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Everybody knew coming into the season that the Phils were going to win with dominating starting pitching. And they have. They've gotten some outstanding performances from their rotation so far. There's been a tweak to the formula, though, and it's an alarming one. The way the Phils are winning over their last handful of games requires them not only to excel at preventing runs, but for the other team not to catch the ball. The Phils have gone 4-2 over their last six games but scored just 20 runs. Scoring 3.33 runs per game isn't the formula for long-term success, but it's even worse than that. Thanks to seven errors by their opponents, six of the 20 runs the Phils have plated have been unearned.
Yesterday the trend continued. With the game locked at 2-2, Ryan Howard led off the bottom of the eighth with a fly ball lofted to left that eluded Florida's Logan Morrison for the second Fish error of the game. Howard came around to score on a sac fly and the Phils got out with a 3-2 win.
With the win the Phils and Marlins split the series at a game apiece. Saturday's game was postponed due to weather and will be played as part of a double-header on June 15.
The Phils lost the opener of the series 4-3. Oswalt pitched very well and the Phils got three early runs, but the Fish plated a run it the top of the sixth to cut the Phillie lead to 3-2. Oswalt came out to start the seventh, but had to leave the game with a back problem that started when pitching in the fifth and may have been made worse running to first after bunting in the sixth. Romero and Baez combined to be terrible in the seventh after he left, getting one out and allowing two runs on three hits and a walk as Florida pulled ahead 4-3. The Marlins bullpen, on the other hand, was fantastic. They allowed a hit and a walk over four scoreless innings and the Marlins held on to win by a run. Ibanez had a big game with the bat, going 2-for-4 and driving in two of the three runs for the Phils. They game was also notable because Ross Gload started in right against righty Javier Vazquez without major incident, making a nice play on a foul ball up against the wall.
Hamels was very good for the second straight start yesterday. The Phils gave him a 2-0 lead in the first thanks to a home run by Polanco, some nifty base-running by Rollins and a couple of hits from Francisco and Ibanez. Florida tied things up at 2-2 with a pair of runs in the top of the sixth on a double, two singles and a sac fly. Howard started the eighth with a fly ball lofted to left that a sliding Morrison couldn't handle. He moved to second on a single by Francisco, to third on a ground out by Ibanez and came home on a sac fly by Ruiz to give the Phils a 3-2 lead. Contreras held on for a shaky save in the ninth.
The Phillies have scored three runs in three of the last four games they have won. Their numbers overall still look great for the year for runs scored — they're averaging about 5.43 runs scored per game. They scored 56 runs in their first eight games of the season (7.0 runs per game) and 3.33 per game over their last six.
The Phillies are 10-4 on the season after beating the Florida Marlins 3-2 yesterday.
Hamels got the start for the Phillies and went seven innings, allowing two runs on seven hits and two walks. Two of the hits went for extra-bases, both doubles. He struck out seven and dropped his ERA for the year to 4.32.
He struck Chris Coghlan out swinging 1-2 for the first out of the game. Omar Infante was next and grounded to first on the first pitch of his at-bat. That brought Hanley Ramirez to the plate and Hamels walked him on a 3-1 pitch that was outside, bringing Mike Stanton to the plate with two outs and a man on first. Stanton struck out swinging 1-2 to leave Ramirez stranded.
Hamels started the second up 2-0 and struck Gaby Sanchez out swinging 3-2 for the first out. Logan Morrison followed and lined a single into right, but Hamels struck John Buck out looking 0-2 for the second out. Wes Helms hit a dribbler out in front of the plate and Ruiz threw him out at first for the third out.
Pitcher Anibal Sanchez started the third for Florida and struck out looking 1-2. Coghlan struck out swinging 3-2 for the second out. Infante bunted a ball that Howard took for the third out.
Ramirez started the fourth with a double to left. Stanton flew to left for the first out and Sanchez grounded to short with Ramirez holding second for the second. Morrison drew a walk, putting runners on first and second for Buck. Ramirez took third on a wild pitch and Morrison stole second before Hamels got Buck on a ground ball to third to leave them both stranded.
Helms led off the fifth and hit a ball to left off the glove of Ibanez for an error. The pitcher Sanchez bunted, but Ruiz hopped on it and threw Helms out at second for the first out and Coghlan grounded into a double-play behind him.
Huge defensive play for Ruiz. Throwing the runner out at second keeps the double-play in order.
Infante doubled to left to start the sixth and moved to third on a ground out by Ramirez. Stanton followed with a single into left that scored Infante and cut the Phillie lead to 2-1. Stanton moved to third on a single by Sanchez, putting men on the corners with one out for Morrison. Morrison delivered a fly ball to right deep enough for Stanton to tag and score, tying the game at 2-2. Buck grounded to short for the third out.
Hamels struck out Helms to start the seventh and switch-hitter Emilio Bonifacio hit for the pitcher Sanchez. Bonifacio bunted for a single, stole second and moved to third on an infield single by Coghlan. It put men on first and third for Infante, but Hamels got him to hit into a double-play to turn Florida away, with Polanco going to Valdez to Howard.
Madson pitched the eighth. He got Ramirez on a fly ball to left and struck out Stanton looking before Sanchez lined a ball into left that fell in front of Ibanez. Madson struck Morrison out swinging 1-2.
Contreras started the ninth with a 3-2 lead and walked Buck on a 3-1 pitch that was outside. Scott Cousins ran for Buck at first and Helms bunted him to second with the first out. Lefty Greg Dobbs hit for the pitcher Ryan Webb and grounded to short for the second out with Cousins moving to third. Contreras walked Coghlan on five pitches, bringing Infante to the plate with men on first and third. Infante hammered an 0-1 pitch down the third base line but just foul before grounding a 3-2 pitch that was probably ball foul to third to end the game.
Madson looked very good. Contreras didn't. Contreras threw 22 pitches in the game, Madson 16. The pen is well-rested after Saturday's rain (as well as the complete games from Halladay and Lee last week).
The Phillies lineup against righty Anibal Sanchez went (1) Victorino (2) Polanco (3) Rollins (4) Howard (5) Francisco (6) Ibanez (7) Ruiz (8) Valdez. The Phils return to their normal lineup after starting Gload and Orr against the righty Vazquez in game one.
Victorino led off the bottom of the first chopped a ground ball to short that Ramirez handled for the first out. Polanco was next and hit a 1-0 pitch to right center that got a ton of help from the wind and went out to put the Phils up 1-0. Rollins followed with a walk on a 3-2 pitch. He went on a delayed steal as Howard took strike two to run the count to 2-2. With the extreme shift on for Howard, the third baseman Helms was covering second and had the throw from Buck go off the end of his glove, allowing Rollins to take third. Howard walked, putting men on first and third for Francisco with one down and Francisco popped to Ramirez in shallow left with both runners holding. Ibanez picked him up, though, singling up the middle on the first pitch of his at-bat. Rollins scored to make it 2-0 with Howard moving to second. Ruiz struck out swinging 2-2 to leave both men stranded.
Another big hit in the series for Ibanez. Francisco can't bring the runner home with one out and a man on third. Rollins would have been safe on the throw that went off of Helms's glove even if it had been handled cleanly.
Valdez started the second and drew a walk on a 3-2 pitch. Hamels tried to bunt, go behind 0-2, then swung away 2-2 and hit into a double-play to clear the bases for Victorino. Victorino grounded back to the mound for the third out.
Don't mind Hamels swinging away once it got to 2-2, but it would have been better if he'd gotten the bunt down instead of getting behind 0-2.
Howard and Francisco singled back-to-back with two outs in the third. Ibanez struck out swinging 1-2 to leave the runners stranded at first and second.
Valdez and Hamels both struck out as the Phils went in order in the fourth.
Victorino started the fifth with a single, but was picked off of first for the first out before Polanco singled to right. Rollins and Howard both struck out to leave Polanco at first.
Francisco walked to start the sixth with the game tied at 2-2. Ibanez was next and grounded to second with Francisco forced at second for the first out. Ruiz and Valdez both struck out to leave Ibanez at first.
Third straight inning for the Phils where they had two strikeouts in a row to end the inning with at least one man on base. In five of six innings to this point, the last out of the inning for the Phils came when they struck out.
Hamels was due to lead off the seventh, having thrown 101 pitches in the game. With righty Ryan Webb on the mound for the Marlins, Gload hit for Hamels and grounded to short for the first out. Victorino grounded short for the second out before Polanco singled up the middle. Rollins grounded to second to end the inning.
Howard started the eighth and lofted a fly ball to left towards the foul line. Morrison made a long run, then a sliding effort, and had the ball go off of his glove for an error. Francisco was next and chopped a ball on the left side of the infield that got through between short and third for a single that moved Howard up to second. Ibanez hit a ball on the ground to third, but not very hard. Helms fielded and threw to second to forced Francisco for the first out, but Ibanez was safe at first and Howard moved to third. Ruiz hit a ball into center deep enough for Howard to tag and score without a play at the plate, putting the Phils up 3-2. Valdez grounded to second for the third out.
Lot of good fortune for the Phils there, but they'll take it. Morrison should have made the play on the ball hit by Howard. Francisco's hit had eyes, chopped through the left side of the infield. Ibanez's ball was just not hit quite hard enough to be a double-play, although it was nice hustle by Ibanez to run through first and make sure that didn't happen.
Victorino was 1-for-4 in the game and 1-for-7 with two walks in the two-game set. 327/373/491 on the year. He's 3-for-his-last-19.
Polanco is a monster. 3-for-4 with a home run yesterday, which was the only extra-base hit for the Phillies in the game. 4-for-9 in the series. 9-for-his-last-21 and hitting 373/413/492 on the year.
Rollins 0-for-3 with a walk and a run scored yesterday. 1-for-7 with a walk and a double in the series. 298/355/368 so far. He's 3-for-his-last-15.
Howard 1-for-3 with a walk and a run scored. 1-for-6 with a walk and three strikeouts in the series. 288/344/538. 3-for-his-last-27. Six strikeouts in his last 16 at-bats.
Francisco was 2-for-3 with a walk yesterday and 2-for-4 with a walk in the series. Gload started the first game of the series in right. Francisco is hitting 275/351/431 for the year.
Ibanez 1-for-4 with an RBI and five men left on base. 3-for-8 with three RBI in the series, raising his line on the year to 236/300/327. He doesn't have a walk or an extra-base hit in 24 at-bats over his last six games.
Ruiz was 0-for-3 with a game-winning sac fly and two strikeouts. 1-for-7 with a double and three strikeouts in the series. 318/367/523.
Valdez was 0-for-3 with a walk and two strikeouts. Orr started at first in the first game of the set. Valdez is at 325/372/400 for the year.
Joe Blanton (0-1, 10.45) faces righty Shawn Marcum (2-1, 2.55) tonight when the Phils play the Brewers. Marcum has made three starts on the year. He didn't fare well his first time out, allowing four runs in 4 2/3 innings to the Reds, but has allowed just two runs in 13 innings over his last two starts. Blanton has made two starts on the year and both of them have been awful. Opponents are hitting .378 against him so far. The Phils could have skipped him with the rainout on Saturday, but chose not to, which I think is the right decision.


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Baby's Brain in Week 50
As your baby nears her first birthday, watch for this interesting phenomenon: Set out an unusual object—maybe a wind-up bunny, an electronic chirping chick, or just a new piece of kitchen equipment. Because children are innately curious, your child will likely approach the object. As she does, she'll look at you as if asking, "Is touching this object a good idea or bad idea?"
While your child is curious about the object, she's also determined to be safe as she investigates it. (Remember, as early as their first week, babies instinctively act in ways that assure they'll survive. And by week 36, your child was mimicking your actions, assuming you knew best.)
Now, at this age, when your child references your face, she's reading whether you think her actions are dangerous or safe. If you smile and nod, she'll proceed. If you look horrified, she'll stop in her tracks. She'll do so with respect of new, strange, wonderful, and dangerous objects—and new people she encounters, as well.
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Did the children look in both boxes? Nope. They only looked in the box that had prompted a smile from the experimenter's face. These one-year-olds had read the experimenter's emotional response, taken it to heart, trusted her judgment, and kept away from what the adult had communicated to be displeasing. Talk about impressionable!
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Guns in the home: How insurance works
Your insurer may not ask if you have firearms in your house, but it's a good idea to bring it up yourself.
This post comes from Mark Chalon Smith at partner site Insurance.com.
While gun control legislation may remain a divisive issue with uncertain outcomes, there are guidelines pertaining to firearms when it comes to homeowners insurance.
Most standard homeowners policies cover rifles and pistols if they're stolen or damaged in a fire, but usually up to a maximum of $2,500, according to Pete Moraga, a spokesman for the Insurance Information Network of California. If you have a large collection of guns or ones that are particularly valuable -- perhaps a group of antique side arms -- then you may have to buy a policy rider to ensure they'll be replaced or that you'll be reimbursed, he says.
It's much the same process as with other big-money items, such as jewelry and fine art, where you discuss the pieces with an agent and come to a reasonable coverage figure.
Safety always an issue for gun insurance
To keep premiums for the standard policy from soaring, the owner may have to show that the rifles and pistols are properly secured in locked gun cases, have trigger locks, and, of course, are out of the reach of children, says Michael Barry, a spokesman for the Insurance Information Institute.
"It's all about proving to an insurer just how responsible you are when it comes to firearms. It's clear that insurers are more likely to look favorably on the gun owner if they take special precautions to store the weapon and have a gun lock on the gun," Moraga says.
Moraga adds that insurers usually don't bring up firearms when writing a policy. But it's a good idea to tell them upfront if you have any.
"Although insurers may not specifically ask about weapons on their policy questionnaire, because of the higher liability risk of a gun, homeowners should make sure to let their agent or insurance company know," he says. "If an insurer does not know that a homeowner owns a gun and the homeowner files a later claim, the claim may be denied."
What happens if you accidentally shoot someone or yourself while in the home? The Insurance Information Institute says your standard policy will cover some or all of the damages, including medical bills, property damage and liability claims, depending on the amount of coverage you have.
But the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants says on its 360 Degrees of Financial Literacy website that you may need to buy additional coverage -- such as "sporting firearm insurance," "collector's firearm insurance" or "gun club liability insurance" -- to guarantee you're fully protected.
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I to was in army 1969 yes V.nam. I was trained on how to use a weapon (m 14) yes it was able to be used as full auto. on the range we were limited to semi auto. in sighting in we were single shot. a person that has a gun and knows how to use it only needs 1 shot. as so many people have said more laws wont fix the problem. making the laws that we already have work will help. helping the people that have mental problems will also help.
people think about this.
we did not have these kind of problem when we (age 65) were growing up. ask your selves why that is, and lets try as a nation to get back to that way of life
".......9-1-1......is this a medical emergency?"............"Not yet,...........BUT.....I just got home from work and.........I think my neighbor is being robbed........... right in front of his home!".........."Address?".........."It's Anyhome, Anywhere, USA........but I'm in my car.........just across the street......with a conceal/carry permit and a 9 mil.........I just don't want to offend my neighbor with assertive action and a gun..............what should I do?".............."What?........just wait?".........."OK".........
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Gun control? It is using 2 hands! And by that I mean it is not the gun, it is who is behind/firing the weapon period! Why do we not have a ban on knives? They are all over. You can go to the corner grug store and buy one. Ever seen what a mentally unstable person can do to a few people with a 5' blade?
I understand that the laws should be enforced, but to completely ban, come on. And this article,full of b.s. Personal property people, add it to your policy and keep the serial #s to yourself in a safe place.
Hell, my insurance agent has 2 ar 15s. he does use them for hunting to, with the appropriate magazines, 5 rounds I believe is what is required. It just boils down to responsibilities of the owners.
I take issue with the third to the last paragraph of this article! Unless firearms are specifically excluded in the policy, they are covered. I have always been asked by agents writing homeowners if I have firearms that are valued higher than the standard $2,500.00; but only to sell me an additional rider. I have never been asked about firearms when completing the application that is attached to and made part of the policy!
I have been in the insurance business for over 30 yrs!
Right, just give every detail of your gun collection to your insurer so they can pass it on to Government. Then comes the knock at the door by the ATF for checks on newly banned weapons and high capacity magazines.
Kind of like "get your flu shot now" and get inflected by the liberal thinking virus of mass socialism and bigger more powerful government with less freedoms....................
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- Cast: François Arnaud, Lucy Boynton, Casey Thomas Brown, Billy Campbell, Mary Fay Coady , Josh Cruddas, Ryan Doucette, Brian Downey, Rod Ernest, Peter Fonda, Brian Jamieson, Stephen LeBail, Daniel Lillford, Angus Macfadyen, Ciarán MacGillivray, Wally McKinnon, Colm Magner, Andrea Lee Norwood, Scott Owen, Augustus Prew, Charlie Rhindress, Elizabeth Richardson, Geneviève Steele, Hugh Thompson
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- Writers: Bill Kauffman, Harold Frederic
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- Costume Design: Kate Rose
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"Copperhead" is unlike any Civil War movie to date. A story of the violent passions and burning feuds that set ablaze the home front during the Civil War, "Copperhead" is also a timeless and deeply moving examination of the price of dissent, the place of the individual amidst the hysteria of wartime, and the terrible price of war.
Based on the extraordinary novel by Harold Frederic, which the great American critic Edmund Wilson praised as a brave and singular book that "differs fundamentally from any other Civil War fiction," "Copperhead" is the story of Abner Beech, a stubborn and righteous farmer of Upstate New York, who defies his neighbors and his government in the bloody and contentious autumn of 1862.
With "Copperhead," director Ron Maxwell, who with "Gettysburg" and "Gods and Generals" established himself as our foremost cinematic interpreter of the American Civil War, takes on the War from a stunning, unexpected and richly, unforgettably humanist angle. "Copperhead" is a parable of the Civil War and perhaps for our own time.
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The 2011 Waterloo Festival of Animated Cinema (WFAC) announced on Sunday that it had to cancel its 1:00 p.m. screening of Makoto Shinkai's Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below (Hoshi o Ou Kodomo) film later in the day. WFAC cited "reasons beyond our control" for the cancellation, and it is replacing Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below with a free showing of an audience-selected film from the rest of the festival's lineup.
The festival already screened Kazuya Murata and Bones' Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos and Jun Shishido and Mad House's The Princess and the Pilot (To Aru Hikūshi e no Tsuioku).
Update: WFAC will replace Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below with another showing of Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos.
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IRS sets standards for tax preparers
New rules, which start next year, may help weed out the crooks.
Yippie! They're from the government and they're really gonna help you.
The IRS is now requiring all federal tax return preparers to register with the agency and get a preparer identification number. IRS agents plan to set up sting operationsto weed out the bad preparers.
The new rules will require preparers to pass competency tests and take 15 hours of annual continuing professional education.
Sorry, no grandfathering for current preparers. But attorneys, CPAs and enrolled agents (EAs) who are already subject to oversight by existing professional organizations are exempt.
It's about time. Actually, it's past time. As TheStreet.com reports:
Each year, hundreds of criminal investigations are initiated against preparers by revenue agents and the U.S. Department of Justice. In 2009, 124 people were sentenced to an average jail time of 18 months.
These new rules won't apply to the current 2010 tax season. Hopefully, the IRS will implement them in time for 2011. I have to admit, I'm less than confident.
This is an organization that has struggled, unsuccessfully, to upgrade its computer system since 1985. So far, we've moved from having to remove a second shoe to abacus level. Just last month, the IRS got an "F" from the Treasury inspector general for tax administration upon reviewing the IRS Business Systems Modernization program.
I'm all for the new program.
There's much too much incompetence out there. Frankly, with Congress changing the rules each year, I'm not surprised. Requiring continuing education should minimize the "completely wrong and lost but absolutely certain about the answer" preparers.
I once had a client who was devastated by an IRS audit of a tax return I didn't prepare. The client had a home office, and the preparer had deducted the full original cost of the house.
My favorite deduction on the return was the "bubble medical expense." Since the taxpayer lived in New Jersey, a state with pollution, the preparer deducted the projected cost of what it would cost to keep the client in a bubble of pure air.
The preparer actually wrote that on the return.
I regret not being a fly on the wall when the preparer argued for it during the audit.
At least in court we were able to eliminate the penalties. Appeals recognized that no knowledgeable taxpayer could intentionally claim such deductions.
Now it's time to eliminate the crooks. The new IRS registration program will help.
In the meantime, if you know a crooked tax preparer, call 1-800-829-0433 and file Form 211.
You may even get a reward.
Related reading:
- It pays to prepare for your tax preparer
- Deductions that shout 'Audit me'
- Should you do your own tax return?
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2012 NCAA Cross Country All-RegionTwo-Time Cross Country All-Conference Performer 2012 C-USA Cross Country All-Academic Team
2013 Cross CountryCompeted in six meets for the Tigers ... Earned All-American Athletic Conference honors at the American Cross Country Championship placing 11th with a season-best 8K time of 24:02.60 ... Was Memphis' top finisher at the Commodore Classic placing fifth with an 8K time 25:17.20 ... At the Rhodes Invitational, was the team's top finisher placing second overall in the 8K at 25:07.00 ... Clocked an 8K time of 24:58.00 at the Pre-National Invitational ... Took 37th overall at the NCAA South Regional with a 10K of 31:00.70 ... Was Memphis' top finisher at the Brooks Memphis Twilight placing second overall on the 4.2 mile course at 21:26.20.
2013 OutdoorScored three top-10 finishes in five meets for the Tigers ... Took first in the 10,000m at the Kansas Relays with a personal-best of 30:55.64 ... Placed seventh in the 10,000m at the Conference USA Championship clocking a time of 31:14.64 ... Notched a first place finish in 5,000m at the Louisiana Classics crossing the line at 15:02.76 ... At the Auburn Tiger Classic, ran a 5,000m personal-best of 14:49.51 (13th).
2013 IndoorCompeted in three indoor meets for the Tigers ... At the Samford Multi and Invite, took 12th in the 3,000m in a time of 8:53.91 ... Notched a personal-best in the 5,000m at the Conference USA Indoor Championship finishing ninth in a time of 14:48.54.
2012 Cross Country Had a standout sophomore cross country season garnering All-Conference USA and NCAA All-Region honors ... Named to the C-USA All-Academic team ... Ran a season-best placing 16th in the 8K with a time of 24:42.80 at the Pre-NCAA Championship hosted by Louisville ... Took second at the Rhodes College Invitational with a time of 25:13.00 in the 8K ... Placed 14th at the C-USA Cross Country Championship running an 8K time of 25:10.50 ... At the NCAA South Regional Championship was the top finisher for the men in the 10K with a time of 31:18.90.
2012 OutdoorTook first-place at the Joey Haines Invitational int eh 5,000m with at time of 15:14.96 ... Set a new personal record in the 5,000m at the C-USA Outdoor Championships running at time of 14:55.13 ... Placed third and set a new personal record in the 10,000m with a time of 31:03.72 at the Kansas Relays ... Ran a personal-record of 4:09.75 in the 1,500m at the Memphis Invitational.
2012 IndoorRan a personal record of 8:29.08 in the 3,000m at the C-USA Indoor Championships ... Took first place at the Vulcan Invitational in the 5,000m with a time of 14:56.46.
2011 Cross CountryPosted five top-25 finishes, including three top-10s ... Best showing was second in a time of 25:13 at the Rhodes Invitational ... Other two top-10s came at the Memphis Twilight Classic (sixth; 20:20.35) and Commodore Classic (seventh; 25:26) ... Finished 14th at the Crimson Classic (25:32.37) and 24th at the C-USA Championships (25:25.20) ... Team's top finisher at the NCAA South Regional, placing 34th in a time of 32:25.00.
Prior to MemphisTwo-time All-Ohio in cross country ... In the Ohio state cross country championships, placed 16th as a junior and fourth as a senior ... In track and field, claimed his first All-Ohio honor with a sixth-place finish at the state meet his senior season.
Personal Son of Tim Kuhman and Jill Browder ... Birthday is Sept. 8.
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You tax dollars at work, America!
Exclusive: U.S. Taxpayers To Spend $400,000 For A Camel Sculpture In Pakistan
You tax dollars at work, America!
Exclusive: U.S. Taxpayers To Spend $400,000 For A Camel Sculpture In Pakistan
Girls still sent to Kashmir for forced weddings
According to the United Nations' news agency, IRIN, "hundreds of cases of forced marriage are thought to take place annually, involving British nationals married against their will in Kashmir, particularly in and around the industrial town of Mirpur."
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said General Ehsan Ul-Haq, Former Director of Pakistan's Inter-services Intelligence. He spoke to Senior Editor Tom Hundley as part of Tom's Pulitzer Center project on India and Pakistan's nuclear arms race. (Watch a video compilation of some of Tom's interviews here and continue reading for a synopsis.)
India thinks Pakistan uses its nuclear capability as a shield to hide behind while allowing proxy extremist attacks on India. Both the US and India are concerned about what would happen to the nuclear weapons if Pakistan should fail as a state, but nuclear disarmament looks like a far-off prospect.
Rajah Mohan of the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi voices his concern by asking a question which he says no one has been able to answer for the last 20 years: "How does India change Pakistan army's strategic calculus?"
— Source: Senior Editor Tom Hundley's video within his larger project on India and Pakistan's nuclear arms race.
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IRIN: Growing risks for aid workers in Pakistan
"NGO security threats are at an all-time high. I have never in almost 20 years known things as bad as this," Chris Cork, country security adviser for the UK-headquartered Abaseen Foundation, an NGO working chiefly in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Province, told the United Nations' news agency, IRIN.
IRIN reports that over the past few weeks there "has been an upsurge in attacks on aid workers, many of them linked to a national polio eradication campaign in one of the world's last three countries where the disease remains endemic." This is thought to, at least partially, be fallout from the U.S. effort to kill Osama Bin Laden. IRIN goes on to state:
"In 2011 Shakil Afridi, a government-employed doctor, collected DNA samples from a residential house in Abbotabad which helped the US Central Intelligence Agency identify the whereabouts of Bin Laden, who was killed in a US raid. It is alleged that Afridi, since sentenced to 33 years in jail, masqueraded in his native Khyber Agency as a polio vaccinator in order to collect the samples.
Ehsanullah Ehsan, a spokesman for militant group Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, told IRIN: 'Afridi was a traitor and naturally people now suspect all anti-polio workers of being US agents.'"
A Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls' education has been discharged from a British hospital after doctors said she was well enough to spend time recovering with her family.
Fifteen-year-old Malala Yousufzai, who was shot by the Taliban in October and brought to Britain for treatment, was discharged on Thursday but is due to be re-admitted in late January or early February for reconstructive surgery to her skull, doctors said.
The shooting of Yousufzai, in the head at point blank range as she left school in the Swat valley, drew widespread international condemnation.
She has become a an internationally recognized symbol of resistance to the Taliban's efforts to deny women education and other rights, and more than 250,000 people have signed online petitions calling for her to be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for her activism.
READ ON: Pakistani girl shot by Taliban leaves British hospital
Agence France-Presse reports that "more than 300 Pakistani children died of measles last year, a staggering increase on the previous 12 months and a result of three consecutive years of flooding."
Islamabad, Pakistan
KARACHI, Pakistan — Three more health-care workers were killed Wednesday in renewed attacks against those trying to immunize Pakistani children against polio, bringing the total killed this week to nine.
The attacks Wednesday occurred near Peshawar, killing a female health worker and her driver as well as a third worker in a separate incident, Al Jazeera reported. The World Health Organizaiton and the United Nations have both suspended their campaigns in the country because of the violence.
Read more: Polio workers shot in Pakistan, 9 killed in 3 days
The United Nations' news agency, IRIN, reports that Asia has suffered "more fatalities attributed to natural hazards between 1975 and 2011 than anywhere else in the world."


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Can this Bio-Pharmaceutical Rise Again?
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Shares of Dendreon (NASDAQ: DNDN) have seen an epic decline due to weak sales numbers for its star drug Provenge. The drug has missed analyst expectations and has failed to justify high valuations for its creator. I believe the company is correctly priced at these levels and there is little room for an upside. In order to warrant better valuations in the future, company management should be focusing on strengthening the bottom-line and better marketing management of Provenge. Provenge also faces competition from Astellas' (NASDAQOTH: ALPMY) Xtandi and Johnson & Johnson's (NYSE: JNJ) Zytinga.
Company Profile
Dendreon is a biopharmaceutical company that engages in the development, discovery and commercialization of novel biopharmaceutical product, aimed at treatment of cancer in human patients. It offers Provenge, which is an autologous cellular immunotherapy for the treatment of metastatic, asymptomatic, or minimally symptomatic and prostate cancer. The company has two drug candidates still under development: DN24-02 and TRPM8.
Star Drug
Provenge is the primary drug of Dendreon, and its future valuations are tied to the fate of its sales. The shifting investor expectations from the drug is the primary reason Dendreon stock has fluctuated in the range of $3.70 - $17.00 during the last 52-weeks. As is the case with all newly approved drug candidates, reality is very different from sales estimates.
Provenge sales have also been way below market expectations. Last quarter the company reported sales of approximately $77.9mn which was below street estimates of $81.6 million. The company is focusing on increasing its accounts to drive sales therefore the growth in these accounts is crucial to the long term success. Last quarter there was a significant decrease in growth from community account as only 54 accounts were added in Q3, compared to 115 in Q2.
Preliminary Results
The company has preannounced its results for the fourth quarter. According to company disclosures it has generated sales of 85.5 million; subtracting $3.8 million from favorable adjustments, we get net revenues of $81.6, 5% growth q/q. According to Dendreon:
"We have focused our commercial efforts on growing our community accounts, where we see the greatest long-term revenue opportunity. Having achieved our highest quarter ever for community sales, we believe that our community strategy is working"
There was a 25% increase q/q in community urology and 4% q/q in community oncology. These increases bring the total community sales to approximately $57 million, i.e. 71% of total sales. There was a slight recovery in account growth which was 61 for Q4, as compared to 54 added in Q3 bringing, total accounts to 802.
The mean sell side price target on Dendreon is $6.20 and the high target is $18. The consensus sales target for the next year is $371 million, but the company has missed the earnings target for the last 3 quarters. Using a 20% premium to average industry growth of 13%, the growth rate for DNDN can be calculated at 15%. I have used a higher growth rate because Provenge is still new in the market and should display a relatively higher growth rate than the industry.
Provenge also faces tough competition from a number of candidates and active drugs. The main competitor is Zytiga by Johnson & Johnson. Whereas Dendreon's Provenge is an immunotherapy and can act as a vaccine for the treatment of prostate cancer. On the other hand J&J's Zytiga is the only hormone therapy drug that has the ability to stop the hormone production in testes, adrenal glands, and prostate tumors. This drug has been catastrophic to the success of Provenge and has really hurt the valuations of Dendreon.
Bottom Line
As my estimates and the consensus sell side estimates show there is little or no upside to Dendreon. The money on this highly speculative stock has already been made and the only major upside can come from the pipeline. As it is too soon to bet on its pipeline, I recommend investors stay away from Dendreon for the time being. That said, I am bullish on the sale of New Jersey factory and the renewed focus on reducing sales force turnover. I believe it's high time that the management accepts reality of Provenge's market potential and focuses on increasing operational efficiency and marketing efforts. The focus should shift from improving the top line only to strengthening the bottom-line as well.
Thesis Weakness
This thesis can fail if the European approval comes through as it can improve valuations on speculation of prospective global sales. Provenge sales can also suffer due to off-label use of Astellas' Xtandi and Zytinga. According to reports Xtandi has generates sales of approximately $57 million in the Unites States in the previous quarter, an increase of approximately 400% q/q. Any negative growth in Provenge sales number can be catastrophic for the stock price. Another major stock price catalyst could be acquisition news for the company.
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They were puristsPosted by Lawrence Dillon in Uncategorized
Kyle Gann has written another one of his excellent assessments of the contemporary music landscape. This time the topic is complexity vs. simplicity.
In the early-20th century, with the emancipation of the dissonance, the notion arose that all twelve tones should be equal, as opposed to the monarchist tyranny of the tonic.
In the mid-20th century, the next logical step was taken: all sounds should be treated equally. Any sound that occurred during a performance should be cherished, as opposed to the composer-as-dictator determining exactly which sounds belonged in the piece and which ones didn't.
In the 1970s, when I was in school, another logical step had taken place, although I don't believe anyone would have described it this way. People had begun to argue for the equality of all ideas – in other words, no one moment in a piece of music was supposed to attract attention to itself as being more important than any other moment.
"Doesn't that violin passage stand out a bit?" a teacher would ask, and the sheepish student would dutifully crack the whip and pull the violin back into the pack of busy-ness from which it had momentarily emerged.
The underlying concept, although again I don't believe it was ever expressed this way, was that the perfect piece should keep everything – notes, sounds, gestures – on a single, equal playing field, not showing favoritism to anything lest it be heard as somehow superior to its surroundings. It was a vague, unarticulated kind of political correctness. Unfortunately, it led to a lot of undistinguished composing, in which any moment could be mistaken for any other moment. I remember hearing professors criticize individual notes for sounding like leading tones; I remember hearing them criticize octave doublings. The underlying message was Don't Emphasize Anything.
Elliott Carter wanted to create a new kind of concerto, in which the soloist was treated as part of the orchestra, rather than standing apart in a featured role. His efforts were emblematic of the time.
Roger Sessions, when asked about minimalism, quipped, "Well, of course, the absolute minimum is zero," and in that witticism lay the crux of a generation's thinking: their gazes were fixed firmly on the absolutes.


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Mark Owen Burns, age 59, of Dubuque, Iowa, formerly of Philip, S.D., died Sunday, June 8, 2014, at his home in Dubuque.
Mark Burns was born February 21, 1955, in Quinn. The family lived in Philip where Mark received his elementary education. They later moved to Spearfish, where Mark graduated from in 1973. After graduation, Mark attended the University of South Dakota in Vermillion where he earned a bachelor of science degree in psychology. Mark spend 18 years working in the banking industry. He has lived the last five years in Dubuque.
Leslie Handcock, age 88, of Rapid City, S.D., formerly of Long Valley, died June 8, 2014, at the Rapid City Regional Hospital.
Leslie Howard Handcock was born on April 17, 1926, in a farmhouse near Vermillion, the son of Maurice and Mae (Severson) Handcock.
He moved with his parents and brother, Donald, to Long Valley in March of 1927. By the time he was 10 years old he had started his lifelong career of farming and ranching. He continued to drive a tractor for over 70 years. Leslie enjoyed hunting, fishing, trapping, playing baseball and square dancing.
Clark Morrison, age 85, of Philip, S.D., died Friday, June 7, 2014, at his home in Philip
Clark E. Morrison was born July 9, 1928, in Philip, the son of Guy and Ethel (DeLand) Morrison. He grew up on a farm 22 miles northwest of Philip and attended Elbon Rural School in that area. He later attended Philip High School, graduating in 1946. As a young man he farmed and ranched with his parents.
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An American University senior and National Public Radio intern recently "touched off a small firestorm in the music industry," leaping into the ongoing economic, existential, and generational debate over online music consumption.
In a post for NPR's music blog "All Songs Considered," Emily White, general manager of American University's student radio station WVAU, confessed that even while loving music she has hardly spent a cent to acquire her massive song and album collection.
"I am an avid music listener, concertgoer, and college radio DJ," she wrote. "My world is music-centric. I've only bought 15 CDs in my lifetime. Yet, my entire iTunes library exceeds 11,000 songs. I've never supported physical music as a consumer. As monumental a role as musicians and albums have played in my life, I've never invested money in them aside from concert tickets and T-shirts."
White explained that digital natives recognize "the gravity of what file-sharing means to the musicians," but they are simply too enamored with the ease through which they can acquire free music, instantly.
In her words, "I honestly don't think my peers and I will ever pay for albums. I do think we will pay for convenience. . . . All I require is the ability to listen to what I want, when I want, and how I want it. Is that too much to ask?"
The post has gotten more than 900 comments so far, impassioned retorts on separate blogs, and outside media coverage including a New York Times recap.
Some are applauding White for her candor, agreeing that whether everyone likes it or not free music file-sharing and downloading is happening en masse among many music fans today. Others are expressing optimism that her dream of a more convenient pay-music service will soon be realized.
A majority of respondents though are branding her a criminal or musical Judas– professing to be a true music aficionado but refusing to support the artists who create it. As one commenter noted, "I am shocked by this blog post. Emily, you are stealing. Stealing is dishonest. And it is a crime. As a musician, a singer, and an actor who works hard for the money, reading this makes me sick. I am finding that your Gen Y culture simply thinks that entitlement, getting what you want, when you want it, is the norm."
The most read and cited retort to White's post is an open letter of sorts written by David Lowery of the rock groups Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven.
Addressing White directly, Lowery wondered why some young people consider it so inconvenient to use iTunes to pay for music. He lamented a society in which a "machines gone wild" mentality has placed technology in charge of our morals instead of the other way around. And he expressed confusion at why students who are so quick to support social justice issues worldwide approach music with a shrug and a file share.
"Many in your generation are willing to pay a little extra to buy 'fair trade' coffee that insures [sic] the workers that harvested the coffee were paid fairly," wrote Lowery, who currently serves as a music instructor at the University of Georgia. "Many in your generation will pay a little more to buy clothing and shoes from manufacturers that certify they don't use sweatshops. Many in your generation pressured Apple to examine working conditions at Foxconn in China. Your generation is largely responsible for the recent cultural changes that has given more equality to same-sex couples. On nearly every count your generation is much more ethical and fair than my generation. Except for one thing. Artist rights."
What do you think? Do you side with White or Lowery in this ongoing music debate?


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San Francisco, Calif., – The cost of searching for the fountain of youth has
become increasingly expensive and now exceeds the cost for medications used to
treat chronic disease, according to new research released today at the American
Public Health Association's 140th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Calif.
The research suggests that
cost and utilization of medications to treat conditions considered a normal
part of aging, including those related to hormone replacement therapy, sexual
dysfunction and mental alertness, are becoming so popular that they now rank
third for cost impact only behind diabetes and cholesterol among commercially
insured patients.
Researchers at Express
Scripts in St. Louis looked at trends in prescriptions filled for aging
medications among those commercially insured and found that in 2011 alone, per
member cost for aging medications ($73.30) was 16 percent greater than the amount
spent on both high blood pressure and heart disease medications ($62.80). The
cost for diabetes medications was $81.12 and high cholesterol medications was
$78.38. The cost for aging
medications increased 46 percent from 2006.
Between 2007 and 2011,
utilization among Medicare beneficiaries for these conditions increased 32
percent. Utilization increased by 18.5 percent among the commercially insured.
"At a time when people are
forgoing care due to rising health costs, this study reveals a growing trend on
where the public is placing its healthcare dollars," said Reethi Iyengar, PhD,
researcher at Express Scripts and an APHA Annual Meeting presenter. "Continued
monitoring and potential management may be warranted for this category of
Study results are based on
Express Scripts claims data from 2006-2011 for commercially insured members and
2007-2011 for Medicare beneficiaries.
APHA's 140th Annual Meeting is themed "Prevention
and Wellness Across the Lifespan" and will focus on the importance of
environmental, social and behavioral issues that impact health at all stages of
Founded in 1872, the APHA is the oldest and most diverse organization of public health professionals in the world. The association aims to protect all Americans and their communities from preventable, serious health threats and strives to assure community-based health promotion and disease prevention activities and preventive health services are universally accessible in the United States. APHA represents a broad array of health providers, educators, environmentalists, policy-makers and health officials at all levels working both within and outside governmental organizations and educational institutions. More information is available at www.apha.org.
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On My Fourth Day Of The Regimen
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Posted 08 August 2013 - 08:46 AM
Your skin is adjusting to the regime, new breakouts and irritation are just part of the drill in the beginning phases unfortunately. Eventually your skin will adjust to the foreign ingredients and things will become less daunting. As you have probably already read, you have to ride it out. You just have to know your skin will get better, and in the long run these beginning phases are totally worth it. Stay focused and positive
Posted 08 August 2013 - 05:28 PM
I'm on my 4th day of the regimen too! I can't tell if I've had anymore breakouts yet (this week out of the month is usually my clearer week though) but my face is definitely getting red (my cheeks by my nose especially).
Posted 20 August 2013 - 02:08 PM
Posted 20 August 2013 - 07:27 PM
Very normal thing to happen in the regimen. You can still even get breakouts a month into it but you shouldn't let it discourage you. The early stages of the regimen isn't easy. You get breakouts, dry skin, flakes, etc. All you can really do is wait it out and handle the side effects as best you can.
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Perhaps inspired by the success of Wal-Mart, more retailers are offering financial services such as check cashing to their customers, seeking to earn the business of the "unbanked."
About 8% of U.S. households don't have bank accounts and another 18% are considered "underbanked." All kinds of establishments are willing to cash their checks or sell them prepaid cards, usually with hefty fees.
Now traditional retailers are entering this niche. Kmart recently added check cashing, money transfers and prepaid cards at its stores in Illinois, California and Puerto Rico. The company plans to take the service nationwide this year. Best Buy, which sells cell phones among other things, installed kiosks in some of its stores last year to accept payments for phone service as well as for cable and utility bills. They are joining Wal-Mart, which has provided check cashing and other financial services for a number of years at its MoneyCenters.
As banks add new and higher fees, Wal-Mart, Kmart and Best Buy see even more opportunity in this niche, as more of their customers are pushed away from banks. Post continues after video.
Here is how Ylan Q. Mui of The Washington Post explains the issue:
The retailers are mainstreaming a $320 billion industry of alternative financial services that has long operated in the shadow of the formal banking system and under the radar of federal regulators. The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was established in part to plug the gaps in oversight, but it remains unclear how much authority it will have over stores. One thing, however, does seem certain: Demand for alternative services is only expected to grow as strict new rules force banks to charge higher fees for checking accounts, placing them out of reach of many financially strapped households.
The idea of not having a checking account seems foreign to those of us who have long done business with banks. The idea of paying $3 to cash a $100 check seems crazy.
Yet, as Brad Tuttle of Time's It's Your Money reported last year, many people trust pawn shops, check-cashing services and other establishments more than they trust banks. He wrote:
Why? Mostly because you know upfront exactly how much you'll pay for the services of a check-cashing company, and there's no chance of being on the hook for fees after the transaction is done. A bank account is more complicated, requiring the customer to maintain a certain balance -- or at least something more than a negative balance -- and there's always a concern about hidden fees hitting you down the line.
Financial services from brands they trust are likely to appeal to customers.
"We're in a place where large banks are becoming more conservative," Kimberly Gartner of the Center for Financial Services Innovation told the Post. "Consumers are a little disgruntled with banks, so there's a real opportunity here to attract more customers."
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Bridges is based on the 1992 sentimental novel by Robert James Waller, which in turn was adapted into a 1995 big-screen blockbuster starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood. It tells of Francesca (Kelli O'Hara), a displaced Neapolitan war bride. After 18 years on a farm in middle-of-nowhere Iowa — confined by her hard-working ex-GI husband, two squabbling teenagers, and no passion — she is swept off her feet by Robert (Steven Pasquale), a wandering photographer who is on assignment shooting the scenic bridges in the area. They meet, they are instantly smitten, they have a passionately torrid affair, they learn the secrets of life (as you might say). Ultimately, she refuses to desert her family and run away with him.
The musical, thus, is not much interested in action; it is a character study of the two protagonists. Brown examines them as if under a microscope, drawing them in music and lyrics with layer upon layer of insight. The nature of the show affords the composer the time, and the room, to create these characters from within: The things they say, the things they don't or can't say, the things they believe or think they believe. Brown digs deeper and deeper, over 14 powerful songs, and succeeds in grand and glorious manner.
The composer starts things off with a plaintive cello solo — Brown wrote the orchestrations, too, and they are superb — and Francesca's solo "To Build a Home." This memory piece follows the young bride as she sails from Naples across the sea, and then from Pennsylvania Station on "a train that slices like a scythe through the fields of America." The couple roosts on three hundred acres in rural Winterset, where "blade of grass by blade of grass, and ear of corn by ear of corn" she builds herself a home and a semblance of a life.
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Robert has a similarly effective introductory number, in which he explains that he has been looking for something: "You chase it every day, you think you're on your way, and then you're temporarily lost." (While Francesca's number is punctuated by cello and piano, the music for this 1965 American wanderer is heavy on guitar.)
"What Do You Call a Man Like That?" explores the initial attraction felt by this unavailable woman, while he counters with a song of "Wondering." This is one of the half-dozen beauties in the score. "You're wondering," he sings to himself no less than twelve times, like a cry in the night, concluding that "nothing's gonna happen." But of course it will. The song itself has one of those plaintive melodies that stays with you.
"Look at Me," a duet which crystallizes the burgeoning mutual attraction with cascading guitars, explodes with barely controllable excitement. "Don't offer your hand, don't reach for my waist, don't lean towards my lips, please — just look at me." The first act ends — and the affair is set afire — with another stunning song in which Robert sings, "All my life I have been falling, I have been falling into you." The words are purposely simple, set to a strong melodic line — accompanied by an insistent rhythmic heartbeat pounded into the piano — that turns the thing into sheer beauty.
"Who We Are and Who We Want to Be" is an effective morning-after song, in which both middle-aged characters discover themselves in a new and unexpected place. This leads to the musical peak of the show. Francesca starts by acknowledging that the affair has brought her new life, defined by the time "Before and After You." Robert follows this by an extended interlude ("For the First Time in My Life"), a minute-long section which — thanks to the bravery of the composer and the talent of Pasquale — is sung a cappella, after which the pair consummate the scene with another beauty virtually throbbing with emotion, "One Second and a Million Miles."
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Changes could be ahead for Montgomery's Cloverdale neighborhood.
City leaders hope to pass an ordinance to create an entertainment district there similar to the one in downtown.
It would allow people to legally carry alcoholic beverages around certain portions of East Fairview Avenue and Cloverdale Road.
Old Cloverdale is known for its quirky style and locally-owned businesses.
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"They didn't want us to lose the quality of what we enjoy down here," says Cloverdale Mayor, Todd Kirk.
Kirk has fielded resident concerns regarding the city council's possible entertainment district decision and a new development planned for an empty storefront on East Fairview.
"People like new stuff, but they are also sort of resistant to change," adds Kirk.
Kirk says many residents are warming up to the idea of an entertainment district. In fact, two independent Cloverdale neighborhood associations voted to stand by it.
"We actually gave our approval a couple months back. It sort of quieted down," says Kirk.
Many people in and around Cloverdale believe creating the entertainment district would spur business in more than just bars and restaurants.
"It helps the movie theater by first of all getting people in to the district and aware of the district and they see the big sign that says movie theater," says Capri Theater Director, Martin McCaffery.
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Watson bought the entire shopping strip stretching from 1048 Jazz and Blues to Bud's Bar.
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Councilor wants marijuana banned from parks, fines increased
A Boston city councilor is aiming to ban marijuana smoking in parks and wants to increase the civil penalty for possessing small amounts of the drug.
At Wednesday's meeting, Councilor Bill Linehan filed a proposed ordinance "regarding the public consumption of marijuana."
"The public consumption of marijuana is a public safety issue in the City of Boston, in particular the Boston Common and other city parks," Linehan wrote in the filing.
Linehan, a councilor from South Boston, proposed to ban the smoking of marijuana in Boston Common or any other park or playground under the control or owned by the city.
In a phone interview, Linehan said the proposal aims to target areas where he has received complaints from constituents, and that it does not includes streets or other public areas.
"It's similar to how we manage alcohol consumption in public areas," he said, adding that he's visited parks with his grandkids and could smell pot. "The idea is not to try and further criminalize the use of marijuana. It's actually to manage public spaces. … It gives police a chance at enforcing the consumption of marijuana in public parks and spaces."
What's more, Linehan wants to allow police to issue a $300 citation for possessing marijuana. The current civil penalty is $100.
In 2008, state voters approved a ballot measure to decriminalize possession of less than 1 ounce of marijuana. Since then, scores of other cities and towns have passed similar measures that add the $300 penalty and ban smoking the drug in public places.
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