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Lat. epistola ; Greek 'epistolé ; in Hebrew, at first only the general term meaning "book" was used, then certain transitional expressions signifying "writing", and finally agrt , 'iggéréth (of Assyrian or Persian origin), and nshtwn , nishtewan (of Persian derivation), which the Septuagint always renders 'epistolé .
In the study of Biblical epistles, it will be found convenient to distinguish between the Old Testament and the New.
The Old Testament exhibits two periods in its idea of an epistle: first, it presents the epistle under the general concept of a book or a writing; secondly, it regards the epistle as a distinct literary form. It may be difficult to point out the dividing line between these two periods with accuracy; in general it may be maintained that the Hebrews developed their notion of epistle as a specific form of writing during the time of the Captivity. The first instance of a written Biblical message is found in 2 Samuel 11:14-15 , where we are told about David's letter to Joab concerning Urias; there was need for secrecy in this case as well as in that of Jezabel's order to the ancients and chief men of the city in the matter of Naboth ( 1 Kings 21:8-9 ), and of Jehu's commands sent to Samaria ( 2 Kings 10:1-6 ). It may have been in order to avoid the danger of a personal interview that the Prophet Elias (Eliseus?) wrote to King Joram concerning his impending punishment ( 2 Chronicles 21:12-15 ). The desire to be emphatic and peremptory prompted the letter of the King of Syria to the King of Israel, asking for the cure of Naaman's leprosy ( 2 Kings 5:5-7 ), and Sennacherib's open letter to Ezechias ( 2 Kings 19:14 ; Isaiah 37:14 ; 2 Chronicles 32:17 ); the wish to be courteous seems to have inspired the letter of Merodach Baladan to Ezechias after the latter's recovery from sickness ( 2 Kings 20:12 ; Isaiah 39:1 ). Similar to the foregoing authoritative letters is the message addressed by Jeremias to the exiles in Babylon ( Jeremiah 29:1 sq. ); the Prophet alludes also to letters sent by a pseudo-prophet from Babylon to Jerusalem with the purpose of undermining Jeremias's authority (ibid., 25, 29).
Thus far, letters are of relatively rare occurrence in the Bible , and they are not regarded as constituting a distinct class of literature. Hereafter they become more frequent, and both their name and their form mark them as a peculiar literary species. Their subsequent frequency may be inferred from their repeated occurrence in the Books of Esther, Esdras, and Nehemias: Esth., i, 22; iii, 12; viii, 5 sq.; ix, 20, 29; xiii, 1-7; xvi, 1-24; I Esdr., iv, 7, 11 sq.; v, 6; vii, 11; Neh., ii, 7; vi, 5, 17, 19. Their general name "book" gives way, first, to that of "writing" ( 2 Chronicles 2:11 ; 21:12 ; Esther 3:13-14 ; 8:10, 13 ), and then to that of "letter" ( 2 Chronicles 30:1, 6 ; Ezra 4:7 sqq. ; 5:5 sqq. ; Nehemiah 2:7-9 ; 6:5, 17, 19 ; Esther 9:26, 29 ). Their form begins to be marked by a formal address and a distinctively epistolary ending. Instances of such explicit addresses may be seen in Esdr., v, 7: "To Darius the king all peace"; Esth., xiii, 1: "Artaxerxes the great king who reigneth from India to Ethiopia, to the princes and governors of the hundred and twenty-seven provinces, that are subject to his empire, greeting"; I Mach., xi, 30: "King Demetrius to his brother Jonathan, and to the nation of the Jews, greeting". An instance of an epistolary conclusion occurs in II Mach., xi, 33: "Fare ye well. In the year one hudred and forty-eight, the fifteenth day of the month of Kanthicus"; a similar example may be seen, ibid., 38. But the Old Testament does not furnish us with any model of private correspondence between Hebrews.
The New Testament presents us with a very highly developed form of an epistle. Recent writers on the subject have found it convenient to follow Professor Deissmann in his distinction between the letter and the epistle. The letter is a private and confidential conversation with the addressee, his anticipated answers shaping the course of the writing; the epistle is general in its aim, addresses all whom it may concern, and tends to publication. The letter is a spontaneous product of the writer, the epistle follows the rules of art. If publication be regarded as an essential condition of literature, the letter may be described as a "pre-literary form of self-expression". In order to apply this distinction more effectively to the written messages contained in, or referred to by, the New-Testament Books, we shall group the relevant data as pre-Pauline, Pauline, and post-Pauline.Pre-Pauline
The Book of Acts (ix, 2; xxii, 5; xxviii, 21) shows that the Jews of Jerusalem sent occasional letters to the synagogues of the Dispersion ; Acts, xv, 22-23, gives a parallel instance of a letter written by the Apostles from Jerusalem to the churches in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia. We may also infer from the testimony of the New Testament ( 1 Corinthians 16:3 ; 2 Corinthians 3:1 ; Romans 16:1-2 ; Acts 18:27 ) that letters of commendation were of common occurrence. I Cor., vii, 1, informs us that the Corinthian Christians had applied to St. Paul in their difficulties by way of letter.Pauline
The Pauline Epistles form a collection which was formerly called 'o 'apóstolos . They are called "epistles", though that addressed to the Hebrews hardly deserves the name, being really a theological homily. The Epistles mentioned in I Cor., v, 9, and Col., iv, 16, have not been preserved to us; their accidental loss makes us suspect that other Epistles may have perished. The peculiar form and style of the Pauline Epistles are studied in their respective introductions and commentaries; but we may add here that I Tim., II Tim., and Tit. are called Pastoral Epistles; owing to its peculiar style and form, it is supposed by some writers that the Epistle to the Hebrews was not even dictated by the Apostle, but only expresses his doctrine. Only the three Pastoral Epistles and Philemon are addressed to individuals ; all the others are directed to churches, most of which, however, were well known to the writer. They exhibit more of their author's personal character than most profane letters do.Post-Pauline
Generally speaking, we may describe the so-called Catholic Epistles as Post-Pauline. We need not note here that these Epistles are not named after the addressee, as happens in the case of the Pauline Epistles, but after the inspired author. The Epistle of St. James has no final greetings; it was meant for a class, not for persons known to the writer. In I John we have a sermon rather than a letter, though its familiarity of language indicates that the readers were known to the writer. The following two Epistles of St. John are real letters in style and form. St. Peter's first Epistle supposes some familiarity with his readers on the part of the writer; this can hardly be said of II Peter or of the Epistle of Jude. What has been said sufficiently shows that Professor Deissmann's distinction between the artistic epistle and pre-literary letter cannot be applied with strict accuracy. Quite a number of the New-Testament Epistles contain those touches of intimate familiarity which are supposed to be the essential characteristics of the letter.
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Art of the wooden boat survives in a few Northern Peninsula sheds
"Please God, if I'm alive, I'll have her done by summer," muttered Roland Flynn as he clamped a riser against the ribs of his 13th wooden boat.
You can count on Flynn having the 24-foot trapskiff out of his shed and out of his hair by summer. Listening to the man curse the shed's small size with a heavy Croque accent as he scrambles about the boat, you'd swear the project was nothing but a nuisance to the retired fisherman.
Croque's Roland Flynn with a template he made for a set of ribs for his 13th wooden boat. - Photo by Aaron Beswick/The Northern Pen
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"Please God, if I'm alive, I'll have her done by summer," muttered Roland Flynn as he clamped a riser against the ribs of his 13th wooden boat.
You can count on Flynn having the 24-foot trapskiff out of his shed and out of his hair by summer. Listening to the man curse the shed's small size with a heavy Croque accent as he scrambles about the boat, you'd swear the project was nothing but a nuisance to the retired fisherman.
But a close examination of his craftsmanship and pride tells another story - one of addiction to the art.
"'Spose I like to work with wood," he admits. "I think she's got a nice shape."
There's plenty of sweep from a high bow to high stern. Up forward the hull flares out for protection from heavier seas. Although built by eye, this skiff isn't just a creation of Flynn's, it's the product of generations of trial-and-error learning.
Flynn started his apprenticeship early. His family lived on the Grey Islands fishing during the summer and moved to Conche annually before winter.
"Grandfather had never seen anything like it - a speedboat."
Flynn hauled the planking from the forest by dog team and going against the advice of his grandfather built a flat-bottomed speed boat - as opposed to the rounded punts which were the norm.
"I painted her white and green," recalled Flynn of his first boat. "I was proud of her."
But he wasn't proud for long.
"We was hauling her behind the motor boat, storm of wind on the go and she filled with water and Grandfather chopped her off."
Flynn, then a teenager, brought the big boat around and tried to save his handiwork to no avail. A round hulled, narrow-sterned punt might have fared better when towed with a following sea.
"'Spose he did the right thing," he concedes nearly 50 years later. "Joey Smallwood moved us a few years later."
Resettlement landed him in Croque. He married, fished and raised a family. Winters found him in the woods or in a shed, learning the art of the working boat.
Unlike fibreglass, the wooden boat is a balance of opposing pressures. The planks would rather stay as straight sticks, but are held in shape by ribs.
The force on each individual set of ribs is spread along the length of the boat by the planks which join each set from stem to stern. This protects the keel, which would otherwise snap under the weight of thousands of pounds of fish slamming into walls of water.
Benches or thwarts divide the boat into thirds - known as the forward hook, midship bend and afterhook. These thwarts run perpendicular to the keel and hold the boat's shape (the curve of the hull) along with the covering board (a grown timber that caps the ribs and planking). Inside the hull, for extra strength, a batten is run from stem to stern.
The opposing and balanced pressures of the hull's construction withstand the battering of North-Atlantic seas - tonnes of oncoming water that slam against, then wrap around and God willing, pass by the clever constructions of men.
Keeping the boat water-tight is again a matter of balanced pressure. Planking sticks are cut, milled and left to dry. When wood dries, it shrinks. The planking,- of an inch on Flynn's trapskiff, is shaped and nailed as tight together as the boatbuilder can manage. But even this wouldn't keep the water out, so using a cauling (corking) iron, he pounds oakum (tarred and twisted jute) into each seam between planks. This pushes each plank tighter against the ones above and below it. Then, when the boat is launched, it soaks up water for a day or two, each plank swells and pushes tighter again.
"Grandfather and old Uncle Cyril Flynn had no trouble to knock a boat together," said Flynn. "I miss he, lot of stuff he'd tell me if I went astray."
But at 65 Flynn is working on being an oldtimer himself, an authority on the craft who in years gone by young fishermen would have come to for advice as they built their own boat and started towards independence. But fiberglass boats built in shipyards by other men's hands have largely replaced wood and Croque's K-12 school with its three students closed last year.
The future has moved west, leaving Flynn singing and cursing in his shed.
"I went to Fort Mac to help my young feller build a house," said Flynn. "Hates it out there, I does. No one understands me, tells me I talk to fast when they're listening too slow. This is a good place, I'll stay here."


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Administrating MyBB - good practices - Printable Version
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Administrating MyBB - good practices - Peter - 06-23-2006
While the flow of MyBB exploits has gotten significantly smaller late, there are still boards that are vulnerable to the latest exploits. Even though we provide patches for every exploit, new exploits are still being found. To counter the misuse of MyBB vulnerabilities, the MyBB group encourages all MyBB users to change the URL of the admin control panel. By default, this is /admin, but with some small and easy adjustments, this directory can be changed to a different directory, which is very hard for hackers to find and therefore gain access to.
Change the admin control panel directory
There are a few steps that you will need to take before the directory is successfully changed. To follow these instructions, you will need a text editor and an FTP client (such as SmartFTP).
Step 1
Using an FTP client, download [mybbroot]/inc/config.php from your server, whereby [mybbroot] is the folder you have installed MyBB in. Then, open that file using any text editor (Notepad will do just fine if you do not have a professional code editor installed).
Step 2
In the file you just opened, look for the following code:
Then, replace it with this:
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$config['admin_dir'] = "admin";
Whereby you do not enter "newdir", but a custom directory of your own. Try to make the new directory name include both letters and numbers (for example "no629" is a great name), for maximum safety. Now, save the file.
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$config['admin_dir'] = "newdir";
Step 3
Using your FTP client, upload the file to the location where it came from ([mybbroot]/inc/). Make sure to choose "overwrite", so the old file gets overwritten with the new configuration. When that is done, MyBB will have automatically changed all links to the admin panel for you, but it has not changed the actual directory yet.
Step 4
Still in your FTP client, change the directory of the "admin" folder to the name you just specified in the file. Depending on your FTP client, you can either right-click the directory and select "change name" or do this via the client menu.
Step 5
Once you have completed all previous steps, go to your MyBB installation. Click the "admin panel" link on the main page and see if it still loads correctly. If it does, you have successfully changed your admin panel directory. You can check this by looking in the address bar of the browser, where the new directory will be displayed.
Upgrade to latest MyBB version
If you have not yet upgraded all of your boards to the latest MyBB version, please do so as soon as possible. You can always obtain the latest MyBB version from the MyBB website. You are encouraged to watch the MyBB community board for announcements about patches and new version as well. Full patching instructions will be provided in announcements.
Remove the version number from the ACP
Some hackers search the internet for MyBB boards of a specific version number. If you remove the version number from the ACP, your board is less likely to be found by a hacker. This does not, however, make your board immune to hacking! To switch off the version number in the ACP, log in to the ACP, go to Board Settings -> Change -> General Configuration. Set "Show Version Numbers" to "Off" and the version number will no longer be displayed.
Reminder: back-up your database regularly
In the unlucky case that a hacker does find a way to exploit your MyBB and removes and/or changes valuable data, it is best to have a database back-up ready, to restore as many of the board's threads, posts and other data as you can.
Minor edit from MattR.
RE: Administrating MyBB - good practices - DrPoodle - 06-23-2006
Done, done, and done!
I always make backups at least once every 2 days, and I upgrade to the latest version of MyBB as soon as it comes out, but I haven't changed my Admin directory till now...
Thanks for this Peter, very informative!
RE: Administrating MyBB - good practices - destroyer - 06-23-2006
I changed it a few days ago.
RE: Administrating MyBB - good practices - Protoman - 06-23-2006
Thanks for the info, though I do a lot of these already!
But it is a good guide for newbies.
RE: Administrating MyBB - good practices - Justin - 06-26-2006
Another good hint would be to disable the display of your MyBB version number. If you do this, it prevents hackers from attacking your forum because of a vulnerability in a previous version. To do this, go to Board Settings -> Change -> General Configuration in your Admin CP. Set "Show Version Numbers" to Off.
RE: Administrating MyBB - good practices - Martin M. - 06-26-2006
If you really wanna be sure that people cannot see the current version number.
go to admin/adminfunctions.php
change it to.
echo "".$lang->footer_powered_by." MyBB $mybboard[internalver]
".$lang->footer_copyright." © 2005 MyBB Group
".$lang->footer_stats."\n";
echo "".$lang->footer_powered_by." MyBB
".$lang->footer_copyright." © 2005 MyBB Group
".$lang->footer_stats."\n";
errr, wrong name of file
RE: Administrating MyBB - good practices - Galen - 06-26-2006
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Take a screen cap of your board's copyright. Open the screen cap and crop it down so that it's just a pic of the copyright. Now, replace the default text copyright with that image. This prevents script kiddies from finding your site by googling "Powered by MyBB" but it still leaves the copyright in tact for all to see.
I should note that I have not gotten an official answer on whether or not it's "Ok" to do this. I would think so, though, and unless Chris or someone else with MyBB Group specifically says "don't do that" then I'm going to keep doing it and I recommend that the rest of you do it as well.
RE: Administrating MyBB - good practices - Dale Hay - 06-27-2006
I used to backup by a cron job script. Used to be wonderful... don't have it anymore though.
RE: Administrating MyBB - good practices - Galen - 06-27-2006
Another good idea is to never use the default database prefix (mybb_). The scripts used by script kiddies to make database changes assume that the default prefix is in use.
RE: Administrating MyBB - good practices - Ryan Ashbrook - 06-27-2006
Galen Wrote:I've said it before and I'll say it again. Take a screen cap of your board's copyright. Open the screen cap and crop it down so that it's just a pic of the copyright. Now, replace the default text copyright with that image. This prevents script kiddies from finding your site by googling "Powered by MyBB" but it still leaves the copyright in tact for all to see.
If we haven't said anything by now, then I'm pretty sure it's ok.


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Adele '21' gets boost from Oscars telecast. (billboard.com)
George Lucas says original cast all but certain to be in new 'Star Wars' film. (ew.com)
Chris Brown fights with valet over $10. (eonline.com)
'Good Morning America' wins first February sweep since mid-1990s. (deadline.com)
Ringo Starr exhibit to open at Grammy Museum. (rollingstone.com)


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Black Moth Super Rainbow and The Hood Internet play an early show at One Eyed Jacks Thursday (May 30). For more things to do in New Orleans, browse the events calendar.
- The Pittsburgh psychedelic rockers Black Moth Super Rainbow headline an early show at One Eyed Jacks. Mash-up aficionados The Hood Internet support. Doors are at 7, and tickets cost $16. After the show, stick around for the regular Thursday night party Fast Times 80s Night.
- Jazz in the Park continues with a performance by Colin Lake at 5, followed by George Porter, Jr. and Bill Summers at 6:30.
- Lena Prima plays the Thursdays at Twilight concert.
- The final Lafreniere LIVE concert features the Bucktown All-Stars.
- Mark Caesar hosts Laugh and Sip, a stand-up showcase at Therapy Wine Lounge. This week's headliner is Mario da Comic, and DJ Cousin Cav will be on the 1s and 2s.
- The Comedy Gumbeaux stand-up showcase and open mic is at the Howlin' Wolf Den.
- Leon Blanda hosts the Allstar Comedy Revue in the House of Blues Voodoo Garden. The free stand-up showcase features Jamie Arrington, Mercer Morrison and special guest Jon Bennett.
Celebrity interior designer Nathan Turner offers style tips and signs his first book, "Nathan Turner's American Style: Classic Design and Effortless Entertaining" at Tara Shaw Maison and Antiques, from 5 to 7.
Robert M. Edsel discusses the World War II effort to save priceless art in Europe and signs his book "Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis"
- Poets Chris Carrier and Quess read from their work at Flora's, followed by an open mic.
The New Orleans Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation hosts Blues and Brews, a benefit featuring food, a cash bar, a raffle and live music by Robin Marie Barnes, at the House of Blues Foundation Room.
Hope Stone New Orleans hosts Dinner for Dancers, a four-course dinner with wine pairings and a raffle to raise money for scholarships, at Lighthouse Glass.
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The Northwest Grocery Association today filed five versions of an initiative petition aimed at privatizing the Oregon Liquor Control Commission.
As WW reported in a cover story last year, the filing has been almost inevitable since Washington voters approved privatizing that state's liquor sales system in 2011.
Large grocers such as Fred Meyer and Safeway have long felt the current Oregon system, which dates from the 1930s, is archaic. Although there are now some exceptions, virtually every bottle of hard liquor sold in Oregon is first purchased by the OLCC, shipped through its Milwaukie warehouse and then sold through a state-chartered liquor store. (As the grocers have pushed for change, a few grocery stores have been allowed to sell hard liquor).
The distributors, who serve as middlemen between the manufacturers of alcoholic beverages and retail outlets oppose privatization. Although the Oregon Beer & Wine Distributors, represented by the father and daughter team of Paul and Danelle Romain, are a powerful force in the Legislature, the OLCC has not always been popular with Oregonians. That's in part because liquor stores are often small and because of state rules, open fewer hours than some drinkers would like.
So far in Washington, privatization has been a mixed bag. Initially, higher prices sent Washingtonians scrambling to Oregon for cheaper booze. Advocates of privatization have promised greater convenience—i.e. consumers can buy their Jack Daniels and their groceries in the same place.
There are deep-pocketed interests on both sides of this fight, however, so Oregonians can look forward to plenty of advocacy from both sides.
Updated at 2:20 pm with a statement from proponents of privatization, who call themselves Oregonians for Competition, and include chief petitioners Lynn Gust, Division President of Portland-based Fred Meyer Stores, and Lauren Johnson, Chief Operating Officer of Newport Avenue Market in Bend.
âItâs appropriate for the state to regulate and license the sale of alcoholic beverages and to enforce state laws related to liquor,â said Melinda Merrill, spokesperson for Fred Meyer Stores. âBut state monopolies on liquor sales -- like Oregonâs system -- are costly to taxpayers as well as consumers. The initiative will end the stateâs outdated liquor store monopoly system and allow distilled spirits to be sold safely and responsibly in retail stores just like they are in most other states, while at the same time strengthening our stateâs liquor laws.â


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De Gheyn was renowned for his prints and drawings, which were collected and commissioned by eminent patrons. He began to devote more time to painting from about 1600. De Gheyn, whose father was a glass painter, moved from Antwerp to Haarlem to join the studio of the celebrated artist and draughtsman Hendrick Goltzius. He refined his skills in drawing and printmaking, notably in works he made around 1595-98, in the university city of Leiden, an important centre for the study of natural history. In 1598, he was appointed artist to Prince Maurits of Orange in The Hague.


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ALPENA - The Alpena Boys and Girls Club kicked off its summer activities Thursday with an orientation to the club and plenty of games for members. The club is planning several new summer programs this year in an effort to help students better retain the information they learned throughout the school year over to summer, and carry that knowledge into the next school year.
"We're starting a new Summer Brain Gain program, which is a reading, math and science program to help try and stop summer learning loss," Program Director Jen Digna said. "Our big focus is on reading and math, but we will have some science thrown in there too. Our goal is to stop that summer learning loss."
One of the reading programs the club will be using is a drop everything and read program.
"At some time during the day we're going to say "Oh DEAR" and that's the signal that club members will drop what they're doing and pick up something to read. We will have it set up so they can find magazines and books to pick up and continue reading, and we will read to the younger ones."
The goal of the Oh DEAR program is to have the members set their own total minutes goal, and reach that by the end of the summer.
"We'll start with a few minutes per day and gradually increase it over the summer," Digna said. "I'm really excited to start that program. We're going to have them keep track of the goal so they can see their progress."
Another program the club is doing for the second year in a row is wacky weather activities. This program covers everything from hurricanes to lightning and thunder and clouds.
"There's a lot of science learning in the activities," Digna said. "The kids really like learning about the weather."
The club will be doing plenty of arts and crafts activities, along with games and team activities outdoors.
"We have a (Michigan State University Extension) person coming in to talk to the kids about healthy snacks and healthy eating, hydration and exercise habits," Digna said. "We really want to take the members out fishing whenever we can this year. It's great to be able to teach them skills they can apply at home."
Directors are working to incorporate an anti-bullying program into the mix to try and combat bullying and teach the members how to recognize bullying and why it is wrong.
"We want to have teens tell their peers why it is wrong, and through this program we're hoping to have the students work as a team and pull together to combat bullying," Digna said.
June is Internet Safety Month, and Digna said the club plans to help show kids how to be safe on the Internet and what to look for as warning signs.
"We want to show them how quickly things online travel, and how easy it is to get information on the Internet," Digna said. "We're hoping to show kids and parents how to be safe on the Internet and protect themselves. We're also hoping to set up an example on our Facebook page of how fast information can travel with all the different social media."
The club also offers a lunch and snack for members, and are always looking for more kids to join.
"Parents can stop in any time and get applications to sign their kids up for the club," Digna said. "We always welcome new members, and it's great when people come in and get to know the staff a bit while picking up applications."
For more information about the Alpena Boys and Girls Club, or to ask about applying, call 356-0214.
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Does the Manoogian mansion civil case and innuendo continue to dog Attorney General Mike Cox, another GOP candidate?
As Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard continues to lag in GOP polls, does he consider a run for Congress instead?
2. Congressional races. What's going on in the Grand Rapids-based 3rd district? Democrat Pat Miles issued a press release ahead of Thursday's campaign finance report filing deadline, saying he has more than $100,000 cash on hand. Miles raised $57,230 from 104 individual donors in the quarter ending March 31. Republican candidate and state Rep. Justin Amash of Cascade Township said he talks to Grand Rapids-area business leaders at a breakfast event hosted by Amway President Doug DeVos.
And what of the Tea Party's role in Bart Stupak's decision not to seek re-election in the northern Michigan 1st District? Jeff said last week that if Stupak stayed in the race, he would win despite the Tea Party opposition.
After Stupak pulled out on Friday Jack Lessenberry posited: "I think that if he had run he would have won, easily. And he would have been helped by the fact that three bus loads of out-of-towners showed up to try to tell his neighbors to vote against him."
Will the entire country be watching Michigan's 1st District in November?
3. Taxes. Sunday, the Press launches the April installment of the Michigan 10.0 series, focusing on tax structure and the crisis looming even before being expedited by a world-wide economic collapse. One topic explored: a push by some to lift exemptions on income tax for pensions.
Conversation starters
• Ed on the Washington Post's Gene Weingarten's Pulitzer-winning exploration of arbitrary judicial and law enforcement reactions to prosecuting parents whose children died after being left in cars.
• Jeff on the citizenry's need to demand for disclosure of campaign contributions to secret, independent groups and real-time campaign finance disclosure.
The Supreme Court ruling that cleared the way for corporate and union contributions also said those groups can be required to disclose who donated the money that paid for the ads.
• Subscribe to "Talking Michigan Politics Podcast" in iTunes
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Voice: Angela Cannon, Saginaw
There is a loud scream in Saginaw and it's coming from our children. If you listen, you can hear them screaming for direction, hope, boundaries, guidance and encouragement.
Saginaw youth are facing odds that do not look good. We look defeated, but with collaboration and active community engagement we can make a difference. We can write our own stories.
In the 1950s, change didn't look possible, and we thought as a community/race we were defeated. Yet the active engagement of the 1960s changed the headlines. Don't our children today deserve the same active engagement?
I commend the many organizations working to change the outlook of Saginaw. These organizations need more participation from you and me. Additionally, there must be more collaboration and active engagement. Our children are dying, going to prison, losing hope. I admit I have not been active enough in the community to help inspire change. I want to see change and I am willing to do my part. What about you?
Saginaw has hired more police officers to help keep us safe. Let's make sure we don't leave Saginaw's safety to the police. If we do, children will continue to die and those responsible will continue to go to prison. Let's work with the police to make a change.
I know that change is coming; I am going to make sure I am part of that change. I want to make sure that change is not just throwing our youth in prison, but working to redirect negative behavior to positive behavior and creating safe and family-oriented neighborhoods.


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Health effects move to forefront of protest over 'Growlers'
Lopez Island residents, upset about EA-18 "Growler" jet noise from planes at Naval Air Station Whidbey, will meet with Whidbey Island activists on Feb. 12 to discuss the noise issue and what might be done about it.
Citizens of Ebey's Reserve for Healthy, Safe and Peaceful Environment will be telling Lopez residents that COER is shifting its focus from the Outlying Field near Coupeville, which COER wants closed, to larger questions of basing the EA-18 at NAS Whidbey and conducting low-level "touch-and-go" training exercises at either Ault Field at NAS Whidbey near Oak Harbor or OLF Coupeville.
In a Jan. 14 press release, COER President Michael Monson announced that the organization is now seeking removal of the jets from Whidbey Island, not just stopping further use of OLF Coupeville for Navy "touch and go" carrier landing exercises.
For 2013, the Navy estimated it would conduct more than 31,000 "closed pattern" training operations at Ault Field and OLF Coupeville, including 5,300 operations between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. Because the Navy suspended some training operations at OLF Coupeville for about half of 2013, the number at OLF Coupeville was considerably reduced, to about 5,000.
"It is now our position that the Growlers must go, and we are making that case to our state and national elected officials and communities throughout the region," Monson said.
Part of "making that case" extends to Lopez and San Juan islands, and to Port Townsend on the Olympic Peninsula. The meeting in Port Townsend is Jan. 27 at the Cotton Building in Port Townsend; the location of the Feb. 12 meeting on Lopez Island has not been announced.
On San Juan Island, former San Juan County Councilman Howie Rosenfeld, a former public health professional, says he has recently heard "loud" jet noise "from over the horizon" at his home in Friday Harbor and is interested in finding out more about the issue, especially because he once lived on Whidbey Island and remembers the noise problems.
Other COER meetings have been scheduled on Guemes Island, Jan. 28, and at Langley on Whidbey Island, Feb. 15. Also important to making the case, according to Ken Pickard, an environmental attorney who lives near the OLF, was for COER to do its own noise testing and obtaining scientific input on health effects from environmental health specialists. The health effects, according to Pickard, are "extensive and serious."
Pickard also said that COER is attempting to interest U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray in the issue but has heard only from Cantwell's office. Congressman Rick Larsen, who was instrumental in keeping the base open in the face of attempts to close it, commented that he "supports the Navy entering into an environmental review process to take all issues under consideration."
After COER filed a lawsuit in federal court in Seattle, the Navy suspended training flights at the Coupeville airfield and announced the EIS. The training flights were resumed in the last few days. While awaiting the EIS results, expected in 2015, the lawsuit has been "suspended," according to COER.
In response to requests from San Juan County Councilman Jamie Stevens and others, the Navy extended the comment period for scoping phase of the Environmental Impact Statement being conducted to study the impacts of adding an additional squadron to the fleet of EA-18s at NAS Whidbey.
That additional comment period ends Jan. 31. The Navy says additional meeting would not be added to the three scoping meetings held in 2013.
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Stories of people getting more testosterone and coming to regret it. And of people losing it and coming to appreciate life without it. The pros and cons of the hormone of desire.
- The interview with a man who lost his testosterone continues. He explains that life without testosterone is life without desire—desire for everything: food, conversation, even TV. And he says life without desire is unexpectedly pleasant. The man first wrote about his experiences, anonymously, in GQ Magazine. (8 minutes)


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1. Re: Excel Export File QuestionsGary Graham-Oracle Mar 9, 2012 12:19 AM (in response to 922660)Hi,
If your comments appear within the query (not above or below it) and are enclosed in /* */ (not prefixed with --), then they will appear in the query's worksheet.
Regarding font formatting, Microsoft provides a mechanism for setting the default:
The only problem is, SQL Developer does not do a very good job of respecting the default settings. For example:
1. After switching to Arial, a new workbook opened initially with Excel 2007 renders both numbers and letters in Arial.
2. After switching to Arial, a SQL Developer export to .xls (then open in Excel) renders numbers in Dialog and letters in Arial.
3. After switching to Arial, a SQL Developer export to .xlsx (then open in Excel) renders numbers in Dialog and letters in Calibri.
This seems to be a good candidate for a feature request on SQL Developer Exchange.
SQL Developer Team
2. Re: Excel Export File QuestionsGary Graham-Oracle Mar 13, 2012 1:03 AM (in response to 922660)To clarify and correct my comments about default font settings -1 person found this helpful
1. SQL Developer uses the java.awt.Font defaults of (DIALOG, PLAIN, 12) when it calls the API that writes out the Excel files
2. How a specific version of Excel displays a file with such defaults (plus any user adjustments to the Excel options) is its business.
So, again, a feature request on our Exchange for a Font/Style/Size preference would make sense.


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But the Sunshine State beats us when it comes to completing foreclosures: Last year, they closed the door on 95,200 cases. New Jersey closed only 3,078.
Lenders here — as in 25 other "judicial" states — must go through the courts for foreclosure proceedings, one factor in the backlog. A new bill signed by Gov. Chris Christie last week should go a long way toward streamlining the process.
The idea is simple: The court can move quickly to foreclose on a property when it finds clear evidence that the house is unoccupied, and shows specific signs of abandonment: utilities have been cut off, the yard is overgrown and the overall condition of the house is in a state of disrepair, among other things. Much time is wasted trying to find owners who long ago left the property in the dust. The house can then be sold within 60 days.
A full economic recovery depends on a robust housing market. This bill is an important step in that direction. The faster these properties can be returned to the market and the tax rolls, the better for all concerned.


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Gleaning important insight from Darden Restaurants' (NYSE: DRI ) previous earnings conference call, particularly its efforts to keep menus fresh at Red Lobster and Olive Garden, as well as remodeling at Red Lobster, I concluded that the restaurateur was "well-prepared to deliver solid results." With the release of fiscal 2008 first-quarter figures, we are again reminded about the importance of tuning in to those calls.
For the quarter, same-store sales growth at Red Lobster and Oliver Garden was strong, increasing 7% and 4.8%, respectively. Red Lobster kicked off its fresh-fish ad program in July, and that and a fresh-catch menu printed twice daily is contributing to "measurable improvement in brand perception," according to management in the latest call. Further, there are positive guest satisfaction scores in response to a new Bar Harbor-inspired remodeling effort. Darden's leadership team believes the prototype, named after a popular destination in Maine (a charming seaside village that I have visited) will be a "growth vehicle for the foreseeable future."
It's impossible to say enough about Olive Garden's longtime success. With the 4.8% comps growth at the start of fiscal 2008, the brand has now achieved a remarkable 52 consecutive quarters of same-store sales growth. As for hit-and-miss concepts like Bob Evans Farms (Nasdaq: BOBE ) and Landry's Restaurants (NYSE: LNY ) -- if they aren't taking notes already, they ought to be. Olive Garden's strategy of continually updating its menu paid off in the first quarter. Moreover, guest satisfaction was at a new record for the brand during the period. These positive trends are expected to carry forward, enabling Darden to "deliver strong performance throughout the fiscal year."
The biggest news was the announcement of its acquisition of RARE Hospitality (Nasdaq: RARE ) . While more color on this important development will come in the second-quarter call, we did learn in the latest call that management has already identified areas where it can "realize synergies" between RARE and Darden. My colleague Ryan Fuhrmann and I agree that reducing redundancies in the supply chain and distribution system could lead to significant savings for the parent company.
The RARE acquisition will pit the company more squarely against other competitors in the steakhouse side of casual dining, like Texas Roadhouse (Nasdaq: TXRH ) and others. But competition is the nature of the biz, and any such hurdles should be more than offset by the potential benefits. Darden doesn't by any means have a perfect track record with developing concepts -- Bahama Breeze and Smoky Bones have been duds. Its longtime success with Olive Garden, however, should prove instrumental as it looks to find growth opportunities from RARE's Capital Grille and Longhorn Steakhouse.
Overall, Darden just served up a nice, hot plate of tasty results. Positive trends and a shiny new acquisition should lead to continued success.
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I've arrived
I arrived in Minneapolis yesterday just in time for some snow. It wasn't much but did help put me in the Christmas spirit as did the cold! I have a few days to rest before the movers bring our things and the unpacking frenzy begins.
In the meantime, I've been working on setting up a String Quilt Project as an offshoot of the Stashbuster yahoo group I belong to. I'm really excited about working on a group charity project and hope that it will help keep me occupied when Keith is off traveling this winter.
If anyone is interested in joining us or finding out more visit our group or email me directly for details.
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Glad to hear you arrived safe and sound. I am really looking forward to the string quilt project. So much so that I am finishing my string UFO!! Stay warm.
Good luck with the unpacking. I'm already signed up for the string project and looking forward to starting in the New Year. Merry xmas to you 🙂
Good to know you have made it up to MN in one piece. The string project sounds interesting and I have signed up for the list hoping that I can help out a bit. Merry Christmas to you and Keith.
Glad you arrived safe & sound… Care to send me the string details directly? (I don't get to yahoo groups at all anymore…)


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New York Mets ace Johan Santana doesn't see any reason why he won't be ready for opening day.
Santana, hindered last week by elbow tightness, threw 36 pitches in live batting practice Saturday before the Mets played an exhibition game against the Washington Nationals. It was the first time he'd faced hitters since knee surgery in October, and said everything went well.
"I pitched today with no problems in my elbow or my arm or anything, so I am fine, and at the same time I was working on my pitches and I was able to command it, so that's what you want to see," Santana said.
The left-hander threw mostly fastballs, but also worked in some off-speed pitches and made it difficult for hitters to get a bat on the ball. Only three pitches were put into play.
Santana took a break after the first 20 pitches to simulate the change in innings.
"For being my first time facing hitters, I think it was pretty good," Santana said. "Everything was there -- breaking ball was there, my changeup was there, my arm speed, my legs are there. That's what you are looking for. You look for your legs to be there and to feel comfortable, and that's how I felt."
Pitching coach Dan Warthen liked what he saw, including the energy Santana showed while on the mound. Santana smiled throughout the session, even cracking jokes at times.
"I thought he pitched well," Warthen said. "He's showing progress. Every pitch came out of his hand really well. I thought he located the ball extremely well for the first time seeing hitters."
Warthen said last weekend that Santana might not throw batting practice until March 13, but the two-time Cy Young winner insisted his elbow was fine. Now, the club has moved up his ever-changing schedule and he could pitch in a game next week.
Warthen said last weekend that Santana might not throw batting practice until March 13, but the two-time Cy Young winner insisted his elbow was fine. Now, the club has moved up his ever-changing schedule and he could pitch in a game next week.
"We have been working out, getting everything in the right way, the right track, and I don't think there will be any problems," Santana said.
Santana had complained of tightness in his left elbow and was scratched from a start last Friday when he was supposed to pitch in a scrimmage against the Italian national team. After a three-day break, his condition improved enough for a return to work Sunday and he made further progress Wednesday, when he threw a strong 46-pitch side session.
"We'll go one step at a time," Santana said. "We will see how it is tomorrow and see what my next step will be. I felt pretty good, and we'll go from there."
Warthen did not detail future plans for Santana beyond a side session Monday.
"We'll find out each day," he said. "We will see how he feels tomorrow, check it out and see where we go from there."


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"I want to transform how people experience 'Halo' in their living rooms and on their PCs," says Halo's executive producer
343 Industries' Kiki Wolfkill, the larger-than-life executive producer on the Halo franchise has been talking about the direction that they want to take for the franchise.
In a new profile interview on Microsoft's own website Wolfkill speaks about expanding the Halo universe and changing the way in which the fans experience it both in the games and outside of them.
She explained, "Our next step is to try and make the connections between the game and its linear entertainment aspects even more experiential. I want to transform how people experience 'Halo' in their living rooms and on their PCs."
"We will never do anything that doesn't move the universe forward," she added. "We won't do something for the sake of being in a certain medium."
Halo: The Master Chief Collection will bring Halos one thru four to the Xbox One in fully remastered 1080p/60fps glory on November the 11th and will include the Halo: Nightfall, Halo 5 prologue TV series in the bundle as well. Halo 5: Guardians is due out on Xbox One towards the end of 2015.
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Dwight Thomas wanted his salon to look like a little piece of New York City in downtown Ypsilanti.
"It's modern and edgy," Thomas said of the sleek space - dominated by wood floors and black furniture - in a spot that used to be an 1,800-square-foot dance studio. "The layout is definitely very clean and minimalist."
Business Team Leader Stefanie Murray can be reached at 734-994-6932 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
The eight-chair salon is strictly for hair styling - no manicures or waxing are offered. Thomas Blondi also sells hair care products.
"You can come in and get pampered," Thomas said. "It's all about the hair."
Address: 35 N. Huron St., Ypsilanti.
Phone: 734-961-8152.
Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; closed Sunday and Monday.
Web site: www.thomasblondisalon.com.
Calico Cat to close after 30 years
The Calico Cat Book & Gift Shoppe in Saline will close in the coming months after more than 30 years in business.
Owner Marcia Duncan and her husband say it's simply time to retire.
Sales have been sluggish over the past few years, Duncan said, especially due to erosion from Internet shopping and Michigan's dismal economy.
Sales of Vera Bradley merchandise have helped immensely, she said.
"You can build it, but if people don't come, you can't stay," Duncan said.
The Calico Cat got its start in Manchester before moving to Saline. The store restored and occupied the former Methodist church on South Ann Arbor Street.
Calico Cat is running sales now until it closes, and is also offering a contest for shoppers with prize giveaways up to $2,500. Duncan said the store will stay open until everything is sold.
Address: 109 W. Michigan Ave., Saline.
Phone: 734-944-2242.
Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday, noon-5 p.m.
FAO Schwarz opens Macy's boutique
In time for the holiday shopping season, toy maker FAO Schwarz opened a boutique in the local Macy's department store in Briarwood Mall.
It's one of several boutiques opened in Michigan that will feature a selection of the toy company's products that cost less than $20.
It will also feature a line of eco-friendly toys and books made with materials like recycled paper board, soy ink and plant dyes to be more environmentally friendly than traditional toys.
My Supper Shop opens in market
Grocery shoppers at Saline's Country Market can prepare a freezer full of meals at a new business that opened inside the store last month called My Supper Shop.
The shop will prepare meals or allow customers to prepare their own on site. To celebrate a grand opening on Saturday, Nov. 22, the shop will offer meal giveaways, free desserts and taste testing, raffles from Saline businesses and demonstrations between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Address: 1335 E. Michigan Ave., Saline.
Phone: 734-944-2200.
Hours: Monday-Wednesday, Friday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Thursday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. or by appointment.
Web site: www.mysuppershop.com.
Tina Reed contributed to this report on retail businesses appears on Fridays. To report a news item, contact business reporter Stefanie Murray at email@example.com or 734-994-6932. Tips also may be faxed to 734-994-6879 or mailed to Retail Report, The Ann Arbor News, P.O. Box 1147, Ann Arbor, MI 48106.


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Lauren L. Katzen manages the development life cycle of all Population Council HIV and AIDS biomedical prevention products. Katzen applies her background in social science and health policy to product development, seeking the meeting point between behavioral and biomedical considerations to support the development of HIV prevention products that are not only safe and effective, but also meet user needs.
Before joining the Council in 2006, Katzen conducted research on violence against women in Italy. She holds an MPA in health policy and management from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, and a BA in sociology, Italian studies, and women's studies from Wheaton College in Massachusetts.


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1. Super Saver. 2. Schoolyard Dreams. 3. Lookin At Lucky. 4. First Dude.
Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver has improved with every race, appears as bright and energetic as he did at Churchill Downs, and has advantageous tactical speed in a field without much early speed.
Schoolyard Dreams, who had an edge in conditioning when he finished in front of Super Saver in the Tampa Bay Derby, was coming back in 20 days when outrun by Eskendereya in the Wood Memorial but might be sharper today as a fresh contender.
Lookin At Lucky, who had brutal racing luck in the Derby and finished sixth, might have expended more energy than Super Saver in that race, and this colt still hasn't shown that he has taken a step forward from his championship form of last year.
First Dude, who hasn't raced since finishing close behind stablemate Paddy O'Prado in the Blue Grass Stakes, has the speed to gain a favorable stalking position, and two close finishes behind Fly Down look better since that colt won the Dwyer in a romp.


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Spain's world famous Can Fabes restaurant is closing its doors Saturday after 32 years, offering its last patrons a seasonal menu and the "Great Gastronomic Menu," which features the singular culinary creations of late chef Santi Santamaria.
Prawn raviolis, lobster with basil, Iberian suckling pig and chocolate cream puffs are among the dishes on "Santi's Grand Menu," Can Fabes manager Regina Santamaria told Efe.
Regina, who stepped in to run the dining establishment following the death of her father from a heart attack in Singapore in February 2011, said she was dealing with the restaurant's closing, but Saturday, the last day of business, "will be very hard for all of us, and it's not going to be a happy day."
The Can Fabes team, however, wants everything to seem normal and to uphold the standard of excellence established by Santi Santamaria.
The goal is to give diners, many of them regulars and friends, an exceptional experience on the last day of business at the restaurant, which is fully booked for its farewell performance.
The restaurant's 17-member kitchen and dining room staff will be jobless on Sept. 1, but Regina Santamaria said it would be an honor to rehire them if an investor can be found to finance Can Fabes's reopening.
Talks are being held with potential investors and buyers, but it is not known whether the eatery will be able to reopen, she said.
Can Fabes has been full almost every day since the family announced it was closing, with regulars coming by to say goodbye and new patrons giving the eatery a try before it closes.
The family's El Raco de Can Fabes group was forced to close most of its other restaurants following Santi Santamaria's death. EFE


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Lackey vaults back into No. 2 spot in rotation
John Lackey's gem in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series has not been forgotten by Red Sox manager John Farrell. The veteran righty will move back to the No. 2 spot in the rotation for the World Series and will pitch on Thursday (airing at 7:30 p.m. ET on FOX/8:07 first pitch) at Fenway against the Cardinals.
In the AL Division Series, Lackey pitched Game 2 and defeated Rays ace David Price. Lackey topped Tigers star righty Justin Verlander in his lone ALCS start. In Game 2 of the Fall Classic, Lackey will start opposite rookie phenom Michael Wacha.
Jon Lester is again the Game 1 starter, as Farrell announced Monday.
Interestingly, Farrell wasn't ready to reveal the order of his Game 3 and 4 pitchers, but he confirmed it will be Clay Buchholz and Jake Peavy in some order.
His sparkling outing in Detroit aside, Lackey has typically pitched much better at Fenway this season than on the road.
What was the biggest reason Farrell moved him back ahead of Buchholz in the rotation?
"The way John came out of his game over in Detroit, and not allowing too many days of rest to get away from that previous start of his," said Farrell. "So that's the primary reason to get John back in there in Game 2."
The Red Sox plan on keeping their 25-man roster the same as it was in the previous two rounds, carrying 14 position players and 11 pitchers.


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The Riverside baseball team showed Thursday it can hit for power.
With three home runs, the third-seeded Riverside squad beat No. 30 Delcambre 10-0 in a five-inning Class 2A bi-district game.
Mason Vicknair hit the home run that widened the margin to 10 runs and ended the game. He also pitched and struck out 10 and allowed only two hits.
"We got off to a really fast start, getting three up and three down in the first inning," Vicknair said. "All I did was throw strikes and trust my defense to make plays behind me. I felt like all of my pitches were working for me."
Riverside opened with five runs in the first inning, all after Delcambre (12-13) retired the first two batters. Brandon Hymel hit a two-run homer during the inning.
Hymel also drove in a run in the second inning with a sacrifice fly that sent home Nick Delaneuville, after T.J. St. Pierre opened the inning with a home run.
"This is a young group that is very excited about the playoffs," Riverside coach Matt White said. "We got a five-run lead for our No. 1 pitcher, and his velocity was superb. Our bats are on fire, and we're hitting everything that comes across the plate."
The Rebels picked up another run in the fourth inning when Delcambre pitcher Jordy Russo was called for a balk, allowing Delanueville to score from third.
The Panthers began the fifth inning much like the first, retiring the first to Riverside batters, and then Tyler Gauthier reached base on a dropped third strike. Next, it was Vicknair's turn, and he delivered, sending the ball out of the park, ending the game, 10-0.
Very few pitches thrown escaped the strike zone against Riverside, and Hymel had a feeling at the start of the game that he would see something he liked.
"I saw the left fielder keep going back toward the wall and it made me feel good when it went over," Hymel said of his first inning home run. "It was a 2-0 count and I was hoping to get something I could hit for my team."


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ALEXANDRIA TWP. — A township couple's house, which was built in 2005, has a defective foundation and the state has ordered the builder to fix it.
But the key to getting the problem corrected may be in obtaining blueprints used to build it. So far, neither the township nor the builder has produced them.
The state doesn't think the township is being aggressive enough in pressing the builder for the blueprints. But the township suggests that if the builder cannot produce them, "the only thing left to do is submit" blueprints for a corrected foundation.
Dave and Karen Hudock's home on Route 513 was built by Hallmark Country Homes Inc. of Blairstown. "The foundation was not built to code and it is currently structurally unsound," according to Mr. Hudock. He said it "is basically falling off the foundation." Hallmark officials would not comment on the claim.
According to the Hudocks' attorney, Nicole Voigt, when constructing the house, the builder needed to address excavation issues, so he added two courses of concrete blocks that were neither reinforced nor properly anchored to the foundation. Either the township building inspector used the original blueprints and failed to notice the change in the foundation or he used revised blueprints when inspecting the work. But the Hudocks don't believe the builder gave the township any revised blueprints.
When the blueprints were requested from the township years later, "My wife was advised that the blueprints could not be found and were either lost in the move, damaged in the flood, or accidentally shredded," Mr. Hudock said, even though the township is required to keep them on file.
By 2012 the foundation had developed cracks; the largest is about 20 feet long and 3/16ths of an inch wide, according to attorney Voigt.
When the Hudocks asked for the building inspector to inspect the foundation, he allegedly said he couldn't without the revised blueprints, because he hadn't been the inspector in 2005 to see how it was built.
On July 25 last year, the township ordered Hallmark to submit signed and sealed plans for the property. Hallmark refused and appealed the order to the county Construction Board of Appeals.
On March 20, the construction board upheld the township's order to produce the plans.
On March 4, the Hudocks' attorney told the township that the Department of Community Affairs' New Home Warranty Program had ordered Hallmark to "further revise the basement to eliminate the major structural defect…" The Hudocks say they need the 2005 blueprints and the building inspector's involvement to facilitate the remediation.
On April 24, the township issued to Hallmark another notice of violation for failing to comply with the previous order to produce the 2005 revised blueprint, and said it would penalize the company $2,000 per week starting on May 22 until it does produce the 2005 blueprint.
Hallmark appealed that penalty and a hearing has been scheduled by the Construction Board of Appeals for Sept. 18.
On May 23, Robert Hilzer of the Department of Community Affairs' Office of Regulatory Affairs didn't think the township was doing enough. He wrote to the township attorney, "You are advised to institute (legal) proceedings as required by the Uniform Construction Code in order to ensure that signed and sealed plans are submitted for this property by the builder."
Mrs. Hudock, noting that the lack of blueprints is paralyzing efforts to fix the building, said the township should exercise its authority to get a judge to subpoena the original architect to redraw the plans.
But on June 14, the township responded to Hilzer, quoting part of the administrative code that says the "construction official in addition to any other available remedies likely to bring about compliance, MAY request the legal counsel of the municipality…" to institute proceedings in municipal or other court. Another section was quoted that again contained the word "may" supporting the township's position "that a proceeding in municipal court is not a required course of enforcement action."
In another June 14 letter, the township indicated to the Hudocks' attorney that they can proceed without the much-requested revised 2005 blueprint. The township advised that "in order to issue a permit for the repair work to be undertaken pursuant to the HOW (Home Owner Warranty) arbitration award, the township construction official needs to receive an application with two sets of plans depicting the proposed work, which have been signed and sealed by a professional engineer or architect."
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Religious communities have long helped cultivate humanistic practices. We don't often think of ourselves in this way—but what if we did?
If Americans of a certain age know anything about Puritanism, it is probably because they read something by the (atheist) historian Edmund S. Morgan, the great Yale scholar who died July 8. His book The Puritan Dilemma—which used the life of John Winthrop to describe the Puritans' religious and political project in America—was widely assigned in high schools and colleges.
I had the good fortune decades ago to take a graduate class from Morgan on American colonial history.
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It's festival season, and New Orleans bartenders have a secret.
They avoid the long beer lines at local festivals by showing up with a flask in their pockets. These creative mixers, however, aren't settling for sips of straight rum or bourbon. They carry flask cocktail recipes, which are made to be tasty even after warming up during an afternoon of music.
"Since everyone goes everywhere with cocktails in New Orleans, " said bartender Michael Glassberg of Domenica, "it seemed like a natural expansion of the go-cup."
Feel uncomfortable slipping a flask in your pocket? Don't. Even George Clooney did it at the Academy Awards.
Kirk Estopinal, who works at the bar Cure and co-writes the blog BetaCocktails.com, has been making flask cocktails for five years. He agrees that New Orleans' loose liquor laws and frequent festivals inevitably led bartenders to creative portable potations.
"It's one of those things where necessity is the mother of invention, " he said.
Lately, Estopinal has seen bartenders from other cities pick up on the trend.
"During Tales (of the Cocktail), " he said, "there were a lot of cats rolling around with flasks with cocktails in them, if you know what I mean."
By bringing a flask, these discriminating drinkers also avoid disappointments.
"It's a way that we can ensure that we have a proper cocktail with us, more than anything, " said Kimberly Patton-Bragg of the Swizzle Stick Bar.
Danny Valdez, another bartender at Cure, started making flask cocktails after working at events such as Tales of the Cocktail.
"As a bartender, " he said, "you don't start thinking about making more than one cocktail at a time until you start doing these big events."
Once he mastered how to turn a single cocktail into a batch large enough for 100 people, it was easy to scale up a recipe to fill a 4- to 6-ounce flask.
For Chris Hannah of Arnaud's French 75, bottled cocktails are an early precedent for these drinks. From the mid-1800s to the 1960s, familiar cocktails such as gimlets, Manhattans and even Sazeracs were sold pre-mixed in bottles. Although today liquor companies regularly release ghastly pre-mixed versions of popular drinks such as the mojito or the margarita, B&B is the only reliable bottled cocktail to survive from that earlier era.
"B&B is a blending of Benedictine and brandy, " Hannah said. "Because it didn't go out of fashion, it doesn't seem as far-fetched as we'd now see a bottle of Manhattan cocktail."
B&B, he said, follows the basic rule of flask cocktails: Keep it simple.
Start with a main spirit, such as gin, rum or whiskey, and add what bartenders call a modifier. A modifier could be sweet, such as amaretto or Grand Marnier, or bitter, such as Campari. Vermouth and other fortified wines also work.
Hannah recommends starting with 3 ounces of the main spirit and 1 ounce of the modifier, enough for two drinks, and adjusting the measurements to taste.
"You don't want to do an egg white cocktail or anything that's going to break down, " Glassberg said. "You want to use the best ingredients. If I were going to use rum, especially dark rum, I'd use something like Ron Zacapa. Even if it wasn't cold, it would taste good."
Some bartenders use citrus, while others avoid it.
"It's like drinking juice out of a can, " Patton-Bragg said. "It can take on that tinny flavor."
Hannah sweetens his flask cocktails only with liqueurs, which don't dilute the alcoholic punch of the drink.
Estopinal, however, likes to include flavored syrups, such as rosemary simple syrup, in his flask cocktails, but he compensates by using high-proof liquor.
"You only have so much room in a flask, " he said, "so you want to make sure what you're putting in there is high octane."
- Avoid drinks with eggs or cream.
- Some bartenders swear that citrus is a bad idea, while others include lemons and limes.
- Use good-quality liquor, which often tastes better at room temperature.
- Opt for high-proof spirits to keep the cocktail potent.From the bartenders
Danny Valdez's Grand Marnier Sidecar
Makes one drink
2 ounces Grand Marnier orange liqueur
1 ounce fresh lemon juice
1/2 ounce simple syrup (equal parts water and sugar)
2 dashes Bitter Truth orange bitters
Combine and transfer to a flask, using a funnel.
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Chris Hannah's The Rebennack
Makes two drinks
4 ounces rye whiskey
1 ounce Averna, a bitter Italian digestif
1/2 ounce Creole Schrubb, a rum-based orange liqueur
Combine and transfer to a flask, using a funnel.
Hannah took this drink to Krewe du Vieux. When this year's king, Dr. John (a.k.a. Mac Rebennack), gave Hannah a cup, he had a name for his flask cocktail.
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Kirk Estopinal's Rosemary Old Fashioned
Makes four drinks
1 cup high-proof rye whiskey, such as Thomas Handy or Wild Turkey Rye
4 pieces of orange peel
1/8 cup rosemary simple syrup
2 dashes Angostura bitters
To make the rosemary syrup, heat 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup demerara or plain sugar with a few rosemary sprigs. Simmer for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Cool and strain.
To make the cocktail, express the oil from the orange peels into the rye and then drop them into the whiskey. Add simple syrup and Angostura bitters.
Add 1/4 cup water if you will be drinking the cocktail warm. Leave out the water if you plan to serve the drink over ice. Remove the peels and transfer to a flask, using a funnel.
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Todd A. Price is a contributor to The Times-Picayune and nola.com. He can be reached at email@example.com. To keep up with the latest in cocktail news, visit nola.com/drink. Check out The Times-Picayune bar guide at nola.com/bar-guide.


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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Multiple injuries and massive backups are being reported after a two-car crash in Willowbrook.
One person was reportedly pinned inside a vehicle as a result of the crash, which occurred in front of 2960 Victory Blvd., between Richmond Avenue and Saybrook Street, according to emergency radio transmissions.
One vehicle overturned in the crash, according to the transmissions. As of yet, no injuries are being reported as life-threatening.
Traffic control agents are being summoned to the busy street to help direct vehicles, as massive backups are being reported as a result.


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TV Ratings: Wednesday viewers favor 'Dance,' 'Talent'
Fast National ratings for Wednesday, July 1, 2009.
In their head-to-head battle at 9 p.m., NBC's "America's Got Talent" beat FOX's "So You Think You Can Dance" overall, but the FOX show drew a higher rating among adults 18-49. And that ended up being the way the evening went as well.
For the night, among adults 18-49, FOX averaged a 2.9 rating, far ahead of the 1.9 rating for NBC and ABC's 1.8 rating. CBS was fourth in the key demographic with a 1.6 rating. The CW's 0.4 rating trailed.
Overall, though, NBC averaged an estimated 7.68 million viewers to go with a 4.8 rating/9 share. CBS' 4.6/8 and the 4.5/8 for FOX were very close behind. ABC's 3.2/6 was fourth. The CW stayed fifth with a 0.6/1.
FOX won the 8 p.m. hour with a 4.4/8 for the start of the week's "So You Think You Can Dance" performance episode. ABC's "Wipeout" was a close second with a 4.3/8. NBC's "America's Got Talent" encore had a 4.0/8 for third. CBS was fourth with "The New Adventures of Old Christine" and "Gary Unmarried." That left The CW in fifth with a 0.5/1 for "America's Next Top Model."
NBC grabbed first at 9 p.m. with a 6.8/12 for "America's Got Talent." CBS' "Criminal Minds" was second with a 5.3/9, beating FOX's "So You Think You Can Dance." While "SYTYCD" had a 4.7/8 for the hour, it also averaged more viewers than the CBS repeat and its 3.1 demo rating nipped the 2.9 rating for NBC in the hour. Fourth place went to the 2.1/4 for ABC's "I Survived a Japanese Game Show." The CW's "Hitched or Ditched" encore was fifth.
"CSI: NY" had a 5.4/10 to give CBS the 10 p.m. hour. NBC's "The Philanthropist" had a 3.7/7 in its second week, edging out ABC's "Primetime" special.
All ratings information comes from preliminary Fast National Nielsen data, which includes live and same-day DVR viewing. All numbers are subject to change.


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Fashion With Compassion celebrates 20 years
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Gov. Gregoire visits Island Rotary Club
Washingtons economy remains stable amid a national recession due to increasing diversification, a solid export market from globalization and continuing growth among small businesses, Governor Chris Gregoire told over 100 Island Rotary Club members and guests on Tuesday.
The governors 45-minute speech touched on the states big issues, including education, the economy, health care and transportation. It was followed by a very brief question and answer session. Gregoire was the featured guest speaker of this months Rotary meeting at the Community Center at Mercer View. Much of her speech focused on Washingtons successful economy and the ability to succeed in the international market.
We need to remain a free trade state, she said. We are a very trade-dependent state, so instead of working against globalization, lets embrace it.
The governor said the ability to export a large variety of Washington products around the globe was a significant factor in its continuing economic success. She explained that when she travels abroad, she flies on a plane made in Washington. After arriving, she said she sends e-mails through a program created in this state and, finally, she goes across the street from her hotel to get a coffee from a company founded here.
Washington has largely remained resilient to recession and the states economy could hardly be better, while the national economy is entering a slump and home prices across the nation have dropped, the governor said.
We are now the envy of much of the country, Gregoire said of the state after comparing Washingtons surplus to Californias multi-billion dollar deficit. Washington state is resilient and will continue to be so if we continue to do what we are doing.
As for climbing gas prices that are one of the highest in the nation, the governor said the state cannot be immune to every economic downturn.
We are not an island, she said. We cannot resist all economic setbacks. I dont mean to diminish all of the difficulties there are for citizens by highlighting how well the state is doing.
She also said Washington was recently rated as one of the top three best managed states, and she pushed for future legislation that would provide better education and health care to the states children.
If we want them to learn, theyve got to be healthy, she said.
The campaigning governor, who is seeking her second term this fall, began her talk by sharing some of the difficult tasks of planning for the big day that looms closer and closer. However, Gregoire conceded she was not talking about election day. She was joking about the difficulties of planning her eldest daughters wedding scheduled for August. The governor mentioned how times have changed this generation, with numerous bridal dress stores and the countless hours needed to try on hundreds of dresses before purchasing one.
My husband and I have come up with a word for it, the governor said. We call it navigating through the wedding industrial complex.
After her speech, Gregoire also met Mohammed Omar Abdullah, an international dignitary as the Undersecretary of the Department of Planning and Economy for the city of Abu Dhabi, the capital and second-most populated city of the United Arab Emirates. Abdullah was in western Washington to visit with Bill Gates and University of Washington President Mark Emmert.
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The adage "It's not what you know, but who you know" is alive and well in Jersey City. I opened The Jersey Journal on July 9 and saw that Mayor Fulop appointed former councilman David Donnelly as "project manager" to the tune of $80K annually. David was also a special assistant to former Mayor Healy. All due respect to David Donnelly, how does a councilman's salary of $35K annually equate to 80K salary as project manager. Let's do the math. Comes out to about 130 percent salary increase. This is a prime reason why I say politicians should not be in control of spending the taxpayer's money. What does a project manager do? Here are a few more absurd appointed-salary windfalls of taxpayer money: The new chief of staff is making $115K, a retired firefighter who earns $5,400 a month pension now will be receiving $114,753 salary annually as the new public works director, the new recreation director will be making the same.
Nice work if you can get it. Joke is on the taxpayer. It's not so funny!! Taxes will never go down or stabilize with this insane mentality used by the politicians who are frivolously spending the taxpayers' money. Property taxes for the third quarter in Jersey City are due by Aug. 10; folks, please remember how your money is being spent. We as taxpayers are the employers of these overpaid appointed city employees. I feel property taxpayers and homeowners, in any municipality in which they may live, should have a say in the arbitrary distribution and dishing out of exorbitant salaries given by mayors to so-called directors of positions. If Jersey City was a huge corporation that was for profit, then I would say, give the employees what you feel they deserve, but it's not for profit, and therefore we shouldn't be using that taxpayer fund again as a "slush fund." I say that politicians are like "used car salesmen," they will say and do whatever it takes to get elected, they will sling mud at their opponent, yet they view it as a game, we the constituents get all riled up for nothing. This happens all the time in politics, that's why I think voter turnout is extremely low, because the voters know that the politicians for the most part are full of dung.