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The MasterCard and Visa breach is only the latest in a string of hacks and data thefts that have cost financial institutions millions of dollars. Here are the nine biggest recent breaches.

Data breaches are no joke. Just ask any chief security officer. In addition to the bad headlines, customer churn and regulatory headaches associated with data breaches, the monetary costs can add up quickly. Until the MasterCard and Visa hack, the most recent high-profile data breaches have hit largely outside of the financial services industry, with Sony, Michael’s Stores and RSA (which cost parent company EMC close to $66 million) grabbing most of the headlines.

Despite the focus on other industries, though, financial services continues to be a top target for data breaches, caused by hacks, card scams, insider data theft, and the loss of a portable device that contains financial or private information.

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These studio apartments are located next to the Picasso Museum, Santa Caterina Market and in the heart of the bohemian Born and Gothic Quarter. They offer free Wi-Fi.
Apartments in Barcelona Corders are housed in a refurbished building, with a private lift to each apartment. Each stylish studio is decorated in light colours, using traditional materials such as stone and wood. Each studio has a small kitchen corner with a fridge and a hob or microwave.
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Hyannis Main Street Business Improvement District celebrated at its 2012 Annual Meeting with a vote to renew board members, an awards ceremony, and a Power Point to herald our year's accomplishments.

Embargo, the perfect place for a big event, as it is a huge space with TV screens all around, was host to our Nov. 7 breakfast to round off a great year on Main Street. Dave Colombo, BID president and Mark Sexton, secretary, introduced the 13 board members to an energetic crowd of Main Street fans.

The annual meeting offered an opportunity to define what a BID is. It’s a legislative non-profit entity, in our case founded 12 years ago, to address issues of blight and neglect due to the trend in downtowns where vibrancy becomes decentralized by sprawl.   This is a national trend and that is why you have hundreds of BIDs around the country.

Who runs the BID? Well, it is the property owners of the street as represented by the board of directors. The priorities are set forth each year by this body, which set these for 2012:

#1 Safety, #2 Clean, #3 Marketing, #4 Business Development, #5 Government Relations. With Safety, this year we applaud the police department for their continued support, especially with the new station on Main Street. Duffy Center has been very important to address street people with the diligence of the outreach workers.

Clean has been addressed with daily sweeps by The Baybridge Clubhouse, the gardens and improvements of the blighted areas. Marketing brought us The Long Table, The F.O.O.D. District, a revamped website, a YouTube video and 5,000 Facebook friends. Also, the downtown has been designated the first Arts and Culture District on Cape Cod.

 Business Development brought in: The Black Cat Harbor Shack Out Back, Puppycakes, Beechtree Cantina, Rendezvous, Pizza Barbone, Good Butter Bakery, Prova Brazil Steakhouse, the Cape Cod Baseball Museum exhibit and The JFK Legacy Trail, to name a few.

Being “the voice of business in the downtown” creates a place for synergy with the town. This year brought great collaborations with The Long Table event as well as the development challenges that accompanied The Beechtree and Prova, setting the stage for ever more reasons for a balance between business and government. Not a new topic for discussion, but refreshing when it works and worth celebrating.

In this day, it is important to publicly note what works when there are non-profit, government and business partners involved. Good results come from a positive and clear mission, a list of demonstrable improvements and the willingness to come to the table with all parties. No partisans, just good business based on results. This is exactly what Main Street America is asking for.

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According to a study published last week in the journal Science, fish that swim in water with similar levels of anti-anxiety drugs found in streams and rivers near populated areas in Sweden tend to lose their inhibitions and go off on their own, gobbling up other fish at a faster rate.

It seems even after psychiatric medications pass through the body, traces find their way into waterways, slipping past waste-treatment plants. Researchers found "unusually high" levels of oxazepam in a river that flows through Uppsala, Sweden's fourth-largest city, but added they weren't out of line with levels found in rivers in other countries.

Researchers found in experiments that perch exposed to oxazepam went off on their own instead of staying with schools that protect them from predators. The medicated fish became bigger risk takers, venturing into unfamiliar environments more willingly, and became "much greedier and more efficient feeders" than their drug-free counterparts. The problem is that drugged fish could wipe out other beneficial species, such as algae-eating fish, or their own risk behavior could make them more vulnerable to predators.

Now, oxazepam is a benzodiazepine, a class of medications that includes better-known names such as Xanax, which is popped like Pez in urban centers far bigger (and presumably more stressful) than Uppsala. That would include the environs of Wall Street all the way up to midtown Manhattan; and while I can't vouch for greater usage of anti-anxiety medications among those in the financial markets, it would be surprising if it were less.

The vision of medicated fish gobbling up prey brought to mind the spate of mergers and acquisitions announced in the week past. It isn't the first time the hypothesis that the prevalent use of psychiatric pharmaceuticals may be influencing financial-market activity. Indeed, it was proffered in these pages years ago ("Prozac Notion," March 13, 2000), which suggested antidepressants were helping inflate the dot-com bubble, which was just about to burst.

But it's more likely that the oceans of liquidity loosed by the world's central banks and sitting idly on corporate balance sheets spurred the burst of deal-making, led by the $23 billion acquisition ($28 billion including debt) of H.J. Heinz (ticker: HNZ) by Berkshire Hathaway brka -1.9409374367380796% Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Cl A U.S.: NYSE USD198600 -3931 -1.9409374367380796% /Date(1441128017818-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 242 P/E Ratio 18.17840633975674 Market Cap 331652105770.162 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 631234 More quote details and news » (BRKA, BRKB) and Brazilian firm 3G Capital. That followed Comcast's cmcsa -1.3846973193680099% Comcast Corp. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq USD55.55 -0.78 -1.3846973193680099% /Date(1441128969419-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6083923 P/E Ratio 16.46153846153846 Market Cap 140733493658.662 Dividend Yield 1.7972681524083394% Rev. per Employee 511647 More quote details and news » (CMCSA) $16.7 billion purchase of the 49% of NBC Universal from General Electric ge -2.8203062046736505% General Electric Co. U.S.: NYSE USD24.12 -0.7 -2.8203062046736505% /Date(1441128956834-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 26715100 P/E Ratio 509.830866807611 Market Cap 250593381762.564 Dividend Yield 3.815052871656645% Rev. per Employee 471361 More quote details and news » (GE) it didn't previously own, Dell's (DELL) $24 billion proposed leveraged buyout, the $11 billion merger between bankrupt AMR (AAMRQ) and US Airways Group (LCC), and the $16 billion merger of Liberty Global lbtya -2.57689110556941% Liberty Global PLC Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq USD46.88 -1.24 -2.57689110556941% /Date(1441128962040-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1114966 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 41932048878.894 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 478837 More quote details and news » (LBTYA) and Virgin Media (VMED). All told, some $160 billion of M&A deals have been announced so far in 2013, the fastest start to a year since 2005, according to Dealogic data cited by The Wall Street Journal.

Berkshire's 50-50 investment in Heinz -- in which it will put up $4 billion plus $8 billion for which it which it will receive preferred shares yielding a whopping 9% -- will barely put a dent in the $48 billion cash hoard CEO Warren Buffett has amassed for his famous hunt for "elephants" -- acquisitions big enough to matter to the conglomerate.

What's most striking about the spate of deals is how they are all about consolidation, not innovation. And that, while they hardly hold out exciting prospects, the combinations at least provide yields greater than the tiny fraction of a percent generated by the cash on the companies' balance sheets. Or more to the point, they're boring. How exciting can ketchup be?

Meanwhile, Comcast consolidates its holding in old media. American Airlines combines with US Air to form the world's largest air carrier, completing the consolidation of legacy airlines United Continental Holdings ual -0.9039845532736528% United Continental Holdings Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD56.455 -0.515 -0.9039845532736528% /Date(1441128966460-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4936188 P/E Ratio 8.15 Market Cap 21521101225.6006 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 457119 More quote details and news » (UAL) and Delta Air Lines dal -0.5710370031978073% Delta Air Lines Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD43.53 -0.25 -0.5710370031978073% /Date(1441128966352-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4770127 P/E Ratio 31.085714285714285 Market Cap 34822523917.9712 Dividend Yield 1.2408088235294117% Rev. per Employee 513125 More quote details and news » (DAL), which absorbed Northwest. There have been no disrupting, new airlines, such as JetBlue Airways jblu -1.075268817204301% JetBlue Airways Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD22.08 -0.24 -1.075268817204301% /Date(1441128966460-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2638711 P/E Ratio 16.44776119402985 Market Cap 7026648280.39124 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 398461 More quote details and news » (JBLU), but capacity-reducing combinations that have made air travel such agony.

These deals speak to the slowing of innovation in the U.S. economy, an idea put forth by Northwestern University's Robert J. Gordon (most recently in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, "Why Innovation Won't Save Us," Dec. 22). Even in technology, he writes, the big gains are past: mainframe computers in the 1960s; memory typewriters in the 1970s; personal computers, bar codes, and automated teller machines in the 1980s. The climax came in the 1990s, with the Internet, which gave rise to the likes of amzn -1.9468112070814405% Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD502.905 -9.985 -1.9468112070814405% /Date(1441128969611-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1616852 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 239883784368.616 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 621733 More quote details and news » (AMZN) and Google (GOOG), hugely innovative companies that have changed their businesses. Since then, Gordon contends, progress has not been of fundamental transformation but miniaturization. Apple's aapl -2.1816246896062435% Apple Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD110.3 -2.46 -2.1816246896062435% /Date(1441128969039-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 31843399 P/E Ratio 12.79445727482679 Market Cap 643038963842.485 Dividend Yield 1.8772563176895307% Rev. per Employee 2409500 More quote details and news » (AAPL) iPhone combines the pre-2002 functions of laptops and cell phones.

In that regard, it's less surprising Apple's share price has swooned from over $700 last September to the mid-400s after the introductions of the iPhone 5 and the iPad mini fell short of the next big thing. And the discussion among investors has turned to what to do with its $137 billion cache of liquid securities.

David P. Goldman, the polymath who runs Macrostrategy, an economic consultancy, after having led Bank of America's credit research, agrees that American innovation has been threadbare in recent years but disagrees with Gordon that it's our fate.

"In our view, a combination of bad policy and happenstance are to blame," he wrote in a recent commentary. "A decade ago, everyone dropped what they were doing and joined the gold rush. The financial boom of the 2000s squandered America's best talent on the high returns available in derivatives markets. The smartest engineers and physicists got Wall Street jobs. The financial crash followed by the Obama administration's response further depressed risk-taking."

That leaves all that excess cash earning nothing (and losing value in real terms) nowhere to go but to pursue deals. Even with a recent backup in the high-yield bond market, liquidity is abundant, especially in the leveraged-loan market. Corporations have ample productive capacity to meet demand, so better to combine with competitors and eliminate any excess rather than invest in new capital.

But ultimately, it is the excess liquidity that's spurring these deals. That's even without being spiked by mind-altering pharmaceuticals.

Even before the burst of deal making late last week, there was a sense of having seen this movie before. Barron's Roundtable stalwart Fred Hickey admits to recycling the title of his latest "High Tech Strategist" monthly, "Up It Goes, Until It Blows," one more time. The first was in December 1999, just before the Nasdaq Composite hit a never-to-be revisited 5,000, or just 2,000 or so points above Friday's close. The other was in June 2007, a few months before the broad market's peak the following October. Fred continues to warn about the consequences of global central-bank money-printing. "It created a tech bubble, a housing bubble, a credit bubble, Bear Stearns, and Lehman. Now we're in the midst of a bond bubble and possibly another stock-market craze," he wrote ahead of last week's events.

Similarly, veteran market watcher John Mendelson, now with International Strategy & Investment Group, describes the equity market as "about as extended as in the case of major tops in 2007 and 2000." Ironically, the market's surge has been the result of the lack of liquidity in the stock market itself. In other words, the influx of cash hasn't had a counterpart on the other side to stabilize prices. "First, there was the demise of the NYSE specialists who were required to stabilize -- buy on minus ticks/sell on plus ticks," he writes. "Decimalization and other regulatory decisions killed them…if you see the picture of the NYSE Floor on TV, there is nobody there except TV people, you could play touch football down there."

In addition, the pullback from block trading and the Volcker Rule's curbs on "Prop Trading" also diminish the money available from the Street to take the other side of a trade "if they thought they could make money," he says. So far, Mendelson points out, the illiquidity has been on the upside, and human nature being what it is, nobody complains about that. We haven't seen the same illiquidity on the downside, he adds.

Yet the divide between what's happening on Wall Street and Main Street appears ominously wide. Friday, Bloomberg got hold of a memo from a Wal-Mart Stores wmt -1.5757763015603274% Wal-Mart Stores Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD63.71 -1.02 -1.5757763015603274% /Date(1441128966039-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4724656 P/E Ratio 12.865191146881287 Market Cap 208466152258.923 Dividend Yield 3.065373787926181% Rev. per Employee 220737 More quote details and news » (WMT) executive that called the current month's sales "a total disaster." The reality of the impact of the hike in payroll-tax withholdings, along with a renewed rise in gasoline prices and continued tepid employment growth apparently contributed to what the exec deemed "the worst start to a month I have seen in my ~7 years with the company." Wal-Mart's shares ended down over 2% Friday, dragging down other retailers with them.

Meanwhile, the federal government seems headed toward sequestration on March 1, which would ax another $85 billion in spending cuts from the economy. And as Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at the Potomac Research Group, observed after the State of the Union Address last Tuesday, even though President Obama asserted the American public is tired of "manufactured crises," no progress is apparent in forestalling the sequestration cuts. But none of this seems to stand in the way of liquidity-driven deal-making.

Alan Abelson is off this week.

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The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21).
Volume XI. The Period of the French Revolution.

IX. Blake.

§ 2. Poetical Sketches.

At the age of fourteen, he was apprenticed to James Basire, the engraver, who sent him to make drawings of monuments in Westminster abbey and other ancient churches in and about London. Thus, he came under the direct influence of Gothic art, which increased its hold upon his imagination, till it finally appeared to him the supreme expression of all truth, while classicism was the embodiment of all error. After leaving Basire, he studied for a time in the antique school of the Royal Academy, and then began work as an engraver on his own account. Shortly after his marriage in 1782, Flaxman introduced him to Mrs. Mathew, a famous blue-stocking. The outcome of this was the printing of Poetical Sketches (1783) at the expense of these two friends. In the Advertisement, by another hand than Blake’s, the contents of this slight volume are said to have been written between the ages of twelve and twenty; while Malkin, apparently quoting Blake, asserts that the song “How sweet I roam’d from field to field” was composed before his fourteenth year. But his earliest writings seem to have been in the distinctly rhythmical prose of the fragment known as The Passions, which, like similar pieces included in Poetical Sketches, is a juvenile essay in the inflated style and overstrained pathos that gave popularity to Gesner’s Death of Abel.   2
  But Blake’s early verse stands in quite another class. Much of it, indeed, is more directly imitative than his later work; yet this is due less to slavish copying than to an unconscious recognition of the community between his own romantic spirit and that of our older poetry. Spenserian stanza, early Shakespearean and Miltonic blank verse, ballad form, octosyllabics and lyric metres, all are tried, with least success in the blank verse, but often with consummate mastery in the lighter measures. One who met Blake in these years says that he occasionally sang his poems to melodies of his own composing, and that “these were sometimes most singularly beautiful.” It is, therefore, not improbable that these lyrics were composed to music, like the songs of Burns or of the Elizabethans.   3
  His genuine delight in the older verse preserved him from the complacency with which his age regarded its own versification. Like Keats, but with more justice, he laments, in his lines To the Muses, the feeble, artificial and meagre achievement of the time. His notes are neither languid nor forced, but remarkably varied and spontaneous. Even in his less perfect work, there is not any abatement of fresh enthusiasm, but, rather, an overtasking of powers not yet fully equipped for high flights. So, in the midst of Fair Elenor, a tale of terror and wonder, and sorry stuff in the main, occur passages like the stanza beginning
My lord was like a flower upon the brows
Of lusty May! Ah life as frail as flower!
while there is something more than promise in the youth who could capture the sense of twilight and evening star so completely as Blake in the lines
          Let thy west wind sleep on
The lake: speak silence with thy glimmering eyes
And wash the dusk with silver.
  The six songs, which include almost all Blake’s love-poetry, illustrate the versatility of his early genius. “How sweet I roam’s” anticipates, in a remarkable way, the spirit and imagery of La Belle Dame, though, perhaps, it has less of romantic strangeness and the glamour of faerie than of sheer joy, the Elizabethan wantonness of love, so wonderfully re-embodied in My silks and fine array. The remaining four pieces are in a homelier vein, and more closely personal in tone. Like his poems on the seasons, they reveal, in spite of a slight conventionality in expression, a sincere delight in nature, quickening rural sights and sounds into sympathy with his own mood. Yet, he was so far of his age that he shrank from the idea of solitude in nature; knowing only the closely cultivated districts of Middlesex and Surrey, he held that “where man is not, Nature is barren.” But, apart from their freer, if still limited, appreciation of natural beauty, these songs are noteworthy by reason of their revelation of a new spirit in love. Burns was to sing on this theme out of pure exuberance of physical vitality; in Blake, love awes passion to adoration in the simple soul.   5
  The wide range of poetic power in Blake is proved by the distance between the gentleness of these pieces and the tense emotion of Mad Song. Saintsbury has dealt at length with its prosodic excellence: particularly, in the first stanza, the sudden change in metre carries a vivid suggestion of frenzy breaking down, at its height, into dull despair. Stricken passion seems bared to the nerves; each beat of the verse is like a sharp cry, rising to the haunted terror of the closing lines.   6
  The incomplete chronicle-play King Edward the Third is chiefly of interest as indicating Blake’s juvenile sympathies and the limitations of his genius. He had little of the dramatic instinct, as his “prophetic” writings prove, while his vehement denial of the validity of temporal existence cut him off from the ordinary themes of tragedy and comedy. And, even in this early work, he is chiefly occupied, not with any development of the plot, but with the consideration of abstract moral questions. His characters are all projections of his own personality, and the action halts while they discourse on points of private and civic virtue. Yet, the spirit behind the work is generous, and occasional passages come nearer to Shakespeare than most of the more pretentious efforts of the time. So, too, A War Song to Englishmen, though over-rhetorical in parts, is a stirring thing in an age that produced little patriotic verse.   7

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Snowshoeing Song
Arthur Weir (b. 1864)
HILLOO, hilloo, hilloo, hilloo!
Gather, gather, ye men in white;
The winds blow keenly, the moon is bright,
The sparkling snow lies firm and white;
Tie on the shoes, no time to lose,        5
We must be over the hill to-night.
Hilloo, hilloo, hilloo, hilloo!
Swiftly in single file we go,
The city is soon left far below,
Its countless lights like diamonds glow;        10
And as we climb we hear the chime
Of church bells stealing o’er the snow.
Hilloo, hilloo, hilloo, hilloo!
Like winding-sheet about the dead,
O’er hill and dale the snow is spread,        15
And silences our hurried tread;
The pines bend low, and to and fro
The magpies toss their boughs o’erhead.
Hilloo, hilloo, hilloo, hilloo!
We laugh to scorn the angry blast,        20
The mountain top is gained and past.
Descent begins, ’t is ever fast—
One short quick run, and toil is done,
We reach the welcome inn at last.
Shake off, shake off the clinging snow;        25
Unloose the shoe, the sash untie,
Fling tuque and mittens lightly by;
The chimney fire is blazing high,
And, richly stored, the festive board
Awaits the merry company.        30
Remove the fragments of the feast!
The steaming coffee, waiter, bring
Now tell the tale, the chorus sing,
And let the laughter loudly ring;
Here ’s to our host, drink down the toast,        35
Then up! for time is on the wing.
Hilloo, hilloo, hilloo, hilloo!
The moon is sinking out of sight,
Across the sky dark clouds take flight,
And dimly looms the mountain height;        40
Tie on the shoes, no time to lose,
We must be home again to-night.

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Clemson didn’t have to do much to assume the No. 1 spot in the latest Baseball America Top 25 rankings. The Tigers ascended to the top without playing a game, as No. 2 Miami dropped a pair of games to Mercer last weekend and No. 1 Rice limped to a 2-3 start. Clemson plays host to George Mason this weekend in the first tuneup series of its rather light non-conference slate. The biggest challenge between now and Clemson’s March 30-April 1 series against Miami is a two-game home-and-home set against No. 3 South Carolina on March 3-4. That gives the Tigers plenty of time to break in their brand-new weekend rotation. Jason Berken, Josh Cribb and Stephen Faris are gone, replaced by junior righthanders P.J. Zocchi and David Kopp and sophomore lefty Ryan Hinson.

Clemson assistant coach Kevin O’Sullivan reports that Zocchi will get the Friday start against the Patriots. He is undersized at 5-foot-11 and not overpowering, but he throws strikes with three pitches, including an 88-91 mph fastball. Kopp, who will start Saturday, has made the greatest jump since last year, pitching in the 90-94 range this spring. The 6-foot-2 Hinson has projection and a quick arm, making him an intriguing candidate for the 2008 draft. He has been working in the 88-91 range as well, but don’t be shocked by a velocity increase.

Righthander Alan Farina, a transfer from Daytona Beach (Fla.) CC, and righty D.J. Mitchell will serve as very solid setup men for closer Daniel Moskos, potentially giving Clemson one of the best bullpens in the nation. There had been some speculation that the Tigers could use Farina, who throws a lively 92-93 mph fastball and a hammer curveball, as a midweek starter, but those duties are likely to fall to freshman righthander Josh Thrailkill, who is throwing well and appears to be past the velocity dip that plagued him as a senior in high school. But the Tigers got some bad news from another freshman, as two-way player Graham Stoneburner tore his anterior cruciate ligament. Stoneburner, one of the gems of Clemson’s fourth-ranked recruiting class, had fully recovered from a stress fracture in his back that torpedoed his draft stock last June, but now he’s almost certain to miss all of 2007. The Tigers have more than enough pitching depth to withstand this hit, but it’s still a blow, because Stoneburner could have emerged as a key arm for them thanks to his athleticism and four-pitch mix.

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Book Review: Parents Behaving Badly

Parents Behaving Badly: A Novel by Scott Gummer

Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2011

List Price: $23.00

Youth sports, in all flavors, are frequently not the bastion of innocence we typically wish they were. Coaches and parents entrusted with molding young minds too often prove unworthy role models, making youth baseball fertile ground for a good lampooning.

Scott Gummer, who has coached kids at a variety of levels, trained his sights on these out-of-control adults in “Parents Behaving Badly,” a novel that takes ludicrous behavior to the extreme. Gummer zings everyone and everything connected to youth baseball in a story that reads as a cross between “Desperate Housewives” and “The Bad News Bears.”

Ben Holden, the hero of the tale, has just moved back to Palace Valley, Calif., with his wife and three kids after a long stint on the East Coast. Most of his old classmates never left. When his boys, ages 12 and 6, turn out for Little League, Ben is reunited with old friends, each measuring their self-worth vicariously through their children’s sports. After the bully in charge of his older son’s team is suspended for kicking his own son following a loss, Ben volunteers to take over as coach, with the devious motive of making the sport fun for the kids again. The team loses nearly every game, causing a near riot among the parents, who finally all see the light after a close loss in the season finale.

There’s certainly a laudable message in there. Unfortunately, it’s not enough to save the book. The story is stocked with clichéd characters straight out of sitcom central casting. There’s Ben’s hard-nosed father “Coach,” who skippered the local high school squad for 50 years until dying of a heart attack shortly after his son’s return. The immature and somewhat idiotic older brother Fred, and the attractive ultrasound technician whose attempts to seduce Ben briefly threaten his marriage.

Del Mann, the original coach of the 12-year-old team, is so over the top that he’s a caricature of the worst that youth sports could ever offer—at least until his miraculous and instantaneous late-season transformation. On the flip side, we have the too-good-to-be-true major league superstar Homer King (his real name!), who had been taken in by Coach as a 16-year-old after his father killed his mom. Not just a great ballplayer, Homer is also People magazine’s sexiest man alive. Much later in the story, for no apparent reason, he comes out of the closet as a homosexual and is never referenced again.

Too many characters, and too much of the action are introduced for the sole purpose of setting up a punch line. In the first chapter alone (11 pages), we meet 23 characters (24 including the family dog), some of whom we never see again after the second chapter. Most splash onto the scene in one paragraph that concludes with a joke of some sort. Typical is Ben’s brother-in-law, Paul Aycock, who grew up without learning the proper way to hold a football. His main function seems to be setting up a potential side-splitter of a hyphenated last name, Holden-Aycock. The audio version should come with a drummer, banging out a rimshot on every third sentence. Some of the lines are humorous, but too many are familiar, and they disrupt the flow of the story.

Gummer’s writing frequently reminds the reader that this isn’t a real universe inhabited by real people. It’s possible a kid could tweet, “This party blows, but Tommy’s mommy’s a hottie!” It’s less likely that he would be 6 (and spell every word correctly), and less likely still that Tommy’s sister Kate, 14, would happen to be following him on Twitter and see it, especially given she has no idea who he is.

The 6-year-olds may be a little more advanced in Palace Valley than in other towns. Ben’s son Tommy writes and reads a touching speech at his grandfather’s funeral. Later, during baseball tryouts, he catches all three fly balls hit to him in center field, including one Willie Mays style, and cleanly picks all three ground balls he takes at short—though he did throw one away. He also rakes line drives in his tryout at-bats.

Several other baseball details simply don’t add up. Elder son Andrew, who was eager to go out for Little League despite displaying little acumen for the game, is set up as bottom-of-the-order fodder. In the first game of the season, he outrages his coach by failing to drop a bunt, instead grounding weakly to first for the second out of the inning. Unfortunately, there had already been a double play in the inning, so not only did the coach, who tolerates no mistakes from his players, lose track of outs, so did the author. So in love are they with the bunt play that they try again with the next hitter, with two (actually three) outs. Andrew is entrusted to pitch late in a subsequent game because the “bottom half” of the opposing team’s order is due up. The first batter walks, the next two make outs, then he gives up a single, bringing up the No. 8 hitter. For those doing the math, the bottom of the order started with the cleanup hitter.

Another inconsistency that should have been caught somewhere along the line: Ben’s throwing up on a kid’s face when he was 12, “before the advent of camcorders,” yet being humiliated by a clip when he got kicked in the mouth and knocked unconscious during an elementary school play that wound up on “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” a cruel turn that “made brilliant video for early adopter parents with toaster-sized camcorders.” Which is it? Did they exist yet or not?

You also find numerous places where Gummer switches point of view from one paragraph to the next. The general rule for fiction: one point of view per scene. Within one three-paragraph span in the ninth chapter we move through no less than five points of view, a most egregious—and dizzying—case of “head-hopping.”

I had hopes for this one, which was released by an imprint of Simon & Schuster and touted on the cover by the likes of Tom Perrotta. It feels like Gummer is trying to emulate writers like Perrotta or Jonathan Tropper at times, but he just doesn’t pull it off. The “youth sports should be fun” message is too deeply buried in sophomoric humor and sexual angst (from the parents, not the kids) to work. Stripped to its core there’s a story here that could resonate. Like the blundered two-out bunt attempt, it’s just not executed.

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Nets looking at Stoudemire?

Kiki Vandeweghe couldn’t speak specifically about Amar’e Stoudemire but
was presented with the scenario of trading for an established player
rather than weight for free agency and reiterated the Nets would do

“If you’re saying, ‘Can you shortcut the process and get a super player
in a trade?’ I think you would always try to do that,” Vandeweghe said.
“You have to weigh that against all your options. But you’ve got to be
open to everything. You can’t close your mind to any option at all.”

The Nets have talked to Suns and probably would like to continue talks. (Many teams would a shot at Stoudemire).

Getting Stoudemire would definitely shortcut their rebuild and improve their chances of getting another talented guy this summer.

Vandeweghe gave the players the day off yesterday to rest their bodies, but more importantly clear their minds and come back and be positive. But he was happy to report seven guys came in yesterday to shoot.

One of them was Chris Douglas-Roberts who said he came in Sunday after the Nets landed from the Utah game and got a work out in with his personal basketball trainer Jerry Powell.

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Big Bass in the Deep Grass

This was a professional at work

About the author

Tim Tucker

Tim Tucker was a legendary bass journalist and longtime Senior Writer for Bassmaster Magazine. He authored seven books on bass fishing. Tim died in 2007, but his work and legacy live on.

Charley Hartley doesn't claim to be psychic.

But he may be a little clairvoyant when it comes to finding bass.

It was on a vast expanse of open water on Texas' Lake Amistad that the veteran Bassmaster Elite Series pro from Ohio displayed his extrasensory skills on a blistering cold January day. As he maneuvered his boat with the trolling motor, Hartley seemed to be following an undetectable, yet precise pattern while heeding some unseen road map. All of the water in the area looked identical to the uneducated, but this was a professional at work.

With a Texas rigged plastic lizard in hand, Hartley had been studying silently the liquid-crystal depthfinder on the bow of his boat when he suddenly pitched the lure overboard. Less than a minute later, he set the hook with a force that would have pleased a well driller and quickly winched a 9-pound largemouth up from a weedy depth of 22 feet.

"That was a spot where a bass ought to be," he explains. "That's a textbook spot."

A veteran of Great Lakes fishing, Hartley demonstrated a skill that separates the most accomplished bass pros from the rest — fishing large fields of deep, submerged vegetation.

"Is that fun or what!" exclaimed perhaps the most vivacious pro on the Elite Series. "Big bass love that deep grass.

"It depends on the body of water, but lakes like Murray and Amistad have grass that grows as deep as 30 feet. I first experienced that on Lake Murray years ago. I had never seen a lake where the grass grew so deep, but it has to do with the clear water and the light penetration."

Pam Martin-Wells, a top performer on the Women's Bassmaster Tour, guides on Lake Seminole, where she often pinpoints largemouth holding in vegetation growing in 18 to 20 feet of water in Spring Creek.

"It's a little bit more challenging because you have to rely on your electronics a lot more to find the points, the pockets and that kind of thing in the deep grassbeds," she says. "But when you find that one special spot, my gosh, one small grassbed in deep water can hold a ton of fish."

Matt Reed knows this is true from years of targeting bass in the deepest hydrilla flats in Rayburn and Toledo Bend.

"One of my favorite things to do is fish deep grass, especially in the summertime," says the Elite Series pro from Texas. "I love flipping a jig in that deep grass.

"That's as good as it gets. Take a flipping stick with 60- or 80-pound braid and go to work."

Summertime may be his favorite, but Reed finds concentrations of bass holding in weeds as deep as 22 or 23 feet in East Texas waters. He emphasizes that bass location in such habitat changes with the season. As a result, he usually finds them in the interior portions in the winter and summer; and more likely to be relating to the edges in the spring and fall.

For most anglers, determining where to begin their search in acres and acres of submerged grass can be baffling.

"The starting point is always structure related," Reed advises. "You have to have structure meet your grass, and that's where the bass are going to be. Think of it like there wasn't any grass there. You would fish the structure spots. For bass to really congregate in that grass you need a point or a creek channel bend — there has to be something different."

"There will be miles and miles of vegetation that looks the same, but you need to find the little key spots like depth changes and so forth."

These hidden hot spots can include:

> A cut, point, pocket or other unusual feature along the edge of a well-defined grassline.

> Channels and ditches that dissect weedy areas and are used as migration routes by bass.

> Mixing types of vegetation beneath the surface.

> Bald or bare spots void of growth, which may indicate the location of a sandbar.

> Points that include a distinctive shape in the grassline or a bottom-contour change.

> Tunnels formed by the bare bottoms of creek channels or other depressions where submerged hydrilla or milfoil actually curls over to form an open water cavern beneath the plant.

> Drains created by erosion from rain runoff along a large point that was exposed before the reservoir was flooded. Grass usually won't grow in the drain itself.

"When I first started fishing in East Texas in the 1980s, we didn't know a whole lot about grass," Reed says. "People were talking about drains and ditches and so forth. It took me a little while to figure out that an East Texas drain may not be a foot deep going through that grass. And fish just really concentrate on that (subtle) depth change."

With deep grass, Hartley is an edge man. And he has the results to show for it. During his visit to Amistad in January '06, he homed in on grass edges to catch four 8-plus-pound bass during the coldest week of the year.

"The main thing I look for with deep grass is the edge of it, depending on the time of the year," he notes.

"Especially in cold water, I'm looking for the deepest edge of the grass closest to really deep water. When I say access to really deep water, I don't mean 20 or 30 feet. The grass edge is at that depth; I want maybe 80 feet of water under the boat near that grass. That way, I have an opportunity to pick off a fish that is down that deep and just moves up for a minute or two to feed.

"It is not always clearly defined on your depthfinder. It's not like a straight line where the grass stops. Really, what you're looking for is that scattered edge, where the grass is thinner and not a solid wad. The bass seem to like it better where it is half weeds and half not weeds. They like to be in those smaller clumps and come out to feed in those open areas between the thick grass."

Bass positioning and metabolism generally dictate lure choice when probing offshore weedbeds. The thickness of the grass also comes into play.

Martin-Wells' primary tools are a deep diving crankbait or a 1/2- to 3/8-ounce jig. But she has had the most success using a Spro suspending jerkbait to draw strikes from below.

Given a choice, Matt Reed will be armed with a 3/4- to 1 1/4-ounce jig or a 10 1/2- or 11-inch plastic worm teamed with a 1/2- or 3/4-ounce weight, depending on the density of the grass.

Regardless of the lure involved, Hartley employs a lesson learned in the offshore waters of Lake Erie. He utilizes spinning tackle, which allows him to more accurately get a bait to free-fall to a spot in the grass that can be as deep as 30 to 35 feet. It also is well suited for the dragging method of fishing a tube.

"With that spinning reel, it works out well because when I feel I've moved the lure up off the bottom, I can flip that bail and let it right back down in the fish's face," he says. "And I get a lot of my bites right then."

BASS icon Rick Clunn describes his ideal deep grass scenario:
"It would be a channel swing running against the grass because you've got the best of both worlds intersecting," the veteran Missouri pro explains. "You've got a creek or river channel making a bend against the grass, which is the ultimate combination of cover and structure.
"Bass location on that swing would depend on the time of year, really. If it were winter, you'd fish along the edge. You'd want to fish the spot where the grass gets very c lose to that channel bend. In the winter, especially, this type of area is prime."


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Student Government to host Presidential Straw Poll

Oct. 19, 2008

WACO, Texas-- The Office of the Student Body External Vice President has announced that the annual Hay Day Straw Poll will be held on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008.

In conjunction with the upcoming presidential election, the presidential straw poll encourages Baylor students to become politically informed on all of the candidates that are currently seeking the highest office of the land.

After a successful "Rock the Vote" campaign held by the Baylor Student Government and Department of Student Activities last month, Hay Day will look to expound on student political participation by providing the probable voter with everything that they will need in order to be prepared to vote on November 4th.

"The point of [Hay Day] is to create awareness for the election, which is just over two weeks away. It is incredibly important that young people our age get out and vote," remarks Sam Chen, an Allentown, Pa., senior. "The straw poll creates awareness for the election and informs [the voter] with pamphlets helping students make responsible decisions on Election Day."

Pamphlets discussing each presidential candidate's political platform will be provided to students that seek a better understanding of the issues and policies that will be affecting them over the next presidential term.

The Hay Day Presidential Straw Poll is scheduled from 11:00am to 3:00pm on Baylor's Fountain Mall. Food and drinks will be provided to participants by the Baylor Student Government as well as the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity.


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Did Budweiser's Super Bowl ad sanitise war homecomings?

  • 5 February 2014
Still frame from Super Bowl ad featuring a veteran's return from Afghanistan
Image caption Budweiser's Super Bowl ad featured a surprise parade for Army Lt Chuck Nadd

If Twitter trend terms and internet chatter are any indication, Coca-Cola's multilingual Super Bowl ad generated the most controversy during and after the big game.

But it wasn't the only spot to provoke debate.

Budweiser's ad, A Hero's Welcome, follows Army helicopter pilot Lt Chuck Nadd as he receives a big surprise upon returning home from Afghanistan.

The ad begins with a tender reunion between the soldier and his girlfriend in a quiet airport. Next it's his hometown's turn, with an all-hands-on-deck parade.

According to the Orlando Sentinel's David Breen, this was a genuine surprise:

"Nadd had been told by his commanding officer that he'd be filmed for a documentary on returning veterans."

Budweiser told the paper it had planned a year-long social media campaign off the back of this advertisement honouring the US military.

For critics, however, the ad appears to have struck two nerves in America's complex relationship with its veterans: why are backslaps and parades sometimes not enough? And how much do people really want to know about the struggles and demons a veteran can face?

Public Radio International's Ally Thibault found that vets and their families had "mixed views" over the ad, including this mother of a US marine:

[Patricia] Hohl has qualms about making the private and personal matter of a loved one returning home from war into a public spectacle. She says this ad "allows people to feel as if they're doing something, allows people to feel as if they're participating, when the next minute they're back down in their seats watching the Super Bowl and eating hot dogs."

Veteran Mike Kopack disagrees, telling PRI the ad "walks a fine line between 'welcome home' and 'look what we did', but Bud kept it on the right side."

Elsewhere, Iraq veteran Don Gomez headlines his reaction: "Last night's Budweiser ad 'A Hero's Welcome' was exploitative and offensive."

He goes on to write:

Don't be fooled. What you saw last night was a beer advertisement. The ultimate aim was to sell more beer. The last thing you saw, after all, was a bright red screen with the Budweiser logo. The hope is that you link "supporting the troops," a vague, meaningless statement, to drinking Budweiser beer.

Yes, the images we saw were nice. The homecoming that young 1LT Nadd received undoubtedly felt special to him and his family. And Budweiser and its parent company, Anheuser Busch, have donated millions of dollars to military charities. That is commendable.

That said, this homecoming wasn't coordinated with pure altruism in mind. If it was, we wouldn't know about it. It wouldn't have been filmed and edited. And Budweiser certainly wouldn't have bought some of the most expensive ad space known to man to showcase it for millions of beer drinking Americans.

Still, others believe Budweiser handled the ad with grace - yes, the company has product to sell but it can still pay tribute to veterans. Bloomberg Businessweek's Kyle Stock, looking at the relationship between advertising and the military, writes that the advertisement struck a good balance:

Budweiser's effort was classy and restrained. There was nary a beer bottle in the commercial, just a bunch of giant draft horses and an old-fashioned Budweiser wagon. The company also gives generously to the Folds of Honor Foundation, which provides scholarships for the children of wounded and killed soldiers.

So far the ad has nearly 9 million views on YouTube. Among the commenters supporting the ad, one writes: "I would describe it as an honorable love letter to our troops."

For critics, however, it wasn't just the perception of a glossy homecoming that proved irksome - it was the booze itself.

Phillip Carter, an Iraq veteran and current senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, writes in Foreign Policy: "The ad ignores the complicated relationship that veterans have with alcohol, obscuring how much harm booze does to veterans when they come home."

He continues: "Decades of research should have persuaded the Army to avoid getting in bed with Budweiser. Better for at-risk soldiers to hear a simple truth: This Bud isn't for you."

As for the soldier at the centre of the advertisement, Lt Nadd told Fox News: "So many folks deserve this so much more than me."


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Harvey Weinstein stages Finding Neverland in Leicester

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Image caption Weinstein says making the film Finding Neverland for his children "taught me how to be a father"

Hollywood heavyweight Harvey Weinstein masterminded the success of films including Pulp Fiction, Shakespeare In Love, The King's Speech and The Artist. Now he is turning one of his hits, Finding Neverland, into a $10m (£6.2m) stage musical in Leicester.

It is just 20 seconds into the interview and Harvey Weinstein has already casually tossed the names Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese and Danny Boyle into the conversation.

If anyone is entitled to drop names, this formidable movie producer and distributor is.

He could add Steven Soderbergh, the Coen brothers, Michael Moore and Anthony Minghella to the list of the directors he has dealt with, while a quick scan of red carpet photos from down the years shows him grinning next to A-listers ranging from Brad Pitt to Nicole Kidman.

Arguably the most powerful man in Hollywood, Weinstein's name was alongside that of his friend Barack Obama on Time magazine's latest list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Back to the interview, and Weinstein mentions Tarantino (with whom he has worked since Reservoir Dogs), Scorsese (whose Gangs of New York he produced) and Boyle (Weinstein distributed Trainspotting in the US) to highlight the fact he is not afraid to make hard-edged films.

But, he adds, he also has a softer side.

Image caption The Finding Neverland film starred Kate Winslet and Johnny Depp

His latest project is a stage version of the enchanting Oscar-winning 2004 film Finding Neverland, in which Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet told the story of author JM Barrie.

He had the film made, he says, because his young children were fans of Peter Pan. "I wanted to do something inspirational for my children," he says, adding the interaction with them while making the movie "taught me how to be a father".

Now he is helping to turn the story into a full-scale stage musical that will receive its world premiere in Leicester's Curve Theatre on 22 September. "There are some big moments because this is a $10m musical," he says.

Weinstein has insisted on being involved at every stage of the show's creation, alongside director Rob Ashford.

Ashford specialises in the music and choreography, while stories are Weinstein's strong point, he says.

"I have been very hands-on from script to lyrics to music and casting," he explains. "In pretty much everything, Rob and I are true partners and I made that clear in the beginning. That's how I wanted to work."

Image caption Rosalie Craig and Julian Ovenden will play the lead roles in the stage version

His ruthless methods and brutal temper have been the stuff of Hollywood legend for two decades, and he has earned the nickname Harvey Scissorhands for his tendency to interfere in the editing of films.

For the stage show, he has used his star-packed contacts book to get pointers from the likes of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sir Cameron Mackintosh, who would watch rehearsals and tell him which songs were weak or which bits were too boring.

"Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes," he says. "Everything I've done to people - this is great karma - is being done to me."

And it is not just theatrical luminaries who have been picking apart the show.

"My kids all feel that they've got a stake in it," he says. "They've been to every workshop in New York City. Every one of them over three years. And they've been to rehearsals in the UK."

Lily, 17, is the most critical, Weinstein says, while Emma is 14 and Ruth is nine. "You would see them at rehearsals nodding or frowning."

The producer chose the Curve theatre, which opened in 2008, for the launch because its technical and rehearsal facilities beat those of traditional British Victorian playhouses.

Leicester's mayor recently attacked the "ludicrous" cost of building and running the venue, but it may be starting to pay off after winning over Weinstein.

The roles of Depp and Winslet will be filled on stage by Foyle's War star Julian Ovenden and Rosalie Craig. There had been rumours Gwyneth Paltrow would take the Winslet part, but not even Weinstein's powers of persuasion could pull that off - yet.

Asked where he hopes the show will go if it is a hit in Leicester, Weinstein replies simply: "The West End. And then Broadway."

He then aims to adapt more shows from his films, with the next being Chocolat, the 2000 romance that starred Juliette Binoche and, again, Johnny Depp.

The story's themes of discrimination are wrapped up in a romantic drama. Stage musicals should deal with difficult issues, just as classics like Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific did, Weinstein believes.

The producer is dismissive of jukebox musicals and what he terms "kiddie musicals".

"Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still entertaining, and you still feel these stories," he says.

"Chocolat deals with so many different issues. There's going to be dark and there's going to be light. I think audiences can deal with these mature themes.

"We can make family musicals and make something that people can discuss when they come home."

If Weinstein wants to deal with difficult subjects and is planning to mine his greatest hits further, how about a Trainspotting musical?

He lets out a long, low laugh. "Well, we know Danny Boyle knows how to stage things," he replies. "I wouldn't call that a family musical, but I'm game if he is."

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A&E waits and delays 'worsening' as winter bites

  • 30 January 2013
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Image caption This winter has been particularly difficult for the NHS, the figures suggest

Patients going to A&E in England are facing longer waits and delays as growing pressure on hospitals put services under strain, figures suggest.

The data - highlighted by Labour - shows the problems have got worse over the past few months in particular.

The NHS is still meeting its target that 95% of people are seen in four hours, but the data suggests this winter has been more difficult.

There is also evidence of ambulances being left queuing outside hospitals.

Labour said the worsening situation was a result of government cuts, but ministers said the NHS was coping well.

An extra 47,000 patients have waited more than four hours in A&E this winter - a 20% rise on the same period 12 months previously.

Particular problems are being experienced by the major A&E units with the overall target only being hit because of the better performance of minor injury units and small A&Es.

'Unprepared for winter'

The data - compiled from official Department of Health figures and research by the Labour party - also showed a rise in ambulances having to wait more than 30 minutes to hand over patients once they arrive at hospital.

From 30 November to 20 January there were nearly 43,000 cases, up by 35% on the same period the year before.

There was even a case of an ambulance waiting more than five hours.

Elsewhere in hospitals, wards reported problems discharging patients. This is often related to a lack of community support from district nursing and social care being available for the most vulnerable patients.

Shadow Labour health secretary Andy Burnham said: "It is becoming clearer by the day that ministers left the NHS unprepared for winter. A number of A&Es are simply not coping.

"Hospitals don't have enough staff and there are growing concerns for patient safety."

The findings echo the concerns expressed by the College of Emergency Medicine in recent months.

College vice-president Taj Hassan said the rising pressures were "unsustainable".

"Safety of care delivery remains the top priority to maintain but unfortunately the rising numbers of patients, especially out of hours, continues to be a major challenge," he added.

Health Minister Norman Lamb said there would always be difficult weeks, especially during winter, but he added the NHS was still in line to meet the target this year.

He said this was being done despite an extra one million people visiting A&E units annually than two years ago.

"It really makes the case we have to do much more to keep people out of hospital."

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Aerial footage showed cars, trucks and vans completely buried under snow drifts in Cumbria, after blizzard conditions on Friday and overnight into Saturday.

Snow, sleet and rain have disrupted transport and power supplies in much of the UK.

A number of roads and airports have closed, with many of the weekend's sporting fixtures affected too.

Snow is falling across central and northern parts of the country and it is expected to spread to the South and South East of England.

Gary Parsons from Bay Search and Rescue in Cumbria described it as an "incredible scene".


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PCC Martyn Underhill plans council tax rise to recruit officers

  • 31 January 2013
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Image caption Mr Underhill said the increase was needed to sustain front-line services

Dorset's police and crime commissioner (PCC) wants to increase the policing element of council tax by seven pence a week.

Martyn Underhill said it would go towards recruiting an extra 12 police officers.

The increase would make the annual bill for a band D property £183.51, a rise of £3.51 on the current year.

The proposal will go to the county's PCC panel on 6 February. If approved it will come into force in April.

Mr Underhill said: "People want a more visible force. I am asking people for an extra penny a day to sustain front-line policing, to help cut crime."

The PCC said Dorset Police could become "unbalanced" under government spending cuts to police budgets and force numbers.

Mr Underhill, a former detective, said: "Dorset Police could be faced with not having any police officers with less than eight years service.

"There is a danger that we will begin to be unrepresentative of the community that we are policing."

Recruitment in Dorset has been frozen since June 2010.

Clare's law

Mr Underhill has also pledged to introduce Clare's law in Dorset "as soon as possible".

Named after a woman who was murdered by a former partner she met on Facebook, it allows people to check if their partner has a violent past.

He said he had written to Home Secretary Theresa May asking her to consider Dorset for the scheme.

Mr Underhill also said there would be a considerable increase in the number of special constables.

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Ten signs of happiness published by ONS

  • 1 November 2011
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People are to be asked how satisfied they are with their husband, wife or partner, under government plans to measure the country's happiness.

The Office for National Statistics has published a list of 10 indicators of wellbeing, including health, education, income, work and trust in politicians.

A three-month consultation will now begin before a final list is published.

David Cameron's "happiness index" is intended to complement other measures of the state of the UK such as GDP.

The list of national wellbeing indicators was drawn up following a five-month debate involving 34,000 people on the question "What matters to you?"

Statisticians narrowed that down to 10 areas, including seven relating to personal wellbeing and three wider indicators - governance, the economy and the environment.

Top of the list of measures in the ONS consultation document is individual happiness.

Among the questions likely to be asked are: "Do you feel your life is worthwhile? How satisfied are you with your husband, wife or partner?"

People would also be asked about job satisfaction and whether they feel they achieve a balance of work and leisure activities.

On neighbourhoods, people's involvement in their local area and sense of belonging, as well as feelings of personal safety, would be considered.

Other areas explored are people's financial situation and whether they are happy with their household income.

There would also be questions about education from an individual's own education to the importance of learning new things and satisfaction with the standard of the national education system.

More general areas included are what percentage of the population voted and how many trust Parliament, the state of the economy and the environment - the latter measured in part using greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants.

After the consultation exercise, which ends in January, statisticians will consider scrapping indicators from the shortlist or adding new ones. A summary of people's views will be published next spring.

The programme, launched a year ago, aims to provide a better understanding of how society is doing, and could help form coalition policy in the future.

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Argentina refuses body of Nazi war criminal Priebke

Convicted former Nazi SS captain Erich Priebke leaves after attending a mass at a church in northern Rome October 17, 2010.
Image caption Erich Priebke was allowed to serve his sentence under house arrest in Rome

Argentina has said it will not accept the body of convicted Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke, who died in Italy on Friday aged 100.

Priebke fled to Argentina after World War II and lived for nearly 40 years in the Andean resort of Bariloche before his identity was unveiled in 1994.

He was later extradited to Italy and sentenced to life imprisonment.

An Italian official had said that Priebke's body was to be buried next to that of his wife in Argentina.

But in a Twitter message, the office of Foreign Minister Hector Timerman said that wouldn't happen.

"Foreign Minister Hector Timerman has given the order not to accept the slightest move to allow the return of the body of Nazi criminal Erich Priebke to our country," the foreign ministry said.

"Argentines will not accept this kind of affront to human dignity."

Priebke, a former SS captain, was found guilty of ordering a massacre at Rome's Ardeatine caves in March 1944, a crime for which he never expressed remorse.

The bloodbath left 335 people dead, including 75 Jews.

Priebke was jailed for life in 1998 but because of his age and poor health, he was allowed to serve his sentence under house arrest in the capital.

Argentina's decision was welcomed by two Jewish organisations, the Israelite Argentine Mutual Aid Association (Amia) and the Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations (Daia).

The fact that Priebke had "resided with impunity for decades in our country, enjoying a life that so many civilians had been deprived of" was "an affront to the principles of the Republic", the Daia said.

It urged people "not to forget and not forgive the Nazi genocide, or any type of genocide".

Argentina has the largest Jewish community in Latin America, consisting of some 300,000 members.

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Celtic: Neil Lennon says club will fight Scott Brown's corner

Neil Lennon says Celtic captain Scott Brown has been punished very heavily for his "blip" against Barcelona.

Brown was dismissed after appearing to aim a kick at Barca forward Neymar.

The club are appealing against the three-game European ban issued by Uefa to Brown and Lennon said: "He's instinctively reacted.

"It's petulance more than anything else. I don't think it was violent. He's been punished very heavily for it and we're going to fight his corner."

He was having a very good game up until his moment of, I don't know what you'd call it, he just had a blip

Neil Lennon Celtic manager

The ban would make the 28-year-old unavailable for both games against Ajax and the visit of AC Milan.

Brown would then be available for the final Group H fixture against Barcelona at the Nou Camp.

"He's a huge player for us and he's been very influential," Lennon told BBC Radio 5live.

"He was having a very good game up until his moment of, I don't know what you'd call it, he just had a blip."

Celtic are bottom of the group having lost their opening two matches, while Ajax have one point going into their trip to Glasgow on Tuesday.

Following the 1-0 home loss to Barca, Brown admitted he had "made a mistake" but felt the red card was "harsh".

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Meanwhile, Lennon has played down any suggestion that he will leave Celtic Park to manage in England in the near future.

"Everyone has ambitions but I'm at a great club," he said.

"To leave here would be giving up a lot, trust me. Huge fan base, an opportunity to play Champions League football every year and that gives you a great thrill and challenge.

"Nothing lasts forever but I want longevity in the job and that's the hardest thing to get. The one predictable thing about the job is that you'll end up getting the sack at some stage.

"But I can't be blasé about it and say 'I want to go here and I want to go there'. I want to keep knuckling down and keep trying to progress myself and the club in the right way."


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Jobs go as Northamptonshire County Council cuts £33.6m

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Image caption The budget goes before a full meeting of the Northamptonshire County Council on Thursday

Up to 150 full-time posts could go at Northamptonshire County Council as part of the of a package of £33.6m of cuts in its 2013-14 budget.

The £437.9m revenue budget has been agreed by the cabinet and goes before the full council on Thursday.

The budget freezes its part of the council tax.

Children's social care is hit by a £3.65m cut while £420,000 goes from Northamptonshire Fire Service budget.

Leader of the Conservative-controlled council Jim Harker said: "When we launched our four-year framework last year, we promised to freeze council tax, to make further back-office savings and find new ways to work in partnership to help save money even further.

"We made a commitment to continuing to support the county's growth and prosperity and to providing services where people can't help themselves."

A spokesman for the county council said the fire service savings would be made through closer co-operation with the Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service.

He added: "The budget proposes a redesign of children's social care services with a more specific focus on targeted prevention services.

"The review will aim to protect qualified social worker posts where possible."

The budget will be presented to the next meeting of Full Council on Thursday 21 February.

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UK Chart Report: Can Anyone Shift Adele From No. 1?

Last week, it was a matter of public marvel that Adele was still at No. 1 with “Someone Like You,” a month after she used it to bring the Brit Awards crashing to a halt. This week, she’s still there, but there’s an extra twist to proceedings. Remember we mentioned Jessie J and Rihanna holding Lady Gaga back? Well they’re STILL doing it. Which means the entire Top 4 is static.

In fact, it’s only the sudden appearance of Wiz Khalifa‘s “Black and Yellow” at No. 5 that prevents the assumption that no one bothered to count up last week’s sales. Is it possible for there to be a record for the longest held Top 4 in a chart, and for that record to be longer than a week? Cos I think we’ve got a contender here. Granted it’s not a very exciting record to hold, so maybe there won’t be a very big trophy when the results come in, but still, unusual, eh?

Here’s Wiz, who needs to just sit where he is for a bit if he wants to be in on this attempt:

Elsewhere in the chart, it’s all about the stealthy approach at the moment. Britney Spears (“Til The World Ends” – No. 21) and Olly Murs (‘Heart On My Sleeve’ – No.21) are sneaking their way up, with the Black Eyed Peas following behind at No. 27. And way down at No. 35, there’s McFly, who’ve spent four weeks climbing up to No.35 with “That’s The Truth,” the third single “Above The Noise” from their R&B-influenced fifth album.

Which just leaves one final hit song to be explained. Jasmine Van den Bogaerde — the great niece of the actor Dirk Bogarde — is a very young singer and pianist who goes by the name of Birdy. She first came to public attention as part of a talent contest called UK Idol, which she won in 2008, at the age of 12. This lead to a publishing deal, and a record deal, and a classical performance as part of BBC Radio 3’s Pianothon, and now she’s put out a cover version of the Bon Iver song ‘Skinny Love’.

This has received a lot of support from Radio 1’s Fearne Cotton, and as a result, enters the chart at No. 25.

She is, as any mathematician can tell you, only 14 (going on 15). We’ve found a new Charlotte Church, everyone!

For the rest of this week’s chart, Radio 1 has the full rundown.

Child prodigies: amazing or disturbing? Tell us your thoughts.

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Fraser is a British writer, broadcaster and the the author of the book Stuff Brits Like. He is Anglophenia's resident Brit blogger, having written BBC Radio 1's Chart Blog, the Top of the Pops website, and for NME, the Guardian and elsewhere. Favorite topics include slang, Doctor Who and cramming as much music into Anglophenia as he can manage. He invites you to join him on Twitter: @csi_popmusic
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The Brit List: Summer of London – Television

Superheroes or ASBO Scum? (Photo via Logo)

Starring: Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Lauren Socha, Iwan Rheon, Antonia Thomas, Robert Sheehan

Network: Logo

Season Premiere: Thursday, July 19 at 10/9c

What to Expect: The super-popular, BAFTA award-winning sci-fi series Misfits is finally coming to American television in all its thrilling, profanity-laced glory. The show follows five delinquents who develop superpowers during a freak lightning storm and ban together to hide a gruesome secret. Logo’s senior vice president Marc Leonard has dubbed this deliciously dark dramedy “the mutant offspring of True Blood and X-Men.”

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VOA and RFA Increase Broadcasts to Tibet

U.S. international radio broadcasts to Tibet will increase by four hours daily beginning tonight at 6:00 p.m. EDT, 6:00 a.m. local time in Lhasa.

“The violent crackdown by Chinese authorities in Tibet compels us to increase our broadcasts,” said James K. Glassman, Chairman of the BBG, which oversees all non-military U.S. international broadcasting including the Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA). “Our audience clearly will benefit from these trustworthy sources of news and information, which differ sharply from Chinese government sanctioned broadcasts.”

At present RFA broadcasts eight hours daily to Tibet via shortwave radio. VOA broadcasts four hours daily, also via shortwave. Each will expand radio programs by two additional hours daily. VOA also will double its weekly Tibetan-language television programming from one to two hours via the AsiaSat 3 satellite.

“RFA’s Tibetan service is working around the clock to bring authoritative, breaking news to the Tibetan people. These additional hours will greatly enhance our capacity to deliver this news, including live updates, to people on the ground,” RFA President Libby Liu said.

Tibet’s media is tightly controlled and most Tibetans are deeply suspicious of Chinese domestic media coverage. BBG audience research, while limited to Tibetan refugees in Nepal, indicates that VOA and RFA are among the most well known foreign broadcasters and an important source of information in a society where word of mouth is the top way to share news.

“We know from experience that Tibetans will tune to VOA at pivotal times such as these,” said Danforth Austin, Director of the Voice of America. “For example, a VOA special TV program about the Dalai Lama receiving a gold medal from the U.S. Congress was recorded and widely distributed in Tibetan regions inside China.”

The Broadcasting Board of Governors is an independent federal agency which supervises all U.S. government-supported, non-military international broadcasting, including the Voice of America (VOA); Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL); the Middle East Broadcasting Networks (Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa); Radio Free Asia (RFA); and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (Radio and TV Mart

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Softball Drops Season Finale vs. Virginia Tech

Regular season comes to a close, but the Eagle's strong finish will help them in the tournament

Softball Cruises Past Providence, 7-1

Cortez continues to swing a hot bat, BC puts up six runs behind Dreswick's complete game

Softball Splits Tuesday's Doubleheader vs. UMass

Cortez's stellar day at the plate helps BC split Tuesday's series

Softball Splits Doubleheader vs. Louisville

Frei totals for thirteen innings pitched, one earned run, and thirteen strikeouts on Sunday

Softball Falls to Louisville in Series Opener, 3-1

Frei has a solid outing, but BC bats are held to three hits in loss

AS A SENIOR (2015)

Played in 44 games, started in 30 of them..drove in nine runs along with three doubles..led the team in fielding percentage (.991)..went 2-for-3 with a run scored and two RBIs off of a double against Virginia (4/3).

AS A JUNIOR (2014)
Did not play due to injury.

Started 42 games ... batted .250 with five homers and 15 RBI ... led the team with 24 starts in the circle while amassing a 10-16 record with 11 complete games ... one earned run performances against Chattanooga (2/23), Toledo (2/24), Georgetown (3/3), Bryant (3/26), and Providence (4/17) ... recorded a season-high five strikeouts at Connecticut (4/30) ... hurled all nine innings in a 3-2 extra inning victory at Virginia (3/29) ... homered at Bryant (3/26) and at Virginia (3/29) ... season-high three hits in game two of BC's doubleheader at Virginia (3/29) ... scored three times and drove in two with a home run at Dartmouth (4/10) ... connected on solo homers against Virginia Tech (4/13) and Georgia Tech (5/5) ... earned the Athletics Director's Award for Academic Achievement.

Played in 35 games and made 22 starts, 18 at first base...batted .209, with three extra-base hits and 10 runs batted in...had a perfect fielding percentage with 104 put outs and 12 assists...scored in game one and singled in game two against Virginia Tech (4/14)...recorded two RBI and two hits at NC State (4/6-7), and threw a season-high five strike outs n game two...had a hit and run against Virginia (3/31)...went 2-for-2 with three runs scored and two RBI in the second game of a doubleheader versus Dartmouth (3/24)...recorded two hits in the series at Georgia Tech (3/17-18)...drove in two runs with a double and scored twice against Providence (3/10)...drove in one run at Florida Atlantic (3/9)...tripled with a RBI against Bethune-Cookman (3/9)...hit a two-run homer at Stetson (3/7)...Athletics Director's Award for Academic Achievement.

Four-year starter for Notre Dame High School under head coach Artie Kearns ... Led the Colonial Valley Conference (CVC) in strikeouts per game and winning percentage freshman through junior year ... team tallied over 20 wins per year in 2007-2010 ... threw a perfect game in 2010 ... tallied a .493 batting average as a senior, a .453 batting average as a junior and a .400 clip as a sophomore ... joined the 100 hit club senior captain as a junior and senior ... earned team MVP honors sophomore and junior year... team Coaches award senior year ... named CVC Player of the Year and New Jersey All-State Second Team in 2010 and 2011 ... received All-South Jersey and New Jersey Non-Public first-team accolades in 2010 and second team in 2011, 2009 and 2008 ... earned all-area first-team honors as a senior and junior, second-team honors as a sophomore and freshman ... Four-time All-CVC First-team selection ... named to the Carpenter Cup All-Star Team in 2010 and 2009... Trenton Softball Hall of Fame scholarship winner for 2011 ... team was the South Jersey Parochial State runners-up and the conference champions twice ... a high honor roll student all four years of high school ... member of National Honor Society and Latin National Honor Society ... earned the President's Volunteer Service Award senior and junior year ...Mercer County Community Service Achievement Award senior year...Senior Most Athletic award... also played basketball for four years, earning Most Improved Player as a junior.

Born to Mark and Dawn Dimon ... has an older sister, Ashley, who plays softball at Syracuse and a younger brother, Jonathan ... enrolled in the Carroll School of Management.

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