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We're delighted to announce today that our Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) programme has attracted sponsorship from Peer 1 - the international hosting firm which has demonstrated it has the Right Stuff by backing our audacious upper-atmosphere plane plan.
For those of you not up to speed on PARIS, we'll be carrying the Vulture 1 vehicle aloft strung under a weather balloon and main payload package, then releasing it from an improbable altitude.
Peer 1's Dominic Monkhouse described it as "huge privilege to be involved in such a ground-breaking programme" and said he was "looking forward to getting first intelligence back as to optimal location for our next data centre build and creating a galactic peering point."
Asked what attracted Peer 1 to PARIS in the first place, Dominic explained: "I'm a firm believer that we're not the only ones out here, and if that's the case, then there must be a bigger market for hosting I can be first to tap into."
He added: "PEER 1 is all about innovation, doing things better than anyone else and delivering outstanding performance, so we see significant parallels with the quality, engineering and excitement surrounding the Vulture 1 Mission. And, at £121,000 a seat, anyone can get involved with Virgin Galactic; Vulture 1 is far more exclusive."
Of course, releasing paper aircraft into space is not without its risks, but Dominic was upbeat about the mission's prospects. He enthused: "As the great philosopher Derek Trotter once said, 'He Who Dares Wins', so I'm less concerned with risk than with the exciting opportunity Vulture 1 represents to push the boundaries of the possible - one of our core values is 'anything is possible'.
"It's such an important mission for our country in the international space programme that I'm sure landowners would be proud to have been associated with any fallout. And there's always eBay to soften the blow."
Finally, we asked Dominic if he knew anyone diminutive enough to be our Vulture 1 test pilot. He offered: "Wencesleyne Ong is our smallest person, she is tiny, she almost fits on the palm of my hand, so should fit in the cockpit on Vulture 1 without difficulty. Perhaps nominations should be made and put it to a vote. Otherwise, ask Champion, our PR agency – they can't say no and most of them are wider than they are tall."
Wencesleyne Ong, we should explain, is Peer 1's live chat person who pops up on the company's website. Sadly, she's a tad too tall even at an 800x600 screen resolution, so we'll have to give Champion a bell.
Well, this is splendid news indeed, and it's time to get down to it. We haven't been exactly idle over the last couple of months, and now have our main and Vulture 1 payloads specced up, and have a provocative plan for the aircraft release mechanism. We'll give you a full update on Friday. ®
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When a match between John Cena and The Rock was announced the day after WrestleMania last year, many people wondered how WWE would keep the momentum and interest for the inevitable collision strong from a whole year.
Most of the build-up seems logical -- or at least sensible. The Rock disappeared for months on end, going back to Hollywood and amassing a stockpile of ammunition for Cena to use against him.
When he returned, he teamed with Cena in a Survivor Series main event, with the focus of the match not even being on their opponents -- The Miz and R-Truth -- but on the threat of animosity between the two.
That "classic" match features an unforgettable ending, as the two easily disposed of their opponents before even teasing dissension between the two. After that, the Rock disappeared again, making only sporadic appearances, mostly via satellite.
But now that the Road to WrestleMania has officially begun, Rocky has been a permanent fixture on Raw, engaging in multiple wars of words with Cena. Just who is winning the battle is up for debate, as fans continue to debate the general topic, as well as to whether or not Rock has been holding back to make Cena look good.
But while all the microphone confrontations, and even the tag match, represent common-sense booking, there was one thing no one could have predicted a year ago: Tonight's "Rock and Rap Concert" on Raw.
John Cena fired the first shot, opening the show adorned in his rap attire -- and even using "Basic Thuganomics" as his entrance music. He did a simple, yet effective rap bit that got over with the crowds in the arena and on Twitter.
The promo was a great start to the show, and the Cleveland crowd played a big role in that. Seeing Cena use the "Doctor of Thuganomics" persona is great for nostalgia and throwback, but I have a feeling fans would tire of it quickly if Cena ever attempted to resurrect it full-time.
When The Rock came out at the other end of the show, he had his work cut out for him.
Immediately, I was let down, as Rock took 10 minutes to cut a promo before even starting his song. The point of tonight's challenge was to deliver the message via tune, which Cena did. Rock, on the other hand, had to rely on more homophobia, sexual innuendo and even Telletubbies to get his point across.
When he actually started his "Rock concert," the song wasn't bad, but it was clear Rock had notes on the stand in front of him. Better to read from notes than his wrist, I suppose.
His rendition of "We Will Rock You" even had lyrics on the Titantron like a giant karaoke machine. Disappointing, Rocky, disappointing.
At the end of the night, this victory once again belongs to Cena. I have more respect for his off-the-cuff or memorized performance than Rock's longer-than-needed promo and songs on the stand that were likely written by someone else altogether.
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** Sheamus and Dolph Ziggler had a nice long television match that made both men look strong. It's kind of sad that the best Ziggler will have at WrestleMania is a spot in a 12-man tag team match. He deserves much more for his consistent work and improvement this year. If Sheamus wins the belt from Daniel Bryan on April 1, an extended feud between these two for the title wouldn't be a bad option.
One small quibble about the match, though, was that it was interrupted to show an interview with Bryan and AJ in the skybox. I like this form of promo, but it would be nice if it was done on a split-screen or an in-set video box, so as not to distract from the in-ring action. The fact they hinted at a possibly abusive relationship between Bryan and AJ is also kind of unnerving. It's one thing to be controlling, as a heel, but going to extremes won't benefit anyone.
** What should have been an epic confrontation between Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker felt a little flat, mostly because of Taker's botch on the date of WrestleMania. That kind of took all of the energy out of things. Other than that, even, the promo seemed basic and didn't seem like anything special or extraordinary between these two legends. The segment ended with Triple H coming out in a suit and giving the DX crotch chop to The Undertaker. This match is still doing little for me, personally.
** Randy Orton put Jack Swagger away in a surprisingly competitive match. The bout was pretty good, and it was a shock to see Swagger get so much offense against Orton. After the match, Kane's music and pyro hit, but the masked monster was nowhere to be found. Being that Kane has dominated Orton so much in recent weeks, it makes sense that he'd pull back and play mind games instead.
** The Miz tapped out to CM Punk to lose out of his spot on Team Raw. It really seems like Miz may be left without a WrestleMania match. Hopefully, if that happens, it fuels a comeback angle for him later this year, as I'm still a proud Mizfit. The match itself was good. Afterward, Chris Jericho took his feud with Punk to the next level, saying he learned Punk's father is an alcoholic and that Punk is straight-edge to try and find solace for his desire to consume alcohol. Jericho said he'll leave Punk a broken made, who has hit bottom, forcing him to alcohol. Well, that was ... awkward ... Apparently it was a throwback to Punk's feud with Raven in Ring of Honor, but I'm not sure it's appropriate for WWE's audience demographics.
** David Otunga and United States Champion Santino Marella were named as the captains for the WrestleMania teams representing Raw General Manager and Smackdown General Manager Teddy Long, respectively. Marella was then booked into a handicap match against Otunga and Mark Henry. The duo destroyed Marella, which brought out Kofi Kingston and R-Truth, who also fell to Laurinaitis' duo. Henry was confirmed for Team Raw, and one can assume Kingston and R-Truth will be added to Team Smackdown. As I've said before, I'm actually enjoying this feud, and it's a good way to get the midcard onto a packed WrestleMania card.
** Brodus Clay made his much-anticipated return to Raw after a six-week or so absence. It was good to see the Funkasaurus back, but the problem of just squashing jobbers seems to be continuing. Hopefully he earns a spot on Team Smackdown and gets the opportunity to have a real match.
** Zack Ryder looked to be healed, at least physically, as he had a backstage segment with Eve and Divas Champion Beth Phoenix. Ryder continued to look like a fool with his handling of the Eve situation. I had high hopes this angle would turn Ryder into a serious character, but that seems less and less likely the longer the angle goes on.
** I've been a long-time "Psych" fan so it was nice to see James Roday appear on the show. He didn't do anything of major significance, but he also didn't make a fool of himself like some other guest hosts. I'm looking forward to The Miz's appearance on the show this week.
Match Rundown
Sheamus d. Dolph Ziggler
David Otunga and Mark Henry d. Santino Marella
Brodus Clay d. Jinder Mahal
CM Punk d. The Miz
Randy Orton d. Jack Swagger
My Take
Tonight's Raw was a strong episode for the Road to WrestleMania. Heading into the show, I had low expectations, based on the amount of talking and promos that had been promoted. I also had no idea what would come of the Rock and Cena's concerts. In the end, we received a night of quality in-ring action and strong microphone work, well, from everyone except the forgetful Undertaker. If we get a few more weeks of shows like this one, I'll be a very happy camper.
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"Undertaker takes longer to walk to the ring than Jinder Mahal's match. And no one complains." – Justin Ruff, @justinruff
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Yes, you are right re "Henery the Eighth, I am". I found a youtube clip which shows Patrick Swayze singing Henry the Eighth to Whoopi Goldberg, as you say. Ghost is one of my all-time favourite movies, and I've seen it many times, but don't own a copy. It's been a while, but I remember a later street scene, where Whoopi tries to renege on going downtown and Patrick responds by singing 99 bottles of beer. Whoopi then quickly changes her mind and goes downtown as agreed. I could be mistaken though, and can't find a supporting youtube clip. Update: Found a supporting youtube clip.
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The above video is of Yankee Stadium God-dismissing, anti-American Brad Campeau Laurion who enlightened us (and, seemingly, hundreds of other media outlets) about being forcibly escorted out of Yankee Stadium Tuesday night after he tried to go to the bathroom during the traditional 7th-inning rendition of "God Bless America." Laurion contends he wasn't doing anything except being a little unpatriotic. The NYPD, however, has a different recollection and shared it with the Daily News:
"A police spokesman said Campeau-Lampion was thrown out because he was "standing on his seat cursing, using inappropriate language and acting in a disrespectful manner while reeking of alcohol."
As of now, the Yankees have still yet to comment on Laurion's claims and he still is intent on pursuing legal action against the team. The person who will ultimately get the blame for all of this? A-Rod. Anthem brouhaha at Stadium [NY Daily News] So, So, The Yankees Take This No Moving During "God Bless America"-Thing Rather Serious [Deadspin]


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Hi all.
I am trying to make a symlink form my freesco box (v038) to a shared directory on one of the xp machines in my network. This machine runs a program called FSD that is used for flightsimulator people to connect to with FSInn to fly with each other. This program creates a txt file that can then be read by another program over the internet to see on a map where one is and who else is there.
This txt file has to be served via a webserver (I use apache) in a subdirectory form the www files. I have tried having FSD write directly in this directory but that does not work for some reason. I made a share in the freesco (using Samba) and I had XP map that drive (so it now was z:\ and added this to the config of FSD. No luck. I can create files from the XP machine in this directory so I do not think it has something to do with writing allowences (so to speak).
Now I thought of trying to do it the other way. Connecting from Freesco to the xp share. I first tried Ln -s but no luck and now smbmount.
I use the following syntax.
smbmount /192.168.169.148/whazzup /home/rest/lecakyme -n
However I constantly get the following reply
mount error: Device or resource busy
Please look at smbmount's manual page for possible reasons
This is confusing to me. Does this mean the share is busy (yes I hope so) sometimes the server writes into there, or is the /lecakyme busy (again I hope so, also my apache should be there).
So in other words I am lost. To make sure it was not the xp share I have changed the config file of fsd (once again) so it writes somewhere else, yet the message stays the same.
Any help would be appreciated (are there any logfiles to be viewed?).
Thanks in advance.
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Hello people of the internet!!! On today's 'Monday Memos' we're going to talk about one of the past times that we all enjoy…binge watching! Whether you like Netflix, Hulu, DVDs, or anything in between you know that we love spending hours getting lost in our favorite shows. So if you want to know what shows you should watch this winter please keep reading. Ready? Ok, let's go!!!
5) Beverly Hills 90210 (Hulu):
This classic 90s teen drama is definitely one that all music fans should check out (if you're not already a fan of it) because this is the show that is given the credit of creating the teen drama genre that brought us other favorites such as Dawson's Creek, Gossip Girl and so many others. If you think Rosewood has drama just wait until you see what happens in Beverly Hills.
If you're into sci-fi then I'm sure you're already in love with this groundbreaking franchise, with a new highly anticipated movie coming out next year this is the perfect time to get familiar with Star Trek. This show has great, complex characters, incredible action, and because there have been A LOT of movies, spin-offs, and even an aminated show then you know that this is a franchise that knows what its' viewers want to see.
3) Digimon/Yu-Gi-Oh (Netflix, Crunchyroll, Yugioh.com):
Whether you watched these shows as a kid, love anime, or just love amazing shows then you have to rewatch these shows this winter break. If you haven't revisited the Digital World lately then you need to catch up before this franchise releases it's newest movie next year (btw if you haven't seen the 1st movie in the Digimon Adventure Tri series then you need to RIGHT NOW because it's amazing). 2016 will also bring us a new movie that will follows the King of Games Yugi as he saves the world from evil…again (poor kid can't get break). Even though we don't know a lot about this new movie yet, we do know that it takes place 6 months after the original Yu-Gi-Oh manga ends so now is a good time to dust off your deck and getting ready to duel.
2) Pretty Little Liars (Netflix):
Ok if you've ever seen this show then you know that you have to binge watch this show at least every other season to keep up with everything that has happened. Last season we found out who "A" was and honestly were left with even more unanswered questions. When we visit Rosewood again in 2016 we will time jump 5 years in the future, so needless to say you may need a few days to catch up again on all the romance, drama, and suspense (I don't know if my feels can handle this again y'all).
Needless to say the internet went into a frenzy when we found out that we were going back to Stars Hollow. Gilmore Girls had drama, romance, amazing characters, witty writing, and basically made everyone want to move to a small town. If you've never seen Gilmore Girls then you are missing a VERY important part of TV history and you need to hop over to Netflix right now and check it out (c'mon you're on there all day anyway so go on and check it out).


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Ahead of Detroit conference, Progressive Baptists say message is on point
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Thousands of African-American Christians from across the U.S. will be in Detroit this week for the annual national gathering of a denomination that long has fought for civil rights and justice.
The seven-day conference of the Progressive National Baptist Convention comes at a pivotal moment for Detroit, a majority black city that is under an emergency manager and in bankruptcy.
Founded in 1961 to support the struggles of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others, the Progressive National Baptist Convention was the spiritual home of civil rights activists. Today, its leaders say the group's message of social justice is still vital, citing the Trayvon Martin case, attacks on the Voting Rights Act and the use of emergency managers in black-majority Michigan cities as big issues for many African Americans.
"The message of Progressive Baptists is more relevant than ever," said the Rev. Kenneth Flowers, pastor of Greater New Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in Detroit and president of the convention's Michigan chapter.
"Dr. King was a Progressive Baptist. If Dr. King were alive today, he would be speaking out for the Voting Rights Act and against the Stand Your Ground laws, as well as the emergency manager situation."
The denomination's president is expected to release a statement during the conference about the bankruptcy of Detroit, whose population is 84% African American. Many Progressive Baptist leaders are concerned that the bankruptcy process could end up hurting the city's most vulnerable residents.
Up to 7,000 people are planning to attend the conference, which will feature talks by President Barack Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a nationally known rabbi and civil rights leaders who worked with King. On Monday, pastors plan to stand on the corner of Schaefer and McNichols in Detroit to preach for an end to black-on-black crime.
Gospel music also will be a part of the conference, which strives to be "a wedding of social justice issues with spirituality," said the Rev. James Perkins, pastor of Greater Christ Baptist Church in Detroit and first vice president of the denomination.
Representatives from about 2,500 churches in the U.S., England, Cuba and the Bahamas are expected to attend. There are 42 churches in metro Detroit within the denomination, which has an estimated 1 million-2.5 million members worldwide.
The Progressive National Baptist Convention was formed after mainstream African-American Baptist organizations were reluctant to support the civil rights movement in the 1950s and '60s. It's a myth that the civil rights movement was popular among African Americans, Progressive Baptists say.
That history applies today: Even though Progressive Baptists are smaller in number compared with other denominations and not as popular, they have an important role to play in fighting for justice, their leaders say. In Michigan, for example, Progressive Baptists have expressed concern about democratic rights and pensions being threatened under emergency managers.
"There is a concern that the generations that benefited from the civil rights achievements have not been as vigilant in terms of guarding those rights as the previous generations," Perkins said. "Some are slipping back into the ideology that the church should not be involved in politics. But we believe the Bible definitely has a social gospel emphasis. That's a core identity of who we are and represent."
Flowers agreed, saying, "Jesus dealt with the political, economic and social concerns of the day. Jesus was a social revolutionary. He was a social activist."
Anthea Butler, associate professor and chair of the graduate program in the department of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, said it's timely that the conference is being held in Detroit.
"Detroit is kind of a microcosm of what's happening to a lot of African Americans" across the U.S., with economic challenges and attacks on their rights, Butler said.
Progressive Baptists are "trying to do the cutting-edge work in social justice," which makes them different from other Baptist organizations, Butler said.


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Electronics Projects: How to Build a Gated Latch
This electronics project shows you how to build a gated D latch using two 4011 Quad 2-Input NAND gates. Two 4011 chips are required because the NAND gate requires a total of five gates (four NAND gates and one NOT gate), and each 4011 provides just four gates.
You can create a NOT gate from a NAND gate simply by tying the two inputs of the NAND gate together. In this project, you use that technique to create the NOT gate.
To operate the assembled gated D latch, use the first button (the one in row 4) as the DATA input and the second button (the one in row 8) as the ENABLE input, as follows:
Set the Q output to HIGH. First, press and hold the DATA input button, and then press and release the ENABLE input button to activate the latch. The first LED lights to indicate that the output is HIGH.
Set the Q output to LOW (which sets the Q-bar output to HIGH). Just press and release the ENABLE button without pressing the DATA button. The first LED goes out to indicate that the Q output is LOW, and the second LED lights to indicate that the Q-bar output is HIGH.


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After that, the creep continues to follow her down pit road, while she is looking for Danica.
shafnutz05 wrote:What an exciting finish... Single file until the last lap, half hearted move to the front, checked flag. Lame
TheHammer24 wrote:Danica did lead a lap, Shaf. I wish she won. That would have been cool. I just wish DW would stop pointing super mundane things that he says make her good.
shafnutz05 wrote:TheHammer24 wrote:Danica did lead a lap, Shaf. I wish she won. That would have been cool. I just wish DW would stop pointing super mundane things that he says make her good.
I was very impressed with the way she handled herself yesterday. Also agree that it was an insult to her to CONSTANTLY talk about all of the minor things she was doing right.
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relantel wrote:Phoenix - most important races were off pit road. Don't suspect many 88 fans are fans of Casey Mears right now, as that cost Jr the lead, and was the final lead change. As it were, out front Earnhardt was able to stay in front of Johnson the entire run. Might have been his longest stretch of laps led since the first Michigan last year.
(Moral for the 88 - qualify better to get a better pit selection, to be able to avoid such incidents)
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Economists Expect Strong Jobs Numbers Friday, but Their Wages Leave Something to Be Desired
Some fast-food workers walked off the job this week in New York demanding a doubling of their wages.
There is no doubt that the $7.25 an hour paid by the likes of McDonald's Corp. doesn't go very far these days, even outside the Big Apple. But at least such low-paying service jobs are plentiful. That combination takes some of the shine off recent optimism about employment data, though.


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One of the best PC games ever made is Sid Meier's Colonization. A big part of that is the way it simulates the great unknown: as you venture westwards, unless you're playing on the boring "real" map, you're truly venturing into the great unknown.
Few games have managed to copy that success, most recently Paradox's otherwise excellent Europa Universalis IV, which was robbed of much of the excitement of expansion by the fact that, even with a fog of war, you already knew where the Americas were, and what they'd look like once you got there.
So it's awesome to hear that the game's first major expansion does away with this, and seeks to recreate much of the Colonisation experience, albeit now with a lot more buttons. Conquest of Paradise, as it's called, will randomly generate the new world, meaning you really do have to get off your butt and explore, since you have no idea what you'll find on the other side (provided you're playing as a European, at least).
If you'd rather play as a Native American, you can, with extra nations, buildings and options available, the ultimate goal being to get everyone together and drive those weird white guys with guns back into the ocean.
It's out on December 11, alongside one of Paradox's great big patches. There's more specific info below.
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This is Reminiscent of Philip Roth's "The Great American Novel"
A novella (actually more of a long short story) about a player whose career has been literally erased.
Blockade BillyPublisher: Simon & Schuster
Length: 144 pages
Author: Stephen King
Price: $14.99
Format: Hardcover
Publication date: 2010-05
It's hard to write good baseball fiction. The game is so unlikely, so bizarre at times, that it's a challenge to the fiction writer's imagination to do it justice.
Who, for instance, could have invented Johnny Damon's at-bat in the ninth inning of Game 4 of the World Series last fall? He appeared to have been struck out by Brad Lidge (it was a foul tip), only to fight back and hit a single, and went on to steal two bases on a single play. From a near strikeout to third base in just a couple of pitches: You can't make that stuff up.
This is the challenge Stephen King faces in Blockade Billy, a novella (actually more of a long short story) about a player whose career has been literally erased.Such a setup is reminiscent, in an offhand way, of Philip Roth's 1973 fantasy The Great American Novel, in which a now-forgotten third major league, the Patriot League, is expunged from baseball history after having been exposed as a communist front.
The main part of The Great American Novel involves a team from New Jersey, the Port Ruppert Mundys, that suffers through the worst season of all time; Blockade Billy too takes place in New Jersey, although the team here, the Newark Titans, appears (at first glance, anyway) to have been blessed instead of cursed. That's because, as the book begins, the Titans have just brought up a rookie catcher, Bill Blakely, who not only can handle the position but also is possibly the greatest hitter anyone has ever seen.
Of course, Blockade Billy being a Stephen King story, there are bound to be complications, and indeed, these eventually lead to the downfall of the player and the team. It's not giving anything away to say that; King gleefully telegraphs this from the start.
"We contended for a while, partly thanks to Blockade Billy," the aging coach who narrates the story tells us, "but you know how that turned out."
The book, then, purports to share the saga of what happened: why Blakely was stricken from the record books, even as the Titans were forced to replay every game in which he played.
It's an extreme situation, one that isn't entirely believable, and that's an unintended tension in the story. To his credit, however, King gives it a low-grade urgency, tracing the lowly Titans' pennant hopes, the belief that their luck may have finally changed.
Perhaps the most compelling character here is Titans pitcher Danny Dusen, an ornery old-timer four games away from his 200th win. He takes the young Blakely — nicknamed Blockade Billy for his acuity at blocking the plate — under his wing, teaching him the slow burn of resentment that has always fueled the veteran player's game.
"It was funny and creepy at the same time," King's narrator tells us of a pregame meeting between the two. "The Doo was intense — leaning forward, eyes flashing while he talked... I almost said something because I wanted to break up that connection. Talking about it to you, I think maybe my subconscious mind had already put a lot of it together."
Here, King brings the novella's themes together: the conflict between excitement and fixation, between what is on the surface and what lurks underneath. In the end, though, Blockade Billy suffers from his inability to balance the two.
On the one hand, the story has the rosy, backward-looking tone of a John R. Tunis book, with its portrait of an era when "the game was smaller... (and) the players weren't such a big deal." On the other, King injects a dose of '50s darkness (the story takes place in 1957), the sort of bleakness and corruption infused in Bernard Malamud's 1952 novel, The Natural.
Like The Natural — which was based, in part, on the 1949 shooting of Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Eddie Waitkus by an obsessive fan — Blockade Billy has, at its center, an act of violence. But unlike Malamud, King is not interested in a morality tale. Rather, he's spinning a yarn, a shaggy dog story, with no payoff larger than itself.
That's not a criticism, exactly, but it does give Blockade Billy too narrow a focus, especially when considered against the enduring weirdness of the game. In a world with Eddie Waitkus, what does Bill Blakely have to tell us, other than that not even baseball players are immune?
Blockade Billy is hardly essential King; it's a short book that he's given to a small press in Maryland. There's nothing wrong with that, but you have to wonder if it would have appeared in print any other way. Like all of King's work, it has momentum, but reading it, ultimately, is like watching a big leaguer sit in with a farm team: interesting, perhaps, but without the giddy excitement, the sheer, explosive sense of possibility, that marks the highest levels of the game.


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Verizon is still yet to begin shipping HTC 8X orders, and according to emails received by a handful of our readers who have kindly forwarded copies to us, there's a slight delay. The carrier is stocking both the HTC 8X and Lumia 822 Windows Phone 8 handsets in its smartphone line-up (with the Samsung Odyssey coming in the future).
Because the HTC 8X is slightly behind schedule Verizon is offering 30% off any case in its store as a token of appreciation while consumers wait patiently for their Windows Phones to arrive. Both devices are officially being made available tomorrow in stores across the US.
The snippet below is what the full email reads, note that Verizon refers the HTC 8X as its codename - the HTC Accord.
"Important information about your HTC Accord order. Congratulations and thank you for your HTC Accord order. We know you are anxiously awaiting the arrival of your new device.
We regret to inform you that your HTC Accord was not shipped as scheduled on November 13, 2012. You will receive a shipping confirmation email that will include your final shipping date.
We are working hard to get your HTC Accord to you and apologize for any inconvenience. As a token of appreciation for your understanding please enjoy 30% off the case of your choice. Offer is valid through December 14, 2012."
Yesterday we covered Verizon processing Lumia 822 pre-orders with consumers receiving confirmation emails that orders have been dispatched and are well on their way. For those who are yet to receive their HTC 8X from Verizon and have been notified of a 30% reduction in price on any case of your choosing, note that the offer stands through December 14th of this year.
Have you received the same email? It's a shame the offer doesn't cover wireless charging accessories, or the JBL Powerup Wireless Charging Speaker. Here's hoping the HTC 8X is shipped soon.
Thanks, Kamran and TheLeopard, for the tips!


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Sautéed Broccoli Rabe
Broccoli rabe has a slightly bitter flavor that stands up nicely to the garlic and hot red pepper flakes in this recipe. If broccoli rabe isn't available, you can prepare broccoli, spinach, kale, Swiss chard, turnip greens, and other leafy greens in the same fashion.
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Yield: 4 servings
2 pounds broccoli rabe, washed, tough stems removed and discarded
1/4 cup olive oil
4 cloves garlic
Pinch of hot red pepper flakes
Salt and pepper to taste
Wash the broccoli rabe, then remove and discard its tough stems.
In a large pot, bring 4 quarts lightly salted water to a boil.
Add the broccoli rabe, cover, and cook, stirring occasionally, until the broccoli rabe is tender but still firm, about 5 minutes.
Drain into a colander, pressing out the excess water with the back of a spoon.
Peel and slice the garlic cloves.
Heat the olive oil and garlic in a medium skillet over medium heat.
When the garlic begins to brown, add the red pepper flakes and broccoli rabe.
Cook 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Season with salt and pepper, then serve.


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I've avoided trying to explain or describe or adequately define what's going on with media, social media, this blog, my wine work, Black Cloud and me up until now because I wasn't quite comfortable with my abilities to tie it all together.
But thanks to an old joke that I've mostly forgotten, I think I can give it a try.
First, if you're reading this, you've got at least a passing acquaintance with social media. Mostly if not all web/internet based, it's all those things (platforms, applications) like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, weBlogs that allow people (messengers) to inform others (message receivers) about stuff. Any segment of social media worth its salt then allows robustly active conversation around those messages.
How does that differ from old media?
Television, radio and print (even standing in the park on a soapbox) are mostly about one-way message delivery. The messenger crafts the message and then unleashes it on a mass audience, more or less confident that it will deliver the concept to most receivers most of the time.
As receivers, we just lie there and take it. Interaction has been limited to talk radio phone-ins, letters to the editor and heckling in the park.
So in the old joke there's a woman and a man having sexual relations and after it's over (as far as he's concerned) the man asks "Was it good for you?" (market research).
She responds, "Blue."
He asks quizzically, "Blue?"
She replies, "Yes, blue. I think I'll paint the ceiling blue".
Despite being confident he was delivering the right message, the messenger had no idea what the receiver was thinking or if she was even receptive. As they like to point out in the socmed world - message delivery = fail.
In new media, there's plenty of two-way communication from the start. Sure, things can foul up.
And social media won't replace old media but it will form a complimentary path.
By now you're aware that for the most part this is about selling things. But it's more than that. It's about giving people options in their lives and giving them choices. Its about those choices being qualified and vetted by their peers and other like-minded folk before committing resources. More than just dollars, those resources include time and something I like to call place of mind.
With so much information out there, having a band of brothers (and sisters) out there is like having your own socio-economic support group. Here's another sad attempt at an analogy.
Woody Allen is a recognized genius in world of cinema. However, there are varying degrees of Woody Allen fans. Some despise him and are not fans at all. Some will watch the movies but are critical of his off-screen life. Others will eat the whole buffet.
Social media allows you to surround yourself with the Woody Allen fans that approximate your degree of involvement. It's like going to the theatre and everybody is already on board the Woody Allen train. Not that there isn't the thrust and parry of criticism, but there is a genuine level of involvement not present in a random crowd.
As I prepare to launch my new wine brand Black Cloud, I'm considering what media to use to spread the word. In my mind, most old (mass) media is scattershot. You put out an ad in the paper or on TV and cross your fingers that you hit something. With social media, I think I can connect with people who have a degree of interest in what I'm doing. Using the right channels, I can talk to people who have already identified themselves as wine people. There's a focus in social media I don't see in mass media.
At least to start with, I'll be using social media almost exclusively to promote Black Cloud wine. I hope to make the suggestion, have a conversation and sell a few bottles of wine directly to the fans and winos who inhabit this world.
With a little luck, I'll avoid getting the answer "blue" when I ask the question.


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Some people love watching the sport of tennis, but I am not one of them. This should in no way reflect on that no-doubt fine sport, the talented people who play it, and the fans of said talented athletes. I'm sure it's a deficiency on my part, nobody's perfect, right? Similarly, I just can't get too worked up over the ongoing theist-atheist tennis match, the way some read so much meaning into every "point" scored by each side, how "heroes" and "villains" are created, how "experts" in the commentary box try to explain how one point was more devastating than another point, or how one player's career is on the decline. Worst of all is when a prominent player on one "team" decides to switch teams, then things really start to heat up!
Such was the case when fellow Patheos blogger Leah Libresco, formerly on the atheist channel here, decided to convert to Catholicism. Faster than you could say "Bristol Palin" traffic to her blog went insane, and CNN dubbed her a "prominent atheist blogger," much to the chagrin of prominent atheist bloggers (it's a Catch-22, if CNN is reporting on your conversion, you must be prominent, because CNN is reporting on your conversion). Now, everybody has an opinion about Ms. Libresco, with many giving interpretations as to this conversion's importance, or lack of importance. One Catholic blogger even opined that "heaven is roaring with joy" over this conversion (which makes one wonder what sounds heaven makes when a Catholic becomes an atheist, but I digress).
For my part, I was just going to ignore the whole thing. As a Pagan I have no real emotional investment in atheists and Catholics debating over conversion, or the significance of Libresco's turn towards Rome. It's like, well, like watching tennis. I can intellectually understand why some people get worked up about it, but it isn't my game. Indeed, Pagans, in general, don't much care about conversions. Patheos columnist Carl McColman, author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Paganism,"still has plenty of Pagan friends, despite becoming a Catholic (the same is true of Pagans who've become atheists). We believe that a person's relationship to the gods is their own affair, and it only becomes an issue for us when those converted decide to turn against us. To use their conversion as a means to sell books about our defaults, or to demonize us. Sadly that is an all-too-common phenomenon.
For many Pagans, when we hear that one of us has converted to Christianity, we wonder when the book is coming out. You think people love atheist-turned-believer stories? Well, there's a certain segment of Christians that just can't get enough ex-Pagan/ex-Witch narratives. Books with titles like "Taken From the Night," or "Generation Hex," or "Wicca and Witchcraft: Understanding the Dangers." Some of these narratives have elements of truth in them, but most are exaggerated or fabricated to make for a more dramatic telling. The simple truth, you see, is far too mundane. The truth is that thousands of people, perhaps even millions, shift in and out of different religious identities every day. It's as common as crabgrass, and it really means little to the larger trends that are driving religion.
As to this current ruckus, let me quote Stephen F. Roberts who famously opined that "I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do." Early pagans called Christians atheists because they didn't merely prefer their god over other gods (henotheism), they said those other gods were demonic figments of their god's dualistic evil counterpart. Once they grasped real power, Christians went on a campaign of eliminating those other gods, actions that would make the most militant atheists of today blanch (censorship, destruction of religious property, social pressure, and when those didn't work, killing). Those gods that couldn't be completely destroyed were either (literally) demonized or sanctified. That some are now trying to finish off that "last" god no doubt creates a unique tension for monotheists.
Into that tension steps an atheist who converts, who says, let us add one god. Who swings the door in the other direction, towards theism. The problem with that is that it creates its own tension. Christianity is still very much in the game of eliminating all the other gods, of stressing that there is only one god. But once you say, there is at least one god, one power in this universe that is beyond humanity, you open the door to the questions that any reasonable person would then ask. Is there more than one power? What came before Christianity? Why God and not Goddess? Is the Christian conception of God the correct one? What if the moral universe Catholics like to claim was actually acquired from other religions? Why would an inquisitive person stop at mere Christianity? The answer is that reasonable people ask these questions all the time, and certain Christian institutions spend a lot of time and money to stop people from finding the answers.
I wish Leah Libresco well, and I wish her happiness. While I profoundly disagree with Catholicism, thinking it a flawed and troubled faith, I hold no ill will towards its adherents, so long as they are committed to coexisting in a pluralistic secular society with us Pagans. I hope that her faith can develop away from the tennis match that this has all become, complete with cheering sections on each side. If you ever decide that maybe your world needs more than one god, feel free to drop me a line.


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Sochi Olympics: 10 defining moments
Let the Games begin.
Thousands of athletes from over 80 different countries are ready to descend on Sochi as the 2014 Winter Olympics begin in Russia.
The 17-day sporting extravaganza is being dubbed as the most expensive Olympics ever, with the Russians having spent $50 billion on turning the faded Black Sea resort into a rejuvenated host venue.
It promises to be another memorable occasion — but will it beat Winters Games gone past?
We've put our heads together and come up with our top 10 definitive moments in Winter Olympics history.
Do you agree? What have we missed? Give us your views on Facebook and Twitter and enjoy the Games!
'The Miracle on Ice'
It is the moment that all American ice hockey fans still talk about.
At the 1980 Lake Placid Games, the U.S. team — made up of college students and amateurs — produced one of the greatest shocks in the sport's history.
Facing the Soviet Union in the semifinals — a team which had won the four previous gold medals — the U.S. was expected to be swept aside easily.
It had been beaten 10-3 in a warmup game two weeks before the Olympics, though the Americans did qualify for the last four without too many problems courtesy of wins over Norway, Romania, West Germany and Czechoslovakia.
Then, in a contest which went down in history as one of the greatest ever, the host nation did the impossible — it defeated a team full of world-class professionals 4-3 in a pulsating contest.
Mike Eruzione scored the crucial goal with 10 minutes remaining to send the U.S. into the final, where it defeated Finland to win gold.
The success was captured on the big screen with the release of 'Miracle" in 2004, as Kurt Russell played the role of coach Herb Brooks.
The win over its Cold War enemy grabbed the imagination of the U.S. public and was voted the greatest sporting moment of the 20th century by Sports Illustrated.
Dave Ogrean, former executive director of USA Hockey, called the victory "the most transcending moment in the history of our sport in this country."
Rink rivalry
It was an attack which shocked the sporting world and laid the foundations for one of the most bitter rivalries ever witnessed on the ice.
Nancy Kerrigan was the U.S. golden girl, a talented figure skater and expected to challenge for gold at the Lillehammer Games.
But her entire world was turned upside down on January 6, 1994, just six weeks before the Olympics.
After leaving the practice rink, she headed to the changing room where she was attacked by a man with a metal bar.
The blow to her knee left her screaming in agony — and so began one of the most famous "whodunnit" cases in Olympic history.
Kerrigan's doctors told her that had she been hit just a centimeter lower, her kneecap would have been smashed, possibly rendering her unable to walk again.
The FBI launched an investigation and linked the attack to the ex-husband of Kerrigan's skating rival Tonya Harding.
Jeff Gillooly and Harding's bodyguard Shawn Eckhardt stood trial alongside the man who wielded the metal bar, Shane Stant.
Harding denied she had taken any part in the attack but did issue a statement for failing to report the incident.
While the drama continued to unfold, Kerrigan made a remarkable recovery and secured her place in the U.S. team for the Games.
With television cameras constantly on both women and the Olympic Village full of gossip, Harding and Kerrigan went head-to-head on the ice.
It was Kerrigan who came out on top, finishing second to take silver, while Harding was way down in eighth.
But Kerrigan's joy was shortlived — she received death threats and was told to stay away from the closing ceremony as she posed a security risk.
Harding was given three years' probation, 500 hours of community service and a $160,000 fine for hindering the investigation.
The U.S. Figure Skating Association banned her for life and stripped her of the 1994 national championship title.
Her ex-husband Gillooly and the others were given jail terms.
Great Escape
Hermann Maier cheated death at the Nagano Games in 1998.
The Austrian downhill skier, who was favorite for the gold medal in Japan, was sent hurtling after attempting a bend and flew horizontally through the air at over 70 miles per hour (112.65 kph).
He landed some 50 yards away before crashing head first into the safety nets — it was a moment where everybody feared the worst.
"I was very fast and there was a lot of wind from the back side," he said in the aftermath of the incident. "And I went up in the air and was looking at the sky. I looked down at the snow and waited for the crash."
Somehow, Maier escaped with minor bruises and with injuries to his knee and shoulder and was back in action soon after where he won gold medals in the giant slalom and super-G.
Nicknamed "the Herminator," he went on to become one of the most successful male skiers of all time, winning three world titles, silver and bronze at the 2006 Games at Turin, plus 54 World Cup race wins — second only to Ingemar Stenmark's 86.
Cool Runnings
They were four men who captured the hearts of the sporting world — and the tale of the Jamaican bobsled team still remains one of the most romantic in Winter Olympics history.
After holding trials in their home island, a team was selected and traveled to Calgary in 1988 for a test run on ice for the very first time.
With the freezing temperatures and ice a complete culture shock to everyone involved in the Jamaican setup, they faced an almost impossible task of competing with the world's best.
In the end, the team failed to finish, crashing on its only competitive run.
But what happened next has been immortalized in Hollywood history in the 1993 film "Cool Runnings."
As the four men got out of the sled and began to walk towards the finish line, they were greeted by handshakes from the sidelines and cheering.
The team gained the respect of its competitors and returned home as heroes.
Fab Five
Speed skater Eric Heiden's performance at Lake Placid in 1980 is arguably one of the finest ever witnessed.
He was just 17 when he made his debut at Innsbruck four years earlier, finishing seventh in the 1,500 meters and 19th in the 5,000m.
But Heiden had been transformed by the time he arrived for his second crack at the Olympics, when he became the first person to win five gold medals in the same Games
He won all five speed skating events from 5,000m through to the 10,000m and set an Olympic record in every one.
In the 10,000m final he broke the world record by 6.2 seconds and in the 1,500m he recovered from a near slip to win by 0.037 seconds.
The American turned to cycling following his success and won the 1985 U.S. Professional Cycling Championship before competing at the Tour de France a year later, though he did not complete the sport's premier race.
So near, so far
When it comes to snatching defeat from victory, Lindsey Jacobellis' 2006 Turin nightmare is likely to haunt her forever.
The U.S. star, who was 20 at the time, looked set to win gold in snowboard cross' Olympic debut after racing into a huge lead with the finish line in sight.
But with victory seeming inevitable, the American appeared to showboat on the penultimate jump by grabbing her board.
The result was catastrophic. She fell to the ground and watched on in horror as Switzerland's Tanja Frieden sped past to win gold and leave Jacobellis in second.
"I was caught up in the moment. I think every now and then you might see something like that," Jacobellis told media following the event.
"I didn't even think twice. I was having fun and that's what snowboarding is. I was ahead. I wanted to share with the crowd my enthusiasm. I messed up. It happens."
Tortoise beats the hare
There was one problem facing Steven Bradbury at the 2002 Games at Salt Lake City — he couldn't skate as fast as his rivals.
The Australian knew he wouldn't be able to keep up with the rest of the field and so he had a choice — go at full pace and risk embarrassment or hang back and wait for the rest of the field to crash.
The plan worked beautifully.
With the finish line of the 1,000m in sight, his four rivals managed to collide with each other and allow Bradbury to stroll over the line to win Australia's first ever Winter Olympics gold medal.
Not bad for a man who earlier in his career was sidelined for 18 months after a skater's blade sliced through his thigh — leaving him needing 111 stitches.
In 2000, Bradbury had also been told he'd never skate again after breaking his neck when crashing into a barrier during training.
But his Utah triumph was reward for 12 years of hard work and determination — and a tale which will never be forgotten.
Back from the brink
Dan Jansen was a man who refused to give up.
At the 1988 Calgary Games, the U.S. speed skater turned up as favorite to win gold in both the 500m and 1,000m events.
The world sprint champion was in fine form, but on the day he was set to compete, tragedy struck.
Jansen's sister, Jane Beres, died from leukemia.
Heartbroken, he took to the ice just hours afterward but fell after only 10 seconds of the race and was eliminated — the same happened three days later in the 1,000m.
Four years later at Albertville, he returned with hope renewed as the World Cup champion.
While his past failure meant he was not considered as big a favorite as he had been in Canada, Jansen believed he could still bring home a medal in France.
But a stumble during the 500m meant he finished fourth, while he could only muster a 26th-place finish in the 1,000m.
The opportunity had gone — but Jansen refused to give up.
After another dismal showing in the 500m race at Lillehammer '94, Jansen was left with one final chance.
The 1,000m had never been his favorite event but it was all that was left — and he skated as if he knew that.
Nobody was going to catch him — even when he made a brief stutter and the world held its breath, he just kept on going — racing to victory to take gold and set a new world record.
He celebrated in front of a roaring crowd and then lifted up his baby daughter Jane, named after his sister.
Perfect six
It was an achievement that was thought to be impossible.
When British pair Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean took to the ice at Sarajevo '84, they stood on the cusp of greatness.
Dancing to Ravel's "Bolero," they produced not only a flawless routine but a dance worthy of figure skating's first perfect score — scoring the maximum possible of nine sixes for artistic impression.
The crowd went wild, throwing roses onto the ice and even Britain's Queen Elizabeth sent the duo a message of congratulations.
"Tonight we reached the pinnacle. I don't remember the performance at all. It just happened," Dean said after the routine.
"But I think it was the most emotional performance we have ever given. What just happened out there — getting the medals — that is what we've worked for so hard for so long."
Flying Franz
Austria held its breath — this was the one the people wanted more than any other.
The 1976 Innsbruck Games gave downhill star Franz Klammer the opportunity to shine in front of his home fans and add to his burgeoning reputation as the world's top skier.
After winning three World Cup races going into the Olympics and eight out of nine the previous year, the 22-year-old was a huge favorite to win gold.
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Klammer knew he needed to do something special to pull off a victory — and he did just that.
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It was the winter of 1980, and the employees of the now-defunct Hafer Steel Company in Grantville had to go onto the roof. "A helicopter came and asked whether or not we wanted to be evacuated," says Ken Bernard, who now runs his own steel-reinforcement business several doors away. "We said no, because we knew that [the water] would be going down soon. It was five or six feet deep in the office."
Behind his office, Bernard shows me the cause of the flooding that for decades -- and as recently as last year -- has plagued the area not far from where Mission Gorge Road goes under Interstate 8. I climb onto a pile of clay to see water meandering between two banks of bamboo. It is Alvarado Creek, and on this sunny spring day, the stream is nothing but a trickle of water at the bottom of a tiny ravine. But when it rains, the creek rises and becomes a torrent. And should it rain half an inch or more in an hour, raging waters overflow the creek's banks and turn this site of several small industries into a lake. Bernard remembers the time he had an old 6000-pound station wagon parked on a slope leading up to one of the buildings; the waters lifted the car and it floated away.
Mission Gorge Road is built so high as it passes through Grantville that it acts as a dam on the southwest side of the site. A box culvert takes Alvarado Creek under the road and down toward Qualcomm Stadium, where it joins the San Diego River. "But the creek backs up," says Bernard. "The box culvert under Mission Gorge Road has two barrels, but it should have three to take care of increased drainage that has come about over the years." As land at higher elevations was paved over, drainage became heavier.
Near College Avenue, Alvarado Creek starts at Adobe Falls, whose waters originally come from Lake Murray drainage. Years ago the city of San Diego built a wide channel parallel to Interstate 8 below Adobe Falls to contain the water. Because of a sharp downgrade below College, water cascades rapidly through that channel during wet weather. The widely constructed channel suddenly ends in Grantville, right before it reaches the narrow ravine behind Bernard's business. Excessive water has nowhere to go but up and over the creek's banks.
Business owners in the low-lying area repeatedly asked the city for help. Then, in 1989, says Bernard, "The property owners here filed a suit against the city to clear up the situation. We lost the suit in superior court." The owners wanted the city to put another box culvert in the one link of the drainage system that had remained untouched since it was surrounded by farmland: the 600 feet of creek behind Bernard's business. Bernard says the estimated cost of the culvert at the time was $600,000.
And now, after refusing for years to lift a finger to help these Grantville business owners, the city is contemplating a redevelopment plan for the entire area. Redeveloping an urban area in California allows local officials to reclaim tax revenues that have been going to the state. In redeveloping Grantville, San Diego can look forward to receiving more sales and property taxes than the area now receives.
At its meeting on March 30, the city council allocated $635,000 for a Grantville redevelopment study. The first phase of the study determines whether the community has sufficient blight to justify a redevelopment plan. California's Health and Safety Code, which governs such matters, requires that an area be "blighted" before it qualifies for redevelopment.
Bernard drives me around Grantville and points out the small businesses, from light manufacturing and auto repair to fast food, financial services, and car dealerships. "To planners," he says, "having all these little businesses is inefficient as hell. 'Let's get rid of all this stuff and get something orderly and beautiful.' "
A few properties we see do look a bit slovenly. But as Bernard sees it, Grantville overall is hardly blighted. "Euphemisms," he says, "are the favorite tool of government."
The idea for redeveloping Grantville originated in the Navajo Planning Area, composed primarily of residents of Allied Gardens. Both Grantville and the more residential and populous Allied Gardens are part of San Diego's District 7. Jim Madaffer represents the district on the city council and has been behind the redevelopment plan from its inception.
What irks many Grantville business owners is that they learned of the redevelopment agenda for their area after the Navajo Planning Area had talked the city of San Diego into spending between $15,000 and $20,000 on a preliminary feasibility study. According to Bernard, the Navajo group did not invite the people most affected by the plan to their meeting.
But once the City of San Diego Redevelopment Agency commissioned Rosenow Spevecek Group, Inc., to do the feasibility study, Grantville business owners found out about the plan and founded their own group, Grantville Property and Business Owners Association. Philip Teyssier, whose property is a short distance from Bernard's company, leads the group of 53 business owners. Teyssier created and maintains a website (www.gpboa.com) to assist the organization's members.
The small-business owners' biggest fear is losing their properties to a new redevelopment district through eminent domain. "In eminent domain," says Bernard, "it's my appraiser against your appraiser, and no consideration is given to the legal costs you may incur in fighting the whole thing or even in engaging experts. The weakest suffer the most. And generally, they lose everything, because that's their life, that particular property -- whether leased, rented, or owned."
I inquire into the people behind the inception of the redevelopment plan for Grantville. "I don't know who's behind it. I'm not hurling any accusations," says Bernard, who nevertheless calls the actions a "stealth campaign." He does suspect that Kaiser Permanente -- which has a hospital, a major medical facility, and several other buildings in the area -- supports the plan. Philip Teyssier agrees, adding that H.G. Fenton Building Materials and the large area landowner Caster Development also support it.
On his website, Teyssier posts a letter he wrote to the city council on March 19 objecting to the Grantville redevelopment plan and "the covert manner in which the City has proceeded thus far." Included in the letter is a critique of the initial feasibility study by the Rosenow Spevecek Group. Among other complaints, the critique counters the study's assertion that 80 percent of the study area is urbanized (California's Health and Safety Code requires this percentage in order to qualify an area for redevelopment). To reach that percentage, according to Teyssier, the feasibility study included as "urbanized" a large sand-mining operation in Grantville. The reality, Teyssier argues, is that with the mining grounds, a golf course, and Mission Trails Regional Park, 65 percent of the proposed redevelopment area is not urbanized. "On this fact alone," writes Teyssier, "the study area does not meet the criteria for urbanization and therefore cannot be considered as a redevelopment area."
At further issue between the Grantville Property and the Business Owners Association and Jim Madaffer is the role of lot sizes and traffic congestion. Anyone driving along Mission Gorge Road before it reaches Friars Road is aware of traffic congestion. Teyssier and Bernard insist that redevelopment is already causing congestion in the area. They're referring to the recent building of Home Depot and Sav-on Drug stores right off the intersection of Mission Gorge and Interstate 8. Madaffer, speaking at the March 30 city-council meeting, implied that the redevelopment plan would eventually improve traffic conditions.
Regarding lot sizes, Madaffer contends that small parcels of land make economic growth in an area more difficult and contribute to physical blighting. But on his website, Teyssier writes, "A simple visual review of the proposed study area shows a large variety of parcel sizes, none of them being so ill-configured that [they] would constitute blight and prevent proper development." He also points out that Grantville is already "a very viable economic force."
"Redevelopment proponents minimize our concerns," says Teyssier. "They say that eminent domain is a last resort." They also maintain, he says, that it is not their intention to condemn properties. But a new Grantville redevelopment district may do it anyway. "And that threat of condemnation hanging over the owners' heads is intimidating," says Teyssier.
At the March 30 city council meeting, Teyssier gave a 15-minute PowerPoint presentation, and Ken Bernard spoke for two and a half minutes against the Grantville redevelopment plan. Afterward the council voted nine to nothing in favor of studying it further. "That's what happens," says Bernard, "anytime you have a councilman get behind a plan without consulting beforehand with the people the plan is going to affect."
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Building a switched lamp circuit presents a simple electronics construction project that lets you explore the use of a simple on/off switch to control a lamp.
This project uses a DPDT knife switch from RadioShack. It's unlikely that you'd use a knife switch in an actual electronic circuit. However, a knife switch like this is a perfect tool for learning the ins and outs of working with switches.
For one thing, it is entirely exposed, so you can see how it works. Additionally, since they come on their own base and have screw terminals, connecting them in temporary circuits is simple because you don't have to do any soldering.
As you can see, the knife switch is a double pole, double throw (DPDT) switch, which means it operates like two SPDT switches that are mechanically linked.
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Judge dismisses Nation employees' suit against Campanie
ALBANY - On Tuesday, a state Supreme Court judge cleared Madison County Attorney John Campanie in a taxpayer lawsuit, dismissing the case in its entirety.
In a suit filed last April, Oneida Indian Nation employees Marketing Director Steven Mahler and Chief Information Officer Daniel Garrow accused Campanie of illegally receiving compensation for his work defending the state and county against the Nation.
The Nation funded the lawsuit, footing the bills for their employees' attorney, George Carpinello of Albany. While Mahler and Garrow are county residents and are eligible to file such a civil lawsuit, the Nation, as a corporation, is not. But the tribe has made no attempt to hide the fact that it's paying the legal bills.
They claim that, in the last dozen years, Campanie has received $800,000 in improper payments from the state-hired law firm Nixon Peabody for work on Nation-related cases and at the same time received a salary through the county for some of the same work.
He also received monthly stipends from the county to cover the expenses his private law firm incurred. In previous rulings, the court set a statute of limitations on the case, allowing only a year's worth of payments to be probed.
State Supreme Court Michael Lynch ruled Tuesday that Campanie's repayment of some $36,000 to the state and county rendered the case moot.
Further, all parties involved, including Campanie, the governor, the state comptroller and Nixon Peabody have unambiguously agreed that payment setup will forever be discontinued. The court says that's enough to dismiss the case.
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Carpinello expressed disappointment at the judge's ruling, saying it allows Campanie to "evade" a decision on the legality of his actions, to "escape judgment."
Campanie's repayment of a year's worth of salary is simply an "admission of guilt," he said.
Unsatisfied with the defendants' agreement to end the payment practice, Carpinello said the court "should not take Campanie at his word." Campanie should be held to an ethical obligation to repay all of the money, he said; taxpayers deserve to know whether or not what he did was illegal.
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One surprising consequence of the markets' wild gyrations since August has been that fewer wirehouse advisors are expressing an interest in going independent. The tried-and-true path of moving from wirehouse A to wirehouse B or to a well-capitalized high-end boutique firm, suddenly seems a whole lot more attractive.
What's happened is that in the face of markets that resemble Coney Island's famed Cyclone rollercoaster, many advisors are becoming as conservative and risk averse as their clients.
We know that during periods of intense market volatility, retail investors take a "flight to quality," cutting back on riskier equities and opting for the safety of blue chip stocks, government securities and money markets. More advisors are now favoring big, well-capitalized household-name brokerage firms. These include high-end boutiques like Barclays, JP Morgan and DB Alex Brown, as well as Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and UBS.
The Wall Street Journal reports that in one six week period, the Dow rose and fell more than 100 points in 24 out of 38 trading days. The third quarter of 2011 had three of the largest intraday point swings in history. Investors worldwide yanked $92 billion from stock funds in the three-month period ending in August.
Suddenly the prospect of monetizing your book at another well-known, household-name firm seems like the safe, prudent way to go. After all, fragile world economies and the prospect of a prolonged low-growth environment accompanied by fickle, erratic markets are convincing many that the time to cash in on the practice that they've built is fast approaching.
Far away abstractions like "owning my own franchise" and 'fully open architecture" seem to pale in comparison to the wisdom of lining up your own personal cash cushion to ride out the storm. As in 2008, advisors have taken big hits on the stock portion of their compensation. They welcome a strategy to help them recoup these losses.
Independent firms offer very modest deals compared to the high-octane wirehouse recruiting packages. After all, the big monetary payoff in hanging out your own independent shingle doesn't come until way down the road: three to five years before retirement, when an advisor can set his or her own sale price and then realize the proceeds as a capital gain. With the daily raging seas of a tumultuous market, the virtues of independence are becoming secondary concerns for many advisors.
There's also another factor at work. Many advisors view the major wirehouses and big-name boutiques as relatively safe harbors that inspire confidence with well-heeled clients. Sure, most of the wirehouses have their issues of late, and their stocks have taken some pretty big hits.
Nonetheless, many advisors still feel that despite the current challenges these firms will always be important players on Wall Street, since clients will continue to be comfortable parking their serious money there.
Moody's may feel that a changed political climate makes future bailouts of the big firms is less likely, but many advisors disagree. They feel that the contraction in the ranks of major financial institutions since the 2008 crash has only further enshrined their "too-big-to-fail" status. Each has more leverage over our financial system now.
What about independent ABC Securities, which many current and prospective clients may have never heard of? Is that the fortress firm with the solid balance sheet that will help advisors attract the big bucks?
The movement of wirehouse brokers to the independent channel will surely continue to some extent. It's an irreversible, long-term trend.
Nonetheless, volatile markets will lead many advisors to conclude that this isn't the moment to forgo a meaningful signing bonus and launch their own new venture. Those who do opt for independence will prefer the security of household-name independents: LPL, Raymond James and Wells Fargo Finet for example. A rarified few will set up RIAs, custodying their assets at one or more of the big three: Pershing, Schwab or Fidelity.
When the markets (finally) calm, advisors will likely be somewhat less bogged down with client service. Many may hit the bid elsewhere. But when they do, their destination will still likely be one of the usual suspects.
Mark Elzweig is head of the executive-search firm Elzweig Company Ltd., in New York and is a frequent contributor to AdvisorOne.