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In last Thursday's non-league encounter on the La Salle High School tennis courts almost all of the matches were competitive, but in the end the host Explorers won them all, chalking up a 6-0 victory over the visiting Quakers of Penn Charter.
A day later, La Salle wrapped an undefeated Philadelphia Catholic League season with a 4-1 win over Archbishop Wood, and this week the Explorers are shooting for their sixth consecutive PCL championship in the league tournament. After losing a match in the Mayors' Cup Tournament at the beginning of the season, the team has gone 11-0 overall and 9-0 in league play. Within the PCL, which still uses a three-singles, two-doubles format, La Salle's closest bouts have been decided by 4-1 scores, and most matches have taken less than an hour to play in their entirety.
The Explorers welcomed the competition provided last week by Penn Charter, which is in the middle of its Inter-Ac League schedule. The Quakers are 4-3 overall, with a 2-2 league record that includes victories over Germantown Academy and Malvern Prep and losses to Episcopal Academy and Haverford School. The team has a new coach this year in Phillip Stevens, a former teacher and tennis coach at the old Chestnut Hill Academy.
La Salle had to adjust its line-up on the fly last Thursday when junior number one Christian Lutschaunig rolled an ankle during warm-ups. He returned later on with a pair of crutches to watch the remainder of the match.
Already on the injured list for Penn Charter was talented sophomore DreShaun Jarmon, who transferred in to PC this year from Central High School. Ineligible for Inter-Ac League competition this spring, Jarmon could've played in the non-league bout at La Salle if he had not been hurt.
Officially, last Thursday's meeting consisted of three singles and three doubles matches, played in a single pro-set format. La Salle senior Brian Stefanowicz, a Lafayette College signee who moved up into the first singles spot due to Lutschaunig's warm-up injury, pulled out a tough 9-7 victory over Charter sophomore Ben Plotnick, a Lafayette Hill resident.
It was just as well that the two teams went with the pro-set structure for the match, since the weather was warmer than had been predicted and players received a good workout in a relatively short time.
The Quakers also had sophomores at the other two singles positions. At number two, Geoff Zlobinsky squared off against another 10th-grader, Pete DeWitt, who chalked up an 8-4 win for La Salle. One rung down the ladder, the Explorers' R.J. Napolitano was an 8-3 winner over Ben Richards of Penn Charter.
At first doubles for La Salle, junior Mike O'Connor teamed up with senior Eric Schultz, who will attend the University of Pennsylvania next year. They took an 8-4 decision from Quakers junior Tyler Gottlieb and senior David Paisner (Vanderbilt).
Four juniors faced off at second doubles, where it was Tim Walker and Joe Sullivan of La Salle over PC's Randy Beck and Matt Brown, 8-5. The last match on and off the court was the third doubles contest involving sophomore Charlie Newell and senior J.J. Planondon (University of Delaware) of the Exlporers and PC seniors Ken Panis (Penn State) and Marc Gottschalk (George Washington). Newell and Planondon prevailed, 8-6, to complete a sweep for La Salle, which also won an exhibition doubles match.
UPDATE: On Friday afternoon Penn Charter took an even shorter road trip to Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, where the Quakers were edged by the host Blue Devils, 4-3.
Richards salvaged the third singles match for PC, but the other two individual encounters went to SCH junior number one Sam Shropshire and sophomore number two Pat Feighery. The Devils (3-2 Inter-Ac, 5-3 overall) took a 3-1 lead in the team score when sophomore Harrison Tracy and freshman Jay Regam captured the first doubles match, then the Quakers answered with a victory at fourth doubles from freshmen Max Sanders and Norman Williams.
Senior Crosby Harris and junior Tim Ogle clinched the team victory for SCH by winning at second doubles. A member of the Devils' third doubles tandem had to prepare to star in a performance of the school's spring play, so he and his partner retired from the court and left the way open for PC's Beck and Gottschalk.


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The Costa Mesa City Council unanimously voted Tuesday night to allow city staff to begin rescinding the remaining 70 layoff notices that, when first called for in March 2011, amounted to 213, or about half the city's workforce.
Jim Righeimer, who was selected as mayor at the same meeting, first suggested canceling the pink slips Nov. 19, before the next day's council meeting.
He and the council majority had authorized the widespread austerity move in an effort to control city spending — particularly the looming pension liability of employees — and also reinvest in capital improvement projects.
The move, which came after 11 p.m. in the nearly six-hour council session, authorized city CEO Tom Hatch to begin negotiations with the Costa Mesa City Employees Assn. in an effort to seek "enhanced" city services and long-term financial stability.
Righeimer has said he's interested in pursuing outsourcing for divisions such as the jail, payroll, park maintenance and street-sweeping services.
The Orange County Employees Assn., which represents about 200 of Costa Mesa's employees, filed a lawsuit in response to the layoffs, which resulted in an injunction that prohibited them. The California Supreme Court last month denied the city's petition to hear an appeal of the injunction.
OCEA spokeswoman Jennifer Muir said the move toward rescinding the layoffs helped remove the "dark cloud" hovering over employees and their families.
"We are encouraged and looking forward to a new beginning in Costa Mesa," she said. "We hope it's marked by collaboration and cooperation, and we have a lot of ideas for how the city can deliver the best services at the best value for the residents of Costa Mesa."
Though she eventually voted in favor of the motion, newly sworn-in Councilwoman Sandy Genis on Tuesday questioned the legality of any plans to outsource, given the appellate court's decision to, in her words, "put the brakes on the stuff."
"To me, it was pretty clear we can't just go outsource willy nilly," she said Wednesday.
For the moment, she advocated putting aside aspects such as a charter and outsourcing, instead tending "to the basics of city business."
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Blake Griffin and Chris Paul contributed their customary double-doubles and Matt Barnes returned after more than a month on the sidelines to score eight points as the Clippers raced to an early double-digit lead en route to a 112-91 romp Saturday night over the visiting Denver Nuggets.
The Clippers (19-9) matched their season-best winning streak before a sellout crowd of 19,129 at Staples Center, making it four in a row for the third time this year, behind extraordinary defense and dominant performances from Griffin, Paul and Jamal Crawford.
Griffin scored 24 points and pulled down 16 rebounds for his 19th double-double of the season, Paul had 10 points and 11 assists for his 21st, and Crawford scored 27 points on 10-of-20 shooting, including 6 of 12 from beyond the 3-point arc.
Wilson Chandler scored 19 first-half points on 8-of-11 shooting but missed all of his second-half shots for the Nuggets (14-12), whose cause wasn't helped by point guard Ty Lawson's continuing battle with the flu nor power forward Kenneth Faried's departure after rolling his left ankle just 3:15 into the game.
Chris Paul had four assists in the first three minutes and a half-dozen a little more midway through the first quarter as L.A. raced to an 11-2 lead, quickly made it a double-digit advantage, then used an 11-4 run for a 44-27 edge with 3:30 to go until halftime.
Denver pulled within six points twice — at 56-50 and 58-52 — but a 19-8 spree over the final 8½ minutes of the third quarter boosted the Clippers' lead to 19 points, and they led by as many as 23 in the fourth quarter.
Barnes saw his first action since Nov. 18, making 5 of 12 shots and three 3-pointers for 13 points, with three rebounds and two assists, and DeAndre Jordan had a dozen rebounds for L.A.
Lawson was feeling much better Saturday night, Denver coach Brian Shaw said before the game, than he was in Friday's 103-99 defeat at home to Phoenix, in which he managed 34 minutes but made just 3 of 11 shots. Lawson had 11 points on 3-of-7 shooting and six assists in 31 minutes.
Barnes was a tad rusty after missing the previous 16 games after he suffered a torn retina in his left eye, requiring three surgeries, a month ago against Memphis. He came on to a rousing ovation with 3:02 to go in the first quarter, turned the ball over the first time he tried to penetrate, then blocked a Jordan Hamilton shot.
Barnes, who was in uniform but did not play when the Clippers beat New Orleans on Wednesday, hit a 3-pointer early in the second quarter and scored after grabbing a loose ball after a Griffin miss in the final minute of the half, both restoring double-digit leads.


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Linguistic change
Every language has a history, and, as in the rest of human culture, changes are constantly taking place in the course of the learned transmission of a language from one generation to another. This is just part of the difference between human culture and animal behaviour. Languages change in all their aspects, in their pronunciation, word forms, syntax, and word meanings (semantic change). These changes are mostly very gradual in their operation, becoming noticeable only cumulatively over the course of several generations. But, in some areas of vocabulary, particular words closely related to rapid cultural change are subject to equally rapid and therefore noticeable changes within a generation or even within a decade. In the 20th century the vocabulary of science and technology was an outstanding example. The same is also true of those parts of vocabulary that are involved in fashionable slangs and jargons, whose raison d'être in promoting group, particularly age-group, solidarity depends on their being always fresh and distinctive. Old slangs date, as any novel or film more than 10 years old is apt to show.
Diversification of languages
Changes through time
In the structural aspects of spoken language, their pronunciation and grammar, and in vocabulary less closely involved in rapid cultural movement, the processes of linguistic change are best observed by comparing written records of a language over extended periods. This is most readily seen by English speakers through setting side by side present-day English texts with 18th-century English, the English of the Authorized Version of the Bible, Shakespearean English, Chaucer's English, and the varieties of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) that survive in written form. Noticeably, as one goes back in time, the effort required in understanding increases, and, while people do not hesitate to speak of "Shakespearean English," they are more doubtful about Chaucer, and for the most part Old English texts are as unintelligible to a modern English speaker as, for example, texts in German. It is clear that the differences involved include word meanings, grammar, and, so far as this can be reconstructed, pronunciation.
Similar evidence, together with what is known of the cultural history of the peoples concerned, makes clear the continuous historical connections linking French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian with the spoken ("vulgar") Latin of the western Roman Empire. This group constitutes the Romance subfamily of languages and is an example of how, as the result of linguistic change over a wide area, a group of distinct, though historically related, languages comes into being.
In the transmission of a language from parent to child, slight deviations in all aspects of language use occur all the time, and, as children's communication contacts widen, they confront a growing range of slight differences in personal language use, some of them correlating with social or regional differences within a community, these differences themselves being the results of the transmission process. As a consequence, children's language comes to differ slightly from that of their parents' generation. In urbanized communities an additional factor is involved: children have been shown to be effectively influenced by the language habits of their peer groups once they have made contacts with them in and out of school.
Such changes, though slight at the time, are progressively cumulative. Since ready intercommunication is a primary purpose of language, as long as a community remains unitary, with strong central direction and a central cultural focus, such changes will not go beyond the limits of intercomprehensibility. But in more-scattered communities and in larger language areas, especially when cultural and administrative ties are weakened and broken, these cumulative deviations in the course of generations give rise to wider regional differences. Such differences take the form of dialectal differentiation as long as there is some degree of mutual comprehension but eventually result in the emergence of distinct languages. This is what happened in the history of the colloquial Latin of the western Roman Empire, and it can be assumed that a similar course of events gave rise to the separate Germanic languages (English, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and some others), though in this family the original unitary language is not known historically but inferred as "Common Germanic" or "Proto-Germanic" and tentatively assigned to early in the 1st millennium bce as the period before separation began.
This is how language families have developed. Most but not all of the languages of Europe belong to the Indo-European family, so-called because in addition it includes the classical Indian language Sanskrit and most of the modern languages of northern India and Pakistan. It includes as subfamilies the two families just mentioned, Romance and Germanic, and several others. It is assumed that the subfamilies, and from them the individual languages of the Indo-European family, are ultimately derived from a unitary language spoken somewhere in eastern Europe or western Asia (its exact location is still under debate), perhaps 5,000 years ago. This unitary language has itself been referred to as "Indo-European," "Proto-Indo-European," the "common parent language," or the "original language" (Ursprache) of the family. But it must be emphasized that, whatever it may have been like, it was just one language among many and of no special status in itself. It was certainly in no way the original language of humankind or anything like it. It had its own earlier history, of which virtually nothing can be inferred, and it was, of course, very recent in relation to the time span of human language itself. What is really special about such "parent" or "proto-" languages is that they represent the farthest point to which available techniques and resources enable linguists to reconstruct the prehistory of attested and living languages. Similarly constituted families of languages derived from inferred common sources have been established for other parts of the world—for example, Altaic, covering Turkish and several languages of Central Asia, and Bantu, containing many of the languages of central and southern Africa.
If enough material in the form of written records from past ages were available, it would be possible to group all the world's languages into historically related families. In addition, an answer could perhaps be posited to the question of whether all languages are descended from a single original language or whether languages emerged independently among several groups of early peoples (the rival theories of monogenesis and polygenesis, a controversy more confidently disputed in the 19th century than today). In actual fact, written records, when they are available, go back only a fraction of the time in which human language has been developed and used, and over much of the globe written records are nonexistent. In addition, there are few linguistically relevant fossils comparable to the fossils of geological prehistory, though a certain amount of information about the early development of the vocal tract can be deduced from skeletal remains. This means that the history and prehistory of languages will not be able to go back more than to a few thousand years bce and will be much more-restricted in language areas in which few or no written records are available, as in much of Africa and in South America. Many languages will remain not related with certainty to any family.
Nevertheless, the methods of historical linguistics, involving the precise and systematic comparison of word forms and word meanings, have produced remarkable results in establishing language families on the same basis as Indo-European was established, in far less-favourable fields. But any attempt by these means to get back to "the origin of language" or to reconstruct the original language of the human race, if indeed there was one, has so far been beyond the reach of science. However, hypotheses based on large-scale comparative studies using statistical methods continue to be proposed. For example, in 2011 a study of 504 languages by New Zealand biologist Quentin D. Atkinson suggested that the number of phonemes a language contains may be an index of evolutionary diversity. In this sample, the languages of southwest Africa had the largest phoneme inventories, and the number of phonemes declined the farther away from this area humans settled, showing an interesting parallel with the reduction in human genetic diversity seen over increasing distance from Africa already noted by biologists. The findings are suggestive, but they need to be tested against a much larger sample of languages.
Changes through geographical movement
The fundamental cause of linguistic change and hence of linguistic diversification is the minute deviations occurring in the transmission of language from one generation to another. But other factors contribute to the historical development of languages and determine the spread of a language family over the world's surface. Population movements naturally play a large part, and movements of peoples in prehistoric times carried the Indo-European languages from a relatively restricted area into most of Europe and into northern India, Persia, and Armenia. The spread of the Indo-European languages resulted, in the main, from the imposition of the languages on the earlier populations of the territories occupied. In the historical period, within Indo-European, the same process can be seen at work in the Western Roman Empire. Latin superseded the earlier, largely Celtic languages of the Iberian Peninsula and of Gaul (France) not through population replacement (the number of Roman soldiers and settlers in the empire was never large) but through the abandonment of these languages by the inhabitants over the generations as they found in Latin the language of commerce, civilization, law, literature, and social prestige.
Conquest does not always lead to the supersession of a language. Greek survived centuries of Turkish rule and indeed remained a focus of national feeling, as has happened elsewhere in history. Much depends on the various circumstances and on the mutual attitudes of those involved; what must be kept quite clear is the difference between movements of peoples and the spread of languages.
Languages do not just spread and compete with each other for territorial use. They are in constant contact, and every language bears evidence of this throughout its history. Modern Greek is full of words of Turkish origin, despite efforts made at various times since independence to "purify" the language by official action. The Norman Conquest and a period in which French was the language of the ruling class in England effected great changes on English and contributed a very substantial number of French words to English vocabulary—hence the quantity of near synonymous pairs available today: begin, commence; end, finish; kingly, royal; fight, combat; and so on.
Tendencies against change
These historical processes take place without any direct volition on the part of speakers as regards the language itself. Latin was learned as part of personal advancement, not for its own sake. Loans were incorporated almost without their being noticed, along with the concomitant cultural changes and innovations. Deliberate action directly related to a language does occur. The creation of pidgins involves some degree of linguistic consciousness on the part of their first users. More deliberate, however, have been various attempts at preserving the purity of a language, at least for some uses, or at arresting the processes of change. The care bestowed on the preservation of the Sanskrit used in religious ritual in ancient India and efforts to free Modern Greek from much of its Turkish vocabulary have already been noticed. For a period, under Nazi rule, efforts were made to replace some foreign words in the German language by words of native origin, and there have been movements to replace later accretions in English by words derived from Old English forms. In the long run, such attempts never succeed in preventing or reversing change; at best they preserve collaterally supposedly purer forms and styles for certain purposes and in certain contexts.
With the picture painted above of the tendency for languages to fragment first into dialects and then into separate languages, it might be thought that dialects are relatively late in appearance in the history of a language family. This impression is reinforced by the fact that most nonstandard dialects are unrepresented as such in writing, and so comparatively little is known about dialectal differences within most languages as one goes back in time. In this respect the very detailed knowledge of the Ancient Greek dialect situation is quite untypical.
In fact, dialect divisions must have been a feature of linguistic communities as early as there is any knowledge of them. Dialect splitting is fostered by isolation and loss of contact between groups within a speech community, and the sparse populations of earlier days, often nomadic and spread over large areas relative to their numbers, will have encouraged this process. It is simply the case that all but literate dialects have been lost in the past, and an artificial homogeneity is attributed to most ancient languages and to the so-called reconstructed parent languages of families.
Present-day conditions tend toward the amalgamation of dialects and the disappearance of those spoken by relatively few people. Urbanization, mass travel, universal education, broadcasting, ease of communication, and social mobility are among the forces that foster rather large regional and social dialects, with special occupational types of language within them, in place of the small, strictly localized dialects of earlier times. This is one reason for the urgency with which dialect studies are being pursued in many Western industrialized countries, such as England and parts of the United States. If work is not done soon, many dialects may perish unrecorded.
For the same reasons, dialect divisions that earlier would have widened into distinct languages are now unlikely to do so. One may compare the emergence of the separate Romance languages from once unitary Latin with the splitting of South American Spanish and Portuguese into different dialects of those two languages. Those dialectal divisions are not now expected to widen beyond the range of intercomprehensibility. Those same conditions, together with the spread of literacy, are leading to the extinction of languages spoken by relatively small communities. Such is the fate of most of the North American Indian languages, and Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, and Cornish may ultimately survive only as learned second languages, preserved as cultural focuses for their communities. But in situations like that, both past and present, the intervening period of extensive bilingualism and the concomitant use of two languages has its effect on the changes taking place in the dominant language, which is influenced by the phonetic and grammatical composition of the speakers' former language. The closing decades of the 20th century also saw a new enthusiasm for the preservation of minority languages, illustrated by the formation of the European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages in 1982 (although it ceased functioning in 2010).
Language typology
Language families, as conceived in the historical study of languages, should not be confused with the quite separate classifications of languages by reference to their sharing certain predominant features of grammatical structure. Such classifications give rise to what are called typological classes.
In fulfilling the requirements of open-ended creativity imposed on language by human beings, grammatical structure has things in common in all known languages, particularly at the deeper levels of grammar. All known languages have words or wordlike elements combined in accordance with rules into sentences; all known languages distinguish in some way nounlike and verblike sentence components; and all known languages have the means of embedding or subordinating one sentence within another as an included clause (e.g., the sun set and we returned home: When the sun set, we returned home; Joan was playing tennis and Joan twisted her ankle: Joan, who was playing tennis, twisted her ankle, or while she was playing tennis, Joan twisted her ankle). Descriptive analyses of all the languages of the world have not yet been prepared, and, of course, there is information about only a minute number of those that are no longer used—namely, those few that were written. But there is enough known to make the assertion of such universal features as have been given with fair confidence. These are often referred to as language universals; their nature and extent is the subject of ongoing discussion and research.
Within these very general guidelines, however, languages exhibit various types of structure. This can most readily be seen by comparing the relations between the forms of words and their syntactic functions in different languages. Such a comparison is the basis of three broad types of language that have been distinguished since the beginning of the 19th century. They are, in fact, more like characteristics than types, in that most languages contain traces of all three, in different proportions.
Classical Chinese made little or no use of word-form variation, such as is found, for example, in Latin, for grammatical purposes. Sentence structure was expressed by word order, word grouping, and the use of specific grammatical words, or particles. Such languages have been called isolating or analytic. Modern Chinese languages are much less analytic than is often believed; probably, Vietnamese is the most fully representative of this type today. Some languages string together, or agglutinate, successive bits, each with a specific grammatical function, into the body of single words. Turkish is a typical agglutinative language: compare Turkish evleri, "houses" (accusative case), in which ev is the root meaning "house," -ler marks plurality, and -i is the sign for accusative, with Latin domūs, in which -ūs combines the representation of accusative and plural without the possibility of assigning either category separately to one part of the word ending. Latin is in this respect an inflectional, or fusional, language. In a more extreme example, Latin ī "go!" cumulatively represents in one fused form the verb meaning "go," active voice, imperative mood, second person, and singular number, each a grammatically distinct category.
English, like many other languages, includes features of all three types. In its use of word order alone to distinguish grammatical differences (the dog chased the cat; the cat chased the dog), it resembles Classical Chinese rather than Latin. In a word form such as manliness, in which each bit can be assigned a grammatical function (man the basic noun, -li- the adjective formative, and -ness the abstract noun formative), it makes use of agglutination, whereas plurals such as men and geese and past tenses such as came and ran fuse distinct grammatical categories into a word form in which only arbitrarily can one allot some sound segments, or letters, to one and some to the other.
Assigning languages to different types in this way involves a delicate procedure of balancing one part of the grammar against another and deciding which type of structure predominates and how well the other types are represented. Languages predominantly of each of the types are found in communities at all levels of civilization and with all types of culture.
In the course of transmission, grammatical structures change, just as do pronunciation and meanings, and in time the cumulative effect may be the transference of a language from one overall type to another, although it remains descended from the earlier language and therefore is just as much part of the same historical family. Latin is very different typologically from French in its grammatical structure, but French is nevertheless the form that Latin took in France in the course of time. In the matter of the grammatical relevance of word order, the absence of case inflections in nouns, and the use of verbal auxiliaries instead of single word tense forms, French is more like English, a distant cousin within the Indo-European family, than it is like Latin, its immediate progenitor (compare French j'ai donné, English I have given, Latin dedī). The two sorts of language classification, historical and typological, serve different purposes and are differently based. Language families group languages together on the basis of descent—i.e., unbroken transmission from an earlier common parent language. The evidence is, in the main, systematic correspondences among the shapes of words of similar meanings (e.g., Greek patēr, Latin pater, French père, German Vater, English father). Languages are put into typological classes, with the reservation already mentioned, on the basis of certain overall similarities of structure irrespective of historical relations. Though these two classifications may coincide with some languages, as is the case to a great extent in the Bantu family, they do so only contingently; being based on different data and oriented differently, they do not logically or necessarily imply each other.
In a way, these two systems of classification involve the two most important aspects in which languages must be seen for them to be properly understood: as products of a continuous historical process and also as self-sufficient systems of communication in any one period. Both as a component of cultural history and as a central part of culture itself, language is able to reveal, more than any other human activity and achievement, what is involved in humankind's distinctive humanity.Robert Henry Robins David Crystal The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Google Ventures has made its largest medical software investment yet, providing the bulk of a $130 million financing for Flatiron Health Inc., which aggregates cancer-patient data from a wide variety of sources to help doctors make treatment decisions.
First Round Capital, Laboratory Corporation of America and angel investors also contributed to the Series B financing, which will partially be used to acquire electronic medical records company Altos Solutions Inc. Valuation was not disclosed.
Fortune earlier reported Flatiron was raising a nine-digit round led by Google Ventures.
"We don't generally make investments of $100-plus million," said Bill Maris, managing partner with Google Ventures. "When we do make an investment of this size, it means we really believe in the team, and the product, and the good that it can do for the world."
Only 4% of cancer patients participate in clinical trials, the company says, meaning that information about treatments and patient outcomes for 96% of patients is not easily accessible.
New York-based Flatiron, founded in 2012, makes software that taps a wide variety of sources to aggregate clinical and genomic data, information on patient outcomes, doctors' notes, billing information and other data, and presents the information to oncologists.
Doctors pondering a course of treatment for cancer patients use Flatiron to review other cases, and can see what outcomes various treatments have brought in the past, Mr. Maris said. Flatiron complies with privacy laws, meaning that doctors using the platform do not learn the identities of patients who are not their own.
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The new funding enables Flatiron to acquire Altos Solutions, a company offering cloud-based electronic medical records for oncology. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
By adding Altos' technology, doctors will have access to the Flatiron database as they treat patients, entering information into their electronic medical record, Mr. Maris said.
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Altos, which is not funded by venture capitalists, has some 1,300 clinicians regularly using its electronic health records, said Flatiron's Mr. Turner. The company's staff of 60 will join Flatiron when the deal is finalized by the end of this month, he added.
Flatiron also plans to hire as many as 30 more staff, many of them engineers, by the end of the year, he said.
Google Ventures has targeted medical software companies with a Big Data focus with several of its investments. The firm has backed DNAnexus Inc., which brings analytics to genomic information in an attempt to build the world's first searchable archive of DNA information. It has also backed Foundation Medicine, which uses big-data tools to analyze turmors, and Predilytics Inc., which offers health insurers a tool to track hospital discharges and readmissions.
Dow Jones VentureSource records show that the Flatiron Health deal is the fourth largest round Google Ventures has participated in. The firm confirmed it's the largest medical software deal.
Flatiron Health previously raised an $8 million Series A round from Google Ventures, First Round Capital, Great Oaks Capital, IA Ventures, Lab Corp, Social+Capital Partnership, SV Angel and other angel investors, VentureWire records show.
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Abounding in Matchbox models, this booklet documents a pastime that was enjoyed by several generations of children and adults. Lesney Products, a British manufacturing company, produced miniature models of cars from the late 1940s. What made its products unique were their matchbox size, model/box combination and low price. The Matchbox 1–75 series was soon followed by further product lines that innovated and varied the vehicles' designs (Superfasts, Major Packs, King Size) and, last but not least, the vintage Models of Yesteryear range made as adults' collectibles. During the sixties and seventies in Czechoslovakia Matchbox models came as a revelation. They were admired for their extraordinary precision that copied the originals, as well as for their functionality, bright colours and durable materials. These were qualities lacking in other toys and even in many real cars produced in the Eastern Bloc. During the era of Real Socialism, the magical label "Made in England" came to be a symbol of the unattainable West. Matchbox models were not only a popular iconic children's toy, but also became an adults' collectible.
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I am very happy to report I was first place and only female finisher of Run D Amore 125 miler.
In a time of 30:07, I was expecting a 33 or 34 hour finish.
This race was the same formate as RDV 100 which was held in august.
They did not have the 125 mile option so I ran the 100 miler in 24:27 I think. Have to check it could of been 25:27 ;-). I had just came off the 224 mile John Muir trail fastback when I ran it.
I was excited that they were having it again and adding the 125 miler.
I had just run Javelina 100 miler 12 days before so didn't think I would be fast. Guess what I was my splits were
Marathon 4:20- 50k 5:25 - 50 miler 9:28- 100k 12:03- 100 miler 23:30- 125 miles 30:07.
My positive attitude and my smart nutrition plan worked well. My last 3 hundreds have went very well for the most part. I think I finally have it figured out. It's taken me 86 hundred mile finishes to do so.
I was most looking forward to running the last 8 miles with my dog Truman.
Fast Jerry paced me through the freezing ass cold night , it got down to 26 degrees. He was awesome as always when it comes to crew and pacer he is the best.
I want to thank Alan & Rajeev and the volunteers and everyone who ran.
I love an event where everyone can cheer each other on.
The race had a 50k, 50m, 100k, 100m and 125 miler. Next year they will get rid of the 125 and make it 135 miles woo hoo!
I am now official qualified for the Spartathlon in Greece, and I have the fastest 125 mile time for females this year since I don't know of any other 125 mile race this year!
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
3 comments:
- Missy B. said...
Congratulations! Awesome job at this race and all of your adventures so far this year. You are amazing!
- Johann said...
Wow, awesome Catra! Congrats! I am stealing a quote from you and will post it on FB. Hope you don't mind! You are such an inspiration. Keep it going!
- Pinkcorker (Renee) said...
I saw these day of the dead tiles at our local art show here in Tucson, AZ and I was thinking of you. Hope you enjoy them! Way to go on your 100 mile finishes. You are really running well!
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Rule 751. Transcript (1990)
When an appeal has been perfected, the justice shall stay all further proceedings on the judgment, and immediately make out a transcript of all the entries made on his docket of the proceedings had in the case; and he shall immediately file the same, together with the original papers and any money in the court registry, including sums tendered pursuant to Rule 749b(1), with the clerk of the county court of the county in which the trial was had, or other court having jurisdiction of such appeal. The clerk shall docket the cause, and the trial shall be de novo.
The clerk shall immediately notify both appellant and the adverse party of the date of receipt of the transcript and the docket number of the cause. Such notice shall advise the defendant of the necessity for filing a written answer in the county court when the defendant has pleaded orally in the justice court.
The trial, as well as all hearings and motions, shall be entitled to precedence in the county court.
Amended by order of April 24, 1990, eff. Sept. 1, 1990: To provide for transfer of subject funds.
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Question: In case of appeal from justice to county court, in an action of forcible entry and detainer may the matter be tried promptly in the county court, if then in session, or may it be properly delayed until the opening of a new term in the latter court in accordance with the usual practice under R. S. Art. 3989?
Answer: Art. 3989 allowing delay in such a matter until the opening of the next term of court, or even later, has been superseded by Rule 751 which drops such avenue of delay and requires the justice to transfer the cause, in case of appeal, within not less than six days and the county court to give the cause precedence. It follows that the justice must effect the transfer promptly and that, if in session when the matter arrives there, the county court must give a trial as promptly as may be practicable, without regard, in either instance, to the opening of a new term.
5 Tex. B.J. 53 (1942) reprinted in 8 Tex. B.J. 7 (1945).
(No. 21) Question: In view of Rules 751 and 753, may a defendant be forced to trial or a default judgment he taken against him, in the instance of an appeal in a forcible entry and detainer proceeding, before appearance day in the county court?
Answer: There is an apparent inconsistency between Rules 751 and 753. Rule 751, in case of appeal, requires the justice of the peace to file the transcript and the papers in the court having jurisdiction of the appeal "within six days from the date of filing the appeal bond," and continues, "The clerk shall docket the cause, and the trial shall be de novo, and shall be entitled to precedence in the county court." On the other hand, Rule 753 reads: "If defendant fails to enter an appearance upon the docket of the ... county court on appearance day or file answer, before the case is called for trial, the allegations of the complaint may be taken as admitted, and judgment by default may be entered accordingly."
In our opinion, while the case may be tried in the county court, by consent of the parties, upon its being filed in the county court on appeal during term time, on the other hand, a trial may not be forced or a default judgment taken until appearance day of the term next ensuing after the date the case is so filed in the county court.
5 Tex. B.J. 168 (1942) reprinted in 8 Tex. B.J. 13 (1945).
(No. 40) Question: Should the County Court dismiss an appeal in a forcible entry and detainer suit if the transcript and papers are not filed in the County Court within six days from the date of the filing of the appeal bond as required by Rule 751?
Answer: Rule 751 shortened the time for filing the record in the County Court in order to expedite the disposition of cases of this type. If the transcript and papers are not filed within the specified time the same procedure would now apply as to the dismissal of the case in the County Court as heretofore applied under the statute where the transcript was not filed within the time required by the statute.
Texas Jurisprudence, Volume 26; pages 939-940, states the general rule upon this subject as follows:
"The failure of the justice to file the transcript within the time allowed is not of itself ground for dismissal of the appeal. But after that time has elapsed, the appellant is charged with responsibility for any delay in taking steps to compel the justice to perform his duty, and the appeal may be dismissed in the absence of a prompt application to compel the justice so to perform. Delay in applying may be excused by the circumstances, but promises by the justice, repeated from time to time but unfulfilled, do not excuse a long delay.
"The conduct of both the appellant and appellee on the justice's default is taken into account on a motion to dismiss, and all authorities are agreed that the right to move for dismissal may be waived."
5 Tex. B.J. 171 (1942) reprinted in 8 Tex. B.J. 16 (1945).
(No. 84) Question: Does Rule 751 respecting forcible entry and detainer allow the case to be heard on appeal before the regular term time of the court; and what is the meaning of the words, in that Rule, "shall be entitled to precedence in the county court?"
Answer: The first part of the question seems to be answered by the answer to question No. 21 in 5 Tex. B.J. 168. In our opinion the meaning of the wording, above quoted, concerning precedence, is that among the cases to be disposed of on the docket of the county court, this sort of a case will have especial preference over other sorts in connection with the order of disposition. It is the desire of Rule 751 to accelerate the proceedings as much as possible. You will notice, in that respect, that under Article 3989 the justice could make his filing in the county court "on or before the first day of the first term of said court, or, if there be insufficient time, on or before the first day of the next succeeding term thereof." The quoted words have been dropped from Rule 751, thus imposing upon the justice the duty of promptness.
6 Tex. B.J. 76 (1943) reprinted in 8 Tex. B.J. 32 (1945).
(No. 103) Question: "Rule 751, one of the special rules for forcible detainer cases, does not set any appearance day but gives the case precedence on the County Court docket. Does not Rule 571 make appearance day as to such cases the first day of the next term of county court in the event of appeal from the justice of the county court?
Answer: Yes. See opinions of this subcommittee, 5 Tex. B.J. 53 (3 rd opinion) and 168 (No. 21) We beg, however, to call to your attention the fact that this rule is reversed by the amendment to Rule 753 which will come into effect at the end of the present year (1943). That amendment reads, "Said cause shall be subject to trial at any time after the expiration of five full days after the day the transcript is filed in the county court, and if defendant shall fail to enter his appearance therein before the case is called for trial, the allegations of the complainant may be taken as admitted, and judgment by default may be entered accordingly."
6 Tex. B.J. 500 (1943) reprinted in 8 Tex. B.J. 37 (1945).
(No. 108) Question: What is the effect of that portion of Rule 751 providing that forcible entry and detainer suits which have been appealed to the county court "shall be entitled to precedence in the County Court ?"
Answer: This matter was touched upon but not dealt with fully in sub-committee opinion No. 84 appearing in 6 Tex. B.J. 76. It is the opinion of the sub-committee that every court necessarily and inherently has some discretion in the arrangement of its docket and the setting of cases for trial. The Statutes and Rules giving "precedence" to certain types of cases do not mean that the court can transact no other business until all such cases pending on the docket are disposed of. Such Statutes and Rules should be given a reasonable construction and a construction calculated to attain justice (Rule 1); and therefore where the application of the exact wording in regard to giving certain cases precedence would result in injustice, it is within the discretion of the court to relax the requirements sufficiently to avoid such injustice.
6 Tex. B.J. 550 (1943) reprinted in 8 Tex. B.J. 38 (1945).


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03.09.2013, 22:49
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I dist-upgraded yesterday, all went fine.
This brought Linux 3.11-0.slh.1-aptosid-amd64 kernel.
With this kernel, machines in Virtualbox refuse to start (pop up message that can't configure network eth0, suggest manually modprobing vboxnetflt which is loaded).
When starting machines, log shows something like
00:00:01.199735 IntNet#0: szNetwork={HostInterfaceNetworking-eth0} enmTrunkType=3 szTrunk={eth0} fFlags=0x8000 cbRecv=325632 cbSend=196608 fIgnoreConnectFailure=false
00:00:01.199826 VMSetError: /tmp/buildd/virtualbox-4.2.16-dfsg/src/VBox/Devices/Network/DrvIntNet.cpp(1718) int drvR3IntNetConstruct(PPDMDRVINS, PCFGMNODE, uint32_t); rc=VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND
00:00:01.199847 VMSetError: Failed to open/create the internal network 'HostInterfaceNetworking-eth0' (you might need to modprobe vboxnetflt to make it accessible)
00:00:01.199908 VMSetError: /tmp/buildd/virtualbox-4.2.16-dfsg/src/VBox/Devices/Network/DevE1000.cpp(7680) int e1kConstruct(PPDMDEVINS, int, PCFGMNODE); rc=VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND
00:00:01.199913 VMSetError: Failed to attach the network LUN
00:00:01.199927 PDM: Failed to construct 'e1000'/0! VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND (-3600) - The networking interface to filter was not found.
00:00:01.261658 VNC: port = 3389
00:00:01.262021 VNC: Configuring password
00:00:01.262626 ERROR [COM]: aRC=NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) aIID={db7ab4ca-2a3f-4183-9243-c1208da92392} aComponent={Console} aText={Failed to open/create the internal network 'HostInterfaceNetworking-eth0' (you might need to modprobe vboxnetflt to make it accessible) (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND).
00:00:01.262693 Failed to attach the network LUN (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND)}, preserve=false
00:00:01.303557 Power up failed (vrc=VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND, rc=NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0X80004005))
00:00:01.346213 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_ACCESSDENIED (0x80070005) aIID={db7ab4ca-2a3f-4183-9243-c1208da92392} aComponent={Console} aText={The virtual machine is not powered up}, preserve=false
00:00:01.480429 VNCServerImpl::VRDEResize to -57937504x32767x773745378bpp
00:00:01.480547 VNCServerImpl::VRDEResize to 640x480x32bpp
00:00:01.486870 VNCServerImpl::VRDEResize to -57937392x32767x773745378bpp
Issue affects both Linux & Windows virtual machines, both 32 and 64 bit.
Booting the previous kernel 3.10-9.slh.1-aptosid-amd64 solves the issue.
Host/Kernel/OS "siduxbox" running Linux 3.10-9.slh.1-aptosid-amd64 x86_64 [ sidux 2009-03 Μώμος - kde-lite - (200911110039) ]
CPU Info 2x AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5200+ clocked at [ 2700.000 MHz ]
Videocard NVIDIA C77 [GeForce 8200] X.Org 1.12.4 [
Processes 169 | Uptime 14min | Memory 1542.1/3833.9MB | HDD Size 1660GB (40%used) | GLX Renderer Gallium 0.4 on NVAA | GLX Version No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose) | Client Shell | Infobash v3.46
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RE: Virtualbox fails with Linux 3.11-0.slh.1-aptosid-amd64
04.09.2013, 01:04
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This is apparently
, I would suggest to report a
against Debian's "virtualbox-source" package ("virtualbox-dkms" respectively, if you used that). Add the link to the upstream vbox
, I'd suggest to use "normal" as priority (as Debian/sid is still on kernel 3.10, but it's already borderline "important") and tag it "patch".
Given that Debian's virtualbox packages no longer pass the
and are not part of Debian/main anymore, there's nothing we could do. But in the mean time you can patch the module build yourself (this expects that you use module-assistant and have its package and virtualbox-source installed):
$ mkdir -p /tmp/pkg/usr_src/
$ cd /tmp/pkg/usr_src/
$ tar -xjf /usr/src/virtualbox.tar.bz2
$ edit ./modules/virtualbox/vboxnetflt/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.c # just apply the patch by hand, by changing the file accordingly; pick your preferred editor
$ LANG= MODULE_LOC=/tmp/pkg/usr_src/modules/ m-a -O --kvers-list $(uname -r) --kernel-dir /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/ --userdir /tmp/pkg/ --text-mode build virtualbox-source
$ su
# dpkg -i /tmp/pkg/virtualbox-modules-$(uname -r)*.deb
# reboot
This should result in a functional virtualbox kernel module.
Considering that your hardware appears to support hardware virtualisation (
AMD-V/ svm
), we'd strongly suggest to use
instead of virtualbox. KVM is supported by the mainline kernel (no out-of-tree modules) and tends to be more performant/ less troublesome, at the expense of not providing a nice GUI.
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RE: Virtualbox fails with Linux 3.11-0.slh.1-aptosid-amd64
04.09.2013, 02:45
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Thanks slh,
As you advised, I reported a bug against virtualbox-dkms, here it is
I dared to use the "important" severity (b/c the problem renders the package unusable).
I'd rather keep the older kernel until a fixed VB version comes down, as opposed to patch modules myself for every kernel.
As about qemu/kvm: I'm aware for the advantages and I use KVM everywhere else; but these VM's are development machines where I need the GUI - for the sake of which I consider VB preferrable.
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Re: RE: Virtualbox fails with Linux 3.11-0.slh.1-aptosid-amd
04.09.2013, 10:29
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//edit 05.09.13 00:34:57 GMT+2: The following is actually bullshit. You COULD do it the way I thought slh has suggested it, but he was actually carefully avoiding this (=modifying files owned by dpkg). So lets just pretend I have never said anything
manul wrote:
I'd rather keep the older kernel until a fixed VB version comes down, as opposed to patch modules myself for every kernel.
For the record: slh described how to patch the module source, so this should be a one-time change for the lifetime of Linux for Workgroups (3.11) – aka: with the described change module-assistant and dmakms should do there work as usual and build the module again for you.
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manul wrote:
I dared to use the "important" severity (b/c the problem renders the package unusable).
I'd consider this high severity as well, so that's probably fine
Thanks for the warning about it...
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The bug (#721786) is marked as done in virtualbox/4.2.16-dfsg-3 (uploaded ~4 days ago).
So is this still an issue?
If so, please reopen the bug, otherwise everything fine and we can mark the thread as solved, right?
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DonKult wrote:
The bug (#721786) is marked as done in virtualbox/4.2.16-dfsg-3 (uploaded ~4 days ago).
So is this still an issue?
If so, please reopen the bug, otherwise everything fine and we can mark the thread as solved, right?
Yes - all works after full d-u.
I did not expect so blazingly fast fix from debian package maintainer.
I edited the starting post subject to mark the thread as solved.
Many thanks to everyone!
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In an unusual motion, Drew Peterson's former defense attorney is calling his defense-team rival "mentally ill," accusing him of leaking documents to the Chicago Tribune and speculating that he may be called to testify before a grand jury investigating his high-profile former client.
Joel Brodsky on Monday filed a motion asking to withdraw as Peterson's defense attorney in the civil wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the family of Kathleen Savio, Peterson's third wife, who the former Bolingbrook police officer was convicted this fall of drowning in 2004.
The motion was not unexpected – Brodsky was pressured to leave the defense team not long after Peterson's murder conviction. But what typically is a brief motion filled with boilerplate language became almost the complete opposite in Brodsky's hands.
The motion for leave to withdraw was filed not long after Peterson's defense team asked for a new trial based on what they said was Brodsky's inept legal performance.
In his motion, Brodsky fires back and alleges his defense team rival Steve Greenberg "suffers from a severe mental illness known as pathological narcissism."
Brodsky also claims that his former client is "like a man grasping straws" who has overlooked better legal arguments to attack Brodsky with "blatantly false and ill-considered allegations of misconduct."
He also accuses Greenberg of leaking sealed documents from the Peterson case to a Tribune reporter.
Brodsky does not explain in the motion the legal relevance those claims have to his request to withdraw from the civil case. But he argues later in the motion that, because of what he calls an "unfathomable error" by Greenberg, he expects to be called before a grand jury investigating Peterson.
Greenberg's alleged error is quoting from a letter Brodsky sent Peterson in November in which Brodsky allegedly threatened to reveal damaging information about Peterson if he were removed from the case.
The grand jury reference is presumably to a possible grand jury investigating Peterson for the murder of his missing fourth wife Stacy. Prosecutors have said Peterson murdered her, though he has not been charged.
Greenberg on Tuesday dismissed Brodsky's motion.
"It's nonsensical -- he doesn't understand thelaw," Greenberg said of the motion, which he compared to "a letter to the editor."
"We, unlike him, aren't filing anything or doing anything to make the situation worse," Greenberg said.
"My psychiatrist says I'm OK," he joked.
Peterson's defense team has said they believe their client will be charged in connection with Stacy's 2007 disappearance. Will County's top prosecutor has said he will have attorneys in his office review her case again with an eye towards possibly bringing charges.
A hearing on Peterson's motion for a new trial based on Brodsky's alleged ineffective assistance of counsel is scheduled for Jan. 10.


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The Associated Press: House Votes to Cut Off Funds for NPR
Congressman Lamborn "It is time for American citizens to stop funding an organization that can stand on its own feet"
The House on Thursday voted to end federal funding to National Public Radio. Republican supporters said it made good fiscal sense, and Democratic opponents called it an ideological attack that would deprive local stations of access to programs such as "Car Talk" and "All Things Considered."
The bill, passed 228-192 along mainly partisan lines, would bar federal funding of NPR and prohibit local public stations from using federal money to pay NPR dues and buy its programs. The prospects of support in the Democratic-controlled Senate are slim. Seven Republicans broke ranks to vote against the bill.
NPR received almost $5 million in federal funding in fiscal year 2010. In that year its revenues also included $2.8 million in dues and $63 million in programming fees from local stations, its largest single source of revenue. Under the bill, stations would still be allowed to buy NPR programs using private funds and use federal funds to produce their own programs.
"It is time for American citizens to stop funding an organization that can stand on its own feet," said Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., the sponsor. He said it was not a question of content-which many conservatives say has a liberal bias-but whether taxpayer dollars should go to nonessential services. "As a country we no longer have this luxury."
Other Republicans also denied that the measure was a vendetta against NPR, although the organization left itself open to conservative attacks last week when an executive, talking to conservative activists posing as members of a fake Muslim group, was caught on camera deriding the tea party movement and saying the NPR would be better off without federal funding. Both the executive and the president of NPR resigned after the incident.
"Nobody's on a rampage," said Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., who also asked "why should we allow taxpayer dollars to be used to advocate one ideology?"
Democrats retorted that the legislation would do nothing to reduce the deficit and would be a blow to local public stations that rely on the national programs that include "Morning Edition" and "Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me" to attract listeners. "This bill would pull the plug," said Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass. "It would snuff out stations from coast to coast, many in rural areas where the public radio station is the primary source of news and information."
Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., displayed a blow-up photo of the two brothers who host the car advice show "Car Talk" with the caption, referring to their nicknames, reading "Save Click and Clack."
The White House said it "strongly opposed" the bill and voiced similar objections, saying "undercutting funding for these radio stations, notably ones in rural areas where such outlets are already scarce, would result in communities losing valuable programming, and some stations could be forced to shut down altogether."
The move to curtail federal subsidies for NPR follows a House vote last month, as part of the GOP plan to cut federal spending for the remainder of this budget year, to take back some $86 million budgeted for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the parent organization of NPR. That proposal, which also faces opposition in the Senate, eliminates $430 million in planned future spending for CPB.
In a statement following the vote, CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison said Americans "overwhelmingly agree that public broadcasting is a service worthy of the federal government" and "rather than penalize public broadcasting, the debate should focus on strengthening and supporting this valuable national asset."
In fiscal years 2009 and 2010 the CPB distributed federal grant money to more than 600 public radio stations, which used that money to buy programs and pay dues to NPR.
NPR says that of its $145.5 million in budgeted revenues in the fiscal year ending last September, only 1. 9 percent came from station dues. The biggest chunk, $63 million or 43 percent, came from station program fees. Another $36 million, or 24.7 percent, was derived from corporate sponsorships. About 3 percent came from grants from federally funded agencies such as the CPB and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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YORK, Maine — The Marijuana Policy Project has gathered an estimated 200 signatures, twice the number needed to present a petition for legalization of pot to the Board of Selectmen, according to David Boyer, Maine's political director for the national organization.
Boyer said Monday he had yet to set a date to give the petition to the town clerk. Once the signatures are verified, the petition would be expected to go to selectmen for their consideration for the November ballot.
The petition drive began in York on June 10, during the primary election. Similar petitions have been initiated in Lewiston and South Portland, prior to an effort for statewide legalization of marijuana in November 2016, according to Boyer.
As of Monday, the Marijuana Policy Project had collected an estimated 350 of the 859 signatures needed in Lewiston; and about 200 of the 950 signers needed in South Portland, according to Boyer.
Last November, Portland voters approved a referendum nominally legalizing recreational use of the drug in Maine's largest city, although state and local law enforcement have said they will still enforce Maine laws against pot possession.
With low voter turnout last Tuesday, Marijuana Policy Project volunteer Nick Murray stopped pretty much everyone leaving the polling place asking them to sign the petition seeking the legalization of the recreational use of marijuana in town.
Murray wasn't able to get to the polls until 5 p.m., and a half-hour later seemed to have an equal number of signers and those, such as resident Bill Corbett, who politely told Murray, "Nope, forget it."
Corbett said, "In today's day and age with alcohol and drug abuse, I see it as having the same problem … to legalize the stuff compounds the problem."
Others, such as resident Tony Ehret, signed the petition.
Ehret has been talking about the issue with family and friends, including those who are physicians and counselors, he said.
"The physicians and counselors are divided," Ehret said. "It's certainly not more dangerous than alcohol. I signed it, but I don't smoke marijuana. I think it's something we should vote on."
Murray said Tuesday, "I find that people want to be educated about it. They see the current plan of action isn't working."
"It's not making it safer," he said of criminal penalties for marijuana possession.
An estimated six voters showed up at the polls specifically asking where they could sign the petition, according to Town Clerk and Tax Collector Mary-Anne Szeniawski.
One of those voters, who didn't give his name, came back at 5 p.m. in order to add his name to the petition. He is a medical marijuana patient and a caregiver in town, he said, meaning he grows marijuana for other patients.
"I think it's a great thing," he said of legalization.
Another voter, Sarah Newick, said of legalization for recreational use, "I just don't think it's the best thing for the health of our youngsters."
The petition asks voters to make possession of up to one ounce of marijuana legal for adults age 21 and over. The measure would remove penalties for marijuana possession, allowing individuals to possess and consume pot privately, Boyer said.
Prohibition didn't work for alcohol, and it doesn't work for marijuana, a substance that is safer to consume than alcohol, according to Boyer.


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June 24. Unit Block Summit Street. Between midnight and 5:30 a.m., someone gained entry through a rear window and took two Apple laptops, a silver ring, an orange backpack and an orange leather purse containing credit cards, driver's license.
June 24. 200 Block E. Evergreen Avenue. Someone broke the rear, driver's side window and gained entry to a 2008 Ford Explorer. Taken was a TomTom GPS and a pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses. Reported at 11:20 p.m.
June 25. 7800 Block Devon Street. A woman said that she left her home at 7:30 a.m. and returned at 6 p.m. to find her front door open. She did not enter. She then noticed that her recycling bin had been placed under her dining room window and the window was open. She called police, and when the police arrived, they entered and found the second floor bedroom ransacked. Taken was a MacBook Pro laptop. Reported at 7:30 p.m.
June 25. Unit Block E. Bells Mill Road. A woman reported that she found the front, passenger-side window of her 1994 Lexus broken. She did not think anything was taken.
June 25. Unit Block E Chestnut Hill Ave. Reported: Someone entered a parish school classroom and took a purse containing money, assorted gift cards, driver's license and health insurance cards. Reported at 4:15 p.m.
June 27. 7900 Block of Germantown Avenue. Store manager reports that a man placed a $100 bill for a purchase on the counter. While she was making change, the man took back the $100 bill. The man took $74.08 in change and left the store with the change and his $100 bill. He did not take the item he said he wanted to purchase.
June 28. Unit Block Hilltop Road. A woman showed up at her office and found several rooms had been ransacked. Entry appears to have been made through a side window, under which a chair had been placed to gain entry. The woman said that while her file cabinets had been opened, nothing appears to have been taken. Reported at 11:15 a.m.
June 28. Intersection of Germantown and Springfield avenues. A man reported that he had found his car, which he had previously reported stolen. The car, a 1994 Chrysler Eagle, was found at the intersection of Germantown and Willow Grove avenues.
June 28. 8600 block Germantown Avenue. Reported: A car owner found that money and a pair of Mykita glasses missing from car. The car's doors had been left open.
Summary – Three burglaries, two thefts and a stolen vehicle is found
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The play, we are told, opens with future Hall of Fame players Paul Hornung and Jim Taylor shortly after meeting their new coach in Lombardi's office, in what was then known as "New City Stadium". The time is August of 1959, as Lombardi was about to start the first season of his run to glory.
And with that, we're off.LOMBARDI
Come in, boys.HORNUNG
Hello, Coach—(Taylor grunts.)LOMBARDI
How'd I do out there, fellas?HORNUNG
Well, I tell you, Mr. Lombardi, you got their attention.LOMBARDI
They could have walked out at once for all I knew.... I did not expect either of you till three days from now.HORNUNG
Yes, sir.LOMBARDI
Was there some sort of confusion with the dates? You're here early.HORNUNG
Just a day or two.LOMBARDI
Three days! How come?! This camp right now is for rookies and walk-ons only. What in the hell you hanging around camp for?!HORNUNG
Well, sir—LOMBARDI
That is not a question, Mister. If you come around camp, you come to work out, not to stand around and watch or sit with the others during lunch to make conversation. That is what we call a distraction. Why are you here?!
(He waits.)
That's actually a real question. Answer.HORNUNG
Me and a couple of the boys, we were....LOMBARDI
What?! You were what?!HORNUNG
Were you thinking you could get a head start on your bar hopping?HORNUNG
No, sir.LOMBARDI
Do not lie to me, Paul Hornung! You were spotted till all hours of the night at a place called Bucky's Beanery. This establishment is off-limits. I've got a list—(Picks up a piece of paper from his desk.)
I've got a list here of all the bars and restaurants you are never, ever allowed to frequent again, and if I catch you there, you will be fined. You understand?HORNUNG
Yes, sir.LOMBARDI
Jim, why are you here early?TAYLOR
I messed up on my calendar dates.LOMBARDI
(After a beat.)
O.K. Both of you owe me 50 dollars.TAYLOR
What for?!LOMBARDI
You missed curfew.TAYLOR
I didn't go out drinking.LOMBARDI
Yet you weren't in your bed by 10.HORNUNG
I thought curfew didn't start till Tuesday.LOMBARDI
Mister, curfew started the day you showed up to camp! There is going to be a new way of doing things around here. You understand?TAYLOR/HORNUNG
Yes, sir.LOMBARDI
Now. While I got you here, we might as well make it worth our time. Tomorrow you are going to suit up and work out with the rest of the team. Jim, you are the starting fullback. That is not going to change. Paul, the previous coach had you playing practically every position on the field.HORNUNG
Yes, sir.LOMBARDI
From quarterback to running back and place kicker. Safety, punt and kickoff returns.HORNUNG
Yes, sir.LOMBARDI
Now. Every team has a certain play that is theirs, and if they are good enough at running it, then there is no team that can stop it. Ours is the Power Sweep, we call it forty-nine, and you two are the cornerstones of that play. Jim, you and Paul here are going to be my thunder and lightning. You two are the engine that drives this team to victory.
(Goes to the chalkboard. Now he is speaking to the entire team.)
And this play, gentlemen, will be our bread and butter.
(Diagrams the play. Film and still images wash over the set.)
The offensive end takes an open position exactly nine feet from this tackle. The guard, Jerry Kramer, is wider than usual, for greater latitude to pull left or right. Then you, [Fred]Thurston—you may also break inside or outside, depending on how the play has broken. We create a seal here and a seal here and Jim Taylor, or Paul Hornung, as soon as you get the ball, you follow that blocker, and you run ... in ... the ... alley! You run to daylight! Wherever it shows. Inside the defensive tackle, inside the defensive end, outside the defensive linebacker. You run to daylight. Forty-nine. And this play can break any one of those three places. But ultimately, on this one play we have a hundred different options. Each man must read the defense as it happens and block according to his discretion. It's up to the team to decide which way it goes, each player making split-second decisions in concert. This is our signature play. This is the play that we must make go. Every team in the league is going to know we're going to run this play, and no matter how hard they try to stop us, they won't. Because they can't! And we will run it again and again and again!
(Lights shift back to Hornung)HORNUNG
That season we went from 1-10-1 to 7-5. You want to understand Coach, you watch that play. It's him.
If this is really the opening scene, I'm guessing that the exerpt begins somewhat into that scene. This would seem to be the audience's introduction to Lombardi, but we've already been introduced to Paul Hornung as well as "McCormack", the reporter character, to whom Hornung is presumably speaking.
According to Playwriting 101, I would fully expecting the play to open with McCormack, either young and cocky at the beginning of his assignment to get at the "real Vince Lombardi", or (if the play is to be told in flashback) weary and jaded after he has succeeded/failed. Eric Simonson's a sharp writer, though, so we may well be surprised. And the exerpt is an interesting introduction to the man and his philosophy, not to mention the Packer Sweep.
LOMBARDI had its first preview last night, and opens on October 21st. Tickets are already on sale - time to get a jump on those Christmas lists.


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I love these stars and stripes cupcakes from Betty Crocker in bright fourth of July colors! There's even a surprise raspberry swirl filling inside made from a spoonful of jam. The frosting is just canned frosting that has been colored and piped on top of the cupcakes. Coarse sugar and decorating stars finish them so perfectly!
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