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(BALTIMORE) -- Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley announced on Monday that he will bring legislation to his state's legislature that would become one of the nation's most expansive responses to last month's tragic school shooting in Connecticut.
Among the more sweeping proposals would be a requirement for most prospective gun buyers to provide fingerprints to state police, undergo a background check and complete a mandatory gun-safety course in order to obtain an owners permit.
Buyers of shotguns and hunting rifles would be exempt from the measure. Currently, only Maryland residents seeking a concealed-carry permit must submit their fingerprints.
Speaking before a two-day gun violence summit at Johns Hopkins University, O'Malley said the proposals, which will include an assault weapons ban, were an attempt to cure what he called the "sickness in this country" of violent crimes with firearms.
"It makes absolutely no sense when you look at the level of carnage on our streets from guns to blame every factor but guns," he said. "If we are to have a comprehensive approach then let us be comprehensive."
Maryland's Democratic-controlled legislature is likely to pass the proposals, which will also address high-capacity magazines by halving the maximum number of bullets allowed in clips to 10.
O'Malley said such weapons "have no place on the streets of Baltimore or in any other neighborhood in our state."
The bill will include measures seeking to ban sales to residents with mental illness that have shown violent tendencies, but avoids the National Rifle Association's call for armed guards in all schools. Instead, it would allocate a $25 million fund to improve school safety in the form of auto-locking doors and mandatory guest check-in requirements, among others items.
Johns Hopkins' summit was timed to begin one month to the hour from when Adam Lanza killed 20 first graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., using a Bushmaster .223 assault-style rifle.
"Perhaps there is no way to completely prevent the next Newtown tragedy, but then again perhaps there is. None of us can predict the future," O'Malley continued. "And yet we know every life is valuable."
If the measure is signed into law, Maryland will join New York and other Democratic-controlled states in an active push for restricting gun rights and other measures in the wake of the Newtown shooting.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined O'Malley at Johns Hopkins to continue his own push for reform at a national level -- including universal background checks for all gun sales.
A July CNN poll reported 96 of every hundred Americans supported universal background checks for all gun purchases, regardless of origin. An estimated 40 percent of gun sales in the U.S. take place without a background check, according to statistics compiled by the Brady Campaign to Stop Gun Violence.
"There's really no debate here, it's common sense," Bloomberg said.
Last week, Bloomberg told reporters that his office had been advising a task force led by Vice President Joe Biden on a federal response to gun violence. That group, which has held working meetings with law enforcement officials, media representatives and mental health advocates, is expected to release its findings on Tuesday.
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While the Hurricanes held the advantage in shots in the first half, 7-4, the second half belonged to UAH. The Chargers struck 13 shots to GSW's one over the final 45 minutes.
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The 42-year-old star graces the March/April issue of The Economist's Intelligent Life un-photoshopped, and she looks stunning.
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Brandon McLaughlin, along with two other freshmen, have 6-2 records this season (photo courtesy Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The No. 6 Harvard men's squash team will visit two Ivy League foes this weekend as it travels to No. 10 Penn and No. 3 Princeton. The two matches represent the final road matches that the Crimson is slated to play this season.
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What we do have is a higher enlightened understanding of the sustainable practices that are being applied, and the expectation is that the planners and architects are going to be bringing those to the table. We see more and more opportunities for people to learn about what's worked and what hasn't. In our last study—and we do this every two years—in December 2007, over $3 billion in new construction and rehabilitation is scheduled over that following five years, so through 2012. We actually think that that's going to increase. That aggregate number will be above $3 billion as our estimate.
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I was up in Portland, OR. The state's largest enrollment university is actually Portland State University. It's an urban campus downtown. Big signage on a new construction project [read], "Thank you, students, for supporting the new campus recreation facility." They're the ones that voted it in. And every one of them that voted will not be there as an undergraduate student when that comes on line in the next few years.
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"I would say the Kessler fight is 70-30 likely to happen, so we are very close.
"Every conversation we seem to have we are getting closer, but it's just about getting it done in time. But there's too much money and pride at stake for it not to happen for me."
Froch has notched up recent victories at the Capital FM Arena in his home town of Nottingham, beating Lucian Bute and Yusaf Mack to claim and retain the IBF crown.
But Hearn believes shifting the 35-year-old's next fight to the O2 Arena is in both fighters' interest.
"It feels like a fight that should happen at a big London arena," Hearn added. "Apart from Haye-Chisora, London hasn't had a big fight for a while.
"Kessler is coming over but he feels that holding it in Nottingham is not fair and they think they are bringing over 5,000 fans, so London makes sense.
Hearn has asked if Froch can hold on to the IBF belt should negotiations with Kessler continue beyond tomorrow's deadline.
"The Kessler fight has to be made by Tuesday or we will have to do the purse bid for the Stevenson fight instead.
He added: "We've asked the IBF for an exemption if Carl fights Kessler because it's a unification fight, but if they don't give it, then so be it. It's about the fight, not the belt."


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Aeria Games has announced that they have acquired the MMORPG Cronous for distribution in North America.
Santa Clara, Calif. (July 16, 2008) – Free-to-play PC game publisher, Aeria Games has acquired Cronous — the classic MMORPG game developed by Lizard Interactive for distribution in North America.
Aeria Games will add Cronous to its portfolio of free MMORPG games such as Shaiya and Last Chaos to offer a release that may have a different appeal to players. Cronous is a more traditional MMORPG game that has game play which is familiar to original Dungeons & Dragons and Diablo fans. Players can choose from classes such as Fighters, Valkryries (like Rogues), Magicians (like Wizards) and Savages (like Barbarians). Game characters gain special attacks and magic spells specific to their classes through leveling.
Around the world, Cronous attracted players for its massive amount of content including over 100 maps and dungeons as well as quests with variable storylines that are affected by the player's actions. Aeria Games is confident that Cronous is a game that can occupy its players for a long, long time.
The exclusive North American release of Cronous through Aeria Games will be free-to-play with no upfront or monthly costs. Special in-game items and decorative equipment will be available for optional purchase using Aeria Points — the universal currency on the Aeria Games portal.
Cronous will be available for beta testing in July 2008 and release is expected for August 2008.
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Friday marked a very happy ninth birthday for the bull market. The S&P 500 index is up more than 300 percent since it bottomed out on March 9, 2009, and it's gained nearly 390 percent on a total return basis, according to Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab. She adds that trailing 12-month operating earnings for S&P 500 companies bottomed in mid-2009 at less than $40 and have since climbed to $125 as of the end of 2017, with $156 expected for 2018.
Estimates for year-over-year earnings growth in 2018 jumped from 11 percent before the GOP's tax reform to nearly 20 percent now.
Stocks surged again on Friday after a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed the U.S. economy added 313,000 jobs in February, far more than the 200,000 expected. At the same time, average hourly earnings grew less than expected, ticking 0.1 percent higher, or 2.6 percent on an annualized basis. That more modest growth tempered some market fear of inflation after stronger-than-expected wage growth last month helped trigger a correction in stocks.
"For Wall Street, the combination of a strong job growth and a modest rise in wages makes for a dream report," Patricia Cohen wrote at The New York Times.
The Times' Neil Irwin summed it up nicely: "Nine years into an economic expansion, jobs reports don't get much better than this."


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This image popped up over the weekend being touted as a prototype BMW M1 snapped during a candid moment in a Spanish hanger. As we all know, major automakers regularly keep priceless, top secret, never before seen but completely finished supercars stored in regional airports, without camo on them. Well, there was that one time. But this time something seemed amiss. As this would be a fantastical development, especially in the wake of the surprise BMW M1 Homage reveal at Concorso d'Eleganza at Villa d'Este, we took a second look at it. Something seemed...just a bit off.
Those headlights look like they're from something else, and the hood bulge and nose are just too much a BMW M3, which has a front engine necessitating a hood bulge, where this does not. We call shenanigans. Really impressive shenanigans, and way more staggeringly awesome than the actual M1 Homage, but shenanigans no less. What do you say?
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All Is Burning
Penguin Books, Jan 1, 1995 - Short stories, Sri Lankan (English) - 417 pages
Nineteen Stories Of Rare Power From The Heart Of War-Ravaged Sri Lanka.
In These Stories Jean Arasanayagam Brings Us Voices That Are Not Normally Heard: Those Of Anonymous Men And Women Searching For Order And Reason In The Midst Of A Ruthless Civil War. While Many Succumb To The Horror Of Their Times, There Are Others Who Discover In Themselves Unexpected Reserves That Will Help Them Survive. Thus A Young Sinhala Man Turns His Back On An Aimless Upper-Class Existence And Joins A Group Of Tamil Refugees Smuggling Themselves Into Germany; A Woman Goes Out Alone To See The Scene Of A Carnage To Try And Find Her Daughter S Lover Among The Dead And Dying; A Maid Returns From The Rich Desert City Of Doha To The Green Half-Jungle Of Her Village In Northern Sri Lanka And Rediscovers Happiness Despite The Uncertain Future& In Addition To Stories About The Effects Of War And Violence, This Collection Also Explores Aspects Of Ethnicity And Individual Choice In A Multicultural Society. All Is Burning Is Truth-Telling At Its Poignant Best.
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== Installation ==
== Installation ==
{{AUR|gitolite-git}} is available in the [[Arch User Repository]].
{{AUR|gitolite-git}} is available in the [[Arch User Repository]].
== Configuration ==
== Configuration ==
Revision as of 21:37, 20 February 2012
Gitolite allows you to host Git repositories easily and securely.
gitolite-gitAUR is available in the Arch User Repository.
It is also available on github, where you can find the last update.
Add a user
# useradd -m -U -r -s /bin/bash -d /srv/git git # su - git $ gl-setup id_rsa.pub
Do NOT add repos or users directly on the server! You MUST manage the server by cloning the special 'gitolite-admin' repo on your workstation:
$ git clone git@server:gitolite-admin
Add users
Ask each user who will get access to send you a public key. On their workstation generate the pair of ssh keys:
$ ssh-keygen
Rename each public key according to the user's name, with a .pub extension, like sitaram.pub or john-smith.pub. You can also use periods and underscores. Have the users send you the keys.
Copy all these *.pub files to keydir in your gitolite-admin repo clone. You can also organise them into various subdirectories of keydir if you wish, since the entire tree is searched.
Edit the config file (conf/gitolite.conf in your admin repo clone). See the gitolite.conf documentation (http://sitaramc.github.com/gitolite/conf.html) for details on what goes in that file, syntax, etc. Just add new repos as needed, and add new users and give them permissions as required. The users names should be exactly the same as their keyfile names, but without the .pub extension
$ nano conf/gitolite.conf
Commit and push the changes them:
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Energy bills across Greater Manchester could be slashed by up to £200 a year in a pioneering 'bulk buy' scheme. All our 10 town halls are joining forces to negotiate bargain prices for gas and electricity.
The scheme is based on energy co-operatives run by Oldham and Rochdale councils, but now anyone across the region is invited to sign up.
Council bosses say anyone taking part should get cheaper bills from next February. They say the energy collective would be the biggest of its kind in the country.
The town halls would use the bargaining power of tens of thousands of customers to negotiate for better deals. They say that the more people who join, the higher the potential saving, – and they are already talking to other local authorities in a bid to get them to join. The scheme has been pioneered in
Belgium but Greater Manchester is leading the way in Britain.
Coun Arooj Shah, from Oldham council, said: "It is fantastic news that our collective energy switching programme is being joined by all ten of the neighbouring Greater Manchester authorities.
"Together, we now have around 1.2 million households who can come on board with this, and we are still speaking to other interested local authorities up and down the country. This should significantly swell the size and purchasing power of the collective group – and that means even bigger potential savings for residents.
"Retail energy prices have more than doubled in under seven years. More price rises have been announced in recent days and this is a major financial headache for families everywhere."
With average annual energy bills now topping £1,300, the scheme could give cash-strapped families a significant saving. The town halls will apply for funding from the Department for Energy and Climate Change to promote the scheme, which already has the backing of government.
Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey, who visited Oldham and Manchester this week, told the M.E.N he was impressed by the work.
He said: "Energy bills are high and a concern for families and businesses. Bringing people together through co-operative deals, we can help people move the market so they get a better deal. With energy prices going up, I think everybody wants to see how they can cut their bills, so I would urge people across Greater Manchester to look at this fantastic scheme and consider signing up."
To register visit www.oldham.gov.uk/fuel_coop. Anyone who registers will receive an offer once the contract has been awarded in January, with no obligation to take up the deal.


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Todd Ant (Radio reporter. Born, New York, NY, June 12, 1960.) Starting as a reporter and anchor at WCBS (AM 880), Todd I. Ant became both an on-the-scene reporter and administrator in radio sports news. Ant spent seven years with the CBS Radio Network (1989-96) as a reporter and anchor before becoming the sports director […]
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Pursuit is a programmable direct manipulation interface to file system that enables users to create programs by demonstration. To construct a program in Pursuit, users execute actions on...
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ShytKicka necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 38 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
Our company is Bodis.com.
We are a domain parking company. We specialize in generating maximal revenue for our clients. Our clients forward their undeveloped domain names with us, we handle the rest.
Our system currently supports only domain parking in its most basic form, but we are looking to introduce a marketplace for buying and selling domain names as well.
In this contest, the designer will need to create 3 banner-type designs for our Domain Parking, Buying, and Selling tour pages.
Domain professionals / B2B.
We have already designed our Bodis.com web pages along with our tour pages. In this contest, we require the designer to design the tour images for our tour pages.
The Bodis.com tour will be broken up into 3 sections: Parking Domains, Buying Domains, and Selling Domains.
Please see the following mock-up tour page design that we will be using:
The tour image on this mock-up is a mock-up image and will not be used. Instead, we want the designer to come up with an image just like this one. We like this image, but it was designed for a different resolution.
The designer is required to design an image just like that one for the: Park, Buy, and Sell sections. (One image for each, 3 in total).
The images should have a title text, such as "Park Domains", and an optional description OR slogan line (although not mandatory).
The width of the image designs should be about 935 pixels. The height of the design could be anywhere between 140 to 180 pixels.
I am looking for the designer that will come up with images that fit the style best. We actually like the Sample mock-up image shown in the URL but are unable to use it. Something similar would work for us.
The buying, selling, and parking images may have people, objects, or anything relevant. It is upto the designer and his/her creativity.


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MailGuard needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 15 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
MailGuard provides industry-leading, Tier 1 SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solutions to protect business from online threats through its email and web-based security solutions. We currently service thousands of companies across 18 countries.
MailGuard is a Cloud service, you may find this useful when considering your illustration.
Business professionals.
Can you recreate the provided graph in an editable layered illustrator file.
It needs to show percentage of spam. MailGuard vs. other solutions.
We will need to be able to edit the variables on the graph, along with most other elements.
Graph needs to have 3D feel and gloss, 2.0 look and feel as per attached document.
Visit http://www.mailguard.com.au for more information and to see corporate style
Corporate colours are PMS 7546C and PMS 1375. However these are not compulsory colours for the graph and other colours are welcomed.


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I'm aware of a few security concerns among a couple of DonkeyFire users. Namely, how I'm managing username/password storage.
As this extension was intended for private usage only, I didn't care much (I access my MLDonkey via VPN to a remote location, and the username/password I use were created specifically for that purpose).
But, truth be told, some of my friends requested that I released it publicly. And that's how donkeyfire.mozdev.org and this forum were born.
I recomend that, while I implement a better approach (which is not only a matter of nsIPasswordManager, but a little bit more ocmplicated given my XPath requirements), you implement a similar approach:
* If you run MLDonkey locally only, set a unique password for the admin account. Something unique, really. And make it listen on 127.0.0.1 only.
* If you run MLDonkey remotely, try to make it listen over 127.0.0.1 and a VPN interface only. Same password recommendations.
* If you run MLDonkey remotely, and cannot / don't know how to make it work over a VPN, I can sell you my services! Now really: at least firewall it, or run it over SSL via mod_proxy (John, if you read this, we could all make use of a HOWTO, won't you post one?).


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Everything is a transition in editing. There are transitions you add to the timeline like dissolves and wipes. There are transitions you use from the raw video. If you are doing a story about a person walking into a house. You need some kind of transition shot to get them into the house like the door opening and your subject walking in.
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How do you conceptualize a future that feels familiar yet doesn't exist? For, visual effects supervisor Allen Maris and the entire crew detailing director James Gray's vision behind Ad Astra, that question became a guiding theme.
September 20, 2019, 1:10 pm
Adapting Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Goldfinch for the screen was never going to be an easy task. At 771 pages, it would make a daunting TV miniseries – and director John Crowley managed to whittle it down into an under-two-and-a-half-hour feature film. As any team adapting existing material must, the filmmakers had to make a number of choices as to how they would present the story.
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When you are trying to create a punchy, energetic sequence, fun transitions are the name of the game. When paired with the perfect track, a video that uses creative ways to jump from one clip to another is sure to engage a viewer way more than a boring, traditional cut.
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Remember that insane multi-car daisy chain and helicopter chase scene towards the end of David Leitch's Hobbs & Shaw? It's definitely one of the more fantastical moments in the film, let alone the Fast & Furious franchise.
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HOBBS & SHAW: Mike Brazelton & Stuart Lashley Interview
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Star Wars' Millennium Falcon is one of the most iconic spaceships in the history of movies. In addition to being the coolest Star Wars toy ever, the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy has an amazing origin story for how ILM model makers brought Han Solo's ride to life. Thanks to Film Twitter's most underrated account, Spaceshipsporn, Star Wars fans now have the complete making-of story -- a DVD special feature by way of Twitter thread.
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Timeless Media Productions Documentary: Dire times in Michigan's Upper Peninsula Due to Sulfide Mining Plans
The unspoiled beauty of Michigan's Upper Peninsula is threatened due to plans by Kennecott Minerals and other mining companies to open dozens of sulfide mines. This is a Michigan State University Environmental Journalism Class video. MSU students Samantha Harris and Michelle Verdura edited, produced and wrote this documentary. Continue reading
Mother of the Superfund: Love Canal fighter and environmental warrior Lois Gibbs speaks in Marquette, MI Friday, Oct. 15, 2010 at Northern Michigan University
Fighting Evil Corporations Love Canal fighter Lois Gibbs speaks in Marquette on October 14, 15, 16, 2010 Environmental warrior and Love Canal fighter Lois Gibbs visits Marquette, as the Upper Peninsula faces its worst pollution crisis in history with the … Continue reading
Stand for the Land Rally at Michigan Capitol: They sang, they cried, they proclaimed Mother Nature First! as Native Americans, non-Natives protested the raid on sacred Eagle Rock and continued the fight against Kennecott Eagle Minerals nickel and copper mine on the Yellow Dog Plains near Lake Superior
THEY STOOD UP FOR THE THREATENED LAND ON MICHIGAN'S YELLOW DOG PLAINS NEAR LAKE SUPERIOR !! American Indians, non-Natives joined forces to Stand for the Land at Michigan State Capitol on June 3, 2010 to protest the huge police raid … Continue reading


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Making a strong statement of appreciation for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's educational and living history mission, the number of annual donors in 2002 surpassed the 100,000 mark for the first time. The foundation also reported record levels for the Colonial Williamsburg Fund, a core component of the institution's fund-raising efforts. The fund set two records as the number of donors climbed to almost 103,000, or 6 percent higher than the 2001 figure of 97,000, and annual donations rose to $11.6 million, 8 percent higher than the $10.7 million of 2001. Colonial Williamsburg ended the year with a near-record total for gifts and grants of $46 million, 18 percent above 2001 and just $700,000 shy of the record established in 2000. By year's end, the Campaign for Colonial Williamsburg, the foundation's comprehensive multiyear fund-raising effort, totaled $300 million, 60 percent of the $500 million goal.


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Last Wednesday, Marlins' rookie Chris Coghlan hit his first career homerun. He didn't anticipate trouble getting the ball back. Then again, he also didn't anticipate it being caught by professional ballhawk "THE HAPPY YOUNGSTER"!
Unfortunately for Coghlan, his milestone ball was nabbed by Nick Yohanek, a.k.a. The Happy Youngster, a well-known Milwaukee Brewers fan who claims to have caught over 775 balls in his career. When Marlins' officials tried to get this particular ball back from him, they quickly realized they were dealing with a pro.
Yohanek has an extraordinarily detailed account of the whole thing on his website (did you know that every MLB team is supposed to have TWO authenticators on hand at each game? Nick does!). Suffice it to say, it doesn't appear that he's a stranger to bartering for the baseballs he's caught. Nick spoke to EIGHT Marlins' officials (including, for some reason, the team's psychologist), and even had his demands written out for posterity's sake (a Chris Coghlan game bat and signed ball, and a Hanley Ramirez game bat). Finally, Coghlan himself came out to speak with Yohanek. There are two different perspectives on what happened next. Here's Coghlan's:
Coghlan said he gave the fan a signed bat and took a photo with him after Wednesday's game. As Coghlan discovered, that only seemed like a starting point for further negotiations.
"Then he wanted other things that I didn't think (were) fair," Coghlan said.
Coghlan said the fan also asked for tickets to one of the Marlins' upcoming games against the Yankees, along with a ball and signed bat from Coghlan's more famous Marlins teammate, Hanley Ramirez.
"I was trying to be as nice and respectful as I could," Coghlan said. "But I told him he could only get one."
Here's Yohanek's:
Yohanek said his negotiations for the ball began with several members of the Marlins' staff — and after his request for a Ramirez bat was turned down, he requested tickets not for the Yankees series, but for a Brewers-Marlins series at Florida in June.
"I had wanted to attend this series anyway," Yohanek said. "Considering (Marlins) attendance is barely over 15,000 nightly, I didn't feel like this was too much to ask."
At the end of the ordeal, Yohanek gave Coghlan his ball in exchange for a signed bat, a photo with Coghlan, and tickets to that Marlins-Brewers series. Nick defended his hardline stance as follows:
...some people choose to sell drugs to kids. Some people choose to abuse drugs, themselves. Some people choose to get all liquored up and drive their vehicles. Some people choose to be abusive to their wives and kids. Some people choose to rob, steal and cheat. Some people take the lives of others.
Some people choose to snag baseballs at the ballpark.
For Coghlan's part, he found the experience less than pleasant:
"He wasn't the most polite or respectful guy about the whole process," Coghlan said Thursday. "He told me he goes around a lot and catches these balls and holds them for ransom — even though he doesn't say that he does, it seems that way."
So was Yohanek asking too much? Too little? Who's right? Who's wrong? Can't we all just get along?
Let the debate rage on in the comments.
Marlins rookie blasts fan for holding 1st-homer ball 'ransom' [The Detroit News]
5/13/09 @ Miller Park [The Happy Youngster]


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The axiom says keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but President Obama might consider just keeping his pals as far the heck away as possible.
Too many supposed allies -- black and white -- have injected racism into the political debate in a manner that threatens to set back Obama and other "new" black leaders for some time to come.
On Friday, New York's black Democratic governor, David Paterson, said it is race, not plunging poll numbers that has prompted calls for him to drop off the ticket next year. But he didn't stop there. In the next breath, he sucked Obama into his misguided vortex of paranoia.
"The reality is the next victim on the list -- and you can see it coming -- is President Barack Obama, who did nothing more than try to reform a health care system," Paterson said.
The words were barely out of Paterson's mouth before the White House called asking why he was "dragging the president" into his troubles.
Just four years ago there was only one black individual sitting in a governor's chair or U.S. Senate seat, Barack Obama. Today, there are three -- New York Gov. David Paterson, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Illinois Sen. Roland Burris -- plus the president of the United States.
Come January of 2011, it's not out of the realm of possibility that Obama could find himself alone once again: The Rod Blagojevich-appointed and scandal-tarred Mr. Burris announced last month that he won't be running for a full term. Paterson may not run, and if he does, may not survive a primary. Patrick's poll numbers are scraping bottom, too.
If none of these men are in office 17 months from now, should that be considered a step back from racial progress the country celebrated with Obama's victory last November? Of course not. Given that two of the men happen to be in their offices because of flukes, their departure says little about racial attitudes and everything about the nutty political cultures of the states from which they hail. If Patrick were to lose his seat, it would say more about the broader economic environment -- plus the fact that he raised taxes in the middle of a recession.
In each case, there are obvious reasons for dreary political prospects that have nothing to do with race.
But as National Review's Jonah Goldberg wrote this weekend, Paterson is hardly the first Democrat to connect criticism of Barack Obama's policies to racism:
His shock troops make the same argument about race, sometimes with sophistication, sometimes with the kind of lucid clarity only profound stupidity can provide. For instance, actress Janeane Garofalo summed up the tea parties thusly: "This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up."
A more sophisticated version comes from Princeton professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell, who finds racism in complaints that socialized medicine would result in fewer Americans "taking responsibility" for their own health care. "What we know over the past 25 years," she told NPR, "is that language of personal responsibility is often a code language used against poor and minority communities." In an ABC News story about how racist white militias are somehow connected to town-hall protests, Mark Potok of the dismayingly left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center insists Obama has "triggered fears among fairly large numbers of white people in this country that they are somehow losing their country."
Liberals should well understand that none of this is ultimately helpful to the man they helped elect president. The race card and general accusations of bigotry are reliable arrows in the liberals' quiver, just as the questioning opponents' patriotism is for conservatives.
But, the race card is a double-edged sword with Obama in the White House. From the moment he gave that speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Obama has offered hope that America can overcome its racial and cultural divisions. Now, the president must figure out how to stop his supporters from overplaying the race card. Affter all, making everything about race could alienate the white indepndent voters who accepted the promise of "Yes, we can" as meaning that getting beyond the black/white divide might be possiblen.
It would be a remarkable irony if Obama found that what was his most powerful political weapon in 2008 -- the promise of cultural transformation -- could be squandered away by 2012 by over reliance on the race card.
New York writer Robert A. George blogs at Ragged Thots. Follow him on Twitter.


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In last year's hit movie, The Dark Knight, there is a classic scene between Alfred and Bruce Wayne. A befuddled Bruce cannot figure out what the Joker is actually trying to gain, and he is sharing his consternation with Alfred. Alfred responds by telling Bruce that some men are just different and, in one of the great lines of the movie, states bluntly, "Some men just want to see the world burn."
While it is quite early on in the new administration's term in office, it appears to be behaving in exactly this way. Obama is playing the part of the Joker to perfection, aided and abetted by the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. The only difference being that, instead of wearing a clown's face, he has chosen to look promising and speak lofty words of nothingness as he and the other Democratic leaders push the nation ever closer to economic collapse.
Ignoring any sound economic principles, these leaders have carved a path of prodigality unmatched in American history. It seems as if they desire the total economic failure of the country.
To be sure, the Bush administration has left the nation ravaged by its excess spending and monetary expansion that undergirded the housing bubble. Indeed, during his eight years in office, federal spending ballooned from $1.8 trillion per year to nearly $3 trillion. That is a 67% increase! But while Bush radically expanded the size and scope of government, Obama and the Democrats plan the absolute explosion of it. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that this year's federal spending will top $3.5 trillion, with a deficit in excess of $1 trillion. And this number was forecasted prior to the passage of the so-called "stimulus bill."
Imagine Bush as a drunken sailor in port for the first time in a year. He goes into a casino in Atlantic City, sits down at a thousand-dollar-a-hand blackjack table, and promptly loses a million dollars. Obama comes in as Bush's replacement, and the casino seats him in Bush's old chair. While bemoaning the situation, Obama tells us we must end this failed policy by moving up to the ten-thousand-a-hand table and doubling down. Of course, this makes no sense whatsoever, and the sane person would quickly back away. But sanity appears not to be present anywhere in Washington these days.
For far too long now, we have allowed our leaders to take us in this direction. In earlier days our leaders did so mainly to line their own pockets and those of their favored friends. These days, however, it seems that they are merely driven by their own ideological madness. And we have been too busy to pay enough attention to understand the situation and to resist it. Neither Bush nor Obama could do the things they have done or are doing had there not been a long history of governmental abuses. To not understand this now will lead to even greater abuse in the future.
"If there is any hope for our economic future, we must come to a sound understanding of what got us here."
This was my motivation for my new book, titled Unmasking the Sacred Lies. I wanted to help busy Americans come to grips with the current economic situation and to understand the long political process of change that has led us here.
If there is to be any hope for our economic future, we must come to a sound understanding of what got us here. With that in mind, I put together a book that paints the big picture. It traces the economic history of each policy area in order to demonstrate how each law passed by Congress and enforced by our government has pushed us into this hole that we find ourselves in today.
It is my firm belief that providing the average person with the right information in a readily understandable format can make a difference. I only hope that it is not too late, and that we do not have to watch America burn.
Mises Daily by Paul A. Cleveland
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We've spent this week preparing for the onslaught.
Free agency kicks off Tuesday, ushering in one of the busiest weeks of the year in the NFL.
One intriguing team to keep an eye on: the Minnesota Vikings.
New coach Mike Zimmer was hired to revamp a defense that leaked yardage and points last season. The Vikings looked nothing like the aggressive unit that Zimmer commanded as the defensive coordinator in Cincinnati, but Minnesota is a good bet to add its share of Bengals this offseason.
"It always helps because of the communication," Zimmer told reporters on Thursday, per The Star Tribune.
The coach acknowledged "it's not imperative" to add players who already know his defense, but admitted: "It'd be nice."
Free-agent pass rusher Michael Johnson is the most obvious target after playing under Zimmer for the past five seasons. With north of $40 million in salary-cap space, the Vikings have the dough to add him to a suddenly paper-thin defensive line that won't have Jared Allen back in 2014.
We agree with The Star Tribune's suggestion that Bengals restricted free agent Vincent Rey is another possibility. The Bengals slapped him with the lowest tender, meaning Minnesota would need to float Cincy a draft pick equal to the round Rey was drafted. Thing is, he wasn't drafted, so the cost would be zero. Rey was a revelation for the Bengals last season and sits out there as a young player with promise.
With Taylor Mays, Brandon Ghee and Chris Crocker also set to hit the open market, Minnesota has a chance to stock its defense with players deeply familiar with Zimmer's scheme. It's something to watch for when the free-agency carnival gets underway.
Update: ESPN.com's Ben Goessling confirms the Vikings contacted Michael Johnson once the NFL's legal tampering window opened Saturday. They will have plenty of competition for Johnson's services. Lovie Smith and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers reportedly are "pushing hard" for the former Bengal. The Chicago Bears and Philadelphia Eagles have also been linked to Johnson.
The latest "Around The League Podcast" talks the latest news, Jimmy Graham and the best fits in free agency.


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The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has selected two non-profit organizations to operate medical marijuana dispensaries in Barnstable County.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has selected two non-profit organizations to operate medical marijuana dispensaries in Barnstable County.
Medical Marijuana of Massachusetts, whose president is former U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, won a license to operate on Echo Road in Mashpee. The site will be a dispensary only. It will sell product grown elsewhere.
The William Noyes Webster Foundation won a license to operate in South Dennis. It will cultivate marijuana at one location and distribute it at another.
The agency invited eight applicants to seek alternate locations in counties that were not selected for dispensaries. The law authorizing medical marijuana in Massachusetts, which was approved by voters at the ballot in 2012, called for up to 35 licenses to be issued, with at least one in every county.
Critics of the licensing process, including the Massachusetts Republican Party, questioned the level of transparency, describing it "politicized and secretive" and alleging that state Public Health Commissioner Cheryl Bartlett is too closely associated with Delahunt, who is among the license applicants with political ties.
Delahunt's group was awarded provisional licenses for dispensaries in Mashpee, Taunton and Plymouth.
The DPH in January appointed Karen van Unen, the former chief operating officer of a Dorchester public health program, as executive director of its medical marijuana program and empowered her with the final decisions on all licenses.
The Massachusetts Medical Society cautioned Friday that marijuana's effectiveness as medicine has not been scientifically proven, and said its increased availability presents implications for occupational safety, and "poses health risks of toxins and cognitive impairment."
Middlesex County - the state's most populous county - received the highest number of dispensary licenses, with four in Lowell, Ayer, Newton and Cambridge.


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Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate stated on Fox News that the Connecticut school massacre happened because we removed God from our schools.
Well, I don't know about the God he believes in, but the one I know doesn't send a mentally ill young man armed with guns to kill children in order to teach us all a lesson.
The God I know said "Let the little children come to me," not "let's kill innocent children because I'm not in the schools."
It is appalling that even the death of 20 young children is, on the very day it happened, being turned into a political football.
Has the country truly lost its heart, and maybe its mind, as well?
Is the Second Amendment supposed to trump the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Is it the right of any mentally ill person to be able to obtain guns and kill children?
Are we so afraid of any type of gun control that we allow this to happen over and over again?
We all take our chances going to school, movies, malls, college campuses.
But children shouldn't be in peril when they are just doing normal childhood things.
The God I know loves children and wants them to be loved and safe.
I like this God much more than Mike Huckabees's God.


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The big news at Daytona�s Speedweeks has been Danica Patrick�s involvement � not just in the Daytona 500, but also her romantic involvement with fellow racer Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
The big news at Daytona�s Speedweeks has been Danica Patrick�s involvement � not just in the Daytona 500, but also her romantic involvement with fellow racer Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Many in the media noted that the romance was overshadowing more important race issues such as the introduction of Generation 6 race cars at the Daytona 500.
But now the big story is Patrick, the racer.
Patrick won the pole for Sunday�s Daytona 500 by posting a lap of 196.434 mph in her No. 10 Chevrolet. She is the first woman to claim such a position for the Daytona 500, or for any Sprint Cup Series race. She outran 44 other drivers to earn the best place to be at the start of the race.
Her performance during qualifying should make NASCAR fans proud and excited. Patrick didn�t just break a glass ceiling. She sped through it like it never existed. She and her team deserve great credit.
Patrick�s fellow drivers are intensely competitive, and all of them will try to best her Sunday. But even the drivers like the buzz that Patrick�s success is creating for their sport. Patrick the racer is now what other drivers will focus on � not her biography, her celebrity or her gender.
�It�s huge,� four-time Sprint Cup champion Jeff Gordon said after Patrick won the pole. �I�ve always been a big believer in what is good for the sport is good for all of us.�
Patrick has always handled the issue of gender in a dichotomous way.
On one hand, she doesn�t shy away from discussing the issue. And she�s appeared in some GoDaddy.com commercials that don�t exactly shy away from highlighting that she is a woman.
But Patrick has also always stressed she is a racer to be taken seriously.
�I was brought up to be the fastest driver, not the fastest girl,� Patrick has said.
For now, at least, people will continue to take note of Patrick�s latest success precisely because she is a female racer. Many taking note will be women and girls, for Patrick�s pole-position win proves a woman can race to be No. 1 even in a sport that has for so long been dominated by men.
Patrick has done more than just grab some additional publicity for herself. In earning the top spot at the start of the Daytona 500, she has cast a brighter-than-ever spotlight on NASCAR. And, she has made herself an even greater role model to fans and future racers.
Danica Patrick hasn�t won a stock-car race yet. But she has proven without a doubt that she belongs on Daytona�s 2.5-mile tri-oval. She�s captured the imagination � not as a woman driver, but as a driver, period.
The Daytona 500 just got a lot more interesting, and that�s great news for everyone.


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Newspaper article The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Deboer: Find Way to Win
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ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The Devils aren't looking to play the perfect game tonight in Toronto.
They just need to find a way to play a complete one.
They haven't done that for three weeks, and that's the biggest reason they are 2-5-2 in their past nine games after starting the season 8-1-3. Saturday's 4-3 shootout loss in Buffalo was their fourth consecutive defeat (0-3-1) and left them with just one win in their past seven games (1-4-2).
"We've got to find a way to win some games," Devils coach Pete DeBoer said Sunday. "There's some good stuff going on. I think our hearts are in the right place. We're trying to do a lot of the right things, and we've just got to find a way. We've got to do a few more things a little bit better to find that line where we actually win games."
Scoring goals consistently was been one of the Devils' biggest problems, but not their only one. When they found a way to score three goals Saturday for just the third time in nine games, they had too many defensive breakdowns and gave up a short-handed goal.
The penalty kill has been better the past two games, going 9-for- 9 after a nine-game stretch during which they gave up 13 goals on 32 opportunities. Their power play continues to struggle, though.
After going 0-for-5 Saturday, the Devils are 0-for-14 with the man advantage over their four-game losing streak with two short- handed goals against and just 2-for-29 over the past eight games.
"That's a mirror image of our game," DeBoer said. "We get one area cleaned up and something else breaks down a little bit. I'm confident in the fact that I've seen when our power play's working and it looks good, it looks dangerous. Just like our penalty killing when I was talking about that last week, I was confident we could get that back. So, it's just a matter of putting it all together."
* The Devils held only an optional practice Sunday at the Maple Leafs' practice facility as they tried to conserve energy with back- to-back games coming up tonight in Toronto and Tuesday night at home against Tampa Bay. …


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Jamie Questions
After playing three road games at home, the Phillies left for a seven-game road trip after Sunday's game. Double-talk? No, in case you missed it, the Blue Jays games were switched to Citizens Bank Park over the weekend because of the G20 Summit in Toronto.
When Phillies players came to the park yesterday morning, they dropped their personal luggage at the entrance to the parking plaza, a routine for all road trips. Then, after the game, the players' game gear is loaded on the same truck that takes it to the airport and a Delta charter flight to Cincinnati.
While the schedule had the Phillies in Toronto, they got to spend three more days at home, winning two, which is the most important item.
Questions on Jamie
#1, at 9-6, is he an All-Star pitcher?
He was selected to the A. L. team in 2003, the lone year in which he has been an All-Star. Charlie is managing the N. L. team again and could select Jamie, who really deserves to go on his own merit.
#2, is he a Hall of Famer?
He just passed Bob Feller and Eppa Rixey in career wins and they are both in Cooperstown. Next on the list is Jim Palmer and he's a Hall of Famer.
4,000 innings, more than 100 wins after 40 years of age, the oldest pitcher to hurl a complete game shutout…that's Hall of Fame stuff.
**Former Phillie Cookie Rojas, now a Spanish broadcaster for Marlins home games, will manage the World Team in the July 11 XM All-Star Futures Game at Angel Stadium of Anaheim.
**Lehigh Valley pitching coach Rod Nichols will be the pitching coach for the U. S. Team that includes OF Domonic Brown and RHP Jarred Cosart. Game will be on ESPN at 6 p.m. (EDT).
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"#2, is he a Hall of Famer?
He just passed Bob Feller and Eppa Rixey in career wins and they are both in Cooperstown. Next on the list is Jim Palmer and he's a Hall of Famer."
At least the Palmer comparison is a little valid. How do you compare pitchers who pitched against 7 other teams during their careers with a pitcher who's pitched against the comparatively thinly spread talent of today's leagues. A pitcher, like Moyer, who has pitched for a long time against both leagues (Rixey and Feller both pitched in only one league against the same seven teams over and over for their careers) and against inter-league opponents has a distinct advantage. Jamie Moyer is a wonderful physical freak who would add well to any team's rotation even at his current age but if he gets HoF consideration it will be borderline. HoF voters reward dominance over longevity every time.