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HOUSTON – In the garden of economic development a community has to have water to make industrial, commercial and residential property bloom.
The Houston Board of Aldermen was handed a breakdown of proposed water rate increases to be spread over industrial, residential and commercial customers by Mayor Stacey Parker at the city's regular first-Tuesday meeting March 4.
Parker said, as the city sought funding to purchase new electronic water meters and fix the Washington Street well, it was brought to his attention that current revenue from water bills would not finance sustained improvements to the city's water system.
"We have not increased water rates or taxes in a long, long time and expenses have gone up tremendously," said Parker. "With what we want to do with our fire loop and at the industrial park and other improvements in the city – it would ultimately drain all our reserves."
Revenue from industrial, commercial and residential water bills is a major revenue stream for the city along with property and sales taxes.
Mike Knox, an accountant with Watkins, Ward and Stafford, who audits the city's finances, said unless the city cut costs or raised rates the city would see expense and income lines converge at some point in the future.
"Quite frankly you need to make money with your water system," said Knox "You have to have the capital available to buy equipment, repair your system and match grants that ultimately improve your water system."
Knox said the question to raise rates was brought to light when bankers looked at the city's long-term finances in their decision to loan money to Houston to purchase electronic meters and repair the Washington Street pumping station that is currently down.
After looking at current rates and future needs, Alderman at Large Barry Springer said the city needed to raise rates to create $240,000 in new revenue, cut expenses by a similar amount or do a combination of both.
"It looks like they want us to be solvent before they loan us the money," said Springer. "This is information we need to know before we make this decision to raise rates."
It was pointed out Houston's water and sewer rates are lower than towns in the region of similar size.
Place 2 Alderman Shenia Jones said she was hesitant to vote on a rate increase until she could see how it would affect residential customers.
"I would like to see us hold a town hall meeting to get some direction from the community," said Jones. "What we are talking about doing is big and will affect everyone who uses water, especially those on fixed income."
The discussion also touched on plans to expand the city's fire loop to industrial clients and get a water main to the industrial park in northwest Houston. The current industrial park is served by a six-inch water line and the city has repeatedly had water pressure problems at the Chickasaw County Regional Correctional Facility.
"We do need to think about the industrial side because that will be an issue in the future," said Parker. "Part of the reason we have not been able to get a Toyota supplier to land here is we don't have a lot to offer an industrial client."
Parker estimated it would cost the city between $500,000 to a $1 million for planned improvements to that part of Houston's system.
Houston currently has 1,780 water customers. Census figures saw Houston's population drop from 4,079 in 2000 to 3,623 in 2010 and to 3,562 in 2012. The city has also seen a drop in the number of retail businesses and recent sales tax revenues.
The city met with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in December as part of a public hearing to explain the purchase of electronic water meters to replace the city's aging mechanical meters and make reading residential water bills more efficient and improve accuracy.
The more accurate meters are expected to boost revenue by 10 percent.
The meter upgrade has an estimated price tag of $400,000. The cost to repair and improve the city's Washington Street well could be $80,000 to $100,000.
Under the federal proposal the city is seeking a 45/55 matching grant with the city to pay 55-percent and the USDA paying 45-percent.
"The cycle for our finance package and grant for the meters means we need to make a decision this month if we want to do this, this grant cycle," said Parker. "I want you to take these new rates home and look at them and we will probably have another meeting this month."
The board took no action on change water and sewer rates at the March 4 meeting.
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With the close of the 2012 college football season, it's time to look at the final strength of schedule (SOS) rankings.
National Champion Alabama's schedule ended up being ranked 33rd by the NCAA. Their highest strength of schedule ranking was from Kenneth Massey, who rated the Tide 3rd.
Notre Dame was rated first in Phil Steele's preseason rankings. Their schedule was rated 8th by the NCAA and Colley Matrix and 7th by Kenneth Massey.
For comparison purposes, the preseason Top 10 strength of schedule rankings from Phil Steele are listed first. Click the title to view the complete rankings for each source.
Notre Dame's schedule was ranked preseason number one by Phil Steele primarily due to games against Miami (FL), Michigan, Michigan State, Oklahoma, Stanford, and USC. Ole Miss' schedule finished ranked in the Top 10 only in Kenneth Massey's poll. Florida's schedule strength ended up being ranked in the Top 5 of every poll except Anderson & Hester.
NCAA (vs. FBS & FCS)
This NCAA ranking is based solely on the winning percentage of past opponents. Florida's opponents (109 wins, 44 losses) had 11 more wins than 2nd place Missouri (98-45) and 9 more wins than 3rd place Texas A&M (100-52). National Champion Alabama's schedule was ranked 33rd. Their opponents had 94 wins and 67 losses.
Anderson & Hester (BCS)
Anderson & Hester's strength of schedule rankings include 5 of the 10 Big 12 teams with Kansas taking the top spot. Missouri, who played their first season in the SEC, comes in at 2nd. Alabama's schedule is ranked 35th.
Colley Matrix (BCS)
The Top 6 of the Colley Matrix is all SEC teams with the exception of the 4th spot which is held by Kansas. Notre Dame's schedule is ranked 8th, which is the same ranking as the NCAA method. Alabama's schedule is ranked 21st.
Jeff Sagarin (BCS)
Continuing a pattern, Big 12 teams occupy the entire Top 10 in Sagarin's strength of schedule ratings. Kansas is ranked 1st, as they were in Anderson & Hester and the Colley Matrix. The Jayhawks' non-conference slate included Northern Illinois (MAC Champions) and at Georgia Tech. Alabama's schedule is ranked 19th.
Kenneth Massey (BCS)
The SEC dominates strength of schedule in Kenneth Massey's ratings. SEC teams occupy the Top 6 spots, plus 8th and 10th place. National Champion Alabama is ranked 3rd, while Notre Dame is 7th.
Sec plays way too soft of a non confrence schedule
Its really no softer than most BCS conference schools … nearly everyone but Independents play an FCS opponent now, some play two. And many SEC teams have cross-conference rivals that they play every single year: Florida-FSU, UGA-GT, Carolina-Clemson. Yes, Alabama and LSU (two annual powerhouses) typically play poorer non-conference schedules, but as a whole I wouldn't say the entire conference does.
Half the Sec should be considered FCS teams. Also there are 14 teams so it's a lot easier to pick cupcake conference teams… 6-1-1 is pretty sad imo for how many teams that are in the conference…
I understand how you would be jealous of Alabama and LSU being powerhouses. But you are typically wrong about them playing poorer non-conference schedules. Every team in the SEC plays the same number of either MAC, C-USA, Sunbelt, etc. teams and the same number of FCS teams a year. For FCS teams they play one. LSU played Towson, Alabama played W Carolina, Georgia played Georgia Southern(Alabama played them in 2011), South Carolina played Wofford, Florida played Jacksonville State, and so on and so forth. See the trend. Stop talking if you have no idea what your'e talking about.
Playing in the sec and playing fsu everyday is tougher than amyone's scheduel .5 or 6 top ten teams almost everyday plus having the national champion for almost the last decade .For anyone to say any team in the sec plays a soft scheduel is just soar grapes.The sec has been and Is now and will always be the toughest conference .Get over it and just try to fight for being second best .Notre dame should what a joke they were when the played a real team in Alabama .Just like Ohio st and Oklahoma did when they played the gators for national championship .If they want to get a real national championship game just put the two best sec teams together for the game every year.Any other game is just a joke .
I don't think you have a logical thought in that South Eastern brain of yours.Playing FSU every day? Lets combine all 14 teams OOC games together and pick out all the FCS teams the SEC plays. The SEC plays 8 Conference games.. I don't buy into the SEC grind with a 6-1-1 schedule with only 8 conference games and 14 teams in the conference. It's to easy for a team to miss out on playing quality in conference teams. Let me think about this hopefully my math is right. The SEC Play 56 OOC games as a conference, 39 of those teams are FCS or below, not to include ND or Boise for they do well each year and hold their own. Lets use the PAC12 as an example for a 9 Conference team. They play 36 OOC games 20 less then the SEC as a whole. Out of those games 21 are FCS or below… This can prove quite shocking to SEC fans if they knew how to read past a balooned BCS rating system. 7 teams for east and 7 for west, and you only have to play 6 of them then one from east/west and a round robin… that to me is padding for a good win/low loss record.. I'm not saying or picking out any single teams here. I'm looking at this as a whole. Let me tell you the numbers do not stack well for the SEC.
Where the heck is your logical thoughts? Since when does the PAC12 have only 9 teams? Do you make the rules as you go along. During the 2012 campaign the SEC played exactly 14 FCS teams total. That's one for each team for those that use the type of fuzzy math that you have used in your comment. Besides that, 6 SEC teams were in the top 10 of the "strength of schedule" at the end of the 2012 season. Also, each year SEC teams play many in-state rivals that are pretty tough…South Carolina plays Clemson, Georgia vs Georgia Tech, Florida vs Florida State…you see where I'm going with this? So, haters like you gonna hate, but that's ok, you can make all the excuses you can, but at the end of the day, the SEC is still the best conference in College football. So, get over it!!
62 players were drafted from the SEC.
The next highest conference had 31.
The SEC's schedule strength is twice as tough as any other conference.
I remember when Florida played FSU and Miami every year in OOC games. Couple that with Ala Aub Ga LSU UT and the rest made a brutal schedule. In those days Mia and FSU were independent and scheduled 2 marquis games a year and set themselves up for National Champ runs. They were the 1st 2 teams considered for SEC expansion from 10 to 12, Both declined because they knew they couldn't compete with SEC schedules and succeed, Even in ACC they have struggled to dominate. Bottom line for all the complainers from other conferences…win a NC against a SEC power or your incessant whining simply comes across as more (subliminal) SEC envy. Deep inside where your ego fears to go you know you cant win your argument on the field so you are left to conjure up lame excuses and arguments why your sub standard team cant get the accolades you dream of. Well they can, but only inside your own' Beautiful Mind' screenplay. Dream on wannabees.
First of all the sec has won alot of NC in the past decade and everytime they play a non sec team they beat them for example ohio st okaklama and notre dame.
Well no matter the SEC strength of schedule, We be seeing them in the outhouse bowl if Florida St and the Buckeyes win out. See ya later SEC, I Guess yall should have won all ya games, and we dont want to hear but our schedule was so so very much tougher, BCS computers dont care about SEC arrogance or OSU tattoo scandals or how many birds got flipped into the crowd, ther not influenced by Mark May and currently they favor OSU and Florida St so quit crying and let another conf have some glory fer once.

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Wine is maturing in the bottle: the current version 1.1.19 again offers a multitude of enhancements.
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Shouldn't shareholders get something form this?
So Iguess, based on the answers here, we get nothing, eh?
As a shareholder you would theoretically 'share' in whatever remuneration the company received in the transaction, in this case preferred equity which includes entitlement to a share in Frontpoint profits for a period of five years.....
As the company repositions itself to thrive amid the new regulatory environment these moves should ultimately benefit shareholders in the long term.
That said it would appear that there will not be much in the way of a profit from this deal since they paid $400M for it in '06 and currently value it at $350M, so perhaps what you will be sharing in is a loss or maybe they make that up over time with the PFD/profit sharing and it becomes a net zero transaction.
I knew you were a woman!
That would explain the lack of testicles eh?......
or herself?
Q: How many neutered knuckleheads does it take to write an idiotic post on the MS board?
A: Only one, but the neutered knucklehead will probably not realize he is making a fool of himself.....
MS to Spin Off Front Point Partners ...would allow FP to reach it's fullest potential in these emerging markets seperate from MS...I bet a 1 to 3 spinoff.
What happened? Tripped over the toilet you were scrubbing?
Yeah, John Mack will give you a kick in your left testicle. Any other questions?
I got one Rielass...where does he kick you since you have none?
"shareholder" means you own a piece of paper that you can use as toilet paper or to wallpaper a tin shack with if the SHTF.
nothing more, nothing less......
trade it, take profit, and move on.
Lehman, GM and others are a testament to this. While it will be a long time till something like that comes around again. It is wise to learn from others mistakes.
That's one reason I hold the Pfds I bought for pennies on the dollar when the survival of the company was in question.
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BATON ROUGE — Gov. Bobby Jindal has ordered the flags on all state buildings to be flown at half-staff through sunset Friday in remembrance of two Louisiana Navy Seals killed in Afghanistan over the weekend.
Lt. Com. Jonas Kelsall and Chief Petty Officer Robert James Reeves, both of Shreveport, were among 30 servicemen, a civilian interpreter and seven Afghan commandos killed when their helicopter was shot down by insurgents in Wardak Province, in eastern Agfhanistan.
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Reeves, 32, and Kelsall, 33, were childhood friends and both graduated from Caddo Magnet High School.
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i am planning start my iphone development, and i have a iMac with tiger 10.4 OS version, planning to upgrade to Leopard 10.5.6 OS X, but i heard apple going to release the Snow Leopard in september, will development environment shift to snow leopard instead of leopard,and Leopard 10.5.7 no longer be used to development?is now a good timing to upgrade?
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Yes, because even if you buy Leopard now it will only cost you $29 to upgrade to Snow Leopard.
When you join the iPhone Developer Program you'll get access to iPhone SDK for Leopard and now Leopard.
However, you probably want to get the GM for iPhone OS 3.0 because that's what will be shipping with new phones very shortly and Apple is going to demand that new apps in the app store are 3.0 compatible.
I think the chances of Apple supporting Leopard for any significant length of time after Snow Leopard comes out is very slim for a product like XCode - certainly in the past Apple have been happy to require the latest Mac OS X for it. So it's safe to assume going to have to get Snow Leopard soon anyway.
It's up to you whether you buy Leopard now (and later the $29 upgrade) or can wait until Snow Leopard comes out.
You'll want Snow Leopard anyway for the features it offers when using XCode in that environment.
Obviously, to be able to develop for iPhone at all, you must have at least Leopard. If you have a PowerPC iMac, Leopard is the highest you'll be able to go anyway — Snow Leopard is Intel-only.
As far as needing to upgrade past Leopard, realize that what works on Leopard will continue to work on Leopard — Apple won't suddenly remove the ability to develop for iPhone on Leopard just because Snow Leopard is released. There may be new features that are only available in the newest Xcode tools on Snow Leopard, but Leopard and Xcode 3.1.x will continue to support what they do now.
As far as the timeline for upgrading, if your iMac is an Intel, waiting until Snow Leopard is released can get you 10.6 plus iLife and iWork for $169, rather than paying $129 now and $29 to upgrade in September. However, you won't be able to do any iPhone development from your machine as long as it runs only Tiger. If you happen to be brand-new to Cocoa in general, it might pay off to get some solid Objective-C programming under your belt in the meantime by writing some simple desktop apps, etc. You can also learn a lot about iPhone programming even without writing your own code, although doing is far better than reading.
Its better to start programming with Leopard itself. The upgrade should not be a constraint as you may be able to create a application by then.
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If you have access to Snow Leopard Beta developer release, you may want to start there. There are many great improvements in XCode 3.2 and it only runs under Snow Leopard.
The important thing to consider is not necessarily the host OS, but the iPhone OS. OS 3.0 will be out soon and there are many changes from 2.2. So a bigger question is which iPhone OS to develop for.
Short of that, I wouldn't wait. That's 3 months of development that you could be working on your project. Go to Leopard and XCode 3.1, develop your code. Upgrading to Snow Leopard will be $29. If your app gets to the store 3 months sooner, it will have been worth it.
I would suggest if you are ready to start with the iPhone then do it now rather than wait until Snow Leopard is released. Nothing like momentum to get things done quick...:).
The suggestion from Ramin above is also a good compromise perhaps if you can get the Beta of Snow Leopard. But otherwise I would just get started with Leopard now.
Good luck!
The SDK for the much anticipated iPad is Snow Leopard only. I guess that's enough reason to upgrade directly to Snow. :)
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The influx of mobile phone has enhanced ease of access across the world - no more so than in Africa...
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Economies in sub-Saharan Africa will ride out the bumpy global recovery in the next few years to post growth rates not seen outside Asia, the IMF said in its latest economic forecasts Tuesday (16 April).
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Although Africa made huge strides in increasing human development in the past decade, gains could - with hundreds of millions of people being pushed into extreme poverty - easily be reversed should "significant progress" not be made in halting global warming.
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Test pilots and flight test engineers from Denel Aviation are now taking their skills and experience to clients in countries across Africa.
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PARIS, FRANCE / DARMSTADT, GERMANY: The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has launched its 2012 Mobile News Grants and Training Scheme, providing newspaper companies in Sub-Saharan Africa an opportunity to develop or expand their mobile platforms.
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The Higher Education and Training Department says R886 million has been invested in connecting South African universities and public research organisations to each other at a minimum speed of 10 gigabits per second.
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New England Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes is a man who doesn't pull any punches both on and off the field. He's a physical player with a warrior mentality to go with it. He also tells it like it is, even iof that means calling himself out.It's fair to say no Patriot had his best game in the Week 3 game with the Baltimore Ravens, but Spikes will go as far as to say it was his worst in 2012. "I played my worst game of the season," Spikes said Thursday. "I definitely want to come out and do a lot better. I watched the game and it wasn't the Brandon Spikes that I know. I definitely want to come out and [rebound] off a game like that." Well, with a place in the Super Bowl on the line, now would be a nice time to put it right. And he'll be a crucial part of the defensive master plan for Sunday's game. As much as I love Spikes, he's not the best in pass coverage (though he made an awesome pick in last years AFC Championship game, see above), he's a run stopping machine, which wil...
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It's down to this at Maryland: how does this senior class want to be remembered?
Their final season will tell the tale.
The trio of returning starters -- Nik Caner-Medley, Travis Garrison and Chris McCray -- were bit players on a 21-win team as freshmen, won Maryland's first ACC title in 20 years as sophomores and then were key figures again last year as the Terrapins missed the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 12 years.
Now minus the mercurial John Gilchrist, who wore out his welcome in College Park but wasn't actually invited into the NBA, the Maryland seniors will decide their legacy this season. Are they the talented trio that can lead Gary Williams' squad back to the NCAA Tournament and make a real run? Or are they the one-hit wonders of the 2004 ACC Tournament, never quite able to recapture that potential they showed that weekend in Greensboro?
"The last couple of years we've only had one senior each of those years," Williams said. "Leadership is really important on any team. These seniors have been together. They've won the ACC championship, they had a disappointing year last year. They have high goals. People remember your senior year, that's the team you're identified with most."
Williams hopes his Terps learned from last season's disappointing finish. While Maryland won 19 games, three wins came in the NIT at home against overmatched opponents. The Terps lost four of their last five regular season games when likely only one or two more wins could have kept the NCAA Tournament streak alive.
Then in the ACC Tournament, finally played in the Terps' backyard in Washington, D.C., Maryland was bounced in the first round, losing to last-place Clemson in the first game of the tournament. It was one of three losses to the Tigers last year.
"Hopefully their experience last year will benefit them," Williams said. "You can learn a lot from a season like that."
What the Terrapins learned was that they could be painfully inconsistent. The three losses to Clemson, a total implosion on a road trip to North Carolina and Wake Forest and a lopsided loss to N.C. State at home were low lights. But this team was also capable of marvelous basketball at times.
Maryland beat Duke twice, including a 75-66 win at Cameron Indoor Stadium when the Blue Devils were ranked second in the country and undefeated. The Terps beat Georgia Tech and Temple at home and squashed Memphis early in the season when the Tigers were ranked.
But there were serious chinks in the Terrapins' armored shell. Maryland was last in the ACC in scoring defense (76.8 ppg) and seventh in three-point field goal percentage defense (.355). The season-ending knee injury to D.J. Strawberry 14 games into the year took away the team's best defender and a tremendous catalyst off the bench.
On offense, Maryland's .439 field goal percentage was a 37-year low. A Gary Williams Maryland team had never shot less than 44 percent. Part of the problem was Gilchrist, who often played conflicted on how much to interject his own offense while trying to balance an attack that had four double-figure scorers.
The fiery Williams, a former point guard himself, often clashed with the moody Gilchrist, even benching the streaky junior at mid-season after the debacle at North Carolina and Wake Forest. Later in the year, Gilchrist hurt his ankle in the ACC Tournament against Clemson and though he seemed well a week later, never returned to the floor during the four-game NIT run.
Junior college transfer Sterling Ledbetter, a fourth senior in this year's mix if he survives academically, took over and ran the team, although not impressively.
Caner-Medley had a career year, but he often seemed overmatched defensively against the array of talented small forwards in the unforgiving ACC. Garrison, who needed to morph into a consistent low post threat, never seemed to truly take to the role. He shot just 44 percent from the field and rarely showed the dominance on the backboard that keyed the 2004 ACC title run.
McCray boasted career highs of 14.1 points and .457 shooting from the field and was easily Maryland's most consistent player. But he still canned just 32 percent from three-point range, and can't shake the comparisons to higher-scoring Maryland two guards of recent vintage like Juan Dixon and Drew Nicholas. A run-in with the police just before the start of school has also cast McCray -- an elected team captain -- in a poor light and will result in some sort of disciplinary measure.
Gilchrist's inevitable departure was part of tremendous turnover in the Terrapin program. Ninth-year assistant coach Dave Dickerson finally got a head job, taking off for Tulane. First-year assistant and former Catholic head coach Mike Lonergan landed a D-I head job at Vermont. The exodus also included the program's graduate assistant coach, strength and conditioning coach, academic advisor and sports information director, all of whom left for better jobs.
Williams quickly tabbed his former Boston College point guard Michael Adams and respected Charlotte assistant Rob Moxley as successors for the coaching jobs, and retained former Terp Keith Booth, who is becoming a fine assistant in his own right.
Adams owns the NBA record for consecutive games with a three-point field goal and Moxley is a noted teacher of that phase of the game, and that's certainly not a coincidence. Williams wants to see last year's .332 shooting from three-point range, a figure ranked 10th in the ACC, go up. The Terps hit just .318 in ACC games and that won't get it done in this still guard-heavy league.
Williams has also entrusted Moxley as the program's recruiting coordinator and Maryland already has two early commitments for 2006 in point guard prospect Eric Hayes of Dumfries, Va., and swingman Landon Milbourne of Roswell, Ga.
Williams says Moxley's recruiting efforts at Charlotte helped turn the 49ers into a perennial NCAA contender, and that caught his eye. Adams' NBA experience gives him instant cache with college players and Booth still has that fire that typified his playing days at Maryland.
As for himself, Williams could be content with a national championship in 2001-02, that elusive ACC title in 2004, and a track record that has him considered among the best in his business. But that's not Williams' style. The 60-year-old coach is showing no signs of letting up. The competitive juices are still flowing. Referees and lazy players beware.
"The best time of the year for me is October 15 until your first game," Williams said. "Because that's when you create your team. The team comes together if it's going to come together."
And Maryland couldn't have anyone better putting it together.
Parrish Brown's late signing last spring reflected the desperate situation at point at Maryland. With Gilchrist gone, and Ledbetter unsteady in his four-game NIT trial, Brown was quickly signed. Also recruited hard by Illinois, he's a legitimate talent, though more of a combo guard than a true point. His ability to convert and become a floor leader will heavily impact Maryland's fortunes.
"He's very strong, very tough mentally and physically on the court," Williams said. "He gives us a guy who is a confident player and who has a little more experience than a freshman coming in."
Brown's coach at Kennedy King, Garland Dildy, described his star guard as "coachable," and that may be one of the traits most appealing to the Maryland staff after dealing with Gilchrist. Another upside could be Brown's quickness and how his on-the-ball-pressure might improve Maryland's halfcourt man-to-man defense, a disappointment last year.
Brown can shoot from the perimeter but loves to slash to the basket. He was a JUCO All-Region IV selection, a candidate for All-America honors and showed up on several Top 25 junior college prospect lists. Williams particularly likes Brown's strength and his aggressiveness.
Certainly Adams will be given free reign to mold Brown into the kind of floor leader Williams wants, one that can set the tempo on defense and involve his teammates on offense. If he turns out to be a true three-point threat, all the better.
"He's really a point guard that can shoot the ball a little bit," Williams said.
Maryland can't afford for Brown to have too much of a learning curve at the point. He has to hit the ground running and gear for the gauntlet of ACC guards who can make life miserable. Several ACC star guards are gone, but there's still a lot of talent running the show at most league schools and Brown has to find that level to play at night in and night out.
The soft-spoken Chris McCray ran afoul of the law in late August, getting involved in a near street fight that authorities broke up. The ugly incident seemed out of character for McCray, who was the steadiest of the Terps last season and a quiet leader who had been chosen team captain.
If anything, Maryland coaches would have liked to see a little more fight from McCray on the floor, where he has yet to blossom into the big-time scoring threat everyone forecast. He has a sweet, albeit inconsistent shooting stroke and he has the body to slash to the basket and create three-point opportunities in traffic. He has never been as aggressive as a player of his offensive skills should be, though, and his tentative nature, his reluctance to take shots, has often contributed to Maryland's offensive problems.
"Chris has the chance to be a great shooter, I still believe that," Williams said. "He has been close but he hasn't been able to do it on a consistent basis."
If all goes well for McCray as far as the August incident, he will likely be one of the key recipients of that three-point shooting know-how Adams and Moxley can provide. While Moxley was at Charlotte, the 49ers led Conference USA in three-point shooting four of the last six seasons and one of his players led the league individually all seven years he was on staff.
McCray hasn't hit better than 31 percent behind the arc the last two years, and though he's a streaky shooter other teams must respect, the Terrapins need a little more from him. In the past, Dixon and Nicholas always seem to hit the back breaking threes to break games open, and like McCray, they were great defenders.
McCray's long arms and lean body make him a one-man zone defense against smaller foes. Williams regularly puts him on the other team's top perimeter scoring threat and he has turned in banner efforts limiting the likes of J.J. Redick and Julius Hodge. McCray is deceptively strong and he can play at the point if pressed into duty there.
He has always been a team-first player, perhaps to his own detriment. Everyone seems to want him to shoot more and become more aggressive on offense. McCray's defense has always been good enough to earn him major minutes, but there's no doubt that when he's connecting from long range and scoring in transition, the Terps are at their best.
Like McCray, Nik Caner-Medley went through a similarly embarrassing offseason incident in his hometown last summer and all he did was come back and post career numbers for the Terrapins, leading the team in scoring and earning third team All-ACC honors.
Caner-Medley also led the team in minutes, starts and three-pointers made and scored in double figures in 27-of-32 games. His shot became a little more consistent and he seemed to pick his spots better on his daring drives to the hoop. His passing improved and he was one of the team's top three rebounders despite playing small forward.
Caner-Medley regularly faced a challenge in the ACC going up against some of the best small forwards in the country, usually players that were smaller and quicker.
He exploded for 35 points in a win over Temple and led the team in scoring 13 times, but only once in the last seven games when the Terrapin offense struggled. He faced defenses designed to stop him, particularly after Gilchrist went out of the lineup, and he did a much better job handling that pressure than as a sophomore, when he was the lone returning starter.
Caner-Medley is at his best in the full court game, pressing and creating on both ends. He runs the floor as well as anyone and he's a good finisher on the break.
"The one thing about Nik is he doesn't give up," says Williams. "You have to beat him over the head with a board to get him to stop shooting, but sometimes that's a good thing."
Caner-Medley's game would benefit from more of a pass-first point guard and a more consistent threat in the low post. Teams couldn't slough off on him and wait for him to dribble drive when they take away the outside shot.
Again, the Terps are at their best when Caner-Medley is happy and shooting and on top of his game. It's hard to imagine a scenario this season where the Terrapins could be successful without Caner-Medley being a key contributor.
A lot of folks seem to see it that way, too, the senior was chosen to the 2005-06 John R. Wooden Award watch list in the preseason.
James Gist worked his way -- literally worked his way -- into the starting lineup by the end of the regular season last year. His enthusiastic, all-out style of play is something the Terrapins could use a lot more of, particularly around the basket.
It's hard to imagine him not starting or being one of the first guys off the bench this year. He scored a career-high 18 points in that late start against Virginia Tech but then injured his knee the next week in practice.
Gist exceeded expectations a year ago and if he had been in a position to see more playing time in front of several veterans, he might have gotten more consideration among folks around the ACC as one of the league's top freshmen. As is, he's quick, athletic and learning on the job.
"James has a lot of potential and he plays with energy," Williams said. "The experience he got last year will help him this season."
Like so many of his veteran teammates, though, Gist needs to find consistency. At season's end, he had 15 points and seven rebounds in an NIT win over Davidson and then had no points and four rebounds in the next game against TCU.
Gist's up-and-down play was the natural by-product of youth and inexperience. He'll get better and is likely to become a trademark Terp with his fire and tenacity. He's a definite building block for the future and plays with the kind of fury around the basket that Joe Smith and Terence Morris had.
Look for all his numbers to go up this season, whether Williams starts him or brings him off the bench. His two starts last year were both against Virginia Tech, the Hokies without a true center, and Williams opting to match their quickness up front.
Travis Garrison is again the X-factor for the Terrapins. When he's doing the grunt work in the post, Maryland can play with anyone. The quiet, soft-spoken Garrison isn't a verbal leader and some games he just gets lost, the flow of the game seemingly too fast for him.
It's perhaps significant that Garrison had just two 20-point games last year and just one against an ACC foe (20 at Virginia). He did have a huge 17-point, 11-rebound game in the home win over Duke. The maddening thing is that Garrison is a great free-throw shooter (.819), and if he could just use his body and quickness to get off more shots down low, he could make a living at the free-throw line.
Of course Garrison is also one of the Terps' best shooters from three-point range (.375) and perhaps that's what he's thinking about out there. He also came to love the short fall-away jumper off the curl in the paint, but his future in the college game has to be going to the basket, not falling away.
"Travis, when he plays his game, he's as good as you're going to see in the ACC," Williams said. "He has to do it every game now. That will be his goal and you're not always going to play exactly the same but you can always be a good defensive, inside player. You can always be a rebounder and hopefully the shooting will be there most of the
Encouragingly, Garrison picked up the pace in the NIT after a three-point, three-rebound debacle against Clemson in the ACC Tournament. He averaged 12.5 points and 10.5 rebounds the final four games. Granted that wasn't against ACC-caliber competition every night, but it's a start.
Garrison's game could get a boost from the continued emergence of junior center Will Bowers as a low-block force. If Bowers can get those close-in hoops with his back to the basket, Garrison could be free to show more of his all-around game, and that might just loosen him up and get him playing with more confidence.
At the other end, Garrison has had a tendency to play defense with his arms too much and get in foul trouble. If he has come back from the offseason stronger and with improved footwork, that could also help his game and the Maryland cause.
Williams often called D.J. Strawberry his "sixth starter," and there was a lot of truth in that assessment. Strawberry was nearly always the first Terp off the bench and no one the last two years has been better at coming in and sparking the team. His quickness always seems to speed the game and that's generally a good thing for Maryland.
Strawberry is a remarkably intuitive defender with quickness, long arms and great anticipation. His loss to a knee injury in the 14th game was a devastating blow, but he was back to full speed workouts and playing pick-up this August after ACL surgery last spring. Strawberry says the time away from the game, watching from the bench and studying tape, has made him a smarter player.
That's a good omen, as he may have to play some more point guard this season if Brown and/or Ledbetter struggle. Offensively, Strawberry gets most of his baskets in transition. He'll work with Moxley and Adams this preseason to improve his perimeter shot, one of the few things sub-par in his game.
"He's gotten stronger with the weight-lifting he did as he recovered," Williams said. "The toughest thing with the ACL is for the player to believe he is okay. Everything you do in basketball, your knees take so much pressure there comes a point, where in your mind, it has to go away and you get confidence. The more you play the easier it is, and that's where D.J. is."
The Terrapins have more confidence with D.J. playing. Maryland was 10-4 when Strawberry went down and 9-9 without him.
Big Will Bowers was one of the most pleasant surprises of last season, more than doubling his scoring and rebounding averages from his freshman year. Bowers gave the Terps an inside presence against bigger foes and he banged fearlessly on defense and sometimes generated enough offense to help the team. To continue that development, the Terps packed him off to Pete Newell's famed Big Man Camp in Las Vegas this summer, and that experience should make him even better.
"People forget how much he improved last year," Williams said. "If he can continue to improve like that … he had some really good games for us. There aren't many guys his size, so he could be a very valuable player for us this year."
Bowers gave Maryland quality minutes against Shelden Williams in both wins over Duke, and he even ended up starting 10 games. Williams, Gary that is, is right: There aren't many players as big as Bowers, and even fewer play with his hustle and drive. He could be a big factor for Maryland this season.
Ekene Ibekwe has an enticing combination of size and quickness, but he has to get stronger in his upper body to bang with opposing post men on the block. He could also use a little more polish on an unusual shooting technique that hasn't served him well from the perimeter or at the free-throw line.
Those problems aside, Ibekwe can change the flow of a game with his quickness on the offensive glass or with his long reach and shot blocking on the defensive end. He led the Terps and ranked among the ACC leaders in blocks last year and he shows signs of blossoming into a rebounding terror.
Ibekwe would seem a natural to provide some of those low-post baskets Maryland so desperately needs but he doesn't have a go-to move down low or the strength to muscle through opposing defenders. And when he does get to the free-throw line, he hits just 55 percent.
Ibekwe can still bring a crowd to its feet with a thunderous dunk or huge block, and his best basketball is still ahead of him.
Mike Jones came to Maryland as one of its most heralded signees. His statistics and playing time certainly haven't matched the expectations, but some of that has been circumstance, playing on a wing already crowded with McCray, Strawberry and Caner-Medley.
Last year, Jones' improved defense earned him more playing time and he turned in eight double-figure scoring games, including an 11.6 points-per-game average in five post-season games when he shot 47 percent from the field and 38 percent from three-point range.
Jones can get red-hot at the drop of a dime, and shoot opponents right out of the game. Williams would like to find ways to get him more minutes. Jones' aggressive offense always seems to lift Maryland, much as Strawberry's defense does. Jones just has to avoid the lapses in concentration that draw the coach's ire.
We may never know how good Sterling Ledbetter could be. A serious car accident in the spring of 2004 nearly killed him and derailed his preparation for his first season at Maryland. Then a groin injury sidelined him in the early season and it seemed Ledbetter was battling up hill all year.
He never seemed to fully regain the strength and the quickness that made him so highly regarded at Allegany. Ledbetter got his chance to run the show in the NIT with Gilchrist out and he averaged just 6.4 points and 4.2 assists, but the Terrapins were often sluggish. He's not a perimeter shooting threat and he wasn't the lockdown defender Maryland coaches thought they had recruited.
There's the hope the automobile accident injuries and the first-year junior college transfer ups-and-downs are behind him.
Williams compares Shane Clark to D.J. Strawberry in terms of his quickness and raw athleticism. Clark played high school ball in the tough Philadelphia leagues, so he knows good competition and has risen to meet it. He's a prototype wing Terrapin -- long, lean, can run the floor, plays defense and has a reputation as a scrappy fighter.
"Hopefully, he can help us right away," said Williams, looking at Clark's extra year of seasoning at Hargrave (Va.) Military Academy. "He can defend but he's a good offensive player, too. He knows how to play."
If Clark can come in and contribute, he can give Maryland more options to go big or small and he seems like he'll work right in when Williams extends his defense, something that might help this team's intensity game-to-game.
O'Connell averaged 29 wins a year during David Neal's four-year varsity career, and he's a proven winner, hitting seven game-winning shots over that span.
"He scored against the best players in the area this past year," Williams said. "He knows the game and he can bang. He's a big guy. And we need to be a little more physical next year. I really think David can help us do that."
Neal is likely to do most of his banging in practice but even that could help toughen up Garrison and Ibekwe, who haven't always been the first guys to stick their noses in the action. Williams also likes Neal's offensive potential, citing his ability to get open and hit a variety of shots.
Neal is a sleeper that could pan out, but if he plays a lot this year, something has probably gone horribly wrong for the Terrapins.
Questions: Changing of the guard? Gilchrist, the face of the Terrapins the last two years, is gone. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Terrapin tough? Are these soft-shell Terrapins or can Maryland regain its swagger on defense and re-establish some toughness in the paint?
Senior discount? The inconsistent trio of Caner-Medley, Garrison and McCray have to take on a leadership role by example and take the Terrapins back to the NCAA Tournament or many of their achievements will be discounted.
Answers: The quick answer! Maryland is quick and deep, particularly on the perimeter, and that could mean a return to full-court pressure defense to dictate tempo.
Straight shooting! Williams' staff hires in the offseason seem tailor-made to help the Terps become better shooters, particularly from the perimeter. The athleticism is there to rebound and defend. Improved shooting is the next step.
Garyland! Williams' track record -- hey, when 19 wins is a "down" season, what does that tell you? -- is proven. His players improve every year in the program and his competitive fire simply won't let Maryland drop off much.
The dirty little secret about Maryland is that the Terrapins need to recruit a little better. Williams has made a living getting unheralded players and molding them into winners. Please see Dixon and Lonny Baxter.
What the Terps could really use, though, is a couple more blue-chippers here and there to go toe-to-toe with the league's bluebloods at Carolina and Duke.
Williams' staff has undergone a complete face-lift the last two years and that could be a good thing -- recruiting-wise and with some new voices trying to coax some consistency out of this talented, but hard-to-figure senior class. On paper, the mix seems strong enough to place Maryland in the ACC's upper echelon, but it hasn't always worked out that way.
The Terrapins need to play tougher, defensively on the perimeter and particularly in the paint. If Garrison and Ibekwe can't do it, then look for Bowers and Gist to get more time. Caner-Medley and McCray have improved each year and another step this season could make them elite players.
But they have to do it every night.
Honestly, the Terrapins have too many nice kids. They need to get a little meaner, play with a little more hunger. Maybe last season's embarrassment, missing the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 12 years, will be the catalyst to make them mad.
If not, Gary Williams will be mad enough for all of them.
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The ironic thing is, by opposing a nuclear power plant they are implicitly
supporting more coal or gas-fired power plants (which are the only plants that
produce as much power as a nuclear plant).
Look, if you want clean electricity for now and the future, you have to support nuclear power. No other non-fossil-fuel source is big enough to keep up with growth in demand.
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Anyone who thinks nuclear power plants is clean energy or anywhere close to it
is a fool. Nuclear energy is 50,000 years of destruction of the water and the
land they sit on hide or their waste in. Coal powered plants are a lot less
toxic and not the environmental enemy it has been portrayed to be. Fossil fuel
waste can be recycled and is natural, nuclear waste cannot be recycled or
The energy commission knows a lot more about the hazards of nuclear reactors and radiation the most of the general public that power plant developers are releasing to back their claims. These companies are a business who's motive is money, not the environment. The naivety of the public is astounding to their ignorance of nuclear power.
Its the things you can't see being dumped on the environment that we have to worry about, not the things and particulate you can see. All the damage ever committed to our environment has been done by covert and secret dumping of toxic waste by corporate business, and catalytic converters (NOX emissions), not power plants burning coal or oil.
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Nuclear is too costly and risky.
Decisions made today will impact our grandchildren's energy, given that power plants stay in operation at least 50+ years (think about our coal-fired power plants from the 1960s still belching pollution that the EPA wants to regulate due to air quality).
As solar prices continue to fall, over the next 50 years, solar panels on homes and business buildings will become commonplace.
Consequently, diversification and flexibility of our energy system are needed. That is, we need more price-stable, low-risk forms of energy (wind and solar, given that they have no fuel costs, they are price-stable and predictable -- and no pollution, so no carbon taxes or EPA restrictions and no nuke waste maintenance or railroad costs for transporting coal).
AND we need flexibility in the system to accommodate the variability of renewables (so when the winds die down or when the sun sets), other fuels can ramp up to take their place (today, that is natural gas; eventually energy storage will also accomodate price-stable energy's variability).
Nuclear cannot be easily ramped up and down to meet the future incorporation of variable, price-stable energy and need for flexibility.
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If the tourist have to ask, "Why do we have nuclear power plants here?",
maybe we should put big signs up explaining it to them.....
Nuclear Power Plants..... here because you are!
Because WE use the electricity. OH.... and because we refuse to dam more rivers or burn more coal/oil/gas. Because solar/wind cannot provide a base load. Because we can't wait for 50 years to turn the lights on. Because nuclear power produces the smallest amount of pollution of any power source per kilowatt.
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So where can people find out more about this project so more reasoned arguments can be made for and against?
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I'm wondering if the Des News would be interested in researching a bit about the proposals that have been made for Green River to increase their econopmic base and the resistance to such from residents of Moab. I know Legacy Highway in Davis County had Moabites against it and they would never even use it. People against this should realize they use electricity too.
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Chip Maker Xilinx Loses Tax Ruling
In a decision that could have wide tax implications for U.S. multinational companies, a federal appeals court handed a victory to the Internal Revenue Service in a dispute over how companies allocate their costs between different countries.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled against chip company Xilinx Inc. XLNX 2.51 % on Wednesday, overturning an earlier U.S. Tax Court opinion that went against the IRS.
The case involves so-called transfer pricing, the complex arrangements companies use to allocate costs and revenue between operations in different tax jurisdictions. Transfer-pricing disputes between multinational companies and the IRS are drawing attention as companies do more business overseas and develop more sophisticated methods for cutting their taxes, particularly in the technology and pharmaceutical industries.
In Xilinx's case, the San Jose, Calif., company allocated a portion of its research and development costs to an Irish subsidiary. However, when it came to stock options granted to the company's research employees, Xilinx kept in the U.S. the entire value of the tax deductions related to those options. None of the deductions were allocated to the subsidiary in Ireland, where corporate income-tax rates are significantly lower than in the U.S., thus lowering Xilinx's global tax burden.
U.S. Treasury Department regulations dictate that all deductions and income in transfer pricing arrangements are allocated according to an "arm's length" standard -- how unrelated companies would share those costs. Xilinx argued that unrelated companies wouldn't have shared the costs of the stock options.
By a vote of 2-1, a panel of the appellate court ruled that the costs related to the options had to be shared, which would increase Xilinx's taxable income in the U.S.
Xilinx said in a statement Thursday it doesn't agree with the Appeals Court decision, but that "it's too early to comment on any next steps the company may consider as a result." The company said the decision wouldn't have a material impact on earnings.
The panel also held that a regulation limiting the IRS to the arm's length standard is in "irreconcilable" conflict with another regulation that gives the IRS authority to decide how R&D-type expenses should be allocated between corporate subsidiaries. As a result, the IRS could have broad new powers to adjust corporate tax returns.
"It's the most important transfer-pricing decision in this country in 20 years," said H. David Rosenbloom, an international tax attorney at Caplin & Drysdale. "It goes to the question of how broad the IRS's power is."
The decision comes as the Obama administration targets tax-cutting by U.S. multinational companies, looking to raise $210 billion over the next decade by shutting down tactics that such companies use to cut their U.S. tax bills.
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I hear the sounds of oncoming storms on the horizon and muddled yelling that gets further away with every step.
When finally my feet decide to come to a stop, I am already seeing the dry green grass that is tickling between 10 dirty toes through blurry visions. My eyes are on fire, and burning within themselves on kindles grown of sadness. Fires cannot be contained, Nor controlled. tears falls along my cheeks, and leaves a burn every where it touches. Another tear for every sadness.
I feel the rain drops, and they trickle down upon my eyes. They are like a cool gentle touch.
I raise my head, and I hide it, screaming out either way. My throat hurts like vines of thorns have grown along inside it, and I scream even more.
The thunder roars, and its voice is stronger, louder. It would surely deafen the ears of any others, and drown out my own saddened & forgotten cries.
The lightless shadows of the forbidding clouds, plague the path I walk upon and swallow the presence I think is me in there gently dark curtains.
The lightning stretches it being across the sky to strike down fear of passers by, so that no one but the storm will brave my side.
The Wind howls through the mountains and tree's just to embody me in it's grasp, bringing with it the whispers of the world.
My path is shaded in a yellowish hue, lit by a thousand lightning bugs,they show me the way while I am lost,the path upon this floating field of gold I walk.
Sadness in the Storm by KetsumaeWatch
©2011-2016 Ketsumae
Whenever I feel sad and it's storming I tend to run into it and hide away, guess to me this is how it felt, how I felt things were when it was just me and the storm, and as well as the wind and fireflies.
I likey =3
it's rare to actually read thought this deep XD I had to read it several times to actually understand half those words XD
it's rare to actually read thought this deep XD I had to read it several times to actually understand half those words XD


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SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Bahrain agreed Monday to set up a joint committee to discuss ways of boosting bilateral economic cooperation, the Prime Minister's Office in Seoul said.
The two sides signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on economic and trade cooperation, which calls for establishing a joint committee and holding an annual meeting to discuss how to deepen economic ties.
The signing ceremony was attended by South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won and his Bahraini counterpart, Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa.
Chung is in the Middle Eastern country, the first leg of his seven-day, four-nation tour from Sunday that also includes visits to Qatar, Sri Lanka and Turkey. His trip to Bahrain marks the first time that South Korea's second in command has visited the Middle Eastern country since 1976 when the two forged diplomatic relations.
Seoul and Manama also signed two additional MOUs on exchange programs for technology manpower and on South Korea's support for Bahrain's establishment of a urban security control network.
During the bilateral talks prior to the signing ceremony, the two prime ministers discussed ways of promoting cooperation in a variety of fields such as trade, finance, construction and culture, Chung's office said.
Later in the day, Chung sat down for talks with the King of Bahrain, Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, and the two exchanged views on security and political situations of Northeast Asia and the Middle East, according to Chung's office.
Chung also asked for the Gulf nation's special attention and support for South Korean companies' active participation in its large-scale national projects. In response, the king vowed "(Bahrain's) utmost consideration," citing South Korea's excellence in technology and know-how.
"The bilateral talks and the agreements are expected to serve as a foundation for the two countries to explore new fields in terms of their cooperation," his office said in a statement.
The prime minister will move to his second destination of Qatar later Monday.
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