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According to B 'n' M Fishing's "Any Time, Any Place, In Any Water Crappie" DVD, when vertically jigging standing timber for crappie it's best to pitch your jig just past the tree and allow it to swing back toward you before settling at the stump. Then you can fish it with slight twitches before moving on to the next tree. This enables you to offer a swimming motion and vertical presentation to the fish. Note whether the jig is swimming back to you or is being lifted and dropped when any strikes occur so you can fine tune your presentation.
Looking for a weekend of fun and fellowship on the water? Join the Arkansas Crappie.com Spring Crappie Camp April 19-20 at Lake Dardanelle State Park. The weekend will begin at 6 p.m., April 19, with a cookout and camaraderie. On April 20, there will be a crappie tournament followed by a fish fry and even more fellowship. For more information, visit crappie.com and view the Arkansas members' forum. Click here to go directly to the page: http://www.crappie.com/crappie/arkansas/226098-arkansas-spring-camp-2013-sign-up-list.html
West-Central Arkansas
Lake Dardanelle — Chuck Morrison at Classic Catch Guide Service (479-774-9117) said the bass are on fire, and there are multiple ways to catch them. Spinnerbaits, crankbaits, jigs, plastics swim baits, Alabama rigs and floating worms are all catching bass in the spawning flats and creeks. Pockets and cuts off the river will be heating up this week for pre spawn bass, and the drops out from the spawning flats will begin holding some post spawn bass. Crappie have been caught both shallow and deep on jigs and minnows with some river crappie being caught on small Rat-L-Traps. Catfishing has been good on cut shad and worms. White bass and striped bass have been good on tailspinners and jerk baits. Bream are fair on worms in the creeks.
Blue Mountain Lake — The Army Corps of Engineers reported the lake's elevation was 397.80 feet msl (flood pool-419 msl).
(Blue Mountain Lake is now full and lake can be accessed at all concrete ramps. Things should start picking up with the warm weather. Many new fish attractors were placed during the drawdown, so it's a great time to get out and motor around the lake marking new spots on the GPS.)
Lake Atkins — Lucky Landing (479-641-7615) said fishing has been slow. The water temperature is between 46 and 50 degrees. The lake has been clear this past week but is still a little high. Some larger bass have been caught, and some crappie have been taken on yo-yo's. Some catfish are being caught on trotlines. But overall, the bite is slow.
Lake Nimrod — The Army Corps of Engineers reports the lake's elevation was 357.40 feet msl (flood pool – 373 msl).
Whiskers Sporting Goods in Perryville (501-889-2011) said crappie are biting well in deep water on minnows and Bobby Garland Baby Shad, Slab Slay'rs and Stroll'rs in white /salt and pepper, red/chartreuse, cajun cricket, Barbecue chicken and blue/white. Bream are biting well in deep water on nightcrawlers, redworms, meal worms, crickets and rock hopper jigs. Bass are fair on dark colored worms, spinnerbaits and Rooster Tails. Catfish are biting on nightcrawlers and chicken livers.
Lake Bailey (Petit Jean Mountain) — Whiskers Sporting Goods in Perryville (501-889-2011) said bream are biting well on nightcrawlers, redworms, meal worms and rock hopper jigs. Catfishing is good on redworms, nightcrawlers, minnows, stink bait and livers. Bass are fair on spinnerbaits, Rooster Tails and dark soft-plastics.
Central Arkansas
Harris Brake Lake — Harris Brake Lakeside Resort (501-889-2745) said the water is clear and at normal level. The surface water temperature is 62 degrees. Bream are slow. Crappie are excellent on minnows. Bass are biting well on minnows. No report on catfish.
Whiskers Sporting Goods in Perryville (501-889-2011) said crappie are fair on minnows and Slab Slay'r and Stroll'rs in white /salt and pepper, red/chartreuse shad, bone white and Cajun Cricket colors with a Power Bait crappie nibble in green or yellow. Catfish are fair in deep water on minnows, worms, stink bait and chicken/ turkey /rabbit livers. Bass are biting well on tequila sunrise worms, spinnerbaits, Rooster Tails and flukes. Bream are in deep water biting on nightcrawlers, redworms, meal worms, crickets and rock hopper jigs.
Lake Overcup — Overcup Landing (501-354-9007) said fishing has been slow. Trotlines and yo-yos are catching a few catfish on cut shad and skipjack. The water is at normal level. Water temperature ranges from 48 to 52 degrees. The fish are in good shape and ready to spawn, all we need is a few warm days and nights.
Whiskers Sporting Goods in Perryville (501-889-2011) had no report.
Brewer Lake — Overcup Landing (501-354-9007) said fishing has been slow. Trotlines and yo-yos are catching a few catfish on cut shad and skipjack. The water is at normal level. Water temperature ranges from 48 to 52 degrees. The fish are in good shape and ready to spawn, all we need is a few warm days and nights.
Arkansas River at Morrilton — Charley's Hidden Harbor said the cold front pushed spotted bass and largemouth bass to secondary drops near the channel. They are biting fairly well on firetiger-colored spinnerbaits slow-rolled down the ledge. White bass are still around the mouths of creeks and can be caught on CC spoons in 8 to 15 feet of water. Stripers are holding below dams nine and 10 and can be caught on chartreuse/white Sassy Shads. Crappie are holding a little deeper than last week, and can be caught in 6 to 10 feet of water around Petit Jean Creek, Point Remove Creek and Coppers Gap around standing timber.
Arkansas and White river levels are available at: water.weather.gov/ahps2/index.php?wfo=lzk
For real-time information on stream flow in Arkansas from the U.S. Geological Survey, visit: waterdata.usgs.gov/ar/nwis/rt
For water quality statistics (including temperature) in many Arkansas streams and lakes, visit: waterdata.usgs.gov/ar/nwis/current/?type=quality
For Family and Community Fishing Program: Trout have been stocked in all Family and Community Fishing Program ponds. They will hit a variety of lures, including Power Bait, frozen shrimp, nightcrawlers and small jigs and spinners.
Clickwww.agfc.com/fishing/Pages/FishingProgramsFCF.aspx for a list of program ponds and up-to-date stocking information.


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I'm reading all these CPS post and it got me thinking about how screwed I would be if someone called CPS on me right now!
I'm in the middle of remodeling my kitchen and everything that should be in my kitchen is all over my tiny little 1100 sq ft house including my 3 year olds bed. (He sleeps with us most of the time.)
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR TAX DEED Notice is hereby given that David K. Adams, holder of tax certificate No. 567 issued May 23, 1996, has filed same in my office and has made application for a tax deed to be issued thereon. Said certificate embraces the following described property in the County of St. Johns, State of Florida, to-wit: PARCEL NUMBER 035010-0000 SEC 35 TWP 08 RGE 28 2-14 WILLIAMS & JERRY SUBD ARMSTRONG LOT 12 BLK F OR49/393 The assessment of the said property under the said certificate issued was in the name of JOHN McGILL, PETE McKNIGHT AND JAMES WILLIAMS, as TRUSTEES OF AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ARMSTRONG, FLORIDA. Unless said certificate shall be redeemed according to law, the property described therein will be sold to the highest bidder at the front door of the St. Johns County Judicial Building, 4010 Lewis Speedway, St. Augustine, Florida, 32084, on JUNE 9, 2004 at 12:00 o'clock noon. Dated this Apr 21, 2004. (OFFICIAL SEAL) Cheryl Strickland Clerk of Circuit Court of St. Johns County, Florida In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act persons needing a special accommodation to participate in this proceeding should contact the Clerk of Court at 4010 Lewis Speedway, St. Augustine, FL 32095 no later than seven days prior to the sale date. Telephone: (904) 823-2333 Ext 310; 1-800-955-8771 (TDD) or 1-800-955-8770 (V), via Florida Relay Service. L1025-4 May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2004
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Project Feed the Thousands gets under way
BRATTLEBORO -- What started out 19 years ago as an idea to help area's needy has blossomed into the largest annual food drive in southeastern Vermont and southwestern N.H.
George Haynes and Larry Smith created what is now Project Feed the Thousands in 1994 as a food drive with the goal of reducing hunger in Brattleboro. This year's drive kicked off on Friday.
"We had identified a community need," Haynes said. "There was hunger in the area."
Haynes said Smith, formerly of WTSA, reported on a story about Melinda Bussino -- a founder of the Brattleboro Area Drop In Center -- and one of the programs she was running for the town's less fortunate. He said Smith was amazed to see young families -- and not just homeless people -- in need.
Smith told Haynes, who used to serve as the president of Brattleboro Savings & Loan, about what he had learned and proposed starting a food drive. The two started Project Feed the Thousand (notice the lack of an "s") because there were roughly 1,000 people in the Brattleboro suffering from hunger at that time. Their initial objective was to fill one tractor-trailer for the people of town and they achieved about 80 percent of their goal.
The need has exploded since then, as has the operation. According to its website, Project Feed the Thousands now collects more than 25 tractor-trailers' worth of food and personal care items for countless people. That equals about 62,500 bags.
The Our Place Drop-In Center, the Townshend Food Shelf, the Deerfield Valley Food Pantry, the Guilford Food Pantry, the Chester/Andover Family Center and the welfare office in the Hinsdale, N.H., are now involved in collecting.
Haynes said participation from both individuals and companies has gone through the roof and he is very proud of it.
"It has exceeded all my expectations," he said.
According to a letter signed by Kelli Corbeil and Jeffrey Morse, the program's co-chairpersons, and Lucie Fortier, the Brattleboro Area Drop In Center's executive director, hunger is a hidden epidemic affecting more people than society realizes.
The letter states one in five Windham County residents is facing hunger. The town's drop-in center fed 19,362 individuals (16,519 adults and 3,113 children) last year. Forty-three percent of Windham County's school students are eligible for free and reduced-price school meals and 56 percent of Brattleboro students qualify. The letter also says 7,217 residents of this county receive food stamps, a 7-percent hike from last year.
The goal this year is to raise $100,000 in cash donations and the equivalent of 200,000 meals. Food can be dropped off at any of the seven food shelves in the area as well as local supermarkets and several town businesses. Money can be donated via feedthethousands.org or by sending a check, made out to Project Feed the Thousands, to any of the seven food shelves or the River Valley Credit Union located at 1 South Main St.
All monetary donations are tax-deductible.
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School board wants to renew Cubberley lease
Original post made on May 29, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 9:53 AM
Comments (8)
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on May 29, 2013 at 1:58 pm
One thing that could prevent joint use is the ability of the PAUSD to prevent citizens from coming on a school campus while the school is in session. This means prior to 8:00 am and until after 3:OO pm or later there could be no public/joint use of the facility.
Many of the small, private groups do use the facilities during this period. How will this be solved?
a resident of Barron Park
on May 29, 2013 at 10:14 pm
PAUSD and Money. Ahhhhhh. How about we hire district personnel to manage, let them work two years, pay them huge severance bonuses by letting them retire early at higher pay grades, then get soaked and lose all institutional memory, including hiring defunct construction companies...that might be worth 6.8 mil.....or settling a few more lawsuits that Skelly has brought upon the taxpayers of this community...pathetic decline in this district in recent years....the best of intentions with incompetence beyond easy description...
a resident of Midtown
on May 30, 2013 at 8:16 am
Why doesn't city try to multi-use Paly and Gunn to see if it would really work before implements in a third high school? Is there any example or stat to support this idea is viable at all?
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on May 30, 2013 at 9:28 am
After Columbine and New Town schools were encouraged by the State to monitor every non-school personnel entering a school, that's why there are notices at Middle and High Schools requesting visitors to campus to register at the office. Freely walking around on school property while school is in session is discouraged.
Joint use is going to be a myth, but it is a way the School District can get the City to invest in School property then ban visitors. Look at Terman it now has an 8 foot chain link fence around it so you can't just walk onto campus.
I support the City developing their 8 acres as they want and the School District developing their 27 acres as they want. First, lets renew the lease 'till 2025.
a resident of Crescent Park
on May 30, 2013 at 12:59 pm
Assuming the city keeps its 8 acres, then they can develop as they see fit. No way PAUSD let's non-school personnel or non-students on campus during school hours. BTW - this policy holds true at the K-5 sites as well.
What the city will lose out on are classrooms, gyms, pool, auditorium, track, fields, the majority of parking. Even after school is out for the day, the new HS will still use its facilities for extra-curriculars (e.g., athletics, clubs, music, drama, etc.). And the teachers are still going to use their classrooms and offices after school is out for planning, meetings, etc.
The bottom line is that once PAUSD finally gets to re-opening Cubberly, access will be cut-off except for the city owned portion (if the city decides to keep it). If I'm a non-profit using that site, I'd start looking for a new spot now and beat the eventual rush.
a resident of Midtown
on May 30, 2013 at 2:33 pm
Why not let current patrons keep cubberley? it's about time that Stanford should free up some land for a new high school, since there is a major plan to build high density housing on its land along El Camino.
a resident of Crescent Park
on May 30, 2013 at 3:12 pm
Because Stanford gave up land for Gunn. And because Mid-Town and South PA would like to have a HS on their side of town.
Why is it that Stanford is supposed to keep paying for Palo Alto's self-induced problems?
a resident of Midtown
on May 30, 2013 at 3:46 pm
I live in midtown and never think it's a good idea to build a third high school, just because it's on my side of town.
Not sure it's Palo Alto self-induced problem if Stanford proposed to build high density housing.
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Hey refs, you suck, just felt the need to point that out. Suck a fat one.
Hey refs, you suck, just felt the need to point that out. Suck a fat one.
Just too much contact in this game, coupled with whistle-happy refs, lousy game across the board at this point. Let's play some friggin ball here.
The refs understand that a possession in an NBA basketball game is allowed to end without at least one foul called, right?
You guys think this game is over? It's not even 4th quarter yet lol...
Kurt defended randolph really nicely, wish he had come in earlier...
the refs with a game high 19 points in the first half of the third
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Warm up winter nights with barn dances in HighlandsWritten by Admin
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The first Bascom Winter Barn Dance of the season will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 22, with music by 4118.
Barn dances are held the last Saturday of the month January through March. In January, educators will be honored, which means all teachers get in free. In February, policemen, firefighters and EMS will be the special honorees, and in March, it's veterans.
Each barn dance features guest performances by Helen's Barn Era musicians and dancers.
Tickets are $5 and are available at www.winterinhighlands.com or by calling 828.526.2112.
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The Sting accomplished what no other motion picture ever did: It thoroughly revitalized and re-popularized an entire genre of music. Join us for this expert account of how an original American creation - ragtime - became a pop music phenomenon, as it had been some 70 years earlier.
Lecturer David Reffkin traces the history that led to the extensive use of ragtime in the movie score, the overnight rise of Scott Joplin's music (particularly "The Entertainer") on the record charts, the extent of its influence on our culture, and the rebirth of ragtime as a compositional form. Along the way he clarifies the roles of director George Roy Hill and composer Marvin Hamlisch and will detail some of the contemporaneous reviews, awards, misperceptions, and long-lasting effects - intended and otherwise - of The Sting.
About the lecturer: David Reffkin is the director of The American Ragtime Ensemble, founded in 1973, with expertise in the history of orchestration and performance of music from the early 1900s. For 30 years he produced and hosted the weekly radio broadcast, The Ragtime Machine, and has served as writer, contributing editor and recipient of the reader-selected award of 'Best Ragtime Journalist' for The Mississippi Rag. David was one of the musicians who founded the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival in 1974, organizing and directing the festival All-Star Orchestra. In 2006 he received the Scott Joplin Award "for outstanding achievement in research, performance, and advancement of ragtime."
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Now, the former department head and current full professor in ATU's Parks, Recreation and Hospitality Department has returned from her fall sabbatical with a renewed vigor for community trails.
Herrick has an intrinsic passion for nature and the benefits others can reap from staying, or becoming, involved with the bounty of beautiful surroundings and social opportunities the great outdoors provides. She feels everyone should have trails to make use of.
"I have a few good years left in me," Herrick said. "I am back in tune with my field."
Herrick said she is concerned for current and future generations, so she has worked diligently to help bring a master plan for the city of Russellville's trail systems to fruition.
This plan includes expanding trails in Russellville to include connections with schools, parks, downtown and Arkansas Tech. She said she wants people to enjoy featured trails like Bona Dea, what she called one of the most heavily used recreational facilities in Pope County,
"Our residents, and especially our youth, should have access to this type of resource — one that provides the experience of being outdoors and an alternative for safe inner-city travel," Herrick said.
Herrick's passion for trails and parks was ignited in her youth by one of her heroes, Fredrick Law Olmstead.
"Olmstead was one of the designers of Central Park in Manhattan during the mid 1850s," said Herrick. "He is the father of landscape architecture. I modeled my designs after his."
His designs are more naturalistic, avoid straight lines and are the prototype of urban parks, she pointed out.
"I grew up a quail hunter," said Herrick, "and I have always had an interest for outdoors."
Her interest in the outdoors can be seen throughout her professional academic career and in her work within the state of Arkansas parks system.
In 1976 she graduated from Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in outdoor and therapeutic recreation. Herrick continued to build her expertise at the University of Missouri-Columbia and obtained a Master's of Science degree majoring in forestry with a minor in recreation. Her doctoral work at Clemson encompassed parks, recreation and tourism management, plus an emphasis in planning and design.
Although sabbatical is typically defined as a break or period of paid rest, Herrick planned an aggressive state research project and traveled throughout Arkansas to gather information. She visited and collaborated with other professionals in the national parks system.
Herrick's trail and parks tour de force analysis of state lands began in Jonesboro in the fall. She then headed to Hot Springs on her way to Fort Smith.
Herrick then traveled to Northwest Arkansas to survey trails and parks in the Bentonville, Rogers, Springdale and Fayetteville areas. She headed back to the North Little Rock and Little Rock locations to finish her observations at Delta Heritage State Park.
Herrick told The Courier the Delta Heritage State Park starts at Barton, near Helena, and goes all the way to Arkansas City.
"This is the longest 'rail-to-trail' feature in the state and was developed after it was abandoned by Union Pacific," she said. "I enjoyed riding around with park directors four hors a day and feel the time spent is invaluable. The directors were generous to do that."
She said that part of the state is "wild and woolly" because it is where the Arkansas and White rivers meet, and the presence of black bear in the area.
Herrick said she has brought plenty of information back to Russellville and believes this will be a big benefit to ATU.


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The relegation candidates had not won since August, but claimed a 2-1 victory at the Veltins Arena to heap more misery on the Gelsenkirchen outfit
Werder Bremen kicked off the weekend's action by claiming a 2-0 win over Hannover thanks to two late strikes.
The match appeared to be heading for a goalless draw, when Eljero Elia ducked and weaved in from the right-hand side and pulled the ball back for Nils Petersen, who sent an excellently-placed first-time shot past Ron-Robert Zieler in the H96 goal.
Petersen was not done there, though. Seconds later, Ozkan Yildirim picked up the ball on the left and chipped it into the path of the former Bayern Munich man, who sent a superb volley in off the post to secure all three points.
This win sees Bremen rise to 11th place, a mere point behind Hannover in 10th.
Fortuna Dusseldorf pulled further away from the relegation zone with a 3-1 win over Stuttgart.
It was the hosts who came out of the blocks the quicker of the two teams. A free kick 25 yards from goal was deflected kindly into the path of Robbie Kruse, who finished coolly from inside the box, despite Swabian appeals for offside.
Eight minutes from the break, it was two. Ken Islo bent a perfectly-weighted through ball round the back of the defender and into the path of Kruse, who stroked the ball beyond Sven Ulreich to give his side a comfortable lead.
After the restart, Stuttgart temporarily cut the deficit to one goal when Ibrahima Traore skipped down the left and centred it to Christian Gentner, who guided the ball home on the volley from the right-hand side of the penalty area.
Howver, Dusseldorf soon killed off any hopes of a revival, with Oliver Fink sending a powerful drive from distance past the grip of Ulreich with 15 minutes to spare.
Hoffenheim gave their chances of survival a boost by claiming a shock 2-1 win over Freiburg at the Rhein Neckar Arena.
Unsurprisingly, it was Freiburg who started the better of the two teams. Max Kruse picked up the ball in the left-hand channel, and although Heurelho Gomes saved his first effort, he was able to latch on to the rebound and pass it into the net.
However, Hoffenheim fought back and Roberto Firmino soon saw an effort bounce off the post, but fall kindly into the path of Kevin Volland, who tapped it home.
The turnaround was complete 15 minutes later when Tobias Weis pulled the ball back from the byeline to Volland, who tucked it home.
Hoffenheim are now out of the bottom two, with Augsburg's draw seeing them slip back into the automatic relegation places.
Augsburg's recent revival continued when they claimed a 1-1 draw against Wolfsburg at the Volkswagen Arena.
It was the hosts who started the stronger of the two teams, with Naldo heading them into the lead from a Diego corner midway through the first half.
Wolfsburg are the only current Bundesliga team never to have beaten the Bavarian strugglers, and just two minutes later, it was ensured that run continued when a poorly cleared cross fell to Koo Ja-Cheol, who played it into the path of Jan Moravek, who finished well to claim a draw.
Despite this result, Augsubrg slip back into the relegation places thanks to Hoffeneheim's win.
Schalke's sorry run of form continued as they were beaten 2-1 at home by lowly Greuther Furth, who claimed their first win since August.
After a goalless first half, Michel Bastos announced himself to the Veltins Arena faithful just seconds after the restart with a stunning debut strike from 20 yards.
However, things soon went downhill for Jens Keller's side. Just five minutes later, Nikola Djurdjic raced down the left and pulled it across the face of goal for Felix Klaus, who reacted faster than the static Schalke defence to equalise at the far post.
The match appeared to be heading for a draw that suited neither team, but right at the death, poor defending let the hosts down once more. Again, Djurdjic stormed down the left and crossed, and although Ilir Azemi's initial shot was parried by Hildebrand, he managed to get into the area and head it into the corner of the net.
Despite claiming victory at the Veltins Arena, Furth remain rooted to the bottom of the table, 10 points clear of guaranteed safety.
Eintracht Frankfurt kept up their pursuit of an unlikely top-four finish by beating Hamburg 2-0 at the Imtech Arena in Saturday's late kick-off.
The first arrived midway through the first half. Alexander Meier whipped in a hopeful cross from the right which found Stefan Aigner, who forced it across the face of goal to Srdjan Lakic, who grabbed his first goal since May 2011 with the simplest of tap-ins.
On the 35-minute mark, the same duo combined to devastating effect once more, with Aigner delivering a lovely cross onto Lakic's head, and the Croatian sent a header beyond Rene Adler to round off the victory.
Borussia Monchengladbach's chances of reaching the European places were dealt a blow when they lost 2-1 to Nurnberg in Bavaria.
The hosts had not won a Bundesliga game under Michael Wiesinger, but got off to a great start when Timmy Simons put them ahead from the spot on four minutes, after Roel Brouwers fouled Mike Frantz.
Things got even better for Nurnberg 25 minutes later, when Hiroshi Kiyotake charged upfield and played in Tomas Pekhart, who smashed the ball into the far corner, past Marc-Andre ter Stegen.
Gladbach fought back after the break, and although Patrick Herrmann pulled one back with a fine finish after a Luuk de Jong flick-on, the Bavarians were able to hold on and claim three vital points.
This result means Gladbach remain in seventh place, with Nurnberg falling further away from the drop zone.


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Lincecum wins NL Pitcher of the Month
Giants ace tallied three complete games in June
By Andrew Pentis / MLB.com
Major League Baseball made the announcement Friday, honoring Lincecum's six June starts, in which he went 4-1 with a 1.48 ERA.
"I've [taken] a couple steps [forward] for myself the last month or so," Lincecum said just a few minutes after the Big Unit broke the big news. "I'm just trying to give my team a chance to win. To be rewarded for that is great."
Lincecum became the first Giant to receive the monthly honor since Jason Schmidt's month of May in 2006.
One desired result of the young right-hander's success: Lincecum recorded his first three complete games of the season in his last four starts. That directly contributed to him throwing 48 2/3 innings. Working out the math in his head -- assuming a pitcher would like to pitch seven innings in the five starts he usually gets per month -- Lincecum relented.
"I guess that does seem like a lot," he said.
Lincecum finished the month Monday with a two-hit shutout against the St. Louis Cardinals. He limited one Albert Pujols to a single base-knock.
"He wants to be the guy to complete a game," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said of his ace. "That's the mentality you want your starters to have."
The Colorado Rockies' Aaron Cook (5-1, 2.36 ERA) and Huston Street (11 saves, 2.13 ERA), the Washington Nationals' John Lannan (3-0, 2.19 ERA), the Arizona Diamondbacks' Dan Haren (3-1, 1.64 ERA) and the Atlanta Braves' Tommy Hanson (4-0, 2.48 ERA) also received votes for the award.
Andrew Pentis is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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White Hat's Off
Murder, sex and politics take center stage.
The Other Woman
A cheating spouse pays a very big price.
Hunting Season
Olivia falls into a trap.
Beltway Unbuckled
Top secrets in the beltway begin to unravel.
All Roads Lead to Fitz
Sometimes the ends do justify the means.
Spies Like Us
Dirty little secrets are starting to come out.
As the secrets begin to unfold, no one is safe.
Happy Birthday, Mr. President
A catastrophic event threatens to change everything.
Blown Away
A dark horse arises.
One For The Dog
Power always comes at a price.
A Criminal, a Whore, an Idiot and a Liar
Criminals, whores, idiots and liars... Oh my!
Truth or Consequences
Olivia hits her breaking point.
Nobody Likes Babies
The truth comes out.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Everything has changed.
Boom Goes the Dynamite
Whom to trust?
Top of the Hour
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How did people do this – swallow all their fears and trust someone else so implicitly with every imperfection and fear they had – with less than the absolute commitment that Edward had given me? If it weren't Edward out there, if I didn't know in every cell of my body that he loved me as much as I loved him – unconditionally and irrevocably and, to be honest, irrationally – I'd never be able to get up off this floor.
Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 5, p.83
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The son of Noel and Lois Hickey, he was born Dec. 5, 1933, in Bullfrog Valley. He married Barbara Tackett on Feb. 8, 1958, at Dover. He was a U.S. Air Force veteran of the Korean War. Ralph worked as a salesman for National Life and Accident Insurance/American General Insurance for 28 years. He attended the Gospel Lighthouse Pentecostal Church of God in Dover where he taught Sunday school and played guitar and also attended the Russellville Assembly of God Church where he played guitar. He was a member of the Dover Masonic Lodge No. 17 where he was a 32nd Degree Mason and past Worshipful Master, Shriners International, Veterans of Foreign Wars and United Commercial Travelers. He enjoyed writing and playing gospel songs on his guitar with his family and volunteering with the Pope County Senior Activity Center.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Norma Duncan; and two brothers, Carson and John Ed Hickey.
Survivors include his wife, Barbara Hickey of Russellville; two sons, Nathan Hickey of Hot Springs and Gregory Hickey of Tulsa, Okla.; sister, Verdell Meadows of Dover; three grandchildren, Aaron Hickey of Tulsa, Chelsey Hickey of Russellville and April Hickey of Tulsa; two great-grandchildren, Briana Woodard and Bryson Woodard, both of Russellville; two sisters-in-law, Phyllis Hickey of Tacoma, Wash., and Shirley Hickey of Centerville; and several nieces, nephews and extended family.
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"SOUND BOOTS the sound of a crew moving picks up so we have stylish boots when we are on noisy ground"
La Push, baby, La Push!
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replaced by a crossover. Last year, Dodge brought out a face-lifted Grand Caravan with a standard 3.6-liter flex-fuel 283-hp V-6, making it the most powerful minivan on the market. For 2012, Dodge aims to make the Grand Caravan the most affordable minivan as well, with the American Value Package model that gives the seven-passenger vehicle a starting price of less than $22,000. The Grand Caravan comes with power windows, locks, and mirrors; air-conditioning; antilock brakes; electronic stability control; seven air bags; second-row Stow 'n Go seating; second- and third-row Stow 'n Go storage; remote keyless entry; and cruise control. The SXT model includes dual power-sliding doors, a power liftgate, and power-adjustable pedals. The Crew adds features like seventeen-inch aluminum wheels, chrome exterior accents, a 6.5-inch touch-screen media center, a backup camera, an eight-way power driver's seat, a leather-wrapped steering wheel and shifter, and SiriusXM satellite radio. The Grand Caravan is a family machine, not an enthusiast's dream, but there is a sportier R/T model available. It has a black leather interior with red accent stitching, nine speakers with an amplifier and subwoofer, and a suspension with retuned shocks and higher spring rates. All of this means that the Grand Caravan is determined to take a back seat to no other people mover.
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There are many reasons to support comprehensive immigration reform. As Christians, we point to the biblical call to welcome the stranger and love our neighbors as top reasons for our support. We refer to the God-given dignity of each person, acknowledging that God created and loves each person, regardless of their immigration status.
But it helps to remember that there are significant economic and political gains to be had, as well. A Politico poll shows that nearly two-thirds of Americans support comprehensive reform. As we push on our political leaders to make a decision this year, here are some of the other arguments we can use, as described in a recent article on Think Progress:
1. Legalizing the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States would boost the nation's economy.
2. Tax revenues would increase.
3. Harmful state immigration laws are damaging state economies.
4. A path to citizenship would help families access health care.
5. U.S. employers need a legalized workforce.
6. In 2011, immigrant entrepreneurs were responsible for more than one-in-four new U.S. businesses.
7. Letting undocumented immigrants gain legal status would keep families together.
8. Young undocumented immigrants would add billions to the economy if they gained legal status.
9. And DREAMers would boost employment and wages.
10. Significant reform of the high-skilled immigration system would benefit certain industries that require high-skilled workers.
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chapter 611 prediction an eye for an eye
caption: Gyuki moves in to attack is the jubbi done for?
As killer bee releases the taield beast bomb the ten tails eye glows and the tomoe begin spinning at a rapid pace the ball hits the eye only to be returned at ten times the size it was fired gyuuki is hit and the ball explodes.
Naruto: uncle bee!
madara: time for this world to end.
naruto: no i won't let you win!
madara: it's hopeless nine tails brat GIVE UP!
naruto: you give up, bijuu ball!
naruto holds his arms high into the air forming a tailed beast ball on sprit bomb size levels.
obito: so much chakra.
naruto: go back to where you came from you undead bastrd!
naruto throws it the ten tails easly smacks it back with just one tail kakakshi kamuis it away tentails releases a large amount of chakra 20 times teh size of narutos, kakashi kamuis it aswell guy releases a day time tiger but it does nothing to the ten tails.
guy: nothings effecting it!
kakashi: we can't give up we're fighting for the sake of the world, i will kill obito if i have to to save the ninja world to save naruto!
obito: why won't you give up on this world its hopeless you would all end up killing each other anyway.
kakashi: because i'm not like you, i'm not worse then trash!
obito: ! SHUT UP AND DIE YOU SCUM!
obito opens his hands releaseing a large shirna tensei gyuuki saves naruto and kakashi kakashi kamuis himself to behind obito slashing the connection he has to ten tails and grabs him kakashi then looks at anruto.
Kakashi: this is my battle naruto, i've failed you as a sensei and i've failed obito as a friend like you and sauske its my job to fight obito!
naruto: kakashi sensei!
kakashi: i'll be back, because i don't abond my comrades.
oboito: fool i'll just telport myself back! you're wasteign chakra.
kakashi: no because you mis under stand what i'm kamui'ing.
obito: !
kakashi kamuis obitos eye crushing it entirely but the strain blinds kakashis left eye
obito: AH!
obito holds his eye in pain as it comes bleeding out.
kakashi: an eye for an eye wouldn't you say?
obito: you bastrad!
kakashi: you gave me this eye its only fitting that with it i take out both of them.
obito: it doesn't matter the moons eye plan can be continued with rinnegan.
kakashi: you don't get it with that the obito i knew is dead, now i can fight * looks up intensely with bad ass face* with the intent to kill, you've fallen obito you've caused minato's senseis death my students betray and a ninja war you've killed thousands of innocents and as the one who taught naruto all what you did as the one who dedicated his life to your memory its my duty TO KILL YOU! thats my ninja way.
obito: fine then its about time we ended this!
madara: have fun obito i can't help out in your personal things.
chapter end,
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The same goes for top-seeded Sacred Heart Prep (10-1) in Division IV. The Gators will be playing No. 5 Monterey 8-3) for the first time in the postseason when they meet Saturday in Atherton at 1 p.m.
Palo Alto (6-5), meanwhile, will take its No. 5 seed to Mountain View on Friday night (7 p.m.) to face top-seeded St. Francis (8-3). The teams have played a combined total of 131 postseason games, but have met just once before — in 2011 when the Vikings posted a 39-23 victory to reach the finals.
Palo Alto is in the midst of its worst season since 2002, when the Vikings finished 5-5 and lost to Gunn by a 40-19 count. Paly didn't put together back-to-back wins until last weekend in its 54-24 romp over host Leland to open the playoffs.
Senior quarterback Keller Chryst threw for 271 yards and five touchdowns in only three quarters as the Vikings advanced. He completed 15 of 19 passes with no interceptions. Eight of his completions went to Keesean Johnson for 191 yards and three TDs. Johnson also scored on a 55-yard punt return. Malcolm Davis scored three times while rushing 14 times for 107 yards. Justin Hull came up with two interceptions to spark the defensive effort by Paly.
Should Palo Alto keep its postseason record against St. Francis unblemished, the Vikings will face the winner of Menlo-Atherton and Los Gatos in the championship game on Dec. 7.
The Bears advanced as senior running back Isiah Nash piled up 145 yards on a pair of touchdown pass receptions in a 21-7 first-round victory over visiting Oak Grove.
"This meant the world to us tonight," said Nash, who has 1,756 all-purpose yards on the season. "Our coach told us, 'We can win this and we control our own destiny,' and we came out, had a good week at practice and kept it going in the game."
It wasn't until the third drive of the game that the Bears' offense found a way to crack the Oak Grove defense. That's when senior quarterback Brian Keare found Nash on a swing pass, and the running back took it all the way for a 70-yard touchdown, putting M-A up 7-0 in the first quarter.
In the second quarter, Keare connected with Nash again on the same type of play, and he took it for a 75-yard score as the Bears grabbed a 14-0 halftime edge.
The M-A defense gave up a mere 26 rushing yards to Oak Grove and 76 total yards in the first half. The Eagles surrendered six penalties for 32 yards.
"Defense was solid," said senior defensive-end Oliver Bucka. "Overall we held on to the win, and that's what we needed to do."
Oddly enough, Oak Grove had more offensive yards than the Bears and out-rushed M-A 153 to 11 in the game. Nash totaled only 28 yards on the ground — his lowest total in a game all season.
Defensive end Bucka stepped it up for the Bears in the fourth quarter when he intercepted a pass and ran in 17 yards for the score with 1:08 left in the game, putting M-A up for good.
"I saw the ball in the air, reached for it, and finished the play," said Bucka. "I have not had an interception before; this was a cool one."
In a Division IV opener, Sacred Heart Prep grabbed a nine-point halftime lead and rolled to a 35-12 victory over visiting Seaside last Saturday.
The Gators got touchdown runs of 3, 71 and 1 yard from senior Andrew Segre to lead the way. Segre carried 29 times for 190 yards. Senior Ricky Grau added a five-yard run in the third quarter and finished with 101 yards on 11 carries while quarterback Cole March finished off No. 8 Seaside (5-6) with a 10-yard scoring run in the fourth quarter as the Gators rushed for 353 yards.
In another Division IV opener, Menlo QB Jack Heneghan was sidelined by injury and the No. 4-seeded Knights (6-5) fell to Monterey, 30-12. Heneghan finished his season with 198 completions in 337 attempts for 2,974 yards and 37 touchdowns, with just nine interceptions.
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But Clark, a physician with the Palo Alto Medical Clinic's internal medicine department who died July 30, surprised many people by turning out to be a strong moderate on many growth issues and an out-and-out environmentalist in general.
Several years later, Clark helped diagnose a zero-thyroid condition of mine that had eluded physicians at another health care organization for months. He also became the physician for my late mother-in-law, Eve. It was then that I realized the full depth of his commitment to medicine — which really was a commitment to people.
As Eve became increasingly ill and incapacitated by bone cancer, several times a week there would be a knock on the door of her apartment behind our home in Menlo Park. Clark would stick his head in, calling out softly, "Hello, anyone home?" We never were billed for his after-hours "on my way home" check-ins.
Once I interviewed him about a topic of intense conviction: that physicians need to communicate more carefully and thoroughly with their patients. He was particularly concerned that many, usually younger, physicians would have new patients meet them in the exam rooms, garbed in those almost-wraparound paper gowns.
"I've always felt that when meeting a patient for the first time they should have the opportunity to introduce themselves fully dressed in my office," Clark said, or words close to those. He said for him it was a matter of both courtesy and respect, and he felt it was particularly important for women.
He also recognized the pressures of managed-care systems that increasingly pushed "efficient use of physician time," often reflected in compensation or in a professional-style scolding (or coaching) in how to see more patients per hour.
He said some physicians teased him about his new-patient policy, but he gave as good as he got. Clark also said he believed that listening carefully to a new (or longtime) patient was important because the "symptoms they cite are often not the real problem."
He missed making house calls, which he said provided both a wonderful respite between patients and insights into their lives. He said one longtime patient, an elegantly dressed woman, suffered from migraine headaches. One time she was in too much pain to make the office visit so Clark went to her home, where he found her husband sprawled in front of the television in a messy living room, drinking beer and smoking cigarettes. Clark immediately divined the source of her migraines: the dissonance between what she wanted her life to be and the reality of her home life.
Despite what his sons and daughters described as his great gusto for life and peripatetic interest in many topics — with meticulously kept notes — Clark also could flash impatience or irritation.
In his retirement comments at the Clinic, he made a special point of apologizing to the lab and records-room staff for volubly expressing his impatience at the time it took to get test results or patient files delivered to him before the patient arrived. This was back in the day before such information was transmitted via computer.
He also was a recognized teacher and a physician who demonstrated good medical practice during his career, despite a continuing and recurring and sometimes painful heart condition.
In retirement he continued his education and with his wife, Jean, expanding their birdwatching hobby to encompass a broad range of natural processes, becoming docents at Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve until declining health curtailed their activities.
Clark also wrote a series of charming autobiographical essays as part of a class at The Sequoias in Portola Valley, where he and Jean resided and where they recently observed their 70th anniversary.
One essay about his early years in Ventura, Calif., recounts the death of his mother when Clark was 6, the loss of their small farm in the Great Depression and his father being named agricultural commissioner for the region before his death when Clark was 15. Clark and his stepmother then moved to Palo Alto. He attended Palo Alto High School and met Jean at a beach picnic at Searsville Lake, a favorite romantic spot for both for decades, now part of Jasper Ridge.
He was an avid sports fan and local-history buff, and according to his sons, Peter, David and Bruce, and daughter, Carolyn, was a great storyteller — whether recounting in detail last night's sports game or anecdotes from history.
I remember a talk he gave at the Palo Alto Historical Association about the history of the Clinic and local health care and hospitals. He recalled one stormy night in the mid-1950s when he received a call at home that a patient of his was having a heart attack — long before 911 or Palo Alto paramedics.
He recounted how he sped toward the patient's home along the then-two lane Oregon Avenue into the underpass at the railroad tracks — smack into about 3 feet of very cold water in the underpass. His car engine died, as did his patient.
He also shared an anecdote about an older woman patient who paused as she was leaving his office one day, turned back and said, "I know who you are, Bill Clark. You're the illegitimate son of Russ Lee and Esther Clark" — referring to Clinic founder Russel V.A. Lee and a well-known early woman pediatrician on the Peninsula.
"Oh, if I only had THOSE genes!" he declared about his two famed colleagues.
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Police are trying to trace the owner of a dog which bit a two-year-old boy in Beeston.
The incident happened at about 5.30pm on Friday (April 18) while the boy was in the Cross Flatts Park with his parents.
The dog was being walked on a lead by its owner when the child attempted to pet it and was bitten on the head.
Sergeant Jon Arrowsuch, of the Inner South Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: "The injuries to the child were luckily minor and he was treated and released from hospital the same evening. Unfortunately the man with the dog left the park prior to the arrival of police officers and we are keen to trace him to speak to him about the incident."
The dog owner was described as a white male, about 6 ft tall, of fat build, with cropped fair hair. He was wearing a blue and yellow polo shirt and jeans.
The dog involved was believed to be a mastiff type similar to the one pictured.
The dog's owner or anyone who knows his identity is asked to contact PC Simon Shillito of the Inner South NPT via 101.


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Buying Tolkien
Just can't stay away
2007/10/23 4:21
Hi, it's been a few years since i've been on this site and i'm really glad i was able to find it again! I first started finding interest in LOTR in high school and early on in college starting a small collection of Tolkien books, now i've been married a couple of years and have found a renewed interest in my collection (mainly the obtaining part!). I never tried to get any early printings of the hobbit or LOTR, mainly because i was only interested in first editions. Obviously i wasn't going to entertain the thought of trying for a 1/1 LOTR and definately not the hobbit!! But recently i got a 1/7 TT and a 2/1 FOTR and ROTK and i love them! I like the history of the books and i think that that is something that has come with getting older and feeling like time is moving faster! So after that long ramble i'll get to the point of this forum (what i have in my mind at least). What should i expect with collecting early editions of LOTR and Hobbit? Are there things you guys with more experience can help me understand, such as when to buy (like with the new Hobbit movie coming out, what does that do to the market?), what is actually collectible, as in what should i want to buy (point being i see it faaarrr down the road to have a 1/1 set of very good LOTR with DJ...), and is there any way to set a value to the later printings? This is a late night post so i hope i made some sense! Thanks to all who read this and thanks to all who reply!
Posted on: 2012/4/26 20:56
Re: Buying Tolkien
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2009/10/30 4:30
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Welcome – hope you become a more regular visitor again
Sounds like you have the Tolkien 'bug' again. Will try and give my views on some of your points.
Firstly if it's early LOTR &Hobbits you are after you will need two factors- a lot of patience and potentially deep pockets. As we have highlighted in this forum there are still bargains to be had though on various sites- you just have to find them and sometimes be very very quick and just in right place at right time. Even then it can be frustrating as sometimes a deal will get snatched from under your nose as a recent example highlights.
Q: When to buy? A: When it's right for you Id say? The film will have an impact but I think it will also draw lots onto the market. The LOTR film sent prices flying and whilst they have dropped in recent years I suspect this is recession Ied not a massive decline in interest but others may feel otherwise.
Q: What is collectible- A: Everything Tolkien (and NOT Tolkien!) by the looks of it. Suggest you choose an area and try best to stick to it but collect what you enjoy. It may be just Hobbits or the Silmarillion. Personally I like to try and find the 'best' copy of something and would rather not buy a book say without a dj and wait to find that elusive jacket copy.
Q Value? A: This has raised much debate in past and often we see crazy prices paid. Rarity and condition seems to drive this in the main as expected.
I would add one thought. Like you I thought I would never own that 1/1 set of LOTR but with persistence and not a lot of money you will still find bargains and find that set. ;)
Good luck in your search
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Re: Buying Tolkien
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Thanks laurel! i definitely feel the anticipation for the movie drawing a lot of ebay listings. And i know some people don't prefer ebay for adding to their collection, but i guess it's all about the bargains for me..but sometimes you wonder if it actually was a bargain...For example; the FOTR and ROTK i just bought were "correction" both the 1967 "2nd impression of the 2nd ed, and i got them for 14 pounds and 7 pounds respectively, and there was a TT 1966 1st impression of the second edition that i didn't buy and it went for 35 pounds, which was more than i would pay (i was looking at 9 pounds post each), but it left me confused how i could buy a 1967 ROTK for 7 and a 1966 TT would go for five times that all in the same hour. Also the TT i recently bought i paid 150 USD for, which i'm starting to feel thats the most it's worth from checking ABE and other places. But still i see a 7/5/4 box set for 895 pounds. I guess what i'm most curious about is this, is a later impression set of LOTR worth 500 pounds? are the later impression sets i see listed way over priced, or is it because they are a box set? Or is it all just relative to what you are willing to pay? Thanks again!
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Welcome. Personally, I don't think later impressions of LotR are worth a lot. If I had 500 pounds to spend, I would wait around and shop around for a 1st,1st.
If you are going to be buying later impressions, I personally wouldn't pay more than about 50 to 100 pounds per book (depending on the impression and condition).
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Thanks jlong, it's good to hear some opinions!
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A Dairy Queen. A restaurant. A convenience store with gas pumps. That's about it for downtown Skidmore, Texas, home of the Skidmore-Tynan Independent School District.
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An online retailer has put up a listing for "Assassin's Creed Anthology," revealing the first details for the unannounced Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 collection.
Definitely something I would be interested in. I missed all the AC games and I'm not interested in the fillers. Price seems way too high though.
I agree, I always wanted to give this series another try but there were so many iterations already I just didn't want to buy them all.
Loving AC3. I have spent hours in the forest with Connor just running through trees and collecting things. Just hit 12 hours and I am finally getting my ship built for that guy and just started manor upgrades. Any other game and I would have beat it a couple hours ago. I still have TONS more to do.
lmao! no way in hell.. Theres a PS3 collection thats way cheaper & just buy part 1 used lol


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NHL commissioner Gary Bettman received almost $8 million in salary and benefits during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, according to the league's most recent tax filing, up from a total compensation of $7.5 million the previous year.
At more than $7.98 million, Bettman's salary has more than doubled since the lockout that canceled the NHL's 2004-05 season. In that year, he made $3.7 million. The league's total annual revenue, including its 30 member clubs and other business operations, has increased in that same time from $2.1 billion to $2.9 billion for the 2010-11 season, up 38 percent. The total grew further in the 2011-12 season, to $3.2 billion.
The tax filing does not include the revenue and expenses of NHL Enterprises and the NHL Network, which are not tax-exempt.
Bettman's base salary for the 2010-11 season was $6,090,173. Other compensation was $1,711,930. He also received $155,782 in deferred compensation and $25,868 in benefits.
By comparison, MLB commissioner Bud Selig is believed to make more than $20 million annually, and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell earlier this year signed a five-year contract extension that ultimately is expected to double his salary to about $20 million a year.
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The NHL declined to comment on the filing.
The league and the NHLPA are currently negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement. The NHL presented its proposal on July 13. It asked for the players to accept a reduction in hockey-related revenue from 57 percent to 46 percent. The NHLPA maintains that the mathematics involved means the final number is closer to 43 percent.
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Gary Bettman, Commissioner: $7,983,753
Bill Daly, Deputy commissioner: $2,856,431
John Collins, Chief operating officer: $2,315,455
Colin Campbell, Senior vice president: $2,050,743
Craig Harnett, Chief financial officer: $1,544,084
David Zimmerman, General counsel: $975,037
Joseph DeSousa, Executive VP, finance: $876,681
Michael Murphy, Senior VP, hockey operations: $711,119
Stephen Walkom** Director of officiating: $474,601
* Total compensation includes base compensation, bonuses, other reportable compensation, deferred compensation and non-taxable benefits.
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Source: Form 990, Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service
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Lawers telling it like it is are not allowed!
Lawyers, it seems, don't have to clear the things they say to judges with the corporate PR department. So it is that in the Apple vs Samsung hearing in the Federal Court in Sydney yesterday, Apple in effect told the court its iPad is too lame to withstand competition. If that statement sounds a little strong, here's what Apple …
Lawers telling it like it is are not allowed!
A lawyer that speaks the truth. Is his name really Fletcher Reede?
"someone buying the Galaxy 10.1 would never see a reason to buy an iPad"
Nice try at trolling the fruit fanboys but there is of course another far less inflammatory interpretation of that statement.
They are referring to the fact that once a user buys into one system (or the other, it works both ways) and assuming they also invest in some paid for apps, then they are unlikely to jump platforms because they will need to throw away all of their app purchases and repurchase them on the new platform.
It is this factor that keeps people on windows and it also keeps people on iOS.
Although I do accept that the word "never" is probably overstating their case a touch but that's lawyers for you.
What Apple is saying is that it has a legal right to every possible consumer, and that the Australian government has an obligation to make sure everyone can only buy Apple. "We may lose customers" is called competition. I am sorry if I cannot remember when we all owed Apple total allegience just for them being there, and anyone else is a dirty criminal for daring to offer a competing product
Fanboys troll Reg articles on Android's market dominance with totally irrelevant comments about how Apple still has huge profits. Now that Apple can't provide market-leading technology, they should eat into those profits by selling their products at a price which reflects their lack of magicalness. If they don't want to do that then they should shut up about losing app sales and itunes lock-ins.
I use windows and not a Mac but I've not used paid-for software since about 2004. The reason I'm on windows (and sometimes Linux) is that they allow competition in hardware and the products are 1/3 the price of the Apple equivalent.
Who are you calling stupid?
p.s. why are people buying Galaxy Tab on the grey market when we all know they're unable to tell the difference between it and the ipad? Even the packaging is the same!
It's lock in to the apps on that platform, this lawyer seems to have made the point that most already know.
If you have to jump ship, Apple phone to Android, Apple desktop to Windows, Windows to Linux, vice-versa, etc, you have to make sure you have the same apps available or similar, and you have to weigh up the cost in time and money in moving.
Here in IT land we often forget that users, real users of apps, understand the in's and out's of an application far more than we may ever do, to us it's just a pain the arse bit of software that needs upgrading every once in a while but to hardcore users, their apps are so central to what they do that simply changing is a big deal to them.
Like if you buy Canon L-series lenses, you generally stay locked into Canon for a good few years. If you buy Nikkor you stay with NIkon. It's nothing to do with either company being better than the other ( best be careful, Nikon/Canon fanbois are almost as rabid as Apple/Android! ) it's just that once locked in, you generally stay as the investment as been made.
I jumped from iOS to WP7 to Android this year. I've got paid for apps on all the platforms.
but flame away and downvote all you like kids, it's not like we are karma whoring on slashdot after all.
"What Apple is saying is that it has a legal right to every possible consumer"
Firstly, I was replying to the author of the article who had yet another interpretation of the "facts" involved;
ie: "Apple says: 'our products are lame' "
So what you are engaging in here is what is known as a "straw man argument".
Look it up.
Clearly, apple are not saying that. The author was simply trolling and good luck to him to, it gets the page views after all and is probably the main reason I red El Reg.
But, having said that, I will address your straw man regardless.
From the perspective of apple they are saying that the Galaxy is a copy of an apple product. (considering their legal activities I think we can assume that they believe it is quite a good copy, good enough to be a threat anyway)
I think it worth pointing out that I never said I support their perspective, so all you knee jerkin' fanboys try and exercise some kind of restraint mkay?
Anyway, I think it is reasonable to infer that apple thusly believe that ;
a) Once somebody buys the (nearly as good as? Better?) Samsung "copy" that they will see no need to pay a premium for what apple considers to be the original "innovative" product that has been "illegally/unfairly" copied.
b) The user will likely invest in the android ecosystem (apps) and therefore be less inclined to move to iOS.
This is not the same as saying "Apple says: our products are lame" and it is not the same as saying "we deserve every possible customer" (that status us reserved for Microsoft)
Considering the rabid nature of the fandroids here, I think it worth repeating that I am not saying I agree with, nor in fact support, apples viewpoint/actions here.
However, not supporting them is not the same as living in a delusional state where everything fits nicely into black and white boxes either.
Nice demonstration of rabid fanboyism though, pity there is no karma here considering all the fanboy upvotes you received.
Too true, but let me be stupid for a while.
The Android fans are always claiming how "open" and "free" it is, so presumably there are neither technical nor legal barriers to someone (Apple or Microsoft) adding an Android layer to their next OS. It's been done many times before on bigger computers and the next generation of devices will be vastly more powerful than the previous version that all this legacy software was written for.
Obviously this doesn't work the other way, since both MS and Apple are "closed" and you'd have to reverse engineer their stuff in a foreign clean-room and only sell mail-order from a Pacific island in brown envelopes to bypass customs, but that's because MS and Apple are evil. Google aren't evil. They said so. Android is open. They said so.
Without being strong on Australian law, I would expect the argument (which I'm not necessarily endorsing, voters) went: Samsung should face measures because they use technology covered by our patents without permission; if you accept that we are entitled to relief because of the patent infringement then such relief should be to bar them from the market because otherwise we lose out very significantly.
So Apple aren't arguing that Samsung's wrong is taking away potential customers, they're arguing that Samsung's wrong is patent infringement. Only if that wrong is established then will the other comments become relevant.
Of course, El Reg's story is correct: if Apple think that a customer lost once is a customer lost forever then they don't sound that confident in their products.
Correct, but don't labour under the illusion that people don't buy in to Unix and Linux in exactly the same way. I know lots of Linux people, developers in particular, who rubbish Windows and Mac OS from a point of ignorance of the products they are rubbishing.
I think that a large part of it is not wanting to learn about other products and how to integrate with them. Why should I learn Linux when I can use Windows perfectly well / Why should I learn Windows when I am proficient at Linux. etc. etc.
Me? I use all three on a daily basis.
Not sure what the relevant bits are licensed under, but it's possible you can only use the source if you release any derivative works (like a compat layer) under the same license, And if you do _THAT_, then, assuming tight integration, you'd have to release iOS under that license as well.
err... No, You are the one using the "straw man argument".
A straw man argument is an logical fallacy based on misrepresenting your opponent's position and its purpose to give the illusion of having refuted an argument point by replacing it with a similar but non-equivalent argument"
What Apple's lead barrister, Stephen Burley, said: "Once the Galaxy Tab goes to a purchaser who invests and purchases apps on the Galaxy Tab, we have lost them forever in relation to apps and interactivity because they will then be Android people."
Burly has used a construct that seems to imply that the Galaxy Tab has some sort of mystical power to control the purchaser as if it was some sort of addictive drug (I'm a bit surprised that crApple haven't taken a design copyright on that as well), which seems a bit far fetched considering that the galaxy tab is just an inanimate object
Two important skills in critical thinking (look it up) are the ability to recognise un-stated assumptions and values, and to d raw warranted conclusions and generalisations. A logical conclusion to what Burley said is that there is something about the galaxy tab and android apps that that will make them preferable to the iPad and its apps, what the author of the article, Richard Chirgwin , has done is to express this as "Our products are lame, really". Seems a reasonable statement in light of Burlys admission.
Surely the converse will also apply to some extent. Any iPad purchaser may be lost as a potential future Android purchaser.
I am sure that Apple don't expect to 'win' these cases in the long term. They just want to delay the introduction of any real competition long enough to lock anyone they can into the 'fruit machine'.
I bought into apple a while back; hated the restrictions and moved over quite quickly to Android. I'm on my second Android handset and my Apple device has now been rendered a paperweight.
"I am sure that Apple don't expect to 'win' these cases in the long term. They just want to delay the introduction of any real competition long enough to lock anyone they can into the 'fruit machine'."
I couldn't agree more.
"because they will then be Android people."
with little bluetooth headsets, natty silver suits and big stompy metal boots?
Yep, mines the fez. Fezzes are cool.
"Apple in effect told the court its iPad is too lame to withstand competition"
I recall telling the wife nearly the exact same thing when all these lawsuits started. I suppose if they were really worried about Android they could always license OpenMobile's ACL and allow the iPad to run Android apps. Oh, I'm sorry, I mean innovent 'droid app compatibility on the iProduct line to win back the human merchandise, err... consumer, yes that's it, win back the consumer.
And I thought that US patent is valid in US only, not in Australia or Botswana.
So I must be missing something, I just can't figure out what it is :)
Errm, not certain but I'm pretty sure, thanks to the trade agreements, they also are valid in countries that have signed trade agreements with the US… and Australia did sign a "free trade agreement" not too long back.
Such beasts usually include intellectual property clauses.
In most cases i think contracts with the usa that have term free trade in generally mean we are free to fuck up your country.
A bit like the mutual extradition treaties that aren't.
Yeah - Australia signed a "free trade" agreement with the US. In a nutshell, it meant that Australia would comply with all US legislation which, even in a drug-induced coma or in the mind of the most demented lawyer (not that there's a difference), could be imagined to have anything whatsoever to do with access of US goods and corporations to the Australian market. That includes all US copyright and patent provisions and the DMCA. Of course it doesn't work the other way.
Signing away sovereignty like that used to be considered treason. It's a damn shame that it's still not.
If I remember correctly, It was signed about the time we committed troops to Iraq. One of the big Australian issues was protectionism against agricultural imports, in Europe and the US. They new the agreement was unfair, but it was the best they were going to get, ever. WTO and agriculture ROFL!
We went to war to sell our beef. That got people to pass the bills. We knew the bill was full of bull. The offspring of all this is what we have now.
I guess, our bureaucrats knew they would be gone by the time the Bloody Bull Beef Bill's babies would be brought before a Barrister.
I think El Reg succumbed to a bit of shorthand there - the US patents will almost certainly have Australian equivalents; patents are only effective in their specific country and you could not use a US patent to block sales of a product in Australia.
After filing a patent for a new invention you have 1 year in which to file in other jurisdictions for the same thing. This can be expensive where it entails translations, but it's pretty easy if you're in America to also get patents in the anglophone nations, and it's common to also apply in a few other major world markets such as Japan, France etc.
The article is referring to the patents via their US designation, but there will be a different patent number in Australia, it's just a convenience to use the US patent number when reporting on these things.
but this is a case in an Australian court to determine whether Australian patent law has been contravene.
For some strange reason a French court would determine whether French law had been broken, Italian court would rule on Italian law, a Mexican court on Mexican law, etc.
Obviously the world would be a much better place if every country adopted US law and have it determined in US courts.
Otherwise why would Apple be so worried?
Bring it.
It is usual for quotes to be a literal copy of what was said by the other party. Not the case here I'm afraid.
Ddi you previously work for News International?
Fuck Apple, they are a cult.
You wish.
Use a spell checker next time!
'our products are lame' and 'someone buying the Galaxy 10.1 would never see a reason to buy an iPad' are ridiculous conclusions to make from the quote.
They are saying that once people spend money on Android apps, they wouldn't want to change platform.
There was an article earlier in the week that showed about 15% of each of Android and iOS users would consider changing platform when they next buy a phone.
I did the Apple thing with an iPad. Didn't like it and changed to an Android tablet. I did have paid apps on my iPad but have to confess I didn't consider the lose of them when changing devices. I just needed/wanted a device that worked for me.
On the other hand, these many lawsuits that Apple are pursuing are pointing out to potential customers that there are real alternatives to the iPad.
Otherwise they wouldn't be suing there asses would they?
Wheels are supposed to have spokes. Does that mean Samsung's plans will go well?
How about a spanner in the works?
Pedantic from Basingstoke.
Ah, but the idiom doesn't refer to a wheel...
The phrase "To put a spoke in someone's wheel" originates from the days when cartwheels were solid - except for one or two holes into which a long round wooden pin could be placed. This would act as a "brake" to stop the wheel turning or the cart running away.... So if you wanted to stop an evil crimelord carter from carrying out his nefarious plan, you would put a spoke in his wheel.
But wouldn't Apple be more accurately described as "an evil crimelord carter carrying out their nefarious plan" than Samsung?
Is this a bit like a representative of the Poppy Growers' Federation demanding that cocaine be banned on the grounds that addicted cocaine users are lost to them?
Once you buy an Android, you won't go to an iDevice, a case of "Once you had black, you'll never go back".
But when you buy an iDevice, you are willing to cheat and try other devices.
Seems like Apple is insecure about its customers loyalty.
The reason I like Android, and would possibly like WinPho7 is the choice of handset/tablet available to me, OK I'm locked for as long as a contract/I can afford to upgrade, but if I choose another manufacture I can still use all my apps, I left the apple stable long ago, and haven't looked back.
"Apple in effect told the court its iPad is too lame... "
Exactely what I've been saying for a while now! And those using the tampax are even more lame.
Most of those who boast "I'm getting a Pad" are usually tech illiterate and don't have the nouse to work it out.
Now you know why being seen with iPhones/iPads is not really desireable. Unless you want to be be akin to your gandparents not being able to program the VCR,
The legal process which surrounds the judge calling Richard Lutton and how it is his evidence was given behind closed doors?
Reminded me of this: http://web2.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/02/apple_iphone_prototype_search_part_deux/
"Once the Galaxy Tab goes to a purchaser who invests and purchases apps on the Galaxy Tab, we have lost them forever in relation to apps and interactivity because they will then be Android people."
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Ok, setting my fanboism aside (at least I can admit to it), why is Apple's inability to make a product good enough to win customers back from a competitor a problem for the courts? That's called competition. Are they seriously asking the court to grant them a monopoly in the tablet market just because they want one?
pfft. Until we see real tablets instead of the interim tech we have now, who cares. Give me a shrunken PC, not an enlarged phone, Apple, Google, and MS. I want to do something useful, not just consume media. Thanks.
You guys know that our informed few here have been saying for years. UK is 51st state of US of A, and Australia is backyard of UK.
US has being freely fucking our country for a long time.
And here I thought The Android People refuse to pay money for anything.
Maybe they ought to put some decent free software in the App Store?
It explains Apple's recent tendency towards hair trigger litigation doesn't it. They've got nothing unique and are running scared of the competition.
Frivolous stuff like "Slider Icons" and "Zoom Bounce" are being patented? Whaaat the ffffuck? And just the "idea" of selective rejection has become patented? THAT is SO unfair! No part of the code these corporate pieces of shit get written is available openly. So if I want to implement Selective Rejection, I need to work extremely hard to get my logic right. But just because they were in the place and time to think of it first, doesn't mean they get to prevent me from even implementing it on my own! This is just outrageous.
Why didn't Microsoft just go ahead and patent the tablet computer idea itself then? I guess they didn't think of it. Bad luck.


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Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) has written the Federal Trade Commission asking the agency to look the practice of lead generations at online payday loan sites.
Markey's Dec. 4 letter to FTC Chairwoman Helen Ramirez cited a report carried on NPR which related what happened when a reporter gave some of her information to a site and said she was looking for a short-term, small loan.
Within minutes, Markey wrote, the reporter was "bombarded" with offers from online payday lenders who had been given her information from the first site, a lead generation site.
"These business practices raise a number of concerns about what these lead generator websites do with consumers' personal information, whether they store and secure it and whether these websites sell this personal information without consumers' knowledge of consent," the Massachusetts senator told the FTC.
The information collected include consumer's names and addresses, Markey wrote, but also Social Security numbers, banking account and routing numbers. The sites claim the information will be used to approve the loan, Markey alleged, but are not clear that the information will be shared with a large number of other organizations or lenders the consumers do not know.
Markey compared this practice with a similar letter that he wrote in 2012 about practices he alleged were being used by data brokers to gather consumers' personal information and then sell that information to other firms.
"I believe an investigation of this (payday lender) practice would fall within the FTC's mandate as stipulated in Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act with respect to protecting Americans from 'unfair and deceptive acts or practices,'" Market's letter said.