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Commander's personal log.
The war to liberate Earth and her colonies continues.
We have more Earth ships on our side than ever before...
...but the battles are becoming more desperate the closer we get to home.
Auto-repair systems are moving as fast as they can to keep up.
The Hydra and the Delphi are out of commission and withdrawing.
The rest are moving in for a counterstrike against us.
Damn it. They're outnumbered, their jump engines are down...
...they can't beat us, they can't escape.
Why don't they surrender?
This is the hardest part of all: Fighting our own.
Franklin and Lyta should be on Mars by now, along with their cargo.
Our resources are stretched to the limit.
Everything's riding on what happens in the next few weeks.
This is endgame.
We'll be okay as long as nothing goes wrong.
- You took care of it? - Yeah.
Yeah, it's done. Captain Sheridan's father is in custody.
He's being shipped to an area on Mars so we can keep an eye on him.
I'll contact Sheridan as soon as everything's in place.
- Are you sure he'll come? - Yeah, he'll come.
Good. Good. Let me know when he's in custody.
Mr. Garibaldi...
...I know this is hard for you...
...but it really is for his own good. It's for everyone's good.
Once he's out of the picture, President Clark will lower his guard.
Then we can deal with him and the Psi Corps.
In the final analysis, once he's better, Sheridan may even thank you.
Somehow I doubt it.
Well, we'll have to see.
Still, once this is done, I can tell you the rest.
The truth, the whole, absolute truth is only a few days away.
- How many people can say that? - I don't know...
...but I think the last guy got 30 pieces of silver for the same job.
It was the year of fire.
The year of destruction.
The year we took back what was ours.
It was the year of rebirth.
The year of great sadness.
The year of pain.
- And a year of joy. - It was a new age.
It was the end of history.
It was the year everything changed.
The year is 2261. The place, Babylon 5.
- White Star 20 is hit. - How bad?
Minimal. They're withdrawing until auto-repair systems can cut in.
I just don't understand.
They have to know they can't win.
They can't want to die, not for Clark.
This is John Sheridan to Earth Fleet.
I say again, you are ordered to stand down and surrender your vessels.
We have no desire to destroy your ships...
...but if you continue to fight, we'll have no choice.
What difference does it make? We're dead anyway.
It's the Cadmus, Captain Leo Frank.
- What are you talking about? - What do you think I'm talking about?
We've been briefed on your campaign.
As soon as our forces surrender, our crews are taken out...
...executed, and then replaced by Minbari crews.
- Is that what you've been told? - It is. And I believe it.
Then you're even dumber than you were at the academy.
Who is that? Mackie?
- Mackie, is that you? - Alive and well.
But we heard you...
Yeah, I know what you heard, and it's a load of crap.
I'm alive. Every member of my crew is still here.
I don't care what you've heard about Sheridan, you know me, Leo.
Everything I tell you is on the up-and-up.
Stand down. You won't be harmed.
Come on, don't be stupid.
Picking up a signal. They're standing down.
Sheridan to attack fleet. They've given the surrender order.
Cease fire. I repeat, cease fire.
- Tell the others... - Just a minute! A jump point's opening.
Agamemnon to Sheridan. Agamemnon to Sheridan.
That's my old ship.
Sheridan to Agamemnon. Tell me you're not here for a fight.
Negative, captain.
We've been chasing you for days, but you're too fast.
We couldn't catch you. We're looking to join up, if you don't mind.
Mind?
Hell, you've just made my whole day. Stand by, I'm coming aboard.
Is that a good idea?
They're my crew.
I trained them myself, including her captain. I trust them implicitly.
You have the helm, Marcus.
- Stephen, good to see you. - Good to see you too.
You got here fast.
With so many ships called away to fight our forces...
...we were able to slip through. This is Lyta Alexander. She's a telepath.
- Lyta, this is Number One. - Wait a minute.
You came here a couple of years ago.
You didn't say anything about being a telepath.
I couldn't. I was on the run from the Psi Corps.
You should've told us. And you, are you out of your mind?
What are you doing, bringing a teep here...
...when we're ready to move? Are you trying to compromise my security?
- Look, it's okay. - No, it's not okay.
I didn't know about her. You should've warned me.
You can trust her. I'd put my life in her hands.
Fine. That's your choice. But when it's my life...
...I'd like to have a say about it, if it's all the same to you.
- All right, all right. I'm sorry. - Lf it's a problem, I can go topside.
- I'll find a place to stay until you need me. - No, it's okay.
Now, she needs to stay here with the rest of us.
We may need her at a moment's notice.
Our cargo.
What cargo?
That cargo.
Hold it.
More telepaths.
- Yeah. - How many?
Mister, you've got one hell of a lot of explaining to do.
Captain's on deck.
- The place hasn't changed. - Well, not perceptibly, sir.
We have updated the DX-419 tracking system.
It's about time.
Of course, the main reason for the update was to make it easier to find you, sir.
At least some good has come out of this.
That thing never worked right from the first day we got it.
- How's the crew? - Good. Good.
Lieutenant Chase is out on pregnancy leave...
...Miller is back Earthside recuperating from injuries he sustained in a firefight...
...against raiders off of lo a couple of months ago...
...and the rest of the crew has been busy following your adventures, sir...
...ever since you made it known Clark was responsible...
...for Santiago's assassination.
To tell you the truth, captain, some of us thought maybe you were out of control.
- We just kept hearing these stories. - I understand.
And then came Nightwatch...
...and the illegal orders to take out civilian targets...
...so we knew who was telling the truth.
The crew trusts you, captain.
They believe that you're a pain in the ass, sir, but they trust you.
So we voted to join you as soon as we could.
I can't tell you what it means to have you aboard.
Makes me think we might actually win this one.
- Well, you haven't lost one yet, sir. - Oh, I've lost a few.
I just made damn sure nobody heard about it.
- We've got a signal coming in for you, sir. - Okay, put it through to my...
Main console.
Marcus, what's up?
We're receiving a transmission from Mr. Garibaldi. He needs to speak with you.
He says it's important.
All right, put him through.
Mr. Garibaldi, what is it?
Captain, I just thought you should know.
Okay, look, we're not exactly on the best terms right now...
...but they've got your dad. They traced him through his medication...
...and picked him up two days ago outside of Chicago.
Is he all right?
It's hard to get good information, but I think so.
They're gonna use him to get to you.
If you don't surrender, they're gonna kill him.
We've got a couple of days before they can move...
...and we should be able to break him out.
I've got people who can help, but they want a meeting.
They know your rep, but they're afraid of a setup.
So it's gotta be just you and me. Nobody else.
If we're gonna do this, we gotta move fast.
I need an answer. I need it now.
- Captain, I don't think you should. - Lf it were your father, what would you do?
All right. I'll need to verify this through my people...
...but if it's true...
...you tell them I'll be there. Alone.
- Captain, I strongly object. - Your objection is noted.
I don't like the way this thing sounds...
...I don't like the way it looks. It stinks of a setup.
Look, Susan, Michael and I have had our problems lately...
...but he has never given me reason to think he meant harm.
Maybe so, but what if his information is wrong?
It's not.
I just got word from my contacts on Earth.
They got my dad two days ago, just like Michael said.
At least let me send Marcus with you.
Marcus needs to be here as your liaison with the rest of the fleet while I am gone.
Now, I will listen to what Garibaldi has to say...
...and if there's any way we can make this work, we'll find it.
What do you mean "my liaison"?
I want you to take my place during my absence.
Take White Star 40 and get here as fast as you can.
- Shouldn't Delenn? - She's not back yet.
We need to keep this a clean fight.
That means human commanding officers only.
Last time an assault fleet came to Earth, it was under Minbari command.
We don't want the folks back home thinking the Minbari War is happening all over again.
- It has to be one of us. - All right.
I guess you have to try and get him back.
If I don't, I'll regret it the rest of my life.
Take care, Susan. I'll see you soon.
- Are you sure you want to go along? - We've got the current access codes.
We can get in and out of the colony without setting off the warning system.
All right. As soon as we make the jump from hyperspace...
...I'll take down one of your Thunderbolts, land just outside the colony.
If everything goes right I'll be in and out in a few hours.
You'll have the best fighter we've got. Stand by to change course.
Standing by.
Transfer navigation to beacon 119176.
Aye, sir.
- Maybe I should just go. - No, no, it's all right.
You really don't know.
But I'll bet she does.
Well, in that case, you only have to let me know what the hell is going on.
She can do it. Someone just dumped several dozen cryonic freezers on me...
...and I have to find room for them. I have no time for this.
She's talking about the new Bloodhound units.
Telepaths assigned to the military divisions occupying Mars.
Anyone suspected of being in the Resistance is scanned.
They're very deep scans.
The trouble with deep scans is, they can cause heart attacks, seizures, strokes...
There's been several deaths. She's right to be upset.
Well, how did you find out about this?
Once I got taken off the rogue list, I began to hear things...
...but we always keep it inside the Corps.
Wait a minute, wait a minute. Always?
This has happened before?
Lyta.
While I interned with the Psi Cops, there were a number of murders.
Someone was killing commercial telepaths...
...and the mundanes didn't care. For them, it was just one less teep to worry about.
So the Psi Cops took care of it.
- What'd you do? - What we had to.
We scanned anyone who might've had a lead.
No warrant, no permission and no trace.
Just gaps in their memory, missing hours, headaches...
Did you find him?
- Did you...? - No.
That would have been too quick.
We couldn't go to the police...
...because we didn't want to explain how we found him.
Somewhere on Beta Colony there is an institution.
In one room of that institution there is a man...
...who spends his days and nights screaming at things only he can see...
...things we planted in his mind.
They have to keep him in a straitjacket 24 hours a day...
...or he'd claw his own eyes out just to make it stop.
When it was over I transferred to commercial work.
I wanted out.
The Corps took me in when I was just a few years old.
They taught me what a telepath was, what we could do.
And all that time, I'd never been afraid of who we were...
...until that day...
...when we did what we had to do because no one else would.
Someday there's gonna be a war between telepaths and mundanes, Stephen.
I just hope I don't live to see it.
...after the captain takes care of President Clark...
...we're gonna work on this, okay?
We're gonna build some bridges...
...and find a more positive way of dealing with the Corps.
You're going to have a long wait.
We just received a coded message from Babylon 5. It's about Sheridan.
I hope he told you what to do with those frozen telepaths...
...because it looks like you're on your own for a while.
Delenn, Lennier, I'm glad to see you. I was about to leave.
It's good to be back, commander. Is there a problem?
I'm afraid so. President Clark's people have found John's father. They're holding him.
Mr. Garibaldi thinks he can help. The captain's en route right now.
He wants me to take over the fleet. I was hoping you could keep an eye on things.
Of course. We'll do everything we can. Good luck.
Do you think the captain's all right?
He knows what he's doing. He'll be fine. Assuming Mr. Garibaldi can still be trusted.
- Hello, Michael. - Captain.
I was starting to think you weren't gonna make it here.
Have you heard anything about my father?
No, just that he's being held at a facility here on Mars.
He's not being heavily guarded...
...because Clark hasn't announced that he's been captured yet.
- So we need to move before that happens? - Yeah.
What do you want me to do?
You've already done it.
- What? - It's a tranq. Don't fight it.
Just give it up, or they're gonna hurt you!
I got here as soon as I could.
What's going on? You all look like a Pak'ma'ra just ate your cat.
We picked this up off the ISN feed just as you were coming out of hyperspace.
We interrupt our regular programming for this important announcement.
The leader of the renegade fleet...
...that has been attempting to destabilize Earth for months...
...has finally been located and detained.
Captain John Sheridan, formerly of Earthforce...
...was captured earlier today by forces loyal to President Clark...
...and is now being held in a secure facility.
Unlike many of his victims...
...he is being given proper care and treatment...
...until a hearing can be convened.
Something's happened.
Wade just brought me a message from President Clark.
He's ecstatic over Sheridan's capture, sends his thanks and his compliments.
He seems to think the whole Resistance movement will fall apart now.
- He's wrong. - Possibly...
...but it'll take them a while to regroup...
...and that'll give us the time we need to get everything in place.
And what's that? You said you'd tell me the rest of it...
...when I proved my loyalty, when Sheridan was in custody.
Well, I held up my end of the bargain. Now I want the truth.
We're engaged in a very dangerous game, Mr. Garibaldi.
In this game, you have to pick your target very carefully...
...because you only have one shot.
And this is much, much bigger than you suspect.
President Clark isn't the real problem. He's trivial.
In one way or another, he'll be gone in a few years...
...but the telepaths he put in power, the Psi Corps...
...those will be with us forever. That's the real danger.
If information is power, then telepaths represent...
...the greatest threat to freedom we've ever seen.
We have to deal with that...
...or face the very real possibility of our own extinction.
The danger before us is nothing less...
...than the death of human liberty and human thought.
Do you recognize this?
Yeah, that's the package I helped Wade smuggle past Customs on Babylon 5.
Lise said it was a cure for telepaths against some kind of genetic mutation.
Lise is a very good woman.
She believes me when I tell her these things...
...but lately I couldn't tell her the truth...
...because I knew that the Psi Cops were after this.
They don't know what's going on, but they know enough to be worried.
And that's the reason why you didn't come yourself...
...and why you had me fire Lyta.
Any telepath is a potential risk to my work.
If they knew for certain what was going on, I'd be dead in 5 minutes.
This vial does contain a cure, Mr. Garibaldi.
It took my people three years to develop it.
Almost as long as it took us to develop the virus itself.
This virus is encoded to embed itself...
...in the gene that activates a telepath's abilities.
Only telepaths are susceptible.
Once infected, they have to receive injections of the antidote every two weeks.
If they miss even one injection...
They die. And your people in the government control the antidote.
It's insurance against the day...
...when they try to do to us what we've done to them.
Turn us into second-class citizens.
If they try it, we simply withhold the antidote.
And the net result is, you create a slave race to serve...
...or die.
It's the tyranny of evolution.
Sooner or later, you have a species...
...that will have a genetic or technological advantage...
...and that species will always conquer a species without that advantage.
Carthage, the triumph of the Homo sapiens over the Neanderthal showed us that.
Now what do we have?
We have Homo superior versus Homo sapien.
On a level playing field, Homo superior wins every time.
Unless we cheat.
I turned this company...
...into one of the biggest medical research facilities in existence...
...because I wanted to help people, not harm them.
But I won't stand by and let telepaths turn into a ruling class.
So first we remove that danger...
...then we'll deal with President Clark.
Telepaths are his power base.
Neutralize them and you take away the instrument of terror...
...he's used to suppress and intimidate others.
Does any of this pose a problem for you, Mr. Garibaldi?
No, it doesn't. I think what you're doing is right.
Telepaths have an unfair advantage.
I think it's right that we make an advantage of our own in return.
I'm very tired.
It's been a long day...
...but we've made a good beginning.
With Sheridan out of the way, Clark will relax...
...and I expect we can start moving the virus out in a few days.
Three weeks after that, according to our projections of the infection rate...
...the telepath prob...
The telepath problem...
...will finally be over.
Now that you know, you'll have to stay on the compound...
...until the virus starts moving out.
I'm sure you can understand the danger.
...I heard what Bill told you. I can't go back there, not now.
You gotta help me stop him. What he's doing...
...I understand why he's doing it, but it's wrong.
I've felt that something was going on for a while, but I had no idea.
Michael?
Michael, are you listening to me? You've gotta do something.
You have to leave here.
- But l... - Now.
- But what am I gonna do? - Go home.
Hello, Mr. Garibaldi.
I received your signal.
Now, tell me what you know.
They die.
...thank you. Not that you had much choice.
I knew there were forces out there with plans for my telepaths, but this...?
I had no idea.
The sheer scope of it.
...we'll stop it now, of course, in our own way.
I can feel you, you know? The real you...
...beating at the inside of your skull...
...screaming to get out...
...to know what's going on.
For a long time, I've been debating what to do when this day came.
Do I let you know what happened to you...
...or do I leave you like this...
...trapped in a prison of meat and flesh and bone...
...forever.
I've decided to be magnanimous, Mr. Garibaldi...
...not that you'll appreciate it...
...because you have prevented a new holocaust:
The enslavement and murder of several million telepaths.
Though I doubt very much you'll appreciate that, either.
Go back, Mr. Garibaldi.
Go back and remember.
Moving into position. Everybody hang tight.
The Shadows had come to Babylon 5...
...and Sheridan had gone to Z'Ha'Dum.
- So why don't you just kill me? - It doesn't work.
Somebody'd just come around and replace you.
They knew there were three people who could replace him:
Delenn, Ivanova and you.
Given your checkered background...
...they thought you would be the easiest to turn to their side.
Once Sheridan was dead Ivanova and Delenn would be eliminated.
They left the station intact on the theory that it could be used for their purposes.
And you they took back with them. To adjust you.
By this time I knew they had infiltrated the Corps...
...so when they pulled in some of my people to help in your adjustment...
...I was able to intervene. Not so much on your behalf as my own.
This virus that kills only telepaths...
...I'd bet good money it's Shadow technology.
They probably got it to him through third parties...
...helped his people work out the details.
We both know that telepaths were a threat to the Shadows...
...one they wouldn't mind eliminating.
It's ingenious, really.
They played Clark's drive for power on one side...
...and Edgars' fear of telepaths on the other, leaving us in the middle...
...controlled or dead.
But let's get back to you.
I arranged to have you rerouted to our research facility here on Mars.
Then we got to work.
All right. I want a complete neural workup.
I wanna know the soft points where we can go in...
...without disturbing the neural landscape. We can't leave any fingerprints.
He may have to pass a telepathic scan.
You don't want us to do a full reprogram on him?
Unnecessary.
By nature, Mr. Garibaldi is rebellious, stubborn and suspicious.
He has an innate distrust of authority figures.
And he's very good at figuring out when a conspiracy is taking place...
...and tracking it back to its source.
We need that part of him...
...so I don't want to risk tampering with it.
We don't have to reprogram him...
...just accentuate his natural instincts.
More rebellious, more stubborn, more suspicious of his fellow officers.
Then all we have to do...
...is nudge him in the right direction from time to time...
...and let nature run its course.
After we finished, we had to make sure...
...that you didn't remember anything we had done to you.
That was the hard part.
We were, shall we say, less than gentle.
I said, I don't remember! Anything! Nothing!
Once we felt it was safe, we put enough information out there...
...to let your people find you.
After that, all we could do was wait and hope for the best.
It worked even better than I could have imagined.
You resigned your position, something I hadn't expected...
...but it put you in the perfect position to be recruited by William Edgars.
And it isolated you from the people who cared about you...
...and might try to help you.
I've decided to resign as head of security, effective immediately.
From time to time, we updated your conditioning...
...continued to point you where we needed you to go.
Until, in the end, the old Garibaldi was gone...
...and the new one worked only for us.
You would do anything to find what we wanted you to find...
...even sell out Sheridan.
Your final orders were to report back...
...when you had all the information we needed.
So now the question becomes...
...what do I do with you now that I have no further use for you?
I could kill you, I suppose.
In some ways, it might be a mercy.
By now your friends know that you betrayed Sheridan.
So, as the saying goes, you can't go home again.
And your current employer is not going to be around much longer.
Or I could leave you just like this. Forever.
Whatever you think of me, Mr. Garibaldi, I'm not capricious or cruel.
I used you because I had no other choice.
I have what I want.
My interest in you is over.
We'll be docking in a moment.
I've just sent the all-clear signal telepathically.
After I'm gone you'll be able to move again.
You'll remember it all. You'll be yourself again.
You can try to tell the others what happened...
...but under the circumstances I doubt very much anyone will believe you.
Be seeing you, Mr. Garibaldi.
- Did you get through? Is it true? - They've got the captain, all right.
It was a setup. And Garibaldi was behind the whole thing.
- I just heard he's tried to contact Babylon 5. - You tell Corwin to refuse his signals.
There's nothing that he has to say to me that I have the slightest interest in hearing.
And you tell them that if he turns up on the station...
...I want that son of a bitch shot on sight.
- Susan. - I mean it.
What's our status?
The other ships want to know what we're going to do now.
We finish what we started.
If Clark thinks this is gonna slow us down, he's in for a very big surprise.
The captain once told me, "The person is expendable, the job is not."
We keep going.
Lise?! Lise?!
Lise?
Wade? Wade, what happened?
Five of them hit us out of nowhere.
- They knew. - Where's Lise?
I don't know. She wasn't here. She was gone when they got here.
She...
Wade?
Oh, damn it.
This is Alison Higgins with an update on our earlier stories.
President Clark declared today a day of celebration and rest...
...noting that the capture of renegade Earthforce Captain John Sheridan...
...signals that the war of aggression against Earth is unraveling.
Sheridan continues to be well-fed and well-treated.
Now that he has been freed of alien influences...
...he has indicated feelings of remorse and regret...
...for his actions against his own homeworld.
We hope to have more on this soon.
In other news, William Edgars, founder of Edgars Industries...
...one of Earth's 10 largest medical research corporations...
...was found dead this morning along with at least one of his staff.
Two personal bodyguards outside the estate were also killed.
Preliminary reports from investigators on the scene indicate...
...that the Resistance may have been responsible for the attack...
...as they continue their assault against business and political targets.
Nothing is known yet concerning the whereabouts of his wife Lise Edgars.
Finally, ISN sources within Earth Dome have indicated that Captain Sheridan...
...may have been turned in by his own former head of security...
...Chief Warrant Officer Michael Garibaldi.
If this is true, we at ISN want to convey our personal thanks and gratitude...
...to a true hero of the people.
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After a wildly successful season that saw the NBA Development League grow to 16 teams as well as get 31 player assignments and 29 call ups, NBA D-League president, Dan Reed is the guy we wanted to talk to. In his first year at the helm he has brought both success and awareness to the league while putting his plans for the future into action.
Getting to speak with Mr. Reed about the success of the NBA Development League's seventh season as well as their prominent exposure at the NBA Summer Leagues was a pleasure and his main goal is clear: Get people to recognize the wealth of talent within the D-League.
SLAM: We're coming off of an NBA draft that saw the NBA Development League graduate its first player into the NBA through the NBA Draft. Mike Taylor went from the D-League to the NBA Draft. Do you see this continuing for the league?
REED: I certainly think we will continue to produce NBA players. We've had 119 call ups in our history, we've helped many NBA signed players get a good strong foothold on the league to the point where 15% of nba players are former D-Leaguers and I think Mike Taylor is another example of that. Mike took a slightly different road, in that he came through the draft rather than his being called up or on assignment, but I think it's just his being drafted that is proof of the depth and talent in this league. That a backup point guard could be a second round draft pick in the NBA and that we are continuing to fulfill our mission which is through competition, through development resources, playing NBA rules and by playing against the best players in the world not already in the NBA in front of NBA scouts every night. I think Mike proved that and so did Kelenna Azubuike, Matt Carroll, Mikki Moore and everyone else that has gone from the D-League to successful careers in the NBA.
SLAM: The league set new records this season for call ups (29) and assignments (31). This coincides with your first year as president. Can you talk about the success of this past season for the league as a whole?
REED: On end of season rosters for 2007-2008, former NBA Development League players numbered 75, so a little over 15%.
We had a tremendously successful season this year, both on and off of the court. We added four new teams to the League, the Fort Wayne Mad Ants, Iowa Energy, Utah Flash and the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, who all performed very well. Our overall attendance went up 20%, so the business is very healthy and our team franchise value went up as a result. On the basketball side, as you mentioned, we had an all-time high in terms of call ups and assignments and we've produced an all-time high number of NBA players, in our 15%.
This is something that has evolved over time, NBA General Managers are getting more and more comfortable with the system, NBA teams and their NBA Development League affiliate teams are doing a better job at communicating and using the system more for mutual benefit. That is something we've put a real focus on in the past year, helping those relationships to blossom, and I think the higher call up numbers and assignment numbers is partly a result of that, but partly just out of a referendum of increasing talent levels in the D-League and the natural progression of the system that was built just three years ago.
SLAM: The D-League showcase will be in Orem, Utah this year. What are some of your goals for the event, from a league perspective and for the players?
REED: The showcase truly is our showcase event. You'll see 160 NBA caliber prospects competing to be called up to an NBA team. In fact, we've had 10 players actually called up during the showcase, so they haven't even made it to the second game because an NBA team wanted to call them up. It's an opportunity for us to provide continuing education resources to our players while they will all be in Utah and we will have a great community service presence there in Utah County where we will try and leave a lasting legacy. It really encompasses everything that is great about the D-League and we expect that it will have a pretty strong financial economic impact on Utah.
SLAM: Speaking of Utah, the Rocky Mountain Revue is underway and for the first time you've got a team comprised solely of D-Leaguers, the Ambassadors. How has this experience been and do you see this continuing in future summer leagues?
REED: Yes. I see that continuing. Players sign with the D-League primarily because of the exposure that we offer them to NBA teams. They play the majority of their games in front of NBA scouts, we are routinely on the phone with NBA General Managers and they know that. That's why we are the only professionally basketball league to produce NBA players in seasons over the last three years. We see developing a D-League summer league team as a natural extension of that. That if a player doesn't have the opportunity to be called up perhaps in-season, we want to be able to continue to give those players the opportunity to show their wares in front of NBA teams and we think that offering a D-League team that offers a good amount of playing time and opportunity to compete directly with NBA teams is a great opportunity for those players.
SLAM: There has been some press recently about the Iranian National Team taking part in the Rocky Mountain Review, including two exhibition games played against the Ambassadors. How did the D-League come to be a part of their tour, and what do you hope to gain from the experience?
REED: You know, we saw it as an opportunity to help the Iranian National team prepare for the Olympics, prepare for the Summer League and really, the NBA and NBA Development League have a history of trying to offer goodwill through sport. On a people to people basis, it was a wonderful experience. Funny story, the Iranian team members, when they met with our D-League members, discovered that they both have a love of shoes in common. The Iranian National team members, as I understand it, went to the mall a couple of times to pick up some basketball shoes. People are people. We were really excited to have the opportunity to host an event like that and broaden the experience for our players.
SLAM: Can you elaborate on your plans for expansion in the near future?
REED: Sure. We will continue to look to expand, but we want to ensure it is at a steady and sustainable rate. We've doubled the size of the league in the past three years, going from eight to 16 teams. I don't expect it will double again in the next three years. I do expect us to add a couple of teams here and there in the next few years.
SLAM: As a Canadian I've got to ask you your thoughts on expanding to Canada in the future?
REED: I wouldn't rule it out. We've had geographic issues and some operational issues with regards to evaluating Halifax as a particular opportunity, but we continue to believe that Halifax in particular is a strong potential market. There are others that we are evaluating and as the league continues to expand and as our business continues to mature, there may be opportunity going forward. We are primarily focused on expanding the North East in the short term and filling out the current geographic area of our teams.
SLAM: Your attendance is up 21%, you have increased awareness of the league and the talent within it through live webcasts of all games. What is next on your list of goals for the league this upcoming season?
REED: We want to continue to expand the D-League's influence in the NBA. Not only in terms of players and expanding on our 15% number in terms of call ups and assignments, but also through coaches. Continuing to make sure we are putting a great product onto the floor and the fans in our markets are having a great time, which they are and that's reflected in our growth. You will continue to see us webcast our games through NBA Futurecast, we're focused on continuing to improve that product and make it easy for fans to follow the great talent that is in the NBA D-League and I think you will see more from us on a community service end this year. We want to make sure we are doing everything we can to positively impact the communities where we live, work and play and you'll see us take a more focused effort on that in this coming year.
SLAM: Moving beyond players for a moment, talk about the opportunity the league provides for coaches looking to advance their careers.
REED: Sure. Our coaching positions are in very high demand in the coaching profession because of our track record of producing NBA coaches. Our coaches are being plucked for the very best coaching jobs in the world. Sam Vincent was our first head coach in the NBA, Michael Curry, who was an executive here in the D-League is now our second head coach. We have a litany of assistant coaches and up and coming coaches in the NBA and we have excellent coaches in the D-League right now that are looking to take that next step. We also offer a coaching consultant, Terry Stotts, who was a former head coach in the NBA was our consultant this past year and he worked with all of our coaches and our coaches really value that as well as the opportunity to coach NBA-caliber players and the results show.
SLAM: Being a league that embraces the blogging and online community, can you speak about the publicity that both Rod Benson and Morris Almond's blogs have given the league?
REED: As an aspiring blogger myself, I love that our players blog and are so accessible. We pride ourselves on being accessible to our fans, helping them to understand what we're doing. Our guys are great guys who are working hard to achieve their dream and when they tell their story I think it is fantastic. I think you will continue to see, even more blog activity from us, more online activity from us because we think that is the best way to tell our story and get fans to feel like they can access our product and frankly, it is a great way for me, on my blog, to get feedback directly from fans. We are always looking for good ideas and some of the best ideas come from fans so please, keep them coming, we welcome them.
SLAM: Obviously an issue within the league remains that some players will choose Europe because of the lure of the bigger paycheck. During this offseason there has been a bit of this happening in the NBA as well. What are your thoughts on this issue?
REED: You know, I can only really comment on the D-League perspective of this and our perspective is we feel we offer the best opportunity to make the NBA for players who are on the cusp of making the NBA. We've shown we are a great resource to do that. Many players are interested in maximizing their short-term financial goals, in which they find better opportunities in Europe and we accept that. I think we are a great alternative place to play for players to achieve their big goal and I think we've become extremely competitive over time in doing that. We've actually produced five times more NBA players than any other professional basketball league in the world. So those players that are interested in making the NBA, and incidentally cashing an NBA paycheque, we are increasingly becoming the choice for them.
SLAM: Finally, for an SLAM reader who has yet to experience the D-League, what should they know about it?
REED: You will find that it is an extremely high caliber of play. You will be surprised at how great the basketball is. It's made up of all-conference and all-american performers from college who for whatever reason haven't made it to the NBA, so you'll not only be very pleasantly surprised at the quality of play, you will also see players that you recognize, if you followed college basketball and if you follow high school basketball. The arena environments are great, you sit right on top of the action, prices are very, very affordable and the games are a lot of fun. There is a lot of interactive entertainment both for a basketball junkie and for families alike. It is really a combination of the best elements of college basketball, minor league baseball and the NBA. I think it's a great time so if you happen to live in a D-League market, or find yourself in a D-League market to check it out and if not, log in to NBA Futurecast on nba.com/dleague and watch a game online. I promise, you will want to come back and watch again.
SLAM would like to thank Dan Reed for taking the time for this interview as well as encourage all readers to check out the NBA D-League. If you are a basketball fan, you won't be disappointed.


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import {
    Clipboard,
    CommandRegistry,
    Config,
    ContextMenuManager,
    DeserializerManager,
    Disposable,
    GrammarRegistry,
    HistoryManager,
    KeymapManager,
    MenuManager,
    NotificationManager,
    PackageManager,
    Project,
    StyleManager,
    TextEditorRegistry,
    ThemeManager,
    TooltipManager,
    ViewRegistry,
    WindowLoadSettings,
    Workspace,
} from '../index';

/**
 *  Atom global for dealing with packages, themes, menus, and the window.
 *  An instance of this class is always available as the atom global.
 */
export interface AtomEnvironment {
    // Properties
    /** A CommandRegistry instance. */
    readonly commands: CommandRegistry;

    /** A Config instance. */
    readonly config: Config;

    /** A Clipboard instance. */
    readonly clipboard: Clipboard;

    /** A ContextMenuManager instance. */
    readonly contextMenu: ContextMenuManager;

    /** A MenuManager instance. */
    readonly menu: MenuManager;

    /** A KeymapManager instance. */
    readonly keymaps: KeymapManager;

    /** A TooltipManager instance. */
    readonly tooltips: TooltipManager;

    /** A NotificationManager instance. */
    readonly notifications: NotificationManager;

    /** A Project instance. */
    readonly project: Project;

    /** A GrammarRegistry instance. */
    readonly grammars: GrammarRegistry;

    /** A HistoryManager instance. */
    readonly history: HistoryManager;

    /** A PackageManager instance. */
    readonly packages: PackageManager;

    /** A ThemeManager instance. */
    readonly themes: ThemeManager;

    /** A StyleManager instance. */
    readonly styles: StyleManager;

    /** A DeserializerManager instance. */
    readonly deserializers: DeserializerManager;

    /** A ViewRegistry instance. */
    readonly views: ViewRegistry;

    /** A Workspace instance. */
    readonly workspace: Workspace;

    /** A TextEditorRegistry instance. */
    readonly textEditors: TextEditorRegistry;

    // Event Subscription
    /** Invoke the given callback whenever ::beep is called. */
    onDidBeep(callback: () => void): Disposable;

    /**
     *  Invoke the given callback when there is an unhandled error, but before
     *  the devtools pop open.
     */
    onWillThrowError(callback: (event: PreventableExceptionThrownEvent) => void): Disposable;

    /** Invoke the given callback whenever there is an unhandled error. */
    onDidThrowError(callback: (event: ExceptionThrownEvent) => void): Disposable;

    /**
     *  Invoke the given callback as soon as the shell environment is loaded (or
     *  immediately if it was already loaded).
     */
    whenShellEnvironmentLoaded(callback: () => void): Disposable;

    // Atom Details
    /** Returns a boolean that is true if the current window is in development mode. */
    inDevMode(): boolean;

    /** Returns a boolean that is true if the current window is in safe mode. */
    inSafeMode(): boolean;

    /** Returns a boolean that is true if the current window is running specs. */
    inSpecMode(): boolean;

    /** Get the full name of this Atom release (e.g. "Atom", "Atom Beta") */
    getAppName(): string;

    /** Get the version of the Atom application. */
    getVersion(): string;

    /**
     *  Gets the release channel of the Atom application.
     *  Returns the release channel, which can be 'dev', 'nightly', 'beta', or 'stable'.
     */
    getReleaseChannel(): 'dev' | 'nightly' | 'beta' | 'stable';

    /** Returns a boolean that is true if the current version is an official release. */
    isReleasedVersion(): boolean;

    /** Get the time taken to completely load the current window. */
    getWindowLoadTime(): number;

    /** Get the all the markers with the information about startup time. */
    getStartupMarkers(): TimingMarker[];

    /** Get the load settings for the current window. */
    getLoadSettings(): WindowLoadSettings;

    // Managing the Atom Window
    /** Open a new Atom window using the given options. */
    open(params?: {
        pathsToOpen: ReadonlyArray<string>;
        newWindow?: boolean | undefined;
        devMode?: boolean | undefined;
        safeMode?: boolean | undefined;
    }): void;

    /** Close the current window. */
    close(): void;

    /** Get the size of current window. */
    getSize(): { width: number; height: number };

    /** Set the size of current window. */
    setSize(width: number, height: number): void;

    /** Get the position of current window. */
    getPosition(): { x: number; y: number };

    /** Set the position of current window. */
    setPosition(x: number, y: number): void;

    /** Prompt the user to select one or more folders. */
    pickFolder(callback: (paths: string[] | null) => void): void;

    /** Get the current window. */
    getCurrentWindow(): object;

    /** Move current window to the center of the screen. */
    center(): void;

    /** Focus the current window. */
    focus(): void;

    /** Show the current window. */
    show(): void;

    /** Hide the current window. */
    hide(): void;

    /** Reload the current window. */
    reload(): void;

    /** Relaunch the entire application. */
    restartApplication(): void;

    /** Returns a boolean that is true if the current window is maximized. */
    isMaximized(): boolean;

    /** Returns a boolean that is true if the current window is in full screen mode. */
    isFullScreen(): boolean;

    /** Set the full screen state of the current window. */
    setFullScreen(fullScreen: boolean): void;

    /** Toggle the full screen state of the current window. */
    toggleFullScreen(): void;

    /**
     * Restores the full screen and maximized state after the window has resized to prevent resize
     * glitches.
     */
    displayWindow(): Promise<undefined>;

    /** Get the dimensions of this window. */
    getWindowDimensions(): { x: number; y: number; width: number; height: number };

    /** Set the dimensions of the window. */
    setWindowDimensions(dimensions: { x?: number | undefined; y?: number | undefined; width?: number | undefined; height?: number | undefined }): Promise<object>;

    // Messaging the User
    /** Visually and audibly trigger a beep. */
    beep(): void;

    /**
     *  A flexible way to open a dialog akin to an alert dialog. If a callback
     *  is provided, then the confirmation will work asynchronously, which is
     *  recommended.
     *
     *  If the dialog is closed (via `Esc` key or `X` in the top corner) without
     *  selecting a button the first button will be clicked unless a "Cancel" or "No"
     *  button is provided.
     *
     *  Returns the chosen button index number if the buttons option was an array.
     *  @param response The index of the button that was clicked.
     *  @param checkboxChecked The checked state of the checkbox if `checkboxLabel` was set.
     *  Otherwise false.
     */
    confirm(options: ConfirmationOptions, callback: (response: number, checkboxChecked: boolean) => void): void;

    /**
     *  A flexible way to open a dialog akin to an alert dialog. If a callback
     *  is provided, then the confirmation will work asynchronously, which is
     *  recommended.
     *
     *  If the dialog is closed (via `Esc` key or `X` in the top corner) without
     *  selecting a button the first button will be clicked unless a "Cancel" or "No"
     *  button is provided.
     *
     *  Returns the chosen button index number if the buttons option was an array.
     */
    confirm(options: { message: string; detailedMessage?: string | undefined; buttons?: ReadonlyArray<string> | undefined }): void;

    /**
     *  A flexible way to open a dialog akin to an alert dialog. If a callback
     *  is provided, then the confirmation will work asynchronously, which is
     *  recommended.
     *
     *  If the dialog is closed (via `Esc` key or `X` in the top corner) without
     *  selecting a button the first button will be clicked unless a "Cancel" or "No"
     *  button is provided.
     *
     *  Returns the chosen button index number if the buttons option was an array.
     */
    confirm(options: {
        message: string;
        detailedMessage?: string | undefined;
        buttons?: {
            [key: string]: () => void;
        } | undefined;
    }): number;

    // Managing the Dev Tools
    /** Open the dev tools for the current window. */
    openDevTools(): Promise<null>;

    /** Toggle the visibility of the dev tools for the current window. */
    toggleDevTools(): Promise<null>;

    /** Execute code in dev tools. */
    executeJavaScriptInDevTools(code: string): void;

    /** Undocumented: get Atom config directory path */
    getConfigDirPath(): string;
}

export interface ExceptionThrownEvent {
    originalError: Error;
    message: string;
    url: string;
    line: number;
    column: number;
}

export interface PreventableExceptionThrownEvent extends ExceptionThrownEvent {
    preventDefault(): void;
}

export interface ConfirmationOptions {
    /** The type of the confirmation prompt. */
    type?: 'none' | 'info' | 'error' | 'question' | 'warning' | undefined;

    /** The text for the buttons. */
    buttons?: ReadonlyArray<string> | undefined;

    /** The index for the button to be selected by default in the prompt. */
    defaultId?: number | undefined;

    /** The title for the prompt. */
    title?: string | undefined;

    /** The content of the message box. */
    message?: string | undefined;

    /** Additional information regarding the message. */
    detail?: string | undefined;

    /** If provided, the message box will include a checkbox with the given label. */
    checkboxLabel?: string | undefined;

    /** Initial checked state of the checkbox. false by default. */
    checkboxChecked?: boolean | undefined;

    /** An Electron NativeImage to use as the prompt's icon. */
    icon?: object | undefined;

    /**
     *  The index of the button to be used to cancel the dialog, via the `Esc` key.
     *  By default this is assigned to the first button with "cancel" or "no" as the
     *  label. If no such labeled buttons exist and this option is not set, 0 will be
     *  used as the return value or callback response.
     *
     *  This option is ignored on Windows.
     */
    cancelId?: number | undefined;

    /**
     *  On Windows, Electron will try to figure out which one of the buttons are
     *  common buttons (like `Cancel` or `Yes`), and show the others as command links
     *  in the dialog. This can make the dialog appear in the style of modern Windows
     *  apps. If you don't like this behavior, you can set noLink to true.
     */
    noLink?: boolean | undefined;

    /**
     * Normalize the keyboard access keys across platforms.
     * Atom defaults this to true.
     */
    normalizeAccessKeys?: boolean | undefined;
}

export interface TimingMarker {
    label: string;
    time: number;
}

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[S78] Atchley Funeral Home Records, Volume I, 1930-1954, Larry D. Fox, (Smoky Mountain Historical Society), 31 May 1968.
[S94] Sevier County, Tennessee Census, Dist 6, page 16, house 109, 28 Jun 1870.
[S94] Sevier County, Tennessee Census, Dist 1, house 117, 1860.
"Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DR89-7SC?cc=1417505&wc=34D3-T38%3A1580577801 : 1 April 2015), 004184112 > image 132 of 2528; State Library and Archives, Nashville.
[S147] Find a Grave, (Memorial: 14111634).


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Henry Emil Kandrup (July 24, 1955 – October 18, 2003) was an American astrophysicist and professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville.  His major contributions were in the areas of galaxy dynamics and plasma physics.

Early life and education

Kandrup was born in Manhasset, New York and spent most of his childhood in Great Neck. His parents, Jytte and Fred, were immigrants from Denmark where his father had worked as a silver smith. He graduated from the Brooks Preparatory School in Andover, Massachusetts at the age of 16, then enrolled at Cornell, transferring to Princeton the following year. He received his PhD in 1980 from the University of Chicago where his thesis advisor was James Ipser. He taught at Oakland University and Syracuse University before coming to the University of Florida in 1990.

Already as a child, Kandrup was an accomplished musician, playing the organ, piano and French horn. He was also a passionate devotee of opera and ballet.

Scientific contributions

Kandrup's work led to greater understanding in the fields of stellar dynamics, chaos, and plasma physics.  Much of Kandrup's research was directed toward developing a more refined mathematical description of dynamical relaxation in stellar systems.  In a series of papers from the early 1990s, Henry developed the idea of chaotic phase mixing, the process by which an ensemble of points evolves toward a uniform coarse-grained population of phase space.

Among his other contributions were a demonstration of the equivalence of Landau damping and phase mixing; a proof (with J. F. Sygnet) of the linear stability of a broad class of stellar systems; and a generalization of Jeans's theorem to non-integrable systems. At the time of his death, he was investigating the chaotic dynamics of charged particle beams, and the influence of binary supermassive black holes on the motion of stars in galaxies.

Kandrup organized more than a dozen workshops on nonlinear dynamics at the University of Florida.

Named after him
 Asteroid 12008 Kandrup

References

Further reading
 Remembrance of Kandrup by a colleague.

 Proceedings of the 16th Florida Workshop in Nonlinear Astronomy and Physics.

1955 births
2003 deaths
Cornell University alumni
Princeton University alumni
University of Chicago alumni
Oakland University faculty
Syracuse University faculty
University of Florida faculty
American astronomers
People from Manhasset, New York
Scientists from New York (state)

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Steph & Andy – The Proposal
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Six years after meeting Steph, 28, at Leeds University, on the first stop of their belated gap year together, Andy, 31, proposed at the Sun Gate of Machu Picchu in Peru.
"It came as a complete surprise," says Steph. "Despite his swollen face, it was the most romantic proposal in one of the world's most idyllic settings."
Photography Jodie Chapman (jodiechapman.com)
By Stephanie Stafford
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Steph & Andy – The Maids
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Steph & Andy – The Ceremony
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Steph & Andy – The Flowers
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Steph & Andy – The Place Cards and Table Plan
A photographer herself, Steph knew how to create a photo-fabulous reception. "I wanted to incorporate photos of our guests into the day as much as possible," she says. "So we asked them to RSVP to the invites with a baby picture, which we used as place cards and on the table plan. It was a long process but a real ice-breaker!"
Steph & Andy – The Favours
For favours, the couple gave their guests lottery tickets and organza bags stuffed with Haribo sweets. On the day, Steph gave each of the bridesmaids a handmade pearl bracelet to match her own.
Steph & Andy – Dressing Up
"We had a huge dressing-up box on the dancefloor filled with an array of wigs, glasses, inflatable guitars and hats, which was so much fun," says Steph.
Steph & Andy – The First Dance
The couple shared their first dance to their travelling song, Jason Mraz I'm Yours, before the rest of the party joined them to dance the night away as their band, JUMPIN (jumpinmusic.com,) worked through their favourite boogie beats.
Steph & Andy – A Special Day
"It was a great day," says Steph. "I really cherished the time spent with my family in the morning. I travelled to the church with my dad and we held hands the whole way. That was a really special moment, I will remember it forever."
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It has quickly grown into an entire content management system solution. I am constantly asked, "What is WordPress?" and, "Should my business start using it?" There is no easy answer to these questions, but the more you understand about WordPress and how it can help you, the better decisions you can make for yourself and your business.
WordPress is used by more than 200 million websites today and has become the most popular content management system on the market – for good reason.
Let's start with the best part: It's free! You can easily download the files necessary for WordPress to run, install them on your web server, and you are instantly up and running. It is always best to have some prior knowledge of web and server technologies before you begin WordPress installation, as this can sometimes be tricky. If necessary you should consult with a professional or your hosting company to make sure you get started on the right path with your installation. Another reason WordPress has become so popular is that it offers amazing functionality and features from the start. Without knowing much about websites, an average user can have a site up and running, manage the content of their site through a friendly user interface, customize the appearance to their liking, add specific plug-ins that add more features as needed, and much more.
And, when you get stuck, there are many online communities that can help to answer your questions along the way.
Lastly, one of my favorite features of all WordPress sites is that search engines like Google or Bing.com love the structure of WordPress sites and will rapidly index your pages and posts higher in search engine results for that reason alone. Everyone wants to rank at the top of search engine results, and using WordPress is a great step to making that happen.
There are many great options on the web for blogging and website development, and, depending on your needs, WordPress may or may not be the right choice for you and your business. However, if you are looking for ease of use and simple customizations, look no further than WordPress. Now, get out there and try building a WordPress site on your own … what do you have to lose?


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Walmart parking lot shooting injures 2 in Midlothian, suspect arrested
By Travis M. Smith | tsmith@waxahachietx.com
Jun 6, 2017 at 5:16 PM Jun 6, 2017 at 5:18 PM
MIDLOTHIAN — A fight turned late-night shooting in the parking lot of the Midlothian Walmart sent two to the emergency room late Monday night.
According to Midlothian Police Capt. John Spann, the suspect, identified as Brian Taylor Speights, 22, of Midlothian, made a voluntary statement to officers after he was taken into custody at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center — Waxahachie.
Speights also informed the arresting officers that he confessed to shooting the two individuals — 19-year-old Cedar Hill resident, Andrew Douglas Woodrum, and 20-year-old Marshall Dillon Henry of Midlothian — to a 9-1-1 operator while in a vehicle taking Henry to Baylor Scott and White.
Spann noted Henry has a gunshot wound to the arm and face, while Woodrum is listed to be in serious condition at Parkland Hospital in Dallas after being shot in the torso. Midlothian Fire and EMS advised dispatch to transport Woodrum via air ambulance from the scene.
"The investigation is still in progress, but it was determined the suspect and the victims knew each other and had met at Walmart. A fight started and the suspect (Speights) discharged a firearm," stated Spann in an update issued Tuesday afternoon. "Speights was taken into custody at Baylor Waxahachie by officers and he did make a voluntary statement that he had shot both victims. Brian Speights was in the vehicle that transported the second victim to Baylor Waxahachie Hospital. He further stated that on the way to the hospital, he called 911 and advised the operator that he had shot the victims."
In the initial report, Spann noted the Northern Ellis Emergency Dispatch received several 911 calls at approximately 11:40 p.m. on Monday, June 5 related to a shooting in the parking of the Walmart located in the 400 block of US Highway 287 in Midlothian.
Once on scene, officers found a victim with a gunshot wound to the torso, while, according to witnesses, a second victim, now identified as Henry, had been transported by friends to Baylor Scott and White Medical Center — Waxahachie.
While in the Walmart parking lot, Midlothian Fire and EMS advised dispatch that the victim, identified as Woodrum, needed a medical helicopter. Woodrum was flown to Parkland Hospital in Dallas.
Spann also explained that officers on scene were able to determine Speights as the suspected shooter.
As of press time, Speights was in the jail at the Midlothian Police Department while he awaits arraignment before being transported to the Wayne McCollum Detention Center in Waxahachie. He is being held on two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which is a second-degree felony.
Travis M. Smith, @Travis5mith


On October 30, 1980, two Polish officials, Stanislaw Kania (first secretary of the Communist Party) and Josef Pinkowski (prime minister), visited the Soviet Union to engage in discussions with the Soviet leadership about the ongoing critical situation in Poland. The next day, at a meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union (CPSU), Soviet leaders met to talk about Kania and Pinkowski's visit. In his summary about the previous day's proceedings, Leonid Brezhnev, first secretary of the CPSU, expressed his continued deep concern over the strength of the opposition in Poland and the inaction and hesitation of the Polish leadership. This document points to the involvement of Soviet leaders in handling the crisis in Poland, and it shows the pressure that Polish officials received from the Soviet Union behind closed doors.
CC CPSU Politburo, "On the Results of a Visit to the USSR by the First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party, Cde. S. Kania, and the Chairman of the PPR Council of Ministers, Cde. J. Pinkowski," 31 October 1980, Cold War International History Project, Virtual Archive, CWIHP (accessed May 14, 2008).
...BREZHNEV. With full assuredness we can say that our meeting with the new Polish leaders was timely. Events in Poland have deteriorated so far by now that if we let time slip away and do not correct the position of the Polish comrades, we will—before you know it—be faced with a critical situation that will necessitate extraordinary and, one might even say, painful decisions.
It would be worth moving quickly to lend all possible economic assistance to enable the Poles to make it through this trying time. No matter how burdensome it will be for us, we should do it.
Central Committee of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, "Report on Poland." Making the History of 1989, Item # 250.


The upland pine forest is comprised of longleaf pine and wiregrass, with scattered oaks. Some areas of planted pine are being thinned and restored with native groundcover.
This drier habitat consists of turkey oak, blackjack oak and sand post oak with scattered pines.
This transition habitat between uplands and lowlands features species such as southern red oak, mockernut hickory, post oak, shortleaf pine, longleaf pine and flowering dogwood.
Basin swamps are located along the lowlands and drainages. Typical vegetation includes black gum, red maple, wax myrtle and willow.
Along the rivers, the floodplain forest is characterized by hardwoods such as oaks and hickories that provide mast for deer, turkeys, feral hogs and gray squirrels. Other tree species include green ash, sweetgum, red maple, American sycamore, sweetbay magnolia and American hornbeam with a dense understory of greenbriar, poison ivy, and other vines and shrubs.


touch on the ideas that Art took out of his encounter with them.
experts, and giving them incentives to not be entrapped in group think.
valuable information that will drive better decision making.
Art's blog is worth watching if you are interested in Prediction Markets.


If an aggressive shoplifting gang is operating in, say, Stoke or Middlesbrough and targeting fashion stores with a plan to sell stolen goods on the web, it helps if those store operators are talking to each other, and working out the quickest way to solve the issue. It's also useful when approaching the Home Office or police with wider concerns to have many voicing fears about drug-related crime or the leniency of sentencing for shop theft than a lone one. That's why Loss Prevention Forums - of which there are now three in the UK - are coming to the fore.
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) is an excellent lobbying power when it comes to retail crime, and Town Centre Partnerships and Business Crime Partnerships play their part locally. But sector-specific collaborations can prove a powerful force, as the Fashion Loss Prevention Forum and newer Health, Beauty and Pharmacy (HBP) and Cafe and Hospitality Forums are finding.
With the support of loss prevention specialists ORIS Group, the fashion forum, which was established four years ago, meets every two months, and has strong links with the Home Office, police forces, Town Centre Partnerships and, more recently, eBay.
The fashion forum is also working with eBay and has set up a way for UK fashion retailers to enrol on eBay's Procat scheme, which helps those that suspect sellers of handling stolen goods to investigate their activities on the site.
Tackling the issue of sentencing - particularly if police and The Ministry of Justice budgets are squeezed - will also be on the fashion forum's agenda in the coming year, adds Lawrence.
In the hope of emanating the fashion group's success, the HBP Forum was founded in March. Members include Lloyds Pharmacy, The Body Shop, Co-op, Spar, Holland & Barrett, John Lewis and Harrods. Their senior security managers meet for one day five times a year to network and share ideas, again facilitated by ORIS Group.
Members have been gaining insights into where tagging works most effectively, tackling internal shrinkage and learning how to focus attention on the worst-hit branches and remedy problems rapidly. Members will also be invited to take part in counter terrorism unit training that will help people spot suspect devices and prepare retailers for how to cope in the event of aterrorist attack.
Winstanley says interest in the forum is spreading, but there are understandable reasons why signing up isn't for everyone. "Not every company has a UK head office so the policy on shrinkage management might be handled elsewhere," he says.


It's time for a new freebie! This month's freebie is a recent design. You can grab it on my freebies page.
The first of the month means it's time for a new freebie! This month I've got a classic pair in classic red. Hope you enjoy! Get it on the FREEBIES PAGE.
It's the first of the month so your rent or mortgage may be due but I've also got a FREEBIE for you!
This month I'm also including a custom cropped version of the design. Hope you enjoy!
You can download these on my FREEBIES page.
The August FREEBIE is up. This month I've got a fun crop of design 006-black which you can print twice to create this bold graphic pairing.
You can download it for free on my freebies page.
The July Freebie of the Month is up! This is one of the mandala style designs for all you pink and purple lovers – that would be me! And this month I've included an enlarged, cropped section of the design to make your own kaleidoscopic version since I've been having so much fun with that.
You can download it on the Freebies page.
I played around with the scale on these for a nice trio combo.
These are instant download printable designs #009e, #010e and #011e all available in my Etsy shop and #011e is this month's FREEBIE!
The June Freebie is Up!
It's the first of the month so that means a new FREEBIE is available. It's only available for the month of June so don't miss it!
Download it on the FREEBIES page.
The May Freebie of the Month is now Available. This is an 8in. x 10in. (~20cm x 25cm) printable of one of my mandala style designs. It's a hi-res (300 dpi) JPEG for optimum quality prints at home or your favorite local or online printer. Download, print, frame and enjoy!
Download it now on the Freebies page. Only available for the month of May so grab it soon!
I'm busy putting together my Etsy shop which should be up in the next week or two. But in the meantime, I do have the first "Freebie of the Month" available for download. A set of free printable bookmarks which will only be available for the month of March so grab them while you can. I'll have a new freebie each month so check back often! You can download the bookmarks on the Freebies page. Enjoy!


Tom always loved telling people that he met his wife Roseanna in first grade, he was kind of shy so he would ask to borrow a pencil just to talk to her even though he did not need one. Years later they hooked up and were married July 30, 2005.
Tom has a son from a previous marriage, Erin Gilbeau who he was very proud of and 2 grandsons Henry Colt Gilbeau and William Cody Gilbeau who he loved very much. Roseanna has a grandson, Michael Sheldon Storey, a college student in Sacramento, who Tom Was fond of.
Tom was a pilot, loved airplanes and helecopters, Target shooting, T.V. crime shows and older ones like Andy Griffith and M.A.S.H., he also like going out for a good meal and gathering family at the house. He also loved watching the squirrels in his yard naming one in particular.
Tom is survived by wife Roseanna, son Erin, grandsons Henry and William, sister in laws Dottie (Gary) Smith and Julie (Jerry) Mattingly, Brother in laws Donald (Jan) Roberts, Roy (Mary) Cuneo and Frank Cuneo. A Celebration of life will be held Saturday June 1st at 1:00 P.M. at the home of Tom and Roseanna Gilbeau.


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Medicaid and Merit: Forever Renegotiating
Nov 29, 2017 | Christopher F. Koller, President
Who should the Medicaid program serve? And who decides? These questions have been implicit through much of 2017, as we endured a remarkably uninformed "repeal and replace" debate in Congress. The November announcement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of new policies for section 1115 waiver consideration and review tees them up again.
The answers are subject to interpretation and turn a great deal on what one thinks of personal merit.
Federal law is of limited use in answering these questions. Congress has repeatedly changed the purpose of Medicaid since its inception in 1965 as "a medical assistance supplement for people receiving cash welfare assistance—the poorest families with dependent children, and poor aged, blind, and disabled individuals," making it possible for states to finance care for more individuals by continually expanding the definition of populations eligible for Medicaid.
So does Congress set the guardrails for Medicaid—mainly in terms of the maximum income levels, family status, and disability status—and the states define who Medicaid serves? Not exactly. Congress has made its preferences known by creating different federal matching rates for different populations. More significantly, the fact that the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) has to approve state proposals for how these populations are covered means the states and the current federal administration are forever renegotiating Medicaid's purpose.
One way the federal government makes its views known about who Medicaid should serve, Sara Rosenbaum points out, is by how they define the objectives of the program, which were changed by the Trump administration. In announcing the new section 1115 waiver review policy, CMCS lists six objectives:
"Improve access to high-quality, person-centered services that produce positive health outcomes for individuals;
Promote efficiencies that ensure Medicaid's sustainability for beneficiaries over the long term;
Support coordinated strategies to address certain health determinants that promote upward mobility, greater independence, and improved quality of life among individuals;
Strengthen beneficiary engagement in their personal health care plan, including incentive structures that promote responsible decision making;
Enhance alignment between Medicaid policies and commercial health insurance products to facilitate smoother beneficiary transition; and
Advance innovative delivery system and payment models to strengthen provider network capacity and drive greater value for Medicaid."
Compare these to the objectives for Medicaid as set forth by the previous administration:
"To increase and strengthen overall coverage of low-income individuals in the state.
To increase access to, stabilize, and strengthen providers and provider networks available to serve Medicaid and low-income populations.
To improve health outcomes for Medicaid and other low-income populations.
To increase the efficiency and quality of care for Medicaid and other low-income populations through initiatives to transform service delivery."
Gone is the primary emphasis on coverage. Now, emphasis is on upward mobility, responsible decision making, and beneficiary transition to commercial coverage. If Medicaid is to serve more than the poorest families and the aged, blind, and disabled, it will be as a tool to get them "up"—up the economic ladder and into "independence."
CMS Administrator Seema Verma elaborated on these changes in a speech to the National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD). CMS is encouraging state Medicaid programs to pay particular attention to unemployed Medicaid recipients who do not have a permanent disability. "These are individuals," she said, "who are physically capable of being actively engaged in their communities, whether it be through working, volunteering, going to school, or obtaining job training." She continued, "Let me be clear to everyone in this room—we will approve proposals that promote community engagement activities."
So Medicaid is seen as a deal—you merit it as long as you are deemed trying to be a good community member. This focus on Medicaid's purpose as a tool for promoting community engagement is notable for several reasons:
The track record of tying government benefits to work requirements is checkered at best, and successful efforts require extensive job counseling efforts.
This affects a relatively small group of enrollees, many of whom have good reasons for not being in the workforce. Sixty percent of adult non-disabled Medicaid enrollees work, and eight of every ten adults who are non-disabled and non-working Medicaid enrollees live in working families. The majority of enrollees report not working because of family caregiving responsibilities, school attendance, retirement, or inability to find employment.
This group of enrollees is not driving Medicaid expenses, comprising only about eight percent of Medicaid spending in FY2014.
Fundamentally, however, this is a debate about how to prioritize access to a limited resource—finances for health care. Administrator Verma in her NAMD speech made a specific reference to preserving Medicaid availability for "deserving Americans," the implication being that a non-disabled person without a job is less deserving of public financing and medical care than others. This reflects a view that access to health care treatment is not a precondition for citizenship and community engagement for low-income populations, but a reward for meritorious behavior. This view stands in contrast to how we consider public education and access to health care for the elderly, which do not have to be earned.
This is not a new policy position but is in conflict with other federal policy (notably the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, which compels hospitals to provide medical care in their emergency rooms), reflecting the conflicting views on the subject in the United States. With the passage of the Affordable Care Act and the ability of states to expand Medicaid enrollment, the Obama administration took a dim view of Medicaid's role in promoting virtue and discouraged work requirements as a condition for Medicaid eligibility. Instead they saw Medicaid as a tool for expanding access to health care.
The Medicaid program remains, however, a state-federal partnership. The administration's stated objectives for Medicaid are not the final word. States will continue to have authority and influence over how personal merit is determined in financing health care, who is deserving, and what it truly means to be a community.


Shopping for anything that is in short supply is frustrating. In the world of savings, where interest rates are at record lows, trying to pick up dividend income is no easy task. Prior to the global financial crisis (GFC), UK government bonds typically offered investors a yield of ~5%. That same yield today is just 1%. The reason for the difference is down to efforts from central bankers to stimulate economic growth. As part of their extensive bond-buying programmes, bond prices notched up impressive gains while yields fell (bond yields move inversely to prices). In today's world, investors are left with just 30% of stocks currently paying an income greater than the current 3.8%yield on the FTSE All-Share index. That's what is sometimes known in the trade as concentration risk. You might want to consider extending the shopping list.
And shop around for income we must. Especially when cash yields nothing and the pitfalls of inflation are taken into account. So, where can we find these companies? In essence, we look for corporations that can hold on to their pricing power, something crucial for a company's profit margin, profitability and healthy cashflow (in essence, the degree of cash a company generates). For us, the main areas on our list are utilities, mining companies, housebuilders and the still unloved banks.
While their business profiles are typically deemed unexciting, financial returns from regulated utilities offer protection from inflation. Water companies, United Utilities and South West Water, have linked both prices and dividends to the Retail Price Index until 2020, allowing shareholders greater income visibility. Additionally, South West Water's waste management business, Viridor, centres on contracts with municipalities which afford a good degree of pricing power.
Mining companies also typically offer good dividend growth. Having reduced their huge debt mountains, the result of highly-priced acquisitions made just prior to the crisis, they are now, on the whole, in rude health. Recent profits announcements from the likes of Rio Tinto and Glencore have confirmed that capital expenditure bills (the amount a company spends on plant and machinery) are low. This together with a 'once bitten, twice shy' mentality regarding any future purchases, frees up cash for shareholder dividends.
Land prices are crucial for the profitability of housebuilders – obviously one of their key expenditures. Since the GFC, the demand/supply balance in land has been more controlled due to better quality players Taylor Wimpey, Barratt Developments and others dominating the market, while an inability to obtain credit has fortunately resulted in dwindling numbers of their 'upstart' counterparts. Decent mortgage availability, government schemes and a reasonably healthy UK economy have all helped support housing demand, leading to strong profitability and improved dividends.
It's still a sector everyone loves to hate. But, since the crisis, banks are better regulated today than they have been for years. Capital buffers (in other words, ample levels of capital that, should a market-moving event such as the GFC happen again, they can withstand a crisis) have been vigorously tested while capital raisings have left them in a good place to grow their dividends. HSBC, Lloyds and Barclays, as a result of being in sound financial health, can, we believe, offer attractive and sustainable dividends.
As the die-hard shoppers amongst us will testify, we all love a bargain. Something we can typically find that is of reasonably quality but, for whatever reason, appears underpriced. As income hunters we, too, will always look for those dividends which, we believe, can comfortably surprise on the upside. Income may be harder to find amongst today's dividend-payers… the trick, as ever, is in knowing where to shop.
Source: Bloomberg as at 14 June 2017.
Source: Bloomberg as at 06 June 2017.


For shipments outside the contiguous United States, contact factory for applicable terms & conditions. All shipments are F.O.B. our plants, vendors, Distribution Centers or Field Warehouses: All orders for Growlite products having a distributor price of $1,500 or more for one consignee for one shipment qualify for freight allowance. All Growlite orders having a distributor price less than $1,500 will be assessed freight and handling charges.
ALL SHIPMENTS – For all orders that qualify for freight allowance, we reserve the right to select the carrier and to route shipments at our discretion. We will ship in the manner selected by the customer provided the customer assumes any additional transportation costs.
PARTIAL RELEASES – If an order has multiple releases specified by the Buyer, each release will be treated as an individual order, relative to freight allowance and minimum billing.
Prices are subject to change without notice. In the event of a price increase, all accepted orders on hand will be filled at lower prices provided such orders are released for shipping prior to the effective date of the price increase. If the orders are not released for shipment prior to the price increase, the orders will be billed at prices in effect at the time of shipment. Special quoted orders that cannot be released for shipping prior to the price increase may be subject to an increase in price. Orders marked HOLD or HOLD FOR RELEASE will be billed at the prices in effect on the date that shipment is requested. Minimum billing for all products or parts orders is $100 net. Prices do not include lamps.
TAXES: Buyer will pay any and all applicable sales tax or use tax, if any, plus any other applicable federal, state, or local taxes. All prices, quotations, orders and agreements are subject to said taxes and will be added to the invoice unless legal proof of exemption is provided.
Merchandise is not returnable without the written approval of Barron Light Group and/or Growlite. Request for a return must be made in writing within 30 days from the date of shipment. Any material returned without authorization will be returned to the customer, freight collect, and no credit will be issued. Freight shipment to the factory will be prepaid by the customer. All material must be received in a saleable condition and in the original packaging. Products will be inspected upon return to determine whether they will be repaired or replaced as long as it is within the warranty period. Returns will not be issued for discontinued products. All non-stock, special, custom made or outdated and modified versions of normal factory stock items are non-returnable, this includes poles.
No merchandise may be returned without prior written authorization. Requests to return merchandise must be made with our agents for transmittal to Barron Lighting Group within six (6) months from date of shipment by us. All returns must be shipped prepaid to the location designated on the return authorization. Credit will be issued based on the original invoice price, or price in effect at time of return, whichever is lower, less a minimum disposition charge of 35% (to defray our cost of handling). All returned product must be in saleable condition in order to qualify for credit.
Barron Lighting Group warrants all products sold hereunder to be free from defect in manufacturing, under normal and proper storage, installation, and use, for the period designated below, calculated from the date of shipment (excluding lamps). Our liability extends only to the repair or replacement of the defective part. Buyer is responsible for all costs to uninstall defective products and re-install replacement or repaired products and Barron Lighting Group will not be liable for labor or other costs related to de-installation or re-installation. Barron Lighting Group shall not be liable for damages that result from deliveries that do not occur within a customer's specified time frame or for any delay or default in delivering products where occasioned by any cause beyond the control of Barron Lighting Group, including without limitation embargoes; shortages of labor, raw materials or fuel; fires; floods; accidents; acts of war; or other similar causes. Warranty(s) will not apply to loss or damage to the product caused by: negligence; abuse; misuse; mishandling; improper installation, storage or maintenance; damage due to fire or acts of God; vandalism; civil disturbances; power surges; improper power supply; electrical current fluctuations; corrosive environment installations; induced vibration; harmonic oscillation or resonance associated with movement of air currents around the product; alteration; accident; failure to follow installation, operating, maintenance or environmental instructions prescribed by Barron Lighting Group or applicable electrical codes; or improper service of the product performed by someone other than Barron Lighting Group or its authorized service provider. This limited warranty relates to the repair or replacement of the product.
Barron Lighting Group does not warrant non-LED lamps, ballasts, drivers, capacitors, igniters, battery packs, photocells, occupancy sensors, low voltage indicators, fuses, surge protection devices and other control devices that are not manufactured by Barron Lighting Group. Applicable third party manufacturer warranty(s) shall apply for such devices. Warranty limitations are the same as above.
Growlite reflectors and/or hoods are warranted for a period of five (5) years, calculated from the date of shipment.
Electronic ballasts are not manufactured by Growlite or Barron Lighting Group and will be warranted by the manufacturer for a period of three (3) years.
Lamps are not manufactured by Growlite or Barron Lighting Group and are not warranted by the manufacturer.
Growlite LED fixtures are warranted for a period of five (5) years, calculated from the date of shipment. The determination of whether the product is defective shall be made by Barron Lighting Group in its sole discretion with consideration given to the overall performance of the product. A product shall not be considered defective solely as a result of the failure of individual LED components to emit light if the number of inoperable components is less than 10% of the total number of LED components in the product. A product shall not be considered defective solely as a result of changes or revisions to any mandatory federal, state, or local energy efficiency standards.
Warranty claims must be submitted in writing within (30) days of discovery of the defect or failure to an authorized Barron Lighting Group sales or customer service representative. Product(s) or component part(s) may be required to be returned, freight prepaid, for inspection and verification of non-conformance by Seller, but no product or component part(s) will be accepted for inspection, verification or return unless accompanied by an RMA "return authorization number" which can be obtained only from an authorized Barron Lighting Group sales or customer service representative. A failure to timely notify Seller of a warranty claim shall constitute a waiver of such claim.