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Starter limits San Diego to just three hits in seven innings
SAN DIEGO -- Brandon McCarthy pitched well enough to win his last time out.
Saturday night at Petco Park he did so once again, only this time he wound up with a win to show for it.
McCarthy tossed seven shutout innings and then watched the D-backs hang on for a 4-3 win.
The win was the third in a row for the D-backs, which matches their longest winning streak of the season, and they are now 2-0 on this nine-game road trip. Though they still have the worst record in baseball, they are trending in the right direction.
"We've been on the other kind of roll," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "We know we can play better, we're starting to play better. We've got to have a good trip here and then go home and continue it."
McCarthy (1-5) was on top of his game, mixing pitches and keeping the Padres off balance throughout his seven innings. He allowed just three hits and walked one while striking out seven.
"He was good he was hitting his spots," Arizona catcher Miguel Montero said. "He was locating his fastball, he was locating his breaking ball and expanding too. He got quick outs, that's a good thing. He was throwing good first pitch with good location and he got them to swing the bat and get quick outs."
While the offense was shut out in McCarthy's last start, this time it gave him more than enough support while hanging a loss on former teammate, Ian Kennedy (2-4)
Kennedy's batterymate when he was with the D-backs, Montero, got things started with a home run to lead off the second.
"I've had some success against Miggy the last time I faced him," Kennedy said. "I didn't make very good pitches to him [this time]. He looked like the hitter I know."
One out later Chris Owings and Alfredo Marte hit back-to-back doubles to put Arizona up 2-0.
Owings was right in the middle of the scoring action again in the fifth when his single scored Montero to give the D-backs a 3-0 lead.
That spelled the end of the night for Kennedy, who allowed three runs on 11 hits over five innings.
"It could have been better," he said. "I was falling being guys and felt like it was a constant battle the whole game."
The D-backs added to their lead in the seventh when Marte's single scored Aaron Hill.
That was more than enough for McCarthy, who allowed just two runners to get into scoring position all night long.
"You saw a live fastball with some movement and some sink and a good breaking ball at times. He's got a good arm," Padres manager Bud Black said of McCarthy.
The D-backs pitching staff as a whole have been on a roll of late, compiling 24 scoreless innings, before the Padres' ninth-inning rally.
"It's just nice to be contributing," McCarthy said. "I know for me and for Bronson [Arroyo], it's a relief when you're not the goat every time out. We're back to a place where we're throwing well and getting consistent outings from the starting pitching and we're kind of settled back into that part of the season. We're not winning or losing games anymore in the first or second inning because we've given up so many. Now, it's just being able to battle for nine innings and I think we're doing a better job of that."
Though they had the game in hand for eight innings, things got a little dicey in the ninth.
Reliever J.J. Putz allowed a one out single and then an RBI double to Yasmani Grandal to cut the lead to 4-1 and Gibson then brought in closer Addison Reed.
Jedd Gyorko greeted Reed with a home run to left that cut the lead to 4-3 and one out later after Cameron Maybin doubled and pinch-hitter Will Venable walked, the D-backs were in a tough spot.
Reed, though, was able to get Xavier Nady to fly out to right to end the game.


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Roy Oswalt pitched eight dominant innings, Jimmy Rollins drove in four runs and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the San Francisco Giants 6-1 Sunday night to even the NL championship series at one game apiece.
A day after Tim Lincecum outdueled Roy Halladay in a marquee matchup of aces, Oswalt beat Jonathan Sanchez.
The series shifts to San Francisco for Game 3 on Tuesday afternoon. Matt Cain faces Philadelphia's Cole Hamels, the 2008 World Series MVP.
Even though he didn't finish the outing, it sure was a complete game for Oswalt. He allowed one run and three hits, striking out nine. He also singled and scored a run after racing through a coach's stop sign in the seventh.
"I didn't see it until I got halfway down the line," Oswalt said of the sign. "I was hoping I would be able to get in there."
Cody Ross hit his third solo homer in two games for the Giants. Rollins busted out of a 1 for 15 postseason slump, going 2 for 3 with a bases-loaded walk and a bases-clearing double.
Halladay followed up his no-hitter against the Reds in the division series with a subpar performance. He gave up four runs in seven innings.
"I knew it was just a matter of time," Rollins said.
Sanchez gave up three runs - two earned - and five hits in six-plus innings. The tough lefty had dominated the Phillies in his five previous starts against them, not allowing more than four hits in any outing.
Oswalt chased Sanchez with a line-drive single leading off the bottom of the seventh. He advanced to second on Shane Victorino's sacrifice off Ramon Ramirez. After Chase Utley was intentionally walked, Placido Polanco lined a single to center. Oswalt ran through third-base coach Sam Perlozzo's stop sign and slid safely ahead of the relay throw to give the Phillies a 3-1 lead.
"That was comical," Rollins said. "Roy's got those stiff hips and he looked like he was cardboard running down the line but he got it done tonight."
Jeremy Affeldt came in and struck out Ryan Howard after a double steal. Jayson Werth was intentionally walked before Santiago Casilla entered to face Rollins. The former NL MVP, dropped from leadoff to sixth in the batting order since the playoffs started, hit a drive off the right-center field fence to put the Phillies up 6-1.
An appreciative crowd chanted "J-Roll! J-Roll!" with a smiling Rollins standing on second.
Oswalt didn't allow a hit until Ross connected with one out in the fifth to tie it at 1. He ripped a 1-0 pitch into the left-center field seats - nearly the same spot both of his homers off Halladay landed.
But the Phillies played small-ball - a rarity for this lineup filled with inconsistent sluggers - to take a 2-1 lead in the bottom half.
Victorino, one of the few Phillies with success off Sanchez, lined a double down the left-field line. He advanced to third on Utley's fly out to right and scored on Polanco's sacrifice fly to center, which drew a loud ovation.
The Phillies took advantage of Sanchez's wildness and scored an unearned run without getting a hit in the first.
Utley, flip-flopped with Polanco in the batting order, drew a one-out walk. Utley stole second and advanced to third when Polanco reached on third baseman Mike Fontenot's throwing error. Howard worked a walk after falling behind 1-2 in the count.
Sanchez then caught Werth looking at a slider for the second out. But Rollins walked to force in a run. Raul Ibanez fanned to end the inning.
Rollins got his second hit of the playoffs in the fourth when Fontenot let his popup land untouched near the mound. He was on second with two outs when plate umpire Dan Iassogna called a 1-2 pitch to Oswalt a ball. Oswalt took a step toward the dugout, thinking it was a strike. Sanchez walked off the mound, thinking the inning was over. Oswalt ended up flying out.
There have already been a few questionable calls by the plate umps in the first two games. In the opener, Derryl Cousins rung up Rollins on strike two.
Acquired from Houston on July 29, Oswalt went 7-1 with a 1.74 ERA in 13 games with the Phillies. Oswalt - not Halladay or Hamels - was Philadelphia's best pitcher down the stretch. The three-time All-Star was 7-0 with a 1.17 ERA in his last 10 starts.
Oswalt struggled against Cincinnati in Game 2 of the division series. He gave up three earned runs in five innings in a 7-4 win. Oswalt improved to 5-0 with a 3.47 ERA in nine postseason games. He was the NLCS MVP with Houston in 2005.
For the third straight postseason, the city hosted a day-night football-baseball doubleheader with the Eagles playing early. The sports complex had a Christmas feel as fans wore their green and red to support both teams.
Just like the last two years, the Eagles did their part. They beat Atlanta 31-17. In '08, it was a city sweep with the Phillies beating Tampa Bay in Game 4 of the World Series in the nightcap after an Eagles' win over the Falcons. Last year, after the Eagles beat the New York Giants, the Phillies lost to the New York Yankees in Game 4 of the World Series.
The crowd of 46,099 - the 135th straight sellout at Citizens Bank Park - was revved up right from the start, waving their "Fightin' Phils" rally towels and chanting "Let's Go Phillies."
They cheered loudly when Oswalt brushed back Ross with a high-and-tight fastball in the second.
Notes: Howard spent part of his day watching the Eagles on the field in one end zone. He led a cheer and then hitched a ride with the Phillie Fanatic, riding on the back of the furry green mascot's four-wheeler to get to the ballpark. ... Former Phillies outfielder and current broadcaster Gary Matthews, the 1983 NLCS MVP, threw out the first pitch. ... Sanchez beat the Phillies twice in the regular season, allowing just two runs in 13 innings. He's 3-1 with a 2.48 ERA against them in the regular season, losing 1-0 for his only defeat. ... Giants leadoff hitter Andres Torres struck out swinging four times.


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The application development life cycle is widely known as the Software development life cycle . As the name suggests, is the stages within which the Software application goes through during its existence – its lifetime. The stages can be mainly divided into 4 phases. The design phase, the development phase, the testing phase and the maintenance phase. Wherever you read about the SDLC, the names of the stages may differ but they finally mean the same.
Let us understand each of the stages in a little detail.
The design phase: The first stage and probably the most important stage for any software product development or Software application development project. The software architect is the person who initialises this phase. The software application comes into existence either because of a client requirement or an innovative idea. Product prototypes are created in this phase to show the understanding of the to-be software product. Once the client or originator of the product confirms the prototype, the product enters the next phase. Many products and ideas fail to come into existence because of a weak design phase. Proper documentation of requirements and assumptions need to be made. This document is called the SRS – software requirement specification. It is in this phase that the cost and resource requirements are estimated. Once a design is finalised, it should not be changed in the next phases as it may harm both the cost and resource requirements.
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Josh Beckett gives up five homers, Red Sox routed by Tigers
DETROIT -- Josh Beckett insisted his health was fine. The Boston right-hander just made too many bad pitches against a lineup more than capable of taking advantage.
Prince Fielder hit his first two home runs with the Detroit Tigers and Miguel Cabrera added a pair of his own in a 10-0 rout of Beckett and the Red Sox on Saturday.
Beckett went to Cleveland earlier in the week to get a second opinion on a thumb injury, but he made his start as scheduled. He allowed seven runs and seven hits in 4 2-3 innings, and the five homers he gave up equaled a career high.
"Too many pitches in the middle of the plate. They hit a changeup, a cutter, two sinkers and a fastball, and every one was down the middle of the plate," he said. "Everything I threw hard went down the middle, and Fielder even hit a changeup that went down the middle."
Beckett said the thumb wasn't an issue.
Fielder signed a $214 million, nine-year deal with Detroit in the offseason, forming a powerful middle of the order with Cabrera that was on full display against Beckett (0-1). Cabrera opened the scoring in the first inning with a two-run shot to left-center, and Fielder added a solo homer in the fourth to the same part of the ballpark.
Cabrera and Fielder hit back-to-back solo homers in the fifth.
"I'm just trying to get better and just watch him," Fielder said. "He's aggressive yet he still walks. That's not easy to do. ... Hopefully I can be as good as him when I grow up."
Duane Below (1-0) got the win in relief after Detroit starter Doug Fister left in the fourth with a strain in his left side. Fister will go on the 15-day disabled list Sunday.
Alex Avila also hit a two-run homer.
"Not the results Josh was looking for, but he said he felt fine. I guess he'll have to find a way to build off this. He thought it was just location," Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine said. "That's a really good hitting team, but I think Josh can get them when he's making his pitches."
It was the 21st multihomer game for Cabrera and the 23rd for Fielder, and the Tigers certainly hope it's a sign of things to come. Cabrera even showed off some impressive reflexes at third base, where he moved this season to make room for Fielder at first. Cabrera lunged to his left to make a diving catch of Jarrod Saltalamacchia's line drive in the fifth.
Cabrera's second homer -- in the bottom of that inning -- was originally ruled a double when it appeared the ball may have taken an odd bounce under the fence in left-center after hitting it near the top. After a review, the umpires ruled the ball cleared the top.
There was no doubt about Fielder's second shot, a line drive over the wall in right that made it 7-0.
Fister was sharp, allowing three hits and a walk and striking out three in 3 2-3 innings, but he had to be pulled because of his injury.
Below, who nearly won a job as Detroit's fifth starter during spring training, came in and allowed one hit in 2 1-3 innings.
Octavio Dotel relieved Below and set a record by appearing in a game for his 13th franchise. Dotel signed with the Tigers after helping St. Louis to a World Series title last year.
Austin Jackson, whose ninth-inning single gave Detroit a 3-2 win over Boston in Thursday's opener, drove home a run with a sixth-inning grounder. Detroit scored two more in the seventh after Saltalamacchia -- the Boston catcher -- threw wildly to first on what could have been an inning-ending double play.


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MILWAUKEE -- The range remains the same, and so is how the Marlins plan to use rookie phenom Jose Fernandez in the second half.
If all goes as planned, Fernandez will finish his rookie season throwing somewhere between 150-170 innings.
Right now, he's at 104 2/3 innings in 18 starts prior to the All-Star break. Fernandez will make his first post-break appearance on Tuesday at Colorado.
"We're going to use him the way we have," manager Mike Redmond said. "We're going to use him the way we have the whole year until those innings dry up. If he has a chance to pitch late in the game, he's going to pitch late in the game."
The simple formula is for Fernandez to average six innings over 10 starts in the second half. That would get him to 164 2/3 innings.
But Redmond added the Marlins will not necessarily put the brakes on any start in which the rookie could go longer than six innings.
"We're not going to pull him out early because we want to save his innings," Redmond said. "In every one of his starts, we're going to try to win. Based on how he throws and how his pitches are, and how his innings look, or how his pitch count is during the game.
"If he's able to throw seven or eight innings, he's going to throw seven or eight innings until he reaches that mark."
The Marlins are closely monitoring their hard-throwing right-hander, who turns 21 on July 31.
Fernandez made the leap to the big leagues without pitching higher than Class A. A year ago, he threw 134 innings total between Low A Greensboro and Advanced A Jupiter. And he reached the big leagues with 138 1/3 Minor League innings, counting 2011.
The Marlins aren't planning on skipping starts over the next few weeks in order for Fernandez to pitch into late September.
"We'll find out exactly where that mark is as we go," Redmond said. "I'll think we'll stick to that."


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Spring weight limits posted for roads as weather gets warmer
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) � The New Hampshire Department of Transportation Commissioner Christopher Clement has ordered customary spring weight limits on sections of state highway to protect the pavement as the weather gets warmer.
Sections of roads will be vulnerable to pavement breaking up as the frost leaves the underlying road base. Road postings are determined annually by local department engineers.
Under state law, heating fuel delivery and trucks delivering processed milk products are exempt from seasonal bans with the engineers' approval.
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Would you two be interested in hosting a Friends and Family walk in May? It's a relatively simple event. We provide you a website to invite people and get them registered, and t-shirts for the walk. You need only find a place where you can meet up to walk, and borrow or rent a table for sign in. We can even invite other Ohio area members on the email list to join you. It's quite an exciting experience to get together and show your support, while building awareness. I know there is at least one other member in the Akron area who hosted a baby fair in October.
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Ariel Castro faces 329 charges in Cleveland missing women case
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A man accused of holding three women captive in his run-down home in Cleveland for a decade and fathering a child with one of them has been indicted on 329 charges including murder, kidnapping and rape, prosecutors said.
A Cuyahoga County grand jury returned the indictment Friday against Ariel Castro, a former school bus driver fired last fall.
Castro, 52, is accused of kidnapping Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight and holding them captive along with a 6-year-old girl he fathered with Berry.
The grand jury charged Castro with two counts of aggravated murder related to one act, saying he purposely caused the unlawful termination of one of the women's pregnancies. Castro also was indicted on 139 counts of rape, 177 counts of kidnapping, seven counts of gross sexual imposition, three counts of felonious assault and one count of possession of criminal tools.
Castro's attorneys have said he would plead not guilty to any indictment. Castro, during his brief arraignment last month, tried to hide his face, tucking his chin inside his shirt collar, and did not speak.
Castro is being held on $8 million bail. He has been taken off suicide prevention watch, jail officials said this week.
He was arrested May 6, shortly after Berry broke through a locked door, yelled to neighbors for help and escaped with DeJesus and Knight.
Berry, 27, told officers that she was forced to give birth in a plastic pool in the house so it would be easier to clean up. Berry said she, her baby and the two other women had never been to a doctor during their captivity.
Knight, 32, said her five pregnancies ended after Castro starved her for at least two weeks and "repeatedly punched her in the stomach until she miscarried," authorities said.
She also said Castro forced her to deliver Berry's baby under threat of death if the baby died. She said that when the newborn stopped breathing, she revived her through mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
The women had vanished separately between 2002 and 2004, when they were 14, 16 and 20 years old. They haven't spoken publicly since their rescue.
Castro's two brothers were arrested with him but later were cleared of involvement in the case and were released.
Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty said the indictment covers only the period from August 2002, when the first of the women disappeared, to February 2007.
Castro will be arraigned on the charges next week, and a trial judge will then be assigned.
The investigation continues, McGinty said. And when the indictment process is completed, the county prosecutor's capital review committee will weigh whether the case is appropriate for seeking the death penalty.
Days after the women were rescued from Castro's home, McGinty had said at a news conference that capital punishment "must be reserved for those crimes that are truly the worst examples of human conduct."
"The law of Ohio calls for the death penalty for those most depraved criminals, who commit aggravated murder during the course of a kidnapping," he added.
The Associated Press does not usually identify people who may be victims of sexual assault, but the names of the women were widely circulated by their families, friends and law enforcement authorities for years during their disappearances and after they were found.


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YP425, YP625 and YP825
When Great Plains first entered the planter market, it offered 12- and 16-row units, followed by 24-row standard and 24-row twin units. For 2010, the company is introducing four-, six- and eight-row pull-type planters, which are available with liquid or dry fertilizer capability. (Three-point versions are available as an option.)
Tom Evans, vice president of sales and marketing, says there is good demand for these sizes of planters on the East Coast and states like Michigan, Wisconsin and even Iowa. "There are still a lot people planting corn with six-row planters on 1,000-acre farms," Evans says. "They've got 400 acres of corn, 400 acres of beans and some pasture, and this size planter fits them."
The planters are available in two row spacings: single 30-in. or 30-in. twin rows. Suggested list price for a six-row planter: $26,000 for 30-in. single row spacings and $38,000 for a six-row twin.
Last year Great Plains introduced the YP4025 — a heavy-duty 40-ft. toolbar with 25 series row units. This year the company is filling in with the YP3025, which is a 30-ft. toolbar with 12-row configuration. Both the YP3025 and YP4025 are heavy-duty planters that are capable of carrying 400 gal. of starter fertilizer and pulling 1,000 gal. of high-rate fertilizer behind it all in one package. The heavier frame also can be used for double crop situations where beans are being planted into wheat ground. Suggested list price: $120,000 to $150,000, depending on options.
Air-Pro meter
The new Air-Pro meter is a positive-air-pressure meter. "Before, we used mechanical or finger-pickup meters, so this is our first entry into air," Evans says. "Instead of going vacuum, we went positive air. So we actually pressurize the seed behind the disc instead of trying to suck it into a hole." Air is blown into the meter, and as air escapes out of the seed disc, the seed plugs up the hole of the escape.
Hydraulic steering
Full-time hydraulic steering is now available as standard equipment on the Great Plains 3PYP, a semi-mounted, 3-pt., stacked bar, bulk-seed planter available in twin row. A sensor on the front axle of the tractor tells a computer onboard the planter how much to turn, thereby eliminating the need for the rear wheels to castor and adding to the planter's maneuverability and flotation.
Swath Command
This system, which works off of GPS, automatically shuts off row units in areas that have already been planted to eliminate wasted seed. Suggested list price: $9,500 on a 12-row planter.
For more information, visit www.greatplainsmfg.com.
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Re: Why the new album dislikes you
Thanx lastbb for taking the minute.
I can appreciate it. And who knew you were going to trig out trigonometry...
For those who may not know, I took the liberty of looking it up. A parabola is the curve formed by the edges of a plane when cutting through a right circular cone at an angle parallel to one of it's sides... Or latin for just, placing side by side. In any case it's straight up and flipped it's ready to spin.
It's all just so fantasticly lovely.
"... and so strange But it was empty until you came..."
Ok let's take it from here.
PS Who in the hell is ever going go to figure the new title out? Degeneration X can't even figure out Y. I might as well ask them to figure out the theory of relativity in the meantime, or in realtime, or even in good time.
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In the spring of 1945, Harald Quandt, a 23-year-old officer in the German Luftwaffe, was being held as a prisoner of war by Allied forces in the Libyan port city of Benghazi when he received a farewell letter from his mother, Magda Goebbels — the wife of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
The hand-written note confirmed the devastating news he had heard weeks earlier: His mother had committed suicide with her husband on May 1, after slipping their six children cyanide capsules in Adolf Hitler's underground bunker in Berlin.
"My dear son! By now we've been in the Fuehrerbunker for six days already, Daddy, your six little siblings and I, to give our national socialistic lives the only possible, honorable ending," she wrote. "Harald, dear son, I want to give you what I learned in life: Be loyal! Loyal to yourself, loyal to the people and loyal to your country!"
Quandt was released from captivity in 1947. Seven years later, he and his half-brother Herbert — Harald was the only remaining child from Magda Goebbels' first marriage — would inherit the industrial empire built by their father, Guenther Quandt, which had produced Mauser firearms and anti-aircraft missiles for the Third Reich's war machine. Among their most valuable assets at the time was a stake in car manufacturer Daimler AG. (DAI) They bought a part of Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) a few years later.


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How are YOU doing so far? Eliminating sugar from our diet can be very rewarding. I find that one of the greatest benefits is that you wind up choosing healthier food choices because your not filling up on foods that have simple sugars in its ingredients, also known as "empty calories." I must confess that I am finding this experience to be an extremely satisfying one. The emails and comments that I receive motivate me to keep on writting! Women are sharing with me either their challenges or questions about details in their diet which clue me in to the fact that everyone wants to adhere to the strictest letter of our law!
Some expressed that even though they are not joining in the challenge, they are reading the e-mails and are motivated to possibly try it at another time of their life.
Others revealed that their kids are getting involved and trying to eliminate sugar from their diets. While other woman feel "like fabulous roll models to their children and husbands by taking good heath care of themselves." Where ever YOU are in our Detox Challenge its ALL GOOD!
Thank you for reading, participating and sharing. I love the questions-though please be patient with the answers as I'm getting lots of them!
Q: Can we eat dairy products such as low fat mozzarella cheese or cottage cheese.
A. Yes! Low fat or fat free dairy products are fine. We are aiming for a healthy diet that promotes all food groups. A recent study showed that the more servings of dairy foods that adults consumed, the greater the percentage of their total calories that came from saturated fat (definitely not a good thing). But the other side to the story is that their intake of many key nutrients — like protein, calcium, magnesium , folate, B1, B2, B6, B12, and vitamins A, D, and E — also increased along with the number of dairy servings. So how do you get all those great nutrients from dairy without the drawbacks?
Low-fat dairy is the answer! As you decrease the fat in dairy products, you cut calories, saturated fat, and cholesterol , while protein, calcium, and most other vitamins and minerals remain high. Low-fat milk, yogurt, cottage cheese, and reduced-fat cheese pack a protein and calcium punch in every serving. Just a cup of lite nonfat yogurt, for example, gives you a third of your daily recommended calcium intake, along with 17% of your estimated daily protein intake. I realise that many people don't eat dairy. To those I simply recommend obtaining those same nutritious vitamins from other sources. Such as; dark leafy greens for calcium, beans for protein and spinach for folate.
To my "Sugar Detox Buddies" – I was successful on day 2, 3 and 4. (Friday, Saturday and Sunday!) My mind feels strong and determined. My body is starting to feel lighter. I am so ready for the days ahead!
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Dave Ryther from the full custom Alchemy Bicycles Co. shows us an all-terrain, round tube carbon cross bike that is ridiculously strong, lightweight and can withstand anything you can throw at it. It is a more durable and high performance carbon cross bike that should last a rider 3-4 solid seasons. The bike also features 1⅛ – 1½ tapered fork, 1½ Chris King headset, WickWërks chainring, Enve tubing, a hand painted lion design, and weighs in at around 16.5 lbs.
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Just making sure everyone knows that you can now find me over on life-casting platform, Non-Society. I am currently in the midst of redesigning and rebranding of K&T. Next time you see it will have a completely new look and feel and will not be hosted on Blogspot. Even though it will not be hosted on Blogspot the domain will still remain KissandType.com. But for now, keep up with my daily happenings over on my life-cast!
The main project I have been working on this summer is online research community Ytribes. We believe that what we are doing with Ytribes is just the start of a much larger online research community movement. We believe so strongly in this idea that we partnered with Carol Phillips and submitted a panel to SXSW to discuss GenY Research Communities. There is a very intense decision process to decide who gets to speak at next years conference - a large part being the online panel picker.
THIS IS WHERE I NEED YOU! Please vote for our panel to participate in SXSW 2011!
To vote for our panel please click this link!
Description of the GenY Research Communities Panel:
Based on a similar motivation, two research-based communities Ytribes and Millennial Marketing 'Super Consumer' Community launched early in 2010. Both communities were built around gathering research and insights on the Millennial generation. Each community utilized open source platforms (Kickapps and Ning) to house the environment and facilitate engagement. The end goal of gathering qualitative research from consumers and turning the content into valuable and actionable material is shared by both communities. The approaches however, were very different. This panel will explore the purpose, ideation, success, failures, results and implications not only of developing a research-based community but also maintaining and monetizing such a project. From gaining Sr. Management buy-in to selling through to a client, we will discuss what we learned, what worked and what didn't.
Here are the questions we plan on answering with our panel discussion:
- Why did we develop our communities?
- How did we grow our communities?
- What are the differences between our two communities?
- How are we utilizing our communities?
- What are the implications and learning from our communities?
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Lambert Brothers is part of the Kinaxia Logistics group of companies.
Kinaxia Logistics is a group of businesses that operate and work together within the UK haulage and warehouse sector.
Kinaxia Logistics was formed in 2012 by Peter Fields and Graham Norfolk, with the acquisition of Bay Freight Limited. Since then, with the latest addition of David Hathaway Transport Ltd, it has acquired a total of twelve companies, and looks to continue to increase its UK coverage by making further acquisitions.
The vision of Kinaxia Logistics is to build a flexible and efficient, service-focused, haulage and warehousing group through investment in, and partnership with, medium-sized, profitable, growing privately owned companies across the UK.
Kinaxia maintains the local identity of companies that join the Group but implements common systems and processes at an operational level. As a result, Kinaxia companies form part of a family that works together with a core purpose of enhancing customer service and increasing efficiency.
Across the Group, Kinaxia Logistics has around 1,800 staff with a total turnover of £190 million/year. It operates 850 vehicles and has 1.9 million square foot of warehouse space.
Companies within Kinaxia Logistics include Bay Freight Limited, William Kirk Limited, NC Cammack & Sons Limited, Foulger Transport Limited, Lambert Brothers Haulage Limited, Panic Transport (Contracts) Limited, Maiden's of Telford Limited, Mark Thompson Transport Limited, AKW Global Logistics, Fresh Freight Group and David Hathaway Transport Ltd.
The map below shows the company locations across the UK, to find out more about each company, go to our Kinaxia Logistics website.


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On our first full day in Tokyo, we had sushi for breakfast, which was a real treat. We typically eat American breakfasts at home, meaning fruit and cereal or oatmeal on weekdays and pancakes or pastries with eggs and breakfast meats on weekends. They're not the most balanced meals, and they're usually high in sugar or fat content. When traveling, we love to leave our eating habits behind and embrace the food culture of the place we're visiting. In Asia, that usually means eating just another meal like lunch or dinner.
So what did we do? We walked around Shinjuku in search of something that was open and looked enticing. We found this shop somewhere north of the Shinjuku station, across the street from McDonald's, and started to study the shop's kiosk. The pictures definitely helped, and after putting some coins in and making our selection, we went in and gave our tickets to the woman staffing the kitchen. A few minutes later, the next customer came into the shop and spoke to same woman in the kitchen; immediately afterward, she came over to us, said something in Japanese, and handed me ¥180. After a moment's confusion, Tim tells me I put too much money in the vending machine, and that Japanese people are so honest and nice that it was in the open on the street until the next customer came in and honestly gave it to the restaurant who honestly returned it to the last customer, me! Wow, that really blew me away. That would be like leaving $5 on the sidewalk on 42nd Street in New York…. see what I mean? Wow.
Now the curry itself was good. I actually liked it better than the curry rice we had the first night. And the tonkatsu and ebi furai (fried shrimp) were so freshly fried they had extreme crunch, really great texture. We were already impressed with Tokyo at this point in the trip, and that experience just added to it.
After breakfast, we walked around Harajuku and Shibuya and made our way to Meiji Shrine that's dedicated to the Emperor and Empress of the Meiji era. Walking through the grand forest was serene, and everything from the architecture to the trees surrounded us with their beauty. You simply must visit Meiji Shrine when in Tokyo.
We made our way back to Ginza for lunch at Sushi Kanesaka, and I can say that it's the best sushi I've ever had. It was such a special meal, I'm saving the details for an entire post on its own.
We had a short list of things to buy in Tokyo, and glasses from Muji were at the top of that list. We went to at least 5 Muji locations in search for them, but were unsuccessful. We finally found Muji Yurakucho, which was the largest Muji of the ones we visited. There were bikes, many floors of housewares, beauty/skincare products, furniture, plants, and most importantly, glasses! After picking out frames and giving them a prescription (which they confirmed by examining Tim's current pair of glasses), we were told to come back in 30 minutes.
We took that time to sit and relax at Muji Cafe & Meal. Much like IKEA does, Muji offers food cafeteria-style, using their own housewares. For our afternoon snack, we picked an orange brioche and a milk cream bun to go with our iced coffee and tea. We are true Mujirers, so it was quite an experience sitting in the Cafe & Meal eating our Muji goods waiting for our Muji glasses. Yes, I realize how ironic that is, considering Muji means "no-name", but we are still big fans of the quality of the "no-label" goods.
After more walking and a tiring trip to Akihabara, we decided that our last dinner in Tokyo would be more ramen. One of the places I wanted to visit was Tokyo Ramen Street, located in First Avenue Tokyo Station. By the time we got there, it was late and we were exhausted and famished. The lines weren't too bad, but we were in no mood to wait for a line. We tried studying the guides/maps to find a shop with no line that served the kind of ramen we wanted.
That proved to be impossible, and we gave up by finding Ramen Mutsumiya and ordering miso ramen with chashu and corn and tsukemen with chashu and shoyu dipping sauce. It was all very good.. not quite as good as Suzuran, but it fit the bill considering how tired and hungry we were. I'd love to go back when I have energy to wait on line for supposedly the best tsukemen at Rokurinsha Tokyo.
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Back when Mister Heavenly announced their first European tour in October there was a question of whether world famous actor Michael Cera would be playing bass with them. Well, in case you've been locked away somewhere without significant channels of communication then you'll know that this is happening. He's been on their European tour playing bass. Nice.
So here is a reminder that, with most of the tour done, the band play London's Cargo on Monday, December 12. With Cera on bass, obviously. So, there you go. It's something to look forward to, I guess. In the meantime check out some photos from Hamburg over here on Mainstage.de.


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The changing of the guard at the top of Italy and Greece provided a small boost to markets Monday morning, but the new leaders have a long way to go to restore market confidence, investors warned Monday.
"The bond markets want repression, depression, their money back and somebody to pay them back," Mark Tinker, global portfolio manager at Axa Framlingtonm told CNBC Monday. "The equity markets have been spending months saying: 'Stop picking our pockets. We are not going to put money into banks for you to pay bond investors with.'"
Italy is hoping to push through a closely watched bond saleon Monday.
On Saturday, Silvio Berlusconi finally resigned as prime minister of Italy. Mario Monti, the former head of the European Competition Commission, is trying to form a government to replace the Berlusconi regime.
George Papandreou stepped down as prime Minister of Greece, in favor of another technocrat, Lucas Papademos.
Yields on Italian 10-year bonds last week soared to unsustainable levels amid speculation about the country's political situation.
"It's not down to him (Monti), it's down to the ECB (European Central Bank). I think it held back buying when it wasn't quite clear whether he would be the new prime minister," said Tinker.
European Central Bank Governing Council member Jens Weidmann said the bank's current policy stance is "appropriate," in an interview with the Financial Times published Monday.
He added that the central bank won't help Italy by defining a maximum bond yield and defending it through purchases. "Fixing an interest rate for a country is certainly not compatible with our mandate," he said. "You would guarantee a certain refinancing cost for a government and you could not argue that this was not monetary financing."
"The problems are so deep-seated and structural (in Italy) that you will never solve them in a few years," Julian Pendock, partner at Senhouse Capital, said Monday.
He compared Italy's current situation to the UK before the tenure of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
"If this goes wrong, there's no democratic safety valve when austerity fatigue comes back again," he warned.
"Every week we have seen a 'solution,' and it has been anything but. Policy makers have been reacting to negative news and market wobbles and taking steps without thinking through the longer-term repercussions, particularly with respect to getting rid of the two governments who they don't think are with the program and replacing them with more malleable figures with whom they have worked closely in the past."
He believes that "all the arguments for saving the euro are negative."
Both Papademos and Monti have previously held high-ranking jobs in European institutions, the ECB for Papademos and the European Commission for Monti.
"Northern European savers, who are nearly all bond savers, have got their men increasingly in position," said Tinker. "They want people who understand that their job is to preserve the euro and not worry about growth."
"The ECB are using the markets as a tool to get the politicians that they want," he added. "The people that hold all the debt want austerity measures, and the people who borrowed all the money want inflation and growth. As an equity investor, I largely don't want to play in that pool."


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Is Sweden, the only country to have sent a member of the Pirate Party to the European Parliament, finally giving up its swashbuckling ways?
When Sweden's IPRED anti-piracy law went into effect earlier this year, Internet traffic across the country plummeted overnight—a sign that P2P users, fearing exposure at last, were abandoning their existing copyright infringement tools. The Pirate Bay defendants were found guilty by a Swedish court earlier this year, and the site's ISP are now under assault by the music and movie industries.
The music business insists that the measure are working. Music's major labels say that sales of digital downloads are up 18 percent in the first nine months of 2009 in Sweden.
Ludvig Werner, head of the trade group IFPI Sweden, told the UK's Guardian newspaper that it didn't matter if people still wanted to pirate; the point was, they were doing less of it. "It's like speeding, put up cameras and people will start to ease off the gas pedal. Even if it doesn't change the attitudes, they find legal alternatives because they don't want to get caught," said Werner.
Dueling explanations
As with most statistics in the Copyright Wars, these are hard to evaluate. Digital music sales are up, but has copyright infringement also dropped? IFPI doesn't know.
In fact, there are reasons to suspect that legal actions like IPRED aren't the only drivers of Sweden's uptick in music sales. As we reported yesterday, UK-based music label EMI has reported a worldwide revenue increase of 4.6 percent in its recorded music business through 2009 to date; surely this can't just be chalked up to tougher antipiracy laws in small countries like Sweden and South Korea?
And Swedish Internet traffic data bounced back soon after the IPRED law came into force and now exceeds the level from the beginning of 2009.
Credit also has to go the music industry for licensing its music far more widely, often to innovative Scandinavian companies like Spotify and Nokia, which is offering the Comes With Music plan on selected phones.
But who knows? Perhaps IPRED and The Pirate Bay prosecution were real drivers of the change in Sweden; we've certainly seen surveys in the UK that suggest online infringers will alter their behavior once the veil of anonymity is stripped away (which was the point of IPRED).
If true, the data could help prove a music industry mantra: tougher enforcement can yield results (i.e., battling the pirates is not a hopeless endeavor).
On the other hand, it seems to suggest that only minimal legal tools are needed. IPRED made it possible for rightsholders to subpoena ISPs and get subscriber names and information; The Pirate Bay case was brought under copyright law. New Internet disconnection laws, ISP filtering schemes, and similar invasive measures weren't required.


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They say you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone. The story of Port Ellen distillery on Islay certainly embodies that adage.
Opened in 1824, Port Ellen was managed in its early days by 21 year old John Ramsay (imagine running a distillery at 21!). A shrewd businessman, Ramsay became a partner in the steamer boat company that made supply runs between the island and the city of Glasgow. This no doubt played a part in the town of Port Ellen also becoming the defacto ferry terminal.
In 1925 the distillery was acquired by DCL, but it always played second fiddle to bigger siblings, Caol Ila and Lagavulin. Production during this period came in fits and starts, and in 1983 during a downturn in global demand for Scotch, DCL decided to pull the plug on the runt of their litter. However, while the distillery itself may be gone, stocks of Port Ellen whisky remain; and thanks to the use of refill casks to create a signature style less oaked than it's contemporaries (and one that ages extremely well), demand amongst collectors and connoisseurs continues to soar as supply dwindles.
Distilled: 1979
Bottled: 2007
Age: 28 Years Old
53.8% ABV / 70cl
Bottle Number: 655 / 5274
Please examine the images of the bottle, packaging and labels carefully and satisfy yourself as to their condition before making a bid.


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Note: The acronym OCW and the phrase "Optimal Charge Weight" as related to the reloading of metallic cartridges are terms originated by the author of this site. When referencing OCW or Optimal Charge Weight in your personal documents, please add a link to this website for clarification purposes.
With any given bullet and powder combination, there
will be a specific amount of that powder which will
cause the bullet to exit the muzzle at the "friendliest"
portion of the vibration cycle. This does not necessarily
correspond with the tightest velocity figures, however.
Many load recipes have over the years become the "go
to" recipes for trying out a new rifle. If your rifle fails to
shoot one of these "tried and true" recipes well, you may
well have a rifle integrity problem.
Consider the Federal Gold Medal Match .308 win ammo.
How can one recipe shoot so well in so many rifles?
That's what we're after in the OCW load--a load recipe so
stable and predictable that it does indeed rise above,
and to some extent disprove the "all rifles are different" adage of lore...
Think about it this way. Some kids like mashed potatos, some don't. Some kids will eat thier peas, some won't. Some kids like bananas, some hate 'em. But show me a kid that doesn't like chocolate ice cream and I'll show you one bizarre little character! :) An OCW load is like chocolate ice cream to your rifle. If your rifle doesn't like the recipe, there is likely something weird about your rifle.
If you perform the OCW load development properly,
you are not (in the initial stages) seeking the optimal
load for the test rifle. Heresy? Not really. There are
many known "universal recipes" that work well in most
rifles chambered for them. Ken Waters has made a pretty
penny with his book "Pet Loads" on this concept. Many
of the Waters loads have worked beautifully in my rifles,
and acquaintances have had the same experience.
Federal's Gold Medal Match .308 loads do well in
practically any .308 not needing a gunsmith's attention.
How can this be? If you subscribe to the philosophy that
"all rifles are different," and therefore need individual
loads tailored to accommodate their idiosyncrasies, how
do you explain the near universal MOA performance of
loads such as the Federal GMM? Universally good
recipes do exist. Upon realizing this, my questions have
been "How do such recipes work?" and "How can I
develop such a load?"
Recent conversations with very learned mechanical
engineers are affording me some better understanding of
just why an OCW load works so well in the majority of
rifles chambered for the cartridge at hand.
Here are some of the major points coming to light:
Uniformity of velocity (meaning low extreme spreads of
velocity) are definitely not an indicator of the OCW
zone. We are actually finding that in many cases the
OCW zone does not have the tightest numbers--at least
initially. Fine tuning of the recipe with seating depth
variations and primer changes will improve the velocity
consistency, but simply shooting a succession of
graduated charges over the chronograph and looking for
a tight velocity spread will not lead you to the OCW.
As the reader comes to understand more about the main
shock wave (link Chris Long's pages elsewhere in this
webpage) it will become easier to understand how
bullets with larger extreme spreads in velocity can still
group tight (at closer ranges), while bullets with
seemingly tiny extreme spreads may group poorly. You
can tighten the extreme spread to improve long range
accuracy AFTER you identify the OCW.
Engineer Chris Long's model of barrel
behavior suggests (simply put, and in part)
that the initial shock wave, generated by the powder
charge's ignition, travels at the speed of sound in
steel (about 18.000 fps) from the chamber to the muzzle, then back, in a repeated pattern. When this wave is present at the muzzle, there is
naturally much turbulence and obturation of the
"roundness" of the bore at the muzzle. However, when
this main shock wave has reverberated back to the
chamber end, the muzzle is relatively stable. This
window of opportunity, according to Chris, is the best
time for the bullet to exit the muzzle. The barrel is
basically straight, and relatively calm.
(Read later about the "scatter node" which is the point
at which the bullets are being released from the bore
when the shock wave is at the muzzle. I call this area
the "scatter node" because it will produce a scattered group,
throwing flyers at random. This is the most
inopportune point of all for bullet release, the scatter node area
can be easily seen during an OCW test, and generally 1 to 2
powder graduations above the scatter node charge will have
you right in the OCW zone. The existence of the scatter node
is the main reason the conventional ladder (Audette) test often fails
to yield useful results--see OCW vs. Ladder on this site).
The OCW load would then have the optimal amount of
powder to push the bullet at just the right speed to be
exiting the muzzle when this shock wave is at the other
end (the chamber end) of the barrel.
This shock wave travels at the same speed regardless of
barrel length or girth (about 18,000 fps).
We note that OCW loads seem to perform very well
regardless of barrel length. (We're not considering non-
typical barrel lengths here). This makes sense because
the relationship between barrel time (the length of time it
takes the bullet to exit the muzzle) and the oscillating
shock wave is close to the same; in other words, in a short
barrel the shock wave reaches the muzzle and returns to
the chamber faster, but alas, the bullet reaches and exits
the muzzle faster also.
The harmonics which ride the main vibration node are
only of minor importance to accuracy in most cases. It
would appear that the effects of the subtle harmonic
vibrations can be largely negated with seating depth
adjustments, but a true OCW load will normally be
MOA or better in a good rifle without seating depth
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Proposal to change how the ONI Standards are updated
Proposal to change how the Office of Neighborhood Involvement Standards are updated– public comment welcome—deadline Friday, September 28, 2012
We invite you to comment on a proposed change to "Section IX—Review of Office of Neighborhood Involvement Standards" of the ONI Standards (p. 46-47).
This proposed change will:
Allow more frequent and easier updating of the ONI Standards;
Give the ONI Bureau Advisory Committee (BAC) a greater role in reviewing and recommending updates; and
Allow a broader diversity of stakeholders to be involved in the amendment process
Learn more about the proposed change below:
- How can I submit questions or comments?
- What is the schedule for making this proposed change?
- What are the ONI Standards?
- Why is this change being proposed?
- What is the ONI Bureau Advisory Committee (BAC)?
- Comparison of existing and proposed language or link to PDF file
- For more information contact
You can learn more about the ONI Standards at www.portlandonline.com/oni/standards
How can I submit questions or comments?
Deadline for submitting written comment: Friday, September 28, 2012
Submit your questions and/or comments to:
Online: Click here
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
USPS mail: Office of Neighborhood Involvement
Attn: Brian Hoop
1221 SW 4th Ave., Room 110
Portland,OR 97204
Special Accommodations: To help ensure equal access to City programs, services and activities, the City of Portland will reasonably modify policies/procedures and provide auxiliary aids/services to persons with disabilities. Call 503-823-3075, TTY 503-823-6868 seven days in advance to request assistance for any accessibility accommodations and/or language interpretation.
What is the schedule for public comment, review, and approval?
1st Public hearing—Monday, September 10, 2012: The ONI Bureau Advisory Committee (BAC) will accept in-person public comment on the proposed change to the ONI Standards on:
DATE: Monday, September 10, 2012
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
PLACE: City Hall, 1221 SW 4th Ave, 2nd Floor, Lovejoy Room
Deadline for submitting written comment: Friday, September 28, 2012. See above
2nd Public hearing – Monday, October 8, 2012: The ONI Bureau Advisory Committee (BAC) will accept in-person public comment and consider approval of the proposed change to the ONI Standards on:
DATE: Monday, October 8, 2012
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
PLACE: City Hall, 1221 SW 4th Ave, 2nd Floor, Lovejoy Room
City Council will review and consider proposal sometime in October or November 2012.
The ONI Standards create a framework by which the people of the City of Portland may effectively participate in civic affairs and work to improve the livability and character of their neighborhoods and the City. The ONI Standards establish the roles, rights, and responsibilities of neighborhood associations, neighborhood district coalitions and offices, and the city's Office of Neighborhood Involvement.
In effect, these rules ensure inclusion, accountability and transparency in the deliberative process through which these organizations go about making decisions and policy recommendations. Such input helps advise public policy and budget discussions by government agencies and elected officials.
Included are minimum standards such as:
- What topics need to be included in Association bylaws in order to be recognized,
- What the benefits of being recognized by the City are,
- What communication funds can be spent on,
- How conflicts are resolved through the grievance process,
- Open meetings and public records rules,
- What the roles of District Coalitions and the Office of Neighborhood Involvement to serve the Neighborhood Associations are.
For more information on the ONI Standards go to: www.portlandonline.com/oni/standards
Why is this change being proposed?
A provision in the ONI Standards requires that the entire document be reviewed once every four years by a committee made up primarily of neighborhood association and neighborhood district coalition representatives.
The ONI Standards were adopted initially in 1987. They have been reviewed and revised three times since then—in 1992, 1998, 2005. The last time the ONI Standards were updated, the process took five years.
Neighborhood associations and district coalitions sometimes identify elements of the ONI Standards that need to be clarified and suggest new areas of needed guidance. Making these changes does not require a full review of the entire document. It would be helpful to be able to make limited changes more quickly and easily. The current amendment process needs to be changed to allow this to happen.
Also, in recent years, Portland's formal community involvement system has expanded to include non-geographic communities, such as communities of color, immigrants and refugees, people with disabilities, and elders. Additional groups may be added in the future. A more flexible amendment process will allow the ONI Standards to be updated to formalize these new relationships where appropriate.
This proposed change will:
- Allow for more frequent and easier updating of the ONI Standards;
- Give the ONI Bureau Advisory Committee (BAC) a greater role in reviewing and recommending updates; and
- Allow a broader diversity of stakeholders to be involved in the amendment process
What is the ONI Bureau Advisory Committee?
The ONI Bureau Advisory Committee (BAC) is a stakeholder committee made up of community and neighborhood volunteers, staff from the 14 partner organizations which ONI funds, and staff from the Office of Neighborhood Involvement.
The goal of the BAC is to increase citizen involvement in the management of the bureau's resources, broaden the understanding of the bureau and the relationship between ONI and the needs of the individuals who access the services of our programs, and provide recommendations regarding goals, priorities, policies and budgets to bureau management.
Meetings of the ONI BAC are open to the public and are typically held on the second Mondays each month at 5:30 PM in either City Hall, Lovejoy Room, 1221 SW 4th Ave., or the Portland Building, Room C, 1120 SW 5th Ave.
Comparison of existing and proposed language
Below is a side-by-side comparison of current language from the Office of Neighborhood Involvement (ONI) Standards with proposed language for the process in the future by which the ONI Standards go through community review and are amended.
|Current Language
|Proposed New Language
The Office of Neighborhood Involvement, in cooperation with Neighborhood Associations and District Coalitions, will organize a committee to review these Standards four years after their adoption by City Council. Any party wishing to propose amendment(s) to the Standards may do so by submitting the proposed amendment(s) in writing to the review committee.
Any party wishing to propose amendments to the ONI Standards may do so by submitting a written proposal to the Director of the Office of Neighborhood Involvement. The Director shall forward all proposals to the ONI Bureau Advisory Committee (BAC). The BAC will review all proposals. If the BAC determines further action is warranted, the BAC shall create an ad-hoc committee to review the proposal(s) and develop recommendations. The committee will submit its recommendations to the BAC for review. If the BAC approves the recommendations, the BAC will forward the proposed changes to the Commissioner-in-charge of ONI. Updates to the ONI Standards take effect only after approval by the City Council.
A. Composition of the review committee
All representatives shall be chosen by their organizations. The chair of the committee will be selected by the committee. The chair of the committee will be a volunteer representative. Positions on the committee are provided for the following stakeholders:
1. A volunteer representative of each District Coalition,
2. A volunteer representative of unaffiliated Neighborhood Associations,
3. At least one volunteer representing Business District Associations,
4. At least one volunteer representative ofPortland's diverse communities,
5. At least one representative of District Coalition staff,
6. At least one representative of Office of Neighborhood Involvement staff,
7. A representative of City bureaus other than the Office of Neighborhood Involvement, and,
8. The liaison to the Office of Neighborhood Involvement from the City Attorney's Office.
A. Composition of review committees
The ONI BAC shall offer the opportunity to participate on each review committee to representatives of ONI's primary partner organizations and constituencies. Each committee shall have a minimum of six members. Not all review committees may be of interest to all ONI partner organizations and constituencies.
All organizational representatives shall be chosen by their organizations. The ONI Director shall appoint the two at-large community representatives. Committee members will select a chair or co/chairs from among themselves. The chair or co-chairs of the committee shall be a volunteer representative.
The ONI BAC shall offer the opportunity to participate on a review committee to ONI stakeholder organizations and constituent communities, as follows:
1. One volunteer representative from:
2. At least one staff representative from:
3. A minimum of two at-large community representatives, and,
4. At least one staff representative from the Office of Neighborhood Involvement.
B. Public review and comment
The draft of the committee's revisions will be distributed to each Neighborhood Association, District Coalition, Business District Association, all City agencies, diverse community organizations in the Office of Neighborhood Involvement's database, other affected stakeholders who've requested to be notified. The review and comment period shall be no shorter than 60 days. At least one public hearing will be scheduled to receive oral and written testimony from all interested parties. The committee will then review the public comments and approve any final changes before referring amendments to the Commissioner-in-charge for approval. The Commissioner-in-charge shall then present to City Council for final review with a minimum of 45 days notice before Council action.
B. Public review and comment
For more information or questions contact
Brian Hoop
Manager, Community and Neighborhood Involvement Center


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This is Why Traditional Car Insurance is Unfair (Part I)
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The car insurance industry can (needs to) do better.
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It's unfair because it's based completely on demographics.
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They put you in a box and your box determines your price.
This approach is outdated and often deeply unjust.
Who deserves to be rated based on their neighbor's accidents? Did your brother suddenly become a better driver the day he got married?
Demographics are helpful in their proper place, but relying only on a customer's category to price insurance is unfair, unnecessary, and leaves a lot of people out in the cold.
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It's unfair because it's still stuck in old tech.
The old way: You probably aren't surprised to hear that when it comes to innovation and technology, insurance companies are way, way behind. Like every other industry, they've had their chances to invest in engineering and upgraded technology over the past few decades. But they've largely said no.
The price? An inability to move quickly or innovate into new technologies. Traditional insurers are patching new solutions onto outdated systems-and that only works for so long.
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Meet the DA
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District Attorney Jackie Lacey has spent most of her professional life as a prosecutor, manager and executive in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. On Dec. 3, 2012, she was sworn in as the 42nd District Attorney. She was re-elected four years later without opposition.
Her top priority is keeping the streets of Los Angeles County safe from violent and dangerous criminals. She is committed to safeguarding our children from human sex traffickers, our seniors from financial elder abuse and our communities from environmental crimes that threaten our health and our livelihood.
District Attorney Lacey has worked with business leaders on how best to protect consumers from computer network intrusions that jeopardize our bank accounts and credit ratings. She also remains committed to prosecuting government officials who violate the public's trust.
A Los Angeles native and graduate of the University of Southern California Law School, District Attorney Lacey leads the largest local prosecutorial office in the nation, with a workforce of approximately 1,000 lawyers, 300 investigators and 800 support staff employees.
She is the first woman and first African-American to serve as Los Angeles County District Attorney since the office was established in 1850.
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Maintaining the office's tradition of pursuing justice, District Attorney Lacey established the Conviction Review Unit to assess claims of actual innocence based on newly discovered evidence. She also appointed the office's first Professional Responsibility Advisor.
District Attorney Lacey launched the Financial Elder Abuse Outreach Campaign to alert seniors about scams that target them and their assets. The effort was honored in 2014 with the Los Angeles County Quality and Productivity Commission's Top Ten Award.
District Attorney Lacey also assembled the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Environmental Crimes Rollout Team, which dispatches specially trained prosecutors and investigators to the scene of environmental threats and industrial accidents involving occupational deaths or serious injuries.
She created the Human Sex Trafficking Section, the Complex Child Abuse Section and a special unit dedicated to protecting children from abuse through the enhanced monitoring of the countywide electronic suspected child abuse reporting system.
Within the office, District Attorney Lacey has worked to improve the hiring and training of prosecutors as part of a continuing effort to assure the public that deputy district attorneys are maintaining the highest ethical standards.
As founder and chair of the Criminal Justice Mental Health Project for Los Angeles County, District Attorney Lacey leads a multidisciplinary group devoted to diverting people who are mentally ill out of the criminal justice system for nonviolent offenses.
Under her leadership, the group produced an award-winning report, "A Blueprint for Change," which set priorities that include adding community-based beds to house and treat individuals with mental illness, particularly those with criminal records.
As part of that effort, District Attorney Lacey initiated an ambitious plan within her office to provide free training to first responders on how to safely de-escalate incidents involving people in a mental health crisis.
She is actively involved in the implementation of legislative and voter actions, such as the Public Safety Realignment Act and the Three Strikes Resentencing Law. She successfully sought legislative reforms, including passage of a law that gives counties a stronger voice when judges are considering the conditional release of sexually violent predators.
District Attorney Lacey joined the office in 1986. She won national attention for her successful prosecution of the county's first race-based hate crime murder.
She is active in her profession. District Attorney Lacey is a member of the National District Attorneys Association, the California District Attorneys Association and the National Black Prosecutors Association. She serves on the boards of the Los Angeles County Prosecutors Association and the Peace Officers Association of Los Angeles County.
District Attorney Lacey has received many honors, including the Trailblazer Award from the National Black Prosecutors Association; the Benito Juarez Attorney of the Year Award from the Mexican American Bar Association; the Distinguished Professional in Public Service Award from the University of California, Irvine; the Sam Cochran Criminal Justice Award by the National Alliance on Mental Illness; and the Ernestine Stahlhut Award from the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles.
For five years, District Attorney Lacey dedicated one lunch hour a week to teaching fifth-graders at Lorena Street Elementary School in Boyle Heights about the criminal justice system. As District Attorney, she has led an effort to share Project LEAD, the office's law-related education program, with other prosecutorial agencies across the country and internationally.
A graduate of the University of California, Irvine, and Dorsey High School, District Attorney Lacey began her legal career as an associate in a small civil law firm. She then became a trial deputy in the Santa Monica City Attorney's Office.
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Just in case internet iPhone celebrity Jason Chen needed another reason to feel smug: his alma mater, Berkeley, has the highest internet speeds of any city on Earth.
With the average speed at 18.7Mbps, Berkeley is top on Akamai's list of worldwide data speeds. Second place is Chapel Hill, NC followed by Stanford, CA before moving onto the usual suspects in Japan and Korea.
Why are these three cities so high on the list? The universities they all host. They all have such insane speeds on campus that they jack up the average for their entire cities. When you filter out college towns from the list, every city in America falls off.
So really, you can get super internet speeds in Berkeley. But you're gonna have to pay for it by, you know, attending Berkeley. [Ars Technica]