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US equities markets face an array of data this week on the state of the fragile economic recovery, which recent indicators show is hitting some fairly rough patches.
The market continues to trade in a narrow range, Michael James of Wedbush Morgan Securities said.
"The sentiment is equally balanced between those that believe the economy is trending further higher and those that believe that the economy is likely to fall from here," he said.
In the near term, he said, the market is "slanted towards the negative side."
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell for the third week in a row, losing 0.66 percent over the week to close on Friday at 12,512.04 points.
The broader S&P 500 index slid 0.34 percent to 1,333.27 points, also its third week running of declines.
The NASDAQ -Composite index dropped 0.89 percent to 2,803.32 points.
The week saw a spate of disappointing indicators on the world's largest economy, including worse-than-expected reports on industrial production, housing construction and sales of previously owned homes.
Debt concerns once again grabbed investors' attention, with the US debt hitting its legal limit on borrowing on Monday after some lawmakers in Congress balked at raising the ceiling without cutting government spending.
In Europe, speculation mounted that Greece will have to restructure its huge debt despite a massive bailout from the EU and the IMF.
Fitch Ratings on Friday slashed Greece's credit rating by three notches, citing the challenges of fixing the country's finances.
Investors appeared hesitant amid growing risk, and a cautious tone was reinforced by the US Federal Reserve's minutes of its April 26 and 27 policy-setting meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee.
The minutes revealed the committee participants' discussions about normalizing monetary policy, which has been extremely accommodating for several years in a bid to support recovery from severe recession.
"Any time the Fed comes out and talks about exit strategy, even if that strategy may not be pursued in the immediate term, it makes the market nervous," Gina Martin of Wells Fargo Securities said.
"We've certainly lost our upside momentum — you have to be fairly happy with the idea that the market has not fallen off more," she said, adding she was "a little surprised" by the market's resiliency.
"Investors are struggling with where else to put their money," the analyst said. "It's a tough call to make."
Commodity prices have sharply fallen since the beginning of the month, and investors remain wary about the major currencies and the bond market, which is yielding tiny returns. In that context, equities have some allure.
Wall Street benefited in the middle of the week from a rebound on Wednesday in commodity prices as well as from some positive quarterly earnings, such as those from personal computer maker Dell.
Next week's major indicators begin on Tuesday, with a report on new-home sales.
Orders for durable goods — big-ticket items expected to last at least three years — are due to land on Wednesday, followed the next day by the government's second estimate of GDP growth in the first quarter.
According to last month's initial estimate, GDP growth slowed to an annual pace of 1.8 percent in the January-to-March quarter from 3.1 percent in the fourth quarter of last year.
Friday brings data on consumer spending, personal incomes and pending home sales.
Experts said trading volumes could thin out ahead of a long holiday weekend. The markets will be closed on Monday next week to mark Memorial Day.


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Baked Ham Tetrazzini Recipe
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- 4 ounces uncooked spaghetti, broken into 2-inch pieces
- 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- 2/3 cup condensed cream of mushroom soup, undiluted
- 1/2 cup 2% milk
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh parsley
- 2 teaspoons diced pimientos, drained
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped onion
- 1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- Dash pepper
- 3/4 cup cubed fully cooked ham
- Cook spaghetti according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine the cheese, soup, milk, parsley, pimientos, onion, Worcestershire sauce and pepper.
- Drain spaghetti; add to soup mixture. Spread half into a 1-1/2-qt. baking dish coated with cooking spray. Layer with ham and remaining spaghetti mixture.
- Bake, uncovered, at 375° for 20-25 minutes or until bubbly. Yield: 2 servings.
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"No changes, very good recipe as submitted."
"this is not tetrazzini"
"Very cheesey and rich but I loved it and will make it again"
"I used the basic recipe altered using fresh mushroom and more onion,added garlic,used myversion any cream soup mix..enjoyed"
"This is a great base recipe. The sauce was a little thick, like others have mentioned. The flavors weren't quite what I was expecting but with a few small changes, this has my family happy. I use a little more milk, whatever is needed to get the thickness I desire (depends on the soup, as they vary). I also have taken out the pimentos and added garlic in their place. My family raves about it with these changes."
"This is very disappointing. The sauce is too thick and there is just something quite wrong with the flavors. What a waste of a delicious ham."
"I made this with egg noodles and it was really good. easy and delicious. A great way to use leftover ham."

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Mark Teixeira TEX!
It's been way too long since my last post, and it's bugging me. I hate school for keeping me away from my friends here at MLBlogs. By the way, I thank you all for helping make this blog #42 on the 2009 year list. Since I only started in July, I'd say that's pretty good. Thanks everyone for really giving me a home here 🙂
I have written this post in my head, but thanks to good old school, I haven't had time to write it up and post it. The player I greatly miss right now is Mark Teixeira, and all the quirky things he does.
Mark Teixeira
Mark is currently one of my favorite Yankees. I think he is adorable. If you closely watch him during the games, you too wilil notice the cute things that he does.
First off, Tex makes….awkward faces when he's at the plate. When up at-bat, he puts on a blank, almost stupid expression as he gazes into the pitcher. It really cracks me up. But I shouldn't laugh at this, because it obviously works for him. Tex's .292 avg, 39 HR and 122 RBI were good enough to win him the Silver Slugger Award. That's my Tex!
Then when he gets on base, the cuteness continues. He stands there taking his leads, holding his batting gloves. Holding, not wearing. Why? Like he is going to steal a base anytime soon? No offense Tex, but you are not the fastest guy to ever play the game.
Speaking of baserunning, watching Mark do that is hilarious. He takes such short strides, and pumps his arms. But what really gets me is his face! He huffs and puffs; you'd think he runs 100 miles per hour! BUT HE'S NOT! He's so slow! I just get a kick out of him.
He's in the zone…
My favorite cute-quirky thing Tex does is when he is manning 1st base. When holding a runner on, he stands with his glove out ready to catch the ball. But…the cute thing…and I mean cute….is that he stands there,…wiggling his butt! He does it all the time, and I don't know why. Maybe it's some sort of timing mechanism? Haha whatever it is, you can't help but to notice. My Grandma (who is doing much better now. Thanks for the prayers!) even noticed and asked me if I ever noticed. Oh, Mark….
Here he is with the Texas Rangers, doing his thing. Whoa…what's with the tongue? It reminds me of the cutie from my last post…
Haha oh boy…Nick Swisher…oh-so attractive.
I guess I have no right to make fun of Mark for this wiggling thing either. After all, he did win the Gold Glove Award as well this past season. He is really something else.
A World Series-stretch. You're on the "Mark," Teixeira!
I was beyond thrilled when the Yankees acquired Mark Teixeira. I didn't think they would get him, but I didn't want to give up home. On Tuesday, December 23, 2008 I went on the Yankees website during the last period of the last school day before Christmas break, and this is what I saw: "Hal: No Yanks offers to Tex or Manny." I was in shock. All I wanted for Christmas was Mark Teixeira, and it said the Yankees didn't offer him anything. I thought the Red Sox were going to get him. I went home to start my Christmas break, but I wasn't as happy as everyone else. I was longing for Tex.
How silly of me to have given up. After all, it was Christmas time. Miracles were possible. Later in that evening, my brother went on the computer. He was the first to find out. This is what he saw: "Yanks land Teixeira with eight-year deal." He yelled upstairs "Virginia, the Yankees got Mark Teixeria!!" And that exclamation sent me off into a period of screaming hysterics, but the good kind. I was on top of the world. My Christmas wish came through. I will never forget that. Thank you Santa!….or should I say Brian Cashman!
Tex, I am so happy to have you with us. I'm glad you will be part of my team for a long, long time. Congrats on the Championship! I hope you are enjoying your offseason You are the perfect Yankee!


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Friday, June 11, 2010
The Bitter Truth About Canning
Fear. We evolved with this emotion for survival purposes but it holds us back and can make life boring. Fear of failure (which is the same as fear of success, think about it), fear of rejection, fear of being alone, fear of intimacy, fear of commitment, fear of death and the worst fear of all: FEAR OF CANNING.
I admit I was very very afraid. Like a little girl with goosebumps sticking her big toe into the frigid waters of a swimming pool. So cold, but I'm going to try. I bought books, but when I read about botulism and air bubbles, I had to put it down. Another poolside day for me. Canning seemed like a lot of steps, a lot of hassle, a lot of a lot. And the fear of death by jam or worse killing others, was a turn off.
When Maura invited me over for a Canning Party that was sponsored by Ball, I had a fear of commitment spawned by the overall fear of canning. Its a vicious cycle that must stop. The invitation said, "bring jars, food, knives, cutting board." There would be some major chopping going on. And canning.
Maura is a lady with no fears and because of that does a lot of cool stuff. She is the friend to whom you find yourself saying, "you are doing what? Really?! Well how in the world did you work that out?" And she flashes that gorgeous smile and says something really simple like, "I just asked," with a shrug of her shoulders. She somehow managed to get Ball to send her all this Ball shwag, (repeat: Ball shwag) including one of those gigantic expensive canning pots.
I got there a little late and I pride myself on punctuality. Maybe I was busy or maybe I was delaying the inevitable: facing my worst fear.
When Maura answered the door in her berry stained apron and welcomed me into her awesome garden apartment in Brooklyn Heights (would you like some botulism, jam Maura?) I was all, "Here's some wine. I'm just observing."
An observer who asked a lot of annoying questions and took a lot of annoying pictures.
When I got there they had just gotten started. A lot was going on, but it wasn't scary at all. A few familiar faces and lovely new people to chat with and it was more about socializing than canning. I can get into this. Just my style. Lots of fun and lots of food.
Ann Apparu, chef of the 18th Restaurant, returned with her hands stained black from a morning of mulberry picking. What's a mulberry? Ever walk down a city street and see those berries on the ground that stain the cement? You can eat those. We had a giant mulberry tree in the yard that I could pick from on top of the tree house that Rocco built for us. They are the size and texture of raspberries but not as sweet with a deeper flavor that is very distinct.
Alex made a salted lemon preserve with bay leaf and cinnamon and the girls made a hot jalapeno plum marmalade and pickles.
I was wishing I had brought over the rhubarb that was slowly becoming more and more limp as the days passed.
Like a good little teacher Maura went step by step through the gigantic canning presentation manual Ball sent. She is elegantly using the stem of a lily as a pointer. She was so professional about the whole thing and I was so surprised to learn it was her first time canning, too!
Well we won't know if the preserves will kill anyone for a while, so there is time to mark my fears as having been warranted, but I did leave with a new confidence in canning. It was fun and really easy. To watch that is. Thats the bitter truth about canning. Nothing to fear.
I felt so bold that the next day I opened my fridge and said, "rhubard, I'm not gonna let you die evening if by canning you, you might kill me!" and I made a too sweet chutney that would be perfect for some roasted rosemary lamb chops. When I went to can I didn't have a big enough pot. How convenient. But I did march over to the parental units and scored a huge pot, which will be perfect for the even more rhubarb we are getting in this week's share. I'm gonna jam this week! Pineapple Rhubarb Jam to be exact. Breathe. Stay tuned.
7 comments:
- Roman Espejo said...
Ha! The total day was a spectator sport for me. The pickles were especially good. Lovely photos as well!
- June 11, 2010 at 6:29 AM
- micemilk said...
i'm so proud of you! i did spaghetti sauce last year and we ate it all and are still living. hopefully the jam i did turned out.
anywho, we need to team up. i definately have "ball shwag" jen. i just got a good book on jams that don't use pectin. just the good stuff.
- June 12, 2010 at 9:39 AM
- Morta Di Fame said...
@micemilk I have some jam with your name on it honey. Will give to Erik Monday!
- June 13, 2010 at 12:47 AM
- kathyb said...
come on girl! easy-peasy! nice job. next is blueberry jam with chazlie and i in july.
- June 13, 2010 at 4:39 PM
- Morta Di Fame said...
yeah!!! we've been saying this for every summer! IT MUST HAPPEN!
- June 14, 2010 at 3:20 AM
- Lauren Vincelli said...
How did it turn out? I grew up with my mom making black berry jam from the berries on a huge bush we used to have in the back yard. I still remember how good the house smelled.
I started canning (under my mother's supervision) last summer. She made cherry tomato jam, pepper jelly, and lots of different pickles. I made two different kinds of hot sauce.
If I can do it you can do it! Don't be scared! You just gotta listen for that POP!
- June 26, 2010 at 7:06 AM
- Lauren Vincelli said...
I was so inspired by that great pickelicious picture in this post that I made pickles yesterday.
- June 28, 2010 at 8:56 PM


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University of California Hastings College of the Law is pleased to announce that Professor Chimène Keitner has been elected to the American Legal Institute (ALI).
The ALI is a professional, nonprofit organization that exists to "clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law." Its distinguished members serve on committees with other legal academics, judges and practitioners to influence the development of the law in new and emerging fields.
Keitner holds a bachelor's degree in history and literature from Harvard, a JD from Yale, and a doctorate in international relations from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. During law school, she was a student director of the immigration clinic, and an editor of the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of International Law.
After law school, Keitner clerked for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and spent three and a half years in private practice in San Francisco, where she represented plaintiffs in employment discrimination and consumer fraud class actions.
Keitner's research focuses on cutting-edge issues at the intersection of international law and domestic litigation. She is the author of a book, The Paradoxes of Nationalism, and over twenty articles, essays, and book chapters on questions surrounding the relationship among law, communities, and borders.
Professor Keitner joins a long list of UC Hastings faculty who have been honored with membership in the prestigious ALI. Chancellor & Dean Emeritus Mary Kay Kane and Professor Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., are members of the ALI Council. Professor Hazard served as Director of the ALI from 1984-1999.
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Outsourcing library operations has the potential to knock 40 percent off the budget for all 15 branches in Jackson County, says the executive director of the Jackson County Library Foundation.
Jim Olney said preliminary discussions with Library Systems and Services LLC (known by the acronym LSSI), a Maryland-based library management company, indicate to him the cost of operating the libraries could be reduced from $8 million to $5 million.
Olney said outsourcing is one of many ideas being pursued in an effort to reopen the library system, which closed April 6 when Congress failed to renew payments to rural counties hurt by cutbacks in federal logging. The program had provided $23 million to Jackson County coffers.
"We have to look seriously at it," said Olney. "The voters have spoken twice. What we've been offering to them is unacceptable."
Voters overwhelmingly rejected levies last November and on May 15.
LSSI has managed a 32-branch system for 10 years in Riverside, Calif., where it rehired many of the librarians who lost their jobs when the county-run system prepared to shut down. The company also operates libraries in Shasta County and in Redding, Calif.
The company cuts costs by reducing the number of managers and by consolidating services, said Olney. For library patrons, there would be little difference in the level of service, he said.
Outsourcing is not the same as privatization, said Olney, because the county would retain ownership of all the library buildings.
Bob Windrow, vice president of LSSI, said he hasn't made any calculations of cost savings in Jackson County, despite the $5 million number recently discussed at a library advisory committee meeting.
But, he said, Jackson County's libraries cost $39.16 per capita to operate, less than other major counties in the state, but still more than the national average of $28.
His company has been able to run libraries for as low as $10 per capita, he said.
"If you look at the gross numbers, it looks like there might be an opportunity to do outsourcing to bring economic relief," he said. "Until I know the situation in Jackson County, I couldn't say what it would cost there."
Windrow said his company would be willing to do an analysis of the county library system even without the formality of receiving an official request for a proposal.
Windrow said his company, which manages 50 libraries in the country, tries to run a lean operation with very few managers and a heavy reliance on automation and centralization of such operations as human resources and finances.
Staff also receives additional training and most focus their attention on serving the public. "Everybody has to wear multiple hats," he said.
In Riverside County, Windrow said his company rehired former librarians at about the same salaries. However, his company was also able to increase hours of operation for less money.
New books and other materials are purchased at reduced rates because of the buying power LSSI wields, he said.
All of the assets, buildings and other equipment are owned by the county, he said. The county establishes the library policies and also spells out how it wants them to be operated.
Under LSSI, the libraries remain "free and open to the public," Windrow said.
Portland consultant Ruth Metz, who has worked with Jackson County library officials previously, conducted an analysis of LSSI's operation in Riverside County in 1999.
The company, she said, met all its contractual obligations with the county. "In my view, they are doing a very good job with the resources they had," she said.
But, she said, the Riverside system was in worse shape than Jackson County libraries were two years ago when she did the local study. "(Jackson County) was one of the finest systems in the state," she said.
Outsourcing is only one piece of the puzzle in reopening Jackson County's library system. Finding the money is another, said Harvey Bragg, deputy county administrator. Without a funding source, the libraries won't open, he said.
He said the county is in the very early stages of exploring what to do with libraries, but outsourcing is definitely on the table.
In preliminary discussions, he said LSSI has indicated it isn't interested in assuming the costs of maintaining the library buildings, so that would be an additional expense that would have to be considered under an outsourcing deal.
If the county did outsource, it would have to open the bidding up to all parties, including unions, said Bragg.
He said the county is also discussing the possibility of allowing cities to take over the library buildings. Ashland officials have said they might seek a September levy to reopen their branch.
If a building reverts to a city, Bragg said legal questions remain as to what becomes of equipment, materials and furniture, all of which belong to the county.
With so much uncertainty, Bragg said, "The libraries aren't going to reopen in the same fashion as they did in the past. Personally, I doubt we will be able to open all 15 branches."
Reach reporter Damian Mann at 776-4476 or email@example.com.
Outside contractor for libraries?
Outsourcing library operations has the potential to knock 40 percent off the budget for all 15 branches in Jackson County, says the executive director of the Jackson County Library Foundation.


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Here are two sales to check out at the Friends Bookstore this week:
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Also, we put out an exceptionally nice selection of art books this week. If you enjoy art books, hurry down, these always go fast.
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Our buddy Andy was there and turned the sweet taste of Sugar Bowl victory into today's wallpaper...
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Wallpaper Wednesday -- Sugar Bowl Edition
Posted by Yost at 6:36 PM
Labels: Sugar Bowl, wallpaper
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- Ramona said...
- January 04, 2012 7:55 PM
- Andy said...
Thanks Yost!
It was a wild night... topped off with a couple of cold victory Abitas with T9.
I made a larger screen version (1680x1050) available here if anyone wants it.
Go Blue!
- January 05, 2012 1:23 AM
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Following the Future - Week 1
Rivals100 wide receiver Alvin Bailey
Results: Seffner (Fla.) Armwood defeated Brandon (Fla.) 55-0 on Saturday night.
Stats: Bailey had a night much like fellow wide out commit Chris Thompson. The Rivals100 stole the show according to Tampa Bay Online. He recorded two receiving touchdowns of 19 and 3 yards, and a big 76-yard rushing touchdown.
Notes: Bailey capped off his big night on the field by pledging to be the 19th commitment for the Gators Class of 2013.
Up Next: Big game against Delray Beach (Fla) American Heritage (1-0) on Friday.
Rivals100 defensive lineman Caleb Brantley
Results: Crescent City (Fla.) lost to Port Orange (Fla.) Atlantic 28-7.
Brantley's thoughts on UF season opener: "They didn't play to their best in my opinion. They didn't have any pressure at the defensive line at all."
Up Next: Crescent City (0-1) will play at Orange Park (Fla.) Oakleaf (0-1).
Three-star offensive lineman Cameron Dillard
Results: Canton (Mich.) defeated Brighton (Mich.) 31-10 on Thursday.
Stats: According to Dillard he had "12 pancake blocks and a tackle for a loss and sack on defense."
Notes: Dilliard said his next trip to Gainesville: October 6th for the LSU game.
Rivals100 wide receiver Ahmad Fulwood
Results: Jacksonville (Fla.) Bishop Kenny defeated Middleburg (Fla.) 27-0.
Stats: Fulwood had a receiving touchdown, punt return score, and 11 tackles on defense as Bishop Kenny extended its regular season win to streak to 16.
Quotable: "It definitely gave us some momentum. Ahmad is an explosive player and he can take it the distance at any time." - Bishop Kenny coach Mark Thorson told the Florida Times Union.
Up Next: Bishop Kenny (1-0) is at Neptune Beach (Fla.) Fletcher (1-0) on Friday.
Five-star cornerback Vernon Hargreaves III
Results: Tampa (Fla.) Wharton defeated Tampa (Fla) King 27-7.
Stats: According to Tampa Bay Online Hargreaves scored three times on Friday with a 20 yard touchdown reception, 10 yard touchdown run and a 34 yard interception return. He also had another 50 yard interception return negated by a penalty.
Up Next: Friday against Tampa (Fla.) Sickles (1-0).
Three-star wide out Marqui Hawkins
Results: Columbus (Ga.) Carver defeated Columbus (Ga.) Spencer 47-6.
Note: This was Hawkins first game back in action after sitting out nearly five weeks due to a bruised collarbone.
Up Next: Carver (1-0) hosts Columbus (Ga.) Shaw (1-0).
Rivals250 linebacker James Hearns
Results: The Trojans did not play this week and had to cancel their season opener against Pensacola (Fla.) due to Tropical Storm Isaac.
Notes: Hearn and 2014 Lincoln cornerback Kendall Randolph attended the UF opener because of their free weekend.
Up Next: Lincoln will travel to Louisiana to play Covington (La.) St. Paul in the Superdome.
Four-star defensive lineman Joey Ivie
Results: Dade City (Fla.) Pasco had a BYE week.
Thoughts on Florida opener: "It's coming together they should have scored more, but it was a fight for the starting QB spot."
Up Next: Land O'Lakes high school on September 7th.
Three-star offensive tackle Octavius Jackson
Results: Moultrie (Ga.) Colquitt County defeated Thomasville (Ga.) Thomas County Central 28-12.
Up Next: First home game of the regular season for the Packers as they host Lovejoy (Ga.).
Three-star running back Adam Lane
Results: Winter Haven (Fla.) defeated Auburndale (Fla.) 22-3.
Stats: Lane had 12 carries for 125 yards and a touchdown after a slow first half.
On the slow start: "I was a little too anxious (in the first half) and I was getting to the line before my blocks, but I settled down and realized where I was going to run." Lane told Polk Preps.
Up Next: Winter Haven (1-0) will travel to Haines City (Fla) (1-0).
Rivals100 linebacker Daniel McMillian
Results: Jacksonville (Fla.) First Coast defeated Jacksoville (Fla.) Parker 34-12.
Stats: The Rivals100 member had an interception in the win.
Up Next: First Cost (1-0) will face off at home against 2014 Florida commit Travonte Valentine and Palm Bay (Fla.) Bayside (0-1) on Friday.
Rivals250 safety Keanu Neal
Results: South Sumter (Fla.) defeated Wildwood (Fla.) 77-15.
Stats: 2 solo and 3 assist tackles. Also 50 yard touchdown catch on offense playing 1 ½ quarters.
Notes: From Neal's defensive coordinator: "I have coached Earl Everett, Kendall Smith, and Ben Moffitt and he (Keanu) is by far the best I have ever coached."
Up Next: Clermont (Fla.) East Ridge.
Rivals250 linebacker Quinton Powell
Results: Daytona Beach (Fla.) Mainland pulled an upset defeating Deland (Fla) 19-3.
Quotable: "The defense really stood up (Friday night) and showed the defense that we are," Mainland coach Scott Wilson told the Daytona Beach News Journal.
Up Next: The Bucs (1-0) will travel to Orlando (Fla.) Jones (1-0) on Friday.
Three-star defensive end Antonio Riles
Results: Lawrenceville (Ga.) Archer defeated Lawrenceville (Ga.) Mountain View 46-7.
Notes: The defensive end helped Archer roll in a big win over a rival, and played a part in that defense which only gave up one touchdown.
The Result: "It's always great to win your first one of the year," said head coach Andy Dyer told the Gwinnett Daily Post. "Our defense played lights out especially against an offense we don't see that often."
Up Next: Archer (1-0) will play at Sharpsburg (Ga.) East Coweta.
Rivals100 defensive end Jordan Sherit
Results: Tampa (Fla.) Hillsborough defeated Tampa (Fla.) Middleton 38-0.
Notes: Sherit and the rest of the Terrier defense held Middleton's offense to 34 yards and caused four turnovers.
Up Next: Hillsborough travels to Cocoa (Fla.).
Three-star quarterback Max Staver
Results: Brentwood (Tenn.) Brentwood Academy defeated Nashville (Tenn.) Montgomery Bell Academy 24-6.
Stats: Staver threw for 281 yards with a touchdown while also rushing for another two scores and had 30 yards on 6 carries.
On his performance: "I'm not going to run every time, I'm not a speed demon," the 6-foot-5, 230-pounder, who had his team's first two touchdowns on runs of 5 and 1 yards, told the Tennessean. "I've got to be more of a bruising guy. I just want to get the yards we need."
Up Next: Brentwood Academy (2-1) will take on Nashville (Tenn.) Stratford (1-2).
Rivals100 running back Kelvin Taylor
Results: Belle Glades (Fla.) Glades Day defeated Miami (Fla.) Monsignor Pace 28-23.
Stats: Taylor started the season off big in the Friday win; he had just under 315 yards rushing with three touchdowns.
Thoughts on the win: "It was a good team win and I was just glad to get the season started."
Notes: Taylor said his next visit to the Swamp will be October 6th for the LSU game. It will be his official visit.
Three-star wide receiver Chris Thompson
Results: Gainesville (Fla) defeated Yulee (Fla) 51-58 on Thursday.
Stats: Thompson had a big first half with 4 total touchdowns (3 offensive 1 defensive) and had just over 90 total yards in the game. He also blocked an extra point and caught a two point conversion. Saw very limited action second half.
On his performance: "I just wanted to improve from our jamboree game, so it feels good to start of the season right. I wanted to play more, but we have another big game so I just have to get better."
Extra: Thompson visited UF on September 1st vs. Bowling Green.
Up Next: Lake City (Fla.) Columbia (1-0) on Thursday.
Rivals250 safety Nick Washington
Results: Jacksonville (Fla.) Trinity Christian lost 27-18 to St. Augustine.
Stats: Washington had 10 catches for 104 yards 40 yard TD catch according to the Florida Times Union.
Up Next: The Florida commits team will travel to Jacksonville (Fla.) Sandalwood to play his friend, and Alabama commit, DeMarcus Walker.
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WASHINGTON -- On the campaign trail then-candidates Barack Obama and Joe Biden cast themselves as champions of labor and middle class, men who had not forgotten where they came from and who would fight for the concerns of ordinary Americans.
Today's announcement of a task force aimed at studying ways to raise living standards for middle class Americans and help the poor become middle class is in line with that same populist theme and with Obama's consistent focus on economic issues at a time of rising unemployment.
"Today we learned that our economy shrank in the last three months of 2008 by 3.8 percent," Obama said, calling the statistic a disaster for working families. "The recession is deepening and the urgency of our economic crisis is growing."
The president repeated his call for bold swift action to pass a recovery package that creates job and his desire to see the House bill strengthened in the Senate.
The middle class task force, which Biden will chair, will hold regular meetings, the first of which is set for Feb. 27th in Philadelphia and which will be on green jobs.
The task force will propose laws, policy and executive orders focused on issues like expanding education and training opportunities, restoring labor standards and protecting retirement security. Dr. Jared Bernstein will be the group's executive director. The administration also launched a website -www.AStrongMiddleClass.gov -- where it will post the group's meeting materials and reports.
The audience assembled for the East Room announcement included members of Congress and the administration, representatives of organized labor and at least one governor, Montana's Brian Schweitzer.
Both Obama and Biden made a point of stressing the importance of the labor movement, with Obama saying that strong unions were key to a strong middle class. He signed three executive orders intended to strengthen unions and protect government workers when contracts change hands.
Biden welcomed labor back into the fold, saying such groups had been neglected during the previous adminisration.
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At one point Biden made a joke about transparency in the vice president's office, a clear reference to Vice President Dick Cheney that prompted chuckles in the crowd.
"This task force, I might add, which coming out of the Vice President's Office will be a bit unique, will be fully transparent -- totally transparent," he said. "We are going to consult openly -- openly and publically without side groups, who can help us develop the most far-reaching, imaginative solutions to help us solve these problems and create the outcome we're looking for."


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Another batch of figures has been published bigging up online shopping. Despite security fears, UK shoppers splashed out a record £8.2bn in online shopping in 2005, according to a report by retail analysts Verdict.
And with e-shopping within touching distance of the £9.4bn spent in UK department stores last year, analysts say retailers must take e-commerce seriously.
The research revealed e-spending was up almost 30 per cent on last year - outstripping overall retail spending almost 20 times over - and that one in four people in the UK shopped online during 2005.
Last month, research posted by the Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG) found that online Christmas shopping was up almost 50 per cent, with punters splashing out £5bn in the 10 weeks to Christmas, compared to £3.33bn during the same period last year.
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UFC 93: The New Guys
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From international stars to local yokels, this Saturday's UFC event in Dublin will feature another crop of fighters who will be scrappin' in the Octagon for the first time. Read on, and you'll know just as much as Mike Goldberg…
?Experience: 31-10-1 record, with 15 wins by submission and 12 by KO/TKO. Is the reigning Sprit MC heavyweight (80kg+) champion and was a finalist in PRIDE's 2006 welterweight grand prix. Holds notable victories over Murilo Rua, Amar Suloev, Akihiro Gono, and Marvin Eastman.
Will be facing: Alan Belcher (13-5, 4-3 UFC)
?Lowdown: Chances are, you're already familiar with "The Super Korean." Kang became a consensus top ten middleweight (and superstar in Asia) after going on a 22-1-1 run from April 2003 to March 2007, but his momentum was stalled following back-to-back losses to Yoshihiro Akiyama and Gegard Mousasi. Still, the Canadian BJJ black belt is a huge acquisition for the UFC, and the most credible threat to Anderson Silva's middleweight title since Dan Henderson. Interestingly, this isn't the first time that the UFC has tried to bring Kang aboard; he was offered a spot on the first season of The Ultimate Fighter, but turned it down in order to compete in Korea. Kang had previously trained with American Top Team in Florida, but has recently been working out in Montreal with Georges St. Pierre due to some visa issues which are close to being settled.
?Experience: 13-5 record, primarily in Brazilian leagues like Heat FC, Meca, and the International Vale Tudo Championship. Currently on a nine-fight win streak. ?Ten of his 18 fights have gone to decision; one of those decisions was a loss to Matt Hughes in 2000.
Will be facing: Martin Kampmann (13-2, 4-1 UFC)
?Lowdown: Who knows, maybe "Baixinho" could pull a Junior Dos Santos, and score a dramatic win over an established UFC vet after being plucked from Brazilian obscurity. But most likely he's just being brought in to give Kampmann a relatively easy first fight at welterweight. Judging from this highlight reel, the Gracie Barra Combat Team member is aggressive with his hands and likes to throw the head kick. Still, he hasn't beaten anybody close to UFC caliber. We don't predict big things.


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The open-world zombie-killing adventure Dead Island seems to have performed well enough at retail for a possible sequel to be considered. It makes sense, as the game reviewed and sold fairly well, even if it didn't deliver the delicious drama present in its cinematic debut trailer.
News site Siliconera has pointed out that developer Techland has trademarked the name "Dead World," a name which implies a much bigger setting than the island of Banoi where the original game was set.
Techland hasn't officially announced that a Dead Island sequel is in the works, yet, but their recent trademark would seem to indicate that more brain-eaters are on the way.
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Famed swim coach Mark Schubert, who was accused in a recent wrongful-termination lawsuit of ignoring sexually inappropriate behavior between a coach and swimmers, has in court documents dismissed the claims as "distortions and lies."
Swim coach and philanthropist Dia Rianda filed the suit last month in Orange County Superior Court against Schubert, who is the chief executive officer of Golden West Swim Club in Huntington Beach.
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Schubert's legal response to the charges, in court papers obtained by The Times, was due to be filed in Orange County later on Tuesday. Until now, there had been no comment or response from Schubert or his associate, swim coach William Jewell, who was accused by Rianda of displaying "inappropriate behavior" with swimmers at Golden West.


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A Survey on the Iranian ELT Community's Attitudes to Critical Pedagogy
Critical pedagogy (CP) as one of the most radical changes in English language teaching (ELT) has turned into a common theme of research and discussion in recent years. Despite its practical implications, however, most of the research on this issue has been limited to its theoretical and conceptual dimensions. Conceiving the importance of this approach as well as considering the practical and applied dimensions of this newly emergent shift in ELT, this study is an attempt to study the Iranian ELT community's attitudes to some practical implications of CP in ELT. To acquire the Iranian ELT community's attitudes, a mixed-method approach was conducted. In the first phase, an interview survey was conducted with 8 applied linguists. Enjoying the content analysis of the data as well as the available literature on the topic, especially Akbari's (2008b) suggestions, a 10 item Likert-scale was prepared. To check the Iranian ELT community in the second phase, a questionnaire survey was conducted on 86 participants. Findings of this phase, as the main source of study, reveals that critical pedagogy is going to find a position in Iranian ELT community.
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New trading post at Forks of Wabash to accurately reflect French influence in area
Cindy Klepper - Monday, September 16, 2013 8:15 AM
When French traders wandered down the waterway from Montreal to what is now Huntington around 1700, they were just looking to make a living.
Their arrival, though, sparked the beginning of a fundamental change in the culture of the Miamis native to the area.
The French were the first Europeans to make it this far, and their influence extended until they were chased out by the British in 1763 at the end of the French and Indian War (which, despite its name, was actually a war between the French and the British).
Some 250 years later, the French have been largely pushed to the background when the area's history is recounted - something the Forks of the Wabash Historic Park plans to remedy.
"I felt strongly that the French period of the Forks has been underrepresented," says Tim Guy, who serves as treasurer of the Historic Forks' board of directors and, in his spare time, re-enacts the role of a French trader.
With that background, Guy assumed the role of coordinator in the development of a trading post at the Forks to tell the story of the French traders. That trading post will open to the public on Saturday, Sept. 21, in conjunction with a program by the Indiana state archaeologist explaining the French influence on this area.
"The French were the first white people to come to the Forks area," Guy explains. "Whether or not they had a trading post here, we don't know. But there may have been."
The arrival of the French traders can be attributed to French inheritance customs of the time, says Jean Gernand, a retired teacher who was instrumental in the birth of the Forks of the Wabash Historic Park and is still an active volunteer at the park.
"The first-born male got the family fortune and one, if they could spare him, they hoped would be a priest," Gernand says. "The rest were left to fend for themselves, and a lot of them found their way to Canada."
From Canada, they could travel south entirely by way of lakes and rivers - with the exception of a "long portage" that began near Fort Wayne and ended at the Forks of the Wabash and Little rivers.
"This long portage linked it all together," says Guy. "This would have been a very likely place there would have been a trading post."
The French had posts all along the water route, he notes.
The French interaction with the Miamis was peaceful, Gernand says, to the point that many of the traders married Miami women. But the goods that the French brought with them changed the Miamis' way of life as the Miamis became dependent on them, Guy adds.
The traders wanted furs, Guy says.
Europeans needed the furs to adorn their fashionable clothing and for use as warm blankets, but furs had become very scarce in Europe.
The traders brought all kinds of items that had been shipped from France - butcher knives, musket balls, gun flints, vermillion pigment for face painting, scissors, beads, needles and fabric, brandy, musket powder, axes and more. They traded those items for furs, which were shipped back to France.
Those trade items and furs are stocked at the Forks' new trading post, which will be the province of Pierre Roy - a real French trader known to have been active in this area in the early 1700s - portrayed by local re-enactor Randy Bellamy.
Roy was a key figure in the fur trade at Post Miamis (present day Fort Wayne) and also served as an interpreter. He married a Miami woman known as Marguerite.
The trading post, set in the year 1715, will be opened primarily for school tours, Guy says, with Bellamy explaining to visitors how items were traded for furs.
Others interested in serving as an interpreter in the French trading post can call the Forks office at 356-1903.
The log building that houses the trading post was moved to the Forks from its original location on Waterworks Road, where it served as a home for nearly a century after being built in the last half of the 1800s, Gernand says.
The move and subsequent renovation of the building was accomplished with funds raised through the Forks of the Wabash Pioneer Festival by one of the festival's co-sponsors, the Junior Historical Society, she notes.
Three Boy Scouts have earned Eagle awards for their work on the building, Gernand says.
The log building sat empty for years after its move to the Forks.
"It survived several suggestions that it be burned," says Jim Taylor, a member of the Forks board of directors.
The French trading post will be introduced to the public on Saturday, Sept. 21, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. During that time, state archaeologist Rick Jones, from the Indiana Department of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, will present a program explaining the French influence in Indiana.
Refreshments will be served and other buildings at the Forks will be open during the afternoon.
Admission will be charged.
Complete caption: A trading post that will showcase the influence of French traders on the area is the latest addition to the Forks of the Wabash Historic Park. Shown inside the trading post are (from left) Susan Taylor, Forks volunteer; Jim Taylor, Forks board member; Jean Gernand, Junior Historical Society coordinator; and Tim Guy, treasurer of the Forks board of directors.


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Some Independence students now have a unique way to visit the dentist.
Truman Medical Center-Lakewood Auxillary and the Independence School District unveiled their first mobile dental coach Monday morning at Blackburn Elementary.
The dental coach is a 14-by-30-foot recreational vehicle converted to a dentist office on wheels that will visit Independence elementary schools in the next two to four weeks.
"It has almost everything you can do in a regular dental office," says Charlie Shields, Chief Operating Officer of Truman Medical Center.
The coach is furnished with an X-ray machine, waiting area, dental chair and other related equipment, plus a flatscreen television fixed to the ceiling that a child can watch while having their teeth examined. The mobile unit will be staffed with two dentists, one dental hygenist and two assistants. All of the equipment will be powered by electric generators.
In 2011, Shields said, Independence School District approached TMC to address student needs in dental health. TMC-Lakewood Dental subsequently reached out to the district and began a partnership to provide dental screenings and basic services-such as teeth cleaning, fluoride application, and X-rays-for students "most at risk" for dental diseases, said TMC's media relations manager Shane Kovac.
John Dane, a dentist from TMC, said there are a "multitude of barriers" that prevent students from receiving dental care. "A lot of dentists do not accept Medicaid patients," says Dane. "We're not trying to sway business from area dentists, but a number of students cannot obtain dental care since they're under a Medicaid plan. Also, some students do not have the means of transportation to visit a dentist. Medicaid transportation is limiting."
According to Dane, the partnership has screened more than 6,000 students and serviced around 1,800. Initially children are screened for any dental-related problems, and if an issue arises, a notification is sent to the parent or guardian. The parents and guardians then decide whether to continue dental care with TMC-Lakewood.
However, physically bringing dental equipment to schools and finding adequete space became inefficient and a challenge, according to Independence Superintendent Dale Herl.
"We (Independence schools) found it hard to find a permanent space to place all the necessary equipment in order to provide a service a number of kids don't have," ssaid Herl. "The difficulty in transporting the equipment proved to be problematic as well."
The partnership between the medical and education institutions devised a solution that led to the creation of the mobile dental lab instead of constantly hauling and setting up dental equipment inside school auditoriums and gymnasiums for student screenings that proved to be cumbersome and time-consuming, according to Independence schools.
Over the next two years, TMC-Lakewood raised funds to convert an RV to a dental coach. The project was $500,000 and TMC acquired the funds through a grant and donations from outside help such as Delta Dental of Missouri, Humphrey, Farmington & McClain, and others, according to Shields. The coach is owned and operated by TMC-Lakewood.
Dred Scott, deputy superintendent of Independence said, "(The coach is) wonderful. It enables more students to be served efficiently."
With this new dental coach, they hope to provide dental care for 50 percent more of that 1,800 number of students, says Dane.
Asked whether student dental health has been a growing issue for the district, Herl replied, "Not only with us, but other local areas have this concern."
Herl said depending on the program's outcome in the next couple of months, they will determine whether to provide it for higher grade levels.
And will the portable dental coach be exclusive to the Independence school district?
Shields said they are discussing the service with both Blue Springs and Raytown school districts.


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I'm going to go out on a limb here and say something that I say every year right before the Flames dive into an unrecoverable tailspin away from the post-season… I'm excited for the Edmonton game on Saturday because it actually means something. Shocking, isn't it?
You see, if the Flames win on Saturday they will pass the Oilers in the standings. The 'look-at-how-good-we-are-now-Feaster' Oilers. It would move them into a 3-way tie with Nashville and Los Angeles for 9th, and it would (albeit temporarily and hypothetically) put them one point out of a playoff spot.
I'm not going to mention that there are seven teams within four points of each other, battling for two playoff spots. And a couple teams, namely San Jose and Los Angeles, should be playoff teams. And to move up four points, you have to win four games. That's just how it seems to work.


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With a big test against state power Rolling Meadows this Wednesday, Palatine's girls basketball team had a warm-up exam on Saturday afternoon in Roselle.
The Pirates passed with a 47-22 triumph over Lake Park in the nonconference event.
Now they will review for the explosive Mustangs.
"Defense will be the key," said Palatine's McKenzie Wiedemann, who helped trigger the Pirates' defense on Saturday with 5 steals along with her team-high 13 points and 3 assists. "They (Meadows) are averaging 72 points a game. So that will be our biggest motivation."
Palatine, allowing 36.6 points per game, is one of the top defensive teams in the area.
The Pirates showed that Saturday, limiting the Lancers to under double digits in each of the final three quarters.
"It's always tough coming back after the layoff after the new year," Wiedemann said. "But we've been practicing well and prepare for everyone like it's a big game. We knew we had to be ready. We didn't want to lose."
The Pirates improved to 16-4 as sophomore Monica Masini (12 points), junior Morgan Radtke (8) and junior Erin Mayer (8) led the balanced offense.
A free throw by sophomore Maria Zepeda gave Lake Park (0-20) an 11-10 lead with 2:16 left in the first quarter.
But the Pirates kicked into gear with a 16-3 run to close out the first half and led 27-13 at the break.
Wiedemann's 3-pointer made it 16-11 after one quarter.
The Pirates started the second quarter with a 6-0 run, getting two inside baskets from Mayer and a layup by Masini for a 22-11 lead.
"You could tell in the first quarter we were not reacting as quickly as we should have been," said Palatine coach Leslie Schock. "I was a little concerned that we were going to be a little flat. But then we picked it up toward the end of the first quarter."
The Pirates picked up plenty of rebounds, with Masini and Mayer grabbing 9 apiece and Radtke 7.
"Obviously. they're a good team," said Lancers coach Andrea Miller. "Their No. 44 (Masini) and 23 (Wiedemann) did a nice job.
"I thought our kids came out and played hard. The one thing we talked about is no matter what the score was, we wanted to be playing hard. We just struggled putting the ball in the basket."
Lancers starter Sam Cummings missed her third straight game.
Miller said the 5-foot-11 senior forward has a deep quad contusion injury.
Senior Tyshai Freeman led the Lancers with 11 rebounds.
Zepeda had 4 rebounds and 2 blocked shots while teammate Jen Warfield collected 3 rebounds and 3 blocked shots.
"I've been in their position before (trying to get wins) and that's tough," Schock said. "Obviously their coach is doing a good job keeping them motivated and playing real hard."
The Pirates have been playing hard the last six games (5-1) despite losing standout guard Nia Pappas (IUPUI recruit) due to a an ankle injury.
Pappas remains questionable for Wednesday's game against Meadows.
Radtke and Wiedemann have been sharing Pappas' point guard duties.
"It's opened up a lot of things we can do that I didn't know about," Schock said of Pappas' absence from the lineup. "Maybe Nia could even play a '2' guard."
Wiedemann says her new position at point is definitely a challenge.
"Morgan and I go back and forth playing it," Wiedemann said. "I'm glad my teammates trust me to bring the ball up the court. It's a little nerve-wracking because I don't want to make a mistake."
The Pirates will try to limit mistakes on Wednesday.
"Now we've got to prepare for Rolling Meadows," Wiedemann said. "They are one of the best teams we'll see."
Schock liked what she saw from Wiedemann on Saturday.
"I thought McKenzie had a great game, offensively and defensively," she said. "And the same for our two posts (Masini and Mayer). Everyone played solid."


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Fort Morgan officials are reaching out to African immigrants who have moved to the city.
Fort Morgan Mayor Terry McAlister invited some African immigrants to Tuesday's Fort Morgan City Council meeting specifically so they could better understand how local government works, he said.
McAlister said the city should be reaching out to people to find out their needs, and help them approach local officials.
He noted that he saw the need for that kind of information and outreach during his last campaign for the office of mayor.
Fort Morgan City Manager Jeff Wells said he and McAlister accepted an invitation to attend a Ramadan feast at the African community center last Saturday.
"It was a really nice evening," Wells said.
They enjoyed a real feast, and were presented with a framed certificate thanking the city for welcoming the African community, he said.
This offered a chance to learn more about some of the immigrants who live in the city, Wells said.
Also, it gave the Africans a chance to talk about their needs and concerns, he said.
McAlister said to expect immigrants to attend the council meetings regularly in the future, too.
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Why are game publishers becoming increasingly gung-ho about free-to-play? According to Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, piracy is definitely a factor at play.
In spite of its name, free-to-play is one way "to make sure you have revenue," Guillemot explained. "On PC it's only around five to seven per cent of the players who pay for F2P, but normally on PC it's only about five to seven per cent who pay anyway, the rest is pirated. It's around a 93-95 per cent piracy rate, so it ends up at about the same percentage."
Speaking to GI.biz, Guillemot added that "the revenue we get from the people who play is more long term, so we can continue to bring content."
Guillemot says the key to the F2P model is its adaptability. A game could cannibalize existing content to make the game production cheaper initially, and then iterate on it. "What's very important is that we change the content and make it a better fit to the customer as time goes on."
Another factor playing into the company's free-to-play strategy is the slow console transition. "People are saying that the traditional market is declining and that F2P is everything--I'm not saying that. We're waiting for the new consoles--I think that the new consoles will give a huge boost to the industry, just like they do every time that they come. This time, they took too long so the market is waiting."
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Latest: CU President Bruce Benson decided to back the campus leaders' decision and agrees that the School of Journalism and Mass Communication should be discontinued. He backs the "Journalism Plus" program, which would allow students to earn a journalism degree, as long as it's coupled with another major.
Next: The Board of Regents meets Thursday and Friday at the Anschutz Medical Campus. The future of the journalism school is scheduled as a "discussion item," but it's possible the board could vote on the closure Friday. Benson would like the board to take the vote this week. Ultimately, the discontinuance needs final approval from the regents.
University of Colorado President Bruce Benson is recommending that the traditional journalism school on the Boulder campus be shut down but that CU continue to allow students to earn a degree in journalism -- as long as it's coupled with another major.
Benson's recommendation is consistent with the "Journalism Plus" plan that campus leaders have recommended.
In an interview Monday, he said he's urging the regents to vote on the matter this week. A vote could come as early as Friday.
"I think we've beat this dead horse to death," he said. "We need to get this done so they can move ahead and start enhancing the program."
The CU regents meet Thursday and Friday on the Anschutz Medical Campus, and they are scheduled to discuss the closure of the school. The vote could come up Friday, according to university officials.
But Sue Sharkey, R-Windsor, said she wants to better understand the school's plans for the future of journalism education and whether campus officials expect a drop in enrollment because of the proposal.
"I'm not ready for the vote," she said. "I still have some questions I'd like answered."
CU Regent Michael Carrigan, D-Denver, said he hasn't decided how he'll vote and thinks the regents will need more time to deliberate.
Jim Geddes, R-Sedalia, said he has not arrived at a conclusion, either.
"I want to hear the final arguments," Geddes said. "I'll be very attentive to the pros and cons."
Ultimately, closure requires approval from the Board of Regents.
In a letter to local media professionals, Benson said journalism plays a critical role in a democratic society.
"Despite rapid change in delivery methods, its fundamental values of fairness, balance, accuracy, ethics and law remain," Benson wrote. "CU will continue to prepare journalists and I support the campus recommendation to continue to offer it as a degree (as part of a double major) with a permanent home on the Boulder campus."
Campus leaders met last week to discuss implementing the Journalism Plus plan in the case that regents approve the school's closure as early as this week, said associate dean Steve Jones. The school wants to have plans in place for the incoming class of students who will be on the campus over the summer for freshman orientation.
The Journalism Plus plan, proposed by Chancellor Phil DiStefano, calls for CU to cease offering journalism as a standalone bachelor's degree. Students would be able to pursue a double major in journalism and another subject, or they would be able to pursue a major in a subject with a certificate or minor in journalism.
Under that plan, CU's graduate school temporarily would house the journalism faculty as the school determines the future of journalism education.
Deserai Anderson Crow, an assistant professor in the journalism school who is associate director of the Center for Environmental Journalism, said the regents shouldn't delay the vote because they have had information for months.
"People's careers are in the balance here, and they should just decide so that we know what the next steps will be," she said.
Benson said that in preparing to make his decision, he had conversations with campus leaders, media professionals, advisory board members, faculty members, students and others.
He said CU should look to top journalism schools across the country as models, including Arizona State University, the University of Missouri and Northwestern University.
Though the closure will save CU about $500,000 a year, Benson said his decision is "quality-driven," not based on the budget.
In a separate process, outside accreditors found weak leadership and faculty factions and recommended that CU's journalism school receive "provisional re-accreditation." Last week, a second committee in the three-part accreditation process supported the recommendation of provisional re-accreditation but found that the master's newsgathering program should lose its accreditation.
Accreditors criticized the graduate program for not being consistently rigorous. They also said the school needs to do a better job incorporating diversity into its curriculum, and not enough classes are being taught by regular faculty members.
The journalism school's dean, Paul Voakes, announced last year that he will resign as dean this summer, though he will remain on the faculty.
The School of Journalism and Mass Communication Advisory Board has recommended that the school be closed without delay.
Contact Camera Staff Writer Brittany Anas at 303-473-1132 or email@example.com.


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Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now
This story appears in the May 6, 2013, issue of Sports Illustrated.
I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay.
I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn't the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, "I'm different." If I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand.
My journey of self-discovery and self-acknowledgement began in my hometown of Los Angeles and has taken me through two state high school championships, the NCAA Final Four and the Elite Eight, and nine playoffs in 12 NBA seasons....
...I realized I needed to go public when Joe Kennedy, my old roommate at Stanford and now a Massachusetts congressman, told me he had just marched in Boston's 2012 Gay Pride Parade. I'm seldom jealous of others, but hearing what Joe had done filled me with envy. I was proud of him for participating but angry that as a closeted gay man I couldn't even cheer my straight friend on as a spectator. If I'd been questioned, I would have concocted half truths. What a shame to have to lie at a celebration of pride. I want to do the right thing and not hide anymore. I want to march for tolerance, acceptance and understanding. I want to take a stand and say, "Me, too."
Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mag...#ixzz2RsPfjTYR


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Cartoons - not like they use to be
Jess Shut Up
I was watching cartoons the other morning with my nephew, Terrill, and man have things changed.
It seemed that all the cartoons he was watching had killing, fighting and weapons of some sort. Violence seemed to be the plot in all of them. I quickly did some channel surfing until I found the good old Looney Toons. After some disagreement between myself and a 9-and-a-half-year-old, the TV was turned off and outside he went.
Whatever happened to the Jetsons, Strawberry Shortcake and He Man. Characters never died, rarely did they get hurt. Yes there was violence but it was comical violence. We also learned from our Saturday mornings, sitting in our footie pajamas with a big bowl of Cocoa Puffs. What did we learn you ask? Well, OK, let's look at some of my favorites.
On Scooby-Doo we learned that you must like what you do. Have fun while conquering your fears, and don't forget, snacks are good. While solving mysteries, Scooby, Shaggy, Daphne, Velma and Fred always seemed to be having a good time.
The Smurfs taught us how to be a community. Every person has a role or job they are good at, and every one is a valuable piece of the group. Whether you're like Papa Smurf, Smurffette or Grumpy, you are needed at different times for your wisdom or talent.
Yogi Bear taught us stealing is bad. He also taught us that sometimes wisdom comes in small packages. If Yogi would just listen to Boo Boo he would never have got in trouble.
The Justice League was made up of different superheros like Superman, Batman and Robin, Wonder Woman, Aqua Man, Green Lantern, The Wonder Twins and many others. This show taught us that even our heros need heros.
Captain Cave Man and Son taught us to have fun with family. Mighty Mouse taught us that, no matter how small you are, you can accomplish big things. Thunder Cats always called upon the One that gave them strength, they could not do it without help. The Pink Panther taught us you don't have to have a loud voice to be cool.
The Flintstones had many good lessons. The main one was that we will make mistakes; it's important to forgive those that mess up and hurt us. Wilma forgave Fred hundreds of times. Barney never gave up on Fred either, even after all the disasters he got them into.
Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner taught us to never give up. It doesn't matter if you're being chased or you are chasing something. Never Give Up.
So what exactly am I saying? We learned valuable life lessons from these good old cartoons. Lessons that have stayed with many of us a long time. I don't know if these same lessons are being passed on to our younger generation. I'm not saying I wouldn't have learned these lessons in some other form. Because I did. I'm just saying every Saturday morning I was getting good information that, along with the teaching of my parents and teachers, gelled into something good and long lasting. I just don't see those same moral values in the popular cartoons of today.
Thank you Bugs, Elmer and Porky for the life lessons. That's all folks.
Oh and Happy Birthday to my bride, Karrie. I love you.


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Maya and her friends are in love with the new girls action cartoon, "The Cheery Chipper Cupid Sisters". They join the fan club, wear the t-shirts, chant the chants, and begin to drive their friends and families up a wall. Things only get worse when their efforts to spread sweetness, happiness and love in the manner of their two- dimensional idols seem to backfire. Only a very surreal experience of trying to find a bird-napped Paco makes Maya realize that perhaps she's taken this latest fad a bit too far.
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"I've always wanted to write a book," says Brian Harnish, and he has "The Cold Grip" will be available at a book signing event at the Toledo Public Library on Friday, April 25, from 3-5 p.m.
Everyone is invited to attend, enjoy refreshments and pick up an author-signed copy of the book.
Harnish, 26, says it took him six months to write the 220-page novel with much of the time spent in proofing. The book is self-published.
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Toledo author Brian Harnish displays a copy of his new book The Cold Grip recently at the Toledo Public Library. He will be present for a book signing at the library on April 25. Toledo Public Library photo
"The Cold Grip" is a tale about street gangs in the early 1950s and is set in the Toledo and Tama area. Harnish says he enjoys books from this era in time and refers to "The Outsider" by Colin Wilson and J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye."
It's available on internet websites and Harnish said a copy even surfaced on eBay, the popular internet auction site.
The author has lived in Toledo since 2009. With his wife, Kalia, they have two children, McKenna, 2 1/2 and Lucas, six months.He works in security at Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel. His father is Jeff Harnish, Ackley police chief, and a former Toledo police chief.
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The following is a response to the article referenced in my previous post GOP Rep. "Rohrabacher's face turned red, she said, adding that he said he represents citizens and hates illegals."
Again, allow me to refresh your memory about who exactly California's Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is:
Anderson Cooper Whumps Rep Rohrabacher On Benghazi "What You're Saying Is Factually Not Correct"
GOP Congressmen: Iraq War a "horrible mistake…Everybody" thinks so. Surprise! It turns out it was just a big ol' GOP oopsie! (Maybe he should watch this VIDEO– Hubris: Selling the Iraq War. BushCo saw an opportunity and took it, and took us.)
And just for giggles: Dana Rohrabacher surfin' and singin'. Not kidding.
And with that, here is today's L.A. Times letter to the editor, because our voices matter:
Re "Pathway to citizenship likely to be rocky in D.C.," Feb. 19
Just because Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) — who said, "Just because you are a wonderful person doesn't mean you deserve to be an American citizen" — had the luck to be born here should not give him the right to deny citizenship to a person who has lived here for most of her life, is in college and will in all likelihood become a productive member of her community, paying taxes and contributing to the well-being of those around her.
I wasn't born here; I came from Nazi Germany in 1936 and was blessed with citizenship papers at age 20. I shudder to think what might have happened to me had Rohrabacher been in charge of granting or denying me citizenship
Ruth Moos
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My freshman year of college, the first day of finals it snowed. I came back from taking a final and found that the dorm staff had set up a station in the lounge with hot chocolate, bread, butter and a toaster. I asked the head custodian about it and he said he and the "girls" wanted to do something for all us "kids" because it was the first day of finals and so nasty out. It was the warmest coziest moment I have from that first semester and just the nicest thing for them to have done.
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Efforts to bring glitzy new graphics to Linux are fueling an old conflict: Does proprietary software belong in open-source Linux? The issue involves software modules called drivers, which plug into the kernel at the heart of the open-source operating system. Drivers let software communicate with hardware such as network adapters, hard drives and video cards.
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RE[3]: So What's the Problem?
by OMRebel on Wed 19th Apr 2006 18:36 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: So What's the Problem?"
RE[4]: So What's the Problem?
by CaptainFlint on Wed 19th Apr 2006 18:50 in reply to "RE[3]: So What's the Problem?"
You see when it comes to hardware as such there are industry standard design guidelines. No motherboard manufacturer will modify the PCI bus on their own and ship the motherboard out. They follow a set of specifications.
Now if graphics cards manufacturers provided specs for and INTERFACE alone and not the drivers, dvelopers' lives would be made really easy and it would ensure better integration and support for their cards.


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Andrew Alberts has a lot of improvement ahead of him if he expects to play full time with the Canucks.
Either that, or he's praying for Injurypalooza again in 2011-12.
(Photo courtesy Darpan Magazine)
Canucks Army concludes its series where it looks at the depth at each position for the Vancouver Canucks.
In our sixth and final installment of our series, we look at the Canucks depth at DEFENCE (Part II).
Last season, the Vancouver Canucks blue line was absolutely decimated by injuries. The Canucks dressed 13 different defencemen last season, and 9 of them played 27 games or more. No single Canucks defenceman played the entire season (the only one who was close was the now-departed Christian Ehrhoff, with 79 GP). It's clear that the Canucks depth on defence saved their season and was arguably the biggest factor in them reaching the Stanley Cup final. With much of the defence still in tact, will the depth become a factor again this season? If so, the Canucks have some returning veterans, some young up-and-comers and some free agent signings looking to make their mark.
Aaron Rome
Rome's season was a bit of a strange one. The last time we saw Aaron Rome on the ice happened to be the last time we saw Nathan Horton on the ice too. The devastating hit knocked Horton out of the playoffs and earned Rome a suspension for the remainder of the playoffs. I'm sure that Rom is eager to erase that memory from the minds of hockey fans. His regular season was interesting as well. The best way to describe his year is that he was probably the "best of the bad Canucks defencemen" during the regular season. Of the top 9 defencemen based on ice time, Rome, Alberts, Ballard and Salo were the worst of the bunch. By A LOT too. Looking at relative CORSI numbers from Behind The Net, there is a distinct line between the top 5 and the bottom 4. Rome was marginally the best of the bottom 4. Rome proved that be could be a serviceable 7th defenceman and an adequate replacement. There is no doubt that Rome saw the amount of ice time that he did because the Canucks blue line became an infirmary and that Keith Ballard had an atrocious season. This coming year, given that the Canucks defence will almost assuredly be more healthy than last year and given Ballard is likely to have a bounce back year (assuming Alain Vigneault works things out with Ballard), Rome should see a lot less ice time this year.
Interesting Stat from 2010-11: It was a night and day for Rome when comparing the two halves of the season last year. Between October and January, Rome played 26 games, had 2 assists and was -5 with 8 PIMs. Between February and April, he played 29 games, had 1 goal and 3 assists, was +6 and had 45 PIMs.
Andrew Alberts
Alberts was the worst Canucks defenceman last year. Whether you want to use the "eye-test" or look at the empirical evidence, he was the worst defenceman. Worst among CORSI and a variety of other stats (here, here and here). Worst at being an effective defender. Worst at taking dumb penalties. Yet, for some inexplicable reason, he was rewarded with a new two-year contract at $1.225m per year. It wasn't as though Alberts was awarded that money because he was an RFA. He was unrestricted. The Canucks could have signed him at a much more reasonable rate. In the grand scheme of things, he's probably being paid about 300-400K more than he warrants. Not a big deal, in terms of the cap. Regardless, Alberts is certainly effective when he is playing to his strengths, which is being brawny and surly. But given how well Tanev played last year, and Rome's improvement, Alberts is no better than 8th in the depth chart. With a surge from other young defenceman, he may slip even further. It seems pretty clear that Andrew Alberts has some serious improvements to make if he wants to climb the D-man depth ladder.
Interesting Stat from 2010-11: Alberts had nearly identical home and away stats last year, except for one big difference. In 22 home games, he had 1G 3A 4 Pts. In 20 road games, he had 0G 3A 3Pts. The difference? At home, Alberts was +3 while he was -3 on the road.
Yann Sauve
Yann Sauve had quite the 2010-11 campaign. He was invited to Canucks' training and things were looking good for the 20 year old. He was then hit by a car in downtown Vancouver and suffered a concussion, sidelining him for two months. Once healthy enough to play, the Canucks sent him to Manitoba. The Moose then assigned him to play with the Victoria Salmon Kings in the ECHL, mostly for conditioning. After 8 games with Victoria, he was back with the Moose. He played the rest of the year with Manitoba, and had two brief callups with the Canucks. He played 3 games in February and 2 games in April before returning to the Moose for the Calder Cup playoffs. A tumultuous year, to be sure, and one that will serve as a HUGE learn experience for the bright prospect. He's got good size and he uses it – something that the Canucks will certainly keep in mind this season. However, Sauve (who will turn 22 in February) needs a full, uninterrupted season in the AHL to grow his skills more. His size and physicality certainly make him a target for call-ups but he needs some seasoning still in the AHL before he's really ready for the big leagues. Look for Sauve's big push into the NHL to happen next summer. This year, he just needs to stay healthy, stay focused and stay away from Vancouver traffic.
Interesting Stat from 2010-11: Sauve was playing with the Canucks in his February call-up when he celebrated his 21st birthday.
Alexander Sulzer
Last season, Sulzer played in his 11th year of professional hockey. Pretty amazing when you realize he's 27. Starting out in Germany's third division as a 16 year old, Sulzer has climbed his way, slowly but surely into the ranks of the NHL. He signed a two-way with the Canucks as a free agent this summer, and is another product of the Nashville defensive system (along with Dan Hamhuis and Ryan Parent). The two-way deal is a pretty clear indication that the club intends to play him predominantly with the Chicago Wolves, but he has proved to be a competent defenceman at the NHL level and will be an adequate call-up for the Canucks if needed. If Sulzer really lights it up at training camp, there is a chance that he could knock Rome or Alberts out of their perch in the 7/8 hole in the Canucks depth chart. Sulzer would have to really impress Canucks brass to make that jump. Given his two-way deal and his 60+ games of NHL experience, I would venture to say that Sulzer will likely be the Canucks first choice for call-up this season. With the Canucks history of injuries on the blueline, that could mean some significant NHL time for the German defenceman.
Interesting Stat from 2010-11: He scored his first NHL goal last season against the Edmonton Oilers. Sulzer had just finished serving a penalty when he scored the game's first goal. He also added an assist and was named the game's third star.
Ryan Parent
May 29th, 2010. As a member of the Philadelphia Flyers, Ryan Parent played Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final against the Chicago Blackhawks. He played a mere 41 seconds and was minus-1. A very disappointing end to a decent playoff run for the young defenceman. Since then, he's played on 4 NHL games, while fighting injuries and toiling away in minors. At only 24, Parent has plenty of hockey left in him, but he's already been traded 3 times (all involving the Nashville Predators). If he used his most valuable asset more effectively (his size) he could probably break through and stick with a club full time. He COULD be an Alberts-type, only more responsible and smarter with the puck. He was a modest cap hit and experience playing on the NHL's biggest stage. He's just having a difficult time cracking the Canucks depth, mostly because he would have had to clear waivers and if claimed, the Canucks would be on the hook for half his cap hit. That's not a good fit for a team that operated so perilously close to the cap ceiling last season. It wouldn't surprise me to see Parent traded this season as part of a big bundle to bring in that elusive power winger the Canucks need on the second line. It seems unlikely, with his one-way contract, waiver eligibility and the Canucks depth, that he'll play more than a handful of games for the Canucks again. Hopefully, a team looking for a big young defenceman will find use for Parent and the Canucks can get trade value for him.
Interesting Stat from 2010-11: Ryan Parent was tied in team scoring for the Moose with Eddie Lack, the team's #1 goaltender. They both had 2 points.
Sebastian Erixon
Sebastian Erixon has been playing a man's game in a man's league for the past 3 years… And he's just about to celebrate his 22nd birthday. Not bad, kid. Erixon completed his third season in the Swedish Elite League this spring and led his club, Timra, in scoring among defencemen. Not bad, kid. He's a talented offensive defenceman who handles the puck very well and has a decent shot. Not bad, kid. His glaring drawback… is that he's small. Very small for an NHL defenceman at only 5'7". NOT good, kid. Some sites have him listed at 5'10" but that's quite generous. Even if he was 5'10", that's still fairly small for an NHL defenceman. There are very few small blueliners in the NHL and it's not a model that Gillis and the Canucks have employed. And, at almost 22, Erixon isn't going to magically sprout up 4-6 inches in a year. Erixon has a tall order in front of him in trying to crack the Canucks roster, but his offensive abilities might make him an interesting call-up for a few games. But you have to expect that Erixon will play full time with the Wolves next year and will probably light up the AHL.
Interesting Stat from 2010-11: Erixon led his Timra Red Eagles of the SEL in assists (15) and points (20) for defencemen. His 5 goals was second-best to Mattias Karlsson (6).


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Monday, October 10, 2005
Was OT really going to save us?
Maybe this is just rationalization on my part because that 60 yard run was so inexcusable, but I would put our chances of winning in OT at less than 50%.
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- Yost said...
I agree w/ you, Benny. I felt same way. That and fact that we're 4-0, I believe, in OT games so we're bound to get tripped up in those "extra innings" sooner or later.
But damn, sure wish we'd have had the chance to get there. Can you imagine how different this whole season would seem, even with an ugly win last weekend? With PSU coming into town and a BCS bowl still at least possible. *sigh*, Part II.
- October 10, 2005 4:39 PM
- Wangs said...
We should try Gutz for no other reason than Henne sucks. Which is a pretty good reason.
Why does Lloyd protect his quarterbacks so much but not other players? Gabe Watson - all american - hasn't been a starter this season. Henne, who can't complete a pass in the second half, doesn't get a whiff of the bench. What's going on? Gutz was projected to be the starter last year, he certainly has the talent, why not let him play?
- October 10, 2005 5:43 PM
Overtime? Screw overtime. We had so many chances to win it in the fourth quarter who had time to think about overtime.
- October 10, 2005 7:04 PM
- Yost said...
Dis, we really only had two chances to win in the 4th that I recall -- Rivas's 34 yd miss w/ 8:30 left and then our final drive where we got to midfield...then stalled. And hey, if we stop them on the MOTDPE (Most Obvious Third Down Play Ever), we get the ball back w/ about 1:15 left so who knows. But this game should have never come down to the fourth quarther.
As for Wangs comment, good question why QBs seem to be protected more. Might also be off the field/practice things we don't know about. Maybe, as bad as it's been, Henne is busting his butt in practice/behind the scenes. Not saying that's right, just speculating. And don't forget, Lloyd was a QB in college so it could just be a soft spot (like our defensive coverage on any long 3rd down play).
- October 10, 2005 7:47 PM
- Benny Friedman said...
I agree that we never should have let the game come down to the last couple of minutes or an OT. This game was lost much earlier than that.
As for why Lloyd benches a guy like Watson but never his QBs, it totally has to do with effort. I'm Henne's biggest critic here, but I don't doubt his effort. From what I've read it was an effort issue with Watson and Lloyd won't stand for that, to his credit.
- October 11, 2005 12:01 AM
- Yost said...
Hey, Benny, was Wangs in a nasty mood tonight or what? Sheesh. Makes your Jim Brandstatter comments look complimentary.
- October 11, 2005 12:15 AM
- Benny Friedman said...
Of course he was in a nasty mood. He watched the game a second time. I was pissed off enough on Saturday, I didn't want to ruin my Monday by watching it again.
I would never call for the death of Brandstatter or call into question his worthiness in the eyes of his deity. I actually like the guy - he's just not a handsome man like me. I mean look at that picture of me. I'm the definition of rugged good looks. I don't have to tell you that back in the '20s I was known for bringing the forward pass to Ann Arbor, if you know what I mean.
- October 11, 2005 11:19 AM
- Yost said...
Benny, I think the 20s are the last time we used it effectively.
- October 11, 2005 12:56 PM
- Wangs said...
For the record - I did not call for anyone's death. It was a figure of speech. Of course, if someone wants to take their life because they are humilated and shamed or terminally ill but the feds won't let them smoke pot, then I wouldn't stand in their way if they decided to take matters into their own hands, so to speak, or even if they wanted a doctor to assist them.
I apologize if anyone was offended re: my comments about our fat kicker. I was attempting to note that when things go well Big J gets the credit, so, I assume, when things go poorly He also gets the credit. I certainly don't believe that Jesus, or any other super natural force or intelligent designer, or even stupid designers, have anything at all to do with who wins or loses college football games. But some guys do. So, it only makes sense to me, if one gives credit to the Almighty for success then, to be consistent, he also gets credit when bad things happen to fat kickers. But of course, I could be wrong.
- October 11, 2005 2:06 PM
- Yost said...
LOL, Wangs. Reminds me of some comic's bit where he's talking about same thing and you hear the guy in the locker room afterwards talking to the press...
"Yeah, I would have been fine... until Jesus made me miss that kick!"
- October 11, 2005 2:09 PM
- Benny Friedman said...
Wangs, I certainly wasn't offended by anything you said. However, I don't recall Rivas giving credit to JC or anyone else, other than his teammates, when he made kicks. I believe you are getting confused with Phillip Brabbs who made the game winning FG against Washington in '02 and later appeared with "Jesus" on his wristbands. Perhaps that was just his roommate from Puerto Rico. Regardless, he wasn't seen on the field very often after that.
- October 11, 2005 3:04 PM


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Chelsea boss Roberto Di Matteo not holding grudge over being sacked at West Brom
Chelsea boss Roberto Di Matteo insists he feels no bitterness over being sacked at West Brom.
Last Updated: 17/11/12 2:40pm
The Italian has plenty to smile about as he brings his Champions League and FA Cup winning team to The Hawthorns for the first time since his controversial dismissal in February 2011.
"I have no grudges," Di Matteo said ahead of Saturday's Premier League clash. "I had a great time. I worked with a lot of good people there.
"The supporters were very kind to me as well. I had almost two years there.
"Despite the fact that last season's game was not a good memory, because we lost, I can reflect on good memories there.
"Look at where I'm sitting now, so I'm not so sure it was a bad thing. That's football. That's life. In a manager's career, you're going to get the sack at some point if you have a long career.
"It's happened to everybody in the industry, and it makes you stronger. It doesn't mean you're not a good coach or a good manager.
"There are many examples of good managers where it didn't work out with a club. They were successful before and were again after."


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5-9-05 - MOSCOW (AP) World leaders converged on Red Square in Moscow today for a big parade to celebrate the allied victory in World War Two.
Cannons boomed, music blared and ranks of soldiers marched past, many in uniforms like those the Red Army wore into battle 60 years ago. Fighter jets screamed overhead streaming colored smoke.
Russian President Vladimir Putin led the observance, calling the allied triumph over the Nazis a "victory of good over evil."
President Bush sat next to Putin in bleachers erected in front of the Kremlin walls. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was among the four dozen other leaders who watched.
Putin recalled the huge price paid by the Soviet Union in the war -- an estimated 28 million dead. He said, "I bow low before all veterans of Great Patriotic War."
President Bush and Russian President Putin may have their differences -- but Bush says "there's a lot we can do together."
Visiting Putin at his country house near Moscow, Bush thanked him for his help on Iran and the Middle East.
Bush called Russia "a great nation" and said he's "looking forward to working together on big problems."
The two leaders ignored reporters' questions and kept their discussions private. Bush had been expected to raise some concerns about Moscow's commitment to democracy.
Their public remarks were upbeat. The Russian leader even let Bush drive his white Volga sedan from one building to another for dinner with their wives.


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Remember those Mac vs PC ads from 2006-2009? Here's a collection of them if you don't remember:
Anyway I have made a parody of those ads including both mikeOS and Linux. Just check out this "ad" and don't forget to look at the bloopers because they are really funny
I made a parody ad before the one above but it's not as good. You can check it out here: