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J.J. Redick shouldn't have to look at the Orlando Magic management team and plea, "call me, maybe."
Ryan Totka -- he of http://www.StayDwight.com fame -- shouldn't be burdened with setting up a website groveling for J.J. to stick around.
J.J. Redick shouldn't have to look at the Orlando Magic management team and plea, "call me, maybe."
Ryan Totka -- he of http://www.StayDwight.com fame -- shouldn't be burdened with setting up a website groveling for J.J. to stick around.
Season-ticket holders don't need to storm the Amway Center for a J.J. Redick pep rally.
This is a simple deal, and a critical one for the home team:
Re-sign J.J. Redick. He's a keeper.
I get the fact that he's not a franchise player. And that the Magic are going to have to make a tough call on investing around $16 million a year in two shooting guards, since Arron Afflalo has three more years in his current deal at an estimated $7.5 million. And that the Magic are trying to collect as many young'ns as possible in hopes of climbing out of the rebuilding mode.
But here's the flip side:
The Magic can only go so far with this "please be patient we are remodeling" thing. It's unreasonable to keep asking fans to be patient while putting an inferior product on the floor at non-discount prices. So you need a more tangible marketing asset than "just wait a while."
Redick is it, by a long shot.
He has become the face of the franchise full of unrecognizable faces. Jameer Nelson seemed to be that guy for awhile after Dwight Howard left town, but Nelson is now in his ninth season with the same defensive limitations and remains pretty much a 12-to-15 points-a-night kind of guy.
Redick is improving, and measurably. Redick's numbers, from minutes to scoring, have improved every season from 2007-08. He is averaging a career-high 15 points a game and recently moved into a starting role.
Yes, he's a marketable asset. By he's a bigger asset to a team that needs some sort of an identity moving forward. Until reinforcements arrive, J.J. is it.
And we're not just talking basketball here.
J.J. is the most popular player on the team now. He is most engaged when it comes to community involvement. Last March, Redick and Howard were named the co-winners of the annual Rich & Helen DeVos Community Enrichment Award. They received $50,000 each to donate to the charity or charities of their choice.
Redick paid it forward by donating $25,000 to the Russell Home for Atypical Children, a facility that serves brain-damaged children and adults, and another $25,000 to a nonprofit called Loaves and Fishes that helps people in need with food and other essentials. He recently donated another $25,000 — out of his own pocket — to a Florida chapter of the Alzheimer's Association honoring the grandmother of J.J.'s wife, Chelesa, who is suffering from the disease.
I became a bigger Redick fan that day because my mom died of that insidious disease in 2009. And that's the point: He's got bunches of people cheering for him in this community because he's truly engaged and not just posing for a photo-op with an oversized check. He's got bunches of people cheering for him in the Amway Center every night because he's one heck of a basketball player. He's got bunches of people cheering for him because he's a solid guy who will never embarrass this franchise.
He's due for a nice raise beyond the $6 million on his current expiring contract. Will the Magic up the ante and lock in him for a few more seasons at about $8 mil per year? Deal him before the Feb. 21 trade deadline?
General manager Rob Hennigan is a numbers-crunching guy and doesn't get terribly caught up in emotions. He's got two good shooting guards and a handful of holes in the lineup otherwise. But he should realize that a lot of Magic fans have a financial and emotional investment in this team.
And they love them some J.J.
So call him.
Don't even think maybe.
Read George Diaz's blog at OrlandoSentinel.com/enfuego or email him at email@example.com


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Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) Rainfall Index Insurance in Missouri
Editor's note
A link in the For more information section was updated on 2/8/16.
Ryan Milhollin
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Commercial Agriculture Program
Ray Massey
Extension Professor
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Joe Horner
Agricultural Economist
Commercial Agriculture Program
Forage and livestock producers in Missouri can buy insurance to mitigate forage production risk. Pasture, rangeland, forage (PRF) insurance was developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Risk Management Agency (RMA) and has been available in Missouri since 2009. For Missouri, PRF insurance is based on a rainfall index and provides coverage when the precipitation in an area declines from its long-term, historical norm. The deadline for purchasing this insurance is typically in mid-November the year before the calendar year being covered.
How PRF insurance works
The rainfall index is based on data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Prediction Center that is specific to grid locations. Each grid area is 0.25 degrees in latitude by 0.25 degrees in longitude. The grids do not follow state, county or other geopolitical boundaries. The rainfall index is not based on individual farm or individual weather station precipitation data but rather is based on, or interpolated from, data from multiple weather stations. The historical index value, also called the expected grid index, is set to a 100 percent level; and an indemnity is paid when precipitation falls below an elected coverage level, the trigger grid index.
Producer choices
Different options are available to provide coverage for a farm. Premiums will vary by the selections made by the producer. Each option should be considered when purchasing PRF insurance.
Intended use
When using PRF insurance, a producer must select coverage for either grazing or haying purposes (Figure 1). Although acreage under one policy may only be selected to be insured for one intended use, producers can have separate polices even on the same farm, such as 50 acres in one field for grazing and another field of 50 acres for haying. Each intended use has its own base county value. The RMA assigns each grid area a base dollar value per acre for grazing and a base dollar value per acre for haying, which reflect typical production values for that area. In Missouri in 2013, the county base level for grazing varied across the state from $39.21 to $43.17 per acre, and the county base level for haying was $142.15 per acre.
Figure 1. Drought risk for grazing beef or dairy cattle may be partially mitigated with PRF insurance.
Coverage level
Coverage levels range from 70 to 90 percent. The coverage level establishes the rainfall deviation from the index when insurance pays an indemnity. The government subsidizes different coverage levels at different rates. The government will pay 51 percent of the total premium at the 90 percent coverage level, 55 percent for 80 and 85 percent coverage, and 59 percent for the 70 and 75 percent coverage levels.
Productivity factor
The productivity factor allows producers to customize their PRF insurance policy based on their specific situation. Producers will select a productivity factor between 60 and 150 percent and will adjust the county base level per acre accordingly. This factor allows producers to adjust their forage value based on the specific productivity of their land. For example, if a farmer feels that a heavily fertilized hay crop needs more protection than the original county base level, then that farmer would select a productivity factor greater than 100 percent to increase the level of coverage.
Index intervals
Producers choose coverage in two-month intervals (Figure 2). Factors to be considered when determining which intervals to cover include the type of forage or crop, the intended use, and the time period when precipitation is needed under normal conditions for the insured crop. Producers must allocate the percent of value across the chosen intervals to equal 100 percent. A minimum of two separate and nonoverlapping intervals must be selected, and a minimum of 10 percent and maximum of 60 percent of the coverage may be attributed to any one interval.
Grid location
A farm's grid identification is based on a point of reference selected by the producer. The point of reference must be within the boundaries of the acreage to be insured. RMA's website provides a grid locator tool, http://agforceusa.com/rma/ri/prf/maps, for identifying your land, establishing a point of reference and determining the grid identification (Figure 3). Multiple points of reference may be needed if acreage is noncontiguous or overlays into multiple grids, or if the intended use — haying or grazing — is different for part of the acreage. A producer may choose multiple points of reference within the insured acreage that are in different grids and have different base values and historical precipitation amounts.
Figure 3. The grid locator enables producers to identify their grid location for their insurance policy. Map data © 2013 Google.
Indemnity payments
An indemnity is paid when the interpolated precipitation is less than the trigger grid index, which is the specified percentage of the rainfall index. The trigger grid index is determined by the level of coverage selected (70 to 90 percent). For example, if a farmer selected 90 percent coverage, then the final grid index must be below 90 for that two-month interval to trigger an indemnity payment. Actual indemnity payments are based on the difference between the trigger index and the actual index, divided by the trigger index, and multiplied by the policy protection for the index interval (Figure 4).
Because this insurance does not measure, capture or use any actual crop production, a producer could experience a loss of production and not receive an indemnity payment, or could receive a payment without suffering an actual loss of production.
Figure 4. Example indemnity payment calculation.
Decision support tool
A decision tool developed by RMA to look at historical PRF policy information is available online at http://agforceusa.com/rma/ri/prf/dst (Figure 5). Producers can select a grid location, enter their coverage options and view what the protection level, premiums, subsidies, index value and indemnities would have been for any historical year. Entering options into this tool is a great way to analyze PRF insurance and how it would have performed in past years.
Figure 5. Producers can use the decision support tool website to analyze how PRF insurance would have performed in past years.
Haying example
A producer located in Lawrence County, Mo., has a high-quality alfalfa crop and insured it in the year 2012. The farm had a grid location number of 20545. The intended use of the land was haying, and the producer elected the 90 percent coverage level and 150 percent productivity factor for this land. The producer opted to use the May–June, July–Aug. and Sept.–Oct. index intervals at 40 percent, 40 percent and 20 percent, respectively. Table 1 indicates what the results of this scenario would have been in 2012, which was a major drought year. Only two index intervals resulted in indemnities as Sept.–Oct. was not below the trigger grid index of 90. The producer would have paid premiums of $13.96 per acre and received indemnity payments of $44.61 per acre.
Table 1. PRF insurance, haying example (2012).
|Index interval
|Percent of value
|Producer premium per acre
|Actual index value
|Indemnity per acre
Grazing example
The same producer located in Lawrence County, Mo., grid location number 20545, insured grazing pasture in 2011. The producer elected the 90 percent coverage level and 150 percent productivity factor for this land. The producer opted to use the May–June, July–Aug. and Sept.–Oct. index intervals at 40 percent, 40 percent and 20 percent, respectively. Table 2 indicates what the results of this scenario would have been in 2011. The producer would have paid premiums of $4.02 per acre and received indemnity payments of $8.74 per acre.
Table 2. PRF insurance, grazing example (2011).
|Index interval
|Percent of value
|Producer premium per acre
|Actual index value
|Indemnity per acre
History of PRF insurance in Missouri
Missouri is a significant forage-production state. In Missouri, about 6.9 million acres are in permanent pasture (USDA Census of Agriculture, 2007) and 3.7 million acres of hay are harvested annually (USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, 2012). Historical use of PRF insurance in Missouri can be found in Figure 6. Typically, acreage has been close to 50,000 acres in Missouri, but its usage has grown in recent years.
To show how well PRF insurance has paid Missouri farmers in the past, Figure 7 identifies the Missouri farmer premium loss ratio for the years 2009 to 2013. A farmer premium loss ratio can be defined as the indemnities that were paid out to farmers divided by the actual premiums paid by farmers. Note that during the major drought year of 2012, PRF insurance resulted in a farmer premium loss ratio of 3.81. In other words, a farmer premium of $1.00 resulted in $3.81 in indemnities when averaged across the state.
Figure 6. Missouri acreage covered by PRF insurance, 2009–2013 (as of May 23, 2013).
Figure 7. Farmer premium loss ratio for Missouri PRF insurance, 2009–2012 (as of May 23, 2013).
Additional information
For more information about this insurance plan, contact a crop insurance agent. Crop insurance agents are the best sources of information about these policies and can help you understand how the policies could be customized for your farm. The USDA RMA provides a directory of agents that can be searched by state and county online at http://www.rma.usda.gov/tools/agent.html. The USDA RMA also has PRF policy and insurance standards handbooks available online at http://www.rma.usda.gov/policies/pasturerangeforage.


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Lutz Helps St. Lucia CUs Adapt to Changing Island Economy
Volunteer Efforts by GECU SVP/CFO the First Step in Stabilizing Agricultural Lending Efforts
April 04, 2008
|GECU's Steve Lutz (right) enjoys a break with Anthony Herman, treasurer of Choiseul Credit Union in St. Lucia.
CASTRIES, St. Lucia—When World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) pressed volunteer Steven Lutz into service in January, the senior vice president and CFO for GECU in El Paso, Texas, packed his bags for Kenya. However, civil strife in the African country redirected Lutz this past month to the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, where he found himself helping credit unions address their delinquency issues and adapt to changes in the island's economy.
"St. Lucia's credit unions epitomize the credit union philosophy of 'people helping people,'" said Lutz, a 30-year GECU veteran. "They offer two products—savings accounts and loans—and these services are delivered face to face by employees who do what's in the best interest of the member sitting across from them. It was inspiring to see the credit union mission alive and well."
Lutz's efforts also helped lay the groundwork for strengthening St. Lucia credit unions' capabilities in agricultural lending, part of a larger initiative that WOCCU is undertaking in conjunction with OAS Staff Federal Credit Union, the Washington, D.C. institution serving staff of the Organization of American States, and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, one of the credit union's select employee groups. Lutz's activities helped form the vanguard of a combined effort to help stabilize St. Lucia's credit unions to better serve rural farmers faced with an island economy evolving toward a stronger tourism industry.
According to WOCCU's 2006 Statistical Report, the most recent data available, St. Lucia has 19 credit unions serving nearly 60,000 people, approaching half the island nation's population. Lutz worked with three credit unions ranging in size from $3 million to $44 million in assets. One of the opportunities Lutz identified was in the area of collections.
"Loan officers know everyone in the neighborhood so when a member comes in for a loan, the employee is able to base the loan decision on character and his knowledge of the member," Lutz said. "Because of the tight-knit relationships the credit union has with its members, collecting loans becomes somewhat more difficult, in that loan officers, in trying to do the right thing, afford the member as much time as possible to make that next payment."
Lutz's visit, sponsored by WOCCU and the St. Lucia Credit Union League, enabled the country's cooperatives to tap into the CFO's financial skills. The St. Lucia League will soon be signing a partnership agreement with the Michigan Credit Union League as part of WOCCU's International Partnerships Program, bringing to 28 the number of U.S. states and Canadian provinces that have signed reciprocal support agreements with developing credit union movements.
Lutz worked directly with Saltibus Cooperative Credit Union ($3 million in assets), Choiseul Credit Union ($27 million in assets) and Laborie Cooperative Credit Union ($44 million in assets) and the league to help address St. Lucia's changing economy.
"Tourism has discovered St. Lucia," Lutz said. "Land value is increasing and developers are converting a lot of agricultural land into resort developments. Prices in general are going up. We are hopeful that our continued work through WOCCU will help the credit unions better position themselves to survive the changing landscape in San Lucia. "
The nature of the population also is changing, affecting the way credit unions do business, Lutz explained. St. Lucia credit unions offer basic savings and lending services based on familiarity of the member to credit union officials. There are no checking accounts, no ATMs and no credit bureaus to consult in determining members' creditworthiness. As the island economy expands to accommodate new industry and a potential influx of foreign workers, the credit unions' approach will have to adjust by putting more safeguards in place. "The credit unions here are very well-grounded philosophically and are trying to do the right thing. By assisting them with the development of loan collection policies and procedures, they can perform in the best interest of all members while still providing the close, personal service they are accustomed to."
"[Lutz] displayed a consummate capacity to listen, discern and analyze varying situations in a different cultural small-island setting across several rural credit unions," said Melvin Edwards, chairman of WOCCU and representative of the Caribbean Confederation of Credit Unions. "He was able to convince the leaders and employees of taking aggressive steps to minimize loan delinquency levels and make the shift to risk-based lending."
Lutz's visit set the stage for further development activities later this year by WOCCU and OAS FCU. The success of those efforts could have a significant impact on how farmers are able to financially bridge the growing season between the time their crops are planted and their harvests sold. WOCCU's influence through Lutz and other resources is importance to helping St. Lucia's agricultural community succeed, said Edwards.
"This technical assistance visit brought home to all the importance of belonging to the global family through World Council and pursue model credit union language to better serve members," Edwards said.
World Council of Credit Unions is the global trade association and development agency for credit unions. World Council promotes the sustainable development of credit unions and other financial cooperatives around the world to empower people through access to high quality and affordable financial services. World Council advocates on behalf of the global credit union system before international organizations and works with national governments to improve legislation and regulation. Its technical assistance programs introduce new tools and technologies to strengthen credit unions' financial performance and increase their outreach.
World Council has implemented 300+ technical assistance programs in 89 countries. Worldwide, 68,882 credit unions in 109 countries serve 235 million people. Learn more about World Council's impact around the world at www.woccu.org.


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NOAO > Observing Info > Approved Programs > 2010B-0291
PI: Louis-Gregory Strolger, Western Kentucky University, firstname.lastname@example.com
Address: Physics Department, 1906 College Heights Blvd. #11077, Bowling Green, KY 42101, USA
CoI: Schuyler Van Dyk, IPAC/Caltech
CoI: Schuyler Wolff, Western Kentucky University
CoI: Lachlan Campbell, Western Kentucky University
CoI: April Pease, Western Kentucky University
CoI: Suzanna Sadler, Western Kentucky University
Title: Tests of Environmental Effects on SN Ia Production
Abstract: The largely unknown type Ia supernova mechanism remains one of the largest sources of possible systematic uncertainty in achieving precise measures of dark energy. The host galaxy environments of SNe Ia provide our best opportunity for constraining the mechanism(s) of the SN Ia progenitor system, i.e., the stars involved, the incubation times, and the sensitivity of SNe Ia to changes in the local gas-phase metallicity. The latter can affect the luminosity of the resultant Ia event, and possibly the success in ultimately yielding a SN Ia event. We seek to solidify possible environmental trends in SN Ia rates from \it direct measures of host galaxy properties, using the sample collected by the Nearby Galaxies Supernova Search project. This study will uncover which has the greatest influence on SN Ia production efficiency: parent population age, rate of star-formation, or metallicity. Here, we propose to continue our analysis using the Mayall 4m + RCSP to obtain broad SEDs, R_23 metallicities, and star formation rates for 22 of the 30 remaining host galaxies (all z\le0.15) from the NGSS sample (10 targets were obtained in the 2010A semester). These data will be combined with the remaining sample to be sought in the future semesters. The sample will provide a validity test of the mostly \it indirect trends being established for SNe Ia from the LOSS, SDSS, SNfactory and other surveys, and ultimately steer future investigations towards more precise SN Ia cosmology.
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After rescheduling, I'm going to speak this afternoon to my high school alma mater's legal history class on the subject of racial disparities in the criminal justice system. I'm taking the liberty of reposting this item for the class.
A few years back I had a personal encounter with the guy who helped create the firestorm over alleged racial profiling in traffic stops. It was an experience I will revisit briefly in class this afternoon with a citation to this post.
Heather Mac Donald has done her best to illuminate the facts underlying the racial profiling controversy. See, for example, her National Review article "Reporting while wrong." The article's subhead is "The New York Times peddles more 'driving while black' malarkey." As might be deduced from the article's title, Mac Donald explores the New York Times's abuse of the relevant data. This is a beat that Mac Donald covered in her book Are Cops Racist? and that Mac Donald has simply owned as a journalist.
Mac Donald's NR article begins with an exposition of the key role played by University of Toledo Law School Professor David Harris in promulgating the myth of racial profiling. Harris served as the intellectual guru of the racial profiling campaign waged by the ACLU. As an ACLU consultant, he wrote wrote the influential pamphlet Driving While Black to which Mac Donald referred at the top of her article; the racial profiling litigation that brought the issue of alleged racial profiling in traffic stops to national attention in 2000 was a project of the ACLU.
Mac Donald also notes that Harris expanded his pamphlet into the 2002 book Profiles in Injustice. I read the book when, thanks to ACLU-Minnesota executive director Chuck Samuelson, I was invited to debate Harris in early 2002 on his visit to the Twin Cities to promote the book. I'm not easily shocked, but I was shocked by the misrepresentations and omissions in Harris's book. It is easily one of the worst books I have ever read.
Harris argues that crime rates are equal among racial groups and that racial disparities in the criminal justice system are therefore a function of bias. He discounts the basic data regarding racial disparities in crime rates, omits any reference to the basic data regarding the racial identification of perpetrators by victims, and dispenses with the related criminological scholarship of the past 30 years or so.
I wrote an article on the subject for the January/February 2003 issue of the American Enterprise that ran with an excerpt from Harris's book. The article — "Better Unsafe than (Occasionally) Sorry?" — remains available via the Claremont Institute even though the magazine has ceased publication. Harris subsequently wrote a letter to the editor of the magazine:
The personal attack on me in Scott Johnson's article contains inaccuracies, distortions, as well as a breathtaking slander: that I am responsible for the success of the September 11 attacks. All of this from a writer who never even bothered to talk to me, which could have at least saved him from making many of the errors in the piece.
Although Harris accused me of not talking to him before writing the article, I have an autographed copy of his book that refutes him. He signed it as we ate lunch together preceding his talk to a huge conference of high school teachers in Bloomington, Minnesota. I responded to Professor Harris's letter to the editor:
The article is not a personal attack on Professor Harris; it is fair comment on his book. I am not aware of any factual errors and he does not cite any. Harris also does not mention the excerpt from his book that accompanies the piece; it allows him to speak in his own words. In any case, the suggestion that I should have talked to him before critiquing his book lacks a basis in any journalistic practice.
Besides, on March 7, 2002, I attended two presentations by Harris in the Twin Cities. After the first of his talks I commented as a panelist. Following the second presentation [at Macalester College], I debated him. I regret Professor Harris has taken offense, but he is a voluntary participant in a serious debate and can expect his controversial claims to be engaged and [challenged]. . . .
I should have added that I never said he was responsible for the September 11 attacks, but come on. That's a David Harris specialty — it's ridiculous. I was attacking Harris's book, not him personally, although the book does not reflect well on him personally. The gist of my American Enterprise article was akin to that of Mac Donald's National Review piece — the alleged phenomenon of racial profiling condemned by advocates like Harris and demagogic politicians like [fill in the blank] generally does not exist.
FOOTNOTE: See also "A racial profiling footnote."


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The German Centre for Research and Innovation (DWIH), New Delhi, organised the third and final station of its "Excellence on Tour!" (EoT) program from 22nd – 28th March 2014 in Kolkata at Science City. The EoT provided a platform for all interested students and scientists from Kolkata and neighboring regions to interact with representatives and scientists from various German higher-education institutes, universities and research-organizations. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG) along with the other consortium members of DWIH, New Delhi participated in EoT, Kolkata with great enthusiasm. The EoT pavilion was visited by more than 10,000 visitors and the event as a whole was well received by the public, press and media. Prof. Dr. Laurent Gizon, Director, Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany was invited to deliver one of the key-note speeches along with other dignitaries during the inauguration ceremony on 22nd of March 2014.
It is with great pleasure to announce that the University of Cologne- India Branch office has shifted to new office premises at the German Centre, 2 Nyaya Marg, Chankyapuri, New Delhi- 110021, w.e.f. 1st January 2016. UoC India office now shares its office with the other DWIH consortium members.
A workshop for researchers and policy-makers on skill development and training in India with the topic "The cooperation of policy and research in the field of school to work transition, skill formation and vocational education and training in India – What can we learn from each other?"
was held on the 24th and 25th of October 2017 at the German Centre, 2 Nyaya Marg, Chankayapuri, New Delhi.
GIAN ( Global Initiative of Academic Networks ) is a Government of India program for guest lectures by internationally and nationally renowned experts to encourage their engagement with the institute of Higher education in India. GIAN aims to connect scientists, academicians and students.
For detailed information - http://www.gian.iitkgp.ac.in
VAJRA ( Visting Advanced Joint Research ) is a Government of India faculty scheme dedicated exclusively for overseas scientists and academicians ( including Non-resdient Indians , and Persons of Indian Origin/ Overseas Citizen of India ) to work as adjunct/visiting faculty for a specific period of time in Indian public funded academic and research institutions. The scheme recognises the value of collaborative research as crucial element for information sharing among researchers for updating and acquiring knowledge and skills, and also to draw different perspectives to solve a shared problem. Accomplished overseas scientists are welcome to take up challenging research problems in the Indian setting.
For detailed information visit - http://www.vajra-india.in/
Dr Amisha Jain from University of Cologne Regional Office New Delhi was invited as a speaker by Symbiosis International (Deemed University) in collaboration with the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) in an international conference on Internationalisation at Home (IaH): Strategies for building global, international and intercultural (GII) competencies from 5th to 7th April 2018, Symbiosis International University in Pune, India. Dr Jain talked about the internationalisation strategy followed in University of Cologne and the compiled catalogue of measures defining 16 concrete tasks as internationalization concept. Her deliberations and information was well received amongst the audience.
From the 1st to the 10th of June 2018, Cologne will be particularly colourful again, because the 10th Cologne India Week 2018 will again make the cathedral city the center of cultural and bilateral exchange between India and Germany. The event is jointly organised by Consulate General of the Republic of India from Frankfurt am Main, der Deutsch-Indischen Gesellschaft e.V. (DIG), Osborne Clarke, City of Cologne and University of Cologne.
For more Info:
Website: http://www.koelner-indienwoche.de/
Cultural Program: http://www.koelner-indienwoche.de/KulturellesProgramm.html
The Institute for South Asian and Southeast Asian Studies University of Cologne is organising Summer schools in the months of August and September.
The Summer school on the "History and Culture of Cambodia" is being organised from the 06.8.-26.8.2018. Numerous excursions will take place to illustrate the pre-Angkor and Angkor period of the History of Cambodia as well as ecological and economic aspects of the great lake Tonle Sap. Contents of the summer school are history, religions, society, ecological, political and economic aspects of pre-modern and modern Cambodia with a special focus on Angkor.
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Niklas, Head of the Institute of South Asian and South East Asian studies, Department of Indology and Tamil Studies at University of Cologne, is felicitated with a Grammar Award by the Government of Tamil Nadu and the Tamil Sangam Madurai Award on April 5th, 2018. This is certainly a proud moment for University of Cologne. Congratulations!
Reference - http://www.indologie.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/13658.html?&L=1


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MILLBRAE, Calif. (AP) — The College Board and Educational Testing Service has invalidated more than 200 Advanced Placement tests at a San Francisco Bay Area high school due to "seating irregularities."
The College Board says Mills High School in Millbrae failed to follow protocols during the administration of 11 exams to 224 students in May.
The San Jose Mercury News reports (http://bit.ly/13TgRdc ) the protocols cover seating, including the distance between desks, the direction students face, and the size of tables at which more than one student is seated.
A spokesman for the board, Tom Ewing, tells the newspaper some students may have gained an unfair advantage. But he didn't immediately respond to a question about whether there is any evidence of cheating.
The school is demanding College Board reinstate the test scores rather than re-administer the tests next month.
Information from: San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News, http://www.mercurynews.com


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MIAMI (AP) — One passenger on the bus that smashed into a concrete overpass at Miami International Airport remains in critical condition.
Officials at Ryder Trauma Center and the Jackson Memorial Hospital Emergency Room say another patient is in good condition while three are in fair.
Authorities say the bus driver got lost when the large bus hit the overpass Saturday, killing two passengers.
Hospital officials held a news conference Tuesday, but doctors declined to release specific details about the injuries.
Police have not charged or cited the driver of the bus carrying 32 members of a Jehovah's Witnesses group.


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You have some very nice cars. Sorry to hear about your accident. Thank you for your service to our country.
Jul 10, 2006 at 10:02 pm
I didn't mean Cz28.com I meant www.Z28.com (it's a different family of F-bodies).
Come on over and check us out.
Come on over and check us out.
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Nice car, man. Tastefully done.


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While recovering I spent time researching one of our brick wall families. The Gaphardt line has given me moments of sheer frustration trying to determine everything from lineage to residency.
Even the name itself has been a tangled mess. On census records we have found the spelling Gaphardt, Gephardt, Gephart, and Gebhart.
Here are a few facts about my 2nd great grandfather, George Christopher :
- 1850 census record George Christopher Gephardt, born around 1827 in Germany, arriving in the United States in 1849.
- His occupation on census records, butcher.
- On George's death certificate we find the surname spelled Gaphardt.
After many hours of research the Gephardt/Gaphardt quandary was solved!
1865 Baltimore City Directory - George C. Gaphardt, butcher, 17 n. Choptank
1867 Baltimore City Directory - Geo. C. Gephardt, butcher, 17 n. Choptank
We discovered my ancestor using various surname spellings! With this knowledge I have located additional family connections in the directory pages.
Here are a few excellent resources discussing city directories:
City Directories by Cyndi's List
City Directories by Cyndi's List
Effective Use of City Directories by ProGenealogists
I have now become addicted to the pages of the Baltimore City Directory!


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Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 can support much larger Personal Folders (.pst) files than earlier versions--up to 33TB. Given the possibility that archive or export .pst files might grow large enough to crowd out other data on users' hard disks, you might want to look again at .pst file usage in your organization. Outlook 2003 lets you use Group Policy to control the size of both the old and new .pst files. Even if you aren't planning to move to Outlook 2003 any time soon, knowing how Outlook uses .pst files and which uses you can disable in earlier versions can come in handy.
Outlook uses .pst files in more ways than you might realize. The most familiar use is a standalone user using a .pst file instead of an Exchange mailbox as the default information store. Users typically can create additional .pst files by turning on Outlook's AutoArchive feature, which moves older items into a .pst file on a regular schedule, or by using the File, Import and Export command to export data to a .pst file. Outlook also automatically creates a .pst file if the user adds an IMAP4 or Hotmail account to his or her email profile; Outlook uses this .pst file to store a local cache of the IMAP or Hotmail account's messages. Finally, Outlook 2003 creates a new .pst file if the user views a Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) events or contacts list and clicks the "Link to Outlook" link; this .pst file contains the local copy of the linked SharePoint lists.
To provide some control over .pst file use, Outlook 98 and later support a DisablePST registry value. This DWORD value is under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook registry subkey in Outlook 2003; change "11.0" to "10.0" for Outlook 2002, "9.0" for Outlook 2000, or "8.0" for Outlook 98. The DisablePST value isn't present by default, so you need to add it if you want to disable .pst file use. Allowable values are 1 (disabled) and 0 (enabled, the default).
DisablePST's initial use in early builds of Outlook 2002, Outlook 2000, and Outlook 98 was to prevent users from archiving and exporting to or importing from a .pst file. Setting DisablePST to 1 in those versions turns off those features and disables the creation of new .pst files from the File, New menu. User accounts that you configure in Corporate/Workgroup mode, however, can still add a new or existing .pst file to their email profile (through the File, Data File Management dialog box in Outlook 2002 or the Tools, Services dialog box in Outlook 2000 or Outlook 98), so some ad hoc .pst file use is still possible in these versions.
Beginning with Outlook 2002 (with Office XP Service Pack 2--SP2--applied) and continuing with Outlook 2003, DisablePST blocks all user-controlled methods of creating a new .pst file. Setting DisablePST to 1 prevents all new .pst files except those that Outlook itself creates for use with IMAP or Hotmail accounts or WSS lists.
Even with the archive and export features disabled, however, users can open an existing .pst file by using the File, Open, Outlook Data File command, and users can copy or move items into that file. If you want to prevent users from opening a .pst file, you can use Group Policy to disable the Outlook Data File command. You'll need to know the command's ID, which is 5576, and be familiar with Group Policy operations. (For Group Policy resources, search the Windows & .NET Magazine Web site at http://www.winnetmag.com .)
When you deploy Outlook 2003, you can use the Custom Installation Wizard or Custom Maintenance Wizard from the Office Resource Kit (ORK) to determine what kind of .pst files users can create. On the wizards' Change Office User Settings page, look for the PST Settings options under Microsoft Office Outlook 2003/Miscellaneous. You can set values for "Default location for .pst files" and "Preferred PST Mode (Unicode/ANSI)." A Unicode .pst file is the new type supported in Outlook 2003; ANSI refers to the older type that's limited to 2GB. Setting the Preferred PST Mode adds a string registry value named NewPSTFormat to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook subkey. NewPSTFormat can have the following values:
Prefer Unicode PST: 0 (default)
Prefer ANSI PST: 1
Enforce Unicode PST: 2
Enforce ANSI PST: 3
By using a value of 2 or 3, you can restrict all new .pst files to either the old format or the new format.
The corresponding set of policies listed in Group Policy Editor (GPE) under User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Microsoft Office Outlook 2003\Miscellaneous\PST Settings goes one step further than the ORK tools and provides a way to limit the growth of both old and new .pst files without totally restricting their use. A bit inconsistently, the policies use the term "Large PST" for the Unicode format and "Legacy PST" for the older ANSI format, but for each .pst format, you can set an absolute maximum size and a separate "Size to disable adding new content." The default maximum size for a Unicode .pst file is about 20GB.
With this array of policies and registry settings, Outlook--particularly Outlook 2003--lets you control end users' access to .pst files, set .pst file size limits, control the type of .pst files Outlook 2003 users can create, prohibit the use of new .pst files, and even suppress the menu command for opening an existing .pst file.


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text: Coming home I noticed a local used car dealer that always has unusual high end cars on the lot had a Fisker out front. First I will admit that it was better looking than I had anticipated. Having said that I have to wonder who would buy a first generation electric car that is no longer produced and whose manufacturer went bankrupt. Not to mention they had some high profile battery fires that unlike Tesla they have not researched or explained. So the question is who will buy the used Fisker's?? Asking price was $80,000.


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taniaaust1 wrote:
My ideal LD state would be just be able to shift to a LD or an OBE state at will, no break in consciousness (well that one part Ive got ok), any time, anywhere... no matter what one was doing at time. I'll keep working towards this, I know it can be done. I want full time dual consciousness. haha Im not asking for too much are I. I've got a lot of practicing I need to do!!
I think we have already full time dual consciousness, just usually not aware of it. In lucid dreams and OBEs we become aware.
That's quite an ambitious goal you set for yourself! That is pretty much the ultimate level though, being able to move back and forth at will, any time.
I'm still just trying to be able to do WILD that way and after a month of unsuccessful attempts, I made it in this morning! The hardest part for me is relaxing and letting the HI phase start. Once that happens, the rest is not nearly as difficult.
Sometimes it sort of feels to me like riding in a wave or something like that. Once you get into the right position on the wave, you let go and let it take you into the dream. Other times there's an image before my dream eyes and I simply make the decision to "enter" into it and then it becomes a 3 dimensional physical world. Have to say that's my absoloute favorite so far.


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Band name: The Hood Internet
Sound: The mash-up maestros are best known for merging indie rock backing tracks and hip-hop lyricists (Lupe Fiasco rhymes atop the Handsome Furs on one cut, while Devin the Dude mingles with Les Savy Fav on another) like a less frantic, more focused Girl Talk.
Claim to fame/need to know: Steve Reidell (a.k.a. STV SLV) and Aaron Brink (ABX), who first played together in the indie-pop band May or May Not, have worked in the studio with the likes of Wu-Tang Clan's GZA and Gary, Indiana-born rapper Freddie Gibbs. The Hood Internet, which recently released a free, self-titled compilation through its official website (thehoodinternet.com), plans to release a proper full-length, "Feat," sometime in 2012.
Interviewed: Steve Reidell, 32, Humboldt Park
Do you have anything special planned for these New Year's Eve shows?
We've sort of been spending this year stepping up our production game. There's a really cool light show. We've also prepared some special video content that's going to be projected during the show, and we're planning on building this impressive looking stage. It's just going to be a little more of an experience than your standard Hood Internet show.
Do you have a concept in mind for this stage you're building?
Well, in the past we've had this giant facade of an Apple IIe and now, this being the year of Steve Jobs passing, I think we're going to try and complete the vision of the computer. As a kid there was one scene in film that always fascinated me, which is at the end of "Superman III" with that giant supercomputer. This is me trying to recreate that.
Have you had any luck tracking down New Year-themed raps to mix for the show?
[Laughs] Are there any? Because I haven't. When we did Smart Bar a couple years ago we had that midnight moment, so we did drop an "Auld Lang Syne" remix. It ended up sounding like a New Year's version of Usher's "Love in This Club."
The cover image on this latest release was created with $465 worth of tacos from Taco Bell, and you recently posted to Twitter about your interest in a vintage Arby's sign. Why are you so fascinated with fast food culture?
There's just something about it. We spend a lot of time flying to one show, then driving between the next few before flying back, and a lot of times on the road fast food is what's available when hunger strikes. ABX and I both have a common interest in fast food. It's wild and amazing and disgusting. It's really a little bit of everything.
You guys do stray from the mash-ups this time around.
Yeah, there are no mash-ups. A lot of it is stuff that's already come out, so we've been referring to it as a compilation. We wanted to put it together for people as a primer, like, "Hey, in 2012 we're going to put out this new record we produced that has all these rappers and singers on there." It's getting people ready for that.
Can you tell me a bit about "Feat?"
We wanted to have that collaborative nature we imagine when we make Hood Internet (mash-up) tracks, like, "What if this person got together with this person and made a song?" Except it's actually happening.
Who have you worked with so far?
There's a new track where Tom Fec from Tobacco and Black Moth Super Rainbow sent us some unused stems from a record he's working on, and we messed around with those and then got in the studio with Psalm One here in Chicago.
It sounds something like a game of musical telephone.
Absolutely. That's the nature of it, and it's yielded some really good results. Overall, the whole thing feels kind of meditative. It's not a dance record by any stretch. I mean, I guess it could be, depending on how you dance.
Considering all the people you've worked with, I'm wondering who's the biggest name in your cell phone contact list?
I wish I could say Barack Obama, but I don't have his number. I do have Lil B the Based God's phone number, which is pretty huge to me.
So which is the better New Year's Eve: Hood Internet at Lincoln Hall or De Niro, Pfeiffer, Common and the rest of Hollywood in that terrible Garry Marshall movie?
Absolutely hands-down the movie. We simply don't have that kind of star power.
The Hood Internet
When: 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat.
Where: Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln Ave.
Tickets: $15 (Dec. 30), $25-$30 (Dec. 31), 773-525-2508
"Dirt (The Hood Internet & Zaid Maxwell Remix)" by the Hood Internet by redeye33
Steve Reidell (STV SLV) and Aaron Brink (ABX) personality test
What's the last album you bought?
ABX: "The most recent addition to my iTunes is 'Rated PG' by early-90s teen group Perfect Gentlemen."
STV SLV: "I purchased 4 Fugazi LPs from Dischord's website: 'Fugazi,' Repeater,' 'End Hits' and 'The Argument.'"
Song you've listened to on repeat recently?
ABX: Kanye West feat. Rick Ross "Devil In A New Dress"
STV SLV: The Kinks "Father Christmas"
Song you never want to hear again?
ABX and STV SLV: Chris Brown feat. Ludacris "Wet The Bed"
Best concert you've seen in the last year?
ABX: Nortec Collective from Tijuana playing in Rio De Janeiro in November
STV SLV: Godspeed You! Black Emperor at Metro in March
New band you don't know personally that deserves to be big?
ABX: Purity Ring
STV SLV: Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Favorite movie ever?
ABX: "Back To The Future 1 & 2"
STV SLV: "Parts: The Clonus Horror"
Chicago's best music venue?
ABX: The Hideout
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Report: Liz Carmouche to Fight Jessica Andrade at UFC on FOX 8
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With Miesha Tate suddenly replacing the injured Cat Zingano as a TUF 18 coach, former title contender Liz Carmouche was left without an opponent for UFC on FOX 8. According to MMAFighting.com, the UFC has found a replacement opponent for Carmouche, and that opponent will be UFC newcomer Jessica Andrade.
Before we go any further, it's okay: This is the first time we've heard of Andrade, too.
What we know about Andrade – or "Bate Estaca" as her friends call her – is that at twenty-one years old she'll be the youngest female fighter in the UFC. She has been competing professionally for almost two years now and has compiled an impressive 9-2 record with all of her victories coming by stoppage. Granted, six of those nine victories came over fighters who were making their professional MMA debuts, but the fact that she has fought nine times since last May is still extremely impressive. Her most recent victory came over Milana Dudieva in April.
As for Carmouche, if you don't know her recent fight history by now, I'm afraid that there's not much I can do for you.
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 graphics card was more or less brushed aside when Nvidia launched its GT200 55nm revision during the 2nd week of January, 2009. The GeForce GTX 295, which contains two of the 1.4 billion transistor GPUs, is a monstrous card but out of reach for most consumers. Here is where the GeForce GTX 285 steps in. This chip, on the TMSC 55nm process, is much cheaper to produce, clocks higher than the previous 65nm version, and runs cooler to boot.
Today, we've got two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285s for testing. PNY sent their GeForce GTX 285 with part number VCGGTX285XPB, while XFX sent their GeForce GTX 285 Black Edition baring the part number GX-285N-ZDBF. The PNY GeForce GTX 285 runs at the stock GeForce GTX 285 speeds of 648MHz core, 1476MHz shader, and 2484MHz memory. The XFX GeForce GTX 285 Black Edition on the other hand has an aggressive overclock pushing 690MHz core, 1552MHz shader, and 2600MHz memory. Both video cards are based on the NVIDIA reference PCB design with reference coolers, so the only difference between the two cards with 1GB GDDR3 frame buffer would be the box, bundle, and clock frequencies. It should also be noted that NVIDIA states that the GeForce GTX 285 video cards require a minimum 550W or greater power supply with a minimum +12V rating of 40 Amps. XFX on the other hand suggests at least a 630 Watt power supply for non-SLI and 680+ Watts if you plan on running a pair of these in SLI. so be sure your system is up to par before picking up one of these high-end performance cards.
Compared to the 65nm GeForce GTX 280, the stock GeForce GTX 285 is already blazing fast but the XFX GeForce GTX 285 Black Edition shows there is even more room for improvement. However, check out the overclocking for an even more intriguing surprise. First though, let's take a look at the boxes, bundles, and the test system used today.
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Difficult to explain. First go to Xai-Xai. Theres a coastal town south of it where the spot is, its not praia do Xai Xai, bit more south. (Sorry dont know the name there were no signs, ill add the name if i find it.) When you get there to the beach drive coastal road north till the end of town. The reef is infront of a few houses at the end.
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WalkInstant access (< 5min)
Easy to find?OK
Public access?Public access
Special access4x4
Alternative name Xai Xai Reef
Wave qualityRegional Classic
ExperienceExperienced surfers
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BottomReef (coral, sharp rocks etc..)
PowerHollow, Fast, Powerful, Ledgey, Slab
Normal lengthShort (< 50m)
Good day lengthShort (< 50m)
Good swell directionSouthWest, South
Good wind directionNorth, NorthEast
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Best tide positionMid and high tide
Best tide movementRising tide
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Week-end crowdEmpty
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A fairly consistent and intense reefbreak, the wave breaks off a few exposed rocks and eventually fades. Its a short but heavy ride much better suited for bodyboarders. The reef is only a foot or 2 deep and on lowtide it is impossible. Heavy wave but probably one of the best for barrels in Moz with Tofinho.
Most the beach is protected by a long reef that blocks the surf except north at the edge of town. The beachbreak here is also good at times.
Watch for sharks if you get in trouble theres no hospital except for a small nearby clinic and you dont wanna go to that trust me. (Although there is a small local bar with cheap beers.) There is no accomodation in the town yet, closest is xai xai, so its abit of mission but worth it. (Last time we were there.) If you got enough time and you a bodyboarder check it out. Mozambique is a beautiful country with friendly people. PARADISE!!
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Quote stjarna: Just me expressing my devotion for this pairing!! lol- like an advocate- :D :)
This thing with Cameron is so boring!!!
Can it be skipped and we can have some chummmy time with Chad and Abby!!!!Pronto! ;)
Hi Stjarna!
Here,here!..I can't wait for Chad and Abby to get back together!...
I know that they would be a fun adventurous,sleuths,comical and romantic!
The exact way a Young Super couple should be!
I can't stand Cameron!...Abby needs excitement in her life,after all she is Jacks daughter!,..and Jenifer used to lead a very exciting life when she was young with or without Jack,back then!....
The last kind of couple I want to see is a young Fuddy duddy made up couple,and Acting older than they are!
Abby doesn't need a father she needs a boyfriend!
Cameron and Abby they are not appealing at all,at least not to me!....
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By Michael F. Haverluck
As Democrats press for unprecedented curbs on the right to bear arms, a Colorado Springs, Colo., pastor is recalling a high-profile incident in which a member of his church who was carrying a gun saved dozens of lives.
In an exclusive WND interview, Pastor Brady Boyd of New Life Church drew lessons from the December 2007 attack after a Sunday morning service that killed two people and injured three.
Boyd said the armed church member prevented a massacre.
"It did deter it," he said. "One of our voluntary security church members had a firearm and saved at least 50 people. My family had just left the building and I was still in the building when it occurred."
Boyd was speaking about Jeanne Assam, a former sworn Minneapolis police officer who was acting as security that day. She wounded the 24-year-old gunman, Matthew J. Murray, before he took his life.
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Murray already had killed two people in the parking lot after attacking a Youth With a Mission office in the Denver area. He was fully loaded with ammunition as he headed for the sanctuary, where hundreds of people remained.
Does Boyd believe stricter gun control would have prevented his church shooting and the likes of Sandy Hook?
"With 300 million guns available in American culture, we're way past the tipping point," the pastor said. "Unless you're going to go door to door and confiscate our guns, it's not going to work. Another set of laws wouldn't have prevented it."
Boyd sees Obama's crusade to eliminate guns as shooting blanks.
"I think gun rights is not the most important part of the conversation," Boyd said. "The political outcry over gun control is missing the point; it's not dealing with the root of the problem that produced the fruit."
He believes the underlying problem is in minds and hearts but that the administration is looking for a quick fix.
"Antidepressants are the No. 1 prescribed drug in our country," Boyd noted. "We are living in a culture of violence and medicating mental pain and anguish."
Boyd pointed out the Bible doesn't talk about gun control, "but it does speak on violence and the sanctity of life."
"I've addressed the culture of violence in Christian homes with my church … asking them to weigh out if this is something to be invited into our homes through video games, movies and TV," he said. "Violence has medicated us against real pain. It's easier to deal with a gun problem than mental health, and that's what the administration's doing."
Read and hear the real-life story of a man who, when faced with a team of terrorists attacking and killing people in his church, drew his own weapon and fired back, in "Shooting Back: The Right and Duty of Self-Defense."
Demonstrating the ineffectiveness of gun control, Boyd pointed south of the U.S.-Mexico border.
"Mexico, where it's illegal to be caught with a bullet, has the strictest gun control in the world, but it's the most violent nation on earth," he said. "It has more violent deaths than Afghanistan and Iraq combined. Gun control didn't solve problems down there."
Should pastors carry guns while preaching at the pulpit?
"I'm licensed to carry a gun, but I don't on Sunday morning," Boyd said. "It could be dangerous for a pastor to be shooting back in a big crowd of people. My church is safe because we have the right people carrying guns."
Rev. Larry Dickey of First Baptist Church in Sunizona, Ariz., who has been through firearm training and has had a concealed-carry permit for three states, believes he's the right person to be packing heat in his church.
"I do so because there is a need for people to understand that we need to defend families and ourselves," declared Dickey. "We are not a nation that understands how important it is to be vigilant in safely handling a firearm in a defensive manner – with courts and other segments of our society thinking if we are unarmed, we will be a safer people."
Dickey has extensive experience with firearms.
"I was in one of the first Law Enforcement Explorer posts in Southern California in the 1960s," he said. "I have a degree in police science, now called criminal justice, and have been an endorsed chaplain with my denomination for more than 25 years."
He insists citizens must learn from the past and not be so dependent on the state's protection, which is insufficient, at best.
"In the past five years there have been several shootings in churches, one in Illinois where the pastor was killed while in the pulpit," Dickey noted. "I have seen how under-protected we have become, by solely expecting law enforcement to keep us safe. They cannot. They will be the first to admit this. They need a population that is willing to step up into harm's way and do what needs to be done, at a time that it needs to be done."
Dickey said he's well aware of the pressures law-enforcement officers face.
"Any time that I can help them, I will," he said. "That is the responsibility of all citizens. We need to take a stand where we can and when we can. Too long we have allowed the criminals to take over. When we stand up, they cower like the cowards that they are. We are free people. As a free people we have a right and responsibility to protect our families, churches and communities whenever necessary."
In Dickey's church, he's of the attitude, "Not under my roof!"
"If someone were to come into our church with a gun or a knife, they could do a lot of damage before the police could get into the church," he reasoned. "Even if we had officers in the parking lot, by the time they could get inside, it would be over. We, as citizens, need to protect what we love and be willing to lay our life on the line for them."
Churches as gun-free zones makes little sense to Dickey.
"[W]e have seen and read of folks who entered a church with the intent of doing a fair amount of hurt and killing with the guns they carried into houses of worship," he said. "They expect people inside to be unarmed and feeling safe inside a church. This is not always the case."
And Dickey claims that the statistics back him up.
"The truth is that in every state where the citizens are allowed to carry concealed guns, the crime rate is down," he argued. "Conversely, in every state where citizens were not allowed to conceal carry, the crime rate has gone up. Look at California and Illinois. When people can defend themselves, you're going to have criminals thinking twice about what they will do.
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Team silver helps, but Chan faces stiff competition in Sochi
The day before the biggest skate of his life, Patrick Chan is in a good place.
The three-time world men's singles champion said following practice Wednesday that winning a silver medal in the team event Sunday was just what the doctor ordered. Chan said already having a medal in hand has eased the burden of preparing for the individual men's singles competition, which begins with the short program Thursday night.
The Toronto skater is under extraordinary pressure at these Sochi Olympics. Canadian men have won 14 world singles championships, but never an Olympic gold, and Chan will attempt to end that streak at the Iceberg Skating Palace.
Next to the Canadian men's hockey team, the 23-year-old is probably under more pressure than any Canadian athlete at these Games — and the hockey team can spread the burden amongst 25 guys.
When Chan is on, he's almost unbeatable. But the Ottawa-born skater has had an up and down season and Skate Canada officials have done everything in their power to make sure he doesn't become overwhelmed prior to the start of the men's singles event.
But thanks to the team competition, where he skated the short program, Chan said he is feeling good, like he can breath.
"I did feel I had a lot of pressure lifted off me because I have an Olympic medal in my hand, and I can say it's mine," he said. "I've touched many people's gold medal, like Scott's (Moir) gold medal from Vancouver, and other Olympians, and I could never say it's my own. But I can actually take this one home and say its my own, and I can have it forever.
"So it's really cool to feel that, and somehow that's helped me feel a lot less pressure on myself, and a bit less pressure from Canada, not that I feel that there was any in the first place. But it's nice to know that I have one under my belt," Chan added. "I have something that some of the other skaters don't even have yet. And may not ever have either."
A couple of years ago, Chan was head and shoulders the best skater in the men's field. But now there are at least three others here who could win the gold.
Yuzuru Hanyu, the 19-year-old Japanese sensation, defeated Chan at the ISU Grand Prix Final in December while breaking the Canadian's world record in the short program (99.84) and appears to get better with each performance.
As well, three-time Olympic medallist Evgeni Plushenko of Russia is coming off two solid performances in the team event.
Yuzuru, Plushenko and Chan finished 1-2-3 respectively in the team short program last Thursday after Chan made a couple of mistakes, downgrading a triple to a double after landing a quad and stumbling out of a triple Axel.
Another contender in men's singles Spain's Javier Fernandez, the 2013 world bronze medallist. Both Fernandez and Hanyu are coached by Brian Orser out of the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club.
Orser, Canada's silver medallist at the 1988 Calgary Olympics and the 1987 world champion, has established himself as one of the best coaches in the world. He guided South Korea's Yuna Kim to the women's singles gold at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
Orser said his skaters have to "play the Patrick game" here in Sochi.
"They're fans of Patrick. They like Patrick. They really admire his skating," said Orser. "(But) Patrick was in a class by himself because of his skills of skating and his control of the edge and the blade. I mean that's right up my alley (as a coach) and that's what we've been working on. But the jumps and everything will come because of that. And we've been narrowing the gap, every season it gets a little bit closer, little bit closer, I think the GOEs (grade of execution) and the components show that. A couple of years ago, it wasn't like that. It was Patrick, a point and a half difference in each component over everybody else. Now, we're kind of getting in some of the same scores, we're getting some 9.5s and 9.75s and the odd 10."
The bottom line, Chan probably wins the gold medal here if everyone skates their best program. But with the way Yuzuru has progressed and with the 31-year-old Plushenko riding the emotion of the crowd, the Canadian certainly isn't bulletproof.
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A few holes in this line of thinking.....BladesofSteel wrote:Depending on how things go over the next month or so, it's entirely possible the likes of Ryan Miller, Jonas Hiller, Miikka Kiprusoff, Jonathan Bernier, and Brian Elliott could be made available. Thus, grinding the interest for Roberto to a screeching halt.
Kiprusoff is 3 years older than Luongo and carries a heavier cap hit.
Miller is just one year younger and carries a heavier cap hit. He has also been less than consistent of late.
Hiller has been up and down health-wise, and he's just $800K cheaper than Lou on the cap.
Bernier is completely unproven as a starting goaltender.
Elliot is coming off of an incredible season in St. Louis last year. One in which he had the best numbers in the NHL, but only played 38 games. He has followed it up with some TERRIBLE play. His numbers absolutely suck this year and if he becomes available it's because he is losing his job to rookie Jake Allen.
Of the names you mentioned only Kiprusoff and Miller have Luongo's pedigree right now. Kiprusoff is 36 and doesn't help a team beyond a season or two, maybe three, but he may come at a bargain. Miller may but he's going to cost as much or more, and chances are good he will be looking for at least a 5 year deal, if not 6 or 7, after next season. At that point you are probably looking at the same kind of money that will be left on Lou's contract, if not more.
The way Lou is playing right now he could be the most sought after goaltender out there.
There is a reason that goaltenders don't often command a "huge haul" in return and why they don't often end up being traded. Once they have proven they can play at that high level and are not just flash in the pan headliners they tend to end up staying with their teams. It is very rare that a team finds itself in the enviable position that the Canucks are in right now with an elite and proven goaltender liek Luongo, a very good young goaltender in Schneider who is ready to take the reigns, and another potential starter waiting in the AHL who will be ready for regular NHL duty next year.


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Eric Ilich directs players on the first day of practice last August at Hoffman Estates. Ilich is out as the Hawks head coach after one season.
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After one season, Eric Ilich has resigned as head football coach at Hoffman Estates. There was no reason given for the resignation.
Ilich tendered his resignation to athletic director Steve Lacni earlier this week. Ilich also met with the Hoffman Estate players to inform them of his decision.
In any coaching assignment there are challenges, said Ilich in an email to the Daily Herald. And Hoffman Estates is no different. At Hoffman there is a willingness by the kids to defeat the challenges faced. I enjoyed the process of working toward the future, figuring out what was best for every single player in the football program.
Ilich took over a program that had finished on the bottom of the MSL West for the past six seasons and has not had a winning season since 2000.
Although his Hawks failed to win a game in 2012, he had begun the rebuilding process, reinstating the sophomore program which was disbanded in 2011. That sophomore team was 8-1 while the freshman team was 5-4.
Ilich, who came to Hoffman Estates after being the offensive coordinator at Bartlett for two years, increased the number of Hoffman Estates players in the program to 123. He is also credited with reestablishing relations with the Hoffman Estates Redhawks, the local youth team.
I would like to commend the group of athletes I had the pleasure of teaching and coaching at Hoffman Estates who dedicated themselves to laying the foundation for a promising Hawk future, Ilich wrote. The future is bright.
Lacni accepted Ilichs resignation and valued the effort that Ilich had put forth in his 10 months as head coach.
We think that Eric is a quality individual, Lacni said. We sincerely appreciated his commitment and dedication to our student-athletes and our football program.
While we are disappointed that he has decided to go in a different direction, we wish him all the best in the future and know that he will be successful with whatever program he decides is the best fit for him.
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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. - Karen Jeffries says she threw hot oatmeal at her husband when he lunged to attack her.
Douglas Jeffries told the jury in Clarksville he was asleep in a recliner when his wife dumped a pot of hot oatmeal onto him, causing second- and third-degree burns.
The Leaf-Chronicle reported that, after deliberating for more than three hours Thursday, a Montgomery County Circuit Court jury found Karen Jeffries guilty of reckless aggravated assault.
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You need to get a permit for most construction projects that involve:
We may issue a stop work order against you if you start a building, addition, or remodeling project without a permit. If you build without a permit or fail to get a final inspection approval, we may fine you or take other enforcement action against you.
This page does not cover projects that do not need a permit; see Do You Need a Permit? You can find a list of permit exceptions in the Seattle Residential Code (SRC) and the Seattle Building Code (SBC).
Our ordinances require that you get a construction permit for projects that involve new construction, renovation, or alterations of buildings.
If you need help determining if you need a construction permit for your project, visit the Applicant Services Center and speak with a permit specialist. You will need:
If you build without a permit, you may be fined $500 per day.
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