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Weeks will be at the Arkansas River Valley Regional Library at 5 p.m. on May 22 signing copies of "A Single Drop of Ink," a novel set in antebellum Savannah guaranteed to take readers back in time to a Savannah when women wore corsets, "mammies" helped raise the young and men were considered genteel.
While the story is fiction, the inspiration came from a real family and their unusual story. A story that has landed the house on a famous ghost tour and numerous television episodes.
"My husband and I went on the ghost tour of the Sorrel-Weed House while on vacation," Weeks said. "I thought this would would make a great novel. It turned out after my research that the truth was stranger than fiction."
Week returned to Savannah to extensively research the home and the families.
She compiled enough research to write "The Sorrels of Savannah," a family history Weeks published in 2010.
Weeks found the story of the family intriguing, but her research did not satisfy her curiosity about many of the facts she discovered.
"A Single Drop of Ink," her first attempt at a full length story with plot and character development, is the fictional story inspired by her research which tells the intertwined story of a family and their slaves.
"I'd always heard a story writes itself and it did," Weeks said. "I had free reign for creativity and was able to incorporate things I normally would not have in a nonfictional work. This really has been by dream come true."
Weeks' mother shared her daughters' dream of becoming an author and encouraged her daughter to seek publication of the manuscript. Weeks decided to self-publish through amazon.com to ensure her 90-year-old mother would have the opportunity to enjoy her daughter's novel. The novel is available to purchase on www.amazon.com for $15.95 and also for $9.99 as a Kindle edition.
There will be copies available for sale at the library during the book signing.
"I think on demand publishing is really the wave of the future," Weeks said. "It's such a professional product a lot of people are going this route first and publishing Indy novels and then being picked up by traditional publishing houses after they see the public response."
Weeks grew up in Deer before moving to Dardanelle after graduating from Arkansas Tech in 1981. She taught English at Dardanelle High School and for the Pulaski County Special School District.
She currently devotes her time to writing full-time and divides her time between her home in North Little Rock and her cabin in the woods a few miles south of Jasper.


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I might need to post this in another post but I will ask anyway:I have the Neptune 4000 washer and I read about people having trouble with the bearings going out. So far I have no trouble there, that I know of. What if anything, can I do to make mine last longer without any bearing problem or do they just wear out regardless?
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The New Orleans Saints, armed with their high-powered offense, had their Super Bowl dreams dashed in a divisional playoff loss in San Francisco. If they hope to make a another run at a second ring in the 2012 season, they'll need to take care of some lucrative business: Spending multimillions to lock up three irreplaceable offensive players.
While they're team immediately on the spot a little more than a month from the start of the NFL's unrestricted free agency (March 13), the hot position will be wide receivers.
Looking at how it was another team with a top passing game, the New York Giants that won it all on the strength of three talented wideouts, the marquee group of available receivers will be appealing to many other teams. A lucky 13 crack the top 100 unrestricted options, including a sensational six just in the top 25:
1. Drew Brees, QB, Saints. There's no Peyton Manning-like decision here. They need to re-sign him soon, because they need to free up the franchise tag to use on another key offensive cog.
2. Carl Nicks, G, Saints. The Saints broke the bank to lock up their other elite guard, Jahri Evans, and if a deal with Brees happens, they won't hesitate to designate Nicks their franchise player—or at least give him Evans-type money for one year.
3. Ray Rice, RB, Ravens. Rice's production as a runner and receiver is what makes Baltimore's offense tick. Joe Flacco's favorite safety valve will be back somehow, as Baltimore will be ready to tag him.
4. Matt Flynn, QB, Packers. All signs point to Aaron Rodgers' ace backup getting paid for a starting gig in '12, a la two other former No. 2 Matts, Schaub (Michael Vick) and Cassel (Tom Brady). Reuniting with his former offensive coordinator—Dolphins coach Joe Philbin—almost makes too much sense. He's not as splashy, however, for Miami, as trying to reel in Peyton Manning.
5. Mario Williams, DE, Texans. The fact that Houston's 3-4 defense still played at high level when he was on the shelf for the final 11 games (torn pectoral) should give pause to team officials before paying millions to retain the 2006 first overall pick. There would be plenty of teams, regardless of scheme, in hot pursuit.
6. Vincent Jackson, WR, Chargers. Every team that's in desperate need of a bona fide No. 1 receiver should be interested in what the 6-5 Jackson, likely gone from San Diego, can do for the entire offense with his ability to stretch the field and cause matchup issues in the red zone.
7. Marques Colston, WR, Saints. Colston is the less noisy version of Jackson. He may not have the same gamebreaking ability, but at 6-4, he's also a big target with better hands. He has proved to be especially clutch for Brees on third downs. It might be a challenge for New Orleans to pay its quarterback, him and Nicks.
8. Matt Forte, RB, Bears. Forte has made no secret he wants to be paid, and he was smart during the Pro Bowl to show teams that his knee isn't a issue. Chicago needs to keep the constant production of Forte.
9. Wes Welker, WR, Patriots. Don't expect one magnified missed connection with Brady to take away from his value as his go-to slot man. Welker deserves to get a lucrative deal, but may need to settle for a franchise tag.
10. Cliff Avril, DE, Lions. It's rare a 4-3 edge pass rusher of his caliber (a breakout 11 sacks in '11) hits the market, but Detroit may have not the salary-cap space to keep him on its strong line.
11. Carlos Rogers, CB, 49ers. Rogers took the one-year deal in San Francisco to prove he could be a top-notch corner, and didn't waste time in delivering a Pro Bowl season. The one concern in giving him a desired long-term extension is the fact he's 31. That could allow another team to splurge to take him away.
12. D'Qwell Jackson, ILB, Browns. He came back full force as an all-around playmaker just when it looked like an injury had derailed his career for good. Jackson likes the scheme and the team, so Cleveland needs to do the smart thing and at least franchise-tag him. (Re-signed 2/27)
13. Jermichael Finley, TE, Packers. There's no question that Finley is part of the league's new breed of athletic, physical tight ends, but that doesn't help him if he can't catch the ball consistently. He's a candidate to be franchised—if they can do it at the price that's less than $6 million—but don't be surprised if Green Bay lets him walk. (Re-signed 2/23)
14. Dwayne Bowe, WR, Chiefs. This free-agent class is loaded with big guys with big mitts, isn't it? Bowe's inconsistency is the reason he's behind the others. Still, looking at what Kansas City has, he is a good bet to be tagged.
15. Jeremy Mincey, DE, Jaguars. Jacksonville hasn't had many bright spots with its pass rush of late, so it was good to see Mincey break through off the edge (8 sacks). Now he'll be looking for appropriate compensation, with the Jaguars or someone else.
16. Brandon Carr, CB, Chiefs. Playing opposite the other, better known Brandon—Flowers—Carr has quietly delivered as an unheralded, well-rounded corner. He's tougher for the Chiefs to replace than Bowe is.
17. Cortland Finnegan, CB, Titans. Finnegan brings a feistiness to Tennessee's secondary, as well as fearlessness in physical one-on-one coverage. He's exactly the kind of corner Jeff Fisher could use for the Rams.
18. Chris Myers, C, Texans. Myers was exceptional as the anchor of Houston's zone-blocking scheme that paved the way for Arian Foster. With Williams and Foster (restricted) as free agents, he's priority No. 3.
19. Michael Bush, RB, Raiders. With Darren McFadden out for most of the second half, Bush took over as a great power runner, while also showing some receiving skills. It will require the franchise tag to keep another team from grabbing him.
20. Stephen Tulloch, ILB, Lions. Because re-signing Avril is a concern, Detroit may see its new defensive leader leave after just one year. He would be an ideal fit for the Eagles.
21. Calais Campbell, DE, Cardinals. When watching the 6-8, 300-pounder roam in Arizona's defense, he seems to be everywhere and doing everything as an end/linebacker hybrid. He's invaluable enough to be tagged.
22. Marshawn Lynch, RB, Seahawks. It's crazy to think Seattle will let him walk. Expect the team to take advantage of a very comfortable franchise-tag number for running backs (one year at $7.7 million).
23. Laurent Robinson, WR, Cowboys. There's a lot to like about Robinson (6-2, 194, great speed) as a rising star and with Dez Bryant and Miles Austin, there's a good chance he wears something other than a star on his helmet in '12.
24. Stevie Johnson, WR, Bills. Johnson at this spot shows just how many terrific receivers there are available. Like Robinson, he's young (just 25) and would be No. 1 for teams, even though he would like to stay in Buffalo.
25. DeSean Jackson, WR, Eagles. The mercurial Jackson was a headache for Philadelphia, but every team is in the market for a speedster who can make an immediate impact as a big-play receiver and return man. The Cal product seems perfect for Oakland.
26. Brent Grimes, CB, Falcons
27. Robert Mathis, DE, Colts
28. Jared Gaither, T, Chargers
29. Scott Wells, C, Packers
30. Dashon Goldson, S, 49ers (franchise tag candidate)
31. Curtis Lofton, ILB, Falcons
32. Reggie Wayne, WR, Colts
33. Fred Davis, TE, Redskins
34. Brandon Lloyd, WR, Rams
35. Dan Connor, ILB, Panthers
36. Sione Pouha, DT, Jets
37. Ben Grubbs, G, Ravens
38. Josh Scobee, K, Jaguars (franchise tag candidate)
39. Erin Henderson, LB, Vikings
40. Tyvon Branch, S, Raiders
41. Jason Jones, DT, Titans
42. Steve Weatherford, P, Giants
43. Matt Prater, K, Broncos (franchise tag candidate)
44. David Hawthorne, ILB, Seahawks
45. Cory Redding, DT, Ravens
46. Jarret Johnson, OLB, Ravens
47. Michael Griffin, S, Titans
48. London Fletcher, ILB, Redskins
49. Mario Manningham, WR, Giants
50. Kendall Langford, DT, Dolphins
51. Brodrick Bunkley, DT, Broncos
52. Connor Barth, K, Buccaneers
53. Barrett Ruud, ILB, Titans
54. Evan Mathis, G, Eagles
55. Richard Marshall, CB, Cardinals
56. Leroy Hill, OLB, Seahawks
57. Red Bryant, DT, Seahawks
58. Demetrius Bell, T, Bills
59. Ahmad Brooks, OLB, 49ers (Re-signed 2/28)
60. Mat McBriar, P, Cowboys
61. Jameel McClain, ILB, Ravens
62. Neil Rackers, K, Texans
63. Alex Smith, QB, 49ers
64. Peyton Hillis, RB, Browns
65. Paul Soliai, DT, Dolphins
66. John Abraham, DE, Falcons
67. Dan Koppen, C, Patriots
68. Nick Hardwick, C, Chargers
69. Tracy Porter, CB, Saints
70. Mike Tolbert, RB, Chargers
71. Pierre Garcon, WR, Colts
72. Terrell Thomas, CB, Giants
73. Mike Brisiel, G, Texans
74. Jerome Simpson, WR, Bengals
75. Corey Graham, CB, Bears
76. Manny Lawson, OLB, Bengals
77. Robert Meachem, WR, Saints
78. William Gay, CB, Steelers
79. Kevin Smith, RB, Lions
80. Will Middleton, CB, Jaguars
81. Jason Campbell, QB, Raiders
82. BenJarvus Green-Ellis, RB, Patriots
83. Mike Nugent, K, Bengals
84. Jeremy Zuttah, G, Buccaneers
85. Laron Landry, S, Redskins
86. Antonio Garay, DT, Chargers
87. Kyle Orton, QB, Chiefs
88. Anthony Spencer, OLB, Cowboys
89. Ronde Barber, CB, Buccaneers
90. Mark Anderson, DE, Patriots
91. Rashean Mathis, CB, Jaguars
92. Chase Blackburn, ILB, Giants
93. Rocky McIntosh, OLB, Redskins
94. John Carlson, TE, Seahawks
95. Kareem McKenzie, T, Giants
96. Phil Dawson, K, Browns
97. Donnie Jones, P, Rams
98. Thomas DeCoud, S, Falcons
99. Chad Henne, QB, Dolphins
100. Jason Allen, CB, Texans


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Summaries of EU Legislation
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Improving decision-making in Community fisheries management
This Communication proposes a number of major changes to the way in which the annual Council Regulation on fishing opportunities is prepared. The aim is to ensure the broad involvement of stakeholders at all stages of policy, from conception to implementation.
Commission Communication to the Council and European Parliament of 24 May 2006: "Improving consultation on Community fisheries management" [COM(2006) 246 final - not published in the Official Journal].
The Commission would like to change the timing of the decisions taken on fishing opportunities. The changes are designed to organise consultation earlier to improve the quality of decision-making.
The advisory and management system for fisheries was devised at the inception of the common fisheries policy in the early 1980s.
The Council Regulation laying down the total allowable catches (TACs) and quotas available to the Member States is based on a proposal from the Commission. Up to now, that proposal has always been submitted very late in the year to allow the latest scientific and technical information to be taken into account for laying down the fishing opportunities. The timing of the procedure leaves very little time for consulting stakeholders.
Current procedure
Decisions on fisheries management are taken according to an annual timetable for laying down the fishing opportunities for the Member States and other stakeholders. For most demersal species the timetable is as follows:
- in September the latest scientific surveys are completed and the data analysed on board the research vessels;
- in October the scientific data are presented to the Advisory Committee for Fisheries Management of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), which forwards its advice to the European Commission, Norway, Iceland and the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC);
- in November the Commission analyses the scientific advice and consults, among others, the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) and stakeholders. Negotiations on jointly managed stocks take place with Norway and the other coastal states;
- in December the Commission adopts its proposal for a fishing opportunities Regulation for adoption by the Council.
This leaves only a very short time for effective and constructive consultation of the fisheries sector. Fisheries management decisions could be better prepared and the scope of the consultations widened.
Optimum use of the harvest rules
The Commission feels that preparation of fisheries management decisions could be improved by applying a management method based on "harvest rules" for determining the decisions on the TACs.
Such harvest rules could include:
- the variation of the TACs from one year to the next;
- a reduction of the fishing mortality rate to a sustainable level;
- adjusting fishing effort (days at sea) in line with fishing mortality rates (the proportion of the fish in the sea that are caught during the year).
Ideally, these rules would be laid down in Council Regulations and would be updated only infrequently. They would cover the main fisheries and fish stocks governed by the common fisheries policy. Such an approach would leave more time for consulting stakeholders on the management principles while the scientific estimates of the precise quantities of fish available are finalised by ICES and the STECF.
For stocks not covered by a long-term plan, the Commission could present its intentions for setting the TACs for the following year as early as April. Based on the trends suggested by the scientific advice from the previous year, this policy statement would set out:
- a commitment to gradually develop stocks to the most appropriate levels to ensure their sustainable exploitation while providing high yields;
- TACs and effort levels for the following year to be set in accordance with the rules in recovery plans or long-term management plans, where they exist, or with the principle that fishing mortality should not be increased in any stock where mortality exceeds the level that would lead to high long-term yields;
- that stocks at similar levels of exploitation or depletion are to be treated similarly;
- rules on TAC variation, subject to special circumstances that might require more significant change for particular stocks.
On the basis of this policy statement, the Commission would consult the Member States and the Regional Advisory Councils (RACs) during the summer. Stakeholders would have a more strategic role in the fisheries discussions before the Council delivered its opinion, in October, on the strategy proposed by the Commission.
Changing the timing
This new approach calls for a change in the timing of the fishing opportunities decisions.
The Commission has already consulted ICES and the STECF on the timing of the scientific advice, asking whether it could be provided slightly earlier in the year from 2007 onwards. Though providing scientific advice earlier will make the forecasts less precise in some cases, the Commission thinks this would be acceptable.
To change the timing of decisions, the Commission proposes a two-step approach, distinguishing between those fish stocks for which scientific advice on available quantities is available in June and those which are heavily dependent on annual recruitment, i.e. the quantity of juveniles joining the particular stock, which include species that are of major commercial interest and are biologically vulnerable. The proposed timetable is as follows:
- the first step would be between June and October. ICES and the STECF issue scientific advice on the "June advice" stocks. The Commission presents a proposal for a fishing opportunities Regulation for the "June advice" stocks at the beginning of September following negotiations with the RACs. The Council adopts the TACs for the "June advice" stocks in October;
- the second step would be between October and December. In this case, the proposed timetable would not be much different from the present timetable. ICES finalises its advice in autumn (possibly as early as September from 2007 onwards) on the "October advice" stocks, which are largely dependent on annual recruitment. The Commission presents its proposal, which does not contain any surprises for stakeholders, in November. The consultations with the fishing sector will already have taken place earlier in the year on the basis of the Commission's policy statement on stocks not covered by a long-term plan. In December the Council then adopts a fishing opportunities Regulation covering the "October advice" stocks.
The current Community rules are to be re-examined as part of the planned review of the cod recovery plan. Therefore the Commission thinks it should wait until 2007 before proposing a new Regulation on these rules.
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Equine Placenta and Possible Problems
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A two-day exclusive gathering of leading reproductive researchers and practitioners from around the world convened at the Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center in Lexington, Ky., Dec. 5-6, to discuss the equine placenta. From the evolutionary development of the placental layers to mare reproductive loss syndrome, no topic was left untouched if it dealt with the fine, and sometimes little understood, relationship between mare and fetus.
Veterinarians from all over the world met Dec. 5-6 to discuss the intracacies of the equine placenta.
In 1950s, the researchers said, it was thought the fetus was a passive passenger. In 1960s, it became known that the fetus is an active participant in the gestational process, and it plays an active role in parturition (delivery). The equine fetus has an active endocrine (hormonal) system prior to birth, and even as an early (Day 35) conceptus it has enough organogenesis (development of its own organs) to be active.
How active the conceptus can be and how early that interaction begins to happen isn't fully understood. It is known that relatively minor environmental changes can have a profound effect on conceptus outcome, especially early in gestation. In fact, in other species it has been shown that nutritional status of the mare prior to conception can have an effect on the birth weight of the upcoming offspring and affect gestational length.
While the pathologists, scientists, and practitioners acknowledged a need to better communicate their understanding of the mare/fetus bond, the question also was raised by the practitioners: For our clients, how do we diagnose placental problems and economically do something about them?
First, it is worth noting that the relative importance of causes for pregnancy loss is changing. Twinning used to be the number one problem, but better management of twin pregnancy has reduced that importance. Now, placentitis (inflammation of the placenta) ranks at the top of the list. There was much discussion of infections that invade the uterus through the cervix (ascending placentitis), and placental infections that seem to originate in the middle of the uterus (nocardioform placentitis). In many cases, nocardioform placentitis is difficult to diagnose and treat. But both might be associated with fetal loss.
One problem mentioned was the normal opening and closing of the cervix during pregnancy. Another problem discussed was stress and its effect on premature foaling--tor example, Thoroughbred mares that go through November and January breeding stock sales (late in their pregnancies), then foal earlier than their due dates. For that topic, researchers in other species and equine researchers suggested that high doses of progesterone in the face of that type of stress might help those mares "hold" their pregnancies to term.
Other problems included the over-long umbilical cord that causes death of foals. In the United Kingdom, it is the leading cause of non-disease-related fetal death. While human umbilical cords also are long, they are designed to have a certain amount of twist to their nature (like a telephone cord). While it is normal for the umbilical cord of equine fetuses to twist, the longer cords can make the fetus more prone to death or compromise due to twists cutting off transportation of nutrients and wastes. An equine umbilical cord more than 31.5 in (80 cm) is considered long.
Another topic that was new to many of those in the room was the remnant of the yolk sac that can mineralize/ossify in the umbilical cord and potentially cause problems. More specific articles from this placenta conference can be found online at www.TheHorse.com under Convention Reports.
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Kimberly S. Brown
Kimberly S. Brown was the Publisher/Editor of The Horse: Your Guide To Equine Health Care from June 2008 to March 2010, and she served in various positions at Blood-Horse Publications since 1980.
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Roommate of alleged victim testifies at Johnson trial
MISSOULA, Mont. - The trial for a former University of Montana quarterback accused of rape continued Thursday with testimony from the alleged victim's roommate.
Stephen Green told the court Thursday he didn't know what to do when his roommate told him she'd been raped.
Green's roommate accused Johnson of raping her in February 2012 when he came over to watch a movie. In court, attorneys asked Green to recount that night.
He told the court he knew Johnson was coming over that night and though he hadn't met Johnson prior to that evening, he knew who he was.
Green said he was playing a video game that night, when his roommate brought Johnson over, and the two were introduced briefly.
The next time he interacted with his roommate was when he received a text from her saying she had just been raped. Green said he texted her back, telling her to get out of there. But said he was in shock and didn't know what to do. He didn't go into her room to help and didn't stop her from giving Johnson a ride home that night.
"I wanted to get her out of that situation but I didn't know exactly what the best way to do that was," said Green.
There were questions from both prosecution and defense attorneys about the way Green interpreted that text. At one point in a statement made to detectives Green questioned whether his roommate was exaggerating, but in court Thursday he testified that he doesn't believe it was an exaggeration.
The prosecution also called an educational witness Thursday.
Dr. David Lisak, was named and expert in the courtroom after providing his background as clinical psychologist. Prosecutor Joel Thompson asked Lisak to testify as an educational witness.
Lisak told the court he did not research the case at all ahead of time; he didn't interview the alleged victim or Johnson, and did no research of the case or Missoula. He told the court he's not speaking on the facts of this particular case but rather in general terms.
Thompson asked Lisak to discuss rape victim behavior, how a victim might act during and after a rape.
Johnson's attorney Kirsten Pabst got a chance to start questioning Lisak before the lunch recess as well. She asked about his credentials, whether he studied the case ahead of time, and too got into detail about victim behavior.
The courtroom was less crowded for Thursday's testimony, but there were some notable faces in the crowd late in the afternoon. Grizzly Defensive Coordinator Ty Gregorak and a few football players showed up; they said they were there to support Johnson.
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So today i was working out in the gym, just like any other day and then i raise up my head and think "HOLY SHIT IT'S ANDREA BARGNANI!"
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The Wofford College Programming Team—WoCoders—has competed in regional programming contests since 1995. The WoCoders compete in 2 or 3 programming contests each year. David Sykes has been the coach since 2001. Angela Shiflet was the previous coach.
During a contest, teams of programmmers are given a set of problems
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We usually compete in three contests each academic year:
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The Wofford Terriers B team finished 9th in the contest having solved 4 problems.
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The Wofford Terriers B team—Jesse Dixon, Timothy Humphries, and Kenton Roush—finished 7th
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Court won't hear contribution case
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case challenging a century-old prohibition on direct corporate contributions to candidates.
Lawyers for the plaintiff in Danielczyk v. U.S. argued that because of the landmark 2010 Citizens United case, the long-standing ban on direct corporate contributions to candidates should end.
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The case was brought by two fundraisers for Hillary Clinton's presidential bid, who were indicted by the Justice Department in 2011 for allegedly reimbursing their employees for their political donations to Clinton.
The 2010 case opened the door for corporations and unions to make unlimited contributions to outside groups, but did not address direct contributions to candidates.
The decision not to review the case leaves the corporate contribution ban — which dates to 1907 — in place.
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Forget the old boys' network -- when it comes to hedge funds, young guns rule. Either way, though, it's a man's world. Now women are looking for their place. Last month a group of executives active in the secretive hedge fund world met at Morgan Stanley to launch a new organization: 100 Women in Hedge Funds. (The name is a play on the number of investors traditionally allowed in these unregulated investment vehicles.) The first meeting featured cocktails and a discussion of how to manage the ever-growing press corps that tracks the hedge fund business. Word-of-mouth publicity has prompted membership inquiries from Michigan, England and Kuwait, says Lighthouse Partners managing director Dana Hall. The group's founders stress that they have no political goal beyond providing a networking opportunity for female hedge fund professionals. "This is a hedge fund industry group," says Sarah Dyer, an official with Trident Investment Management.
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FAYETTEVILLE — BJ Young gave teammates and coaches hints that he would return to Arkansas for his sophomore season.
They weren't sure, though.
Not until the second-team and freshman All-Southeastern Conference guard made his decision to return to school official when he was recognized for his All-SEC honors at the men's basketball banquet Monday night.
"I just want to be first team next year," Young said, prompting a loud cheer from the crowd of around 170 Arkansas fans in attendance in the Broyles Complex. "Hopefully make the tournament as a team. Oh, yeah. I'm coming back for another year, too."
Young announced his return the night before before the Tuesday deadline for underclassmen to pull their name out of the NBA Draft. "My gut always told me that he would come back," Arkansas coach Mike Anderson said. "He's had a pretty impressive first year and I think the best basketball is even in front of him … He can get in the weight room and get a little stronger, but now he's got a feel for what it is to play at the Division 1 level."
Young averaged a team-high 15.3 points and shot better than 50 percent from the field as a freshman, but decided he wanted to try to improve the numbers.
"It was a great experience," Young said. "That's one of the reasons I wanted to come back. I enjoyed school so much. If I hadn't enjoyed school so much, I probably would have looked forward to going to the NBA. I liked college basketball and I love the fan base."
Young announced his decision hours after tweeting, "man in so confused right now" Monday afternoon.
"I was a little confused earlier today," Young said. "You get a lot of outside, inside feedback on people telling you what to do. So it makes the process just a little bit more confusing and complicated … It was a pretty tough decision, but I just enjoyed school a lot and told my parents I wasn't ready to grow up yet. "I just want to still be a kid and they understood where I was coming from."
The 6-foot-3, 175-pounder was projected by most draft analysts as a late-first round or early-second round draft pick if he entered this year, but was tabbed a potential lottery pick if he returned to school and entered the 2013 draft.
"I just wanted to come back and try to get to a national championship," Young said. "Have another season with more experience and just get a lot of stuff under my belt that I didn't get in year one."
Bolstered by Young's decision to stay for his sophomore season, the Hogs will return six of their top seven scorers and Marshawn Powell, the former All-SEC forward who tore his ACL after two games last season.
"When you start putting other pieces to put along with him, you put a healthy Marshawn Powell with him," Anderson said. "Not only that, you get a year of experience. You expect them to be better and him to be better."


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Active Outdoors: What a way to wind down ... Kayaking in downeast Maine
While the warmer months of 2013 presented some interesting weather challenges (ample rain and heat) for Active Outdoors adventures, it has been an absolutely marvelous year for kayaking. My sweetheart, Marilyn, and I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!
Our kayaking adventures probably aren't quite over yet, but they are definitely winding down as weather and water cool. We've just come off the water from a paddling adventure which, if it's the last of the season, will have us dreaming of kayaking all winter and eager to paddle in the spring.
If you start in Kittery and follow the Maine coast "downeast," you eventually pull up on the shores of Eastport and Lubec, the easternmost towns in the U.S.; any farther and you are in Canada. The night before our paddling adventure, we stayed in the Weston House (visitmaine.com/organization/1076), a perfectly charming B&B in Eastport. We had to tiptoe out too early to try the breakfast ...
Through friends of friends, we had been invited to be "guinea pigs" on a program run by the Washington County Community College Outdoor Recreation Program. This two-year course trains students interested in pursuing a career in outdoor recreation (guides, park rangers, outdoor educators, etc.) Under the watchful eye of two very-experienced instructors, the second-year students were leading the adventure, helping to teach the first-year students.
We joined them as "clients" at the mid-point of a four-day, three-night adventure. Their job was to keep us safe and comfortable as we paddled to an island, camped overnight, and then paddled to another takeout. Marilyn and I brought our own kayaks, clothes and camping gear; they took care of all food, cooking and route planning. They don't usually guide the general public, but there are other guided options to paddle these same waters (see below).
We launched from Reversing Falls Park in the town of Pembroke, an undiscovered bit of heaven overlooking a natural wonder-- a waterfall which changes direction as the tide changes. It's only passable in a kayak for 15 or 20 minutes at slack high tide, so we had to be in our boats and ready to go at 7:45 the first morning.
The 27-foot tides here (near the Bay of Fundy), and the currents they generate are a force to be reckoned with; this is not a place to paddle on your own -- at least not the first time. But it's also one of the most beautiful places to paddle I've ever seen on the Maine coast -- most of the shoreline and almost all of the islands are undeveloped. Rocky cliffs plunge into flowing waters.
There was little recreational boat traffic and commercial boats seem not as common as they are farther south. Numerous eagles soared overhead as we paddled; great blue herons, loons, gulls, cormorants, eider ducks and guillemots were everywhere; gray and harbor seals followed us companionably or frolicked in the water nearby. We didn't see any whales or porpoises, but they are in the area.
The first day, we paddled about 10 nautical miles from Reversing Falls to Treat Island, which is owned by the Maine Coast Heritage Trust. They are opening a primitive campsite and we were among the first to legally camp there. The island is midway between the towns of Eastport and Lubec, which are a little more than two miles apart across the water, but you have to drive almost 40 miles to get from one to the other. It's also just as close to Campobello Island in Canada. By water, the journey has its challenges. Every inch of our journey -- especially the longer open-water crossings, were carefully timed to the tides and currents.
We camped overnight in a little meadow among the alders with the lights of Lubec seeming very close and a million miles away at the same time. Three deer bounded away as we looked for the right spot. As the "guests" enjoyed a spectacular sunset, the kids built a roaring driftwood fire in a trench in the sand lined with beach stones, where they steamed lobsters, potatoes and corn-on-the-cob in piles of seaweed covered with a tarp. Pure ambrosia after a day on the water.
The next morning, we were up in the dark, ate a quick breakfast and were in the kayaks shortly after sunrise to ride the incoming tide along the shore of the island, carefully avoiding turning the corner and being pulled into "Old Sow,", by all accounts one of the five largest tidal whirlpools in the world and the largest in the western hemisphere.
It was very foggy and we had to wait at one point for the fog to clear before crossing a stretch of open water. If we'd had to wait too long, we have been stuck there until the tide turned again. As it was, the tide turned with a half-mile to go and we had to paddle into a current that would have been too strong to paddle against in another hour.
In all, it was one of our best sea kayaking adventures ever, and we are making plans to go back next year and explore more in the labyrinth of currents and islands around Cobscook Bay. What a great way to cap off a great season of paddling! Life isn't a spectator sport. Get out and enjoy!
Go on the Maine Tourism website (visitmaine.com) and click on Downeast and Acadia, it'll give you an overview. You really need a guide on the water in this area. Scott Fraser, the instructor in charge of the WCCC program highly recommends Steve and Tess Ftorek's Cobscook Hikes and Paddles (cobscookhikesandpaddles.com).
Postscript: Biking, Too
After our paddle, we stayed on for a few days of biking and hiking around Lubec, Campobello Island, and Machias. We spent two nights at the Peacock House (peacockhouse.com) in Lubec, a perfectly marvelous, friendly, and impeccably decorated B&B. Then we moved to The Talbot House Inn (thetalbothouseinn.com) in East Machias, a wonderful old Victorian restored as a B&B. The biking and hiking in both areas was just wonderful. Stay tuned for more details in a future column, or drop me an email if you have questions.
Tim Jones is the executive editor of the online magazine EasternSlopes.com and writes about outdoor sports and travel. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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No band can just name a day of the year after themselves. No band except One Direction, that is. In support of their album Midnight Memories, due out November 25, the UK boy band have proclaimed to all the land that November 23 shall henceforth be known as 1D Day. Lo, it is written.
Fans from all over the world can spend seven hours with the band as their day will be broadcast live from Los Angeles. In addition to gaining streaming access to the royal One Direction, throughout the day celebrity guests will join, sketches with the band will be provided, and fan-generated videos from different countries will be shown. 1D took to YouTube to inform fans of the big news.
Today, (October 2) the 1D Day campaign launches with competitions and fan events to involve fans for the November 23 broadcast. Fans can follow along to One Direction on the band's Twitter and their new Website for updates.
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Responders gather at the scene of a mass school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut.
The school massacre in Newtown, Conn., has renewed discussions -- and perennial disagreements -- among politicians and researchers about how violent movies and video games affect the nation's youth.
On Friday, children in Newtown pledged to throw away video games containing violent scenes in a movement they called "Played Out: Choose Not to Play."
Motion Picture Association of America Chairman Chris Dodd, who represented Connecticut in Congress for 36 years, this week said his industry colleagues felt "horror and outrage at this senseless act of violence" and promised to participate in White House discussions of how to respond to the slaughter of 26 children and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
"Those of us in the motion picture and television industry want to do our part to help America heal," said Dodd, a former U.S. senator and representative. "We stand ready to be part of the national conversation."
Hollywood canceled or postponed the release of several violent films and television shows, including the scheduled premiere of director Quentin Tarantino's ultra-violent film "Django Unchained" and the Tom Cruise action-packed "Jack Reacher."
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., this week called upon the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a new federal study into "the impact of violent video games and other (media) content on children's well-being."
The video-game industry reports that recently released shooter-style games such as "Halo 4" and "Call of Duty: Black Ops II" helped propel worldwide sales to an estimated $4 billion last month, although that figure is down from Christmas-time sales in recent years.
"At times like this, we need to take a comprehensive look at all the ways we can keep our kids safe," Rockefeller said. "I have long expressed concern about the impact of the violent content our kids see and interact with every day."
Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman said teenage boys and young men who commit mass murder often have "an almost hypnotic involvement in some form of violence in our entertainment culture, particularly violent video games."
Police have not confirmed whether the shooter, Adam Lanza, played such games before fatally shooting 27 people, including his mother, Nancy Lanza, and then killing himself.
Researchers who've studied the issue are almost as violently divided as the games and films they monitor.
"Violent video games increase aggressive thoughts through physiological arousal," concluded Brad Bushman, a professor of mass communication at The Ohio State University. "People who have aggressive thoughts are much more likely to have aggressive behavior. This makes people numb to the pain and suffering of others."
Bushman was one of eight scholars from the United States and Japan who published an analysis in 2010 of dozens of studies conducted around the world into the effects of violent games on behavior.
"Concerning public policy, we believe that debates can and should finally move beyond the simple question of whether violent video game play is a causal risk factor for aggressive behavior," the scholars concluded. "The scientific literature has effectively and clearly shown the answer to be 'yes.' "
Instead, they wrote, the public debate "should move to question concerning how best to deal with this risk factor."
But Chris Ferguson at the Texas A&M University's Department of Behavioral, Applied Sciences and Criminal Justice warns that Bushman and his colleagues should not be so quick to declare what science as learned.
"Brad's study was not a very good one," Ferguson said. "There was a selection bias. He and his colleagues didn't include many studies that did not find any effects from violent media."
Ferguson led a review of other scientific studies that he published in 2009 in the Journal of Pediatrics, determining that "results from the current analysis do not support the conclusion that media violence leads to aggressive behavior. It cannot be concluded at this time that media violence presents a significant public health risk."
Ferguson and Bushman have talked about the issue over which they hold diametrically opposed findings.
"I know Brad very well," Ferguson said. "We tend to be very friendly, as long as we don't talk about video games."
Meanwhile, the head of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, on Friday blamed video games rather than the availability of assault-style weapons for the shooting rampage in Connecticut.
"Here's another dirty little truth that the media try their best to conceal: There exists in this country a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people," LaPierre said.
He blamed "vicious, violent video games" like "Bulletstorm," "Mortal Kombat" and "Splatterhouse" as well as "blood-soaked slasher films" like "American Psycho" and "Natural Born Killers."
"In a race to the bottom, media conglomerates compete with one another to shock, violate and offend every standard of civilized society by bringing an ever-more-toxic mix of reckless behavior and criminal cruelty into our homes," LaPierre said.
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The idea came to me this morning as I was reading about players in the draft that we should start something on here where we get to make our lists of who we would take. I'll therefore set out rules to the thread: 1) Make your top 5 list for who the raptors should take at number 5 if they are available, 2) State who you think they can/should actually pick at 5 and back it up with a reason why. 3) You're only allowed to comment (support or condemn) on someone else's list after you have completed your own list and support for your pick.
My list: 1)Brandon Knight, 2) Enes Kanter, 3) Kawhi Leonard, 4) Kemba Walker, 5) Bismack Biyombo
I think they should draft Kawhi Leonard because he has good size and competes at a very high level. His shot has improved since college because of extensive workout with a trainer and he has a huge drive to get better. The guy has a huge motor and will play his heart out every night. If the Raptors want a change in culture on the team then they need to rebuild with guys who have this type of focus and drive.


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In an era long before green, eco-friendly, and environmentalism were buzzwords, George Washington Carver advocated for organic farming and plant-based products.
An early trailblazer in the concept of reducing, reusing, and recycling, Carver was born into slavery, likely in the early to mid-1860s.
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Of the 764 respondents, 356 (47%) said they use rotational deworming for parasite control, while 260 (34%) indicated they perform fecal egg counts and deworm based on the results.
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How do you control parasites on your farm? In last week's poll on TheHorse.com, we asked about our readers' primary parasite control strategies on their farms. More than 750 people responded, and we've tallied the results!
Of the 764 respondents, 356 (47%) said they use rotational deworming for parasite control, while 260 (34%) indicated they perform fecal egg counts and deworm based on the results. Another 106 readers (14%) said their parasite control strategy involves property, pasture, and manure management. Twenty-six readers (3%) said they feed a daily dewormer, and the remaining 16 respondents (2%) said they do not worry about parasites on their farm.
In addition, 75 readers left comments about their parasite control strategy.
Many readers said that they use a combination of the options mentioned:
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- "Property management, rotational deworming, and fecal counts."
- "All of the above."
- "Combination of the first three choices!"
- "Rotational dewormng and property, pasture, and manure managment all year-round."
- "Pasture rotation, paddock cleaning, and rotational deworming. I always worry about parasites."
- "Rotational worming combined with pasture rotation and manure management."
- "We also manage pastures (pick up manure daily) and deworm in spring and fall."
- "Rotational deworming combined with fly control management in barn and pastures"
- "Both fecal count for correct application of dewormers and pasture management"
- "In addition to performing bi-monthly fecals, we ensure manure if picked twice per day."
- "Directional deworming and pasture management. I'm doing everything I can for those zero egg counts!"
Other readers commented that they use fecal egg counts and deworm based on the results:
- "I do fecals two to three times a year and then deworm for tape since they are not detected in fecal."
- "I manage manure carefully and do fecals in the spring - always negative. I deworm after the frost."
- "Fecal egg counts showed nothing, so now I deworm in deep of winter and driest heat of summer—two times per year."
- "Fecal egg counts as well as 24/7 turnout in paddocks cleaned twice a day. Very low egg counts."
- "Do a fecal count on the old guy and rotate as well depending on the time of year."
- "I get fecal egg counts twice a year, spring and fall and deworm based on results."
- "I worm twice a year based on prior fecal egg counts that indicated low parasite levels."
- "We do fecal egg counts and treat accordingly."
- "My horse has epm and I will not deworm unless fecal egg count calls for it."
- "Still get fecal egg counts done when the vet calls to make sure everything is under control."
- "I had been doing rotational deworming,but I'm switching to performing fecal egg counts."
Several readers left comments about management of their property, pasture, and manure as part of their parasite control strategy:
- "I manage my property, pasture, and manure. My horses haven't had any parasites for over 3 years."
- "I also use pasture and manure management"
- "We manage our pens and pastures by removing manure daily."
- "We compost all manure and stall bedding for at least 18 months."
- "Paddocks are picked two to three times per week."
- "We also rotate pastures and manage manure"
- "We clean our paddocks daily"
- "I clean out the water tubs and shovel poop out of stall, but not as much in field though."
- "I also remove manure from stalls and paddocks daily and from pastures weekly."
- "I pick up manure several times a day; feed horses in clean, bedded stalls; and deworm twice a year."
- "The dry lot they live in is cleaned daily."
- "We also pick manure from our pastures during grazing months."
Some commented on rotational deworming as their choice of parasite control:
- "Ivermectin or ivermectin+prazyquantel three or four times a year."
- "I deworm when coming off grass in the fall, and again when coming off hay in the spring."
- "I have a more or less closed family herd, but do rotate and deworm two to three times per year."
A few readers commented that they don't deworm their horses:
- "I let the horses and cows fend for themselves."
- "I deworm when needed—if it ain't broke don't fix it. The over use of pesticides create super pests."
- "No dewormer. Vet wanted clients to stop. She tests feces two times per year. I do worry if this is okay."
Read more about which deworming method is most cost-effective, and why each horse needs its own individualized deworming plan.
This week, we want to know: what common hind-leg conformation is least worrisome to you in horses? Vote in the poll and share your comments!
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Jennifer Whittle, TheHorse.com Web Producer, is a lifelong horse owner who competes with her Appaloosas in Western performance events. She is a University of Kentucky graduate and holds a bachelor's degree in Community Communications and Leadership Development, and master's degree in Career, Technical, and Leadership Education. She currently lives on a small farm in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky.
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…by the end of February, [city engineers] say, 80 percent of the city's water will run through dozens of stacked reverse osmosis (RO) filters, squeezing out pollutants to meet state standards.
"It's not something you call in and say, 'Hey, deliver this to us,'" said Mark Youker, construction manager for Hatch Mott McDonald, which has overseen the architecture and engineering of the project. "It's a lot more complicated than that."
Plans to build the plant started around September 2008, when the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment issued an enforcement order to get the city's water standards up to compliance within a given time frame. The main contaminant, among others, was the water's naturally-occurring uranium levels, which could increase an individual's cancer risks over longer exposures.
Youker said before the plant was constructed, Sterling's water was pumped directly from wells across the county, treated with chlorine at four separate stations and delivered directly to city homes, farms and businesses.
When the plant becomes fully operational, the city's raw well water will all instead flow straight to the one spot for treatment. It's capable of providing 9.5 million gallons of water to the city per day, though the average demand is only about 4 million gallons.
The water will run through a filtration system before it's chlorinated, and be pumped out as a 80/20 mix of RO-treated to untreated water; Youker said the city has been receiving the "20 percent," filtered water for about two months already.
Workers at the new Sterling Water Treatment Plant monitor every aspect of the treatment process through a monitor in their control room. (David Martinez/Journal-Advocate)
Ryan Walsh, the project engineer, said the mix holds several structural and taste benefits.
"The first goal (of treatment) is to bring the city's water to compliance with the new state standards," Walsh said. "The second is to bring water that more aesthetically pleasing and requires less maintenance."
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Giants bask in championship glory
By Alden Gonzalez / MLB.com
ARLINGTON -- Matt Cain, sporting a fresh-out-of-the-box gray T-shirt with the words "World Series champions" written in black-and-orange, walked back toward the visiting dugout at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington on this magical Monday night with his left hand curled up in a fist and raised high above his head. Before the celebration ensued, he saw long-time rotation buddy Tim Lincecum dominate a Rangers lineup many said was too good, too superior to be beat in this World Series. And soon after that, he witnessed Brian Wilson strike out Nelson Cruz to put the finishing touches on Monday's 3-1 victory in Game 5 of the World Series and -- finally -- bring the trophy back to the Giants. Now, after hopping around with exuberant teammates in the Rangers Ballpark infield, in the middle of the quietest Arlington you will ever see, Cain had spotted a crowd of Giants fans that ventured down to make up about 10 rows behind their dugout, dressed in black and orange, waving bright signs, sporting beards and screaming emphatically. It was a glimpse of what will await him when he gets home. "That's what we play for -- them," Cain said after his franchise won its first World Series since 1954, when it played in New York. "To bring it back for them -- they've been waiting so long for this, and it's just been an incredible ride. They pour their hearts out for us every night."
Cain was the last Giants player to walk off the field and into the tunnel toward a frenzied visiting clubhouse that awaited him.But he was the first one to step in with the World Series trophy raised high above his head. Amid screams, tears and sheer joy, Cain handed off the hardware -- the first one of this kind that has ever belonged to San Francisco, even though the city has had a team since 1958 -- and it slowly made its way around, one "misfit" at a time. It went to Buster Posey, the rookie phenom who exceeded even the lofty expectations he carried into this season. It was then given to Cody Ross, the waiver pickup who wound up being the National League Championship Series MVP and a player the Giants simply couldn't do without. It went to Aaron Rowand, who was on the White Sox team that broke an 88-year drought by winning it all in 2005. On and on it went, making sure each of the players -- a lot of whom many said were too old, too young or simply not good enough to reach this stage -- saw what it looked like up close. "Offensively, we just have a bunch of old guys," said Aubrey Huff, the lefty power hitter hardly anybody but the Giants wanted to sign this offseason. "These are just last-chance guys, second-chance guys, and you can tell it's a true team, man." After a kiss from Barry Zito -- the $126 million starter who didn't have a place on this postseason roster -- it finally came around to Guillermo Mota, the 37-year-old reliever signed to a $750,000 contract. Mota took the prized possession, walked over to a nearby table -- Don't drop it, Mo! his teammates hollered -- and he raised it up for everyone to see. "We played as a team," scrappy second baseman Freddy Sanchez concluded. "We had that chemistry in the clubhouse. Off the field, everyone got along with everyone. We had so many diverse personalities, but everybody came together and wanted to win." And so they did -- the way so many other great Giants teams never could. Their 103-win club in 1962 -- with Willie Mays, Felipe Alou, Willie McCovey, Orlando Cepeda and Juan Marichal -- was defeated by a hard-to-sit-with score of 1-0 in Game 7 of the World Series by the Yankees. The 1989 team composed of Will "The Thrill" Clark and Kevin Mitchell was swept by the hard-charging Athletics. And despite holding a 3-2 lead in the Series and a 5-0 lead in the bottom of the seventh inning of Game 6, the Barry Bonds-led team of 2002 was taken down by the club that became that year's Cinderella team -- the Angels -- in seven. Shawon Dunston hasn't forgotten. The Giants' current defensive coordinator, a utility player on that club, at one point stood in the corner of the clubhouse with the World Series trophy cradled in his arms. Pablo Sandoval tried to wrestle it away to take a picture, but Dunston wasn't having any of it. "Let me hold it for my 2002 team!" Dunston said while pulling away and trying to drag Clark with him. "Just one more minute." There was no Mays, McCovey or Bonds on this team -- maybe a Marichal or two -- but it didn't matter. "We're champions anyway," Cain asserted. Edgar Renteria, whose three-run homer was all the offense the Giants were able to muster against an otherwise-dominant Cliff Lee, was the last player to make his way into the celebration. Known for his walk-off hit in Game 7 of the 1997 World Series, the 35-year-old shortstop went on the disabled list three times and temporarily lost his starting job in a year that may end up being his last. But here he was in the World Series, batting .412 with -- wouldn't you know it -- two home runs to win MVP honors. "Thankfully," Renteria said, "God gave me the opportunity to be in this situation and come through." As the dry Renteria walked in, he was immediately assaulted by a mob of teammates, who doused him in champagne in celebration of his second stint as World Series hero. "You see his face, he wanted to cry," Sandoval said. "But he's a tough man." After a little more than an hour of celebration, the players decided to take the party outside. And, low and behold, there they were: The Giants fans, many of whom flew from San Francisco because they didn't want to miss history, hadn't moved an inch. Sanchez was standing right in front, pumping them up with camera in hand. "It's unbelievable, but this is San Francisco for you," he said with a smile. "The fans have been great." A few hours before, the Giants had officially become champions, erasing the third-longest-running championship drought in the Majors. And in a few hours, they'd be heading home to take part in a parade and continue the celebration among family and friends. As for when it would sink in? "Probably when I get home and lay on the couch and realize, and watch footage from throughout the playoffs," Ross said. "Because right now this is a dream. I'm living a dream right now. I mean, I'm waiting for my wife to roll over and nudge me and say, 'Wake up.' "This is ... I mean ... it's unbelievable."
Alden Gonzalez is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Gonzo and 'The Show'. Follow him on Twitter @Alden_Gonzalez. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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I recently got a Lenovo Yoga 13" and posted this mini review over at Lenovo's forums. I thought some of you gerbils might be interested in this aswell. I hope a few of you out there will fine this information useful.
I got my Yoga 13, Orange, 8gb ram and 256gb SSD on Monday the 17th. I also ordered the slot case and the screen protector as well. I really really wanted to like this laptop. But sadly, after playing around with it all day (and night!) I returned the Yoga earlier today. There were some major issues that I encountered that was definitely a deal breaker and I feel are things that should not exist in a $1500 laptop.
Lets start with the good stuff first: The first impressions were great.
Exterior build quality was very nice. The shell felt very solid and the orange color looked awesome! I believe the shell is aluminum with a rubber-like coating applied on. So when you hold it, you get a very good grip and at no point where i felt the laptop was going to slip out of my hands. Power buttons and volume button (in both design and positions) mimicked those as seen on tablets. The position of these buttons make a lot of sense when the Yoga is in tablet mode. Everything looked VERY sturdy and felt well built.
Upon opening the laptop, I was greeted with a very nice looking and interestingly textured palm rest area. The texture has an almost faux leather look to it but it definitely feels rubbery, smooth and a little cushion-like. Its is hard to explain but when I'm resting on it, it feels very nice to the skin and it certainly insulates any type of temperature changes from transferring to your palms/wrists unlike some metal enclosures. Very interesting material choice for sure.
The keyboard area looked very nice. Typing on it was very comfortable and keys were responsive.
Trackpad was OK. I found my self accidentally right clicking and the pointer acceleration as a bit wonky. Not the worst trackpad I used but also not great.
Battery life after the first full charge showed a little less than 6 hours. Machine was dead quite and everything was silky smooth loading apps and painting with my fingers. There was a surprising minimal amount of bloatware installed. Even with the Lenovo software, non of which was "in your face". First boot-up of the machine went through windows 8 account setup and subsequent boot up time was about 4-5 seconds. EXTREMELY fast.
Looking at the device manager, my 256gb ssd is sporting one made by Samsung. One interesting I found was the wireles/bluetooth module is made by realtek and is interfacing with the system via USB 2.0.
Tablet Mode/Tent Mode/etc
This is the reason I bought this laptop. As a graphic artist, my plan was to use this as a sketchpad, photo editing and light animation use. As I mentioned, the touchscreen was very responsive and Windows 8 "Metro" felt right at home here. Even using the touchscreen with desktop apps was a lot of fun. I spent maybe an hour or two playing in paint before I remembered that I should install photoshop (LOL).
I found the Yoga's touch capabilities most satisfying and usable in tent mode and tablet mode. In regular laptop mode, touching the screen bounces and moves the screen which gets annoying. In stand mode, same thing.
Aside from painting with my fingers, I tested the touchscreen with a touch screen stylus i got on Amazon. It worked ok as i needed to put quit a bit of pressure in order for the screen to register the tip of the stylus where as using the same stylus on other touchscreens (ipad 2, nexus 7, nexus 4, droid x) did not require any force.
Speed and performance
Everything felt snappy and ran all my programs great. It worked and it worked well for my needs. I did not run any benchmarks as I was more concerned with testing my usage habits.
This laptop sounds wonderful, why the hell did i return it?!
After a couple of hours playing with it, that's when I started to notice some glaring problems.
Lets go down the list:
Screen Flicker issue
This was a surprise to me. After the first few hours of using the laptop. I notice the screen would flicker once in awhile. It seems to be random but I notice to be more apparent especially when I load up new programs and when I am quitting them. It is almost as if there is a loose connection or interference somewhere. At first I thought it was the automatic brightness playing tricks on me so I proceeded to turn it off. Nope, the flickering was still there. This is a real deal breaker (duh).
High pitch whine
Yes, there is a high pitch whine and buzzing sound that emanates from the laptop (coil whine). I couldn't pin point the exact location but it seems to come from around the F3 key area. I don't have an overly quiet room. When I heard this whine, I was actually playing some music in the background. The sound was unbearable!
Fan noise, rattling noise.
The sound of the air movement coming from the laptop, I don't mind and I barely notice it. But there is a rattling sound coming from the fan itself (loose fan??). I build my own PCs and I've owned some cheap fans over the years where it makes the same noise. The fan in the Yoga is not a good quality fan. The fan also stays on most of the time. It is not excessively loud, but it seems it needs to be on much more than it needs to be. Either that, it seems like it can run at a lower RPM.
The Loose Keyboard
Yes you read that right. The keyboard is loose. This is very apparent when you press any keys in the F7 to F12 keys area (or any other keys around those). When you press any of those keys, you will FEEL and SEE that area of the keyboard will sink in. I'm not exaggerating.
This should not happen in any laptop at any price range, and this one costs $1500 USD. This is unacceptable. I don't think this is even a QC issue, it is a design issue. As seen in other threads in this forum and other forums, the keyboard is attached on there with double sided tape. Wha??
Palm rest area flex
As I mention prior, the texture feels great and feels soft almost cushion like. Well it turns out, the cushion like feel is the result of that area flexing in. No joke. Pressing on the palm rest area with my fingers reminds me of pressing on the surface of a water bottle. You'll feel this even more when in tablet mode. It feels plain fragile.
Screen Protector
It Sucks. Don't know how to put it another way. It is the worst screen protector you can get. Yea you can see through it but that it is. The material gives the surface a lot of traction so you'll find your fingers getting stuck on it while swiping the screen. I wish Lenovo would make the glass (or at lease offer a screen protector) similar to cellphone / tablets screens where they put a oleophobic coating so your fingers glide on the surface. So yea, save the money and forget about the Lenovo screen protector.
Slot Case
Its ugly, it feels cheap and it looks cheap. The texture of the case is just..I don't even know what it is. It is just SOOOOOO ugly. The material of the case will probably last maybe 6 months use. Its not even practical as 1.5" of the laptop sticks out at the opening. What?? Did i mention it is crazy ugly?
Great concept, great idea. Execution, not so good. Build quality not consistent, major design issues that keeps this from becoming a good laptop. The price tag (i paid $1500) makes this even more so.
Returning the laptop. Lenovo customer support
I had a really good experience. The post-sales rep from somewhere in India was courteous and quick. After I explained why I wanted to return the laptop, my return was processed immediately and I was told I would be getting a full refund. My shipping labels was emailed to me very quickly and total time spent on the phone was about 15 min.
Closing thoughts
It might seem I might have gotten a bum unit but from looking at the other threads in this forum and other forums, It seems other people are having some similar problems as me. I didn't want to exchange for a new unit (and waiting even longer) and experience these issues again. I see these are design issues, not QC issues. The Yoga has a HUGE potential to be an amazing ultrabook/laptop (booktablet??). Huge potential. Maybe the Yoga 2 will get that chance.
I'm traveling in a week so I went ahead and reordered the Asus UX32VD. (lol should of kept my first UX32VD)


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Kemp's grand slam fuels 10-run first
Game takes chilling turn when home-plate umpire hit by pitch
By Ted Brock / Special to MLB.com
Danley was hit in the mask under the jaw on the first pitch of the fourth inning, when a fastball from Penny to Garrett Atkins glanced off the mitt of catcher Russell Martin.
"It sounded like a Mike Tyson uppercut," said Martin, who said he called for a curveball but got a fastball from Penny.
"Before putting my head down," said Penny, pantomiming the way he looks at the ground early in his windup, "all I saw was fastball away."
Danley lay on his back behind the plate and was unconscious for a few seconds while Dodgers medical personnel attended to him. By the time he was lifted onto an ambulance, Danley was coherent, breathing and conscious.
"He looked like he was in pain for a little while," Martin said. "I hope he's all right. I told him I was sorry a couple of times, but I'm not sure he heard me. ... I was hoping for the best. He was still breathing. I held my breath."
Penny reflected on another poignant aspect of the scene. "What's hard is his mom was there," the pitcher said. "He's a great guy. It's unfortunate."
Los Angeles is Danley's hometown.
Penny (4-2) surrendered a two-run home run to Atkins in the first inning before the Dodgers sent 13 men to the plate in their half against left-hander Mark Redman (2-2). (The last time Los Angeles scored 10 runs in an inning came in the first inning of a May 6, 2005, game at Cincinnati.)
Manager Joe Torre was most impressed that "we scored all the runs with two out."
Matt Kemp ignited the fireworks with a sacrifice fly in his first at-bat, and later finished the rally with the first grand slam of his career, capping the first five-RBI game of his 172-game Major League career.
"I was just looking for a pitch to drive," Kemp said, adding later, "The first grand slam was pretty exciting and it helped us get some momentum."
Between Kemp's two plate appearances in the first, Andruw Jones walked to drive in a run, Blake DeWitt singled home two more, Penny chipped in an RBI single, and Rafael Furcal added an RBI double in his second time up.
Kemp said that although the huge rally was refreshing for a team still two games below .500, there was no way he or any Dodger was going to think of 10-2 as a cushion.
"The Colorado Rockies can put up just as many runs as we did," Kemp said.
Kemp's remark fit well with Torre's assessment of Penny's persistence, a word that might sound out of place in the story of a romp. But as Torre put it, "When you throw strikes, you make them beat you. [Penny] never let up. He's not going to, because he's got Russell reminding him every inning in the dugout."
Torre fielded a question regarding whether Kemp had emerged as a bona fide Major League hitting star.
"He's still raw," said the manager, who played 18 years in the big leagues (1960-1977), is in his 27th season as a manager and holds the Major League record for postseason victories, including four World Series championships.
"He has a great deal of ability. To play this game on an everyday basis, you've got to work at it."
Translation: He's in his third year and is off to a nice start.
In the sixth, Todd Helton's single pushed across the Rockies' third run off Penny, who went seven innings, surrendering four hits, striking out two and walking two before Scott Proctor came on in the eighth.
Asked what was working for him, Penny said, beaming, "The offense!"
Redman went six innings, yielding 10 earned runs on seven hits, giving up five walks and striking out one.
Right-handed reliever Jose Capellan came on for the Rockies in the seventh, and gave up the Dodgers' 11th run on Delwyn Young's pinch-hit single.
Ted Brock is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Employment & Benefits
This section provides an overview of many benefits available to faculty and staff. In the event of conflict between the overview provided in this handbook and the plan document or insurance plan, the plan document or insurance plan will govern. Complete descriptions are not possible in the handbook; employees should contact Human Resources for specific plan details. The Labor Agreement governs in the case of Union employees in all aspects of this section. Regular employees who have a schedule involving a (.46) FTE or above are eligible to participate in the College's benefit programs.
Carleton College will comply with all applicable laws such as ACA, FMLA, federal, state, and any applicable regulations.
Employee Assistance Program
Because personal and family problems can have just as negative an effect as physical illness on a person's job performance, Carleton College provides an Employee Assistance Program. The program is entirely confidential and provides professional counseling and referral services to the employee, their dependents, and all household members. Carleton College has partnered with a professional EAP provider to create a comprehensive employee assistance program that provides professional support for issues that can affect your personal and work life.
Call toll-free: 1-866-326-7194 for routine and urgent issues. Master's-level counselors are available to take your call 24/7. The EAP provides confidential in-person assessment and short-term counseling by local professionals for any issue that causes concern.
There is no cost for up to six sessions per concern whether you are faculty, staff or a dependent or household member of a Carleton College employee. You may receive additional referrals and resources after in-person counseling.


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Houston Mayor Annise Parker and Arlington City Council challenger Chris Hightower were among eight openly LGBT candidates who received formal endorsements from the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund today.
Parker was elected to a two-year term in 2009, making Houston the largest U.S. city with an openly LGBT mayor. Hightower is vying to become the first openly gay council member in Arlington's history.
The Victory Fund has now endorsed 14 candidates in 2011, including three in Texas. Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns was the first candidate to receive the group's backing this year.
From GayPolitics.com:
"We are proud to support Mayor Parker. Her success in Houston is proof of the remarkable talent and leadership LGBT Americans have to offer their communities as public servants," said Chuck Wolfe, president and CEO of the Victory Fund.
Parker welcomed the Victory Fund's backing.
"I am grateful for the early and strong support of the Victory Fund. The Victory Fund is more than just a force for LGBT equality – it educates and equips qualified candidates to excel in public service for the benefit of all whom they represent. I will use the Victory Fund's support to run a campaign that reaches out to every Houstonian and asks each one to join us in protecting and enhancing what is best about the city we share," said Parker.


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All quotes tagged Appoint
(243 quotes found)
"The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed."
"Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy."
"I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband."
"He had led off being a perfectionist when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a house circumspectly clean. . . not anything cleared you through the terrifying office of chance; that it is chance and not perfection that rules the world."
"I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity"
"The individual who is habitually tardy in meeting and appointment, will never be respected or successful in life"


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The Crew will meet up with the Philadelphia Union for the second time this season on Wednesday (7:30 p.m. ET / Univision Deportes, FOX Sports Ohio) in a pivotal Eastern Conference matchup. Before the Black & Gold make their only trip to the City of Brotherly Love this season, here is a look back at the Crew's 1-1 draw with the Union on April 6 in Columbus.
An unmarked Jack McInerney tapped his third goal of the season into an open net from a Danny Cruz-led offensive to give the Union the lead after 34 minutes. Not to be denied a point at home, Eddie Gaven slotted a perfectly-weighted pass to an in-stride Dominic Oduro for a tight-angled finish in the 72nd minute to keep the Crew unbeaten at home against Philadelphia.


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BRUSSELS, May 16 (UPI) -- Both men and women see images of sexy women's bodies in advertisements as objects, but they see sexy-looking men as people, Belgian researchers found.
"What's unclear is, we don't actually know whether people at a basic level recognize sexualized females or sexualized males as objects," Philippe Bernard of Universite libre de Bruxelles in Belgium said in a statement.
Study co-authors Bernard, Sarah Gervais, Jill Allen, Sophie Campomizzi and Olivier Klein said one way psychologists found to test whether something is seen as an object is by turning it upside down. Pictures of people present a recognition problem when they're turned upside down, but pictures of objects don't present that problem, Bernard said.
Bernard and colleagues used a test in which they presented pictures of men and women in sexualized poses, wearing underwear. Each participant watched the pictures appear one by one on a computer screen with some of the pictures right side up and some upside down.
After each picture, there was 1 second of black screen, and participants were then shown two images, with instructions to choose the one that matched the one they had just seen.
The study published in the journal Psychological Science found people recognized right-side-up men better than upside-down men, suggesting that they were seeing the sexualized men as people.
However, the women in underwear weren't any harder to recognize when they were upside down -- consistent with the idea that people see sexy women as objects, the study said.


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This is just a weekend venting session...
Why can't I find the features I need in a single solution? I have a virtualization host I use at home. I have a number of deveopment tools that still require Windows (AVR Studio, IAR MSP430 Compiler, etc). I use a Windows XP VM for each of these tools. For a long time I was hosting these VMs on my workstation. This worked well except that I could really only run one or two at any give time. Hence the move to the VM host. It's an 8 core system with 48GB of memory and handles the job well.
Now for my rant... USB... specifically remote USB sharing. VirtualBox has an RDP client that support USB redirection that works... sometimes. It recognizes my MSP430 programmers about half the time. I haven't gotten it to work with any iPod yet. The USB mass storage device for the iPod doesn't seem to work for some reason.
Enter VMWare. It's the alternative and using the VMWare remote console works great. USB devices work and everything is good -- except the VMWare remote console doesn't support sound on the remote system. For that, you have to use RDP and are back to the USB issue.
I'm digging in the the USB issues with the VirtualBox rdp client and hoping I can solve it. Still, why is it that everything has to be missing one important feature? Bleh.


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Arsenal end trophy drought with FA Cup win
Arsenal ended its nine-year trophy drought on Saturday, coming from two goals...
Tony Parker scored 24 points on 10-of-16 shooting and the San Antonio Spurs held off the Los Angeles Lakers, 108-105, on Wednesday.
Manu Ginobili had 19 points, including a key 3-pointer with 43 seconds
remaining, and pulled down eight rebounds for the Spurs, who bounced back from
a loss to the New Orleans Hornets on Monday.
Tiago Splitter tallied 14 points and 14 boards for San Antonio, which improved
to 15-2 at home this season. Stephen Jackson donated 14 points before being
ejected with 3:32 to play.
Kobe Bryant ended with 27 points for the Lakers, who have lost five in a row.
Metta World Peace added 23 points, eight rebounds and seven steals, while Earl
Clark had 22 points and 13 boards.


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Blogging is one of the oldest forms of social media, and it
continues to play a pivotal role in social media strategies. Here are
some tips to help you write blog posts search engines will love:
1. Choose a compatible blogging platform.
To start, choose a blogging platform that is search-engine
friendly. Blogs on WordPress and Blogger rank high on the SEO scale.
Take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of both.
2. Carefully choose your keywords.
Most search engines work off keywords. Make sure you:
Posts lose their essence if you stuff them with too many
keywords, but search engines might not index posts if they don't have
enough. It is crucial to maintain the optimal amount of keywords.
3. Write headlines for both readers and search engines.
Make sure to optimize your posts' headlines for SEO. Most
search engines will index a post with an optimized headline, but not one
with a run-of-the-mill headline. A catchy and informative headline will
go down well with both readers and search engine robots.
4. Post original content.
Most search engines are smart enough to detect plagiarism
and will not index your post if they find duplicate content. If you want
search engines to like your posts, write high-quality, unique content.
Most search engines know how to determine the original source of
content, so don't copy.
5. Include links.
If you want to drive traffic to your blog, you need inbound
and outbound links. Multiple high-quality inbound and outbound links
will boost your blog's readership as well as its overall SEO rating.
Most search engines value external links even if you link to a
competitor's website.
6. Tag and label images.
Images help search engines notice your posts. While search
engines can't actually see your images, they can parse the tags
associated with them. Make sure to use image names that are SEO-friendly
rather than names like "DSC0001.jpg" that are straight off your camera.
Also, always add an ALT tag to your images. An ALT tag is a
text alternative to an image and typically describes what the image
looks like.
Do you have any other tips on how to write blog posts that search engines like?
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