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Is this the end of the road for Number One?
The USS Enterprise arrives at Starbase 45 for repairs following a battle with the Chakuun, the Tholian's shock troops. Engineer Grace, standing on the ship's saucer section reports that although the damage is significant (requiring much more than a standard overhaul) the vessel can be repaired. Captain Pike, after discussing casualty reports and shore leave with Dr. Boyce, is informed by Boyce that Number One has been summoned to the planet by Commodore Strickland, the base commander.
Number One is offered command of the Nelson, but hesitates citing that she is still "learning." She agrees to have her answer by nightfall.
While on shore leave, Mia Colt and José Tyler explore the ten thousand year ruins of the City of Ithanulan… which, according to myth, once held the "Well of Tomorrows," an oracle of sorts. After some minor flirting, Tyler finds a sphere which Colt identifies as a "keepsake." According to a guidebook, a keepsake was said to contain some of the mystical waters that allowed persons to glimpse their future. As the two scoff at the idea, Tyler sees an aged image of himself, dressed as a Captain in the uniforms worn in the late-2270s and early 2280s sitting in a command chair on a bridge from that time. Visibly shaken, Colt questions Tyler about seeing visions… Tyler dismisses it as an overactive imagination. Colt attempts produce a vision, but fails. Tyler jokes that she "has no future," the two walk off into the sunset.
Back shipside, Lieutenant Mohindas and Nano continue repairs. Nano mentions that he heard Spock say that Number One had been offered command of a starship, which prompts Mohindas to bang her head on the panel. Nano states that it would bring benefits to Mohindas since the ship would require a first officer and she would be ideal. Number One asks Dr. Boyce for his advice; he states that Starfleet needs more female Captains, which she agrees. She confides in Boyce her trepidations on taking command; filling "dead men's shoes," betraying Pike and breaking up a close-knit family. Boyce indicates she will make the correct decision and the two toast a drink to "the future."
In a severely damaged engineering, Pike and Grace discuss Number One's future until Grace notices an unfamiliar face among his staff. The fellow, who had been working on an overloading backup system, identifies himself as Shane Samson, former assistant chief engineer on the Achilles who has now been transferred by Commodore Strickland to the Enterprise to serve the same role. Grace seems less than happy with this decision.
Pike receives encrypted priority orders and, after viewing them in his quarters, calls for Spock and Boyce.
Number One arrives on the bridge seeking Pike, Mohindas informs her that he is in transporter room three and congratulates Number One on her recent promotion and command. Somewhat irritated by the rumors, she informs a stunned Mohindas that she will be staying and proceeds to the transport room. There she informs Pike that she will be staying. Pike approves in light of the fact that he will be on an away mission and wants to leave the Enterprise in capable hands. Pike also indicates that Starfleet wants a Senior Officer aboard the Enterprise to supervise the operations; however Number One will be in command of the Enterprise.
Just then, Admiral Robert April arrives, he will serve as the Supervisor.
Colt and Tyler study the artifact that Colt took from the ruins, Tyler jokes that the act was less than ethical… having taken it from an archeological site. Colt continues to examine it noting it is registering a faint tachyon emission. Tyler speculates that Colt is wasting her time, however, she goes forth citing that it "creeped her out" that he saw something and she did not. Colt agitates the particles with an amplified active scan and the keepsake begins to glow. Colt is then thrown into the future, disappearing and prompting Tyler to sound an emergency alert to the bridge.
Colt, unconscious, comes to only to find her room darkened. She is hailed by security men clad in the red duty tunics holding pistol phasers who inform her that she is in a restricted area and is subsequently under arrest.
Memorable quotes
"Yeah. Imagine… 'Well of tomor–"
"Joe! (pause) Joe! (now yelling) JOE! Are you OKAY? Did you see anything?"
"I… don't know. I saw something?"
- - Jose Tyler and Colt, in reaction to Tyler's vision of the future
"I… I… suppose you'll have to find a new nickname now."
"Well, You can't be a captain and be called Number One. You have to start using that elusive first name of yours."
"If we could harness the speed gossip travels around this ship it would beat warp drive."
- - Mohindas and Number One, after Number One declined a promotion to Captain
Background information
- The "future" vision Jose Tyler has while looking at the "keepsake" suggests that Tyler may command a starship in this future, holding the rank of Captain, as seen by the shoulder insignia on his uniform. Crew members of this ship are shown to be a dark skinned Vulcan as the navigator, a female Human as the helmsman and a bald Andorian manning a station behind him. The Vulcan appears similar to Tuvok from Star Trek: Voyager.
- The two security guards that place Colt under arrest are wearing officer's duty tunics of the TOS movie era, however, they have no rank on their shoulder strap. Also, they are holding the type of phaser seen in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
- Colt and Tyler wear the field jackets seen in "The Cage". Additionally, all engineering personnel are shown wearing the "jump suits" with the "United Earth Emblem" similar to those worn by Dr. Boyce during "The Cage".
- Based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry
- Writers:
- Artists:
- Michael Collins (pencil art – interior and cover)
- Greg Adams (ink art – interior and cover)
- Marie Javins (color art)
- Janice Chiang (letter art)
- Editors:
- Bobbie Chase
- Bob Harras (editor-in-chief)
- Canon characters listed below are linked to the main article about them. Non-canon characters are not linked, but those that recurred, appearing or being mentioned in more than one story, are defined further in Early Voyages characters.
- Christopher Pike
- Enterprise captain.
- Number One
- Enterprise exec.
- Spock
- Enterprise science officer.
- Philip Boyce
- Enterprise CMO.
- Moves-With-Burning-Grace
- Enterprise chief engineer.
- Sita Mohindas
- Enterprise helmsman.
- Nano
- Enterprise communications officer.
- José Tyler
- Enterprise navigator.
- Mia Colt
- Enterprise captain's yeoman.
- Gabrielle Carlotti
- Enterprise nurse.
- Robert April
- Starfleet admiral.
- Strickland
- Starfleet commodore.
- Shane Samson
- USS Achilles engineer reassigned to Enterprise.
- Van Hansen
- Deceased Enterprise second engineer.
- Chakuun cohort general
- Tuvok
- In an alternate timeline viewed through one of the Algol keepsakes, Tuvok appears serving on the bridge of Captain Tyler.
- 2290s security officers
- USS Achilles
- Federation starship destroyed at Theta Kalyb.
- Algol
- Star system in the Perseus constellation, home of Starbase 45.
- USS Brazzaville
- Federation starship destroyed at Theta Kalyb.
- Chakuun
- Chakuun ghostships
- Ithahulan
- keepsake
- USS Nelson
- Four-nacelled Federation starship.
- USS Providence
- Federation starship destroyed at Theta Kalyb.
- Starbase 45
- Federation starbase.
- Theta Kalyb
- Tholian Assembly
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UPDATE: This summer Temple University will begin issuing new student IDs with expiration dates to comply with the new Voter ID law. The unversity said it was re-issuing the IDs on its normal 5 to 7-year schedule so there was no additional cost ot add the expiration date.
The state's top elections official announced a plan to "simplify" the process of getting photo identification needed to cast ballots under Pennsylvania's new Voter ID law.
Secretary of State Carol Aichele said at a news conference on Wednesday that voters may use long-expired state driver's licenses or non-driver ID cards in order to obtain the new, free photo ID from PennDot.
Did you follow that? I know, neither did my editor.
Bottom line, voters without valid licenses still have to go to PennDot offices to get the new ID to vote. This could be a problem for elderly voters without means of transportation.
But Aichele said allowing people who no longer drive, particularly seniors, to use expired licenses means they don't have to produce social security cards and birth certificates, which are more difficult - and costly - to obtain. Her agency is working with nursing homes to ensure all of their residents have ID, she said.
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Aichele said those with expired licenses don't even have to produce their ID at the PennDot office, because the agency will have you in their system, Aichele said. Unless of course, your license expired before the system was computerized in 1990.
Of course, that doesn't address people who never drove to begin with.
Another issue that has cropped up with the law was signed by Gov. Corbett in March involves the number of colleges and thousands of students who have IDs without expiration dates. The new law requires student IDs to have expiration dates.
For instance, the University of Pennsylvania has expiration dates on its IDs but Temple University and Penn State do not. (But PSU will issue cards with expiration dates to new students this fall and provide stickers for returning students' IDs.)
None of the state system schools have IDs with expiration dates and of Pennsylvani's 14 community colleges, seven issue IDs with expirations dates, includign Delaware County Community College, according to the Department of State.
Other schools with acceptable ID include: Penn; Drexel; Haverford; Lehigh; Rosemont; Pa. College of Art and Design; Moore College of Art; Bryn Athyn College; Elizabethtown College; Lackawanna College; Misericordia University; Pa. Institute of Technology (Media and Philadelphia); University of Pittsburgh; Carnegie Mellon; Susquehanna University; Chatham University; Carlow University; Point Park University; Manor College.
The state's new voter-ID law requires all voters to show photo ID before voting in the Nov. 6 general election. There is no ID requirement to cast ballots in the Apr. 24 primary.
The ACLU and the NAACP are planning to file suit challenging the law by the end of this month.
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Songe d'un Bois d'Été
Eau de Parfum
A deep leather and sumptuous woods
Bottle 75 ML
Indisponible -
Dark is the night… A deep night that only unveils its radiance through its intensity, adorned with touches of cedar, patchouli and myrrh. Powerful, yet caught between lightness and darkness, and extremely enveloping, Songe d'un Bois d'Eté is a modern interpretation of the concept of exoticism.
The Déserts d'Orient fragrances are housed in simple, streamlined bottles gorgeously illuminated by a shower of gold, like a symbol of riches: a sign of belonging to a world in which this precious material has always been given pride of place.
Bold, unique, audacious.
Top notes: bay leaf, neroli.
Heart notes: patchouli, saffron note, jasmine, cedar wood.
Base notes: leather, myrrh.
The saffron note, specially created by Thierry Wasser for the Déserts d'Orient collection, is subtle and facetted, spicy and leathery, like all Oriental treasures. It is an extremely precious raw material, as these flowers have a very short life span of about 48 hours: an ephemeral treasure.
Ideal for men and women alike.


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Spirituality and Religion
September 2017
"The supreme Power intervened in history to liberate the supremely powerless."
~ from Jonathan Sacks'
Not in God's Name
Recent Releases
Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father
Thomas S. Kidd
In this thoroughly researched and groundbreaking biography, religious studies professor Thomas Kidd examines the religious thought of Founder Benjamin Franklin. As a young man Franklin rejected the Calvinist doctrine of his childhood and embraced deism. However, he later professed a religion-based ethical philosophy that was closer to the beliefs of his upbringing, those of his sister Jane Mecom, and those of his friend George Whitefield, the famous Methodist evangelist. Showing Franklin as a man of religious faith who publicly called for prayers to God to guide the new American nation, Kidd's portrait offers "a new cornerstone of Franklin studies" (
, starred review).
How to Be a Muslim: An American Story
Haroon Moghul
On September 11, 2001, Pakistani-American author Haroon Moghul was an undergraduate at New York University. The terrorist attacks on that day pushed him into the spotlight, where he became a spokesman for American Muslims. Meanwhile, he was struggling with his own relationship to Islam. In
How to Be a Muslim
, Moghul relates his hopes, fears, doubts, and personal challenges, liberally employing both references to pop culture and allusions to the Qur'an. This book, which
Publishers Weekly
(in a starred review) strongly recommends "for its candor and relatability," provides a compelling account of what it means to be an American Muslim.
The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now
Thích Nhất Hạnh
The Art of Living
, acclaimed Vietnamese Buddhist teacher Thích Nhất Hạnh offers techniques for living happily in a challenging world. His lectures about these techniques develop the practice of mindfulness to show how it applies pragmatically to ordinary life. As he often does, Nhất Hạnh focuses on the importance of breathing and the interconnectedness of everything. The talks collected in this book can be read in any order and are accessible to those who are new to Buddhism and informative to people already familiar with Nhất Hạnh's teachings.
In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult
Rebecca Stott
As a child, acclaimed author Rebecca Stott belonged to a separatist Christian fundamentalist sect in Britain called the Exclusive Brethren. Her father, Roger, was a leader in the group, which shunned all kinds of worldly things, but he later left the cult and became an actor and filmmaker.
In the Days of Rain
details Rebecca's experiences with the Exclusive Brethren, Roger's struggles, and her own gradual understanding of the sect and its effect on her family over four generations. Reflecting on her relationship with her father, Rebecca pens a thought-provoking and absorbing memoir.
Great Books You Might Have Missed
Lecrae, with Jonathan Merritt
Popular, Grammy-winning Christian hip hop artist Lecrae was raised by his single mother. Though there were positive influences in his life, he experienced instability, abuse, and neglect, engaging in criminal activities throughout his teen years. Rap provided an outlet for his creativity; Christianity rescued him from crime when he was 19 and gave him a new focus for his music career.
offers Lecrae's reflections on the negative aspects of his early life, revealing how he decided to become a positive influence on younger people.
Publishers Weekly
calls this memoir a "wonderfully inspirational and entertaining story."
Grace without God: The Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular Age
Katherine Ozment
After journalist Katherine Ozment's young son asked her what religion their family practiced, Ozment realized that "none" wasn't a very helpful answer. She then set out to learn more about how "Nones" (nearly one-fourth of the American population) replace the rituals, sense of community, and moral guidance that religion offers. In
Grace without God
, she reports on her interviews with academics, statistical studies, and conversations with other "Nones" at events around the country. Focusing on the need to raise kind, morally upright, and compassionate children, she relates her personal experiences and considers how others are answering those questions.
The Givenness of Things: Essays
Marilynne Robinson
Thoughtfully addressing the divisions expressed in contemporary arguments about religion, award-winning novelist and theologian Marilynne Robinson critiques both reductionist atheists and self-righteous Christians. In her elegant, rich prose, she discusses 17 topics, including Humanism, Servanthood, Memory, and Experience, connecting them to current politics while clearly stating her own faith and viewpoints. Warning about unrestricted power, greed, and cynicism,
The Givenness of Things
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, starred review) about matters of great consequence.
Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence
Jonathan Sacks
Not in God's Name
, Jonathan Sacks, Emeritus Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, analyzes the justifications for violence that have supposedly been derived from Hebrew scriptures. Arguing that people in all three Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) have misconstrued the Bible, he debunks the notion that violence is inherent to religion. Finding powerful messages of peace in the book of Genesis, he offers an antidote to the sectarian strife that currently plagues the world. In a starred review,
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DAS Meaning & Definition
DAS is short for direct attached storage.
Direct attached storage (DAS), also called direct attach storage, is digital storage that is attached directly to a computer or a server. In other words, DAS isn't part of a storage network. The most familiar example of DAS is the internal hard drive in a laptop or desktop PC. In practice, the phrase direct attached storage is used most often in reference to dedicated storage arrays attached directly to servers. It is used to distinguish DAS from networked storage arrangements, like SAN or NAS devices.
DAS Devices Explained
DAS can refer to a single drive or a group of drives that are connected together, as in a RAID array. In addition, DAS devices can be housed inside a PC or server (as is the case with internal hard drives) or outside the PC or server (as is the case with external hard drives and storage appliances). Multiple systems can use the same DAS device, as long as each PC or server has a separate connection to the storage device.
The primary benefits of DAS include simplicity and low cost. Installing networked storage systems, like NAS and SAN devices, requires more planning, as well as the purchase and deployment of network hardware, such as routers and switches, in addition to appropriate cabling and connections. By contrast, most PCs and many servers come with DAS already installed, and if you want to add more direct attached storage, generally all you need to purchase is a storage device and possibly a cable. Maintaining DAS is also very simple; by contrast, SAN and NAS solutions usually require management software and may require monitoring software as well.
The Difference Between DAS, SAN and NAS
In the early days of computing, DAS was the only type of storage available. In fact, the term direct attached storage didn't come into use until much later when people needed a way to differentiate between traditional storage and SAN and NAS devices.
NAS (network attached storage) offers file-level storage for end users that are connected to a network. The advantage of NAS over DAS is that it simplifies file sharing among multiple users while potentially offering faster performance than a traditional file server.
SAN (storage area network) refers to a network of storage devices that provides block-level storage for servers in a data center. For large organizations with many servers, SAN offers better performance and flexibility than DAS, along with potential cost savings, although SAN hardware can be costly.
Many SAN and NAS devices can also be used as DAS devices. The difference lies in whether they are attached directly to a server or attached to a network via routers and switches.
Recommended Reading: What is Enterprise Storage?
Direct Attached Storage Implementation
Setting up a DAS device is generally very simple. When you purchase a PC, DAS is included in the form of the hard drive. If you would like to add more direct attached storage to a laptop or desktop, you can attach a plug-and-play external hard drive.
DAS is also included in many servers. Connecting additional DAS devices to servers is a little more complicated than adding DAS to a PC, but it is generally simpler than connecting SAN or NAS devices because it doesn't require you to design a network or purchase hardware like routers and switches. Depending on the type of server, you may be able to add DAS in the form of additional drives in your existing server chassis. Other times, DAS sits in a separate chassis. You can also purchase DAS as storage appliances that you can connect directly to your servers. DAS deployment may require some configuration, but most IT workers can handle it on their own without outside consultants or specialized technical experts.
Using DAS is very easy. You simply save files as usual. Your operating system will allow you to view, rename, delete and perform other operations on the files on your DAS.
DAS Technology
DAS devices can utilize traditional spinning hard disk drives or solid state media. Hard disk drives (HDDs) are less expensive than solid state drives (SDDs) on a per gigabyte basis. However, they aren't as fast as SDDs. The majority of DAS devices sold today use hard disk drives, although SSDs and hybrid devices are becoming more popular, particularly for applications where performance is paramount, such as Big Data analytics.
Conversely, SSDs offer the fastest performance, but they are also the most expensive. However, in recent years, they have become more affordable. In addition, because SSDs don't have a spinning disk, they last longer and offer better reliability than HDDs. Many vendors now offer SSDs as an option on mid- to high-end servers for part or all of the storage capacity.
DAS devices can connect to PCs and servers via a variety of protocols, including SCSI, SAS, SATA, ATA, eSATA and Fibre Channel.
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This month the Movie Club will be screening 'Magnolia', directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring an ensemble cast that includes Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, John C. Reilly and Julianne Moore.
'Magnolia' tells the story of multiple characters living in LA over the course of one day. These characters each have their own problems but the overarching schema of the film is that their lives coincidentally intertwine. The connections between these characters provide space to deconstruct universal themes of forgiveness, regret, death, fear of failure and failing relationships.
The film opens with a series of coincidences and it is this which sets the tone for the entire film; as the film states: '…These strange things happen all the time.' Characters are caught up in their own lives and their own problems, this is highlighted by the episodic rhythm of the film—moving from one character to another—and seeing how unaware each is of the people so near to them.
The film plays with the idea of coincidence—how we can never really plan or prepare for anything in life. Director Paul Thomas Anderson is making a statement here, the epic-ness of the everyday.
'Magnolia' was nominated for two Golden Globes and three Academy Awards.
The film will be screened on Wednesday 8 February at 6pm at Narellan Library, Corner of Queen and Elyard Street, Narellan. Tea, coffee, and biscuits provided, BYO snacks are more than welcome. Stay after the screening for a short discussion about the film.
*Please note this film is rated MA15+ and contains strong coarse language and themes.


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Joe Decie, Donya Todd, Jim Medway, Dan Berry, and Oliver East sign at Gosh Comics on Friday, August 9, 2013 from 7:00pm until 9:00pm!
Press Release:
Blank Slate have published so many books by New! British! Talent! in the last month that we need to throw a launch party for a bunch of them all at once. All at once. We're having a big ol' launch party on Friday the 9th of August, from 7pm until 9pm by which point you will have drunk all our beer and will have to set about finding more in the pubs of Soho.
Those five books are: Joe Decie's The Listening Agent, Donya Todd's Death and the Girls, Jim Medway's Playing Out, Oliver East's Swear Down and Dan Berry's The Suitcase.
Overwhelmed? Let's break it down. (Blurbs after the break.)
As usual, if you can't make the launch party but would like to nab some signed copies, just email us at email@example.com.
Mail order people: we do a flat-rate of £5 postage within the UK so you can get ALL OF THE ABOVE BOOKS posted to you for just £5 (on top of their combined retail price, obviously). Elsewhere: you'll have to let me know which ones you'd like and where you want them posted to so I can work it out. We can post anywhere in the world.
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Twice this Fall, Psalm 146:7-10 appears in the Sunday Liturgy of the Word. After the first reading on September 9th (23rd Ordinary Sunday) as well as November 11th (32nd Ordinary Sunday). I lassoed my new friend Lynette to sing a demonstration of this new setting I composed:
I used the text from the revised Grail Psalter, web page here.
I have always liked Psalm 146. Reliance on God is still a tough matter for me, and while I don't identify with captives, the blind, widows, or most of the litany of the oppressed in verses 7-9, I can appreciate God's commitment to justice. And I can aim at keeping faith forever, can't I?
As for the music, I wanted to create something modal. But it also floats back and forth between C major and C mixolydian. I was thinking of the stately chords in this work of Alan Hovhaness, without going quite so far afield.
Note: Gratis permission is granted to Todd Flowerday to post to the Internet individual audio files of musical settings of the Revised Grail Psalms. These digital files may be distributed to, and downloaded by, the general public for use within their religious communities, provided no remuneration is exchanged for this use. Any composer wishing to sell his/her settings of the Revised Grail Psalms, whether at cost or for a profit, should contact GIA for permission. All other policies regarding copyright notice and other licensing stipulations must be observed; visit www.giamusic.com/RGP for
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On Race and Justice: An Apology, An Indictment
by Abby Zimet from Common Dreams
While many people view "Stand Your Ground" laws as today's symbol for what's wrong with our criminal justice system, a suggestion we look deeper and further – to the country's long history of racial bias in jury selection, especially in death penalty cases. Last week, a North Carolina judge vacated the death sentence of Marcus Robinson under the state's Racial Justice Act citing a "wealth of evidence showing the persistent, pervasive, and distorting role of race in jury selection" – the first time racial bias has been rejected as unacceptable since the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling in McCleskey v. Kemp that such bias is an "inevitable part of our criminal justice system," and so be it. Meanwhile, the executions – technically legal, but relatively rare – go on, with Texas accounting for over a third of the total. The Economist maps out each one since 1976.


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Major League Baseball just announced that the deal to send Toby Hall and Mark Hendrickson to the Dodgers has been finalized. Tampa receives catcher Dioner Navarro, right handed pitcher Jae Seo and a player to be named later.
Navarro was one of the prospects the Dodgers received in the three-way trade that sent Randy Johnson to the Yankees and Shawn Green to the Diamondbacks. Navarro is young (22) and is considered a very strong defensive catcher, that is yet to develop as a hitter. He was named the Yankees 2003 minor league player of the year after splitting the season between Tampa and Trenton where he hit .341 with 3 home runs in 58 games. He was considered the Dodger's catcher of the future and had played 25 games in Dodger Blue this season batting .280 with 2 home runs and was considered expendable with the emergence of Russell Martin. Navarro recently spent a stint on the DL with a bone bruise in his wrist and when he was activated was optioned to AAA Las Vegas where his hitting .175 in 11 games.
Seo, 29 was traded to the Dodgers this past off-season after spending parts of the past 3 seasons with the Mets. This season he was 2-4 with a 5.78 ERA in 10 starts (19 appearances) with the Dodgers and had recently been demoted to the bullpen. Last season for the Mets he showed signs of brilliance, going 8-2 with a 2.59 ERA in 14 starts after a mid-season call-up.
As we stated earlier today, we understand the logic behind this trade. Both Hendrickson and Hall are arbitration eligible at the end of the season, which means the team will save $8-12 million in salary in 2007 that can be used to bring in one or two free agent pitchers. We are a bit concerned about the young pitching staff working without a veteran behind the plate. On the other hand, catcher is the one position where the Devil Rays lack a strong major league prospect. Trading for Navarro gives Tampa their starting catcher for the next 10 years. The addition of Seo makes the trade a more palatable. Seo has a bigger upside than Hendrickson although he has struggled this season. If Seo can rediscover his form from 2005, this deal could end up being a steal for the Rays.
As for the "player to be named later"…the Dodger's most likely gave the Devil Rays a list of 3-5 minor leaguers, and the Rays have a certain number of weeks to scout those players and determine which one they want. Look for this player to be a low-level minor leaguer with marginal major league potential.
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Annals of cheap: Don Don Down on Wednesday
We all know Japanese people prefer new stuff — new homes, new rice, new prime ministers every 12 months — which may explain why the used clothing business isn't as big here as it is in other countries. According to the Asahi Shimbun, 50 percent of discarded used clothing in America is recycled, either commercially or as contributions, and the portion in South Korea is 80 percent. In Japan, it's only 20 percent, meaning that the rest is simply trashed. But that may change with the advent of a new model for used clothing stores.
Don Don Up Co. Ltd., headquarted in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, opened its first used clothing store, called Don Don Down on Wednesday, in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, eight years ago. The company now commands a chain of 60 outlets nationwide, with more to come. Don Don, an onomatopoeic word expressing a process of steady progression, came up with an ingenious pricing system that not only saves the company overhead and personnel costs, but draws customers on a weekly basis by turning shopping into a "game," as its promotional literature puts it.
All the merchandise is affixed with price tags, but the tags don't display yen amounts. Instead they have pictures of fruits and vegetables, 10 in all. The pictures represent prices, which range from a high of ¥5,250 (i.e., ¥5,000 for the item plus 5 percent consumption tax) to a low of ¥105. These prices are listed on charts alongside their corresponding symbols and posted throughout the store. The price tag on a particular item never changes as long as it remains in the store.
The charts are changed weekly. For instance, this week, perhaps, all the strawberry items cost ¥5,250, but next week, all the remaining strawberry items will be priced at ¥4,200. Each week, the line of a particular fruit or vegetable goes down one pricing rank until it reaches ¥105. The following week all the items previously priced at ¥105 are removed from stock and exported to Southeast Asia in bulk, which means no item stays in the store for more than ten weeks. The weekly price changes take effect on Wednesdays, thus explaining the name of the store. Not surprisingly, that's the day they do their biggest business.
This system adds a touch of drama to the shopping experience. If a customer likes a particular item she can buy it right away or take a chance and wait til the following week when it's cheaper, but then she risks the possibility that someone else will buy it. The president of the company told Asahi, "I want our customers to enjoy shopping as if playing a game. I wanted to change the image of the used clothing store, which tends to be dark."
At first, the scheme was to try to replace the inventory as often as possible to keep people coming, but that meant changing price tags on a continuing basis to weed out unpopular items. It wasn't until management hit on the fixed price tag system that they figured a way to not only streamline operations but make the process interesting for consumers.
As for procuring merchandise, Don Don's method is similar to Book Off's, Japan's pioneer in used merchandise, which boasts 900 outlets. It bases the price it pays for a book on its condition and then places a seal on each volume that indicates how long is has been in the store. Every book that remains on the shelf for three months automatically gets reduced to ¥105.
When those don't sell, they're pulped. With the exception of some brand items, Don Don buys clothing from anyone by the kilogram: ¥500 for "very popular" items, ¥50 for "popular" items, and ¥10 for "useful" items. And they pay 50 percent more on Mondays and Thursdays. More significantly, they refuse very little that is wearable, since they can always sell it, again by the kilogram, to wholesalers in Southeast Asia. Just like produce.


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(The title sucks because I don't understand my problem well; I'm lost as to how I approach this. Hopefully the question is answerable!)
As an exercise to test and broaden my knowledge of OOP, I decided to make a bunch of objects pertaining to Dungeons and Dragons (knowledge of D&D won't be necessary for answering this question). The first thing I decided to start on was a spell. To simplify the spell for now, let's say it has three things: a name, school and subschool. The name is self-explanatory, so I'll skip that, however the school isn't. All you'll really need to know is that the "school" is similar to a "School of Thought", not institute for education. It can be thought of as a classification. Some (not all) of the schools have subschools, which are basically sub-classifications.
There's 8 schools, so I decided that enumeration would work great. The part that I am not sure how to approach is the subschools. Let's take a look at one of the schools: conjuration. Conjuration has it's own 5 subschools, which are unique to it.
I wish to create a class that holds the information for the spell. To start off, I have a String for the name, and an enum for the school. Here's what I have so far:
public class Spell { private String name; private School school; // TODO: Subschool } public enum School { ABJURATION("Abjuration"), CONJURATION("Conjuration"), DIVINATION("Divination"), ENCHANTMENT("Enchantment"), EVOCATION("Evocation"), ILLUSION("Illusion"), NECROMANCY("Necromancy"), TRANSMUTATION("Transmutation"); }
In the enumeration School, I have the 8 schools, and their names to make it easy to display in a program. The problem I am having is that I don't know what type I should use for my subschool.
An example of a use for this spell would be a program that creates a new spell. It has a textbox for the name, and a drop-down list for the school and subschool. By selecting one of the schools (such as conjuration), the second drop-down list should automatically update with the 5 different subschools of conjuration. I can then press a button and it will create a class with the name, school and subschool stored inside of it.
I don't actually need someone to write any code for me; all I am looking for is a high-level explanation of the relations for the fields, and if given the proper terminology, I should be able to research anything I don't know and write the code myself, although a coded example works too. Whichever is easier for you, works for me.


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Summoning an imaginative world of percussive rhythms, Mimmo Cafiero has influenced the jazz of Sicily for more than a quarter of a century.
A native of Palermo, Cafiero studied piano and sang in the chorus at the Conservatory Vincenzo Bellini from the age of 11. Teaching himself to play drums three years later, he began frequenting jam sessions, often attended by foreign jazz musicians including Ian Carr and Oliver Lake. As a member of vibraphonist Enzo Randisi's band from 1978 until 1981, he recorded two albums and toured in Spain. Accepting an invitation to join the 20-piece Brass Group Big Band in 1983, he had the opportunity to work with such guest directors as Mel Lewis, Sam Rivers, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Archie Shepp. Performing with the Reinhardt Jazz Study Orchestra in 1984 and recording with Rai Fonit Cetra in 1987, Cafiero moved to Rome, in 1988, to teach percussion at the school of music Lab 2. During the three years that he remained in Rome, he recorded two solo albums: I Go, shortly after his arrival, and Moon and Twenty Five, featuring guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, in 1990. Returning to Palermo in 1991, Cafiero accepted a teaching position at the Centro Studi Musicali of Sicilian Association Musica Insieme, and formed the Open Jazz Orchestra with Sicilian musicians. Cafiero has consistently worked to strengthen the status of jazz in Sicily. He served as president of the regional committee of the National Association of Jazz Musicians, in 1991, helping to coordinate the publication of the first catalog of Sicilian jazz and producing two CDs, The Sicilian Jazz Collection. A founder of the San Vito Jazz Festival, in 1993, he remains an artistic director of the annual fete.
In 1995 he recorded an impressive live album in Brussels with his tri, in 1996 toured Italy with the Joey Calderazzo Quartet and led his Open Jazz Orchestra on a tour of North America in 1999. The following year, he hosted several concerts by the Duke University Jazz Orchestra. Mimmo Cafiero recorded several records with some of the most important musician of the international jazz scene, performing with them in Europe & North America.


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I am using Matlab and Cogent to present visual stimuli. Normally I use the Mex-File Plug-in for Fast MATLAB Port I/O Access (http://sunburst.usd.edu/~schieber/psyc770/IO32.html) in order to synchronize my EEG-recordings with the presentation of stimuli. The stimulation-PC is connected via the Cedrus adapter board to the acquisition-PC. However, no triggers appear in the BrainVision Recorder. Now I am wondering whether the adapter board/ BrainVision is not compatible with this method of triggers, or whether there could be other reasons why it does not work?
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A couple of weeks ago, Ivy had a brief post about how she was trying to write a Home-Ec 101 post on getting your husband to help with the housework. It really is a conundrum of problem. Division of household duties is high on the list of problems that couples experience. I perused three Internet articles about it and while all three articles had good things to say and great advice to dole out. I still sat there wondering exactly how I could "get" David to help me out more with housework.
Housework has always been an issue between me and David. There has never been a time in our marriage, before or after children, that housework has not presented some sort of obstacle or hurdle for us to overcome. The only time in our relationship that housework has not been an issue was before marriage when we physically did not live under the same roof! It's ongoing struggle.
Through the years, though, I have learned a few things:
1. Nagging is bad, asking is good: There is a difference between nagging and asking. An on-line article from ParentCenter.com, "Ending the Chore Wars – how to get your mate to help on the home front" by Gail O'Connor, says this about nagging:
Be firm, but resist nagging. "Nagging isn't very assertive — it's humiliating to the person doing the nagging and annoying to the person being nagged,"
While I feel that I don't often nag, I do have a hard time asking. This is because from my perspective, requesting help with housework brings up two issues for me.
- The first one is that I don't want to feel like I'm his mother. I'm already the mother of two children and I "request" their assistance with things around the house on a daily basis. Whenever I ask for David's help, I often feel as though I'm having to "parent" him into helping me. However, I have learned (though I have a hard time internalizing it) that David does not hear my requests for help as being "mothered", he just wants to know what it is I want/need help with. I prefer him to ask me what I want done. To me that shows he not only cares about my needs and concerns but that he also cares about our home. But I now know, that if I really want his help, I must be the one to do the asking.
- The second is that it hurts my pride to admit needing help. In the deep, dark corners of my brain I want to be SuperMom/Wife. I want to be able to do it all and do it all very well. I'm the stay-at-home parent, I have ALL day to get these things done. I secretly fear that David is going to think of me as lazy or a slacker if I ask him to do something that I feel I could have/should have accomplished during the day.
2. Don't bribe with sexual favors: While it's true that women often feel more amorous towards their husbands if said husbands help pick up the slack around the house, it's never a good idea to bribe them with sex. (My comment at Ivy's, if you clicked on that link, was a joke y'all!) In the end, you'll both just feel manipulated. It cheapens that intimacy between you as a couple when you start using sex like currency.
3. Let him know you appreciate his help: I'm really bad about this one. The struggle in my head is twofold. I do a lot of thankless tasks around the house, why should he expect gratitude? But…how much would I like to be thanked for what I do? Women's FAQ Blog of Daily News, Articles and Media says this in their post entitled, "How to Get Your Husband to Help Around the House":
Clearly, when our husbands help us around the house, we can interpret that as a sign of love, which, in turn, helps us find them more attractive. But here's the catch. When our husbands help, they typically want to know that their work is appreciated. While we are likely to see their contribution as a natural part of their marital duty, they are more likely to see it as a special favor that they are doing for us. This can be a tough concept for liberated women like us to accept. (emphasis mine)
Basically, a little gratitude goes a long way.
4. Give him time to relax when he gets home from work: While I'm working all day at home doing "my job", he works ALL day at a very demanding job and when he gets home, he needs to relax. At PioneerThinking.com, Edel Jarboe writes an article called, "Sweat Equity" and says:
Don't launch into a list of things to do as soon as the your mate walks in the door. Give him time to unwind from one job before he has to tackle another one. In other words, take your mate's feelings into account. If he's just settled down to watch his favorite television show, he is not going to be too receptive to your cleaning requests.
I know it may sound obvious and and you're sitting there saying, "Well, Duh!" but I find that it easy to forget this small but important fact.
5. And finally the three "C's" of any good relationship – communication, communication, communication: Don't assume your husband can read your mind and know that the reason you're standing at the kitchen sink, heavily sighing every 30 seconds is because you think he should be the one doing the dishes. After all you cooked the meal, right? He should help with clean-up. Again from Edel Jarboe:
If your partner really is doing what he can around the house, ease up a little. Think about it. Wouldn't you rather spend the little time you have together pleasantly, rather than fighting about whose turn it is to unload the dishwasher? In other words, make sure you and your mate are clear about each other's housework expectations. This is the key to housework harmony.
Communicating about housework is not easy. In fact, as I've tried to write this post, David and I have been trying to communicate about it via instant messaging. We apparently have some really strong feelings about it and still, after almost twelve years of marriage, don't see eye to eye on the issue. I want to know if he's willing to help out, he wants to keep priorities straight.
I guess it will always be, "The Great Housework Debate" for us.
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Texas 13, D-Rays 7. Both teams left their pitching staffs at home. Before there were 6 outs in the game, the teams had combined for 9 runs. Before the D-Rays' pitchers had retired 12 Rangers, they had given up 13 runs. Seth McClung, who was staked to a 4-0 lead before he even took the mound, decided to thank the hitters for their generosity by blowing that lead before he returned to the dugout. McClung (1-3) continues to struggle as his ERA has ballooned to 10.90. A very telling quote from manager Joe Maddon as he stated the McClung "has got a lot to learn about pitching yet." His days in the rotation may be numbered. Scott Dunn wasn't much better as he gave up 4 runs in 1.2 innings to raise his ERA on the season to 8.22. Amazingly, the offense continues to produce, even without Aubrey Huff, Rocco Baldelli and Julio Lugo. Jonny Gomes picked up another RBI, and Ty Wiggington hit his seventh home run. Wiggington has been nothing short of amazing for the Rays as he has filled in for Huff. He and Gomes are tied for second in the
Toronto 7, Boston 6, 12 innings. The scoreboard says this was a victory for the Blue Jays, but it was anything but a win for
Baltimore 6, New York 5. Two of the biggest surprises in baseball. The Orioles got just enough offense to support Anna BensonÂs husband and improve their record to 11-7. The Yankees continue to struggle, especially with their starting pitching as they fall to 7-8 and last place in the AL East.


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Situated on the Rhineland Plain between the Black Forest , the Vosges mountains and the Palatinate Forest, Karlsruhe is a hub of science and technology, Germany's online capital and the home of the Federal Court of Justice. The city has always been just that little bit more liberal than most, allowing art and culture to flourish and creating an atmosphere of vitality.
Lifestyle, joie de vivre or lebensart – whatever you call it, Munich has it in spades. It might be down to the clear blue skies or simply the city's beauty, but one thing's for certain: the people of Munich always like to show their best side, whether they're in a beer garden, on one of the exclusive shopping streets, or in Bayern Munich's stadium.
Explore the far corners of the globe and return via Hamburg – travel itineraries don't get much better than that. Gateway to the world, beautiful seafaring hub, maritime capital of the north – even the normally reserved locals find it hard to conceal their pride in their home city, its ambience and its cosmopolitan charm.
Frankfurt is first and foremost a city of modernity. Business, architecture and Europe's third-largest airport – they're all here and they're all at the cutting edge. Perhaps that's why Frankfurt has grown a particular fondness for museums that vary greatly in terms of size, style and subject matter. The city prides itself on always staying ahead of the times, whilst preserving traditions at the same time.
What does Berlin have that other world cities don't? Well, first of all, there's the locals, whose rough yet friendly charm is all part of the Berlin experience. Add to that an incredible array of sights that reflect not only the city's newfound swagger but also its great history and the dramatic events of the 20th century.
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text: Today the librarian asked me if I work with people with dementia. I do not yet. I said I would be willing to take it on; however, I explained that I was not sure how effective that would be since they might not remember the suggestions. Guess what? I was wrong. A study done in Liverpool, England has shown that hypnosis was the most effective of all of the treatment choices studied. There is a program for it that I am investigating and perhaps soon I will get formal training in using hypnosis with clients with dementia!


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I woke up more than half an hour late this morning, so my AM started in a frenzy.
My wife is fine for now and there's a really long story to it but it's not something for here. I'll just say that I hate emergency rooms and leave it at that. I forgot to mention how awesome the ride was to the hospital on Friday. As you can imagine, my mind was somewhere else at the time... I rode 103rd street from Antioch to Quivira. 103rd has been under construction for the better part of a year, if not longer. In fact, all the way from Metcalf, 103rd is torn up. Just ask Warren.
Between Antioch and Quivira, though, there's a lot of bridge construction. Right now it's a 35 MPH zone, one lane each eay, but it was originally 2 lanes each way and 45 MPH. People are still rolling through at 60+. With that, I enjoyed riding in the construction lanes. This was actually a blast. 1' - 3' drops, 12-18" hops to make to get back up onto the concrete, lots of snowy mud, some really slick glare ice, and just about the most fun I've had on The Goat since my last singletrack ride in November. It was all the stuff I wish I could find in the urban core, but never do. I know it's here, though. I just can't find much of it. I guess there's Barney Allis Plaza but the cops would probably kick me out.
There was a bunch of other madness this weekend, and as such I didn't get a chance to scrub down my bike. My drivetrain was trashed this morning. I lubed it up to limp it along, but I'm going to need another chain -- SOON. I'm about due for a new cassette too, and I'm still on the OEM chainrings that are nearly a decade old - the middle one is worn, and the big ring has some damage from bottoming out on limestone at Shawnee Mission Park. I think I'll limp my bike along until spring, and save up my cash for a new crankset, chain, cassette and front derailleur -- maybe a new RD, too.
This morning: 25° and balmy. The roads were mostly dry, amazing since Saturday brought with it a bunch of snow. We're supposedly in for a temporary warm spurt today followed by another wave of arctic air. This has been the chilliest February in a very long time, and I'm just about sick of it.
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Monday, February 25, 2008
Case of the Mon-daze?
I woke up more than half an hour late this morning, so my AM started in a frenzy.
2 comments:
- Apertome said...
I'm glad to hear your wife is OK.
That sounds like some fun (but dangerous) urban riding. I can imagine the fun but I worry about construction sites -- you never know what might be lurking there.
My winter commuter is not in great shape right now either and I keep promising I'll clean/fix it up and do some upgrades once it's not my everyday bike anymore for a while. AND I just got a book on bicycle repair for my birthday so now maybe I'll be able to do some of that work myself.
Oh, and yeah, I'm definitely ready for spring -- this is getting old!
- February 25, 2008 10:45 AM
- amidnightrider said...
Good for your wife that things are getting normal again.
Winter riding is almost over, hang tough, it'll be 108 soon enough.
- February 26, 2008 7:28 AM
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Working with DateTime - Day 2 - Part 2
When working with Silverlight applications for the Windows Phone 7, you'll often need to work with a date and/or time. This video demonstrates how to work with the DateTime class and TimeSpan class to add dates, calculate differences in time, retrieve parts of a DateTime object, format for display, and more.
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So is your birthday Dec 7th or July 12th?
Rembmer, this is an international audience and your code would fail if the day of the month was greater than 12.
@John ... Yikes ... good point. I can't remember everything I did in this video (and I hate watching myself!!!) but depending on how I went about this, I would hope that my phone's location settings would iron this out magically for me. I may need to revisit this if I get a lot of negative feedback on it. Sorry about that!
HEY is something wrong with the WMV HQ FILE?! :|
sorry i had encountered a bug with my media player. :D
Some great methods there to use. I'm surprised by the vast amount of methods on offer and what they do, I can have fun with the date and time one but hoping it is intelligent enough to recognise if im using a date first rather than a month.
Cheers Bob.
@BobTabor. Loving the tutorial, thanks for the clear, descriptive videos.On the point about whether the phone's regional settings would sort out DateTime.Parse if it was entered dd/mm/yyyy instead of mm/dd/yyyy - you are right that the phone will do this. If anyone wants to try it you can do this in the Settings screen under Region and Language in the emulator. If you scroll down there is a System Locale setting. Just remember to hit the 'Tap here to save your changes' if you do change the option (for example I used United Kingdom). The emulator will restart, and save your settings - so just go back and revert if you want to change back.
thanks Bob
Hi Guys!
I'm wondering why my IDE not adds () to methods, if i choose them from auto completion.
For example:
I type myDateValue.
now i choose ToString from the auto-completion and it just adds "ToString" but not "ToString()" how I expected.
Its not really a big Problem but u know, developers are lazy ^^
Is there an option in VS to change that behavior?
Regards & Thanks


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The Queensland Productivity Commission (QPC) has conducted an inquiry into Manufacturing in Queensland to recommend ways to boost productivity and competitiveness of the sector, with a focus on opportunities to maximise existing advantages, improve weaknesses and take advantage of emerging domestic and international opportunities.
The QPC provided its final report to government in October 2017, making 17 recommendations on how to best support the manufacturing sector. The final report is available on the QPC website.
Key recommendations
The government has accepted the majority of the Commission's recommendations and provided its response to the final report ( 1.5 MB).
Many of the actions to deliver the recommendations will be incorporated into current government programs and activities. Most notably, the Commission's recommendations on Queensland's vocational education and training framework, government purchasing, electricity prices and removing barriers to gas supply are consistent with the objectives of established government programs.
Two of the initiatives have already been delivered, including appointing a dedicated minister for manufacturing who will be responsible for overseeing the government's manufacturing agenda. This delivers the Commission's recommendation for senior oversight and demonstrates the government's commitment to supporting the manufacturing sector. Guidance materials on the Queensland Procurement Policy and forward procurement pipelines for each of the government's six procurement categories have been published, delivering most of recommendation 13.
The government intends to work closely with the Ministerial Manufacturing Council to provide oversight and assist in implementing the actions in the government response. The council will be chaired by the Honourable Cameron Dick, Minister for State Development, Manufacturing, Industry and Planning and will provide critical intelligence on current industry focus and opportunities as well as expert advice on the effectiveness of the extensive range of programs and assistance available to the manufacturing sector.


text: Quotes on Submitting to God's Will Oléa Gough Words of Wisdom Wednesday January 16, 2019 1 Minute Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading... Related TaggedQuotesSubmitting to God's Will Published by Oléa Gough The things that give me the most joy in my life are my God, my husband, my children, and creating things that bring joy to others. God has blessed me with so many gifts and talents and I know He expects me to use them to bless the lives of others. On my journey with Him I have learned so much about His love and the peace and happiness He wants us to feel in life. I started the blog "Finding the Eye of the Storm" as a way to show my gratitude to Him and to hopefully use the things He has taught me to help others find that same peace and joy that is only available through the atonement of His Divine Son. Aside from this blog, I spend my days facilitating a Facebook scripture study group (Scripture Study 365) and designing and creating flannel board stories and downloads to help parents and teachers share their love for Jesus Christ and His teachings with the children they love. I also have a number of classic stories and songs for teachers in a traditional classroom. View all posts by Oléa Gough Published January 16, 2019


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Partisans divided over scandal fallout for NJ gov
TRENTON, N.J. -- Prominent Republicans leapt to GOP Gov. Chris Christie's defense on Sunday, insisting that an ongoing traffic scandal wouldn't ruin any presidential ambitions, while Democrats say it's difficult to believe such a hands-on manager knew nothing about a plan by a top aide to close lanes at a bridge into New York City.
Politicians from both sides of the aisle took to the Sunday talk shows to debate the fallout from the traffic jams near the George Washington Bridge in September and any role Christie may have played. Documents show Christie's aides appeared to engineer lane closures at the heavily traveled bridge to punish a Democratic mayor who failed to endorse his re-election bid.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told NBC's "Meet the Press" Christie could move past the scandal and still win support from primary voters in the 2016 presidential race.
He said Christie demonstrated leadership by holding a lengthy news conference Thursday to apologize for the scandal, the most serious challenge to his political career, and to disavow any knowledge of its planning.
"America's a forgiving people, but they're forgiving when you take ownership, you admit mistakes, you take corrective action, and that's what Chris Christie showed," Priebus said.
Christie said he was "embarrassed and humiliated" by the conduct of some of his staff, including top aide Bridget Anne Kelly, whom he fired after learning she gave the go-ahead to close the lanes. Christie said he was "blindsided" by the revelations, which he said he discovered when subpoenaed emails were released last week.
John Wisniewski, a New Jersey Democrat leading the legislative investigation into the traffic jams, told CBS' "Face the Nation" there's no evidence Christie was directly involved in the traffic tie-up. But he said the governor didn't have to know about the lane closures for them to be a crime.
"When you use the George Washington Bridge for what the emails show to be a political payback, that amounts to using public property for a private purpose or for a political purpose, and that's not legal," Wisniewski said.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Republican, said on ABC's "This Week" he found Christie's explanation "pretty darn credible" that he didn't know what members of his inner circle were up to while he was running for re-election.
"He was in campaign mode," Giuliani said. "You miss a lot of things. You're not paying as much attention."
Mark Sokolich, the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee whose town was clogged with traffic, said he wanted to believe Christie's staffers acted without his knowledge but was having a tough time buying it.
"Anything his name was even remotely involved in, he was involved in," said Sokolich, who met with Christie on Thursday, when the governor traveled to Fort Lee to apologize personally. The traffic delayed emergency vehicles and school buses and infuriated commuters in his town.
Sokolich, who had initially urged the governor to stay away, said afterward that the meeting was productive.
"I'm taking him at his word," he said Sunday. "There's just a lot of stuff there, though."
Fox News Sunday political analyst Juan Williams said the scandal gives wider berth to conservatives already wary of Christie for signing a bill lowering tuition costs for students in the country illegally and embracing President Barack Obama after Superstorm Sandy.
"Right now, it looks like there's a blockage on the long bridge to 2016 for Chris Christie," Williams said.


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Livan to make retirement official
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Coach and team ambassador Livan Hernandez is going to file his retirement papers on Thursday, officially ending his career as a player.
The last time Hernandez played in the Majors was 2012, with the Braves and Brewers. He rejoined the Nationals this January and participated in NatsFest, and this spring has been coaching Nationals pitchers.
"This is the right time to do it," Hernandez said. "I had a lot of stuff on my mind. I was going to wait for the right time."
Hernandez declined to say what he will be doing with the Nationals after Spring Training, as the two are still talking about his future; he is confident that the team will be successful this season.
"I already have plans to do some stuff. I'll let you know before Spring Training is over," he said. "I'm going to be very excited. I want to follow the team. I want to keep doing what I'm doing. It's going to be nice. This team has all the potential to be in the playoffs and a chance to win the World Series this year.
"We have starting pitchers, relievers, we have a power team, we have a fast team. We have to put it together [from the first day of the season]. You will be more comfortable when you get to September, where you have a five-, six-game lead, whatever. You don't want to be behind the first-place team."
Hernandez, 39, is one of the most popular pitchers in franchise history. He was a workhorse during his time with the Expos/Nats, often among the league leaders in innings, and was considered the leader of the staff. He also has the distinction of throwing the first pitch in Nationals history and making an All-Star appearance with the club in 2005.
The Nats dealt him to the D-backs before the non-waiver Trade Deadline in 2006; he returned in August 2009.
He played in the big leagues for 17 years and won 178 games. He is best remembered for being named World Series MVP in 1997, while with the Marlins, and for guiding the Giants and D-backs to the postseason in 2002 and 2007, respectively.
"I had a lot of fun," he said. "I love what I do now. I'll try to get better and teach the young kids about the game."