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Echo Duplex Sling
The Echo Duplex Sling is completely contemporary, yet perfectly comfortable. Duplex sling seating features a two-piece, two-sided fabric for added durability. This allows for use in the most demanding environments, as well as additional styling options. The tailored double sling, beautiful silhouette, and strong build were designed by Robert Pluer. Echo Duplex Sling Chaise Lounges are stackable and versatile, important for any commercial setting.


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When precipitation falls to the ground it generally does one of three things: it evaporates, it percolates, or it becomes stormwater. Evaporated water forms clouds. Percolation is when precipitation soaks into the soil filling the spaces between grains of sand and gravel saturating the ground.
Stormwater is the portion of precipitation that does not naturally evaporate or percolate into the soil. This stormwater can flow over land, in channels or pipes into a surface water channel, or to a facility designed to place the stormwater into the ground. Stormwater that is filtered into the ground is called stormwater infiltration.
Precipitation and stormwater infiltration sustain the groundwater aquifer that Redmond uses to supply 40% of its drinking water. Percolation in natural, undisturbed areas provides clean water to the groundwater aquifer. Stormwater collected from man-made areas such as clean roof run-off can also beneficially recharge the aquifer.
Stormwater from roads, parking lots, and industrial areas however, may pick up oils, metals, and other contaminants not beneficial to the aquifer. The shallow groundwater aquifer in the valley areas of Redmond is only a few feet below the surface and is highly susceptible to contamination, so infiltration of contaminated stormwater is a potential problem.
Points are assigned for answers in each category, and at the end of the form the points are totaled. Sites with scores less than seven (7) are identified as low risk sites. Low risk sites must implement Best Management Practices (BMPs) applicable to their site to help ensure long term protection of groundwater.
Sites with scores higher than seven (7) are identified as potential significant groundwater hazard sites. Higher risk sites must implement required BMPs as well as modifications to their stormwater system or operations.
The Assessment can be used as a guide to determine which types of modifications can be applied to a site to reduce its risk score.
Incentives are available to encourage timely implementation of stormwater system modification. Emphasis is being placed on the higher risk facilities, addressing them earlier in the schedule and providing larger incentives to encourage quicker risk reduction. Please read (Ordinance 2704) for complete details on the incentive program and elimination of permit fees for required modifications
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The goal of the assessment process is to determine the risks to groundwater at a site and determine what modifications can be made to operations, physical structures or to the stormwater system to reduce the risk. The goal is to reduce each site's risk score to less than eight (8) points by putting permanent measures in place to protect groundwater.
City staff will review the Assessment for completeness and accuracy; all questions must be answered on the assessment. City staff will be ready to help owners work through the assessment and find resources to help answer any questions.
The Flow Chart graphically describes the process and approximate schedule for completing the assessment, review, work authorization, design, permitting, installation of modifications and incentive process.
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Ordinance 2704 provides incentives to owners/operators that work with the City to promptly address the risks identified in the assessment and make the modifications required by the City on schedule. The schedule varies depending on the risk score for each site.
Assessment scores for sites located in Wellhead Protection Zone 1 and 2, have been tentatively ranked and divided into 3 primary groups based on their score. Sites with the highest risk to groundwater will start work on their facilities first:
Group One parcels with scores of 19 and higher will receive notification letters between October 2013 and October 2014. They will work with the City to design and install approved modifications after receiving notification.
Group Two parcels with assessment scores of eight to 18 will receive notification letters for beginning work in January 2018.
Group Three parcels with scores seven and below will not be required to modify their systems but will be required to meet appropriate stormwater best management practices.

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With the 49ers, Falcons, Seahawks, Packers, resurgent Saints and promising Redskins, the NFC looked to have it all over the AFC.
Three weeks into the season, it's the AFC that has been dominant.
AFC clubs have won 11 of 14 meetings with the NFC. Most confounding have been the early flops by five of the six NFC playoff teams from 2012; only Seattle has a winning record.
Meanwhile, all six AFC playoff qualifiers from last year are winners, while the Dolphins and Chiefs have been revelations. The Colts seem even stronger than they were in their turnaround 2012 season, and even the Jets and Titans look good.
Sure, it's early – and the Saints and Bears certainly look promising – but there's no question the NFC is struggling with abysmal 0-3 starts by the Redskins, Vikings and Giants and disappointing showings by the Packers and Falcons, both 1-2.
"I think a lot of it is personnel," says 2002 league MVP Rich Gannon, now an analyst for CBS Sports and SiriusXM. "Indianapolis went out and got new starters on defense after they got bullied in the running game last year, and added an intimidator at safety in LaRon Landry. So much of the talk is about Andrew Luck and getting Trent Richardson, but take a look at what they did to the 49ers in San Francisco. They are getting better.
"Look at Miami, and I think it goes back to last year. Joe Philbin has done an outstanding job with that program. The defense has gotten better on the back end. The quarterback [Ryan Tannehill] has really benefited from the coaching and matured."
Of the 14 interconference meetings, two NFC victories were by the unbeaten Bears, 24-21 over Cincinnati, and 40-23 over reeling Pittsburgh. The other was Seattle's 45-17 rout of Jacksonville, the consensus worst team in the league in the AP Pro32 rankings.
Far more impressive: Indy's 27-7 victory at Candlestick Park; the Bengals' 34-30 decision against Green Bay; and the Dolphins beating Atlanta 27-23.
Kansas City, which has interconference wins over the Cowboys and Eagles – huge because Andy Reid returned to win in Philly – might be the biggest surprise. Shouldn't be, but maybe the Chiefs epitomize what's going on through 3 weeks.
The better AFC teams are protecting the ball and getting takeaways. They are rushing the passer successfully.
"I believed that would be a quick fix in Kansas City," Gannon says. "I did some Chiefs games last year, knew there was talent there. You're looking at a team that turned it over 37 times last year. But Alex Smith might be the best quarterback at ball security. Look at his won-loss percentage recently. You can label him any way you want. He's a good leader, makes great decisions and takes care of the football.
"Combine that with a defense that can harass the quarterback, and they now have some stability where they had not had it, at the two crucial positions of head coach and quarterback, that has made a world of difference."
Everything could change in the AFC-NFC series as early as, well, this week. There are seven interconference matchups, and NFC teams are favored in four of them.


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California's biggest public pension system has lost its appeal of the ruling that allowed the city of San Bernardino to file for bankruptcy.
A bankruptcy judge rejected the request by the powerful California Public Employees' Retirement System to challenge the city's bankruptcy eligibility at the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Sacramento Bee says the decision Friday doesn't end the eligibility skirmish. CalPERS immediately took the matter to a U.S. District Court judge.
It's the latest round in the bankruptcy battle between the cash-strapped city and CalPERS. The city owes the pension fund $14 million in overdue payments.
Last month the San Bernardino City Council adopted a tentative plan to deal with all its creditors, including CalPERS.
San Bernardino, located 60 miles east of Los Angeles, filed for bankruptcy protection after learning it faced a $46 million deficit.


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U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki to be Commencement Speaker at Lansing Community College May 18
LANSING 4/16/12 – The Honorable Eric K. Shinseki, retired U.S. Army General and current U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), will be the speaker at Lansing Community College's (LCC) 54th Commencement, Friday, May 18.
This follows remarks he made in February to the American Association of Community Colleges in which he lauded LCC for its unique "Military Medic to Paramedic" program that offers military medics an accelerated path to licensed paramedic and nursing degrees.
"We are very honored to welcome Secretary Shinseki to our Commencement next month," said LCC Board of Trustees Chair Larry Meyer. "After a long and distinguished career in the U.S. Army, he is now transforming the VA to better serve the nation's veterans, including LCC students who served in the military."
President Barack Obama nominated Shinseki to become Secretary of Veterans Affairs and he was sworn in January 21, 2009. Under his leadership, the VA has increased Veterans' access to benefits and services, eased the disability claims backlog, and made strides towards ending homelessness among Veterans. He is also a champion of expanding employment options for Veterans.
Before becoming Secretary, Shinseki served as Chief of Staff, United States Army, from 1999 to June 11, 2003, and retired from active duty in August 2003. Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, he led the Army during Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom and integrated the pursuit of the Global War on Terrorism with Army Transformation, successfully enabling the Army to continue to transform while at war.
Prior to becoming the Army's Chief of Staff, Secretary Shinseki served as the Vice Chief of Staff from 1998 to 1999. He previously served simultaneously as Commanding General, United States Army, Europe and Seventh Army; Commanding General, NATO Land Forces, Central Europe; and, Commander of the NATO-led Stabilization Force, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
He joined the Army in 1965 and served two tours of duty in Vietnam, wounded both times.
Lansing Community College's Commencement will take place on Friday, May 18 at 7 p.m. at the Jack Breslin Student Events Center, Michigan State University.


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Friday night an FBI agent confirmed to CBS 5 a search warrant was being served on the Coolidge home of a man taken into custody that afternoon, suspected of bombing a federal office with an IED 20 miles away.
They made entry just after 9 p.m. after securing the home and making sure it was safe to go inside.
The explosion violently shook the Social Security building on Marshall in downtown Casa Grande, but it didn't injure anyone Friday morning. The blast went off before the office opened for business.
Shortly after that bombing, the Feds descended on a neighborhood in Coolidge.
Residents of the Martin Valley development said Coolidge Police blocked off their neighborhood and kept them out of their homes all day. They were finally let back in to the neighborhood around 7 p.m. Friday.
Neighbors tell CBS 5 and property records confirm the home crawling with investigators, belongs to 47-year-old Abdullatif Aldosary.
"He's pretty quiet. He don't really come out of the house," said neighbor Miguel Pascual.
It was a scene other neighbors tell CBS 5 they had witnessed before. They asked not to be identified.
Court records show Aldosary served prison time in Safford four years ago for aggravated harassment against his then employer Hunter Contracting in Gilbert, and he is currently involved in an assault and disorderly conduct case in Casa Grande.
"I was pretty shocked about it. Around this little town, who knows to expect something like this," said Pascual.
The FBI said they're investigating the explosion in Casa Grande and are "utilizing all necessary resources" including: investigative personnel, the Evidence Response Team, Special Agent Bomb Technicians and the Hazardous Materials Response Team.
The blast was caused by a device that detonated at the rear of the building, according to Agustin Avalos of the city of Casa Grande.
It happened around 8:15 a.m. in a building that houses several other downtown businesses. All of them were evacuated, Avalos said.
"It was very scary. I'm still shaking inside. I never heard anything like that," said Alicia Perez, who works in the building.
No injuries were reported and the type of device had not been determined, Avalos said. But a source close to the investigation says it appears an accelerant and some type of plastic object was used in the blast.
"I don't know what would go through somebody's mind to do that," said Patty Rodriguez who works nearby.
Witnesses inside at the time said the explosion shook the building violently.
"I was afraid to go into the back because it was so close," said Perez.
The FBI is heading up the investigation, but officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Homeland Security and Casa Grande Police Department are also investigating, Avalos said.
Aerial news footage over the bomb scene showed extensive damage to a doorway in the back of the building and to the side of an car near the doorway.
Casa Grande is about 50 miles south of Phoenix.
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What did you expected from a game which costs only $8.99/~6€ ?
btw. there is no demo for ep2
While playing with bots (4 or 5 maximum) on localhost the game freezes and if i look in the console i see the following line repeating several times:
Warning : Connection problem.
And after many lines like that i see this:
History consumed. Bailing out.
Of course after this incident the game runes fine; it happens from time to time and is a bit noisy. Any idea what`s causing this ?
It is always the same with commercial games. They have high ratings, even if they are garbage.
Steel Storm makes no exception.
It is at best mediocre, but you will see that, when you play the demo.
it depends a lot on the definition of poweruser, you are absolutely right if you use it in a genuine way. i was making a rather paraphrased difference between a user how is happy when stuff works and calls their ex if something is broken and a user who is not afraid of a terminal and knows some linux vocabulary like alsa, pulseaudio and apt ;) (understanding is a whole other matter, agreed)
not related to your question but to my answer, and totally unrelated to your problem.
I guess most linux users think to be power users, but only a few are.
I have wrote an article for my romanian readers and of course to promote the game a bit.
Thank you for the link pheonton it helped me.
Under Debian i use only ALSA for sound but i have libasound2-plugins installed but with no effect.
"a side: isnt it strange how i just assume linux users are power users?"
I don`t understand the question; is somehow related to my issue ? :)


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Unix Hints and Hacks 17
|Unix Hints and Hacks
|Kirk Waingrow
|Doc Technical
|This is a somewhat flawed book that contains some useful unix information.
According to the introduction, the book's examples were tested with five versions of unix, including Linux 2.x. I'm a programmer by profession, but our group maintains 70+ linux servers and workstations, and we spread the sysadmin work around. So I'm always looking for hints on how to keep the machines humming.
The book is divided into ten chapters, four appendices and a glossary. Of the ten chapters, the first eight are on the "hard" unix subjects like File Management, Networking, and Security, while the last two chapters focus on "soft" subjects: "Users" and "System Administration: The Occupation".
The book is on firmer ground with the former than it is with the latter.
Hints and HacksThe first seven chapters feature a collection of hints/hacks with one or more examples for each. A typical example is Section 6.2, "Copy Files Remotely". The author describes the problem in a brief paragraph ("...there are times when migrating files over from one host to another is necessary"). This is followed by four examples showing different techniques (using rcp, tar/rsh, nfs mount points, and ftp). Finally, the section ends with three brief sections: "Reasons", "Real World Experiences", and "Other Resources".
According to the back cover, the book is aimed at the intermediate to advanced reader (although the introduction rather contradicts this by claiming that it will be useful to beginners as well). I consider myself comfortably within the intermediate to advanced range, and I honestly did find some useful tips in this book. Most subjects are covered by several examples showing alternative approaches, and this is consistent with the unix "toolkit" philosophy. There's always more than one way to flay a feline.
While aimed at intermediate and advanced users, I suspect most of that audience will be familiar with one or more solutions to most of the problems presented in the book. Where the reader will benefit occasionally is the discovery of a third or fourth alternative to a problem.
Some of the example problems had me shaking my head. In a section called "Remove the --- Dashes ---", the author presents the legitimate problem of removing a file that begins with a dash. If you don't believe this can be a problem, run these commands:
touch /tmp/-wow; cd /tmp; rm -wow
The obvious solution to this problem is to append the directory to the file name so that it doesn't start with a dash:
rm /tmp/-wow
The author provides this solution, along with three alternatives, but the last one raised more questions for me than it answered. The author's last example suggests "rm -r directory". Remove the entire directory. In the author's defence, he does provide numerous warnings in this example, and says it "should be used only as a last resort." But he never did explain why this method would be needed. Under what circumstances would the other methods not work?
There are some factual problems in the book, as in the appendix on "Basic Scripting Concepts" where a section titled "Recursive Scripts" has nothing to do with recursion.
In the "Real World Experience" subsection of the section "Redirecting Output to Null", the author recounts how he once crashed a database application by deleting its log files with rm, and how he quickly learned to redirect /dev/null to the log files to zero them out ("cat /dev/null > logfile"). But he doesn't take the extra step of explaining why rm'ing an open log file might cause an application to crash. Understanding why something happened in the first place is as important as knowing how to fix it.
What's Left OutThis book looks at solutions to specific problems, but never really attempts to teach what I'd call the hacking mentality.
In a section called "Find the Disk Hog", Waingrow shows how to use the du, sort, and head commands to find the top ten disk users like this:
du -s | sort -rn | head -10
He explains how these commands work, and he uses similar command-line examples throughout the book. This is great. Stringing together existing unix commands using pipes and filters is one of the biggest strengths of the operating system. But he never covers these meta-topics, except for a brief mention of pipes in the introduction.
Readers at a beginning level would benefit from an overview of pipes and filters, as well as such essential programs as cut, grep, egrep, head, tail, sort, wc, and tr. Many of these programs are used in examples, and some are explained in context, but a "concepts" chapter would have broadened the book's usefulness.
Perhaps the author assumes that everyone already knows these things, but I suspect many unix and linux administrators have never been explicitly taught them.
The Soft ChaptersThe last two chapters of the book, "Users" and "System Administration: The Occupation", are aimed at professional sysadmins. These were, for me, the least useful, but I only perform sysadmin work as an adjunct to my programming.
There are sections on topics like "The Six Types of Users", "Public Relations", and "Preparing for an Interview". These are soft subjects not related to unix per se, but they may be useful to administrators.
Some of the advice in these last two chapters will be of most benefit to those just starting out in the field. Much of the advice seemed (to me) to be common sense. In the section "Being Interviewed", Waingrow suggests "Don't ever cut the interviewer off in the middle of a sentence", and "Don't lie", and "Don't belittle, debate, disagree, or tell interviewers that they are wrong". Geez, that really screws up my interviewing strategy.
Structural ProblemsFor me, the book suffered from several irritating structural and organizational problems. The first eight chapters are each divided into roughly a dozen sections. For example, chapter 5, "Account Management", is divided into 16 sections, starting with 5.1, "User Account Names", and running through section 5.16, "Nulling the Root Password Without vi". This is fine. But then each section is broken down again into subsections. How many? Exactly one. It may seem like a minor aesthetic point, but it makes the pages harder to scan visually, and it makes the Table of Contents much harder to read.
Another annoying point is that the book is typeset so that there is less space between the period (.) and the start of a new sentence than there is between individual words. Sentences sometimes seem to crash into one another. Again, a minor point, not the author's fault, but these things add up.
And I have more fundamental problems with the way the book is organized. Each chapter section tackles a single subject, and many of these sections make their intent quite clear: "Dealing with Unwanted Daemons", or "Monitoring at Boot Time". But other section headings are more ambiguous: "Clear and Lock" and "File Collecting" might have been better named as "Clearing and Locking the Screen" and "Finding Suspicious Files".
As a benchmark, I looked at the organization of the recent "Perl Cookbook" by Christiansen and Torkington. This book is a similar collection of brief solutions to specific problems. The Perl Cookbook avoids many of the problems that harm "Unix Hints and Hacks". Section headings are descriptive and unambiquous, and they use a consistent verb tense. The layout is clean and readable. The publishers could take some lessons from O'Reilly.
EditingIn places, a little editing would have helped the prose. Here's an example from page 144:
"When a program is sent a QUIT signal, it writes out what was in memory at the time the signal was sent to disk."
I'm pretty sure the signal was not not sent to disk, but this dangling modifier could easily have been recast:
"When a program is sent a QUIT signal, it writes to disk what was in memory at the time the signal was sent."
Writers are going to make mistakes like this, it's the editor's job to find them. This editor too often didn't.
Bottom LineThe weaknesses of this book get in the way of its strengths. Tighter writing, tighter editing, and a tighter focus would help this book enormously.
A focus on the hard-core unix topics presented in the first seven chapters, with some additional material on the unix toolkit mentality, could be the basis for a good second edition of this book.
I would recommend skimming through this book at your local bookstore. If, after a few minutes, you find more than two or three examples that are useful, you'll likely benefit from this book.
Else, pick it up at Amazon.


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Staple Remover
Much as we love the risk-takers, most designers are judged by how they do with the staples. And our Mr. Benjamin is finally showing his hand…
This blue flax shirt from Benjamin Bixby is a pretty good start. It's flat enough that it won't stand out at most offices, but the fabric is stiffer than the usual oxford cloth, and the overdyed hue makes it stand out from the crowd just enough to matter.
Andre's stated influence is Colonial India—which makes sense given the wash of the fabric—but to our eyes it looks more western than eastern. Are tortoise-shell buttons bigger in Bangalore than we thought?


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Competition tsar Rod Sims is willing to take on the tough lawsuits, writes Lucy Battersby.
THE head of the competition watchdog, Rod Sims, believes Australians will have more faith in the market economy if he does his job properly. After his first full year in the job, Sims is already planning more court cases next year and tackling issues that leave consumers out of pocket and unhappy, or places where the market economy has broken down.
For example, the question of whether Coles and Woolworths are abusing their buying power is still alive within the competition watchdog, thanks to tip-offs from dozens of companies.
Early this year the Food and Grocery Council of Australia accused the pair of squeezing profits out of farmers and food producers.
"Those allegations were really just one sentence . . . and we looked at those and said 'if some of those are true, that could well be a breach of the act', the unconscionable conduct provisions," Sims says.
However, the ACCC could not act because it did not have any evidence of unconscionable conduct, just one-liners from the council. So Sims made several public pleas promising confidentiality in exchange for detailed information.
In an interview with Fairfax Media, Sims revealed the ACCC had received information from about 50 companies about the supermarkets' behaviour.
"We are now looking at that evidence that we have gathered and I think we are finding some sort of credibility and consistency behind the complaints, so our interest is certainly not declining. We are hoping to complete that investigation in 2013," Sims says.
The ACCC is stronger than it has ever been, thanks to consumer laws introduced in January last year.
But it was not until this year that the ACCC was seen taking any action because the new laws apply only to behaviour that occurs after January 2011.
In the past year the new laws have netted more than $10.7 million in penalties, including fines of more than $1 million against seven companies, whereas previously it could apply only for an injunction to stop the behaviour.
The companies include Apple, Optus, TPG, Energy Watch and Harvey Norman.
"When a company has penalties awarded against it by the Federal Court, the chief executive takes notice, the board takes notice and I think you get a lot more focus on compliance," Sims says.
"In each case [the penalty] has had an effect. Apple's [general counsel] came out to see us from America, we have met with half the board and the chief executive of Optus, and we have met with senior people at Harvey Norman."
The ACCC will continue a campaign against pushy and deceptive door-to-door selling next year but will also start taking legal action against companies that force unfair contract terms onto consumers. It will also tackle areas online where it sees a lot of complaints or consumer detriment, such as group-buying sites and fake online reviews. Sims revealed that throughout this year staff at the ACCC have been collecting hundreds of contracts offered across several sectors, including car rental, energy, telecommunications and banking. Staff were hunting for contracts with unfair terms that cause a significance imbalance to a consumer's power, have unreasonable terms, or are detrimental. The ACCC has already spoken to several companies that were putting out unfair contracts and some have changed their terms, Sims says.
"We will take people to court over what we judge to be unfair contract terms. And that will focus on the telecommunications industry, it will focus on the electricity industry, it will probably focus on car rental," he says. "We are not going to take everybody to court . . . but we will take enough so that people know we are serious and they better fix it up."
Large companies are his preferred target because "that is where the detriment can be largest and that is where you can send the best messages".
Many consumers and small businesses still have not twigged to the changes in consumer law, such as no longer needing a valid warranty to replace faulty goods.
The ACCC recently released a smartphone app that explains the new rules and gives consumers a place to store photos of receipts for proof of purchase on their phone. The app has been downloaded 5500 times since it was released on November 29.
However, even Sims runs into problems, like when he tried to return a faulty fountain pen.
"The store owner said to me that I had no rights without the warranty, which of course I know not to be right. I thought for a minute, because I was very tempted to say 'that is against the law, what you have just said', but I didn't because the [pen] was actually [still] on warranty, so I just went along with it."
Was he tempted to mention he is the man often referred to as Australia's "competition tsar"? "I deliberately did not do that. That would be a bad look."
Sims has another four years in the job and appears to be enjoying the work. Asked what internal changes he wants to make, he says the commission has skilled and very professional people, but it can be too conservative.
"We have got pretty much a 100 per cent success record in the court cases we take on. I think that is - I know it sounds silly, but - a bit too high. We should be taking on more cases where we see detriment, and the legal advice is [reasonable] but there is a chance we will lose. If the detriment is bad enough, we should still take it on," Sims says.
Ready to take a risk in courtroom battles
Competition tsar Rod Sims is willing to take on the tough lawsuits, writes Lucy Battersby.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. - Jadeveon Clowney had probably the quietest afternoon of the season.
Yet South Carolina's all-star defensive end still made the loudest noise of the day.
The Gamecocks' sophomore strip-sacked Tennessee quarterback Tyler Bray as the Volunteers were going in for the winning score with barely more than a minute left, and Victor Hampton's jump-ball interception with 23 seconds left sealed 17th-ranked South Carolina's 38-35 win at Williams-Brice Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
"That was another tough finish," embattled Tennessee coach Derek Dooley said after his Vols fell to 0-5 in the Southeastern Conference for the third time in his three seasons. "I'm proud of our team for the resiliency they showed. We had a chance to win, and they made a great play.
"We didn't really accomplish what we wanted to against these SEC top teams, but we've got to turn the page, and there's a lot at stake down the stretch."
What's at stake could include his job, though the Vols deserve credit for again showing resiliency despite a week of distractions and an early two-touchdown deficit. South Carolina (7-2, 5-2 SEC) thrice held 14-point leads and led 35-21 late in the third quarter before the Vols (3-5, 0-5) rallied to within 38-35. Though it gave up 510 yards, Tennessee's defense ended Gamecock fourth-quarter drives with a field goal and an interception by linebacker Herman Lathers with 4:46 remaining.
"We knew after Herm caught that pick, we were going to go down there and score and probably win the game or tie it up to go to overtime," receiver Justin Hunter said.
Bray, who threw for 368 yards on 27-of-43 passing with four touchdowns, hit Hunter and Zach Rogers for 20 and 10 yards to put Tennessee in South Carolina territory and found Rogers to convert a fourth-and-1 and the Gamecocks' 42.
After Marlin Lane's 16-yard burst put Tennessee 19 yards away from potentially Dooley's first win against a ranked team, Clowney, limited to two quarterback hurries by a combination of left tackles Antonio "Tiny" Richardson and Dallas Thomas and tight Mychal Rivera, hit Bray's arm as he was throwing.
Dooley's only comments on the play was that ball should have been thrown quicker.
"I think any quarterback feels him," said Bray, who was trying to throw the ball away after his first two reads were covered. "I don't want to say he's a scary dude, but he's a big dude. You always know he's behind you coming, and you don't really see him.
"You can't forget a guy like that. He's an NFL-caliber. Any time he's rushing you, you're going to know he's there."
Richardson, like Clowney a sophomore, left the field limping with a tissue in his bloody nose and was heckled by South Carolina students as he entered the tunnel.
"He has a lot of pride, and he blocked him all game," right guard Alex Bullard said. "He has nothing to hang his head about. When the ball went to the ground, it was like in slow motion.
"Football's a game of inches, and those inches matter. When we're in crunch time, somebody has to make a play. This game, Clowney made a play [after] Tiny shut him down all game."
The Gamecocks had struggled offensively in consecutive losses to Florida and LSU the past two weeks and lost star tailback Marcus Lattimore to a gruesome right leg injury in the second quarter, but coach Steve Spurrier's bunch righted the ship against the SEC's worst defense.
Yet Bray, Hunter, Rogers and Tennessee's offensive line nearly overcame it by rolling up 472 yards and averaging 6.6 yards per play against the nation's No. 9 defense. Bray's two game-ending turnovers upped his total in the Vols' five SEC losses to 11. Though he was again unable to come through with the game for the taking, the junior was his usual causal self in his postgame interview, where he joked about his new buzzed haircut and brought up the Boston Red Sox' long curse.
"When he gives it his all," Hunter said, "he doesn't pout or anything."
Dooley criticized Bray earlier in the week for his turnover-prone play and called his quarterbacks' performance "an unfortunate end to a great game."
"We've had so many games like this, so it's hard," Bray said. "We just needed a win. He sat down and talked to me and said I needed to do some things."
It was the same things -- poor defense, untimely offensive mistakes and costly late turnovers -- that doomed Tennessee to a same fate.
"It's the same old story line," Lathers said. "We didn't get the win, but I thought we played and battled well enough to win. We just didn't pull it out at the end, when you've got to execute."
It's that lack of crunch-time execution that has the Vols winless in the SEC entering November.
"But for Alabama, we felt like we've gone toe-to-toe with all of them, and that's something we never have done in two years," Dooley said. "But that's not good enough in the win-loss column. You don't get a half-win for going toe-to-toe.
"I thought we were going to win it here, but we didn't get it done."
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(MCT) — The efforts to rinse Manti Te'o of the infamous fake dead girlfriend hoax continued the day before his first televised interview, with clips of that confab appearing early Wednesday and spreadsheets purported to represent his phone records bubbling up later in the day.
In samples of his interview with Katie Couric that airs Thursday, Te'o conceded that he perpetuated the storyline of a girlfriend who died of leukemia in September despite receiving a call Dec. 6 from someone claiming to be that girlfriend, Lennay Kekua.
"This girl who I committed myself to died on Sept. 12," Te'o said in the clip aired on ABC's "Good Morning America." "Now I get a phone call on Dec. 6, saying that she's alive, and then I'm going to be put on national TV two days later, and they ask me about the same question. What would you do?"
Meanwhile, ESPN received spreadsheets allegedly representing Te'o's phone records from a source it did not name _ not the original records themselves _ that show Te'o made 500 hours of calls between May and September of 2012 to a number with a 661 area code the former Notre Dame linebacker allegedly believed belonged to Kekua.
ESPN said it could not independently verify the information in the spreadsheets.
Te'o said he believed he had a relationship with a woman named Lennay Kekua who died of leukemia on Sept. 12. It has been revealed since that Kekua was a hoax, the product of a scam allegedly run by a 22-year-old California man named Ronaiah Tuiasosopo.
Notre Dame and Te'o have maintained the player had no part in the ordeal, though the flashpoint for some was Te'o continuing the dead girlfriend narrative two days after a call that threw the situation into doubt.
Couric _ who shares the same spokesman as Te'o and reportedly also is represented by Creative Artists Agency _ addressed that discrepancy in a clip aired Wednesday.
"You stuck to the script," Couric said. "And you knew that something was amiss, Manti."
Te'o replied: "Katie, put yourself in my situation. I, my whole world told me that she died on Sept. 12. Everybody knew that. This girl, who I committed myself to, died on Sept. 12."
Couric also interviewed Te'o's parents, Brian and Ottilia.
"Now many people writing about this are calling your son a liar," Couric said. "They are saying he manipulated the truth, really for personal gain."
Replied Brian Te'o: "People can speculate about what they think he is. I've known him 21 years of his life. And he's not a liar. He's a kid."
The full Couric interview with Te'o airs on Thursday on her syndicated talk show, "Katie."


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Football icon Art Modell has died. Modell was hero to Baltimore Ravens fans because as owner of that NFL team he brought them a Superbowl. But it's a different story in Cleveland, where Browns fans vilify him for moving the team to Baltimore after a dispute with Cleveland political leaders.


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03-05-2012, 11:34 AMA "Fearful" Rush is down from a self-inflicted wound & it is time NOW to kick him
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You could hear the fear
by Dennis G.
By Friday afternoon, Rush had already double down on his slander of Sandra Fluke and he was feeling the pressure of the blowback. Sponsors/advertisersthe real businesses and not the wingnut grifterswere pulling their ads. Republicans everywhere were under pressure to condemn Rushs slander and their fear of Rush was beginning to be offset by fears of an angry electorate in November. Within 24 hours, Rush would be forced to issue a non-apology apology and look weak. It would not stop the storm of outrage, but even that lame-ass word string was a signal of weakness from the Leader of the Republican Party and the CONservative movement. When the commercials finally ended and the Master blowhard took to the mic, you could hear his fear.
It was in every phrase. Every word. He was pleading. Whinny. And full of self-pity. He verbally thrashed and sought a scapegoat. Naturally he decided that all of his actions were President Obamas fault. Fear was in his voice as he tried to craft an alternate reality where President Obamas support for women to be in control of their health care choices forced poor old Rushbo to call Sandra Fluke a slut and a whore.
Every bully goes too far one day. For Joe McCarthy it was the Army-McCarthy Hearings. For Bobby Knight it was choking a playing. Perhapsif our Nation is luckythis is the end of the line for Rush Limbaugh. He knows he stepped in it. You can hear the fear in his voice. There is no justification for his bullshit any longer and anybody who defends him is a coward, a fool or both.
I could hear the fear in his voice and I think we should all do what we can do to make that fear grow in the coming weeks.
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1. He is a parasite on society
I wish he would disappear for good.edbermac (10,588 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
3. We don't have to kick him, Obama will take care of El Rushbo.
Just like he knocked off Breitbart; he's on a mission to pass the Clinton-Arkansas body count.Response to kpete (Original post)
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9. Pour on the pressure!
Make that fat bastard squeal!Olde-style, states' rights conservative. Ask if this concept confuses you.
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by Jonathan Adams, Open Media Boston,, Feb-18-13
BOSTON/Back Bay - Protesters converged on the Max Brenner chocolate restaurant on Valentine's Day. Approximately 50 human rights demonstrators picketed the Israeli-owned company at its location on Boylston St., Boston. Activists from the Northeastern University Chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine called the demonstration to highlight the support Max Brenner's parent-company, called Strauss Group, has for the Israeli Defense Forces, and in-particular the Golani Brigade. The action was a part of the worldwide Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) campaign against the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The three goals of BDS are an end to the occupation of Palestinian territories, full equality for all citizens of Israel, and the right of return for refugees displaced in the conflict.


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MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) -- A Northern California woman with a rare bone disease is hoping police will be able to recover two wheelchair-equipped vehicles that were stolen from the front of her home.
Nettie Wijsman says her 1999 gold Dodge Caravan and 2000 black Honda CRV _ both equipped with $28,500 worth of modifications _ were stolen from outside of her Menlo Park home last week.
The 55-year-old Wijsman told the Palo Alto Daily News (http://bit.ly/Rvx5iN ) that since since 2007 she has been confined to a wheelchair because of a rare condition called cystic angiomatosis, a condition that has left her with a fragile skeletal system.
Wijsman says the thefts of the two vehicles are threatening to take away her independence because the modifications on the vehicles allow her to drive.
There was insurance coverage on the Honda, but the van was not covered.
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The Over,
the Under, and the Anxious
Center for National Policy in Washington, D.C.
August 31, 1994
On the eve of the second Labor Day of this Administration, there is much for America's working men and women to celebrate. We are enjoying a robust jobs expansion, without any signs of inflationary dangers. The unemployment rate was down to 6.1 percent at last month's reckoning. There are still a few hours left in August, and nobody -- including me -- knows what this month's jobless rate will turn out to be. But what matters is the trend, and the trend is very good. Between last Labor Day and the end of July, the economy added over 2.5 million new jobs -- more than in the full four years of the Bush Administration. In the Clinton Administration so far, the economy has generated 4.1 million new jobs, 93 percent of them in the private sector.
Comparing parallel points in the last recovery gives some perspective on this accomplishment, and the odds against which it was brought about. Private payrolls have grown by 4.2 percent in the past year and a half. Over the corresponding period of the much-vaunted Reagan recovery, private job growth was 3.9 percent. And this recovery has had to struggle against the anchor of debt left by the spending that fueled the last one -- the legacy of a profligate decade in which federal debt grew from $908 billion in 1980 to $3.2 trillion in 1990.
Not only are we delivering job growth while shrinking deficits, but through expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit we're lowering taxes for 15 million working families with modest incomes. Only a tiny fraction of Americans -- the richest 1.2 percent, who are best able to shoulder an extra burden -- are paying slightly higher taxes. The dire forecasts that spending cuts would fail to materialize, or that a small tax increase on the fortunate few would bring the economy to its knees, have been proven dead wrong. The President's plan has worked.
And yet our mission is just begun. Getting our fiscal house in order and reigniting job growth were essential to repair the damage of the recent past, but they are only the prerequisites to our broader agenda -- reversing the economic divisions that have undermined our sense of common destiny, and laying the foundation for a new middle class.
Even though it has been a long time since the picture was so bright for the average American worker, the experience of the average worker is becoming less and less relevant. Some workers are surging ahead, others are treading water, and still others are sinking fast -- in the same economy, at the same time. The state of the American workforce, in short, is divided.
In the late 1960's, as my generation was joining the workforce, the vast majority of Americans were middle class, in reality as well as perception. Their status and prospects differed only moderately from the average. In an astonishingly short time, the old middle class has splintered. The erosion of a sense of shared prospects poses what may be our nation's most critical challenge of the post-Cold War era. Reversing this erosion, giving all Americans a reason to believe once more that hard work will lead to a better life, is this Administration's central objective.
Broad trends that have converged and accelerated since the middle 1970's have split the old middle class into three new groups: An underclass largely trapped in center cities, increasingly isolated from the core economy; an overclass of those who are positioned to profitably ride the waves of change; and in between, the largest group, an anxious class, most of whom hold jobs but who are justifiably uneasy about their own standing and fearful for their children's futures.
Despite the progress of the past year, this division still casts a shadow over the state of the American workforce on Labor Day 1994. Let me describe this picture in greater detail -- with the help of new data, much of it recently compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The fundamental fault line running through today's workforce is based on education and skills. Well-educated and skilled workers are prospering; those whose skills are out of date or out of synch with industrial change anxiously contemplate their prospects; those without education or skills drift further and further away from the economic mainstream. The notion that we're creating a bounty of bad jobs is a myth. Most new jobs are good jobs. The problem is that the jobs that remain for workers without skills or with the wrong skills are becoming grimmer and grimmer.
Skills have always mattered, to be sure, but they have not always been such potent determinants of economic destiny. As recently as 1979, a male college graduate earned 49 percent more than a similar man with only a high school diploma -- a sizable difference, to be sure, but not too large for the two to share the label "middle class". By 1992, however, the average male college graduate was earning 83 percent more than his high-school graduate counterpart, and the notion of common prospects had faded considerably. More recent data are not available, but there is no reason to believe this trend toward inequality has been reversed. The picture for women is similar, if slightly less stark. At every level of education and training, the pattern holds: The higher the skill level, the higher the earnings. And the gap has been growing.
There is a similar divergence in employee benefits. Employer-sponsored health coverage for workers with college degrees has declined only slightly, from 79 percent in 1979 to 76 percent in 1993. But rates for high school graduates have fallen from 68 percent to 60 percent over the same period, and for high-school dropouts, the 1979 rate -- already low at 52 percent -- has plummeted to 36 percent. This inequality is one reason why the Clinton Administration remains committed to comprehensive health care reform. Similar divisions apply to employer-sponsored pension coverage. Nearly two-thirds of workers with college degrees are included in pension plans at work, but fewer than a quarter of high-school dropouts.
Not only the wages and benefits that workers can command, but also their chances for holding a job at all, are divided along lines linked to skills. This gap, too, is widening over time. In the 1970s, the average unemployment rate for people who had not completed high school was 7 percent. By the 1980s, this rate averaged 11 percent, and in 1993 it was over 12 percent. High school graduates have also seen their risk of joblessness trend upward. By contrast, the unemployment rate for workers with a college degree or better has held fairly steady at around 3 percent. Over the most recent ten-year period for which data are available -- the period from 1983 to 1993 -- the number of jobs in sectors that typically require higher levels of education has grown by an annual average of 2.8 percent, while job growth in sectors requiring less education has been only 1 percent. This shift in favor of skills shows up not just in the United States, but in other advanced countries as well. Over the same period jobs in high-skill sectors have grown rapidly in Canada, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, while job growth in low-skill sectors has been slow or nonexistent, narrowing horizons for workers without adequate education and training.
In a seeming paradox of today's economic news, financial markets fret that unemployment is too low to contain inflation, even while 8 million willing American workers remain jobless. Part of the answer to the apparent contradiction is that markets for highly skilled labor are becoming tight in many parts of the economy, creating the conditions that can kindle inflation worries. But millions of less-skilled workers remain idle or underemployed. This wasted workforce is walled off by skill barriers from the leading edges of the economy where capacity constraints loom. The best way to expand the economy's capacity and lower the level of unemployment needed to bridle inflation is to dismantle these walls by preparing underutilized workers for more productive work.
What lies behind these widening disparities within the workforce? Manufacturing jobs were once the gateway to the middle class, even for workers who started off without high-level skills. While it is a myth that international trade has robbed America of its manufacturing industries, technological changes have diminished the role of labor, especially unskilled labor, in the modern factory. And global trade and investment surely have hastened these technological changes. Even within manufacturing industries, a rising share of value is added before the assembly line begins (in the form of market research, design, and engineering) and after goods are produced (in the form of precision-scheduled delivery, customized installation, and maintenance).
Labor unions have long helped shore up wages and benefits even for workers without high-level skills. But today, only eleven percent of the private-sector workforce is represented by a union. Let there be no doubt: A revitalization of the labor movement would help reverse the erosion of the middle class. This Administration is committed to full enforcement of the laws guaranteeing workers' rights to form unions and bargain collectively.
But we cannot stop there. The forces unleashed by technology must be mastered, not merely buffered. As increasingly capable machines join ever more Americans at the workplace -- join them both as co-workers and as competitors -- the payoff to education and training has soared, and the penalty for lacking skills has stiffened.
The most striking change in the workplace has been the brash arrival of the computer. In 1984, about 25 percent of American workers used computers on the job. Last year, almost 47 percent did. And contrary to the myth that computer-literate youngsters are running circles around their technophobic elders, workers between 40 and 54 comprise the group most likely to work with computers. We're talking about my generation. Fully half of them use computers at the workplace, compared to around a third of workers between 18 and 24. Even workplace communication has been transformed, as one in ten workers now uses electronic mail to communicate with colleagues around the corner or around the world. Not long ago I arranged for 60 people at the Labor Department to report to me directly on an e-mail system piped into my home computer. I haven't had a peaceful evening since.
But the computer revolution has deepened the division of the American workforce. Two-thirds of college graduates use computers at work, but only one-third of high school graduates, and fewer than one in ten high-school dropouts. The vast majority of managerial, technical, and professional workers use computers. But people in lower-paying, lower-skill occupations use them far less frequently. The information highway promises to speed some people to desirable destinations, but it may be leaving others stranded in the high-tech version of inner-city ghettos. Indeed, a recent study of census data found that fully five percent of America's households -- disproportionately poor, or minority, or single-parent families -- lack access to a telephone, the basic ticket of entry to the information web. Other data show that minority children are less likely to use computers at school or at home. As personal computers become standard equipment for learning at home, children who are disconnected from the system will fall further and further behind.
Yet the long-term data also affirm the potential for building a new middle class. The skill-based divisions of today's workforce are in some ways more readily overcome than the divisions based on race or gender that have haunted America throughout our history.
Even as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, the road to opportunity is often much rockier for people of color. Last month, the national unemployment rate for black Americans was over 11 percent, more than double the rate for white Americans. Today, black men hold only three out of every 100 managerial, professional, and technical jobs in the American economy. The median income for black males working full-time, full-year in 1992 was $22,400 -- just 72 percent of the median income for comparable white males.
Hispanic Americans seeking to join the middle class have confronted similar obstacles. Their unemployment rate tops 10 percent, and their earnings -- particularly for Hispanic men -- have been steadily eroding. And Hispanic workers are significantly less likely than their white counterparts to receive health insurance on the job.
Closing these gaps requires a long, painful process of national growth and healing to which we remain committed. But virtually every willing worker can expand his or her skills; indeed, information technology itself promises to vastly increase the productivity of learning as it makes top-flight teaching tools more widely available. In path-breaking training programs in the troubled heart of Detroit and the barrios of East Los Angeles, I have seen some of the country's most stigmatized young people learning some of the economy's most sought-after skills, earning themselves entree into the new middle class.
While visiting one such program, I talked with a young woman who said, "I used to hate math." But now her perspective had changed. Math class -- once a blizzard of abstract equations -- had become a concrete way to build skills for a good job. Now, she told me, "I love geometry."
America has hope enough to go around. There is no fixed number of good jobs to be parceled out, nor any natural limit to the ingenuity of the human mind and the new products and services it can concoct. We already see emerging all around us examples of the sophisticated yet accessible work that can form the platform for a new middle class. Some of the most notable job growth has occurred among technicians, who defy the traditional categories of the old economy. Their ranks are predicted to grow by nearly 40 percent over the decade to come. Data released recently by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the most rapid job growth in high-paying occupations, even within traditionally low-paying industries -- hinting at the proliferation of new kinds of middle-class jobs throughout the economy.
In my travels throughout America, I've met workers who repair vending machines using hand-held computers to identify problems and communicate with the home office, or who manage sections of retail stores by periodically tapping PCs to monitor sales and replenish inventories. Skilled workers use computers to monitor manufacturing machinery, or to link other computers as they install and test complex communications networks, or they go online to research cases and statutes at law firms. Some technical workers drive trucks equipped with a computer and modem and make just-in-time deliveries. Others orchestrate sophisticated spreadsheet and graphics programs to create value in ways unimaginable a decade ago.
The technician jobs that will sustain the core of the new middle class usually require some education beyond high school, but they do not always demand a four-year college degree. Degrees from community colleges -- the unsung heroes of the new middle class -- are paying off, and their enrollments are rising. Men with community college degrees earn 26 percent more, on average, than men with only a high school diploma. Women who have graduated from community colleges earn 33 percent more than women with a high school degree alone.
The Clinton Administration's workforce agenda is anchored by the proven facts that skills matter, and they can be learned. The fruits of our commitment to creating a new middle class are already emerging. We have begun to combat the forces dividing America's workers with an armory of new approaches to lifelong learning. (Ironically, many of these accomplishments have been little noticed because of the bipartisan consensus supporting them. Bipartisanship summons less attention than ideological brawls.)
Consider: An additional 130,000 children each year can now be made ready to learn at school through Head Start. School systems throughout America have millions of dollars in new incentives to improve their performance. During the summer just ending, some 120,000 disadvantaged young people who otherwise would have been on the street instead combined jobs with classroom instruction. Over the next six years, almost half a million young Americans will be entering youth apprenticeships during the last two years of high school, many of them receiving special skill training beyond high school.
Starting this fall, 20,000 young people will enter National Service, earning money that they can apply to a college education. The three and a half million people who take out education loans each year now have the option of repaying their loans as a percentage of future income. We're delivering on our promise to make work pay -- offering tax relief for 15 million working families with modest incomes. We've begun transforming the old unemployment insurance system into a reemployment system, ensuring that this year alone an additional 150,000 Americans who have lost their jobs will get the skills or the job-search help they need to find new ones. (Community colleges are quietly evolving into a core component of the emerging reemployment system, as thousands of experienced workers who have lost their jobs are able to rejoin the middle class thanks to community-college training.)
And we remain committed to staying the course on health-care reform, not least because the workforce stakes are so high. Without delivering on the promise of health security, our mission of turning the anxious class into a new, more secure, more productive middle class cannot be completed.
American business also has a crucial role to play in building a new middle class. Skills learned on the job, or in a work-related setting, tend to be especially well-tailored to the requirements of the workplace. New data on work-related training -- even though they do not capture the vital but hard-to-measure effect of informal on-the-job training -- show that the impact of such training is of the same magnitude as more traditional schooling. In fact, men and women who graduate only from high school, but who have received work-related training, earn more than people who have attended some college but who have not received any additional training, and almost as much as college graduates who lack additional work-based training.
A positive sign is the growing readiness on the part of labor unions to include training benefits in bargaining. A contract negotiated this year between Nynex and the Communications Workers of America encourages workers to earn a two-year technical degree. Employees can spend one paid day a week building their skills, with the guarantee of a $50-per-week raise upon graduation. Workers employed for five years or more qualify for up to two years of education leave, and up to $10,000 yearly for tuition.
Yet most companies are not yet doing enough training, and what training they do provide is not being directed to workers who need it most. Among young college graduates, about 35 percent now receive work-related training. That's nearly double the rate for high school graduates and more than four times the rate for high school dropouts. The workers most likely to receive training are white, male, well-educated, and working in high-paying occupations. This imbalance serves only to harden the divisions within the workforce.
The payoff to work-based training, and the inadequacy and uneven distribution of such training, highlights the need for a new social compact among American workers, business, and government. In its first year and a half, the Clinton Administration has delivered much of what business has sought in order to bolster its competitiveness -- lower deficits, low inflation, more open world markets, promotion of American companies abroad. Now business needs to do its part in this new compact by bringing all workers along on the route to prosperity, investing aggressively in their skills and making them partners in productivity. For American businesses, this new social compact is an imperative not only of corporate citizenship, but also of their own long-term interests.
A constant theme of American history has been the challenge of forging unity out of diversity. Over and over, we have had to affirm our identity as one nation, even in the face of profound differences. We are at such a point once again. This time, though, the deepest divisions aren't based on race or on national origin or on geography. They're based on the ability of individuals to make their way in an increasingly turbulent economy. The overclass is doing fine, but questioning its connection to the rest of America. The underclass is isolated in marginal enclaves walled off from hope. The anxious class is being pulled and stretched -- by the need to work two or more jobs to keep a family solvent, by uneasiness about health care, by the specter that today's job will disappear tomorrow, and by fears that their kids will be denied the opportunity for a better life.
If unchecked, these divisions can corrode our society. Unlike the citizens of most other nations, Americans have always been bound together less by a shared past than by shared dreams of a better future. If we lose that common future, we lose the glue that holds our nation together. Even now, some aspiring demagogues, feeding on the fear and anger unleashed by the splintering of the old middle class, stoke the fires of hate on the airwaves, and conspire to conceal their own agendas behind the banners of fear and division. This Administration proudly claims these cynics as adversaries.
Nothing is more vital to fulfilling our nation's defining promise than preparing all Americans for meaningful, productive working lives. This is no simple undertaking -- especially with the most austere federal budget in a generation. But if we pledge our common efforts -- business, labor, government at all levels -- we can clear the path to opportunity for today's working men and women and their children.
In this century's waning years, in the hopeful, fearful confusion of the Cold War's end, our most important mission is to restore hope to the anxious class and lift despair from the underclass, to affirm with conviction that the American dream of broadly-shared middle class prosperity still endures.


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Red Devils explode in fourth, return to Regional finals
Fourteen straight for their second straight.
The Lady Red Devils (25-3) scored 14 consecutive points to open the fourth quarter and blowed open a five-point third quarter lead on their way to a win against Thomasville in the Regional semifinals.
Newton-Conover will meet Salisbury (25-1) in Greensboro in the Regional final Saturday at 4 p.m. for the second straight season.
"At this point season, it is about whoever wants it most will win," said N-C coach Jonathan Tharpe. "It is all about your heart and energy. We are hungry, and they know what to expect from Salisbury. We get a day to walk through some things."
The Lady Red Devils jumped out to an 11-5 lead early in the game, but Thomasville (23-7) fought back. Christina Carter and Joselyn Spiers combined for 15 first half points to lead the effort.
Newton-Conover also helped the comeback by committing 11 first half turnovers.
"We played panic basketball," Tharpe said. "That is not how we play."
Kadesha Gibbs made a free throw just before halftime, which looked to give the Lady Red Devils a 20-19 halftime lead. However, Spiers makes a buzzer-beater from 30 feet to give the Lady Bulldogs the 22-20 lead at the break.
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She helped Newton-Conover out-rebound the Lady Bulldogs, 23-8 in the first half.
"I thought we did a good job of rebounding," Tharpe said. "It was everybody. It wasn't just Kadesha. I thought our guards got in there, too."
The Lady Red Devils re-established the tempo and momentum in the third quarter. Quazzy Tipps had six points, and Briana Alston had four points in the quarter. That gave their team a 39-34 lead heading into the fourth.
That's where the game shifted, as the Lady Red Devils scored 14 straight points, including five points from Tipps and four points from Gibbs. Those performances helped Newton-Conover seal the victory.
"I think we just got comfortable with reading our gaps," Tharpe said. "When it clicks for us, we become a different ball team. Part of that is nerves at the beginning."
Gibbs finished with 13 points, 14 rebounds and three steals. Tipps scored 14 points, and Shynese Whitener scored eight points and five rebounds.
As for the Salisbury, Tharpe is confident his team will compete.
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McCaffrey & Pisaturo: Both Dems, but similarities end there
Incumbent District 29 State Senator Michael McCaffrey has gone unchallenged for many years, but now Laura Pisaturo hopes to uproot the 18-year veteran of the Senate in the Sept. 11 primary.
The winner of the primary will be the next senator, as no other candidates have filed for the position.
Pisaturo, one of eight children, is the daughter of former Providence mayoral candidate Charles Pisaturo, an Italian immigrant. Pisaturo grew up in Providence and went on to attend the University of Rhode Island after graduating from Classical High School in 1985. From URI, she made her way to Suffolk Law School, and soon after joined the practice of Hinckley, Allen and Snyder. In a letter sent to constituents, Pisaturo said she yearned to do more to serve her community, which is she left the practice to work at the Attorney General's office.
"I took a 50-percent pay cut," she said in an interview earlier this week. "It was very fulfilling."
Pisaturo then left the AG's office and moved again to Day One, an advocacy group that works with victims of sexual assault and abuse.
Now Pisaturo has her own practice on Elmwood Avenue in Providence. She currently lives in Governor Francis Farms with her wife, Maria, whom she married in 2007.
McCaffrey, also an attorney, comes from a political family, too. His father, Eugene McCaffrey, was mayor of Warwick from 1973 to 1977. McCaffrey was born and raised in Warwick, graduating from Bishop Hendricken High School and then going on to Providence College. He also earned his law degree from Suffolk University.
McCaffrey was first elected to the senate seat in 1994. Despite being unchallenged for many years, McCaffrey welcomes Pisaturo's candidacy.
Pisaturo said her decision to run for senate is "overdue."
"I've wanted to run for a long time," she said.
Pisaturo said her experience in the Attorney General's office opened her eyes to the inner workings of politics on Smith Hill.
"I could bring a lot to the legislature," she said, saying she hopes to bring a voice to those who don't normally get heard.
McCaffrey, who lives on Twin Oaks Drive off West Shore Road with his wife and four children, said he has been knocking on doors and letting people know what he's accomplished.
McCaffrey said he has played a crucial role in getting money for Warwick, and is proud of his memorandum that will have Johnson & Wales University make payments in lieu of taxes to the city on the Radisson Hotel. He was also part of getting the state bond referendum to buy Rocky Point on the 2010 state ballot. He said he's pleased that he sponsored the bill that prevented mandatory sewer tie-ins in Governor Francis Farms.
"The way the Sewer Authority did it they … made a mandatory hookup without letting [residents] know," said McCaffrey. "They were treating them differently than other people in the city."
The way the decision was handled, said McCaffrey, treated those residents like a "different class of citizens."
But Pisaturo isn't a fan of the legislation McCaffrey sponsored.
"Everyone agrees that we need sewers," she said. "But no one likes to feel like they're part of an unfair process … resolving that issue is bigger than just paying or not paying a fine."
When it comes to McCaffrey's bill, like most things, Pisaturo said she would have done it differently.
"All the bill did was delay things and made it unfair for the rest of Warwick," she said. "People thought, all of sudden other people didn't have to pay what we had to pay."
Pisaturo said if initial negotiations had been more carefully thought out, the neighborhood and city would not be in the situation they're in now.
While going from door to door, neither said they were hearing too much about the airport.
"I have not heard a lot about airport expansion … because the decision has already been made," said McCaffrey. "People now are concerned about the value of their homes."
Pisaturo said she is hearing some concern about expansion, and that people are hopeful the Rhode Island Airport Corporation will keep quality of life at the top of their list.
In addition to local concerns, Pisaturo said her main focus is job creation.
"[The legislature] is not paying enough attention to [small business,]" she said. "In order to understand something, you have to engage it."
Pisaturo believes streamlining regulations is one key to improving the business climate in the state.
"They are overwhelmed with regulations," said Pisaturo of the small business owners she's spoken with. "There are too many inconsistencies at the state and city levels. They have a lot of difficulty getting credit and access to capital."
But McCaffrey believes Pisaturo may have another reason for tossing her hat into the ring – uprooting senators opposed to same sex marriage (like McCaffrey) so the bill can pass.
"If you read different blogs, certain organizations are saying the Senate is Ground Zero for the gay marriage bill," he said. "And one of her positions is that she supports same-sex marriage."
But Pisaturo insists same-sex marriage isn't her number one priority.
"It's not the focus of my campaign," she said, stating her focus is on "jobs and the economy and putting confidence back in government."
Still, Pisaturo doesn't agree with McCaffrey, who, despite voting in favor of civil unions, is adamant that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
"He's out of focus with core Democratic platforms," said Pisaturo. "The U.S. Senators all support equal protection under law … His failure to recognize marriage equality is a failure to provide civil protection to all Rhode Island families."
Although recent polls show 50 percent support of same-sex marriage in Rhode Island, Pisaturo said she thinks it is accurate to say most Rhode Islanders agree with her views.
Data shows 41 percent of Rhode Islanders oppose gay marriage, while 9 percent don't have an opinion either way.
Another issue that splits the two is their opinion of Rhode Island leadership. During Friday's filming of WPRI's "Newsmakers" debate, Pisaturo said she would give senate leadership a "C-." The original question from WPRI.com blogger Ted Nesi asked for a letter grade for Senate President Paiva-Weed, but in an interview Monday morning, Pisaturo said her grade reflected senate leadership (including McCaffrey) as a whole.
"I don't think leadership in the senate is consistently proactive," she said, again citing the lack of attention paid to small businesses.
She also gave Governor Chafee a letter grade of "B" when appearing on "Newsmakers."
"I think he's trying, but he can do better," said Pisaturo.
McCaffrey, however, gave Senate President Paiva-Weed an "A-," and slapped Chafee with a "C." McCaffrey said he disagrees with some of Chafee's proposals, like the meal tax, "among other things" – things he wasn't eager to elaborate on. McCaffrey said some things were out of Chafee's control, like the economy, but still feels like the governor could be doing a better job.
"I think there are a lot of issues that split Senator McCaffrey and I," said Pisaturo, who said people are tired of "business as usual" at the State House.
"A lot of people don't know who their senator is," she said. "People want to believe in government again. They love Rhode Island. Today they don't feel that. I'm running because … I want to put confidence back into government. I want people to believe it's not who you know, it's what you know."
"I don't know what she means by 'business as usual,'" said McCaffrey. "Since I've been up there, I've always fought for the citizens of Warwick."
McCaffrey said in the last four years he hasn't missed a single session.
"People should vote for me because they know me, they know my family, my wife, my kids," he said. "I've been getting results for Warwick. I opposed the increase in sales tax and fought for the relief of people in Governor Francis Farms. These are just some of the things I've done and will continue to do."
For Pisaturo, it's all about advocacy.
"I don't have a magic wand, but what I do well is listen to people ... and bring people together," she said.
Thank you Senator McCaffrey for all your hard work on stopping mandatory sewer connections in Gov. Francis.
You knew from the start that Phase II was being discriminated against. Ms. Pisatuoro was never at a single sewer meeting during the 3 1/2 yrs. this fight took place but she is now the resident expert. Her comments are insulting to the people who fought this battle for so many years. Doesn't she realize that Phase II residents had to pay their $82 per ft. assessment like everyone else. Probably not because she was nowhere to be found during these discussions
Ms. Pisaturo your shoot from the hip style is not needed at the statehouse. We need people like Sen. McCaffrey who listens to his constitutents.


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Originally published on November 12, 2013 5:56 pm
Secretary of State John Kerry is back in Washington to defend the proposed nuclear deal with Iran to skeptical members of Congress. He and his colleagues from other major powers failed to reach a deal with Iran during talks over the weekend in Geneva. Iran blames France's hard line for blowing up the deal, though Kerry has tried to downplay that.


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UH Manoa library staff member honored by state of YapUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Teri Skillman, (808) 956-8688
Events & Communications Coordinator
Events & Communications Coordinator
Posted: Apr 20, 2009
The state of Yap recently passed a resolution expressing appreciation and gratitude to UH Mānoa Library's assistant to the librarian, Alan Grosenheideralong with Vic Angoco of Matson Navigation, Edward Wong of Royal Hawaiian Movers, and state Rep. Glen Wakai and Reach Out Pacificfor a donation of $25,000 worth of bookshelves and books. They were shipped to Yap earlier in the year.
The resolution may be viewed online at http://www.yapstategov.org/downloads/resolutions/YSR_7-131.pdf.


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Tributes for Nigerian GovernorCondolences and tributes are pouring in for Kaduna Governor Patrick Yakowa and his adviser General Andrew Azazi who died in a helicopter crash.
Nigeria: Gov Yakowa, Azazi Die in Helicopter Crash - Jonathan Orders Probe
Daily Trust, 16 December 2012
Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State and former National Security Adviser General Owoye Azazi (rtd) died in a helicopter crash yesterday. Read more »
Late Kaduna Governor Patrick Yakowa and adviser General Andrew Azazi
Nigeria: Yakowa Na Kowa!
Daily Trust, 18 December 2012
"When we got news of his death at about the Magrib prayer time, we had to appeal to our members who were gathered in their thousands that the remaining session of the meeting had… Read more »
Nigeria: Patience Weeps Over Yakowa, Azazi
Daily Trust, 18 December 2012
The first lady, who came in at exactly 4:31 pm, was received by the GOC 81 division, Major General Kenneth Minimah and Azazi first son, Owoye Azazi Jnr. Read more »
Nigeria: Tafida, Kaduna Indigenes in UK Mourn Yakowa, Others
Leadership, 17 December 2012
Dr. Dalhatu Tafida, Nigeria's High Commissioner to the UK, has described the death of Gov. Patrick Yakowa as a great lost to the nation. Yakowa died on Saturday in helicopter crash… Read more »
Nigeria: First Lady On Condolence Visit, Weeps for Yakowa
Leadership, 17 December 2012
First Lady Patience Jonathan wept in Kaduna on Monday when she paid a condolence visit to Mrs Amina Yakowa, wife of Gov. Patrick Yakowa, who died in a helicopter crash on Sunday. Read more »
Nigeria: Helicopter Crash - ACN Mourns, Calls for Conclusive Probe
Leadership, 17 December 2012
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has called for a thorough investigation of Saturday's military helicopter crash that killed Kaduna State Governor, Patrick Yakowa, former… Read more »
Nigeria: Governors, Others Mourn Yakowa, Azazi
Leadership, 17 December 2012
Chairman, Nigerian Governors' Forum (NGF) and Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, yesterday cancelled all his official engagements within and outside the state… Read more »
Nigeria: Eminent Nigerians Mourn Yakowa, Azazi, Others
This Day, 17 December 2012
Encomiums and tributes poured in yesterday for the late Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State, former National Security Adviser (NSA), Gen Andrew Owoye Azazi and their aides, all… Read more »
Nigeria: Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa - a Tribute
Daily Trust, 17 December 2012
Like most compatriots, I received with great shock and deep grief, the death of His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Kaduna State, Sir Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, in a helicopter… Read more »
Nigeria: Yakowa Was an Impartial Leader - Emir
Daily Trust, 17 December 2012
In a message in Zaria, Alhaji Shehu said, "We want to sincerely extend our condolence to the president, his vice, the entire people of the Zazzau emirate, Kaduna State and above… Read more »
Nigeria: Yakowa, Azazi, Others Death Devastating - Mark
Vanguard, 16 December 2012
SENATE President David Mark yesterday described the death of Kaduna State Governor Dr. Patrick Yakowa and the immediate past National Security Adviser(NSA) General Owoye Azazi in… Read more »
Nigeria: Bayelsa Crash - Tambuwal Mourns Yakowa, Azazi
Vanguard, 16 December 2012
SPEAKER of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Sunday described as tragic and sorrowful, the helicopter crash which claimed the lives of Kaduna State Governor,… Read more »
Nigeria: Helicopter Crash - Navy Recovers Yakowa, Azazi Bodies
This Day, 16 December 2012
The Nigerian Navy have recovered the bodies of the six people that were killed in Sartuday's helicopter crash in Bayelsa including that of the former National Security Adviser… Read more »
Nigeria: Azazi - The General's Final Retirement
This Day, 16 December 2012
The late former National Security Adviser, General Owoye Andrew Azazi, who was retired by late President Umaru Yar'Adua as Chief of Defence Staff on August 20, 2008, emerged from… Read more »
Nigeria: PDP Expresses Shock Over Yakowa, Azazi's Death
Daily Trust, 16 December 2012
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday expressed "utter shock and devastating grief" over the news of the death of the Kaduna State Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa and other… Read more »
Nigeria: Yakowa - From 1948 to 2012
Daily Trust, 16 December 2012
For him to serve as deputy to two successive governors when elsewhere governors routinely engineer the removal of their deputies, Mr Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa must have been a savvy… Read more »
Nigeria: Sambo - Yakowa Was a Brother,Patriot
This Day, 16 December 2012
The Vice President Arc Mohammed Namadi Sambo has described the late governor of Kaduna State, Ibrahim Yakowa as a brother a friend and a mentor whose loss would be felt by all. Read more »
Nigeria: Helicopter Crash - Buhari Shelves Birthday to Mourn Yakowa, Azazi
This Day, 16 December 2012
The National Leader of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) General Muhammadu Buhari has to postpone his scheduled birthday anniversary on Monday in honour deceased Governor… Read more »
Nigeria: Kaduna Government Issues Official Announcement of Yakowa's Death
Daily Trust, 15 December 2012
The Secretary to the Kaduna state government Lawal Samaila Abdullahi has announced the death of the late governor, Patrick Yakowa, saying also that "burial details will be… Read more »
Kaduna is in shock at the news that Governor Patrick Yakowa and his adviser General Andrew Azazi died in a helicopter crash along with four others. Read more »


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Baby on the Way for Tony Kanal
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Hey baby hey baby hey! The No Doubt family is growing.
Bassist Tony Kanal and his girlfriend Erin Lokitz have a baby on the way, the band confirms in a statement posted to their Web site.
The pair are "extremely happy to announce that they are expecting their first child early next year. The couple is overwhelmed with joy and excited to meet their new little one."
"We're feeding our baby a healthy diet of Bob Marley, The Clash, Prince and of course No Doubt," Kanal, 40, adds underneath a photo of Lokitz's pregnant belly sporting headphones.
So far, the band's babies are a brood of boys: Gwen Stefani is mom to sons Zuma, 2, and Kingston, 4, Tom Dumont has sons Rio, 2, and Ace, 4, while Adrian Young is dad to son Mason, 8½.
— Sarah Michaud


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The fishing today sucked WTF?
5/9/09 Marlins vs Rockies Game 2
I always wanted to catch the introduction of the Rockies players on video and today I did.
Batting practice was OK but I was totally shutout. It still happens once in a while but not so often anymore. I just can't bring myself to ask a player for a baseball. I love catching or racing up five row of bleachers to beat someone to a ball that has taken a bounce.
It's all about the chase for me. There's no chase/play involved when you ask a player for a baseball. Props to those who can do it I'm not knocking you. I just can't do it.
I had a little bit of play today but everytime I would track a ball and almost get to it, somebody was in my way and I had to let the ball go.
The best batting practices are during the week when the pavilion is less crowded. My friend Emily an MLBlogger who writes the Rockies blog "I live for this" was at batting practice with her friend.
Hunter managed to snag two baseballs today. The first one was a toss up from Manny Corpas.
It was an 2008 All-Star ball and the first one he's ever snagged.
I've yet to get an All-Star ball.
Manny tossed one to Hunter on Friday too. Hunter had another opportunity when the Rockies finished batting practice.
Manny tossed the last ball to Hunter and Hunter didn't expect it and it hit him just below his neck in his chest.
The ball rolled to the right and some lady kept it for her kid.
Personally any kid that gets hit with a ball like Hunter did should have been given that ball. But like you've heard me say here before "Some people don't get it".
She doesn't get it and neither did my boy. No worries, Hunter was ok and already had a ball. After the Marlins BP we went around to the Rockies dugout to see what was up.
When Brad Hawpe finished warming up he headed back to the dugout and on his way tossed Hunter his second ball of the day.
Jorge De La Rosa copping a squat before the game.
Jim Tracy and Alana
Helton taking a stretch.
Ian Stewart doing the same.
Seth Smith
There was a moment of silence for two members of Event Services Staff that had passed away. That was a nice way to pay respect I thought.
BBCHICK asked if I would get some pictures of the High School band performing the national anthem as she some friends who are in the band. I actually shot video of it
Here's Jeff Francis doing some more public relations work to keep busy.
Then Francis and Dinger head back to who knows where?
Bob, Yorvit and Jorge doing the walk.
Clint Hurdle was out signing autographs today. A few others did but not many. Spilborghs was out there for a good ten minutes signing today.
Jorge De La Rosa is pitching decent I'd say despite his lack of wins. Jorge pitched for 8 innings and had 12 strikeouts. Jorge is (0-3) for the season.
Garrett Atkins went 0-3 and is really struggling only batting .218. It will be nice when he finds his groove cause Atkins can hit. Tulowitzki homered in the first inning and went two of four for the day. Troy was replaced in the ninth inning because of a slight strain on his quadricep. The same one he injured last season…I don't even want to think about Tulo going on the DL right now.
Take it easy Tulo..Heal up that quad brotha
Torrealba broken bat.
I believe if I had to I could kill dinner for my family with that weapon.
I call this picture "Floating Bat Boy Broken Bat" 🙂
Jorge at bat.
Jorge and Tulo Jorge on display
Don Baylor
Torrealba and Baylor
Tulowitzki about to throw
Dexter Fowler at bat
Dexter Fowler swingin.
Hawpe and Atkins
Matt Murton
I call this picture "Tulo's invisible bat"
Hunter chillin
Jason Grilli was up on the mound after De La Rosa.
Jason keeping a close eye on first base
A quick chat
Hawpe letting one go by.
Barmes and Hill
Look up
A shot of the final score.
RPR's Hagg'n stats for this game
Attendance 28,227
1 point- Showing up for the game.
1 point –Staying until the end of the game and getting a picture of the final score.
1 point- Snagging four season ticket stubs from the game.
Total = 3 points
Hunter's Hagg'n Stats for this game
1 point- Showing up
4 points- Two tossed up baseballs worth 2 points each.
1 point– Staying until the end of the game.
1/2 point- Snagging two season tickets after the game.
Hunter has been kicking my butt.
When are YOU going to start Hagg'n? I have prizes 🙂 …D