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Each year World AIDS Day falls on December 1st, and on that day and most days really, I think about AIDS, and what the disease has taken from me. A lot. It has taken a lot from me. More than I can think about sometimes, more than I want to remember. More than anything should take from a person.
I grew up in the middle of the worst part of the disease. I was just a kid and I saw a lot of people die, healthy beautiful young men who had come to San Francisco in the '70s to escape their small towns and the rural homophobia and the terrible families who rejected them. They were outcasts and they were heartbroken and shunned and so they came to San Francisco and they were welcomed by my amazing hometown with open arms.
Alcatraz must have been like Ellis Island for these guys. They yearned to breathe free and breathe gay and they came and they were and they did. I saw them in the streets when they arrived, fresh-faced and not believing their good fortune. I saw them split off two by two and maybe sometimes more. I saw them holding hands and wearing brightly colored bandanas in their back pockets. I saw them smiling and laughing and kissing and excited and eating hamburgers and wearing nipple rings and leather vests and leather jeans and getting tans on their bare chests and bursting with a joy that was likely the first happiness they had felt in their difficult lives.
I'd walk by and they would sometimes pat me on the head and sometimes ask me what my name was and if I knew what that guy's name was and if I would mind passing along a message to him.
I saw men dressed as cowboys and I saw great tall men dressed as empresses and I saw maybe more than I should have seen at that age, but I didn't mind it because it wasn't scary to me. I was safe in this city of grown-up boys who loved each other and loved life and seemed like they were living for the first time.
Can you imagine that? Living for the first time. What a lovely thing. But it didn't last.
San Francisco seemed sunny then, and then the fog set in. In my memory, it looks like that. The sun bright and hot, reddening happy faces and hairy and hairless chests alike, and then suddenly without warning the cold and the dark and the wet fog came in.
With it came a mysterious illness, and the men, these gorgeous men looked different. Everything was dark. And then the darkness started to creep into these gods whom I had worshipped from afar. I saw them then a little sick, then a lot sick, and then with bruises and then on crutches and then very thin and then in wheelchairs and then looking like old men when I knew they were not old men and then I didn't see them anymore.
The crushing blow. I didn't see them anymore. The streets were empty. Storefronts closing. Bars with only one man in them, alone, sitting in the dark in the middle of the day, head down and crying.
AIDS has taken a lot from me. From us. It has taken so much. So very much. But what I forget, and shouldn't, is what AIDS has given to me.
What AIDS gave me is something to fight against, and I learned, because of AIDS, we, my people, my tribe, the GLBT community learned how to organize, how to raise money, how to band together, how to be political, how to demand for our rights, how to write about our pain, how to march, how to approach, realize and finally attain equality.
I think that fighting this terrible plague, one that took so many of our lives and left our communities devastated, gave us strength. It is true what they say, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. We are stronger now. We are better. We are a generation who has lost many of the generation just before us, and so because of that we are prepared to go to battle for them.
Maybe it's the same in places where wars have been fought over a great many years, and so the children of the revolution come back to win and do win because we were born of the struggle and so that is all we know.
In the '80s when I began my career as a comedian, I also began my career as an activist. I played countless AIDS benefits and saw eloquent speakers and learned that I was part of a community. My heart leapt at the sight of the dykes on bikes at every gay pride parade I attended and I dreamt of riding with them someday (I will soon, I know this to be true).
I attended the March on Washington and I spoke to an unfathomable sea of people. My people. I saw things were changing for the better, and that we learned how to change things for the better because we had been through so much.
Soon after, I started thinking that gay marriage would be a reality. I started thinking that equality would be a reality. When Gavin Newsom legalized gay marriage in San Francisco, there was a great shift in my consciousness, and I knew that a giant leap forward had happened. I put on a suffragette costume, big hat and all, and went to Sacramento to speak. I was so excited and many gay and lesbian couples were headed to San Francisco to get married inside city hall itself. Everyone was beaming with the kind of ecstatic joy I hadn't seen since the '70s, when I saw all those young men arrive in my city, before the disease, before AIDS.
I saw a hope and an excitement in my community that I thought had died with all those many, many, many people. Even though this triumph for marriage equality didn't last in San Francisco, it was a tremendous first step. Then later, when gay marriage was reinstated in California, I was deputized as a marriage commissioner and was officially able to perform wedding ceremonies within the city hall of my beloved San Francisco.
I presided over two ceremonies, a gay couple and a lesbian couple, both pairs friends of mine. I stood at the bottom of the stairs in the great rotunda. The building in itself is historic, being not only the one where Gavin Newsom had legalized gay marriage in the first place, but also the place where the great martyr of our political movement, Harvey Milk, had been assassinated.
I read vows, asked my friends to repeat them, and I cried. We all cried. I married each couple and both times, I saw one look at the other, longtime partners, looking at each other with a deep love and a sweetness that I have not words to describe. It felt like, "Hey, babe. Our love is real. We are real." This was not said, but if my heart could hear, that is what it heard.
This is what gay marriage is to me. It is that acknowledgment from the government, from society, from the world — that our love is real. That we are here and that we deserve this. We come from so much pain. We as the LGBT community have suffered for centuries, from what seems like the beginning of time. We continue this struggle in the face of hatred and disease and death. We lose our children to bullying and we have never found acceptance or equality in this world ever, but now it is starting to happen. We are starting to happen. It's like we are coming into the San Francisco of the '70s but this time there is nothing that will cut us down in our prime.
We are going to do this because we have lived through hell and we have survived. We are going to do this because our love is real and we are real and we deserve families. We deserve rights. We deserve life. This is what I learned from AIDS and this is the gift that AIDS has given us back for all it has taken.


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Research Centers
The School of Social Work houses several collaborative research centers and groups that offer students the opportunity to participate in a variety of research projects and/or trainings.
California's Title IV-E Child Welfare Waiver Demonstration Capped Allocation Project Evaluation
On July 1, 2007, California and two of its counties, Alameda County and Los Angeles County, began implementing the Title IV-E Child Welfare Waiver Demonstration Capped Allocation Project (CAP). The purpose of the CAP is to assist the child welfare and probation systems in developing and implementing alternative services to foster care to bring about better outcomes for children and families. Under the CAP, the Title IV-E entitlement is suspended for five years and the allocation capped in exchange for eliminating eligibility restrictions, flexibility in the use of the dollars, and the opportunity to generate and retain savings.
The evaluation of the CAP is being conducted by researchers at the School of Social Work. The evaluation reports, along with other documents and information can be found at the CAP website. Questions about the CAP, the evaluation, and evaluation reports can be directed to the Principal Investigator: Charlie Ferguson, Ph.D.
The College of Applied Sciences and Arts (CASA) houses the Center for Applied Research on Human Services (CARHS) that provides research services and supports for San Jose State University (SJSU) faculty interested in human services research. For more information please visit the CARHS website.
The Center promotes healthy aging among multi-cultural and diverse populations living in the San Francisco Bay area. With faculty affiliates from all academic disciplines at SJSU, the Center facilitates interdisciplinary aging research, education and training, and strategic partnerships with community-based organizations working with older adults. For more information please visit the CHAMP website.
Selected Community Partnered Research Projects
Child Welfare Community Research Partnership
Differential Response: Service Use and Outcomes Among Families Using Voluntary Services
Understanding the Role of Fathers in Child Welfare Reunification:
A Secondary Data Analysis
Dependency Advocacy Center Mentor Parent Project
Advancing Trauma‐Informed Systems Change in a Dependency Drug Treatment Court Context

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CORDOVA, Alaska, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- An Alaska woman was able to walk for more than a mile and drive herself to the hospital after she was mauled by a bear while hiking Heney Ridge Trail in Cordova.
Thea Thomas was hiking the trail with her two dogs, but the animals took off once they got near a salmon stream.
After a while, the dogs came bounding back towards the 57-year-old with a brown bear chasing them. It didn't take long for the bear to shift its focus to Thomas.
"When the bear saw her, it veered off the dogs and went after her," Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters told KTUU.
Thomas was bitten about seven times and some of the wounds are so deep that they need to heal from the inside before surgery can be performed.
"He was so pissed off, he was growling, angry, shaking his head. He just started biting me. I'm yelling 'No! No!'" Thomas told the Alaska Dispatch News. "By the end, I was thinking, 'I could die here.'"
Thomas curled herself up into the fetal position and the bear eventually left her alone.
After the attack, Thomas walked a mile-and-a-half back to her truck and drove herself and the dogs to the hospital.
"She was able to stay calm and essentially she saved herself," Peters said. "She's really lucky to be alive."


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Now that your foundation in place it's time to do a test of posting our data and then to try it with our device. To test you will be using the Chrome Postman extension.
If you haven't done so, please install Postman now.
You will now use Postman to do a quick test. Open Postman and enter the parameters below. Be sure to modify the URL with the correct IP address and name you gave your schema.
|Request Type
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xsodata service
Click on the Headers tab and enter
Content-Type for the header, and
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Click on the Authorization tab, select Basic Auth, enter the values below and click Update Request.
Click on the Body tab, select the raw radio button and
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Click Send. If it is successful, you will get a 201 Created response back indicating a successful entry, and you should skip to step 8. If you get an error, see step 7.
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Accused murderer Jodi Arias was challenged today by phone records, text message records, and her own diary entries that appeared to contradict her claim that she caught her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander, looking at pictures of naked boys.
Arias had said during her testimony that one afternoon in January 2008, she walked in on Alexander masturbating to pictures of naked boys. She said she fled from the home, threw up, drove around aimlessly, and ignored numerous phone calls from Alexander because she was so upset at what she had seen.
The claim was central to the defense's accusation that Alexander was a "sexual deviant" who grew angry and abusive toward Arias in the months after the incident, culminating in a violent confrontation in June that left Alexander dead.
Arias claimed she killed him in self-defense. She could face the death penalty if convicted of murder.
Catching Up on the Trial? Check Out ABC News' Jodi Arias Trial Coverage
Today, prosecutor Juan Martinez, who has been aggressive in questioning witnesses throughout the trial, volleyed questions at her about the claim of pedophilia, asking her to explain why her and Alexander's cell phone records showed five calls back and forth between the pair throughout the day she allegedly fled in horror. Some of the calls were often initiated Arias, according to phone records.
She and Alexander also exchanged text messages throughout the afternoon and evening at a time when Arias claims the pedophilia incident occurred. In those messages they discuss logistics of exchanging one another's cars that night. Alexander sends her text messages about the car from a church social event he attended that night that she never mentioned during her testimony.
Arias stuck by her claim that she saw Alexander masturbating to the pictures, and her voice remained steady under increasingly-loud questioning by Martinez.
But Martinez also sparred with Arias on the stand over minor issues, such as when he asked Arias detailed questions about the timing and order of events from that day and Arias said she could not remember them.
"It seems you have problems with your memory. Is this a longstanding thing? Since you started testifying?" Martinez asked.
"No it goes back farther than that. I don't know even know if I'd call it a problem," Arias said.
"How far back does it go? You don't want to call them problems, are they issues? Can we call them issues? When did you start having them?" he asked in rapid succession. "You say you have memory problems, that it depends on the circumstance. Give me the factors that influence that."
"Usually when men like you or Travis are screaming at me," Arias shot back from the stand. "It affects my brain, it makes my brain scramble."
"You're saying it's Mr. Martinez's fault?" Martinez asked, referring to himself in the third person.
"Objection your honor," Arias' attorney finally shouted. "This is a stunt!"
Timeline of the Jodi Arias Trial
Martinez dwelled at one point about a journal entry where Arias wrote that she missed the Mormon baptism of her friend Lonnie because she was having kinky sex with Alexander. He drew attention to prior testimony that she and Alexander used Tootsie Pops and Pop Rocks candy as sexual props.
"You're trying to get across (in the diary entry) that this involved a sexual liaison with Mr. Alexander right?" he asked. "And you're talking about Tootsie Pops and Pop Rocks?"
"That happened also that night," Arias said.
"You were there, enjoying it, the Tootsie Pops and Pop Rocks?" he asked again, prompting a smirk from Arias.
"I enjoyed his attention," Arias said.
Jodi Arias' Contentious Cross Examination
The questioning about the candy props continued on for a while.
After the two sniped at each other during questioning, Judge Sherry Stephens reprimanded both for talking over one another.
Still, Martinez pressed forward with pushing Arias to admit that she never wrote down in her diary any claim that she saw Alexander looking at photos of naked children or had a blowout fight with him about it. She similarly never wrote that she had a violent confrontation with him where he threw her to the ground and kicked her, injuring her finger, as she had previously testified.
In fact, during the days surrounding both of those events, Arias wrote "Nothing newsworthy to report" in the journal she said she took with her everywhere.
Earlier, Martinez had used the journal entries to try and show jealousy Arias had toward Alexander. The prosecution has attempted to prove that Arias killed her ex-boyfriend in a jealous rage on June 4, 2008 and that she showed a pattern of lying.
She has testified that she killed him accidentally in a state of panic when he was threatening to kill her.
Martinez also asked her about an August 2007 incident in which she went to his house and saw him kissing another woman.
"Yesterday you told us that in August 2007 you went to Mr. Alexander's house...and you saw Mr. Alexander and a female making out, and her bra was unhooked. And you took off, and got home, and you felt strongly enough about this that you called your father. You spoke to your father and were crying. You were upset about this," Martinez said in his rapid fire style.
"You could have just left that situation alone, but you decided to confront him [Alexander] anyway, and the reason you did this was because you were jealous," Martinez said.
"No," Arias responded. She said she asked Alexander about the woman he was kissing "because he was still courting me."
"You were in love with him and you didn't want to let him go," the prosecutor insisted.
He also pointed out that she told multiple stories about her broken finger, which she alleges that Alexander broke in January, 2008, the day after she claims she saw him looking at nude photos of children. The different versions were told a new boyfriend Ryan Burns and Detective Esteban Flores who interrogated Arias.
"It seems a run of bad things happened to (your finger). You talked to Ryan Burns about it, told him that finger had been damaged on a broken glass at work," Martinez said. "You told (Flores) that on June 4, 2008, at Mr. Alexander's home, somebody broken in and... it was your left finger that had been damaged... And then you gave us another story here."
Arias had admitted on Wednesday that she lied to Burns and to Flores in the wake of Alexander's death. She said she was ashamed of killing Alexander and didn't want to get caught.


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Bismillaahir raHmaanir raHeem
Allaahu laa ilaaha illaa huwal Hayyul qayyoom
laa ta,khuzhuhuu sinatuw wa laa nawn
lahuu maa fis samaawaati wa maa fil arDH
mann zhal lazhee yashfa'U 'Inndahuu illaa bi izhnih
yA'-lamu maa baina aydeehim wa maa khalfahum
wa laa yuHee-Tuuna bi shay im min 'Ilmihii illaa bi maa shaaaaa,
wasi'A kursee yuhus samaawaati wal arDH
wa laa ya-uuduhuu HifZuhumaa
wa huwal 'Aleeyul 'AZeem
In the name of Allaah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful
Allaah! There is no god but He – the Living, The Self-subsisting,
Eternal. No slumber can seize Him Nor Sleep.
His are all things in the heavens and on earth.
Who is there can intercede in His presence except as he permitteth?
He knoweth what (appeareth to His creatures As) before or after or behind them.
Nor shall they compass Aught of his knowledge Except as He willeth.
His throne doth extend over the heavens and on earth,
and He feeleth No fatigue in guarding and preserving them,
For He is the Most High, The Supreme (in glory)."
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The Virtue of Ayat Al-Kursi
This is Ayat Al-Kursi and tremendous virtues have been associated with it, for the authentic Hadith describes it as `the greatest Ayah in the Book of Allah.'
Imam Ahmad recorded that `Ubayy bin Ka`b said that the Prophet asked him about the greatest Ayah in the Book of Allah, and `Ubayy answered, "Allah and His Messenger know better."
When the Prophet repeated his question several times,
`Ubayy said, "Ayat Al-Kursi."
The Prophet commented,
«لِيَهْنِكَ الْعِلْمُ أَبَا الْمُنْذِرِ، وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ، إِنَّ لَهَا لِسَانًا وَشَفَتَيْنِ، تُقَدِّسُ الْمَلِكَ عِنْدَ سَاقِ الْعَرْش»
(Congratulations for having knowledge, O Abu Al-Mundhir! By He in Whose Hand is my soul! This Ayah has a tongue and two lips with which she praises the King (Allah) next to the leg of the Throne.)
This Hadith was also collected by Muslim, but he did not include the part that starts with, "By He in Whose Hand…" (Tafsir Imam Ibn Katheer)
Abu Umaamah (RA) narrated that:
The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said:
"Whoever reads "Ayatul-Kursi" [Qur'an 2:255], after every obligatory prayer, nothing prevents him from entering Paradise except death (i.e. that he is still alive)."
(An-Nasaa'ee, Ibn Hibbaan – Sahih)
The explanation of this Hadith is that such a person is guaranteed Jannah, Innshaa Allaah.
However, this applies as long as that particular person does not commit any major sin without seeking repentance for it. In such a case this guarantee will not apply.
'Ali (RA) said:
"I heard the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) saying while on his pulpit:
'Whoever reads Aayatul Kursi, (Quran 2:255), after each obligatory prayer,
there is nothing which prevents him from entering Paradise except death,
and it is only a righteous and pious worshipper who would persist in reciting it regularly."
Albaani classified it as authentic, and other scholars classified it as a sound narration
It is reported by at-Tabarani that the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said:
"The one who recites Ayat-al kursi after the conclusion of an obligatory prayer, he is under the Care of Allah until the next prayer commences."
[at-Tabaraani's At Targheeb wat-Tarheeb (2:435)]
Sayyidina Abu Huraira (RA) reported that Allah's Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said,
"Everything has a hump and the hump of the Quran is surah al-Baqarah. There is a verse in it that is the
chief of all verses of the Qur'an, the ayat ul-Kursi."
(Tirmidhi 2887)
Abu Hurairah reports:
"Whenever you go to bed, recite "Ayat-al-Kursi"– 'Allaahu laa ilaaha illaa huwal-Hayyul Qayyuum' till you finish the whole verse. (If you do so), Allah will appoint a guard for you who will stay with you and no satan will come near you till morning. "
(Bukhari Book #38, Hadith #505)
Abu Umamah (ra) reported that the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said that the ismullahi al- a'dham (The Greatest Name of Allah), through which Allah assuredly fulfils people's needs, is contained in three surahs in the Qur'an: al-Baqarah, Al Imran and Taha.
Abu Umamah (ra) says that when he searched for the ismullahi al- a'dham, he found it to be in Ayat al-kursi (2:255); and in Surah Al-'Imran (3:2); and in Surah Taha (20:111).
[al-Hakim, ibn Majah, at-Tabarani, at-Tahawi, and others]
If one recites this after performing Wudhoo, the 5th Imam Hadhrat Imam Muhammad Baqir (RA) has said: Allaah will give him a reward of 40 years of Ibadaat, his position will be raised in the Heavens 40 times (levels) and will marry him to 40 Horains.
Ash-Shawkaani, may Allaah have mercy on him, said: 'The chain of narrators of this narration includes Muqaatil Ibn Sulaymaan, and he is a liar.


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Former Stanford All-American Wolf Wigo is among the Class of 2011 that will be inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame in September in Los Angeles.
A prodigy of the New York City water polo scene, Wigo's accomplishments could fill a book. Never the biggest player in the pool, he emerged on the national scene at the age of 13 playing with the senior team of the New York Athletic Club.
A standout in swimming and water polo for Bronx Science High School Wigo's 17 and under club team is still the only non-California team to ever win a Junior Olympics.
At Stanford, he helped win two NCAA championships that included his senior season that saw a 27-1 record, MPSF Player of the Year and NCAA Player of the Year honors. In addition Wigo is only one of nine athletes in Stanford history to be named All-American four straight years.
As his college career wound to a close, his Senior National Team experience began to take off. The top scorer at the 1993 and 1995 World University Games, Wigo earned a spot on the 1996 Olympic squad in Atlanta becoming the first player hailing from east of the Rockies to make the team since 1956. This was the first of three straight Olympic Games he would play in including the 2000 Sydney Olympics and 2004 Athens Olympics.
A member of the 1997 FINA Cup Gold Medal winning squad, Wigo served as team captain from 2001-2004, was named USA Water Polo Male Athlete of the Year on three occasions, and in 2000 was named to the All-World First Team by NBC Sports following the Olympic Games.
A member of the New York Athletic Club Hall of Fame, Wigo starred in Greece for three seasons. Since retiring internationally Wigo has given back to the water polo community helping to form SET Water Polo of Orange County, co-founding Kap7 International and currently heading the UC-Santa Barbara men's and women's teams while also assisting with Santa Barbara club water polo.
Still an active participant with the New York Athletic Club while winning numerous national championships, Wigo also serves as a color commentator for NBC Olympics, most recently at the 2008 Olympic Games.
The other inductees are two-time Olympic medalist Robin Beauregard, Masters Water Polo pioneer Michael Garibaldi, women's water polo advocate Jennie Jacobsen-Huse, and two-time Olympian Kyle Kopp.
Inductees were chosen through a process that included open nominations by their peers, evaluation of their candidacy by the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame Committee, and final ratification of the committee's recommendations by the USA Water Polo Board of Directors.The Committee is co-chaired by Brent Bohlender and Atherton's Chris Dorst, a former Stanford water polo All-American, and includes Stanford grad Jody Campbell, Dion Gray, Maggie Kelly, Charles Schroeder and Scott Schulte.
USA Water Polo inducted its first Hall of Fame class in 1976.


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Connecticut spent more than $109 million on Earned Income Tax Credits
Editor's note: This version updates and corrects the original story posted Thursday afternoon.
Connecticut's Earned Income Tax Credit might be re-negotiated as state legislators try to close a $1.1 billion budget deficit for the fiscal year beginning July 1.
"It has been on my radar in terms of cutting programs," said state Rep. Edward Moukawsher, D-Groton.
The program cost the state $109 million in 2012, based on 2011 tax filings. About 180,000 Connecticut households with average incomes of $18,000 received an average of $600 in 2012, according to the Fiscal Policy Center at Connecticut Voices for Children.
The program was based on the federal Earned Income Tax Credit program, which on average provided a $2,000 in tax credit for workers earning an average of $18,000, the policy center said. The federal program cost about $56 billion in fiscal year 2011 and the Government Accountability Office estimated that 23.5 percent or $15.2 billion was paid incorrectly.
"What most people will admit is it is fraught with fraud," said House Majority Leader Larry Cafero, R-Norwalk. … "Fifteen to 25 percent on the federal level, and ours piggybacks off of that."
In last month's deficit mitigation bill, legislators agreed to find $1 million of fraud in the Earned Income Tax Credit program.
Wade Gibson, senior policy fellow at the Fiscal Policy Center at Connecticut Voices for Children said he wants tax fraud across all programs investigated but that capturing a couple hundred dollars from poor people might not be the way to go.
"Tax fraud; it's usually not with poor people, it's usually with much more wealthy corporations," Gibson said.
Some lawmakers are also frustrated that many Earned Income Tax Credit beneficiaries don't pay much in state income taxes, however, they receive a "refund."
"They are not paying income taxes and they are getting a payment just based on their income and family situation," Moukawsher said.
If someone who used the Earned Income Tax Credit was paying a state income tax it would be small because a single person making $12,000 and less does not pay a state income tax, according to the state Department of Revenue Services.
An individual without children who qualified for the state or federal Earned Income Tax Credit would have to earn less than approximately $13,900, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Individuals or couples without children would have to earn less than approximately $19,200 and individuals or couples with children would have to earn less than approximately $50,300.
The Office of Fiscal Analysis estimated that the program would cost $116.5 million in fiscal year 2013. Because the tax credit is new and roughly 10 percent of the current $1.1 billion budget deficit it might be challenging to keep.
"If we want to help people, we create a program, but we never take the time to see if we can pay for it," Cafero said. "So now when the citizen gets used to the program we find ourselves in the same position as we did last month."
In New London County 13,911 households claimed the credit and each received on average $598. Hartford County had the most claims, 51,322 households, each receiving and average of $614.
The aim of the tax credit was to make the state tax code more progressive and offset sales tax increases, the policy center said.
"Whatever the merits are, one way or another, I just didn't think we could afford (it) when we did it and don't see how we can afford it now," Moukawsher said.
Earned Income Tax Credits by Town
• East Lyme, 522 households, total amount claimed $258,929
• Franklin, 48 households, total amount claimed $32,037
• Griswold, 721 households, total amount claimed $388,327
• Groton, 1,569 households, total amount claimed $979,895
• Lebanon, 258 households, total amount claimed $138,393
• Ledyard, 556 households, total amount claimed $304,570
• Lyme, 40 households, total amount claimed $17,230
• Montville, 866 households, total amount claimed$482,511
• New London, 2,730 households, total amount claimed $1,836,111
• North Stonington, 157 households, total amount claimed $84,231
• Norwich, 3,432 households, total amount claimed $2,204,366
• Old Lyme, 168 households, total amount claimed $75,729
• Preston, 171 households, total amount claimed $81,911
• Salem, 103 households, total amount claimed $52,415
• Sprague, 184 households, total amount claimed $117,433
• Stonington, 857housholds, total amount claimed $427,902
• Voluntown, 120 households, total amount claimed $64,350
• Waterford, 698 households, total amount claimed $375,146
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text: On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Mark Hahn wrote: > >> I would hazard that any DHCP/PXE type install server would struggle with > >> 2000 requests > > a single server (implying 1 gb nic?) might have trouble with the tftp part, > but I don't see why you couldn't scale up by splitting the tftp part > off to multiple servers. I'd expect a single DHCP (no TFTP) would be > plenty in all cases. 100 tftp clients per server would probably > be pretty safe. Some of the limits you encounter aren't solved by multiple machines running TFTP servers, but can be solved by a single clever TFTP server. TFTP is subject to something like the Ethernet "capture effect", where once a machine misses a packet, it's increasingly likely to continue to fail. And with most PXE clients, failure is fatal. So you want to avoid any TFTP retry, even if that means deferring the response to other clients when you detect a retry attempt. Another problem is that PXE clients seem to have some corner cases with ARP. It's best not to re-ARP during a download, even responding to an external request if some other machine is trying to ARP your client. > I personally like the idea of putting one admin server in each rack. > they don't have to be fancy servers, by any means. Any installed machine is added complexity. And these are machines you have to keep consistent with potentially many boot images. (Imagine cases where you are detecting the hardware and serving the proper image.) > > There are a few modifications you have to make to increase the number of bootps before > > it fails. > > do you mean you'd expect load problems even with a single sever > dedicated only to dhcp? That only seems unlikely until you pair a script interpreter with the DHCP server. A default backlog of only 25 packets seems tiny when you are running scripts that make SQL queries before responding. But NO ONE would do that, right? Right? > > So now to figure out my next step. I will need local space for logs > > and data/temp data files. > > why would you want logs local? You want your kernel messages to be logged to the same machine that is serving your kernels. Which should be the same server that provides the kernel modules and modprobe tables that match the kernel. And you want the logging to happen as the very first thing after booting the kernel. (Boot kernel, load network driver, DHCP for loghost, dump kernel message, only then activate additional hardware and do other risky things.) -- Donald Becker becker at scyld.com Scyld Software Scyld Beowulf cluster systems 914 Bay Ridge Road, Suite 220 www.scyld.com Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993


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An Indiana man accused of murdering an Oldham County High School graduate this summer once again plead not guilty to his charges.
At a formal arraignment after being indicted for murder, robbery, tampering with physical evidence and fraudulent use of a credit card, Miles J. Matthews, of Corydon, Ind., once again entered a plea and asked for re-appointment of his public defender.
A former police officer found guilty of one count of official misconduct has taken an Alford plea on a second charge of the same offense.
Harry "Shane" Mosley, a former Oldham County Police officer, took the Alford plea, in which he maintains his innocence but admits there's enough evidence to convict him, in relation to a DUI incident on Highway 42. The Alford plea is technically a guilty plea, although the accused maintains innocence.
La Grange Police Arrests
Nov. 22 -- Kenneth W. Smith, 29, was arrested for alcohol intoxication and disorderly conduct, second degree.
Nov. 23 -- Andrew K. Perkins, 18, was cited and released for criminal mischief third degree.
Nov. 23 -- Terry G. Broughton, 54, was arrested for careless driving and operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol/drugs/etc., first offense.
Nov. 25 -- Michael J. Snider, 35, Finchville, was arrested on two other agency bench warrants for flagrant non-support and receiving stolen property under $500.
After some delays, the La Grange Police Department has officially moved into the old firehouse on Main Street.
The new police station was fully operational on Nov. 10, La Grange Police Chief Kevin Collett said, after the department moved in "waves."
"So far so good," Collett said of the move. "There are little kinks we're working out. But overall, we're 85 percent there."
Howard "Key" Chambers, 62, a former minister of music at DeHaven Baptist Church in La Grange pleaded not guilty to all counts of child enticement at an arraignment hearing earlier this week at the U.S. District Court in Louisville.
Grand Jury Indictments
Miles J. Matthews – one count of murder, one count of robbery in the first degree, one count of tampering with physical evidence, one count of fraudulent use of a credit card under $500
Lawrence E. Alleman – one count of complicity to promoting contraband in the first degree, one count of persistent felony offender in the first degree
Joseph L. Davidson – one count of promoting contraband in the first degree, one count of persistent felony offender in the first degree
The Kentucky State Police kicked off its fifth annual 'Cram the Cruiser' food drive today. Food collection sites have been established at all 16 posts throughout the state and at the agency's headquarters location in Frankfort. The campaign extends through Dec. 16 and is designed to collect non-perishable food items for needy families.
KSP spokesman Sgt. Michael Webb said the agency collected more than 124,000 pounds of food during the 2013 campaign.
Nov. 9 -- Patrick J. Doud, 46, Cincinnati, was arrested for alcohol intoxication in a public place first and second offense.
Nov. 11 -- Jorge A. Tunchez De Paz, 33, La Grange, was cited for no operator's license.
Nov. 10 -- Wesley, K. Stults, 36, Crestwood, was arrested for alcohol intoxication in a public place first and second offense.
Nov. 14 -- Patrick S. Moore, 30, Smithfield, was cited and released for no operator's license.
The case of a La Grange man charged with robbing the Farmer's Bank of Milton on Highway 53 doesn't appear to be heading toward a speedy resolution.
William Gary Grubbs, Jr., 36, was indicted on two counts of robbery in the first degree, related to alleged robberies on April 23 and June 1.
But Grubbs is facing other robbery charges in four other counties and told Oldham Circuit Court Judge Karen Conrad that he hasn't even been arraigned or made an appearance in two of the total five counties he's charged in.
In addition to a new mayor and new police station, the city of La Grange will break in a new police chief in 2015.
Current La Grange Police Chief Kevin Collett will be stepping down effective Jan. 1, ending 12 years at the helm of the city's police force.
Collett said he told the department staff last week, as well as informed current La Grange Mayor Bill Lammlein and Mayor-elect Joe Davenport of his decision to retire.
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Management programs and control strategies designed to eliminate the bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) virus infection in cattle herds must consider two ways the virus spreads within a herd.
· From one animal to another (horizontal transmission) as infected animals secrete the virus and the virus enters a susceptible animal through the mouth or respiratory tract.
· From an infected dam's bloodstream to her fetus during pregnancy (vertical transmission).
Horizontal transmission of BVD virus to calves or adult cattle results in a temporary (transient) infection that's usually mild, but can occasionally result in severe disease.
The main negative health effect of BVD is it can inhibit conception and/or cause abortion in susceptible females. It also suppresses the immune system, making infected animals more susceptible to other diseases. In addition to contributing to disease in infected cattle, horizontal infection from one animal to a pregnant dam can lead to vertical transmission of BVD virus to her fetus during pregnancy.
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The BVD virus is able to cross from the dam's bloodstream to the fetus with high efficiency. Fetal infection can lead to early embryonic death, abortion, birth defects and stunting.
The lesions associated with fetal infection of the BVD virus include brain malformations, spinal cord defects, cataracts and other eye abnormalities, sparse hair coats, a short lower jaw, growth retardation and lung immaturity.
The immune status of the dam, the stage of gestation, and the characteristics of the virus itself are important factors in determining the result of BVD virus infection of pregnant cows and heifers. If the fetus recognizes the virus as an infection, it can fight it off and result in the birth of a normal calf; or it can become a persistently infected (PI) calf, carrying and spreading the virus its entire life.
PI cattle are the result of fetal exposure to the non-cytopathic biotype of BVD virus prior to the development of a fairly mature immune system at about 125 days of gestation. Although a high percentage of PI calves die at or near birth, or at least by weaning, as many as 50% of PI calves may survive long enough to enter the breeding pool or a feedlot.
The spread of BVD
The primary source of BVD virus is PI cattle. These animals are a much more efficient transmitter of BVD virus than transiently (temporarily) infected animals because they secrete higher concentrations of virus for a longer period of time.
BVD-PI females of breeding age are a source of horizontal transfer of BVD virus. In addition, they will always produce a PI calf.
As a result, PI suckling calves are considered to be the primary source of BVD virus in breeding herds — depending on the timing of the introduction relative to the breeding season and the resulting immune status of the herd during early gestation.
Horizontal transmission of BVD virus to susceptible cattle has been shown to occur after only one hour of direct contact with a single PI animal. Horizontal transmission of the virus from either PI or transiently infected animals to susceptible cattle can occur directly via nose or mouth contact with virus-containing body fluids. In addition, air transmission over short distances seems likely.
Persistent infection has a clustered distribution, which means a few herds may contain several PI cattle. Clustering of multiple PI animals in a herd is primarily due to exposure of numerous susceptible dams to a PI or transiently infected source of BVD virus prior to day 125 of gestation.
Economic effects of PIs
Infection with BVD virus has been associated with respiratory disease outbreaks in feedlot situations. PI cattle also can spread the virus to susceptible cattle during marketing and trucking. PIs have been shown to have an impact on health performance of susceptible penmates and cattle in adjacent pens.
The cost of one PI animal in a cow-calf herd reportedly ranges from $14.85 to $24.84/cow/year. Cow-calf producers should work with their veterinarian to determine if their herd is likely to be experiencing production and economic losses due to BVD.
The economic value of whole-herd screening for PI animals in cow-calf herds is influenced by:
· The likelihood of finding at least one PI animal in the herd,
· The negative production effects when PI animals are present,
· The cost of screening and identifying PI animals, and
· The value of animals sold.
Biosecurity matters
Because of the potential production and economic losses associated with BVD, all cow-calf producers should work with their veterinarians to establish biosecurity plans to reduce the risk of buying or creating a PI animal. Biosecurity plans for BVD in cow-calf herds include a sound vaccination program and use of diagnostic testing for PI status of any herd replacements or additions.
Biosecurity also involves application of a vaccination protocol to reduce the risk of fetal infection in the event of cow herd exposure to an animal shedding BVD virus.
Modified-live vaccines (MLV) have inherent properties that may enable them to stimulate more complete protection against transplacental infection. For that reason, one recommendation is to vaccinate unstressed, healthy heifers with a MLV.
Vaccine administration should be timed so a protective immune response coincides with the first four months of gestation.
Bottomline: While vaccination does provide some protection from fetal infection, BVD virus control is generally achieved by a combination of:
1) Diagnosis and removal of PI cattle,
2) Vaccination with an MLV, and
3) A biosecurity system that prevents the introduction of PI animals into the herd and minimizes contact with infected animals.
For more information, go to the "BVD Information Links" posted on the Internet by the Academy of Veterinary consultants: www.avc-beef.org.


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text: Just because you don't use OSCAR or Scyld, or some other cluster software, doesn't mean you can't have the company network see just one computer. We have a 'head' node that is nothing more than a PII with two network cards in it. It takes care of our RAID, PBS stuff, etc. Behind it we have 35 Compaq XP1000. They all run out of the box distributions that I've installed mpich on and compiled our code for. The thing that looks nice about a lot of the 'cluster' distros is the web administration interface, the ease of updates since they boot from the main node, etc. The updates can be handled with PXE, dhcp, etc. I suspect as a cluster grows, the usefullness of specialized clustering tools like Scyld, OSCAR, etc. becomes much more appealing. The lease is up on our XP1000's so we're replacing them with 64 P4's that I think we'll just run Redhat 7.3+mpich on. later, Todd > -----Original Message----- > From: Curtas, Anthony R. [mailto:ANTHONY.R.CURTAS at saic.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 10:05 AM > To: beowulf at beowulf.org > Subject: Which cluster to use? > > > I am setting up a cluster (albeit very slowly) in our computer lab. > > We have good compilers from Absoft and Portland Group that > support parallel > execution. However, they are running on RedHat 7.3 with the > 2.4 kernel. > > I had a 3 node test system using the Sycld basic setup; but > it would not run > any of our software due to a glibc mismatch (the version with > the 2.4 kernel > was incompatible with the special Sycld version for RedHat 6.3). > > So, I have been doing more research and found Oscar and a few > other options, > including just using pvm, mpich, and lam on standard installations. > > I like the Oscar and Sycld idea of having the network see one > machine and > then just doling out jobs to the slave nodes. > > Does anyone have other suggestions? Or is it going to be a > while before we > have what we need for a RH7.3 cluster? > > Thanks, > Anthony > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) > visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >


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Manchester United have completed the signing of Angelo Henriquez and the Chile Under-23 striker has now joined from Universidad de Chile for an undisclosed fee.
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natalie says who will believe that, I feel stupid listening to you. maybe they tell Erik they will give him the hidden immunity idol if he give up the neckalace.
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2 stars (out of 4)
On their debut album, "Days are Gone" (Columbia/Polydor), Los Angeles-based siblings Danielle, Este and Alana Haim make it impossible to ignore their obvious allegiance to '80s pop and its production values. Calling what they do "retro" doesn't quite do it justice. It's like the last two decades never happened.
Danielle and Este were previously in a teen-pop group, Valli Girls, and they've adopted a slightly tougher sound with hints of Vixen-style mainstream metal and hip-hop in a mix of purring synthesizers, reverberating programmed beats and tightly scripted melodies. With the bulk of the production by Ariel Rechtshaid, whose myriad credits range from Vampire Weekend to Usher, "Days are Gone" revels in its artificial gleam. There's not a hint of dirt, grime or even lint to be found anywhere, and the parade of verse-chorus melodies brims with little hooks and ear worms.
"Falling" evokes Peter Gabriel with its layered, reverberating percussion, "Forever" nicks Stevie Nicks' "Stand Back," "The Wire" channels the Eagles' "Heartache Tonight." The trio isn't much for extravagant singing. Instead, they use their voices like percussion instruments, and create intricate patterns with their harmonies. The emphasis on rhythm and rhythmic accents is one of the albums distinguishing features. But these aren't grooves meant for dancing. Instead, their mechanical precision reinforces the vocal hooks, with synthesizers filling in the cracks.
The lyrics flirt with turmoil – there are lots of songs about holding on or jumping into the fire, and so forth – but don't really say much of anything. Nothing more appears to be at stake than sounding innocuously catchy. Only "My Song 5" evinces a personality -- a collage of elephant noises, spastic beats and operatic bombast. It's the album's one experiment, an eccentric exception amid the rehashed artifice.


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Dear Amy: My husband and I have been married for 14 years. He is 80. He developed some form of dementia about four years after we married, and I am his caregiver. He is very high-functioning, enjoys life, reads and has hobbies, though he has started to show some physical weakness and loss of stamina.
We moved to the city where his children live, at their urging, so they could ostensibly "help" with caring for him if he worsened. They seldom help and are always occupied with other things. His daughter manages my husband's assets, which are quite substantial.
Recently, I learned they have been looking at other living arrangements for us, without discussing this with us. They have told relatives that they worry about our stress level. They hint about moving us to assisted living.
We own our home and have very little maintenance associated with it. We are happy, and both of us are financially independent. I am healthy and younger than my husband, and while I have made it clear that I need breaks to spend time with my children and grandchildren in another state, I don't complain about care giving.
We have insurance that would pay for in-home care, if needed. My husband can afford respite care, and we have outside help. I have been very angry about his children intruding and don't know how to handle this.
— Hates Manipulation
Dear Hates: Your frustration is warranted. You are a stepmother in a care-giving situation; you are a hero to this family, and all of your offspring — yours as well as his — should do everything they can to be supportive.
These adults have a version of being supportive that seems to have left you and their father out of the process. You will have to correct them about this. They all have a stake in your future. Set them straight — gently.
You should not discount the idea of assisted living just because you don't want to make this move now. Research this on your own. Consider every angle (financial, emotional, etc.). This option might be something you will choose down the line.
Call a meeting. Let the "kids" express their concerns and ideas. Ask them to communicate directly with you. And then acknowledge their concern, thank them for their ideas, tell them your own plans (if you want to) and let them know exactly how they can be most helpful to you right now.
Dear Amy: You wrote this sentence in response to "Heartbroken": "Interventions should be guided by an addiction specialist — otherwise even the most dedicated attempt may backfire and have serious (unintended) consequences."
Many years ago, a longtime friend was part of a staged intervention for someone whose alcoholism was out of control. Since then she has conducted her own "interventions" on people whose behavior did not please her.
I was one of those people; she called a meeting to confront "your obesity" after I had gained weight. Her daughter-in-law was another one; she called a meeting to confront "your addiction" when she felt her daughter-in-law spent too much time and money shopping.
I was so startled I avoided her for several years. Neither of us changed the behavior that bothered her. Moral of the story: Leave interventions to those who are trained and know what they are doing/what's appropriate.
— Been There
Dear Been There: Exactly. Otherwise, an intervention is just a power play.
Dear Amy: Your advice to "Heartbroken" was right on, and spooky in its timing. I saw the column the day after I learned that a high school friend had died, apparently as a result of alcohol addiction. I am very sad and shocked, and feeling a little guilty because I hadn't seen her in a couple of months and hadn't realized she had resumed drinking.
I would add that Heartbroken might want to look into Al-Anon Family Groups for advice on how to help her friend and how to handle stepping back. The only thing she probably can tell her friend is, "I love you, I'm worried about you and I wish I could help before something awful happens to you, but only you can fix this."
— Ruth in Rochester, N.Y.
Dear Ruth: Thank you.


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Jan. 21, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - An early 17-0 run by Babson College proved to be the difference in its 69-52 victory over MIT in a NEWMAC women's basketball game on Saturday. With the loss, the Engineers' ledger moved to 6-7 on the year and 0-3 in conference play.
Each side traded baskets to start the contest with Kelsey Cappelle posting the equalizer (6-6) after four minutes elapsed. Following their own timeout on the ensuing possession, the Beavers began their string of 17 straight points which spanned over six minutes of play. MIT slowly chipped away at the deficit to come within eight (35-27) on a pair of free throw from Clara Yuan with 51 seconds remaining. Linsey Poulson's lay-up returned Babson's advantage to double-digits just before the break.
The Engineers continued to attack in the second half, closing the gap to 11 on two occasions, the last time at 49-38 with 12:13 on the clock. The Beavers countered with seven straight points that extended their lead to 18 and put the game out of reach for the visitors.
Yuan paced MIT with 17 points as Cappelle posted 14 points, five steals, and four rebounds. Samia Mahjub bolstered the Engineers' efforts with 14 points, six boards, and three steals.


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A horse named Orb just won the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby, becoming the latest horse to attempt to piece together the elusive Triple Crown. Palace Malice led for most of the race before falling behind Normandy Invasion. Just around the last turn, Orb made a late race surge to take the lead and secure the "Run for the Roses" victory. Orb and another horse, Revolutionary, were the favorites heading into the race.
Known as "The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports," the Derby is the first leg of horse racing's annual triple crown races, and probably one of the best summer kick-off traditions there is. The pomp and pageantry off the aristocrats in the stands is only rivalled by the decadence and depravity, as Hunter S. Thompson put it in his famous essay, of the rest of the spectators gathered in the infield. This year was no different. The Derby is known almost as much for the huge hats women wear with their summer dresses and flats as the thoroughbred horses that run the race. Unfortunately, rainy conditions at Churchill Downs kept some hats under wraps this year:
But they didn't stop this guy from wearing his customized crown dedicated to the race -- with its horses and jockey uniforms and base of roses:
That hat is amazing and deserves to be in the smithsonian. The poor weather didn't stop the people partying in the infield from doing the stupid stuff they do every year. They just adapted and set up a slip'n'slide to party with:
Horse racing is the best sport. Where else do you get to slip'n'slide before an event begins? See you on May 18 for the Preakness.
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Pac-12 M5: 11.16.12 EditionPosted by KDanna on November 16th, 2012
- Great news for the Ducks, as the NCAA has granted transfer Arsalan Kazemi a waiver and he will be available to play for Oregon right away. It's a good thing, because Oregon has a huge home date with Vanderbilt later tonight. Many figured this was coming since Omar Oraby, a fellow Rice transfer, was not required to sit out a year given similar circumstances. An interesting point of contention with the Oraby and Kazemi transfers is that USC and Oregon alleged that the two faced racial discrimination at Rice, primarily by Rice AD Rick Greenspan. Rice head coach Ben Braun and Greenspan vehemently denied these allegations in a statement from the school, which is posted in full in the CBS Sports article (the first link). Without getting too much into Rice's situation, the school said it did not sign off on waivers that would allow Oraby and Kazemi to play right away. Whatever is going on there can't bode well for Braun, the former Cal coach who has seen six players leave his school via the transfer route since the end of last year. In any case, this is a huge positive for the Ducks, as they get a Kazemi who averaged a double-double last year in a conference (C-USA) that was comparable to the level of Pac-12 play. He will add a lot to a front line that already includes Tony Woods and Waverly Austin.
- Not so great news for the Washington Huskies, as Lorenzo Romar says he is unsure if Scott Suggs will play this weekend after he suffered a concussion in Tuesday's loss to Albany. Suggs, whose status is day-to-day, is obviously a big asset to this team, but it would be great for the Huskies to have him available this weekend because the team travels to the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut for the Tip-Off Hall of Fame Classic. A win against Seton Hall would mean (most likely) a date with No. 4 Ohio State. A loss and it's a game against lowly Rhode Island, a team that is 0-2 on the season and isn't expected to do much of anything in a loaded Atlantic 10. And, after losing to the Great Danes, Washington needs all the RPI love it can get. If Suggs is on the floor, the Huskies have one more shooter to space the offense and provide another option for Abdul Gaddy on a penetrate and pitch. If he can't go, Andrew Andrews will get the starting nod, per Romar.
- Not much of a surprise here, but Colorado coach Tad Boyle has received a one-year extension on his contract that now lasts through the 2016-17 season. The folks in Boulder absolutely love Boyle, just ask our very own Parker Baruh. He has turned around a program that was consistently in the bottom tier of the Big 12 and led them to two straight 24-win seasons, the last one in the year after losing a lottery pick in Alec Burks. If Boyle can lead the Buffs to another 24 wins in 2012-13, he would have to be a leading candidate for Pac-12 Coach of the Year, considering he lost Carlon Brown and two other key seniors from last year in Nate Tomlinson and Austin Dufault. Just hours later, Boyle earned his 50th win as the Buffs' head coach when Colorado beat Dayton in the first round of the Charleston Classic. Good timing for that extension.
- Speaking of the Charleston Classic, it's one of a few non-conference tournaments that houses Pac-12 constituents. While Colorado knocked off Dayton after being behind for most of the game, the same can't be said for Oregon State, which lost a close one to Alabama in the first game of the 2K Sports Classic in Madison Square Garden. The other tournament going on, as mentioned earlier, is the Tip-Off Hall of Fame Classic, which features Washington. Again, these tournaments are largely where conferences make or break its reputation for the season, as most of the other non-conference games come against guarantee-game opponents with a few challenges sprinkled in here and there. For the Pac-12 to have an acceptable weekend, each team needs to win at least one game: Colorado has done the bare minimum, but could really help out the Pac by beating Murray State or St. John's in the third place game if a victory doesn't come against Baylor. Oregon State needs to knock off Purdue to even itself up in Madison Square Garden, and that won't be an easy task. Washington, again, really needs a win against Seton Hall, because a loss to Ohio State would probably look better than a win against Rhode Island. The non-conference tournaments are huge for the Pac-12 this year, especially considering what happened last year, with failures like Washington State going 0-3 against a weak field in the 76 Classic and UCLA going 0-2 against D-I teams in the Maui Invitational.
- Connor here, stepping in to finish off the M5 with our weekly Pick'em contest. Unfortunately, with Utah's uninspiring loss last week in Seattle, I still trail Drew by four games with only 14 left to play. But it ain't over til it's over, and I'm pulling out everything I've got this week to make up some ground. I'm talking a Washington State upset in the desert. I'm taking a Cal team playing in what will likely be their head coach's final game at the university. These may be long shots, but I've got no choice at this point. Our picks below, with, as always, our game of the week in bold.
|Connor's Pick
|Drew's Pick
|Washington at Colorado
|Washington State at Arizona State
|Washington State
|Arizona State
|USC at UCLA
|Stanford at Oregon
|Oregon 52-20
|Oregon 62-24
|Arizona at Utah
|California at Oregon State
|Oregon State


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Gas Tanks Being Drilled, Drained
Police in Sioux Falls say more than a dozen vehicle owners in the southwest area of the city have been victimized by someone who is drilling holes in gas tanks and draining the fuel.
Police say the crooks are targeting sport utility vehicles in apartment parking lots, and while we don't own an SUV and we don't live in an apartment, I'd be really angry if someone drilled my fuel tank and drained it.
There has been some speculation that the bad guys are targeting SUVs because they sit higher and it's easier to get underneath.
This apparently is what gas theft has come to, since you can't siphon it out using a length of rubber hose anymore.
Police had seven reports in January and a half-dozen more cases that are believed to have occurred the night of February 11th or the morning of the 12th.
Police say the best thing that can be done, since apartment complexes don't generally have surveillance cameras, is to keep your eyes open.
And for heaven's sake, if you see someone sliding under an SUV, call police.