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Seville's Catedral was conceived in 1402 as an unrivalled monument to Christian glory – "a building on so magnificent a scale that posterity will believe we were mad". To make way for this new monument, the Almohad mosque that stood on the proposed site was almost entirely demolished. Meanwhile, the canons, inspired by their vision of future repute, renounced all but a subsistence level of their incomes to further the building.
The cathedral was completed in just over a century (1402–1506), an extraordinary achievement, as it's the largest Gothic church in the world. As Norman Lewis says, "It expresses conquest and domination in architectural terms of sheer mass." Though it is built upon the huge, rectangular base-plan of the old mosque, the Christian architects (probably under the direction of the French master architect of Rouen cathedral) added the extra dimension of height. Its central nave rises to 42m, and even the side chapels seem tall enough to contain an ordinary church. The total area covers 11,520 square metres, and new calculations, based on cubic measurement, have now pushed it in front of St Paul's in London and St Peter's in Rome as the largest church in the world, a claim upheld by the Guinness Book of Records, a copy of whose certificate is proudly displayed in the church.
Entry to the cathedral is via the Puerta de San Cristóbal on the building's south side; you are guided through a reception area and bookshop that brings you into the church to the west of the portal itself. Turn right once inside to head east, where you will soon be confronted by the Tomb of Christopher Columbus (Cristóbal Colón in Spanish). Columbus' remains were originally interred in the cathedral of Havana, on the island that he had discovered on his first voyage in 1492. But during the upheavals surrounding the declaration of Cuban independence in 1902, Spain transferred the remains to Seville, and the monumental tomb – in the late Romantic style by Arturo Mélida – was created to house them. However, doubts have always been voiced concerning the authenticity of the remains, and in 2002 scientists from the University of Granada carried out DNA tests in an attempt to confirm that they are those of Columbus – but these proved inconclusive. The mariner's coffin is held aloft by four huge allegorical figures, representing the kingdoms of León, Castile, Aragón and Navarra; the lance of León should be piercing a pomegranate (now inexplicably missing), symbol of Granada (and the word for the fruit in Spanish), the last Moorish kingdom to be reconquered.
As you move into the nave, sheer size and grandeur are, inevitably, the chief characteristics of the cathedral. But once you've grown accustomed to the gloom, two other qualities stand out with equal force: the rhythmic balance and interplay between the parts, and an impressive overall simplicity and restraint in decoration. All successive ages have left monuments of their own wealth and style, but these have been limited to the two rows of side chapels. In the main body of the cathedral only the great box-like structure of the coro stands out, filling the central portion of the nave.
The coro extends and opens onto the Capilla Mayor, dominated by a vast Gothic retablo composed of 45 carved scenes from the Life of Christ. The lifetime's work of a single craftsman, Fleming Pieter Dancart, this is the supreme masterpiece of the cathedral – the largest and richest altarpiece in the world and one of the finest examples of Gothic woodcarving. The guides provide staggering statistics on the amount of gold involved.
Before proceeding around the edge of the nave in a clockwise direction it's best to backtrack to the church's southeast corner to take in the Sacristía de los Cálices where many of the cathedral's main art treasures are displayed, including a masterly image of Santas Justa y Rufina by Goya, depicting Seville's patron saints, who were executed by the Romans in 287. Should you be interested in studying the many canvases here or the abundance of major artworks placed in the various chapels, it's worth calling at the bookshop near the entrance to purchase a copy of the official Guide to the Cathedral of Seville, which deals with them in detail.
Alongside this room is the grandiose Sacristía Mayor, housing the treasury. Embellished in the Plateresque style, it was designed in 1528 by Diego de Riaño, one of the foremost exponents of this predominantly decorative architecture of the late Spanish Renaissance. Amid a confused collection of silver reliquaries and monstrances – dull and prodigious wealth – are displayed the keys presented to Fernando by the Jewish and Moorish communities on the surrender of the city; sculpted into the metal in stylized Arabic script are the words "May Allah render eternal the dominion of Islam in this city". Through a small antechamber here you enter the oval-shaped Sala Capitular (chapterhouse), with paintings by Murillo and an outstanding marble floor with geometric design.
Continuing to the southwest corner and the Puerta del Nacimiento – the door through which pass all the pasos and penitents who take part in the Semana Santa processions – you then turn right (north) along the west wall, passing the Puerta Principal.
In the northwest corner, the Capilla de San Antonio has Murillo's Vision of St Anthony depicting the saint in ecstatic pose before an infant Christ. A magnificent work: try to spot where the restorers joined San Antonio back into place after he had been crudely hacked out of the picture by thieves in the nineteenth century. He was eventually discovered in New York – where art dealers recognized the work they were being asked to buy – and returned to the cathedral. The Baptism of Jesus above this is another fine work by the same artist.
The nave's north side leads to the Puerta de la Concepción, through which you will exit – but before doing so, continue to the northeast corner to view the domed Renaissance Capilla Real, built on the site of the original royal burial chapel and containing the body of Fernando III (El Santo) in a suitably rich, silver shrine in front of the altar. The large tombs on either side of the chapel are those of Fernando's wife, Beatrice of Swabia, and his son, Alfonso the Wise. The chapel is reserved for services and private prayer and may only be viewed via the entrance in Plaza Virgen de los Reyes (Mon–Sat 8am–2pm & 4–7pm; free). You are now close to the entry to the Giralda tower.
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WASHINGTON - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will celebrate the 12th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 with a resolution honoring the late Justin Dart, Jr. for his lifelong advocacy of civil rights for people with disabilities. A one-hour program will take place on Friday, July 26, 11:00 a.m., at Commission Headquarters, 1801 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
The event also marks one decade since the EEOC assumed responsibility for enforcing the employment provisions of the ADA. Title I of the federal statute, which protects qualified employees and applicants with disabilities in the private sector, and in state and local governments, was implemented in 1992.
"Justin Dart, Jr.'s legacy lives on in the spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Commission is proud to pay tribute to Mr. Dart, whose commitment and passion on behalf of all people with disabilities underlie the work that we do every day in enforcing Title I of the ADA," said Chair Cari M. Dominguez.
Mr. Dart was at President George H.W. Bush's side in 1990, along with the late Evan J. Kemp, Jr., then-Chairman of the EEOC, when the President signed the landmark ADA on the White House South Lawn. Lex Frieden, a prominent disability rights leader, will accept the resolution on behalf of the Dart family and deliver a keynote address. Mr. Frieden is the President of Rehabilitation International and Senior Vice President of the Institute for Rehabilitation & Research in Houston, Texas.
Two additional speakers will offer perspectives on the ADA. Deidre A. Davis is a former head of the EEOC's ADA Technical Assistance Division. Kim Borowicz, an undergraduate at Michigan State University (MSU), is President of the MSU Council of Students with Disabilities and an intern at the American Association of People with Disabilities, an organization that Justin Dart, Jr. helped to establish in 1995.
Press are requested to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the event for security clearance. An escort from the Office of Communications may be contacted upon arrival by calling extension 4900 from the main lobby telephone.
In addition to Title I of the ADA, the EEOC enforces Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act; the Equal Pay Act; the Rehabilitation Act of 1973's prohibitions against disability discrimination in the federal government; and sections of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Further information about the Commission is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.
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Looking for the best tips to create explainer videos using after effect templates? We've got you covered. Explainer videos are an excellent way of engaging with your customers and ensuring that they know exactly what's going on with your business.
And by using After Effects , you can at least get your explainer video on the right track by using templates, whiteboard animations and so on. These best tips to create explainer videos using after effect are just what you need, so sit back and learn how to create a dazzling video for your clients.
Creating a whiteboard animation explainer video with after effects templates
Visuals are not as important as it seems
Strange but true, but even using an application such as After Effects won't produce the same level of quality if the other parts of production aren't up to scratch. Most importantly, your visuals should be simple enough to ensure that your message is conveyed without much fuss. You're not here to create the next Transformers – your job is to set the mood with simple visuals without too much visual distraction. That's why in After Effects, find a basic template that's not too flashy, and one that conveys the message with minimal fuss.
After Effects is hard to learn, and to use
This is specialized editing software that's used on big-name Hollywood blockbusters after all, so it's got lots of parts that need learning. The upside of this though, is that if you're an After Effects pro, you can create some exciting videos and incredible animations or use one of the after effects templates that come for free!
On the other hand, it's a nerve-wracking experience first booting up After Effects and seeing the crazy amount of options available to you. But if you want to create an animated explainer video, then it's best to stick with After Effects and to dive into some after effects tutorials to discover just exactly how it all works.
Types of explainer videos
No matter what editing suite you use, it's best to determine exactly what type of explainer video you need, that way you can determine the tone of your project going forward.
- Startup explainer video
These are often seen on sites such as Kickstarter and are a great place to look for some of the best tips to create explainer videos using after effect, as most of these Kickstarter project videos use Adobe's application. These videos have to be explained well, as the people in the videos are looking for money and don't have time to waste with needlessly long explanations.
- Whiteboard explainer video
Here is where an application such as After Effects comes into play. A whiteboard explainer video is a simple cartoon or animation that plays out on a white background with some ditty strumming along. It's used when there is a lot of information to convey and thankfully, this is made quite simple when using After Effects as it has many built-in whiteboard animation templates that can be used.
You can download for free a white board animation explainer video after effects template here http://youtu.be/cBqLyL1BSU8
- Animated explainer videos
Again, this is exactly what After Effects was made for. Since animations are actually quite complex to do and require a degree of skill that many don't possess, it would be best to actually hire a professional to perform this part. If you cannot afford one, then stick to simple animations of moving letters, simple geometric shapes and so on.
After Effects has many plug-ins that can accomplish this, all accessible from the vast amount of baked-in animations in the After Effects library.
- Live recording explainer video
This would actually be the best bet for your video, but it also takes a certain level of professionalism to ensure that it doesn't turn out substandard. What works best is to mount a camera on a tripod to keep the frame steady. Then, read out your script in a calm and even voice.
Afterwards, you can apply any effect and edit out any strange errors you may have using After Effects. Some of the best tips to create explainer videos using after effect will mention how powerful this editing suite is and we certainly agree – it's actually easier to use After Effects as a strict video editing program then it is to create animations in it. So remember that before picking a whiteboard or animation type as your explainer video.
Get a script
Even the best tips to create explainer videos using after effect will mention how you must have a great script nailed down, otherwise your video is going to be a wreck. You also can't be tripping up over your words or making it all up on the go.
Video production is difficult and time-consuming, not to mention quite costly. If you don't have a script ready, you'll end up with a lot of footage on the cutting room floor when it comes time to edit it using after effects templates, all down in After Effects. Some of the best practices for a script include:
- Keeping it short (we suggest anything under a minute and a half)
- Having a very clear call to action like "click here to learn more" (this can easily be inserted with After Effects)
- Introducing a problem, then delivering an easy answer to the problem you've just introduced
- A very brief overview of what you're selling
- Keep it simple and humorous
- Always speak in the second person (using words like "you")
- Your tone should be almost conversational
- Don't use overly complicated language
The video production
As we mentioned earlier, no matter what the tips to create explainer videos using after effect are, you may end up having to hire a professional. After Effects is simply too complicated if you're not extremely proficient in it. And if you want your video to look professional, you'll have to recruit a freelancer or an agency. By visiting sites such as Craigslist, you can hopefully find a fairly inexpensive freelance to create your explainer video using After Effects.
While many of the parts of the video can be done yourself (the voice recording, the script, the general concept), it's best to let a trained video editor produce the video, unless you're using a less comprehensive video suite. And those are just some of the tips to create explainer videos using after effect. We hope it gets you on the right track.


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The documentary "Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey" covers a recent — and most unlikely — chapter in the history of the venerable rock band Journey, which has had one of the longer and more unusual stories in rock music. (Call it a journey if you must.) Beginning as something of an instrumental fusion band in the early 1970s, its members later made a concerted effort to play more radio-friendly songs with vocals, eventually striking gold with singer Steve Perry and the now-iconic '80s tunes "Open Arms," "Separate Ways" and, of course, "Don't Stop Believin'."
When "Don't Stop Believin'" turned up in the finale of "The Sopranos" in 2007, it put the band back on the radar for many people — but the group was without a singer and at something of loose ends. An arduous search turned up no one who seemed right, until one night guitarist Neal Schon clicked on a YouTube link and watched a video of a Filipino cover band fronted by Arnel Pineda. This set in motion an unlikely story of both discovery and rebirth, as the band with Pineda found success as a touring group.
"Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey" captures Pineda's wide-eyed response to his own unexpected fame, but it also shows the band itself responding to him, veteran musicians willing to go in unfamiliar directions. Directed by Ramona S. Diaz, the film leans a little too heavily on Pineda's wide-eyed disbelief at his sudden turn of fortune, leaving a feeling that it could dig deeper into the history and dynamics of the band. Yet Pineda's ebullience is infectious, and "Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey" is a pleasant story of dreams coming true.


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Want to keep track of what the specific person is doing? Secretly capture pics and record videos? What is his present location? Is he true to you or anything of such sort? Ewe, you are reading about the right thing "The Spy Apps".
Spy apps as the name specifies are apps which you can use to track any person you want to.
This article is going to help you with 10 such special apps which helps you to keep a secret monitoring on any person you want to.These apps are very helpful in certain specific cases. But promise me –You won't use them for wrong purpose or to interfere in someone's personal life.I can give you an example story on how you can use these apps.
"Manager of a company usually prefers to keep his important documents at his home. Today due to some reason he isn't able to go home so he had assigned this task to one of his employee. The employee is trustworthy, but the papers are very important so manager wants to keep an eye on him. Manager handles him a phone from company's side with spy app installed on it and now can keep track of the employee's visited locations and can take steps if he finds anything wrong"
See how these can be so useful. Let me help you with some such apps you can use (Yeah! Can spy someone)
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Download this app on the person's phone you want to track location of. This app keeps a list of locations visited by a person every half an hour. Click on 'View Now' to see the list of visited locations by targeted device. And Bingo! No GPS is needed.
It makes your children safe from getting lost and make it easy to reach their present location or a friend's location. Worried about increasing cases of child kidnapping. Install this app on your child's phone, install it and hide the app. You can now track the phone online.
When you pretend to do a particular work but actually you are want to eavesdrop to someone's secret talk, you will love this app. You need a headphone and all you need to do is to expose your phone to the audio you want to listen to.
Ear spy amplifies the sound from the mic to your headphone to give super hearing.
Woohoo! A hidden camera. My favorite spy app.
Record videos with voice anytime anywhere with you cell phone. Tap on the black screen and you can capture an image without anyone knowing. Once you enter the video mode the recording starts and continue till you stop recording.
Only black screen appears and thus no one knows that you are secretly capturing moments.
"I had captured many awkward activities of my friends and this app helps me tease them. Amazing! Right?"
Works like the Hidden Camera app. With Sneaky Cam on you can set any image as background. And now taping on any part of the screen clicks images for you. Ewe, perfectly executed task of spying anyone you wish to.
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This hides all your contact icons and deletes the call log so no one knows of your call history by any means. No icon of the app appears in the application list.
You record the activities around you while the recording device on you device appears off. That's going to be an interesting experience. You can continue with your work while recording a video in background.
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The appearance of the app can be set as per your wish. And the name of the installed app on your phone becomes 'Call Assistant'.
This app actually makes you a real spy. This app has very basic tools which are must for a person to be a spy like a secret torch, secret audio recording, sensor data and many more.


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Evan Rachel Wood & Jamie Bell: Married!
Evan Rachel Wood and Jamie Bell have tied the knot, her rep confirms to JustJared.com!
"Evan Rachel Wood and Jamie Bell were married on October 30 in California," her rep said in a statement. "The bride wore a custom dress by Carolina Herrera. It was a small ceremony with close family and friends."
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"Words cannot describe the happiness i am feeling. Overwhelming." Evan Rachel tweeted earlier today.
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How's that for coming through on the hype?
Saturday night at Nassau Coliseum, the Rangers and Islanders played a game ripped out of the past, the rivalry again carrying the most important of meanings — playoff implications — and both teams competing with a clean, hard-nosed desperation that never allowed the buzz inside of this soldout old barn to die.
Instead, it was action from whistle to whistle — sometimes after — and regulation ended after what might be judged as the most entertaining scoreless 60 minutes in this rivalry's history.
But then with 1:49 remaining in the extra frame, Derick Brassard made a great saucer pass to Dan Girardi, who ripped a wrist shot over Evgeni Nabokov's right shoulder for the 1-0 Rangers win.
"Kick me in the [groin]," is how Islanders defenseman Travis Hamonic described the feeling. "That's a very tough pill to swallow. As a team, that's one of the best games we've played not only in a while, but all year."
Yet for the first time in a long time, the Islanders (21-16-5) control this playoff battle. By securing a point, they held off the Rangers (21-16-4) for the seventh spot in the Eastern Conference, with the Rangers holding a game in hand.
And amid that pressure, after the lead-up to the biggest game in this building in at least five years, the Islanders controlled most of the play. They outshot the Rangers, 29-20, and would have run away with the game if it were not for Henrik Lundqvist, outstanding through the first two periods when he made 22 saves en route to his first shutout of the season.
"Great atmosphere, great game," Lundqvist said. "A lot of speed, both teams played hard. It was just an exciting game to play."
It was also a sight to behold once Girardi netted his goal, with all of the Rangers rushing off the bench as if they had won the Stanley Cup.
"There was a lot put into this game," Rangers forward Brian Boyle said. "There was a lot of emotion out there, it was an emotional game. There's not a lot left, and that's where the reaction came from."
Both teams struggled on the power play, with the Rangers going 0-for-4 and the Islanders 0-for-2. When there were chances, it wasn't just Lundqvist stealing the show, but Nabokov, as well, who made his fair share of quality stops in what has been a career renaissance season.
"That's how the playoffs are, battle in front of the net," said Nabokov, who finished with 19 saves. "We did a lot of good things, we got the point and we have to move on."
The fans inside, split as evenly as they have been in years, were also appreciative of the non-stop action. Once Girardi's shot hit the back of the net, hats went into the air and arms were raised in jubilance. Normally Rangers fans expect to come to the Coliseum and win, but this one did not come so easy and surely will be appreciated.
"It certainly was a building that you enjoyed playing in," said Rangers coach John Tortorella, the past tense entirely intentional. "That team over there, they deserve to have people come into the building. They've played very well this year, and we're happy to take part in a game like this."


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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Tremors recorded in Assumption Parish since late May could explain why a brine cavern failed and caused a massive sinkhole that prompted more than 100 evacuations nearby, officials said Tuesday.
That assessment came from the Texas Brine Co., a Houston-based company that plugged and abandoned the cavern in 2011. The company harvests brine - water saturated with salt - which is used in industrial manufacturing.
But officials at the U.S. Geological Survey say the cavern's failure caused the tremors - not the other way around.
Texas Brine Co. spokesman Sonny Cranch said earthquakes recorded near the Napoleonville salt dome two months before the sinkhole appeared could have damaged the abandoned brine cavern. He noted the tremors concentrated around the sinkhole a few days before it rapidly expanded from a few feet of muck to an acre of sludge that swallowed cypress trees.
"The conclusion at this point is that the damage could very well have been caused by seismic activity that's been going on," he said.
Federal officials disagree. William Leith, coordinator of the earthquakes hazards program at USGS, said that the earthquakes are rare in Louisiana and that the vibrations in Assumption Parish did not lead to the cavern's damage or the sinkhole.
"We believe that the tremors are a result of the collapse of the cavern," he said.
Experts brought in by Texas Brine believe the tremors originated thousands of feet away from the face of the dome and at a substantial depth, Cranch said.
Cranch said a tool used to measure the depth of the cavern bottomed out 1,300 feet higher than anticipated. The cavern was last measured when it was abandoned.
Cranch said the presence of the material hit by the tool indicates the cavern failed.
"That material should not have been there. But the debris, the material at the bottom of the cavern does speak to damage," he said.
Parish officials also say they aren't buying the explanation that tremors caused damage to the brine cavern and are waiting for an official explanation from scientists.
"Who's to say the breach in the salt dome didn't cause the seismic activity? It's just questionable. We're not ruling anything out at this point," said Assumption Parish Police Jury spokeswoman Kim Torres.
Around 150 homes between the Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou communities south of Louisiana Highway 70 South were evacuated after Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency in the parish when it appeared the slurry area was expanding.
Several weeks before the sinkhole emerged, residents had also been reporting natural gas bubbling in nearby waterways. Parish officials say aerial photographs taken Saturday indicate the area is more than 400 feet across and 100 feet wider than it was a month ago.
Cranch said Texas Brine will continue to provide weekly housing assistance checks to the evacuated residents.
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Glee's Ryan Murphy had several reveals about Emmy nominee Jane Lynch's snarky Sue Sylvester and our favorite pinkie-holding cheerleaders during the show's 45-minute panel at Fox's Television Critics Association stop Monday. Post-panel, he also touched on all things Brittana.
Warning: Possible spoilers ahead.
"We decided Brittany is going to be held back every year, now we only need to find 11 more kids," he said about our favorite "dolphins are gay sharks" jokester. He was, of course, kidding when responding to a question about how the writers plan to keep the cast going over the course of the series, noting that the writers have "mapped out four years with the original cast."
Murphy added that with Season 2's goal to focus more on supporting characters, there will be "big stories" for both Heather Morris (Brittany) and Naya Rivera (Santana), including the Britney Spears tribute, which is an episode "designed to show off the skills of Heather Morris."
"Heather is doing the Britney Spears episode and Naya will have a bigger story line this season," he said. "We're committed to making Naya the world's meanest cheerleader ever. Diana [Agron] is back to being a cheerleader this year so those two are duking it out to see who will be the queen bee of the school. Heather is a lot more comedy, a lot more promiscuity, a lot more typical Heather-crazy-one-liners funny."
As for how the lesbian kiss will play out, Murphy said fans should rest easy and that it will be handled properly.
"I hate it on TV shows — and there's one show I won't name right now — where it's like why aren't these characters kissing? Don't they have a child?" Murphy said. "That's ridiculous to me. I don't understand that. If I would do it on my show, I would just have them do it in every scene and not make a big deal about it. I don't think that you have to announce a 'very special episode' — weren't they doing that back during Roseanne? That just seems archaic and outdated to me and as a gay man I would never do that. I would make it very organic and do it several times and not make it a stunt.
"I'm directing the episode and they're going to kiss a couple times. The key is to do it a couple times so it doesn't seem forced," he added.


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Royals stymied in pursuit of first-place Tigers
KANSAS CITY -- This is not what the Royals had in mind when the Detroit Tigers dropped into Cowtown.
When the series began, Kansas City was just two games behind the first-place Tigers, close enough to take the lead with a sweep. Instead the Royals were wiped out in three straight and are now five games behind, sliding to fourth place in the American League Central standings.View Full Game Coverage
KANSAS CITY -- This is not what the Royals had in mind when the Detroit Tigers dropped into Cowtown.
When the series began, Kansas City was just two games behind the first-place Tigers, close enough to take the lead with a sweep. Instead the Royals were wiped out in three straight and are now five games behind, sliding to fourth place in the American League Central standings.View Full Game Coverage
Justin Verlander and the Tigers completed the sweep, 9-4, on an 83-degree Sunday afternoon with 22,504 fans enjoying the sunshine if not necessarily the result. This also gave the Tigers a 5-0 record against KC this season.
"Detroit came in here red-hot," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "The last three games, as a group, there wasn't one hole in their lineup you could count on getting an out from. They were all swinging the bats extremely well."
Over the three games, the Tigers had a 26-8 advantage in runs and in each game everyone in their starting lineup had a least one hit. They outhit the Royals, 42-16.
Yost was asked if he could draw any positives from the series.
"No, nothing positive about it," he said. "We didn't play well, they played great."
On Sunday, Verlander had the Royals no-hit through two outs in the sixth inning.
"He was tough, good fastball, good everything. He's tough to hit," said the Royals' Omar Infante, a Verlander teammate last year. "Great location, inside, outside, changeup -- oh, nasty, man."
Verlander began the sixth by issuing his fourth walk -- and third to Nori Aoki. He sent Infante sprawling from a high inside pitch.
"He felt bad about it," Infante said. "He had a no-hitter going. He was trying to throw a nasty fastball inside, he didn't try to throw it right there. He was trying to throw the ball to a good location."
Infante struck out and Eric Hosmer flied out, turning the batter's box over to Billy Butler. Sure, Butler was aware of the no-hitter,
"Everybody's aware of it," he said. "You're never not aware of a no-hitter."
Butler is an old Verlander tormentor. While Verlander has fashioned a 17-5 record over the Royals, Butler has managed to rock the right-hander for 32 hits in 74 at-bats -- a .432 average. In this game, Butler had flied out deep and struck out before drilling a 96-mph fastball into right field for a single. Verlander would not get his third no-hitter.
"Fastball away, just kind of ran back a little bit over the plate," Tigers catcher Alex Avila said. "Billy's a good hitter. Holding him to one hit, knowing the success he's had off of Justin, fine with that."
Nor would Verlander get his seventh shutout. The Royals struck for three runs in the seventh inning when Salvador Perez doubled, Alcides Escobar singled, Jarrod Dyson drove a two-run triple and Aoki floated a sacrifice fly. That was Verlander's last inning.
Dyson broke out of an 0-for-11 skid with his triple that dropped just shy of the right-field fence.,
"I didn't get all of it," he said. "If I got all of it, man, I'd have been jogging around the bases. There was still a little bit more left in there to get. I just didn't get it."
Royals left-hander Jason Vargas, so stingy in his first five starts, has experienced a downturn in his fortunes. Last Tuesday, he gave up five runs to Toronto, but the Royals rallied to win.
This time the Tigers roughed him up for seven runs in five innings, Vargas' shortest outing of the year. Two of their 11 hits were home runs, a solo shot by Nick Castellanos and a two-run, 418-foot bomb by Avila.
"It was right down the middle so it was not where you usually want to throw when you've got a guy with two strikes," Vargas said of the pitch to Avila.
"It was hard labor out there for Vargy today," Yost said.
Tim Collins, the lefty reliever just back from rehabbing with Triple-A Omaha, took over for the sixth and pitched two scoreless innings. After Michael Mariot gave up two runs in the eighth, closer Greg Holland pitched a scoreless ninth. Holland wanted some work after being idle for three days.
This three-game trouncing was in contrast to the Tigers-Royals season series last year. That was marked by close games -- all but two of the 19 games were decided by three runs or fewer. It was a series of tight battles and the Royals won the war, 10 games to nine.
"It's going to be a war this year. It's not over," Dyson said. "They're just winning the first beginning of it, that's all. It's all about who'll get the last laugh."
As the Royals packed up for their flight to San Diego, they mulled over their fourth straight loss and getting swept by the team they need to beat in the AL Central.
"Anytime you get swept, no matter who it is, it's disheartening. You don't like to do it," Yost said. "But, we were unfortunate enough to catch them real, real hot. Hopefully next time around, they're going to catch us hot and we'll see what happens."
"We caught a team on fire," Butler said. "Everything they hit found holes, they hit a lot of balls hard. We'll catch 'em later in the year."
Butler was asked if the Royals, going into the Detroit series, had thought much about their opportunity to take over first place.
"I don't think it matters who's in first place on May 4th," Butler said. "I'll leave it at that."


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Gerbe, Miller lead Sabres to shootout victory
If the First Niagara Center ice was a pinball machine, the New Jersey Devils would have been guilty of a tilt most of Sunday night.
There were multiple stretches where the Devils hemmed the Buffalo Sabres in their own zone, and a couple that lasted more than two minutes. The play was so interminable and the crowd was so restless the Sabres were getting Bronx cheers just for getting the puck out over their own blue line.
The Sabres were outshot, 39-26, in the game and even gave up yet another short-handed goal. But they didn't fall apart mentally in the kind of spots they crumbled in earlier in the season. They were physical at plenty of key times and got great goaltending from Ryan Miller.
When Nathan Gerbe beat Martin Brodeur for the only goal of the shootout, they somehow pulled out a 3-2 win over the Devils in one of the stranger games the crowd of 18,703 has seen in a long time.
"Resilient is what it was," said interim coach Ron Rolston. "We got through it and didn't break. It worked out all right."
The Sabres have won three straight for the third time this year and pulled within four points of the idle New York Islanders for eighth place in the Eastern Conference.
The defending East champion Devils, meanwhile, are in complete panic mode. They are ninth, and winless in seven games (0-3-4) for the first time since November 2001.
Buffalo got a first-period goal from Patrick Kaleta – his first in 53 games dating to last February – and a second-period tally from Steve Ott. Jochen Hecht and Cody Hodgson got full marks for great passes.
The Sabres took that 2-1 lead into the third but the Devils got even at 5:46 on a short-handed goal by defenseman Mark Fayne, his first goal of the season. As Dainius Zubrus skated unimpeded through the Buffalo zone and behind the net, he found Fayne for a quick snapshot from the right circle that beat Miller.
"That's a tough one," Ott admitted. "All five of us are accountable. ... We definitely need to fish [Zubrus] out hard, if not lay a body on him so he doesn't have an opportunity to make a play out there."
The fans didn't like the short-handed goal, in part because it was Buffalo's NHL-high seventh of the year against its power-play unit.
And the crowd wasn't happy with the extended stretches of play in the Sabres' zone either. Whether trying a clear or a pass, the Sabres simply couldn't clear the zone for about a 15-minute stretch spanning the first and second periods.
"They were hemming us in the zone but we did a great job on those two-minute shifts keeping them to the outside, blocking shots," said Ott, reaching hard to find positives. "They weren't getting great scoring opportunities yet our fans were booing us every opportunity they had."
"They want to see better but sometimes it's going to be a battle," Miller said of the fans. "Sometimes it's going to be hard. We need their help. We need them to be behind us. We hear them.
"We know they're not happy but the encouragement we can get when we're in a tight game, that can help for some of these young guys. So we'd appreciate it. They hang around, stay for the whole game, be excited, have fun. We're trying our hardest out there. You saw some sacrifice out there."
Analyzing the fan base is obviously a slippery slope. Especially given the way this season – and much of the last six years – have gone for a group of ticketholders that has had its patience pushed to the max.
"That's the way it's been since I've been here," Rolston said. "We understand what it is. Our job is to continue to do what we can do to change that. That's all we can do. Keep working at it ... win games at home and hopefully get them back."
And the crowd did respond when it was warranted like on Ott's goal, a spectacular three-way passing play with Hodgson and Gerbe. And the entire 100 level was on its feet for the shootout and roared when Miller made the final save on Travis Zajac.
"I would be proud if I was from Buffalo to say, 'My Sabres won that game.' '' Miller said. "It's the kind of game you're going to have sometimes. We're going to try to clean it up so it's a little prettier but if it's like that and we get two points I don't really mind."
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DANIEL ISLAND — The mood was pensive and the questions pointed among people at a community meeting about leaving Berkeley County for Charleston County.
People sat quietly listening in the 400-seat Bishop England High School hall. They laughed when one resident suggested forming their own county instead, but they responded with loud applause to Berkeley County Councilman and Daniel Island resident Tim Callanan, who said plainly that while he too thinks they are getting a raw deal on taxes and possibly schools, they need accurate information, and signing the annexation petition proposed at the meeting isn't necessary to get it.
"This is really the wrong way to go about it," he said
The Daniel Island Neighborhood Association held the meeting, and Dave Williams, the president, asked attendees to sign the petition.
"We're not voting tonight. We're here to start the process to get our questions answered," Williams said.
"Based on all the research we've done, we feel our best interests are served by Charleston County. But it's up to you guys," he said.
The issue has been simmering on the island for a decade, but was fueled by dissatisfaction over the recent Berkeley County school referendum.
Residents worry they are not getting their money's worth for their tax dollars. Last year's $198 million school improvement bond referendum, which island voters backed by a 70 percent to 30 percent margin, included money to build a new school to ease overcrowding at Daniel Island School, which houses students K-8. Islanders thought the new school would be built on the island, but now are concerned that the district will build it on Clements Ferry Road, taking away islanders' ability to walk or bike to school.
"I've lost a lot of trust in the Berkeley County School Board. I think they consciously misled the voters here," said resident Ryan Gilsenan. He has four children he wants to see go to school on the island through 12th grade. He's not happy with the distance to Moncks Corner or that money residents spend in Charleston County is taxed for that county's schools while the residents pay taxes for Berkeley schools.
"I still have a lot of questions (about annexation). I think a lot of people on Daniel Island are very interested in what our options are," he said.
Residents also expressed concern about what it would cost to become part of Charleston County.
Concern is growing across Berkeley County over the potential loss of the island and its tax base, but there also is sympathy for island residents.
In a phone interview earlier Thursday, county Supervisor Dan Davis said the county attorney has been asked to research annexation laws and court rulings. But county officials are waiting to see what the residents decide.
Bill Bates, a Goose Creek anti-tax advocate, made no bones about it in a call Thursday.
"I think most people in Berkeley County are against (the Charleston County) annexation because it will hurt our tax base," he said. "But the (county) school board reneged on a promise. That's just not right. The school board needs to be spanked for that, so I can understand why the residents are so angry. But gee, I'd hate to see them go."
The earliest an annexation vote could take place would be June 2014, attorney Trenholm Walker told island residents at the meeting. It would need 400-500 votes to be approved.
Daniel Island's 9,000 residents make up 4 percent of Berkeley County's population but provide as much as 20 percent of the county's tax base, according to Callanan's estimates.
Brenda Rindge of The Post and Courier contributed to this story. Reach Bo Petersen at 937-5744, @bopete on twitter or Bo Petersen Reporting on Facebook.


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You road-less-traveled types may adore Catalina right now. During high season, between Memorial Day and Labor Day, Southern Californians flock to this overgrown rock like Bostonians to Martha's Vineyard. Californians visit Catalina's hilltop Wrigley Mansion (now the pleasant Inn on Mt. Ada), attend movie premieres and Kenny Loggins concerts at its landmark Casino Ballroom (where Duke Ellington once played) and take bus tours through its vast backcountry (still occupied by real buffalo herds).
These are all legacies of chewing-gum baron William Wrigley Jr., who bought the whole 76-square-mile island for a couple of million bucks sight unseen in 1919 and shaped it into his vision of an offshore hinterland and equestrian-class resort.
There's a sunny nine-hole golf course here too (reportedly the oldest in Southern California), a triathlon and an October jazz festival. But come winter, when tourism plummets to a fraction of its fair-weather numbers, Catalina may be something closer to a secret getaway.
"The crowds are gone, the weather's still pretty nice, the ferries are still running, the inns are cheaper and you can even dive if you wear a wetsuit," says islander and Catalina Chamber of Commerce spokeswoman Donna Harris.
Some of Catalina's winter perks are immediately evident the weekend I'm there. Check-in at the Hotel Metropole is officially 3 p.m., but my seaside room is ready and waiting for me when I arrive at 9:30 a.m.
Standard high-season rates will be well over $200 per night. Right now it's about $100 with a continental breakfast -- and there are sweeter deals than that.
"The Zane Grey Pueblo Hotel is currently offering a $65-per-night midweek special," a local tour guide tells a small group in front of the Casino Ballroom. "By the way," he adds, "if any of you aren't chewing Wrigley's gum right now, we would greatly appreciate it if you did."
During low season on Catalina, even canned tour guide jokes are feeling the pinch. There'll be more laughs in July when the climate and attendance pick up.
Tonight, the new James Bond flick is playing in the Casino's ornately muraled movie theater ("the first one designed for talkies in North America," the guide mentions, "and an early acoustical model for New York's Radio City Music Hall.")
Early birds are treated to a free, hourlong pipe organ concert before the movie. I show up early, as do exactly seven others scattered around the 1,184-seat auditorium, to enjoy the most under-attended pipe organ recital in one of the loveliest Art Deco movie houses in the country.
Later, I take a quiet Saturday night stroll through town, where underworked waiters are moonlighting as karaoke artists and a few people from an Irvine engineering firm are wobbling outside Luau Larry's bar in oversized straw hats -- free, if you order and drink the bar's signature beverage, the Wiki-Wacker.
"We're on a company . . . retreat," one of them says, his breath steaming in the cold air. "So what brings you here?"
On a dull, raw night in downtown Avalon with more rain in the forecast, this seems like a valid question for any weekend warrior.
Anyway, it's one I've been grappling with this day. What brought me to Catalina now of all times? Not the Casino Ballroom tour, as impressive as the building is. And not the four-hour off-road tour across the island's wild interior in a Mercedes Unimog -- as cool as this might have been.
"Sorry, that one's been canceled," the ticket agent told me. "The rain."
How about the Nautilus submarine tour? Nope. Canceled too.
"Choppy ocean conditions."
What am I doing here? The answer arrives unhurriedly the following morning -- a sunny Sunday despite storm forecasts. Walking through empty Avalon, passing newspaper boxes with yesterday's headlines, I head west, away from the bay. Up Catalina Avenue to Eucalyptus Avenue to Avalon Canyon Road.
Past the empty golf course, a bird sanctuary with no birds and a campground with no campers to the Hermit Gulch Trail -- a footpath that switchbacks a couple of miles uphill through a sloped canvas of red-berried toyon trees, oak scrub and prickly pear cactus.
The trail crests at the top of the island, where gusts from Catalina's wild backside call for a Windbreaker. Sweet views of little Avalon far below seem almost otherworldly, save for the faint toot of a ferry horn.
The weather is just right for a walk like this in a place like this. Brisk enough to keep sweat glands in check. Clear enough for panoramic vistas across the sea to the snowcapped San Gabriel Mountains. Unpopular enough to not run into another soul in nearly two hours.
Hospitable enough too. The trail will eventually loop down through the back gate of the Wrigley Memorial and Botanical Gardens, where a friendly local named Zella will pull over in her golf cart and ask me (a total stranger) if I need a lift back to town.
And there it is. What's the draw of a hibernating island 26 miles from the hazy blur of Los Angeles six months before the butter-pecan-loving masses pull ashore? Just that. On a cool Sunday afternoon, with more storm clouds brewing on the horizon, I was sorry to leave.
You road-less-traveled types may adore Catalina right now. During high season, between Memorial Day and Labor Day, Southern Californians flock to this overgrown rock like Bostonians to Martha's Vineyard. Californians visit Catalina's hilltop Wrigley Mansion (now the pleasant Inn on Mt. Ada), attend movie premieres and Kenny Loggins concerts at its landmark Casino Ballroom (where Duke Ellington once played) and take bus tours through its vast backcountry (still occupied by real buffalo herds).


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President of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), John Fahey, claimed earlier this week that the game was not doing enough to test for the blood-boosting agent EPO, a commonly-used doping agent in sport, after it was revealed that only one in four players is given a blood test during World Cup qualifiers.
After meeting with FIFA president Sepp Blatter earlier this week to discuss the problem, Fahey revealed the commitment made by the sport's governing body, and praised its willingness to take action against the problem.
"We are very interested in continuing the work on biological profiles," Fahey told reporters. "WADA is very satisfied with the commitment of FIFA on the biological profiles, which will be run not only at the World Cup in 2014 but already at the Confederations Cup in June this year.
"There is always more which can be done in the fight against doping, but we know FIFA has always been serious in this domain. We think the leagues can complement what FIFA is already doing, but we came here to thank FIFA for its collaboration."
FIFA medical committee chairman Michael D'Hooge confirmed the level of testing that will take place, stating, "In 2014, the year of the FIFA World Cup, we will be spending $2.5 million in the fight against doping. FIFA was the first international organization for team sport to start with longitudinal profiles.
"We have been testing this at the FIFA Club World Cup in 2011 and 2012, we will continue at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2013 with blood testing unannounced at training camps and games."


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To fully realize the fine arts is to comprehend how and why specific works were constructed, composed and created. A dynamic new University of Houston minor will look beyond art itself and focus on the cultural, historical and philosophical factors that inspire it.
UH's Honors College will debut its Creative Work minor this fall. This academic program is open to students from all majors, as well as those from outside the Honors College.
"This minor will provide students with a coherent framework that connects art forms to other studies," said John Harvey, director for UH's Center for Creative Work. "It's completely interdisciplinary. Students can apply courses to this minor from a range of subjects including women's studies, business, music, English, the sciences and more. At the end of four years, students will have an understanding of how all of these topics are integrated with regard to creative works."
Harvey will teach the Creative Works foundation course Poetics and Performance this fall. Among the minor's capstone courses is Artists in the Regions, which explores art and literature within Texas and surrounding areas. Starting spring 2011, a new Greek theater and philosophy class, the City Dionysia, also will serve as a capstone course.
Other classes that can be applied to a Creative Work minor include selections from UH's Interdisciplinary Art curriculum such as Collaboration Among the Arts or Selected Topics in Interdisciplinary Arts. Students also can receive up to six credit hours through approved internships at arts institutions.
More than 40 courses from different UH colleges and departments can taken as Creative Work electives. A complete list of these classes is posted at http://tinyurl.com/2f498nr. A student must successfully complete 18 hours (which includes the foundation course and one capstone course) from this curriculum to earn this minor.
"The Creative Work minor combines fine arts interests with cultural studies such as history or philosophy," Harvey said. "It's a minor that's interested in the study of how art is made."


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Baserunning gaffe, passed ball cost Pirates vs. Giants
SAN FRANCISCO -- "We can't take a pitch off." If Clint Hurdle had his own Ten Commandments, that would be at the top of his tablet.
The Pirates took a big pitch off Wednesday afternoon, with stunning and disastrous consequences, and it might have cost them a game. It definitely cost them some embarrassment. The final price will be established by the final standings, which Buccos Nation now hopes does not show their team missing the postseason by one game.View Full Game Coverage
SAN FRANCISCO -- "We can't take a pitch off." If Clint Hurdle had his own Ten Commandments, that would be at the top of his tablet.
The Pirates took a big pitch off Wednesday afternoon, with stunning and disastrous consequences, and it might have cost them a game. It definitely cost them some embarrassment. The final price will be established by the final standings, which Buccos Nation now hopes does not show their team missing the postseason by one game.View Full Game Coverage
For the time being, the toll was a 7-5 loss to the Giants on a brilliant AT&T Park afternoon.
Trying to build onto a 5-4 lead in the sixth inning, the Bucs walked into a double play. Say what?
"I always have this talk with a buddy, 'If you watch enough games, you will see something you've never seen before.' Unfortunately," Hurdle said, "that was the first time I've seen one of my teams walk into a double play.
"We win as a team, and lose as a team. You just got to kick it to the curb. We won a series, and now we need to get out of here."
The Bucs indeed departed with their sixth win in their last nine road series, but, once again, were a few whisks short of the broom for a road sweep, now 0-4 in games this season when they had a chance to close one out. The formula this time was certainly unique.
Put it this way: With one out in the top of the sixth, Chris Stewart drew a walk to load the bases -- and in the next instant, the inning was over.
Travis Snider, the runner on second, had lost track of the baserunners, thinking the bases were loaded before Stewart's walk. So he strolled off second base -- and was tagged out, as was Gaby Sanchez, who in the confusion had broken from third to home.
"Absolutely, a 100 percent mental error," said Snider, who had realized his mistake "as soon as [Giants shortstop Brandon] Crawford started running at me. Honestly, I was just thinking about getting to third base. I take ownership of that mistake."
"That caught everybody off guard," said Rick Sofield, the first-base coach who helplessly watched the nightmare unfold. "It caught San Francisco off guard. Nobody really knew what was going on. Only thing I could do is try to help Stewart get to second base, so we still have two guys in scoring position -- but then Gaby jumped off, and it wound up being a double play."
"Unfortunately," Snider added, quietly, "it was an opportune time for us to make something happen."
But instead of having pinch-hitter Pedro Alvarez bat with the bases loaded and one out and trying to build on their lead, the Pirates had to go back on defense.
"It cost us an opportunity to add on runs. That's the reality," said Hurdle. "But I don't think it had anything to do with what happened after that."
Yet there was the persistent sense that the Pirates were paying for their sins with the ensuing action.
It started soon, in the seventh. Justin Wilson took over, still protecting that 5-4 lead, and with one out walked Michael Morse, whose pinch-runner (Juan Perez) came around to score the tying run on consecutive singles by Joe Panik and Gregor Blanco. A passed ball by Stewart then brought home Panik for a 6-5 Giants lead. Jeanmar Gomez surrendered an unearned run in the eighth.
Prior to the unraveling, the Bucs were trying to complete their first sweep here since 2004 by sticking to the script: Score enough early runs off the Giants' starter to withstand being quieted by the San Francisco bullpen.
This time, they did not get in the first blows, those being leveled on Charlie Morton.
The Giants' first was so "Morton." Crawford lined a single to right with one away, and before another ball left the infield, San Francisco had two runs. An infield single by Buster Posey helped load the bases, another scratch infield hit by Morse delivered one run and a bases-loaded walk forced in another. Blanco then at least singled out of the infield to make it 3-0.
"Yes, very frustrating," Morton, whose sinkers usually invite such unfriendly bounces, said with a scowl. "The first inning was ... frustrating. It used to bother me even more, but you kind of develop a thicker skin to things not going well."
Before the game, Hurdle had said of the Giants' starter, Tim Lincecum, "If he brings his 'A' game, we don't score five runs."
Lincecum's game fell somewhere else in the alphabet. Snider's infield grounder delivered one run in the second, and Josh Harrison and Jordy Mercer took turns clubbing two-run homers the next two innings.
Morton staggered through five innings, allowing nine hits and three walks and hitting a batter. Hence, nearly half of the 27 men he faced reached base, but he stranded eight of them.
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer.


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dvent needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 59 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
Our site is at http://www.printerink.com. We are 100% happy with our content, navigation and sitemap but are looking for a redesign to make the site more Web 2.0, trustworthy and user friendly. It is very important that you design with our preferred coding format in mind - CSS/XHTML as SEO will be important for us. We are looking for a clean design with a modern CSS feel.
As I mentioned above, the content and navigation will be exactly the same and we are looking for a re-design with a modern and clean CSS/XHTML feel.
It is important that you make the grid with printer ink partners stand out in a nice way and make it more visually appealing (but will all the same content). You may want to add stars, etc. as the rating system.
Our model is similar to: http://www.hostreview.com, http://webhostinggeeks.com/, etc. but for printer ink. We are not crazy about those designs though.
Must follow the exact content and navigation. On the homepage, feel free to add some bookmarking widgets (digg, etc) and on inner pages, please make sure there is a left module for navigation as well as showing the printer ink partners again.
Here are some web designs that we like in terms of modern look and feel, colors and fonts but we do like using our blue:
Please make sure the navigation (essentially all text) is designed to be CSS text as opposed to graphics. You can definitely use graphics to make the grid look good and also have modules on the inner pages.
I don't want some generic technology or web hosting templates. The 4 sites above are a pretty good representation in terms of look and feel.


text: Barry Hughes, Vice President at HOK and leads the mixed-use design studio. His design experience includes diverse projects such as Westfield London, the British Embassy in Morocco, train stations in Japan and Europe, as well as masterplans for major schemes in the Middle East. Recent experiences have seen him leading the design of large scale mixed use developments, combining retail, entertainment, residential, office, hotel, and other uses on three continents. Based in London, his experience ranges from projects in the Americas, Russia, Asia, as well as the UK and Europe. Barry is passionate about creating dynamic architecture with a fundamental understanding of the urban realm. When not in the studio, Barry is an avid cyclist who represented the United States at the 2008 Masters World Cycling Championships.


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Kurt Nimmo
August 30, 2011
For the crime of recording police during a citation and taking a tape recorder into the courtroom, 41-year old mechanic Michael Allison faces a life sentence in prison. The state of Illinois has charged Allison with five counts of wiretapping, each punishable by four to 15 years in prison.
The case reveals how far the authorities will go in their efforts to squelch the rights of citizens and prevent them from documenting the abuses of police and other government officials.
The above news report aired in June. It appeared on YouTube last week.
As Radley Balko noted on his blog in June, the report filed by a Terre Haute news station is riddled with misinformation:
The report gets a few things wrong, most notably the assertion recording cops is "illegal in a dozen states". A dozen states require all parties to consent before you can record a conversation, but all except Illinois and Massachusetts have an "expectation of privacy" provision that the courts to this point have ruled does not apply to on-duty police officers (or anyone in a public setting). That hasn't stopped police from arresting people in those states (and others) anyway. But the charges don't hold up in court.
This isn't a distinction without a difference. When a media outlet reports that recording cops is "illegal" in these states (and the Terre Haute station is not the first to do so), it adds to the public perception that doing so is, in fact, illegal. This makes it more difficult to hold police officers accountable when they disregard the law. In order to overcome a police officer's qualified immunity in a lawsuit for wrongful arrest, you have to show that a reasonable person (not a reasonable police officer) should have known that the arrest was in violation of clearly established law. When media outlets continue to incorrectly report that recording cops is illegal in these states, they contribute to public confusion about the law—and thus make it more difficult for people who have been wrongly arrested to argue in court that a reasonable person should have known that the arrest was illegal.
The reporter's characterization of his amusing confrontation with a deputy in the courthouse is also incorrect. The reporter says they were advised by attorneys not to air the audio of the conversation because of the same law under which Allison is being prosecuted. But if they did make a recording of their interaction with the deputy, they'd be subject to prosecution regardless of whether or not they actually aired the audio.
Still, points for effort. This is a seven-and-a-half minute report from a local news station about an important issue that takes a skeptical view of law enforcement. That's pretty rare.


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In building an operating system, it is important to be able to determine the performance characteristics of underlying hardware components (CPU, RAM, disk, network, etc.), and to understand how their performance influences or constrains operating system services. Likewise, in building an application, one should understand the performance of the underlying hardware and operating system, and how they relate to the user's subjective sense of that application's "responsiveness". While some of the relevant quantities can be found in specs and documentation, many must be determined experimentally. While some values may be used to predict others, the relations between lower- and higher-level performance are often subtle and non-obvious.
In this project, you will create, justify, and apply a set of experiments to a system to characterize and understand its performance. In addition, you may explore the relations between some of these quantities. In doing so, you will study how to use benchmarks to usefully characterize a complex system. You should also gain an intuitive feel for the relative speeds of different basic operations, which is invaluable in identifying performance bottlenecks.
You may work either alone or in two-person groups. In groups, both members receive the same grade. If collaboration issues arise, contact me as soon as possible: flexibility in dealing with such issues decreases as the deadline approaches.
This project has two parts. First, you will implement and perform a series of experiments. Second, you will write a report documenting the methodology and results of your experiments. When you finish, you will submit your report as well as the code used to perform your experiments.
Your report will have a number of sections including an introduction, a machine description, and descriptions and discussions of your experiments.
sysctl on BSD,
on Linux, System Profiler on Mac OS X), or online. You will not be graded on
this part, and it should not require much work, but in explaining and
analyzing your results you will find these numbers useful. You should
report at least the following quantities:
Do not underestimate the time it takes to describe your methodology and results.
Evaluate for the TCP protocol. For each quantity, compare both remote and loopback interfaces. Comparing the remote and loopback results, what can you deduce about baseline network performance and the overhead of OS software? For both round trip time and bandwidth, how close to ideal hardware performance do you achieve? In describing your methodology for the remote case, either provide a machine description for the second machine (as above), or use two identical machines.
During the quarter you have read a number of papers describing various system measurements, including V, Sprite, microkernels, Scheduler Activations, LRPC, LFS, and IO-Lite. You may find these papers useful as references.
In addition, other papers you may find useful for help with system measurement are:
You may read these papers, or other references, for strategies on performing measurements, but you may not examine code to copy or replicate the implementation of a measurement. For example, reading the lmbench paper is fine, but downloading and looking at the lmbench code violates the intent of the project.
Finally, it goes almost without saying that you must implement all of your measurements. You may not download a tool to perform the measurements for you.
We will grade your project on the relative accuracy of your measurement results (disk reads performing faster than the buffer cache are a bad sign) as well as the quality of your report in terms of methodology description (can we understand what you did and why?), discussion of results (answering specific questions, discussing unexpected behavior), and the writing (lazy writing will hurt your grade).


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|Dwayne Carey
Boone County Sheriff
Boone County Sheriff's Department and Jail
2121 County Dr.
Columbia, MO 65201
Office (573) 875-1111
Fax (573) 874-8953
Deputies have jurisdiction for the entire county of Boone. This includes any town within Boone County that does not have a police department. Deputies have powers of arrest in all municipalities and townships within Boone County.
Boone County consists of 684 square miles. Uniformed Deputies are assigned to a district; there are four districts in Boone County, 2 north of I -70 and 2 south of I-70.
Uniformed Deputies enforce and investigate Missouri State Criminal and Traffic laws, answer calls for service and patrol Boone County roads. Deputies serve arrest and search warrants, orders of protection, probate orders, subpoenas and civil summonses.
Uniformed Deputies receive at least 60 shifts of training with a Field Training Officer. Uniformed Deputies are assigned a take home patrol vehicle equipped with mobile data terminal, radar unit and video camera. Uniformed Deputies must be able to work any shift, once field training is completed.
There are a total of 36 uniformed patrol deputies in the enforcement division. The division is supervised by 6 sergeants. There are 24 uniformed deputies and 2 uniformed civil process deputies.
Currently uniformed deputies work a 28 day pay period and receive pay every other week. Uniformed deputies work either an 8 or 9 hour day, depending on the schedule rotation. The department also has specialty positions that require modified work times, as deemed necessary by the department.
Uniformed Deputies are required to maintain the minimum standard of Continuing Education Units (C.E.U.) every year.
Computer Voice Stress Analyzer (C.V.S.A.)
Crisis Intervention Team (C.I.T.)
Crisis Negotiation Team (C.N.T.)
Datamaster Instructor
Defensive Tactics Instructor
Drug Abuse Resistance Education Officer (D.A.R.E.)
Drug Recognition Expert (D.R.E.)
Evidence Technician
Field Training Officer (F.T.O.)
Firearms Instructor
International Police Mountain Bike Assoc.(IPMBA) Bike Unit
K-9 Unit
Oleoresin Capsicum (O.C.) Instructor
Radar Instructor
School Resource Officer (S.R.O.)
Special Weapons and Tactics (S.W.A.T.) Team
Taser Instructor
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Car Comparison
2014 Ford Escape vs. 2014 Honda CR-V: Which Is Better?
The 2014 Ford Escape and the 2014 Honda CR-V are the best-selling compact crossover SUVs in America. Both seat five people, have 4-cylinder engines and offer optional all-wheel drive. Naturally, consumers in the market for a small SUV may wonder: Which is better, the Escape or the CR-V? That's what we're going to find out. First, though, let's find out what is different for the 2014 model year.
2014 Ford Escape Highlights:
For 2014, Ford has discontinued the Escape SEL model, making its formerly standard and optional equipment available for the continuing Escape SE. Also, this year consumers can enjoy the convenience of the optional foot-operated power tailgate with the Escape's optional Class II trailer-towing provisions.
2014 Honda CR-V Highlights:
For the second year in a row since the CR-V was redesigned for 2012, Honda makes no changes to the popular compact crossover. It continues in LX, EX and EX-L trim levels, offered with a single engine and a choice between front-wheel and all-wheel drive.
Fuel Economy
The 2014 Ford Escape offers one of three engines, each paired with a 6-speed automatic transmission. The Escape S model comes with a 168-horsepower 2.5-liter 4-cylinder engine and front-wheel drive. The Escape SE and Titanium models are equipped with a 178-hp 1.6-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine from Ford's EcoBoost family of powerplants. The EcoBoost engine also makes additional torque (at lower rpm) compared to the Escape S model's engine, and can be optioned with all-wheel drive. Another option for the Escape SE and Titanium models is a 240-hp 2.0-liter EcoBoost 4-cylinder engine.
Compare the Ford's powertrain variety to what Honda offers in the 2014 CR-V. The only engine offered for the Honda is a 185-hp 2.4-liter 4-cylinder engine matched to a 5-speed automatic transmission. Front-wheel drive is standard, and all-wheel drive is optional.
Nevertheless, this lack of variety doesn't hurt the Honda when it comes to fuel economy. It returns 26 miles per gallon in combined city and highway driving with front-wheel drive, and 25 mpg with all-wheel drive. Those figures match the Ford's 1.6-liter EcoBoost engine, and best both the Escape's base engine and its powerful 2.0-liter EcoBoost option. Therefore, judged purely on fuel economy, the Honda squeaks out the smallest of victories. Had we been considering available horsepower and torque levels, though, the Escape would have come out on top.
Honda lands a more decisive win against the 2014 Ford Escape for safety. The Honda achieves a 5-star overall crash-test rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Good ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) in all assessments except the difficult new small overlap frontal-impact test, in which the Honda receives a Marginal rating.
Compare these results to the Escape, which receives a 4-star overall rating from NHTSA and Good ratings in all IIHS tests except the small overlap frontal-impact assessment, for which the Ford rates Poor. While Ford offers more safety-related technology to keep you out of trouble in the first place and installs features that can help speed rescue following a collision, the Honda better protects you during a crash -- and so, it is our victor.
Ford redesigned the Escape for the 2013 model year, and the rollout was a little rough. The SUV suffered numerous recalls, including several campaigns to address potential engine fires with the most popular engine, the 1.6-liter EcoBoost. Not surprisingly, owners rated the 2013 Escape poorly for quality, according to J.D. Power, and for reliability, based on Consumer Reports survey data. Owner complaints about the Escape's optional MyFord Touch infotainment system certainly didn't help to lift the SUV's scores.
Comparatively speaking, a Honda CR-V is basically bulletproof, and has been for a long time. Take a look at survey results from Consumer Reports going back to 2004 and it is clear that these Hondas just don't break. This is also reflected in J.D. Power data regarding quality and dependability. That's why the clear reliability advantage goes to the Honda CR-V.
If it's starting to look like a clean sweep for the Honda CR-V, the story changes when it comes to value. If you're leasing a new crossover SUV, the Honda results in a lower monthly payment thanks, in part, to an ALG depreciation rating of five stars. Right now, you can get a CR-V LX for $290 per month with nothing down. Simply drive away, make 36 consecutive payments and don't drive farther than 36,000 miles. Ford can't touch this deal with the Escape.
Most people buy a vehicle in this class, though. The 2014 Ford Escape is priced lower than the Honda, and Ford is offering rebates of up to $2,000. Zero-interest financing for 60 months is also available, combined with a $1,000 rebate. This means you're getting a discount from invoice price and you don't pay any interest. Honda can't touch this deal with the CR-V. Plus, since the Escape's ALG depreciation rating is a respectable four stars, it's not as though the Honda offers a significant benefit in retaining value over time.
Now consider that the Escape has a better warranty and includes free roadside assistance. These factors, combined with better deals when buying instead of leasing, let the Ford eke out a win on value. But if you're leasing, the Honda is the best bet.
Another area where Ford displays strength is with technology. Both crossover SUVs include standard Bluetooth connectivity and a reversing camera. While the Honda also includes Pandora Internet radio and a USB port, the Ford is ultimately offered with greater depth in standard technology by virtue of its Torque Vectoring Control system, SOS Post Crash Alert system, MyKey programmable vehicle safety features and a 911 Assist service that works whenever a smartphone is paired to the Escape's Sync technology.
While the company's optional MyFord Touch infotainment system has produced complaints by owners in customer satisfaction surveys, it is more sophisticated than the optional navigation system that Honda offers for the top-of-the-line CR-V EX-L model. Both SUVs are available with dual-zone automatic climate control, a premium audio system and satellite radio.
Also, the Ford can be fitted with rain-sensing wipers, Intelligent Access keyless passive entry with push-button starting, a 110-volt power outlet, a SecuriCode keyless entry system and front and rear parking sensors. Buyers can also opt for a Blind Spot Information System with Cross Traffic Alert, a power tailgate that can be opened by waving a foot underneath the rear bumper and an Active Park Assist system that steers the Escape into a parallel parking space while the driver operates the pedals.
The only unique option offered for the Honda is a DVD rear entertainment system, something that Ford dealers can install inside of an Escape as an accessory. Clearly, the technological advantage goes to Ford.
AutoTrader's Advice
Reliable, safe and fuel-efficient, the 2014 Honda CR-V is the better of these two crossover SUVs for simple practicality. However, the Ford delivers better value and greater technological sophistication, far more power from its optional EcoBoost engine and more variety in mixing and matching equipment. Plus, it nearly matches the Honda in combined fuel economy ratings.


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WASHINGTON – Moving to advance the fight against systemic discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will consider recommendations from a special task force at its next meeting, Tuesday, April 4, at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time), at agency headquarters, 1801 L Street, N.W. In accordance with the Sunshine Act, the following matters are scheduled for consideration during the open session of the meeting:
The task force has defined systemic cases as "pattern or practice, policy and/or class cases where the alleged discrimination has a broad impact on an industry, profession, company, or geographic location." The full task force report will be available on the EEOC's web site at www.eeoc.gov following the meeting.
NOTE TO NEWS MEDIA: Any matter not discussed or concluded may be carried over to a later meeting. The Commission agenda is subject to revision. You may call (202) 663-7100 (voice) or (202) 663-4074 (TTY) on the day of the Commission Meeting to confirm the above schedule.
The EEOC is the federal government agency responsible for enforcing the nation's laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Additional information about the agency is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.
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Wealth Management
Today's investors are more hands on and more likely to actively seek investment advice. Research shows that investors who communicate and collaborate with their advisor electronically pay more for the guidance they receive. But most financial firms — saddled with traditional, siloed CRM systems — struggle to engage with their clients through digital channels while maintaining the same level of advice, service and regulatory compliance as traditional methods of communication.
NexJ's Integrated Advisor Desktop solution, with its next generation approach to CRM, enables financial firms to treat digital channels the same as traditional touchpoints, allowing the investor to choose their preferred communication, fulfillment, advice and service channels across the enterprise. This results in richer engagements, an increase in managed assets, and higher levels of investor satisfaction and advocacy.