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By James M. Dorsey
A Singapore court has ordered veteran journalist and scholar JMD to reveal his sources for his reporting on an audit of suspended world soccer body FIFA vice president and Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president Mohammed Bin Hammam's management of AFC's finances and agreement with a Singapore-based company on the group's marketing rights.
The court accepted a demand by World Sports Group (WSG) to instruct the journalist and scholar to reveal his sources on the grounds that the audit was confidential and that the sources had defamed the company.
The court in a four-hour hearing however stayed its decision pending an appeal that Mr. Dorsey's lawyers, N. Sreenivasan and Sujatha Selvakumar of Straits Law Practice LLC, will submit in the coming days.
Mr. Dorsey's lawyers argued that he was not a party to any confidentiality agreement and that if WSG had an issue it should take it up with the AFC to whom the original report was addressed. The lawyers noted further that the code of ethics of journalists in Singapore as well as in numerous Asian countries, including Malaysia and Hong Kong shield journalists from revealing sources.
In an affidavit to the court, Mr. Dorsey asserted that he believed that WSG's legal action was an attempt at "indirectly discovering who within the AFC may have breached their confidentiality and also suppress any well meaning or good intended person from coming forward in the future and is seeking to punitively punish those who may have spoken against them."
WSG has said it applied to the High Court to force Mr. Dorsey to reveal his sources with the intention of launching possible defamation or breach of confidence proceedings. "We want information so we can determine what charges to make and against whom," WSG lawyer Deborah Barker told Agence France Presse.
The internal AFC audit conducted by PriceWaterhouse Coopers (PwC) charged that Mr. Bin Hammam had used an AFC sundry account as his personal account, questioned the terms and negotiation procedure of a $1 billion marketing rights agreement between WSG and the AFC and raised questions of $14 million in payments by a WSG shareholder to Mr. Bin Hammam prior to the signing of the agreement.
In its report, PwC said that "it is highly unusual for funds (especially in the amounts detailed here) that appear to be for the benefit of Mr Hammam personally, to be deposited to an organization's bank account. In view of the recent allegations that have surrounded Mr Hammam, it is our view that there is significant risk that…the AFC may have been used as a vehicle to launder funds and that the funds have been credited to the former President for an improper purpose (Money Laundering risk)" or that "the AFC may have been used as a vehicle to launder the receipt and payment of bribes."
Malaysian police earlier this month arrested the husband of an associate of Mr. Bin Hammam on suspicion of helping steal documents related to one of the payments to Mr. Bin Hammam from AFC's head office in Kuala Lumpur.
WSG has refused to comment on the PwC report and has threatened reporters, including the author of this
report, with defamation proceedings. However in an August 28, 2012 letter to this reporter WSG Group Legal Advisor Stephanie McManus asserted that "PWC are incorrect and misconceived in suggesting that the MRA was undervalued. They have neither considered the terms of the contract correctly, the market, nor the circumstances in which it was negotiated," Ms. McManus wrote.
The master rights agreement is controversial both because of the unexplained payments as well as assertions by sources close to the AFC that the soccer group, in line with common practice among international sport associations, should have concluded a service provider rather than a master rights agreement with WSG. The sources said such an agreement would have given the AFC greater control of its rights and how they are exploited and enabled it to better supervise the quality of services provided by WSG.
In a July 13 letter to lawyers Shearn Delamore & Co, PWC explicitly leaves open the possibility that the AFC might share the report with third parties. For that reason, the terms of the report contain a clause that shields PwC from any liability should the AFC choose to share the report with non-AFC institutions or persons.
The letter stipulates that the report is intended "solely for the internal use and benefit of Shearn Delamore & Co. and the Asian Football Confederation," and that third parties are not authorised to have access to the report. The letter however goes on to say that should third parties gain access they agree that the report was compiled in accordance with instructions by the law firm and the AFC and that PwC is not liable for any consequences stemming from the fact that third parties had been granted access.
Lawyers for FIFA earlier this year sought unsuccessfully to introduce the report in Mr. Bin Hammam's appeal proceedings in the Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration of Sport against the world soccer body's banning for life of the Qatari national from involvement on soccer on charges of bribery.
Both FIFA and the AFC have suspended M. Bin Hammam on the basis of the report pending further investigation of the allegations in the PwC report and separate charges that he last year sought to bribe Caribbean soccer officials. Mr. Bin Hammam has denied all allegations and charges.
James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and the author of the blog, The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer.


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If it is delays you are concerned of, you should in fact welcome Wayland, since it takes as many of those away as possible. My limited testing shows that Wayland with compositing is actually faster(not talking about frames per second) and more responsive than a wm without compositing under Xorg.
Also Vsync and tearing seem to be much better in Wayland. Practically no tearing with much less overhead.
Because Xorg is not good at all at compositing, doesn't mean that compositing is bad in any way. And Wayland can still run fine with software rendering. Besides, if we were to not add any "layers" that we don't need, every program would be an OS too. In the case of Wayland you practically have less layers. Now, if what concerns you is not that, but something like the name of Wayland or whatever, that another issue. Wayland is Xorg developers correcting their mistakes basically.

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When I came into hospital I thought I had already made that big decision. Do I want to do whatever it takes to save my life? My answer was yes. Of course. What I didn't realise was that I would have to make that choice again.
On the day of my operation, I wasn't supposed to be first on the list for surgery but someone else was late. With a pink dressing gown over my NHS hospital gown I rushed to the end of the ward to join some of my medical team.We walked briskly to the operating theatre along a confusing set of corridors. Early morning light streamed through square 1950's style windows across sage green floor tiles.
As we chatted, I glanced out at the hospital grounds. It didn't occur to me that this would be the last time I would be able to walk for a more than a week.
The adrenalin rush reminded me of work, when as a reporter you're sent to a breaking story. There's a buzz of not quite knowing what's next. Plus I was feeling excited to be finally, hopefully, getting rid of the cancer.
The op, I was told, would be several hours long. Maybe five hours at the most. So I was prepared for it to be awful. My team were looking for the pea while this princess was well asleep. Sadly they found a whole lot more than just a tiny tumour. They discovered some of his bigger and nastier friends plus plenty of his little mates too. So much for the pea theory. As it was such a big op I was in theatre for pretty much the whole day.
But (and how I like these buts), they got it all out. The surgery was a success thanks to my brilliant team (and I'm not just saying that because I know some of them are reading my blog!). All the cancer has now been removed.
Amazing news. But physically I felt awful. That night was bad and the next day not much better. The pain was harsh but all that mattered was that they'd got the cancer and mum was at my bedside. Now surely the worst was over.
That morning I was given a load of painkillers and easily dozed off. This was a dangerous sleep that I was drifting into.
At some point I started to dream about a group of people. I could hear their voices in the distance. It was like they were in another room. Slowly I began to work out what they were saying. It took a while to realise that this group of people were actually talking to me.
"Can you hear us Helen?" They seemed to ask.
Yes of course I can hear you all, I thought to myself and ignored them.
"Helen, open your eyes."
I was totally unaware that anything was wrong. I just felt relaxed and happy in a bubble of unconsciousness.
There was also a male automated voice. It was saying something like, if the patient doesn't respond, start CPR. The computerised voice sounded angry. I couldn't understand why I was hearing this. Or what the fuss was about. On and on all the voices kept talking to me.
So I opened my eyes.
And in doing so, I chose to live.
It turned out that I had stopped breathing because of a bad reaction to the painkillers. Apparently my body started convulsing and the emergency crash team was called.
That's how I ended up in intensive care.
I was hooked up to a bank of machines. These computers didn't talk. Instead they bleeped. Now I was petrified of both sleeping and the monitors.
Almost delirious from exhaustion, that night I was haunted by hallucination-like dreams during the scraps of sleep I managed to get. Every five minutes that passed felt like two hours.
My bed faced away from the windows. It was hard to tell what time of day it was. Intensive care was a bright white environment with large fluorescent lights in the ceiling. I knew it was eventually morning when there was a shift change.
It was the worst night of the my life. But it was over.
Despite feeling incredibly ill, I was determined that now my recovery would start.
It was tough. I could hardly move, small things like a nurse washing my face would leave me shattered and I found it difficult to focus my eyes on anything for long.
Ever so slowly and painfully I improved until that amazing moment when I was considered well enough for the toast.
Finally, a week after the op I was allowed to leave intensive care.
As my bed was pushed towards a normal ward it felt like we we were doing a victory lap of the hospital. When we came to the corridor with the square 1950s windows full of light, I was so happy that I cried.
Everyday since then I've been gradually getting better. It's taken a long time but finally I feel like me again.
I'm an optimistic person anyway, but after the past couple of weeks I appreciate even more than ever just how precious life is.


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Record snowfall giving ski resorts a holiday weekend boost in Northeast
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) � Last weekend's record snowfall in parts of southern New England is giving a big boost to the ski industry in northern New England and upstate New York heading into the important President's Day holiday week.
Ski resorts received lots of snow during the storm, but ski industry experts say one of the biggest drivers of skiers to the mountains is snow in population centers in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York City.
The snow helped erase any lingering doubts about ski conditions following two thaws that hit the region last month.
In Vermont, President's Week is the most important holiday period for the ski industry.
Sarah Neith of the Vermont Ski Areas Association says this season is on track to match or exceed the record season of two years ago.


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The Connecticut Whale should be happy they came away with the two points they got for the 5-3 win Sunday afternoon in Manchester when they faced the Monarchs at the Verizon Wireless Arena, because they certainly weren't going to be getting any style points – if there was such a thing.
"It's going to be a grind, with a short night and travel last night," Whale head coach Ken Gernander told Brian Ring afterwards. "But the guys stuck with it, got a big goal by Casey [Wellman], and we were able to get our two points."


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A beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning play is headed to Penobscot Theatre Company's stage: Tickets are now on sale for Margaret Edson's WIT, starring New York actress, Sarah Dacey-Charles. Penobscot Theatre's production of this unforgettable drama will take place in the historic Bangor Opera House from March 13 – March 31st.
WIT centers on a brilliant and exacting poetry professor named Vivian Bearing, who is undergoing experimental treatment for cancer. A scholar who devoted her life to academia, she must now face the irony and injustice of becoming the subject of research, herself.
WIT was the first play written by Margaret Edson, inspired by her experience working in a hospital oncology unit. Artistic Director, Bari Newport says of her decision to produce this play in her opening season, "The Bangor community's unique confluence of science and academia led me to wonder what the theatre could do to facilitate a conversation between the two. WIT does so naturally and in the most beautiful and elegant manner. It is a tale filled with generous profundity and humor, with an ending that will stay in your mind, forever."
WIT won the 1999 Pulitzer for Drama and was nominated for a Tony for "Best Revival" when Sex in the City's Cynthia Nixon starred in it on Broadway last season. In the PTC production, the lead role of Vivian will be portrayed by Sarah Dacey Charles. Sarah, who has been described as both "thrilling" and "radiant", makes her Penobscot Theatre debut. Coming up, Sarah will be appearing on the new TV series: The Following: episode 9, where she plays an FBI agent in a scene with Kevin Bacon! Sarah won the 2011 LIFF Best Actor Award for her portrayal of Barbara Stanwyck in the Indy film, Agnes Moorehead is God! Sarah's theatre credits include covering Madam Thenardier in the Broadway company of Les Miserables and performing in the National Tours of 9 to 5, and Sunset Boulevard. Sarah's regional theatre highlights include playing Fosca in Passion (TheatreWorks), Yvonne in Sunday In the Park With George (Arden Theatre Co.), Rona in Spelling Bee (Mason Street Warehouse), Eunice in A Street Car Named Desire (New Harmony Theatre), and Sister Walburga in The Divine Sister (Stageworks Hudson).
We asked Sarah to answer a few questions for us and she graciously accepted. Here's the transcript of our interview with her!


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CHICAGO (AP) – Illinois lawmakers have postponed questioning players in Gov. Pat Quinn's now-defunct anti-violence program.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported Thursday that the Legislative Audit Commission voted 11-0 to comply with U.S. Attorney James Lewis's request not to take testimony that might impede a criminal investigation of the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative.
Lewis assured the commission that he would not extend the 90-day respite he requested.
But that means the audit commission could begin questioning the seven witnesses it subpoenaed just weeks before Democrat Quinn faces voters in the November election.
Republicans contend Quinn used the $55 million program in 2010 to win votes from key Chicago-area districts. Quinn has repeatedly denied that.
The commission got involved after a state audit found poor program management and misused money.


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Jenson Button: "Wow, I can't believe it's come around already! It seems like only last week that I was standing on top of the podium in Sao Paulo; I really can't believe that we're all getting ready to board flights to Australia. It feels incredible - the time has gone by so quickly.
"But they say time flies when you're having fun, and I've had a fantastic winter: I've never stopped training and working, and I feel incredibly fit and focused ahead of this new season.
"One of the most fascinating things about Formula 1 is the way it resets itself each and every winter. I've seen every side of that: you can have a terrible winter of testing, then turn up at the first race and be competitive; equally, you can look impressive in winter testing and be nowhere in Melbourne. If you're lucky, it all comes together in the tests and you hit the ground running at the first race. That's always the goal.
"This year, I don't think any team really knows or understands the competitive order. It's been an extremely hard-to-read winter: varying fuel-loads and levels of tyre degradation mean that it's hard to accurately predict who'll arrive in Australia with the best-sorted car. But that's part of the game.
"The start of a new season is always exciting as it's the culmination of months of hard work and planning. I've had some great experiences in Melbourne, having won the race three times, and I love the place. There isn't a better location in the world to be kicking off what will no doubt be a fiercely competitive world championship."
Sergio Perez: "It's been an incredibly busy winter. Joining Vodafone McLaren Mercedes was always going to be a massively significant step in my career, but I immediately started to appreciate what makes this team such a consistent winning force: the dedication, motivation and attention to detail is like nothing I've ever experienced before.
"Of course, for me, there has been the additional challenge of getting to know a new car and new engineering systems, and learning the names and roles of the many people I work closely with in the organisation. But it's never stopped being fun and I can already appreciate how useful that learning will be when I arrive in the pit garage in Melbourne to drive the car in a grand prix weekend for the first time.
"On top of all my acclimatisation, our winter has been extremely busy: there's always a lot of work to do when you make significant changes to the car, and having only 12 days to iron out every single issue is never easy. However, we've had a productive three weeks of testing and we're using every available opportunity to further refine the car before Melbourne.
"For me, arriving in Melbourne as a Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver will be an incredible honour. I've never worked harder over a winter to be ready for the new season, and I'm confident I've done everything within my reach to be ready. Now all I'm waiting for is for the red lights to go out next Sunday afternoon!"
Martin Whitmarsh - Team principal, Vodafone McLaren Mercedes: "In the days leading up to the Australian Grand Prix, it's fair to say that every team member of every Formula 1 team is looking over the precipice, balancing their hopes and fears, their nerves tensed in anticipation for the long slog ahead. It's a tantalising prospect - and it's one that keeps everyone who loves our sport coming back for more.
"At Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, we've faced a challenging few weeks prepping our new MP4-28 for the 2013 season. The often cold and sometimes wet conditions we experienced during pre-season testing in Barcelona and Jerez made it difficult to operate the tyres consistently within their optimal performance window. That issue, combined with a handful of typical testing setbacks, gave us a few headaches, but as ever our engineers and mechanics did extremely well to complete as much useful running as they did. Well done, boys.
"But it was much the same for all the teams. As a result, anyone who says they already know in what order the cars will line up on the Albert Park starting grid on Sunday March 17th is a soothsayer of rare ability. Indeed, in truth, even after qualifying on Saturday March 16th, no Team Principal will be genuinely confident of his car's race-spec performance relative to that of his principal opposition until the flag drops and the proverbial stops.
"In addition to that motor racing truism, it's important to remember that our MP4-28 is a new and uncompromising design that we intend to develop aggressively throughout the year. Undoubtedly, it has great potential - and we fly to Melbourne determined to show well and to score points that should establish us in good stead for both the drivers' and the constructors' world championships.
"We're still working tirelessly to bring more pace to the MP4-28's performance envelope, and I believe we'll arrive in Australia in decent shape. Having said that, we at Vodafone McLaren Mercedes never under-estimate our competitors, and we're certainly not under-estimating them now.
"As I say, the MP4-28 is a new and uncompromising design, and I have great confidence that our design, development and engineering teams will work tirelessly to shave tenths off its lap-times for Melbourne, and for Sao Paulo, and for everywhere in between."


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If you're in the market for a vintage vehicle to add to your collection, you could get lucky at the upcoming Keels & Wheels event in Seabrook.
It's unusual for auctions to offer items without a reserve price, but the 10-car 'Jon Osha Collection' was donated by a Houston car collector and will be auctioned without reserve. In theory, you could score a classic car for $1.
It's doubtful these vehicles will sell for anything less than tens of thousands, however, since the lot includes rarities like a 1928 Rolls Royce Boattail, 1968 Mustang GT 428 Cobra, and a 1954 Jaguar xk120.
Take a look at the slideshow above to see the cars that will appear on Motostalgia's auction block at the Keels & Wheels Concours d' Elegance, taking place on May 2nd at the Lakewood Yacht Club in Seabrook, Texas.


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AAC M5: 12.13.13 EditionPosted by Will Tucker on December 13th, 2013
- TGIF: check out the "dentist selfie" (read: "DENTIST SELFIE.") that landed former UConn center Hasheem Thabeet on Deadspin last night. All I really want to know is how the tallest man to ever don a Huskies jersey fits in a dental chair. Are there a handful of niche specialists with offices equipped to accommodate 7'3" men? Boutique medical equipment manufacturers? Is the Big & Tall model really necessary, or will any old chair do the trick if you attach an ottoman? We'll probably never know. All we can say for sure is that Hasheem is much more comfortable with his hygienist than I will ever be with mine.
- College Basketball Talk's Rob Dauster ranks Louisville co-captain Luke Hancock as one of the 10 most disappointing players in the country through the first month of the season. Many expected the Final Four MVP to pick up where he left off in April, but he's had a slow start to his senior season. Hancock is averaging 9.0 points and 2.2 rebounds per game while shooting career lows of 31.4 percent from the field and 22.9 percent from outside the arc. "Maybe our expectations for Hancock were too high heading into the season given that he was basically a role player prior to the Final Four," says Dauster. "But even as a role player, Hancock isn't doing his job." Bear in mind that folks in Louisville were saying the same thing a year ago, when the Yum! Center collectively groaned each time Hancock bricked a three. Last season he hit 9 of 41 threes in his first eight games (21.9%) and still managed to become a 40 percent three-point shooter in 2012-13, so don't count him out yet.
- Two AAC teams appear in the top 10 of Luke Winn's power rankings this week, with UConn and Louisville holding steady at #8 and #9, respectively. Winn does, however, question whether the Huskies can sustain an offense that's "based on uncharacteristically accurate three-point shooting." He highlights dramatic increases in three-point field goal percentage between last season and this one for Niels Giffey (+33%), Lasan Kromah (+27%), Shabazz Napier (+21%), DeAndre Daniels (+13%), and Ryan Boatright (+11%). All five are shooting above 41 percent from beyond the arc this year, and UConn leads the nation at an insane 46.5 percent – more than 10 percentage points higher than last season. To put that in perspective, only two teams since 2003 have shot 44 percent or better over the course of a season.
- Memphis officials announced yesterday that coach Josh Pastner has donated $250,000 to help upgrade the university's athletic facilities. The gift, which athletic director Tom Bowen said was the largest the school had ever received from one of its coaches, will help fund projects including an indoor practice facility for football, a softball complex, and a practice facility for men's basketball. Pastner received a pay increase when he signed his contract extension in March, placing his salary at $2.65 million per year.
- UCF won its second straight game against a dismal Howard team on Wednesday to advance to 5-3. Coach Donnie Jones actually sat star guard Isaiah Sykes for the duration of the second half, in hopes of finding some energy off the Knights' bench. It worked, as freshman Brandon Goodwin posted seven assists to only two turnovers and helped UCF overcome a two-point halftime deficit. Nonetheless, it's hard to feel optimistic about this team given how poorly they've performed against a very manageable schedule. Of their five wins, one was over a Division II school and three were against teams ranked in the bottom 30 nationally by Ken Pomeroy. Throw in bad losses to Florida Atlantic team and Valparaiso, and you're left with an ugly resume.


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Team 4: Grand Jury Questions Company's Contract With City
Team 4 Investigates Alpha Outfitters' Install Of Radios, Laptops
Team 4 has learned that a grand jury is questioning witnesses about a local company that secured a contract with the city of Pittsburgh.
The $330,000 contract included installing laptops and radios in Pittsburgh police cars, fire trucks and ambulances.
The contract, which was awarded in 2007, recently expired but is still drawing the interest of the district attorney.
What follows is a transcript of Jim Parsons' report that originally aired on Sept. 15 during Channel 4 Action News at 5 p.m.
In every Pittsburgh police car, there are lights, sirens, radios and a laptop computer. And, until just a few months ago, it was Alpha Outfitters' job to install and maintain that equipment on police, fire and ambulance vehicles.
Team 4 has learned that an Allegheny County grand jury is investigating how Alpha Outfitters obtained that contract in the first place.
Alpha Outfitters' 2007 bid to the city said it is a 100 percent woman-owned company. The owner is listed as Lois Kolarik, who is also a secretary at Victory Security in Carnegie.
A couple of years earlier, her salary was less than $25,000, according to a personal bankruptcy petitioned she filed.
Because grand juries are, by law, cloaked in secrecy, Team 4 doesn't know for sure where the investigation is going. But Team 4 does know questions are being asked about -- among other things -- how Alpha Outfitters came to be in the first place.
Is this a case of a woman of modest means living the American dream by owning a company and hiring her boss to run it? Or is it something else?
"At no time did Lois ever come to me and ask me to do anything for Alpha Outfitters. It was coming from Art," former Alpha Outfitters employee Lee Lyons told Channel 4 Action news in Jan. 2008.
Lyons was talking about Art Bedway, founder and chairman of Victory Security, who was Kolarik's boss there.
Lyons worked at both Victory Security and Alpha Outfitters. He spoke with Channel 4 Action News on camera in 2008, and said then and again recently that police detectives have interviewed him.
Lyons said he remembers the day Alpha was born.
"Mr. Bedway came into the office one day and said we're going to be doing these radios. We're going to be doing radios for the city," Bedway said in January 2008.
"He said we're going to be doing two-way radios and computers in police cars? And that's where Alpha Outfitters came from?" Parsons asked.
"Right, that's where Alpha Outfitters came from," said Bedway.
Lyons told Team 4 that an employee of the city of Pittsburgh's information systems department helped Bedway put together Alpha Outfitters' winning bid for outfitting the police cars.
"An employee of the city of Pittsburgh was at Victory Security at a table with Art Bedway talking about giving advice to Art Bedway about how to put the bid together?" Parsons asked Lyons.
"Right -- equipment mounts, price structure, that kind of thing. And that was a meeting I was at," said Lyons.
"Was Lois Kolarik at this meeting?" Parsons asked.
"No," Lyons said.
Alpha beat out one other company for the contract, and city documents said Alpha had the lower bid.
Pittsburgh Police Chief Nate Harper told Team 4 he had questions about the Alpha contract.
Harper has known Bedway for years. In fact, Bedway was at Harper's side when he was sworn in as chief.
Parsons recently spoke with Harper about the city's contract with Alpha Outfitters.
Harper said, "I don't know how Art and Lois pulled off this contract."
Harper said he asked Bedway, "How does it work that you get contracts as a minority, but you're the boss? To me, if it's a woman-owned company, the woman should be calling the shots."
But Harper said he kept his questions about Bedway and Alpha Outfitters to himself in an effort to stay removed from the contract-awarding process.
When everything else is equal, the city of Pittsburgh gives preferential treatment to bids submitted by companies owned by women and minorities. Again, the city said alpha outfitters submitted the lowest bid.
Alpha went out of business a few months ago. Kolarik declined to comment on this story, referring Parsons to her attorney, Stephen Stallings. Stallings also declined to comment.
Bedway did not return calls from Team 4.
A spokesman for District Attorney Stephen Zappala said that office does not confirm or deny grand jury investigations.


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Weingarten Outlines Vision To Save Public Education
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AFT president Randi Weingarten outlined a vision to "save public education … not as it is today, or as we knew it in the past … but as we know it ought to be." Speaking July 8 at the AFT's biennial convention in Seattle, Weingarten pledged that the union would fight hard against threats to public institutions, while fighting smart by "constantly searching for solutions we believe will work, even if those solutions force us to think outside the box or make us feel uncomfortable."
Weingarten, who offered a host of flexible and proactive approaches to improve teaching and learning since her election as AFT president two years ago, said the AFT would "lead and propose, not wait and oppose."
Speaking before more than 3,000 delegates to the AFT convention, many of whom are involved in union-led reform efforts to identify and put in place promising and proven strategies, Weingarten laid out a new vision for public schools that "builds on what works, and replicates it for all kids, in all schools, in all communities."
She outlined three foundations "upon which we can build a system of public education as it ought to be." The foundations include:
A systemic focus on good teaching, including better induction and evaluation procedures.
- Teacher evaluations should include measures of student learning, but "there's a huge difference between using multiple indicators of student learning as part of a teacher's evaluation, and requiring that students' standardized test scores essentially dictate a teacher's hiring, firing and promotion," Weingarten said. "We should be assessing whether or not students are learning, but we're going to assess it the right way."
Great curriculum and conditions that promote learning and provide kids the opportunity to learn.
- "All students need curricula that ground them in areas ranging from foreign languages to phys ed, civics to the sciences, history to health, as well as literature, mathematics and the arts," Weingarten said. "Right now, those curricula aren't routinely in place—a lot of teachers are forced to make it up every single day."
- Weingarten reaffirmed the union's support for conditions that eliminate barriers to student success and called for wraparound services—such as after-school, nutrition, health and early childhood programs—to be available not only in some celebrated charter schools, but in traditional public schools, as well.
Shared responsibility and mutual accountability.
- Weingarten described a vision of accountability "that is meant to fix schools … and holds everyone responsible for doing their share." She said that "shared responsibility should extend to the bargaining table," and described the growing number of AFT affiliates that have used "collective bargaining as a creative tool to codify collaborative approaches that improve teaching and learning."
Fixing Schools, Not Simply Affixing Blame
"We have looked at our practices and made changes when we needed to change," Weingarten said. "We have lived up to our responsibility and asked others to do the same. When there have been problems, we have sought common ground to solve them."
Yet, referring to what she called the "Blame the Teacher Crowd," Weingarten observed, "Never before have I seen so few attack so many, so harshly, for doing so much, often with so little."
She said the Blame the Teacher Crowd would rather "affix blame than fix schools." These critics, she continued, "would have Americans believe that there is only one choice when it comes to public education: either you're for students, or you're for teachers," which Weingarten called a "bogus choice."
"When a school is good for the kids, it's also good for the teachers," she said.
A Vortex of Challenges
Public education faces some of the most severe threats and challenges in generations, Weingarten said, and complete responsibility for dealing with these crises is falling to "the individual teacher." Weingarten identified three forces with significant consequences for public schools today:
The economic recession.
- School systems are " 'solving' budget crises by cutting art, music and physical education, slashing prekindergarten programs and help for students who fall behind." Weingarten cited a recent study that found that the current recession will effectively wipe out 30 years of social progress in combating poverty. "That's more kids showing up to school cold or sick or homeless or hungry," Weingarten said, with fewer resources to help them.
Out-of-school factors.
- "As much as we wish it weren't true, these factors matter—whether it's poverty, or stressful experiences like a death in the family, or losing one's home, or a parent losing a job," Weingarten said. Yet, when we point them out, she continued, "It's more likely that people confront us rather than join us in confronting the problem."
Our changing world, which requires education beyond a foundation in the basics.
- "Today's students need a strong foundation in the basics, but they need much more," Weingarten said. "Students need to be able to engage in the creative problem solving and innovative thinking that are essential to success in today's knowledge economy."
"We are caught in the vortex—with recessionary forces, socioeconomic forces and global economic forces swirling around," Weingarten continued. "Yet the Blame the Teacher Crowd says: 'If only there were fewer bad teachers, all would be right in the world.' "
Weingarten challenged that claim. "It's simply wrong to suggest that there is an epidemic of bad teachers and at the same time to ignore poverty, budget cuts, the absence of curriculum, the huge attrition of good teachers—all things we know truly hamper student success."
"No teacher—myself included—wants a bad teacher in any classroom," Weingarten said. "The AFT and our locals are taking real steps to solve the problem and to strengthen teaching."
"Blaming individual teachers may make the deficit hawks feel better because it is 'cheap,' " she continued. "In reality, though, it's a cheap shot masquerading as a strategy."
Common Cause with Community To Strengthen Public Institutions
Weingarten pledged to "hold up what works and call out what doesn't," and announced that the AFT will work with its local unions to fight for public services through a series of actions in support of public education.
Central to these actions, Weingarten said, is renewing connections with the communities in which AFT members live and work, which have been frayed by the economic upheaval.
"The irony is that the movement—organized labor—that is largely responsible for elevating millions of workers and their families into the middle class, that has won economic benefits for all workers and not just our members, is under assault for doing the very job it was conceived to do," Weingarten said. "These hard-won, noble achievements now are seen as things that separate us from our communities rather than connect us to them."
Weingarten called on AFT members and unions to be "fully embedded parts of our communities" and to remember that, "especially in tough economic times, we have a responsibility to work with communities to strengthen the institutions in which we work, and upon which they depend."
She laid out the immediate steps AFT affiliates can take: participating in the AFT's day of action called "Raise Your Hand for Our Public Schools," marching in the One Nation March on Washington in October being organized by the NAACP, and building their community outreach programs—a step affiliates in nine states already have pledged to take.
Weingarten was elected president of the American Federation of Teachers in 2008, after serving for a decade as president of the United Federation of Teachers in New York City and as the head of the New York City Municipal Labor Committee.
Weingarten's speech is the latest of several major policy speeches since becoming AFT president in which she has advocated a number of serious and comprehensive approaches to improve teaching and learning, including: a new template for teacher development and evaluation; a fresh approach to due process for misconduct cases; ensuring teachers have the tools, time and trust to succeed; and forging collaborative labor-management relationships. More than 50 AFT local unions and their district partners have begun work on new systems to develop and evaluate teachers based on the AFT model.
"Taking responsibility does not excuse others' irresponsibility," Weingarten said in her remarks. "But take responsibility we must."
The complete text of Weingarten's speech is available online. For more on the AFT convention, visit www.aft.org/convention. [AFT press release]
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HONOLULU — Nearly a year after receiving its first $1 million endowment from The Bernard Osher Foundation of San Francisco, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has received a second $1 million endowment from the Foundation. The UH Mānoa program is one of only five university-based lifelong learning programs in the U.S. to receive unsolicited second endowments from the Osher Foundation.
The endowments were awarded based on demonstrated program success, strong evidence of sustainability, and increasing local demand for services. Other second endowment recipients include the Osher Institutes at California State University at Sonoma; Duke University; Kennesaw State University; and University of Dayton.
"We are overjoyed to receive this generous second endowment from The Bernard Osher Foundation," said Rebecca Goodman, Director of the UH Mānoa OLLI program. "The additional support will allow us to continue expanding our course and workshop offerings to provide a richer learning experience for older persons in Honolulu."
Now in its 10th year of operation, the OLLI program at UH Mānoa has more than 1,000 members and is under the sponsorship of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences. It is an educational membership program for people 50+ who want to learn for the joy of it, connect with peers, enhance health and well-being, and give back to the community. The program provides an array of courses, life review workshops, creative writing and poetry workshops, film series, performing arts events, museum tours, service projects and more. It received the national MindAlert Award from the MetLife Foundation and the American Society on Aging in 2004 in the category of Innovative Older Adult Learning Program.
The Bernard Osher Foundation is a charitable foundation established in 1977 by Bernard Osher, a businessman and community leader in San Francisco. His philanthropy has benefited a wide range of educational, cultural and other nonprofit organizations. Since 2002, the Foundation has been offering grants and endowment funding to university-based lifelong learning programs and scholarship programs for non-traditional students returning to university. At present, the Foundation is supporting 93 university-based lifelong learning programs in 39 states and the District of Columbia.
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Time-Lapse Photography Documents WTC Rebirth
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Dr. Phil Interrogates: Did He Lie to the Nation?
Victim of a Lost Memory or Victimizing Others?For the first time on national television, Tim tells his side of the story. "When I went on America's Got Talent, I had all my military paperwork, and it says that I was hit by a grenade, and I received a traumatic brain injury, but none of the people who criticized me saw my paperwork," he explains, but adds that the people in his military unit were told that that he left for an ear infection. "I don't have any medical paperwork that says ear infection," Tim says. "Before Afghanistan in 2009, I never had any problems of knowing what was real and what wasn't. I truly believed that I went to Iraq. Apparently, I got injured and broke my back in training before we even got sent."
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ConfrontedAlteen says she dated Tim for about five months, and she says she is convinced that Tim is lying. "Tim has been lying since day one. He just lies. I don't think it has anything to do with the brain injury, because I knew him in 2005," she claims. "While Tim and I were dating, we'd all go out to karaoke bars, and Tim would act like he was mentally disabled. He had the limp already; he would just intensify it. If he took a drink of beer, he would let it come out of his mouth a little bit. He'd stutter."
Alteen explains why she believes Tim's military records say he has a traumatic brain injury. "The doctor writes down exactly what you say. If you say, 'I jumped on one of my guys saving him when the grenade went off,' that's what they have to write. They want to know exactly what you're saying so that they can verify the story, because you get paid for that," she says. "We had friends that got blown up, friends that have PTSD so bad they can't even handle it, and it's a direct slap in the face ... Tim has been lying for so long now that he probably doesn't know right from wrong or what's true, what's not."
"I know of no known neuroanatomical structure that would explain the pattern of memory deficit that you're experiencing."
Wounded Warrior or Liar?Before Tim went on America's Got Talent, he spoke with Donna Cranston, founder and CEO of Defenders of Freedom, a nonprofit organization which helps wounded soldiers with financial assistance. Hear what Donna has to say about her conversation with Tim. And, a member of Tim's National Guard Unit, Specialist Justin Doerfler, recalls the events that occurred when he and Tim were stationed in Afghanistan.
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Undeleting an open file by inode
At a customer today I was confronted with a situation where VMware ESX processes had log-files open that were already deleted. This can happen when logrotate was incorrectly configured, or when operational staff removed big files to clean up diskspace quickly.
However when the file is still open, you can remove the file-entry (link) to the inode, but the diskspace will not become available until all kernel references to the inode are gone (and a process having the file open counts as a reference too).
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After working for over 20 years as a social worker, Wyndmoor resident Wendy Liebling saw a need to help families find resources for their aging parents and disabled relatives, so two years ago she founded Liebling Elder Care.
Liebling, whose last position was as an ombudsman for the Montgomery County Office of Aging, finds her new role "very rewarding when it works.
"People often need guidance to various resources, and I have seen the quality of lives improve significantly with the introduction of psychiatric support or a community day program. Sometimes it just requires an objective eye to assess an individual's needs and match the right resources," said the 53-year-old, who started Liebling Elder Care by helping the families of friends.
"The boomer generation is really being hit now, and I'm in the age group where a lot of my friends and colleagues have aging parents. I also get referrals from home health agencies when they feel the client's needs are beyond what they can offer," said Liebling, who has a Masters in Social Work and is a licensed social worker in Pennsylvania.
The C-ASWCM behind her name stands for Certified Advanced Social Work Case Manager, a designation given by the National Association of Social Workers. Liebling is also affiliated with The National Association of Geriatric Care Managers (NAPGCM) and is required to take continuing education classes throughout the year.
Sometimes a senior citizen hires her directly, but more often than not it is the children of aging parents who are hiring her.
"I don't think people are inclined to be proactive with a lot of the issues. Human nature is to wait on things that we are uncomfortable with. When a care manager can work with someone proactively, that is great. But when they are working in a crisis mode, their optimal choices are limited," she said.
Liebling believes that one of the larger issues society is facing is that of helping individuals who don't have children or whose adult children live in another part of the country or another nation.
"Adult children are often busy with their own lives, and often I get involved when there is sibling conflict. I can be objective and serve as the voice of reason when emotions might otherwise come into play in the decision-making process," she noted.
According to the National Association of Geriatric Care Managers, case management rates range from $80 to $175 per hour. Liebling says typically an assessment of someone's psychosocial, medical, financial and social needs takes six to eight hours.
"Sometimes elders tend to be more accommodating to change when the options come from someone in a position of authority and not their children."
Liebling knows her way around the system, rattling off resources and vowing to research others for families in need.
"No client situation is really the same," she said. "Needs differ according to an individual's situation, and I approach each client and their needs differently. I give them a roadmap and they choose what direction to take. Some choose to work in tandem with the care manager, and others choose to work more independently."
In terms of giving back to the community, Liebling volunteers her time as an ombudsman with the Neighborhood Interfaith Movement. She also facilitates an Alzheimer's Association support group on the third Tuesday of each month from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Center on the Hill at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill.
"There is a whole wave of people with cognitive impairment and dementia that we are seeing, and I try to help family members deal with the issues one step at a time," she said.
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March 30th, 2007, marked the beginning of something truly special. It's a little something that Bishop David said "Some people read history in history books, but what you are doing today is that you are makinng history."Sometimes we don't like to reflect on things in fear that we will be dramatic or fall into pride...but God really does deserve to be praised for the work that He has done through this little idea called FTFT! He's done some things that we can taste, see and measure- such as numerous of prisoners and sick children and elderly that were visited, countless hours spent feeding the poor and thousands of slices of pizza being served to those in need. But He's done some things that are way more subtle but are equally important. He's transformed a culture of apathy to a culture of service.
Take a look around you now and think of a church that is resistant to the idea of service or mission in some form or another. That number is few or close to none. That wasn't the case 5 years ago. When a high school kid now is used to going to a dangerous part of NY or NJ to spend time with men and women who are poor, hungry, struggling and in need of a warm heart, a genuine smile, a listening ear, and a spiritual word- that's cool! When middle school children are accustomed to thinking and praying for the poor, that's not to be taken lightly.
It's easy for us to think that things have always been this way. But they really haven't. There was a time when going regularly to visit the sick, the poor and the imprisoned was foreign (unless they were Egyptian.) That time has come and gone! Now, churches all over the country are discovering the joy of finding Christ in the hospital, the soup kitchen and the prison! This, of course, can't all be traced back to the work of FTFT! But, it'd be silly to bypass the work He's done through this idea.
From countless presentations in churches, to numerous emails and phone calls of guidance...these servants helped lead the church back to who she always was- the place where the sick, the broken and afraid find healing and comfort in the person of Christ and in His body.
May God give us the zeal and courage to continue to be faithful to His lovingkindness.
We're excited to invite you to join us at the first annual Orthodox Missions Conference. There will be speakers from the Ethiopian, Coptic, and Indian Orthodox churches! We will spend the day exploring what God is doing on the local mission field in North America and how we can join Him! The lectures and workshops will focus on "Doin' Work: Liturgical Evangelism". You will have an opportunity to get involved in a number of Orthodox Mission and Evangelism opportunities right where you are!
At the end of the conference lectures and workshop, we will actually be heading out for mission together!
Cost: $20 in advance $25 on site
Registration: http://nihov.org/event/82
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We hope you had a blessed feast of Nayrouz! Good luck with those Coptic New Year's resolutions :)
One beautiful church started the year off in a pretty amazing way, if we do say so ourselves :) St. Mary's Church of Raleigh, North Carolina hosted the servants on FTFT! this past weekend. They allowed us to spend Friday evening sharing with them from the experiences and some of the biblical passages that just rock our world. The church youth group didn't stop there though. They wanted to spend the weekend out on the field serving the poor and the broken hearted. They seemed to have a sneak preview of the Gospel of the Nayrouz feast (Luke 4).
So we spent the day on Saturday in prayer and fellowship in the church to prepare our hearts for the weekend of missionary service. After that, we hit the streets of downtown Raleigh with some pizza and with the love of God. Though there were some initial reservations, you wouldn't know it when you observed the scene in the park that day. It was like an army of 20 expert missionaries were in town to hand-deliver the love of Christ Jesus our Lord, with some extra cheese pizza on the side :) Everywhere you looked there were young Coptic people sitting at the feet of the poor of the community. Some were being prayed for or ministered to and others just had the rare opportunity of an open ear to hear their daily struggles. It was just a heavenly sight. An added contrast was made when a catholic group (God bless them) were also present handing out food. But they left right after giving the food. They missed out on the best part of being able to spend personal time with Jesus in His clever disguise (Matt 25).
The group was probably done by then right? NOPE! After loading up on the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, they decided to hit the nearest campus to share the blessing they received. They interacted with young seekers in NC State and shared with them the "Hope that lies within them" (1 peter 3:15). From Hindus and Agnostics to "former Christians," people were personally touched by the truth of Christ because these dedicated and loving ladies and gentlemen of the Coptic Church, loved the Lord way too much to stay on their couch. May God bless this amazing youth group as they shine like stars and serve as examples to us in "word, conduct, love, faith and purity" (you know this reference :)
As always, we encourage you to..."Go and do likewise" (Luke 10:37)
Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!
It's an amazing feeling to explore a city for the first time, isn't it? Experiencing a culture and taste it's history through it's architecture and dinning is just great. There's a similar feeling though, of experiencing the work of God in a new city; to taste and see His goodness in the eyes of it's natives. It's one of the key sites that you don't want to miss. It's like seeing New York City, without seeing Time Square, it's hard to believe that you really saw New York City. Your trip just just wouldn't be complete, would it?
Maybe that's what drove the group of visitors from the UK to want to see the fullness of the sights; not just the tall buildings, bright lights and busy streets of this great city but the work of the Living, Breathing, and Resurrecting God in the midst of all of that.
As the UK group boldly and lovingly distributed Easter candy and pamphlets filled with comfort from God's word and His church, they saw the real New York. they saw it in J.L., the man who was just laid off and was need of a gentle voice who would encourage him and pray with him. They met New York in C.C., the man earnestly seeking to know God, but deceived by a cult. As he broke down and told them "this is so scary. I was so confused. Thank you for what you're doing!" they knew they were witnessing something special. They saw, first hand, The Truth manifested. That man walked away with a copy of the true message of love and salvation. Had it not been for these tourists, who knows where this man would be today?
This group knew that there were more God-sightings out there to experience. They spotted Him in Staten Island, NY, as they invaded the church neighborhood with love and hope; Speaking with store owners, home owners and the like. They went off two by two in the Spirit and power of our fathers the apostles. They went to continue the unfinished book of Acts. They distributed beutiful hand-made Easter cards that contained a message of the love of God and an invitation to His Coptic Church. Some were overjoyed at the visits- practically singing Hosanna and welcoming the King in their lives! While others were so beaten down by life that they would not even accept a free card. The sadness and hurt of the past covered their faces. But God surely heard their affliction, and came down to deliver them! (As He always does Ex. 3:7)
The stories are many, but they aren't just 'stories.' they're real lives that were touched and transformed by God and His children for all eternaty.
We invite you this vacation season, to do some Christ-seeing along with your sightseeing. The face of Jesus sure beats any beach, building or boardwalk.
Living Resurrected,
"Spring Break" is the long awaited and practically sacred time in the life of a student. This year a group of young Coptic people, like you...chose to give a part of it away. The group from Tallahassee flew all the way to New York and chose to spend their time washing the feet of the poor and the lonely. They teamed up with FTFT! for a missionary service weekend; the third of it's kind that FTFT! has arranged.
Throughout that weekend, they hit the streets of New York City and Jersey City to feed the poor, to stand beside the broken, to listen to the story of those who have no one to listen to. If you're familiar with the City, you know that a poor person on the street might as well be a part of the pavement. The sight of a barefoot woman sleeping on cardboard has somehow become...part of the scenery- but not for this group. They were here to say with their actions that this is NOT OK. While handing out simple peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that they made, they took time to speak God's truth into the lives of God's hurting children. They took time to notice NYC's invisible population. They heard enough sermons telling them "Go, and do likewise." (Luke 10:37) So they came...and showed mercy to their neighbor in the example of a familiar Samaritan.


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THE ONLINE AMV IRON CHEF TOURNAMENT v4.0
Hosted by: Brad - Co-coordinated by: Nessephanie
Judged by: Aerialesque, Zarxrax, MimS, Prodigi & Godix
Finally!! Seriously, those brackets took for-frickin-ever to create. Damn stupid little flags >_>... ANYWAYS!
The Online AMV Iron Chef Tournament v4.0 is OFFICIALLY UNDERWAY! If you are a contestant, go look at the brackets and see who you are up against. At this point it is now up to YOU to get in contact with your opponent and figure out when you want to do your match.
Keep in mind that you don't HAVE to do your match at the exact same time as your opponent. I would personally PREFER if you did, because A) it makes it more fun, knowing that your opponent is hard at work at the same time you are, B) it makes getting your results faster, since if you edit first, you have to sit on your video until your opponent edits and then the judges vote, and C) it makes it WAY easier on the coordinators >_>... BUT, I understand that scheduling conflicts are bound to happen. If you absolutely cannot find a time that works for both people, then at least try and pick a day/time where the two of you can edit within 24 hours of each other. Again, not an outright requirement, but lets try and make that work.
Now, one thing to keep in mind about this round specifically that will ONLY apply to this round, and it's something that I did not do in the previous tournaments. If you would like to know the GENRE of the SONG you are going to end up with, you can ask me privately. This may help you select what sources to add to your list. Now, understand that these genres were determined by myself, given my own personal understanding of the music style. What I define as "Rock" you may define as "Alternative" or whatever. Point is, don't be disappointed if what you get isn't EXACTLY what you were expecting.
One other note is that for some people's names, I changed them slightly from how they appear on the org. Most of the time I just got rid of superfluous text characters (underscores, dashes, etc.), and for some people they preferred to be listed as something else. Here are the more notable changes:
Not that this matters specifically but here's a breakdown of the nationalities in the tournament:


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Sorry, outer-borough bargain-hunters; the median sales price in Queens actually increased slightly to $498,500 in the first quarter of 2008, compared to $492,900 in the same period last year, according to Prudential Douglas Elliman's Q1 2008 Long Island/Queens Market Report.
Credit all the new high-end developments coming on-line, not increasing demand, for the price hike.
The average price of a luxury home in Queens passed the $1 million mark last quarter, rising 18.2 percent from $903,805 at this time last year to $1,068,474.
A spate of high-end residential projects closing in Long Island City also gave Queens a boost last quarter, pushing the median condo sales price up 13.5% to $272,500 compared to $240,000 in the first quarter of 2007.
"We're seeing a lot of closings in LIC from projects developed over the last several years," said Jonathan Miller of the Miller Samuel appraisal firm.
"That product (condos) is more closely aligned to Manhattan market."
Despite the few bright spots, the market in Queens has been weakening over the past year, Mr. Miller said. The number of properties on the market jumped 20 percent last quarter from 9,270 units to 11,206.
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11th-inning homer helps White Sox top Royals
Loss wastes dominant performance by KC's James Shields
Jordan Danks atoned for a baserunning blunder in the ninth inning by hitting a solo home run in the 11th that lifted the Chicago White Sox over the Kansas City Royals 2-1 Monday.
Danks connected with two outs off Kelvin Herrera (2-3) for his first homer of the season. The White Sox avoided a three-game sweep and won for only the fifth time in 18 tries in Kauffman Stadium.
The White Sox trailed 1-0 before loading the bases with no outs in the ninth. After Paul Konerko grounded into a home-to-first double play, Danks entered as a pinch-runner at second base for Adam Dunn.
Conor Gillaspie was intentionally walked to load the bases. Alexei Ramirez followed with an infield single up the middle that made it 1-all, but Danks was caught in a rundown between third and home and tagged out, ending the rally.
Jesse Crain (1-1) pitched one scoreless inning for the win in what had been a duel between starters James Shields and Chris Sale. Addison Reed worked the 11th for his 11th save in 12 opportunities.
Shields threw eight shutout innings and handed a 1-0 lead to Greg Holland starting the ninth.
The White Sox immediately loaded the bases on singles by Jeff Keppinger, Alex Rios and Dunn, setting up the tying sequence.
Shields, who lost to Sale 1-0 on opening day in Chicago, allowed just two hits and struck out a season-best nine. He walked two.
Sale was almost as sharp, going 7 1-3 innings and allowing one run on six hits, with five strikeouts and no walks.
With two outs and one on in the sixth, Ramirez hit a drive over the fence in left field near the foul pole. It was ruled a foul ball and the call was upheld after umpires went into the tunnel to look at video replays.
Alex Gordon hit a leadoff single in the first for Kansas City and scored when Billy Butler lined a double down the left-field line.
After Gordon's two-out single in the third, Sale retired 15 straight batters until Salvador Perez doubled into the gap with two out in the seventh.


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Mod Type: Tonal
Difficulty Level: Medium
What You Need:
• Soldering iron
• Solder
• Spare wire
• Insulation tape OR
heatshrink tubing
• A 2-pole/double-throw
or 3-pole/double-throw
stomp switch
• Wire strippers
• Side cutters
• Short piece of tinned wire
• Wrench for footswitch nut
Our final mod is adding true-bypass switching to the same Vox wah from mods 2 and 3. Although we're demonstrating this procedure on a wah, it can be applied to any pedal—as long as you can isolate the input- and output-socket wires, and the circuit input and output wires, and follow the instructions below.
I started writing the pros and cons of this mod but swiftly realized such an essay could fill a page or so. There's plenty of info on it out there, so if you're inclined to dive into the minutia, go forth and do your research. My take on it is that true-bypass switching is great—but you always need to make sure you have one pedal in your signal chain with a good, quality buffered bypass if you're running long lengths of cable between your guitar, pedals, and amp. It all has to do with impedance. The low-impedance output of a good, buffered bypass pedal means you won't get any high frequency loss using long cables.
So, let's turn our Vox into a true-bypass device. First, let's have a look at the existing footswitch—the black rectangular box connected to the brown, white, and blue wires (shown below).
The brown wire comes from the input socket, while the white wire goes to the output socket, and the blue wire comes from the circuit's output. For those of you who have a Jim Dunlop Cry Baby wah, here's a pic of its switch.
The color code for a Cry Baby is as follows: The green wire comes from the input socket, while the purple wire goes to the output socket, and the two blue wires connect to the circuit's output.
Okay, back to our Vox wah.
To remove the old footswitch and install the true-bypass one:
1. Desolder all three wires.
2. Now look at the input socket.
See the two wires attached to the tip tag—the brown and green ones? The green wire is the audio-input lead for the wah circuit. Clip it so that it's no longer connected to the tip tag.
3. Take a 3"-4" spare piece of wire, strip each end, twist the smaller wire strands at each end together to create a single, tightly formed lead, and tin both ends with solder.
4. Strip the end of the green wire that you clipped in step 2. Then twist the green wire together with the new piece of wire prepared in step 3. To solidify their connection, solder them together.
5. Insulate this cleverly extended bit of wiring by either trimming and applying an appropriate length of heatshrink tubing OR wrapping the exposed portion in insulation tape, as shown below.
6. Now let's take a look at our new switch. Either a 2-pole/double-throw or 3-pole/double-throw will work. This one is a 3-pole/double-throw, but we'll only use two of the three poles.
Note the nine tags on the bottom. (The piece of tinned bridging wire is on the table below the switch.)
7. Position your switch so it's in the same orientation as the photo above right—that is, with three rows of three tags, with the holes facing you.
8. Solder a piece of the tinned wire to the bottom left and bottom middle tags.
9. Fantastic. Now remove the old footswitch and place the new footswitch in the vacated space.
10. Solder the brown wire (which is from the input socket) to the left-hand middle tag.
11. Solder the white wire (from the output socket) to the center tag.
12. Solder the blue wire (from the circuit output) to the middle top tag.
13. Solder the extended wire created in steps 3-5 above (which comes from the green circuit-input wire) to the left-hand top tag.
14. Marvelous—you now have true-bypass switching! Your tags should look like the pic below.
Go Forth and Modify
Although the four projects we've covered here are intended to be a simple introduction to the world of pedal modding, we're confident that after you complete one or more and hear, see, or feel the difference it makes, you'll be eager to do more. I recommend plugging into the giant super brain of the internet, which has a bounty of great mods available for the brave (of course, as with anything online, some are absolute tosh). As an initial port of call, I'd recommend geofex.com, fuzzcentral.ssguitar.com, and diystompboxes.com. Best of luck!


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The Alumni Council
Neil D. Jamieson Jr. '82, President
Barbara M. Raths '96, Vice President
Victoria M. Devlin, Co-secretary
Elizabeth K. Sheppard, Co-secretary
Brigid Beech '05
Shannon Billings '85
Jessica H. Collins '95
Ann B. Donaghy '74
Sally J. Ehrenfried '89
Lucy Fowler '97
Katherine Segal Frekko, '95
Patricia M. James '80
Dana Petersen Moore '79
Grant C. Reynolds '57
Allison E. Slaughter '00
Alexander W. Wood '66
Mission Statement of the Alumni Council of the Alumni Association
Bates College possesses a unique cultural and intellectual history. The College's geographic location and desire to hold firmly to liberal arts traditions place an unusually high responsibility on its alumni to communicate the value of a Bates education to the world at large. The role of the Alumni Council, the governing body of the Alumni Association, is to facilitate, to educate, to lead, and to increase the interaction among the alumni, the Bates community, and outside constituencies. In doing so, the Alumni Council plays a critical role in promoting an environment where admissions, career services, development, and other business of the College can more easily and successfully be conducted. The purpose of the Alumni Council is to unite the alumni body in supporting the College; to promote interaction between the alumni and the College's administration, faculty, and student body; and to communicate the concerns and aspirations of the alumni body to the College's administrators.


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N-C Sweeps CVAC
Newton-Conover has the season sweep over rival Bandys and the season sweep over the entire Catawba Valley 2-A Athletic Conference. The Red Devils defeated the Trojans 3-0 on Tuesday at home in the CVAC conference tournament championship. It was the third time this season Newton-Conover beat Bandys.
The win also moved Newton-Conover to 17-0 this season against teams from the CVAC. The Red Devils went 14-0 in the regular season, and they went 3-0 in the conference tournament to win it for the second straight season.
"That is everybody's goal," said Newton-Conover coach Linda Richards. "We want to win the conference. We have to play some tough teams, and I think it's an accomplishment to win because there are such tough teams in this league."
Bandys is one of three conference teams this season to lose to Newton-Conover three times this season. The Red Devils on Tuesday won 25-15, 25-17, 25-11. Bandys jumped out to a 6-1 lead in the second set, but Newton-Conover tied it at 8. The Red Devils went on an 8-1 run later in the set for an 18-10 lead, and they closed the set with a 7-1 run, which ended with a kill by Paris Wicklin.
"I think Bandys is a very athletic team, but we have taller girls," Richards said. "Our size helps us a little bit. I think that was the difference in this game."
Richards added she hopes both teams make it far enough in the playoffs so they can play again.
Wicklin scored the final point for the Red Devils in all three sets, and she had team highs in kills (14) and blocks (three). She scored her final four kills during an 11-1 run at the end the third set.
Corbin Evans contributed nine kills for Newton-Conover with two blocks and an ace, and Isabella Zaliagiris had six kills and a block.
"They are good," Bandys coach Jessica Harvey said. "I would like to face them when we are at full strength. I think it would be a more exciting game."
Outside hitter Taylor Sigmon was on Bandys' bench Tuesday with a knee injury, and she will miss the rest of the volleyball season.
Jesse Story led Bandys with seven kills, and Kaylie Punch had two kills, a block and an ace.


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Editor's note: We've gathered several experts to offer suggestions on trimming expenses in light of tighter margins in 2014. This is one of 10 money-saving tips.
Farm income can be both irregular and unpredictable. In light of tighter margins, farmers should look at every line item to find possible areas to cut expenses.
A key area is family living expenses. "The past three to four years, a number of farm families have sped up living expenses," says Nate Franzen, president, agribusiness division, First Dakota National Bank, Yankton, S.D. "Now is the time to tighten the belt."
Many farm families find it difficult to know how much to spend each month for family living needs, according to two extension experts from Iowa State University. William Edwards and Cynthia Needles Fletcher say that farm families should:
- Carefully budget farm income, farm expenses and household expenditures.
- Verify budgets through actual records. Separating farm and home bank accounts makes this easier.
- Set realistic spending goals and priorities.
- Develop a system for allocating income and use it.
Realigning cost and returns can be a challenge, but it's important. Use this guide to manage your farm family's finances.
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With grain prices dropping, it's time to get creative. There is no one-size-fits-all-farmers answer, but there are numerous ways to more closely align costs with returns. Here are the money-saving tips we've gathered.