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Gov. Chris Christie couldn't have been clearer in his news conference Tuesday announcing 10 new projects to be funded by the Schools Development Authority: No longer would school building decisions be a prisoner of politics. Power brokers won't be able to squeeze him for more money for their schools.
But before Christie even stepped away from the podium, The Auditor spotted a familiar face in the back of the room: Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr., a Democrat who works closely with the Republican governor.
Turns out, DiVincenzo was there for a private talk with the governor about — wait for it — school construction.
"I'm here to lobby," he said. "We're going to have a conversation. There's a lot of schools that need to be done."
DiVincenzo didn't come empty-handed. He had two big poster boards with designs for a new vocational school in Newark he is seeking separate state money for.
The proposal is a favorite of DiVincenzo's. He keeps a copy of the plans with him at all times. The idea is to close three vocational schools and consolidate them in one new building, a plan he said will save $9 million a year in operational costs.
He just needs at least $112 million in state money to make it happen. "I didn't go in there just for that," DiVincenzo said. "That was one of 20 things."
DiVincenzo was also toting a bag, which he assured The Auditor did not contain gifts; just some tchotchke from one of the many Essex County foundations seeking Christie's involvement.
For a good time, call Cory
Newark Mayor Cory Booker encourages residents to call in every month to his radio show on WBGO so they can interact with him. This month, callers got a whole different kind of interaction.
An aide to Booker tweeted the 1-800 number a half hour before the show, encouraging residents to ask questions of Booker and acting state Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf. Then Booker retweeted the aide's post — sending it to his more than 1 million followers.
One problem: The aide had reversed two digits on the tweet and callers were instead directed to a phone sex line.
The Auditor was a tad embarrassed when, instead of hearing Booker's baritone on the other end of the line, a recorded female voice picked up saying "Hey, sexy guy" and promised "nasty girls who'll do anything you want."
Booker corrected the phone number in a later tweet, and his aide told The Auditor that the mishap was "completely unintentional."
Testy times in Trenton
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday managed to pack a lot of drama into a meeting that lasted less than three minutes, ending with one Republican leaving in a huff.
The meeting was called to approve the uncontroversial nomination of Jan Gilhooly to sit on the bistate Waterfront Commission. But it quickly devolved into an argument over the committee's glacial pace in approving Christie's nominees.
Before casting his vote on Gilhooly, Kyrillos complained that dozens of Christie's nominees remain unheard, at one point asking committee chairman Nicholas Scutari (D-Union) if he was embarrassed that "in the papers today, they refer to the education commissioner as the acting commissioner."
Scutari called Kyrillos out of order and requested his vote on the nominee.
"This is a waste of our time," said Kyrillos, who cast a yes vote and walked out of the room.
Pitchers and catchers, report to Drumthwacket
Drumthwacket will host a celebrity fantasy baseball draft this year, thanks to Christie, an avid Mets fan.
Christie made the announcement in an appearance, via phone, Thursday on SiriusXM's Mad Dog Radio's "The B Team."
The show's host, Bruce Murray, explained that he and Christie have been in the same league for several years and last year Christie finished second to last.
Christie and Murray had a bet riding on the previous year's league, when the governor bested the sports talk host. Describing the bet, Christie noted that Murray has a "fabulous-looking wife."
"The bet was that I was going to get a date with his wife that he paid for," Christie said. "And he never came through on that."


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If we learned anything from the 2013 offseason—when Wil Myers, Travis d'Arnaud, Trevor Bauer, Noah Syndergaard, Jake Odorizzi and Jake Marisnick were each involved in blockbuster deals—it's that very few prospects are "untouchable" when the right trade opportunity is on the table.
However, there are those young players that are so valuable to their organization that they're unlikely to be included, or even discussed, in any potential deal. Those prospects are usually expected to fill a void at the highest level and generally have upside that discourages any conception of a trade; they're studs and the future of their respective franchises.
Here's a look at each MLB team's untouchable prospect for the 2014 season.


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Big Beat kicks off a projected series of 7-inch vinyl to excite even the most hardened collector of 60s garage rock. We've got a bevy of exciting two-siders in the pipeline, all showcasing killers that are either unavailable or hard to find on vinyl or as in the case of Lawson & 4 More, completely unreleased.
Memphis is well known for its small but perfectly formed coterie of mid-60s punkers, prominent amongst whom were Lawson & 4 More, featuring future engineer/producer Terry Manning. The combo's taut and atmospheric 'If You Want Me, You Can Find Me' is an acknowledged gem; here it is joined by the outstanding 1966 outtake 'Smart Bird', with lead singer Bobby Lawson in full snarl mode. Both sides were written and produced by the venerated Jim Dickinson.
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In our blog today, we will take a look at consumer habits in the e-Book market. Simba Information, a market research firm specializing in publishing and media, has released the fifth edition of its Trade E-Book Publishing report series. According to this report 'The number of e-book users climbed in 2012 to pass 50 million adults but consumers habits have been changing'.
This report provides some interesting information on readers' habits including how they use e-books, what devices are used, what extent they buy and how much money they spend.
The research firm reveals the following findings:
• The gap between e-Book 'users' and e-Book 'buyers' grew even wider in 2012
• The average amount of money spent by a given e-book buyer didn't rise [between 2011 and 2012]
• There was an increase in the percentage of adults who purchased a paperback title
• The Children's and Young Adults market continues to be rooted in print but both formats have shown strength in 2012
• About 25% of adults are buying at least one Children's/Young Adults print and about 5% buying at least one Children's/Young Adults e-book
• About 63% of smartphone owners, 48% of iPad owners and 40% of non-iPad tablet owners do not use e-books.
The e-Book market has developed to become one of the most popular platforms in recent years; however, the changing consumers' habits have created a more complex market and getting consumers to value and engage with content, has become more challenging. In the words of Michael Norris, senior analyst of Simba Information's Consumer Media & Technology division "any publisher who still believes that making their content available or accessible electronically is enough is kidding itself'.
This report also includes a two-year analysis of how much money e-book users spent on digital titles, a multi-year analysis of e-book pricing trends and what proportion of e-book users acquire digital books for free, and a full psychographic and demographic overviews. For more information on this report, visit www.simbainformation.com.
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Eight dead in NSW holiday road carnage
- From: The Daily Telegraph
- December 27, 2012
THE NSW holiday road toll has risen to eight following the death of a man in a crash at Mudgee this morning.
A motorist was standing next to his parked car on the side of Ulan Rd about 9.20am when he was struck by a Ford station wagon traveling north.
The pedestrian, aged about 50, suffered extensive injuries and died at the scene.
The female driver of the Ford, aged in her 30s, has been taken to hospital for mandatory blood tests.
There was nobody else in either vehicle and the road will be closed until early afternoon as officers from the Crash Investigation Unit examine the scene.
This morning's death followed yesterday's carnage when five people died in a spate of accidents.
Two of the accidents, which claimed three lives, happened less than 10 minutes apart.
A 27-year-old man from Canley Vale died when his Ford Falcon and a Magna collided at an intersection in Marsden Park in Sydney's west just before 6.50am.
Five minutes later at 6.55am a couple were killed when the Nissan Patrol they were passengers in crashed on the Hume Highway at Holbrook in the state's south west.
A 70-year-old man sitting in the front passenger seat and his 70-year-old wife in the back seat, both Fijian nationals, died at the scene. A 14-year-old boy suffered head injuries and was flown to a Canberra hospital in a critical condition. A 67-year-old woman flown to Royal Melbourne Hospital with possible spinal injuries is in a serious but stable condition.
The driver, a 44-year-old man, his 45-year-old wife and her 40-year-old sister escaped with minor injuries. The crash survivors are from Chisholm in the ACT and all are members of the same family.
About 1.45pm a car had hit a tree in Doughertys Junction Rd at Hargraves, near Mudgee, in the state's central west.The male driver was able to walk to a nearby property to raise an alert, but his male passenger was found dead inside the vehicle.
Less than an hour later, at 2.30pm, a man was driving east along Abernethy Rd, Abernethy, in the Hunter, when it appears his sedan left the road and struck a tree, killing the driver.
In another incident a man is clinging to life after crashing his motorcycle while allegedly attempting to avoid arrest by police.
Police said they attempted to pull the rider over on Masonite Rd, Heatherbrae, just north of Newcastle, at 11.30am when the accident happened. He is in John Hunter Hospital with little chance of survival.
Police said there had been an increase in the number of people injured in traffic accidents this year.
"We've seen a significant rise in the number of people injured on our roads. This is a pattern seen during poor driving conditions," Assistant Commissioner John Hartley, head of the NSW Highway Patrol, said. "Based on our most recent statistics, 246 people have been injured in 760 crashes since Friday, compared with 640 people injured in 198 crashes during the comparable period of Operation Safe Arrival last year.
"Police will continue to target dangerous and irresponsible driver behaviour across the state during Operation Safe Arrival.
"In the first five days of the operation, police have conducted 162,597 breath tests with 288 charges being laid."
Operation Safe Arrival began last Friday and concludes at 11.59pm on Friday week, its targets including speeding, drink-driving, seatbelt and other traffic offences.
Double demerit points will remain in place until 11.59pm on Tuesday for speeding, seatbelt and helmet offences.
Anyone with information on any of the accidents should phone Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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They say that the secret to Pepper Lunch is that half-melted, mustard-colored butter they casually dump right on top of your rice.
But guess what? It isn't.
Well, we took a crack at hacking Pepper Lunch's famous Beef Pepper Rice while using regular grocery butter. And ta-da, it doesn't make a difference (at least in taste). We're proud to say that our version is even better than the real thing.
So if it's not the butter, what made it special then? For this recipe, we got the taste almost exactly the same. What really made this go boom was that we we used good quality, well-prepared beef. In fact, the recipe is ridiculously simple; and precisely because of the simplicity, the quality of the beef gets a bigger role. Think of what happens to Ironman if you suddenly replace Robert Downey Jr. with Robert Pattinson. That's how screwed up this dish is gonna be without the rightful hero—good beef.
One does not simply stake their reputation on a sizzling plate of beef. But for this one, we will. Besides having it better and bigger, you won't have to smell like a lunchtime promo after you've had your mid-day fix.
Lastly, the reason why we're really excited to announce this post is that we'll finally have something to reply to those confuddled tweeps who keep on tagging us mistakenly as Pepper Lunch. Every few days or so, we get something to the effect of, "Sarap ng beef pepper rice. Busog na busog ako! @pepperph." Instead of slapping them for their ignorance, we can now point them to this recipe instead.
Pepper Lunch's Beef Pepper Rice
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients: Beef Pepper Rice
- 400g short plate cut beef (thinly sliced)
- 3 cups cooked japanese rice
- 1/4 cup canned corn
- 1/2 tsp freshly crushed pepper
- 2 tsp cooking oil
- 2 tbsp butter
- 2 tbsp spring onions, chopped
Ingredients: Honey Sauce
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
- 2 tbsp onion, chopped
- 1 tsp garlic, minced
- 1/4 cup honey
- 2 tbsp kikkoman
- 1/8 tsp iodized salt
- 1 tsp cornstarch
- 1/4 cup water
Ingredients: Garlic Soy Sauce
- 1/4 cup kikkoman
- 1/4 cup regular soy sauce
- 4 large cloves garlic, crushed
- 2 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp cornstarch
- 1/2 cup water
Procedure: Honey Sauce
- Mix together all ingredients in a sauce pan and boil for 3-5 minutes or until garlic and onions are soft.
- Puree in blender and transfer to sauce bottles.
Procedure: Garlic Soy Sauce
- Mix the 2 soy sauce together in a sauce pan.
- Marinate raw garlic in the soy sauce for 30 minutes.
- Add in the rest of the ingredients and bring to a boil for one minute.
- Turn off fire immediately.
- Puree in blender and transfer to sauce bottles.
- Make sure that the beef is completely thawed.
- Heat cast iron skillet on high flame until it smokes.
- Put half of the steamed rice (while still hot) in the middle.
- Turn off fire.
- While skillet is still on the stove, turn off fire and scatter beef around the rice.
- Top with 1 tbsp of salted butter (this will instantly melt into the rice).
- Top with half the corn, half the pepper and half the spring onions. Serve immediately with the two sauces on the side.
- Repeat the same procedure for the second serving.


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MOBILE, Alabama -- Police are searching for four unidentified men after a pair of armed robberies were reported within five miles and 15 minutes of each other Monday night, said a Mobile Police Department spokeswoman.
The suspects in both robberies have similar descriptions although detectives do not believe they are related, said MPD spokeswoman Ashley Rains.
Around 8:50 p.m., police were called to a reported robbery at Azalea Pointe Apartments on Azalea Road, according to records from the Mobile County Sheriff's Office. The apartment complex last made headlines in June after a reported armed robbery left one hospitalized.
A woman told officers she was walking from the complex's parking lot to her apartment building when two men approached her from behind on Monday night, Rains said.
One of the men was armed with a gun, according to police.
The men demanded the woman's purse. They fled on foot after she handed it over, Rains said.
Approximately 15 minutes later officers were called to a reported robbery and assault in St. Rickarby Park.
A man told responding officers he had been playing basketball when two men approached him. They were both armed with guns, Rains said.
The men took unidentified items from the victim before striking him in the back of the head and fleeing the area. The man was transported to the University of South Alabama Medical Center suffering a small laceration from the attack.
The suspects in the Azalea Road robbery are described as two black men estimated to be between 17 and 21 years old. One suspect stands around 5-foot-9 and weighs approximately 200 pounds. He wore a blue hooded sweatshirt and grey pants during the confrontation. He was also the suspect armed with a gun, Rains said.
The second suspect is estimated to be around 5-foot-6 and 130 pounds. He wore a black hooded sweatshirt and black pants during the robbery.
The suspects in the St. Rickarby Park robbery and assault are described as two black men around 18 years old. One suspect is believed to be approximately 130 pounds and 5-foot-7. He has a dark complexion and wore a black hooded sweatshirt and a black rag over his face during the attack.
The second suspect is around 6-foot-1 and 230 pounds. He has a "larger build" and a dark complexion, Rains said. He wore a black hooded sweatshirt.
Anyone with information on the robberies can contact MPD at 251-208-7211.


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Maize is the most widely grown crop in India and PAI exports maize/ corn and its by products to many countries worldwide, The grains are rich in vitamins A, C and E, carbohydrates, and essential minerals, and contain 9% protein. They are also rich in dietary fiber and calories which are a good source of energy.
There has been continuous increase in the consumption demand of corn/ maize mainly owing to increase in the demand from meat and starch sector. There is growing requirement of maize from poultry sector, which uses corn as feed. Major importing nations of maize are Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, Egypt, Malaysia, EU and Colombia.
Among the major exporters of corn, USA stands first followed by Argentina and Brazil. China, South Africa, Ukraine are minor exporters, their share is very low. Only USA dominates the international trade of corn as an exporter.
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Responses to the Spendthrift-Tightwad survey featured in Sunday's column are still rolling in. But of 260 submitted so far, Scott Rick says, the results are striking:
34% are tightwads
55% are unconflicted consumers
11% are spendthrifts
In Rick's past surveys, 25 percent were tightwads and 15 percent were spendthrifts.
"We have never had a U.S. sample with a higher proportion of tightwads," reports Rick, a lecturer and post doctoral fellow at The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business.


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Monday Morning Manager…Not time yet
You know what Lewis & Clark were doing on this day in 1806? They were packing up and heading home. They had seen enough. They had explored all over Louisiana, followed the Oregon Trail and gazed at the Pacific Ocean.
Now they were heading home.
The Rangers aren't there yet. Still two weeks to go before Opening Day. Still time to gaze upon Andruw Jones and Kris Benson, Derek Holland and Neftali Feliz and Elvis Andrus and Joaquin Arias.
Still time for another strained quadricep muscle or a tight lower back. Or another blister.
Or for Owen Wilson to do more research.
1. How important is it to get a long-term extension done with Josh Hamilton?
2. What's your take on the state of the Rangers bullpen?
3. Do you think keeping Andruw Jones is the right thing to do?
4. Any concerns about Chris Davis?
5. What's your assessment of Team USA in the World Baseball Classic
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1. I think it's very important to sign Josh long-term. I have faith both parties will come together on that soon.
2. I'm still uncertain about the state of the bullpen. It seems like it's getting closer and closer to all the spots being decided, but it's so hard for me to tell anything in these spring games. I'm glad they added Gobble. It's always nice to have left-handed options.
3. I've never been sold on him coming here, and I am even less thrilled now. I fear he'll do nothing but take at bats away from players like Marlon Byrd, Chris Davis, Nelson Cruz and Brandon Boggs.
4. My only concern about him is how Jones' presence will hurt him. Davis knows he's had a slow spring. He's not immune to that. I also think he knows himself well enough that when he says he'll come around, he will. My fear, however, is that the manager will give up on him before he reaches that point.
5. I haven't watched a lot of the WBC. My favorite part about Team USA was Mark DeRosa. I sure miss him being on a team I want to cheer for.
– Micah
1. VERY important! We need Josh to be a Ranger.2. Looks like it will be okay, but highly unknown. Ask me on July 1.3. Jones v. Catalanotto? Maybe, but can he pinch hit. Right now, he looks like and interchangeable part who is replaceable. Good problem to have.4. CD will be fine. We must be patient and keep in mind he is not a veteran.5. WBC? Team USA? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
1. I'd wait until next winter before working on a deal.
2. I'm not really that concerned about the bullpen.
Give me FF, CJ, Eddie, Rupe, Turnbow, Madrigal, Eyre – though based on the roster I might try to hang on to Nippert a little longer and start Madrigal in OKC.
I see random notes saying that the Rangers could trade this guy or that for a reliever and I recoil. There are plenty of bodies in camp and there will be some depth in OKC as well. And if guys like Mendoza can't make it work in the bullpen, the time for cutting bait should come soon…
3. I might get a little windy here…
I think the team should keep Jones if the team thinks he is a better roster addition than Cat. However, given baseball man's tendency to play veterans ("proven producers" like Broussard, Sosa… despite what recent statistics say) over youngsters I have a real trepidation for how keeping Jones will impact Murphy and Cruz's playing time. Add in the fact that baseball man's job is on the line and another slow start will seal his fate, and I think the concern is legitimate. Cruz and Murphy need to be playing regularly IMHO. Despite Murphy's splits so far, I still think it is too ealy to call him a platoon player. Cruz needs to play regularly as well, as Sosa took his ABs before, and now Jones may be about to take some now.
Based on the above it is my hope that Jones moves along.
4. Nope.
5. Didn't follow it, so I don't know.
1. I think it's important that it happen by the end of next spring to avoid his arbitration years, but it would be nice for that to happen in the next couple of weeks. A 5 year deal with a hefty 6th year option/buyout, keeping Josh here through his early 30's, seems prudent. It would provide him financial security with a chance to get another large multi-year deal if he chooses to leave afterwards, while locking up a middle of the order, defensive whiz in right fielder for the Ranger's foreseeable future.
2. I'm cautiously optimistic that this can be an effective unit. I like the back end with CJ setting up and Francisco closing. Health concerns about Gaurdado hurt the depth, but I think Madrigal is going to step up and become a late inning type guy this year. Rupe needs to be better than he was last season if he's going to stick long term. Eyre seems solid. He can fill the void left by Jamey Wright. Donnelly and Turnbow are both still question marks, as is Jennings if he's going to be a middle reliever. Nippert is a real wild card, with no options left and a lot of unrealized potential. Some of these guys will wash out. It would behoove Thomas Diamond to get off to a hot start in the minors, as he may be needed in the big league bullpen by May or so.
3. I'm on the fence about Andruw. He fits on this team better than Catalanotto. I will say that.
4. Not in the long term. He'll hit for power, while striking out a lot. It wouldn't surprise me to see him struggle to hit for average early in his career. The AL has a book on him now. He'll have to make adjustments.
5. 9 runs for Japan? Wow. You're not going to beat Matsuzaka very often like that.
Chris Davis=Ryan Howard in a few years? Lots of strike outs, but good power? I wish. Doubt it though. Are future is Justin Smoak, not Chris Davis. He will be a good filler until Smoak gets up here in a couple years.
1. I think that if we ever hope to win thee division again in the near future we need to sign Josh Hamilton to a long term contract. He's an integral part of the puzzle. The Reds made a mistake letting him go….
2. I think the bullpen is in confusion right now…truly unsettled. Rupe hasn't stepped up I like Madrigal but he does have ooptions…Nippert and Rupe don't. I think we should hold onto Benson (Middle relief???) Eyre looks solid and what in the world do you do with Guardato and Jennings. Now here's a decision I don't want to make.
3. If a satisfactory resolution can come from the Catalanoto situation then I don't have a problem with Jones. If he can't do it we'd have Boggs at AAA. But….if no trade on the horizon for tCatalanoto then we keep him rather than pay out 6M for nothing and dump Andruw.
4. Just the usual worries about Sophomore jinx….they're have been a milolion of these kids from Hurricane Bob Hazle to Kevin Maas during my lifetime. But I think this kid will hit. I'd bet on it!
5. Ho hUM!!!! The only baseball I care about right now is played in Arizona.
1. Get it done. This is a no brainer.
2. This one is clear as mud. I saw Frankie pitch last Friday but he was up against minor leaguers and they were over-matched. So, why did Washington have him pitch 2 innings yesterday and let him get knocked around in the second of the 2? Stupid move. Nippert is hurting, I saw Donnely give up line drive base hits to the Padres, before getting out of it. I think this is still a big question mark (see the Gobble signing) to be dealt with and it may not be done before the end of ST.
3. He is still not on the roster yet and he is still not seeing front-line ptiching so if he stays he needs to be in OKC continuing to get . Jamie Newberg has a bit of an analysis of keeping Cat or Jones I need to go re-read when I am not so tired. He does make a good point about the Jones vs. Cat is not a money issue. In my opinion, Brandon Boggs is the best option if you are going to carry a fifth outfielder on the roster.
4. Not really, he'll be fine once the season starts and the lineup settles down.
5. This is a case of not assembling the best possible team combined with not putting the best lineup on the field. Does it say "see Adam Dunn" when you look up "defensive liability"? Why was Shane Victorino on the bench in favor of Dunn in RF? Davey Johnson expected Oswalt to completely shut them down but the Japanese played their game. Patience, get on, Steal bases, and slap hits into an outfield that moves about as fast as I do. This wasn't injuries or not being ready. Nor was it the lack of superstars. The team in Frisco would have eaten the Japanese team alive.
On another rant, what was up with the lineup for yesterday's TV game? Is Goodyear like going to Tucson now? To say I was disappointed in the personnel used in a relatively rare ST TV game is an understatement. I know they think they want to evaluate as many players as possible but just playing a game with folks that looked they were just whoever they could rost from the clubhouse does not sell lots of excitement in the home market. I saw a couple of games last week out there and still saw better lineups than that. The folks who buy the tickets deserved better than that for a Sunday afternoon TV game because not everyone can go to AZ.
1. Very important. This organization let one franchise favorite walk away (Pudge) – hope they learned their lesson. It appears that Josh and his agent are waiting for the Rangers to make the first move, I wish JD and Mr. Hicks would be as aggressive with Josh as they were pursuing some free agents who didn't even really want to play here (like Barry Zito, Randy Johnson and Tori Hunter).
2. Nervous – Frankie Francisco is the only pitcher in the 'pen that I feel good about – the rest have me buying Maalox – at least until they prove they are reliable.
3. No. The Rangers have plenty of OF's and DH types. If the organization is truly committed to developing from the farm system, then keeping Jones takes playing time away from Chris Davis and is contrary to their stated objective (which is not surprising when you consider some of the decisions the manager/hitting coach have influenced in the past – Ben Broussard anyone?)
4. See my answer above.
thanks for the Johnny Oats pic!!! God bless Johnny ! [and kudos on a little Lewis and Clark trivia too; careful you'll get us all edu-ma-cated ]
1. How important is it to get a long-term extension done with Josh Hamilton? It needs to get done but why does it need to be done in the spring…..Josh doesnt seem to be concerned about it getting done right away.
2. What's your take on the state of the Rangers bullpen?
Feel better about the bullpen than about the starting pitching….A little concerned about the 6th and 7th inning guys
3. Do you think keeping Andruw Jones is the right thing to do? small investment with potential upside……..If he is the player he was before…..great. If he isnt……They have been trying to trade Cat since last June/July. Opens up a space for Boggs.
4. Any concerns about Chris Davis? Not really…..Looked good at 1B……I'm sure that he will be feeling some pressure if Smoak does well though…..Davis to 3B?
5. What's your assessment of Team USA in the World Baseball Classic? Dont really have since I didnt really watch it but I would be unhappy with the amount of work the pitchers got. Oswalt was tired after pitching 3 innings…..Seems like he is behind most of the other pitchers that are in MLB camps. Why would MLB teams want to send their guys out there if they are not going to be ready for the season?
1. It is important to get a long term deal but no need to push the panic button. After reading his autobiography, you know he will just ask for a fair deal, none of this Tex stuff saying that I want a fair deal while really meaing I want to get a huge pay day from the Yanks.
2. The Ranger bullpen is a total question mark. It could be great, it could be a disaster, or it could be in the middle. Also depends greatly on the starters.
3. I love Cat and do not wish this situation on anyone. I am praying for a National league team to need a lefty on the bench. But I would have to take Andruw, even just for the threat off the bench. With no righties on the bench, an opposing manager would at least have to consider the threat of Andruw pitch-hitting.
4. Chris will be fine. Keep batting him low in the line up and it is like have two clean up hitters.
5. I watched quite a bit of the WBC. It has some real potential. We have to remember that the purpose of the WBC is to increase baseball around the globe. If you dont think that happened did you miss the Netherlands beating the Dominician TWICE. Also, it was like a national holiday in Korea. Team USA was not given a chance to win and yet they almost did. A big issue is there are too many off days that the players cannot stay fresh or have enough innings. Next time they need to have one primary starter at each position (except 2 catchers), a utility guy (see DeRosa), and some up and comers. This prevents the Jeter/Rollins fiasco. Rollins can and did play rings around Jeter and should have started every game a short and let Dunn be the permanent DH. They also need to be able to trade out players easier, esp pitchers. Oswalt looked fine for 3 innings but it was only his 3rd start, while most pitchers had had 4 starts by then. Also, they would not take him out when they should have because he needed the work. They needed to pull him and let him get the rest of his work in the bullpen, just like pitchers do in Spring Training.
Also, I need to ask hefe…did you watch the USA/Japan game or just the highlights? Saying 9 runs does not tell the story. If Davey Johnson had pulled Oswalt sooner as he would have had be been managing in Game 7 of the World Series and not pretending like he was in spring training, the outcome would likely have been different. Also, that stiff wind in from left cost DeRosa 2 homers and 5 RBIs and would have chased Matsuzaka earlier. Then it would have been a battle of bullpens which the lefties of the US dominated the entire Japaneese line up (7 lefties).
1. Signing Josh long term was suppose to be a priority in the off-season. So I still think that they will sit down more as the season approaches and get soemthing done. If I remember correctly I think that is what they did with Ian Kinsler last year. But they should get this out of the way so I will not distract from the on-field goals of the team and if the Rangers are smart they will get this done.
2. I think it will be ok. Josh Rupe I think is the pitcher I think that will be able to be a little bit of everything for the Rangers Bullpen. Long relief, Short relief and even a set up man. I think if they use Rupe the same way they used Jamey Wright that the rest of the bullpen will be fine. I think Franky and C.J at the end of games will be a good one, two punch if they are healthy and so far that is what I keep hearing. But the Bullpen will only be as good as the starting pitching and I believe if the Rangers starters can give you a solid 6 innings I think the bullpen will be good enough to hold on to a lot of wins. Last year I think the bullpen was fine but it wore down because the starters got shelled to often. If the starters can go deeper into games which I believe the Rangers are trying to preach in spring training the Rangers will be at least a contending team. I don't know if they will win the division or the wild card but they will be in the mix if they can pitch effectly and play solid defense which is also a big thing and they will hit that is a given. So put all of these three phases inplace and it should be a fun summer for baseball around here.
3. If Rudy says his bat is there then you would be a fool not to make room for him until he proves he doesn't have it any more. Trade or cut Frank which they need to do any way there would be no room for Cat even if we didn't have the option of Andruw Jones and with the options that Brandon Boggs still has. He can play everyday in triple AAA until he is needed due to an injury or Jones flaming out. I like the idea of Jones and Blalock as the DH. Blalock would play first against lefties instead of Chris Davis most of the time. Jones healthy and swinging a good bat is a nice problem to have if Hamilton and Nelson Cruz keep swinging the bats they are so far in spring training.
4. He has been better lately. He will be ok. There is enough power in the lineup that if he does get off to a slow start. He won't have worry about Justin Smoak until probably after the all-star break or September or until they trade Hank. Then they will probably alternate playing first and DH. Again another nice problem to have. To many good power hitters in the lineup.
5. Team USA did a lot better this time with reaching the semis and I did watch or listen to them all the way through the WBC. I still don't like doing the WBC now. I would rather do it after the season and playoffs when our guys are not in spring training mode our pitchers for sure. That wasn't the real Roy Oswalt and Jake Peavy out there. And if it was the Astros and Padres are in for a long year. They didn't manage the Bullpen very well either. Especially, against Japan when they were down 2 runs. They had better guys in the bullpen than who they had out there in that situation. Scot Shields or Broxton should ahve been in there.


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Dropping in a career-high 18 points, including nine clutch points in the final quarter, Jake Kehrli sparked unbeaten New York Mills (23-0) to a hard-fought 59-55 win over Section X champion Chateaugay in a state Class D semifinal of the boys basketball tournament Friday.
With the win, the No. 1 state-ranked Marauders advance to a 5:30 p.m. Class D title game today at the Glens Falls Civic Center. Coach Mike Adey's Section III champions will tip off against Kingston Coleman Catholic (13-9), an upset 71-70 winner in double overtime against C.G. Finney (21-3) of Section V in Friday's other semifinal.
With his team clinging to a 46-44 lead midway through the final period, Kehrli scored five straight points, sinking a three-point goal with 3:06 to play followed by a steal and a driving layup with 2:53 remaining. That gave the Marauders their biggest lead, at 51-44.
In the final 30 seconds, another New York Mills' sophomore — J.T. Ross — netted three-of-four at the free-throw line to prevent the Bulldogs from making a successful comeback.
Besides Kehrli, the Marauders again got a strong showing from 6-foot-9 junior Matt Welch (14 points, 11 rebounds) and 6-5 senior Fred Russ (15 points, 10 rebounds).
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Kingston Coleman 71, C.G. Finney 70, 2 OT: After battling through two overtime sessions in their Class D state semifinal, Coleman's Thomas Murphy was whistled for a foul as he crossed half-court in the final second of the second extra session. Then, with the score tied at 70, Coleman dropped in the first of two foul shots with :02 showing on the Civic Center scoreboard clock, furnishing Coleman (13-9) with the win.
Potsdam 66, Rochester Charlotte 48: Staying undefeated in Class B, No. 1 state-ranked Potsdam (25-0) pulled steadily away from Western Conference champion Charlotte, advancing to the state Class B title game vs. Goshen Burke Catholic (21-2) at 9 p.m. tonight. Burke edged defending state champion Westhill, 63-58, in the later Friday semifinal.


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Thirty years ago, Ronald Reagan fired the nation's air traffic controllers after they walked out on strike, signaling an escalation in the war on workers and the middle class that is still being waged three decades later.
On Wednesday, Dec. 14, at the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C., Georgetown University associate history professor Joseph McCartin will discuss his new book on the PATCO strike, Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike That Changed America.
McCartin will be joined by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Kenneth Moffett, who headed up the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service during the strike, as well as several former PATCO members.
The event is free and gets under way at 2:30 p.m. EST. Copies of Collision Course will be available for sale and a book signing will follow the event.
http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/12/09/special-... /
There are some very good comments, at this site, on this article.
Posted by augie38 in General Discussion
Wed Nov 30th 2011, 07:46 PM
For most people, an extended stay aboard a luxury cruise liner sounds like a dream vacation.
But Valeska Paris says she was held against her will aboard the Scientology cruise ship "Freewinds" for more than a decade. During her stay on the vessel, she alleges, she was forced into hard labor and never allowed to leave the ship without an escort.
In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC News) Lateline program, Paris claims that Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige sent her to the ship when she was 18 in order to prevent her family from pulling her out of the organization.
"I was basically hauled in and told that my mum had attacked the church and that I needed to disconnect from her because she was suppressive," she said. "He decided the ship, and I found out two hours before my plane left, I was woken up in the morning and I was sent to the ship for 'two weeks.' "
Paris was born into a Scientology family, but her mother quit the group after her husband committed suicide, blaming Scientology for coercing him out of a self-made personal fortune of more than a million dollars.
By Howard Mintz firstname.lastname@example.com
For at least eight years, Santana Alvarado worked as a dishwasher and cook at a Chili's Restaurant in Concord, typically showing up for the job each day around 7 a.m.
But, based on his sworn testimony in an ongoing legal battle, Alvarado had trouble getting his bosses to even give him a break to eat. And when he and his co-workers did manage time off the clock to grab a meal, he recalled, "we were forced to eat in a storage room."
Now, Alvarado is one of five lead plaintiffs in a major legal showdown over employee meal and rest breaks that has reached the California Supreme Court. On Tuesday, the court is set to consider where to draw the line in defining employer obligations to ensure workers actually take breaks required under state law.
The case involves a potential statewide class action against Brinker International, which operates a chain of restaurants that includes such popular eating spots as Chili's and Maggiano's Little Italy, both with restaurants in San Jose's Santana Row. The lawsuit, which could cover tens of thousands of Brinker waiters, waitresses, bartenders, cooks and others, has been unfolding for eight years, claiming the chain's restaurants regularly failed to assure employees got their breaks and thus violated California labor laws.
Thirty Southern California car wash workers have become the first in the business to sign a union contract -- and organizers are hoping more will follow suit.
The CLEAN Carwash Campaign announced on Tuesday that employees at the Bonus Car Wash in Santa Monica signed a two-year agreement that will improve work conditions in an industry with a history of labor violations. It is the first contract won by CLEAN, which stands for the Community Labor Environmental Action Network.
"We're really excited to finally have a union car wash in L.A. County where people can go and get their cars washed with a clean conscience," Chloe Osmer, acting director of the CLEAN campaign, told In These Times.
According to the contract, which the AFL-CIO helped secure, workers at Bonus Car Wash will see a 2 percent wage increase. In addition to health and safety measures, the contract prohibits the employer from firing workers without just cause or discharging those who voice safety hazard concerns. There is also a grievance and arbitration procedure to settle disputes.
"We are looking forward to a partnership with the United Steelworkers that will make our business stronger and improve the opportunities and job satisfaction for all of our employees," Mike Watson, general manager of Bonus Car Wash, said in a statement.
Posted by augie38 in General Discussion
Sat Oct 15th 2011, 02:37 PM
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — American drone strikes in southern Yemen have killed nine al-Qaida-linked militants, including the media chief for the group's Yemeni branch and the son of a prominent U.S.-born cleric slain in a similar attack last month, government officials and tribal elders said Saturday.
In the capital, meanwhile, forces loyal to embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh opened fire on protesters, killing at least 12 and wounding nearly 300, according to medical officials and witnesses. In a northern district of Sanaa, fighting between Saleh's forces and anti-regime tribesmen and renegade troops killed four supporters of a tribal leader and two civilians. At least 13 people also were wounded, including six civilians.
The airstrikes late Friday in the southeastern province of Shabwa pointed to Washington's growing use of drones to target al-Qaida militants in Yemen. The missile attacks appear to be part of a determined effort to stamp out the threat from the group, known as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which U.S. officials have said is the terror network's most active and most dangerous branch.
The Yemeni Defense Ministry identified the slain media chief as Egyptian-born Ibrahim al-Bana. Tribal elders in the area also said the dead included Abdul-Rahman al-Awlaki, the 21-year-old son of Anwar al-Awlaki, a Muslim preacher and savvy Internet operator who became a powerful al-Qaida recruiting tool in the West. He, along with another propagandist, Pakistani-American Samir Khan, were killed in a Sept. 30 U.S. drone attack.
Yemen's al-Qaida branch has claimed responsibility for dispatching the would-be suicide bomber who failed to blow up a Detroit-bound flight in December 2009 with explosives sewn into his underwear.
The tribal elders, who spoke Saturday on condition of anonymity because they feared reprisals, said four other members of the al-Awlaki clan and another local militant were also killed in the same drone attack. There was no immediate confirmation of the younger al-Awlaki's death from Yemeni authorities.
By Associated Press, Published: October 10
FRESNO, Calif. — California has a new law that will allow state regulators to automatically certify union elections by farmworkers if they determine growers used threats or intimidation toward workers in the election process.
The law, signed by Gov. Jerry Brown late Sunday, is part of a compromise after union efforts to change the fundamental way farmworkers organize failed earlier this year.
The United Farm Workers of America, whose membership has dwindled in recent years, says the new law will keep growers more accountable but doesn't solve the issue of intimidation.
"It's not what we want, not what we feel we really need to benefit a large number of farmworkers," said Arturo Rodriguez, UFW president. "But it's an improvement over what we had before. Clearly the current system was not working. It offered an incentive for the growers to violate the law, because they had no reason to obey it."
Farmworkers previously called for majority sign-up elections, also known as card-check balloting, that would have allowed workers to vote by signing petitions away from the fields. Farmers and agricultural organizations vehemently opposed the moved due to possible election violations by union organizers.
During his first stint as governor, Brown in 1975 signed the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, which gave workers the right to hold secret ballot elections. However, he vetoed the card-check bill in June.
Posted by augie38 in General Discussion
Mon Oct 10th 2011, 02:41 PM
Gov. Jerry Brown has outlawed the open carrying of unloaded handguns in California, signing a bill late Sunday night that makes the practice that had been popular with some gun rights advocates a misdemeanor in the state.
The bill, AB144 by Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, D-La Cańada Flintridge (Los Angeles County), will take effect Jan. 1 and was backed by law enforcement officials throughout the state who said the practice created a public safety issue.
"We view the open carrying of unloaded handguns as a threat to the safety of the communities we police and the safety of our officers," said David L. Maggard, Jr., president of the California Police Chiefs Association.
The ban does not apply to law enforcement, people authorized to carry loaded weapons in public or to people selling unloaded weapons at gun shows, among other exemptions.
Violations of the law will carry a fine of up to $1,000 and up to six months in county jail.
In addition, Brown signed into law a bill that will require that the information from purchasers of long guns, such as rifles and shotguns, be retained by the state Department of Justice in the same way information about handgun purchasers is retained.
Currently, the information of people who buy long guns is destroyed.
In a message accompanying the signed bill, AB809 by Assemblyman Mike Feuer, D-Los Angeles, Brown wrote, "Since the state already retains handgun purchaser information, I see no reason why the state should not also retain information pertaining to the sale of long guns."
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...
Posted by augie38 in General Discussion
Fri Sep 09th 2011, 03:30 PM
Barbara Stanwyck: "We're both rotten!"
Fred MacMurray: "Yeah - only you're a little more rotten." -"Double Indemnity" (1944)
Those lines of dialogue from a classic film noir sum up the state of the two political parties in contemporary America. Both parties are rotten - how could they not be, given the complete infestation of the political system by corporate money on a scale that now requires a presidential candidate to raise upwards of a billion dollars to be competitive in the general election? Both parties are captives to corporate loot. The main reason the Democrats' health care bill will be a budget buster once it fully phases in is the Democrats' rank capitulation to corporate interests - no single-payer system, in order to mollify the insurers; and no negotiation of drug prices, a craven surrender to Big Pharma.
But both parties are not rotten in quite the same way. The Democrats have their share of machine politicians, careerists, corporate bagmen, egomaniacs and kooks. Nothing, however, quite matches the modern GOP.
To those millions of Americans who have finally begun paying attention to politics and watched with exasperation the tragicomedy of the debt ceiling extension, it may have come as a shock that the Republican Party is so full of lunatics. To be sure, the party, like any political party on earth, has always had its share of crackpots, like Robert K. Dornan or William E. Dannemeyer. But the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital center today: Steve King, Michele Bachman (now a leading presidential candidate as well), Paul Broun, Patrick McHenry, Virginia Foxx, Louie Gohmert, Allen West. The Congressional directory now reads like a casebook of lunacy.
It' a long read, but worth your time.
Posted by augie38 in General Discussion
Tue Sep 06th 2011, 06:54 PM
Here's the naked truth: San Francisco will once again be the butt of national ridicule -- or a beacon of freedom of expression -- depending on your point of view. The latest issue? Public nudity.
Supervisor Scott Wiener introduced legislation today that would require nudists to cover their seat if they take a seat in public and to cover up when they're in a restaurant.
The issue, he said, isn't a moral one about the appropriateness or inappropriateness of public nudity - "That's a different debate for a different day," he said.
"What this does do," he added, "is require that people show some basic courtesy and decency toward their fellow citizens when they are naked."
Wiener represents the Castro, a favorite gathering spot for a hard-core group of nudists who hang out in the plaza near Market and Castro streets and aren't shy about walking around the neighborhood. They are unabashed in their brazenness, setting off a robust debate.
City officials have, for the most part, kept hands off the naked guys, not wanting to offend those who embrace an anything-goes culture of tolerance that has made San Francisco famous. Some nearby business owners and residents, including parents with young kids, have said enough is enough, and have called on officials to crack down on the nudists.
Wiener's proposal would make it illegal for nudists to sit on public seating without placing a towel or similar barrier between their body and the seat, or to go into restaurants au natural.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...
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Sat Sep 03rd 2011, 06:01 PM
LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) — Officials in the rural Virginia city where Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson are buried voted late Thursday to prohibit the flying of the Confederate flag on city-owned poles.
After a lively 2 1/2-hour public hearing, the Lexington City Council voted 4-1 to allow only U.S., Virginia and city flags to be flown. Personal displays of the Confederate flag are not affected. The Sons of Confederate Veterans, whose members showed up in force after leading a rally that turned a downtown park into a sea of Confederate flags, vowed to challenge the ordinance in court.
Some speakers during the meeting said the ordinance was an affront to the men who fought in the Civil War in defense of the South. One speaker stayed silent during his allotted three minutes, in memory of the Civil War dead.
But many speakers complained that the flag was an offensive, divisive symbol of the South's history of slavery and shouldn't be endorsed by the city of 7,000 people.
"The Confederate flag is not something we want to see flying from our public property," said city resident Marquita Dunn, who is black. "The flag is offensive to us."
Most residents who spoke, both blacks and whites, opposed the ordinance. But H.K. Edgerton, the former president of the NAACP chapter in Asheville, N.C., said he supported flying the Confederate flag because he wanted to honor black Confederate soldiers. Edgerton, who is black, wore a T-shirt emblazoned with images of those black soldiers.
"What you're going to do in banning the Southern cross is wrong. May God bless Dixie," he said, amid some gasps from the audience.
Before the rally, ordinance opponents rallied in the city park, then marched to the hearing under a parade of Confederate flags.
"I am a firm believer in the freedom to express our individual rights, which include flying the flag that we decide to fly," said Philip Way, a Civil War re-enactor dressed in a Confederate wool uniform despite the summer temperatures. "That's freedom to me."
by Mike Hall, Aug 24, 2011
Workers deserve a "fair, clear system for protecting their rights and making themselves heard in union elections," four top Democratic lawmakers said in a letter to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) strongly supporting the board's proposed changes in the way elections to form unions are conducted.
Noting that the current election procedures are "outdated and contain unnecessary delays…that run anywhere from three and a half years to 13 years," the lawmakers say:
The longer an election is delayed, the more likely it is that workers will face harassment and unlawful retaliation for exercising their rights….In today's workplace one in five workers who exercise the right to organize is illegally fired. In that environment, workers stop trying to organize, leading to a country where tens of millions of Americans who want a union do not have one.
The four are Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee; Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), chairman of the Employment and Workplace Safety Subcommittee; Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), ranking member of the Education and Workforce Committee; and Rep. Robert Andrews D-N.J.), ranking member of the Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee.
They wrote that along with ensuring workers' rights, the proposed changes also "maintain employers' rights while providing greater certainty and lower litigation costs for employers, workers and the government."
The current systems delays and red tape encourage labor unrest and erode the rights of employers and employees alike. The new rules will help heal that broken system, bringing greater peace and greater fairness to the American workplace.
Yesterday, the AFL-CIO submitted more than 21,000 comments about the proposed changes from the nation's workers who overwhelming support the new election rules.
http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/08/24/top-lawm... /
This will definitely help in winning elections in the work place.
Posted by augie38 in General Discussion
Mon Aug 22nd 2011, 03:15 PM
By Thomas Peele and Daniel Willis
Contra Costa Times
A hospital administrator in Alameda County, a deputy police chief in San Francisco and a physician in Santa Clara County grossed more than $500,000 each in pay last year — the top three 2009 salaries in a database containing 200,000 public employees now available online.
Nancy Farber, chief administrator of Fremont's (population 200,000) Washington Hospital, earned $847,811.36; Charles J. Keohane, grossed $516,118.49, in his final year as a San Francisco deputy police chief, including $352,000 in cashed-in vacation and compensatory time; and Dr. Jana Dolnikova of Santa Clara County's Valley Medical Center, grossed $507,748.60
Posted by augie38 in General Discussion
Thu May 19th 2011, 06:15 PM
By Cynthia Gorney
Because the wedding was illegal and a secret, except to the invited guests, and because marriage rites in Rajasthan are often conducted late at night, it was well into the afternoon before the three girl brides in this dry farm settlement in the north of India began to prepare themselves for their sacred vows. They squatted side by side on the dirt, a crowd of village women holding sari cloth around them as a makeshift curtain, and poured soapy water from a metal pan over their heads. Two of the brides, the sisters Radha and Gora, were 15 and 13, old enough to understand what was happening. The third, their niece Rajani, was 5. She wore a pink T-shirt with a butterfly design on the shoulder. A grown-up helped her pull it off to bathe.
The grooms were en route from their own village, many miles away. No one could afford an elephant or the lavishly saddled horses that would have been ceremonially correct for the grooms' entrance to the wedding, so they were coming by car and were expected to arrive high-spirited and drunk. The only local person to have met the grooms was the father of the two oldest girls, a slender gray-haired farmer with a straight back and a drooping mustache. This farmer, whom I will call Mr. M, was both proud and wary as he surveyed guests funneling up the rocky path toward the bright silks draped over poles for shade; he knew that if a nonbribable police officer found out what was under way, the wedding might be interrupted mid-ceremony, bringing criminal arrests and lingering shame to his family.
It's a long read.
As a father myself of four girls, I had a hard time with my anger at the parents (father) of those child brides. Just sickning.
more: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/06/...
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The City Council this morning will vote on $130,000 in contracts for four lobbyists for the current legislative session.
Proposed contracts are: $50,000 for Jay Murrill a lawyer with Riley & Jackson; $40,000 for Anthony Barnes, a Birmingham businessman and former longtime Water Works Board chairman; $25,000 to Daryl O. Perkins of Master Solutions and $15,000 to Curt Lee, a former Republican state senator from Walker County.
Riley & Jackson, a Homewood firm, was founded by Rob Riley Jr. and Keith Jackson. Riley is the son of former Alabama Governor Bob Riley.
The complete list was passed out Monday during the Budget and Finance Committee meeting.
A major issue for the city is opposition to proposed legislation to change the composition and operation of the Birmingham Water Works Board.
"We think it's important for us to have a team of people to go down as a unified front for the city of Birmingham to advocate for bills and fight against others," Council President Johnathan Austin told AL.com.
Lawmakers began the 2014 legislative session Jan. 14.
Birmingham's new lobbyists would join representatives already hired by the Water Works Board to meet with legislators, in part, to quash proposals from State Sen. Jabo Waggoner, R-Vestavia Hills, and Rep. Paul Demarco, R-Homewood.
The bills would put a $500 monthly cap on board member pay, mandate a two-term limit for board service, and require public hearings before water rate increases.
The most controversial parts of the proposal involve expanding the five-member board to include representatives from other counties and limiting board pay. Currently, the entire board is appointed by the Birmingham City Council.
Councilman Steven Hoyt complained there was not enough discussion about the list of proposed lobbyists before a completed slate was passed out Monday afternoon.
"You said we were ten lanes moving in the same direction and I'm trying to figure out what street we're on," Hoyt said during the committee meeting before the committee endorsed the list. Hoyt in not a member of the committee.
Rather than traveling a smooth highway, Hoyt said it appeared that city leaders were more likely riding down an alley. Hoyt said his concern over the process would be evident with his vote during this morning's council meeting.
Bell defended the selection process, saying the current team was the result of collaboration between both the mayor and council offices.
"Lobbyists for the city have always been the purview of the mayor," Bell said. "This is the first time it has been invaded by the council."
Bell said the lobbyist lineup was the result of cooperation and a voluntary ceding of his authority.
"But I need your cooperation to make that happen," he said. "I'm trying to accommodate the council. I'm trying to be cooperative."
While Bell insisted that he was within his rights to select lobbyists, Councilwoman Kim Rafferty reminded that mayor that it was within the council's authority to either approve or deny the spending requests.
The four lobbyists will exceed the original $100,000 the council set aside for lobbyists earlier this month.
Councilwoman Valerie Abbott, chairwoman of the Budget and Finance Committee, has pressed for more details on the lobbyists.
She continued to object to Bell's recommendation of Barnes, whose long tenure on the Water Works Board is frequently cited by critics of the utility.
Bell said Barnes will not work on opposing the water works legislation. Instead, he would work on other items, such as expansion of the historic tax credits.
Still, Abbott said his presence in Montgomery on behalf of the city sends the wrong message to legislators with their sights set on the water works.
The committee endorsed all four lobbyists with Abbott being the lone no vote against Barnes.
"The mayor knows how I feel about appointing Anthony Barnes, since he's been part of the problem at the water works," Abbott said. "He's an absolutely lovely man, but that has nothing to do with hiring him."


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The parent company of Capitol Trailways and Rohrer Tour & Charter Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday, the result of rising fuel costs.
Robert Chernicoff, attorney for BBW Enterprises Inc., said the filing will not affect the bus routes, charter services or the employees who work at the bus companies.
He said the businesses, like all bus companies, have been affected by rising fuel prices. "They can't raise fares to keep up with the fuel costs," he said. "Fuel prices are hitting all the bus lines."
He said the Chapter 11 petition was filed in the U.S. Middle District Court in Harrisburg to allow the company to reorganize. He said the company is still hoping to close a deal with Bieber Tourways of Kutztown or possibly another firm.
Bieber announced last August that it was planning to buy BBW Enterprises, but that deal has not been consummated.
Capitol Trailways operates bus routes and charter services, while Rohrer focuses on charter runs. Chernicoff said none of those services would be affected, including the runs to Atlantic City.
He said Capitol Trailways has about 100 employees, Rohrer has 16, and BBW has five or six.
Besides the BBW filing, companion Chapter 11 cases were filed Tuesday by Capitol Bus Co.; Rohrer Tour & Charter Co. Inc.; Dauphcor Inc.; and B.B. and W. Associates.


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The Shenandoah University women's lacrosse team was voted the most improved Division III team in the nation, and a big reason was the play of freshman Ashley Cross of Agawam in goal.
Shenandoah was 12-5 this season after going 7-8 a year ago, with Cross helping the Hornets to their school-record win total by posting a total of 113 saves and a 7.40 goals-against average. Of 206 teams in Division III, Shenandoah made a 47-spot improvement, best in the country.
A business major at the Winchester, Va., school, where she is also a member of the field hockey squad, Cross was voted to the women's lacrosse Division III All-America rookie team.
After losing her first two games of the season against Shepherd and Lynchburg, Cross reeled off 11 straight wins before the Hornets' streak was stopped at Greensboro, 15-14.
Cross also earned USA South Conference player of the week honors after guarding the net in wins over Hood, Bridgewater, Wesley and N.C. Wesleyan. As a field hockey midfielder, she appeared in 15 games, making one start.
SMITH: Kelly O'Connell, who coached at Rivier College from 2005-2010, is the new softball coach for the Pioneers. O'Connell coached both the women's basketball and softball teams at Rivier with much success. In softball, she compiled a 106-62 record, and led the Raiders to two NCAA tournament appearances. In 2010, Rivier won a school-record 33 games while becoming the first team in school history in any sport to attain a national ranking. As a player, O'Connell was a 1,000-point scorer in basketball, and a career .400 hitter for Elms College. She also served as an assistant softball coach at Elms from 1998-2003. At Rivier, she had a 63-41 record in her five seasons coaching the women's basketball team ... The Pioneers have also announced that Wendy Walker, the lacrosse coach since 2004, will resign effective July 31. Walker's teams qualified for the NEWMAC tournament in seven of her eight years at the helm.
AMHERST: Seven members of the men's and women's tennis teams earned Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-America recognition. For the men, sophomores Luis Rattenhuber and Mark Kahan earned singles honors, with Rattenhuber, juniors Austin Chafetz and Wes Waterman, and senior Moritz Koenig getting the nod in doubles. For the women, freshmen Jordan Brewer and Gabby Devlin were named All-Americans in doubles, with Brewer also making it in singles. Additionally, Brewer was the ITA Northeast Region Rookie of the Year.
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The Shenandoah University women's lacrosse team was voted the most improved Division III team in the nation, and a big reason was the play of freshman Ashley Cross of Agawam in goal.


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Hi o2bnme,
Looking back, I thought my above response might have been a bit too divisive. I must admit, I worried a bit about that later. However, in light of your comments about, I can now better understand why you might have been a more expansive in your adjustment period. I work off a 5 board quiver, so my relative use margins aren't always that great. Also, my footstrap options are usually fixed, or may at best include maybe a added front inboard location on my biggest boards (one that I'm usually not that fond of for slalom or freeride boards). Nevertheless, when I target a broad range of conditions and sails, I play with fins and mast track position to find an optimum balance, especially since weedfins can be a part of my world. Yet, I have to be frank that I'm not a fan of adjusting boom height. I like a fairly high position, but it's interesting to note that my positioning between slalom and wave type sails differs greatly between the two different sail designs. I've kind of concluded that the position of cutout varies between the two designs formats. I have always been sailing Bill Hansen's sail designs (originally Windwing and now Hansen Sails), so I've found some reliable consistency that I can readily depend on.
In hindsight, my apologies for any possible downside that might have been a possible outgrowth of my earlier post. Sometimes we wear our own blinders, and don't necessarily see with as broad a perspective as we sometimes should.
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A population of dust grains moving in a retrograde sense about Jupiter have been observed by the Galileo spacecraft. This dust is believed to be captured from the interplanetary medium through interactions with the planetary magnetosphere.
Here we use computer simulations to investigate this process at Saturn. We restrict ourselves to equatorial orbits by assuming the magnetic field is a dipole aligned with the planetary rotation axis, a good approximation for Saturn. The dust grains are launched towards the planet with an initial velocity equal to the escape velocity, and with various impact parameters. The dust grains charge to an equilibrium voltage which increases linearly with radius inside the magnetosphere but is constant outside. The charging time is inversely proportional to the grain radius.
A prevalence of retrogade captures is observerd, with the number of captures depending on the grain radius. An exact constant of the motion is used to determine the final positions of the grains and to explain the observed tendency for the prevalence of retrograde captures.
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BE BRAVE - The Chagrin Falls Branch Library is hosting a program for students in grades 2-5 called, "We Can All Be Brave," 11 a.m. - noon Feb. 16.
Through participatory folktales from diverse cultures, song, role-playing and reflection, Susan Weber will invite children to empathize with story characters and consider effective responses when confronted with unkind words and actions.
Workshop participants will explore positive behaviors in a safe, supportive environment. Registration is requested for this free program by calling 440-247-3556.
The library is located at 100 East Orange Street.
BE ROMANTIC - No plans for the big V day? No sweat. The Chagrin Studio Orchestra is offering a special discount on tickets to its Feb. 15 and 16 Valentine's Day concerts featuring virtuso violinist Jinjoo Cho and other guests.
If you purchase two tickets or more you'll save $10 off of each ticket. That's just $25 per seat. Share this offer with friends and family - anyone referencing this deal is eligible to receive the discount.
The theater is located at 40 River St. in romantic Chagrin Falls. Call 440-247-8955.
READ A BOOK - *Half-Blood Blues* by Esi Edugyan is the selection for the third Tuesday book discussion 2 - 3 p.m. Feb. 19 at the Chagrin Falls library branch, 100 East Orange Street.
The book is the winner of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction. From 1939 Berlin to 1992 Berlin the story follows members of the Hot-Time Swingers, a popular German American jazz band and the mystery of the band's brilliant young trumpet-player (a black German) who is arrested in a Paris café by the Gestapo to be never heard from again.
The book recreates the lost world of Berlin's pre-war smoky bars and the salons of Paris in a vibrant and suspenseful story told in German American slang. It is a novel about music and race, love and loyalty. Call the library for more details at 440-247-3556.


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WATCHUNG — Traditional bicycles, a tricycle, recumbent bikes and hand cycles came rolling up the hill, over the bridge and into the parking lot of Phillips Field on Friday, Sept. 13, to the cheers of friends, fans and UnitedHealthcare volunteers.
It was lunchtime for the riders taking part in the Ride 2 Recovery 425-mile Minuteman Challenge. Some of the participants started in Boston and planned to ride to Philadelphia. Others were one-day riders.
Ride 2 Recovery provides cycling rehabilitation programs for the nation's injured veterans and many of the riders had visible signs of their injuries - some were missing limbs, others wore a prosthesis and some had no visible injuries.
Riding with the injured veterans were active duty and retired service men and women and avid cyclists who ride to support the rehabilitation efforts of Ride 2 Recovery.
One of those riders is New Providence native, Kurt Metzger. Kurt, who now lives in Basking Ridge with his wife Lisa Ricca Metzger, rode into the parking lot with his A.W. Roberts classmate Sherwin Chen, who now lives in Lebanon Township. Waiting to greet Kurt were Lisa and his mom and dad, Betty and Dick Metzger of New Providence. There were hugs all around, then Kurt headed to the canteen that was set up by the USO and manned by volunteers from UnitedHealthcare and people following the race, including Lisa.
Kurt started the ride in Boston and will continue on to Philadelphia. Chen said he had "joined Kurt for the day. I thought I would support him" on his ride.
After picking up food and drinks, the riders stretched out on the grass or found a shady spot in the parking lot.
Bill Czyzewski from Bunker Hill, West Virginia, wore a camera on his helmet. He was riding a recumbent bike and had taken his left prosthesis off. It was next to him, with a bright red sneaker on the end. He said his first ride with the Ride 2 Recovery group was two years ago, in the 9-11 Memorial ride, when they rode from the Twin Towers to Shanksville, Pa., to the Pentagon. After that, he was hooked; he said he's been on "four rides with Ride 2 Recovery and four with World Team Sports."
He explained to another rider that he takes the video from his camera and puts it on the screen when he's training. Some days he's riding so well, he catches up with the folks in front of him, he said.
Also riding was former Joint Chief of Staff of the Army General George Casey (retired). He was setting up his drinks for the next stage of the ride while Lisa Scherr, a nurse, was checking on his plans. Casey said, "Lisa and the Ride to Recovery folks take wonderful care of us."
There was a group of riders from Fort Polk, La., who had been trained by Morgan Deering, the active duty coordinator for Project Hero at Fort Polk. They "train two times a day, at 6:30 and 1400," said Teeka Palmer, one of the group members.
Joining the ride for the third time was the CEO of UnitedHealthcare of New York and New Jersey, Michael McGuire. He said the support in New Jersey has been phenomenal, firefighters welcomed the riders as they passed through Newark and Irvington and "in Springfield, there was a school and all the children were sitting on the curb waiting for us. They waved as we passed. It was really encouraging," he said.
UnitedHealthcare is a partner in Ride 2 Recovery which is produced by the Fitness Challenge, a (501C3) in partnership with the Military and VA Volunteer Service Office to benefit mental and physical rehabilitation programs for our country's wounded veterans and healing heroes that features cycling as the core activity.
Before leaving for the last leg of Friday's ride, Kurt said this ride has taught him, "Whenever you think you have had a bad day, you haven't." He said, "I will do this again."
The riders had more than 20 miles to go before they reached Princeton, so when their escort was in place, they left, as the volunteers cheered them on.
As quiet descended on the field, volunteers cleaned up the site and prepared to move on, while Betty and Dick enjoyed a picnic lunch before heading home.
Metzger said the best part of the experience is "meeting all these guys" and learning about "what they've been through and what this program does for them."
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Rhinaman Trial Set For Feb.
William Rhinaman, the former director of technology for the Steubenville City School District and the first person indicted by the special Jefferson County grand jury, is tentatively set to go on trial Feb. 24.
The special grand jury held periodic sessions beginning in April to investigate if additional crimes were committed stemming from the August incident that saw two Steubenville High School students convicted of the rape of a teenage Weirton girl.
Rhinaman was indicted by the special grand jury Oct. 4 and arrested by Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation agents on Oct. 7 at his Mingo Junction home. He was arraigned Oct. 8 on charges of tampering with evidence, obstructing justice, obstructing official business and perjury.
Rhinaman was scheduled for a pre-trial hearing Dec. 13, but the hearing was delayed, according to assistant Ohio Attorney General Scott Longo, because Rhinaman's attorney was unable to attend the session in the Jefferson County Common Pleas Court.
Neil Rubin, the Akron-area attorney representing Rhinaman, did not return a message seeking comment.
A spokesman for Attorney General Mike DeWine confirmed Monday a pre-trial hearing was held by a telephone conference call last week and a final pre-trial hearing is now set for Jan. 28.
The spokesman said Rhinaman's trial is tentatively set for Feb. 24 in Jefferson County before visiting retired Summit County Common Pleas Judge Patricia Cosgrove.
Rhinaman was named in a four-count secret indictment issued on Oct. 7 accusing the 53-year-old Mingo Junction man with tampering with evidence by altering, destroying, concealing or removing evidence from Aug. 11, 2012, to April 25.
A series of parties that ended with a Weirton girl being raped by two Steubenville High School students occurred on Aug. 11.
Ma'Lik Richmond and Trent Mays were convicted earlier this year of rape and sentenced to terms in the Ohio Department of Youth Services.
Count two of the indictment handed down by the special grand jury accuses Rhinaman tried to stop the prosecution of another person by either concealing or destroying evidence and getting the person to withhold information or communicating false information from April 8 to Oct. 4.
The third count charges Rhinaman with obstructing official business from April 8 until Oct. 4.
The perjury charge claims Rhinaman made a false statement under oath to the special grand jury during a July 8 proceeding.
The Steubenville board of education immediately placed Rhinaman on paid administrative leave. He retired from his job effective Nov. 1.


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To say thank you for being a loyal DISH customer, we've reserved the most advanced Whole-Home HD DVR system, the Hopper®, just for you!
. . .BUT after talking to them, I find out this is the older Hopper they want me to upgrade to (I have the VIP922 right now). So, I get another $ 7 fee, no sling, and a weak wifi dongle (no powerline connector - would have to run Ethernet for decent streaming). Of course, a new 2-year contract comes with.
No thanks. Looks like DISH is trying to clear out the old Hoppers. Watch your Inbox if you didn't see this already.


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ASHEVILLE, N.C. - UNC Asheville senior sprinter Natalie Pearson is headed to Drake University on Tuesday for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Pearson will be one of 24 sprinters competing in the 200-meter dash on Thursday evening at 5:30 p.m. CST.
This is the second straight year that Pearson has qualified for the national championships. Last year, she finished 17th.
The Sheffield, England native has enjoyed an outstanding senior year. She won Big South Conference titles in both the 100 and 200 meters and was named Big South Conference Female Most Outstanding Track Performer. During the Outdoor season, Pearson only lost one race she competed in and that a close second in the 100 meters at Duke.
She hopes to make the finals on Saturday which will be at 12:41 CST. Saturday's finals will be televised live by CBS.
"I'm excited about going back to the championships and hope I can improve on what I did last year," stated Pearson. "I feel like I've been improving with each week and am peaking at just the right time.
"However, I know that I'll be running against some of the top sprinters in the world," added Pearson. "It's going to be some tremendous competition. I'll do the best I can and that's all you can do."
Head Coach Jesse Norman will be accompanying Pearson on the trip.
"Natalie getting here for the second straight year is an amazing story," commented Norman. "She's beaten out some great sprinters from all over the country to get here. Last year, she wasn't 100 percent healthy, and this year she is and that has to help. No matter what happens, we've been awful lucky to have Natalie Pearson as a part of our program."
The Mass Communications major graduated last month and will use her degree this week. She is scheduled to write a blog each day that will be published by www.uncabulldogs.com about her time in Iowa.


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Mexico, NY -- A Pulaski man is charged with two counts of second-degree rape after he was accused of having sexual relations with a girl younger than 15 years old, the Oswego County Sheriff's Office said.
David M. Davis Jr., 39, of 2588 Route 11 Apartment 12, was charged Tuesday with the two felony counts and ordered held without bail at the Oswego County Jail.
Davis is accused of having sexual contact with the girl in May and July at a Mexico residence. He is scheduled to appear in Mexico Town Court on March 15.


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I hadn't seen the movie or musical before, but I thought that overall it was a good production that I'd recommend to fans of either one. The accent of the lead character combined with the A/C made it a little difficult to follow some of the dialog and catch all of the humorous references, but overall I was able to follow it. Not recommended for prudes or conservatives, but others, especially rock music fans, should enjoy it.
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The show was wonderful! They weren't just musical theater actors trying to rock, they sang the music the way it was supposed to be sung. Each member of the band had his own character and it showed. They were amazing. Yitzhak was awesome, the girl...continued
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The performance was excellent. Good music with a great story
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The cult transgender rock musical _Hedwig and the Angry Inch _comes to the Costa Mesa Playhouse. The book was written by John Cameron Mitchell with music & lyrics by Stephen Trask. Stephen Hulsey is both director and musical director.
First premiering off-Broadway in 1998 after being workshopped for four years in assorted rock and drag clubs, Hedwig and the Angry Inch was based on characters and incidents in Mitchell's own life. It won a Village Voice Obie Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical. Mitchell also played Hedwig and went on to star in and direct the award-winning 2001 film version.
The musical is presented as a rock concert/stand-up comedy gig by outrageous transgender singer Hedwig and his rock-n-roll band, the Angry Inch, a name inspired by Hedwig's own botched sex change operation. A brutally honest musical theatre experience, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a roller-coaster ride; funny, touching, emotionally draining and ultimately inspiring to anyone who feels life has given them an inch when they deserved a mile.
The New York Times said, "Hedwig and the Angry Inch brings theatre alive with the pounding sounds of rock and the funny sad voicing of a painful past. It is also an adult, thought-provoking musical about the quest for individuality." Time magazine called the music "the most exciting hard rock score written for the theatre since, oh, ever."
Hedwig is portrayed by Dennis Tong, and her drag queen boyfriend Yitzhak is played by Alissa Sanchez. The Angry Inch band consists of Stephen Musselman, Chris Luebeck, Nathan Atwater, Curtis Baxter and director Stephen Hulsey.
_ Please Note: This show features mature themes not intended for minors. Parents are highly advised to review the show before letting their children attend. _*


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Some recruits need some time before they can have an impact on their college team. Others make their presence felt right away.
As is the case with a number of Louisiana prep stars and LSU targets who found their way onto Bleacher Report's ranking of the top instant-impact recruits in the 2014 class.
Making his way to the top of the list is St. Augustine running back Leonard Fournette, considered the top player in the nation by many prospect rankings, including that of NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune.
According to recruiting analyst James Smith, Fournette "is a once in a 10-20-year type running back," and him impact on the collegiate level "exceeds that of any other prospect on the list."
West Monroe offensive tackle Cameron Robinson appears on the list at No. 6. Earlier this month Robinson committed to play for Alabama, and according to Smith, Robinson very well could be the best in-state prospect.
Karr's Devante "Speedy" Noil comes in at No. 10. The player who leads the Cougars offensive charge Friday night is expected to convert to wide receiver next year, and is considered by Smith to be Louisiana's "most dangerous player" who is "capable of changing the game at the drop of a dime."
Right behind Noil at No. 11 is LSU target Tony Brown. A five-star cornerback, Brown holds offers from nearly all of the nation's top-level programs, including LSU. Brown, a standout defensive back and track athlete, is expected to announce his decision after football season.
DA'SHAWN HAND ENJOYED HIS OFFICIAL TO MICHIGAN: The Da'Shawn Hand official visit tour is well underway, and now Michigan can be checked off of his list.
Hand, ranked fourth in the ESPN 300, was in attendance when the Wolverines defeated Notre Dame, 41-30, on Sept. 7. In an interview with the Washington Post, Hand said he enjoyed his time at The Big House but he's ready for his next stop.
"The atmosphere was (great)," Hand said. "It was the biggest crowd in college football. It was crazy ... I got there, like, Saturday morning, met with the coaches, had breakfast, went to the game, got something to eat and hung out with the players.
"It was a cool trip ... but now it's onto the next two."
Next up for Hand is a trip to The Swamp on Oct. 4, when Florida plays host to Arkansas. He'll be in Tuscaloosa on Nov. 9, when Alabama faces off against LSU. Hand reportedly will make a decision soon after on Nov. 14.
KENTUCKY SHOWS SOME LOVE TO COMMIT DREW BARKER: These days, nothing is out of the realm of possibility when it comes to recruiting tactics – even when said recruit committed four months ago.
Kentucky mailed four-star quarterback Drew Barker a fake ESPN.com printout in which the entire college football section was devoted to the recruit's six-touchdown performance.
Some dope mail UK sent today!!! #BBN pic.twitter.com/5L4YCrJllT— -Drew Barker- (@D_Barker7) September 15, 2013
Kentucky appears to be nervous about keeping Barker committed to the program, as the recruit has garnered offers from Louisville, Miami (FL), North Carolina, Ole Miss, South Carolina and Tennessee. According to ESPN, Barker's the sixth-rated pro-style quarterback.
While Kentucky's attempt to keep their commit content may seem strange, nothing should be considered out of the norm when it comes to recruiting tactics these days. BYU Coach Bronco Mendenhall has drawn pictures for a recruit, while Ohio State Coach Urban Meyer has sent puzzles to recruits.
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