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Want to build a special set of baseball cards featuring flame-throwing pitching prospect Stephen Strasburg, future Hall of Famers like Ken Griffey Jr. and Alex Rodriguez, and two-time American League batting champion Joe Mauer?

Then you'll want to build a card set of every No. 1 overall pick in the annual First-Year Player Draft.

Many baseball card collectors love to build "theme" sets, ranging from cards of their favorite team to such compilations as cards of every Rookie of the Year Award winner, or World Series MVP.

A set of every No. 1 overall picks won't be very big -- Strasburg became the 44th player ever selected with the No. 1 overall pick -- but features some interesting stories from baseball's past. Each card will feature a player once seen as the future cornerstone of a franchise. Not all of them lived up to their potential, of course, but each holds a special place in baseball history as being a No. 1 pick. Some have had outstanding careers. Others became nothing more than answers to some fun baseball trivia questions.

The Amateur Draft (its original name) began in 1965, so your collection will start with Rick Monday, the first overall pick in the first-ever draft. Monday, an outfielder from Arizona State who was picked by the Kansas City Athletics, had a steady, 19-year career in the big leagues and was a two-time All-Star.

But Monday is perhaps best known for something he did on the field that never showed up in a box score. During a 1976 game at Dodger Stadium, Monday (then a member of the Cubs) was playing center field when he noticed two protesters kneeling on the grass in left-center, intending to burn the American flag. Monday, who had spent six years as a reservist in the Marine Corps, ran toward the protesters and snatched the flag away from them. The story made headlines around the country, and Monday still receives thanks from fans for his act. His 1967 Topps Rookie Card has a value of about $12.

Before you spend countless hours trying to find a card of the first player taken in the 1966 Draft, let us save you some time. You'll never find one.

Catcher Steve Chilcott, the No. 1 pick of the Mets in 1966, never made it to the big leagues. In those years, Topps didn't produce cards of players until they reached the Majors. As a result, Chilcott never made it onto a baseball card.

Al Chambers, the first pick of the 1979 Draft by the Mariners, did make it on a (as in one) baseball card. Check out the 1985 Topps set for the only big league card of Chambers, whose disappointing career lasted a mere 57 games.

(By the way, the Chambers card in the '85 Topps set was one of 12 cards in the set that pictured former No. 1 picks who were active in the Majors at that time. Those 12 cards combined will only set you back about $1.50.)

You'll notice we mentioned your set will contain 44 players, but this marked the 45th year of the Draft. You can thank Danny Goodwin for the confusion.

Danny Goodwin is hardly a household name in baseball circles, but the former Angels and Twins catcher/designated hitter holds a unique distinction among No. 1 draft picks. He's the only player to be selected as the No. 1 pick twice. Goodwin, a power-hitting catcher, was the first pick of the White Sox in the 1971 draft, but he never signed with the White Sox, choosing instead to play college baseball. Four years later, Goodwin was the No. 1 pick of the Angels.

He began his pro career with the team's Double-A club but soon after suffered a strained shoulder. He did earn a September promotion to the Angels roster, but was only healthy enough to be a designated hitter. He didn't return to the Majors until 1977, but the arm injury never healed and he was limited mostly to DH duties. He was traded to Minnesota in 1979, and his career ended in 1982 after 17 games with Oakland. The powerful hitter ended his career with just 13 home runs. His 1979 Topps Rookie card can be picked up for about 20 cents.

Ron Blomberg, the No. 1 pick of the 1967 Draft by the Yankees, did something that no other player had ever done before him. In 1973, Blomberg became the first player to ever serve as a designated hitter in an American League game, going 1-for-3 against the Red Sox. His 1972 Topps Rookie card can be purchased today for around $3.

Rookie cards of Hall of Famers are almost always valuable, which is another reason a collection of No. 1 selections won't put a big dent in your budget. That's because not a single No. 1 overall pick has ever been elected to the Hall of Fame. That will change in a few years, however, because Griffey (1987 draft) is certainly going to be a Hall of Famer, as is Rodriguez (1993). Chipper Jones (1990) is another current player who is a Hall of Fame candidate.

Joe Clemens, baseball card pricing analyst for Tuff Stuff magazine, said A-Rod's 1994 Upper Deck SP rookie is still a popular seller at $100, and Chipper Jones' 1991 Bowman or Upper Deck rookie cards are valued at $6 each.

There was a time when Darryl Strawberry (1980) appeared to be on the path to a Hall of Fame career. He was the NL Rookie of the Year in 1983, appeared in eight consecutive All-Star Games and was a key part of the Mets team that won the 1986 World Series. He never hit fewer than 26 home runs in any of his first nine seasons in the majors.

But injuries and problems with drug use limited his productivity after the 1991 season. One of the most dominant players of the 1980s, Strawberry has a 1983 Topps Traded rookie card that will cost you about $10 to add to your set.

Mike Moore, the No. 1 pick of the Mariners in 1981, holds two distinctions among the 13 pitchers who have been selected with the top pick in the Draft. He has the most career wins (161) of those No. 1 pitchers. He also has the most wins in a season (19) of any pitcher taken No. 1. That's right, none of the pitchers ever selected No. 1 overall ever went on to post a 20-win season.

Your card of Texas Rangers pitcher David Clyde (1973) will be worth noting because Clyde was the first pitcher ever selected with the No. 1 pick. He was also the first No. 1 draft pick to make his big league debut without ever appearing in a Minor League game.

Clyde was a high school star at Westchester High School in Houston. He made his big league debut with the Rangers just weeks after being drafted, in part because Rangers management was hoping to spark more interest in the team. A sellout crowd of more than 37,000 turned out to watch Clyde win his first Major League start, but he only won 17 more games in his seven-year career because of arm injuries. His 1974 Topps card is available for less than $1.

Two other No. 1 picks made their Major League debuts without playing a game in the Minor Leagues. Dave Roberts (1976) made his Major League debut just days after being selected by the Padres. Bob Horner (1978), a third basemen selected by the Braves, played his first game in June and led all NL third basemen with 23 home runs. He also won the NL Rookie of the Year Award, beating out Ozzie Smith. His career lasted 10 years, and for many of those years he was among the top home-run hitters in the National League. He's also remembered as being the 11th player in baseball history to hit four homers in a game.

Other than Chilcott, the only other No. 1 pick whose career ended without ever making it to the Majors was Brien Taylor, a pitcher taken with the top pick by the Yankees in 1992. An arm injury suffered by Taylor in a 1993 brawl at a local pub required surgery, and the pitcher never regained the velocity that made him such a prized prospect.

But in 1992, card companies knew collectors wanted cards of promising prospects, so Topps included a card of Taylor in its 1992 set. So while he didn't make it to the Majors, he is pictured on a card wearing a Yankees uniform (even if it was from a Minor League game).

Shortstop Matt Bush, the No. 1 pick of the Padres in 2004, might join Chilcott and Taylor in that category of never making it to the bigs. He was traded by San Diego to Toronto during the offseason, and has since been released by the Jays. He's not currently on a 40-man roster.

Your collection might get a little more expensive when you start adding the top rookie cards of some of the more recent No. 1 overall picks. The Twins used the No. 1 pick in the 2001 Draft to take catcher Joe Mauer. Tuff Stuff has his 2002 Bowman Chrome rookie card valued at $140, and 2009 Upper Deck SPx cards of last year's No. 1 pick, pitcher David Price (Tampa Bay), are at $120.

Even though history has shown that few pitchers selected No. 1 have gone on to dominate in the big leagues, expect Strasburg's first MLB cards to also be red hot when they arrive on the market.


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Launching Moving Pictures and Turn/Return

It seems like a long time ago but it was only the beginning of October when we were back at the Protico Library, Manchester, to launch both Marton Zarrop's Moving Pictures and Jan Fortune's Turn/Return. It was a great evening, with a fantastic audience who listened closely to both poets and gave them a warm and appreciative welcome.

Our thanks, as ever, to the staff of the Portico, who were as helpful as they were charming, and congratulations to Martin and Jan for a thrilling launch.

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Can Your Smart Phone Compete With Adrian Jose Velasquez Figueroa’s Nikon D500?

Do your smart phone photographs suffer from “red eye?” Do your friends think that you are possessed by the Devil, when they see your selfies? Mr. Adrian Jose Velasquez Figueroa discusses “red eye,” smart phones and his Nikon D500.

“Devil in Your Eye”

“When the Devil went down to Georgia looking for a soul to steal,” he might have modeled for a couple of these bad “red eye” smart phone photographs. The reason why we see “red eye” is due to light bouncing off the blood vessels in your subject’s eyes.

One solution for the “red eye” problem is to take smart phone photos, without the flash. Another solution is to move closer to the subject.

“Weak Smart Phone Flash”

Just like most of the features of your smart phone, the flash is “serviceable,” but not ideal. The Nikon D500 has a flash that is quick, allowing you to capture the moment, perfectly. Most smart phone flashes are “way too long.”

Instead of a flash, you should look for external lighting. If you love selfies, just grab a little spotlight to use as an artificial light source.

“Adrian Jose Velasquez Figueroa’s Nikon D500”

Taking photographs is such a fun enterprise for Figueroa. When you have a couple of minutes, it can be easy enough to shoot a “selfie,” then you can share it on Social Media.

If you want to see some great photographs using a Nikon D500, just visit Adrian Jose Velasquez Figueroa’s Tumblr page. Who is Adrian Jose Velasquez Figueroa? Adrian Jose Velasquez Figueroa is an entrepreneur, treasurer, director and photographer.

Sometimes, it can be difficult for youth to relate to their elders. Mr. Figueroa is a mentor to Panama children. He teaches them the right way to spend their time.

Photography is a great way to communicate across generations. Mr. Figueroa’s Tumblr page is full of great images of life. He has animals, weather and people. You might even see a deer taking a picture. That is quite cool. You will also see Mr. Adrian Jose Velasquez Figueroa’s Nikon D500 camera on his Tumblr page.

If you don’t want the Devil’s “red eye” showing up in all your photographs, then you might try one of the aforementioned tricks. Control the light and you can get rid of this problem. You might not be able to compete with Mr. Adrian Jose Velasquez Figueroa’s Nikon D500 camera, but you can still have fun.

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USB-C to Replace Micro USB

With the announcement and imminent release of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, there is talk of the replacement of the near-universal micro-USB with the new USB Type-C. This new USB type is featured on the new Samsung Galaxy Note 7, and when a new flagship phone comes out with a new type of USB, it usually means the end of the old format. The same had happened with the mini-USB before being changed out for the micro-USB.

The USB-C is different from the micro-USB primarily in the fact that it is reversible. It does not matter which side is used to plug into a device. While this feature is not necessarily significant data-wise, it does lend itself to assist those who have trouble plugging in their devices at night. Along with this design change, the new plug will speed up data transfer exponentially, as the micro-USB technology has surpassed a decade in age.

However, the downside of this new technology is the fact that it will take a while to be phased into use. Unlike Apple, whose phones are universal across users, Android phones will take time to catch up due to the fact that it has different brands and different smartphone lines within those brands. High-end phones like the Note 7 will accept near-immediate adaptation in the next two or three years. Lower end phones among the more affordable price range may take more time to adapt to the times.

Don’t Soak Your Samsung S7 Active, Consumer Reports Says

Consumer Reports is disputing Samsung’s claim that one of its S7 phones is water resistant.

Samsung advertises its S7 Active as being water resistant, able to survive for a half-hour in up to five feet of water. In its commercials, rapper Lil Wayne is seen pouring champagne over the phone and dropping it into a fish tank.

Consumer Reports, after recent testing, doesn’t agree.

The organization, known for its testing of a variety of name-brand products, does not recommend the Active. Maria Rerecich, Consumer Reports’ director of electronics testing, said that Samsung’s advertising is usually “fairly good” and was surprised that the Active failed its water-resistance test. She noted that only two phones were tested and both failed, with bubbles seen on the camera lenses.

Samsung promised users that it would look into the review. “The Samsung Galaxy S7 active device is one of the most rugged phones to date and is highly resistant to scratches and IP68 certified,” the company said in a written statement. “There may be an off-chance that a defective device is not as watertight as it should be.”

Consumer Reports noted that its other S7 phones, the Galaxy and the Edge, passed the water-resistance test and are rated as excellent. The S7 Active, according to the report, excels in other tests, but cannot be recommended due to Samsung’s alleged false claims.

India’s $4 Smartphone

Late last month, news reports were swirling about a new $4 phone being put on sale in India. The phone, which doesn’t have the capabilities of smartphones like the iPhone or Galaxy, is still impressive for its cost to the consumer, and the fact it was created in India is hopeful for many reasons.

Products created in the country they are distributed in have a much more difficult time being created with inhumane or exploitative labor to the degree that we have seen from factories producing those aforementioned smartphones today. So, a product that could be easily built upon by a growing tech industry in India with an infusion of capital funded by high sales of this basic smartphone is essentially a free gift for economic growth in this sector and also promises more high-paying, high-quality jobs in India potentially than foreign firms could offer.

However, everything from an actually Chinese made demo given to journalists to controversy over the product in India doesn’t give much legitimacy to the company building this cheap Indian phone. Western and Asian tech needs to flood India with the right amount of tech at the fairest level of equity possible in order to develop even more established and even more capable phones than this one because that’s the only way India’s tech market is going to grow rapidly enough to catch up to the West and Asia in the next decade or two.


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Unanimous Approval for Mayor Levine’s Minimum Living Wage Ordinance

Unanimous Approval for Mayor Levine’s Minimum Living Wage Ordinance

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Unanimous Approval for Mayor Levine’s Minimum Living Wage Ordinance

– Miami Beach passes ordinance establishing first city-wide minimum living wage–

Miami Beach, FL: The Miami Beach City Commission unanimously approved an ordinance, which was originally proposed by Mayor Philip Levine and co-sponsored by all six city commissioners. Miami Beach becomes the first city in Florida to establish a city-wide minimum living wage with a phased in approach.

“Miami Beach is known world-wide for taking on its challenges with meaningful solutions,” said Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine. “Today, my colleagues joined me in passing legislation that addresses the growing gap between wages and the cost of living in South Florida by establishing a minimum living wage for our community.”

Recent studies have proven that the significant disparity between Miami’s median income of just under $31,000 and the cost-to-live comfortably of $77,000, which allows residents to afford such items as rent, food and healthcare, is the largest in the country. Because the cost of living in Miami Beach is one of the highest in the state, there is an even greater need for a fair minimum wage.

In 2004, more than 70% of Floridians voted to approve a constitutional amendment that allowed municipalities to set a higher minimum wage than the state to more accurately reflect the higher cost of living in some parts of our very diverse state.

Mayor Levine added, “I am proud of our city for leading the way in reversing the trend that makes Florida a high cost, low wage state. Cities throughout the United States have passed similar local minimum wage ordinances and the evidence shows the positive impact they have had on the local economy. My sincere hope is that Governor Scott and Tallahassee will partner with communities like Miami Beach who have a higher cost of living and need to establish our own minimum wage so we can grow our economy and workforce.”

The ordinance by Mayor Philip Levine will take effect January 1, 2018 and gradually increase, over a period of four years, the minimum living wage for all workers employed in the City of Miami Beach and covered by the federal minimum wage. The ordinance will raise this rate to $13.31 per hour by 2021, the rate currently mandated for employees of City contractors pursuant to the City’s Living Wage Ordinance as codified in Miami Beach City Code §2-408. The City’s minimum living wage would be set at $10.31 per hour beginning in 2018, with one dollar per hour increases every year until the rate of $13.31 is reached on January 1, 2021. Thereafter, the City Commission could annually, at its discretion, consider whether an increase in an amount equal to the Consumer Price Index for the year should be implemented.

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City closer to control of Dolphins stadium area

Miami Gardens sued in 2014 for control of property development around the stadium

Miami Gardens is edging closer to gaining some control over zoning and permitting in the area surrounding the Dolphins stadium, home of the 2020 Super Bowl.

Miami-Dade County commissioners agreed June 7 to the terms of the settlement of a suit Miami Gardens filed against the county in 2014 over its jurisdiction over the stadium’s surroundings.

Parties to the settlement agreement include Miami Gardens, Miami-Dade County and several owners of property around the stadium.

The settlement of the lawsuit allows shared city and county responsibility for controlling construction in the stadium and around it.

Miami Gardens residents will vote August 30 on new charter language with respect to stadium-area zoning and permitting in concert with the county.

Under the settlement, the county also will transfer 10 parcels of land to Miami Gardens for $1 each, including two parcels the county acquired with funds from Community Development Block Grants, at 14101 Northwest 18 Avenue and 15880 Northwest 27 Avenue. [Miami New Times]— Mike Seemuth

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The case for parties in the park

Why we should be dancing in, rather than defending the purity of, Adelaide's Parklands.

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There’s this thing I do when I’m on the dance floor at outdoor parties.

At some point in the night, I look up at the leaves of the overhanging trees and I just feel good. In that moment, I feel grateful for a lot of things – for the dancing, for the music, for the clean air, or for just being alive.

The images were taken in 2011 at Dancing Room – a regular event where people come together to dance at a respectable hour in various venues around the city.

I also feel good about the free and unrestricted life many of us are able to live in this city, about the creative and ambitious local culture of which I’m a part, about the lush and green environment that surrounds the Adelaide CBD, and about the privilege of living in a country where it is (mostly) safe to dance with strangers under the stars.

Sharmonie Cockayne is CityMag’s fashion director and creative producer.

In those moments, there’s a lot of things I think about, but it’s always the same thing that triggers those thoughts: the sight of the leaves.

This year, I’ve danced at the Fringe Club every weekend since it’s been open and, without a doubt, every night I’ve been on that dance floor in the park, I’ve looked up at the leaves and felt thankful, and importantly – excited about living in Adelaide.

Being in a venue filled with happy and talented Fringe performers and media is part of it, but it’s not just that which makes the experience such a special one. The Parklands are one of Adelaide’s most beautiful places, but for too many months of the year they go under-utilised and under-appreciated.

When I dance in them, they help me see how unique Adelaide is. The Parklands make me reflect on why I love living here, and why – even as my friends move to New York, to Melbourne, to London – I’m still here trying to do what I love from the town where I grew up.

Parties in the park certainly aren’t the solution to all of Adelaide’s population retention woes. But leveraging this unique asset – as long as its done with careful respect for the biodiversity and history of the Parklands – is one way we could come a little closer to a city that feels sticky and interesting, instead of just “nice”.

So – Dear God/Santa/Adelaide City Council/rich investors/Stuart Duckworth / Whoever can help us out with this:

Can we please have a year-round open-air space in the Parklands where we can all dance together to the sounds of ’70s disco vinyl and the occasional rendition of It’s My Life by Bon Jovi? We could build a space where international artists and locals and even tourists come to play in the Parklands all year long, not just in the throes of late-Feb and Mad March.

Why not? What’s stopping us? Probably – only ourselves.

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Awesome Tapes from Africa

Africola and tapes from Africa and party and bullshit and party and...

Our neighbours, the good time gang at Sunny’s Pizza, are launching the first of their experimental parties combining food and music.

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Crown Ruler are touring Awesome Tapes from Africa and Sunny’s have swindled Duncan Welgemoed away from Africola to take over their brick oven with his iconoclastic Mpumalanga Fire hot sauce approach. Think Peri Peri chicken pizza!

Ash Wilson of Sunny’s last saw Awesome Tapes at Rocket and says the artist lived up to his name.

“It’s so easy for people to access music currently, which is great,” says Ash, “but it can lead to laziness.”

Brian Shimkovitz (Awesome Tapes from Africa) live mixes cassette tapes he’s collected over years of visiting African regions – first while on a Fulbright Scholarship in Ghana – and now from tapes that he’s found across the world.

“The fact he’s sourcing super rare and what would be considered mostly unheard music is what makes this event so special,” says Ash.

“Especially when that’s coupled with playing the music on their original format, tapes, when today’s audience is so used to hearing people rip music onto a USB and mix everything digitally.”

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The City of Manor only maintains major arterials and alleys.

Property owners with curbs and gutter are responsible for mowing private property to the edge of roadways or curb lines, as well as keep curb lines clear of debris and weeds.

Property owners with culverts and driveway are responsible for mowing and keeping culverts and ditches free of obstruction.

Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) maintains areas along state highways and farm to market roads.

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Please report missing or damaged street signs and damaged streets (for example: a pothole) to the Public Works department at (512) 272-5555.

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The City does not maintain the street lights
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For street light repairs call Bluebonnet (512) 272-4690.

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All traffic signals in Manor are maintained by TXDOT. To report problems with traffic signals, please contact TXDOT-traffic signal division at 512-832-7000.

Jennie Lane Park, located on North Lexington Street, can be reserved and has restroom facilities, a covered picnic area and a gazebo. Greenbury, Bell Farms, and Carriage Hills parks can also be reserved. Please click here for the reservation form.
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Marion Municipal Airport - Update Regarding Airport Layout Plan

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A public meeting was held February 1, 2017 regarding a draft Airport Layout Plan for the Marion Municipal Airport. Held at the airport, this was the second meeting of its kind for this project. More than 60 people attended the meeting, learned more about proposed plans, and provided comments.

The Airport Layout Plan will be used to guide future improvements at the airport and aid in securing future grant funding for airport improvement projects. In fact, the Iowa Department of Transportation requires verification that any proposed projects are shown on a current airport layout plan on file with the Office of Aviation when applying for state funding for new construction of buildings or airfield expansion.

Once the City approves the Airport Layout Plan, the next phase of planning will begin, which includes creating an airport zoning ordinance and updating the City’s Land Use and Comprehensive Plan.

This is a long-range proposed plan with many unknown factors, such as available funding, final scope of improvements, updates to zoning, and more.

Below are two maps that were shown at the public meeting February 1. These maps show all contemplated improvements to the airport over the next 20 to 30 years.

Airport Layout Map

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Questions about the Airport Layout Plan may be directed to Jayne DeCoste with Anderson Bogert or Lon Pluckhahn with City of Marion.

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So glad to see Trump's tax returns back in the news-keep the pressure on! Regards, Len :D

Trump Wrote Off $100 Million in Losses in 2005, Leaked Forms Show

Mr. Trump’s refusal to make his tax returns public during the campaign broke with decades of tradition in presidential contests and emerged as a central issue. That drumbeat has continued since he entered the White House, particularly from critics who contend that his returns may shed light on various aspects of his business practices, including whether he has done business with Russian companies and banks.

Nothing in the two pages produced on Tuesday night suggested any ties with Russia. Nor did they provide much information about his businesses that was not previously known. But they showed that the vast bulk of the federal income taxes he paid in 2005, $31 million, was paid under the alternative minimum tax, which Mr. Trump wants to abolish.

That tax serves as a backstop to the ordinary income tax and is intended to prevent wealthy Americans from paying no income tax at all. Without it, Mr. Trump would have paid about $5 million in regular taxes, plus nearly $2 million in self-employment taxes, on $153 million in income in 2005.

“Trump’s return shows that he’s pushing tax changes that benefit multimillionaire heirs like him, not the middle class,” said Lily Batchelder, a tax law professor at New York University and former majority chief tax counsel for the Senate Finance Committee. “His proposal to repeal the A.M.T. would have slashed his own tax burden by $31 million, and his income tax rate would be lower than the average rate paid by families earning $75,000 to $100,000.”
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Edward Kleinbard, a professor of tax law at the University of Southern California, said, “It’s disturbing that he is pushing to eliminate the only tax that really bit him in that year.”

The White House castigated MSNBC for reporting on Mr. Trump’s taxes. “You know you are desperate for ratings when you are willing to violate the law to push a story about two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago,” its statement said. “The dishonest media can continue to make this part of their agenda, while the president will focus on his, which includes tax reform that will benefit all Americans.”

The president’s son Donald Trump Jr. suggested that the disclosure only demonstrated his father’s business acumen. “Thank you Rachel Maddow for proving to your #Trump hating followers how successful @realdonaldtrump is & that he paid $40mm in taxes!” he wrote on Twitter.

Democrats pounced on Tuesday night’s report, arguing that the White House’s decision to release details of Mr. Trump’s 2005 taxes before Ms. Maddow’s show undercut his past refusal to release any such information.

“If they can release some of the information, they can release all of the information,” Zac Petkanas, a senior adviser to the Democratic National Committee, said in a statement. “The only reason not to release his returns is to hide what’s in them, such as financial connections with Russian oligarchs and the Kremlin.”

The tax forms were sent to David Cay Johnston, a former New York Times reporter who covered tax policy for years and has written a book on Mr. Trump. Appearing with Ms. Maddow, he said he had received the forms “over the transom” at his home and did not know who had sent them. He suggested that they might even have been sent by Mr. Trump himself. Because he did not solicit the forms, Mr. Johnston said it was not illegal to receive them.
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The forms showed that Mr. Trump made $67 million in real estate royalties, $42 million in business income, $32 million in capital gains, $9 million in taxable interest and $998,599 in salary in 2005, for a total of nearly $153 million. After writing off $103 million, he reported adjusted gross income of nearly $49 million. In the end, he had to write a check for $2,450,597, including penalties and interest for late payment.

In October, The Times published three pages of Mr. Trump’s 1995 tax returns, which showed a $916 million deduction that could have allowed him to legally avoid paying federal income taxes for up to 18 years. The forms disclosed on Tuesday do not say whether the $103 million in losses were left over from that 1995 loss.

The 1995 deduction was derived from the financial wreckage of some of the companies Mr. Trump drove into bankruptcy years ago, including his Atlantic City casinos, and would have allowed him to cancel out taxable income for an 18-year period. A tax code provision benefiting real estate developers, which took effect in 1993, permitted businesses like Mr. Trump’s to take tax deductions for losing other people’s money.

Last year, The Wall Street Journal reported that Mr. Trump was able to deduct $39.1 million from his federal income taxes in 2005 by pledging not to build on a New Jersey golf course he owned.

However, it was unclear how much of a deduction Mr. Trump actually took. The I.R.S. has challenged such deductions, known as conservation easements, saying that taxpayers overstated the value of their transactions.

During the presidential campaign, Mr. Trump initially promised he would release his tax returns. “I have very big returns, as you know, and I have everything all approved and very beautiful, and we’ll be working that over in the next period of time,” he said in a January 2016 television interview. He then backpedaled, saying he would wait until the I.R.S. had completed its audit. In May 2016, tax lawyers for Mr. Trump released a letter saying that his personal returns had been “under continuous examination” by the I.R.S. since 2002, and that examinations of his returns from 2009 on were continuing.

The I.R.S. has not confirmed that Mr. Trump’s taxes are, in fact, under audit.

Few people outside Mr. Trump’s inner circle have seen his tax returns. One person who has is Timothy L. O’Brien, another former Times reporter, whom Mr. Trump sued for libel after Mr. O’Brien published a book that argued that Mr. Trump’s net worth was $150 million to $250 million, rather than several billion dollars, as Mr. Trump had claimed. The suit was ultimately dismissed.

Limited information about Mr. Trump’s tax returns from other years has surfaced in court and regulatory records. A 1981 report by New Jersey regulators assessing his fitness for a casino license stated that he had paid more than $71,000 in federal income taxes on about $218,000 of taxable income earned from 1975 to 1977.

But in the next two years, 1978 and 1979, Mr. Trump paid no federal income taxes. The New Jersey report explained that, by taking advantage of deductions available to real estate developers and claiming losses from partnerships, he was able to report a “negative income” of $406,379 in 1978 and $3.4 million in 1979 — thus avoiding any tax liability for those two years, a time when he claimed to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Tax court records indicate that Mr. Trump also avoided paying federal income taxes in 1984. In 1991 and 1993, when his Atlantic City casinos were in deep financial trouble, casino commission reports show he claimed losses that would have allowed him to avoid paying income taxes in those years, too. Mr. Trump may have been able to use those losses to reduce or eliminate his federal tax bill for years to come.

During the presidential debate, Hillary Clinton suggested that Mr. Trump was refusing to release his tax returns to hide the fact that he did not pay federal income taxes. “That makes me smart,” Mr. Trump retorted during one debate.

In response to The Times’s disclosure that Mr. Trump could have used a $916 million tax loss to avoid paying years of federal income taxes, Mr. Trump and his surrogates said the revelation merely proved his “genius” at legally avoiding that burden. ... v=top-news

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Slash has been seen in animated form before, whether it be in his ‘Bad Rain‘ video or appearing in a ‘Phineas & Ferb‘ film and music video, but he’s never quite looked as he does in the ‘Angry Birds Space’ game.

The guitar great has recorded the theme for the updated edition of the ‘Angry Birds Space’ app, and he posted on Facebook the image that the creators of the game came up with for his ‘Angry Birds’ character, and it comes complete with his trademark top hat, curly black hair and killer guitar. The rocker says in his posting, “Check out the new #SlashBird that @AngryBirds made and be sure to do the #AngryBirdsSpace update today. #slashnews.” Check out the actual rendering of Slash as an angry bird to the left.

In order to check out Slash’s theme, you must download or update to the latest version of ‘Angry Birds Space.’ The music plays over the game’s opening screens and an image of the ‘Angry Birds’ version of Slash pops up on the screen, with the option to buy his music online. Check out video of the opening in the clip below, as well as another one of Slash talking about recording the theme song.

Slash isn’t the first rocker to have an association within the ‘Angry Birds’ universe, as the game’s creators offered up Green Day-themed characters last year for ‘Angry Birds Friends.’

The ‘Angry Birds Space’ version takes gamers through planets filled with water, strange aquatic life and bad piggies in boats. Those wishing to check out the ‘Angry Birds Space’ game can download the app via iTunes here.

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We had been in Kauai only two days. We were running in the morning and swimming and snorkeling throughout the day. We were also planning to hike the famous Napali Coast Trail which is 11 miles each way of very rugged and dangerous hiking. John keeps himself in better condition than either Chris or I. He is solid muscle, runs, lifts weights or water skis everyday. It never occurred to us that he was having any trouble.

One evening during dinner, John suggested that we all go on a total raw food diet. This was a rather unusual request for John, and I thought something must be going on and I wanted to find out what, so I resisted. “John” I said, “This is my first time in Hawaii and I want to enjoy all it offers. Let’s do raw food when we get back home!” “But Rich, look at all this great fruit, papayas, mangoes, exotic bananas, fresh coconuts, guavas and even more. It will be good for us, I think we should do it.” “Well we can eat all we want of those items, no problem, but let’s enjoy other things too.” “Rich, think about how much better off we all will be if we discipline ourselves right now and eat what nature really intended for us to eat.” “John, no one could agree with you about that more than I, but why not do this at home and enjoy our vacation to the maximum?”

On and on we went, Chris watching and listening, wondering what the heck was going on, and enjoying the obvious debate this turned into. John became more stubborn and so did I. Finally John gave in and admitted why he was so persistent.”Rich I have had to almost give up water skiing, I have been getting more and more pain when ever I do.” I listened carefully. “The pain is sometimes intense in my back and especially my arms. It gets so bad when I water ski that I’m forced to stop. My hands have been getting more and more stiff and sore in the mornings. I’m in pain right now especially in my back.” I’m so concerned that I question doing the hike to Kalalau valley. I want to try your alkaline suggestions. I asked a few more questions and said, “About a year ago as I recall, we talked about some soreness you were having and I said you were just too acid. I suggested that you stop eating all those acid foods your incredible wife cooks for you and I sent you some Goat Milk Whey to help alkalize your system, did you do these things?” “Well, I fed the Whey to my dog.” “So, now you have an alkalized dog and an over acid body your stuck with.”

OK, if Chris is willing, lets go on raw foods, then you will soon know the truth about alkaline and acid. In about two days his pains began to lessen. About a week later it was time to hike the Napali Coast Trail. His pain was gone from his arms and the pain and stiffness in his hands had totally left him, even in the mornings he was free of any concerned symptoms. He only had just one little spot left in his back.

We spent 3 days of rugged backpacking. On the way back we raced a tough Swede from Sweden for 11 miles with full packs. Then we went swimming. The pain was even less. On the plane home, John, said that pain in his back was only noticeable when he moved in certain positions. “So John, now you know for sure what has been bothering you all these long months. For 8 days we had only alkaline food and most of it was raw. Do we all feel better or what?” Chris and John both felt that they not only felt better but had learned a lesson that was indeed very valuable. We fall apart eating acid foods and heal on alkaline foods.

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RC As In Russ Collins

Last week I posted links to a shitload of Ebay auctions for RC drag racing parts [http://clingonforlife.blogspot.com/2011/07/cr750-drag-bike-parts-on-ebay.html]. After having posted this some of you have send e-mails asking “What is the big deal??? Why is this special?”. And I am going to tell you….

First thinks first… RC stands for Russ Collins, and he was the  founder of RC Engineering [http://www.rceng.com/]. RC Engineering started out as a header manufacturer for Honda motorcycles in 1969, and Russ Collins himself also raced Honda CB750s at the drag strip. Up until the formation of RC Engineering Russ Collins had been an authority on high performance motorcycle engines, and after Collins started RC, he began breaking records that were previously held by Harly-Davidson and Triumph. Collins was not the only one breaking records though. His customers were also breaking records using his parts. Russ' motto holds true to this day. "We prove our products in the face of our competitors."

Russ Collins started his motorcycle drag racing career in the 1950′s. In 1973 Collins built the revolutionary, triple Honda CB750 engine powered drag bike named The Atchison. The huge triple engine Honda Top Fuel bike was featured in numerous motorcycle and drag racing magazines, back in the 70′s and was probably one of the most famous drag bike of the decade. Russ Collins' three-motor monster ran a best of 7.80 sec./179.5 mph but, proved a death-defying ride.

In 1976, The Atchison was destroyed in a horrendous crash at Akron, Ohio that nearly killed Russ, and put him in hospital for several weeks and kept him in a wheelchair for several more. But you can't keep a wild man down, though. While recuperating from the accident, Collins designed The Sorcerer, his final Top Fuel bike creation. Built in early-1977 and later billed as the World's Greatest Drag Bike, Sorcerer was powered by a pair of 1000cc. Honda fours.

After many years of motorcycle racing domination, RC Engineering turned it's interests towards automobile racing. Particularly Hondas with similar Japanese four cylinder engines as the motorcycles they were so used to building.

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Take a minute and thing about it... Nowadays, stock motorcycles are quicker than that???

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Fate of the Jedi. in lieu of of a Heir to the Empire annotation yesterday, The Del Rey folks presented us with a mini-excerpt from Golden’s Ascension. It is indeed very mini. (Also, apparently we’ll be getting a look at the Apocalypse cover today.)

Short stories. Tim Zahn’s story ‘Buyer’s Market’ will appear in the next issue of the Insider. It’s about Lando “on the hunt for some rather exotic hardware” and is set between Return of the Jedi and Heir. The artwork is by Brian Rood. Also coming up in the Insider is a story by Michael Reaves and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff.

Interviews. Del Rey’s Erich Schoeneweiss appears on the latest Fictional Frontiers.

Previews. has five pages from The Old Republic: The Lost Suns.

Lists. There are several facepalm moments for me in Geeks of Doom’s ten Star Wars novels worth checking out (Splinter of the Minds’ Eye? The New Rebellion?? Vector Prime???) but to each their own, I suppose.

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  1. Bardan Jussik

    Whooa! Are you saying you didn’t like Vector Prime? I loved that book, it introduced a whole new era of the EU.

  2. Dunc

    Nope, not a fan of Vector Prime. I have issues with the NJO as a whole, but overall thought VP was just a horribly written book, a lackluster start that did the series/era no favors at all. (It’s not the Chewie thing. I was facepalming from Mara’s first scene on — at least.)

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    I think we’re like polar opposites on the EU. If you were Superman I’d be Lex Luthor.

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NHS: Consultants, Children & Games

A few days ago I quoted one of Doctor Zorro’s recent posts:

 “The medical Consultants must have known full well what was happening at the sharp end. Unless they were blind and deaf they can not have been unaware of the avoidable suffering and death being inflicted upon their patients. Patients to whom they owed their ultimate loyalty. They as much as anyone let their patients down.

“It could be argued of course that they were, like other staff, intimidated into silence, knowing full well what would happen to any individual who spoke out.”

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“Cowardice. Craven, inexcusable cowardice for which they should be thoroughly ashamed.”

Looks like someone listen to what he wrote:

The world-famous Great Ormond Street Hospital has been left in crisis after around half of its top medical staff signed a formal letter of no confidence in its management.
Between 40 and 50 of the hospital's senior consultants have demanded that the chief executive, Jane Collins, resign amid what one described as "growing concerns over patient care".

The letter has been organised by a group of around 20 consultants convened by their professional body, the British Medical Association, at a meeting in its London headquarters on the evening of May 5.

      Photo: ALAMY                        In the weeks since, the letter was circulated around senior staff at the hospital for signature.

It has now been submitted to the chairman of Great Ormond Street, the Labour peer Baroness Blackstone.

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A spokesman for Great Ormond Street refused to deny the existence of a letter of no confidence, but insisted that the chairman had not yet “received” one.

"The Chair of the Trust met four consultants last week and discussed a variety of concerns they had regarding the running of the hospital," the spokesman said.
"At that meeting a letter [of no confidence] was mentioned but neither she nor the Chief Executive have received it. The Chair will respond to the letter when she has it."

GOS is a Hospital for Children and children like to play games, perhaps others too.

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BearStore Ecommerce WordPress Theme

Most noticeable, the amazing best-selling Revolution slider plugin is included in the theme, so you can create beautiful sliders with awesome effects that can make your visitors impressed every time! Tons of unique transition and animation effects for each object on one page, video embedding, image preloader, autoplay and convenient drag and drop back end can all be found in this plugin. You can even create effects of your own with a bunch of easy to set options available. The overall appearance of this WordPress theme is amazing with everything organized in a clever and artistic way. You will certainly like how the product page comes in advanced grid system, for which you can set from 1 to 6 columns. The theme also comes with 361 web-related icons for use with Twitter Bootstrap, in four sizes of link-sized, large, medium and small; and of course you can have them colored or aligned any way you want!

This minimally stunning design is meant to showcase your products and services in the most professional manner so you can sell more. Check out BearStore WordPress theme and see your business take off!

  • Based on Twitter Bootstrap
  • WooCommerce Plugin Ready
  • Advanced Grid System
  • Includes Amazing Revolution Slider Plugin
  • A Lot of Shortcodes
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  • Typography options
  • Wide and Boxed layout
  • Cross-Browser Compability
  • Product Image Hover (swap and enlarge)
  • Cloud Zoom
  • Custom Tabs on product page
  • “SALE” and “NEW” products
  • WooCommerce Shop Shortcodes
  • Video Shortcodes
  • Fully Responsive
  • Advanced Theme Panel
  • Improved Checkout Process
  • Custom Product Page Layout
  • XML with demo content
  • Vector Icons Plugin
  • Unlimited Color Options
  • WPML plugin ready
  • HTML5/CSS3 code
  • Well-documented
  • Custom Headers
  • Sizing Guide on product page
  • Categories Accordion
  • Google Maps
  • Tabs and Accordion


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Monday, December 9, 2013

My COMC Black Friday Hauliday!!

Just a quick blurb and some math about my Black Friday haul from COMC.

I ended up taking off Black Friday to finish a few things around the house. We recently participated in the statewide energy audit program in Alaska and I had a few things I still needed to do after our final inspection. I ended up sealing my house too well, so I had to put in some combustion air for my furnace and I also needed to put a humidistat in.  So I spent a few hours on Friday adding a Dew Stop switch to my bathroom fan.

And after I finished my first major electrical upgrade to my house I spent a few hours patting myself on the back and surfing COMC for some good deals.

For those who have never bought off of I'll explain the concept.  While some sites like ebay or let you sell stuff through their website you keep possession of your stuff till it sells then you ship it.  The COMC model is different in that you send COMC your cards they catalog and scan them to their site, store them,  you get to set your price and if and when your cards sells COMC packages and ships them. Of course as a seller you pay fees for the service.

Last year COMC revamped its shipping and handling process. Now they offer a flat $3 shipping fee.  Which is great.  COMC use to also charge a 25 cent per card handling fee that you would see at checkout.  Now COMC has incorporated that charge into the price of every card.  So if you pay a dollar for a card on the site, a quarter of that is COMC's handling fee.  Psychologically this actually works great because nothing was more off putting than picking out 20 or so well priced cards and getting to the checkout and realizing that shipping and handling was going to be 8 to 10 bucks!

And every year COMC has their big Black Friday event.  Like in years past they offer free shipping with a minimum purchase and other goodies.  This year you had to ship 20 items to get free shipping and you got $5 in store credit for every 50 cards you had shipped.  They were also giving away 100 shopping sprees to the site.  COMC also encouraged all their sellers to run specials and discounts on their cards to entice buyers. Over all I have to say the deals were pretty good this year.

I went to the site with one goal in mind. I was only going to go after cards for my Robin Yount and Rollie Fingers player collections.  I ended up getting a little carried around and spent about $42. Which might not seem like a lot to some of you, but it was a little more than I planned on spending. Over all I think I did alright. I ended up added about 35 new Younts and 17 new Rollie Fingers to my Player Collections. That's  52 total cards, so I also got $5 in store credit.  When it was all said and done I got all the cards for about 80 cents a piece.  I'll be featuring those cards on my player blogs.

But I did the quick math and realized that while I spent $42 on 52 card, most numbered parallels and inserts and that I got all those great cards for about 80 cents with free shipping COMC still made $13 off of me.  52 times .25 is $13.  Yikes.  This is why I'm glad that COMC adds the quarter to the price of the card. This is also probably why I only end up buying like this at COMC on Black Friday.  I still think I got some great deals and I did. Most sellers had great discounts and I'm glad I didn't have to pay an extra $3 shipping.

I still love to window shop on COMC and if you're only going to buy a few higher end cards on the site the $3.00 shipping and quarter per card handling fee isn't so bad.  And while COMC probably will never be the site to fill large holes in your sets like or they do have a great selection of just about everything now.  Plus I also like that they scan an image of every card for sale, front and back.  And the card in the image you pick is the card you get.

Sorry I'm starting to ramble.  My point is that I like COMC. I like that they add something different to the sport card buying landscape. I also like their customer service. The one time I've had an issue with an order all I had to do was email my problem to them and it was taken care of.

Anybody score anything really good on Black Friday?

And I'm sorry this post didn't feature any pictures of baseball cards so here you go.

Here is a picture of my haul!

cb out.

  1. Shopping at COMC will be an annual tradition, only done on Black Friday weekend. But you're right, the window shopping is excellent.

  2. I really like COMC, but I'm a little biased because I'm also a seller.

    I went a little nuts on Black Friday and Cyber Monday and ended up getting over 100 cards. While I wouldn't try to complete a recent set on the site, I don't mind buying low-end cards in certain cases. I figure that the .25 cents added on top is paying for the convenience... I don't have to drive to a show and go searching at different dealer tables for a card, I can just look for it and buy it. In some cases I've also waited for a particular card to come in to inventory, or come down in price, before buying it.

    I also like that I can get cards that I wouldn't usually find where I live (i.e. O-Pee-Chee hockey, Mother's cookies).

  3. I too enjoy COMC. I'm always able to pick up the cards I'm looking for and keep them in my cart until it's time to check out, which is cool as it cuts down on my compulsiveness. Looking forward to see the cards you picked up.


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Monday, November 17, 2014

A one sided trade with Tony L.

You all know Tony L by now. He writes the Brewercentric blog Off Hiatus Baseball Cards.  He came screaming onto the scene earlier this year, with his blog all shiny and new, with passion and excitement and posts.  Man that guys posts.  Go check it out HERE.  He started in February and already has posted over 240 times!! My god I wish I still had that drive.  I look at my sideboard and I'll be lucky if I put out 100 posts on this blog this year.

But it's nice to see another like minded collector, lover of the Brewers and their players, especially Robin Yount.  It's been lonely since Brian over at Thorzul Will Rule went almost exclusively to Twitter. And it seems like all the other Wisconsin team themed blogs have all pretty much died out.

Anyway, chances are if you read my blog, you probably read his, and if you read his, chances are you've traded with him.  Seriously seems like every other trade post is one with a trade with Tony.  That guy is everywhere.  Well now I get to do one too.

Tony is a regular commentator on my Yount blog.  Which is great because it's nice to have someone comment.  He asked if I had a 1982 Brewers Police set.  I did not and now I do. I still have to reciprocate.

Now Brewers Police sets are an interesting thing. This 1982 set is the first in what would be come a tradition in Wisconsin.  As a kid growing up I didn't spend a lot of time in Wisconsin as my father was in the military, but almost every summer he would take his 30 days leave and we'd head back to northern Wisconsin for vacation. That also usually meant we were in town for the 4th of July parade and it was during the parade that the local police officers would pass out these cards.  Each town had there own imprint on the card.   This set was given out by the Milwaukee Police department, but you can find 100's of town variations.

A couple things about the police issues.  They are oversized. Which sadly makes them hard to display and store.  It's a big set, 30 players this year.  The cards are unnumbered, but depending on where you look them up they are either listed by player number, which is how they are checklisted on the team card below or are listed alphabetically.

And just about everyone is in the set. But t most of the value comes from just 3 players. Robin, Rollie, and Mollie.

All the backs feature something that player "says".

Thanks Tony. Great cards and I hope to get you back soon.

  1. Glad you got these cards! I went to the first baseball card day back in 1982, and going to that game in early to mid-May to get the complete card set was an annual ritual through at least 1988 for my mom, me, and at least one of my brothers.

    I also like how the Coaches are just nameless guys who speak with one voice as "Coaches".

  2. Man, what a great set! Like you said, Yount, Rollie, Molitor... what more do you really need? And those 80s Brewers uniforms are THE BEST! This set is a gem!

  3. The team must have printed a ton of these sets because almost all of them can still be had for peanuts. It's a pity they didn't actually list the coaches on that card.

    I wish more teams still did sets like this.

  4. I think that Kevin Bass card is his only other card in a Brewers uniform other than his 79 rookie card.

  5. Ahh, that takes me back. I can still remember the days of running up to parked police cars shouting "baseball cards!" :)


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The Lewis & Clark community celebrated MLK Week from January 21st through January 27th. We are thrilled at the turnout and are still feel the impact from the dynamic speakers and events. Thank you for joining us and we sincerely hope the week long celebration gave you courage and energy moving forward in 2017. If you were unable to attend, check out the event page here. This below photo is of keynote speaker, Dr. James Foreman. More photos to come!

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The Widgets Panel

As the name implies, a widget can be almost anything. Typically these come from one of three sources: WordPress itself, a plugin, or the theme author.

Does my theme have “widget-ready areas”?

To use a widget, the theme author has to provide you with some “widgetized areas” (AKA “sidebars”, though they can be anywhere on the screen). These are basically places into which you can place your widgets, and WordPress will calculate and insert the proper code to implement the desired feature in that part of the page. In some cases, the theme author will have set a default for a widget-ready area, so that there will be something there if no widgets are used at all. Otherwise, the widget-ready area may not show up at all if no widgets are placed into it.

For instance, the WF College One Pro theme has several widget-ready areas, including Primary (used on the left side), Secondary (used on the right side), Subsidiary (in the footer) and Header (located just above the main header image). (There are a few more wich are ready to be implemented in custom designs based on WF College One Pro, but aren’t included in any of the standard templates.)

Screenshot showing the main widget-ready areas in the WF College One Pro theme.
The main widget-ready areas in WF College One Pro

Drag those widgets where you want them!

You may have found that there are already some widgets in your Primary widget area. A new feature of WordPress which was introduced a couple of versions ago is actually a bit of a nuisance here. Now, when one switches themes, all of the widgets which were present in the previous theme are carried over to the new theme. To get rid of the widgets currently in your Primary area, simply drag each widget from the primary area and drop it into either the Available Widgets area or the Inactive Widgets area. (If you want to save the settings entered into the widget to use it later, drag it to the Inactive Widgets area. This will save its settings, where dragging it into the Available Widgets area will reset the widget.) Note that the Inactive Widgets area might be off the bottom of your screen. Just keep dragging the widget towards the bottom of the screen, and it should scroll to show you the Inactive Widgets area.

The Widgets panel from the WordPress Training site
The Widgets panel

Playing with the Text widget

One of the simplest and easiest to use widgets is the Text widget. This allows you to add simple chunks of text in the same place on each page, like the footer text at the bottom of every page in the WordPress Training site. (Often this is where basic contact information for the department or unit is displayed.)

Let’s try this out together…

Get to your personal training site, by clicking the My Sites menu at the top left once you’re logged into the site. Once you get to the Dashboard of your training site, click (or hover your mouse over) the Appearance menu, then choose Widgets.

  1. Click the word “Subsidiary” to open up the Subsidiary (footer) widget area
  2. Find the Text widget in the Available Widgets and drag it just below the word Subsidiary
  3. When you see a dotted outline under the word Subsidiary, WordPress is ready for you to drop the widget
  4. Type some text into the widget then visit your page to see the changes.

If you create a widget with lots of customized settings or content you don’t want to have type again, but decide you don’t need right now, remember to drag it to the Inactive Widgets area at teh bottom of the Widgets panel. Dropping a widget here will remove it from your site, but save all the settings you typed into it, so you can easily use it later.

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Sooners co-coordinators to get a fiscal bump

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While they have yet to coach a single regular-season down in their new jobs, two members of Bob Stoops‘ Oklahoma coaching staff are already in line to receive fairly substantial bumps in pay.

According to the Daily Oklahoman, co-offensive coordinators Josh Heupel and Jay Norvell, pending approval from the school’s board of regents, will receive an increase in pay for 2011.

Both coordinators will make $330,000 this year.  Heupel made $250,000 as OU’s quarterbacks coach last year, while Norvell earned $255,000 as wide receivers coach/assistant offensive coordinator.

Heupel and Norvell were promoted by Stoops after Kevin Wilson left to become Indiana’s head coach.  Wilson earned $430,000 as OU’s coordinator last season.

(Writer’s note: apologies for the hiccup in the first paragraph.  It’s been corrected.)

Former LSU QB Brandon Harris announces commitment to UNC

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Former LSU quarterback Brandon Harris has found himself a new home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Harris announced via Facebook and Twitter he has chosen to commit to North Carolina.

“Obviously, it has been an important time for me, looking for a great situation and another opportunity to grow as a young man and as a student as well as a football player,” Harris said in his statement. “After my [official] visit this weekend to the University of North Carolina, I’m going to get that opportunity. With that being said, I’m fully committed to UNC this upcoming year and I look forward to the opportunity to play for coach [Larry Fedora] and UNC.”

Harris will be eligible to play for UNC immediately this fall after graduating from LSU this summer, and the timing may not be better for Harris. UNC is losing its starting quarterback (Mitch Trubisky) to the NFL and has a wide open spot to fill in the starting lineup as a result. But the job will not automatically go to Harris upon his arrival at UNC after missing out on spring practices at North Carolina.

Harris played in just four games last season, in which he passed for 139 yards and one touchdown with two interceptions. Since the season-opener against Wisconsin, Harris was reduced to backup duty and did not play in any of LSU’s seven final games of the 2016 season, including the bowl game against Louisville. Harris announced his decision to transfer in February, which was pretty much expected given how last season played out amid a coaching change.

Report: Foot injury puts Georgia WR Riley Ridley on sideline for spring

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Georgia wide receiver Riley Ridley has not been practicing this spring, but it has nothing to do with his offseason misdemeanor from a couple of weeks ago. Instead, a foot injury appears to have sidelined Ridley for the spring.

According to a report from Gridiron Now, Ridley has been out due to the foot injury. When the foot injury occurred is not reported. Even if his foot was not injured, it remains unknown if Ridley would be participating int he spring, at least at this point. Georgia head coach Kirby Smart has said Ridley will be internally disciplined for his misdemeanor pot possession from earlier this month.

“He’ll receive discipline,” Smart said. “We are very disappointed in his decision. We do not condone that behavior. I think Riley is going to learn a valuable lesson from this mistake.”

When Ridley may be available again remains unknown, as does what exactly the punishment to him will be from Smart. A one-game suspension is the expected result for Ridley according to the university’s student-athlete handbook.

USF DB Hassan Childs in stable condition after overnight shooting incident

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USF defensive back Hassan Childs was injured in a shooting incident overnight. Fortunately, Childs is currently said to be in stable condition, according to USF.

“We are deeply concerned that an incident occurred overnight in which one of our guys, Hassan Childs, was injured in a shooting,” a statement from USF head coach Charlie Strong said. “Thankfully, Hassan is in stable condition and being well cared for, and no one else was injured. There is an ongoing investigation of the incident and we are in the process of gathering further information.”

The shooting took place off campus, but details about the incident have not been reported.

Childs played in eight games for the Bulls last year. He recorded 16 tackles and returned two punts for three yards in a backup role.

Turner Field on schedule to be ready for Georgia State season opener

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The Atlanta Braves opened the doors to their brand new baseball stadium over the weekend to fans as the baseball team gets ready to open the 2017 season in their new digs. Meanwhile, at the old home of the Braves, Georgia State University is moving along according to schedule in downsizing and renovating Turner Field to serve as the permanent home of the football program. So far, so good, as the university fully anticipates the stadium will be ready to go for the season opener on August 31 against Tennessee State.

The job that’s being done is incredible,” Athletic Director Charlie Cobb told 11Alive. “Each and every time I walk in, I see something new being done.”

Renovation and construction at Turner Field got started in February. The entire project will be done in phases as the university plans to develop around thew football stadium for an expanding university. As far as the stadium goes, the seating capacity will be retrofitted to hold a capacity of 23,000 fans. That will be the first phase of the master plan, with a second phase to complete building the rest of the stadium and add additional seating for fans.

“We plan on doing some unique things capturing the history of the stadium, but also creating a football facility that speaks to Georgia State,” Cobb said. “One of the stories we want to tell is the fact that it went from being an Olympic venue, to the home of the Braves, and now to the home of Georgia State. I think we can write that third chapter.”

Georgia State previously played its home games in the Georgia Dome, the now former home of the Atlanta Falcons of the NFL. The Falcons are also moving into a new football stadium this season. The Falcons’ new home at Mercedes-Benz Stadium will also welcome some college football action to the stadium this season with the annual Chick-fil-A Kickoff will move to the new stadium from the Georgia Dome. This year’s Chick-fil-A Kickoff features Alabama and Florida State on September 2 and Georgia Tech and Tennessee on September 4. The SEC Championship Game and the Peach Bowl will also be hosted in the new stadium and the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship Game will be played there on January 8, 2018.

Georgia State may have their new home, but perhaps one day they will get to play in the new stadium too.


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New Trailer for THE SAPPHIRES Starring Chris O’Dowd

     February 8, 2013

A new trailer has gone online for The Sapphires.  Based on the play of the same name, the film takes place in 1968 and tells the story of four Australian aboriginal girls who are plucked from obscurity by a talent scout (Chris O’Dowd) and packaged as the answer to The Supremes.  I like the mash-up of cultures in the plot, and it looks like a fun movie with just the right amount of drama.  The movie played at TIFF and Telluride last year, and it could be worth checking out when it theaters next month.

Hit the jump to check out the trailer.  The film also stars Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens, and Miranda TapsellThe Sapphires opens in limited release on March 22nd.

Click over to Yahoo! Movies to see the trailer in HD.

Here’s the official synopsis for The Sapphires:

Gail, Cynthia, Julie and Kay are sexy, black, young and talented and they’ve never set foot outside Australia. Until, in the chaos of 1968, they’re plucked from the obscurity of a remote Aboriginal mission, branded as Australia’s answer to The Supremes, and grasping the chance of a lifetime, dropped into the jungles of Vietnam to entertain the troops.

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BLM Decides to apply master leasing planning tool in southwest CO

December 19, 2016

 Bureau of Land Management announced on December 19, 2016 that it will apply its master leasing planning tool to 71,000 acres of the public lands it manages in Montezuma and La Plata Counties in southwest Colorado. (44,000 acres are in Montezuma County and 27,000 acres are in LaPlata County.) The original number of acres under consideration during the year long public meetings and input process had been 326,000. But the remaining area includes some mule deer severe winter range and migration routes. According to announcement the process will begin in June of 2018.

Through a master leasing plan the community may ensure that wildlife resources remain robust for future generations in this area and do not become slowly degraded as future oil and gas development occurs. For example, on BLM lands close to Mesa Verde National Park certain wildlife protection measures can be determined and imposed before parcels are leased, to minimize habitat fragmentation.

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