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11/19/13. Court: OK to fire teacher for 'religious materials'. Bob Unruh, wnd.com
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled a school district justifiably dismissed a science teacher on grounds of insubordination who kept a Bible on his desk and taught his religious beliefs in class, but the majority in the 4-3 opinion was scolded by a dissenting justice for evading the constitutional issues presented by the case.
The majority opinion by Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor concluded the court didn't need to reach the constitutional issue of whether teacher John Freshwater of Mount Vernon Middle School in Mount Vernon, Ohio, who had taught for 24 years, "impermissibly imposed his religious beliefs in his classroom" because "there was ample evidence of insubordination to justify the termination decision."
But in a scathing dissent, Justice Paul E. Pfeifer said the court "accepted jurisdiction in this case presumably to speak to the important issues of the Establishment Clause, academic freedom, and how schools may approach educating children about the scientific theories of evolution, which may directly clash with religious teachings of creation to which many children have been exposed at home and at church."
"Instead this court sidesteps all of the difficult issues presented in the case leaving the resolution of all these heady matters in the hands of a lone referee," Pfeifer wrote.
Freshwater, who consistently received good evaluations, was sued in 2007 when a student and his parents alleged he used a Tesla coil in class to make a mark on the student's arm that appeared to be in the shape of a Christian cross.
He was suspended in 2008 by school officials and dismissed in 2011.
A district report in June 2008 found Freshwater taught creationism or intelligent design and handed out religious materials in class, against the orders of his superiors. The case focused on Freshwater's practice of keeping a Bible on his desk, his decision to check out a Bible and another religious book from the school's library, and a poster his critics said was religious.
The school board also accused Freshwater of improperly injecting religion into the classroom by giving students "reason to doubt the accuracy and/or veracity of scientists, science textbooks and/or science in general."
When the board moved to fire him, he requested a public hearing, which was conducted by a referee. After extensive testimony and collection of evidence over two years, the referee recommended Freshwater be fired, and the board agreed in a 4-1 vote in 2011. After his appeals were denied by a county court and the 5th District Court of Appeals, he took the case to the state Supreme Court.
Even before the state high court received the case, the Ohio Department of Education rescinded a "letter of admonishment" it had issued to Freshwater for encouraging students to think critically about the origin of life.
The Rutherford Institute asked the high court to hear the case because Freshwater contended the district violated his academic freedom rights and those of his science students.
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According to the Rutherford Institute, attorneys are reviewing their options following the Ohio court ruling.
The majority opinion affirmed Freshwater's right to keep a personal Bible on his classroom desk. But it ruled that his decision to check out a Bible from the library and place it in his room and to put up a poster featuring President Bush and Colin Powell in prayer was insubordinate.
Freshwater's attorneys had argued that the school should not be permitted to terminate a teacher's employment as a means of censoring a particular academic viewpoint.
One of the legal team's options, they said, is a motion to ask the Ohio Supreme Court to reconsider its opinion in order to focus on the constitutional issues at the heart of the case, particularly as they relate to academic freedom in the classroom.
"School officials should stop talking about the need for young people to learn about the Constitution and start putting those principles into practice by creating a robust environment in the classroom where free speech can flourish and thrive," stated John W. Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute.
"It's our hope that the Ohio Supreme Court will send a strong message to the nation's schools that the First Amendment protects both teachers and students, no matter how controversial or politically incorrect the topic under discussion."
The majority argued Freshwater's First Amendment rights "did not protect the display of these items, because they were not a part of his exercise of his religion."
The district, therefore, had a right to tell him to remove the items, the court said, and failing to do so was insubordinate.
Justice Pfeifer was appalled.
"The only holding of consequence by this court today echoes what John Freshwater told a gathering of supporters in Mount Vernon's town square on April 16, 2008," he wrote.
Freshwater said that because the Bible is "personal and private property and the source of personal inner strength in my own life, the removal of it from my desk would be nothing short of infringement on my own deeply held personal religious beliefs, granted by God and guaranteed under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment."
The justice said the court has determined that Freshwater was right.
With the insubordination claim gutted, he said, the lead opinion should have moved on to consider the constitutional issues remaining in the case.
"Instead, the majority walks away from the opportunity to provide helpful guidance to every school board in Ohio and to the thousands of great teachers who could benefit from knowing more about the extent of and limit to their academic freedom," Pfeifer wrote.
"The lead opinion cobbles together the piddling other claims of supposed insubordination, and, sitting as Supreme School Board, the majority declares the matter closed. In a case bounding with arrogance and cowardice, the lead opinion fits right in."
He notes that the issue of Freshwater's Bible was raised by Stephen and Jenifer Dennis, parents of Zach Davis, who accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in insurance settlements after going to court to protest that issue and others.
He writes that the Bible on the desk was the main concern throughout.
"Now that theory is gone, and less than a fig leaf remains. … Now that Freshwater has won on the most important dispute, the myth must be created that the presence of the other items constituted insubordination."
The objectionable poster, for example, came from the school.
"A trifle," Pfeifer wrote.
"What work rule or order did Freshwater violate by checking out books from the library? Was there a work rule in effect that a teacher could not borrow books from the school library and keep them in his work area? Does the lead opinion really mean to say that books of a religious nature are acceptable in the library but not acceptable to be checked out from the library? Or is it only practicing Christians who cannot borrow such books from the library?"
The justice pointed out that the court already has ruled on what grounds should be present for the removal of a teacher. Prior cases, he noted, dealt with "an arrest for drunken driving and … failure to alert her superior," "telling jokes of a sexual nature to certain of her middle-school students" and "masturbating in a school parking lot during a school event."
He said that neither the Bush-Powell poster nor the library books had a serious effect on the school system.
"At worst, they were de minimis violations of an unwritten, ad hoc rule," he wrote.
"This court has set a very low bar for what constitutes 'good and just cause,'" he continued. "Now we have a case on the books setting forth that good and just cause means very little cause at all."
Pfeifer noted that the referee who was hired to conduct hearings on the dispute, attorney R. Lee Shepherd, concluded that none of the grounds individually was enough to cause Freshwater's ouster.
Shepherd said it required the "multiple incidents" and the "numerous and various bases/grounds." He concluded Freshwater "repeatedly violated the Establishment Clause" by failing to "employ objectivity."
"This conclusion of constitutional significance has gone unexamined by every reviewing court," Pfeifer noted.
Instead, he said, the majority noted how large the file was, with "6,000 pages of transcript."
"With a record that large, how could a … referee be wrong about the Establishment Clause?"
Pfeifer said Freshwater "will be deemed today's loser by superficial press accounts," but he is "not today's big loser, because he fought to prove that he actually followed the rules, that he taught well, and that over a lifetime of dedication to the students in his classrooms he made a positive contribution to their lives."
"That proof is uncontroverted. In that most important measure of public education, John Freshwater is a winner and his final departure is a loss to the Mount Vernon schools."
Justice Terrence O'Donnell, who was joined by Sharon Kennedy, also disagreed with the majority.
"This record neither demonstrates that Freshwater defied direct orders from school administrators, nor reflects that he taught creationism or intelligent design, nor shows that he strayed from the established curriculum on evolution," they wrote. "The claim of insubordination is not proven by clear and convincing evidence."


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And the absence of Zuckuss makes me believe there may be some truth to the Vintage line rumor.
Bith Musician - OMG, enough already. These are played out (pun intended). Seriously, I don't need these guys yet again. I got them the first time from the fan club, I got them the second time from the tin, I got one of them from the third time as a Disney exclusive. Let them take a set break PLEASE!
My question is why does this rumor list have 3 x-men in it?
Galactic Hunter (courtesy of 42N-TLR) has a new rumor list up. A lot of it we have seen before, and most to all of it is OT, but if it is true it sounds good to me - and knocks off a lot of the "most wanted" figures we've discussed around here. Check it out at the linky.
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"This Is It," the movie culled from footage of Michael Jackson's farewell tour, hits theaters in just two weeks. And in the run up to the release, those closest to the pop star are speaking out about the tour that never was.
Although the tour Michael was set to embark on at London's O2 Arena in July was billed as "This Is It," CEO of concert promoters AEG Live Randy Phillips told Access Hollywood's Tony Potts the trek had a different name to those involved on the project.
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"All of us felt like this [was] a labor of love," the CEO said. "The code name for the production was 'L.O.V.E.' — lov — because when Michael would criticize someone or give direction, he never was harsh, but he was firm and then at the end he would say, 'Remember, with love.'"
In a story first recounted in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, which features and inside look at "This Is It," and told to Tony on Thursday, Randy revealed that Michael went way over budget when it came to tour special effects.
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"The original contract called for $7.5 million in a production budget to prepare the show… And I knew when we did the deal, knowing Michael, it would go to $10 [million], maybe $12 million. By the time it hit $24 million, I was actually ready to jump off the balcony of this office building because I thought my career was over. But that's Michael," Randy laughed. "It just got bigger and bigger."
Among the things that were to be shown on the tour were several 3D mini-movies, which cost about $9 million to make. But AEG was forced to draw a line in the sand when Michael told Randy and concert and eventual "This Is It" film director Kenny Ortega that he needed a stage version of the largest waterfall in the world.
"The last straw for Kenny and I, because we're running out of time, we're running out of money… he said to us he wanted us to recreate the Victoria Falls from Africa," Randy said. "Kenny and I looked at each other and said, 'How are we going to do that?!'
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"We went to see him and Kenny said, 'Michael, you have to stop. We need to close the show. We have to finish it. We have to open,'" Randy recalled. "And Michael said to Kenny, 'But Kenny, God channels all these great ideas at night to me and I can't sleep…. And he said, 'I have to be there to receive them.' And Kenny says to Michael, 'Well maybe God could take a vacation 'til after we open in London.' And Michael, he didn't miss a beat, he had great timing, he said, 'Well Kenny, if I'm not there to receive them, he may give them to Prince.'"
Randy said he first thought Michael was joking.
"But then I looked at his face and he was dead serious," Randy told Tony. "We were able to talk him out of the waterfall."
While working on the tour, Randy admitted there were "a few tense moments," including one when he was sent to Michael's home to try and talk him out of hiring Dr. Conrad Murray.
"I went to him and it was like they sent me into the lion's den because I had no idea what had gone down in terms of how insistent he was on this," Randy said. "When you ask, did we ever have cross words, that was the first time he got in my face. He didn't even want to debate whether it was worth spending $150,000 a month."
Randy said Michael insisted he have a full-time doctor – something AEG couldn't argue with, when the pop star pointed out why.
"He looked at me and said, 'Look! You don't understand. My body fuels this entire business we have. I need the same kind of medical attention that Barack Obama and his family have. It's really that important. I need that. You have to understand and I really don't want to debate this. You just have to hire him,'" Randy recalled.
But knowing what he knows now about Jackson's eventual death from acute Profopol intoxication hasn't forced Randy to second guess any of the decisions he made at the time.
"Even if I had refused to let him hire Dr. Murray, he would have hired him himself, just not charged it against the show," he said.
Although La Toya Jackson recently told Access that she doesn't think Michael would have wanted "This Is It" released, Randy thinks the performer would have loved the upcoming film, which is due out October 28.
"I think Michael would love this movie and if for some reason this movie is nominated for an Academy Award as a documentary or whatever happens, it's a big deal this movie and Michael's smiling from heaven. He would have loved this," Randy said.
In addition, AEG has already made efforts to get the Jackson family to see the film, including Michael's three children – Prince Michael I, Paris and Blanket.
"We want them to, but we may need to have grief counselors," Randy said. "It's both a celebration and it's a great footnote to his legacy, but it's also heart wrenching."
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Carbide Your Mobile Application
There is no need to discuss what we all know: Having a smart and convenient tool for application development allows us to focus on a programming task instead of passing through various surrounding issues. If you code in C++ for Symbian OS, the MS Visual Studio and CodeWarrior IDEs were the only option for a relatively long time. Now, this is significantly changed with the appearance of Carbide's set of tools. Nokia offers this package for C++ and Java developers on Symbian OS platform. You may select from:
- Carbide.c++ to develop in an Eclipse-based IDE
- Carbide.vs if you prefer a MS Visual Studio interface
- Carbide.j to develop Java ME applications
The first two IDEs allow development for S60, S80, and UIQ. The latter may be used to create applications for S40, S60, and S80. Other tools are to be announced in the future.
This article will focus on C++ development (forgive the author for his love to C++). As you may guess, Carbide.c++ comes in several editions: Express, Developer, and Professional. You may find more details regarding each one at the Nokia site. The most important difference is that the Express edition is totally free, so you can obtain a fully integrated Symbian OS C++ IDE without any additional charge. All Carbide tools are based on Eclipse; if you are familiar with that sort of thing, you will find it a quite comfortable, open, and extensible environment.
The next sections will briefly overview what you need to get started with Carbide.
Before you start, you should see what you need if you have decided to go ahead with Carbide. First of all, you will need to install some Perl engine. The Symbian OS dev stuff uses Perl extensively, so be prepared. You can download it from here. The next obvious thing is SDKs you'll need to develop. They are available from the Nokia and UIQ sites. They both have phone emulators, but Nokia's is terribly slow!
After everything is downloaded and installed, you can configure your system a bit by setting the EPOCROOT environment variable. A common practice is to set it as follows:
and define a dedicated drive letter for the specific SDK, like this:
subst U: c:Symbian^18Symbian19^
Setting EPOCROOT to the drive's root allows you to have multiple SDKs installed on different drives, so you will be able to build against them easily without making any changes in your environment.
Carbide.c++ IDE: At First Glance
After all these introductions, you can start Carbide-izing. One of the first screens you will see is Welcome:
Click here for a larger image.
Carbide comes with a nice Help system, so you can quickly start playing with the tool. You begin your tour by creating the famous "Hello, World!" console application.
This said, "File/New" leads you to the project creation wizard. Select "Symbian OS C++ Project," "Basic Console Application," and the desired SDK:
I'll skip a number of simple steps here. Finally, you get the simplest app to work on:
Click here for a larger image.
You may see that Carbide offers several so-called "perspectives;"in other words, sets of windows in the IDE to make your development process more convenient and effective. The next figure shows the standard ones:
You can create a custom perspective if you want to save it for futher use. There also are number of useful wizards that allow you performing various tasks; for example, a new class creation:
Among available functionality of Carbide IDE, I'd like to highlight File/Import option. You can reuse your MMP or INF project files created earlier with CodeWarrior for Symbian OS IDE. It is just a matter of several clicks!
Carbide has many other amazing features, but I leave all them for your experimenting. Now, you can turn to building and debugging your simple program.
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From the very beginning, the Michael Bay Tranformers saga has been more entertaining than he probably ever intended. What started with Megan Fox scrubbing some Ferraris developed into a disasterpiece of incredible-but-recycled special effects combined with terrible writing and over-the-top cornball acting. And despite Bay's one-time threats to never make another action movie again, Shia LeBeouf offering to pay back every penny he earned to regain an ounce of credibility, Jason Statham supposedly considering taking over for him, and the fact that not one of the actors from any of the three films will return, there will be a fourth Transformers film and beyond, because Bay loves money.
And just how much does Bay love money? For starters, the whole point of Transformers 4 is for Hasbro to invent a brand new line of toys for Bay to base his robots on, because executives admitted that the last two films sold no toys. But that should hardly surprise anyone – even the rumor that there won't even be an Optimus Prime – and neither should the latest news that Bay will choose an assistant for the 4th film from the contestants in a Doritos Super Bowl commercial. *makes explosion sound, chugs Mountain Dew*
The filmmaker is partnering with Doritos for the company's Crash the Super Bowl contest, which allows aspiring filmmakers to create homemade commercials for the snack chip brand, with the two finalist ads airing during the Super Bowl in January. (Via The Hollywood Reporter)
That's right, if you have a computer and movie making software, you can make your own Doritos commercial and parlay that into helping to produce a massive motion picture. And it's cool, because Bay totally respects the dreamers and the schemers.
"When you find out where these guys came from…its great," Bay says. "If you want to get noticed, this is the way to do it."
One finalist in the seventh-annual competition will be selected via an online poll and the other by the Doritos team. Bay will also act as a judge. (He declined to say what he's looking for, although he promises to be a "tough judge.")
Oh man, he's going to make them wash so many Ferraris. But surely Bay is speaking from experience here, as he must have a convenient-yet-vague anecdote that he can throw out to totally validate this as anything other than another shameless example that money is the only thing that matters to him.
Bay recalled how years ago a barista at the Starbucks he frequented would pepper him with moviemaking questions. One day, he spotted the barista at his company and was told that the kid, an aspiring filmmaker, was a new hire.
"He wanted to quit on Pearl Harbor!" Bay recalls. "And I said, 'You are not quitting. This is the best education you are going to get.' And now he is a director." (He wouldn't say who.)
The reporter asked a few times for Bay to give up the name of his mystery coffee server that we've never heard of before and who has never told his own amazing story, but the director threw down a smoke bomb, laughed maniacally and flew away on his real life Transformer dragon.


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Longwood's Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology, Dr. Brian D. Bates, will present "Archaeological Sites at the Water's Edge: Understanding the Threat to Our Past," on Thursday, June 27 at 3 p.m. as the fourth in the 2019 Hull Springs Speakers Series.
The talk is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is recommended as seating is limited. Please click here to register. https://forms.gle/ep2sVEkmumE3hFxd6
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Where archaeological sites are increasingly threatened by the effects of a changing climate, the old model of preservation in place is no longer sustainable. Effective stewardship of our shared cultural heritage demands that we understand the threat and direct our efforts to the most vulnerable archaeological sites first.
Nowhere in Virginia are the effects of climate change more apparent than along the shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay, and nowhere else is scientifically derived data on those impacts more urgently needed. To generate this data, the Institute of Archaeology developed the Longwood Vulnerability, Potential, and Condition (VPC) Assessment method and applied it to the Hurricane Sandy Shoreline Survey in Lancaster, Northumberland, Middlesex and Mathews Counties.
The Longwood VPC Assessment method provides a powerful tool for making informed, data-driven management decisions about archaeological sites and the level of threat to which each may be subjected. This method triangulates the data from site vulnerability to quantify annual shoreline change rates, potential for undocumented resources through predictive modeling of the study area, and the observed condition of known sites.
Professional Biography
Bates is the Simpson Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at Longwood University where he has been a faculty member since 1994. He founded the Longwood Institute of Archaeology and directs the Dr. James W. Jordan Archaeology Field School at Longwood. He received both his M.A. and Ph.D. in Archaeology (ceramic period settlement patterns of the Virgin Island Group) from the Institute of Archaeology, University of London. Bates has conducted fieldwork in Virginia, Great Britain, the British Virgin Islands and Barbados. His research interests include settlement patterns, the Ceramic Periods in the Caribbean and Virginia, complex societies, and the threats to archaeological sites along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay.
Bates' research has been featured in a number of printed magazines and newspapers, including Smithsonian, Welcome, Stars and Stripes, The Washington Post, and television news features, including CNN. Along with his late colleague, Dr. Peter Drewett, Bates identified a large prehistoric ceremonial ball court on the island of Tortola – the first of its kind in the Lesser Antilles. His many projects throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia include locating Thomas Jefferson's Lost Courthouse at Buckingham, his long-term research project at the Late-Woodland Period Sappony Indian Village known as the Wade Site, and his research into the effects of shoreline change on archaeological sites.


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The center of most, if not all, galaxies are thought to contain a supermassive blackhole. It is theorized that these objects weigh somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 to over 108 times the mass of our sun. Near the center of the Milky Way lies Sagittarius A* (Sgr-A*), a compact source of radio, X-ray, and infrared emissions, which has the possibility of being our galaxy's
nougaty center supermassive black hole. Sgr A* weighs in at an estimated 4 million solar masses.
As it's likely to be the closest supermassive blackhole, one of the long-standing goals in astronomy is to take an accurate image of it that shows some of the fine detail of its accretion flows. In order to accurately see this astronomical sinkhole, astronomers have built a continent-sized telescope. Actually, these super telescopes are virtual, consisting of multiple observatories positioned around the world simultaneously taking images, a technique known as very long baseline interferometry (VLBI).
Previous work looked at Sgr A* using 3.5 and 7mm radio wave lengths, which were not able to resolve the detailed structure of the event horizon that surrounds this object, as interstellar dust and gas got in the way. Work, published in this week's edition of Nature pulled together four radio telescopes: the Arizona Radio Observatory's Submillimeter Telescope (ARO-SMT), the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) in California, and the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) and Submillimeter Array (SMA), both in Hawaii, into a VLBI configuration. This new set of telescopes imaged Sgr-A* using a 1.3 mm wavelength, small enough to see through the mess in between us and Sgr-A*.
The researchers were able to measure the intrinsic diameter of Sgr A* at 37 (+16/-10) microarcseconds—a diameter that corresponds to about one-third the distance of the Earth to the sun. This level of accuracy at such a distance is over 1000 times more precise than we can get from the Hubble, and is the equivalent of being able to pick out a baseball sitting on the lunar surface from Earth. Fancy comparisons using easy to identify objects—ala Star Trek—aside, this represents an important piece of scientific data that will help us understand our own galaxy.
This diameter measurement means that Sgr A* is smaller than the apparent black hole event horizon that should exist for the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Using their 3σ upper bound measurement for the size and previous proper mass measurement of Sgr A*, the researchers compute its density to be 9.3x1022 solar masses per cubic parsec. That's over two orders of magnitude below the density expected for the black hole that should be at the center of this area. According to the paper, this calculation "rule[s] out most alternatives to a blackhole for Sgr A* because other concentrations of matter would have collapsed or evaporated on timescales that are short compared with the age of the Milky Way."
The researchers explain their findings by proposing that the radio source called Sgr A* is not centered on the unseen mass at the center of our galaxy, but that it is offset to some degree. They argue that theradiation from Sgr A* could be produced either by matter swirling in the accretion disk of a black hole, or a high-speed jet of matter being ejected from the black hole. Regardless of the exact nature of the source, this work shows the potential of VLBI telescopes, and the researchers plan to hook more observatories into their network to carry out even more detailed observations deep into the heart of our galaxy.
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MIAMI — When the Florida Legislature returns from its holiday recess, it will consider a bill to allow three Las Vegas-style casino resorts to be built in the southern part of the state. Lobbyists for the gambling industry have swarmed Tallahassee, trying to ensure that the bill passes.
But the mere possibility of casino gambling has already had an impact on commercial real estate in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties. The biggest single move came last May when Genting, a casino company based in Malaysia, bought the Miami Herald building, overlooking Biscayne Bay, for $236 million.
Genting released designs of what it hoped to build on the site: an extravaganza called Resorts World Miami, which in addition to a casino could have up to 5,000 guest rooms, 1,000 condominiums, 100 restaurants and luxury shops and a 3.6-acre rooftop lagoon that looks like something from "The Little Mermaid." The project would cost $3.8 billion, according to Christian Goode, the president of Resorts World Miami. (The bill requires an investment of at least $2 billion per project.)
And last month, the CIM Group, a real estate investment company based in Los Angeles, bought a stake in a partnership that plans to develop Miami Worldcenter, a 21.9-acre mixed-use project in downtown Miami.
The partnership has received master plan zoning approval for a nine-block, 11 million-square-foot development that, according to its news release, "could easily accommodate a gaming component."
The Miami Worldcenter site is now mostly parking lots and weeds. Plans for that development were announced in 2008, but the project was shelved when the recession hit. Sissy DeMaria, a publicist for Miami Worldcenter Associates, a joint venture between the South Florida-based Falcone Group and Centurion Partners, wrote in an e-mail that — unlike the Genting complex — "the Miami Worldcenter has all of its permits in place and is 'shovel ready.' "
Already, the casino operator Las Vegas Sands has expressed interest in operating a gambling-based resort at Miami Worldcenter, Andy Abboud, the vice president for government affairs for Las Vegas Sands, wrote in an e-mail.
And Genting has continued its buying spree, spending several hundred million dollars on parcels adjacent to the Miami Herald site.
One of the purchases was the Omni, a mixed-use development that includes 1.5 million square feet — much of it a defunct mall — and a 2,700-space parking garage, where it said it could get a slot machine casino up and running in a matter of months.
Colin Au, a Genting principal, told The Miami Herald, "The Omni is what's called a decorator-ready solution." He said Genting was taking "a calculated risk," in buying the properties before the Legislature has voted on the gambling bill.
Mr. Goode of Genting wrote in an e-mail that the company would develop Resorts World with or without gambling, but that the timeline would be "significantly accelerated" should the Legislature approve the casino component.
The Omni facility would resemble the Resorts World facility that opened at Aqueduct racetrack in Queens in October with some 5,000 video "slot machines" and electronic games, including baccarat tables managed by robotic dealers. Genting estimated that the proposed casino at the Omni would create 5,000 jobs, while its entire Resorts World project would create about 30,000.
But the mega-resorts could be bad news for established businesses in the Miami area, because they tend to provide their customers with everything they need under one roof.
"They're going to be saying, 'Here's a free room, go downstairs and gamble,' " said Marty Z. Margulies, a prominent South Florida developer, explaining why other area hotels might lose business from gambling, rather than gain it.
The development of one or both resorts could also threaten the Miami Beach Convention Center, which at 640,000 square feet is considered too small for many gatherings. Genting plans to include some 700,000 square feet of meeting space in its Resorts World complex, while the Miami Worldcenter developers have floated the number 1.5 million square feet.
Either would be serious competition for the Miami Beach facility, which each year hosts Art Basel. It was once the nation's fourth-largest center but is now the 27th largest.
In part to compete with the possible newcomers, Miami Beach is considering an expansion of its center. The giant firm Arquitectonica (which is also designing the Resorts World complex) was hired by the city to study the possibility of doubling the size of the convention center; its report estimated the cost of the project at $648 million.
It is unclear where Miami Beach will get the money. The city manager, Jorge M. Gonzalez, has been meeting with potential partners, one of whom, the casino magnate Steve Wynn, offered to pay the entire cost of the new center if he could build his own casino near it, according to news reports.
But just two weeks ago, the Miami Beach City Commission voted unanimously to oppose the gambling expansion. (The state law would require local approval before a casino can be built.) The vote brought cheers from a standing-room-only crowd, which included local business owners.
One major hotelier said the decision could put Miami Beach at a disadvantage. "If casinos are approved for the city of Miami, Miami Beach should have the opportunity to have casino gaming in a luxury resort right on the beach," said Phil Goldfarb, the president of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, which with 1,500 rooms is by far the city's largest hotel.
Gambling's effect on residential property values is another question. Properly planned, "casino development would enhance real estate values in South Florida," said Philip Spiegelman, a principal of ISG, a realty company that provides marketing for large condominium developers. (Mr. Spiegelman has a partnership with the Related Group; that company's chairman, Jorge M. Pérez, was one of the sellers of the Omni Center.)
But Diane Lieberman, a leading condominium broker in Miami and Miami Beach, said she did not think the arrival of gambling would have any effect on the condominium market. She said she and her husband, Alan Lieberman, learned that lesson the hard way, buying about 10 houses in Atlantic City when gambling became legal there. "The prices didn't go up," she said, adding that gambling "didn't improve the area. It just added casinos."


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Solving insomnia with wysiwyg, er, wsg
Yeah, it's a late night, going to be later, and I want to sleep. Actually not insomnia, I'm having to stay up. I get wired running BGs so that's out. So… I inflict myself upon you. Fair warning, you think I ramble NORMALLY… (grin).
Warsong Gulch. I think I dealt with this before, but let's run it again.
10 people. Two objectives. yes, two. The OBVIOUS objective is to grab the flag from the other side and bring it to your station — capping (capturing) it. Each time you do so, everyone on your team gets 40 honor. In addition, the third cap gets you 20 extra honor for winning.
There is a second objective – earn maximum honor points. The only way besides the flag being capped to do so is honor kills. Right now the problem is that there's no clear way to calculate what an honor kill is worth. (Hmm, yes, I did write about this recently. Oh well.) Everybody's honor value depends on their level, is further modified by the lowest level involved in the killing (ie, who is within about 100 yards as near as I can tell), and finally is reduced by the number of times they've been killed. At this point in time, I use a working assumption that every honor kill will get me 3 to 4 honor points.
Let's assume (notice that word, please) that you alternate victories – you win, you lose, back and forth. Let's further assume that a team can normally cap a flag once every ten minutes. So if nobody's playing serial killer, the game is about 30 minutes. Two games, an hour. In our assumption – one win, one loss – and further assuming you get no flag in your loss (worst case), then you earn just a little less than 2.5 honor points per minute. If you can play faster, you get more – slower, less.
Can you and your side kill enemy players at an average rate of one kill per minute? If so, you get more honor from honor kills than you get from capping the flag. It is really that ugly and simple.
Now let's throw in some considerations – they matter, so…
If your side is on a roll – you're doing a mass run down the middle and capping each flag in about 5 minutes apiece game after game – then stopping to do serial killing is a waste. 15 minutes per game is four wins an hour is about 10 points per minute — three to four kills per minute (sustained).
On a personal level, if you're nowhere near the killing the only points you get are – surprise – from capping and winning. If you're hiding the flag for your side to earn some honor kills… you're taking one for the team. Let's run the math. Let's say there's an average of 10 kills every run. Plus, with your hiding, there are another 20 kills altogether. (FWIW, I'm pulling those numbers from my butt. it's based on memory experience – adjust to your experience or knowledge.) During the runs, since most of the stuff is trying to stop you, you probably earned experience. You get 140 plus (ballpark) 30*3.5 or 105 for 245. Those 20 extra kills? About 70 more points you missed out on. Which is to say about the same as doing two more flags.
It galls me to say this, but if you and your side want to earn lots and lots of honor, and you're in control of the field of battle, the best tactic is to have your flag carrier running around in the center of the field, joining all the fun. If the other side caps… 40 points is between 10 and 12 kills. If you're even somewhat dominating the field, you kill for a while, then cap. Then repeat.
It will be worse after 2.4. Then, honor doesn't diminish. I'm going to swag that this means each kill has a value per person (level 70, approx 5-6 people in range) of ~5 honor points.
If you're massing WSG for honor, the strategy is simple. Mass run to the other fort. Grab the flag. Mass into the center of the field, and intercept the other flag. In the interval between when it gets returned and the next idiot, er, brave fool runs into your meat grinder, just hunt down the other side. 10 kills, one flag cap. The other side "wins", but you get more honor.
Please – out of sheer misery PLEASE – at some point just cap the frigging flag, ok?
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Yep. WSG is for the marks. There are better places to earn honour.


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The excitement is heating up for Variety's Got Talent 2013.
The annual contest presented by Coast Capital Savings and produced by Variety the Children's Charity is looking for B.C.'s next singing sensation, to appear live on Global BC during the Variety Show of Hearts on Feb. 16.
Here at The Province we're hosting the People's Choice Competition, where you can watch 11 auditions by talented performers from across B.C. These finalists are vying for a single spot in the Variety's Got Talent Finals at the River Rock Theatre on Feb. 9. There, the Top 9 selected by the judges plus the People's Choice artist will perform before a panel of experts in hopes of moving on to the big time.
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While he came up short in his quest to capture the 106-pound wrestling championship at this year�s Onslow Cup, White Oak sophomore Jamarcus Allen did go undefeated in the Coastal 3-A Conference.
While he came up short in his quest to capture the 106-pound wrestling championship at this year�s Onslow Cup, White Oak sophomore Jamarcus Allen did go undefeated in the Coastal 3-A Conference.
And that � plus a 35-7 record overall � is a big reason why he�s the No. 3 seed in his weight class going into the two-day NCHSAA 3-A East Regionals that begin today at Rocky Mount High School.
�My first goal was to win Onslow Cup, but I lost to (Swansboro�s) Bryan Mol,� Allen said in an interview before practice this week. �I was trying to go undefeated in conference. I worked really hard at it.�
Next up are the regionals, which a year ago wasn�t much fun for the then-freshman. Allen was 0-2, losing to a senior from Northern Nash and D.H. Conley�s Gary Sly, the second seed at 106 in this year�s regional with a 20-2 record behind C.B. Aycock�s Zack Howard (47-2).
And while Allen hasn�t wrestled Howard, he pinned Sly 53 seconds into their match Jan. 9
�I�m ready for regionals,� the well-spoken Allen said. �I�ve been counting the days down for it.�
Especially after last year, when Allen said he wasn�t as prepared as he should have been because he went through baseball tryouts at White Oak.
�I regret doing that, but I played baseball eight years. That was my life,� the 16-year-old Allen said. �But after I saw everything I just loved wrestling. I don�t know why. But it�s something about wrestling that got to me. I�d rather wrestle the whole year.�
There were no days on the diamond this year heading into regionals. Instead, Allen is focused on trying to win it all.
�I�m looking at gold right now,� he said. �I don�t look at any other thing but gold when I go up there. But if I do lose, I look at the next thing. But I�m not trying to lose. My mindset is not losing there.�
Whatever happens, Allen wants to make sure he finishes in the top four since that will earn him a spot in next week�s state championships in Greensboro.
�I�m looking right now that I�ve worked this hard, I�m not going to give up at the end at regionals,� he said. �I want it. I want all of it.�
Allen has only been wrestling for three years, having taken up the sport as an eighth-grader at Hunters Creek Middle School under coach David Appleton, who has just finished his second year as White Oak�s head coach.
Allen�s explanation at why he gave wrestling a try? He and his friends were wrestling on the side anyway.
�It felt good when I was actually wrestling and I was winning,� he said.
Appleton has seen Allen grow as a wrestler, saying the 5-foot-3 grappler �paid his dues� as a freshman.
�He did well as a freshman, but he definitely learned through his freshman year,� Appleton said.
As he did going to wrestling camp at North Carolina State University, which Allen said helped him improve his technique while also getting his name out to the Wolfpack coaches in hopes they will one day offer him a scholarship.
�I get letters (from colleges right now), not for wrestling but for academics,� he said. �I�m hoping to get one from N.C. State.�
With two years still left at White Oak, Allen has plenty of time to grow and improve, and Appleton said Allen works hard at the sport with a seriousness that includes room for a sense of humor.
�He�s not real uptight about it, but he is serious,� Appleton said.
As for Allen�s attributes as a wrestler, the coach said he�s fast, consistent and �he learns.�
�He�s a good athlete � (and) he listens well, he follows directions well and he attempts to do the things that you ask him to do in a good manner, in a good technical manner, and that�s very important in wrestling,� Appleton said.
And he�s willing to self-evaluate after a match, win or lose.
�On those rare occasions when he�s faced somebody that has beaten him, we go over what it was that happened and how to correct it and how to grow,� Appleton said. �And he can adapt, which is good.�
Allen, who now doesn�t play any other sports at WOHS but does swim to help his conditioning, was a natural 106-pounder last year, when he weighed in at 102. But this year he has had to cut weight. In fact, he said he weighed 112 earlier this week after a big dinner but had already cut 2 pounds and was not worried about making weight for the regionals.
However, next year Allen expects to wrestle at 113 or 120, and if he is at 113 as a junior, he projected himself to be at 120 as a senior. The weight jumps are not only because he�s young and growing but also because since colleges don�t have 106 or 113 weight classes he knows he needs to move up if he�s to achieve his goal of earning a college scholarship.
�Colleges told me they don�t look at you at 106. They may at 113,� he said, adding that while he�d love to wrestle for NCSU he�ll go anywhere if he can wrestle in college. �I don�t care if it�s DI, DII or DIII, but I�m looking at DI right now.�
Actually, that can wait for a couple years. Right now, he�s looking at bringing home the gold in the high school regionals.


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A holiday crackdown resulted in the arrest of 69 people for driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
The "avoid the 8" campaign in Butte County began Dec. 14 and ended Tuesday night, with efforts from officers of eight county law enforcement agencies.
The agencies include police departments in Paradise, Chico, Oroville and Gridley, Butte County Sheriff's Office, Chico State University Police, California Highway Patrol and California State Parks, with assistance from the Butte County Probation and Alcohol Beverage Control.
In 2011, there were 76 arrested under the DUI program.
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As the faithful prepare to celebrate the high point of the Church year—Great Lent, Holy Week and Pascha—the Archdiocese highlights our section of resources and reading for the season. Great Lent Resources & Readings is a topical library of links and reflections that presents the meaning and practice of the forty days of prayer and worship of Lent, for both newcomers to the Orthodox Christian Faith as well as for those who are rediscovering the spiritual benefits of the Lenten journey.
Visitors to Great Lent Resources & Readings will find three subsections:
- All Revered Days: the Lenten Calendar is a library of information broken into the weeks of Lent from the Pre-Lenten Sundays through Holy Week,
- Bright Sadness: Entering into the Lenten Spring contains counsel about making the most of the forty days, and
- Holy Week: Journey to the Empty Tomb offers an overview of Holy Week as well as reflections on some of its specific days, such as Holy Friday.
We are grateful to all the various sources who have allowed us to repurpose their material, and we encourage those maintaining Orthodox websites of their own to link to this section.


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ELIGIBILITY: The Sweepstakes is open only to legal residents of the United States including its commonwealths, territories and possessions who are eighteen (18) years of age or older (except in the case of legal residents of certain states or territories where the legal age of majority is greater than eighteen (18) years of age, such legal age of majority) at the time of entry. Employees, officers, and directors (including immediate family members (spouse, parent, child, sibling and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and members of the same household, whether or not related) of Pennington Seed, Inc., Baltimore Orioles Limited Partnership ("Baltimore Orioles" or "Sponsor"), the other MLB Entities and each of their respective parents, affiliated companies, subsidiaries, licensees, distributors, dealers, retailers, printers, advertising and promotion agencies, and any and all other companies associated with the Sweepstakes are not eligible to participate or win the Prize (defined below). The "MLB Entities" shall mean the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball ("BOC"), its Bureaus, Committees, Subcommittees and Councils, MLB Advanced Media, L.P. ("MLBAM"), Major League Baseball Properties, Inc., The MLB Network, LLC, the Major League Baseball Clubs ("Clubs"), each of their parent, subsidiary, affiliated and related entities, any entity which, now or in the future, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the Clubs or the BOC and the owners, general and limited partners, shareholders, directors, officers, employees and agents of the foregoing entities. The Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state, territory and local laws, rules and regulations. Void where prohibited or restricted by law, rule or regulation.
HOW TO ENTER: The Sweepstakes entry period begins at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time ("ET") on March 23, 2019, and ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on June 11, 2019 (the "Entry Period"). You may enter the Sweepstakes in one (1) of the two (2) following ways: by text messaging or by mail. No other method of entry will be accepted. Limit one (1) entry per person, per mobile phone and per household, regardless of method of entry. Additional entries beyond the specified limit will be void.
1. Text Messaging: To enter by text messaging, text keyword "PENNINGTON" to "31826" from your mobile device to receive one (1) entry in the Sweepstakes. By entering via text messaging you agree to receive a text message sent to your mobile phone confirming your entry into the Sweepstakes. Text STOP to cancel. Text HELP for help. For more visit http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/help/contact_us.jsp. NOTE: You will be charged standard messaging and/or data rates for each text message sent from and received by your handset according to the terms of your wireless service agreement. You must be a wireless service subscriber with text messaging functionality to enter via this method. Check your phone capabilities for specific text messaging instructions. Text messaging is not available in all areas.
2. Mail-in Method: If you do not wish to enter by text messaging, you may enter the Sweepstakes by hand-printing your full name, address, city, state/territory and zip code, day and evening telephone numbers (including area codes), date of birth, and email address (optional); name of Sweepstakes ("Pennington Groundskeeper Experience Sweepstakes"); and the following statement: "I acknowledge that I have read, understand and agree to the Sweepstakes Official Rules" on a 3"x5" postcard and mailing it in a sealed envelope with proper postage affixed to: Baltimore Orioles Pennington Groundskeeper for a Day Sweepstakes c/o Kelly Wallace, 333 West Camden Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. Sponsor will use email addresses provided via the mail-in entry method for prize notification purposes only; however, eligibility to participate in the Sweepstakes is not dependent upon entrant's provision of this information. Mail-in entries must be postmarked by June 12, 2019, and received by Sponsor by June 17, 2019, to be eligible. Mail-in entries become the property of Sponsor and will not be returned.
RANDOM DRAWING: The potential winner of the Sweepstakes will be selected by random drawing on or about June 17, 2019 ("Drawing Date"), from among all eligible entries received. Subject to verification of eligibility and compliance with the terms of these Official Rules, the potential winner will be declared the official winner of the Sweepstakes (the "Winner"). The decisions of Sponsor are final and binding on all matters relating to this Sweepstakes. Odds of winning depend on the total number of eligible entries received.
PRIZE: One (1) Prize Will Be Awarded. The Winner will receive two (2) tickets for Winner and one (1) guest for the Baltimore Orioles 2019 regular season home game played on June 25, 2019; the opportunity for Winner to participate, on the date of the game, in selected grounds crew duties determined by Sponsor at its sole discretion; and the opportunity for Winner and his/her one (1) guest to watch two (2) to three (3) innings (determined by Sponsor at its sole discretion) of the game at field level with members of the grounds crew (the "Prize"). (Approximate Retail Value of the Prize: $1,000.) TRANSPORTATION TO/FROM THE GAME AND LODGING NOT INCLUDED. The exact nature and duration of the opportunity to participate in grounds crew duties and the opportunity to watch two to three innings of the game from field level shall be determined by Sponsor at its sole discretion and subject to availability and the rules and regulations of Sponsor.
PRIZE CONDITIONS: All Prize details shall be determined in the sole and absolute discretion of Sponsor. Winner is fully responsible for any and all applicable federal, state, territory and local taxes (including income and withholding taxes). All costs and expenses associated with the Prize acceptance and use not specified herein as being provided, including but not limited to lodging, transportation costs, meals, gratuities and other expenses incurred by accepting the Prize are the sole responsibility of the Winner. The Prize is non-transferable and non-assignable, with no cash redemptions except at Sponsor's sole and absolute discretion. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute the Prize (or any portion thereof) with a prize of comparable or greater value at its sole and absolute discretion. TRANSPORTATION TO/FROM THE GAME AND LODGING NOT INCLUDED. Seat locations at the game and exact game/event/exhibition date shall be determined in the sole discretion of Sponsor. Winner's guest must be of legal age of majority in his/her jurisdiction of residence (and at least eighteen (18) years of age), unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Major League Baseball game, event and exhibition dates and times are determined in the sole discretion of the BOC and/or the applicable Club, as applicable, and may be subject to change. The terms and conditions of the tickets awarded as part of the Prize will govern in the event a legal game, event or exhibition, as defined by Major League Baseball, is not played or held, as applicable, due to weather conditions, an act of God, an act of terrorism, civil disturbance or any other reason. Winner and his/her guest agree to comply with all applicable ballpark and venue, as applicable, regulations in connection with the Prize. Sponsor and the applicable MLB Entities reserve the right to remove or to deny entry to the Winner and/or his/her guest who engage(s) in a non-sportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person at the game, event or exhibition. Released Parties (defined below) will not be responsible for weather conditions, Acts of God, acts of terrorism, civil disturbances, work stoppage or any other natural disaster outside their control that may cause the cancellation or postponement of any Major League Baseball game, event or exhibition. Major League Baseball game, event and exhibition tickets awarded as the Prize may not be resold or offered for resale or used in any way for commercial or promotional purpose whatsoever. Any such resale or commercial or promotional use may result in disqualification and Prize forfeiture, and may invalidate the license granted by the game, event or exhibition tickets.
NOTIFICATION: The potential winner will be notified at the email address, postal address and/or telephone number (in the sole discretion of Sponsor) provided at the time of entry or from which entry is submitted, as applicable (the "Prize Notification"). In the event that any potential winner does not respond to any such Prize Notification within three (3) days of the date of issuance or declines the Prize for any reason, a disqualification will result, the Prize will be forfeited and, at Sponsor's sole discretion and time permitting, an alternate potential winner may be randomly selected from among all remaining eligible entries. The potential winner may be required to submit his/her valid social security number and/or other identification to Sponsor and may be required to execute, have notarized and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and Release of Liability and, unless prohibited by law, Publicity, within three (3) days of the date of issuance. Failure to submit any identification required by Sponsor or to return the required documents within the specified time period, noncompliance with these Official Rules or the return of the Prize (or any portion thereof) or Prize Notification as undeliverable may result in disqualification and Prize forfeiture and, at Sponsor's sole discretion and time permitting, may cause an alternate potential winner to be randomly selected from among all remaining eligible entries.
WAIVER OF LIABILITY/PUBLICITY RELEASE: By participating in the Sweepstakes and submitting an entry, each entrant agrees to (a) be bound by these Official Rules, including all entry requirements, and (b) waive any and all claims against Sponsor, the other MLB Entities, Pennington Seed, Inc., Facebook, Inc. ("Facebook"), Apple, Inc. and each of their respective parents, affiliated companies, subsidiaries, officers, directors, employees, agents, licensees, distributors, dealers, retailers, printers, representatives and advertising and promotion agencies, and any and all other companies associated with the Sweepstakes, and all of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives (collectively, "Released Parties") for any injury, damage or loss that may occur, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from the participation in the Sweepstakes or from the receipt or use of the Prize (or any portion thereof) or any travel or activity related to the receipt or use of the Prize (or any portion thereof). By entering this Sweepstakes, each entrant gives his/her express permission to be contacted by Sponsor and/or MLBAM by telephone, email and/or postal mail for Sweepstakes purposes. The Winner, by acceptance of the Prize, grants to Sponsor, MLBAM and each of their respective designees the right to publicize the Winner's name, address (city and state/territory of residence), photograph, voice, statements and/or other likeness and prize information for advertising, promotional, trade and/or any other purpose in any media or format now known or hereafter devised, throughout the world, in perpetuity, without limitation and without further compensation, consideration, permission or notification, unless prohibited by law.
GENERAL CONDITIONS: Released Parties are not responsible for stolen, late, incomplete, illegible, inaccurate, misdirected, lost, misrouted, scrambled, damaged, delayed, undelivered, mutilated, postage-due or garbled entries, transmissions, email or mail; or for lost, interrupted or unavailable network, cable, satellite, server, Internet Service Provider (ISP), wireless network, website, or other connections including those through and/or by any website, availability or accessibility or miscommunications or failed computer, satellite, telephone, cable or wireless transmissions, lines, or technical failure or jumbled, scrambled, delayed, or misdirected transmissions or computer hardware or software malfunctions, failures or difficulties; wireless service congestion; failures or malfunctions of phones, phone lines or telephone systems, wireless towers or cellular tower equipment; any error, omission, interruption, defect or delay in wireless or other transmission, processing, or communication; non-delivery; misdirected, blocked, or delayed email notifications; printing, typographical or other errors appearing within these Official Rules, in any Sweepstakes-related advertisements or other materials; or any other errors, problems or difficulties of any kind whether human, mechanical, electronic, network, computer, telephone, wireless service, mail, typographical, printing or otherwise relating to or in connection with the Sweepstakes, including, without limitation, errors or difficulties which may occur in connection with the administration of the Sweepstakes, the processing of entries, the announcement of the Prize or in any Sweepstakes-related materials, or the cancellation or postponement of any Major League Baseball game, event or exhibition. Released Parties are also not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by website users, tampering, hacking, or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Sweepstakes. Released Parties are not responsible for injury or damage to participants' or to any other person's computer and/or wireless device related to or resulting from participating in this Sweepstakes or downloading materials from or use of the website. Persons who tamper with or abuse any aspect of the Sweepstakes or website or attempt to undermine the legitimate operation of the Sweepstakes by cheating, deception or other unfair playing practices, or intend to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other entrant or any representative of Sponsor and/or MLBAM or who are in violation of these Official Rules, as solely determined by Sponsor, will be disqualified and all associated entries will be void. Any attempt to deliberately damage the content or operation of this Sweepstakes is unlawful and subject to legal action by Sponsor, MLBAM and/or their respective agents. Sponsor shall have the sole right to disqualify any entrant for violation of these Official Rules or any applicable laws relating to the Sweepstakes, and to resolve all disputes in its sole discretion. Released Parties (a) make no warranty, guaranty or representation of any kind concerning the Prize (or any portion thereof), and (b) disclaim any implied warranty. Sponsor's failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.
Sponsor and MLBAM reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to cancel or suspend the Sweepstakes (or any portion thereof) should virus, bugs, unauthorized human intervention, or other causes corrupt administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper operation of the Sweepstakes (or any portion thereof). In the event of cancellation, Sponsor may elect to identify the Winner and award the Prize by way of random drawing from among all non-suspect, eligible entries received up to the time of such cancellation. Sponsor and MLBAM also reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to modify these Official Rules for clarification purposes without materially affecting the terms and conditions of the Sweepstakes.
Entries generated by a script, macro or other mechanical or automated means will be disqualified. In the event of dispute as to the identity or eligibility of any potential winner based on a mobile phone number, the winning entry will be declared made by the Authorized Account Holder of the mobile phone number used to enter provided he/she is eligible according to these Official Rules. The "Authorized Account Holder" is defined as the natural person to whom the applicable mobile service provider has assigned the mobile phone number used to enter. In the event a winning account selected is a joint account, the Prize will be awarded in the name of the first-named account holder provided he/she is eligible according to these Official Rules. Proof to Sponsor's satisfaction of being the authorized account subscriber may be required by Sponsor.
As a condition of entering this Sweepstakes, each entrant agrees that (i) any and all disputes, claims, controversies or causes of action arising out of or relating to this Sweepstakes, or any prizes awarded (each, a "Claim"), shall be (1) arbitrated on an individual basis only, and shall not be consolidated or joined with or in any arbitration or other proceeding involving a Claim of any other party, and (2) settled by binding arbitration in New York County, New York before a single arbitrator appointed by the American Arbitration Association in accordance with its then governing rules and procedures, and judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator may be entered by any court having jurisdiction thereof; and (ii) under no circumstance will entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and entrant hereby waives all rights to claim, punitive, incidental, consequential or any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses. These Official Rules shall be governed by and construed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, U.S.A, applicable to contracts entered into and performed exclusively in that State.
Apple, Inc. is not a sponsor of, or responsible for conducting, the Sweepstakes. All entry data provided online is provided to Sponsor and/or MLBAM and not to Facebook. This Sweepstakes is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook.
WINNER'S LIST: For the Winner's name, mail a request and a self-addressed stamped envelope to be received no later than ninety (90) days after the Drawing Date to: Pennington Seed Groundskeeper Experience Sweepstakes Winner's List c/o Baltimore Orioles, attn: Kelly Wallace, 333 West Camden Street, Baltimore, MD 21201.
SPONSOR: The Sponsor of this Sweepstakes is Baltimore Orioles Limited Partnership, 333 West Camden Street, Baltimore, MD 21201.
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Since 1987, Lorraine Hubbs has worked constantly as a caregiver for five different people, making their meals, doing their errands and cleaning their homes. But she hasn't received a dime for it.
That's because they've all been her relatives.
Hubbs may not know it, but the Aldergrove resident is a perfect example of the new wave of "serial caregivers" — mostly boomer-aged women who work and raise children and then in swift succession find themselves first taking care of their parents and then a spouse, with no break in between for themselves.
Hubbs first started her "career" in family caregiving when she was a mother of three in her 40s and her father-in-law got cancer. His wife had debilitating arthritis, so she had to step in and look after their needs, quitting her job in office administration. After they both passed away, her sister Gloria fell ill with Lewy body dementia, and she helped her sister's husband out with her care, until her sister passed away. Then her own mother, who was showing symptoms of Parkinson's, needed help. And just a few years after she wrapped up her mother's estate, her husband, Ross, started showing Alzheimer's symptoms. He was diagnosed in 2005, and she's been his sole caregiver ever since.
"It's such an all-consuming responsibility," said Hubbs, as she sat across from her husband on their backyard porch, holding his hand as he quietly smoked a cigarette.
"Unless you live with it 24/7 hours a day, 365 days of the year, you really don't know what it is all about," she said of being a caregiver for someone with dementia. "It is constant change. You have to be so flexible and have a plan A, B, C and Z, because the first 18 won't work."
Ross, a former truck driver, said it has been hard for him, too. When he first started getting lost on the job, he said, "I thought I was having a nervous breakdown."
Today, the 67-year-old, who is also diabetic, has trouble completing a train of thought and asks the same questions repeatedly. His hand-eye co-ordination has suffered, so he needs help with tasks such as shaving. He's lost weight due to a lack of interest in food, and activities he used to love, such as rose gardening or playing guitar, are slipping away from him.
"I can get a hold of things, but I can't seem to hold on to them. I lose interest," he said.
What has helped Hubbs pull through was an Alzheimer Society of B.C. caregiver support group she belonged to for five years. But she admits that finding time for self-care is hard, even as her own health is suffering: She has high blood pressure and low thyroid.
"One of the first things that the Alzheimer Society tells you to do is take care of yourself. But jeepers creepers, you're so busy, you don't have time."
That's why Hubbs was thrilled to discover a caregiver appreciation night created by another woman in her community.
Langley resident Stephanie Lafreniere knows first-hand the stresses caregivers go through. She is raising two boys and working four jobs while flying to Arizona every six weeks or so for the past eight years to help her father for a week or more, as he's been taking care of her mother, who has dementia.
"It's the sandwich generation. There's guilt on both ends — the guilt of going away from your family and leaving your job to take care of your parents, and then guilt when you are taking care of family at home because you're here and not down there helping out," says Lafreniere.
Wanting to help others in her family's situation, Lafreniere somehow found the time to put on an event called Caregivers Night Out last summer. Out of her own pocket, she treated more than 30 caregivers to a free meal, a dance show put on by some of her dance students and goody bags and door prizes donated by businesses, no strings attached, just as a gesture of goodwill.
"It was just a reminder that someone sees that what you are doing is really heroic, and the recognition that you really need a break. Caregivers get a lot of information and they get handed reams and reams of paper. But sometimes what they really just need to hear is, 'You are a hero,' rather than, 'We're going to shove all this information at you.' Caregivers are not thanked a lot of the time for what they do."
Her gesture hasn't gone unnoticed. Hubbs was one of the under-appreciated caregivers who attended the event last year, and said it was a lovely escape.
"Stephanie is a wonderful person that recognizes some of the difficulties and stresses of caregiving and has been trying to give a break to caregivers," Hubbs said.
And if anyone can use a break, Hubbs can.
To sign up to attend the next Caregivers Night Out, email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Round Tower – Drill and Kill
(MathPickle, 2015)
Joli Barker's photo of a round tower being stormed.
Standards for Mathematical Practice
MathPickle puzzle and game designs engage a wide spectrum of student abilities while targeting the following Standards for Mathematical Practice:
MP1 Toughen up!
This is problem solving where our students develop grit and resiliency in the face of nasty, thorny problems. It is the most sought after skill for our students.
MP3 Work together!
This is collaborative problem solving in which students discuss their strategies to solve a problem and identify missteps in a failed solution. MathPickle recommends pairing up students for all its puzzles.
MP6 Be precise!
This is where our students learn to communicate using precise terminology. MathPickle encourages students not only to use the precise terms of others, but to invent and rigorously define their own terms.
MP7 Be observant!
One of the things that the human brain does very well is identify pattern. We sometimes do this too well and identify patterns that don't really exist.


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Sites We Like: Erik Marinovich, seanwes, and Distil Copywriting
We're celebrating the art of language and letters in this week's sites we like.
Leading with a homepage that attractively displays a gallery of his recent projects, Erik Marinovich's website keeps the focus on his beautiful lettering work, but does not disappoint when it comes to web type. Chaparral brings light, deliberate form to the main body text, while JAF Herb, a distinctively approachable blackletter, adds its blocky but stylish character to headers. Learning Curve adds a perfect flourish of color and swirl.
Sean McCabe's website employs Le Monde Courrier STD throughout, its relaxed but orderly shape establishing a friendly, conversational tone for his neatly-organized lettering portfolio. The resulting feel is as close to a personal tour of his lovely lettering projects as we could ask for from behind a screen.
"The right words in the right order can do great things," opens the Distil Copywriting webpage. We think there's also something to be said for the right words in the right typeface, and Distil nails this as well, pairing fresh Freight Sans with subtle Skolar on this well-paced site.
That's all for this week; share sites that you like in the comments!