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Alan LevinErrors that allowed planes to get too close in U.S. airspace rose 32 percent last year, according to preliminary numbers released during a Senate hearing today.
The incidents that were considered the nearest misses increased fivefold, from 55 in 2011 to an estimated 275 last year, according to written testimony by Jeffrey Guzzetti, assistant Transportation Department inspector general. The number of close calls on runways also rose last year, according to Guzzetti.
It's not clear if the numbers show increased risk because the Federal Aviation Administration last year broadened its definition of such incidents and began more automated error detection and reporting, actions that may have raised the reported figures, according to Guzzetti.
"The reason these increases occurred is unknown," Guzzetti wrote in a report prepared for the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing.
The FAA said the higher numbers stem from its efforts to increase reporting and don't reflect more incidents, according to Guzzetti's testimony.
The U.S. rules on how far apart planes vary. As they arrive and depart from airports, they must usually stay separated by at least three nautical miles (5.5 kilometers) or by 1,000 feet (305 meters) of altitude.
A runway incident occurs when a plane, vehicle or animal enters a runway occupied by an aircraft.
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The FAA in recent years has developed new programs to encourage air-traffic controllers to report errors and has improved computerized systems to better track such cases.
There was a 54 percent boost in such incidents from 2009 to 2011, according to FAA data.
Runway incidents that came closest to a collision rose from seven in 2011 to 18 last year, as the number of flights decreased 1 percent, Guzzetti said.
Incidents in which aircraft flew closer than allowed under federal regulations increased from 1,895 in 2011 to 2,509 in the year that ended last Sept. 30, according to the testimony. Planes in most of those incidents were in little or no danger of colliding.
Starting last year, the FAA began tracking all cases in which planes came too close together. Previously, its count included only those in which a controller's error had caused such incidents, according to Guzzetti.
The FAA needs to do a better job of collecting data on such incidents, Guzzetti said. In some cases, incidents are reported anonymously under an FAA program and aren't included in error totals, he said.


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주소 | Carrer de Carme, 17310 Lloret de Mar, 스페인 |
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Perfect location for your beach vacation. Located in the historical center of the town and its just a 3-minutes-walk to the sandy beach. In the immediate surroundings you find mom and pop shops, supermarkets, restaurants, bars, shops, bakers, butchers, Ice cream parlour. The clubs are within walking distance.
Relax on the sofa-bed in your air-conditioned apartment after a sunbath under spanish sun, by watching a film, before you immerse into the nightlife of Lloret de Mar.
The apartment is on the third floor in a building with only four floors and has an elevator.
Bedroom with a double bed. Living room with 1 single bed and sofa-bed, a dining table with 4 chairs, Flat-TV. Suitable up to 4 adults. American kitchen, fully equipped.
There is a little balcony to hang-up the laundry.
A big public parking place for free, a 4-minutes-walk from the apartment.
You have WiFi in the apartment for free.
For the final cleaning we will charge 65 EUR, to be paid the day of arrival in cash money. It includes: bedlinen, towels, toilet-paper, consumption of water and electricity, coffee, tea, iron, hair dryer, soap, shampoo, washing powder, and so on.
Our licence: HUTG003657-13
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As your local contact person you can reach me by whatapp, SMS, e-mail
24 hours/day.
Airport GIRONA (29 km):
- take a shuttle-bus directly to the central bus station of Lloret de Mar. There we pick you up for free and bring you to the apartment.
- pick-up/drop-off-service from the Airport for 58 EUR (one way) for maximum 4 persons.
Airport BARCELONA:
- by shuttle-bus directly to the central bus station of Lloret de Mar. There we pick you up for free and bring you to the apartment.
- by local train to the main station station of Barcelona and then long the coast, to the train station of BLANES. Then take the urban bus to Lloret de Mar.
- Please respect the night silence after 11:00 p.m. until 08:00 a.m.- smokers can use the balcony.
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최대숙박일수 | 2 months |
체크인 | 03:00 |
Check-in before | 22:00 |
체크아웃 | 11:00 |
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The accomodation was perfect for our family. Te appartement was clean and neat. Also was the place perfect to visit the city. Public transport was nearly for the door. The train was in about 500 m. Everything what you need was in the appartment such as a washmachine, coffeemachine, etc. The view was excellent. The towels and sheets were very clean. When we arrived, we got a short explanation of the appartment and what's in it. So I recomend the appartment to everyone.
I have enjoyed the stay at Kerstin's apartment. There is everything you need for living. Apartment was clean and well prepared for our stay. Good place for families. Well situated if you want to enjoy swimming and sunbathing. A bit far from nightlife but if you want to have a rest - very good place. Hosts are very nice and helpful. I would definitely recommend to stay at this apartment.
We really enjoyed our stay in the luxury appartment in Badalona. We especially like the location of the appartement, 1 minute walk to the beach and 25 minutes away from the heart of Barçelona.
The appartment was clean an modern. The landlords were very friendly and helpful. The appartment might be a bit too small if you stay there with more than 7 people.
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A nice apartament based just 2 minutes away from the beach. It has everything we needed for a pleasant holiday.
Un fin de semana excelente, una casa muy amplia y limpia, ideal tanto para familias como para amigos,
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Keurig appartement alles aanwezig vriendelijke ontvangst goede uitleg.
Nadelen rolluiken/zonnewering werkte niet in alle ruimtes.Dichts bijzijnde trein/ metro station was 15 a 20 minpunten lopen
Sencillo pero perfecto. Nada de ruido para ser Lloret.
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The world of golf rejoiced when the sport was reinstated into the Olympics for 2016. The news, however, gave Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy a headache.
The source of their pain? Northern Ireland doesn't participate in the Olympics as an independent nation, so the two superstars would have to play for either Great Britain or Ireland – meaning that, regardless of which they chose, they were bound to create a lot of hard feelings.
The two have asked for guidance – at one point McDowell even beseeched Olympics officials [3] to make the call for them, while McIlroy said he might just skip the Olympics [4] altogether. Now, though, their die seem to be cast.
McDowell is playing for Ireland in the ISPS Handa World Cup of Golf this week. International sporting regulations call for athletes who compete for one country to sit out at least three years before being eligible to play for another. And the 2016 Olympics are less than two years away.
"Myself and Rory played twice for Ireland and there was never any questions raised as to who we play for in this format. It was really just, like I say, an Irish team," McDowell said. "So I believe that me being here and representing Ireland will, you know, with the Olympic regulations, will mean that … I will have to play for Ireland when it comes to the Olympics in 2016."
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Getting that out of the way has taken a pretty significant weight off G-Mac's shoulders.
"Part of me feels relieved to not have to make that decision," he said. "It takes care of another very sensitive problem that I, myself, and Rory in particular, have not enjoyed talking about."
McIlroy is sitting out this World Cup and hasn't said anything about his Olympic situation in a while.
"It has been a pretty touchy subject for us Northern Irish players over the last few years," McDowell explained. "We are in a very unique scenario ... we have sporting teams, teams that are all-Ireland teams, teams that are individual Northern Ireland teams, part of the U.K., part of Great Britain.
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The Quantified Self: Making the Personal Public
Your choice to quantify your self (for personal preference or profit) thus has deep implications if it necessitates my "choice" to quantify my self under the pressure of unraveling.
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Facebook Camera for iPhone Review
Easy setup; Gives you control over who sees your pictures; Well-designed interface
Inconsistent performance; No borders, less filters than Instagram; Practically unusable without location permissions
The Facebook Camera app is easy to use and borrows some of Instagram's features, but the original is still the best.
On the heels of its $1 billion Instagram acquisition, Facebook rolled out Facebook Camera for iOS, an app with functionality almost identical to the former photo- sharing service. Expanding on the rather spare camera features integrated into the main Facebook app, Facebook Camera lets users add filters, edit, batch upload and search through friends' images. But is there any merit to Facebook creating a completely separate camera app, or did the company just come out with a subpar Instagram replica?
Upon first launching the app, Facebook Camera detects which Facebook account is already logged into and associated with the iPhone; all we had to do was confirm it. We tapped the big button in the center that said, "Continue as [our name]" and activated the app. While there is an Android version of Instagram, currently, only an iOS version of Facebook Camera is available. It's worth noting that the first time we set up Facebook Camera, the app asked for access to location information in our photos and videos. If we blocked the app's access to these details, we could only browse our Facebook friends' photos and not upload our own.Interface
At first glance, Facebook Camera appears very Instagram-like in its user interface, showing off a single stream of photos from Facebook friends--pictures that they had posted on their Facebook accounts--which you can quickly browse through by scrolling within the app. Each picture also includes Facebook's usual like and comment features along with the time it was posted, and double-tapping on any photo brought us into a full-screen view where we could add tags.Facebook Camera is initially configured to show pictures from all your Facebook friends. However, right at the top of the stream, you can switch to the "Me" view, which lets you view the stream of photos that you either posted or those in which you've been tagged.
A strip of your most recent photos, from your iPhone's Camera Roll, sits across the top of your screen, along with a button that launches the app's integrated camera.
Apart from these highly visible features, we appreciated how Facebook Camera had some pretty novel gesture shortcuts. For instance, pulling down on the top of the app shows you your entire Camera Roll, where you can select multiple pictures to post at a time.
Like the standard iPhone camera app, buttons within Facebook Camera let us switch between the front-facing and back-facing camera, and set the flash to on, off or auto. A big button along the side let us take our picture.After we snapped our photo, we tapped on the tiny thumbnail preview on the bottom right corner of the app to go into edit mode. Here, we could either crop the picture or apply one of 14 filters found within Facebook Camera, ranging from "Boost" to "Neon." (By comparison, Instagram has 17.) If we wanted to edit another photo within our Camera Roll, we simply swiped on the main viewer to browse to the particular picture we wanted to tweak. The ability to add borders was conspicuously missing, though.
When we were ready to post, Facebook Camera gave us full control over which groups of people could view our photos. We filtered out who could see our pictures using the Lists feature within our Facebook account.
However, we would have liked it better if Facebook Camera let us filter out the photos we could see using these lists too, instead of serving up all our friends' photos in a single stream. We also would have appreciated the option to post to other networks, like most photo apps (Instagram lets you post to Twitter, Facebook, email, Flickr, Tumblr, Posterous and Foursquare, for instance). Then again, it's called Facebook Camera for a reason.Performance
Facebook Camera is still in its embryonic stages, and thus performance was a bit inconsistent. When we tried to apply filters, sometimes there would be a lag, or we would have to tap on the filter more than once to get it to apply to the photo. Navigation was also glitchy at times; in particular, we had trouble exiting the full-screen view. We had to tap our screen multiple times before the app registered our touch and followed what we wanted to do.However, we do acknowledge that this is version 1.0, and we're optimistic that Facebook will continue to improve upon future releases of Facebook Camera. There is no reason not to expect these minor issues to be resolved in the next iteration of the app.
Facebook Camera feels somewhat redundant in light of the social network's purchase of Instagram. Why not integrate Facebook Camera into Facebook's official app? By releasing a standalone program, Facebook inevitably draws comparisons to Instagram, and with less filters, no borders and no ability to integrate with other social networks, Facebook Camera falls short. Even though it's free, we see no compelling reason to download this app and have it take another spot on your home screen.
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Servers saw only rolling restarts today, which meant you didn't have much time to cry into your neglected laundry. Maybe next week. We all love a good cry, right? Or was it clean laundry that we loved? I'm not sure anymore. Anyway, let's catch up on last week's news.
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- World of Warcraft stands at 7.6 million subscribers
- Azeroth Choppers episode 4 now live
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When I was little, I thought the pride parade was a time for people to dress up in crazy costumes and have a fun time. I had no idea that it was somehow controversial or not universally loved. I hope Westley thinks the same thing.
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[Note: This article was written before the July 2013 announcement by President Obama's Office of Personnel Management (OPM), that it would allow Members of Congress and their staff to keep their workplace health insurance subsidies despite having to obtain their coverage in a government health exchange. This special treatment is enjoyed by no other class of Americans. With the OPM announcement, Congress became effectively exempted from ObamaCare. -- Dean Clancy, FreedomWorks]
A carefully crafted story in Politico caused a stir this week by claiming that congressional leaders were in talks to exempt staffers from the effects of Obamacare. It isn't true.
Will Politico print a retraction? It's more likely that they will merely pat themselves on their collective back, hoist a toast at their favorite DC watering hole, and share a laugh over another episode of successful trolling completed.
The Poltico article said (emphasis added),
Congressional leaders in both parties are engaged in high-level, confidential talks about exempting lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides from the insurance exchanges they are mandated to join as part of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, sources in both parties said.
The talks — which involve Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), the Obama administration and other top lawmakers — are extraordinarily sensitive, with both sides acutely aware of the potential for political fallout from giving carve-outs from the hugely controversial law to 535 lawmakers and thousands of their aides. Discussions have stretched out for months, sources said.
But it isn't that at all, nor is exempting someone from being in the exchanges exempting them from Obamacare.
The talks are about what the law actually means, and whether the government, as an employer, can help fund medical coverage for members of Congress and their staffs who are on exchange-based insurance. The Obamacare law (pdf) says in Section 1312:
(i) REQUIREMENT.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, after the effective date of this subtitle, the only health plans that the Federal Government may make available to Members of Congress and congressional staff with respect to their service as a Member of Congress or congressional staff shall be health plans that are—
(I) created under this Act (or an amendment made by this Act); or
(II) offered through an Exchange established under this Act (or an amendment made by this Act).
Avik Roy recalls that staffers have complained. Ezra Klein says it's about whether the government can pay:
Based on conversations I've had with a number of the staffs involved in these talks, the actual issue here is far less interesting, and far less explosive, than an exemption. Rather, a Republican amendment meant to embarrass Democrats and a too-clever-by-half Democratic response has possibly created a problem in which the federal government can't make its normal contribution to the insurance premiums of congressional staffers.
Klein is trying there to set the stage for amending the law, acting as if the provision were some kind of oversight.
The tightness of the votes to pass PPACA being what they were, it would take work to show whether it would have passed without the Grassley amendment. In the context of passage, a political messaging amendment the central intent of which is actually included in the final version suddenly becomes indistinguishable from any of the other myriad policy concessions used to gather votes.
Congress is not only covered by Obamacare, but members and staff can be offered only plans that are either created by Obamacare or are offered through an exchange. That isn't how the law works for most people, but it's not exempting anyone -- it's more restrictive.
And in any case, House Speaker John Boehner is having nothing of it. His account tweeted Thursday:
We're not sneaking any language into bills to solve Dems' #hcr problem. The solution to this & other ObamaCare nightmares is #fullrepeal.
— Speaker John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) April 25, 2013
The fact that Dem leaders want to opt themselves out of ObamaCare shows Sen Baucus isn't only one who realizes it's a #trainwreck.
— Speaker John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) April 25, 2013
Republicans introduced a bill today that would put all federal workers on the exchanges.
It should be obvious that exempting Congress and staff from PPACA would be political suicide. It would be seen for what it is: a violation of the rule of law, striking at the very heart of the republic. Rather, Congress should live with the laws it makes, and the best way to do that is to put government employees on exchange-based insurance, and make them pay for it like everyone else.
Businesses all over are adjusting staff, cutting hours, and preparing to stop offering health insurance and just pay a fine. And Congress is worried about not being able to attract top-flight twenty-somethings to come to the Hill after college?
Cry me a river.
All of this tempest in a teapot was stirred up by Politico, when they knew, or should have known, that much of what they were implying was not true. Will they apologize?
Lol...I guess that carefully crafted story in Politico was spot-on and this site was trying to hide the truth. That's what I take from it. Keep up the marginal work!
I am happy to hear that congress has to use what they so happily passed on to all of us, the same laws should apply to out representatives. Maybe then they will learn to do their job, and read the laws and topics that will affect the rest of us. I hope they are hit with all the problems coming from Obama care the same way the citizens as a whole are.


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Hai , I am already folow a tutorial for writing external max object like Max/MSP Externals Tutorial by Fujinaga and some tutorial in this dev forum. I alredy download Xcode 3.2 and MaxSDK5.11 also several template like objectiveMax-0.11. My probem is how to built and run all sample tutorial because I am totaly newbe and the sample using Xcode 2.2 but me using xcode 3.2, this is ok? would you tell me step what must I prepared for writing external with Xcode 3.2 with langguage C. thanks alot for your help.
Step1. go to this link: http://cycling74.com/sdk/MaxSDK-5.1.1/MaxAPI-5.1.1.html
Step2. click in the left-column panel, 2nd link down, "Development System Information".
Step3. follow instructions on that page…
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I am still confuse with "development System information" especially for put a Linking and Frameworks . would you tell me about setup and put max and msp API external on folder library/
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With two weeks remaining in spring training, Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak largely has liked what he's seen.
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He wishes All-Star catcher Yadier Molina was on hand but with the Puerto Rican team advancing to the World Baseball Classic semifinals, Molina may be gone for nearly three weeks by the time he returns. Outfielder Carlos Beltran is in the same boat but Molina has more import in the Cardinals' blueprint because of his handling of the pitching staff.
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Ask any college graduate what the most important thing he learned in college was, and it's unlikely that he'll refer to facts delivered in the lecture hall. Still, as education increasingly moves online, the lecture remains the traditional method of delivering information—from expert to student, pre-recorded or live—that's the most common way of digitizing academics.
A new online university called P2PU is attempting to take advantage of the openness of the Internet to break away from that model and do something new, creating a community of learners who also teach, code, and shape the direction of the university. On P2PU you'll find crowdsourced courses in anything from writing to app-development and a community of more than 30,000 registered users (6,000 of whom log on each month) working toward non-credit bearing "badges" instead of degrees.
"We put learners in charge and believe that the combination of open web technology and peer learning can greatly increase access to education," says Philipp Schmidt, P2PU's executive director. Schmidt sees his approach as an alternative to an out-dated and overly expensive system based on "an industrial model of education where access had to be limited, quality safe-guarded, and learning carefully structured," in a world where free and open course materials no longer requires such rigid structure.
He adds that "A lot of really important skills—like team-work, empathy, and leadership—were developed more as side-effects of the experience rather than as the focus of education. We thought, 'Let's throw all those old ideas out of the window, let everyone participate, and see what happens.'" The project is sprawling in its ambition, with sub-projects including an Open Masters program, in-person hackathons, and opening up scientific concepts to everyday learners.
The community—made up of "education specialists, librarians, poets, hackers, biologists, and pretty much anything else"—doesn't just teach, but steers the direction of the university, by contributing code to P2PU's website or an opinion about the university's strategy and direction.
While there are no degrees or official grades, Schmidt sees a future in projects like P2PU: "The open education ecosystem is in its infancy and over time employers will recognize the learning that happens in places like P2PU," he says. But for now, P2PU is a learner's playground, where teachers and students are figuring it out as they go.


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The family of snowmobiler Caleb Moore asks that fans and supporters join them for a moment of silence on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. CST.
Moore, 25, died on Jan. 31 as the result of injuries he sustained in a crash at the X Games on Jan. 24.
In a statement released Wednesday, the family said, "As a celebration of Caleb's inspirational and vivid life, we ask that you join the Moore family in a moment of silence, prayer and remembrance. Fans can also continue to express their support of Caleb and his family by using the hashtag #LiveLikeCaleb"
The family will hold a private burial in Wheeler, Texas, on Thursday.
Moore's death was announced Jan. 31 after he had been hospitalized for a week. In the freestyle snowmobile final in Aspen on Jan. 24, Moore under-rotated on a backflip and was thrown from his 450-pound snowmobile before it landed on top of him.
Moore walked off the course and was initially diagnosed with a concussion. While being evaluated at Aspen Valley Hospital, Moore was found to have bleeding on his heart.
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It has been suggested to the Punjab and Haryana high court that while granting bail to criminals involved in acid attacks, the courts concerned should incorporate the condition of making substantial payment by the accused for the victim's plastic surgery and other treatment.
The suggestions came from advocate HC Arora during resumed hearing of a bunch of public interest litigations seeking framing of suitable guidelines for dealing with cases of crimes against women in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh. After taking the suggestions on record, the division bench headed by chief justice Arjan Kumar Sikri reserved the judgment for issuing guidelines.
Arora informed the court that it was not practically feasible for an acid attack victim from a poor or middle-class family to bear the expenses of plastic surgery, generally amounting to Rs 25-30 lakh.
He also suggested that trials of all cases involving crimes against women must conclude within one or maximum within two months after the presentation of challan, and the trial court should not grant bail to the accused till the case is decided, except in exceptional circumstances.
It has also been suggested that in case the victim approaches the trial court with a complaint that she is still being harassed or threatened by the accused, the trial court, while taking such complaint seriously, should immediately cancel the bail of the accused.
The high court has also been requested for issuance of directions that non-compliance of any of the directions issued by the HC shall be treated as contempt of court and any victim, public-spirited person or an NGO shall be entitled to file a contempt petition in such cases.
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His name was Kyle
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One day, when I was a freshman in high school, I saw a kid from my class was walking home from school. His name was Kyle. It looked like he was carrying all of his books.
I thought to myself, 'Why would anyone bring home all his books on a Friday? He must really be a nerd.'
I had quite a weekend planned (parties and a football game with my friends tomorrow afternoon), so I shrugged my shoulders and went on. As I was walking, I saw a bunch of kids running toward him. They ran at him, knocking all his books out of his arms and tripping him so he landed in the dirt. His glasses went flying, and I saw them land in the grass about ten feet from him. He looked up and I saw this terrible sadness in his eyes
My heart went out to him. So, I jogged over to him as he crawled around looking for his glasses, and I saw a tear in his eye. As I handed him his glasses, I said, 'Those guys are jerks. They really should get lives.
' He looked at me and said, 'Hey thanks!' There was a big smile on his face. It was one of those smiles that showed real gratitude.
I helped him pick up his books, and asked him where he lived. As it turned out, he lived near me, so I asked him why I had never seen him before. He said he had gone to private school before now.
I would have never hung out with a private school kid before. We talked all the way home, and I carried some of his books. He turned out to be a pretty cool kid.
I asked him if he wanted to play a little football with my friends, He said yes.
We hung out all weekend and the more I got to know Kyle, the more I liked him, and my friends thought the same of him.
Monday morning came, and there was Kyle with the huge stack of books again.
I stopped him and said, 'Boy, you are gonna really build some serious muscles with this pile of books everyday!
' He just laughed and handed me half the books.
Over the next four years, Kyle and I became best friends.. When we were seniors we began to think about college. Kyle decided on Georgetown and I was going to Duke.
I knew that we would always be friends, that the miles would never be a problem.
He was going to be a doctor and I was going for business on a football scholarship.
Kyle was valedictorian of our class. I teased him all the time about being a nerd. He had to prepare a speech for graduation. I was so glad it wasn't me having to get up there and speak
Graduation day, I saw Kyle. He looked great. He was one of those guys that really found himself during high school. He filled out and actually looked good in glasses. He had more dates than I had and all the girls loved him. Boy, sometimes I was jealous!
Today was one of those days.
I could see that he was nervous about his speech. So, I smacked him on the back and said, 'Hey, big guy, you'll be great!' He looked at me with one of those looks (the really grateful one) and smiled. ' Thanks,' he said.
As he started his speech, he cleared his throat, and began 'Graduation is a time to thank those who helped you make it through those tough years. Your parents, your teachers, your siblings, maybe a coach...but mostly your friends... I am here to tell all of you that being a friend to someone is the best gift you can give them. I am going to tell you a story.'
I just looked at my friend with disbelief as he told the story of the first day we met. He had planned to kill himself over the weekend. He talked of how he had cleaned out his locker so his Mom wouldn't have to do it later and was carrying his stuff home. He looked hard at me and gave me a little smile. 'Thankfully, I was saved. My friend saved me from doing the unspeakable.'
I heard the gasp go through the crowd as this handsome, popular boy told us all about his weakest moment. I saw his Mom and dad looking at me and smiling that same grateful smile. Not until that moment did I realize its depth.
Never underestimate the power of your actions.
With one small gesture you can change a person's life.
For better or for worse. God puts us all in each others lives to impact one another in some way.
Look for Gold in others.
ME - Branding sex offenders
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Susan Closson's response (Oct. 28) to my letter (Oct. 23) was interesting. The pain suffered by sexual abuse victims was not my topic. I would never minimize it, but my letter was about facts and constitutionality.
If legislators and citizens are so concerned with safety, why don't they know that registries and residency restrictions don't prevent crime? Because they haven't done their homework.
A recent Bureau of Justice study found that only 5.3 percent of sex offenders were re-arrested for a new sex offense. The same study found that 93 percent of offenses were committed by people the victim knew. More than half were family members. Even if you double the re-arrest rate this still tells me that registries and residency restrictions are wasteful and ineffective.
It also tells me that hype and fear are defeating logic, reason and truth. I don't think anyone would argue that sexual abuse is good, but don't we need to get it right for everyone involved?
If we blindly endorse these measures without facts, what does that say about our motives? Is it safety, justice, revenge or banishment that we seek? Are offenders only worth the sum of the worst thing they've ever done? Are they throwaway people? Is permanent branding the way to go?
I challenge readers to fact-find. Visit the U.S. Justice Department Web site and read the information. What you find may surprise and educate you.
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NJ - Megan's Law advocate takes ministry to N.J.
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This man, IMO, is a hypocrite who is following the band wagon. Jesus taught people to love the weak and thy enemy, yet he is following the band wagon to "look good" to his "people" and helped pass the laws which are punishing thousands of sex offenders and their families and children, which is in the millions. Which God do you worship?
A former Southern Tier pastor, whose efforts contributed to New York lawmakers enacting Megan's Law, has changed denominations and become pastor of a church in Middletown, N.J.
The Rev. Joseph E. Hein (Email), who was leader of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Johnson City when he organized Protecting Our Children in the mid-1990s, said his work with the local advocacy group on behalf of abused children was "one of the most deeply satisfying chapters" of his life.
Hein, local citizens and elected officials played a role in lobbying the Assembly and Senate to enact Megan's Law, which then-Gov. George E. Pataki signed in July 1995. The law requires convicted sex offenders to register with the Division of Criminal Justice Services. The local campaign included a rally with the parents of Megan Kanka -- whose sexual attack in July 1994 was an impetus for the original law enacted in New Jersey -- to Johnson City for a candlelight march.
"I feel good that God put that burden upon me and convinced me that we are called to help others," said Hein, a one-time captain of the Binghamton North baseball team who had a full athletic scholarship at Campbell University, a Division I school in North Carolina.
Hein said he wants to continue ministries for children at his new position at Westminster Presbyterian Church, a 350-member congregation about 45 minutes south of Newark.
Hein was pastor of St. Paul's from 1992 to late 1997. After a leave of absence, Hein switched denominations and was ordained a Presbyterian in October 2004 at Ross Memorial in Binghamton.
Hein said his interest in protecting children was piqued in the early 1990s when he talked with Broome County District Attorney Gerald Mollen about a case involving a four-time convicted sex offender who was only given a two-year sentence after repeatedly abusing a 15-year-old boy.
Some believe if New York had a sex-offender registry law on the books in the mid-1990s, the slaying of 4-year-old My Ly Nghiem in June 1995 might have been prevented. Police said the girl was raped and murdered by the caretaker at her Binghamton apartment, who was a known child molester.
A month later, Pataki signed Megan's Law at a ceremony in Albany, which Hein attended.
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A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package.
"What food might this contain?" the mouse wondered - - - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning:
"There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The pig sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but I will be thinking of you."
The mouse turned to the cow and said "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose."
So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap . . . alone.
That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever.
Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.
But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.
The farmer's wife did not get well; she died.
So many people came for her funeral; the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.
The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.
So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember ---- when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.
We are all involved in this journey called life.
We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.
One of the best things to hold onto in this world is a FRIEND!!!
VA - Sex offenders and the law: Too dangerous to be released?
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Not all people in civil commitment are molesters or pedophiles. Get that through your thick skulls! Therapy helps ANYBODY who wants help, regardless of their crime. If they want to become a better citizen, then it will help. Just look at people who were deemed a vegetable? They were given therapy, and some come out of it and go on with normal lives. Did ANY of these people EVER get help after the first crime committed? I am willing to bet they did not. Prison is a business and business is good!!!
They are considered the worst of Virginia's sexual predators, a community of 61 men deemed so dangerous that even after completing their prison sentences, they remain locked up.
A towering, razor-lined fence keeps them in a complex called the Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation. Although the facility is classified as a mental institution, it has the look of an isolated prison.
In theory, the state hopes to rehabilitate these career child abusers and rapists so that they can be trusted back on the streets.
But to date, no one has been freed.
The men are confined indefinitely under Virginia's four-year-old civil commitment program, which allows chronic sexual predators to be institutionalized after serving their prison sentences.
Eighteen other states have similar regiments and the U.S. Supreme Court has declared them constitutional - if it can be proved that the molesters are likely to repeat their crimes, and if they are receiving psychological counseling to learn how to control their deviancies.
There is no convincing evidence that therapy changes chronic molesters, particularly pedophiles. Across the nation, only about 5 percent of the 2,700 sex offenders civilly committed since 1990 have been released.
By June, Virginia officials are expecting the population at the Petersburg institution to almost double to 113 sex offenders. The high cost of their therapy will require taxpayers to shell out at least $123,000 a year for each sexual predator - about six times the cost of keeping an inmate in prison.
The program is outgrowing its Petersburg home, once a training center for the mentally retarded. The state plans to close the facility early next year and move operations to a $63 million institution being built in Nottoway County near Burkeville solely to house sexual predators.
It will hold as many as 300 molesters. Legislators say it could be filled in three years.
Some mental health experts and civil libertarians say the facility is little more than a new form of prison to keep sex offenders locked up for life.
"It's a violation of due process," said Kent Willis, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Virginia chapter. "Once you've served your sentence, you should be released."
"We don't incarcerate people on the fear they'll commit future crimes.... Our concern is that this system becomes a railroad for the state to keep people in prison for as long as it wants."
Several offenders being held in Petersburg are upset that they're still confined.
"I don't feel that it's fair at all that I am being confined after I have already paid a debt to the society that I owed them for the heinous crime that I am fully responsible for committing," James D. Lewis Jr. of Norfolk wrote in a letter this summer to The Virginian-Pilot. "I feel that I am being forced to pay interest on the debt."
Lewis, now 40, was convicted of molesting children well known to him in 1983 and 1988. After serving prison terms, his probation was revoked in 1996 for "making contact with children." He suffers from depression and "psychotic symptoms," according to a psychological assessment conducted prior to his civil commitment.
Supporters of civil commitment offer no consolation to Lewis and his fellow offenders at the center.
"I'd have to assume the chances are slim and none that anyone will leave the program in Virginia," said state Sen. Kenneth Stolle, R-Virginia Beach, vice chairman of the state crime commission.
Since the Virginia program's inception, about 2 percent of sex offenders have been sent to civil commitment after serving their prison time.
"These are the worst of the worst," Stolle said. "From that perspective, I think the risk of releasing them outweighs the concerns about their civil liberties. I don't have a lot of sympathy for them."
The General Assembly passed legislation setting up the program in 1999 but did not authorize the money to finance it until 2003, when lawmakers were goaded into action by the pending prison release of Richard Ausley, a notorious pedophile.
In 1973, Ausley kidnapped 13-year-old Martin Andrews of Portsmouth, raped and beat the youth in the woods for a week, and left him to die chained in a buried box. Andrews was discovered, alive, by hunters.
Thirty years later, Andrews successfully lobbied the state legislature to spend $2.7 million to start the Petersburg center and keep Ausley confined. Ausley, however, was killed in 2004 by his cellmate before he was to be released from prison.
Andrews remains convinced the program is worth the expense.
"These guys can't control themselves," he said in a recent interview. "When you look at what it would cost to track them down again, convict them and execute those who would go on to murder - not to mention helping all their new victims - the cost of the program seems pretty small."
Figuring that prison is a cheaper alternative, the General Assembly last year mandated 25-year minimum sentences for most sex crimes against children younger than 13. Pedophiles convicted a second time of a sex crime face mandatory life sentences.
Toward the end of their sentences, all Virginia sex offenders are evaluated on an actuarial table for their risk of molesting again. The table, called the Static 99, is widely used across the nation and takes into account factors about each felon's record, including the number of convictions for sexual crimes, the sex of the victims, and the offender 's relationship to each victim.
An inmate is considered a candidate for civil confinement if he or she scores 4 or higher on a 12-point scale. A score of 4 means a person who has been released has a 26 percent chance of being arrested for a sexual crime within five years, a 31 percent chance within 10 years, and a 36 percent chance within 15 years.
The next step for civil confinement candidates is a psychiatric examination and a review by a seven-member panel of corrections officials, mental health experts and a lawyer for the state. A recommendation is forwarded to Virginia's attorney general, who then decides whether to pursue a civil commitment case in the Circuit Court where the inmate was last convicted of a sexual offense.
The men who have been sent to the center, mostly pedophiles, have long histories of predatory sexual crimes. They range in age from 23 to 70, and served an average of almost 10 years in prison before being civilly committed. Many blame their crimes on their victims.
For most of them, the likelihood that they would commit more sexual crimes if released is so high that their risk assessment is not fully measured. Any higher than a score of 6 on the Static 99 test and a person's risk of recidivism is no longer measured. A 6 means a released offender has a 39 percent chance of being arrested for a sexual crime within five years, a 45 percent chance within 10 years and a 52 percent chance within 15 years.
The average score of the men at the center is 6.4, according to a Virginian-Pilot review of their psychological assessments.
The review also found:
- About 80 percent of the men are guilty of sexually assaulting children who are 13 or younger - in several cases, as young as 2.
- All but eight of the men are guilty of at least two separate sexual crimes.
- Slightly more than half of the men have at least three convictions.
Among them is Aubrey W. Layne, 40, of Norfolk. At 14, he was hospitalized at the Norfolk Psychiatric Center for molesting a 4-year-old girl. At 20, he was found guilty of fondling a 6-year-old girl. At 29, he forcibly sodomized an 8-year-old Norfolk girl. At 33, he took indecent liberties with an 11-year-old Norfolk boy.
There's Thomas W. Lambert, 52, of Norfolk. At 7, he was committed to Eastern State Hospital after pulling down a girl's pants. At 17, he forced four teenage girls to strip at knife point in the back of a Norfolk sandwich shop. At 20, he was convicted of raping two Norfolk women. At 34, he was sent back to prison for molesting a woman in a Richmond coin laundry.
One of Lambert's rape victims, who asked not to be identified, said recently that she has not emotionally recovered from the attack 32 years ago.
Lambert entered her home on the ruse of needing help repairing his bicycle and forced the woman and her 25-year-old pregnant daughter to disrobe.
"I'm always afraid," the woman said. "I don't go anywhere after dark."
Of Lambert, she said: "I was afraid when I heard they put him in an institution that would declare him fine after a couple of years and let him out. I don't want to see that man ever released."
Behind the center's tall fences, Lambert and the other men bunk in a one-story brick bungalow and live under tight restrictions. Administrators bar the media from entering the facility. Telephone access to the offenders is tightly controlled.
Although the center looks like a penitentiary, it must operate as a rehabilitation institution to legally detain the offenders - who are officially called residents, not inmates - after they have completed their prison sentences. The distinctions often seem blurry.
While prisons are run by the Department of Corrections, the center is controlled by the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services.
In their letters, the offenders describe tensions between the security force at the center and its therapists. They complain about high prices at the canteen, bad food and frequent turnover of therapists.
"It is a maximum-security prison disguised as a so-called treatment center," wrote James Jenkins, a resident of the center and former Accomack County electrician with a history of molesting girls.
The offenders say there is no job training or a chance to earn money at the center.
Those conditions will change when the Nottoway County facility opens, said Mario Dennis, the facility's chief psychologist.
Dennis, who specializes in treating sexual deviancies, said offenders have "a much better lifestyle" in civil commitment than in prison. When not in therapy, residents are allowed to roam the yards and common areas. They are not required to wear uniforms, and they have a library with books and appropriate videos. They are allowed to stay up later at night than they could in prison and rise later in the morning.
"There's more freedom here, and more responsibility," Dennis said.
Security at the center is headed by Charles Bise, a former state corrections official who declined several requests for an interview.
The guards, including many who previously worked in prisons, do not carry weapons, said Adam Austin, spokesman for the center.
Dennis said the residents are divided into three groups: mentally retarded; child molesters; and violent and aggressive offenders. They all spend at least 10 hours a week in group therapy, are given homework assignments, and must attend community living meetings with their peers.
"The treatment is not warm and fuzzy," Dennis said. "It's not designed to make the residents feel better. It's designed to have them realize how destructive their behavior has been and learn how to identify the high-risk situations that caused them to offend in the past.
"We never speak in terms of cure; we speak in terms of risk management," Dennis said. "For many of them, deviant sexual desires will continue to exist."
Residents are required to disclose all of their sex crimes - not just the ones that resulted in criminal convictions. Those with hopes of freedom must pass periodic lie detector tests to prove they have been candid.
Some offenders refuse to open up, saying confessions could subject them to new prison sentences because Virginia does not have a statute of limitations on many sexual crimes. Dennis said their fear is misguided because residents are not asked to give the actual names of victims or provide incriminating details about the incidents.
Another device routinely used is the penile plethysmograph, which measures the change in the circumference of the penis while an offender is shown pictures of children, women or men. Some clinicians argue the test can be foiled if subjects avert their eyes from the pictures.
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that test results from using the device cannot be admitted in court without evidence to back up the machine's accuracy. In 2002, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the plethysmograph lacks "scientific validity" and is prone to false positives.
Anti depressant drugs, which dampen sexual desires, often are dispensed to residents. Many states, including Virginia, are experimenting with voluntary use of antiandrogens, which block the effects of sex hormones such as testosterone and are used to treat advanced prost ate cancer. The use of antiandrogens has been questioned, however, because they cause weight gain, osteoporosis and breast development.
Drug therapies also raise another concern, While they may produce results when a sex offender is confined, there is no assurance that the molester will continue to take the medications after being released.
A proposal to allow violent sex offenders to avoid civil commitment by volunteering to be surgically castrated has been floating around the General Assembly for two years. It died in committee in 2006 and earlier this year was tabled for additional study.
Even castration, however, does not shield the worst pedophiles from being institutionalized. Jenkins, the former electrician from Accomack County, castrated himself in a jail shower with a shoestring and a razor blade as his civil commitment trial approached in 2004. He still was sent to the behavioral rehabilitation center.
"He feels because he castrated himself, he's not a risk," said Pamela Sargent, a senior assistant attorney general who heads a staff of six lawyers that handle civil commitment cases for the state. "But the fact is, it's very easy to get replacement testosterone in the form of drugs."
Does any therapy really help sex offenders?
Experts disagree. The only reliable deterrent is aging. Few sex offenses are committed by people older than 70.
Dozens of studies in recent decades have compared the recidivism rate of convicted molesters who received psychological counseling and those who did not. A number of reports concluded there were no differences between the two groups, although most found that those who received therapy were slightly less likely to commit new sexual crimes.
R. Karl Hanson, inventor of Static 99 and a senior research officer for Canada's Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, said the general conclusion of studies is that about 12 percent of molesters who received treatment were arrested for committing new sex crimes, compared with 17 percent who never received counseling.
But even those figures are misleading, Hanson said, because most sex crimes are not reported and do not result in arrests.
Sargent, the senior assistant attorney general, said those who are forced into civil commitment are already career offenders who are not likely to take to therapy.
"They've spent their lifetimes developing their habits, and it's not easy to change them," she said.
Some psychologists say therapy in civil commitment is compromised if promising residents are never released.
"Release is an actual element of therapy," said Ted Shaw, a forensic psychologist in Gainesville, Fla., who has treated sex offenders since 1982. "If there's no hope for release, you can't have effective therapy."
Several residents of the center, in letters written to The Virginian-Pilot this summer, were pessimistic that they will ever be released.
"There is a palpable sense of hopelessness," wrote Nilo R. Figueroa, 52, who three times has been convicted for sexual battery of boys and a girl whose families were well-known to him. "... I share the dread of the center evolving into a state-sponsored banishment instead of a facility for behavior modification and preparation for societal re-entry."
Although Dennis acknowledged that many of the men may never be released, he said others have made "substantial progress" and one or two may be nearing a point where he might recommend release if their movement was monitored by GPS.
"The goal is, have they learned to manage their risk so they can be safely maintained and employed," Dennis said.
The residents receive annual evaluations assessing their progress in therapy. Once a year for their first five years in the program, they are entitled to a Circuit Court hearing to seek their release. After that, they are offered a hearing every two years.
In late August, Orlando L. Butler had his day in Chesapeake Circuit Court before retired Judge Norman Olitsky. Butler, 47, has been convicted 16 times for an assortment of non sexual offenses such as cocaine possession, drunken driving, concealed weapons possession and robbery. In 2000, he was found guilty of fondling the 9-year-old son of a friend.
Butler entered from a court cell wearing a blue jail uniform. He asked to be released with GPS monitoring.
Dennis testified that Butler, while progressing in therapy, has declined to submit to polygraph tests and was not ready for release.
"Mr. Butler has acknowledged in group therapy that he may have as many as 10 victims," Dennis said. "He has not divulged any details about those individuals and it is difficult to create a therapy plan for him without full disclosure."
After hearing from Dennis and others, Olitsky found "overwhelming evidence that Mr. Butler should remain committed because he does remain a sexually violent predator."
Dennis, on cross-examination, acknowledged he has never recommended anyone for release during the four-year history of Virginia's civil commitment program.
"So it's worse than prison," said Sharon Mason, Butler's attorney, during the hearing.
"There is no light at the end of the tunnel. It all depends on opinion. It's like being placed in limbo for a lifetime."


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2011-12 Tigers boys basketball schedule
- Dec. 8 to 10: Cowboy Shootout in Meeker
- Dec. 8: Hayden 43, Crested Butte 42
- Dec. 9: Meeker 66, Hayden 35
- Dec. 16: Hayden 59, North Park 41
- Dec. 17: Little Snake River 66, Hayden 53
- Jan. 6: Meeker 51, Hayden 42
- Jan. 10: Hayden 53, Vail Mountain 41
- Jan. 13: West Grand 68, Hayden 55
- Jan. 14: Hayden 70, North Park 45
- Jan. 20: Hayden 64, De Beque 36
- Jan. 21: Hayden 59, Vail Christian 50
- Jan. 27: Hayden 59, Soroco 40
- Jan. 28: Hayden 74, Rangely 60
- Jan. 31: Hayden 88, Vail Christian 72
- Feb. 3: Plateau Valley 79, Hayden 66
- Feb. 4: Hayden 75, Paonia 67
- Feb. 10: Hayden 69, Soroco 53
- Feb. 11: Hayden 61, West Grand 55
- Feb. 17: Hayden wins through forfeit again Vail Mountain
- Feb. 21: Hayden 73, Soroco 53
- Feb. 24: District Tournament: West Grand 58, Hayden 55
- Feb. 25: District Tournament: Hayden 73, Paonia 57
- March 2 and 3: at Regional Tournament
Hayden Hayden High School junior Aaron Cramer soaked up scorn from friends, classmates and even school staff on Saturday when he emerged from the Tigers' boys basketball team locker room wearing a Tom Brady jersey.
That was a marked change from what he had experienced moments earlier wearing a jersey of a different shade.
Cramer played the best game of his career, scoring 21 points as Hayden took out a month of frustration on North Park, winning at home Saturday, 70-45.
"We needed that win pretty bad," Tigers coach Mike Luppes said. "It's coming. ... They're starting to get in the swing of things and play well."
North Park has struggled to compete with Hayden in recent years, losing by an average of 30 points in six games dating back four seasons. The Tigers didn't waste any time Saturday. They were thrilled to get a win in the midst of a 4-6 season.
Some of what has plagued the squad was evident even in Saturday's lopsided victory. Hayden was turnover prone and lethargic at times, and the game was either closer or closing. Through other sections, the Tigers pulled away playing with intensity, traditional stuff like diving on the floor for loose balls and forcing mistakes while on defense and some things they couldn't have expected, like Cramer catching fire.
Playing his first season of varsity basketball, Cramer woke up Saturday without having hit a single 3-point shot this season. He went to bed Saturday night with five to his credit.
Hayden led just 11-8 late in the first quarter. Sophomore Dan Engle scored a layup on a fast break and then added a 3-point shot, and Cramer drained two treys to help set up a 22-10 lead at the end of the quarter.
He canned another with five seconds remaining in the second quarter to give Hayden a 16-point lead at half, then swished another early in the third quarter.
"I've been working with my coach on my shooting, and I found it tonight," Cramer said. "I knew I had to get over that first shot, and it felt great to keep getting them to fall and having that confidence back."
Hayden also got big points from juniors Jordan Ferrier, who finished with 11, and Mark Doolin, who had nine, and senior Hunter Johnston, who also had nine.
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text: Ricardo Montalban Is Dead at 88Margaret Hartmann1/14/09 6:30pmFiled to: Dirt Bag (After Dark)ricardo montalbanKelly RutherfordGossip GirlPatrick Swayzeolivia newton-johnBono91EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkSad news: Ricardo Montalban, star of MGM musicals and TV's Fantasy Island, died today in L.A. at the age of 88. [NBC]Kelly Rutherford's estranged husband claims that working on Gossip Girl is "grueling" and is negatively impacting their 2-year-old son Hermes. Also, a judge in her divorce case denied her request to take Hermes to New York so she could return to work. If she takes too much time off, the show's producers may just kill off Lily van der Woodsen. [People, TMZ]Patrick Swayze says his pneumonia is improving. "I am alive and plan on continuing to stay that way," he says. [AP]Olivia Newton-John sent a note to an 18-year-old playing Danny in his high school's production of Grease good luck. [Star]Bono made a mistake in his first New York Times column on Sunday and the paper had to run a correction. [Editor and Publisher]Sean Penn once saved a drunk guy's life. The guy was passed out on the bathroom floor of a bar and Penn rushed over and called for help. Now the dude is angry that Penn didn't win a Golden Globe this weekend, but they don't give out awards for being a good person. [E!]Is Kate Moss engaged to her boyfriend, Jaime Hince of The Kills? She's been wearing a giant diamond ring on her wedding finger, but her rep says it's a just a Christmas gift and that's the only finger it fits on. [The Sun]Helen Mirren is coming soon to a theater (possibly) near you — live. Dame Helen is starring in an upcoming production of the play Phèdre, which will be beamed into movie theaters in England and around the world. [The Telegraph]Jessica Alba was holding her baby with one arm and nearly dropped her, so clearly she is a terrible mother. [TMZ]The Irish play MacBecks blends Shakespeare's Macbeth with the classic tale of David and Victoria Beckham. [BBC]Mickey Rourke previously hinted that he may have taken steroids to bulk up for The Wrestler, but now he denies it, saying he "did some stuff. You wouldn't classify it as steroids, but I did some heavy duty supplements…but not the regular stuff." Well, that clears things up. [Perez Hilton]In other Rourke news, after announcing his love for his dog at the Golden Globes, he has signed on with PETA for an ad urging people to "have the cojones to fix your dog." [ONTD]Caged wisdom: In this video, DMX is interviewed in prison and claims, "I didn't get in any trouble." [TMZ]In this video from last night's American Idol, Ryan Seacrest tries to high five a blind guy. [NY Magazine]The National Enquirer is bringing families together! When Regis Philbin read about his estranged son's money troubles in the tabloid, he immediately called up his son and reconciled. [Jossip]Jenny McCarthy would like you to know that when she and Jim Carrey are apart, she makes him perform sexy dances for her via iChat. [The Sun]Oh no! Lily Allen's half-sister says the singer was so distraught by her breakup with her first boyfriend that she tried to slit her wrists and spent a month in a rehab clinic. [Hollywood Rag]Duffy is the new face of Diet Coke, but her TV commercials will only air in Europe. [The Telegraph]Singer Kelis and her husband, rapper Nas, are expecting their first baby together. The "Milkshake" jokes have started already. [Perez Hilton]Whoopi Goldberg says she loves Elisabeth Hasselbeck and her newfound love for Obama. Surely Whoopi must know that by next Friday Elisabeth's love will have turned to poorly expressed white-hot hatred. [NY Magazine]Samuel L. Jackson is hinting that he may not be back for Iron Man 2 because of an "economic crisis in the Marvel Comics world," which is the nicest way to say they're not offering him enough money. [Daily Express]John Mayer is in talks to make a variety show for CBS. Do you think Jennifer Aniston will be a guest? [Extra]Charles Barkley has been removed from Tuner Sports indefinitely and dropped by T-Mobile in light of his recent drunk driving arrest. Could the BJ really be worth it? [Perez Hilton]Actor Patrick McGoohan, who appeared in The Prisoner, Columbo, and Braveheart, has died at the age of 80. [UPI]You can watch Beyonce's new video, Diva here. We're waiting for the Justin Timberlake version. [Perez Hilton]The Jonas Brother's Wikipedia page was hacked to say "The jonas brothers have genital warts." That probably shouldn't make us laugh, but it did. [Perez Hilton]"He's got a huge penis. When I lived at home, Alfie's room was opposite the main bathroom, and I would often be in the bath in the morning and it never had a lock on the door and Alfie would get up with his morning boner and come in for a wee while I was in the bath and I'd just be like: 'That is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen!' I'd be like 'ALFIE! Stop it!' He'd even poo in front of me a couple of times, it's disgusting. He's got no respect, that Alfie. I'd never poo in front of my brother, never! Wee, yes definitely." — Lily Allen on her brother's penis. [Perez Hilton]Reply91 repliesLeave a reply


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SummerStage Announces Its Massive 2011 Lineup
As the winter thaws out, more summer concerts are showing up on the calendar's horizon. Today, the City Parks Foundation announced the schedule for this year's SummerStage, which takes place from June 7 to September 2 in parks all around the city, with the mainstage happening at Central Park. This year's lineup is riddled with big names--Yo-Yo Ma, Talib Kweli, Florence and the Machine, Reggie Watts--and adds up to more than 300 acts.
This summer will also showcase a few programs blending theater, dance, and music; among them are the tribute to be-bop legend Roy Ayers "Everybody Loves The Sunshine," the awesome-sounding puppet musical "Tunde's Trumpet," and a performance by the dance company Armitage Gone! Dance set to the music of Grammy-nominated jazz pianist Vijay Iyer.
The entire schedule can be found over at the SummerStage website; and SummerStage's Twitter account is also worth a follow, as it'll give away tickets to this summer's not-free shows in 140-character installments.
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I hope that all of my American readers had a wonderful Thanksgiving with their family and friends yesterday.
With today being Black Friday in the States, I couldn't let this day go by without pointing out a potential gift that really ought to be avoided for that favourite sax player in your life… Especially if that player ever buys horns on-line, or ships their saxophones through any type of carrier.
I found this little gem on eBay the other night, and just had to share…
Source: eBay.com
Here is how the seller describes this little treasure…
Musical Variations
Music Gifts: Unique Music Snowglobe with Musical Design – 'Funky Saxophone'
This collectable, elegant and high quality Music Snowglobe would make an ideal gift for music lovers of all ages, and is sure to add a touch of class to any home!
'…exquisite design with a precision musical movement!'
Highly collectable Enchanced by a high quality musical mechanism Rotating central piece Movement activated by manual wind-up Music theme: 'What a Wonderful World' Finely crafted, sculpted & painted by hand Vibrant coloursThe snowglobe's stylish base incorporates an exquisite and contemporary musical design, while within the dome a beautiful model of a 'Funky Saxaphone, when activated by the manual wide-up, rotate to the much loved theme: 'What a Wonderful World'
To enhance the model a simple shake sends a swirl of shimmering glitter cascading over the central model.
-3 Unique functions: Vibrant colours, Music & Movement-
This highly original and attractive musical snowglobe consists of a ceramic base and a glass dome filled with water.
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Approx. Dimensions: snowglobe's height: 145mm, diameter of base: 100mm.
Oh yes indeed, this is one "Funky Saxaphone" [sic] alright… It's so funky, it looks like it fell off the back of the UPS truck, or perhaps under the wheels of the FedEx plane. WTF??? :scratch:
So please, if you truly love that sax player in your life, don't give them this gift. If, on the other hand, you would like to perhaps torment them, and have them twisting in worry about that horn they're waiting for… Then this is indeed the perfect gift to buy. 😈
The auction for this Funky Saxaphone snow globe ends on November 28. The price is GBP 29.99, or about $49.94 US.
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Jin Goo Takes At the "Shoot For Love" Subject To Carry Cash For kids With Cancer
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The actor took on the Shoot for Love challenge on June 23 at the Goyang Gym in Gyeonggi-do.
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text: Hello, On 08/30/2010 02:43 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote: > I did it yesterday also, mine builds on your previous DM patchset... > > I'll review your recent patchset, from today, to compare and will share > my findings. Thanks. :-) > I was hoping we could get the current request-based code working with > your new FLUSH+FUA work without removing support for num_flush_requests > (yet). And then layer in the removal to give us the before and after so > we would know the overhead associated with keeping/dropping > num_flush_requests. But like I said earlier "we _could_ just remove it > and never look back". I tried but it's not very easy because the original implementation depended on the block layer suppressing other requests while flush sequence is in progress. The painful part was that block layer no longer sorts requeued flush requests in front of other front inserted requests, so explicit queue suppressing can't be implemented simply. Another route would be adding a separate wait/wakeup logic for flushes (someone posted a demo patch for that which was almost there but not fully), but it seemed like a aimless effort to build a new facility to rip it out in the next patch. After all, the whole thing seemed somewhat pointless given that writes can't be routed to multiple targets (if writes can't target multiple devices, flushes won't need to either). Thanks. -- tejun


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In Phoenix, Karsh's Bakery is the spot for traditional Jewish baked goods. The shop has been creating Kosher treats like rugelach, kichel, hamantashen, and challah since the early 1960s, along with pareve (or parve) items, cakes, and Danish-style pastries.
I initially planned on scoring a big bag of chocolate rugelach, but once I set eyes on a plate of German Chocolate brownies , there was no going back.
"Fudgy" is a word that gets thrown around a lot when describing brownies, but this particular dense, baked chocolate square embodies the adjective more than most. It's so rich and fudgy that the only resistance you'll find to your teeth sliding right through it are the walnuts, which are sparsely portioned, to provide just enough crunch, without detracting from the pure chocolate pleasure.
On top, there's a layer of chocolate frosting covered by German chocolate frosting, and a scribble of dark chocolate, just for good measure. It's plenty big enough to share, and at just $3, a totally irresistible indulgence.
Tip: Eat what you can right away. The blazing Phoenix sun quickly turns this oh-so-fudgy brownie to just plain fudge quickly—not that it's any less delicious in a melted state.
Karsh's Bakery
5555 N 7th St #116 Phoenix, AZ 85014 (map)
About the author: Erin Jackson is a food writer and photographer who is obsessed with discovering the best eats in San Diego. You can find all of her discoveries on her San Diego food blog EJeats.com. On Twitter, she's @ErinJax


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The following are available from the Legislative Bill Room, State Capitol, Sacramento, California, (916) 445-2323:
Bills—To get a copy of a bill, ask your legislator, or write the Legislative Bill Room. Give the bill number and the number of copies desired. You may order one copy of each of up to 100 different bills per two-year session without charge. You will be sent the latest amended edition of the bill. Ask for all versions if you want to compare amendments.
Daily Files—The Senate and Assembly each publish a Daily File that is a schedule of bills to be heard in committees or on the Floor. The file includes the time and place of the hearings.
Weekly History—Summary of actions on all bills either in committee or on the Floor during the week. It also announces all new bills introduced during the week and to which committee they have been assigned.
Daily Journal—A history of the previous day's legislative actions including committee votes, floor votes, messages from the governor, internal communications, etc.
Legislative Index—Published periodically during the session, it lists bills alphabetically by subject. Use to check on other legislation in your area.
California's Legislative Handbook—Lists legislators with biographical information and photographs.
Lobbyists & Employers Registration Directory—Lists all registered lobbyists, with photographs, the organizations they work for; also lists all organizations employing lobbyists in California.
The Legislative Process: You Really Do Matter—A citizen's guide to participation.
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California Political Almanac—California Journal Press, 2101 K Street, Sacramento, CA 95816 (916) 444-2840.
Pocket Directory of the California Legislature—Capitol Enquiry, 1228 N Street, Ste. 10, Sacramento, CA 95814, (916) 442-1434 or www.capenq.com.
Community College Directory—Community College League of California, 2017 O Street, Sacramento, CA 95811-5211, (916) 444-8641. Lists the contact information of the League's staff, Chancellor's Office staff, Board of Governors, and local college leadership. Published annually.
The Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of the State of California—Available through your legislator or by contacting the Legislative Bill Room at (916) 445-2323.