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320. I hate to be seen as a supporter of the
CCT regime but the CCT regimeand I have had experience
of bothhad certain advantages over Best Value. One was
the de minimis rule, so a very, very small part was not subjected
to this enormously cumbersome bureaucratic Best Value assessment
and the second major thing is that local authorities could concentrate
within CCT on the departments that they themselves deemed to be
performing less efficiently. Best Value does not allow them to
do that. Best Value assumes that everything right across the board
is examined in immense depth and in an amazingly bureaucratic
way and therefore there are appreciable costs of conducting Best
Value whereas the costs of introducing CCT were possibly less.
(Mr Raynsford) I do not accept your description of
Best Value. I have said that we want to achieve a streamlined
system and we are working to do that, but the purpose of Best
Value is to raise the standard of service and, if you are a local
council taxpayer, you want to be confident that all the services
the local council deliver to you are run efficiently and well
and therefore it is right that there should be measures to consider
the performance of the local authority in all its responsibilities.
Clearly it is for the authority itself, with guidance from the
Audit Commission, possibly with help from the IDA and other support
bodies in local government, to consider how it can take the most
effective action to deal with those services which are least efficient
and also to ensure it is giving high priority to those services
which its local customers say they value most. Those are legitimate
and proper democratic decisions, but I do not think it is right
to say that one should have a framework where it is perfectly
possible for an authority not to deliver decent standards of service
across the board.
Dr Pugh: Nobody is saying that.
321. May I ask when the Best Value review you
have mentioned is going to be published and also if you can outline
what the main issues are to emerge. You mentioned one of them
and while I say that what you said about the two per cent efficiency
cut is entirely proper and reasonable and I agree with what the
Government is doing wholeheartedly, could you say if there are
going to be any potential changes in legislation which might help
reduce any unfairness in terms of conditions for staff when they
are transferred.
(Mr Raynsford) The Best Value review is looking specifically
at the current framework in relation to a number of issues including
the one that you have highlighted about the impact on staff who
transfer to another provider. We have said that we will consider
evidence on the emergence of a two-tier workforce and if there
is evidence that is conclusive and that has an adverse impact,
then we will consider appropriate remedial measures. It just so
happens that this week the meeting of our review group is due
to deal with that particular issue so I am not able to say more
about it. In the previous meetings, we have had three very productive
meetings; these have been held jointly involving representatives
from the trade unions, from local government, from the Audit Commission,
from the private sector and from the voluntary sector and, in
the course of those discussions, we have covered a number of important
issues about establishing a level playing field, ensuring that
the focus is on quality rather than simply cost and ensuring that
it does work effectively as a means of raising standards because
that is our overriding objective. So, the meetings have been very
positive indeed to date. We have some hard work still to do before
I submit the report to the Secretary of State by the end of the
year which is the timetable he has set me.
322. Have you taken any evidence from the transport
unions who have very precise evidence of what happens when you
do the transfer of workers from one nationalised industry to private
industry, which immediately not only wrecks their terms of employment
but also, by the simple device of breaking that contract and re-employing
them for a different unit, manages to change their levels of pay,
their conditions of work and their pension entitlements?
(Mr Raynsford) The review is solely concerned with
Best Value in relation to local government.
323. However, you did say you wanted evidence.
(Mr Raynsford) But the Transport & General Workers'
Union is represented on the review, and parties have brought their
wider experience to the review. I have to say, we have seen quite
interesting evidence of circumstances where it has been found
possible to do particular jobs in a better manner, to deliver
a more efficient outcome, some of which have involved an entirely
public sector solution, some of which have involved a partnership
with the private sector or voluntary sector. Our approach is very
much that there should be a level playing field without a predisposition
to one particular type or model of service delivery.
324. Can I pick up on the level playing field?
There is quite an important issue around which often gets raised.
One area where there clearly is not a level playing field is in
the ability of the public sector to raise capital. A lot of that
is necessary to put in an appropriate bid for a service, whether
it be in investment, in plant and equipment, or vehicles, or computer
systems. The whole benefit system in Sheffield was privatised.
One of the reasons was that the local authority had a choice between
investment in its computer systems or using the limited capital
it had to spend on other things. The Secretary of State at the
Labour Party Conference gave an inkling that there might be a
freeing up of local authorities' ability to raise capital to invest.
Is that one of the issues that has been addressed as part of this
Best Value process?
(Mr Raynsford) It is, and it is one of the issues
on which we expect to say more in our Local Government White Paper.
We did consult on the possibility of replacing the current borrowing
approvals regime with a prudential regime, in our consultation
paper on local government finance published more than a year ago.
We will be setting out how we intend to take that forward in our
Local Government White Paper. The position, I should clarify it,
would involve local government being freed from a requirement
to seek borrowing approval, but instead there would be a prudential
regime to avoid authorities undertaking a level of debt that they
would not be able to service. So it would not provide a completely
open door for widespread borrowing.
325. But they were raising money actually to
invest in things, to make improvements, actually to make savings
in some cases.
(Mr Raynsford) It certainly would allow that particular
option, and that would, in our view, be widely welcomed by local
326. On a related issue to that, you are reported,
I understand, if I remember correctly, in some of the local government
journals as going for removal of municipal trading restrictions
on local authorities, is that correct?
(Mr Raynsford) Yes. We also believe it is right that
as part of both the creation of the level playing field but also
part of the general framework of freeing local government from
unreasonable restrictions, that there should be greater opportunities
for local authorities to trade, and that that should also be governed
by similar rules relating to efficiency in performance. So there
will be greater freedoms for those authorities that have demonstrated
particular abilities in that field.
327. So if we continue the level playing field,
presumably they will be divided into units, they will have corporation
tax applied, they will have to pay business tax and so on and
so forth, or would that be a little unfair?
(Mr Raynsford) There will inevitably be different
standards of performance that will apply in the public as against
the private sector. The aim will be, within those patterns, to
ensure that were a local authority is trading, it is doing so
in an efficient way. That is measured against the performance
of other service deliverers.
328. That was not quite the question. The question
was really to bring in the level playing field. Here we are with
municipal trading, with the prospect of a local council supported
by business rates, supported by simple taxation, competing with
the people who are actually paying for it and not contributing
to that themselves.
(Mr Raynsford) I think you have to say that that exists
already in the voluntary sector which provides a number of very
important services, but where it is not subject to the same taxation
regime as the private sector. These are differences that exist
and they reflect the nature of different organisations. What we
are seeking to do is to try to create a level playing field without
the kind of biases that currently prevent sensible activity that
is to the benefit of the community.
329. Local government expenditure is something
like 25, 26, 27 per cent of government expenditure. It rather
puts charities into a shadow. I do not think the comparison is
(Mr Raynsford) The comparison is entirely valid, because
there is a large number of voluntary organisations that do sterling
work in many fields. You will be aware of the housing field where
housing associations now represent a very, very large proportion
indeed of the total housing stock and they are voluntary organisations.
Chairman: Can I just remind the Committee that
we have a fairly lengthy set of questions, and I hope we can reduce
the number of supplementaries that we are getting. Christine Russell.
330. Minister, can we move on to the cost on
inspection. Do you actually know how much is being spent on inspections
not only by the Audit Commission but by all the other inspection
bodies too, and including local authorities who obviously spend
a great deal preparing for those external inspections?
(Mr Raynsford) I can supply you with the full cost,
but I cannot off the top of my head give you the figures for the
total cost of all the inspections including Ofsted and the Social
Services Inspectorate for which I am not responsible. What I can
say is that it is our objective to try to achieve a more coherent
and more integrated framework, so that the various inspectorates
are working to broadly comparable standards and to reduce the
unnecessary burden and bureaucracy of inspection, which is very
much part of what I was talking about earlier about how we could
simplify and streamline the Best Value review, with less inspections,
again relating to the performance of a local authority, so a light-touch
regime applying to those authorities that have demonstrated a
high level of performance. We expect to say more about that in
our forthcoming White Paper.
331. An academic study suggested £600 million
per annum. Would that figure surprise you?
(Mr Raynsford) That would not surprise me at all.
332. Do you think it is reasonable to spend
that much, then, on inspection?
(Mr Raynsford) I think it is reasonable to ensure
high standards of performance, and that the effect of inspection
in a range of different areasI just mentioned education
as onehas undoubtedly played a crucial part in helping
to improve performance standards. What we have to do is to get
value for money and to ensure that the people of our country are
getting high standards of service from local government.
333. So you are satisfied that in general all
the inspection is improving standards?
(Mr Raynsford) Yes, I am. I would not pretend for
a moment that every inspection is successful. Inevitably there
are some that do not do as well as others, but I do believe the
process as a whole is a very competent one and it is helping to
raise standards.
334. Can I focus in particular on the Audit
Commission and whether that is providing good value for money.
Is there any real evidence that following an Audit Commission
inspection there is any real evidence of a failing local authority
improving thereafter?
(Mr Raynsford) There is a lot of evidence, and the
Audit Commission is increasingly publishing evidence showing the
way in which local authority services are responding. What we
are keen to do is to sharpen that process, to ensure that there
is more focus on outcomes and less on the process itself, to get
away from a slight tendency towards a tick-box approach towards
inspection and more of a focus on outcomes that really will benefit
local people who will get improved services. That is very much
our intention.
335. How much has the staffing level of the
Audit Commission gone up?
(Mr Raynsford) I cannot give you precise figures off
the top of my head, but I can certainly write to you with those.
336. You would not be surprised if it were more
than double?
(Mr Raynsford) The Audit Commission has taken on a
very substantial additional range of responsibilities to include
Best Value and Best Value inspections as well as its traditional
auditing role.
337. This Committee in the past recommended
that really more emphasis should be placed on peer review and
that inspections themselves should be better co-ordinated. Are
we ever going to see this happening?
(Mr Raynsford) Yes, we believe there is an important
role for peer review. I have discussed this regularly with local
government and with the IDA which is doing very good work in this
field already. Most people in local government I speak to feel
that both are necessary, that there is a need for more external
inspection which can so often be more rigorous than a peer review
and that there is the need for the supportive approach which those
who are currently working in other local authorities are often
best placed to give to help organisations that are having difficulties
in improving their service.
338. Could I move on to those councils that
the Audit Commission describe as "underperforming".
I think that is 15 per cent of local authorities. Have you actually
been provided with any analysis of what are the characteristics
of those 15 per cent councils?
(Mr Raynsford) I have been deluged with information
which measures local government performance in a whole variety
of different indicators. What the Audit Commission is seeking
to do, quite rightly, is to draw together the key ones that give
above all a sense of the corporate health of a department, because
while you can get detailed figures about the performance of individual
services, very often a failing service is the result of a corporate
failure by the authority as a whole, and it is that area of the
corporate health of the local authority which is going to be one
of the key focuses for proposals in our Local Government White
Paper, building on the existing Best Value regime and the existing
inspection regime which inevitably measure the performance of
specific services. So those three elements we want to bring together
to ensure that we get a picture of the performance of local authorities.
Can I add that the White Paper will spell out the categories of
performance that we expect to use in the future, and this will
define the difference between the levels of performance achieved
by local authorities, but it would not be right to say that 15
per cent of authorities are treated as failing.
339. Can I try to draw you out on whether there
are any characteristics that are appearing here. I would particularly
like you to comment on whether size matters or not, because some
of the reports I have read certainly seem to indicate that some
of the authorities that are really struggling to perform well
are those very small district authorities.
(Mr Raynsford) I think size does have an impact. One
of the interesting conclusions that we have drawn is that among
district councils there is probably the widest range of performance,
with some doing very well indeed, others having difficulty. We
certainly think that it is going to be important for local authorities
to look at ways in which they can work with others, and that will
include links between neighbouring districts or links between
districts and counties, to ensure more efficient service delivery.
If I can move into the area of introducing electronic government,
which I think is hugely important, that is an area where it is
quite clear that the small authorities simply cannot go it alone,
they must work with others, and we are encouraging that.


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Smish's Smith Tools (3.5e Equipment)
From D&D Wiki
Smish's Smith Tools
Price: 25,000gp
Craft Tool: Masterwork Smith Tools
Caster Level: 20th
Aura: Strong; (DC 19) Evocation
Activation: Continuous
Weight: 40 lbs
These Masterwork Smith Tools have a dark red glow. They were originally created for the Great Dwarven Smith Smish whom made the most powerful weapons and armor for the leaders of the Army of Light. The Smith tools grants the user a Insight bonus of +15 to Craft: Armorsmith, Craft: Weaponsmith and Craft: Blacksmith.
When Smish's Smith Tools is used in tandum with Anvil of Holy Flames, the user gains a Moral Bonus of +10 to Craft: Armorsmith, Craft: Weaponsmith, and Craft: Blacksmith. The user is also able to do craft items in only half the time normally needed.
- Prereqs: Caster Level 20th,Craft Wondrous Item,Haste, and Ell's Great Effort(3.5e Spell).
- Cost to Create: 17,500gp, 1,500 XP, 25 Days.
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A Hierarchy of Tractable Subsets for Computing Stable Models
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Finding the stable models of a knowledge base is a significant computational problem in artificial intelligence. This task is at the computational heart of truth maintenance systems, autoepistemic logic, and default logic. Unfortunately, it is NP-hard. In this paper we present a hierarchy of classes of knowledge bases, Omega_1,Omega_2,..., with the following properties: first, Omega_1 is the class of all stratified knowledge bases; second, if a knowledge base Pi is in Omega_k, then Pi has at most k stable models, and all of them may be found in time O(lnk), where l is the length of the knowledge base and n the number of atoms in Pi; third, for an arbitrary knowledge base Pi, we can find the minimum k such that Pi belongs to Omega_k in time polynomial in the size of Pi; and, last, where K is the class of all knowledge bases, it is the case that union{i=1 to infty} Omega_i = K, that is, every knowledge base belongs to some class in the hierarchy.
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Dan Barker
|Dan Barker
|Daniel Edwin Barker[1]
June 25, 1949
Santa Monica, California
|Madison, Wisconsin
|Alma mater
|Azusa Pacific University
|Co-president, Freedom From Religion Foundation, author, musician
|Known for
|Advocacy of atheism and rationalism
Criticism of religion
Daniel Edwin "Dan" Barker (born June 25, 1949) is an American atheist activist who served as a Christian preacher and musician for 19 years but left Christianity in 1984. Barker, along with his wife Annie Laurie Gaylor, is the current co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation.[2] He has written numerous articles for Freethought Today, an American freethought newspaper. He is the author of several books including Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist.
Barker has been an invited speaker at Rock Beyond Belief.[3] He is on the speakers bureau of the Secular Student Alliance.[4]
Barker received a degree in religion from Azusa Pacific University and was ordained to the ministry by the Standard Community Church, California, in 1970.[1] He served as associate pastor at a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) church, an Assembly of God, and an independent Charismatic church. To this day, he receives royalties from his popular children's Christian musicals, Mary Had a Little Lamb (1977) and His Fleece Was White as Snow (1978), both published by Manna Music.[5]
In 1984 he announced to his friends that he was an atheist,[6] and appeared on AM Chicago (hosted by Oprah Winfrey) later that year on a show about "kicking the religion habit".[7] Barker met Annie Laurie Gaylor when both were guests on the show. They began dating six months later and married in 1987. They have a daughter, Sabrina Delata.[8]
A successful musician, Barker has composed over 200 songs that have been published or recorded.
He is a member of the Lenni Lenape (Delaware Indian) Tribe of Native Americans, and in 1991 edited and published Paradise Remembered,[9] a collection of his grandfather's stories as a Lenape boy in Indian Territory.
Barker belongs to a number of high IQ societies.[10]
Freedom From Religion Foundation
He is the current co-president with his wife Annie Laurie Gaylor of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, an American Freethought organization that promotes the separation of church and state. Barker is co-host of Freethought Radio, a radio program based in Madison, Wisconsin radio station WXXM for atheists, agnostics, and other freethinkers that has included interviews with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Steven Pinker, Julia Sweeney, and Michael Newdow.
Media appearances
Barker has appeared on dozens of national television and radio programs to discuss and debate issues related to atheism and the separation of state and church. He has discussed nativity scenes on government property,[11] the campaign against a Mother Teresa stamp,[12] prayer in public schools,[13] and has appeared on Phil Donahue, Hannity & Colmes, Maury Povich, Good Morning America, Sally Jessy Raphael, and Tom Leykis.
He was featured in a New York Times article about the growing of atheism in Southern states,[14] has given addresses on his own de-conversion across the United States,[15][16][17][18][19][20] and has participated in debates around the country.[21]
Barker, along with his wife host a weekly one hour radio program Freethought Radio. It is broadcast on weekly, on Progressive Talk The Mic 92.1, out of Madison, Wisconsin. It is carried on several other stations throughout the Midwest and is available through podcast.[22]
- Mary Had a Little Lamb (Manna Music 1977)
- His Fleece Was White as Snow (Manna Music 1978)
- Barker, Dan (1990). Maybe Yes, Maybe No: A Guide for Young Skeptics. Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-0879756079.
- Barker, Dan (1992). Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist. Madison, WI: Freedom From Religion Foundation. ISBN 978-1877733130.
- Barker, Dan (2002). Just Pretend. Freedom From Religion Foundation. ISBN 978-1877733055.
- Barker, Dan (2008). Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists. Ulysses Press. ISBN 978-1569756775.
- Barker, Dan (2011). The Good Atheist: Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God. Ulysses Press. ISBN 978-1569758465.
- Barker, Dan (2015). Life Driven Purpose: How an Atheist Finds Meaning. Pitchstone Publishing. ISBN 978-1939578211.
Music albums
- Night at Nakoma
- Friendly Neighborhood Atheist (2002)
- Beware of Dogma (2004)
- Adrift On A Star (2013)
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lueders, Bill (July 28, 1991). "Fervor in reverse". The Milwaukee Journal. pp. 7–13.
- ↑ Grauvogl, Ann (18 December 2009). "Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor are happily God-free". Isthmus The Daily Page. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
- ↑ Griffith, Justin (16 January 2011). "Dan Barker Joins the Lineup". Rock Beyond Belief website. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
- ↑ "Dan Barker". Secular Student Alliance. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
- ↑ "Manna Music All Songs List". Manna Music. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
- ↑ von Busack, Richard (3 October 2002). "Heretical Animals". Metro Silicon Valley. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
- ↑ "The Oprah Winfrey Show". AM Chicago. 1984. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
- ↑ Erickson, Doug (25 February 2007). "The Atheists' Calling". Madison.com. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
- ↑ Barker, Dan (1991). "Paradise Remembered a Lenape Indian Childhood and Other Stories". Dan Barker. ASIN B00GW4Z9LS.
- ↑ "Dan Barker - Freedom From Religion Foundation". ffrf.org.
- ↑ "Fox & Friends". Fox News. 4 December 2010. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
- ↑ The Daily Show (14 March 2010). "Mail Mary". Comedy Central. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
- ↑ "Does Prayer Have A Place In Public Schools". Fox News. 14 August 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
- ↑ Sella, Marshall (7 December 1997). "Faith Is a Fraud; Godless And Proud of It". New York Times. Retrieved 27 September 2007.
- ↑ Lazarus, Bill (24 January 1991). "Minister-turned-atheist Speaks This Weekend". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
- ↑ Lyman, Wendy (28 April 2004). "Dan Barker Speaks Tonight at Schofield". The Flip Side. University of Wisconsin. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
- ↑ "Atheism speaker attracts large crowd". The Spectator. University of Wisconsin. 24 April 2004. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
- ↑ Baker, Jim (13 November 2004). "Former preacher 'de-converts' to atheism". Lawrence Journal World. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
- ↑ Tonge, Shawn (11 March 2013). "Evangelical preacher shares story of conversion to atheism". Michigan Central Life. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
- ↑ "Minister-Turned-Atheist Discusses Journey to Deconversion in Lawrence University Address". Lawrence University. 11 May 2006. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
- ↑ Kim, Hyung W (30 April 2008). "The Interminable Debate". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
- ↑ "Freethought Radio & Podcast". Retrieved 12 June 2013.
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The exact number of robberies and suspects connected to the series of heists is still under investigation, but in general the suspects enter the store, display handguns and demand money from cash registers and the store safe.


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A Market Solution That Put Investors in a Fix
Source: Wall Street Journal
By Dennis K. Berman
August 24, 2010
They thought they were saving the stock market. They ended up maiming it.
The May 6 "flash crash" was the culmination of 35 years of relentless stock-market reform, much of it rightly making the markets cheaper and faster, largely free from the 20th-century market makers who feasted on huge trading spreads and occasional chicanery.
Yet somehow we have wound up right where we began: with a market that many perceive as tainted and prone to gaming by a cadre of insiders. Only this time, instead of wielding the biggest, baddest berth on the New York Stock Exchange floor, they are wielding the biggest, baddest computers.
When BlackRock Inc. surveyed 380 financial advisers earlier this summer about the flash crash, their perceptions said it all: The mayhem had been primarily caused by an "overreliance on computer systems and some types of high frequency trading" strategies that roam the market en masse, looking to pick off pennies of profit.
Today, small investors are fleeing the equities markets in droves, according to data from the Investment Company Institute, pulling out a net $34 billion from stock funds so far this year. Bigger institutional investors, says Justin Schack, vice president of market-structure analysis at New York brokerage Rosenblatt Securities, are suspicious.
They say, "I still feel like someone is screwing me,"' Mr. Schack adds. Even though they have benefitted from shrinking trading costs, he says, "trading feels different than it used to."
In coming weeks, the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission are expected to release their report on the frantic hours of May 6. No doubt their work will home in on the so-far inscrutable interplay between myriad exchanges and high-frequency traders, whose volume now accounts for an estimated two-thirds of all trading.
The irony is that this is the system both Congress and the SEC worked decades to set up: competitive and "flat," shorn of hierarchy, where trades are routed to the best price on any open market and commissions are relentlessly squeezed.
Behind these changes, beginning in 1975, was a zeal to liberate the individual investor from the clutches of the archaic market makers who made a good living taking "eighths"—12.5 cents—for every share bought and sold.
The government later found Nasdaq dealers were even more gluttonous than first imagined. And by the time the last big market reforms were issued in 2005, the intent was to "give investors, particularly retail investors, greater confidence that they will be treated fairly," the SEC said at the time.
As spreads squeezed from eighths to pennies, a new batch of electronic-trading networks blinked into action. Volume trading was the only way to make money.
Saving money has taken its own toll. The market has become deeply fragmented, traded across at least 50 trading venues both large and small. Those high-frequency traders now making the markets have only the option—and not the responsibility—to step in at a time of distress like the flash crash.
In other words, we have traded cheaper up-front costs for unknown back-end ones. That is exactly what is spooking the same investors the SEC vowed to protect in 2005.
In an Aug. 5 letter to SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro, Sen. Edward E. KAUFMAN (D., Del.) said it might be best for market stability if the SEC "empirically challenge[d] the mantra that investors are best served by narrow spreads." Asking such heretical questions is required as Washington grapples with how to restore confidence in the U.S. markets.
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Football all-stars: It was Taps for Stepinac's foes
Stepinac's Austin Taps is scary good on a football field
His varsity debut arrived last season at Iona Prep and it quickly resonated. Stepinac's No. 85 had announced himself to both the league and the county as a two-way menace, one capable of dragging down quarterbacks and ball carriers for losses only to later leave would-be tacklers gazing at the sky.First impressions are often fleeting. Not this one. "If we sold Austin Taps jerseys at our games this year, they would have been a very hot item," coach MIke O'Donnell said. "Everyone who watched him loved the way he played the game — except for our opponents."
They were terrorized throughout Taps' senior season, one that earned the 6-foot-5, 235-pound force the CHSFL's top defensive honor and helped drive the Crusaders to their first-ever AAA championship game. Now, with Division I colleges in competition for his services, the Mahopac resident can add The Journal News Westchester/Putnam player of the year to his credentials.
Taps finished with a team-best 10 sacks, forced two fumbles and ranked fifth on the defense with 51 solo tackles and 83 total. He often did so shedding double teams and avoiding cut blocks, but the added attention failed to diminish his impact.
With his team considered an underdog at home against speedy Xaverian in the CHSFL semifinals, Taps rallied the defense, flummoxing a backfield loaded with Division I prospects. He recorded 13 tackles and two sacks and helped teammate Vincent Narog force a fumble in overtime to end the game.
Taps then slowed St. Anthony's dreaded option in the CHSFL final. He repeatedly got to the quarterback as Stepinac held the Friars to one offensive touchdown and none over the final three quarters.
When asked about his impact, Taps credited senior Garfield Heslop, who replaced Syracuse redshirt Donnie Simmons at the other defensive end. He also pointed to technique work with the team's new line coach, Steve Moroney, a former three-year starter at Penn."I learned a lot from him," Taps said. "Everything he taught us was just top notch. Without his coaching, I wouldn't have had the defensive year we had. Having him was a big thing for our team."
But Taps success doesn't just hinge on his defense. He also ranked second on the team with 22 receptions, 358 receiving yards and four touchdowns catches as the starting tight end.In fact, consider this: Among the schools that have already offered Taps scholarships, William & Mary, Lafayette and Holy Cross consider him a tight end. Penn, Delaware and others who have offered official visits view Taps as a defensive end.
"I don't really have a preference for what I play in college," he said. "Whatever the team needs."
That has been Taps' mantra since he transferred in as a sophomore. He spent that first season as a sophomore sitting out due to league transfer rules, participating at practice mostly on scout teams.
Stepinac coaches and the team's fans soon braced for a sudden impact, only the rest of the CHSFL felt it most."He had a great attitude and a never-ending work ethic to get better," O'Donnell said. "Probably his greatest asset is that he plays angry every play. He is one of the nicest kids you ever want to meet. But when he is on the field and the ball is snapped? Watch out."
Westchester/Putnam All-Stars: Taps, Moran earn top 2011 honors
The Journal News and LoHud.com announced its Rockland All-County team and Westchester/Putnam All-Stars today. If you missed it, here's a look at the all-county picks.
The top honor in Westchester/Putnam went to Stepinac senior Austin Taps (left). The tight end/defensive end was a two-way terror for the CHSFL AAA runner-up. He caught 22 passes for 358 yards and four TD on offense and had 10 sacks, 81 tackles and forced two fumbles. It earned him the league's defensive player of the year award and has helped earn scholarship offers from William & Mary, Lafayette and Holy Cross, plus official visits from Delaware, Penn and Georgetown, among others.
The coach of the year award went to another first-year guy, Dobbs Ferry's Jim Moran. He led the Eagles back to prominence, guiding them to their first Section 1 championship in four years and to a Class C state title. After losing their season opener, they won 11 straight, including a 39-0 wipeout in the state final.
Thanks to all the coaches who offered their assistance in the selection process.
Here's a look at the rest of the all-star honorees:
First team
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Wide receiver
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K: Przemyshaw Popek, Sr., Stepinac
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The right agent can make investing much easier. We have strong relationships with reliable local letting agents who will help you achieve the best rental rates for your property. We can also help negotiate management fees and commission rates so you get the best deal.
If you need it, we can provide you with a list of fully independent solicitors. Offering fast, effective service at competitive rates, the firms we recommend have handled thousands of transactions for Barratt and are familiar with the entire process – meaning less hassle for you.
Our homes appeal to potential tenants, not just because they look great, but also because we design them to be energy efficient and low maintenance to live in. Our homes have won some of the industry's most coveted awards for design and quality, and we're the only major national housebuilder to be awarded a Five Star Housebuilder Award by the Homebuilders Federation, every year since 2009.
Decades of UK building experience means we really understand the market – creating homes people desire, in places they want to live. Our properties offer great local amenities and facilities, and are close to major transport links. People like living in Barratt homes – which makes them great investments.
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You'll need a solicitor that specialises in conveyance to look after all the paperwork. We can put you in touch with one if needs be.
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Once the legal work is complete, your solicitor will exchange contracts with us. This is when you pay your deposit and commit to the deal taking place.
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Whether you were successful or not with your job application, thanking the people who serve as your job references is a must. You are already indebted to them just from indicating their names on your application. So the least you can do is to thank them for allowing you to list them as references.
Your letter does not have to be grand, but it has to be sincere. It doesn't have to be as traditional as sending a handwritten letter through the postman. An e-mail can still express the same gratitude and sincerity.
Here are s ome tips to help you write your thank-you letter.
1. Make your letter timely. You can express your gratitude upon the agreement of the person to be a reference or you can also send it when you have learned the result of your application. Either way, you have to send your thank-you letters in a way that shows you are excited to let him or her know about the status of your application. Delay in expressing your gratitude means you are not as grateful as you should be.
2. Inform whether you made it or not. The moment you choose the person for your job reference, he/she is already considered to be a part of your application. Therefore, it is an act of courtesy to make known the outcome of your application. If you were successful, state how much you look forward to the job. If your application was not successful, just write your letter in a hopeful note that perhaps you are meant for other jobs out there.
Sample script of an unsuccessful application:
"As much as I would love to be part of that company, maybe I am more suited to other positions in other companies."
3. Be specific about the role of the job reference. To make sure that your letter sounds sincere, you have to emphasize that you know the importance of the role of the job reference in the application process. Simply mention that his/her referral was highly appreciated. If you're making a general letter to send to all the job references, put some effort into mentioning each person's name. This will make your letter sound more personal.
Sample script:
"Thank you, Ms. Nero, for putting in good words for me in my application."
4. Make your letter simple and direct. You don't have to make your letter too emotional or too explanatory. If your application was not successful, do not make your letter sound resentful. Make the recipient feel that even if you have failed the application, you still value his/her effort to help you out. If your application was successful, you also don't have to overdo your thanks in such a way that it would seem it was his/her referral that landed you the job.
5. State that you want him/her to be a job reference in the future. To further show your importance, state simply that you're hoping that he/she can still be your job reference in other instances. Indicate how much you value his/her effort and your hope that he/she would still be willing to help you out in the future.
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"Your referral helped me a great deal in my application and I hope that you will still allow me to consider you as a job reference in the future."
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Hoping to create new markets for sorghum, the Sorghum Checkoff in conjunction with the U.S. Grains Council, is sponsoring an international sorghum food use team visiting the U.S. April 11-17. The participants are industry flour users from Europe and Taiwan with an interest in gaining a better understanding of the use of sorghum flour in their manufactured products.
"This program is exciting because those on the outside will be able to see sorghum as a viable food product," said sorghum producer and checkoff board member Earl Roemer. "They will see both health implications and food benefits."
On Monday, April 12, the program will begin with presentations on sorghum use in food and information on sorghum baking. The presentations will outline new uses for sorghum and provide attendees with a greater understanding of the potential health benefits of including sorghum in food production.
"The workshop is intended to show prospective overseas customers that sorghum can be used for more than livestock feed," said Jay O'Neil, International Grain Program (IGP.) "Foreign markets may not be aware of sorghum or may not be considering it for food use."
The team will learn about current research concerning the baked characteristics of sorghum flour. O'Neil said this could lead to new possibilities in specialty markets around the world and mean good things for U.S. sorghum producers.
Tuesday, the team will see a variety of hands-on demonstrations of baking with sorghum. They will have the opportunity to learn from quality demonstrations of flour, bread, teas and noodles made using sorghum, and all attendees will enjoy sorghum waffles.
"Visitors will see how we are manufacturing sorghum flour and using it in our food products, and hopefully they will go home and see how they can utilize sorghum in similar manners," O'Neil said.
The team of five is made up of visitors from The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Belgium and Taiwan. The remainder of the week will consist of additional presentations and visits to various sorghum mills where the team will receive additional information about the benefits of sorghum in food use.
"When we add new markets, it offers competitiveness for the product and the opportunity to reach out," Roemer said. "By educating these individuals about the different uses for sorghum, we hope to open new opportunities for the industry to grow."
The United Sorghum Checkoff Program was established in 2008 under the authority of the Commodity Promotion, Research and Information Act of 1996. Funding for the checkoff is derived from value based assessments on all grain sorghum and forage sorghum produced in the U.S. as well as from a similar assessment on imported grain sorghum. A 13-member producer board of directors administers the national checkoff program, subject to USDA approval.


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The contract from Saudi Arabia to refurbish 84 U.S.-built Abrams tanks, like those above, is one of four or five international contracts the plant is working to obtain, an General Dynamics spokesman said.
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LIMA, Ohio — The Lima tank plant will receive a $187.5 million contract from the kingdom of Saudi Arabia to refurbish 84 of the country's American-built Abrams tanks. The work will be performed over the next two years, starting around June, and is scheduled for completion by March, 2015.
The tank plant, officially known as the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center and operated by General Dynamics' Land Systems division, has been vying for several international contracts that could provide work, said Peter Keating, a General Dynamics spokesman.
The plant has been jeopardized in recent years. The U.S. military has cited deep cuts in spending and an ample supply in tanks.
"This is one of several international orders we've been looking forward to. Some have come in a little later than scheduled. But we've been looking for ways to help sustain the plant and this is one of those orders that helps keep things going," he said.
The plant employs about 400 hourly workers and 100 salaried workers.
The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command on behalf of the Royal Saudi Land Forces. It continues work begun in 2008 to update Saudi Arabia's tank force of 315 Abrams models. TACOM formerly stood for Tank-automotive and Armaments Command.
The contract calls for the plant to convert 44 M1A1 Abrams, and 40 M1A2 Abrams tanks to the Saudi M1A2S configuration for use in desert fighting.
An M1A2S conversion package gives the tanks greater efficiency and more lethal force while limiting obsolescence. It provides more capabilities by refurbishing several components for each vehicle, including the gunner's primary sight assembly, computer control panel, elevating-mechanism assembly; gunner's control assembly, and other parts of the tank
Saudi Arabia ships the tanks to the United States for the work because the nation finds it cheaper to do so than than it would to have a tank plant built and staffed in Saudi Arabia. The tanks are then refurbished, upgraded, and tested before being shipped back to Saudi Arabia.
A turret is placed on a tank at the Lima plant, which has had funding issues in recent years.
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The plant typically provides upgrades that meet the various needs of customers. For example, it provides a system enhancement package, or SEP, for U.S. Abrams tanks that gives the vehicles more electronics and better communications equipment to interact with other tanks during a battle.
Mr. Keating said the M1A2S package provides upgrades "that are unique to the Saudi army's demands."
"We need more work, so this is good news," U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (R., Ohio) said Friday during a stop in the Toledo suburb of Holland. "It makes sense for the Saudis because this is the best tank plant in the world. It also makes sense for the workers at the plant because these are high-tech, highly skilled workers who, if we mothball the plant, will end up having to go work elsewhere. Having to restart that plant is going to be more costly for the taxpayer than keeping the line open."
General Dynamics believes the plant could be line to receive four or five international contracts over the next few years, which would extend its life and keep its specialized work force intact in the Lima area.
The Saudi contract is the first step, Mr. Keating said. "It does keep a certain core of workers going because they would be doing modernization of a certain model of tank. There's a certain set of skills required to do that kind of work," he said.
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Activision Details Final Modern Warfare 3 Content Drops
Activision has released the details for the last set of content drops for Modern Warfare 3 Elite Subscribers, with plenty of new DLC coming into the frame. The content drops revealed will fill up the previously empty August and September sections on the Content Calendar. Gamers will get new multiplayer maps, Special Ops missions and even a brand new game mode called Spec Ops Chaos Mode – all coming the Xbox 360 first.
The guys at Activision also revealed the release dates for Collection 3: Chaos Pack and Collection 4: Final Assault, which will include previously released content along with upcoming DLC. Check out below for a better description of what lays ahead.
August Elite Drops
The August Content Drops for Modern Warfare 3 will include two brand spanking new Special Ops mission and stylish new game mode that will get those try-hards foaming from the mouth. the August drops will release to Xbox Elite subscribers on August 7th.
Special-Ops Missions:
- Light 'Em Up – A VIP has been captured and detained within Makarov's castle, and it's up to you to breach the fortress and get him out. Take control of a small helicopter, secure the hostage, and evacuate before dawn's first light in this new Special Ops mission.
- Special Delivery – Deep behind enemy lines, an allied flight crew helplessly awaits their fate at a nearby crash site. Pairing up a soldier on the ground and a helicopter gunner equipped with care packages, the Special Ops mission objective is to overcome the enemy resistance and rescue the allied crew.
Game Mode:
- Spec-Ops Chaos Mode – Special Ops Chaos mode delivers the ultimate in arcade mayhem. Experience truly heart-pounding and adrenaline-fueled action while competing for high scores in Resistance, Village, Underground and Dome. Chain kills together against a never-ending onslaught of enemies to increase your combo Multiplier and earn performance enhancing perks. Choose your route through each map to optimize weapon pickups, attack, and escape options. Play solo, split screen or online with a friend to take out as many enemies as possible before they take you down or the clock hits zero.
Collection 3: Chaos Pack
The collection will release for all Xbox users on August 9th and will include the content seen above, as well as already released, pint-sized Face-Off maps 'Vortex', 'U-turn' and 'Intersection'. It will also include Special Ops missions 'Vertigo' and 'Arctic Recon', so you have plenty of different avenues of fun to take with the large collection.
September Elite Drops
September's content will see three new multiplayer maps taking the stage, thus bringing an end to the content season for Modern Warfare 3. With a variety of content making its way to Call of Duty fans since January, it's fitting to end such a jam-packed DLC schedule with the much-loved multiplayer maps. The content drops will be available to Xbox Elite subscribers on September 5th.
Multiplayer Maps:
- Gulch – Decades after fires charred this forgotten mining town, the red rock canyon gains new shades of red as a mid-sized Multiplayer Map in which the surrounding mountains, mine shafts, and equipment sheds craft a perfect setting for combat.
- Boardwalk – Head to the Jersey Coast for a sunny afternoon of boardwalk-based Multiplayer battle in which you'll face your enemies on the beach and fight for dominance at the arcade while still finding time to cut the line at the rollercoaster.
- Parish – Wishful thinking won't keep you safe in New Orleans' war-torn French Quarter, where a local bombed-out parish plays host to a smaller-sized Multiplayer Map well suited for those who want to run-and-gun amidst the city's rubble.
Collection 4: Final Assault
The final curtain of released content for the shooter will include the three multiplayer maps above and two already released maps, 'Decommission' and 'Off-Shore'. This will bring the total of large-scale maps in the game to 28, which is quite a lot. The five map collection will be available to Non-Elite users on September 6th.
That ends what has been the biggest release of DLC for the Call of Duty franchise since its creation and probably not the last with Black Ops 2 just around the corner. It will be interesting to see what direction Activision will go with DLC when the futuristic shooter releases on November 13th, we will just have to wait and see.
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Conversations continue in North Sarasota with business owners & residents/
SARASOTA, Fla. – September 17, 2014 – 9 a.m.
On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 at 6 p.m. at the Robert L. Taylor Community Center, 1845 34th Street, Sarasota, Police Chief Bernadette DiPino along with members of the Sarasota Police Department, will hold another neighborhood and community meeting called 'New Beginnings II,' for business owners and residents in North Sarasota.
The September 23rd meeting is an opportunity to have an open discussion about Community Orientated Policing and quality of life issues in North Sarasota neighborhoods. This second meeting will be a continuation from a neighborhood meeting which was held on July 31, 2014. Chief DiPino will moderate the meeting and is looking for input from the community on how to refresh strategies that will continue to keep our community safe.
'New Beginnings II' is an update of a previous initiative, 'A New Beginning for Newtown.' This initiative is a chance to bring police and the community together to address crime, fear of crime and relationship building. "These meetings are a chance to continue the conversation about public and officer safety. We will continue to work together to keep our community safe, build relationships and trust and partner with our community to keep Sarasota a safe place to live, work and play," said Chief Bernadette DiPino.
Residents, community members, business owners and media are invited to attend the meeting on September 23, 2014 at 6 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.


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Raffia is hitting the fashion scene in full force. What was once reserved to Hawaiian themed parties and backyard tiki torches, has now transformed to an ultimate summer wardrobe staple. Wear this trend in multiple ways, from statement jewelry, bold bags to even clothing. On and off the runway, designers have begun to use this fiber to create unique ensembles. Jump into the season with our Raffia inspired buys, after all, it IS created out of palm trees (and what is more summer-appropriate than that?)
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I thought I'd write a quick article on the possibilities of writing a client for OpenSim using Unity3d, I'm writing this as there has been a lot of discussion around this recently after the Unity3d indie version became free.
I've done a fair bit of prototyping and investigation on this in the past, so I'll share what I've discovered and where I have got to.
Firstly I want to make clear a couple of points about the way Unity3d applications can be deployed. One option for creating a client is standalone mode, in this the produced client will be an executable desktop app that works on Windows or OS X. The second and most attractive option for an OpenSim client is deploying as a Web Plugin that can be embedded in any webpage.
Now I've made these two options clear I'll point out the additional difficulties of creating a Web Plugin client. Firstly any Unity3d app deployed as a web plugin is security sandboxed just as a java applet would be. In practical terms what this means is that certain standard API calls in the embedded Mono engine are not allowed. For example one fairly critical class that can't be used is System.Net.WebRequest. As far as I can tell there is not a list anywhere of API functions that do not work, it's a case of trial and error and trawling the Unity forums.
The second issue with the web plugin is that you can't use any additonal C/C++ libraries you can however use c# dlls. The restriction this causes though is that your included c# dlls can't rely on any platform specific external libs, think System.Drawing and libgdi.
So now lets look at what we need to implement an OpenSim client. First off we're going to need to communicate with the server so we need libOMV, for creating a standalone unity application using a pre 0.7 libomv libary there is no problem, it works straight out of the box. Why pre 0.7.0 ? Because in 0.7.0 some features of .NET 3.5 have been introduced (see this opensim-dev post for detail) and Unity3d is on a back level version of mono, i'm not sure exactly which but i think it's around 2.0.
It is possible to work around these changes and get libomv 0.70 working in Unity for a standalone client. However try deploying your simple log on and chat client as a Web Plugin and you will soon find that you don't even get to the login stage as libOMV uses HttpWebRequest which doesnt work in the browser plugin. The fix for this is to rewrite parts of libOMV to use the unity WWW object instead.
So next up we've got the issue of 3D object formats which luckily is solved (in the most part) by the availability of the PrimMesher library written by Dahlia. I spent some time the other week getting this working and shared the Unity side of things with Dahlia who has gone on to get sculpties working as well. The remaining issue with objects is texturing and more specifically the decoding of jpeg2000 images. At the moment I'm decoding these to regular jpegs on the server side before assigning the textures in Unity.
The alternative option of course is to write a Unity specific client library and implement the matching iClientApi, this may in fact be a better solution as keeping a forked libOMV version just for unity will be a bit of a pain. The down side of this alternative is that the client won't work with the main Second Life grid.
So that's the end of this little brain dump,I hope it has informed anyone thinking of tackling a Unity client for OpenSim and also hope it hasn't put you off at all.


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Official: Heroin in packets in Hoffman's apartment
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I have a passion for anything and everything creative and I'm always trying new things. I've worked as a freelance graphic designer for almost 10 years, but have only recently rediscovered my love for drawing. As a result, I have been working on coloring books and coloring pages that I am now making available for you to enjoy. I love working in black and white, but I can't wait to see you bring my pieces to life with color.
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