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United States District Court, N.D. West Virginia, Clarksburg
August 9, 2019
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff,v.JESSE TICHENOR, Defendant.
matter has been referred to the undersigned Magistrate Judge
by the District Court for purposes of conducting proceedings
pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11 (Dkt. No.
1437). Defendant, Jesse Tichenor, in person and by counsel,
Lary D. Garrett, appeared before me on August 8, 2019. The
Government appeared by Assistant United States Attorney,
Zelda Wesley. The Court determined that Defendant was
prepared to enter a plea of "Guilty" to Count
Seventy-Eight of the Superseding Indictment.
Court proceeded with the Rule 11 proceeding by first placing
Defendant under oath and inquiring into Defendant's
competency. The Court determined Defendant was competent to
proceed with the Rule 11 plea hearing and cautioned and
examined Defendant under oath concerning all matters
mentioned in Rule 11.
Court next inquired of Defendant concerning his understanding
of his right to have an Article III Judge hear the entry of
his guilty plea and his understanding of the difference
between an Article III Judge and a Magistrate Judge.
Defendant thereafter stated in open court that he voluntarily
waived his right to have an Article III Judge hear his plea
and voluntarily consented to the undersigned Magistrate Judge
hearing his plea. Defendant tendered to the Court a written
Waiver of Article III Judge and Consent to Enter Guilty Plea
before Magistrate Judge. The waiver and consent was signed by
Defendant, countersigned by Defendant's counsel, and
concurred by the signature of the Assistant United States
consideration of the sworn testimony of Defendant, as well as
the representations of his counsel and the representations of
the Government, the Court finds that the oral and written
waiver of an Article III Judge and consent to enter a guilty
plea before a Magistrate Judge was freely and voluntarily
given. Additionally, the Court finds that the written waiver
and consent was freely and voluntarily executed by Defendant
Jesse Tichenor only after having had his rights fully
explained to him and having a full understanding of those
rights through consultation with his counsel, as well as
through questioning by the Court. The Court
ORDERED the written Waiver and Consent to
Enter Guilty Plea before a Magistrate Judge filed and made
part of the record.
the Court determined that Defendant's plea was pursuant
to a written plea agreement and asked the Government to
tender the original to the Court. The Court asked counsel for
the Government if the agreement was the sole agreement
offered to Defendant. The Government responded that it was,
and counsel for Defendant confirmed the same. The Court asked
counsel for the Government to summarize the written plea
agreement. Counsel for Defendant and Defendant stated that
the agreement as summarized by counsel for the Government was
correct and complied with their understanding of the
agreement. The undersigned further inquired of Defendant
regarding his understanding of the written plea agreement.
Defendant stated he understood the terms of the written plea
agreement and also stated that it contained the whole of his
agreement with the Government and no promises or
representations were made to him by the Government other than
those terms contained in the written plea agreement. The
Court ORDERED the written plea agreement
undersigned then reviewed with Defendant Count Seventy-Eight
of the Superseding Indictment and the elements the Government
would have to prove, charging him with Unlawful Use of
Communication Facility in violation of 21 U.S.C. §
843(d). Subsequently, Defendant Jesse Tichenor pled
GUILTY to the charge contained in Count
Seventy-Eight of the Superseding Indictment. However, before
accepting Defendant's plea, the undersigned inquired of
Defendant's understanding of the charges against him,
inquired of Defendant's understanding of the consequences
of him pleading guilty to the charges, and obtained the
factual basis for Defendant's plea.
Government proffered a factual basis for the plea.
counsel for Defendant nor Defendant's counsel disputed
the proffer when given the opportunity to do so. Defendant
stated he heard, understood, and did not disagree with the
Government's proffer. Additionally, Defendant provided a
factual basis for the commission of the offense. The
undersigned Magistrate Judge concludes the offense charged in
Count Seventy-Eight of the Superseding Indictment is
supported by an independent basis in fact concerning each of
the essential elements of such offense, and that independent
basis is provided by the Government's proffer.
undersigned then reviewed with Defendant the statutory
penalties applicable to an individual adjudicated guilty of
the felony charge contained in Count Seventy-Eight of the
Superseding Indictment and the impact of the sentencing
guidelines on sentencing in general. From said review, the
undersigned Magistrate Judge determined Defendant understood
the nature of the charges pending against him and that the
possible statutory maximum sentence which could be imposed
upon his conviction or adjudication of guilty on Count
Seventy-Eight was imprisonment of not more than four (4)
years. The undersigned further determined Defendant
understood a fine of not more than $250, 000.00 could be
imposed, both fine and imprisonment could be imposed, he
would be subject to a period of at least three (3) years of
supervised release, and the Court would impose a special
mandatory assessment of $100.00 for the felony conviction
payable on or before the date of sentencing. Defendant al s o
understood that his sentence could be increased if he had a
prior firearm offense, violent felony conviction, or prior
drug conviction. He also understood he might be required by
the Court to pay the costs of his incarceration, supervision,
and probation.
undersigned also informed Defendant whether he understood
that by pleading guilty he was forfeiting other rights such
as right to vote, right to serve on a jury, and the right to
legally possess a firearm.
the undersigned asked Defendant whether he understood that if
he were not a citizen of the United States, by pleading
guilty to a felony charge he would be subject to deportation
at the conclusion of any sentence; that he would be denied
future entry into the United States; and that he would be
denied citizenship if he ever applied for it. Defendant
stated that he understood.
undersigned also reviewed with Defendant his waiver of
appellate and collateral attack rights. Defendant understood
that he was waiving his right to appeal his conviction and
sentence to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on any ground
whatsoever, including those grounds set forth in 18 U.S.C.
§ 3742. Defendant further understood that under his plea
agreement, he was waiving his right to challenge his
conviction and sentence in any post-conviction proceeding,
including any proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 2255.
Defendant understood, however, that he was reserving the
right to raise claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or
prosecutorial misconduct that he learned about after the plea
hearing and agreed that he was unaware of any ineffective
assistance of counsel or prosecutorial misconduct in his case
at this time. From the foregoing, the undersigned determined
that Defendant understood his appellate rights and knowingly
gave up those rights pursuant to the conditions contained in
the written plea agreement.
undersigned Magistrate Judge further examined Defendant
relative to his knowledgeable and voluntary execution of the
written plea bargain agreement and determined the entry into
said written plea bargain ...
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To keep their Hollywood looks, many celebs try to turn back time by going under the knife. Others seek surgery as they try to improve their questionable assets.
We've put together a photo gallery of some of Tinseltown's most shocking transformations including Franken-Heidi Montag's plastic surgery mega-makeover and Amy Winehouse's incredible implants.
There's also pics of Lisa Rinna's puffy pout, Kate Gosselin's scarily toned tummy and Barry Manilow's funk-ed out face.

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CALGARY - There may not have been a more battle-tested team in the world junior hockey championship than Sweden.
It should be no surprise, then, that the nation outlasted Russia in a marathon of a game on Thursday to win its first gold medal at the tournament in 31 years. The Swedes downed Russia 1-0 in overtime, upending the defending tournament champs.
In its journey to gold, Sweden played in four overtime/shootout games.
They beat Switzerland 4-3 in a shootout on Dec. 28; they erased a 3-0 third period deficit against Russia on New Year's Eve, winning in overtime, and they came back from a 2-0 hole, scoring a shootout win over Finland to land in the gold-medal game.
Thursday, forward Mika Zibanejad ended a sensational game with an equally sensational solo effort, finally solving Russian goalie Andrei Makarov on a backhanded deke at 10:09 of overtime, blowing the roof off of the Scotiabank Saddledome, lifting 18,722 fans to their feet.
It was the second impressive thing the 18-year-old did that day. In the morning and before the start of OT, Zibanejad predicted to his teammate Jeremy Boyce-Rotevall that he would net the game-winner against the favoured Russian team.
"They lost the puck and Mika was quick on it," Boyce-Rotevall said of the broken play that would break the Russian's hearts. "I knew he was going to score. He told me (Thursday) morning he was going to finish this game off."
"You have to decide if you want to win this. In the morning it was a joke, but now it's not a joke anymore," Zibanejad said of his eerie prediction.
Added Swedish head coach Roger Ronnberg: "Everybody can be the hero . . . that's Mika, giving us the big goal when we needed it most. I couldn't believe (the goal). I was waiting for the referee to review it or something, I didn't believe it. I still don't believe it yet."
Zibanejad will be remembered as the hero of the game, but it was Makarov who was the star of the show.
While the players in front of him managed a paltry four shots on net through two periods and an overall total of 17 through 70 minutes of ice time, the 18-year-old Saskatoon Blades star came through with a monstrous 57-save effort.
Makarov simply picked up where he left off in the semifinal. There, he came in for Andrei Vasilevski after Canada scored its fifth goal against him late in their comeback bid. Makarov was back in front of the firing squad against the Swedes but showed what he's capable of.
"Fifty-eight shots is good for Sweden, good for me, for my stats," Makarov said, drawing a laugh out of the media around him. "It's all right. Probably I'm playing (today) for (the Saskatoon Blades).
"It's all right."
To the delight of the decidedly pro-Swedish crowd at the Saddledome, the Russians looked nothing like the suave, fluid team that it was out of the gate against Canada. Thursday night's Russians bumbled with the puck and were completely unable to put shots on Gustafsson, let alone score.
Russia's slow start morphed into a bad game in the second period, as they managed just a single shot — and that came from well out of harm's way. When Russian winger Nikita Gusev's clearing shot from centre ice was gloved by Gustafsson, Calgary fans gave the player and his team mock cheers for increasing its shot total by 20 per cent, from four to five.
"It's a big win for Sweden," Russian head coach Valeri Bragin said through a translator. "It was a very hard game, a lot of emotions. We had a game that went to overtime as well against the Czechs and an emotional game against Canada, a lot of emotion and a lot of effort."
Russian captain and tournament MVP Yevgeni Kuznetsov put together his team's first major chance of the night when he clanged a one-timer off of both posts at 9:30 of the third on the power-play.
Kuznetsov would give Gusev a golden chance at the game-winner, sliding a gorgeous backhand pass across the ice to his streaking linemate, but Gustafsson saved the day.
Midway through overtime, Zibanejad collected a loose puck just inside the Russian blue line and burst to the net to finally beat Makarov. The celebration was on from there and the Swedes promised to take the party well into Friday morning.
With files from Vicki Hall, Calgary Herald
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A new report from the Iowa Policy Project and Good Jobs First is warning folks around the country to take note: Ideas for bad public policy have friends in state legislatures, and Iowa is no exception. Here's what IPP sent out last week:
One purveyor of those bad ideas is a corporate-oriented outfit called the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. That organization puts out a report annually called Rich States, Poor States, ranking states for their adherence to what ALEC likes to tell people are policies that promote growth. One problem: They don't promote growth. And now Iowans and residents of other states have a research-based resource that will help them to sort fact from fiction when the traveling medicine show rolls into their state capitals.
That resource is the new report from IPP's Peter Fisher and GJF's Greg LeRoy and Philip Mattera, who dissect the ALEC report and not only expose its flawed methodology, but show what happens when you look at all 50 states and how well (or poorly) they actually do on important economic measures when they follow the ALEC formula.
The report by IPP and Good Jobs First is not an academic exercise; the Iowa General Assembly starts up again in January, and ideas about what's ahead already are circulating. The report shows that when politicians are peddling tax cuts as a sure path to economic prosperity, it's time to check the bottle for the ingredients. Snake oil is going to be at the top of the list.
Here are links to resources on the IPP website and blog:
Our news release: http://www.iowafiscal.org/2012releases/121128-IPP-GJF-snakeoil-release.html
A link to the full report (PDF): http://www.iowafiscal.org/2012docs/121128-snakeoiltothestates.pdf
Peter Fisher's blog post on Iowa Policy Points: http://iowapolicypoints.org/2012/11/29/states-should-beware-alec-brand-snake-oil/
An excerpt:
ALEC's rankings are based on arguments and evidence that range from deeply flawed to nonexistent, consistently ignoring decades of peer-reviewed academic research.
What we know from research is that the composition of a state's economy — whether it has disproportionate shares of high-growth or low-growth industries — is a far better predictor of a state's relative success over the past five years. Public policy makers need to stick to the basics and recognize that public services that benefit all employers.
We are seeing a lot of attention from around the country, as we noted above. On Saturday, Bill Moyers posted about it on Facebook:
A new study shows that recommendations from ALEC, the pro-corporate organization we investigate in this week's rebroadcast, have a negative impact on state economies.
Moyers also reposted an article in Mother Jones by Erika Eichelberger, who wrote our report about the ALEC rankings.
And other folks around the country are seeing the connections between ALEC and political proposals, and noting the IPP/GJF perspective. See these links:
AFL-CIO Blog:
Dayton Daily News:
Tulsa World:
Finally, if you agree that work like this is important to helping Iowans engage in the policy debates at our State Capitol, please consider a tax-deductible donation to the Iowa Policy Project. You can donate securely online at the link below. There's no better way to greet the medicine show when it rolls into the capital city than with strong messages backed by good research in support of the investments that represent Iowa values.
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[Note from BFIA editor: See links to our previous posts about ALEC on Blog for Iowa below]
More info.
Iowa's Voter Id Bill can be found here: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&ga=84&hbill=HF95
ALEC Exposed: http://alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed
ALEC Voter ID Act Template: http://alecexposed.org/w/images/d/d9/7G16-VOTER_ID_ACT_Exposed.pdf
American Legislative Exchange Council: http://www.alec.org/
Previously on Blog for Iowa
Every member of the [Iowa] [update] House Republican delegation is a member of ALEC by virtue of not opting out of such membership. Membership dues are paid by the state, that is, by taxpayer money.
All House Democrats have resigned membership in ALEC.
And directly from the ALEC.org page:
Terry Branstad, founding member of ALEC
To find more articles about ALEC on Blog for Iowa, click on the category "ALEC" in the left-hand sidebar.


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Biggert questions AARP neutrality, quits debate
Veteran Republican U.S. Rep. Judy Biggert has dropped out of a radio debate with Democratic challenger Bill Foster that was set for Oct. 16, saying a co-sponsor didn't appear neutral.
At issue for Biggert is information from AARP and the organization's logo appearing in liberal-sponsored television advertising and mailers that attacked her. Biggert announced her withdrawal from the debate in a statement Wednesday night.
WLS 890-AM was co-sponsoring the one-hour debate with AARP. WLS morning co-host Bruce Wolf was supposed to moderate, AARP spokeswoman Heather Heppner said.
Heppner said AARP is nonpartisan and disappointed Biggert won't debate Foster. Biggert, in part, questioned whether AARP can be a "neutral arbiter."
Biggert, a Hinsdale resident, is seeking re-election Nov. 6 in the new 11th Congressional District, which stretches from Aurora in the west, runs east through DuPage County and dips south toward Joliet. She's been in Congress since 1999.
Foster, of Naperville, served in Congress from March 2008 to January 2011 after defeating Republican Jim Oberweis in a special election.
One TV ad from last week, titled "Judy Biggert: Bankroll" and paid for by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, attacked her for purportedly favoring tax cuts for the wealthy and "removing Medicare's promise of secure health coverage." AARP's logo appeared in the spot, along with a note citing the organization for information.
But Heppner said AARP takes public positions on issues and can't control how the information is used by others.
"AARP is an organization that frequently gets cited by think tanks and political candidates without our knowledge," Heppner said.
In a statement, Foster criticized Biggert for pulling out of the debate that would have been on WLS radio from 6 to 7 p.m. Oct. 16.
"Congresswoman Biggert has broken her commitment to seniors yet again, and now refuses to explain why she voted to slash their hard-earned benefits, " Foster said.


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The Nasty Bits: Pickled Feet
Recipes and stories for everything but the oink.
For many people, the passing of Halloween signals that it is time to start fretting about the gift-giving season. For the offal lover on your list, consider this: pickled offal and animal parts. Nothing says, "I care for you. You are a special, appreciated person in my life," like a jar of pickled feet, and if you've gone through the trouble of pickling the parts yourself, all the better.
I highlight the merits of pickling chicken feet only because poultry claws take on an intriguingly cadaverous look when pickled. Think of Inferi rising out of the water if you happen to be a Harry Potter reader (if you're not, Inferi are corpses bewitched by Voldemort and company to do evil bidding in the later books in the series). But really, any kind of offal, or even marbled meat, tastes good in this pickling liquid.
Shanghainese Pickling Liquid
What's New On Serious Eats
The liquid is a Shanghainese specialty, made from the all-important Shaoxing Rice Wine and a combination of fermented rice, salt, and spices, including though not limited to: star anise, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, fennel, and sometimes, a touch of Sichuan peppercorns. In addition to chicken feet, I've pickled trotters, pork neck, pig ears, and duck and chicken gizzards in the liquid and have yet to be less than delighted with the results. It's a light pickling liquid that turns your food item into a juicier, more alcoholic version of itself, so while the essential textures stay the same, the taste is that much more interesting after a nice long soak in the brine.
The pickling liquid can be found wherever you find Shaoxing Rice Wine, which is to say, in the soy sauce and cooking wine aisle at most Chinese markets. So while you may not have heard of this miracle product before, it's actually more accessible than you may think. Like different brands and types of soy sauce, not all pickling liquids are created equal: the inferior ones are mostly saline solutions, whereas the better, usually pricier versions smell rich with fermented rice wine and spices. Look for a label that reads "Pickling Solution." The bottle will more likely than not indicate that it is a specialty of Shanghai or somewhere in that Eastern region of China, though not always.
How to Pickle
The procedure for pickling is a snap. You simmer whatever you plan to pickle in water in exactly the same manner as you would for stock, which, by the way, is a handy by-product of this process. Then soak your simmered items in the pickling solution for a few hours to a few days, depending on the size of the item and the desired degree of saltiness. I usually add more crushed black peppercorns or a more Sichuan peppercorns to the brine before letting everything soak.
The entire foot, gizzard, and so forth must be immersed in the liquid for even pickling. I like to use my canning jars that double as jam and confit jars, though a cylindrical plastic container will do. A batch of trotters or a large hunk of pork neck takes at least two days to absorb the brine. A smaller item like poultry feet requires just a few hours in the liquid. You can preserve your items in a diluted solution of the pickling liquid simply by adding water to the container (the water prevents your food from getting increasingly salty), or you can remove the food from the solution entirely and keep it in the refrigerator for up to a week. The solution may be used once or twice more before it loses its pickling prowess.
How to Serve
When to serve your pickled products? They are best straight out of the refrigerator as cold appetizers. Since they've been infused with alcohol, the pickled items pair well with a variety of sakes and beers. Or, you can, as I frequently do, carry them around in a container to have a snack on the run, since they don't need to be heated for your eating enjoyment. They really do make a nice gift for the right person, and best of all, yours will probably be the only pickled offal gift sitting on the counter along with the usual assortment of jams, fruitcakes, and cookies.
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I'm having a problem connecting a 700-R4 to a low-mileage '95 LT1. A friend had this '95 LT1 with a T56 transmission in his '57 Chevy, and when he pulled it out to convert to a new LS3 I bought the whole engine/trans package. In turn, the plan was to install the engine in my wife's '57 Chevy, but couple it to a rebuilt, never installed 700-R4 transmission, then hook up the T56 to my '50 Chevy coupe's SBC, which is a story for another day.
I've spoken with vendors of parts for both these components and have gotten different suggestions. The first explanation I got was that the current throttle body and ECM would have to be replaced with a '93 model because there is no way to hook up the TV transmission cable to the throttle body, and the current ECM is looking for a six-speed transmission. This would set me back about $2,500 (yikes!), and I would have to dump the new Holley 58mm throttle body that was installed just before I bought the engine. The second suggestion was the 700-R4 only needs a torque converter lockup switch and no TV is needed, which doesn't make sense to me.
Others suggest converting to a carb setup, but using one of the new stand-alone throttle body setups currently being celebrated in the magazines. But again, well over $2,500 by the time I buy the intake, fuel injection system, distributor, damper, and timing cover with the Opti spark hole blocked.
And finally, some say to switch to a 4L60E transmission, but again, big money for little bang and then I'm stuck with a "new" 700 transmission.
At this point, I have the proverbial stepchild nobody wants and I wished I would have just converted to a LS, it would have cost about the same and would have been a better engine/injection system. Thanks for any help!
Fremont, Ca
The 700-R4, also known as the 4L60, definitely needs the TV cable, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. If you're intent on using the 700-R4, I'm afraid the first bit of advice that you received is probably your cleanest way out. On the upside, you shouldn't encounter any mechanical roadblocks on the way.
A '93 F-body came from the factory with that 700-R4 transmission, and the '93 vintage throttle body, therefore it has provisions for a TV cable. You reference the Holley 58mm unit that is currently installed, so I would consider replacing it with the following: Summit Racing - 1993 Chevrolet Camaro Holley High-Flow EFI Throttle Bodies 112-505. As for the computer, I would simply buy a stock '93 Camaro ECM from any retailer, or preferably junkyard, and send it off to have it tuned. You could actually leave the stock ECM alone, but there are a plethora of reputable mail order tuners that will do a custom tune for very little expense.
You threw out a reference to $2,500 in order to facilitate this sort of swap, but I can't see it being anywhere close to that neighborhood. I'm thinking you're all in for well under a grand, and that's with no ECM core and before you Ebay off the existing throttle body. Clearly, other options exist if you choose to bail on the 700-R4, but they just seem like good ways to increase the cost of the project for no good reason, and we all know I'm not a proponent of fiscal irresponsibility.
In Which Direction To Go
I have been a subscriber for a very long time, dating all the way back to when my dad and I rebuilt a '63 Nova SS when I was a young man. I have a 1970 Chevelle that I'm rebuilding, and one of the restoration shops suggested that it might be cheaper in the long run to find a better shell. So I did some digging over the past few months and I now have some questions in regards to what I've recently picked up. It is pretty solid, and certainly a much nicer starting point than the other one. Now I am wondering if it's a better idea to do an OEM-type restoration as opposed to making it a hot rod. The VIN is 136370K179920 and the Body Tag information is as follows: top line ST, 70, 13637, Kan353529, BDY; second line TR, 770, 50/50, PNT; third line 03B, 00535, L.
I'm just trying to decide which way I want to go, as I was told it was a 396/four-speed car. Any help would be appreciated, and I look forward to many more years of reading.
Eric Lanum
I can't really tell you anything about the drivetrain from the information that you've supplied other than the fact that it was born as a V-8. Chevy didn't put the code for the car's specific engine in the VIN until 1972. The VIN decodes as Chevrolet (1), Malibu, Concours station wagon, 8-cylinder (36), 2-door sport coupe (37), 1970 (0), Kansas City, MO (K), and sequence number 79,920. In addition to what we already know from the VIN, the trim tag, or body number plate, tells us that your car was produced in Gobi Beige with a saddle vinyl interior. With the way your question is written, I'm guessing that you bought it with no motor or transmission, so we can't really learn anything more there, ie: engine codes, etc.
It's hard enough to verify a car's authenticity even with a great deal of supporting evidence, let alone a deal like what you appear to have on your hands. If I were you, I'd build it for what I wanted it to be, nothing more, nothing less. I don't think there's any future in trying to make it into something it's not, or at the very least, something you're unsure of.
Body Building
I'm a brand new subscriber to Super Chevy and I love this magazine. I especially like the Chevelle special issue I grabbed off the news stand a number of months ago. Can you guess why?
Here's my question and pertinent info. I have a '72 Chevelle project. I'm on a tight budget, but not cutting corners. The body is in pretty decent shape except for the trunk floor, trunk rain gutter, and the driver's side rear quarter around the rear tire. Concerning the quarterpanel, I see I have some options for repair. It's too far gone for body filler (already tons of it in there) and I want to replace the metal. I see I can get a body line and down skin for $60; or, I can order a full quarter for around $500. Which should I go with? I've kicked this around on an online forum and was told that what I would pay a body man to make the skin work would actually offset the cost of just buying the full quarter and having it welded in. What say you?
Mike Wiebe
Ontario, Canada
First off, I'm no body man. Secondly, I'm not there to set eyes on the project in question, and lastly, there's probably no right or wrong answer. I did, however, find this interesting little blurb on the choices at hand that might be of service in your decision making process (Precision Restorations Blog: Quarter-Panel Repair - Patch it, Skin it, or Replace it?) .
While the decision may not be clear cut, like most peeps, I do have an opinion on the topic. If it was my car and I planned to keep it, not just turn it, I would want it done as correctly as possible, and to me that means putting a full quarter on it. Again, I'm no body wiz, but if the money even wound up close, it's an easy decision, at least to me. Obviously, it still takes a highly skilled body man to do the quarter, but I don't think the potential for problems is near that of the skin replacement process.
The Camino
I have a stock 1971 El Camino with a 1996 5.7 engine with a 350 transmission with a complete Flowmaster exhaust system. I don't have any plan on changing the stock suspension at this time, as it's all new. My question is this: I want to replace my stock 15-inch Rally wheels with 17- or 18-inch Torq Thrust SL or II chrome wheels. Can I fit 17x8 on the front and 17x9 on the rear, and if so what would be the best size rims/tires to use. Thank you for any help you can give. I've been reading your magazine for years.
Robert Baber
Killeen, TX
Not having owned a '71 El Camino at this point in my career, I dialed up Don Raiser at Buffalo's TCT for the rock solid answer to your query. Between Raiser and the American Racing guide, the consensus opinion is that the 18-inch wheel is a bit too aggressive and is not recommended here. An appropriate selection for your wheel of choice would be 17x7 with a 4-inch backspace on the front, with a 225/50/17 tire. On the rear, the recommendation is for a 17x8 wheel, 4.45-inch backspace, with a 225/55/17 tire. With this combination, you shouldn't have any clearance or interference issues.


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Withdrawal: Pass the summer with boxing, golf
If you're tired of dissecting LeBron James' fourth-quarter performances, you're not the only one. While James uses the summer to lick his wounds and come up with new ways to insult Dirk Nowitzki, the rest of us can (gratefully) move on to other things. If you're not a baseball fan, the summer can seem like a barren wasteland, but it doesn't have to be. There are ways to pass the time until football starts.
Believe it or not, in just a few weeks a major boxing match will take place that doesn't involve Manny Pacquiao. On July 2, Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye will fight to unify WBA/IBF titles, and it's a heavyweight fight that's actually worth watching.
Haye, the current WBA champion, is about to retire– with only one professional loss to his name. Granted, he pulled out of a fight with Vitali Klitschko in 2009, but he's inflicted some pretty major damage since then. Hayes is the first British boxer to hold a world heavyweight title since Lennox Lewis; he's ranked third in the division after the Klitschko brothers.
It remains to be seen whether Wladimir (#1) has completely overcome his aversion to knocking out his opponents (he's done it 49 times, but it never seemed like he really wanted to). On July 2, Klitschko may not be able to indulge his penchant for going all 12 rounds because Haye loves the knockout and is unlikely to try for anything less with his retirement just around the corner.
What's better than being lulled to sleep by the dulcet tones of golf announcers? Some people are happy to forego a nap to see a now-famous Rory McIlroy collapse. If you're one of those people, be sure to pop a NoDoz June 16-19 and July 14-17: the U.S. and British Opens are imminent.
This year's U.S. Open will be the first without Tiger Woods since 1994, and much like women's tennis, the field is underwhelming. The big guys– Mickelson, Els and Singh (names even I know)– aren't exactly tearing up the course these days, and Singh didn't even show up for the U.S. Open qualifier. So which pretty-good-golfer will win the purse is anybody's guess. Heaven help McIlroy if he can't get it together with odds like this.
The FIFA Women's World Cup starts June 27, and though the U.S team is ranked number one, they haven't won the championship since 1999. Like women's tennis and men's golf (as we have just learned), women's soccer is in a transitional period with the heavy-hitters– U.S., Norway, Germany– rebuilding.
It seems that the countries long dedicated to men's soccer– Brazil, England, France– have finally taken notice of the women's game and are intent on making their dominance of the sport asexual. With the U.S. and German captains both over the hill at 35 and 33 respectively, the upstarts may have more than a decent chance at the cup.
There is always Wimbledon, of course, and the Tour de France (really, Alberto Contador?) and the World Swimming Championships (Michael Phelps will be swimming, but he's also "rebuilding," so don't expect miracles). Myriad NASCAR races offer Kyle Bush plenty of ways to get into or cause trouble.
If you're not a baseball fan and think tennis is for sissies, or that cycling isn't a sport and boxing either barbaric or lackluster, you can always use the summer months to get your fantasy league roster (and your wallet) in order– though I wouldn't count too heavily on the addition of Terrelle Pryor and Plaxico Burress to the mix. Once bitten twice shy, you know.
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WASHINGTON, DC -- The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Technology Transfer Coordinator, Under Secretary for Science Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, announced today two new model agreements that will expand access to DOE's world-class research facilities by academia and industry. The streamlined agreements will also simplify the process for gaining access to DOE facilities and promote the transfer of cutting-edge technologies from DOE national laboratories.
"This new approach will allow both university and industrial researchers greater access to our specialized, world-class facilities across the laboratory system and to work more closely with our scientists on real world problems and potential solutions," said Dr. Orbach.
Pre-approved, standardized model agreements-one for proprietary research; the other for non-proprietary research-are now authorized for use at all designated DOE user facilities at all DOE laboratories. Prospective users may use the same applicable general agreement at every facility. The agreements are intended to require minimal, if any, further negotiation and to be quickly executable.
Some of the Nation's most advanced R&D user facilities are located at DOE national laboratories. These include nanoscale science research centers, synchrotron light sources, neutron scattering facilities and supercomputers. DOE Office of Science user facilities alone collectively serve more than 20,000 users annually from academia, national laboratories and industry. DOE expects that that total number of users could more than double in the next decade as these new agreements are fully implemented across DOE laboratories and facilities.
For well over a decade, user-facility agreements have been successfully utilized for proprietary and non-proprietary research at selected DOE Office of Science-funded user facilities. More recently, the agreements have been implemented at DOE's five Nanoscale Science Research Centers for collaborative, non-commercial research. The authority to use more streamlined versions of these proven agreements is now extended to all other DOE laboratories and facilities that are approved as "designated user facilities," including those operated under DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration.
DOE recognizes the Nation's need to engage industry and universities in both basic science and commercial research, and seeks to encourage the use of its cutting-edge facilities to leverage DOE's substantial investments in these research tools. For commercial research, researchers may elect the proprietary user agreement, under which users pay the full cost for use of specialized DOE laboratory equipment and, with limited exceptions, keep as proprietary the technical data produced as well as any new inventions. For non-commercial, basic science research, researchers may elect the non-proprietary user agreement, under which the user pays only the costs of its own research with the DOE laboratory and may access specialized laboratory equipment and collaborate with laboratory scientists. Data produced under non-proprietary research is publicly available. The non-proprietary user agreement is expected to be particularly beneficial in facilitating the access of universities to DOE's national scientific facilities.
The agreements are a significant step in implementing Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman's January 31, 2008 Policy Statement on Technology Transfer, which, among other things, calls for "a major review and revision as appropriate of the Department's technology transfer policies with the goal of accelerating and simplifying the process of transferring technology."
The laboratories will use a rigorous, merit review process to select researchers who will have access to the facilities. The Access to High Technology User Facilities at DOE National Laboratories page has the model agreements, along with the current list of 34 DOE designated user facilities. This list will be updated as needed.
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From Melani of the blog 1 Year of Online Dating at 50:
I curse my mother for thinking it was avante garde to forgo the "E" on the end of my name. The current situation was only one baby example of why parents shouldn't get creative when spelling their kid's name. I've spent most of my life hearing my name pronounced, "May-lawn-ee" and then the following question, "Are you Hawaiian?"
Jesus, do I look like it?
From an LDS Living article on Mormon names:
Jennifer Mansfield, a current graduate student in the Folklore Program at Utah State University, identified six different types of Mormon names: religious (Moroni, Nephi, Brigham), combination (Taylee, Mandylyn), invented (Kaislen), creatively spelled (Kady, Taeler), ancestral (Freestone, Jenkin), and themed (Monson, Hinckley, Kimball).
From a New Zealander named India:
Having an unusual name is like being a celebrity – people assume you're interesting, even if you're not. Sometimes when I'm introduced to someone for the first time they actually say "I've been wanting to meet you; you have such a cool name". That's gotta be good, right?
From a Tipping Points post about baby names and cultural change:
Likewise, in the spread of baby names, Bentley and Ormerod think that social learning is what allowed for the increase in naming diversity, although immigration and the spread of multiple media may also have allowed individuals to copy each other in the first place.
From a Telegraph article about longevity:
The projections said that a third of babies born in 2012 would live to be 100, with nearly 40 per cent of baby girls compared to just under a third of baby boys reaching the milestone.
All the more reason to think way beyond the word "baby" when you look for "baby names."


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We were sitting around a table, talking about someone we all know, who is very successful in our field. Instinctively, I started in. "He's incredibly full of himself," I said. "And kind of a phony." One of my colleagues, a great mimic, did a spot-on imitation of the way this fellow speaks. We laughed uproariously. The Greek chorus chimed in and piled on. A dig here. A jab there. In minutes, we had taken this competitor down to size, made mincemeat of him. We felt clever, bonded, and if truth be told, superior.
Except that when I left the room, something didn't feel quite right, which was surprising. Over the years, I've had hundreds, maybe even thousands of these conversations, with scores of friends and colleagues. They're so commonplace I rarely give them a second thought.
But on this day, I unexpectedly found myself wondering about the competitor we had trashed, and how he might have felt if he heard our exchange. At a minimum, he would have been stung, and so would I, if others said those things about me, as they surely have. Then I started thinking about whether I actually believed what I'd said. I realized I actually had a broader and more nuanced set of feelings about him, including admiration.
I put down this competitor so I could feel better about myself — raised myself up at his expense. To avoid feeling "less than," I defended myself by moving to "more than." I assumed a false position of power — not just this time, but on countless previous occasions — to ward off some experience of inadequacy. I covered up my feeling of weakness with a thin gloss of strength. Above all else, I was careless.
Envy, I'm abashed to say, lay at the heart of it. For more than two decades as a journalist, envy was a steady hum in my life that sometimes turned into a roar. No matter what I wrote — even a bestselling book — it never felt good enough and neither did I. The feeling is endemic among writers, as I suspect it is in many professions. "Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little," Gore Vidal once famously remarked. Speaking of his fellow writers, the novelist Pete Dexter took it a step further: "Jealousy is the wrong word for what I usually feel. It's closer to hoping they get hit by a car."
Funny, yes, but also kind of horrifying, and toxic. When I finally left journalism, it was in large part to escape these feelings. But wherever you go, there they are. We've all felt them. Not smart enough, not accomplished enough, not thin enough, not rich enough, not admired enough. At the most primitive level, it's the feeling that we're still living in the savanna, fighting for our survival in a world of scarcity. If you get yours, then I won't get mine. The war over food has evolved into one for self-worth. The problem is it's a zero sum game you can't win. Constantly compare yourself, and no matter how good you are, eventually you're going to come up short.
The truth is I've had enough of not enough and I've also had enough of the smug superiority I've sometimes inadvertently assumed as a shield against feeling the opposite.
The first step has been to raise my awareness. That means noticing these feelings when they arise — both "not enough" and "better than," which, after all, are just two sides of the same coin. It helps a lot, I'm finding, to simply observe my feelings, rather than getting lost in them, or compelled to share them.
Two questions strike me as helpful here. When you're feeling "less than", the question is, "What do I truly appreciate about myself?" Or, as the family therapist Terrence Real puts it more lyrically, "How do I hold myself in warm regard, despite my imperfections?" When you find yourself beginning to feel "better than," the question is, "What do I truly appreciate in this other person?" Or as Real says, "How can I hold this person in warm regard, despite his/her imperfections?"
Sheryl Crow gets this just right in "Soak up the Sun":
It's wanting what you've got
I'm gonna tell everyone
To lighten up
I'm gonna tell 'em that
I've got no one to blame
for every time I feel lame."
In Buddhism, the Second Noble Truth is that all suffering is caused by craving. I've never interpreted that to mean we should let go of desire, which is quintessentially and inescapably human. Rather, we need to hold desire more gently, so we can acknowledge it, and conjure with it, and even enjoy it, without feeling consumed by it, or dependent on its being satisfied.
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One Laptop Per Child Australia received a one-off boost in the federal budget, scoring $11.7 million of funding. In addition, budget measures mean that donations to OLPC Australia will be tax deductible from 1 July.
The funding will be used to purchase Linux-based XO laptops for 50,000 students. "This investment from government is the culmination of years of hard work," OLPC CEO Rangan Srikhanta told Techworld Australia.
"We always saw this as a grassroots movement that would then lead in to government support and we've got that and we're extremely grateful to [independent Lyne MP] Rob Oakeshott, [independent New England MP] Tony Windsor and the prime minister."
Srikhanta said that Oakeshott and Windsor played a "major role" in getting the funding included in the budget.
Backgrounder: One Laptop Per Child Australia set to launch 'One Education' program.
"It was a very natural fit," Srikhanta said. "They've seen the program first hand in their electorates and they have a very strong push on the National Broadband Network and technology as a means of equalising the disadvantages based on where you live, based on geography. So for them it was really a culmination of everything they've been pulling for for quite a few years."
Ultimately OLPC Australia intends to deploy laptops to 500,000 Australian students. "[50,000 laptops is] 10 per cent. It's a pilot and we're hoping to reach in the vicinity of 2000 classrooms around Australia using this funding."
"I've seen both the gap in education particularly in regional and remote communities and I've also seen in the limited rollout of the One Laptop Per Child program so far the impacts it has on closing that gap in education," Oakeshott told Techworld Australia.
One example cited by Oakeshott is Doomadgee State School in north-west Queensland, whose principal, Richard Barrie, was an early adopter of OLPC's XO laptops. Barrie credits the program as being one of the components for the school's increase in National Assessment Program #8212; Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) test scores.
Oakeshott said that the OLPC program has also had an impact in his electorate. "I have some very remote schools, even though I'm in a coastal electorate in the mid north coast of New South Wales. We are the land of hills and valleys and so a lot of schools with really difficult access issues, both in a physical sense and a technology sense, exist.
"I've already got two schools at Mount George and Long Flat that are benefiting directly from the One Laptop Per Child program."
"I think there's a there's a challenge in public policy at the moment to get education and technology as joint partners in the future of both," Oakeshott said.
The MP said he sees links between his support of OLPC and the NBN: "Education and the value of knowledge really can play a much greater role in winning the arguments on why we're doing things such as the National Broadband rollout #8212; this is not just about movies and Angry Birds, this is an education opportunity for a very large country with a very diverse population that can deliver equity in education for all."
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Jay Maynard, better known as TRON Guy, intended on wearing his famous light-up costume to a showing of TRON: Legacy recently, but his local movie theater refused to admit him. What on earth do they have against awkward costumes?
Basically Maynard called a Minnesota theater in advance to let them know that he was going to wear his costume only to be told that he would not be allowed to watch the movie in it because it's "too distracting."
You would think that any theater would be happy to have TRON Guy show up. What is wrong with those people in Minnesota? [TMZ via Time]
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Server Snapshot: Spotlight on Dell
Once the darling of the analyst community, Dell (Round Rock, Texas) has had a tough time as of late. Even in the customer service area, where it has historically excelled, Dell has taken a hit. For example, Beaverton, Oregon based Gabriel Consulting Group's (GCG's) annual Server Vendor Preference Survey released this week revealed Dell to be lagging behind its rivals in several metrics related to satisfaction and customer care.
|Dell is all about the future as it revamps its server lines to combine AMD and Intel quad-core processors. Will that be enough to makeover its somewhat tarnished image?
"Enterprise customers see the x86 server market as a two-horse race between IBM and Hewlett-Packard," said Dan Olds, principal of the GCG. "Sun Microsystems finished third in our survey, significantly ahead of Dell despite having been in the x86 market for only a few years."
This may all be changing soon, however, as the company is in the midst of a major revamp of its server lines based around the combination of AMD- and Intel-based quad-core processors.
"In my mind, the most important aspect about the Dell line is how it will be refreshed during the next six months with new blade products and new virtualization-enabled products," said John Enck, an analyst at Gartner (Stamford, Conn.). "These new products will allow Dell to better compete with HP and IBM, with respect to blades and virtualized servers."
Damon Turnbull, client/server planning & program manager, at Dell agreed. He admitted that the biggest change since our previous Dell Server Snapshot in December 2006 occurred last month when AMD announced its Opteron 'Barcelona' processors. At the same time, Dell announced that as soon as volume shipments of the processors begin, it will offer them in all of its AMD-based servers.
"Our tests have shown that these new quad-core processors offer performance that is competitive with Intel's offering, and significantly better for floating point intensive applications, which are used by scientific and engineering departments," said Turnbull.
"We expect that the Opteron story will get even better in coming months as higher frequency quad-core Opteron processors become available and virtualization software comes out that supports the new Rapid Virtualization Indexing technology that is built into these processors," he added.
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Meanwhile, the Dell line is largely as it was at the end of last year. No servers have disappeared, though models are periodically updated with the latest proven technology.
Dell also introduced two new servers: the PowerEdge 2970 and the PowerEdge Energy Smart 2970 rack servers, both of which have an AMD Opteron processor and were the first servers on the market from a Tier 1 server vendor to include AMD Dual Dynamic Power Management, a feature designed to boost performance and optimize power consumption. These general-purpose mainstream, 2-socket, 2U servers are similar to the PowerEdge 2950 and Energy Smart 2950, with the main difference being the 2950s have Intel processors.
Turnbull characterizes the new 2970 as being very quiet. Tests of idle and stressed conditions, he said, have shown the HP DL385 G2 is 116 percent louder than the Dell PowerEdge 2970, and the IBM x3655 is 58 percent louder. He said the 2970 provides up to 27 percent greater performance per watt, as compared to the HP DL385 G2, and up to 18 percent, as compared to the IBM x3655.
Otherwise on the Dell server front, it's all "watch-out for what's coming." In May, for example, the company gave a sneak peek of its next-generation blades, due out by the end of 2007. At VMworld in September, it provided a few details about an upcoming virtualization-optimized server. This product is due out toward the end of 2007 and is code-named VESO, said Turnbull.
"Our virtualization-optimized server won't just have an AMD processor or virtualization software loaded on the hard drive, which are the two approaches that many other vendors have taken for their so-called virtualization-optimized servers," said Turnbull. "Instead, we've built a unique architecture using plenty of RAM, lots of I/O and an SD card onto which software such as ESX 3i can be loaded."
The SD (Secure Digital) card approach provides: a reduction in initial boot-up time from 15 to 17 minutes down to less than two minutes; diskless operation; and better reliability and performance over time than flash-drive implementations. Such diskless operation can avoid the hardware and energy expense of buying and running hard drives in their servers.
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I tried to use one, but I can't figure out how to set one up.
Do you add it to a separate JFrame?
I'm gonna try this(though where do I put it in the Window Listener? I'm thinking windowOpened()).
public JPasswordFrame extends JFrame() { private JPasswordField field; private JLabel label; private JButton ok; public JPasswordFrame() { setTitle("Enter password"); label = new JLabel("Enter password here."); field = new JPasswordField(); ok = new JButton("Ok"); } public String getPasswordText() { return field.getText(); } }
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I'd like it to work inside a JFrame and have JPasswordFrame come up and not go away or let the user into the JFrame until they get it right.


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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) Seth Curry scored 23 points, big men Mason Plumlee and Ryan Kelly had double-doubles and No. 2 Duke beat Temple 90-67 in a matchup of unbeatens on Saturday at the Izod Center.
Curry was 5 for 9 from 3-point range, leading Duke's 12-for-20 effort from behind the arc.
Plumlee finished with 16 points - the first time he was below 19 this season - and 14 rebounds. Kelly had 14 points and 10 rebounds for Duke (9-0) while Quinn Cook added 14 points and made three 3s.
This is the 15th time the Blue Devils have started 9-0 under coach Mike Krzyzewski, the winningest coach in Division I history with 936 victories.
The Blue Devils have three wins this season over teams ranked in the top four: No. 3 Kentucky, No. 2 Louisville, No. 4 Ohio State.
Quenton DeCosey had 13 points for the Owls (6-1), who were looking for their best start since going 14-0 in 1987-88, a season that ended with a regional weekend loss to Duke in the Izod Center.
Duke shot 51.9 percent (14 for 27) and held the Owls to 35.9 percent (14 for 39) on the way to a 46-32 halftime lead. The Blue Devils made 12 of 16 foul shots in the opening 20 minutes while Temple didn't get to the line at all. Temple finished 1 of 4 on free throws.
Duke, which came in being outrebounded 36.2-35.2, again had trouble on the boards. The Owls grabbed 10 offensive rebounds in the first half and had a 19-17 advantage overall.
The Blue Devils shot 47.5 percent for the game (28 for 59) and held the Owls to 39.7 percent (29 of 73), including 8 of 21 from 3-point range.
The Owls got within 12 points twice late, the last at 72-60 with 6:38 left on a basket by Jake O'Brien.
After a free throw by Plumlee, Curry scored the next seven points for Duke, the last a 3-pointer with 3:38 left that gave the Blue Devils their first 20-point lead, 80-60.
Duke is 20-1 at the Izod Center under Krzyzewski and the winning streak is now at 12 games. The Blue Devils are 10-0 in the NCAA tournament here, all regionals that led to Final Four berths. Their only loss in the building under Krzyzewski was 77-75 to Arizona on Feb. 28, 1989.
Duke has a record of 113-16 when it is ranked No. 2.
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Guardian writer Jess Cartner-Morley tried to re-create Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's morning routine: 5:45 am tennis, 6:45 am blow-out, at the office by 9 am. Anna makes it look easy, but as Cartner-Morley soon found, perfection is elusive. Cartner-Morley first assessed her hair: "[Wintour has] a power bob, an immaculate helmet of hair the perfect symmetry and sleekness of which verges on the surreal, whereas I have a bob in the sense that my hair is not really long and not really short but somewhere in between." Mission unaccomplished! There's always tennis, right? Nope: "Turns out that my local park won't book tennis courts out before dawn. Even when I stretch the truth and tell them it's for Anna, they are unmoved. If Anna ever moves to Hackney, she'll have to rethink her routine."
Next up, exuding general Anna-ness: "I try to persuade my son that 'a great knit is key to autumn chic,' which is, I imagine, the sort of thing Anna might say were she dressing children for school. Alfie ignores me and puts on his Transformers sweatshirt instead." Perhaps Cartner-Morley sees this as yet another strike against her in Being Anna Wintour, but we're going to count this as a victory, because a Transformers sweatshirt sounds awesome. The last task of the morning? The all-important blow-out! "[M]y hair is neat and shiny as a new pin. Time to leave for work. Looks like rain." Oh, dear! Anna never gets rained on; she has someone who takes care of that!
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A STALWART councillor, the first female group leader in Basildon, is set to resign.
The former Labour group leader, Lynda Gordon, who represents Lee Chapel North, is to step down after growing "disillusioned" after 30 years in politics.
Mrs Gordon, who left the Basildon Labour group and was expelled by the national Labour Party in acrimonious circumstances, claims she has no regrets in forming an Independent Labour Group with Phil and Pat Rackley last year.
She is fed up with the council she believes doesn't care about people and is hell bent on being a "cut-throat business".
A by-election is likely to take place for Mrs Gordon's seat, which she has held since 2004, during the borough elections on May 22, with all the main parties likely to field candidates.
Mrs Gordon, who led the opposition Labour Party between 2008 and 2012, said: "Over the years, I've built up relationships with many residents and I'll certainly miss them, but I won't miss politics.
"Having been a member of the Labour Party for more than 30 years, I now find myself in the unenviable position of not actually feeling there is any party I can vote for.
"I've not viewed being a councillor as a career move. I see it as empowering ordinary people to have a voice within an authority where they are not always listened to.
"Basildon Council is no longer a caring council and seems to pride itself more on the fact it's turning itself into a cut-throat business where people matter very little."
Mrs Gordon said another reason for leaving is she is moving out of the borough, after living in Basildon all her life.
Mrs Gordon was replaced by current Labour group leader Nigel Smith in May 2012, and resigned from the party in January 2013.
She added: "My resignation was the right thing to do and I have no regrets. I don't think it was fair I was criticised for it, but I did expect it."
She says her proudest moment was when she led Labour's opposition to the Dale Farm evictions in 2011.
If her seat is contested in May, it will be one of 15 wards. Lee Chapel North is seen as a Labour stronghold, with Mr Smith and the party's whip Alan Bennett holding the other seats.
If the Tories lose three of the other 14 seats the party is defending, the group will lose overall control of the council.


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I propose these rules for the ratings committee.
I) The Ratings Committee is made up of 9 members at any one time, and 1 sub-member. These nine members have Favor privileges overall all material except that they have written. The sub-member only has privileges over material that another ratings committee member has written.
II) Ratings Committee members must stay active. If they do not activately participate in favoring, reviewing, or improving articles in a two-week period, they will be replaced.
III) A Ratings Committee member can favor any article that they have not written. Doing so requires a short paragraph or more, made under its own topic-header in the discussion. Each favor gets its own topic header, and will follow a predetermined format (such as "Surgo's Favor" or "Favor 1" - to be decided).
IV) When an article has been favored at least once, it receives a Bronze Star. 3 favors gives an article a Silver Star, 6 a Gold Star, and 7 makes the article become a Favored Article. In order to be a true Favored Article, the author must provide a short description to allow featuring on the front page. A picture, while HIGHLY preferred, is not strictly required.
V) Requests for favoring may be made on a special page. Only the best articles should be submitted, and they should be submitted by someone OTHER than the author. When a request is made, each Ratings Committee member must look at the article, and provide some minor indication that they have read it. If it receives at least one favor, all Ratings Committee members are encouraged to read it before it is removed from the list. If it receives no favors after 4 reviews, it is removed from the list.
VI) When a Ratings Committee member steps down or is inactive for a long period of time, the sub-member becomes the Ratings Committee member. The sub-member inherits the old Ratings Committee favors. He may not re-favor an article that his direct predecessor favored, nor may he remove any favors. However, a replacement Ratings Committee member may still favor articles that were favored by a Ratings Committee member at least two positions back.
VII) When the sub-member steps into the new Ratings Committee spot, a new sub-member is chosen. This likely involves applications and a dart board, and is under the purview of Surgo.
Karrius 16:29, September 14, 2009 (UTC)
- Just curious, but at what point in this process would the RC confirm the balance point of the work? Should that sort of thing be worked out and generally accepted before it even gets a favoring request? TarkisFlux 17:14, September 14, 2009 (UTC)
- It should require a balance level category in order to be up for review. The raters can then tell whether it is balanced or not at that category.
- Regarding "V", I think that people should be able to submit their own stuff. If a user consistently submits stuff that is not favored and discarded, then we might need to change that rule. For now though, I see no problem trusting users to know when their content is ready for review. Maybe in the future we might need to require "X favored articles by a user" in order to allow them to submit their own for review. --Andrew Arnott (talk, email) 17:49, September 14, 2009 (UTC)
- Two things:
- I think there should be some sort of refractory period for rejected articles. For example, once being shot down (if such is the case), an article must wait two weeks (or some other period of time) before it can be re-nominated, regardless of how soon the author makes adjustments.
- Not quite as related, but if something gets to five or six favors with no picture, I think we as a community should probably be able to find one that is suitable by our combined efforts.
- -- Jota 18:11, September 14, 2009 (UTC)
- Two things:
- I don't see a problem with either of the two. Furthermore, I think it's pretty easy to see the level of power that an article aims at simply by eyeballing it. The difference between the levels is wide enough that it's not hard to see which category different things fall into. --Ghostwheel 19:06, September 14, 2009 (UTC)
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- For replacing the Sub-Member, maybe we shouldn't be sticking more work on the administration? I can see three ways to do it, actually:
- Democracy: People submit nominations for Sub-Member, accept them, and then get up or down votes of the entire userbase, or everyone with some number of articles. Most approvals wins. You could do a conventional election, but I personally favor approval voting, especially since that allows you to keep voting open while adding new candidates without ruining things.
- Oligarchy: The Rating Committee selects its new Sub-Member somehow, probably through nomination-acceptance-voting.
- Inheritance: The previous Sub-Member selects their replacement. This is a pretty bad idea for obvious reasons, but I'm throwing it out so that it's out there; maybe it can be made into something good.
- Democracy has the advantage of making the Ratings Committee seen as a more responsive body, while Oligarchy allows you to keep the RC good if it starts off good. --IGTN 00:39, September 20, 2009 (UTC)
- At least right now, the difference between democracy and oligarchy won't be so pronounced (since the RC of 9 or so will make the majority (or close to it) of the active user base), but it may come into play later. I think it would be easier to be an oligarchy for now, putting our trust in a safe place, and it can be changed later if something arises in such a manner that forces a reconsideration. -- Jota 01:49, September 20, 2009 (UTC)
Since everybody asked me to get a move on and finalize something, here's the next version of the ruleset.
I) The Ratings Committee is made up of ten members at any one time. Each member has Favor privileges over all material except that which they personally have written.
II) Ratings Committee members must stay active. If they do not actively participate in favoring, reviewing, or improving articles in a three-week period, they will be replaced.
III) A Ratings Committee member can favor any article that they have not written. Doing so requires a short paragraph or more, made under its own topic-header in the discussion (either the article's talk page, or the RC forum). Each favor should be under a subsection of a section entitled "Article Favors" (if on the Talk page).
IV) When an article has been favored at least once, it receives a Bronze Star. 3 favors gives an article a Silver Star, 6 a Gold Star, and 7 makes the article become a Favored Article. In order to be a true Favored Article, the author must provide a short description to allow featuring on the front page. A picture, while HIGHLY preferred, is not strictly required.
V) Requests for favoring may be made on the Rating Committee forum. Only good articles should be submitted, and you should only submit an article every other day to prevent overloading the RC members. When a request is made, interested Ratings Committee members should look at the article, and provide some minor indication that they have read it. If it receives no favors after 4 reviews, it is removed from the list.
VI) When a Ratings Committee member steps down or is inactive for a long period of time, a new member is chosen via consultation with a dartboard.
I changed it a bit because I thought the whole sub-member thing was a bit clunky (instead we'll just have 10 members and nobody can favor their own stuff). Also it's my goal to eventually have everything on the wiki rated, and I thought "you can't suggest your own articles for favors" to be counter to this goal so I changed that too. If anyone has a problem with what's here let me know and we'll work it out. Surgo 00:23, September 26, 2009 (UTC)
- I also want to note that stuff that is not all that exciting probably shouldn't be getting gold stars (though silver is fine), and I want to avoid this thing where bronze is basically shit because only 1 or 2 people cared about it. I think we need to address that before we go live. Surgo 00:32, September 26, 2009 (UTC)
- Maybe if something is deemed appropriate for its listed balance level the first reviewer gives it a star (or something else, perhaps), but anything after that must be earned on the basis of merit (and the first reviewer can say such in their review (i.e. "This article is appropriate for its balance level, but is lacking in... [whatever]."). -- Jota 00:43, September 26, 2009 (UTC)
- How's this: While all articles should strive for the distinction of becoming Gold Quality, that won't be the case of course. A Bronze article might be "hey, its a good article, worth using and reading", and if all the RC members look at it, it only takes one member to Favor it. The other members can chime in with "yeah, I agree with that" and not favor it, or they can chime in and say, "hey, this is pretty sweet, I think it deserves more than just bronze" and favor it too, and so on down the line, at least that's how I imagine this working at this point. Does that sound about right? --Ganteka Future 02:25, September 26, 2009 (UTC)
- That certainly sounds workable. Surgo 02:33, September 26, 2009 (UTC)
- Since I guess I'm in, I support GF's interpretation. - TarkisFlux 02:36, September 26, 2009 (UTC)
- I don't quite understand GF's plan. In fact, I don't even understand it well enough to summarize what I understand of it. But, since I was typing this up throughout the three above comments, I'm gonna go ahead and post it:
- Perhaps, to keep seven mild favors from making a good (but not great) article into a favored article, we can have degrees of favor: "good" (1) and "excellent" (2). It would work on a point system. 3 points would be needed for a bronze star, 7 for silver, 11 for gold, and 15 for favored (of course these numbers can be tweaked). I chose those numbers so that A) no single person can give an article a star, B) no article can be gold without at least one "excellent" rating, and C) any level can be achieved with only 8 of 10 committee members involved. --DanielDraco 03:05, September 26, 2009 (UTC)
- GF's plan is to allow the RC to support the favoring decision of a member without adding additional favor to it. So if someone favored it, and it was a bronze, and you thought that was what it deserved, you chime in as such and don't add on to the favor rating. If you thought it should be a silver or gold, you do the same but do add on to the favor rating. It basically adds the "I like this article and would favor it, but I feel it has an appropriate rating" option to your list of answers, instead of just "favor" for good stuff or "not favor" for poor stuff. - TarkisFlux 03:19, September 26, 2009 (UTC)
- That's all well and good, but what if the RC disagrees on what the article deserves? Raters A and B say that Article X should be bronze. Raters C and D scoff at the conservatism of the others, and insist that it should be featured. Raters E and F feel that featured is a status only to be imparted upon the best of the best of the best, and Article X, while excellent, only deserves gold. Raters G and H think it's good, but not amazing, so they say silver. Raters I and J think that it's a very creative and complete class, but overshot even the strongest balance point, and doesn't deserve any star at all. So, what distinction does Article X get under GF's system?
- Besides that, this brings us back to the same many-level system that we didn't like back at the old wiki. It ranges from 1 (no distinction) to 5 (featured article). Each Rater would have a different view of the difference between bronze and silver, between gold and featured, etc., so even if two Raters see an article in the exact same way, they might view the distinctions differently. --DanielDraco 22:50, September 27, 2009 (UTC)
- Raters A and B would either give it a point, or they would not if it was already bronze and move on. They've said their peace on the subject at that point. Raters C and D would give it a point each, and try to convince any raters who did not to give it one. Raters E and F would probably have given it a point, unless it was gold already, and would have to be convinced by raters C and D to give a point if they haven't already. Same for raters G and H. Raters I and J are obviously on the losing end of this vote, and could try to convince others to withdraw their support, but probably won't have much luck. Which basically makes this function like a drawn out vote, where people are allowed to change their vote after it has been cast.
- As to your second point, that seems an issue with the system as a whole rather than the 1 or 0 points you have to give it. As I don't see how your previous suggestion of adding an extra point to the available favoring pool of each RC member sidesteps that problem, I really don't know what you're trying to get at with it. - TarkisFlux 23:31, September 27, 2009 (UTC)
- Ah, I misunderstood. GF's model isn't a different point system, it's just a different way for the Raters to use it. Instead of giving a point to every article a Rater supports, the Rater only gives points to articles that (s)he wants to advance to the next step, right? Alright, I like that. Much simpler than my idea. --DanielDraco 23:42, September 27, 2009 (UTC)
Number of Points for Article Ratings Edit
The number of points needed for certain stars/ratings seem a bit high as it is. Perhaps turning them down slightly might be a good idea? For example, if even one member of the FA committee thinks a specific article is "excellent", that might warrant a bronze star all by itself to generate more interest in that article. Perhaps something like Bronze: 2, Silver: 5, Gold: 9, FA: 12? Perhaps push bronze up to 3 and silver to 6 if we don't want a single person with an excellent rating to give an article a bronze star, but the general idea is that our requirements might be too high currently... --Ghostwheel 04:25, December 26, 2009 (UTC)
- I don't necessarily agree with the ability of a single rater to confer a bronze star, but I do think the other requirements may be a tad high (thus saying Casper's proposal has some merit), given the difficulty we have had getting everyone to rate everything, especially since some of us are more specialized or specific in what we are willing or able to rate. -- Jota 19:00, December 26, 2009 (UTC)
- I agree; we need to downteak the number of points required for various ratings. Last I checked, we have a grand total of one gold-rated article. I also agree that the minimum number for a rating should be at least 3. I'd suggest that we try thresholds at 3, 6, 9, and 12. --DanielDraco 23:16, December 26, 2009 (UTC)


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The first (and most ignored) rule of preaching the gospel: "Know your audience."
A friend's birthday party occasioned one of the odder questions I've been asked lately: "Do you practice religion?" My questioner seemed genuinely curious-not hostile or incredulous-but I couldn't help feeling as if I'd been asked how often I sacrifice goats. The stylish, 25-year-old woman represented the demographic brass ring for most churches, the coveted-though-AWOL, professional, single "young adult." Yet she knew next to nothing about religion.
It's the kind of party conversation I sometimes have when I give a truthful answer to "What do you do for a living?" But I've never really figured out just how to explain my faith to my unchurched peers. For them it's just a quirky part of my personality. That's not to say they don't have the same needs that religion fills for me, they'd just never think an institution like Catholicism could fill those needs. As for me, I am often left feeling like I've missed an opportunity to give an account of Catholicism that isn't focused on the media darlings of celibacy, abortion, sex abuse, or homosexuality.
The unchurched and seemingly uninterested masses are certainly not new, which makes it all the more surprising that as a church we are constantly missing the opportunity to reach them. On Christmas Eve this year, I went to Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City and found the massive space absolutely packed-with tourists who probably hadn't darkened a church door since their wedding, if ever. My family was among the few who knew the responses or tried to sing. Receiving puzzled looks in response to my offered hand at the sign of peace, I wondered if anyone had given thought to the fact that most of the people had no idea what was going on. Since, to my horror, the presider had mentioned the "violation of children" in his Christmas Eve homily, I felt certain the answer was no.
But that preaching gaffe at least offered an insight into why our message isn't getting out among the young and trendy and the vacationers who flock to Fifth Avenue: We talk about ourselves too much.
Think about it: On the pages of both secular and Catholic press (including this column), we read a lot about intrachurch fights over things like sex, women's ordination, the role of the laity, papal authority-as if these make up the content of our faith. It's not that these issues aren't important, but as evangelical tools they either make us look medieval to outsiders-what other church still has the equivalent of a monarch?-or, worse, hypocritical, carrying on about chastity while priests get perp-walked on TV. All this conspires to make religion irrelevant or corrupt in the eyes of many. The tragedy is that the gospel is anything but, and we all know why.
We have Jesus, for one, and his message of radical forgiveness, nonviolence, universal welcome, and love for the poor (and the rich, too). We have an astonishing history of educational and charitable action, smart and holy people, and thoughtful responses to the world around us. We have a communion of people from virtually every race, nation, language, and class; and around the globe they are doing amazing things in the struggle for justice, peace, and human rights. Talk about a story worth telling! Why aren't we?
This season of Lent is supposed to be a time of conversion, literally turning away from some things and turning toward others. Perhaps this Lent we could turn away from condemning the unchurched culture around us for its alleged relativism, hedonism, and materialism. After all, we're no less guilty of those same extremes-just read any newspaper.
We could instead spend this Lent crafting the gospel message our society needs to hear: that one's value isn't based on your job title but on the grace of being made in God's image; that "beautiful" in God's eyes doesn't have anything to do with body mass index or a close shave but everything to do with compassion, mercy, and kindness; that with Jesus you never (never!) run out of second chances; that there's a place for everyone-and we do mean everyone-in the reign of God, even if we don't always live up to God's vision.
My Christmas Eve preacher actually had the nugget he needed: "We Christians believe every individual life is holy." Sounds like a good place to start.


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The attorney representing Mario Williams' ex-fiancée in a lawsuit filed by the former Texans defensive lineman said Monday that the suit is frivolous and without merit and that Williams has inaccurately portrayed his client as a "charlatan golddigger."
Attorneys for Williams, who now plays for the Buffalo Bills, filed suit last week in Harris County state district court against Erin Marzouki, who is described as Williams' former fiancée. The suit seeks recovery of a 10.04 carat diamond ring from Marzouki in the wake of what Williams' attorneys, Monica Schulz Orlando and Michael Gary Orlando, describe as her decision in January to end her engagement.
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"This is a stupid lawsuit because it has no legal merit, and it's a stupid lawsuit because it's not going to be good for his career," Buzbee said. "(Williams) is a victim of his emotions and of bad legal advice. What he's done is kick an anthill, and you know what happens when you kick an anthill."
In his response to the lawsuit, which will be heard before 80th state District Judge Larry Weiman, Buzbee said Williams and Marzouki, a former Texans employee, dated 4½ years before becoming engaged and that Williams broke off the engagement at least five times.
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"It appeared to Marzouki that a part of Williams wanted to be married and start a family, while another part of Williams wanted to continue to live the life of a wealthy bachelor who could do whatever he wanted, with whomever he wanted, whenever he wanted," Buzbee's response said.
He also said Williams lied when he said in the suit that he gave Marzouki an American Express card on which she charged $108,000 in personal expenses. Most of those expenses, Buzbee said, were for expenses at Williams' homes.
"He has painted a picture of her as a charlatan golddigger, which is about as far from the truth as it possibly could be," Buzbee said.
Williams' attorneys have not responded to several calls seeking comment on the suit and on Buzbee's response.In this case, Buzbee said, "(Williams) is going to publicly apologize to (Marzouki). He's going to drop this stupid lawsuit."
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