you robbed, if you don't mind my saying—"
"Listen, kid," the guy cut him off. "We appreciate the support, and we appreciate the interest. But why don't you stop back after you transfer. The group's still going to be here."
The group would still be there, but one year of college would have gone by—one year of not performing, one year of missing out on what he loved to do. Most of SCC had never even heard of a cappella. They didn't even have a group.
Josh came into the audition with visions of wining them over with his charm and, more importantly, the Bruno Mars solo he had spent weeks preparing. But he would never get to that part. He thanked them for the time and made his way out of the lecture hall.


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BERLIN — As expected, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley this week announced his latest plan to introduce legislation to repeal the death penalty in Maryland and believes he has the votes this time in the General Assembly, but the bill will have little support from lawmakers on the lower shore.
On Tuesday, O'Malley held a press conference in Annapolis presenting his plan to introduce legislation to abolish capital punishment in Maryland. A similar effort in 2009 did not pass and resulted in a compromise of sorts that limited the use or threat of the death penalty. This year, however, the governor believes he has the votes to repeal the death penalty in Maryland.
"It would seem to me that, especially in tough times, if there is something that we're doing through our government that is expensive and does not work, than we should stop doing it," O'Malley said. "The death penalty is expensive and does not work. And for that reason alone, I believe we should stop doing it."
In essence, Maryland stopped "doing it" years ago. The last execution in Maryland was Wesley Baker in 2005. In 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it was up to the individual states to determine their own policies on the death penalty. The Maryland General Assembly reinstated the death penalty by legislation in 1994 and since then, just five convicted felons have been put to death.
The first convicted murderer put to death by lethal injection after Maryland reinstated the death penalty had direct ties to Worcester County. John Thanos, whose two-state murder spree in 1990 started with a shooting just off Route 50 in Whaleyville, was put to death in 1994.
O'Malley said on Tuesday he believes the death penalty is not a deterrent for violent crime.
"The death penalty does not work in terms of preventing violent crime and the taking of human life," he said. "If you look over 30 or 40 years, the death penalty was on the books, and yet Baltimore still became the most violent and addicted city in America. Having the death penalty on the books did nothing to keep the homicides from rising."
While O'Malley believes he has the votes this time to push through the repeal, those votes will not be coming from a pair of lower shore lawmakers.
Senator Jim Mathias (D-38) and Republican Mike McDermott (R-38B) each said this week they continue to support the death penalty. McDermott said the debate is somewhat moot because of the infrequency with which Maryland utilizes the death penalty now.
"It's a funny thing in Maryland to debate something we never do," he said. "The state hasn't put anybody to death in nearly a decade and there are only five inmates on death row right now. Basically, there's a moratorium in place right now because the state doesn't have the procedures in place, and that's not likely to change any time soon."
A common point made by advocates of repealing the death penalty is the chance of putting to death a wrongly convicted inmate and there appears to be some merit to the argument. Since the Supreme Court ruling in 1978, 11 inmates have been removed from death row in Maryland for a variety of reasons. In some cases, the accused had their sentences overturned on appeal and were sent back to prison for life without parole. A few were totally exonerated including a case in 1993 when an inmate was determined to be innocent by DNA evidence. Nonetheless, lower shore lawmakers believe there are safeguards against wrongly putting to death a convicted felon.
"I appreciate those who advocate on behalf of those unjustly convicted, but we have bent over backwards to make sure we don't put somebody to death by accident," said McDermott. "There are safeguards in place to ensure that."
Like McDermott, Mathias continues to be an advocate for keeping the death penalty.
"I support the death penalty," he said. "I do believe there are cases that warrant the use. In extreme cases, we can incarcerate them for life, but we can't be sure they won't kill again. We have to be concerned for our correctional officers."
McDermott said without the death penalty, there would be no hammer to hang over the heads of the state's most violent criminals.
"I'd still like to have the option open," he said. "Without a mechanism in place, or the threat of the death penalty, I'm frankly fearful for our correctional officers. We need to have that option."
Mathias said the death penalty is an important judicial tool.
"I do believe it's a deterrent," he said. "I also believe it's a tool a prosecutor needs. Without the threat of the death penalty, it could be difficult to get sentences of life without parole."


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Yesterday, I attended the annual parent orientation at Xavier School. Unlike past years, there was something different about this year, I realized. I would be attending activities in this school for only one boy (my other boy already graduated high school and is facing a new life as a college freshie).
Ever since Fr. Johnny Go, S.J. took over the helm as School Director, I have seen vast improvements in terms of facilities, quality of faculty, curriculum, use of technology in academe and so many other aspects. In a previous post, I described how the school turned virtual during Typhoon Ondoy when school was suspended for 10 days. While many schools lost school days, Xavier students continued to study and do assigned homework via the net.
At the orientation, I eagerly awaited Fr. Johnny's presentation to the parents. His part is always something I look forward to. After all, when the School Director blogs, uses multimedia in his presentations, has a Facebook account and maintains his own YouTube channel, you can be sure his talk would be a very interesting one. I was not disappointed.
Fr. Johnny talked about how important it is for schools (and parents) to learn how to educate and parent this generation of tech-savvy kids.
He described the TV Generation I belong to (the age when baby boomers first encountered a television set and whose free time was spent in front of the boob tube watching episodes of popular shows). He also described the next younger set called Generation X (that age group between mid 30s to mid 40s that were schooled in classrooms where passive learning was the norm: teacher lectures and student "vomits back" what he absorbed during exams).
He next described the 2 generations that students belong to now: The Net Generation (kids from 13 yrs old and up) and the Next Generation (those below 12 years old). These two generations have absolutely no fear for technology; in fact they embrace it wholeheartedly. But with such wide access to information at the tips of their fingertips, schools face a new challenge in teaching them, something that Xavier is moving briskly into. Unlike the generations of parents where a student WAITS for content before ASSIMILATING it, learning for 21st century kids must entail what Fr. Johnny calls the 5 "-ate's":
* LOCATE content (e.g., how to use search engines to find information)
* INTERROGATE the results (learning not to just accept search results as truth but to interrogate which is true, half-true, or false)
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The Persistence of Privatization
When school board members wanted to take away jobs, education support professionals fought back step-by-step.
By John Rosales
Person-by-person, block-by-block, and school-by-school, since spring 2009, about two-dozen custodians from Maine School Administrative District 75 (MSAD 75) have beaten back the lingering threat of privatization.
They have sat with one neighbor at a time, spoken at school board meetings and labor organization events, started a petition drive, generated favorable media support, and handed out countless flyers at public functions. They even persuaded several business owners to hang banners outside storefronts carrying their simple message: "Save our Custodians."
The tide of solidarity rose so high, the school board finally agreed in September not to subcontract their jobs for the remainder of the calendar year. There's just one problem: As early as February 2012, they could be back at square one.
"This group of custodians has shown strength and dignity under the threat of losing their jobs," says Mary Kay Dyer, president of the Merrymeeting Employees Association (MEA), whose 83 members include the 24 custodians whose jobs are threatened. "They have stood together, worked hard, and I think earned the respect of everyone involved. They won't give up."
One beacon of hope, she says, is a new superintendent who suggested that the school board postpone arbitration until more research is done. Board members have given the superintendent until February to return with information that will determine whether or not to proceed with the arbitration.
"I am hoping the superintendent and school board see that they have some very loyal and hard-working employees who work, live, shop, worship, and vote in this district," Dyer says. "You can't get that from subcontracting, which doesn't save money in the long run." The custodians who could still lose their jobs next year have more than 400 years of combined experience working at the high school, middle school, and six elementary schools in the district.
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The four communities that make up the district are more like one village where "everyone is family," says Barbara Douglas, who has worked at William-Cone Elementary School for 32 years in custodial and maintenance services. "I love this school, the staff and students," says Douglas. "I would do anything to help them. This will not be the case with a subcontractor. You won't have the same people here every day."
Along with food and transportation services, maintenance jobs at schools are the most likely to be privatized. When education support professional (ESP) jobs are transferred to the private sector through the hiring of service companies, ESPs either lose those jobs or are hired back by a subcontractor, typically with lower pay and fewer benefits. After privatization, employees also can lose the benefits of union representation, such as a grievance procedure, health and safety protection, and security against arbitrary treatment on the job.
At MSAD 75, Associate UniServ Director Sue Rowe knew the best way to fight the threat of privatization was, in part, to build community support by educating citizens about the contributions ESPs make in the lives of students. "These custodians know the families going back three generations," she says. "Education is not a business. It's personal. These are kids we're dealing with."
Rowe has been on hand since the first anti-privatization meeting took place more than two years ago. At the meeting, she and MEA leaders immediately went from peacetime organizing to crisis organizing.
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Custodian JoAnn Walker also attended that initial meeting, during which participants began deciding on talking points, identifying allies, and determining other steps necessary for an anti-privatization campaign.
"What has worked for us so far has been fast action on the union's part," Walker says. "We have not let the public forget that privatization is still on the table and it is not a good idea."
The group quickly came up with the slogan, "Keep our SUPER custodians in MSAD 75 schools!" On flyers and posters, an "S" was added at the end of the word "SUPER," which they turned into an acrostic:
Support staff United with Parents for Excellence and Reliability in our Schools!
Educational technicians, secretaries, clerks, bus drivers, groundskeepers, mechanics, and food service workers also belong to MEA. More than 200 teachers belong to Merrymeeting Teachers Association (MTA), a separate local and bargaining unit, whose members supported the MEA members at every turn. On several occasions, petitions with thousands of signatures were presented to school board members along with letters of support from MTA members, ESPs, parents, and others.
When asked what advice she has for other Associations confronting the threat of privatization, Dyer says that they must be persistent.
"I would tell other members that the battle is long and takes a toll, but that it is worth the fight," she says.
With an agreement close at hand for the custodians of MSAD 75, Dyer mentions the unquantifiable value of these career ESPs.
"Subcontractors won't put in the same effort as these people who have 20, 25, and 30 years' experience," she says. "These custodians care about the children. That's one reason they're fighting so hard."
JoAnn Walker (right) and Barbara Douglas (rear, left) visit a local car dealer to explain the plight of school custodians.


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Last week, we brought you the charming story of Florida football recruit Ja'Juan Story, who abandoned all interview protocol and told Gator Country that he prepares for games by "taking a doodoo" and listening to Katy Perry songs. Today, we're sorry to report that he has reneged on his claims, and will soon be acting all collegiate and straitlaced and PR-friendly, which is no fun at all, for there is never a doodoo story when PR is involved.
Story texted Gator Country's Amy Campbell yesterday to tell her that he was sorry "for the inappropriate comment I made about saying 'doodoo'" along with "anything else that I might have said that was inappropriate." He added that he was "sorry for the hassle," so he must be under the incorrect impression that the general public would have preferred hearing that he, say, eats egg whites and prays before every football game he ever plays in. But we know all about the egg whites and the praying; we hear it in every recruit Q&A ever. No one ever talks about "the D word," as Story now refers to it, and we are sorry to see it go.
When Campbell called Story to talk it out, the 18-year-old explained that he felt he had to apologize because "I represent more than just myself. I represent the entire University and the Gators."
Which is all good crash-course PR code for, "Someone told me I couldn't say whatever I wanted to say anymore," and that Story now has to care that you care that he likes to take a doodoo before games and that the most-played song on his iPod is "Fireworks" by Katy Perry. We're sad to report that a fraction of the young man's youth may have died with that D word.
Gators WR Ja'Juan Story apologizes for 'doodoo' comment [GatorCountry.com]
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It's a complete mystery! I turned up for work today and stood amongst the rubble that was once the Metaverse London News Group's beautiful office in the Houses of Parliament. The Big Ben clock tower was broken in half laying like a giant dragon with its back broken, whilst the flames were still blazing out of what was left of its once regal base! The buildings surrounding Parliament had not escaped either, the Tower of London stood like an empty tomb with flames and smoke billowing from deep inside. Nelson's column too had crashed to the ground littering the concourse with ugly chunks of concrete. So what could have happened? could it be some of my 'powerful' enemies who took revenge because I busted their dodgy deals with my reporting? Could it be a rival News Group envious of our ability to pip them at the post with the latest stories? Are darker forces at work in SL? Well I think so! I suddenly spotted a crashed flying-saucer which looked like it had had someone flying it a bit like me! (Hibiscus says my driving is terrible, but don't believe her!). I can only imagine they lost control and hit all the buildings in the area before coming to a final resting place near poor Big Ben! Oh well, just another normal day in the fantastic New London sim!
Actually it was all very clever, I made the bit up about finding the placed wrecked when I got there, but inside our wonderful office there is a teleport station and when you click it one of the destinations is called the 'Aftermath' Curious as ever I took a ride. Suddenly the place was transformed into this amazing ruin. What a great invention, Kat Kassner and Laredo Lowtide have been at it again! They always have something new and exciting going on!! Well done you two!!
Janey Bracken
(PS Talking of mysteries, there was an escaped tiger in the Hangout Club last night! He was dancing and having a good time. I had to 'paws' for thought as to where he had come from! He was having a 'purrrrfect' time. In fact he followed us to the West End club too, where he shook a 'whisker' or two with the other clubbers. It seemed like he had worms, but it could have been a rumba he was dancing! Many thanks to 'Tiger' Alt Lexington for a great laugh!)


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Final Score TableNyphilians: Ross_Varn
Objectives: Get General Yadlin out of the battlefield, finish construction of the SHIP and get the SHIP out of the battlefield unharmed, try to ship as much treasure out of the base as possible.
Peaches: Runswithlegos
Objectives: Humiliate the Nyphilian Army and destroy/ steal as much Nyphilian hardware as possible and free the peach hostages.
Assyrians: Natalya
Objectives: Steal as much treasure from the Nyphilians as possible.
Tyronians: Robot Monkey
Objectives: Steal the neutrina© bomb from the command center's table.
Brittanians: Moronstudios
Objectives: Hijack the SHIP for themselves.
N00b Miners: Silent-Sigfig
Objectives: Finish construction of the SHIP, stay alive.
Channel 4 News Team: ZahruII
Objective: Uncover as many scandals as possible.
Secret Faction B: ???
Brikthulu and Friends: Keldoclock
Objective: Cause chaos
Secret Faction D: ???
P.S: There is no guarantee that I will use your secret faction. I will pull them up when I think I need them, and for some this may not happen in the battle at all
Winner: AssyriansScore Table:
Nyphilians: Objective Achieved; Terminated
Kills: 21
Casualties: 53
Peaches: Objective Achieved; Terminated
Kills: 25
Casualties: 20
Assyrians: Objective Achieved
Kills: 22
Casualties: 4
Tyronians: Objective Achieved; Terminated
Kills: 9
Casualties: 7
Brittannians: Terminated
Kills: 3
Casualties: 5
N00b Miners: Objective Achieved; Terminated
Kills: 10
Casualties: 9
Channel 4 Paparazzi Action News Team:
Kills: 0
Uncovered Scandals: 3
Casualties: 2
Brikthulu and Friends: Terminated
Kills: 1
Tentacle snuggled: 15
Casualties: 4
Nyphilian Space Force: Objective Achieved
Kills: 0
Casualties: 11
Assyrian Space Force: Terminated
Kills: 23
Casualties: 3
Brittannian Space Force: Terminated
Kills: 2
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A Palestinian flag is painted on the face of a girl during a protest in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, on July 17, 2009 against Israel's controversial separation barrier. The barrier is made up of 400 kilometres (260 miles) of concrete walls, fences and closed roads, with 87 percent located inside the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including annexed east Jerusalem, according to UN figures. AFP PHOTO/ABBAS MOMANI (Photo credit should read ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/Getty Images)


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Youth sports as cultural linchpin: Why a Hoosier sent her toddler to basketball camp
Organized sports starts so young these days, it's amazing your child doesn't emerge from the womb and fall straight into a pair of baseball spikes. Often, the assumption is that parents are starting their kids in sports so young because they believe the earlier they start their children, the better chance they have at going pro. Or, the better chance the parents have to network for the right playdates to get their kids headed toward Harvard.
Well, it's not always the case that signing up your 3-year-old for organized sports is inherently a bad thing. Sometimes, it's a way to impart culture, a way to show your child the important identifying markers of his or her ethnic group, even if his or her ethnic group, technically, in terms of categories listed on the U.S. Census form, does not exist.
For Amy Wimmer Schwarb, signing up her 3-year-old daughter Edie for basketball camp is as important a part of learning her Hoosier roots as heaping helpings of giant fried pork tenderloin sandwiches, the Indianapolis 500 and bitching about Daylight Saving Time. Schwarb wrote a great story for Indianapolis Monthly putting Edie's fledgling basketball career in context the family's decision to move back to her home state to Indiana from Florida so their girl could be raised in a good Hoosier way.
I, an Indiana native, am raising my kids only 15 miles from the Indiana state line. But that's distant enough to make plain to me that no matter how much you try to impart the importance of basketball to your children, it's just not the same as doing it in Indiana.
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Rev. Peyton and His Big Damn Band want to take us all back to Indiana for some fried biscuits with apple butter. Oh, how I miss it.
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In this town, at age 3, your opportunities are boundless. A 3-year-old can take the floor at Sharp's Gymnastics Academy, the northside gym that produced 2008 Olympic medalist Bridget Sloan. Likewise, at the IU Natatorium at IUPUI [note: your humble blogger's alma mater], 3-year-olds can take swim lessons, kicking and floating in water where Michael Phelps has set world records. At age 3, a child can seek instruction at the Pepsi Coliseum and learn to skate on the home rink of the league-champion Indiana Ice.
And then there is the Indiana Basketball Academy, where, beginning at age 3, children can sign up to learn dribbling, passing, and shooting—or, at least, what those words mean, and that you need to stay within the lines while doing them. The academy is owned by Tom Abernethy, a starting forward on the IU team of 1975–76— a stellar squad that, with Bob Knight at the helm, finished the season undefeated and won the national championship. At the academy, Abernethy himself—with assistance from other coaches on the staff—introduces the children to drills, tweaks their shooting form, and doles out candy at the end of practice.
Edie Schwarb's parents do not, for the record, think she is a basketball prodigy. Her mother is five-foot-four; her father, five-foot-nine. She wears Stride Rites purchased on clearance at T.J. Maxx, and her "people" are not seeking any sort of shoe-endorsement deal. My daughter's hoop dreams will, most likely, be short-lived. But she, like all other kids whose parents make them sign up for tee-ball or wear goofy outfits at dance recitals, is still malleable to the hopes and aspirations her parents have for her.
And this, truth be told, is what I have always wanted for my child: I want her to be a Hoosier.
Sure, everyone knows that Indiana loves basketball, like Texas loves football. But it's hard to understand how much it's really ingrained in the culture unless you've lived in the state, which I did from ages 12 to 24, a seminal time that has me calling myself a Hoosier no matter where I reside. Even as Peyton Manning — gasp, a football player, who'd have thunk it? — stands as Indiana's athletic standard-bearer, and even as interest in going to high school basketball games isn't what it was in the days depicted in the movie Hoosiers, basketball has a cultural grip on the state. It isn't just something people do. It's what they feel. That counts, too, for people who don't like basketball — it's so pervasive, you have to have feelings about it.
And it's been that way since 1893, when Presbyterian Rev. Nicholas McKay returned to the Crawfordsville, Ind., YMCA from a trip to its facility in Springfield, Mass., with James Naismith's just-invented game of basketball in tow, providing the perfect game for Hoosier small towns during the winter harvest break, and making Indiana the only state where basketball grew from the farm fields instead of the city streets, a rural connection that's kept the game grounded even if its players increasingly are not.
From Amy Wimmer Schwarb:
Not far from where I grew up, near a northeast Indiana town called Mount Etna, is a basketball goal mounted on a backboard affixed to two old beams that rise out of a field. There's no concrete pad beneath it, just a flat spot in the dust where a ball can find a good bounce.
I had never noticed it, despite its proximity to my hometown, until a photographer friend visiting from Florida snapped its picture as a sort of life-in-Indiana vignette. The hoop seems to grow organically from the Indiana soil; in fact, when corn is at full height, it disappears from sight. It is a reminder that—no matter how detrimental the advent of class basketball or how empty the gymnasiums on Friday nights or how distant the Milan Miracle—around here, still, basketball just is.
In Indiana, it's not a barn without a hoop on it or near it. Photo taken near LaPorte, Ind., by Don Kalkman (posted to Flickr).
So is young Edie Schwarb on her way to Hoosierdom? Given the copious amount of Indiana University and Colts gear in her collection, and her newfound ability to hit a jumper, it looks like she is. And someday, if she's living out-of-state, she's probably going to have the same urge to bring her kids back to Indiana so they can train in basketball in their training pants, and thus become properly imbued into the ways of being Hoosier.


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In 65 countries, 15-year-old girls performed better than their male peers on a science test given by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In the United States, however, boys outperformed girls. What's the disconnect in America? Researchers think that stereotypes may have something to do with it.
"We see that very early in childhood — around age 4 — gender roles in occupations appear to be formed," said Christianne Corbett, co-author of the 2010 report, Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. "Women are less likely to go into science careers, although they are clearly capable of succeeding." Countries like Asia and the Middle East, where a higher percentage of women go into the sciences, don't seem to have the same cultural forces at play.
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CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. -- Despite rumors the school has implemented a device to cut off cellular phone signals in an attempt to limit their use, Camdenton School District officials say it is the concrete walls of the high school that act as a barrier.
Despite rumors the school has implemented a device to cut off cellular phone signals in an attempt to limit their use, Camdenton School District officials say it is the concrete walls of the high school that act as a barrier. The lack of a signal may have led parents and students to believe the technology was implemented, but school district Superintendent Maurice Overlander said no such tool exists. Even if it did, lake area schools ban the use of cell phones while in the building anyway. With a few exceptions, all lake area schools prohibit the use of phones during school hours. School officials say they are not typically confiscated unless they can be seen or heard. Across the lake area, school districts enforce different forms of cell phone and electronic device policies to limit distractions and interruptions so students can focus on academics. While most area schools allow cell phones to be brought in the building, they are to be turned off and put away. In Camdenton, school policy includes cell phones on a list of several items that are prohibited inside the buildings. "We have wrestled with that policy," Overlander said. "Different people have different expectations and there are at times, very legitimate reasons kids need them, but there is a time and place." Overlander said the school allows students to utilize phones in the office and parents are encouraged to leave messages with staff, he said. If a cell phone goes off or is being used, it will be confiscated and returned at the end of the day. The second violation will mean parents will have to come pick up the phone. "We just don't want to see them," Overlander said. "If they are out of sight, they are not being used." While some schools are more stringent in their policies, others offer a more relaxed view. "We allow the students to bring cell phones with them, but they have to turn them off if they enter the building," Macks Creek High School principal Donna Moffatt said. "We see a need for students to have them and we are small enough to control it," she said. "When you have a student that is driving, as a parent, you want them to have a cell phone in case they have trouble." The Versailles school district allows students to use cell phones as a last resort. When other landlines are occupied and it is an emergency, students are allowed to call parents from their cell phone in the school office, high school principal Mike Butt said. Lake Sun Leader Contact this reporter at email@example.com


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Hi guys
Fist I apologize for my bad english sorry about that :/
Second sorry about that I posting this Post but I try to fing answeres fore my questions but i cant find it :/
Q1: I have 0 left mep code? some stupida* b*tch did it
How can I unlock my phone? is there some programs like MFL or MFI i dont remember anymore cuz I spend last 1 week reading about that and some say"yes you can" other "no"
Q2: when I get the phone I could use WiFi home without a sim card just only for FB twitter like that now I cant cuz when I try to open Facebook it says you need dataplan blah blah or connect to WiFi yeah but Im connected to my Wifi
so my question is can I go around that RIM BIS and other ***** like that and use my WiFi without data plan and sim card ?
And I realy apologize guys sorry but I dont know what i have to do


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Finding aid to the Faxon Dean Atherton family papers, 1852-1910, MS 4129
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Finding aid to the Faxon Dean Atherton family papers 2011
Correspondence 1852-1896
Letters to and from Atherton family members 1857-1883
Letters from Charles T. Ward and Amanda Ward (brother-in-law and sister of Faxon Dean Atherton) to Faxon Dean Atherton 1857, 1874-1876
Letters from George Atherton (son of Faxon Dean Atherton) to Faxon Dean Atherton 1868-1875
Letters from Isabel Edwards (daughter of Faxon Dean Atherton) to Faxon Dean Atherton 1864, 1874-1875
Letters from Faxon Dean Atherton, Jr., to Faxon Dean Atherton 1874
Letters form Enrique Edwards (son-in-law of Faxon Dean Atherton) to Faxon Dean Atherton 1874-1875
Letters to and from Faxon Dean Atherton's friends and business associates 1852-1896
Letters to and from Samuel Crane regarding his dispute with Elisha T. Loring of Loring & Co. 1852-1856
Letters from James Hall to Loring & Co. 1854
Letters from Thomas K. Sanders to Faxon Dean Atherton 1854
Letter from Joseph P. Thompson to Faxon Dean Atherton 1857
Letters from W. W. Evans and Charles H. Hill to Faxon Dean Atherton regarding the Valparaiso railroad 1857
Letters to and from Alex B. Grogan (Faxon Dean Atherton's San Francisco business agent) 1863, 1874-1878
Letter from Loring & Co. to Faxon Dean Atherton 1866
Letter from Antonio Agacio to Faxon Dean Atherton 1873
Letters from Samuel D. Crane to Faxon Dean Atherton 1873-1874
Letters from William Blain to Faxon Dean Atherton 1873-1874
Letters from Edgar Briggs to Faxon Dean Atherton 1873-1876
Letters from James W. Sturgis to Faxon Dean Atherton 1873-1876
Letter from James T. Watkins to Faxon Dean Atherton regarding a tobacco venture in Lake County, California 1874
Letters from John Brown to Faxon Dean Atherton 1874-1875
Letters from Pelham W. Ames to Faxon Dean Atherton 1874-1875
Letters from Edmund White to Faxon Dean Atherton 1874-1876
Letters from Gustave Schulte to Faxon Dean Atherton 1875-1876
Miscellaneous letters to Faxon Dean Atherton 1850-1874
Miscellaneous letters to Faxon Dean Atherton 1875-1896, undated
Personalia and ephemera 1868-1888, undated
Business and calling cards undated
Report cards 1868, 1874-1875
Miscellaneous ephemera 1868-1888
Harper's Statistical Gazetteer of the World, by J. Calvin Smith (signed by W. L. Atherton?) 1855
Business records 1852-1910
Accounts 1852-1880
Faxon Dean Atherton accounts 1871-1877
Accounts 1880, undated
Receipts and invoices 1853-1910
Dominga Goñi de Atherton receipts, Valparaiso, Chile 1855
Faxon Dean Atherton invoices and receipts, California 1857-1869
Faxon Dean Atherton invoices and receipts, California and Valparaiso 1870-1877
Alex B. Grogan invoices and receipts, California 1863-1878, undated
Expense bills to the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads 1873-1897
Invoices and receipts 1879-circa 1910, undated
Dry Creek Tunnel & Fluming Co. (Shasta County) records 1871-1872
Fair Oaks Farm Diary records (Percival W. Selby, proprietor) 1887-1891
Legal records 1853-1880
Faxon D. Atherton vs. Fortoul et als. complaints and memorandum 1864, undated
Real estate records 1859-1882
Corralitos Ranch records 1859-1880
Sal Si Puedes Ranch records 1860-1875
Milpitas Ranch records 1861-1882
Hayward real estate records 1863-1879
San Lorenzo Ranch records 1864-1881
Bolsa de San Cayetano Ranch records 1867-1880
Contra Costa Water Company deed 1878
Miscellaneous real estate records 1860-1875, undated
Income, state, and county tax records 1863-1875
James Lick Trust records 1876-1877


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Itron Inc. announced today that it is the recipient of the 2007 North American Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award in the electric meter market, with nearly 45% of the North American revenue share.
The Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognize companies that demonstrate outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service and strategic product development.
Roberta Gamble, Director, Energy & Power Supplies Group for Frost & Sullivan says, "Being vertically integrated helps make Itron a preferred vendor for utilities, where the value proposition is solidified because Itron can provide all the major pieces of an AMR/AMI system, from equipment to software and services."
Gamble said Itron's production of solid-state meters in the U.S. gives the company superior capacity and control of meter production, placing it in a better position to satisfy the major orders that are expected in the current automated meter reading (AMR), advanced metering infrastructure (AMI)-driven market. Itron possesses all the necessary capabilities to complete a deployment alone, but also has the open architecture to work with other companies, providing additional flexibility for utilities.
The leadership award also recognizes Itron's diverse technology capabilities, such as Itron's software suite, anchored by Itron Enterprise Edition meter data management solution. Itron software offerings include revenue assurance, customer care, complex billing, demand response, distribution asset analysis and load research. In addition, Itron offers distribution system design software, mobile workforce management, energy forecasting and a range of consulting businesses that focus on renewable, energy efficiency and demand response.


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1) How to prepare and bake, step by step, the 'Pan di Spagna'- traditional sponge cake- and its secrets to get the best result ( recipe will be given ).
2) How to make pastry cream/patissiere (recipe to be provided) and alternative cake fillings recipes
3) How to make Chocolate Ganache Mousse ( recipe will be given ).
4) How to make syrup for keeping the cake moist and flavor tips (recipe will be given).
5) How to make Chocolate Ganache ( recipe will be given ).
6) How to make homemade fondant ( recipe will be given ).
7) How to cut your sponge cake into 5 equal layers.
8) How to build the cake using sponge cake soaked in syrup.
9) How to ganache the cake.
10) How to work with the fondant: kneading, rolling and covering the cake.


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Our marketing landscape has changed significantly with the rise of digital technologies. However, our marketing textbooks still teach the same marketing and management frameworks they have taught already 20 years ago. In the current issue of the Harvard Business Manager, the German version of Harvard Business Review, we introduce a new perspective on how modern companies should organize and structure value creation for their customers: the Market-oriented Value Creation Framework.
There are three universal drivers that create value in every B2C-company: the brand, its products, and the customer. Usually, the three corresponding departments – brand management, product management, and customer management (CRM) – are more or less disjoint entities in the firm, working with different data and different tools on different marketing goals. In a first step, the company should centralize these three sources of value creation in a strategic management hub to harmonize its planning and decision-making and to develop more powerful marketing activities based on common information from a joint database.
In a second step, the company should organize all other company departments as flexible functions, which help reaching the company's strategic goals defined by the management hub (second ring in the framework). Different from traditional value creation models like Porter's Value Chain, our framework does not distinguish between primary (inbound logistics, production, sales,…) and secondary organizational (HR, controlling, finance,…) functions. Instead, the importance of each function is dependent on the business model and the competitive situation of the individual firm. If it is an innovation driven company like Apple, R&D is a central department within the company. For BMW engine development is key. For an online retailer like Amazon, customer service important. These central functions, which contribute significantly to the company's value creation, should be closely tied to the management hub.
For less central departments, the digitalization allows for more flexible organizational structures today. Not every function needs to be realized in-house. Today, digital information and communication technologies enable the firm to exercise the required amount of control over each function, even if it is not equipped with own employees. Apple does not build a single computer or phone itself. Automakers started using joint car platforms even outside the own group long time ago. Many B2B service provides enter the market right now and offer new outsourcing opportunities for HR, controlling, IT, or other company functions. Flexible workforce for smaller, non-repetitive tasks is available online via Amazon Mechanical Turk or other platforms. Innovative companies should think about how these new options could help them to allocate their resources more efficiently.
The outer ring of the Market-oriented Value Creation Framework consists of the company's stakeholders (third ring in the framework). These are not only employees, but also suppliers, retailers, or cross-company data and infrastructure providers. These stakeholders or value creation partners are the people that execute the company's functions depicted in the second ring of the framework. The most important value creation partner for each company is the customer. Successful digital companies try to integrate the customer in many company tasks. Via special platforms, customers help these firms to develop better products, fulfill after-sales service functions, leverage marketing activities, and even develop brand stories and other digital content for the firm. There are many ways how companies can leverage their own potential by including customers the right way. Furthermore, customer integration also helps building a more loyal, more engaged, and more enthusiastic customer base.
Read the full story in the current issue (09/2014) of the Harvard Business Manager, available at many kiosks in Germany until mid-September.


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Washington State Enacts SEMA Street Rod/Custom Vehicle Bill Into Law
Washington, D.C. (April 20, 2011) - Washington joined the growing list of states to enact SEMA model legislation to amend the vehicle titling and registration classification for street rods and create a classification for custom vehicles.. The bill was approved by the Washington State Legislature and signed into law by Governor Christine Gregoire. Under the new law, a street rod is defined as an altered vehicle manufactured before 1949 and a custom as an altered vehicle at least 30 years old and manufactured after 1948. Importantly, kit cars and replica vehicles will be assigned a certificate of title bearing the same model year designation as the production vehicle they most closely resemble.
Washington joins California (2001), Illinois (2002), Missouri (2004), Rhode Island (2004), Hawaii (2004), Montana (2005), Maine (2005), Colorado (2006), Arkansas (2007), Virginia (2007), Nevada (2007) Florida (2007), Idaho (2008), Iowa (2008), Tennessee (2008), Wyoming (2009), Utah (2009), North Carolina (2009) and Massachusetts (2010) as states that have enacted similar bills into law.
The new law allows for the use of non-original materials, provides for special license plates and exempts street rods and customs from the law requiring vehicles to be equipped with a hood and bumpers. The law also exempts street rods and custom from emission test requirements. Vehicles titled and registered as street rods and custom vehicles may only be used for occasional transportation, exhibitions, club activities, parades, and similar functions.
"As in the other states that have enacted the SEMA model, the new Washington law recognizes the unique nature of these vehicles as hobbyist cars," said SEMA Vice President, Government Affairs Steve McDonald. "For many vehicle enthusiasts in Washington and throughout America, building, maintaining and enjoying their vehicles is a favorite pastime. This law represents an opportunity to acknowledge their commitment to the hobby and to protect it for future generations."
The new law is the product of months of consultation with state legislators, regulators and the local hobbyist and business community, including Art and Craig Morrison of SEMA member Art Morrison Enterprises in Fife, Washington. "It was an honor being involved in the political system to create positive change and to give back to the automotive enthusiasts of Washington State," Craig Morrison said. "The SEMA model legislation that Senator Carrell sponsored should definitely make it easier for enthusiasts in the evergreen state to get their vehicles out on the road."
Washington State Senator Mike Carrell, the bill's sponsor, remarked, "I couldn't believe how important this bill had become to those in the hobby-car community. I've received dozens of e-mails, phone calls and letters - one from as far away as Paris, France - thanking me for sponsoring this bill. There's a huge groundswell of support for this legislation, and as a car collector myself I'm very proud to have sponsored it."
The model bill will continue to be pursued by SEMA in states that either don't have registration classifications for these vehicles or have laws that are lacking in some way. SEMA efforts are ongoing this year to work with the state legislatures in New York, New Jersey and Texas on this initiative and to add others to that list in the coming legislative sessions.
About SEMA
SEMA, the Specialty Equipment Market Association founded in 1963, represents the $27.9 billion specialty automotive industry of 6,461 member-companies. It is the authoritative source for research, data, trends and market growth information for the specialty auto parts industry. The industry provides appearance, performance, comfort, convenience and technology products for passenger and recreational vehicles. For more information, contact SEMA at 1575 S. Valley Vista Dr., Diamond Bar, CA 91765, tel: 909/396-0289, or visit www.sema.org or www.enjoythedrive.com.
Photo Caption: Bill sponsor Senator Mike Carrell (left) and Art and Craig Morrison (center) of SEMA member Art Morrison Enterprises join Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire as she signs into law SEMA model legislation to create a vehicle titling and registration classification for street rods and custom vehicles.


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I recently started learning Toki Pona and came across this person mentioning SostiMatiko, that apparently he abandoned for the "perfect" Dama Diwan. Sounds a bit weird. Is it worth looking into? Thx
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Yesterday Keith and I drove to New York, where we are now and where we picked up our new puppy. He's a whippet, born April eighth. We've named him Fergus Henderson, after the chef at St. John in London, but we're just calling him Fergus. (Whippets are English, the name Fergus is English…) Fergus Henderson is just too much of a mouthful, especially if you want to be smart and stick both Keith and my last names in there too. That's a lot to fit on an ID tag.
My dad won't admit it, but he's pretty enamored with Fergus. I don't blame him, because this dog is pretty damn cute. I'll be posting a photo of him every day on a separate site called Fergus, At Your Service, though I'm sure I'll be mentioning him on a fairly regular basis — we've now got a four-legged reason to stay in. So get used to more writing about home-cooked meals rather than restaurant food.
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The golf world said hello this week to an old friend: Merion East, the famed course at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Penn., known for its fast greens, deep bunkers and overall small size.
The course, considered one of the most challenging ever created, dates back to 1912. Now, it's considered one of the most influential courses in the sport. It's hosted the U.S. Open four times. From June 13 through 16, it is hosting it for a fifth time.
"Acre for acre, it may be the best test of golf in the world," golf legend Jack Nicklaus once said.
U.S. & World
Merion has hosted some of the most memorable games in golf history. Amazing performances by Olin Dutra, Lee Travino, Ben Hogan and Bobby Jones all took place at Merion — and the stories behind their wins are also epic.
The Dysentery Kid
In 1934, Olin Dutra was not favored to win the U.S. Open. Dutra's health didn't help: He lost 20 pounds from amoebic dysentery in the weeks leading up to the tournament.
As he ended the first round, he ate sugar cubes to maintain energy under doctor's orders. After two rounds, he trailed by eight strokes. Then, during the third round, the wind picked up. Dutra had developed his skills in windy conditions, giving him an advantage.
He had a stellar final day, though, and beat Gene Sarazen by on stroke to win the U.S. Open.
From Hospital Bed to Championship
In February 1949, golf legend Ben Hogan was in a car accident with a Greyhound bus in Texas that was almost fatal. He wasn't expected to walk again, let alone play golf. Sixteen months later, though, he faced Merion's 18th fairway, needing an impressive drive into a fierce wind to have a shot at an improbable U.S. Open championship.
Using one of his irons, he nailed a 200-yard drive that landed on the green, according Golf.com. The drive was memorialized in a famous photo of Hogan finishing up his swing, and a plaque at Merion that lays at the location of Hogan's memorable stroke.
He two-putted to make par and force an 18-hole playoff with Lloyd Mangrum and George Fazio. He won the playoff and the title.
Snake Charmer
A much-anticipated face-off between the notorious bad boy Lee Trevino and sharp shooter Jack Nicklaus took place at the 1971 U.S. Open at Merion. Drama started at the very first tee when Trevino showed his wild side, pulling out a fake snake and throwing it at Nicklaus, much to the audience's delight.
On the course, Trevino matched Nicklaus birdie for birdie. Trevino and Nicklaus were tied after the regulation 72 holes, both ending at par.
Trevino won the tie-breaker by three strokes.
"You gotta be lucky to beat Jack Nicklaus, because he's the greatest golfer to ever hold a club," Trevino said
The Grand Slam
In 1930, Bobby Jones achieved what many considered unachievable. The golfer, who hailed from Georgia, won all four major championships in golf during the same year.
No golfer has matched the feat since. The New York Times called the it "the most triumphant journey that any man ever traveled in sport." A plaque at Merion highlights the achievement.


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We know that a piece of ferromagnet, such as iron, can be magnetized by putting in a strong magnetic field to get domains parallel to the field grow.
I also remember from pop. culture and MacGyver old tv series that you can magnetize a piece of iron by hitting it hard, with a hammer say, along the same direction.
1-Is this way of magnetizing iron scientific? or is it pseudoscience?
and if it is scientific then:
2-what is the physical principle that will allow iron to get magnetized by hitting? and
3-how about nonferromagnetic materials?