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Italian prosecutor overwhelmed by soccer match-fixing probe that has led to dozens of arrests
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ROME – Two years ago, a curious case landed on the desk of Italian prosecutor Roberto Di Martino in the town of Cremona.
Five players on the local third-division club Cremonese fell ill after a match against Paganese. One of the sick players crashed his car and club management reported the mysterious circumstances to police.
It turned out that Cremonese's goalkeeper had been bribed by match-fixers to make sure his team lost. Unable to recruit teammates to join in on the fix, he decided the next best option was to drug them. So he put tranquilizers in the team water bottles, according to police. Italian soccer officials banned him for five years.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is part of a six-month, multiformat AP examination of how organized crime is corrupting soccer through match-fixing, running over four days this week.
"It sounds like a fairy tale or a novel. It's absolute craziness, something unbelievable — but it's all true," Di Martino said in an interview with The Associated Press.
"At the start it seemed like it was just for a few matches, then we figured out that it was pretty much a global system."
The investigation has thrust the 62-year-old Di Martino into the heart of one of the biggest match-fixing cases ever revealed: more than 210,000 tapped phone calls, more than 150 suspects under investigation, hundreds of matches analyzed in all four of Italy's professional divisions, dozens of people arrested and scores more wanted all over the world.
Among those arrested in "Operation Last Bet" were former Lazio captain and Italy national team forward Giuseppe Signori and former Atalanta captain Cristiano Doni.
Prosecutors in Naples and Bari have opened related investigations. Di Martino feels like he's hardly made a dent and is overwhelmed, especially since he has to also handle the routine daily work in his small office that has nothing to do with rigged soccer matches.
"If I were working full time on this I could find out more, but I'm the leader of an office that also handles administrative matters. I lose more time for administrative matters than for trials," he said.
Di Martino isn't alone. Prosecutors in Germany have uncovered about 340 games that they believe were fixed, but they can investigate only half of them because they don't have enough staff, a German investigator told AP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss investigations with the news media.
Even if prosecutors can catch players involved in fixing matches, hunting down the international money trail has proved far more elusive.
"These guys operate at a very global level. The police have no idea how to operate at a global level like crime does. They can do what they like, travel as they like," said Chris Eaton, the former head of security at soccer's governing body FIFA and now director of integrity at the International Centre for Sport Security, a Qatar-backed group funding research into match-fixing and ways to fight it.
When Eaton was at FIFA, the former detective and his handful of investigators opted to interview suspects and pursue cases across the world. Because he had few evidence-gathering powers and little support from national law enforcement agencies, FIFA had limited success.
Ralf Mutschke, a former Interpol manager who succeeded Eaton last year, has switched tactics, focusing more on education and prevention. National agencies investigate match-fixing, with liaison support from FIFA's 209 members associations.
"Everyone has a role to play," Interpol Secretary-General Ronald Noble told the AP. "There has to be prosecution. There has to be prevention. ... There's got to be internal work from FIFA. There's got to be work from the legal betting agencies. It's a huge problem, a huge problem."
In Italy, match-fixing by itself is not considered a serious crime.
"It's considered a minor type of fraud — sports fraud — which is penalized with sentences of a maximum of two years," Di Martino said.
Furthermore, most sentences up to two years in Italy are routinely suspended. And many accused match-fixers face investigation and disciplinary action by sports federations before criminal prosecutions proceed.
While those involved in Operation Last Bet have not yet gone to a criminal trial, Italian football federation prosecutor Stefano Palazzi has already handed out numerous bans from soccer and punished teams by dropping them in the league standings.
Doni was banned from football for 5 1/2 years for allegedly betting on fixed games and Atalanta has been docked points — both last season and this season. Signori, allegedly a key link between money runners in eastern Europe and players who fixed matches, was banned for five years, even though he's retired.
In all, 13 clubs in Italy's top two divisions have been punished in the standings this season with point deductions.
Antonio Conte, the coach of defending Serie A champion Juventus, completed in December a four-month ban for failing to report fixing when he guided Siena two seasons ago.
In other countries as well, match-fixers go free because there aren't laws on the books or it is not considered a serious crime.
In November, three players in Switzerland were acquitted in a match-fixing case, and the country's Football Association said the criminal code needs to be updated. The judge ruled that an online betting scam did not yield a victim.
Di Martino was drawn into the case when it was still believed to be the more serious crime of a drugging incident, thus enabling him to use investigative practices that might not have been employed for match-fixing.
"Criminal association allows phone taps, but it's not like you automatically have proof of criminal association, so it's nearly impossible to do phone taps unless you have much, much bigger reasons to," he said.
Di Martino previously worked on terrorism and organized crime cases when he was based in Brescia until 2008.
"It was a fortunate combination that led to all this, and it's unlikely to happen again," he said. "Once this trial is held, if they don't change the rules of the game, it's unlikely you'll see trials like this again."
For prosecutors, there are several ways to prove match-fixing — the best being confessions by players and fixers alike in the same case. That happened in Croatia in 2010, when local police, tipped off by prosecutors in Bochum, Germany, put a wiretap on fixer Vinko Saka's phone and started reeling in the co-conspirators. Fifteen players, coaches and officials went on trial for match-fixing there, and the police wiretaps were so extensive that several of them pleaded guilty. Saka himself got a plea deal from prosecutors that also required him to testify about match-fixing in Italy.
The Bochum case, which led to investigations in other European countries, was built on wiretaps requested on convicted match-fixer Ante Sapina when he was released from prison following a German refereeing scandal that broke in 2005.
Turkish police also used extensive wiretaps in their case in 2012 charging 93 people, including senior soccer officials, with match-fixing.
Prosecutors can also build evidence from money transfers.
Sometimes players report to police that they have been approached by fixers, and the subsequent investigation uncovers match-fixing.
In 2011, Serie B player Simone Farina was offered 200,000 euros ($260,000) to influence the outcome of an Italian Cup match between Cesena and his club, Gubbio. Farina refused and reported the incident to the police. He was widely applauded, and FIFA made him an ambassador in its fight against fixing, but the whistleblower had trouble finding a club and retired before moving to England's Aston Villa in a coaching role.
"My vision is that one day, the decision I made will not be treated as the exception, but rather the rule," Farina said in a recent speech.
The confessions of convicted Singaporean fixer Wilson Perumal also provided valuable source material after his arrest in Finland.
On-field behavior — blatant referee or player mistakes — can really only be used as corroborating evidence, because there can be legitimate reasons for poor performance.
However, there might be grounds to investigate if all the scoring in one game is due to questionable calls by a referee, or if online betting monitors notice unusual in-game spikes in wagering, or if the game's unexpected result keeps a team from being demoted to a lower league.
The most successful match-fixing is opaque — a win by a team that is expected to win, a loss by a team expected to lose, an unusual outcome in an exhibition or "friendly" match that doesn't count in the standings.
Sophisticated match-fixers now use scores of smaller bets on a fixed game instead of one large wager, and they often wait until the last minute to lock in the odds before betting companies can notice shifts.
Widespread soccer scandals are not new in Italy. Court cases are still going on from a 2006 match-fixing inquiry dubbed "Calciopoli," which involved clubs putting pressure on referees and led to 28-time Italian champion Juventus' relegation to the less-prestigious Serie B, as well as penalties for a handful of other clubs.
The last major betting scandal in Italy was in 1980, when there were also numerous arrests and bans for club officials and top players, including Paolo Rossi, who returned to lead Italy to the 1982 World Cup title.
Di Martino is convinced that match-fixing continues in Italy, despite his investigation.
"I'm sure it still goes on," he said. "I strongly doubt it has stopped. ... I hope this inquiry makes an impact, and just for that I'm trying to keep it going."
AP Sports Writer John Leicester in Paris and Assistant Europe Editor Sheila Norman-Culp in London contributed to this report. Dunbar reported from Geneva.


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Mebane was held out of practice Thursday with a calf injury. Head coach Pete Carroll says he's ``in good shape'' to play. Mebane has a history of calf ailments in the past, missing one game in the 2009 season and four in 2010 due to calf issues.
Cornerback Marcus Trufant is questionable with a back issue that kept him out of practice Wednesday and Thursday. He returned for limited participation Friday. Carroll said he will be a game-time decision.
Defensive tackle Jaye Howard is officially out. Howard injured his foot in practice last week and hasn't been able to work since. Guard John Moffitt is also out with a foot injury.
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just listened to every track Sonic Youth have done...
how the fuck can a band who wrote 'Teen Age Riot' (arguably a perfect song) release so much absolute shite (90% of their other stuff)?
Deary, deary me.
So much potential.
yeah, i love and hate them in equal measure
purr (from dirty) is so so good. most of the time i don't know what they're playing at thoughPharyngeal this'd this
I found A Thousand Leaves incredibly hard to get into, but I was determined. At the start it sounded like a pot full of hot and bubbling shit to me.
I don't think I can stomach NYC Ghosts and Flowers though. No way.
Those two are probably my favourite albums.
Magical, both of them.johneggfish this'd this
you haven't though have you.
why would you?
- thewarn and georgiabeth this'd this
where do you stand on the concept of growers?
99% of the time...
i can listen to a 15-20 second segment of any song and know whether it'll be good or not.
- Severed799 and joeymahone this'd this
how did you ever end up listening to any good music?
Their last good album was Washing Machine. That in fact is a
stunning album.
that simply is not true
Sonic Nurseethricdouble, Severed799, TomViolence, and j_hindsight this'd this
murray streetanal_schwarzenegger, johneggfish, sunstroke_house, Filip, Severed799, watsona7, roastthemonaspit, georgiabeth, j_hindsight, no-class, and noise_annoys this'd this
Yours huffily,
Rather Ripped.
I believe
that the problem is yours, and not theirs.
Cheersforzaborza this'd this
Not as if they've been commercially successful, is it?
Ergo, they've failed as a band.
typical northerner
valuing success only in monetary terms
The exact same thing used to puzzle me as well.
Teenage riot and 100% are the only sonic youth songs I like.
If Sonic Youth's whole career was in reverse
People would still argue that they were shit from the third album onwardsdea10sign this'd this
dad rock evolving into no wave?
well it'd be novel
but they've also written stuff like this
which is just lovely, frankly
- georgiabeth this'd this
whilst we're here
am I the only one who thinks Teenager Riot would be improved by being maybe 5-10% faster? with a more Silver Rocket type pace?
i don't really like teenage riot
in fact i don't think daydream nation is very good at all
forza pls get back to me when you've worked out my indie points score thanksmug_mug_mug this'd this
I hear you, brother
Daydream Nation leaves me pretty cold. It's all about Sister and Goo as far as I'm concerned (pretty sure those two cancel each other out on the indie points scale).
^this actually
never really been a massive fan of that album, I remember teenage riot being played a lot on MTV2 and being fairly nonplussed, it wasn't until I heard Sonic Nurse on a whim a few years later that Sonic Youth began to click for me.
is the only song of theirs I really like.
that's fine
because it's their best song.automatik and ethricdouble this'd this
i'm going to say
a lot less time than you'd expect
- Icarus-Smicarus, JaguarPirate, georgiabeth, andyvine, Antelope, and joeymahone this'd this
- JohnM, Severed799, and guntrip this'd this
did you include everything everything? All those SYR artsy things?
bet you skipped all the 'feeback-y' bits
I always do
I used to love Sonic Youth
but I can't remember the last time I felt the urge to listen to one of their records.thewarn and georgiabeth this'd this
I even quite like Rather Ripped.
I struggle with most of NYC Ghosts, and I find Murray St a bit boring.
Teenage Riot isn't even the best song on Daydream Nation
That'd be Hey Joni. Or Cross the Breeze.
- stanstubbs this'd this
I like most of their albums to be honest
NYC ghosts and flowers is probably my least favourite. I know rather ripped gets a bad name but it was the first one i bought when it came out. The 5-album run from EVOL to Dirty is pretty perfect though.
I'm not going to lay into you for being thick
not going to go off on one about how fucking ace Sonic Youth are.
what I am going to do is request that you review every single Sonic Youth track. ratings out of ten, a short paragraph for each.
see also
Fake Train by UnwoundJaguarPirate this'd this
Trail of Dead's Madonna
Is the best Unwound album, for that matter. As Conrad would say, "Sonic WHO!?!". Quite apt, actually.
So, I gather from this thread that everyone has different tastes and no one is right. I do think Antenna is the perfect distillation of their sound for the last ten years though, it's wonderful.
- thewarn, incandenza_, and noise_annoys this'd this
I like the one with the feedback mic pendulum
it's my jam.
turning from hate to love
i've got nothing better to do today. i'm a Brit stuck in LA on fucking trick the Indians day. yay.
so, my top ten SY tracks then.
1.) Teen Age Riot
2.) Schizophrenia
3.) Shadow Of A Doubt
4.) The Diamond Sea
5.) Dirty Boots
6.) Winner's Blues
7.) Pink Steam
8.) Wish Fulfillment
9.) Rain On Tin
10.) 100%
yr welcome.
anyone else?
listen pal
if you're going to be this ambivalent towards being a Brit stuck in LA on thanksgiving day, there's plenty of us who would happily swap with you.
thanks. (good list)JaguarPirate this'd this
noted, severed799
i will endeavor to improve my attitude. off to a pub.
good chat.Severed799 and JaguarPirate this'd this
also Wildflower Soul might be my new favourite SY song
I love how they can really rock out on a song with any distortion, keeping it so shiny and clean
They've been going so long now they're like the Rolling Stones of Modern Rock music
So they have their best period i.e. the first ten years. They haven't really progressed artistically since the 80's. Since then they've released a lot of average to mediocre material with a couple of terrible albums here and there. Long-term fans will defend them, but a lot of young upstarts will claim they are irrelevant much to the amusement of anyone over 25.
replace the band name & the standout track
and you've got the world, friend.
I tried listening to every Sonic Youth album
I had them all at one stage, on LP or CD. All great until the 90s really, I just couldn't get into much of that at all. Got better in the 00s I found.
Today officially marks the end of the 2011/12 season for me, and with that my regular participation in the daily football threads (though i'll still be around generally). What can i say, i'm a man of my word. I've tried to drag it out a bit, you have to, but August is upon us.
I'll definitely miss the daily shabs, but to be honest, i'm just a bit busy nowadays, and i can't think of a better place to leave it than at the end of the glorious season during which i was proved ultimately right and we were crowned the Champions of England in such glorious fashion.
I'll probably keep you up-to-date with my groundhopping adventures, and can't promise i won't resort to the odd smiley whenever we brutally turn over United! again, but for now i can live without DanielKelly's needless early-morning paranoid defensivity, Jordan's multiple City-obsessed accounts, and the dead inside high-horsing of part-time Arsenal fans, etc, etc.
All the best riding your fold-up bikes to those mundane office jobs, but some of us have got actual adult shit to do, and as much as i'd love to mock you all continiuously, i'm just not sure i can be bothered any more. The proof, as they say, has been in the pudding.
As we discussed on that fateful day in May when Manchester City became the best, most feared, some would argue biggest club in the whole of England, that achievement felt like a natural end to my 20-year, stripes-earned journey as a supporter. I've not bought a season ticket for the coming season, even a membership, i'm not even planning on keeping tabs with news or scores, though i'll still watch Match of the Day, of course.
Given this, that i won't be supporting the club i've loved for two decades either financially or vocally in the flesh, i sadly have to sacrifice my right to a public opinion on matters MCFC. That's just how it works in the real world. It's a shame some of you tykes are too shameless to appreciate that, but each to their own.
Good luck to you all, but i'm off to walk the Fells, grow some veg, catch some fish, see a bit of the world, romance some hot Eastern European chicks, get myself on the property ladder and produce some offspring. It's been fun, but we've all got to grow out of it at some point.
- joeymahone and lemonbrickcombo this'd this
saw this when it was first posted.
Teen Age Riot rocks you indie belms
it's one of those songs that tricks you into getting all nostalgic over times that actually weren't all that spectacular
Kim's Body/Head thing with that noise guy at Supersonic
was pretty special.
forza is lazy/crazy/hazy/fantazy
And to prove it here is my lovingly crafted SY playlist.
(chronological don't you know).


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|2009-10-03, 01:56
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Are we sure it's not odawara though?
I did some searching. First I googled "Sweetfish river" and found this.
(it also mentions a dam and I got reminded of higurashi, so... )
So it seems "since ancient times when the Sagamigawa was called the Sweetfish River".
So I searched Sagamigawa river and found that it's in Kanagawa and....
The adults though seem fairly certain it's not Odawara, so it could be some other of the places mentioned there. Or it could be odawara and "beloved hometown" could be sarcastic, somewhat fitting (ok, not really) to kinzo being childish about it. Also "The 'beloved hometown' definitely won't betray our expectations." maybe it is Odawara...
I don't know about you, but I'll look into Sagami-gawa river a lot more, since from the atlas book we know that a place is at least part of the solution. I'll post further findings later, but I was excited by this and couldn't wait to post everything after my research (and if I'm done with the research someone will hopefully take the results and run with it, since my japanese and kanji knowledge is close to non-existant)
Edit: Also the wikipedia entry for sagami-gawa should be interesting.
|2009-10-03, 02:10
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The key is a word. The word is possibly a place (maybe?).
So far I think it's
Find Sagami River. Follow it downstream (it reaches the ocean). Then find a village near the ocean (I'm not sure if that is literal or not though) and then find the shore. The name of the shore could possible be the key(word) we're looking for. Then hopefully with some help from people with kanji knowledge we can figure out the rest.
|2009-10-03, 02:14
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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It seems like it is a word play using a map. Following characters that lead to something that, when you get to it, makes perfect sense...the problem...we don't have this atlas in Japanese to track these characters. It is single characters it seems, thus they could be inside another word, but lead on a path, either to a location, or another word. It would suck if not all maps have the words in the same place though...so there must be something else.
|2009-10-03, 02:20
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When Eva is sure she found the answer she says :
E: "...But this isn't six characters at all. ...I can state that this is the answer without a doubt, but this doesn't reach six characters at all...!"
So the place on the atlas is probably less than six letters. (then she somehow transforms it to something with 6 letters)...
|2009-10-03, 03:19
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As it is implied to be a childish pun, we should also take into account that it may be unsolvable to us, who have no idea of how childhood jokes in the 1910's and 20's were like, maybe Eva and her siblings still remember their father's occasional strange humor.
Young Eva said she had to 'throw away her awe of father', this means it could be a poem he (maybe along with a childhood friend) made up a long time ago.
The only Kanji with a strong double meaning is 里 which does not only mean village or one's upbringing (さと) but also an old japanese measurement (り) which is ca. 4km...which could imply a position IF the epitaph was placed at only ONE location...but because it isn't the point becomes useless.
The other things we have is for one 岸 (きし) which is shore or coast, but does not really hold any double meaning. The other is 川 (かわ or がわ) which is a river or stream.
But as already implied we have to take everything rather metaphorical.
Young Eva urged Eva (and us) to search for a way to think of a 川 that is similarly abstract as a family tree but much more childish...and that's where the possibilities become to much...maybe we need a Japanese children song or something like that...but in the end it has to be easy.
It could be we have to follow a map, but if it is like that it has to be a map of the time when the Epitaph was written, which could be in Kinzo's youth, as it is not stated that the Epitaph leads to the gold and he could have known 'Beatrice' long before he got the gold.
Now it's the question where to get a map of Japan at that time.
The fact that it does not seem to be 6 characters at all could be either that it is not 6 Kanji characters and that we have to read it in Kana to get where on the island it is or maybe even in Rômaji...or it could even be that there is a place that is easy to miss.
|2009-10-03, 04:00
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Location: USA
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Y: "Did you stop thinking again? Then, think of a way you could read it with six characters. If you can't think of one, then research it. .....There has to be an answer. You must not doubt that."
So it could split up characters, I guess..
|2009-10-03, 07:42
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Or an english translation of a japanese word. Seriously the possibilities are almost endless XD
@Puranetsu: well if you ask me I'm pretty sure the hometown isn't Odawara, the river is not a river, and the "sweetfish" part is totally irrelevant.
Also I think there is a very high probability that the "key" is in romaji.
|2009-10-03, 21:55
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|2009-10-04, 00:54
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Location: forever lost inside a logic error
I think, just to be sure, we should try thinking about anything that can be seen in an atlas.
the obvious thing is maps. However there might be more about that. So I propose a little brainstorming to think anything that can be found in an atlas and anything that cannot be found.
For examples Li Jianliang made a good point, we need to think that it is 1986 in the game, so anything that changed after that can't be pat of the solution. For example there are still two Germanies and there's no Ukraina (as an indipendent country).
However you can't see buildings in an atlas. google maps didn't exist either back then.
There's been a theory that the river might be a sea current. However can they really be seen in an atlas?
What else can you find? A starmap? A geological stratus map? Political maps and geographical maps?
Also this is a japanese atlas, so it has probably a more detailed map about the various japanese regions and more general maps for the rest of the world.
Herculysses' theory proposed the idea that "kawa" is actually a table, like in multiplication table, or a diagram. That isn't a bad reasoning, we need to think out of the box. In fact didn't young Eva said that the family tree isn't a bad anology and you need to think something around those lines?
Then what kind of diagram can be found in an atlas?
If you have any idea, any idea, even stupid, say it. Anything can help.
|2009-10-04, 01:10
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I was thinking of the human anatomy for a bit toying around with this idea as it can be a river (blood stream) but I nixed that, I also thought of a paved road nixed that, vines again nixed, and the flow of time.....yeah I had alot of success with the river part....-_-;;; Damn I want to solve this riddle so bad....but Ryuukishi himself it would be next to impossible for English speaking users to solve it.....of course you could count on Kanon's 0 and still try....so I'll try again. I was thinking about the river and the sweetfish part...the entire first part of the epitaph...if that is solved entire riddle falls into place, in Eva's mind anyways. There are alot of ways to think of something as a river. If that falls into place, the village and shore parts will follow as well. I wiki'd the village kanji and found out the kanji for village was also a country house, not sure if that meant anything.
The sweetfish, this part brought Eva's epiphany, the thing about the sweetfish going in and out of a river, I thought this was oxygen for one line of thought with the human anatomy, but yeah it didn't work out.
Beloved Hometown, I thought this was kuwadorian since it was tied to memories that Kinzo holds dear (I think) But hell if I know....
Argh I wish I would stop trying to solve this at the middle of the night -_-;;. Oh well these were my thoughts last night.
|2009-10-04, 01:32
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I had thought about the bloodstream theory as well, the problem is that if you follow it "down"... and you look for "shore" the "two" will tell you of, make me think about Johnny!!!! 6 letters!!! XD
No no there's no way that's the key!!! °_°
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if you look at how well computer interfaces have done for long periods of time without changing, and if you look at how insignificantly different even cutting edge ones are today, you have to wonder if too much is made of linux GUIs.
the GUI guys can go crazy if they want doing all kinds of crazy stuff. but I think a successful distro would sit with the same thing and innovate in other areas unseen to users.


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2012 Tour Stop #14 - Wisconsin State FairAugust 2, 2012
Wisconsin State Fair
West Allis, Wis.
We spent a couple of years at the Summerfest Music Festival tour stop in Milwaukee before we found the Wisconsin State Fair, just down the road. While the fair does involve really long days, it brings many people to the party to sample the Castle Wood Reserve® meats and cheeses, Weber's® seasoning packets, Smithfield loins and ribs and Reser's® Hidden Valley® Ranch potato salad.
At a normal KCBS event, Christine and I load-in on Thursday, do all our supply shopping and receive the Smithfield® and Reser's® UPS shipments. On Friday, we get to the event early to set-up and start sampling by the afternoon. On Saturday morning, we come back to do it all again. At the fair, we loaded-in on Monday afternoon, giving us two days to get our supplies and first shipments of Smithfield® and Reser's® squared away. Christine spent Wednesday afternoon cutting up the Smithfield® pork loins and marinating them in Weber's® Caribbean Jerk Just Add Juice™ while I packed away the 1500 sample size Reser's® cups in coolers and ice.
The fair opened daily at 8 a.m. and required us to be set up and ready by 9 a.m. Due to this being a State Fair, we were required to be set up until 10 p.m. Lucky for us, we had a few friends who helped the past few years come back to help once again -- Marjorie, Christine, Tim and Don. These folks are KCBS members or family of KCBS members so they know hard work and always do a great job promoting KCBS and our sponsors.
Since UPS doesn't deliver on Saturdays, I had 17 big boxes of Smithfield® and Reser's® delivered to the fair on Friday morning. Of course, if I can stack everything high and make just two trips instead of three, I am going to do it. You would think that I would get wiser in my old age (the hotel gave me a senior citizen discount to make me more aware that number) but of course I haven't… After about 10 stops to catch my breath and seemingly a quarter of a mile walk, I finally made it back to our trailer.
Friday was another great day for handing out samples and visiting with the public. Friday was also Christine's birthday and after I messed up last year and had to find a "last minute" cake, I planned ahead and pre-ordered a white cake with butter cream icing…which was perfect!
Saturday brought quite a bit of excitement. At about 3:30 p.m. or so, the local police came around and warned of an incoming storm with anticipated 70 mph winds so Christine and I, along with our helpers, started to "batten down the hatches." At 4 p.m., the rain started falling and Christine had all six of our helpers in the trailer cutting up meat and cheese samples. Thank goodness for all the counter space! Luckily, the storm let up and we were still able to do our 6:30 p.m. demonstration to a packed house anxious to try the Smithfield® St. Louis spare ribs that I had rolled into perfect little crown ribs.
The crowds kept coming Sunday, so thank goodness we were ahead of things from Saturday. The lines started early and stretched almost into the Creampuff Pavillion, a good 50 yards away from our spot!
While the crowds were plentiful and we were able to distribute all our samples, the fair was a lot of work, as most of our food-vending friends know. We finally learned this year to schedule a day off after our midnight Sunday night load-out. Monday was spent sleeping in, doing laundry, catching up on emails and paperwork, napping and re-energizing. I even talked Christine into going back out to the fair late in the day to see some of the things we missed while working and even saw The Band Perry play on the main stage!
Wisconsin is always a little bittersweet because it normally means that we are halfway through with the current year's tour. It is always hard to believe how quickly the time has flown and before we know it, we will be winterizing the trailer for the winter break and missing all our BBQ buddies!


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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The New England Revolution selected four players in today's Supplemental Draft, which consisted of four rounds of 19 selections each. The Revs picked fourth in each round:
- D Jossimar Sanchez, Connecticut (Paterson, N.J.; first round, fourth pick overall)
- Chris Thomas, Elon (Snellville, Ga.; second round, 23rd pick overall)
- Alex De John, Old Dominion (Marlboro, N.J.; third round, 42nd pick overall)
- M Gabe Latigue, Elon (Apex, N.C.; fourth round, 61st pick overall)
Sanchez, 21, made 74 appearances (73 starts) in four years at Connecticut, scoring two goals and adding one assist. A two-year captain, he transitioned from center midfielder to center back as a senior. During his career, Sanchez helped lead the Huskies to quarterfinal appearances in the NCAA Tournament in each of the last two seasons (2011, 2012) and the BIG EAST regular-season championship twice (2009, 2012). Sanchez earned 2012 first-team All-BIG EAST honors after being selected to the all-conference third team as a sophomore (2010) and junior (2011). He also earned a place on the BIG EAST all-rookie team in 2009.
Thomas, 22, scored 53 goals and added 10 assists in 81 games in his four seasons at Elon University. As a senior, the forward led the nation in goals (23) and points (51) in 22 games played and was named a Herman Trophy Semifinalist. The Snellville, Ga., native was a 2012 NSCAA third team All-American, a two-time Southern Conference player of the year (2010, 2012) and a 2012 first-team All-South Region performer. Elon's all-time leader in goals (53) and points (116), Thomas led the team in goals scored in each of his four years with the Phoenix.
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Thrust from relative anonymity to the national spotlight with a victory aboard I'll Have Another in last Saturday's Kentucky Derby, Mario Gutierrez has not only kept his ego in check, he's thoroughly enjoying the whirlwind ride.
The 25-year-old learned to ride from his father, Mario Gutierrez, Sr., a quarter horse trainer, in Veracruz, Mexico. On a visiting Canadian trainer's advice, the younger Gutierrez made his way to Hastings Park, where he started his career as an apprentice in 2006. He soon hooked up with one of Hastings' premier trainers, Troy Taylor, and the pair enjoyed great success. When Taylor was ready to try Southern California, he invited Gutierrez along. Taylor returned to Canada this year but persuaded the rider to remain.
Through a series of "right place, right time" events, Gutierrez got to ride I'll Have Another to victory in the Santa Anita Derby and despite pressure to get a more experienced pilot, owner J. Paul Reddam stuck with Gutierrez and was rewarded with a victory in the world's most famous race.
Since his Derby win, Gutierrez has been on the ride of a lifetime. He's been interviewed by ESPN and various other media outlets, attended his first NBA game (Lakers-Nuggets Tuesday night at Staples Center) and threw out the first pitch at Dodger Stadium Wednesday night.
"That was a lot of fun," smiled the jockey. "I got the ball across the plate and everyone was cheering. I went up to the Spanish broadcast booth later and met Fernando Valenzuela," referring to the former star pitcher for the Dodgers.
By Thursday, it was evident Gutierrez was starting to show effects from the long week. "I didn't get home until 11 p.m. last night. It's hard to say no to anyone and I'm doing my best to make everyone happy. But I don't want my life to change. I just want to get back to riding." Gutierrez will have his chance in Friday night's first race at Betfair Hollywood Park, where he'll ride Blake for trainer Vladimir Cerin. He finally got some help Wednesday when Gary Stevens' wife, Angie, offered to answer his phone and take over his scheduling.
Gutierrez has kept what amounts to a journal on his twitter page (@Mario_Hastings), making it easy to understand why everyone's rooting for him.
Three weeks after winning the Santa Anita Derby, he was happy that he was approaching 200 followers. "3 followers away from 200 ," the jockey wrote.
Before heading to the airport, his enthusiasm increased. "My breeze went great this morning 1:13 4/5, catching my flight tomorrow for Louisville!! #letsgo
He also tweeted a photo at the post position draw for the Derby and just before he rode his first race at Churchill Downs that Friday, he paid his respects by saying, "Riding with the best of the best."
After he won the Derby, he still seemed amazed people were paying attention to him. He wrote, "OMG, almost 1000 followers " He spent much of the next week trying to thank as many fans, friends and trainers via Twitter that he could fit into the day.
But as he soon found out, it's hard to keep a low profile when you're that much in demand.
Several major stakes winning distaffers are gearing up for upcoming events at Betfair Hollywood Park.
Leading the list is Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Moss' Zazu, winner of the Grade I Lady's Secret last October and the Grade II Hollywood Oaks over Cushion Track last June.
The gray daughter of Tapit worked five times on Cushion Track during the last month, including a stamina-building seven furlong move in 1:28 3/5 May 5th. Trainer John Sadler expects the 4-year-old to make her seasonal debut in the Grade II, $150,000 Marjorie L. Everett Handicap – formerly the Milady Handicap – Saturday, May 19th.
Also pointing for the Everett is Include Me Out, winner of the Grade I Santa Margarita in her most recent start for Jay Em Ess Stable and trainer Ron Ellis.
Getting ready for the $250,000 Gamely Stakes, the first Grade I race of the Betfair Hollywood Park Spring/Summer meet (Monday, May 28) are Capital Plan and Nereid. Capital Plan, fresh off a convincing victory in the Grade II Santa Barbara Handicap, will either work six-furlongs on Cushion Track Saturday or the same distance on turf Sunday, according to trainer Jerry Hollendorfer.
Nereid, a fast-closing fourth in her first start of the year in the Wilshire Handicap April 28, was kept busy by trainer John Shirreffs, working a half mile in 49 2/5 seconds Wednesday.
The 4-year-old daughter of Rock Hard Ten deadheated for the win in the Grade I American Oaks on the Betfair Hollywood Park turf last July.
Meanwhile, Mike Puype reports that Blinkers On Racing et al's Turbulent Descent worked five furlongs in :59 4/5 on Cushion Track Monday and is "right on track" to make her 4-year-old debut in the June 17th Desert Stormer Handicap, the final major prep to the Grade II, $200,000 A Gleam Handicap July 14th.
The daughter of Congrats won the Moccasin Stakes and Grade I Hollywood Starlet at Betfair Hollywood Park as a 2-year-old and. The winner of the Grade I Test last August at Saratoga, Turbulent Descent is undefeated in three local starts.
Teddy's Promise and Rumor, who finished 1-2 in the Time To Leave Stakes last Sunday, are also pointing for the Desert Stormer.
Mizdirection, partly owned by talk sports show host Jim Rome, will work Sunday and Mike Puype said he's leading towards running the Mizzen Mast filly in the $70,000 Great Lady M Stakes at six furlongs on turf May 27th. A winner of four straight, including the Grade III Monrovia Stakes, Mizdirection is heading for a showdown with Marty Jones-trained multiple stakes winner Unzip Me, who is also being aimed for the Great Lady M.
CLOSING STRIDES —Saturday's Lazaro Barrera Stakes lost a major player when San Pedro Stakes winner Midnight Transfer was injured in a five-furlong work at Santa Anita May 5th. Carla Gaines expects the Hard Spun colt to be sidelined "several months." For those who missed it, Jerry and Ann Moss announced earlier this week on their Twitter page (@TeamZenyatta) that the champion mare is officially in foal to Tapit. Zenyatta gave birth to a colt by Bernardini earlier this year…..If at first you don't succeed—Chilean bred Porfido, third in the 2008 Round Table Handicap and second in the 2009 Round Table, will try to make the third time the charm at the age of 10. The Chilean bred is one of nine entered in the marathon Sunday. Multi-genre band Devo headlines this week's Concert Series after the races Friday night. Admission is $10, including entry to the races, and $20 after 8:30……..Track announcer and Television Games Network personality Frank Mirahmadi will be Kurt Hoover's guest on the Inside Scoop Saturday, May 12 at Betfair Hollywood Park. Mirahmadi, who recently finished his first season as the race caller at Oaklawn Park, and Hoover will discuss several of the races on the program, including the $100,000 Lazaro Barrera Memorial Stakes.The Inside Scoop begins at 12 Noon at the Paddock Tote Board.
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In a recent blog post, Microsoft senior research program manager Sean James shared the findings of a research paper on fuel cell powered data centers.
This study described the "collapse of the entire energy supply chain — from the power plant to the server motherboard — into the confines of a server single cabinet."
The researchers show that by integrating fuel cells with IT hardware, they can cut much of the power electronics out of the conventional fuel cell system. Advantages to fuel cell powered data centers compared to traditional data centers include:
However, there is still work to be done. "With the potential to double the efficiency of traditional data centers, we see tremendous potential in this approach, but this concept is not without challenges," said James in his blog post. "Deep technical issues remain, such as thermal cycling, fuel distribution systems, cell conductivity, power management and safety training that needs to be further researched and solutions developed. But we are excited about working to resolve these challenges."
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Video below of what is happening in California at municipal wastewater treatment plants using fuel cell technology to produce 3 value streams of electricity, hydrogen and heat all from a human waste! This is pretty impressive in my opinion for hydro-refueling infrastructure.
"New fuel cell sewage gas station in Orange County, CA may be world's first"
"It is here today and it is deployable today," said Tom Mutchler of Air Products and Chemicals Inc., a sponsor and developer of the project.
2.8MW fuel cell using biogas now operating; Largest PPA of its kind in North America
Microsoft Backs Away From Grid
I am not too sure about the lower infrastructure costs. The great thing about electricity is that a circuit breaker or GFI can render a power supply infrastructure quiescent within less time than it takes to have a heart attack. The fuel supply infrastructure will have associated costs and given that the fuel will be a flammable gas or liquid, the fire suppression infrastructure will need to be enhanced to deal with pipes full of flammable materials that can drain into the server containment space. Imagine, pipes full of odorless, pressurized hydrogen gas flowing alongside electrically power hungry blue smoke generators. There will need to be a continuous sampling of the volume of air within the server containment space to check for a leak and buildup of explosive gases, likely one per server or rack.
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Almost 10 years since voters approved financing a research and preservation center with sales tax money, supporters are still trying to find a permanent home for artifacts that once belonged to civil rights leader Westley Wallace Law.
About $400,000 of special purpose local option sales tax revenue has since been spent to archive materials Law collected prior to his death in 2002, but the collection - comprised of newspapers, documents, books and artwork - remains boxed up, out of the public's reach.
The remaining $508,000 approved for the project has been held in limbo since the Chatham County Commission cut off funding in 2007 due to concerns about how disbursements were being spent.
Savannah and county officials have been working with the owner of the materials, the W.W. Law Foundation, to find a permanent place to store them that is accessible to the public. So far, those efforts have been unsuccessful.
In the meantime, Savannah is allowing the foundation to store the materials in a city-owned building at 226 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., across from the Savannah Civic Center, where the collection has been held since 2006.
The tax funding was the foundation's main source of revenue, although the annual Lawfest fundraiser, scheduled for next month, assists in covering overhead costs at the facility, said Remer Pendergraph, Law foundation founder and board chairman.
Between $3,000 and $10,000 has been raised during past events to cover phone, computer and accounting expenses, Pendergraph said, adding that the organization is staffed solely by volunteers.
The county stopped distributing tax funds to the foundation after county auditors cited concerns following a review of the project. Concerns included the payment of almost $60,000 to Pendergraph for services rendered as curator, while he served as the board's chairman and administrator of the archival contract.
There had also been concerns about an open-ended deal with an archivist that did not specify the amount of pay he would receive or what he would accomplish, said County Attorney Jon Hart.
"That's kind of why we put the brakes on the deal," Hart said.
The county also had doubts about the foundation's ability to support permanent housing for the collection and a planned electronic archival retrieval system because the organization had no source of recurring revenue.
In a 2005 report, Pendergraph projected a total cost of $2.7 million for the construction of a facility, as well as the archival retrieval system that was supposed to be paid for using the tax funds.
The remaining $1.7 million was to be raised through grants and a "capital endowment campaign." Auditors questioned what would become of the cultural resource if the project did not come to fruition.
Another concern regarding the ownership of the collection appears to have been resolved.
The county required that Pendergraph, who was the trustee of the collection, transfer ownership of the materials to the foundation, before any further funding would be provided - a transfer that occurred in 2010.
Pendergraph denied on Monday that any of the expenses were inappropriate. In a 2008 memo, he said that his "unique expertise" as a confidant of Law justified the compensation.
In a July 8, 2009, letter to then-Mayor Otis Johnson, Pendergraph wrote that the $400,000 in SPLOST funds had been used in conjunction with a $400,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to process the collection.
Before in-depth processing and planning could begin, six rooms worth of materials had to be sorted, cleaned, categorized and boxed, Pendergraph stated. Payments covered rent and insurance on the processing location, an archival contractor, staff, equipment, shelving and acid-free containers, along with consulting and training fees, he said.
Despite Pendergraph's defense of the expenditures, a county memo dated July 1, 2010, stated that the remaining amount of SPLOST funds available would be reduced by about $60,000 for what appeared to be a "conflict of interest."
Pendegraph said Monday the foundation is now negotiating to transfer ownership of the materials to Savannah and house the materials in the city's planned cultural arts center.
Sean Brandon, Savannah's management services bureau chief, said the arts center is being considered as a possible location for the collection, although other options are also being considered.
The city recently sent the foundation a draft agreement to transfer the deed, although nothing has been finalized, Brandon said.
The collection was previously stored at Law's house at 710 W. Victory Drive before the materials were relocated to the city building. The foundation entered a three-year lease agreement with the city in 2005 to house the materials for about $16,000 a year.
Since the foundation ran out of funds, the city has stopped charging the organization rent, Brandon said.
"Our interest isn't to make money on the site," he said. "Our interest is making sure the archive is secure and everyone has access to it."
Both Brandon and Hart said they recently learned that the Georgia Historical Society has expressed interest in housing the collection, an interest confirmed Thursday by foundation board member George Bowen.
Todd Groce, president and chief executive officer of the historical society, could not reached for comment.
Mayor Edna Jackson, who described Law as her mentor, said her main wish is to see that the collection is put somewhere accessible to the general public.
"I want to make sure wherever it is going, it represents a man that gave so much to this community," Jackson said. "We have to make sure his dignity is maintained."
Westley Wallace Law was a Savannah native who fought for civil rights for decades, before broadening his efforts to include the preservation of black history and historic sites.
His efforts led to the Beach Institute and the King-Tisdell Cottage on Savannah's eastside and the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
He worked as a letter carrier and served as president of the Savannah branch of the NAACP for 26 years prior to his death at age 79 in 2002.
The W.W. Law collection includes more than a half-century of NAACP documents, including correspondence with major regional and international figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Roy Wilkins, Thurgood Marshall and Daisy Bates of Little Rock Nine fame.
The collection also includes correspondence with local and state elected officials such as segregationist Gov. Lester Maddox and former President Jimmy Carter.
As a whole, the collection includes an assortment of rare 19th-century periodicals, 5,000 books, including numerous signed first editions, several hundred pieces of original art, signed limited-edition prints and popular iconic reproductions.
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By: Mark McGrouther, Category: Science, Date: 02 Feb 2012
I was recently emailed about his footage of Southern Garfish feeding in the shallows in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria. The videographer reported that the garfish "were breaking off strands of eelgrass and apparently stripping small invertebrates off the grass as well."
The Southern Garfish is a pelagic species that occurs in estuarine and inshore waters from southern New South Wales and around the south of the country to south-western Western Australia.
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TraceLink Grand Prize Winner in Amazon AWS Global Start-Up Challenge
The TraceLink team is ecstatic to share the news that the TraceLink Life Sciences Cloud won the Grand Prize at the Amazon.com 6th AWS Global Start-Up Challenge. TraceLink's cloud-based application platform, developed to protect patients, enable health, grow profits and ensure compliance in global Life Sciences, was selected as best business application from over 2,500 global entries. Amazon highlighted TraceLink's innovative use of AWS technology in combating drug counterfeiting, eliminating drug shortages and tackling other key business and social challenges facing global pharmaceutical companies and their patients.
"Globalization of pharmaceutical supply and patient demand is driving a transformation in the pharmaceutical industry as executives seek a global approach for protecting patient safety, ensuring access to high quality medicines and meeting pharmaceutical track and trace regulations," said Shabbir Dahod, President and CEO, TraceLink Inc. "We demonstrated in the Start-Up Challenge that a cloud-based, globally integrated network is the only foundation which gives pharmaceutical supply chain participants the real-time visibility, end-to-end connectivity and pharmaceutical traceability required to ensure safe, quality medicines reach the hands of every patient that needs them. We are honored that Amazon recognized our innovation in building a secure, globally available application platform that connects every network participant, from ingredient producer to patient, through a single point-and-click connection in the cloud"
Launched in 2010, TraceLink Life Sciences Cloud has rapidly become the place where pharmaceutical companies, CMO/CPO supply partners, wholesale distributors and pharmacies connect, share data and collaborate to:
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- Protect medicines from drug counterfeiting incidents like Avastin that kill over 100,000 people a year globally
- Eliminate drug shortages that have grown over 500 percent in recent years
- Cost-effectively access the $165 billion in new revenue growth available in Pharmerging markets
- Improve free cash flow and minimize operational cost by capturing supply chain efficiencies
- Build direct-to-patient communication through Apple iPhone and Google Android mobile devices
"The Amazon AWS cloud computing platform gives us the scale, performance and security we need to manage the billions of pharmaceutical products produced and the hundreds of billions in revenue generated by our Life Science customers each year," added Mr. Dahod. "Only by fundamentally embracing and designing for the cloud could we take advantage of AWS's global elasticity, data security and on-demand resources to manage this complexity. With our point-and-click network, we can connect and serve both the largest pharmaceutical company running SAP ERP and the smallest independent pharmacy running Quicken Quickbooks, all on the same network platform."
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"The data security and reliability benefits for our customers by using a globally distributed AWS cloud platform cannot be overstated," noted Peter Spellman, SVP Product and Cloud Engineering, TraceLink Inc. "Traditional enterprise data storage approaches cannot cost-effectively match the 99.999999999% durability that is available via cloud storage designed for mission-critical Life Science operations. Pharmaceutical serialization and global track and trace activities alone will generate terabytes of product and transactional data for a pharma company that must be securely stored across record retention periods and accessed across the global supply network. This was a key design criterion for the Life Sciences Cloud, to manage the high performance Big Data requirements of the global industry while providing scalable storage for any one company that is more secure and lower cost than is possible with on-premise solutions."
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About TraceLink
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81 [The incomparable beauty of our English version of this twelfth chapter of Koheleth is heightened not a little by comparison with this turgid metaphrase, It fails, in almost every instance, to extract the kernel of the successive stixoi of this superlatively poetic and didactic threnode. It must have been a youthful work.]
1 Of the holy Gregory, archbishop of Neo-Caesareia, surnamed Thaumaturgus, concerning those who, in the inroad of the barbarians, ate things sacrificed to idols, or offended in certain other matters. Gallandi, iii. p. 400. [Written A.D. 258 or 262.] There are scholia in Latin by Theodorus Balsamon and Joannes Zonaras on these canons. The note of the former on the last canon may be cited:-The present saint has defined shortly five several positions for the penitent; but he has not indicated either the times appointed for their exercise, or the sins for which discipline is determined. Basil the Great, again, has handed down to us an accurate account of these things in his canonical epistles. [Elucidation II.] Yet he, too, has referred to episcopal decision the matter of recovery through penalties [i.e., to the decision of his comprovincial bishops, as in Cyprian's example. See vol. v. p. 415, Elucidation XIII.; also Elucidation I. p. 20, infra
2 [Elucidation III. p. 20.]
3 1 Cor. vi. 13.
4 Matt. xv. 11.
5 Deut. xxii. 26, 27.
6 Gen. xviii. 23, 25.
7 Eph v. 5-13.
8 tou= fwto/j for the received pneu/matoj.
9 Josh. vii.
10 Deut. xxii. 1-3.
11 Ex. xxiii. 4.
12 w[n dei= ta\j kathgori/aj prosi/esqai.
13 Concerning those who forcibly detain captives escaped from the barbarians.
14 Concerning those who have been enrolled among the barbarians, and who have dared to do certain monstrous things against those of the same race with themselves.
15 culw|.
16 a0kroa/sewj.
17 Concerning those who have been so audacious as to invade the houses of others in the inroad of the barbarians.
18 tw=n u9postrefo/ntwn.
19 Concerning those who have found in the open field or in private houses property left behind them by the barbarians.
20 [Partially elucidated below in (the spurious) Canon XI. See Marshall's Penitential Discipline of the Primitive Church.]
21 mh/nutra, the price of information.
22 sw=stpa the reward for bringing back a runaway slave.
23 eu#retpa, the reward of discovery.
24 [This canon is rejected as spurious. Lardner Credib., ii. p. 633.]
25 pro/sklausij, discipline.
26 a0kro/asij.
27 e0n tw|= na/rqhki.
28 u9po/ptwsij.
29 su/stasij.
30 a9giasma/twn.
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Last Name: Long
First Name : Janie
Middle Name: Sarah Jane
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Date: 1941-1960
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Comments: Janie Sarah Jane Long (Nee: ) | NC USA | 1941-1960 | Comments: Drewey W. Long's birthday party - family reunion ,he was 70 years young. The photo was taken
at the old home place near Pine Log ,Ga . I recovered this photo from an old drug store in
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granddad and grandmother. My wifes mother Elsie Long Cagle was a young woman when this
photo was taken.
Standing from left to right
Virgil Toy Long 33 yrs old
Elise Lena Long Cagle 31ysr old
Grady Long 29 yrs old
Winnell Long 18 yrs old
Mary Long 27 yrs old
Linnell Long 18yrs old -- twin sister to Winnell
Sitting from left to right
Janie Sarah Jane Long 37 yrs old
Della Rosetta Long 39 yrs old
Drewey W. Long 70 yrs young --- Granddad
Nealy M. Thurman Long 68yrs young ----- Grandmother
Everette William Long 35 yrs old
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Long never owned a car or could he drive, he either walked or drove a team of horses .When I
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mornings . Mr. Long was a Deacon of Mt. Pleasent Baptist Church and was ordained Oct. 6,1928
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Commentator John Gehring asserts that Catholic hospitals and universities would not have to pay for birth control coverage for their employees under an accommodation with the Obama administration that requires insurance companies to pick up the tab ("Finding common ground," Nov. 12). This is not true.
Neither the Affordable Care Act nor the finalized implementing regulations contain any such provision. Rather, that arrangement is discussed in the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking published by the Department of Health and Human Services in March, which is not law.
It is true that the president held a press conference to announce the proposed compromise, commonly referred to as the "accommodation." But it was never formally enacted into law.
The question of whether the publication of the proposed compromise constitutes sufficient grounds for dismissing religious employers' lawsuits as unripe is being litigated. But even the federal government concedes that the accommodation is not law and does not amend the Affordable Care Act or its accompanying regulations.
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Mr. Gehring's article misstates the facts and should be corrected.
Jane Belford, Washington
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Whales & dolphins (cetaceans)
Common Name
Cetaceans; Cétacés (Fr); Cetaceos (Sp)
Nearctic, Palearctic, Afrotropical, Indomalayan, Australasian, Oceania
Old dangers persist, new ones have appeared
Eight out of the 13 great whale species are still endangered or vulnerable after decades of protection.
Facing a multitude of hazards
Whales, dolphins and porpoises are succumbing to new and ever-increasing dangers. Collisions with ships and entanglement in fishing gear threaten the North Atlantic right whale with extinction, while the Critically Endangered Western North Pacific gray whale is at serious risk because of intensive oil and gas development in its feeding grounds.
Alarm is also growing over other hazards including toxic contamination, the effects of climate change and habitat degradation.
It's illegal, but it still happens: commercial whaling
Despite a moratorium on commercial whaling and the declaration of virtually the whole of the Southern Ocean as a whale sanctuary, each year over 1,000 whales are killed for the commercial market.
What WWF is doing
In order to help secure the future of the world's whales, WWF is developing an ambitious conservation programme for endangered whale species and populations.
Reduce the threats to increase their numbers
The WWF Cetaceans Action Plan aims to ensure that by 2012, a significant reduction of threats to cetacean populations that are either currently endangered, or are likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future, is achieved.
WWF is working for a significant reduction of threats to endangered populations of great whales as well as several smaller cetaceans.
The organization is also combating risks to whales by lobbying to bring whale hunting under the strict control of the International Whaling Commission, through field research, training and capacity building, conservation education, and by securing improved national and international action and agreements.
Through support to TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring programme of WWF and IUCN, the organisation is closely investigating and monitoring the illegal trade in whale meat.
Physical Description
There are over 80 species of cetaceans, a group made up of whales, dolphins and porpoises. Cetaceans are air-breathing, warm-blooded mammals that bear live young and nurse them on milk. They live their entire lives in the oceans and seas worldwide, inshore and pelagic.
Two categories of cetaceans
Cetaceans fall into two categories: mysticetes or baleen whales, and odontocetes, including toothed whales, oceanic and river dolphins, and porpoises.
Baleen whales
The baleen whales are named for their feeding apparatus, a series of transverse plates of comb-like baleen which descend from the roof of the mouth. Baleen is made of hard but flexible material, similar to that of human fingernails, rooted in the animal's upper jaw. The baleen act like a sieve, allowing a whale to strain food out of the water-food which includes small fish and plankton.
There are 13 species of baleen whales: blue, fin, sei, Bryde's, humpback, northern minke, southern minke, North Atlantic right, North Pacific right, southern right, pygmy right, bowhead, and gray. They range in size from the compact minke whale, whose average length is around 8 metres, to the gargantuan blue whale, which can reach lengths of over 33 metres and weigh up to 120 tonnes - as much as 32 elephants. The only great whale with teeth is the sperm whale.
Toothed whales
Toothed whales, dolphins and porpoises, are a diverse group of over 70 species. They range in size from the Hector's dolphin and vaquita, both roughly 1.5 metres long when fully grown, to the mammoth 18 metre male sperm whale. Some other examples are the two species of pilot whale, beluga whale, narwhal, finless porpoise, and the rather large family of beaked whales.
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The Dodgers passed the halfway mark of the season as Thursday turned to Friday. Game 82, a 3-1 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals, served as a useful measuring stick. It came against the same team that eliminated them in the playoffs last season.
The measurements are in: The Dodgers are not fans of streaks or neatly packaged storylines. The most expensive payroll in baseball is the better team most nights, but can't win when the other team masters many of the fine details the Dodgers cannot.
On pace for 90 wins, the Dodgers can't feel too bad about their lot in life. Chasing a slumping San Francisco Giants team for first place in the National League West, the Dodgers would be in the playoffs if the season ended today. The loss, combined with the Giants' loss in Cincinnati, kept the Dodgers' deficit in the division at two games.
Neither can they feel great about failing to win more than three games in a row for the sixth time this season. Their greatest failure was an inability to score more than three runs in support of starting pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu, who was vying for his 10th win of the season.
"We couldn't hit with runners in scoring position," Dodgers right fielder Yasiel Puig said through an interpreter. "That was our biggest problem tonight."
Ryu (9-4) allowed nine hits and three runs, all earned, in seven innings. He walked one batter and struck out seven.
The Dodgers are 8-29 when scoring three runs or less and 37-8 when scoring four or more — further proof that a $64 million rotation might be able to feed a third-world country but can't survive on low run support.
Ryu came down hard on himself.
"A lot of mistakes," he said. "I continue to give up a lot of hits to the ninth spot. Give up a home run (to Yadier Molina) early in the game. Those kinds of things I need to work on and focus, and change for the next game."
It wasn't entirely Ryu's fault that the Dodgers went 1 for 7 with runners in scoring position. Carlos Martinez and four relievers survived eight Dodger hits, including a 3-for-4 night by Dee Gordon. Give the Cardinals' defense partial credit.
With Matt Kemp on first base and one out in the sixth inning, Cardinals center fielder Jon Jay sprinted to the warning track to catch a deep line drive off the bat of Juan Uribe, diving at the last second.
The inning ended when Kemp was caught stealing and Scott Van Slyke was ejected from the Dodgers' dugout for arguing a strike-three call against him by home plate umpire Bill Miller.
"It looked far enough off that a guy who's been umpiring umpteen years should be able to call it a ball," Van Slyke said.
Cardinals shortstop Jhonny Peralta was responsible for three particularly pretty outs. He threw out Puig from the outfield grass on a ground ball, and turned a nifty double play on Adrian Gonzalez by himself to end the fifth inning, when the Dodgers had runners on first and second with one out.
In the second inning, Molina tracked down a wild pitch behind home plate and threw out Miguel Rojas attempting to score from third base. Rojas blamed himself for the lost run.
"I took a little step back before I went," he said. "I didn't see the ball rolling. I shouldn't have gone. The good hitters in the lineup, the strength of the lineup — Puig, (Adrian) Gonzalez and Kemp — were coming up."
The Dodgers got their only run when A.J. Ellis walked and scored on a single by Gordon.
In a sense, it was a reversal of fortunes from Thursday night, when Kemp's throw home from left field retired Allen Craig trying to tag up and score on a fly ball. The Dodgers scored one run and won, 1-0.
"That play gets magnified in the same sense," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "It's close and every play counts. Any ball that you don't get to can change the game."
After the Cardinals eliminated the Dodgers in a six-game National League Championship Series, the Dodgers were left to choose from a handful of plays where their season might have been derailed.
Did the series end in Game 1, when Hanley Ramirez was hit in the ribs? In Game 2 or Game 6, when the Dodgers couldn't score against rookie pitcher Michael Wacha?
As the fireworks lit up the sky over Chavez Ravine on Friday, the second-guessing followed a familiar path. A handful of plays had determined the difference between two good teams. In eight months, the measuring stick hadn't moved.