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These activities promote the delivery and coordination of neighborhood-based services through the operating support of such focal points as community gardens or facilities shared by several agencies and which focus on human and recreational services to neighborhood residents. These include basic and core support operating costs for neighborhood centers or the promotion of space and programming by outside groups within select neighborhoods. These activities also support "self-help" programs which are designed to assist lower income households in meeting their basic needs (such as food, clothing, services and family support) and include such activities as a community garden development program. These activities address Objective G in the Five-Year Plan and generally benefit all residents within the service areas of each center.
Activities must demonstrate:
coordination with other community groups and the support and participation of neighborhood residents; and
that their service area contains a minimum of 51% lower income individuals, or that at least 51% of their participants are lower income individuals.
The 2007 objective is to create 1,250 to 10,000 hours of programming within each of the nine service areas (depending upon the size of the service area).
For information on how to submit a proposal in this category, click here.
The Commission will give preference to funding centers in a manner that recognizes the importance of ensuring the stability of centers while still recognizing that over time the needs change in a neighborhood.
Each assisted neighborhood center shall be required to adopt a policy to encourage resident participation in its major policy-making and operational decisions, such as representation on the Board of Directors, involvement in a center's program planning committee, participation in a center's hiring committee or the use of customer feedback surveys. The CD Office shall review these activities with each center as part of its biennial assessment, and the CDBG Commission shall consider the quality of the resident participation and center user satisfaction in recommending funding for the centers.
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Boys and Girls Club of Dane County: Allied Core Center Services
Boys and Girls Club of Dane County: BGC Core Center Services
Community Action Coalition: Community Gardens
East Madison Community Center: Facility Use
Friends of Wil-Mar: Wil-Mar Core Center Services
Neighborhood House: Facility Use
Vera Court Neighborhood Center: Bridge/Lake Point Facility Use
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Remember Newton�s Third Law of Motion � every action has an equal and opposite reaction? Proposals curtailing Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation and Federal National Mortgage Association) will have an equal, opposite and perhaps unexpected reaction.
In an area dependent on real estate sales, be mindful of your prayers, they may be answered.
Alone among developed nations, the United States offers 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages. U.S. borrowers can choose long-term, fixed-rate mortgages since Freddie and Fannie, not their lender, own most mortgages. By selling mortgages to these government sponsored enterprises (GSE), your local bank does not carry the liability on its balance sheet and can make additional loans.
Passing the loans to Freddie and Fannie increases liquidity and allows for lower interest rates. You may have built it yourself but GSEs subsidize interest rates.
Thirty year mortgages won�t vanish but they will cost more, perhaps substantially more. Bill Gross, the bond guru, warned rates would shoot up three percentage points without GSE involvement.
The Cato Institute�s Mark Calabria believes Gross overstates his case and predicts rates escalating up to one percentage point if government support ends. Calabria referenced jumbo mortgages, covering mortgages $417,000 or higher, which have slightly higher interest rates than conventional Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae loans. Note: Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae limits vary depending on local home prices.
With a 4.25 percent interest rate, the principal and interest payment for a $240,000, 30-year mortgage ($300,000 sale/20 percent down) will be $1,190.06. Bump rates up one percentage point, the principal and interest payment jumps almost $150 ($1,337.91). If Gross is correct, not a huge reach, then multiply three times. Borrowers could also pay additional hidden fees akin to Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) premiums. A Senate bill proposes a Home Mortgage Insurance Corporation much like the FDIC.
South Walton being a notable exception, nationwide home sales fell slightly during June due to rising borrowing costs. Perhaps we don�t need GSEs in the home mortgage game but their absence shifts the paradigm.
What you don�t know about bonds
In the midst of the great July 4th deluge, no one caught the huge bond market decline. On July 5, the 30-year bond lost more than 4 percent or in Dow Jones Industrial Average terms over 600 points. Pundits blame Ben Bernanke but the Federal Reserve directly controls only short term rates. Quantitative Easing, the Federal Reserve�s policy of buying long term bonds, influences but does not directly control longer term rates. Long term rates are set by market forces-buyers and sellers.
Media outlets publicize the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average prices. Bond market prices conversely gather little press despite the bond market dwarfing the stock market. Stock markets consist solely of corporate stock versus the bond market which includes corporate and government debt.
Conventional wisdom has the interest rates soaring to the stratosphere when the Fed stops Quantitative Easing and increases short term rates. Raising short term rates in 1995 and 2000 led to a decline in long term rates. Don�t abandon fixed income. The worst five-year period for large U.S. stocks saw a negative 17 percent return. The worst five-year period of five-year bonds was positive 1 percent. For short term needs, consider bonds or bond funds.
Buz Livingston, CFP, has the only investment management and financial planning firm in the entire world headquartered in Blue Mountain Beach. Contact him at 850-267-1068 or www.livingstonfinancial.net.

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U.S. service firms grow by most in 10 months
WASHINGTON A gauge of U.S. service firms' activity expanded in December by the most in nearly a year, driven by a jump in new orders and hiring.
The Institute for Supply Management said Friday that its index of non-manufacturing activity rose to 56.1 in December from 54.7 in November. That's the highest level since February and above the 12-month average of 54.7. Any reading above 50 indicates expansion.
- 1.8M jobs created in 2012
- Factory orders in November held steady
- Why the jobless rate in November was revised up
A measure of new orders rose to the highest level since February, suggesting that consumers and companies kept spending even as the country moved closer to the fiscal cliff.
An index of employment rose strongly. That conflicted with a Labor Department report Friday that said the economy added just 109,000 service jobs last month, the fewest since June. One key difference between the two reports is the government doesn't include construction in service jobs. That would have boosted the December total by 30,000.
The ISM report measures service growth in industries that cover 90 percent of the work force, including retail, construction, health care and financial services. The trade group of purchasing managers conducts surveys of business activity and other research.
Many analysts had expected service growth to soften last month as Americans fretted about looming tax increases and spending cuts that were due to take effect at the beginning of the year.
Congress and the White House reached a deal this week to avert the tax increases, but delayed tougher decisions about spending cuts for another two months.
The solid increase in December suggests the tense negotiations to resolve the fiscal cliff did not slow growth at service companies. A separate ISM survey of manufacturing activity showed only a slight gain last month.
"The service sector appeared to have felt the concerns over the drawn-out negotiations over the 'fiscal cliff' less than manufacturing," said Terry Sheehan, an analyst with Stone & McCarthy Research.
Companies saw a "year-end surge" in orders, in the words of one executive surveyed by the ISM.
Services have been a key source of job growth this year, creating about 90 percent of the net jobs added since January. For all of 2012, the economy added 1.69 million service jobs, about the same as 2011. Many of the new jobs are in low-paying retail and restaurant industries.
The overall economy grew at an annual rate of 3.1 percent in the third quarter of 2012, up from 1.3 percent in the April-June period.


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Voting for the Hall of Fame is a wonderfully challenging exercise, an obstacle course of statistics and debates.
When I color in the box next to a player's name, I am endorsing his career for the highest individual honor possible. It's not about one season, or snippets of years, but the body of work. My ballot is not perfect. I am not sure one exists.
I have not endorsed known steroid users, and that did not change this year. My standard, which will be understandably questioned, is to leave out those who tested positive, admitted using or have an avalanche of evidence against them through federal investigations.
So I said no to Barry Bonds – I am not sure how you could read "Game of Shadows," detailing Bonds' detailed drug regiment and conclude he wasn't using – Roger Clemens, Rafael Palmeiro and Sammy Sosa. I realize my logic will be criticized with those insisting that my ballot does include PED users. They could be right. But I am not basing my vote on speculation or rumors.


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For a more detailed explanation of student educational records, refer to the Student Records and Transcripts section of our General Catalog.
We are dedicated to maintaining the integrity of all student records as outlined in the Student Records and Transcripts section of the General Catalog. CVCC complies with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 which provides students access to review their records and restricts the disclosure of such records without written permission from the student. Additional information regarding FERPA may be found at the US Department of Education FERPA website.
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The Phillies have hired an assistant hitting coach.
Former All-Star Wally Joyner will hold the role as the assistent to new hitting coach Steve Henderson.
The 50-year-old Joyner was a .289 hitter in 16 big league seasons, seven with the Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels. Joyner has previously worked as a hitting coach for the San Diego Padres for parts of the 2007 and 2008 seasons, as well as a roving minor league instructor for the club for five years (2003-07). Joyner has worked as the lead hitting instructor for MLB International's Elite-level development programs in Italy and Brazil in the last four years.
Joyner joined a new-look coaching staff that includes Henderson, new third base coach Ryne Sandberg and bullpen coach Rod Nichols. Upon hiring Henderson, the Phillies said they would employ a second, assistant hitting coach.
The St. Louis Cardinals, who took a 1-0 lead in the NLCS on Sunday night in San Francisco, are one of the teams that used an assistant hitting coach in 2012.


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Let me guess, you have been playing The Denver Post crossword and got stuck on the clue "This ___ war!". Well, you have come to the right place to find the answer to this clue.
While some crosswords are much simpler than others, most require that players have a vast knowledge of the language and possibly even various topics. So while crossword puzzles are seen as a more intelligent game, they can be very frustrating for players to complete and even experienced crossword players need some help occasionally.
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Due to losses accrued by state-owned companies, lawmakers have capped their employees' annual bonuses at 1.2 times their monthly salaries, instead of the 2.6 to 4.6 times proposed by the Cabinet.
It has been a bad year for many sectors of the economy, but is it right to expect these employees to suffer because of changes in government policy that are beyond their control?
Why has the state-run petroleum company CPC Corp, Taiwan, or electricity provider Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) been unable to make a profit? Taipower, for example, is the sole player in the field, so how could its turnover be so low? People want an explanation.
Transparency is the key. If it existed for these state-run companies' budgets, operating costs and financial statements, outside observers could perhaps understand why such losses have occurred.
CPC, for example, posted its 2011 budget and financial statement online, revealing that the cost of goods sold was over budget by NT$168.3 billion (US$5.79 billion), non-operating expenses reached almost NT$3.5 billion and exchange losses were just under NT$2.5 billion. The public will only know if government policy is at fault if CPC clarifies what happened.
While government department financial statements are already available online, the devil is in the details: The most important thing is how and where budgets are actually spent.
Government budgets are often used to pay contractors who secure work though public tender. Although legislation — specifically the Government Procurement Act (政府採購法) — has been in place for more than 10 years to prevent corruption, recent scandals involving former National Fire Agency director-general Huang Chi-min (黃季敏) and the National Youth Commission show that legislation alone is not enough.
The most important thing is complete transparency for the entire process: from preliminary budgeting to the version passed by the legislature and how the budget is actually implemented. Information for the entire process should be publicly available.
What the state lacks more than anything else at present is transparency in how the government's annual budget is used. Even if everything is above board and every last dollar is being well spent, transparency would enable people to see this.
After the devastation caused in the US by Hurricane Katrina, Alaska selfishly asked for US$233 million to build a bridge connecting a town with a population of 8,000 to Gravina Island, with its airport and smattering of 50 residents. The bridge was never built; instead, it became something of a national joke and a testament to the irresponsible way in which federal government budgets are sometimes allocated. The proposed bridge became known as "the bridge to nowhere."
Since the government has limited funds, it is important that taxpayers' money is spent only where it is truly needed. Any proposals must first get through the initial legislative review. After this it is crucial that there continues to be adequate monitoring and transparency as to how the money allocated is being used.
Had people been able to see online how academics were using their research grants, the recent scandal over professors using false receipts to claim reimbursements would never have happened.
Government departments spend vast amounts every year on contractors. If we introduced adequate transparency it would be easier to clamp down on corruption and ensure that money is being spent where it is really needed. Then we could prevent any future "bridges to nowhere" being built.


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A partial denture is a removable, yet natural-looking dental appliance that helps restore the form and function of your jaw by replacing one or more missing teeth. When you are missing one or more teeth, the bite pressures shift in your mouth. Other teeth may begin to move to compensate for the "gap" in your bite, and you may experience shrinking of both the soft tissues and the supporting bone near your missing teeth. This can alter your physical appearance and lead to subsequent problems with your other teeth. A partial denture keeps the underlying structures of your mouth – your gums, jawbone, facial muscles, etc. – active and engaged. It helps prevent further shifting of the other teeth in your mouth while giving you the confidence of having a beautiful, complete smile.
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Woot Customer Demands Non-Existent Black iPod Headphones
In what is probably the second-worst consumer complaint we've received, Millard is mad at deal-a-day site Woot because he bought a black iPod from them and it came with white headphones. He demands black headphones. Woot needs your help in solving this consumer crisis.
Millard does not care that Apple only makes white ones (unless you're getting special U2 iPods, which this wasn't). Now he wants Woot to pay for the black headphones he was "forced" to buy so they would match. It was very important to both him and his daughter, for whom the iPod was a birthday gift, that the headphones and iPod matched.
Woot.com was actually the ones who forwarded over the email exchange to us. They're hoping that Consumerist readers can offer advice on how they should react to the situation. At the bottom of the exchange posted below is a poll where you can write your tips and vote on other others'. Woot has promised to take them under advisement.
"From: MillardR
To: Service; Woot Member Services
Subject: Error in color ….
I received the item I ordered, but the ear piece was shipped to me in "white" rather than in "black" to match my black iPod.
Can you help?
Millard R
Woot Member Services wrote:
Apparently the people at Apple are not fashion-sensitive because those ear pieces only come in white. We apologize for this but unfortunately there isn't much we can do for you in this case.
From: MillardR
To: Service; Woot Member Services
Subject: Re: Error in color ….
Hello Rutherford,
I never knew that this piece was going to come this way, and if you ask me (your customer) I fell that Woot should inform their customers of this type of detail issue. Well … it now cost me an additional $29.00 to purchase a black set of ear plugs (that are for sale) to match the IPOD that I purchased from Woot in Black. How is this fair
to me …. the customer that feels he was mislead?
I hope you can do something to off-set my additional expense.
Best regards,
Millard R
Woot Member Services wrote:
I'm not sure how you felt mislead. The picture shows white earbuds. As a matter of fact, I looked back at other iPods that we sold and ALL the earbuds were white.
From: Millard R
To: Woot : Service
Hello Rutherford,
I'm really surprised to see that you're (WOOT) is taking this stance against one if its customers. The reason I felt mislead is because I was asked to select between "White" or "Black", and I was under the assumption that, again "White" meant totally "White" and that "Black meant totally Black". It never mentioned that only to IPOD itself
would be affected by the color, and that the other accessories would be shipped in a standard White color.
That's like purchasing a new car in the color of your choice (Blue) and when you finally take it home and you open the hood or truck … its pink in color. Well when you call your sales person and report your finding, the customer support person states that it only comes in that color. Well if you were never told this information, would you feel mislead just because you never opened these areas to check for your self. Well … I feel mislead, and so did my little daughter that received it item from us for her birthday!!!
Please review your customer satisfaction policy to see if there is any language within that takes care of your customer … under this type of circumstance.
Please advise,
Millard R."
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By John Goralski
Sports Writer
Jim Senich still remembers the nun's comments when he delivered his oral report to his sixth grade class. "Someday you're going to be a radio announcer," she said, and the velvety-voiced youngster slid back into his seat with a satisfied grin.
Some boys practice last second shots in their driveways with dreams of screaming fans. Others swing sticks in their backyards with visions of ninth inning homers that clinch World Series rings. Some practice slap shots against brick walls which transform into last second goals and Stanley Cup trophies.
Senich dreamed of being the narrator that announced the score to the cheering world.
"I wanted to be a sportscaster from sixth grade on," he said. "Most kids don't know what they want to do even in their first few years in college, but I always knew what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a play-by-play guy for the Cardinals."
So when his high school coaches cut him during the preseason, Senich's dreams weren't totally shattered. When his parents shifted him from the Waterbury public schools into the Catholic prep schools, Senich didn't complain too loudly that his teams wouldn't win state titles. Instead, he focused on his studies, listened to games on the radio, and continued chasing his dreams.
When graduation day came and went, Senich packed his bags for Boston on the advice of his cousin Bob Crane (from Hogan's Heroes fame) and entered the Leland Powers School of Radio, Television, and Theatre. He was determined to make his dreams come true…
"I wasn't too thrilled about acting, but you had to take it because of the name on the marquis," he said. "I wasn't going to be a Hollywood star, but we did Shakespeare. We did Molière and all the classics with the long soliloquies. After a while, I didn't embarrass myself, and it really helped my elocution and pronunciation. In those days, we didn't have microphones on stage. Your voice had to reach the back row. That helped me work my way into radio because I learned to strengthen my voice."
At graduation, some of his classmates chased the bright lights of Hollywood and Broadway. Others headed straight for big-city TV shows. Senich made a beeline for the sidelines. He bounced around the radio dial from Bridgeport to Greenwich and Bristol. He wrote freelance sports articles in Greenwich, and began to show up at Fairfield College for basketball games and New York Giants preseason camps in the mid-1960s.
He covered the Raybestos Brakettes in Stratford when they were the best softball team in the world. He championed Fairfield University basketball teams and interviewed players and coaches from Tom Seaver, Mel Allen, and Red Smith to Frank Gifford and Rosie Greer. If there were sports to be covered, Senich was eager to please.
"They had me do reports on the yacht club, and I knew nothing about yachts," he said. "But you meet somebody who's nice. You tell them that you don't know anything about it, and they guide you through. It's the same thing at any job."
His path began to unfold before him. He abandoned the newspapers for the radio. He worked his way up to news director at WBIS in Bristol, but those childhood voices still rang in his head. Sports, not news, was beckoning. So when yet another format change chased him from the radio, and the rising cost of gas threatened the long commute to Greenwich newspapers, someone told the Waterbury native about a new radio station in Southington.
"I was from Waterbury," he said. "All I knew was that Southington was a town at the bottom of the hill. We thought they were all farmers down there. I knew a little bit about Joe Fontana. Outside of that, I knew nothing."
From his first sentence on the air, Senich was absorbed into the Southington sports community. The local radio station had him chasing high school football teams and scoring varsity baseball games on the air. His enthusiasm was contagious. His research was impeccable, and his timing was perfect.
"I worked with him at my very first job at WNTY in Southington in the early 1970s. In fact, he hired me," said radio personality Tom Shute. "Years later I hired him at WATR in Waterbury. He got to continue his love of sports during our sports broadcasts. Also, he got to do our sports on the morning show. Eventually, we made him our news and sports director, and at one point he did a talk show for us, but sports was always his favorite. He just loved to do the play-by-play."
Senich became a fixture on the sidelines. Southington had already established itself with a rich football tradition that reached back to the 1940s. Baseball was emerging as another state dynasty, and girls sports were emerging with Southington leading the charge. When he was let go by the local radio station, a new weekly newspaper was just starting up. Just before Christmas in 1975, Senich was hired as the first sports editor for The Southington Observer. He served at the local paper for the next 13 years in ever changing roles from sports editor to executive editor. His column, 'Senich's Sportscope,' chronicled the town's emergence as a leader in Connecticut sports.
"Although he wasn't from Southington, he adopted this town and showed a lot of passion for it," said former Observer sports writer Art Secondo. "It showed in his coverage of Southington sports. He got into it, and he really became a big part of covering our stars and our history. He loved it so much that I think he would have done it for nothing."
Senich still recalls those times as one of the high points of his career. He covered Southington's only wrestling state title in 1978. He witnessed the town's first and only cross country title in 1984 and the high school's only golf title in 1987, but it was the coverage of the Lady Knights that really set him apart. His columns tracked nine state titles in softball and four state championships in basketball with a seriousness that was uncommon for girls sports in the 1970s.
His coverage never wavered whether it was a Thanksgiving football game or a preseason gymnastics meet.
"Jim Senich was probably one of the first writers in the state that felt like the female athlete deserved as much ink as the male athletes got," said former Lady Knight softball coach Joe Piazza. "When he was the sports writer and the editor of The Observer, he went out of his way to feature female athletes in his columns as much as the males, and that was new. He was always really friendly and open with the kids. He was open with the coaches. When he interviewed you, you always knew that what you said was what was going to be printed."
His coverage opened the door for women's sports, and the accolades began pouring in. He was recognized by the CT High School Coaches Association (CHSCA) in 1997. He had to fly to San Diego to accept a national award from high school coaches two years later. He was inducted into the Southington High School Baseball Hall of Fame (1982), the Connecticut Scholastic and Collegiate Softball Hall of Fame (1994), and the CHSCA Hall of Fame (2007) because of his coverage of Southington sports.
Senich used his newfound power to change the community and help the athlete. He was sometimes critical, sometimes thoughtful. He wrote one series of columns aimed at the Board of Education after witnessing injuries to a soccer player and a gymnast, and that series led to the hiring of a full-time medical trainer at the high school.
"I told them that they had to find the money for a full-time sports trainer. They fired back at me, saying that they couldn't afford it, and that really ticked me off," he said. "Couldn't afford it? You can't afford to protect the health of the athletes? They finally gave in, and I felt proud about that."
It's no surprise that the Southington Sports Hall of Fame selection committee chose Senich as just the second member of the press to be inducted into the local hall of fame. His coverage of Southington sports set the bar for all who followed and his influence changed the athletic landscape. His focus on girls sports helped launch dozens of graduates into the collegiate ranks.
"We didn't have as many sports as we do now, so a lot of people were just writing about football, basketball, and baseball. We didn't have girls track, field hockey, or gymnastics," Secondo said. "If it wasn't for people with that sort of passion, sports in Southington would not be what it is today. He helped carry on the tradition and legacy of Southington sports by constantly printing it."
On Thursday, Nov. 14, Senich will be honored in an induction ceremony at the Aqua Turf in Plantsville. To reserve tickets, contact Jim Verderame at (860) 628-7335.
"Being inducted into the Southington Sports Hall of Fame is precious to me because Southington was like my second hometown. I worked elsewhere. I worked all over the state. I even worked in Augusta, Ga. for a while, but Southington will always be special," he said. "I couldn't be more proud of this honor. I'm surprised that people even remember me because it seems like it was so long ago."
To comment on this story or to contact sports writer John Goralski, email him at jgoralski@ southingtonobserver.com.
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Images transmitted by the Cosmic Calls.
Alexander Zaitsev, Chief Scientist at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, has access to one of the most powerful radio transmitters on Earth. Though he officially uses it to conduct the Institute's planetary radar studies, Zaitsev is also trying to contact other civilizations in nearby star systems. He believes extraterrestrial intelligence exists, and that we as a species have a moral obligation to announce our presence to our sentient neighbors in the Milky Way—to let them know they are not alone. If everyone in the galaxy only listens, he reasons, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is doomed to failure.
Zaitsev has already sent several powerful messages to nearby, sun-like stars—a practice called "Active SETI." But some scientists feel that he's not only acting out of turn, but also independently speaking for everyone on the entire planet. Moreover, they believe there are possible dangers we may unleash by announcing ourselves to the unknown darkness, and if anyone plans to transmit messages from Earth, they want the rest of the world to be involved. For years the debate over Active SETI versus passive "listening" has mostly been confined to SETI insiders. But late last year the controversy boiled over into public view after the journal Nature published an editorial scolding the SETI community for failing to conduct an open discussion on the remote, but real, risks of unregulated signals to the stars. And in September, two major figures resigned from an elite SETI study group in protest. All this despite the fact that SETI's ongoing quest has so far been largely fruitless. For Active SETI's critics, the potential for alerting dangerous or malevolent entities to our presence is enough to justify their concern.
"We're talking about initiating communication with other civilizations, but we know nothing of their goals, capabilities, or intent," reasons John Billingham, a senior scientist at the private SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. Billingham studied medicine at Oxford and headed NASA's first extraterrestrial search effort in 1976. He believes we should apply the Hippocratic Oath's primary tenet to our galactic behavior: "First, do no harm." For years Billingham served as the chairman of the Permanent Study Group (PSG) of the SETI subcommittee of the International Academy of Astronautics, a widely accepted forum for devising international SETI agreements. But despite his deep involvement with the group, Billingham resigned in September, feeling the PSG is unwisely refusing to take a stand urging broad, interdisciplinary consultation on Active SETI. "At the very least we ought to talk about it first, and not just SETI people. We have a responsibility to the future well-being and survival of humankind."
Billingham is not alone in his dissent. Michael Michaud, a former top diplomat within the US State Department and a specialist in technology policy, also resigned from the PSG in September. Though highly aware of the potential for misunderstanding or ridicule, Michaud feels too much is at stake for the public to remain uninvolved in the debate. "Active SETI is not science; it's diplomacy. My personal goal is not to stop all transmissions, but to get the discussion out of a small group of elites."
Michaud is the original author of what became the "First SETI Protocol," a list of actions to take in the event of a SETI success. In the late 1980s, several international organizations committed to its principles: First, notify the global SETI community and cooperate to verify the alien signal. Then, if the discovery is confirmed, announce it to the public. Finally, send no reply until the nations of the world have weighed in. A future "Second SETI Protocol" was meant to refine the policy for sending mes- sages from Earth, but the effort quickly became complicated. Everyone agreed that if a message were received, broad global dialogue concerning if and how to respond must take place before any reply could be sent. The rift arose over whether or not the Protocol should also address Active SETI transmissions made before any signal is detected.
At a meeting last year in Valencia, Spain, a divided PSG voted to change Michaud's draft of the Second Protocol. They deleted language calling for "appropriate international consultations" before any deliberate transmissions from Earth, overriding the concerns of Billingham and Michaud and triggering Nature's editorial. As Michaud describes it, "Last fall, this became an unbridgeable gap. They brought it to a vote but there was no consensus. Those with dissenting views were largely cut out of the discussion." Michaud and Billingham feel that by not explicitly advocating a policy of international consultations, the SETI PSG is tacitly endorsing rogue broadcasters.
Seth Shostak, the current chair of the SETI PSG, maintains that Nature got it wrong, that in Valencia there was no organized effort to discourage open and transparent debate about the wisdom of sending signals. As the SETI Institute's senior astronomer, Shostak has been involved in the science and policy of SETI for many years, and often seems to act as public spokesman for the Institute and for SETI in general. He says it's inappropriate for the PSG to set global guidelines for Active SETI. "Who are we to tell the rest of the world how to behave? It would be totally unenforceable."
Michaud and Billingham agree that the PSG can't make policy for the whole world. But rather than sweep the question under the rug, they believe it is the responsibility of the SETI community to facilitate the wider conversation that must take place. "We feel strongly that the discussion must involve not just astronomers, but a broad spectrum of social scientists, historians, and diplomats," explains Billingham.
"This was simply about jurisdiction," Shostak insists. The First Protocol, he says, is about self-policing; the Second isn't. "If we found a signal, it would be a result of our own research. Therefore we felt it was responsible to have an agreed-upon policy about what to do next." Shostak also worries that drafting guidelines for sending messages to aliens could generate bad press. SETI has always struggled for respectability. In the 1970s and 80s, NASA supported some listening programs, but government funding was cut off in 1993 amid congressional ridicule. Thanks to private funding, SETI has rebounded since then, but is still vulnerable to association with tabloids and talk radio guests claiming personal contact with aliens. Publicizing the real debate over rules of conduct for talking to extraterrestrials, Shostak reasons, wouldn't do much to help counter this vision.
Long before he was an eager practitioner of Active SETI, Alexander Zaitsev was already a respected astronomer investigating planets using huge blasts of radar energy from the 70-meter radio telescope at the Evpatoria Deep Space Center in Crimea, Ukraine. Planetary radar studies rely on powerful, focused beams to "illuminate" distant objects, though much of this energy misses its target. The beams would be fleeting if seen from other stars that, by chance, lay along their path. But aimed and modulated to contain pictures, sounds, and other multimedia, they very easily become calling cards from Earth. On balance, it's relatively simple to send signals, so why have we just been listening?
SETI doctrine states that anyone we hear from will almost certainly be much more advanced than we are. Simply put, our capabilities are so rudimentary that any chance of detecting an alien transmission would require that it be broadcast powerfully and continually on millennial timescales. We can't predict much about alien civilizations, but we can use statistical mathematics to derive simple, robust relationships between the number of putative civilizations, their average longevity, and their population density in the galaxy. The chance of getting a signal from another baby race like ours is infinitesimally small. As Shostak says, "We've had radio for 100 years. They've had it for at least 1,000 years. Let them do the heavy lifting."
This is one reason why most SETI pioneers advocated a "first, just listen" approach. But there is another: What if there is something dangerous out there that could be alerted by our broadcasts? This ground has been explored in numerous scientific papers and, of course, in countless works of science fiction. Few people alive today embody the convergence of hard science and fictional speculation better than David Brin, an author of both peer-reviewed astronomy papers and award-winning science fiction novels. In an influential 1983 paper titled "The Great Silence," Brin provided a kind of taxonomy of explanations for the lack of an obvious alien presence. In addition to the usual answers positing that humanity is alone, or so dull that aliens have no interest in us, Brin included a more disturbing possibility: Nobody is on the air because something seeks and destroys everyone who broadcasts. Like Billingham and Michaud, he feels the PSG is dominated by a small number of people who don't want to acknowledge Active SETI's potential dangers.
Even if something menacing and terrible lurks out there among the stars, Zaitsev and others argue that regulating our transmissions could be pointless because, technically, we've already blown our cover. A sphere of omnidirectional broadband signals has been spreading out from Earth at the speed of light since the advent of radio over a century ago. So isn't it too late? That depends on the sensitivity of alien radio detectors, if they exist at all. Our television signals are diffuse and not targeted at any star system. It would take a truly huge antenna—larger than anything we've built or plan to build—to notice them.
Alien telescopes could perhaps detect Earth's strange oxygen atmosphere, created by life, and a rising CO2 level, suggesting a young industrial civilization. But what would draw their attention to our solar system among the multitudes? Deliberate blasts of narrow-band radiation aimed at nearby stars would—for a certain kind of watcher—cause our planet to suddenly light up, creating an obvious beacon announcing for better or worse, "Here we are!"
In fact, we have already sent some targeted radio messages. Even now they are racing toward their selected destinations, and they are unstoppable. Frank Drake sent the first Active SETI broadcast from the large radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, in November 1974. In its narrow path, the Arecibo message was the most powerful signal ever sent from Earth. But it was aimed at M13, a globular star cluster about 25,000 light years away. At the earliest, we could expect a reply in 50,000 years.
More recently, Zaitsev and his colleagues sent a series of messages from their dish at Evpatoria. In 1999 and 2003 they sent "Cosmic Call" I and II, transmissions containing pictograms meant to communicate our understanding of the universe and life on Earth. In 2001, Zaitsev and a group of Russian teenagers created the "Teen-Age Message to the Stars," which was broadcast in August and September of that year in the direction of six stars between 45 and 70 light years from Earth. The Teen-Age Message notably included greetings in Russian and English, and a 15-minute Theremin symphony for aliens. Unlike Drake's Arecibo message, Zaitsev's messages target nearby stars. So if anyone wishes to reply, we may receive it in the next century or two.
Both Cosmic Call transmissions included an "Interstellar Rosetta Stone" (IRS) designed by Canadian scientists Yvan Dutil and Stephane Dumas. Using simple symbols and equations, the IRS progressively builds a mathematical foundation for the introduction of our understanding of physics, chemistry, and biology, ultimately giving a glimpse of life on Earth. Here are several annotated selections from the IRS. Click to enlarge.
Along with the famous plaques attached to Pioneer 10 and 11 and the two phonograph records carried by Voyager 1 and 2—four spacecraft that will soon leave our Solar System—these messages are mostly symbolic efforts unlikely to betray our presence to the denizens of planets orbiting other stars. Our civilization is still hidden from all but those ardently searching for our kind, or those so far beyond our level of sophistication that we couldn't hide from them if we wanted to. To date, all our "messages to aliens" are really more successful as communications to Earth, mirrors reflecting our dreams of reaching far beyond our terrestrial nursery.
For now, the dissenters have given up on the SETI PSG, but there's still hope for a solution to the standoff. At the PSG's 2007 meeting held in Hyderabad, India this September, the group implicitly accepted the reality of Active SETI risks by adopting a standard called the "San Marino Scale," a formula for assessing the risk of a given broadcast program. Michaud admits that the scale "is a useful starting point for discussion."
When pressed, everyone involved in the recent controversy agrees that harmful contact scenarios cannot be completely ruled out. Active SETI critics like Billingham, Michaud, and Brin don't support a blanket ban on transmissions, and even Zaitsev accepts that open and multinational discussion is needed before anyone pursues transmission programs more ambitious and powerful than his own. The major disagreement is actually over how soon we can expect powerful transmission tools to become widely available to those who would signal at whim.
At present, the radio astronomy facilities potentially capable of producing a major Active SETI broadcast are all controlled by national governments, or at least large organizations responsible to boards and donors and sensitive to public opinion. However, seemingly inevitable trends are placing increasingly powerful technologies in the hands of small groups or eager individuals with their own agendas and no oversight. Today, on the entire planet, there are only a few mavericks like Zaitsev who are able and willing to unilaterally represent humanity and effectively reveal our presence. In the future, there could be one in every neighborhood.
So far SETI has turned up no evidence of other intelligent creatures out there seeking conversation. All we know for certain is that our galaxy is not full of civilizations occupying nearly every sun-like star and sending strong radio signals directly to Earth. In the absence of data, the questions of extraterrestrial intelligence, morality, and behavior are more philosophy than science. But even if no one else is out there and we are ultimately alone, the idea of communicating with truly alien cultures forces us to consider ourselves from an entirely new, and perhaps timely, perspective. Even if we never make contact, any attempt to act and speak as one planet is not a misguided endeavor: Our impulsive industrial transformation of our home planet is starting to catch up to us, and the nations of the world are struggling with existential threats like anthropogenic climate change and weapons of mass destruction. Whether or not we develop a mechanism for anticipating, discussing, and acting on long-term planetary dangers such as these before they become catastrophes remains to be seen. But the unified global outlook required to face them would certainly be a welcome development.
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In the wake of North Korea's latest warlike pronouncements, the United States is assuming a sober, tough-minded stance it hopes will avert further threats and provocative acts by Pyongyang.
North Korea warned Seoul on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and it threatened to shut down a border factory complex involving both countries.
"We've seen reports of a new and unconstructive statement from North Korea," said National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden in a statement Saturday. "We take these threats seriously and remain in close contact with our South Korean allies. But we would also note that North Korea has a long history of bellicose rhetoric and threats and today's announcement follows that familiar pattern."
"As [Defense] Secretary [Chuck] Hagel said on Thursday, we remain fully prepared and capable of defending and protecting the United States and our allies," she added. "We continue to take additional measures against the North Korean threat, including our plan to increase the U.S. ground-based interceptors and early warning and tracking radar, and the signing of the [South Korea-US] counter-provocation plan."
Earlier, deputy White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters on Air Force One that Pyongyang was purely to blame for escalating tensions, Agence France-Presse reported.
"We are coordinating pretty closely with not just our allies, but also with Russia and China, which also have a significant stake in resolving this situation peacefully," Mr. Earnest said.
Rhetorical saber-rattling aside, analysts say a full-scale conflict is extremely unlikely, noting that the Korean Peninsula has remained in a technical state of war for 60 years, The Associated Press reported Saturday. But the North's continued threats against Seoul and Washington, including a vow to launch a nuclear strike, have raised worries that a misjudgment between the sides could lead to a clash.
North Korea's threats are seen as efforts to provoke the new government in Seoul, led by President Park Geun-hye, to change its policies toward Pyongyang, and to win diplomatic talks with Washington that could get it more aid, the AP reports from Seoul. North Korea's moves are also seen as ways to build domestic unity as young leader Kim Jong Un strengthens his military credentials.
North Korea said in a statement Saturday that it would deal with South Korea according to "wartime regulations" and would retaliate against any provocations by the US and South Korea without notice.
"Now that the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK have entered into an actual military action, the inter-Korean relations have naturally entered the state of war," said the statement, which was carried by Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency, referring to the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Provocations "will not be limited to a local war, but develop into an all-out war, a nuclear war," the statement said.
Pyongyang has threatened to turn Seoul into a "sea of fire" and has warned of firing rockets at US military bases in Guam, Hawaii and Japan," notes a Voice of America report. Analysts say the North is not yet capable of mounting an operational nuclear warhead on a missile. But many of its neighbors are worried they may be easier targets for Pyongyang's conventional weapons.
Pyongyang's latest threats come in the context of a joint US-South Korea military exercise on the Korean Peninsula, including overflights and the dropping of dummy bombs on an uninhabited South Korean island by US B-2 stealth bombers on long-range flights from Missouri.


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GIMME AN 'OW:' Cheerleaders trying to reduce injury risk -SPRINGFIELD – There's no way to put it delicately: Cheerleading can be hazardous. Cheerleading and cheerleading safety have been getting a lot of media attention recently because of the release of the 26th annual study "Catastrophic Sports Injury Research: Fall 1982-Spring 2008" from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The study found that a major factor in the increase of catastrophic injuries to female athletes was due to cheerleading, which now involves gymnastic-type stunts. The number of emergency-room visits made each year due to cheerleading injuries more than quintupled from 1980 to 1997. By Tamara Browning of the State Journal-Register. To localize: Check with local schools to see if they've have an increase in cheerleading injuries.
NASTY SAND: Study: Playing in the sand could make you sick - University of North Carolina researchers recently released a study that found that many people – especially children – are more likely to get gastrointestinal illnesses after playing in the sand, than those who do not. By Jessica Bartlett, Patriot Ledger.
- LOCALIZE IT: There is one local reference - swap that out for a comment from a beachgoer in your area.
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DAVE RAMSEY: Weekly financial Q&A, with items on asking for a raise at work and emergency funds.
BIZ BITS: Weekly business rail, with a tip about cybercrime, BBB warning about a lottery scam and more.
MAKING CENTS: Investing with emotion causes strife - While in money market funds, collecting a paltry rate of interest, you are in fact on the sidelines because you are watching the action on Wall Street wondering if you made the right move. Those of you who fled to the money markets at any time before the bear market started its dramatic turnaround felt like a genius. Now, after an unprecedented and rapid rebound in equity prices and money market rates about as close to 0 percent as possible, you feel like the class dunce. By John P. Napolitano.
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FINE PRINT: First-time home buyers are running out of time to get tax credit - Potential first-time home buyers who are wondering whether they should get into the market to take advantage of the $8,000 tax credit shouldn't wait much longer. By Jon Chesto.
CHECKOUT LANE: Tips when shopping for antiques - When buying antiques, you should expect to make mistakes, furniture dealers say. That's why it's important to get a piece you love, rather than one you think will accrue in value. By Brent Lang.
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SCHOOL SPENDING: Parents backing off on back-to-school spending - Those who plan on heading to the mall for some back-to-school shopping this week may have a little more elbow room while perusing the racks of clothes and shelves of school supplies. According to the National Retail Federation's 2009 Back to School Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, conducted by BIGresearch, the average family with students in grades kindergarten through 12 is expected to spend $548.72 on school merchandise, a decline of 7.7 percent from $594.24 in 2008.
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- LOCALIZE IT: Talk to stores, parents in your area to see if the trend holds true
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Known for his distinctive style and thoughtful musicianship, timpanist/percussionist Craig McNutt has become a vital performer in the realm of percussion performance. His performance have taken him to several of the world's great concert halls, including Boston's Symphony Hall and Jordan Hall, New York's Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall, and Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, as well as the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, and the Oper Frankfurt. In advancing the visibility of classical music, he has also performed at several non-traditional venues such as France's Eiffel Tower, the twenty five hundred year old Delphi Theater in Greece, New York's World Financial Center, and Boston's Fenway Park.
Praised by critics for his "colorful percussion sounds" (Boston Globe) and "crisp mallet work" (Providence Journal), Craig McNutt has been featured as a soloist with the Rhode Island Philharmonic (Russell Peck's Harmonic Rhythm) and Collage New Music (Steven Mackey's Micro-Concerto). He has collaborated with some of the most celebrated composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Elliott Carter, Lukas Foss, John Cage, Bernard Rands, Gunther Schuller, George Rochberg, Charles Fussell, John Harbison, Michael Gandolfi, and Lee Hyla, and performed under the direction of many noted conductors, including James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, Roger Norrington, Christoph von Dohnányi, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Robert Spano, Oliver Knussen, Reinbert de Leeuw, and John Williams.
As a performer, Mr. McNutt has worked with virtually all of Boston's major musical groups, including the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops, Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, Cantata Singers, Odyssey Opera, A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra, and the Boston Landmarks Orchestra. He is Principal Timpanist of the Rhode Island Philharmonic, and performs regularly as Principal Timpanist with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Emmanuel Music, and was Principal Timpanist for Opera Boston. In the contemporary music genre, Craig is a featured percussionist for Collage New Music and ALEA III, and has performed with Boston Musica Viva and Dinosaur Annex. Equally at home in the field of historical performance, he regularly performs on baroque timpani with the period instrument groups Boston Baroque, Handel and Haydn Society, and Boston Cecilia.
Mr. McNutt can be heard on over 70 commercially released recordings, many of them on the ground-breaking and critically acclaimed BMOP/sound label. Three of these recordings – Charles Fussell's Wilde, Derek Bermel's Voices, and Steven Mackey's Dreamhouse – were nominated for a Grammy award by the Recording Industry Association of America. His discography features many other celebrated record labels, including Telarc, Bridge, ECM New Series, Koch Classics, Chandos, Albany, and Naxos.
Mr. McNutt has participated in several important performances at music festivals dedicated to the advancement of modern music, such as the Ditson Festival of Contemporary Music, the MATA Festival, the Composer Portraits Series at Miller Theatre, Pittsburgh's New Music on the Edge, and California State University's Festival of New American Music. In 2000, Mr. McNutt was invited to return to the Festival of Contemporary Music at the Tanglewood Music Center for a performance of Pierre Boulez's Sur Incises, a performance hailed by The Boston Globe as "simply beyond praise." A Massachusetts native, Mr. McNutt holds degrees from the Hartt School of Music and Yale University, and has completed additional studies at the New England Conservatory of Music. He is a two time alumnus of the Tanglewood Music Center, and has also spent summers studying at the Aspen Music Festival, and as a fellow of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute. Currently Mr. McNutt teaches at The New England Conservatory Preparatory School, The Music School of The Rhode Island Philharmonic, and Wellesley College. He has also served on the faculty of the Berklee College of Music and the University of Rhode Island.
A strong advocate for his instrument, Mr. McNutt has immersed himself in many other aspects of percussion, including stick wrapping, timpani maintenance, and tucking calf skin drumheads, and has mentored many on these subjects. Having sewn his own timpani mallets for over 15 years, Mr. McNutt has in turn presented master classes on timpani mallet wrapping at The Boston Conservatory and at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School. He proudly uses timpani mallets by MB Mallets, and percussion mallets by Artifact Percussion.


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There has been some confusion regarding the posting of the Chovos Halevovos shiurim. They were posted for Friday and Shabbos as well, whereas in fact both Kitzur Shulchan Aruch and Chovos Halevovos run Sun – Thur, with Fri and Shabbos for catch-up and review. The website has now been corrected. Apologies for the confusion and inconvenience.
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Prospect Haniger making a strong impression
PHOENIX -- Mitch Haniger's Spring Training statistics flashed across a clubhouse television during the Brewers' win over the A's on Wednesday. With two more hits, the outfield prospect was 4-for-7 with a team-high five RBIs, three runs scored, two walks, one home run, one stolen base and zero strikeouts.
A veteran saw the numbers, raised his eyebrows and looked around the room.
PHOENIX -- Mitch Haniger's Spring Training statistics flashed across a clubhouse television during the Brewers' win over the A's on Wednesday. With two more hits, the outfield prospect was 4-for-7 with a team-high five RBIs, three runs scored, two walks, one home run, one stolen base and zero strikeouts.
A veteran saw the numbers, raised his eyebrows and looked around the room.
"Uh oh," he said. "I think someone's trying to make the team."
Considering that Haniger is 23 years old and entering only his second full professional season, that this is his first Major League camp, that he is not on Milwaukee's 40-man roster, and that his positions -- center field and right field -- are manned by Carlos Gomez and Ryan Braun, he will probably not make the team.
But Haniger is nonetheless opening eyes in Brewers camp.
"It's definitely a good feeling, just seeing some hard work pay off," he said. "I'm up here trying to open some eyes and help the team win and show everybody all my tools. Hopefully, I'll keep moving up the ladder."
He has been moving fast. The Brewers acquired Haniger with the supplemental first-round Draft pick (38th overall in 2012) that they received for losing first baseman Prince Fielder to free agency. Haniger finished 2012 at Class A Wisconsin, then split 2013 between Wisconsin (where he batted .297 with a .399 on-base percentage) and Class A Advanced Brevard County before reporting to the prestigious Arizona Fall League.
He led the AFL with 24 RBIs and slugged a pair of grand slams, including one on the league's Opening Day. Haniger was named to the league's Top Prospects Team, and he ended the 2013 season at No. 12 on MLB.com's list of the top Brewers prospects (the new list will be released on March 20). Other publications have ranked Haniger higher heading into 2014: Baseball America and Baseball Prospectus had Haniger at No. 3 on the Brewers' list.
He is one of three non-roster outfielders (with Kentrail Davis and Kevin Mattison) who earned invitations to Milwaukee's big league camp. Haniger opted to report on Feb. 13, about one week early.
"Some guys just get a bat and they feel great; I have to kind of work at it," he said. "I'm someone that, for the first couple of weeks, I need to get my feel back. In the offseason hitting in the cage, the weather's not always great, it's a little harder for me to get back in my groove. I feel like the earlier I can get out here, the faster I can get in it. That's what I focused on this year."
He played left field in the AFL and has manned center field (his natural position) and right field so far this spring.
"What I see so far, he looks like he's going to be a guy that can play every day [in the Major Leagues]," said Brewers manager Ron Roenicke. "So if he's that guy, it's nice knowing that whatever your needs are and whatever position you would like to put him in that he can do it."
Roenicke has had his eye on Haniger since the 2012 Draft, when Roenicke's oldest son called with a positive scouting report. Lance Roenicke, who was also drafted by the Brewers that year, played collegiately at the University of California-Santa Barbara, a regular opponent of Haniger's Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Haniger had just been named Big West Conference Player of the Year after batting .346 with 13 home runs and 64 RBIs in 56 games.
"Lance said he was really a great player," Ron Roenicke said.
So the Major League manager kept an eye on the Minor Leaguer's progress, and noted what appeared to be Haniger's advanced plate discipline. Haniger worked 25 walks against only 24 strikeouts at Wisconsin last season before his promotion to Brevard County.
Haniger prides himself on having a professional approach.
"I feel like in high school I was a really aggressive hitter, and in college, I started getting pitched to a lot more carefully because I was hitting in the middle of the order," he said. "I just learned to be really picky to what I want to hit and what I'm swinging at."
Said Roenicke: "The only bad at-bat he had [this spring] was that 3-0 pitch and he still got it through the infield for a base hit. Things are going well for him."
He could still be a ways away. Haniger batted .250 in 88 games at Brevard County last season and presumably will see Double-A Huntsville at some point in 2014. The Brewers have until after the 2015 season to add Haniger to the 40-man roster in order to protect him from the Rule 5 Draft.
So far, he is making the right impression.
"He's got a good look about him," Roenicke said. "He does."
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy.


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saturday morning movie date
i believe in crying the way most people believe in exercise.
that it should be engaged in often and that it's essential for the health of the body.
i'm in need of a cry. a good cry, a solid cry. i'm not terribly sure why, all i know is i can feel my body calling out for it.
usually when this happens there's a backlog of tears and i never find the release until that fated moment when i hit the top of my head on the underside of the bathroom's standing sink. it doesn't hurt much--it never does--but it results in pretty substantial heaves and me crumpled despairingly against the cool tiles of the bathroom floor. (i've lived a life on that bathroom floor).
to prevent this i'm taking myself to the movies this morning. a date! for (with) myself! i've indulged in a medium soy chai latte (fear of soy and sugar be damned today!). a six dollar movie ticket, a cool, dark theatre, and a space in which to silently water my soul? huzzah! (does that sound dramatic and cliche? that watering of the soul? oh but it is! this is all serious and important work i'm going about.)
alright, must be off, i'll let you know how it goes.


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Ethan Hawke in "Sinister."
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Clare Foley in "Sinister."
Juliet Rylance in "Sinister."
Ethan Hawke and James Ransone in "Sinister."
Fred Dalton Thompson in "Sinister."
Director Scott Derrickson and cinematographer Chris Norr on the set of "Sinister."
Juliet Rylance, Michael Hall D'addario and Ethan Hawke in "Sinister."
Cinematographer Chris Norr, Ethan Hawke and director Scott Derrickson on the set of "Sinister."
Ethan Hawke and Juliet Rylance in "Sinister."
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Hello everyone, my name's Tyler from Goshen. I have been into reefing for a few years now, currently running a 210 gallon with 60 gallon sump and 40 gallon refugium. Due to space restrictions with a growing child I'm needing to downsize so hopefully I won't have that one soon but will get between a 60-90 gallon cube. I do have a little more unconventional type of reef set up and getting growing though.
Tank: 0.75 Gallon Vase
Heat: Candle Warmer
Circulation: Air Pump
Lighting: ABI LED
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Still needing to put coral in but wanting to put some really unique stuff in it and just have not found any for sale yet.
I aslo have one that's not salt but brackish for Opae Ula (Hawaiian Red Shrimp)
Tank: 1 Gallon Fish Bowl
Heat: None
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Lighting: None
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Always open to more ideas for setting up more unconventional types of reefs. Thinking about setting up a 5 gallon glass jug for a reef, need to find a jug and when I do figure out how to make it work.
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Millennium ushers in new era of Ferrari dominance
Season's results | Drivers' Championship | Constructors' Championship
So, Ferrari can rest at last, its countless millions have yielded the drivers' title for the first time since 1979 when Jody Scheckter won. And who more fitting to bring them the glory they have sought so passionately than Michael Schumacher?
The first Ferrari to carry a driver to the drivers' title since the 312T4 did the trick for Jody Scheckter in 1979, the F1-2000 was a Ross Brawn-Rory Byrne development from the F310B. With the all-new 049 V10 engine, a narrowed-down chassis and the same high nose, it was a winner in Michael Schumacher's hands, setting his challenge rolling with three straight wins. He was to score six more, with Rubens Barrichello using his to score his first ever win in the German Grand Prix. Other typical Ferrari features of the time included "periscope" exhausts, one of the many improvements over its predecessor, the F399.
Schumacher was brought in to Ferrari in 1996 on the sport's largest retainer with one aim: to give the team its 10th drivers' title. However, it was no easy matter. Apart from Barrichello swapping rides with Eddie Irvine, with the Ulsterman leaving Ferrari for the Stewart team that was rebadged as Jaguar, the top two teams had remarkable stability in personnel.
Williams had signed 20-year-old Jenson Button straight from Formula Three and changed its Supertec engines for ones from the returning BMW. Another team that had ditched Supertec engines was BAR, back for a second year with Honda engines. Arrows took up one of the Supertec deals and brought in Jos Verstappen. Jordan signed Jarno Trulli from Prost to replace Damon Hill, with Prost signing Jean Alesi and Nick Heidfeld to replace Trulli and Olivier Panis.
As for the previous two years, the battle for honours was between Ferrari and McLaren, and honours looked set for McLaren when the season kicked off at Melbourne, with Hakkinen and Coulthard on the front row. But both McLarens broke and Schumacher led Barrichello home for a Ferrari one-two. Notably, third place went to Ralf Schumacher, the BMW in his Williams stronger than people had been led to believe. Perhaps the largest cheer was from the BAR pit, as they put their point-free debut season behind them with Jacques Villeneuve fourth and Ricardo Zonta sixth.
Ferrari's dream start continued when Hakkinen retired from the lead at Interlagos, with Coulthard disqualified from second, handing the place to Benetton's Giancarlo Fisichella ahead of Jordan's Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Trulli, with Button scoring in only his second race. Better still, Schumacher then beat the McLarens fair and square at Imola. So, three races in, and Schumacher had 30 points to Hakkinen's six and Ferrari 39 to McLaren's 10.
Hakkinen had three poles from three before he arrived for the British Grand Prix at a waterlogged Silverstone, but his chance of keeping a 100 per cent record was scuppered when Barrichello mastered drying conditions best to pip Frentzen to pole. Barrichello led to mid-distance, but Coulthard was right on his tail and took over with a great move around the outside at Stowe. The Brazilian then retired with hydraulic failure and Coulthard went on to beat Hakkinen and Schumacher.
Reigning champion Hakkinen wouldn't have reckoned on waiting until the fifth round for his first win, but he got his show on the road with victory in Spain. Coulthard was fortunate to be there, having survived a plane crash that killed his pilot and co-pilot, and showed great bravery in racing with cracked ribs. After the second round of pitstops, Hakkinen took the lead, facilitated by a slow stop for Schumacher. Coulthard then moved into second as Schumacher slowed with a puncture.
The pendulum swung Ferrari's way at the Nurburgring when conditions were perfect for Schumacher to show his wet-weather skills. Hakkinen had rocketed from third on the grid to lead into the first corner. However, five laps in, rain started to fall, and Schumacher took over, staying ahead for his fourth win ahead of the McLaren duo.
Schumacher looked set to make it five wins at Monaco but a leaking exhaust made his suspension collapse. Coulthard was left clear to win. Schumacher's escape from pole in Canada was boosted when Coulthard was called in for a stop-go penalty as his car had been worked on past the 15 second board on the grid. Rain hit mid-race and Schumacher was told to slow because of a possible brake problem. Barrichello closed in, but team orders dictated that he finished behind his team leader.
Coulthard gained his revenge at Magny-Cours when he outraced Schumacher for the honours, with Hakkinen claiming second when Schumacher's engine failed. Hakkinen bounced back at the A1-Ring by leading from start to finish ahead of Coulthard.
Schumacher had further first lap disappointment at Hockenheim, this time swerving to the outside after failing to pass Coulthard, only to put himself into the path of Fisichella. Then, with rain setting in, but only at the stadium end of the track, Barrichello elected to stay out and won as Hakkinen pitted for wets. Hakkinen assumed control at the Hungaroring, by making a blinding getaway to lead from start to finish, while Coulthard harried Schumacher to the line.
The greatest overtaking move of 2000 was performed at Spa-Francorchamps when Hakkinen slipstreamed Schumacher up to Les Combes, then squeezed through a tiny gap inside Zonta as Schumacher went outside the Brazilian. It was inch-perfect and his reward was victory.
The Italian Grand Prix was marred by the death of a marshal following a huge accident into the second chicane on the opening lap, leaving Schumacher to win from Hakkinen, with Ralf Schumacher claiming his second consecutive third.
Formula One and the United States were reacquainted after a nine-year break when the circus moved to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Schumacher won easily after the chasing Hakkinen's engine failed.
Arriving at Suzuka with an eight-point disadvantage, Hakkinen got the jump at the start, but slick tactics, traffic and a brief shower as Hakkinen emerged from his second stop put Schumacher in front where he stayed to the finish. Schumacher then made it four wins in succession when he pipped Coulthard to the line at Sepang. Micahel had moved ahead in the pitstop sequence, when leader Coulthard was forced to pit early after running wide and debris caused his engine to overheat. Hakkinen, on the other hand, moved before the start and his stop-go dropped him to 18th before he advanced to fourth behind Barrichello.
So, Ferrari lifted the Constructors' Cup and Williams proved best of the rest. Jordan fell from third to sixth behind Benetton and BAR who finished equal on points, with Arrows not quite receiving the reward that its marked improvement deserved. Jaguar scored just four points compared to the 36 they scored as Stewart in 1999, but Prost and Minardi failed even to score a point, with the French team looking in particular disarray.
Reproduced from The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Formula One published by Carlton Books


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