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An official launch event will be held at 1pm May 30, hosted by the Cancer Society and featuring speakers Grant Robertson MP for Wellington Central, Councillor Paul Eagle and Paula Snowden CEO Quitline, and other performances. Radio stations The Hits and ZM will also feature with live crosses, interviews and prizes.
A call for public comment was met with widespread approval of the initiative. Of the 31 responses, 27 were positive, three were negative and one was mixed.
Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says becoming Smokefree will improve people's experience in the Golden Mile's busiest green space.
"Midland Park is a well-loved oasis in the heart of our busiest shopping and commercial district. We're making this move for healthy hearts, healthy lungs and healthy people," she said. "It's far more attractive to eat lunch and relax without tobacco smoke. This is good for business and good for health."
Councillor Paul Eagle, chair of the Community, Sport and Recreation Committee, says that with more than 80 percent of people in Wellington choosing not to smoke tobacco, people are understandably supportive.
"Wellingtonians have overwhelmingly told us that they want our inner city green spaces to be smokefree. Our declaration for Midland Park starts the process of considering other parks," said Cr Eagle.
The proposal is supported by Wellington City Council, in partnership with the Cancer Society, The Smokefree Coalition and Regional Public Health. Council adopted a Smokefree Parks and Playgrounds Policy in June 2012 after extensive consultation.
Raewyn Sutton, Manager Health Promotion for Cancer Society Wellington, said they congratulated Wellington City Council for this initiative and are delighted to be able to support this exciting step towards the 2025 SmokeFree Aotearoa goal.
"This is a great example of how community and SmokeFree organisations can work together to achieve a healthier environment for Wellingtonians," she said.
Smokefree Coalition Executive Director Dr Prudence Stone said setting policy for public spaces was the key role that every local government plays toward achieving New Zealand's Smokefree 2025 goal.
"The local tobacco industry will try in vain to sabotage and undermine our vision," Dr Stone said. "But Wellington City Council has shown with this policy that it represents the interests of parents and their children over and above this rogue in our midst.
"We hope Midland Park is just the beginning and with its success, that Wellington's entire CBD, including its waterfront, will eventually be declared Smokefree."
Paula Snowden, CEO Quitline, said: "We know that smoking prevalence is decreasing (from 20.7% prevalence in 2006 to 15.1% in 2013) and that's something to really celebrate this World Smokefree Day. Creating smokefree environments has a key role to play within this.
"However, let's not forget that there are areas in New Zealand where 40% of the population smokes. In these high prevalence communities tobacco is still very much the norm. And while it is great to see areas like Midland Park becoming smokefree, we need make sure that we are also reclaiming outdoor areas for non-smokers in these other high smoking prevalence communities."
People who currently smoke are encouraged to join the festivities and learn how they can stop smoking.
The University of Otago's Enjoy trial will be setting up a small booth in the park on the 30th in conjunction with the Cancer Society and community smoking cessation groups.
It offers smokers the chance to sample a range of nicotine replacement therapies (including the mouthspray and inhalator which most smokers will not have tried before) under the guidance of an expert coach who will guide them on the best methods of using the therapies to maximise their beneficial effects and minimise unwanted side-effects.
The Enjoy trial is funded by the Ministry of Health as part of the Innovation Fund to help achieve the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Vision.
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An Awakened Giant: The Hispanic Electorate is Likely to Double by 2030
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Latinos are divided by religion in their preferences in the upcoming presidential election. Three-quarters of Latino Catholics and eight-in-ten religiously unaffiliated Latinos support President Barack Obama's re-election.
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Latino registered voters prefer President Barack Obama over Republican challenger Mitt Romney by 69% to 21% and express growing satisfaction with the direction of the nation and the state of their personal finances but are somewhat less certain than non-Hispanics that they will vote in this election, according to a new nationwide survey of 1,765 Latinos.
Latinos and the 2012 Election
A Record 24 Million Latinos Are Eligible to Vote, But Turnout Rate Has Lagged That of Whites, Blacks
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Latinos in the 2012 Election: Alabama
There are 45,000 eligible Hispanic voters in Alabama, 1% of all eligible voters in the state.
Latinos in the 2012 Election: Arizona
There are 824,000 eligible Hispanic voters in Arizona, 19% of all eligible voters in the state.
Latinos in the 2012 Election: Arkansas
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Latinos in the 2012 Election: California
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The gates to the 3rd Maker Faire New York are set to open in less than 15 minutes. This year really will be bigger and better than last year with more than 500 maker exhibits, dozens of presentations, workshops and demos, and just a whole lot of maker awesomeness.
The 3D printer village is going to be one of the top draws. There will be hands-on workshops on Arduino, breadboarding, Raspberry Pi 101, and soldering. Part of Maker Faire's objective is to showcase the work of young makers and there will be a whole area dedicated to the next generation makers.
What else? A lot else.
The Coke Zero/Mentos extravaganza will feature a Las Vegas-like fountain show with hundreds of Coke bottles emitting geysers of synchronized sugary carbonation when Mentos are dropped inside. The shows are set for 1pm and 4pm. Cupcake cars and a driveable hammock will be roaming around the faire. Katy Perry the Unicorn, a multi-functional unicorn sculpture that breaths fire, sneezes glitter and pees the beverage of your choice will be regaling/repelling the crowds. For motor sport enthusiasts, there's the Nerdy Derby and the Power Racing Series.
Great speakers and presentations will take place on various stages throughout the Faire, many of which will be broadcast on our livestream channels, powered by GE Garages, on Makerfaire.com. Of course there will be lots to eat and drink, too.
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Let me guess, you have been playing The Denver Post crossword and got stuck on the clue Scheduled takeoff time (Abbr.). Well, you have come to the right place to find the answer to this clue.
While some crosswords are much simpler than others, most require that players have a vast knowledge of the language and possibly even various topics. So while crossword puzzles are seen as a more intelligent game, they can be very frustrating for players to complete and even experienced crossword players need some help occasionally.
When finding the answers to the clues becomes too difficult, there's no shame in looking for them online.
Now you have the answer to your clue. Its time to move on to the next clue. You can browse through the list with all the answers to the The Denver Post crossword of January 21st, 2018. Or you can use the search form below to find the answer (no matter if its The Denver Post Crossword or any other crossword).
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|Occasional laundromat loss
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|Dwarf planet in the asteroid belt
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|Ties up tightly
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It is widely expected that the Federal Reserve will announce more balance sheet expansion, or quantitative easing, on Wednesday. QE4 will consist of the Fed buying $85 billion in mortgage-backed securities and longer-term Treasuries at least to the end of next year, totaling at least $870 billion, according to Barclays.
The latest QE-program announced by the Bernanke Fed will be tied to the progress of the labor market, which has seen the unemployment rate tick down as a consequence of a falling labor participation rate, rather than truly improved economic conditions. This could mean the potential rate of output growth in the U.S. has taken a bit hit since the financial crisis.
A pretty strong consensus has formed among analysts and economists that the Fed will go full-steam ahead with its plans to deliver policy easing via balance sheet expansion. Specifically, after announcing open-ended purchases of mortgage-backed securities worth $40 billion a month in September, dubbed QEternity by the media, the FOMC is expected to unveil a new $45 billion plan to buy Treasuries in order to replace Operation Twist.
This means even looser monetary policy, as the Fed won't be sterilizing the $45 billion that used to be part of the Twist. Chairman Ben Bernanke has been very clear about the need to provide continued support until he sees a real improvement in labor markets, and is putting his money where his mouth is: the Fed will have bought $870 billion in new securities from September to the end of 2013, according to Barclays, which expects Treasury purchases to end with June, while the MBS program should last to the end of the year. By the end of 2013, the Fed will own between 34% and 39% of the Treasury market across each sector of the curve, Nomura's analysts noted.
How much is enough, though? The Fed has come under heavy criticism, particularly by Republicans, for its asset purchases, while the FOMC has been divided for some time, with the likes of Jeffery Lacker and Richard Fisher consistently dissenting with the committee's decisions. Bernanke tried to shed some light on the issue, with the October FOMC statement noting:
The outlook for the labor market does not improve substantially, the Committee will continue its purchases of agency mortgage-backed securities, undertake additional asset purchases, and employ its other policy tools as appropriate until such improvement is achieved in a context of price stability.
The debate has raged on both within the FOMC and the broader academic and financial community. Indeed, there's been talk of modifying the Fed's forward guidance to include some measure of progress in the labor market, along with factors that take into account inflation. Analysts don't expect any major breakthroughs in the Fed's communication strategy on Wednesday, yet it is clear that simply looking at the unemployment rate doesn't accurately measure progress on the jobs front.
Joblessness has ticked down 1.5 percentage points since the end of 2010, but only a portion of that is due to an improved economic environment, according to Nomura's research team. A major factor pushing down the unemployment rate is the steady decline in the labor participation rate, which has fallen to its lowest levels since the mid-1980s. That's clearly not a good thing.
As the unemployment rate has declined, it has actually worried economists that are seeing signs of a permanent reduction in the potential output of the U.S. economy. Citing Okun's Law, which stipulates that for joblessness to slide real GDP must grow above potential, Nomura's research team indicates that real output growth has averaged just under 2% annually since the end of 2010, meaning unemployment fell quicker than it should have.
The labor force participation rate, which peaked in 2000, has been trending lower ever since. Rising college enrollment, retiring Baby Boomers, and a topping out of the participation rate for women are all part of the explanation, but the decline has exceeded those demographic factors, Nomura's team notes. This means these workers will probably return to the labor market as the economy improves, limiting that rate at which unemployment can fall.
Despite declining joblessness, firms are still announcing big rounds of job cuts. Over the past few months, companies like Boeing, Citigroup, Research in Motion, and PepsiCo have announced layoffs.
The Fed will therefore keep its QE programs alive until it can project above-trend GDP growth, Nomura's research team argues. They see economic growth picking up in the second-half of 2013, indicating above-trend GDP projections won't come in until then, at which point the Fed will begin to tone down its easing, first by halting Treasury purchases, and then by ending its MBS program.


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WILSON, N.C. – The Coker baseball team won a 2-1 battle against Barton College on Tuesday (Feb. 25) at Fleming Stadium to improve to 9-3 on the season. The win gives the Navy and Yellow a 2-0 sweep of the season series against the Bulldogs.
Barton would get on the board early as they scored a run in the bottom of the first inning to go up 1-0 over Coker. However, The Cobras would tie the game up 1-1 in the third thanks to two defensive lapses by the Bulldogs. The game would remain knotted up at 1-1 until the top of the seventh inning. Following a pitching change by the Bulldogs, senior Fico Kondla would give the Cobras the lead for good as he blasted a leadoff homer down the left-field line for his only hit of the game. Andrew Goot would come in and close out the game for Coker, picking up his second save of the season.
The Cobras were led offensively by Kondla and Sammy Song. Kondla and Song both went 1-4 on the day, with Kondla tallying one RBI and a run scored.
Forrest Arnold improved to 2-0 on the season after tossing two scoreless innings, giving up no hits and striking out two.
The Navy and Yellow will hit the road for their next contest as they return to the field on Friday (Feb. 28) for the first game of a three-game South Atlantic Conference series against Anderson (S.C.). First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Anderson Memorial Stadium.


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Solstice celebration: Salute the sun
At least in the Northern Hemisphere, June 21 marks the Summer Solstice– the beginning of summer and the longest day of the year. Since just about the beginning of human time, people around the world have celebrated the summer solstice– also known as Midsummer, Feast of Epona, All-Couples Day, Alban Heflin and Sonwend– in a variety of different spiritual and religious ways.
Ancient Germanic, Slav and Celtic tribes celebrated Midsummer with bonfires, which were believed to boost the sun's energy and help ensure a bountiful harvest. Ancient Romans honored Vesta, the Roman Goddess of the hearth, in a special June ceremony at which even married women were allowed to enter Vesta's otherwise virgin shrine.
In 21st-century Charlottesville, a growing number of people, many of them yoga-practitioners, celebrate the summer (and winter) solstice by communally saluting the sun–- 108 times. Whether you're just curious to see such a sight or eager to join in the flow yourself, you should head on out to the idyllic Yoga Barn in Ivy for a special Summer Solstice Celebration on June 21 from 5-6:30pm.
How did this tradition of 108 sun salutations start? It apparently began as a New Year's Day celebration a few years ago, but the original group-– which included yoga instructor and Solstice celebration organizer Jennifer Elliot-– had so much fun that they decided to do it on Equinoxes and Solstices as well.
"It has become a wonderful way to celebrate life and the changing nature of it," says Elliot, who teaches at Studio 206 and is also instrumental in bringing some of the nation's leading Ashtanga teachers– like Troy Lucero this week– to Charlottesville.
Why 108? Well, because this number, like 18, is fundamental to Indian psychology and represents wholeness or completeness. There are, for instance, 108 nadis (subtle energy channels) that pass through the heart chakra, 108 names of Shiva, 108 books in the Mahabharata, and 108 beads on a prayer mala. The practice of 108 Sun salutations is known as a "Yoga Mala," with each sun salute acting like a bead strung on the thread of the breath. As anyone who's done it knows well, it's not easy to keep the mind focused on the breath for all 108 salutes. Enter community.
"When one loses the focus, there is the strength of others," Elliot explains. "Hearing the sound of Ujjayi breath from others helps to bring us back to our own breath, to the present moment. The Yoga Mala is a wonderful way to experience the power of breath, of community, of impermanence, and assists us to be more fully present in each moment."
If the breathing of others just isn't enough to carry you through, don't wilt. Local musicians Spiral Gypsy will be present to guide the group with their heartbeat-like rhythms. And once everyone reaches up to the sky for the 108th time, a bonfire will be lit outside in glorious pagan fashion and there will be much food and merriment on this Midsummer night.
Salute the summer at a special Summer Solstice Celebration with live music by Spiral Gypsy on Saturday, June 21 from 5-6:30pm at The Yoga Barn in Ivy (1040 Owensville Road). Bring a potluck dish to share around the warm light of a bonfire after the salutations. Call Jennifer Elliot with questions at 970-7890, or email her at email@example.com.


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How They Train!
Charlie Johnson - October 2016
Did you compete in high school cross country or track?
Did you compete in college cross country or track?
How many years have you been running?
Lifetime personal records
What running events do you train for or what are your training goals?
Consider your training over the past 6 months to one year. How many miles a week do you typically run when not injured and consistently running?
What does your typical week of running look like?
I pulled the following from a recent week, which was a heavier load than usual - but I thought it would be fun for some to see.
How does your training vary over the course of a year?
Do you take recovery or down time?
Do you peak for certain races?
How much sleep do you usually get at night?
What time of day do you normally run?
What injuries have hampered your training over the past year?
Do you take any dietary or medical supplements?
What type of running shoes do you prefer?
Do you race in a different type of running shoe?
Do you use weight training?
Do you stretch?
What are your favorite running routes?
What running resources do you like that would benefit someone else?
How has your training changed over the years?
What examples can you give of specific training methods, and what were the results?
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The storms cooperated; as forecast, no rain this morning! In fact, so far, this massive series of storms has been a bit of a disappointment, although that supposedly will be remedied this weekend. We'll see!
Moderate-size group this morning, Kevin, Kevin, Eric, Chris (young guy from our Redwood City store), Jon, Todd & Mark. And me, of course, keeping track of things at the back, making sure Chris is OK. He's not quite got his climbing legs yet, but they'll be coming along very quickly.
Making the climb up Kings a bit interesting was the possibility the road was going to be closed (it was) causing us to have to detour up 84 (we didn't have to; the police were friendly and knew we wouldn't have an issue getting past the reason for the road closure (a long truck that couldn't make it through a corner). It's nice that, after 20+ years of doing this, on an absurdly-rigid schedule, they know us well enough to cut us a bit of slack.
Since yesterday was Kevin's birthday, we made this one of our every-two-years-or-so "breakfast rides", where, on our first pass through Sky L'onda, we stop by Alice's and place our orders for breakfast, which will be ready for us after we do the west-side Old LaHonda loop and return to Sky L'onda 20 minutes later. Unfortunately, most needed to get to work or other commitments (Pilot Kevin claimed his mother was in town???!!!), so it was just myself, "birthday" Kevin (he's 20, by the way), Eric and Chris.
Health food, of course. French toast & pancakes, coffee & hot chocolate. Breakfast of Champions? Yeah, sure, today we'll go with that!


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The winners of athletic letters for Hope College winter sports teams have been announced by athletic directors Tim Schoonveld and Eva Dean Folkert.
Hope teams captured two of the four Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) winter sports championships. Hope was champion in men's basketball and co-champion in women's basketball. Men's and women's swimming/diving finished in second place.
Hope is in second place in the MIAA Commissioner's Cup standings after the winter season. The Commissioner's Cup is presented to the MIAA member school with the best cumulative standings in the 18 sports sponsored by the MIAA.
Thirteen athletes lettered in their sport for a fourth consecutive year. They are Will Bowser (basketball); Erika Bruinsma (basketball); Miranda DeKuiper (basketball), Anna Heckenliable (swimming); Ashley Jasperse (swimming); Aria Kieft (swimming); Rachael Kutney (basketball), Kathryn Schewe (swimming); Carrie Snikkers (basketball); Clayton Sommers (swimming); Ty Tanis (basketball); Alicia Tuuk (swimming); Austin Veltman (swimming).
* denotes letters won
Men's Basketball Letterwinners
Will Bowser****, senior from Midland (H.H. Dow)
Chase DeMaagd*, sophomore from Woodland (Barry County Christian)
Adam Dickerson**, senior from Muskegon (Mona Shores)
Josh Holwerda**, sophomore from Gallup, N.M. (Rehoboth Christian)
Eric Immink*, sophomore from Hudsonville (Hudsonville)
Nathaniel King***, junior from Sterling Heights (Henry Ford II)
David Krombeen***, junior from Grandville (Grandville)
Logan Neil**, junior from Holland (West Ottawa)
Colton Overway*, sophomore from Holland (West Ottawa)
Chris Ray*, sophomore from Fort Wayne, Ind. (Homestead)
Billy Seiler*, sophomore from Chillicotte, Ill. (Illinois Valley Central)
Nate Snuggerud**, sophomore from Zeeland (Zeeland East)
Ty Tanis****, senior from Jenison (Jenison)
Andy Venema***, senior from Hudsonville (Tri-Unity Christian)
Women's Basketball Letterwinners
Olivia Allore**, sophomore from Muskegon (Muskegon Catholic Central)
Ashley Bauman**, sophomore from Manistee (Manistee Catholic Central)
Brittany Berry*, freshman from Grand Rapids (Catholic Central)
Erika Bruinsma****, senior from Grand Rapids (Grand Rapids Christian)
Maddie Burnett*, junior from Grand Rapids (Northview)
Allie Cerone***, junior from Wheaton, Ill. (Wheaton North)
Miranda DeKuiper****, senior from Ludington (Ludington)
Liz Ellis**, sophomore from Grand Rapids (East Grand Rapids)
Lauren Geers***, senior from Scottville (Mason County Central)
Meredith Kussmaul**, sophomore from Hartland (Hartland)
Courtney Kust**, sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio (Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy)
Rachael Kutney****, senior from St. Clair Shores (Lakeshore)
Jillian Nichols**, sophomore from Brighton (Brighton)
Katie Overway*, freshman from Holland (West Ottawa)
Carrie Snikkers****, senior from Hudsonville (Unity Christian)
Men's Swimming/Diving Letterwinners
Nick Boersma**, sophomore from Holland (West Ottawa)
Gregg Elhart**, sophomore from Zeeland (Zeeland East)
Patrick Frayer***, junior from Grand Rapids (East Grand Rapids)
Ray Gaskell**, sophomore from Oscoda (Oscoda Area)
Josh Grabijas**, sophomore from Howell (Howell)
Nick Hazekamp**, sophomore from Janesville, Wisc. (Joseph A. Craig)
Michael Heydlauff*, freshman from Chelsea (Chelsea)
Michael Huisingh***, junior from Holland (Holland)
Jacob Hunt*, freshman from Muskegon (Mona Shores)
Thomas Knecht***, junior from Grand Rapids (Grand Rapids Christian)
Drew Krumm*, freshman from Brighton (Brighton)
Andrew Larson*, freshman from Jackson (Jackson)
Geoff Ludema**, sophomore from Ada (Grand Rapids Christian)
Joesph Nielson**, sophomore from Mt.Vernon (Mt.Vernon)
Benjamin O'Dell***, junior from Oswego, Ill. (Oswego Community)
Alexander Perkins*, freshman from Brighton (Howell)
Aaron Rittenhouse***, junior from Ft. Wayne, Ind. (Homestead)
Andrew Rose***, junior from Holland (Grandville)
Jeffrey Shade***, junior from Davison (Davison)
Clayton Sommers****, senior from Zeeland (Zeeland East)
Austin Veltman****, senior from Ada (Forest Hills Eastern)
Mark Waterstone***, senior from Holland (Holland)
Brian Yount***, junior from Franklin, Ind. (Franklin Community)
Women's Swimming/Diving Letterwinners
Amanda Black**, sophomore from Lancaster, Ohio (Lancaster)
Megan Bowersox**, sophomore from West Chester, Ohio (Lakota West)
Adriane Burmester*, freshman from Burnsville, Minn. (Minnehaha Academy)
Laura Cameron**, sophomore from Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor Pioneer)
Skylar Darish*, freshman from Troy (Troy)
Anna Heckenliable****, senior from Fort Collins, Co. (Fort Collins)
Lisa Heyboer***, junior from Zeeland (Holland Christian)
Erin Holstad**, sophomore from Traverse City (Traverse City West)
Ashley Jasperse****, senior from Grand Rapids (Forest Hills Central)
Aria Kieft****, senior from Spring Lake (Spring Lake)
Maria Kieft*, freshman from Spring Lake (Spring Lake)
Sarah Krueger**, sophomore from Wixom (Walled Lake Western)
Kathryn Schewe****, senior from Berkley (Berkley)
Bethany Schmall*, freshman from Portage (Portage Central)
Kaitlyn Schmidt*, freshman from Zeeland (Zeeland West)
Kyleigh Sheldon**, sophomore from Hastings (Hastings)
Sarah Sohn***, junior from Arlington Heights, Ill. (Prospect)
Claire Triner**, sophomore from Lake Zurich, Ill. (LakeZurich)
Alicia Tuuk****, senior from Lansing, Ill. (Munster)
Jessica Warner***, senior from Geneva, Ill. (Geneva)
Libby Westrate**, sophomore from Grandville (Grandville)
Chelsea Wiese***, junior from Rochester (Rochester Adams)
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The Bonaventure Quartet was originally just Dave and Charles who were nuts about Django. But we needed some low end, so we dragged Mark Bynum over on Sunday afternoons and became an all-acoustic trio based in Atlanta whose initial inspiration came from the great French gypsy guitarist, Django Reinhardt.
At least, that's how it started...
Since Amy Pike was a close friend and just happened to be the best singer we'd ever met, we begged her to start singing with us, and once she did, we didn't want her to stop...
So then we were a quartet. (Mark got busy on the road and Kris Dale stepped and stayed for years! Now Kris is on the road and Mark is back in the fold.)
But we were still greedy for another melody instrument, so we went looking and found Don Erdman on clarinet and we became a quintet.
Inevitably, however, we had to meet a swing violinist. So naturally, when Marla Feeney stepped into the room, we grabbed her, too, and now we have the Sextet!!!!!!
But then we recorded the Secret Seduction of the Grand Pompadour. Charles and Mark had worked with the amazing Joel Morris previously in a wacky funk group called the Sargasso Cs, and when some songs called for drums, we said "Yo-Joel!!" And he fit in like a glove. So now we had a Septet....
While recording the above CD, our wonderful friend and engineer, Ken Gregory played some trumpet and trombone, and he was so tasteful, we said, "bring it on, Ken!"
Which brings us to the Fabulous Bonaventure Double Quartet.....
The repertoire of the group is diverse.
Our performances of classic standards, western swing, gypsy jazz and original compositions all fall under the spell of the Reinhardt influence. Moviegoers might be familiar with this style featured in the Woody Allen* film "Sweet and Lowdown," or "Chocolat."
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Just how costly would a loss to Texas Southern be to the Owls' national seed hopes?
"You could probably kiss your chances good-bye," Rice coach Wayne Graham said. "That would have been a blow."
Rice overcame a treacherous first inning and rallied for a 6-5 win over Texas Southern in 11 innings.
Texas Southern, which entered the game 279 out of 297 teams in RPI, out-hit the Owls (10-5) and stranded 11 bases runners. They were 2-for-14 with runners in scoring position.
On the mound
Rice righthander Andrew Benak didn't help himself, allowing three hits, but also was betrayed by his defense, which committed three errors that led to five unearned runs and his exit after a season-low two-third innings. From that point, the Owls' pitching was stellar as five relievers combined for 10 1/3 scoreless innings and 14 strikeouts. Taylor Wall allowed only two hits over 4 1/3 innings, and J.T. Chargois was clocked at 97-miles per hour in his two-inning outing.
"We struck out 14 batters. You don't have to catch those," Graham said. "We figured it out. We found out how to win that game. Don't let them hit it."
John Simms threw a 13-pitch top of the 11th and is still on track to start Sunday against Houston.
At the plate
First the bad: the Owls continue to struggle at the plate. Need proof? The Nos. 1-7 hitters (basically the entire lineup) went a combined 2-for-30 at the plate. The production was better at the bottom of the order, as Michael Ratterree, who entered hitting .238, hit a solo home run in the fifth, walked in a run with the bases loaded during a three-run sixth and drove in the game-tying run in the eighth. The home run was the fourth of the season for Ratterree and his first since March 27 against Lamar.
Ryan Lewis, the Owls' No. 9 hitter who entered hitting .229, delivered a clutch two-out, two-run single in the sixth.
In the field
Parental discretion advised: the Owls committed four errors, including three during a first inning Graham called "a horror show." At least they spread it around the infield, with first baseman Ryan Lewis, second baseman Christian Stringer and shortstop Ford Stainback all committing errors that led to five unearned runs in the first inning. Stringer, who hadn't made an error since Feb. 25, had two in the game.
TSU returned the favor when Derek Hamilton hit a soft bouncer back to the mound with the bases loaded in the 11th.
TSU pitcher Robert Pearson fielded the ball, had plenty of time and threw home for the force out, only for the ball to hit off the glove of catcher Shane Leftely to score Ratterree for the winning run.
Up next
The Owls return to Conference USA play with a three-game series beginning Friday against cross-town rival Houston at Reckling Park. Rice has won 16 games against the Cougars in the Silver Glove Series dating back to 2009. Matthew Reckling (7-0, 1.44 ERA) will start the series opener for the Owls.
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[This is the arrangement from the original single (Parlo 101; #2, 1/67); Aaron Neville made a much slower 1972 re-recording, which still appears on far too many oldies comps. --AWR] Intro: C+ (piano arpeggio) Verse 1: C7/G Gm C7 If you want something to play with Gm C7 F F7M/C F6 Go and find yourself a toy D7/F# C7/G Gm C7 Baby my time is too expensive Gm C7 F F7M/C F6 And I'm not a little boy Am Dm If you are serious Am Dm Don't play with my heart, it makes me furious Am Bb But if you want me to love you C Bb/C Am/C Then baby I will, girl you know I will Verse 2: C7 Tell it like it is Don't be ashamed to let your conscience be your guide But I... know deep down inside of me I believe you love me Forget your foolish pride Life is too short to have sorrow We may be here today and gone tomorrow You might as well get what you want So go on and live, baby go on and live Coda [repeat first half of verse 2]: Tell it like it is I'm nothing to play with Go and find yourself a toy But I... tell it like it is My time is too expensive And I'm not your little boy Tell it like it is... [fade] Notes: 1) The guitar part is mostly played in 6ths. Over the C7/G...Gm... etc. progression it's: 1 1 1 1 xxx2x2 xxx0x0 xxx9x8 xxx9x8 want... some... with... your... ...; over the F F7M/C F6 [D7/F#] it's all xxx5x5 since the C and A are common to all of the chords. 2) The D7/F# sounds like it might be F#dim, but careful listening reveals a D (not a D#) in the right-hand piano voicing. -- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers


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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Oklahoma State quarterback Wes Lunt set a Big 12 freshman record by throwing for 436 yards and connected with Tracy Moore for four touchdown passes.
The Cowboys piled up 636 yards of offense, the second straight week they eclipsed 600 yards, and scored 38 points.
Those weren't the numbers that mattered.
Lunt threw three interceptions and Oklahoma State set a school record with 167 penalty yards, sending the 18th-ranked Cowboys to a frustrating 59-38 loss to Arizona in the desert on Saturday night.
"Way too many mistakes," Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy said. "It was poor coaching and poor playing. That's a bad combination."
Arizona (2-0) fell into a quick 14-0 hole before scoring the next 30 points as Oklahoma State (1-1) unraveled under a shower of yellow flags. Even with all the penalties, the Cowboys settled down enough to rally within two points late in the third quarter.
The Wildcats wouldn't let them any closer, scoring 29 points after the 3-minute mark of the third quarter to run away from the Cowboys.
Ka'Deem Carey ran for 147 yards in his debut as the featured back last week and followed it up by scoring four touchdowns while rushing for 126 yards on 26 carries.
Matt Scott also had a nice follow-up to his dazzling opener, throwing for 320 yards and two touchdowns on 28-of-41 passing while running for 55 yards and another score.
Together, they helped Arizona take a step toward becoming relevant again.
"Nowadays, it seems everybody knows the scores, but it seems like they put that Top 25 on that ticker and it goes on and on and on all week," Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez said. "So we're going to be on that ticker all week and I told the guys you want to be on the right side of that ticker."
Lunt hit 37 of 60 passes and threw for the fourth-most yards in school history in his second game as Oklahoma State's starter. He also had some shaky moments, tossing three interceptions, including one returned 48 yards for a touchdown by Jonathan McKnight in the fourth quarter.
Joseph Randle added 123 yards on 23 carries but the Cowboys just couldn't seem to stay out of their own way, committing 15 penalties and turning it over four times.
"They capitalized at the most important times," Oklahoma State defensive tackle James Castleman said.
Everything seemed to go right for Oklahoma State in its first game without stars Brandon Weeden and Justin Blackmon, leading to an absurdly easy 84-0 win over Savannah State.
Arizona had a much tougher start in its first game under Rodriguez, needing overtime to pull out a victory over Toledo at home.
That set up a showdown between familiar foes.
Oklahoma State had beaten Arizona the previous two seasons, in the 2010 Alamo Bowl and in Stillwater last year, by getting off to a fast start, outscoring the Wildcats by a combined score of 44-7 in the first half.
It looked like a repeat on the way after Lunt marched the Cowboys through Arizona's defense the first two drives, hitting Moore on touchdown passes of 9 and 30 yards to put Oklahoma State up 14-0.
The game turned quickly when the Cowboys turned ugly.
Defensive tackle Calvin Barnett was called for consecutive personal fouls on one play, setting up Scott's 15-yard touchdown pass to Richard Morrison.
A fumble by Randle on the next drive, followed by a late-hit penalty on cornerback Broderick Brown, set up a 22-yard field goal by John Bonano.
A fourth personal foul by Oklahoma State in the half, on linebacker Shaun Lewis for hitting Scott as he slid, led to a third field goal by Bonano, a 24-yarder. Carey added a 1-yard touchdown run - with a little help from teammates - late in the quarter to put Arizona up 23-14 at halftime.
Oklahoma State had nine penalties for 110 yards in the half and its last drive ended when Arizona's Jared Tevis intercepted a tipped pass by Lunt at the Wildcats' 29.
"It's undisciplined," Gundy said. "It's on the coaches and then it trickles down to the players. It's bad football."
The second half opened the same way: Barnett was flagged for a late hit on the opening play and Arizona scored on a 13-yard screen pass from Scott to Carey for a 30-14 lead.
But the score seemed to snap the Cowboys out of their funk.
Lunt hit Morgan for a 9-yard touchdown pass and the Cowboys kept marching on Arizona the next drive, setting up Jeremy Smith's 10-yard touchdown run that cut Arizona's lead to 30-28.
It turned out to be their last gasp.
The Wildcats raced down the field on their next drive, setting up Scott's 8-yard touchdown run up the middle. Lunt, facing pressure for one of the few times all game, threw up a weak pass early in the fourth quarter and McKnight picked it off for an easy touchdown. Oklahoma State was called for pass interference on the 2-point try - naturally - and Arizona converted on the second attempt to go up 45-31.
Carey sealed it with a 25-yard TD run up the middle and added a 1-yarder for good measure in the closing minutes to send the Zona Zoo into a frenzy and the Wildcats to a look-at-us win.
"There's some excited guys in the locker room and I'm proud of them," Rodriguez said. "It's a nice win, the guys played and made the plays when they needed to."
And with it should come some extra - and wanted - attention.
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Hollywood Choirs - Suggestions
What I'd love:
- A staccato patch or "apply to all" button in the wordbuilder, to turn all words into staccato. In this day and age, it really shouldn't be so fiddly to play a staccato patch (which almost ALL other choir libraries do satisfactorily)
If I have the choice to go through and manually set every vowel to staccato, or simply load a staccato patch from a different library (VOXOS, etc.) which do you think I'll choose?
- Full Chorus patch.
Not a huge deal, but one of the benefits of Symphonic Choirs is how quickly it is to load up a full choir Ah patch. Now I've got to create my own multis? Guh...
- Shouts and effects
Now I know this isn't really something you can simply add with a patch, but it's a missed opportunity.
Reminds me of all the omissions made with the Hollywood series. It just doesn't feel like the same effort is being made that went into SYmphonic Orchestra all those years ago.
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Good to see that even though my comment about adding better demos was deleted, Nick has gone ahead and done that anyway.
Good decision.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Geek Marketing: The Key To Making Money As A Programmer
Here's the long-story-short of the Schneier article, which explains the economics of the used car market:
[An economist] illustrated his ideas with a used car market. A used car market includes both good cars and lousy ones (lemons). The seller knows which is which, but the buyer can't tell the difference - at least until he's made his purchase. I'll spare you the math, but what ends up happening is that the buyer bases his purchase price on the value of a used car of average quality.
This means that the best cars don't get sold; their prices are too high. Which means that the owners of these best cars don't put their cars on the market. And then this starts spiraling. The removal of the good cars from the market reduces the average price buyers are willing to pay, and then the very good cars no longer sell, and disappear from the market. And then the good cars, and so on until only the lemons are left.
And Reddit user steveblgh says:
This is a great essay, and I just realized that it applies to the IT job market. Here the seller (the applicant) has all the info about himself, while the employer knows nothing. So what happens is that companies expect the average, and pay accordingly. That's why people who are smarter than average shouldn't go on job interviews, because they'll likely to get below what they are worth.
In terms of the economics, steve is dead-on. But I disagree with the normative component - the should - because the cure for this is obvious: blogging and open source. The problem is an information problem. You won't get a price below your value if you've got a reputation. If Jamis Buck goes to a job interview, he'll probably be looking at a good offer. But if a programmer whose code is just as good as Jamis's - or even better - goes into a job interview without any reputation to establish his skill, then yes, that programmer gets priced at the average level, which is to say, below their value.
As I've said before, geeks need marketing.
Unfortunately, you should take my advice with a grain of salt, or in fact a freakishly gigantic saline boulder, because I go on job interviews all the time. I can't stand doing the same thing over and over again - I've lived in seven different places in the last three years - so I never stay at the same company for very long, and I'm happiest when learning something entirely new. In the past the best solution for this has seemed to be working from home in my own consulting business, but constantly looking for the next client takes up a lot of time, so I frequently take short-term contracts, and many short-term contracts I go on result in long-term offers I turn down. (Conversely, every time I take on a long-term job, I end up leaving.)
Anyway, my point here is that I'm kind of unusual. I value variety over security, kind of the same way I value a Lamborghini over a golf kart. Adventure wins over safety every time in my book. I've even walked through gang neighborhoods in gang colors just to see what would happen. I got in a car accident that had me sliding downhill backwards at 80mph, pointed directly at five lanes of oncoming traffic, and I remember it as the most fun I've had in years. Please understand that my methods are not for everybody.
The more common value hierarchy puts security above excitement, and it's pretty obvious to me what I would do if I had more conventional values. The path to success as a programmer is very clear: in addition to studying programming and excelling at it, study marketing and excel at that too. Make sure people know your code, or your ideas, or ideally both. And stay off the job market; only ever even consider job offers if they come from friends.
The reality is, there are great programmers who are underrated, and there are good programmers who are overrated. It's not the code that makes you the money; when it comes time for salary negotiations, it's the rating that matters, whether over-, under-, or accurate. I'm pretty sure no programmer worth the grain of salt with which they take my words would like to hear that, but it's true. Consider: nine times out of ten, a programmer's implementing strategic decisions made above his or her head by some management type who doesn't know a thing about code. Popularity is the only metric by which an uninformed businessperson can evaluate competing technologies, which explains a lot of the bad technology decisons that businesspeople make.
(Although we shouldn't let them off the hook for not finding better metrics.)
As for me, I'll keep going on job interviews, keep blogging like crazy, keep studying acting, keep writing screenplays, keep releasing white label DJ records, and maybe, if I get lucky, I'll start a side business in motion design and release a few Rails plugins. (Don't quote me on that, though.)
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I just finished commenting on your last piece. I had to comment on this one.ReplyDelete
I was thinking the exact same thoughts these past couple days and I allude to it in my previous post.
That the difference between a mastermind and the average 'dude' is night and day. But explaining it to your boss or worse yet the board why your paying the new guy 50 percent above 'market value' is a daunting task.
On the other point you made , about the only way programmers can REALLY make money is start they're own business I 100 percent agree.
Some people argue we're the ones doing all the REAL work in most technology companies.
Which raises another interesting trend. That you also hit spot on, the 'popular programmer' with the right connections in other industries whether it be media, chemistry , biotechnology, whatever , are the ones that are making the elite pay.
It's somewhat analogous to lawyers.
Law like programming is a way of thinking , it has its own syntax dialects etc. etc.
Much like programming all lawyers have a certain baseline that 99.9 percent of them meet.
Much like programmers society has become inundated with lawyers and the profession while still prestigious has also gained negative or commodity connotations in various parts of the world.
The thing we can take from Law. Is that the lawyers who make the most money , who are seen as the most powerful are only so because they are most popular, the strongest relationships with people in industries outside law, and have a reputation of success.
Those lawyers establish firms and bring in new talent that only their trained eye can properly identify.
The same thing is happening in cutting edge software development albeit there is a long way to go before I would say that model has 'arrived' for us.
All very good points. There's a good book about this called The Winner-Take-All Society, which studies how pretty much every field is becoming dominated by superstars who do much, much better than the average member of the field. The book is pretty fatalistic, and definitely wanders off into the realm of unprovable opinion more than once, but it's interesting all the same.ReplyDelete
Apparently our parent's didn't know what they were talking about the told us not worry what others thought of us. :)ReplyDelete
Seriously though, you are absolutely right that having a great reputation in the various development circles is a huge asset to have in your back pocket. Actually, this reminds me of Scott Hanselman's recent post about Explaining CyperGeek Fame to his wife.
While being a big name in a geek community probably doesn't mean much to the average Joe, it sure does matter to those that... err, matter.
Indeed, I agree that if money is what you're after, you need to make money fast! And no, that isn't spam, although the title is supposed to sound like it :-)ReplyDelete
Something to consider is that money does offer a certain amount of freedom, which leads to adventure in its own right.
In the vernacular, this is called having "Fuck you money."
You have to be careful when pursuing money on that basis: it is easy to wind up with a Faustian bargain wherein the pursuit of money takes away the freedom you are after in the first place.
In the end, Eric beck said it best:
"At either end of the social spectrum, there lies a leisure class."
"I've even walked through gang neighborhoods in gang colors just to see what would happen."ReplyDelete
And ... what happened?
Interesting ideas here. I can especially relate to preferring variety over security. In the past I've tried to choose jobs that I feel I can grow into, where I won't be doing boring, repetitive stuff all the time, and I'll be learning new things. The state that I hate being in is when I've mastered something, and I end up doing it over and over again. There's no challenge in it anymore.ReplyDelete
In your post about the "4-hour work week" you said that you've taken some "mini-retirements". You're the first person I've "met" who's done that. I've done it too. I also go on interviews when I'm looking for work, but my experience has been that I usually find work through contacts of various kinds. I've found I'm not that good at the "corporate game". When it comes to going through Dice (or equivalent), or going through a recruiter, meeting a company interviewer "cold" with no prior background to go on, I haven't found a job yet that way. One of the things that always "irritates" that process are these "mini-retirements" I go on. As the saying goes, "It's easier to find work if you already have a job." The interviewers usually want me to explain myself. Why are there these blank spots in my work record? I finally asked a career counselor about this several years ago. She told me, "Primarily they want to know if the reason you weren't working was you were in jail." Wow! That never occurred to me. I can easily reassure them of that. I think there are also plenty of corporate managers who don't feel comfortable with someone like me. They're go-getter, career-minded folks, who always want to be working. They probably look at me and go, "Who the @#$! is this guy?" It's part of my reputation. Fortunately I've been able to find people to work with who don't really care about that. They just care if I can do the work.
@steve - nice. (but I think this is the link.)ReplyDelete
@reg - I've been in the leisure classes at both ends of the social spectrum, and they both have their advantages.
@joe - a teenage girl in gang colors tried to hit on me.
@mark - Tim Ferriss' "Four Hour Work Week" has an awesome solution to this. fill in the missing time by bragging about all the fun stuff you did while they were rotting in their cubicles. muahahaha! (be sure you can brag without putting anybody down, though, otherwise the theory backfires.)
Mark... its very easy. Just describe to them the amazing "startup" you created. Usually during my 6 month time offs, I spend a few weeks coding something I think up. I then pencil this project in on my resume for the entire 6 months. It also tends to be the stuff thats most talked about at interviews as I can bullshit about it indefinitely.ReplyDelete
Primarily they want to know if the reason you weren't working was you were in jail.ReplyDelete
And this is because if you actually have spent time in prison, you are likely to tell your new employer that comparing prison to BigCo:
- You had more freedom in prison;
- You had less pressure to conform;
- The politics were easier, the shivs are easier to spot than a poisonous powerpoint presentation;
- The people were more true to their word.
Just kidding, I suspect these things are only true in the kind of cliché movies I watch!


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The three-time presidential candidate said the institute's goal is to provide information on foreign policy from a non-interventionist view point.
The Texan is well known for his advocacy on using a non-interventionist approach with other nations. He voted against the Iraq War Resolution in 2002, and advocating withdrawal from the United Nations to maintain national sovereignty.
"The neo-conservative era is dead. The ill-advised policies pushed by the neo-cons have everywhere led to chaos and destruction, and to hatred of the United States and its people. Multi-trillion dollar wars have not made the world a safer place; they have only bankrupted our economic future," Paul's release said.
In a 2011 interview on CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Paul explained he believed the U.S. shouldn't cut itself off from interacting with other nations, but it shouldn't insert military presence either.
"[W]hat the Founders advised was to get along with people, trade with people, and to practice diplomacy, rather than having this militancy of telling people what to do and how to run the world and building walls around our own country," he said. "That is isolationism, it's a far cry from what we believe in."
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In 2007, the Executive Clemency Board consisted of Governor Charlie Crist, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, Commissioner of Agriculture Charles Bronson, and Attorney General Bill McCollum. The board usually meets four times a year. Currently authorized by the Florida Constitution of 1968 (Article IV, Section 8), the Governor, with approval of a majority of the members of the Cabinet, may grant full or conditional pardons, restore civil rights, commute punishment, and remit fines and forfeitures.
Charlie Crist was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania in 1956, although he grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida. After attending Florida State University and Wake Forest University, he received his law degree from Cumberland School of Law. After several years in private practice, he served as U.S. Senator Connie Mack's state director. In 1992, he was elected to the Florida Senate. In 2000, he became the last elected Commissioner of Education, followed in 2002 by his election as Attorney General. On November 7, 2006, he was elected Governor of the State of Florida.
This series consists of the notes (two pages) created by Governor Charlie Crist during the April 5, 2007 meeting of the Executive Clemency Board. They reveal the governor's thoughts and arguments regarding the change in the Board's rules.
- These people have paid their debt to society ... and once that debt has been fully paid - we do not have the moral right to add to it.
- What would give this body the right to add five more years, five more weeks or 5 more minutes to someone's sentence. Handed down by a judge and jury?
- Dignity, justice, honor; at what point does the punished have the right to a simple chance to come back to society.
-Can't we find it in our hearts to choose to forgive and not forever condemn.


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At Tuesday's selectmen's meeting, they filled the meeting room to object to the town's plans to add a 6-foot-wide canoe launch and small parking area at the southern end of the dam as part of its reconstruction. Currently there is no public access to the town-owned pond.
Selectmen asked Town Manager Robert J. Spain Jr. to ask town counsel whether inclusion of the parking and access improvements fell within the scope of the borrowing article approved at town meeting.
The issue, according to Mr. Spain, is that state law requires public access to so-called great ponds for boating, hunting or fishing, subject to town and state regulation. The state Department of Environmental Protection includes Ramshorn in its list of great ponds, which are defined as containing 10 or more acres, based on its 1996 waterways program study. The pond's surface area is roughly 131 acres, according to the schematic design report for the dam prepared by Pare Corp., the town's engineering consultants.
"My philosophy ... is that assets belong to all the townspeople, not just a few. We have a responsibility to make it an asset for the whole town," Mr. Spain said Wednesday.
"We have to put parking in anyway so we can service the gatehouse. When they fixed it last time (in the 1980s) they didn't do it right."
The cost of the parking area, as part of the slope stabilization site improvements, would be $35,000 to $50,000, out of the total projected cost of $1.5 million to $1.9 million, said Department of Public Works Director Robert D. McNeil III.
Robert J. Morton, spokesman for the Ramshorn Pond Association, said Wednesday the group disagreed with the town's position that the pond requires public access.
"We think there are some questions that need to be answered," he said.
Mr. Morton pointed to a 1994 letter to the association from the DEP, which referenced a 1795 map for the township of Sutton, of which Millbury originally was part, that delineated Ramshorn Pond as six acres. The department concluded then that Ramshorn was not a natural great pond.
However, the letter continued that its jurisdictional determination was subject to change based on additional information or changed circumstances. Residents could request a formal determination of applicability, which would result in a binding determination.
Mr. Morton said he did not know whether such a determination was ever pursued.
But he said that when the schematic design report was presented at an informational session Nov. 7, residents had been expecting to see a project timeline and were surprised by the access components.
"The project was expanded in scope to include the new ramp and parking," Mr. Morton said. "They believe that if this project is to go forward, it should be resubmitted to town meeting."
Mr. McNeil said the state Office of Dam Safety was reviewing the schematic design report. Work will begin on the final design in January.
Once the plan is final, the project will need to receive various permits. Construction would not begin for at least a year, Mr. McNeil said.
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New York, NY – Derick Brassard scored the game's lone goal and Henrik Lundqvist posted a 27-save shutout to backstop the New York Rangers' 1-0 victory over the Washington Capitals on Sunday to force a Game 7 in this Eastern Conference quarterfinal series.
Lundqvist, making his 60th consecutive postseason start between the pipes, stopped 12 shots over the final 20 minutes to secure his seventh career playoff shutout and force a decisive Game 7 on Monday in Washington, where the Rangers have yet to win a game in this series.
"I feel like they always come a little harder in their home building, but we can build on this one," Lundqvist said. "From the get-go we did all the things we talked about...forechecked, played physical. It was fun."
Braden Holtby played admirably in defeat, stopping 28-of-29 shots, but the Capitals were unable to solve the reigning Vezina Trophy winner Lundqvist in falling for the third straight time at Madison Square Garden.
"We've been taking too many penalties here on the road," Washington forward Niklas Backstrom admitted. "That's something you can't do if you're going to win a road game."
Washington was whistled for three penalties in the first period, including a pair in a 1:16 span that provided the home team with a 5-on-3, but Holtby turned away all 12 shots he faced in the frame to send the teams into the second locked in a scoreless tie.
The Rangers finally broke through near the midpoint of the second when Brassard fired a shot from the high slot that deflected off Washington defenseman Steve Oleksy in front and slipped past Holtby for a 1-0 lead at the 9:39 mark.
The Capitals hampered their comeback bid with a pair of penalties in the third, including a cross-checking minor on defenseman Mike Green with 6:14 left that forced the visitors to kill off yet another penalty.
Washington finally got back to full strength with just over four minutes remaining and peppered Lundqvist with shot after shot, but the New York netminder was up to the task.
Holtby left the net in favor of the extra attacker with 90 seconds left, but Lundqvist, with the help of some timely blocks from his defensive unit, kept the Capitals off the board to extend the Rangers' season.
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This is the fourth time in the past five years the Capitals and Rangers have met in the postseason. Washington took the first two matchups, but the Rangers won a seven-game series in the conference semifinals last year ... Washington has won four of the seven all-time playoff series between the clubs ... Brassard extended his point streak to four games (two goals, five assists) ... New York finished 0-for-5 on the power play, but did not allow the Capitals to skate on the man advantage ... With the win, New York coach John Tortorella moved into fourth place on the Rangers' all-time playoff wins list, passing Mike Keenan with his 17th postseason victory behind the Blueshirts' bench.


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What do Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Serenity and The Avengers all have in common? Outside of adorable casts of characters, it's the sadness and shock associated with the death of a key character in all of these Joss Whedon projects that fans latch onto the most.
For Whedon's next big film endeavor, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, the idea of "death" has been teased as far back as February, long before the title of The Avengers 2 was revealed. Is it therefore a forgone conclusion that one of Earth's Mightiest will not live through the next team-up event?
Speaking with EW about Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series airing on ABC next month - a show where oddly enough one of Whedon's victims is resurrected - the writer/director and overseer of the Marvel Cinematic Universe spoke about idea of legitimately killing off a key character from the Marvel library.
"I'm always joking about that. Um…maybe?... But I'd have to have a really good reason, a really great sequence for [Marvel executives] to go, 'We'll cut off a potential franchise, that's fine!' They know as any good studio does, that without some stakes, some real danger, how involved can we get? We don't just rule it out across the board, but neither is the mission statement 'Who can we kill?' We try to build the story organically and go, 'How hard can we make it on these people?' You go to the movies to see people you love suffer-that's why you go to the movies."
With at least two new characters joining the team in the brother-sister act of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, possibly played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen respectively, and contracts not getting any longer on actors playing already-introduced characters, Marvel will have to find a creative way to remove and replace characters on the core Avengers roster in the long-term. Whether that happens in Age of Ultron or sometimes further down in Phase Three of the MCU remains to be seen, but from the get-go Whedon has been clear about making his sequel more personal, more gripping and more - wait for it- "dark."
Lately it's been repeatedly mentioned by Whedon and Marvel Studios President of Production Keven Feige (the man behind the curtains of the entire franchise) that Clint Barton aka Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) would get plenty of screen time in the sequel after practically being written out of The Avengers by becoming a brainless minion of Loki. With the actor's schedule, Hollywood demand and minimal potential for spinoff, the ace archer is at the top of our list for potential to-be-KIA heroes.
There's also potential for one of the new characters to not make it past their introduction and we suspect Scarlet Witch could very much be in danger as well, given that her character's death is the primary plot motivator of the third volume of The Ultimates in Marvel Comics (which also happens to feature Ultron), a series of books the film universe draws much inspiration from. There's also the fact that she will potentially be the first Avenger we meet whose powers are based on magic and that's a can of worms Whedon may not want to keep left open for Avengers followups if she's too powerful.
We can't talk about character deaths without mentioning Captain America. At the end of the Marvel Civil War comic book event in the comics, Steve Rogers was assassinated, leading to his old pal Bucky (The Winter Soldier) picking up his shield and taking over the role of Captain America (until Rogers eventually returned from the dead, of course). While we don't know if a Civil War story is possible in the film universe due to the rights of many key characters having been spread among other studios, the idea of Steve Rogers dying is one Marvel might be crazy to ignore, especially with Chris Evans negotiating his initial offer down from nine features to just six, and the fact that The Winter Soldier is going to be introduced in the Captain America sequel next spring (played by Sebastian Stan who also has a six-picture deal).
After bringing back Agent Coulson, would the next "death" need to be for good or does such a concept not exist in Marvel comic book films, much like it doesn't in Marvel Comics?
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Thor: The Dark World on November 8, 2013, Captain America: The Winter Soldier on April 4, 2014, Guardians of the Galaxy on August 1, 2014, The Avengers: Age of Ultron on May 1, 2015, Ant-Man on November 6, 2015, and unannounced films for May 6 2016, July 8 2016 and May 5 2017.
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Everyone picked an MVP pick this week. We've been doing it here all season, every Wednesday.
I was interested to see that Peyton Manning was the consensus pick, edging out Matt Ryan. I was the only person to pick J.J. Watt. Aaron Rodgers and Ben Roethlisberger also got some love. Here's my Top 10:
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6. Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packers: Great stats, but too many relative "off weeks." Rodgers carries his team, but he's 16th in yards per attempt, ranked between Ryan Tannehill and Sam Bradford. Just saying.
7. Eli Manning, New York Giants: His worst three games of the season were his last three.
8. Andrew Luck, Indianapolis Colts: Seriously, where would the Colts be without him?
9. Adrian Peterson, Minnesota Vikings: He has passed Percy Harvin as the guy carrying the Vikings' offense.
10. Charles Tillman, Chicago Bears: We're not sure people realize how outrageous four forced fumbles in a single game is. Tillman has been terrific all season.
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PBS will broadcast an encore airing Thursday night of a Frontline investigation with a Daytona Beach link into the death of a St. Augustine woman due to a gunshot wound from the service pistol of a St. Johns County sheriff's deputy.
Reporters tried to interview 7th Circuit State Attorney R.J. Larizza for the investigation by Frontline and the New York Times into the death of Michelle O'Connell, a mother whose death was ruled a suicide by what the news organizations called a flawed investigation.
Reporters on the project visited the S. James Foxman Justice Center in Daytona Beach where Larizza has a third-floor office and asked to speak to him. But Larizza declined to be interviewed. Larizza did not return calls this week from The Daytona Beach News-Journal seeking comment.
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The New York Times and Frontline pointed out flaws in the investigation. One issue: the pistol belonging to her boyfriend, Jeremy Banks, was found next to O'Connell's left hand, although she is right-handed. Banks said O'Connell had ended their relationship, and she was packing to leave when she shot herself while he was in another room, according to the New York Times and Frontline investigation.
St. Johns County Sheriff David B. Shoar's office quickly decided it was a suicide.
Shoar eventually asked the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate and the agency found two neighbors who heard a woman yelling for help that night and two gunshots. That prompted medical examiner Dr. Frederick Hobin to revise his opinion from suicide to homicide, according to the story.
The FDLE began briefing Larizza's office and discussion began about exhuming O'Connell's body
"Then, with momentum building, the investigation was jolted by several events," the Times said. "In October, citing his close working relationship with the sheriff, Mr. Larizza asked the governor to appoint a special prosecutor. But before stepping aside, he told Dr. Hobin that he should wait for the new prosecutor before filing the revised finding of homicide, the pathologist said in an interview. Dr. Hobin never did file it, and he was soon joined by a new chief medical examiner, Dr. Predrag Bulic,"
Bulic said exhuming the body "would not produce any further forensic evidence," and supported the sheriff's determination that it was a suicide.
Reporters tried to talk to Larizza.
"Mr. Larizza did not respond to messages asking about Dr. Hobin's account and about why he had waited months to declare a conflict of interest," according to the New York Times and Frontline.
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