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Coyotes' Mike Smith leaves with lower-body injuryNHL.com @NHL
PHOENIX -- Phoenix Coyotes goaltender Mike Smith left Wednesday's game against the Columbus Blue Jackets midway through the first period with what the team called a lower-body injury.
Smith did not return to the game, a 5-1 Phoenix victory. But the team termed the injury minor and said after the game that Smith will make the trip to San Jose for Thursday's game against the Sharks. He's listed as day-to-day, but the Coyotes will bring up Chad Johnson from Portland of the AHL as an emergency call-up.
Smith, who hurt himself during warmups, left at the 11-minute mark of a scoreless game, skating to the bench on his own during a TV timeout. He was replaced by backup Jason LaBarbera, who finished with 21 saves after Smith stopped the four shots he faced before leaving.
"Lower body. Day-to-day. Not sure where he'll be tomorrow, so we'll have a call-up," coach Dave Tippett said. "The trainers came to me after warmup and said Smitty is a little tight, you might want to keep an eye on him. And 'a little tight' turned into 'can't play.'"
Smith was not available to the media after the game, but LaBarbera said he knew Smith had "done a little something" in warmups and had already started to prepare himself to play in the game when Smith decided he'd had enough.
"I just tried to get myself as ready as possible," LaBarbera said. "I knew he was hurting, so I was watching him and I figured I would play at some point."
Smith had allowed 10 goals in weekend losses to the Dallas Stars and Chicago Blackhawks.
The Coyotes were already without center Martin Hanzal and defenseman Rostislav Klesla, who missed the game with lower-body injuries.


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Morgan Williams, an only child and a new alumna at the Institute of Notre Dame, is heading to college in Delaware this fall. But she plans to stay in touch with the "little sisters" she has befriended in the past four years as a volunteer with Project K.IND, a student-run outreach program that assists economically disadvantaged young girls.
The 10-year-old program has forged a sisterhood between the all-girls Catholic high school and elementary students in its East Baltimore neighborhood. Williams stayed with the program throughout high school and served as its president her senior year.
"At first, it was an experiment to see if I liked it," she said. "Then, I fell in love. I had a little sister that I could see every week."
Kyndall Payne, 11, has three brothers and no sisters, except for Williams, she said.
"I can get away from boys and have girl time with Morgan," said Kyndall, a fifth-grader at Cardinal Shehan School in Northwood.
Williams and Kyndall met every Tuesday at Cardinal Shehan and sometimes on weekends for a movie, a shopping excursion or a visit to a local attraction. Kyndall said her grades have improved with Williams' help, and she has now set her sights on IND.
"Her family tells me IND is all she talks about," said Vanessa Williams, IND's campus minister and founder of Project K.IND. "This didn't start off as a feeder program for IND. It was just to give latchkey kids something to do. Now, we have had many of the little sisters come to our school and become big sisters. They are paying it forward. It's all one big cycle."
IND pairs its students — about 120 volunteers this year — in weekly meetings with elementary school girls at Cardinal Shehan, Mother Seton and St. James and St. John parochial schools. The project has created long-term friendships that have enhanced the younger girls' academic success and emotional outlook and strengthened the mentors' leadership abilities, said Vanessa Williams, who is not related to Morgan.
"If someone had told me this program would still be going strong after 10 years, I would not have believed it," Vanessa Williams said. "It is difficult to keep young women focused day after day, let alone year after year. But these mentors kept coming back. They truly are big sisters."
Morgan Williams worked with four little sisters this year across all three elementary schools and feels certain she has befriended each one.
"I learned about time management, and I made my little sisters my priority," she said.
Every Tuesday, the 90-minute program takes over the cafeteria at Cardinal Shehan.
"We are delighted with the program," said Sister Rita Michelle Proctor, principal at Cardinal Shehan. "These are critical years for our students, and these role models come in and interact with them. It makes me feel good to see them walk in so well prepared and so confident in their own leadership."
After a day of classes, homework still comes first, with help readily available from a mentor.
"They can help with anything," Kyndall said. "Morgan helps me with my homework first, and then we do fun stuff."
Once the books are put away, snacks and a recreational activity the mentors have planned take over.
"I love dance," Kyndall said. "And Morgan taught me to make papier-mache dolls."
Said Kaliyah Davenport, Kyndall's classmate, who is mentored by Nicole Mattuci: "We are having so much fun. I want to be a role model for other girls, just like my big sister."
Vanessa Williams would like to expand the program and is working with Archbishop Curley, an all-boys Catholic school, on a similar partnership to benefit young boys.
For Mattuci, who plans to attend Essex Community College, and Morgan Williams, who will enroll at Wesley College in Delaware, the connections will continue.
"They can't get rid of me," Williams said.
Kyndall and Kaliyah anticipate sixth grade and meeting new big sisters this fall.
"I know I will really need good grades to go to IND," Kaliyah said. "And I know my big sister will help me."
Morgan Williams said she has made sure her Project K.IND successors are prepared to continue the effort.
Both grads will work this summer as counselors at IND's TAMARIND (Take a Month around IND) camp. Their previous volunteer experience helped them land paid counseling jobs. Morgan has also secured a part-time summer job but has already told her boss she won't be available until evenings.
Kyndall and Kaliyah expect to be among the 40 campers, spending time with their big sisters.
"This program goes beyond racial and economic differences," Vanessa Williams said. "When these girls get together, they are sisters."

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From Openmoko
Andrew's Total Newbie Guide
These are my collected instructions for getting various FreeRunner features to work. I don't know much about FreeRunner or coding, so please forgive the numerous mistakes.
Getting the Freerunner working as a Phone
date: Mar 2009
These guide is intended for people who just want to get their Freerunner working as a phone. I tried every distribution available in Jan 2009 and I will summarize my results for anyone who is interested.
Get a working SIM card
First, make sure that your SIM card works with the Freerunner. Go to the Carriers page, find your country and carrier, and check what people have said about their SIM cards. My original SIM card did not work (Canada/Rogers) but Rogers kindly replaced it with a supported SIM.
Install Qt Extended
The software that was on my FreeRunner when I received it was not functional as a phone. It wouldn't wake from suspend when it received a call. Sometimes it spontaneously rebooted. Often it just wouldn't turn on at all and I had to remove the battery. Fortunately there are many distributions available for the FreeRunner. This is one of the great things about open projects: you get to choose what software to run. The bad thing is that some choices are better than others for certain tasks, and it is not always clear what to use for each function. I have tested every distribution available in January 2009, and in my opinion the best distribution for using your Freerunner as a phone is Qt Extended, which is the Free version of Trolltech's QTopia (used on the Sharp Zaurus and some other devices).
You must download the Qt Extended kernel and rootfs and flash them to your Freerunner. First read throughFlashing_the_Neo_FreeRunner page. Whatever OS you use on your desktop/laptop, you will need the dfu command line utility to copy the kernel and rootfs to your Freerunner. For most of my coding work I use Mac OS X, but for FreeRunner hacking I find it much easier to reboot into Ubuntu.
Note: updated for Qt Extended 4.4.3. See the old section for qt extended 4.4.2 instructions
Next download the kernel and rootfs to your workstation. Here's a link to the rootfs created by Tomas Riveros Schober. And here's the kernel image. Boot your FreeRunner in dfu mode and use the dfu commands:
desktop# dfu-util -d 0x1d50:0x5119 -a kernel -R -D Neo_kernel_Backup_200902212230.bin ... stuff ... desktop# dfu-util -d 0x1d50:0x5119 -a rootfs -R -D Neo_rootfs_Backup_200902212230.jffs2 ... more stuff ...
Qt Extended isn't Perfect
Echo Cancellation Patch
Echo cancellation should be in the 4.4.3 build
The White Screen of Death (WSOD)
WSOD is fixed in the 4.4.3 build
Official Documentation
The official documentation for Qt Extended is at Trolltech's website. But it is mostly about how to develop applications, it doesn't have much info on how to actually use qtopia.
Booting Qt Extended
Disconnect the USB cable before booting Qt Extended. Don't know why, but my FreeRunner often hangs if I boot with the USB cable plugged in.
Short Battery Life
My battery life is less than five hours which kinda sucks.
Adding New Media
Secure shell to the FreeRunner and create a Documents directory in /home/root. Then secure copy media files to /home/root/Documents. In Qt Extended use the File Manager to browse your Documents directory (might have to do a rescan from the options menu). If you have a working /media/card directory then you might be able to put files in there.
As far as I can tell, Qt Extended plays ogg, wav and some mp3. Note that some of my mp3 files played but others didn't. I converted all my mp3s to ogg using ogg2mp3 just to be safe.
Wireless networking
You must secure shell to your Freerunner to configure wireless networking. Fix the /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and /etc/network/interfaces files then use ifup eth0.
Changing the Default Route
Every time I connect the USB cable FreeRunner changes the default route to 192.168.0.200 interface usb0. Which is a pain in the butt, because I prefer to keep the wifi as my default gateway. I think this is caused by the line "gateway 192.168.0.200" in /etc/network/interfaces. The obvious fix is to remove that line. If you default route is buggered up, here are the instructions to change default route:
freerunner# route delete default gateway 192.168.0.200 freerunner# route add default gateway 192.168.3.1
Qt Extended SDK
It would be nice to write some custom apps. Also, there are Qtopia apps available on the interweb, but the binaries are all for Zaurus. It would be nice to compile them for FreeRunner.
There is a VMWare image of the SDK available for 4.3.2, but not for 4.4.2. So I have to compile the Qt Extended SDK from source. These instructions are based on Jim Morris' excellent article. I know that doing everything as root is a grave sin, but I'm too busy fixing bugs in the Qt Extended build to fiddle with permissions too.
My platform is a Macbook (Santa Rosa) running Ubuntu Intrepid.
Compiling the Qt Extended SDK
Download the SDK source and toolchain from qtextended.org. Change directory to your machine's root directory then untar the toolchain - it will install itself to /opt/toolchains. Next create /opt/QtopiaSDK/qt-extended-4.4.2 and /opt/QtopiaSDK/build directories. Unpack the Qt extended SDK source to /opt/QtopiaSDK/qt-extended-4.4.2. Set a pair of environment variables as follows:
desktop# export QTOPIA_DEPOT_PATH=/opt/QtopiaSDK/qt-extended-4.4.2 desktop# export QPEDIR=/opt/QtopiaSDK/build/qt-extended-4.4.2
Next download a pair of patches from mwester's openmoko stuff: pkg-config-template.patch and qmemoryfile_unix_open_args.patch. Copy these to the qt-extended-4.4.2 source directory and execute these commands:
desktop# patch -p1 < qmemoryfile_unix_open_args.patch desktop# patch -p1 < pkg-config-template.patch
Now change directory to the build directory. Execute the following:
desktop# cd $QPEDIR desktop# $QTOPIA_DEPOT_PATH/configure -device neo -D _FORTIFY_SOURCE=0 desktop# make desktop# make install
The -device neo is good for both Neo and FreeRunner. The _FORTIFY_SOURCE=0 turns off some extra error checking that is turned on by default in many linux distros but borks the qt extended build process.
There's still something wrong which will cause errors. I don't know exactly what is wrong, but I googled a fix. Find the file qt-extended-4.4.1/devices/neo/configure-common and change the line:
-add-modules pim
#-add-modules pim
Compiling an Example Qt Extended App
First set those indispensable Qt environment variables:
desktop# export QTOPIA_DEPOT_PATH=/opt/QtopiaSDK/qt-extended-4.4.2 desktop# export QPEDIR=/opt/QtopiaSDK/build/qt-extended-4.4.2
Next create a directory /opt/Qtopia/build/myapps. Copy the example app. Rename the example app to something that makes sense (how about "example"!). Create the Makefile and build the example.
desktop# mkdir /opt/Qtopia/build/myapps desktop# cd /opt/Qtopia/build/myapps desktop# cp -R $QTOPIA_DEPOT_PATH/examples/application . desktop# mv application example desktop# cd example desktop# $QPEDIR/bin/qtopiamake Finding Projects... Writing 1 Makefiles... desktop# make make: running qbuild default uic /opt/QtopiaSDK/build/myapps/application/examplebase.ui moc /opt/QtopiaSDK/build/myapps/application/main.cpp moc /opt/QtopiaSDK/build/myapps/application/example.h arm-linux-g++ /opt/QtopiaSDK/build/myapps/application/.moc/moc_example.cpp arm-linux-g++ /opt/QtopiaSDK/build/myapps/application/main.cpp moc /opt/QtopiaSDK/build/myapps/application/example.cpp arm-linux-g++ /opt/QtopiaSDK/build/myapps/application/example.cpp arm-linux-g++ /opt/QtopiaSDK/build/myapps/application/example
Now you have an executable example. Of course, it won't execute on your workstation, you must secure copy it to your FreeRunner. Then secure shell into the FreeRunner, import the Qtopia environment variables and execute the app:
desktop# scp example root@freerunner:/email@example.com's password: example 100% 33KB 33.4KB/s 00:00 desktop# ssh 192.168.3.111 root@freerunner's password: freerunner:~# . /opt/Trolltech/Qtopia/qpe.env freerunner:~# ./example
You should see a message on FreeRunner's LCD.
Creating up a Qtopia Feed
A qtopia feed is just a web directory containing package files and a packages.list file. I will assume that you already have a web server set up with DocumentRoot /var/www. The real trick is building packages and a packages.list file. As usual, we start by defining our environment variables.
desktop# export QTOPIA_DEPOT_PATH=/opt/QtopiaSDK/qt-extended-4.4.2 desktop# export QPEDIR=/opt/QtopiaSDK/build/qt-extended-4.4.2 desktop# export HTTPDIR=/var/www/neo desktop# mkdir /var/www/neo
We need another variable, HTTPDIR, to tell the tools where our feed will be located. And we need to make the directory. Next build the package for our example:
desktop# cd /opt/QtopiaSDK/build/myapps/example desktop# make packages desktop# /opt/QtopiaSDK/qt-extended-4.4.2/bin/mkPackages $HTTPDIR
Woohoo! That's it!
Now you can go to the Software Package setup tool and create a new feed. My feed's URL is http://radagast.bglug.ca/neo.
Qt Extended 4.4.2 Install Instructions
Next download the kernel and rootfs to your workstation. Here's a link to the rootfs created by Hypnotize. And here's the mwebster flash image containing the kernel. Boot your FreeRunner in dfu mode and use the dfu commands:
desktop# dfu-util -d 0x1d50:0x5119 -a kernel -R -D uImage-gta02-mwester-stable-d6f9fd270943fb22.bin ... stuff ... desktop# dfu-util -d 0x1d50:0x5119 -a rootfs -R -D qtextended-4.4.2-gta02-rootfs-release-working-with-SystemRingTones.jffs2 ... more stuff ...
Fix Echo Cancellation
Note: Echo cancellation should be in the 4.4.3 build - this is old doc for version 4.4.2
On his blog Chris Samuel explained how to turn on echo cancellation for qt extended 4.4.2. First you need to download an updated neo plugin. Secure copy the libneovendor.so file to your Freerunner, then secure shell to the FreeRunner and do this:
freerunner# cd /opt/Trolltech/Qtopia/plugins/phonevendors/ freerunner# mv libneovendor.so libneovendor.so.orig freerunner# mv /home/root/libneovendor.so .
The change should take effect immediately.
The White Screen of Death (WSOD)
Note: WSOD is fixed in 4.4.3, this is old info for version 4.4.2
Sometimes when Qt Extended recovers from suspend you see a bright white screen. You don't have a phone anymore - you have a flashlight. Hold the power button down for about five seconds to power down the phone, then power it back up.
Porting a command line debian app
First download the tarball. My example will be the at package. Unpacked it at /opt/QtExtended/build/at-184.108.40.206.
root# PATH=/opt/toolchains/arm920t-eabi/bin:$PATH ./configure --host=arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi


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Started 31 games and played in 33 in his first season at Tech after sitting out the 2009-10 season as a transfer...averaged 9.7 points per contest...was named Tennessee Tech's Outstanding Male Athlete for the year and was the squad's Co-MVP...became known for his clutch shooting as he hit five game-winning shots as well as the three-pointer that sealed a win for the Golden Eagles against Murray State in the OVC semifinals...was named to the OVC All-Tournament team for his role over Tech's three games in which he averaged 9.7 points and 7.3 assists per game...also named to the OVC All-Newcomer team and was an NABC All-District selection...led the OVC in assists, averaging 6.4 per game and reaching double-figure assists in six games, including a season-high 12 helpers against Southeast Missouri on Dec. 21...also led the OVC in steals, averaging 2.1 per outing and snatching five or more steals five times, including a season-high six against SIU Edwardsville on Feb. 22...also led the league with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 1.8...was the best three-point shooter on the team, hitting 36 percent (36 of 100) of his shots from behind the arc...scored in double-figures 14 times and poured in a season-high 22 points at Eastern Illinois on Jan. 27...was a 75 percent free-throw shooter and pulled down three rebounds per game.
Sat out the 2009-10 season due to NCAA transfer regulations.
2008-09 (at Georgia):
Played in 31 of Georgia's 32 games as a sophomore, including 17 starts…averaged 4.3 points and 2.9 assists in 20 minutes per game…was second on the team in assists with 89 and steals with 35.
2007-08 (at Georgia):
As a freshman, had an instant impact at Georgia, becoming the only freshman to have double-digit assists in his first career game, as he had 10 helpers in his college debut against Jacksonville State…hit the game-winning 3-pointer in the 2008 SEC tournament against Kentucky, which propelled the Bulldogs to the NCAA tournament…scored a career-high 12 points against Hawaii, and matched that mark twice.
Was a first-team all-state selection his senior year at Dunwoody High School…averaged 19.7 points, 4.2 assists, 3.4 steals and 3.1 rebounds his senior season…as a junior, helped Dunwoody to its second consecutive Class 3A state title while averaging 10.3 points and 6.3 assists per game...in his four-year high school career, including two seasons at Flowery Branch High School, scored 2,368 total points and made the state playoffs all four years.
PERSONAL: Full name is Zachary Douglas Swansey...son of Ron and Cherlyn Swansey...born December 20, 1988...majoring in fitness and wellness.


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Muiden is a pleasant town in the Netherlands of approximately 4000 people, on the shores of the IJmeer, at the mouth of the Vecht river. The town is known for its yacht harbor and for its historic castle, Muiderslot. Its proximity to Amsterdam - it is just 12 km east of the city centre - makes it a good day trip for anyone looking to get out of the city.
Get in
By bicycle
It takes about an hour to cycle from central Amsterdam to Muiden.
By train and bus
The fastest way to reach Muiden from Amsterdam is to take the train to Weesp station, and then bus 110. The bus stop is in front of the station, service every half hour, hourly after 20.30, hourly on Sundays. The ride to Muiden takes just 5 minutes.
Connexxion bus 101, from Amsterdam's Amstel Station to Blaricum, also stops on the outskirts of Muiden. Service every half hour.
By car
There are large parking areas on the outskirts of Muiden. It's not worth taking your car into the town itself. There are only two bridges across the river Vecht here, the motorway and a narrow swing bridge: on Sundays the narrow bridge is closed to cars.
Get around
Muiden is quite small, so getting around on foot or bicycle is the only reasonable option.
There are essentially three things to see in Muiden: the historic river quayside, the yachts moored there, and above all the Muiderslot, an originally 13th-century castle. Tours of the castle are usually in Dutch only. €7. [1].
Visit the 'Muiderslot', a beautiful castle on the waterside.
Favorite restaurants are "Graaf Floris van Muiden" which attracts most tourists and sailers and the more exclusive "De Doelen". Both are situated on the quayside.
Cafe Ome Ko is the favorite place on the waterfront. Watch the boats go by!
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Fairfax County is home to a diverse range of reptiles, a class of animals that includes: Lizards, snakes, and turtles.
Non-venomous snakes:
- Common ribbon snake
- Eastern garter snake
- Eastern hognose snake
- Eastern kingsnake
- Eastern milksnake
- Eastern ratsnake
- Eastern smooth earthsnake
- Eastern wormsnake
- Mole kingsnake
- Northern black racer
- Northern brownsnake
- Northern red-bellied snake
- Northern ringneck snake
- Northern rough greensnake
- Northern scarletsnake
- Northern watersnake
- Queen snake
- Red cornsnake
Venomous Snakes:
- Northern Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortix mokasen)
- Timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus)
NOTE: Unlikely to occur - No credible reports, sightings or specimens from Fairfax County in recent history (mid-20th century to present). Timber rattlesnakes require hibernaculum habitat to survive each winter. The closest suitable habitat is along Bull Run Mountain in western Prince William County.


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Santa Claus Pub Crawl In Hartford
On Saturday, Dec. 1, hundreds of red-robed Santa impersonators took part in the 7th annual Santa Pub Tour, a fundraiser for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The Santas traveled to popular Hartford bars, including Pig's Eye Pub and The Russian Lady, before participating in the traditional running of the Santas down Pratt Street. Then it was on to City Steam and finally off to McKinnon's and Black Bear Saloon to end the night.
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Billy the Kid FalloutPosted by rtmsf on June 2nd, 2007
As expected, the college hoops/NBA blogospheres have been abuzz with thoughts on the reasoning behind Billy Donovan's decision to leave Florida for the Orlando Magic, as well as speculation as to how well BTK will do when he gets there. As we said on Thursday when the news was breaking, it's unlikely that Donovan will become an abject failure in the NBA like his mentor Pitino in Boston or several of the other successful college coaches who made that jump – most notably, Carlesimo, Calipari, Tim Floyd, Mike Montgomery and even switching sports with another ex-Gator, Steve Spurrier. The key distinction is that Donovan's opportunity with Orlando, very much in contrast with most NBA job openings, is a pretty good one. Orlando was a playoff team this season, albeit barely, and they do have a young stud in Dwight Howard to pair with solid PG Jameer Nelson and a surplus of salary cap space. Plus Orlando as a city has long been attractive to free agents because of its warm weather, exclusive neighborhoods such as Isleworth (Shaq and Tiger have homes there) and tax benefit (no state income tax in Florida).
So the question really shouldn't be whether Donovan will fail in Orlando, it's whether he will succeed. Can he shrewdly use his eye for talent to build around Howard to make the Magic a 50-60 win team over the next five years, eventually rising to the level of challenging the Lebrons for the JV Conference title? In the NBA, the old adage goes, it's all about the players. The coaches above failed for many reasons, often including a lack of imagination and management acumen, but the most important reason was they simply had inferior talent. Billy Donovan is in a unique position as a new NBA coach where he should be able to avoid that pitfall, and for that reason, it says here that he'll have a successful tenure in Orlando.
The media expectedly is falling into two camps on this issue:
Kelly Dwyer at cnnsi.com:
From Mike Montgomery to Rick Pitino, John Calipari, Tim Floyd, Lon Kruger, Leonard Hamilton, P.J. Carlesimo, Jerry Tarkanian and Dick Vitale, the NBA landscape is littered with former college coaches who thought they could exhort and prod their way toward NBA glory. And, to a man, each fell well short. Only Pitino, Floyd and Carlesimo were offered second NBA jobs, with only Floyd (the most maligned of the bunch) improving his record in his second stint.
The overriding theme here is respect, and how to earn it from professionals making guaranteed money while the coach tries to sustain a sense of gravitas from training camp in October to, hopefully, a playoff run in the spring. NCAA coaches, who are allowed to wield scholarships and playing time over the head of impressionable youngsters, are able to get away with emptying all their motivational shells in the midst of what, at best, could turn into a 40-game season. NBA coaches tend to hit their 40th game in early February, with a playoff push and possible postseason run still weeks away.
Despite all the historical evidence suggesting failure, each pro team and each coach think their situation could be the one exception — the one marriage of pro team and ex-college coach that actually works. There is some evidence that suggests that Donovan, for all intents and purposes, could be the one who breaks the losing streak.
Ian Thomsen at cnnsi.com (linked yesterday but written on Apr. 9):
"Here's what I've noticed about Billy," a GM said. "A few years ago he realized he wasn't very good at coaching defense. He moved one of his assistants — which is very hard to do for a head coach, because in that world it's all about loyalty and sticking together — and [in 2004] he brought in an old veteran guy, Larry Shyatt, to fix the problem. And that's why they were able to win two national championships."
Here's the picture I should have recognized last week. Donovan has been aiming toward an NBA career, and along the way he's been humble enough to recognize his weaknesses and fix them. He will have a lot to learn in the NBA, but there is a feeling among his potential employers that he won't be the typically dictatorial college coach who fails to form a partnership with his richer, more powerful NBA players. Donovan will adapt and grow into the job.
"When he hires his assistants in the NBA, he won't go the buddy route," the GM said. "If he perceives he's not good enough in a certain area, he'll go and get himself some help. He'll figure out what he needs to be successful in the NBA, and he'll put the right guys around him."
Tony Mejia at cbs.sportsline.com:
Orlando has, in one single move, become relevant again. And even if Donovan fails, conventional wisdom is that he can always return to the college game the way mentor Rick Pitino did. He has had a nice re-birth, no?
But he won't fail. He's walking into a wonderful situation and was smart enough to recognize that. The Magic made his choice all the easier by ponying up the jack. I honestly never felt they had it in them. The climate has changed. Orlando wants to be more than mediocre.
Plus, unlike many college coaches before him, Donovan can win in the NBA: the Magic are already a playoff team in the East, probably will get Vince Carter this summer, and it looks like a couple teams in the East are going downhill (Miami's old, Detroit's aging, and Indiana appears to be on the path to rebuilding).
Pat Forde at espn.com:
I sincerely hope Billy Donovan doesn't wind up like all the others.
I hope he's not the next Tark, the next John Calipari, the next Tim Floyd, the next Lon Kruger, the next Mike Montgomery. I hope he doesn't follow the same failed path as his mentor, Rick Pitino. I hope he doesn't wind up with his wind pipe being massaged by a player, like P.J. Carlesimo.
I hope he's not just another college coach who, for some reason, couldn't tolerate living with the happiness and success he built by hand, and chose the misery of losing in the NBA instead. I hope he's not the next in a conga line of call-up coaches who flop when taken out of their element.
Bob McClellan at yahoo.com:
The NBA is grinding, demanding. It's four games in a week, not two. It's hitting the road 41 times, not 10 times like the Gators did last season (and two of those were in-state trips). There are no non-conference cupcakes, although there are two games with the Memphis Grizzlies.
The fact is coaches don't leave the NBA because they get better gigs. They leave because they get pink slips. They leave exhausted, chewed up and spit out, black and blue.
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Dan Shanoff as guest blogger at deadspin.com:
And the final insult for any college fan, Florida or anywhere: What, exactly, is the lure of coaching in the NBA? On its face, it sounds like the shittiest job in sports.
Zero job security, with a "when" not "if" inevitability of a bad ending to nearly every coaching hire. (Welcome to Indiana, Jim O'Brien!) Star players who run the team. Financial realities that hamstring moves.
Roughest of all, the "Ring or Bust" mentality. Jerry Sloan is the ideal of NBA coaching longevity, yet he is best known for NOT winning a championship. And most of the coaches who have won a title recently (Jackson, Tomjanovich, Popovich) have enjoyed coaching the greatest players of their eras. Dwight Howard is the best post player in the East — not a bad foundation to build a contender — and they have double-digit cap millions to use (please God: NOT Vince Carter…hmm: Gerald Wallace?) But yeesh, those odds are still ugly.\Meanwhile, Billy D was on track to be one of the Top 5 most successful coaches in college hoops history. His style seemed MADE for college. (His weakness – Xs and Os – will be magnified in the NBA, while his strength – personality – will be mitigated.)
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If hiring him winds up being the biggest transaction of the summer, it will mean the Magic failed to land a prized free agent or make a trade for the missing piece or pieces. And Billy's NBA maiden voyage could hit rough water for a team that carries, perhaps, oversized expectations, firing Hill even after he led the Magic to their first playoff appearance since 2003.


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We have questioned DOT on its designs and spending in the past, but this proposal goes beyond anything that makes sense.
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Instead, DOT wants to make local residents drive out of what is a normal traffic pattern and force them to make left turns and U-turns into speeding traffic along U.S. 70. Not to mention they will have to go out of their way to access their own neighborhoods.
Meanwhile, MacDonald Downs residents would no longer have direct access to U.S. 70 but would have to use a new road that is to be built that links with Tucker Creek.
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However, at least one city commissioner, Danny Walsh, thinks the changes don�t improve safety a bit, telling us any improvement to safety at the intersection of U.S. 70 and Slocum Road with the new interchange would be mitigated by increased dangers at Tucker Creek.
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WASHINGTON — Over the years, when asked whether he had done enough to build relationships with his Republican adversaries, President Obama typically replied with stock answers and dry political analysis.
But on Monday, in his final news conference of his first term, a different Obama came up with a different answer. In 700 off-the-cuff words, he showed a little snarky defensiveness about his social aptitude. Yes, he said, he socializes. Of course, he continued, he "likes a good party." He even joked that House Republicans might want to come over because he was "kind of lonely in this big house" and might be "looking for somebody to play cards with."
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Sophomore Betsy Vendel scored an unassisted goal with 34 seconds left in the game to give the Blue Devils a 10-9 victory over the Colonials of Robert Morris. The win is the first in Northeast Conference play for the Blue Devils this season. They improve to 6-5, and 1-3 in NEC play on the season. Sophomore Mackenzy Ryan finished the game with four points, including a hattrick.
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Three quick goals, two my Robert Morris, knotted the score at 3-3 with 13:29 left in the period. Perkoski registered another assist as she found sophomore Meaghan McCurry for the Blue Devil goal during that stretch.
The star of the first half for the Blue Devils was junior goalkeeper Erin DeLancey who stopped 11 of the 14 shots on her net in the period. Her performance was key to Central's 3-3 half time tie, as the Blue Devils were outshot 14-7 in the half.
The offenses took over in the second half. The Colonials briefly took a 4-3 lead, but the Blue Devils were able to counter with a pair of goals. Senior Lyndsey Mastandrea score and unassisted goal, and McCurry scored her second goal of the game with the assist going to Ryan.
Robert Morris ran off three straight goals to take 7-5 lead. Vendel scored her first goal of the game making it a 7-6 Colonial lead. Another Robert Morris goal pushed the lead to 8-6, but Central was ready to go on a run of their own.
Ryan notched her third goal of the game making it 8-7. McCurry then completed her hattrick tying the game at eight, junior Ashley Mara assisted on the score. Finally, Perkoski scored her first goal of the game giving the Blue Devils a 9-8 lead with 13:35 remaining.
The lead looked like it might hold up, but with 5:51 left in the game Colleen O'Donnell scored her second goal of the game, once again tying the score.
It looked like the game was heading to overtime, but with only 34 seconds remaining Vendel scored an unassisted goal to give the Blue Devils a 10-9 lead and a victory.
The Colonials recorded 26 shots on goal, with DeLancey stopping 17 of those attempts.
Ryan finished with three goals and an assist, McCurry had three goals and Vendel had two goals and an assist. Ryan and McCurry each have a team-high 25 goals this season. Vendel leads the team in points with 40 and her two goals give her 20 on the season. She joins McCurry, Ryan, and Conway as the four Blue Devils who have scored 20 or more goals this season.
The Blue Devils return to action on Sunday when they visit St. Francis (PA) the game is scheduled for a 12 p.m. start.


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Post-game breakdown, video: Memphis
There's a new hit show called Late Night with the Huskies.
They delivered a strong performance in their American Athletic Conference Championship quarterfinal on Thursday night at FedEx Forum.
Leading for nearly the entire game, they rolled to a 72-53 win over Memphis at FedEx Forum. It was their third victory over the Tigers this season.
"It was a phenomenal game," coach Kevin Ollie said. "We have to fuel back up and get ready forCincinnati."
Fourth-seede UConn advanced to a semifinal showdown with top-seeded Cincinnati at approximately 9:30 tonight. The teams split the two regular season meetings, each winning low-scoring games at home.
Here's a post-game breakdown:
-- Check out the attached video of senior Shabazz Napier's post-game comments in the locker room. He talked about facing Cincinnatiand gave an interesting response when asked about playing against senior Sean Kilpatrick.
Kilpatrick was not happy about losing the AAC player of the year race to Napier, who received the award on Wednesday.
-- Simply put, senior Niels Giffey was great.
Giffey had a career high 24 points, including 14 in the first half. He made a career-best six 3-pointers out of eight attempts. He had a season-best nine rebounds.
The Tigers made a big mistake by basically deciding not to guard Giffey, who went 9-for-11 from the field overall.
-- The Huskies have shot the ball well in both games at FedExForum this season. They converted 53 percent on Thursday and 57 percent in an 83-73 win on Jan. 16.
"I don't think it's the building," Napier said. "I think it's the way that Memphis plays defense. They double a lot of pick-and-rolls, which leaves guys like Niels open. … Niels got the shots and knocked them down and kept it rolling."
-- UConn's stingy defense limited Memphis to a season-low 26.4 percent. The Huskies allowed just 18 points in the paint after giving up 72 in the previous two meetings.
"Memphis is a great team and they score in the paint, so we focused on clogging up the whole paint and helping guys out as soon as the ball came in there and make them make their shots from the outside," Giffey said.
The senior guard trio of Geron Johnson, Joe Jackson and Chris Crawford went a combined 10-for-31 from the field and had 28 points for the Tigers.
-- The Huskies took a 6-4 lead about four minutes into the game and never trailed after that, leading by as many as 25.
-- Memphis freshman Nick King on losing three games to UConn this season: "UConn is a good team, don't get me wrong, but most of the time I think it's on us. We had a lot of defensive breakdowns… and couldn't knock down shots. I believe that's what it was."
-- Napier, who scored 11 points, passed Ben Gordon and moved into sixth place on the all-time scoring list. He's also fourth in three-pointers made.
-- Ollie emptied his bench near the end of the game but elected not to play sophomore Omar Calhoun, who's stuck in a prolonged funk.
-- The Huskies scored over 70 points for the first time since their last game against Memphis on Feb. 15.
-- UConn rebounded from its worst loss of the season (81-48) at Louisville Saturday.
-- Ollie made two changes to the starting lineup, going with Giffey and Phil Nolan instead of Amida Brimah and Lasan Kromah.
"I just wanted to do something different," Ollie said. "Those guys were still going to play. … I knowLouisville, they tried to wear Shabazz and Ryan Boatright down and we wanted to give them more space. Niels made me look like I was a good coach, so thank you, Niels."
-- Brimah had a career-high three assists to go with three points, four rebounds and two blocks in an active 17 minutes.
-- No. 21 UConn improved to 5-3 against ranked teams this season. Memphis is ranked 19th.
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Apple Loses Fight to Ban Samsung Widgets
Concurrently, the court threw out Samsung's bid for a new trial
By: Maureen O'Gara
Dec. 27, 2012 04:00 AM
Apple late Monday lost its bid to get a permanent injunction barring 26 of Samsung's Android-based widgets that a jury found infringed six of Apple's patents from the American market.
Concurrently, the court threw out Samsung's bid for a new trial.
The Korean company claimed the jury, which awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages, was misled by a foreman that 20 years ago was involved in a lawsuit with Seagate, his former employer and a company Samsung later bought into. The suit drove him into bankruptcy and he supposedly introduced "incorrect and extraneous legal standards" into the jury's deliberations that may have produced a faulty verdict.
The judge didn't buy it. Samsung should have asked better questions during voir dire, she said.
FOSS Patents says without the injunction the "jury verdict has little more than symbolic value."
Apple is bound to appeal the decision claiming the bar it was supposed to clear was set too high in the judge's application of the legal principle known as causal nexus, a requirement for an injunction, and a rather new development in American case law.
In her decision she followed Federal Circuit's prior Apple-Samsung rulings, and, as FOSS Patents points out, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit looks kind of like it may yield to Apple's request for an en banc rehearing of the toppling of the Galaxy Nexus injunction and the causal nexus issue will be the central legal question in that case.
Anyway, US District Judge Lucy Koh denied Apple's motion in its entirety.
FOSS Patents says, "It may be unprecedented in the legal history of the United States for an injunction motion to be denied across-the-board despite such a large number of infringement findings (roughly half a dozen) by a jury and, especially, in light of the competitive situation between the two as well as the jury's findings of willful infringement. If no injunction is ordered in such a case, it is hard to see how any patent holder could ever prevail on such a motion, and I doubt that this is what the appeals court will consider the right outcome. But the appeal will take a year or more, and in the meantime, this is a huge defensive success for Samsung's lawyers."
Judge Koh has yet to decide if the giant award will stand. Samsung wants the amount cut by at least $600 million because the verdict form wasn't discrete enough for its tastes. Apple wants it increased by $536 million for willfulness, which Samsung denies.
As to the all-important injunction that Apple wanted Judge Koh found that Apple didn't establish that popular demand for the Samsung products was specifically driven by the technology it lifted from Apple as opposed to its sheer competitiveness.
"Customer demand for a general feature of the type covered by a patent was not sufficient; Apple must instead show that consumers buy the infringing product specifically because it is equipped with the patented feature," she said.
"The fact that Apple may have lost customers and downstream sales to Samsung is not enough to justify an injunction," she ruled. "Apple must have lost these sales because Samsung infringed Apple's patents. Apple has simply not been able to make this showing."
She didn't think that Apple was that harmed. Blatant evidence that Samsung stole from Apple didn't seem to matter.
"Though evidence that Samsung attempted to copy certain Apple features may offer some limited support for Apple's theory, it does not establish that those features actually drove consumer demand," she said.
According to her "Samsung may have cut into Apple's customer base somewhat, but there is no suggestion that Samsung will wipe out Apple's customer base, or force Apple out of the business of making smartphones."
Koh also said the public interest wouldn't be served by banning products only parts of which infringed.
Meanwhile, the fact that Apple licensed its utility patents at issue in agreements with Nokia, IBM and HTC left Judge Koh with the impression that monetary compensation is sufficient. She did not deal with the anti-cloning provision in the HTC deal, the only agreement whose terms have even been hinted at.
Only three of the 26 products are still being sold, the others having been retired on account of age. Apple won't have a chance to go after current Samsung products until a second infringement suit goes to trial in March of 2014. An injunction at this point would have given it more leverage in the next case.
Apple wouldn't comment on Koh's decision. Samsung said it would review the court's finding before deciding whether to take "further measures."
IDC says Samsung's share of the smartphone market was 31% in the third quarter, up from 23% a year earlier. Apple was in second place with a market share of 15%, up from 14% a year earlier.
Apple reckons Samsung moved into the US market with infringing products just when consumers were moving to smartphones and developing "platform loyalty." It cut Apple off from its organic market.
IDC also figures that Google's Android operating system has a worldwide market share of 68.3% compared with 18.8% for Apple's and estimates Apple will remain the "clear number two platform behind Android" through 2016, gaining a mere 0.3% of the worldwide market by then.
See www.scribd.com/doc/117202522/show-temp and www.fosspatents.com/2012/12/judge-denies-apple-permanent-injunction.html.
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Alliyah loves bright pink, teal and purple. This room cost very little to redo.
I painted our queen bed white with Rustoleum spray paint primer and spray paint. Turned out great! I got the old window for free at a garage sale, the rug we already had from Target, and the highchair was a garage sale find for $3 that I spray painted blue for her American girl dolls. The embroidery hoops are covered with new fabrics I bought and old fabrics I found at our local antique store. The mirror, dresser and book stand come from her Great Grandma. The bedding is from Pottery Barn Kids, and the curtain is made out of foam core, batting and fabric.
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BA, Biology, Kenyon College.
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Research methods
Child welfare
Disability studies
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Social Work Research I and II
Practice and Program Evaluation
Human Behavior in the Social Environment (I)
Social Welfare Policy and Institutions
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Awarded a Mary E. Switzer Fellowship, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research to conduct a study entitled "Evaluation of Barriers to Delivery of Rehabilitative Services to Infants and Toddlers in the Custody of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services."
Awarded an Administration for Children and Families Developing Scholars Grant for completion of dissertation research along with a faculty representative of the Jane Addams College of Social Work and three other students.
Cross, T. & Bruhn, C. (in press). Delivery of mental health services for a state's population of children in foster care: A comparison of Illinois and national data. Illinois Child Welfare, 5.
Testa, M., Bruhn, C. & Helton, J. (2009). Comparative safety, stability, and continuity of children's placements in informal and formal substitute care arrangements. In Webb, M. B., Dowd, K., Harden, B. J., Landsverk, J., and Testa, M. F. (Eds.). Child welfare and child well-being: New perspectives from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being. New York: Oxford University Press.
Barth, R. P., Guo, S., Christ, S.L., Bruhn, C.M, & Green, R.L. (2009). Explaining reunification and reentry three years after placement in out of home care. In Webb, M. B., Dowd, K., Harden, B. J., Landsverk, J., and Testa, M. F. (Eds.). Child welfare and child well-being: New perspectives from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being. New York: Oxford University Press.
Bruhn, C.M., Duval, D., & Louderman, R. (2008). Centralized assessment of early developmental delays in children in foster care: A program that works. Children and Youth Services Review, 30, 536-545.
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As we go forward to change the world for the better, Mom Congress delegates and parents everywhere are equipping themselves with the knowledge they need. Mom Congress 2012 gave us ideas and tools to be effective change makers. Today is the second of two posts highlighting some of those lessons. (Part I HERE.)
United Nations Foundation's Aaron Sherinian
Dynamic speaker, Aaron Sherinian, the VP Communication and Public Relations for the United Nations Foundation taught us at Mom Congress 2012 how parent education advocates can effectively engage with the media.
"It's an amplifier," he reminded us. As one person, there's only so much you can do so you want to amplify your message using the media.
Three branches of media to reach are broadcast, print, and social / digital. Then, remember these four principals of media interaction:
1. You're in control. Be yourself
2. Know your safe place. If you're rambling, stop! What's is your safe place? Is it your story? Just don't keep rambling.
Don't forget . . .
- Have MEGA messages
- Use strong powerful words
- Use stats
- Ask / call to action
- Tell a story
3. Find your wine glass – like a dinging wine glass at a wedding to get the newly married couple to kiss - and USE it.
Use a sound bite as your wine glass:
"At the end of the day"
"What most moms don't realize"
"The bottom line is"
"The most important thing"
"Let us be very clear"
"The fact of the matter"
Whatever you say AFTER these wine-glass phrases need to be your best quotable message.
4. Pivot with Poise
If you get into an uncomfortable situation, remember point one. You're in control. Breathe. You don't have to answer questions if you don't want. Remember your safe place. Then, reengage.
Delegates loved, laughed, and learned from Sherinian. For many, he was the favorite presenter of the entire conference!
Reach Out and Read
Another speaker, CEO of Reach Out and Read, Earl Martin Phalen, inspired us with his personal story of success after being abandoned by his mother and growing up in foster care. Oregon 2011 delegate, Jen Barth, interviewed Phalen on her blog 1 Oregon Mom about the impact that medical professionals are having with the Reach Out and Read program. Read the blog post here.
Who else inspired the Mom Congress delegates?
VH1 Save the Music
National Family Engagement Alliance
Volunteer Spot
NBA Cares
White House chef, Sam Kass
National PTA
National Education Association
Anu Partanen
Model UN, UN Association of the USA
Oak Hill Elementary School principal, Amy Goodloe
The Khan Academy
Center for Green Schools
Book Make it Better
Southwest Airlines Community Affairs
Teach For America
Huff Post blogger, Susan Stiffelman
Dominos Smart Slice
previous delegates: Lyssa Sahadevan, Felisa Hilbert, Marilyn Zaragoza, Jerri Ann Reasons, me (Melissa Taylor,) Myrdin Thompson, Jen Barth, Bonnie DeLong,
Reflecting on the Conference
"Word can not begin to express my gratitude for this past weekend." - Lori Harding
"Proud to be a mom and inspired for things to come." - Lyssa Sahadevan
"I can't wait to see what develops from this . . . it feels like a beginning, not an ending. I will watch for the inspiring stories I know will come of this." - Kathie Green
"Loved connecting with all of the moms, loved hearing and learning . . . especially the fun!" - Kimberly Cabral
"Thank you to the staff of Parenting Magazine for a great opportunity. I've returned home inspired and tired but ready to continue to support and advocate for children with educational differences." - Erica Brignac
"Thank you, Parenting Magazine, for an amazing conference, new friendships with like-minded, awesome moms and the tools to inspire change!" - Jeanette Killip
Delegates' Blog Posts
My Mommy Reads
The Parent Backpack
NYS Delegate
Dirt Under My Fingernails
Roots and Wings
1 Oregon Mom
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CHICAGO, IL (Jan. 9, 2012) – The Chicago Fire Soccer Club announced Monday the signing of Colombian midfielder Rafael Robayo from Club Deportivo Los Millonarios. The 27-year-old midfielder joins the Men in Red from Colombian Liga Postobón and will be added to the club's roster as an international upon the receipt of his International Transfer Certificate (ITC) and P1 Visa. Per league and team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"Rafael Robayo has an excellent work rate, good defensive energy and will provide support on both sides of the ball," said Fire head coach Frank Klopas. "Rafael is a sizable player who can get in and create around the box. He will join our core group in preseason camp as we continue to build toward the 2012 campaign."
A mainstay in the Millonarios lineup, Robayo tallied 187 appearances and 20 goals in league play since joining the Bogota-based side in 2005. The two-way midfielder made 11 appearances and scored two goals, including one in the championship series during los Embajadores run to the 2011 Copa Colombia title, the club's first hardware since 1988. Additionally, Robayo helped the side to the semifinals of the 2007 Copa Sudamericana, the best finish in club history. Since early 2010, Robayo served as club captain.
Robayo began his career at the age of 16, attending the Escuela de Futbol Vida in Bogota from 2000-02. From there, he signed his first professional contract with Medellin based Club Atletico Nacional where he made one appearance in 2003 before spending the 2004 season with Once Caldas.
Robayo has earned one cap for the Colombian Men's National Team, coming on as a substitute during a 2-0 victory at Venezuela on September 3, 2010.
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Position: Midfielder
Height: 6'0" (1.84m)
Weight: 171 lbs. (78kg)
Date of Birth: April 24, 1984
Place of Birth: Bogota, Colombia
Hometown: Bogota, Colombia
Citizenship: Colombia
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SPD arrests, files charges on 14 individuals in connection with recent thefts in Stuttgart
Stuttgart Police Department Assistant Chief Steven Bobo announced 14 individuals have been arrested or have pending charges filed against them. All of the arrests are in connection with the recent rash of thefts in Stuttgart's city limits. The information had not been released prior to Tuesday night's Stuttgart City Council meeting.
Two Stuttgart residents followed procedure to speak to council members — requesting to be added to Tuesday's agenda — however, before they spoke Stuttgart Mayor Marianne Maynard allowed Stuttgart City Council member Norma Strabala to speak first.
"I'm going to check with the council to see if they have any concerns and then we are going to check with the citizens that have concerns," Maynard said.
"I think the citizens of Stuttgart need to tell us what we need to be doing," Strabala began. "But I also feel that it is my responsibility as a city council member to support, not only the citizens, but also our city employees and other city officials."
She went on to say that "bad mouthing" of the city's police department has become an issue within Stuttgart.
"Sometimes the things we say can be taken out of context and (are) not necessarily what we said. After saying that I would like to give Bobo — I don't know if he wants to or not — the opportunity to say what he meant to say or did say. Because we all know sometimes it can be twisted," Strabala said.
Bobo came prepared with a release and announced that 14 individuals have either been arrested or charged, going on to state that one of the suspects has fled to California at this time, while another is now dead.
The prepared information was then given to both the Stuttgart Daily Leader along with a Country 97.3 (KWAK) representative.
The SPD Criminal Investigation Division has filed two commercial burglary warrants, three counts of theft of property under $1,000, one count of criminal attempt to commit theft of property, one count of possession of a defaced firearm, seven counts of theft of property over $1,000, five counts of residential burglary, 10 counts of breaking and entering into vehicles, one count of arson, three counts of aggravated assault on police officers, one count of battery in the second degree, one count of theft by receiving, one count of aggravated robbery and one count of battery in the first degree.
As of press time, names had not been released in the arrests. Also, Bobo said, some cases are still pending due to crime lab results.
"Recently Channel 11 (KTHV) came down and they wanted to do a story on these 44 break-ins, residential burglaries that we have had," Bobo explained to a packed audience. "We haven't had 44 residential burglaries, but that is the number they pulled from somewhere. OK, I went through and spoke with them for approximately 30 minutes — they pulled 35 seconds of that video and played it. They played the 35 seconds that they wanted somebody to hear. At no time, like some people are going around saying and it was even in the paper that somebody wrote, that it was no big deal. It has never been said that it is no big deal. Every break-in in this community is a big deal and it's a big deal to us. It is something that we work on on a daily basis. If they would have continued to play everything that was there you would have heard me say 'Not all these break-ins are legitimate break-ins' OK."
One example he gave was talking about rent-to-own centers. While in contract with some rent-to-own centers, if the merchandise is stolen then the bill or contract will be voided. This is done in some circumstances with a police report, he explained.
"I'm going to pick my TV up and carry it next door, ask if you mind keeping this for a little bit...next thing we know we are getting a call for a door broke in," Bobo said.
The second example came from people with prescription medications. Some people, after taking too many or abusing their medications, will file a police report saying they have been stolen.
"It's not always the truth," Bobo said.
The third example is working with an uncooperative community. Bobo said a Stuttgart resident recently called to report a residential burglary at her home.
"The officer went over there and had to listen to her bicker and berate him for however long she wanted to and he took it. He took that and then asked 'do you have any idea who might have done this?' Bobo said.
"'Yeah, I know who done it'...that was her exact words...but (she) didn't want to get anyone in trouble," he continued.
"That is the mentality of this town. And if you (came) here tonight to belittle us then shame on you. That is all I have to say, because if you want to get involved you should have got involved a long time ago when we realized we don't have enough people to cover this whole town," he said.
Based off the number of water meters in Stuttgart, Bobo stated that if someone wants every residence in this town checked, it would require checking 21 places per minute.
"If someone has a way for our officers to check 21 houses in a minute let me know, because we will do. The problem is we have no cooperation. No body wants to stand up and say 'I saw this,'" Bobo said.
He continued, "I would never get on TV and say a break-in is no big deal. OK. This is my home, this is where I live, this is where my family is (and) this is important to me. I work anytime I am needed, and I will continue to work anytime I'm needed. If anyone has a problem with the way I work then you need to come see me, we can talk about it. It's no problem, but don't judge me on 35 seconds by a reporter that wants to boost their name."
Glenn Larson, a Stuttgart resident and Emanuel Lutheran Church pastor, was scheduled on the agenda to speak about the break-ins. He was given a chance later in the meeting to speak.
He asked if there was a plan in place to deal with the residential break-ins, but told the audience and council that he had decided to ask the remainder of his questions privately.


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Merseyside Guitar Show 2012 in Aintree | 10th Annual Event
Merseyside Guitar Show 2012 in Aintree
The Merseyside Guitar Show is in its 10th year, and you're invited over to share your passion for guitars with the rest of the axe enthusiasts at Aintree Racecourse Exhibition Centre on Sunday 25th November 2012.
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The market competition of the global Serum industry is provided based on manufacturers. Insights on market size based on players for 2016 and 2017 are offered with the help of tabular representation.
Detailed analysis of revenue generated by them for the historic period is provided with the help of tables. Competitive situation and trends are outlined based on market concentration rate, strategies adopted by market players such expansion, mergers & acquisition, and others, and market share of top three & top five market players.
Business overview of each player is provided along with product, services, and solutions offered by them. Recent developments made by them are outlined in the study.
Key players analyzed in the research are Life Technologies, Thermo Fisher, GE Healthcare, Sigma-Aldrich and Merck.
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The report offers insights on market size of type and application for the historic period. Moreover, potential applications and top consumers are outlined in the research.
Each geographical region is explored in detail based on market size for the historic period. Market size and share of each market player in those regions for 2016 and 2017 are provided in the study.
Development status and outlook of each region are outlined in the study to help market players devise strategies for expansion and gain competitive advantage.
Drivers are discussed along with potential applications and emerging economies. Market effect factors are discussed based on technological progress, economic fluctuations, external environmental changes, and changing consumer preferences.
Research findings and conclusions are provided at the end of the report.
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