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Once again, the EPA is tightening the fuel efficiency standards for autos and light trucks. It is also tightening the emissions limits that new vehicles will have to meet. This is, in general, a good thing since it will reduce gas consumption, and also reduce air pollutant emissions. Of course, not everyone is happy about this action. And the economic analysis of the cost/benefits seems to be overly optimistic.
According to the EPA, the proposal supports efforts by states to reduce harmful levels of smog and soot and eases their ability to attain and maintain science-based national ambient air quality standards to protect public health, while also providing flexibilities for small businesses, including hardship provisions and additional lead time for compliance.
EPA Acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe said "Today's proposed standards – which will save thousands of lives and protect the most vulnerable -- are the next step in our work to protect public health and will provide the automotive industry with the certainty they need to offer the same car models in all 50 states."
Throughout the development of the proposal, EPA met with representatives from the automotive and oil and gas industry as well as environmental, consumer advocacy and public health organizations. Based on initial feedback from these groups and a thorough rulemaking process, EPA's proposal is estimated to provide up to seven dollars in health benefits for every dollar spent to meet the standards. The proposed sulfur standards will cost refineries less than a penny per gallon of gasoline on average once the standards are fully in place. The proposed vehicle standards will have an average cost of about $130 per vehicle in 2025. The proposal also includes flexibilities for small businesses, including hardship provisions and additional lead time for compliance.
The proposed standards will reduce gasoline sulfur levels by more than 60 percent – down to 10 parts per million (ppm) in 2017. Reducing sulfur in gasoline enables vehicle emission control technologies to perform more efficiently. This means that vehicles built prior to the proposed standards will run cleaner on the new low-sulfur gas, providing significant and immediate benefits by reducing emissions from every gas-powered vehicle on the road.
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49ers Celebration and Alumni Homecoming
This day is an academic holiday for the annual 49ers Celebration and related homecoming activities.
Alumni should register from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Fidel Center. Campus tours will be available throughout the day. An alumni reunion will be in the third floor ballrooms beginning at 6 p.m. with appetizers and a cash bar.
The 'M' Mountain Run starts at 9 a.m. Meet at the Athletic Field at 8 a.m.
The Student Activity Board is hosting a tailgate party and barbecue from noon to 6 p.m. on the Athletic Field.
The students vs. alumni rugby game will be at 4 p.m.
The Undie Run, hosted by the Alpha Sigma Kappa sorority, will be at 6 p.m. at the Athletic Field. Donate some clothes and help support a good cause.
The Alumni Office hosts a "Decades Reunion" in the third floor ballrooms of the Fidel Center. Come meet your former classmates.
The Waffle Club and Tea Club are hosting a rave from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. in the SAC.

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text: Not really apropos to climate change, but I saw this and just had to share. Ever wondered what it would look like if you could actually see the entire network of tunnels that make up a large ant colony? Well, all it takes is 10 tons of concrete and a few months of labour. Oh … Continue reading (OT) Amazing ant engineering feat


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Dodgers ready to get first look at Greinke, Ryu
Crawford, Kemp among position players to join pitchers, catchers on report day
By Ken Gurnick / MLB.com
GLENDALE, Ariz. –- Led by ace Clayton Kershaw, every pitcher and catcher was accounted for Tuesday on reporting day for the Dodgers at Camelback Ranch Glendale. Among the position players who already checked in were rehabbing outfielders Matt Kemp and Carl Crawford.
The first battery workout at Camelback Ranch-Glendale will be Wednesday. Position players report Friday, with the first full-squad workout scheduled for Saturday.
With their immense payroll and flashy new signings, there were already cautionary comments coming from the clubhouse.
"I've been through this," pitcher Josh Beckett said of the big-name acquisitions, referring to his time with the Boston Red Sox. "Baseball is not played on paper. We've got to work hard in Spring Training. A lot of things are going to happen throughout the year you can't foresee. Depth becomes a big part of it."
As a starting pitcher, Beckett and the Dodgers' depth are part of what catcher A.J. Ellis calls the elephant in the room -- eight starting pitchers, five starting jobs.
After spending $200 million for winter rotation upgrades Zack Greinke and Korean sensation Hyun-Jin Ryu, the Dodgers open camp with eight well-paid starting pitchers -- Kershaw, Greinke, Ryu, Chad Billingsley, Beckett, Chris Capuano, Aaron Harang and Ted Lilly.
Combined, they will earn $90 million in 2013, although at least one of them figures to earn his pay elsewhere via trade once the health of Billingsley (torn elbow ligament) and Lilly (shoulder surgery) is established.
Billingsley said he believes the elbow injury is behind him and he's ready to go at full speed. Lilly said he, too, is confident he will be ready for a typical workload once games start.
With Kershaw confident that last year's hip impingement is no longer an issue, the only other question with him is how massive his contract extension will be. General manager Ned Colletti has hinted that talks will begin soon, but "quietly."
Speaking of contract extensions, manager Don Mattingly doesn't have one, which will be another spring storyline. Unlike last Spring Training, when the team fought the distractions of a bankruptcy auction to find a new owner, this camp opens with high expectations and the pressure that goes with them.
Along with his future, Mattingly will have plenty of baseball issues on his plate. The obvious one will be the handling of Capuano, Harang and Lilly, all members of last year's rotation, all seemingly squeezed out of roles with the arrivals of Beckett, Greinke and Ryu.
The bullpen appears nearly as loaded, with Brandon League locked up for three years and $22.5 million to close, backed up by Kenley Jansen coming off heart surgery, Ronald Belisario arriving early again and J.P. Howell coming in with Scott Elbert out indefinitely following a second elbow operation.
Javy Guerra, the closer for part of 2012, is on the rebound after collarbone surgery, while Matt Guerrier is determined to prove in the final year of his contract that he's healed from a strained flexor tendon in his forearm. Youngsters Paco Rodriguez, Stephen Fife and Josh Wall could all be headed back to the Minor Leagues.
Rick Honeycutt returns for his eighth season as pitching coach, but there's been an offseason tweak with the naming of bullpen coach Ken Howell as assistant pitching coach, and the promotion of Double-A pitching coach Chuck Crim to bullpen coach.
Catching, an unknown last year with Ellis getting his first starting chance, is settled with Ellis' emergence as a player and a leader. Now the question is whether rookie Tim Federowicz is ready to be a big league backup.
When the position players report, the Dodgers will get their first measured look at all of the high-priced pieces acquired last year, most notably Crawford, who is coming off Tommy John surgery and a sour experience in Boston after signing a $142 million contract.
His health, and that of Kemp's surgically repaired left shoulder, will go a long way in determining the potency of the revamped offense, although neither is expected to be 100 percent at the start of camp, with the hope they will be at the start of the season.
Ken Gurnick 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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Let's all get on a high horse and start talking about how the First amendment was created during a time of hand powered printing presses and the power of the un-amplified voice. The Founding Fathers had no idea of electronic communication so the First Amendment does not apply to powered printing and television. When they start to sputter tell 'em that's what you're saying about firearms. Watch their heads explode.


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Canadian National Election Study, 1965 (ICPSR 7225)
Principal Investigator(s): Converse, Philip; Meisel, John; Pinard, Maurice; Regenstreif, Peter; Schwartz, Mildred
This study consisted of a survey administered to eligible Canadian voters after the 1965 national elections. Open-ended questions measured the respondents' attitudes toward the problems confronting Canada and various campaign issues, as well as their political efficacy and trust in government. Provincial and regional conflicts and affinities were explored through several questions inquiring which provinces were more powerful, better off, and worse off. The respondents were also queried about their political party attachments, voting behavior, campaign activities, and attitudes toward campaign financing. Demographic data include age, sex, marital status, education, religion, occupation, and country of birth, if applicable.
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Converse, Philip, John Meisel, Maurice Pinard, Peter Regenstreif, and Mildred Schwartz. CANADIAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 1965. Conducted by Canadian Facts. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1978. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07225.v1
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In 1998 Jimmy Wales, a successful bond trader, moved to San Diego, Calif., to establish Bomis, Inc., a Web portal company. In March 2000, Wales founded Nupedia, a free online encyclopaedia, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief. Nupedia was organized like existing encyclopaedias, with an advisory board of experts and a lengthy review process. By January 2001, fewer than two dozen articles were finished, and Sanger advocated supplementing Nupedia with an open-source encyclopaedia. On Jan. 15, 2001, Wikipedia was launched as a feature of Nupedia.com, but, following objections from the advisory board, it was relaunched as an independent Web site a few days later. In its first year, Wikipedia expanded to some 20,000 articles in 18 languages. In 2004 Nupedia was terminated and its articles moved into Wikipedia.
In some respects, Wikipedia's open-source production model is the epitome of the so-called Web 2.0, an egalitarian environment where the web of social software enmeshes users in both their real and virtual-reality workplaces. The Wikipedia community is based on a limited number of standard principles. One important principle is neutrality; another is the faith that contributors are participating in a sincere and deliberate fashion. Readers can correct what they perceive to be errors, and disputes over facts and possible bias are conducted through contributor discussions, with Wales remaining as the final arbiter. Three other "pillars of wisdom" are not to use copyrighted material, not to contribute original research, and not to have any other rules. The last pillar reinforces the project's belief that the open-source process will make Wikipedia into the best product available, given its community of users.
The central policy of inviting readers to serve as authors or editors creates a potential for problems as well as their partial solution. Not all users are scrupulous about providing accurate information, and Wikipedia also must deal with individuals who deliberately deface particular articles, post misleading or false statements, or add obscene material. Wikipedia's method is to rely on its users to monitor and clean up its articles. Trusted contributors can also receive administrator privileges that provide access to an array of software tools to fix Web graffiti and other serious problems speedily.
Reliance on community self-policing has generated some problems. In 2005 the American journalist John Seigenthaler, Sr., discovered that his Wikipedia biography falsely identified him as a potential conspirator in the assassinations of both John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and that these malicious claims had survived Wikipedia's community policing for 132 days. The author of this information could not be easily identified, since all that is known about contributors is their computers' IP, or Internet protocol, addresses (many of which are randomly dynamically generated each time a user goes online). (The contributor later confessed and apologized, saying that he wrote the false information as a joke.) Wikipedia administrators now have the power to block particular IP addresses—a power they used in 2006 after it was found that staff members of some U.S. congressional representatives had altered articles to eliminate unfavourable information. Articles on political subjects have become the greatest test of Wikipedia's principle of neutrality.
For many observers of these controversies, a troubling difference between Wikipedia and other encyclopaedias lies in the absence of editors and authors who will accept responsibility for the accuracy and quality of their articles. These observers point out that identifiable individuals are far easier to hold accountable for mistakes, bias, and bad writing than is a community of anonymous volunteers, but other observers respond that it is not entirely clear if there is a substantial difference. Regardless of such controversies—perhaps in part because of them—Wikipedia has become a model of what the collaborative Internet community can and cannot do.


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There's a moment during Opera San Jose's sparkling new production of "Die Fledermaus" when this musical farce goes brilliantly, nuttily, over the top. It's at the end of the second act, when all the principals on stage — friends and lovers, strivers and cheaters — are tipsy with champagne. They're waltzing about, falling into one another's arms, forgetting their rivalries — and suddenly form a conga line, circling the ballroom. It's madness in old Vienna.
This can't be what Johann Strauss II, the "Waltz King," intended. But his operetta — or opera or musical comedy or whatever you choose to call it — has proven endlessly update-able for 140 years. It's a work that's pliable and magical, about infidelities that give way to felicity and fraternity — and Opera San Jose has captured the magic in this production, which opened Saturday at the California Theatre. It's as if the company is playing Tinker Bell, sprinkling all of us with fairy dust.
Director Marc Jacobs — respected veteran of Bay Area stages, making his company debut here — gets a lot of the credit for this adorable and well-paced production. It's not perfect. "Die Fledermaus" — it means "The Bat" — includes lots of spoken dialogue, which is sometimes a problem here, as the company's singers are not practiced actors. Especially in the first act, there's some amateurishness, as in V-E-R-Y over-enunciated diction. (The dialogue is entirely in English here, while the singing is in the original German.)
But way more than the sum of its parts, this "Bat" flies on the spirit of the ensemble. Its collective buy-in is obvious: Everyone loves the story and the tunes, which are infectious and sentimental, and at least one of which (the great "Fledermaus Waltz") is genetically fixed in much of the world's musical DNA. Ably conducted by David Rohrbaugh, the orchestra zips along, as the singers keep peeling off into duets, trios, clever ensemble "think" pieces and choral numbers that dazzle with exuberance. Keeping it loose, Jacobs allows for contemporary references to disco hits and bankers who take a mile when given an inch.
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And the production is gorgeous.
Charlie Smith's sets evoke the palatial apartments and ballrooms of the Viennese idle rich. Pamila Gray's lighting deepens the sumptuousness, as do the elegant gowns and other costumes by Cathleen Edwards. It's a visual feast: Robyn Tribuzi's choreography is a whirl of delight, drawing in the principals and full chorus. Everyone looks happy, moving comfortably. And when a shimmying dancer emerges from a giant faux Faberge egg; hey, it's time to pop those champagne bottles.
Overall, the singing isn't great, but much of it is very good. The quintessential performance in this production — which owes equal debts to the Marx Brothers and Carol Burnett's old television show — is given by soprano Jillian Boye, as Adele, the chambermaid who is dying to be an actress and socialite. Imagine Burnett as an operatic soprano. That's Boye, displaying a broad penetrating voice with a giddy updraft into her high register. She's passionate, zany — a natural comic.
So is tenor Michael Dailey, as the suave and ridiculous Alfred, a Verdi specialist who won't stop serenading his lover, Rosalinde — who is married to another of the protagonists, the businessman Gabriel von Eisenstein. Dailey's voice is lilting and well-balanced, as light as a good pinot noir. Also singing with mellifluous command is resident baritone Zachary Altman as Dr. Falke, the elegantly obsequious and manipulative fellow who sets the story in motion.
Great voices
Basically, the tale goes like this.
Having been victimized by a prank years earlier ("The Bat" refers to the insult) Falke seeks revenge. He invites the prankster — his friend Eisenstein — to a lavish party at the home of Prince Orlofsky, a Russian millionaire, knowing that Eisenstein won't be able to keep his paws off the beautiful women among the guests. As the plot develops, Eisenstein (a banker facing a jail term, by the way) is caught in the act: with Adele (who presents herself as an actress named Olga) and then with Rosalinde (disguised as a Hungarian countess, she sees his philandering up close.)
As flirtatious Rosalinde, new resident soprano Melody King showed off her attractive and broad-beamed voice, though she occasionally slipped out of focus in her upper register. As Eisenstein, tenor James Callon (another new resident), started stiffly but grew into an easy comic lyricism by the final act. In her company debut, resident mezzo-soprano Nicole Birkland was hilarious as Orlofsky: anchoring the party scenes with her meaty singing, and speaking with the most absurd Russian accent.
As with all Opera San Jose productions, this one has two rotating casts. I've seen only the first, which also included bass-baritone Isaiah Musik-Ayala, in superb voice and very funny as Frank, the drunken jail warden. Mezzo-soprano Tori Grayum was coquettishly hammy and lusty-voiced as Ida, sister of Adele. Tenor Michael Mendelsohn, as Dr. Blind, the lawyer, showed him to be what he is: a fuddy-duddy. And Kelly Houston, in the non-singing role of Frosch, the comical jail guard, practically stole his scenes. He's got charisma.
Contact Richard Scheinin at 408-920-5069, read his stories and reviews at www.mercurynews.com/richard-scheinin and follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/richardscheinin
"Die Fledermaus" ("The Bat"), by Johann Strauss II
Libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genee
When: Through Nov. 25
Where: California Theatre, 345 S. First St., San Jose
Tickets: $50-$110; 408-437-4450, www.operasj.org


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Pixies surprised fans last month with the release of EP-1, and following quickly is the release of their new video for "Andro Queen."
The clip for the lead track off the four-song EP, which was released only three months after Kim Deal abruptly left the band, is a trippy romp filled with quick edits and humans dressed as animals.
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Along with the new video, the band also announced that they'll be staying out on the road a little bit longer than originally planned. The second leg of their North American tour kicks off on January 15 in Toronto, ON, making stops in Boston, Nashville and Phoenix, AZ before finishing up in Austin, Texas on March 1. Best Coast and FIDLAR will serve as openers for the 2014 shows.
Check out the full list of dates, which go on sale this Friday (October 11), here.
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Bud Clifford McGee was born June 10, 1933, in Yellow Jacket, Colo., the son of Emil and Dimples (Ferguson) McGee. He passed away at Vista Grande Inn on Sunday, March 23, 2014 at the age of 80.
In 1968, Bud married Elizabeth Polaco in Albuquerque, N.M. They were married 46 years. Bud was a member of the Portland, Ore. Eagles. He worked in the mines, oil fields, and logging mills in Oregon. Bud loved the outdoors especially fishing and camping.
Bud is survived by his wife Elizabeth McGee of Cortez; his brother, Jim McGee of Cortez; and his cousins, Liddie Rose of Cortez, Johnny McGee and Richard McGee both of Grand Junction, Colo. He was preceded in death by his parents, Emil and Dimples McGee.
Elizabeth extends her appreciation to the staff of Vista Grande. Cremation has taken place and a private memorial service will be held.
Services are under the direction of Ertel Funeral Home. For further information or to send condolences, log on to www.ertelfuneralhome.com and click on the obituary section.


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Matt Reeves
Andy Serkis
Jason Clarke
Gary Oldman
Keri Russell
Toby Kebbell
Kodi Smith-Mcphee
Enrique Muriciano
Kirk Acevedo
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG-13)
Action/Adventure 130 July 11, 2014
No matter: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a much better and far less silly movie than its predecessor: It lives so confidently in its invented universe that you almost believe a society of apes could thrive on the outskirts of San Francisco, with the little ones learning their alphabet by scrutinizing letters scrawled on the face of a rock, and the big ones casting deeply meaningful looks at one another when they're not communicating via sign language and the occasional spoken word. Hey, it's San Francisco -- anything goes.
Reeves is deft at navigating the action, including lots of acrobatic chimp-vs.-chimp combat. There's an unnerving and exhilarating sequence in which those apes on horseback charge into the city from the forest, pissed as hell. Chimps and horses also stride, peacefully this time, through one of the picture's most majestic sequences, in which electrical power is restored to an old gas station. An excited human wastes no time cranking up the tunes: The song is the Band's version of "The Weight," and for a moment, apes and humans pause to take some pleasure in the sound, which drifts through the night like a laid-back cricket symphony.
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Health facility on track
The Battenkill Valley Health Center was designated a federally qualified health center this fall and will provide medical, dental and mental health services vices to all members of the community, regardless of their economic status, said board chairwoman Mary Anne Carlson.
The idea for this center came about five years ago, when the Arlington, Sunderland, Sandgate area was designated a medically under served area, Dr. Michael Welther, owner of the Arlington Family Practice said.
"By knowing that, we first pursued what's called a rural health clinic...[and] my practice was successful at doing that," he said. "And that allows us to add some ways to make it more financially viable and provide some more services to a point, but it is still a private and small practice."
However, he learned that because he worked in a underserved area, with some changes, such as implementing a non-profit board of community members, the practice could become a Federally Qualified Health Center. A meeting was held with members of the community and a representative from Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-VT) office, who is a major proponent of FQHCs. Welther said that on a personal level he was also thinking of the future and if the practice would survive his retirement. Currently, Welther has no plans for retirement.
"It made sense for me personally and it also made sense to keep the practice in the community, and it also made sense to attract these increase number of services that a federally qualified health centers provides, including uninsured, under insured people, mental health and dental services, pharmacy benefits," he said. "It just seemed to make a lot of sense on all levels."
To apply for the FQHC designation, the state provided the board with some grants to help underwrite the process, Carlson said. According to the Health Resources and Services Administration an office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where the designation comes from, the applicant must document the needs of primary care services in their area, their plan for addressing this need, give a history and clinical capacity of their organization, describe the environment of the communities they serve and provide detailed budget and staff information.
Originally, the grant was denied in September, but funding for more FQHCs was released and the Battenkill Valley Health Center received $775,000. Dr. Elizabeth Wennar Rosenberg, a board member, worked as a liaison between the state and federal government to help secure this funding. She said the application was fiercely competitive and that the funding for FQHCs was not officially sequestered, but was not being spent.
"By the grace of God and Bernie Sanders working down there in Washington D.C., he got the funding," she said. "We are very fortunate to have somebody [Sanders] that really understands the plight of primary care in rural communities."
At the same time the Battenkill Valley Health Center received its FQHC designation, two other locations were given this designation. Now, Vermont is home to 11 FQHCs and these locations will be able to provide primary health services to approximately 25 percent of the population.
The center, when it opens in March, will be an considered an anchor office, Welther said. Because this is the first FQHC in Bennington County, satellite offices can be opened, with in kind services provided. Welther said there is discussion of opening a satellite office in Bennington, at some time in the future, once the Arlington office is open and operational.
Sanders visited with the board in Arlington on Tuesday, Dec. 3. He congratulated them on receiving the designation and urged them to look to other FQHCs around the country and see what is working.
"I would encourage all of you to learn from what these other centers are doing, steal their ideas," he said. "There are really a lot of good ideas out there, so explore, experiment and learn. Some ideas will fail, others will succeed, but obviously the goal is to treat illness and keep people healthy."
The community outreach event will be Saturday, Dec. 7, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Arlington Family Practice, on 9 Church Street.
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a resident of another community
on Mar 2, 2013 at 11:43 pm
The complexity of this undertaking— from the obsessive/compulsiveness of the documentation process (17,000 parcels photographed, which predated Google Street View by six years) to its art historical roots in the work of artists as varied as Marcel Duchamp and Sol Lewitt, from Ed Ruscha to Andy Kauffman, to Sam Yates's commitment to making this a project about sustainability (his means of transport while photographing was a zero-emission electric scooter that he charged nightly in a portable solar garage) — points to a real lack of analysis, or creativity for that matter, that goes into so many contemporary HOA decisions.
If only the average HOA board member had a smidgen of Yates's sense of humor (and of the absurd). His next near term project is a campaign video for a color trio (to be voted upon) that will include lawn signs and competing opinions expressed on opposite sides of a residential street.
Maybe by "sustainability he means that people will keep talking about this long after he's gone.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Mar 3, 2013 at 4:45 pm
Apropos compulsivity I remember thinking it was odd that he photographed streets in alphabetical order, not in order of convenience, that is, streets next to one another.
The essense of a database is usually that you can sort the data in different ways and I would expect that you sort in alpha later, and at first just accumulate as much and as efficiently as possible.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 3, 2013 at 5:27 pm
The only art Mr. Yates seems to be practicing is that of the scam.
a resident of Downtown North
on Mar 4, 2013 at 9:44 am
"electric scooter that he charged nightly in a portable solar garage"
'Scuze me, but how do you charge anything in a solar garage at night? Don't you need at least some sunshine?
Or did our "tech-savvy" city fall for that yarn too?
a resident of Community Center
on Mar 4, 2013 at 9:49 am
Local hero to whom? The city council that thought this was great? To Cedric, his defender on this forum?
Many of us said this was a joke and a waste of money and guess what?
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Giants right-hander Sergio Romo will not face criminal charges resulting from his New Year's Day confrontation with Transportation Security Administration agents in Las Vegas.
The Associated Press reported that a screening panel used prosecutorial discretion to drop the case, according to the Clark County District Attorney's office.
Romo had been scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 12 and faced the possibility of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
Reports said that Romo, 29, failed to produce the proper identification to clear security at McCarran International Airport and was halted by police. Romo then jawed with a Transportation Security Administration officer and was handcuffed. Reports said that Romo then was taken to the airport police station, cited for violating airport rules and released. He was not allowed to board the flight he was scheduled to take.
Romo soon issued an apology in a statement issued by the Giants.
Romo finished 4-2 with 14 saves and a 1.79 ERA in 69 games for the World Series-champion Giants last year. He also was on the mound for the final out of each postseason round and allowed one earned run in 10 2/3 innings spanning 10 appearances. Romo saved four postseason games, including three in the World Series against Detroit.
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FEMA chairs the national board — consisting of representatives from The Salvation Army, American Red Cross, Council of Jewish Federations, Catholic Charities USA and United Way of America — that distributes funds appropriated by Congress to help expand the capacity of food and shelter programs in high-need areas around the state.
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"The National Board formula is based on the average unemployment and poverty statistics," Andrews said.
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Andrews said the Emergency Food and Shelter funds are already helping.
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It's hard to ignore how confident UVa has been these last two weeks and even harder to fathom how a group that lost six-straight games managed to put together the performances we've seen the past couple of outings. But listening to Mike London and his players after Saturday's come-from-behind win 41-40, there was a theme that was clear and it wasn't cliche, at least not to me.
There comes a point in sports where things get tired and for some, London's focus on "faith, family, and football" had gotten there. But these last two weeks in wins over NC State and Miami, it's been impossible not to see faith and resiliency in this team, a group that came together and truly trusted each other and their common purpose.
Consider London's comments during his post-game presser yesterday.
"What a blessing that is, just to see something like that come to fruition at the end of a game where there's been a couple times we've been on the short end of that. To see the players and coaches be really resilient, I'm so elated and so happy for those guys.
"Whether it is politically correct or not, I feel a tremendous blessing just occurred out there on that field and it was great to see," the third-year UVa head coach said.
Several minutes later, Michael Rocco echoed those sentiments. And judging from his record-breaking day, it made plenty of sense. He was asked about a question that posed to him earlier this season, when it appeared Phillip Sims would be Virginia's quarterback for some time to come.
"I'm a resilient guy," Rocco began. "You're not going to win every game as a quarterback and as a football player, you have to know that. But you've got to act and prepare like you are going to win every game and so I wasn't surprised when things were being said to me like I wasn't going to play again. I had confidence and I have a firm foundation.
"My family believes in me, my friends believe in me, and I believe in myself. I kind of prayed about it, stayed in the Word, and kind of got confidence from that and just kind of stuck with it. And here we are today on a two-game win streak. It feels nice to be back."
Rocco's career day included a school record 18-straight completions, four touchdowns on 29 of 37 (78 percent) passing with zero interceptions. It was also Rocco's fourth game-winning drive in the fourth quarter and his 300 yards passing was the fourth of his career.
Steve Greer, who led UVa with 13 tackles and moved into ninth all-time in tackles, passing former greats Anthony Poindexter and Wali Rainer, said it was his team's will that he was impressed with these last two weeks.
"I think it just shows our resiliency," he said. "I think that was the most frustrating thing during the first part of the season: We knew how good of a team we could be. We worked hard to turn this thing around."
And then there's Miles Gooch, a quarterback-turned-receiver who caught not only the first pass of his UVa career on Saturday but also made it his first TD, too. The long road from former signal caller to scoring that touchdown was a lot like the catch itself: full of heart and well worth it.
"I just never lost my faith," Gooch said. "I had no idea what was going to happen coming into this game and I just wanted to be prepared for what was to come. It's been frustrating at times, coming from playing quarterback and switching to receiver, it's never easy. But what's kept me going through it all has just been faith and just believing."
The play itself, a 7-yard touchdown that capped UVa's opening drive, was everything Gooch says he had hoped it would be.
"It felt amazing, a combination of joy and this overwhelming feeling," he recalled. "If I'm not mistaken, I'm the first (read) on that play. I looked at Rocco, he let the ball go, and I just tried to catch it and get in."
The ball got there fast but everything after the play was over was in slow motion.
"Everything," Gooch said with a wide smile. "Rocco really put it in there but after that, it all slowed down."
But Rocco's biggest pass of the day, the game-winner to Jake McGee with just 0:06 left on the clock, was one that sent Scott Stadium into an instant euphoria and may have exorcised some demons that the Cavaliers have been fighting this season.
"Your mind blanks for a little bit and it becomes all instinct," McGee said of the catch. "It just happens."
He credited Rocco with "staying strong" through this season and for having the confidence to put that ball where McGee needed it high and in the back of the end zone.
"It was a great day for the program," London said simply.
Terrell's big day
For the first time since he arrived on Grounds, sophomore receiver Dominique Terrell showed Saturday why so many had him pegged as a four-star recruit in high school. His career high in receptions and yards, Terrell's nine catches for 127 were all huge. Several came on 3rd or 4th down when the Wahoos had to have them.
"That's how I think it'll be every day when I wake up," Terrelll said when asked if he thought Saturday would be a career day. "I come out here to play."
Despite having been much maligned as a freshman while struggling to consistently return punts and having more than his fair share of drops as a receiver, UVa's quarterbacks looked his way early and often on Saturday. Terrell said he was thankful to have that opportunity.
"They ran a lot of man (coverage)," he said of the Hurricanes. "And we like man a lot because, we're not as big as we were last year, but I feel like we're a little faster. Speed, we got open, made some moves."
Following a career in high school where he too was a quarterback, Terrell had to learn the ins and outs of being a receiver. Though he's made some plays, like the Idaho win last season, Terrell hadn't made anything close to the impact like he did on Saturday.
"It's been different," he said. "Coming from being a star to being a role player. But I'm taking my role well. We had a lot of crossing routes, picking each other, and I got open."
Terrell said receivers coach and former UVa quarterback and wide receiver Marques Hagans didn't let him get down on himself when he stumbled seemingly over his own feet on one catch. Where something like that might have killed his confidence in other spots, on Saturday he bounced back quickly, including 37 yards on UVa's 87-yard game-winning drive.
"I got on the sideline and Biscuit just kept talking to me," Terrell said after laughing for a second. "He just told me to stay focused because I was having a good game. So I just had to bounce back and help my team out."
Playing beyond his years
Last week, true freshman corner Maurice Canady started his first game, led the team in tackles, and snagged an interception. This week, the 6-foot-2, 180-pound Varina native started his second game, was credited with nine tackles, and may have made the play that reignited his team.
Miami, leading 31-28 just before the end of the third quarter, began a drive after ending UVa's 8-play, 41-yard march for a go-ahead score. The Canes then, behind Stephen Morris' passing, were looking to go for the kill. They were in UVa territory when the fourth quarter began and Morris was looking for the end zone but this time on the ground.
Morris ran for 22 yards and had real estate in front of him but it was Canady who caught him from behind and with a swipe of his arm popped the ball out. Having stayed on his feet through the block, Canady recovered on the 2-yard line. Though the Hurricanes forced Virginia to punt 1:38 after and got a TD two plays later, Canady's play seemed to give the team a spark.
UVa got the ball back down 10 and the Cavs promptly went 12 plays for 71 yards and a touchdown to begin the comeback anew.
"I just had to use my hands," Canady said of the fumble he both caused and recovered. "All I could do was swipe and when I swiped, I hit the ball, and then I saw it and I had to go get it."
The scene in the locker room, Canady said, was incredible after the game. That is of course if he could actually recall any of it.
"I can barely remember anything, I was so excited," he said. "It's a great feeling."
The Hot 5
The Hot 5 returns with a little bit of movement, a more offense-oriented tone, and the return of "The Kid." To refresh, this list isn't always a look at the five best players on the team but instead of group of the players who are both vital to the team but also showing well on the field.
5. Maurice Canady, CB: Two starts and two gems for the true freshman whose impact on the defense thus far is as real on the stat sheet as it is to the naked eye when he's on the field. With both physicality and swagger, Canady brings a confidence that is much needed for a cornerback in today's game. His nine tackles were a career high and both the forced fumble and recovery were firsts, too.
4. Darius Jennings, WR: While he didn't have the yards of Terrell, Jennings scored a pair of TDS (a career high) on seven receptions (also a career high). His play, coupled with Terrell's, showed just how important getting the four-star receivers was to London's program and also showed that quarterbacks should feel comfortable looking their way from now on.
3. Steve Greer, MLB: Consistent as ever, Greer doesn't always make the most eye-opening plays but it's impossible to think UVa comes anywhere close to winning this game without his instincts and experience. It was Greer who was quarterbacking the defense when Miami went uptempo and coordinator Jim Reid was hard pressed to get the call and the personnel in when needed. Greer is an All ACC player and he's playing like it this season.
2. Michael Rocco, QB: Not that long ago, Rocco was a forgotten man. But he kept working, he made the most of his opportunities in games and in practice, and he earned a spot in UVa's unusual quarterback rotation. After the day he had on Saturday and the TD pass he threw for the win, it was impossible to keep him off this list.
1. Jake McGee, TE: Sure, he's the team's third or fourth tight end but "Captain Clutch" has a nose for coming through in the big moments. That certainly has been the case all season and was especially true against Miami. It's one thing to make a play but it's another to make that play when you know it's coming your way with the game on the line. No player in a Cavalier uniform has made as many people "wow" as McGee this season. Period.
Looking ahead
The Cavaliers finish our their home-season slate this Thursday when they host rival North Carolina. The game will kickoff at 7:30 p.m. and be televised by nationally by ESPN......Following a 68-50 loss to Georgia Tech, the highest-scoring game in ACC history, North Carolina will have a short week to head to Charlottesville. But first-year head coach Larry Fedora will have arguably the conference's best player this season, running back/return man Gio Bernard. He's fourth in the country in punt return average and has rushed for 1,008 yards and 11 TDs through 10 games.....Virginia will need a win to continue its hunt for a bowl game. Though the Wahoos can't earn a place in the conference's title game, they can earn a second-straight bowl appearance with two more wins. UNC, of course, is playing strictly for pride, as the Tar Heels cannot qualify for the postseason due to NCAA missteps of the previous coaches.


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Discussion in 'Sports' started by Hodag, Mar 7, 2012.
And if I'm making sense, something is seriously wrong.
how many years and tries did it take to finally win one?
37 years and 5 tries to finally get a win in the big show
plus look at the lopsided scores of those losses
27 to 10 loss
39 to 20 loss
42 to 10 loss
55 to 10 loss
Packers lost by 7 points as defending champs
13 NFL titles
1 super bowl loss
i'll take it all day long
You know what? It don't matter. You know why? Because the Packers lost. Period. You lost. The Broncos ended a 15 year drought against the NFC and you know what else? They went and did again the next year. Yep. Now go away.
how do you end a 15 year drought against the NFC again the next year?
calm down and breath a little, i know those 2 little years are all you have
they are important to you
I hope that GB and Denver make it to the super bowl.
If for no other reason than the sure to be epic Hodag vs. Spanky my team is the bestest windmill slap-fight internet battle.
Or who got blown out the most in their playoff loss?
It is pretty hard to argue against title town....no matter who you are. Certainly some AFC team is not going unsettle the old guard.
I hope GB & SEA match up again in the NFC championship game.
It's hard to argue against a team that is owned by THEIR FANS instead of some billionaire playing real life fantasy football.
Those fans aren't crowdsourcing team decisions. They're not voting every week on the starting roster. It still comes down to some guy at the top who, as you put it, is playing real life fantasy football.
Doesn't make the Packers a better or worse team, they just have a different ownership scheme.
Do you really think Gloria Estefan is making football decisions down in Miami?
No, but it wouldn't hurt.
Mmmm, actually I like what the new coach is doing in Miami. It is just unfortunate he looks like ET. Probably will not be partying with Gloria's beautiful people on South Beach much.
Brown's hire Chudzinski....good choice! Haslam must have learned something while being with the Steelers. That is exciting news for Browns fans.
Can't wait for the Hawks to put ANOTHER whoopin' on Whiners.
You're going to either love or hate Kaepernick after Saturday night. He's more exciting that Smith and can take some pressure off the SF defense in that he can run up a score. On the other hand I've seen some questionable decisions from him the last few games. Just inexperience I think but still. I'm hoping for an edge of my seat game. It will be a way different game than back in Sept, that's for sure.
Personally I want to see a rematch of Green Bay and Seattle, so I'll be cheering for GB. But if SF wins I guess I wouldn't mind seeing the Seahawks against the 9ers. Atlanta will be done after sunday. They lost to the Panthers this season.
Uh yeah, they have to get by the Seahawks first. The #1 seed is a favorite by 2 1/2 points over the #5 seed. Does that make you confident?
They gonna be sorry tomorrow.
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i don't think he's ever been to a packer shareholder meeting and watch an elderly lady dress down the team leadership
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Yeah, now that's what I'm talking about !ReplyDelete
great editing the clips together.. can't wait to see the movie.ReplyDelete
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CLJS-312 is not hooked up to the test suite, which is trivially fixed.
Hooking up the test, however reveals a deeper problem (besides that it has a failing assumption):
Presumably due to the goog.provides later in the files, the compiler orders the output wrong, which results in not provided errors.
Most interestingly, this problem goes away, when compiling from a prepopulated out directory, presumably because then the closure compiler handles the ordering?
Patch hooks up the tests into the test suite.
If you want to see the provide error, delete out before compiling.
If you want to see the failing assertion from the original test, compile a second time.
In order to better understand tickets it best not to complect different issues If there's a problem not addressed by the patch please mention that in another ticket (and feel to reference that one here).
I assume the patch fixes one thing, but reveals an unresolved issue, am I correct?
You're right, the ordering problem could be a different ticket. Sorry for that.
To clarify, there are three issues at play:
1) Part of the testsuite not executed (fixed by the patch)
2) The part that is now executed fails, didn't have time this morning to find out the original intention of Michał, can probably do tomorrow, if he doesn't pick it up.
3) The compilate is different depending on whether the .js file is cached in out/. This might require some deeper investigation.
The reason I decided to roll it into one ticket is that only addressing one of 2) and 3) leaves the test suite failing. I almost wanted to reopen
CLJS-312, but decided against it, since it's water under the bridge.
I fixed some dependency ordering issue in another patch, would be nice to know if the ordering issues are addressed. What part of this ticket is still relevant? This is why tickets that only address one thing at a time are nice
This no longer seems to be an issues with the arrival of cljs.test


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This is horrible. No back to backs? 20 mil a year to play 20 mins per game. Awesome. On the bright side this can give Bargs more minutes and the possible start to showcase if he still has that star in him. Also Bargs will work on the floor a lot better Melo than Amare. Spacing and also spreading the floor. Let Amare come off the bench with JR.
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Aw c'mon guys its only a million a minute what's wrong with that. Hated the trade when it happened I was I'm the keep David lee for less camp(check if you don't believe) now the worse has happened. 20 mil to come off the bench um um um and people around here a critical of Melo making less and trying to carry us thru the playoffs with a torn labrum unfreakin believable
We need to get rid of him somehow.. But I doubt we can.
Best case scenario Stoudemire retires after 2013 season... Most likely, Knicks could buy-out his final year for at least 60% of the total... Worse case scenario, Stat returns for 2014 season, Anthony Opts Out of his ETO leaves team b/c team won't have money to spend to sign additional players...
Players under contract for 2014:
Raymond Felton
Iman Shumpert (Contract Year)
J.R. Smith
Tyson Chandler (Contract Year)
Andrea Bargnani (Contract Year)
Amare Stoudemire (Contract Year)
Tim Hardaway Jr.
C.J. Leslie
Pablo Prigioni (Contract Year)
Carmelo Anthony
Maybe have $4 Million in cap space -- this would be the joke of New York...
Trade entire team for a player who eventually bails on team b/c of poor signings...
Can Knicks trade those (Contract Year) players (except for Shumpert), to improve this team; I think not...
So as this off season seems to be bad, next year it could be catastrophic...
I think it's a bit silly to identify restrictions on your own player. If i was the coach on another team, I'd play hard and focus on that position and wait for the mismatch to happen when Amare gets pulled out.
The only Knicks player u actually seen get injured on the court since the arrival of Melo were Iman Shumpert.
If u didnt get the MEMO in our first postseason game with Melo in 2010-11 postseason, when PG-Billups would not let the Boston Celtics take the lead after the first quarter of the game, Billups build a 12 point lead by halftime, by making Amare the first option on offense, Amare had 28 pts, 11 rb, 2 blk, 2 ast, 1 stl, on 12-18 shooting. While Melo were crying and yelling for the ball all game long on every offensive possession shooting 5-18 for 15 pts.
Dantoni called a meaningless time-out in the 4th quarter for Melo to get the ball, but Billups still didnt pass to Melo, so with 5 minutes left in the game with a 8 point lead over Boston, Dantoni pulled Amare out of the game saying Amare was hobbling. With 2 minutes left in the game with our lead decrease to a 4 point lead, Billups called a time-out saying he was too injured to playout the final 2 minutes of the game .. giving the final 2 minutes to Melo.
PG-Toney Douglas denied Melo the ball to hit a 3 pointer to keep us in the game, but Boston went on a 8 seconds or less shooting spree with their Big-3 the final 2 minutes of the game with Ray Allen hitting two 3-balls (1 off a steal from Melo), while we let Melo take all 4 shots the rest of the game to lose to Boston 87-85.
That MEMO explain the 2011-12, and the 2012-13 season with Melo being our first option in EVERY game ....
We need that strong leadership PG that our roster trust to go all out for each game .. Billups / Lin / Kidd
When u have a BALL-HOGGER like ISO-Melo taking all the shots throughout a 82 game season...
This up coming season without the "Old-Heads" input in the lockerroom we will need more than a 20 minute Amare on the court. We will need to see Amare being the first options in a few games this season, or in 1 or 2 quarters in a game. Amare's BIG-BODY could win a lot of games this season.
We have Meta to work in lineups with Amare to control the frontcourt.
Our problem will lye in our guards taking orders from ISO-Melo halfcourt chucker-offense.
Thats ur problem .. u speak out of turn.
Kidd knows practically every guards skills in the NBA, Kidds input game after game about certain teams helped Felton, Pablo, Shump, and JR before each game.
u act as if u are clueless of how Kidd turn from player to headcoach...
All our players trusted Lin with the ball, except Melo & JR
Amar'e is done..wake up out of your stupor. He was good for us for 4mos but after that he started fading quickly.
Hate to break it to you but we never should have given Amar'e $100mil uninsured to begin with. When Phx doctors recommend withholding funds due to health over lifetime of contract.... like E.F. Hutton....YOU D.J. Khaled.... LISTEN!
We've seen the best of Amar'e/Melo/Felton/J.R./Tyson....we won't see better from them from here on out unless they totally change their games and/or find a fountain of youth.
Honestly I don't care how many minutes the man plays or how much he makes, if the Knicks are winning, no one will care and only praise him for his minutes of work. Cut the trash talk, lets wait for the season and see the man at work.


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