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Message in a Bottle: "Hello, fellow traveler."
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Nancy Auer was walking along the beach on Seven-Mile Point, near Eagle River, when she spied something right out of the days of pirates and castaways.
"A lot of the beach is cobble and gravel, but I looked at the one spot with sand, and there was this bottle," said Auer, a professor of biological sciences. Inside, the message had faded, but had an address. And it said, "Hello, fellow traveler.'"
The message was not written, as in olden times, by anyone in distress. It said, "Thanks for finding our message in a bottle. Send us a message where and when you find it."
So Auer did, which brought her in contact with Danny and Kari Saathoff and their sons, Harrison, 15, and Avery, 13. Danny emailed her back. The Saathoffs, who live in Edina, Minn., had sent out three bottles, corked and sealed with candlewax, on August 7 while they were sailing in Lake Superior. They were released somewhere between Grand Marais, Minn., and Thompson Island, which is near Thunder Bay. Forty days later, on Sept. 16, one of those bottles had washed up on Auers' beach.
Auer suspects it was carried along by one of Lake Superior's currents, an inference that Saathoff found astonishing, above and beyond the fact that she discovered their bottle.
"It is pretty odd how the world comes together, but it's even crazier that Nancy's a biology professor and she knows about the currents," said Saathoff, who is an artist and instructor at Carleton College. "I thought that was just fabulous."
All told, the Saathoffs have set a half dozen bottles loose in Lake Superior. "We just do it for fun," he said. "You like to think that someone will find it, but this is the first one that's been found."
As for Auer, she was delighted to be the recipient and amazed at the bottle's persistence. "There's a lot of big, rocky coast around Lake Superior, and to have this arrive without a chip is pretty amazing."
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Interesting Move: Peter Sunde, Of The Pirate Bay & Flattr To Run For EU Parliament
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I've discovered that people who have never met Peter tend to be very quick to jump to conclusions about him -- almost always entirely incorrect. Amusingly, when I first met him, a few years back in Berlin, he and I were sitting in "the green room" of a conference right before a panel that he was supposed to be on. All of the other panelists on his panel had entered the room and were discussing the panel across the room, without knowing that Peter was sitting right there talking to me. So they started talking about him, and someone explained that "the pirates now hate Peter, because he switched to the other side with Flattr." Of course, nothing is further from the truth. This was never about "sides" but about reality. Peter has always been incredibly focused on recognizing what reality is and trying to respond to reality -- rather than making up artificial boundaries and pretending a fake world must exist where it does not. I'm not sure how well that will play in actual political situations, but it would be great to see what would happen.
The one bit that surprises me, frankly, about the decision to do this via the Pirate Party is that, in the past, Peter has actually distanced himself from The Pirate Party in the past, saying that he preferred other parties, such as the Swedish Green Party. Either way, in my limited experience with him, Peter has always been one of the most perceptive and thoughtful commenters on the state of technology and its impact on society and culture. I've come away from our conversations feeling like I understood a lot more about the world than when the talks started. I recognize that for many who come with pre-conceived notions, it will be easy to try to dismiss him, but for those willing to take a chance and see what he actually has to say, there is tremendous value in hearing what he has to say -- and in a political world, it would be great to see what he could accomplish.
That said, there is the outstanding matter of the ruling against him -- and the fact that he's been sentenced to jail, though it's still never been made clear when or how he will be expected to serve that sentence. I would imagine that somehow, that issue would need to be clarified if his candidacy actually gets any real momentum.

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When you are trannylicious and older than your young, hot, rich, sucessful toyboy what you don't do is announce to the world that you want to marry him and have his babies!
Scherzinger can't wait for the couple to get married and start raising children in Hawaii – the state where she was born. She says, "I am the happiest I have ever been right now. We would love to have beautiful angel babies together."
First of all babies are babies, not angel babies. Secondly, not many 23 year old men with everything at their feet are going to drop everything to settle down – he's barely come out of puberty for god's sake.
Important note Nicole! Keep your mouth shut and work on getting pregnant so then you won't have to work for 18 years. And yes, she's got some money but she ain't rolling in it the way Lewis is (or will be!).
I personally think Guy Richie did goldigger quite well. For some reason men don't get lynched quite the way women do if they walk away with a hefty chunk of money after loving a wrinkly for a while. Guy who 'didn't want anything' walked away with something like 50m making it quite a worthwhile marriage after all.


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Thursday, May 5, 2011
James Preston Hawkins
This unidentified photo has been in the "unknown" collection of old family photos. A year or so ago, strictly by deduction, Shannon and I came to the conclusion that it "might" be James Preston Hawins, our g-g-g-grandfather, (Roscoe Blood, Sarah Batty Hawkins Blood, James Preston Hawkins). Yesterday, Steven Lukins, also a direct line of J.P. Hawkins, forwarded the same picture with the following: "The picture was labeled by Myrtle as James Preston Hawkins her grandfather. " Now we have positive identification. Welcome, James Preston Hawkins to the family gallery.
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- Elizabeth said...
A true frontiersman from Kentucky! It's amazing how Shannon's perseverance is solving so many mysteries. And her mother's help is not too far behind. Thank you for this connection.
- May 5, 2011 at 12:09 PM
- Ann said...
Isn't it amazing how things pull together. Another mystery solved. I love being able to sit back and watch as these clues are pieced together. Good work!
- May 6, 2011 at 1:18 PM
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"All too often people talk about the disadvantages of the Windows operating system: it has too many security flaws, it is not properly patched, it is not security oriented… Until the much talked about Vista system finally reaches our computers, there will still be plenty of time to protest. However, with the new malware dynamic, the idea that malware is restricted to specific operating systems is becoming anachronistic. It no longer matters whether the victim is a home-user or a company employee. It is now irrelevant whether the system administrator is just someone who lives round the corner or a highly qualified IT manager."


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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Steven J. Fliesler, PhD, Meyer H. Riwchun Endowed Chair Professor of Ophthalmology in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been elected to the board of trustees of the world's largest eye research society, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO).
It is his second major honor from ARVO this year. Last month, Fliesler, who also is a research health scientist at the Veterans Affairs Western New York Healthcare System, was formally inducted into ARVO as a Gold Fellow, placing him in an elite group of international vision researchers.
Fliesler will serve a five-year term on the board, which sets ARVO's strategic direction and conducts the group's operations and policymaking activities. He also chairs the ARVO Publications Committee, and completed a three-year term (the past year as chair) on the Retinal Cell Biology section of the ARVO Annual Meeting Program Committee, a position he has held twice.
A UB faculty member since 2008, Fliesler is an internationally recognized scientist and president of the International Society for Eye Research. He is vice chair and director of research for UB's Department of Ophthalmology. He also directs research for UB's Ira G. Ross Eye Institute Vision Research Center, housed in the Buffalo VA, where he also serves as acting associate chief of staff for research and development.
A prolific researcher, Fliesler has been studying cholesterol metabolism in the retina for more than 30 years. For the past two decades, the National Institutes of Health has funded his pioneering studies into retinal dysfunction and degeneration associated with Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome, a rare, sometimes deadly, birth defect. Fliesler also collaborates with colleagues at other institutions on the development of novel gene therapy applications to treat retinitis pigmentosa and other genetic eye conditions that can lead to incurable blindness.
Fliesler is widely considered an expert in lipid (particularly cholesterol) metabolism in the retina, with more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, plus numerous book chapters, reviews, editorials and abstracts.
He obtained his PhD in biochemistry from Rice University, then did postdoctoral research and was a research assistant professor at the Cullen Eye Institute/Baylor College of Medicine. He held faculty positions at the University of Miami School of Medicine and Saint Louis University School of Medicine, where he worked for 20 years before moving to Buffalo.
Fliesler concurrently serves on the editorial boards of six journals; notably, he is the Retina & Choroid Section co-editor, was the inaugural Focus on Molecules feature editor, and the current Special Issues and Reviews editor for Experimental Eye Research.
He is the recipient of a James S. Adams Award and a Senior Scientific Investigator award from Research to Prevent Blindness. He received a Chancellor's Award in Neuroscience from the LSU School of Medicine and was a finalist twice for an Alcon Research Institute Award. His research has been continuously funded by NIH/National Eye Institute since 1983, as well as by the Foundation Fighting Blindness and the March of Dimes.
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In the wake of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's death, Britain's former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Mandelson said the only thing Thatcher ever told him was that the Irish were "all liars" and not to be trusted.
However, Thatcher's biographer Charles Moore is now saying that Thatcher was perhaps already in the grips of dementia when those comments were made, and that she did not intend them to be serious.
Speaking to the Irish Times, Moore said "In one sense, I wouldn't take the story very seriously. I don't mean it is not true, but what I mean is that you have to distinguish very strongly between the Margaret Thatcher in retirement and the Margaret Thatcher in office."
"The one in office was the more genuine because in old age she was more disinhibited and just tending to fire off things," Moore said.
Moore went on to say that Thatcher, like many of her generation, were inclined to mutter "'Typical Irish', that sort of thing."
"Her dip was already beginning then," said Moore of Thatcher when the alleged comments were made to Mandelson. "Because she had run things for so long she was still firing on all cylinders."
"She was a bit like a car that is not in gear. You press the accelerator, it makes a great noise but it doesn't go anywhere. She was slightly playing to the gallery: there was an element of humor in all this," he said.
Moore went on to say that Thatcher's comment are typical and in-line with other politicians. "Masses of political leaders do this sort of thing in private, 'Oh, the bloody French, they are a nightmare.' I am sure people say that all over the world about the British. It means something, but I don't think it should be over-interpreted."
"She did not hate the Irish," says Moore, "she hated the terrorists."
Moore also shed light on what he perceived Thatcher's relationship with former Taoiseachs of Ireland Charles Haughey and Garret FitzGerald to be.
"She didn't trust Haughey, in which I think she was not alone. She did basically trust FitzGerald. She is not very nice about [Garret] FitzGerald in her memoirs, but she did essentially respect him and even like him," said Moore.
"She didn't feel that these were a whole load of lying, thieving Paddies. [Her husband] Denis was rather more of that attitude. She thought that there was something to be done, and she liked some of the people," added Moore.
Moore added that he believed Thatcher to be an imperialist in many ways, but that she was not so with Ireland, saying she thought it to be "entirely sensible" that the Republic of Ireland existed.
According to Moore, Thatcher did, however, feel "strongly that Northern Ireland was British because its people wanted it to be, rather like the Falklands."


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Starting with the Windows Phone 8 GDR2 and Nokia Amber updates, Nokia was able to offer new options for the Lumia line, including the coveted Glance screen and Touch features. Glance enabled the onscreen clock with vibration and charging alerts, while Touch allows users to modify screen sensitivity.
Both features are essential in getting the premium Nokia experience, but there was one problem: discoverability. In order for a new customer to learn about those features, they would have to do some deep digging in the myriad of options under Settings.
Well today, that is no more.
Nokia's Extras + Info system app was updated to version 126.96.36.199 this morning and with it, moves Glance and Touch directly into Settings > System along with mini-descriptions below the listings. The update also has the usual fixes and improvements, but it is the repositioning of those two feature sets that is the big deal here. Users will now have each option openly situated for easier discoverability when navigating in Settings.
It's a smart move by Nokia, and hopefully people picking up a new Lumia with Amber will now be able to find Glance's onscreen clock with ease.
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30 in 30: Wild questions include Backstrom, Granlundby Brian Compton
The Minnesota Wild qualified for the Stanley Cup Playoffs last season for the first time since 2008, but their return lasted five games, quickly ousted by the Chicago Blackhawks in the Western Conference Quarterfinals. With much of the roster returning this season, the Wild will aim to build off what they accomplished in 2012-13.
Coach Mike Yeo, who celebrated his 40th birthday July 31, returns for a third season after guiding the team to a second-place finish (26-19-3) in the Northwest Division. Chuck Fletcher has been the general manager since May 2009 and replenished the prospect pool while the Wild endured their four-year playoff drought.
This season will be a pivotal one for the Wild front office. After spending nearly $200 million on forward Zach Parise and defenseman Ryan Suter in July 2012, positive results are expected.
"The new additions, the lack of training camp made it challenging in a lot of ways for us," Yeo told NHL.com. "But that first step of making the playoffs was big for us and getting that experience. Having that feeling of coming up short and taking that into next season, for sure, is going to be a good experience for us."
Here are six questions facing the Wild:
1. How will Minnesota fare in the new Central Division? -- Because of realignment, the Wild have moved from the Northwest to the Central Division and will begin new rivalries against the Blackhawks, Winnipeg Jets, St. Louis Blues, Dallas Stars and Nashville Predators. The Colorado Avalanche, who were with Minnesota in the Northwest, also moved to the Central.
Travel will be better for the Wild, who had to make frequent trips to western Canadian cities (Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton) while playing in the Northwest. The shorter commutes could help moving forward.
"The travel part is going to be huge for us," Yeo said. "The schedule will be compressed again with the Olympic year, but in the two years that I've been here, it's been a real eye-opener for me, just the travel that we've had, especially coming from the East when I was in Pittsburgh. It affects you. You lose a lot of practice days because of travel days, you lose rest time bouncing through different time zones. I think it's going to bring a little more normalcy for us and give us a better chance."
2. Can Jonas Brodin actually improve off last season? -- Nobody could have expected the 10th pick in the 2011 NHL Draft to have the impact Brodin had in Minnesota last season, when the defenseman was so solid he joined Ryan Suter on the top pairing, led NHL rookies by averaging more than 23 minutes per game, and was named to the All-Rookie Team.
By the time the playoffs rolled around, Brodin was playing nearly 29 minutes a night. Not too bad for someone who was the youngest defenseman in the League at age 19.
So what does Brodin do for an encore next season? Can he really be even better?
"Hopefully he does just what he did last year," Yeo said. "With young players, the key is to make sure they come back and they have that same type of attitude where they're looking to prove themselves, where they're looking to establish themselves. I know he's the type of kid that won't come in with any complacency. He's the type of kid that plays with so much consistency in his game because of his maturity level. He's a very structured, very strong-minded player. His skating ability, his talent level should able him to keep playing at that level."
3. How durable is Niklas Backstrom? -- A healthy Backstrom will go a long way in determining whether the Wild will make it back to the postseason. The 35-year-old, who went 24-15-3 with a 2.48 goals-against average and .909 save percentage last season, signed a three-year contract worth $10.25 million at the end of June that will keep him in Minnesota through 2015-16.
Backstrom started 27 of the final 28 regular-season games, which may have played a role in the lower-body injury he suffered during warm-ups prior to Game 1 of the playoffs against Chicago. Backstrom, who underwent surgery to repair a sports hernia in May, will likely have to play more than 50 games if the Wild are going to make the playoffs.
"Last year, we were kind of forced into a situation where we played him a ton," Yeo said of Backstrom. "He was a warrior for us and did an unbelievable job. Certainly, we can sit here and say maybe he wouldn't have gotten hurt before Game 1 of the playoffs if we had an opportunity to give him a little bit more rest. But [he] has been feeling good and he's excited about the season. I know he wants to play more games next year, but we really are going to go in without a plan per se and just make sure we're just sort of evaluating it every day. We've got two capable goalies and we know [he] needs to get his games to be on top, but we also have to make sure that we're monitoring his rest and that we're giving him the best chance to be at his best every night."
4. Will Mikael Granlund make an impact? -- Competing for the No. 2 center job with the Wild, Granlund started the 2012-13 NHL season with Minnesota but was demoted to Houston of the American Hockey League after producing one goal and five assists in 17 games. He returned to Minnesota on April 4 and had one goal and one assist in eight games. Clearly, more production will be needed if Granlund is going to start next season behind Mikko Koivu on the depth chart.
"We're not going to go in with preset lines," Yeo said. "We're going to be trying a lot of different combinations, we're going to be trying guys at different positions. Luckily we've got a longer camp and it should be able to give us a chance to kind of see things progress.
"If Mikael Granlund is capable of filling that position, it would open a lot of things up for us, especially with his playmaking ability, his skill level coming up the middle of the ice, his ability to distribute the puck. I think it would be beneficial for him and for our team."
But who will be the guy clearing the net? More will be expected in that department from 28-year-old Clayton Stoner, who certainly has the frame (6-foot-3, 218 pounds) to assume the role. Keith Ballard, who arrives after spending the past two seasons with the Vancouver Canucks, also will be expected to bring a physical game each night. Matthew Dumba, the club's first-round pick (No. 7) in 2012, can provide that should he make the club out of training camp.
"A huge part of Clayton's game was to bring a physical presence, and we need him to do that every night," Yeo said. "We need to do that by committee, it doesn't matter what kind of player you are. If we're on the blue paint (in the crease), I think that's an area we can get a little harder, a little bit nastier, and I think we've got to make sure that we're bringing that. As a team, we're looking to get better and we're looking to add on to the things we're already doing well and improve some areas we're not doing well enough, and certainly that's one that we can improve on."
6. Will Nino Niederreiter thrive in his new home? -- The 20-year-old Swiss wing is coming off a somewhat tumultuous season after reports surfaced in January that he was seeking a trade from the New York Islanders when the team didn't invite him to training camp. The fifth pick at the 2010 NHL Draft, Niederreiter played in the NHL as an 18-year-old and had one goal in 55 games, though he spent much of that time on the fourth line alongside defensive-minded forwards Marty Reasoner and Jay Pandolfo.
Niederreiter played well in Bridgeport of the AHL last season, finishing with 28 goals and 22 assists in 74 games. His production decreased in the second half; he had three goals between March 17 and the end of the season, a span of 15 games.
Niederreiter, who was acquired at this year's draft in exchange for right wing Cal Clutterbuck and a third-round pick, could benefit from a change of scenery. He will be given every opportunity to make the Wild out of training camp.
"I know things didn't go right for him [with the Islanders], but you can see a lot of things that get you excited as a coach," Yeo said. "His size, his skating ability, his puck strength and puck-moving ability … I think he's a guy that's going to help us play the type of game that we want to play."
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U.S. a bright spot in sluggish global drives market
Modest growth in the U.S. is the only bright spot in an otherwise sluggish global drives market, according to a new report released by IMS Research. Still, according to IMS Research's quarterly tracker and current indicators, global motor drive revenues in 2011 were at a multi-year high and 2012 is likely to set a new peak, albeit only modestly higher.
IMS Research estimates that global motor drive sales in the first half of 2012 were down more than 9% as compared to the first half of 2011. IMS Research predicts EMEA and Asia will see grow in the second half of 2012. IMS Research forecasts that global motor drives sales will grow by 2.6% in 2012 as compared to a 15.3% increase in 2011; this is in line with lower predicted real GDP growth and machinery production revenues in 2012.
According to IHS Global Insight, worldwide real GDP growth is forecast to decrease from 3% in 2011 to 2.5% in 2012 and then rebound to 2.6% in 2013, while machinery production is forecast to decline from 12.4% in 2011, to 7% in 2012, and 5.7% in 2013.
"Over the last few years, the majority of the increase in motor drive sales came from Asia while the Americas grew at a slower rate. EMEA motor drive sales by contrast, have not returned to pre-recession levels. The predicted 6% to 8% year over year motor drive sales growth in the Americas, may offset slower sales in EMEA and Asia," said IMS Research Analyst and report author Rolando Campos.
The volatile U.S. election and still-uncertain economic picture has not put a damper on the the drives market, Campos found. "The Americas are seeing stronger motor drive sales, in large part, because the U.S. is on a stronger financial footing while the Eurozone is still in the midst of its financial crisis," he said. "In addition, an increase in commercial HVAC, oil, gas, and mining projects in the U.S., Canada, and South America has resulted in an increase in demand for motor drives. Finally, as motor drive prices have decreased and energy costs have increased, many companies have decided to replace motor starters and soft starters with motor drives."
While global motor drive sales have slowed in 2012 as compared to 2011, the global economy and the motor drives market appears to be set for a stronger year in 2013 as many political uncertainties are resolved in the U.S., Eurozone, and China, the research firm said.


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Dr. Leticia Acosta and her husband, Dr. Horacio Pla, were both successful dentists in Cuba. They had a 3-1/2-year-old son named Horacio, after his father. In Cuba, they lived the good life. But they believed their lives could be better.
"My father was a dentist and my mother an industrial engineer. My husband and I were both dentists. But, in Cuba, unfortunately, you can be a successful professional but your lifestyle and your dreams can be frustrated," Dr. Acosta explains. "This is because you do not have personal freedoms."
Because Dr. Acosta and her husband were both medical professionals, the only way they would be allowed to leave Cuba was if they won a lottery to immigrate, or leave secretly, and dangerously, by boat. They chose the latter.
"Family and friends helped us get a boat and my husband, my son and I left one night in 2002 with very few possessions. We were so hopeful but the Coast Guard saw us when we were about 25 miles from the Keys," she recalls.
The family was taken aboard a Coast Guard ship and detained for five days before being transferred to another ship and taken back to Cuba. Cuban authorities interrogated them, confiscated all the personal supplies given them by the Coast Guard and tried to get them to agree to be in a video denouncing their actions. Ultimately, their medical professions kept them from being more harshly dealt with and they were allowed to return home. But their dream was still alive.
"Twenty days later, we tried again. This time we made it to Key Largo, stepped onto the beach and began the process to be allowed to stay in America," Dr. Acosta said. "Because of special arrangements between Cuba and the United States, if you step onto U.S. soil, you are allowed to stay if you meet certain requirements."
The family was taken to the Krome INS detention and processing center in Miami. (The center, ironically, is located on the site of a NIKE missile launcher base built in the 1960s during the Cuban missile crisis.) They underwent medical testing, inoculations and many interviews with authorities during the time they were there. They were accepted as immigrants and made their way to Miami and its supportive Cuban community.
Within a few months, Dr. Acosta and her husband decided to move to Cape Coral because they believed there might be better opportunities for them. Their family grew to four with the birth of their daughter, Nancy.
Dr. Pla had been a dental lab technician in Cuba before becoming a dentist and returned to that profession. He now owns his own dental lab. Dr. Acosta became certified as a dental hygienist and went to work at Riverdale Dentistry Associates in St. James City. Both became citizens in 2008.
"My experience working at Riverdale, and for Dr. Markus Sherry, made me want to be a dentist again,' Dr. Acosta explained. 'I went to the University of Florida in Gainesville for four years and got my DMD this year. Happily, Dr. Sherry hired me to be a new dentist at the practice."
Happily, also, the dentist who arrived by boat with little now enjoys a very full life enjoying the freedoms she dreamed of having if she came to America.


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Realizing that getting three strikes on YouTube means he would lose his account -- which already has about 100 million views -- he's pretty freaked out. In response, he's set his other "Songs in Real Life" videos to private to hopefully avoid getting any other strikes while he tries to figure out what to do.
While his videos are no longer available, with a little searching you can find them elsewhere. I don't know how long this will remain available, but here's someone who put all three of the "Songs in Real Life" videos into a single video. It's difficult to see how this isn't fair use, and I'd argue that this is a clear case of Sony engaging in copyfraud.
As Steve notes, all of the video clips are between 3 and 10 seconds. No one is going to reasonably claim that this takes away from the market for that song. Furthermore, as he also points out, he listed all the songs that were used in the description of his video and made it easy for people to go buy the songs. In other words, it's difficult to see how these videos didn't actually help the market for these songs, rather than hurt it. The Lenz v. Universal case showed that copyright holders need to take fair use into account when they issue DMCA takedowns, and it certainly doesn't look like Sony did so in this case.
But, really, what's even more interesting about this story is just how much it has impacted Steve. He talks about how he's afraid to lose all that he's worked on and how it's like losing a family member. This is the exact opposite of what copyright law is supposed to do. Here it's being used to stifle and shut down creativity. And while some may claim that what Steve feels is no different than what an artist whose work is infringed on experiences, it seems quite different, actually. With an infringement, an artist hasn't lost anything. It's just that their own wishes for how the music is used or paid for gets denied. In this case, the content is actively being shut down. There's a real loss. That's unfortunate.


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Some victims who were abused by Scott Gordon Henry, 67, of Richmond, said they would pray for the former licensed therapist after hearing he had died after hanging himself.
Henry was serving time at Pamunkey Regional Jail for sexually abusing his patients and he died in a hospital on Oct. 6. Seven patients told authorities they were his victims.
Victim reactions ranged "from being shocked by the fact that he is no longer with us to relief," said Cindy Gatewood, director of the Caroline County Victim/Witness Assistance Program of the Caroline Commonwealth's Attorney's Office. "Some victims felt a little guilt and that is something a few deal with all the time. Then there were some who wanted to pray for him.
"Some were angry because of the fact that he would not live to complete his sentence," Gatewood added. "More were disappointed at the fact that he had passed away and that no matter what, they never wished him dead. Some are still processing it."
He used a bed sheet to hang himself, but workers at Pamunkey Regional Jail revived him and he was taken to a hospital, said Diane Abato, Caroline's deputy commonwealth's attorney, who prosecuted his case. He was placed on life-support in the hospital, but died a few days later.
Henry was a therapist for the Rappahannock Area Community Services Board. He pleaded guilty in June to sexually abusing two children and a mentally handicapped adult who were his patients.
The Virginia Department of Corrections has a program in which victims of crimes can be notified when the perpetrator is released from prison, escapes, changes his name, is transferred from one facility to another or if the person dies in prison, Gatewood said.
The victim/witness programs helps victims, especially those in crises. "Our goal is to make them aware of what's going on and allow them to share their emotions. We help them work through what they're going through."
Henry pleaded guilty to four charges: three charges of aggravated sexual battery and one charge of taking indecent liberties. He was sentenced to a combined total of 65 years in prison, but the judge suspended 52 years. Henry would have served an active sentence of 13 years.
He was charged with 13 counts of aggravated sexual battery and 12 counts of indecent liberties involving seven victims, but some of those charges were withdrawn in the plea agreement.
After Henry's trial, Commonwealth's Attorney Tony Spencer said Henry was "in very bad health," adding that the 13 year active sentence would probably be "a life sentence for him."
While incarcerated and awaiting his trial, Henry had passed out and fallen and sustained a cut on his head that required 12 stitches.
The crimes occurred between Jan. 1, 2003 and Jan. 1, 2004 and Jan. 1, 2007 and Jan. 1, 2008. Henry worked at the board's clinic at 19254 Rogers Clark Blvd. in Ruther Glen, across from Caroline High School.


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IFC Films Blu-ray Wrap-Up (US - BD RA)
Gabe reviews a series of IFC Films releases centered around tiny casts...
4:44: Last Day on Earth
As Armageddon movies continue to excel in popular culture their conventions are beginning to be adapted in subversive ways by subversive artists. This year saw indie darling Lorene Scafaria taking the subject on with a substantially twee comedy take, and soon Edgar Wright will be regrouping with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost for The World's End, which will likely be a satirical, character-driven take on the genre. Now, it's one-time enfant terrible Abel Ferrara's turn to but his own nihilistic, minimalist spin on the end of the world with his film 4:44: Last Day on Earth – a disaster film set almost entirely in a bohemian couple's Manhattan apartment. Ferrara is best remembered for his Catholic-guilt heavy, New York-set crime films, Driller Killer, Ms. 45, King of New York and Bad Lieutenant. These films remain among the best of their kind, thanks in large part to Ferarra's mix of intellectualism and exploitation imagery. More recently his output has been largely defined by staid, meditative films that are mostly defined by their above-average casts and uneventful narratives. 4:44: Last Day on Earth carries many of Ferrara's trademarks, including visual hallmarks, a claustrophobic atmosphere, and the New York setting. Any viewer expecting the usual mix of bombast and social anxiety found in the most popular end of the world cinema will be sorely disappointed by Ferrara's approach, but fans will know, more or less, exactly what to expect.
The film is immediately striking for its characters' surprising indifference towards the onset of the end of days (which have already been announced). Our leads, Cisco (Willem Dafoe) and Skye (Shanyn Leigh), go about their business with an alarming calm. Ferrara takes time to lovingly film the mundane details of their final day, including Skype calls (sometimes the film feels like a really dark ad for the platform – one of the two leads practically shares her name with it), painting, watching television, making love, talking to themselves, screaming at each other (easily the dumbest moments of the entire film), taking drugs and watching their neighbours. The cause of the world's death is explained in the most basic scientific terms, but is mostly a moot point in favour of more quiet images inter-cut with spiritually-tinted, surrealist tone poems, and bizarre images of New Yorkers going about their normal lives, unaware that Ferrara is filming them in the context of the apocalypse. Generally speaking, nothing happens and we're forced to deal with the listlessness of impending doom. This approach does lead the audience to start thinking about what they'd do with their last day, and it feels strangely authentic. There are stints of Ferrara lobbing politics and philosophies at the screen, but he mostly avoids corralling his audience, leaving the bulk of the reaction up to us. What's most surprising is that the film isn't really all that nihilistic, despite being an Abel Ferrara movie about the end of the world.
Shot using Red One digital HD cameras and presented in 1080p video, 4:44: Last Day on Earth looks pretty great. Close-up details are enormously sharp and lifelike and background details are complex without mashing into each other. The compressed footage used for montage and archive interview purposes should not have its digital artefacts counted against it, of course. Problems occur with some of the blends, especially those seen in the darker outdoor sequences. Here banding effects become so extreme that they almost appear intentional, and are easily among the worst I've ever seen from a Blu-ray disc (this occurs sometimes with special effects, so it may be an overarching issue with the budget CG Ferrara used). The black levels also tend to absorb the warmer hues in natural light, but are generally well separated and support the vibrant colours. The film's sound design doesn't give the DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack all that much to do, but there isn't much to complain about in terms of distortion or shortcomings in the mix. The naturalist approach doesn't lead to a lot in the way of directional influence, but there is an ambient bustle in the stereo and surround channels that works in the organic sense. Francis Kuipers' music is plenty big, and features plenty of stereo and LFE support. The only extra here is a trailer.
Featuring a cast of actors on their way out of stardom (sorry, Stephen Dorff) and a largely untried filmmaking crew, Brake doesn't inspire very much confidence. Often low standards breed pleasant surprises, and Brake ends up being a modestly entertaining thriller experience. It's not going to change anyone's life, but it's solidly crafted, good looking, and, perhaps most importantly, aspires to be something genuinely smart. First time feature writer Timothy Mannion, is smart in its unassuming scale, and he unravels his plot without wasting too much time on unnecessary sequences or subplots. The more complex the tale gets, however, the more familiar it feels, and the more obvious it is that the final payoff probably won't meet the expectations set. The double twist ending doesn't help. Prolific television documentary director Gabe Torres is given a pretty complex problem to solve in covering a large part of his narrative from a single, severely compact set. He manages to both make the small set appear consistently interesting, and find a storytelling rhythm that helps maintain interest despite the lack of diversity in onscreen faces. He also times out some potent startles and the illusion of action where there really isn't any. Stephen Dorff's recent lack of mainstream appearances has made it easy to forgive years of douche bag typecasting and he's actually quite good in this more human role, which is good, since we don't escape him for basically the entire movie. The dialogue also isn't solid enough on its own to work without a strong central performance to anchor it. The off-screen actors are a bit stiff, save a prime performance from an adorable dog, but not enough to drag down the film too much.
Brake was also shot using the Red One camera system and is also quite good looking in 1080p. The film starts baked exclusively in a bright red hue, supported by super-deep blacks. These images are crisp without more than a hint of compression blocking. Soon after, greens are introduced, along with more highlight options, and the quality of the image takes a slight turn into something more raw and grainy. Eventually, proper lighting takes hold, and the format's abilities with complex hue separation and fine details are put to good use (you can probably count the hairs in Dorff's mustache). The digital grain never really clears up, but it's quite fine and generally adds texture to the gritty situation. The DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack is quite lively adding a sense of hyperrealism to a claustrophobic situation. While Dorff is trapped in the trunk the stereo and surround channels are used to convey the unseen sounds of the outside world, and the immersive effect is largely successful, especially in terms of the directional movements of vehicles. Workhorse composer Brian Tyler's score is a bit more electronically enhanced than a lot of his more recent work, but certainly adds a bit of class to the modest production. The score is often at odds with the sound effects and could've probably been dropped entirely in many cases, but, for the most part, undercuts the mood without overstating itself. Extras include a commentary track with director Gabe Torres, Inside the Box: Making Brake (23:50, HD) with Torres, Stephen Dorff and writer Timothy Mannion, and trailers.
ATM features another first time feature-length director and another high concept, claustrophobic story, but unlike Brake, it doesn't step beyond its low expectations. In fact, it's kind of a bad movie altogether. Director David Brooks does pretty well with the basics of camera movement and blocking, but he has major issues with building suspense. There's not a single genuinely frightening sequence in the entire film and the violence is incredibly tame. Chris Sparling's screenplay, which traps three young financial industry types in an ATM booth while a masked killer attempts to draw them out for the slaughter, features a reasonably clever, low-budget-friendly premise that plays on post-recession talking points, but like so many high concept horror flicks, the premise would probably work better in a shorter form treatment. Stretched over nearly 90 minutes the story's lack of ideas wears thin, and the entire premise turns downright silly. There is some surprisingly amusing and particularly sarcastic back and forth dialogue early in the film, but the bulk of interactions are made up of characters either bickering about what to do or wondering allowed why this horrible fate has befallen them. The small cast features a surprisingly recognizable team of actors considering ATM is basically a low-budget slasher, including Alice Eve, Josh Peck and Brian Geraghty, and for the most part they present warm, likeable characters (aside from Peck, who is meant to be annoying). The performances have a huge effect on the film, considering how little occurs in the film's seemingly endless runtime. Unfortunately, they aren't enough. I kept waiting for a big twist to appear and save the day, alas, there was none.
And continuing the trend here, ATM was also shot using Red One cameras. Brooks and cinematographer Bengt Jonsson opt for a generally clean, almost sanitary look, cutting between cool, fluorescent-lit hues and, on occasion, warmer, apparently candle-lit (?) hues depending on the scene requirements. The Red One's abilities with smooth gradations and colour transitions are well utilized, and there are enough deep, supportive black levels to show off the format's capacity for sharp edges (which is good, considering how extremely dark some sequences are). The transfer also includes an ongoing series of bright highlights, usually in the form of electric reds. The DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack is hit and miss throughout. It's consistently crisp in terms of natural effects and dialogue, and includes a fair amount of surround ambience when required. The sound of freezing wind blowing outside the ATM booth is particularly effective. Dynamic range plays a regular part in the film, achieving its minor scares, and most of the basic effects are punched up to achieve maximum impact. Shortcomings usually come in the form of musical addition, which are often awkwardly spread over the stereo and surround channels, creating slight aural delays and weird echo effects. David Buckley's score is mostly unaffected by this problem, and swirls nicely throughout the channels with a punchy LFE backup. The extras include a behind the scenes featurette (8:00, HD) and trailers.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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I was disappointed by 4:44: Last Day on Earth. I like Ferrara's New York crime films and The Addiction. Even New Rose Hotel is better than this film. I think I like the end of the world interaction between characters better in Lars Von Trier's Melancholia.
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Release Date: 17th July 2012
Discs: 3
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish
Extras: Commentary with director Gabe Torres, Inside the Box: Making Brake, Making ATM, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Abel Ferrara, Gabe Torres, David Brooks
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Shanyn Leigh, Stephen Dorff, Alice Eve, Josh Peck and Brian Geraghty
Genre: Drama and Thriller
Length: 267 minutes
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Sioux Falls Canaries Manager Steve Shirley Talks About the 2013 Season [AUDIO]
The 21st season of modern day Canaries baseball in Sioux Falls starts this week with the opening pitch Thursday night in Sioux City and the home opener Friday night.
The American Association team opened the doors at Sioux Falls Baseball Stadium Tuesday for Media Day.
ESPN 99.1's Jeff Harkness talked with the skipper, first about the biggest change off the field, the return to the Canaries moniker from Pheasants.
Shirley has seen just about every kind of season in his seven previous yeas at the helm in Sioux Falls, from an American Association championship in 2008, to a runner-up finish in 2010, to back-to-back losing seasons in 2011 and 2012.
The 2013 Canaries roster features a host of familiar faces back on the pitching staff, where four of the eleven pitchers (Ben Moore, Jack VanLeur, Kyle Ruwe, and Alan DeRatt) have previous Sioux Falls experience, with a fifth (Mitchell Clegg) expected to join the team soon.
Offensively, the Birds are looking for an influx of power from newly acquired infielder Jared Clark, who hit 24 home runs in the Rockies organization last season. Clark has twice been named a MiLB.com Organization All-Star.
Just a pair of position players had played with the franchise before, infielders Cory Morales and Jake Taylor, which means Shirley is trying to learn a lot about his team in just two exhibition games and a handful of practices.
After the opener at Sioux City Thursday, the Canaries play six straight at home starting Friday night with three against the Explorers, and, after a day off Monday, three with St. Paul.


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A lavish touring production takes over Boston Opera House.
In 1862, when Queen Victoria was on the throne in England and Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a novel that inflamed the passions of her fellow Americans to fight slavery through a bitter Civil War, a governess named Anna Leonowens arrived in Siam to teach English and Western ways to the children of the king. Her memoirs and the novel about her life, "Anna and the King of Siam," inspired Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II to craft "The King and I," one of their most evocative musicals. It premiered on Broadway in 1951.
Anna and her young son sailed into the Boston Opera House earlier this week in the sumptuous touring production originally mounted at New York's Lincoln Center Theater in 2015. Under the direction of Bartlett Sher, it won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.
The Broadway and London star, Laura Michelle Kelly (of the lovely soprano voice and stalwart manner) is cast as Anna, opposite the imperious King (Jose Llana in a stunning, nuanced performance), father of more than 70 children by a bewildering number of wives and concubines.
As befitting a major revival of a beloved classic, the settings by Michael Yeargan could not be more elaborate and the costumes by Catherine Zuber, featuring a wardrobe of Anna's huge, bell-shaped, crinoline skirted gowns, in contrast to the slim, silken silhouettes for the Siamese women, make a show by themselves.
The issue of the place of women in a male-dominated society is front and center from the top when Anna demands the separate house that the King had promised her instead of living in the palace. The King knows where women belong, under his control and at his bidding, as shown by the beautiful young slave girl, Tuptim (Manna Nichols), a gift from the King of Burma.
The King is bewildered that she doesn't return the "honor" of his attentions but she is in love with Lun Tha (Kavin Panmeechao), the envoy who delivered her.
The King and Anna battle for control throughout the nearly three-hour long show, gradually getting to respect one another and perhaps something more, acknowledged in the unforgettable song-and-dance number, "Shall We Dance?" The King allows Anna to teach him the polka; she lets him hold her around the waist as they step together through space. For a moment, the "what if" between them becomes more than sub-text.
The doomed love affair between Tuptim and Lun Tha is foreshadowed by the charming dramatization – Siamese style – of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," recreated from Jerome Robbins' 1951 staging by choreographer, Christopher Gattelli. The brutal outcome of the forbidden romance, expressed so eloquently in their duet, "We Kiss In The Shadows," emphasizes the gulf between East and West, despite the other major theme, "Getting to Know You," the two-way exchange about how people learn each other's ways.
Although the musical is rife with the cliches about the "barbarians," and the unfortunate colonial intentions by the Western nations, Rodgers and Hammerstein were pioneers in pleading for understanding between the different cultures.
In contrast to the musicals being produced that have a more personal viewpoint and lively staging, Sher has presented an operatic-like performance, sometimes slow but always touching. The touring sets and blocking move horizontally, back and forth between the two sides of the stage, which add to the sometimes heavy feel to the action.
However, the breath-taking score sung by the leads and a full-throated ensemble makes this production a worthy introduction to the Rodgers and Hammerstein legacy and a welcome re-visit for those of us who have cherished the show.
THE KING AND I Presented by Broadway in Boston through April 23 at the Boston Opera House, 539 Washington St., $44 and up. 800-982-2787; BroadwayInBoston.com


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silver head
Here you can see (or almost see, anyone want to buy a camera?) logo's added to the white head and circuit boards mounted inside the silver head. We've decided to build the second body up as version 2.0 also and work on motion routines in tandem.
I chose silver for the painted head to emulate the finnish on the aluminum. White and black and clear are the most common plastic colors on the body. There is a rainbow of colored plastic wires, other wise the silver on the aluminum is the most prevelant color. What color would you choose for the head?
Does anyone have a suggestion for how I might tint the white head from the inside surface. It would need to be a translucent dye or the like. Perhaps a blue dye added to the plastic welder solution would do the job. I bet art markers would do it. Does anyone have suggestions for a pattern on the head?
Actually this is a perfect time for a critique. I'll get some better photos up soon.
Syndicated 2005-12-10 02:15:00 (Updated 2005-12-10 03:53:48) from Keith Rowell


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Technology opens the doors to many opportunities, but it also opens doors to some real threatening challenges.
Technology opens the doors to many opportunities, but it also opens doors to some real threatening challenges.
This is especially true when it comes to the newest generation of surveillance drones eyed for law enforcement efforts. The most cutting-edge of these surveillance aircraft are all the more difficult to detect as some companies are offering drones disguised as sea gulls and other birds to mask their use.
This is not science fiction about a day far from now. The Federal Aviation Administration said it lists some 327 permits as active for domestic drone operators that include police, universities, state transportation departments and at least seven federal agencies.
The FAA has a September 2015 deadline from Congress to open the nation's airspace to drone traffic, and estimates 10,000 drones could be flying in as few as five years. The FAA is working to create sites across the country to test drones, a requirement before widespread government and commercial use is approved.
Wise officials are taking steps now to ensure the privacy of citizens is not forgotten. Legislatures in 15 states, including Maine, are considering proposals to limit drone use.
Maine state Sen. John Patrick, D-Oxford, has proposed a bill to place state limits on the use of surveillance drones, including the requirement of a warrant or court order for a domestic drone to be used by law enforcement. This makes sense given the much greater access that these small aircraft can provide.
Drones are not like the helicopters and planes now used by law enforcement.
Rachel Healy, a spokeswoman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, said her group has heard stories of drones being used privately, including by a parent who wanted to monitor his son on his way to school. "We've heard stories of drones so small they're undetected in crowds," Healy said. "This idea sounds conspiracy theory '1984.' It's real."
Drones can provide great benefits, law enforcement officials say. A drone was used to surveil the bunker in Alabama where a gunman held a 5-year-old boy hostage. Other officials said they can be of great assistance in search-and-rescue missions and to assess the extent of damage after natural disasters.
This may well be true, but having laws governing the use of drones in law enforcement efforts will not preclude their use. Bills like that proposed by Sen. Patrick would help ensure any drones used in an investigatory manner are held to the same legal standards as any other means of surveillance.
The concern about the use of drones is not limited to law enforcement. Given the goal of widespread commercialization of their use, the concerns about privacy extend far beyond potential criminals. The commercial use of drones could invade nearly every aspect of everyday life as businesses pursue ever greater access to personal information and consumption habits.
Consider the difference between a stationary Web cam at a popular location like Hampton Beach and a remotely operated mini-aircraft equipped with a video recording device hovering around sunbathers.
It may sound like a new era "1984," despite Healy's warning of its present reality. Laws in place governing all uses of drones, including those restricting where they are able to fly, will ensure that no one's privacy is stolen by this latest advancement of technology.


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Yes, it's still being updated.
OS/2 eComStation 2.1 has been released by Serenity Systems International and Mensys BV. The market for eComStation may not be particularly huge, but it still has its niches here and there. Since there might be folks here that aren't in the know: eComStation is the commercial continuation of IBM's OS/2, developed to support modern hardware.
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If the price wasn't so high people who don't know it could give it a go and might find it useful or fun. Maybe they should make a live cd demo version.
I have a 486 somewhere running OS/2 Warp. It's pretty cool and runs well. Actually I only used it as a DOS game launcher, but it did that fine.


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National Overview: Consolidated State Performance Report
Part 1, Section 1.9: Education of Homeless Children and Youth
Homeless Children and Youth Enrolled
Primary Nighttime Residence
Shelters are defined as supervised publicly or privately operated facilities designed to provide temporary living accommodations. Included in the sheltered definition are the following: i. Transitional Housing is temporary accommodation for homeless individuals and families, as a step to permanent housing. Residents of transitional housing continue to be considered homeless until they move into permanent housing. ii. Awaiting Foster Care: children who are awaiting foster care placement are considered homeless and eligible for McKinney-Vento services. (See Section 725(2)(B)(i) of the McKinney-Vento Act.) Children who are already in foster care, on the other hand, are not considered homeless. LEA liaisons should confer and coordinate with local child welfare providers to determine what "awaiting foster care placement" means in the context of their State and local policies.
Unsheltered includes cars, parks, campgrounds, temporary trailers, abandoned buildings and substandard housing. Substandard housing may be determined by local building codes, community norms, and/or a case-by-case determination as to whether the accommodation is a "fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence."
Doubled-Up The McKinney-Vento Act defines this term as "sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason" [725(2)(B). This classification particularly requires a case-by-case determination, keeping in mind the determining factor is whether the accommodation is a "fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence."
Reading Assessment
Math Assessment
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Data reflected in these charts are drawn from the Part 1 Consolidated State Performance Reports (CSPR) which may be found on the US Department of Education website at this address:
The Education for Homeless Children and Youth Section 1.9 of the CSPR has been excerpted into pdf files by individual state by year and can be downloaded from the menu at the left. A three-year data summary featuring all updated data may also be downloaded.
Before SY2010-11, reading and mathematics assessment data was only collected for students served in LEAs with McKinney-Vento subgrants. As of SY2010-11, these data are now collected for all students enrolled in all LEAs. The three-year comparison data for students served in LEAs with subgrants will continue to be displayed on the national and state data pages until the final certification of the SY2011-12 CSPR. At that time, these pages will reflect the comparison data for all students enrolled.
McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth Actual State Funding Allocations
Download a spreadsheet with all state funding data.
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Searage feels Burnett leaning toward retirement
Reacting to the calendar and the apparent lack of communication between the Pirates' front office and A.J. Burnett, Bucs pitching coach Ray Searage's latest expectation is that the right-hander is "gonna retire."
In a Thursday morning interview on Pittsburgh's 93.7 radio, Searage said he personally has reached "the point that he's not gonna come back. I've got to prepare my guys to pitch with no A.J."
Reacting to the calendar and the apparent lack of communication between the Pirates' front office and A.J. Burnett, Bucs pitching coach Ray Searage's latest expectation is that the right-hander is "gonna retire."
In a Thursday morning interview on Pittsburgh's 93.7 radio, Searage said he personally has reached "the point that he's not gonna come back. I've got to prepare my guys to pitch with no A.J."
"I'm leaning that way. That he's gonna retire," Searage added.
Searage stressed that he had no new information on the mindset of Burnett, who in the wake of arguably the best of his 15 seasons (3.30 ERA, 9.8 strikeouts per nine innings) is considering retiring, swapping pitching for family time.
"We're still waiting," Searage said.
That puts the respected pitching coach in the same situation as Burnett's teammates and boss.
A few hours prior to Searage's radio comments, Pirates general manager Neal Huntington said he was still "going through the process" with Burnett.
"I have nothing but respect for how challenging and difficult a decision like this is for a professional athlete," Huntington said. "[Burnett] has the financial ability to stay home. But, really, there is no going back."
As Huntington noted, Burnett is at a crossroad many ballplayers reach. In fact, Don Mattingly alluded to the exact same conflict on Wednesday, across the continent from Burnett's Monkton, Md., home.
Speaking to reporters after agreeing to a contract extension as Dodgers manager, Mattingly recalled his "decision that I wasn't going to keep playing because I wanted to be around my boys … I did the right thing."
Also worn down by back problems, Mattingly had retired following the 1995 season. He was 34.
Burnett turned 37 last week. Huntington is believed to have given him an undisclosed deadline -- but also space, and within that space Burnett's decision has become a bit more complicated.
It started out as Pirates-or-retirement. But landing in the sights of pitching-shopping teams closer to his home -- thus possibly offering a more appealing way to prolong his career -- may have presented Burnett with more options.
That development may have also given him more bargaining power. The Pirates' only offer to Burnett, made weeks ago, was believed to be for $9 million -- enough to make him the team's highest-paid (a status now belonging to lefty Wandy Rodriguez at $8.5 million), but considerably below market value.
Money may ultimately play a bigger role in Burnett's destination than geography. Baltimore (20 miles from Monkton), Washington (52) and Philadelphia (76) are all closer to his home, but Pittsburgh (189) isn't exactly the outland by comparison.
The perception is no one in Pittsburgh wants to pressure Burnett and risk it backfiring into resentment. Not Huntington, not Searage, not teammates.
Shortstop Jordy Mercer says he has regularly talked to Burnett during the offseason, but not about his status.
"I don't go there. It''s his whole decision, and we're all just waiting to see what he will do," Mercer said. "I want him back. We all want him back. We think he can still do it, and he knows that as well. It comes down to whether he wants to do it."
"He's got two young boys, and they're awesome," Searage said. "I can see how they can tug at your heart. But he's a warrior who wants to be out there. We've given him the time he needs, but when the limit's up ... we'll have to go from there."
The Bucs' offseason rotation makeover has been limited to the signing of another free-agent bounce-back candidate, Edinson Volquez, but Huntington again asserted that the Burnett situation has not been an impediment.
"It has not hindered anything we wanted to do," Huntington said. "We've been able to remain patient. We remain very hopeful he is going to return to pitch for Pittsburgh, but continue to operate as if he's not."
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer.


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How do I register my organization with the VSLC?
Call or email Brian Blevins at 405.974.2621 or email@example.com.
How can I get UCO volunteers for my organization?
E-mail information concerning your organization and what you need from volunteers to email@example.com.
How do I get information to students?
Students will receive information about your opportunity through our database. The information we send them comes directly from the Off Campus Volunteer Request Form.
What kind of response will I get?
We have a lot of students with diverse interests and we get a lot of positive feedback from organizations who are satisfied with the work done by UCO students. Although we try to meet everyone's needs, we cannot guarantee that students will be interested in your opportunity. We can inform our students, but it is their responsibility to take the initiative.
What is the process for communication with volunteers?
After students have expressed interest in an opportunity, they will contact you. We will not give you any student's information, but once you have been contacted by a student, you will communicate with the student directly.
Faculty FAQs
Can service-learning be implemented in all disciplines?
Service-learning does not exist in a vacuum; it is a pedagogical tool that may enhance your teaching and allow students a new way to learn within a discipline. Accordingly, service-learning activities look very different from discipline to discipline, and have useful applications in all of them.
Some sample service-learning syllabi in various disciplines may be viewed at: http://www.compact.org/initiatives/syllabi/
Do I have to redesign my course syllabus to incorporate service-learning?
Not necessarily; service-learning may take as large or small a role in your course as you like. It may be a single optional project, or it may shape the entire semester. The VSLC will work with your goals and outcomes to develop a suitable project and fit it within the framework of your course design.
Staff and Student FAQs
Can staff log hours?
Log your hours here. We will verify and track all reported hours, and even provide a staff Service Transcript upon request.
What is the VSLC
The VSLC is the Volunteer and Service Learning Center. In our office we provide opportunities for students to engage themselves in their community by volunteering. Students, faculty and staff can volunteer at events held by the VSLC or other organizations on-campus. The VSLC can also match individuals with opportunities based on their interests. Faculty receive support for service-learning partnerships and projects. The VSLC will track and verify all service hours for students, faculty and staff and provide Service Transcripts.
Where is the VSLC?
The VSLC is located on the UCO campus in the Nigh University Center Room 212 directly across from the bookstore and next to Off-Campus Life.
What is Service-Learning?
At UCO, service-learning is defined as "course-based, credit-bearing activities in which students participate in a service projects that meet identified community needs to gain a better understanding of course content as well as an enhanced sense of civic responsibility." Service-learning integrates community service into academic instruction to support the learning goals of a course. The connection between academics and community service offers a dynamic opportunity to strengthen student learning in a powerful context where students gain first-hand experience with economic, social, cultural, educational, environmental and political issues that shape a particular course.
Why volunteer?
There are many reasons why a student might volunteer. Some students feel the need to give back to their community while others enjoy the camaraderie established by working along side other volunteers. Because the VSLC will track and verify all of your service hours, students can use their volunteer experience when looking for a job. Employers value well rounded students that are engaged in their community. Also, there are scholarships and awards available for those students who show particular interest in service.
How do I volunteer?
There are several ways to volunteer through the VSLC. The first step to volunteering is joining the VSLC's OrgSync Page. The available opportunities usually fall into two categories. The first category is on campus volunteering. This includes our Signature Events and other events happening on campus that require volunteers. For a list of these, click here.
If you are registered with the VSLC, you will be notified when these opportunities arise. The second category pertains to individual and group volunteering opportunities at different agencies. We are partnered with over 50 Community Agencies and you can view their information online or in our office. If an agency has a specific need, we will contact everyone through our database, but if you are seeking out volunteer work, it is your job to contact the organization.
Can I volunteer on campus?
There are plenty of ways to volunteer on campus. The VSLC holds Signature Events every semester and you are invited to participate. Most of are events start on campus, and if we leave campus, carpooling is often available. The VSLC also recommends volunteers to other events on campus.
Can I volunteer somewhere that will help my major?
There are numerous opportunities that we can find to correlate with your major and assist you with graduation. The best way to find one of these opportunities is to come into our office and visit with us about your plans.
Who are the VSLC's community partners?
The VSLC has partnered with over 50 organization in the Edmond and Oklahoma City area. You can look online at our Community Organization or we have a notebook in our office with additional information.
How does the VSLC track my hours?
In order to track your hours, you will need to complete a Service Hours Form for all of your service. We will verify your service and place it onto your transcript. When you need your Service Transcript, you will fill out an Official Service Transcript Request at least 10 days before it is needed.


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