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Though it's not a true ceviche, since the scallops are already cooked when they hit the marinade, the classic combination of refreshing citrus acid from orange and lime juice, heat from jalapeño, crunch from cucumber, and sweetness from the scallops themselves becomes even more intriguing with the added layer of flavor from the grill. This is the perfect way to start off this menu, as the bold marinade stirs up the appetite for the substantial main course.
- Yield
- Makes 6 (first course) servings
- Active Time
- 30 min
- Total Time
- 1 1/2 hours
- 1 1/2 pounds large sea scallops (about 20), tough ligament removed from side of each if attached
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 navel orange
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 3/4 seedless cucumber (usually plastic-wrapped), halved lengthwise, cored, and thinly sliced (2 cups)
- 2 tablespoons thinly sliced shallot
- 1 to 2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh jalapeño chile, including seeds
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- Special Equipment
- 5 metal or wooden skewers (if using wooden, soak in water 30 minutes)
- Toss scallops with 1 tablespoon oil, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in a bowl, then thread 4 scallops onto each skewer.
- Prepare grill for direct-heat cooking over high heat.
- Oil grill rack, then grill scallops, covered only if using a gas grill, turning over once, until just cooked through, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a plate and cool slightly.
- While scallops cool, cut peel, including white pith, from orange with a sharp paring knife, then cut segments free from membranes. Coarsely chop enough segments to measure 1/4 cup and transfer to a large bowl (reserve remaining orange for another use). Stir in lime juice, cucumber, shallot, jalapeño (to taste), and remaining 2 tablespoons oil, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.
- When scallops are cool enough to handle, halve each crosswise (quarter if large), then add to cucumber mixture, tossing to combine. Marinate, covered and chilled, until cold, at least 1 hour. Just before serving, stir in cilantro.
Cooks' notes:
·If you're making the entire menu and using a charcoal grill, the coals will need to be replenished before you grill the steaks and peppers. Instead of grilling the scallops, you can cook them in a hot lightly oiled well-seasoned ridged grill pan, uncovered.
·Cooked scallops can be marinated up to 3 hours.
·Cooked scallops can be marinated up to 3 hours.


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The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended the law license of Randy Netzer, La Crosse, for 90 days, effective March 5, 2014. The court also ordered Netzer to pay the cost of the disciplinary proceeding and set conditions for Netzer's reinstatement, including a requirement that Netzer obtain a mental health evaluation demonstrating his fitness to practice law. See In re Disciplinary Proceedings Against Netzer, 2014 WI 7.
In September 2009, a woman terminated her relationship with Netzer and told him to not try to contact her. Netzer nonetheless sent an email and a postcard to the woman. After the woman contacted the police and claimed that Netzer was stalking her, police officers contacted Netzer and advised him to have no contact of any kind with the woman. When police officers found Netzer jogging near the woman one evening, they arrested him, and he was charged with felony stalking.
A court later issued a harassment injunction against Netzer. After the court issued the injunction, Netzer placed multiple "Happy/Sunshine" ads in a newspaper with personal notes to the woman. The ads violated the no-contact injunction, and as a result, additional charges were filed against Netzer. As part of the conditions of Netzer's release, Netzer was fitted with a GPS device so that police officers would know if he entered any prohibited areas. Netzer did enter such areas, resulting in a further charge of felony bail jumping.
In April 2011, Netzer pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of violating a harassment injunction. Felony counts of stalking and bail jumping were initially read in for sentencing purposes, but were, much later, entirely dismissed. By engaging in conduct leading to his conviction on misdemeanor counts for violating a harassment injunction, Netzer violated SCR 20:8.4(b), which states, "It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer's honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other respects."
Netzer had a prior private reprimand for similar conduct.
On Jan. 3, 2014, the supreme court suspended the law license of Steven T. Berman, Hillsboro, Ohio, for two years. In re Disciplinary Proceedings Against Berman, 2014 WI 2.
On April 12, 2013, Berman pleaded guilty to a felony, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. sections 1348, 1349, and 2. Following his conviction, Berman was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and one year of supervised release. United States v. Berman, CR No. 11-10415-NMG (D. Mass.).
By engaging in the conduct leading to his conviction, Berman violated SCR 20:8.4(b).
Berman had no prior discipline.
On Jan. 3, 2014, the supreme court suspended the Wisconsin law license of Christopher Stephen Petros for 90 days, as discipline reciprocal to a 90-day suspension imposed against Petros's Minnesota law license by the Minnesota Supreme Court in August 2013. In re Disciplinary Proceedings Against Petros, 2014 WI 1.
The Minnesota suspension arose out of Petros's violation of the Minnesota Rules of Professional Conduct (MRPC). Petros submitted false evidence and made false statements to the director of the Minnesota Office of Lawyer's Professional Responsibility; failed to notify a client about a hearing; lied to a court through an associate and failed to correct the misrepresentations he caused to be made to the court; failed to timely notify clients of their appeal rights and to tell them that he would not file appeals on their behalf; and failed to diligently pursue a client's case, communicate with that client, and timely return the client's property, in violation of MRPC 1.3, 1.4, 1.16(d), 3.3(a)(1), 8.1(a), and 8.4(c) and (d).
Petros had no prior discipline in Wisconsin.

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Western Digital My Net AC1300 full review
Western Digital entered the networking market in 2012 with an 802.11n router. The company has now delivered not only its first 802.11ac Draft 2.0 router--the My Net AC1300--but also its first 802.11ac bridge, the My Net AC Bridge (which we'll review separately). So what does a company that builds storage devices know about designing wireless networking hardware? Enough to deliver a light spanking to the best Wi-Fi router we've tested, the Asus RT-AC66U --at least on the 5GHz band. See also: Group test: what's the best wireless router?
But merely outperforming the RT-AC66U on a couple of benchmarks isn't enough to knock Asus's router out of our best-of-the-best ranking: Western Digital's router is speedy enough on the 5GHz frequency band, but it offers fewer features and services than the Asus product does. It also delivered considerably lower 802.11n performance on the 2.4GHz band.
Western Digital My Net AC1300: mediocre 802.11n performance
We suspect that the AC1300's mediocre 802.11n performance is due to WD's decision to use internal antennas in a horizontally oriented enclosure (it has no provisions for wall mounting). Asus remains one of the few router manufacturers to employ external dipole antennas that the user can position for maximum range and performance, and its router can stay horizontal on a stand or hang vertically on a wall. On the other hand, WD's router doesn't call much attention to itself, while Asus's screams "I'm a router!" We think performance trumps decor, but you might feel differently.
The AC1300 is easy to set up and doesn't require an installation disc; you simply log in to the router to see a graphical user interface with seven large icons arranged across the top. The interface doesn't look as slick as the one that Cisco provides with its EA6500 802.11ac router, but it is intuitive enough to figure out without your needing to resort to a user manual.
The router comes with WPA2 security preconfigured, with easy-to-remember passwords assigned to both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz radios (ours came from the factory with the password "19PinkTuna" assigned to both). You can, of course, change the factory-assigned SSIDs and passwords to whatever you like. The unit also supports Wi-Fi Protected Setup, which enables you to connect client devices by pushing buttons. You can operate guest networks on both frequency bands, but these are disabled by default and do not have preconfigured security.
Thanks to dual USB 2.0 ports, you can attach both a USB printer and a USB storage device to the AC1300 and share attached devices over the network. In addition to the typical UPnP server, WD also provides DLNA, iTunes, and FTP servers. The Asus RT-AC66U, however, delivers each of those features plus a SAMBA server, an integrated BitTorrent client, and a VPN pass-through for secure remote network access. And unlike Asus (with the RT-AC66U) or Cisco (with the Linksys EA6500), Western Digital offers no cloud-based features that enable you to access your network or your network-attached storage remotely.
Western Digital My Net AC1300: parental controls
The AC1300 is also weak in parental controls, although we're not big advocates of such technology in the first place; we believe that the better strategy is to talk to your kids about the seamy side of the Web, and then keep the family PC in a well-traveled room. If you don't think that strategy is adequate, you can program the AC1300 to block Internet access (on a per-client basis). You can also limit the number of hours that each device can access the Internet (with different schedules for weekends and weekdays), and you can block specific URLs (although you're limited to just eight). If you have a strong interest in parental controls, you'll be happier with a paid third-party service--such as OpenDNS--that will curate the Web for you.
We benchmarked the AC1300 alongside both the Asus RT-AC66U (our reference-point router) and Cisco's Linksys EA6500 router. The WD device lagged the Asus significantly on the 2.4GHz band (we paired the routers with the Intel Ultimate-N Centrino 6300 adapter integrated into an AVADirect gaming laptop), but its performance was on a par with that of the Linksys device. When we measured 802.11ac performance on the 5GHz band using the Linksys WUMC710 802.11ac bridge, however, the AC1300 pulled out wins at all three of our test locations (at distances of 9, 35, and 65 feet, respectively). The AC1300 performed even better when we paired it with WD's own 802.11ac bridge (the RT-AC66U also did better with this bridge--particularly at a long distance).
Western Digital My Net AC1300: NAS
When we turned our attention to performance with network-attached storage (we connected a 500GB Western Digital My Passport drive to the router) and hardwired the client, the AC1300 fell significantly behind the Asus and Linksys routers when reading a single large file from the drive; it took second place, though, when writing that same large file, as well as when reading and writing a batch of small files to and from the attached USB drive. The Asus router dominated the field in all four of these benchmarks.
Western Digital is a newcomer to wireless networking, but the company has made an impressive entrance. Although the Asus RT-AC66U remains our top pick in this category, WD's My Net AC1300 is a strong contender--especially for people with less experience setting up a wireless network.
Western Digital My Net AC1300: Specs
- WD My Net AC1300 - wireless router - 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac - desktop
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- Frequency Band: 2.4GHz, 5GHz
- Data Transfer Rate: 1300Mbps
- IPv6 support, Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) support, Quality of Service (QoS), Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS), UPnP Media Server, DLNA Media Server, FasTrack technology
- IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11g, Wi-Fi CERTIFIED, USB 2.0, IEEE 802.11n, UPnP, IEEE 802.11ac
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Open letter to Gov. Rauner from the Stateville Debate Team
Dear Gov. Rauner: We, the Stateville Debate Team, write this letter to implore you to reverse Assistant Director Gladyse Taylor's (and thus the IDOC's) unjustified decision to terminate the Stateville Debate Team and class and reverse the unjustified ban of our teacher, Katrina Burlet, from Stateville Correctional Center and other IDOC (Illinois Department of Corrections) facilities.


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Visualizing the imprints of past and present Earth dynamics
New Lithosphere articles posted online 16 May 2012 report on (1) seismic anisotropy measured beneath 14 broadband stations in southeastern India; (2) why geoscientists should persist in their efforts to reach and study such spectacular sub-sea geologic features as the Mariana Trench (recently explored by film director James Cameron) and how "land geologists" can help this effort by studying on-land equivalents like ophiolites; and (3) pressures and melting temperatures of sediments deeply buried in Earth's mantle.
Seismic anisotropy beneath the eastern Dharwar Craton Sunil Kumar Roy et al., National Geophysical Research Institute, Seismic Hazard Group, Hyderabad 500007, India. Posted online 16 May 2012; doi: 10.1130/L198.1.
Seismic anisotropy is an intrinsic property of the Earth that imparts a directional dependence to the velocity of elastic waves and carries imprints of past and present deformation. Due to this phenomenon, a shear wave passing through an anisotropic medium gets polarized in a particular direction and splits into two orthogonal waves, with one wave traveling faster than the other. Analysis of the nature and difference in the arrival times of the fast and slow waves registered at a seismic station enables Sunil Kumar Roy and colleagues to parameterize anisotropy in terms of the delay time and fast polarization direction. They estimate the nature of anisotropy beneath 14 broadband stations in southeastern India, utilizing the core refracted (SKS, SKKS) and direct S waves to obtain a total of 113 high-quality measurements of delay time and fast polarization direction. The delay time between the fast and slow axes tend to cluster around 0.8 s, slightly lower than that observed globally for continental shield regions (~1 s). The fast directions at a majority of stations are in accordance with the present-day motion of the Indian plate, suggesting that the shear at the base of the Indian lithosphere is the primary cause of anisotropy. Interestingly, this study also brings out the effect of anisotropy frozen in the lithosphere due to past tectonic episodes. For example, stations in the vicinity of the east coast of India reveal a coast parallel trend, suggesting that anisotropy in the underlying medium may be the imprint of continental rifting that separated India from the rest of Gondwana.
To understand subduction initiation, study forearc crust: To understand forearc crust, study ophiolites R.J. Stern et al., Geosciences Dept., The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75083-0688, USA. Posted online 16 May 2012; doi: 10.1130/L183.1.
Subduction is the process by which seafloor (oceanic crust and upper mantle) is returned to Earth's interior. Subduction is what powers the plates and thus may be the most important solid Earth process. Subduction results in spectacular geologic features, including "island arc" volcanoes like those of the U.S. Cascades and trenches like the Mariana Trench, which has recently been explored by film director James Cameron. As a result of studying many convergent plate margins around the world, geoscientists have a good understanding of how mature subduction zones operate but know far less about how new subduction zones form. In this paper, R.J. Stern and colleagues emphasize the importance of studying the igneous rocks of the ~100-mile-wide "forearc" region, which lies between the arc volcanoes and the trench, for understanding how new subduction zones are generated. Forearc igneous rocks preserve an outstanding record of how new subduction zones form, but direct study is difficult because forearcs are buried beneath younger sediments and often lie in the deepest parts of the ocean, where deep-sea studies require expensive research vessels and submersibles. This article explores why geoscientists must continue to study in situ forearcs and how land geologists can help this effort by studying on-land equivalents of forearc crust known as "ophiolites." Ophiolites are found on all continents, and they are important targets for geoscientific study because they present an opportunity for better understanding of the composition and origin of forearc crust and how new subduction zones form.
Melting of metasedimentary Rocks at Ultrahigh Pressure — Insights from Experiments and Thermodynamic Calculations H.-J. Massonne and T. Fockenberg, Institut für Mineralogie und Kristallchemie, Universität Stuttgart, Azenbergstrasse 18, D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany. Posted online 16 May 2012; doi: 10.1130/L185.1.
H.-J. Massonne and T. Fockenberg use high pressure experiments at temperatures of 950 to 1400 degrees Celsius to simulate the melting of sediments deeply buried into Earth's mantle by geodynamic processes. Experimental pressures were at and above 3 GPa (greater than or equal to 100 km Earth depths). Temperatures close to 1000 and 1100 degrees Celsius at 3 GPa and 5 GPa, respectively, were sufficient to produce initial melts from the selected rocks. At a temperature of about 350 degrees Celsius above these temperatures, the rocks were completely molten. In addition, the melting was modeled by complex calculations using thermodynamic data for minerals and melt. Both methods resulted in initial melt compositions rich in water and potassium. With rising temperatures the melts become granitic with garnet plus coesite plus or minus kyanite as remaining solid phases. The new data were applied to natural diamondiferous rocks with sedimentary whole-rock compositions from the Erzgebirge in central Europe and the Kokchetav Massif in northern Kazakhstan. According to previously reported microfabrics etc. of these rocks, pointing to their partial melting and crystallization of diamond from the melt, the rocks would have been as hot as 1400 degrees Celsius (Erzgebirge) and 1200 degrees Celsius (Kokchetav Massif) once, probably at pressures of around 7 GPa. Furthermore, Massonne and Fockenberg conclude that granitic melts could also have been produced in deep mantle regions and not exclusively in lower portions of Earth's crust in the past.
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Dysfunction on a school board or in a superintendent's office or at the state level impacts what goes on in the classroom, but the quality of teachers is what matters most, and the principal of a school is charged with ensuring that quality. Sometimes it seems that a principal's load is simply too great to attend to some crucial aspects of the job – immediate crises of all kinds demand the attention that should be devoted to ensuring teacher growth.
Yet teachers need to talk with each other if they are to grow. Principals need to make a priority of regularly gathering teachers together in varying configurations for clear purposes – curriculum development, monitoring student progress, conducting internal research, discussing the connection between daily work and the end purpose of education. These kinds of meetings encourage teachers to grow. If a principal neglects this central part of the work then teacher quality will gradually decline.
Teachers need the stimulation of meaningful collegial work to become the best they can be. In too many schools teachers are left to work behind closed doors and when they do come together it is for brief, rushed meetings. To begin with, scheduling time for these meetings is vital, and this is the time of year when school leaders should begin thinking about scheduling for next year. You can't effectively address issues of curriculum, student growth, and best practice if care is not taken to carve out time in the schedule for these conversations.
School boards and central administration should work on policies that help principals create time for structured, focused dialogue between members of the educational staff. In schools where principals find it impossible to work out a schedule that includes this time they should ask for help from others. Similarly, if they are unable to attend to creating the agendas for the meetings then they should delegate this work to others. Ideally an assistant principal would be charged with developing this aspect of ensuring teacher quality.


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MSU Over UConn
I must give credit where credit is due. First, to Raymar Morgan who played the type of game the Spartans needed to get by UConn. Morgan played a total of thirty minutes and had 18 points, 9 rebounds and five steals. He was able to contribute because he was aggressive, but managed to stay out of foul trouble.
Second, to Tom Izzo who did it again. I don't think be people are going to over look or underestimate him any more. He always has his team prepared and playing their best basketball when the games count the most.
Michigan was aggressive on both ends of the court and UConn was not able to get many easy shots. The Huskies back court players shot 8-for-29 from the field and struggle to get any offensive going until the last minutes of the game.
Three key stats tat tell the whole story.
- Assist totals for the game. UConn: 8, MSU: 18.
- Steal totals for the game. UConn 5, MSU: 11.
- While UConn went to the foul-line 33 times (13 more times then MSU), they only managed to shot 63.6%
It seemed as though UConn had forgot that they had a massive height advantage on the post and was content to force one-on-one action that rarely lead to a made field goal.
Michigan State did not shot a great deal better, they did get most of their shots in half court sets or fast breaks. The latter seemed to be surprising for Jim Calhoun's team, I guess the expected a half court grind-fest instead of a track meet.
Even with Goran Suton not playing a great game, it was the type of game the Spartans needed to play to win the game, tough defense, strong rebounding, and Raymar Morgan finally played with a purpose.
I forgot to mention that Kalin Lucas is the man.
Moment of Self Promotion: My predited score was off only with the MSU score, and by only 4 points. I was on target with UConn.


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Where's the love for the Lady Titans in the state finals? I don't think it can be understated, even with us barely making it down to D3, how big of a deal this is for the Lady Titans to break through the vaunted I-71 soccer corridor & get to the state finals. Although soccer probably never will catch up with the major sports & hasn't caught on big in this area, & really won't probably get more popular until the next generation when more moms & dads have played it, I would put this up there, accomplishment-wise, with the boys hoops team making it to state in the 1970's (in other words, back when it was a big accomplishment with only three divisions & much better teams overall, & don't even get me started on the watered-down 7 divisions in the "other football", that's another topic line entirely). The I-71-area schools statewide that play club soccer all year long probably took our ladies for granted, but now they know better. Leave it all out there tomorrow night, ladies. Whoever the first boys team from our area is to make it this far can use you forever now as examples of how to compete with the year-round soccer programs, so good luck ladies!
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They might've lost tonight but I'm very proud to have gotten to cover those young ladies and see their growth as a team this season.......hell of a season ladies, hold your heads high you still did something no Putnam County girls team had done before.....get to the state finals in soccer.
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Banks, Telcos to Decide on Wallet PhonesBy Reuters - Print
Technology for paying with mobile phones by just flashing them near reading equipment in stores or in public transport is ready, and consumers have appreciated the ease of its use in trials around the world. The world's biggest payment card company, Mastercard, will unveil a service for banks, enabling them to install payment cards into clients mobile phones much easier than earlier, possibly breaking the deadlock over the market takeoff.
HELSINKI (Reuters) - The potentially lucrative business of mobile phone wallets is waiting for banks and telecom operators to agree on each one's role and possible revenue flow in the future.
Technology for paying with mobile phones by just flashing them near reading equipment in stores or in public transport is ready, and consumers have appreciated the ease of its use in trials around the world.
The world's biggest payment card company, Mastercard, will unveil on Thursday a service for banks, enabling them to install payment cards into clients mobile phones much easier than earlier, possibly breaking the deadlock over the market takeoff.
"We are talking to serious banks ... and not about trials, but about commercial launches," said James Anderson, a Vice President at Mastercard's mobile business.
Anderson said that during the next two years he expects to see substantial activity from retail-focused banks, whose plans to develop mobile payment services have been little affected by the financial crisis.
"We have not seen a lot of impact," Anderson said.
It would still take at least until 2010 before any wider availability of phones equipped with such technology and the financial industry and telecom operators would need to agree on some kind of revenue and role split.
"Traditional financial industry met telcos by going mobile. Now telecom operators want to play a part in that chain. These talks are well under way," Gerhard Romen, Director for Strategic Alliances & Partnering at Nokia, told Reuters.
"Now it's like the Olympics, everyone is on their starting blocks, and just waiting," he said.
Consumers will be able to use a phone as a wallet or as an access card simply by waving it over a wireless reader, and in some cases punching a PIN number into the phone -- similar to how travelers in Tokyo and London access public transport.
"It's not the payments driving it, it's the convenience and simplicity for the user," said Nokia's Romen.
Mastercard's new service could help deal with some of the problems facing the industry, but analysts said there was more to be done.
"A lot of pieces are yet to be fit in and some of them are out of control of the financial community," said Ed Kountz, analyst at Jupiter Research, adding that lack of availability
of wallet-phones was also holding back the market.
World No. 1 phone maker Nokia has introduced four products using the technology, called Near Field Communication (NFC), and also other handset vendors are ready to roll out such phones on notice, industry executives said.
ABI Research has forecast 6.5 million NFC phones would be sold this year, up 10-fold from 2007, but the growth is hampered by costs stemming from low volumes and an extra chip needed in phones for data security.
"Lack of handsets is a symptom of a business model problem, not the cause of it. Handset makers are comfortable with the technology and if people are starting to order them the vendors are going to make them," said Mastercard's Anderson.
Last year Nokia and large European and Asian carriers -- including KPN, Maxis Communications Bhd, O2, Orange, SingTel, SKT and Wind -- joined 14 mobile operators that initiated the project for common NFC technology earlier.
MasterCard is also involved in the initiative, which is cheaper and much faster than other wireless payment experiments, like those using SMS text messages.
China Mobile, Vodafone, Cingular -- owned by AT&T Inc and BellSouth Corp -- and Telefonica already support the common wireless chip format on the mobile phones they distribute for their networks.
Together with chip makers NXP and Sony, which pioneered the contactless NFC chip, companies plan a global standard for electronic wallets in mobile phones.
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A vehicle crashed into gas pumps at the 76 gas station and ignited into flames after it collided with another vehicle on Kirkland's Finn Hill, just outside of Kenmore Friday afternoon.
Kirkland, Northshore and Bothell firefighters responded to the motor vehicle accident that happened around 3:30 p.m. at 14106 Juanita Drive N.E., near the Kenmore/Kirkland boundary.
"They collided with each other just as the light changed," said Tim Carpenter, a corporal with the Kirkland Police Department, noting the BMW was traveling westbound when it collided with a Toyota 4Runner heading northbound. The BMW, which was struck on the left side, continued on and collided with a big rock underneath the 76 sign, said Carpenter.
The Toyota then crashed into gas pumps, knocking one set of gas pumps on its side, he said. The vehicle caught fire, which spread to the 76 building.
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A preview of Swift's "Eyes Wide Open" has since surfaced online, and while the audio only gives us one minute to work with, just pretend you're a pop-culture-starved citizen of District 12, and be thankful you didn't have to sign up for any tesserae to score it.
In just one minute, we have enough to suggest Swift is singing from the perspective of Hunger Games contender Katniss Everdeen. "Everybody's waiting/ Everybody's watching/ Even when you're sleeping/ Keep your eyes open/ The tricky thing is/ Yesterday we were just/ Children playing soldiers/ Just pretending/ Dreaming dreams with happy endings," Swift sings, evoking our heroine's mindset as she enters the movie's tournament of teen murder.
But the real reveal to be found in this sneak peek isn't in the lyrics. We'll have to hear the chorus to be sure, but "Eyes Wide Open" has the crashing guitars and vocal melodrama of a power ballad. Apparently Swift has been logging time in the Hunger Games Training Center with some Evanescence records.
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The Houston Dynamo fell to the Columbus Crew, 2-0, on Wednesday night in Ohio. Here is a look at the milestones reached by Dynamo players in the midweek game:
- Wednesday was Adam Moffat's 25th regular season game of the season, a new career-high. Moffat has also started 23 games this season and will set a career-high for regular season starts with his next, surpassing his mark set in 2010 with Columbus.
- It was Corey Ashe's 164th career start in all competitions with the Dynamo to pass Brian Mullan for fifth on the franchise list. Ashe could tie teammate Ricardo Clark for fourth on the list with his next start. Both Ashe and Clark are pursuing Pat Onstad, who is third on the list (170 starts).
- It was Bobby Boswell's 169th career regular season game with Houston to pass Brian Ching for third on the club list. Boswell trails Brad Davis (209 games) and Ashe (184) on the club's regular season games list.
- It was Brad Davis' 306th career regular season game. He passed Ramiro Corrales and Jason Kreis and is now tied with Cobi Jones for 19th on the all-time MLS list. Davis' next target is Mike Petke, who coincidentally will be on the sideline on Sunday as the head coach of the New York Red Bulls.
- It was Tally Hall's 98th career regular season start to tie Wade Barrett for 10th on the franchise list.
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The Arizona Cardinals are currently 2-2 and tied atop the NFC West with the St. Louis Rams and the Seattle Seahawks, but their record is rather misleading. Their two victories have been by a combined total of 4 points over the Raiders and Rams. Their two losses on the other hand were by a total of 82-17 against the Falcons and Chargers. When they win, it's barely and when they lose, they lose.
Rookie Max Hall will be stepping in for Derek Anderson at quarterback and getting his first career start in the NFL. Some may think that is rather unfair of the Cardinals' coaching staff to give this undrafted rookie his first start against the defending Super Bowl champions, but maybe it's not. The Saints have a decimated defensive secondary right now due to injuries taking players down left and right. Chris Reis is gone. Tracy Porter is out 2-4 weeks. It's unknown just how much Pierson Prioleau and Roman Harper will play. Now will the Cardinals be able to take advantage of this defensive hole for the Saints?
That's why Arizona Cardinals Examiner Scott Jones and myself passed questions along to one another this week to see what our thoughts are on Sunday's game. Later on look for a link to his article with my answers to his questions. Below you'll find his answers to mine and see that he isn't too high on his Cardinals' chances.
Danny Cox: Max Hall took over for the extremely inconsistent Derek Anderson last week, are there now second thoughts swirling through Arizona as to the giving away of Matt Leinart?
Scott Jones: Wednesday, the Cardinals named Max Hall the starter for the game with the Saints. Many people have praised the former BYU quarterback who signed with the Cardinals as a free agent - this includes his Uncle, Danny White (yes, the former Cowboys quarterback). But is he the answer? Too soon to tell. Did the Cardinals need to waive Matt Leinart? Maybe in hindsight that was a bit rash, but if they saw Max Hall as a potential solution, things start to make sense.
The Cardinals problems go WAY beyond who starts at quarterback. I think that having Kurt Warner under center spoiled Arizona fans and gave a false impression of what this team has to offer. The Cardinals are currently 31st in the league in total offense. The team can't pass the ball and frankly, has not tried consistently to actually run the ball. Earlier this week, Beanie Wells spoke up about his not being used, and many Cardinal insiders agree with him. Watch for Arizona to make a solid attempt to run the ball against the Saints this week.
DC: Last week the Cardinals took a 41-10 beating at the hands of Philip Rivers and the Chargers. The Saints' offense hasn't been nearly as potent or explosive this season (so far at least); in what ways can Arizona's defense keep Drew Brees and the Saints from finding their rhythm?
SJ: Coach Ken Whisenhunt has often talked about wanting to control the game by effectively running the ball. This is the BEST way to control a high-performance offense like the Saints - keep them off the field. Of course, that's easier said than done. The Cardinals have two good (not All-Pro, but good) backs in Wells and Tim Hightower. Given the team's issues with a rookie quarterback, a simple alternative would be to pound the ball as often as possible and keep the passing to a minimum. Will they try to throw, yes! With Larry Fitzgerald out there, he's too good a talent to not incorporate into a game plan. But will young Max Hall drop back on every play, not likely (unless the team is down 28-7 in the first half like they were against the Chargers).
DC: Beanie Wells has openly announced his displeasure in just about everything going on with the team, could this possibly cause a rift that tears the Cardinals apart?
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This is common and EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ADVICE for Orthodox, seemingly paradoxical considering all the talk about Uncreated Light, angels, theophanies, visions, etc. "Even the devil can appear as an angel of light" (2 Corinthians 11:14). We're even supposed to avoid visualization-meditation of any kind, which he can make use of. And if we do see some apparition, we're not to trust it or obey it, but consult our spiritual parent or priest or bishop. This is not the same as Western skepticism toward "private revelation" or needing to get "ecclesiastical approval." It's checking your experience with someone who traditionally knew from his or her own confirmed experiences and Divine Gift how to "discern spirits." The reason for this is how easily we can delude ourselves regarding spiritual things, in severe form known by the Slavonic word prelest, in Greek plani. And it's dangerous because we can be spiritually mis-led and imperil our salvation. Holy Tradition is full of stories of the greatest Saints and Fathers of the Church who were temporarily deceived or even deluded.
All we do, then, is struggle with life on the Orthodox Way, in The Orthodox Church if available, aided by God's Energies and an Orthodox spiritual parent. Purification, period. Illumination and Glorification / Theosis are in God's hands and Mercy and Love.
If that doesn't sound like much, remember this(!), and the great Saint or Father who, as he lay dying in the Monastery, had his brethren around him. They saw his lips moving, though they couldn't hear what he was saying, so they asked him. He said he was seeing an angel, and asking for more time to repent. They were incredulous: 'If anyone has purified himself of all his sins and readied himself for God's Glory, it's you.' But he countered, "I'm not sure I have even begun to repent." This isn't "poor self-image;" even my Latin novice-master told us, "The closer you get to the sun, the more cobwebs you see." Hence Orthodox prayer asks God 'merely' to help us "make a good start."


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2011-12: Accumulated a 7-11 overall singles record, and a 9-9 overall doubles record... was 2-0 in A-Sun singles play, as well as 4-1 against A-Sun doubles competition... defeated nationally ranked No. 101 Campbell Johnson of then-No. 4 Georgia 3-6, 6-3, 1-0 (11-9) in dual play... won his two A-Sun singles matches in straight sets against Elbert Beekman of Mercer and Alexander Pena of Kennesaw State... earned A-Sun All-Academic honors.
2010-11: In his first season at ETSU, Varon went 12-12 in singles competition with a 5-6 dual match record and 3-2 record in A-Sun play... went 0-1 at the No. 4 position, 2-1 at the No. 5 slot and 3-4 when playing at No. 6... finished the year on a three-match winnning streak... went 7-4 through doubles play... helped ETSU defeat then No.50 Binghamton with a 6-2, 6-1 victory against Bastian Bornkessel (Jan. 28)... earned his first Atlantic Sun singles victory with a 6-2, 6-0 win over FGCU's Mitchell Lvovsky... earned A-Sun All-Academic Team honors.
Prior to ETSU: Attended Calasanctius College…Was ranked the No. 1 player in Venezuela at the under-14, under-16, and under-18 age groups... was ranked No. 107 in the ITF under-18 rankings... also earned a No. 1251 ATP world ranking... represented Venezuela in the South American Games for the under-14 and under-16 age divisions... reached the finals of the Gerdau Cup in doubles.
Personal: Was born on April 7, 1991... majoring in business... son of Jorge Varon and Olga LuciaHonors-2012 A-Sun All-Academic Team-2011 A-Sun All-Academic Team


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In every business - from manufacturing to service - there has always been a tension between finance and the rest of management. No surprises there - accountants are the folks who so often have to say the word 'no'.
In creative businesses - where the major business asset tends to be a select number of creative individuals - this tension can often become palpable.
Why? Well simply put; 100% of the best creative enterprises are headed up by Creative individuals, and 100% of all Creatives do not like the sound of the word 'no'.
This is nothing new - Pre Raphaelite William Morris doubtless had trouble dealing with his accountants. I say this with a degree of certainty because, despite his creative brilliance, his design company eventually went into liquidation.
And there's the rub.
If accountants are unable to get genuinely involved in creative businesses - just how are those businesses able to generate that virtuous circle - of turning creative brilliance into an acceptable commercial return?
This is what the circle looks like…
It is clear that commercially minded accountants need to get involved and have some influence on the fee negotiation, job fulfilment, pay and reward schemes, plus winning business stages, to make this circle work.
The barrier that prevents this always happening is more than just the Creatives dislike for the word no.
It's a personality clash - and this time it's not just down to the accountants having a default setting set to anal.
If you Google 'creative types' you come up with a list of personality traits to describe creatives. "Energetic", "passionate", "bold", "intense", "likes challenges" and "sensitive"… For the typical accountant this represents a foreboding list.
The feeling's mutual - it's obvious that most creatives will not willingly choose to spend inordinate amounts of time with a person obsessing about late timesheets.
So what then does any accountant have to do in order to improve their opportunities to have more influence over the creative business they work in? How can they be that force for good rather than mild disdain?
- Be genuinely curious. Accountants need to take an active and sincere interest in the work their agency does - and specifically the work of the creative they are trying to relate to. It sounds obvious but so often doesn't happen. If you really engage with a creative's work, the chances of a dialogue will be far higher.
- Understand their creative pressures. Creatives are under constant pressure to deliver creativity, to ever demanding clients. So investing money that helps creatives to deliver better always pays dividends.
- Choose your moments. Deadlines are a daily thing for them - quite unlike the monthly P&L or quarterly VAT return. That means being thoughtful about when to ask for information or communicating something to them. Don't ask for those overdue expenses when they are heads down with copy or just about to go into a major presentation.
- It means keeping initial conversations brief as possible. I always feel I get more quality attention when I have prefaced a conversation with "this will only take 60 seconds…"
- Talk their language if the word 'credit', 'debit' or 'accrual' slips out of your lips - you have failed.
- Show the reward ("strong in them is self interest " as Yoda would probably put it).
- No is not an option. Never uttering it will transform your relationships. This is the area you have to be really creative.
Here are a couple of examples of applying some influence - rather than none at all.
Never say no
Once at EMI Music, I had a promo guy who fancied a trip to Brazil to promote a band in his roster, which was within his budgetary right. My suspicion was this was more about visiting his Brazilian girlfriend and less about promoting his band.
When he put it to me I simply said: " That sounds a good idea - do you know that to recover the cost of the trip your band would have to sell at least X more albums?" I followed this up with: "I'll leave it up to you to decide if that is a good investment of time and money".
My reward? He decided to forgo the trip.
The invisible accountant
You really know that your influence is real and present, when the creative director excitedly walks into your office after a client meeting and tells you: "You would have been really proud of me Mano…" They then go tell you how they not only secured more design work in this meeting, but also agreed a very decent fee as well.
My reward? Job well done and I hadn't even left my desk.
So to all you accountants in creative businesses - adopt these lessons and this Christmas, you'll find those quixotic creatives sidling up to you at the party - rather than the other way around…
Mano Manoharan, business consultant


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Home care challenge: retaining workers, keeping costs low
Debbie Hardy, a home health care aide, is the reason that Frank Geraldino, 48, a paraplegic, is able to live in his Seymour apartment - rather than in a nursing facility.
Hardy, of Ansonia, is an independent worker providing in-home personal care services, such as bathing and feeding, for people with serious disability. Medicaid covers the bill, but the patients are technically the employers, hiring and scheduling their own in-home care.
More than 6,000 personal care workers are listed on various registries as providing in-home care services. The lists include home health aides, who are trained and licensed as certified nursing assistants, and personal care assistants, who are not licensed.
The state projects a need for another 9,000 to 10,000 of these workers in the next four years as Connecticut attempts to cut skyrocketing Medicaid costs by moving people from health care facilities back to their homes.
The state received a $56 million Money Follows the Person federal grant to support the policy change. Community care is about a quarter of the cost of institutional care, according to the National Council on Disability. So far 1,636 people have transitioned from health care institutions to in-home care under the program. The long-term goal is to transition 5,000 residents by 2016.
The state last year passed a law allowing these independent care workers to unionize. They are now paid an average of $11.55 an hour and receive no benefits.
"You have to have a heart to do this type of work, because there really is no money in it," said Hardy.
Workers like Hardy would be more likely to stay in the field if it paid better and provided benefits, said Deborah Chernoff, of the New England Health Care Employees Union (NEHCEU). When NEHCEU surveyed workers, their top three priorities (in order) were health benefits, paid sick time and increased hours.
Any contract would need to be negotiated with the state and approved by the General Assembly. Negotiations have not yet begun.
State House Speaker Brendan Sharkey, D- Hamden, supported giving home care workers collective bargaining rights, in hopes that better compensation would raise standards in the profession. He was frustrated when he tried to hire people to help him care for his own mother. "They turned out to be completely unskilled ... really not equipped to take care of someone who had experienced signs of dementia," Sharkey said.
Workers pledged to use a contract to raise the standards of their profession. Chernoff said that she could envision a basic level of training that would allow people to go on for additional qualifications in areas like dementia or behavioral health. "There are lots of possibilities that would give people some specialized training," she said.
Yet Chernoff admits that getting a contract through the legislature will be difficult as the state faces a budget deficit.
Sharkey said it is important to balance increased costs for home care workers with greater savings achieved by moving people out of institutions. "This is an area where I think the state can be pennywise and pound-foolish," he said.
Catherine Ludlum, a Manchester resident who has used aides for 25 years, opposed unionization. "The state is bankrupt, in case people hadn't noticed," said Ludlum. She worries that a rise in compensation might lead to a cutback in services. Ludlum does not believe that pay is a barrier to recruiting workers. "Lot's of places are paying minimum wage (for) doing work that's less rewarding," she said.
Most patients enjoy a better quality of life when they leave institutional care, according to a recent University of Connecticut report on Money Follows the Person.
That's been true for Geraldino. "I didn't like the nursing home. I was the only young one there," he said.
Geraldino's life changed suddenly 10 years ago, when the lineman fell 45 feet to the ground from a telephone pole. "That's what they tell me. I don't remember," said Geraldino.
Geraldino spends his time in bed, where he watches television, surfs the Internet and listens to the rock 'n roll he loves. His tiny unit is filled with trophies and team pictures, including the 1980 Seymour Wildcats, state champions in football. Geraldino played defensive end and safety.
As Hardy bustled around his apartment to fix breakfast and shave Geraldino, the two joked and made small talk. "I'm close with all (my aides). They take good care of me," he said.
Hardy, however, recently left Geraldino's employ, only to return after he'd had some health setbacks.
She worries about hurting her back as she cares for Geraldino. She'd have no coverage for injury. "You work and you get hurt - too bad, so sad," she said.
Geraldino relies on a team of workers who coordinate with each other. They can work for a single client for 25.75 hours per week, or the client would need to pay for worker's compensation insurance.
Turnover in workers is a major problem, according to Elizabeth Rosa, an organizer at the Naugatuck Valley Project, who is studying home care for elderly immigrants.
"The elderly complain about constant changes," she said. Most want Spanish-speaking workers but have trouble hanging onto them, Rosa said. Workers, she added, complain about the price of gas and parking eating away their paychecks. Because they cannot work full-time for a single patient, many drive from home to home, using their own cars.
Workers and clients often grow close. Hardy brings over food to supplement what Geraldino gets from the food bank.
"I love taking care of people," she said. But the balance between how hard she works and how much she's paid needs to shift, Hardy added. "When I get home," she said, "all I want to do is sleep."
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Ducktails | 10/09/13
Ducktails' Wish Hotel consists of five songs recorded by Matt Mondanile at home in Ridgewood, New Jersey. All instrumentation was recorded by Mondanile and mixed by Al Carlson. This EP finds Mondanile returning back to the blown out guitar and synthesizer work of his past releases. Listen to 'Honey Tiger Eyes' HERE.
Wish Hotel follows the January 2013 release of The Flower Lane, Ducktails' first long player for Domino. The Flower Lane took a tangential turn away from solo home-recording of past releases towards the more collaborative environment of the studio. Ducktails' Matt Mondanile (who also plays in Real Estate) roped in close friends and colleagues to make something more adventurous yet easy-going. The ten songs on The Flower Lane moved across a range of expressive pop songs that are bright and expansive, but venture even further with forays into saxophone leads, synth lines and piano accompaniment that would have been at home on the early records of sophisticated guitar pop icons such as Aztec Camera and Prefab Sprout.
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Oil-boom wealth a mixed blessing for Eagle Ford's school districts
Million-dollar homes and leafy boulevards once were the surest sign that you lived in a rich Texas school district.
Now add drilling rigs, dusty roads and overnight trailer parks.
This year, eight rural districts flush with money from the Eagle Ford Shale energy boom were added to the "wealthy" category for the first time, meaning they might have to give up some of their local property tax revenue.
"I've lived here for 40 years, and we've been poor for 38 of those years," Carrizo Springs ISD Superintendent Deborah Dobie said.
About a third of the 23 districts the Texas Education Agency added to its annual list of property-wealthy districts are on the Eagle Ford, an oil-and-gas-rich shale formation stretching through a dozen counties south and east of San Antonio.
A new extraction technique called hydraulic fracturing has amped up the region's economy — and drastically altered its tax base, thanks in large part to taxable mineral rights.
In two years, Dobie said, property values in her district have increased from $441 million to almost $2.5 billion.
Under the Texas system of sharing rich districts' tax money with poor ones to help balance disparities in funding, she expects to deliver $8 million or $9 million to the state next year, based on this year's property values.
Next door in tiny Cotulla Independent School District, at the epicenter of the Eagle Ford activity, property values have shot up from $534 million in 2010 to $2.3 billion this year.
It's more than enough to propel the 1,200-student district into the ranks of the property wealthy, according to a state formula that factors in student attendance.
But Cotulla Superintendent Jack Seals said the district's windfall isn't worry-free.
An influx of oilfield workers has squeezed the housing market, and three school employees, including the district's technology director, now live in trailers on district property.
And even with higher tax revenues, the district can't afford to pay prevailing boomtown wages, so hiring in-demand workers such as custodians and cafeteria employees has been tough.
"It's really hard to try to compete with the private sector at this time because the oil field wages are skewing the competition rate," Seals said.
This year, the district expects to return about $900,000 to the state in what is known as a recapture payment.
"Next year is when the recapture is going to hit us like a hammer," said Seals, who expects to dip into the district's savings to send the state a payment as high as $15 million in 2013.
School districts such as Cotulla are pulling in local tax revenue like never before, but state funding is based largely on 2006 revenue figures, and much of the new increase is subject to recapture.
"If (property values) flatten out at $2.3 billion, we're going to have less than we do now to run our schools," Seals said.
Like many districts on the Eagle Ford Shale, Cotulla has joined a lawsuit against the state over education funding, organized by the Equity Center, which traditionally advocates for poorer districts.
Wayne Pierce, executive director of the Equity Center, said scenarios such as the one Seals described mean that newly wealthy districts are "still in the boat with the property-poor districts."
Another issue comes from fluctuating property values, said Dan Casey, a partner with school finance experts Moak, Casey and Associates. Because the state uses prior-year values to determine the amount wealthy districts are required to return, property values can plummet but districts still will be on the hook for such payments.
"The main problem you get is these guys that shoot right up and then shoot back down," he said. "As a result, you tend to get hit harder with recapture costs."
Not all property-wealthy districts are subject to recapture because the formula takes the size of a district's student body into account as well.
At least two of the Eagle Ford districts, Flatonia ISD and Jourdanton ISD, expect to be removed from the ranks of the newly wealthy because they educate students from other districts without charging tuition, which changes the outcome of the state's formula.
Karnes City ISD Superintendent Jeanette Winn said she's not sure yet whether her district will have to pay recapture.
The increasing property values are a "temporary boon" that has allowed the district to spend more on building improvements, she said.
Dobie, her counterpart in Carrizo Springs, is planning to roll millions of dollars in excess revenue into next year's budget, in preparation for a hefty recapture payment.
But the district will still have to dip into its savings to cover the expected cost.
"It will be difficult," Dobie said. "But overall, in general, it's a blessing. Anyone that wants to work in Dimmit County can work, and I'm very grateful for that."
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