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A look at the San Diego Padres' 2012 season:
1. They are moving on without Mat Latos. Latos was supposed to be the franchise ace for several years to come. He had developed into a solid No. 1 and was still under team control for four seasons. Then new general manager Josh Byrnes traded him to Cincinnati for a four-player package that included first baseman Yonder Alonso and righthander Edinson Volquez. Alonso is the top chip in the trade for San Diego, but Latos' absence leaves the rotation weak. Volquez has shown flashes of greatness but never for more than a few games at a time, and he is probably a middle-rotation arm even on this young staff.
2. They have their third first baseman in three years. When Adrian Gonzalez was traded to Boston last offseason, it made room for hitting prospect Anthony Rizzo. But like many who hit in Petco Park, Rizzo struggled. Now the Padres have Alonso, another big-time hitting prospect who made Rizzo expendable (he was traded to the Cubs). In 117 big league at-bats, Alonso has put up promising numbers: a .299 average, .354 on-base percentage and .479 slugging percentage. His power is still not completely developed, but the Padres just need him to get on base and collect extra-base hits, not necessarily home runs, for now.
3. They have an ace-in-waiting. Once the Padres knew they could deal Rizzo, they wanted someone in return who could be a game-changer. It was a risky move, but Andrew Cashner could be that kind of pitcher. He'll throw out of the bullpen this season, maybe as a setup man, because he is coming back from a rotator cuff injury that didn't require surgery. The Padres will give him a chance to start next spring training because they could use his high-90s fastball and 8.0 strikeouts per nine innings in the rotation. If he can stay healthy this season and be a reliable starter in 2013, the Rizzo-for-Cashner deal won't appear as one-sided as it did when it happened.
1. CF Cameron Maybin. He played in a career-high 137 games last season but struck out a career-high 125 times.
2. 2B Orlando Hudson. His numbers dropped across the board in his first year with the Padres. He had a career on-base percentage of .346 entering 2011, when he posted a .329 mark.
3. 3B Chase Headley. He hit .289 with a .374 on-base percentage and .399 slugging percentage last season. If that line stays steady or improves, he'll be a solid offensive threat.
4. LF Carlos Quentin*. He should be good for 20 to 25 homers and an on-base percentage near .350—once he returns from knee surgery (perhaps in late April).
5. 1B Yonder Alonso. The pressure will immediately be on him to become a legitimate middle-of-the-order offensive threat
6. C Nick Hundley. He is coming off his best offensive season, hitting .288/.347/.477, although he played in just 82 games.
7. RF Will Venable. He regressed in most categories in 2011, though he did improve his strikeout rate—92 in 411 plate appearances.
8. SS Jason Bartlett. He had a .245 average in 2011, his worst since becoming a full-time player. That, and his .308 on-base percentage, can't all be blamed on his first season at Petco.
*Expected to begin the season on the D.L
1 RHP Edinson Volquez. His career 4.65 ERA has come mostly with the Reds, but that can't be attributed to the team's hitter-friendly park—his road ERA is 4.64.
2. RHP Tim Stauffer. Because the team lacks a No. 1 starter, he could line up against the league's best pitchers, which could lower his winning percentage (9-12 in 2011).
3. LHP Cory Luebke. The numbers he produced in his first full season as a starter were promising: a 3.29 ERA, 1.07 WHIP and 154 strikeouts in 139 ⅔ innings.
4. LHP Clayton Richard. A shoulder problem limited him to just 18 starts and 99 ⅔ innings last season after a 14-win, 200-inning 2010 campaign.
5. RHP Dustin Moseley. Last season's 1.28 WHIP and 1.78 strikeouts-to-walks mark don't turn heads.
RHP Huston Street. He still has great control and a solid strikeout rate (8.5 per nine innings last season). He is the next in the line of strong Padres closers.
Strengths: "They traded Latos, so they don't have a No. 1 starter. They don't have Adrian (Gonzalez), so they don't have a feared hitter. I guess the strength is their youth and that they have maybe the best feeder system in the game. That's going to allow them to compete in this division and keep their payroll somewhat down."
Weaknsses: "They don't have a lineup that can hit. … It's not just where they play. This team would struggle to score in most parks. And without Latos, there is no ace. But it's possible in that park you don't really need to have one."
It won't be impossible for the Padres to finish better than fifth, but that's not where the smart money lies. They lost big pieces of their rotation and bullpen, and the offense might be slightly better—but not enough to keep them in contention all season.


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For some reason DSAssistant.exe does not work well with Internet Security software. So I found that if you don't need to look at the Resource Monitor, or add a printer, or do something with photoupload, then you can just connect directly to the Synology Diskstation through a browser.
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It looks like you had a great time, which is on your list of things to do the postage stamp quilt??
lots of love
yes Ma'am!
It looks like you had a great time, which is on your list of things to do the postage stamp quilt??
lots of love
It looks like you had a great time, which is on your list of things to do the postage stamp quilt??
lots of love
yes Ma'am!
If you decide what size squares we could swap???
Nana, the quilter of the leather quilts was a man. I'm wondering how many needles were broken in the making of those quilts and what kind of machine he used! :o)
Frances, that would be a fun idea! I wonder if we could get a postage stamp swap going here! I'm inclined to use 1" or 1 1/2" squares. Before I answered this I went online to find out what the standard is and it seems to be acceptable to use anywhere between 1" to 2 1/2" which would allow for the use of jelly rolls for easier cutting. My thought is that a current postage stamp is 1" x 7/8" so using 1 1/2" squares of fabric would bring it pretty close to that. As an example, I found a swap online requiring each set to be swapped to be 100 squares of the same size, no duplicate fabrics and people can swap up to 12 sets. NO duplicates is a bit extreme to me. I'm thinking 3 - 5 duplicates would be ok in a stack of 100. It would make sense to swap multiple sets or with multiple people though to make cutting a little easier, using strips.
Sounds like fun! do you want to swap with just me or shall we try to get a group swap going?
Southwest of San Antonio
Debbie-do:or shall we try to get a group swap going?
I would love to swap these tiny squares if you decide to share this swap on QCA. If not I'd love to swap with you and Frances.
Great Mimi! I found this chart online ... looks like we need lots of squares to make a quilt.
found some other good guidelines too...
Please use only 100% cotton fabric that is suitable for quilting. When you hold it up to the light, you should not be able to see through it. Homespuns or flannels should not be used for this swap. Hopefully, your fabric has been pre-washed before cutting, but that may not always be possible. Be sure to use good cutting practices while preparing your charms, no selvedges, never torn, no ripped out stitch holes showing, and so on. No one cuts perfectly, but strive for accuracy in your cutting.
Thanks for all the info. Looks daunting but it's just one seam at a time.
If the swap was for 20 people and we picked the 96 x 108 quilt made from 2 inch squares each person would have to send 231 squares to each swapper. The 84 x 96 would be 180 to each swapper. A 60 x 60 would be 80 to each participant. Not overwhelming to me but I just finished making 512+ HST's. This is different as it's cutting from my stash. One question I have..... is the charm size the unfinished size? I guess yes because that's what people would be cutting. I could send you 231 different 2 inch squares tomorrow. We could ask Roxana to open a thread to see if there is any interest in SWAPS if you want although a lot is happening right now. MQ9, Loyal Union Soldier sampler quilt, blue and white swaps 1 & 2, RR 4, Secret Santa's getting close to mailing deadline, Red and White heart block swap and Mailbox surprises is year round. So the beginning of 2014 might be a better time to advertise a new swap. Would you want to lead it? I know work would get in my way. If it's just you, me, and Frances then we could just decide how many squares to send, like 400, (you pick the #) to the other two people, and then make up the rest from our stashes. No matter what, I'm going to start cutting 2 inch squares from every fabric I work with from now on. Okay, where around here can I find an empty plastic container for these babies?
Count me in. I'd love to swap my 2-1/2" squares! I think we could open a thread and I just skimmed Mimi's email. We aren't talking new fabric.... so I want in!
Ok, I read it all now... and 2 inch squares are fine with me too. How many duplicates of a fabric? I don't mind collecting them and even sending them over to Frances. Can I please participate? I can't hostess since I'm not quite (almost though) through with the HST swap. Another week and a half and those babies will be gone!!!
So tell me what you are thinking. I bet there would be quite a few QCA swappers who would participate even with all there is going on. What a wonderful way to move scraps.
With all that's going on this might be a good time to make a plan and start taking names so as everyone works on the current projects, they can be starting a collection of squares. Two inch squares are as big as I'd like to go. Makes more sense after looking at that chart. I would think no more than 2 or 3 repeats of fabric per set of 100 - 200 squares? Set a mailing date for January or do you think people would forget? End of November? Would you suggest an other restrictions to the ones I already shared ?
If it were a typical swap, we'd also include how to send them - in baggies of 100, for example, and to how many participants would you have. Stuff like that... Also how many sets could someone sign up for? That might go into your participant list. So determine how many you want in a set first.
Debbie, I can hostess the swap if we open it say September 15 but start talking about in the swap ideas group. We need to figure out the particulars. The number of participants would be dependent on how many squares you were seeking. The cool thing about a swap is that say I may make 20 sets of 100 squares with no more than two duplicates per 100 but my 20 bags could be the same. In other words I may not duplicate a fabric but twice in one bag of 100 but I may put two pieces of that fabric in all 20 bags, which means I'll could at most cut (40) 2" squares from one fabric. The beauty of the swap is that though my 20 bags could (not likely) be the same, I'll only get back one and the percentages are in our favor of getting back 19 other bags that are all different.
1. What size quilt do we want to make? That will help us decide how many participants and how many squares per bag.
2. Start date for signing up would be September 15. .... I do think TOO long makes it hard but if we are wanting to collect scraps from the many projects that are going on, a January mailing date is not unreasonable. Swappers could be cutting and putting into bags all fall. They don't forget as long as we keep talking about it within the thread.
3. Specify the details you said before in requirements. Fabric in the swaps is NOT prewashed though so the 2 inch size may be good since there will be a little bit of shrinkage once they are put together. Specify no more than 2 repeats per 100 but that the 100 can come from all sorts of scraps that meet the fabric requirements.
Mimi, help me here. You've been in several swaps. What am I missing. I'm just thinking out loud now.
I think it would go over, even with everything that's going on because all it takes is cutting time. I don't know about you all but I need some cutting time as a part of my quilting therapy! It's a break from the machine or thinking. It doesn't take a lot of thought once the fabric is straight.
What else?
My goodness you've thought this out pretty quickly and thoroughly! You must have done several swaps. Penny says she wants to join in and suggests we stipulate sending lights AND darks. I don't think we can say not to prewash it since lots of people prewash fabric before cutting for a quilt and this is to use up scraps. Since you really can't prewash charms and jelly rolls we'll probably get a mixed assortment.
I also think if someone wants to make a bigger quilt they should enter more sets than someone wanting a smaller quilt so they'll get more in return instead of trying to agree on a size to make. There are many different ways to put a quilt together using other fabrics... https://www.google.com/search?aq=hts&rlz=1T4ADRA_enUS407US408&q=Postage%20Stamp%20Quilt&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=FgskUt_RF8upsQTPzICoAg&biw=1276&bih=621&sei=GAskUpjaBa2hsASZs4CIBw so you may be able to make a bigger quilt than me using the same number of squares.
Im up for this if no one minds sending to the UK, ive never done a swap before so not really sure how the posting thing works. If we are using our stash which is what i intend to do some of mine is pre washed but most isnt, just give me plenty of time to get them cut, plus if we know early on how many are participating its easier just to cut some extra squares everytime you cut some fabric for your latest project.
Hey Debbie,
After this one you could do an EPP swap, wow just think you could have another EPP to quilt, by the way how is your GFG or shouldnt i ask??
Debbie and Frances...
I agree that we can't stipulate on prewashing since this is to use scraps. What is is.I think that is a rule for those who are buying fabric. No one should be buying fabric for this swap.
Thanks for sharing the Google images. I can see where the end result can be quite various. We have to figure though a basic minimum we'd like in order to determine some numbers. .... I do think we need to start with a basic quilt size in order to determine the number each person will prepare in the swap. If they want to make a bigger quilt, then they can enter the swap more times. For example, Mimi and I wanted a larger quilt from the HST swap, so we entered it twice, just with different fabrics, so everyone got a bigger selection in return. .... What basic size are you thinking of?
We can have a cut-off date for signing up, say (thinking out loud) October 31, so we would know for sure how many participants there would be. Or earlier if you prefer. I might could get the swap opened a few days earlier if all goes well and we have the facts lined out. ... And I don't have to host it. This is your idea. I just want to be a part of it.
Are you all members of the FABRIC SWAP GROUP? I think we'll find more swappers there. If you decide you want to do this outside of QCA, I still want to participate. This is your idea. I'm just trying to help. I do have a knowledge of swaps and learn more and more each day as I fill in for Barbara while she recovers. And I think we'll pick up more swappers from there.
I think darks and lights are good but I wouldn't want to speculate a number. Maybe say, "approximately half dark and half light."
Frances, the way a swap works is that everyone sends their swap to one person along with a postage paid self-addressed envelope for return. Then the hostess gathers and sorts the swaps turned in and send back the new collection at the end of the swap.
Ok... here's what I've assembled so far:
THis is a start. Can you all think of anything else that needs to be included (besides filling in the blanks?


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I took Skipper in yesterday for an emergency appointment because her stomach was gurgling really loudly. They gave her Sub-Q fluids and Metacam and sent her on her way. When I took her home she did great. Some small poos but as the night progressed larger ones. I went to bed thinking she would be okay in the morning. I woke up this morning and there were no extra poos. Her stomach is really hard. She's still feisty-ish. Not as much as I would like to see and is normal. She does seem in pain so I gave her some Metacam. Her stomach is still gurgling. I'm at a loss of what to do. My regular vet is closed but they have a number to an emergency vet. I will take her there if I have to but since I don't know them and I have no clue if they have a rabbit vet I'm not sure if I want to take her. I guess my question is. Should I take her to the e.vet or is there something that I can try and see if she gets better from that and if not then take her to the vet? I know someone mentioned Simithcone. But I'm not sure if that would help her.
Massaging or vibrating your rabbit's tummy is one of the best ways to help break up gas bubbles and encourage the gut to 'get moving'. Sit bunny on your lap or on a towel on the counter and with your hands gently knead your rabbit's abdomen, as deeply as she will allow. If she reacts in a painful manner, stop. You can also vibrate bunny's tummy by holding your hand, palm up, under her belly, or one hand on either side of the belly and jiggling as quick as bunny will allow. Do these for as long and as often as bunny will tolerate.
We gave her the Simethicone. She was not too keen on that. But she is eating. We are giving her pineapple to help with the digestion. I took some of it away. I'm honestly not sure how much we're allowed to give her with everything that's going on. The Simethicone seemed to help with the gas. Her stomach is not nearly as hard. She's still chipper and wants to run around the house. I'm going to let her out again (put her away to eat real quick and see if she'll some hay). Or should I let her rest for a bit in her cage and let her out in an hour or two? When I put her away I did notice that she had a real smushy poo stuck to her bottom. Is that okay? Is that what we want to see? Her poos had varied in size before this. Gradually getting bigger. We let her have access to the other side of house. (Something we weren't going to do until after she was spayed.) But we figured the excitement and exercise of discovering the other side would be good for her. Her pooing seemed to increase when that happened so we were happy. Now I'm just concerned about the smushy poo. Is that what we wanted to happen? Is her gasy belly okay now? Or should I continue the Simethicone and belly rubs?
Here's what the poo looked like when I wiped it off of her.
The fact that she's eating is good. I wouldn't give pineapple as there is no real evidence that it actually helps with digestion and the sugar may be doing more harm than good.
It's also good that she wants to run around. Exercise is good because it gets the gut moving around. A bunny in stasis should be kept as stress-free as possible so it may be best to just let her run in an area she's used to.
IMO, mushy poos are better than no poos. They may be mushy from all the vet treatments. Metacam upsets some bunnies. Is she not having any normal poos at all? If the mooshy poos continue, you should call your vet on Monday. Mention that she's eating her poos too, as that's something I'm not sure about.
I would stop the Simethicone if she's eating and willing to run around. If she seems to be gassing up again, you can start it again.
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Original post made by Sports fan, Amador Estates, on Sep 1, 2012
Comments (11)
a resident of Bridle Creek
on Sep 1, 2012 at 9:57 am
This will also be a good year for ice cream sales! I love basketball and ice cream! They have many good players and many good flavors, respectively! Down with unions! Up with exclamation marks.
a resident of Del Prado
on Sep 1, 2012 at 11:25 am
Your way ahead of yourselves..its fall, fall means football....wait until spring to start talking basketball...its like advertising for halloween before july 4th!
a resident of Dublin
on Sep 3, 2012 at 1:12 pm
Frank: Not everybody shares the same enthusiasm for football as most do. Let them have their fun.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 3, 2012 at 9:39 pm
Yea Frank. We can talk about Basketball as they prepare for the upcoming season. we can still talk about Football though.
As far as ice cream and flavors. Sounds yummy to me!
a resident of Amador Valley High School
on Sep 11, 2012 at 5:27 pm
Could be a good year for winter sports at Amador. The wrestling team will also make a run at winning EBAL. Livermore vs Amador is the 1st Ebal meet for both teams and the winner should run the tables in Ebal.
The Amador team is young also. Mostly Jr. lead by standout Tommy Yosso
a resident of Foothill High School
on Oct 15, 2012 at 10:34 am
I'm looking forward to this year. They have some really good seniors playing like Trinidad. There are also some strong upcoming juniors playing like Kirk. Have any pleasanton basketball players ever gotten a basketball scholarship? I know there is one kid that got football scholarship like Mannion who's doing really well in Oregon.
a resident of Pleasanton Middle School
on Nov 1, 2012 at 8:40 am
Foothill has talent coming back this year and it'll be Foothill in EBAL top 3 behind DLS and Monte Vista. MV has the Castro Valley coach there now.
a resident of Mohr Park
on Jan 7, 2013 at 12:40 pm
Heard a sophomore at Amador just threw down a dunk at one of the games. Do I hear division one for this young man?
a resident of Birdland
on Jan 19, 2013 at 5:25 pm
As a follow up to this post, Foothill Varsity hasn't won a game yet and Amador's sophmore will only go D1 if he plays AAU and builds muscle and toughness. Amadors varsity team has four sophmores which leads me to believe in future years they will be great contenders. Their JV team (the remainder of sophmores)has the talent but no leadership. Whomever is dictating their plays or lack of, has a lot to learn about utilizing players. Monte Vista and De La Salle again seem to be the teams to watch this year. Amador will be strong in years to come with Foothill still a wild card.
a resident of Mohr Park
on Feb 12, 2013 at 9:35 am
@Mike, I agree. The soph who dunked definitely has to build up muscle and play outside of the school's "aau" program. Many aau teams area already eye-ing this young man. I hope the parents are well-informed.
a resident of Mohr Park
on Feb 15, 2013 at 9:14 am
It seems that no matter how bad the Foothill varsity team is, they can always get a win against Amador on their home court. Amador coach and FOUR assistant coaches can't seem to figure out how to win on that court. They have lost every single time for the past 5 years. It was Foothill's senior night and was determined to win. I did feel bad for the Foothill seniors who didn't get to play 1 second of their last game. I heard Amador played all their seniors even the ones who never played during league and they are in NCS where Foothill didn't even have a chance.
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I like this one: Theologian Chess.
In Theology Chess, the theologian has the entire chessboard to himself and only one piece: God. Whenever the opponent (who has no pieces) asks a question about God, the piece may be moved to a different square in any direction with no restriction on distance. This may be done infinitely until the questioner gets up and leaves.


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A Marathon landlord is facing aggravated assault charges after he threatened his tenants with a shotgun in a dispute over late rent payments, authorities said Friday.
Michael Sapp, 36, was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after deputies responded to his home in the 300 block of 66th Street Ocean, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.
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When deputies arrived, Sapp told them he'd gotten into an argument with the tenants because they hadn't been paying rent on time and he used the shotgun "to make his point," authorities said.
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Personal computing discussed
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Edit: I've done very little VB, so I may be mis-reading your code here. But it appears to me that you're using the same set of variables to pass the file name information to all of the threads (maybe this is the race condition you're referring to). This could explain why multiple threads seem to be trying to download the same file -- the variables are getting stepped on by the next iteration through the loop (when starting the next thread), before the thread spawned on the previous iteration has finished using them. You probably ought to be using the other form of QueueUserWorkItem() -- the one which allows additional data to be passed directly to the spawned thread.
I suspect there may also be some issues with the way you're doing exception handling; you probably should be handling exceptions in the spawned threads in addition to (or possibly instead of) in the parent thread. This means you'll also need to somehow coordinate access to the log file, or the error messages from the different threads may step on each other.
As I said, I haven't done much VB, so take the above with a grain of salt. (I've done *tons* of multi-threaded programming in C/C++ though, so I can generally spot the sort of race conditions that lead to weird behavior in multi-threaded apps...)
' pseudo-code
while myRecordset.Read 'loops and processes each record one at a time, forward only through the Database (sql)
create a thread and pass it the first record
another thead and second record
end while
Now clearly what it will do instead and what I am pretty sure I am doing wrong at this point is that for each record, it's sending record 1 to each of the threads 1 time, and so on. So if I have 5 records, and 5 threads, 25 times. Surely wrong but I'm just working from a concept here.
just brew it! wrote:It is not uncommon for web servers to be configured to allow only 2 downloads at a time from the same IP address.
'create web request, read response as array of bytes, write to a file, close stream, close file
Dim request As HttpWebRequest = WebRequest.Create(strImage)
Dim response As HttpWebResponse = request.GetResponse
'I enabled this in an earlier test with the UI on so I could watch the downloads, all at once my downloads all pop up, but only 2 are downloads at a time.
My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile(requestImagePath, SaveToPath)
steelcity_ballin wrote:I would agree except that today due to the slowness we had been experiencing, we contacted someone in the know and they suggested exactly what I had just done, I don't see the benefit of all that extra programming for 1 extra download instance, seems kinda frivolous.
just brew it! wrote:steelcity_ballin wrote:I would agree except that today due to the slowness we had been experiencing, we contacted someone in the know and they suggested exactly what I had just done, I don't see the benefit of all that extra programming for 1 extra download instance, seems kinda frivolous.
Unless the person you contacted is very familiar with how this particular server was configured, he may not realize that there's a 2 stream limit.
I wouldn't worry about it. If you're getting any benefit from the multi-threading at all, you're probably already getting most of it with just the 2 threads. Adding more threads will probably result in diminishing returns, or even start to hurt.
steelcity_ballin wrote:I'm still hesitant to believe that the browsers have anything to do with this.
Flying Fox wrote:steelcity_ballin wrote:I'm still hesitant to believe that the browsers have anything to do with this.
It's not the browsers (client end) but on the server side.
Actually, the best way is to zip all these small files up and serve up that one bigger file (or 2). Is it possible?
BTW, your download program is a standalone GUI app, right? Can I see what you have now in terms of spawning the threads and controlling them?
just brew it! wrote:Well, at least now you won't waste any more time on it. And you learned a little bit about multi-threading and networking, so it wasn't a complete waste regardless.
just brew it! wrote:Depending on how sophisticated your router is, there may be some QoS (Quality of Service) settings which have been configured to prioritize the traffic.


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NEW YORK -- The Rev. Al Sharpton promised on Saturday to support the mother of a Kingston-based National Guardsman shot to death by a New York City police officer, but he made no mention of it later in the day at a panel with the police commissioner.
Noel Polanco, 22, a Queens resident who was assigned to the Guard's 1156th Engineer Company in Kingston, was unarmed when he was shot Thursday after police pulled him over for a traffic violation near LaGuardia Airport. Police have offered no explanation for why a detective fired after approaching the car.
Sharpton hugged Polanco's mother, Cecilia Reyes, during an appearance at his Harlem headquarters and said it's "unthinkable for a mother to have to bury her child."
Sharpton said that "for unarmed innocent people to be killed is wrong and it's got to stop."
Reyes called her son "a great kid" who had hoped to be placed on active duty in the Army and then join the police department.
"I don't want to see any other person go through what I am feeling," the mother said. "We want to believe in the law."
Sharpton appeared later Saturday with Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly at a panel discussion on fighting crime in black communities.
Neither man addressed the Polanco shooting directly. Sharpton said he is happy to work with Kelly on efforts to take illegal guns off the streets even though they disagree on issues such as the department's stop-and-frisk policies.
"I disagree on stop and frisk but that does not mean I'm not going not to work with him on guns -- even though I might stop him and frisk him on the way out of here," Sharpton quipped.
Kelly said 819 handguns were recovered during patdowns of people stopped on the street last year. "We believe this is a lifesaver," he said.
Asked about Polanco after the panel, Kelly said the department's investigation into the shooting "is going forward aggressively."
Kelly met with Reyes on Friday to offer the department's condolences for the loss of her son but he said details of the meeting were private.


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Ex-Phils Jim Kaat is among contenders on the Hall of Fame Veterans Committee Ballot.
Kaat's career a study in consistency
Lefty workhorse a Veterans Committee finalist at Baseball Hall of Fame
He was also one of the most effective pitchers of the last 50 years and now will be considered for the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee.
Kaat, born on Nov. 7, 1938, played for the Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins (1959-73), Chicago White Sox (1973-75), Philadelphia Phillies (1976-79), New York Yankees (1979-80) and St. Louis Cardinals (1980-83). A 6-foot-4 lefty with great athletic ability, Kaat pitched 25 seasons in the Majors and posted a 283-237 record with a 3.45 ERA and 2,461 strikeouts.
Kaat's best season was in 1966, when he won a league-leading 25 games with 19 complete games, three shutouts, a 2.75 ERA and just 55 walks in more than 300 innings. The Sporting News named him American League Pitcher of the Year. His other top seasons were 1972, when he went 10-2 with a 2.07 ERA in a season shortened due to a broken hand, and 1974-75 with the White Sox, when he won 21 and 20 games.
A three-time All-Star (1962, '66, '75), Kaat also won 16 consecutive Gold Glove Awards from 1962 to '77. He pitched in the postseason four times, winning a World Series ring with the Cardinals in 1982.
Kaat was the last original Washington Senators player to retire. Not only did Kaat log 200-plus innings 14 times (including 300-plus twice), but he had 180 complete games, including nine seasons with 10 or more.
Kaat will be considered for the Class of 2009 at the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee as part of the post-1942 ballot (players who began their careers in 1943 and after). The other members of the post-1942 Veterans Committee final ballot are Dick Allen, Gil Hodges, Tony Oliva, Al Oliver, Vada Pinson, Ron Santo, Luis Tiant, Joe Torre and Maury Wills. Any player receiving at least 75 percent of the vote from the Veterans Committee, which consists of the 64 living Hall of Famers, will be enshrined at the Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2009.
Results from the Veterans Committee vote will be announced Dec. 8 at baseball's Winter Meetings in Las Vegas. (H/T National Baseball Hall of Fame.org)
As I said earlier, I hope he is elected in the Hall, and not just because he was part of the mid-70s Phillies' team that won three straight NL Eastern Division pennants, but because he was a good pitcher he was a good pitcher who was also a good fielder. (Hey, he did win all of those Gold Glove Awards, remember?) Good, luck, Kaat, hope you get the call next month.


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HOT SPRINGS - The picture is a familiar one at the start of preseason football workouts: those players that are new to the squad come on to the practice field with their names taped to their helmets.
The same could be said for Arkansas Tech's football coaching staff after the changes it has made in the offseason. The Wonder Boys will sport two new coordinators and three new assistants when they begin workouts next week.
Todd Cooley, a former Tech quarterback, will be the offensive coordinator and work with quarterbacks and will be joined by new assistant Ryan Wallace, who will handle running backs, and returning assistant Mark Taylor, who returns to the Wonder Boys after a two-year stint at Arkansas-Monticello. Dave Wheeler, one of the assistants returning from last year, is the new defensive coordinator and will handle the secondary, while new assistant Dave Poinsett will take over the linebackers.
With the changes in the coaching staff will come a few differences in the style of play the Wonder Boys will utilize this season, according to head coach Steve Mullins.
"Todd has made some minor changes in our running game, but our major changes are in the passing game," Mullins said. "I told Todd in the off-season that he had to convince me about these changes, and he did. He brought in the new system, and the players picked it up real well. Our mental mistakes were down to a mininum in the spring.
"Dave has taken over the defense and changed our scheme to a new 4-2-5 alignment. This is going to allow us to have more speed on the field, but we may not be as big as we have been in the past. But I'm not really sold on one particular system, as long as our players come out, play hard and play smart."
Despite the influx of changes, Mullins still is upbeat about the upcoming season, which begins in earnest when the players report next week. It marks the earliest time that Tech has ever started preseason workouts.
"We're starting at the earliest time that NCAA Division II rules will allow us to start," Mullins said. "But because we start school early, as well, we're not getting in as many practices as we have in the past. We will have only three or four two-a-day practices before school starts.
"But I'm excited about the season, and I feel better about it than I have in the past two years. We're more solid at quarterback and running back than we were last year, when we weren't that good offensively. But we still finished fifth in the conference, and the other four ahead of us were ranked in the top 13 nationally. I like the enthusiasm and intensity that has carried over."
The Wonder Boys will be without a couple of players they were expecting to see action this fall. Both senior receiver Willie Scott and defensive lineman Trey Scott have been listed as academically ineligible.
However, Mullins has been encouraged by the number of players that he has seen come to campus for voluntary summer workouts. That number includes some of the newcomers to the team.
"The summer workouts have been better than I've ever seen," he said. "Of course, we have a lot of players that go home and work over the summer because they're on partial scholarships and earn money to go to school. But we have ranged in the mid-20s to near 30 in the number of players that have come out, and we've had some that came as late as 8 and 9 p.m. after working.
"I've been impressed with the good work ethic and the attitude of our players during the summer, including some of the local people that are joining the team. I've seen Robert Woods from Dardanelle often, and I've seen (former Russellville players) Matt Williams and Kevin Elliott from time to time using our equipment. I really appreciate those players' efforts."
Meanwhile, Mullins is anxious to get the Wonder Boys on campus and get things started for the upcoming season.
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AMD Offers Impressive Never Settle Bundle with Radeon GPUs
Subject: Graphics Cards | October 22, 2012 - 12:00 AM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: never settle, HD 7970, hd 7950, hd 7870, hd 7850, hd 7770, bundle, amd
AMD has a couple of surprises for gamers today, both using the "Never Settle" branding. Later this morning you will see an article that looks at a new driver revision - 12.11 beta - that will be published this week (it maybe online already). Promising performance increases is 20% and more, it should be an interesting discussion.
Another big push for AMD going into the holiday season will be the Never Settle game bundle; a collection of games included with a graphics card purchase unlike you have ever seen before. And we aren't talking about scrub games here, with the HD 7900 series of cards you'll see Far Cry 3, Hitman: Absolution, Sleeping Dogs and Medal of Honor Warfighter.
Starting today, if you buy an AMD Radeon HD 7900 series of graphics cards, including the HD 7990, HD 7970 and HD 7950, you will get three full games absolutely free! Far Cry 3, Hitman: Absolution and Sleeping Dogs to be exact. Also, you will get a 20% discount on a copy of the new Medal of Honor: Warfighter. And because I already asked, AMD assures us that this is the ONLY discount on Medal of Honor that will be available this year.
Buyers on tighter budgets aren't going to be left out and if you pick up an HD 7800 series or an HD 7770 GHz Edition (not a 7750), you'll get a free copy of Far Cry 3 as well as the 20% off offer on Medal of Honor.
And just to mix things up, if you buy a PAIR of Radeon HD 7800s or a pair of HD 7770 GHz Editions AMD will add in a free copy of Hitman.
I realize that not every gamer is interested in every game that is released, but the value of the Never Settle bundle is really unmatched in anything I have seen before. Valued at $170, the package that you can get by purchasing a Radeon HD 7950 3GB for $299 in theory brings the total out of pocket price of the GPU to $129!!
As I have mentioned previously, bundles are not a cure-all for performance issues, but they can definitely swing a buyer's decision when the other factors are close. I think AMD will have a HUGE advantage going into the holiday buying season even though NVIDIA has the Assassin's Creed 3 bundle (with the GTX 650 Ti) and the Borderlands 2 bundle (with the GTX 660 Ti and above).
See what happens when you have healthy competition in the market? Gamer's always come out ahead!
Just a mistake I found reading the article. It reads "game" but should be "gamer".
"I realize that not every gamer is interested in every game that is released..."
I'm not a lit major, but I saw that as well.
Wonder how much discount they get for these games.
Also, they should give people who bought a pair of 7870's the bundle with sleeping dogs as well considering they've spend about the same as a 7970.
"increases os 20% and more"
C'mon Ryan, were you drunk when you wrote this up? Haha
Not that I care, just felt the need to criticise your grammar as that seems to be a new trend in posts.
Yeah, yeah....
I sorta look at it this way too, I actually have a bit more time indoors over the winter months where I live, and having some games to play that I would probably really like seems very reasonable to me to take into consideration with a holiday gaming gpu upgrade, Besides it sure would sound like a reasonable argument in a Dear Santa letter.
Dear Santa,
Oculus Rift.Please.
Thank you
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One of the highlights of the June 16, 2011 Corporate Operating Group meeting in Richland Center, Wisconsin was the announcement that Karen Ruden was named a member of the Corporate Operating Group (COG), WCI's senior management group effective July 1, 2011.
In making the announcement, WCI President & CEO Tom Yunt, made the following comments: "Karen has served exceptionally well as an interim COG member since she began reporting to me directly in January 2010 and has now earned the opportunity and right to officially join COG and serve as a member of our valued senior management team. Karen brings a vast amount of niche publishing experience and a fresh perspective to the COG group. I'm very excited for Karen, COG and WCI and proud and grateful for her continued contributions to our dynamic employee owned media company."
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Updated: Looks like many of you were right, as Glee premiered to a 3.3 adults 18-49 rating Thursday night. For more on last night's ratings, click here.
Glee comes back tonight for its fourth season, so it's time to guess the ratings! Will The X Factor lead in help or hurt the series? Is the series waning in popularity or about to come back? Let us know in the comments and cast your vote!
Handicapping info: Last season Glee premiered to a 4.0, saw a season low rating of 2.5, and the finale earned a 2.9 adults 18-49 rating.


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GM Towers may fill holes by moving Peavy at Winter Meetings
By Corey Brock / MLB.com
Towers drove to Las Vegas on Saturday to get a head start on the Winter Meetings, which begin on Monday, and he no doubt spent part of his drive on I-15 ruminating over how to assemble a team on what figures to be a $40 million payroll, as well as, of course, what to do with Jake Peavy.
The Padres, coming off a 99-loss season, are staring straight at a payroll that could be nearly half of what it was a year ago, a roster in need of help and with a lot of questions tied to what the club might do -- or might not do -- with Peavy, the 2007 National League Cy Young Award winner.
Last week, San Diego traded shortstop Khalil Greene and his $6.5 million contract to St. Louis, a move Towers said might afford the Padres the opportunity to hang onto Peavy, who is still owed $63 million over the next four seasons.
There is also a prevailing thought as these Meetings begin that Towers and Cubs general manager Jim Hendry are trying to facilitate a deal to send Peavy to Chicago, which would require the assistance of a third team that could help make the deal happen and give the Padres the package of players they're looking for.
"With the Cubs, even though I have a great relationship with Jim, when they signed [Ryan] Dempster, it gave them another starting piece to their rotation," said Towers. "Peavy is probably now a luxury for them. It depends if they have the wherewithal to make it happen."
There have been rumors of a five-for-one deal with the Cubs and another team, a package that would land the Padres what they covet most -- pitching. Towers has said repeatedly this offseason that he wants Major League-ready pitching -- starters and relievers -- in any deal that involves Peavy.
"Pitching is our big focus -- trying to add bullpen depth and adding to the rotation," Towers said. "If we move Jake, we hope we can plug three or four holes. Most of our trade discussions have been about pitching."
If Towers doesn't like what he's offered, he's perfectly content to, before the end of the month, essentially pull Peavy off the trading block and go to Spring Training with him.
"If we had to start the season with Jake back in San Diego, we'd be more than happy to do that," Towers said. "Having moved Khalil's salary, it's going to have to be a deal [for Peavy] we're real comfortable with."
Because of their financial constraints, the Padres won't be in the running for any high-priced, or even moderately-priced, free agents, though they now need a shortstop because of Greene's sudden departure to St. Louis.
The Padres are also looking to add bullpen depth, a veteran backup catcher and other moves to give manager Bud Black better bench options. To address these needs, Towers knows that he'll be approached about several of the Padres' top young players, like catcher Nick Hundley as well as outfielder/third baseman Chase Headley. Towers, as he did a year ago, will likely decline the overtures, though he's not ruling out trading a position player to fill some voids.
"There are a couple of things in the works where we could move a position player for a pitcher," Towers said. "We've got some outfield depth we can move. We might be able to extract some pitching from other teams that way."
Towers also figures to take at least one player in Thursday's Rule 5 Draft, as the Padres will pick third and will almost certainly take a relief pitcher who could lend help to a bullpen that went from being the best in the Major Leagues in 2007 to one of the most inconsistent last season.
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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John Srutka has a home on the eastern end of town, just north of the recent Russell Road extension, and though the property was annexed into the city many years ago, it still has no city water or sewer service.
He isn't the only one. Although precise numbers are hard to pinpoint, evidence shows hundreds of Russellville residents could be without city water — and many more than that do not have city sewer service.
As of March, City Corp. had 10,231 residential water customers, but only 9,238 residential sewer customers. This indicates there are nearly 1,000 customers that have water service from City Corp., but no sewer service.
Determining how many homes do not have city water service is more difficult. However, 2010 Census figures reported 11,124 housing units in Russellville, or nearly 900 more units than City Corp. provides water to.
Some Russellville residents who live in annexed portions of the city may continue to receive water from the Tri County Regional Water Distribution District. Others, like Srutka, have wells.
Gaining access to city utilities doesn't come cheap. Srutka said running water to his property could cost $10,000, and sewer would be a whopping $180,000. Unless a water improvement district is created to share the cost burden among other nearby homes, the cost of obtaining these services would fall solely on the homeowner.
Steve Mallett, general manager at City Corp., said his organization focuses on operation and maintenance of city water and sewer lines, but does not have the budget to expand those service.
"We're just not financially set up to run water and sewer main to undeveloped property," he said.
The city isn't shelling out the cash, either, as indicated by an October 2012 letter from Mayor Bill Eaton to Srutka.
"Without an improvement district being established where costs would be shared, the full cost ... would be yours alone," the letter concluded.
Other than the possibility of foul well water, which may not be drinkable, there are financial impacts of owning property within the city boundaries — and paying city taxes — but lacking vital services. Srutka claims an offer to buy the home fell through after potential buyers learned of the lack of city services and the cost to install them.
Cliff Goodin, executive broker at River Valley Realty, said lack of city water services especially can significantly impact the value of a home, though he said the number of homes in the city without water service was low.
It is unclear why water, at least, has not been run to properties like Srutka's. City Attorney Trey Smith said annexation ordinances generally state utilities will be provided within a certain time frame, usually 3-5 years. The ordinance referring specifically to the annexation of Srutka's property could not be located by a reporter on Friday afternoon, but he said the property was annexed more than 10 years ago.
Help could be coming soon. At a meeting last week to discuss the city's 1-cent sales tax, Alderman Martin Irwin asked whether proceeds from the tax could be used to help expand city water and sewer services to more residents. Plans for allocation of those funds are still pending.


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DRB to mull Sirloin changes
If passed, the application will allow for incentives that make is overall size of the building larger than what was previously presented.
The building, a former restaurant which closed more than a year ago, is being reconfigured for retailing as well as dining.
Craig Hunter, property manager, presented the proposed changes. They included some parking alterations, a change in a curb cut, and adding a loading dock at the north end of the store for larger vehicles to unload merchandise.
"We will be removing the curb cut, which was asked by [the board]. We also have a conveyor system in storage that can be used to unload merchandise to the second floor."
According to Hunter, the total incentives gained were 9,515 square feet, by adding green space to the parking as well as the change to the curb cut. They gained an allowable footprint of 12,515 square feet and are asking for a 9,725 square foot building, almost 3,000 square feet above what we are asking for.
Store owners in the immediate area raised concerns over the parking situation since the hours of the new building will be different from the hours that the Sirloin Saloon was open for business, since the new building is designed to be opened during the day and night.
Bob Borella, owner of Friends of the Sun, wanted to make sure that since the building will be open all day that he could reserve the right to place signage that would display "Friends of the Sun parking only."
"There are three parking spots, out of the 66 spaces, that we have rights to 24 hours a day," Borella said. "Understanding that [Hunter] has an excess of parking spaces with the shared parking agreement that we have, our own real concern is that on weekends both of us will be very busy and our customers can't get to our parking spaces," he said. "I was thinking of, perhaps, some signage that could be provided for eight or 10 parking sports right in front of our store that said 'parking for Friends of the Sun only from during the hours of 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.' that might suffice."
Hunter responded by saying they would be willing to make that change and put up those eight to 10 signs and also add a sign as people drive into the parking lot that saying parking for Friends of the Sun only.
"We absolutely don't want to interfere with your business at all. We are hoping that this building will be a boom for your business and every else around and bring more people in," Hunter said.
Ann Smith, owner of Manchester Woodcraft, was uneasy about the parking situation and was worried that her spaces will be taken up during the day for businesses located in the new building. Smith also showed some concern about larger trucks maneuvering around a busy parking lot during the day to unload merchandise.
"We feel like the size of the proposed building cannot possibly be supported by the actual number of parking spaces available. The idea that 15 cars can fit into 10 parking spaces makes absolutely no sense."
According to Hunter, he counted any rear parking spaces as 1.5 spaces which is what the bylaw states, which has probably caused the difference in numbers.
"We also have a concern with the ability of large delivery trucks to be able to back into the building and then get out and turn around if, and when, all parking spaces are occupied," said Smith.
In response to the concern, Hunter said, "All of that was looked into when we did the site plan and there is more than ample turning radius's for trucks to get in and out from the back of the parking lot with the parking lot full."
In other business, Dunkin Donuts gave a presentation on changes that have been made since the previous Board meeting. Among the topics of concern were noise from the automatic car wash and traffic flow within the store limits. The presentation will be continued at the next DRB meeting on April 3.
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As the host of the PBS News Hour noted tonight, this might be the beginning of a new era in politics. President Barack Obama discussed his re-election for a second term first on Twitter — even before challenger Mitt Romney conceded. He posted the photo above with the message "Four more years," which has now become the most re-Tweeted photo of all time with more than 350,000 re-Tweets as of 9:30 p.m.
Conservative pundit David Brooks joked about Abraham Lincoln's Tweet of the Gettysburg Address. Joking aside, this is certainly a new era when politicians address their communities first via social media. Here's another of Obama's Twitter messages earlier tonight:
We're all in this together. That's how we campaigned, and that's who we are. Thank you. -bo
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 7, 2012
I personally tracked the election via NPR, PBS, Fox News, CNN and the wonderful interactive map from The New York Times where you could analyze the action by each county in critical states like Florida and Virginia. Oh yeah, my mom also called from my hometown in Ohio — which according to The New York Times still remains too close to call — to let me know how things were going in the Buckeye State.
What did you find to be the most valuable tool to keep up with the results?
UPDATE: Romney conceded just after 10 p.m., yet his Twitter account remains silent, with the last Tweet about seven hours ago.
FOLLOW-UP: Trump freaks with Tweets, has meltdown on Twitter after Obama victory


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During a recent meeting with the family, Maria Porras relayed her memories of the
events that occurred two decades prior. In 1991 a 19 year old Maria was 9 months
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As part of a telemedicine research project, Big Bend Regional Medical Center was equipped
with telemedicine technology that linked the rural hospital to Texas Tech University
Health Sciences Center in Lubbock in 1990. The project was to determine if telemedicine
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WASHINGTON -- The Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan branch of the U.S. Treasury, told Congress in a Nov. 29 hearing that switching from dollar bills to dollar coins would save significant money for taxpayers.
During the hearing, the GAO director for physical infrastructure issues, Lorelei St. James, said in a statement, "We continue to believe that the government would receive a financial benefit from making the replacement."
St. James acknowledged that dollar coins remain unpopular with the majority of citizens according to most public opinion polls.
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The collaboration between Rihanna and Chris Brown that was widely speculated to be coming has made its way to the Internet — two times over.
As expected Chris Brown showed up for a verse on Rihanna's "Birthday Cake" remix, dropping the line, "Girl I want to f*** you right now/Been a long time, I've been missing your body."
And Rihanna makes an unexpected appearance on the remix of Chris Brown's "Turn Up the Music" to sing and, at the end of the track, giggle and say, "Oh no, you made me laugh."
The two announced the release of the singles on their Twitter accounts, with each linking to the other's song. Brown's link to a file download site housing Rihanna's track quickly maxed out, but several blogs have reposted it.
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Two months ago, a photo of what looked like a thin-mint inspired candy bar leaked online, sending netizens into a frenzy over whether or not the candy was real. Then, once the Girl Scout organization confirmed that it would in fact be collaborating with Nestlé Crunch, a slew of other questions arose. How long would Girl Scout cookie fans have to wait to get their hands on these bars? Would there be other flavors too? Well, the wait is finally over because several flavors of Girl Scout Crunch bars will hit the market in June.
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So what exactly are the flavors of Girl Scout Nestlé Crunch bars? There's Thin Mint, described as, "dark chocolate cookie wafers and mint chocolate crème, topped with airy crispies and a rich, dark chocolatey coating"; Caramel & Coconut, which is, "cookie wafers layered with coconut caramel crème and chewy caramel, topped with toasted coconut and drizzled with caramel stripes"; and Peanut Butter Crème, described as "cookie wafers layered with smooth peanut butter crème, topped with airy crispies and a creamy, chocolatey coating."
Word of the candy bars' release earlier this year caused a lot of enthusiasm. Tricia Bowles of Nestlé USA, Confections & Snack stated that after the initial photo leak, "consumers starting calling. One said he'd give us all of his money for Nestlé Crunch Girl Scout Bars! Another said she's do 'anything' to get her hands on some."
Due to the popularity of the bars before they have even it the market, Nestlé Crunch and the Girl Scout organization had the candy bars appraised by Heritage Auctions. The auction house authenticated the first set of three bars and gave them a value of $500, which is 200 times the suggested price of the candy bars. Nestlé Crunch boasts that this appraisal makes them the most valuable candy bars in the world.
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The candy bars will be sold as single bars and in take-home fun size boxes. While the Girl Scout organization already released a cookie to commemorate its 100th year anniversary, called Savannah Smiles, these candy bars are also part of the 100th year celebration.
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Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes was unchanged in January, remaining at a level of 47 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. This figure follows eight consecutive monthly gains. The index continues to hold at its highest level since April of 2006.
"Conditions in the housing market look much better now than at the beginning of 2012, and an increasing number of housing markets are showing signs of recovery, which should bode well for future home sales later this year," said Barry Rutenberg, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a home builder from Gainesville, Fla. "However, uncertainties stemming from last month's fiscal cliff negotiations contributed to the pause in builder confidence and continuing discussions among policymakers related to spending cuts, and the future of the mortgage interest deduction could put a damper on housing demand in the coming months."
NAHB chief economist David Crowe said: "Builders' sentiment remains very close to the index's tipping point of 50, where an equal number of builders view conditions as good and poor, and fundamentals indicate continued momentum in housing this year. However, persistently tight mortgage credit conditions, difficulties in obtaining accurate appraisals and the ongoing stalemate in Washington over critical economic concerns continue to impede the housing recovery."
Derived from a monthly survey that NAHB has been conducting for 25 years, the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index gauges builder perceptions of current single-family home sales and sales expectations for the next six months as "good," "fair" or "poor." The survey also asks builders to rate traffic of prospective buyers as "high to very high," "average" or "low to very low." Scores from each component are then used to calculate a seasonally adjusted index where any number more than 50 indicates that more builders view conditions as good than poor.


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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas City, Mo., man accused of mortgage fraud has been sentenced to about a year in federal prison.
The U.S. attorney's office for Kansas said in a release Wednesday that 36-year-old Michael D. Robinson was sentenced to a year and a day after pleading guilty earlier to conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
The prosecutor's office says Robinson admitted that he bought houses that were being foreclosed, and provided false information to mortgage lenders.
Robinson admitted putting money into a bank account in a buyer's name to make it appear to the lender that the buyer qualified for a loan. And he said the buyers had provided down payments when they had not.


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Again, not impressed. Picked up the cash cover, but starting to get a little disappointed after the last 2 releases.
I actually love the Master themed hat. I have plenty of allignment rods, but again though the Master's themed green and yellow sticks looked pretty cool. The cash cover was tempting, but I didn't pick one up.
Lame release.... Iliac cover doesn't match many bags, no Masters themed polo, just polos that have been out for months and FJ enthusiasts already have them..
Sadly nothing of interest to me....
I like the hat, but not overwhelmed enough to purchase.
Loved the hat so I was pretty happy!
If I didn't have alignment sticks I might have been tempted. I do like the shirts though.
I wanted the hat and since I was already putting in an order, I added the alignment sticks. I didn't need them, but figured what the heck. I would have picked up the shorts but I hated where they put the Vokey logo. I prefer it above the back pocket like they did last year.
I would agree that this was less than spectacular. Glad to see that the clothing was all FJ and not SD this time around. Historically the Masters release has been pretty good. We will just have to wait and see what comes around later in the year.
I like the hat and the alignment sticks. The leather head cover would require more care than I would want to do.
I just bought Vokey alignment sticks on ebay for like 55 bucks because they looked cool, they weren't listed on the vokey website. Are you kidding me...
Where are these items at to purchase/view?
I got the hat and the Lavender shirt. OK, color me ......
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A man named Nicholas tells me that yes, he did find a stunned bobcat on the road as he came home from work. This was near the Lucky River here in Oregon, and something made him stop, he says.
I thought, my gawd that's a wildcat! And it's not like you see a bobcat sprawled in the road every day, you know, so I stop to see if it's dead, but I see he's breathing but unconscious, so I pick him up.
He weighed about what a toddler weighs.
He was amazingly beautiful.
You wouldn't believe the intense softness of his fur. And the colors of his fur…I don't have the right words for the colors.
I put him on the floorboard in the front, on the passenger side. I have a Honda Prelude. He was bleeding from the eyes and nose and mouth. In my head and perhaps out loud I spoke to him a bit, and I am absolutely sure he heard me, at some level.
He was unconscious but aware, you know what I mean?
I was being respectful, telling him what I was doing, that I was getting him help, asking politely that he not rip my face off if he woke up startled to find himself in a Honda Prelude.
We drove about 20 minutes, I got all the way into town and was looking for the vet, when he woke up. He sort of stretched and then snapped to his feet, growling. I pulled over.
We were on Fourth Street. I raised my right hand slowly and started talking. We kept our eyes on each other. I kept my hand up. I just wanted us to sink into a calm space, you know?
People keep asking what I said to him but I just talked in a calm even tone. I don't remember quite what I said.
People think it's comical, a man talking to a bobcat, or insane. I mean, a bobcat is a serious carnivore with razors for claws, but there was an awareness between us, an intense presence, a recognition of intention, that is very hard to explain and was the most extraordinary thing. It was dark by now but there was enough light in the car to see by. He had green eyes. I kept talking in a calm even voice and we kept staring at each other.
There were some moments of silence also. I cannot explain how genuine and sincere this was. It was a life very present with another life for a little while. There was a mutual understanding of no harm.
We sat there for a while and then I slowly brought my hand down and put the emergency brake on. I kept on talking and we kept our attention on each other. He had white tufts of fur on his ears. After a while I opened my door and slowly got out of the car. He remained calm. I walked around the car. We kept our eyes on each other.
Eventually all the rest of it happened. Jeff from the Chintimini Wildlife Rehabilitation Center got him out of the car with a noose, as gently as he could, and the cat was not happy about the noose, there's fur and feces all over the car, but he's fine now. He had two broken teeth which were fixed and he's recovering and will be released back into the woods next week.
He's three years old. The paper here ran a story that was picked up by the wire services, and a television crew came and all that, but no one told the story right.
The real story is the unspoken language of the eyes.
The real story is the intensity of awareness between two creatures.
Some people don't get it. Like one guy who said the bobcat would look great on his wall. He doesn't get it.
This is a stunning creature.
For a few minutes there we were, totally aware of each other, complete and utter attention, with an unspoken understanding of no harm, and some kind of what you might call, if you were thrashing around for words that don't fit very well but they're the only words you can find, a sort of spiritual connection. That was…I don't have the right words: Amazing, riveting, moving, genuine.
Could you try to tell this story in a way that focuses on what was the most amazing thing, that intensity of presence? That's the story, do you know what I mean?
Brian Doyle listens for stories in Portland, Oregon, where he is editor of Portland, the award-winning magazine of the University of Portland. He is the author of The Grail: A Year Ambling and Shambling through an Oregon Vineyard in Pursuit of the Best Pinot Noir Wine in the Whole Wild World, The Wet Engine, and five collections of essays. Doyle's work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, American Scholar, Orion and in the Best American Essays anthologies, as well as the Best American Science Writing anthology of 2007.