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How "Not" to Conduct a Competition
The USGA's publications "How to Conduct a Competition" and "Tournaments for Your Club" both present guidelines for how a competition should be run.[1] Neither publication, however, lists the pitfalls in applying the USGA Handicap System, nor assesses the equity of various tournament formats. Golf professionals get little training in the nuances of the handicap system and the equity of various tournament formats. If he is lucky, a young professional serves an apprenticeship under a seasoned and knowledgeable professional. Too often, however, young professionals are promoted to head professional without the requisite knowledge to run the golf program. Listed below are two prescriptions for a good professional: 1) Know the USGA Handicap System, and 2) Construct handicap competitions that are fun, simple, and equitable. Let's look at each prescription and see what can go wrong when they are not followed.
1. Know the USGA Handicap System – There are two sections of the Handicap System (Sec. 3-5 and Sec. 9-4) that are important in running tournaments. Failure to understand and properly implement these two sections can lead to problems:
Sec. 3-5 Players Competing from Different Tees – This section details how handicaps are to be adjusted when players compete from different tees. There is little empirical evidence that Sec. 3-5 ensures equitable competition. The USGA should advise that Sec. 3-5 should be avoided wherever practical, but it doesn't. The USGA omits this cautionary note because it would cast doubt upon the efficacy of Sec. 3.5.[2] It is always better to organize flights by the tees players compete from. When that is not practical, the golf professional should know how to apply Sec. 3-5 correctly. Here are examples of what can go wrong when Sec. 3-5 is applied incorrectly:
A Chapman competition was conducted where teams competed from different tees and the handicaps were adjusted in accordance with Sec. 3-5. In making the adjustment the golf professional adjusted the handicaps of individual players. This was incorrect. The adjustment should have been applied to the team handicap.[3] This mistake put the competitors from one set of tees at a serious disadvantage (i.e., their team handicaps were two strokes lower than they should have been). None of those affected teams placed in the top half of the competition.
In a scramble competition, the USGA recommends the 5 percent of the D player's handicap be used in computing the team handicap. In many cases, the D player's contribution to the team handicap would be the same whether he played the front or back tees. A team that recognized this anomaly moved their D player to the front tees (gaining 650) yards, and won handily. In this case the Sec. 3-5 adjustment was inconsequential. To correct this problem, all players of a certain type (A, B, C, and D) should be required to play from the same set of tees.
One professional conducted closest to the pin, long drive, and skins competitions for players competing from different tees. The golf professional thought the competitions were equitable since handicaps were adjusted in compliance with Sec. 3-5. When a player competing from the shorter tee won the long drive contests, competitors from the longer tees were not amused.
In another competition, flights were determined by a player's handicap adjusted for Sec. 3-5. Players in a flight could be competing from different tees. The golf professional decided to award a gross prize in each flight which gave an advantage to the players competing from the tees with the lower Course Rating. It should be remembered that Sec. 3-5 is not intended for use in gross competition, but only in net competitions.
Sec. 9-4 Handicap Allowances – A handicap allowances is the percentage of a player's handicap that is used in different forms of competition. The USGA recommends allowances in Sec. 9-4. Suggestions for scrambles, which are not played in accordance with the Rules of Golf, can be found in "Tournaments for Your Club." Here are some examples of what can go wrong:
Confusing the Allowances for Four-ball Stroke Play and Four-ball Match Play - In four-ball stroke play, each player is only allowed 90 percent of his handicap. Some pros, however, have mistakenly applied 90 percent allowance to four-ball match play. This is not correct. In four-ball match play, players use their Course Handicap and play off the low-handicap of the players in the match (Sec. 9-4aiii). Using the 90 percent allowance incorrectly gives the edge to the low-handicap team. Another common mistake is to apply the 90 percent allowance to women's four-ball stroke play. Women should receive 95 percent of their handicap (Sec. 9-4bii).
Not Having a Clue - A member wanted to run a weekly game where foursomes would compete against each other using Stableford scoring. The team score would be the combined score of all four players. Teams would be drawn by the ABCD method so each team would have approximately the same handicap. There would be a simultaneous competition for individual net play. The golf professional advised the member that players should only receive 80 percent of their handicap. The best explanation for the professional's advice is that he confused the allowance for "one-best ball of four" with "four-best balls of four." The allowance for the former is 80 percent, while the allowance for the latter is 100 percent. That does not explain why he would recommend an 80 percent allowance for the individual competition. The best explanation there is he "didn't have a clue."
Scrambles - A scramble event is often decided when the handicap allowances are adopted. For example in one event, the player with the lower course handicap was allowed 25 percent of his course handicap. The player with the higher course handicap was allowed 15 percent of his course handicap. This allocation seems inequitable on its face. A team of ten-handicap players would receive a handicap of 4. A team of scratch players would receive a handicap of 0. In essence, the ten-handicaps would have to play even with the scratch players over 14 holes and just lose by a stroke on 4 others. This seems unlikely. The tournament results confirmed the inequity. The low-handicap teams dominated the net competition. The USGA suggests an allowance of 35% for the low-handicap player and 15% for the high-handicap player. The golf professional should use these allowances as a starting point, but revise those allowances if low- or high-handicap teams do exceptionally well.
2. Construct Handicap Competitions that are Fun, Fast, Simple, and Equitable - Listed below are some examples of competitions that do not meet one or more of the four criteria and should be avoided when possible:
Equal Gross and Net Payoffs - One of the most common prize formats is "Equal Gross and Net." Unfortunately, putting "equal" in the title does not make it so. The low-handicap player in each flight has the edge in winning a gross prize and an equal chance of winning a net prize. This is not equitable. The argument for "equal gross and net" is the low-handicap player cannot compete against the high-handicap player in a net tournament. This argument may be valid when there a large number of players and a wide range of handicaps. Typically, a high-handicap player has a larger variance in his scoring so it is likely one of the high-handicappers has a good chance of winning—as well as finishing dead last. If the competition is flighted and the range of handicaps within each flight relatively small, the argument that a low-handicap player cannot compete on a net basis loses much if not all of its strength.[4]
One-Best Ball and One-Worst Ball - In this format a team of four players use the best net ball and the worst net ball on each hole for the team score. This format fails the "fast" test since the team cannot go on until the worst player is finished. It fails the "fun" test on two counts. First, the second and third players do not have an incentive to do their best if one player is in great shape and the other player faces disaster. It would not be fun, for example if the second player scored a birdie, but it did not help the team score. Second, it is not much fun for the player when his one bad hole can knock the team out of the competition. It is always better for a format to reward good play rather than punish poor play.
One Ball Gross and One Ball Net – This format gives the advantage to teams with a low handicap player and thus fails the equity test.
Shamble – In this format, all players tee-off. The best drive is chosen and all players play from there. It can be equitable if all teams are approximately equal—i.e., teams have A, B, C and D players of comparable ability. Typically, however, the range of A players is fairly large. Consequently, the teams with the better A players have a decided advantage, and the shamble fails the equity test. (The advantage can be lessened if each player has to have a minimum number of drives selected.)
Mystery Hole – In this format all players play the hole. After completion of the hole, the team learns whose ball is to be counted. This format fails the "fast" test as every player must complete the hole. The format is improved somewhat if it is played under Stableford rules. It still would require players to grind over short putts even though the result is probably meaningless.
Every golf professional should attempt to learn which tournament formats are equitable[5] and which get high marks from the members for enjoyment. Too often tournament participation ebbs because the golf professional does not do the requisite market research—i.e., what format sells? This is neither in the best interest of the club or his longevity as the head professional.
[1] Both publications are available at the USGA's website, www.usga.org.
[2] For a fuller discussion of the problems of Sec. 3-5 see Dougharty, Laurence, "The Problem with Section 3-5," www.ongolfhandicaps.com, March 4, 2014.
[3] See Dougharty, Laurence, "Chapman Handicaps and Sec. 3-5: Proposed Changes to the USGA Handicap System," www.ongolfhandicaps.com, August, 19, 2013.
[4] For an examination of the equity of "equal net and gross" see "Dougharty, Laurence, "Is Your Tournament Equitable," www.ongolfhandicaps.com, October 22, 2012.
[5] Ibid. This article presents examples of how equity can be assessed.
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Why You Win or Lose in Team Play
Team play pits golfers from one club against another club. Historically, clubs would choose their best players to go against the opposing club in a gross score competition. The winner would have bragging rights for a year. For a variety of reasons, team play in the United States has evolved largely into a net score competition. There are four reasons a club will win such a team competition: 1) Errors in Course and Slope Ratings, 2) Favorable handicap allowances, 3) Handicap management practices, and 4) Chance. In essence, winning is either caused by having an unfair advantage or luck. Let's review each reason to emphasize why winning is not a basis for bragging.
1) Errors in Course and Slope Ratings - Previous posts have explored the size of the errors in Course and Slope Ratings.[1] Such errors make little difference in intra-club events. Errors can have a substantial effect, however, on inter-club matches. Table 1 presents various course statistics for five clubs that participate in team play in Central Oregon. Looking at the statistics, it appears the five courses are approximately equal in difficulty for the scratch and bogey golfer. Most golfers interviewed, however, believe Tetherow is the much tougher course. Tetherow has undulating greens, blind shots and hazards, and is extremely penal to off-fairway shots. These difficulties are not reflected in the obstacle values estimated for the course by the Oregon Golf Association (See Table 2). [2] The scratch obstacle values for the five courses are approximately the same. The bogey obstacle value at Tetherow is below the average of the other four courses.
Course Statistics
Slope Rating
Bogey Rating
Broken Top (Green)
Bend (Blue)
Awbrey Glen (Gold)
Tetherow (Tan)
Crosswater (Tournament)
Obstacle Values
Scratch Obstacle Value
Bogey Obstacle Value
There are methods for estimating the errors in Course Ratings.[3] Golf associations are hesitant to study the problem because they lack the expertise and it is not in their interest to challenge the accuracy of the Ratings. Without the requisite data, a range of errors is assumed and the resulting impact on matches is evaluated. For simplicity, it is assumed the scores of each player are normally distributed with a standard deviation of three strokes (i.e., 68 percent of all scores will be between plus and minus three strokes of the player's average score). From these assumptions, the probability that the player with the advantage (i.e., his Course and Slope Ratings are below the true Ratings) will have a lower score than his opponent can be estimated. The results are presented in Table 3.[4] The probabilities of winning are for a stroke play event. This is an adequate if not an exact proxy for winning a match play event.
Probability of Winning with Various Errors in Handicap
Error in Handicap
Probability of Winning
Table 3 shows that a player with a 2-stroke advantage has a 68 percent chance of winning. A 2-stroke error in handicap is not out of the realm of reason, especially for the higher-handicap player. Assume Tetherow had the same rating as the Nicklaus Course at Pronghorn (Rust Tees). The Nicklaus Course and Tetherow are considered equally difficult by many players. If anything Tetherow is more difficult for the bogey golfer. The Rust Tees have a length of 6533 yards, a Course Rating of 71.3, and a Slope Rating of 143. Applying these new Ratings at Tetherow, a 10-index player becomes an 8.5-index. So when the Tetherow player goes to Bend, he would now play as a 10-handicap rather than a 12-handicap under the current Ratings.
A typical team event consists of 10 single matches and 5 four-ball matches. If there was a 2-stroke error in handicaps, the team benefiting should win 6.8 of the 10 singles matches on average. In the four-ball matches, where both players have a two-stroke advantage, the team benefiting from the errors should do even better.
2) Handicap Allowances – In some team competitions, the handicap allowance is a percentage of a player's index. In the case of Central Oregon, the percentage is 80 percent. This gives the team with more low-handicap players an edge. For example, assume a 10.0 index was to play and 8.0 index on a course with a Slope Rating of 130. The 10.0 index player would receive three strokes in the match if it was played at full handicap. If the 80 percent allowance is applied, the 10-index player only receives two strokes. As shown in Table 3, this decreases his chance of winning by 9 percent. A team composed of lower-handicap players than its opponent should have a decided edge.
3) Handicap Management Practices – There will always be some players who increase their handicap over what it should be. There has been a case (not in Central Oregon) where a team chose to forfeit a match rather than play against a notorious sandbagger. There are unethical players who are scorned in club tournaments, but welcomed to compete for the club's team. Having one or more sandbaggers on the team increases the probability of winning while at the same time decreasing the reputation of the club.
4) Chance – Chance is omnipresent in golf. The poor shot that skitters on to the green or the great shot that is hit with a gust of wind and ends up in a hazard are examples of chance at work. But winning because of chance should not be cause for pride. After all, if you called heads, and the flip came up heads you would not attribute your win to any superior physical or character trait.
In summary, there is no reason to take great pride in winning a team match. The winner either had an unfair advantage or was lucky. In theory, team matches should not be about winning, but making friends with players from other clubs, enjoying the competition, and learning how to win and lose with grace. History will little note nor long remember who won a team competition. Emphasis on winning, rather on the social aspects of team competition, diminishes the benefits of participation.
[1] Dougharty, Laurence, "Empirically Verifying Course and Slope Ratings," www.ongolfhandicaps.com., April 18, 2013.
[2] To calculate the obstacle values, it was assumed that the Course Yardage was also the "effective" yardage.
[3] A promising method is being developed by Peter Preston. Preston uses away scores to estimate the actual Course Rating. These estimates can be compared with the official Course Rating to determine if significant differences exist. See Preston, Peter, "Estimation of Golf Course Ratings from Player Scores," paper presented at 59th ISI World Statistics Congress, Hong Kong, August 2013.
[4] The methodology behind these estimates is shown in Dougharty, Laurence, "A Sandbagger's Guide to Winning," www.ongolfhandicaps.com, December 19, 2013.


Choosing the right running shoes depends on what kind of running you want to do, the shape of your foot and of course whether you have any previous injuries. There's no one right or wrong shoe, however each trainer has been specifically designed for a certain type of running, so the following is a guide to the best running shoes for each speciality area.
If you're used to running on pavement or tarmac, then a good stable shoes is advised. For speed the Nike Air Zoom range is lightweight and comfortable, and helps you run faster. Nikes are popular shoes for starters and all rounders, and are easy to pick up too. High street retailers likeDebenhams sell a range of Nike trainerssuitable for road running.
The new craze of barefoot running may appeal to some runners: you wear shoes with as minimal padding as possible to mimic running without any shoes on and they are designed to let your foot run in a more natural way, preventing injury and reducing the impact to your feet. The Vibram Fivefingers are making the rounds as a popular choice, mainly because they look like a glove for your feet, but they can take some getting used to for an inexperienced runner. The Guardian recommends investing in a pair of Nike Free which are snug, bouncy, and aren't too far removed from a normal pair of running shoes.
For those who love running amongst the trees and the rocks, trail running can be a nice change to running the pavements of the high street or the gym. There's a division between wearing minimal shoes, or heavy duty ones to combat the terrain, so Men's Fitness has featured both in their round up of the best trail shoes. Featuring again are Vibrams in their Spyridon model, which has a more rugged grip and more protection against the elements, but still essentially remains a glove for your foot. Heavy duty users will enjoy the North Face Ultra 50 GTX XCR shoes which has breathable windproof and waterproof lining, designed perfectly for the unpredictable British weather.
The adidas Adios shoes are often cited as being one of the best shoes for marathon and long distance running. The world record holder for the fastest marathon was wearing these shoes when he crossed the finish line, and it goes without saying that these shoes are perfect for those with the experience of long distance running and can pick up the pace when it comes to the end of the race.


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With 218 million Americans holding a valid driving license, the roads are busier (and scarier) than ever before.
You already know that you need reliable insurance to ensure a peace of mind for both you and your loved ones. With that said, there are many different types of auto insurance plans available in today's market.
Let's get into what you need to know to make the best decision.
If you are in a covered car accident and it is determined that you caused the crash, liability insurance protects you from external costs. It covers damages and repairs as well as medical bills that may result from injuries.
Most states require a minimum limit for liability insurance. With that said, if you can afford it, it's typically best to pay for a higher premium.
Medical bills can cost tens of thousands of dollars. In fact, 79 million Americans report currently having problems with medical-related debt or bills.
In other words, a single accident may destroy your financial situation, as you will be held responsible for any claims that exceed the coverage's limits.
Car accident costs can quickly add up before you realize it. This type of protection covers related medical bills for you and your passengers regardless of who is at fault for the accident.
While this is not a mandatory coverage, it's a policy you should seriously consider. Again, because medical costs can be so obscene, it's typically worth the incremental cost every month for a financial peace of mind.
Some people will opt out of this to save money. However, if you are in an accident, you'll end up paying significantly more to recoup the costs than if you didn't have the full coverage.
Personal injury protection may only be available in some states. However, beyond just medical bills, it can also help cover other expenses like lost income or extra child care expenses.
If you are in a 'covered' accident, a collision coverage policy will pay for any of the repairs your car needs.
If your car becomes totaled in an accident, collision coverage will pay you out the total value of your car.
If you have a newer or expensive vehicle, this coverage will help you recoup the damage costs and preserve the value of your car. However, if your car is older, it may not be financially worth the cost.
Yes, it's the law that drivers need to be insured in America. With that said, not everyone follows these laws. In fact, there are many uninsured drivers on the road that can cost you thousands of dollars.
Furthermore, many states have low minimum coverage requirements that don't adequately cover all the related expenses of an accident. That means, even if someone is legally held responsible for damages related to an accident, you won't receive the payment you need if they do not have such coverage.
That's why uninsured protection is so important. This policy helps pay with the added expenses. Furthermore, it's usually inexpensive to add to your existing policy.
This added coverage is mandatory in some states, and it is optional in others.
Comprehensive coverage essentially covers unrelated damages to your car outside of traditional car accidents.
It can be a costly form of insurance, and it's typically best if you have a newer or expensive car. If, on the other hand, your car is easily and quickly replaceable, this policy may not be necessary.
However, you will need comprehensive coverage if you are leasing or buying a vehicle that requires it.
Rental cars aren't just for vacation. They can be a godsend when your own car is out of commission.
If you are in an accident and your car needs repairs, you can end up spending several hundreds of dollars on rental transportation. On top of paying for accident repairs, this just adds another layer of financial frustration.
Rental reimbursement can help individuals who don't have an alternative means of transportation for school or work.
There are usually per-day or per-accident limits on these reimbursements (such as $25 per day). Even if it doesn't cover the entire cost, it can help you significantly save.
Got a flat tire or dead battery? Stuck in snow or mud? Left your keys inside the vehicle and don't have a spare set?
While these situations aren't fun to plan for, it's important to have a backup plan in place. Emergency roadside assistance covers the associated costs of changing tires, fuel delivery, locksmith services, and towing.
When paid individually, these costs can quickly add up. However, when added to an existing insurance policy, this option tends to be inexpensive. Furthermore, many companies exclusively offer emergency roadside assistance.
If you don't want to pay an extended warranty for your new car, mechanical breakdown insurance may be a better bet. With this option, you typically pay smaller monthly premiums instead of a large lump sum.
This coverage pays for serious transmission, engine, or mechanical repairs. It's usually available only to new or leased vehicles with less than 15,000 total miles.
Even though you may not love shopping around for insurance, it's a necessary step to ensure the safety of you and the people you love the most.
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Wait for a Reply after the last step in a sequence
When a Contact executes the last Step in a Sequence, their status is immediately updated to "Completed All Steps". This means they didn't reply or take an action based on the previous steps in the Sequence.
You can instruct the Sequence to wait for a specified time period for a reply to the last email by doing the following:
Add another Step to the Sequence. Then set the Action of the new step to move the Contact to the next step without taking any other action after the desired time has passed after the previous Step.
After sending the 5th email in a Sequence, you want to wait for 4 days for a reply before updating the Status to "Completed All Steps".
First, add a 6th Step in the Sequence. Then configure the step timing of the 6th Step according to the following screenshot.
Four days after the 5th email in the Sequence is sent, if the Contact is still Active in the Sequence, then at 10am on that day the Contact will be moved to the next step. In this case, since the Contact is already at the last step in the Sequence, the Status will be updated to "Completed All Steps".
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FlixWorthy: Amazon Has Breaking Bad, Hulu Has Kevin Smith, And More
Welcome back to FlixWorthy, your guide to Netflix streaming...and more. To help you navigate the new and notable streaming releases, each new installment of FlixWorthy will highlight new and/or notable releases on Netflix, but also on two other competitors who offer premium memberships to huge catalogues of content: Hulu (Hulu Plus) and Amazon Instant Video (Amazon Prime). We'll also include an a la carte pick from Amazon, iTunes, or elsewhere, for those of you who prefer to buy your shows by the episode/season instead of paying a membership fee. Here's what's FlixWorthy this week, kids.
A La Carte Pick: Breaking Bad (opens in new tab)
People like to throw around descriptors like "best show on television" pretty lightly, but when that phrase is applied to AMC's Breaking Bad, it also happens to be absolutely true. For four, going on five, seasons, we've watched as mild-mannered high school chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston) slipped deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness. Cranston absolutely earns every one of those Emmy wins and nominations, and the rest of the cast is nearly as impressive, most notably Aaron Paul as Walter's junkie partner, Jesse, and Anna Gun as Walter's long-suffering wife, Skylar.
If you've missed the Breaking Bad bandwagon up to this point, now's the time to dive in headfirst. The fifth season just premiered, so if you have the time to marathon through the earlier seasons, you should be able to catch up in time to watch most of this season live. And given how good last week's premiere was, the sooner you can catch up, the better. Amazon Instant Video has all four seasons available for $1.99 or $22.99 per season. (The show is also available (opens in new tab) on Netflix Instant Watch.) With Breaking Bad, creator Vince Gilligan has given us one of the most gripping, surprising, and addictive show in decades. Watch it.
Netflix Pic: The Chicago Code (opens in new tab)
Shawn Ryan has been responsible for some damn good television. After having broken in on shows such as Nash Bridges and Joss Whedon's Angel, Ryan has gone on to the brutal cop drama The Shield, the badass special forces show The Unit, and the underseen private-eye series Terriers. Sadly, The Chicago Code took after the latter show rather than the first two and only lasted one season on Fox. The show focuses on the conflict between police superintendent Teresa Colvin (Jennifer Beals) and a corrupt Alderman named Ronin Gibbons (Delroy Lindo). Colvin and her ex-partner, honest cop Jarek Wysocki (Jason Clarke), try to expose the city's rampant corruption and expose Gibbons' under-the-table dealings.
In many ways the show parallels Starz's excellent Boss, with both series featuring a monstrously corrupt public official at their center (and both are even set in Chicago). The Chicago Code probably would have benefitted from a pay-cable environment, both for the creative freedom it would have afforded, and because the cable networks seem to be a lot more willing to let shows develop and find their audience, even if they aren't monster hits right out of the gate. Sadly, we'll never get to see what Ryan's long-term game plan was for the show, but The Chicago Code remains a thoroughly watchable one-season wonder. (And while you're at it, check out Ryan's outstanding Terriers (opens in new tab) as well.)
Amazon Prime Pick: Downton Abbey (opens in new tab)
Talk about a phenomenon that came out of left field. Who would have expected that the next much-buzzed-about TV show would be a Masterpiece Theater series about rich British people and their servants? Created by Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey is set on the titular estate in North Yorkshire in the years before World War I. The series follows the wealthy Crawley family and their servants. After Lord Crawley's heir dies during the sinking of the Titanic, the next in line is a distant cousin, a lawyer named Matthew. He moves into the estate with his forward-thinking mother, who clashes with Lord Crawley's conservative mother. It's basically a soap opera, but the accents make it classy.
Julian Fellowes has written or co-written every episode of Downton Abbey so far, and he's got plenty of experience penning tales of the relationship between the haves and the have-nots who serve them. Fellowes' resume includes flicks like Godford Park and The Young Victoria. And, er, The Tourist, but everybody makes mistakes now and then. Amazon has the first two seasons of Downton Abbey available for free streaming for Amazon Prime members. Give your butler the day off and settle in for some quality time with the British aristocracy.
Hulu Pic: Spoilers with Kevin Smith (opens in new tab)
If you aren't a die-hard Kevin Smith fan, you might be wondering just what the hell he's been doing lately. After the release of Red State, and the associated debacles, Smith has been running pretty silent on the filmmaking front. He's supposedly still working on the hockey comedy Hit Somebody, but compared to how vocal he's been in the past, you'd think he's being held captive in a basement somewhere. That's only partially true. He's been holed up making podcasts. An entire podcast network, no less, and now that experimentation with non-traditional media has expanded onto Hulu with an exclusive series called Spoilers with Kevin Smith.
A weekly half-hour show, Smith describes Spoilers as an "anti-movie-review" show. Each week he takes a group of 40 people to see a current release, then they return to the "Jay & Silent Bob-atorium" and discuss the movie, with Smith moderating. The flicks up to bat so far were Show White & the Huntsman, Prometheus, Rock of Ages, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Magic Mike, and The Amazing Spider-Man. Smith also brings in one guest each week for an informal interview, and that line-up has so far included Carrie Fisher, Damon Lindelof, Robert Rodriguez, Jason Lee, Jon Favreau, and Stan Lee.
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Pennsylvania Garden is located at 251 Pennsylvania Avenue at 18th Street in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Neighbors have worked together to create a beautiful 1-acre garden that overlooks the city and the bay. This garden is nearly all native species/xeric/drought tolerant plants and is a wonderful sight year-round. The garden is managed by the non-profit Pennsylvania Street Gardens, and is entirely volunteer driven. Please check out the Pennsylvania Gardens website for more garden information and upcoming events!
For a long time Annie had wanted to clean up and beautify the Mariposa Street off ramp which lets onto Pennsylvania Avenue, and which is owned by Caltrans. Annie wanted to make it a relaxing and safe place for all sorts of people and animals to enjoy. In December 2008 she noticed that a Princess Plant (Tibouchina urvilleana) that someone had left down on 17th Street had somehow made it up to this area, and had been planted.
Inspired, Annie went to a San Francisco Botanical Garden plant sale and came home with a car full of plants. Pennsylvania Garden was born. As she and her fiancee Matt planted those first plants, Jim and Carrie from across the street came over and introduced themselves - they had planted that Princess Plant!
Annie met Emily nearing the garden's first anniversary, and encouraged her to join the garden as a grant writer. Since then we've gained funds to cover hardscape improvements, and gained the San Francisco Parks Alliance as a fiscal sponsor. Many other amazing volunteers have since joined and the group is taking on other greening and gardening projects in the neighborhood!
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Take It Back – Kia Abdullah
Take It Back is a gripping courtroom drama, perfect for fans of Apple Tree Yard, He Said/She Said and Anatomy of a Scandal.
The Victim: A sixteen-year-old girl with facial deformities, neglected by an alcoholic mother. Who accuses four boys of something unthinkable.
The Defendants: Four handsome teenage boys from hardworking immigrant families. All with corroborating stories.
Someone is lying.
Former barrister Zara Kaleel, one of London's brightest young legal minds, takes up Jodie Wolfe's case; she believes her, even if those closest to Jodie do not.
Jodie and Zara become the centre of the most explosive criminal trial of the year, in which ugly divisions within British society are exposed. As everything around Zara begins to unravel she becomes even more determined to get Jodie the justice she's looking for. But at what price?
Kia Abdullah is an author and travel writer from London. She has contributed to The New York Times, The Guardian, BBC and Lonely Planet, and is the founding editor of outdoor travel blog Atlas & Boots, read by 250,000 people a month. Kia's new novel, Take It Back, is out now (HQ/HarperCollins, Aug 2019).
If you are looking for a light easy read then this is not for you, however if you are looking for a highly emotive, explosive, thought-provoking, topical and powerful book then I would 100% recommend Take It Back.
Jodie Wolfe is a sixteen year old white girl living with her alcoholic mother in a council flat. Born with severe facial deformities Jodie has spent most of her life hiding away and being bullied. When she attends a local party with her best friend Nina she is subjected to a horrific, violent gang rape by a group of 4 well respected, popular boys, who also happen to be Muslim.
Consumed by shame and hurt Jodie reports this crime to the police and is then thrown into the public arena and at the mercy of the press and social media as no-one can believe these 4 boys could commit such a crime especially to a deformed white girl.
Zara Kaleel is assigned to Jodie's case. She was a top high-flying barrister who walked away from a lucrative career in the City and became an independent councillor at a sexual assault centre. Battling her own demons and being ostracised from her own Muslim family Zara finds herself in the centre of this controversial and very public case.
You can cut the racial tension with a knife throughout this book and it makes for some really uncomfortable moments. With themes of violence, bullying, domestic abuse, rape, drug addiction and religion Take It Back is powerful and compelling, emotional and moving, thought-provoking and anger inducing. With an ending that made me want to cry, this is a book that will haunt me for years to come.


Spring. Flowering nature is magnificent. Red bud trees are blooming in profusion. Dogwoods are now blooming white and pink. The white dogwood flowers have a yellow cast this year. Most fruit trees have finished blooming. Forsythia and daffodils continue to bring yellow delight to yards. My favorite tree is on the side corner of a lot in town. It is a small, bedraggled dogwood tree, and its pink blossoms transform the tree and otherwise nondescript yard into beauty.
Conversation Overheard at Supper. There are three speakers. The first and third are women. The second is a man.
La Boheme, Live Broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera. Saturday, April 5. Puccini's opera has been termed a crowd pleaser, a perfect opera for beginners, and for good reasons. The plot is well-constructed, the characters are well-drawn, sympathetic, and memorable. The settings are realistic and contrasting: the poverty-ridden garret, the bright café, the busy street of Paris, the snowy courtyard of the inn. Passions of young love, suspicion, friendship, love of life are brought to life by equally passionate, soaring, lyrical music. Grand opera, yes.
Reading. Poetry. The Elegy. For some reason this is the season in which choral groups are performing requiems. I turn to the elegy. Sometime in my high school years, I learned that there are five great elegies in the English language: John Milton's Lycidas; Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard; Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonais; Alfred, Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam; and Walt Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. This week I re-read the elegies by Milton and Gray.
Lycidas (1637) is marked by beautiful pastoral imagery and allusions to classical literature. One can take a quick course in the classics by looking up the allusions. Readers who admire Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel, will realize where the title is taken.
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751) is perhaps my favorite elegy of the five. Its dignified movement in iambic pentameter and rural setting and peaceful tone work well for me.
Reading. Paul Mariani, Gerard Manly Hopkins: A Life. Reading completed.
Mariani's portray of the character of Hopkins in hard-hitting, sympathetic. His discussion of the poetry is convincing and original. I love the section where he describes Hopkins realizing the beginning of his poem about weddings while he is monitoring exams. He goes into the mind of Hopkins as a creative person and contrasts the brilliance of his mind with the mundane reality of his life.
I will continue to use the book as reference as I continue to read and to study the brilliant, ecstatic poems which reveal the reality of God in nature, in people, even in tragic violence.
Thank you for reading. I hope your week will be good.


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Rated 1 out of 5 by DAVZWAY from Great Working NO WARRANTY SUPPORT PRO: clean sound, all connections needed, controls are straightforward and basically intuitive. CON: EVERYTHING- buying a Denon is first mistake. Having done so, even us experienced folks buy into the 'former Denon story of quality'. This reviewer has been here nearly seven decades, having been audiophile since 1960's owning and using all the great audiophile equipment, including MacIntosh, Marantz, Altec Lansing, Martin Logan, Pioneer Elite (so-so),B&O and more, the Denon X2000 Series was WORST owned other than Onkyo. Crutchfield is great seller (done business for 30+ years); however they cannot help when FACTORY won't warranty product. LASTED Eight (8) months, tried to obtain warranty support next two years (ask Crutchfield) Local tech support in Florida NEVER bothered to return calls. A fairly expensive unit sits in original box, UNUSED, while this customer, needing an AV unit, returned to Yamaha. NEVER AGAIN Denon (sister spent $10' thousands in AV room, following this reviewers advise, bought Denon's MOST expensive AVR and returned first unit as defective. Doubt this review will see light of day; however, as long as this audiophile is still here- this story will be told.
Rated 4 out of 5 by not2500 from Clear but not so seperated Looking for a super upgrade in a 7.2 . Got new Definitive"s speakers. Sound was good but found two concerns. Peaked at volume 73 then turned off. Atmos on this unit is 5.2 not 7.2 .Returned it for a 9.2 and 120W unit, now I can use all my speakers along with my top two reflective speakers on my towers which hook up to the Height connections.
How to do I switch between the 2 two HDMI Monitor outputs ?? One is connect to my TV and the other is connected to a Projector but no idea how to switch between them.
Hello, Where should i connect my ceiling speakers for Dolby Atmos? Back surround, right? and will the AVR automatically detect them as Atmos speakers and caliberate accordingly?
Hey Anon, On your unit the AVR-X2500H you will connect your ceiling speakers on the surround back terminals. If you have already completed the Audyssey setup then you can redo the Audyssey to add the height speakers or you can manually make the adjustment within the AMP ASSIGN and SPEAKER CONFIG settings. I hope this helps if not you can always give us a call to have one of our expert technical support team members assist with any other concerns you may have.
Can I turn off just my surround speakers (and leave on front l/r, center, and subwoofer) while playing a movie? If so, how can I do that?
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Sarah Palin Weighs In On O'Reilly And Fox News By Victim Blaming – Video
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Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit Tea Party favorite Sarah Palin tells us exactly what she thinks about Bill O'Reilly leaving Fox News by playing the victim blaming card. Tea Party favorite and failed vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin weighed in on Bill O'Reilly's recent termination by blaming his victims. Palin, a former employee of […]
A Quick Message For The Anti-Abortion Crowd
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Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit "They're not pro-life. You know what they are, they're anti-woman. Simple as it gets. Anti-woman. They don't like them. They don't like women." ~George Carlin In 1973 the Supreme Court decided a woman's right to choose abortion was legal. LEGAL. This means when a person decides to have […]
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Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit In a world… What would a Trump administration look like? Vile conservative creature Ann Coulter, who is on record saying women shouldn't be able to vote, has been an enthusiastic cheerleader for a Trump presidency – and she believes he actually has a shot. At the Eagle Forum's Collegian Summit […]
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Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit Former part-time Alaska Gov. and failed vice-president candidate Sarah Palin attended the after party for Saturday Night Live's anniversary special where she encountered several hecklers. TMZ reported that "Some of her critics were pretty stupid … using high school tactics like telling her she looked like crap," and […]
Sarah Palin Raised $25,000 For Hillary Clinton's Election Campaign
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Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit That awkward moment when Sarah Palin is named Co-Chair of Ready for Hillary's National Finance Council! Yep, you heard that right campers. After inadvertently helping raise over $25,000 for Hillary Clinton's election campaign "Sarah officially qualifies as a Co-Chair of our National Finance Council," according to Clinton's campaign […]


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Holland v. Ryan
James Robert Holland, Petitioner,
Charles L. Ryan, et al., Respondents.
Honorable John Z. Boyle United States Magistrate Judge
TO THE HONORABLE JOHN J. TUCHI, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE:
Petitioner James Robert Holland has filed a pro se Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. (Doc. 1.)
I. Summary of Conclusion.
Petitioner was sentenced on October 2, 2014, and his sentence was final 90 days later because he did not pursue post-conviction relief until 2018. The instant Petition was due January 1, 2016 but was not filed until December 6, 2018. Petitioner's claim is untimely. Petitioner presents no extraordinary circumstances to justify equitable tolling. Therefore, the Court will recommend that the Petition be denied and dismissed with prejudice.
II. Background.
a. Facts and Trial Procedural History.
On August 21, 2014, Petitioner pleaded guilty to felony offenses in two separate cases. (Doc. 11-1, Exs. F, G, at 42-46.) On October 2, 2014, Petitioner was sentenced in both cases. (Doc. 11-1, Ex. H at 27; Doc. 11-2, Ex. I, at 1.) The Court summarized the conviction history:
In Maricopa County Superior Court, case #CR2013-432246, Petitioner was convicted of one count of sexual exploitation of a minor and two counts of attempted sexual exploitation of a minor. He was sentenced to a 10-year term of imprisonment, followed by lifetime probation. In Maricopa County Superior Court, case #CR2013-103231, Petitioner was convicted of second-degree burglary. He was sentenced to an 8-year term of imprisonment, to be served after his sentence in CR2013-432246. In his Petition, Petitioner names Charles L. Ryan as Respondent and the Arizona Attorney General as an Additional Respondent.
(Doc. 6 at 1-2.)
b. Petitioner's State Post Conviction Relief Proceedings.
On May 29, 2018, Petitioner filed a post-conviction relief ("PCR") notice. (Doc. 11-2, Ex. J, at 8.) On June 11, 2018, the Maricopa County Superior Court found that Petitioner's PCR claims were "untimely by more than three years, " and that Petitioner failed to provide reasons for the untimeliness. (Doc. 11-2, Ex. K, at 13.) The Superior Court dismissed the Petition. (Id. at 14.)
On June 20, 2018, Petitioner filed a Petition for Review with the Arizona Court of Appeals. (Doc. 11-2, Ex. L, at 15.) On October 30, 2018, the Arizona Court of Appeals denied relief finding no abuse of discretion in the prior proceeding. (Doc. 11-12, Ex. M at 23.) On December 14, 2018, the mandate issued. (Doc. 11-2, Ex. N, at 25.)
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The client is a startup company and the also don't have any idea how to host a website.

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Japan invites European comeback to Asian Security role, and seeks to join FPDA →
January 6, 2013 · 11:07 pm
How does Asia feature in preparations for France's 2013 Defence White Paper?
Prior to the release of France's new White Paper on Defence and National Security (DWP), the General Secretariat for Defence and Security has released an amuse-gueule: "The International and Strategic Evolutions Faced by France". What does it have to say about Asia?
First, it confirms one of the findings of the 2008 DWP, that there is a "progressive shift in the strategic centre of gravity towards Asia", but notes that this shift has accelerated. Asia "has become the epicenter of the strategic scene", as a "dynamic hotbed in matters of demographics and innovation" with increasing defence budgets, a concentration of strategic and security risks, nuclear risks and risks of conflicts among states including great powers.
Noting maritime tensions in the Eastern and and Southern China seas, "the risk of major conflicts between States remains low in the greater part of the world, it continues to be present, if not magnified, in Asia."
Declares "France is present in the Pacific zone and is developing strong partnerships with Australia and New Zealand." I guess the former point refers to New Caledonia and French Polynesia. Don't forget Wallis et Futuna.
Observes sharper competition between Asian and European powers for access to Russian gas resources.
An environment of tension between Washington and its traditional allies lead some countries to turn towards Asia, in particular towards China.
On the US Pivot, "already, the military task forces that are deployed in Europe-Atlantic and Asia-Pacific are almost on a par and the naval resources are a little higher in the Pacific." The report expresses optimism on American preeminence "in the long term".
Contrasted with Africa, the Middle East and American continent, "in Asia, the prevalence of a power struggle mind-set, couples with a nationalist propensity, with tensions related to sovereignty issues and with the persistence of territorial disputes, hampers regional integration and, a fortiori, the creation of a security structure."
On the EU's Common Security & Defence Policy: "The European Defence is currently at a crossroads". Pooling & cooperation on capabilities and "the search for a shared vision of the role of the Union in maintaining international peace and security" (the latter "still has to be created, in the main") are "determining factors in the future of European defence".
And that's about it.
Tagged as Asia, Defence White Paper, France, Livre blanc sur la défense et la sécurité nationale, White Paper on Defence and National Security


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John Hammond and John McDonough discuss music
Music producer John Hammond and jazz critic for Down Beat magazine John McDonough discuss: Hammond's career; the artists he worked with; the artists he was the first to sign; social reform; and more. The following musical excerpts are played: "7 Come 11"; "Sauce"; "Talking Union"; "Blowing In the Wind"; "Today I Sing The Blues"; and "Live Embers".
Hugh Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie discussing the book "The New Grove Dictionary of American Music"
Discussing the book "The New Grove Dictionary of American Music". They talk about American music and musicians of all kinds and from different periods. Includes Charles Ive's song "At the River" sung by Cleo Laine in the middle of the program.
Mary Lou Williams and her manager Father Peter O'Brien discuss Williams' career
Studs Terkel interviews Mary Lou Williams and her manager, Father Peter O'Brien. They discuss music, musicians, and instruments. Some clips of piano music playing at the end.
Shel Silverstein discusses his books, children's literature, and art; part 2
Shel Silverstein discusses his books and children's literature, and art. Shel Silverstein discusses his contemporaries, art, and life experiences.
Harry Belafonte discusses jazz and folk music
Singer Harry Belafonte discusses Black music including spirituals and jazz and how it has contributed to American culture.
Presenting music with Oscar Brown, Jr
Helen Humes discusses her career
Helen Humes discusses her career and touring with Count Basie and his orchestra. John McDonough is present for the interview and contributes. Songs sung by Helen are played throughout the interview: "He May Be Your Man", "Song of the Wanderer", "If I Could Be with You for One Hour Tonight" (2 recordings- one from 1940 and one from 1977), "Unlucky Woman", "They Can't Take That Away From Me", "Today I Sing the Blues", and "They Raided the Joint". Music has been removed for copyright reasons.
Art Hodes discusses his career as a jazz and blues pianist
Art Hodes discusses his history and influences on his career as a jazz and blues pianist. He tells stories of musicians he has worked with and how he keeps his performances fresh after playing for so many years. Music by Art Hodes is played throughout: "Chimes Blues", "Tennessee Waltz", "Grandpa's Spells", "Just a Closer Walk with Thee","Cakewalkin' Babies from Home", "Blues 'N Booze", and "Riverside Blues".
Brother John Sellers discusses his career as a blues artist and how church music inspired his music
Studs interviews Brother John Sellers about his career and other blues singers. Sellers explains that religion influenced his music as did performers like Mahalia Jackson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Muddy Waters. Studs reads some of the lyrics of blues song, "In the Evening." Sellers describes street singers and blind singers. He describes the music and style of Jackson and Broonzy and some of his own songs. Sellers performs "Talk About A Child" and "Sally Go Round the Sunshine" live on the program.
Blind John Davis discusses Chicago blues
Blind John Davis, Chicago blues pianist, discusses his time playing in Germany and at the Blue Note jazz club, chitlin' parties, growing up on the West side of Chicago. He also recalls meeting and working with musicians like Tampa Red and Big Bill Broonzy. Music by John Davis (unless noted as another artist) is played throughout : "Jim Town Blues", "Every Day I Got the Blues", "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie", "Summertime", "Looking Up at Down"- Big Bill Broonzy, "Killer Diller Blues"- Memphis Minnie, "Moanin' the Blues", "When I Lost My Baby", and "Magic Carpet".
Phyl Garland discusses her book "Sound of Soul" and the history of black music in America ; part 2
Studs interviews Phyl Garland about her book "Sound of Soul." They discuss various musicians that she mentions in her book and their influence on black music. Garland explains the music of young black artists and how commercialization of music gave blacks an opportunity that they would not have had otherwise. Garland talks about how Fannie Lou Hamer used music to express her message in the Civil Rights Movement and as a women's rights activist. Studs and Garland discuss various black female artists and their music.
Studs Terkel discusses blues mandolinist Yank Rachell | Members of the Shanghai Quartet discuss their process and repertoire
Presenting music by the "Shanghai Quartet,"- Weigang Li, Honggang Li, Zhengh Wang, Käthe Jarka, w/ Elizabeth Buccheri- with blues singer and mandolinist Yank Rachell.
Corky Siegel and members of his ensemble the West End String Quartet discuss chamber blues
Performance by Corky Siegel and the West End String Quartet.
Willie Dixon and Koko Taylor discuss the blues and how you create blues music
Studs interviews Willie Dixon and Koko Taylor about the blues. They discuss their song "Insane Asylum" and their work together. Dixon uses his song "Little Red Rooster" to help explain how the blues are created from life experiences. Taylor reflects on singers like Willie Dixon, Memphis Minnie, and others who influenced her desire to sing the blues. Taylor also discusses European audiences and blues influence there. The musical numbers are removed from this edited version of the original recording.
Willie Dixon, Sunnyland Slim and Big Mama Thornton discuss their careers in the blues and describe some of their songs
Studs interviews blues singers Willie Dixon, Sunnyland Slim, and Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton about the blues. They discuss the blues festival in Chicago for which they are all in town for and name other musicians who will be performing. Sunnyland Slim talks about being on the road and the hard times. Thornton describes the blues as music made from life experiences.


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The season came to an end for the Middle School Saints boys soccer and the Lady Saints girls softball squads, both having successful seasons and bright futures given the players who will be returning next year. "The eighth graders will be truly missed and they will leave big cleats to fill but we will be retuning all but four players next year," said Saints Soccer Coach Justin Nokes whose team went 5-4 in conference and knocked off undefeated Upperman 1-0 last week before losing to them in the first round of the single elimination tournament, 3-1. The goal in tournament was by David Suastegui with an assist by Jonathan Hernandez.


Objective: Ultrasound is an effective screening tool in the early detection of Lesion in breast and primarily useful for differentiating Solid, Cystic & Complex mass with or without Microcalcifications.
Introduction: NCDs accounts for 55% of the overall deaths in the Pakistan [ 1]. BC is a NCDs that affects all ages [ CDC2005].BC is the second leading cause of death for women worldwide  & Single largest cause of death for women in Pakistan. Pakistan has 1:9 women are at the risk of BC. Every year BC kills 40,000 women although it can be completely cured through early detection by BSE, MRI , biopsy& BUS can discriminate benign and malignant masses with a high accuracy[5,6 ]. METHODOLOGY: Retrospective-analytic study was conducted at Radiology Department AKHWC, Kharadar during July2012 to June2013.
Sonography Criteria: BUS should be performed systematically using a combination of longitudinal, transverse, radial, anti-radial and coronal scans planes in order to detect pathological findings should involve assessment of: Size ,Shape ,Outline , echotexture, Posterior and edge through-transmission. Mobility and compressibility, adjacent tissues. Examination should be extended to axilla.
Results: 137[100%] patients underwent BUS. The incidence of breast pathology was observed in 36[26.27%] patients in our study. In which 03 [2.2%] were diagnosed as a cancer, result was confirmed by mammography-biopsy & patient took chemotherapy, while 33[24%] detected as a benign pathology; including abscess, fibro adenoma ,simple cyst , Lipoma, sebaceous gland abscess, engorged breast . Nine patients had Enlarged LN in axilla.


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What is the future of San Juan County's coal power plant?
Possible closure sparks economic worries
By Liz Weber New Mexico reporter
Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020 10:03 AM
Updated: Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020 6:31 PM
An aerial photo of the San Juan Generating Station, where Public Service Co. of New Mexico announced it will shut down operations in 2022.
Courtesy of Public Service Co. of New Mexico
FARMINGTON – In a packed room, with people lining the walls, the orange and green reflector stripes across the work shirts of mine workers caught the lights. For almost four hours Monday evening, community members across the Four Corners stood up to talk about the future of the San Juan Generating Station, and, by extension, the future of their economic stability, environment, family and way of life.
Theresa Becenti-Aguilar, chairwoman of New Mexico's Public Regulation Commission, called the hearing at San Juan College to collect public testimony as the commission considers the Public Service Co. of New Mexico's application to close the plant in 2022. The PRC is tasked with determining if the state's new energy transition law, passed last spring, would apply to PNM's initial closure proposal, which was filed before passage of the law.
While the public hearing was held in relation to the Energy Transition Act, many community members took the opportunity to urge the commission to accept PNM's abandonment of the mine and plant closure, while allowing an outside company, Enchant Energy Corp., to take control, theoretically extending the life of the plant and maintaining much-needed jobs in the community.
"This is our chance to be innovators, to be leaders," said Joseph Leach, an employee of the mine. "I see all my brothers and sisters here. We have our work shirts on. We're not here to beat our chests about burning coal. We're here to save our jobs, save our livelihoods."
New Mexico's Public Regulation Commission held a community hearing Monday at San Juan College in Farmington about the fate of the Public Service Co. of New Mexico's application to close operations at the San Juan Generating Station under the Energy Transition Act.
Liz Weber/Durango Herald
After the utility company announced it was closing its operations, Enchant Energy Corp. signed an agreement with the city of Farmington last year to take over plant management and retrofit the facility with carbon-capture technology. The company also received a $5.8 million grant through the U.S. Department of Energy to study the feasibility of turning the generating station into a carbon-capture facility.
Many of the community members at Monday's hearing spoke in favor of Enchant's proposal, with the hope it could save jobs in the region. The plant and mine closure could see the region lose about 450 jobs and see decreased revenue to the county, San Juan Community College and the Central Consolidated School District, according to a report by O'Donnell Economics and Strategy.
But while supporters say carbon capture is a viable option to keep the plant operational and maintain economic stability in the region, critics worry the deal is providing false hope to the community. And on Monday, not everyone spoke in favor of keeping the power station running.
Kim Smith was among a group of Navajo Nation activists who spoke of the harm and damage done to the environment and the approximately 20,000 Navajo Nation members who live downstream and downwind.
"We should know what we need to do, and that is to transition away from coal power because it's detrimental to not only our health but the health of the air, the health of the water and the health of the soil," Smith said during her testimony.
Smith and other activists also referenced a health assessment of people living near the power plant, which found widespread health and environmental impacts to their community.
Mike Eisenfeld, energy and climate program manager with San Juan Citizens Alliance, was also at Monday's hearing. San Juan Citizens Alliance was not allowed to provide public comment during the hearing because the group is considered an intervener in the abandonment cases. But Eisenfeld told The Durango Herald with the plant's closure there is going to be a significant void and it is important to determine what comes next.
"Everyone is advocating carbon capture but that's very speculative," he said.
Eisenfeld said it is important to have a transition plan in place "that looks at a variety of ways to diversify our economy and replace coal jobs that are leaving" after PNM's abandonment, and to then focus on renewable energy sources.
At stake for the community, if the commission accepts the utility company's application for abandonment under the recent energy transition law, is $40 million in funding for workforce retraining and economic assistance to Farmington and San Juan County in the event of the plant's closure. The commission will also decide if the owners of the plant are allowed to refinance and recover part of their investments through low-interest bonds to be paid off by utility customers.
Navajo Nation Council Delegate Daniel Tso speaks Monday at the community hearing at San Juan College in Farmington held by New Mexico's Public Regulation Commission about the fate of the San Juan Generating Station.
In addition to the packed room of community members, Farmington Mayor Nate Duckett, Navajo Nation Council Delegate Daniel Tso, San Juan County commissioners, city officials, Diné activists, school district officials and a state senator were in attendance.
Toward the end of the hearing, when the room was more empty seats than packed auditorium, Travis Hutchinson, an electrician with Westmoreland Mining, spoke about how proud he was of working in the mine. He admitted the situation "(was) tough, everywhere you look at it, it's hard to find a solution." But he added that he saw it as an opportunity to solve the issue in a way that would work for the community.
"Everyone you've heard from here tonight will be affected. ... We're all married into this," he said.
lweber@durangoherald.com
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Time for God: Who steers your sails?
You know that dog who keeps chasing his tail, never to catch it, but still continues to run in a circle trying? Sometimes, when it comes to worrying, I feel like I am that dog. Cute, of course. But cute with some questionable behavior!
I mean, we all know already that God has us in his hands. We know that we are supposed to give up our cares and worries to him. But, its not so easy, is it? IS IT?!
See, even right now... as I write this blog... it has me worrying that I worry too much. I've always been a worry wart. Personally, I think it was ingrained in me from childhood. My handsome dad... he was a worry wart, too. Therefore I am going to go with the idea that worrying is a genetic trait. Right? Right!
As a kid, I remember going on vacations -- back when families actually took road trips together. We would get a couple hours into our trip and my dad would have a momentary bout of worry. Id be half asleep in the backseat and I would hear him ask my mom, "Did we turn all the fans off?" or "Are you sure that sliding glass door was locked?" or, my favorite, "Dang it, I think forgot to take the garbage out!" If he didn't get the desired responses, he would silently beat himself up for not checking the fans or the door locks one last time, or for not taking the garbage out. How do I know he silently did this? Because about 2 days later he would, out of nowhere, say, "I cannot believe I didn't check to make sure those fans were turned off."
But, I think we butted heads so much because we are so much alike. In many ways... including... you guessed it... worrying. Yep, me. Guilty as charged. And, I am sure that I drive more than one person in my life crazy with it. But, hey, you cant mess with genetics!
Ok, ok, I will let the genetics assumption rest because, in reality, it doesn't matter where it comes from. Nobody should worry. Nobody should have a care or concern in the world. Why? Because we should be casting our cares on God -- Psalm 55:22 (NLT) says "Give your burdens to the Lord, and he will take care of you. He will not permit the godly to slip and fall." Or how about 1 Peter 5:7 (NLT), "Give all your worries or cares to God, for he cares about you."
It doesn't matter what you did or shouldn't have done or what is going to happen at work tomorrow or who is going to be at the party tonight. It doesn't matter. Plain and simple. Those are trivial little things (to be followed with a "#firstworldproblems" on social media nowadays) and they don't change any situation. They are worries that serve no great purpose or benefit.
I just realized that I am really just saying all of this for myself... because God knows, really, that this is one of my biggest flaws. I also just realized that I wish my dad had found peace in this to calm his worrying heart.
25 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds in the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
28 "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you - you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32 For the Pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
Look at that last line - Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. I mean, that is straight from the mouth of Jesus, so, uh... yeah. And I don't think it can get any clearer than that.
Remember -- God looks out for us. He has our back. He knows what we need before we even know. Or, rather, before we even have time to worry about it. Let this be a reminder - for you and me both - to HAVE FAITH that someone more powerful than you is steering your sails and there isn't a thing that worrying will change.


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Bozeman, Montana, is located in the Rocky Mountains.
Top things to do include exploring the Montana State University Museum of the Rockies, which takes a look at the area's history and displays artifacts such as dinosaur fossils (including Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils), hiking around the Spanish Peaks, which are beautiful mountains filled with trails, and skiing in the nearby Bridger Bowl Ski Area or the Moonlight Basin.
If you're looking for an extra history fix, other top museums to visit include the Gallatin History Museum, which displays Native American exhibits, or the American Computers & Robotics Museum, which displays Babylonian tablets, through to current day computers.
The best time to visit Bozeman is between June and September, which is known as the peak travel season in the Rocky Mountain National Park. Temperatures are warm and sunny, making it a perfect time to hike.
The most expensive month to stay in a vacation rental in Bozeman is in July, while the cheapest month is in May. The most popular time to book a vacation rental in Bozeman is in the high season in July. Bozeman has its low season in January, when less people are visiting and the vacation home occupancy rate drops.
The cheapest day to stay at a vacation rental in Bozeman tends to be Wednesday, while the most expensive day tends to be Saturday. Vacation homes in Bozeman tend to be busiest on Saturdays, while it tends to be much quieter on Tuesdays.
This climate histogram shows you the weather patterns in Bozeman. The warmest months in Bozeman are May and June, when temperatures reach 100 ˚F. The coolest month is February, when temperatures drop to -15 ˚F. The wettest month in Bozeman is June with 4.53 inches of rain, while the driest month is July with 0.31 inches of rain.
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Q: Como voltar para a página inicial após uma mensagem de alert Estou com uma página que realiza um cáculo de IMC e salva algumas informações no banco.
A estrutura está dividida em quatro arquivos:
index.html    = Código html;
index.php     = Chama o index.html;
banco.php     = Conecta com o banco de dados;
cadastrar.php = Realiza o cálculo, salva no banco e retorna a mensagem
A mensagem do IMC é dada através de um alert(). Quando eu clico em "Ok", o alert fecha e eu continuo na página toda em branco cadastrar.php (página que pega os dados, faz o calculo e retorna a mensagem do usuário).
Tentei utilizar a expessão location.href e outras opções para tentar redirecionar, mas sem sucesso.
Gostaria de saber como fazer para que após eu fechar o alert(), o usuário retorne para a página inicial (index)?
session_start();
include "banco.php";

$nome = "";
$altura = 0;
$peso = 0;

if(!empty($_POST))
{
$nome = $_POST['nome'];
$altura = $_POST['altura'];
$peso = $_POST['peso'];

cadastrar($nome,$altura,$peso);
calcularIMC($altura,$peso);

}

function cadastrar($nome,$altura,$peso)
{
try
{
    $pdo = conectar();
    $incluir = $pdo->prepare("INSERT INTO usuario("
            . "nome, altura, peso) VALUES("
            . ":nome, :altura, :peso)");
    $incluir->bindValue(":nome", $nome);
    $incluir->bindValue(":altura", $altura);
    $incluir->bindValue(":peso", $peso);
    $incluir->execute();

    if($incluir->rowCount() > 0)
        return true;
    else
        return false;

}catch(PDOException $e)
{
   echo "Erro ao incluir na tabela categoria ".$e->getMessage();
}
}

function calcularIMC($altura,$peso){

$imc = 0;
if($altura >0 && $peso >0){
  $imc = $peso / ($altura * $altura);
}

echo '<script language="javascript">';
echo 'alert("Sua quantidade de IMC é: '.$imc.'")';
echo 'location.href="index.html"';  //Tentei utilizar o location.href, mas sem sucesso
echo '</script>';

}

A: Falta ponto e virgula depois do alert.
echo '<script language="javascript">';
echo 'alert("Sua quantidade de IMC é: '.$imc.'");';
echo 'location.href="index.html";';
echo '</script>';


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Great Spaces: History of Notable Figures Called This 90210 Mansion Home
The Harvey Mudd estate, located in Southern California's famous 90210 zip code, and designed in 1922 by noted architect Elmer Grey, is for sale at $22.995 million.
The English Country estate is nestled into a well-groomed acre with a swimming pool, an aviary and gardens. With seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms, the home has been owned by a slew of well-knowns. Built for Charles Boldt, the home also opened doors to philanthropists Harvey and Mildred Mudd, Harry S. Rothschild of the Rothschild Oil Co., award-winning actor duo Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, and film producer Jack Rapke.
Listed for: $22.995 million


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Q: Cannot install odoo using source installation method : ImportError: cannot import name fp_str I need to run multiple instances of odoo on my centos 7 server. So i needto use source insallation method for installing to install odoo as written in their documentation.
I was able to install odoo (git clonning to my system, installing dependencies, installing less css using npm) everything works fine for me till here.
After that they say i have to start running odoo using odoo.py script file as shown in the code sample below:
`./odoo.py -w <my_postgres_password> -r <postgres_user> --addons-path=addons,../mymodules --db-filter=mydb$`

But here i get into an error.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./odoo.py", line 160, in <module>
    main()
  File "./odoo.py", line 156, in main
    import openerp
  File "/home/odoo1/odoo/openerp/__init__.py", line 63, in <module>
    import report
  File "/home/odoo1/odoo/openerp/report/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    import interface
  File "/home/odoo1/odoo/openerp/report/interface.py", line 13, in <module>
    import render
  File "/home/odoo1/odoo/openerp/report/render/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from simple import simple
  File "/home/odoo1/odoo/openerp/report/render/simple.py", line 9, in <module>
    from reportlab.platypus import SimpleDocTemplate, Paragraph, Spacer, Table
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/reportlab/platypus/__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
    from reportlab.platypus.flowables import Flowable, Image, Macro, PageBreak, Preformatted, Spacer, XBox, \
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/reportlab/platypus/flowables.py", line 29, in <module>
    from reportlab.lib.colors import red, gray, lightgrey
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/reportlab/lib/colors.py", line 17, in <module>
    from reportlab.lib.utils import fp_str
ImportError: cannot import name fp_str

What can be the error due to. How to solve this issue?
Regards.

A: It should be from reportlab.lib.rl_accel import fp_str in the newest version of reportlab.So you need to upgrade the reportlab module.


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Eves government invests $36.3 million to support leading-edge research at the University of Western Ontario
Archived Release
April 10, 2003 12:00 A.M.
Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade
LONDON, ON, April 10 /CNW/ - The Ernie Eves government will invest $36.3 million to support 49 research initiatives at The University of Western Ontario and Robarts Research Institute, Associate Minister of Enterprise, Opportunity and Innovation David Turnbull announced today.
Through the Ontario Innovation Trust, The University of Western Ontario will receive $27.9 million and Robarts Research Institute will receive $8.4 million.
"These investments in Research & Development are building a stronger future for Ontario," said Turnbull. "We are building a solid foundation to position our post secondary research institutions and hospitals as world class centres for innovative research and scientific discovery."
The Ontario Innovation Trust (OIT) together with the Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund are key research investment arms of the Ontario government and form the heart of the province's strategy to keep Ontario competitive in the knowledge based global economy. Ontario's capacity to retain highly qualified researchers and scientists depends on investment in quality research facilities, state-of-the-art equipment and technology.
The 49 projects supported through this investment are in the fields of health care, manufacturing, and protection of the environment. Examples of projects receiving funding include Robarts Research Institute's work in new technologies using 3-D virtual imaging to help doctors perform less invasive and traumatic surgeries. The project brings the knowledge and expertise of engineering and robotics together with neurosurgery.
"The OIT's investments will make it possible for our researchers to make tomorrow's medical breakthroughs a reality," said Dr. Mark Poznansky, President and Scientific Director at Robarts Research Institute. "These breakthroughs will change many lives for the better."
The investment will also support projects at The University of Western Ontario, such as the development of new, high quality powder coating or painting techniques that are environmentally friendly and will have significant impact on the automotive and transport sectors.
"These investments are vital to enabling our researchers to continue to excel in innovative research and scientific discovery," said Dr. Nils Petersen, Vice-President (Research) at The University of Western Ontario.
The Ontario Innovation Trust works with the Federal government's Canada Foundation of Innovation. Through this partnership, the investment in innovation research is virtually doubled, and provides a national strategy to build a culture of innovation.
"This is a proud day for London and a recognition of our community's leadership in cutting edge research," said Dianne Cunningham, MPP-London North Centre. "Researchers and scientists here in London are helping to make Ontario a world class centre of research and development."
Established in 1999 by the Ontario government, the Ontario Innovation Trust is assisting the province's universities, hospitals, colleges and other non-profit research organizations to carry out scientific research and technology development by enhancing the infrastructure needed for research. Since 1999, the Trust has announced investments of more than $667.4 million to support 876 research projects.
Disponible en français
For more information, visit www.ontario-canada.com
For more information on the OIT, visit www.oit.on.ca
For further information: Stephanie Lu, Minister Turnbull's Office, (416) 325-1244; Linda Quattrin, Robarts Research Institute, (519) 663-3021; Kris Dundas, The University of Western Ontario, (519) 661-2111 x 86415
This document was published on April 10, 2003 and is provided for archival and research purposes.


Schroeder, Andreas, Galera Zarco, Carlos, Baines, Tim. and Ziaee Bigdeli, Ali (2016). Barriers to capturing the value of advanced services and digitisation in the road transport industry. IN: Spring Servitization Conference SSC2016. 2016-05-16 - 2016-05-17.
Servitization and digitization together provide significant opportunities to raise the performance and profitability of the road transport industry. To date these opportunities are only sparsely captured and the potential economic, social and environmental value is forgone. We set out to investigate the barriers to capturing the value of servitization and digitization in the road transport industry.


(CNN) -- Iran's Baha'i community -- a religious minority that has faced persecution in the Islamic republic -- is reporting a string of arson attacks targeting homes and vehicles.
A house "went up in flames" in Kerman on July 18 only weeks after the residents' car had been torched, said Bani Dugal, principal representative of the Baha'i International Community to the United Nations. Those incidents followed a series of threatening phone calls, Dugal said.
"As would be expected in the light of the mistreatment Baha'is in Iran are routinely receiving, the officials who investigated the fire either ignored or dismissed obvious signs of suspicious activity, including a muffled explosion, simply saying that it was the result of an electrical problem," she said.
The group also listed several incidents since February, and Dugal said there had been at least a dozen cases of arson targeting the Baha'is in the last 15 months.
Mohammad Mohammadi, press attache for the Iranian delegation at the United Nations in New York, said the Baha'is are just repeating claims they have made before.
"They are full of claims, not verified by anybody," he said.
The attacks, reported on Monday by the Baha'i movement, come on the heels of the arrests of seven members of Iran's national Baha'i coordinating group in March and May. The Baha'is say the seven have been jailed in Evin Prison in Tehran without charge.
"These latest attacks follow the authorities' attempts to deprive the Iranian Baha'i community of its leadership," Dugal said.
"As Baha'is worldwide watch with alarm this escalation in violence ... their fears that a sinister plan of persecution is unfolding become increasingly confirmed. Their only hope is that enough voices of protests are raised around the world to compel the government in Iran to put an end to this violence."
Sarah Leah Whitson, the Human Rights Watch Middle East director, said "there's been an uptick" in the repression of the Bahai community in Iran.
"Such arson attacks would be a natural outcome of the government's most recent campaign to vilify and attack the Baha'i community, disparaging them and their beliefs in the press with a spate of anti-Baha'i articles in the government-run press and arresting several of the community's leaders on still-unspecified charges," Human Rights Watch's Whitson said.
"When the top religious authorities insist on characterizing Baha'is as apostates and encourage a climate of hate against the Baha'i community, one would well expect these sorts of violent outbursts to be directed against them."
The government has said that the seven people recently detained were held for "security issues" and that the Baha'is are members of a group working "against national interest," a claim denounced by the Baha'is.
The Baha'is say the latest arrests are part of a pattern of religious persecution that began in 1979. That's when the monarchy of the Shah of Iran was toppled and an Islamic republic was created.
The Baha'is say members of its community have been killed, jailed and "otherwise oppressed" because of their religion.
Dugal has said the government's philosophies were based largely on the idea that there could be "no prophet following Mohammed" and that the faith "poses a theological challenge to this belief."
The Baha'is regard their founder Baha'u'llah as the most recent in the line of Messengers of God that stretches back beyond recorded time and that includes Abraham, Moses, Buddha, Krishna, Zoroaster, Christ and Mohammed.
The Baha'is-- regarded as the largest non-Muslim religious minority in Iran -- say they have 5 million members across the globe, and about 300,000 in Iran.