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SPLENDA® 'Powdered Sugar Glaze'
1 1/2 cups (35 g) SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener, Granular
1/4 cup (30 g) cornstarch
5 tsp (25 ml) water
Place SPLENDA® Granular and cornstarch in blender jar. Cover and blend until SPLENDA® Granular is a very fine powder. Pour into a small bowl. Add water and stir well. This recipe makes a thick glaze. Add more water for a thinner glaze.
To flavour the glaze try adding any of the following: 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract, 1 drop maple flavour, 1 tsp. lemon zest, 1 tsp. orange zest, or 1/2 tsp. rum flavour.
Nutrition InformationAmount per Serving:
Servings Per Recipe: 5
Total Calories: 24
Calories from fat: < 1
Total Fat: 0 g
Saturated Fat: 0 g
Cholesterol: 0 mg
Sodium: < 1 mg
Total Carbohydrates: 5.8 g
Dietary Fiber: 0.1 g
Sugars: 0 mg
Protein: 0 g
Exchanges per Serving (1 tbsp): 1/2 carbohydrate

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Steve Boggess, a top aide to Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, told the hundreds that attended a memorial service for Barbara "Bobbie" Bruno today that her children would share some reflections.
Instead, the senator rose from his seat in the front pew of St. Pius X Church in Loudonville and said, "I out-voted the kids." The mourners, who may have numbered close to 1,000, chuckled.
"She liked Father Farano, and that's why we're here," Bruno continued — again to laughter. It was a reference to the Rev. Michael A. Farano, pastor of St. Pius X. He and the Brunos are Glens Falls natives, and the priest and the senator grew up a block apart.
Bruno reminisced about his life with Bobbie, touching on one tender moment after another. They met in Glens Falls 64 years ago, at a dance, and they played ping pong. "Bobbie had everything in the world I didn't have," he said, explaining her father was a surgeon and they lived in a big, beautiful home. Bruno came from a poor family and lived in a cold-water flat.
"I was the kid from the other side of the tracks," he said. "But Bobbie stuck with me. Her father, her mother, her sisters did everything they could to keep Bobbie from marrying me. I had no prospects … Bobbie saw something and stuck with me." The couple would have been married 58 years in March.
In time "her mother came to love me and her father, but that was later, came to love me," Bruno said, again bringing laughs from the gathering.
It was through the encouragement of Bobbie and her family that he went to college. Otherwise, "I would have wanted nothing more than to exist," he said.
 "She taught me English." He was a "yous guys" type. "She brought me along. Honest, I think she felt sorry for me," the senator said, and mentioned his wife's love of animals and how for years they fed up to 50 stray cats on their porch."
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"SpongeBob You're Fired" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season nine. In this episode, when Mr. Krabs fires SpongeBob to save money, SpongeBob must find other work, at other restaurants.
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Squidward Tentacles
- Eugene H. Krabs
- Sandy Cheeks
- Patrick Star
- Patrick's forehead
- Señor Taco (debut)
- Pizza Pete (debut)
- Mister Weiner (debut)
- Hotdog henchmen (debut)
- Noodleman (debut)
- Old Man Jenkins
- Billy
- Gary the Snail
- Frank (red shirt)
- Orange Fish
- Pilar
- John
- Blue Fred
- Thaddeus
- Nat Peterson
- Dennis (citizen)
- Nancy
- Abigail Marge
SpongeBob is working at the Krusty Krab and is making a Krabby Patty while Squidward sleeps on the job. When he finishes making it, Mr. Krabs comes and tells him he is fired. Krabs says the reason why he is firing him is because he found out he can save a nickel if he cuts off SpongeBob's salary completely. Squidward asks if he can be fired but Mr. Krabs states he can't be fired as he has seniority, to his dismay. SpongeBob offers to work for free but Mr. Krabs stated he already thought of that, but he found out he cannot because it is illegal and he would lose his vendor's license. As a result, SpongeBob starts crying and floods the Krusty Krab with his tears. Not sympathetic to this, Squidward tells him he should come back "as a customer," which makes him cry again before Squidward closes the blinds on a sulking SpongeBob. Then, he congratulates Mr. Krabs for his decision and asks him who is going to make the patties. Krabs tells him that he was a "golden spatula fry cook" in the navy, so he is going to be the new chef before the spatula spontaneously burst into flames as Squidward comments on the impending disaster.
SpongeBob then goes home, crying about his situation, as he is comforted by Gary who also wants to be feed. SpongeBob feeds him but continues to cry as he hears Patrick crying because he is doing so too. Feeling bad, SpongeBob invites him to come inside, before (at first unsuccessfully) telling him about his situation. Patrick tells him that being fired is the best gig he knows and tells SpongeBob he is going to come back the next day to tell him the steps of glorious unemployment.
The next day, SpongeBob appears depressed, and Patrick tells him the 3 steps of glorious unemployment, or as Patrick likes to call it, "fun-employment." The steps are breakfast with Squidward, taking a mid-morning siesta, and free lunch with friends. First, they go to Squidward's house and step on his plants. Angered, Squidward throws food at them to go away. That is how they get their breakfast. Next, Patrick and SpongeBob stick themselves to the rock, but SpongeBob falls down. Then, they go to Sandy's treedome, where she is handing out food which is toxic waste that gives off mutations such as a puffy face and extra forehead for Patrick.
Sandy then notices SpongeBob who tells her he lost his job and tries to eat the food she made but she quickly prevents him from eating the slop since she explains her real goal is doing a psychological test to determine how much stuff (she doesn't even know what this "stuff" is) they eat, for free. Sandy tells SpongeBob that he needs to get a new job. Motivated by her words, SpongeBob tells Patrick that "funemployment" may be fun for him but he needs to get a new job. While Patrick's second head insults him, Patrick angrily hits the latter for insulting his friend and tells SpongeBob to go head with his decision. With that, he turns from a depressed sponge to a happy and joyful sponge again and he goes looking for a job.
The first job SpongeBob arrives at is the Weenie Hut where he gets employed by Mr. Weiner. However, Weiner soon fires SpongeBob due to him making Weenie Patties instead of hot dogs. Next, SpongeBob goes to Pizza Piehole where he gets hired by Pizza Pete to make pizzas, but SpongeBob makes a Pizza Patty, much to Pizza Pete's disapproval, resulting in SpongeBob getting fired again. Next, SpongeBob goes to Taco Sombrero; he gets hired and makes a Burrito Patty, and Señor Taco asks a customer to taste it. Pilar volunteers, but when he takes a bite, the burrito meat gets into Billy and Frank's faces, so he gets fired once again. SpongeBob then cries an excuse to Señor Taco, but the latter just strictly fires him. Next and shortly, a crying SpongeBob goes to Wet Noodle, but he gets fired yet again, and Noodleman throws the Noodle Patty on SpongeBob, causing him to say he'll take his cooking home.
SpongeBob is crying about being fired several times in one day as he goes home. When he arrives home, Gary asks him for snail food, but he says he does not have any, so he makes a homemade can of snail food for Gary. SpongeBob tastes a bit of it, saying it tastes great. Gary eats the food, saying it is the best food he ever tasted. Patrick also eats the food.
Then, there is a knock on the door, which SpongeBob answers. The Hotdog Minions trap SpongeBob in a hot dog bun and take him away. It turns out Mr. Weiner kidnapped him and "promotes" him because of his idea of Weenie Patties while ignoring his mentioning of firing him. SpongeBob can't leave because he got chained until Pete comes along and frees him with pizza sauce, only for him to kidnap him with bread. Soon it is a war against all the owners of each restaurant until the Killer Krabby Patty defeats them and takes him back to the Krusty Krab, where angry customers are leaving because of Mr. Krabs' cooking. Krabs thanks Killer Krabby Patty, who is then revealed to be Squidward in disguise, for bringing SpongeBob back. Squidward admits that even though he hates SpongeBob, he hates the smell of burnt Krabby Patties even more. He begs SpongeBob to come back and become a fry cook again.
SpongeBob says he would if it was okay with Mr. Krabs who apologizes to SpongeBob for his foolish firing him in the first place since the Krusty Krab is falling apart without him, and rehires SpongeBob. Ecstatic at being rehired, SpongeBob cleans the whole restaurant and gives Mr. Krabs and Squidward a new suit and dress.
SpongeBob later serves the customers patties again even inviting his old bosses over for a meal to make amends. Mr. Krabs then says that to make up for the nickel he lost, he installed a pay toilet, which costs a nickel to use.
|( ‣ ) Associated production music
|( • ) Original music
|( ◦ ) SpongeBob music
‣ Bikini Bottom Bound - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [title card]
‣ Hot Steel and Slide Licks (l) - Jeremy Wakefield [opening]
‣ Tentically Speaking - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob making Krabby Patties]
‣ Dragon Flight A - Daryl Neil Alexander Griffith [SpongeBob jumps into the air]
‣ A Pirate's Life for Me (a) - Ron Goodwin [SpongeBob mops the floor while tied to the ceiling]
‣ Tentically Speaking - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob goes back to the kitchen.]
‣ Harp Ding - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob gets a idea]
‣ Tentically Speaking - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob choose a pickle jar.]
‣ Unknown Track 13 - SpongeBob puts pickles on a pattie
‣ Circus Parade (b) - Dick Stephen Walter ["Order up!"]
‣ Fanfare (b) - Nicolas Carr ["One perfect patty on a pristine plate!"]
‣ Monocle and Pocket-Watch - Brian Douglas Gulland ["You're fired."]
‣ Drama Link (d) - Hubert Clifford ["WHAT?!"]
‣ Sailor's Sting 16 - "Well, I've been doing some calculating..."
‣ Saltwater Works - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob cries]
‣ Sailor's Sting 8 - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [Krabs says he'll be running the grill]
‣ Hebrew Lament - John Leach [SpongeBob sadly comes home]
‣ Vibe Q Sting - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob hears Patrick crying]
‣ Hot Steel and Slide Licks (j) - Jeremy Wakefield [Patrick at the window]
‣ Cartoon Sting 4 - SpongeBob stutters trying to say "fired"/"Great. See you then."
‣ Skipping to School - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [The next morning]
‣ Dramatic Impact 3 - Ivor Slaney [SpongeBob answers the door]
‣ Skipping to School - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["Ready for your first day of unemployment?"]
‣ Tension Bits - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward gets angry]
‣ Cartoon Sting 5 - Mid-morning siesta
‣ Fooling Around - Barry Anthony [SpongeBob sitting outside Patrick's rock]
‣ Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr ["Yippee."]
‣ The Fruitcake Vendor - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Sandy's experiment]
‣ Hot Steel and Slide Licks - Jeremy Wakefield [Patrick punches his forehead]
‣ Hot Steel and Slide Licks (l) - Jeremy Wakefield ["Thanks, Patrick."]
‣ Unknown Track 40 - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob loses five o'clock shadow.]
‣ Harp Ding - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob loses five o'clock shadow]
‣ Cream Pie - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["I'm ready! Whoo-hoo!"]
‣ Nude Sting - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob grins enthusiastically]
‣ Comic Walk - Sidney Torch [Weenie Hut kitchen]
‣ Drama Link (d) - Hubert Clifford [SpongeBob screams]
‣ Comic Walk - Sidney Torch [weenie patties]
‣ Hot Steel and Slide Licks (t) - Jeremy Wakefield ["But Mr. Krabs, why?"]
‣ Via Porchio - Mario Tomasso, Serge Tomassi [Pizza Piehole]
‣ Parting of the Clouds - Nicolas Carr [shot of pizza patty]
‣ Hot Steel and Slide Licks (u) - Jeremy Wakefield ["But who will make the Krabby Patties?"]
‣ Guaracha Senorita - Heidi Pehofer [Taco Sombrero]
‣ Solo Steel - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob cries]
‣ ? [Wet Noodle]
‣ Unknown Track 30 - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob sadly come home]
‣ Unknown Track 1 - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob making snail food]
‣ Drama Link (g) - Hubert Clifford [SpongeBob kidnapped]
‣ Stealth by Night - Jack Coles [SpongeBob chained to Weenie Hut grill]
‣ Dramatic Impact 5 - Ivor Slaney ["Parmesan crusted breadstick?"]
‣ Grass Skirt Chase - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [restaurant owners fighting over on SpongeBob]
‣ Tension Bits - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [restaurant owners holding over on Spongebob]
‣ Adventurers - Larry Hochman ["Stop! Unhand that sponge!"]
‣ Bloodbath - Harry Lubin [Killer Patty beats up restaurant owners]
‣ Sponge Monger - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["Well, here we go again."]
‣ Sailor's Sting 9 - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["How can you serve this slop?"]
‣ Solo Steel - Jeremy Wakefield [Krabs re-hires SpongeBob]
‣ SpongeBob History Song - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob cleaning the Krusty Krab]
‣ Sailor's Sting 4 - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [ending]
- This episode is available on the SpongeBob, You're Fired! and The Complete Ninth Season DVDs.
- This episode was criticized and panned with negative reviews for its references to unemployment, especially from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which caused the media matters for America to take action, and prompted MSNBC's Al Sharpton to "stick up for poor Americans."[1]
- As of September 27, 2017, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) gives this episode a rating of 5.1/10 based on 200 ratings by users.[2] TV.com users give this episode a rating of 4.4/10 based on 78 votes.[3]
- This is the last episode to premiere in 2013.
- This is the first season 9 special to air.
- There is an online game based on this episode.
- The title of this episode is similar to that of "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired."
- This is the last episode to be produced before The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water began production.
- Τhis episode aired in Greece on July 3, 2013, before it aired in the USA.
- In this episode, Mr. Krabs does a terrible job making Krabby Patties, and all the customers hate them, even though in "Friend or Foe," a flashback shows he made delicious Krabby Patties. It's possible he forgot how to properly cook them over the years.
- This is the last episode where all captions in an episode are in uppercase.
- The plot of this episode is similar to "Bummer Vacation" and "Model Sponge."
- In "Bummer Vacation," SpongeBob gets bored when he takes a vacation from work.
- In "Model Sponge," SpongeBob thinks he is been fired, when he has not.
- In this episode, he was actually fired.
- In "Model Sponge," SpongeBob thinks he is been fired, when he has not.
- In "Bummer Vacation," SpongeBob gets bored when he takes a vacation from work.
- The restaurants that SpongeBob worked at but got fired from were:
- This is the third time SpongeBob gets fired from his job at the Krusty Krab.
- The first was in "Karate Choppers" and the second was in "Squid on Strike."
- He also got fired in the episode "Sleepy Time," though it was only because SpongeBob ruined Mr. Krabs' dream.
- Also in "Hooky," he was fired after not listening to Mr. Krabs.
- He also got fired in "Dying for Pie," but not necessarily because Mr. Krabs hung the Help Wanted sign on the window because he thought SpongeBob's spot in the Krusty Krab would be empty soon due to the bomb pie he ate.
- The first was in "Karate Choppers" and the second was in "Squid on Strike."
- This was fourth 30-minute SpongeBob SquarePants special to air on November 11. The first three were "Have You Seen This Snail" in 2005, "The Great Patty Caper" in 2010, and "A SquarePants Family Vacation" in 2011.
- Since SpongeBob didn't know what a hot dog was, this episode probably takes place before "SpongeGuard on Duty" and "Krusty Dogs."
- This is a rare time where Squidward physically attacks someone.
- Squidward reveals that he hates the smell of burnt Krabby Patties more than SpongeBob.
- However, he actually gave the customers burnt Krabby Patties in "The Play's the Thing."
- SpongeBob's mug says "Best Day Ever." This is a reference to the episode of the same name.
- In "What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?," SpongeBob got fired as an "idiot boy."
- SpongeBob is able to make the Snail-Po recipe. It is possible that he remembered the taste that he had from "Missing Identity."
- This episode is a bit out of character for both Squidward and SpongeBob. SpongeBob makes a remark about Pizza Pete, saying "I hope his pepperoni falls off," and Squidward went out of his way to save SpongeBob (something he would most likely despise).
- Weenie Hut may be a reference to Weenie Hut Jr's.
- When Mr. Krabs says "golden spatula fry cook", this might be a reference to the Golden Spatula collectibles of the SpongeBob video games, most notably, Battle for Bikini Bottom, where SpongeBob has to collect golden spatulas to enter new levels. He might also be referencing the same spatula seen in "Plankton!."
- SpongeBob gets his pink slip in the form of a shirt. When one receives a pink slip, it's on paper, and then they get fired.
- In the same scene, SpongeBob also holds a can and an ax. The can means "Being Canned" (which means "Getting Fired"); the axe, and the way it falls on SpongeBob and slices him in half, may be supposed to be a visual pun on "Getting Axed" (which also means "Getting Fired").
- This episode aired on March 31, 2014 in Southeast Asia except for the Philippines, in which it aired on April 2, 2014. Both premieres were before the Kids' Choice Awards.
- This episode is similar to "Le Big Switch," where SpongeBob also makes patties out of ordinary food. In both episodes first his bosses hate it, then they love it.
- This is the second time Patrick's forehead is shown with the ability to speak, the first being time being in "Chum Bucket Supreme."
- This is one of the few times where Mr. Krabs wears the Krusty Krab employee hat, the other being the "What if SpongeBob Was Gone? (Mr. Krabs)" short.
- This episode is similar to "Can You Spare a Dime?," except for the fact that SpongeBob suffers being fired instead of Squidward.
- This is one of few episodes to sneak in controversial content under the radar.
- In the promo for this episode, it said "Will the greatest fry cook of Bikini Bottom hit Rock Bottom?" This may have been a reference to the episode "Rock Bottom."
- The episode name was actually said in "Karate Choppers," which is an older episode. This may just be a coincidence.
- The TV Guide on Xfinity/Comcast displays the title as "SpongeBob, You're Fired!"
- This episode was aired alongside various specials from this cartoon and The Fairly OddParents leading up to the Nickelodeon movie 100 Things to Do Before High School.
- This episode premiered in the Philippines on Martin Olson's 62nd birthday, nine years after Nickelodeon Blimp premiered, three years after "Sentimental Sponge" premiered and "Greasy Buffoons" and "Model Sponge" premiered in Poland, two years after "Restraining SpongeBob" premiered, and one year after "Patrick's Staycation" and "Walking the Plankton" premiered in Greece.
- This episode premiered ten years after Friends Forever was released, eight years after "Have You Seen This Snail?" premiered, three years after "The Great Patty Caper" premiered, and two years after "A SquarePants Family Vacation" premiered.
- This episode premiered two years before the premiere of "Patrick! The Game" and "The Sewers of Bikini Bottom."
- This episode premiered in Canada on Shannon Tweed's 57th birthday, Jon Hamm's 43rd birthday, and five years after Surf's Up SpongeBob! was released.
- This episode premiered in Southeast Asia seven years after the premiere of "Born to Be Wild" and "Best Frenemies" and two years after the premiere of "Are You Happy Now?" and "Planet of the Jellyfish."
- This is the fourth time SpongeBob's tears caused flooding, the first being "Grandma's Kisses," the second being "Funny Pants," and the third being "A Day Without Tears."
Cultural references
- The Killer Krabby Patty looks similar to McDonaldland's Mayor McCheese.
- Squidward's princess outfit at the end of the episode is strikingly similar to Princess Bubblegum from Adventure Time.
- On the Complete Ninth Season DVD, this episode is incorrectly listed as "SpongeBob, You're Fired!," adding a comma and exclamation point to the title.
- When SpongeBob's corner grew back after he ate it, the scene skipped a part, paused, and then started again.
- Mister Weiner knows where SpongeBob lives.
- However, SpongeBob could have told him when applying.
- When SpongeBob is smelling (looking) at the paper, his buck teeth are together for a split second.
- When SpongeBob says, "They're Weenie Patties!" and "But you just fired me," his Weenie Hut hat is replaced with his Krusty Krab hat.
- At the end of the episode, the four restaurant owners are seen at the Krusty Krab despite being beat up earlier.
- When Mr. Weenie says, "My customers love your little sliders!," the Weenie Patty is smaller.
- When SpongeBob is forced out of the Krusty Krab by Squidward, there are no tables inside.
- When Patrick is disturbing Squidward when he is gardening, there are 3 markers for plants. When SpongeBob says, "Hey, Squidward, look at me, I'm fun-employed!", there's only one plant marker.
- When SpongeBob wraps his arm around the custom Snailpo can while opening it, in the next scene when he gives it to Gary, his arm is wrapped around the can more.
- The order wheel was not seen in the order window at the end of the episode.
- When SpongeBob is feeding Gary the first time, he uses Slimy Can Snail food, but later he makes some Snailpo and even says before he makes the snail food, "I'll open up a can of Snailpo for you Gary."
- When SpongeBob goes to the cupboard to get some snail food for Gary the first time, if one looks closely, one can see there are multiple cans inside, but when SpongeBob says "I'll open up a can of Snailpo for you" while opening the cupboard, it is empty.
- After SpongeBob got fired from the Wet Noodle, he said that he is been fired five times in one day. However, he was fired from the Krusty Krab a day ago, so he was actually fired four times in one day, it is possible that it might have been later that day.
- When the Hotdog Minions were kidnapping SpongeBob out of his house, his house was a lot wider than usual.
- Throughout SpongeBob's "funemployment", twice his coffee cup spilled, yet later, it is full again without SpongeBob going back to his house to refill his coffee mug.


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90 Pages of Scandal
Seeking the ouster of both the president and board chair at Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey's attorney general filed a lawsuit Thursday that describes the institute's top two leaders as clandestine partners bolstering the president's pay without authorization, concealing damning reports from trustees and violating the wishes of donors.
The 90-page lawsuit draws on a three-year investigation, which zeroed in on the business and management practices of Harold J. Raveché, the institute's president, and Lawrence T. Babbio, chair of the board. The result of the probe is a 16-count civil complaint, which enumerates allegations of financial mismanagement, including clandestine efforts to compensate Raveché without the full knowledge of the board.
In seeking to oust a president and trustee from a Stevens, Attorney General Anne Milgram used a rarely exercised power. There have been instances, however infrequent, where state authorities have taken actions against private non-profits, including the 1997 occasion when the New York State Board of Regents ousted the trustees of Adelphi University.
Milgram says she is authorized to take legal action under the New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation Act and the Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act. Commonly abbreviated as UMIFA, the act exists in numerous states that restrict endowment spending practices.
Milgram sought a settlement with the board earlier this month, seeking the ouster of Raveché and Babbio. In response, the board pursued its own remedy in Superior Court, "attempting to block any potential action by the attorney general or, in the alternative, to cover up the investigation by requiring that any proceeding against the school proceed only in secret," according to a news release from Milgram's office.
Pete McDonough, a spokesman for the institute's board of trustees, said Thursday that Milgram has overstepped her authority.
"The board's view is that it would be inappropriate for them to allow the attorney general to substitute her managerial experience for the business judgment of the members of the board," McDonough said.
Financial Report Concealed
Among the numerous allegations outlined in the suit are repeated assertions that most of the 21 board members were kept in the dark while Raveché and Babbio helped conceal the institute's deteriorating financial position. In one such instance, the two named defendants and other members of the audit committee failed to disclose to the full board that the institute's independent auditor had "fired" Stevens as a client, the suit alleges.
PricewaterhouseCoopers dropped the university because it was a "high-risk client," but the full board was given a more palatable explanation, the suit states. The board was told the company was "unable to continue as external auditors to Stevens, due to costs inefficiency of not having dedicated work force for non-profit organizations."
The board was also not provided with the PricewaterhouseCoopers July 29, 2005 internal control letter that raised questions about the institute's readiness to embark on a major growth plan.
"Stevens Institute of Technology is undergoing a phase of extremely rapid growth in its research activities that is unique in the 140+ years of its existence," the report stated. "The existing finance and research administration infrastructures, and related policies and procedures, have proven inadequate to the demands posed by this unprecedented growth."
Three years after the internal control letter was issued, Stevens was forced to pay the Internal Revenue Service $750,000 in penalties and unpaid taxes, the suit states.
Compensation Secretly Bolstered
The tendency of board committees to withhold information from their counterparts continued in matters of compensation, according to the suit. The institute's compensation committee repeatedly approved bonuses and forgivable loans without authorization of the full board, the suit asserts. From 1999 to 2008, Raveché's salary and bonuses rose from $362,458 to $1.1 million. The suit questions the approval process that bolstered the president's pay, and provides evidence that Raveché and Babbio, the board's chair, concealed a consultant's report that declared the president's compensation excessive.
In 1999, Babbio "announced the existence" of a compensation committee, which included him and three other trustees. The board didn't even vote to appoint members of the committee until 2003, and it wasn't until 2005 that the board approved the charter of a Human Resources Committee to address compensation matters. The compensation committee, as it existed and functioned prior to the charter, "was not created in accordance with Stevens' bylaws or New Jersey law," and its actions before 2005 are "voidable," according to the suit.
It wasn't until 2005 that the Compensation Committee sought the advice of an independent consultant to determine if Raveché and other executives' compensation was on par with peer institutions. But when Towers Perrin HR Services began its work, "Babbio and certain Stevens officers attempted to influence" the consultant's work, the suit says. In a 2005 e-mail exchange, the institute's then-chief financial officer urged Towers Perrin to include Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology in the compensation peer group.
The consultants resisted, and "Towers Perrin's internal e-mails show that the consultants suspected that Stevens' officers were attempting to manipulate the analyses to protect their compensation," according to the suit.
Towers Perrin ultimately reported that "cash compensation levels (base salary and bonus) for virtually all the executives fall above the 90th percentile." The report, however, never saw the full light of day, according to the suit. It was dismissed by the compensation committee, and the full board never even knew Towers Perrin had been retained, the suit charges.
Board members were not only left in the dark about Raveché's compensation as compared to the institute's peers, they didn't even know what his compensation was, according to an unidentified trustee quoted in the suit. One trustee, identified as Trustee A in the suit, asserts that he was unaware of the levels of cash compensation Raveché had been given until he read about it in a 2004 Chronicle of Higher Education story.
"The key figure in all this is Larry Babbio who... is the one who organizes the compensation committee and OKs these salaries and perks," the trustee wrote in an e-mail. "The Board never saw the details of any of the deals during my time. If you asked you got some but not all the details. It is a complicated web and needs to be audited in detail."
Form 990s also falsely reported Raveché's compensation levels, according to the suit.
In addition to salary and bonuses, Raveché has received approximately $1.8 million in loans below market rates since he became president in 1988, the attorney general reports. About half of the loans -- $928,319 – were agreed to be forgiven, according to his 2007 employment agreement.
The loans extended to Raveché were impermissible under the New Jersey Nonprofit Act, the suit alleges. The board cannot loan funds to a person who is both an officer and a trustee – a description that fits Raveché – because the institute's bylaws don't expressly authorize it, the suit charges. Even if the bylaws allowed such loans, a two-thirds approval of the entire 21-member board would be required – and that never happened, the suit says.
Beyond compensation issues, the suit makes a series of allegations about fiscal mismanagement. Among the assertions are that restricted funds, provided by donors to the university's endowment, were not used for intended purposes or not expended in accordance with stated restrictions. The suit further alleges that the financially struggling institution increased endowment spending rates above levels approved by the board.
Rather than respond to the litany of allegations of the suit, McDonough, the board's spokesman, said "we're just hoping this is resolved." McDonough did, however, issue a statement, noting that the board had formed a new committee and retained a retired judge as "an impartial fact-finder" to suggest possible improvements.
"Nothing in the suit is new; the issues raised have been, or are in the process of being, addressed," the statement reads. "With the assistance of former NJ Supreme Court Chief Justice Zazzali, we are confident that if there are any remaining issues, they can be clarified and resolved."
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Drugstore.com, an online retailer of health, beauty, vision, and pharmacy products that owns and operates the Beauty.com webstore, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Salu, Inc. in a stock and cash transaction. Salu owns and operates the SkinStore.com webstore. Additionally, Salu has distribution capabilities in Australia and operates the spalook.com webstore for Sandow Media, parent company of NewBeauty Magazine. In 2009, Salu is expected to generate at least $40 million of revenue, $500,000 of net income and $1.4 million of adjusted EBITDA, excluding one-time transaction-related charges.
The acquisition will create one of the largest online beauty retailers offering consumers a wide-ranging product selection, with mass beauty products on drugstore.com, prestige beauty brands on Beauty.com and clinical skin care products on SkinStore.com. Together, the companies will have a broader array of products to offer across their online stores and will gain efficiencies in many operational areas. Under the agreement, Salu will continue to focus on its brands and exceptional customer experience and will operate in Sacramento, California.
"Beauty is a cornerstone of our growth strategy, and we are delighted to expand our footprint with the addition of SkinStore.com to our online portfolio," said Dawn Lepore, CEO and chairman of the board, drugstore.com, inc. "This acquisition will further solidify our position as a first choice for beauty consumers and brings us one step closer toward achieving our goal of becoming the leading online retailer of beauty and spa products."
Under the terms of the agreement, the transaction is valued at $36 million payable half in cash and half in drugstore.com common stock, plus an opportunity for senior management of Salu to receive an additional amount based on achievement of certain performance targets and integration milestones.
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Round 7 Results (October 14)
There were only 2 Shawks brave enough to battle horrendous weather on this the rainiest and windy of fall days. John shot a rock solid 65 while Jen, our only Lady Shawk shot a personal best round of 73! Way to represent guys and congrats Jen on a great score!!!
Round 8 Results (October 21)
Even though the weather was much better, both league co-founders couldn't make this weeks outing. It appears some solid frolf was played all Shawks in attendance with 3 players breaking 60!!! Colby made his second appearance of the season and handily crushed everyone shooting a 50!!!! Ben and Travis were in pursuit shooting 56 and 59 respectively!!! Solid rounds by everyone!!!
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2 Groups of 4 played this week as this was by far the most competitive round of the season! 7 Shawks were within 5 shots of the lead which was shot by Rich (59) and Jen, our Lady Shawk, was only 12 shots off the lead with another personal best score (71)! Wow!! So Cool! Great Job Everyone!! This is why we started the league and it's so awesome to see how it's evolved!! Have a great week everyone and remember that next week will be the last Thursday meeting before daylight savings time; after which we'll be playing Saturdays until the season ends on Dec. 9th.


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Daily Mail editor in chief Paul Dacre has issued a punchy defence of the British newspaper industry saying journalists are "indisputably better behaved".
But he says an industry ombudsman should be established to work with the Press Complaints Committee to prevent scandals such as phone hacking again.
"We are in danger of ignoring the fact that news does not grow on trees. Establishing the truth requires resource and it's becoming increasingly difficult," he told the Leveson Inquiry into phone hacking.
Dacre, famed in Fleet Street for his tough editorial stance, believes the ombudsman should have power to investigate potential press scandals, summon journalists to give evidence, and name and shame offending journalists or editors.
His lecture centred on the question of increased regulation of the press – an issue which had him seemingly bubbling with rage.
He outlined three myths about increased regulation. He believes popular opinion about declining industry standards is wrong.
"It is vastly better behaved and disciplined than when I started in the 1970s. Then conduct was truly outrageous."
The second myth was that self regulation doesn't work. He pointed out that police failed in prosecuting perpetrators which added to the problem.
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New BLM Wild Lands Policy to help fight Climate Change
The 112th Congress is now in full swing, and if you walked around much of Capitol Hill you might not think we had a climate crisis on our hands. (Climate Fun Fact: today, and every other day, Americans will emit roughly 19,000,000,000 metric tons of carbon pollution, and much of that will stay in our skies for 200-300 years.) You certainly wouldn't hear much concern over the fact that 2010 saw the second worst case of global coral bleaching on record, nor that temps in the Northeast and across the world pushed 2010 into the unfortunate status of one of the hottest years on record.
That said, climate champs have at least one recent victory to celebrate:
Just before 2010 came to a close, Sec. Salazar signed an Order (SO 3310)—revoking Bush-era BLM wilderness management guidelines that put sensitive wildlands at risk. By establishing new guidance on Wild Lands designation and protection, the Administration is taking an important step forward in helping our wildlands, wildlife and communities remain resilient in a warming world.
Our wild places are vital to addressing the climate crisis – and as those temps get hotter, our wildlands will be even more critical.
Healthy, protected wildlands help fight both sides of the climate change coin, first by dealing with dangerous carbon pollution, and by helping keep communities resilient in a warming world.
Healthy wildlands can help store and trap additional carbon dioxide—keeping it out of our skies while we transition to a low-carbon economy. In fact, our forests currently capture about 14% of the U.S's annual carbon pollution. The majestic forests of thePacific Northwest and Southeast Alaska hold more carbon per acre than any others—including rainforests in the Amazon! Additionally, large, connected landscapes will give critters and communities the best possible chance at adapting to climate change. Healthy wildlands can serve as critical habitat, migration corridors, and refuges for species seeking to adapt to climate disruptions—while protect valuable and critical natural services for communities across the country (not to mention protecting our natural heritage for future generations).
While this order doesn't amount to the dramatic reduction in carbon pollution and massive ramp-up in resilience investment that we must make, it is certainly a step in the right direction. But we'll need to hold Congress' feet to the fire in the weeks and months ahead to ensure we get more climate victories – otherwise we'll all be feeling the heat.
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The Abbott government is facing an early budget shortfall because current senators as well as members of the future Senate, starting on July 1, say they will not support key measures in it.
As expected, Labor's finance spokeswoman Senator Penny Wong confirmed Labor will wave through one of the most contentious ''broken promises'' of the budget, the 2 per cent temporary deficit levy on high-income earners, which will rake in $600 million in 2014-15. But other budget measures, many of which are due to take effect on July 1, could be held up.
This means savings will be lower than stated or that changes will have to be legislated retrospectively to claw money back.
And that would open up a major fight with the Palmer United Party, whose leader Clive Palmer slammed the idea of retrospectivity for increasing taxes and charges, and promised to block measures in the new Senate, post-June.
Mr Palmer said the scale of broken promises was worse than the Julia Gillard backflip on the carbon price. ''I guess what's astounding is that there is a whole raft of things which are repugnant to the Australian people,'' he said. ''The magnitude is wholly different … we're not passing any of them.''
Items such as the two-year freeze on indexation of family payments and lower indexation of some pensions have already been booked as delivering savings of $400 million in 2014-15 alone but appear to have no chance of passing before July, due to stiff opposition from Labor and the Greens.
The emergence of a budget hole comes as private polling commissioned by Labor and seen by Fairfax Media confirmed voters are overwhelmingly offside after what they see as an unfair economic formula based on broken promises.
The polling by market research company UMR of 1000 voters shows 76 per cent of respondents disapprove of federal cuts to public hospitals and that six in 10 voters disapprove or strongly disapprove of four other contentious areas: higher costs for prescriptions (63 per cent); petrol excise indexation (61 per cent); a delayed pension age to 70 (60 per cent); and a proposed paid parental leave scheme paying up to $50,000 in six months (58 per cent).
A spokesman for the government's leader in the Senate, Eric Abetz, said: ''One would have to expect that negotiations with the new Senate would be a lot more sensible than with the current Senate. The Greens and Labor have blocked everything.''
But the spokesman admitted: ''It will not be an easy road at all.''
An analysis by progressive think tank the Australia Institute said cuts expected in the coming year include a three-year freeze on private income thresholds affecting allowances such as the Parenting Payment Single, Youth Allowance (student), Austudy, Abstudy, Newstart Allowance, Widow Allowance and Childcare Benefit. Also likely to be frustrated or delayed are the pausing of indexation of some Medicare Benefits schedule fees, the Medicare levy surcharge and Private Health Insurance Rebate thresholds, all of which it says amount to increasing out of pocket expenses for patients.
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Not only are Americans battling with Obamacare, but now we've got hackers messing with our insurance. That's just dandy…
Anthem, America's second largest health insurer, has lost millions of customer records to hackers.
The attackers stole names, addresses, birthdays and social security numbers of customers from every one of Anthem's business units.
So far, Anthem has not said how many records were lost or how many people have been affected.
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Anthem is known to have about 37 million customers using its health plans. A further 32 million people are linked to it through its affiliates.
In a statement, Anthem said it had closed the security vulnerability that had been exploited by attackers as soon as it had learned of it.
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I am looking for any information on Cal Phillips possibly born before 1869 and resided in/around Dayton, Oh.He had a daughter Phyllis Phillips.
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Deepen your knowledge of Ayurveda! Become inspired by the ancient healing arts! People of all faiths and backgrounds enjoy the natural beauty and spiritual inspiration found at Satchidananda Ashram Yogaville®. They come for many different reasons: to study and practice the teachings of Integral Yoga®, to experience the yogic life in a spiritual community, or to get a little rest and relaxation in this spiritual setting in the midst of the rural Virginia countryside. Join us at SAMA's Annual Ayurveda Health Counselor Internship (Gurukulum) located at Yogaville Ashram in Buckingham, Virginia on Oct 30th-Nov 2nd, 2017! Plan to arrive at 108 Yogaville Way Buckingham, Virginia on Oct 29th, 2017 to settle in. Plan to leave Nov 3rd, 2017 or stay to recharge with some Ayurvedic bodywork at the Riverview Spa and indulge in the beauty of the ashram a little longer on your own.
Prerequisites for Attendance:
Graduate from a NAMA or APPNA (or equivalent) approved school or 1-year experience in one of the Vedic sciences (yoga, vastu, jyotish). This internship fulfills the NAMA requirements for 25 supervised and 25 unsupervised Client/Therapist Consultations
Student Objectives:
Expect to meet some impressive and inspirational experts in the field of the Veda and learn the many ways to understand and analyze the concepts of prakruti, vikruti and chikitsa (constitutional assessments & remedial measures) during the client/therapist dynamic. Immerse yourself in the Vedic culture of Yogaville Ashram, attend puja ceremonies, yoga classes, amazing vegan food and inhale the magical shakti of nature that supports this gorgeous location! Establish life-long friendships with your classmates and the kindred spirits of this community! All SAMA students must attend in person to be eligible for graduation, unless an exemption has been provided. All students will have the opportunity to be a "client" during the 4 days at least once and learn more about their dosha and individual constitution!
Four-Day Internship: $550:
Not including lodging, food or travel. PACE CE credits awarded from NAMA: 18 for AHC & 38 for AP & AD. Deadline for SAMA Citrine students to pay is July 1st, 2017. After July 1st, an administrative late fee will be applied at $50 per each month late. Deadline for Non-Citrine students to pay is Oct 1st, 2017. $50 administrative late fee will be applied after that.
Ashram Accommodations:
Shared rooms with a shared bath: $67.50 /night including all meals. $337.50/ 5 nights. Private rooms with private baths: $126/night including all meals. $630/ 5 nights.
Deadline to reserve and pay for your accommodations is Oct 1st, 2017. $50 administrative late fee will be applied after that. The above rates are group rates.
Call 401-862-1314 to book your reservation between the hours of 10am-5pm M-F. Leave a detailed message if no one answers and someone will get back to you within 24 hours. Do not call the Ashram to make a reservation, but do call them at 800-858-9642 to arrange a taxi from the airport or train.
Students are responsible for making their own travel plans. Amtrak is very affordable from the RI area to Charlottesville, VA (1 hour from the ashram) at $77 one way if reserved in advance. Hurry to book that! Otherwise, fly into the Charlottesville, Va Airport. The ashram will pick students up at the station for $45 each way from 9am – 8pm and $55.00 from 8pm – 9:30pm if pre-arranged. If you need Ashram transportation from Charlottesville, it is necessary to confirm your travel needs at least 10 days prior to arrival. Transportation to Charlottesville is served by Amtrak, Greyhound, NYC Shuttle or the following airlines: US Air, United, American Airlines and Delta.
Yogaville Shuttle Reservations Instructions:
Call 434-969-3121 ext. 147 or 113 and NOT Ashram Reservations for Shuttle Reservations. For those that want to arrange for shuttle pick up from train station or airport, Yogaville will need the following:
- Single person pick up or drop off $50 each way ($100 total)
- Group Rate pick up or drop off - for every two people a $50 charge each way ($100 per couple)
- For each "couple" or single person we will need the E-MAIL of who is being charged for those pick ups and drop offs.
- A invoice will be emailed.
- Be CLEAR if you are departing on different days as you will be charged the "single" person rate for departure..
- We need the airline flight or train #.
- Arrival time and departure time in Charlottesville.
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Take advantage of all that Yogaville offers:
- Three vegetarian meals a day (Based on Sri Swami Satchidananda's book The Healthy Vegetarian)
- Group meditations (3 available each day)
- Hatha Yoga classes (2 available each day)
- Tour beautiful Interfaith Shrine, LOTUS (Light Of Truth Universal Shrine)
- Various evening programs, scripture study groups, chanting
- Hiking and Walking Trails
SAMA's Internship Curriculum
Day One: 9a-12:30p: Dr. Munira Merchant will be leading one-on-one Ayurvedic Consultations in front of the students. She is an Ayurvedic graduate (B.S.A.M.) Pancha Karma specialist and Ayurvedic cosmetologist from India. She has been practicing and teaching Ayurveda for about 30 years, first in India and then in U.S.A. Dr. Munira uses ancient Ayurvedic techniques such as pulse reading, aura reading and physical characteristics, advice on self healing through individualized diet, gentle detoxification through Panch Karma, life style modifications, stress management, daily and seasonal routines, yoga and meditation that are helpful in variety of conditions like Arthritis, musculoskeletal pain, digestive disorders, allergies, asthma, sinusitis, skin ailments, weight problems, stress, anxiety, memory problems, hair loss and more. Dr. Merchant is also a New York State licensed Esthetician and advises on beauty problems. She can also provide guidance on therapeutic use of gems, colors, and aroma oils. Visit her website here.
2p-6p: Karyn Chabot, M. Ay, LMT, RYT will be leading one-on-one Ayurvedic Consultations in front of the students. Karyn is the owner of SAMA and The Newport Massage School and has a unique way of blending Jyotish, divination and classic Ayurvedic diagnostics. She's a graduate of Dr. Vasant Lad's Ayurveda Health Program 1997 with a masters degree in art of Ayurveda. She's been an Ayurvedic counselor for 17 years, is a licensed massage therapist for 18 years and nationally certified yoga teacher since 2001. She's been a student of Jyotish for over 15 years. Witness one-on-one Ayurvedic client sessions with her.Learn more about Karyn here.
7p-9p: Free time!
Day Two: 10a-6p: Meet Sham-Rang Khalsa, MD, a rare mix of western medicine physician and eastern medicine healer certified in acupuncture, Kundalini Yoga and Meditation, and Ayurveda. Visit his website here. Witness one-on-one Ayurvedic client sessions with him. Dr. Khalsa has a unique, progressive homeopathic approach to Ayurvedic diagnosis and remedies! He possesses the talent of understanding the complex intricacies of the physical body which he has learned as an emergency room medical doctor, and the energetic patterns and responses influenced by thoughts, environments, and emotions.
Day Three: 9a-1p: Gauri Eleanora Trainor is a graduate from the prestigious California College of Ayurveda, in Nevada City, California, and is a certified Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist and Pancha Karma Specialist. She is also a Vedic astrologer and holds a Baccalaureate Degree in Psychology and Anthropology from Montclair University. She brings with her 15 years of professional experience in mental health counseling, 7 years of professional experience as a Clinical Ayurvedic Practitioner, and 10 years of experience in Ayurvedic Body Work. She has recently retired as a Massage Therapist. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher, with certified training in Ayurvedic Yoga from the Sivananda Ashram in the Bahamas and the Sivananda Freehold Yoga Center where she found her spiritual teacher, Reverend Jaganath Carrera. She has traveled to India for continued herbal studies at the Lord Dhanvantari Dham Hospital in Vrindavan under the tutelage of Dr. Laladher Gupta. Learn more about Gauri here.
2p-6p: Karyn Chabot, M. Ay, LMT, RYT will be leading one-on-one Ayurvedic Consultations in front of the students. Karyn is the owner of SAMA and The Newport Massage School and has a unique way of blending Jyotish, divination and classic Ayurvedic diagnostics. She's a graduate of Dr. Vasant Lad's Ayurveda Health Program 1997 with a masters degree in art of Ayurveda. She's been an Ayurvedic counselor for 17 years, is a licensed massage therapist for 18 years and nationally certified yoga teacher since 2001. She's been a student of Jyotish for over 15 years. Witness one-on-one Ayurvedic client sessions with her.Learn more about Karyn here.
7p-9p: Free time!
Day Four: 9a-6p: Meet Molly Rachael Strong, CAP BS TTM BCTMB RYT LPN. Molly is the owner and Indigenous Healing Arts Institute and has been practicing allopathic and natural healing arts for over twenty years, thirteen of which have been dedicated to Ayurvedic Medicine, Traditional Thai Medicine, and all modalities of yoga, massage, bodywork, and phytotherapy (plant-based medicine). She is currently an esteemed faculty member of the Sacred Stone Academy of Massage and Ayurveda as well as running the first completely natural medical clinic in Powhatan County, specializing in preventive healthcare and Ayurveda oncology treatments.
Yogaville's Travel Info
There is no public transportation from Charlottesville or Richmond to Yogaville.
You may wish to rent your own car or contact the Ashram Reservation Center at (800) 858-9642 to arrange transportation to the Ashram.
Yogaville is not able to provide pickup/drop-off service for any city but Charlottesville.
The standard fee for transportation is: $45 each way 9am – 8pm and $55.00 8pm – 9:30pm.
Transportation to Charlottesville is served by Amtrak, Greyhound, NYC Shuttle or the following airlines: US Air, United, American Airlines and Delta.
If you need Ashram transportation from Charlottesville, it is necessary to confirm your travel needs at least 10 days prior to arrival.
RENTAL CARS: Avis, Budget, and Hertz rental car companies are located at the Charlottesville Airport.
Yogaville's Pick-up Refund Policy:
A full refund of the transportation charge is available if you give us notice of your change of plans at least 3 days (72 hours) in advance.
If you give notice with less than 72 hours, a $10 cancellation fee will be deducted from the refund.
The transportation charge is not refundable if the request is cancelled with less than 24 hours' notice
SAMA's Refund Policy:
No refunds after Sept 1st, 2017. Any refunds prior to Sept 1st, 2017 will incur a $108 administrative fee.
Accommodation Issues:
SAMA is not responsible for any problems or issues with Yogaville's housing. If students have sensitivities, physical challenges, food allergies or any other issues involving housing, sleep, wheel chair needs and food, all registrants and students are responsible for calling Yogaville in advance to arrange for special accommodations to make sure needs are met. SAMA waves all responsibilities regarding these needs, though we want all students to feel comfortable and happy, it is up to students to create their own comfort prior to arrival.


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The Assist Artist
Oftentimes the most thrilling play in soccer is not the goal, but what happens seconds before somebody scores. It's especially true when Steve Ralston has the ball.
Steve Ralston has a knack for spotting scoring chances for teammates. (Photo by Robert E. Klein for the Boston Globe)
The ball can be on you so quickly that all you have time to do is get your head in front of it - crazy as that seems - and redirect it ever so slightly past the fingers of the diving keeper. Or you can see it coming for what turns out to be long enough for you to get to where it will come down, or almost down, and then you meet it without breaking stride, just before it would have hit the ground, and the keeper never moves because he can see it coming, too - and see that he has no chance.
In soccer, a sport where one goal is often the difference, the scorers get the glory. But the passes leading to those goals can be as brilliant as the scores. And nobody playing Major League Soccer today is passing better than the New England Revolution midfielder Steve Ralston. In a 1-0 win over the New York Red Bulls on July 14, with a simple backward pass off his heel to Shalrie Joseph (who passed to Andy Dorman, who scored), Ralston racked up his 115th assist, replacing Colombia's Carlos Valderrama as the league's all-time assist leader.
A hockey player who slips the puck across the crease and onto the stick of a charging teammate or a 7-footer who slaps the basketball out to a guard who hits a 3 gets credit for an assist, too. But the former play often transpires too quickly for even HDTV to catch it, and the latter happens so often that it feels routine. Soccer goals are rare, and much appreciated for that reason. Some of the assists that make them possible appear to happen in slow motion, and many are even more aesthetically pleasing than the goals.
"I've had the good fortune to play with three of the best scorers MLS has had in Roy Lassiter, Mamadou Diallo, and, of course, Taylor Twellman," Ralston says, but it might legitimately be said that those three have been lucky to have played with Ralston. Twellman - the offensive star of the Revolution for the past half-dozen years - acknowledges that when he's making a run at the goal and sees Ralston with the ball at his feet, "my eyes are as big as you'll ever see them." In the six seasons they've been teammates, Ralston, who began his MLS career with Tampa Bay, has taught Twellman to expect a pass that can be converted to a goal.
New England's coach, Steve Nicol, expects the same. "Watch how many times he gets the ball," Nicol says of Ralston. "He gets it as much as anyone on the field. Plus, he has a brain. To have that many assists, he's got a soccer brain."
It's high praise from the Scot who's inclined to understatement. But Ralston, short and slight enough so that his photograph might appear in the dictionary beside "unprepossessing," discounts his coach's compliments. "Sometimes I don't even look," he says with a smile. "Sometimes I just try to put it in a dangerous spot." When the team's public-relations staff began reminding him last spring that he was approaching the league's all-time assist record, Ralston frustrated them by saying: "I don't want to hear about that stuff. I just want to go out and play."
Ralston's talents have not gone unnoticed. He's been called up to play for the US National Team on more than 30 occasions, and his goal against Mexico on September 3, 2005, clinched his team a spot in the 2006 World Cup Finals in Germany. But on a New England club that has sent Clint Dempsey to England's Premiership - one of the game's most exalted leagues - for big money and that has showcased the aforementioned Twellman as a flashy scoring threat, Ralston's talents may have been underrated by fans whose appreciation of the game comes from the highlight films featuring only the thump at the end of the play, the billowing of the net, and the cry of "Goal!"
Ralston might take some solace from the fact that those who best understand such delights as the gradual building up of a scoring threat relish his contribution. They treasure the player with a defender on his back, who can see where his teammate will be 10 seconds hence, hold the ball for just a moment, and turn into space, away from that defender, to put the ball where that teammate will find it with his foot. Then there's nothing left for the scorer to do but finish the work of art Steve Ralston has begun.
Bill Littlefield is the host of National Public Radios Only a Game. His new book, by the same name, is out now. Send comments to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Clara Nunes (Cedro da Cachoeira, 12 August 1943 or 1942 — Rio de Janeiro, 2 April 1983), is considered one of the major Brasilian singers of samba music, next to Beth Carvalho and Alcione. Born in rural Minas Gerais in the Cedro da Cachoeira district, which at the time was a part of the Paraopeba local district, later to become Caetanópolis. Her date of birth is unknown, but is thought to be in 1942 or 1943. Read more about Clara Nunes on Last.fm.
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* FTSE 100 up 0.3 pct
* Miners extend China data induced gains
* Housebuilders buoyed by upbeat house price data
By Tricia Wright
LONDON, July 2 (Reuters) - British shares rose on Wednesday, taking their cue from overnight gains on Wall Street and in Asia, with mining stocks drawing continued support from recent upbeat data out of China, the world's top metals consumer.
Miners rose 0.9 percent, the best performing sector, extending gains from Tuesday when factory activity data from China reinforced signs of stabilisation in its economy.
"It's just a spillover from yesterday," Michael Hewson, CMC Markets' senior analyst said.
"(Miners) have been some of the worst performers over the past two or three years and they're just getting a little bit more buying interest on the back of the fact that people think that copper prices and commodity prices are going to edge up."
The FTSE 100 was up 21.12 points, or 0.3 percent, at 6,824.04 points by 0815 GMT, having kicked off the third quarter with aplomb - rising 0.9 percent to notch its biggest one-day percentage gain in two months in the previous session.
In the United States, the Dow and the S&P 500 hit all-time highs on Tuesday, lifted by equally robust domestic manufacturing data in addition to the strong China data. Asian stocks hit a three-year peak on Wednesday.
In London, Rio Tinto (Xetra: 855018 - news) and BHP Billiton (NYSE: BBL - news) both advanced 1 percent.
Miners account for 10 percent of the FTSE 100 index. The sectoral FTSE 350 mining index ended the first half of the year up by a meagre 0.5 percent, capped by a continued fall in the price of metals such as iron ore and copper.
Copper accounted for 12 percent of Rio's and 22 percent of BHP Billiton's revenues last year, with iron ore the largest revenue source for both companies.
Some strength was seen from the housebuilders after figures from mortgage lender Nationwide showing British house prices rose at their fastest annual pace in more than nine years last month.
Blue-chip Barratt Developments (LSE: BDEV.L - news) rose 1.1 percent, while among mid-caps, Bovis Homes (LSE: BVS.L - news) and Taylor Wimpey (LSE: TW.L - news) advanced 1.7 percent and 0.5 percent respectively.
The sector has been rattled in the past weeks on rising expectations for a UK rate hike before the end of the year, but analysts and traders view any such weakness as a buying opportunity.
While higher rates would raise the costs of borrowing to build, it would also signal the economy, and consequently funding prospects, were looking brighter. In any case, some believe that interest rates will not rise for some time yet.
"The sector got clobbered a bit in the sell-off on interest rate worries. I think our view was that that was probably overdone," Peel Hunt equity strategist Ian Williams said.
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Pacquiao, McGwire and the Whole Darn ThingJanuary 15, 2010
Tonight I was listening to Tony Bruno on the Fox Sports Network and he was hammering pretty much everyone involved in aborted mega-fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Everyone involved.
Bruno made what I think is a very valid point as well. He said he doubted very much whether either fighter would draw well in their next fight. He also stated that he believed fans would continue to be angry until Manny and Floyd agreed to get in the ring against each other and I couldn't agree more.
I've listened to a lot of sport talk radio since the collapse of the fight and from what I can tell very few fans are taking sides in the debate over drug testing. Most people don't even care about drug testing.
Look at how baseball fans and sportswriters treated Alex Rodriguez this year during the World Series. Did anyone bring up the fact that he is an admitted steroids cheat?
Heck, no. They gave him the MVP award.
Then there's boxing itself. Richard Schaefer had the cajones to suggest that a good opponent for Mayweather would be Golden Boy's own Shane Mosley.
It does make some perverted sense. You won't have to test Sugar Shane to find out if he's a steroids cheat. You only have to go to his own Grand Jury testimony to know that he uses performance enhancing drugs.
Which brings me to one of the other big stories of the week.
Mark McGwire finally admitted what we already knew. He was juiced when he chased down Roger Maris and broke the single season home record.
What did he get for his troubles? Pretty much universal scorn.
That's right. The same sportswriters that wrote about A-Rod finally coming through in the playoffs to become a real team leader condemned Mark McGwire for finally admitting what everyone knew all along. That he was juicing during his entire career.
And I know that some of the consternation was brought about by McGwire's statements that he didn't believe the roids helped him hit more home runs. I believe that was a mistake on his part.
But was that any more ridiculous than A-Rods lame excuse that he used because his contract put pressure on him. Or any less believable than A-Rod claiming he only used when he was in Texas.
Of course not.
Which is why we should just get rid of drug testing completely. Because while PED's might be unfair to the people who don't use them, it's even more unfair to pick and choose which athletes are allowed to cheat and which ones are not.
Why do we let Mosely, A-Rod and others use with impunity while trashing others athletes that have never even tested positive because we suspect that they might have used?
Why does ESPN hand Rodney Harrison a plumb announcing gig even though we know he used HGH right before the 2007 Super Bowl? Shouldn't there be supreme outrage directed at someone who we know cheated in the biggest sporting event on the US sporting calender?
This isn't to say I think Pacquiao is dirty. I really do believe he thinks the taking of blood weakens him if taken right before a a fight.
Why? Because that's what he said after the Erik Morales fight. That was four years ago when he GAVE blood two days before the fight.
That was when he used to have to lose weight before he fought because he normally walked around at 145 in the weeks before he fought. Now he doesn't lose weight because he fights at his natural weight.
But even if he was using something, the fact is urine tests are just as good or better for catching steroids and HGH which is to say they aren't much help at all.
The only thing blood tests are better for is EPO which doesn't make you bigger, it just gives you more stamina and that isn't what the Mayweathers were yakking about so what's the point of all this nonsense in the first place?
(FYI—Shane Mosley has admitted using EPO as well as steroids. Yet Mayweather's managers who also rep Andre Berto did not ask for blood testing for this month's Berto - Mosley showdown.)
The fact is that most drug cheaters have been busted by law enforcement. Marion Jones is in jail because she lied to law enforcement. She was tested over 200 times and never had a dirty test.
That certainly makes a case for those Olympic Testing labs doesn't it.
We need to forget about drug testing and let the players play. It's the only fair thing to do.


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FENCE BOARD CLOCK - paris clock
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This is so awesome! It is very neat that you could make it yourself. I'm still working up to projects like this. Keep it coming.ReplyDelete
Love the clock!! I've wanted to make a large clock like this! Can I ask you where you got the large clock hands? I've looked for them before and could never find them.ReplyDelete
My husband has made large clocks out of 24" X 24" cieling tins but we just happened on to the large hands but I would like to find somewhere to order them. Thanks so much, love your blog!
So very cute! I love it. I love working with scrap wood. It's become a bit of an issue in my home though because I can't seem to throw anything away! You never know when you will need it for a project. Love the clock!ReplyDelete
How did you do the stenciling on it?ReplyDelete
Beautiful job on the clock! I have made a few myself & know how frustratingly delicate the movement/hands can be. I like to use the 12" hands & they can be a challenge. I'm sure the receiver was very happy with it. Dee from My Painted Stuff.ReplyDelete
I love this clock and how lucky was the recipient!! I have large hands for a giant clock I have been meaning to make, those are great tips!ReplyDelete
Hope you have a beautiful New Years. Happy Holidays! -K
"A little something you whipped up". Aw, girl, you intimidate and amaze me! Love the clock.ReplyDelete
I love this great clock and bet the person you made it for is thrilled. I usually don't give things that I have made away, I guess I am afraid the person recieving it would like it because it is homemake. But this year I have been making things for a few friends and have really enjoyed it. I hope your Christmas was wonderful and I am looking forward to seeing all your creations in the new year.ReplyDelete
So beautiful - shared it over at my Facebook page! And Pinned! Take care, LauraReplyDelete
Cool clock dolly!ReplyDelete
But--it hasn't arrived in the mail yet--?
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Text of a stay order of
the Florida Supreme Court Friday. The order forbids Katherine Harris, the Florida
secretary of state, from certifying the state's votes in the presidential election
until further notice from the Court:
"In order to maintain the
status quo, the Court, on its own motion, enjoins the Respondent, Secretary
of State and Respondent, the Elections Canvassing Commission, from certifying
the results of the November 7, 2000 presidential election, until further notice
of this Court. It is NOT the intent of this Order to stop the counting and conveying
to the Secretary of State the results of absentee ballots or any other ballots."