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Today's lead isn't buried in verbal cotton candy.
I've got hardball news.
In 1847, Mormon soldiers stationed at Mission San Luis Rey in what is now Oceanside played the first baseball games in California's recorded history.
Azariah Smith, a private with the famed Mormon Battalion, wrote the following in his journal:
"Sunday March the 6th. We drilled as before and through the day we play ball and amuse ourselves the best way we can. It is very cool weather and clothing scarce."
So what's the big deal?
"When I started research for 'Baseball in San Diego: From the Plaza to the Padres,' " says local baseball historian emeritus Bill Swank, "I wanted to discover mention of baseball in San Diego before May 6, 1871. I remember practically going blind and even falling asleep while spinning old 1850-1860s newspaper microfilm reels at the downtown library searching for the word 'ball.' When I found it in a headline, it meant a ball where the locals could trip the light fandango."
Stymied, Swank ended up downplaying the period before 1871: "Billiards, bowling and boredom helped pass the time in the sleepy watering holes of Old San Diego."
So it was a thunderbolt out of right field when, last month, Bay Area historian Angus Macfarlane (Swank fondly calls him a baseball "prehistorian") said he may have stumbled upon what he calls the "Holy Grail," Smith's entry in "The Gold Discovery Journal of Azariah Smith" by David Bigler of Utah.
In a note to Swank, Bigler speculated that "the Mormon Battalion's members hailed from virtually every state in the Union at that time and any one of them could have taught the rest how to play baseball."
Coincidentally, on March 6, 1847, troops from New York arrived in San Francisco and in April went to Santa Barbara. According to historian Donald Briggs, the men proved unruly, "galloping their horses or playing ball in the streets.
So that's the box score. Mission Mormons beat New Yorkers by a month.
Though it's conceivable that "ball" referred to another recreation, Macfarlane assures me that "ball" was the common name for what we know as baseball.
Smith, by the way, has another claim to fame. He was right there when gold was discovered in Northern California. Rejecting the lure of riches, the homesick ex-soldier returned to Utah.
Nevertheless, he appears to be San Diego's first known "ballist," a distinction that can't be conferred upon a friar.
"I always thought Padres was a great name for our San Diego baseball team," Swank says with an irreverent twinkle. "Maybe they should be called the Mormons instead."


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* Democratic win is still considered very unlikely
* Large number of provisional ballots cast has slowed count
By Tim Gaynor and David Schwartz
PHOENIX, Nov 12 (Reuters) - With several hundred thousand
ballots still to be counted in the race for an Arizona Senate
seat, a Democrat who earlier conceded the race to his Republican
rival was gaining and appeared to have a distant shot at the
seat after all.
Former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona conceded on
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Flake after about three quarters of precincts had reported,
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It is very unlikely the outstanding ballots could overturn
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But Barr said the campaign, which is now down about 4
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"The count is going very, very slowly, and it is hard for us
to know where it will end up," he told Reuters.
As of Monday afternoon, the Secretary of State's office
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provisional ballots had yet to be tallied statewide.
The Democrat's candidacy was boosted in part by a drive to
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crackdown on illegal immigration. Such a large uncounted vote
has prompted an outcry from some Hispanic and civil rights
activists about the fairness of the voting process.
Activists have especially questioned the large number of
provisional ballots, wondering whether minorities were singled
out to cast these ballots at the polls.
Under Arizona law, voters generally are required to cast
provisional ballots at polling places if they lack proper
identification, if their name is not on the poll roster or if
they requested an early ballot.
Matt Roberts, a spokesman for the secretary of state's
office, said he did not believe there were widespread problems
at the polls, and that counties tabulating the votes were doing
their best to make sure every ballot was counted.
"We're focused on accuracy, rather than expediency," he
said. "We're cognizant that we need to get this done quickly,
but we're not going to cut corners."
County election officials have until the end of the week to
finish, but Roberts said counting can continue past the deadline
if needed. A state canvass to certify the election results is
set for Dec. 3.
(Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Todd Eastham)

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Baltimore residents would have to pay more to grab a cab. They would be hit with an additional fee in their water bills. And they would have 300 fewer firefighters on the payroll.
But they also would have lower property taxes, better recreation centers and fewer potholes.
Those are some of the "tough trade-offs" Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake proposed Wednesday under a budget plan that also includes major cutbacks in pension and health care benefits to help close a $30 million projected budget shortfall. In another trade-off for city workers, her budget includes 2 percent cost-of-living raises.
Rawlings-Blake said she crafted the proposal with an eye toward making the city a more attractive place to live. "The budget was built in the spirit of growing the city by 10,000 families," she said.
But she'll face opposition from some City Council members, union members and industry groups. Both City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young and Vice President Edward L. Reisinger said not all of the council members are on board with all of the proposals — most of which have not yet been introduced.
"I don't think all the council people are there yet," Young said. "We have to see the details."
Six pieces of City Council legislation are needed to make the plan a reality: two concerning pension overhauls and four concerning new taxes and fees. The mayor must win City Council approval of that legislation by July, when the new fiscal year begins.
"This plan is only possible if the city implements a series of changes," said the city budget director, Andrew W. Kleine.
The $2.4 billion budget proposal represents about a 3 percent increase in operating expenses from the current fiscal year. The mayor is also proposing a capital budget of about $1.2 billion, 80 percent of which would go toward updating, maintaining and repairing water and wastewater infrastructure.
The mayor would increase spending by allocating $10 million for demolishing vacant homes, $10 million for resurfacing at least 200 miles of roads and $6.5 million to upgrade and operate recreation and after-school centers.
Among the new taxes and fees are plans to charge more for billboards, taxi trips and stormwater services.
Under the proposal, the city would charge 25 cents per taxi trip and a tax of about 7 percent per billboard. The state-mandated stormwater fee would cost the average city resident about $48 a year, and larger property owners and businesses would pay more, Kleine said. The city expects to take in about $12 million next fiscal year from the fee, he said. Voters authorized a new stormwater utility in November.
Reisinger said he opposes the mayor's proposal to tax area billboards. Clear Channel Outdoor, which maintains many of Baltimore's billboards, has worked well with the city and agreed to post public service announcements, he said. Past efforts to tax billboards have failed.
"I'm not going to support a billboard tax," said Reisinger, who is the mayor's traditional champion of legislation in the council. "I'm not going to rubber-stamp anything."
The budget is Rawlings-Blake's first opportunity to implement the initial steps of a 10-year financial plan she says is needed to fix a $750 million structural deficit that the city is facing over the next 10 years. The $30 million shortfall would be covered largely through the cuts to pension and health care benefits and a new stormwater fee, according to Kleine.
Rawlings-Blake called last month for "bold reforms" to fix the looming financial shortfall, including requiring more city workers to contribute to their retirement fund, charging residents for trash collection, asking firefighters to work longer hours and cutting the city workforce by 10 percent over time.
In return, she said, the city could use the savings to raise employee salaries and cut property taxes by 22 percent — 50 cents per $100 of assessed value — over the next decade. In the next fiscal year, the mayor has proposed cutting the rate by 2 cents per $100 of assessed value, with some homeowners eligible for bigger breaks.
The long-term projections are based on a consultant's report, for which the city paid $585,000, that details a long-term financial shortfall and offers recommendations for saving money.
The trash fee is not included in the budget proposed Wednesday, but the proposal does target employee pension costs. Kleine said the city is facing $192 million in such costs next fiscal year.
"The growth of these costs is relentless," he said.
Under her proposal, the city would start requiring civilian employees to contribute 5 percent of their salaries to their pensions, Rawlings-Blake said. The city would phase in the contribution increases, starting at 1 percent in the coming fiscal year. New employees would be given 401(k)-style plans instead of traditional pensions. The changes to city pensions would save $5 million in the coming fiscal year, Kleine said.
The budget also includes a new shift schedule for firefighters, requiring department employees to work longer hours. The city expects about 300 fire department positions to be cut through attrition as a result of each employee working for 24 hours straight and then taking 48 hours off.
Rick Hoffman, president of the firefighters union, released a statement opposing the mayor's plan.
"As a union leader I cannot support a plan that eliminates jobs," Hoffman said in an email. "An overwhelming amount of our membership — nearly 90 percent — voted to turn down the City's best offer and now we will either continue talks with the City or proceed with the arbitration process."
Kleine said the budget does not include any reductions from automatic federal budget cuts known as sequestration. Such cuts could be devastating to Baltimore, Kleine said.
"There is no wiggle room," he said. "That's the sad fact. If we receive cuts in our federal grants, services will be lost."
Even if there's a fight over the details, council members said they understood the importance of curbing Baltimore's projected deficits.
"If we don't do anything about our structural deficit, we could end up like Detroit and other places," Young said. "I don't think anybody wants to see that."
Reisinger emphasized the need for the council to act quickly with the mayor's legislation.
"It's a must," he said. "We've got to make time for it."
Kleine presented the budget to the city's Board of Estimates Wednesday morning. Also that day, City Auditor Robert L. McCarty told the board the city had to spend more than $1 million to rework audit reports that contained erroneous information. Comptroller Joan M. Pratt said the city could have saved money if the Finance Department had listened earlier to city auditors' concerns about inaccurate books.
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- In Tasik Perdana
- National Mosque - 8 min walk
- Sultan Abdul Samad Building - 13 min walk
- Merdeka Square - 14 min walk
- Kuala Lumpur Bird Park - 15 min walk
- Jamek Mosque - 15 min walk
- Lake Gardens - 19 min walk
- Petaling Street - 20 min walk
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- Kuala Lumpur (KUL-Kuala Lumpur Intl.) - 44 min drive
- Subang (SZB-Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah) - 19 min drive
- Kuala Lumpur Station - 3 min walk
- Kuala Lumpur KTM Komuter Station - 3 min walk
- Kuala Lumpur Pasar Seni Station - 10 min walk
- Tun Sambanthan Station - 19 min walk
- Plaza Rakyat Station - 21 min walk
- Bandaraya Station - 26 min walk
- Airport pick-up service
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Hotel size
- This hotel has 300 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 15 floors
- Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out time is noon
Required at check-in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 21
Travelling with others
- Babysitting/childcare *
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Self parking *
Payment types at the property
- Cash
Other information
- Smoke-free property
In the hotel
- Buffet breakfast daily (surcharge)
- 2 restaurants
- Bar/lounge
- 24-hour room service
- Outdoor pool
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Health club
- Business center
- Meeting rooms
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Elevator
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Disabled parking
- Wheelchair accessible path of travel
- English
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- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Iron/ironing board
- Turndown service
- Premium bedding
- Partially open bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Cable/satellite TV channels
- Desk
- Free newspaper
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
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Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the hotel's full-service spa, Majestic Spa. Services include body wraps and body scrubs. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy.
The spa is open daily.
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For transfers, guests must contact the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check-in or check-out:
- A tax of MYR 10.00 per accommodation, per night is imposed by the country of Malaysia and collected at the property. Permanent residents and Malaysian nationals are exempt from the tax. For more details, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
Optional extras
Self parking costs MYR 15 per day
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of MYR 68 for adults and MYR 34 for children (approximately)
Babysitting/childcare is available for an extra charge
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of MYR 520 per vehicle (one way)
We have included all charges provided to us by this property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the unit you book.
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Room was clean, spacious and comfortable. Staff were amazing and very friendly. Perfect for a getaway. Would definitely stay here again!
The service was beyond excellent. They arranged a taxi service for us to visit Batu Caves for a really good price. The bed was prepared for sleeping and they put water bottles on our nightstands late afternoon. And also when we asked them to print our flight ticket, they brought it up to the room. Not only service, but the room was amazing and spacious. Completely recommended!
One of the best hotels I have ever stayed in. Staff were great and rooms were amazing. The whole bathroom was marble. Free shuttle service to center KL was great. Hotel was 5 mins from central train station, so very easy to get to from the airport. Highly recommend staying here if you are visiting KL.
Everything is so perfect and beautiful like 5 star hotel except the pool. Very disappointed at the pool which is so simple for a 5 star hotel
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esto" — "the
salvation of souls must be the supreme law in the Church."
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ready, dressed for service, and keep your lamps lit" (Saint
Luke 12.35)
by a Cloistered
Poor Clare Colettine Nun
are those servants if he finds them awake
when he comes at midnight or daybreak"
It is a Poor
Clare tradition, and in keeping with the spirit and exhortations
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fully attired. The Sister wears her habit, Rosary, cord, and a night
veil, so she is ready and prepared should her Lord and Master call
at any hour.
At the sound of the Matins bell, she arises and makes haste to the
choir, there to sing her Lord's praises.
The opening call of the hour of Matins being, "Light your lamps
for the Bridegroom is here, go out to meet Christ the Lord, Lord
open my lips and my mouth shall proclaim your praise."
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they pass, it would come. As you read this and scoff, the last visitor,
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Realizing this, we come to see that most things in our lives are
terribly ephemeral, even foolishly superfluous. We "prepare" for
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In a dream of endless day, we never bother to light our lamps for
the impending night, and because we are unprepared we are terrified
when it comes upon us.
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RICHMOND, Va. – VCU redshirt sophomore Chaneka Perry has been named the CAA Women's Field Athlete of the Week, the league announced on Tuesday.
This marks the first honor of the 2012 campaign for Perry, as well as for the VCU Track & Field programs.
The Newport News, Va., native garnered a third place finish in the triple jump at the Fred Hardy Invitational on Friday at University of Richmond. Perry jumped 12.11 meters, which earned her a spot at the ECAC Outdoor Championships later this spring. Perry's jump surpassed the 12.05 meter qualifying mark and is the best jump in the CAA so far this season.
The Rams are set to hit the road this weekend, traveling to Gainesville, Fla., for the Florida Relays.


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What Ford can (and can't) do about climate change
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What Ford can (and can't) do about climate change
When it comes to climate change, Ford and its global director of sustainability, John Viera, want to do what they can to be part of the solution. In its latest sustainability report, the company says, "Ford is committed to doing our share to prevent or reduce the potential for environmental, economic and social harm due to climate change.
Viera puts it simply: Climate change is real. Man has an impact on climate change. We as a company have to do our share.
Behind the rhetoric are actions. Ford has set science-based CO2 targets for North America, Europe, Brazil and China that determine the amount of greenhouse gases that its cars and trucks can emit over time, consistent with stabilizing the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere at 450 ppm. Along with other automakers, it has agreed to the U.S. government's fuel efficiency standards that mandate an average fuel economy of 54.5 miles per gallon for the 2025 model year.
All of which is well and good. But as John Viera acknowledged to me the other day, all of those good intentions will not take Ford, or the rest of us, where we need to go. Markets -- which are beyond Ford's control -- will play a bigger role than corporate commitments or even the CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) rules.
I sat down with John Viera the other day at Net Impact's 2012 conference. About 2,700 mostly young people -- MBA students, undergrads and young professionals -- gathered in Baltimore to listen to business leaders, network and attend workshops on careers, investing and activism. (Net Impact is a community of young leaders who want to use the power of business to solve the world's toughest problems. I'm on the board.)
A Chicago native, John has been with Ford for 28 years. He joined the company right out of the University of Michigan, where he studied engineering, and worked on a variety of cars and trucks, running factories and dabbling in electric cars and natural gas-powered vehicles. When he was tapped to be the company's sustainability chief in 2007, he was the chief engineer for a couple of truck-based SUVs, the Ford Expedition and the Lincoln Navigator. Yes, that was quite a turnabout.
Now, though, he firmly believes that sustainability issues -- notably the price and availability of energy, and climate concerns -- need to be a central element of the company's strategy. Ford says that its cars needs to be high quality, smart, safe and green.
But, of course, it's not as simple as that. Ford can't force people to buy cars they don't want. Gasoline prices are a key factor in car-buying decisions. When gas prices hit their historic highs during 2008, topping $4 a gallon in much of the country, Ford sold more small- and mid-sized cars than ever before. "We couldn't keep them in stock," John said. "The larger vehicles sat on the lot." That's to be expected.
Only a year later, though, when gas prices tumbled during the recession, American car buyers reverted to habit, buying bigger cars again. Apparently, we have short memories. "We didn't expect that," John said. It's as if buyers were "driving to the dealership and seeing the gas price on the way" and then making up their mind, he said. Gas prices are literally in your face.
This helps explains Ford's strategy of providing a variety of fuel options -- gasoline, hybrid or plug-in hybrid -- for many of its cars, instead of focusing on a signature "green" vehicle like the Toyota Prius, GM Volt or Nissan Leaf. The company doesn't know -- nobody does -- what gas prices will be a year or two or five from now. So its car platforms and manufacturing plants are designed to be flexible when it comes to fuels and to be responsive to consumer preferences.
"The mix is not dictated by us," John says.
What, then, does that say about Ford's climate change targets or the government's 54.5 mpg fuel-economy standard?
Unfortunately, it means that they are little more than exercises in wishful thinking unless gas prices go up.
Although the Obama administration calls the fuel-economy standards its most important environmental achievement, the so-called mandate includes a midterm review of progress, to be conducted by the end of the decade. The standards can be adjusted if manufacturers are having difficulty meeting the tough new guidelines. As an industry trade group, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, put it in a statement: "Compliance with higher fuel-economy standards is based on sales, not what we put on the showroom floor."
I point this out not to criticize Ford. The company's chairman, Bill Ford, has been the most forward-thinking executive in Detroit when it comes to environmental issues. John Viera, too, is a straight shooter and a great spokesman for Ford.
But let's not pretend that corporate targets or so-called mandates will do much, if anything, about climate change. They won't.
The good news -- for those of us who worry about climate change, anyway -- is that Ford, at least, believes that gasoline prices are going up. That's why the company is investing in hybrid and electric cars, and more efficient internal-combustion engines.
"We believe gas prices will eventually keep rising," John says. "People are going to be more and more interested in fuel-efficient vehicles."
Of course, if we want to guarantee higher gas prices, we could enact a gasoline tax. That would not only affect the kinds of cars people buy; it would affect how much we drive and, eventually, shape decisions about where to live and even whether to buy a car.
That would be a serious response to a serious problem. We're not there yet.


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FORT JACKSON, S.C. -- Not many people can find poetry in a bottle of pop.
Sgt. Marshall Pampkin did, but is at a loss to fully explain what motivated him to put pen to paper that day.
"I was bored," he said. "I was looking at the carbonation and the light hit the bottle of Dr. Pepper in a certain way."
He doesn't waste any breath trying to justify the poem. It was a lark, a moment that's come and gone, and is entirely beside the point he is now trying to make: That poetry is a lot of things, but it shouldn't be a celebration of formality.
"Poetry isn't stuffy old men confident in their supreme understanding of A-B pentameter and the difference between selective verse and prose," he said. "It's harkening back to the days of sitting around the fire and listening to our shaman tell stories."
Pampkin, the assistant strength manager for Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 165th Infantry Brigade, is active in Columbia's poetry movement. Performing under the name Northstar, he's especially passionate about the efforts of one promoter to unite local performance artists as a single community.
"The Columbia scene is fractured, to be blunt," he said. "Until this past fall I've been disconnected from the Columbia scene since 2009, the last time I was (on temporary duty) here. What I noticed then were one or two venues that were very friendly and very open. Now, there are a couple of venues and they're all open, but everyone has their niche. They welcome others, but they don't actively seek anything new."
Mind Gravy is an exception, he said. The open microphone event takes place weekly at Drip, a coffee shop located at Five Points. Poets, writers and musicians of all stripes are encouraged to attend and perform.
"My venue is, on purpose, very diverse," said Mind Gravy promoter Al Black. "I don't like the segregation that goes on in most art forms. If you go to a slam poetry event, it's slam poetry. If you go to a page poetry event, it was just page poetry. I've purposely stirred things up."
Pampkin said the venue is meant to inspire creativity, even when the product is a little messy.
"If you're a country, folk or Americana musician, I challenge you to do something with a hip-hop artist," he said. "Try it. You might not come away with any new material, but you might have some fun and make some new connections. That's what we're doing."
Pampkin said the goal is not so much to break down the walls between different artistic mediums as much as it is to bring together different poetry styles. It is hard enough to get country musicians and beat poets into the same room, but it is also a challenge to bring together poets of differing interests, he said.
"You have poets that go to poetry readings and read poetry, and you have performance poets. That's not to say that either is more or less talented," he said. "There are some who think one is more pretentious than the other, but no ... they can both be equally pretentious. The performance poet can be a bit more melodramatic, a bit more theatrical, but like some actors and rock stars, they enjoy connecting with the crowd."
"It's very racially mixed, style mixed and age mixed," Black said of Mind Gravy. "Northstar stepped right in and people realized he knows what he's doing. He's not just there because he likes to get up there and do his thing, but he's there for the art, too. It isn't just about what the performers, themselves, are doing ... it's about everybody that's participating."
Pampkin discovered poetry around the time that many Americans do, during his high school years.
"My earliest inspirations were Shakespeare, Poe and Pearl Jam," he said with a laugh. "At the time I started writing, the Pearl Jam album, 'Ten,' had just come out. As I've gone on, my influences have changed. I was heavily influenced by Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Jack Kerouac. I go through periods where I'll go back and reread Kerouac's 'On the Road' and 'Dharma Bums.' These days, a lot of what I write is more about storytelling, and I blame it on (Kerouac.)"
The performance element of his poetry was forced on him during a visit to a coffee shop near Fort Bragg.
"A friend literally called me out in front of a crowd. He said, 'I have a friend who writes, but he's too chicken to get up here,'" he said. "Nineteen-year-old me wasn't going to have that. I'd been going with him for weeks to this open mic, but he never knew I wrote poetry. Then he saw that notebook in my hand and called me out. I got up there, and was so nervous I was shaking. But it was cathartic. It was great release, and it was a bit of a rush to get in front of the crowd."
Pampkin will be participating in an up-coming poetry event on Fort Jackson. The BOSS Open Mic/Poetry Slam is set for 6 p.m., Feb. 1 at Heise Pond, Alpine Lodge.
"Because of network restrictions we won't be able to live stream it, but we're going to record it and take some of the best clips and put them online," he said. "I want to use that to drum up interest and support, not just for my own CD, but for any other poets out there."


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Facts: Father and Mother are the never-married parents of Child. Later, Father married Wife. Even later, Mother and Father went back to court to consider modifying Father's child support obligation. Father falsely testified his business sustained a net loss at the end of the year, and swore his income was only $250 per week. The amount of Father's child support obligation was set based on his false testimony.
Fast forward a few years and Father and Wife divorce. Wife contacted Mother and told her Father had committed perjury at the child support hearing years earlier by under-reporting his actual income, and she alerted Mother to the existence of Father's Answer in the divorce action and other relevant public documents.
This led Mother to file a petition for contempt and to modify child support. Mother alleged Father had fraudulently understated his income in the earlier proceeding and failed to disclose his assets in order to avoid paying additional child support, and she asked the court to order Husband to pay her child support "retroactively to the date of the last hearing [years earlier]."
At the trial, Mother introduced evidence showing that Father's bank account records conflicted with his previous income tax return. Asked to explain the difference, Father said, "I don't know. My tax lady done this. I don't know."
The trial court explicitly stated that Father was not a credible witness and his testimony was not to be believed. On the basis of the evidence in the record of Father's earning capacity, the trial court imputed income of $50,000 to him years earlier and ordered him to pay retroactive child support in accordance with the Child Support Guidelines. The court calculated what Father should have paid under the Guidelines, subtracted the amount he actually had paid, and ordered him to pay the difference, amounting to $26,526.30 for back child support and statutory interest, as well as $12,982 for attorney's fees and expenses. Father appealed.
On Appeal: The Court of Appeals reversed the trial court.
Tennessee Code Annotated § 36-5-101(f)(1) provides:
Any order for child support shall be a judgment entitled to be enforced as any other judgment of a court of this state and shall be entitled to full faith and credit in this state and in any other state. Such judgment shall not be subject to modification as to any time period or any amounts due prior to the date that an action for modification is filed and notice of the action has been mailed to the last known address of the opposing parties….
Thus, Tennessee Code Annotated § 36-5-101(f)(1) and its application by the courts prohibit retroactive modification of a child support order prior to the filing of a petition to modify. The Tennessee Supreme Court has held that a child support order is not subject to challenge based on equitable defenses such as fraud. Here, the trial court modified Father's child support back to the time of the prior child support order. The question, then, is whether an exception exists for misrepresentation of income.
In Hodge v. Craig, the Tennessee Supreme Court recently made clear that the fact that damages awarded for misrepresentation of parentage, i.e., the pecuniary loss caused by the misrepresentation, are measured or calculated by child support previously paid does not convert that award into a retroactive modification of support.
After analyzing the opinion in Hodge, the Court reasoned:
The case before us . . . alleges a misrepresentation of income by Father in a hearing regarding the appropriate amount of child support. We cannot conclude that the holding of Hodge recognizing a claim of intentional misrepresentation of parentage can be read to imply that a court has the authority to retroactively modify a child support order. Neither does its holding that an award of damages for such misrepresentation is not a retroactive modification of child support affect the prohibition of retroactive modification.
The Court reversed the trial court's retroactive modification but awarded a prospective modification of Father's child support obligation back to the date Mother's petition was filed.
In re Christopher A.D. (Tennessee Court of Appeals, Middle Section, November 20, 2012).
Information provided by K.O. Herston: Knoxville, Tennessee Matrimonial, Divorce and Family Law Attorney.


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James Pattison Cockburn (18 March 1779 – 18 March 1847) born in New York City and raised in a military family. In 1793 Cockburn entered the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. Under the instruction of the chief drawing-master, Paul Sandby, he was taught to draw.
Between 1816–22 Cockburn produced drawings in sepia as he traveled between the Alps, Italy and Switzerland. He drew vast panoramas, mountain passes, street scenes, and market places.
Swiss Scenery from Drawings was published in 1820 and is considered one of the finest steel-engraved illustrated books of the 19th century. The original antique prints of this first edition printing were published by Rodwell & Martin (London).


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CHICAGO — Chris Carter was home again Monday night. He walked into U.S. Cellular Field still feeling nostalgic, still wondering what could have been if the White Sox hadn't given up on him.
Carter was drafted by the White Sox in 2005, the year Chicago's South Side team beat the Astros in the World Series.
Eight years and three stops later, Carter showcased his raw power Monday night while hitting two of the Astros' five home runs in a come-from-behind 10-8 victory at U.S. Cellular Field.
"It's great to beat the team that drafted you and traded you away," said Carter, who was traded by the White Sox to the Diamondbacks in 2007. "It's great to come back here and do that here.
"It's been up-and-down for me this year, but hopefully it keeps working out for me down the line."
In peril of wasting a majestic home run display — not to mention an early five-run lead — the Astros merely found some more power in the ninth inning. Matt Dominguez and Carter hit back-to-back home runs with two outs in the top of the ninth to salvage the come-from-behind victory before a crowd of 13,404.
Carter capped the scoring with a shot to right as the Astros took the opener of a three-game series on a night lefthander Brett Oberholtzer couldn't protect an 6-1 lead.
Early lead nearly wasted
Rookie righthander David Martinez (1-0) got the victory despite giving up three runs on five hits over 22⁄3 innings. Martinez, who most likely will be shipped back to Class AAA Oklahoma City on Tuesday, relieved Oberholtzer and couldn't stop the White Sox from capping a five-run rally to take an 8-7 lead in the sixth.
Lefthander Kevin Chapman was brought in to face Adam Dunn in the ninth inning after Paul Konerko put men on second and third with a ground-rule double to left. Jordan Lyles, who threw seven innings Friday, took over after Dunn walked to load the bases.
Lyles fell behind in the count 3-0 against Avisail Garcia before ultimately getting him on a called third strike to earn his first major league save on a night Jason Castro and Brett Wallace also homered for the Astros.
"Just a great job overall by everybody, the whole team," Astros manager Bo Porter said. "You look at (Chicago's) five-run inning, and for these guys to respond the way they responded, it speaks to the resilience of the ballclub. I couldn't be more proud of them."
Castro led off the second with a home run to left. Dominguez followed with a single, and Carter walked. One out later, Brandon Barnes singled. The Astros caught a major break when Garcia let the ball go under his glove as he attempted to scoop it up.
Dominguez and Carter scored on the error to give the Astros a 3-0 lead. Wallace led off the fourth with a home run, and Carter added a two-run homer in the fifth to forge a 6-1 advantage.
After making it 7-3, the White Sox scored five in the sixth to go ahead 8-7. Dominguez reached on a fielder's choice, took second on a wild pitch and scored on Carter's single to center to tie the score at 8-8 in the seventh.
Porter rewarded again
Dominguez and Carter took care of the rest in the ninth.
"We know that the power is there," Porter said of Carter. "We just want more consistent contact. It's a game like today that reminds you and makes you feel confident when you write him in the lineup that he has an opportunity to do what he did tonight."
Carter appreciated the opportunity to prove himself, particularly against the team that drafted him.
"It was the first team you get drafted by," he said. "You think you're going to get to the majors, and you grow up with that team a little bit. Then you get traded away, and you've got to start all over again. It's good to come back and see all the coaches I had back in the day.
"When I got drafted, they went to the World Series that year. I thought that's where I wanted to be."


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MINNEAPOLIS – Five Salisbury University football players have been named to the 2012 D3football.com All-East Team, the website announced on Tuesday.
Senior center Brian Mansfield, junior cornerback Andre Carter and sophomore punter Kyle Hamby were named to the first team while senior linebacker Matt McMurdo and sophomore linebacker Steven Gamble earned second- and third-team honors, respectively.
The D3football.com all-region teams were selected in balloting by sports information directors in each region and D3football.com staff. All players nominated for all-region consideration are also eligible for the All-America Teams, which will be announced next Friday, Dec. 14, as part of D3football.com's Stagg Bowl coverage.
Mansfield, SU's starting center for the last two years, was a first-team All-Empire 8 selection this season. He has helped the Sea Gulls run for the eighth most yards per game in Division III this season at 273.33 and was part of the line that earned Beyond Sports Network Division III Offensive Line of the Week after Salisbury racked up 611 yards of offense, 564 of those and nine touchdowns on the ground in a win against Utica College on Nov. 3.
Carter earned his second consecutive first-team E8 selection after leading the league with 18 passes broken up. He also had 42 tackles, including 3.5 for loss and two fumble recoveries on the year. Carter was named a BSN Preseason All-American, USA Football News Preseason Honorable Mention All-American and a D3football.com Team of the Week member on two occasions. Carter earned D3football.com third-team all-region in 2011.
Hamby, the Empire 8 Special Teams Player of the Year and a first-team honoree, is fourth in the nation in punting, averaging 42.23 yards per kick. He has placed 20 of 52 punts inside the 20-yard line to lead the league. Hamby booted four punts of at least 60 yards this season, including a school-record-breaking 84-yard bomb in the second round of the NCAA tournament against Widener University. He was named to the D3football.com Team of the Week twice, E8 Special Teams Player of the Week and BSN Division III Punter of the Week once each this season.
McMurdo claimed all-conference first-team honors this season and was named a preseason All-American by USA Football News, BSN and the D3Senior Classic. He was second on the team with 72 tackles, and led the team in assisted tackles with 45. He had 4.5 tackles for loss, two sacks and returned a fumble 26 yards for a TD against North Carolina Wesleyan College on Sept. 15.
Gamble, another first-team All-Empire 8 selection, led the team with 79 tackles, was third in the Empire 8 with 17 tackles for loss, had four sacks and one of Salisbury's six blocked kicks this season. Gamble collected five weekly honors in 2012, including NCAA Division III Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 10.
Salisbury (9-3) advanced to the NCAA tournament for the third straight season in 2012, falling to Widener, 28-7, in the second round.
Click here to view the all of the D3football.com all-region teams.


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Is it Bridget and Catherine or Catherine and Bridget? After a long time searching I have found a picture of my great grandmother and her twin sister. My father was correct when he said he could not tell them apart. Bridget is my great grandmother and I had heard rumor of a twin but I discovered the rumor was true a few months ago.
The only great grandparent I need a picture of now is Bridget's husband Thomas Dowd.
Picture from the collection of my newly found cousin Erin O'Donnell, Bridget was her great grandmother too. Thank you Erin.


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(Phoenix, Ariz. – Feb. 1, 2008) Attorney General Terry Goddard announced that Julie Ann Gutierrez, 36, of Queen Creek, pleaded guilty today to theft.
In her plea agreement, Gutierrez, an office manager for Evergreen Healthcare, a nursing home management company in Phoenix, pleaded guilty to diverting money from the firm for her own use. An audit of Evergreen Healthcare determined that the defendant had altered computer records and submitted to the corporate office requests for payments in the names of her friends, family and other seemingly legitimate payees. The audit determined that she diverted a total of $163,830.
The plea agreement provides that the defendant will serve 2.5 years in prison. Her sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 27. Assistant Attorney General Steve Duplissis is handling this case.


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Perhaps the most important new Internet gateway comes from the commercial service America Online. Although America Online took their time making the gateway available, it seems that they prompted two of the other commercial services, GEnie and Delphi, to open up Internet links as well. I'm sure it's not a specific cause-and-effect relationship, but that's the impression one gets from the outside.
America Online to Internet -- Sending email from America Online to the Internet (or any other service, like CompuServe or MCI, that also has an Internet gateway) is easy - you merely type the Internet address into the normal mail To: box. Otherwise mail works exactly the same as when you send it to another America Online member. Despite the ease of use, America Online has a few limitations on Internet mail that make it a less useful than it might be otherwise, but that's what you get for free use - there's no surcharge for Internet email.
Like normal America Online email messages, you can't put more than 32K in the text of the message. That usually poses no problem on America Online because you can attach files to circumvent that limit, but file attachments don't work to the Internet. You also can't forward mail from America Online to the Internet, but copy and paste into a new mailfile makes that a moot point. All fonts and styles disappear of course, but that shouldn't surprise anyone. For basic email to the Internet, America Online's gateway works fine.
If you wish to find out more about America Online's Internet gateway from America Online itself, use the keyword INTERNET (type command-k to bring up the keyword dialog box), and America Online will transport you to the appropriate area.
Internet to America Online -- Creating the Internet version of an America Online address requires that you know the conversion rule. You ignore the case, remove the spaces, and add "@aol.com" to the end of the address. Thus, my America Online address <Adam Engst> becomes <email@example.com>. (For the punctuation-impaired, ignore the greater-than and less-than signs - they're merely showing where the address begins and ends and are not part of the address.)
The gnomes at America Online made one decision that disturbs me. They decided to limit the size of incoming Internet mail to 27K. I'm not inherently opposed to internal limitations on incoming mail size, and they decided to truncate the mail rather than simply bouncing it back to the sender, but why couldn't they have used a 30K limit like AppleLink? This bothers me because I set 30K as my self-imposed length limit on TidBITS issues so they would pass through the AppleLink gateway, and here America Online lowers the smallest gateway size limitation to 27K. We'll look at a workaround for this limitation in a future issue of TidBITS.
Those of you who subscribe to TidBITS on America Online through the Internet mailing list have experienced the truncation, and I'm sorry, but for the moment I'm not prepared to shrink future issues to 27K. I need that space each week. Because of this, I don't recommend that you subscribe to the TIDBITS LISTSERV via America Online - sometimes we save the best information for the last part of TidBITS.
TidBITS on America Online -- If I don't recommend subscribing to our mailing list, how can you find TidBITS on America Online? Well, I'm pleased to announce that America Online has just opened the official, new, improved, family-size TidBITS library. Dedicated to TidBITS issues, you can find it in the Macintosh Hardware forum (keyword: MHW). The library holds every issue of TidBITS in setext format, and all of the issues since TidBITS-100 in compressed format as well. For those of you wanting to collect 'em all, the library will soon hold ten-issue archives of the entire set for easier downloading.
Even better, I have direct upload capabilities so issues will be available immediately upon uploading, usually late Monday night, Pacific time. All TidBITS issues will be available in the TidBITS library immediately, but not in the Macintosh Hardware New Files library as in the past.
For those of you who have become accustomed to getting your weekly TidBITS fix from the Macintosh HyperCard forum, where I originally uploaded the HyperCard format issues before 1992 and where I have been uploading the setext issues as well, don't worry. The TidBITS library will soon appear in the Macintosh HyperCard forum as well.
Many thanks to Chris Ferino, the forum poobah of the Macintosh Hardware forum, since he arranged for the TidBITS library and went to all the work of uploading all the back issues individually.


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What Was Your Favorite Movie of The Year?
2012 was a busy year for genre movies, with long-awaited movies that may have disappointed (John Carter, Prometheus), franchises making new bids of life (Men in Black 3, Total Recall) and the superhero movies that ruled them all (The Dark Knight Rises and, of course, The Avengers). But what was your favorite movie of the year? Tell all in our poll.


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CHICAGO, Ill. -- A thrilling back-and-forth game ended in favor of the visitors as Concordia University Chicago rallied with a late touchdown and stymied the game's final drive to edge the University of Chicago football team 27-26 on Saturday.
The Maroons even their record at 1-1. The Cougars stay undefeated at 2-0.
Concordia got on the board first on its second drive of the game. Chicago punter Jeff Sauer booted a 54-yard punt to pin the Cougars at their own seven-yard-line. On third down, CUC hooked up a 62-yard pass play and ran it into the end zone from seven yards out to cap the 93-yard drive.
The hosts scored on their first drive of the second quarter. Sauer came through with a 42-yard field goal to make it 7-3. Two drives later, a 14-yard punt by Concordia gave Chicago prime field position to set up its next score. Running back Ian Gaines carried the load and broke through for a 21-yard touchdown run to make the score 10-7 Chicago.
The Cougars answered right back with a long kickoff return to their own 47-yard-line. On fourth down, Concordia went for it and ran for 10 yards. After drawing a pass interference, quarterback Jake Koehler zipped in a touchdown pass to Jamal Thomas from 19 yards to go up 14-10.
Chicago made it 14-13 with its final possession of the half. A 32-yard hookup from quarterback Kevin Shelton to wide receiver Dee Brizzolara set up another Sauer field goal, this time from 36 yards. The Maroons defense held strong at the end of the quarter as cornerback Vincent Beltrano intercepted a hail mary pass as time expired.
A good kickoff return by Beltrano started things right for Chicago in the third quarter. Once again, Sauer came through when the drive stalled out and hit a 35-yard field goal to put the Maroons up 16-14.
After Sauer missed left from 46 yards later in the third quarter, the senior kicker came right back early in the fourth quarter and nailed his fourth field goal of the night with a 31-yarder.
Three-straight run plays for big yards put Concordia back onto Chicago's side of the field. Koehler's quarterback keeper went 21 yards to get within striking range and Andrew Maddox finished it off with a 10-yard touchdown run. The two-point conversion attempt failed, leaving the visitors up only one point at 20-19.
Two tough runs by Chicago running back Zak Ross-Nash put the offense into CUC territory. Shelton then threw a deep bomb to Brizzolara, who made a highlight-reel catch with his defender all over him for a 39-yard touchdown. The extra point regained the lead for Chicago at 26-20.
The see-saw battle of momentum swung back to the Cougars on very next possession. In need of a third-down conversion, Koehler pulled out one of the night's biggest plays with a 36-yard completion to Thomas. Concordia ran five-straight run plays to get into the red zone. Then Koehler found Thomas again, this time for an 18-yard touchdown with 3:50 remaining in the game.
Down one point, Beltrano came up big again in the return game. The freshman ran the kickoff back 52 yards to the Cougar 43-yard-line. Shelton tried to thread the needle on third down, but he was intercepted at the 13-yard-line. Concordia then ran out the clock to clinch the victory.
Both teams had success running the ball. Chicago gashed the Concordia defense for 203 rushing yards and a 5.5 yards per carry average. The Cougars ran for 4.6 yards per carry for a total of 166 yards. Gaines was the workhorse in the back field, carrying 26 times for 163 yards and one touchdown. Maddox led the Cougars with 82 yards on 15 carries and Koehler was effective as well with 77 yards on 11 rushes.
Shelton completed 12 of 32 through the air for 201 yards. The senior had one touchdown and one interception. Brizzolara was the main beneficiary with four catches for 134 yards and a touchdown.
For the Cougars, Koehler threw 19-for-35 for 250 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions. Both scores went to Thomas, who ended up with nine catches for 171 yards.
Defensively, Maroons linebacker Alex Dzierbicki was all over the field with 13 tackles. Joe Tripolitakis added eight tackles while Brandon Bolock and Schuyler Montefalco tallied seven tackles each. Beltrano picked off two passes to go with his five tackles. Steven Murphy chipped in four pass breakups in the secondary.
The Maroons will head out on the road next Saturday with a 6 PM game at Elmhurst College.


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Building Stories
by Chris Ware
I'm not even sure where to start with this one. The innovative format? The impeccable line work? The complex storylines about crushing loneliness? Somehow that doesn't even come close. Ware's "book" in a box contains 14 different pieces- from a tiny pamphlet to a huge newspaper format- that recount the life of an apartment building and its inhabitants. Ware's craftsmanship, as storyteller and artist, are unlike anything else in the medium today, and this is quite the masterpiece.
The Voyeurs
by Gabrielle Bell
In terms of storytelling, I think this book is tops for me this year. It probably would have made it to the number one spot if it wasn't for Chris Ware's ability to completely rethink the comics medium. I'll be honest, I wasn't a huge fan of Bell's coloration, but boy-oh-boy is she a skilled writer. Her eye for subtle detail is just magical.
Ed the Happy Clown
by Chester Brown
Before this re-edition of Ed the Happy Clown came out, I remember being extremely frustrated at the fact that I was too broke to purchase a used copy online (which was going for a mere fifty to eighty dollars!). Luckily, I was able to borrow a copy from a friend, and my-my-my is this book CRAZY. Just trying to describe it is a challenge, since I inevitably end up mentioning scenes of bloody violence, a whole lot of feces, and a talking penis with the head of a famous American president (I'm not saying which one, that's for you to find out).
You'll Never Know, Book Three: Soldier's Heart
by C. Tyler
C. Tyler is by far one of the most underrated comic artists of today. If you're a fan of classics like MAUS or FUN HOME, start reading this trilogy. The parallels are endless: the double narratives between child and father, the tension between remembering and forgetting, and the unspoken effects of trauma. In this final installment, Tyler is at the top of her game, producing lush watercolors that are sure to amaze, while simultaneously delving into one of the most poignant and complex stories of the year.
The Wrong Place
by Brecht Evens
As you can tell by my picks, I seem to have a weakness for comics with bright colors, so no big surprise here. I've praised Evens' work so many times on our blog that I'll keep it simple by saying this: so long as Brecht Evens is making comics, he'll make it in my top picks. Just open up any of his books and you'll see why.
By This Shall You Know Him
by Jesse Jacobs
One of my favorite discoveries this year. Jesse Jacobs encapsulates everything that exciting about new comics: beautiful coloration, dark humor, and an incredible amount of imagination. A very trippy experience.
House of Psychotic Women
by Kier-La Janisse
This book! An exploration of female neurosis in horror films? YES PLEASE. Not only is this book incredible to look at, it's also smart and very well written, mixing autobiography, theory, and film history impeccably.
Lose #4
by Michael Deforge
In Lose 4 ("The Fashion Issue") Deforge outdoes himself again, creating some ultra-weird and twisted tales that are both funny and disturbing. Deforge has one of the most unique voices in comics today and he's also prolific, so check him out.
The Hive
by Charles Burns
Just as weird as part one (Xed Out) of Burn's psychedelic trilogy, and just as beautifully executed. To be honest, I'm still not sure what is going on in terms of the story, but knowing how masterful Burns is, I cannot wait for pieces to start falling into place. Watching such an intricate story unfold itself at this pace is both exciting and agonizing.
The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist
by Alvin Buenaventura
I'm such a sucker for these huge books on cartoonists, probably because they almost invariably include rare or never-before-seen pieces. Chris Ware's essay "Who's Afraid of Daniel Clowes?" as well as Clowes' portrait of Bill Murray and his hand-painted color guides make this book worth picking up alone.


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Life Drawing
Life Drawing
Charcoal and white chalk figure drawing from life on acid-free toned paper, approx 6x9 inches (15.25x22.85 cm)
Once a week I attend an open figure drawing session at the Museum of Art School here in Honolulu, Hawai'i that has been hosted by a small, tight-knit group of talented artists for over 25 years. All week I look forward to these few free hours, unencumbered by deadlines or the day-to-day concerns of modern life, in which I can let my charcoals and pencils follow form as they glide over my favorite art papers. And from the languid and relaxed poses of our talented models, it appears they enjoy the peaceful break as well. Above all though, I really love and appreciate that our models are comprised of folks of all shapes and sizes, college-aged up to retirees, and representing a multitude of ethnic backgrounds.
This charcoal and white chalk figure study on acid-free toned paper is part of an ongoing series of drawings from life. It measures roughly 6 x 9 inches and is a page carefully taken right from my homemade sketchbook.
Your original life drawing comes signed by me and will be shipped flat and ready to frame.
Please note: These drawings are not available as giclee prints - this work will be a real one-of-a-kind just for you!


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#1 Reds to trade Griffey to White Sox07-31-2008, 10:38 AMReds to Trade Griffey Jr. to White Sox, FoxSports.com Reports
By Bob Bensch
July 31 (Bloomberg) -- The Cincinnati Reds agreed to trade Ken Griffey Jr. to the Chicago White Sox, pending the outfielder's approval, FoxSports.com reported on its Web site.
The 13-time All-Star has the right to block the move under Major League Baseball rules because he has over 10 years of service, five with the same club. He will decide this morning whether to accept the trade, Fox said, citing a person with knowledge of the situation it didn't identify.
Griffey, 36, is batting .245 this season with 15 home runs and 53 runs batted in. He became the sixth major-league player with 600 career homers on June 10.
Teams have until 4 p.m. New York time to trade players without them having to clear waivers.
Another interesting trade deadline deal. I'm not sure this is a spectacular move for the Sox, but I suppose they had to do something.
EyelidsGuest07-31-2008, 01:55 PM
Wierd trade. Of course how can I complain about Ken Griffey Jr. on the White Sox?
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I thought the following was necessary was necessary for outgoing HTTP on a desktop (non-server):
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --sports 80,443 -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports 80,443 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
But, it turns out I need these two to make it work. I don't know why:
iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT
I know the last rule allows UDP to the
lo interface.
But, I thought all I needed was
outgoing TCP for NEW/ESTABLISHED connections +
incoming TCP for ESTABLISHED connections. It seemed counter-intuitive to me (because I'm still learning).


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Afatech AF9015
A combination DVB-T demodulator and USB bridge chip from Afatech. This is the company's second generation COFDM demodulator, and is the successor to the AF900x family of chips. Given the chip's dual nature, the AF9015 is fairly complex. It is also very flexible, supporting a wide variety of device configurations (single USB, dual USB, Platform mode, PCI/PCIe based devices, and even SPI is supported by it with some tuners (such as for a Consumer Electronics product that runs Windows CE)). Documentation for the AF901x family can be obtained from AFA (under NDA), but it is apparently confusing, as well as incomplete -- as there are a lot of areas that are undocumented.
The AF901x family consists of the following chips:
- (list chips here ...or perhaps start a new article for the AF901x family, and leave this one dedicated to the AF9015)
Examples of DVB-T USB devices in which the AF9015 chip can be found include:
- Dongles with USB ID 15a4:9016 or 15a4:9015
- The WandTV (QT1010)
- The Elements High Definition DVB-T Receiver Model no DK-5203.
- A-Link DTU(m) (15a4:9016, MT2060)
- Fujitech (15a4:9016)
- TubeStick (15a4:9015) (Mac)
- Geniatech T328B (15a4:9016, QT1010)
- BestBuy Easy TV USB Stick (MT2061)
- DENVER DVBT-2U (15a4:9016, MT2060(F))
At present there are three different Linux drivers available for the AF901x. That may strike one as being strange or showing signs of a state of dis-coordination, but in actuality, each driver has its own reason for coming into existence. In addition, taken collectively, the development of three different drivers highlights the relative complexity of the chip, as well as the flexibility in device design that its employment permits.
Opensource Mercurial Repositories
- http://jusst.de/hg/af901x ... This is a second driver attempt for the AF901x by Manu Abrahams. In his personal assessment, he got many things right, but some things are still wrong. In addition, his driver works with just one particular device
- http://linuxtv.org/hg/~anttip/af9015/ (Supported tuners are: MT2060, MT2061 and QT1010.) ... This is a driver written from scratch, first by reverse engineering and afterwards finalized from the reference kit, by Antti Palosaari, that is specific to the AF9015 chip alone, and for device's with a "MASTER based configuration".
Vendor Released Driver
- A vendor-written driver specific to the AF9015 chip alone is available from http://af.zsolttech.com/. Apparently, AFA had this driver written (authour, Rick Huang?) specifically for a single device from one customer, who then in turn ended up violating the NDA.
In any regard, users have reported that this vendor driver is indeed working, including for x64_64 (for some further information see the threads here and here.
For devices based on the MT2060 tuner (such as the Geniatech T328B) you may need to patch the file MT2060M.h in the following way:
typedef unsigned long UData_t;
typedef unsigned int UData_t;
Then compile, install, modprobe dvb_usb_af9015 and you are finished.
A Comprehensive OSS Driver
For its part, Afatech does not want any of the above driver attempts to make their way into the kernel, as none of them are very robust in terms of chip support.
Instead, AFA has embarked upon the development of yet another OSS driver, which will be generic in that it will be capable of supporting the entire AF901x family as well as all possible device configurations permitted. In addition to the expectation that it will be this driver that is eventually adopted into the kernel, AFA have also signaled that they intend provide continuous support (i.e. they will stay on as the driver's maintainer).
Currently, this newest driver has reached a second round of testing in AFA labs, but that has only been in conjunction (with some peripheral manufacturers) with a few devices, and, as it stands, the code is still not particularly generic (due to both the complexities of the chip itself as well as those involved in getting the various device configurations to work). So, as of yet, there currently isn't anything for the end user to test. However, as soon things progress past this stage, there will be something released for users to test. There is no specific release timeframe set for this, but hopefully it will be soon, as the chip manufacturer (as well as everybody else involved) is under pressure, due to the large adoption of the chip by different peripheral manufacturers (Avermedia, Terratec, Azurewave, DigitalNow, Pinnacle, as well as some number of unbranded Chinese manufacturers too). In short, a lot more devices based on this chipset are expected to materialize.
External Links
This article is meant to serve as an introduction to the task of developing a driver for a usb based dvb device. Currently, in terms of this subject, there are a number of scattered resources available that, when organized together, could form the basis of a howto suitable for the noice developer. Hence, it might be very worthwile documenting the process.
Initial Steps
The very first thing you would want to do is to identify the components used in your device. Refer to the section entitled "Gathering Information About Your Unidentified/Unsupported Device" for some clues on how to proceed with that task.
The next logical step would be to try to obtain technical datasheets on the components. Many chip manufacturers make this documentation readiablily available, while in other cases a google search for the chip's part or model number is necessary to track down other sources for such documentation.
Familiarizing yourself with a USB driver
To start with, there are some great Linux USB tutorials on Linux Journal:
- start here: How to Write a Linux USB Device Driver
- then here: Writing a Simple USB Driver
- here: Hot Plug
- and then here: Snooping the USB Data Stream
In addition, get the source code for the LinuxTV V4L-DVB driver set. You will find that USB based DVB drivers are contained within the ./v4l-dvb/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb directory. Have a bit of a browse through them while you're reading through the first article listed above, and try to get a feel for how the driver is put together (note: there is also a procedure about this that is described in a thread found here). Sometimes you can get a good head start in your own development efforts by attempting to leverage parts of earlier released code -- that which may have been written specifically for the exact same chip as contained in your own device or via code for a near similar chip, such as say from a previous production generation. Simply, modifying existing code to suite your own endeavour can greatly expediate the process of driver development.
Some useful tools
- usbsnoop - a Windows USB sniffer utilitly, which adheres to the WDM architecture
- also see SniffUSB 2.0 - a usbsnoop derivative
- parser.pl - a script for parsing the huge usbsniff log file
- USB Replay - allows one to replay parsed usbsnoop logfiles on a Linux system
- also see this M920x specific script for some ideas
- USBmon
- Usbmon2usbsnoop - a script that converts the output from usbmon to a format that is compatible with USB Replay


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Father's Day celebrations often revolve around cooking out.
My father is neither a cook of any skill nor a deft grill master. Yet come Father's Day dinner, he is put to work. If left to his own devices, peanut butter and jelly and Lean Cuisine with a side of Entenmann's donuts would supply all the sustenance he requires. But Father's Day is more than about the man. It's about the role he plays in the family dynamic, and for that he's got to man the grill.
Mia Staton from Annapolis' Whole Foods Market offered this simple but flavorful meat for his grill.
Grilled Flank Steak with
Prepare a grill for medium-high heat cooking. In a small bowl, whisk together mustard and honey. Set aside 2 tablespoons of mixture for glazing the steak while grilling; the rest will be used as a sauce.
Sprinkle steak with salt and pepper, and grill for 3 minutes on each side. Brush both sides of the steak with the 2 tablespoons of Dijon and honey mixture and continue to cook, turning once or twice, until the steak reaches the desired doneness (2-5 minutes longer).
Let the steak rest covered loosely with foil for 10 minutes before slicing and serving. Meanwhile, whisk reserved Dijon mixture together with 1 tablespoon water. Serve the extra sauce over the steak or on top of side dishes.
To complement your barbeque this weekend or throughout your summer, I share my brother's famous baked beans recipe. In our family, no cookout is complete without them.
Uncle Timmy's Famous Baked Beans
Soak beans overnight in water. In the morning, drain and rinse beans.
Boil over medium heat in 6-8 cups of fresh water, 2 hours until tender.
Add brown sugar, ketchup and chopped onion. Mix well and pour into baking dish.
Top with sliced bacon. Cover with foil and bake at 325 degrees for approximately 4 hours, until thick and tasty.
Serve warm or room temperature.
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Crafted in the renowned cutlery center of Solingen, Germany, the Wüsthof Classic knives in this set have specially formulated high-carbon-steel blades that hold a keen edge. Full tangs increase balance, and the triple-riveted polypropylene handles ensure a comfortable grip. The small footprint of this set makes it ideal for a second prep station or to have on hand outside by the grill.
- Each knife is precision forged from a single piece of sturdy high-carbon steel that resists stains and corrosion.
- Wüsthof's Precision Edge Technology (PEtec) ensures a 20% sharper blade with twice the edge retention.
- Full tangs are triple riveted to the handles for exceptional durability and control.
- Durable polymer handles are contoured for a comfortable grip.
- Handsome hardwood block safely stores items and is gentle on knives' edges.
5-Piece set includes:
- 3 1/2" paring knife.
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- Paring knife: 3 1/2" long blade; 4" long handle; 2 oz.
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- Made in Germany.
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by Ed Harris
The Republican slate for November features many familiar names and faces even though there is a bit of a shakeup at the top of the ticket.
Four of the six incumbent Republican town councilors have decided against seeking reelection. The only incumbents running again are Cheryl Lounsbury and Stephanie Urillo.
Council Chairman John Dobbins, Lou Martocchio, Peter Romano and Dr. Al Natelli are not seeking reelection.
"They've served four years," said Republican Town Committee Chairman Brian Callahan. "The way the council is structured now there is a minimum of six meetings for every council meeting. People are tired."
Rounding out the Town Council slate are former councilors Michael Riccio and Victoria Triano, along with Paul Champagne and Thomas Lombardi.
Natelli cited family and a bit of fatigue as the reasons why he decided against seeking a third term on the council. Natelli said he had accomplished almost all of his goals he had begun with.
"I just need to recharge the batteries," he said. "I enjoyed what we did for the town."
Though he has not served on the council since 2007, Riccio is a bit of an old hand in local politics. He served eight years on the council and is currently the chairman of the Parking Authority.
"I just wanted to get back involved again," he said. "I'm excited to run with some new faces and old friends."
Lombardi has served as an alternate on the Zoning Board of Appeals since January 2012. The Town Council is the first elected board that he has run for.
"I was born and raised in Southington," he said. "I love the community and I want to serve the people."
Most of the remaining slate for the Republican involves incumbents, with a fresh face running for the tax board.
For the Board of Finance, the Republicans are running incumbents Joseph Labieniec, John Leary and Edward Pocock III, along with James Coleman.
Incumbents Paul Chaplinsky Jr., Michael Delsanto and Stephen Kalkowski are seeing reelection to the Planning and Zoning Commission.
Kathy Larkin is running for town clerk, a position currently held by Leslie Cotton. Cotton, a Republican, is retiring after 20 years on the job and has backed Larkin as her replacement.
The six Board of Education candidates have served together on the board for the last several years. The slate of incumbents are Terri Carmody, Colleen Clark, Brian Goralski, Terry Lombardi, Jill Notar-Francesco and Patricia Queen.
"Our vision hasn't changed since the first time I ran," said Goralski, chairman of the school board.
Goralski said that vision included teamwork, communication and respect.
Gregory Klimaszewski is seeking reelection to the Water Department.