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Welding Options
Motoman offers a wide variety of standard options for increased flexibility and improved uptime.
- Torches
- ToolSight
- Reamer Nozzle Cleaner
- Wire Cutting Station
- Touch Sensing Function
- Com-Arc III Seam Tracking Function, Touch Sensing
- Pause Weaving Software Function
- Bulk Dereeler Kit
Tough-Gun® Torch Kit
- Durable torch barrel with keyed quick change assy.
- 4-ft gun cable, 22° neck, Tweco #5 pin
- Motoman Tough-Gun® shock sensor
Motoman Tough-Gun®
- Air-cooled- 500 amp
- Water-cooled 450 amp (650 amp optional)
Shock Sensor
- Spring loaded device stops robot motion when torch deflection is sensed. Device re-centers after removed from collision point. Micro-switch is adjustable for trip point sensitivity.
Binzel Robo WH or VTS Torch Kits
- Torch with cable
- ATS-CAT torch mount
- Adapter plate
- Adapter for PWF feeder
Tweco QTR® Robotic Torch
- Torch with 5 ft. gun cable, 22° neck Tweco pin
- Gun mount for 22° neck
- RDM-300 mount
- Normal capacity RDM-300 mount
- UP-series adapter plate, RDM-AP-8
Comprehensive package to check the robot's Tool Control Point (TCP) on-line, verify torch alignment, and offset programs for deviated torches if desired. Package includes:
ToolSight Gauge Assembly
Two photo beams at 90-degree angles set in a 3" diameter ring. Robot is programmed to move into the intersection of the beams. This can check if TCP is within limits in less than three seconds. If the wire does not break both beams, the robot will use the beams to search for the tool's T, Y, and Z offset. The user can define limits which will either update the tool file or prompt the operator for intervention.
Torch Alignment Pin
Torch alignment can be easily verified manually at a pre-programmed position. Alignment pin also serves as a reference to define new TCPs.
Motoman PMT and Relative Job Software
Software tools are provided to shift programs based on new TCP. Use of PMT or Relative Job will depend on application and customer preference.
Tool Update Software
Subroutines are created in the INFORM language for the robot to search for tool offset and update the tool file.
Tregaskiss or Binzel Reamer Nozzle Cleaner
This stand-alone device uses a pneumatic motor with a reamer to clean the torch nozzle. The reamer and clamp set are designed to work with Motoman TOUGH-GUN® torches.
Wire Cutting Station
Automatically cuts welding wire to a desired length. A programmed path brings the welding wire into the cutter jaw. Using a robot output signal, the pneumatic device will shear off the wire, leaving a clean edge at the programmed stick-out length. A specific length of wire is used for touch sensing on the robot system. The unit can cut up to 1.6mm (0.062 in.) diameter solid wire. Working pressure is 85-140 psi. No mounting stand is provided as the cutter is normally mounted on pneumatic nozzle cleaning station stand.
Touch Sensing Function
The Touch Sensing function enables robot to find the welding joint. The 200 volt circuit allows use of touch sense seam finding even with coated or dirty steel parts. Uses welding wire to "touch" the part in one, two, or three dimensions and then parallel shifts the programmed path. The high search speed is four times faster than standard touch sensing.
Com-Arc III Seam Tracking Function with Touch Sensing (Purchased with robot)
The Com-Arc III Seam Tracker functions by weaving the welding wire in the joint (i.e. fillet weld, "T", lap and single "V" groove weld) and sensing the current at each stroke of the weaving motion. If the detected current at each stroke is not the same, the robot will correct its path in a direction required to make the current the same. Correction can be either left, right, up, or down as determined by the robot controller and Com-Arc III unit. Seam Tracking can either be performed in short-circuiting, globular, or spray arc welding modes. The usable amperage range is from 90-400 amps.
Pause Weaving Software Function
Used with Com-Arc III Seam Tracking and external axis. Allows robot to perform weaving function while a part is rotated by a rotary axis or when a robot is traversing on a linear track. Pause weaving can be used without seam tracking.
Bulk Dereeler Kit
Motoman offers Bulk Dereeler packages utilizing wire wizard components.


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Brexit rocks markets
The long awaited happened. On June 24 , 2016 Britain voters decided to pull their country out of European Union. It was expected that Britain will pull out after suffering two decades of financial woes and immigration issues with rest of the Europe. As a free economy it will have consequences and may enter a recession soon because lots of financial ties are cut, but in the long run Britain would
Markets up stocks making a comeback
After 2 months of turmoil all this year since January 1 2016 to March 1 2016 looks like we have retraced 61.8 % of the original drop. Most of the stocks are making comebacks from deep down destroy3ed charts. It will take another month before we get even where we were. Its a V shaped recovery with gaps that unnerve traders in the mornings.
More gaps and upside
There are 4 gaps since SPX made a bottom in 2/11/16. These gaps occur during overnight futures pits and handed to us at open. Instead of down gaps these upper gaps. Oh what a way to bring the market up institutionally ! Here is a video please watch with major stocks making a comeback. The charts are so damaged we lot more to go before it gets normal where you can trade.
Market coming back ? Maybe
This action indicative of a bottom. After selling off for month and half long can this go on? Sell each bounce and than go back home flat is the theme. So lets see if this SPX bounce to 1900 gets shorted again. Its been a horrific year so far, just don't forget.
What to expect in this market?
Setting another low once again after a brief run up which actually formed a bear flag is typical outcome. This happened before on August 24 2015 and a double dip hammered longs into submission. The same pattern is repeating here with more viciousness. The VIX is up to 25 area and still below 30. All the charts are destroyed which will take months to repair. The destruction is widespread in tech, cloud
Bad market bears rule
Market gyrations and bears growling. Its been all this year that the market has lost ground and made a lows down to 1800 , having recovered 50% it slammed again to the downside today and looked like the downward trend will continue. As long we stay above 1900 here market would either be sideways or up. Rely on nothing, always hedge your positions to the downside. Yes we do short via options but its
Market hits August lows and some more
Relentless selling brings market below August lows once again. Where would be go now? Take a look at this video. There should be a bounce in the cards as the market is extremely oversold. Every major stock is hit and nesting against its 200 day moving average : If you like this you can use our monthly income trading by clicking below. http://indexoptionstrading.alliancemtg.com/monthly-trades/
Stock Market reversal ? Maybe
Here is the latest on the stock market technical analysis. Take a look if you think this market should reverse this week. I believe it will because of the conditions it has created which makes stocks cheaper and technical s to reverse. If it didnt reverse SPX is headed to August lows around 1865. Please trade at your own risk. If you like you can use our monthly income trading by clicking below. http://indexoptionstrading.alliancemtg.com/monthly-trades/
Free Income trade for 2016
This is the last trade for the year 2015. Using these option strategies and much more, we have more than doubled our accounts in 2015. SPX February Iron Condor posted 12/30/15 7:26 PST Sell 5 SPX February 1900 puts Buy 5 SPX February 1875 puts=2.00 credit Sell 2 SPX February 2175 call Buy 2 SPX February 2200 calls = 2.10 FREE TRADE UPDATED 1/14/16 The call side is closed
Market Cap for 2015
This has been a fabulous year for us. In 2015 we doubled our accounts and more. There have been very few losses and some of the losses taken were deliberate to avoid bigger losses. I am really proud of my performance and its a gift from God and giving us a very helpful market for income traders. We create income streams on a monthly basis. We utilize options and sophisticated derivative trading strategies.
Market Crash August 2015
This mornings plunge was configured in the futures which were halted before open! NDX and SPX futures both halted at NYC and that prevented the sudden crash that it was designed to happen. Since morning both NDX and SPX have recovered nicely. AAPL was down to 92 and its now 107 and green that pushed the NDX back to green also or it will go green. There was nothing anyone could have done when the these
Market booms back
Monday was a day of reversal. The selling stopped and bulls took control reversing the market to the upside. Take a look. This is a reversal.
Facebook's FB spectacualr breakout
click to enlarge charts After consolidation for while FB now breaking new highs. Stock overbought, may pullback here
AAPL's break above the bullflag
Click to enlarge charts After nearly a month long consolidation we are seeing a break above the trend line on this classical bull flag channel. This is a bullish channel that will be bidded towards higher prices no doubt. A starter position would for AAPL bulls would be good.
One day up next day slam- No no !
Click to enlarge charts One day SPX blasts and than gets slammed. this is not a healthy behavior. No follow through or containment in the first 23.6% of Fibonacci levels. All the gains are wiped. This sounds more bearish than bullish , unless we play this again on Monday. For now sidelines are the best seats, relaxing with a soda in hand.
SPX trying to break 50 day to the upside
click to enlarge charts SPX very strong bouncing off its 100 day moving average and the rising trend line- classic text book example. The bear party is perhaps in the last hours. Closing time.
Market pull back in the works
Nothing goes up all the time, neither this market. So far we are having a healthy pullback that should present us with more opportunities to get long positions in next week or so. Take a look..
Market pullback in the works
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How to defend a Calendar trade going bad
Click bottom right corner to enlarge Calendars are nice income vehicles as Dan Sheridan will say to you. They are income trades, but they have a flaw, they go bad occasionally and don't behave they way you expected. You may have estimated the stock or underlying will not move that much and and it starts breaking out on either side up or down. There are 3 options at this point 1. Close the
Markets sideways touch
This is the fourth time SPX has touched this 2000 area in last few weeks. One wonders if this will break and head lower to the 200 day moving average at 1975. The real connection may come this week. If we bounce hard and move up than this sideways move may be moot. RUT is still in sideways movement and still going on in a consolidation pattern in the weekly charts. APPL had great earnings and now
Spx spectacular recovery and AAPL charts
click to enlarge SPX V SHAPED RECOVERY PERHAPS click to enlarge AAPL A FALLING WEDGE PATTERN
V Shaped recovery in 3 sessions
The V shaped recovery is here. It took out all the latest selling and recovered in 3 sessions what was lost. Balance of the year should be good. watch for the Fib levels on chart that is where it is headed.
Pullback to 50 day Moving Averages
This pull back is healthy and should be looked at an opportunity to launch bullish positions when its done. I would be happy to see a Santa Clause rally and a Happy New Years with some bang. Looks like we may get it. Enjoy the video.
SPX grinding higher
The SPX continues to grind higher in extremely overbought conditions. Its nearing the top channel as you can see and break will come for the bears. Right now its riskier to initiate any longs. Those on the sidelines are safe and cash can be a good alternative for a position. Major stocks are taking a tumble GOOGL, NFLX, TSLA, AMZN all are on decline. Main reason is when RUT is doing well these big
Market posts new highs
Markets make new highs in lacklustre earnings season. Take a look at SPY and SPX as it move higher the volume dries up. Making your realize less buyers are willing to commit to it. This could be an interim top in the market place and slight pull back from the new highs. The V shaped recovery has been very robust for the year and pushed up straight for a month.
Market still in bullish mode
The real trading season begins after Labor day weekend or next Monday and lasts till April 2015. Fall is the best time for stock market as seen year after year. Market is still in a bullish mode. The consolidation in SPX is allowing for a rest and the trend is still unbroken, however there is some sideways action at the moment. The uptrend is still intact. RUT however, is not behaving the same,
Still bullish but over bought
Trend is your friend and in this low volume August still on your side that is if you were bullish. These low volumes are typical for the year as most Wall street Titans are on vacay this month. For day traders and those seeking cash from the markets this can be the most frustrating month as stocks barely move, but this month it was not so bad. The dog days of August didn't hurt so bad. SPX
Markets grinding higher among earnings
Market seems to be grinding higher amid a week full of earnings in big names. There is no tell its a bullish bias as long the earnings are bullish. The second we stop this euphoria this market can drop down, because it has been overbought in this region for a longtime. Profit taking may grip the market and than back on up. GOOGL had its earnings last week and this week is filled with big name like
Expecting a bullish week in major stocks
As the earnings season kicks off in major stocks starting with GOOGL this Thursday, expecting a bullish bias this week in the market. SPX has been pulling back a little after topping the channel but RUT is already bouncing back from the 50 day line. NDX has barely budged from the rise and break it had and still strong here. The action in CMG is sideways which may lead to higher prices as the short
Bullish action continues
Market continues to grind higher in the above mentioned video. NDX made a new high on Friday and the cup shaped pattern is proving what it should be doing so far. This index can move much higher if we are correct about the chart patterns. Same for $COMP the bullish action is all there to see. RUT is also trying to go higher and next few weeks we should some more bullishness. Major stocks are doing
Bullish action in indexes continues
SPX , RUT and NDX all showing bullish action this week. The FOMC meeting was well liked by traders last week and a promising start higher resulted in SPX and other indexes reaching new highs. However, we are nearing the upper limit of the channel here and overbought and may see a retreat at some point, but the next few days should bring more bullish upsides to the market. Most jumbo stocks which
Stocks pullback more buypoints in print
Some pullbacks in indexes and major names this week. We are still in the bullish mode but overbought and its where profit taking takes place. With one exception of CMG that has run up 100 points in last few weeks and AAPL also ran up now pulling back. Take a look at this video. We should be looking for new buypoints in this pullback this week.
Market keeps on trucking higher
Major indexes all in rup mode for now and getting overbought. SPX almost hitting the upper channel that could bear signs of reversal. Caution with longs because profit taking may ensue. RUT was the laggard and has shown great break out type performance lately. This was a bullish channel and its break out from here to catch up with rest of them. AAPL has already split and you will see a 90 stock.
Market making new highs
The indexes are now making new highs except RUT which is breaking out from a downward bullish channel. The market direction is still up and getting slightly overbought. The Bonds are also rallying as seen with TLT chart which intrigues most traders. Not seen this in long time. This week is interesting as the unemployment report comes out on Friday and lets see what numbers we get. Major stocks have
Major stocks in uptrend
Major stocks are moving up as you can the in this video. SPX is grinding higher in small increments. VIX has fallen to 11.8 the lowest that we have seen in several years. There is absolutely no fear in the market at this time. Major stocks like GOOGL, NFLX, CMG and APPL are all having a run to the upside. These stocks have broken down trends and now trying to recover to their 50 day moving averages.
Momo stocks reverse direction?
Hard to tell unless we get confirmation. Stocks like GOOGL, PCLN, NFLX and CMG all moved higher today after bouncing off 200 day moving averages or support lines.Everything is now governed by the downward trend lines. Unless broken the direction will remain to the downside.
Earnings push market higher
The earning season is upon us for the next month. Some bullishness has crept back in the market. It looks like we have made a low on April 14 th in the SPX and may continue with the bullish momentum for now. GOOG had its share of miss in this quarter but hardly dropped down as expected. The stock survived and looks like next week cover up the losses. The chart however is far from bullish pattern.
Major sell off in Tech names
Without much bad news the sell off is usually suspect. One week before, the unemployment report created a sell off and the market seemed to recoup from that, and for a few good trading days, the action to the upside or the bounce was faded by the bears. The current key supports in SPX, NDX and $DJI has vanished and the plunge continues towards lower moving averages and rising trend lines. SPX
Window dressing pushes major stocks down
As the quarter ended major stocks took a dive. GOOG, PCLN, CMG, NFLX, AMZn all dived to their respective moving averages and the profits were sucked out of the rising stars, and taken to book gains at the end of the quarter. Strange things happen towards the month end, but this was by far the weirdest quarter. The SPX stayed bullish buoyed by banking sector alone while NDX and RUT all met their
Bullish Head & shoulders ?
Market sells off –Finally
Its been a great run for some bulls and all things equal, bears got their wish list completed today as they pushed the market down to the 50 day moving averages in the indexes. The year 2013 has been a great year and very profitable one to some traders and the party continued upto now the 3 rd week in January 2014. This sell off was widely expected, since we didn't have anything in a longtime
Santa Claus Rally ? Feds take the market higher
Feds will taper the QE3 and the market jumps on the growing expectations of a solid economy. The conditions have been improving already as evidenced by a very strong earnings season. The growth in GDP to 4% also made a strong case to buy more stocks and sell nothing. SPX has hit a new high and mostly likely will travel to the upper channel at 1840. So far the bulls are enjoying the ride. The pullback
Market pulls back a little
Unable to display content. Adobe Flash is required. After harking shorts for nearly two months major indexes are showing relative weakness to the downside and pulling back. This was an expected move from every corner including the bullish traders who expected a pullback for some time. The market just cannot sustain that kind of rises. The rise in market making new highs every day has been frustrating
Market jumps on jobs number
A better than expected job report and the market opened higher on a gap. After declining 5 days on little or no pullback, the market snapped back and held the gap during the entire trading session. The bullish action continues as it has been since October 9, 2013. Most of the indexes are in the upper channels and there has been no sell off or pullback lately. The high level consolidation is seen
Market makes new all time highs
Market staying toppy for November
The sticky behavior of the market is surprising many bears and bulls at this time. During the earnings season this is expected however. The indexes are hovering around all time highs and slowly working their ways back to the moving averages. SPX has hit all time highs of 1775 and has not pulled back to complete its cycle of making a lower highs as it has been the case for the last 1 year in the
Market Recap 10/27/13 and earnings season
This is the last earnings season this year, and the market is sitting high with lots of optimism in the air. The earnings have been stellar so far and some of the big names are already out and bidded high. AAPL is due next week and we shall see what this stock does. The market is overbought and way above its moving averages. When the prices are so stretched out from moving averages they are always
Market in uncertainty -Syrian war drums
Wars are never a favorite thing for markets. Whenever there is this kind of political uncertainty and talks turn to war- markets react just one way- they go down. Than slowly as the fog clears those sold off stocks come back to life shortly thereafter. It becomes a shopping mall for bargain hunters. These days this tough talk on Syria has spooked the markets beyond reasonable doubts. We have seen
Earnings driving the stock market
The earnings season is upon us and we have seen some stellar earnings in many names. Most of the S&P earnings are above estimates in the quarter so far and that is also fueling the upside in stocks. The market seems to be consolidating here after a huge rise last 4 weeks. SPX, RUT and DJI all making new highs as they inch higher bit by bit into the unchartered territory. There have been many
Stocks end winning streak
SPX showed up with a distribution day for the first time in this long winning streak. This was the first distribution day and the Technical damages was just barely noticeable. It was like a minor dent on the surface. We just have to see how this overbought market handles Ben Bernankes testimony before Congress on Wednesday. The market will be all ears into every word he will say or not say. Running
Bernanke speaks and market gaps double digits
Ben Bernanke spoke after hours not to unsettle traders, but the futures traders reacted overnight while you and I were in lala land and pushed them high enough to gap the market double digits in the morning. This has been the story all along this rapid climb in the last few weeks. Bernanke said that the QE tapering will not be taken off unless the unemployment rate is below 6.5% or if the data
SPX gaps and goes
Seen the last last few sessions ? It is always a gap and go. Those gains are not achieved intra-day. Most of the movement is handed down to you. This has been the way this market is going . Friday's job number boosted today gap and than sideways action all day. It frustrates shorts and longs at the same time. The market has been gapping up everyday, and than pulls back a little, and spends
SPX reclaims 50 day line again.
Happy 4th of July ! I know most people are on vacation or have been on vacation since Wednesday for this week. The market was closed on July 4th but on this Friday it did open full day and we had a very important monthly unemployment report that came out very strong. The unemployment report came in at 195,000 jobs added and the previous months job reports were also revised to higher numbers. It
Market closes with a Doji
Unable to display content. Adobe Flash is required. SPX has been up gapping up and than fading each day. It has not been able to break above the 50 day moving average in the last 2 sessions, and there are 2 topping tails on the charts as you can see. These moves are not very bullish as the price is still below the 50 day moving average and hanging below with each days fades. If it fails to take out
Markets plunge on Fed speak
MARKET UPDATE posted 06/20/13 Whew! What a drop today. Lately we were were so bullish that we forgot the nastiness and brutality of trading and today it showed up once again. If you held any long positions today , you would have taken losses or your gains evaporated in thin air in this sell off. This is the kind of cruelty the market can bestow on you anytime. Never forget the brutality of trading
SPX's Roller coaster ride
The market gapped opened double digits without a shred of news. Next thing it tried to break past the 21 day moving average and clearly broke the downward trendline. Than the Financial Times reported QE program being tapered off this Wednesday. The market started selling off and came down to hit the downward trendline as in the video and bounced higher. This has been a roller coaster ride. All
Where is the market correction?
The media becomes ripe with innuendo and speculation once the market starts tanking. They sell the news. There were many people mouthing off 5 % to 8% correction yesterday on major news channels. One thing you need to remember these are opinions- not facts- not anything close to being a market technician and they are not surveyor of charts and empirical data. Its one thing what you feel and think
Why the market is selling off ?
This is the other side of the coin. There was a time when the uptrend seemed almost unbeatable. For three weeks day after day making news highs the market climbed a steep slope, throwing everyone in amazement and wonder. How can this market keep on doing that? And finally on May 22nd, SPX made a wide ranging day, and now we are 75 handles down the tube. The market is exactly where the last job
Market drifting down in a channel
The market is appears to be moving downward in an orderly fashion and in a defined channel. After todays trading the pattern is becoming more tha obvious. SPX is flagging after a major bull run to the upside. This flag is again a bullish pattern which resolves to the upside. After todays trading the pattern is more visible. What was thought to be a bullish pennant, or a wedge like pattern, is now
Is this a market correction or pullback ?
What a wild ride this was last 2 trading sessions. Friday the market sold off harshly towards the end in the last 15 minutes of the day. Some folks came up armed with the idea that late Friday we can put an imprint on the chart there are no buyers in the last 15 minute and they did. It was a sneaky tactic to say the least. Did it work? Yes it did. The market opened higher today with futures trading
Still grinding higher
The market direction remains to the upside. This is grinding higher so far and some of it is sideways. Earning season is here and this will determine which direction we go. NFLX earnings were great and the stock moved 576. This last month is very busy with major earning names to come. AAPL. GOOGL, AMZN , CMG etc etc.
This is not good
. This market action is not good. One or 2 days up and than a slam to the downside hugging the rising trend line. If it breaks the floor is 200 day moving average at 1900 levels. I am just a passenger watching this scenery. The uncertainty is all over the market place. The Fridays job numbers are not in yet but Friday is a holiday. So we will see the reaction on Monday.
SPX going home..
SPX at home below the 50 day moving average. Dont know if they will crash the trend line also (Click to enlarge charts) Not quite touching the 50 day line. Maybe another day or two of selling?
Market Making new highs in 2014
Last week of December and the market still swinging higher. Low volumes all across the board and that is normal . Lets see what 2015 brings. This is the last video of the year for us. Take a look..

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Griffin earns her chance to shine
Kelsey Griffin: born in Alaska. Attended Nebraska. This makes her fluent in "askas." Just ask her.
But this is Uncasville. A long-aska way from home. This is Uncasville for the fourth time, actually. Her fourth season with the Sun and in the WNBA. And while exactly nobody would have thought to pose this question seven months ago to the day, in the wake of the Sun's inexplicable, unceremonious exit from the playoffs, now it can be asked:
Does Kelsey Griffin suddenly hold the keys to the kingdom?
Griffin returns to her natural position this season, power forward, the "four" as the hardwood intelligentsia calls it. She co-stars there with Mistie Bass now, attempting to compensate for the absence of Olympian Asjha Jones, who has decided not to play this summer.
This just in: They need production from that spot like Frank Burns needed Hot Lips Houlihan. Is Griffin, not exactly a snarling widebody, perpetually cheerful, ready to channel her inner nasty?
"Every year is an opportunity, but this year especially. The situation has changed. If I denied that, I wouldn't be honest. It's a new coaching staff, a clean slate," Griffin was saying before the Sun's first preseason game Saturday with New York at Mohegan Sun Arena.
"I know coach Donovan has seen me in college and in the league a little bit, but she hasn't seen me in practice and behind the scenes what I do," Griffin said. "That's a new opportunity. With the huge hole of having Asjha not here, that's another opportunity. There's room where I can really prove myself."
Griffin's first three years here would likely produce no grade other than an incomplete. She hovers between Peggy Lee ("Is that all there is?") and Bachman-Turner Overdrive ("Ain't Seen Nothin Yet.") She's played some small forward, some power forward, sometimes not at all. This is not what former Sun coach Mike Thibault had in mind when he traded the Sun's first round pick in 2011 for her in 2010.
Yes, she made the All-Rookie team. Yes, she's mastered many beyond-the-boxscore rewards, taking charges, keeping possessions alive. But there still seems something missing, sort of like staring at this really nice car only to discover somebody misplaced the keys.
Perhaps this is where Anne Donovan goes where Thibault could not. Donovan has made it clear that Griffin is a power forward and power forward only.
"Going back and forth between positions, I like to call it character building," Griffin said. "It was difficult. One thing I really appreciate about coach Donovan is her directness. I know her expectations, what she wants and what I'm going to be doing this season.
"I'm always up for a challenge, but playing the three when you've never done it before in one of the best leagues in the world is a challenge. But I'm really excited to get back to what I think I do best: play the four. I can still bring my speed and my outside game into the four, but use what I've worked on as a three. But it's nice to know this is where I'm going to play and this is what I need to do."
Griffin arrived here earlier this week the happiest she's been in her professional career. Donovan's assurances, Griffin's experiences and her Most Valuable Player Award this past winter in Australia have conspired to create a different approach.
"I've found myself again in basketball," she said. "As a rookie, I was trying to figure the league out. The next year, I went between the three and the four and a lot depended on the other teams and what players they had. Last year, I really didn't play except when everyone else was out. I'm a completely different player than last year."
The court will tell the story, as it always does. But it sounds as though Griffin is embracing expectations now, rather than rolling with them. And this is when she's the Kelsey Griffin they adored at Nebraska.
"What set her apart," Nebraska coach Connie Yori said, "was that she never took a possession off. That's not in every college kid's thought process. I think maybe she's wondered if she's really good enough and she has to prove herself every day."
Remember Yori's words: She has to prove herself every day. And so it begins.
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Early Childhood Home Visiting
Melissa Lim Brodowski, Jacqueline Counts, and Aislinn Conrad-Hiebner
This chapter provides an overview of early-childhood home-visiting programs and offers a brief summary of the research, policy, and practice issues. The first section defines home visiting and the funding available to support it. The next section summarizes common characteristics of home-visiting programs and describes the features of several evidence-based home-visiting programs. The outcomes from home visiting for parents and children, including relevant cost-benefit studies, are briefly reviewed. The chapter concludes with implementation issues and future directions for home visiting.
Foster Care
Joyce E. Everett
Social work has long been involved in child foster care. Though its initial involvement de-emphasized the importance of infant–caregiver attachment, Bowlby's theory of attachment is particularly relevant for child-welfare practice. This entry chronicles the history of child foster care and describes the evolution of legislation most pertinent for the provision of foster care. The characteristics of children in foster care since 2000 and the dynamic flow of children entering and exiting care are described. A brief account of foster care services and future trends in the field are highlighted.
Juvenile Justice: Juvenile and Family Courts
Mark Ezell
This section defines and discusses the jurisdictions of the juvenile and family courts as well as their influences on social work practice. The history of the court, several interpretations of it, as well as various reform efforts are reviewed. Opportunities for social workers to be employed by the numerous agencies affiliated with the court, as well as several nontraditional social work roles, are outlined in this section. The final two parts of the section discuss the major innovations and primary challenges faced by the contemporary court such as gender, class, and racial biases in the system, questions about the effectiveness of the court and associated programs. Finally, proposals to abolish or reinvent the juvenile court are presented.
Street-Connected Children
Neela Dabir
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The Tippett saga: how it went wrong for Crows
IT IS late September, 2009. Adelaide has fallen just short of Collingwood in a tight semi-final, but the Crows are optimistic. They have a young, talented list, and high hopes for Patrick Dangerfield, Bernie Vince, Taylor Walker and others. Then there is Kurt Tippett, who has kicked 55 goals in his first full season to become one of the most exciting young forwards in the game.
There's just one problem. In a meeting on the Gold Coast, Adelaide chief executive Steven Trigg and football manager John Reid are told that Tippett is on his way out. The Queenslander is contracted for one more year but has been offered a lot of money to join the new Gold Coast side for its debut season in 2011 and, according to his manager Peter Blucher, is on the verge of accepting it. The deal had been offered in the short off-season window in which the Suns were allowed to broach and reach terms with opposition players.
Adelaide is under enormous pressure not to let Tippett leave. He is only 22 and played just 43 games, but he is one of the club's most promising youngsters. Explaining his departure to a supporter base that has fallen in love with him would not be easy.
The Tippett contract is one of the last that Reid - the man who helped piece together Adelaide's 1997-98 premiership sides - will complete before retiring.
The Crows put a new deal to Tippett, lifting his pay from $400,000 in 2010 to $700,000 in 2011 and 2012, and the club wins its man back over. In a letter to Blucher, Reid confirms additional bonuses and breaks the base payments for the three years of the new contract into three categories: the amount the club will include in the salary cap; additional services agreements totalling $80,000 a year; as well as ''independent agreements'' totalling $200,000, split over 2011 and 2012. It notes that the breakdown may change once the third-party money is in place. But the money is guaranteed.
The Crows make one more promise. Reid agrees that should Tippett wish to leave the club at the end of the new contract - 2012 - it would trade him to the club of his choice for a minimum second-round draft pick. If that club is the Gold Coast, it must be the Suns' earliest second-round choice. It is made quite clear that neither the ''exit clause'' or the underwritten third-party money can be included in the version of Tippett's contract submitted to the AFL.
The Tippetts have since argued that Adelaide, desperate to keep the young player, put the ''exit clause'' to them. The Crows claim Tippett, led by his father Tony, persuaded the club to include it. Whoever thought it up, the letter is what has landed the club, Trigg, Reid, his successor Phil Harper and Tippett before the AFL Commission on draft tampering and salary-cap charges.
From there, the stories start to vary.
Trigg is understood to have told AFL investigators he had a change of heart soon after Reid put the letter in the mail. He claims he called Blucher, telling him the exit clause would not get past the AFL should either party attempt to follow through with it. He says the pair agreed then to void it. If true, the rethink does not appear to have been put in writing.
Tippett's contract was signed, submitted to the AFL and rubber-stamped. On October 3, Reid told the Adelaide Advertiser that while player contracts were necessarily inflated when new clubs were entering the league, the Crows were content with the deal they had struck with their young star. ''We've needed to put up a few bales of hay to keep Kurt, but we've also kept the farm,'' he said. ''We've certainly not sold our soul.''
PHIL Harper was appointed from within the club to replace Reid. From a series of emails unearthed during the AFL's investigation, it appears to have become his unenviable duty to ensure Tippett received his undeclared money, while keeping Trigg in the loop.
There is an email from Harper to Blucher in early 2011, in which Harper says he has ''tipped'' the forward, Dangerfield and captain Nathan van Berlo into an endorsement deal with a construction company owned by former board member Alan Sheppard. These deals were approved by the league at the time, but Harper's use of the word ''tipped'' catches the attention of investigators. Independent agreements are supposed to be just that - not sought, facilitated or set up by clubs.
There are more emails. In one, Harper discusses with Trigg and Adelaide finance manager Grant Rutherford whether the club had room in its salary cap to cover an anticipated shortfall in Tippett's additional $200,000, expressing doubt the club could absorb it. The same concern is broached in another email, sent earlier this year to Trigg, Rutherford, list manager David Noble and general manager of finance and administration Shane Smallacombe, with Harper explaining the Crows were around $50,000 short on the $200,000 and that if they couldn't find other companies to chip in, the money would have to go into the club's salary cap. Adelaide could not afford to not pay Tippett the money, he said, because otherwise the letter might resurface, leaving the Crows facing a hefty AFL fine. The football manager finished with an instruction: ''please delete this email''.
Over time, Adelaide officials appear to have become frustrated, believing Tippett was knocking back good offers because they involved too much work, while further emails listed the companies he did reach agreements with, indicating that Blucher had been encouraged to contact them.
One was with Sheppard and another with Amcor Packaging, while resources company McMahon Services paid him between $20,000 and $30,000. The investigation also found a letter from Harper to club sponsor Balfours, instructing the bakery to divert $20,000 to $40,000 from a $140,000 sponsorship to Tippett. In return the forward became a Balfours ambassador, filming a series of advertisements while dressed in an apron and chef's hat.
ALMOST two years after Adelaide talked Tippett into staying, the web began to unravel.
In an article in The Age, published on August 10, Caroline Wilson explained that Adelaide was being haunted by an intriguing clause linking Tippett to the Gold Coast. She wrote: ''It has emerged that Tippett kept his options open when he committed to the Crows on a massive three-year deal at the end of 2009, insisting upon a clause that would allow him to move to the club of his choice at the end of next season.''
Tippett responded by recording a video message for the Adelaide website the following day, hedging his bets. He was a beach boy at heart, he said, but he didn't plan to go anywhere yet.
''I'm contracted until the end of next season and I intend to - and expect to - play out that contract to the very best of my abilities.''
That wasn't the end of it. In fact, more people were being drawn in.
At a board meeting in late August 2011, Trigg was asked for an update on Tippett's contract situation, with the exchange recorded in board minutes. The CEO is understood to have confirmed the existence of the get-out clause, but expressed confidence that Tippett would stay.
Publicly, the Crows claimed Tippett was off the trade table. Behind the scenes they were open to offers. The Brisbane Lions spoke to Tippett, put an offer to him and offered Adelaide its No. 12 draft pick, as well as an end-of-first-round compensation pick, but the Crows wanted one of the Lions' talented young South Australians, Jared Polec or Jack Redden.
The Crows' recruiting manager, Matt Rendell, suspected Tippett would be gone in 12 months and was keen to do the trade, but others were still sure they could talk him into re-signing. The deal died there.
TIPPETT had a frustrating 2012, interrupted three times by concussions. He kicked 39 goals in 21 games then, after a quiet finals series, played a significant part in Adelaide's five-point loss to Hawthorn in a preliminary final.
Still, no one was surprised when, having delayed contract talks all year, he announced he had quit the club.
What did shock the Crows was his intended destination: not the Suns, not the Lions, but premiership side Sydney.
That said, the Crows knew he was likely to leave. Weeks before Tippett made his call, Harper had sent a new, airbrushed version of Reid's original letter to Blucher, from three years earlier, removing the damaging references to the independent agreements and the need to keep them from the AFL.
As the three-week trade period began in early October, Trigg left Adelaide on a European holiday. His instructions to Noble were to chase the best possible deal for Tippett but, if push came to shove, accept a second-round draft pick.
As the Crows and Sydney met on the first day of trading it became clear the Swans knew about the exit clause but weren't desperate to push the situation and were willing to work their first-round draft pick into a deal. But Sydney also wanted Adelaide to take the contracted Jesse White off its hands. Deeper into the trade period, the Swans also asked for two late draft picks in return.
Progress was slow, and the Tippetts were becoming increasingly agitated that a trade had not been done. With Tony Tippett threatening to go public with the illegal exit clause and the family hiring lawyer David Galbally, tension was building.
By the end of week two of trading, White had flown to Adelaide and passed a medical. The Crows didn't really want to take the forward on - planning to take just two live picks in the national draft, the club wasn't keen to delist another player to make room for him - but had been talked around. Tippett had been offered a four-year deal worth $3.55 million to join Sydney, and word that Adelaide was planning to swap its highest-paid player for White and Sydney's pick 23 had raised plenty of eyebrows at AFL headquarters. Trade deals are only approved once salary cap watchdog Ken Wood is convinced they represent clear commercial value.
On Friday, October 19, the paperwork was signed, ready to be lodged. As far as the Swans knew, the deal was done. But at the last minute, the Crows pulled it. Whether Harper went to Adelaide chairman Rob Chapman or coach Brenton Sanderson raised his own concerns, the chairman waited for Trigg to arrive home, picked up the phone and called AFL boss Andrew Demetriou. After three years, it was time to confess.
Emma Quayle joined The Age as a cadet journalist in 1999 and has been covering football since 2001. She has won awards from the Australian Football Media Association and AFL Players Association for her feature writing, and specialised for many years in covering junior football and the AFL draft. Emma's two books - The Draft and Nine Lives (the story of former Essendon wingman Adam Ramanauskas' battle with cancer) - were published in 2008 and 2010.


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The Federal Reserve launched an investigation on Wednesday into the U.S. central bank's worst security lapse in years, but said it appeared the early release of market-sensitive minutes of a policy meeting, including to some banks, was accidental.
Minutes of Fed meetings can shed vital light on the future path of U.S. monetary policy and frequently impact financial markets worldwide. As such, they are normally guarded by elaborate security measures.
"At this time, we do not know whether there was any trading related to inadvertent early distribution of the minutes," a Fed spokesman said. "We will be working with market regulators, the SEC and CFTC, to ensure they have the information they need to evaluate the incident."
Securities and Exchange Commission spokesman John Nester confirmed the SEC had been contacted by the Fed, but declined further comment. A spokesman for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission also confirmed that the agency had been informed by the Fed.
The Fed's inspector general is also investigating.
The central bank said it discovered the error around 6:30 a.m. (1030 GMT) on Wednesday. More than 100 people, primarily congressional staffers and employees of trade associations, had received the minutes of its March policy meeting around 2 p.m. (1800 GMT) on Tuesday - about 24 hours before their scheduled public release.
Among those who received the minutes early were people with email addresses that identified them as working for a number of financial firms, including Goldman Sachs, Barclays Capital, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, UBS and JPMorgan, which regularly trade on new information about U.S. monetary policy.
After discovering the breach, the Fed decided it would publish the minutes at 9 a.m. (1300 GMT).
"We discovered the early distribution on our own early this morning and we released the minutes publicly as early as practicable," the Fed spokesman said. "Every indication at this time is that the early release of the minutes was entirely accidental."
The spokesman said the people who got the minutes on Tuesday had been on a list of professional contacts held by an individual at the central bank.
A copy of the email obtained by Reuters showed it was sent by Brian Gross, a member of the Fed's congressional liaison staff. The minutes were sent as an attachment to the email that was labeled as being embargoed for release at 2 p.m. (1800 GMT); the attachment referenced both Wednesday and the date April 10.
Long-time watchers of the central bank could not recall another incident when such a highly sensitive document was released a day early.
"It's certainly an embarrassment for the Fed," said Robert Brusca, chief economist at Fact and Opinion Economics in New York. "It will make the Fed mind its technology better."
Several other congressional staffers contacted by Reuters said that they had received the email of the minutes on Tuesday, but had not noticed until after the story broke.
The minutes detail discussions between the 19 members of the policy-setting committee over each of the Fed's regular two-day meetings, held eight times a year, plus Fed staff forecasts for the U.S. economic outlook.
Although they do not name individual officials' policy preferences, the minutes give a pretty clear sense of where the consensus at the Fed lies around key issues, such as if and when it plans to taper monthly Fed bond purchases.
Such insight into possible future Fed actions can move the prices of stocks, bonds and currencies. The release of the minutes three weeks after each policy meeting has become a key trading event in the financial markets calendar.
Indeed, the latest set of minutes, which suggested policymakers were nearing a decision on tapering their bond purchases, pushed prices for U.S. government debt lower and helped lift the dollar to a four-year high against the yen after they were released broadly on Wednesday morning.
The minutes of the previous two meetings had an even bigger impact. Minutes released in late February led to the biggest drop in U.S. stocks in three months, while minutes in January sparked a selloff in the Treasury market that drove benchmark yields to their highest level since May 2012.
Premature disclosures of sensitive U.S. government data is unusual but not unprecedented. Last August, the U.S. Labor Department accidentally posted weekly jobless claims data to its website the afternoon before the report was due to be released.
Lawyers and former federal prosecutors said that any insider trading case based on the early release of the minutes would hinge on whether the recipient of the information specifically knew the details were provided on a confidential basis.
"The major issue is whether the recipients understood that the information that was leaked early was confidential," said Mark Fickes, a partner in BraunHagey & Borden LLP in San Francisco, and a former senior SEC trial counsel. "It would be hard to imagine liability if the early release were totally accidental and the recipient didn't know the release was early."


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LOUISVILLE, KY (AP) — The landmark 1998 national settlement between 46 states and 19 tobacco companies is valid and doesn't amount to a conspiracy or anti-competitive behavior by the government, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
The US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati rejected claims from General Tobacco, a now-shuttered Mayodan, NC, company, that it was misled into taking part in the agreement in 2004, causing it to effectively shut down five years later.
The Master Settlement Agreement ultimately prevented companies from being sued by state governments for the costs of health care for smokers, but required a combination of yearly payments to states and restrictions on advertising. The settlement protected cigarette wholesalers and retailers from liability.
General Tobacco's attorney, John Bush of Bingham, Greenbaum, Doll in Louisville, said the company was disappointed by the ruling.
"The company is reviewing its options for further appeal at this point," Bush told The Associated Press.
Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway said in a statement that the state has received $1.39 billion from the agreement since 1998.
"We appreciate the court upholding the integrity of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement," Conway said.
The National Association of Attorneys General, which argued the case, was reviewing the decision.
The case arose after US District Judge Karen Coffman in Louisville dismissed General Tobacco's challenge to the agreement in 2009, ruling that the company couldn't prove the settlement amounted to a conspiracy or anti-competitive behavior by the government.
General Tobacco, which sold the GT-One brand and at one point was the sixth-largest cigarette maker in the country, paid about $600 million into the settlement, including about $200 million in back payments for the six years the settlement was in place before the company joined, and another $36 million in escrow.
General Tobacco, founded in 2000, claimed that nonparticipating companies were almost excluded from selling tobacco products in the United States because no wholesaler or retailer would risk selling a brand not covered by the agreement.
The settlement divided participants into two camps – original participants and subsequent participants. General Tobacco claimed that split amounted to a conspiracy and unfairly treated cigarette companies who came late to the agreement by making them pay more than the original group.
General Tobacco argued that it eventually signed on to the settlement because it was the only way to get full access to the US tobacco market. But, by joining late, the company said it had to pay more than the 19 companies that originally settled the case, making the settlement unfair to General Tobacco.
Judge Eric Clay wrote in a 21-page decision that General Tobacco understood the terms of the agreement and the multiple rights it waived signing on to the agreement.
"Plaintiff has not alleged that it did not understand that it was waiving its constitutional claims," Clay wrote. "…The waiver is valid."
Clay, writing for the court, found that the Attorneys General and the 19 tobacco companies that took part in the settlement before General Tobacco signed on are immune from being sued. States and their agencies are generally immune from lawsuits, unless they are acting as a "market participant" instead of a governmental role.
Clay found that the attorneys general were acting as government officials in enforcing the settlement.
"Plaintiff does not allege any facts necessary to show that Attorneys General defendants were acting as market participants," Clay wrote.
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Ah the '80s, those glory days of action flicks when it was generally understood an explosion couldn't actually hurt you as long as you were running away from it.
A second-rate Schwarzenegger, WWE star John Cena actually acts out this hack action-flick imagery several times in the course of the cartoon revenge flick The Marine -- a movie I liked a lot better the first time when it was called Commando.
But then that movie was funny. And though Cena may one day make a pretty good killer-android, words, let alone funny ones, don't exactly trip off his tongue.
Which is not to say that exec-producer Vince McMahon and his WWE Films folk don't recognize the role of humour in a movie like The Marine. In fact, they put wrestling's best "comedy" writers to work giving the bad guys "funny" things to say.
Like, say, when a slumming Robert Patrick -- the leader of the dumbest bunch of master criminals ever -- is on the run in a South Carolina swamp and kills one of his own guys for being annoying. Cue the stock footage of alligators crawling out of the water. "I thought you said there were no crocodiles," says one. "They're alligators," his buddy replies. "Are they hungry?" -- (munch, munch) -- "Not anymore."
Unfortunately, Triton disobeyed orders in rescuing his boys. So next thing you know, he's discharged and sent home to his wife (Kelly Carlson) in South Carolina to look for work.
Hijinks of a sort ensue. He gets fired from his job as a building security guy for "overreacting." But the play's truly afoot when he and his wife take a get-away-from-it-all drive to the mountains and, at a gas bar, encounter the aforementioned bad guys who've just gotten away with $12 million in diamonds while blowing up half the downtown and killing a couple of cops. A couple of gas explosions and another cop-killing later, the bad guys are on the lam in Triton's car with his wife.
Sun Rating: 1 out of 5
All this takes about a half-hour, which leaves an interminable amount of time in the swampy backwoods disposing of hillbilly drug-traffickers, etc., before the inevitable ass-kicking and revenge taking -- though Triton's killing-machine status seems to vary depending on who he's fighting.
C'mon Robert Patrick can't be that hard to beat up -- especially when he's all dispirited and depressed about being in a movie like this.
I liked it a lot better when it was called Commando. Wrestler John Cena is a wannabe Arnie (minus acting range and sense of humour) who similarly outruns explosions and dodges machinegun bullets while wiping out bad guys. A movie so dumb it may actually cause brain damage.


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Small story: I was on a trip to Indonesia, and spent the morning hiking on exotic Komodo Island. When I returned to the ship, I noticed a 3-inch-long, perfectly oval rash on the inside of my arm. I looked it up on the Internet, and discovered my problem: A tree spider, indigenous to the islands, had bitten me and laid her eggs under my skin. "Freaked out" does not begin to describe my reaction. I ran down to the ship's doctor, told him what I had and showed him my arm.
He was French. "Madame," he said, "you have a common insect bite and you also have an overactive imagination."
He was quite right on every count; however, I believe that a robust imagination serves us well in this world, most of the time. A failure of imagination can lead to disaster.
Last week we read about an American couple who set out from Mexico on a 35-foot sailboat for a trip to New Zealand. They brought along their two daughters, ages 1 and 3. Two weeks later they were plucked from the raging seas in a complex, multi-agency rescue effort that cost taxpayers a fortune. I'm convinced that if subjected to a brain MRI, these two parents would display a dark, empty hidey hole where human imagination usually resides.
Didn't they imagine what might go wrong with two toddlers in a small boat out at sea? Couldn't they look around the corner and foresee the unacceptable risks to their babies? They simply did not imagine possible danger, and so they were nearly fatally unprepared when it hit.
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Mayor Kasim Reed and Councilwoman Cleta Winslow officially announced that the city will renovate and reopen Fire Station 7 at a ceremony on Tuesday morning.
The ceremony was held at the station located on the corner of West Whitehall and Oak in the city's West End neighborhood.
For five years, emergency calls from the West End community were being handled by multiple other fire stations throughout the city. Residents began to complain about long response times.
"We were in dire need of a fire station," Anna Davis, a longtime resident of the West End, told the Daily World. "Now that the station is being reopened, it makes me feel like our voice was heard, like someone actually cares about our community."
Established in 1910, this particular fire station served the West End and surrounding communities including Mechanicsville, Mozley Park and Castleberry for nearly a century. The station closed in 2008 as a result of economic hardships and budget cuts.
Fire Station 7 was the city's longest running fire station.
"It is important that we restore this vital landmark to improve public safety and give the people a sense of comfort," said Reed.
The city's Fire Chief, Kelvin Cochran, expressed deep gratitude as the announcement of the reopening was made.
"Announcing the closure of this fire station was one of the most difficult things I've had to do," said Cochran. "There is no amount of words to express my joy over this reopening."
The Atlanta City Council took a final vote to fund Station 7 for renovations late last month.
Because of the building's old age and extensive asbestos removal, the mayor says the total cost for the renovations will be nearly $2.5 million. The cost will be covered by a combination of donations and city funds.
Winslow noted that the President of the City Council, Ceasar Mitchell, was very instrumental in allocating funds for the renovation.
Various neighborhood organizations such as the West End Merchant Coalition and West End Neighborhood Development Association have also been steadfast in their commitment to restore the historic fire station.
Capital City Bank, located about one block from the station, held a fundraiser for Fire Station 7 and was able to bring in more than $30,000.
"Mayor Reed is indeed a friend of the community," said Frank Simmons, the bank's vice president. "On behalf of Capital City Bank, I want to give thanks to the mayor for keeping his word on reopening our fire station."
According to Mayor Reed, the renovations are expected to be completed and the station will be open by the end of the year.


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ALAMEDA — The East Bay Regional Park District is suing the City of Alameda over the rezoning of property that would permit a high-density housing development at the entrance of Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach.
The agency filed a lawsuit Friday arguing that rezoning the property located at the end of McKay Avenue for as many as 126 units was done without proper notice and without completion of an Environmental Impact Report, as required by the California Environmental Quality Act.
The East Bay Regional Park District has been trying to block the development, arguing that zoning for a private development in the footprint of the state beach is incompatible with the recreational and natural resources operated by the agency.
More than 1 million people visit Crown Beach operated by the agency since 1966, according to East Bay Regional Park District figures.


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Definitions of coat
n. - An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men. 2
n. - A petticoat. 2
n. - The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth. 2
n. - An external covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool, husk, or bark; as, the horses coats were sleek. 2
n. - A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of tar or varnish. 2
n. - Same as Coat of arms. See below. 2
n. - A coat card. See below. 2
v. t. - To cover with a coat or outer garment. 2
v. t. - To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling. 2
The word "coat" uses 4 letters: A C O T.
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Q This may not be a question that you, or anyone else, can answer authoritatively, but it's been bugging me a lot lately. In past years, as far as I can remember, traffic seemed to lighten up a bit in the summer when kids are out of school and people go on vacation. This year, if anything, my commute seems to have gotten worse since graduation season ended.
Is there something different this year? More construction than usual? Every schoolchild has a 9-to-5 summer job? Planetary alignment? I'm baffled, frustrated and scared that things will get even worse come September.
Gary Brainin
San Jose
A You have a right to be fretting. Your main gripe is with South Bay traffic, where delays have worsened, but be thankful you're not living in the East Bay.
Consider this: Severe weekday traffic delays have risen 21 percent in Alameda County in the past year. TWENTY-ONE PERCENT! And it's worse on weekends — 37 percent.
That's the biggest one-year jump since the dot-com boom of 15 years ago and is mainly due to the improved economy, and in part to high housing costs in San Francisco and Silicon Valley that make people want to live in the East Bay and commute.
You can see it on the bridges. A total of 122,729,587 trips were recorded on the seven Bay Area bridges last year, nearly 3 million more than the 119,809,986 in 2011.
Caltrans says traffic delays have increased by a few percentage points in other parts of the Bay Area, but it's worst in the East Bay. Which is why there is gridlock even in the usually lazy days of summer.
Q Well, the Union Pacific bridge over Interstate 280 is AGAIN defaced. Ugh. Couldn't really tell driving at highway speeds, but it appears they cut the barbed wire that UP put up. Makes me so mad! And sad.
Brian Spoutz
San Jose
A My feelings exactly.
Q After a few years of closures and lots of hard work by Caltrans, they successfully completed the upgraded barriers along Highway 17. Based on crash statistics, this seems to have been a big success. However, about a week ago, they started tearing up the barrier around Laurel Curve. Why would they tear up something that was completed so recently?
Dustin Hoekstra
Scotts Valley
A The barrier that has been removed is not the new K-rail but an older one that is being replaced by a temporary barrier. This will provide room to widen the Laurel Curve shoulder, install a retaining wall and change the elevation to provide a safer turn. The barrier was removed to allow more room while construction occurs. Work will last until next summer.
Q Help me understand what in the world is going on with Oregon Expressway. It has been a nightmare for weeks.
John Joss
Los Altos
A The nightmare should end soon. The timing to traffic signals at most intersections has been upgraded and much of the paving is done. Things are getting back to normal and one intersection at a time. All the intersections need to be online before the next step of signal coordination next month. Weekly updates and project information are posted at www.oregonexpressway.info.
Q There's a metering light on the westbound Highway 4 ramp from San Marco Boulevard in Bay Point that does not operate with any regularity. One day ON, several days OFF, etc. There's no rhyme or reason to it. Why?
Kris Kruse
A Blame the usual culprits: copper thieves. Caltrans says this location is victimized by wire theft more than any place in Contra Costa County.
Q I've been watching the construction of the new lanes on Highway 12 in the Delta on Bouldin Island between I-5 and Route 160, and they're doing something I've never seen before as part of the foundation work — laying out yardlong strips of what looks like thick plastic on the leveled, packed dirt, then drilling holes around them many feet deep into the dirt. Given that the structural qualities of Delta soil make Silly Putty look like granite, I'm sure something creative in the foundation is needed, but what is it?
Rick Seim
A The thick white strips are fabric and plastic called gray wick drains. These drains work in conjunction with black horizontal strip drains that aid in the consolidation of the underlying soil when additional soil is placed on top. The gray strips provide a path for water to escape from the pressure that's created when the additional dirt is placed over the road. This is more cost-effective than the traditional method of placing drainage rock a foot thick under the entire highway.
This is a $47 million project to replace the existing road between the Potato Slough and the Mokelumne River bridges. Caltrans will add a concrete median barrier with five-foot inside shoulders and eight-foot outside shoulders with rumble strips. Work will go on until May 2017.
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Come on, guys, really? Winona Ryder is back! And looking fabulous, blonde wig or no blonde wig. So what if the video is creepy? Hang on, let me put that another way: So what if the (Tim Burton-directed/Winona Ryder-starring) music video (for The Killers) is creepy? What the hell else would it be?! Don't tell me Winona Ryder has been out of the limelight so long you've forgotten her goth girl roots.
Don't tell me all Winona Ryder means to you people is Reality Bites and shoplifting and a supporting role in some Adam Sandler movie. Don't tell me all Winona Ryder means to you is The Age of Innocence. Winona Ryder is Beetlejuice. Winona Ryder is Heathers!! Winona Ryder is Tim Burton's third favorite muse! (1. Helena Bonham Carter, duh, since they're seeing one another; 2. Lisa Marie. I would say Johnny Depp is #1 but he can't technically be a muse 'cause he's a guy and I can't remember what the male version of a muse is called.)
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"Who's in it?"
Jack O'Connell (300: Rise of an Empire, "Skins"), Emily Barclay (Legend of the Guardians), Sam Hazeldine (Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, The Raven), Henry Lloyd-Hughes (The Inbetweeners, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
"What's it about?"
Chosen by the man himself, the Kevin Smith Movie Club presents Weekender. The rave scene has arrived from Ibiza and warehouse parties are exploding across the UK bringing phenomenal wealth to the organizers. In Manchester, best friends Matt and Dylan are in their early 20s and want to be a part of this social scene. They are taken on a wild journey from the exclusive VIP rooms of London clubs to the outrageous parties in Ibiza super-villas. But as their success continues to grow, they attract a more dark and sinister world.
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*I have not yet seen this film, so I'm literally going on the cast and Kevin Smith's involvement when it comes to excitement about the project. If you have seen it, feel free to shoot your thoughts off in the Talkbacks below, good or bad: be honest, just please don't be an ass.*
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Japanese based SoftBank is officially entering the global market. It was announced earlier today that the third largest carrier in Japan is acquiring 70 percent of Sprint, the third largest carrier in the United States, for $20.1 billion (1.57 trillion Yen). The two companies had been rumored to have been in serious discussions late last week. With all the i's dotted and t's crossed today, Softbank President Masayoshi Son and Sprint Chief Executive Dan Hesse announced that the deal was completed.
The breakdown of the deal, as announced by both Sprint and SoftBank, will send $12.1 billion to the current Sprint shareholders. The remaining $8 billion of new capital will be used to "strengthen Sprint's balance sheet." SoftBank is offering $7.30 a share for existing shares, though Sprint's stock had closed at $5.73 a share on Friday. Current Sprint stockholders will also receive 30 percent ownership in New Sprint. That's right, a group of extremely intelligent and wealthy businessmen and investors hashed out a multibillion dollar transaction and the best name they could come up with is "New Sprint."
The name appears to be the only negative in this deal, though, as both Sprint (old Sprint?) and SoftBank are looking at this acquisition as a win. For Sprint, it provides a sizable influx of cash that allows it to be competitive against Verizon and AT&T. It also gives the company the backing of an extremely successful entity that has built a network in the same way Sprint hopes to. It's also a win for current Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, who will become CEO of New Sprint and sit as a board member.
For SoftBank, this move is a bit of global market consolidation that plants it firmly in a top spot on the worldwide playing field. Now sitting as the third-largest mobile provider in Japan and in the United States, SoftBank has more than 90 million subscribers. This marks the largest overseas acquisition by a Japanese firm to date. However, any transaction of this size comes with its potential pitfalls. Sprint may be a risky point of entry for SoftBank, taking control of a sputtering company in a market that is dominated by two seemingly immovable giants. The agreed upon merger between Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile and MetroPCS makes the market even more competitive toward the top. The deal has also placed SoftBank as "credit watch negative" by Standard & Poor's, meaning it could see its credit rating downgraded. Of course, S&P made the same threat to the United States and that sure didn't stop us.
SoftBank's rise through Japan's mobile market came on the back of being the first company in the country that carried the iPhone. It's growth was only bolstered with acquisition after acquisition that put SoftBank in a position to make its biggest purchase yet with Sprint. Masayoshi Son will likely have to continue his aggressive ways to compete in the U.S. market. That doesn't seem to be something he's afraid to do. Leveraging SoftBank's LTE knowledge will be a major key to the success of this transaction, as Sprint has been attempting to build out its network for some time to little avail thanks mostly to money issues. Sprint hopes to have LTE in 100 markets by the end of the year.
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