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SILVIS, Ill. (AP) – Zach Johnson and William McGirt were at 12-under-par 130 and tied for the lead at the halfway point of the John Deere Classic.
They were a stroke ahead of Steven Bowditch, Johnson Wagner and Brian Harman.
PHOTOS: The best shots from round 2 at the John Deere Classic
Three-time Deere winner Steve Stricker shot a 65 Friday for a 133 total to vault into contention at the par-71 TPC Deere Run, and was tied for sixth with Rory Sabbatini, Ryan Moore and Todd Hamilton.
Johnson, the Deere winner in 2012, shot a 4-under 67 in the afternoon despite two bogeys in his last four holes. That dropped him into a tie with McGirt.
McGirt, 35, is looking for his first PGA Tour victory.
He added a 66 to his opening 64, but like Johnson, he finished with a bogey. McGirt's best finish this year is a tie for sixth in the Northern Trust Open at Riviera. Since then, he's had one top 10 and has missed the cut in seven of 14 tournaments.
McGirt is winless on the PGA Tour in 111 starts, most of them in the last four years. His best finishes are a pair of ties for second in the Canadian Open, in 2012 and 2013.
Asked how he'd gotten to 12 under and the lead on Friday, he said, ''I couldn't tell you what happened.''
Four birdies in a row and seven in a stretch of nine holes happened.
One thing McGirt hasn't been doing well recently is sinking putts, but he's needed only 24 in each of the first two rounds.
''For some reason I'm able to see the line this week,'' McGirt said. ''I feel I've putted better the last few weeks and haven't holed anything.''
Bowditch opened his round with an eagle 3 on the 10th hole en route to a 67, while Wagner made it to 12 under before a bogey on his last hole.
Stricker matched McGirt's 5-under 30 on Deere Run's front nine to finish his round.
Hamilton, who grew up in the area, used a 69 to get to 133, while Moore shot 67 and Sabbatini shot 70.
Jerry Kelly and Charles Howell III were among those at 8 under. Howell, who shot 68, aced the uphill 132-yard third hole.
Defending champion Jordan Spieth was five strokes back of the leaders through 36 holes thanks to a 64 for 7-under 135. He was five back after two rounds last year.
Johnson's victory in 2012 isn't the only good finish at the Deere for the native of nearby Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He lost in a playoff last year, tied for second in 2009, and tied for third in 2011. He also sits on the tournament's board of directors.
There's a comfort level for Johnson that didn't exist previously, when he missed the cut three times in seven years and didn't finish better than 20th.
''I've grasped and embraced the fact I'm going to have a lot of friends outside the ropes, and it's terrific,'' Johnson said. ''They don't care if I shoot 62 or 82. They're still going to be on my side.
''Trying to play for them may have been part of the issue years ago, but not anymore.''
Stricker, 109 under par in 22 rounds since 2009 at Deere Run, got within sight of the leaders with his 30 on the course's front nine to finish his round.
''At least I kept pace,'' Stricker said. ''This was an important day for me. I didn't go out with a specific number in mind, but I knew I needed something good.''
Stricker won three straight at Deere Run starting in 2009, and has tied for fifth and 10th place, respectively, the last two years.
''I know how to play it, I guess,'' Stricker said. ''There's a lot of short iron shots, which plays into my game, and I seem to putt the ball really well, too.''
The cut fell at 2-under-par 140, sending 77 players home. Former world No. 1 David Duval withdrew after an opening 81.


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This should cause a raised eyebrow:
enjoyNew Google tool for searching computers a privacy risk on shared PCs
By Anick Jesdanun, The Associated Press Oct 18 2004 1:43PM
People who use public or workplace computers for e-mail, instant messaging and Web searching have a new security risk to worry about: Google's free new tool that indexes a PC's contents for quickly locating data.
If it's installed on computers at libraries and Internet cafes, users could unwittingly allow people who follow them on the PCs, for example, to see sensitive information in e-mails they've exchanged. That could mean revealed passwords, conversations with doctors, or viewed Web pages detailing online purchases.
"It's clearly a very powerful tool for locating information on the computer," said Richard M. Smith, a privacy and security consultant in Cambridge, Mass. "On the flip side of things, it's a perfect spy program."
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it has the 'hold' icon on the top left corner. but its not on hold & its not letting me turn it off or anything.
& so i left it, & it shut off by itself, but it wont let me turn it on.. so i plugged it onto the computer, & it still wont work.
i think i broke it?
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Less regulation will allow public entities — including universities — to pursue more transgenic crop research, which will help reduce the number of diseases found in plants, a researcher said recently.
"The impact of regulatory costs on getting a transgenic crop to the field and commercialized is very high," said Roger Beachy, president of the Danforth Plant Science Center.
With commercialization costs of $1 million to $50 million, most research investment is spent on high-return crops, such as cotton, corn and soybeans, Beachy said.
"But small crops important to Texas and California, like vegetables, are mostly locally-grown produce and are inaccessible," he said.
Beachy was the keynote speaker at the Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences Symposium at Texas A&M.
The high cost for commercialization "prices us from participating in this sector," Beachy said. This means bacterial diseases and fungi on smaller-return crops will continue to be treated by chemical pesticides.
"We are being hamstrung, I think, by current policies on regulation and the cost that regulation imposes," he said. "Don't get me wrong, regulation is important, but let's do it with a sense of what agriculture is and can be, and how biotechnology can play an important role.
"We don't want to expose the public to danger; that's not my point. My point is there are some things out there that we know are safe: these are genes moved from one plant to another plant. There's a great opportunity for plant biologists and biotechnologists such as those within the Texas A&M University System to contribute."
Beachy, who in the 1980s pioneered the development of virus-resistance in plants through the use of transgenic technology, continues to examine protein movement in tobacco mosaic virus.
Another area of his research includes mechanisms, which express viral coat proteins responsible for disease-resistance in transgenic plants.
His discoveries in the 1980s were part of an effort to combat tobacco streak virus in India's transgenic groundnuts. The disease also has affected cotton, marigolds, okra and sunflowers.
"It looks like this 20-year-old technology will be useful in India, and it does it in a setting where it will affect up to 20 million farmers," he said.


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DENVER (AP) — Battling to save their client's life, lawyers for theater shooting defendant James Holmes broadened their attack on the death penalty, saying in motions released Tuesday that the sentence is so unevenly imposed in Colorado and so rarely carried out that it is unconstitutional.
The lawyers also argued that death penalty opponents should be allowed to serve on Holmes' jury, and that victims of the shooting shouldn't be permitted to testify when the jury is deciding punishment.
Separately, the judge on Tuesday delayed a possible showdown hearing for a Fox News reporter over whether she has to reveal her confidential sources for a story about Holmes. The delay gives the reporter time to hear whether a court in her home state of New York will reject a Colorado subpoena seeking the names.
Holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to multiple charges of murder and attempted murder in the attack that killed 12 people and injured 70 others in a suburban Denver movie theater in July 2012.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. The trial is scheduled to start in February.
The defense filed 20 motions last week that were made public Tuesday. Six were challenges to the death penalty, arguing among other things that Colorado executes prisoners so rarely that it falls under the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The state has executed only one person since 1967.
The defense also said Colorado prosecutors are so inconsistent in whether they seek the death penalty that it has become arbitrary and capricious, again violating the Constitution.
In 10 years, prosecutors have sought the death penalty in only six of Colorado's 64 counties, the defense said.
To support their case, defense lawyers quoted Gov. John Hickenlooper, who granted an indefinite reprieve to a death row inmate in May. Hickenlooper cited doubts about the fairness of Colorado's death penalty system and noted inconsistencies from county to county.
Holmes' lawyers began questioning the death penalty even before prosecutors announced in April that they would seek it. They filed other challenges in May and August. Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. rejected some but hasn't ruled on others.
In another motion, the defense asked Samour not to automatically disqualify potential jurors because they oppose the death penalty.
Citing social science research, the defense said barring death penalty opponents produces juries that are partial to the prosecution, biased against the defense, and more likely to convict a defendant. That violates Holmes' right to a fair trial, they said.
The defense also said allowing victims to testify during the penalty phase — which would happen only if Holmes were convicted — would overwhelm jurors with emotion and keep them from relying only on facts if they have to decide between execution and life without parole.
Another motion says that if jurors convict Holmes, they should be taken to see Colorado's death chamber as well as the prison holding death-row inmates before they deliberate his sentence.
Prosecutors are expected to argue against the defense motions. Neither side will comment publicly because of a gag order issued by the judge.
Samour agreed to postpone a Sept. 30 hearing for Fox News reporter Jana Winter until Jan. 3.
Citing unidentified law officers, Winter reported that Holmes sent a notebook containing violent drawings to a psychiatrist.
Attorneys for Holmes say whoever spoke with Winter violated a gag order and should be punished. They also say several Aurora police officers might have lied under oath when they denied being Winter's sources, undermining their credibility as trial witnesses.
The judge hasn't said whether he will order Winter to reveal the names. Winter could be jailed indefinitely if she refuses such an order. She has said she won't comply.
To enforce the subpoena seeking the names, Colorado needs the approval of courts in New York, where Winter lives and works. Two lower courts have upheld the subpoena, but Winter has appealed to New York's highest court.
Samour rejected a motion by Holmes' lawyers asking for a hearing with oral arguments on each defense motion on the death penalty. He also denied a defense accusation that he had ruled prematurely on some motions.
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Hi guys,
I have a Solina string ensemble which produces no output when using the horn & trumpet voices.
Viola&violin , cello & contrabass seems to work fine.
does anybody know if this is an easy fix ? I have this problem since the day I bought it but I was not concerned because all i have wanted was the strings sound. the guy that sold it to me told me that maybe sth became loose inside and it would be probably an easy fix. Actually i doubt that, my guess is that the osc module is dead, but since i have no experience in repairing a solina, I though it would be better to ask for advise here.
Did anybody else experienced such a behaviour in a Solina ?
And sth else :
It needs 30 minutes to warm up and it is a bit out of tune.
Do u think that by recapping it , the warm up time will decrease and the tuning issue can be improved?
does anybody have any calibration info about the Solina?
Thanks in advance


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MONTGOMERY | Gov. Robert Bentley praised his friend and chief of staff Charles Malone when he appointed him chief justice of Alabama in 2011, and as Malone leaves office, Bentley has not changed his mind.
MONTGOMERY | Gov. Robert Bentley praised his friend and chief of staff Charles Malone when he appointed him chief justice of Alabama in 2011, and as Malone leaves office, Bentley has not changed his mind.
"Judge Malone brings a perfect blend of judicial and administrative expertise needed for this position," Bentley said when he named Malone as chief justice on Aug. 1, 2011. "I am confident Judge Malone will serve the people of this state well."
In an interview last week, Bentley was still complimentary. "I think he has done an outstanding job as chief justice and I'm very proud of him," Bentley said.
Malone will be succeeded on Monday by former Chief Justice Roy Moore of Etowah County. Moore took the oath of office on Friday.
"It's been a privilege to do what I have done, my legal career, on the bench for 10 years, chief of staff, it was tremendous," said Malone, who will be 59 on Jan. 27.
When he took office in January 2011, Bentley �appointed Malone, who then was a Tuscaloosa County circuit court judge, to be his chief of staff.
"I needed someone that I
100 percent totally trusted," Bentley said.
Malone was a circuit judge from 2001-2011. In 2003 he was elected presiding judge by his peers and was re-elected in 2010. He was in private law practice from 1981 to 2001.
The Bentleys and Malones attend church together in Tuscaloosa where Bentley was a physician and until 2011 a two-term member of the House of Representatives.
"I was chairman of deacons, he was my vice chairman and we've worked closely together, primarily at church," Bentley said. "We were closest friends, and I've known him a long time, and his family, his parents, his brothers and sisters. One of his sisters I taught in Sunday school."
Bentley said as the incoming governor there were a lot of appointments to make and he needed "a chief of staff I felt comfortable with."
Bentley said Malone was an "outstanding judge" in Tuscaloosa County. "He gave that up, gave up an opportunity for a large amount of retirement not knowing if he would ever be able to get that again," Bentley said.
"It truly was a sacrifice," Bentley said.
Malone said Bentley approached him about becoming chief justice after Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb resigned. Bentley and Malone were returning from an official trip about two weeks before he made the appointment. "He leans over and whispers, 'Who are you going to get to swear you in?' " Malone recalled.
"I said, 'If you're telling me what I think you are, I want you to,' " Malone said.
After Malone was appointed, he decided to run for election in the 2012 GOP primary.
But Moore, who was running to regain his old position, drew heavy support from evangelical voters in the Republican primary last year. The evangelical voters flocked to the polls to vote for Moore and conservative Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum.
Moore beat Malone and former attorney general and Mobile County Circuit Judge Charles Graddick without a runoff.
"That made a tremendous difference, some would say a perfect storm," Malone said of Santorum and Moore being on the ballot together. "It had a turnout impact that no one really anticipated."
Moore beat Democratic Jefferson County Circuit Judge Robert Vance Jr. in the fall general election after Democratic nominee Harry Lyon was stripped of his party's nomination after he made critical comments on social media.
Malone said he has no regrets and is humbled and thankful he had an opportunity to serve as chief justice.
"This has been a dream," he said. "How many get to do what I have done, have an opportunity to make change?"
He briefly reviewed his career — as an attorney, twice elected a circuit judge, served in the executive branch, and was chief justice, although briefly.
Malone said Bentley wouldn't have appointed him if "I wasn't the right person."
Malone also said he believes God always has guided him in life.
"I didn't put myself here," he said. "He has something in store for me. I'll wait and see."
Bentley will have an appointment to the Court of Civil Appeals to replace Judge Tommy Bryan, who takes a seat on the Supreme Court on Monday.
As reported Saturday, Bentley may fill Bryan's Court of Civil Appeals seat with Tuscaloosa County Circuit Judge Scott Donaldson, who said he is interested in the position.
That would open a seat on the circuit court in Tuscaloosa County where Malone used to serve.
In an interview last week, Malone said he had nothing planned except for teaching law.
"I have had people try to talk to me," Malone said. "I took the position while in office I will wait. I am going to teach, I do know that. I did that while I was on the bench."
Bentley said Friday if a judicial opening occurred he would consider Malone, who said he has no interest in Court of Civil Appeals.
Bentley said Malone could have taken a long vacation after losing the primary, but he didn't.
"He went back to work within 48 hours and finished out his term and worked even harder after having been defeated than he did before," the governor said, adding that he was saddened that Malone wasn't in a runoff.
"But it was difficult to get name recognition all over the state and still be a full time chief justice," Bentley said.
Malone did not attend Friday's investiture for Moore, but offered his cleared-out office for Moore's family and friends.
Malone said as administrator of the state court system he is proudest of completing a paperless system, an updated security plan for the state Judicial Building, going "green" and ensuring the court building is tobacco free.
"We're working to stay on the cutting edge of technology," Malone said. "We work off the shoulders of the people who were here before. I loved every aspect of it."
Malone said his philosophy is the court system has a "tremendous effect on people's lives" and as a judge he wants to get it right "but you want to get it in a timely manner."
"I came in and hopefully made some positive changes from a lawyer's perspective, a judge's perspective, and having seen it from the executive side, bringing all those things I learned in the years to the court," he said. "It was an honor to work with great justices."


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Welcome to the Virus Encyclopedia of Panda Security.
Windows XP/2000/NT
Autorooter is a Trojan that uses the DCOM-RPC exploit to take control of the affected computer, allowing a hacker to perform actions such as: reformatting the hard disk drive, modifying the hosted web pages, adding new users, etc.
The DCOM-RPC exploit only affects Windows XP/2000 Pro/NT computers, which can use the service RPC (Remote Procedure Call). Any computers using this service should be immediately protected by installing the patch supplied by Microsoft.
Click here for further information on the DCOM-RPC exploit.
Autorooter is difficult to recognize, as it does not show any messages or warnings that may indicate that it has reached the computer.


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When Lowell and Becky Zelinski first thought about holding a cotton production meeting in California, they had no idea where it would lead. But now — five years later — the Central Coast Cotton Conference has weathered the test of time and a shrinking California cotton industry, and will proudly celebrate its fifth anniversary, Nov. 27-29, 2007, at the Monterey Plaza Hotel & Spa in Monterey, Calif.
"If you had told me five years ago that we'd be hosting an annual meeting for the California cotton industry, I wouldn't have believed you," said conference director Lowell Zelinski. "We are very proud of the conference's success especially in light of the decline in California cotton acreage."
Since the conference began in November 2003, cotton acres have dwindled from 850,000 to 455,000. As the numbers of acres get smaller, so does the conference's potential audience, but somehow the Zelinskis have been able to keep people coming to the meeting.
"The last two years haven't been easy," said Becky Zelinski, the conference organizer. "It's difficult to get sponsors and attendees excited about a cotton meeting when acres are declining. But we think these tough times make the meeting more important than ever for the California cotton industry and hope others feel the same way."
The Zelinskis started the meeting in 2003 to give Lowell Zelinski a new forum for the in-field cotton production meetings he was conducting for pest control advisors. Becky Zelinski suggested to him that they might be able to get more people involved if they held one meeting at an attractive location. That August, they discussed the idea with a few people who agreed it was a good idea, found a location on the Central Coast, and held the first meeting in November. They had about 50 people attend in 2003, and more than 150 last year.
"Lowell likes to teach and I like to plan and organize events so it seemed like a good idea and it would allow us both to do something we love," Becky Zelinski said.
The meeting also started about the same time the National Cotton Council (NCC) decided it would no longer bring its annual gathering to the Western states. And even though that isn't why the Zelinskis started their meeting, they believe their conference has filled the NCC void.
"Many people have told us they were no longer attending the Beltwide since most of the topics are no longer related to California cotton production, and that since California cotton production is so unique, having their own meeting actually makes more sense," Lowell Zelinski said.
Lowell Zelinski teaches at the meeting and directs the educational focus; however, he credits much of the success of the meeting to his wife and business partner, Becky Zelinski. But both Zelinskis agree that the sponsors and attendees are most important.
"We are very thankful for the support we receive from our sponsors and attendees, as the meeting couldn't happen without them," Becky Zelinski said.
The Zelinskis also believe the meeting is successful because they — along with a volunteer steering committee — work hard each year to develop new programs and topics, bring in new speakers, and create new events to make the meeting worthwhile to new and repeat guests alike.
"Each year we try to make the meeting a little different and a little better than the last. We received more positive feedback about last year's meeting than ever before, but there's always room for improvement," Becky Zelinski said.
Some of the changes for 2007 include: a later starting date since some felt the meeting was a little too early during late harvest years; a benefit golf tournament; three half-day sessions; a Mite Fax Live presentation; and more speakers and topics than ever before. There will be 17 topics presented by more than 18 speakers which include professors, farm advisors and experts who will discuss everything from soil fertility to cotton physiology. Western Farm Press is also giving away a free trip to the conference and Toyota Motor Company will be giving away free rides to the conference.
This year's sponsors include Golden Bale sponsor Dupont, and Bayer Crop-Science, Western Farm Press, CASE IH, Dunavant of California, Precision Ag Inc., Arysta LifeScience, California Cotton Growers Association, Dow AgroSciences/Phytogen, UPI, AmVac, Calcot, Cotton Inc., MANA, Monsanto, Supima, Syngenta and Wilbur-Ellis Company.
For complete details about the meeting or to register, visit http://www.cottonconference.com/ or call 888-238-6658.


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By The Associated Press
Here is a look at six states hit hard by twisters that carved their way through the South, killing at least 45 people. More than 240 tornadoes were reported from the storm system.
NORTH CAROLINA: At least 21 were killed by Saturday's storms that spawned some 60 tornadoes in the southeastern part of the state. One of hardest hit areas was Bertie County, where 11 people died. Gov. Beverly Perdue says federal help is expected to help clean up the devastation that nearly brought her to tears. Saturday was North Carolina's deadliest day for tornadoes since 1984, when 22 killed 42 people and injured hundreds.
"I can replace the house, but I can't replace my babies. And that's what I thought about. I'm alive. My babies are alive." - Askewville's Justin Dunlow who survived along with his two young children when winds ripped to shreds their doublewide mobile home.
VIRGINIA: At least seven have been killed, three of whom in Gloucester County where a tornado cut a 12-mile swath, uprooting trees, destroying homes and injuring dozens. The tornado ripped the roof off Page Middle School and overturned school buses and cars. Flooding also is a problem in the state. Flash flooding killed two Waynesboro residents and several people were rescued from rising water.
"She'd put her kids in the bathtub and got on top of them. The tornado blew the house off the foundation, and everything in the house shattered, and is flattened to the ground." - Gloucester's Randy Cook walking through debris of sister's home.
ALABAMA: Seven were killed across the state and Gov. Robert Bentley has declared a state of emergency for all counties. The first race of a busy weekend at the Talladega Superspeedway was postponed until Saturday morning. Thousands of people were camping in open fields and getting ready for three days of races and they all made it through the storms. Four separate tornadoes hit Marengo County over the span of about five to six hours.
"The tornado hit and jumped and hit and jumped again. It would do some damage and then move on." - Autauga County Chief Deputy Sheriff Joe Sedinger about Boone's Chapel where three adult family members were killed Friday by tornado that ripped through homes.
ARKANSAS: Seven people were killed including a woman and her 8-year-old son when winds knocked a tree into their home in the capital city of Little Rock. Five others died as powerful straight-line winds blew through. All but one of the deaths occurred when people, including three children, were crushed by falling trees.
"I don't recall anything even approaching this." - Gov. Mike Beebe.
OKLAHOMA: Casualties from the storm system started in the state on Thursday when two older people were killed in the small town of Tushka and dozens were injured. Gov. Mary Fallin has declared a state of emergency for 26 counties as at least five tornadoes touched down, four in the southeastern part of the state and a fifth in the central part of the state.
"We're trying to salvage what we can. It's devastating. It's just horrible. Thank God we have so much help." - Tushka's Stacy George, who lives across the street from a school where the second story of the main building collapsed into the first.
MISSISSIPPI: One person was killed when at least three tornadoes hit the state on Friday. A state of emergency was declared for 14 counties. Some of the worst damage was in Clinton where a portion of a bank blew onto the interstate.
"You could just feel the house fall down. The whole back side of the house is gone. All you could see was this black cloud." - 23-year-old Phillip Gregory who got home about the time a tornado was forming in his neighborhood in Clinton, just west of Jackson. He and family members huddled in a bathtub.
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Bastien Vivès is one of the most innovative and most productive present-day French comic authors, who experiments with different styles and techniques. He has studied animation at the Gobelins School and grahics at the ESAG Pnninghen. He did his first comics work through his own studio in Paris. Under the name Bastien Chanmax, he published the online comic 'Poungi la Rataille'.
He came to attention with the graphic novels he created for Casterman's KSTR collection since 2007, including 'Elle(s) - Alice, Charlotte & Renaud', 'Le Goût du chlore' (2008), 'Hollywood Jan' (with Mickaël Sanlaville, 2008), 'Amitié étroite' (2009), 'Dans mes yeux' (2009) and 'Polina' (2011).
In addition, he published 'La Boucherie' at Wraoum and 'Juju Mimi Féfé Chacha' from a script by Alexis de Raphelis at Ankama. In 2010 he teamed up with Merwan to create 'Pour l'Empire' in the Dargaud collection Poisson Pilote. Vives has a very large production. At the age of 27, he has already published eleven graphic novels during a period of 4 years.
Vives draws most of his graphic novels with the computer, such as 'Le Goût du Chlore' and Amitié Étroite', but he also uses other techniques, such as crayons and colored pencils for 'Dans mes yeux'.
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Combining design and ironic commentary, Eric Wesley creates installations and paintings that are part art-historical reference and part invention. For example, "Spa-fice" (2007-2008), a hybrid spa-office, synthesizes the modular aesthetic of the office with the requisite ingredients for a spa, including a Jacuzzi and a giant bathrobe suspended from the ceiling. Humorously evoking the importance of (or imprisonment by-) the Cartesian grid in modern art, Wesley's series "D'Carts Blanche and New Paintings" (2010)—"D'Carts" acting as a pun on the name René Descartes—features the Cartesian coordinates of X, Y and Z translated into objects, including three carts and paint-splashed canvases in primary colors.
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I asked them to identify a few favorite dishes.
Like tending a fire for 18 hours just to reach that split second of bliss when gnawing into a perfectly barbecued slab of swine, boiling down a year of dining into a few sublime bites is a labor of love.
But then again we've never minded a little hard work around here.
StarNews restaurant critics Jason Frye and Tom Parks have sampled more than their fair share of the good, the bad and the ugly in 2013, and I asked them to identify a few favorite dishes. Both were quick to point out cloth napkin and greasy fingered affairs; occasionally, the lines between each got blurred.
The following are our critics' choices for the best restaurant meals they had this year. Some are still on the restaurants' respective menus, while others offer snapshots of seasonality or a chef's whimsy that has long past. Either way, it's safe to say the Cape Fear area has plenty of flavorful finds that deserve consideration the next time you're tasked with making reservations.
CAM Caf�
3201 S. 17th St. in the Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington
Frye led off his suggestions with a dish both cozy and refined, thanks to the well-honed culinary skills of executive chef Jessica Cabo on exhibit in the art museum's latest and certainly greatest stab at running a restaurant.
"Cabo's fried chicken is what white-tablecloth fried chicken should be," Frye said. "It's tender and juicy, the breading is crisp and a little salty, and the sauces she uses on it are spectacular."
The California transplant is tickled to be noted for mastery of such a Southern staple.
"I kind of like being the Yankee chick from L.A. who knows how to make fried chicken," Cabo joked while recreating the dish for a photo shoot.
It isn't a menu regular, but for a brief window, her hybrid American/Korean concoction that relies on rice flour and potato starch for a shatteringly crisp shell was one of the best bites in town.
Cabo said the first six months in her new digs have been good, and she looks forward to refining her culinary style in the coming year. Thanks to an abundance of exemplary produce, she said she's been able to create more impressive plates by doing less to the ingredients instead of tapping into her deep knowledge of Asian and California-style techniques.
Look for cooking classes, craft cocktails and produce grown on-site to be added in 2014.
The Greeks Authentic Mediterranean Deli
124 Princess St., downtown Wilmington
Born of occupation-era necessity, the falafel recipe the Papanikolaou family uses at The Greeks is a stripped-down and humble interpretation that's starkly free of additives, processing and much of anything besides tradition, honor and love.
"This is a fantastic dish," Frye said. "The portion is huge (I always get dinner and lunch the next day out of it) and it's the only falafel I will eat."
Yanni Papinakolaou said the recipe hails back to his maternal grandmother, and the coarse, mashed-by-hand texture that might include whole chickpeas and others pulverized to a paste in each bite, is a hallmark of the home-style Mediterranean cooking The Greeks specialize in. It doesn't hurt that each serving is hand-pattied and fried as orders come in instead of withering under a hot lamp.
It's been a good year for the family's business, which found its products landing on select area supermarket shelves; they also opened a second location in Monkey Junction. The new shop is painted a mesmerizing blue, and photos along the walls feature Grecian landmarks as well as a few pictures of the Papinakolaou's hometown of Malesina.
123 Princess St., downtown Wilmington
Fortunately, Tom Parks always has a note pad handy. Sampling his way through five plates while enjoying a tasting menu at Manna, he scribbled down descriptions of the sophisticated plates executive chef Jameson Chavez kept flowing out of the kitchen.
"Everything was otherworldly good," Parks said. "The complex, unexpected pairings and use of fresh ingredients set Manna apart."
He started with a potato and Mexican chile bisque, which was followed by a local tilefish with a blood orange reduction, along with sunchoke, kalamata and Spanish olives and mushrooms. His third course was a braised short rib roulade filled with fried lobster, followed by a brined, applewood-smoked duck.
Chavez said the tasting menu is offered Tuesday-Thursday and Sundays at a cost of $50 per diner for four courses. Extra plates can be added as desired, and he said some customers stretch it out to eight or nine plates before wrapping up their meals. Reservations for tasting menus aren't required, but the kitchen greatly appreciates them.
Chavez, who has been with Manna since it launched three years ago, took over the kitchen in March. He's gradually started putting his stamp on the menu with a high-minded approach to flavors from the Southwest, and plans to push further in that direction in the coming year.
Just don't expect enchiladas and tacos. Chavez has a delicate, modern touch that peppers hints and clues of those tastes into decidedly contemporary platings.
The Sandwich House
10080 Beach Dr. SW, Calabash
Cindi Morgan opened The Sandwich House in November of 2012 largely because she struggled to find a snappy, creative joint serving the kind of sweet and savory concoctions she was craving. Her efforts quickly won Parks over with her Italian Margherita Panini.
"It's a pressed sandwich with mozzarella, fresh basil and pesto, fire-roasted tomatoes and applewood-smoked bacon," Parks said. "It is a crispy, gooey, pizza-in-a sandwich sort of flavor. And quite addictive."
Morgan said the sandwich, which is simple enough to crank out in about six minutes, succeeds largely because of all the labor she puts in on the front end before an order is placed.
"I make the sauce and use fresh basil and cheeses," she said. "It takes everything that is great about a margherita pizza and puts it in a sandwich."
Morgan strives to offer the unconventional, and gets a kick out of interpreting classics like Chicken Cordon Bleu in sandwich format. She has a cute nomenclature for aficionados – "peekers" look under the hood before chomping down and "manwiches" are the guys who unabashedly nosh into anything set in front of them.
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DOMA defined marriage as a legal union between a man and a woman.
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The majority opinion called the 1996 law a deprivation of the equal liberty of persons which is protected by the Fifth Amendment.
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Stocks rose in volatile trade on Wednesday after comments from the top Republican in Congress on a possible compromise to avoid the "fiscal cliff" turned the market on its head.
House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican, said he was optimistic that a budget deal to avert large tax hikes and spending cuts currently under discussion in Washington could be reached. President Barack Obama, speaking later in the day, said he hoped to get a deal done in the next four weeks.
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"The fiscal cliff is dominating the discussion, and short term, we're a little bit too optimistic on it being fixed right away," said John Manley, chief equity strategist for Wells Fargo Advantage Funds in New York.
The market has been swinging on headlines from Washington for weeks now, with Wednesday's gyrations once again highlighting the importance that Wall Street is giving to finding a solution to avoid the "fiscal cliff."
Liberals want tax increases on the wealthiest Americans to help balance the budget, while conservatives make a case for deep cuts in programs for the poor and a widening of the tax base to raise revenues without raising tax rates.
"Both (Democrats and Republicans) have potential to benefit from compromise. It's just a question of not losing face in the process," Manley said.
Boehner's words triggered a comeback in stocks after the S&P 500 fell 1 percent, partly on weak data on the housing sector.
Shares of Costco Wholesale Corp jumped 5.9 percent to $102.19 after the retailer became the latest company to announce a special dividend ahead of expected tax hikes that are part of the negotiations.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 65.16 points, or 0.51 percent, to 12,943.29. The S&P 500 Index gained 4.71 points, or 0.34 percent, to 1,403.65. The Nasdaq Composite added 10.20 points, or 0.34 percent, to 2,977.99.
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Among the many troubling aspects of the August jobs report released Friday was the revelation that no new jobs were created last month in the critical construction sector.
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The U.S. housing market, which is inextricably linked to construction, has been one of the few bright spots in an otherwise spotty economic recovery. Inventory has tightened and home prices have risen as demand has increased in many regions and foreclosures have fallen off from their recent record highs.
Given the shrinking inventory of available homes and the growing demand by home buyers, it stands to reason that home builders would be hiring more workers to help fill the void.
But they didn't in August, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor.
"Employment in other major industries, including mining and logging, construction, transportation and warehousing, financial activities, and government, showed little or no change in August," the government reported.
Analysts said the construction sector is simply mirroring what's happening across an array of industries that have cut back on personnel in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and deep recession that followed: construction companies are trying to be more productive with fewer workers.
"They are maximizing the production of their current employment," said Lance Roberts, chief strategist at investment firm Streettalk Advisors.
Roberts said construction firms are "hiring incrementally based on incremental demand," and that many of those workers are being hired on a part-time or temporary basis.
"That's not just in construction, that's what we're seeing across-the-board, across all industries," he said.
Roberts said construction firms are taking a cautious approach to hiring for three primary reasons: concerns about higher taxes, difficulties dealing with new regulations and uncertainty related to new government-mandated health-care laws scheduled to take effect in 2014.
Referring to new health-care reform laws that require many employers to provide insurance for their workers, Roberts said business owners are "afraid to hire people because they don't know the cost of insuring them."
The National Association of Home Builders offered another reason for a recent slowdown in construction and hiring – a shortage of buildable lots.
"In our August 2013 survey, 59 percent of builders reported that the supply of lots in their markets was low or very low -- up from 43 percent in September of last year, and the largest low supply percentage we've seen since we began conducting these surveys in 1997. One reason is that many residential developers left the industry, abandoned certain markets or simply stopped buying land and developing lots during the downturn," NAHB chief economist David Crowe said in a statement released earlier this week.
The NAHB noted that the current housing recovery remains weak by historical standards. While annual housing starts have increased to just under 900,000, according to the most recent government statistics, up from a low of 550,000 in 2009, the figure averaged more than 1.5 million a year from 1960 to 2000 and never fell below 1 million until 2008.
Crowe said other barriers holding up construction and hiring include labor shortages, especially in carpentry and other important building trades, tightened lending standards "even for credit worthy home builders and home buyers," and the recent bump in interest rates.
Earlier this week the Federal Reserve, citing its monthly roundup of regional economic conditions, noted a shortage of construction workers in San Francisco and shortages of some building materials such as drywall and roofing shingles in Kansas City, offering further clues as to why construction hiring ground to a halt last month.


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The SI landscape is a confusing one: What is the true value of a signal integrity analysis tool, and if you're an EDA vendor, do you need to offer an in-house SI solution to be a true end-to-end provider?
Although Cadence has had a position in signal integrity with their OrCAD Signal Explorer [pre- and post-route topology exploration and transmission line analysis, conceptual, pre-design/schematic topology exploration and simulation, routed or unrouted board topology extraction and analysis] …
… this week Cadence announced it has acquired Silicon Valley-based Sigrity and will now incorporate Sigrity's PowerSI [full-wave electrical analysis for IC packages and PCBs, identifies trace and via coupling, power/ground bounce, and design regions that are under or over voltage targets] and SystemSI [chip-to-chip signal integrity analysis, including parallel bus analysis and serial link analysis, frequency domain, time domain and statistical analysis] into Cadence's flow.
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A new poll says that 59% of respondents believe that Tony Blair "lied" to the British public about Iraq. This is much worse than prior polls, which have found that most people think he "misled" the country, but the largest share say such misleading was unintentional. Apparently the Hutton inquiry has contributerd to the latest, more negative assessment, even though the testimony in that forum contained no evidence of any deliberate misrepresentation by Blair's government.
On the positive side, most respondents in the new poll, done for the Independent, say they do not think Blair should resign, and Labour still holds a comfortable lead over the Tories. So while many Britons are now willing to form the harsh judgment that Blair lied, they may not view the matter with as much seriousness as one might expect.
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In the year 1212, a young girl from Assisi heard St. Francis preach the Lenten course in her local church. She was so profoundly moved by his words that she asked for his aid so that she, too, could embrace the life of poverty and dedication to God that he exemplified.
St. Clare, one of the first followers of St. Francis, went on to become a great abbess and founder of the Order of Poor Ladies, a monastic religious order for women in the Franciscan tradition that later was named the Poor Clares.
She wrote their Rule of Life, the first monastic rule known to have been written by a woman.
When pressured by the local Cardinal Hugolino to accept a rule that would allow for the possession of property to be held in common, she adamantly refused. When Pope Innocent IV attempted to impose another rule, she once again insisted that it was not in accord with the Franciscan spirit of poverty to which she was dedicated.
Catholic hagiography long has recognized the spirit of mutual support and reliance that characterized the friendship of St. Clare and St. Francis, the latter often finding encouragement, support and inspiration in her.
As Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio chose the name Pope Francis, one can only hope that he remembered this most important part of the story of his patron.
The Catholic Church's nonordination of women is old news. What may come as a surprise to many, however, is that the issue was summarily and quietly put to rest in 1994 when Pope John Paul II issued the Apostolic Letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis in which he states, "I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful."
The ensuing debates incited by this letter prompted the prefect for the church's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI), to issue the Responsum ad Dubium in 1995: "This teaching requires definitive assent, since, founded on the written Word of God, and from the beginning constantly preserved and applied in the Tradition of the Church, it has been set forth infallibly by the ordinary and universal Magisterium."
Essentially, this act removed the nonordination of women from the category of "practice" and into the realm of a teaching in the "deposit of faith."
According to the Vatican, the fact that the declaration was not accompanied by the fanfare that might have ensued had Pope John Paul II spoken in the exercise of his office as pastor and teacher did not make the teaching any less infallible or less binding on the members of the church.
But, of course, the debate rages on.
Prior to the excitement of Wednesday afternoon's white smoke, the color of the smoke in Rome that caught the world's attention and imagination was pink. Organizations comprising Catholic men and women who seek women's full participation in all aspects of church life released pink smoke into the sky over Rome as the College of Cardinals was locked in the conclave.
The pink smoke called attention to sexism in the Catholic Church, the nonordination of women and the lack of women's presence in decision-making roles. Since the election of Francis, many have expressed hope that he will reopen the debate on women's ordination.
I hold out no such hope. For Francis to reconsider the ordination of women, he would have to refute and reject the edicts of the two popes who came before him. It would require a radical act, and Pope Francis is no theological radical.
What he can do is open dialogue with Catholic women, religious and lay. He can open the doors of the Vatican to women.
One need not be ordained to serve in decision-making positions in the Vatican. Today, there are only two women religious, or nuns, who serve in this capacity as under-secretaries in Rome.
Francis can change the way the church has related to women religious throughout the world but especially here in America. Last summer, the Vatican's dictatorial crackdown of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which represents 56,000 American nuns, was perceived by many American Catholics as nothing short of bullying.
The Vatican's takeover threat was indicative of a church that does not listen, does not count women religious as adults capable of self-direction and knows no other model of management than to offer or, in the words of Cardinal William Levada, "an invitation to obedience."
Many will argue that the church has never claimed to be a democracy and that the Magisterium reserves the right to hierarchical power and judgment.
The church does, however, claim to be concerned about justice. The church does claim to be a moral beacon to the world. These claims would be more credible if that justice was sought within its own pews and among its own faithful.
As Francis begins his tenure as pope, may he remember the care, inspiration and guidance that Clare of Assisi provided St. Francis. And may he model the spirit of St. Francis, not only with concern for the poor, but also regarding the mutual respect, honor and work he shared with this woman, this saint.
Louise Doire is a religious studies professor at the College of Charleston who studies women in the church.


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Music notes: Alan Jackson comes to Sears Centre
Country superstar
Alan Jackson, the wildly popular country singer-songwriter, will make a special stop in the suburbs this weekend. He's touring behind his latest album, "Thirty Miles West," which came out in June. If you're a country fan, don't miss this chance to see one of the genre's heavyweights in a comfortable setting. 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, at the Sears Centre, 5333 Prairie Stone Parkway, Hoffman Estates. (David Nail and Casey James open.) $37 to $77. Go to searscentre.com.
Prog-metal pioneers
British band Uriah Heep has been at it for more than 40 years. The group developed a devoted following for its unique sound, which combines arty elements of progressive rock -- keyboards, soaring vocals -- with the guitar and rhythms of heavy metal. Uriah Heep's latest record, "Into the Wild," came out in 2011. The band will play in Palatine this weekend. 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at Durty Nellie's, 180 N. Smith St., Palatine. $22. Go to durtynellies.com.
Power(ful) pop
The dB's put out a slew of jangly, angular, irresistible power-pop albums in the 1980s that continue to be name-checked by rock 'n' roll connoisseurs. Records like "Stands for Decibels" from 1981 and "The Sound of Music" from 1987 delivered literate and witty songs built around pop hooks immaculately crafted by the two main songwriters, Chris Stamey and Peter Holsapple. Stamey left the band for a time, but he and the rest of the group are back together and touring in support of "Falling Off the Sky," a 2012 release that's gotten rave reviews. The dB's are in town for two shows next week. The dB's will perform at 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, and Friday, Nov. 16, at the Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, Chicago. $18 to $20. Go to hideoutchicago.com.


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Jimmie Johnson joined an elite group of drivers to win at Indianapolis Motor Speedway four times or more with a dominating performance in Sunday's Brickyard 400.
Johnson, the five-time Sprint Cup Series champion, led 99 of 160 laps and crossed the finish line 4.76 seconds ahead of his closest competitor, Kyle Busch. He claimed his third victory of the season and the 58th of his career. Johnson's previous wins at Indianapolis came in 2006, '08 and '09. He also captured the series title in each of those years.
"To come here and win is a huge honor, and then have four wins, I'm at a loss for words," Johnson said. "(Crew chief) Chad Knaus gave me one heck of a race car today. Pit road was awesome too. It was a total team effort, and we put it on them today."
Johnson joined Jeff Gordon, his Hendrick Motorsports teammate, as the only drivers with four Brickyard 400 victories since NASCAR's premier series began competing at this famed 2.5-mile racetrack in 1994.
A.J. Foyt, Rick Mears and Al Unser share the record with four Indianapolis 500 wins, while Formula One legend Michael Schumacher holds the track record with five victories. Each one of Schumacher's wins at Indianapolis came in the United States Grand Prix, which was contested on the track's road course.
"I can remember back to watching the (Indianapolis) 500 with my dad and my grandfather, sitting on the couch, and my grandfather told me stories about Indy and that he came here to the racetrack," said Johnson, who considers Mears as his childhood hero. "I'm glad to have my own memories here."
Busch recorded his best finish at Indianapolis with a second-place run.
"You talk about guys being in their own zip code, (Johnson) was in his own country today," Busch said.
Greg Biffle finished third, while Dale Earnhardt Jr., who also drives for Hendrick, and Gordon rounded out the top-five.
"The car was fast, and I was trying to pass Biffle, but I was aero tight sitting there behind him and couldn't get any closer to him," Earnhardt Jr. said.
Earnhardt Jr. took over the points lead for the first time since September 2004 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
"If you run in the top-five and top-10 enough, you'll get enough points," he noted. "We would like to win some more races, and I know our fans would like us to win some more races."
Matt Kenseth came to Indianapolis with the points lead, but Kenseth was involved in a four-car wreck between turns one and two with 27 laps remaining. Joey Logano made contact with Trevor Bayne and then spun before bumping into Bobby Labonte and sliding up the track. Logano collected Kenseth and put him into the outside wall.
"It's a disappointing end to the day," said Kenseth, who wound up finishing 35th. "We didn't run particularly well and just kept losing positions. The farther we got back, the dumber people drove. It just kind of got us into some bad spots."
Denny Hamlin, the pole sitter, finished sixth, followed by Ryan Newman, Martin Truex Jr., Brad Keselowski and Indiana-native Tony Stewart, who is the defending series champion and a two-time winner of the Brickyard 400.
Keselowski, who won the inaugural Nationwide Series race at Indianapolis on Saturday, gambled on pit strategy by pitting out of sequence. Keselowski led the way for a restart on lap 101, but he got loose coming out of turn two and dropped back to sixth. He was never a factor from there.
With six races to go before the start of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, Kasey Kahne holds the first wild card spot, despite his 12th- place finish. Kahne has two wins for the season, including New Hampshire two weeks ago. Busch occupies the final wild card position.
Carl Edwards' bid to make the Chase took a big hit with a 29th-place finish. Edwards experienced an engine problem early in the race and ended up falling four laps behind after spending time on pit road for repairs. He is now 61 points behind 10th-place Clint Bowyer. Edwards started on the outside pole in his first race with new crew chief Chad Norris.


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Sri Lanka Premier League Official Theme Song 2012 (HD video)
that first scream scared my cat....
Interesting. Are all the foreign players shown playing in the tournament. The last thing the cash-strapped SLC need is a lawsuit for using their images!
Wonder what the anthem for the T20 WC will be.
@ delan82
if you still don't know the forign players contracted to play in SLPL, here we go this is the list
Uthura(Foreign players): Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh), Brendan Taylor (Zimbabwe), Kevon Cooper (West Indies), Imran Farhat (Pakistan), Fidel Edwards (West Indies), David Miller (South Africa), Dillon du Preez (South Africa), Samuel Badree (West Indies)
Nagenahira(Foreign players): Mitchell Marsh (Australia), Imran Nazir (Pakistan), Travis Birt (Australia), Ahmed Shehzad (Pakistan), Ben Laughlin (Australia), Elias Sunny (Bangladesh), Mushfiqur Rahim (Bangladesh), Nasir Hossain (Bangladesh)
Ruhuna(Foreign players): Shahid Afridi (Pakistan), Daniel Harris (Australia), Ryan Harris (Australia), Aaron Finch (Australia), Jerome Taylor (West Indies), Nathan McCullum (New Zealand), Ryan McLaren (South Africa), Richard Levi (South Africa)
Wayamba:(Foreign players): Azhar Mahmood (England), Umar Akmal (Pakistan), Tamim Iqbal (Bangladesh), Colin Ingram (South Africa), Kemar Roach (West Indies), James Faulkner (Australia), Abdul Razzaq (Pakistan), Brad Hogg (Australia)
Kandurata:(Foreign players): Saeed Ajmal (Pakistan), Misbah-ul-Haq (Pakistan), Sohail Tanvir (Pakistan), Chris Lynn (Australia), Dane Vilas (South Africa), Albie Morkel (South Africa), Johan Botha (South Africa), Adam Voges (Australia)
Basnahira:(Foreign players): Brad Hodge (Australia), Marlon Samuels (West Indies), Daniel Smith (Australia), Dirk Nannes (Australia), Robin Peterson (South Africa), Tim Southee (New Zealand), Clint McKay (Australia), Cameron Borgas (Australia)
Uva:(Foreign players): Andrew McDonald (Australia), Umar Gul (Pakistan), Shoaib Malik (Pakistan), Callum Ferguson (Australia), James Franklin (New Zealand), Abdur Rehman (Pakistan), Hammad Azam (Pakistan), Chris Gayle (West Indies)
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Plzz dont make such foolish comments....
@Poorna.....look what happened after the last world cup.
Certain people's images were used without consent for advertising! There are media reports and interviews with soem of these people afterwards claiming the never consented and may take possible legal action.
The only fool here is the blind one that fails to pull his finger out of his own backside and see the way the board and its government associates have been operating in the last few years!
If all was running so smoothly they wouldn't be in such a mess financially would they? A few days ago according to the statement from Mahela they didn't even have our own players contracts signed for this tournament!
I hope this SLPL goes off well and is successful, along with the T20 WC after it. It's very much needed, after being one of the few hosts of the 50 over WC to go into financial debt after hosting!
As for the foolish comments...Too many ignorant cretins out there that are easily brainwashed! A mirror would be a good place to start finding them!


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On February 23, 2013, a basketball game between Kilgore College and Navarro College was held at the Masters Gymnasium on the campus of Kilgore College. At the conclusion of the game, Kilgore College police officers used Oleoresin Capsicum aerosol (pepper spray) against members of the Navarro College basketball players who were in the hallway, attempting to gain entry back onto the basketball court and into the gym.
A subsequent written complaint was made against Corporal Charles Horton and Lieutenant Tony Means for excessive force. The complaint was made by Navarro College coaches, Eric Colbert and Brian Crawford. The complaint alleges the use of the OC spray was unwarranted and abusive. A second complaint was made against Corporal Horton for abusive language.
Corporal Horton has 1.5 years of service with the Kilgore College Police Department. Lieutenant Means has 6.5 years of service with the Kilgore College Police Department.
An internal investigation conducted by the Kilgore College Police Department exonerated Corporal Horton and Lieutenant Means for their use of the pepper spray.
As to have no perception of impropriety, an outside review of the use of force was requested by the Kilgore College Police Department.
After a review of the investigative packet and accompanying statements, the reviewer agrees that the use of OC spray by Corporal Horton was objectively reasonable. Based on the statements, it appears his actions were appropriate and within his departmental policy.
The reviewer also agrees with the exoneration of Lieutenant Means' use of force.
After a review of the information provided, several factors were found for the reviewer to reach his findings. Each area will be discussed separately.
Area 1:
Corporal Horton contends the use of the OC spray took place in the hallway, while Coaches Colbert and Crawford contend their players were in their locker room at the time the OC was used.
In his written report, Corporal Horton states he began spraying towards two Navarro College players in the hall. Corporal Horton states he did this after two players took off their shirts, as if to fight him, and made threatening remarks towards him. Corporal Horton stated he felt threatened at this point and deployed his pepper.
Given the totality of the circumstances, Corporal Horton was outnumbered by several large athletes, two players making threatening remarks, as well as taking off their shirts to fight (a pre-attack indicator), Corporal Horton's use of pepper would be deemed reasonable.
Prior to this, Corporal Horton stated his verbal commands were being ignored and there was resistance against his efforts to contain the players to the hallway and locker room area. It was not until Corporal Horton was threatened and saw pre-attack indicators that he used his pepper spray.
The statement provided by Laurence Sabeta, a Kilgore College employee, tends to corroborate the statement of Corporal Horton, in that the spraying took place in the hallway. Sabeta states he saw the use of OC take place in the hallway and not in the locker room.
Area 2:
Corporal Horton states within his written report, "My verbal commands were being ignored and I began to physically push the players back towards the locker room area. I was able to get them back as far as the door leading into the hallway towards the visiting locker room. The players continued to push against me……"
One could conclude that Corporal Horton was dealing with an aggressive element, who was either unwilling or unable to follow apparently lawful commands. Corporal Horton would have been justified at this point to use force, but refrained.
It was not until threatened and upon seeing the pre-attack indicators that Corporal Horton utilized his pepper spray.
Area 3:
There were several statements given by both supporters of Kilgore College and Navarro College. Most of these statements cover what transpired during the game and immediately after. These statements tend to corroborate the statements by officers of an unruly and agitated Navarro College team. One statement in particular (Sandra Raby), describes the threatening language used by a Navarro College players and tells of the players pulling off their tops in an aggressive state. Raby's statement also describes the scene as "total chaos".
Statements made by Navarro personnel say that the players had come out of the locker room and into the hallway leading back to the gym after a whistle was blown. Coach Colbert's statement says, "There were two or three who had come out before we were able to come out the door…." Statement by Christy Taylor says, "When he walked out of the locker room, the whistle was blown repeatedly. The entire team then began to exit the locker room."
There is some dispute as to whether the Navarro players made it back to the gym or not. However, the use force did not take place in the gym. So this point is somewhat moot.
Area 4:
The main focus of the investigation was the actions of Corporal Horton. Lieutenant Means was subsequently brought into the investigation after it was discovered he used OC spray as well.
Given the point in time that Lieutenant Means entered the hallway, the scene was already chaotic. Lieutenant Means believed Corporal Horton had been assaulted and deployed pepper spray at Navarro players. This was done after seeing Corporal Horton using his pepper spray on the same players. The players then returned to the locker room.
There is little doubt that Corporal Horton was in an overwhelming and volatile situation. Corporal Horton was outnumbered and being threatened by the Navarro College players. Corporal Horton was also placed in the position of not only having to protect himself, but preventing harm from coming to the people still in the gym, as well as, trying to calm a tense situation.
An officer's use of force must satisfy the "objective reasonableness" standard as set forth by Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989). An officer may only use that force which is reasonable and necessary to effect an arrest or detention. Payne v. Pauley, 337 F.3d 767 (7th Cir. 2003). Anything more is excessive force.
These were the questions put forth by the reviewer during his assessment. Was the use force used by Corporal Horton and Lieutenant Means objectively reasonable given the totality of the circumstances? Also, was the force unwarranted, unnecessary or excessive?
The answer to the first question is yes. In regards to the second question posed, the answer is no.
The courts have held that the force used doesn't have to be the best option at the time, only a reasonable one. The courts have also held that an officer's underlying intent is irrelevant when the force is used based on the totality of the circumstances. There have been several statements made that Corporal Horton was agitated and appeared to be holding a grudge due to a prior incident. The courts have deemed this irrelevant.
Given the situation Corporal Horton was faced with, his limited experience as a police officer, being outnumbered and threats being made towards him, the totality of the circumstances dictate that Corporal Horton acted appropriately and reasonably.
The use of force by Lieutenant Means was also appropriate based on the totality of the circumstances he encountered upon coming to aid Corporal Horton.
After a review of the information provided, it is recommended that the Kilgore College Police Department have on-going training into effective crowd management, as well as, use of force training.


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Roots wrote:Not easily, I'm afraid. We have no way to "zoom out" of a map in the editor or otherwise so you pretty much have to maximize the editor window and take a number of screenshots to get a full picture. Also I'm not sure what system you're working on, but the editor has only been compiled/used recently on Linux. To get it working on Windows or OS X will take some work. I might be able to help with building it on Windows, but OS X I have no ability to do anything about. (I'm a Linux developer).
Oof. That's going to make that a bit tricky: I'm running Windows, and don't have a Linux machine available at the moment. Ah well!