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Property Brothers, Income Property, Fixer Upper. So many shows these days are demonstrating the ease of planning your home remodel with just a click of a mouse. Inspired by the DIY spirit and fueled by far more coffee than any human should ever consume, I set out to find a design program that not only looked as good as what the pros use on t.v. but is also easy to use and 100% free.
The results were initially quite overwhelming, with hundreds of available tools, each claiming to be the best. I decided to limit my search back some to only programs that had good ratings and reviews. After some testing, and a lot more coffee, I came away with a pretty solid list of my 5 favorite tools that are user friendly, pretty and oh so very free! Let's get down to Design, Deco & Bloom Style with 5 Free Must Use Online Interior Design Tools For Planning Room Layouts!
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5 Free Online Interior Design Tools for Planning Room Layouts
Better Homes And Gardens Arrange A Room
This fantastic tool from the makers of Better Homes and Gardens magazine is a quick and easy to use tool for throwing together designs for any sized space. The app runs right in your browser, meaning that after creating an account you can jump right into planning your project without needing to download or set up any new software, and it's simple drag and drop interface makes designing quick and fun. While the functionality is a little limited (only furniture can be placed and arranged, and there is no way to view a 3d model of the room) the quick and simple nature of this tool make it an excellent starting place for your next remodel.
Ikea Kitchen Planner
I love Ikea, from the dozens of excellently modeled rooms, to the massive warehouse chalked full of furniture, and even their restaurants with those delicious Swedish meatballs. To me, trips to are Ikea are like trips to a magical wonderland of furniture, so naturally when I found out that they had an online tool to help design rooms I had to give it a whirl. The Ikea Kitchen Planner is quite similar to the 1st tool. It is entirely online, has a simple point and click interface, and has the same limitations as the Arrange a Room tool does. The main difference is, while having a larger selection of furniture, all of the furniture listed is kitchen themed, and from Ikea. If you love Ikea, and are thinking about making some updates in the near future, I would definitely recommend checking this tool out.
Autodesk Homestyler
Autodesk is pretty famous for their suites of drafting and design software, but they also offer this excellent tool for free online. This tool is definitely more complex than the first two, offering a similar drag and drop experience, but allowing you to build on a much larger level. The Homestyler also offers a 3d rendering of the models that you build and allows you to take snapshots of various rooms. The tool has a fairly large library of brand name furniture built right into it, allowing you test various brand's looks out in your home before you buy them. Overall, the Homestyler is fantastic for anything from a minor remodeling job, to custom building an entire house.
Have you ever gotten home from the store with a can of paint, ready to give your walls a fresh new look, only to find out after you paint the walls that this color doesn't look anything like you thought it would? I know I have, and there is no worse feeling than the combination of buyer's remorse and frustration that I now get to paint the walls a second time that I feel when it happens. ColorJive is fantastic for avoiding those frustrations. Just take a picture of the room in question, quickly upload it, and start painting those walls! It's super quick to use, and lets you save different looks in case you want to compare later. The most important things about this tool in my opinion though is the fact that it contains a library of paint colors from every major brand, so you can be sure that you are looking at exactly the color you are thinking of purchasing.
Smartdraw Floor Plan Software
Smartdraw's Floor Plan Software is a fantastic addition to your planning arsenal. Whether you are thinking of remodeling a single room, a whole house, or even re-landscaping your yard, this program will let you plan it all. It is the most complex piece of software on the list, requiring download and installation, but it has a far more versatile range of tools, allowing you to plan your next project from start to finish!
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If you don't, what is the nicest way to say no.I am currently single.. and I have single friends, which is fantastic. All of them are very beautiful and a bit more successful then I am right now and I know some single men who for whatever reason we have not dated...So basically I have found I am always the odd one out when it comes to my single friends.I am the catalyst to them meeting guys, and I end up home alone watching TV while they are out falling in love with my guy friends.. I have one guy friend in particular that I am highly fond of, and my friend is a model who is looking for a photographer... and she is the type my guy friend goes for... and she asked me to give him her contact information if he ever needed a model for a job. Part of me wants to help since I know what it's like to try to get work. I would want help as well, then there is the insecure part of me that thinks "no, not going to happen, if they are meant to meet they will meet and not through me"Is there a nice way to NOT play match maker without seeming mean? *edited to change the fact that ALL of my friends are beautiful, in their own way and unique. I hate saying that my friends are not wonderful and lovely... it seems rude.
She IS looking for someone to date though as is he. I know both of them enough to know that he would probably pursue her romantically.. when you mix business and pleasure it can get volatile and I don't want to be in the middle of it. I want my friends to be happy, and if I can help them with work, great, but romance.... no, I don't want to be a facilitator of that.I don't think it makes me a bad person to not want to play Dolly Levi to all my friends and family members... why don't they reciprocate? In general though,my question is about setting people up for dating. Do you do it? If you don't want to, how do you say no?
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Representative from Congressman's campaign speaks to local group
On Feb. 14 the Republican Women of Trinity County welcomed guest speaker Craig Lewellyn to address the regular monthly meeting of members. As a new representative from Congressman Kevin Brady's campaign, Lewellyn assured the group that Congressman Brady is working diligently to pass a sweeping Tax Reform Bill as well as the Repeal and Replacement of Obama Care. Congressman Brady is the first Texan to serve as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee in 200 years and will have a crucial role in pushing through legislation. His committee established a "Better Way Tax Plan" that he believes will pass Congress this year.
The plan obliterates the current unwieldy tax code, replacing seven individual tax rates with just three: 12 percent, 15 percent, and 33 percent. It also slashes corporate taxes from 35 percent to 20 percent, and lowers taxes on other business from 44.6 percent to 25 percent. The plan allows small businesses to fully write off infrastructure investments, eliminates the "Death Tax" to save family-owned farms and businesses, and reverses penalties to help bring jobs back to the United States.
The plan's goal is to dismantle the IRS and make the agency smaller and more focused on customer service. The plan will establish a new unit for small businesses and corporations as well as an independent "Small Claims Court" to quickly settle tax disputes. The plan retains popular standard deductions of mortgage interest, charitable giving, and education expenses incorporating streamlined tax forms as small as a post card.


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Today, in a move tantamount to Michael Jordan splitting with Nike or David Beckham with Adidas, Kelly Slater has announced his parting ways from 23-year sponsor Quiksilver.
Slater signed with Quiksilver in 1990 at the age of 18 just before winning the US$100,000 Body Glove Surfbout at Lower Trestles and announcing himself as a contender on the international stage. Slater secured his first of 11 ASP World Titles in 1992 at the age of 20.
Here is Slater's open letter on the move:
There is little I can say that would give the credit due or cover the debt of gratitude I feel on a personal and professional level to Quiksilver. As a brand and on a human level, they have been a part of my life, career, and personal relationships for more than 23 years now, well over half my life. They've supported me through good times and bad, personal hardships and competitive triumphs, and never wavered in backing my choices and desires in all that time. Under the tutelage of Bob McKnight, Bruce Raymond, Alan Green, Pierre Agnes and Danny Kwock (and many others), Quiksilver signed me to a 100% sponsorship deal in 1990, finishing up my amateur career and guiding me into my professional life and adulthood.
Having their support group around the world allowed me to create a life I only dreamt of as a child…making a documentary (Kelly Slater In Black and White) about the start of my professional career, going on boat trips and small charter planes to remote locations I'd likely never see, taking long car rides and promo tours to places I'd otherwise never visit, doing film trips to tropical islands few people have ever seen, etc. There could have been no better partner for me to have than Quiksilver.
The memories I have of joining the team and becoming like brothers with my heroes and team riders Tom Carroll and Ross Clarke-Jones and making lifelong friendships with Stephen Bell and others has fulfilled my life exponentially. There aren't enough pages or words to express my heartfelt thanks and appreciation for the experiences that have come from this relationship we've shared together. So it is with a heavy heart and a lifetime of positive memories that I move in a new chapter of my life.
As I contemplate the amazing opportunities I've had in life and the amount of good fortune I've encountered along the way, I'm excited to announce today that I'm embarking on a new journey. For years I've dreamt of developing a brand that combines my love of clean living, responsibility and style. The inspiration for this brand comes from the people and cultures I encounter in my constant global travels and this is my opportunity to build something the way I have always wanted to.
So I am excited to tell you that I've chosen The Kering Group as a partner. They share my values and have the ability to support me in all of my endeavors. I look forward to exploring all of the new opportunities this partnership will provide, but this hasn't happened by chance, nor has it happened without an incredible amount of work by a few key individuals. As I embark on this new journey, I am sticking to my gut instincts and the belief that your dreams can become reality with the right intentions. I look forward to sharing more about it soon…
– Kelly
Universally-celebrated as the greatest surfer that has ever lived, Slater possesses 11 ASP World Titles, 54 elite ASP WCT victories and countless endemic and mainstream accolades. At 42 years young, after existing as surfing's 'next best thing' for the past three decades, Slater has transcended precedence across all sports in his ability to not only compete with the world's best, but continue as a dominant force amongst them.
Bob McKnight, Founder and Executive Chairman of Quiksilver, had the following to say:
"Kelly has been a part of the Quiksilver family for over 20 years. It's been an incredible journey watching him grow from a young surfer with great potential, to the 11-time World Champion he is today. We wish Kelly all the best as he enters this next phase of his career."
After finishing Equal 5th at the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast, Slater will next do battle with the rest of the ASP Top 34 this coming week at the Drug Aware Margaret River Pro from April 2 – 13, 2014.
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WICHITA, Kansas – After a series of technical glitches and cyber attacks on the state's annual school testing program, the state may not release the results of the beta tests, to parents and/or schools. That is, the data collected from March 10 – May 16 for individual students and school districts, may not be strong enough to publicize.
"We're not sure that the scores really are a valid representation of what students know and can do when they're presented with a test under the best circumstances," said Marianne Perie, the Director of the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation at the University of Kansas. "We're concerned the technology issues impacted their performance."
The Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation, or CETE, told KSN that the greatest issues occurred at the beginning of the administration period, from March 10 – April 10. However, Perie said that usable data was collected from tests taken from April 11 – May 16.
According to CETE, during the first month of testing when a majority of the glitches occurred, from March 10 – April 10, only 84-86% of items were answered by students who said they finished the test.
During the next testing period, data improved. From April 11 – May 16, 96-98% of items were answered by students who said they finished the test.
"We really believe those scores are valid. We were getting good data. We were able to analyze our items and we can produce scores for those students. We are less confident in the data from that first month," said Perie.
CETE does not recommend reporting test scores at any level other than the state level.
"We don't want to release partial student test scores, or partial school, or partial district," said Perie. "It doesn't seem to us that it is fair to say, 'We'll release test scores only for kids who started their assessment on or after April 11.' That would mean about two-thirds of the ELA test scores would not be released and about one-third of math test scores would not be released," she continued.
The Kansas Assessment Advisory Council also made that recommendation. In a letter to the Kansas Department of Education, the council advised the state to "avoid providing information from this transitional test that could be construed as evaluative of student learning."
Click this link to read the letter in its entirety: KAAC Request on 2014 Reporting Results
The glitches, however, were not entirely unexpected.
"This was a pilot year, so we knew we were going to have some issues," said Kathy Busch, the representative for District 8 at the Kansas State Board of Education. "The test items themselves have proven to be pretty good, it was just the technology that we have a lot of issues to work through," Busch added.
Some Kansans are concerned about the results of next year's tests because they will not be "beta examinations."
KSN spoke with Deena Burnett with United Teachers of Wichita last month regarding the testing glitches.
"I would be nervous if I was in charge of the testing scenario for the state of Kansas," expressed Burnett.
However, CETE and the state of Kansas remains optimistic about next year's testing product.
"It'll be better next year and it'll actually test on the current standards versus the old standards," said Busch.
"We learned a lot at CETE, but also the districts and the schools learned a lot about technology needs and how to make sure this runs much better next year," said Perie. "We got a lot of good data back on the items. We really can use a lot of the data. We {can} look at the items and say what needs to be improved, what we can throw out, what worked well as is, and that'll help us make the best test form possible for next year," said Perie.
The recommendation is not a finalized decision. The Kansas State Department of Education will make a formal recommendation to the state board to vote on next month.
To learn more about the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation at the University of Kansas, click here.
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John Donham is the CEO behind the world's fastest-growing music and listening service, TuneIn. John co-founded his previous start-up, social gaming company Metaplace, which was acquired by gaming giant Playdom in 2010. Playdom subsequently sold to Disney and soon after John was promoted to co-COO of Playdom, overseeing product and technology. John has a long-standing track record in consumer internet, entertainment and gaming.
He was previously a Vice President of Development for Sony Online Entertainment where he led the development of dozens of popular titles including the EverQuest franchise and Star Wars Galaxies.
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George-Little Rock Mission Statement
The mission of the George-Little Rock School District is to provide quality education by promoting life long learning.
George-Little Rock Iowa Core Vision Statement
1.) Each and every K-12 student will be taught the essential concepts and skill sets identified in the Iowa Core Curriculum for life in the 21st century.
2.) Each K-12 educator will embed the essential concepts and skill sets in rigorous and relevant instruction informed by ongoing formative assessment.
3.) Each and every educational leader will support and ensure an aligned system of curriculum, instruction, and assessment focused on the ICC essential concepts and skill sets.
4.) The Iowa Department of Education, Northwest AEA, George-Little Rock School District, parents, community, business leaders and students will work together to provide the necessary systems of support for each student's success.
George-Little Rock Beliefs
We belief that:
1.) all people can learn and succeed;
2.) every person is a valued participant in the life long learning process;
3.) application of knowledge enhances learning;
4.) the basic moral attitudes of the community will be reflected in our educational program;
5.) all people must learn to adapt to change;
6.) all people have worth;
7.) quality education is the foundation of a productive society;
8.) education plays a vital role in developing a well-rounded individual
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Advocate editorial board opinion: Victoria sees fewer offenses, becomes safer
By the Advocate Editorial Board
Feb. 28, 2012 at 6:03 p.m.
Updated Feb. 27, 2012 at 8:28 p.m.
We welcomed the good news that Victoria's overall crime rate dropped 3 percent last year.
Victoria Police Chief JJ Craig noted that across the nation crime was on the decline, but he said the rate "is all unique to individual communities."
For example, he said major cities now are starting to see "a little tick up."
"Crime is local. It drives people crazy because they want to make a comparison, but what works in one city won't work in another," Craig said.
We observe that whatever is happening in Victoria to curb crime is working. And we praise the reasons and the people who are making this happen.
Craig summarized the situation using five factors.
First, he said the city's good economy has something to do with the lower crime rate. He called the city's well-being an external economic point. An internal economic point would be that the police department is supported by the community and that it is not facing any budget cuts.
A city's infrastructure or how it is set up and designed is a second factor.
You can have "crime prevention through environmental design," he said. "And you can see that through certain neighborhoods."
Also, law enforcement activity "has a lot to do with it" Craig said. He noted that Victoria's 116 sworn officers are very active.
"They are very busy and very progressive." he said.
Technology has played an important role in lowering the crime rate, too. Craig cited his department's record management system for efficiency. And he said other areas of technology will play a part in the future. For example, one electronic device is a license scanner that can scan a license plate eight times faster than a police officer, plus the officer can get real-time data on the license plate, car and owner quickly from the device.
"We're looking at these kinds of things," he said.
Finally, residents are a big piece of the puzzle. "Involvement is a big key - it can influence crime in a positive way or a negative way."
Craig said the community trusts the police department and that partnership is extremely important to keep crime down. In addition, he said he would love to work with other city departments more to partner on environmental design.
For example, Craig said his department worked well with the city's Parks and Recreation Department to cut back blind spots along the hike and bike trail.
"We continue to realize the successes we have," he said.
He added that he'd like to see a 5 percent reduction in the crime rate next year.
We'd like to see a further reduction, too. And we urge residents to continue fostering a good relationship with our police department, as it goes about the business of keeping us safe and crime free. In doing so, we all can improve our quality of life.
This editorial reflects the views of the Victoria Advocate's editorial board.


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Huge news for fans of Hollywood Movie Studio, aka Hollywood Mogul 3…the game is now free! Well, it's pay what you want, and it's definitely still worth some dough in my humble opinion.
HMS is the culmination of generations of text-based games simulating YOU running a major Hollywood studio. Sure, it's not flashy and the graphics are near non-existent, but that's a plus, not a negative here.
There have been countless attempts at making the perfect Television or Movie studio sim, and HMS gets it as close as anything has ever accomplished. Is it perfect? NO. Being text-based, it is not going to float every persons boat. Still, no other studio sim lets you feel like you are actually green-lighting the flicks and seeing if they pay off in the end, raising your studio cash enough to try your next silly Rom Com starring George Clooney. Or Jude Law. Or anyone for that matter. Continue reading »


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1958 Topps #150 Mickey Mantle - Once Owned by Mantle!
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Graded EX/NM 80 by SGC. Strong EX/NM example of #150 Mickey Mantle, the key card from the 1958 Topps set. The 1958 Topps #150 has always been a classic but this is a particularly special and unique example. As noted on the SGC label, this card comes with the special provenance of having personally belonged to Mickey Mantle and having once resided in Mantle's personal collection. The card has flawless colors and gloss, a bright orange background, four square corners, and is very well centered. Strong Ex-Mt example of one of Mickey Mantle's most striking and popular cards, with the added significance of having a personal connection to Mantle. Reserve $200. Estimate (open).
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Non-disclaimer: We're liberal to the core, but we include in this daily blog review the political, the social, the cultural and the undefinable from the left, the right, the in-between from all over the globe. And we're suckers for good writing regardless of ideology. Clicking the link will take you to the original post.
Featured Blog I: Cheney Gang
Keep a Coffin Handy
James Wolcott /February 14, 2006
I have it on excellent authority that future Vice Presidential motorcades will include not only the ambulance that currently follows Mr. Cheney around wherever he weaves, but a state-of-the-art hearse in case he kills someone during recreation period and rapid removal and burial is required. The deathmobile will be driven by a young Republican chosen at random from Ken Mehlman's bobsled team. P.S. I wrote the above before the press conference where doctors informed the media that Harry Whittington had suffered a minor heart attack, and that birdshot had irritated his heart muscles. There goes Douglas Brinkley's "crack a few jokes at your expense" strategy, and it's interesting to see the tonal divisions at Fox News, where Brit Hume treated the last story last night with his usual lordly scoffing, only to run aground against the newest Fox all-star, Robert Novak, who said that this is serious and that it's troublesome for the White House because the coverup fits into the narrative of a secretive administration that feels it owes no one explanation.Read the rest...
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Department of Justice Memo Defends Cheney Shooting
JB, Balkanization /February 14, 2006
Frankly, I don't understand all the fuss about Vice President Cheney's shooting of Harry Whittington. This unsigned Department of Justice Memorandum, which was slipped under my door this morning, explains it all:
Under the unitary executive theory of Article II, the President of the United States, as Commander-in-Chief, has inherent authority to shoot anyone he likes, and he may surely delegate that authority to his second in command, the Vice President of the United States. Indeed, to the extent that federal law or state tort law is to the contrary, we must read all such laws in harmony with the inherent powers of the President as head of the unitary executive in order to avoid any potential constitutional conflict. As the President himself noted in his recent signing statement to the McCain Amendment, laws that purport to limit the President's authority to use force in time of war must be construed "in a manner consistent with the constitutional authority of the president to supervise the unitary executive branch and as commander in chief." The Executive's ability to identify enemy combatants and apprehend or, if necessary, shoot them on the field of battle is fully recognized under the laws of war. There is no doubt that it is fully within the President's powers under the laws of war to identify enemy combatants and apprehend, or if necessary, shoot them in order to prevent them from returning to the battlefield where they may do harm to the interests of the United States. In this case, it is undisputed that Harry Whittington (if that is his *real* name) was carrying arms in close proximity to the Vice President of the United States, and, moreover, in the very same state as the President's Crawford, Texas, residence. I t was therefore completely within the Vice-President's discretion to determine that the said Whittington was an enemy combatant who posed a threat, whether real, potential, imagined or fictitious, to the national security of the United States. Media accounts do not reveal what Harry Whittington's name was before he changed it; it is entirely possible, however, that his real name is Ari Al-Whittington and that he is an Al Qaeda operative... Read the rest of the memo...


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*author breathes a HUGE sigh of relief*
Connor is finally done being sick, and I managed to pass my environment class (the only 4-credit class required for my degree) with a solid B- even though my professor is apparently suffering from multiple personalities. She was more than willing to give me an extension because of Connor's illness, but took huge points off my final paper for things even my English professors said was okay…go figure. So today, there are two HUGE things I'm thankful for – that the class is over and I passed, and to all the men and women who have or are serving our country.
The other thing I'm thankful for is that Kyle is sound asleep in HIS OWN ROOM. His bed. Not ours. Not Connor's…his own bed! They've both been sleeping in our room since Connor got sick a couple of weeks ago, and although I love cuddling with them, I'm looking forward to a night of sleep without someone's head jammed into the middle of my back. It didn't take long to get him to go to sleep (he's in a big-boy bed now), and there was no crying or anything…just some tossing around for a bit, then he just made himself comfortable and went to sleep! YAY ME!
Last for today, I found an awesome way to store thin ribbon – the kind that ends up a tangled mess no matter where you keep it. Can you believe how simple this is?
A huge shout out to Cut Out + Keep for this awesome up-cycling idea!Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2012 Cheryl Marble


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More time for Sanju not fair: Mumbaikars
Following the Supreme Court's judgment to grant Actor Sanjay Dutt four more weeks to surrender, MiD DAY spoke to young professionals in the city. Here is what they have to say...
Sanjay Dutt should not have asked for more time to surrender, as he has already been found guilty. The reason - he wants time to complete his films - he gave to seek an extension is unacceptable. By working in films he is not doing charity for people; he is not going to donate the money to those who lost their relatives in 1993 blasts. - Hemant Parab, sales executive
If you look at the families of the victims of the blast, their loss is irreparable. Though Sanjay Dutt is a star and has served 18 months of his sentence, giving him an extension of another four weeks was unnecessary. He has already been out on bail for a long time and now he should have served his term without any excuses. How can the law bend itself for Bollywood stars when it is supposed to be equal for all? - Deepika Sahu, analyst with a private firm
Dutt was well aware of the consequences of his actions while he sheltered weapons in his house. The court had given the judgment in 2007, sentencing him to prison. How can he ask for an extension on the pretext of crores of rupees invested in his films? - Wilson Rode, working with a private firm
Just because he is a celebrity, a month of extension is not fair. His few film projects are not above the law, or anything important. I feel he deserves to be behind bars like the other culprits, as the work he has done deserves severe punishment. - Dakshin Adyanthaya, social media professional
I do not favour any form of discrimination. I am against the decision to grant him an extension. I wonder if a common man would have been granted such privileges. - Abhinay Hatey, photographer
I seriously don't know why many people are seeking pardon for Dutt. Had Dutt surrendered on the very first day after the court upheld his sentence, it would have sent a strong, positive message out to the people. By demanding more time to surrender, he has proved that he does not regret what he did. - Mamta Bangera, working with a private firm
A crime is a crime. Law should be same for all, be it a politician, an actor or a peon. If Dutt is convicted, he has to serve the sentence immediately and not be given more time. - Manish Gadia, working with a private firm
He should not have been given time to surrender as it sends a wrong signal to the public. - Jheel Chheda, working with a private firm
I believe that any judgment by the apex court should be justified and similar for all. What would a common man have done if he were convicted for the same reason? Irrespective of who the convict is, law should be equal for all. - Guncha Khare, Manager, Bombay Connect
By giving time to him to surrender, a wrong message has gone out in public. If such things keep happening, people will lose faith in the judicial system. - Ganesh Bhosale, working with a private firm
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CEIFO Seminar - Sanaa Alimia
Venue: Department of Social Anthropology, B600
Sanaa Alimia, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
Narratives of Fear for Pakistan's Afghan Refugees: Discrimination, Detention, and Deportation
I carry my identity card with me at all times. Even when I sleep.
Interview, Peshawar (April 2016).
Borders are constructed and indeed policed with the very feeling that they have already been transgressed: the other has to get too close in order to be recognized as an object of fear, and in order for the object to be displaced.
Sara Ahmed, 'Affective Economies', Social Text, 22 (2004):2, 132.
In Pakistan, as is the case elsewhere, the border is not simply situated at a geographic space, rather it is situated in individuals and groups and it is something that is felt.
Pakistan's long-standing Afghan refugee population are increasingly constructed as the dangerous mobile border. However, historical legacies of colonial boundary drawing, contemporary globalised wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan's north-western areas, and ethno-federal structures of discrimination within Pakistan mean the experience of 'bordering' is also felt by Pakistan's devalued and quasi-citizens, most notably Pashtuns from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. In the 2000s and 2010s, in the context of the 'War on Terror', being positioned on the spectrum of the 'Afghan/Pashtun' border is to be subject to increased forms of violence – including military operations, drone warfare, internal policing, and routine harassment and discrimination.
Through the analysis of specific cases of stop-and-searches, check-posts, arbitrary detention, and, for Afghans, coercive repatriation schemes in Peshawar, Karachi, and Islamabad, this paper draws out the ways in which everyday life and mobility is laced with fear and uncertainty for these 'bordered bodies' (Afghan refugees, undocumented migrants, and devalued and quasi-citizens in Pakistan) – an experience that is also intersected by gender, class, and ethnicity.
However, by focusing on the cases of mass arrests and deportations of Afghans at various junctures in 2010–2016, the paper also draws out the ways in which the norms of the territorial nation-state mean that non-citizen Afghans exist in a different type of vulnerability, where the intention of the state (and supporting international actors) appears to be to directly and indirectly enforce repatriation to Afghanistan. If sovereign power is contingent upon repeated 'performances' upon subjects, this paper explores how the state creates emotional responses via day-to-day harassment, mass arrests, and deportation with the aim of coercing them to leave the country. Through the analysis of narratives of fear that circulate among Afghans in Pakistan, this paper explores how more and more Afghans are affected to leave Pakistan.
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Metaphysical Medicine In The Air ForcePosted by PsiCop in Fuzzy Thinking, Metaphysics
Metaphysical medicine (e.g. homeopathy, chiropractic, etc.) is getting more attention these days, even though there is still no evidence it does what it claims to. Unfortunately, practitioners of various "alternative medicines" have been able to convince people that what they do "works," and increasingly, even serious medicial practitioners — i.e. people who know better — are finding they have to adopt it, otherwise, patients will think they don't "care" or something.
The latest medical corps to adopt metaphysical medicine, is the Air Force, which will train combat doctors in a specific form of acupuncture in the field, as the AP reports:
Now the Air Force, which runs the military's only acupuncture clinic, is training doctors to take acupuncture to the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan. A pilot program starting in March will prepare 44 Air Force, Navy and Army doctors to use acupuncture as part of emergency care in combat and in frontline hospitals, not just on bases back home.
They will learn "battlefield acupuncture," a method [physician Col. Richard] Niemtzow developed in 2001 that's derived from traditional ear acupuncture but uses the short needles to better fit under combat helmets so soldiers can continue their missions with the needles inserted to relieve pain. The needles are applied to five points on the outer ear. Niemtzow says most of his patients say their pain decreases within minutes.
The idea that "acupuncture works"s is belied by the fact that it does not appear to work any better than placebo. The truth about acupuncture is that it is no more effective than doling out sugar pills:
What is not so clear to some people, but is easily ferreted out from the evidence, is that acupuncture most likely works by classical conditioning and other factors that are often lumped together and referred to as "the placebo effect." Furthermore, in some cases sham acupuncture works better than other placebos.
The placebo effect is widely misunderstood and its power misinterpreted; I suggest reading more about it if you wish to know more. Basically it is not merely the power of "mind over body" (which many alternative-medicine practitioners talk about); it can also include things like spontaneous remission, the illness or injury running its course, and more.
Acupuncture is said to work by changing the flow of something known as "chi" (sometimes spelled qi) that is presumed to follow minuscule channels known as "meridians." Its practitioners happily assert this repeatedly, as though it's authoritatively true and verified — but the cold hard fact is that, despite the many different ways we now have to image the human body (X-rays, PET scans, MRIs, etc.), no one — and I do mean no one — has ever managed to show any qi flowing along any meridian, ever, anywhere inside of any human being. How anyone can spend money on a fraudulently-promoted practice, is simply unbelievable … and that the United States Air Force would train combat doctors in its use, is inexcusable.Tags: acupuncture, air force, chi, combat surgery, meridians, qi


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Since becoming the NHL's sole licensee for trading cards, Upper Deck has made a practice of holding off using late season call-ups. This practice adds value to early season sets by using rookies who can make an immediate impact in the NHL. Some of the most sought after rookies to be included in Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey are Patrick Kane, Carey
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The IMF did not hear Russia and Kiev allocated another loan
In the night from Wednesday to Thursday it became known that the international monetary Fund (IMF), made the decision on allocation of financial aid to Kiev. Against this categorically Moscow. The Russian authorities insisted that Ukraine has not settled the question of the return of Moscow's debt in the amount of three billion dollars. The experts had previously assumed that the IMF will prefer to turn a blind eye.
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The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, hastened to share the good news in his Twitter. He stressed that the IMF opens the way to the allocation of one billion dollars from the United States and 600 million euros from the European Union.
"It is the decision of the IMF suggests that the world recognizes that Ukraine is undergoing reforms, qualitative changes, the country is movement in the right direction," he said. Not spared Poroshenko and Russia's position. According to him, the IMF has become "the aggressor" trying "to put us spoke in the wheel even at the session of the IMF Board of governors"
Before the press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow is not going to forgive the debt of Ukraine (Kiev earlier imposed a moratorium on its service). He stressed that Moscow opposes changes to the rules from the IMF under a momentary kind of a political situation."
Sands: Russia will not forgive the debt of Ukraine
In turn, the Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that Ukraine's attempts to resolve the debt issue was "fake". At the same time he criticized the position of the IMF, which earlier said that Kiev had allegedly fulfilled all the conditions for the next tranche.
The Minister reminded that Moscow will defend its interests in court. In January of the following year be held the first meeting in the High court of London.
In an interview MC experts predicted that Russia is unlikely to block the IMF decision on the allocation of money to Ukraine, since it is not enough quotas for the use of the veto (to date it's only available in the USA).
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Game of the Week: Baltimore Ravens vs. Philadelphia EaglesSeptember 14, 2012
When the Eagles Have the Ball
The Philadelphia Eagles escaped from Cleveland with a narrow victory in Week 1, but there's a whole lot they'll need to improve on against the visiting Baltimore Ravens, who looked like serious Super Bowl contenders against the Cincinnati Bengals on Monday night.
The most pressing concern for the Eagles is getting their starting quarterback back on track after he played what can charitably be described as a brutal game against the Browns. Obviously, when Michael Vick throws four interceptions—as well as a near-fifth INT that would have lost the game for the Eagles—he can plan on facing a week of scrutiny from observers both local and national.
The truth, as usual, is actually a bit more muddied than looking at Vick's stat line and declaring he played a terrible game. He made some stupid throws against the Browns, no question. But he also did some little things to help his team with his athletic ability that went unrecognized, mostly because we have come to expect it from him.
One thing the Eagles need to work on prior to facing the Ravens on Sunday, especially if they plan on dropping Vick back as many times as they did against the Browns (while almost criminally ignoring LeSean McCoy and the running game), is smoothing out their protection calls and the execution of said calls.
One play in particular that stood out to me against the Browns, a play that could have easily been a big gainer against the blitz but instead turned into a simple incomplete pass, was a failed tight-end screen that the Eagles ran from their own 30-yard line on a 1st-and-10 with 8:47 remaining in the first half.
Take a look at the coaches' tape from this play below:
Now, notice how Vick clearly sees the cornerback creeping into the slot to come on the blitz. This is a pretty easy adjustment, and it sure seems as though Vick motions to McCoy to pick up the corner, which would give the quarterback the time he needs to let the screen to tight end Brent Celek develop.
Instead of picking up the blitzing corner, however, McCoy leaks out into the flat, leaving Vick to flee the pocket.
Now, we can't know who is at fault here—maybe coaches have told McCoy to release when a slot-blitz comes, maybe he didn't see Vick's signal, maybe the Eagles ask the quarterback to be responsible for the free rusher, etc. But it's pretty clear that this is a group that is not on the same page, including the wide receivers, none of whom look back or break off their routes when the obvious blitz is presented.
If the Eagles are going to get back to being the high-flying offense they were when Vick took over for an injured Kevin Kolb two years ago, the whole team needs to be on the same page with their pass protection starting Sunday afternoon against a Ravens team that looks to be able to get after the quarterback even without Terrell Suggs.
One thing to keep an eye on is the status of receivers DeSean Jackson and Jeremy Maclin. Both have been listed as questionable for the game on Sunday (per the Twitter account of Jeff McLane, beat writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer).
For as much as it may mean, Maclin says he's playing (via the Philadelphia Daily News blog). Missing either one would be a blow for the Eagles—missing both would be close to catastrophic for an offense that will need to put points on the board to keep up with a Ravens team that seems to be able to score points in bunches.
When the Ravens Have the Ball
The Ravens unveiled their new no-huddle offense to great effect on Monday night, beginning with a 52-yard bomb to speedy wide receiver Torrey Smith. They were able to work downfield all night thanks to an excellent effort from their new-look offensive line.
As good as the line looked Monday night, however, they still struggled at times inside with Geno Atkins, the Bengals' severely underrated defensive tackle. This week, you can expect the Ravens to use tight ends Ed Dickson and Dennis Pitta, as well as fullback Vonta Leach, to work the left side of the formation and to give left tackle Michael Oher all kinds of help against Eagles defensive end Trent Cole.
One other way you can expect offensive coordinator Cam Cameron to protect his quarterback is to reduce the amount of time he is holding the ball. Namely, expect a whole lot more five- and three-step drops on Sunday afternoon than we saw from Flacco and company on Monday night.
As for Ray Rice and the running game, I would expect a healthy dose of Leach leading the way on a lot more of the power stuff we're used to seeing from the Ravens, especially against the wide-nine alignment the Eagles have played under defensive coordinator Juan Castillo.
With that said, the Ravens appear to want to push the ball downfield more than ever this year, and when they do, you have to think the matchup they'll look for is getting Anquan Boldin inside the hash marks against either one of the Eagles' linebackers or safety Kurt Coleman. Overall, the Ravens should want no part of Nnamdi Asomugha and Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie on the outside.
Enough Already, Who Wins?
The Ravens looked to be hitting on all cylinders Monday night. The defense didn't seem to miss Terrell Suggs as much as some thought they might. Of course, it's a long season and the production they are used to getting from that position needs to continue to be manufactured in other ways.
On Monday, one way they produced pressure was simply by getting ahead in the ballgame and forcing the Bengals to abandon the ground game. Once that happened, Haloti Ngata and company started teeing off on the quarterback.
I tend to think, while perhaps not as extremely, we'll see much the same script play out in Philadelphia on Sunday.
The Eagles' defense may be able to slow down the Ravens for awhile, but the Ravens' defense should have little trouble holding Vick and the Eagles in check until the offense is able to put enough points on the board for the Ravens to simply start sending guys after the quarterback. When that happens, Ed Reed usually is the beneficiary, as we saw Monday night.
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MILFORD -- About 50 veterans of the Cold War, some in trim uniforms, others on unsteady legs, turned out Tuesday morning as two bronze plaques were unveiled at the Nike missile site on the city's East Side.
These vets were the so-called "missilemen," the National Guardsmen who manned the 240 Nike sites from coast to coast.
Tuesday's ceremony marked the 50th anniversary of the decommissioning of Milford's Nike Ajax site on Eells Hill Road, its buildings now covered in brambles.
"We are gathered here to remember a time when the Cuban Missile Crisis pushed our nation to the brink," said Mayor Benjamin Blake, who emceed the event. "This piece of Milford's history is important and needs to be celebrated."
Nike missiles were never fired in anger, but there were times when they nearly were.
"I was a long-range radar operator here," said Jim Mansfield, who now lives in Colchester. "In October of 1961, we thought that this was it. The word came down for headquarters: battle stations. Out came the secret plans from the safes, and the missiles were moved topside. We went to DEFCON ("DEFense CONdition) 2 -- the highest DEFCON without all-out war. We waited and waited."
Mansfield said that it was the closest that the base ever came to a launch situation.
"We had to be ready at all times," he said. "The Army officers would show up at the gate unannounced with their stopwatches. We had to go from a nominal condition to launch-ready in 15 minutes."
City Historian Richard Platt was also a Cold War veteran, serving aboard a Navy radar picket ship -- a converted World War II Liberty freighter -- that was parked offshore for weeks at a time, tracking Soviet bombers as they made their runs between the Soviet Union and Cuba.
"We could do all of 11 knots," he said.
The Nike sites were created to ward off the Soviet Tupolev Tu-95 heavy bomber, an aircraft capable of hitting targets in the U.S., particularly along the Eastern seaboard. The many sites were needed because of the limited range of the Ajax missile.
Blake, with the assistance of Milford Nike site veteran Eric Muth, unveiled a pair of plaques that pay tribute to the era.
The first was originally installed in 1957, but was lost for decades. It was recovered by Muth after it made a multistate journey. Meanwhile, the mayor's office had the other plaque created.
Platt noted that the street sign, "Eels Hill Road," is misspelled.
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Intelligent design news, commentary and discussion from the 11th of February to the 19th of February, 2012.
So, it happened again: the Discovery Institute decided to notice something I wrote about them. I'm not sure if it's because I write for The Panda's Thumb and they see me as the weakest, undergraduate link in its strong chain of esteemed, proper biologists, or because my criticisms of their ideas are annoying, but they seem to focus on me quite a lot. Ah well, any recognition is good recognition, right?
This week I'll be focusing mostly in their response to me, but also on the Discovery Institute's move into the iAge (which must be very exciting for them), as well as a curious post that highlights yet another major problem with the way the intelligent design movement operates.
A few days ago I published a post called ""Pro-ID", "endorse ID" and "ID-friendly" – Holy terminological ambiguity, Batman!" (it was also cross-posted to The Panda's Thumb), which was a response to this post by Casey Luskin on Evolution News & Views. Well, true to ENV form, I've received a response: not from Casey, but from the faceless main account of the blog. Clearly ol' Casey is busy with more important things. I understand, don't worry.
We check in on the pro-Darwin bloggers at Panda's Thumb regularly and always look forward to another post from Jack Scanlan. You may remember he's the one who is always threatening to read and review Stephen Meyer's Signature in the Cell when he finally gets some free time.
I'm flattered they remember me, but I'm more interested in what was written next:
Now Scanlan's back again and warning that he may someday get around to reading our updated list of pro-ID peer-reviewed scientific publications:
Now, this post is not about to dissect all 50+ citations, that's for someone else (or me, if I ever get some free time) to do at another time, but I would like to look at exactly how Casey describes the way these papers, even if they don't mention it by name, "endorse" ID.
Scanlan has an issue with Casey Luskin's describing the papers in question as "pro-ID" when many, instead of making a positive case for intelligent design, actually focus on Darwinism's inadequacy in explaining crucial features of life.
But this objection makes no sense.
ID, like Darwinian theory, has a positive and a negative aspect. Saying that life's development, from non-existent to simple to complex, is best explained as the product of either intelligent design or purposeless Darwinian churning assumes that you are making a comparison between competing hypotheses. Defending either theory, Darwin or Design, means you have to argue for your explanation and against others.
That's what it means to saying one idea is "better" than another. How can Scanlan not understand that?
How can I not, indeed.
Putting aside that they never mentioned my other arguments, such as that the work of Michael Behe, Douglas Axe and others is not based on ID predictions, they have a little bit of point here. It may be that for "ID" (whatever they decide to define it as1 ) to be true, "Darwinism" (whatever they decide to define it as, too2 ) must be false. But just because, realistically, when you test a hypothesis it must be compared to another, it doesn't mean that the failure of the alternative hypothesis is an automatic victory for the one you're proposing. "Darwinism" being incompatible with the data doesn't mean "ID" wins. It means "ID" could win, because it's not ruled out by "Darwinism" being true, but it needs to experience positive support too.
This is noticeable in the pre-existing evolutionary biology literature. If the Discovery Institute's model for how science progresses is true, then modern evolutionary hypotheses and broader theories should be tested, at least in part, by comparing themselves to "ID" and ruling it out, before trying to see if positive evidence exists to support them. But, demonstrably, this does not occur. Why? Because evolutionary biologists have found numerous ways in which to find positive support for their ideas3. They're running statistical tests, finding examples of hypothetical processes in nature and in the lab at every level of biological organisation, from the ecosystem right down to the molecular world of chromosomes, and just generally being productive. They're not content with evolution simply being "better", they want it to be fully fleshed out and complete: the "best" it can possibly be.
Not so with ID. Researchers and writers self-identified as "pro-ID" seem happy to spend more time attacking what they see as a competing framework of thinking than developing their own framework into something that can stand on its own, without being rhetorically propped-up by unrelenting assaults on the last 150 years of biological research. They have precious little, if any, positive evidence for ID, yet they shield this fact by "competing with Darwinism".
That's not a good way to do science. How can the Discovery Institute not understand that?
Phew. That was a little heavy, so onto something slightly fatuous: wow, the Discovery Institute has an iOS app! Yep, that's right, now you can view what is essentially the content of Evolution News & Views (plus podcasts) from your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Wow!
Not only is this app pretty to look at, it's the smartest, easiest, and most compact way yet to keep up to date with headlines from ENV, podcasts from ID the Future, videos on evolution, ID, science more generally, academic freedom, education, faith and science and more.
Let's say you find yourself in a friendly argument on Darwin v. Design with a new acquaintance who's in desperate need of enlightenment. What could be more effective than to pull out your iPhone and show him with a couple of touches to the screen how very wrong he is?
Now I may have come across as a little sarcastic before (mainly because I was trying to), but if you're a masochist like me, I actually recommend downloading it, if only because it will be guaranteed to infuriate you whenever you have the time to look at it. Plus, it's free, so you can sleep well knowing you aren't financially supporting the Discovery Institute.
Finally this week, I want to look at an interesting post by David Klinghoffer, which contains a curious example of the kind of thing plaguing the intelligent design movement: vagueness and opportunistic criticism.
When I was growing up in Southern California, pretty much my favorite field trip was to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, tomb of countless prehistoric animals that got stuck in the tar to be dug up later as fossils, for the wonderment of visiting school kids. The ongoing excavations have since been supplemented by a spiffy museum.
From the other side of a fence on Wilshire you can see the life-size models of a mammoth caught and doomed to drown in the tar as another adult and baby mammoth look on. It's an L.A. landmark — and a nice illustration of one problem that bedevils Darwinian theory.
Commemorating "Darwin's Legacy" for the website Skeptic.com, paleontologist and harsh intelligent-design critic Donald Prothero writes, based on his own work there, about the funny way the animals dredged up from the tar have of staying static over vast stretches of time. That is despite radically alternating environmental conditions of the kind that should stimulate some evolutionary action. The more things change the more they stay the same.
The tone of this piece is strange. As has been slowly discovered over the past two decades, intelligent design proponents do not actually believe that all of evolutionary biology is nonsense. Even young-Earth creationists must believe in some form of diversification and speciation for their post-flood model to make any sense at all (which is hard, believe me). ID proponents obviously do believe that natural selection exists and that populations of organisms can adapt to changing environments. So why is David seemingly delighting in the fact that adaptation never occurred around the La Brea Tar Pits? Surely he, if asked ahead of hearing about these findings, would have predicted some changes in the animals would have taken place to cope with environmental flux, even if he believed those changes somehow involved the action of a Designer.
It makes sense when you consider the ID movement's modus operandi: discredit evolutionary explanations for biological phenomena whenever possible, whatever the implications. After all, the less that evolution is seen to be a valid and productive scientific theory, the more that ID will seem to be a better option. This is the two-model approach and it's as transparent as… well, you know.
To make matters even more damning, the Discovery Institute has been recently singing the praises of epigenetics, which it claims has the potential to destroy "Darwinism" once and for all (for some reason). But epigenetics is all about heritable changes in gene expression based on nucleotide methylation and modification of histones, which don't alter the underlying nucleotide sequences of alleles, but nonetheless (potentially) allow a phenotypic response system to environmental changes without going through a population genetic approach of mutation and fixation.
Such a dynamic response system, instead of "Darwinian" mechanisms, could have produced useful phenotypic changes in the La Brea Tar Pit animals in the face of their rapidly changing environment. So why would an ID proponent get so excited about such changes not being observed? Curious.
The answer is that people like David will latch onto anything that seemingly contradicts the "orthodoxy" of evolutionary biology, even if those things contradict each other or something else that they believe. Modern evolutionary biology being wrong is so important to them that they'll accept almost anything for another chance to sound its death knell.- - - - - - - - -
- Intelligent design is an extremely vague concept when you get down to it. At its most basic level, it means that some intelligence acted sometime to do something – nothing is specified except for the causal agent being intelligent. As such, in what way can we say that ID is incompatible with evolutionary theory? ID could explain some features of the biological world, whilst evolution could explain others. Proponents of ID rarely try to rigorously define what it is trying to explain. ↩
- Is "Darwinism" strict Darwinian evolutionary mechanisms? Or is it all evolutionary mechanisms that are naturalistic? Must it claim to explain every aspect of life, or only certain things? ↩
- Also, "ID" isn't well-defined enough to be ruled out. ↩


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Grant Balfour Returns To Rays With Two-Year Deal
The Tampa Bay Rays and closer Grant Balfour have been reunited. The Aussie agreed to a two-year deal worth $12 million on Thursday. Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times breaks down the financials:
Heard the breakdown on Balfour deal with #Rays is $5M in 2014, $7M in 2015
— Marc Topkin (@TBTimes_Rays) January 23, 2014
The news came after a handful of weeks had passed since the Baltimore Orioles canceled their signing of Balfour due to 'medical issues' its doctors noticed while giving Balfour the physical required for the deal to be official. Those 'issues' turned out to be the subject of great debate. Balfour had an independent examination administered by the Rays' medical staff and all reports were that he was 100% healthy.
With Balfour back out on the market, Tampa Bay (which employed Balfour from 2007 through 2010) saw fit to sign him once again; this time to be their closer. In his earlier tenure with the Rays, Balfour was primarily a seventh or eighth-inning option for Joe Maddon, but with Fernando Rodney likely leaving via free agency and Balfour's current status as a premier closer the match makes total sense.
Balfour, 36, saved 64 games for the Oakland A's between 2011 and 2013. He played a big role in their back-to-back A.L. West Division titles with his power arm and engaging locker room presence. He also pitched to a solid 10.8 K/9 ratio in 2013 and has developed a keen ability to strand most batters he allows on base.
Of course, this deal brings with it an engaging emotional narrative for the upcoming season. Since he signed with a team in the same division as Baltimore, Balfour will likely get the opportunity to demonstrate to the Orioles that he is, in fact, totally healthy and that their decision to cancel their deal with him was a grave mistake by the O's front office.
That will definitely add some tension to games between the Rays and O's in the near future. After all, Balfour is one of the most consistently fired-up pitchers in the game.
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They never were, everyone I knew had them anyway
As MP3s maybe. Not quite the same.
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For those who've seen the reports that CB Aqib Talib would not be suspended, that surfaced shortly before kickoff against the Dolphins. Peter King has got an inkling, as to why NFL commissioner Roger Goodell did not suspend Talib f or even the minimum of four games that had previously been mentioned by Jason Cole, of Yahoo! Sports.com via an anonymous source.
Tampa Bay cornerback Aqib Talib won't be suspended, according to Bucs GM Mark Dominik, after his offseason incident in Texas in which someone shot at his sister's boyfriend. I think the reason he wasn't suspended is because no credible evidence has been produced that he fired the shots or did anything to encourage the shots to be fired. Now, if he's found guilty when the case goes to trial in the spring, he'll certainly be disciplined. But not now.
We here at Bucs Central have contended all along, that if Talib had indeed pulled the trigger and squeezed off a few rounds, at his sisters would be abusive boyfriend, that there would have been no way for Texas prosecutors to table his case till 2012. Especially with all of the supposed evidence that they claim they have from eye witness accounts on the evening in question.
Talib's lawyers have strongly contended that the case should be dismissed and if and when the case went to trial, Talib will be exonerated of the charges. Talib whom met with Goodell, last Tuesday has been mum on the specifics of the meeting, however did state his representatives did a good job of presenting all the facts to Goodell.
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Catnip Hostage Crisis
When I first saw the headline Family Calls 911 When Angry Fat Cat Holds Them Hostage all I could think of was, what were the demands and was this the first cat to not only be able to open cabinets with its paws but to hold a gun as well?
Then I thought maybe it was a headline in the Onion or maybe something splashed across the front of a tabloid in the grocery store checkout right next to the chewing gum, Soap Opera digest and a pound of now soft butter some lazy ass left there.
But then as I read on and listened to the 911 call (at the link above) I realized, no this was no parody or fake news story but was indeed the real story of a family who felt that their 22 pound Himalayan cat was going to kill them.
They were, apparently, actually held hostage by this rather large cat at claw-point who finally snapped on his adult and baby humans and if you listen to the 911 call will you hear that, thankfully, they had tea in their panic room if they were forced, as the 911 operator warned, to survive for some time and they were also thinking clear enough to save the dog. But they were indeed at the mercy of this monster in fur who wanted nothing more than to rip out their hearts and cover them with kitty litter should they make the mistake of trying to leave.
Surely this was one absolutely frightening situation "It's only funny when it's not happening to you," said the wife "When this happens to you, I assure you, you will do the same thing" and on that I'm sure we would all agree. When facing such a scourge of feline that clearly wants you in Hell you, too, would lock yourself in the bedroom and possibly, as an extra precaution, even barricade the door with pillows and socks.
When all was done though it seemed as if the situation was resolved without any further violence or bloodshed. And for this, of course, we all say a small prayer of thanks to the Dad for his quick thinking and cool head throughout this awful ordeal.
I shudder to think of what may have happened had the Dad here not kept this situation from getting further out of control. What if this Hellbeast had turned his attention next to the neighbor's to finally extract his revenge for being sprayed with the hose while taking time in their flower bed the summer before?
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There are allegations of possible cheating on standardized exams in the Albany school district. District officials noticed odd erasure marks in one elementary school and notified state investigators. One teacher is on leave.
Students in a third-grade classroom at New Scotland Elementary School were interviewed by district officials, who determined that a further investigation was warranted. Another incident at a second Albany elementary school also was investigated, but no wrongdoing was found, Superintendent Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard said Friday.
The two incidents are not connected and there is no evidence of widespread cheating in the district, she said.
The tests at New Scotland had a high number of erasures and highlights on student answers, according to a letter sent to parents. Albany district officials reviewing the exams first noticed the unusual marks and notified the Education Department of the irregularities after interviewing the students on May 10.
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