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LOL, sorry TBT. I just could not for the life of me remember two things 1 who was the last guy from the line of brocktree and 2 who was the actual last badger lord in the series. SunflashtheAwesome 14:09, November 14, 2011 (UTC)
TBT, why is "chatting" a violation? Is it bad in any way? Am I deeply offending you by chatting, cause there is really no reason to be blocked for that you know. Why is "chatting" a problem? And how long is my block? SunflashtheAwesome 15:28, November 21, 2011 (UTC)
- This is all explained in the Manual of Style . Please read it. Your block expires on November 27, 2011 at 00:27 GMT. -- LordTBT Talk! 00:19, November 22, 2011 (UTC)
LordTBT, I have tried several times to answer one of the questions just now but when I hit save, it disappeared. The question is "Who is the character(s) on the front of the UK and US covers of Marlfox?" And my answer was something along the lines of "Mokkan, the leader of the Marlfoxes, I believe, is in the foreground of the two covers. In the background of the UK cover are the Wandering Noonvale Companions Troupe." Why isn't it saving? And it is Mokkan, right? Thanks-Segalia Riverstorm, Otter Warrior 75 px Living and writing adventures,1 Cor. 1:7-9 23:31, February 17, 2012 (UTC)
- Your answer was removed, because (feel free to prove me wrong) I don't think it's been established who is on the covers. The question may not be answerable. -- LordTBT Talk! 00:05, February 18, 2012 (UTC)
Hey how come ya won't talk to me on the redwall wiki? That hurts my feelings that you just welcome me then ignore me. I would really like to be your friend. Skywarp22 00:02, April 5, 2012 (UTC)
- The Redwall Wiki is not a "talk" or "chat" site. We are an information resource. -- LordTBT Talk! 01:22, April 5, 2012 (UTC)
- Whoops! Never mind what I asked over there, then. Sorry, I'm inexperienced at this sort of thing.
- Eulaliaaa!!!! 19:24, August 20, 2012 (UTC)
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Hi; there's one more fanfiction I want to adopt on the main redwall wiki. The author hasn't been on since August and I think I may have proof that they abandoned the story themselves. What should I do?
Vilaya Don't tread on me! 01:02, April 12, 2012 (UTC)SalemtheCruel
- Contact the author, wait a week, if there's no response talk to me again. -- LordTBT Talk! 01:59, April 12, 2012 (UTC)
- Ok, but I think I have evidence that they abandoned the story voluntarily. Should I show you?
- Vilaya Don't tread on me! 15:46, April 12, 2012 (UTC)SalemtheCruel
- You still need direct permission from the author if this is possible. -- LordTBT Talk! 23:18, April 12, 2012 (U
I have tried and tried to answer the question "How many seasons between the Winter of Slaughter....."etc but every time I hit save, my answer vanishes and it reverts to an unanswered question. Could you fix this please? This is the answer I was going to put.
- "It was either four seasons, eight seasons, or some other multiple of four, between the end of the Winter of Slaughter and the time Razzid Wearat began sailing again, starting the main plot of The Rogue Crew . We know this because it was winter when Razzid's first reign of terror came to an abrupt end at the hands of Skor Axehound , and it was winter again (see Philomel Hardback Edition, page 17) when the Wearat returned to pirating after being injured."
- --Scotty Bluefleck\\O Sword of Truth! Fly swift and sure, that Evil die and Good endure! 03:03, May 31, 2012 (UTC)
- Nothing I can do, sounds browser-related, however that's not a definitive answer, and shouldn't go in there anyway. -- LordTBT Talk! 03:21, May 31, 2012 (UTC)
- It is the only answer possible besides a straight "We'll Never Know". I just read the book through carefully and that's all the information given. We can't just leave it blank when there's no other possible answer.
- --Scotty Bluefleck \\O Sword of Truth! Fly swift and sure, that Evil die and Good endure! 12:02, May 31, 2012 (UTC)
- When there is no definitive answer, the options are leave it blank or delete it. The purpose of this resource is to provide a definitive answer. No guesswork, no assumptions. -- LordTBT Talk! 23:24, May 31, 2012 (UTC)
There is absolutely no guessing involved; there is absolutely no assumption involved, either. This is only mathematical calculation, and an extrememly easy and simple one at that (4=4). Razzid was injured in wintertime. It was winter again (I gave a reference) when he again began pirating. The user wants the answer in seasons, and winter-to-winter is a four season cycle. So the answer invariably and indisputably must be a multiple of four seasons. This is as definite as you can possibly get.
- --Scotty Bluefleck // O Sword of Truth! Fly swift and sure, that Evil die and Good endure! 17:32, June 5, 2012 (UTC)
- Definitive means "this is the answer" - not "This could be the answer, but so could this, or this." -- LordTBT Talk! 22:12, June 5, 2012 (UTC)
- I mean as definite as you can get with the information provided. So pretty much our options are put the above answer, put "It is never specified", or else you delete the question (since I can't, not being an admin). Because to leave it blank makes no sense; it's like waiting for something you know is never going to happen. There is no other information given in the entire book on that subject.
- --Scotty Bluefleck // O Sword of Truth! Fly swift and sure, that Evil die and Good endure! 22:17, June 5, 2012 (UTC)
- At this time. For all we know, some massive resource or another book could be published in the future. -- LordTBT Talk! 22:21, June 5, 2012 (UTC)
- I must agree with Scotty, as the Winter of Slaughter may not be referenced in any other book, if any ever come out do come out. However, unless the question will be later used for reference later, I know the answer, so it can be removed.
- By the way, if there is some way to change this wiki, after all links to Redwall, as space is added. Can this be changed? The Fivemole Burr Aye, Gurt Zurrs!! 00:41, June 6, 2012 (UTC)
- Do we answer Castaways of the Flying Dutchman questions? The manual of style appears to indicate so, but you said not to. The Fivemole Burr Aye, Gurt Zurrs!! 01:06, June 1, 2012 (UTC)
No, and I don't think the manual indicates anything about Castaways.I stand corrected after double checking. We will. Apologies. -- LordTBT Talk! 01:26, June 1, 2012 (UTC)
- Anyways, my question about Redjack Teal 's death was answered when it was deleted. The Fivemole Burr Aye, Gurt Zurrs!! 01:58, June 1, 2012 (UTC)
- On the "Wikipedia Says..." question about Audiobooks, you wrote "intimidated Mr. Jacques Voice". Did you mean "imitated Mr. Jacques Voice?" (I would have fixed this but the question is locked.)
- --Scotty Bluefleck \\ O Sword of Truth! Fly swift and sure, that Evil die and Good endure! 20:09, June 11, 2012 (UTC)


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Christina Aguilera paid tribute to Etta James today at the iconic singer's funeral.
"She was the one that cut right through my soul. So tonight, Etta, this song is for you," the 31-year-old artist said before belting out a version of "At Last."
Stevie Wonder also performed "Shelter in the Rain" with a church choir at the emotional event, while Rev. Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy for James, 73, who died last week at the due to complications from leukemia.

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'Friendships are tested on the road, but relationships are put through the ringer.'
So you're in a band and you're going on tour for the first time. What do you need to know to survive the next week?
As our 21 Ones To Watch for 2011 bands (see the list and read about them here) start to embark on that infamous rock endeavour, the tour, VF writer and tour veteran Giles Bidder a.k.a. acoustic punk artist Cynics, offers tour virgins some expert advice to make sure that they're still around this time next year!
1 – Keep your van keys on you at all times. If there's a 24 carat golden rule of touring, this is it. Forget the booze and the birds, taking care of your van keys (and your van) is responsibility number one. I once made the mistake of leaving the keys on the dashboard before closing – and locking – the door. It's not the end of the world, but being stuck outside in a Plymouth car park at 4am – in winter, without coats, sharing a cigarette between five – is not fun and certainly not rock'n'roll.
2 – Keep a watchful eye on all band mates, particularly those with AWOL tendencies. It's almost inevitable that at least one band member will find their way to a stranger's bed at some stage of the tour – that's the nature of the beast. Just try to make sure you know roughly where they're going, check their phone has battery life and agree a time to meet the next morning. Otherwise you could end up losing them for half a day and missing your next gig – trust me, it happens.
3 – Hide the sharpies (permanent markers) or learn to stay awake. If you're on a low-budget tour it's likely most nights will be spent on a floor in a room full of people, most of them under the influence. Whoever falls asleep first is a prime candidate for pranks, such as all manner of permanent marker-based facial adornments. I once had to play a gig looking like Salvador Dali.
4 – Keep a bucket in the back of the van. Heavy nights + long drives = dodgy stomachs. Speeding up the M1 to make a 6pm soundcheck might not allow much time for luxury puke stops, so a bucket could be the only option. It's hardly glamorous but…welcome to touring. Come to think of it, air freshener isn't a bad idea either – puke or no puke.
5 – Book gigs in towns with leisure centres. There often won't be the option of showering where you spend the night – which could well be in the van, in a Currys car park. If there's a local leisure centre, however, you can head to the pool for a relaxing swim and a daily wash for only a couple of quid. And no, smelling like a dead animal is not part of 'the touring experience'.
6 – Do push your luck. Gigs in towns where you don't know anyone can be pretty quiet – and no punters equals no payment. Nevertheless, it doesn't hurt to ask the promoter for a bit of petrol money, or at the very least a few beers for your trouble. Admittedly, with some promoters this might be like appealing to Vlad the Impaler for clemency, but many will do their best to help you out.
7 – …but don't push it too much. If you're supporting a known band who have a hefty rider of food and booze in their dressing room, ignore any burning sense of injustice and hold back the Robin Hood urges. It'll only lead to arguments – which you will lose – and potential blacklisting by promoters, venues and the band itself (who, if they like you and you play your cards right, might invite you to play with them again in the future).
8 – Don't bring your girlfriend or boyfriend. What may seem like a good idea at the time often spirals into bickering, tantrums and high-octane blow-ups – between you and the band, the band and your partner, and often between the supposedly happy couple themselves. Friendships are tested on the road, but relationships are put through the ringer.
9 – Do take a camera. It might sound obvious, but it's surprising how many musicians forget to squeeze a point-and-shoot into their skinny jeans. So much of the bliss/burden passes as a haze – both due to inebriation and the strange intensity of the experience – and you'll easily forget the small things that made you fall over laughing/crying if you're lacking photographic evidence. A case in point: if we hadn't taken a photograph of it, I probably would have forgotten that one particular drunken stupor resulted in me getting a tattoo of a, er, thin blue line on the underside of my arm, virtually out of view near my armpit. I'm not proud, but at least I know it happened.
10 – Don't complain. You may miss your girlfriend, your gran, your Xbox and whatever else, but you've made the decision to spend a week or more in a van with five other smelly, drunk musicians, so deal with it.
For more on Giles' musical exploits, visit www.myspace.com/ihatecynics.
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Moving forward: Snoqualmie teacher Dana Nohavec overcoming Crohn's, triathlon
Like a lot of people, Dana Nohavec struggled to stick with an exercise program. It didn't matter what type of exercise she tried, she couldn't do it regularly, but it wasn't a loss of interest that stopped her.
"I've never been athletic, ever," says the 25-year Snoqualmie resident and teacher at Snoqualmie Elementary School. "Every time I start to try to get in shape, knowing exercise is so vital, I'd just end up hurting something. My knee would swell up, or my ankle would break, or…"
Or some other symptom of her Crohn's Disease would flare up, and Nohavec, now training for her first-ever triathlon in September, would have to give up on working out.
Today, with her symptoms well under control and a habitually sunny attitude that must come from working with fourth and third graders for the last 20 years, Nohavec is nowhere near giving up. She runs, cycles and swims a few days each week, and has just renewed the commitment she made in May, to compete in her first ever triathlon this September.
This, from the woman who laughs long and loud because "I run slower than I walk!" and has managed life with an autoimmune disease for decades. She'll be part of about 20 Seattle-area athletes running the Team Challenge sprint triathlon, Sept. 9 in San Diego, as a fundraiser for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America (www.ccfa.org).
"I wanted to earn money for Crohn's and Colitis and this is the only one there is…. that's not a marathon," she explained.
She no longer has the "potty problems," or inflammatory bowel condition, that would keep most Crohn's patients from attempting a 26.2 mile run, but Nohavec decided to start small.
"The distances are short, really," she said, but that's not the point. She wants to see if she can do it all, the 500-meter swim, 10-mile bike ride and 3-mile run -- or walk, she says -- and have fun doing it.
What got her to this point, from her start as a college student who quit school when her Crohn's symptoms became debilitating, was largely the work of the CCFA, an organization she's been involved with for decades.
"They offer a wide range of support groups," she said, and a mentorship program in which she has guided several newly diagnosed Crohn's patients. Most importantly, though, they've expanded the treatment options for Crohn's.
"I am grateful to the foundation for using their funds so wisely!" she says.
Nohavec developed Crohn's at 19, either from a parasite in contaminated water on a hiking trip, or from her body's reaction to the anti-parasitic drugs she took to treat it. Her symptoms then were anemia and the typical potty problems associated with the disease, and treatment was minimal.
"There were virtually two or three medications, and that's all there was," Nohavec said.
Mainly, she took prednisone, which had its own "horrific" side effects, and never completely controlled her condition. She had flare-ups three or four times a year.
"Then I had my child, and it completely changed to elbows, knees, joints, everything along my back," she continued. "I couldn't hold my baby."
Nohavec's condition was transformed, something that happens to about a third of Crohn's patients after pregnancy. It looked and felt different, but was still a result of her body's own defenses attacking her cells.
"Crohn's has so many different faces," she said. "Mine acts like rheumatoid arthritis...and it changes depending on your state of growth."
That change of face opened up a new treatment option for her, though, a drug called Remicade used to treat RA. She started receiving infusions of Remicade five years ago, one infusion every six weeks or so, and has taken her life back.
First it was just walking before or after school, and occasionally getting back on her bicycle, she said. She had more energy, and she was willing to try.
"Then one morning, I just woke up and had a hankering, to see if I could run!" she said. A friend had started a new running program that inspired her. "So I ran around my block and, honestly, I wasn't sure I could make it, but I did, though I didn't venture a second time."
Not that day, anyway.
"I was really proud of myself," she said, and soon she was "putting one foot in front of the other," and discovering that she might be an athlete, after all. "I thought maybe it was my mind that was weak, that my mind wouldn't allow me to break past it, but I just really started liking it. I found I could go farther and farther!"
She still has some obstacles to overcome, and she will always struggle with Crohn's, since there is no cure, yet, but Nohavec has managed to see the positive side in much of her life's challenges. Quitting UW's occupational therapy program as a 19 year-old, for example, is what led to her becoming a teacher -- "I landed on a special education course that just threw me back on track!" she said. And her periodic infusions "are not bad," she says, adding "I'm just thrilled I don't have to go to Portland for them!" The triathlon itself will be a challenge, as will raising the $3,300 she'll need by Aug. 20, but she feels good about her chances.
There are some things she would change, though.
Pointing to the Team Challenge logo promoting her triathlon, she says "Look how small the 'Crohn's and Colitis' is! I would beg to redesign that, because people don't know what it's for!"
Nohavec is planning a series of events to raise the $3,300 she'll need just to enter the triathlon. They include: A booth at the North Bend Block Party -- look for her wearing a "Crohn's and Colitis crown" and raffling off a Wii game system;A dinner and silent auction July 25 at Judkins Street Cafe in Seattle;A wine and hors d'ouevres party at Arts East in Issaquah, tentatively set for Aug. 2;To donate, supporters can also visit her website: www.active.com/donate/nwseattletri/triDNohave1.
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Hi Mark, sorry can't answer your question but thought I'd bump your thread incase other uk pb'ers missed it first time round :-)
Hello everyone!
I have recently made the goal to become primal and I am now working hard towards it. I was hoping to get my hands on the Primal Leap kit and some of Mark's supplements but I am struggling to find ways of getting these in the UK. I realise that Mark's company will ship to UK but I have had a bad experience from ordering products from overseas in the past. The taxes for importing in the UK can be a bit crazy. I don't know how much they will be for ordering Primal products... will these taxes be paid for with the shipping and handling costs? Is there anyone in the UK that orders in Mark's supps that can advise me on this? Or are there any Primal people in the UK that can find Mark's products in the British Isles?
Hi Mark, sorry can't answer your question but thought I'd bump your thread incase other uk pb'ers missed it first time round :-)
No worries mate! Thanks for the help! Much appreciated!
I can't comment about Mark's supplements, but I have always found Higher Nature to be excellent.
How are you getting on with the Primal Leap programme? I am thinking of ordering it myself as I seem to have a lot of trouble keeping focused. Backsliding is my middle name.
It is going well. Best thing I have ever ordered off the internet. A bit pricey at first but the financial investment is well worth it! The health benefits are fantastic! The order costs about £150 by the time you have paid for shipping and handling and it takes a couple of weeks to arrive but when it does you'll never look back!
Not to bash Mark Sisson's supplements or anything... but you should be able to find something similar with less fancy names. One is a probiotic, one is a vitamin D tablet, and one is a fish oil gel cap. All of these should be available at a pharmacy or a health food store or something. Primal fuel is a whey protein isolate with some coconut powder and fiber: Buy some pure whey (actually wouldn't worry about flavored varieties either) "anywhere", and mix it with some coconut milk and some water (and/or other things if you so wish) when you want a quick meal replacement. His damage control master formula is a multivitamin/multimineral with somewhat better dosages than your regular cheap supermarket multivitamin. It also contains a bunch of plant extracts and antioxidants that might not be optimal to consume daily. It is also very expensive. Either you could find a high quality multivitamin/mineral from some UK online store or whatever, or you could eat a wholesome diet in which the micronutrient supplementation you need is minimal. Magnesium and possibly selenium. If you then discover you have any issues that might be caused by another micronutrient defficiency, you can begin supplementation rather than taking them preemptively and flushing your money down the toilet.
I use this site for supps http://www.bigvits.co.uk/ and have found them very good. I've not tried to replicate Mark's goodies though.
Importing stuff sucks, anything over £18 in value and you get hammered by HMRC. Think they need to update that limit a bit!! £100 might be reasonable.
What do you particularly need from the Primal Leap kit? The book is available on Amazon...


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The Event at Salvador Molly's Restuarant
This year's fundraiser kicked off with a "Toughest Tongue in Town" eating contest on January 26th, and opened up a month-long dare to donate $1 for every Great Ball of Fire habanero fritter to Oregon Heat.
For the entire month of February until March 1st, Salvador Molly's will donate $1 for every GBOF eaten in the restaurant.
Oregon Heat is a non-profit organization founded in 1989 to help those less fortunate with their winter heating & electric bills.
March 1st is the final King of Heat final challenge to see who will wear this year's crown. Last year's winner consumed 24 GBOFs to claim the title,
Salvador Molly's restaurant in Hillsdale has been raising money for Oregon Heat for 17 years through their annual Great Balls of Fire fundraiser. All year long, patrons are tempted to finish an entire order of the Great Balls of Fire habanero cheese fritters to earn their place in the Hall of Flame.
The fans continue to grow each year, coming from near and far to conquer the Great Balls of Fire! From TV shows like Man v Food and It's A Hot & Spicy Food Paradise, to the far-reaching world of social media, the challenge has become a year-round national favorite!
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CIA Field Expedient Incendiary Manual
This manual describes useful incendiaries, igniters, and delays which can be prepared easily by an operator who has a minimum amount of skill and education.
An incendiary may be a material or mixture of materials which when used against wood, rags, paper, straw or other combustible materials will burn with enough heat and flame to be sure of starting a fire. Or an incendiary, usually a different type from the first one, may be used for melting, cutting, or welding metals. Examples of the first type are gasoline, fuel oil, napalm, and fire bottles. An example of an incendiary to use against metals is thermite.
An igniter is a material or mixture of materials which will start an incendiary burning. The best example of an igniter is a match. Because a match is usually not the best thing to use to start an incendiary burning, other kinds of ig-niters are needed, such as sugar-chlorate and fire fudge.
A delay is a device which an operator uses to make it possible for him to be away from the scene of the fire when the fire starts. At the place where the fire is to be started, the operator will usually arrange the delay, the igniter, and the incendiary in such a manner that he will set the delay, and go away. At the proper time the delay will ignite the igniter, which will then set fire to the incendiary.
The charts, which separately list incendiaries, igniters, and delays, are so arranged that the operator can easily find the incendiary system to use on the objective to be destroyed. By first looking at the incendiary chart, he can find which incendiary will give him the desired destructive effect from the igniter chart he can determine which igniter to use with this incendiary and from the delay chart he can determine which delay to use with the previously selected igniter.
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He said he knew what the response of fans would be when he gave Peralta the day off one day after the shortstop was named to the All-Star team.
"I can just hear it now: 'The guy just made the (expletive) All-Star team,' " Leyland said.
Leyland said Saturday was a planned day off for Peralta and stemmed from a conversation the two had early in the week.
Leyland said he spoke with Peralta at that point and asked him if he needed a break anytime soon. Peralta said Saturday might be a good day.
"Three or four days ago, I talked to Jhonny," he said. "I just don't come around here to eat my lunch."
Leyland said it is important to rest players before they start showing signs that they really need it.
"Sometimes maybe guys are doing good because they got rest," he said. "You almost need to rest them before they literally need the rest, because you don't want to get them into a slump or run them into the ground."


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Police say a hotel employee found the 38-year-old Gray dead in a room Monday at the Town Plaza Hotel in Urbandale, a suburb of Des Moines. Foul play isn't suspected. The Polk County Medical Examiner's Office plans an autopsy Tuesday.
Most of the band's members grew up in the Des Moines area.
Slipknot is known for its grotesque masks and released its first album in 1999. Video for one of the band's better-known songs, "Wait and Bleed":


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SecureWorks Sold to Dell
SecureWorks Inc., an Atlanta-based provider of information security services to several hundred credit unions, is being acquired by Dell.
The Round Rock, Texas, computer giant said it plans to "maintain SecureWorks' current operations and continue to make investments in enhanced security offerings."
SecureWorks has more than 2,900 clients worldwide, including more than 1,500 banks and credit unions, and provides managed security, consulting and threat intelligence services.
The acquisition is expected to close early this year and will expand Dell's global ability to provide managed IT service and security offerings, the company said. It did not announce terms.
"We look forward to welcoming SecureWorks team members-who bring their passion and dedication to serving clients with best-in-class security services-to Dell and our clients," said Peter Altabef, president of Dell Services.
Michael Cote, chairman/CEO of 10-year-old SecureWorks, said, "I am confident that SecureWorks will flourish as part of the Dell Services organization and that our clients will continue to be well-served and well-protected by the services on which they rely."


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- Understanding of the concept of numerically "less" by bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)Kelly Jaakkola
Dolphin Research Center DRC, Grassy Key, FL 33050, USA
J Comp Psychol 119:296-303. 2005..Their pattern of errors was consistent with the idea of an underlying analog magnitude representation...
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Dolphin Research Center, 58901 Overseas Highway, Grassy Key, FL 33050, USA
Anim Cogn 16:701-9. 2013..Such flexibility in changing perceptual routes demonstrates that the dolphin's imitation was not automatically elicited, but rather results from an intentional, problem-solving approach to imitation. ..
- What do dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) understand about hidden objects?Kelly Jaakkola
Dolphin Research Center, 58901 Overseas Highway, Grassy Key, FL 33050, USA
Anim Cogn 13:103-20. 2010..Thus, like many terrestrial animals, dolphins are able to succeed on visible displacement tasks, but seem unable to succeed on tasks requiring the tracking of hidden objects...


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Baseball has long been a sport of haves and have-nots, where the disparity between one team's salary structure and another team's is so large it almost seems like a typographical error.
Generally speaking, fans have become immune to such talk. Heck, even media members just shrug most of the time.
This little item, though, made me do a double take.
According to a Yahoo.com report, 20 different major league players will make more during the upcoming 2013 season than the ENTIRE Houston Astros payroll.
Let that soak in for a minute.
The Yahoo.com story counted a pair of Philadelphia Phillies among that list as pitchers Cliff Lee ($25 million) and Roy Halladay ($20 million) will earn more this season than all Houston players combined (just shy of $20 million, barring last-minute roster additions).
Must be tough rooting for the Astros knowing the newest member of the American League has a team so committed to winning.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Man, what a mess. The Top 25, for at least a week, became the Slop 25 as no less than 12 teams among the, ahem, elite, suffered setbacks. And if my ballot is any indication the latest Associated Press Top 25 Poll will have some major omissions and new additions.
What else can you do when the likes of previously No. 8 Iowa State, No.11 Ohio State and No. 12 Baylor are all resting on three straight losses? It's to the point where the awful (see above) kept some of the bad (Memphis, Creighton, Colorado, Pitt) from completely falling off my list. And Iowa State clinging to the last spot.
The big addition, which probably would have made the cut even on a normal week, is Michigan. Some might think this comes at the expense of the Buckeyes, but the Wolverines have quietly been making a move for weeks and join Michigan State as the only undefeated teams in Big Ten play.
Michigan started a three-game Top 25/Big Ten gauntlet of Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan State with a road victory over the Badgers, and this week the Wolverines finish it off Wednesday vs. the Hawkeyes and Saturday at the Spartans.
If the Wolverines take the broom to that crew, they will vault into the Top 10. Understand, they are doing this without 6-10 strongman Mitch McGary, who is out with back issues.
We've been off and on adding Harvard to our Top 25 all season. They're back. With so much upheaval this was an easy one. What I really want to see, after this week, is if the list of others getting votes equals or tops the 25 that make the cut.
Here is my ballot for the week:
1. Arizona
2. Syracuse
3. Michigan State
4. Wichita State
5. Villanova
6. Florida
7. Wisconsin
8. San Diego State
9. Iowa
10. Kansas
11. Oklahoma State
12. UMass
13. Cincinnati
14. Duke
15. St. Louis
16. Kentucky
17. Louisville
18. Michigan
19. Gonzaga
20. Harvard
21. Memphis
22. Creighton
23. Colorado
24. Pitt
25. Iowa State
Top 5 in the state:
1. Cincinnati - 17-2
2. Xavier - 14-4
3. Ohio State - 13-3
4. Toledo - 15-2
5. Ohio University - 13-4
Waiting in line: Dayton.
Had to drop the Buckeyes because three straight is three straight. Toledo is the team to watch to see how the Rockets fare with a target on their back. Dayton has five losses to stay a step behind, but hard to quibble about any of the Flyers setbacks to date.


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MINNEAPOLIS -- The Detroit Tigers announced after Tuesday night's game they are recalling catcher Max St. Pierre from the Toledo Mud Hens.
There is a storybook element to this because St. Pierre, 30, has been in the minor leagues for 14 years. He was 17 when he signed with the Tigers, who drafted him in the 26th round the year before Brandon Inge was selected in the second round.
St. Pierre was batting .300 with five home runs and 22 RBIs in 39 games with Toledo.
"It's well deserved," Tigers general manager Dave Dombrowski said. "He's worked hard; you can't work much harder than that.
"When you see guys like that, it's the thrill of a lifetime."
Leyland has commented in the past about St. Pierre 's outstanding defensive skills.


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At the end of Wednesday's meeting of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, Chairman Skip Brion paused to recognize James Short.
Short, Brion said, started with the LCB in 1984 as a seasonal employee and rose to become the Marketing and Merchandising Director in 2009. He told the LCB he's retiring next week.
"I'd like to thank you to Jim for all his years of service," Brion said. "Jim has done a very good job in that role I've known him in the last two years. The roles prior to that, someone else would have to talk about. I wasn't here 30 years ago. If you applied yourself in those roles as you've done in Director of Marketing and Merchandising, I'm sure that's why you were promoted continually through the ranks."
Short received applause from the packed room.
Brion did not mention that Short is expected to be included in a report on alleged ethics violations at the LCB. The state Ethics Commission could issue its findings next week, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. The paper first reported Short's retirement Wednesday.
In 2012, the Inquirer reported Short was one of three LCB officials named in a confidential state Inspector General's report. The other two -- former CEO Joe Conti and former Chairman Patrick Stapelton III -- have since resigned.
The report alleged all three improperly accepted gifts from vendors, the Inquirer reported.
As Director of Marketing and Merchandising, Short is paid $113,937, according to the Inquirer. His last day with the LCB is March 15.
"I have heard nothing about the ethics investigation," Brion said. "Jim (retired), and as far as I'm concerned, that's what I'm dealing with at this time."
He said his comments at the meeting reflected his work with Short since becoming Chairman, which would be outside the time frame of the Inspector General's report.


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SALT LAKE CITY -- What's wrong with the 1-3 Trail Blazers?
It starts at the top, with the two guys nobody would have ever imagined having to worry about: Brandon Roy and LaMarcus Aldridge.
Quite simply, the two young stars have not played like stars in the first four games. They haven't been terrible, or even below average, they've just been ... well, perhaps coach Nate McMillan put it best when he described the duo's play as "OK".
There was no better example of Roy and Aldridge coming up short than Wednesday's 103-96 loss at Utah, which falls in the how-in-the-heck-did-that-happen category.
Roy was painfully absent until the fourth quarter, when to his credit, he made two crucial drives and made all four of his free throws. Prior to that he was 4 for 13 from the field and had three rather unsightly turnovers and several more instances where he had trouble simply controlling the ball.
Aldridge, meanwhile, wasn't around for the final 3:14, disqualified after being whistled for fouling Ronnie Brewer during a basket. Brewer made the free throw and Utah's lead went from 92-90 to 95-90. Prior to that, Aldridge had four turnovers -- including one at the start of the fourth quarter in which he rebounded a Jazz miss, only to wildly throw the ball toward the free throw line, where Brevin Knight caught it and passed to Paul Millsap for a dunk.
Aldridge also missed some point-blank shot attempts and grabbed two more rebounds than Utah owner Larry Miller, whose recent illness has confined him to a wheelchair. In all, Aldridge just didn't look very strong, physically or mentally. Strong players don't go for a layin, they dunk it. Strong players don't toss away rebounds like a hot potato; they grab it with two hands and squeeze.
This is not to say Roy and Aldridge are bad players, busts, or anything of the like. They have done enough this season to clearly show they warrant all the attention given to them as stars on the rise. But, as McMillan says, they've just been OK so far.
But for this team, OK doesn't cut it anymore. Not for these two. Not with this much supporting talent. Not with so much scrutiny centered around such lofty expectations put on the team by themselves and its fans.
Both Roy and Aldridge knew this article was coming. And they said they agree with the premise.
"This is what we've asked for in a way, without really asking -- trying to be go-to players of this team," Aldridge said. "That's what we have to do. And I believe that if I play well, and Brandon plays well and we play defense, everyone else will follow."
Roy described his play this season as "inconsistent," while Aldridge examined his own game and said he's been "OK -- I don't think I've played a good game yet."
Roy is frustrated because his first two years have been defined by clutch play. This year, he has been eerily quiet while teams like Phoenix and Utah have made their decisive runs.
"In the moments where the game has been decided in the third quarter, I haven't been able to step up and make the plays I think I need to make to win," Roy said. "I don't want to beat myself too much, but in Phoenix there was a stretch there where I could have helped. Tonight there was a stretch there where I could have helped. And I didn't do it."
For the season, both Roy and Aldridge have attempted 67 shots. And both have made 28 -- that's a .418 shooting percentage. Aldridge is a career .489 shooter. Roy is a career .455 shooter. They will get better, but right now, it's clear neither are on track.
"Both LaMarcus and Brandon ... those two guys, if they play well, normally we play well," McMillan said. "They have been OK, but they have been here before. What we have to do is get them in their rhythm. Those are the guys we are going to go through on both ends of the floor."
To their credit, neither Roy nor Aldridge were taken aback by a line of questioning that was critical of their play. They accepted it and agreed with it. Heck, it might be that missing ingredient that teammate Channing Frye was talking about before the game. Last year, Frye said, the team had a (heck-with-it) attitude toward all the haters -- the ones who wanted their season tickets back after Greg Oden had knee surgery. Toward the people at ESPN and TNT who pulled the Blazers' national television games because Greg Oden was hurt.
"Now this year, we are trying to find that (heck-with-it) at somebody," Frye said. "We are looking around going (heck with) ... what? We are looking for that, but we shouldn't have to."
It's all part of an evolving landscape for Roy, Aldridge and the Blazers. The team is better. The expectations are higher. And so, too, is the scrutiny.
Outside of the season opener at the Lakers, the Blazers haven't been bad. They beat San Antonio and owned third quarter leads at Phoenix and at Utah. That's some decent stuff.
But Roy and Aldridge are better than decent. And until they show it, the Blazers will still be muttering about playing well, but only coming close.
"Things have changed, you know?" McMillan said. "All this talk about who we are and who we could be, it's just potential, you know? We have to go out here and play. It's a different year. Last year, people didn't really know what to expect. The expectations have changed a little bit, not only for us, but from other teams. They are looking at us a little different. We are not under that radar screen so to speak."
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EDINA newsline
June 2011: Volume 16 Issue 2
EDINA has released the first set of OpenURL Router Data under the Open Data Commons – Public Domain Dedication Licence (ODC-PDDL) with Attribution Sharealike Community Norms.
This is the product of JISC-funded project activity, and provides a unique data set derived from the log of requests to the OpenURL Router.
The data captured vary from request to request since different users enter different information into requests. Further information on the details of the data set, sample files and the data itself is available at OpenURL Router Data.
The team would like to thank all the institutions involved in this initiative for their participation.
Further data will be made available monthly, and a prototype application will be developed based on the data in the coming months.
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On this third and final Google Adwords post, you'll learn how to finalize and track your ad campaign. Disclaimer: for higher revenue and best results read part 1 and part 2 of How to Be Friends with Google AdWords first.
- Test ad texts and keywords
Have you noticed that ads on Google and other search engines are different from other ads/banners you see on the web?
This is because users' behavior is distinct in these two places. When people are searching for things, they are in a different mindset than when they are just reading news/blogs/articles.
They are looking for very specific things and it takes needle-point wording to grab their attention. Here's how you do it:
- Include a "call to action" into your ads: "Buy", "Get", "Book", "Save" and similar.
- Add the word "now" to create a sense of connection between space and time.
- If you have any special offers make sure you include them in your ads!
- Don't forget the importance of landing pages – link your specific ad to a specific landing page.
Example: If you're advertising new sneakers, don't link the ad to your home page or your general sneakers' page.
Link the ad to the specific sneakers' page. That way you won't lose your customers' attention and make it more likely for them to go through with the desired action.
Track results
And last but not least, track your campaign results so you can modify your campaign for even better results in the future. Keeping track of your campaign is simple because all the reports you need are right there within the AdWords interface!
You can pull reports from any tab (Campaign, Ad groups, Ads, Keywords) to get as high-level or granular data as you need and use it to track your campaign's success, depending on the goals you've set for it:
a) Sales – focusing on high volume of purchases
b) Leads – focusing on a 'contact us' form or using a phone number to make and offline enquiry about your products/services
c) Sign-ups – focusing on getting users' data for your database
d) Return on investment (ROI) – focusing on tracking margins from every sale
e) Traffic – focusing on impressions and site visits
And that's everything you need to get started with Google AdWords right here! We wish you the best of luck with your Google AdWords campaign and will be happy to answer your questions. Post your questions in the comments section and we'll have our resident Google AdWords expert reply to them ASAP.


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A pleasant surprise – a book that isn't from any of my favorite genres, and I still really liked it! "South of Superior" is set in the fictional Upper Peninsula town of McAllaster, along Superior's shore. Knowing that the author lives in Grand Marais and runs the charming West Bay Diner gives the book more credibility and reinforces the authenticity.
The premise of the story is a little far-fetched, that a Chicago woman would agree to come north to care for an older woman she has never met and isn't related to, but I've known people to do stranger things with less reason. And Madeline wants to go back to her family's home and find out about herself and the family she never knew. Once you get past that, the transplanted Madeline discovers the charms of small towns and gorgeous northern Michigan. Enter the characters!
Madeline meets Gladys and Arbutus, the women she will live with, before she leaves Chicago. Arbutus, or Butte, is a sweet, cheerful lady who needs someone with her to help her get up and down. Gladys invited Madeline to come up north, thinking it an opportunity to make up for the guilt of years when her companion, Joe, ignored Madeline, his granddaughter. But Gladys is prickly. As Madeline settles into McAllaster, she realizes that Gladys is not going to be chatty about the past and the family history. Ah, well.
Then there's Mary Feather, the local fishmonger, among other things. She lives in a mashed-together cabin with no amenities and sells what she harvests from the wilds. Old Emil lives in a stinky cabin with his dog and chops wood, mostly. The Bensons run the modern grocery and try to run off the locals by cutting off their credit. Randi had a baby at age 17, and now she leaves Greyson wherever while she goes off to take care of something. Paul runs the local pizzeria and works in the prison kitchen mornings. They all care for each other, that shows. And everyone loves the Lake – the description of the winter storms is worth the book, if nothing else. This book reinforces my wish to see Lake Superior in winter. – 4 out of 5 stars
~ Tessa Eger, Reference Librarian, Jackson District Library


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Parting Schotts
Union-Brown ECAC Hockey championship game pregame report (with video)
Good evening from Boardwalk Hall, where it's Championship Saturday in the ECAC Hockey tournament. Fourth-seeded Union takes on seventh-seeded Brown.
Not only is the ECACH title at skate, but a berth in the NCAA tournament is on the line. The winner gets the automatic bid. However, the loser won't get an at-large bid because some of the top seeds in other conference tournaments (Niagara in Atlantic Hockey and St. Cloud State in the WCHA) lost. Plus, Boston University, a bubble team, knocked off Boston College in the Hockey East semifinal and will play top-seeded UMass-Lowell tonight for the title. A BU win eliminates another at-large bid.
Union is 14th in the PairWise. A loss to Brown, which is tied for 20th, would knock the Dutchmen out.
The Dutchmen (20-12-5) played a solid game in their 5-0 victory over Yale in Friday's semifinal. They jumped on the Bulldogs early, getting a goal from Wayne Simpson less than three minutes into the game. Daniel Carr added a goal late in the first, and Max Novak and Josh Jooris scored goals in the first five minutes of the second period. Goalie Troy Grosenick made 34 saves, and Sam Coatta added a late third-period goal.
I spoke with Union coach Rick Bennett after the team's morning skate. To watch the interview, click here.
Union won the season series against Brown, 1-0-1. The teams skated to a 3-3 tie Dec. 7 in Providence. That game saw goalie Anthony Borelli inserted into the game after starter Marco DeFilippo was pulled late in the first period after allowing three goals. All Borelli did was shut down the Dutchmen, and he rode that to the No. 1 goalie spot.
Union won the second game, 2-0, Feb. 16 at Messa Rink. Borelli made 46 saves and allowed only one goal. The Dutchmen got an empty-net goal from Kyle Bodie late in the game.
There are no lineup changes for Union. Here is the Union lineup, starting with the forwards (LW-C-RW):
Daniel Ciampini/Kyle Bodie/Wayne Simpson
Daniel Carr/Josh Jooris/Matt Wilkins
Matt Hatch/Max Novak/Kevin Sullivan
Cole Ikkala/David Roy/Sam Coatta
The defensive pairings are:
Mat Bodie/Sebastien Gingras
Greg Coburn/Shayne Gostisbehere
Ryan Forgaard/Shawn Stuart
Grosenick starts in goal.
The Bears (16-13-6) rolled to a rather-easy 4-0 victory over top-seeded Quinnipiac. Matt Lorito scored twice, and Borelli made 29 saves as Brown dominated the Bobcats. It was so bad for Quinnipiac that Bobcats coach Rand Pecknold briefly pulled starting goalie Eric Hartzell, the ECACH Player of the Year and Ken Dryden Award winner, in the second period to give him a pep talk after allowing three goals.
The Bears have the reputation of being a defensive, clutch-and-grab team, especially when they get up by a couple of goals. But they were very aggressive, even after they took a 4-0 lead.
Here is the Brown lineup, starting with the forwards:
Matt Lorito/Mark Naclerio/Nick Lappin
Matt Harlow/Chris Zaires/Mike Juola
Garnet Hathaway/Mark Hourihan/Jeff Ryan
Francis Drolet/Marc Senecal/Joe Prescott
The defensive pairings are:
Dennis Robertson/Brandon Pfeil
Joey de Concilys/Matt Wahl
Richie Crowley/Jake Goldberg
Borelli starts in goal.
Robert St. Lawrence and Scott Whittemore are the referees. The linesmen are Dave Brown and Jim Briggs.
I'll have updates on the on Twitter. If you're not following me, my Twitter handle is @slapschotts. The hashtags I will use for this game are #UnionHockey, #BrownHockey and #ECACHockey. If you have any questions during the game, feel free to ask.
I'll update my Parting Schotts blog after each period, and have more description of the game.
If you haven't done so, please like two Facebook pages — The Daily Gazette on Ice and the Slap Schotts College Hockey Segment. Of course, you can also friend me on Facebook.
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The following is a DEC press release:
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today announced that approximately 30,000 adult pheasants will be released on lands open to public hunting for the upcoming Fall pheasant hunting season. The pheasant hunting season begins on Oct. 1 in northern and eastern portions of New York; Oct. 15 in central and western portions of New York, and Nov. 1 on Long Island.
For the fifth consecutive year, junior hunters (12-15 years old) have the opportunity to hunt pheasants the weekend prior to the opening of regular pheasant hunting season.
In northern and eastern New York, the youth pheasant hunt weekend is this Saturday and Sunday. In western New York, the youth pheasant hunt weekend is Oct. 8-9.
Pheasants will be released on a number of select sites across the state to provide ample youth hunting opportunities (see table below). All current pheasant hunting rules and regulations remain in effect during the youth hunt.
In addition to the upstate youth hunts, DEC is working to establish a youth pheasant hunt on Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk counties) this Fall.
Legislation authorizing a youth hunt on Long Island was signed by Governor Cuomo in August, and DEC initiated a regulatory proposal that, if adopted, would have the youth hunt held on the last full weekend in October (Oct. 29-30, 2011).
Pheasants would be released prior to that weekend at certain sites. To review the proposal and submit comments visit the "Proposed Regulations" page on the DEC website. The public comment period on this proposal is open and comments will be accepted through Oct. 3.
The pheasants will be released on state-owned wildlife management areas and cooperative hunting areas prior to and during the Fall hunting season. All release sites for pheasants raised via state-funded programs are open to public hunting. A list of statewide adult pheasant release sites and sites receiving birds for the youth pheasant hunt weekends can be found on DEC's website:
The Day-old Pheasant Chick Program provides additional opportunities for pheasant hunters. This program was developed in the early 1900s to provide day-old pheasant chicks to cooperating 4-H groups and sportsmen and sportswomen.
The chicks are distributed to program participants in May and June, and cooperators incur all costs associated with rearing the birds, including feed, water, utilities and facility construction. The birds are raised to adulthood and released on lands open to public hunting before the season opens. This year, nearly 46,000 pheasant chicks were distributed statewide as part of this program.
Anyone interested in raising and releasing pheasants to expand next year's hunting opportunities should contact DEC's Reynolds Game Farm at (607) 273-2768.
Boundaries for pheasant hunting zones conform to Wildlife Management Units used for management of other wildlife. Wildlife Management Unit boundary descriptions can be found on the DEC website. In addition to knowing these unit boundary descriptions, hunters should review the 2011-2012 New York Hunting & Trapping guide for complete regulations and other important information before going afield.
Hunters who plan to use private lands should ask permission from the landowner prior to accessing those lands. See the DEC Web site for a list of pheasant release sites.


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Leepa Valley
Leepa Vallery is the most charming and most beautiful valley in Azad Jammu & Kashmir. A metalled road branches off for Leepa Valley from Naily, 45 kilometers from Muzaffarabad, climbs above the ReshianGali 3200 meters high and then descends to 1677 meters on the other side into the valley. It spell bounds one and all who visits this valley. Leepa Valley remains open for home tourists only from May to November. Listed below are the few places of interest for tourists:
- Chananian
- Leepa
- Dao Khan
Chananiari is situated about 62 kilometers from Naily and 36 kilometers from Reshian, it is located opposite to Leepa, close to the Line of Control (LOC), at an elevation of 2226 meters. Enclosed by wide pine forest and Nullah Qazi Naag flowing near by it, Chananian is also a worth seeing place in Leepa. From Reshian beyond, one has to rent jeeps for voyage to Leepa Vallery and other places.
Leepa is a tiny town about 60 kilometers from Naily and 38 kilometers from Reshian, at an elevation of 1921 meters. Its flourishing rice fields in summer and classic wooden Kashmiri houses present a magnificent view to the people visiting the region. Apple, Walnut, Cherry and Honey of Leepa are very popular and in immense demand.
Dao Khan:
Dao Khan is located some 75 kilometers from Muzaffarabad. An unpaved but well maintained road branches off from Reshian to Dao Khan, (4 kilometers from Reshian), which is now well known due to its high elevation (2490 meters), calm and cool environment, outstanding scenic beauty and panoramic views. Accommodation facilities through Tourist Rest House and Forest Rest House are on hand. Due to flow of visitors in the summer season, AJK Tourism Dept. also offer tent service for housing.


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UPDATE:According to B-93's Web site, Megan won the first round of the Hometown Showdown Thursday night with her song, "Sing Like Tammy." She next moves on to compete against Danny Lee Dunn on Friday, Sept. 5.
VICKSBURG -- A 12-year-old Vicksburg singer will make her radio debut Thursday by presenting a song she co-wrote as she vies to win a country station's competition.
Megan Rae Macher, a Vicksburg Middle School seventh-grader, will compete against 11 other West Michigan artists during the Hometown Showdown on B-93 FM 93.7.
She is the youngest singer in the competition by at least 13 years, said "Broadway," a B-93 radio personality.
Hear Megan's song, "Sing Like Tammy"
"I think it's a really great opportunity to be on the radio," Megan said. "I listen to B-93 constantly and love country music. I don't know if I'm going to win, but that doesn't matter. Everyone who entered put a lot of work into it, and whoever wins I wish them the best, but I do hope I make it to the next level."
Listeners can tune in at 8 p.m. Thursday to hear Megan's "Sing Like Tammy," an original song she co-wrote with her father and singer/songwriter cousin Ron Brown.
The song tells of a young girl's dream of stardom and pays tribute to country artists Tammy Wynette and Taylor Swift.
Online voting from 8 to 11:45 p.m. at www.B93.com will determine who advances in the competition.
The Hometown Showdown runs at 8 p.m. weeknights until a winner is announced. The winner gets a chance to have his or her song put into the Grand Rapids radio station's regular evening rotation.
Megan first sang in public at the age of 6 when she performed the national anthem at a Kalamazoo Kings game. She later became a regular singer for the Kalamazoo Kings, the Kalamazoo Wings and the Big League Softball World Series.
She also has sung with the Kalamazoo Children's Chorus and school choirs.


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MOBILE, Alabama – Tommy Bice, state superintendent of education, opened the MEGA Conference 2013 on Monday, July 15, by urging teachers to shake off the "teach to the test" legacy of No Child Left Behind.
"The test in the spring" is not the focus any more, he stressed in his speech to about 2,400 educators at the Arthur R. Outlaw Convention Center. It's time to move into a new era of teaching students how to become critical thinkers, he said.
"We now have been approved for our own plan, and that's Plan 2020," he said. "We expect every child to graduate from high school and we expect them to be prepared … Our expectations have been raised significantly.
"Our children can do this work – they can do anything we ask them to do, if we provide them with the right instruction and the right tools. I'm convinced of it," he said.
"Our children deserve every single effort that we can give them to be successful. That's what Plan 2020 is about. We don't have No Child Left Behind as a built-in excuse any more."
Last month, the U.S. Department of Education granted the state's waiver request to be removed from the No Child Left Behind requirements.
The new guidelines of Plan 2020 call for a 90 percent graduation rate by the year 2020 and to ensure that all graduates are prepared for careers or university course work. The state's current graduation rate is 72 percent.
"No Child Left Behind has been put to sleep," and there won't be Adequate Yearly Progress reports coming out this August, either, Bice said. "Making AYP and being prepared are two very different things," he noted.
Business and industry representatives, and college educators, Bice said, have told him that Alabama's high school graduates "lack any type of intellectual curiosity" – an unintended consequence of NCLB. "For decades, we've prepared them to take a test," he said. "Once they get outside that environment, they're often lost."
He gave the audience an overview of the new standards. The goal, he said, is to prepare all students "so that when they walk across that stage at the end of high school, they will have choices."
The new standards will make everyone have to work harder, he warned. "We're going to have to grade papers again. Is it more work? Yes, it is. But that's what we signed up for."
Bice's speech, which included a video clip from the film "Freedom Writers," was well-received, with the audience breaking into applause and cheers on several occasions.
He complimented the Mobile County school system and Superintendent Martha Peek, who was in attendance. "Mobile County has done a remarkable job" with its fully aligned K-12 curriculum, he said.
He also described Mobile as "the Mecca of Torchbearer Schools" before he played a brief video about St. Elmo Elementary School in south Mobile County, which received the honor in 2007. In the segment, Barbara deGraaf, a third-grade teacher, talked about how she was teaching Plan 2020 college and career-ready standards in math.
If children get excited about learning, Bice assured the teachers, their assessment test scores will reflect that enthusiasm. "The test does not need to be the center of our radar," he said. "At the end of the day, the test in the spring really doesn't matter. We have to make sure we don't let it drive our decisions."
Conference attendees lined up to greet Bice after the speech. "He was inspiring. I'm impressed with the vision he has for the state," said Reeivice Girtman, principal at Eufaula Elementary School.
"Students are the focus. It's not about the tests, it's about the learning," added Betty Guilford, an academic coach at Eufaula Elementary.
"He's very inspirational," said Mary Kercher, a coordinator of special education and attendance in the Chickasaw City Schools system. "He's always putting children first and always challenging educators to think outside of the box and do what's right."
At the start of the opening session, Peek and Mobile Mayor Sam Jones welcomed attendees to the MEGA Conference.
The event, sponsored by the Alabama Board of Education and Department of Eduication, continues through the week with professional development sessions in the convention center and in the Renaissance Riverview Plaza and Battle House hotels.


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We went to the quarterfinal hockey game Thursday night between the U.S. and Germany. We were sitting in the Sports Illustrated suite, and three rows in front of the glass was Jim Craig (goalie on the '80 gold medal "Miracle on Ice" hockey team). People were coming up and asking for his autograph, and that was fun to watch their reaction.
The hockey game was a complete blowout (a 5-0 U.S. win). It seems like I've watched the U.S. play so many times that I know when they're playing well and when they aren't. But there were so many American flags, and people were going crazy. It was really a fun game to go to.
We then met up with some friends and went to the short track speedskating and got to watch Ohno skate. I felt like I was witnessing something that is going to be remembered for a long, long time.
The South Korean was skating around holding his flag like he thought he'd won. Then the judge came right up to him and informed him he'd been disqualified. He threw his flag down, and then he tripped over it with his skates.
Ohno was skating around the track like he knew he was going to win the whole time. But I thought he really sold the bump to the officials, like drawing a charge in basketball. The way he came up and put his hands up, I thought, made it seem more obvious than it might have been.
It was pretty emotional. The crowd was screaming in disbelief. When they disqualified the South Korean, there were people all around us jumping up and down. It was exciting to say the least.
Later we went to dinner with Thomas Weisel, a man who is very involved with the U.S. Postal Service Team, the cycling team that sponsored Lance Armstrong. He was mentioned in Lance's book that he was one of the few who never gave up on him and stood behind him.
I played a little bit of hookey today (Thursday). We skied hard from about 9 to 3. We are now flying to the airport to pick up someone coming in on a private jet. Right now, I'm in my ski suit and ski glasses.
Tonight (Thursday) we are going to women's ice skating. It is so beautiful to watch them. They're so athletic and graceful. It is the ticket in Salt Lake City.
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Interviewer: Madison Davis Lacy, Jr.
Production Team: A
Interview Date: June 20, 1989
Camera Rolls: 1200-1201
Sound Rolls: 150
Produced by Blackside, Inc.
Housed at the Washington University Film and Media Archive, Henry Hampton Collection.
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Interview with Jessie McCrary, conducted by Blackside, Inc. on June 20, 1989, for Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads 1965 to 1985. Washington University Libraries, Film and Media Archive, Henry Hampton Collection.
These transcripts contain material that did not appear in the final program. Only text appearing in bold italics was used in the final version of Eyes on the Prize.
Jessie, you had been telling me earlier about how government displaced people in Overtown. In fact you called it governmental cancer. Tell me about that. What happened with respect to Overtown? Talk to me.
Overtown was destroyed because of government. More so, government is the villain. There are some particular examples I can site for you. The trans- State Transportation Department decided that that's where Interstate I-95 should go. The county government put its Administration Building there. The federal government put a United States Post Office on the most popular social gathering place that Black people had in the history of this county. The new arena is in Overtown. The Mass Transit has a station in Overtown. You, you have to understand, Overtown is adjacent to downtown Miami. Downtown Miami cannot ex., expand southward. It can't expand westward. It can't expand eastward because they would be in the bay. And the only place it can expand is Overtown. Now, Black people were easy prey. They had no political power because they didn't have any people in office. So what government did, was they take, took a little at a time. First they cut the finger off and then they cut the hand off and then they cut the arm off and pretty soon Overtown's dead**. In addition to the fact that many things in Overtown were owned by Whites who put up massive apartment buildings and when government started moving in they immediately moved those tenants out because they saw chances to make huge profits from government's desire to move in.
OK, let's stop down
Well, some would said that government buildings in this town, that Overtown served as a magnet and was actually investing in the community, how, what was the deal?
They would have to understand, when government moved in, people had to move out. What you did was, you, government moved in on a social institution and displaced that social institution and what was cohesive at one time then became scattered. So that institution died called Overtown. And the people who lived Overtown, who were part of Overtown and other people who came from the outside, outlining areas, all gathered in Overtown for some reason, for church, for cultural events, for social events. And when government displaced those institutions, it displaced that society and broke it up.
Do you remember that displacement, that disruption? What was it like? What did it feel like?
I remember it distinctly. Well one, there was no gathering place. The Sir John Hotel, for example, the Carver Hotel, the Mary Elizabeth Hotel, those hotels were to Black folk what the Fountain Bleu and the Eden Roc were to people on the beach. Because that's where you saw the great entertainers, that's where you'd gather on a Friday afternoon if you wanted to be with the boys or any afternoon. You would see middle-class people there along with all other people socializing, making the business deals, having dinner at night, seeing a good show. It is no more.
Were there any opportunities for new Black institutions to take their place?
Yes. But that happens over a period of time.
Start again
Yes, there were opportunities for new institutions to take the place of those. But you have to understand, Overtown was not built overnight. Overtown had a history. It had the history of being our place together. We are here. We are brothers. We are business people. And what you are asking or what some would suggest is that we'll go get 40 acres somewhere and rebuild that. You can't rebuild history over night. It took a long time to develop the Mary Elizabeth Hotel. It was years before we had a major hotel like the Sir John that was previously called the Sir Cabot Hotel. You don't do that overnight. And the goodwill was some of the location. You know, you've got one hotel on this corner. You can walk down the street to the other one. You walk around the corner to the other one. You walk down the street a little further, there's the Magic Chef. And remember what Overtown was, was, was so attractive until there were people who came from distant places to Miami and the first place they were going to go was Overtown. It's like people who come to Miami and say I'm going to Miami Beach. This was the Mecca.
Good. That's good
Tell me one of your fond remembrances of being at the Sir John Hotel.
You know I remember being in the Sir John Hotel one night, just sitting around drinking with the boys. And there's a small trio there. And some guy gets up and starts singing. Well, I don't know the guy from the man in the moon but he looks familiar. Lo and behold, it's, ah, Little Willie John, singing "Fever". I mean it's that kind of thing. I also remember that I probably got my first job as a law clerk from being in the Sir John Hotel. I was in there and there was this very distinguished gentleman who was a lawyer, he, named Henry Arrington. And I was so awed by Henry Arrington because Henry Arrington had represented Joe Louis, Dinah Washington, you name him, represented Cassius Clay. I mean Muhammad when he was Cassius Clay. So I went up to him and I said, "Mr. Arrington, you know, I'm just so happy to meet you." Because he was an imposing fellow, you know, very distinguished looking, and ask him for a job. I didn't get one but, ah, he subsequently helped me get a job at some other place. But it was a place, all the time, that you could see a celebrity. And I guess that's why a lot of people went there because they knew at some time during the night or day somebody famous was going to walk through there.
Let's switch tracks just a second. Now, tell me something about the non-group. Tell me what it is and who's on it, and what it do.
The non-group, let me tell you about the, the non-group, the power structure in this town. The non-group is a group of 49 people. All of whom are rich, except for one of them, consist of the major executives in this town, Florida Power and Light, the Southern Bell, the Eastern Airlines, the Burger King, the real, real heavyweights. You won't see their names in the newspapers, very seldom. But they control this town because they be- they are the policy makers. And they are the people who can make things happen, government move. When there is a tax issue, for example, recently there was a tax issue. The non-group decided that it wanted to support that tax issue. The issues passes. And that issue was the Mass Transit issue. The governmental leaders in this town are not as strong as the non-group when it gets to the bottom line. They certainly have their sphere of power but it's the power behind the scenes, and I'm convinced that the non-group is that single entity that makes government move in a direction, not a selfish direction, not a selfish direction but in a direction that is going to be beneficial to people. It, ah, it's done some things for, for Blacks. As a result of the non-group, roughly about seven million dollars was pumped into an organization called Business Assistance Center which was designed to give some financial aid to small entrepreneurs in the Black community. And that's without government, that was purely a private gesture.
Has that worked?
Why hasn't it?
It hasn't worked because--
Start again by saying, the Business Assistance Center hasn't worked.
The Business Assistance, ah, Center has not worked as well as it could. And the reason is, in my opinion, that the funds were put there for the reason to make access to finance easier. And I'm not suggesting that they should give the money away but when the Business Assistance Center finds itself with the same kind of stringent requirements that you have at Southeast Bank, then the person might as well go to Southeast. And I'm not suggesting a give-away. But if you've got a man who has a mom and pop grocery store and you're going to require him to pledge his house, his home, require him to have very sophisticated financial statements, it's not going to work. One of the interesting things about finance in this community, there is a Cuban banker, a very respected one, the elder statesman of bankers in this community who is Cuban, who said, "You know I run a bank but I run it on a handshake and how a man looks me in the eye." Say, "I lose a few but most of it I get back." And I'm just saying that the Business Assistance Center needs to rethink its role and rethink its procedure. Obviously it is changing now with new direction and hopefully it's going to work.
Around '78, '79, '80, tell me can you describe what the relationship between the police and the Black community was like.
The relationship between the police and the Black community is bad, horrible, miserable, detestable. And it goes back further than '79. You have to understand that in this town there was a time where if you were a Black policeman, you could not arrest a White person. There was a time where they had a separate precinct. And you have to understand that when the City of Miami got its first Black policeman, they went on the street and they got six guys who were 6 feet 4, gave them a gun and a badge and said, "You're a policeman." It was not until the 1960s, late '60s that Blacks, who applied for the Police Department, were even able to go to the Police Academy. So, you had a mentality in the Police Department that still prevails in many instances that, "I am a policeman. I am White. You are a Black. You will do as I say." And then there is the question of brutality. And the brutality has continued in this town and did not start to stop and government did not start to take some action until this town started burning. That's unfortunate. And we've had our share of burnings. But every time there has been a disturbance in this town, it's been because of police brutality.
Do you as an attorney and dealing with the community, do you recall any stories that sort of exemplify what you're talking about?
Absolutely, let me, let me give you a horror story. I represented a Black policeman, who was an undercover officer, who was making a phone call one night at a hotel, right on Biscayne Boulevard in plain clothes. Two cops walked up to him and said, "Boy, what are you doing?" He said, "Listen, I'm about to make a drug buy. I'm an undercover officer with the City of Miami Police Department. If you don't believe me, go look in my car. Look up under the seat and there's my badge or you can call Major Bronner, he'll verify." They said, "We'll verify something." They put him in it, in their car. This is a fellow policeman. Put him in the car. Took him to a warehouse area, beat him half to death and then one of the, then they called their sergeant. Then they discovered the guy really is a fellow policeman. They then said to themselves, "What do we do with him now?" Took him to the hospital. Didn't let his family see him for two days. Wife doesn't know where here husband is. Big cover up. That's against a fellow policeman. There are untold stories of people I've represented and other lawyers have represented, where one policeman, a young kid was running away, the policemen caught him, grabbed him down from a fence, kicked him, eye gone. There are thousands and thousands of stories like that.
Is Miami and its relationship to the police and police and the treatment of Blacks in Miami, is there anything unique or special there, I mean, is it different than anyplace else in America? I mean, what makes this like that?
I think that it's like that because of what the structure of the Miami Police Department has been over the years. And remember in Police Departments as in other sections of government, the middle management does not move very often. It stays the same and those same hard, cold kinds of attitudes prevail at the middle management level and then trickles down to the guy on the beat because he knows he can whoop up against the brother's head anytime, nothing's going to happen but a reprimand. And until we change that middle part it's not going to change. There are some efforts to do that now. Obviously, there's a Black police chief. But even that doesn't change the middle management where the real day to day decisions are made. I'm not talking about policy. I'm talking about day to day decisions.
OK, let's stop down.
Do you think the Black middle class has abandoned Overtown?
The Black middle class has abandoned Overtown in fact and in spirit. Anybody who even has, faintly, come up with the idea that Overtown is coming back alive, sadly mistaken. It's dead. Gone. Forever.
You said in so many words that Overtown is dead and is not going to come back. Tell me that and tell me why.
Overtown is dead because, two or three reasons. One, people, the class of people who once made Overtown thrive, moved to suburbia. They come in in the morning and they go out in the afternoon. There is nothing to draw people to Overtown now. What exists in Overtown now is government and that's not the kind of thing that made Overtown grow. It will be prosperous but not prosperous in the sense that it will be a mecca, a social setting for Black Miami.
When, after the riots Jimmy Carter came to town, were you in that meeting that's reported that Carter made a lot of promises about helping the Liberty City, helping the Overtown area?
I wasn't in the meeting, no I was not.
How did Black people respond to the charge that a lot of people in three-piece suits sold them out after the riots, that nothing really has changed or is going to change?
I think that out there in the streets and in little houses across Miami, people were distrustful of a good number of people who call themselves leaders. For example, the White structure, power structure, after one disturbance brought in Andy Young. People said, "Why are you bringing Andy Young in here to solve a problem that we can tell you about?" And that's happened over and over and over again, that much of the power structure, has absolutely been insensitive to the concerns here. Now, the other part of it is, We have not been as militant as we should have been. There is no way we should have let Overtown disappear. But we got snookered. And we got snookered because we were not minding our knitting. We should have been there, the governmental board meetings, at the meetings that talk about development. We were not there. And we trusted people that it was going to be OK**.
So, politics is part of the answer somehow or another or was part of the answer for Overtown.
Was part of the answer, is part of the answer. It is all politics.
Put politics in the subject again, politics will part of it.
Politics, the whole destruction of Overtown can be related to politics. Because it was the politicians who we did not, quote control, where we had no representative there to look out for our interests and the interest that, that the politicians looked out for were the interests of the landlords who lived on Miami Beach but who owned the property over here, for the bond issues that were going to be passed to build this that helps their friends. Black people were not even thought about, no more than, here's the area. We can move them out. I mean you had entrepreneurs going around offering people money for their property when they knew what the master plan was. And here was Black Miami, not even knowing. And one of the things we were not part of the process. We were locked out the process. So, if we didn't know what went on at the meeting, before the meeting, there's no way for you to get the full impact of what the meeting is about.
Does the at-large voting system here in Dade County, Miami, you know, at-large representation. Does that, is that a strong factor?
The at-large voting system is bad for Black Miami. It is most difficult to get elected in this county of two million, almost two million people, with at-large voting. We have never had a single person elected in this county who is Black, full time, except where the person was first appointed and then built some coalitions. But the voting has gone, when people run along racial lines.
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Jon Yamasato
You may recognize him from his days as a member of the local music group Pure Heart, but these days Jon Yamasato is working as a Realtor for Prudential Locations and is finding ways to give back to the community.
"I promised my family that I would finish college, so that's what I did," says Yamasato, a 2003 graduate of UH-Manoa.
"I tried touring for a short stint, which is what you need to do to make money as a musician nowadays, and didn't like it. I turned to real estate from a suggestion by my uncle, and it fit my personality and ambitions well - so I continued to stay in the business."
You can still catch Yamasato going back to his roots and performing live Oct. 16 as part of The Wings for Shriner's. Sponsored by the Aloha Chapter of Hawaii Certified Residential Specialist (CRS) designated Realtors, this annual fundraiser takes place from 4:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Aloha Tower Marketplace. Pau hana pupus will be provided by Highway Inn, and guests can enjoy the sounds of Yamasato along with performances by Dennis Kamakahi, Hapa, Ben Vegas and Maila Gibson.
"People can expect a very relaxing evening of music, drink and food. The Shriners also attend the event and love to mingle through the crowd," Yamasato says. "I wasn't part of the CRS chapter when they originally came up with Shriner's as their primary target for charity, but now that they are under construction of their new facility, we thought it fit well with our real estate background."
Yamasato appeared on MidWeek's cover in August 1999 as a member of Pure Heart (with Jake Shimabukuro and Lopaka Colon). Besides working for Prudential Locations for the past six years, the local boy and wife Stacey have a beautiful 8-month-old daughter, Nysa.
When asked where he sees himself in five years'time,Yamasato responds, "I'll be watching my daughter play in the schoolyard from my home office, and maybe if things continue to go well, I may be prepping for another run at a music career in my 40s."
For now, he's just glad he can use his talents to help others less fortunate.
"It's an unbelievable blessing to be able to help others while doing something that you love to do," Yamasato says. "Not many people can come to an event and directly benefit parties who are in need of assistance, either monetarily or otherwise.
"Some of the greatest, most-meaningful performances that have stuck with me all these years have been at charity events."
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FTM. I'm not biased, I hope everybody beats the mags!
The 'Posts" label, under the 'Join Date', on each post is constant, at least on yours. It's 252 from page 1 to this page, 31. It must be the total number of posts which is constantly updated. But that can't be right because it's been the same number for several days now. Unless you mean some other number. Let's forget it, anyway. It's sure not critical. Just that all the current political bru-ha-ha wonders me.
How did last night go? Please tell.
"When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power." - Alston Chase
Crypto..I show 306 posts. Each time someone posts, the number reflects that. Maybe refresh your screen?
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FTM. I'm not biased, I hope everybody beats the mags!
Hey Sol et al;
Back from trip. Very fun and enjoyed students but very very tired. Just had a two hour nap and I almost never do that.
I was thinking about what helps me get sleepy and I noticed someone suggested reading cookbooks.
There might something to that. I often will read the stuff "between the recipes" about the culture / food prep you find in many cookbooks, most common in ethnic cooking as background information. It's not too exciting but interesting to know, and it is one thing I do "downshift" before sleeping. Maybe spend 15-30 minutes on that--kinds of ingredients / pantry items often found in cookbooks either in index or intro which is also informative but not too thrilling. Good way to improve cooking knowledge and slow down at the same time. Some of the stories many writers tell about where they were when they tried the recipe, who made for them (travel style cookbooks) can also be really a good choice for relaxation before bed. These are easy to get at the Library so you aren't spending money. Maybe try that. Bring a backpack and the lads need never know what you are carrying. . . so what did you do this weekend anyway, now that you are over a month sober and things are looking up?
Glad you had a good time blue.
Love reading the recipe thread on here.
Didn't do much over the weekend(money).
Did go over to see my dad who is a fantastic cook. He made me a primal breakfast. He was shocked when I told him not to cut the fat off the bacon. I had to help him up when I told him it was ok to put butter in my scrambled eggs
He asked me what I had done with the real sol. Who are you?
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FTM. I'm not biased, I hope everybody beats the mags!
That's a big question. You might not know who the real sol is for awhile, but it sounds like he's surfacing, doesn't it? I really think the "no sleep" thing is linked to that somehow. It sure was for me anyway. Don't know if I've found the real blue yet either, but must admit it is an interesting journey just looking.
Aren't scrambled eggs with butter amazing? Wait till you are mopping out the cooled bacon grease with a finger--then the pleasure of grok-living really kicks in. Fat-free sucks and always has


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WFAN radio sports personality Boomer Esiason is a New York Mets fan at heart, but the former NFL quarterback is a New York Yankee fan at least for one day.
That's because the Yankees and Yankee Stadium play host to his Bombers-Boomer-Broadway Softball Classic.
This year's event, the fourth edition, will take place Monday in the Bronx.
The annual doubleheader will include two seven-inning games, with current Broadway stars facing off in the first game and Boomer's celebrities playing members of the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team and New York Yankees alumni in the second game.
Those scheduled to participate include 2014 Tony Award nominees Ramin Karimloo (Les Miserables) and Bryce Pinkham (A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder), as well as television star Aaron Tveit (Graceland). Also representing the Broadway stars will be Betsy Wolfe (Bullets over Broadway), Anika Larsen (Beautiful) and C.K. "Smoothy" Edwards (After Midnight).
Participating in the second game will be former Yankees Brian Boehringer, Charlie Hayes, Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, Graeme Lloyd, Jeff Nelson, Joe Pepitone and Andy Phillips; WFAN morning show personalities Esiason, Craig Carton, Al Dukes, Bob Dwyer, Tommy Lugauer, Jerry Recco and Eddie Scozzare; NHL Hall-of-Famer Mark Messier; NFL Hall-of-Famer Anthony Munoz; former MLB All-Star John Franco; former NBA All-Star Wally Szczerbiak, and professional wrestler Velvet Sky.
Prior to the first game, Paul Nolan —s tar of the Broadway show Once — will perform the national anthem.
Members of the Broadway Show League, consisting of various Broadway performers, will form the two teams in the event's first game, scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. The second game — between Boomer's celebrities and Wounded Warriors/New York Yankees alumni — will start at approximately noon.
A limited number of tickets are available for purchase by visiting the Actors Fund website or the Boomer Esiason Foundation website. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Boomer Esiason Foundation Fighting Cystic Fibrosis and The Actors Fund.


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